Madeline Frank Brandeis (December 18, 1897 – June 28, 1937) was an American writer of children's books, a film producer and director.

Biography
Brandeis was born as Madeline Frank in San Francisco.

Brandeis was best known for her "Children of America" and "Children of All Lands" series of books. Most of the fictional stories included photographs taken by the writer, with child actors as the books' characters.

She was also a founder of The Little Players' Film Co., with offices in New York City and Chicago, which featured casts composed almost entirely of children. She wrote,  directed, and financed her first feature film The Star Prince (1918), released in 1920 as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. She produced and directed the film series Children of All Lands (1928/29), The Little Dutch Tulip Girl (1928/29), The Little Indian Weaver, and The Little Swiss Wood-Carver.

In 1918, she married E. (Erving) John Brandeis, of Omaha's Brandeis department stores. They divorced on 24 April 1921, at which point she was living in Beverly Hills; she received a  settlement. She died in Gallup, New Mexico, of injuries suffered in an automobile accident two weeks earlier while she and her daughter Marie (b. 1920) were driving from New York to Los Angeles.

Bibliography
The Little Indian Weaver (1928), Grosset & Dunlap, 134 pages
Shaun O'Day of Ireland (1929)
The Wee Scotch Piper (1929)
Little Jeanne of France (1929)
The Little Swiss Wood Carver (1929)
The Little Dutch Tulip Girl (1929)
Little Philippe of Belgium (1930)
Little Anne of Canada (1931)
The Little Mexican Donkey Boy (1931)
Jack of the Circus (1931)
The All Wrong Book (1932)
Yankee Doodle's Adventures (1932)
Carmen of the Golden Coast (1933) +
Mitz and Fritz of Germany (1933)
Little Tony of Italy (1934)
Little Tom of England (1935)
Little Rose of the Mesa (1935) +
Little John of New England (1936) +
The Little Spanish Dancer (1936)
Little Farmer of the Middle West (1937) +
Adventure in Hollywood (1937)
Little Erik of Sweden (1938)

+ Works whose U.S. copyrights were renewed.

References

Further reading
 American Authors and Books: 1640 to the present day. 3rd revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.
 Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921–1939. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976.

External links

 "Madeline Brandeis", Jewish Women's Archive.
 Madeline Brandies at Women Film Pioneers Project

1897 births
1937 deaths
American children's writers
American women film directors
American women film producers
Women film pioneers
Writers from California
Film producers from California
20th-century American women
20th-century American writers
20th-century American women writers


Jamāl-al-Din Moḥammad Sidi (1555–1591) was a Persian poet. He lived from 963 AH-999 AH; c. 1556-1590 CE; known by his pen-name Urfi, or Orfi or Urfi Shirazi (), was a 16th-century Persian poet.

He was born in Shiraz and in his youth, he migrated to India and became one of the poets of the court of Akbar the Great. He is one of the most prominent Persian poets of Indian style.

References

External links
عرفی شیرازی, Dehkhoda Dictionary
List of Persian poets and authors
Persian literature

16th-century Persian-language writers
16th-century Persian-language poets
1550s births
1590 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Iranian emigrants to the Mughal Empire


Universal Music Latin Entertainment, a division of Universal Music Group, is a record company specialized in producing and distributing Latin music in Mexico, the United States, and Puerto Rico. UMLE includes famous Latin music labels such as Universal Music Latino, Fonovisa Records, Universal Music Mexico, Capitol Latin, Machete Music and Disa Records.

The record company was created in 2008 with the acquisition of Univision Music Group and combining it with Universal Music's top Latin artists, along with much of the Latin back catalog of UMG.

Labels

Univision Records (2001–2008)
Launched mid 2001, Univision Records already had an impressive artist roster:  Anasol, Pilar Montenegro, Anaís, Jennifer Peña, Graciela Beltrán, Iman, Los Forasteros, Daniel René, and most recently Mexican Ranchero music icon, Pepe Aguilar.
 In 2003, Jennifer Peña became the only female artist nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album" category.
The label was dissolved in May 2008 with Univision Music Group being acquired.

Fonovisa Records
Acquired in 2002 back then by Univision Music Group, Fonovisa is the largest Regional Mexican label in the music industry  and since 1984 has launched major Latin stars into international markets and mainstream America.
 Fonovisa's impressive roster of over 120 artists include multi-platinum artists Marco Antonio Solís, La Banda el Recodo, Conjunto Primavera, Los Temerarios, and Los Tigres del Norte.

Disa Records
Disa Records is the second largest Regional-Mexican label after Fonovisa.  It was owned by the Chávez family of Monterrey until June 2001, when Univision acquired 50% of Disa from the Chávez family. In November 2006 Univision acquired the other 50% of the label making it a subsidiary of Univision Music Group.
 Disa represents over 50 artists, many of which are household names in Spanish-language music, including Palomo, Los Angeles Azules, Grupo Bryndis, Liberación, El Poder del Norte, and most recently, renowned Mexican actress and singer, Aracely Arámbula.

Machete Music
Machete Music includes the top reggaeton artists from Puerto Rico and Latin artists from all over the world. Artists like Akwid, Wisin & Yandel, Ivy Queen, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Molotov, and others.

Universal Music Latino
Formed in 1997, Universal Music Latino includes top artists from the Latin music genre, including Lucero, Tono Rosario, music group Belanova, music artists Belinda, Luis Fonsi, Enrique Iglesias, Juanes, Olga Tañón, David Bisbal, Paulina Rubio, and recently Dulce María. PolyGram Latino merged with Universal Music Latino after Universal Music Group's acquisition of PolyGram. In 2006 UML with Vene Music started Siente Music. Canadian born artist Nelly Furtado and Miami rapper Pitbull have also joined Universal to release a Spanish album.

Capitol Latin
Following Universal Music Group's acquisition of EMI Music in 2012, Capitol Latin was merged with UMLE. The label includes artists that were signed on at the time of the acquisition.

Aftercluv Dance Lab
A label which focuses mainly on the electronic music Latin audience. Launched in 2014, musical acts that have signed on to the label include Cher Lloyd, 3Ball MTY, Juan Magan, Atellagali, Marcelo Cic, and Buraka Som Sistema.

Defunct labels
RMM Records & Video
PolyGram Latino
Rodven Records

List of artists on UMLE
This is a list of artist currently signed on to Universal Music Latin Entertainment.

List of former artists on UMLE
These are artists who were formerly signed on to either Universal Music Latin Entertainment or Universal Music Latino.

See also
 List of Universal Music Group labels

References

External links

Labels distributed by Universal Music Group
Latin music record labels
Record labels established in 2008
Companies based in Los Angeles


Sarah Elizabeth Stephens (born 7 June 1990) is an Australian model and actress, best known for winning Girlfriend magazine's Model Search 2006 and walking in the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the age of 18.

Early life

Sarah Stephens was born in Lancashire, England. Her parents are Australian and she has three younger brothers. She grew up in Sydney and attended Brigidine College, St Ives. She played the bass clarinet in the school band.

Career

In 2006, at the age of 16, Stephens won the nationwide Girlfriend Magazine Model search.

As the winner of Girlfriend magazine's Model Search, Stephens won a two-year contract with Chic Model Management and was later signed by Next Model Management in New York and Paris.  Stephens has been on the covers of many magazines including Russh Australia, Frankie magazine, Madison, GQ, French Revue de Modes, and Eurowoman.  She has been featured in editorial spreads in Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Australian editions of Vogue, as well as Numéro France, Numéro Tokyo, Interview, Nylon, Madison, Italian Amica, 10 magazine (UK), Above magazine (UK), Lula (UK), Muse (UK), Vs. magazine, Harper's Bazaar (Australia), Harper's Bazaar (en Español), Exit magazine, Karen magazine, Oyster magazine and Vogue Gioiello (Italy).  Stephens has also been featured in global advertising campaigns for Lacoste, Benetton, Diesel, Sephora, Alice Temperley, Forever 21, NastyGal, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Minelli (France), Dynamite and Kensie, and the lingerie brands; Honey Birdette, Bras N Things, Lasenza, Agent Provocateur, and Myla. Her Australian campaign portfolio includes David Jones, Sass & bide, Bonds, Alannah Hill, L'Oréal, Pandora, Peter Alexander, Forever New, Jag, Wrangler, Just Jeans, Ksubi, Levi's, Lisa Ho, Metalicus, Review Australia, Calibre menswear, Morrisey, Bardot, Sportsgirl, Sunsilk, Seafolly, Tigerlily Swimwear, Sunseeker Swimwear, Westfield, Willow, Wish, Witchery, and Yeojin Bae.

She walked 18 shows at her debut Australian Fashion Week in 2007. In early 2008, she met with photographer Ellen von Unwerth in Paris who shot her for editorial spreads in Russian Vogue, Above magazine and Mixte magazine. Ellen von Unwerth also shot her in 2009 for Italian Vogue and again in 2010 for Vs magazine. During a visit to New York in June 2008 she met with photographer Greg Kadel who shot editorials with Stephens for Numéro (France), Numéro Homme, and Italian Vogue. She was shot by David Sims for United Colours of Benetton's Fall/Winter 2009/2010 campaign and in 2010 she was shot by Guy Aroch for the inaugural edition of 'Untitled Project'. She has walked at several resort shows in New York including Gucci and Lanvin. She walked 14 shows at her debut New York Fashion Week in September 2008, including Jason Wu, Halston. J. Mendel and Tuleh but she is best known in the US for walking in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Miami in 2008 a few months after her 18th birthday. Stephens was the youngest model to walk in that show. She is best known in Europe as the face of the Lacoste fragrance, "Love of Pink". She has a role in the movie Solitary Man with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. In 2011, she was signed as a face of the Australian swimwear label Seafolly. In 2015, she played the young witch in the horror film The Witch. In 2017 she starred in music video "The Other" by New York-based singer Lauv.

She posed nude for Playboy in the July/August issue for 2018.

References

External links

Living people
1990 births
Australian expatriates in England
Australian female models
English people of Australian descent
Models from Sydney
People from the Borough of Burnley


Jann Arden is a Canadian pop singer. Her discography comprises twelve studio albums, two greatest hits albums, two live albums and forty singles.

Studio albums

1990s

2000s

2010s and 2020s

Compilation albums

Live albums

Singles

1980s and 1990s

2000s and 2010s

Other singles

Guest singles

Other charted songs

Music videos

References

Discographies of Canadian artists
Pop music discographies


École Polyvalente Thomas-Albert (French for Thomas Albert High School) is a Francophone public secondary school in Francophone Nord-Ouest of New Brunswick. It is located in the town of Grand Falls in Victoria County.

See also
List of schools in New Brunswick
Grand Falls, New Brunswick
Madawaska County, New Brunswick

Grand Falls, New Brunswick
French-language high schools in New Brunswick
Schools in Madawaska County, New Brunswick
Educational institutions established in 1969
1969 establishments in New Brunswick


David Gene Schellhase Jr. (born October 14, 1944) is a retired American collegiate basketball coach and former basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

High school career
Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, Schellhase attended North High School in Evansville.  As a freshman, he was a member of North's first winning basketball team (1958–59); he was also a member of the Pups (North Frosh) Freshman Conference (SIAC)-title team; they had an overall record of 19-3.  He led the state in scoring during his Senior year averaging 30.5 points a game, with a total of 1,325 points in his high school career. He was a member of the Indiana All-Star Team. He fell short of winning the Indiana Mr. Basketball Award to Larry Humes.

College career
After high school, Dave attended Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana. A natural small forward, he played basketball under head coach Ray Eddy. In his Senior year, he led the Boilermakers in scoring with 32.5 points a game while being named a Consensus All-American, Academic All-American and received his third straight First Team All-Big Ten selection. He was a 2nd team All-American following his junior season.  Dave scored a career high 57 points on February 19, 1966 against Michigan, the second most in school history, only behind Rick Mount's 61. With 2,074 career points he was the first of five Boilermakers to reach the 2,000 point plateau, along with Rick Mount, Joe Barry Carroll, Troy Lewis and E'Twaun Moore.

Professional career
Schellhase was selected as the 10th overall pick in the 1966 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. He played 2 seasons with the Bulls, averaging 2.8 points a game with a total of 208 points in 73 games.  Schellhase starred on the front-line for the Boilers, primarily as a small forward in today's vernacular.  However, the Bulls had a larger front-line, forcing Schellhase to play out of natural position as a guard.

In 1968, he was drafted by the Phoenix Suns in the expansion draft; he did not make the final roster and subsequently began a collegiate coaching career.

Collegiate coaching career

Purdue

A few years after a brief stint playing in the NBA, Dave Schellhase served as an assistant coach under head coach George King in his last two seasons (1971–1972) on the bench. In two seasons, he helped coach Purdue to an overall record of 30-19, including an NIT appearance in 1971. Mainly an assistant to the freshman team, he joined fellow former Purdue standout, George Faerber, under coach Dave Toney.

Moorhead State

Schellhase was the head coach at Moorhead State University from 1975 to 1982, where he led the Dragons to two NSIC titles and to six NAIA Tourneys and an overall post-season record of 8-5. He was selected twice as the NSIC Coach of the Year in 1981 and 1982. In seven seasons, he left the program with a record of 137-64.

Indiana State

Schellhase moved on to coach at the Division I level, leading Sycamores for three seasons from 1982 to 1985, where he compiled a record of 37-48 and currently ranks 14th in wins in Sycamore history. He was the third former Boilermaker to coach at Indiana State after John Wooden's successful tenure from 1946 to 1948 and Bill Hodges' stint from 1979 to 1982.

Return to Moorhead State

After his tenure at ISU at the NCAA Division I level, he returned to Moorhead State in 1987 where he led the Dragons to seven NAIA Tourneys and a post-season record of 1-6. In twelve seasons from 1987 to 1999, he compiled a record of 161-176.  One of his star players, Brett Beeson, led the nation in scoring in 1995-96, before embarking on a lengthy career in foreign leagues.

During his 18-year career at Moorhead State, his overall record was 298-240 with 13 trips to the NAIA Tourney. Schellhase was the Dragons Head Coach in 1992 during their transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II.

On October 16, 2015; he was inducted into the Moorhead State 'Dragon Sports Hall of Fame'.  He remains the winningest coach at Moorhead State (298-240 .554)

Currently
Schellhase returned to coaching in Indiana at the high school level; he coached Cannelton High School for the 2001-02 season.
Schellhase has been at Logansport High School in Logansport, Indiana since 2004.  He's served as the dean of students as well as teaching in the Health, Physical Education Department

Head coaching record

References

External links
Dave Schellhase statistics at basketball-reference.com
Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Profile

1944 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Indiana
Basketball players from Indiana
Chicago Bulls draft picks
Chicago Bulls players
High school basketball coaches in Indiana
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball coaches
Minnesota State–Moorhead Dragons men's basketball coaches
Phoenix Suns expansion draft picks
Point guards
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball coaches
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Evansville, Indiana


Kampung Sungai Rokam is a small village located in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Kampung Sungai Rokam is also considered by its residents to be the most desirable Malay suburban area to live in due to its location which is near to Ipoh town as well as its natural environment. The word "kampung" means village in the Malay language.

Villages in Perak


Justice M.A. Rasheed was a Civil Servant of Pakistan (CSP) who was later on inducted into the judiciary and served as the chief justice of the high court of Balochistan from October 1977 to July 1978. He had been a District or Sessions Judge in the District Courts of Bahawalpur from 1966 to 1968. He is the only Judge of Pakistan to have taken his oath of office in the United States. He refused to take oath under Gen Zia's PCO of 1981. Later on he served as Vice Chancellor of University of Balochistan.

See also
Minhas
Muslim Rajputs

References

University of Balochistan
Chief Justices of the Balochistan High Court
People from Quetta
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


USS Floridian (ID-3875) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919.

SS Floridian was built as a commercial cargo ship in 1915 at Baltimore, Maryland, by the Maryland Steel Company for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company of New York City. After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Floridian came under the control of the United States Shipping Board. Converted to a troop transport, she spent the rest of the war operating under a United States Army charter. The U.S. Navy acquired Floridian from the Shipping Board on 28 January 1919, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 3875, and commissioned her on the same day as USS Floridian.

Floridian was assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force and designated to carry U.S. Army passengers and cargo. She departed New York City on 16 March 1919 for St. Nazaire, France, where she arrived on 28 March 1919 with supplies for the Army of Occupation.

She made three trips carrying U. S. Army troops to the United States in 1919, all from St. Nazaire. On 14 April, Floridian was one of seven transports to arrive at Hoboken, New Jersey carrying 10,000 troops. She carried 1,824 men including. as described by the Seattle Times, "Headquarters and Medical Detachments and Companies A and B of 346th Machine Gun Battalion; 3rd Battalion Headquarters, Medical and Ordnance Detachments, Supply Company and Companies H, I, K, L and M of the 362nd Infantry; 620th Casual Company."

The second trip came arrived in Hoboken on 14 June. This brought 1,791 troops home. Units aboard included, as described by the Seattle Times, 435 "men of the 148th Field Artillery, 41st Division... [with] Field and Staff, Medical Detachments, Headquarters Company and Battery E. Other troops on board were the 509th Engineers, Headquarters and Medical Detachments and Companies A to D inclusive; members of the 369th Service Park Unit."

The final load of returning soldiers arrived in Hoboken on 16 July. The 1,829 men aboard included, per the Seattle Times, "... the 337th Field Remount Squadron and casuals for Camps Dodge and Bowie."

After these voyages, Floridian was assigned to the 3rd Naval District on 16 July 1919. She was decommissioned and returned to the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company on 4 August 1919. She then resumed service as the commercial cargo ship SS Floridian. At about 10:30 p.m. on 1 September 1928 Floridian and the American steamer Admiral Fiske collided off Seattle, Washington, south of Umatilla lightship, then LV 67, with Floridian sinking and Admiral Fiske heavily damaged.

References

Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images:  Civilian Ships: S.S. Floridian (American Freighter, 1915). Served as USS Floridian (ID # 3875) in 1919
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Floridian (ID 3875)

1915 ships
Ships built in Sparrows Point, Maryland
Merchant ships of the United States
Transports of the United States Navy
Maritime incidents in 1928


The Abba River is a river in the South West region of Western Australia.

The headwaters of the river rise in the Whicher Range in the Millbrook State Forest then flow in a northerly direction. The river crosses the Vasse Highway and then through Wonnerup Siding before discharging into the Vasse Estuary East of Busselton and finally the Indian Ocean.

The river was named in 1834 by Frederick Ludlow. The name is Aboriginal in origin and is a greeting word used by the local peoples.

Construction of a bridge over the Abba and the Sabina River commenced in 1860, despite dreadful weather and the rivers running high at the time.

References

Rivers of the South West region


Joy Franz (born June 13, 1941 in Modesto, California) is an American actress and singer, best known for her stage work. She most recently appeared as the Dowager Empress in US National Tour of Anastasia. She also played Susan in the original 1972 West End production of Stephen Sondheim's Company, and the role of Cinderella's Stepmother in the original 1987 Broadway production of Sondheim's Into the Woods. (She also understudied the role of the Witch). She was also in the ensemble of the 1965 New York City Center production of Guys and Dolls and understudied the female lead Sarah Brown.

She reprised her role of Cinderella’s Stepmother in Into the Woods twice. First, in the 1988-90 US Tour, and then again in the 2002 Broadway revival. In the Broadway revival she also played Little Red’s Granny and understudied the role of Jack’s Mother.

She was one of the Street Singers in the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on September 8, 1971. She currently portrays the role of the Mother in My Damn Channel's television series Horrible People.

References

External links

Joy Franz Official Website

Living people
1941 births
Actresses from Modesto, California
Singers from California
American musical theatre actresses
American television actresses
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women


Retrogradation is a reaction that takes place when the amylose and amylopectin chains in cooked, gelatinized starch realign themselves as the cooked starch cools.

When native starch is heated and dissolved in water, the crystalline structure of amylose and amylopectin molecules is lost and they hydrate to form a viscous solution. If the viscous solution is cooled or left at lower temperature for a long enough period, the linear molecules, amylose, and linear parts of amylopectin molecules retrograde and rearrange themselves again to a more crystalline structure. The linear chains place themselves parallel and form hydrogen bridges.

In viscous solutions the viscosity increases to form a gel. At temperatures between  and , the aging process is enhanced drastically. Amylose crystallization occurs much faster than crystallization of the amylopectin. The crystal melting temperature of amylose is much higher (about ) than amylopectin (about ). The temperature range between cooking starch and storing in room temperature is optimum for amylose crystallization, and therefore amylose crystallization is responsible for the development of initial hardness of the starch gel. On the other hand, amylopectin has a narrower temperature range for crystallization as crystallization does not occur at a temperature higher than its melting temperature. Therefore, amylopectin is responsible for development of the long-term crystallinity and gel structure.

Retrogradation can expel water from the polymer network. This process is known as syneresis. A small amount of water can be seen on top of the gel. Retrogradation is directly related to the staling or aging of bread.

Retrograded starch is less digestible (see resistant starch).

Chemical modification of starches can reduce or enhance the retrogradation. Waxy, high amylopectin, starches also have much less of a tendency to retrogradate. Additives such as fat, glucose, sodium nitrate and emulsifier can reduce retrogradation of starch.

See also
 Retrograde (disambiguation)

References

External links

Starch
Food science


Stage 12 of the 2009 Giro d'Italia took place on 21 May; the race concluded with Stage 21 on 31 May. The second half of the Giro began with a long and challenging individual time trial in Cinque Terre. It was in this time trial that Denis Menchov took the overall lead in the race. This was followed by a flat stage, after which most of the sprinters in the Giro withdrew from the race, as they did not figure to be in contention in the hilly and mountainous stages to follow.

The sixteenth stage was considered to be one of two queen stages, most difficult stages, of this Giro, as it contained many high mountain climbs and the Giro's most difficult summit stage finish. After the second rest day came an unusual stage, one that was very short in terms of sheer distance but on par with previous mountain stages in terms of difficulty. These stages were won by Carlos Sastre and Franco Pellizotti, respectively, who fought for the third step on the Giro's podium behind Menchov and previous race leader Danilo Di Luca. Though Sastre went on to win another stage, to Mount Vesuvius, it was Pellizotti who finished the Giro third overall.

The Giro concluded, as it had in 2008, with another individual time trial, this time in the city of Rome. Despite a dramatic and much-replayed crash in the stage's final kilometer, Menchov preserved his overall lead through this stage and thus, the conclusion of the Giro, winning his third career Grand Tour.

Stage 12
21 May 2009 — Sestri Levante to Riomaggiore,  (individual time trial)

The first individual time trial (ITT) of the 2009 Giro was a difficult one, long with quite a lot of climbing. There were two categorized climbs on the course, a quick, intense descent between them and no flat stretches at all. Lance Armstrong, who rode the Giro for the first time in 2009, described the ITT as "wicked hard". Reigning Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara called it "crazy" and laughed when asked if he would be a contender for victory. Cancellara was in fact the only rider who was still in the race to this point who did not attempt the time trial, instead abandoning the Giro.

Many riders used normal road race bikes for this stage, as the course is highly atypical for a time trial, with roads that were not flat and straight. Most of those riders altered their road race bikes with the aerodynamic handlebars of a time trial bike, but some, including race leader Danilo Di Luca, did not. The climbs in the stage increased the overall chances for strong climbers who are relatively weak time trialists, such as Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni.

Acqua & Sapone rider Dario Andriotto set the early time to beat. After a while, Yuriy Krivtsov bested his time. Several different riders in succession then posted successively (but, in the first few cases, marginally) better times than the best time that had come before them. Alessandro Bertolini, David Millar, Marco Pinotti, Giovanni Visconti, Bradley Wiggins, and Stefano Garzelli were all briefly the stage leader after they crossed the finish line. Bertolini in particular was stage leader for about three minutes, as Millar started just behind him and barely beat his time.

The fourth- and second-to-last riders to leave the starthouse, Levi Leipheimer and Denis Menchov, put up the best rides of the day, with Menchov between 30 seconds and a minute better than Leipheimer at the three intermediate time checks, and 20 seconds better at the line for the stage win. Menchov's ride propelled him into the pink jersey, while Leipheimer narrowly missed taking enough time out of Di Luca to move past him in the general classification. Di Luca finished sixth on the stage.

A surprising rider to lose considerable time was three-time former world time trial champion Michael Rogers, who was almost three minutes off Menchov's winning time and slipped from third to sixth in the general classification. Reigning Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre was also unimpressive, 2'18" behind Menchov, but took advantage of Rogers' bigger misstep to move up to fifth overall.

Stage 13
22 May 2009 — Lido di Camaiore to Florence,

The riders got some respite in this short, flat stage. There were a few short hills in the first  of the stage and one small categorized climb, but after the 60 kilometer mark the course did not so much as undulate, and a sprint finish was the result.

Three riders broke free of the peloton after  — Mikhail Ignatiev, Leonardo Scarselli, and Björn Schröder. Their maximum advantage was 5'20", but the peloton had no trouble catching them. Ignatiev and Scarselli were absorbed with  left to race, while Schröder fought on alone, being caught at around  to go. Despite being seven riders deep in the bunch with under  to go, Mark Cavendish was able to get a successful leadout from Edvald Boasson Hagen and Mark Renshaw to pick up his third stage win of the Giro. The leadout was so fast that only 21 riders had the same time as the stage winner — another 89, including each of the top ten in the General classification (GC), were eight seconds back. Cavendish actually missed the start of the stage, after becoming stuck in the race village due to his habit of lining up on the start of the race at the last minute to avoid press. He was picked up by a Rabobank team car, which was also running late, and brought back to the field by them. He went on to win the stage.

Stage 14
23 May 2009 — Campi Bisenzio to Bologna,

This was a hilly stage, with four categorized climbs on the course and a finish on a short (but categorized) climb as well. Pre-race analysis of the stage expected relentless attacks beginning from the first climb of the day, after .

Fourteen riders representing twelve teams broke away after . They stayed clear as a group through the four climbs on course before they started to splinter. Danilo Di Luca's LPR team drove the peloton most of the day, because the finish figured to favor Di Luca more than race leader Denis Menchov or the man in third, Levi Leipheimer. However, one team pulling at the front of the peloton proved to be no match for a 14-man breakaway working cohesively, and by the time the peloton reached the descent of the fourth climb, the last before the summit finish, it was clear the breakaway would not be caught. The breakaway was still twelve strong as it began the last climb of the day. Andriy Hryvko was the first to attack for the stage win, but he was caught well before the summit, and wound up finishing in the pink jersey group a minute behind the stage winner. The decisive attack came from Simon Gerrans, who no one could match, giving the Cervélo rider the stage win. Leipheimer and Ivan Basso were both dropped from the pink jersey group just before the summit of the climb and the end of the stage, losing three potentially valuable seconds to the other highly placed riders in the GC. Michael Rogers was a further three seconds back of Leipheimer and Basso, causing him to drop from sixth to seventh in the GC.

Stage 15
24 May 2009 — Forlì to Faenza,

The peloton faced four categorized climbs in this stage, though none were considered difficult enough to be truly selective. Also on the profile were three uncategorized hills that simply were not as steep. With a  flat section at the end of the stage, a breakaway finish was likely.

The day began with 16 riders from 14 teams breaking away, after about . They attained a maximum advantage of about six minutes, and race leader Denis Menchov's Rabobank team seemed content to let them go, since no real GC threat was posed: José Serpa was the best placed man in the break, ten minutes back of Menchov. For a while, it seemed that the stage would progress this way to its conclusion, with the breakaway up ahead and the peloton not really chasing very hard.

Things changed when Ivan Basso's team came forward on the third climb of the day to set a much faster pace in the peloton, and Basso himself attacked and came free, with only Stefano Garzelli holding his wheel. They caught some members of the morning breakaway, as that group also splintered, but were eventually themselves caught. Danilo Di Luca launched an attack on the fourth climb of the day, and for a time he and Menchov were clear of the other GC contenders, but they were also caught — the top seven in the GC were unchanged after this stage.

After the 16-man leading group began splintering, only two were left out front — Leonardo Bertagnolli and Serge Pauwels. For unclear reasons, Pauwels sat up (abandoned the breakaway attempt) in the final kilometers of the stage and left Bertagnolli to take the stage win uncontested. Pauwels joined two behind him who were chasing, as several riders who had been in the pink jersey group but were not overall threats had been allowed to attack on the way into the finish. The pink jersey group finished 1'56" behind the stage winner, with another 13 riders about 7 minutes back, and the majority of the field between 18 and 26 minutes back, after the peloton had been one cohesive group for close to two-thirds of the stage.

Stage 16
25 May 2009 — Pergola to Monte Petrano,

This stage was extremely climbing-intensive, with three categorized high mountains, including a mountaintop finish with a very difficult gradient at Monte Petrano, and a smaller climb about a third of the way into the stage. It also had five short uncategorized hills. Following the alterations to Stage 10, this was also called the queen stage of the Giro.

A large early breakaway began the stage, for the third day in a row. This breakaway numbered 20, which after the first category one climb was whittled down to three, as some riders dropped because of the pace and others, from the teams of race leader Denis Menchov and other contenders, were called back by their sporting directors to stay with their team leaders. The three left out front were Yaroslav Popovych, Damiano Cunego, and Gabriele Bosisio. Eventually, Popovych shed his last remaining breakaway mates and for a time appeared poised for the stage win. The pink jersey group absorbed every member of the morning's breakaway except Popovych and Cunego by the time they began the Monte Petrano climb. Levi Leipheimer, who had previously stated that this was the day he might attack to move up the general classification, was dropped on Monte Petrano and despite the efforts of Lance Armstrong and Janez Brajkovič to pace him back into the pink jersey group, Leipheimer wound up finishing nearly three minutes behind the stage winner, falling from third to sixth in the general classification and effectively eliminating any designs he may have had on the pink jersey. Armstrong had been near the leaders on the climb, but dropped back to help Leipheimer, who would later say that Armstrong saved him "minutes and minutes" by shepherding him to the finish.

Danilo Di Luca tried to attack from the pink jersey group a few times at the foot of the climb, but Menchov answered each time. When Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre attacked, Menchov and Di Luca let them go, seeming fixed solely on one another. Sastre's attack proved to be the crucial one, as he seemed quite fresh for having been climbing for over seven hours, staying clear of the pink jersey and blowing past Popovych to claim the stage win. With the time gained on the road as well as bonus seconds at the line, Sastre moved up to third in the overall classification. Menchov outsprinted Di Luca to the finish line, gaining one second on the road and four bonus seconds to slightly pad his lead over Di Luca. Thomas Lövkvist, who had been in the white jersey as best young rider, was dropped very early on in this stage and finished 24 minutes behind the stage winner. He wound up dropping all the way to fifth in the youth classification, with Quick Step rider Kevin Seeldraeyers, 15th overall, assuming the white jersey.

The weather was also a major factor on the day, with the temperature topping out at over . It caused riders all throughout the race to lose contact with various groups.

Stage 17
27 May 2009 — Chieti to Blockhaus,

After the second rest day, the peloton faced the Giro's shortest stage. It was originally scheduled to include the highest point in the 2009 Giro, but the route was changed from the published maps due to the amount of snow at the top of the Blockhaus mountain pass, with  of climbing replaced by an equivalent addition to the flat section at the beginning of the stage. The first  of this course were almost perfectly flat, followed by a slight increase in gradient for the next , followed by an exceptionally steep final .

Thomas Voeckler started the day's breakaway after about . Nine riders followed him, and their maximum advantage was just under three minutes, with the chase beginning in earnest very early on this stage due to its short length. Many of the riders in the break were unable to maintain the pace set by Voeckler at the foot of the Blockhaus for very long, as only Voeckler, Félix Cárdenas, and Giuseppe Palumbo were left out front as the climb began. The subsequent attacks from the pink jersey group absorbed the three of them. When Sylwester Szmyd attacked from the pink jersey group as the climb began, Franco Pellizotti followed him and was able to get clear, as Szmyd paced him to sizable gap over the pink jersey group before hitting the wall. Lance Armstrong tried to follow, but could not reach Pellizotti, as Pellizotti decided not to wait for Armstrong and chose to race the climb like a time trial. His strong, steady climb was good for the stage win. Armstrong finished the stage in the third group on the road, along with Levi Leipheimer and Carlos Sastre.

Sastre's team had been the one setting the pace in the peloton just before the climb, but fell off when Philip Deignan spun out and tumbled off the road into a ditch. Deignan's bike was damaged and he sustained numerous visible scrapes and bruises, but he managed to continue and finish the stage with the last gruppetto. Sastre himself seemed to be off the form he had had before the rest day, and by virtue of Pellizotti's stage win and two-minute gap over the reigning Tour de France champion, he fell from third to fifth in the overall classification with Pellizotti moving up to third.

A quartet of riders made the climb in second position on the road behind Pellizotti: race leader Denis Menchov, Danilo Di Luca, Ivan Basso, and Stefano Garzelli. Di Luca rode with a very high cadence in an attempt to separate himself from Menchov, but was unable to until the sprint for the finish line. By virtue of the time bonuses gained for third place as well as the gap on the road, Di Luca closed his deficit to Menchov to under 30 seconds.

Stage 18
28 May 2009 — Sulmona to Benevento,

The field faced a climb after just  in this stage, but following a long and technical descent, the course was gently undulating without any other categorized climbs. Due to the absence of climbs, the stage was expected to favor the Giro's remaining sprinters, but it wound up being contested by a breakaway.

The stage began with the largest successful breakaway of the Giro, 25 riders representing 18 teams. The only teams that missed the break were Milram, Ag2r, , and the team of the race leader, Rabobank. They worked together as a cohesive unit for much of the stage, gaining a maximum six-minute advantage over the peloton. Seven of the 25 broke free with  left to race, and they contested a final sprint for the stage win. The first rider to try to take the win was Dries Devenyns, but he was quickly overtaken by Félix Cárdenas, who was in turn passed by Danny Pate. Pate, however, had the breakaway's most experienced rider, Michele Scarponi, in his slipstream, and it was Scarponi who timed his sprint just right to take the stage win. The high-placed riders in the general classification all finished with the peloton, 3' 57" behind the stage winner, so there was no change to the top ten overall.

It was after this stage, on the eve of the Mount Vesuvius stage, that Danilo Di Luca gave his second positive test for continuous erythropoiesis receptor activator (CERA).

Stage 19
29 May 2009 - Avellino to Mount Vesuvius,

The first  of this stage saw rough undulation, with many uncategorized hills, including one at almost  in elevation. The final  saw a steep climb up to the famous Mount Vesuvius at .

The breakaway on this stage comprised only two riders, both representing ProTour teams that were without a stage victory in this year's Giro — Mauro Facci of Quick Step and Yuriy Krivtsov of . Their maximum advantage over the peloton was just over seven minutes, but the pink jersey group of overall contenders and their teammates had no trouble catching them, as they did in the little town just before the Mount Vesuvius climb.

Liquigas tried the same tactic they had employed on the Blockhaus, when Franco Pellizotti took the stage win, as Valerio Agnoli was the first to attack and get clear of the pink jersey group. He was joined soon after not by one of his team leaders, Pellizotti or Ivan Basso, but by  rider Paolo Tiralongo, as the overall contenders did not respond. These two wound up being absorbed by the subsequent attack from Carlos José Ochoa, who drew Basso and Stefano Garzelli with him, as they took an appreciable lead on the pink jersey group. Carlos Sastre attacked solo from the pink jersey group next and quickly passed all other riders on the road, and stayed out front to claim his second stage win of this Giro.

Much as they had in previous stages, race leader Denis Menchov and the man in second place Danilo Di Luca stayed right with one another all through the climb, as Di Luca tried repeatedly to shed Menchov with attacks, but was unable to. Pellizotti, who had also been holding their wheels, took the opportunity with the two of them taking energy out of each other, to come clear and move into third position on the road. Basso, who was up the road, dutifully sat up and waited for his better-placed teammate and paced him to a small gap over Menchov and Di Luca before cracking. It was enough to ensure Pellizotti second on the stage, to keep him third in the overall classification. Di Luca managed to outsprint Menchov to the line and claim 8 bonus seconds to narrow his deficit to 18 seconds, but with only a flat stage and an individual time trial remaining the superior time trialist Menchov had the advantage.

Stage 20
30 May 2009 — Naples to Anagni,

This stage was flat, with only a climb to short elevation near the end. A preview predicted a sprint finish, but a late attack decided the stage.

Danilo Di Luca made it clear that he was aiming for the time bonuses available in this stage, both at the finish line and the intermediate sprint. As such, his team worked to bring the morning's breakaway back well before the end of the stage. Just as he had in the mountains, race leader Denis Menchov stayed right with Di Luca, and the two of them contested the intermediate sprint, with Di Luca's team trying to give him a successful leadout. They mistimed it, however, and Menchov was able to come around Di Luca and beat him to the line (Di Luca's teammate and accomplished sprinter Alessandro Petacchi managed to beat Menchov in the sprint to limit Di Luca's losses). Both Menchov and Di Luca got time bonuses, but Menchov got 4 for second in the sprint and Di Luca 2 for third, padding Menchov's lead in the overall classification.

The pace in the peloton was more lax after the intermediate sprint, and two riders came clear to form another breakaway. They were caught just before the first lap of the  finishing circuit in Anagni. Another four riders tried to break away for the stage win, but they were caught during the second and final lap. With just over  to go,  rider Philippe Gilbert attacked and got a gap, staying away for the stage win. Thomas Voeckler tried to follow, but could not reach Gilbert's slipstream, finishing 2 seconds behind him. The peloton finished 7 seconds back.

Stage 21
31 May 2009 — Rome,  (individual time trial)

The 2009 Giro ended, as it had the previous year, with an individual time trial. The course was flat, though the road did twist in several places.

The winning time was set early on in the stage, by Cervélo TestTeam rider and reigning Lithuanian national time trial champion Ignatas Konovalovas. Konovalovas, the 79th man to leave the starthouse, was one of the last riders to take the course before it started to rain. Garmin's Bradley Wiggins started his ride not long after, and though he had the best time at the second and third intermediate time checks, he was slowed by the rain he encountered on the last part of the course as well as a stopped Bbox Bouygues Telecom team car attending to Matthieu Sprick, who had crashed.

The rainfall lightened almost as soon as it began, but the top riders in the general classification still faced a course made more difficult by the rain. Most of them rode conservatively, to keep their positions intact rather than aim for the stage win, but Danilo Di Luca did not. Di Luca attacked the course, riding with a high cadence from the outset. He had the best time at the first intermediate time check, but he lost energy and faded away as the course went on, finishing 45 seconds slower than the stage winner.

Giro champion Denis Menchov was the last man to take the course. The rain started again as he and Di Luca were the last ones on course. He was on pace to win the stage, but he dramatically crashed in the final kilometer, with his bike skidding well out in front of him on the wet cobbles. Support staff from his team car gave him a very quick bike change and he was back up in moments, finishing 24 seconds back on the stage to preserve his overall victory in the Giro.

See also

References

2009 Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia stages


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Naliganahalli is a village in the Tumkur district of Karnataka, India. The village is located about  from Tumakuru, the district centre, and about  from the taluk of Pavagada. The village's name is derived from the Kannada words for "dance" ("nali") and "sing" ("gana"), reflecting the village's rich culture. The total area of the village is 893.71 hectares. Naliganahalli has a population of 903 males, 947 females, and 175 children, for a total of 2,025 people. There are about 429 houses in Naliganahalli village.

Naliganahalli serves as the main panchayat, or village council, in the grama panchayath of which it and seven surrounding towns are members. It is home to one government primary school.

This village is famous for its Durga Devi fair (which happens once every twenty years) and which unites people from several surrounding villages in the district.

The village also contains a 600-year-old Shiva temple as well as a newly constructed Durga temple.

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Villages in Tumkur district


Stepfather III (also known as Stepfather III: Father's Day) is a 1992 American slasher film directed and written by Guy Magar. It stars Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, David Tom, and Season Hubley. It is the second sequel to 1987 film The Stepfather and a follow-up to 1989 film Stepfather II. The film follows a serial killer seeking out another family to become a part of, using plastic surgery to disguise himself from the authorities. Unlike the previous two installments, Stepfather III was released made-for-television and Terry O'Quinn does not star in the title role.

Plot
Having survived the stab wounds he sustained in Palm Meadows, Los Angeles at the end of the previous film, Gene Clifford escapes from the same institution in Puget Sound, Washington he was placed in four years ago. He seeks out a back alley plastic surgeon to alter his appearance, using no anesthesia. After a few days, Gene kills the doctor by slitting his throat with a bone saw and makes his way to Deer View, California, where he acquires a new identity, "Keith Grant", as well as a small cottage and a job at a plant nursery. Nine months after crafting his new life, Keith, during an Easter dance held by the church, meets divorced school principal Christine Davis and her psychosomatically paralyzed son Andy. Keith and Christine begin dating. When Christine's possessive ex-boyfriend Mark Wraynal follows Keith home and confronts him, Keith offers to have a chat. Keith kills him with a shovel and buries the body in his garden.

Keith and Christine marry, despite Andy's misgivings. Andy's biological father Steve offers Andy the chance to spend the summer with his family and attend a school for the gifted, and Andy decides to take his father up on the offer, despite Keith's protests. With Andy gone and Christine revealed to be infertile, Keith begins courting Jennifer Ashley, a widow who has moved into Keith's old cottage with her son Nicholas. Keith plans to murder Christine and marry Jennifer. Keith murders his boss, Mr. Thompson, with a rake when Thompson teases him about spotting Keith cheating on Christine with Jennifer. When Andy sees a news story about an unidentified serial killer who murders families, and suspecting that Keith is the culprit, he fakes homesickness to return home. Keith returns home with an axe to kill Christine, only to find Andy in bed. Keith calls Andy "Nicky" which makes Christine suspicious, though Keith gives her an explanation. The next day Jennifer meets Christine while enrolling Nicky in school. Keith stops by the school and sees them together and panics.

Andy asks family friend Father Ernest Brennan to help him discover Keith's past. While cooking dinner for Father Brennan, Christine asks Keith if he knows Jennifer, but he denies it. Christine grows more suspicious since she knows Jennifer is renting Keith's cottage.  Andy and Father Brennan sneak Keith's fork off the dinner table, to have the fingerprints analyzed. Realizing Brennan is up to something, Keith excuses himself after dinner and follows the priest home. He runs Brennan off the road, beats him to death, and makes it look like a car accident. He also discovers the fork.

When Christine mentions visiting Jennifer, Keith rushes to the plant nursery and calls Jennifer, telling her to meet him. Before going to the nursery Jennifer calls Christine to cancel their meeting, claiming her new boyfriend called with an emergency. When Jennifer arrives, Keith reveals he is married before claiming he needs her out of the way. Keith knocks her unconscious and prepares to kill her by feeding her body into a big wood chipper.

Christine and Andy suddenly appear; Christine has figured out that Keith is Jennifer's new boyfriend and confronts him about the affair. He beats her unconscious when she discovers Jennifer weakly writhing on the ground. As Keith prepares to murder his two lovers, Andy finds the courage to get out of his wheelchair and walk. Keith chases him through the nursery until Andy pushes him off the ladder which knocks him into the wood chipper. However, Keith is only hanging on the edge and grabs Andy. Christine gets up and helps Andy get away, leaving Keith to fall into the wood chipper, killing him. Jennifer cuts the cable with a hatchet, when the wood chipper’s engine suddenly shuts off. Jennifer sees the body pieces of Keith in the blood-covered wood chipper. Andy stands up and Christine is surprised and hugs him. As they walk away, Andy turns around and looks at the bloody wood chipper and says, "Happy Father's Day, slugger." They then exit the garden.

Cast

 Robert Wightman as Gene Clifford / Keith Grant / The Stepfather
 Priscilla Barnes as Christine Davis
 Season Hubley as Jennifer Ashley
 David Tom as Andy Davis
 John Ingle as Father Ernest Thomas Brennan
 Dennis Paladino as Mr. Thompson
 Stephen Mendel as Mark Wraynal
 Jay Acovone as Steve Davis
 Christa Miller as Beth Davis
 Mario Roccuzzo as Plastic Surgeon
 Joan Dareth as Bernice
 Jennifer Bassey as Dr. Brady
 Adam Ryen as Nicholas "Nicky" Ashley
 Mindy Ann Martin as Tiffany Davis
 Joel Carlson as Pete Davis
 Sumer Stamper as Maggie Davis
 Brenda Strong as Lauren Sutliffe
 Mort Lewis as Funeral Priest
 Adam Wylie as Easter Party Boy

Production

Filming
For the opening scene in which Gene Clifford undergoes plastic surgery, director Guy Magar filmed an actual plastic surgery procedure, with no special effects used during the scene. The film was shot over the course of 25 days in Los Angeles with a budget of $1.8 million.

Release

Home media
To date, the only DVD release of the film has been in Germany, where Marketing Films released it as a part of a limited edition box set containing the other two installments of the series in 2003. It was also released in Germany separately. Elsewhere, the only home video release of the film is on VHS. No plans have been made to release it on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States.

Reception

Critical response

Reviews of the film were varied, with Variety's Tony Scott stating "[The] film lurches on without much credibility" before going on to say "blood spurts, but director (and co-writer with Marc B. Ray) Guy Magar doesn't make the horror convincing. The simplistic story line and the unconvincing portrayal by Wightman haven't been enhanced by indifferent production values." Entertainment Weekly's Doug Brod gave the film a D+, referring to it as "a poorly scripted, all-too-familiar chiller", also calling Robert Wightman "robotic" and "a weak substitute for previous death-dealing dad Terry O'Quinn".

Time Out Film Guide stated that the film "is far better than one might expect" and called Wightman's performance "more barmy than ever" and "with that prissy, scary, whiny voice makes a good fist of it".

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Dill Farm is a farm located off Steen Road in Shawangunk, New York, United States, established by the Dill family in the 1760s and still in use today.

The farmhouse is an early surviving example of a vernacular frame house in the region. It and all accessory buildings date to the early 19th century and are mostly intact, save for a few modifications. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Property

The farm is a  square parcel on the south side of Steen (formerly Goebel) Road where it bends from north-south to east-west. The Dwaar Kill, a tributary of the Wallkill River, bounds the property to the east. To the south is the Watchtower Farms complex operated by the Jehovah's Witnesses. There are six buildings in total on the property, all of which are considered contributing resources to its historic character.

The main buildings are at the end of a private entrance road, which starts at the bend in Steen and turns around in the center of the property. At its end is the main farmhouse, a one-and-half story frame house with a steep roof pierced by three gabled dormers sloping to a front porch supported by six wooden columns. The north and south ends have exposed stone on the first story. A smaller south wing is similarly treated, and a southeastern kitchen wing has a Dutch door, stone foundation, plain frieze at the gabled roofline, and pilasters.

Nearby are three farm buildings, all painted red: a frame ice house with gabled roof, similar frame milk house and a large dairy barn. Along the driveway is a -story tenant house, with its own gabled roof and plain-friezed roofline supported by pilasters. A porch covers the front. The tenant house has its own barn in the rear as well.

History

The Dill name is in records from the lower Shawangunk Kill valley from the early 18th century. The earliest occupant of the farm appears to have been Robert Dill, who the 1790 census records as living there with his family and two slaves.

The early house survives in the present living room and hallway. In 1800 an addition to the south brought it into something closer to its present form. The only significant change since then has been the addition of the dormers in 1935. A few years later, the barn roof was raised as well.

References

Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York
Greek Revival houses in New York (state)
1760 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Shawangunk, New York


Sukhoy Nos (, literally 'Dry Cape'; there is another Sukhoy Nos on Vaygach Island south of Novaya Zemlya) is a cape on Severny Island, the northern island of the archipelago Novaya Zemlya, projecting westward into the Barents Sea. The site lies near the southwestern corner of the island,  from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait, which separates Severny from Yuzhny Island, the southern island of the archipelago.

The cape is composed of black and reddish shale. Underwater sandbars are located off its northern shore. In the 19th century, numerous birds nested on the steep cliffs, particularly loons.

History
Sukhoy Nos was a site of nuclear testing for the former USSR, being the third and the northernmost detonating site of three on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago (designated "Zone C"). It was used between 1958 and 1961 and in October 1961 was the site of the record-breaking 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, known as Tsar Bomba.

References

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The 2005 CONCACAF U17 Tournament was played in Costa Rica and Mexico.

Qualification

Final round

Squads

Group A

Standings

 USA qualified to the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Peru.
 Costa Rica forced to play against second place of Group B.

Group B

Standings

 Mexico qualified to the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Peru.
 Honduras forced to play against second place of Group A.

Playoff

 Costa Rica won 3 - 2 on aggregate and qualified to the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Peru.

2005
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International association football competitions hosted by Costa Rica
International association football competitions hosted by Mexico
2004–05 in Costa Rican football
2004–05 in Mexican football
2004–05 in Honduran football
2005 in Cuban sport
2004–05 in Salvadoran football
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Arlenis Sosa Peña (born May 7, 1989) is a Dominican Republic model.  She is the current spokesmodel for Lancôme and appeared in the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Early life and discovery
Sosa was born in Copey, a district of Pepillo Salcedo in Monte Cristi Province, Dominican Republic. She received her primary and secondary education at the Evangelical College Simon Bolivar in the city of Dajabón.  When she was 16, Sosa intended to further her education in communication studies in Santo Domingo, but while walking in Copey with her family, designer Luis Menieur, her mother's agent, spotted her. He complimented Sosa and told her she could be a model in New York.

Career
For two and half years, Sosa had to cope with the color prejudice of some Dominican designers, while she worked as a model in her homeland.  Although she could not speak English when she moved to New York, she walked into Marilyn Models in March 2008 and was signed on the spot. Sosa dove head-first into the fashion industry, with Anna Wintour sending her to the Met Ball during her first week in New York. Two weeks after she signed, she booked her first editorials for major magazines Vogue and Vogue Italia. She since has been featured in editorials and articles in American, Italian, French, Teen, Spanish, and German Vogue, Allure, Elle, Interview, i-D, American and Spanish Harper's Bazaar. Sosa made her runway debut for Banana Republic's fall/winter 2008 collection, and she later walked for the Dior Resort show and opened for Oscar de la Renta.

Sosa has walked for some of the most prestigious designers and fashion houses in the world, including Shiatzy Chen, Ralph Lauren,  Michael Kors, John Galliano, Emanuel Ungaro, Hussein Chalayan, Alexander Wang, Jean Paul Gaultier, Hermes, Bottega Veneta, Anna Sui, Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Tsumori Chisato, Jason Wu, Carlos Miele, Derek Lam, Isaac Mizrahi, Matthew Williamson, Narciso Rodriguez, Ruffian, Tadashi Shoji, Iceberg, Mariella Burani and Diane von Furstenberg. She participated in  Victoria's Secret's fashion show in 2008. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for David Yurman, Topshop, Polo Ralph Lauren, Express, Lancôme, and GAP.  Sosa, who is known for her full lips, became the face of Lancôme in September 2008.

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The Burning of the Spanish Embassy (sometimes called the Spanish Embassy Massacre or the Spanish Embassy Fire) refers to the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on January 31, 1980, by indigenous peasants of the Committee for Peasant Unity and their allies and the subsequent police raid that resulted in a fire which destroyed the embassy and left 37 people dead. The incident has been called "the defining event" of the Guatemalan Civil War. Spain terminated diplomatic relations with Guatemala as a result.

History

Background

In January 1980 a group of K'iche' and Ixil peasant farmers, recruited for a march to Guatemala City to protest the kidnapping and murder of peasants in Uspantán, in Quiché department, by elements of the Guatemalan Army. The peasants were organized, guided and joined by members of the Comité de Unidad Campesina (Committee of Peasant Unity) and a radical student organization known as the Robin García Revolutionary Student Front, groups associated with the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP, the Guerrilla Army of the Poor). The protesters were denied a hearing in Congress and their legal adviser was assassinated. On January 28, they briefly took over two radio stations.

Incident

At 11:05 in the morning on January 31, 1980, the peasants, joined by workers and students, entered the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City. According to police reports, some of the demonstrators were armed with machetes, pistols and Molotov cocktails.

Spain was considered sympathetic to the indigenous cause, especially after the Guatemalan Army came to be suspected of the murder of Spanish priests in the indigenous regions. Ambassador Máximo Cajal y López  who had visited the Ixil and Kiche regions in the previous weeks, was holding a meeting with former vice president of Guatemala Eduardo Cáceres Lenhoff and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Adolfo Molina Orantes and lawyer Mario Aguirre Godoy, when the group entered the embassy. The protesters announced that they had come to peacefully occupy the embassy and that they would hold a press conference at noon. They presented the ambassador with a letter that read in part, "We ... direct ourselves to you because we know you are honorable people who will tell the truth about the criminal repression suffered by the peasants of Guatemala." In 1978 an occupation of the Swiss Embassy by factory workers in a labour dispute had ended with a peaceful resolution.

President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Guatemala City police chief Germán Chupina Barahona, and Minister of the Interior Donaldo Álvarez Ruiz met in the National Palace. Despite pleas by the Spanish ambassador to negotiate, a decision was taken to forcibly expel the group occupying the embassy. Shortly before noon, and before the protesters could air their grievances, about 300 armed state agents surrounded the building and cut the electricity, water and telephone lines. SWAT police proceeded to occupy the first and third floors of the building over the shouts of the ambassador that they were violating international law in doing so. The peasants barricaded themselves, along with the captive embassy staff and the visiting Guatemalan officials, in the ambassador's office on the second floor.

An order was given to charge the ambassador’s office. Police breached the office door and introduced a substance, most likely white phosphorus, which together with the Molotov cocktails ignited a fire. Some academics and critics, including David Stoll and Jorge Palmieri, contend that it was the Molotov cocktails alone that started the blaze. Exactly how the fire started and who is responsible for it has been the subject of considerable controversy. As fire consumed the second floor and the demonstrators and captive staff of the embassy were burned alive, police refused pleas from bystanders to allow firefighters to combat the blaze. A total of 37 people died in the fire, including former vice president Eduardo Cáceres, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Adolfo Molina Orantes and activist Vicente Menchú, father of Rigoberta Menchú, a future politician and Nobel Peace Prize-winner. Spanish Consul Jaime Ruiz del Árbol also died in the fire, along with other Spanish citizens employed by the embassy.

Ambassador Cajal y López survived by escaping through a window. The only other survivor, demonstrator Gregorio Yujá Xona, suffered third-degree burns. Both were sent to Herrera Llerandi Hospital for treatment. On February 1, at 7:30 a.m., the police guard at Herrera Llerandi Hospital was withdrawn. Shortly thereafter a band of twenty armed men masked with bandanas, widely believed to be plainclothes members of the Judicial Police, entered the hospital and kidnapped Gregorio Yuja Xona. He was taken to an unknown location, tortured, and shot dead. His body was dumped on the campus of the University of San Carlos. Around his neck was a placard with a note that read "Brought to Justice for Being a Terrorist" and "The Ambassador will be next." Ambassador Cajal y López escaped the hospital with the assistance of other members of the diplomatic corps and eventually fled the country.

Aftermath and legacy

The Guatemalan government issued a statement claiming that its forces had entered the embassy at the request of the Spanish Ambassador, and that the occupiers of the embassy, whom they referred to as "terrorists," had "sacrificed the hostages and immolated themselves afterward." Ambassador Cajal denied the claims of the Guatemalan government and Spain immediately terminated diplomatic relations with Guatemala, calling the action a violation of "the most elementary norms of international law." Relations between Spain and Guatemala were not normalized until September 22, 1984.

Hundreds  attended the funeral of the victims, and a new guerilla group was formed commemorating the date, the Frente patriótico 31 de enero (Popular Front of January 31).

In 1999, Rigoberta Menchú filed a criminal complaint in Spain accusing former government officials of responsibility for the incident, including former Presidents Romeo Lucas Garcia, Efraín Ríos Montt and Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores. In 2005, a Spanish judge issued an arrest warrant holding former Guatemalan Interior Minister Donaldo Álvarez responsible for the incident. Álvarez was last seen in Mexico and is considered a fugitive.

On January 30, 2009, the eve of the 29th anniversary of the incident, the Guatemalan government filed 3,350 criminal complaints alleging human rights violations against former soldiers and paramilitaries.

On January 20, 2015, former SWAT police chief Pedro García Arredondo was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder and crimes against humanity, for ordering that no one should be allowed to get out of the burning building alive. He was also sentenced to 50 additional years for killing two students at the funeral for the embassy fire victims. Prior to this conviction, Arredondo, who later became chief of the now-defunct National Police (Policía Nacional, PN), was already serving a 70 year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2012 of ordering the enforced disappearance of agronomy student Édgar Enrique Sáenz Calito during the country’s long-running internal armed conflict,

The names of those who died in the burning of the Spanish embassy are commemorated in Guatemala City's main square, along with other victims of the Guatemalan Civil War.

See also
 Guatemala–Spain relations
 2017 Guatemala orphanage fire

References

General
 Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, "The Spanish Embassy Occupation and Assault: History and the Partisan Politics of Memory Since 1980 in Guatemala," A Contra Corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America Fall 2012: https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/.../978/

Specific

Conflicts in 1980
History of Guatemala
Fires in Guatemala
Massacres in Guatemala
Human rights abuses in Guatemala
Guatemalan Civil War
Guatemala
Arson in North America
Mass murder in 1980
Spanish
1980 in international relations
1980 in Guatemala
1980 crimes in Guatemala
1980s murders in Guatemala
Guatemala–Spain relations
20th century in Guatemala City
January 1980 events in North America
Terrorist incidents in North America in 1980


The Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research was an annual award given to physicians who contributed important advances to the field of pediatrics, and was the only existing international pediatric award.  The prize was created in 2002 by Irene and Abe Pollin, and funded by the Linda and Kenneth Pollin Foundation.  It was administered by the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and as of 2003, Dr. Rudolph Leibel was chairman of the selection panel.

The prize is no longer awarded.

Recipients
2010 – Roscoe O. Brady and Charles R. Scriver
2009 – Basil S. Hetzel
2008 – John Allen Clements
2007 – Samuel L. Katz
2006 – No award
2005 – Eric N. Olson, Abraham Rudolph
2004 – Alfred Sommer
2003 – Emil Frei, Emil J. Freireich, Donald Pinkel, and James F. Holland
2002 – Dilip Mahalanabis, Norbert Hirschhorn, David Nalin, and Nathaniel F. Pierce

See also

 List of medicine awards

References

Medicine awards
Awards established in 2002
Pediatrics
2002 establishments in New York (state)


The Flying Boomerangs are the underage Indigenous Australian Australian rules football team for men (the underage women's team is known as the Woomeras). The team has played tests against junior teams from Papua New Guinea, South Africa, New Zealand and developing pacific nations.

History
In 2013, the Flying Boomerangs toured to play the South African national Australian rules football team in both Australia and South Africa. They toured Papua New Guinea, the first international team to defeat them in Australian rules football and also New Zealand winning both matches.

The team is named after the aboriginal hunting tool, the boomerang.  The senior equivalent team is the Indigenous All-Stars.

Apart from representing Australia in international Australian Rules Football, the Flying Boomerangs team members have gone on to play in the Australian Football League.

Other tours include Papua New Guinea (2009), Tonga (2010) and Fiji (2011) to compete against the underage Oceania and Pacific Islands teams. Andrew Mcleod (head coach) and Chris Johnson (assistant coach) were also part of the team in 2010. In 2017 Barry Lawrence was named head coach and Harry Miller as assistant coach.

The Flying Boomerangs have been featured nationally in a documentary on ABC TV during their tour to South Africa.

Alumni

 Austin Wonaeamirri
 Leroy Jetta
 Malcolm Lynch
 Cameron Stokes
 Isaac Weetra
 Nathan Krakouer
 Steven May

 Curtly Hampton
 Rex Liddy
 Jarman Impey
 Jamarra Ugle-Hagan
 Peter Yagmoor
 Callum Ah Chee
 Joel Jeffrey
 Willie Rioli

International and Tour Matches

See also
Indigenous All-Stars

References

Indigenous Australian sport
Australian rules football representative teams


Nungua is a  town in Krowor Municipal District in the Greater Accra Region of southeastern Ghana near the coast. Nungua is the eighteenth most populous settlement in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 84,119 people.

Politics
Nungua is located within Krowor Constituency led by Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, a member of the National Democratic Congress, who succeeded Elizabeth Afoley Quaye of the New Patriotic Party.

Traditions
The people of Nungua are Ga AdangbesThey celebrate the Kpledzoo festival. They are in eight clans, namely: Nii Mantse We, Nii Moi We, Nii Borte We, Nii Adzin We, Nii Borkwei We, Nii Osokrono We, Nii Odarteitse We, and Nii Djenge We. The paramount chief of Nungua is King (Dr) Odaifio Welentsi III.

Education
Education can be accessed in all levels in Nungua. Notable schools include:

Tertiary schools

 The Regional Maritime University
 Laweh Open University College
 GCB Bank Training School

Senior high schools

 Nungua Secondary School
 Nungua Presbyterian Secondary Commercial school
 St Peter's Anglican Senior High School
 Royal Technical College

Basic schools (public)

 Nungua Methodist '1' Basic School
 Nungua Methodist '2' Basic School
 St. Paul Anglican Basic Schools
 Nungua Lekma Basic Schools
 Nungua Presby Basic Schools.

Transport
Nungua is  accessible by rail, road and sea. It is served by a station on the eastern network of the national railway system. A bridge that was out of service for some time was repaired in 2009.  Taxi, tro tro (mini buses), Metro Transit Buses are available on road. canoes are also used by local folks along the beach.

See also
 Railway stations in Ghana
Elizabeth Afoley Quaye

References

Populated places in the Greater Accra Region
Ghanaian culture


In Myanmar (Burma), some blogs started in 2005. The earlier blogs were written in English, as there was no unicode font at that time, so they could not post in their mother language.

After the Zawgyi font was released (created by Alpha Mandalay), Nyi Lynn Seck put the Zawgyi font in his blog and started the Myanmar blog. In 2007, some Myanmar bloggers established the MBS (Myanmar Bloggers Society), and they celebrated with a seminar on September 1, 2007. It is very difficult to write blogs locally because the government banned blog websites after the Saffron Revolution in September 2007. However, despite the ban, bloggers are still writing about the freedom of Myanmar and sharing their knowledge. MBS's slogan is "We blog, we unite."

History
Most Burmese bloggers came from internet forums. At first, topics such as general knowledge and literature were discussed, and poems, essays, and articles were posted on the forums. Blogging was in part of the Politics of Myanmar. The military government has banned Burmese blogs for promoting democracy, and bloggers have been jailed.

Burmese bloggers celebrated the first ever "blog day" in Myanmar at Yangon and Mandalay in 2007. In 2008, Myanmar Blog Press organized the Contest for Best Myanmar Blog Academy Awards 2008.

Notable bloggers
Nay Phone Latt, one of the leading famous bloggers in Myanmar, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon of the military leader Than Shwe. Later, he became an MP.

Ashin Mettacara, a Burmese Buddhist monk and popular blogger. He was named Nobel Ambassador to the Internet by Internet for Peace.

References

Sources

External links
Burmablog
Myanmar Room

Myanmar
Internet in Myanmar


SiBEAM Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lattice Semiconductor, is a fabless semiconductor company that provides integrated circuits and system solutions for millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communications and sensing.

SiBEAM was founded to commercialize pioneering millimeter wave wireless technology developed at the labs of University of California, Berkeley. The company was also first to market with wireless gigabit mobile video products. SiBEAM is based in Sunnyvale.

History
SiBEAM was founded in 2004 by researchers in wireless communications from the University of California, Berkeley. Backed by companies including Panasonic, Samsung, Cisco Systems, and Best Buy.  The company raised over $112 million of venture capital financing from U.S. Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Foundation Capital, and Lux Capital in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010. SiBEAM was noted by several publications as one of the promising startup companies in its industry.

In April, 2011 SiBEAM was acquired by Silicon Image for $25.5 million in cash and Silicon Image stock.

On January 5, 2015 Silicon Image Re-Launched SiBEAM, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary to drive market development of millimeter-wave products, technologies and solutions

On March 15, 2015, Silicon Image was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor in an all-cash acquisition, valued at approximately $606.6 million (or approximately $466.6 million on an enterprise value basis). SiBEAM became a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Lattice Semiconductor on June 1, 2015.

On July 18, 2018 Lattice Semiconductor announced that they "will discontinue its millimeter wave business, which is expected to result in approximately $25 million of primarily non-cash restructuring and impairment charges in the second quarter of 2018, and an annualized reduction in operating expenses of approximately $13 million."

References

Wireless HD coming to homes.  CNN / Fortune, February 18, 2009
SiBeam takes wraps off Wireless HD technology. EETimes, June 27, 2007
Amimon makes headway with high-speed home video networking. Venture Beat, December 9, 2008
SiBEAM Goes 60 GHz.  DailyWireless, June 27, 2007

Electronics companies established in 2004
Private equity portfolio companies
Fabless semiconductor companies
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Semiconductor companies of the United States


Airtel Super Singer is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, that was sponsored by MRF Vapocure Paints for the ninth Season. The show is televised in India on Vijay TV, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks. The show, together with its spin-off editions such as Airtel Super Singer Junior, are part of Vijay TV's Super Singer TV series.

The program, which debuted on 28 April 2006, seeks to discover the best playback recording voice and singing talent in Tamil Nadu through a series of statewide auditions. Selected contestants are required to participate in several competition rounds, often based on a theme for a given week, and aim to be selected to perform in the show's grand finale each season.

Winners and finalists of the competition have been offered chances to sing a song in upcoming Tamil movies, and other prizes such as sums of money, gold, and real estate property. The ninth season of the Super Singer finished on 25 June 2023.

Series overview

Season synopsis

History

Super Singer Season 1

The first season premiered on 28 April 2006, with a series of episodes which telecasted auditions for the show. Auditions were held across the state of Tamil Nadu in the cities of Coimbatore, Chennai, and Madurai. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by singers S. P. Sailaja, Jency, Malaysia Vasudevan, Sirkazhi Sivachidambaram, Mahathi, and music director D. Imman.

The show was hosted by playback singer Chinmayi. Later stages of the competition were held at a specially designed studio set, and performances were judged by a panel of permanent judges consisting of playback singers Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, and Srinivas. Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition.

Season 1 title winner Nikhil Mathew was formally introduced as a playback singer after he sang the song "Enadhuyire" in the Tamil film Bheema for music director, Harris Jayaraj. Season 1 runner up and viewer's choice, Anitha V. (now known as Anitha Karthikeyan) was formally introduced as a playback singer in the Tamil film Marudhamalai by music director D. Imman.

Super Singer Season 2

The second season premiered on 7 July 2008; It held a series of episodes that telecast auditions for the show. Auditions for the show, which commenced on 27 June 2008, were held across three cities in the state of Tamil Nadu. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by playback singers S. P. Sailaja and Srilekha Parthasarathy in the city of Coimbatore, Sunitha Sarathy and Deepan Chakravarthy in the city of Chennai, as well as Mahathi and Mathangi in the city of Trichy.

Playback singer Chinmayi returned as a permanent host of the show up to and including 21 January 2009, following which she left the show much to the disappointment of many fans of the show. She was replaced by a duo, singer-actor Yugendran and his wife, Malini, for the remainder of the show in 2009. Playback singers P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas returned as permanent judges of the show, and a new permanent judge, playback singer Sujatha replaced Anuradha Sriram (who instead appeared as a guest judge through the season). Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition.

The Grand Finale was held on 3 June 2009 at YMCA Royapettah, Chennai. At the finals, Ajeesh won the competition and was chosen by Yuvan Shankar Raja to sing the song Idhu Varai for the soundtrack of Tamil film, Goa.

Super Singer Season 3

Airtel Super Singer 3, the third season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 12 July 2010. The third season was hosted by Divya Vijayagopal and Sivakarthikeyan. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including S. P. Sailaja, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Unni Menon, Sowmya, Harish Raghavendra, Pop Shalini, Mahathi, and Malgudi Subha. Sujatha, P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas continued to be the permanent judges for the third consecutive season.

The grand finale was held on 23 September 2011 at Chennai Trade Centre and was broadcast live. Saicharan won the competition, and was chosen by A. R. Rahman and D. Imman to sing in the films Godfather, Manam Kothi Paravai, and Saattai.

Super Singer Season 4

Airtel Super Singer 4, the fourth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 4 February 2013. The fourth season was hosted by Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana Balakrishnan.

The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including S. P. Sailaja, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Unni Menon, Sowmya, Devan Ekambaram, Pop Shalini, Mahathi, Malgudi Subha and Rajinderpal Singh. Playback singers,  Sujatha Mohan, Mano, P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas, were the judges for the fourth season.

Diwakar won the competition, and was chosen by music directors D. Imman, Vivek-Mervin, and Kannan to sing in the films Panjumittai, Vadacurry, and Kalkandu.

Super Singer Season 5

Airtel Super Singer 5, the fifth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 1 June 2015. The fifth season was hosted by Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana Balakrishnan.

The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu and were telecast until 3 July 2015. First-round audition judges included season 3 winner Saisharan, season 4 winner Diwakar, and former contestants from those seasons such as D. Sathyaprakash, Pooja Vaidyanath, Santhosh Hariharan, and Sonia. Second and third round audition judges included S. P. Charan, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Devan Ekambaram, James Vasanthan, Mahathi, S. Sowmya, and Pop Shalini. Zonal audition judges were permanent judges from the junior version of the show, Malgudi Subha, Mano, and K. S. Chithra. A total of 33 contestants were selected for the finals, including local, international, and former contestants.

Playback singers, P. Unnikrishnan, Srinivas, Mano, and Usha Uthup, were the judges for the fifth season. At the finale of the show, contestant Anand Aravindakshan was declared the winner of the season, while contestant Fareedha was declared first runner-up. Both finalists were promised an opportunity to sing for one of the upcoming films of music director Santhosh Narayanan. Contestant Rajaganapathy was chosen as the judge's choice scoring the highest marks and being declared the second runner-up of the season.

The season landed in controversy as social media users accused the STAR Vijay Indian TV channel of wrongdoing. Social media users expressed concern that audiences who spent time and money to support talented youngsters were the victim of unethical practices and criticised the channel for not being upfront about the fact that the winning contestant was already a professional playback singer - which was defended by the channel.

Super Singer Season 6

Nippon Paint Super Singer 6 was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande, which ran from 21 January 2018 to 15 July 2018 and was broadcast by Star Vijay.

All the episodes of Super Singer 6 are available on the OTT platform Hotstar.

The Judging Panel includes, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, and Shweta Mohan. A.R. Rahman was the Ambassador for this season. The top 6 finalists were Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Sakthi, Anirudh, Malavika, and Senthil Ganesh. The results of the finale are given as:

 Senthil Ganesh was declared the Winner of the Super Singer 6
 Rakshitha Suresh became the first runner up of the season and gets applauded by everyone for being the "Golden Voice of the Season".
 Malavika Rajesh Vaidya was the second runner up of the season.
 Suswaram Anirudh , Sakthi Amaran , Sreekanth Hariharan were the other finalists

Super Singer Season 7

Asian Paints Super Singer 7 started on 27 April 2019 and finished on 10 November 2019 on Star Vijay and was telecast from 8 PM onwards. Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande return as the hosts for this season.

This season returns with the same judges' panel including, Anuradha Sriram, Unnikrishnan, Shweta Mohan, and Benny Dayal. Anirudh Ravichandran is the Ambassador for this season. The top 5 were Mookuthi Murugan (SS3), Sam Vishal (SS7), Vikram (SS13), Gowtham, and Punya(SS 6).

Winners:

 Murugan was declared the Winner of the Super Singer Season 7 and received a 50 lakh worth house by Arun Excello.
 Vikram was the first runner up of the season and was awarded 25 lakh gold by Gold one.
 Sam Vishal and Punya were tied as the second runner up of the season.
 Gowtham was the third runner up of the season.

All of the episodes of this season are available on the OTT Platform-Hotstar.

Super Singer Season 8

Asian Paints Super Singer 8 premiered on 24 January 2021 with a Grand Launch of a nine-hour program on Star Vijay with grace performances of Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Sid Sriram, Sakthisree Gopalan, Saindhavi, Vijay Prakash, Karthik, Anthony Daasan Shashaa Tirupati, Benny Dayal, Kalpana Raghavendar, Pradeep, Vijay Yesudas, S. P. Charan, Gana Bala, Chinnaponnu, Karunas.
All the episodes will be available on the OTT Platform-Hotstar.

The judging panel was often shuffled with Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, Shweta Mohan, S. P. Charan, Shakthisree Gopalan and Kalpana Raghavendar. Once again, the eighth season was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande.

The Grand Finale aired on 26 September 2021. At the finals, Sridhar Sena won the title.

Prize Winners:

 Sridhar Sena was announced the Winner of the Super Singer 8 and received a 10 lakh award by Vijay TV. He has also been provided the opportunity to sing in a future film song composed by Anirudh Ravichander.
 Bharat K Rajesh  (announced by Mervin Solomon) was the runner up of the season and was awarded an amount of 3 lakhs and an additional amount of Rs 50,000.
 Abhilash Venkatachalam was announced third place by Santhosh Narayanan. He received a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh, and stated that the money was going to be spent for those who were affected by the COVID - 19 Pandemic situation.
 Muthusirpi was awarded the title of Differentiator of the Season and received an amount of Rs 1 lakh, presented by K. S. Chithra.

Season 8 contestants

Super Singer Season 9

MRF Vapocure Paints Super Singer Season 9 started on 19 November 2022 on Star Vijay and was telecast from every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM. Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande returns as the hosts for this season. This season returns with the same judges' panel including, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, and Shweta Mohan.

During the season of Super Singer 9 , several special guests such as Gangai Amaran , Karthik Raja,  Yuvan Shankar Raja, Deva (composer),  Vidyasagar (composer), Harris Jayaraj,  Sam C. S., Hiphop Tamizha(Adhi Ramachandran ), Nivas K. Prasanna, S. P. Charan , S. P. Sailaja, Vijay Antony, T. Rajendar, K. Bhagyaraj, Siddharth (actor), Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Santhosh Prathap, RJ Balaji, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, K. S. Chithra ,  Meena (actress), Khushbu, Haricharan, Santhosh Narayanan,  Anthony Daasan , Shakthisree Gopalan, Vijay Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan, Vinusha Devi, Senthil Ganesh , Ananth Vaidyanathan have attended the show and have specified their comments to the contestants.

Super Singer Season 9 Grand Finale was held on 25 June 2023 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai.

Before the grand finale took place and during the contestants' tenure at Super Singer 9 , several finalists, were offered to sing in film albums. Music directors, such as Sam C. S. and Hiphop Tamizha Adhi gave these splendid opportunities to the finalists. First, Pooja Venkatraman was offered to sing a song under Sam C. S's direction. Then Abhijith Anilkumar was offered to co-sing a song with Shreya Ghoshal in the film Thiruvin Kural, and the lyrics were written by the songwriter Vairamuthu. Finally, Aruna Sivaya was offered to sing a song under the music direction of Hiphop Tamizha Adhi .

The five finalists of Super Singer 9 are Abhijith Anilkumar, Aruna Sivaya, Pooja Venkatraman, Priya Jerson and Prasanna Adhisesha. Prassana Adhisesha was nominated from the wildcard round.

Several guests that included in the grand finale are Harris Jayaraj, Kalpana Raghavendar, Ananth Vaidyanathan, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy , Binni Krishnakumar.

The grand finale consisted of two rounds. The first round and the second round enabled the contestants to choose their own songs and sing them in front of the wide audience. Several contestants merged two songs, during the second round.

Prize Winners:
  Aruna Sivaya , who was announced by Harris Jayaraj, was awarded the Title Winner of Super Singer 9. So she was gifted with an apartment worth 60 Rs lakhs and received a  Rs 10 lakhs cash prize award by Star Vijay.
 Priya Jerson was announced by Harris Jayaraj,  as the first runner-up of  Super Singer 9 and was awarded a Rs 10 lakhs cash prize award by  Star Vijay.
 Prasanna Adhisesha was announced as the second runner-up of  Super Singer 9 and was awarded a Rs 5 lakhs cash prize award by  Star Vijay.

Spin-off

Super Singer T20

Super Singer T20 (சூப்பர் சிங்கர் T20) is a 2012-2015 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, which aired on Star Vijay. Former contestants from previous seasons of the Super Singer and Airtel Super Singer Junior shows were divided into 6 teams. 15 league matches were held where each team competed against the other five teams. 4 teams were selected for the knockout semi-finals, before the remaining 2 teams competed against each other in the finals. The show was hosted by Divyadarshini.

Super Singer - Champion of Champions
Super Singer - Champion of Champions is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, which aired on Star Vijay. The show has nearly 24 singers, all of them winners and finalists of Super Singers, who are now performing batch by batch, and with no audience to cheer them on. The show was aired from 15 August to 1 November 2020 and ended with 21 Episodes.

Shankar Mahadevan, Sudha Ragunathan, K. S. Chithra, Chinmayi, Anuradha Sriram, Benny Dayal, Kalpana Raghavendar, Vijay Yesudas, Shweta Mohan and Sikkil Gurucharan as the judges, take turns to watch their performance live, albeit, from their homes. The show was hosted by Ma Ka Pa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande. Super Singer Champion Of Champions Winner is Hari Priya.

Adaptations

See also
 Super Singer Junior
 Super Singer T20

References

External links
 Official Super Singer Junior Forum

Airtel Super Singer
Star Vijay original programming
2006 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language singing talent shows
Tamil-language reality television series
Tamil-language television shows
Television shows set in Tamil Nadu
2021 Tamil-language television seasons


Sessilee Lopez (born January 4, 1989) is an American model.  She has appeared in Vogue and graced one of the four covers of its "All Black" issue.

Career
Lopez is of Dominican descent. Her career started in 2004, when she signed with IMG Models. Sessilee is currently represented by Major Model Management.  Her runway debut was at the Vivienne Tam and Daryl K Fall 2004 shows. In 2007, she switched representation to Major Model Management Worldwide.  She has appeared in editorials for American, Italian, French, Japanese, and German Vogue, V Magazine, W Magazine, Allure, i-D, Dazed & Confused, Marie Claire, Numéro, Swedish, American, French Elle, and Spanish and American Harper's Bazaar.
She has appeared on the covers of  Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar, and French Numéro.
She has been a muse for photographer Steven Meisel for years.

In September 2009, Lopez appeared alongside fellow models Arlenis Sosa, Chanel Iman, and Jourdan Dunn on the cover of I-D magazine.  Lopez appeared in the 2008 and 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Lopez has walked the runways for Givenchy, Hermés, Dolce & Gabbana, Oscar De La Renta, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Emporio Armani, Diane Von Furstenberg, Dries Van Noten, Rag & Bone, Tory Burch, Fendi, Carolina Herrera, Mulberry, Tommy Hilfiger, La Perla, Missoni, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander Wang, and Zac Posen.

She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Hermés, Calvin Klein, Lanvin, DKNY, Halston, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, Uniqlo, Barneys New York, H&M, Benetton, Nordstrom, Macy's, Sak's Fifth Avenue, Levi's, and MAC Cosmetics.

She appeared in the 2015 film, Supermodel with Tyson Beckford.

Personal life
Sessilee has two sisters, Kristian Lorén (a fashion designer) and Latoya Mendez (a medical student).  Sessilee appeared on Say Yes to the Dress: Big Bliss when her sister Latoya was trying on dresses, along with her mother, Janice Celeste (business woman and author).

References

External links
See Sessilee Lopez at: Fashion Model Directory, style.com, New York Magazine, supermodels.nl

1989 births
American female models
American people of Dominican Republic descent
American people of Portuguese descent
Living people
Models from Philadelphia
21st-century American women


PublicHealthEmergency.gov is a web portal created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to serve as a single point of entry for access to public health risk, and situational awareness information when the President or the Secretary of Health and Human Services exercise their public health emergency legal authority. This site acts as a portal for residents in the U.S. and worldwide to obtain information from all U.S. federal agencies involved in a public health emergency, a medical disaster or the public health aspects of a natural or man-made disaster.

Purpose

Using PublicHealthEmergency.gov, visitors can find the current status and actions taken by the federal government in preparing for and responding to public health emergencies and medical disasters and links to report potential public health threats.  The site includes information about medical response, emergency support functions and medical assistance available through the federal government for domestic and international emergencies.  PublicHealthEmergency.gov provides detailed information on a wide variety of preparedness efforts, including federal support for basic and advanced research and development of medical countermeasures for public health threats.

The site also supplies responders with information on physical safety and mental health, and guidance for handling specific public health emergencies.

Legal Authority and Governance

The site is maintained by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to meet public information requirements of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006 (PAHPA), Public Law No. 109-417.  Congress passed PAHPA "to improve the Nation's public health and medical preparedness and response capabilities for emergencies, whether deliberate, accidental, or natural." The Act established within HHS an Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; guides HHS preparedness and response activities; provides specific authorities, including the advanced development and acquisitions of medical countermeasures, and called for a quadrennial National Health Security Strategy.

References

External links
Public Health Emergency.gov Official Site
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
Medicalcountermeasures.gov provides specific information for federal, state, and local emergency planners to aid in preparing for and responding to public health emergencies. The site links to the necessary legal authorities and guidance, preparedness and planning tools, and specific preparedness programs for emergency planners.

Government services web portals in the United States