Herc's Adventures

Herc's Adventures is a video game released for the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn by LucasArts in 1997. The overhead, action-adventure format is similar to Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Up to two players each take on the role of one of three ancient Greek heroes: Herc (Hercules), Atlanta (Atalanta), or Jason, who are on a quest to defeat Hades and save the goddess of nature, Persephone. In 2014, it was released for PSN in North America.

Herc's Adventures was originally announced as a Sega Saturn exclusive with a release date of December 1996, but delays pushed its release back to July 1997. The PlayStation version was released internationally, while the Saturn version was exclusive to North America. Virgin Interactive had planned to release the Saturn version in Europe in September 1997, but it was dropped from the release schedule as part of Virgin's withdrawal of support for the Saturn.

Gameplay
The characters pick up various weapons and items, which include: pepper breath against bees and wasps, frost breath that freezes enemies, lightning which blasts a target with electrical energy, spears, boar traps, flaming spears (used against the Hydra to prevent its head from reforming), bombs, an evil Pandora's box which when opened releases rough weather, a shrink doll which miniaturizes any target and a laser gun. Items include Circe's potion which turned the player into a pig to fit into small crevices, Medusa and Minotaur's head, and the golden fleece (which opens the gates of Hades' underworld).

Gyros increase the player's health bar, and each hero has a second strength bar that depletes whenever moving or picking up an object. Health and strength are increased by buying lessons from a strength trainer or finding red hearts.

Every time the players die, they are sent down to the underworld and need to fight their way to the exit in order to continue. The more they die, the further back into the underworld they are sent, making it increasingly harder to fight their way out. Dying five times results in a game over.

With the exception of the switch to and from the underworld section, the game world is presented as an open, singular map, without any loading screens or interstitials between areas.

Voice cast
Rachel Reenstra - Atlanta
Lois Nettleton - Athena
Cástulo Guerra - Hades
Patty Parris - Hera
Michael Gough - Dionysus
Tom Wyner - Zeus / Poseidon
Wally Wingert - Jason / Bronze Guy / Big Soldier
Pat Fraley - Minotaur / Helldog / Soldier

Reception

Herc's Adventures met with mostly positive reviews, as critics were overwhelmingly pleased with the graphics, offbeat humor, huge amount of lands to explore, and inclusion of three playable characters, each with their own strengths and weaknesses that make an important difference in how the game plays.

The more mixed reviews found some faults with the gameplay. Next Generation opined that the gameplay is too one-note and that the skewed perspective sometimes creates confusion about where the player character can go, though the reviewer still concluded that the game is fun enough and different enough to be enjoyable. IGN criticized only the fact that the game is not a polygon-based fighting game or racing game, remarking that it was exceptionally good for a game that did not fall into either of those genres. Most critical commentary on the gameplay was positive, however, with several critics commenting that the cooperative two-player mode is especially fun. Shawn Smith of Electronic Gaming Monthly stated that "the gameplay is flawless."

Glenn Rubenstein of GameSpot summed up that "The graphics, gameplay, and humor make a unique mix that results in a truly fresh title unlike most of the other games on the market today." Major Mike gave the Saturn version a perfect 5.0 out of 5 in all four GamePro categories (graphics, sound, control, and funfactor), noting in particular the excellent incorporation of mythological figures. He gave the PlayStation version a 4.5 out of 5 in all four categories, but did not directly compare it to the Saturn version, and Rubenstein gave the two versions identical scores.

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Markku Taskinen

Markku Aulis Taskinen (born 25 February 1952) is a Finnish former athlete. At the 1974 European Championships he won bronze medals in both the 800 metres and the 4 × 400 metres relay. He was European indoor champion at 800 metres in 1978.

Career
Taskinen was Finnish national under-19 champion at 800 m in 1970 and national under-21 champion at both 400 m and 800 m in 1971. He won his first national senior titles in 1973, winning both 400 m (47.9) and 800 m (1:50.0) at the Finnish championships. He repeated as 800 m champion in 1974, but was not expected to even make the final at that year's European Championships in Rome.

At the European championships he placed third in his heat (1:48.7) and fourth in his semi-final (1:47.7); he was the last athlete to qualify for the final. In the final he was in last place with less than 100 m to go, but passed five athletes on the final straight and won bronze behind Luciano Sušanj and Steve Ovett; his time of 1:45.89 improved his personal best by more than a second and a half. He won a second medal in the 4 × 400 m relay, running the third leg for the Finnish team; Finland was disqualified for shoving after a French protest, but filed a successful counter-protest and regained the medal.

Taskinen won further Finnish 800 m titles in 1975, 1976 and 1978; counting indoor titles (one each at 400 m and 800 m) and relay titles (one at 4 × 400 m and two at 4 × 800 m), he is an 11-time Finnish champion. At the 1978 European Indoor Championships in Milan he won gold in the 800 metres, ahead of East Germany's Olaf Beyer; , his winning time of 1:47.36 still remains the Finnish indoor record, though Wilson Kirwa and Ari Suhonen have run faster on oversized tracks. At the 1978 European outdoor championships in Prague Taskinen again took part in the 800 metres, but was eliminated in the semi-finals.

In 1979 Taskinen experimented with the 400 m hurdles, representing Finland in that event at the Finland-Sweden Athletics International and winning silver in it at the national championships.

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Pebbles, Volume 27

Pebbles, Volume 27 is a compilation album among the LP's in the Pebbles series.  It is one of the 10 albums in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back and is sub-titled Switzerland.  The album features music by Swiss bands.

Release data

This album was released circa 1988 as an LP by AIP Records (as #AIP-10045) and was kept in print for many years.

Notes on the tracks

Les Sauterelles is one of the landmark Swiss bands; their "Heavenly Club", which was released in 1968, represented one of the peaks of popularity of rock music in that nation.

Track listing

Side 1:

 The Dynamites: "Tell Me Yes or No"
 The Gentlemen: "In this World" (Anthony Manias/B. Gugelmann)
 The Sevens: "Talk about Her"
 The Sevens: "Panam"
 Les Sauterelles: "No No No"
 The Countdowns: "Sex Maniac"
 The Sevens: "In God We Trust"
 The Dynamites: "Don't Leave Me Behind"

Side 2:

 The Slaves: "Never Free"
 Les Sauterelles: "Routine"
 The Sevens: "What Can I Do"
 Les Sauterelles: "Hong Kong"
 The Counts: "Michigan"
 The Counts: "Don't Bring Me Down"
 The Dynamites: "I'm Movin' On"

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1978 Virginia Slims of Detroit

The 1978 Virginia Slims of Detroit  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cobo Hall & Arena  in Detroit, Michigan in the United States that was part of the 1978 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was held from February 21 through February 26, 1978. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won her second consecutive singles title at the event and earned $20,000 first-prize money.

Finals

Singles
 Martina Navratilova defeated  Dianne Fromholtz 6–3, 6–2
 It was Navratilova's 6th singles title of the year and the 19th of her career.

Doubles
 Billie Jean King /  Martina Navratilova defeated  Kerry Reid /  Wendy Turnbull 6–3, 6–4

Prize money

References

External links
 Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament details
 International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament edition details

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Jonas Malmsjö

Carl Jonas Love Malmsjö (born September 2, 1971) is a Swedish actor who has worked in theatre, TV and radio; he is the son of Swedish actor Jan Malmsjö and the Swedish actress Marie Göranzon. Apart from his work in his native Sweden, which has included a starring role in the TV series Labyrint, he has been in several productions directed by Ingmar Bergman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was also cast as Skorpa of the White Horse, a Viking warlord in the second half of The Last Kingdom, a BBC adaptation of the first two books in Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of historical novels.

He also contributed the voice of Ingmar Bergman in the Sparks musical, The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman.

References

External links
Official website

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7 (sculpture)

7 is an 80-foot high sculpture built by American artist and sculptor Richard Serra and located in the Museum of Islamic Art Park, in Doha, Qatar. Unveiled in December 2011, it is the tallest public art piece in Qatar and the tallest Serra has ever conceived. It is also his first sculpture to be showcased in the Middle East. Constructed from seven steel plates arranged in a heptagonal shape, the work celebrates the scientific and spiritual significance of the number seven in Islamic culture. It rests on a man-made plaza extending 250 feet (76 metres) into Doha harbour.

Background
Richard Serra was commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority to create the 7 sculpture based on the personal recommendation of I.M.Pei – the architect who built the adjacent Museum of Islamic Art. According to Pei, he wanted an artist that would complement the museum and, “connect the aesthetic content of the museum to the possibility of building a public space for the people. The project took around three years between the first contact between Serra and Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (Chair of the Qatar Museums Authority) and the actual unveiling in December 2011, and around one year in the construction phase.

Design

The original concept for the sculpture was an eight-sided, 66-foot (20 meters) tall model. This was amended later following discussions with Sheikha Al Mayassa, who was not convinced with the model. Finally, the revised plan involved seven plates of German-made Cor-ten steel assembled in a heptagonal shape and stretching 80 feet (24.6 meters) in the air. The design was heavily influenced by the minarets found throughout the Muslim world. A distinctive architectural feature of mosques, these tall spires date back to the seventh century. It is particularly the Ghazni minaret in Afghanistan that was the key inspiration for Serra.
Richard Serra also found inspiration in the Quran’s repeated use of the number seven and the fact that Persian mathematician and astronomer Abu Sahl al-Quhi was the first person to build a seven-sided heptagonal shape. These three elements would ultimately define and focus the project.
Measuring ten feet wide at the base and narrowing to nine feet at the top, the tower’s walls are placed so as to include three triangular openings, allowing interplay between the work and the viewer, and between the space of the outside world and the space of the work of art.
The sculpture’s steel slabs are made from Shanxi Black Granite and are designed to be naturally bronzed by the elements. Over an eight-year period the colour is expected to change from orange to a uniform dark shade via a process of oxidation. Each of the seven steel plates are eight feet wide (2.4 metres) and four inches thick. Visitors are able to walk inside the structure and look up at the sky above.

Construction and location

Taking more than one million man-hours to construct, the sculpture stands on a small plaza 250 feet (76 metres) from the shoreline. When Serra first arrived in Doha to find a site to build a sculpture, he found a barren parkland along the city’s corniche, as well as rocks, earth, and rubble from the building of the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art and its adjacent parkland.

From these left-over materials, Serra and the Pei team built a crescent-shaped extension onto the water. This pier took over three years to build, with the help of the Pei team and architect Hiroshi Okamoto. During its construction, the pier needed extensive engineering and underwater reinforcements, positioned by a team of deep-sea divers, for stabilization.

This the first time that a sculptor has designed the physical location of their site-specific sculpture, as the sculpture’s site was formerly only water.

According to Serra, the sculpture was designed to complement its surroundings. “It is my hope that the sculpture will provide both a public place and a private space for people to gather and experience the narrow, vertical, open column in relation to themselves, the Museum of Islamic Art, the city of Doha, the surrounding sea, and then sky as seen through the opening at the top of the sculpture.”.

Unveiling

The unveiling of 7 was attended by Sheikh bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, other royals of the House of Thani, and more than 700 guests. At the ceremony, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra performed Hughes de Courson's "The Magic Lutes" and Serra spoke about its origins and his own research.

See also

 Public Art in Qatar

References

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Category:Sculptures in Qatar
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No Culture

No Culture is the sixth album by Vancouver-based indie rock band Mother Mother, released on February 10, 2017. It was produced by Ryan Guldemond, Brian Howes and Jason Van Poederooyen.

Track listing

Personnel
Molly Guldemond – vocals and keyboard
Ryan Guldemond – guitar and vocals
Jasmin Parkin – keyboard and vocals
Ali Siadat – drums
Mike Young – bass

Charts

References

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REVTeX

REVTeX is a collection of LaTeX macros which is maintained and
distributed by the American Physical Society with auxiliary files and a user support guide, as part of a “REVTeX toolbox.”  REVTeX is used to submit papers to journals published by the American Physical Society (APS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and the Optical Society of America (OSA).  REVTeX is accepted by a few other technical publishers as well.

REVTeX was created by APS to support its authors in the editorial process and to facilitate the production of APS journals. Subsequent to REVTeX’s original release and APS’ success with this electronic
publishing program, a collaborative effort of the APS, AIP, OSA, and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) was initiated to coordinate a revision to REVTeX and to AASTeX (used by AAS authors).  The result was a version of REVTeX that APS, AIP, and OSA authors could use, with minimal impact to authors who submitted to multiple scholarly journals.

REVTeX is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License.

History
The REVTeX project was begun in 1986, when the American Physical Society was exploring how to support standardized electronic submission of scientific papers. They launched the initial version of REVTeX in 1988, naming it after an abbreviation of the Physical Review journals and the TeX typesetting system. According to APS, by the early 1990's, REVTeX submissions accounted for around 25% of submissions to APS journals.

Version history:
 1988 - Initial release.
 March 1990 - Version 2 released.
 November 1992 - Version 3.0 released.
 August 1996 - Version 3.1 released.
 July 2001 - Version 4.0 released.
 March 2010 - Version 4.1 released.
 January 2019 - Version 4.2 released.

See also
 TeX
 List of TeX extensions

References

External links
REVTeX homepage

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Charlie Mead

Charles Richard Mead (April 9, 1921 – May 8, 2014) was a professional outfielder who played for the New York Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1943 to 1945. He stood 6'1½" and weighed 185 lbs. He was born in Vermilion, Alberta, Canada.

Mead is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II. He made his major league debut on August 28, 1943 in a road game against the Boston Braves at Braves Field. His last game for New York was on September 30, 1945. He was released by the Giants on April 9, 1946, and never again returned to the major leagues. Mead's career totals include 87 games played, 64 hits, 3 home runs, 27 RBI, 18 runs, a .245 batting average, and a slugging percentage of .318. He was an average defensive outfielder for his era, handling 156 out of 160 total chances successfully for a fielding percentage of .975. One defensive highlight is that he participated in 6 double plays in just 71 outfield appearances.

External links

Retrosheet
Death Notice

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Russian lacquer art

Russian lacquer art developed from the art of icon painting, which came to an end with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The icon painters, who previously had been employed by supplying not only churches but people's homes, needed a way to make a living. Thus, the craft of making papier-mâché decorative boxes and panels developed, the items were lacquered and then hand painted by the artists, often with scenes from folk tales.

The four centers of Russian lacquer art
The village of Fedoskino (Федоскино), located not far from Moscow on the banks of the Ucha River, is the oldest of the four art centers of Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mâché, which has been practiced there since 1795. It stands apart both geographically, and in that that oil paints are used rather than egg tempera. While allowing the artist a free hand in impressionistic interpretation, the style of Fedoskino painting is largely realistic in composition and detail.

The other three Russian lacquer art centers are:
Palekh (Палех)
Kholuy (Kholuy, Kholuj, Holui - Холуй)
Mstyora (Мстёра)

The lacquer artists of Palekh, Kholui and Mstera continue to use the technique of painting in egg-based tempera overlaid with intricate gold leaf highlighting.''

All three are situated in the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality, Ivanovo region of central Russia, and are deeply rooted in the 17th-19th century icon painting tradition, which lasted until the Russian Revolution of 1917, and is now being revived by young artists of the 21st century.

Gallery

See also
Palekh miniature
Khokhloma

References

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Marlene Jennings

Marlene Jennings  (born November 10, 1951) is a former Canadian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from 1997 to 2011.

Jennings was born in Longueuil, Quebec. She is a former lawyer and senior public servant. She is the former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation and the former Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada. From 2004 to October 2005, she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with special emphasis on Canada-U.S. relations.

Jennings was the first Black woman from Quebec to be elected to Parliament. She was also one of the few parliamentarians with a physical disability, having become partially blind due to an illness in early 2010; she used visual aids and a white cane until late 2011. Over seven surgical procedures successfully restored her vision.

She is also a past member of the Girl Guides of Canada.

Electoral history

Jennings succeeded Warren Allmand, the MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, in the reorganized riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine upon its creation in 1997. She was elected five times in the riding with consistent margins of between 10,000 and 20,000 votes, and her riding was considered one of the safest Liberal seats in the country. However, she fell to Quebec's "orange wave" in the 2011 Canadian federal election, losing her seat to Isabelle Morin of the NDP.

Later life and career

In January 2012, Jennings revealed to the newspaper La Presse that she had NOT joined the CAQ, a Quebec provincial political party. In a February 2012 Facebook post, Jennings explained that she had declined an offer to run for the party as she had never had a "passion" for provincial politics. For close to two years (2012 and 2013) she was the Executive Director of the Montreal YMHA. She had let her Liberal Party of Canada party membership lapse but re-joined in 2014.

Source: Elections Canada

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|align="right"|Swing
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|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| -3.85%
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Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.

References

External links
Official website
Official Youtube Channel
Official Twitter Site
Facebook Page

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Conner Blöte

Conner Blöte (born 17 January 1998) is a Dutch football player. He plays for Jong FC Utrecht.

Club career
He made his Eerste Divisie debut for Jong FC Utrecht on 25 August 2017 in a game against FC Dordrecht.

References

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Richard Crichton

Richard Crichton (died 1817) was a Scottish architect operating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was described as "competent and versatile".

Life

He was born around 1771, the son of James Crichton (d.1797) an Edinburgh mason.
He trained under John and Robert Adam, probably the best training an architect in 18th century Britain could hope for.

In May 1797 he was appointed as a burgess in the city of Edinburgh, reflecting the public esteem with which he was viewed.

He continued the style of the Adams: a simple but very well-proportioned Classicism, occasionally venturing to the Gothic or Greek Revival styles, all with equal competence.

In 1813 he submitted a competition design for the extension of Princes Street over to Calton Hill but despite winning this (jointly with William Reid of Glasgow), the scheme was ultimately executed by Archibald Elliot.

Crichton’s career was cut short by his premature death on 17 August 1817, aged only 46.

He is buried in St Cuthberts Churchyard in Edinburgh in the grave of his parents (which is of Richard's design). The grave lies just north of the church.

His practice was continued by his nephews, and pupils, Richard and Robert Dickson who completed his several unfinished projects.

Works
See
Craig Parish Church (1796)
Rossie Castle (1797-1800) demolished 1957
Bank of Scotland head office, The Mound, Edinburgh (jointly with Robert Reid - 1801) later extended – unrecognisable in its original form
Gask House, Findo Gask (1801)
Merchiston Castle School (1801-6) later extended and remodelled
Abercairney House, near Crieff (1805-1818) completed by R & R Dickson
Stirling Courthouse and Jail (1806)
Dunglass House (1807)
Blair Drummond (1813)
Kincardine-in-Menteith Parish Church, Blair Drummond (1814)
Remodelling of Balbirnie House (1815)
Remodelling of Lawers House (1815)
Carriden Manse, near Bo’ness (1816)
Cockpen Parish Church (1816) completed by R & R Dickson

References

A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, H M Colvin
Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by  Gifford McWilliam and Walker

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Suhum (Ghana parliament constituency)

The Suhum constituency is in the Eastern region of Ghana. The current member of Parliament for the constituency is Frederick Opare-Ansah. He was elected  on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and  won a majority of 1,424 votes more than candidate closest in the race, to win the constituency election to become the MP. He had earlier represented the constituency in the 4th Republican parliament.

See also
List of Ghana Parliament constituencies

References

Category:Parliamentary constituencies in the Eastern Region (Ghana)


Alan Silverstein

Alan Silverstein is an American Conservative rabbi and the spiritual leader of Congregation Agudath Israel since 1979. He received a master of Hebrew letters in rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Ph.D. in Jewish history from its Institute for the Advanced Study in Humanities and was ordained by its Rabbinical School. He also earned a master's degree in Jewish history from Columbia University.

He was vice president of the National Council of Synagogues; president of the West Essex Clergy Association; president of the MetroWest Board of Rabbis and of the Rabbinical Assembly’s New Jersey Region; president of the New Jersey Coalition of Religious Leaders; and served as a member of the National Rabbinic Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal. From 1993 to 1995 he was president of the International Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement. From 2000 - 2005 he was president of the Masorti Olami (World Council of Conservative Synagogues).

A nationally renowned lecturer, Rabbi Silverstein has written numerous articles and booklets on intermarriage, conversion and the Arab-Israel conflict.

References

External links
Agudath Israel website

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Alex Paul

Alex Paul is an Indian music director mostly active in Malayalam cinema. The songs from Classmates, especially "Ente Khalbile Vennilavu Nee" and "Kaattadi thanalum", made him a well-known composer in 2006

Personal Life

Alex is the son of A. M. Paul, a music artist who formed the first orchestra (in Malayalam: 'ganamela') troupe in Kochi & Philomina. He is the younger brother of Lal, of the directing duo Siddique-Lal, and it was in Lal's film Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004) that Alex debuted as musical director.He is married to Biji Alex, and has three children: Asvati Alex, Arathy Alex, and Arjun Alex.

Career

He learnt musical instruments from Kalabhavan, Kochi. He started his own studio, where he composed music for several music albums and for TV serials. Alex made his film debut as music director with Rafi Mecartin's Chathikkatha Chanthu. At the age of 20, he started a music institute named, Tune of Hearts. When he was 29, he started a recording studio. On 14 October 2013, he started music technology institute, National Institute of Film Technology (NIMT). NIMT is recorded as the first ever "music technology" institute in India.

Discography

King Liar (2016)
John Honai (2015)
Maad Dad (2013)
Cobra (2012)
Seniors (2011)
Kalla Malla Sulla (Kannada-2011)
Tournament – Play & Replay (2010)
In Ghost House Inn (2010)
Chattambinadu (2009)
Duplicate (2009)
2 Harihar Nagar (2009)
LollyPop (2008)
Thalappavu (2008)
Chocolate (2007)
Classmates (2006)
Pothan Vava (2006)
Red Salute (2006)
Tantra (2006)
Achanurangatha Veedu (2006)
Thuruppu Gulan (2006)
Vaasthavam (2006)
Thommanum Makkalum (2005)
Black (2004)
Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004)
Hello (2007)
Ali Bhai (2007)
Kichamani MBA (2007)
Inspector Garud (2006)
Rajamanikyam (2005)
Black (2004)
Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004)

References

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West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad

West Bengal Chhatra Parishad  (abbreviated Chhatra Parishad / West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad and / CP) affiliated to the National Students Union of India (N.S.U.I.) is the students wing of Indian National Congress in the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 28 August 1954 in Kolkata under the guidance of Atulya Ghosh and Bidhan Chandra Ray.

About the Chhatra Parishad
Chhatra Parishad is one of the main student organization in West Bengal. CP proposes the idea of student activism based on progressive thought, secular vision and democratic action.

Flag
A flag with a tri colour (Saffron, White and Green) Horizontally in the left corner, on a white
background and Advancement of Learning, Corporate Life and Patriotism written one beneath
the other in Blue; the ratio of length and breadth of the flag
being 3:2.

Past Presidents of Chhatra Parishad
 Shyamal Chakraborty
 Subrata Mukherjee
 Priyaranjan Dasmunshi
 Bibhash Chaudhury
 Kumud Bhattacharya
 Jayanta Bhattacharya
 Ashok Deb
 Tapas Roy
 Subhankar Sarkar
 Sourav Chakraborty
 Rahul Ray
 Ashutosh Chatterjee
Present President Sourab Prasad

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Almen strip

An Almen strip is a thin strip of SAE 1070 steel used to quantify the intensity of a shot peening process.

Developed and patented by John O. Almen, the strip was originally supported by 2 knife edges; later improvements see it being supported on 4 small balls. The strip is placed in the chamber in place of the item to be shot peened, usually near to an area of the item where the result is deemed critical, sometimes located by a special fixture. Compressive stress introduced by the peening operation causes the strip to deform into an arch, which is measured using a gauge.

Almen strips are classified into 3 types: 'A', 'N', and 'C'.  They differ in their thickness, while they have the same width and length.
Almen strip of "A" type is predominantly used for shot peening with cast shot or cut wire shot.
"N" type strips are used usually for glass bead peen and ceramic bead peen.
"C" type almen strips are used more rarely and are thicker than the other types.

Although similar, the specification for Almen strip dimensions of the same type slightly vary from one company/organization to another. The Almen strips are made from plain carbon steel SAE 1070 and have hardness about 45 HRC.

This test is widely used and the requirements for check are specified in standards.
The most rigid requirements are applicable for Almen strips and checking devices (Almen gauges) used in the aerospace industry. The generic requirements can be found in SAE specifications.

Another operation to gauge the intensity of a shot peening process is the use of an Almen round, developed by R. Bosshard.

External links
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Industrial Metal Finishing, Inc. Glossary Comprehensive glossary of Metal Finishing terms and process descriptions, including Almen Strip

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Pine Grove Township, Pennsylvania

Pine Grove Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:

 Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
 Pine Grove Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania
 Pinegrove Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania

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Battle of Nikiou

The Battle of Nikiou was a battle between Arab Muslim troops under General Amr ibn al-A'as and the Byzantine Empire in Egypt in May of 646.

Overview
Following their victory at the Battle of Heliopolis in July 640, and the subsequent capitulation of Alexandria in November 641, Arab troops had taken over what was the Roman province of Egypt. The newly installed Byzantine Emperor Constans II was determined to re-take the land, and ordered a large fleet to carry troops to Alexandria. These troops, under Manuel, took the city by surprise from its small Arab garrison towards the end of 645 in an amphibious attack. In 645 the Byzantine thus temporarily won Alexandria back. Amr at the time may have been in Mecca, and was quickly recalled to take command of the Arab forces in Egypt.

The battle took place at the small fortified town of Nikiou ( Pashati), about two-thirds of the way from Alexandria to Fustat, with the Arab forces numbering around 15,000, against a smaller Byzantine force. The Arabs prevailed, and the Byzantine forces retreated in disarray, back to Alexandria.

Although the Byzantines closed the gates against the pursuing Arabs, the city of Alexandria eventually fell to the Arabs, who stormed the city sometime in the summer of that year. The defeat of Manuel's forces marked the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recapture Egypt for some 500 years, with only Emperor Manuel I Komnenos sending a failed expedition there in the 12th century.

Then Amr ibn al-A'as wrote back to the Caliph:

As ordered by the Caliph, he then left Alexandria and established a new capital, Fustat.

References

Further reading
 Butler, Alfred J. The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty years of Roman Dominion Oxford, 1978.

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Ruhovtsi

Ruhovtsi (in Bulgarian: Руховци) is a village in northern Bulgaria, Elena municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province.

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Code point

In character encoding terminology, a code point or code position is any of the numerical values that make up the code space. Many code points represent single characters but they can also have other meanings, such as for formatting.

For example, the character encoding scheme ASCII comprises 128 code points in the range 0hex to 7Fhex, Extended ASCII comprises 256 code points in the range 0hex to FFhex, and Unicode comprises  code points in the range 0hex to 10FFFFhex. The Unicode code space is divided into seventeen planes (the basic multilingual plane, and 16 supplementary planes), each with  (= 216) code points. Thus the total size of the Unicode code space is 17 ×  = .

Definition
The notion of a code point is used for abstraction, to distinguish both:
 the number from an encoding as a sequence of bits, and
 the abstract character from a particular graphical representation (glyph).

This is because one may wish to make these distinctions to:
 encode a particular code space in different ways, or
 display a character via different glyphs.

For Unicode, the particular sequence of bits is called a code unit – for the UCS-4 encoding, any code point is encoded as 4-byte (octet) binary numbers, while in the UTF-8 encoding, different code points are encoded as sequences from one to four bytes long, forming a self-synchronizing code. See comparison of Unicode encodings for details.
Code points are normally assigned to abstract characters. An abstract character is not a graphical glyph but a unit of textual data. However, code points may also be left reserved for future assignment (most of the Unicode code space is unassigned), or given other designated functions.

The distinction between a code point and the corresponding abstract character is not pronounced in Unicode, but is evident for many other encoding schemes, where numerous code pages may exist for a single code space.

History
The concept of a code point is part of Unicode's solution to a difficult conundrum faced by character encoding developers in the 1980s. If they added more bits per character to accommodate larger character sets, that design decision would also constitute an unacceptable waste of then-scarce computing resources for Latin script users (who constituted the vast majority of computer users at the time), since those extra bits would always be zeroed out for such users. The code point avoids this problem by breaking the old idea of a direct one-to-one correspondence between characters and particular sequences of bits.

See also
 Combining character
 Text-based (computing)
 Replacement character
 Unicode collation algorithm

References

External links
 Codepoints.net, a site dedicated to all things characters, letters and Unicode

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Marian Czakański

Marian Czakański (born 1 October 1946 in Siemianowice Śląskie) is a Polish politician and economist. He briefly served as Minister of Health in the government of Marek Belka (2004).

Education
He is a 1969 graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGPiS) attending the Department of Finance and Statistics.

During 1971 and 1972 he was an exchange scholar under a Ford Foundation program, as well a special graduate student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard University.

In 1975, he defended his Ph.D. dissertation in strategic planning and management under Professor Jerzy Ruszkiewicz at the Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw Tech). He also worked as an instructor at the Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, a unit of Warsaw Tech.

He was active in a faculty exchange program that was established between Warsaw Tech and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Under Professor Carl Bellas, he taught management at the Pamplin School of Business together with Christopher Ziemnowicz.

During 1995 and 1996, he took courses in banking and strategic management at the Harvard Business School as well as at the Irish Development Institute in Dublin.

Early career
From 1970 to 1989 he was Director of the Department of Export Development in the Ministry of Economy International Economic Cooperation.

He also held positions as:
 Advisor to the vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers
 Director of the Office of International Economic Cooperation in the Council of Ministers
 Director of the Office of Science and Technical Progress in the Central Planning Commission

From 1989 to 1992 he was a special advisor to the Polish Embassy in Canada.

From 1992, he worked at Bank Pekao, and from 1995 to 1998 as its vice-president. In August 1998, he became president of the Pension Company Nationale-Nederlanden (ING). In June 2000, he became president of Bank Śląski and resigned in March 2004. He then joined the supervisory board of the Polish petroleum company PKN Orlen.

In 2003, the weekly magazine Przegląd placed Czakański as number 39 in its list of the most influential people in Poland.

As Minister of Health
On 11 June 2004, Czakański was nominated as the Minister of Health. He took over after Wojciech Rudnicki started this position just one-month previously, but Rudnicki's state of health forced him to resign (with a brief period Jerzy Hausner as acting) and thus Czakański substituted him.

Similarly, Czakański did not keep the position for very long. He turned in his resignation in the following month after series of critical statements he made during the course of Sejm debate about the condition of the health service in Poland. The explanation for the sudden resignation was that because he is not politician, he did not see capability of reforming the Polish health care system. Czakański said that his resignation was for "personal reasons", but he underscored that "the situation in this area is such that it revolves mainly around politics, and not about issues that can be resolved. I know how to make the reforms, but I can also see the directions these problems are going." After Czakański's brief service, Senator Marek Balicki took the position of the Minister of Health as of 15 July 2004.

Czakański was just one of many shuffles in the leadership of Poland's Health Ministry that further contributed to the problems of reforming the nation's chronically underfunded health system.

Later career
During 2004–2005, he was an Advisor to the President of ING Bank Śląski. He was appointed to the Board of Directors on 15 September 2005.

He served on the board of directors of several companies and organizations including:
 Member appointed by the Prime Minister to the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) responsible for national policy in the area of science and technology.
 Advisory Board member for CEMBA (Canadian Executive MBA at the Warsaw School of Economics).
 Management board member of the Polish Bank Association (Związek Banków Polskich - ZBP)
 Served on the International Advisory Board for Business and Marketing for MasterCard

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1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Pool C

Group C of the 1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 1996 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams advancing to the play-offs.
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See also
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References

External links
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Rudi Pawelka

Rudi Pawelka is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.

Born on 24 March 1940, in Breslau, Silesia, Pawelka is an important German politician of the CDU. He is also the spokesman of the former German forced laborers (Arbeitskreises Deutsche Zwangsarbeiter or AKDZ) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Silesian Museum in Görlitz.

Pawelka was a Chief Police Director official. From 1971 was the second National chairman of the "Friends of former CSU" and is currently an active member of the CDU. Between 1975 and 1990 he was chairman of the CDU branch in Leverkusen-Rheindorf. From 1990 to 1994, and again from 2004 to 2009 he was a councilor in Leverkusen.

In 2000 he succeeded Herbert Hupka as federal chairman of the Landsmannschaft Schlesien. From 2001 to 2005 Pawelka was chairman of the Prussian Trust. In 2003, as a head of the Prussian Trust, he angered Jewish groups and caused outrage in Poland, which has long feared that some of the 12 million expelled in 1945 or their descendants would return to claim their properties.

Pawelka is widowed and has one son and two daughters. Since 1961 he has resided in Leverkusen in the Rhineland.

See also
List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians

References

External links
 Leverkusen who's who
 Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands web site

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Rebecca Tarbotton

Rebecca Tarbotton (30 July 1973 – 26 December 2012) was an environmental, human rights, and food activist, and the Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network.

Career and activism

Tarbotton began her environmental career doing research on indigenous communities on Baffin Island, in the far northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. Subsequently, Tarbotton spent eight years working under Helena Norberg-Hodge at the  International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).  Tarbotton ran ISEC's programs in Ladakh, India, for several years, and later worked in their UK and US offices promoting local alternatives to economic globalization.  She referred to her years at ISEC as the period "where the roots of my activism are."

Tarbotton led Rainforest Action Network as Executive Director beginning 3 August 2010, the first woman to hold the position in RAN's 27-year history. Before becoming Executive Director, Tarbotton led RAN's Global Finance Campaign, campaigning against some of the nation's most powerful private financial institutions to successfully negotiate for the creation of a sector-wide bank policy statement known as the Carbon Principles.

Tarbotton was a regular panelist at international and human rights conferences, has been featured in major international media outlets, and published numerous articles on her areas of expertise. She was a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and other major media outlets, and has been a fellow at the Oakland Institute, a BankTrack committee member, as well as an alumna of the Rockwood Leadership Institute and winner of the UK-based Derek Cooper Award for Investigative/Campaigning Journalism.

She died from drowning while swimming during a vacation to Mexico in 2012.

Education

A native of British Columbia, Tarbotton earned a bachelor's degree in Geography from McGill University and a master's degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia.

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Wanamassa

Wanamassa may refer to:

People
Wanamassa (Native American), a Native American leader of the 17th century

Places
Wanamassa, New Jersey, a census-designated place and unincorporated area within Ocean Township, in Monmouth County

Ships
USS Wanamassa (YTB-820), a United States Navy large harbor tug in commission since 1973


Baki Mercimek

Baki Mercimek (born 17 September 1982 in Amsterdam) is a Turkish footballer.

Career
He has previously had spells with Sunderland AFC in England, for whom he never played a first team game, as well as Haarlem in the Netherlands and Beşiktaş.

Background
Mercimek was born in Amsterdam. He was eligible to play for The Netherlands, as well as Turkey. Mercimek stated that:"I have Turkish blood and I'd love to play for my country one day."

References

External links
Profile at TFF.org

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East Oktibbeha County High School

East Oktibbeha County High School (EOCHS) was a public secondary school located in unincorporated Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, near Crawford. It was a part of the Oktibbeha County School District, and was formed by the consolidation of two traditionally black high schools, Moor and Alexander.

In 2015 the schools of Oktibbeha County district consolidated into the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, and this school consolidated into Starkville High School.

As of 2016, the buildings were abandoned.

Notable Alumni
April Sykes, basketball player

References

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Ząbkowice Śląskie

Ząbkowice Śląskie  () is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Ząbkowice Śląskie County, and of the smaller administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Ząbkowice Śląskie.

The town lies approximately  south of the regional capital Wrocław. , it had a population of 16,086.

History

The town was established by Duke of Silesia Henry IV Probus, of the Piast dynasty, as Frankenstein in the early 13th century, following the Mongol invasion of Poland. The town was founded in the vicinity of the old Polish settlement of Sadlno, through which ran a trade route connecting Silesia and Bohemia. The town was sited on a piece of land that belonged partly to the episcopal lands of Zwrócona and partly to the Monastery at Trzebnica. The town was located exactly halfway between the sites of two previously existing towns that had failed to attract enough settlers: Frankenberg and Löwenstein, and inherited its German name from both. Its positioning on the so-called King's Road between Prague and Wrocław, not too far from the commercially important city of Kłodzko would favour the development of the town. The town received municipal rights around 1280, the first mention of civitas Frankenstein is dated 10 January 1287. At the beginning of the 14th century, the first town hall and the castle were erected. The city remained under rule of the Polish Piast dynasty before it was sold to the Bohemian (Czech) King in 1351.

In 1428 the city was invaded by the Hussites. In 1456, Bohemian King Ladislaus the Posthumous gave the city in hereditary possession to the Czech noble Podiebrad family, to which it belonged until 1569. The city was heavily damaged in 1468, during the Bohemian–Hungarian War, and until 1490 it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, before becoming again part of Bohemia. In the 16th century, the castle and defensive walls were rebuilt. Trade and craft flourished. In the early 17th century the plague killed about one third of the population, and it has been speculated that events at that time may have inspired the Frankenstein story. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) ended the town's prosperity. Austrian and Swedish troops marched through the city, which was severely damaged. Afterwards, until the late 19th century, it remained a small town. In 1742 it was annexed by Prussia.

In 1858 the town burned down and had to be rebuilt. On this occasion, the upper part of the 15th-century leaning tower was reconstructed in a straight manner. The town was a county seat from 1816 to 1945. From 1871 to 1945 it was part of Germany. The city was not destroyed during World War II. After Germany's defeat in World War II, the town once again became part of Poland, along with most of Silesia, and was renamed Ząbkowice Śląskie in 1946. The totality of its population was expelled. Ząbkowice Śląskie was repopulated by Poles expelled from former Eastern Poland, annexed by the Soviet Union, as well as those arriving from central Poland.

Tourist attractions

Ząbkowice Śląskie is often called the Silesian Pisa as it is known for its Leaning Tower (Krzywa Wieża), which is one of the main attractions in this part of Poland. However, there are also tourist attractions such as the 13th-century fortifications and the ruins of a 14th-century castle.
The Leaning Tower (Krzywa Wieża)
13th century fortifications
Ruins of the Ducal Castle
Saint Anne church
Town Hall
Church of the Nativity of Virgin Mary
Saint Hedwig church

Notable people

 David Pareus (1548–1622), German Reformed Protestant theologian and reformer
 Karl von Strotha (1786–1870), Prussian officer and Minister of War
 Fritz Erler (1868–1940), German artist, born in Frankenstein
 Wilhelm Kroll (1869–1939), German classic philologist
 Günther Specht (1914–1945), Luftwaffe pilot
 Horst Hannig (1921–1943), Luftwaffe pilot
 Piotr Zieliński (born 1994), Polish football player

Notes

External links
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 Frankenstein.pl: events of 1606 involving undertakers which might have inspired the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley
 Jewish Community in Ząbkowice Śląskie on Virtual Shtetl
 "Annales Francostenen" of 1655
  Frankenstein-Schlesien.de

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Gulzhan Issanova

Gulzhan Issanova (born 12 September 1983) is a Kazakhstani judoka.

She won a bronze medal in the open weight class category of the 2006 Asian Games, having defeated Angom Anita Chanu of India in the bronze medal match. She also finished fifth in the heavyweight (+78 kg) category.

She currently resides in Almaty.

External links
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Kita-Horinouchi Station

is a railway station on the Jōetsu Line in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Kita-Horinouchi Station is a station on the Jōetsu Line, and is located 138.1 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Station layout
The station has two single ground-level opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a level crossing. The station is unattended.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History
Kita-Horinouchi Station opened on 15 February 1950. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, it came under the control of JR East.

Surrounding area
Japan National Route 17

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

External links
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Evert Brouwers

Evert Brouwers (born 17 June 1990) is a Dutch former professional footballer who plays for amateur side SV Zeist.

Club career
He made his senior debut for Utrecht in the 2010-11 season. After AGOVV dissolved, Brouwers played for Hoofdklasse clubs DOVO and SDC Putten before joining his first club Zeist in 2015. In summer 2016 he was ready to return to SDC Putten after completing his studies, only to change his mind after finding a job as a baker which prevented him from playing on Saturdays.

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New Vic Theatre

The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, is a purpose-built theatre in the round which opened in 1986, replacing a converted cinema, the Victoria Theatre, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent.

History
In the early 1960s, Stephen Joseph was searching for a permanent base for his Studio Theatre company which specialised in theatrical productions "in the round", that is with audience on all sides. He found it in a disused cinema in Hartshill, Stoke, which was converted to theatrical use and opened as a playhouse on 9 October 1962. The first resident director was Peter Cheeseman, and he remained in control for 36 years, bar a period in 1967-68 when he was temporarily replaced by the management.

The company soon established a reputation for innovative productions of both new and classic works. A particular focus was on plays with a local subject, such as The Knotty, about the North Staffordshire Railway, The Fight for Shelton Bar, about the closure of a local steelworks, and Jolly Potters.

The first production of a play by Peter Terson took place there in 1964; he was writer in residence for 18 months and wrote 22 plays for the Victoria.

As well as drama, the venue was also used for classical and other music. The square layout of the performance area and audience created an excellent acoustic for chamber music. The Lindsay String Quartet performed there regularly in the 1970s.

By 1985, over 280 productions had been staged. The need was felt for a larger, purpose-built building from the very start, and this was created in nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme and opened its doors in 1986 after many years of fundraising, negotiation with local councils and construction. The new venue took the name The New Victoria Theatre, often abbreviated to "New Vic", and this shortened name was formally adopted later.  Whereas the old theatre had a seating capacity of 389, the main auditorium in the new theatre has a capacity of just over 600, with the audience surrounding a central stage as before.  The acoustics for music are good and the Lindsay String Quartet performed there regularly, as they had done at the old theatre.

The theatre continues to keep close to its Potteries roots.  One of the plays in its re-opening season was by local playwright Arthur Berry.

In 1998, Peter Cheeseman retired as Artistic Director, and was succeeded by Gwenda Hughes. In 2007 she in turn was succeeded by Theresa Heskins.

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Princess Tutu

is a Japanese magical girl anime series created by illustrator and animator Ikuko Itoh. Inspired by ballet and fairy tales, particularly The Ugly Duckling and Swan Lake, the story follows a duck who is transformed into the mythical ballerina Princess Tutu in order to save the shattered heart of a storybook prince come to life.

The first season was broadcast in Japan in 2002 and the second in 2002 and 2003. It was also adapted into a two-volume manga. Both the manga and anime series were licensed by ADV Films in 2004 for distribution in North America, then by AEsir Holdings when ADV Films closed in 2009, while Sentai Filmworks distributed the Blu-Ray release of the show, as the latter two are parts of Section23 Films. The series explores the concepts of destiny and free will. Reviewers point out that although Princess Tutu is nominally a magical girl series, it is more of a "fairy tale set to ballet with a few magical girl elements mixed in," and its use of dance in lieu of violence to solve conflicts carries "surprisingly effective emotional appeal."

Plot

Once there was a writer named Drosselmeyer, who had the power to make his stories come to life. But he died before he could finish his final tale, The Prince and the Raven, leaving the two title characters locked in an eternal battle. After many years, the Raven managed to break free into the real world, and the Prince pursued him. To seal away the Raven's evil, Prince Siegfried shattered his own heart with his sword, causing him to lose all his memories and emotions.

Drosselmeyer, now a ghost, decides the story must have an ending. He finds it in the form of a little duck, who has fallen in love with Mytho, the empty remainder of Siegfried. He gives her a magic pendant that can transform her, first into an ordinary human girl, then into the graceful ballerina Princess Tutu, another character in the story. As Tutu, it's Duck's job to find all the scattered shards of Mytho's heart and return them to him.

But not everyone wants Mytho to get his heart back. Rue, the Raven's daughter reborn as a human, has fallen in love with him too, and worries he might not return her feelings if he has a heart. Her desire to stop him from regaining his emotions unleashes her ability to transform into Princess Kraehe, Tutu's evil counterpart. Fakir, the boy who found and took care of Mytho after he escaped the story, also tries to stop Tutu, fearing that the story progressing means the Raven will return and Mytho will have to risk his life fighting it again.

What's more, Duck learns that part of Princess Tutu's story is that she can never confess her love to Mytho, or else she'll turn into a speck of light and vanish. However, it becomes clear that Mytho wants his heart restored, so despite Fakir and Kraehe's interference, she persists.

Eventually, Fakir accepts Mytho's choice and decides to help Tutu, even discovering her true identity as a Duck and becoming good friends with her. He also learns he's a descendant of Drosselmeyer, meaning he too has the power to make what he writes a reality. Rue finds out she's not the Raven's daughter, but a human child he stole to serve him.

After most of Mytho's heart is returned to him, the seal trapping the Raven begins to break. Finally able to feel love again, Mytho realizes he loves Rue – just as the Raven kidnaps her. Duck discovers her pendant is the final shard, meaning she must give up her life as a human to return it. She eventually finds the courage to do so, and becomes a humble duck again.

Mytho and the Raven battle once more. When the fight turns bleak, Mytho considers shattering his heart to seal the monster away again. Duck begins dancing to show him he must not give up. As she does, Fakir writes a story about how she never stops, no matter how many times the Raven's minions attack her. Together they create hope, which gives Mytho the strength he needs to rescue Rue and defeat the Raven. Mytho asks Rue to be his princess and they return to his kingdom inside the story. Duck and Fakir continue their relationship, even though she's stuck in her duck form. With nothing left to do, Drosselmeyer departs in search of another story.

Media

Anime

Princess Tutu was conceptualized by Ikuko Itoh, who also designed the characters, and directed by Junichi Sato and Shogo Koumoto, with Michiko Yokote handling series composition and Kaoru Wada composing the music. It was produced by Hal Film Maker and TUTU, a production committee consisting of King Records, IMAGICA Imageworks, Dentsu, Marvelous Entertainment and Memory-Tech. The series originally aired in two seasons. The first season, "Kapitel des Eies" ("Chapter of the Egg"), consisted of 13 half-hour episodes. The second season, "Kapitel des Junges" ("Chapter of the Fledgling") in R2 DVDs, and "Kapital des Kükens" ("Chapter of the Chick") in R1 DVDs, was aired as 25 quarter-hour episodes and one half-hour episode; to conform to the format of the time slot,  each episode was halved. These were brought back together in the DVD release as 13 complete episodes.

North American DVD releases
In 2004 ADV Films announced that they had licensed the anime series for distribution in North America. ADV Films produced English adaptations for all episodes and, beginning in 2005, the series was periodically released as single DVD "volumes" that each contained several episodes. In 2007 the series was released as a complete DVD collection of all 26 episodes. In 2011 AEsir Holdings announced the licensing of the series and the release of a complete DVD collection of all 26 episodes distributed by Section23 Films. In 2018, as AEsir Holdings and Sentai Filmworks are parts of Section23 Films, the latter will release a complete Blu-ray collection of all 26 episodes on December 11, 2018.

Princess Tutu
 Marchen (DVD 1), episodes 1–5, release date: 2005-01-25
 Traum (DVD 2), episodes 6–9, release date: 2005-11-29
 Erwachen (DVD 3), episodes 10–13, release date: 2006-01-24
 Prinz und Rabe (DVD 4)), episodes 14–18, release date: 2006-03-21
 Schwert und Feder (DVD 5), episodes 19–22, release date: 2006-05-23
 Abschied (DVD 6), episodes 23–26, release date: 2006-07-25
 DVD Collection (DVD 1-6), episodes 1–26, release date: 2007-11-20
 Complete Collection (DVD), episodes 1–26, release date: 2009-04-21
 Complete Collection (DVD), episodes 1–26, release date: 2011-10-11
 Complete Collection (DVD), episodes 1-26, release date: 2016-04-19
 Complete Collection (Blu-ray), episodes 1-26, release date: 2018-12-11

Reception
The series has been reviewed many times, starting from the Japanese language streams, through the latest North American English language DVD releases. Generally the reviews are very positive.

 The first DVD volume (DVD 1) included episodes 1 through 5. Theron Martin reviewed this volume for the Anime News Network and awarded grades from "C+" (art) to "A" (music).
 The second DVD volume (DVD 2) included episodes 6 through 9. Zac Bertschy reviewed this volume for the Anime News Network and awarded grades from "B+" (story) to "A" (most everything else).
 The fourth DVD volume (DVD 4) included episodes 14 through 18. Theron Martin reviewed this volume and awarded grades from "B" (animation) to "A+" (music).
 The sixth DVD volume (DVD 6) included episodes 23 through 26. Theron Martin reviewed this volume and awarded grades from "B+" (animation & art) to "A+" (music).
 The 2011 Complete Collection (DVD) release was reviewed by Chris Beveridge for the media blog The Fandom Post and given an overall grade of A−.

Streaming
Anime Network formerly offered all 26 episodes of the series, English dubbed only, from their internet streaming site for North America. After the service was shut down, the series was moved to Hidive. Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video both have the English dub available for streaming.

Manga
A manga adaptation of the anime series was written by Mizuo Shinonome and published in Japan by Akita Shoten in the shōnen manga magazine Champion Red.  Two tankōbon volumes of the manga series were published in 2003. The Japanese manga series was translated to English and published in North America by ADV Manga in two volumes.

Volume list

Note: The English language manga continues to use the Japanese name "Ahiru" rather than the name "Duck" used in the English language version of the anime television series.

References

External links

 Anime Network - Princess Tutu
 MADMAN - Princess Tutu - Complete Collection (Australia)

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Kálvin tér metro station

Kálvin tér is a transfer station on the M3 and the M4 lines of the Budapest Metro. It is located beneath the eponymous square, named after John Calvin. The Line 3 station was opened on 31 December 1976 as part of the inaugural section of Line M3 between Deák Ferenc tér and Nagyvárad tér. The Line M4 station was opened on 28 March 2014 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from Keleti pályaudvar to Kelenföld vasútállomás.

Connections
Bus: 9, 15, 100E, 115
Trolleybus: 83, City
Tram: 47, 47B, 48, 49

References
Budapest City Atlas, Szarvas-Dimap, Budapest, 2011,
Official web page of the Line 4 construction

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Sugarwell Court

Sugarwell Court is a hall of residence of Leeds Beckett University located off Meanwood Road in the Meanwood area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. There are currently 7 blocks based on site, which are alphabetically placed around the campus, called Airedale, Bishopdale, Coverdale, Deepdale, Eskdale, Farndale and Glaisdale. In total, the hall accommodates 388 people. Eskdale has facilities for disabled students.

Part of the building is Grade II listed and based on a conversion of Sugarwell Works, also previously known as Cliff Tannery, which was a tannery originally built in 1866. It was converted in 1993.  The main buildings have been gutted and refurbished. It takes its name from Sugarwell Hill.

References

External links

Sugarwell Works

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Mateo Ramírez

Mateo Ramírez Montenegro (born 18 January 1995) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Guillermo Brown.

Career
Ramírez had a stint in the youth system of Vélez Sarsfield. Primera B Nacional's Boca Unidos signed Ramírez ahead of the 2016 campaign. Having been an unused substitute for a match with Brown, the midfielder played the second half of a home defeat to Guillermo Brown on 28 February 2016. His first start came in 2016–17 versus All Boys, which preceded a total of twenty-five appearances that campaign. On 23 August 2017, Ramírez joined Gimnasia y Esgrima of Torneo Federal A. He netted against Deportivo Maipú and Juventud Unida Universitario in season one, on the way to promotion to the tier two for 2018–19.

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Nicola Luche

Nicola Luche (born 22 April 1998) is an Italian football player. He plays for FeralpiSalò as a forward.

Club career

FeralpiSalò
On 31 July 2016, Luche made his professional debut for FeralpiSalò as a starter in a 3–2 home defeat after extra-time in the first round of Coppa Italia, he was replaced by Medin Murati in the 70th minute. On 27 August 2016 he made his debut in Serie C as a substitute replacing Simone Guerra in the 70th minute of a 3–1 away defeat against Santarcangelo. On 13 September he scored his first professional goal, as a substitute, in the 73rd minute of a 3–2 home win over Lumezzane. On 26 March 2017 he played his first entire match for FeralpiSalò, a 2–0 away defeat against Maceratese.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

 Nicola Luche at Soccerway

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Wilby, Suffolk

Wilby is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England located around  south-east of Diss and  south of Stradbroke along the B1118. The population of the parish at the 2001 census was 231 in 99 households. The village has some basic services including a primary school and village hall. The name of the village is generally believed to be derived from the Old English meaning 'Ring of Willows'. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book at which time it had a small population of around 7 households and formed part of the holding of Bishop William of Thetford. The nearest villages are Brundish, Laxfield, Stradbroke and Worlingworth.

Foals Green, Russel's Green, Stanway Green and Wootten Green (part) form part of the village which is dispersed in nature.

Church
The village church is dedicated to St Mary. It is medieval in origin and includes a 15th-century tower and a series of bench ends from the same century which are one of the finest collections in East Anglia. The current vicar is Rev'd David Burrell who holds one Sunday service a week. St Mary's is a Grade I listed building. Newton Wilby Hall, a Grade II listed building, is a 16th-century farmhouse with an intact medieval moat.

School
The village school serves around 100 children aged 5 to 11. It is currently judged as 'Good' by Ofsted and has a link to a school in Mbauro in Kenya. At 11 children usually transfer to Stradbroke High School.

Village hall
The village hall, which stands on the B1118, close to the centre of the village and opposite the school, is named Coronation Hall to commemorate the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Officially opened on Saturday 28 May 1955, it was one of the first village halls in Suffolk to be made by voluntary labour.

Transport
Between 1908 and 1952 the village was served by Wilby railway station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway with the nearest operational railway station now at Diss.

References

External links
Wilby's Website

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Habib Youssouf

Habib Youssouf (born 19 February 1998) is a Comorian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Volcan Club de Moroni.

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Presidential Administration of Iran

Presidential Administration of Iran (including Office of the President of Iran) consists of the immediate staff of the current President of Iran and multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President. It is located in Pasteur Street.

Chief
Chief of Staff of the President of Iran is a title referring to two different positions in Iranian government that may be held by one person:
Head of President's Office ()
Supervisor of Presidential administration ()
Both office-holders act as a senior aide to the President of Iran.

Mahmoud Vaezi holds both titles since 2017.

Former Heads of President's Office
 Hossein Marashi under President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
 Mohammad-Ali Abtahi and Ali Khatami under President Mohammad Khatami
 Gholam Hossein Elham, Reza Sheykholeslam, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and Seyyed Hassan Mousavi under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 Mohammad Nahavandian under President Hassan Rouhani

Former Supervisors of Presidential administration
 Mostafa Mir-Salim under President Ali Khamenei.
 Ali Saeedlou, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Hamid Baqai under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

References

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Setia microbia

Setia microbia is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Description

Distribution

References

 Hoenselaar H.J. & Hoenselaar J. (1991). A new Setia species from southern Spain. Basteria 55: 173-175 page(s): 173-175
 Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 180–213

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Augustin Eduard

Augustin Eduard (born 1 August 1962) is a Romanian former professional footballer and currently a manager. As a player, he was signed by FC Argeș in 1976 and grew up in the squad of Leonte Ianovschi, making his debut for the first team of "the White-Violet Eagles" in 1980. Eduard was in that first season part of a squad where Nicolae Dobrin, one of the most important Romanian players ever and a legend of FC Argeș, was the unquestioned leader. In two periods spent at FC Argeș, he played in over 170 matches and then was also part of the Steaua București squad that would go on to win the 1985–86 European Cup, but left the club in summer 1985, after having won a national championship title. In the early 1990s Eduard also played for Steaua's bitter rival Dinamo București and ended his career as a footballer at Gloria Bistrița in 1993.

Honours

Club
 Steaua București
Divizia A: Winner 1984–85
Cupa României: Winner 1984–85

International
 Romania
 FIFA World Youth Championship: Third place 1981

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African American Policy Forum

The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is a social justice think tank focused on issues of gender and diversity. AAPF seeks to build bridges between arts, activism, and the academy in order to address structural inequality and systemic oppression. AAPF develops and promotes frameworks and strategies that address a vision of racial justice that embraces the intersections of race, gender, class, and the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginalized in society.

Seeking to raise awareness for black female victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the United States, AAPF released a report entitled "Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women." Say Her Name documents stories of Black women who have been killed by police, shining a spotlight on forms of police brutality often experienced disproportionately by women of color. The report also provides analytical frames for understanding Black women's experiences and broadens dominant conceptions of who experiences state violence and what it looks like. In February 2015, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) coined the hashtag #SayHerName in an effort to create a large social media presence alongside existing racial justice campaigns, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlsMatter. Since 2015, #SayHerName has seen global use to call attention to the continued lack of Black women's narratives in discussions of state violence.

History and mission
The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) was co-founded in 1996 by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and leading authority in the area of Civil Rights and Black feminist legal theory; and Luke Charles Harris, Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and leading authority in the field of Critical Race Theory. The Policy Forum was developed as part of an ongoing effort to promote women's rights in the context of struggles for racial justice.

The African American Policy Forum's mission is to utilize new ideas and innovative perspectives to transform public discourse and policy. The Policy Forum promotes frameworks and strategies that address a vision of racial justice that embraces the intersections of race, gender, class, and the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginalized in society. Bridging art, activism, and academic discourse in their work, AAPF is dedicated to advancing and expanding racial justice, gender equality, and the indivisibility of all human rights, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Initiatives and campaigns

#WhyWeCantWait
#WhyWeCantWait is an AAPF initiative that was publicly announced on June 17, 2014 with the issuing of an open letter sent to former President Barack Obama, signed by over 1,400 women of color entitled “Why We Can’t Wait: Women of Color Urge Inclusion in ‘My Brother’s Keeper.’”  In this letter, women of color questioned how attempts to address the challenges facing males of color – without integrating a comparable focus on the complex lives of girls and women who live and struggle together in the same families, homes, schools, and neighborhoods – advances the interests of the community as a whole. The women who signed this letter share a commitment to the expansion of “My Brother’s Keeper” (MBK) and all other national youth interventions to include an explicit focus on the structural conditions that negatively impact all youth of color.

In addition to the Why We Can't Wait letter, AAPF also published an open letter on May 30, 2014, signed by “250+ Concerned Black Men and Other Men of Color.” This letter called for the inclusion of women and girls of color in the president's initiative. Signers included writer and activist Darnell Moore, actor Danny Glover, professor Robin D.G. Kelly, and writer and professor Kiese Laymon.

Later, on July 10, 2014, AAPF organized a conversation moderated by GRITtv's Laura Flanders on the necessity of expanding “My Brother’s Keeper.” Featured speakers included AAPF co-founder Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor and Co-Founder of The Crunk Feminist Collective Brittney Cooper,  Founder and Executive Director of Girls for Gender Equity Joanne Smith, as well as Professors Kristie Dotson and Rosa Linda Fregoso.

#BreakingTheSilence
#BreakingTheSilence refers to a national town hall series launched by the AAPF in 2014. This series entitled “Breaking the Silence: A National Town Hall Series on Women & Girls of Color,” focuses on elevating the stories and experiences of women and girls of color. AAPF is committed to hosting town hall hearings in order to bring the circumstances facing many women of color out of the shadows and squarely into public policy debates, while helping community leaders develop and advance local agendas for gender inclusive racial justice. Beginning in 2014, AAPF has partnered with local organizations to hold town hall events in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington DC, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Oakland and Greensboro.

Following the momentum of the Breaking the Silence Townhall, AAPF established the Breaking the Silence summer camp series during the summer of 2015. Breaking Silence: An Arts, Action, and Healing Summer Camp is an AAPF program that convenes an intergenerational group of women and girls of color from across the country into a space to share stories, uplift spirits, and fight for justice using artistic modes of expression.

#BlackGirlsMatter
#BlackGirlsMatter refers to a social media campaign that intends to catalogue the experiences of black girls in the United States. This campaign was initiated when African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School released a report titled “Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected,” on February 4, 2015. The report, based on an analysis of Department of Education discipline data for New York City and Boston Public Schools as well as personal interviews with young women from these areas, focused on the specific challenges that girls of color face in schools.

The Black Girls Matter report cites several examples of excessive disciplinary actions against young black girls, including the controversial 2014 case of a 12-year-old in Georgia who faced expulsion and criminal charges for writing the word “hi” on a locker room wall.  A white female classmate who was also involved faced a much less severe punishment.  According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education cited in the report, nationally, black girls were suspended six times more than white girls, while black boys were suspended three times as often as white boys. Data specific to New York and Boston demonstrates that the relative risk for disciplinary action is higher for Black girls when compared to white girls than it is for Black boys when compared to white boys.

The report recommends policies and interventions to address challenges facing girls of color, including revising policies that funnel girls into juvenile supervision facilities; developing programs that identify signs of sexual victimization and assist girls in addressing traumatic experiences; advancing programs that support girls who are pregnant, parenting, or otherwise assuming significant familial responsibilities; and improving data collection to better track discipline and achievement by race/ethnicity and gender for all groups.

#SayHerName
The #SayHerName hashtag—coined by AAPF in February 2015—has come to represent the burgeoning movement to uplift the stories of Black women facing a myriad of systemic issues, including domestic violence, sexual assault by police, and inadequate mental health support. On May 20, 2015, AAPF hosted #SayHerName: A Vigil in Memory of Black Women and Girls Killed by the Police at Union Square in New York City. Family members of Black women killed by police came together from across the country for the first time in a powerful vigil designed to uplift their loved ones' stories. Later on in May 2015, AAPF released a report entitled "Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women," which outlined the goals and objectives of the #SayHerName movement. The report provides an analytical framework for understanding black women's susceptibility to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, and also offers some suggestions on how to effectively mobilize various communities and empower them to advocate for racial justice.

AAPF has sponsored a variety of events ranging from art showcases to activist actions in relation to #SayHerName. On November 1, 2015, AAPF, One Billion Rising, and Thandie Newton co-hosted a #SayHerName event in Los Angeles, calling on artists and activists in the entertainment industry to #SayHerName. The next year, on November 12, 2016, AAPF held #SayHerName: An Evening of Art and Action at the Nuyorican poet's cafe in New York City. On February 24, 2017, AAPF held another evening of art and action at the Pratt Institute in conjunction with their BlackLivesMatter Teach-In program.

#HerDreamDeferred
In late March to early April 2015, AAPF launched a week-long online series dedicated to elevating the status of Black women entitled #HerDreamDeferred. AAPF co-organized this initiative with The Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The National Organization for Women, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Black Women's Blueprint, PACE and other racial and gender justice leaders in honor of Women's History Month and the UN Declaration of 2015 as the start of the International Decade for People of African Descent.

Each day during the week of March 30 to April 3, 2015, AAPF hosted an online event to highlight a specific set of challenge facing Black women.  Topics that were covered included: state-sanctioned violence, economic inequality, sexual assault and domestic violence, school-pushout, health disparities, and the challenges faced by Black women in higher education. The goal of the series was to elevate these challenges so that stakeholders across the country could better understand and address the challenges facing Black women and girls.

In 2016, AAPF reconvened the online event series. During the week of March 28 to April 1, AAPF covered topics relating to criminalization of Black girls in and out of school, the war on Black single mothers, the status of Women of Color in the South, sexual assault at HBCUs, and challenges faced by Black women veterans.  In 2017, the series was expanded to include events at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on March 28, 29, and 30th, as well as events at Impact Hub LA in addition to the virtual workshops. Topics included the resistance of Afro-Colombian women at the intersection of racism, sexism, and war, a #SayHerName night of performance curated by Abby Dobson, Latasha Harlins and the victimization of Black girls (moderated by Laura Flanders), representations of Black women in the media (and Hollywood in particular), and Black women and tech activism.

Beginning in 2015 as a result of the Her Dream Deferred initiative, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has entered into the Congressional Record her request that the last week of March be Black Women's History Week, as part of Women's History Month. Coinciding with the annual Her Dream Deferred series, this week would focus on the status of Black women and girls, acknowledging their contributions to the nation as well as addressing the challenges they continue to face.

Researcher’s collaborative
In May 2015, AAPF, in collaboration with the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School, convened an interdisciplinary group of researchers, service providers and advocates whose work focuses on the intersectional issues impacting women of color.

Among the issues surfaced during the convening were the disciplinary and institutional barriers that suppress information sharing among experts; the marginalization of research about women of color within academic and research institutions; the lack of targeted funding for research and data collection on women of color; and the overall lack of a demand for evidence-based programs that might underwrite institutional commitments to women of color. Researchers also addressed the ways that standard reporting practices from government agencies raised unnecessary barriers to developing reliable information about the factors that contribute to poor outcomes for women of color.

Publications and media

Publications
For all published reports from AAPF, please see the following link: http://www.aapf.org/publications/

Media
The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw at TED, December 7, 2016. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o

“On Intersectionality,” Kimberlé Crenshaw's Keynote Speech at WOW 2016, sponsored by the Southbank Centre. URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW4HLgYPlA&t=872s

Kimberlé Crenshaw Discusses 'Intersectional Feminism,' Lafayette College. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROwquxC_Gxc

Kimberlé Crenshaw, "Race, Gender, Inequality and Intersectionality,” Brown University, February 27, 2015. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNKbGFoYC1Q

“AAPF Co-Founder Kimberlé Crenshaw,” PBS. The Tavis Smiley Show, February 26, 2015. URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/aapf-co-founder-kimberle-crenshaw/

Works by Kimberlé Crenshaw
“Why intersectionality can’t wait.” The Washington Post. September 24, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/24/why-intersectionality-cant-wait/

Critical Race theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. Published: May 1, 1996

Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment

The Race Track:Understanding and Challenging Structural Racism. Published: July 30, 2013

Reaffirming Racism:The faulty logic of Colorblindness, Remedy and Diversity. Published: June 4, 2013

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw. Expected Publication: August, 2017

Works by Luke Harris
“Black Girls Matter”: An Interview with Kimberle Crenshaw and Luke Harris. The Feminist Wire, 2015. http://www.thefeministwire.com/2015/02/black-girls-matter-an-interview-with-kimberle-crenshaw-and-luke-harris/

“We Need to be our Brother’s and Sister’s Keeper,” Black Press USA, 2014. http://www.blackpressusa.com/we-need-to-be-our-brothers-and-sisters-keeper/

Co-writer and chief consultant for the documentary A Question of Color, 1993 with Kathe Sandler. http://newsreel.org/video/A-QUESTION-OF-COLOR

“The Myth of Preferential Treatment: A Transformative Critique of the Terms of the Affirmative Action Debate” Luke C. Harris and Uma Narayan. Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1994.

“Rethinking the Terms of the Affirmative Action Debate Established in The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke Decision.” JAI Press Inc. Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 6, 1999.

“My Two Mothers, America, and the Million Man March,” 1999.

“Prologue: Brief of Amici Curiae on Behalf of Concerned Black Graduates of ABA Accredited Law Schools,” Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 2004.

“Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of Preferential Treatment” with Uma Narayan. Hugh LaFollette's Ethics in Practice, Blackwell Press (Oxford England), 3rd edition, 2006.

References

External links
AAPF Website

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List of British Turks

The following is a list of Turks in the United Kingdom

See also
Turks in the United Kingdom
Turks in London
List of British people

References

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Most Successful Turks (UK)

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