John Cavanagh (28 September 1914 – 24 March 2003) was an Irish couturier of the 1950s and 1960s. A member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (IncSoc), his style has been described as reflecting Parisian chic. He designed the wedding dresses for the Duchess of Kent in 1961 and for Princess Alexandra in 1963.

Early life
John Cavanagh strongly identified as Irish, telling reporters that he was born in County Mayo, although his obituary in The Times states he was born in London. He was educated at St Paul's School.

In 1932 Cavanagh was employed as a secretary for the couturier Edward Molyneux, first in London, and then in Paris. Molyneux insisted that Cavanagh learn how to draw before employing him. Through trial and error, Cavanagh rose to become supervisor of Molyneux's London branch, before becoming his personal assistant in Paris, where he learned how the haute couture business worked. In 1940, after war broke out, Cavanagh left Molyneux to join the British Army Intelligence Corps, where he was responsible for military intelligence and security. He was demobbed in 1946, and the following year became a design assistant for Pierre Balmain, for whom he worked until 1952.

House of John Cavanagh
In 1952, Cavanagh launched his eponymous fashion house, John Cavanagh, at 26 Curzon Street, London. He joined IncSoc in the same year and after just one collection – unheard of at the time, for designers normally had to present at least four fashion collections before being considered for election.

His first collection was greeted enthusiastically by the fashion reviewer of The Times, who said: "He used some of the best fabrics to be found on both sides of the Channel, with a minimum of seams and maximum play with the grain of the materials themselves". The collection included boleros in piqué for daywear and satin for evening, a ballgown in Irish lace studded with crystals and a white grosgrain coat suitable for daytime or evening. The reviewer also noted his Dior model hats, faithfully copied in London by Simone Mirman – the first time Dior had allowed his designs to appear with any other couturier's clothes.

Cavanagh's reputation was cemented with his "Coronation" collection for Spring-Summer 1953, marking the coronation of Elizabeth II. It consisted of dresses made up in sumptuous fabrics designed by Oliver Messel for the Sekers fabric mills. Although he had only been in business for a year, members of the English aristocracy ordered his dresses to wear for the Coronation celebrations, such as the gold brocade gown worn by Lady Cornwallis (née Esme d'Beaumont (1901–1969)), wife of Baron Cornwallis.

Cavanagh was renowned for his elegant tailoring, sense of colour and sense of chic, as well as the high standard and quality of his designs. Many of his staff had formerly worked for couturiers such as Nina Ricci, Lucile, and Molyneux. He helped to train Clive, one of the last couturiers to be elected to IncSoc. From 1959, he collaborated with the milliner Reed Crawford.

Cavanagh's personal assistant from 1961 to 1966, Lindsay Evans Robertson, described his work as being:

"Paris in London. There was a lightness of touch, a feminine delicacy, a fragility unlike the work of any of the other London couturiers."

Cavanagh maintained a purity of line and form in all his designs. He designed clothes appropriate to the lifestyles of his predominantly British and American clientele, such as cocktail and evening dresses, and tailored suits. He aimed for his clothes to look equally good wherever they were worn, be it in London, Paris or New York. He also made two famous wedding dresses; the first was for the wedding of Katharine Worsley to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, on 8 June 1961. Two years later, Princess Alexandra wore a magnolia lace wedding dress and veil from Cavanagh for her wedding to the Hon. Angus Ogilvy. Cavanagh also designed outfits for Princess Alexandra's mother, Princess Marina.

As fashion became more youth-focused in the 1960s, Cavanagh attempted to redefine his business by moving into ready-to-wear, but this was not a success and he retired in 1972. His tradition of creating couture for high-profile clients lived on in the work of Toronto-born designer Donald Campbell, who worked for Cavanagh from the mid-1950s on and set up on his own in 1973, later providing several distinctive outfits for Princess Diana.

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The Man Shield (Leo-Man Shield or Leo-Man Craton) is a geological shield or craton in the southeast portion of the West African Craton. The shield is in part overlaid by gold-bearing Birimian formations.

Geography and Geology

The shield covers the countries Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.  this shield, a large portion of the WAC consists of Paleoproterozoic Birimian continent margins.

The Birimian units were initially produced in an immature volcanic arc setting, which was later metamorphosed during the Eburnean orogeny. The poor exposure of the greenstone belt in the area limits interpretations of a broad structural context. The limited greenstone belt exposure indicates a major deformation event associated with granitoid intrusions.
The shield hosts world-class gold deposits, important iron ore concentrations, and the mineralization of aluminum ore, lead-zinc, manganese, phosphate, and uranium. A majority of the gold deposit formations occurred during the Eburnean orogeny, but a number of the remaining gold deposits formed before this orogeny during a period of oceanic arc-back-arc basin formation and erosion during the Neoproterozoic and Cretaceous.

See also
Geology of Ghana

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Cratons


A valence issue is an issue where there is a broad amount of consensus among voters. As valence issues are representative of a goal or quality, voters use valence issues to evaluate a political party’s effectiveness in producing this particular goal or quality.

The valence issue concept is a way of theorizing about how voters are motivated to vote for competing parties in an election. The concept was developed by Donald Stokes’s critique of voting behavior theories which Stokes foresaw as being too confined to ideas about a voter’s rationality and ideological impulses, as with spatial models of party competition. Since Stokes noticed during an overview of historical U.S. elections that voters sometimes were not bound by self-interest or ideology.

Valence issues can be contrasted and opposed to position issues, as position issues are organised by a voter’s ideology and their inclination for a selection of competing interests, rather than organised by the feelings of consensus found within valence issues. As valence issues can shape the outcome of an election and therefore a future government, voters and politicians both adjust their behavior according to valence issues.

History of the concept

The valence issue concept originates from Donald Stokes’s critical review of Anthony Downs’s theory of voting behavior which analogues supply and demand market logic. Downs concluded that voters, when determining their voting preferences, and political parties, when determining which policies to supply, made economical and rational strategic choices within an ideological space.

Stokes’s main problem with Downs’s model of voting behavior was that empirical reality, specifically the most recent U.S elections in Stokes’s time, did not fit with Downs’s theoretical assumptions. Thus, Stokes's conceptualisation of valence issues emerged from his focused critique on one of Downs’s assumptions about voters making decisions on their vote based on a set of ordered alternative policy preferences. Stokes believed this way of imagining the voter may work with position issues but not valence issues, since valence issues were political issues that competing parties could not take an alternative position on, as parties ordinarily would with position issues.

In an election fought over position issues, an individual party can differentiate themselves from other competing parties by advocating different policy positions, so as to  gain a greater amount of support from the voter than other rivaling parties and therefore win the election. For example, three competing parties may altogether each present to voters separate ideas about the degree of economic intervention, all with the aim to find and attract the most electoral support. However, valences issues offer minimal room for parties to form alternative stances on, as voters are all seemingly in agreement about a particular stance.

The valence issue of corruption highlights Stokes’s belief in voters having a broad consensus of preferences on certain issues. In an election where corruption becomes an important issue there would not be one party which was pro-corruption and a rivaling party which was anti-corruption. Instead, both parties would oppose corruption and it would be up to voters to decide which party would be best at bringing about an end to corruption. Therefore, valence issues are issues that are used by voters to evaluate a parties competence based on whether the party can most effectively bring about a goal or quality embodied by the valence issue, or, whether the party is to blame or should be credited with a past or present good or condition that is representative of the valence issue.

Since Stokes established the valence issue concept it has been applied to polities beyond the U.S. Whereas the original interpretation of the concept was founded on observations Stokes made when reviewing American elections in the thirties and forties; in which Stokes identified economic recovery as a valences issue, the US elections of 1952; where Stokes recognized the Korean war and corruption as two valence issues, and the 1956 and 1960 election; which Stokes’s sees as dominated by the valence issue of U.S foreign policy.

Position issues

Position issues are an alternative to valence issues, as position issues create disagreement among voters because a broad consensus on the issue is lacking. Since position issues are divisive issues they consequently separate potential voters into distinct voting blocs that may support or oppose a way of dealing with the position issue at hand. Politicians and parties therefore have some maneuverability, policy wise they can arrange themselves more freely than when faced with a valence issue, as they can take a stance on a position issue according to a distinct voter bloc in order to collect voters who are mobilised by this politician's particular position issue perspective.

This description of position issues does not mean that valence issues are only about a consensus among voters, instead for positional issues it is also a question of whether the voter decided to support a party based on their ideological position. Accordingly, in a scenario where voters or parties have a weak or insufficiently pronounced ideological alignment valence issues are likely to dominate an election rather than position issues. Highlighting a comparison between valence issues and positional issues also does not mean that issues can only belong In those two categories, as both issue types may sometimes lurk behind one another or overlap, or, the issue at question may even transform from a position issue into a valance issue. Another way of thinking about the position issue versus valence issue dichotomy is to see voters as taking into account both position and valence issues when voting, as Egan has.

Impact of valence issues on voters and politicians

Voters
When voters assess parties and politicians based on issue valence they learn about how parties and politicians relate to the issue in question over time. Therefore, it is hard for parties and politicians to change a voter’s long-standing perception about their own valence issue history. Furthermore, voters often equivocate parties with a single politician’s issue valence. However, when a parties valence issue history is not clear, for instance, when there is an election with a new or challenger party, then the voter is likely to make a decision based on position issues. A major crisis or political event is another way voters formulate lasting impressions about valence issues. In this instance the way a party addresses the crisis gives voters concerned with a valence issue that represents the crisis an idea of how competent parties are at handling this particular spotlighted valence issue. Other scholars have asserted that valence issues only matter to a specific kind of voter, these voters are non-ideological and only make their vote choices based on valence issues.

Parties and politicians
In an election purely focused on valence issues the candidate that is able to adopt the valence issue and demonstrate their competence at handling the issue wins. in such an election parties try to indicate to voters that they are better at realising a valence issue when compared to other parties via communicating their grasp of a valence issue during the election campaign. Yet unlike position issues politicians and parties have limited control over their command of a valence issue, especially when the valence issue concerns a politicians ascriptive characteristics. However, parties can try to overcome their poor reputation on a valence issue by steering the election campaign towards a battle over views on position issues and making a stance which is in line with the average voter’s attitude on that particular position issue. There are also other forms of electoral strategies concerning the interaction of valence issues and position issues beyond this specific example. For instance, some candidates may deliberately adopt a position issue that resembles the position issue of an opponent to accentuate their competence with a valence issue, thereby giving this candidate a valence issue advantage.

The valence issue reputation of a party is not static, as parties with competence on a particular valence issue can suffer once in power, since when these politicians in government there is a closer scrutiny of the governing party and there are opportunities for governing parties to make errors on valence issues. Additionally, once in government voters have an opportunity to reevaluate their ideas about a parties competence on valence issues based on real performance and therefore vote retrospectively.

Examples of valence issues
In a study of campaigns for the US Senate, candidates focused upon valence issues in 77% of their advertising. In the United States, valence issues may include campaign finance reform, care of the elderly, crime, daycare, economy, education, inflation, and jobs. To contrast, position issues in the United States include abortion, civil rights, congressional pay, death penalty, drugs, foreign aid, the environment, gun control, healthcare, nuclear proliferation, school prayer, taxes, and term limits.

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Political science


Xiaojie may refer to:

xiǎojiě, a Chinese honorific for miss
xiǎojiě, a Mandarin Chinese profanity for prostitute

People
 Wang Xiaojie (died 697), general of the Chinese dynasty Tang
 Xiao Jie (born 1957), Chinese politician
 Xiǎo Jié or Liljay (born 1986), Taiwanese singer and a member of JPM


Henry the Hatter is a retail store in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded by Henry Komrofsky in 1893.

History
Henry Komrofsky had worked as a hatter at the John C. Hartz shop before deciding to open up his own shop.  Gustave Newman was a young stock and delivery boy for Komrofsky in the year 1904.  In 1919, Newman and Komrofsky started to run the store as partners.  Shortly after the two began their partnership, the store moved to the Library Park Hotel Building, on Gratiot and Library street.  A second store was built in 1923 on Michigan avenue in the Lafayette Building. Henry Komrofsky died in 1941, and Newman continued to run the store.  In the late 1940s, Newman sold the store to Seymour Wasserman, a New Yorker who worked in his uncle's factory before buying his own in 1939.  In 1952, the original Gratiot Avenue store was demolished, and the store moved to Broadway street in Detroit, where it still stands today. In 1960, the second store on Michigan Avenue closed, but was relocated to Griswold Ave in 1961.  In 1962, the store was destroyed in a fire.  Seymour Wasserman continued to run the original store until 1973.  His son Paul Wasserman currently owns the shop and has since 1973.  Seymour died in 1998 at 83 years old.

Henry the Hatter was a hat factory until 1985.  The hat factory was able to create special custom hats within a few hours of the order.  The store is also known for its kindness towards its customers and closeness to those who buy hats from the store. Celebrities Run DMC, LL Cool J, Kid Rock, and Steve Harvey are all store regulars, and Kid Rock featured the store in his video for "Roll On".

Henry the Hatter received notable recognition after 34th president Dwight D Eisenhower wore a hat from the store at his inauguration.  Henry the Hatter has been recognized by the Historical Society of Michigan and has been named "Hat Retailer of the Year" twice.

On June 30, 2017 it was announced that the Detroit store, which had been at its current location since 1952, would be closing on August 5, 2017, after the lease to the building was lost.

On December 7, 2017 the Detroit store re-opened at 2472 Riopelle St. in Detroit's Eastern Market.

References

External links
 http://thedspotredeux.blogspot.com/2008/09/shopping-in-detroit-henry-hatter.html
 http://www.henrythehatterdetroit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=39
 https://www.henrythehatterdetroit.com/
 Volume 5 of The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Clarence Monroe Burton

Retail companies established in 1893


Quad God is a 2000 film made by Tritin Films. It was created using the machinima technique of recording video frames from id Software's 1999 first-person shooter (FPS) video game Quake III Arena. Featured during the launch of the website machinima.com, the work was initially controversial among machining filmmakers because it was created and distributed in a conventional video file format, whereas previous machinima films were demo files that required the original game to view. However, the more accessible format broadened Quad Gods viewership, and, in a few years, the use of conventional video formats became nearly universal for machinima.

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River Falls High School is a public high school in River Falls, Wisconsin.

Extracurricular activities

Marching band
The RFHS marching band has won its class in marching band competition 24 times since 1985.  It won state titles in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2022. The band has also been nationally recognized through performances at the Fiesta, Outback and Gator Bowls, the Youth In Music Championships in Minneapolis, and the Bands of America - Super Regional in St. Louis.

Athletics
RFHS offers boys' baseball, girls' softball, boys' and girls' basketball, boys' and girls' cross country, boys' football, boys' and girls' golf, girls' gymnastics, boys' and girls' hockey, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' swimming and diving, boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' track and field, girls' volleyball, and boys' wrestling (https://www.riverfallswrestling.org/).

Since 1989, RFHS has competed in the Big River Conference. Before 1989, it competed in the Middle Border Conference, being an inaugural member of that conference in 1932.

The school's co-op St. Croix Fusion girls' hockey team won state championships in 2009, 2010, and 2011. The girls' gymnastics team has made 22 state appearances, with 6 state championships.

RFHS has hosted numerous outstanding wrestling athletes and teams, with 18 individual state titles and 67 state placement medals from over 120 state qualifiers, and qualified for the WIAA Team State Tournament 5 times. Ten RFHS wrestlers have had undefeated seasons and one an undefeated career.

Notable alumni
 Kevin Black (Class of 1998) – Wrestling coach
 Annie Frisbie - long distance runner
 Warren P. Knowles – Governor of Wisconsin
 Frankie Rayder – International fashion model
 Missy Rayder (Class of 1994)  – International fashion model
 George B. Skogmo – Wisconsin State Senator
 Francis Paul Prucha – Historian
 Karyn Bye-Dietz - Olympic Gold Medalist (women’s hockey)
 J. P. Feyereisen - Major League Baseball relief pitcher

Wildcat Hall of Fame
In 2011 a RFHS Hall of Fame was created for athletes, coaches, teams, distinguished citizens, and legacy members.

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1887 establishments in Wisconsin


Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president of Brazil since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial.

The Senate's 61–20 vote on 31 August 2016 to remove Rousseff from office meant that Temer succeeded her and served out the remainder of her second term. In his first speech in office, Temer called for a government of "national salvation" and asked for the trust of the Brazilian people. He also signaled his intention to overhaul the pension system and labor laws, and to curb public spending.

A 2017 poll showed that Temer's administration had 7% popular approval, with 76% of respondents in favor of his resignation.  Despite widespread protests, Temer refused to step down. He did not stand for president in the 2018 Brazilian general election and was succeeded by Jair Bolsonaro.

Early life and education
Born in Tietê, São Paulo, Temer is the son of Nakhoul "Miguel" Elias Temer Lulia and March Barbar Lulia, Maronite Catholic Lebanese immigrants who came to Brazil in 1925. His parents, along with three older siblings, immigrated to Brazil from Btaaboura, a small village in northern Lebanon, to escape famine and instability due to World War I. In Brazil, his parents had five more children, and Temer is the youngest. Temer is not fluent in Arabic, but is able to discern the topic of a conversation in that language.

As a child, Temer dreamed of becoming a pianist. However, there were no piano teachers in his city. As a teenager, he wanted to be a writer. After failing chemistry and physics classes in his first year of high school, he gave up the "curso científico", which prioritized hard sciences and math. In 1957, he moved to São Paulo to finish high school in the "curso clássico", composed mainly of subjects in the humanities and languages.

In 1959, like his four older brothers he joined the Law School of the University of São Paulo, graduating in 1963. In his freshman year, he became involved with politics by becoming a treasurer of the school's students' union. In 1962, Temer ran for the presidency of the union, but was defeated by 82 votes.

Temer stayed neutral before the 1964 coup d'état. With the beginning of military rule, he moved away from politics. In 1974, he completed a doctorate in public law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

Temer has often confirmed his affiliation as a Roman Catholic.

Academic career

In 1968, Temer began teaching constitutional law at PUC-SP, where he also taught civil law and was director of the postgraduate department and of the Brazilian Institute Of Constitutional Law as well as a member of the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law.

Publications
Temer published four major works in constitutional law. His most famous book is Elements of Constitutional Law, published in 1982, which sold over 240,000 copies. The book focuses on the organization of the Brazilian state, especially on the separation of powers.

His 2006 book Democracy and Citizenship highlighted the relevance of law and included some of his speeches as a federal deputy. In his works, he showed himself to be a supporter of parliamentarism and a political recall system, while opposing economic interventionism and tax increases.

However, he considered himself a writer only in 2013, when he published Anonymous Intimacy, a book of poems. It consists of 120 poems, many of which were written on napkins during his plane trips between São Paulo and Brasílla. Temer said writing poems helped him recover from the "barren arena of legislative politics".

Political career

Beginning in 1987 Temer served six consecutive terms in the Chamber of Deputies, and on three separate occasions served two-year terms as president of the Chamber (1997–1998, 1999–2000 and 2009–2010). Temer was also a member of the 1988 constituent assembly, which promulgated the current Constitution of Brazil. He became President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the largest party in Brazil.

Temer was the second Vice President of Lebanese origin, after José Maria Alkmin. His family originates from the town of Btaaboura in Koura District, near Tripoli in northern Lebanon.

Investigations
In 2016, he was accused of having a lobbyist bribe others between 1997 and 2001 in ethanol deals through state-run oil company Petrobras. He was also under investigation for accepting more than $1.5 million in funds from construction company Camargo Correa, which works with Petrobras. Spreadsheets from the construction company listed Temer's name 21 times. The numbers next to his name added up to $345,000, which authorities alleged were bribes and which Temer said were legal campaign contributions. The claim was dismissed by the courts, and Temer denied any wrongdoing. Temer has also been accused of electoral fraud; in 2016, he allegedly solicited $2.9m in illegal campaign donations in 2014. Part of investigation is into whether bribe money helped fund the 2014 campaign that saw Dilma Rousseff re-elected president with Temer as her running mate; Temer also denies this.

In 2017 Brazil's federal police said that investigators have found evidence the president received bribes to help businesses. A released video made by investigators shows Rodrigo Rocha Loures, former Temer aide, carrying a suitcase filled with about $150,000 in cash allegedly being sent from JBS S.A. to the president.

In 2018, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice ordered Temer be included in an ongoing investigation into $3.07 million in illicit funds his Brazilian Democratic Party allegedly received from construction firm Odebrecht.

Relations with the American Embassy

According to official government cables published by WikiLeaks, Temer provided information to the U.S. Embassy in Brazil in 2006. Temer is described as gaining the loyalty of lower class Brazilians by strengthening social programs and opposing Lula da Silva. The report has the status "sensitive but unclassified" with Temer stating that Lula da Silva "might finally begin to heed his friends on the left" and would "be led away from the orthodox macro-economic policies that have dominated his first term".

Role in the impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff
In 2015 and 2016, Temer was involved in controversy as Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process unfolded. In December 2015, Temer sent a letter to the president complaining about his distance from government decisions. The letter began with the Latin proverb "Verba Volant, Scripta Manent" (spoken words fly, written words remain). Temer described the communication as a "personal" unburdening about various complaints against the president. He said Rousseff had made him look like a "decorative" vice president, not an active one, despite having been invited to support her government several times in the dialogue with Congress, a role he only accepted in 2015.

The letter was commented on and mocked in Brazilian social media, with images depicting the vice president as a Christmas decoration, making fun of his use of Latin, and photos purporting to show the president laughing as she read the missive, among many other things. The president's office had no immediate comment on the images, but Rousseff condemned him as a traitor to her administration.

In April 2016, an audio file of Temer was leaked to the media. In it, Temer speaks as if the impeachment process had already ended and he was the new president. "I don't want to generate false expectations," Temer said on the recordings, which were first published by Folha de S.Paulo on 23 May. "Let's not think that a possible change in government will solve everything in three or four months."

The leak came just hours before a special lower house committee was scheduled to vote whether to back the request to impeach the president, generating complaints and accusations of treachery and lack of support from a vice president conspiring against the elected president. Temer alleged it was sent incorrectly to a WhatsApp group of his party's representatives in Congress.

First impeachment attempts

As investigations following Operation Car Wash grew, allegations against members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) began to arise. In December 2015, impeachment proceedings toward Temer were filed, though his fellow party member, President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha, blocked the movement and instead allowed impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.

After a Supreme Court judge, Justice Mello, ruled Cunha's actions wrong, he suggested that Temer should face impeachment proceedings. Another attempt to impeach Temer began with the decision on 6 April 2016, by the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, to form a commission for termination analysis of liability for crime offered by attorney Mariel M. Marra. Four other requests for impeachment were presented to Cunha.

Cunha, who was third in line for the presidency behind Temer, faced scrutiny for alleged money laundering uncovered in Operation Car Wash. On 5 May 2016, Cunha was suspended as speaker of the lower house by Brazil's Supreme Court due to allegations that he attempted to intimidate members of Congress, and obstructed investigations into his alleged receipt of bribes.

On 17 May 2016, Justice Marco Aurélio Mello allowed the impeachment request to enter the agenda of the Supreme Federal Court plenary session.

Acting president

In the early hours of 12 May 2016, the Federal Senate voted to accept Rousseff's impeachment. Per the Brazilian Constitution, Rousseff's powers were suspended and Temer became acting president. Temer was to serve as acting president for up to 180 days while the Senate decided whether to convict Rousseff and remove her from office, which would make Temer president for the remainder of her term, or to acquit her of crimes of responsibility charges and restore her presidential powers. Temer was awaiting a decision from the Supreme Federal Court to start an impeachment process against him.

On his first day as acting president, Vice President Temer appointed a new cabinet, reducing the number of ministries from 32 to 23. Women's rights and Afro-Brazilian rights activists criticized the fact that all of the appointed ministers were white men, for the first time since 1979.

On 2 June 2016, Temer received an eight-year ban from running for office after being convicted of violating election laws. This effectively ended any chance of Temer running for a full term as president in the 2018 election. It can be argued that he was already ineligible to run in 2018 in any event. Under the Constitution, the vice president becomes acting president whenever the president travels abroad. Due to the manner in which the Constitution's provisions on term limits are worded, whenever a vice president serves as acting president for any reason, it counts toward the limit of two consecutive terms.

On 30 June 2016, Temer sanctioned law 13303, which became known as Lei das Estatais ("State-owned enterprises law"), which sought to improve governance and control of Brazilian SOEs after the crisis of the Rousseff government, which saw Petrobras lose almost 90% of its market cap. Under the new law, a series of measures were introduced to improve the transparency of SOEs as well as appointed council members and directors being required to have professional experience in the SOE's field.

As acting president, he opened the Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro on 5 August 2016 at the Maracanã Stadium.

President of Brazil

On 31 August 2016, the Senate voted to convict Rousseff, thereby removing her from office and making Temer President of Brazil. He would serve out the balance of Rousseff's second term, which finished on 31 December 2018. The vice-president position then became vacant, with the President of the Chamber of Deputies (at the time Rodrigo Maia) acting as the first constitutional substitute during his term. On 7 September 2016, he opened the Summer Paralympics at the Maracanã amid massive booing from the spectators.

In October 2016, the Constitution of Brazil was amended by deputies to cap public spending, effectively frozen for twenty years, adjusted for inflation only. This measure was the subject of both praise and criticism among the Brazilian middle-class.

In November 2016, Marcelo Calero, Temer's former Minister of Culture, resigned, stating that Temer had pressured him to help an ally, government secretary Geddel Vieira Lima, who had invested in a development that was being delayed by a heritage preservation measure by allowing construction to go ahead in spite of said measure. Vieira Lima resigned on 25 November 2016, and opposition leaders stated that they would seek President Temer's impeachment over this incident. Temer denied the corruption allegations but admitted talking to Calero about the project.

In December 2016, Marcelo Odebrecht confirmed paying bribes to President Temer.

In March 2017, Temer decided to move to the vice presidential residence again. He had recent problems with the Brazilian Historical Heritage Institute due to the architectural changes he made to the Presidential Palace. In an interview to the Brazilian news magazine Veja he mentioned he could not sleep in the "ample rooms" and questioned the possibility of ghosts.

On 28 April 2017, trade unions called for a general strike against the pension and labor reforms proposed in his government, which saw shutdowns of various public services in state capitals and major cities. The government announces the abolition of "popular pharmacies" for the summer of 2017. Created in 2004 under the presidency of Lula, they allowed the most disadvantaged to obtain low-cost medicines.

On 16 February 2018, Temer signed a law aimed at tackling the organised crime element in Rio de Janeiro, transferring full control of security to the military. The military will reportedly remain in control of security until 1 January 2019. The next day, Temer suggested establishing a Ministry of Public Security in the near future.

According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, extreme poverty increased by 11 per cent in 2017, while inequalities also increased again (the Gini index rose from 0.555 to 0.567). The reduction in the number of Bolsa Família beneficiaries decided by the government is the main cause, according to the study.

Second impeachment attempt
On 17 May 2017, secretly taped recordings leaked by O Globo, a leading national newspaper, reveal the President discussing hush money pay-offs with Joesley Batista, the businessman who runs the country's biggest meat-packing firm JBS, prompting talk of trying again to impeach him.
On Wednesday 24 May 2017, while thousands of angry demonstrators marched towards Congress demanding Temer's resignation and immediate direct presidential elections, Temer sought to suppress a revolt within his own party.

Overwhelmed by protests, Temer deployed federal troops to the capital. Many photographs and testimonials taken during the protest show police violence, and officers shooting at demonstrators during the demonstration. President Temer's refusal to resign made him increasingly unpopular and provoked not only a political stalemate but also uncertainty, plunging the country into crisis and amplifying the worst recession in its history.

On 9 June 2017, the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court voted 4–3 to acquit Temer and Rousseff of alleged illegal campaign funding in the 2014 election, thus allowing him to stay in office.
Former Odebrecht Vice President Marcio Faria da Silva said in testimony given as part of a plea bargain that Temer asked him at a meeting to arrange a $40 million payment to Temer's party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). Faria said he met with Temer at his law office, and that speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha and Congressman Henrique Eduardo Alves were also present. The payment represented a 5% commission on a contract Odebrecht was seeking with the state-run oil company Petrobras, Faria said. Supreme Court Justice Luiz Edson Fachin made this and other testimony public, and ordered an investigation of more than 100 politicians implicated in bribes and kickbacks at state-run companies, particularly Petrobras.

Criminal charges
On 26 June 2017, Temer was charged by Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot with accepting bribes and Janot delivered the charges to the Supreme Federal Court. The lower house was required to vote on the charges, which stemmed from allegations that he took $5 million in return for clearing up JBS tax problems and facilitating a loan. At the time, Temer still had the support of speaker of the lower house Rodrigo Maia, who possessed the power to accept or shelve a petition for impeachment.

The Federal Police (PF), who were forced by funding restrictions to disband before all investigations into the matter were complete, had recommended that Temer also be charged with obstruction of justice. Torquato Jardim, who was Temer's third Justice Minister in 2017, had unsuccessfully attempted to change the leadership of the PF, and to implement a series of legislative initiatives focused on amnesty and changes to the code of criminal procedure.

In June 2017 Temer's approval rating stood at 7%, the lowest for any President of Brazil in more than thirty years. In a survey conducted by the IBOPE institute, between 24 and 26 July 81% of Brazilians favored the indictment of the President.
On 2 August, lawmakers in the lower house in Congress voted not to refer the case against the scandal-plagued President to the supreme court, which had the power to try him. Observers stated that the move to shield Temer further undermined the credibility of Brazil's political and electoral system.

On 21 March 2019, Temer was arrested during the investigation into Operation Car Wash. On March 25, a habeas corpus was issued on behalf of Temer by desembargador Antonio Ivan Athié.

Amazon rainforest decree
On 22 August 2017, Temer issued a decree to dissolve the "Reserva Nacional do Cobre e Associados" (Renca) Amazonian reserve in Brazil's northern states of Pará and Amapá, measuring 4 million hectares to allow mining by private companies and the conversion of forest into crops for agro-business companies. After widespread criticism, the decree was revoked on 26 September.

Foreign visits as president

Polls

In an Ibope survey in September 2016, after approximately a month of President Temer's administration, 39% of Brazilians rated his administration "bad or terrible", while 14% considered it "great or good". 2,002 people were heard between 20 and 25 September, and the margin of error was two percentage points.

A poll by Datafolha in June 2018 showed 82% of Brazilians rating his administration "bad or very bad", the most of any president since the Brazilian transition to democracy.

Personal life

Raised by Maronite parents, Temer considers himself a Roman Catholic.

Temer and his first wife Maria Célia Toledo had three daughters: Luciana (1969), Maristela (1972), and Clarissa (1974).
Temer is also father to Eduardo (born in 1999 in London) with journalist Érica Ferraz.

In 2002, Temer met Marcela Tedeschi (born 1983), who was attending the annual political convention of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) with her uncle Geraldo, a Paulínia municipal employee. They married on 26 July 2003, in a small ceremony. In 2009, Marcela graduated with a law degree from Fadisp, a private school in São Paulo. In an interview, Marcela said she never took the licensing exam because of the birth of the couple's son Michel, also known by his nickname "Michelzinho".

Awards and decorations
Below is a selected list of awards Temer has received:

National honours

Foreign honours

See also
 2014 Brazilian economic crisis
 List of scandals in Brazil

References

External links

 Official biography and portrait as Vice President

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Clarkia modesta is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common name Waltham Creek clarkia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the woodlands of several of the central mountain ranges, including the North and Central Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada foothills. It is an erect annual herb often exceeding half a meter in height. The oval, linear, or lance-shaped leaves are 2 to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears opening flowers and closed, hanging flower buds. The sepals remain fused as the petals bloom from one side. The petals are about a centimeter long and vary in shape from diamond to widely lance-shaped. They are pale to deep pink and generally dark-flecked or spotted.

External links
Jepson Manual Profile
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Endemic flora of California
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


Mis adorables vecinos (Spanish for My Lovely Neighbors) is a Spanish comedy television series produced by  for Antena 3 that was originally broadcast from 11 April 2004 to 21 May 2006. It revolves around the life of a Spanish family who moves to a wealthier neighborhood and their relationship with their new neighbors.

Synopsis
The Sánchez family are a neighborhood family who, thanks to their daughter Sheila's success as a singer, move to live in a chalet in a luxury development. There they will meet their neighbors, the Sandoval.

Cast

Sánchez Family

Coming from the neighborhood of Usera, district of Madrid, he worked as a greengrocer and she is a hairdresser in the neighborhood until their daughter Sheila wins a television contest and attained worldwide fame, which allows them to move to a new luxury development in the outskirts of the city. The adults in the family are always lying to each other, and they usually end up finding out. The children are always doing their thing: they laugh with the Sandoval children, and they even laugh at Grandma Críspula and her entourage. They do all of this for fun.

 Mariano Sánchez (Juanjo Cucalón) He worked as a greengrocer until his daughter made him a millionaire. Sometimes, he doubts whether he prefers to be rich or poor. He is characterized by his mustache and by wearing a fanny pack everywhere. He doesn't know how to lie and ends up hurting Loli, his wife, on many occasions. He is friendly with his neighborhood friends.
 Dolores "Loli" Mingo (Paz Padilla) She is a hairdresser. She is very spontaneous. She loves being wealthy, she brags to her old friends in the neighborhood and says that the barbershop she has opened is a beauty salon, although it really is like it used to be, a neighborhood barbershop.
 Rafael "Rafa" Sánchez Mingo (Alberto Amarilla) He is the oldest son of Mariano and Loli. He is y handsome, smart and very lazy. Very soon, despite himself, he will feel a great interest in his new neighbor, Laura, the eldest daughter of the Sandovals.
 Sheila María Sánchez Mingo (Yaiza Esteve) She is the middle child and the only daughter of Mariano and Loli. She is ten years old. She is optimistic, cheerful, somewhat mischievous and enjoys living adventures. She has just known world fame and success, although she is not very aware of it.
 José Miguel "Pepe" Sánchez Mingo (Azzdine Benaji) He is the youngest son of Mariano and Loli. He is nine years old. He feels incapable of breaking any rules that adults impose on him, which makes him the ideal target for the jokes of his peers.
 Teresa de Bromujo (Tina Sainz) She is the new assistant of the Sánchez family, to whom she tries to teach the rules of education that the rich have. He considers his bosses to be somewhat ordinary and wishes to serve in a family that is not nouveau riche.
 Críspula (Isabel Osca) She is Loli's mother, left the town to settle with her daughter in her new house. She doesn't like her family, especially her son-in-law Mariano, whom she considers henpecked and lazy. She also doesn't like the neighbors, and is almost always criticizing what is going on around her.

Sandoval Family

A wealthy family, he works as a cosmetic surgeon and she as a journalist, they live quietly and without problems in a luxury development, until the Sánchez, their new neighbors, arrive. Like the Sánchez, the adults of the Sandoval family always lie to each other; and their children try to amuse themselves by making mischief in their environment.

 Ernesto Sandoval (Francis Lorenzo) He is a doctor specializing in cosmetic surgery. He is very presumptuous and has always believed himself to be much classier than his neighbors Los Sánchez. At first, he can't stand his new neighbor Mariano, but little by little they become friends.
 Claudia Valladares Roig (Miriam Díaz-Aroca) She is a journalist who works for a prestigious magazine. She is passionate about art and history. She tries to make everything around her perfect. She quickly befriends her nice neighbor Loli, who takes advantage of her to meet famous and important people.
 Laura Sandoval Valladares (Nuria Gago) She is the oldest daughter of Ernesto and Claudia. She is a romantic and non-conformist young woman, who constantly analyzes everything around her and with a certain obsession with seeking certainty. Very soon, she will feel a great interest in her new neighbor, Rafa, the eldest son of the Sánchez.
 Beatriz Sandoval Valladares (Ariadna Castellano) He is the youngest daughter of Ernesto and Claudia and Sergio's twin sister. She considers herself the "ideal of death", and her favorite words are: "success, money and fame". She cannot be separated from her new neighbor Sheila, since she is famous, although she is publicly ashamed of her for her continued lack of class.
 Sergio Sandoval Valladares (Christian Brunet) He is the youngest son of Ernesto and Claudia and the twin brother of Beatriz. He knows how to take care of forms and show himself to others as a polite child, although deep down he is a whirlwind capable of organizing all kinds of pranks in his environment. He always manages to look innocent, and make his new neighbor Pepe look like the guilty one.
 Ivana (Celine Tyll) She is the assistant of the Sandoval family. She is a young and pretty girl, of Russian origin, who works for the family although her profession is a biologist.

Recurring cast
 Federico Sandoval (Carlos Larrañaga) He is the ex-husband of Carmen, he is the father of Ernesto and David, the paternal grandfather of Laura, Beatriz, Sergio and Antonio and the father-in-law of Claudia. (season 2)
 Joaquina "Cuqui" López (Mariola Fuentes) She is Loli's best friend. She opened a barbershop with Loli called LOCUMA. (seasons 3–4)
 Juan Castillo (Miguel Ángel Muñoz) Charlie's old friend, had to pretend to be married to Romeo. He studies to be a police officer. (season 4)
 Romeo Cienfuegos (Carlos Baute) Loli burned down his house, ran over him, and he had to move to the Sánchez house. He had to pretend to be married to Juan. (season 4)
 Carmen "Carmela" (María Luisa Merlo) She is the ex-wife of Federico, she is the mother of Ernesto and David, the paternal grandmother of Laura, Beatriz, Sergio and Antonio and the mother-in-law of Claudia. (seasons 1–4)
 Inocencio (Miki Nadal) He is a friend of Mariano and Ernesto. He is a worker. He was dating Cuqui. (seasons 3–4)
 Cayetano (Manuel Bandera) Loli's cousin. (season 4)
 Yessi (Nathalie Seseña) She is married to a truck driver. She is Innocent's lover. (season 4)
 Curro Sánchez (Idilio Cardoso) He is the father of Mariano, the paternal grandfather of Rafa, Sheila and Pepe and the father-in-law of Loli. (season 2)
 David Sandoval (Pedro Mari Sánchez) He is the son of Federico and Carmela, he is the brother of Ernesto, the paternal uncle of Laura, Beatriz, Sergio and Antonio and the brother-in-law of Claudia. (season 1)
 Pedro "Ponchó" Moreno (Darío Frías) He is a friend of Laura, Aitana, Rubén and Rafa. He is innocent and a good person. (seasons 1–4)
 Aitana Sagalés de Somontano (Daniela Costa) She is Laura's best friend, friend of Poncho, Rafa and Rubén. Extremely posh. (seasons 1–4)
 Christian Sotomonte Ruiz de Castro (Javier Ríos) He is Laura's ex-boyfriend. (season 2)
 Petri (Pilar Sánchez) She is a friend of the Sánchez family from the neighborhood. It is somewhat ordinary. She was married to Angelito, a friend of Mariano. Her daughter Vanessa has been involved with Rafa. The Sandovals have problems with her and are forced to hire her as an assistant. She rivals Ivana, whom she wants to kick out of the Sandoval house. (seasons 1–2)
 Angie (Erika Sanz) She is the cousin of Rafa, Sheila and Pepe. (seasons 3–4)
 Rubén (Kike Guaza) He is a friend of Laura, Aitana, Rubén and Rafa. (season 1)
 Violeta (María San Juan) She is Ernesto's goddaughter, and she spent time living with the Sandoval family. (season 4)
 Vanessa (Vanessa De Frutos) She is the daughter of Angelito and Petri. She's badass and she's full of tattoos. (seasons 1–2)
 Yiyi (Alberto Ferreiro) Rafa's friend from the neighborhood. (seasons 1–2)
 Gabi (Enrique Berrendero) Rafa's friend from the neighborhood. (seasons 1–2)

Participations
 Alonso Caparrós
 Chenoa
 Miguel Ángel Silvestre
 Carlos Sobera
 Lucía Hoyos
 Jaydy Michel
 Javivi
 Patricia Conde
 Pablo Penedo
 Las Virtudes

References

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Spanish television sitcoms
2000s Spanish comedy television series
2004 Spanish television series debuts
2006 Spanish television series endings
Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel) network series


Betsy Hannig (born November 10, 1963) is a former Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, having been appointed to serve as a placeholder caused by the vacancy caused by the resignation of her husband, Gary Hannig, who was appointed by Governor Pat Quinn to be Illinois Secretary of Transportation.

References

External links
Illinois General Assembly - Representative Gary Hannig (D) 98th District official IL House website
Bills Committees

1963 births
Living people
Women state legislators in Illinois
Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
People from Litchfield, Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
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Cool Ideas may refer to:

 Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, 2006 American comedy film
 Cool Ideas (South Africa), South African internet service provider


William Huck (born 17 March 1979) is a French professional footballer, the son of former French international player Jean-Noël Huck. He currently plays for amateur club Vendée Poiré sur Vie.

Career
Moving from French side AS Monaco, Huck began his career as an apprentice at Arsenal, but he never made a league appearance for the Gunners. Huck signed for Bournemouth in 1999, and made 40 league appearances in three seasons. Huck scored twice during his spell at Bournemouth; once in a League Cup tie against Barnet and once in a Football League Trophy tie against Dover Athletic. He later returned to France with Angers SCO, where he played 52 matches. He then played for Montluçon, Toulon and now plays for Vendée Poiré sur Vie.

References

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1979 births
Living people
French men's footballers
Arsenal F.C. players
AFC Bournemouth players
English Football League players
Angers SCO players
Ligue 2 players
SC Toulon players
Vendée Poiré-sur-Vie Football players
Montluçon Football players
Men's association football midfielders


Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 18 March 1939 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier John Willcock, won a third term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Robert Ross McDonald respectively.

This was the first election in Western Australia since the enactment of compulsory voting, which occurred in 1936. Western Australia was one of the last states to mandate voting.

Results

The election was notable for the lack of change to the status quo. Only one member—former Speaker Michael Troy, who had been in the Assembly continuously since 1904—opted to retire, being replaced in his seat of Mount Magnet by fellow Labor member Lucien Triat. Labor's Bill Hegney gained the seat of Pilbara from two-term Nationalist MLA Frank Welsh, whilst the Nationalist member since 1914 for North Perth, James MacCallum Smith, was defeated by independent Nationalist Arthur Abbott (who joined the party some years later).

Elsewhere, the only change was the exit of one Independent member—Clarence Doust in Nelson, who was defeated by his Nationalist predecessor John Henry Smith after one term—and the entry of another from Irwin-Moore, Claude Barker, replacing Country member Percy Ferguson.

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 265,987 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 10 of the 50 seats were uncontested—4 Labor seats representing 9,414 enrolled voters, 2 Nationalist seats representing 11,396 voters and 4 Country seats representing 16,614 voters.

See also
 Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1936–1939
 Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1939–1943

References

Works cited

Elections in Western Australia
1939 elections in Australia
1930s in Western Australia
March 1939 events


Clarkia mosquinii is a rare species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common name Mosquin's clarkia. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the northern Sierra Nevada foothills at the border between Butte and Plumas Counties. It was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1991. It is an erect annual herb often exceeding half a meter in height. The oval or lance-shaped leaves are 2 to 5 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears opening flowers below a series of clusters of closed, hanging flower buds. The sepals all separate as the flower blooms. The diamond-shaped petals are one to two centimeters long light to medium purple in color, and sometimes speckled with reddish purple.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Profile
Photo gallery

mosquinii
Endemic flora of California


Ben Daniel Revere (born May 3, 1988) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Angels.

Revere played baseball at Lexington Catholic High School, where he received several awards during his junior and senior seasons. Revere was selected in the first round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft by the Minnesota Twins and played in their farm system for three seasons before being called up to Major League Baseball in late 2010. He played with the Twins for two more seasons before being traded to the Phillies in the 2012 offseason.

Revere began the 2013 season as the Phillies’ leadoff hitter before suffering an injury and being moved down in the lineup. His primary strengths were his speed and his defense; he struggled to hit for power, hitting just seven home runs in the major leagues. Writers and teammates have described Revere as being a genuine, goofy, energetic player.

Early life
Revere was born in Atlanta and raised in LaGrange, Georgia. In the early 2000s, he moved to Richmond, Kentucky, where he attended Lexington Catholic High School from 2003 to 2007. He led the varsity baseball team to a state championship his junior season (2006), and was named most valuable player. After his senior season, he was named the Gatorade Kentucky Baseball Player of the Year, 2007 Mr. Baseball for Kentucky, and a member of the All-USA Today high school baseball team. The Minnesota Twins selected him in the first round (28th overall pick) of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft and signed shortly thereafter. He had previously committed to play college baseball at Georgia.

Professional career

Minor league career
After his first-round selection, the Twins assigned Revere to the Gulf Coast League Twins, with whom he posted a .325 batting average (BA) in his first season of professional ball, and was named a 2007 Gulf Coast League Postseason All-Star. The following season with the Beloit Snappers of the Class A Midwest League, Revere's batting average increased to .379 with 44 stolen bases and ten triples. He won several awards for his performance, including a Midwest League All-Star selection, Mid-season MVP, Postseason All-Star, Most Valuable Player, Prospect of the Year, and the Sherry Robertson Award as Twins' minor league player of the year. Baseball America placed him on their 2008 High Class A All-Star team and called him the Twins' second best prospect, behind Aaron Hicks.

Revere began the 2009 season with the Fort Myers Miracle of the Florida State League (FSL). In the first half of the season, he batted .342 with 23 RBIs, 32 runs scored and 22 stolen bases. He was named the FSL Player of the Week for May 11–17, and was an All-star for the FSL's Southern division. He did not commit an error all season in 225 chances playing both center field and left field. He finished the season with a .311 batting average, two home runs, and 48 RBIs.

Before the season, Baseball America ranked him the Twins' fifth-best prospect. Revere began the 2010 season with the New Britain Rock Cats of the Class AA Eastern League.  He was named the Twins minor league player of the month in May after hitting .336 with 6 doubles, a home run, and 15 runs batted in (RBIs). He played in the 2007 All-Star Futures Game at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. After totaling a .305 BA with 36 stolen bases during the season, his contract was purchased by the Twins on September 4, 2010.

Minnesota Twins

He made his major league debut on September 7, 2010, as a pinch hitter for Denard Span, striking out against Kansas City Royals' pitcher Jesse Chavez. He remained in the game, replacing Span in center field. He recorded his first major league run batted in (RBI) on September 18, 2010, when he grounded out to score J. J. Hardy in a game against the Oakland Athletics. He recorded his first major league hit a day later.

Revere began the 2011 season with the Twins' Class AAA affiliate, the Rochester Red Wings of the International League. In May, Revere was called up to Minnesota to play left field for the injured Delmon Young. Soon after Young's return, Span was placed on the seven-day disabled list with a concussion. As a result, Revere was given another position to play.

In late 2012, Revere amassed a 21-game hitting streak, his career best. He finished the 2012 season playing 124 major league games with a .294 batting average, no home runs, and 32 RBIs.

Philadelphia Phillies
On December 6, 2012, Revere was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for Vance Worley and Trevor May. Revere was picked to lead off the Phillies' Opening Day lineup for the 2013 season against the Atlanta Braves over Jimmy Rollins after a strong spring training performance. After acquiring Revere, Phillies General Manager (GM) Rubén Amaro Jr. said, "He can go to the top of the order or bottom of the order. Either way, for us it was about the defense and the speed. We like athletic players and he's certainly that. He has great energy, a fantastic defender. And those are priorities for us."

On April 15, 2013, the day of the Boston Marathon bombing, Revere inscribed "Pray for Boston" onto a piece of masking tape and taped it to his glove, which he left sitting out while he stretched. A photographer from Getty Images photographed the glove, and Revere later commented that his phone was "ringing off the hook" with thanks for the gesture. Revere commented,

In the subsequent game, Revere made an incredible leaping, diving catch with the glove, robbing Todd Frazier of an extra base hit.

Near the beginning of the season, Revere sustained an injury to his quadriceps that he worsened in the April 24 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He missed multiple consecutive games and was replaced in the lineup by Freddy Galvis. Revere finally returned on May 3, his 25th birthday. He injured his elbow in a game against the Boston Red Sox on May 27 after jamming it into the metal fence at Fenway Park. He remained in the game, and x-rays later turned up negative. Revere later said of the injury, "Luckily, I've got strong enough bones. If it was somebody else it may have been bad, but luckily it wasn't serious."

By the end of May, Revere was back hitting mainly at the top of the order after manager Charlie Manuel decided to adjust the lineup in hopes of sparking some offense. He managed two hits in a game against the Miami Marlins on June 3, stole two bases, and stopped an extra-base hit from Adeiny Hechavarria. "I just have to take it one game at a time and not put any pressure on myself. I'm finding my stroke", Revere later said of the game. On July 13, Revere suffered a fractured foot after a foul ball hit him while at-bat. He had surgery for the fracture on July 16. Although the initial timetable for Revere's return was six to eight weeks, the Phillies official website later published an article stating that there was no timetable for his return and they were unsure whether or not he will return for a remainder of the 2013 season. He ended up missing the rest of the 2013 season, and finished with a .305 batting average, 0 home runs, 17 runs batted in and 22 stolen bases.

Revere entered the 2014 season healthy, and, amidst chaos and position battles elsewhere, he was the preeminent starter in center field. Before the season, Pat Egan of Phillies Nation published an article declaring the Phillies as the clear winners of the trade that brought Revere to Philadelphia. Though initially writers thought the Twins received a terrific return and it was a terrible trade for the Phillies, Worley was ultimately outrighted of the Twins' roster and traded, and May's status as a top prospect languished, whereas Revere had emerged as a viable everyday center fielder who was under contract with the Phillies through 2018. On April 1, 2014, Revere set a new MLB record for most plate appearances without a home run (1,410) by a non-pitcher. Despite his initial preeminence, because of sore ribs (caused by a diving catch in the outfield), backup Tony Gwynn Jr. started four consecutive games in center field (beyond the time Revere needed to recover from his injury due to Gwynn's success at the plate) while Revere, who had recently struggled at the plate, was on the bench. However, a few days later, Revere came up to bat in the eighth inning in a scoreless game, and hit an RBI single, which re-implanted him atop the Phillies' starting lineup. As for Gwynn, Revere commented,

On May 27, 2014, Revere hit his first MLB home run in his 1,466th career at-bat, the longest streak without a home run to begin a career since Frank Taveras in 1977. On September 5, Revere hit another home run, the second of his career, against Washington Nationals right-handed pitcher Rafael Soriano. In the waning weeks of the season, Revere was firmly embroiled in the battle for the National League batting title with Justin Morneau, Josh Harrison, and others. In 151 games of 2014, Revere hit .306 with an NL-leading 184 hits, 49 stolen bases, two home runs, and 28 RBIs. Paul Boye wrote, "The fact of the matter boils down to this: Ben Revere is the best option in center field for this team, given both internal and external options at this point." On October 1, 2014, Revere underwent right ankle surgery to remove two screws.

After having played center field exclusively during his first two years with the Phillies, Revere spent some time in left field during spring training in 2015 while Odubel Herrera played in center; manager Ryne Sandberg noted that Revere's arm may fit better in left field. In 96 games with the Phillies, Revere batted .298 with 24 stolen bases, 1 home run, and 26 RBI.

Toronto Blue Jays

On July 31, 2015, Revere was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for Alberto Tirado and Jimmy Cordero. Revere struggled early in his tenure with the Blue Jays, going hitless in his first 13 at-bats. He would return to form for the remainder of August, making several highlight-reel catches in left field and extending a hit streak to 9 games on August 29. During those 9 games, Revere batted .514. He played in 56 games for the Blue Jays in the 2015 regular season, and batted .319 with 1 home run, 19 RBI, and 7 stolen bases. He played 152 total games in 2015 with a .306 batting average, 2 home runs, 31 stolen bases, and 45 RBI.

With the Blue Jays finishing the season 93–69, the team clinched the AL-East pennant for their first postseason berth in 22 years. During Game 6 of the 2015 ALCS against the Kansas City Royals, Revere was involved in controversy where Jeff Nelson called a strike on a pitch that was up and outside on a 2–1 count. The very next pitch, Revere struck out swinging. He attacked a garbage can with his bat in frustration in the dugout, and the Blue Jays would end up losing the game 3–4, eliminating them from further postseason contention. In 11 postseason games, Revere batted .256 with 2 stolen bases.

Washington Nationals
On January 8, 2016, Revere and a player to be named later were traded to the Washington Nationals in exchange for Drew Storen and cash considerations.

Revere was placed on the 15-day disabled list on April 6 after suffering a strained right oblique in the season opener on April 4. He batted .217/.260/.300 for the 2016 season. The Nationals opted not to tender Revere a contract after the 2016 season, making him a free agent.

Los Angeles Angels
On December 23, 2016, Revere signed a one-year, $4 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels that included unspecified incentives. Revere began the season as the team's 4th outfielder but after inconsistent play, Revere was entrusted as the left fielder. In 109 games, Revere hit .275/.308/.344 with 1 home run and 21 stolen bases.

Cincinnati Reds
On February 25, 2018, Revere signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds. He was released on March 25.

Second stint with the Angels
On March 30, 2018, Revere signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels. He was released on July 26, 2018.

Texas Rangers
On February 17, 2019, Revere signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that included an invitation to spring training. The Rangers released Revere on March 26, 2019.

Second stint with the Blue Jays
On April 27, 2019, Revere signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was released on May 22.

Lexington Legends
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Revere played with the Lexington Legends during their "Battle of the Bourbon Trail" series due to the cancellation of the 2020 MiLB season.

Player-coach
On May 18, 2021, Revere was named hitting coach for the Lexington Legends (now members of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball) for the 2021 season.

On July 31, 2021, the team activated him as a player. In his first game, he went 2-3 with a triple and 2 RBI's. Revere did not return to the organization after the season.

Coaching career
On February 17, 2023, it was announced that Revere would be joining the Florida Complex League Braves, the rookie-level affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, as a coach for the 2023 season.

Scouting report

Offense
Revere's former teammate Denard Span described him as having the "ability to change games with his speed both offensively and defensively" and saying that he is always "looking to steal second and third" to gain offense momentum. A slap hitter, he has struggled to hit for power during his career; it took him 1,466 at-bats to hit his first home run, the most since 1977. According to a hot zone chart generated by ESPN Stats and Information, Revere has the best batting average and slugging percentage on pitches on the lower-outside part of the plate. Revere hits left-handed pitchers as well as he does right-handed pitchers. Lindy's Sports noted that despite having a long swing with a "big timing hitch", he makes "excellent line-drive contact" and is a productive leadoff hitter with excellent speed. The Baseball Cube's player ratings, which are based solely on statistics on a 0-100 scale, rated Revere as a 98 for contact and a 97 for speed.

Defense
Defensively, Revere has excellent range in the outfield and, during the 2012 season, amassed a 16.4 ultimate zone rating (UZR), which is well above average. FanGraphs described him as being an "elite" defensive player due to his speed and range. Even when he has struggled offensively, his defense kept him in the lineup during his early career with the Twins as a right fielder and during his 2013 slump with the Phillies. Though Revere used his speed efficiently in covering ground in the outfield, he struggled to produce outs with his below-average arm. In 2014, some writers asserted that his speed covered for poor range in the outfield, and that he was a below-average outfielder.

Personal life
Described by writer Craig Hughner as embodying a "full-throttle" style of play along with a "genuine, charismatic personality", Revere is known for his energy on the field. Revere called his personality a product of the manner in which he was raised, and that he always tries to be "goofy" and to keep things loose. Former teammate Denard Span corroborated Revere being "goofy", that he is a "real good teammate", and that he comes to play the right way every day. Revere is a devout Christian; he says that he prays nightly and reads his Bible weekly. A self-proclaimed history buff, Revere said he wants to explore Philadelphia museums and famous sites when he no longer has to focus so much on baseball.

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is a 2000 puzzle video game compilation developed by Compile for the PlayStation. It is Compile's last Puyo Puyo game before Sega, previously only owning the character rights, fully obtained the rights to the series. Puyo Puyo Box, being a compilation, primarily consists of earlier Puyo Puyo games, but also contains original content.

Gameplay
Puyo Puyo Box has several game modes. It consists of the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) versions of Puyo Puyo and Puyo Puyo Tsu, as well as a Madō Monogatari-style quest mode in which the player plays as Arle Nadja and battles against members of the other cast in Puyo Puyo matches. It includes a Stage Clear mode in which the player has to face either 10, 20 or 30 opponents, as well as two multiplayer modes which can be played with either other players or AI substitutes.

For the Quest mode itself, it allows the player to customise the armoury in ways in which made Arle stronger with a double-edged sword effect. For example, the player could remove the Puyo Rings in order to beef up her attack at the expense of being unable to see the next pieces, and the amount of experience gained and gold won was relative to how big a chain was scored and how quickly the opponent was defeated.

The key point in the gameplay of Puyo Puyo BOX is that the player can choose a ruleset from either Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo Tsu (with countering), Puyo Puyo Sun (with countering and Sun Puyos dropping after each counter), and Puyo Puyo~n (with countering and a special gauge, with a select number of specials for the player to choose before a game begins). This can effectively lead to four-player battles where each player plays with independent or mixed rules. The game also allows for team battles to take place.

Legacy
Despite being the last of the series released by Compile, it enjoyed great success. One of the special multiplayer modes made available in this game, known as Treasure Mode, was later adapted in Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary as its Excavation Mode to pay homage to the idea.

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Monasterio de Hermo is one of 54 parish councils in Cangas del Narcea, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The church of Santa Maria, a historic artistic monument, is located here. People from Grasshopper-Club visit the monument frequently during off season.

References

Parishes in Cangas del Narcea


The 1996 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began with 48 teams and ended on December 21, 1996, when Stanford defeated Hawaii 3 games to 0 in the NCAA championship match.

Stanford's win over Hawaii for the title was, and remains, one of the most lopsided finals in NCAA championship history. Stanford won 15-7, 15-3, 15-5. The 15 points scored by Hawaii was the lowest in an NCAA championship match since the NCAA tournament began in 1981.

Play-in games

Records

Brackets

Pacific regional

East regional

Mountain regional

Central regional

Final Four - CSU Convocation Center, Cleveland, Ohio

See also
NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship

References

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Notoglanidium akiri is a species of claroteid catfish endemic to Nigeria where it occurs in the Niger Delta and the New Calabar and Bonny Rivers. It reaches a length of 10.7 cm (4.2 inches) SL.

References

Endemic fauna of Nigeria
Claroteidae
Fish of Africa
Fish described in 1987


Lysimachia latifolia, sometimes called Trientalis latifolia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It is known as starflower, chickweed-wintergreen, or Pacific starflower.

Description
It is a low-growing, creeping perennial reaching ().
The roots are tuberous, creeping rhizomes. The stems are erect,  high. It has 5 to 7 whorled, lanceolate, entire leaves distributed levelly in a single group.

The flowers are white or pink flowers are borne in April or May. Calyx (the collective term for sepals) is 5- to 9-parted and persistent. Corolla (the collective term for petals) is also 5- to 9-parted, rotate, with a very short tube and elliptic-lanceolate segments. Stamens occur in the same number as the corolla lobes (5-9) and are positioned opposite them. 1-3 peduncles, 1-flowered, filiform, and ebracteate.
The ovary is one-celled. The style (gynoecium) is filiform.

Habitat
Occurs on moist, shaded slopes in deep, light soil rich in organic matter, particularly leaf mould.

Distribution
Canada: Occurs in British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon.
United States of America: Occurs throughout Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and northern California.

Etymology
The former genus name Trientalis is derived from the Latin  ('a third'), and is an allusion to the height of the plant, which is one third of a foot, or  high. Latifolia is derived from the Latin words  ('broad or wide') and  ('leaves') and means approximately 'broad-leaved'.

The alternative name "Indian potato" refers to a small subterranean swelling at the stem's base, which is not listed as being edible by modern sources.

References

External links
 Jepson Manual Online Trientalis latifolia Hook.

latifolia
Plants described in 1838
Flora of Northern America


Las Montañas is one of 54 parish councils in Cangas del Narcea, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Villages
 Las Abieras
 Las Defradas de las Montañas
 Fontes de las Montañas
 Ḷḷeirón
 El Pumar
 San Fliz
 San Pedru las Montañas

References

Parishes in Cangas del Narcea


Notoglanidium boutchangai is a species of claroteid catfish.

Location
Notoglanidium boutchangai can be found in the Ogooué River basin of Gabon and the Kouilou River basin in the Republic of the Congo.

Size
It reaches a length of 22.5 cm (8.9 inches) TL.

Information
Notoglanidium boutchangai is considered to be of least concern to becoming an endangered species. The main threats that negatively affect this species by decreasing its population in their habitat include deforestation for limber, gold mining, and the construction of dams. Even though there are threats, none of them are decreasing the population in a dramatic way. There are no conservation measures being done to help conserve the species. The common name of  Notoglanidium boutchangai in French is Bambonga.

Habitat
Notoglanidium boutchangai is recorded to live in a freshwater environment. They can be located in a tropical environment. This species populates in rivers.

Characteristics
Notoglanidium boutchangai is known to have a wide and flat head along with a rounded snout. The eyes are located on the backside of the head. The main color of this species is usually a reddish-brown color.

References

Claroteidae
Fish of Africa
Fish described in 1965


Notoglanidium macrostoma, also called the flatnose catfish and dwarf giraffe catfish is a species of claroteid catfish found in rivers in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.  It is active during twilight and at night and its diet consists of small fishes, crustaceans and insect larvae.  It grows to a length of 24.0 cm (9.4 inches) TL.

References

Claroteidae
Fish of Africa
Fish described in 1909


Hans Jacob Neumann Ustvedt (4 July 1903 – 26 January 1982) was a Norwegian medical doctor and broadcasting administrator.  He was a driving force of the doctors' resistance during World War II, had to flee to Sweden in 1942, and was leading the medical office at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm. He was a professor of internal medicine at the University of Oslo from 1951 to 1962, and Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1962 to 1972.

Personal life
Ustvedt was born in Kristiania. His parents were dr.med. Nils Yngvar Ustvedt and Hanna Mohn. His maternal grandfather was Jakob Mohn. Ustvedt was married to Ingrid With, a daughter of banker Borger With, from 1927 to 1947, and to psychologist Liv Dahl from 1947. He was the father of writer and radio personality Yngvar Ustvedt, born 1928.

Medical career
Ustvedt was cand.med. in 1927, and then assistant physician in Tromsø, Trondheim and Oslo. From 1934 he worked as a physician at Ullevål Hospital and from 1938 at Rikshospitalet, and at the same time working towards a doctorate degree. He was interested in music, being a pianist and singer himself, and his doctorate, published in 1937, was on musicality of patients with brain damages.

World War II
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1945 Ustvedt was one of the driving forces of the Norwegian physicians' organized resistance, as he had been elected chairman of the organization Yngre Legers Forening in 1940. He was also involved in building up the so-called Coordination Committee (KK), an organ to coordinate the professional organisations' fight against Nazi influence and takeover. He cooperated closely with Ferdinand Schjelderup, and initiated the formation of KK's cultural group. He had to flee to Sweden in 1942, and was leading the medical office at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm.

Post war
Ustvedt was a chief physician at Ullevål Hospital from 1946 to 1959, and from 1959 chief physician at Rikshospitalet. He was a professor of internal medicine at the University of Oslo from 1951 to 1962, having applied for the first time in 1948. At the same time he participated in European tuberculosis organizations, and was a member of the board of the Norwegian aid programme in Kerala. He published several scientific works on internal medicine and immunology. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1949, and from 1946 to 1947 he chaired the Norwegian Medical Society and was a member of the board of the Norwegian Medical Association. He also sat on the committee that awards the Anders Jahre Award for Medical Research.

Broadcasting career
While working as a physician, Ustvedt had also been a radio lecturer and speaker through the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). In 1959 he was appointed leader for the Broadcasting Council, advisory council for NRK. He was appointed Director-General of the NRK in 1962, largely due to votes of members of the Broadcasting Council, and held this position until 1972. His appointment led to some controversy, and his period in office was also full of controversies. The development of television, then a relatively new and strong medium, led to several fights over program policy, from vanguard theatre repertoire to sexual education in school. A period of significant increase in staff size, combined with a general radicalisation among young academics, led to both external and internal conflicts.

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USS Keresan (ID-1806) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Construction and early career
Keresan was launched in 1912 as the commercial cargo ship SS Electra for an Austro-Hungarian firm, but was sold prior to completion to another Austro-Hungarian company, M. V. Martinolich and Company, and renamed SS Erodiade. At the beginning of World War I in August 1914, Erodiade took refuge at Buenos Aires in neutral Argentina to avoid capture or destruction by Allied naval forces and was laid up there.

The United States seized all Central Powers ships in Western Hemisphere ports upon entering World War I on the Allied side in April 1917, and all Austro-Hungarian ships seized were purchased by American interests. The Kerr Navigation Company of New York City purchased Erodiade and seven other seized Austro-Hungarian cargo ships. Renamed SS Keresan, the ship went into commercial service with Kerr. Later in 1917 or in 1918, the United States Army chartered Keresan for carrying cargo to U.S. Army forces operating in Europe.

United States Navy service
The U.S. Navy took control of Keresan on 18 September 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1806, and commissioned her the same day as USS Keresan.

Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Keresan departed New York City on 1 October 1918 with a cargo of ammunition for American forces in Europe. Following the Armistice with Germany of 11 November 1918, Keresan returned to the United States in ballast, arriving at New York on 13 December 1918.

Keresan steamed to Buenos Aires in January 1919 with general cargo, arriving in February 1919. Delayed at Buenos Aires by a strike, she finally departed in early May 1919 with a cargo of maize and returned to New York on 5 June 1919.

Keresan was decommissioned on 26 June 1919 and transferred the same day to the United States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to Kerr Navigation.

Later career
The ship returned to commercial service as SS Keresan. She was sold to another American firm and became SS Mount Seward in 1921, then sold again in 1922, to a Hungarian firm that named her SS Debreczen. A British company bought her in 1927 and renamed her SS Fenwell, then sold her in 1928 to another British firm, which named her Chislehurst. Sold to a Shanghai, China-based firm in 1933, she became first SS Yolande B and then SS Yolande before being wrecked near Weihaiwei, China, on 5 March 1938.

References

Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images:  U.S. Navy Ships: USS Keresan (ID # 1806), 1918-1919. Originally S.S. Erodiade (Austrian Freighter, 1912). Later American S.S. Keresan
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Keresan (ID 1806)

World War I cargo ships of the United States
Ships built on the River Wear
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Rik Lopez (born 25 December 1979 in Northwick Park) is an English retired professional footballer.

Career
Lopez began as an apprentice at Arsenal, and also played youth football with Queens Park Rangers and Watford. However, he never made a league appearance for any of the three clubs. Lopez began his professional career with Bristol Rovers, making eight league appearances during the 2001–02 season.

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Living people
English men's footballers
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Watford F.C. players
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Men's association football defenders
Footballers from the London Borough of Brent


Clarkia prostrata is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common name prostrate clarkia. It is endemic to the coastline of San Luis Obispo County, California, where it grows on seaside bluffs in forested and grassy areas. This annual herb is prostrate as opposed to erect as most other Clarkia species are. Its stems extend to a maximum length approaching half a meter and are usually somewhat fuzzy in texture. The leaves are oval in shape, up to 2.5 centimeters long, and lack petioles. The sepals of the flower separate into two pairs, revealing the lavender-pink blooming petals. Each petal is just over a centimeter long, fan-shaped to oval, and sometimes with a yellow base marked with a red spot.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Profile
Photo gallery

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Flora of California
Plants described in 1953


Naviego is one of 54 parish councils in Cangas del Narcea, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The altitude is  above sea level. It is   in size, with a population of 231, as of 2004.

Villages
 Folgueiraxú
 La Mata
 Murias de Puntarás
 Naviegu
 Palaciu
 Peneḷḷada
 Puntarás
 La Riela Naviegu
 Viḷḷacaness
 Viḷḷaxu
 Viḷḷar de Naviegu

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"Address in the Stars" is a song written by Caitlin Lynn, Aimee Mayo, Chris Lindsey, Hillary Lindsey and recorded by American country duo Caitlin & Will. The song, their only single, was released in March 2009. It was intended as the lead-off single to their debut album, Dark Horse, which went unreleased. Originally, "Even Now" was to be their first single, however, while on radio tours, radio stations started playing "Address in the Stars", and listeners began to like the song more. Two weeks before "Even Now" was to be released to radio, the single was switched.

The song appears on their self-titled EP, which was released on March 31, 2009, via Columbia Records' Nashville division.

Content
The song’s narrator is put in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one and having so much that she still wants to say to the one she has lost. With that in mind she wishes that she could find a way to say these things and formulates letters containing her feelings, however the song comes to its dramatic climax when she reveals that no matter how hard she tries and wishes there is no address to send a letter or a last thought to in the stars.

Reception
Matt Bjorke, of Roughstock.com, said the song "seems tailor-made for not only radio but for an amazing music video.  Caitlin's vocals soar on this song, and it's hard to see how fans of Trisha Yearwood and Carrie Underwood won't like this song as well for Caitlin Lynn has a magnificent voice.  Will provides harmony vocals on this track but does have a great voice of his own." Frequency Magazine gave the song 4 and a half stars. "Their voices blend together beautifully. Caitlin sings lead and her voice is a perfect fit for the melancholy mood. The music fits perfectly and does a really nice job of changing the pace and volume to fit with the mood of the song." MusicRow writer Robert K. Oermann also gave a positive review, saying, "Both of these kids sing their faces off. Caitlin’s goose-bump raising vocal takes the lead while Will wails soulful harmony on the string-drenched choruses."

Music video
The music video for the song first premiered on July 15, 2009 on the website for the Grand Ole Opry, and then on CMT a day later. The video shows Caitlin sitting in a room as she sings the song, while Will is shown playing the guitar in a thicket of dead trees with lanterns hanging on them. It is done entirely in black and white, with a few short lapses into color where the lanterns glow orange. An alternate version of the video, with minor differences, was released on July 30, 2009. The second video features scenes of Caitlin standing in the dead forest tossing letters into the night sky. Both were directed by Steven L. Weaver.

Chart performance
"Address in the Stars" debuted at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the chart week of March 28, 2009. It peaked at number 42 in June 2009.

References

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Caitlin & Will songs
Songs written by Aimee Mayo
Songs written by Hillary Lindsey
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Country ballads
Columbia Records singles
Song recordings produced by Chris Lindsey


The House of the First Printing Press in the Americas () at the corner of Moneda and Licenciado Primo Verdad streets in Mexico City was the home of the first printing press/print shop in the New World. The printer Juan Pablos oversaw the printing of at least 35 books at this print shop between 1539, the date of the first book printed in the Americas, and his death in 1560.

The house was originally constructed by Gerónimo de Aguilar in 1524 and is located on the outer edge of what was the sacred precinct of the Templo Mayor prior to the Conquest.

After receiving permission from Spanish king Carlos V and the archbishop of Mexico City, Juan de Zumárraga had a printing press brought from Europe in 1539. The press was set up in this house, then called the "Casa de las Campanas" (House of the Bells) by the Seville-based publisher  with Italian printer Juan Pablos who worked for living expenses for ten years. They began printing viceregal- and Church-related documents. One of these documents was a catechism entitled Breve y más compendiosa doctrina christiana en lengua mexicana y castellana ("The Brief and Most Concise Christian Doctrine in the Mexican Language") written by the archbishop himself.

After its stint as a print shop, the house changed hands numerous times and was used for a number of purposes. In the 17th century, it belonged to the Monastery of Santa Teresa de la Orden de las Carmelas Reformadas and later, in the 18th century, it belonged to the Royal Military Order of Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redención de Cautivos de la Ciudad de México. In 1847, U.S. troops occupied the house, destroying the archives that were within. The house was then owned by a number of civilians, including one who used the building to store furniture. In the 20th century, the building was mostly used for offices, including being the home to a paper and printing services operation called the "Imprenta y Papelería Militar 'Marte'." The house continued to change hands until 1989, when the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) bought the house with the intention of restoring it.

UAM worked with the Historic Center Restoration Program, working with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología. About 82 cm below the surface of the ground floor the stone head of a serpent from Aztec times was discovered. It is possible that this head was visible to the occupants of the building in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Today, the house serves as the Continuing Education Center for UAM with various exhibition rooms, a bookstore and facilities for conferences and courses. In 2008, the Book Museum opened here, with some of the oldest books in Mexico on display.

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Gephyroglanis congicus is a species of claroteid catfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it is found in the Congo River system.  This species grows to a length of 43.0 cm (16.9 inches) SL.

References

Claroteidae
Fish of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fish described in 1899


Sonal Bhadresh Shah (born 1986) is an American actress and voice artist who is best known for playing Dr. Sonja "Sunny" Dey on TV's Scrubs.

Early life and education
Shah was born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois. Her parents, Bhadresh and Mrudula Shah, are Gujarati Jains who moved from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to the United States in 1970.

Shah graduated from Wheaton Warrenville South High School. She was named the 1998 DuPage County Fair Queen in July 1998.

Shah graduated cum laude from Loyola University in Chicago with a major in theatre, minors in psychology, biology and chemistry, and a concentration in pre-medicine. While a student at Loyola, Shah joined the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority. "I sincerely planned to go to medical school," Shah told a Wheaton, Illinois newspaper in March 2009. "I love studying science, but I realized that my passion for performing outweighed my passion for wanting to be a doctor."

After graduation, Shah became a staple in the Chicago Theatre Community and performed with The Tony Award Winning Goodman Theatre among others. She is a founding member of Rasaka Theatre Company, which explores South Asian plays and playwrights, and supplemented her acting education at The Moscow Art Theatre School at Harvard University.

Acting career

Shah moved to Los Angeles in 2006 and began appearing in commercials and sketch comedy. She also has acted with Second City theatres in Chicago and Los Angeles.

In 2009, Shah began appearing on Scrubs as Dr. Sonja "Sunny" Dey, who is one of the young interns newly cast in the show's eighth season. In addition, Shah appeared in the show's webisode series Scrubs: Interns. Shah returns as a guest star on the ninth season of Scrubs, in the fifth episode.

Shah also has a role in the 2009 teen comedy film Ratko: The Dictator's Son, a National Lampoon production.

Selected filmography

External links

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21st-century American comedians
American stand-up comedians
American Jains
American women comedians
American comedians of Indian descent
American film actresses
American television actresses
American actresses of Indian descent
Actors from Wheaton, Illinois
Actresses from Illinois
American people of Gujarati descent
Comedians from Illinois
Gujarati people
Living people
1986 births
21st-century American actresses


Gephyroglanis gymnorhynchus is a species of claroteid catfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it is found in the Aruwimi River.  This species grows to a length of 14.6 cm (5.7 inches) SL.

References

Claroteidae
Fish of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fish described in 1914


Gephyroglanis habereri is a species of claroteid catfish endemic to Cameroon where it is only known from the Dja River.  This species grows to a length of 20.2 cm (8.0 inches) SL.

References

Claroteidae
Freshwater fish of Cameroon
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Fish described in 1912