Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell (; born 15 April 1952) is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program.

As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, Ronell teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. She has written about such topics as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone; the structure of the test in legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, Zen, and historical domains; stupidity; the disappearance of authority; childhood; and deficiency. Ronell is a founding editor of the journal Qui Parle and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace.

An eleven-month investigation at New York University determined that Ronell sexually harassed a graduate student, and the university suspended her without pay for the 2018–2019 academic year.

Biography
Avital Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She emigrated to New York in 1956. She attended Rutgers Preparatory School and graduated in 1970. As a young immigrant, Ronell later stated, she frequently encountered xenophobia and anti-Semitism. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College, and subsequently studied with Jacob Taubes and Hans-Georg Gadamer at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin. She received her doctorate of philosophy in German studies at Princeton University in 1979, where her advisor was Stanley Corngold and her dissertation concerned self-reflection in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Franz Kafka. When she met Jacques Derrida at a symposium and he asked her name, she introduced herself as "Metaphysics", and he later wrote that he "found this little game rather clever." She subsequently studied with Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris. She went on to help introduce Derrida to American audiences by translating his essay on Kafka's "Before the Law", his essay on the law of gender/genre, his lectures on Nietzsche's relation to biography, and a number of other works. Ronell became a close friend of poet and novelist Pierre Alféri, who later influenced Ronell in the titling of several of her major works.

A professor at the University of Virginia for a short time period, Ronell claims she was fired because she taught continental philosophy and "went to the gym on a regular basis: [her] colleagues were shocked by this—it didn't correspond to their image of an academic woman!" She joined the comparative literature faculty at the University of California, Riverside and then at University of California, Berkeley where she taught with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy and Judith Butler. She was a close friend of the writer Kathy Acker and identified with Acker's fiction, saying they were "destined to each other." In 1996, she moved to New York University, where she co-taught a course with Jacques Derrida until 2004.

In 2009, the Centre Pompidou invited Ronell to hold an interview series with such artists and thinkers as Werner Herzog, Judith Butler, Dennis Cooper, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Suzanne Doppelt. Also in 2009, she began co-teaching courses with Slavoj Žižek. In 2010, François Noudelmann also co-taught with her, and co-curated the Walls and Bridges program with her in 2011.

Ronell served as Chair to the Division of Philosophy and Literature and to the Division of Comparative Literature at the Modern Language Association from 1993 to 1996, and gave a keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in 2012.

Overview of works
Ronell argues for "the necessity of the unintelligible." In an account of the 1992 Rodney King beating, Ronell argued that the idiom of the "perfectly clear" recurrently serves as a code for the white lie. Instead of referring to herself as the author of a text, she has sometimes described herself as a "signatory," "operator," or even "television." She sometimes focuses on thinkers who clean up after other thinkers, arguing that what she calls "sanitation departments" sometimes undermine the work they are tidying up after.

Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986)
Ronell investigates one of Goethe's most influential works, Conversations with Eckermann, which he did not write but instead dictated to a young schizoid companion, Johannes Peter Eckermann. Heralded by Nietzsche as "the best German book," Conversations with Eckermann contains Goethe's last thoughts about art, poetry, politics, religion, and the fate of German literature and philosophy. Ronell reads Conversations with Eckermann as a return from beyond the grave of the great master of German literature and science.

Ronell starts by exploring Goethe's focus on "a certain domain of immateriality—the nonsubstantializable apparitions ... [of] weather forecasting ... ghosts, dreams, and some forms of hidden, telepathic transmissions." Ronell renames the Goethe-effect what she calls "killer texts" and describes the effect as the textual machination destructive of values, of the "worthier (Werther, from The Sorrows of Young Werther)." The first part opens on Freud's debt to Goethe and reprints the frontispiece of The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Ronell names Goethe the "secret councilor (Geheimrat)" of Freud and already anticipates her work on the Rat Man in the third footnote where she alludes to the "suppository logic, inserting the vital element into the narrative of the other." In the first section Ronell aims to "attune [her] ears to the telepathic orders that Goethe's phantom transmitted to Freud by a remote control system.

In general, Dictations: On Haunted Writing traces the closure without end of influence's computation. Ronell's task entails a reading practice where the analysis of a text must investigate the endless movement towards closure in dictation. Ronell thus practices what is called anasemic reading, a practice developed by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, in which the psychoanalyst traces the textual metaphors, rhetorical structures, and linguistic associations of a writer/patient.

"Part Two" presents a case of literary parasitism between Eckermann and Goethe, and opens at the scene of Goethe's table in Weimar "the eleventh of September 1828, at two o'clock." In other words, Ronell re-imagines the scene that Eckermann illustrates at the beginning and ending of Conversations with Eckermann. Ronell starts to address the fiction of the writer as a particularly admirable human being and argues for the necessary passivity of the writer as a human being. Ronell also troubles the notion of a body of work as a totality. Ronell remaps earlier arguments about feminine appropriation in terms of writing, for Eckermann, which "involves recuperating something 'for myself,' for the most part instinctively; it entails repetitive acts of appropriation."

Dictations: On Haunted Writing explores how the work of writing in general adheres to a call dictated from elsewhere, a call formative of desire.

The Telephone Book: Technology — Schizophrenia — Electric Speech (1989)
Ronell questions the operations that such ordinary objects as the telephone and book dictate. She signs the text as the operator of the switchboard alongside Richard Eckersley, operator of design, and Michael Jensen, operator of compositor. Eckersley's design departs from his "typographic subtlety and restraint" towards a computer design, marked by new page-making software programs to interpret the text typographically. Eckersley dislodges the text from presumed conventional settings and shifts the focus of reading with inexplicable gaps, displacements between sentences and paragraphs, mirror imaging of pages facing one another, words blurred to the point of indecipherability, and a regular exaggeration of negative line spacing, spilling sentences over into each other. Pushing the limits of an ordinary "Table of Contents" or "Footnotes," the operators set up a "Directory Assistance," in which chapters appear as reference indexes, and a yellow pages entitled "Classified," in which footnotes appear as soliciting advertisements.

Following "A User's Manual," the text begins as if the reader answers a call: "And yet, you're saying yes, almost automatically, suddenly, sometimes irreversibly." Ronell makes clear that The Telephone Book is a philosophical project on questions concerning the telephone, the call, and the answering machines: "always incomplete, always unreachable, forever promising at once its essence and its existence, philosophy identifies itself finally with this promise, which is to say, with its own unreachability."

Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992)
Ronell takes as her point of departure Nietzsche's position that, as long as culture has existed, it has supported and inspired addiction. She develops an argument investigating destructive desires that coincide with the war on drugs and with the very addiction to drugs which the war claims to want to vanquish. The text intends to disturb simple comprehension of drugs on one side or another of a binary opposition.

Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium (1994)
Research assistant and friend, Shireen R.K. Patell, helped bring Finitude's Score to fruition. Finitude's Score collects a series of reflections on the fragile memory left at the close of the millennium. It looks into the projects responsible for devastating humanity and a thinking of the future. Ronell asks why the twentieth century stakes so much on a diction of deficiency. For Ronell, it says that, "we have been depleted." Ronell traces the relegitimization of war, the philosophical status of the rumor, the questionable force of the police, the test sites of technology, the corporeal policies of disease and a thoroughgoing reconstitution of the subject of law. In sum, Finitude's Score reads the desire to finish once and for all, to be done with issues definitively, as the everlasting legacy of the Western logos.

Reception
Ronell's work has been both praised and criticized. In 1994, the journal Diacritics published a special edition "On the Work of Avital Ronell", in which Jonathan Culler wrote: "Over the past decade, Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era ... Zeugmatically yoking the slang of pop culture with philosophical analysis, forcing the confrontation of high literature and technology or drug culture, Avital Ronell produces sentences that startle, irritate, illuminate. At once hilarious and refractory, her books are like no others." Judith Butler has said she feels deeply indebted to Ronell's influence on her work and wrote in an edited collection Reading Ronell: "The different path that Ronell takes is precisely the path of difference: gay, difficult, affirmative, ironic." The collection's editor Diane Davis highlighted the "singular provocation of Ronell's 'remarkable critical oeuvre,'" "the devastating insights, the unprecedented writing style, the relentless destabilizations." In the sixth session of The Beast and the Sovereign on February 6 of 2002, Jacques Derrida devoted special attention to Ronell's Stupidity and commends the untranslatable complexity of her "irony."

By contrast, in a 1990 review of The Telephone Book for the New York Times Book Review, novelist Robert Coover appreciated the "visual pyrotechnics" of the book's typography but found "the argument… to be that of a fairly conventional academic paper, recognizably party-lined with fashionable Continental voices like Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida," and found the connection that Ronell tried to establish between Heidegger, schizophrenia, and the telephone "weak." In a 2002 review of Stupidity for the Times Literary Supplement, philosopher Jonathan Rée said Ronell's "prose reads like a plodding translation of a French version of Heidegger, but there is hardly a sentence that does not try to stop the show to receive an ovation for its cleverness." Bernd Hüppauf (former chair of the German department at NYU who hired Ronell but was later replaced by her) similarly described her work as "translating incomprehensibility into pseudo-profundity."

Suspension and retaliation investigation
In September 2017, a student, later identified as her male former graduate student Nimrod Reitman, filed a complaint in New York University's Title IX office, accusing Ronell of sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking, and retaliation over the span of three years as her advisee. In May 2018, the university found Ronell responsible for sexual harassment and suspended her for the 2018–19 academic year. Ronell has not admitted any of the claims made in Reitman's complaint. On August 16, 2018, Reitman filed a lawsuit against Ronell and the university, alleging sexual harassment, sexual assault, and stalking.

A letter to NYU in defense of Ronell signed by major figures in the areas of feminism, philosophy, literature and history, including Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Scott and Jean-Luc Nancy, dated May 11, 2018, was leaked. The letter has been criticized for suggesting that Ronell should be excused on the basis of the significance of her academic contributions and for imputing a "malicious intention" to Reitman. The #MeToo movement came under scrutiny as prominent feminist scholars continued to support Ronell, despite the charges of sexual misconduct.  Butler later regretted some wording of the letter, while Žižek argues that Ronell's conducts are acts of eccentricity, rather than sexual harassments. Providing historical and institutional context, an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books argued that Ronell's inappropriate conduct was intimately linked to the power that she wields within the humanities as a "Theory star." The Chronicle of Higher Education published an essay by Andrea Long Chu describing her experiences as a teaching assistant for Ronell at NYU, stating that based on those experiences, she believes Reitman's allegations.

Ronell returned to teaching at NYU in the fall of 2019. Her course, "Unsettled Scores: Theories of Grievance, Stuckness, & Boundary Troubles" was advertised on campus with a flyer asking: "How have we secretly internalized penitentiary structures?" Ronell's return caused outcries from the student government at NYU.

Selected honors and awards
 1995–1996: University of California President's Fellowship
 1993: Research Fellow Award
 1991: American Cultures Fellowship
 1981–1983: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship

Publications (selected)

Books
 (2018) Complaint: Grievance among Friends
 (2012) Loser Sons: Politics and Authority ()
 (2010) Fighting Theory: In Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle () trans. by Catherine Porter from French
 (2010) Lignes de Front () trans. from English by Daniel Loayza
 (2008) The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell () (ed. Diane Davis)
 (2007) Life Extreme: An Illustrated Guide to New Life () co-authored by Eduardo Kac
 (2006) American philo: Entretiens avec Anne Dufourmantelle ()
 (2005) The Test Drive ()
 (2002) Stupidity ()
 (1994) Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium ()
 (1992) Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania ()
 (1989) The Telephone Book: Technology — Schizophrenia — Electric Speech ()
 (1986) Dictations: On Haunted Writing ()

References

Further reading
 Ed. Jonathan Culler, Vol. 24, No. 4, "Special Section: On the Work of Avital Ronell," (Winter 1994), The Johns Hopkins University Press.
 Diane Davis, "'Addicted to Love'; Or, Toward an Inessential Solidarity" in JAC 19, No. 4 (Fall 1999)
 Ed. Diane Davis, Reading Ronell, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009 :
 Ed. Diane Davis, The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009 :
 Mina Cheon, Shamanism + Cyberspace, New York: Atropos Press, 2009 :

External links

 Biography (archived) – Department of Comparative Literature at New York University
 Biography (archived) – European Graduate School
 Diane D. Davis. Avital Ronell Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech

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Doc DelCastillo

Doc DelCastillo is an American ice hockey coach. He has coached at varying levels of amateur and professional ice hockey as both an assistant and head coach, most recently for Hamline University.

Career statistics

Head coaching record

†Alaska was retroactively forced to forfeit all wins and ties due to player ineligibilities.

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Silas Pereira

Paulo Silas do Prado Pereira (born 27 August 1965), simply known as Paulo Silas, is a Brazilian retired footballer, who played as a central midfielder, and is a manager.

Club career
During his playing career from 1984 to 2003 he played in Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay, Argentina, Japan and Italy at São Paulo, Sport Club Internacional, Vasco da Gama, Atlético Paranaense, Rio Branco (SP), Ituano, América (MG), Portuguesa, Internacional de Limeira, Sporting Lisbon, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Central Español, Kyoto Purple Sanga, A.C. Cesena and U.C. Sampdoria.

International career
With the Brazilian Youth Team, Silas won the Adidas Golden Ball at 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship, and with the senior team he played 38 matches (34 official), from March 1986 to December 1992, and participated in the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups.

Coaching career
On 7 December 2009, chairman Duda Kroeff introduced the 44-year-old as the new manager of Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense. According to club director Luis Onofre Meira, "Silas is the manager we need for our team – young, but still an expert with many victories in his career. In fact, he was the best manager in 2009.

On 19 March 2012, 46-year-old Paulo Silas replaced Bruno Metsu as Al Gharafa new coach.

Silas led Al Gharafa to win the 2012 Emir of Qatar Cup on 12 May after they defeated Al Sadd on penalties. On 27 November 2012, he was sacked by Al-Gharafa after a 5–1 loss to Al-Rayyan.

Personal life
Silas was born to Geni and Alberto Pereira in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. He has a twin brother, Paulo Antonio, they are the youngest in a family of nine. Geni, their mother died when the boys were only three years old. The oldest sister Raquel Pereira Carvalho, an accountant, took them under her wings and raised them. The nine of them are all married, and each have at least two children. Paulo Silas has three: Nathan, Carole, and Calebe. After living in Japan, the family moved back to Brazil where Paulo Silas is coaching a professional soccer team. His son Nathan Grippe Pereira, hopes to follow in his father's foot steps and become a professional soccer player.

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Club

International

Honours

Managerial
Al-Arabi
Sheikh Jassem Cup: 2011

Al-Gharafa
Emir of Qatar Cup: 2012

Ceará
Copa do Nordeste: 2015

References

External links

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 Pelé.net - Entrevista

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Zilpha Grant

Zilpha Grant (29 July 1919 – 31 January 2011), later known by her married name Zilpha Wheelton, was an English freestyle swimmer who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

She was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.

In 1936 she was a member of the British relay team which finished sixth in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay event. In the 100-metre freestyle competition she was eliminated in the first round.

At the 1938 Empire Games she was a member of the English relay team which won the bronze medal in the 4×110-yard freestyle contest.

External links
Zilpha Grant's profile at Sports Reference.com
Zilpha Grant's obituary

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Facheiroa cephaliomelana

Facheiroa cephaliomelana is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae.

Distribution
It is endemic to Brazil.   in south-central and south-western Bahia and central-northern Minas Gerais states.

This species is found at 550 –750 m in elevation. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.

It is an IUCN Red List Vulnerable species, threatened by habitat loss.

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Swan Reach, South Australia

Swan Reach is a river port in South Australia 127 km north-east of Adelaide on the Murray River between Blanchetown and Mannum in South Australia. It is on the left (or east) bank of the river. The Swan Reach Ferry is a cable ferry crossing operated by the state government as part of the state's road network. Swan Reach, with all parts below Lock #1, is also one of the lowest parts of the river. It is currently (2009–2010) about 1.5 metres below its normal level. At the , Swan Reach had a population of 283.

History
Swan Reach was first settled in the 1850s and was originally the largest of five sheep and cattle stations in the area. It soon became one of the first riverboat ports in South Australia and was a loading port for grain and wool.

Around the town
Swan Reach has an area school, hotel and bottle shop, general store and post office, an op shop that opens Mondays to Fridays and Saturday mornings, and a fast food take-away shop near the ferry. The tourist boat Proud Mary and paddle-wheeler PS Murray Princess stop at the town once a week. There is a Lutheran church, with regular services, and a Lutheran pastor in residence. Anglican and Roman Catholic services are held monthly.  Tourism, agriculture and irrigated horticulture are the main industries, and there is a large almond processing plant 1.5 km from town on the Stott Highway.

See also
 List of crossings of the Murray River

Notes and references

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 Swan Reach Area School
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Yvonne Littlewood

Yvonne Littlewood MBE (born July 1927) is a former British television director and producer. Born in Maidstone, Kent, her career extended over three decades. As a child, she briefly moved to King's Lynn, Norfolk, before going to Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, where she was schooled. Her father was a bank accountant in the town, and both her parents were members of the Ross Operatic and Dramatic Society. She was sent for dancing lessons at May Hatton's Academy in Hereford, and took her exams at The Royal Academy.

Littlewood began to work for the BBC in 1944 as a typist in Portland Place, rising to business secretary, and then took a pay cut to work as a production secretary for a producer around the age of 20 at Alexandra Palace, then the base of BBC Television, intending to become one herself. She was later the first female producer in BBC light entertainment, in 1963 she directed the Eurovision Song Contest, which was broadcast live from BBC Television Centre in London. Around the same time she was involved in starting the Jazz 625 series for BBC 2, although she was not the series regular producer.

Littlewood is best known for producing and directing light entertainment shows for the BBC. These include series featuring Petula Clark and Nana Mouskouri, but her longest association was with The Val Doonican Music Show.

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Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline   is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston. Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury. The city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline.

At the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732. It is the most populous municipality in Massachusetts to have a town (rather than city) form of government.

Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston, but was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.

Brookline was the birthplace and hometown of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.

History

Once part of Algonquian territory, Brookline was first settled by European colonists in the early 17th century. The area was an outlying part of the colonial settlement of Boston and known as the hamlet of Muddy River. In 1705, it was incorporated as the independent town of Brookline. The northern and southern borders of the town were marked by two small rivers or brooks, hence the name. The northern border with Brighton (which was itself part of Cambridge until 1807) was Smelt Brook. (That name appears on maps starting at least as early as 1852, but sometime between 1888 and 1925 the brook was covered over.) The southern boundary, abutting Boston, was the Muddy River.

The Town of Brighton was merged with Boston in 1874, and the Boston-Brookline border was redrawn to connect the new Back Bay neighborhood with Allston-Brighton. This merger created a narrow strip of land along the Charles River belonging to Boston, cutting Brookline off from the shoreline. It also put certain lands north of the Muddy River on the Boston side, including what are now Kenmore Square and Packard's Corner. The current northern border follows Commonwealth Avenue, and on the northeast, St. Mary's Street. When Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Emerald Necklace of parks and parkways for Boston in the 1890s, the Muddy River was integrated into the Riverway and Olmsted Park, creating parkland accessible by both Boston and Brookline residents.

Throughout its history, Brookline has resisted being annexed by Boston, in particular during the Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873. The neighboring towns of West Roxbury and Hyde Park connected Brookline to the rest of Norfolk County until they were annexed by Boston in 1874 and 1912, respectively, putting them in Suffolk County. Brookline is now separated from the remainder of Norfolk County.

Brookline has long been regarded as a pleasant and verdant environment. In the 1841 edition of the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Andrew Jackson Downing described the area this way:

Brookline residents were among the first in the country to propose extending the vote to women. Benjamin F. Butler, in his 1882 campaign for Governor, advocated the idea.

Transportation history
Two branches of upper Boston Post Road, established in the 1670s, passed through Brookline. Brookline Village was the original center of retail activity. In 1810, the Boston and Worcester Turnpike, now Massachusetts Route 9, was laid out, starting on Huntington Avenue in Boston and passing through the village center on its way west.

Steam railroads came to Brookline in the middle of the 19th century. The Boston and Worcester Railroad was constructed in the early 1830s, and passed through Brookline near the Charles River. The rail line is still in active use, now paralleled by the Massachusetts Turnpike. The Highland Branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad was built from Kenmore Square to Brookline Village in 1847, and was extended into Newton in 1852. In the late 1950s, this would become the Green Line "D" Branch.

The portion of Beacon Street west of Kenmore Square was laid out in 1850.  Streetcar tracks were laid above ground on Beacon Street in 1888, from Coolidge Corner to Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, via Kenmore Square.  In 1889, they were electrified and extended over the Brighton border at Cleveland Circle. They would eventually become the Green Line "C" Branch.

Thanks to the Boston Elevated Railway system, this upgrade from horse-drawn carriage to electric trolleys occurred on many major streets all over the region, and made transportation into downtown Boston faster and cheaper. Much of Brookline was developed into a streetcar suburb, with large brick apartment buildings sprouting up along the new streetcar lines.

Etymology
Brookline was known as the hamlet of Muddy River and was considered part of Boston until the Town of Brookline was independently incorporated in 1705.  (The Muddy River was used as the Brookline–Boston border at incorporation.) It is said that the name derives from a farm therein once owned by Judge Samuel Sewall.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, Brookline has a total area of , all but  (0.44%) of which is land.

The northern part of Brookline, roughly north of the D-line tracks, is urban in character, as highly walkable and transit rich. The population density of this part of town is nearly , on a par with the densest neighborhoods in nearby Cambridge, Somerville and Chelsea, Massachusetts (the densest cities in New England), and just below that of central Boston's residential districts (Back Bay, South End, Fenway, etc.).  The overall density of Brookline, which also includes suburban districts and grand estates south of the D-line, is still higher than that of many of the largest cities in the United States, especially in the South and West.  Brookline borders Newton (part of Middlesex County) to the west and Boston (part of Suffolk County) in all other directions; it is therefore non-contiguous with any other part of Norfolk County.  Brookline became an exclave in 1873, when the neighboring town of West Roxbury was annexed by Boston (and left Norfolk County to join Suffolk County), and Brookline refused to be annexed by Boston after the Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873.

Brookline separates the bulk of the city of Boston (except for a narrow neck or corridor near the Charles River) from its westernmost neighborhoods of Allston–Brighton, which had been the separate town of Brighton until annexed by Boston in 1873.

Neighborhoods

There are many neighborhood associations, some of which overlap.

Neighborhoods, squares, & notable areas of Brookline include:

 Aspinwall Hill
 Beaconsfield
 Brookline Hills
 Brookline Village
 Buttonwood Village
 Brookline High School, Near Pierce District
 Chestnut Hill, which also extends into Newton and the Boston neighborhoods of West Roxbury and Brighton
 Cleveland Circle, which also extends into Brighton and up towards Boston College
 Coolidge Corner
 Corey Farm
 Corey Hill
 Cottage Farm
 Fisher Hill
 Jamaica Pond
 JFK Crossing
 Larz Anderson Park, up next to Moss Hill, part of Jamaica Plain, MA
 Longwood (across the Muddy River from the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston)
 North Brookline
 Pill Hill (also known as "High Street Hill")
 The Point (originally "Whiskey Point")
 Putterham Circle (South Brookline)
 The Runkle District
 South Brookline ("Sobro")
 Saint Mary
 The Heights (just west of Washington Square)
 Washington Square

Climate
The climate of Brookline is Humid continental Dfa.

Brookline falls under the USDA 6b Plant Hardiness zone.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 58,732 people, 24,891 households, and 12,233 families residing in the town. The population density was 8,701.0 people per square mile (3,247.3/km²). There were 26,448 housing units at an average density of 3,889.6 per square mile (1,501.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 73.3% White, 3.4% Black or African American, 0.12% Native American, 15.6% Asian (6.7% Chinese, 2.6% Indian, 2.3% Korean, 1.8% Japanese), 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.01% from other races, and 3.0% from two or more races.  Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.0% of the population (0.9% Mexican, 0.8% Puerto Rican). (Source: 2010 Census Quickfacts)

There were 25,594 households out of which 21.9% had children under the age of 18, living with them, 38.4% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 52.2% were non-families. 36.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.86.

In the town, the population was spread out with 16.6% under the age of 18, 11.7%, from 18 to 24, 37.3% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $66,711, and the median income for a family was $92,993. Males had a median income of $56,861 versus $43,436 for females. The per capita income for the town was $44,327.  About 4.5% of families and 9.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.3% of those under the age of 18 and 7.5% of those ages 65 and older.

Serving as a residential zone for nearby academic and medical institutes such as Harvard Medical School and Boston University, the town of Brookline was reported as the city with the most doctoral degree holders (14.0% of the total population) in the United States.

Arts and culture
 Brookline, along with the nearby Boston neighborhood of Brighton and the city of Newton, is a cultural hub for the Jewish community of Greater Boston.

 The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Metropolis of Boston is headquartered in Brookline.
 Brookline Village is home to Puppet Showplace Theater, New England's only dedicated puppet theater and center for puppetry arts. The theater is located in the historic 32 Station Street building directly across from the Brookline Village MBTA Green Line stop.
 There have been three Poet Laureates of Brookline: Judith Steinbergh, Jan Schreiber, and, currently, Zvi Sesling.

Points of interest

The following historic buildings are open to the public:
 The birthplace of John F. Kennedy stands in Brookline and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is maintained by the National Park Service and is open to the public from May through September.
 "Fairsted", the 100-year-old business headquarters and design office for renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and the Olmsted Brothers firm, has been carefully preserved as the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, on  of landscaped grounds at 99 Warren Street.
 John Goddard House, an historic house at 235 Goddard Avenue, was built in 1767 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
 Larz Anderson Park is in Brookline on the  estate once owned by Larz Anderson and Isabel Weld Perkins. The park contains the Larz Anderson Auto Museum, the oldest automobile collection in the country, as well as Putterham School, a one-room schoolhouse from colonial times.

Other historic and cultural sites include:
 St. Aidan's Church was where John F. Kennedy was baptized and where the Kennedy family and other prominent Irish-Americans were parishioners. The church was designed by architect Charles Maginnis, who was awarded the American Institute of Architects' gold medal. Although it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, St. Aidan's Church has been closed and converted into housing.
 The Dutch House, one of only five surviving buildings from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was relocated to Brookline.
 There were two stops on the Underground Railroad in Brookline: 9 Toxteth Street and 182 Walnut Street.
 The Country Club, an exclusive sporting club in the town, was the first private club in the United States formed exclusively for outdoor activities. It is most famous as a golf club; it was one of the five clubs that formed what is now the United States Golf Association and has hosted the U.S. Open three times and the Ryder Cup Matches once.
 Coolidge Corner, which is located at the crossing of Beacon Street and Harvard Street, is one of Brookline's two primary retail districts (the other being Washington Square). It includes a number of historically significant sites, including the S.S. Pierce Building, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
 Brookline is home to part of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace of park systems, including Olmsted Park.
 The Puppet Showplace Theatre, one of the four oldest puppet theatres in the United States, is located in Brookline Village.

Government
Brookline is governed by a representative (elected) town meeting, which is the legislative body of the town, and a five-person Select Board that serves as the executive branch of the town.

In 2017, a Brookline Town Meeting voted to recognize Indigenous People's Day instead of Columbus Day.

Education

Public schools
The town is served by the Public Schools of Brookline. The student body at Brookline High School includes students from more than 76 countries. Many students attend Brookline High from surrounding neighborhoods in Boston such as Mission Hill and Mattapan through the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) system.

There are eight elementary schools in the Brookline Public School system: Baker School, Coolidge Corner School, Driscoll, Heath, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pierce, and Runkle. As of December 2006, there were 6,089 K-12 students enrolled in the Brookline public schools. The system includes one early learning center, eight grades K-8 schools, and one comprehensive high school. The Old Lincoln School is a surplus building used by the town to temporarily teach students in when another school building is being renovated. It was rented in 2009 as the venue for the play Sleep No More.

The student body is 57.4% White, 18.1% Asian, 6.4% Black, 9.9% Hispanic, and 8.2% Multi-race. Approximately 30% of students come from homes where English is not the first language. (Data from Massachusetts department of education 2012–2013 Year)

Private schools
Several private primary and secondary schools are located in Brookline.

 Beaver Country Day School
 Brimmer and May School - partly in Newton
 Dexter Southfield School
 Ivy Street School
 Maimonides School
 The Park School
 Saint Mary of the Assumption School

 Mount Alvernia Academy (Chestnut Hill)

Higher education
Several institutes of higher education are located in Brookline.

 Pine Manor College
 Hellenic College & Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
 Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

Also, parts of the following are located in Brookline: Boston University including Wheelock College, Boston College, and Northeastern University's Parsons Field.

Newbury College closed in 2019.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Light rail and subway
Brookline is served by the C and D branches of the MBTA's Green Line trains, with inbound service to downtown Boston and outbound service to Newton. The B line runs along the town's northern border of Commonwealth Avenue in Allston.

Bus
Brookline is served by several MBTA bus routes.

Public libraries
 Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington St., Brookline, MA 02445
 Coolidge Corner Branch Library, 31 Pleasant St., Brookline, MA 02446
 Putterham Branch Library, 959 West Roxbury Pkwy., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Fire department
The town of Brookline is protected full-time by the 158 paid, professional firefighters of the Brookline Fire Department (BFD). It currently operates out of five fire stations located throughout the town, under the command of a Deputy Chief per shift. The BFD also operates a fire apparatus fleet of four engines, two ladders, one quint, one cross-staffed rescue (special operations), two squads, one special operations unit, one decontamination trailer, two maintenance units, as well as numerous other special, support, and reserve units. The Brookline Fire Department responds to approximately 6,500 emergency calls annually. The current Chief of Department is John F. Sullivan.

Cemeteries
 The Old Burying Ground, also known as Walnut Street Cemetery  1717 - 1.54 acres (Walnut Street at Chestnut Street)
 Walnut Hills Cemetery  1875 - 45.26 acres (Grove Street and Allandale Road)

Notable people

 Jeff Adrien (born 1986), University of Connecticut Huskies basketball captain and power forward
 Bhumibol Adulyadej, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX) of Thailand lived his infancy in Brookline while his father the prince studied at Harvard Medical School
 Eddie Andelman, sports radio host and businessman, moved to Brookline as child, graduated from Brookline High
 Larz Anderson, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
 Ray Atherton, first U.S. Ambassador to Canada, born and raised in Brookline
 Linda Barnes, novelist
 Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, lived the last 12 years of his life in Brookline
 Larry Bird, professional basketball player, lived in Brookline while he played for the Boston Celtics
 Ran Blake, jazz pianist and composer
 Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City 2002-12, lived in Brookline as a child
Marita Bonner (1899-1971), writer, essayist, and playwright
 Zabdiel Boylston, physician who introduced inoculation against smallpox to the North American colonies in 1721
 Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback and husband of Gisele Bündchen
 Gisele Bündchen, supermodel and wife of Tom Brady
 Richard Burgin, author, editor of Boulevard (magazine)
 Michael A. Burstein, science-fiction writer
 Stanley Cavell (born 1926), professor of philosophy, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship
 Herman Chernoff (born 1923), statistician
 Ida Conquest, actress
 Zach Cone, creator and player of Biker Boy
 Harvey Cushing, "father of modern neurosurgery"
Thomas Aspinwall Davis (1798-1845), businessman and mayor of Boston
 Michael Dukakis (born 1933), former Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate
 Adam Edelman (born 1991), American-born four-time Israeli National Champion in skeleton event, and Israeli Olympian
 Theo Epstein (born 1973), Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations and former Boston Red Sox general manager
 Hank Eskin, webmaster of Where's George?
 Alice Ettinger, radiologist
 Frederick Perry Fish (1855–1930), pioneering intellectual property attorney
 Kenny Florian, professional mixed martial artist
 Terry Francona, former manager of the Boston Red Sox
 Edward Fredkin, digital physics pioneer, inventor of the trie data structure, the Fredkin gate and the Billiard-Ball Computer Model for reversible computing
 Irwin Freedberg, dermatologist
 Peter Gammons, baseball writer and ESPN commentator
 King Gillette, popularizer of the safety razor
 Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
 Robert R. Glauber, Harvard faculty, former Chairman of NASD
 Robert Goldwyn (1930–2010), editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 25 years, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital
 Ellen Goodman (born 1941), American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist
 Minnie Goodnow (1871-1952), WWI nurse and nurse educator
Roland Hayes (1887-1977), lyric tenor and composer
 John Hodgman (born 1971), author and contributor for This American Life and The Daily Show
 Sybil Holmes (1889–1979), first female member of the Massachusetts Senate
 Levi Yitzchak Horowitz (1921–2009), the Bostoner Rebbe
 Isabella Howland (1895–1974), painter and sculptor
 Richard Jones, US ambassador to Israel, lived in Brookline with his family
 Victor Kac, (born 1943), mathematician, MIT faculty, creator of Kac-Moody algebras, creator of Superalgebra
 Jeffrey Karp, biomedical researcher
 John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), 35th President of the United States (1961–63), born and lived first 10 years of his life in Brookline
 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, (1921–2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, (1924–2006), sister of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
 Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), Attorney General, US Senator, brother of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
 Jean Kennedy Smith (born 1928), sister of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
 Louise Andrews Kent (1886–1969), author
 Robert Kraft (born 1941), New England Patriots owner
 Jon Krakauer (born 1954, raised in Corvallis, Oregon), author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, columnist for Outside magazine
 Louis Krasner (1903-1995), American violinist
 Michio and Aveline Kushi, leaders of the worldwide macrobiotic movement
Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886), merchant and abolitionist
 Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), former president of Harvard University
 Lester Lefton, president of Kent State University
 Tony Levin (born 1946), musician
 Amy Lowell (born 1874), poet
 Eddie Lowery (1903–1984), 10-year-old caddie of Francis Ouimet during 1913 U.S. Open held in Brookline
 Larry Lucchino (born 1945), co-owner of Boston Red Sox
 Ananda Mahidol, His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol (King Rama VIII) of Thailand, lived during age 1–3 years in Brookline while his father the prince studied at Harvard Medical School
 Albert and David Maysles, documentary filmmakers
 Arthur Chute McGill (1926–1980), theologian, philosopher, author and editor, Harvard professor 1971-80
 Joey McIntyre, youngest member of musical group New Kids on the Block, lived in Brookline
 Henry J. Meade, Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
 Jean Baker Miller (1927–2006), psychoanalyst, feminist, author, social activist
 Roger Miller, rock musician
 George Minot (1885–1950), winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), Artificial Intelligence theorist, inventor, author, professor
 Abelardo Morell (born 1948), photographer, professor at Massachusetts College of Art
 William Murphy (1892–1987), winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 Nicholas Nixon, photographer, professor at Massachusetts College of Art
 Joel Mark Noe (1943–1991), pioneering reconstructive plastic surgeon, longtime resident
 Conan O'Brien (born 1963), television host, comedian, writer, producer
 Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), landscape architect
 Francis Ouimet (1893–1967), amateur golfer who won the U.S. Open in 1913
 Edith Pearlman (born 1936), short story writer
 Paul Pender (1930–2003), boxer, middleweight champion
 Esther Petrack, contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 15
 Henry Varnum Poor, creator of the Standard & Poor's Index
 Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., neurosurgeon and author
 Norman Ramsey (1915–2011), winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
 Rishi Reddi, short story writer
 Elliot Richardson, lieutenant governor and attorney general of Massachusetts, cabinet official in the Nixon and Ford administrations, ambassador and lawyer
Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861-1943), civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor
 Steve Rochinski (born 1954), jazz guitarist, recording artist, composer, arranger, author, jazz educator
John Rock (1890-1984), pioneer in the development of in vitro fertilization and the birth control pill
 Neil Rolde (born 1932), writer and Maine politician
 David L. Rose (born 1967), tech entrepreneur and scientist at the MIT Media Lab
 Dan Rosenthal (born 1966), Assistant to the President in White House under Bill Clinton
 Larry Ruttman (born 1931), attorney and author
 Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), composer, lived at 1280 Beacon Street during the 1930s
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730), judge in the Salem witch trials
 Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927), first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum
 Conrad Salinger (1901–1962), longtime orchestrator for MGM musicals
 Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), noted Jewish scholar
 Sarah Smith (born 1947), novelist
 Lawrence Summers, economist, president of Harvard University 2001–06
 Paul Szep (born 1941), two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
 James Taylor, musician, owns a home in Brookline
 Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), actress who played Justine Phillips on The Cosby Show and Myra Monkhouse on Family Matters
 Mike Wallace (1918–2012), TV journalist, best known for 60 Minutes
 Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations, Harvard University
 Barbara Walters (born 1929), television commentator and journalist
 Robert Weinberg, cancer researcher known for discovering a gene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the first tumor suppressor gene
 David Weinberger, blogger, internet expert, and political consultant
 The Weld family
 William A. Wellman (born 1896 in Brookline), director, Wings
 Mikey Welsh, former bassist for rock band Weezer, moved to Brookline in his youth
Henry Melville Whitney (1839-1923), businessman and developer of the Beacon Street boulevard
James Scollay Whitney (1811-1878), businessman and politician
John Woodrow Wilson (1922-2015), lithographer, sculptor, painter, muralist, and art teacher
 Gary K. Wolf, author, creator of Roger Rabbit
 Moshe Yanai, electrical engineer and entrepreneur

In popular culture

In film
 Scenes from American Hustle (2013) were filmed in Brookline.
 Scenes from The Next Karate Kid (1993) were filmed in Brookline.

In television
 June Osborne / Offred, the protagonist of The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present), is from Brookline.

Sister cities
Brookline is twinned with:
  Quezalguaque, Nicaragua (since 1987)
Also included under the two sister cities for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Hokkaidō, Japan (since 1990). Basel-Stadt, Switzerland.

See also
 Greater Boston
 European beech in the Longwood Mall
 Metropolitan area
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts
 Representative town meeting format

References

Further reading
 Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed. Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts  (University of Massachusetts Press; 2012) 384 pages; Discusses Brookline as a laboratory for Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
 Larry Ruttman. Voices of Brookine (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC, 2005). Oral history with chapters on more than 60 notable Brookline residents. Foreword by Michael Dukakis.

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Implantation

Implantation may refer to:

 Implantation (human embryo), in which the human embryo adheres to the wall of the uterus
 Implant (medicine), insertion of implants
 Endometrial transplantation, as part of the theory of retrograde menstruation in endometriosis
 Ion implantation, insertion of ions, in semiconductor device fabrication
 Implantation bleeding
 Implantation of tooth
 Implantation rate
 Implantation spotting

See also
Implant (disambiguation)


Cuzco (Madrid Metro)

Cuzco is a station on Line 10 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in fare Zone A.

References

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Melvin and Howard

Melvin and Howard (stylized as Melvin (and Howard)) is a 1980 American comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. A novelization of Goldman's script later was written by George Gipe. The film starred Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards and, in an Academy Award-winning performance, Mary Steenburgen.

Plot
In the opening scene, Howard Hughes loses control of his motorcycle and crashes in the Nevada desert. That night, he is discovered lying on the side of a stretch of U.S. Highway 95 when Melvin Dummar stops his pickup truck so he can relieve himself. The disheveled stranger, refusing to allow Melvin to take him to the hospital, asks him to instead drive him to Las Vegas, Nevada. En route, the two engage in stilted conversation until Dummar cajoles his passenger into joining him in singing a Christmas song he wrote. Hughes then suggests they sing his favorite song "Bye Bye Blackbird", and they do. The man warms to his rescuer and  he is dropped off at the Desert Inn (which Hughes owns and therein resides) without revealing his identity as the reclusive billionaire.

Most of the remainder of the film focuses on Melvin's scattered, up-and-down life, his spendthrift, trust-in-luck nature, his rocky marital life with first wife Lynda, and his more stable relationship with second wife Bonnie. Lynda leaves him and their daughter to dance in a sleazy strip club, but eventually returns, but she remains frustrated by her husband's futile efforts to achieve the American dream. Melvin convinces her to appear on Easy Street, a game show hybrid of The Gong Show and Let's Make a Deal, and although her tapdancing initially is booed by the audience, she wins them over and nabs the top prize of living room furniture, a piano, and $10,000 cash.

Melvin agrees to invest in an affordable house in a new development, but while Lynda tries to keep their finances under control, he rashly buys a new car and a boat, prompting her to take their daughter and toddler son and sue for divorce. Melvin is comforted by Bonnie, the payroll clerk at the dairy where he drives a truck, and the two eventually wed and move to Utah, where they take over the operation of a service station her relatives had owned.

One day, a mysterious man in a limousine stops at the station ostensibly to buy a pack of cigarettes, but after he drives off Melvin discovers an envelope marked "Last Will and Testament of Howard Hughes" on his office desk. Afraid to open it, he takes it to Mormon headquarters and secrets it in a pile of incoming mail.  It doesn't take long for the media to descend upon him and his family, and eventually Melvin finds himself in court, admitting he once met Hughes but vigorously denying he forged the will that finally fulfills his dreams.

Principal cast
Paul Le Mat as Melvin Dummar
Mary Steenburgen as Lynda West Dummar, Melvin's first wife
Pamela Reed as Bonnie Bonneau Dummar, Melvin's second wife
Michael J. Pollard as Little Red
Jack Kehoe as Jim Delgado
Rick Lenz as Lawyer
Dabney Coleman as Judge Keith Hayes
Charles Napier as Ventura
Jason Robards as Howard Hughes

The real Melvin Dummar has a cameo appearance as a man behind a bus depot counter.

Production
Parts of the film were shot in Salt Lake City and Willard, Utah as well as Las Vegas, Nevada.

Critical reception
In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film a "sharp, engaging, very funny, anxious comedy" and commented, "Mr. Demme is a lyrical film maker for whom there is purpose in style...Melvin and Howard is commercial American movie-making of a most expansive, entertaining kind."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as "wonderful" and added, "This is a slice of American life. It shows the flip side of Gary Gilmore's Utah. It is a world of mobile homes, Pop Tarts, dust, kids and dreams of glory. It's pretty clear how this movie got made. Hollywood started with the notion that the story of the mysterious Hughes will might make a good courtroom thriller. Well, maybe it would have. But my hunch is that when they met Dummar, they had the good sense to realize that they could get a better – and certainly a funnier – story out of what happened to him between the day he met Hughes and the day the will was discovered. Dummar is the kind of guy who thinks they oughta make a movie out of his life. This time, he was right."

Variety said, "Jonathan Demme's tour-de-force direction, the imaginative screenplay and top-drawer performances from a huge cast fuse in an unusual, original creation."

Pauline Kael gave the film a very positive review in The New Yorker: "Jonathan Demme's lyrical comedy Melvin and Howard which opened the New York Film Festival on September 26, is an almost flawless act of sympathetic imagination. I doubt if Jason Robards has ever been greater than he is here. Mary Steenburgen's Lynda Dummar has a soft mouth and a tantalizing slender wiggliness, and she talks directly to whomever she's talking to – when she listens, she's the kind of woman a man wants to tell more to. Demme shows perhaps a finer understanding of lower-middle-class life than any other American director."

Melvin and Howard currently holds a 90% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews.

Dennis Bingham's Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre cites Melvin and Howard as the first film in the subgenre "biopic of someone undeserving," or "BOSUD," which was later popularized by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski with Ed Wood, Man on the Moon, The People vs. Larry Flynt, and Auto Focus.

Paul Thomas Anderson has cited the film as one of his favorites. Robert Ridgely, who played the host of the fictional "Easy Street" game show in this movie, would later be cast as Colonel James in Anderson's Boogie Nights. Shots in his 2012 feature The Master recall this movie's cinematography.

The comedy show SCTV parodied the film in a sketch called "Melvin and Howards". Melvin (Rick Moranis), after picking up Howard Hughes (Joe Flaherty), also picks up Howard Cosell (Eugene Levy), Congressman Howard Baker (Dave Thomas), and Curly Howard (John Candy).

Awards and nominations
The film won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film of 1980.

Mary Steenburgen won several awards for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Jason Robards was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and was honored by the Boston critics.

Bo Goldman won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay.

Paul Le Mat was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical.

See also

 List of American films of 1980
 The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)

References

External links

 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Melvin and Howard

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Siege of Diriyah

The Destruction of Diriyah took place in late 1818 at the end of the Wahhabi War of 1811–18 during the Nejd Expedition. When the forces of Ibrahim Pasha had reached Diriyah, Abdullah I tried to defend his capital with a weak army. After a siege of several months Abdullah surrendered to the Ottomans on September 9. Abdullah was made prisoner and with his treasurer and secretary was taken to Cairo. Later Abdullah was sent to Istanbul, where, in spite of Ibrahim's promise of safety and of Mohammad Ali's intercession in his favor, he was put to death. At the close of the year 1819 Ibrahim returned to Cairo, having subdued all opposition in the Arabian Peninsula, ending the Ottoman–Saudi War, and starting his duty with the Ottomans against the Greek Revolt.

External links
 Diriyah official website

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Lake Laberge

Lake Laberge is a widening of the Yukon River north of Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada. It is fifty kilometres long and ranges from two to five kilometres wide. Its water is always very cold, and its weather often harsh and suddenly variable.

History and description
The local Southern Tutchone called it Tàa'an Män, Tagish knew it as Kluk-tas-si, and the Tlingit as Tahini-wud. Its English name comes from 1870 commemorating Michel LaBerge (1836–1909) -  born in Chateauguay, Quebec, the first French-Canadian to explore the Yukon in 1866. It was well-known to prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, as they would pass Lake Laberge on their way down the Yukon River to Dawson City. Jack London's Grit of Women (1900) and The Call of the Wild (1903), and Robert W. Service's poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (1907) mention the lake. (Service altered the name to "Lebarge" to rhyme with "marge.")

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after-winter steamers carrying goods on Lake Laberge early on in the shipping season regarded the lake as trouble, since it was one of the last such passages to thaw its ice. At least two methods were employed to break the ice up:

Method 1. Allow a surging gout of water to be released from the control dam below Marsh Lake, thereby expanding the lake waters suddenly below the surface of the ice, forcing cracks for the water to burble up through, or

Method 2. Smear an abundant quantity of expended crankcase oil along the lake's icy length, causing it to melt by increasing the sun's warming effect.

A sign posted in 1999 at Lake Laberge's camping area issued strong cautions against eating the livers of burbot, and counseled against the consumption of lake trout more than twice a month per individual. Both warnings are due to toxaphene contamination, resulting from global pesticide use and overfishing in Lake Laberge which resulted in changes to its typical food chain.

In spring 2009, researchers found the A. J. Goddard, a Gold Rush sternwheeler that sunk in 1901, killing three of its crew. Underwater archaeologists are examining the ship. National Geographic has named it the top archeological find of 2009. The Yukon government has designated the shipwreck a historic site. A phonograph with three records was discovered, giving insight into songs being listened to during the Gold Rush.

References and notes

External links

 Lake Laberge at Natural Resources Canada
 latimes.com

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List of equipment of the Royal Danish Army

This is a list of currently in service equipment of the Royal Danish Army.

General issued weapons and related equipment
Bayonet, field knife, and entrenching tool

Infantry weapons

All rifles, carbines, submachine guns and machine guns issued to conscripts as well as regular personnel are equipped with either a C79 optical sight or an Aimpoint CompM4 to allow the soldier to attach his night vision goggles to optic sight.

Infantry grenade launchers and ammo
 GRK M/03 40 mm (Colt Canada M203A1)
 GRK M/10 40 mm (Lewis Machine and Tool M203 grenade launcher)
 Brisantgranatpatron M/96 (High Explosive Round)
 Brisantgranatpatron DM101A2 (LV HE Frag Grenade)
 Hulladningsgranatpatron M/96 (High Explosive Dual Purpose)
 Øvelsesgranat (Practice Round)
 Rubber Buckshot Round (25 rubber balls for riot control)

Grenades and mines
 Håndgranat M/54 (540 grams fragmentation hand grenade)
 Røghåndgranat M/57 (phosphor based grenade)
 Røghåndbombe M/77 (phosphor based grenade)
 Røghåndbombe M/93 (phosphor based grenade)
 M/05 Flashbang device
 M/05 Sting hand grenade
 M/05 CS gas hand grenade
 Alarmmine M/87 (Alarm mine, pyrotechnics)
 Alarmblus M/62 (Alarm mine, pyrotechnics)

Uniforms, personal load-carrying equipment, and personal protection equipment

 Uniformssystem M/84, Standard uniform system in Danish M/84 camouflage
 Let Kampuniform M/01, light standard uniform system in Danish M/84 camouflage
 Ørken Kampuniform M/01, light desert uniform system in Danish T99 camouflage
 Uniformssystem M/11, Standard uniform system (MultiCam)
 Oppakningssystem M/96, load carrying system (PLCE in Danish M/84 camouflage)
 Kampvest M/05, Assault Vest
 Fragmentationsvest M/00, body armour
 Beskyttelsesvest M/12, body armour (TYR Tactical)
 Hjelm M/96, helmet (SPECTRA helmet)
 Hjelm M/10, helmet (Tactical Ballistic Helmet version 2 (TBHII)
 Hjelm M/12, helmet (Batlskin Cobra)
 ABC-maske M/96, field (M40 NBC protective mask)
 ABC-dragt M/96, field (NBC protective suit)

Tactical and communication equipment
 PRR M/07, Personnel Role Radio (Bowman) (currently being replaced by the SPR)
 DA/PRC-361, Squad Radio (Racal Acoustics)
 DA/PRC-371, Platoon Radio (Racal Acoustics)
 RF-7800S SPR, Secure Personal Radio (Harris Falcon III)
 Nat-brille M/97, Binocular Night Vision Device (AN/PVS-7)
 Nat-brille M/03, Monocular Night Vision Device (AN/PVS-14)

Armour

Aircraft
Helicopters
All army helicopters have been transferred to Helicopter Wing Karup, a joint helicopter command under the Royal Danish Air Force:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles:

Artillery
Field artillery, mortars, and related equipment

Danish Army Low Level Air Defence System (DALLADS): Transferred to Royal Danish Air Force

 Air Defence Control Centers (Based on Termas T-Core C4I system)
 Medium Range Sensors (Thales Group RAC 3D radar, range 100 km)
 Short Range Sensors (Thales Group 2D radar, range 20 km)
 Fire units - Dual Mount Stinger (in storage)
 Logistics units

Other vehicles
Trucks, lorries, and other vehicles

The MAN trucks are being replaced by Scania AB trucks.
MAN trucks of various models and versions, for instance:
 MAN HX 77  Armoured logistic vehicle
 MAN SX 45  Armoured logistic vehicle
 MAN  8.136 Light utility truck
 MAN 13.192 Medium utility truck
 MAN 18.225 Medium utility truck
 MAN 27.314 Heavy utility truck
 MAN 26.372 Fuel truck
 MAN 25.322 Container handling truck
 MAN 27.314 Mobile communication center
 MAN 40.400 Prime MBT mover
 MAN 35.460 Heavy equipment transporter
 MAN 41.372 Heavy wrecker
 MAN 41.480 Recovery vehicle (TGA)
 MAN 41.480 Heavy equipment transporter (TGA)
Mercedes Gelaendewagen of various models and versions, for example: (over 2000)
 G240 Utility
 G270 CDI Armoured utility
 G270 CDI Reconnaissance vehicle et al.
 G280 CDI Armoured utility
 G290 Ambulance et al.
 G300 EOD

Motorcycles:
 BMW F650GS
 BMW R850RT
 Kawasaki KLR650
 KTM 450 EXC

See also
Royal Danish Army

References

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Naomi Harris

Naomi Harris (born May 26, 1973) is a Canadian photographer living in New York City. She is known for her portraits of people from sub-cultures such as retirement communities and nudist beaches.

Biography
Harris was born in Toronto and obtained a Bachelor in Fine Arts (BFA) from York University. After completing her degree, she moved to New York City where she received her photographic training at the International Center of Photography. Professionally wise, several of her personal projects were shot while on road trips, resulting in solo exhibitions and accompanying books. Her work has also been published in the New York Times Magazine as well as the London Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Marie Claire UK,, Vice, and Newsweek. Additionally, Harris taught classes  at her alma mater, the International Center of Photography.

Haddon Hall Hotel
Harris moved to Miami Beach in December 1999 to begin her first personal project documenting the last hotel in South Beach that catered to senior citizens. She lived there for two months getting to know the residents and becoming a kind of "surrogate granddaughter". The project, called "Haddon Hall Hotel", received the 2001 "International Prize for Young Photojournalism" from Agfa and Das Bildforum in Germany. The photographs underlined how pensioners experienced their lives "in the midst of waiting and boredom, remembering with nostalgia the years they lived."  Reproducing the vibrant hues of Miami, the series was described as being offbeat and kitsch in terms of its style.

America Swings
While living in Miami, Harris began photographing people on a nude beach where she also met some swingers. After attending one of their parties, she decided to photograph this subculture. She returned to New York City in April 2002 and began researching the lifestyle. The following year, she shot her first swinger session in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. She went on to photograph more than 38 parties, over a period of 48 months, all across the U.S.

The project was published as the monograph America Swings (2008), edited by Dian Hanson and with an interview by artist Richard Prince.Oh Canada!
In May 2010, Harris received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, allowing her to undertake a road trip across Canada. She traveled along the Trans-Canada Highway, photographing ordinary Canadians and oddities like a giant coffee pot. She began the journey on May 23, 2011 (Victoria Day) in Victoria, British Columbia and ended the trip in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on September 5, 2011 (Labour Day). The cross-country trip, from West to East, allowed her to meet people from all walks of life. She commented that "How we choose to photograph people [has] repercussions. We also have a responsibility to our subjects to share their stories and likeness in a way they would want to be portrayed".  The photos were shown in an exhibit at North York Centre in Toronto and covered in Canadian news media such as MacLean's magazine.https://www.macleans.ca/multimedia/photo/a-road-trip-across-canada/

EUSA
Regarding issues of cultural appropriation and globalization, Harris's  EUSA exhibition took place at the Circuit Gallery in Toronto from August 27-September 19, 2015.  The photographs depicted European themed places in America and American themed places in Europe, making it difficult to distinguish between the two continents.https://canadianart.ca/exhibitions/naomi-harris-eusa/ Harris photographed a rockabilly festival in Hungary and Viking themed "Danish Days" in California, among other events. Stating that each thematic setting had inaccuracies, Harris added that "it becomes a sentimental and idealized depiction—an homage to a heritage that isn't one's own." An accompanying book entitled "E.U.S.A." was published in 2018.

 100 Days
In 2017, Harris photographed president Trump supporters while driving across the United States for three months. She was on assignment for Vice magazine, beginning her journey in Washington D.C. and driving southwards, then westwards back up to Niagara Falls.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x4ey5/the-story-behind-the-cover-of-vice-magazines-june-issue-v24n5 She slept most nights in her car in Walmart parking lots and posed many of the subjects while they held her pet dog. What surprised her was that many of the supporters "were less optimistic about Trump and more jaded by the political process as a whole." An exhibit of her "100 Days" photos was held in New York City at the Half King Photography Series gallery.

 Other projects
In 2018, Harris undertook another type of journey, this time across Ontario, Canada. Wearing period clothing, she recreated the 19th-century canoe trips taken by painter Frances Anne Hopkins and her travelling companions, local fur traders.  Harris helped with the paddling and portage, carrying the canoe on her shoulders across dry land when needed. The art project was funded by a grant from Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter.

Publications
Publication by HarrisAmerica Swings. Cologne: Taschen, 2008. Edited by Dian Hanson. .
Taschen, 2010. . Paperback.E.U.S.A. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2018. Edited by Klaus Kehrer.

Publications with contributions by HarrisThe New Erotic Photography. Edited by Dian Hanson and Eric Kroll. Taschen, 2007. .Image Makers, Image Takers.'' By Anne-Celine Jaeger. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. .

Awards
2001 - Honorable Mention for Yann Geffroy Award presented by Grazia Neri Agency, Italy
2001 - Finalist for the Eugene Smith Award
2001 - Winner of the International Prize for Young Photojournalism presented by Agfa and Das Bildforum, Germany
2002 - One of the "30 Emerging Photographers To Watch" as selected by Photo District News
2004 - Represented Canada at the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam
2010 - Recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant

References

External links

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80's Ladies

80's Ladies is the debut album by American country music artist K. T. Oslin. It was released by RCA Records in 1987. "Wall of Tears," the title track, "Do Ya'" and "I'll Always Come Back" were released as singles. The album reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

Personnel
K. T. Oslin – keyboards, lead and backing vocals
David Briggs, Gary Prim – keyboards
Costo Davis – synthesizers
Bruce Dees – guitar
Steve Gibson – guitar
Brent Rowan – guitar
Mike Brignardello – bass
Larry Paxton – bass
Eddie Bayers – drums, percussion
Larrie Londin – drums, percussion
James Stroud – drums, percussion
Sam Levine – daxophone
Terry McMillan – harmonica
Joe Scaife – backing vocals

Production
Harold Shedd - producer
Jim Cotton - recording, engineering, associate producer
Joe Scaife - recording, engineering, associate producer
George W. Clinton - assistant engineer
Paul Goldberg - assistant engineer
Milan Bogdan - digital editing
Hank Williams - mastering

Chart positions

References

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List of Philippine films of the 1950s

A list of films produced in the Philippines in the 1950s. For an A-Z see :Category:Philippine films.

1950s

External links
 Filipino film at the Internet Movie Database
  at the Internet Movie Database

1950s
Films
Philippines


Robert Majzels

Robert Majzels (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.

Life

Majzels was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, where he would later teach creative writing for thirteen years. Between 2000 and 2002, he lived in Beijing, China and studied Chinese. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, and teaches at the University of Calgary.

Works

Majzels is strongly influenced by critical and literary theory. His works explore both the limits of language and narrative forms and their ethical repercussions. His novels highlight the artificiality of Western literary language, especially its linearity, archetypal narratives, and the ways in which it works to establish characters as believable personae (characterization). Concurrently, they explore other, neglected forms of literary expression. For example, Apikoros Sleuth experimented with a Talmudic form, noted for its polyphonic, discursive, and digressive qualities.

Awards
2000 Governor General's Award for French to English translation for Just Fine, from the French Pas Pire, by France Daigle (2000).
2008 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist for Notebook of Roses and Civilization, from the French Cahier de roses & de civilisation, by Nicole Brossard (2007).
2008 Governor General's Award for French to English translation nomination with Erin Moure for Notebook of Roses and Civilization, from the French Cahier de roses & de civilisation, by Nicole Brossard (2007).
2014 Best Translated Book Award, Poetry, shortlist for White Piano by Nicole Brossard, from the French.
1994 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, first prize for This Night the Kapo.
1991 Dorothy Silver Award, Playwrights competition, first prize for This Night the Kapo.

Partial bibliography

Novels
 1992: Hellman's Scrapbook  a novel. Cormorant Books
 1998: City of Forgetting  a novel. Mercury Press
 2004: Apikoros Sleuth  a novel. Mercury Press
 2007: The Humbugs Diet  a novel. Mercury Press
Plays
 2005 This Night the Kapo.  Playwrights Canada Press
Translations
 1999: A Fine Passage  a novel, translated from the French Un fin passage by France Daigle. Anansi
 2000: Installations  poetry translated with Erin Mouré from the French Installations by Nicole Brossard.  Muses' Co.
 2002: Museum of Bone and Water  poetry, translated with Erin Mouré from the French Musée de l’os et de l’eau by Nicole Brossard. Anansi
 2004: Life’s Little Difficulties  a novel, translated from the French Petites difficultés d'existence by France Daigle.
 2013  For Sure  translated from the French Pour sûr by France Daigle. Anansi

References

External links

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Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act

The Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005 (Title II, subtitle B of , with a companion statute, Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005, ), was an act of the United States Congress on banking regulation. It contained a number of changes to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

 It raised the limit on deposit insurance for retirement accounts from $100,000 to $250,000 and indexed the amount to inflation.
 It merged the two deposit insurance funds that the FDIC had been administering separately since the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA). FIRREA abolished the former Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) and created a new insurance fund, Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF), to be administered by the FDIC. The other, longer-standing fund administered by the FDIC was the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF). SAIF and BIF were combined into the Depositor Insurance Fund (DIF).
 It provided credits to banks that had paid into the deposit insurance funds in the early 1990s, in the aftermath of the savings and loan crisis.
 It imposed a requirement that the FDIC issue rebates to the banking industry if the level of the deposit insurance fund rises above 1.5% of the total insured deposits.

Deposit Insurance reform act
Category:Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships

The 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships was the 28th edition of the global team racewalking competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Overview
The programme remained unchanged, with senior men's races over 20 km and 50 km, a 20 km senior women's race, and junior category events for both sexes over 10 km. However, following the approval by the IAAF of the women's 50 km walk as an official event, for the first time women were permitted to enter the 50 km. A separate women's 50 km was not scheduled, but women were allowed to enter the men's event and were treated as equal competitors for team scoring.

Results

Men

Women

Results

Women's 50 km

References

External links
 IAAF competition page

Category:IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships
World Race Walking Team Championships


Harbledown Formation

The Harbledown Formation is a geologic formation in British Columbia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

References

Category:Jurassic British Columbia


Maxi Priest

Max Alfred "Maxi" Elliott (born 10 June 1961), known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all time.

Personal life
Maxi Priest was born in Lewisham, London, the second youngest of nine brothers and sisters. His parents had moved to England from Jamaica to provide more opportunity for their family and he grew up listening to gospel, reggae, R&B, and pop music. He first learned to sing in church, encouraged by his mother, who was a Pentecostal missionary.
Maxi grew up listening to Jamaican greats such as Dennis Brown, John Holt, Ken Boothe and Gregory Isaacs as well as singers like Marvin Gaye, Al Green, the Beatles, Phil Collins and Frank Sinatra.

As a teenager, he lifted speaker boxes for the Jah Shaka and Negus Negast sound-systems. He was a founder member of Saxon Studio International, and it was with Saxon that Maxi began performing at neighbourhood youth clubs and house parties.

His music is sometimes closer to R&B and pop than to reggae. His cousin, Jacob Miller, a reggae icon, was the frontman in the popular reggae group Inner Circle.

Career
Priest's musical career began with him singing on the South London reggae soundsystem Saxon Studio International, after which some independent single releases followed. His first major album, Maxi (titled Maxi Priest in the US and Canada), was released in 1988, and, along with his cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World", established him as one of the top British reggae singers.

He is one of only two British reggae acts (along with UB40) to have an American Billboard number one: "Close to You" in 1990. A duet with Roberta Flack, "Set the Night to Music", reached the American Top Ten in 1991. His duet with Shaggy in 1996, "That Girl", was also a hit in the United States, peaking at number twenty.

In the latter half of his recording career, Priest has favoured working alongside other artists, both established and up-and-coming. He has worked with Sly and Robbie, Shaggy, Beres Hammond, Jazzie B, Apache Indian, Roberta Flack, Shurwayne Winchester, Shabba Ranks and Lee Ritenour.

It was reported in some newspapers in the Birmingham area, including the Birmingham Mail on 13 March 2008, that Priest would be replacing Ali Campbell as the new lead singer of UB40, and that he had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s "I Shot the Sheriff" with the band, based on information from "an unnamed source close to the band." Priest had joined UB40 on tour in 2007, culminating in sell-out shows at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Solihull in December. Another local newspaper, the Express & Star that had reported that Priest would be the new UB40 frontman, included a statement from band spokesman Gerard Franklyn which contradicted the claim, stating: "Maxi is collaborating with the band to record material but he won't be the new lead singer, that will be Duncan Campbell, the brother of Ali and Robin Campbell. He will only be appearing with them for this new recording."

In 2012, Maxi Priest recorded a cover of Japanese band L'arc~en~Ciel's song "Vivid Colors" for the band's English-language tribute album.

In 2013, Priest recorded a remix version of Hindi song "Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse", featuring Indian singers Rishi Rich and Arijit Singh.

His 2014 album Easy to Love entered the Billboard Top Reggae Albums chart at number 2.

Awards

Discography

Studio albums
 You're Safe (1985)
 Intentions (1986)
 Maxi / Maxi Priest (1988)
 Bonafide (1990)
 Fe Real (1992)
 Man with the Fun (1996)
 CombiNation (1999)
 2 the Max (2005)
 Refused (2007)
 Easy to Love (2014)
 It All Comes Back To Love (2019)

Compilations
 Best of Me (1991) #23 UK
 Collection (2000)
 Maximum Collection (2012)

Singles

1980s

1990s and 2000s

As featured artist

Sport
Priest played for non-League football club Southall, his son Marvin's team, in March 2003 when they needed players to fulfil a fixture due to an injury crisis at the club. However, despite coming on as a substitute at the age of 43, he could not stop Southall from losing 3-0 to Feltham.

References

External links

 Official website
 Maxi Priest at Wenig-LaMonica Associates

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Great White North

Great White North may refer to:
"Great White North", a recurring SCTV sketch featuring Bob and Doug McKenzie
The Great White North (album), a comedy album by Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas)
Great White North Technology Consulting, a Managed IT Service Provider based out of Timmins, Ontario.
Great White North Records, former Canadian independent record label
This Great White North, a weekly radio show featuring independent Canadian music on KOOP-FM 91.7 in Austin, TX

See also
Canada, a country in North America
Arctic, the northernmost part of Earth


Walter P. Kellenberg

Walter Philip Kellenberg (June 3, 1901 – January 11, 1986) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Ogdensburg (1954–57) and Bishop of Rockville Centre (1957–76).

Biography
Walter Kellenberg was born in the Bronx, New York, to Conrad and Elizabeth (née Kern) Kellenberg. He received his early education at the parochial school of St. Anthony of Padua Church, and attended Fordham Preparatory School and Cathedral College. He made his theological studies at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. He also took special courses in real estate, insurance, and business administration at Columbia University.

He was ordained to the priesthood on June 2, 1928. His first assignment was as a curate at St. Mary's Church in the Rosebank neighborhood of Staten Island, where he remained for six years. In 1934, he was transferred to St. Paul's Church in Manhattan and appointed to the archdiocesan curia. Within a year he became a curate at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and was named assistant chancellor and secretary of the Archdiocesan Commission for Real Estate and Insurance in 1939.

He was temporary administrator of St. John the Baptist Church in Staten Island and St. Nicholas Church in Manhattan, and became vice-chancellor in 1942. He was named a papal chamberlain in 1943, and served as secretary to Cardinal Francis Spellman from 1947 to 1950. He was later made chancellor (1947), domestic prelate (1948), and moderator of the coordinating committee of the Archdiocesan Catholic Lay Organization (1951).

On August 25, 1953, Kellenberg was appointed auxiliary bishop of New York and titular bishop of Ioannina by Pope Pius XII.  He received his episcopal consecration on the following October 5 from Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, with Bishops William Scully and Joseph Francis Flannelly serving as co-consecrators.

Ogdensburg
Following the transfer of Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart to the Catholic University of America, he was named the sixth Bishop of Ogdensburg on January 19, 1954. That same year, he received an honorary degree from Fordham. He expanded the diocese’s Departments of Education and Catechetics and increased the number of parochial schools.

Rockville Centre
He remained in Ogdensburg for three years, when he was appointed the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Rockville Centre on April 16, 1957. He founded the diocese's Catholic Charities office that same year.

On April 12, 1959, at Mitchel Air Force Base, Kellenberg dedicated the medal of Our Lady of Loreto. In 1920 Pope Benedict XV declared the Madonna of Loreto patron saint of air travelers and pilots.

From 1962 to 1965, he attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. Three colleges, eighteen high schools and a number of parish schools were established during his tenure. Shortly before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he resigned as bishop on May 3, 1976. Kellenberg died from a heart attack at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, aged 84.

Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale is named in his honor. A stained glass window in St. Boniface Church in Elmont, New York depicts St. John XXIII welcoming Bishop Kellenberg to the Council. His coat of arms in depicted stained glass window in the windows of the formal lounge in Queen’s Court on Fordham's Rose Hill Campus. The Hicksville Knights of Columbus  Council 728 is named in honor of Bishop Kellenberg.

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Broadcast band

A broadcast band is a segment of the radio spectrum used for broadcasting.

See also
 North American broadcast television frequencies
 AM Broadcasting
 FM Broadcasting
 Dead air
 Internet radio
 Radio networks
 Music radio
 Old-time radio
 Radio astronomy
 Radio programming
 Types of radio emissions

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2018 European Le Mans Series

The 2018 European Le Mans Series was the fifteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 15 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 28 October. The series is open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.

Calendar
The provisional 2018 calendar was announced on 23 September 2017. The calendar comprises six events, featuring the same six circuits that hosted events in the 2017 season. The rounds at Silverstone and Paul Ricard swapped their places in the calendar, with the French circuit hosting the opening round and Silverstone moving to an August date, once again in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The official pre-season test also returned to Paul Ricard after a one-year absence, having taken place at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in 2017.

Entries

LMP2
In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.

LMP3
All cars in the LMP3 class use the Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.

LMGTE
All cars in the LMGTE class use Dunlop tyres.

Results and Standings
Bold indicates overall winner.

To be classified a car will have to cross  the  finish  line  on  the  race  track  when the  chequered  flag  is  shown,  except  in  a  case  of force majeure at the Stewards’ discretion and have  covered  at  least  70% (the  official  number  of  laps  will  be  rounded down to the nearest whole number) of the  distance  covered  by  the  car  classified  in  first  place  in  the overall classification.

Teams Championships
Points are awarded according to the following structure:

LMP2 Teams Championship

LMP3 Teams Championship

LMGTE Teams Championship

Notes

References

External links

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Le Mans Series


Étoile des Espoirs

The Étoile des Espoirs was an end of the season French cycling stage race. It was created
by Jean Leulliot, and was open to young professional cyclists.

Winners
Source

References

External links

Category:Cycle races in France
Category:Defunct cycling races in France