title: Child murder

text: In most countries, there are very few cases where children are killed by other children. According to the U.S. Department of Justice statistics for 1996, one in five murders of children were committed by other children. Several murders by children have gained prominent media exposure. One was the killing on 12 February 1993 of the 2-year-old boy James Bulger by two 10-year-old boys in Bootle, Merseyside, UK. He was beaten and stoned before his unconscious body was left on train tracks to give the impression that a train had hit him. Bulger's killers became the youngest convicted murderers in the modern history of the United Kingdom. Another notable case in the UK occurred in 1968 in Newcastle upon Tyne, when 10-year-old Mary Bell was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in the deaths of toddlers Martin Brown and Brian Howe. She was released in 1980 at the age of 23. In 1998, 8-year-old Madelyn Clifton was killed by 14-year-old Josh Phillips.


title: Child murder

text: In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini–Green public housing project for school, the "Chicago Tribune" put every child murder on the front page (generally no murders were front-page news). 62 child murders were reported that year.


title: Child murder

text: Multiple deaths in one incident, such as the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, tend to gather the most media attention but are statistically scarce.


title: Child murder

text: The military use of children refers to children being placed in harm's way in military actions, in order to protect a location or provide propaganda. This is sometimes referred to as child sacrifice, though not equivalent to the religious variety. It may also refer to the use of children as child soldiers or saboteurs.


title: Child murder

text: Red Hand Day on February 12 is an annual commemoration day to draw public attention to the practice of using children as soldiers in wars and armed conflicts.


title: Child murder

text: Medicine murder (often referred to as "muti killing") is a practice of human sacrifice and mutilation associated with traditional medicinal practices, such as Muti. Victims of muti killings are often children. Organs and/or body parts are usually taken while the child is still alive. An unknown child (referred to as "Adam"), whose decapitated torso was found in the River Thames in London in 2002 is believed to have been the victim of a muti killing.


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: The emperor or empress of all the Russias or All Russia (often titled Tsar or Tsarina/Tsaritsa) was the monarch of the Russian Empire.


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: The title originated in connection with Russia's victory in the Great Northern War of 17001721 and appeared as the adaptation of the tsar's title under the accepted system of titling in Europe. The suffix "of all the Russias" was transformed from the previous version "(Tsar) of All Rus'".


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: Article 1 of the "Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire" stated that "the Emperor of All Russia is an autocratic and unrestricted monarch. To obey his supreme authority, not only out of fear but out of conscience as well, God himself commands".


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: Nicholas II abdicated in favour of his brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, but the next day, after a nominal reign of only 18 hours, "Emperor Michael II" declined power, ending dynastic rule in Russia.


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: The title of the Emperor of All Russia was introduced for Peter the Great. After the victory at the Great Northern War and signing the Treaty of Nystad, in September 1721 Senate and Synod decided to award Peter with the title of the Emperor of All Russia with the following statement: "in the manner of the Roman Senate for the noble cause of emperors such titles publicly given them as a gift and into statues for the everlasting generations inscribed".


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: On November 2, 1721 Peter I accepted the title. The Dutch Republic and Kingdom of Prussia immediately recognized the new title of the Russian Tsar, followed by the Kingdom of Sweden in 1723, the Ottoman Empire in 1739, the United Kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire in 1742, the Kingdom of France and the Spain in 1745, and finally the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1764. Since then the Russian State was referred to as the Russian Empire.


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: On February 16, 1722 Peter I issued the Decree of Succession by which he abolished the old custom of passing the throne to the direct descendants in the male line, but allowed the appointment of an heir through any decent person, at the will of the monarch.


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: Coronations in the Russian Empire involved a highly developed religious ceremony in which the Emperor was crowned and invested with regalia, then anointed with chrism and formally blessed by the church to commence his reign. Although rulers of Muscovy had been crowned prior to the reign of Ivan III, their coronation rituals assumed overt Byzantine overtones as the result of the influence of Ivan's wife Sophia Paleologue, and the imperial ambitions of his grandson, Ivan IV. The modern coronation, introducing "European-style" elements, replaced the previous "crowning" ceremony and was first used for Catherine I in 1724. Since czarist Russia claimed to be the "Third Rome" and the replacement of Byzantium as the true Christian state, the Russian rite was designed to link its rulers and prerogatives to those of the so-called "Second Rome" (Constantinople).


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: While months or even years could pass between the initial accession of the sovereign and the performance of this ritual, church policy held that the monarch must be anointed and crowned according to the Orthodox rite to have a successful tenure. As the church and state were essentially one in Imperial Russia, this service invested the Tsars with political legitimacy; however, this was not its only intent. It was equally perceived as conferring a genuine spiritual benefit that mystically wedded sovereign to subjects, bestowing divine authority upon the new ruler. As such, it was similar in purpose to other European coronation ceremonies from the medieval era.


title: Emperor of all the Russias

text: Even when the imperial capital was located at St. Petersburg (1713–1728, 1732–1917), Russian coronations were always held in Moscow at the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Kremlin. The last coronation service in Russia was held on 26 May 1896 for Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, who would be the final Tsar and Tsaritsa of Russia. The Russian Imperial regalia survived the subsequent Russian Revolution and the Communist period, and are currently on exhibit in a museum at the Kremlin Armoury.


title: Pickle Rick

text: "Pickle Rick" is the third episode of the third season of the Adult Swim animated television series "Rick and Morty". Written by Jessica Gao and directed by Anthony Chun, the episode premiered on August 6, 2017. In "Pickle Rick", the eccentric scientist Rick Sanchez turns himself into a pickle just as he and his family are scheduled to attend a therapy session. The episode follows Rick's adventures as a pickle and the rest of the family's trip to therapy.


title: Pickle Rick

text: The episode parodies action films and was inspired by the "Breaking Bad" episode "4 Days Out". In a continuation of the third season's storyline of Beth and Jerry's divorce, "Pickle Rick" explores Beth's unhealthy relationship with Rick and their views on intelligence and self-improvement. The episode was highly anticipated, with a rough cut animation premiering at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, and was watched by 2.3 million viewers when it first aired on Adult Swim.


title: Pickle Rick

text: The episode received positive reviews, with critics praising the animation and design of Pickle Rick, the fight scenes, the performance of guest actor Danny Trejo (as Jaguar), and the episode's ending. It won "Rick and Morty" the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, the show's first Emmy Award. Several merchandise products, particularly of the character Pickle Rick, have been released.


title: Pickle Rick

text: As Beth, Morty, and Summer prepare for family counseling, Rick informs Morty that he cannot go, having turned himself into a pickle. He denies that he timed the experiment to avoid the counseling session, but the family notices a telltale mechanism rigged to drop a syringe in him soon after they leave. Beth takes the syringe, leaving Rick alone on his workbench.


title: Pickle Rick

text: Rick is knocked off the bench by a cat and then washed into the sewer during a rain shower. Lacking any means of mobility, he bites the head of a cockroach and walks upon its back by stimulating its brain with his tongue. After assembling more cockroaches into a crude exoskeleton, he sets up a lab and upgrades to a powered exoskeleton made of rat corpses. He escapes the sewer via jetpack into a secure compound, where he kills several guards. The compound's administrator sends a prisoner named Jaguar to fight Rick, but Rick persuades Jaguar to join him, and they escape together in the administrator's helicopter after rigging the compound to explode.


title: Pickle Rick

text: Meanwhile, the therapist Dr. Wong is curious about Rick's absence despite Beth's attempts to shift attention to the children. Wong suggests Beth and Rick's shared aversion to emotion and vulnerability is at the root of the family's problems. As the group is saying I-messages to communicate their feelings, Rick enters to get the syringe. He admits lying to get out of therapy because he prefers to improve the world through science rather than feel better about it. Wong responds that he uses his scientific intelligence to avoid the necessary work of self-improvement.


title: Pickle Rick

text: On the way home, Rick apologizes to Beth for lying, then uses the syringe to turn back into a human. Morty and Summer express interest in further therapy but Rick and Beth ignore them by mocking Wong and planning to go out drinking.


title: Pickle Rick

text: In a post-credits scene, the villain Concerto is preparing to kill a restrained Rick and Morty in his gigantic piano, but Jaguar saves them. Rick tells Morty, "that is why you don't go to therapy."


title: Pickle Rick

text: The episode was written by Jessica Gao. Series creator Dan Harmon said that he thought the concept originated from a writer suggesting an episode beginning with Rick turning himself into a pickle. They discussed his motivation and thought that he would do it "because he could" and to prove something to himself. The therapy subplot was introduced so that the episode would "keep addressing the divorce story of the season". He also said that the Pickle Rick design is phallic and "emblematic of self-torture", as Rick is his "own worst enemy" and does this transformation to himself.


title: Pickle Rick

text: "Pickle Rick" was one of Harmon's favorite episodes of the season. He said that the episode took inspiration from the "Breaking Bad" episode "4 Days Out", where Walter White's van breaks down in the desert while he is cooking crystal meth with Jesse; rather than being able to trick or negotiate with anyone, White has to use his science knowledge to survive and restart the van. Harmon thought it was interesting to see Rick in a situation with limited resources. Writer Ryan Ridley said that the episode is "not a spoof of anything in particular", but it does make reference to the films "127 Hours" (2010) and "Gravity" (2013). During the writing process, Harmon was undergoing a divorce and had entered therapy, which influenced the episode: he said of the speech Dr. Wong gives to Rick, "I don't know if I could've written that two years ago [...] I would've made sure Rick got the final word".


title: Pickle Rick

text: The character Dr. Wong was named by Gao, a Chinese writer who had found that unless a character is given a name with racial connotations, the part will be cast as a white person. Gao intended Wong to be played by an Asian actor. Guest star Susan Sarandon was then discovered to be available and given the role of the therapist, whose name was left unchanged. Gao and Harmon discussed this topic in their podcast "Whiting Wongs", which is about diversity representation in television; it took its name from this incident.


title: Pickle Rick

text: Character designer Kendra Melton estimated that Pickle Rick's rat suit underwent 100 different design versions. Maximus Pauson, also a character designer, stated that the one used was chosen so it "emphasized the pickle-ness". Harmon commented that initial designs for the rats were "too adorable" considering that Rick murders many of them: Melton said that fur was removed, boils were added and their backs became more arched. According to Harmon, the writers gave more detailed instructions to animators than for most episodes, in particular "about the process of hacking the cockroach to give Rick mobility".


title: Pickle Rick

text: At the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, a rough cut animation of "Pickle Rick" was released, featuring him in the sewer attacking rats. As the second season of the show ended with Rick jailed, this led some fans to believe that this was how he would escape, leading to confusion when the third-season premiere was released on April 1, 2017, and showed Rick escaping in a very different way. Three weeks prior to the episode's airing, free Pickle Rick T-shirts and other merchandise were given away at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con. Due to the episode's hype prior to its release, including fans getting tattoos of Pickle Rick, Harmon was not surprised by its later popularity.


title: Pickle Rick

text: The episode first aired on Adult Swim at 11:30 p.m. on August 6, 2017. Afterward, a number of merchandise products were released relating to the character Pickle Rick and the overall episode, such as a game, Funko Pop figures, a Pringles flavor, a Frosty drink, a breakfast cereal, and in-game customization for "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege". The episode commentary on the Blu-ray DVD was recorded by "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and Peter Dinklage, who played Tyrion Lannister in the series. The comic "Rick and Morty Presents: The Vindicators #1" features an alternate Pickle Rick as a member of the titular team; "Rick and Morty Presents: Pickle Rick #1" depicts an alternate version of the events of the episode as a long commercial for "Thunderous Squirt Xtreme" starring the character Mr. Poopybutthole. "Rick and Morty Presents: Jaguar #1" follows the character Jaguar as he reunites with his family.


title: Pickle Rick

text: Unlike the previous two episodes in the season, "Pickle Rick" is set entirely on Earth, but like those episodes, it explores Beth and Jerry's divorce. This marks a change for the show, which previously had little storyline continuity. Jenny Jaffe of "Vulture" described the episode as an instance of how "Rick and Morty" "likes to back itself into corners with the world's dumbest ideas and execute them in the absolute smartest ways". A number of reviewers commented on the violence: for instance, Jesse Schedeen of "IGN" said that it contained "a level of blood and gore" matching the season two episode "Look Who's Purging Now". "IndieWire"s Steve Greene stated that the episode "reached some new levels of grotesquery" even compared to the violence of Rick's car while protecting Summer in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy".


title: Pickle Rick

text: Jack Shepherd of "The Independent" wrote that the episode parodies 1980s action films in the storyline with Russian mobsters and their English leader, and Schedeen believed that it parodies "hyper-violent action films" and the "John Wick" film series. Joe Matar of "Den of Geek" commented that the episode emulates the action film "Die Hard" (1988), as Harmon did previously in the "Community" episode "Modern Warfare". The compound in which Pickle Rick finds himself was the subject of discussion among reviewers. Schedeen referred to it as a "Russian embassy", while Shepherd called it an "unnamed, high-secure facility filled with Russian mobsters", and Greene described it as apparently a "shadowy Eastern European financial consortium". Zack Handlen of "The A.V. Club" wrote, "I don't think the country of the embassy is ever specifically established, which is part of the joke", though noted that the bodyguards are "European".


title: Pickle Rick

text: A "Nerdist" article connected the scene where Rick controls the movement of the cockroach by poking its brain with his tongue to a 2015 study "Central-Complex Control of Movement in the Freely Walking Cockroach", published in "Current Biology", where researchers were able to stimulate neurons of a cockroach in order to control its movement.


title: Pickle Rick

text: Critics commented that Summer and Morty were interested in therapy, while Beth and Rick were not. Jaffe wrote that Beth's children "seem much more affected" by the therapist's concerns than Beth and Rick. Matar agreed, stating that "Morty and Summer both hope they'll get to go back to therapy, but Beth and Rick have chosen to act above it all". Zach Blumenfeld of "Paste" wrote about the car scene that "the eyes of Morty and Summer [lock] into a thousand-yard stare as their mom and grandpa totally ignore the kids' needs". He believed that discussion between Beth and Rick shows "more clearly than ever" their "seemingly hereditary penchant for self-destructive narcissism" and noted that Jerry's "wet-blanket but well-meaning personality" had a "stabilizing effect" on Beth and the family.


title: Pickle Rick

text: Reviewers also analyzed Beth's relationship with her father. Jess Joho of "Mashable" opined that Beth has a father or Electra complex, saying that the episode "takes Freudian symbolism [...] into the literal" and the choice of a pickle is a "literal phallic symbol". Jaffe stated that Beth "doesn't want to believe" that Rick is choosing to skip therapy as it is "so important to her". Shepherd found that "Beth has unresolved abandonment issues, and that mental agony is causing her some serious inner stress that comes out in snarky attacks on everyone around her".


title: Pickle Rick

text: Shepherd opined that Rick shows he "cares for the family" by turning up to therapy. Handlen wrote that Rick's choice to live with the Smith family implies "he does recognize a basic need for those relationships", and that he avoids therapy because "he's smart enough to know that Dr. Wong [...] is right". Schedeen said that Dr. Wong's speech "really cut to the core of his selfish, narcissistic behavior", giving Rick "one of his rare moments of clarity". However, he believed that Beth will forgive anything he does so long as he continues being a father figure. Joho argued that in his diatribe against therapy, "Rick finally shows his true colors to everyone in the room". He called Dr. Wong's speech a "succinct [takedown] of toxic masculinity".


title: Pickle Rick

text: The episode's premiere on Adult Swim was watched by 2.31 million viewers. Several critics commented on the fan enthusiasm, such as Blumenfeld, who said it was "arguably the most eagerly anticipated "Rick and Morty" episode ever" due to the large amount of teaser content released. In June 2017, Julia Alexander of "Polygon" argued that "Pickle Rick is already everyone's favorite character from Rick and Morty's third season", citing fan actions such as creating Twitter and Tumblr accounts for the character. Alexander commented that the show has "found a dedicated fan base because of the absurdity it bases its comedy in". In 2021, a United States Air Force aircraft used a call sign in reference to the episode.


title: Pickle Rick

text: The episode was critically acclaimed, receiving ratings of five out of five in "Vulture", 4.5 out of five in "Den of Geek", 8.7 out of 10 in "IGN", and 8.2 out of 10 in "Paste". "The A.V. Club" rated it an A and "IndieWire" gave it a B+. Schedeen praised it as the show at "its most entertaining" and Greene praised it as "one of the series' best examples of untethering Rick Sanchez from all laws of nature and physics and marveling at the results". Jaffe described it as a "Freudian acid trip" that is "surreal and self-aware". Matar found it "super-engaging", lauding the "charmingly stupid concept that develops into an absurdly overblown, kinetic action movie plot".


title: Pickle Rick

text: The animation of Pickle Rick and his storyline received acclaim. Matar believed that the animation was "easily the coolest aspect" of the episode. Shepherd found a pickle to be "the ideal food that's both hilarious and very, very Rick". Scott Russell of "Paste" reviewed that the "batshit fight scenes" were the best part of the episode, with Blumenfeld also enjoying the "beautiful, free-flowing sequences of mass murder". Handlen praised the pacing, saying that the episode "doesn't belabor the point". Greene highlighted the attention to detail, such as the "sound design of Pickle Rick's mustard salve soothing his laser burns", which gave "a strange amount of credence to a crazy premise".


title: Pickle Rick

text: Danny Trejo received praise in his role as Jaguar. Blumenfeld said that he "shines" in the role and Schedeen wrote that the episode "made great use" of him. Shepherd called him a highlight of the episode, particularly in his dialogue: "This ends when one of us dies, and I've never died before". However, Blumenfeld said that the program is better when characters describe their feelings in "short bursts", and criticized Rick's speech to Jaguar as something the show would earlier have "mercilessly mocked".


title: Pickle Rick

text: The therapy storyline also garnered praise, with Russell calling it perhaps the "strongest B-plot" of the season. Handlen praised the jokes involving Dr. Wong working with coprophagia addicts. Blumenfeld approved of the "strong emotional punch" of the ending and Matar enjoyed the slow pace of the ending scenes, as "a nice breather after all the madcap nonsense that came before". Schedeen praised Sarandon for making "a strong impression as the surprisingly perceptive Dr. Wong". Greene said that a "certain thread of magic" is removed from separating Rick from Morty, but that the episode's "genre riffing and intense commitment to detail nearly make up for it".


title: Pickle Rick

text: In September 2018, "Rick and Morty" received its first Emmy, with a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for "Pickle Rick". The episode also won an Annie Award and was nominated for a Golden Reel Award.


The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is the ministry in the Government of India. It is the apex executive body for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws relating to micro, small and medium enterprises in India. The Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is Narayan Rane.


title: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

text: The statistics provided by the annual reports of Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) shows a rise in the plan amount spent on the khadi sector from ₹1942.7 million to ₹14540 million, and non-plan amounts from ₹437 million to ₹2291 million, in the period from 1994–95 to 2014–2015. The interest subsidies to khadi institutions increased from ₹96.3 million to ₹314.5 million in this period.


text: The Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries was created in October 1999. In September 2001, the ministry was split into the Ministry of Small Scale Industries and the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries. The President of India amended the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961, under the notification dated 9 May 2007. Pursuant to this amendment, they were merged into a single ministry.


text: The ministry was tasked with the promotion of micro and small enterprises. The Small Industries Development Organisation was under the control of the ministry, as was the National Small Industries Corporation Limited public sector undertaking).


text: The Small Industries Development Organisation was established in 1954 on the basis of the recommendations of the Ford Foundation. It has over 60 offices and 21 autonomous bodies under its management. These autonomous bodies include Tool Rooms, Training Institutions and Project-cum-Process Development Centres.


text: It also provides economic information services and advises Government in policy formulation for the promotion and development of SSIs. The field offices also work as effective links between the Central and State Governments.


text: The now-defunct Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries had the objectives of facilitating coordinated and focused policy formulation and effective implementation of programmes, projects, schemes, etc., for improving supply chain management, enhancing skills, upgrading technology, expanding markets and capacity building of entrepreneurs/artisans and their groups/collectives.


text: The Ministry deals with the khadi, village and coir industries through the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) and the Coir Board. It coordinates implementation of two countrywide employment generation programmes, namely, the Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP) and the Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) with the cooperation of State Governments, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other banks. The KVIC, established by an Act of Parliament, is a statutory organisation engaged in promotion and development of khadi and village industries for providing employment opportunities in the rural areas, thereby strengthening the rural economy. The coir industry is a labour-intensive and export-oriented industry. It uses a by-product of coconut, namely, coir husk. The Coir Board, a statutory body established under the Coir Industry Act 1953, looks after the promotion, growth and development of the coir industry, including export promotion and expansion of the domestic market.


text: It was headed by the Minister of Agro & Rural Industries and was based at Udyog Bhavan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi. Shri Mahabir Prasad was the last incumbent.


text: Integrated Training Centre, Nilokheri was an employment and training agency in Nilokheri in Karnal district in the state of Haryana owned and managed by the Government of India and responsible for upgrading technical skills of technicians.


text: It was built around the vocational training centre that was transferred from Kurukshetra, in July, 1948 to the 1100 acres of swampy land on the Delhi-Ambala highway as one of several enterprises intended to provide employment and training for displaced persons following the partition of India


text: Development Organisation and used to provided training to extension officers (industries of State Governments as well as managers and technician entrepreneurs both in modern small scale and traditional village industries. During the Year 1986-87 the centre trained 200 technician, 85 women under core women training programme and 57 SIDO officers.


text: It provides technical training to artisans and workers sponsored by the state government. It also organises training of Extension Officers engaged in various developmental organisation. It provides summer training programs for Degree/Diploma Engineers.


text: Due to some conflict between the Principal and Vice-Principal of Integrated Training Centre was relinquished.


text: Later in the year 2014 the center was taken over by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises which led to its development as Extension center for Central Tool Room, Ludhiana i.e. Central Tool Room Extension Center, Nilokheri. Currently running various technical short term courses.


text: The centre comes under the Government of India and has a Principal and a Vice Principal. The Ministry regulates:


text: It was launched as a central sector scheme in 2008–09 to promote self employment in the country through setting up micro enterprises. It is a credit linked subsidy scheme in which loans up to 25 lakh for manufacturing sector and up to 1000 Lakh for service sector is forwarded to the eligible beneficiaries for which subsidy of up to 35% is provided to them.


text: The Khadi and Village Industries Commission is the implementing agency at the National level. The individuals who are above the age of 18 years and are at least 8th pass, self help groups, Societies registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860, Charitable trusts are all eligible to be beneficiary. Also, only new projects are considered for sanction under the scheme.


title: Deimos (deity)

text: Deimos (, , meaning “dread”) is the personal god of dread and terror in Greek mythology. He was a son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Phobos. Deimos served to represent the feelings of dread and terror that befell those before a battle, while Phobos personified feelings of fear and panic in the midst of battle.


title: Deimos (deity)

text: Deimos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He mainly appears in an assistant role to his father who causes disorder in armies. In the "Iliad", he accompanied his father, Ares, into battle along with the Goddess of Discord Eris and his brother Phobos (fear). In "Shield of Herakles", Phobos and Deimos accompany Ares into battle and remove him from the field once he is injured by Herakles. In Nonnus' "Dionysiaca", Zeus arms Phobos with lightning and Deimos with thunder to frighten Typhon. Later in the work, Phobos and Deimos act as Ares' charioteers to battle Dionysus during his war against the Indians.


title: Deimos (deity)

text: On the modern monument to the battle of Thermopylae, as well as the one at the city of Sparta, Leonidas' shield has a representation of Deimos.


title: Deimos (deity)

text: In 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered the two satellites of the planet Mars. Hall named the two moons Phobos and Deimos. Deimos is the smaller of the two satellites.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The Income Tax Department (also referred to as IT Department or ITD) is a government agency undertaking direct tax collection of the government of India. It functions under the Department of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance. The Income Tax Department is headed by the apex body Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The main responsibility of the Income Tax Department is to enforce various direct tax laws, most important among these being the Income-tax Act, 1961, to collect revenue for the government of India. It also enforces other economic laws such as the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, and the Black Money Act, 2015.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The Income Tax Act, 1961, has a wide scope and empowers ITD to levy tax on the income of individuals, firms, companies, local authorities, societies, or other artificial juridical persons. Thus, the Income Tax Department influences businesses, professionals, NGOs, income earning citizens, and local authorities, among others. The act empowers the Income Tax Department to tax international businesses and professionals and therefore ITD deals in all matters of double taxation avoidance agreements and various other aspects of international taxation such as transfer pricing. Combating tax evasion and tax avoidance practices is a key duty of ITD to ensure constitutionally guided political economy. One measure to combat aggressive tax avoidance is the general anti avoidance rule (GAAR).


title: Income Tax Department

text: Taxation has been one of the key function of the sovereign state since ancient times. In Manusmriti, the Manu stated that the king has the sovereign power to levy and collect tax according to sastras.


title: Income Tax Department

text: In Bodhayana Dharmasutras, it is mentioned that the king received 1/6th of income from his subjects, which was legally termed as tax. In lieu of this tax, the king had a duty to protect his subjects.


title: Income Tax Department

text: According to Kautilya's Arthashastra – an ancient treatise on the study of economics, the art of governance and foreign policy – artha had a much wider significance than wealth. According to him, the power of the government depended upon the strength of its treasury. He stated: "From the treasury comes the power of the government, and the earth, whose ornament is the treasury, is acquired by means of the treasury and army." In Raghuvamsh, Kalidas, eulogizing King Dalip, said, "it was only for the good of his subjects that he collected taxes from them just as the sun draws moisture from the earth to give it back a thousand time."


title: Income Tax Department

text: The 19th century saw the establishment of British rule in India. Following the mutiny of 1857, the British government faced an acute financial crisis. To fill up the treasury, the first Income-tax Act was introduced in February 1860 by James Wilson, who became British-India's first finance minister. The act received the assent of the governor general on July 24, 1860, and came into effect immediately. It was divided into 21 parts consisting of no less than 259 sections. Income was classified under four schedules: i) income from landed property; ii) income from professions and trade; iii) income from securities, annuities and dividends; and iv) income from salaries and pensions. Agricultural income was subject to tax.


title: Income Tax Department

text: Subsequently, many laws were brought to streamline income tax laws. For example, the Super-Rich Tax was introduced in 1918, and the new Income-tax Act was passed in 1918. But most important among all these were the Income-tax Act of 1922. This act of 1922 marked an important change from the act of 1918 by shifting the administration of the income tax from the hands of the provincial government to the central government. Another remarkable feature of this act was that the rates were to be enunciated by the annual finance acts instead of in the basic enactment. Again, the new Income-tax Act came in 1939.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The 1922 act was amended not less than twenty nine times between 1939 and 1956. A tax on capital gains was imposed for the first time in 1946, although the concept of ‘capital gains’ has been amended many times by later amendments. In 1956, Mr. Nicholas Kaldor was given the responsibility of investigating the Indian tax system in light of the revenue requirement of the second five-year plan (1956–1961). He submitted an exhaustive report for a coordinated tax system and therefore, the result was the enactment of several taxation acts, viz., the wealth-tax Act 1957, the Expenditure-tax Act, 1957 and the Gift-tax Act, 1958.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The Direct Taxes Administration Enquiry Committee, under the chairmanship of Shri Mahavir Tyagi, submitted its report on November 30, 1959, and the recommendations made therein took shape of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The 1961 act came in to force with effect from 1 April 1962 by replacing the Indian Income Tax Act, 1922, which had remained in operation for 40 years. The present law of income tax is governed by the Income Tax Act, 1961, which has 298 sections and four schedules and is applicable to whole of India, including the state of Jammu and Kashmir.


title: Income Tax Department

text: Administration in the Income Tax Department (ITD) is run through a statutory body, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), at the apex level and 18 territory-based regional headquarters at the field offices level. Besides these are 10 specialized directorates within the Income Tax Department, most extensive and famous among these being the Directorate of Investigation.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is a part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. The CBDT provides inputs for the policy and planning of direct taxes in India and is also responsible for the administration of direct tax laws through the IT Department. The CBDT is a statutory authority functioning under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963. The officials of the Board in their "ex officio" capacity also function as a division of the ministry dealing with matters relating to the levy and collection of direct taxes. The CBDT is headed by a chairman and also comprises six members, all of whom are "ex officio" special secretaries to the government of India.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The chairman and members of the CBDT are selected from the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), whose members constitute the top management of the IT Department. The chairman and every member of CBDT are responsible for exercising supervisory control over specialized functional categories at field offices of the IT Department. Various functions and responsibilities of the CBDT are distributed amongst the chairman and six members, with only fundamental issues reserved for collective decision by the CBDT. The areas for collective decision by the CBDT include policy regarding discharge of statutory functions of the CBDT and of the union government under the various direct tax laws.


title: Income Tax Department

text: At present Income Tax Department (ITD) field offices are divided into 18 regions with territorial jurisdiction and one region for international taxation. As required for efficient and effective administration, these regions have some administrative autonomy to carry out duties assigned by CBDT.


title: Income Tax Department

text: Directorates are meant to take responsibility of specialized functions. There are 10 specialized directorates within the Income Tax Department, most extensive and famous among these being Directorate of Investigation.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The Income Tax Department of the government of India is a leader in good governance. Since large portion of population interacts with department on a yearly basis hence good governance by ITD has improved citizen satisfaction with government functioning. A very well known model of good governance, Sevottam, is being implemented by the Income Tax Department.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The Income Tax Department is a leader in implementing Sevottam, which is certification of quality of public service delivery in India. The term "Sevottam" comes from the Hindi words "Seva" and "Uttam" and supposedly means excellence in service delivery. It involves the identification of the services delivered to the citizens, quality of service, its objective, improvement of quality, by using innovative methods for developing business process and more informative with the help of information technology. The citizen-centric approach includes the following three components:


title: Income Tax Department

text: Ayakar Seva Kendra (ASK; translated as "Income Tax Help Centre") is an integrated model that provides single window system for registration of all applications including those or redressal of grievances as well as receipt of paper return. The assesses can approach ASK and pose all kinds of queries. ASK is available at almost all Income Tax Department offices across the country.


title: Income Tax Department

text: Launched in 2006 by the Income Tax Department, the Tax Return Preparer Scheme assists small and marginal taxpayers in preparing and filing their tax returns by creating a company of ‘Tax Return Preparers’. Tax Return Preparers are experts in income tax law and in filing of income tax returns. They can charge a maximum fee of Rs. 250, or sometimes nothing.


title: Income Tax Department

text: Over the years income tax return filing has been made more simple, convenient, and smart through use of technology. This includes following:


title: Income Tax Department

text: Taxation law is not only very complex as it requires specialized knowledge and expertise to implement, but also it necessitates various kinds of deterrent actions to ensure compliance by taxpayers.


title: Income Tax Department

text: The finance ministry instructed all revenue intelligence agencies to join the crackdown on forex traders, hawala operators and jewelers besides tracking movement of demonetised currency notes.


title: Income Tax Department

text: Income Tax departments raided various illegal tax-evasive businesses in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and other cities that traded with demonetised currency. The Enforcement Directorate issued several FEMA notices to forex and gold traders. Large sum of cash in defunct notes were seized in different parts of the country. In Chhattisgarh liquid cash worth of was seized.


title: Income Tax Department

text: In December 2016, the Income Tax department received more than 4000 emails, on black money holders, in India, within 3 days, when Income Tax Department, issued in public notice an email to report black money


title: Income Tax Department

text: Huge amounts of cash in the form of new notes were seized all over the country after the demonetisation.


title: Income Tax Department

text: In December 2016, over ₹4 crore in new ₹2000 notes were seized from four persons in Bangalore, ₹33 lakh in ₹2000 notes were recovered from Manish Sharma, an expelled BJP leader in West Bengal, and ₹1.5 crore was seized in Goa. 900 notes of the new ₹2000 denomination were seized from a BJP leader in Tamil Nadu. Around ₹10 crore in new ₹2000 notes were seized in Chennai.


title: Half marathon

text: A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcuts. If finisher medals are awarded, the medal or ribbon may differ from those for the full marathon. The half marathon is also known as a 21K, 21.1K or 13.1 miles, although these values are rounded and not formally correct.


title: Half marathon

text: A half marathon world record is officially recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. The official IAAF world record for men is 57:31, set by Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda in November 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal, and for women is 1:04:02, set by Ruth Chepng'etich of Kenya on April 4, 2021, in Istanbul, Turkey.


title: Half marathon

text: Participation in half marathons has grown steadily since 2003, partly because it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a marathon does. In 2008, "Running USA" reported that the half marathon is the fastest-growing type of race.


title: Half marathon

text: The largest half marathon ever held was Broloppet (the Bridge race) between Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden with finishers, held in connection with the Øresund Bridge inauguration in 2000.


title: Devil's Sea

text: The , also known as the Devil's triangle, the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo. The Devil's Sea is sometimes considered as a paranormal location, though the veracity of these claims has been questioned.


title: Devil's Sea

text: The Japanese word "ma no umi" (translated as devil sea, troublesome sea, or dangerous sea) has been widely used to describe dangerous marine locations around the world. This means that there are many locations that the Japanese call "ma no umi."


title: Devil's Sea

text: In August of 1945 a Mitsubishi A6M Zero supposedly went missing. A distress radio transmission from Zero F Wing Commander pilot Shiro Kawamoto crossing the Triangle near the end of the war created more questions than answers. The last thing his message said was "...something is happening in the sky...the sky is opening up-".


title: Devil's Sea

text: On 4 January 1955, Japanese ship "Shinyo Maru No. 10" (第十伸洋丸) lost radio contact near Mikura-jima. Japanese newspapers then began to label the location as "ma no umi" until the ship was found safe on 15 January. Yomiuri Shimbun showed a map of the sea with points of several other ships that had been lost in recent years, and stated that those ships were lost within the area that the Yokohama Coast Guard Office had classified as a special danger area. In the U.S., "The New York Times" introduced this incident with the term "The Devil's Sea," where nine ships had been lost in perfect weather. Yomiuri Shimbun described the size of the "ma no umi" as follows: "From the Izu islands to east of the Ogasawara islands; about 200 miles east to west, and about 300 miles north to south, where nine ships were lost in the past five years". However, two of the nine ships were lost near Miyake-jima and Iwo Jima, about 750 miles apart.


title: Devil's Sea

text: In 1974, American paranormal writer Charles Berlitz introduced the Devil's Sea in his book "The Bermuda Triangle". Berlitz claimed that "nine modern ships and several hundred crews were lost without traces between 1950 and 1954; in 1955, the Japanese government sent "Kaiyo Maru No 5" to the sea for investigating unexplained ship losses, but this ship vanished as well" ... "After the incident, Japanese authorities have labeled the sea as a danger zone."


title: Devil's Sea

text: In 1989, Berlitz claimed that the Devil's Sea is also called the Dragon's Triangle in his book "The Dragon's Triangle". Berlitz continued by theorizing that five Japanese military vessels disappeared while on maneuvers near Japanese shores in early 1942.


title: Devil's Sea

text: In 1975, American author Larry Kusche published "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved", debunking the Devil's Sea legend. Kusche sent letters to government offices which were related to the sea, but nobody knew about the Devil's Sea or such a danger area. The actual danger zone where the Maritime Safety Agency of Japan warned not to approach was only 10 miles to Myōjin-shō. The "Kaiyo Maru No. 5" was sent to Myōjin-shō for investigating activity of an undersea volcano, and lost in 1952. The loss of the Kaiyo Maru was accounted: undersea volcano eruption. One of eight other lost ships also was accounted. Most of the nine ships were small fishing boats with poor or no radio. The weather was not perfect.


title: Devil's Sea

text: In 1995, Kusche's research claimed that Berlitz's military vessels were actually fishing vessels, and some of those listed by Berlitz sank outside the area defined by the Dragon's Triangle. Kusche also wrote that the Japanese research vessel carried not 100 personnel, but only 31 and that an undersea volcano destroyed it on 24 September 1952.


title: Devil's Sea

text: In Daniel Cohen's 1974 book "Curses, Hexes & Spells", it's reported that legends of the danger of the Dragon's Triangle go back for centuries in Japan. Its most famous casualty was the "No. 5 Kaiyō-Maru", a scientific research vessel, which disappeared with the loss of all hands on 24 September 1952. With such a dramatic history, one would expect there to be all sorts of information on the subject, especially in Japan. A search completed by "Skeptoid" author Brian Dunning for books, newspaper, and magazine articles on the Dragon's Triangle came up completely empty, until a full 20 years after the loss of the "Kaiyō-Maru". Apparently, the story (even the very existence of this legendary named region) was not invented until very recently.


title: Devil's Sea

text: Research also explores natural environmental changes, as the cause of such controversial anomalies in the Dragon's Triangle. One of these explanations is the vast field of methane hydrates present on the bottom of the ocean in the Dragon's Triangle area. Methane clathrates (methane hydrates gas) will "explode" when it rises above 18 °C (64 °F). Methane hydrate gases are described as icelike deposits that break off from the bottom and rise, forming bubbles on the surface of the water. These gas eruptions can interrupt buoyancy and can easily sink a ship, leaving no trace of debris. Another explanation for this "paranormal" activity could be the undersea volcanoes that are very common in this area. It is quite characteristic for small islands in the Dragon's Triangle to frequently disappear and new islands appear due to both volcanoes and seismic activity. Because the location of the Dragon's Triangle is not plotted on any official world map, the size and perimeter vary from one author to another author.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: The Bishop Sycamore Centurions were an American football team based in Columbus, Ohio. They purported to be the high school football team of Bishop Sycamore High School. The high school was advertised as an athletic sports training academy; however, after a blowout loss to IMG Academy that was televised on ESPN on August 29, 2021, there was increased scrutiny and investigation into the school's existence. This investigation included uncovering the identities and credentials of the team's administration. A former executive for the Ohio High School Athletic Association came forward to say that after three years of investigating the school, he was convinced that it was a "scam". A report published in December 2021 by the Ohio Department of Education concluded that the school was found to be operating as a scam.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: The Centurions suffered lopsided losses in all six of their 2020 games, yet their lack of success did not hinder their ability to schedule marquee games against elite preparatory and high schools. The televised game against IMG Academy was the second time they had played the school, following a similar 56–6 loss in 2020. Their 2021 schedule was ranked the fourth most difficult of any high school team in the United States. In the wake of the scandal surrounding the game, Bishop Sycamore's remaining opponents canceled their games against the team.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Former player Aaron Boyd said in an interview with "Complex" that athletes were recruited under the premise of the school being the "IMG of the Midwest". However, many of their student-athletes were older than high-school age, and there was no real campus. Instead, athletes were housed in a hotel for five months, with the only schooling being one visit to a public library. The school also struggled to maintain coaches as 80% of the coaching staff quit during the season and the team was left with just two coaches and one mother of a player. The players were also not provided with food and some players resorted to stealing from supermarkets to eat.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: "Complex" also conducted an anonymous interview with two former Bishop Sycamore students. They revealed that then head coach, Leroy Johnson, recruited the students with the prospect of "practicing at Ohio State's facilities". In reality, they held practice outside of an apartment complex that housed students at Ohio State. The team also did not have athletic trainers, which resulted in the athletes playing injured. The apartments housing the students frequently evicted them after Johnson failed to pay rent. Many players already graduated from high school and there "were four or five kids that were 20, 21, [and] had children of their own". A number of players had legal issues; at one point so many players had active arrest warrants that the team could not fly to away games. One player actually joined the team immediately after being released from jail. The team also struggled with camaraderie; a former player claimed there were at least five fights at every practice.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: The school was originally founded as Christians of Faith Academy (COF) in 2018. A federal investigation was opened to look into COF for use of counterfeit currency, credit and debit card fraud, computer fraud and other potential crimes. It was shut down after just one season and became Bishop Sycamore. Leroy Johnson, the former head coach, claims that they had ties to the Third District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and had plans to build a "massive campus". Johnson was business-development director for the Richard Allen Group, the financial arm of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Johnson later used COF and the church's name during his attempts to sell life-insurance. The AME church has denied having any connection with the school, but an investigation by "The Columbus Dispatch" found a trail of emails and bank statements that documented the connections between the AME and the school, which was initially established in an effort to provide opportunities to disadvantaged youth. Whatever ties the AME had to the school were severed by fall 2018.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: As Christians of Faith, the team played its inaugural season in 2018; out of 12 scheduled games, the team won two, lost eight and forfeited two, including its first scheduled game against IMG Academy.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Bishop Sycamore tried to associate with YouthBuild Columbus Community School. However, when Bishop Sycamore tried to promote themselves as working with YouthBuild, YouthBuild decided to part ways and, eventually, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bishop Sycamore that the two organizations are not to be affiliated with one another. In 2019, there were concerns that YouthBuild were fielding players who were older than 18 or had otherwise used up their four years of high school eligibility. These concerns, which are against the rules of both the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and multiple state high school associations, prompted Point Pleasant High School in West Virginia to cancel their game against them out of liability concerns.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: The football team known as Bishop Sycamore first played in 2019, during which they went 4–5 against a variety of smaller schools, none of them located in Ohio. On August 27, 2019, they were removed from playing against Mainland High School in the Freedom Bowl, a private football tournament in Milton, Georgia, for "breach of contract" following failure to submit a roster and book hotel rooms in time.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: In 2020, Bishop Sycamore offered online classes through an organization called Graduation Alliance, but the classes were ended after five months as a result of Bishop Sycamore failing to provide payments for the organization's services. Meanwhile, the team exploited cancellations stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic to land matches against marquee teams needing to fill their schedule; they went 0–6 that year and were outscored 227–42. Their schedule consisted of high school powerhouses like Massillon Washington High School, McCallie School, St. Edward High School, Saint Ignatius High School, and IMG Academy; IMG Academy defeated Bishop Sycamore 56–6. NBC News noted that such elite high school programs struggle to find opponents from outside their league or geographic area, as few were willing to travel long distances to face a far superior opponent. Bishop Sycamore likely had little difficulty convincing teams to schedule a game.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Bishop Sycamore came into the 2021 season with the fourth toughest schedule in the nation. They also tried to raise $20,000 to fund the school's football program via GoFundMe, but they had raised only $140. Prior to their highly publicized 2021 matchup against IMG Academy, Bishop Sycamore had played two games during the 2021 season, losing their first game by a score of 38–0 to Archbishop Hoban High School on August 19, 2021. Bishop Sycamore had then played a second game just two days before playing IMG Academy against Sto-Rox High School on August 27, 2021, which they lost 19–7.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Leroy Johnson Jr., also known as Roy Johnson, is an American football coach who most recently served as the head coach of the Bishop Sycamore Centurions.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: During 2018, Johnson was signed to the Christians of Faith Academy as the athletic director and assistant coach. During the end of the season, the team collapsed due to financial reasons. In 2020, Johnson rebranded the Christians of Faith Academy to Bishop Sycamore. On August 29, 2021, the team played IMG Academy on ESPN but lost 58–0 and put Johnson on the hot seat of getting fired. After the game, Johnson came under heavy scrutiny. It was revealed that there was an active arrest warrant for Johnson relating to "fraudulent misrepresentation, conversion, and unjust enrichment". Johnson also faced a civil lawsuit filed by ARN Hospitality, which claimed he owed them $110,685 for not paying any portion of the bill from the hotel where the players were housed. He faces similar lawsuits for failure to pay from a busing company and a football helmet manufacturer. Johnson has also taken out a loan of $100,000 but never repaid the bank.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Former athletes at Bishop Sycamore also revealed that Johnson's football play calls all came from "Madden NFL" video games and that the team attacked a homeless man for attempting to break into Johnson's car. The only class offered to students was a religious class taught by Johnson.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Bishop Sycamore gained national attention when they played high school football powerhouse IMG Academy on August 29, 2021. The game was aired on ESPN as the finale of the 2021 ESPN High School Kickoff series, a weekend of high school football showcases televised by ESPN's networks featuring prominent teams, nationally ranked prospects, and players that have committed to playing Division I FBS college football. The games were booked by the company Paragon Marketing, which has historically served as a partner for ESPN's high school events. Paragon was unable to find a team willing to play IMG, so they outsourced their efforts to a man named Joe Maimon, who runs a company called Prep Gridiron Logistics. Maimon contacted 200 schools to play IMG, and Bishop Sycamore was the only school willing to play against them. The game was expected by many to be a game between two elite programs but was far from competitive. IMG Academy was dominant throughout the entire game, winning 58–0 in their first shutout since 2019.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: As the lopsided contest ensued, play-by-play announcer Anish Shroff and color commentator Tom Luginbill began to question the legitimacy of the Centurions on-air. They revealed that ESPN had been unable to verify claims that its roster contained NCAA Division I college prospects, and they could not find any mention of Bishop Sycamore or its players in any recruiting databases. Shroff wondered how Bishop Sycamore was booked for a nationally televised game against IMG—the "most talented prep team in the country". To Shroff's mind, the game appeared to be such a mismatch that "there's got to be a point now where you're worried about health and safety". Luginbill agreed, saying that the game could potentially get "dangerous" due to Bishop Sycamore's apparent lack of depth.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: One member of the ESPN production team likened the game to "four and five star recruits against a JV team". After IMG scored 23 points in the first quarter, organizers for the event spoke to Johnson about calling the game via mercy rule, but he refused. Johnson also refused to allow a running clock even when it was apparent the game was out of hand. It subsequently emerged that ESPN officials had greenlit the broadcast despite Bishop Sycamore being slow to provide rudimentary information about the school and the team, contrary to longstanding practice for high schools appearing on the network. For instance, Johnson did not show up for a scheduled virtual production meeting two days before the game. ESPN only got a fact sheet about the school hours before the game. Several members of ESPN's production staff thought something was amiss when several names on Bishop Sycamore's roster did not check out, but the game went ahead as scheduled.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: After the game, a Fairfield Inn & Suites, where Bishop Sycamore stayed while staying in Canton, accused the team of attempting to use two invalid checks for $3,596 in order to pay for 25 rooms. The team was also charged $750 for room damages. The Canton Police Department announced they were investigating the school for forgery.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Coach Leroy Johnson was fired on August 31 in the aftermath of the IMG Academy game, with founder Andre Peterson taking over the operation. Peterson maintained the operation was legitimate, noting that he had enrolled his own son in the school. However, former players for Johnson have said, "He's never gonna leave that program. He might say he's not taking the coaching job. He might lie to make the public get off his back. But Roy is not gonna get out of that. He's gonna be in their ears at all times." Johnson was replaced by Tyren Jackson as the school's head football coach. In an interview with Columbus TV station WCMH-TV following his hiring, Jackson acknowledged that the organization was not a school and should not have identified as one:


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: We are not a school. That's not what Bishop Sycamore is, and I think that's what the biggest misconception about us was, and that was our fault. Because that was a mistake on paperwork.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: In the same interview, Jackson stated the team was still hoping to schedule more games in 2021, noting that the team's newfound notoriety would ensure that the first opponent who agreed to play Bishop Sycamore would make "national news" by doing so.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Following the game, fans and media outlets began to question whether Bishop Sycamore was a real high school. During the 2020–21 school year, the Ohio Department of Education listed Bishop Sycamore as a "non-chartered, non-tax supported school"; the school was not listed at all for the 2021–22 year. The state listed a P.O. box as its mailing address, and its physical address as being a sports training facility in Columbus. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus had no record of any bishop named Sycamore, nor any parochial schools by that name in their diocese, throughout their history. The school's website contained blank "About Us" and "Staff" pages. The school is not part of the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA); it instead plays in the Texas Christian Athletic League, which includes the team in its Division 6A, a "national division" open to teams outside Texas (by late October, the TCAL had dropped Bishop Sycamore from the league). In 2020, the school claimed an enrollment of only three students. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that the Ohio Department of Education would be opening an investigation into the school's educational operations. In the wake of that investigation, the three remaining schools still slated to play Bishop Sycamore called off the games. The OHSAA later stated that, even if Bishop Sycamore were not a "bona fide" high school, teams in their jurisdiction would still be allowed to schedule and play them, as no rule in the OHSAA bylaws requires OHSAA teams' opponents to be affiliated with any high school. Such games would be considered exhibition games for the purposes of record keeping. The investigation conducted by the Ohio Department of Education into Bishop Sycamore was released on December 17, 2021, and found that the school failed to meet educational standards, failed to provide a physical location for classes to meet, and did not employ any teachers. The report went on to say Bishop Sycamore was likely a scam and that they recommend the Ohio Attorney General look into possible legal action against the school's administrators.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Player safety concerns were also raised, after it was discovered that Bishop Sycamore had played a Friday night game just two days earlier against Sto-Rox High School in Pennsylvania (which they lost 19–7). The game featured many of the same players as their game against IMG Academy. Rashid Ghazi, president of Paragon Marketing, said that the game would have been canceled had anyone known Bishop Sycamore was already playing a game the preceding Friday. After the game, ESPN released a statement placing responsibility for the incident on Paragon, saying that Paragon had given assurances "that they will take steps to prevent this kind of situation from happening moving forward". Duncanville High School in Duncanville, Texas, originally stated that it intended on following through with its scheduled game against Bishop Sycamore on September 10 despite the allegations of impropriety, but they later decided to cancel the game and seek a new opponent.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Ben Ferree, the former assistant director of Officiating and Sport Management at the OHSAA, told "Awful Announcing" that he spent "the better part of three years" investigating Bishop Sycamore and its previous incarnation, COF Academy. He first looked into the school when he noticed that it played a number of OHSAA member schools. Standard practice called for Ferree to contact any non-OHSAA member school to verify that school's enrollment for purposes of playoff seeding. However, Ferree grew suspicious when COF Academy claimed to have 750 boys on its roll; according to Ferree, if a newly opened school in the state capital had that many boys, he and other OHSAA officials would have known about it. After unsuccessful attempts to verify that COF Academy was what it claimed to be, the OHSAA declared that COF Academy was not a legitimate school, which ultimately led to its charter being revoked in 2018. Ferree ultimately concluded that Bishop Sycamore existed as a money-making venture for Johnson. He told "Awful Announcing" that Johnson would agree to play powerhouse high schools, provided that the school paid for Bishop Sycamore's travel expenses. However, Johnson would pocket the travel stipend for personal use.


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Comedian Kevin Hart announced that his production company HartBeat Productions, Complex Networks and others would be producing a docuseries which will cover "how the school and this game fooled the world and became front page news".


title: Bishop Sycamore High School scandal

text: Former NFL player Michael Strahan's production company, SMAC Entertainment, announced in September 2021 that he had secured the rights to interview Leroy Johnson for a documentary about Bishop Sycamore. SMAC later joined forces with "Two Distant Strangers" directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, Adam McKay's Hyperobject Industries, Spencer Paysinger's Moore Street Productions, Boat Rocker Media, and "The Athletic" to produce an HBO Sports documentary titled "BS High", which was announced as being in production in August 2022, and is expected to premiere in 2023.


title: A1B reactor

text: The A1B reactor is an aircraft carrier nuclear reactor developed by the United States Navy. It is used in "Gerald R. Ford"–class aircraft carriers to provide electrical and propulsion energy. The A1B is the first naval reactor produced by Bechtel Corporation, which has "performed engineering and/or construction services on more than 80 percent of [land-based] nuclear plants in the United States".


title: A1B reactor

text: Aircraft carriers' nuclear reactors provide the electrical and motor energy of the ship by splitting enriched uranium to produce heat and convert water to steam to power steam turbines. This process is largely the same as in land-based nuclear power stations, the most notable difference being the direct use of turboshaft power for turning the ship's screws. Over decades of development several other design differences have emerged between naval reactors and the usually much larger power station reactors.


title: A1B reactor

text: As Navy planners developed requirements for the "Gerald R. Ford" class, they concluded that the A4W reactors that provide propulsion and electricity for the predecessor "Nimitz"-class aircraft carriers offer too little power for contemporary and anticipated future shipboard needs, so they commissioned a new reactor from Bechtel.


title: A1B reactor

text: The new reactor was named A1B, following the Navy's reactor-designation scheme of type, generation, and manufacturer: A for aircraft carrier, 1 for the maker's first reactor plant design, and B for Bechtel. Two A1B reactor plants will power each "Gerald R. Ford" class ship.


title: A1B reactor

text: It is estimated that the thermal power output of each A1B will be around 700 MW, some 25% more than provided by the A4W. Improved efficiency in the total plant is expected to provide improved output to both propulsion and electrical systems. Using A4W data with a 25% increase in thermal power, the A1B reactors likely produce enough steam to generate of electricity, plus from just one reactor to power the four propeller shafts.


title: A1B reactor

text: The increased electrical generation capacity will allow for elimination of service steam on the ship, reducing staffing requirements for maintenance. Also, the use of electrical aircraft catapults (EMALS) will free the ship's air wing from reactor plant steam constraints, in comparison to the steam catapults used for launching aircraft on "Nimitz" class carriers, which relied on steam supplied by the nuclear reactor.


title: A1B reactor

text: The A1B reactor uses modernized technology that is both more advanced and adaptable than previous reactor technology, is smaller and weighs less than the A4W, and has operator interfaces that are expected to be improved as well.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: The Peugeot 3008 is a compact crossover SUV manufactured and marketed by Peugeot. It was first presented to the public in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2008, and then again in 2010 at the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris, by the French manufacturer Peugeot. It was launched in April 2009 as the successor to the Peugeot 4007 and Peugeot 4008, and it fills a gap in Peugeot's model lineup between the Peugeot 308, with which it shares its platform, and the Peugeot 5008, its larger counterpart. The second-generation model was unveiled in May 2016, with the vehicle being available as of January 2017.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: As of , the 3008 was developed together with the Citroën C5 Aircross, DS 7 Crossback and the Opel Grandland, sharing the PSA EMP2 platform.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: Launched in 2008, the 3008 shares its platform and bears similarity with the Peugeot 5008, which is a three-row MPV and larger counterpart of 3008. Despite having had its styling criticised, the 3008 has been praised by automobile magazines. In January 2010, the British motoring magazine "What Car?" awarded it "Car of the Year" for 2010. It also was awarded 2010 Semperit Irish Car of the Year in Ireland. The 3008 followed up this award in 2018, by winning the Continental Irish Car of the Year.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: The Exclusive and Allure models have a head up display, which projects a reading onto a small perspex like screen just in front of the main windscreen area in front of the driver. It also contains a distance alert, which warns the driver if he or she is too close to the car in front. It also displays details for cruise control or the speed limiter.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: The Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4 was launched in February 2012, and is the world's first mass production diesel electric hybrid, which used the 6-speed automatic transmission. It included the only 2.0-litre DW10 diesel engine in the PSA line-up. The DW10 engine was rated at at 3750 rpm and at 2000 rpm.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: The crossover hybrid has four different operating modes: Auto (the electronics automatically control the entire system), ZEV (all electric), four wheel drive mode (4WD) and sport (higher engine speeds than normal mode). A 200v nickel-metal hydride (Ni/MH) battery pack is located in the rear.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: The second generation 3008 was announced by Peugeot in May 2016, and was first presented to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 2016. Its design allows the vehicle to come into contention with large competitors in the C segment market of SUVs, which has been a prominent market in the past years. Sales of the second generation 3008 began with the model year of 2017, at the end of 2016.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: It features Peugeot's new iCockpit, which is an improved design compared to the current iCockpit featured in the Peugeot 208, Peugeot 2008 and Peugeot 308. The second generation was introduced on 23 May 2016. Features include an eight inch touch screen to the centre console, a 12.3 inch customisable heads up display, and the small style steering wheel, which has become standard in all current models of Peugeot.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: Production started in 2016, with sales starting in January 2017. 100,000 orders were made in Europe between October 2016 and March 2017, half of them were made by people who did not own a Peugeot.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: A facelift was unveiled on 1 September 2020 for the 2021 model year. Featuring new front end styling, resembling that of the New 208 and New 508, increased technology, refreshed interior with an enlarged touchscreen and revised rear lighting.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: In November 2016, the new 3008 was awarded overall "CarBuyer" "Car of the Year" 2017, as well as winning best in the category of SUVs.


title: Peugeot 3008

text: "Diesel Car Magazine" awarded the 3008 the overall award of Car of the Year for 2017, as well as taking the honour of "Best Medium SUV".


title: Peugeot 3008

text: In March 2017, the new 3008 won European Car of the Year 2017, by a jury of 58 motoring journalists from twenty two European countries. The award came the same day that the PSA Group announced a $2.3 billion deal to buy GM's Opel division. Opel's Astra won the Car of the Year in 2016, reacted with these two awards within two years, the Peugeot Group CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato said, "This is an alliance of winners".


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: The 2016 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2015–16 season. The tournament ended with the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers defeating the defending NBA champion and Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors 4 games to 3 after the Warriors led the series 3 games to 1. In the NBA Finals, LeBron James was named NBA Finals MVP.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: The Cavaliers swept their first two series and won the first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Raptors to become the fourth team in NBA history to open a post-season with 10 straight victories. They matched the 2012 San Antonio Spurs, though the 1989 and 2001 Western Conference Los Angeles Lakers had won their first eleven games en route to sweeping the first three rounds of those playoffs. Cleveland wound up repeating this feat the next year when they swept the conference opening round, semifinal round, and winning the first 2 conference final games; this feat would be surpassed in those same 2017 NBA playoffs, when the Golden State Warriors won 15 straight games.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: Within each conference, the eight teams with the most wins qualify for the playoffs. The seedings are based on each team's record.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: Each conference's bracket is fixed; there is no reseeding. All rounds are best-of-seven series; the team that has four wins advances to the next round. As stated above, all rounds, including the NBA Finals, are in a 2–2–1–1–1 format. The rule for determining home court advantage in the NBA Finals is winning percentage, then head-to-head record, followed by record vs. opposite conference.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: On September 8, 2015, the NBA announced changes to how playoff teams were seeded. Previously, the division champions were guaranteed no worse than the fourth seed, while the team with the second-best record in the conference was guaranteed no worse than the second seed even if it wasn't a division champion. Starting with the 2016 playoffs, the eight playoff qualifiers in each conference will be seeded solely based on regular-season record. If two teams finish with identical records, the team that wins the regular-season series will get the higher seed. If the regular-season series is tied and one of the teams is a division champion, the division champion will get the higher seed. If three or more teams finish with identical records and one of the teams is a division champion, the division champion will get the higher seed.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: On February 27, 2016, the Golden State Warriors became the first team to clinch a playoff spot. This was the earliest a team had clinched a playoff spot in February since the 1987–88 Los Angeles Lakers. The Cleveland Cavaliers became the first Eastern Conference team to clinch a playoff spot on March 18, 2016.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions are marked by an asterisk. Teams with home court advantage are shown in Italics.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: In Game 3, Kyrie Irving hit the tough corner 3 late in the 4th quarter, with only 0.7 seconds remaining on the shot clock. In Game 4, Irving also hit a three to give the Cavaliers a 4-point lead with less than a minute left. Reggie Jackson would then drive and dunk the ball to cut the lead to 2. As Irving attempted another clutch 3, it went short and the players scrambled for the ball until the Pistons came up with it. As they looked for a 3 to force Game 5, or a 2 to send it to overtime, they look to Reggie Jackson. He took a 3 over Irving, but that went short as well, and the Cavaliers move on to the second round. Game 4 was also the last playoff game ever played at The Palace of Auburn Hills.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Cavaliers winning two out of the first three meetings.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: With the series tied at two games apiece, Game 5 was a close one. After Kemba Walker misses the stepback jumper over Hassan Whiteside, Courtney Lee gets the offensive rebound and hits the clutch 3 with 25.2 seconds left. The Hornets then block 2 shots to seal it. It was their first playoff road win since game 4 of the 2002 playoffs against the Orlando Magic. By then, Charlotte was on the verge of an upset, but in Game 6, Dwyane Wade wouldn't let his team down. Although he hasn't hit a three since December 2015, he hits 2 clutch shots including a three with less than a minute to go, as the series goes back to Miami for a Game 7. There, the Heat closed out the series and advance to the second round, to face the Toronto Raptors, who also moved on to the second round for the first time since 2001.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Heat winning the most recent meeting in 2014.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the 12th playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning ten of the first eleven meetings.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: The Warriors, after game 1, went through games 2 and 3 without Stephen Curry. He injured his ankle and would be lost until game 4. Game 4 saw him injure his knee, as he slipped on a wet spot on the floor at the Toyota Center in Houston. Curry's Warriors teammates stepped up and blew out the Rockets by 27 points. They would close out the series by blowing the Rockets out again, by 33 points.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the first meeting being in 2015, as Golden State defeated Houston 4–1 in the Western Conference finals.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with San Antonio winning the most recent meeting in 2013.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning two of the four meetings.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: In Game 2, the Cavaliers made history by hitting 18 three-pointers in the first half and 25 overall to break the record for most three-point field goals made by a team in a game. During Game 3's final minute, Jeff Teague pushed LeBron James into a Hawks fan, James would later claim that he was still okay. In Game 4, both teams were locked in battle until in the final seconds, a jump ball was called between Dennis Schröder and LeBron James, and the Hawks desperately won the tip, but the game-winning shot by Paul Millsap bounced off the rim as the Cavs make a second straight sweep.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the third time the Cavaliers swept the Hawks in the playoffs and it would be the second consecutive season the Cavaliers swept them.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Cavaliers winning the first two meetings.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: Even though the Raptors lost Game 1, Kyle Lowry hits a game-tying shot from half-court at the buzzer to force overtime. The play is similar to Chauncey Billups' half-court buzzer beater against the Nets in the 2004 playoffs, that also forced overtime. The end of Game 7 marks the Raptors' first ever trip to the Eastern Conference finals in their history.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: Game 7 is noteworthy as being Dwyane Wade's last game with the Miami Heat (during his first stint with the team) as he would sign with the Chicago Bulls in the off-season. He would return to the Miami Heat in 2018 after being traded for a second-round pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: In Game 4, when Stephen Curry came back from his knee injury, he scored 40 points, along with an NBA record 17 points in overtime to lead the Warriors to a 132–125 win. They closed out the series in Game 5, to advance and face the Oklahoma City Thunder, who defeated the 67-win San Antonio Spurs in their second round matchup.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Spurs winning four of the first five meetings.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: Games 1 and 2 were easy victories for the Cavaliers, as they pushed their playoff winning streak to 10 consecutive games. However, in Game 3, the Raptors dominated the first half, building up an 18-point lead, the largest deficit the Cavaliers faced all playoffs long. J.R. Smith's hot three-point shooting tried to lead Cleveland back, cutting the lead to 5, but the Raptors inevitably held on to win the game. DeMar DeRozan scored 32 points and Bismack Biyombo grabbed a Raptors' franchise record 26 rebounds. This loss by Cleveland ended their playoff winning streak at 10 games. Things would get worse in Game 4 as the Cavs were unable to slow down Kyle Lowry who scored 20 first-half points. Cleveland once again attempted a second half comeback, only this time they turned the game into a back and forth battle. Lowry's drive and score at the basket sealed the win for Toronto, tying the series at 2 games apiece. It was time for recovery for James and the Cavaliers in Game 5. They delivered yet another blowout victory, as they took a 3–2 series lead. The Raptors needed a win back home to force a decisive Game 7, but the Cavaliers closed out the series in Game 6 and won their second straight Eastern Conference title. For the sixth consecutive season, LeBron James advances to the NBA Finals, along with his teammate, James Jones.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the first ever meeting in any professional sports league's postseason between teams from Cleveland and Toronto. Teams from the two cities met again less than five months later (and again in the penultimate round of the playoffs) when the Cleveland Indians beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2016 American League Championship Series.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: During the Thunder-Warriors series, Draymond Green became the subject of multiple controversial plays against Oklahoma City


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: In Game 1, the Thunder upset the Warriors 108–102 and took a 1–0 series lead. It marked the Warriors' first loss at Oracle Arena in Oakland in the playoffs, as well as their third home loss of the


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: season. In Game 2, despite a close game at the half, the Warriors soundly defeated the Thunder 118–91. Television cameras appeared to show Draymond Green kicking Steven Adams in the groin while he was


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: attempting a layup. In Game 3, in the comfort of a raucous Chesapeake Energy Arena, the Thunder dominated the Warriors 133–105. During the game, Green


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: received a flagrant foul 1 for again appearing to kick Adams in the groin. In Game 4, the Thunder once again handed the Warriors a commanding 118–94 defeat to take a 3–1 series lead. Green appeared to trip Enes Kanter during the game.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: during the game and led 48–42 at halftime. However, the Thunder lost focus in the third quarter. After the Warriors thwarted Oklahoma City's brief comeback attempt in the fourth quarter, Golden State won 96–88 and became the 10th team to win an NBA playoff series after being down 3 games to 1. Game 7 was the last game Kevin Durant played with the Oklahoma City Thunder, before joining his opponent in this series, the Golden State Warriors.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the third meeting in the playoffs between the Warriors and Thunder, with both teams tied at one a piece.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: After winning three of the first four games in the Finals with relative ease, the Warriors appeared to be overwhelming the Cavaliers as they moved to being within one win from back-to-back championships. However, the series shifted dramatically after Golden State's All-Star forward, Draymond Green, was suspended for game 5 after an altercation with Cleveland's LeBron James in game 4. Absent Green, the Warriors were lacking defensively, as Kyrie Irving and LeBron James became the first teammates to score 40 or more points each in a Finals game and led the Cavaliers to a 112–97 win to force game 6. Back in the Quicken Loans Arena for their final home game of the season, the Cavaliers tied the series at 3 games apiece by defeating Golden State, 115–101. After receiving his sixth personal foul in the fourth quarter, Stephen Curry was ejected for the first time in his career after throwing his mouthpiece at a Cavaliers fan. Game 7 came down to the wire. Late in the fourth quarter, with the score tied at 89, Andre Iguodala received a bounce pass from Curry. As Iguodala went up for the layup, he was blocked from behind by James, in what has since been recognized as one of the most memorable blocks in NBA playoff history, and among the most iconic plays of James's career. With less than a minute to play, Kyrie Irving converted a 3-point shot to give the Cavaliers the lead. On their next possession, James was fouled by Green while attempting a dunk, and made one of his two free throws to increase the lead to four. While the Warriors managed to get the ball into the hands of Curry for a chance to cut the deficit to one, he was guarded well by Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert, and Curry was forced to take a sub par shot that missed, sealing the game as the city of Cleveland, Ohio's 52-year sports curse finally ended. The Cavaliers became the eleventh team to win an NBA playoff series after trailing 3 games to 1, and the first to do so in the NBA Finals. The Warriors became the best team (by regular season record) to fail to capture an NBA championship. Cleveland also became only the fourth team to win Game 7 of the NBA Finals on the road. This was the first NBA championship for the Cavaliers.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: This was the second meeting in the NBA Finals between the Warriors and Cavaliers, with the Warriors winning the first meeting last season.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: ESPN, TNT, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNews and NBA TV broadcast the NBA playoffs nationally in the United States. In the first round, regional sports networks affiliated with the teams can also broadcast the games, except for games televised on ABC. Throughout the first two rounds, TNT televised games Saturday through Thursday, ESPN televised games Friday and Saturday, and ABC televised select games on Saturday and Sunday, usually in the afternoon. NBA TV , ESPN2 and ESPNEWS aired select weekday games in the first round. TNT televised the Western Conference finals and ESPN televised the Eastern Conference finals. ABC televised the NBA Finals for the 14th consecutive year.


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: In Canada, national coverage is divided between the TSN and Sportsnet families of channels, with each group carrying approximately half of all games featuring the Toronto Raptors (produced independently of the U.S. national broadcasts regardless of round), and half of all other games (simulcast from the applicable U.S. broadcaster).


title: 2016 NBA playoffs

text: ESPN Radio had exclusive national radio rights to broadcast the playoffs in the United States. They broadcast mostly ABC games during the first two rounds, all of the conference finals, and the NBA Finals.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: Pankaj Singh Pundir (; born 17 May 1976), popularly known as Sher Singh Rana or S. Rana, is an Indian criminal turned politician who was sentenced for the 2001 vendetta-related assassination of Indian dacoit-turned-parliamentarian, Phoolan Devi. In August 2014, Rana was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of ₹100,000 (approximately US$1,600) for Devi's assassination, as well as charges of conspiracy, after a 10-year trial.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: Rana, along with two other men, murdered Phoolan Devi outside her home in New Delhi in July 2001. At the time of her assassination, ex-dacoit and anarchist Phoolan Devi was a sitting Member of Parliament in the 13th Lok Sabha. Rana claims he was motivated to take revenge upon her for her actions as a leader of a bandit gang that acted primarily against the higher castes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rana was arrested and confessed to the murder.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: Rana rescaped from Tihar jail, a high-security prison facility in Delhi, on 17 February 2004 with the help of his friend Sandeep, who in the guise of a policeman pretended to take Rana to a Haridwar court. He went to Moradabad and checked into a hotel. He then contacted relatives who sent him ₹1 lakh through Sandeep. From Ranchi he applied for a passport in the name of Sanjay Gupta.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: During the two-month wait for the passport, he visited Gaya and Benaras, where he met his "financer" Subhash Thakur, who was then lodged in a local jail. Rana then went to Kolkata, where he obtained a three-month Bangladesh visa. Rana claimed that he took a house for rent at Khulna and lived there, posing as Sanjay. After he fled to Bangladesh, he bought a satellite phone for ₹16,500 so that he could contact his relatives and friends without being tracked. Throughout his journey — from Moradabad to Ranchi, Kolkata, Bangladesh and Dubai to Afghanistan, - he kept getting about ₹15,000 to ₹20,000 per month as personal expense allegedly from the accomplices of an Uttar Pradesh-based criminal Subhash Thakur. He visited Kolkata often to get his visa extended. At times, he did this in Dhaka.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: Later, he illegally travelled from Dhaka to Dubai. He was later glorified by the Hindu Kshatriya Sena.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: In his statement given to police during his arrest, he claimed to have brought the remains of 11th century Hindu Rajput ruler Prithviraj Chauhan from Kandahar. Rana made claims to have built memorial of the king in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh too, but Kanpur police found the claims to be false and only a foundation stone for a temple existed there.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: A trial court in January 2012 allowed Sher Singh Rana, to file his nomination papers from Tihar to contest Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The Delhi High Court has granted bail to Sher Singh Rana and he was released on 24 October 2016.


title: Sher Singh Rana

text: He married with Pratima Singh on 28 February 2018, who is the daughter of former Member of Legislative Assembly from Madhya Pradesh, Rana Pratap Singh in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh by taking a shagun of Rs. 51. In the year 2019, he formed his own political party, Rashtravadi Janlok Party (RJP).


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: Ngô Thanh Vân (born 26 February 1979) is a Vietnamese actress, singer and model. She is also known as Veronica Ngô or her initials NTV.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: Ngô Thanh Vân was born on February 26, 1979, in Trà Vinh, Vietnam. She is the youngest child with two older brothers. When she was 16, her parents divorced. She and her mother migrated to Norway when she was 10. They were sponsored by a Norwegian man.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 1999, at the age of 20, Vân returned to Vietnam where she participated in a beauty pageant organized by the magazine "Women's World", and finished as second runner-up. Following this initial success, she launched her modelling career in Vietnam as a model for magazines, calendars, and fashion collections. Soon after, she had her first acting role on the small screen in "Hương Dẻ", a short TV series on HTV Channel.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 2002, Vân transitioned into the music scene as a pop-dance singer with the help of producer Quốc Bảo. She recorded a duet album called "Vườn tình nhân" ("Lovers' Garden") with established singer Tuấn Hưng.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: The next year, again with the help of producer Quốc Bảo, Vân released her debut solo album, "Thế giới trò chơi" ("Playworld"), on February 26. This album was a power pop-dance LP with the theme "NTV Virus". Two music videos were filmed for the album: "Thế giới trò chơi" and "Ngày tươi sáng", a cover version of jtL's "A Better Day", which was directed by Jackie Chen. These two videos were the first Vietnamese music videos to feature professional special effects and are listed among the most expensive Vietnamese music videos to date.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 2004, Vân followed up with her second album, "Bí ẩn vầng trăng" ("Mystery of the Moon"), which featured a moon theme, on March 15. Three videos were released from this album: "Bí ẩn vầng trăng", the cheerleader-themed "Vươn đến tầm cao" ("Reach for the Sky"), and the ballad "Khi nào em buồn" ("Whenever I'm Sad"), which was later covered by many artists including Mắt Ngọc, Minh Thuận, and Thanh Thảo.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: On September 5, 2005, Vân released her third album, "Con đường em đi" ("My Way"). This album was produced by Vân herself and featured a collaboration with a group of producers called "The Dreams". "My Way" featured multiple genres, from alternative rock to pop, R&B, and hip hop. She remixed the famous Trịnh Công Sơn song "Quỳnh Hương".


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In autumn 2006, after a two-month break in America, Vân returned to Vietnam, and started recording her fourth album which she promised would be a dance anthem record. In October 2006, Vân premiered one of her new songs "I Won't Stop Loving You," a new collaboration with Quốc Bảo, on the final episode of "21st Century Woman" on VTV. Due to heavy promotion for her film "The Rebel", the album release was pushed back to the summer of 2007. In May 2007, Vân announced that the fourth album title would be "Studio 68" and claimed that 68 was her lucky number. She released "Studio 68" on January 10, 2008.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 2006, Vân signed a contract to appear in the long-running music and comedy show "Van Son", produced by Van Son Entertainment, an overseas Vietnamese music production company. She has since appeared in every Van Son DVD release to date.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: During the first months of 2008, Vân began working on her next album "Nước mắt thiên thần" ("Tears of Angel"), while "Studio 68" was awarded Most Creative Album in a monthly Album Vang prize.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 2004, Vân made her first international appearance in "Rouge", a 13-part late night television series that aired on AZN Television. "Rouge" was produced by MTV Asia & MediaCorp Singapore and was broadcast widely in Asia and Australia. For the remainder of the year, Ngo was busy with the promotional campaign for "Rouge" throughout Asia and the recording of her third album. She was chosen as the favorite actress in "Rouge" on the MTV Asia website.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: After the release of her album "My Way", Vân continued acting, with many starring roles in films such as "Saigon Love Story" directed by Ringo Le, "2 in 1" directed by Dao Duy Phuc, and "The Rebel" directed by Charlie Nguyễn with Johnny Trí Nguyễn, the latter becoming (at that point) Vietnam's highest-grossing film of all time. Vân's performance was highly praised by both critics and the public, and earned her the Best Actress Award at the 15th Vietnam Film Festival. She was also nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Kite Awards for the second time. In the spring of 2007, Vân also starred in a new thriller called "Ngôi nhà bí ân", which premiered in Vietnamese cinemas in November 2007.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: 2009 saw Vân once again starring beside Johnny Trí Nguyễn in a Chanh Phuong action movie "Clash". She also opened her own talent agency called VAA.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 2010, Vân competed as a contestant in the Vietnamese version of "Dancing With The Stars". She finished as the winner of season one. After winning, Vân revealed that she would return to music in 2011. That autumn, she embarked on a national promotional tour.


title: Ngô Thanh Vân

text: In 2017, she played Paige Tico, the older sister to Rose Tico, in "." Although her screen time was brief, her character's death was an important act of self-sacrifice that affected the major characters in the film, especially Rose. Later in 2017, she played Tien, an Inferni elf enforcer working for Leilah, the main antagonist in the Netflix film "Bright".