Benjamin Joseph Levin (born March 8, 1988), known professionally as Benny Blanco (stylized in all lowercase), is an American record producer. He is the recipient of the 2013 Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a five-time BMI Songwriter of the Year award winner and 2017 iHeartRadio Producer of the Year award winner.

Blanco was initially mentored by songwriter and producer Dr. Luke, who signed Blanco to his production company Kasz Money Productions. While under his tutelage, Blanco co-produced and co-wrote a multitude of hit singles in the late 2000s and thereafter. Blanco has contributed to the sale of over 500 million albums worldwide through his work with artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Halsey, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Kesha, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Sia, The Weeknd, Avicii, Selena Gomez, Adam Lambert, Charlie Puth, Keith Urban, Tory Lanez, Wiz Khalifa, J Balvin, Kali Uchis, Juice Wrld and SZA. In July 2018, Blanco released his debut single as a lead artist, "Eastside" a collaboration with singer-songwriters Halsey and Khalid. The song peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Blanco's first top ten song credited as an artist and his 27th top ten song as a writer, a sum that includes seven number ones. "Eastside" was also a global success, topping the charts in New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, and peaking within the top ten of the charts in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, and Norway. "Eastside" was followed by "I Found You" with Calvin Harris, "Better to Lie" with Jesse and Swae Lee, and two songs with Juice Wrld, "Roses" (also with Brendon Urie), and  "Graduation", then he released his debut album later in 2018. A deluxe version of his debut album was released in March 2021 and certified RIAA platinum on release day.

Levin is also the founder of two labels in collaboration with Interscope Records, Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets.

Life and career

Career beginnings
Blanco, who is Jewish and a native of Northern Virginia, began producing hip-hop instrumentals in his bedroom and recording his own vocals on top of them. His first serious exposure to music came in 1994, when he was 6 years old with Nas' "The World Is Yours" and All-4-One's "I Swear" on cassette tapes, which influenced his early productions. After early experiments with beat making and recording himself on his boombox, Blanco's rapping earned the attention of The Source and executives at Columbia Records. He attended Camp Airy for many years of his childhood in Thurmont, Maryland, where he would routinely perform and host a radio show under the name “Ebba Ebba”.

Blanco eventually secured an apprenticeship with producer Disco D after multiple trips to New York City from his home in Virginia to meet with labels and producers.

2007–present
Blanco was mentored for several years by songwriter and producer Dr. Luke, who signed Blanco to his production company Kasz Money Productions. While under Dr. Luke's tutelage, Blanco co-produced and co-wrote many songs, including hits such as Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", Kesha's "TiK ToK", and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite".

In 2008, he took part in writing and producing Britney Spears' "Circus" (with Dr. Luke, and Claude Kelly). The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on American pop radio and is her second best-selling digital song in the United States, having sold over 3.2 million downloads as of July 2016. On a global scale, "Circus" was one of the top 10 best selling songs of 2009 with 5.5 million digital copies sold that year across the world, according to the IFPI.

In 2011, Blanco wrote and produced his first charting hits without Dr. Luke, among them Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger", Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts" and 3OH!3's "Don't Trust Me". The same year, Blanco went on to work on Maroon 5's Platinum-selling album Overexposed and its lead single "Payphone" featuring Wiz Khalifa.

On June 13, 2013, Blanco was presented with the Hal David Starlight Award at the 44th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, an honor awarded to young artists who have already made an impression on the music industry. In his acceptance speech, he joked, "They picked the wrong person, I'm in a room with people I should probably be serving food to."

In the years since, Blanco has amassed 29 total number-one songs and is recognized for his achievements with artists including BTS, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Lana Del Rey, Miguel, Halsey, and Camila Cabello.

Blanco was named Producer of the Year at the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards.

Artist projects
In 2007, Blanco teamed up with Baltimore rappers Spank Rock to release Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Are...Bangers & Cash, a collaborative EP for both artists based on 2 Live Crew samples that caught the attention of many in the industry and sparked connections to future collaborators Amanda Blank and Santigold. The EP received acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and more.

In July 2018, Blanco released his debut song as a standalone solo artist, "Eastside" featuring Halsey and Khalid, on his own label Friends Keep Secrets with Interscope Records. The song peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, and was also a global success, topping the charts in New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, and peaking within the top ten of the charts in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, and Norway. Later in 2018, he released his second, third, and fourth singles: "I Found You" with Calvin Harris, "Better to Lie" with Jesse and Swae Lee, and "Roses" with Juice Wrld featuring Brendon Urie, respectively. His debut album Friends Keep Secrets was released on December 7, 2018.

In January 2019, Blanco released "I Found You / Nilda's Story" with Calvin Harris and Miguel in conjunction with the launch of The While They Wait Fund to benefit asylum seekers in the United States, an initiative by Brooklyn Defender Services, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services and American Civil Liberties Union. The song debuted with a video directed by Jake Schreier highlighting the story of one Honduran woman, Nilda, and her two-year-old son Keyden.

In February 2019, Blanco released "I Can't Get Enough" with Tainy, Selena Gomez, and J Balvin. On August 30, 2019, Blanco released a song with Juice Wrld called "Graduation", their second collaboration after "Roses".

In October 2020, Blanco released his first artist collaboration with Justin Bieber titled "Lonely". The second and third singles ("Real Shit" with Juice WRLD and "Unlearn" with Gracie Abrams) followed in December 2020 and March 2021, respectively.

A deluxe version of his album Friends Keep Secrets 2 was released on March 26, 2021, and was certified RIAA platinum on the day of release.

On August 5, 2022, Blanco released his first artist collaboration with BTS members Jin, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook as well as Snoop Dogg titled "Bad Decisions".

Media
On March 9, 2020, Blanco and acclaimed chef Matty Matheson debuted a new collaborative cooking show, Matty and Benny Eat Out America, on Blanco's YouTube channel. The first episode featured a behind-the-scenes visit to fellow YouTuber Kenny Beats's show "The Cave" where Benny teaches Matty to rap. Additional episodes included Lil Dicky, Mason Ramsey, Diplo, Laird Hamilton and more.

On April 16, 2020, Blanco made his TV debut playing a fictionalized version of himself on the first and second seasons of the FXX series Dave with Lil Dicky.

On March 31, 2021, Blanco and chef Matty Matheson debuted a new cooking show on Benny's YouTube channel, called "Stupid F*cking Cooking Show".

Record labels
In 2014, Blanco founded two imprint labels under Interscope, Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets. Mad Love's releases to date include the following artists, with many of them having been initially signed to Blanco's development imprint Friends Keep Secrets:

 Tory Lanez (former)
 Cashmere Cat
 Trill Sammy
 6 Dogs (former; deceased)
Ryn Weaver
 Jessie Ware

Discography

Albums

Reissues

Singles

Notes

Songwriting and production discography

Blanco has written and produced songs for artists including Ed Sheeran ("Don't" and "Castle on the Hill"), Justin Bieber ("Love Yourself"), Major Lazer ("Cold Water"), Maroon 5 ("Moves Like Jagger", "Don't Wanna Know", "Payphone", "Maps", "Animals"), Katy Perry ("Teenage Dream", "California Gurls"), Rihanna ("Diamonds"), Kesha ("TiK ToK"), Taio Cruz ("Dynamite"), Wiz Khalifa ("Work Hard, Play Hard"), Gym Class Heroes ("Stereo Hearts"), Lil Dicky ("Freaky Friday"), Tory Lanez ("Luv").

Awards and nominations

References

1988 births
Living people
Record producers from Virginia
Jewish American composers
Songwriters from Virginia
People from Reston, Virginia
Place of birth missing (living people)
Interscope Records artists
21st-century American Jews
American pop musicians
Dance-pop musicians
American dance musicians
Urbano musicians


Harriet's Halloween Candy is a 1982 children's picture book written and illustrated by Nancy L. Carlson. It was published by Carolrhoda Books.

Summary
Harriet doesn't want to share her Halloween candy with her little brother. She is running out of places to hide her candy so she tries to think of a solution.

Reception
 It was adapted into a Broadway play.
 The book is used in schools to teach number sorting.
 A math book uses the book to teach number sorting in schools.

References

1982 children's books
American picture books
Halloween children's books


is a Japanese footballer who plays for Vegalta Sendai.

Career statistics
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International career
On 7 May 2015, Japan's coach Vahid Halilhodžić called him for a two-days training camp.

Honours

Club
Kashima Antlers
J. League Division 1 (4) : 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016
Emperor's Cup (3) : 2007, 2010, 2016
 J. League Cup (3) : 2011, 2012, 2015
Japanese Super Cup (3) : 2009, 2010, 2017
Suruga Bank Championship (2) : 2012, 2013
 AFC Champions League (1): 2018

References

External links

official instagram

Profile at Kashima Antlers

1988 births
Living people
Association football people from Miyagi Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
Kashima Antlers players
J2 League players
Vegalta Sendai players
Men's association football midfielders


Auntie's Bloomers is a blooper show hosted by Terry Wogan that ran from 29 December 1991 to 29 December 2001 and aired on BBC One. Most bloopers consisted of homegrown BBC programmes including soaps, sitcoms, dramas and news.

The programme's title comes from the affectionate nickname "Auntie Beeb" by which the BBC is often referred. The show was replaced by Outtake TV in 2002, a show similar in concept but with slightly less emphasis on BBC-only material.

Production
The first two episodes of the show were made by independent production company Celador. Their contract to produce the show expired after the broadcast of the second episode on 27 December 1992 and was not renewed, leaving the BBC to produce the show themselves from 1994 to 2001.

The shows carried a strong BBC theme, most notably throughout the mid-90s where the set was supposedly the BBC archive, and the opening titles consisted of a mysterious figure entering the BBC Television Centre and retrieving archive footage from a safe.

Transmissions

Regular

Sporting Bloomers series

References

External links

BBC television comedy
1990s British comedy television series
2000s British comedy television series
1991 British television series debuts
2001 British television series endings
Blooper shows
English-language television shows


The fourth USS Scorpion was a steam yacht in commission in the United States Navy from 1898 to 1899, 1899 to 1901, and 1902 to 1927.

Construction and acquisition
Scorpion was built in 1896 as Sovereign, a two-masted schooner-rigged, 775-ton, steel steam yacht, for M.C.D. Borden by John N. Robins, South Brooklyn, New York. She was powered by a pair of triple expansion steam engines, with cylinders of 15, 24 and 39 inches by 21-inch stroke, built by the W. & A. Fletcher Co. of Hoboken, New Jersey. Steam was supplied by two Babcock & Wilcox boilers at a working pressure of 225 pounds. The engines reportedly developed 2500 indicated horsepower and in an 1896 race with the steamer Monmouth—said to be the second fastest steamer in New York—Sovereign won handily.

The U.S. Navy purchased her on 7 April 1898 for service in the Spanish–American War. Renamed USS Scorpion, she was commissioned on 11 April 1898 with Lieutenant Commander Adolph Marix in command.

Service history

Spanish–American War
Following commissioning, Scorpion proceeded to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she joined the Flying Squadron on 1 May 1898 and prepared for duty in the Caribbean. On 22 May, she arrived with the squadron off Cienfuegos, Cuba, then continued on to the Santiago de Cuba area with dispatches for ships scouting off that port. On 25 May, she returned to Cienfuegos, patrolled there on blockade duty until the next day, then departed for Key West, Florida, for coal and water.

On 7 June, Scorpion headed south, escorted a provisions ship and an ammunition ship to Santiago de Cuba, then, until 22 June, performed blockade duties off the harbor there. On 22 June, she assisted in clearing the beach at Daiquirí in preparation for a United States Army landing and, on 23 June, carried out a similar mission at Siboney. On 24 June, she resumed blockade duties off Santiago de Cuba. On 30 June, she shifted to Cape Cruz, and on 1 July she joined the armed tug  in an unsuccessful attack on Spanish gunboats in Manzanillo harbor. After the attack, she retired to waters off the entrance, captured a provisions lighter, and patrolled there until 5 July.

Scorpion then proceeded to Guantanamo Bay for water, coal, provisions, and ammunition. She returned to Manzanillo on 11 July, and, on 18 July, participated in another attack that destroyed all Spanish Government vessels then in the harbor.

After the second attack on Manzanillo, Scorpion resumed blockade duties, continued them until 3 August, then returned to Guantanamo Bay, whence she carried dispatches for the remainder of the war, which ended on 13 August.

Pre-World War I
On 27 November, Scorpion departed Cuban waters. A month later, she arrived at New York and, on 14 January 1899, she was decommissioned in preparation for conversion to a gunboat.

Recommissioned on 22 August 1899, Scorpion was assigned to the Isthmian Canal Commission and ordered to Central America. Into the spring of 1900, she remained in the Caribbean as the Commission investigated the proposed canal routes. A report from February 1900 has her visiting Kingston, Jamaica, during a visit to that island of the British North America and West Indies Squadron. In June 1900, she returned to the United States, operated off the U.S. northeast coast into the autumn of 1900, then resumed operations in the Caribbean. From November 1900 to May 1901, she cruised off Hispaniola. In June 1901, she arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, and on 24 July 1901 she was again decommissioned.

On 1 July 1902, Scorpion was recommissioned and assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron. On 2 September 1903 she collided with  in the East River with considerable damage done to both vessels. For the next six years, she carried dispatches and personnel, conducted hydrographic surveys, and participated in exercises along the United States East Coast and in the Caribbean, operating primarily off Santo Domingo during 1906 and 1907.

Ordered to the Mediterranean in 1908, Scorpion sailed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 October 1908. On 4 December 1908, she arrived at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire to take up duties as station ship, but she was ordered to Messina, Italy to assist in relief efforts for the survivors of an earthquake there. She supported International Medical Service efforts from 3–8 January 1909, then steamed back to the Ottoman Empire. From 10 February-15 July, she was at Naples, Italy, for repairs. She returned to Constantinople on 20 July and assumed station ship duties, which included work for the U.S. Embassy. From 27 November 1910 – 28 January 1912, she was at Trieste in Austria-Hungary for extensive repairs, and in February 1912 she returned to Constantinople. In August 1912, she assisted earthquake victims in the Ottoman Empire and, in October 1912, as the First Balkan War broke out, she commenced operations to assist Americans caught in disputed areas.

On 18 November, the Diplomatic Corps resident in Constantinople decided to land 2,500 men and 26 guns to protect foreign residents and their interests from rioting. In addition to detachments from British, French, German, Italian, and Russian warships, Scorpion landed a small detail to guard the U.S. Legation. The men from Scorpion reembarked on 3 December.

Throughout the First Balkan War, which lasted six months, and the Second Balkan War, which followed in the summer of 1913, Scorpion continued to protect American interests. After the two wars, she assisted the international commissions which gave aid to refugees and displaced persons.

World War I
World War I began in August 1914, and in November 1914 the Ottoman Empire entered it on the side of the Central Powers. During the first years of the war, the Ottoman government held Scorpion at Constantinople. The U.S. entered the war on the side of the Allies on 6 April 1917, and, on 11 April 1917 the Ottoman government interned Scorpion. Under Ottoman Turkish guard from 15 November 1917, she was allowed to assist British personnel released from prisoner-of-war camps in the interior of the Ottoman Empire during late October 1918. Under the Armistice of Mudros of 30 October 1918, the participation of the Ottoman Empire in World War I ended on 31 October 1918, and on 9 November 1918, the Ottoman Empire allowed Scorpion to resume her previous activities and soon thereafter she began assisting the many refugees in the area.

Post-war

With the arrival at Constantinople of Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, U.S. High Commissioner to the Ottoman Empire and Senior U.S. Naval Officer in Turkish Waters, Scorpion assumed duties as flagship and dispatch vessel, continuing, at the same time, her station ship and relief work. Redesignated PY-3 in 1920 when the U.S. Navy instituted its alphanumeric hull classification system, she shifted to Phaleron Bay, Greece, in November 1923 and took up duties as station ship in the eastern Mediterranean. In late 1926, Commander Moses B. Byington took command. On 16 June 1927, she departed the Mediterranean under Commander Byington and steamed west to return to the U.S. On 11 July 1927, she arrived at Philadelphia.

Final decommissioning and disposal
Scorpion was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 27 October 1927, as part of Navy Day observances, with Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, commandant of the Navy Yard, in charge of the ceremonial. Captain H. A. Jones was her last commanding officer. She was struck from the Navy List on 23 March 1929. Following this, she was sold to the Boston Iron and Metal Company of Baltimore, Maryland on 25 June 1929.

References

External links
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Scorpion (1898–1929, later PY-3)

Patrol vessels of the United States
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Brooklyn
1896 ships
Spanish–American War naval ships of the United States
Steam yachts


Caus or Kaous () was a settlement in ancient Arcadia, a region of the southern part of Greece located on the Peloponnese peninsula. When Pausanias visited the area in the 2nd century, the place was already ruined. It was situated in the territory of the city Thelpusa, 40 stadia () from Thelpusa and 25 stadia () from the river Arsen (Άρσην). There was a sanctuary of Asclepius.  Its site is unlocated.

References

Arcadian city-states
Populated places in ancient Arcadia
Former populated places in Greece
Lost ancient cities and towns


Women Superstars United (WSU; formerly Women Superstars Uncensored) is an American, New Jersey based women's professional wrestling promotion which held its first event in 2006. Shows combine wrestling interspersed with both serious and comedic storylines. The company tapes two DVDs worth of material during weekend shows. Although many of the shows are promoted solely by WSU, they have also worked with National Wrestling Superstars. , the promotion has a working agreement with Dragon Gate USA.

WSU is considered one of the top women's wrestling organizations in the United States. The company claims to be "the leader in women's wrestling in the northeast" and to promote more cards than any other women's wrestling company in the country.

Championships
As of December 14, 2019

Tournaments

WSU Hall of Fame
In 2009, WSU created a hall of fame with an inaugural class of three members.

Inductees

Pay-per-view events
On November 6, 2010, WSU aired their first internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event on GoFightLive.TV.

References

External links
 Official website

2007 establishments in New Jersey
American independent professional wrestling promotions based in New Jersey
Women's professional wrestling promotions


Canyon Ferry Dam is a concrete gravity dam in a narrow valley of the Missouri River, United States, where the Big Belt Mountains and the Spokane Hills merge, approximately  downstream from the confluence of the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson rivers, and about  east of the city of Helena, Montana. The dam is for flood control, irrigation, recreation and hydroelectric power.  The building of the dam created a reservoir known as Canyon Ferry Lake.

Background

In 1941, the first study for the dam was carried out by the Bureau of Reclamation, the Montana Water Board and Montana Power Company. The dam and power plant were part of the Pick-Sloan Plan and approved by the Flood Control Act of 1944 which was signed on December 22. Known as the Canyon Ferry Unit, construction began on May 24, 1949, and was completed on June 23, 1954. On December 18, 1953, the power plant's first generator became operational and the other two went online in 1954.

The 1949 structure replaced the original Canyon Ferry Dam  upstream. The original dam was constructed between 1896 and 1898 by the Helena Water and Electric Power Company. It was a timber crib dam with rock-fill and was  high and  long.

Design

The dam is a  tall concrete gravity type and has a length of . The crest of the dam is  while the base is . The dam structure compromises a total of  of concrete. The dam's spillway is located on its central portion and is controlled by four radial gates. It has a maximum discharge of . Adjacent to the spillway is the dam's power plant which contains three 16.5 MW Francis turbine generators for an installed capacity of 50 MW. Each turbine is fed with water by a  diameter penstock. At a normal elevation of , the reservoir contains  of water.

References

External links

U.S. Reclamation website: Canyon Ferry Unit
Canyon Ferry Dam and Visiting Center website
Helena History website

Dams in Montana
Buildings and structures in Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Hydroelectric power plants in Montana
Gravity dams
United States Bureau of Reclamation dams
Energy infrastructure completed in 1954
Dams completed in 1954
Dams on the Missouri River
1954 establishments in Montana


is a Japanese former footballer who plays as a Midfielder.

Career
Funayama announcement officially retirement from football in 2016.

Personal life
His younger brother Takayuki also plays football and currently play in JFL club, ReinMeer Aomori.

Career statistics

Club
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Honours

Club
Kashima Antlers
 J. League Division 1 Champions (2) : 2008, 2007

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
People from Narita, Chiba
Ryutsu Keizai University alumni
Association football people from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Yuji Funayama
Yuji Funayama
Kashima Antlers players
Cerezo Osaka players
Montedio Yamagata players
Avispa Fukuoka players
Tokyo Verdy players
Yuji Funayama
Yuji Funayama
Japanese expatriate men's footballers
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Thailand
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Men's association football midfielders


Caryae or Karyai () was a town of ancient Laconia upon the frontiers of Arcadia. It was originally an Arcadian town belonging to Tegea, but was conquered by the Spartans and annexed to their territory. Caryae revolted from Sparta after the Battle of Leuctra (371 BCE), and offered to guide a Theban army into Laconia; but shortly afterwards it was severely punished for its treachery, for Archidamus III took the town and put to death all the inhabitants who were made prisoners.

Caryae was celebrated for its temple of Artemis Caryatis, and for the annual festival of this goddess, at which the Lacedaemonian virgins used to perform a peculiar kind of dance. This festival was of great antiquity, for in the Second Messenian War, Aristomenes is said to have carried off the Lacedaemonian virgins, who were dancing at Caryae in honour of Artemis. It was, perhaps, from this ancient dance of the Lacedaemonian maidens, that the Greek artists gave the name of Caryatid to the female figures which were employed in architecture instead of pillars. The tale of Vitruvius respecting the origin of these figures, is not entitled to any credit. He relates that Caryae revolted to the Persians after the Battle of Thermopylae; that it was in consequence destroyed by the allied Greeks, who killed the men and led the women into captivity; and that to commemorate the disgrace of the latter, representations of them were employed in architecture instead of columns.

The exact position of Caryae has given rise to dispute. It is evident from the account of Pausanias, and from the history of more than one campaign that it was situated on the road from Tegea to Sparta. Modern scholars place its site near the modern Karyes, formerly Arachova, but renamed to reflect association with the ancient town.

References

Populated places in ancient Arcadia
Populated places in ancient Laconia
Former populated places in Greece


David Philip Reiter (born 1947) is a poet and writer of fiction and multimedia based in Brisbane, Australia.

Biography

In North America
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in the USA in 1947, he was adopted shortly after birth by Jewish parents Alexander and Freda Reiter, and brought up in a working-class neighbourhood. His adoptive father, a self-employed truck driver, died of a heart attack in 1958, leaving his mother to raise Reiter as an only child. Aged 19, Reiter moved to Oregon, where he completed his BA in the Independent Studies Program at the University of Oregon. He married Carol Geneva Rechard in 1969 and moved to Alberta, Canada, where both attended the University of Alberta. Reiter completed his master's degree in American Literature, writing his thesis on William Faulkner's The Wild Palms owing to his interest in interdisciplinary subjects. He began publishing stories in prestigious journals like The Fiddlehead (University of New Brunswick) and poems in journals like Canadian Literature. His first paid employment was as a technical editor with the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment in Cold Lake, followed by an appointment as a scientific editor at the Northern Forest Research Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. His interest in environmental matters led him to be a publishing consultant for several Government departments such as Environment Canada.

In 1975, he accepted a position as a lecturer at Cariboo College, a two-year university level institution in the interior of British Columbia, where he taught literature and writing for ten years. During this time, he was President of the College's Faculty Association, and active in the Provincial organisation representing college teaching staff. He also acted as Chief Negotiator for the faculty during several contract rounds. In 1980 he took leave of absence to attend the University of Denver, where he completed his PhD in Creative Writing, with a collection of stories as his dissertation, and American Literature as his literary field of speciality. Shortly after he returned to Cariboo College, he and his wife were divorced. He was invited to run as a candidate for Provincial parliament for the New Democratic Party in 1982 in an election campaign narrowly lost to the incumbent Social Credit Party. Soon after, he and his partner Helen Gilbert moved to Vancouver, where he taught for a year at the British Columbia Institute of Technology then briefly at the University of British Columbia before migrating to Australia in November 1986.

In Australia
His first job in Australia was as a lecturer in professional writing at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education where he set up one of the country's first electronic editing programs and was founding editor of the literary magazine Redoubt. During that time he was invited to join the Five Islands Press cooperative, which subsequently published his first volume of poetry, The Snow in Us, which focuses on life among the Inuit, in 1989. His second volume, Changing House, was a transitional work, mostly set in Canada, continuing his interest in historical research and mythology. It was published in 1991 by Jacaranda Press, a division of Jacaranda-Wiley.

He married Cherie Lorraine Dawson in 1992 shortly after resigning his position at the University of Canberra and becoming publishing manager for the Board of Senior Secondary School Studies in Brisbane. In 1993 he became publishing manager for the Criminal Justice Commission where he worked for three years. He founded IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) in 1994 in his consultancy work for a number of government departments. Departing from the Criminal Justice Commission in 1996, he changed the primary focus of IP to a literary publishing company, publishing Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems as its first title after Penguin Books, which had originally offered to publish it, discontinued their poetry publishing program. Several ex-Penguin poets came to IP to be published. Hemingway in Spain was subsequently shortlisted for the John Bray Award at the Adelaide Festival in 1998.

IP has expanded to an international publishing company with four imprints under his direction, and Reiter continues to publish his work under those imprints, especially his transmedia and children's titles. In demand as a speaker and workshop leader, Reiter undertakes national tours and residencies in Australia and overseas. His interest in digital composing and publishing has led him to become regarded as an expert in Australia on the subject, where IP is a market leader in the development and distribution of digital titles. IP has also forged a number of partnerships with overseas companies such as Lightning Source, google.com, apple.com, Createspace, Amazon, OverDrive, gardners.com and kobo.com in promoting its digital program.

Reiter has been a writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada; the Katharine Prichard Centre in Perth; Bundanon in New South Wales, and in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in 2008. His work has been translated into several languages including French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, and is currently being translated into Chinese.

Awards and nominations

 1994 Queensland Premier’s Poetry Award, The Cave After Saltwater Tidewinner
 2012 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Digital Narrative, My Planets Reunion Memoirwinner
 2013 Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Book for Teens and Kids, Bringing Down the Wallwinner
 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poemsshortlisted
 2000 Steele Rudd Award, Trianglesshortlisted
 2011 WA Premier's Award, Nullarbor Song Cycleshortlisted
 2013 ACT Chief Minister's Reading Challenge, Bringing Down the Wallshortlisted
 2016 WA Premier's Award, "Timelord Dreaming"shortlisted

Bibliography

Poetry
Collections

List of poems

Novels

Short fiction
Collections

Anthologies

Children's books

Other

Filmography
 Nullarbor Song Cycle (2013)

References

1947 births
Living people
20th-century American poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
20th-century Canadian poets
Australian male novelists
Australian poets
Australian publishers (people)
Academic staff of the British Columbia Institute of Technology
Canadian male poets
Multimedia artists
Quadrant (magazine) people
University of Alberta alumni
Academic staff of the University of Canberra
University of Denver alumni
University of Oregon alumni


Walter McFadden, Jr. (born January 21, 1987) is a former American football cornerback. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round (138th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Auburn and high school football at Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Professional career

Oakland Raiders
He was drafted by Oakland Raiders in the fifth round (138th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was released by the Raiders on September 3, 2011.

Jacksonville Jaguars
On October 18, 2011, he was signed to the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad.

Cincinnati Bengals
On November 15, 2011, he signed to the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad. On November 22, 2011, he was released by the Bengals after seven days being signed.

Pittsburgh Steelers
On January 20, 2012, McFadden was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He was released August 27, 2012, and was re-signed to the practice squad on December 26, 2012.

Personal life
He is the younger brother of NFL cornerback Bryant McFadden and cousin of Patrick Peterson.
He married his longtime college girlfriend Brandi Means in July 2012.

References

External links

Auburn Tigers bio

1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Hollywood, Florida
Players of American football from Broward County, Florida
American football cornerbacks
Auburn Tigers football players
Oakland Raiders players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Blanche Ely High School alumni


Thomas Kent Norment Jr. (born April 12, 1946) is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the Senate of Virginia. He has served in the Virginia General Assembly since 1992. A Republican, he represents the 3rd district of the Virginia Senate, which includes parts of  the Virginia Peninsula, plus King and Queen County, King William County, New Kent County, and Gloucester County on the Middle Peninsula.

Background
Norment graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and received his J.D. degree from William and Mary School of Law.

Norment is an adjunct professor of law at William and Mary Law School. He served as on-campus attorney, and counselor and attorney to the president of William and Mary.

In 2008, Norment requested an opinion from Attorney General Bob McDonnell that "at no time will I assume a relationship of 'attorney-client' that would result in the exercising of any attorney client privilege or any work product privilege. It is my understanding the College would continue to rely upon legal services through the Office of Attorney General." McDonnell concluded, "it is my opinion that you do not have an impermissible conflict of interest under the Act based on the facts herein", writing, "I affirm the intention that your relationship with the College will not be that of attorney and client."

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli released the Norment opinion to the public and issued a press release on September 2, 2011. The press release read: "Recent public statements made by state Senator Thomas Norment suggest that for the past several years, he assumed a role of legal counsel for the College of William & Mary. One of his reported statements also incorrectly implied that a 2008 opinion he requested from the Office of the Attorney General affirmed that such an arrangement would be acceptable under the law."

Political career
Initially a Democrat, Norment was elected to the James City County Board of Supervisors as a Republican and served from 1987 to 1991. He was elected to the state senate in 1991, defeating Democrat Bill Fears with 54% of the vote. Norment was unopposed for reelection in 1995, reelected with 63% of the vote in 1999, reelected with 62% of the vote in 2003, reelected unopposed in 2007 and 2011, and reelected with 70% of the vote in 2015. He has led the Virginia Senate Republican caucus since 2008.

Controversies
In January 2001, Norment was charged with driving under the influence after he was pulled over on Interstate 64 outside Richmond with a blood alcohol content of 0.10. He apologized to his constituents and colleagues from the Senate floor two days later, saying, "I offer no excuses, no avoidances of responsibility. I do, however, offer my sincere and contrite apologies for any embarrassment or shadow I may have cast over the integrity and dignity of this body."

In April 2015, a 2013 letter from Norment to the Virginia State Bar saying that he had previously had an extramarital relationship with a female lobbyist was made public. Norment was responding to allegations from an unsatisfied legal client, Christopher Burruss, who attempted to extort him by revealing Norment's affair. Rather than comply with Burruss's demands, Norment turned the evidence over to the State Bar. Burruss was convicted of extortion and sentenced to two years in prison. Norment reported that his marriage had recovered from the affair, but he later divorced. The lobbyist's name, Angie Bezik, was withheld from news reports until 2018, when Norment announced he was engaged to marry her. He restricted press access to the Virginia Senate in 2016, a move seen as catalyzed by the coverage of his affair.

In August 2015, Norment's name and personal information appeared on the hacked Ashley Madison servers, showing one payment of $68.99 and two payments of $79. Clients of the dating service were required to pay to initiate a conversation with another client, and male clients paid to read the first messages from female clients. Norment declined to comment.

In 2019, former students of Norment's at William and Mary accused him of teaching racist material and making racist and transphobic statements in class.

In February 2019, it was revealed that Norment was an editor of the 1968 Virginia Military Institute yearbook that showed students in Ku Klux Klan attire and blackface and with racially offensive nicknames, which came to light in the context of the 2019 Virginia political crisis. Norment does not appear in the photos and issued a statement saying he condemned the use of blackface and said his role was ensuring writers and photographers made their submissions on time and that he was "still culpable, but it is by association with a team that produced that yearbook with those photos". He pointed out that page 236 of the same yearbook shows he supported VMI's racial integration in 1968, and that he led an effort to enroll women there in 1997.

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References

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is a Japanese footballer who is currently playing for FC Tiamo Hirakata.

Career statistics
Updated to 23 February 2020.

1Includes Promotion Playoffs to J1.

Team honors

Kashima Antlers
 J1 League (2): 2007, 2008

References

External links

Profile at Giravanz Kitakyushu

1985 births
Living people
Kanagawa University alumni
Association football people from Ibaraki Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Japan Football League players
Kashima Antlers players
Cerezo Osaka players
Shonan Bellmare players
Oita Trinita players
Tokyo Verdy players
V-Varen Nagasaki players
Giravanz Kitakyushu players
FC Maruyasu Okazaki players
FC Tiamo Hirakata players
Men's association football defenders


Influências is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated album by Brazilian musician Dori Caymmi, released in 2001. The album was nominated for Best Contemporary Brazilian album in 2004. Some of the songs in the album pay homage to his father - "La Vem A Baiana" and "Acontece Que Es Sou Baiana".

Track listing
 "Conversa de Botequim" (with Gal Costa)
 "Faceira"
 "Linda Flor (Yayá) (Ai, Yoyô)"
 "Cor Do Pecado"
 "Pé Do Lageiro" (with Dominguinhos)
 "Serenata Do Adeus"
 "Lá Vem Baiana"
 "Copacabana"
 "Acontece Que Eu Sou Baiano"
 "É Doce Morrer No Mar"
 "Berimbau"
 "Felicidade"
 "Desafinado"
 "Migalhas de Amor"
 "Clair de Lune"

References

Dori Caymmi official website

Dori Caymmi albums
2001 albums


is a former Japanese football player.

In February 2015, Suzuki announced his retirement from football.

References

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Living people
Waseda University alumni
Association football people from Chiba Prefecture
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Men's association football midfielders


Zhang Mingqing () is, as of 2008, the vice chairperson of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).

On a visit to Taiwan in October 2008, Zhang was attacked by pro-independence protesters in Tainan. There was a scuffle during which he was pushed to the ground. The assault was filmed and broadcast on Taiwanese television. Official Chinese news agency Xinhua expressed its "strong indignation". Taiwan's presidential office in turn expressed regrets over the incident; both sides condemned the violence.

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Mohamed Jah Massaquoi ( ; born November 24, 1986) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Georgia and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft.

Massaquoi has also been a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets.

Early years
Massaquoi was born in Charlotte, North Carolina to parents from Liberia. He played high-school football at Independence High School in Charlotte. During his four years there his team did not lose a single game and won four straight state championships. He played with two college football notables, former University of Florida quarterback Chris Leak and former University of North Carolina wide receiver Hakeem Nicks.

Career receptions: 274
Career receiving yards: 4,876
Career receiving touchdowns: 76

College career
He finished his collegiate career at the University of Georgia with 158 catches for 2,282 yards and 16 touchdowns, which ranks fourth best in school history. Massaquoi had a strong senior season with career-highs in catches (58), yards (920), and touchdowns (8). In Massaquoi's last four regular-season games at Georgia, he caught 29 passes for 544 yards and 4 touchdowns (including a career-high 3 in Georgia's 45–42 loss to Georgia Tech). His longest reception came in his junior season against SEC East rival Florida, hauling in an 84-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Matthew Stafford.

Professional career

Cleveland Browns

Massaquoi was drafted by the Browns in the second round with the 50th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Massaquoi was the Browns leading receiver during his rookie season (2009) with 34 catches for 624 yards, including an NFL best 148 receiving yards (on 8 catches) in Week 4.

In his four years with the Browns, Massaquoi caught a total of 118 passes for 1,745 yards and 7 touchdowns.

Jacksonville Jaguars
Massaquoi was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars on April 5, 2013, on a two-year deal.

He was released on August 19, 2013.

New York Jets
Massaquoi signed with the New York Jets on August 22, 2013. He was released on August 31, 2013.

Accident
In April 2017, Massaquoi had an ATV accident which led to the amputation of four fingers on his left hand.

References

External links

Georgia Bulldogs bio
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The Union syndicale des magistrats, commonly abbreviated as USM, is the French largest (and majoritarian) magistrates trade union – both in terms of membership (roughly 2,000 out of 8,000 magistrates) and support in professional elections (68% of the vote in the 2013 trade union elections).

The USM claims to be apolitical, contrary to the Syndicat de la Magistrature (SM), the second-largest union, that often expresses strong left-wing views and opposition to conservative policies.

External links
  Official website

Politics of France
Trade unions in France


"Me Estás Tentando" () is the first single by Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel from their compilation album Wisin & Yandel Presentan: La Mente Maestra, released on October 21, 2008 by Machete Music. A remix of the single was released on February 17, 2009. It features Franco "El Gorila" and Jayko, and a music video was also released in early February. The song was also featured in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on the San Juan Sounds radio station.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

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Berlinite (aluminium phosphate, chemical formula AlPO4 or Al(PO4)) is a rare high-temperature hydrothermal or metasomatic phosphate mineral. It has the same crystal structure as quartz with a low temperature polytype isostructural with α–quartz and a high temperature polytype isostructural with β–quartz. Berlinite can vary from colorless to greyish or pale pink and has translucent crystals.

It was first described in 1868 for an occurrence in the Västanå iron mine, Scania, Sweden and named for Nils Johan Berlin (1812–1891) of Lund University.

It occurs as a rare mineral in high-temperature hydrothermal or metasomatic deposits.  Associated minerals include  augelite, attakolite, kyanite, pyrophyllite, scorzalite, lazulite, gatumbaite, burangaite, amblygonite, phosphosiderite, purpurite, apatite, muscovite, quartz, hematite in granite pegmatites. It also occurs with alunite, aragonite, collophane, crandallite, francoanellite, gypsum, huntite, hydromagnesite, leucophosphite, nesquehonite, niter, and nitrocalcite in the Paddy's River copper mine in the Brindabella Mountains of Australia.

References

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is a former Japanese football player.

Club statistics

Team honors
J1 League - 2007, 2008
Emperor's Cup - 2007

References

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Die, Monster, Die! (British title: Monster of Terror) is a 1965 science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson and Suzan Farmer. A loose adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space", its plot follows an American man who, while visiting his English fiancee's familial estate, uncovers a series of bizarre occurrences.

American International Pictures theatrically released the film in a double feature with Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965).

Plot
Stephen Reinhart, an American scientist, travels to Arkham, England to visit his fiancée, Susan Witley, whom he met while she was studying abroad in the United States. He arrives at the Witley estate, where he is met coolly by Susan's father, Nahum. Susan's bedridden mother, Letitia, however, is welcoming of him. She invites Stephen to speak with her, but remains partly hidden by her bed canopy, which obscures her features. She offers Stephen a box containing a gold earring that she says belonged to her maid, Helga, who recently fell mysteriously ill and disappeared.

Over dinner, Stephen asks Susan and Nahum about a blackened patch of land near the estate that appears decimated. They state it was caused by a fire, though Susan adds that no one has been able to fully explain what occurred there. Moments later, the butler, Mervyn, collapses. Later, while Susan brings her mother dinner, she is startled by a cloaked figure that appears in the window. Late that night, Stephen and Susan hear mysterious noises emanating from the basement. When they go to investigate, they are met by Nahum, who nervously informs them that Mervyn has died. Later that night, Stephen witnesses Nahum burying Mervyn's body in the woods. When he follows him outside, he observes a strange light glowing from the greenhouse.

At dawn, Stephen leaves the estate and is followed by a cloaked figure who attacks him in the woods, but the individual quickly flees. Back in the village, Stephen meets with Henderson, the town doctor, who is reluctant to speak to him due to his association with the Witleys. Henderson's secretary informs Stephen that Susan's grandfather, Corbin Witley, died in Henderson's arms, but the circumstances of his death remain a mystery.

Stephen confronts Susan about the goings-on, and the two go to investigate the greenhouse; inside, they discover plants and flowers grown to an abnormally large size. In a potting shed, they discover a machine emitting radiation, along with several large, caged creatures. Stephen finds pieces of meteorite stone that he suspects are also emitting radiation. Susan remarks that both her mother and Helga frequently worked in the greenhouse.

While Stephen goes to investigate in the basement, Susan confronts her father about the discovery they made in the greenhouse, realizing that he has been experimenting with radioactivity to mutate plant and animal life, resulting in dire consequences, such as Letitia and Helga's disfigurements and illnesses. Nahum confronts Stephen in the basement, where he has located a large chamber containing a radioactive meteorite. Upstairs, Stephen, Susan, and Nahum find Letitia's room empty and in disarray. Shortly after, Susan and Stephen are attacked by a grossly-disfigured  Letitia, whose face has decayed significantly.

When burying Letitia in the family cemetery the next day, Nahum explains how he obtained the meteorite: It fell from the sky, landing in the heath near the estate, and triggered a lush growth of plants around it within one day. Nahum intended to use the meteorite to create a foliage-rich landscape. That night, when Nahum attempts to destroy the meteor in the basement, he is attacked by a cloaked, axe-wielding Helga. She attempts to kill him, but accidentally falls to her death in the chamber, landing on the meteorite. Nahum, now highly-exposed to the meteorite, suffers radiation burns that grossly disfigure him. He chases Stephen and Susan through the house before bursting into flames, setting the Witley mansion ablaze, with Stephen and Susan narrowly escaping to safety.

Cast

Production
ht was shot in February and March 1965 at Shepperton Studios under the working title The House at the End of the World. Location shooting for the town/village of Arkham was done at Shere, Surrey, while the Witley mansion was Oakley Court, Water Oakley, Berkshire.

Release
In the United States, American International Pictures released the film on 27 October 1965 as the first feature on a double bill with Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965). In the UK, the film was shown to the film trade on 4 February 1966 and released on the 20th the same month, supported by Roger Corman's film The Haunted Palace (1963), which is also based on a Lovecraft story.

Critical response

G. Noel Gross, writing for the DVD review website DVD Talk, writes: "The plodding plot would be more painful if the flick were longer, but the intriguing meld of gothic horror and contemporary sci-fi is hard to pass up".

Comic book adaptation
 Dell Movie Classic: Die, Monster, Die! (March 1966)

See also
 List of American films of 1965

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Sources

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Tray Blackmon (born October 20, 1985) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker. He played college football for the Auburn Tigers.

Early years
Although undersized for a typical national type linebacker recruit, Blackmon was considered a five-star prospect by several recruiting services. Scout.com ranked him #1 among the 2005 linebackers class. The Player of the Year in AAA for the State Champion Grangers, Blackmon had 116 tackles, 16 tackles for loss, 12 Sacks, 5 forced fumbles, 3 fumble recoveries, one safety, and one defensive touchdown as a senior.

College career
After redshirting in 2005, Blackmon recorded 18 tackles, including 2.5 for loss, in six games in 2006, which earned him a spot on The Sporting News Freshman All-America Second Team. He amassed 41 tackles, including 25 solo, in last seven games of the 2007 season. He added 21 tackles in 2008 and has 84 tackles for his career.

Blackmon battled suspensions and injuries during his collegiate career.  Blackmon was suspended from playing in Auburn's first three games of the 2006 season. In 2008, Blackmon suffered a broken bone in his wrist in the fourth game of the season.

Professional career
On May 5, 2009, he signed with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.

References

Further reading

External links
Calgary Stampeders bio

1985 births
Living people
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is a Japanese former professional football player. He was capped by the Japan national team.

Club career
In 2019, Masuda joined the K League 2 side Seoul E-Land on loan from Shimizu S-Pulse. He announced his retirement in November of the same year.

International career
Masuda made his senior national team debut on 24 February 2012 in a friendly match against Iceland.

Club statistics
Last update: 6 January 2018

National team statistics

References

External links

 Japan National Football Team Database

 Profile at Shimizu S-Pulse

1985 births
Living people
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Japanese men's footballers
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Japan men's international footballers
J1 League players
K League 1 players
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UAE Pro League players
Kashima Antlers players
Montedio Yamagata players
Ulsan Hyundai FC players
Omiya Ardija players
Sharjah FC players
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Seoul E-Land FC players
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Japanese expatriate men's footballers
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USS Vixen was a brig in commission in the United States Navy in 1813.

Vixen was purchased by the U.S. Navy at Savannah, Georgia in 1813. She was captured at  sea by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Belvidera on 25 December 1813 while sailing from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Newcastle, Delaware without her armament or stores.

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Paul de Schlözer or Paweł Schlözer (1841 or 18421 July 1898) was a Polish pianist and teacher of German descent. He was possibly also a composer, but the only two works attributed to him may have been written by Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski.

Life
Very little is known about his life. He became the piano accompanist to Pablo de Sarasate and to his own brother, the violinist Teodor (Fyodor) de Schlözer. In 1879 he taught at the Institute of Music in Warsaw, where he succeeded Juliusz Janotha. Ignacy Jan Paderewski mentions him in his letters, sometimes by disparaging references such as "Mr. Paul" and "Pablito". Around 1892 he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his most important pupil was the music historian Leonid Sabaneyev. On 3 February 1894, he performed the Chopin Cello Sonata with the visiting Czech cellist Hanuš Wihan, at the Conservatory.

His niece Tatiana Fyodorovna Schlözer became Alexander Scriabin’s second wife.  His nephew, Tatiana's brother, was the music critic Boris de Schlözer.

Controversy
He is unknown as a composer except for two études, Op. 1, for piano. The assertion made in reference materials – that Sergei Rachmaninoff used Étude No. 2 in A-flat as his daily warm-up exercise – may also not be entirely accurate (one source refers to this story as a legend).  There are several easily available recordings of the étude, such as by Jorge Bolet and Stephen Hough. There is also a famous 1933 recording by Eileen Joyce. The first recording, from 1907, was by the Liszt pupil Vera Timanova.

Some historians believe that de Schlözer was not the composer of these études at all, and, given their virtuosity, it is very intriguing why nothing else from his pen ever appeared, or why he did not achieve any sort of recognition as a major pianist himself. The story goes that they were in fact written by Moszkowski, who lost the manuscript to de Schlözer in a card game, who published them as his own works. The de Schlözer Étude No. 2 is longer, more elaborate, and more technically demanding than the 11th of Moszkowski's 15 Études de Virtuosité, Op. 72, but both are in A-flat and in a similar bravura style. However, it may be that these similarities gave rise to the legend that de Schlözer pieces were written by Moszkowski.

References

External links

 Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Letters to His Father and to Helena Górska, (A Selection), Ed. Małgorzata Perkowska-Waszek

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Teslin Lake is a large lake spanning the border between British Columbia and Yukon, Canada.  It is one of a group of large lakes in the region of far northwestern BC, east of the upper Alaska Panhandle, which are the southern extremity of the basin of the Yukon River, and which are known in Yukon as "the Southern Lakes" (the other major ones in the group are Atlin Lake and Tagish Lake but include Bennett and Lindeman Lakes, the headwaters of the Yukon River itself).  The lake is fed and drained primarily by the Teslin River, south and north, but is also fed from the east by the Jennings River and the Swift River, and from the west by the Hayes River.

According to the Yukon Geographical Names Project, "Teslin" means "long water", but in the Tlingit language the local kwaan or tribe of Tlingit is called Deisleen Kwáan", meaning "Big Sinew Tribe".

There are three Taku River Tlingit First Nation communities around the south end of the lake in British Columbia: Jennings River Indian Reserve No. 8, Teslin Lake Indian Reserve No. 7, and Teslin Lake Indian Reserve No. 9; in the same area there once was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post.  On the Yukon portion of the lake there are three First Nation communities: Nisutlin Indian Reserve No. 14, Nisutlin Bay Indian Reserve No. 15, and the Teslin Tlingit Council. The latter is centred in the Village of Teslin, which is located where the Alaska Highway meets the lake, following its northern/eastern shore from there towards Whitehorse.  The Nisutlin Plateau limns the eastern side of the lake north of the mouth of the Teslin River and extends into Yukon.

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Borders of Yukon
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Yukon River


Terence Robert Corelli Fox (2 May 1912 – 5 October 1962), often called T.R.C. Fox, was a notable British chemical engineer. He was a member of the Atomic Energy Council and the first Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Fox was born on 2 May 1912, the son of an electrical engineer, and attended Regent Street Polytechnic Technical School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He graduated from the latter in 1933 with a degree in mechanical sciences. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes his success in the tripos as "unparalleled"; he received a starred first and all available prizes, including the Rex Moir Prize and prizes for the best marks in Thermodynamics, Aeronautical Engineering and Structures, all in the same examination.

Fox returned to the Engineering Department at Cambridge four years after graduating, having first served a stint as a technical assistant at Imperial Chemical Industries. He began as a demonstrator and became a fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1941. Due to his teaching position he did not see active service in the Second World War, but he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the University Officer Training Corps, Royal Signals section, on 3 October 1942, a commission he resigned on 9 February 1946.

In 1945, he became a lecturer in the Engineering Department at Cambridge. In that same year, on 2 March 1945, the university accepted an endowment to form a chemical engineering department by the Shell Group of Oil Companies, who would also sponsor a department chair. Though not established in the field, Fox was announced as the first to fill the chair position in June 1946.

Fox spent several years preparing the department before beginning to accept students in 1948. He was a supportive chair, dedicated to financing and furthering the research of others, including the team of Francis Thomas Bacon when they developed the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell. He remained in the position until 1959, when poor health forced him to retire, and was succeeded by Peter Victor Danckwerts. According to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Fox's poor health was the result of a high stress personality, which led him to "a succession of nervous breakdowns in the early 1950s". He died at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London on 5 October 1962.

On 2 March 1963, the T.R.C. Fox Fund was established at Cambridge in tribute to his memory. The Fund is used to provide an annual award to the student who does best on the Chemical Engineering Tripos, as long as that student is able to attain "the standard of the first class".

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Scarlet Lilith Eleida Page (born 24 March 1971) is an English photographer. She is the daughter of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Charlotte Martin, a French model.

Childhood
Born in London, she grew up in England, and stayed at both Plumpton Place in East Sussex (1971–1979), and later the Old Mill House in Mill Lane, Berkshire, where she also learned to play the piano. She was also a passenger in the car driven by Robert Plant's wife Maureen on the Greek island of Rhodes on 4 August 1975, when their hired Austin Mini skidded off the road and collided with a tree. Page was uninjured.

Career
Page was a student of London's University of Westminster, graduating with a BA in Photography, Film and Video. Following an apprenticeship with noted photographer Ross Halfin, she was commissioned to photograph Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, for rock music publication Raw in 1993. Developing a documentary-style narrative, Page was adept to experiment within live portraiture of The Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys during the 1994 Lollapalooza tour of North America. Page's first major album shoot came in 1995 with the commissioning of the critically acclaimed The Verve release A Northern Soul. Since then, Page's work has been featured in music publications Q, Kerrang!, Blender, and Spin.

In June 1999, Page held a charity exhibition entitled Scream for Task Brazil and the ABC Trust. Page's next major shoots involved projects with singer Robbie Williams, with his multi-platinum release Swing When You're Winning in 2000. Page provided the stills for the artwork, as well as content for Williams' 2001 tour photojournal Somebody Someday, and the subsequent 2002 DVD Nobody Someday. In 2004, Page was appointed official photographer for UK band The Darkness. Other artists Page has credits with include the Foo Fighters, The Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, Stereophonics, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Placebo, and Gomez amongst others. Since its début in 2006, Page has contributed stills to The Album Chart Show on Channel 4. On 10 September 2007, Page held an exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall entitled Your Child, which featured the lives of celebrities and their children, followed up by contributions to the Visions of Dylan photographic exhibition on 1 October 2007 at The Hospital in Covent Garden, London.

MTV hired her to chronicle the UK music scene throughout May 2008, with access to bands as part of their Spanking New Music Tour coverage. In 2009, Page was commissioned by the veterinary charity PDSA for a calendar entitled Pet Pawtraits featuring celebrities with their pets.

Personal life
On 8 October 2007, a son and a daughter were born to Page and her then-partner Tom Brown; Page and Brown married in 2009.

References

External links
 Official website
 Scarlet Page Official MySpace Page

English people of French descent
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is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career
Aratani was born in Takaoka on August 6, 1975. After graduating from high school, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 1994. However he could not play at all in the match behind Hisashi Tsuchida and Yuki Takita. In 1998, he moved to Japan Football League club Kawasaki Frontale. However he could not play at all in the match behind Takeshi Urakami. In 1999, he moved to Omiya Ardija. Although he could not play at all in the match behind Atsushi Shirai until 2001, he debuted in 2002. Although he could not play at all in the match behind Eiji Kawashima in 2003, he became a regular goalkeeper after Kawashima left the club in 2004. In 2004, the club won the 2nd place and was promoted to J1. However he lost his position behind Koji Ezumi for injury in 2007 and he could not play at all in the match in 2008. In 2009, he moved to J2 club Consadole Sapporo. Although he played many matches in 2009 season, he resigned and moved to J2 club Ventforet Kofu in 2010. The club won the 2nd place in 2010 and was promoted to J1 from 2011. He retired end of 2011 season.

Club statistics

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Association football people from Toyama Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Japan Football League (1992–1998) players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Kawasaki Frontale players
Omiya Ardija players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Ventforet Kofu players
Men's association football goalkeepers


is a former Japanese football player.

Club statistics

Personal life
On 28 February 2010 was announced that the 24-year-old Japanese is injured with the Osteosarcoma at the knee. Whether the defender can continue his career is still uncertain.

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1985 births
Living people
Komazawa University alumni
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
Omiya Ardija players
Men's association football defenders


Billibellary (c. 1799–10 August 1846) was a song maker and influential ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan during the early years of European settlement of Melbourne. He was known by various names including Billi-billeri, Billibellary, Jika Jika, Jacky Jacky and Jaga Jaga. He was an astute and diplomatic leader, described as powerfully built with an influence and reputation that extended well beyond his clan.

Clan territories
Billibellary's family lived on the north bank of the Yarra from Yarra Bend Park, and up Merri Creek. His brother, Burrenupton lived on the southern bank of the Yarra upstream of Gardiners Creek. Bebejan, also known as Jerrum Jerrum and was the father of William Barak, lived on the Yarra River from Heidelberg up to Mount Baw Baw. Mooney Mooney, a ngurungaeta of the Baluk-willam clan occupied land from the southeast of the Yarra River to Dandenong, Cranbourne and the marshes near Western Port.

Old Ninggalobin, ngurungaeta of the Mount Macedon clan, shared joint custody with Billibellary of the Mount William Quarry which was a source of the highly valued greenstone hatchet heads, which were traded across a wide area as far as New South Wales and Adelaide. The Quarry had been in use for more than 1,500 years and covered 18 hectares including underground pits of several metres. In February 2008 the site was placed on the National heritage list for its cultural importance and archaeological value.

Ninggalobin, Poleorong and Billibellary were the leading song makers and principal Woi-Wurrung leaders in the Melbourne region. European colonisation had caused disruptions to initiation ceremonies. In response these three men gathered at South Yarra and inducted the young William Barak into Aboriginal lore. This entailed formally presenting Barak with the symbols of manhood: strips of possum-skin tied around his biceps; the gombert (reed necklace) around his neck; given his ilbi-jerri, a sharp and narrow bone or nosepeg; and his branjep, the apron worn by men to cover their genitals. At the end of the ceremony Barack presented his uncle, Billibellary, a possum-skin cloak.

Treaty

When John Batman explored the Yarra river and its tributaries he met Billibellary, one of the eight ngurungaeta he signed a treaty with on 8 June 1835. The meeting took place on the bank of a small stream, likely to be the Merri Creek and treaty documents were signed along with exchanges of goods by both sides. For a purchase price including tomahawks, knives, scissors, flannel jackets, red shirts and a yearly tribute of similar items, Batman obtained about 200,000 hectares (2,000 square km) around the Yarra River and Corio Bay. The total value of the goods has been estimated at about GBP100 in the value of the day. In return the Woiwurrung offered woven baskets of examples of their weaponry and two Possum-skin cloaks, a highly treasured item. After the treaty signing, a celebration took place with the Parramatta aborigines with Batman's party dancing a corroboree.

The treaty was significant as it was the first and only documented time when European settlers negotiated their presence and occupation of aboriginal lands. The Treaty was immediately repudiated by the colonial government in Sydney. The 1835 proclamation by Governor Richard Bourke implemented the doctrine of "terra nullius" upon which British settlement was based, reinforcing the concept that there was no prior land owner to British possession and that Aboriginal people could not sell or assign the land, and individuals could only acquire it through distribution by the Crown.

Clash of cultures
In response to tending an injury and caring for his son Simon Wonga for a period of two months in 1840, Billibellary named his newly born daughter Susannah in honour of Susannah Thomas, the wife of Assistant Protector William Thomas.

In January 1840 near Arthurs Seat William Thomas promised the gathered Kulin clans government rations until they could set up a self-sufficient community, but Chief Protector George Augustus Robinson had refused to release government supplies. Fearing for his wife and children Thomas spoke to Billibellary and explained the non-arrival of the rations, and asked for protection for his wife and children. Even though Billibellary was out of his territory, his authority was unquestioned. Thomas reported that Billibellary said "Very good that Mr Fawkner and Batman...Big one Gammon (pretend) your Mr Robinson and Government". Susannah Thomas released all the stores she could spare and Billibellary ordered the clans to split up into smaller groups for foraging.

On the instructions of Charles La Trobe a Native Police Corps was established and underwritten by the government in 1842 in the hope of civilising the Aboriginal men. As senior Wurundjeri elder, Billibellary' co-operation for the proposal was important for its success, and after deliberation he backed the initiative and even proposed himself for enlistment. He donned the uniform and enjoyed the status of parading through the camp, but was careful to avoid active duty as a policeman to avoid a conflict of interest between his duties as a Wurundjeri ngurungaeta. Participation in the police corps also failed to stop troopers participating in tribal ceremonies, gatherings and rituals.

After about a year Billibellary resigned from the Native Police Corps when he found that it was to be used to capture and even kill other natives. He did his best from then to undermine the Corps and as a result many native troopers deserted and few remained longer than three or four years.

In 1845 a school was established on the banks of the Merri Creek to, in European terms, educate and civilise Wurundjeri children. For the first year or two the school enjoyed strong enrolments, largely due to the support and encouragement of Billibellary, who sent his own children along. But there were conflicts over teaching European curriculum and the demands for the teaching of Aboriginal lore and ceremony. The death of Billibellary in 1846 led to a drop in student numbers at the school, with many students drifting away and others becoming disruptive.

Death
Billibellary died on 10 August 1846 of inflammation of the lungs, an ailment which killed many of his people in the period after contact with Europeans.  Billibellary was buried at the confluence of the Merri Creek and the Yarra river (Birrarang) near Dights Falls. His passing was lamented by Thomas who had developed a deep friendship and mutual respect across cultures. He wrote of Billibellary after his death: "It may be said of this Chief and his tribe what can scarce be said of any tribe of located parts of the colony that they never shed white man's blood nor have white men shed their blood. I have lost in this man a valuable councillor in Aboriginal affairs."

After his death, his son Simon Wonga became ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan.

References

Bibliography

Australian Aboriginal elders
Wurundjeri people
People from Victoria (state)
1790s births
1846 deaths


British Schools of America, an educational organization founded in 1998, joined the Nord Anglia Education family in 2013. Headquartered in Hong Kong, with a North America regional office in Chicago, Illinois, Nord Anglia Education operates 42 schools with over 34,000 students around the world including 10 schools in the United States located in Washington D.C., Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Boston, New York, Windermere and Coconut Creek. All Nord Anglia Education Schools in the United States provide a unique combination of the International Baccalaureate and the English National Curriculum.The schools also offer the IB Diploma Programme and the IGCSE as well as US curriculum.

British School of Boston

The British School of Boston opened in September 2000 in Dedham, Massachusetts. In 2004, the school relocated to the Showa Boston campus in the Moss Hill section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. BSB shares a  campus with Showa Women's University satellite campus whose main campus is in Tokyo, Japan. The current headmaster is Paul Wiseman. All teaching staff is recruited directly from the United Kingdom or other international schools.

Accreditation and Professional Associations

The British School of Boston is accredited to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme  and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). The school is an active member of the  http://www.ecis.org/(ECIS) and the  https://web.archive.org/web/20110927231350/http://www.cois.org/(CISTA).

Enrollment and Student Profile

The British School of Boston's current enrollment comprises approximately 435 students, with seventy eight nationalities represented in the student body.  The school serves Nursery School to Year 13 (Pre-School to Grade 12).

British School of Chicago, Lincoln Park
British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park opened in 2001 in Chicago, Illinois on the north side. In 2008, the school relocated to Lincoln Park. The current principal is Mel Curtis. All teaching staff is recruited directly from the United Kingdom or other international schools.

The school is well known in the area for the British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park Music School, which offers students and members of the community to take individual and group classes.

Accreditation and Professional Associations

British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park is accredited as a Learning-Focused School. It is also accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the National Independent Private Schools Association (NIPSA). The school is an active member of the European Council for International Schools (ECIS) and the Council for International Schools in the Americas (CISTA). BSC is also an affiliate member of the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS).  In 2010, the school was the 4th in the world to achieve "mastering" level in all areas in delivering the International Primary Curriculum.

Student Profile

British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park serves Nursery to Year 6 (Pre-School to Grade 5).

British American School of Charlotte
The British American School of Charlotte opened in 2004 and is located in the Ballantyne/South Charlotte area. The current headteacher is Adam Stevens. All teaching staff is recruited directly from the United Kingdom or other international schools.  The curriculum includes the International Primary Curriculum, National Curriculum for England, and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education IGCSE.

Accreditation and Professional Associations

The British American School of Charlotte is accredited as a Learning-Focused School. The school is an active member of the European Council for International Schools (ECIS) and the Council for International Schools in the Americas (CISTA).

Enrollment and Student Profile

The British American School of Charlotte's current enrollment comprises approximately 165 students, with eleven nationalities represented in the student body. The school serves Nursery to Year 10 (Pre-School to Grade 9).

British School of Houston
The British School of Houston opened in 2000 and is located west of downtown Houston, Texas. The headteacher is Ann McPhee (acting). All teaching staff is recruited directly from the United Kingdom or other international schools.

Accreditation and Professional Associations

The British School of Houston is accredited to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). The school is an active member of the European Council for International Schools (ECIS), the Council for International Schools in the Americas (CISTA), and the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools.

Enrollment and Student Profile

The British School of Houston's current enrollment comprises approximately 870 students, with over forty nationalities represented in the student body. The school serves Nursery to Year 13 (Pre-School to Grade 12).

British School of Washington
The British School of Washington was the first World Class Learning school to be opened by Lesley Stagg in 1998 Washington D.C. In 2008, the school relocated to the Georgetown (D.C.) area.  The headteacher is David Rowsell. All teaching staff is recruited directly from the United Kingdom or other international schools.

Accreditation and Professional Associations

The British School of Washington is accredited to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). The school is also accredited as a Learning-Focused School and is an active member of the European Council for International Schools (ECIS), the Council for International Schools in the Americas (CISTA), and the British American Business Council.

Enrollment and Student Profile

The British School of Washington's current enrollment comprises approximately 430 students, with over thirty four nationalities represented in the student body. The school serves Nursery to Year 13 (Pre-School to Grade 12).

References

External links

British international schools in the United States
International schools in the United States


is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career
Tomita was born in Ube on April 24, 1977. After graduating from University of Tsukuba, he joined newly was promoted to J2 League club, Mito HollyHock in 2000. He became a regular player as defensive midfielder from first season. He was converted to center back in 2001. In 2004, he moved to J2 club Omiya Ardija. He played as regular center back. Ardija won the 2nd place and was promoted to J1 League first time in the club history. He played more 30 matches every season until 2008. In 2010, he moved to Vissel Kobe. However he could hardly play in the match. In 2011, he moved to Ventforet Kofu. However the club was relegated to J2 end of 2011 season and he could not play many matches in 2012. In 2013, he re-joined Mito HollyHock for the first time in 10 years. He played as regular center back in 2013. However his opportunity to play decreased in 2014. In 2015, he moved to Tokushima Vortis. Although he could not play at all in the match until 2016, he could hardly play in the match in 2017. In 2018, he re-joined Mito HollyHock. However he could hardly play in the match and retired end of 2018 season.

Club statistics

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
University of Tsukuba alumni
Association football people from Yamaguchi Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Mito HollyHock players
Omiya Ardija players
Vissel Kobe players
Ventforet Kofu players
Tokushima Vortis players
Men's association football defenders


Da Club Phenomena is the first remix album by Armand Van Helden.

Track listing
CD album
"Funk Phenomena" [Original Version]
"Witch Doktor"
"Psychic Bounty Killas" [Remix]
"Donkey"
"Break da 80's"
"Allright"
"Hey Baby"
"I Feel It"
"Work Me Gadamit '96"
"Funk Phenomena 2K" [Santos PandEmonio Remix]
"Funk Phenomena" [da Hool Remix]

Release history

References

Armand Van Helden albums
1997 albums


is a former Japanese football player who lastly featured for Gainare Tottori.

Career
After a five-years tenure and ten years with Omiya Ardija, Kataoka signed for Gainare Tottori in December 2015.

Club career statistics
Updated to 2 February 2018.

References

External links

J.League profile

1982 births
Living people
Kokushikan University alumni
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
J3 League players
Omiya Ardija players
Kyoto Sanga FC players
Gainare Tottori players
Men's association football defenders


Coming Out is a 2000 South Korean short film directed by Kim Jee-woon.

Plot
The film opens with a man being interviewed about his sister, who has recorded a video diary in which she makes a shocking confession to her friends and family. Purporting to be a true story, the bulk of the film is presented as a reconstruction of actual events.

Hyun-joo announces to her younger brother Jae-min and his girlfriend Ji-eun that she has an important confession to make, and asks them to record it on video. After issuing an apology to her parents, she reveals that she has been hiding a painful secret and is not like normal people; she is in fact a vampire. Jae-min and Ji-eun initially think she is playing a prank, but to prove her sincerity Hyun-joo bites into her wrist and starts to suck her own blood. She goes on to disclose further details of her life as a vampire, and dispels many of the common myths associated with the legend. Having heard of others like her overseas, she has decided to join a community of vampires living in England.

Going out at night to attract less attention, Jae-min films his sister as she feeds on a young woman in a telephone box. He and Ji-eun later talk to the woman, who remains unharmed, and she tells them that the experience was not painful, likening the sensation to an electric shock. The events prove to them that Hyun-joo is telling the truth.

Some time later, Ji-eun visits Hyun-joo who is now living in England. Curious to know how it feels being bitten by a vampire, she asks Hyun-joo to suck her blood. Choosing the inside of her thigh, Hyun-joo begins to feed on her friend.

Cast
 Gu Hye-ju as Hyun-joo
 Shin Ha-kyun as Jae-min
 Jang I-ji as Ji-eun
 No Eul as Girl in telephone booth
 Kim Il-woong as Interviewer
 Im Won-hee as Tutor

Production
Kim Jee-woon wrote and directed Coming Out as part of a project to distribute three digital short films online. Commissioned by venture group Media 4M, the project also included shorts by Jang Jin and Ryoo Seung-wan. Coming Out was shot with a Canon XL-1 camcorder during a time when digital filmmaking in South Korea was still in its infancy, and went on to inspire many other digital productions.

Release and critical response
Coming Out was first broadcast online on 7 August 2000. In 2001 it was shown at the Fantasia Festival, and a report for Ain't It Cool News described the film as a "sexy and funny little short" with "a series of truly hilarious and unnerving scenes", also noting the "unmistakable overtones to the imagery" with regard to the final scene where Hyun-joo draws blood from her friend's thigh. Other festival screenings include the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in 2001, and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2005. Coming Out was also included as a special feature on the UK DVD release of The Quiet Family, and a review at DVDActive praised it as "delicate, cerebral and contemporary cinema at its most profound."

See also
Vampire film

References

External links

2000 films
Camcorder films
Films directed by Kim Jee-woon
Internet films
2000s Korean-language films
South Korean short films
Vampires in film
South Korean fantasy films
2000s South Korean films


Paradox in Oz is a 1999 novel written by Edward Einhorn. As its title indicates, the book is an entry in the series of books about the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and a host of successors.

The book
Paradox in Oz was published by Hungry Tiger Press, with illustrations by Eric Shanower. It was playwright Einhorn's first novel and first Oz book. (His second in both categories, The Living House of Oz, would appear in 2005.) The publication of Paradox in Oz was timed to coincide with the centennial of the original Oz book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (as was also true of Gina Wickwar's The Hidden Prince of Oz and Dave Hardenbrook's The Unknown Witches of Oz). Einhorn's novel was warmly received and widely praised upon its initial publication, as were Shanower's illustrations; a review in Asimov's Science Fiction called it a "gorgeous book."

Genre
In Paradox in Oz Einhorn maintains a fidelity to the benign utopian fantasy of Baum's Oz novels, though he also acknowledges the darker revisionist vein explored in contemporary books like Geoff Ryman's Was and Gregory Maguire's Wicked trilogy. Einhorn constructs an alternate, dystopian version of Oz, an Obsidian City in contrast to Baum's Emerald City.

Einhorn's book is also notable for its use of science fiction elements, principally time travel. There is a science fiction thread that winds through Baum's work, manifested in non-Oz books like The Master Key but also in the Oz stories, with robots (Tik-Tok of Oz), domed cities (Glinda of Oz), and other features. Critics have remarked on the interest in and acceptance of technology that sets Baum's Oz apart from earlier fantasy domains.

Synopsis
As the novel opens, inhabitants of Oz are suddenly noticing unusual signs of aging. Omby Amby finds a white hair in his luxurious green beard, and common citizens confront wrinkles and back problems. Ozma and her advisers realize that the magic anti-aging spell, which has prevailed in Oz throughout her reign, has now stopped working. In their attempt to figure out why, Ozma and Glinda consult the Great Book of Records, but find cryptic references to the "Man Who Lives Backwards." (This person is actually living in Glinda's palace at the moment; but since he lives backwards, he is a baby in the present time, and cannot explain himself to them.)

In trying to puzzle out the problem, Ozma and Glinda confront a Parrot-Ox — a large magic creature, half parrot and half ox. "Its front half was covered with red, blue, and green plumage, and out from among its feathers proudly emerged a bright yellow beak. Two large, orange wings rested against its body, which was a speckled brown, and it had a long black tail with a feathered end. It stood upon four hooved feet, and its dark eyes darted nervously around the room, dismayed at being discovered." They learn that these creatures, normally invisible, are amazingly common; they co-exist with us in our everyday lives. A Parrot-Ox is "capable of doing nothing at all, unless it is impossible."

This particular Parrot-Ox calls himself Tempus. To resolve the mystery of the aging of Oz, Ozma rides Tempus back in time, to meet her predecessor King Oz in the forest surrounding the Forbidden Fountain. She encounters a curious person called Dr. Majestico, and she accidentally changes the past so that Oz becomes an evil place, ruled by a tyrannical Wizard from an Obsidian City, a negative-image of her own Emerald City. She must deal with altered versions of her familiar friends: the beautiful Glinda is old and worn, while the Tin Woodman is a human and very malevolent headsman, Nick Chopper.

In her efforts to remedy the situation, Ozma takes more and more trips into the past; the woods around the Forbidden Fountain are soon filled with Ozmas from different times. Ozma must confront Tip, her own earlier male self, and take a journey to Absurd City to find the Man Who Lives Backwards; she must face mind-boggling confusions, and numerous Parrot-Oxes, before she can restore the familiar world she knows and loves.

Ozian allusions
Fans of Oz will find subtle allusions in Einhorn's text. In Chapter Six, for example, Tempus tells Ozma that he remembers things that "never happened," such as "when East used to be West and West used to be East...." This is a reference to a major and well-known contradiction in the Oz literature. In the second chapter of the original Oz book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum specifically places the Munchkin Country in the eastern section of Oz; Dorothy's house famously kills the Wicked Witch of the East when it lands on her there. Yet in later books, Tik-Tok of Oz and The Lost Princess of Oz, maps show the Munchkin Country in the west.

In Obsidian City, the alternative version of Omby Amby calls himself Wantowin Battles — a name introduced by Ruth Plumly Thompson in her Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939).

When dealing with Dorothy, the Evil Version of the Wizard makes a reference to the 1939 movie version, by reversing part of the Wizard's dialog, describing himself, as "a very bad man, but I am a very good wizard," before performing a wicked spell on the girl.

The illustrations
Eric Shanower's black-and-white illustrations for Paradox in Oz are faithful to the richly romantic style that Shanower has developed for Oz illustration, from The Enchanted Apples of Oz (1986) on. Yet for pertinent incidents in Einhorn's text, Shanower expands his style to include elements of pop art and op art, and allusions to the work of M. C. Escher.

References

Books based on The Wizard of Oz
1999 fantasy novels
1999 American novels
1999 children's books
Novels about time travel


is a former Japanese football player.

Club career
Saeki was born in Tama on December 18, 1977. Through Verdy Kawasaki (later Tokyo Verdy) youth, after graduating from Kokushikan University, he joined Júbilo Iwata in 2000. However he could hardly play in the match, he moved to Vissel Kobe in 2001. At Vissel, he played many matches as defensive midfielder. However the club was relegated to J2 League end of 2005 season and he moved to Omiya Ardija in 2006. However he could hardly play in the match and he moved to Avispa Fukuoka on loan in June 2006. He returned to Ardija in 2007 and he moved to JEF United Chiba in 2009. In 2010, he moved to J2 League club Tokyo Verdy he played in the youth days. He retired end of 2012 season.

National team career
In August 1993, Saeki was selected Japan U-17 national team for 1993 U-17 World Championship, but he did not play in the match.

Club statistics

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Kokushikan University alumni
People from Tama, Tokyo
Association football people from Tokyo Metropolis
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Júbilo Iwata players
Vissel Kobe players
Omiya Ardija players
Avispa Fukuoka players
JEF United Chiba players
Tokyo Verdy players
Men's association football midfielders


Ryan Todd McDougle (born November 9, 1971) is an American politician. A Republican, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 until 2006. He was elected to the Senate of Virginia. Since 2006, he has represented the 4th district, representing six counties and part of a seventh.

Early life
McDougle was born in Hanover, Virginia, on November 9, 1971.

Career
Over the course of 13 years between 2006 and 2019, Mcdougle proposed approximately 487 bills and passed 58.3% of the bills in 2019. McDougle was a leading critic of the 2011 redistricting of the Virginia Senate.

Gun control
Following the Virginia Tech shooting, McDougle, along with delegate Bill Janis, proposed several gun control senate bills. McDougle successfully sponsored Senate Bill 226, which enforced a new law which required firearm purchasers to be asked whether they ever have been involuntarily committed to mental health treatment.

Cannabis
McDougle supports the use of cannabis. However, he opposes use of cannabis in an apartment complex. Senate bill 1406, is an ongoing bill which will legalize cannabis in Virginia, under certain circumstances. McDougle opposed this bill.

Electoral history

2007
Unopposed

2011
Unopposed

2015
Unopposed

2019

References

External links

Republican Party Virginia state senators
Republican Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Virginia lawyers
James Madison University alumni
William & Mary Law School alumni
People from Hanover, Virginia
1971 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians


Sion D. Brinn (born 8 May 1973; pronounced "Sean") is a Jamaica-born former competition swimmer.

Swimming career
He represented Jamaica and then Great Britain in international competition. He swam for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics; and for Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the 1998 ASA National Championship 100 metres freestyle title.

Coaching career
As of 2016, he is the head coach of the swimming and diving teams at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida.  He was previously the head coach of the swimming and diving team at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

See also
List of Jamaican records in swimming

References

Brinn's coach's bio at Wright State University.

1973 births
Living people
Jamaican male swimmers
British male swimmers
English people of Jamaican descent
Wright State Raiders swimming coaches
Jamaican swimming coaches
LSU Tigers swimmers
British male freestyle swimmers
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Olympic swimmers for Jamaica
Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games competitors for Jamaica
Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Wright State Raiders coaches


Mary A. Olson (born May 23, 1958) is a Minnesota (US) politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 4, which includes portions of Beltrami, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard , and Itasca counties in the northern part of the state. A Democrat, she was first elected in 2006. On November 2, 2010, she lost her re-election bid to the Republican John Carlson.

Olson was a member of the Senate's Commerce & Consumer Protection Committee and Judiciary Committee. She also served on the Finance subcommittees for the Economic Development and Housing Budget Division and the Health and Human Services Budget Division, and on the Judiciary
Judiciary Subcommittee for Data Practices, which she chaired.

Olson received a B.A. from the University of North Dakota and earned a J.D. from their law school. Before her election to the Senate, she was the assistant county attorney for Crow Wing County, and also as an attorney for the United States Air Force at March Air Force Base. Her great-great-grandfather, Peter A. Gandrud, was also a member of the Minnesota Legislature. She and her husband, John, have four children.

Electoral history

References

External links

Senator Olson web page
Minnesota Public Radio Votetracker: Senator Mary Olson

1958 births
Living people
People from Willmar, Minnesota
Military personnel from Minnesota
American Lutherans
Democratic Party Minnesota state senators
University of North Dakota alumni
Women state legislators in Minnesota
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians