Arion (comics)

Arion is a fictional sword and sorcery superhero published by American company DC Comics.  He debuted in Warlord (vol. 1) #55 (March 1982), and was created by Paul Kupperberg and Jan Duursema.

Publication history
Arion began as a back-up feature in the DC Comics book Warlord with issue #55. The Arion feature continued its run until issue #62. Arion then gained his own series, Arion Lord of Atlantis, beginning with #1, (November 1982). The series lasted for 35 issues plus a special which wrapped up the original storyline, running from November 1982 to September 1985 with the special shipping in November 1985. In 1992, Arion appeared in a 6 issue miniseries entitled Arion The Immortal.  Arion also appeared in DC Comics Presents in a crossover with Superman.

Fictional character biography
The title character Arion is a powerful Homo Magi demigod from the nobility of ancient Atlantis. Arion is an immortal sorcerer who was born in 45,000 BC. Ahri'ahn and Garn Daanuth are the twin sons of Calculha and Dark Majistra, two very powerful Atlantean god-beings. While Calculha raised Ari'ahn to be a follower of light and the Lords of Order, Majistra raised Garn to be an acolyte of the Lords of Chaos.  Ari'ahn sacrificed his life to prevent his mother from attaining power that would cause the destruction of the Earth.  For one hundred centuries he was raised in Darkworld (though only 20 years passed for him ) by Jheryl and Ghy. His departure from Darkworld left him an amnesiac, and when found he was brought back to the city.

Arion's companions include an Atlantean guardsman, Wyynde, Lady Chian, his lover and the captain of King D'Tilluh's royal guard, and Mara, a shapeshifter. Among his enemies are his brother Garn Daanuth, a formidable practitioner of the dark arts, Dark Majistra, his mother, and Chaon, the puissant god of evil and chaos.

In his first appearances Arion was a sorcerer who protected the ancient, then land-bound kingdom of Atlantis during an upcoming ice age. After thousands of years of adventures, Arion lost his ability to channel magic directly from his body and had to rely on mystical artifacts for his magical powers.

Post Crisis

He later appeared during and after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event where he was made part of Power Girl's post-Crisis backstory. Later, an aged Arion is revealed be immortal and to have lost his magic and is living in Greenwich Village along with several former Atlantean gods and goddesses, including Chaon, Deedra, Gemimn and the Weaver.  His companion, Mara, was trapped in canine form when the magic was lost.  Arion renews his old rivalry with his brother, Garn Daanuth, and works to stop the return of Atlantean magic by preventing Darkworld, revealed to be a sentient being, from slumbering.

After Zero Hour, Arion aided The Justice League America against Scarabus.  He eventually turned up in the present day where his body was taken over by Mordru and his spirit imprisoned in Gemworld. His spirit was finally released and allowed to go to the afterlife by Power Girl and Hawkgirl (along with a recently awakened Dove), in order to weaken Mordru. Before his soul departed, Arion revealed to Power Girl that she was not his granddaughter and thus not an Atlantean.

Arion seemingly reappeared in Infinite Crisis as one of the mystics gathered in Atlantis to keep the Spectre at bay, and later in the Day of Vengeance tie-in special as one of several magical beings summoned to help rebuild the shattered Rock of Eternity. No explanation was given for Arion's involvement at the time. It was later revealed that this Arion was, in fact, a pretender, a native of Akron named Bill Knightley who had decided to trade on Arion's name and reputation to build himself up in the mystical community.

Camelot Falls
A past version of Arion later appears. In the year 1659, Arion is awakened from a night of debauchery by visions of a cataclysmic future centered around the presence of Superman. Cut off from his natural magics, Arion employed certain artifacts to propel himself forward to Superman's present. Arriving in Metropolis, Arion subjected Superman and his friends at the Daily Planet to a vision of a possible future where Superman and other alien heroes' involvement in humanity caused people to become dependent on them, ultimately producing an apocalypse as their alien intervention held back the 'natural cycle' of civilisations falling upon reaching their peak, culminating in a mass apocalypse as the darkness they had held back for so long came at them with full force. Arion hoped to force Superman to retire and prevent the predictions from coming true.

Superman was given two weeks in which to decide how he would deal with Arion's request, during which Arion illustrated his point by magically steering a "field trip" of adolescent New Gods, chaperoned by Lightray and Fastbak, to come crashing into Metropolis and go wild with their divine powers, causing untold havoc and general interference with the populace. Superman defused the situation with Lightray's help and deduced Arion's involvement. At roughly the same time, Arion kidnapped Bill Knightley from outside the Oblivion Bar, interrogated him, and nearly killed him. The only thing that saved Knightley was his knowledge of the recently begun "Tenth Age of Magic," a tumultuous change in the world's mystical equilibrium. Knightley claimed to be studying the shift and Arion decided he might have some value alive.

At the end of the two weeks, Arion and Superman met again; Superman chose to remain active as part of Earth's defense and deeply involved with humanity, refusing to give up hope that he could make a difference. Arion's vicious response was to cast a powerful mind manipulation spell, with the intent of using Superman as a weapon to remove the threat of other alien heroes. Superman was able to resist thanks to training from the Martian Manhunter after his period under the control of Maxwell Lord. Given a mystic shield by the Phantom Stranger to protect him from direct assault by Arion's magics (during which the Stranger revealed that, while Arion's prediction could come to pass, the loss of life and experience that would result if Superman simply allowed civilisation to fall meant that mankind had to try to find another way), Superman was able to defeat Arion and disarm him of his rings, amulets and charms from which he derived his magic. Arion was returned to 1659 where he plans his next move on Superman in the future.

The New 52
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this continuity, Arion makes a brief cameo in the 2014 Secret Six relaunch. In a flashback, he is revealed to be the wizard that sealed away elder gods only known as the "Dark Giants", the antagonist that appear in the modern day threaten to be freed due to Black Alice's condition siphoning magic in the world and undoing the seals made to keep them in place.

DC Rebirth
Following the company-wide rebranding in DC Rebirth, Arion makes his debut in the 2016 Blue Beetle series. Sharing similarities to his previous version such as being a former king of Atlantis, he is changed to be an Atlantean-related god and mage whom turned into an insane villain from exposure to the Blue Beetle scarab and gains a more demonic appearance from usage of more malevolent magic.

After being sealed away by Doctor Fate long ago, he uses his apprentice Mordecai Cull to lure Doctor Fate. Jaime Reyes, and the Blue Beetle scarab into undoing his sealing, stealing the scarab for himself to use its power to destroy the world. With the help of Doctor Fate and his allies, Jaime Reyes manages to defeat the sorcerer and his Atlantean demons created by his magic.

Powers and Abilities
Arion is one of the most powerful sorcerer in the DC Universe, his Atlantean heritage and centuries of study in the sorcerous arts making him one of the most skilled sorcerers in any era and is considered to be the most powerful magician in ancient Atlantis. He was powerful enough to have defeated Etrigan, Wonder Woman and was a considerable threat to Superman, whom needed the assistance of Phantom Stranger's magic to counter his own and enable him to defeat him.

Prior to Rebirth, the helm of his vast array of magical abilities originate from deriving it from powerful sources and his body's ability to use magic without physically taxing him. Early in his life, his magics were mainly derived from stellar sources (such as the Sun) until he sacrificed them to end the Ice Age. He would later derive his sources from magical crystals containing his father's spirit (though finite in number) and chant-based spells, and magical objects, though his power was significantly weakened until the Weaver, an Atlantean god whom controlled Atlantean-related magic by spinning it in the form of a thread, re-worked the magic within his soul and allowed him to perform magic by deriving it from the realm known as Darkworld and made him more powerful then he was ever before. However, his magics from Darkworld left him with little magical ability after its seemingly destruction for over 45,000 years, making him reliant on objects once more until it is resurfacing.  During Arion's appearance in Rebirth onward, the nature of his powers have seemingly changed; though he retained the ability to siphon magic from even entities as powerful as Doctor Fate, he is instead capable of performing magic naturally.

In addition to his magical powers, Arion is also immortal and was trained in hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship by ancient Atlantis's best warrior and lover, Lady Chian. He also retains psychic powers not connected to his magical powers, having the power of insight, judging the good and evil within an individual, divination, and cosmic awareness that could sense disturbances throughout time. During Rebirth onward, Arion was stated to also being an expressed genius responsible for Atlantis and Skataris's great technological prowess, his era being considered the peak of Atlantean magical and technological capabilities.

References

External links
DCDatabase: Arion
Cosmic Teams: History of Atlantis
Arion, Lord of Atlantis at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012.
Arion at DC Universe wiki

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Picnic (1955 film)

Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in Cinemascope. It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Joshua Logan, director of the original Broadway stage production, directed the film version, which stars William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell, with Susan Strasberg and Cliff Robertson in supporting roles. Picnic was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two.

The film dramatizes 24 hours in the life of a small Kansas town in the mid-20th century. It revolves around the Labor Day holiday. It is the story of an outsider whose appearance disrupts and rearranges the lives of those with whom he comes into contact.

Plot
Hal Carter (William Holden) is a former college football star, adrift and unemployed after army service and a failed acting career in Hollywood. On Labor Day (September 5, 1955), he arrives by freight train in a Kansas town to visit his fraternity friend Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson). Working for his breakfast by doing chores in the backyard of kindly Mrs. Potts (Verna Felton), Hal meets Madge Owens (Kim Novak), her sister Millie (Susan Strasberg), and their mother (Betty Field). Hal tries to be accepted and gets along with most. Alan is very happy to see the "same old Hal", whom he takes to his family's sprawling grain elevator operations. Alan promises Hal a steady job as a "wheat scooper" (though Hal had unrealistic expectations of becoming an executive) and invites Hal to swim and to attend the town's Labor Day picnic. Hal is wary about going to the picnic, but Alan nudges him into it, saying Hal's "date" will be Millie, who is quickly drawn to Hal's cheerful demeanor and charisma. Alan reassures Mrs. Owens that although Hal flunked out of college, there are no reasons to be concerned about him. The afternoon carries on happily, until Hal starts talking about himself too much, and Alan stops him with cutting remarks. It's obvious that Hal and Madge like each other. When the sun sets, everyone wanders off. Millie draws a sketch of Hal and tells him she secretly writes poetry, growing fond of him despite his lack of interest. Madge is named the town's annual Queen of Neewollah ("Halloween" spelled backward), and Hal longingly gazes at her while she is brought down the river in a swan-shaped paddle-boat. They shyly say "Hi" to each other as she glides by.

Middle-aged schoolteacher Rosemary (Rosalind Russell), who rents a room at the Owens house, has been brought to the picnic by store owner Howard Bevens (Arthur O'Connell); both had been drinking whiskey. When the band plays dance music, Howard says he can't dance, so Rosemary dances with Millie. Hal and Howard then start dancing together, which angers Rosemary; she grabs Howard, who then dances with her. Hal tries to show Millie a dance he learned in LA to the song, Moonglow, but Millie cannot quite get the beat. Madge stumbles upon them, seductively transforming the moves Hal is showing Millie, and sways toward him, thus initiating a dance with him in which they both become increasingly mesmerized. Millie, having been cast aside and ignored by both Rosemary and Hal, sulks off and starts drinking Howard's whiskey. Rosemary, now quite drunk, jealously breaks up the dance between Madge and Hal. Rosemary flings herself at Hal, saying he reminds her of a Roman gladiator. When Hal tries to ward off the schoolteacher, she rips his shirt, then bitterly calls him a bum. Mrs. Owens and Alan arrive and believe Hal has caused a scandal, made all the worse when Millie breaks down, screaming, "Madge is the pretty one!" and becomes ill from the whiskey. Rosemary, blinded by her anger, tells Mrs. Owens that Hal gave Millie the whiskey, while Howard's plea that he brought the whiskey seems to fall on deaf ears. Alan blames Hal for the mess and says he is ashamed that he brought Hal in the first place. By now a crowd is watching, and Hal flees into the darkness.

Madge follows Hal to Alan's car, ashamed of Alan and Rosemary's behavior, and gets in with him. He angrily tells her to go home. She won't budge, so he drives her to town. By the river, he tells her he was sent to reform school as a boy for stealing a motorcycle and that his whole life is a failure. Madge kisses Hal, which astonishes him and he responds. Later, outside Madge's house, they kiss goodbye and promise to meet after she finishes work at six the next evening. Hal drives back to Alan's house to return the car, but Alan has called the police and wants Hal arrested. After trying to talk things out, Alan physically attacks Hal. Hal fights back against Alan and the two police officers. Hal flees the house in Alan's car with the police following close behind. Leaving the car by the river, Hal goes into the water, gets away from them and shows up at Howard's apartment, asking to spend the night there. Howard is very understanding and now has his own worries: a highly distraught, desperate, and remorseful Rosemary has begged him to marry her. Back at the Owens house, Madge and Millie cry themselves to sleep in their shared room.

The next morning, Howard comes to the Owens house, intending to tell Rosemary he wants to wait, but at the sight of him she is overjoyed, thinking he has come to take her away. Flustered in front of the whole household and other schoolteachers, Howard wordlessly goes along with the misunderstanding. As he passes Madge on the stairs, he tells her Hal is hiding in the backseat of his car. Hal is able to slip away before the other women gleefully paint and attach streamers and tin cans to Howard's car, throwing rice and asking where he'll take Rosemary for their honeymoon. While Howard and Rosemary happily drive off to the Ozarks, Hal and Madge meet by a shed behind the house. He tells her that he loves her and asks her to meet him in Tulsa, where they can marry and he can get a job at a hotel as a bellhop and elevator operator. Mrs. Owens finds them by the shed and threatens to call the police. Madge and Hal embrace and kiss. Hal runs to catch a passing freight train, crying out to Madge, "You love me! You love me!"

Upstairs in their room, Millie tells Madge to "do something bright" for once in her life and go to Hal. Madge packs a small suitcase and, despite her mother's tears (but  urged on by Mrs. Potts), boards a bus for Tulsa.

Main cast
 William Holden as Hal Carter
 Kim Novak as Marjorie 'Madge' Owens
 Betty Field as Flo Owens
 Susan Strasberg as Millie Owens
 Cliff Robertson as Alan Benson
 Rosalind Russell as Rosemary
 Arthur O'Connell as Howard Bevans
 Verna Felton as Helen Potts
 Reta Shaw as Irma Kronkite
 Raymond Bailey as Mr. Benson
 Nick Adams as Bomber

Production

Columbia acquired the rights to the play for $350,000 in September 1953.

When Picnic was cast, William Holden was already 37 years old, too old according to some to play the role of Hal Carter.  Regardless, Holden was "happy to finish his Columbia Pictures contract with such a prestigious project" despite the film paying him $30,000 instead of the $250,000 he would have otherwise earned.  Picnic was one of Kim Novak's earliest film roles, and this movie made her a star. In the film, Holden keeps his hair combed in an untidy fringe over his forehead and has the sleeves of his shirt rolled up throughout. He shaved his chest for the shirtless shots and was reportedly nervous about his dancing for the "Moonglow" scene. Logan took him to Kansas roadhouses where he practiced steps in front of jukeboxes with choreographer Miriam Nelson. Heavy thunderstorms with tornado warnings repeatedly interrupted shooting of the scene on location, and it was completed on a backlot in Burbank, where Holden (according to some sources) was "dead drunk" to calm his nerves.

Millie, the independently minded girl who memorizes Shakespeare sonnets and rebels against her older sister, was an early role for Susan Strasberg, the daughter of prominent Method drama teacher Lee Strasberg. Elizabeth Wilson had a bit part as one of the smirking schoolteachers (12 years later she played a major supporting role in Mike Nichols' The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock's attractive, slightly high-strung mom). Verna Felton, a longtime radio and TV character actor who was well-known to audiences in the 1950s, had a strong supporting role as neighbor Helen Potts. Bomber, the paperboy, was played by Nick Adams, an actor who dated Natalie Wood and was a friend of both James Dean and Elvis Presley. Mr. Benson was played by Raymond Bailey (without his toupee), later known on television as Beverly Hillbillies banker Milburn Drysdale. Reta Shaw, Elizabeth Wilson, and Arthur O'Connell recreated their roles from the original Broadway production.

During filming of the actual picnic scenes in Halstead, Kansas, a tornado swept through the area, forcing the cast and crew to take cover. While the storm spared the set, it devastated the nearby town of Udall, Kansas and the film crew drove their trucks and equipment there to help clean up the damage.

James Wong Howe's widescreen photography for the film was considered trendsetting at the time. The Cinemascope format was highlighted in the film's final aerial shot when it pulls back to frame a sprawling horizon showing both a freight train and a Continental Trailways bus separately bearing the two leading characters.

Locations
The extensive use of Kansas locations highlighted the naturalistic, small-town drama. Picnic was shot mostly around Hutchinson, Kansas.  Other Kansas locations include:
 Halstead's Riverside Park is where the Labor Day picnic scenes were filmed. The park and many landmarks remained at the time of the movie's 50th anniversary. The merry-go-round and cable suspension footbridge, which spans the Little Arkansas River, are still located there.
 Nickerson is the location of the two adjacent houses used for the Owens family home and that of Mrs. Potts.  It is where Hal (William Holden) "jumps a freight" to go to Tulsa and where Madge boards a bus in the last scene.
 Salina, for the opening scene where Hal jumps off a train, then meets Alan (Cliff Robertson) at Alan's father's large house. This location is also used for the Saline River (where Madge kisses Hal) and the scene where Hal escapes from the police by running under a waterfall.
 Sterling, where the pre-picnic swim in the lake was filmed.

Reception
The film's release was accompanied by a Time magazine cover story.

The film was restored in the mid-1990s, which brought many art-house bookings. Stephen Holden, in a 1996 review of the restored film, began by noting:
Today it probably wouldn't be worth more than a PG-13 rating (if even that), but in 1955, the "Moonglow" dance and the "torn shirt" sequences from the movie Picnic were about as steamy as Hollywood could get in evoking explosive sex.
According to Holden, "Rosalind Russell is vividly scary as an older schoolteacher who foolishly lunges after Hal. Betty Field is just right as Madge's wistful, once-beautiful mother, who years earlier ran away with a man like Hal, and Susan Strasberg does well in the role of Madge's tomboyish younger sister. George Duning's wistful, Copland-influenced score captures the mood of heated yearning that not only engulfed the movie, but also defined the country's romantic ethos in the mid-'50s."

Awards and honors
Picnic won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley) and Best Film Editing, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (O'Connell, who reprised his stage role), Best Director, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (George Duning) and Best Picture. The film won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
 2002: AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions – number 59
 2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – nominated

Music
"Theme From Picnic" was a hit song which reached number one on the 1956 Billboard charts and was number 14 overall that year. Composed by George Duning and Steve Allen (although Allen's lyrics were not used in the film), the song is featured in the famous dance scene between Holden and Novak, wherein Columbia's musical director Morris Stoloff blended "Theme From Picnic" with the 1930s standard "Moonglow". The two songs were often paired in later recordings by other artists. The soundtrack album reached number 23 on the Billboard charts. The Theme from Picnic was also a popular song recorded by the McGuire Sisters, and was a top 10 hit in 1956.

Subliminal marketing hoax
In 1957, marketing researcher James Vicary said he had included subliminal messages such as eat popcorn and drink Coca-Cola in public screenings of Picnic for six weeks, claiming sales of Coca-Cola and popcorn increased 18.1% and 57.8% respectively. However, Vicary later admitted there had never been such messages and his announcement was itself a marketing trick.

Remakes
Picnic was remade for television twice, first in 1986, directed by Marshall W. Mason and starring Gregory Harrison, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Learned, Rue McClanahan, and Dick Van Patten. The second remake was in 2000, starring Josh Brolin, Gretchen Mol, Bonnie Bedelia, Jay O. Sanders, and Mary Steenburgen. The screenplay adaptation by Shelley Evans was directed by Ivan Passer.

See also

List of American films of 1955

References

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Templepatrick, County Westmeath (civil parish)

Templepatrick () is a civil parish in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about  west of Mullingar.

Templepatrick is one of 9 civil parishes in the barony of Rathconrath in the Province of Leinster. The civil parish covers .

Piercetown civil parish comprises the small village of Moyvore and 5 townlands: Beltacken, Moyvore, Rahadorrish, Templepatrick and Tonlemony.

The neighbouring civil parishes are: Piercetown to the north, Ballymorin to the south–east, Killare to the south–west and Forgney (County Longford) to the west.

References

External links
Templepatrick civil parish at the IreAtlas Townland Data Base
Templepatrick civil parish at townlands.ie
Templepatrick civil parish at The Placenames Database of Ireland

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Farhan

Farhan or Farhaan is of Arabic origin meaning 'happy'.

Given name
Farhan Adil (born 1977), Pakistani cricketer
Farhan Ally Agha, Pakistani model, film, television and voice actor
Farhan Akhtar (born 1974), Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer and television host
Farhaan Behardien (born 1983), South African cricketer
Farhan Farhan (born 1996), Bahraini swimmer
Farhan Khan (actor) (born 1983), Indian actor
Farhan Lalji, Canadian sports reporter
Farhan Nizami, South Asian historian
Farhan Saeed (born 1984), Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor
Farhan Zaidi (born 1976), Canadian-American baseball executive of Pakistani descent
Farhan Mohamed Navas (born 2002), World-famous Indian climber

References


Nam River (Burma)

Nam River is a river of Burma.

See also
List of rivers in Burma

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Martin Flanagan (Gaelic footballer)

Martin Flanagan is an Irish former Gaelic footballer from Tyrrellspass, Westmeath who played with the Westmeath inter-county team from 1995 to 2010.

Flanagan is considered to be one of the finest talents the county has ever produced, but retired without a Leinster medal to his name after falling out of favour with then manager Páidí Ó Sé during the successful 2004 campaign. Equally at home at midfield or full forward, he made his championship debut against Wexford in 1995 and went on to win National Football League Division 2 medals in 2001, 2003 and 2008.

Flanagan played his club football with Tyrrellspass, winning Westmeath Senior Football Championship medals in 1999, 2006 and 2007.  He also played in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship final in 2007 however Tyrrellspass lost out to Dublin side St Vincents

Honours
  Leinster College's Senior A Championship as Captain of St. Mel's College Longford in 1994. (1): 1994
North Leinster Colleges Senior A League with St. Mel's College Longford  (1): 1991
Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 2004
National Football League, Division 2 (3): 2001, 2003, 2008
Westmeath Senior Football Championship (3): 1999, 2006, 2007

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Viscountess Rhondda

Viscountess Rhondda may refer to:

Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (1857–1941), Welsh suffragette, feminist and philanthropist
Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1958), Welsh suffragette and feminist, daughter of the above


Thomas Joshua Platt

Sir Thomas Joshua Platt KC (22 August 1788  – 10 February 1862) was a British judge who served as a Baron of the Exchequer.

Biography
Platt, born in 1788, was the son of Thomas and Amelia Platt of London. His father was a solicitor who served as principal clerk to  Lords Mansfield, Kenyon, and Ellenborough. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1810, and M.A. 1814.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 9 February 1816, and named a king's counsellor on 27 December 1834, when he became a favourite leader on the home circuit. As an advocate he was remarkable for the energy of his manner and the simplicity of his language. Before a common jury he was usually invincible, but met with fewer successes before special juries. He succeeded Baron Gurney as a Baron of the Exchequer on 28 January 1845, and sat until failing health obliged him to retire on 2 November 1856. He was knighted at St. James's Palace on 23 April 1845.

Though not deeply read, he proved a sensible judge, while his blunt courtesy and amiability made him popular with the bar. He died at 59 Portland Place, London, on 10 February 1862, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. His widow, Augusta, died at 61 Queen's Gardens, Hyde Park, London, on 16 February 1885, aged 88. By her, Platt had a large family.

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Monreal, Germany

Monreal is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Above the village are the ruined castles of Löwenburg and Philippsburg.

Notable people
 Markus Meurer (born 1959), German outsider artist

References

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Pavement Condition Index

The Pavement Condition Index (PCI) is a numerical index between 0 and 100, which is used to indicate the general condition of a pavement section. The PCI is widely used in transportation civil engineering and asset management, and many municipalities use it to measure the performance of their road infrastructure and their levels of service. It is a statistical measure and requires manual survey of the pavement. This index was originally developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, but later it was standardized by the ASTM. The surveying processes and calculation methods have been documented and standardized by ASTM for both roads and airport pavements:

 ASTM D6433 - 11: Standard Practice for Roads and Parking Lots Pavement Condition Index Surveys
 ASTM D5340 - 12: Standard Test Method for Airport Pavement Condition Index Surveys

PCI calculation

The method is based on a visual survey of the number and types of distresses in a pavement.  First, the type and extent of existing distresses, their severity level is collected. Next, distress density is calculated for each type of distress. The density values are translated into deduct value (DV) and corrected deduct value (CDV) using a set of curves proposed by the ASTM. The ASTM does not include the formulae of these curves, but they are recalculated by researchers. Finally, the value of the PCI is calculated in an iterative process. The result of the analysis is a numerical value between 0 and 100, with 100 representing the best possible condition and 0 representing the worst possible condition.

Pavement distress types for asphalt pavements include:

Alligator cracking
 Bleeding
 Block cracking
 Bumps and sags
 Corrugations
 Depressions
 Edge cracking
 Joint reflections
 Lane/shoulder drop-off
 Longitudinal and transverse cracking
 Low ride quality
 Patching and utility cut patching
 Polished aggregate
 Potholes
 Rutting
 Shoving
 Slippage cracking
 Swelling
 Weathering and raveling

For relatively small pavement systems, the entire system may be surveyed.  For large pavement systems, the process may involve surveying a random or representative sample of the entire system with the following steps:

 Divide the total pavement section into sample units (approximately 5000 square feet).
 Based on the number of sample units in the total section, a certain number of these units are selected to be tested. For example, if there are 40 or more sample units, 10% are tested.
 The type, extent and severity of pavement distress in each section are recorded using the ASTM Standard D 5340 method.
 The PCI of each tested sample unit is calculated using the method defined in the standard. In summary this involves calculating the distress quantities and the distress densities for each tested unit. These values are used to determine a deduct value and this deduct value is subtracted from 100 to give the PCI value.
 If the surveyed samples are representative of the overall system, the PCI of the pavement system is then assumed to be equal to the PCI of the sampled areas.

This condition index can give a good indication of the pavement condition of a network. However, trained personnel are required to complete the complicated survey procedure.

PCI categorization
The ASTM divides the PCI into seven classes as follows, but in practice a PCI lower than 40 is almost impassable.

See also
 Pavement classification number
 International Roughness Index
 AASHTO Road Test

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To the Limit (1995 film)

To the Limit is a 1995 action thriller film directed by Raymond Martino and starring Michael Nouri as China Smith and Joey Travolta as Frank Davinci. The film is a sequel to DaVinci's War, and its plot concerns a CIA rogue division war against the criminal underworld. It was the first starring role for Anna Nicole Smith, coming after being named Playboy Playmate of the Year.

Plot summary
Anna Nicole Smith plays Vickie Lynn, an ex-CIA agent going by the pseudonym "Collette" who is attempting to track down the leader of an organization of trained assassins to exact revenge for the murder of her husband. Joey Travolta is Frank DaVinci, an ex Vietnam War veteran who is also after the same man for his own reasons. In light of this, they agree to work together to track him down with the help of Lynn's boyfriend, assassin China Smith, played by Michael Nouri.

In the opening scenes, Vickie's husband is killed in a car bombing, which forces her to go into hiding. Meanwhile, Da Vinci's wedding is interrupted when a large group of masked gunmen attack the ceremony resulting in a massive shootout where Da Vinci is wounded, but his young bride Lupe (played by Rebecca Ferratti) is killed, along with several civilians, as well as several of Da Vinci's bodyguards, and all of the attacking gunmen are killed as well. In the hospital, another attempt is made on Da Vinci's life when a female assassin, named Maryann, attempts to kill him in his hospital bed by injecting a syringe into his I.V. drip, but he survives by pulling out the I.V. drip in time. After this, Da Vinci goes into hiding at his retreat house in Las Vegas.

Six months later, Da Vinci recovers enough when, by chance, he runs into Vickie whom they agree to help each other find the person responsible for the losses of their loved ones. The perpetrator is revealed to be corrupt and ruthless CIA officer Arthur Jameson (played by Jack Bannon). Knowing he and Lynn (still going by the name "Collette") can't face Jameson alone, he enlists the help of his war colleagues (Branscombe Richmond and Gino Dente) and two ex mobster brothers named Philly  (John Aprea), and Joey Bambino (David Proval) to find the location of Jameson's hideout.

Cast
 Joey Travolta...Frank DaVinci
 Michael Nouri...China Smith
 Anna Nicole Smith...Collette/Vickie Lynn
 David Proval...Joey Bambino
 John Aprea...Philly Bambino
 Rebecca Ferratti...Lupe (replacing Vanity from the first film)
 Branscombe Richmond...Don Williams
 Gino Dente...Elvis
 Jack Bannon...Arthur Jameson

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Nsama District

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List of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are built communities for indigenous Australians within their ancestral country; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of Australia.

A
Ardyaloon

B
 Badjaling Community
Balgo
Barrel Well Community
Bayulu Community
Beagle Bay Community
Bell Springs Community
Bidan Community
Bidyadanga Community
 Bilinue Community
 Bilgungurr Community
 Bindi Bindi Community
 Blackstone Community
Bobieding Community
Bondini community
 Brunbrunganjal Community
Burringurrah Community
Buttah Windee Community

C
 Cheeditha Community
Coonana
Cosmo Newbery
 Cotton Creek Community
 Crocodile Hole Community
Cundeelee

D
Djarindjin Community
Djugerari Community

F
Four Mile Community
 Frazier Downs Community

G
Ganinyi Community
 Gidgee Gully Community
Gilaroong Community
Girriyoowa Community
 Gooda Binya Community
Goolarabooloo Millibinyarri Community
Guda Guda Community
Gulgagulganeng community

I
Ilkulka Community
Imintji Community
Innawonga Community
Iragul Community
 Irrungadji Community

J
 Jameson Community
Jarlmadangah Burru Community
Jigalong Community
Jimbalakudunj Community
Jimbilum Community
Joy Springs Community
 Jundaru community
Junjuwa community

K
Kadjina Community
Kalumburu
Kandiwal community
Karalundi Community
Karnparri community
 Kearney Range Community
Kiwirrkurra Community
Koorabye community
Kunawaritji Community
Kundat Djaru Community
Kupartiya Community
Kupungarri Community
Kurnangki community
Kurrawang community
Kutkabubba Community

L
Lamboo Gunian Community
Lombadina
Looma Community
Lundja community

M
 Madunka Ewurry Community
Mallingbar community
Mandangala Community
Mantamaru Community
 Marribank Community
 Marta Marta Community
 Marunbabidi Community
Mindibungu Community
Mingullatharndo Community
 Mingalkala Community
Mirima community
Moongardie Community
Morrell Park community
Mount Margaret Aboriginal Community
Mowanjum Community
 Mowla Bluff Community
Mud Springs Community
Mulan Community
Mulga Queen Community
Muludja Community
 Mungullah Community
Munthamar Community

N
 Nambi Village Community
 Neem Community
Ngalingkadji Community
Ngallagunda Community
Ngumpan Community
Ngunulum Community
Ngurrawaana Community
 Ngurtuwarta Community
 Nicholson Block Community
 Ninga Mia Village Community
 Noonkanbah Community
 Nygah Nygah Community

O
Oombulgurri Community

P
Pandanus Park Community
Papulankutja Community
Parnngurr Community
Parnpajinya community
Patjarr Community
Pia Wadjari Community
Punmu Community
 Punju Njamal Community

R
 Rollah Community

S
Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku
Swan Valley Nyungah Community

T
Tjirrkarli Community
Tjukurla Community
Tjuntjunjtarra Community
 Tkalka Boorda Community

W
Wakathuni Community
 Wanamulnyndong Community
Wanarn Community
Wandanooka community
Wangkatjungka Community
Warakurna Community
Warburton
Warmun Community
Warralong Community
Warrayu community
Weymul Community
Wijilawarrim Community
Wingellina
Wollergerberleng Community
 Wongatha Wonganarra Community
 Woodstock Homestead Community
Woolah Community
Wuggubun Community
 Wungo Community
Wurrenranginy Community

Y
Yakanarra Community
 Yandarinya Community
Yandeyarra Community
Yarrunga Community
Yirrallelm Community
Yiyili Community
 Youngaleena Community
Yulga Jinna Community
Yungngora Community

Notes

External links
 http://www.daa.wa.gov.au/en/Publications/  Department of Aboriginal Affairs publications contain significant amounts of information that relate to the communities in Western Australia.

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Aboriginal communities in Western Australia


Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell   (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate of the United States.

Among other honors, Jarrell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the years 1947–48; a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1951; and the National Book Award for Poetry, in 1961.

Biography

Youth and education
Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Hume-Fogg High School where he "practiced tennis, starred in some school plays, and began his career as a critic with satirical essays in a school magazine." He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1935.  While at Vanderbilt, he edited the student humor magazine The Masquerader, was captain of the tennis team, made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He studied there under Robert Penn Warren, who first published Jarrell's criticism; Allen Tate, who first published Jarrell's poetry; and John Crowe Ransom, who gave Jarrell his first teaching job as a Freshman Composition instructor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Although all of these Vanderbilt teachers were heavily involved with the conservative Southern Agrarian movement, Jarrell did not become an Agrarian himself. According to Stephanie Burt, "Jarrell—a devotee of Marx and Auden— embraced his teachers' literary stances while rejecting their politics." He also completed his master's degree in English at Vanderbilt in 1937, beginning his thesis on A. E. Housman (which he completed in 1939).

When Ransom left Vanderbilt for Kenyon College in Ohio that same year, a number of his loyal students, including Jarrell, followed him to Kenyon. Jarrell taught English at Kenyon for two years, coached tennis, and served as the resident faculty member in an undergraduate dormitory that housed future writers Robie Macauley, Peter Taylor, and poet Robert Lowell. Lowell and Jarrell remained good friends and peers until Jarrell's death. According to Lowell biographer Paul Mariani, "Jarrell was the first person of [Lowell's] own generation [whom he] genuinely held in awe" due to Jarrell's brilliance and confidence even at the age of 23.

Career
Jarrell went on to teach at the University of Texas at Austin from 1939 to 1942, where he began to publish criticism and  where he met his first wife, Mackie Langham. In 1942 he left the university to join the United States Army Air Forces. According to his obituary, he "[started] as a flying cadet, [then] he later became a celestial navigation tower operator, a job title he considered the most poetic in the Air Force." His early poetry, in particular The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, would principally concern his wartime experiences in the Air Force.

The Jarrell obituary goes on to state that "after being discharged from the service he joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., for a year. During his time in New York, he also served as the temporary book review editor for The Nation magazine." However, Jarrell was uncomfortable living in the city and "claimed to hate New York's crowds, high cost of living, status-conscious sociability, and lack of greenery.". He soon left the city for the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina where, as an associate professor of English, he taught modern poetry and "imaginative writing."

Jarrell divorced his first wife and married Mary von Schrader, a young woman whom he met at a summer writer's conference in Colorado, in 1952. They first lived together while Jarrell was teaching for a term at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Then the couple settled back in Greensboro with Mary's daughters from her previous marriage. The couple also moved temporarily to Washington D.C. in 1956 when Jarrell served as the consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress (a position that later became titled "Poet Laureate") for two years, returning to Greensboro and the University of North Carolina after his term ended.

Depression and death
Towards the end of his life, in 1963, Stephanie Burt notes: "Randall's behavior began to change. Approaching his fiftieth birthday, he seems to have worried deeply about his advancing age. . . After President Kennedy was shot, Randall spent days in front of the television weeping. Sad to the point of inertia, Randall sought help from a Cincinnati psychiatrist, who prescribed [the antidepressant drug] Elavil." The drug made him manic and in 1965, he was hospitalized and taken off Elavil. At this point, he was no longer manic, but he became depressed again. Burt also states that in April The New York Times published a "viciously condescending" review by Joseph Bennett of Jarrell's most recent book of poems, The Lost World, which said "his work is thoroughly dated; prodigiousness encouraged by an indulgent and sentimental Mama-ism; its overriding feature is doddering infantilism." Soon afterwards, Jarrell slashed a wrist and returned to the hospital. After leaving the hospital, he stayed at home that summer under his wife's care and returned to teaching at the University of North Carolina that fall.

Then, near dusk on October 14, 1965, while walking along U.S. highway 15-501 near Chapel Hill, N.C., where he had gone seeking medical treatment, Jarrell was struck by a car and killed. In trying to determine the cause of death, "[Jarrell's wife] Mary, the police, the coroner, and ultimately the state of North Carolina judged his death accidental, a verdict made credible by his apparent improvements in health...and the odd, sidelong manner of the collision; medical professionals judged the injuries consistent with an accident and not with suicide." Nevertheless, because Jarrell had recently been treated for mental illness and a previous suicide attempt, some of the people closest to him were not entirely convinced that his death was accidental and suspected that he might have taken his own life.

In a letter to Elizabeth Bishop about a week after Jarrell's death, Robert Lowell wrote, "There's a small chance [that Jarrell's death] was an accident. . . [but] I think it was suicide, and so does everyone else, who knew him well." Jarrell's death being a suicide has since become accepted practically as fact, even by people who were not personally close to him. The idea has been perpetuated by some well known writers. A. Alvarez, in his book The Savage God, lists Jarrell as a twentieth-century writer who killed himself, and James Atlas refers to Jarrell's "suicide" several times in his biography of Delmore Schwartz. The idea of Jarrell's death being a suicide was always denied by his wife.

Legacy
On February 28, 1966, a memorial service was held in Jarrell's honor at Yale University, and some of the best-known poets in the country attended and spoke at the event, including Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, John Berryman, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Penn Warren. Reporting on the memorial service, The New York Times quoted Lowell who said that Jarrell was "'the most heartbreaking poet of our time'. . . [and] had written 'the best poetry in English about the Second World War.'" These memorial tributes formed the basis for the book Randall Jarrell 1914-1965 which Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the following year.

In 2004, the Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission approved placement of a historical marker in his honor, to be placed at his alma mater, Hume-Fogg High School. A North Carolina Highway Historical Marker was placed near his burial site in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Writing

Poetry
In terms of the subject matter of Jarrell's work, the scholar Stephen Burt observed, "Randall Jarrell's best-known poems are poems about the Second World War, poems about bookish children and childhood, and poems, such as 'Next Day,' in the voices of aging women." Burt also succinctly summarizes the essence of Jarrell's poetic style as follows:  Jarrell's stylistic particularities have been hard for critics to hear and describe, both because the poems call readers' attention instead to their characters and because Jarrell's particular powers emerge so often from mimesis of speech. Jarrell's style responds to the alienations it delineates by incorporating or troping speech and conversation, linking emotional events within one person's psyche to speech acts that might take place between persons. . .Jarrell's style pivots on his sense of loneliness and on the intersubjectivity he sought as a response.

Jarrell was first published in 1940 in "5 Young Poets", which also included work by John Berryman. His first separate collection of poetry, Blood for a Stranger, which was heavily influenced by W.H. Auden, was published in 1942 – the same year he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. His second and third books, Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) and Losses (1948), drew heavily on his Army experiences. The short lyric "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is Jarrell's most famous war poem and one that is frequently anthologized.

His reputation as a poet was not firmly established until 1960 when his National Book Award-winning
collection The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published.  Starting with this book, Jarrell broke free of Auden's influence and the influence of the New Critics and developed a style that mixed Modernist and Romantic influences, incorporating the aesthetics of William Wordsworth in order to create more sympathetic character sketches and dramatic monologues. The scholar Stephen Burt notes, "Jarrell took from Wordsworth the idea that poems had to be 'convincing as speech' before they were anything else." His final volume, The Lost World, published in 1965, continued in the same style and cemented Jarrell's reputation as a poet; many critics consider it to be his best work. Stephen Burt states that "in the 'Lost World' poems and throughout Jarrell's oeuvre. . .he took care to define and defend the self [and]. . .his lonely personae seek intersubjective confirmation and . . .his alienated characters resist the so-called social world." Burt identifies the chief influences on Jarrell's poetry to be "Proust, Wordsworth, Rilke, Freud, and the poets and thinkers of Jarrell's era [particularly his close friend, Hannah Arendt]."

Criticism
From the start of his writing career, Jarrell earned a solid reputation as an influential poetry critic.  Encouraged by Edmund Wilson, who published Jarrell's criticism in The New Republic, Jarrell developed his style of critique which was often witty and sometimes fiercely critical. However, as he got older, his criticism began to change, showing a more positive emphasis. His appreciations of Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams helped to establish or resuscitate their reputations as significant American poets, and his poet friends often returned the favor, as when Lowell wrote a review of Jarrell's book of poems The Seven League Crutches in 1951. Lowell wrote that Jarrell was "the most talented poet under forty, and one whose wit, pathos, and grace remind us more of Pope or Matthew Arnold than of any of his contemporaries." In the same review, Lowell calls Jarrell's first book of poems, Blood for A Stranger, "a tour-de-force in the manner of Auden." And in another book review for Jarrell's Selected Poems, a few years later, fellow-poet Karl Shapiro compared Jarrell to "the great modern Rainer Maria Rilke" and stated that the book "should certainly influence our poetry for the better. It should become a point of reference, not only for younger poets, but for all readers of twentieth-century poetry."

Jarrell is also noted for his essays on Robert Frost — whose poetry was a large influence on Jarrell's own — Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and others, which were mostly collected in Poetry and the Age (1953). Many scholars consider him the most astute poetry critic of his generation, and in 1979, the poet and scholar Peter Levi went so far as to advise younger writers, "Take more notice of Randall Jarrell than you do of any academic critic."

In an introduction to a selection of Jarrell's essays, the poet Brad Leithauser wrote the following assessment of Jarrell as a critic:[Jarrell's] multiple and eclectic virtues —originality, erudition, wit, probity, and an irresistible passion —combined to make him the best American poet-critic since Eliot. Or one could call him, after granting Eliot the English citizenship he so actively embraced, the best poet-critic we have ever had. Whichever side of the Atlantic one chooses to place Eliot, Jarrell was his superior in at least one significant respect. He captured a world that any contemporary poet will recognize as "the poetry scene"; his Poetry and the Age might even now be retitled Poetry and Our Age.

Fiction, translations, and children's books
In addition to poetry and criticism, Jarrell also published a satiric novel, Pictures from an Institution, in 1954 (a National Book Award for Fiction finalist) — drawing upon his teaching experiences at Sarah Lawrence College, which served as the model for the fictional Benton College. He also wrote several children's books, among which The Bat-Poet (1964) and The Animal Family (1965) are considered prominent (and feature illustrations by Maurice Sendak). Jarrell translated poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and others, a play by Anton Chekhov, and several Grimm fairy tales.

Bibliography
Blood for A Stranger. NY: Harcourt, 1942.
Little Friend, Little Friend. NY: Dial, 1945.
Losses. NY: Harcourt, 1948.
The Seven League Crutches. NY: Harcourt, 1951.
Poetry and the Age. NY: Knopf, 1953.
Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy. New York: Knopf, 1954
Selected Poems. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories: An Anthology. Selected and with an introduction by Randall Jarrell. New York: New York Review Books, 1958.
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations. New York: Atheneum, 1960.
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables. NY: Atheneum, 1962.
Selected Poems including The Woman at the Washington Zoo. NY: Macmillan, 1964.
The Bat-Poet. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. NY: Macmillan, 1964.
 The Gingerbread Rabbit.  Illustrated by Garth Williams.  NY: Random House, 1965
The Lost World. NY: Macmillan, 1965.
The Animal Family. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. NY: Pantheon Books, 1965.
Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965. Edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968.
The Third Book of Criticism. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
The Complete Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
Fly by Night. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.
"Faust: Part One" by Goethe, (translator). Farrah, Straus & Giroux 1976
Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection. edited by Mary Jarrell and Stuart Wright. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Selected Poems. Edited by William Pritchard. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1990.
No Other Book: Selected Essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser. NY: HarperCollins, 1995.

References

External links

Jarrell page at Poets.org
Jarrell page at Modern American Poetry site
Randall Jarrell's time at the Library of Congress, Beltway Poetry Quarterly
Finding Aid for the Randall Jarrell Papers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Jarrell on the New York Times Featured Authors site
News of historical marker
Randall Jarrell Papers (#1169-005), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University

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John Muiruri

John Machethe "Mo" Muiruri (born 10 October 1979) is a Kenyan footballer who currently plays for Moss FK in Norway as a midfielder. He is known for his close ball control and ability to dribble the ball. He is one of the talented midfield quartet of the Kenya along with McDonald Mariga, Robert Mambo, and Titus Mulama. He led Kisii School to two national championships before graduating in 1997.

Muiruri has played 20 international matches for Kenya as well as 13 matches at U-21 and U-23 level. He appeared at the 2004 African Cup of Nations.

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Putin khuylo!

"Putin – khuilo!" (, ; ; commonly translated as "Putin is a dickhead") is a Ukrainian- and Russian-language slogan deriding Russian President Vladimir Putin. It originated in Ukraine in 2014 having grown from a football chant first performed by FC Metalist Kharkiv ultras in March 2014 on the onset of the Russian annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine. The phrase has become very widespread throughout Ukraine among supporters of the Ukrainian government and more generally those who do not like Vladimir Putin in both Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking areas of Ukraine.

Language and meaning

The obscene term (mat)  is variously transliterated as huilo, huylo, khuilo, khuylo, or xujlo. Its core is  (khuy), literally "dick" in both Russian and Ukrainian. In combination with -lo it may be translated as "dickwad", "dickhead" or "prick".  The words are identical in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. In West Slavic, the word does not exist, except in Polish and Slovak that have chuj; Polish transliterates  as chujło.

In May 2014, media outlets reported that the Russian profanity khuilo had been added to the Urban Dictionary as a synonym for Vladimir Putin.

The expression, for the reason of circumventing censorship, may be abbreviated as "" (ptn kh̆lo). The letter  is an overlay of the Cyrillic letters ,  and , a well-known joke about "a new Russian letter". Another abbreviation containing a similarly suggestive meaning is "" (PTN PNKh), which stands for "" (Putin, poshol na khuy, which is similar to "Putin, go fuck yourself", which could be rendered in English as "PTN GFY").

History
The chant has its origins in "Surkis Khuylo!", a football chant that was initiated by the ultras of FC Metalist Kharkiv some time in 2010, during the height of a feud between two Ukrainian oligarchs, Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, then-owner of "Metalist", and Hryhoriy Surkis, then-president of the Football Federation of Ukraine who had strong historic and family ties with FC Dynamo Kyiv. The Kharkiv fans, who sided with their club president, chanted "Surkis Khuylo!" to express their dislike of the Football Federation president in vulgar and profane form.

The first recorded public performance of the "Putin khuylo!" chant and the song that grew from it took place in March 2014 in Kharkiv when the local fans chanted it during their street march. The recording was soon posted to YouTube where it went viral. Various groups of Ukrainian ultras of all major Ukrainian clubs except one have been historically holding strong pro-Ukrainian, sometimes nationalistic, political views and on the onset of the Russian annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine combined with Russia-incited anti-Ukrainian violence in the East and South of Ukraine, when the city of Kharkiv was in turmoil, the football fans immediately and unequivocally sided with Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Soon the song that vulgarly derided Putin gained much wider popularity, spreading among other clubs, such as the fans of Shakhtar Donetsk (Donetsk) and Dynamo Kyiv (Kiev), who were formerly feuding but sang the song together. During the Russian intervention and partial occupation of Ukraine, the ultras of various Ukrainian clubs set aside their rivalries and chanted the song in joint street marches. The chant continued to grow in popularity and became "a nationwide cultural meme" according to The Guardian. Alexander J. Motyl reported, "A shorthand, more modest version of the lyrics has even entered the popular discourse. If you want to express your views of Putin, all you need do is say 'la-la la-la la-la', and everything's quite clear."

Artemy Troitsky identified the melody of the chant as coming from the song "Speedy Gonzales", a hit for American singer Pat Boone in 1962.

In June 2015, the Russian Federal Security Service started a criminal prosecution and investigation of activist Daria Poludova for using the song on the VK social network.

When Russian television channel TNT aired one episode of the Ukrainian sitcom "Servant of the People" in December 2019, a scene containing a joke that referenced the song, in which the fictional president played by Volodymyr Zelensky asked "Putin hublo?" () when told that Putin wore a Hublot watch, was cut out of the episode. The omission occurred only within central Russia and the Moscow region, but not in the eastern regions of the country.

In mainstream rock music
Several Ukrainian mainstream rock music bands included or adapted the chant into their music. A metal remix, released on April 21, 2014 by AstrogentA, added instrumentation and reworked the video of the March 30 protest chant to depict its spread throughout Ukrainian football clubs. The Ukrainian band Teleri received international attention following the May 6, 2014 release of a song and a video titled "Putin Hello!" Their song uses a double entendre, substituting the objectionable word "khuylo" with the English word "Hello!" Alluding to the "Putin Khuylo!" chant, the video features band players wearing Ukrainian football club colors and posing as ultras marching and chanting "Putin Hello" as the refrain of the song. The band members asserted, tongue-in-cheek, that the linking of their song to an offensive anti-Putin chant was a misunderstanding and insisted that the only people who found the chant objectionable were Russians unfamiliar with English.

Hromadske.TV aired a live performance of the song by Lemonchiki Project on May 29, 2014. The rock band Druha Rika performed the song at their concert on June 13, 2014. Other rock adaptations were made by Mad Heads and Haydamaky. The Kyiv Post reviewed nine video versions of the song and two other related songs.

References by notable Ukrainian politicians

Oleh Lyashko
Oleh Lyashko, a Ukrainian MP and leader of the country's Radical Party,  performed a song in May 2014 at a public rally during his 2014 presidential campaign.

Andrii Deshchytsia

Hromadske.TV aired a footage showing Andrii Deshchytsia, then-acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, uttering the word "khuylo" in reference to the Russian President Putin during his plea with protesters in front of the Russian Embassy in Kiev on the evening of 14 June 2014 following the Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down by the Russia-armed rebels. Deshchytsya pleaded the protesters to refrain from violence directed at the Embassy that would cause a bigger diplomatic scandal. Deshchytsia stated: "He (Putin) is a khuylo, but - disperse, please!" Shortly afterward, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko nominated a different diplomat to lead the Foreign Affairs ministry. According to the Ukrainian media, the presidential plan to replace the minister was known prior to the incident, being proposed as part of a bigger reshuffle in the Ukrainian government. Soon after, Poroshenko praised the work of Deshchytsia, who was then leaving his ministerial position, and the parliament gave the outgoing minister a standing ovation.

Deshchytsia's use of the wording caused widespread discontent among the Russian leadership. However, Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on Twitter that minister Deshchytsia's use of the chant had been "seeking to defuse a dangerous situation", calling Deshchytsia "a skilled diplomat and credit to Ukraine."

Arsen Avakov
On July 2, 2014, Arsen Avakov who was a Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, one of the country's major security agencies, published a Facebook post with a photo he took that showed a bus stop near Sloviansk covered by a "Putin Khuilo!" graffiti.  The minister post included his comment to the picture saying: "A private opinion some place near Slovyansk. Aligning myself." A week later, on July 9, 2014, Avakov met the troops of the Kyiv-1 Special Police force battalion. After the traditional drill exchange of "Glory to Ukraine!" greeting followed by the customary "To Heroes, Glory!" response, Avakov exclaimed "Putin!" to which the troops responded "khuylo!" The minister was clearly happy with the response and gave a "Vol'no!" ("at ease!") drill command.

International reception
In October 2014, Belarusians joined visiting Ukrainians in a performance of the chant by "nearly the entire stadium" at a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match in Barysaw, Belarus resulting in more than 100 Ukrainian and 30 Belarusian football fans being detained and questioned, reportedly on suspicion of using "obscene language". Seven, all Ukrainian, were sentenced to five days in jail for obscene language, while one was given 10 day sentence for allegedly wearing a swastika.

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See also
 O1G, a similar slogan targeting Viktor Orbán

Notes

Further reading
 Christian Diemer. Mutterlandpop. Lokale Markierung und Entgrenzung musikalischer. Darbietungen auf ukrainischen Feiertagen // Speaking in Tongues: Pop lokal global / Dietrich Helms, Thomas Phleps. — Transcript Verlag, 2015. — PP. 78–80. — 219 p. — (Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, Vol. 42). — . — .
 Frédéric Döhl, Klaus Nathaus. Annäherungen an einen flüchtigen Gegenstand. Neue Literatur zur Geschichte der Musik aus Journalistik, Historiographie und Musikwissenschaft // Neue Politische Literatur. — 2017. — Bd. 62, Nr. 3. — S. 491.
 Taras Kuzio. Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism. — ABC-CLIO, 2015. — С. 112. — 641 с. — (Praeger Security International). — . — .
 Oksana Havryliv. Verbale Aggression: das Spektrum der Funktionen // Linguistik Online. — 2017. — 25 Aprils (Bd. 82, H. 3). — S. 27—47. — ISSN 1615-3014. — DOI:10.13092/lo.82.3713.

References

External links

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Uckermark (district)

This article is about a district in Germany. For the historical region, see Uckermark. For information about the Nazi concentration camp with the same name, see Uckermark concentration camp.

Uckermark () is a Kreis (district) in the northeastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (clockwise from the south) Barnim and Oberhavel, the districts Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and to the east Poland (Police County and Gryfino County). It is the largest district of Germany areawise. The district is named after the historical region of Uckermark.

Geography
The Uckermark is named after the Uecker river, which is a tributary of the Oder. The Oder River, forming the Polish border, bounds the district in the east. The district is characterised by 600 lakes and 2,800 km of rivers. Rare animals still live in the lakeland, such as ospreys, beavers and otters.

The western parts of the Lower Oder Valley National Park are located in the district.

History

The Uckermark was originally divided between the administrative units Uckerkreis and Stolpirischer Kreis. In 1817 as part of the Province of Brandenburg, a third district was created in the area, the district Angermünde, and the other two districts were renamed to Prenzlau and Templin. The current district Uckermark was created in 1993 by merging the previous districts Angermünde, Prenzlau and Templin, as well as the previously district-free city Schwedt.

Demography

Coat of arms

Towns and municipalities

References

External links

 Official website
 tourist website
 city-map and Internet Market Place
 online-shop for specialities and arts and crafts


List of exoplanets discovered in 2012

This is a List of exoplanets discovered in 2012.

For exoplanets detected only by radial velocity, the mass value is actually a lower limit. (See Minimum mass for more information)
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:100%; style="font-size: 83%;"
  !Name
  !data-sort-type="number"|Mass ()
  !data-sort-type="number"|Radius ()
  !data-sort-type="number"|Period (days)
  !data-sort-type="number"|Semi-major axis (AU)
  !data-sort-type="number"|Temp. (K)
  !Discovery method
  !data-sort-type="number"|Distance (ly)
  !data-sort-type="number"|Host star mass ()
  !data-sort-type="number"|Host star temp. (K)
  !Remarks
|-
|75 Ceti b
|3
|
|691.9
|2.1
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|266
|2.49
|4846
|
|-
|BD+20 274 b
|4.2
|
|578.2
|1.3
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|
|0.8
|4296
|
|-
|Epsilon Coronae Borealis b
|6.7
|
|417.9
|1.3
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|229.7
|1.7
|4406
|
|-
|Gliese 676 Ad
|0.014
|
|3.6005
|
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|55
|0.71
|
|
|-
|Gliese 676 Ae
|0.025
|
|35.39
|
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|55
|0.71
|
|
|-
|Gliese 3470 b
|0.043
|0.346
|3.3366487
|0.031
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|82
|0.51
|3652
|
|-
|HAT-P-38b
|0.267
|0.825
|4.640382
|0.0523
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|810
|0.89
|5330
|
|-
|HAT-P-39b
|0.599
|1.571
|3.54387
|0.0509
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|2090
|1.4
|6430
|
|-
|HAT-P-40b
|0.615
|1.73
|4.457243
|0.0608
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1630
|1.51
|6080
|
|-
|HAT-P-41b
|0.8
|1.685
|2.694047
|0.0426
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1120
|1.42
|6390
|
|-
|HAT-P-42b
|1.044
|1.28
|4.641878
|0.0575
|1427
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1460
|1.18
|5743
|
|-
|HAT-P-43b
|0.662
|1.281
|3.332687
|0.0443
|1361
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1770
|1.05
|5645
|
|-
|HATS-1b
|1.855
|1.302
|3.446459
|0.0444
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|990
|0.99
|5870
|
|-
|HD 142 c
|5.3
|
|6005
|6.8
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|83.6
|1.23
|6245
|
|-
|HD 4732 b
|2.37
|
|360.2
|1.19
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|184
|1.74
|4959
|
|-
|HD 4732 c
|2.37
|
|2732
|4.6
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|184
|1.74
|4959
|
|-
|HD 5608 b
|1.4
|
|792.6
|1.9
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|189.7
|1.55
|4854
|
|-
|HD 10180 i
|0.006
|
|9.655 ± 0.072
|0.0904 ± 0.047
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|126.8
|1.062 ± 0.017
|5911
|Unconfirmed
|-
|HD 10180 j
|0.0016
|
|67.55 ± 1.28
|0.330 ± 0.016
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|126.8
|1.062 ± 0.017
|5911
|Unconfirmed
|-
|HD 27631 b
|1.45
|
|2208
|3.25
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|145.3
|0.94
|5737
|
|-
|HD 37605 c
|3.366
|
|2720
|3.814
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|139.9
|1
|5448
|
|-
|HD 66141 b
|6
|
|480.5
|1.2
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|261.1
|1.1
|4323
|
|-
|HD 77338 b
|0.05
|
|5.7361
|0.0614
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|134.6
|0.93
|5370
|
|-
|HD 98649 b
|6.8
|
|4951
|5.6
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|139.5
|1
|5759
|
|-
|HD 100655 b
|1.7
|
|157.57
|0.76
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|459.4
|2.4
|4861
|
|-
|HD 106515 Ab
|9.61
|
|3630
|4.59
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|118.6
|0.97
|5362
|
|-
|HD 150706 b
|2.71
|
|5894
|6.7
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|88.8
|1.17
|5961
|
|-
|HD 159868 c
|0.73
|
|352.3
|1
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|171.9
|1.09
|5558
|
|-
|HD 166724 b
|3.53
|
|5144
|5.42
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|140.2
|0.81
|5127
|
|-
|HD 197037 b
|0.79
|
|1035.7
|2.07
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|107.1
|
|
|
|-
|HD 204313 d
|1.68 (± 0.3)
|
|2831.6 (± 150)
|3.93 (± 0.14)
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|155
|1.045 ± 0.033
|5767
|
|-
|HD 207832 b
|0.56
|
|161.97
|0.57
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|180.4
|0.94
|5710
|
|-
|HD 207832 c
|0.73
|
|1155.7
|2.112
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|180.4
|0.94
|5710
|
|-
|HD 208527 b
|9.9
|
|875.5
|2.1
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|1148.4
|1.6
|4035
|
|-
|HD 219077 b
|10.39
|
|5501
|6.22
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|95
|1.05
|5362
|
|-
|HD 219415 b
|1
|
|2093.3
|3.2
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|553.7
|1
|4820
|
|-
|HD 220074 b
|11.1
|
|672.1
|1.6
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|942.7
|1.2
|3935
|
|-
|HD 220689 b
|1.06
|
|2209
|3.36
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|147.5
|1.04
|5921
|
|-
|HD 222155 b
|1.9
|
|3999
|5.1
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|160
|1.13
|5765
|
|-
|HW Virginis b
|14.3
|
|4640
|4.69
|
|style="background:#FF7519"|timing
|590
|0.485
|
|
|-
|Kappa Andromedae b
|13.616
|
|
|55
|1850
|style="background:#FF6CDA"|imaging
|169.7
|2.6
|10900
|Has a reddish color, and may be a brown dwarf
|-
|KELT-1b
|27.23
|1.11
|1.217514
|0.02466
|2423
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|850
|1.32
|6518
|
|-
|KELT-2Ab
|1.522
|1.286
|4.1137912
|0.05496
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|405.2
|1.31
|6151
|
|-
|Kepler-21b
|0.01598
|0.146
|2.78578
|0.042717
|2025
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|370
|1.41
|6305
|
|-
|Kepler-30b
|0.036
|0.348
|29.33434
|0.18
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|4600
|0.99
|5498
|
|-
|Kepler-30c
|2.01
|1.097
|60.323105
|0.3
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|4600
|0.99
|5498
|
|-
|Kepler-30d
|0.073
|0.785
|143.34394
|0.5
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|4600
|0.99
|5498
|
|-
|Kepler-32d
|
|0.241
|22.7802
|0.13
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|990
|0.58
|3900
|
|-
|Kepler-32e
|
|0.134
|2.896
|0.033
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|990
|0.58
|3900
|
|-
|Kepler-32f
|
|0.073
|0.74296
|0.013
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|990
|0.58
|3900
|
|-
|Kepler-36b
|0.014
|0.133
|13.83989
|0.1153
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1500
|1.07
|5911
|
|-
|Kepler-36c
|0.025
|0.328
|16.23855
|0.1283
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1500
|1.07
|5911
|
|-
|Kepler-38b
|0.384
|0.384
|105.599
|0.4632
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|2000
|0.94
|5623
|
|-
|Kepler-46b
|6
|0.808
|33.60134
|0.1968
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|2790
|0.9
|5309
|
|-
|Kepler-46c
|0.376
|
|57.011
|0.2799
|
|style="background:#FF7519"|timing
|2790
|0.9
|5309
|
|-
|Kepler-47b
|2
|0.27
|49.532
|0.2962
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|4900
|1.05
|5636
|
|-
|Kepler-47c
|28
|0.411
|303.137
|0.991
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|4900
|1.05
|5636
|
|-
|Kepler-48b
|0.0124
|0.168
|4.778
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.88
|5194
|
|-
|Kepler-48c
|0.04597
|0.242
|9.67395
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.88
|5194
|
|-
|Kepler-49b
|0.98
|0.243
|7.2037945
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.55
|4252
|
|-
|Kepler-49c
|0.72
|0.227
|10.9129343
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.55
|4252
|
|-
|Kepler-50b
|
|0.153
|7.81254
|0.077
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.24
|6225
|
|-
|Kepler-50c
|
|0.194
|9.37647
|0.087
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.24
|6225
|
|-
|Kepler-51b
|0.007
|0.633
|45.154
|0.2514
|543
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|6018
|
|-
|Kepler-51c
|0.013
|0.803
|85.312
|0.384
|439
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|6018
|
|-
|Kepler-52b
|8.7
|0.187
|7.8773565
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.54
|4263
|
|-
|Kepler-52c
|10.41
|0.164
|16.3850021
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.54
|4263
|
|-
|Kepler-53b
|18.41
|0.258
|18.6489525
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.98
|5858
|
|-
|Kepler-53c
|15.74
|0.283
|38.5583038
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.98
|5858
|
|-
|Kepler-54b
|0.92
|0.187
|8.0109434
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.51
|4252
|
|-
|Kepler-54c
|0.37
|0.11
|12.0717249
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.51
|4252
|
|-
|Kepler-55b
|1.49
|0.217
|27.9481449
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.62
|4503
|
|-
|Kepler-55c
|1.11
|0.197
|42.1516418
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.62
|4503
|
|-
|Kepler-56b
|0.07
|0.581
|10.5016
|0.1028
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.32
|4840
|
|-
|Kepler-56c
|0.57
|0.874
|21.40239
|0.1652
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.32
|4840
|
|-
|Kepler-57b
|18.86
|0.195
|5.7293196
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.83
|5145
|
|-
|Kepler-57c
|6.95
|0.138
|11.6092567
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.83
|5145
|
|-
|Kepler-58b
|1.39
|0.248
|10.2184954
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.95
|6099
|
|-
|Kepler-58c
|2.19
|0.255
|15.5741568
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.95
|6099
|
|-
|Kepler-59b
|2.05
|0.098
|11.8681707
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|6074
|
|-
|Kepler-59c
|1.37
|0.177
|17.9801235
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|6074
|
|-
|Kepler-60b
|0.01318
|0.153
|7.1334
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|5905
|
|-
|Kepler-60c
|0.01211
|0.17
|8.9187
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|5905
|
|-
|Kepler-60d
|0.01309
|0.178
|11.8981
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.04
|5905
|
|-
|Kepler-65b
|
|0.127
|2.15491
|0.035
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.25
|6211
|
|-
|Kepler-65c
|
|0.23
|5.859944
|0.068
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.25
|6211
|
|-
|Kepler-65d
|
|0.136
|8.13123
|0.084
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.25
|6211
|
|-
|Kepler-79b
|0.0343
|0.31
|13.4845
|0.117
|868
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.17
|6174
|
|-
|Kepler-79c
|0.019
|0.332
|27.4029
|0.187
|685
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1.17
|6174
|
|-
|Kepler-80b
|0.0218
|0.238
|7.05246
|0.0648
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1160
|0.73
|4540
|
|-
|Kepler-80c
|0.02121
|0.244
|9.52355
|0.0792
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1160
|0.73
|4540
|
|-
|Kepler-81b
|
|0.216
|5.955
|
|646
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.64
|4500
|
|-
|Kepler-81c
|
|0.211
|12.04
|
|513
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.64
|4500
|
|-
|Kepler-82b
|
|0.357
|26.444
|
|581
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.85
|5428
|
|-
|Kepler-82c
|
|0.477
|51.538
|
|464
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.85
|5428
|
|-
|Kepler-83b
|
|0.252
|9.77
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.66
|4648
|
|-
|Kepler-83c
|
|0.211
|20.09
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.66
|4648
|
|-
|Kepler-84b
|
|0.199
|8.726
|
|937
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1
|6031
|
|-
|Kepler-84c
|
|0.211
|12.883
|
|821
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|1
|6031
|
|-
|Kepler-85b
|
|0.176
|8.306
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.92
|5436
|
|-
|Kepler-85c
|
|0.194
|12.513
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|
|0.92
|5436
|
|-
|MOA-2010-BLG-073Lb
|11
|
|
|1.21
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|9100
|0.16
|
|
|-
|MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb
|1.5
|
|
|2
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|7500
|0.67
|5950
|
|-
|MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb
|4.8
|
|
|1.1
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|25200
|0.86
|
|
|-
|MOA-bin-1L b
|3.7
|
|
|8.3
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|17000
|0.75
|
|
|-
|Mu2 Octantis b
|6.9
|
|3638
|5.02
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|142.1
|1.29
|6017
|
|-
|Nu Ophiuchi b
|24
|
|530.32
|1.9
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|152.8
|3.04
|4928
|
|-
|Nu Ophiuchi c
|27
|
|3186
|6.1
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|152.8
|3.04
|4928
|
|-
|OGLE-2011-BLG-251Lb
|0.53
|
|
|2.72
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|8400
|0.26
|
|
|-
|OGLE-2012-BLG-26Lb
|0.145
|
|
|4
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|13110
|1.06
|
|
|-
|OGLE-2012-BLG-26Lc
|0.86
|
|
|4.8
|
|style="background:#0099FF"|microlensing
|13110
|1.06
|
|
|-
|Omicron Coronae Borealis b
|1.5
|
|187.83
|0.83
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|274.1
|2.13
|4749
|
|-
|Omicron Ursae Majoris b
|4.1
|
|1630
|3.9
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|183.7
|3.09
|5242
|
|-
|PH1b
|0.531
|0.551
|138.317
|0.652
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|3300
|1.53
|6407
|
|-
|Pr0201 b
|0.54
|
|4.4264
|
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|
|1.23
|6174
|
|-
|Pr0211 b
|1.88
|
|2.1461
|0.03176
|
|style="background:#00FF00"|radial vel.
|
|0.94
|5300
|
|-
|RR Caeli b
|4.2
|
|4343.5
|5.3
|
|style="background:#FF7519"|timing
|
|0.44
|
|
|-
|UCF-1.01
|~0.000882
|0.059
|1.3659
|0.0184
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|31.79
|0.41 ± 0.05
|3318
|Sub-Earth candidate
|-
|UCF-1.02
|~0.000882
|0.058
|
|
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|31.79
|0.41 ± 0.05
|3318
|Sub-Earth candidate
|-
|WASP-41b
|0.94
|1.18
|3.052404
|0.04
|1244
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|590
|0.93
|5545
|
|-
|WASP-42b
|0.527
|1.122
|4.9816819
|0.0561
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|520
|0.95
|5315
|
|-
|WASP-47b
|1.21
|1.15
|4.16071
|0.052
|1275
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|650
|1.11
|5576
|
|-
|WASP-49b
|0.378
|1.115
|2.7817387
|0.0379
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|550
|0.94
|5600
|
|-
|WASP-52b
|0.46
|1.27
|1.7497798
|0.0272
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|460
|0.87
|5000
|
|-
|WASP-54b
|0.636
|1.653
|3.6936411
|0.04987
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|650
|1.21
|6100
|
|-
|WASP-55b
|0.627
|1.335
|4.4656291
|0.0558
|1290
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1100
|1.16
|6070
|
|-
|WASP-56b
|0.571
|1.092
|4.617101
|0.05458
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|830
|1.03
|5600
|
|-
|WASP-57b
|0.644
|1.05
|2.83891856
|0.03769
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1480
|0.89
|5600
|
|-
|WASP-58b
|0.89
|1.37
|5.01718
|0.0561
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|980
|0.94
|5800
|
|-
|WASP-59b
|0.863
|0.775
|7.919585
|0.0697
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|410
|0.72
|4650
|
|-
|WASP-60b
|0.514
|0.86
|4.3050011
|0.0531
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1300
|1.08
|5900
|
|-
|WASP-61b
|2.06
|1.24
|3.8559
|0.0514
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1600
|1.22
|6320
|
|-
|WASP-62b
|0.57
|1.39
|4.411953
|0.0567
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|520
|1.25
|6280
|
|-
|WASP-63b
|0.38
|1.43
|4.37809
|0.0574
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1100
|1.32
|5570
|
|-
|WASP-64b
|1.271
|1.271
|1.5732918
|0.02648
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1100
|1
|5400
|
|-
|WASP-66b
|2.32
|1.39
|4.086052
|0.0546
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1200
|1.3
|6580
|
|-
|WASP-67b
|0.42
|1.4
|4.61442
|0.0517
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|730
|0.87
|5240
|
|-
|WASP-71b
|2.242
|1.46
|2.9036747
|0.04619
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1130
|1.56
|6059
|
|-
|WASP-72b
|1.5461
|1.27
|2.2167421
|0.03708
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1100
|1.39
|6250
|
|-
|WASP-77Ab
|1.76
|1.21
|1.3600309
|0.024
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|300
|1
|5500
|
|-
|WASP-78b
|0.89
|1.7
|2.17517632
|0.0362
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|1800
|1.17
|6100
|
|-
|WASP-79b
|0.9
|2.09
|3.6623866
|0.0535
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|780
|1.38
|6600
|
|-
|WASP-80b
|0.538
|0.999
|3.06785234
|0.0344
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|200
|0.58
|4143
|
|-
|WISE 1217+1626 b
|22
|0.934
|
|8
|
|style="background:#FF6CDA"|imaging
|33
|0.03
|575
|
|-
|WTS-1b
|4.01
|1.49
|3.352057
|0.047
|
|style="background:#FFFF00"|transit
|10000
|1.2
|6250
||}

Specific exoplanet lists

References

2012
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exoplanets


California Baptist Lancers men's basketball

The California Baptist Lancers men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents California Baptist University in Riverside, California, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Western Athletic Conference. They made the jump into Division I basketball on July 1, 2018. They are currently led by head coach Rick Croy and play at the CBU Events Center, which opened in 2017 and replaced the Van Dyne Gym. The men's basketball program will be ineligible for play in the NCAA Division I Tournament during their transition period, although they can be eligible for other tournaments such as the College Basketball Invitational.

History
The men's basketball program began playing at the NAIA level in 1969 and stayed at that level until 2010, competing in the Golden State Athletic Conference. In 2010, California Baptist Lancers moved up in all sports to the NCAA Division II, joining the Pacific West Conference in all sports on July 1, 2011. In January 2017, the California Baptist Lancers announced their transition to NCAA Division I, joining the Western Athletic Conference on July 1, 2018 in all sports. The school will be eligible for Division I postseason competition in the 2022–23 season.

Postseason results

College Basketball Invitational (CBI) results
The Lancers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) once. Their record is 0–1.

NCAA Division II tournament results
The Lancers have appeared in 5 NCAA Division II Tournaments. Their combined record is 7–5.

NAIA tournament results

See also
California Baptist Lancers women's basketball

References

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IMN

Imn or IMN may refer to:

 Imation, previous NYSE symbol
 Al Iraqiya, formerly IMN, Iraqi TV broadcaster
 "IMN", a song by Mudvayne on their album Lost and Found
 Immediate Mobilization Networks, an alleged paramilitary organization formed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
 Irish Medical News, an independent newspaper for doctors and health professionals in Ireland


2014–15 Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball team

The 2014–15 Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball team represented Saint Mary's College of California during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Randy Bennett's fourteenth season at Saint Mary's. The Gaels competed in the West Coast Conference and played their home games at the McKeon Pavilion. They finished the season 21–10, 13–5 in WCC play to finish in a tie for second place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the WCC Tournament to Portland. They were invited to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the first round to Vanderbilt.

Previous season
The Gaels finished the season 23–12, 11–7 in WCC play to finish in fourth place. They advanced to the semifinals of the WCC Tournament where they lost to Gonzaga. They were invited to the National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Utah in the first round before losing in the second round to Minnesota.

Departures

Incoming Transfers

Recruiting

Roster

Schedule and results

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!colspan=9 style="background:#06315B; color:#D80024;"| Regular season

|-
!colspan=9 style="background:#06315B; color:#D80024;"| WCC Tournament

|-
!colspan=9 style="background:#06315B; color:#D80024;"| NIT

References

Saint Mary's
Category:Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball seasons
Saint Mary's


Nigel Maister

Nigel Maister is the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director of the University of Rochester's International Theater Program and has been the director of the theater program since 2002. In addition to his work in theater at the University, he is also a librettist, a founding member and staging director for the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, as well as a noted collector of vernacular photography.

External links
UR Institute for Performing Arts Youtube Channel, featuring several interviews with Maister

References

Category:Living people
Category:American theatre directors
Category:Artistic directors
Category:University of Rochester faculty
Category:20th-century American writers
Category:21st-century American writers
Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)