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The genus "Chusquea" now includes species formerly classified in "Dendragrostis", "Rettbergia," "Swallenochloa", and "Neurolepis." The genus has been organized into three subgenera, subg. "Rettbergia", subg. "Swallenochloa" and subg. "Chusquea", although molecular evidence only supports a monophyletic subg. "Rettbergia".
Shimmer and Shine is a Canadian–American animated children's television series created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz. It airs on Nickelodeon in the United States and on Treehouse in Canada. The series premiered on August 24, 2015. The show was based on an unreleased pilot from September 2013.
On February 11, 2016, it was announced that "Shimmer and Shine" was renewed for a second season that uses CGI animation. On June 21, 2016, "Shimmer and Shine" was renewed for a third season. Shimmer and Shine are 2 genies who grant wishes and try to solve problems and the evil Zeta with the help of their human friends Leah and Zac.
Katalin Szőke
Katalin Szőke (17 August 1935 – 27 October 2017) was a Hungarian swimmer. She competed at the 1952 Olympics and won two gold medals, in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle events. She was born in Budapest. During her career Szőke set four world records. In 1985 she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Szőke died on 27 October 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 82.
Josaphat-Robert Large
Josaphat-Robert Large (November 15, 1942 – October 28, 2017) was a Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic. His novel, "Les terres entourées de larmes" ("Shore surrounded with tears") won the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (Caribbean literary Prize) in 2003. He was born in Jérémie, Haiti. Large was a member of La Société des Gens de Lettres de France (Society of French intellectuals) and of the PEN Club America.
Large died of cancer in New York City on October 28, 2017 at the age of 74.
Dennis Banks
Dennis Banks (April 12, 1937 – October 29, 2017) was a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist, actor and author. He was an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks was also known as Nowa Cumig. His name in the Ojibwe language means "In the Center of the Universe". He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in 1968 with Native Americans in Minneapolis.
Banks had roles in the movies "War Party" (1988), "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992), "Thunderheart" (1992), and "Older Than America" (2008).
In August 2016, Banks received the vice presidential 2016 election nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party, a socialist political party with ballot access in California. He appeared on the California ballot with presidential nominee Gloria La Riva.
Banks died of complications from pneumonia on October 29, 2017 in Rochester, Minnesota at the age of 80.
Linda Nochlin
Linda Nochlin ("née" Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian and feminist. She was a Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She was also a essayist. A well known feminist art historian, she became well known for her pioneering 1971 article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?". She was born in New York City.
Nochlin studied at Vassar College, Columbia University and at New York University.
Nochlin was the co-curator of a number of landmark exhibitions exploring the history and achievements of female artists. Her works include "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum and "Women Artists: 1550-1950" (with Ann Sutherland Harris) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Nochlin died at age 86 on October 29, 2017.
Kim Joo-hyuk
Kim Joo-hyuk (; 3 October 1972 – 30 October 2017) was a South Korean actor. He was born in Seoul, South Korea.
Kim was known for his leading roles in the movies "My Wife Got Married" (2008), "The Servant" (2010) and "Yourself and Yours" (2016). He was known for his roles on the television series "Lovers in Prague" (2005), "God of War" (2012), "Hur Jun, The Original Story" (2013) and "Argon" (2017). Also, he was a regular member of the TV show 2 Days and 1 Night, which gave him the his best-known nickname “Brother Gutaeng”(구탱이형).
Kim was killed in a car crash near Seoul after suffering a heart attack behind the wheel on 30 October 2017 at the age of 45.
James D. Martin
James Douglas Martin (September 1, 1918 – October 30, 2017) was an American businessman and Republican politician. He was born in Tarrant, Alabama. He served a single term in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967.
His 1962 campaign for the United States Senate against the Democrat J. Lister Hill was the first serious showing by a member of his party in Alabama since Reconstruction.
The James D. Martin Wildlife Park at U.S. Highway 411 in Gadsden is named in his honor.
Martin died in Gadsden, Alabama of congestive heart failure on October 30, 2017 at the age of 99.
Melanmai Ponnusamy
Melanmai Ponnusamy (, 1951 – 30 October 2017) was a Tamil writer and journalist. He was born in Melanmarainadu, Tamil Nadu, India. He was a Marxist by political orientation and a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). His first short story was published in 1972 in the literary journal "Semmalar". He wrote columns for "Ananda Vikatan" and "Kalki".
Ponnusamy died of a heart attack in Tamil Nadu on 30 October 2017 at the age of 66.
Daniel Te'o-Nesheim
Daniel Te'o-Nesheim (; born Daniel Nesheim, June 12, 1987 – October 29, 2017) was a Samoan American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Washington. He was born in Pago Pago, American Samoa.
On October 30, 2017, Te'o-Nesheim was reported to have died at the age of 30.
Aterno-Pescara
The Aterno-Pescara () is the longest river in the Abruzzo region and the one with largest watershed, of the rivers that flow into the Adriatic Sea south of the Reno river.
The river starts as Aterno on the "Monti della Laga" (a mountain range in the central Apennines) flowing mainly through the provinces of L'Aquila and Pescara; it flows also through the Chieti but only for a short distance. In the "comune" of Popoli, the river is joined by the "Pescara" river and then flows into the Adriatic Sea in the city of Pescara.
The Aterno-Pescara river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .
The Aterno-Pescara river could be divided in three parts: the "Aterno" from its start till its confluence with the Saggitario river, "Aterno-Saggitario" till its confluence with the Pescara, and "Aterno-Pescara" till its mouth in the Adriatic Sea.
The Aterno starts in the "Monti della Laga" mountain range at an altitude of , just to the northeast of "Aringo", a hamlet in the Montereale "comune". It runs through the Montereale canyon and flows, in general, to the southeast and flows to the south of the city of L'Aquila.
After the "San Venanzio" canyon and of the Raiano comune, the Aterno turns to the northeast.
In Popoli, the Aterno joins its main tributary, il "Sagittario". For several kilometers, the river is called Aterno-Sagittario.
Later, the Aterno is joined by the "Pescara" river, a very short river; from this point, the river is called Aterno-Pescara or, simply, Pescara, and keeps flowing to the northeast.
The river flows through the valley of Pescara, touching the low part of the city of Chieti and gets in to the city of Pescara where it ends in the Adriatic Sea.
The Aterno-Pescara flows through many municipalities; some of them are:
The main tributaries of the Aterno-Pescara river are:
Delphine Gibson
Delphine Gibson (August 17, 1903 – May 9, 2018) was an American supercentenarian. She was born Fairfield County, South Carolina. At the age of was the oldest person in the United States. She became the oldest living American upon the death of Adele Dunlap on February 5, 2017.
She married Tyler Gibson in 1928. They had three children. Gibson lives in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Gibson died on May 9, 2018 at the age of 114.
Jean Daniel
Jean Daniel (born 21 July 1920), also known as Jean Daniel Bensaid, is an Algerian-born French Jewish journalist and author. He is the founder and executive editor of "Le Nouvel Observateur" weekly. He was born in Blida, Algeria. He is a member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.
In "La prison juive: Humeurs et méditations d'un témoin" ("The Jewish Prison"), Daniel argues that prosperous Jews in the west live in a self-imposed prison made of up of three invisible walls: the idea of the Chosen People, Holocaust remembrance, and support for Israel.
Parasakthi (movie)
Parasakthi is an 1952 Indian film in the language of Tamil directed by R. Krishnan - S. Panju. This film is the debut for the famous actor of Tamil cinema known for his excellent acting, Sivaji Ganesan. This film was jointly produced by National Pictures and AVM Productions. This film is based on the stage play written by Pavalar Balasundaram in the same title.
The film narrates the misfortunes of a Tamil family during the World War II and how the individuals of the family face their fate and how they reunite at the climax of the film.
The screenplay and dialogues for Parasakthi were written by M. Karunanidhi, who would later become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The music of Parasakthi was composed by R. Sudarsanam. The lyrics were written by Bharathidasan, Subramania Bharati, M. Karunanidhi, Annal Thango, Udumalai Narayana Kavi and K. P. Kamatchisundaram. Parasakthi was released on 17 October 1952, during the festive occasion of Diwali, and faced controversies because of its portrayal of Brahmins and Hindu customs and practices in poor light.The society with powerful peoples (elites) including the then ruling State government even demanded the film to be banned.
Despite these protests, the film was critically celebrated, with praise directed towards its dialogues and the actors performances in particular. The film also become a commercial success, and had a theatrical run of over 175 days. Parasakthi in Tamil cinema became a trendsetter for dialogues and acting for later Tamil films.
Goliath frog
The goliath frog or giant slippery frog ("Conraua goliath") is the biggest type of frog on Earth. It can grow to 32 centimetres (12.6 inches) long and weigh up to 3.25 kilograms (7.17 pounds). Its natural habitat is western Africa.
In 2019, scientists learned that the frog does something unusual: It digs pools to lay eggs in. The scientists think it is the male frog who digs the pool. Because not all the tadpoles in each pool were the same size, the scientists came to think that frogs lay eggs in the same pool more than once. The frogs move sand, pieces of plants, and stones almost as big as they are. They use the stones and plants to build higher walls for the pool. Scientists saw adult frogs staying near the pools at night to scare away bigger animals that wanted to eat the tadpoles. Scientists think this might be why the goliath frog is so big: Bigger frogs can move bigger rocks, build bigger pools and scare away bigger predators.
Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe)
Boomerang Central and Eastern Europe is a television channel, which broadcasts cartoons, from the Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Animation library. This is the variant of the channel that is being broadcast in countries part of Central and Eastern Europe, such as Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Adria nations, Russia and CIS countries. Since November 2014, it has been broadcasting on all providers in the Netherlands and the Flanders region of Belgium. In the Netherlands and Flanders, it is offered with a Dutch soundtrack as well.
The two feeds was launched in December 2005.
On 12 October 2011, the Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe) was launched and is available in 4 audio versions: Romanian, English, Polish and Hungarian.
On 12 June 2012, it was launched in Russia.
On 30 January 2015, it is available in Bulgaria and in Baltic countries and in Balkans.
On 30 September 2015, Boomerang was launched on Freesat in Czech Republic.
All Boomerang programming is available in English with soundtracks in Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Dutch and Russian.
Cartoonito was a programming block targeting preschoolers. It aired weekday from 5:30 AM to 12:30 PM and early afternoons before the Cartoonito branding was phased out entirely in 2014, when Cartoonito merged with Boomerang's schedule. Shows that aired on the block were:
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (January 15, 1895 – November 11, 1973) was a Finnish biochemist. He received the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".
He was born in Helsinki, Russian Empire (now Finland) and died in Helsinki.
Spider-tailed horned viper
Polo Hofer
Urs Alfred "Polo" Hofer (16 March 1945 – 22 July 2017) was a Swiss musician. He was known for his work in the field of Swiss German pop and rock music. He was born in Interlaken, Switzerland.
Hofer composed and sang in Bernese German, and was one of the most popular protagonists of Swiss-German rock and pop music, so-called "Mundartrock". Co-founding the then popular Swiss rock groups "Rumpelstilz" and "Schmetterband", Hofer published 18 music albums and composed about 350 songs.
Hofer died on 22 July 2017 at the age of 72.
Dieter Kurrat
Dieter "Hoppi" Kurrat (15 May 1942 – 27 October 2017) was a German football player and coach. He was born in Dortmund, Germany. His brother was Hans-Jürgen Kurrat.
Kurrat died on 27 October, 2017.
List of former municipalities of Switzerland
This is a list of former municipalities of Switzerland, i.e. municipalities of Switzerland (, , , ) that no longer exist.
In 1850, Switzerland had 3203 municipalities. On 1 January 2015, the number was 2324.
Siat
Siat is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Siat, Castrisch, Ilanz, Ladir, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu and Rueun merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Gert and Hermien
Gert and Hermien (Dutch: "Gert en Hermien") were a musical duo from the Province of Overijssel in the Netherlands, consisting of Gert Timmerman (died 2017) and his wife Hermien Timmerman-van der Weide (died 2003).
They were singing from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
Their most well-known song was "Shalalie shalala".
After their conversion to Christianity in 1974, they only did religious singing for several years.
Sabu M. Jacob
Sabu M. Jacob is an Indian business magnate. He is the chief Coordinator of Twenty-20 the charity outfit floated by Anna-Kitex Group.
Sabu M. Jacob was born to M.C. Jacob, founder chairman of the Anna Kitex group and one of Kerala's pioneering industrialists. After his schooling he got graduation in Economics. He has been Managing Director of Kitex Garments Ltd since August 16, 2006 and has been its Chief Financial Officer since January 25, 2016.
Inspired by his father’s entrepreneurial success, Sabu M. Jacob decided to establish a garment unit of his own in 1992. This 100 percent export oriented business began its operations from Kizhakkambalamin in 1995, and has today, emerged as the world’s third largest infant wear manufacturing company. The company is listed as one of the best Asian companies by Forbes.
In 2013 Twenty-20 was founded to implement Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives of the company in Kizhakkambalam, the eastern suburb of Kochi. The long-term objective of Twenty-20 is to make Kizhakkambalam a model village by the year 2020 – a model of sustainable development, replicable anywhere in India and the world. In November 2015 Twenty-20 managed to win local body elections with 69 percent vote share.
Development initiatives were carried out by Twenty-20 through Housing Projects, Drinking Water Projects, Health, Agriculture, Education, Employment Opportunities, Green initiative, Anti-Corruption, Infrastructure, school upgrades and kindergartens, supplementary diet, Anti Alcohol Movement environmental protection activities and women empowerment programs.
Kitex MD, Sabu M. Jacob featured among the finalists for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2015
Vincent de Paul
St. Vincent de Paul (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660) was a French Roman Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He was canonized in 1737. He was renowned for his compassion, humility and generosity and is known as the "Great Apostle of Trumpets."
A. R. Rahman
Allah-Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer, songwriter, music composer and philanthropist. A. R. Rahman's works are famous for combining Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements.
Rahman was born in Madras, India. His father, R. K. Shekhar, was a movie composer for Tamil and Malayalam movies. Rahman assisted his father in the studio, playing the keyboard.
Rahman began his early musical training under Master Dhanraj, and at age 11 began playing in the orchestra of Malayalam composer (and close friend of his father) M. K. Arjunan. He soon began working with other composers, such as M. S. Viswanathan, Ilaiyaraaja, Ramesh Naidu and Raj-Koti. He had assisted Zakir Hussain, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar on world tours. He also obtained a scholarship from London Trinity College of Music.
Studying in Madras, Rahman completed his studies with a diploma in Western classical music from the school. His mother was a practicing Hindu. He converted to Islam with other members of his family in 1989 at age 23, changing his name from R. S. Dileep Kumar to Allah Rakha Rahman (A. R. Rahman).
In 1992, he was approached by director Mani Ratnam to compose the score and soundtrack for his Tamil movie, Roja.Rahman received the Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) award for best music director at the National Film Awards for Roja. The movie's music was critically and commercially successful in its original and dubbed versions, led by the innovative theme "Chinna Chinna Aasai".A. R. Rahman won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction, the first time ever by a debutant. Rahman also earned Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director and Filmfare Best Music Director Award (Tamil) for his work.
Apart from successful soundtracks, he has also received notability for his background music and is considered one of the finest background music composers in India. Almost every Music compositions of A.R.Rahman were famous throughout Tamil cinema and other language movies.
Queue (abstract data type)
In Computer science, a queue is a data structure, used for storing items, before they are processed. Generally, the following operations exist:
Items that are between the first and the last element of the queue are not directly accessible.
There is a specialization, called priority queue: In a priority queue, each item also has a weight, which determine the position of the item in a queue.
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Deva (composer)
Devanesan Chokkalingam, also known as Deva, is an Indian movie composer and singer. He has composed songs and provided background music for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies in a career spanning about 20 years. Many know his gaana songs, written mostly using Madras Tamil. He is known as the "Father of Gaana Genre" in the Tamil movie industry.
Deva has composed music for many movies within a very short period. His first movie as a movie music director is the movie "Manasukkeththa Maharasa" in 1989. In these years he has composed music for more than 400 movies.
Deva was born to M. C. Chokkalingam and M. C. Krishnaveni in the year 1950, November 20th. Even in his childhood, Deva was attracted to the world of music. Teaming up with Chandra Bose, he did many musical programmes in stage. He started learning classical music under Dhanraj. Later he completed a course in Western music at Trinity College of Music in London. His son Srikanth Deva is also a music director. Deva's brothers are also music directors, formed the duo Sabesh-Murali. His nephew Jai is an actor.
Before coming to Tamil cinema, Deva worked in the television field. In those days Deva's brothers were working in the musical group of Ilaiyaraja and other music directors as musicians playing instruments. His first movie,Maattukkaar Mannaru, was released in 1986. He was then called to work on the movie "Vaigasi Poranthachu". After the release of "Vaigasi Poranthachu", his name became known throughout the Tamil community.
So far he has composed music for more than 400 movies, which include Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. He is also famous for his compositions for religious movies. He was widely renowned for his music for Rajinikanth acted "Basha movie".
In 2014, Anirudh Ravichander chose Deva to sing a gaana song in his album "Maan Karate" and labelled Deva as the "father of the Gaana genre".
Veteran music director M. S. Viswanathan awarded the title Thenisai Thendral upon Deva, for his contributions to Tamil cinema.
Gangai Amaran
Gangai Amaran is a music director, singer, lyricist, script writer, movie director and actor in Tamil movies.
Amaran was born in Pannaipuram in Theni district, Tamil Nadu in December 1947, as the youngest son of Ramaswamy and Chinnathayi. He is the younger brother of world famous Tamil music director Ilaiyaraaja. He was also the father of Venkat Prabhu (director and actor) and Premji Amaren(actor, composer and singer).
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (2 February 1882 – 3 December 1944) was a Greek and Danish prince of the House of Glucksburg. He was the son of George I of Greece and the grandson of Christian IX of Denmark. He was the father of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and father in law of Queen Elizabeth II. He was the grandfather of Charles, Prince of Wales, great grandfather of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and great great grandfather of Prince George of Cambridge.
He married Princess Alice of Battenberg and had four daughters and a son. He was an ancestor of the present Mountbatten-Windsor line.
Szlachcic
A Szlachcic is Polish. It means someone is a member of Polish Nobility.
Eugène Parlier
Eugène Parlier (13 February 1929 – 30 October 2017) was a Swiss football goalkeeper who played for Switzerland in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Montreux, Switzerland. He also played for Neuchâtel Xamax, Servette FC, Urania Genève Sport, FC Biel-Bienne, FC Lausanne-Sport, and Étoile Carouge FC.
Parlier died on 30 October 2017 at the age of 88.
Jotaro Kujo is a character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, son of a Japanese jazz musician and Holly Kujo, daughter of Joseph Joestar, the main Jojo in the third part of the manga:Stardust Crusaders. Aswell as a major ally in the fourth and sixth parts Diamond Is Unbreakable and Stone Ocean. He also appears briefly at the Beginning of the fifth part,Vento Aureo. He has super powers, in this case he manifests a Stand; Star Platinum. Star Platinum suggests the 17th Tarot card, the star meaning Hope. He punches things and people with high speed and inhuman strength; he also has a secondary attack: Star Finger. In the fight against Dio Brando he has the ability to stop time for five seconds (Two seconds is part four and six). He has a very high precision with his stand.
Poschiavo (, , , ) is a municipality of the district Bernina in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. As of December 2015, 3513 people lived there.
Poschiavo has its own lake, called Lago di Poschiavo, which is located to the south of the village.
Knights Hospitaller
The Knights Hospitaller were a group of military knights fighting in Jerusalem. They are the group that became the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and, eventually, St. John Ambulance.
The Hospitallers are a Catholic military order founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century. They later became the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Today their headquarters are in Rome. The order continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names.
Malta was ruled by the Order of Saint John as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1530 to 1798. The islands of Malta and Gozo, as well as the city of Tripoli in modern Libya, were given to the Order by Spanish Emperor Charles V in 1530. following the loss of Rhodes. The Ottoman Empire managed to capture Tripoli from the Order in 1551, but an attempt to take Malta in 1565 failed.
In 1565 Suleiman sent an invasion force of about 40,000 men to besiege the 700 knights and 8,000 soldiers. He wanted to get the island as a base. From there he might launch another assault on Europe. A long struggle ended with the Knights undefeated. This is known as the Great Siege of Malta. Resisting the Ottoman Empire was their great achievement.
Ahmed Boukouss
Ahmed Boukous (Amazigh: ⵃⵎⴰⴷ ⴱⵓⴽⵓⵙ, Ḥmad bukus; born October, 15, 1946) is a Moroccan Amazighist, linguist and sociologist. He is now the president of the Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture.
Deaths in November 2017
2017 Lower Manhattan attack
On October 31, 2017, a man drove a pickup truck into cyclists and pedestrians along of a bike path alongside West Street, near Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people, including five Argentines and one Belgian tourist, and injured eleven others. After leaving the truck, the driver appeared to be wielding two guns and was later shot in the abdomen by police, and then arrested. An ISIS flag and a document that read "Islamic State will endure forever" in Arabic were found in the truck.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation charged 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov, who had immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan on a Diversity Immigrant Visa, with destruction of a motor vehicle and supporting a terrorist organization.
Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Yiannopoulos is a British writer. He often criticizes feminism and Islam. He studied at the University of Manchester and Wolfson College. He has worked for The Telegraph. He covered the gamergate controversy. In 2016 he was criticized for saying that sex between adults and children can sometimes be consensual.
S. A. Chandrasekhar
S. A. Chandrasekhar is an Indian movie director, producer and writer who mostly works in Tamil movies. Chandrasekhar made his debut as a director with "Sattam Oru Iruttarai" (1981) and went on to direct movie with social based or society based themes.
S. A. Chandrasekhar is from Thangachimadam, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. He is married to Shoba, a carnatic singer. He is the father of famous Tamil actor Vijay. His son made his debut movie in "Naalaiya Theerpu" which was directed by him. His brother-in-law S. N. Surendar is an playback singer and voice artist.
Chandrasekar has directed over 70 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. Some of his hits include "Vetri", "Naan Sigappu Manithan", and "Mutham". He also directed some Telugu movies such as "Chattaniki Kallu Levu" with actor Chiranjeevi. Most of his movies are with Vijayakanth. He has appeared in supporting roles in some movies like "Naan Sivappu Manithan".
K. Balachander filmography
Buddhist texts
The Dhyāna sutras (Chan-jing) are a group of early Buddhist meditation texts which contain meditation teachings from the Sarvastivada school along with some early proto-Mahayana meditations. They were mostly the work of Buddhist Yoga teachers from Kashmir and were influential in Chinese Buddhism.
Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Grand Traverse County is a county in Michigan. It's county seat is Traverse City. It is a very popular tourist destination during the summer.
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CDPs
Unincorporated Communities
A password policy is a set of rules to enforce strong passwords.
Shivalinga (2017 movie)
Sivalinga is Tamil mystery horror comedy movie directed by P. Vasu with Raghava Lawrence and Ritika Singh in the leading roles. This movie is a remake of Vasu's earlier 2016 Kannada movie of the same name. The project in Tamil, began production in July 2016.
The story revolves around a ghost who when alive was murdered and the case moves to the CID. The CID who deals the case is Shivalingeshwaran. The ghost captures the body of Sathya who is the wife of Shivalingesh and makes her move in a misbehaving way. Later the ghost asks Shiva to help him get revenge of the murderers.
This movie became a commercial success in both Tamil and Telugu.
Maroon (people)
Maroon are Africans who escaped from the slavery in the Americas and who mixed with the native Americans.
Raghava Lawrence
K. Raghava Lawrence is an Indian choreographer, an actor, director, composer and playback singer. He made his debut as a choreographer in 1993. He began his career as an actor in 1998, in a Telugu film. Most of his Telugu films were dubbed by artists. He became famous in Telugu cinema through the film Style. In Tamil, he became famous through the Muni film series.
Lawrence is also known for his complicated hip-hop and westernised dance moves. He has won four Filmfare Awards and three Nandi Awards for best choreography. He is also known for his social services and the temple he built for his living mother Kanmani. He was born In Andhra Pradeah
As having so much care and affection towards mother, Raghava built a deity statue for his mother. His mother's name is Kanmani who is still alive.
Sri Lankan Tamils
A person of the Tamil dialect, from the country of Sri Lanka.
Muni (movie)
Muni is a 2007 Tamil horror comedy film written and directed by Raghava Lawrence who also plays the lead role. Vedhicka, Rajkiran, Kovai Sarala and Rahul Dev played supporting roles in the film.The film released on 9 March 2007 along with a Telugu dubbed version of same name. This film gained average reviews and average box office collections. This movie is the 1000th movie of actor Vinu Chakravarthy..
The story revolves around Ganesh (Raghava Lawrence)who has fear of ghost and his family in a haunted house. Ganesh always fears to move out of the house after 6pm due to his fear. Unknowingly his father(Vinu Chakravarthy) buys a house where Muni, a person was murdered long ago. His ghost was also moving around the house. Muni enters Ganesh's body and Ganesh starts behaving in a rude manner, his family could not understand why his behavior is weird so they seek the help of a priest (Nassar). Priest asks the ghost about his own flashback. The ghost says that he is Muniyaandi (Rajkiran) and starts saying his flashback.
Muniyaandi was a kind-hearted poor man living in the slums with his daughter and other people. Muni's friend is Marakka Dhandapani MLA (Kadhal Dhandapani) uses him to win in elections. The MLA promises that he would give lands to the poor villagers. Dhandapani wins the election but he cheats Muni and the villagers. Muni fights with Dhandapaani but he kills both him and his daughter. Dhandapani lies to the villagers saying that Muni and his daughter had moved with the money he had given him for the welfare of the villagers.
Ganesh with ghost in him, enters Dhandapani's household and scare him and his assistants. Dhandapaani comes to know that the ghost of Muni is inside Ganesh's body so he gets a shaman (meaning:healer) (Rahul Dev) to save his life. Muni agrees to leave Dhandapani if he tells the true to the villagers and give them the money. He tells the true and gives the money. But Dhandapani was planning to get back all his money from the villagers. Ganesh upon hearing this kills Dhandapaani, but acts like as Muni's ghost killed him. The shaman knewing that Ganesh killed him and not the ghost, didn't tell the truth seeing the injustice made by Dhandapani.
The film earned (grossed) around Rs. 15 crore worldwide and became a commercial success.
Success of this film led to a horror comedy film series by Raghava Lawrence. He made two more films from this series named Muni2: Kanchana and Muni3: Kanchana 2. These became a present trendsetter in the Tamil cinema. These two film are also commercially successful and became mass hit films.
Microsoft 4Afrika
Microsoft 4Afrika is a market development engine in Africa started by Microsoft to create technology for the world by using talent of Africans. Microsoft 4Afrika invests in World-class skills, Access and Innovation. It was launched in February 2013. Microsoft launched 4Afrika Initiative in Rwanda on 3 April 2013.
This project of 75 million USD aims to increase internet accessibility via smart devices, educate the African web developers and promote new Africentric technologies. Since 2013, 4Afrika is investing on the entrepreneurs, youth, small businesses, governments and markets. Microsoft partnered with Kenya's Ministry of Information and Communication and Indigo Telecom to reach underserved communities via solar-powered base stations. University of the People has a partnership with Microsoft 4Afrika to offer scholarships to study towards an associate’s degree in University.  4Afrika helps developers create and monetise their applications, and gain experience working with senior software developers in a number of programmes. It provides internships for the youth and education youth. Microsoft 4Afrika with Wollo University and Tulane University – Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) launched AppFactory Academy in Ethiopia for Wollo University IT graduates, and related computing discipline graduates.
Microsoft 4Afrika camps in the following African countries:
Microsoft 4Afrika signed partnership with Tony Elumelu Foundation to provide tools, resources and mentorship to entrepreneurs enrolled in entrepreneurship programme of foundation.
Ghulam Ali Wahdat
Ghulam Ali wahdat is an ethnic Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He was the governor of Bamyan Province from (October, 2013 to June, 2015).
Gholamali Vahdat, son of Nawazesh Ali, was born in the year 1962 in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan.
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Qasim Akhgar
Qasim Akhgar, was a Hazara writer, researcher, activism and theorists from Afghanistan.
Qasim Akhgar, was born in 1951 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He died after an illness in 2013 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Fano is a city and "comune" of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region, central Italy.
It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, along the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by population after Ancona and Pesaro.
Fano is on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The "comune" of Fano has an area of and its altitude is above sea level.
Fano borders with the "comuni" Cartoceto, Mombaroccio, Mondolfo, Pesaro, San Costanzo and Terre Roveresche.
The following "frazioni" (hamlets) are part of Fanoː
There are 60,852 persons living in the "comune" in 2017, for a population density of inhabitants/km².
The people from this "comune" are known, in Italian, as "fanesi".
Famo is twinned with:
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Vladimir Makanin
Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin (; 13 March 1937 – 1 November 2017) was a Russian writer. He was born in Orsk, Soviet Union. In 1963 he took a course in script-writing, and then worked in the publishing house "Sovietskiy Pisatel" ("The Soviet Writer"). Makanin's writing style may be categorized as realist. In 2012, he won the European Prize for Literature.
He was specialized in short stories and novels.
Makanin died on 1 November 2017 in Krasny, Russia at the age of 80.
Yisrael Rosen
Yisrael Rosen () (May 1941 – November 2, 2017) was an Orthodox Israeli rabbi. He founded the office for conversion to Judaism in the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and he was a judge there. He was born in Tel Aviv.
Rosen was the director of the Zomet Institute for the interface of Halakha and technology and also the editor-in-chief of the Zomet annual journal "Techumin". He edited a weekly newsletter "Shabbat B'Shabbato".
Rosen died on November 2, 2017 in Alon Shevut, a West Bank settlement, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76.
María Martha Serra Lima
María Martha Serra Lima (December 19, 1944 – November 2, 2017) was an Argentine singer. She was born in Buenos Aires. Serra Lima was first signed on to a record label in 1977, and became famous across Latin America and in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s. Her albums became hits in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and elsewhere in the region, apart from her home country.
Serra Lima died in Miami, Florida on November 2, 2017 at the age of 72.
Dina Wadia
Dina Wadia (15 August 1919 – 2 November 2017) was an Indian political figure. She was born in London. Her father was Muhammad Ali Jinnah. She was married to Neville Wadia from 1938 until they divorced in 1943.
Wadia died at her home in New York City of pneumonia on 2 November 2017 at the age of 98.
Richard E. Cavazos
Richard Edward Cavazos (January 31, 1929 – October 29, 2017), was a United States Army four-star general. He was a Korean War recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross as a first lieutenant. He advanced in rank to become the United States Army's first Hispanic four-star general.
During the Vietnam War, as a lieutenant colonel, Cavazos was awarded a second Distinguished Service Cross. In 1976, Cavazos became the first Mexican American to reach the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
Cavazos served for thirty-three years, with his final command as head of the U.S. Army Forces Command.
Cavazos died at the age of 88 in San Antonio, Texas on October 29, 2017 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Fred Beckey
Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey (14 January 1923 – 30 October 2017), known as Fred Beckey, was an American rock climber, mountaineer and author. He made hundreds of first ascents, more than any other North American climber. In 2003, his 563-page book on the history of the region, "Range of Glaciers", was published by the Oregon Historical Society Press. Between climbs, he wrote several books, most notably the "Cascade Alpine Guide".
Beckey was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied at the University of Washington. Beckey died on 30 October 2017 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 94.
Daniel Viglietti
Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart (24 July 1939 – 30 October 2017) was an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He was one of the main singers of Uruguayan popular song and also of the "Nueva Canción" or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s. Viglietti was imprisoned in 1972 by his own government. He was an activist against fascism in South America during the 1970s.
Abbas Zandi
Abbas Zandi (; 3 June 1930 – 30 October 2017) was an Iranian Freestyle Wrestler, national champion, and coach. He was born in Tehran. Zandi had competed in three Olympic games including 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne.
Zandi died on 30 October 2017 in Tehran at the age of 87.
Mario das Neves
Mario das Neves (April 27, 1951 – October 31, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was the governor of the Argentine province of Chubut from 2003 through 2011 and again from 2015 until his death in 2017. He was born in Buenos Aires.
Das Neves died of cardiopulmonary arrest on October 31, 2017 in Rawson, Chubut at the age of 66.
Papi Oviedo
Gilberto "Papi" Oviedo la Portilla (9 February 1938 – 31 October 2017) was a Cuban tres player. He was born in La Habana. He started playing the tres when he was about 15. Oviedo was the tres player in Elio Revé's band for 13 years. He has been on tour with Buena Vista Social Club exposing the son style to wider audiences.
Oviedo died of lung cancer in Havana, Cuba on 31 October 2017 at the age of 79.
Aboubacar Somparé
El Hajj Aboubacar Somparé (31 August 1944 – 2 November 2017) was a Guinean politician. He was President of the National Assembly of Guinea from 2002 to 2008. He was previously Guinea's Ambassador to France from 1978 to 1984 and was Secretary-General of the Unity and Progress Party (PUP) from 1995 to 2002. He served as Interim President of Guinea from 22 December 2008 through 24 December 2008.
Somparé died on 2 November 2017 in Ratoma, Guinea at the age of 73.
Jigsaw (Saw character)
John Kramer—known as The Jigsaw Killer or simply Jigsaw—is a fictional character who appears in the "Saw" franchise as the main antagonist.
Jigsaw made his appearance in the first movie of the series, "Saw", and he later appeared in "Saw II", "Saw III", "Saw IV", "Saw V", "Saw VI", "Saw 3D" and, eventually, "Jigsaw". He is played by American actor Tobin Bell.
Jigsaw ranks No. 30 in "Empire" magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters" list.
In the series' narrative, Kramer is a former civil engineer dying from an inoperable frontal lobe tumor that had developed from colon cancer. After a failed suicide attempt, Kramer found a new appreciation for his life, and went to dedicate the rest of his life to inspiring the same appreciation in others by testing their will to live.
His methods include forcing his subjects through deadly scenarios, which he referred to as "games" or "tests", in which they were forced to inflict pain upon themselves or others in order to escape. These tests were typically symbolic of what Jigsaw perceived as a flaw in each person's moral character or life. The Jigsaw name was given to him by the media for his practice of cutting a puzzle piece shape of flesh from those who fail.
His videos are recorded with a cheap homemade camera with Billy the Puppet instructing the subjects what to do to live.
Vinu Chakravarthy
Vinu Chakravarthy (15 December 1945 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor (actor who acted in many language movies), writer and director. He had acted in about 1000 movies. "Muni" of Raghava Lawrence is Vinu Chakravarthy's 1000th movie. He acted in 900+ Tamil movies, 50 Malayalam movies, 5 Telugu movies, Some Kannada movies and 1 Badaga language movie.
Chakravarthy was born on December 15, 1945, in Usilampatti. His parents are Adimoola Thevar and Manjuvani Ammal. He studied at Wesley School, Royapettah. He got degree in commerce from A. M. Jain College. He was the eldest son among other 3 sons and a daughter.
Chakravarthy was working as a script writer for Kannada director Puttanna Kanagal. He was noticed by movie producer Tiruppur Mani who in 1977, gave him a role in the Kannada film Parasangada Gendetimma. This movie was later remade into Tamil. Since then, Chakravarthy has made over 1,000 films in four South Indian languages - 900 in Tamil, 30 in Malayalam, 5 in Telugu and one in Badaga language. His last movie was Vaayai Mudi Pesavum in 2014.
He died at the age of 71 due to illness in the year 2017.
Moza bint Nasser
Moza bint Nasser (Arabic:موزا بنت ناصر)(Born on 8 August 1959 in Doha, Qatar ) is the wife of former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and mother of current Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.she is chairperson of Qatar Foundation and founder of Silatech.she was UNESCO's Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education in 2003.also, she has been named as one of Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women at #75.
Sheikha Moza was born on August 8, 1959 in Al-Khor, Qatar. She married with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in 1977 at the age of 18.she would eventually earn her Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Qatar University in 1986.
The Sheikh Hammad has seven children with the Sheikha Mozah:
Among Sheikha Moza’s many honours are :
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (born 3 June 1980 in Doha, Qatar) is the current Emir of Qatar. Sheikh Tamim is the fourth son of his father, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the previous Emir of Qatar and second son of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. He became Emir of Qatar on 25 June 2013 after his father. He became the heir apparent to the Qatar throne on 5 August 2003.
He studied in the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst where he graduated in 1998.
Reborrowing
Reborrowing is when words of a certain language are borrowed into a different language, when the new language creates new words using the loanwords or roots they borrowed, and either when the newly created words are introduced to the language that the old loanwords came from.
Examples of this can be found in many languages.
English uses many loanwords borrowed from French, Latin, and Greek, which is why many scientific words are made using words and word roots from these same languages. For example, the word "telegram" comes from the Greek roots "tele-", which means "distant/far", and "-gram/-graph", which means "writing", thus a telegram is a machine that sends written messages from far away. This word came back into Greek as τηλεγράφημα "telegráfima".
Peter MacGregor-Scott
Peter MacGregor-Scott (December 28, 1947 – October 25, 2017) was an American movie producer. He was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. He produced the 1997 movie, "Batman & Robin". He also produced the Cheech & Chong movie "Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers", "Still Smokin" and "Born in East L.A.". Others are "The Whoopee Boys" and "Death to Smoochy".
MacGregor-Scott was involved in a traffic collision in New York City which would result in his death on October 25, 2017, aged 69.
Third Rutte cabinet
The Third Rutte cabinet, also called "Rutte III cabinet" or "Rutte III", is the current government of the Netherlands.
It was sworn in on October 26, 2017. It is named after Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD). It has been outgoing since January 15, 2021, due to problems caused by the childcare benefits scandal.
It is a coalition of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), Democrats 66 (D66), and the ChristianUnion (CU).
VVD is a conservative and D66 a social liberal party. CDA is a Christian democratic and CU an orthodox Christian democratic party.
The Third Rutte cabinet was preceded by the Second Rutte cabinet.
Together they have 77 (originally 78) seats in the present House of Representatives (they had 75 (originally 76) seats in the previous Second Chamber) and 32 seats in the Senate (they had 38 seats in the previous First Chamber).
The Third Rutte cabinet counts 24 members, of which 13 are women (54%).
It consists of 15 ministers and 9 deputy ministers:
Prime Minister:
Deputy Prime Ministers:
Ministers with portfolio:
Ministers without portfolio:
Former Ministers:
Deputy Ministers:
Former Deputy Ministers:
Vernier
Vernier is a municipality of the canton of Geneva in Switzerland. It has villages of Vernier Village, Le Lignon, Aïre, Les Avanchets, Cointrin and Châtelaine. As of 31 December 2016, 34,983 people lived there.
Chair of the Federal Reserve
The Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States. The job is known as "Chair of the Fed" or "Fed Chair". The chair is in charge of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The chair is chosen by the President of the United States from among the members of the Board of Governors; and serves for four-year-terms after appointment. A chair may be appointed for many terms. William Martin was the longest serving chair, holding the position from 1951 to 1970.
The current chair is Jerome Powell upon taking office on February 5, 2018.
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Minnesota State University, Mankato (Minnesota State) is the largest and second oldest university in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. It is one of the largest universities in Minnesota. The nickname for the sports teams is the Mavericks. Minnesota State is located in Mankato, Minnesota a city southwest of the Twin Cities. It has a big business impact on southern Minnesota. It's stadium was where the Vikings came to practice in the summer. It was also linked to the Coach (TV series). It sports teams have won several national championships in the National Collegiate Athletics Association Division 2 level.
Jerome Hayden Powell (born February 4, 1953) is an American lawyer. He is the 16th and current Chair of the Federal Reserve since February 2018and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and has served since 2012 upon being nominated by President Barack Obama.
On November 2, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Powell to serve as the next Chair of the Federal Reserve. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 31, 2018 and took office on February 5, 2018.
Powell was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Princeton University and at Georgetown University. In 1975-1976, he spent a year as a legislative assistant to Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania.