title: Montel Williams

text: On November 10, 2010, Oprah Winfrey invited Williams, along with former talk show hosts Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake, and Sally Jessy Raphael as guests on her show. This was the first time that the fellow talkers had appeared together since their programs left the air.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams work has been criticized by the Independent Investigations Group, which declared "The Montel Williams Show" to be noteworthy "Truly Terrible Television" with its satirical TTTV award (for similar reasons, awarded to "every episode featuring Sylvia Browne").


title: Montel Williams

text: Controversial self-declared psychic Sylvia Browne featured frequently on "The Montel Williams Show" from 1991 until its finale in 2008. Williams described Browne as "the most-appearing guest on a talk show in the history of television" and "the longest-running guest in daytime television", and her appearances included particularly controversial incidents relating to kidnap victims Shawn Hornbeck and Amanda Berry. Williams was criticized for allowing his high-profile show to serve as a channel for Browne, notably by fellow retired military officer Hal Bidlack, with Bidlack publicly asking, "Commander Williams, have you lost your honor?" In February 2019, an episode of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" featured a segment on television psychics and Williams' association with Browne was criticized.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams has also guest-starred in episodic television and off-Broadway plays. Among other roles, he portrayed a Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Curtis Rivers, in three episodes of the television series "JAG". He also produced and starred in a short-lived television series called "Matt Waters", which appeared on CBS in 1996. He played an ex-Navy SEAL turned inner-city high school teacher. In 1997 he played Lt Col Northrop, a USAF nuclear missile silo commander, in the fictional movie "The Peacekeeper". In 2002, he played the judge presiding over Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) murder trial on the ABC soap opera "All My Children". In 2003 he made a guest appearance on the soap as himself to promote an episode of his own show on which several "AMC" stars were scheduled to appear. In 2004 he hosted "American Candidate", a political reality show on Showtime. Williams has also guest-starred on "The New Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Guiding Light".


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams also appeared in a Perry Mason movie in 1993 titled "The Case Of The Telltale Talk Show Host". His character, Boomer Kelly, was a former football player who was appearing on a radio talk show whose owner was found murdered. He was also a voice actor in 2008 in the political satire film "War, Inc.", providing the voice of the main character's GPS tracking device/counselor.


title: Montel Williams

text: On October 1, 2019, Williams appeared in an episode of the Fox drama "The Resident" entitled, "Flesh of My Flesh". Williams played himself, as a TV personality covering a nearly impossible cancer surgery being performed on an adoptive mother of seven.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams produced and narrated the Starline Films documentary film "4CHOSEN: The Documentary", which tells the story about the New Jersey Turnpike shooting in 1998, and the racial profiling case that followed the incident. In 1999, Williams directed the film, "Little Pieces", starring Grace Morley and Amy Acton.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams was a national spokesman of the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA), a patient assistance program clearinghouse that helps low-income patients apply for free or reduced-price prescription drugs. On November 30, 2007, while in Savannah, Georgia, to promote PPA, he threatened reporters following an earlier interview at which Courtney Scott, a 17-year-old high school intern reporter for the Savannah Morning News, had asked him whether restriction of pharmaceutical profits would discourage research and development of new drugs. Angered by the question, Williams subsequently terminated that videotaped interview; Williams later ran into Scott in his hotel and threatened to "blow [her] up".


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams's public relations representatives later apologized for his hostile outburst in an issued statement: "I mistakenly thought the reporter and photographer in question were at the hotel to confront me about some earlier comments. I was wrong, and I apologize for my overreaction". In 2010 Williams became chief spokesman for the Poker Training Network, now Card Geniuses, a MLM-based poker instruction and playing website.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams was a paid spokesperson for MoneyMutual, a lead generator for a payday lending service. In early 2015, a controversy around this position erupted when an education activist, André-Tascha Lammé, accused Williams on Twitter of supporting a company that harms African-American consumers. Williams denied the allegations, stating that Lammé was fundamentally incorrect in his assessment of the loans and their terms. The New York State Department of Financial Services then investigated the claims and Benjamin Lawsky issued a statement on March 10 that it "made no finding of a violation of law by Mr. Williams". He added that the department had found that "Using Mr. Williams's reputation as a trusted celebrity endorser, MoneyMutual marketed loans to struggling consumers with sky-high interest rates - sometimes in excess of 1,300 percent". SellingSource, the parent company, was fined $2.1 million and ordered to stop advertising to New Yorkers.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams is an outspoken advocate for US military veterans. He has publicly lobbied for government action to promptly resolve the Veterans Affairs scandal.


title: Montel Williams

text: On April 6, 2009, Williams began hosting a daily radio show, "Montel Across America", on Air America Media. On January 21, 2010, Air America ceased broadcasting, leaving Williams without a radio outlet.


title: Montel Williams

text: As of May 2009, he started hosting an infomercial for the Living Well Healthmaster, a blender product. It is presented under the title "Living Well with Montel"; the infomercial is structured similarly to his old talk show, featuring guests talking about their health problems, with the Healthmaster mixer being the solution. Later episodes of "Living Well with Montel" advertised a home pressure cooker and an identity theft protection service. In June 2010, Williams began doing infomercials for LifeLock, a security fraud company.


title: Montel Williams

text: On October 1, 2014, Williams spoke in front of a Congressional committee in support of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who was arrested in Tijuana, Baja California, for carrying guns across the U.S.-Mexican border.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams was once a Republican, leaving the political party in 1993 and registering as an independent. He is a supporter of LGBT rights. He endorsed Hillary Clinton for president as the superior choice, writing that Donald Trump posed a "clear and present danger" to the nation.


title: Montel Williams

text: On September 2, 2021, Williams was appointed as a Director on the Board of Better For You Wellness, Inc.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams has marketed Cannabidiol (also known as CBD oil) products. Montel stated to Forbes "that he spent years working to develop medicinal-quality CBD to treat his own multiple sclerosis".


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams has two daughters, Ashley Williams (b. 1984) and Maressa Williams (b. 1988), with his first wife, Rochele See. Williams married Grace Morley, an exotic dancer on June 6, 1992. They have a son, Montel Brian Hank Williams (b. 1993), and a daughter, Wyntergrace Williams (b. 1994). The couple divorced in 2000.


title: Montel Williams

text: In 2001, Williams briefly dated Kamala Harris, who later went on to become Vice President of the United States after winning the 2020 election. Addressing the relationship, Williams tweeted in 2020, "Kamala Harris and I briefly dated about 20 years ago when we were both single. So what? I have great respect for Sen. Harris".


title: Montel Williams

text: In July 2006, Williams proposed to girlfriend Tara Fowler, an American Airlines flight attendant. They married before friends and family on a beach in Bermuda on October 6, 2007.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams participated in the 2007 World Series of Poker main event, and planned to donate any potential winnings to American families affected by the Iraq War. He was eliminated in Day 2. During the event Williams also spoke out about the port security bill signed in 2006 that banned online gaming sites from accepting money transactions from the U.S.


title: Montel Williams

text: Four months after making a guest appearance in an episode of "Touched by an Angel", Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. In the following year, Williams created the MS Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a focus on research and education. Williams has openly stated that he uses medical cannabis, stating it helps to ease his multiple sclerosis-caused neuropathic pain. Williams has become a vocal advocate of cannabis, supporting efforts to pass medical cannabis laws in the United States, as well as calling for full legalization. He has also said that snowboarding is his "best therapy" for multiple sclerosis, commenting that "When I stand up I need first to hold on to something and think about the positioning of my legs. If I were to just start walking I would fall. I have to get my brain to find my legs and then I will usually take a test step, but I say something at the time to anyone who might be watching to distract from what I'm really doing. Then I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this. But when I'm snowboarding and my feet are strapped in, my brain seems to have a direct connection to my legs. After snowboarding it's night and day for my balance and walking. There's a real physical change before I get up the mountain and when I come down. The benefits last for days.


title: Montel Williams

text: Williams was hospitalized on May 30, 2018, when he had a cerebellar hemorrhagic stroke while working out at a gym.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series, a spin-off/sequel of the 1984 comedy film "Ghostbusters". The series ran from September 13, 1986, to October 5, 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and DIC Enterprises, and distributed by Coca-Cola Telecommunications.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: The series continues the adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: There also were two ongoing "Real Ghostbusters" comics, one published monthly by NOW Comics in the United States and the other published weekly (originally biweekly) by Marvel Comics in the United Kingdom. Kenner produced a line of action figures and playsets based on the cartoon.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: The series follows the continuing adventures of the four Ghostbusters, their secretary Janine, their accountant Louis, and their mascot Slimer, as they chase and capture rogue spooks, specters, spirits and ghosts around New York City and various other areas of the world.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: At the start of the fourth season in 1988, the show was retitled to "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters". It aired in a one-hour time slot, which the show had begun doing under its original name earlier that same year on January 30, 1988. In addition to the regular 30-minute "Real Ghostbusters" episode, a half-hour "Slimer!" sub-series was added that included two to three short animated segments focusing on the character Slimer. Animation for the "Slimer!" cartoons was handled by Wang Film Productions. At the end of its seven-season run, 147 episodes had aired, including the syndicated episodes and 13 episodes of "Slimer!", with multiple episodes airing out of production order.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: At the same time "The Real Ghostbusters" was being created, Filmation was making a cartoon revamp ("Ghostbusters") of their 1970s live action series "The Ghost Busters", due to disagreements with Columbia over animation rights.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: A short pilot episode was produced, but never aired in full. The full 4-minute promo was released on Time Life's DVD set in 2008. Scenes of the pilot can be seen in TV promos that aired prior to the beginning of the series. Among differences seen in the promo pilot, the Ghostbusters wore beige jumpsuits as in the film and the character design for Peter Venkman bore more of a resemblance to actor Bill Murray. The character designs by Jim McDermott were dramatically different, with color-coded jumpsuits for each character. When he auditioned for the voice of Egon Spengler, Maurice LaMarche noted that while he was asked not to impersonate Harold Ramis, he did so anyway and eventually got the part. LaMarche also noted that Bill Murray had remarked off-handedly to producers that Lorenzo Music's voice of Peter Venkman sounded more like Garfield (who was also voiced by Music at the time). Bill Murray went on to voice Garfield in "" and after Music died. A different explanation for the change of actor for Peter Venkman came from Dave Coulier, who took over the role of Venkman from Music, who explained that Joe Medjuck, a producer on both the original 1984 film and the animated series, wanted the character to sound more like Bill Murray. Ernie Hudson was the only actor from the films who auditioned to play his character in the series; however, the role was given to Arsenio Hall and later Buster Jones.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: Although the "Ghostbusters" concept was tinkered with, the finalized show does feature many tie-ins from the films. In the season 1 episode "Take Two", the Ghostbusters fly to Hollywood to visit the set of a movie based on their adventures, which is revealed to be the 1984 movie at the end of the episode. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man makes numerous appearances. During the third season, Walter Peck, the Environmental Protection Agency antagonist from the original film, reappears. The uniforms and containment unit are redesigned, and Slimer is changed from a bad ghost to a resident and friend, events which are explained in the episode "Citizen Ghost" that flashes back to what happened to the Ghostbusters right after the film's events. Gozer is mentioned repeatedly throughout the series, usually in comparison to a ghost they are currently battling (e.g. "Cthulhu makes Gozer look like Little Mary Sunshine").


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: In the third season, some of the character designs were modified. Ray's character design was slimmed down to give the character a less overweight appearance and Slimer was given a tail instead of the formerly rounded bottom (he reverted to a stub in Season 6). The biggest change was to the character of Janine, whose hair was completely changed from being short and spiky to long and straight. Her overall design was softened, as was her personality. Her voice was also softened with Kath Soucie taking over the voice role from Laura Summer. Most of these changes were the result of ABC hiring a consulting firm called Q5, in an attempt for guidance on improving the network's low ratings for their Saturday Morning lineup, a move strongly criticized by show writers J. Michael Straczynski and Michael Reaves. ABC also went back, and redubbed Peter's and Janine's dialogue in several episodes of the show with Dave Coulier and Kath Soucie, respectively. Changes to Janine's character were eventually addressed in the season 6 episode (#118) entitled, "Janine, You've Changed". Many of the changes brought on by Q5 were even criticized by Straczynski as being racist and sexist, such as having each Ghostbuster have a specific role (such as a body, Peter being the mouth, Ray the hands and Egon the brain) but making Winston (the only main African American character) the driver. Another example would be stating how the character of Janine needed to be "more nurturing", put her in more "dress-like outfits" and "making her less harsh and slutty".


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: At the start of the series' fourth season in 1988, the opening was completely redone to center around Slimer. Eventually the episodes were expanded from their original half-hour format to last an hour, and the overall feel of the show was changed to be more youthful, with episodes having a lighter tone to be less frightening.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: Recording for the show took place in Los Angeles, California. The cast always recorded together, instead of separately. After recording of the dialogue was completed, sound tapes, storyboards, backgrounds, and character designs were then shipped to DiC Founder; Jean Chalopin's Japanese studio; KK DiC (1986) / KK C&D (1987 onwards) and similar studios in Tokyo, Japan, such as TMS Entertainment and Toei Animation among others (South Korean studios during the final two seasons) for animation and filming.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: The show originally aired on ABC for its full run, except for the second season, which ran in syndication at the same time as the third season ran on ABC. Later, reruns of the show appeared on the USA Network's "USA Cartoon Express" from September 16, 1991 to September 11, 1994. Fox Family Channel also reran the series from August 17, 1998 to October 1, 1999. In August 2012, reruns began airing on Fearnet during the weekends, part of their "Funhouse" block, and on April 1, 2017, the show began to stream on Netflix, but was removed two years later. It aired on ITV in the U.K.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: To celebrate the upcoming release of "", both "The Real Ghostbusters" and "Extreme Ghostbusters" were released onto the official Ghostbusters YouTube channel.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: "The Real Ghostbusters" soundtrack was released in 1986 on CD, records, and cassette by PolyGram Records. All songs were performed by Tahiti (Tyren Perry & Tonya Townsend).


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: From 1986 to 1989, several episodes were released by Magic Window, the children's imprint of RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. The episodes on the cassettes were from the first season of syndication.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: In 2004 and again in 2006, Sony released bare bones episode compilations in the United Kingdom and United States, respectively. The DVD release of "Ghostbusters II" also included two episodes of the series as bonus features, "Citizen Ghost", a story focusing on events set immediately after the first movie, and "Partners in Slime" (this episode has the original broadcast version and the original end logos—DiC "kid in bed" and Columbia Pictures Television (1988) logos, respectively), which featured the psycho-active slime from "Ghostbusters II" and a brief mention of its villain Vigo the Carpathian.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: Time Life acquired the home video rights to the series in May 2008 and released a complete series on DVD in the Fall of 2008. That July they allowed fans the chance to vote between two variations of an outer box for the set—one designed to look like the main characters' firehouse headquarters and the other all black with different images on each side. Both featured lenticular printing, the firehouse version to show the Ecto-1 and the black version to have oozing "slime". Released on November 25, 2008, in the "firehouse" casing, the set spans 25 discs containing all 147 episodes of the series. They subsequently began releasing the individual volumes on March 31, 2009, but only the first three were released. Volumes 4 and 5 were not released due to poor sales. The Time Life releases have been discontinued and are now out of print.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: Sony began re-releasing the series on DVD in Region 1 in 2016. Volumes 1–5 (each containing 11 or 12 episodes) were released on July 5, while Volumes 6–10 (with 10 or 11 episodes each) were released on September 6. Unlike the previous Time Life edition, the Sony release is incomplete, missing 29 episodes that were inexplicably omitted, as well as the entire "Slimer!" sub-series. Additionally, title cards were removed from all episodes in the first five volumes (title and writer credits were superimposed over the animated opening). All 10 volumes, spanning 10 discs containing 111 episodes, were released in a slim plastic box set in October 2017 (comprising 80% of the series).


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: The complete first season was released on DVD in Australia on June 3, 2009, and in the U.K. on June 15.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: In 1997, a sequel cartoon entitled "Extreme Ghostbusters" was produced by Columbia TriStar Television and Adelaide Productions. It premiered on September 1, 1997, and ran for forty episodes until its conclusion on December 8. Set several years after the end of "The Real Ghostbusters", the series opened by saying the team has disbanded due to a lack of supernatural activity. Only Egon remains in the firehouse, along with Slimer, to care for the containment system while teaching classes at a local university. When supernatural events begin occurring in New York, Egon recruits four of his university students as a new team of Ghostbusters, and Janine, also one of Egon's students, returns to manage the office. The original Ghostbusters return for the two-episode season finale to celebrate Egon's 40th birthday, leading to them reluctantly working together with the younger generation to solve one last case.


title: The Real Ghostbusters

text: The series received critical acclaim since its premiere, the first season received an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on five reviews. Common Sense Media gave the series a three out of five stars: "Parents need to know that "The Real Ghostbusters" is an animated series spun off the mega-popular 1984 movie "Ghostbusters" (the "Real" was added to avoid confusion with an unrelated cartoon of the same name). The core characters remain the same, though the cartoon is skewed toward younger kids and as such, drops the swearing, the smoking, and the sexual innuendo. While the Ghostbusters do spend their days vanquishing evil, the monsters and phantoms they encounter are often quite silly (some of them even make wisecracks) and not too scary".


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: "Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by English rock band Oasis. It was written by the band's guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher. The song was produced by Gallagher and Owen Morris. Released on 19 February 1996 as the fifth single from their second studio album, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" (1995), it became Oasis's second single to reach #1 on the UK Singles Chart, earning a quadruple-platinum sales certification in the UK. It was the first Oasis single with lead vocals by Noel, who had previously only sung lead on B-sides, instead of his brother Liam. Noel would later sing lead vocals on six other singles.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: It is one of the band's signature songs, and was played at almost every live show from its release to the dissolution of the band in 2009. In 2012, it was ranked #1 on a list of the "50 Most Explosive Choruses" by "NME", and the same year it was voted the fourth-most-popular No. 1 single of the last 60 years in the UK by the public in conjunction with the Official Charts Company's 60th anniversary. In 2015, "Rolling Stone" readers voted it the second-greatest Britpop song after "Common People" by Pulp. On 29 May 2017, Absolute Radio 90s broadcast a programme counting down the top 50 songs written by Noel Gallagher to mark his 50th birthday, with the song being voted No. 1. In August 2020, the song was voted as the greatest song of the 1990s by listeners of Absolute Radio 90s as part of celebrations for the station's tenth anniversary.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: Noel Gallagher was so excited about the potential of the song when he first wrote it that he used an acoustic set to perform a work-in-progress version, without the second verse and with a few other slight lyrical differences, at an Oasis concert at the Sheffield Arena on 22 April 1995. He said before playing that he'd only written it the previous Tuesday (18 April 1995) and that he didn't even have a title for it yet.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: Noel Gallagher said of the song, "It reminds me of a cross between "All the Young Dudes" and something the Beatles might have done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song, he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fit, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there." He explained the song by saying, "It's about not being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been."


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: In August 2007, Gallagher told "Uncut" magazine, "We were in Paris playing with the Verve, and I had the chords for that song and started writing it. We were due to play two days later. Our first-ever big arena gig, it's called Sheffield Arena now. At the sound check, I was strumming away on the acoustic guitar, and rkid (Liam Gallagher) said, 'What's that you're singin'?' I wasn't singing anyway, I was just making it up. And our kid said, 'Are you singing, 'So Sally can wait'?' And I was like—that's genius! So I started singing, 'So Sally can wait.' I remember going back to the dressing room and writing it out. It all came really quickly after that." Gallagher claims that the character "Lyla", from Oasis's 2005 single, is Sally's sister. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of "Stop the Clocks", he also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl mentioned in the Stone Roses track "Sally Cinnamon". He replied that he had never thought of that, but thought it was a good reference anyway.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: In a 2019 "Esquire" magazine interview, Gallagher stated, "I remember writing it in Paris on a rainy night. We had just played a strip club: our set finished, the strippers came on. We were nothing, an insignificant little band. And I remember going back to my hotel room and writing it, and thinking, 'That'll be pretty good when we record it.' If I'd have known that night what I know now about people playing it at fucking funerals and weddings, I'd never have finished the song. Too much pressure."


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: Gallagher admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me [sic] bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.' I thought, 'Thank you, I'll take that!'" The line "revolution from me bed" refers to Lennon's notorious bed-ins in 1969 as Gallagher was reading "" published in 1994. The piano in the introduction of the song strongly resembles Lennon's "Imagine", as well as "Watching the Wheels".


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: As Oasis are often criticised for borrowing parts of other artists' songs, Gallagher commented on the intro's similarity to "Imagine":


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: Noel Gallagher encouraged the crowd to sing along and often kept quiet during the first chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he played the song's guitar part. During the Dig Out Your Soul Tour, Noel abandoned the song's previous, full-band live arrangement in favour of a much slower, primarily acoustic arrangement. From 2008 through to Oasis's break-up, the song was performed by Gallagher on his Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar backed up by Gem Archer on electric guitar, Jay Darlington playing keyboards and Chris Sharrock playing tambourine. On 11 and 12 July 2009, during performances of the song at London's Wembley Stadium, Gallagher did not sing a word; instead, he stood back, played guitar, and allowed the crowd to sing the entire song. Since 2011, he has alternated between the acoustic version and the original arrangement when playing the song with his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: Oasis became the first act since the Jam to perform two songs on the same showing of "Top of the Pops", performing "Don't Look Back in Anger", followed by their cover of Slade's "Cum on Feel the Noize", also on the single.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: In June 2017, Liam Gallagher performed an a cappella version of the song at Glastonbury, making it the first time he had performed the song rather than Noel.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: Following the Manchester Arena bombing on 22 May 2017 in the band's hometown of Manchester, the song was used by the people of Manchester in remembrance of the bombing's 22 victims and to show the city's spirit. The song was sung by students of Manchester's Chetham's music school on 23 May, and on 25 May it was spontaneously sung by the crowd gathered for a minute of silence in the city centre. The woman who started the singing told "The Guardian", "I love Manchester, and Oasis is part of my childhood. "Don't Look Back in Anger"—that's what this is about: we can't be looking backwards to what happened, we have to look forwards to the future." The song re-entered the charts, along with Ariana Grande's "One Last Time," which was No. 1 on the iTunes single charts as of 26 May. On 27 May, the song was performed as a tribute by 50,000 audience members of a performance by the Courteeners in Manchester.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: It was performed by Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland on either side of Ariana Grande at the One Love Manchester concert on 4 June 2017. Martin introduced the song by saying "Ariana, you've been singing a lot for us, so I think we in Britain want to sing for you. This is called "Don't Look Back in Anger", and this is from us to you".


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: It was also performed by the military band of the French Republican Guard on 13 June 2017, at the France versus England football match at the Stade de France, as a tribute to the victims of the attacks in Manchester and, more recently, London.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: The single's picture sleeve contains a photo by Brian Cannon. He intended the cover as a homage to an incident where Ringo Starr, having briefly left the Beatles in 1968 during the recording of the "White Album", was persuaded to return and George Harrison decorated Starr's drum kit in red, white and blue flowers to show their appreciation.<ref name="NME/Oasis"></ref>


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: The B-side "Step Out" was originally intended for the "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" album but was taken off after Stevie Wonder requested 10 per cent of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his song "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Because of this, Wonder, Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy received credit for writing the song, along with Noel.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: The song's chart success coincided with its usage at the end of the final episode of the BBC television drama "Our Friends in the North". The show's producers had included the track without knowing it was going to be released as a single.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: "Don't Look Back in Anger" was met with high critical praise and it became a commercial hit. Larry Flick from "Billboard" said, "Noel Gallagher reveals a deft sense of timing and craft that turn his improprieties into masterful pop gems." "Music Week" rated the song five out of five, picking it as Single of the Week. They wrote, "Cheekily opening with John Lennon's Imagine riff, another Beatles-inspired single which will turn on the fans on Brits day. The inclusion of the ill-advised Slade cover of Cum On Feel The Noize is a low point, however."


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: In a 2006 readers' poll conducted by "Q" magazine, "Don't Look Back in Anger" was voted the 20th-best song of all time. In May 2007, "NME" magazine placed "Don't Look Back in Anger" at No. 14 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever".


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: The song reached No. 1 in the singles charts of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and it was a moderate success by reaching the top 60 in various countries. The song was the 10th-biggest-selling single of 1996 in the UK. It is Oasis's second-biggest-selling single in the UK (after "Wonderwall"), going quadruple platinum in the process. The song returned to the UK charts in 2017 following Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland's cover version at the One Love Manchester concert, reaching No. 25. "Don't Look Back in Anger" is Oasis's sixth-biggest "Billboard" hit in the US, reaching the No. 10 spot on the Modern Rock Tracks for the week of 22 June 1996.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: The video for the song was directed by Nigel Dick and features Patrick Macnee, the actor who played John Steed in the 1960s television series "The Avengers", apparently a favourite of Oasis. It was filmed at 1145 Arden Road in Pasadena, California on 4 December 1995. It features the band being driven by Macnee in a black cab to a mansion similar to the Playboy Mansion and performing the song there; a group of women dressed in white also occasionally lip sync to the lyrics. While filming the video, drummer Alan White met future wife Liz Atkins. They married on 13 August 1997 at Studley Priory in Oxfordshire, but later divorced.


title: Don't Look Back in Anger

text: There are two uploads of the music video. One being posted by the band themselves in 2008 with over 229 million views, and another posted in collaboration with Vevo in 2014 with over 120 million views.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: National Lampoon's European Vacation is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Robert Klane. The second film in National Lampoon's "Vacation" film series, it stars Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively, Victor Lanoux, and Eric Idle with special appearances by John Astin, Paul Bartel, Maureen Lipman, Willy Millowitsch, Mel Smith, and Moon Zappa. It tells the story of the Griswold family when they win an all-expense-paid trip to Europe as chaos of all sorts occur.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: The Griswold family competes in a game show called "Pig in a Poke" and wins an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe. In a whirlwind tour of Western Europe, chaos of all sorts ensues.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: They stay in a fleabag London hotel with a sloppy, tattooed Cockney desk clerk. While in their English rental car, a yellow Austin Maxi, Clark's tendency to drive on the wrong side of the road causes frequent accidents, including knocking over a bicyclist they have many run-ins with. Later, Clark drives the family around the busy Lambeth Bridge roundabout for hours, unable to maneuver his way out of the chaotic traffic. At Stonehenge, Clark accidentally backs the car into an ancient stone monolith, toppling all the stones like dominoes, which they do not even notice as they happily leave the scene.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: In Paris, the family wears stenciled berets, causing Rusty to be teased by young women at the Eiffel Tower observation deck. Clark offers to get rid of the beret for Rusty, but when he throws it away, another visitor's dachshund mistakes it for a Frisbee and jumps off the tower after it, landing safely in a nearby pond. The family's video camera is stolen by a passerby whom Clark had asked to take a picture of the family. Clark is also mocked by a French waiter for his terrible French, though he does not realize it. Later, Clark and Ellen visit a bawdy Paris can-can dance show, finding Rusty already there with a prostitute.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: Next in a West German village, the Griswolds burst in on a bewildered elderly couple, who they mistakenly think are relatives but the couple ends up providing them dinner and lodging anyway, each family not being able to understand the other's language. Clark turns a lively Bavarian folk dance stage performance into an all-out street brawl, after which, while fleeing, he hastily knocks down several street vendors' stands and gets their Citroën DS stuck in a narrow medieval archway.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: In Rome, the Griswolds rent a car at a travel office, but unknown to them, the men in charge are thieves, holding the real manager captive. The lead thief gives them a car with the manager in the trunk, claiming he lost the trunk keys. The next day, Ellen is shocked to discover that private, sexy videos of her from the family's stolen video camera have been used in a billboard advertising porn, leaving her completely humiliated. After screaming angrily at Clark (who had told her he had erased the video), Ellen storms off to their hotel where she encounters the thief who rented them the car. She confesses her recent troubles, still unaware that he is a criminal. The man then tries to get the car keys, which are in her purse, but fails. When the police arrive at the hotel, he kidnaps Ellen, prompting Clark to rescue her.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: On the flight home, Clark falls into the pilot's cockpit and accidentally causes the plane to knock the Statue of Liberty's torch upside down as Russell says "The Griswolds are back".


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: John Hughes received nominal credit for writing and story, due to the use of characters and ideas from the first "Vacation" film, but was not directly involved with "European Vacation". Hughes would later state that Warner Bros had begged him for a sequel to "Vacation" but he declined at the time. He would eventually agree to return to the franchise by adapting one of his other National Lampoon stories, "Christmas '59," into "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" in 1989.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: Producer Matty Simmons initially told Dana Barron she would be returning to the role of Audrey. But after Hall declined to reprise his role and was opting to star in "Weird Science", Heckerling requested both children be recast.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: Famous landmarks and sights appearing as the family tours England, France, West Germany, and Italy include:


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: Scenes supposedly taking place in West Germany were actually shot in a German-speaking part of Italy (Brixen).


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: The musical score for "National Lampoon's European Vacation" was composed by Charles Fox, who replaced Ralph Burns of the first film. Lindsey Buckingham's "Holiday Road" was once again featured as the film's theme song, with many other contemporary songs included throughout the film.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: "National Lampoon's European Vacation" opened July 26, 1985 in 1,546 North American theaters and grossed $12,329,627 its opening weekend, ranking number one at the box office. After its initial run, the film grossed a total of $49,364,621 domestically.


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives "National Lampoon's European Vacation" a score of 34% based on reviews from 29 critics, with an average of 4.82 out of 10. The critical consensus reads; ""European Vacation" charts a course through a succession of pretty destinations, but the journey itself lacks the laughs that made the original outing so memorable."


title: National Lampoon's European Vacation

text: Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" thought positively of the film stating, "While it's very much a retread, it succeeds in following up the first film's humor with more in a similar vein." She added, "The film's best visual humor arises from the mere juxtaposition of European settings with the funny hats, T-shirts and soda cans with which the Griswalds announce their presence." Entertainment magazine "Variety" gave the film a negative review explaining, "As the family of characters cartwheel through London, Paris, Italy and Germany - with the French deliciously taking it on the chin for their arrogance and rudeness - director Amy Heckerling gets carried away with physical humor while letting her American tourists grow tiresome and predictable. Structurally, the film unfolds like a series of travel brochures."


title: Chloe Lattanzi

text: Lattanzi was born on January 17, 1986, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of the late singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and actor Matt Lattanzi. Her parents divorced amicably in 1995. One of her maternal great-grandfathers was Nobel prize–winning physicist Max Born.


title: Chloe Lattanzi

text: Since turning 18, Lattanzi has undergone numerous plastic surgery procedures, reportedly to a value in excess of $500,000. In 2013, she was treated for alcohol and cocaine addiction. In 2017, she moved with her fiancé James Driskill to Oregon, where they bought a farm and started a marijuana business.


title: Chloe Lattanzi

text: Lattanzi is the writer of "Can I Trust Your Arms", which appeared on her mother's 2005 hallmark album "Stronger Than Before".


title: Chloe Lattanzi

text: In 2008, Lattanzi appeared on the reality show "Rock the Cradle", finishing in third place, following Jesse Blaze Snider and Crosby Loggins.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day and, despite his wounds, he returned to work on 9 August the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning, while he was being told by his supervisor that he was "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated. In 1957, he was recognized as a "hibakusha" ("explosion-affected person") of the Nagasaki bombing, but it was not until 24 March 2009, that the government of Japan officially recognized his presence in Hiroshima three days earlier. He died of stomach cancer on 4 January 2010, at the age of 93.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: Yamaguchi was born on 16 March 1916 in Nagasaki. He joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the 1930s and worked as a draftsman designing oil tankers.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: Yamaguchi said he "never thought Japan should start a war". He continued his work with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, but soon Japanese industry began to suffer heavily as resources became scarce and tankers were sunk. As the war dragged on, he was so despondent over the state of the country that he considered honor killing his family with an overdose of sleeping pills in the event that Japan lost.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: Yamaguchi lived and worked in Nagasaki, but in the summer of 1945 he was in Hiroshima for a three-month-long business trip. On 6 August, he was preparing to leave the city with two colleagues, Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, and was on his way to the train station when he realized he had forgotten his hanko (a type of identification stamp common in Japan) and returned to his workplace to get it. At 8:15 AM, he was walking towards the docks when the American B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb near the centre of the city, only away. Yamaguchi recalls seeing the bomber and two small parachutes, before there was "a great flash in the sky, and I was blown over". The explosion ruptured his eardrums, blinded him temporarily, and left him with serious radiation burns over the left side of the top half of his body. After recovering, he crawled to a shelter and, having rested, he set out to find his colleagues. They had also survived and together they spent the night in an air-raid shelter before returning to Nagasaki the following day. In Nagasaki, he received treatment for his wounds and, despite being heavily bandaged, he reported for work on 9 August.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: At 11:00 AM on 9 August 1945, Yamaguchi was describing the blast in Hiroshima to his supervisor, when the American bomber "Bockscar" dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb over the city. His workplace again put him 3 km from ground zero, but this time he was unhurt by the explosion. However, he was unable to replace his now ruined bandages and he suffered from a high fever and continuous vomiting for over a week.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: During the Allied occupation of Japan, Yamaguchi worked as a translator for the occupation forces. In the early 1950s, he and his wife, who was also a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, had two daughters. He later returned to work for Mitsubishi designing oil tankers. When the Japanese government officially recognized atomic bombing survivors as "hibakusha" in 1957, Yamaguchi's identification stated only that he had been present at Nagasaki. He was content with this, satisfied that he was relatively healthy, and put the experiences behind him.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: As he grew older, his opinions about the use of atomic weapons began to change. In his eighties, he wrote a book about his experiences ("Ikasareteiru inochi" ("A Life Well-Lived")), as well as a book of poetry, and was invited to take part in a 2006 documentary about 165 double A-bomb survivors (known as "nijū hibakusha" in Japan) called "Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", which was screened at the United Nations. At the screening, he pleaded for the abolition of atomic weapons.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: Yamaguchi became a vocal proponent of nuclear disarmament. He told an interviewer "The reason that I hate the atomic bomb is because of what it does to the dignity of human beings". Speaking through his daughter during a telephone interview, he said, "I can't understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs. How can they keep developing these weapons?"


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: On 22 December 2009, Canadian film director James Cameron and author Charles Pellegrino met Yamaguchi while he was in a hospital in Nagasaki and discussed the idea of making a film about nuclear weapons. "I think it's Cameron's and Pellegrino's destiny to make a film about nuclear weapons", Yamaguchi said.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: At first, Yamaguchi did not feel the need to draw attention to his double survivor status. However, in later life he began to consider his survival as destiny, so in January 2009, he applied for double recognition. This was accepted by the Japanese government in March 2009, making Yamaguchi the only person officially recognised as a survivor of both bombings. Speaking of the recognition, he said, "My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die".


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: Yamaguchi lost hearing in his left ear as a result of the Hiroshima explosion. He also went bald temporarily and his daughter recalls that he was constantly swathed in bandages until she reached the age of 12. Despite this, Yamaguchi went on to lead a healthy life. Late in his life he began to suffer from radiation-related ailments, including cataracts and acute leukemia.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: His wife also suffered radiation poisoning from black rain after the Nagasaki explosion and died in 2008 (age 88) of kidney and liver cancer. All three of their children reported suffering from health problems they blamed on their parents' exposures.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: In 2009, Yamaguchi learned that he was dying of stomach cancer. He died on 4 January 2010, in Nagasaki at the age of 93.


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: On 17 December 2010, the BBC featured Yamaguchi in its comedy programme "QI", referring to him as "The Unluckiest Man in the World". Both Stephen Fry, the host of "QI", and celebrity guests drew laughter from the audience in a segment that included examples of black humor such as asking if the bomb had "landed on him and bounced off". A clip from the episode was uploaded by the BBC after the show but was later deleted. A BBC spokesperson told Kyodo News, "We instructed our crew to delete the file since we have already issued a statement that the content was not appropriate".


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: The episode triggered criticism in Japan. Toshiko Yamasaki, Yamaguchi's daughter, appeared on NHK's national evening news and said: "I cannot forgive the atomic bomb experience being laughed at in Britain, which has nuclear weapons of its own. I think this shows that the horror of atomic bomb is not well enough understood in the world. I feel sad rather than angry".


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: The Japanese Embassy, London, wrote to the BBC protesting that the programme insulted the deceased victims of the atomic bomb. It was reported that Piers Fletcher, a producer of the programme, responded to complaints with "we greatly regret it when we cause offence" and "it is apparent to me that I underestimated the potential sensitivity of this issue to Japanese viewers".


title: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

text: On 22 January 2011, the BBC and Talkback Thames jointly issued a statement. In addition to the joint statement, the BBC delivered a letter from Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, to the Japanese Embassy.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Lawrence Robert Shreve (born January 11, 1941), better known by the ring name Abdullah the Butcher, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He has a reputation for being involved in some of the most violent and bloody hardcore wrestling matches of all time. Over his time in wrestling he was given the moniker of "Madman from Sudan".


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: One of Shreve's trademarks is a series of divot-like scars on his head that he has due to excessive use of blading during his career. The scars are so deep that, according to Mick Foley, Shreve is able to put gambling chips into them. An amateur martial artist, Shreve also has knowledge of judo and karate, often including this knowledge in his wrestling matches through throws and chops.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Shreve was born on January 11, 1941 and raised in Windsor, Ontario, as part of a family of ten people in a deeply impoverished household. He learned karate and judo as a youth and, teaching fellow children in the backyard, claims to have eventually earned the title of seventh-degree grandmaster.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Shreve caught the attention of Montreal promoter Jack Britton, and he soon made his professional wrestling debut at age 17 in 1958. He initially competed in numerous independent territories in Canada under such various monikers as Pussycat Pickens, Kuroi Jujutsushi (the Black Wizard) and Zelis Amara. However, he ultimately created his gimmick of an evil Arabian sadist; and in a match against Gino Brito (Jack Britton's real-life son), the Abdullah the Butcher character first distinguished himself as one of the world's most feared rule breakers when he broke a chair over Brito's head and then beat him senseless with the leg.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Since his gimmick required him to speak no English (though it was in actuality his native tongue), he possessed a number of managers over the course of his long career, including Gary Hart, Paul Jones, Eddie Creatchman, Black Baron, The Grand Wizard, J. J. Dillon, Damien Kane, Larry Sharpe, Hugo Savinovich, Chicky Starr, Oliver Humperdink, Buddy Colt, George Cannon, Bearcat Wright, Big Bad John, Tony Montana, Gentleman Jim Holiday, and Rock Hunter, who were all portrayed as "handlers" commissioned to control the Sudanese madman, while also doing most of the talking in promos and interviews. He has, however, spoken for himself in English-language promos while in Japan.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: As a result of his frequent traveling, Abdullah the Butcher usually served as more of a special attraction than as a consistent championship contender. Accordingly, Abdullah never did win a world heavyweight championship, though he would capture several regional titles during his career. He won his first major championship on October 23, 1967, when he teamed with Dr. Jerry Graham to defeat John & Carlos Tolos for the NWA's Canadian Tag Team Titles in Vancouver. A few years later, he ventured to the Montreal region, where he had three reigns as the IWA International Heavyweight Champion between 1969 and 1972, feuding against Ivan Koloff and Johnny Rougeau. He later served as one of the premier rule breakers in Calgary's Stampede territory, capturing the NWA Canadian Championship, as well as having six North American Heavyweight Title reigns during the early 1970s. On June 24, 1972, he defeated Ernie Ladd in Akron, Ohio, to capture his first of two NWF Heavyweight Championships. In 1972, he wrestled a few matches for World Wide Wrestling Federation. Also he worked for Stampede Wrestling from 1970 to 1974. During the mid-1970s, he frequently performed in Detroit, Michigan's Big-Time Wrestling territory, where he engaged in a rivalry against The Sheik. He teamed with Killer Tim Brooks to win the region's version of the NWA World Tag Team Titles before defeating Bobo Brazil on February 8, 1975, for the NWA United States Championship.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: In addition to his successes in North America, Abdullah the Butcher also performed in the Far East, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and Africa. On March 12, 1974, he traveled all the way to New Zealand, where he captured the British Empire Commonwealth Title by defeating the nation's champion John DaSilva. Abdullah also established himself as one of the premier attractions in Japan, where he competed as part of the round-robin tournament that ultimately crowned Giant Baba as All-Japan's inaugural PWF Heavyweight Champion in February 1973. On October 18, 1978, Abdullah won that same PWF belt when he defeated European former AWA champion Billy Robinson; and then on October 13, 1980, he also beat Jumbo Tsuruta to capture the NWA United National Heavyweight Title. He also feuded with Terry Funk in Japan, and Funk claims to have had one of his top three all-time greatest matches with Abdullah the Butcher.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: He arrived in World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) in 1986, where he defeated The Great Kabuki for the Texas Brass Knuckles Title and waged war against the equally wild Bruiser Brody. In Puerto Rico, he was declared the very first WWC Universal Heavyweight Champion in July 1982 following three reigns as the Puerto Rican champion between 1978 and 1981. He was introduced in World Championship Wrestling in a giant, gift-wrapped box. This giant box was to be Sting's birthday gift from Cactus Jack. Sting unwrapped his gift and Abdullah attacked him, leading to both Abdullah and Cactus feuding with Sting after the incident. The feud culminated in a "Chamber of Horrors" match at Halloween Havoc 1991, in which Cactus accidentally electrocuted Abdullah in an electric chair, leading to a brief feud between the former allies. In 1993, Abdullah arrived in ECW, where he participated in a storyline with Kevin Sullivan, Terry Funk and Stan Hansen, and wrestled at Ultra Clash and Bloodfest. In October 1999, Abdullah took part in the ill-fated Heroes of Wrestling pay-per-view with a match against the One Man Gang. The match ended in a double count-out. In late 2002, Abdullah made a one-night appearance in Ring of Honor as Homicide's partner, facing the Carnage Crew in a bloody Bunkhouse Brawl at ROH's Night of the Butcher. On December 13, 2008, Shreve wrestled against Balls Mahoney in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, during the annual event WWC Lockout.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: During July 2009, he wrestled in Dragon Gate and Hustle. He also wrestled at the New Japan Pro-Wrestling supershow Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome on January 4, 2010, as well as wrestling for Japanese independent promotion Osaka Pro Wrestling. In 2009, Abdullah made an appearance at the Decatur Book Festival, facing off against author Michael Muhammad Knight. Abdullah pummeled Knight with chairs, forks, and a water cooler, not even stepping into the ring. Knight was taken from the festival in an ambulance and received 46 stitches. It was Right After Wrestling in March 2011, hosted by Arda Ocal and Jimmy Korderas, that Abdullah admitted his favorite wrestler to face was actually Lou Thesz. His last match was on October 9, 2010, in a draw against Bull Buchanan at GCW Southern Legends Fan Fest. Also in 2011, Abdullah returned to Georgia Championship Wrestling as a mentor and adviser to a local wrestler known as The Congo Warrior. On October 20, 2018, it was announced that Abdullah will have his retirement ceremony during the Giant Baba 20th Anniversary Memorial Show on February 19, 2019, at Sumo Hall in Tokyo.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Throughout his career, many video games have included depictions of Abdullah the Butcher, either as playable characters or as enemies. Some of these, such as "Legends of Wrestling II", have included his name and direct likeness, whereas others such as "HammerLock Wrestling" and "Appoooh" include original characters inspired by Abdullah. Characters in Japanese anime or manga are also frequently designed to resemble Abdullah the Butcher, often with his signature scars. Examples include Abdullah from "Kinnikuman", Abdullah the Criminal from "One Piece", and Mr. Heart from "Fist of the North Star".


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: In 2007, the WWE and Jakks Pacific released an Abdullah the Butcher "WWE Classic Superstars" figure complete with the blade marks on top of his head. A DVD was also released named "The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Wrestling" which included a bloody cage match between Abdullah and his famous rival Bruiser Brody. The 2007, WWC's anniversary show was dedicated to Abdullah the Butcher's contributions to WWC.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: On April 2, 2011, Abdullah the Butcher was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia. In early 2012, Abdullah the Butcher appeared on the "Wrestling Marks of Excellence" radio show and said that he had given away his Hall of Fame ring to his brother, saying that he had been in the business and drew people from all over the world and should have been inducted decades ago. Following his WWE Hall of Fame induction, Superstar Billy Graham requested his name be removed from the Hall, saying: "It is a shameless organization to induct a bloodthirsty animal such as Abdullah the Butcher into their worthless and embarrassing Hall of Fame and I want the name of Superstar Billy Graham to be no part of it."In February 2015, Shreve announced on his Facebook page that he would be selling his WWE Hall of Fame ring.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Shreve has been accused of infecting other wrestlers with hepatitis C through sharing a blade and/or cutting wrestlers without their knowledge. Canadian wrestler "Hannibal" Devon Nicholson, who said he contracted hepatitis C when Shreve bladed him without consent, pursued legal action. On June 3, 2014, an Ontario court ruled in favor of Nicholson and ordered Shreve to pay $2.3 million in damages. The Fulton County Court of Georgia ruled that the Canadian Judgement would be upheld in the state of Georgia where Shreve resides. Shreve was the trainer of Japanese wrestler Abdullah Kobayashi, whose style of wrestling and ring name were both directly inspired by Shreve's.


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Shreve has appeared in Japanese TV commercials for Suntory, Daikin Industries, Denon, and Sapporo Ichiban. He also had acting roles in the martial arts action film "Roaring Fire", and the prison drama "I'm Going to Get You, Elliott Boy".


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Shreve has appeared in 12 video games, debuting in one of the first "Appoooh", produced by Sega for Japanese Arcades. Shreve has also appeared in "Super Star Pro Wrestling", "Virtual Pro Wrestling 64", "", "Fire Pro Wrestling", "" "Fire Pro Wrestling 2", "Legends of Wrestling II", "King of Colosseum Red", "", "Fire Pro Wrestling Returns" and "Wrestle Kingdom 2: Pro-Wrestling World War".


title: Abdullah the Butcher

text: Shreve previously owned two restaurants (one in Atlanta, Georgia and one in Japan) called Abdullah the Butcher's House of Ribs and Chinese Food. Shreve was often on hand to meet fans and sign autographs. The restaurant and Shreve appear in the music video for the 2003 song "Damn!" by Atlanta hip hop group YoungBloodZ. It was referenced in the 2006 film "ATL" during a scene where three characters argue over a local barbecue. On July 24, 2016, it was reported that Shreve had closed his restaurant in Atlanta.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Everything, Everything is a 2017 American romantic drama film directed by Stella Meghie and written by J. Mills Goodloe, based on Nicola Yoon’s 2015 novel of the same name. The film was produced by Elysa Dutton and Leslie Morgenstein and stars Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson and follows a young woman named Maddy Whittier (Stenberg) who has a serious medical condition that prevents her from leaving her home, and her neighbor Olly Bright (Robinson), who wants to help her experience life and they begin falling in love.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Principal photography began on September 6, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and wrapped up the next month on October 7, 2016.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: The film was released on May 19, 2017, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise directed at the two lead performances, but with heavy criticism aimed at the screenplay. Nevertheless, it was a commercial success, grossing $61 million worldwide on a production budget of $10 million.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Eighteen-year-old Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) is being treated for the immune disorder SCID by her mother, Pauline Whittier. Her nurse Carla has helped take care of Maddy for 15 years.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Pauline monitors her daughter's health status constantly and provides daily medication. Only she, Carla and Carla's daughter, Rosa, are allowed in the home. Maddy is not allowed to leave the house or interact with anyone or anything that has not been "sanitized." She yearns to see the world, especially the ocean.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: One day, a new family moves next door, and their son (Nick Robinson), who is Maddy's age, catches her eye. Later that night, while she and Pauline are watching a movie, the boy and his sister appear on their doorstep, offering a bundt cake.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Pauline politely rejects it, and as she is closing the door, the boy asks where her daughter is. She lies, telling him Maddy is not home. As Pauline sees Maddy's desire to get to know the boy, she tries to block off all opportunities for her to contact him. It is also revealed that his father is violent and their relationship is strained.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Later, the boy writes his number on his window for Maddy and soon they begin communicating through text. He introduces himself as Olly, and they text for a while, getting to know each other and eventually growing very fond of each other.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Knowing her mother would not approve, Maddy convinces Carla to secretly let Olly visit her inside the house, though Carla makes them promise to stay on different sides of the room from each other. She later invites Olly over on the Fourth of July, as her mother is working that day. Maddy and Olly share a passionate kiss as fireworks go off outside.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: The next day, Maddy sees Olly fighting with his father outside. When his father shoves him to the ground, she, to her mother's shock, rushes outside to comfort Olly. Deducing that Maddy and Olly have been seeing each other, she forbids their relationship and later fires Carla for betraying her trust.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Maddy decides it is time to take matters into her own hands. With a credit card she had previously opened online, she buys two tickets to Hawaii, and convinces Olly to go there with her. On the way to the airport, Olly calls his sister, Kayra, telling her he is going to Hawaii with Maddy for a couple of days and to take care of their mother.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: In Hawaii, they share a romantic and life-changing experience. Pauline sends a police car to find Maddy, and when she spots Kayra walking by the house she asks if she knows where her brother and Maddy are, but she denies it.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: During the trip, Maddy passes out and Olly rushes her to the hospital and she wakes up back in bed at home. She breaks off contact with Olly as she does not want to make another mistake over love again. She is therefore unable to say goodbye when his mother finally decides to leave his father, taking Olly and his sister back to New York with her.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: A doctor from the hospital in Hawaii calls Maddy to give her an update, telling her she does not have something as severe as SCID. Scouring her mother's records, she cannot find anything indicating she had ever been diagnosed with the disorder. Realizing her mother has been lying to her for her whole life, Maddie runs away from home.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: Maddy stays with Carla and Rosa. A doctor confirms she has never had SCID, just an underdeveloped immune system from under-exposure due to living in filtered air her whole life. Her mother later tells her that after Maddy's father and brother died in a car crash, Maddy was all she had left and she wanted to protect keep her safe. Giving Maddy a bag of her things, she leaves.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: "Everything, Everything" was released on May 19, 2017 by Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. It was originally scheduled for August 18, 2017, but was moved up to its May date.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: "Everything, Everything" grossed $34.1 million in the United States and Canada and $27.5 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $61.6 million, against a production budget of $10 million.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: In North America, the film was released alongside "" and "", and was projected to gross $10–12 million from 2,801 theaters during its opening weekend. It made $525,000 from Thursday night previews and $4.7 million on its first day. It went on to open to $11.7 million, finishing 3rd at the box office.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 45% based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 5.30/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Everything, Everything" should tug young adult heartstrings fairly effectively, but may not be quite engrossing enough to woo less melodramatically inclined viewers." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 52 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.


title: Everything, Everything (film)

text: The Immune Deficiency Foundation criticized the film as "erroneously misrepresenting [SCID] through worn stereotypes and misinformation," singling out in particular the film's use of Munchhausen-by-proxy as damaging to patients who actually have SCID.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Hibiscus" that is native to Africa, most likely West Africa and also found in India especially Maharashtra with local name ambali. In the 16th and early 17th centuries it was spread to the West Indies and Asia, respectively, where it has since become naturalized in many places. The stems are used for the production of bast fibre and the dried cranberry-tasting calyces are commonly steeped to make a popular infusion known as carcade.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle is an annual or perennial herb or woody-based subshrub, growing to tall. The leaves are deeply three- to five-lobed, long, arranged alternately on the stems.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: The flowers are in diameter, white to pale yellow with a dark red spot at the base of each petal, and have a stout, conspicuous calyx at the base, wide, enlarging to and becoming fleshy and a deep crimson red as the fruit matures, which takes about six months.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle is known as "karkadeh" (كركديه) in Arabic, "chin baung" (ချဉ်ပေါင်) by the Burmese, "luoshen hua" (洛神花) in Chinese, "kraceī́yb" () in Thai), ສົ້ມພໍດີ /sőm phɔː diː/ in Lao, ស្លឹកជូរ /slɜk cuː/ សណ្តាន់ទេស /sɑndan tẹːh/, ម្ជូរបារាំង /məcuː baraŋ/, or ម្ជូរព្រឹក /məcuː prɨk/ in Khmer, and "cây quế mầu, cây bụp giấm", or "cây bụt giấm" in Vietnamese.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle is known as Pundi Palle / Pundi Soppu (ಪುಂಡಿ ಪಲ್ಯ / ಪುಂಡಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು) in Kannada, Hoilfa (হইলফা) in Sylheti and Chukur (চুকুর), Amlamadhur (অম্লমধুর) in Bengali. Also known as Tengamora (টেঙামৰা) by various indigenous ethnic groups of Assam, "dachang" or "datchang" by Atongs, "mwita" among the Bodo(another native ethnicity of Assam), "amile" among Chakmas mostly in Chittagong, "Gal•da" among Garos, "Hanserong" among Karbi (an indigenous group of Asaam), among Lotha of Nagaland "Hantserup", "mathippuli" (മത്തിപ്പുളി) and "pulivenda" (പുളിവെണ്ട) in Malayalam, "ambadi" (अंबाडी) in Maharashtra, "okhreo" among Maos, "sillo sougri" among Meitei, "बेलचण्डा" ("belchanda") among Nepalese, and "khata palanga" ("ଖଟାପାଳଙ୍ଗ") Jagatsinghpur and Cuttack districts and "takabhendi" ("ଟକଭେଣ୍ଡି") in Odia in the Balasore district of Odisha, "pulicha keerai" (புளிச்சகீரை) in Tamil and "gongura" (గోంగూర) in Telugu. "Anthur Sen(roselle red)" or "Lakher Anthur" in Mizo, "Hmiakhu Saipa(roselle red)" or "Matu Hmiakhu" in Mara in Mizoram, India and Chin State, Myanmar.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the Chota Nagpur region, it is known as "Kudrum" or "Dhepa saag" in the Nagpuri/Sadri dialect. It is also known by different names in different languages of this region, like "Ipil jongor ", which means "star fruit" in the Mundari language.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Among the Yoruba in southwest Nigeria, Roselle is known as "ìsápá", and "yakuwa" by the Hausa people of northern Nigeria who also call the seeds as "gurguzu" and the capsule cover as "zoborodo" or "zobo".


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Among the Tiv Tribe of Central Nigeria, the plant is called "Ashwe" while the capsule is referred to as "Agbende Ashwe". It is primarily consumed as a soup in three forms: The leaves are either cooked, or steamed and crushed on a grinding stone, in which form it is considered a delicacy due to its preservation of the characteristic 'tang' (slightly sour taste) of the leaves. The outer covering of the capsule (green variety) is also cooked as a soup which doesn't have the tang of the leaves. The red variant of the capsule are rarely (if ever) cooked, but instead boiled and the extract cooled and drank (like tea or soda when sugar is added). This form is known as "zobo" which is actually a borrowed name, just as this method of preparation is borrowed. Traditionally the red variant was used as a dye to color wood, and similar things.["citation needed"]


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle is known as "saril" or "flor de Jamaica" in Central America and "sorrel" in many parts of the English-speaking Caribbean, including Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and most of the islands in the West Indies.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In India, the plant is primarily cultivated for the production of bast fibre used in cordage, made from its stem. The fibre may be used as a substitute for jute in making burlap. "Hibiscus", specifically roselle, has been used in folk medicine as a diuretic and mild laxative.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: The red calyces of the plant are increasingly exported to the United States and Europe, particularly Germany, where they are used as food colourings. It can be found in markets (as flowers or syrup) in places, such as France, where there are Senegalese immigrant communities. The green leaves are used like a spicy version of spinach. They give flavour to the Senegalese fish and rice dish "thieboudienne". Proper records are not kept, but the Senegalese government estimates national production and consumption at per year. In Myanmar their green leaves are the main ingredient in chin baung kyaw curry.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Bihar and Jharkhand roselle is also known as "kudrum" in local language. The bright red petal of the fruit is used for chutney which is sweet and sour in taste.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Satpuda Pradesh (near Maharashtra/Gujarat MP border), roselle is called "khate fule" by local tribal language. The khate fule leaves are mixed with green chillies, salt, some garlic to prepare a chutney and bhaji which is served with jowar (sorghum) or bajra (millet) made bakho (a flat bread). This is eaten by tribals as breakfast to start their day. A dry dish or sukhi bajji is prepared with khate fule leaves.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Andhra cuisine, roselle is called "gongura" and is extensively used. The leaves are steamed with lentils and cooked with dal. Another unique dish is prepared by mixing fried leaves with spices and made into a gongura pacchadi, the most famous dish of Andhra and Telangana often described as king of all Andhra foods.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Manipuri, it is called "Sougri" and it is used as a vegetables. It is generally cooked without oil by boiling with some other herbs and dried fish and is a favorite of the Manipuri people. Almost every household has this plant in their homes.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Burmese cuisine, called "chin baung ywet" (lit. sour leaf), the roselle is widely used and considered affordable. It is perhaps the most widely eaten and popular vegetable in Myanmar. The leaves are fried with garlic, dried or fresh prawns and green chili or cooked with fish. A light soup made from roselle leaves and dried prawn stock is also a popular dish.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Among the Paites tribe of the Manipur "Hibiscus sabdariffa" and "Hibiscus cannabinus" locally known as "anthuk" are cooked along with chicken, fish, crab or pork or any meat, and cooked as a soup as one of their traditional cuisines.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, it is known as galda and is consumed boiled with pork, chicken or fish. After monsoon, the leaves are dried and crushed into powder, then stored for cooking during winter in a rice powder stew, known as galda gisi pura. In the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, the plant is locally known as "jajew", and the leaves are used in local cuisine, cooked with both dried and fresh fish. The Bodos and other indigenous Assamese communities of north east India cook its leaves with fish, shrimp or pork along with boiling it as vegetables which is much relished. Sometimes they add native lye called "karwi" or "khar" to bring down its tartness and add flavour.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the Philippines, the leaves and flowers are used to add sourness to the chicken dish "tinola" (chicken stew).


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Mali, the dried and ground leaves, also called "djissima", are commonly used in Songhaï cuisine, in the regions of Timbuktu, Gao and their surroundings. It is the main ingredient in at least two dishes, one called "djissima-gounday", where rice is slowly cooked in a broth containing the leaves and lamb, and the other dish is called "djissima-mafé", where the leaves are cooked in a tomato sauce, also including lamb. Note that djissima-gounday is also considered an affordable dish.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Namibia, it is called "mutete", and it is consumed by people from the Kavango region in northeastern Namibia.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the central African nations of Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville and Gabon the leaves are referred to as "oseille", and are used puréed, or in a sauce, often with fish and/or aubergines.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the Caribbean, a drink is made from the roselle fruit (the calyces with the seed pods removed). It is prepared by boiling fresh, frozen or dried roselle fruit in water for 8 to 10 minutes (or until the water turns red), then adding sugar. Bay leaves and cloves may also be added during boiling. It is often served chilled. This is done in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Antigua, Barbados, Belize, St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, the US Virgin Islands and St. Kitts and Nevis where the plant or fruit is called sorrel. The drink is one of several inexpensive beverages ("aguas frescas") commonly consumed in Mexico and Central America; they are typically made from fresh fruits, juices or extracts. In Mexican restaurants in the US, the beverage is sometimes known simply as "Jamaica" ( HAH-MY-CAH). It is very popular in Trinidad and Tobago especially as a seasonal drink at Christmas where cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves are preferred to ginger. It is also popular in Jamaica, usually flavored with rum.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Ghana, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Benin calyces are used to prepare cold, sweet drinks popular in social events, often mixed with mint leaves, dissolved menthol candy, and/or fruit flavors.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: The Sudanese "Karkade" (كركديه) is a cold drink made by soaking the dried Karkade calyces in cold water overnight in a refrigerator with sugar and some lemon or lime juice added. It is then consumed with or without ice cubes after the flowers have been strained. In Lebanon, toasted pine nuts are sometimes added.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle is used in Nigeria to make a refreshing drink known as Zobo and natural fruit juices of pineapple and watermelon are added. Ginger is also sometimes added to the refreshing drink.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: With the advent in the U.S. of interest in south-of-the-border cuisine, the calyces are sold in bags usually labeled "flor de Jamaica" and have long been available in health food stores in the U.S. for making tea. In addition to being a popular homemade drink, Jarritos, a popular brand of Mexican soft drinks, makes a flor de Jamaica flavored carbonated beverage. Imported Jarritos can be readily found in the U.S.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the US, a beverage known as hibiscus cooler is made from the tea, a sweetener, and sometimes juice of apple, grape or lemon. The beverage is sold by some juice companies. Beverages made from the roselle fruit are often consumed by African-Americans at social or familial gatherings, including Juneteenth, a celebration of the emancipation of slaves. The red drink is popular in this culture, as it is an acknowledgement to ancestral West African and African American culture.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the UK, the dried calyces and ready-made sorrel syrup are widely and cheaply available in Caribbean and Asian grocers. The fresh calyces are imported mainly during December and January to make Christmas and New Year infusions, which are often made into cocktails with rum. They are very perishable, rapidly developing fungal rot, and need to be used soon after purchase — unlike the dried product, which has a long shelf-life.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Africa, especially the Sahel, roselle is commonly used to make a sugary herbal tea that is sold on the street. The dried flowers can be found in every market. Roselle tea is quite common in Italy where it spread during the first decades of the 20th century as a typical product of the Italian colonies. The Carib Brewery, a Trinidad and Tobago brewery, produces a 'Shandy Sorrel' in which the tea is combined with beer.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Hibiscus flowers are commonly found in commercial herbal teas, especially teas advertised as berry-flavoured, as they give a bright red colouring to the drink.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle flowers are sold as wild hibiscus flowers in syrup in Australia as a gourmet product. Recipes include filling them with goats cheese; serving them on baguette slices baked with brie; and placing one plus a little syrup in a champagne flute before adding the champagne — the bubbles cause the flower to open.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Nigeria, roselle jam has been made since colonial times and is still sold regularly at community fetes and charity stalls. It is similar in flavour to plum jam, although more acidic. It differs from other jams in that the pectin is obtained from boiling the interior buds of the roselle flowers. It is thus possible to make rosella jam with nothing but roselle buds and sugar.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In Burma, the buds of the roselle are made into 'preserved fruits' or jams. Depending on the method and the preference, the seeds are removed or included. The jams, made from roselle buds and sugar, are red and tangy.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle jam is made in Queensland, Australia as a home-made or speciality product sold at fetes and other community events.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: A 2021 meta-analysis conducted by the Cochrane hypertension group concluded that currently the evidence is insufficient to establish if roselle, when compared to placebo, is effective in managing or lowering blood pressure in people with hypertension. An older meta-survey (2015) in the "Journal of Hypertension" suggests a typical reduction in blood pressure of around 7.5/3.5 units (systolic/diastolic). Both cite the need for additional well designed studies.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: China and Thailand are the largest producers and control much of the world supply. The world's best roselle comes from Sudan and Nigeria, b. Mexico, Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania, Mali and Jamaica are also important suppliers but production is mostly used domestically.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the Indian subcontinent (especially in the Ganges Delta region), roselle is cultivated for vegetable fibres. Roselle is called meśta (or meshta, the "ś" indicating an "sh" sound) in the region. Most of its fibres are locally consumed. However, the fibre (as well as cuttings or butts) from the roselle plant has great demand in natural fibre using industries.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Roselle is a relatively new crop to create an industry in Malaysia. It was introduced in the early 1990s and its commercial planting was first promoted in 1993 by the Department of Agriculture in Terengganu. The planted acreage was in 1993 and steadily increased to peak at by 2000. The planted area is now less than annually, planted with two main varieties. Terengganu state used to be the first and the largest producer, but now the production has spread more to other states. Despite the dwindling hectarage over the past decade or so, roselle is becoming increasingly known to the general population as an important pro-health drink. To a small extent, the calyces are also processed into sweet pickle, jelly and jam.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: In the initial years, limited research work was conducted by University Malaya and Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI). Research work at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) was initiated in 1999. In many respects, the amount of research work is considered meagre in supporting a growing roselle industry in Malaysia.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Genetic variation is important for plant breeders to increase crop productivity. Being an introduced species in Malaysia, there is a very limited number of germplasm accessions available for breeding.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: Conventional hybridization is difficult to carry out in roselle due to its cleistogamous nature of reproduction. Because of this, a mutation breeding programme was initiated to generate new genetic variability. The use of induced mutations for its improvement was initiated in 1999 in cooperation with MINT (now called Malaysian Nuclear Agency) and has produced some promising breeding lines. Roselle is a tetraploid species; thus, segregating populations require longer time to achieve fixation as compared to diploid species. In April 2009, UKM launched three new varieties named UKMR-1, UKMR-2 and UKMR-3. These new varieties were developed using Arab as the parent variety in a mutation breeding programme which started in 2006.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: A study was conducted to estimate the amount of outcrossing under local conditions in Malaysia. It was found that outcrossing occurred at a very low rate of about 0.02%. However, this rate is much lower in comparison to estimates of natural cross-pollination of between 0.20% and 0.68% as reported in Jamaica.


title: Roselle (plant)

text: The "Hibiscus" leaves are a good source of polyphenolic compounds. The major identified compounds include neochlorogenic acid, chlorogenic acid, cryptochlorogenic acid, caffeoylshikimic acid and flavonoid compounds such as quercetin, kaempferol and their derivatives. The flowers are rich in anthocyanins, as well as protocatechuic acid. The dried calyces contain the flavonoids gossypetin, hibiscetine and sabdaretine. The major pigment is not daphniphylline. Small amounts of myrtillin (delphinidin 3-monoglucoside), chrysanthenin (cyanidin 3-monoglucoside), and delphinidin are present. Roselle seeds are a good source of lipid-soluble antioxidants, particularly gamma-tocopherol.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, and the third and final son and child that Yoshitomo would father with Tokiwa Gozen. Yoshitsune's older half-brother Minamoto no Yoritomo (the third son of Yoshitomo) would go on to establish the Kamakura shogunate. Yoshitsune's name in childhood was Ushiwakamaru or "young bull" (). He was born just before the Heiji Rebellion in 1160 in which his father and two oldest brothers were killed. He survived this incident by fleeing the capital with his mother, while his half-brother Yoritomo was banished to Izu Province. When he was 10, Yoshitsune was placed in the care of the monks of Kurama temple (), nestled in the Hiei Mountains near the capital of Kyoto. There he was taught swordsmanship and strategy, according to some legends by Sōjōbō, to others by Kiichi Hōgen (whose book, "Six Secret Teachings", Ushiwakamaru stole). Not wanting to become a monk, Yoshitsune eventually left and followed a gold merchant who knew his father well, and in 1174 relocated to Hiraizumi, Mutsu Province, where he was put under the protection of Fujiwara no Hidehira, head of the powerful regional Northern Fujiwara clan.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: A skillful swordsman, Yoshitsune defeated the legendary warrior monk Benkei in a duel. From then on, Benkei became Yoshitsune's retainer, eventually dying with him at the Siege of Koromogawa.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: In 1180, Yoshitsune heard that Yoritomo, now head of the Minamoto clan, had raised an army at the request of Prince Mochihito to fight against the Taira clan (also known as the Heike) which had usurped the power of the emperor. In the ensuing war between the rival Minamoto and Taira samurai clans, known as the Genpei War, Yoshitsune joined Yoritomo, along with Minamoto no Noriyori, all brothers who had not previously met.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune, together with his brother Noriyori, defeated the Taira in several key battles. He also attacked and killed his cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka, a rival for control of the Minamoto clan, at the Battle of Awazu in Ōmi Province in early 1184 on the orders of Yoritomo.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune, who had by then been given the rank of general, went on to defeat the Taira at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani in present-day Kobe in March 1184, and again at the Battle of Yashima in Shikoku in March 1185. He finally destroyed them one month later at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Following the Genpei War, Yoshitsune was appointed as Governor of Iyo and awarded other titles by cloistered emperor Go-Shirakawa. His suspicious brother Yoritomo, however, opposed the presentation of these titles, and nullified them.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune then secured imperial authorization to ally with his uncle Minamoto no Yukiie in opposing Yoritomo. Incurring Yoritomo's wrath, Yoshitsune fled Kyoto in 1185. His faithful mistress, Shizuka Gozen, carrying his unborn child, fled with him at first, but then was left behind, and soon taken into custody by forces loyal to Yoritomo.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune eventually made his way to Hiraizumi, Mutsu, once again to the protection of Fujiwara no Hidehira, and lived undisturbed for a time. Hidehira's son Fujiwara no Yasuhira had promised upon Hidehira's death to honor his father's wishes and continue to shelter Yoshitsune, but, giving in to pressure from Yoritomo, betrayed Yoshitsune, surrounding his Koromogawa-no-tachi residence with his troops, defeating Yoshitsune's retainers, including Benkei (in a famous "standing death"), and forcing Yoshitsune to commit seppuku. Yasuhira then had Yoshitsune's head preserved in sake, placed in a black-lacquered chest, and sent to Yoritomo as proof of his death. Historical sources differ as to the fate of Yoshitsune's mistress Shizuka and their son.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: The death of Yoshitsune has been very elusive. According to Ainu historical accounts, he did not commit seppuku, but instead escaped the siege at Koromogawa, fleeing to Hokkaido and assuming the name Okikurumi/Oinakamui. An alternative legend states that after evading death, Yoshitsune made his way past Hokkaido and sailed to the mainland of Asia, re-surfacing as Genghis Khan. This story was invented by Suematsu Kenchō (1855-1920) while he was studying at Cambridge University in 1879, with the aim of improving Japanese prestige in the wake of the Meiji Restoration.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: There's a temple Henshoji in Mooka, Tochigi. According to an old temple magazine and tradition, Hitachibō Kaison entrusted a monk Hitachi Nyūdō Nensai with a child of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Keiwaka, as demanded by Hidehira Fujiwara. Furthermore, according to the tradition of Enmyō-ji temple in Hirosaki, Aomori, Chitose Maru, also known as Keiwakamaru was a child of Yoshitsune, entrusted to Date Tomomune by Kaison. After the adoption Kaison disappeared.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: The "Koshigoe Letter" was written by Yoshitsune on the 24th day of the 5th month of the second year of Genryaku (June 23, 1185) as he waited in Koshigoe for approval from Yoritomo to enter Kamakura. The letter was Yoshitsune's "final appeal" to Yoritomo of his loyalty. The letter is a "mixture of bravado and an almost masochistic indulgence in misfortune." An excerpt:


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune has long been a popular figure in Japanese literature and culture due to his appearance as the main character in the third section of the Japanese literary classic "Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike)". The Japanese term for "sympathy for a tragic hero", , comes from Yoshitsune's title "Kurō Hōgan" (), which he received from the Imperial Court.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Many of the literary pieces that Yoshitsune appears in are legend rather than historical fact. Legends pertaining to Yoshitsune first began to appear in the fourteenth century. In early works at that time, Yoshitsune was described as a sharp-witted military leader. Then, romantic stories about his early childhood and last years of his life appeared as people began to know more about him.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: The legends that deal with his public career show Yoshitsune as a great, virtuous warrior. He was often shown as kind to those around him and honorable, but was also shown to be naive.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Legends dealing with Yoshitsune’s childhood show young Yoshitsune (or Ushiwakamaru) with heroic qualities. He is portrayed as a brave and skilled swordsman, despite being a young boy. He was also skilled in music and his studies, and was also said to be able to easily sway the hearts of young women. These legends delve into fantasy more so than the legends about his later life.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Legends which pertain to the time when his half-brother, Yoritomo, turned against him take away some of Yoshitsune’s heroic qualities. He is no longer portrayed as a great warrior, but he retains his knowledge and skills that are valuable in the emperor’s court.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: Yoshitsune's escape through the Ataka barrier is the subject of Noh play "Ataka" and the Kabuki play "Kanjinchō". "Kanjinchō" was later dramatized by Akira Kurosawa in the 1945 movie "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail".


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: The "Gikeiki", or ""Chronicle of Yoshitsune"" relates events of Yoshitsune's life after the defeat of the Heike.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: In addition to The Tale of the Heike and "Gikeiki", a great many other works of literature and drama feature him, and together form the "sekai" ("world") of Yoshitsune, a concept akin to the notion of the literary cycle.


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

text: In the visual arts, Yoshitsune is commonly depicted as a "bishōnen", though this is at odds with contemporary descriptions of his appearance.


title: Wes Edens

text: Wesley Robert Edens (born October 30, 1961) is an American billionaire businessman and private equity investor. He is the co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and founder of New Fortress Energy. Edens is co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, along with Marc Lasry. He is additionally the co-owner of football club Aston Villa, alongside Nassef Sawiris.


title: Wes Edens

text: In his teenage years, Edens was a competitive skier. Edens received a B.S. in Finance and Business Administration from Oregon State University in 1984. Edens and his wife Lynn have four children, and his daughter represented the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2014 NBA Draft lottery. His personal interests include horse jumping, alpine skiing and mountain climbing. Edens built and owns Caldera House, an eight-room boutique hotel and private ski club in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.


title: Wes Edens

text: He began his career in 1987 at Lehman Brothers, where he was a partner and managing director until 1993. He then went to BlackRock's private equity division BlackRock Asset Investors, where he remained until 1997 as a partner and managing director.


title: Wes Edens

text: Wes Edens was one of five principal partners who founded Fortress Investments in 1998. Edens investment style was described in a 2007 "The Wall Street Journal" article as one based on "contrarian bets, creative financing and a knack for building business from investments." Fortress became the first publicly traded buyout firm on February 9, 2007, with Edens and his partners taking the company public through its initial public offering.


title: Wes Edens

text: By 2007 Fortress assets under management included both private equity and publicly traded alternative investment vehicles — fourteen private equity funds, four hedge funds, and two real estate vehicles, and went public. When the Japanese financial holding company, Nomura Holdings acquired 15% of Fortress for $888 million in December 2006 with proceeds going to the five principals, Edens and his partners became paper billionaires. Edens became Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Fortress in 2009, and helped the company, which saw its stock price fall to below one dollar after the subprime mortgage crisis, resurge by offering subprime lending. He served as Chairman of Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC from 2015 to May 2016.


title: Wes Edens

text: In 2014, Edens founded New Fortress Energy, a global natural gas supply and infrastructure company. New Fortress Energy has stated that their main goals include becoming one of the world's leading producers of carbon-free energy (focusing specifically on low-cost green hydrogen) and existing as a net zero emissions company within ten years.


title: Wes Edens

text: In 2019, New Fortress constructed a nearly $1 billion floating LNG terminal in Jamaica's Old Harbour Bay. The prime minister of Jamaica stated that the terminal's presence will result in overall cheaper energy costs for the country. New Fortress Energy has been involved in multiple philanthropic projects in Jamaica after its work completion with the LNG terminal. In October 2020, New Fortress Energy invested in H2Pro, a startup that develops low-cost green hydrogen technology. Through New Fortress’ "Zero", its renewable hydrogen division, the two companies will partner in order develop and commercialize green hydrogen technology. The "Zero" division also partnered that same month with a gas-fired power plant in Ohio in order to blend hydrogen to produce electricity.


title: Wes Edens

text: In January 2021, the company announced that it would acquire natural gas company Hygo Energy Transition Ltd, as well Golar LNG Partners LP., for $5 billion in order to expand its presence in Brazil. New Fortress plans to launch a pilot program in 2021 to test the usage of hydrogen as an energy source of power generation.