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Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter (born May 3, 1942) is an American politician. He was the 32nd Governor of Idaho from January 2007 to January 2019.
He is a member of the Republican Party. Otter served as Lieutenant Governor of Idaho from 1987 to 2001 and as the United States Representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district from 2001 to 2007.
Mike Pence
Michael Richard Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician. He was the 48th Vice President of the United States between 2017 and 2021. A lawyer by occupation, he served as Governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017 and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013. A Republican, he chaired the House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2011. Pence is a longtime supporter of the Tea Party movement.
On July 14, 2016, Donald Trump's campaign said that Pence would be Trump's choice for running mate in the 2016 presidential election. The Trump-Pence campaign went on to defeat the Clinton-Kaine campaign in the general election on November 8, 2016. Pence was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2017.
On November 7, 2020 the Trump-Pence ticket lost their re-election bid to former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris following the 2020 election.
Pence was born at Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Indiana, He was one of six children of Nancy Jane (née Cawley) and Edward J. Pence, Jr. His family were Irish Catholic Democrats.
Pence graduated from Columbus North High School in 1977. He earned a B.A. in History from Hanover College in 1981 and a J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1986.
After graduating from law school in 1986, Pence worked as an attorney in private practice. He continued to practice law following his second unsuccessful run for Congress.
In November 2000, Pence was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District after six-year incumbent David M. McIntosh (1995–2001) opted to run for governor of Indiana.
On November 8, 2006, Pence announced his candidacy for leader of the Republican Party (minority leader) in the United States House of Representatives. Pence's release announcing his run for minority leader focused on a "return to the values" of the 1994 Republican Revolution. On November 17, Pence lost to Representative John Boehner of Ohio by a vote of 168–27–1 (the one vote went to Representative Joe Barton of Texas).
Pence served for a time as the chairman of the Republican Study Committee. His Committee assignments in the U.S. House included: Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia (Vice Chair); Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution (Vice Chair), and Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet.
While in Congress, Pence belonged to the Tea Party Caucus. Pence also belonged to the Congressional Internet Caucus, International Conservation Caucus, and Sportsmen's Caucus.
After the November 2010 election, Pence announced that he would not run for re-election as the Republican Conference Chairman. On May 5, 2011, Pence announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Indiana in 2012.
On November 6, 2012, Pence won the gubernatorial election, defeating Democratic nominee John R. Gregg and Libertarian nominee Rupert Boneham.
Pence became the 50th Governor of Indiana on January 14, 2013.
Pence made tax reform, namely a 10% income-tax rate cut, a priority for 2013.
On March 26, 2015, Pence signed Indiana Senate Bill 101, also known as the Indiana "religious objections" bill (RFRA), into law. The law's signing was met with widespread criticism by people and groups who felt the law was carefully worded in a way that would permit discrimination against LGBT persons.
As of March 2016, Pence has attempted unsuccessfully to prevent Syrian refugees from being resettled in Indiana.
Pence is running for a second term as governor. He was unopposed in the May 3, 2016, Republican primary for governor. He faces Democrat John Gregg, former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, in a rematch of the 2012 race. Early reports on July 14 suggest Pence is likely to be announced as the VP candidate on July 15.
In July 2016, Trump said that there was three people on his running mate shortlist: Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich and Pence himself. On July 14, 2016, it was reported that Trump selected Pence as his running mate. On July 15, 2016, Trump announced on his Twitter that Pence would be his running mate. He made a formal announcement in New York City on July 16, 2016.
Trump would go on to defeat Clinton in the general election making Pence the Vice President-elect of the United States.
Pence was inaugurated as the 48th Vice President of the United States after being sworn in by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas on January 20, 2017.
On January 27, 2017, Pence spoke at the March for Life in Washington D.C., becoming the first vice president and the highest ranking United States official to ever speak at the annual event.
Following the Trump-supporter storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 many politicians and lawyers wanted Pence to use the 25th amendment of the United States Constitution to remove Trump from office.
Pence and his wife Karen Pence have been married since 1985. They have three children: Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey. Pence is a born-again Christian. His brother, Greg, is the member of the United States House of Representatives.
In April 2021, Pence had heart surgery to have a pacemaker implanted to help stop his slow heart rate.
Paul Richard LePage (born October 9, 1948) is an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He served as the 74th Governor of Maine from 2011 to 2019.
In April 2020, LePage announced his candidacy for governor, running against Governor Janet T. Mills in the upcoming 2022 election.
He was the mayor of Waterville from 2003 to 2011, and was a city councilor prior to that. He worked as general manager of the 14-store discount chain Marden's Surplus and Salvage from 1996 until 2011.
Brian Sandoval
Pat McCrory
Patrick Lloyd "Pat" McCrory (born October 17, 1956) is an American politician. He was the 74th Governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. He served a record 14 years as the 53rd Mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009, and as a city councilman from 1989 to 1995. In 2016, McCroy lost his re-election bid to Democrat Roy Cooper.
In April 2021, McCrory announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2022 election to replace retiring Republican Senator Richard Burr.
John Stewart "Jack" Dalrymple III (born October 16, 1948) is an American politician and businessman. He was the 32nd Governor of North Dakota from 2010 to 2016.
He was previously the 36th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 2000 until December 2010. He assumed the office of Governor when then-Governor John Hoeven resigned and Dalrymple succeeded him. He has also served as a state representative, and ran for the U.S. Senate twice.
Dennis Daugaard
Dennis M. Daugaard (pronounced "DEW-guard"; born June 11, 1953) is an American politician. He was the 32nd Governor of South Dakota from January 2011 to January 2019.
Bill Haslam
Gary Richard Herbert (born May 7, 1947) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican Party.
In August 2009, Herbert became the 17th Governor of Utah. He left office on January 4, 2021.
Vincent C. Gray
Vincent Condol Gray (born November 8, 1942) is an American politician. He served as the seventh Mayor of the District of Columbia from 2011 to 2015. Gray served as Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, and as Councilmember for Ward 7. In the 1990s he also served as director of the DC Department of Human Services.
On April 1, 2014, he was defeated in the Democratic primary by future Mayor Muriel Bowser.
American Fork, Utah
American Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah. It is north of Utah Lake and northeast of Provo. The population was 26,263 at the 2010 census.
Josh Earnest
Lolo Matalasi Moliga
Eddie Calvo
Eddie Baza Calvo (born August 29, 1961) is an American Guamanian politician. He was the Governor of the United States territory of Guam from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. His father, Paul McDonald Calvo, also served as governor of Guam from 1979 through 1983.
Calvo was a five-term Senator within the Legislature of Guam. He became the Governor of Guam, having defeated Democrat Carl Gutierrez in the 2010 gubernatorial election.
Eloy Inos
Eloy Songao Inos (September 26, 1949 – December 28, 2015) was an American politician. He was born in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Inos, a member of the Republican Party, was the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. He previously served as Lieutenant Governor.
Inos died on December 28, 2015 in Seattle, Washington while recovering from open heart surgery at the age of 66.
Alejandro García Padilla
Alejandro Javier García Padilla (born August 3, 1971) is a Puerto Rican politician. He was the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2013 to 2017. He was elected governor in January 2013.
John de Jongh
Paint Creek, Texas
Cypress, California
Cypress is a suburb city in the northern region of Orange County in Southern California. Its population was 47,802 at the 2010 census.
John Stamos
John Phillip Stamos ( ; born August 19, 1963) is an American actor, singer and musician. He is best known for his work in television, especially in his role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom "Full House" and as Dr. Tony Gates in the medical drama "ER".
Don Stark
Cypress, Texas
Cypress is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States. It is also a suburb of Houston, Texas. As of 2010, the population was at 122,803 people. It includes neighborhoods such as Coles Crossing, and has schools such as Farney Elementary, Goodson Middle School, Spillane Middle School, and Cy-Woods High School. The main school district for this area is Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District.
UEFA Euro 1996
The UEFA Euro 1996 was the 10th UEFA European Football Championship tournament. Its formal name was the "1996 UEFA European Football Championship". It was held in 8 June to 30 June. All the European football teams could compete. The defending champion was Denmark. The tournament was hosted in England. 16 teams were qualified for the final group stage. The winner of the tournament was Germany after defeating Czech Republic.
Qualification began on September 1994 and ended on December 1995. The following teams qualified:
"Czech Republic was placed on top of Italy because of their previous match against each other (2 – 1)"
David Azrieli
David Joshua Azrieli, (; May 10, 1922 – July 9, 2014) was a Polish-born Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist.
He had an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion (as of March 2013). Forbes ranked Azrieli as the 9th wealthiest Canadian and 401st in the world.
He died on July 9, 2014 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, aged 92.
Weston, Massachusetts
Weston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States in the Boston metro area. The population of Weston, as of the 2010 U.S. Census, was 11,261.
Adam Wood
Adam Kenneth Compton Wood (born 13 March 1955) is a retired British diplomat. He is the current Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.
Wood was born on 13 March 1955. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1977. Wood's later career consisted of major diplomatic roles in Africa. He was the British High Commissioner to Uganda from 2002 to 2005. He then served as High Commissioner to Kenya from 2005 to 2008. Prior to his retirement from the diplomatic service in 2010, he was Africa Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. At this post he managed Britain's embassies in Africa. Wood was announced as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in November 2010, and was sworn in on 7 April 2011. He is married to Catherine Richardson. They have one daughter, born in 2009.
Six Flags New Orleans, also shortened to SFNO, is an abandoned theme park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The park opened on May 20, 2000 and was first known as Jazzland. The name was changed to Six Flags New Orleans on April 12, 2003 after Six Flags rented the lease in March 2002. The park has been closed since just before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005. It is currently owned by the City of New Orleans. After seeing the damage that was caused by Katrina, Six Flags attempted to end their 75-year lease with the city in July 2006. They succeeded in September 2009. The abandoned park is a popular urban exploration spot.
There have been many different plans announced to redevelop the site such as reviving and expanding the park, creating a Nickelodeon-branded theme/water park, reviving the park as "Jazzland", and an upscale outlet mall but it still an abandoned amusement park.
Stygotantulus
Stygotantulus stocki is the smallest crustacean in the world. It is less than .
It is an ectoparasite on two families of copepods.
Marco Rodríguez
Marco Antonio Rodríguez (born 10 November 1973 in Mexico City) is a retired Mexican association football referee.
He refereed the famous 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final in which Germany defeated Brazil 7-1.
Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister are a British pop music group. They are known for songs such as "Breakout" and "Twilight World". Some songs by the group are covers of past hit songs.
Swing Out Sister started in 1985 in Manchester.
Born to Sing (album)
Born to Sing is a 1990 R&B studio album from American music group En Vogue. It had several hit songs, including "Hold On", "You Don't Have to Worry".
Several songs on the album sample past songs.
This album was released in April 1990.
Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Charlotte County (2011 population 26,549) is a county in the southwestern part of New Brunswick, Canada. It is divided into six municipalities and fourteen parishes.
There are two islands near Charlotte County which are disputed by Canada and the United States Those islands are Machias Seal Island and North Rock.
Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada)
Queen Charlotte Sound is a sound of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada. It is between Vancouver Island in the south and Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) in the north. It merges with Hecate Strait in the north and Queen Charlotte Strait in the south.
Cynthia, Alberta
Central Alberta
Central Alberta is a region in the Canadian province of Alberta. It completely surrounds the Edmonton Capital Region. Central Alberta is the most densely populated rural area in the province. Agriculture and energy make up an important part of the economy.
The North Saskatchewan River flows through the region. The Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park is also located in the region.
Castelsarrasin
Castelsarrasin () is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of France. It is the second city in Tarn-et-Garonne with more people living in it, after Montauban.
It is a subprefecture in the department and the capital of the Castelsarrasin "arrondissement".
The oldest written example of "Castelsarrasin", as "Castel Sarracenum", is from the year 961. It was written in the will of Raymond II of Rouergue where he gave the "Saint-Sauveur" church to the monastery of Moissac.
"Castel Sarracenum" ("Saracen Castle") was given that name because the castle was built in the Saracen era.
There were many wars during the early history of the city:
Later, the Hundred Years' War affected the region. Most people that lived in the city were Catholics but many Protestants lived around the city. Fights were common here between those two groups during the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century.
The region was more calm during the following centuries, up to the time of the French Revolution.
From 1790 to 1795, Castelsarrasin was the capital of the District of Castelsarrasin in the Haute-Garonne department. In 1808, when the Tarn-et-Garonne department was created, the arrondissement of Castelsarrasin was made part of the new department.
Castelsarrasin is near the Garonne river, which runs through the southwest of the commune. The city is at to the west of Montauban, "préfecture" of the department.
The "communes" that are around Castelsarrasin are Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, Moissac, Les Barthes, La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple, Saint-Porquier, Cordes-Tolosannes, Saint-Aignan, Castelferrus and Castelmayran.
The climate of Castelsarrasin, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Castelsarrasin are known, in French, as "Castelsarrasinois" (women: "Castelsarrasinoises").
With a population in 2014 of 13,765, Castelsarrasin has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Castelsarrasin
Castelsarrasin is a subprefecture of the Tarn-et-Garonne department since 1809. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Castelsarrasin and the administrative centre () of the canton Castelsarrasin with 6 "communes" and 20,937 inhabitants in 2014.
It is part of the intercommunality "Terres des confluences".
Castelsarrasin is a twin town of:
Some interesting places in Castelsarrasin are:
Elsa (Disney)
Elsa is the Queen of Arendelle in the Disney movie "Frozen". For most of the movie, she is voiced by singer and actress Idina Menzel. However, "Young Elsa" is voiced by Eva Bella, and "Teen Elsa" is voiced by Spencer Lacey Ganus. Elsa has a sister named Anna who is younger than her.
Elsa was born with magic powers. She freezes everything that she touches. When she can't control them, she shuts herself away from everyone.
This is what the Official Frozen Website says about Elsa:
"From the outside, Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel) looks poised, regal and reserved, but in reality, she lives in fear as she wrestles with a mighty secret."
Elsa is based on the main character of the story The Snow Queen. In the movie, Elsa is born with ice powers and hurts her sister Anna, causing her parents to lock her up in her room for her young life. Elsa's parents die, and Elsa becomes the queen, but escapes to finally have freedom for herself and avoid hurting people with her ice powers. When Elsa accidentally freezes the kingdom, she flees to a far-off mountain. Anna goes after her sister.
Elsa was the hardest character Disney had ever made. For example, a normal person has 100,000 hairs on her head, but Elsa has 420,000 hairs on her head.
Elsa's song "Let It Go" received many positive reviews from viewers and critics.
Lloydminster
Lloydminster is a city in Canada. Part of it is in Alberta and part of it is in Saskatchewan.
The city was founded in 1903. It was named for George Lloyd, who was the Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan in the 1920s. At the time, the area was part of the Northwest Territories. People expected the area to become a single province. Instead, the area was split into two provinces, with the border along the 110th meridian west, which ran down the center of the town.
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Camp Rock 2: "The Final Jam" is American movie. Its premier was on September 3, 2010, on the Disney Channel. The movie stars Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas.
Anglican Church of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada is the member church of the Anglican Communion in Canada. In 2007, it had over 545,000 members in 1,676 parishes. It is the third largest church in Canada, after the Roman Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada.
English settlers brought the Church of England with them when they settled Canada in the 1500s. Until the 1830s, the Canadian church was completely under the control of the Church of England: the Church of England appointed all Canadian bishops and all funding for the Canadian church came from the British parliament.
Funky Divas is a new jack swing-R&B studio album from 1992 by American group En Vogue. The album had the songs "Free Your Mind", "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" and "Giving Him Something He Can Feel". It sold five million records worldwide.
This album was released on March 24, 1992.
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha
The Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is a stadium in Brasília, Brazil. It was one of the main stadiums used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Jini Dellaccio
Jini Dellaccio (née Duckworth; January 31, 1917 – July 3, 2014) is an American photographer. He is best known for her images of rock and pop acts of the 1960s. Her photographs of the Sonics, the Wailers, Merrilee Rush, the Daily Flash and many others were used for album covers, posters, and publicity stills.
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio (July 26, 1930 – July 8, 2014) was a Brazilian intellectual and political activist. He was with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He ran as a candidate for the presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2010.
Sampaio was born in São Paulo, Brazil.
He graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Law in 1954. He was president of the Catholic University Youth and was an active member of Popular Action.
He has been a prosecutor, deputy in the 1988 Constituent Assembly and chaired the Brazilian Association for Land Reform (ABRA), an institution that fights for land reform in Brazil. He also directed the weekly newspaper Correio da Cidadania.
Sampaio died in a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil from bone cancer. He had cancer for about a month. He was 83 years old.
Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a condition where a person cannot recognize faces, "even their own". At first it was thought to be a condition caused by acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia). It may be caused by a head injury to the temporal lobe of the brain.
However, a congenital (inherited birth defect) or developmental form of the disorder does exist, with a prevalence rate of 2.5%. That is quite a high rate. What this defect shows is that our picture of the world is built up by various brain systems, and we do not notice how this is done. It seems seamless and automatic. Actually, there are many brain mechanisms which normally work together, tying the visual scene to memory so that we recall vital information. It is difficult to think of anything more vital than remembering who we know, and what their relationship is to us.
"People with prosopagnosia never develop the ability to recognize faces". They may be able to rely on other physical features, such as the way someone walks and talks, their hair color, their height and build, etc. Prosopagnosia is not curable or treatable.
The opposite of prosopagnosia is the skill of superior face recognition ability. People with this ability are called "super recognizers".
Prosopagnosia can be caused by lesions (damage or changes to body tissue) in the lower part of the brain. It can also be caused by damaging the nerves in the lower part of the brain, called 'acquired prosopagnosia'. It can be caused by birth defects, carbon monoxide poisoning, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), Parkinson's disease, or Alzheimer's disease.
Doctors can check patients for prosopagnosia by using PET and fMRI scans to see if their brain reacts when they see faces.
An analysis of family inheritance (pedigree trees) suggest that a dominant gene mutation may be the root cause of the condition when it is present from birth. This mode of inheritance explains why HPA is so common among certain families.
An account of a woman who cannot recognise her own face is an example of prosopagnosia. Its special interest is that she can recognise all inanimate objects, and all animals except humans and chimpanzees!
Tokyo Decadence
Tokyo Decadence is a Japanese erotic 1991 pink movie. The movie is about four sex sequences.
A timid Japanese college student works as a specialty prostitute. She does this for an exclusive escort agency that caters to wealthy Japanese men in Tokyo. To please her clients, she plays out elaborate fantasy scenarios with sadomasochism and bondage.
This movie has been banned or refused classification in South Korea and Australia. It is rated NC-17 for sadomasochistic sex content.
Jaws: The Revenge (Jaws 4 or Jaws 4: The Revenge) is a 1987 horror movie. The movie was directed by Joseph Sargent. It is the third and final sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws. "Jaws: The Revenge" was shot on location in New England and in the Bahamas, and completed on the Universal lot. Like the first two films, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the opening scenes. Although preceded by Jaws 3-D, The Revenge ignores plot elements introduced in that film. "Jaws: The Revenge" earned the least amount of money in the series. It was considered a bad film by critics. It received 0% rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards. This included a worst actor award for "Bruce the shark".
Pink movie
The term pink movie (or pink film) refers to Japanese movies having sexual or adult content. This term means anything from drama movies to violent movies. The so-called "pink movies" are part of ongoing cycles of movies rather than an actual genre.
The pink movie first began around World War II.
Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; 1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist. He was known for creating the priest Don Camillo and the production of its movies.
Peter Riegert
L.I.E. is a 2001 American drama movie. The movie is about a relationship between a 15-year old boy and a pedophile. The title is an acronym for "Long Island Expressway".
"L.I.E." received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. The rating was surrendered, meaning that the filmmakers preferred to release the movie without a rating instead of releasing it with the NC-17 rating. Later, an edited R-rated version was also released.
This movie was released on January 20, 2001.
Ballistic trauma
Megacheira
Megacheira ("great hands") is an extinct class of predatory arthropods. They had a pair of short enlarged appendages at the front. They look like early chelicerates.
Most of them lived in marine environments round the world from the lower to middle Cambrian. It looks like they were quite common then. However, one perfectly preserved specimen of "Enalikter" was found in the Silurian of Herefordshire (England). Another species ("Bundenbachiellus") was found in the early Devonian of Germany.
Kenta Kobayashi
He is best known for his 14-year tenure with Pro Wrestling Noah. During his time in Pro Wrestling Noah, Kobayashi is a former one-time GHC Heavyweight Champion, three-time GHC Junior Heavyweight and one-time GHC Tag Team Champion. He also won the 2012 Global League and the 2013 Global Tag League tournaments. He was also one half of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions twice; his first reign was the inaugural reign with his longtime tag partner and rival, Naomichi Marufuji, which saw the two hold the title for almost two years. His second reign was with his protégé, Taiji Ishimori. He first wrestled under his real name, but because of potential confusion with his mentor, Kenta Kobashi (in both English and Japanese), he decided to drop his surname and only use his given name. He also spells his ring name with Roman letters in all capitals.
On January 27, 2014, he did a tryout at WWE's Performance Center in Orlando, Florida with Noah's blessing. In a press release, he said that he was not looking for a WWE contract but he only wanted to fulfill a dream that he had to take part in a WWE workout. On June 27, 2014, it was reported by Tokyo Sports that Kenta had signed with the WWE. During WWE's July 12, 2014 event in Osaka, they announced that they had signed Kenta during an in-ring segment with Hulk Hogan. Kenta will go to Orlando, Florida to continue training at the Performance Center and also work for WWE's developmental territory "NXT".
He debuted at "NXT Takeover: Fatal 4-Way" on September 11, 2014. He was introduced by William Regal. During his debut, he announced that his new ring name would be Hideo Itami, meaning "Hero of Pain". He would then fend off The Ascension after they interrupted the segment to confront Regal.
Itami would make his in-ring debut on the September 18 episode of "NXT", defeating Justin Gabriel. After his match, he was attacked by The Ascension. He would continue to engage The Ascension in brawls but he would end up on the losing side due to the numbers advantage. On the November 6 episode, Itami revealed his tag partner as the debuting Finn Bálor.
Sonoma County Transit
"Sonoma County Transit" is a public transportation system based in Sonoma County, California.
As the primary bus system with the county, the system operates lines to Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Cotati, Rohnert Park, Healdsburg, and Guerneville. It also runs one inter-county route to San Rafael in Marin County.
Sonoma County Transit is the primary bus system in the county. It operates to the following communities (listed by zones from south to north):
Sonoma Coast and Russian River:
Central Sonoma County (Highway 101 corridor):
Sonoma Valley:
SCT also operates an inter-county route to San Rafael in Marin County. This route makes connections to Golden Gate Transit and Marin Transit services to San Francisco and the East Bay. It also connects within Marin County, as well as a route serving Sonoma County Airport north of Santa Rosa.
La Tour d'Auvergne
The House of La Tour d'Auvergne was a French noble family. They had great power and wealth during the 17th and 18th century in France. The family claimed to rule the Duchy of Bouillon from the year of 1456. The duchy was later ceded to France on 26 October 1795. The family had apartments at the Palace of Versailles and a grand townhouse in Paris (now destroyed). The family were notoriously arrogant. They schemed to marry their children well. They tried to gain favour with the royal family of the time. The duchy came into the family through the marriage of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne to Charlotte de La Marck who was a duchess in her own right. The family also claimed to be the sovereign rulers of the Principality of Sedan. The family used several lesser titles such as titles of Duke of Albret and Duke of Château-Thierry from 1651. They held the rank of "Foreign Princes" at Versailles. As such, they were entitled to use the style of ""Highness"".
The dukes were usually addressed by the style of "Serene Highness".
Jacques Léopold was the last Duke of Bouillon, and following the Napoleonic Wars the duchy was absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
County Leitrim
County Leitrim () is a county of Ireland. It is in the province of Connacht. It is named after the village of Leitrim. The population of County Leitrim was 31,798 according to the 2011 Irish Census.
County Roscommon
County Carlow
Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – c. 2010) was a Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) officer. Brunner is wanted for war crimes, and was Adolf Eichmann's assistant. Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man". Brunner is wanted for sending at least 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers.
He was commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, from which nearly 24,000 people were deported. He was sentenced to death "in absentia" in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity. In 1961 and in 1980, Brunner lost an eye and the fingers of his left hand, as a result of letter bombs sent to him by the Israeli intelligence service, called Mossad.
In 2003, the Guardian described him as "the world's highest-ranking Nazi fugitive believed still alive". Brunner was last reported to be living in Syria, whose government had long refused international efforts to locate or apprehend him. There were rumours that he would be extradited, however, after the Syrian Civil War broke out it became hard to negotiate any kind of settlement with the Assad regime, which controlled Syria during Brunner's stay. Other sources suggest he died already in December 2001. He was sentenced again, now to life imprisonment, in France the same year. It has been determined that Brunner helped the Syrian government develop chemical weapons which were later allegedly used on rebels.
Trenton, Illinois
Trenton is a city in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,184 at the 2010 census.
Sveio
Sveio is a municipality in Hordaland County, west coast of Norway. Sveio is known for history of the musican composer Fartein Valen and known for the musical band Enslaved.
Windows 8.1 is a version of Windows and the second and last version of Windows 8.x. It was released on October 17, 2013, the same date as Windows Server 2012 R2. It is part of Windows NT 6.x, Windows 8.x, and one of the Windows 201x versions. It is the successor to Windows 8, and the predecessor to Windows 10. It is also a free update of the operating systems Windows 7 (under certain conditions) and Windows 8.
The important new features are:
Postcards from the Edge (movie)
Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama movie. It is based on a novel of the same name by Carrie Fisher. Fisher also wrote the screenplay. The movie is about a recovering addict trying to restart her acting career. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne. Annette Bening plays Evelyn Ames. Shirley MacLaine plays Doris.
This movie was released on September 14, 1990. It got positive reviews. Its box office was also positive.
Vekoma
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing is a Netherlands-based manufacturer that builds amusement park rides.
Vekoma was started in 1926 by a blacksmith named Hendrik op het Veld. The name Velkoma is short for "Veld Koning Machinefabriek", or Veld Koning machine factory. At first they made machines for farming and mining. Later they started to build rides for theme parks. They built rides such as Ferris wheels, roller coasters, water rides, and family-friendly rides.
Green Forest, Arkansas
Green Forest is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,761 at the 2010 census.
Raymond, Illinois
Raymond is a small town in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,006 at the 2010 census.
As Blood Runs Black
As Blood Runs Black is an American deathcore band formed in 2003. "Instinct" reached number 111 on the Billboard 200 for the week of April 2, 2011.
The band broke up in 2014.
Rosemary Murphy
Rosemary Murphy (January 13, 1925 – July 5, 2014) was an American actress of stage, movie, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in "Eleanor and Franklin" (1976). She was known for her role in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962).
Murphy died on July 5, 2014, in Manhattan from esophageal cancer, aged 89.
Bakir Izetbegović
Bakir Izetbegović (born 28 June 1956) is a Bosnian politician. Izetbegović is a member of the Party of Democratic Action and son of the late Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegović. In 1981 he graduated from the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Architecture. In 2010, he was elected to be the Bosniak member of the 3-person Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Bar-Kays
The Bar-Kays is an American funk-R&B-soul band. They started in 1966 in Memphis, Tennessee. Many of their songs were on record charts from the 1960s to the 1980s. The songs included "Anticipation", "Son of Shaft" and "Boogie Body Land".
The list of group members has changed several times.
Middletown, Rhode Island
Middletown is a town in southeastern Rhode Island. At the 2010 US Census, 16,150 people lived there.
Middletown was incorporated in 1743.
Pink Panther (statue)
The Public Fountain (, ) is a statue in South Valencia, Spain. It is between Avda. Ausiàs March and Avda. Peris i Valero. The statue is known by its citizens as "Pantera Rosa" ("Pink Panther") because of its colour and figure,
The statue was raised up in 1984 by the architect Miquel Navarro. It was in commemoration of Turia and Júcar waterway.
Duchy of Bouillon
The Duchy of Bouillon () (), a small state located between Luxembourg, Champagne, and the Three Bishoprics and centered on Bouillon. The duchy was claimed by the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. It was officially a State of the Holy Roman Empire. Even though it was a fairly small "state" its capital was the city of Bouillon, now in modern Belgium. The La Tour d'Auvergne family claimed to rule the state from 1456? – 1794 as during the French Revolution it officially changed its legal status to the "". The heir to the ducal throne was traditionally titled the Prince of Turenne.
Intamin
Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. They are known for building thrill rides and roller coasters. The Intamin name stands for: INTernational AMusement INstallations. They distribute about 5-7 roller coasters from their workshops every year.
The first roller coaster they built was The Jr. Gemini at Cedar Point in 1979. After that, they installed a total of 70 roller coasters around the world.
John Seigenthaler
John Lawrence Seigenthaler (; July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as an avid supporter of First Amendment rights.
Seigenthaler joined the Nashville newspaper "The Tennessean" in 1949. He resigned in 1960 to be Robert F. Kennedy's administrative assistant. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assasinations of both John F. Kennedy, and his brother, Robert. Nothing was ever proven. He rejoined "The Tennessean" as editor in 1962. He became publisher in 1973. He became chairman in 1982. He retired as chairman emeritus in 1991. Seigenthaler was also founding editorial director of "USA Today" from 1982 to 1991.
In April 2014, the Shelby Street Bridge was renamed the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in his honor. While reporting for "The Tennessean" in the 1950s, Seigenthaler once prevented a suicidal man from jumping off the bridge.
Seigenthaler died of complications from colon cancer on July 11, 2014, at the age of 86. He was surrounded by his family in his home.
Charlie Haden
Charles Edward "Charlie" Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player. He was known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, pianist Keith Jarrett, and his Liberation Music Orchestra, a group he co-led with pianist Carla Bley.
Haden died in Los Angeles on July 11, 2014 after complications from polio, aged 76.
RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action crime movie. It is directed by Paul Verhoeven. The movie stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. It is set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future where the police force is run by Security Concepts, a corporation. "RoboCop" centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is brutally attacked and fatally wounded by a gang of criminals. He is then made into a cyborg law enforcer known as "RoboCop". The movie had two sequels, "RoboCop 2" (1990) and "RoboCop 3" (1993). A remake of this movie was released in February 2014.
Xcelerator
Xcelerator is a steel launched roller coaster that was built by Intamin, and is located at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California.
After the riders have been loaded onto the train at the station, the train is first hooked up to a catch car that is under the train. The train has to move back to hook onto the catch car in order to launch. After 2.3 seconds, the train is released from the catch car, and travels at a speed of from the station. The train then travels over a tower, or top hat element, and after that it travels through a 110 ft over banked turn, and then a 95 ft over banked turn before coming to a smooth stop over magnetic brakes.
Sometimes, a train does not have enough speed to make it over the top hat element. If that happens, a train tries to go up the tower, stop, then roll back to the station. This is called a shortshot, and it is part of the ride's design. A shortshot can cause the ride to be closed for a period of time while the ride is reset and tested several times before it can be opened again. Rain, weight, the number of time its launched, the outside temperature, and overheating can cause a shortshot.
Xcelerator will not operate in the rain so that a shortshot does not happen when the launch track is wet. Then the track needs to dry until it is safe to test the roller coaster. This happens so that a shortshot does not happen.
Elena Undone is a 2010 lesbian romantic drama movie. The title character is the wife of a pastor. She has strong feelings for another woman. She later divorces the pastor and falls in love with a woman named Peyton.
This movie got mixed reviews. It is rated 58% by Rotten Tomatoes.
Programmed learning
Programmed learning (or 'programmed instruction') is a research-based system which helps learners work successfully. The method is guided by research done by a variety of applied psychologists and educators.
The learning material is in a kind of textbook or teaching machine or computer. The medium presents the material in a logical and tested sequence. The text is in small steps or larger chunks. After each step, learners are given a question to test their comprehension. Then immediately the correct answer is shown. This means the learner at all stages makes responses, and is given immediate knowledge of results.
It is rather interesting that Edward L. Thorndike wrote in 1912:
"If, by a miracle of mechanical ingenuity, a book could be so arranged that only to him who had done what was directed on page one would page two become visible, and so on, much that now requires personal instruction could be managed by print".
Thorndike, however, did nothing with his idea. The first such system was devised by Sidney L. Pressey in 1926. "The first.. [teaching machine] was developed by Sidney L. Pressey... While originally developed as a self-scoring machine... [it] demonstrated its ability to actually teach".
In World War II, with largely conscript armies, there was great emphasis on training. What was learnt influenced education and training after the war. One of the main methods was the use of movies as a group training method. Research on the effectiveness of training films was done extensively. In one account, Lumsdaine comments that research on films went on "from about 1918 to the present" (meaning 1962).
A few conclusions stood out from the research. One was that films were great at giving overviews of a situation or an operation. However, they were less successful at getting over the details. Some general features of film (and, later, television) stand out. One is that a film goes at its own pace. Another is that no specific responses or activities are required from the viewer. A third is that the audience is varied, sometimes hugely varied. This gives clues to ways of improving instructional films.
In a 1946 experiment at Yale University, questions for students were put between segments of a film on the heart and circulation, with correct answers given after students had responded (knowledge of results). This added significantly to the amount learnt from the film. Lumsdaine commented that even showing the basic film twice was not so effective as showing the version with questions and answers.
The connections between this experiment and those of Pressey were obvious. Active responses by learners and helpful feedback on the activities were now seen as critical elements in any successful system of learning. Pressey's work had been half forgotten, but it was now recognised as significant.
If so much research had already been done on learning from films, what exactly did programmed learning add? The short answer is "stimulus control", by which is broadly meant the teaching material itself. Also, in programmed learning, a complete system was proposed which included these stages:
A helpful discussion of the different programming techniques was given by Klaus.
Although there were three or four other systems proposed, we discuss here the two best-known methods.
One was by Norman Crowder, a psychologist with the U.S. Air Force. He had been asked to investigate the training of aircraft maintenance men. Crowder's system was to set multiple choice questions in the text, and provide feedback for each of the alternatives. Examples of this method show that the alternatives offered in questions were chosen to cover mistakes which students were likely to make.
Much better known was the other style of programmed learning, as proposed by the behaviourist B.F. Skinner. Skinner made some very effective criticisms of traditional teaching methods. His scheme of programmed instruction was to present the material as part of a "schedule of reinforcement" in typical behaviourist manner. The programmed text of Skinner's theory of behaviorism is the most complete example of his ideas in action. Skinner was a wonderful publicist for his own ideas, as can be seen from this passage:
Both methods were originally presented in machines, and both were later presented in book form. Both systems were to an extent student centered. They were ways of teaching individual learners who worked at their own pace. Both systems (in different ways) used knowledge of results to promote learning. In both systems the content was pre-tested to identify problems and iron them out. Both systems emphasised clear learning objectives. Progress in learning was measured by pre- and post-tests of equivalent difficulty. Many practical tests showed the effectiveness of these methods.
Many of these ideas were picked up and used in other educational fields, such as open learning (see the Open University) and computer-assisted learning.
Sidney L. Pressey
Sidney L. Pressey (Brooklyn, New York, 1888 1979) was Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University for many years. He is famous for having invented a teaching machine many years before the idea became popular.
Pressey joined Ohio State in 1921, and stayed there until he retired in 1959. He continued publishing after retirement, with 18 papers between 1959 and 1967. He was a cognitive psychologist who "rejected a view of learning as an accumulation of responses governed by environmental stimuli in favor of one governed by meaning, intention, and purpose". In fact, he had been a cognitive psychologist his entire life, well before the "mythical birthday of the cognitive revolution in psychology".
Pressey was the first winner of the E.L. Thorndike Award for achievements in educational technology, in 1964. This is an award of the American Psychological Association.
In 1923, Pressey and a co-worker published the first reading ease formula. They had been concerned that science textbooks in junior high school had so many technical words. They felt that teachers spent all class time explaining their meaning. They argued that their formula would help to measure and reduce the “vocabulary burden” of textbooks. Their formula, based on the Thorndike word list, took three hours to apply to a single book. It was a measure of vocabulary difficulty. Many later formulae made use of some measure of sentence complexity as well as vocabulary. These are the two main causes of text difficulty or 'readability'.
Pressey's idea started as a machine for administering multiple-choice questions to students. These were (and are still) a basic method for testing students in the U.S.A.. The machine had a window with a question and four answers. The student pressed the key to the chosen answer. The machine recorded the answer on a counter to the back of the machine, and showed the next question.
The great idea was to fix the machine so that it would not move on until the student chose the right answer. Then it was easy to show that the second arrangement taught the students what were the right answers. This was the first demonstration that a machine could teach, and also a demonstration that knowledge of results was the cause of the learning.
A number of reviews credit Pressey with being the founder of programmed learning and teaching machines, long before the better known efforts of B.F. Skinner. Skinner was, however, responsible for bringing the whole subject into popular view, and his critique of the limitations of traditional classroom teaching is a classic work.
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