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# Straight Life (book)

Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper is the autobiography of jazz saxophonist Art Pepper written with his wife, Laurie Pepper. It was published in 1979 by Schirmer Books.

## Background

In April, 1972, musician Art Pepper agreed to tell the story of his life to his wife, Laurie Pepper. Although he quickly lost interest in the process, she used her privileged position to keep him answering her questions for seven years. Using the standard oral history techniques of modern anthropology, she tape recorded, transcribed, re-interviewed, and edited that material, also interviewing "relatives, acquaintances, and friends" to assemble and present often contradictory accounts.

## Contents

The book is mainly a description of events in Art Pepper's life. He details his early sexual anxiety; his turning to alcohol, marijuana and harder drugs, leading to periods in prison; marriage and divorce; developing racism; and addiction treatment at Synanon. He also discusses his music, including his influences, attention to tone in his playing, and his philosophy towards his own performances. His despair, sense of inevitability about the course of his life, and lies and contradictions combine to accentuate the impression of honesty in the account of his life. Added to his story are contributions from friends and family members, plus reprinted articles from DownBeat magazine. These often contrast with his own account of events. The book also contains Pepper's discography to June 1979.

## Reception

Whitney Balliett, critic and reviewer for The New Yorker, commented that Pepper's writing displayed "the ear and memory and interpretative lyricism of a first-rate novelist". Lewis Porter suggested that "Pepper seems to have been motivated by a compulsion to bare it all, with a minimum of interpretation." The Washington Post's book reviewer, Jonathan Yardley, wrote that "it is my hunch, [...] or perhaps more accurately my hope, that sooner or later it will come to be recognized as a work of commanding power, withering candor and raw artistry – certainly the best of the many jazz autobiographies, and much more than that". In Yardleys's view, the book was written "not merely to exorcise his own demons but also to destroy the jazz myth, to prove that 'Young Man With a Horn' is a lie". Poet Robert Pinsky said, "the style of his book like the style of real poetry, disrupts ease with discovery".
A Billboard reviewer in 1994 commented that "Few modern autobiographies can rival 'Straight Life' in sheer horror and power". Literary scholar Terry Castle described the book in 2004 as "a rhapsodic riff on self-destruction. It is also one of the greatest, saddest autobiographies ever written".

## Publication

The first edition was published by Schirmer Books in 1979.
The book was republished in an updated form in 1994; this version added an afterword that detailed Pepper's life between 1979 and his death in 1982. The afterword was written by Laurie Pepper; the book also included an introduction by jazz critic Gary Giddins.
# Xaltocan, Tlaxcala

Xaltocan (also known as Jaltocan or Jaltocán) is in Xaltocan Municipality in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. The name can mean either of two things in the Nahuatl language: either 'sandy ground of spiders' or 'where sand sowing'. Xaltocan is also the name of the municipal seat.

## History

Xaltocan was inhabited in Pre-Columbian times and is still populated today. In ancient times, its people who were comparable to the Aztecs of Mesoamerica, were rigorously religious, having temples and sacred sites in which they would worship their native gods, as well as performing occasional rituals that involved an offering of human sacrifice, among other similar ceremonies. These human sacrifices often included women from surrounding regions, but men were not excluded from sacrifice to the gods. The human sacrifices were mostly performed in front of a Cuauhxicalli, which was a sacred statue in the shape of a soldier or warrior.

## Climate

The climate in Xaltocan is mostly tropical, with warm temperatures most of the year. Heavy rain falls during the summer months. The average temperature is almost thirty degrees Celsius, while the average rainfall per year is one hundred and fourteen millimeters.

## Flora and fauna

The tree species that can be found in Xaltocan include ashes, willows, weeping willows and tepozán. Higher up on the island, Chihuahua Pines can be found, among other trees. In urban areas, there are several species of introduced trees, including cypress, the casuarina and eucalyptus trees.
Even though the urban part of the island has greatly expanded in recent times, several wild species of fauna still exist in these areas. These types of fauna include rabbits, hares, ringtails, and the common opossum. Birds such as crows, sparrowhawks and quails can also be found.

## Population and religion

* 1970: The population of Xaltocan in 1970 numbered around 7,000 people, which represented 1.7% of the state's population.
* 1980: The population in 1980 had risen, though slightly, to 7,123, which was approximately 1.3% of the population of the state.
* 1990: The population had by this time in 1990 risen to almost 8,800, an increase of about 27% since 1970.
Studies taken during 1990 suggest that most (97%) of the population are of the Roman Catholic faith, 2% are Protestant or Evangelical and the remainder profess other religions or beliefs.
# Mildred Peel

Mildred Peel (1856–1920) was a Canadian sculptor and artist. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris France in 1886.
Her brother Paul Peel was also an artist, their father, John R. Peel having instructed them both from an early age. Peel became one of the first women in Canada to complete a publicly commissioned sculpture. She painted a portrait of Laura Secord in 1904 which is held in the Government of Ontario Art Collection.
She died in Santa Barbara, California in 1920.
# Kamionka, Wieluń County

Kamionka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pątnów, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Pątnów, 7 km (4 mi) south of Wieluń, and 91 km (57 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
# Neil Maritz

Neil Kobus Maritz (born 22 February 1994) is a South African rugby union player for the Pumas in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge. He can play as a winger or a centre.

## Rugby career
### Youth rugby / Sharks XV

Maritz was born in Worcester and attended Paarl Boys' High School, where he played first team rugby in 2012. He was selected in a Western Province Under-18 Elite Squad in 2011 and 2012, but wasn't selected to represent them at any major youth tournaments, such as the Craven Week.
After high school, Maritz moved to Durban to join the Sharks academy. He was included in the Sharks U19 squad for the 2013 Under-19 Provincial Championship and made five starts for them in the competition, scoring tries in matches against Golden Lions U19, Free State U19 and Western Province U19.
In 2014, he was included in the Sharks XV squad that participated in the 2014 Vodacom Cup. He made his first class debut by starting their opening match of the season against the Border Bulldogs in East London. In addition to making his debut in the match, but he also scored his first senior try ten minutes into the second half, as his side won the match 46–24. He made a total of six appearances in the competition, scoring further tries against the SWD Eagles and Kenyan side Simba XV to help his team finish top of the Southern Section log to qualify for the quarter finals. He didn't feature in their quarter final match against a Golden Lions XV, where the team suffered a 20–27 loss to be eliminated from the competition. In the second half of the season, Maritz was in action for the Sharks' Under-21 team; he made five appearances for the team in the Under-21 Provincial Championship, scoring tries against Border U21 and Free State U21, but it wasn't enough to secure a semi-final berth as the team finished in fifth position.
Maritz made three starts for the Sharks XV in the 2015 Vodacom Cup competition. He failed to contribute any points in a disappointing season for his side, which could win just two matches in the competition to finish outside the play-off spots. The Sharks U21 team had an improved performance in Group A of the 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship, finishing in third position. Maritz started eight of their matches during the regular season, scoring a try in their match against the Golden Lions and a try and penalty against the Blue Bulls U21s, and also started their semi-final match against Free State U21, which the team from Bloemfontein won 27–22 to end the Sharks' involvement in the competition.
Maritz represented the Sharks XV for the third consecutive season in 2016 – in the qualification series that replaced the Vodacom Cup – and appeared in eight of their fourteen matches in the competition. He scored tries in victories over the Leopards and Griffons for a Sharks XV team that finished in 10th place on the log.

### Sharks

Maritz was included in the Sharks squad for the 2016 Currie Cup Premier Division and named in the starting line-up for their opening match of the competition against Western Province.
# Seek

Seek may refer to:
* Disk seek, in which the read head of a magnetic disk repositions itself
* Goal seeking
* Job seeking
* Rent seeking
* SEEK, an Australian recruitment website
* SEEK (conference), a Catholic convention
* Seek, a mobile app made by iNaturalist
* Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
* Seeking.com, an American online dating service
* Seek (NCIS), an episode of the TV series NCIS
* Seek, a fictional character from Doors
# Subjects of Desire

Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France is a 1987 book by the philosopher Judith Butler. Their first published book, it was based on their 1984 Ph.D. dissertation.

## Summary

Butler examines the influence of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on 20th-century French philosophy. Influenced by Alexandre Kojève, they follow and expand upon his definition of desire as the feeling of an absence or lack. Hegelian desire is in this sense a desire for non-being or death.
While Butler ultimately calls for a rejection of standard Hegelianism, this moving forward itself represents a triumph for Hegel's dialectical method of the negation of difference.
Influenced by psychoanalysis, Butler sees the subject as having to lose identity before becoming itself. The sense of self is lost in desire, as desire is a pull towards an Other. It is a hunger for that which is not present within.
Butler reinterprets Hegel's category of sublation to be the developing sequence of the subject's desire for recognition.
Butler uses Hegel's category of sense-certainty, to question whether the subject can truly ever be aware of its own gendered sexuality. Sexual identity is hence formed in the unconscious. The creation of the "I" of sexual identity is also a radical concealment.
In the battle of recognition between the Master and Slave, the ultimate Lord is death. Hence the triumph of the Master, is not the victory of any subject or man, but of death and desire itself. Death and desire are inherently linked. And all desire is ultimately a wish for that which is not, a wish for suicide. Desire is the impetus towards non-existence. Death is the ultimate fulfillment of all human desires. It is this embrace of death that is true mastery. Slavery is the fear of ceasing to be.

## Reception and influence

Butler's interpretation of Hegel-Kojève's master–slave dialectic has been applied by feminist theory to the gender relations between man and woman.
# Quiet Riot (Prison Break)

"Quiet Riot" is the 68th episode of the American television series Prison Break. It was broadcast on November 17, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network. In this episode, the team finally breaks into the Scylla room in the Company headquarters.

## Plot

Michael Scofield and the team race against time trying to devise a plan to steal Scylla, as the Company will move Scylla to an unknown location on that same day. Michael, however, continues to suffer from his deteriorating health, and the team is forced to carry out the plan as Michael reluctantly agrees to have surgery that day. To reach Scylla, they must break through a concrete wall and a glass wall, without making any noise, changing the room temperature, or touching the floor.
Meanwhile, Gretchen dresses up to seduce the General and steal the sixth card that is necessary to decode Scylla. Having personally trained her, the General realizes that she is lying and threatens to kill her. Gretchen pleads with him, mentioning her daughter, whose father is supposedly the General. The General lets Gretchen go but tells her if he ever sees her again, he'll kill her.
T-Bag suddenly shows reluctance in continuing with the Scylla business, as he now has a respectable job and a comfortable life as Cole Pfeiffer. However, he forces himself to refuse his boss to go on a complementary cruise trip, as it leaves that same day. Mr. Xing barges into GATE again and demands Scylla, but Gretchen again promises him to deliver and asks for his help.
Even though Gretchen fails to steal the sixth card, Michael and his team proceed to steal Scylla. Michael, from a sense of guilt of leaving others in peril, changes his mind and postpones his surgery, joining the team after getting some injections from Sara. Via the underground from GATE to the Company headquarters, Michael, Lincoln, Sucre, and Mahone reach the concrete wall. They manage to break through with slow drilling, some umbrellas to catch the falling debris inside, and electromagnets to disrupt the steel linings inside the wall so that it can be dug silently.
Trishanne, T-Bag's assistant, listens to a call between T-Bag and Gretchen and alerts Agent Self. Don Self and Trishanne raid the address mentioned in the call, but end up in the hands of Mr. Xing after they are set up by Gretchen and T-Bag. Gretchen and T-Bag prepare to take Scylla for themselves once Michael and his team successfully retrieve Scylla.
In silence, Sucre assembles a ladder above the floor, one rung at a time, to traverse the alarm-rigged floor and reach the glass wall. To fool the temperature sensor, he releases liquid nitrogen inside the room. Sucre loses balance when the ladder shakes, but manages to grab the falling liquid nitrogen container and makes it back up. After tense moments, Sucre finishes the ladder to the glass wall. Although suffering from occasional pain, Michael crosses the ladder and makes a hole on the glass. As he approaches Scylla and places his hands upon it, a sensor beneath Scylla goes off, warning the General who calls for security and comes after Scylla himself.

## Reception

IGN gave the episode 8.8/10.
# Ezer Griffiths

Ezer Griffiths (27 November 1888 – 14 February 1962) was a Welsh physicist most noted for his work on the insulation properties of metals, heat transference, evaporation and refrigeration.

## Education and early life

Griffiths was born in Aberdare in 1888 to a colliery mechanic, and from 1901 to 1906 he was educated at Aberdare Intermediate School. He graduated to University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and studied under Ernest Howard Griffiths.

## Career

On leaving Cardiff, he gained a post in the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.
Griffiths spent his entire career studying the physical theory of heat. His initial works focused on the effects of heat on metal at low temperatures, in conjuncture with his tutor, Ernest Griffiths. His later work on refrigeration would enable the transportation of fruit and meats from Australia and New Zealand to Europe.
# Kamocinek

Kamocinek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grabica, within Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Grabica, 12 km (7 mi) north-west of Piotrków Trybunalski, and 38 km (24 mi) south of the regional capital Łódź.
# Jeftha Fetting

Jeftha Fetting (born 13 February 1943) is a South African cricketer. He played in three List A and eighteen first-class matches for Border from 1962/63 to 1977/78.
# Estado Falcón worm snake

The Estado Falcón worm snake (Amerotyphlops lehneri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Venezuela.

## Etymology

The specific name, lehneri, is in honor of geologist Ernst Lehner.

## Geographic range

A. lehneri is found in the Venezuelan state of Falcón.

## Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. lehneri is forest, at altitudes of 50–150 m (160–490 ft).

## Description

A. lehneri is a small species of blind snake. It has 20 scale rows around the body. Dorsally, it is yellowish with 11 brown lines. Ventrally, it is yellow. The rostral and the tail spine are bright yellow.

## Behavior

A. lehneri is terrestrial and fossorial.

## Reproduction

A. lehneri is oviparous.
# Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Two Niles

Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Two Niles (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد النيلين), abbreviated as AQTN, was a lesser-known regional offshoot of the broader al-Qaeda network, operating primarily in Sudan and neighbouring areas. Its origins can be traced back to the early 1990s when Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, resided in Sudan. During his stay, bin Laden formed alliances with local Islamist factions and established training camps, laying the groundwork for a lasting militant presence in the region. Although bin Laden left Sudan in 1996, these early ties helped foster the development of AQTN.
AQTN's activities are characterised by their connection to both local and international jihadist movements. The group has sought to exploit Sudan's ongoing conflicts, particularly in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains, to recruit fighters and establish safe havens. Sudan's political instability and porous borders have provided AQTN with opportunities to sustain its operations and align itself with other militant factions, such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and al-Shabaab in Somalia. However, AQTN has remained a relatively low-profile organisation compared to other al-Qaeda affiliates, with fewer high-profile attacks attributed to it.
Despite its lower visibility, AQTN plays a strategic role in al-Qaeda's regional ambitions, particularly by acting as a logistical hub and providing ideological support for jihadist movements in East Africa. The group's presence in Sudan is also significant in light of the country's historical ties to Islamist militancy, though the current Sudanese government has sought to distance itself from these networks in recent years. AQTN's future remains uncertain, particularly as the dynamics of regional conflicts continue to shift.
Al-Salamah Group, part of the AQTN broader network, group attempted to carry out bombings in Khartoum in August 2007, targeting sites in the city's southern suburb. While the group succeeded in detonating at least one bomb, Sudanese authorities quickly dismantled the network. Mohamed Makkawi Ibrahim, on of the preparator. managed to evade capture during the crackdown and fled to the Darfur region, where he continued his involvement in jihadist activities. In January 2008, Makkawi and three associates carried out the assassination of John Granville, an American USAID official, and his Sudanese driver, Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama, in Khartoum.
Other known leaders include Abu Hudhayfah al Sudani, and Abu Talha al-Sudani.
In 2013, and after the killing of Osama bin Laden, he was mourned in Sudan by AQTN and al-Qaeda sympathisers.
# List of Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians

This is a list of musicians and musical groups from the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
* Abeti Masikini
* African Fiesta
* Aurlus Mabélé
* Avelino
* Awilo Longomba
* Bimi Ombale
* Bouro Mpela
* Bozi Boziana
* Cindy Le Coeur
* Dadju
* Damso
* Dany Engobo
* Evoloko Jocker
* Diblo Dibala
* Dindo Yogo
* Fabregas
* Fally Ipupa
* Ferré Gola
* Fulu Miziki
* Gaz Mawete
* Gibson Butukondolo
* Grand Kalle
* Héritier Watanabe
* Innoss'B
* Iyenga
* Jean Bosco Mwenda
* Jessy Matador
* Jimmy Omonga
* Josky Kiambukuta Londa
* Kalash Criminel
* Kanda Bongo Man
* Kasai Allstars
* Kaysha
* Keblack
* Kékélé
* King Kester Emeneya
* Koffi Olomide
* Konono Nº1
* Kasaloo Kyanga
* LU Kala
* Langa Langa Stars
* Le Grand Kalle
* Lokua Kanza
* Madilu Système
* Maître Gims
* Marie Daulne
* Marie Misamu
* Mayaula Mayoni
* Mbongwana Star
* M'bilia Bel
* Michel Boyibanda
* Mohombi
* Mose Fan Fan
* M'Pongo Love
* Naza
* Ndombe Opetum
* Nico Kasanda
* Ninho
* Papa Wemba
* Pepe Kalle and Empire Bakuba
* Ray Lema
* Sam Mangwana
* Singuila
* Tabu Ley Rochereau
* Werrason
* Youlou Mabiala
* Yxng Bane
* Youssoupha
# Kapituła, Łódź Voivodeship

Kapituła is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Działoszyn, within Pajęczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Działoszyn, 16 km (10 mi) west of Pajęczno, and 89 km (55 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
# West African National Secretariat

The West African National Secretariat ('WANS) was a Pan-Africanist organisation based in Britain.
It was founded in December 1945 by Bankole Awoonor-Renner (elected President), Kwame Nkrumah (elected Secretary-General), I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson (elected as Chairman), Bankole Akpata and Kojo Botsio, immediately following the Manchester Pan-African Congress. Many of the initial members of WANS were also members of the West African Students' Union (WASU).
WANS aimed to build a united movement throughout West Africa for independence, on a platform of anti-imperialism. Its view of West Africa was broad, and aimed to include countries as distant as Kenya and Sudan. A major congress was planned, but never came to fruition.
Within WANS, Nkrumah organised a secret socialist revolutionary group, known as "The Circle". This group worked closely with the Communist Party of Great Britain.
During 1946, WANS published five issues of a monthly journal, The New African, containing articles in English, French and Belgian, on West African issues, but also incorporating stories from the Moscow New Times. In September 1946, WANS held a joint conference with WASU, which Nkrumah convinced Léopold Sédar Senghor and Sourou Migan Apithy to attend.
WANS was considerably weakened after Nkrumah returned to Africa in 1947, and appears to have dissolved the following year.
# Memory Lands

Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence is a 2018 book by Williams College history professor Christine DeLucia. The book was published by Yale University Press's Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. It looks at over three hundred years of Indigenous history from King Philip's War to the present day, mostly in the North American Northeast, as well as in Bermuda. The book focuses on the role of place and details the continued presence of Indigenous peoples and memory in Bastoniak (Boston), Narragansett (roughly overlapping with Rhode Island), along the middle of the Kwinitekw (Connecticut River) Valley, and Bermuda.

## Reception

Memory Lands has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, the 2019 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the 2020 Lois P. Rudnick Prize from the New England American Studies Association. It also won an honorable mention from the National Council on Public History in 2019. The book has been discussed and reviewed widely, including with DeLucia in conversation with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti and by a group of scholars for H-Environment Roundtable Reviews.