This (Darius Rucker song)

"This" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker. It was released in November 2010 as the second single from his album Charleston, SC 1966, and the sixth solo single release of his career. It reached number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in April 2011.  Rucker wrote this song with his producer Frank Rogers and Kara DioGuardi.

Critical reception
Sarah Rodman of the Boston Globe wrote that the song "falls squarely in the country pop sweet spot". Country Weekly reviewer Jessica Phillips said that it was "an accurate reflection" of Rucker's role as husband and father.

Karlie Justus of Engine 145 gave the song a thumbs-down, saying that it seemed too thematically similar to "Alright" and had "throwaway lyrics".

Music video
The music video was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered in early 2011.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

References

External links

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Rory Watts-Jones

Rory Watts-Jones (born 15 December 1988) is a retired Welsh rugby union player. A flanker, he played club rugby for Cardiff Blues regional team.

Born and raised in Cowbridge, Watts-Jones joined Cowbridge RFC and played for the Wales under-16s team. Having gained a place at the University of Plymouth, he joined their rugby club, where he came to the attention of Plymouth Albion R.F.C. coach Graham Dawe. Watts-Jones made his debut from the bench in January 2009, against Doncaster R.F.C. in the EDF Energy Trophy. Starting 35 games and playing in a further 12 from the bench, he also played for the Wales Sevens team.

Having finished his university course, in June 2011 he joined Cardiff RFC, and then graduated to the regional Cardiff Blues squad. He made his debut against Connacht in September 2012. In November 2014, whilst playing against Newcastle Falcons in the Anglo-Welsh Cup when he scored a decisive try, he suffered a concussion related injury.

The Blues took Watts-Jones through the WRU defined graduated return-to-play protocol, but noted that he was fairly slow going through the process. His family and girlfriend then noted that his behaviour was different from previous concussive recovery episodes. Referred to a specialist doctor, after further tests Watts-Jones was advised to retire due to a concussion-related injury. On 17 February 2015, the club and Watts-Jones announced his reluctant retirement from rugby, based on medical grounds with regards his long term health.

References

External links
 Cardiff Blues profile

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Pascale Trinquet

Pascale Trinquet (born 11 August 1958 in Marseille) is a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.

She won a gold medal in the foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.  She also won a gold medal in team foil with the French team.

In an earlier event in the United States, Trinquet competed in a 1979 international invitation tournament at the New York Athletic Club, winning the women's foil with only eight touches against her while scoring 25 against her opponents.

Her elder sister Véronique Trinquet is also a former fencer and Olympic medalist. Pascale and Véronique are the daughters of a Saint-Tropez retail pharmacist, and after their sporting career was over, they owned a pharmacy in Paris 16th arrondissement.

References

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Pappalardo

Pappalardo is a family name of Italian origin. It may refer to:

 Adriano Pappalardo, Italian singer, actor and television personality
 Franco Pappalardo La Rosa (born 1941), Italian journalist, literary critic, and writer
 Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Italian pianist
 Neil Pappalardo, American businessman, chairman of MEDITECH
 Salvatore Pappalardo, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
 Salvatore Pappalardo (composer), Italian composer and conductor
 Tom Pappalardo (born 1973), American graphic designer, author, illustrator, and musician

See also
 4241 Pappalardo,  a main-belt asteroid
 Bonelli Erede Pappalardo,  an Italian law firm

Category:Italian-language surnames


Recast

Recast may refer to:

 Recast (comics), a Korean comic
 Recast (language teaching), a language teaching technique
 Recast (manhwa), a six-volume manhwa series
 Recast, to replace an actor who is portraying a character with another actor  e.g., see List of soap opera recasts
 Amazon Fire TV Recast, an over-the-air DVR

See also
 Casting (disambiguation)
 List of soap opera recasts


Lykshino

Lykshino () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorokhovetsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2010.

References

Category:Rural localities in Vladimir Oblast


Anno Online

Anno Online was a free-to-play strategy browser game by Ubisoft. It was a spinoff of the Anno series. Players developed and managed island braced cites from the first settlers to commercial empires.

English closed beta started on 23 April 2013, and open beta started on 14 May 2013. Beta status ended on 25 September 2013. The game was in "maintenance mode" starting Sept 2017, meaning there was no further development or major in-game events. The game was closed on 31 January 2018.

References

External links
 UK Official "Anno Online" Website
 Official "Anno Online" website (US English)
 Official "Anno Online" website

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Category:Anno (series)
Category:Browser games
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Beta-ketoacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) synthase III

In enzymology, a β-ketoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase III () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

acetyl-CoA + malonyl-[acyl carrier protein]  acetoacetyl-[acyl carrier protein] + CoA + CO2

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are acetyl-CoA and malonyl-[acyl-carrier-protein], whereas its 3 products are acetoacetyl-[acyl-carrier-protein], CoA, and CO2. This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, to be specific those acyltransferases transferring groups other than aminoacyl groups.

This enzyme participates in fatty acid biosynthesis. β-Ketoacyl-acyl-carrier-protein synthase III is involved in the dissociated (or type II) fatty-acid biosynthesis system that occurs in plants and bacteria. The role of FabH in fatty acid synthesis has been described in Streptomyces glaucescens, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Streptomyces coelicolor.

Nomenclature

The systematic name of this enzyme class is acetyl-CoA:malonyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] C-acyltransferase. Other names in common use include:

Role in tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis, evades effective immune clearance through encapsulation, especially with mycolic acids that are particularly resistant to the normal degradative processes of macrophages. Furthermore, this capsule inhibits entry of antibiotics. The enzymes involved in mycolate biosynthesis are essential for survival and pathogenesis, and thus represent excellent drug targets.

In M. tuberculosis, the beta-ketoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase III enzyme is designated mtFabH and is a crucial link between the fatty acid synthase-I and fatty acid synthase-II pathways producing mycolic acids. FAS-I is involved in the synthesis of C16 and C26 fatty acids. The C16 acyl-CoA product acts as a substrate for the synthesis of meromycolic acid by FAS-II, whereas the C26 fatty acid constitutes the alpha branch of the final mycolic acid. MtFabH has been proposed to be the link between FAS-I and FAS-II by converting C14-CoA generated by FAS-I to C16-AcpM, which is channelled into the FAS-II cycle. According to in silico flux balance analyses, mtFabH is essential but not according to transposon site hybridization analysis. Unlike the enzymes in FAS-I, the enzymes of FAS-II, including mtFabH, and are not found in mammals, suggesting inhibitors of these enzymes are suitable choices for drug development.

Structure and substrates

Crystal structures of FabH have been reported from Mycobacterium tuberculosis,{ Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Thermus thermophilus.

The catalytic activity and substrate specificity of mtFabH has been measured then further probed using crystallographic and directed mutagenesis methods Structures have been determined of ecFabH bound with substrates, (CoA, malonyl CoA, degraded CoA). Specific inhibitors developed using rational design have recently been reported. In 2005, the structure of a catalytically disabled mtFabH mutant with lauroyl-CoA was reported.

Native mtFabH is a homodimer with Mr = 77 ± 25 kDa. Although there is substantial structural homology among all bacterial FabH enzymes determined thus far, with two channels for binding of acyl-CoA and malonyl-ACP substrates and a conserved catalytic triad (C122, H258, N289 in mtFabH), mtFabH contains residues along the acyl-CoA binding channel that preferentially select for longer-chain substrates peaking with lauroyl-CoA (C12). Inhibition strategies based on rational design could include competitive displacement of the substrates or disruption of the catalytic site. Phosphorylation of Thr45, which is located at the entrance of the substrate channel, inhibits activity, perhaps by altering accessibility of substrates.

Inhibitors

At least two of the existing drugs for tuberculosis were originally derived from microbes; cerulenin from the fungus Cephalosporium caerulens and thiolactomycin (TLM) from the actinomycete Nocardia spp. Isoniazid (isonicotinic acid hydrazide), ethionamide, triclosan [5-chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)-phenol] and TLM are known to specifically inhibit mycolic acid biosynthesis. Derivatives of TLM and related compounds are being screened to improve efficacy.

While much has been learned from these structural studies and rational design is an excellent approach to develop novel inhibitors, alternative approaches such as bio-prospecting may reveal unexpected compounds such as an allosteric inhibitor discovered by Daines et al. This could be especially important given that phosphorylation of mycolate synthesis enzymes is suggested to be critical to regulation and kinase domains are known to have multiple control mechanisms remote from ligand binding and active sites.

Following the discovery that phomallenic acids isolated from a leaf litter fungus identified as Phoma sp. are inhibitors of the FabH/FabF. Wang et al. recently reported their discovery from the soil bacterium Streptomyces platensis of a novel natural inhibitor of FabH with in vivo activity called platencin. These were found by screening 250,000 extracts of soil bacteria and fungi, demonstrating the viability of bio-prospecting. While a potentially useful antibiotic in its own right, it has now been shown that platensimycin is not specifically active on mtFabH.

It is speculated that novel inhibitors will most likely be small molecules of relatively low polarity, considering that the catalytic sites of the mtFabH homodimer are hidden in relatively hydrophobic pockets and the need to traverse capsules of established bacilli. This is supported by the poor water solubility of an inhibitor to ecFabH. It is also hoped that, by being small molecules, their synthesis or biosynthesis will be simple and cheap, thereby enhancing affordability of subsequent drugs to developing countries. Techniques for screening efficacy of inhibitors are available.

Therapeutic potential

In 2005, tuberculosis caused approximately 1.6 million deaths worldwide, 8.8 million people became sick, with 90% of these cases in developing countries, and an estimated one-third of the world's population has latent TB. Despite the availability of the BCG vaccine and multiple antibiotics, until 2005 TB resurged due to multidrug resistance, exacerbated by incubation in immune-compromised AIDS victims, drug treatment non-compliance, and ongoing systemic deficiencies of healthcare in developing countries. Mortality and infection rates appear to have peaked, but TB remains a serious global problem. New effective drugs are needed to combat this disease. Inhibitors against mtFabH, or against other enzymes of the FAS-II pathway, may have broader utility, such as the treatment of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of another serious refractory problem, malaria.

Given the predominance of TB in poor countries, the commercial incentive to develop new drugs has been hampered, along with complacency and reliance on old, well-established, "first-line" drugs such as Rifampicin, Isoniazid, Pyrazinamide, and Ethambutol. The price point is already very low: US$16–35 will buy a full six-month drug course Nevertheless, new drugs are in clinical trials.

According to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, sales of first-line TB drugs are projected to be approximately US$315 million per year, and US$54 million for second-line treatments, yet the global economic toll of TB is at least $12 billion each year.

References

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Ruth Paul

Ruth Paul (born 1964) is a children's picture book author and illustrator from Wellington, New Zealand.

Paul completed a Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Diploma of Visual Communication Design at Wellington Polytechnic (Massey University, Wellington). In 2004 Scholastic NZ published The Animal Undie Ball, her first publication as author and illustrator. Her books have since been translated into many languages.

Books:
 2004 – The Animal Undie Ball Scholastic NZ 2004
 2005 – The Little White Lie
 2007 – The King's Bubbles
 2008 – Superpotamus
 2010 – Two Little Pirates
 2011 – Stomp!
 2012 – Hedgehog's Magic Tricks
 2013 – Red Panda's Toffee Apples
 2013 – Bad Dog Flash Scholastic NZ 2013
 2013 – My Dinosaur Dad
 2014 – Rabbit's Hide and Seek
 2014 – Go Home Flash
 2015 – Bye-Bye Grumpy Fly
 2015 – What's The Time Dinosaur?
 2016 – My Meerkat Mum
 2017 – I Am Jellyfish Penguin Random House 2017

Awards
 2005 – Aim Children's Book Awards 2005, Honour Award for Tom's Story ill. Ruth Paul, written by Mandy Hager
 2008 – NZ Post Children's Book Awards, Children's Choice Award for The King's Bubbles
 2008 – BPANZ Children's Book Design Award, Winner for The King's Bubbles
 2011 – Storylines Notable Books listing for Two Little Pirates
 2012 – Storylines Notable Books listing for Stomp!
 2012 – New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, finalist for Stomp!
 2013 – Storylines Notable Books listing for Bad Dog Flash

References

External links
 Official website

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Category:People from Wellington City
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List of awards and nominations received by Grey's Anatomy

This is a list of awards and nominations for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy.

ALMA Awards

Critics' Choice Television Award

Directors Guild of America Awards

Humanitas Prize

Primetime Emmy Awards

GLAAD Media Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Grammy Awards

NAACP Image Awards

People's Choice Awards

PRISM Awards

Producers Guild of America

Satellite Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Teen Choice Awards

Other awards

References

External links
 Awards for Grey's Anatomy at the Internet Movie Database

Grey's Anatomy


Jurong Region MRT line

The Jurong Region line (JRL) is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line which will open in 2026 to serve the western part of Singapore. It reaches north to Choa Chu Kang, south to Jurong Pier, west to Peng Kang Hill and east to Pandan Reservoir and will be the seventh MRT line. The line is coloured turquoise on the rail map.

The Jurong Region line is the third MRT line in Singapore to be constructed with elevated tracks after the East West line and the North South line, the first MRT line to be built fully elevated with no underground or ground level sections, and the fourth medium capacity line in Singapore.

Overview
The Jurong Region line mainly serves Jurong and the surrounding area and has three branches centered around Bahar Junction station.

Trains travelling from Choa Chu Kang will terminate at Jurong Pier. Trains travelling from Jurong Pier will terminate Peng Kang Hill. Lastly, trains travelling from Peng Kang Hill will head towards Choa Chu Kang, with Bahar Junction acting as an interchange point for the 3 converging services. Transfer to the east branch can only be done at Tengah.

Feasibility studies for an extension to connect the east branch to the Circle line at Haw Par Villa are currently ongoing. However, this sector was not mentioned in the Land Transport Master Plan 2040 despite it being first announced in Aug 2015.

History

Origins and development
As early as 1996, consideration was given to provide a rail connection to the Nanyang Technological University from the rest of Singapore. The white paper published by the Land Transport Authority indicated that a Light Rail Transit line would run west of Boon Lay station on the East West line towards the university campus. The Jurong Region line was first announced on 23 October 2001, but was subsequently put on hold.

It was only decided in 2013 that the line would be a Mass Rapid Transit line running from Choa Chu Kang, crossing Boon Lay and Tengah, Jurong East, Jurong Industrial Estate and Jurong West, following plans to develop Tengah New Town.

The stations and alignment were announced on 9 May 2018 as a 24-kilometre line with 24 stations. The Choa Chu Kang Bus Interchange and one HDB block will all be acquired for the construction of the line.

Construction will begin in 2020 and operations will commence in 3 phases, from 2026 to 2028.

System
The Jurong Region line would have 24 kilometres (15 mi) of tracks with 24 stations. There are four branches: to Choa Chu Kang in the north, Jurong Pier in the south, Pandan Reservoir in the east and Peng Kang Hill in the west.

Stations
Notes: Names stated are working names, except for current operational stations.

Depot
There will be a depot at Tengah and a stabling facility near Peng Kang Hill to support the operations of the Jurong Region line. Rolling stock will be kept at both locations, which will have stabling facilities for trains. The Tengah Depot, which will also house the Operations Control Centre, will have a bus depot and a workers’ dormitory integrated with it to optimise land use. The Peng Kang Hill stabling facility is located near Peng Kang Hill station, whereas Tengah Depot is located along the western perimeter of Tengah.

Rolling stock
The Jurong Region Line will be operated by three-car CJ151 trains that can be expanded to four-cars when ridership increases. Each carriage is 18.6m by 2.75m, which is smaller than those used on other MRT lines because of the elevated nature of the line and the need for trains to maneuver through sharp bends in densely populated areas.

On 6 February 2020, Hyundai Rotem of South Korea was awarded the contract to build 62 of these train sets for the Jurong Region Line.

Proposed extensions

West Coast extension
A proposed extension from Pandan Reservoir to Haw Par Villa via Pasir Panjang would connect the Jurong Region line to the Circle line and improve the connectivity between the western part of Singapore and the Central Business District. It would support the future developments along the line while enhancing the overall resilience of the Mass Rapid Transit network. New stations would be added in West Coast and Pasir Panjang. The plan was announced in 2015. As of 2019, feasibility studies are ongoing. If built, the extension would be ready in 2030.

References

External links
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Giuseppe Marri

Giuseppe Marri (1788–1852) was an Italian engraver.

He initially attended the Faentine School of Design under Zauli, and alongside Tommaso Minardi and Michele Sangiorgi. He was then sponsored by the Faentine Congregation of Charity, to travel to Rome to apprentice as an engraver. In 1818 he moved to Milan to work under the engraver Giuseppe Longhi. In 1830, he returned to his native Faenza, to direct the School of Design, now directed by  Saviotti, and now renamed the School of Drawing and Engraving. In 1849 he accepted a similar position in the city of Forlì.

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Richard Clipston Sturgis

Richard Clipston Sturgis (December 24, 1860 – January 20, 1951), generally known as R. Clipston Sturgis, was an American architect based in Boston, Massachusetts.

R. Clipston Sturgis was the second son of Major Russell Sturgis and his 1st wife, Susan Codman (Welles) Sturgis, and the nephew of architect John Hubbard Sturgis and successor to his practice.  J.H. Sturgis had designed brother Russell's summer house, "Sunny Waters," in 1862, and after the death of J.H. in 1888, R. Clipston designed a summer house, "Rookwood," for his uncle's widow, Frances Codman Sturgis.  Both houses are in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.

Sturgis was asked to design Perkins School for the Blind's campus when third director of the school Edward Allen found its current home in Watertown, Massachusetts.  Sturgis chose the popular style of the time called English Collegiate Gothic when designing the campus.  Allen required Sturgis to incorporate a "family-style" cottage system implemented by Samuel Gridley Howe.  This cottage system was meant to replicate the idea of a family setting and help teach student independent living skills (Activities of Daily Life).  This cottage style included students of all ages living together in a family like unit with "four teachers, a cook, and a household assistant oversaw 20 students in each cottage".  While the structure of cottage style living has somewhat changed from its first implementation at the school, this cottage style of living still exists at Perkins.

Sturgis also considered the unique mobility needs of students with visual impairments and designed the building to reflect this.
 He used many right angles to help with orientation.  Right angles help students more easily understand cardinal direction at any given time.
 Equidistant corridors  Each side of the building mirrors the other meaning the student can cognitively map one side of the building and then because of their mirroring know the other side of the building as well.
 Stairs on the sides of corridors   To help predictability of where a student can find stairs.
 Sightly tilted walkways   To help the student understand if their straight line of travel has been affected.
 Animal tiles on columns   To serve as a tactile marker of a space aiding in orientation (knowing where one is).  Think of it like a sign for someone who is visually impaired- braille was not used at Perkins at this time)
 Rosettes carved into the wood of the seats in the chapel   To again be used as a tactile marker
Sturgis served at various times as President of the Boston Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Architects (1913-1915), and the Society of Arts and Crafts Boston (1917-1920); and as a member of the Boston School Board. His sketchbooks and notebooks are archived in the Boston Athenæum.

His son Richard Clipston Sturgis Jr. was also an architect but died at age 30.  His daughter, Dorothy Sturgis Harding, was a graphic designer and known for her bookplate designs.  His nephew, Alanson Hall Sturgis, also became an architect and was a successor to R. Clipston's practice.

Selected architectural works
 1876 - Church of the Advent, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts (finishing his uncle's work)
 1899 - "Petersfield" (Italian Style) Estate of Senator John Stewart (J.S.) McLennan (1853-1939) in Westmount (Across the Harbour from Sydney), Nova Scotia, Canada.
 1900 - The Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club (Shingle Style with Colonial Revival Details), 246 Esplanade, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
 1907 - Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts
 1912 ? - Perkins School for the Blind campus, Watertown, Massachusetts
 1913 - Robbins Memorial Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
 1914-17 - Additions to Massachusetts State House
 1916-20 - Black Rock Gardens Cooperative Bridgeport, Connecticut
 1919 - Seaside Village, Bridgeport, Connecticut
 1922 - Old Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Massachusetts (now a luxury hotel)
 1935 - Washington Irving District School, (now Washington Irving Middle School) Roslindale, Massachusetts
 ? - Wilmot Apartments Historic District, Bridgeport, Connecticut

Sturgis also designed the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seal.

References

 Built in Boston: City and Suburb 1800-1950, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978

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Recognise (album)

Recognise is the debut studio album by British drum and bass production duo Fred V & Grafix. It was released on 31 March 2014 by Hospital Records. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 106.

A remix album, entitled Unrecognisable, was released on 24 November 2014. It includes the new original track "3D Glasses". "Hydra (Chords Remix)" was released on Beatport in advance as a promotional single from the album.

Singles
"Catch My Breath" (featuring Kate Westall) was first released as part of Hospital Records' We Are 18 compilation, released on 27 January 2014.

The album's lead single "Recognise" was released on 17 March 2014, two weeks before the album. It failed to chart but received airplay on BBC Radio 1. The album's second single, "Forest Fires", features vocals from drum and bass musician Etherwood and was released on 16 June 2014. Originally premiered by UKF, the song accumulated over 250,000 YouTube views and the official video was later posted by THUMP. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 77, the UK Dance Chart at number 23 and the UK Indie Chart at number 5, making it the duo's first charting single.

Track listing

Charts

References

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Barney Harford

Barney Harford (born May 28, 1969) is a British-American technology executive. In 2017 he was named chief operating officer of Uber. Harford was previously CEO of Orbitz.com, a travel fare aggregators. Prior to Orbitz Worldwide, Barney worked as an executive at Expedia from 1999 to 2006, including serving as President of Expedia Asia Pacific in 2004. Harford sold Orbitz to Expedia in 2015 for $1.6 billion. Harford is on the board of directors for United Airlines and RealSelf.

Harford was hired in 2017 by Uber to oversee the brand in the wake of scandals and criticism. In 2018, Harford made comments during a conference call with Uber employees about an advertisement depicting a mixed-racial couple. In the meeting, Harford commented that two black women in the advertisement looked the same because of their haircuts, among other racially insensitive comments.

Personal life
Harford is married to Expedia executive Alexandra Birnbaum.

References

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Gustavo da Conceição

Gustavo Dias Vaz da Conceição (born 8 March 1957 in Luanda) is a former Angolan basketball player. Conceição, a small forward, competed for Angola at the 1980 Africa Basketball championship, an event that marked Angola's debut in the African competition arena and at the 1986 FIBA World Championship.

He is a brother of Angola senior police officer Fernando Torres Vaz da Conceição aka Mussolo and of Aldemiro Justino de Aguiar Vaz da Conceição, a longtime spokesman for the President and now the President's secretary for Regional Affairs.

From December 2004 to December 2012, he served two terms as chairman of the Angolan Basketball Federation. As of May, 2005, Gustavo da Conceição has been serving a second term as chairman of the Angolan Olympic Committee. Conceição is also a member of the Angolan parliament for the ruling party MPLA.

See also
Angolan Basketball Federation

References

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Raj Bhavan, Shillong

Raj Bhavan (translation: Government House) is the official residence of the Governor of Meghalaya. It is located in the capital city of Shillong, Meghalaya.

See also
  Government Houses of the British Indian Empire

References

External links
Website

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Category:Government of Meghalaya
Category:Shillong
Category:Buildings and structures in Meghalaya


Victor Oh

Victor Oh (Chinese: 胡子修, born June 10, 1949) is a Canadian senator from Ontario. He was appointed to the Senate on January 25, 2013.

Early life
Oh was born in Singapore, a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. In 1978, he immigrated to Canada with his wife and children. Over the years, Oh became a successful entrepreneur and an active community leader in the city of Mississauga and the Greater Toronto area in Ontario. Much of his volunteer work focused on building bridges of understanding and collaboration across cultures as well as to helping newcomers from all over the world establish themselves and start their own businesses.

Recognition and awards
Oh has been recognized for his contributions to Ontario and Canada. He was awarded the Robert Boyne Memorial Award by the Peel Regional Police Services Board in 2007 and the Citation for Citizenship (now known as Canada’s Citizenship Awards) by the Government of Canada in 2008 in recognition of his outstanding role in promoting the value of citizenship and helping newcomers to integrate into Canadian society. In 2010, Oh became the first Chinese-Canadian in 26 years to receive a Tribute Dinner by the Community Living Foundation of Mississauga.  In 2011, the Canadian Immigrant magazine named him one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants.

Business career
Oh was the founding chairman of the Canada-China Business Communication Council and the former President of Wyford Holdings, a property development and management business. He was also a president of the Mississauga Chinese Business Association and a former co-chair of the Confederation of Greater Toronto Chinese Business Association.

Oh currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

Senate of Canada

Oh is currently a member of the Standing Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Agriculture and Forestry and National Security and Defence. He is also a member of the Special Senate Committee on the Arctic.

Oh is the Vice-Chair of the Canada-China Legislative Association and of the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group in addition to a member of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas and the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group. He has also held executive positions in a number of parliamentary friendship groups including Canada-Bulgaria, Canada-Indonesia, Canada-Malaysia, Canada-Nordic-Baltic, Canada-Peru and Canada-Singapore.

In 2016, Senator Oh was the head of the Canadian parliamentary delegation at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) held in Vancouver, British Columbia. On this same year, he joined the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund, which provides a platform for parliamentarians from over 140 countries to advocate for increased accountability and transparency in International Financial Institutions and multilateral development financing.

Oh is committed to advancing the interests and rights of vulnerable groups, including seniors, youth and migrants, and to promoting economic growth and job creation for generations to come. He has also been involved in various initiatives that celebrate the rich ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity of Canada.

Hazel McCallion, the former mayor of Mississauga, inspired Oh to get involved in public life. He notes that "her lifelong involvement with charitable work and her deep commitment to the public good was, and continues to be, a true testament of good leadership."

In February 2020, the Senate’s ethics watchdog found that Victor Oh the broke conflict of interest and ethics code by accepting and then failing to disclose an all expenses paid trip to China for himself and two other senators.

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Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money, also known as Hot Money, is a 1946 American film directed by Terry O. Morse, featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. This is the second and last appearance of Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown, the cousin of Charlie Chan's usual chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland).

Plot
Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific, US Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help. There have been two attempts on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). The captain asks Chan to complete the dead man's mission and find out who is responsible for the recent surfacing of counterfeit dollars and stolen art. Chan declines, citing urgent business in Australia, but sets out to find the murderer.

Cast
 Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
 Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan (Number 2 son)
 Joseph Crehan as Captain Black
 Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown
 John Harmon as Freddie Kirk
 Bruce Edwards as Harold Mayfair
 Dick Elliott as P.T. Burke
 Joseph Allen as George Brace, the Purser
 Gloria Warren as Rona Simmonds, an English tourist with a crush on the purser George Brace
 Rick Vallin as Tao Erickson
 Amira Moustafa as Laura Erickson, Tao's wife
 Tristram Coffin as Scott Pearson
 Selmer Jackson as Ship's Doctor
 Dudley Dickerson as Big Ben
 Rito Punay as Pete the Steward
 Emmett Vogan as Professor Martin
 Elaine Lange as Cynthia Martin, the professor's wife
 Leslie Denison as missionary, Reverend Whipple (alias for Theodore M. Lane)
 Alan Douglas as Joe Murdock, man posing as Mrs. Whipple

Production
The film entered the public domain due to the omission of a valid copyright notice on its original prints.

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Chicago and Northwestern Depot (Wilmette, Illinois)

The Chicago and Northwestern Depot is a former railway station in Wilmette, Illinois, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. The station served the Chicago and North Western Railway along what is now Metra's Union Pacific/North Line. It was built in 1873 as a passenger station and became a freight station in the 1890s before closing in 1946. The station was relocated to its current location on June 13, 1974, and it has since been remodeled as a restaurant. The depot has been called "Wilmette's most historic building," and the Chicago Sunday Times referred to the station as "the finest station on the entire line" upon its opening.

History
The first railroad depot in Wilmette was built in 1870-71 for $700 by a group of landowners hoping to develop the area. As well as being used as a railroad depot, this original depot was used for local elections, including the referendum on the incorporation of Wilmette in 1872. This depot burned down, and residents built the Chicago and Northwestern Depot in 1873. The depot was built to be fireproof and cost $3,400, which was donated by ten residents. The depot was designed in the Italianate style and was a brick building with a gabled roof and columns in front.  In the 1890s, Wilmette's growing number of commuters wanted a new depot to be built on the inbound side of the tracks. The Chicago and Northwestern Depot was moved one block north from the passenger station and became Wilmette's freight depot. The depot remained a freight depot until 1946, when Wilmette's freight service was transferred to Evanston; the station was then boarded up, and its platform was removed. On June 13, 1974, the station was moved away from the railroad tracks to its current site to avoid demolition. The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. A cable television company leased the station for several years after its relocation. The building was leased to a different family and converted into a restaurant called the Old Ouilmette Depot in 1992. The restaurant closed after a 2004 fire, and the building remained vacant until 2008, when a new restaurant called Depot Nuevo opened in the building.

References

External links
National Register of Historic Places listing for Cook County, Illinois
1139 Wilmette Ave in Google Street View

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Poliosia

Poliosia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.

Species
 Poliosia albida Hampson, 1914
 Poliosia bifida Holloway, 2001
 Poliosia binotata (Hampson, 1893)
 Poliosia brunnea (Moore, 1878)
 Poliosia concolora Holloway, 2001
 Poliosia cubitifera Hampson, 1894
 Poliosia binotata Hampson, 1893
 Poliosia brunnea Moore, 1878
 Poliosia fragilis Lucas, 1890
 Poliosia marginata Hampson, 1900
 Poliosia muricolor Walker, 1862
 Poliosia pulverea Hampson, 1900
 Poliosia pulverosa Kiriakoff, 1958
 Poliosia punctivena Hampson, 1898
 Poliosia quadrifida Holloway, 2001
 Poliosia rectilinea de Joannis, 1928
 Poliosia solovyevi Dubatolov & Bucsek, 2013
 Poliosia umbra Rothschild, 1915

Former species
 Poliosia nigrifrons Hampson, 1900

References

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Venu Thottempudi

Venu Thottempudi (born 4 June 1976) is an Indian film actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He has acted in several successful Telugu movies as a lead actor.

Career
After finishing his engineering from Dharwad Engineering College, Venu started pursuing acting as his career. For his first acting job, he was cast as the main lead in a movie directed by P. Bharathiraja. After a brief period of shooting, the movie was stalled and later cancelled due to production problems.  To promote Venu, his friend Venkata Shyamprasad formed S. P. Entertainments. Under this banner, in 1999 Venu started his career with the movie Swayamvaram, directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Co-starring Laya, the movie was very successful at the box-office and Venu won a Nandi Special Jury Award for the movie. Venu became well known for his dialogue delivery, timing, expressions and clear portrayal of emotions. In 2000, Venu won at the boxoffice once again with Chiru Navvuto. G. Ramprasad, who earlier worked with B. Gopal as an assistant director, was roped in as the director for this movie. This movie co-starring Shaheen Khan was produced once again by S. P. Entertainments. Chiru Navvuto became one of the milestones in Venu's career.

Having two good hits in the early stages of his career, Venu landed up with a bunch of offers. Later he appeared in a few unsuccessful films like Manasu Paddanu Kaani directed by Veeru and Veedekkadi Mogudandi? directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana. He later bounced back with a couple of hits like Hanuman Junction directed by M. Raja and Pellam Oorelithe directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy. In 2003, his movie Kalyana Ramudu, co-starring Prabhu Deva and Nikita Thukral, was directed by G. Ram Prasad. He also starred in Cheppave Chirugali, directed by noted Tamil director, Vikraman. His next releases were Sadaa Mee Sevalo (2005) directed by Neelakanta, Bahumati directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy and Allare Allari directed by Muppalaneni Siva.

In 2007, his movie Yamagola Malli Modalayindi co-starring Srikanth, Meera Jasmine and Reemma Sen was released. This movie was successful at the box-office. In 2008, he was seen in a small yet vital role in the movie Chintakayala Ravi starring Venkatesh. In 2009 he was seen in Gopi Gopika Godavari directed by Vamsy and co-starring Kamalinee Mukherjee. In 2011, Venu was seen in Dileep Polan's Mayagadu opposite Charmy Kaur. His next release was titled Ramachari and directed by Eshawar. He is paired with Kamalinee Mukherjee in this movie. Venu was also seen in N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s movie Dammu, directed by Boyapati Srinu.

Filmography

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References

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Tawanda Mupariwa

Tawanda Mupariwa (born April 16, 1985) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right arm fast-medium seam bowler who was brought into the international side after the record low 35 all out in the third One Day International (ODI) against Sri Lanka. He became the fastest player for Zimbabwe to take 50 wickets in ODIs, achieving it in 28 games. He also played in one Test match in 2004.

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Kamen-na-Obi

Kamen-na-Obi (), known until 1933 as Kamen (), is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Ob River  northwest of Barnaul, the administrative center of the krai. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 43,888.

History
It was founded in 1751 as the village of Kamen (lit. stone) and granted town status in 1915.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kamen-na-Obi serves as the administrative center of Kamensky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with one rural locality (the station of Plotinnaya), incorporated within Kamensky District as the town of district significance of Kamen-na-Obi. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Kamen-na-Obi is incorporated within Kamensky Municipal District as Kamen-na-Obi Urban Settlement.

As an administrative division, prior to September 2015 Kamen-na-Obi and Plotinnaya were incorporated separately into the town of krai significance of Kamen-na-Obi—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of krai significance of Kamen-na-Obi was incorporated as Kamen-na-Obi Urban Okrug. The status of both units was changed in September 2015, when the town of krai significance was demoted to a town of district significance and subordinated to Kamensky District, while the urban okrug was demoted to an urban settlement within Kamensky Municipal District.

Economy
The main industries are food-processing and brick and furniture manufacture.

References

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Peter Delmé (disambiguation)

Peter Delmé was the public figure who died in 1728.

Peter Delmé may also refer to:

Peter Delmé (MP for Ludgershall and Southampton) (1710–1770)
Peter Delmé (MP for Morpeth) (1748–1789)


My Life, Our Times

My Life, Our Times is a memoir by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown. It was published on 7 November 2017 by The Bodley Head, a subdivision of Random House. The book follows the stages in Brown's personal and political life, from his upbringing in Scotland to his tenures as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister, with his own behind-the-scenes account of the global financial crisis.

Publication
Brown's much-anticipated memoir was published on 7 November 2017. In a Waterstones interview a few days after its launch, journalist Robert Peston put forward the idea that Gordon Brown was in many ways an underrated politician and an underrated Chancellor. Brown was subsequently approached by Waterstones and interviewed, where he explained how he had chosen the right time to write his memoir; "I think this is the right time, seven years on, to explain what you've been doing, how you saw the events at the time, what lessons you learnt and how the past shapes our future." Revelations in the post-release interview included Brown's admiration for Nelson Mandela's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, and his initial career plan to become a footballer rather than an MP.

My Life, Our Time was reprinted by Vintage Books on 24 May 2018. On 3 June, Brown attended an event at Cardiff City Stadium to discuss the book, with Kevin Brennan MP.

Reception
My Life, Our Times received mixed reviews from critics.

Writing in The Guardian, political journalist and specialist on New Labour, Andrew Rawnsley, noted the memoir's most riveting moments concerned the financial crash; "the most valuable chapters here are those that describe how they averted a total implosion of the banking system". The paper praised Brown, saying he was "Miles ahead of anyone you can name currently in office at Westminster. Brown thinks, and thinks profoundly. And by and large, over the last 30 years, what he has thought has turned out to be correct." They went on to say the memoir was "thrilling" and "unexpectedly moving". The Financial Times summarised the book by saying "the former Labour Prime Minister resisted the usual pressures to produce an instant memoir. To the frustration of the casual reader (and perhaps the publisher) he resists the temptation to engage in much gossip either. What Brown does provide is some score-settling, more self-criticism than one might expect, and a sense of deep frustration that his long wait to become prime minister ended with him struggling to cope with the job and seeing his economic legacy come crashing down." Labour MP Peter Mandelson reviewed the memoir in the Evening Standard, also praising Brown's book.

See also

 A Journey, the political memoir of Tony Blair, the first Prime Minister under New Labour.

References

External links

 My Life Our Times Archives - The Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown

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Cloeon languidum

Cloeon languidum is a species of small minnow mayfly in the family Baetidae.

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Jeřice

Jeřice () is a village and municipality in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Dawkinsia assimilis

Dawkinsia assimilis is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Dawkinsia. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats.

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Freedom (White Heart album)

Freedom is the sixth album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the last of the band's albums with Sparrow Records. Produced by Brown Bannister, it was also the last album for Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Chris McHugh, although McHugh returned as a session musician for Tales of Wonder.

Track listing
 "Bye Bye Babylon" – 4:09
 "Sing Your Freedom" – 4:53
 "Let the Kingdom Come" – 5:03
 "Over Me" – 5:15
 "Eighth Wonder" – 4:18
 "Power Tools" – 4:21
 "Invitation" – 4:52
 "The River Will Flow" – 6:52
 "Set The Bridge On Fire" – 4:33 (CD version only)
 "Let It Go" – 4:11
 "I'll Meet You There" - 4:18

Personnel
 Mark Gersmehl – keyboards, 1st lead vocal on "Let the Kingdom Come", lead vocal on "The River Will Flow", backing vocals
 Billy Smiley – guitars and backing vocals
 Gordon Kennedy – guitars, backing vocals, 2nd lead vocal on "Over Me", 3rd lead vocal on "Invitation"
 Tommy Sims – bass guitar, backing vocals, 1st lead vocal on "Invitation"
 Chris McHugh – drums, backing vocals
 Rikk Florian – lead vocals

References

 Freedom . Sparrow Records. SPD 4191
 Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, Hendrickson Publishers. pp.1033-5.

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Democratic Party (Romania)

The Democratic Party (, PD) was a social-democratic and, later, a centre-right political party in Romania. In January 2008, it merged with the Liberal Democratic Party, a splinter group of the National Liberal Party, to form the Democratic Liberal Party.

From 1996 to 2005 the party was a member of the Socialist International. From 2004 to 2007 the PD was the junior member of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance, although according to many Romanian opinion polls it remained the most popular of the two parties. Although he had to formally suspend his leadership of the party when elected president in 2004, the PD was largely associated with Romanian president Traian Băsescu.

History
Conflict broke out between FSN leaders Ion Iliescu and Petre Roman in early 1992, and this led to the separation of the Iliescu wing under the name of Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN), which later became the Social Democratic Party (PSD).

FSN was defeated by the FDSN in the 1992 legislative election and spent the next four years in opposition. In 1993 the FSN changed its name to the Democratic Party (PD). In the 1996 legislative election, the PD ran jointly with the now-defunct Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), under the Social Democratic Union (USD) banner. After having ranked third, they joined a governing coalition with the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) and the ethnic Hungarian party Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). From 2000 to 2004 PD has been again in opposition.

In advance of the 2004 elections the PD joined forces with the National Liberal Party (PNL) to create the Justice and Truth Alliance (DA), whose main purpose was to fight the all-dominating PSD. The DA managed to win around 32% of the votes in both Chambers, not enough for a majority and about 6% less than the PSD. Together with its Liberal allies, the UDMR and the Conservative Party (PC), the PD was part of the governing coalition until April 2007.

During a congress in 2005, PD members voted in favour of joining the European People's Party (EPP) and abandoning the Party of European Socialists (PES) and the Socialist International (SI). In the same year Petre Roman left the party and together  with his followers formed the Democratic Force (FD).

From mid-2005, the PD's relations with the PNL became strained due to an ongoing open conflict between Băsescu and Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, who was also the chairman of the PNL. After his presidential victory in 2004, Băsescu appointed Tăriceanu as prime minister. Although he wanted to, he could not constitutionally dismiss him; at least, it took him a while. On 1 April 2007, Tăriceanu dismissed the ministers of PD and formed a minority government.

On 15 December 2007 the PD was merged with the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) to form the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

Ideology and policies
The political doctrine of the Democratic Party shifted from social democracy to centrism and greater conservatism since 2004, combined with economic liberalism and reformism. The party supported a consolidation of the free market and is supportive of Romania's flat tax rate of 16%. The party also supported reforming the Romanian Constitution in order to bring about a decentralisation in administration and give greater power to the eight development regions.

In terms of European politics, the Democratic Party:
Supports EU enlargement to the Western Balkans
Supports EU membership for Turkey, as long as it satisfies membership criteria
Supports the accession of the Republic of Moldova to the EU
Supports the Treaty of Lisbon
Believes that the European Parliament should have greater power
Opposes a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
Supports a common EU migration policy
Supports a common EU defence and security policy
Supports a partnership between the US and the EU, where the EU is an "equal and critical" partner.

Notable members
 Petre Roman – left and founded the Democratic Force (FD) party;
 Traian Băsescu – elected President of Romania, membership suspended during the mandate.
 Emil Boc – Mayor of Cluj-Napoca 2004–2008; 2012–present, Prime Minister 2008–2012
 Adriean Videanu – Vice-president of PDL, Mayor of Bucharest 2005–2008
 Radu Berceanu – Senator, former Minister of Transportation, Constructions and Tourism
 Cristian Rădulescu, MP, PD Leader in the Chamber of Deputies
 Gheorghe Albu, MP
 Roberta Anastase, MP
 Petru Filip, MEP, former Mayor of the municipality of Oradea
 Ioan Olteanu, MP
 Cezar Preda, MP
 Paunel Tise
 Alexandru Sassu (left for PSD)
 Bogdan Niculescu Duvăz (left for PSD together with Sassu)
 Daniel Buda
 Victor Babiuc, formerly in charge of the Ministry of Defence (currently member of the National Liberal Party – PNL)
 Radu Vasile, former Prmime Minister of Romania (came from the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party – PNŢCD)
 Anca Boagiu, former minister of European Integration and of Transport
 Vasile Blaga, former Minister of Administration and Interior, former President of the Senate of Romania
 Cristian Ilie, MP
 Nati Meir, member from June 2007

In 2007, out of 54 members of the PD group in Chamber of Deputies, 14 were not elected on PD electoral list:
7 came from Greater Romania Party
4 came from Social Democratic Party
3 came from Conservative Party

Electoral history

Legislative elections

Notes:

1 USD members: PD and PSDR (1 senator and 10 deputies).

2 Justice and Truth Alliance members: PNL (28 senators and 64 deputies) and PD.

Presidential elections

Notes:
1

2

European elections

References

Bibliography
Ioan, Scurtu ş.a., "Enciclopedia partidelor politice din România 1859-2003", Editura Meronia, Bucureşti, 2003.
Florin-Vasile, Şomlea, "Partidele populare din ţările Uniunii Europene", Editura Cartimpex, Cluj-Napoca, 2007.

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Atanas Zehirov

Atanas Zehirov (; born 13 February 1989) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a right back and right winger for Botev Vratsa.

Career

Early career
Zehirov began his career with CSKA Sofia, but made only six league appearance with one goal and spent time on loan to Sliven 2000 before leaving the club in October 2010. He scored his first and last goal for the club against Lokomotiv Mezdra on 13 June 2009.

On 31 January 2011, Zehirov signed as a free agent with Pirin Blagoevgrad, but made only one league appearance, as a substitute, before being released at the end of the season.

In August 2011, Zehirov joined Norwegian side Hasle-Løren IL.

Beroe
On 7 February 2013, Zehirov signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with Beroe Stara Zagora. During his time with the club he primarily has been used in the defence as a right-back. Zehirov made his debut on 22 May 2013, replacing Martin Raynov for the last 13 minutes of a 2–1 away win over Lokomotiv Plovdiv. On 1 March 2014, Zehirov scored his first league goal for Beroe in a 5–0 home win over Lyubimets 2007, scoring the fourth of their five goals.

In the 2014–15 season, Zehirov became Beroe's first-choice right-back. On 8 May 2015, he signed a new two-year extension to his contract. He left the club in May 2017 after his contract expired.

Cherno More
On 1 June 2017, Zehirov agreed to join Cherno More, but the official contract was signed two weeks later. On 15 July, he made his debut in a 1–0 home win over Vitosha Bistritsa, playing as a right winger. On 11 August 2017, he scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 home draw with Slavia Sofia. Zehirov won the Man of the match award in that game.

International career
On 26 May 2015, Zehirov received his first call-up to the Bulgaria national team for the friendly game against Turkey on 8 June 2015 in Istanbul from Ivaylo Petev, but did not make an appearance. He was called-up in November 2016 for a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Belarus national team, during which he remained on the bench. On 3 September 2017, Zehirov made his debut in a 1–3 away defeat by the Netherlands, a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Beroe
Bulgarian Cup (1): 2012–13
Bulgarian Supercup (1): 2013

References

External links

Zehirov Statistics in Norway at fotball.no

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Edgar Weeks

Edgar Weeks (August 3, 1839 – December 17, 1904) was a military officer, judge and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Biography
Weeks was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, where he attended the public schools and learned the printing trade. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in January 1861.

During the Civil War, he served in Company B, Fifth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was first sergeant of the company.  He became first lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry in 1862 and captain in 1863. He was appointed assistant inspector general of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, in 1863 and was mustered out in December 1863.

After the war, he was proprietor and editor of a Republican newspaper in Mount Clemens and commenced the practice of law in Mount Clemens in 1866. He served as prosecuting attorney 1867-1870 and then as judge of probate of Macomb County, 1870-1876.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to the 49th United States Congress, but in 1898 was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 7th congressional district to the 56th Congress. He was re-elected to the 57th Congress, serving from March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1903. He was chair of the Committee on Elections No. 3 in the 57th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902, losing in the Republican primary election to Henry McMorran, who went on to be elected to fill Weeks's seat in the House.

Edgar Weeks resumed the practice of law and died at the age of sixty-five in Mount Clemens, where he is interred in the Clinton Grove Cemetery.

Edgar Weeks' cousin, John Wingate Weeks, was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of War under Warren G. Harding.

References
 Retrieved on 2008-02-15
The Political Graveyard

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In the Wings: A Memoir

In the Wings: A Memoir is a 1999 book written by American actress Diana Douglas. In the book, she accused her first husband, film star Kirk Douglas, of being a drug addict. She revealed in the book, as well, that she had an affair with Errol Flynn. Kirk Douglas called her a "Blabbermouth" after the book came out.

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Solarized (color scheme)

Solarized is a color scheme for code editors and terminal emulators created by Ethan Schoonover. The scheme is available in a Light and a Dark mode. Packages that implement the color scheme have been published for many major applications, with some including the scheme pre-installed.

History
Ethan Schoonover—a designer and software developer—began working on Solarized in 2010 after he installed a new code editor and could not find a color scheme he liked. He found the default white-on-black schemes of most applications to be too high in contrast. Even for low-contrast schemes, some colors were more prominent than others. This was an issue for programming, as code editors use syntax highlighting, where color is used to indicate the different parts of the code.

Initially, Schoonover attempted to modify the colors of another scheme called Zenburn, but was daunted by its implementation in Vim script and didn't agree with some of its design decisions. Schoonover took six months in order to research and create Solarized, with the goal of applying "design rigor". Schoonover published Solarized in April 2011 on GitHub.

Schoonover has refused offers of donations to the project, preferring to not be beholden to others regarding changes, especially since aspects of programming environments such as color schemes can be contentious. Schoonover has considered releasing a revised set of color schemes as "Solarized 2" in order to avoid legacy support issues based around the original Solarized.

Design
Schoonover used Vim as his editor inside of a terminal, so he had to be conscious of its color limitations and decided to limit the scheme to 16 colors. He also worked on both a light and dark color scheme early on, with the goal of making them opposites of each other and cohesive. Due to Schoonover's prior experience with photography and color management, Solarized was designed in the CIELAB color space, with sRGB hex values being generated from canonical CIELAB values. Initially, Schoonover had a goal of creating a build system that would output themes for many different applications, but it proved difficult due to undocumented and complicated formats.

Schoonover first worked on Ruby and Haskell syntax highlighting to make sure their overall "typographic color" looked consistent. Schoonover had trouble getting the shade of red correct. The use of the colors yellow and blue were personal choices for Schoonover: yellow associated with "pleasant sounds, shapes, and pieces of music" due to minor synesthesia, and blue representing how he imagines drowning in the ocean to be like because of his thalassophobia. Schoonover expressed concern that ports might use an uneven mix of colors or too many colors. The Light and Dark schemes have symmetric CIELAB lightness differences in their base colors, preserving perceived contrast. The 16-color palette was also designed to scale down to multiple five-color palettes for design work.

Colors

Reception
Upon release on GitHub, Solarized reached the top percentiles of projects for that week. Joel Falconer of The Next Web recommended Solarized, writing: "I doubt there are many, if any, terminal color schemes that have received the amount of thought and attention that Schoonover's Solarized has." Writing for Tidbits, Steven Aquino tested Solarized Light along with the Cousine font and reported that "as a visually impaired person, I find the combination to be extremely comfortable for my eyes...I'm experiencing considerably less eye strain than normal."

Gallery

See also
 Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect

Notes

References

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CUMEX

The Mexican Consortium of Universities (Spanish: Consorcio de Universidades Mexicanas, CUMEX) is a selective group of Mexican public higher education institutions, recognized by their higher quality standards.

Founded in May 2005, CUMEX has established a rigorous selection system. Members must be affiliated with the "umbrella" national association of universities (ANUIES by its acronym in Spanish). However, not all ANUIES members are able to comply with the eligibility criteria established at CUMEX.

Membership at CUMEX constitutes a reference about Mexican higher education institutions holding higher quality standards than their peers.

Educational quality eligibility criteria
A CUMEX member institution must comply with the following criteria:

 Being a public university member of the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions ANUIES.
 Having at least 85% of students enrolled in academic programs which are accredited according with the mechanisms established at the national system of evaluation and accreditation being accredited de la matrícula total en programas evaluables de técnico superior, profesional asociado y licenciatura reconocidos por su buena calidad por el sistema nacional de evaluación y acreditación de la educación superior de México.
 Having at least 50% of their full-time professors holding a graduate appropriate credential.
 Having at least one graduate program being included in the Mexican Roster of Quality Graduate Programs (Padrón Nacional de Posgrados, PNP).
 Holding an ISO certification in the following management processes: Registrar, Administration and Finances, Human Resources, and Library.
 Having established formal accountability and freedom of information policies and practices.
 Being included in the National Roster of Scientific and Technological Institutions and Corporations (Registro Nacional de Instituciones y Empresas Científicas y Tecnológicas: RENIECyT).
 Having implemented a series of academic and administrative policies.

Membership

The following is the list of current (2009) member institutions at CUMEX:

 BUAP: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
 UAA: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
 UABC: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
 UACJ: Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
 UAdeC: Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila
 UdeG: Universidad de Guadalajara
 UAEH: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
 UAEM: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
 UANL: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
 UASLP: Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
 UAS: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
 UADY: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
 UCOL: Universidad de Colima
 UO: Universidad de Occidente
 UQROO: Universidad de Quintana Roo
 UNISON: Universidad de Sonora
 UJAT: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco
 UAZ: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
 Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Ecatepec

Presidents
The General Assembly elects a President among the rectors of the member institutions.

List of Presidents:

 (2005-2008): Mario Garcia-Valdez, rector, UASLP
 (2008-2010): Luis Gil Borja, rector, UAEH

External links

References

Category:2005 establishments in Mexico
Category:Universities and colleges in Mexico
Category:College and university associations and consortia in North America


Pugsley Medal

The Pugsley Medal was created by Cornelius Amory Pugsley in 1928. The award honors champions of parks and conservation.

Responsibility for selecting the recipients has shifted from the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the National Park Foundation, and most recently to the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration. Until 1952 there was a gold, silver, and bronze award, and in 1953 it was switched to national, state, and local.

Pugsley Medal winners
1928 Stephen T. Mather, the first director of the National Park Service, gold medal
1928 Duncan McDuffie, silver medal
1929 Mary Williamson Averell, gold medal
1929 Nathaniel Lord Britton, silver medal
1931 Richard Lieber, gold medal
1932 Peter Norbeck, silver medal
1935 John Hayes McLaren, silver medal
1936 Robert Moses, gold medal
1937 J. Horace McFarland, gold medal
1938 Arno B. Cammerer, gold medal
1940 Newton B. Drury, silver medal
1942 Harold L. Ickes, gold medal
1942 Harlean James, bronze medal
1947 Conrad L. Wirth, gold medal
1947 Thomas J. Allen, silver medal
1948 Percival Proctor Baxter, gold medal
1949 Waldo Leland, gold medal
1950 Newton B. Drury, gold medal
1952 Harlean James, gold medal
1953 Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., gold medal
1954 Harold C. Bryant, national award
1954 Russell Reid, silver award
1955 Loring McMillen, local award
1956 Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, national award
1959 Alfred A. Knopf, national award
1962 Allen T. Edmunds, gold award
1962 Charles Alvin DeTurk, silver award
1962 Frank G. McInnis, bronze award
1963 Conrad L. Wirth, national award
1965 Harold P. Fabian, gold award
1965 U.W. Hella, silver award
1965 Daniel L. Flaherty, bronze award
1982 John A. Townsley,
1991 Denis P. Galvin, national award
2006 Bill Lane

See also

 List of environmental awards

References

External links
Pugsley Medal Recipients 1928 – 1964
Winners of the Honorable Cornelius Amory Pugsley Awards, American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration

Category:Environmental awards
Category:American awards
Category:Awards established in 1928
Category:Parks in the United States
Category:1928 establishments in the United States


Doo-Wops & Hooligans

Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, which was released on October 4, 2010 by Atlantic and Elektra Records. After the release of the EP It's Better If You Don't Understand (2010), Mars' writing and production team The Smeezingtons  began working on the album with Needlz, Supa Dups and Jeff Bhasker as producers. Doo-Wops & Hooligans draws on a variety of influences. Lyrically, the album visualizes carefree optimism along with failed relationships, pain and loneliness. It was promoted primarily through the Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour (2010–2012) and a number of television appearances. The album title was chosen to reflect simplicity and appeal to males and females.

The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who praised the album's similarity to the work of American artists Michael Jackson and Jason Mraz, although others felt that the album tried too hard to appeal to all groups. On September 24, 2010, the album was made available before its official release. Nevertheless, it became a commercial success, topping the charts in Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States and was 2011's second-bestselling album in New Zealand, the third-bestselling record in the United Kingdom and Australia (with UK sales of 1.2 million copies), and the fourth-bestselling album in Germany and Switzerland. The album has sold over 2.62 million copies in the United States as of 2017 and by 2012 had already sold six million copies worldwide.

The first two singles from Doo-Wops & Hooligans—"Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade"—were successful internationally, topping the charts in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Subsequent singles "The Lazy Song" and "Marry You" were commercial successes as well, reaching the top 10 in over 10 countries; "The Lazy Song" topped the charts in the United Kingdom and Denmark. "Talking to the Moon" and "Count On Me" had a limited release, and "Liquor Store Blues" (featuring Damian Marley) and "Somewhere in Brooklyn" were promotional singles.

Doo-Wops & Hooligans has been nominated for a number of awards; it received five nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Record of the Year for the single "Grenade". The album was also nominated for Best Album/Pop Rock International at the 2012 Swiss Music Awards. In 2010, About.com's Bill Lamb and Rolling Stones Jody Rosen called Doo-Wops & Hooligans one of the year's best debut albums.

Background and development
After the release of the hit singles "Nothin' on You" and "Billionaire", The Smeezingtons (a songwriting and record-producing trio consisting of Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine) were asked to begin working on Mars' debut album, having a six-month deadline. "The demand changed", leaving them with one month to finish the album. While establishing himself as a composer and artist, Mars worked with several artists and spent long periods of time in the recording studio "figuring out the production and the writing process"; he believed that "it was training for me to put out my own album."

Mars said about the album title, "I have records that women are going to relate to and men are going to relate to. So doo-wops are for the girls, and hooligans are for the guys." He elaborated in several interviews: "I grew up listening to my dad, who loved doo-wop music"; those sounds are "straight to the point" and simple; they rely on a "beautiful melody and voice", representing his romantic side. Due to his youth, he also liked to party (indicating his hooligan side). Mars said in an MTV News interview that he had completed his debut album. His debut EP, It's Better If You Don't Understand, released earlier in the year, provided "a little taste of what's in store".

In addition to writing the lyrics, the Smeezingtons produced the album with songwriters and other producers. Among them were Needlz and Khalil Walton, who helped compose "Just the Way You Are" by exchanging files. Mars said that the single took him months to create, even though he was only trying to tell a story and it was nothing "deep or poetic". "The Lazy Song", the fifth track, was inspired by a lack of ideas for songs and a disinclination to work. "Marry You", according to Lawrence, was drawn from a spontaneous marriage in Las Vegas. The bonus track, "Somewhere in Brooklyn", was inspired by Mars' father and New York. In the song, a female character is in Brooklyn and the singer is trying to find her.

Composition
Doo-Wops & Hooligans is primarily pop, reggae pop and R&B, although music critics also noted soul, reggae and rock influences. The album was compared to works by Michael Jackson and Jason Mraz. "Just the Way You Are", "Marry You" and "Runaway Baby" are uptempo songs; the former is an optimistic ballad, with yearning falsetto vocals influenced by U2. "Marry You" is a pop song about a spontaneous marriage idea, and "Runaway Baby" has a funky pop-rock and soul beat. "Marry You" is reminiscent of Coldplay, and "Runaway Baby" evokes Little Richard. "The Lazy Song", another uptempo song, is a reggae track described as an anthem "to sloth" and a "surf stoner's" borrowing from Sugar Ray. The second single, "Grenade", is a darker song with a masochistic message channeling Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana", Kanye West's production and Shakira's style.

One of the album's promotional singles, "Liquor Store Blues", is a reggae track fusing Michael Jackson with Bedouin Soundclash; the single "Count On Me" is a friendship anthem which channels Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's "Over the Rainbow". The third track, "Our First Time", has been compared to the work of Boyz II Men, Al B. Sure!, D'Angelo and Sade. and is a reggae and R&B song. "Talking to the Moon" is a power ballad expressing the singer's pain and loneliness, primarily in the chorus. The last track, "The Other Side", features B.o.B and Cee-Lo Green. It has been called the album's highlight, with its most experimental and complex production. "Somewhere in Brooklyn", which was only released in Germany as a promotional single, was included as a bonus track on several Doo-Wops & Hooligans editions.

Singles
"Just the Way You Are" was released digitally as the album's lead single worldwide on July 20, 2010. The song was critically acclaimed, with reviewers praising its piano balladry and romantic lyrics. It topped the charts in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and reached the top ten in several other countries. "Just the Way You Are" received a Grammy award in the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category.

"Grenade", the album's second single, had been premiered as its second (and last) promotional single on September 28, 2010 before its stand-alone release.  It was also well-received by critics, most of whom praised Mars' vocals. The single surpassed "Just the Way You Ares success, topping the charts in nearly every country where it was released. The song was Mars' third number-one on the Hot 100. In 2012, "Grenade" received three Grammy nominations: Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

"The Lazy Song", the album's third single, received mixed reviews. Some critics though it had a laid-back groove; others called it "filler", with empty lyrics which were an embarrassment to the album. The song topped the charts in the United Kingdom and Denmark, reached the top five in the US, Austria, Canada and New Zealand. Its music video was a single, long shot of Mars playing with five monkeys. An alternate video features Leonard Nimoy on his lazy daily routine.

"Talking to the Moon" was released as a single only in Brazil after it appeared on the 2011 soundtrack of the Brazilian telenovela, Insensato Coração (Irrational Heart). The song topped the Billboard Brasil Hot Pop & Popular and the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay charts. It spent nine weeks at number one on the latter chart, and topped the former chart for 22 weeks. The song received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its slow pace and lyrics but criticized its overwhelming production.

"Marry You" was not released as a single in the United States, despite considerable airplay on mainstream and adult top-40 radio stations. The song was praised for its "instantly hummable melody and a sing-songy chorus", reminiscent of 1960s pop. It reached the top ten in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

"Count On Me" was announced as the sixth single, with a radio release date of November 7, 2011 in Australia. The song reached the top ten in Austria, Portugal and Spain, and the top twenty in Australia and New Zealand. It was praised for its arrangement and "uplifting" vibe, and compared with "Over The Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.

Release and promotion

The release of Doo-Wops & Hooligans was announced on August 25, 2010, with T-shirts, a screen-printed poster autographed and hand-numbered by Mars and photos of the singer included in the first 500 preorders. Its cover art was released five days later. The track listing, which included three of the four songs from Mars' EP, was announced by Atlantic Records on September 9. The album's standard edition was released in the US on October 4, 2010. A deluxe edition was also released, which included a remix of "Just the Way You Are" featuring Lupe Fiasco and "Somewhere in Brooklyn" (originally from It's Better If You Don't Understand) and the music videos of "Just the Way You Are" and "The Other Side". Other versions were released, culminating in the Japanese Platinum Edition.

On September 21, 2010, "Liquor Store Blues" featuring Damian Marley (the first of three promotional singles) was released worldwide. Three days later, the album was released before its official release on Myspace. "Grenade" was released as the second promotional single on September 28, 2010 via iTunes. The third promotional single, "Somewhere in Brooklyn", was released in Germany on January 4, 2011. "Runaway Baby" was performed at several shows, including The X Factor, the 54th Annual Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show. The performances were praised by several critics, and the song charted in the US, New Zealand and the UK.

To promote the album, Mars gave several performances worldwide. The first, with his four-piece band, was at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on August 25, 2010. In early October he performed "Just The Way You Are" and a medley of "Nothing On You" and "Grenade" for the first time on national television on Saturday Night Live, and received a positive critical reaction. This was followed by The Ellen DeGeneres Show, a Billboard Tastemakers video session and Mars' debut performance of "The Lazy Song" on Kidd Kraddick's radio show. Atlantic Records allowed the musical television series Glee to cover "Just the Way You Are" and "Marry You" in November 2010, and Mars sang "Grenade" on the Late Show with David Letterman that month. An acoustic version of "Just the Way You Are" was performed at the Grammy Nominations concert in December 2010 for the 53rd Grammy Awards.

Mars began the fall leg of Maroon 5's Hands All Over Tour, opening shows with OneRepublic, on October 6, 2010 in Santa Barbara, California. He then supported Travie McCoy on his European tour from mid-October to early November. The album was promoted by the Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour, Mars' first headlining concert tour, which started on November 16 in San Francisco. Its second leg, from January to March 2011, consisted of concerts in Europe and was followed by dates in Asia and Oceania. A joint tour with Janelle Monáe (Hooligans in Wondaland) was scheduled for North America, and dates in Europe the Caribbean and South America were added. Mars concluded the tour on January 28, 2012 in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Critical reception

Doo-Wops & Hooligans was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 61, based on 13 reviews. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave Doo-Wops & Hooligans 4.9 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave Doo-Wops & Hooligans a B+ grade. Greenblatt praised Mars' "instant-access melodies", "creamy" productions and "sly snatches of dance-floor swagger", but said that some of the album's musical styles did not suit the singer. Alex Young of Consequence of Sound called Doo-Wops & Hooligans "fulfilling [with] very few holes", giving the album a B– grade but calling Mars' vocals "gold". The Daily Telegraph Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski wrote that the album had a "bundle of top-drawer melodies, making commercial success all but a certainty" and gave it four stars out of five. Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone called it "the year's finest debut" with "10 near-perfect" tracks, and gave the album three-and-a-half start out of five. According to Rosen, its songs "deliver pleasure without pretension". Rosen and The Boston Globes Ken Capobianco praised Mars' vocal performance and talent for composing melodies. Although Capobianco found the debut album "promising", he was disappointed by its lack of self-revelation. Sean Fennessey of The Washington Post called it "effortlessly tuneful" and a good start to a "durable career". The New York Times Jon Caramanica described Doo-Wops & Hooligans as a "fantastically polyglot record that shows him to be a careful study across a range of pop songcraft" and praised its range of influences.

In a mixed review, Tim Sendra of AllMusic praised most of the songs for their "laid-back groove" but found that the quality dropped when Mars "turns up the volume and boosts the tempo". Sendra gave the album three stars out of five, calling it "an uneven debut ... [that] doesn't tap into his potential as a writer or a producer". Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald enjoyed the album's first two tracks, but wrote that the rest could have had more "potency" and rated Doo-Wops & Hooligans three out of five. Tony Clayton-Lea of The Irish Times wrote that the record is "full of the kind of catchy modern pop that is impossible to dislike or dislodge ... most of the tunes are cocktail bangers hot enough to melt ice." According to The Independent Andy Gill, the album "seeks too hard to display Mars' multifaceted talents".

Eric Henderson criticized Doo-Wops & Hooligans in Slant Magazine, saying that it "manages to wear out its welcome about halfway through" and calling it an attempt to "please just about everybody." He gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of 5. With the same rating, Jamie Milton of musicOMH wrote that it "involves throwing everything into the fire", "a contrast taken too far". Milton called it (in common with other debut albums) "opportunistic ... regardless of any forthcoming trends in pop, there’s a song on the album pitched to take grasp of it all." A Q reviewer who gave the album two out of five stars wrote, "Mostly, he has little to say." The Guardians Alexis Petridis also gave it two out of five stars due to Mars' "saccharine sound" and poor lyrical composition. According to Petridis, the album should have been more "groundbreaking". The Scotsman and Mike Diver of the BBC said that Mars could have made an album for mass appreciation. The Scotsman reviewer wished that Mars had recorded something more "sophisticated"; Diver said that the album is not suitable for "anyone with life and love experience beyond passing notes around at the back of class".

Accolades
The album's lead single, "Just The Way You Are", received the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance award at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011 and received the Top Radio Song award at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. Doo-Wops & Hooligans was nominated for the International Album of the Year award at the 2011 Danish GAFFA Awards, Best Album Pop Rock International at the 2012 Swiss Music Awards, and received two nominations (Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year) for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012. The album's second single, "Grenade", received three nominations (Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance) for the 2012 Grammys. Rolling Stones Jody Rosen and Bill Lamb of About.com called the album one of the year's best debuts. Lamb praised Mars' vocals and most of the melodies as "surefire", calling Mars a  "creative artist" and saying that on his next album the singer could "stretch the horizons further and deliver truly memorable songs". Rosen described the songs as "near-perfect", "mov[ing] from power ballads to bedroom anthems ... Call it bubblegum that eats like a meal." In November 2013, the Doo-Wops & Hooligans artwork designed by Nick Bilardello was 31st on Complex "50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years". Susan Cheng wrote that Mars would have an enduring career, as "depicted in the path left behind by a black jet on the cover" of the album, whose "sunny hues convey a sense of self-confidence and the singer's outlook on the road ahead ... the silhouette in the lower right, presumably a representation of Bruno Mars, reveals humility in the wake of so much success."

Commercial performance
Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted (and peaked) at number three on the Billboard 200, with sales of 55,000 on its October 13, 2010 issue date in the United States. It topped Billboards Top Catalog Albums chart; it remained at number one for 11 weeks, surpassing Bob Marley and the Wailers’ compilation album Legend (1984) for the most weeks at number one in 2013. The album had the second-longest stretch at number one for a male artist, behind Michael Jackson’s 2003 greatest-hits album Number Ones (19 weeks). During the week of February 5, 2014 (after Mars' Grammy appearance and performance at the Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show), sales of Doo-Wops & Hooligans increased by 303% and it rebounded to number 19 on the Billboard 200. The album was certified quintuple platinum for sales and streaming figures equivalent to five million copies by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in June 2016, and sold 2,626,000 million copies in the United States by July 2017. As of December 11, 2019, Doo-Wops & Hooligans and Nirvana's Nevermind (1991) both spent 450 weeks on the Billboard 200, being the third-longest-charting albums in history of original material. According to the RIAA, the album was the ninth highest certified album of the 2010s decade.

In Canada, it debuted at number six. After fluctuating on the chart, the album reached number one four months later on February 5, 2011. It has been certified triple platinum by Music Canada. The album debuted at number five, peaked at number two and was certified six times platinum in New Zealand. It debuted at number seven in Australia, peaked at number two and was certified quadruple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipments of 280,000 copies.

Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted in the United Kingdom at number 79 on October 24, 2010, with first-week sales of 6,775 imported copies. On its first chart week of 2011, it replaced Rihanna's Loud at number one and spent another week atop the chart. Doo-Wops & Hooligans was 2011's second million-selling album in the UK. It was the year's third-bestselling album, with sales of 1.2 million copies. As of November 2016, the album sold 1,712,854 copies and in 2018 it was certified sixtuple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It debuted atop the Irish and Scottish album charts and it was certified four times platinum by the Irish Recording Music Association (IRMA).

In the Philippines, Doo-Wops & Hooligans received a double-diamond certification from the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) in March 2014 for sales of 300,000 copies and is the country's seventh-bestselling album. It topped the charts in Flanders, Croatia, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. The album sold 500,000 copies in Germany (its European high), and was certified quintuple gold by the BVMI. It reached the top 10 in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, and was certified double platinum by IFPI Denmark. By 2012, Doo-Wops & Hooligans had sold more than six million copies worldwide.

Track listing

 Co-producer

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Doo-Wops & Hooligans.

Technical and composing credits
 The Smeezingtons – executive producer, production
 Bruno Mars – vocals, instruments
 Ari Levine – instruments, mixing, engineer
 Dwayne "Supa Dups" Chin-Quee – drums, production, arranger, programmer
 Mitchun "Kahn" Chin – keys, guitar, bass
 Brody Brown – instruments
 Needlz – production
 Jeff Bhasker – production
 Damian Marley  – rapping
 B.o.B – rapping
 CeeLo Green – vocals
 DJ Dizzy (Jash Negandhi) – scratching

Creative credits
 Cosmonaut Entertainment, Inc. – management
 Aaron Bay-Schuck – A&R direction
 Alex Schwartz – A&R coordination
 Lanre Gaba – A&R administration
 Erica Bellarosa – business affairs
 Nicki Bilardello – art direction, design
 Katie Robinson – marketing director
 Michelle Piza – packaging manager

Recording personnel
 Stephen Marcussen – mastering
 Manny Marroquin – mixing
 Christian Plata – mixing assistant
 Erik Madrid – mixing assistant
 Graham Marsh – engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

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Certifications

Release history

Notes

See also
List of best-selling albums in the Philippines

References

Category:2010 debut albums
Category:Albums produced by Jeff Bhasker
Category:Albums produced by Needlz
Category:Albums produced by The Smeezingtons
Category:Albums produced by Supa Dups
Category:Atlantic Records albums
Category:Bruno Mars albums
Category:Elektra Records albums


Only Men Aloud! (album)

Only Men Aloud! is the debut album by the choir Only Men Aloud!.

Track listing

Charts

Category:Only Men Aloud! albums
Category:2008 albums