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# Double Whoopee

Double Whoopee is a 1929 Hal Roach Studios silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot during February 1929 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 18.

## Plot

A hotel reception awaits an important guest - a Germanic prince referred to as His Highness and his prime minister. These disembark from their car just as Laurel and Hardy arrive. However, the Von Stroheim style prince starts a prolonged preening process on his white Prussian military uniform. Hotel staff presume Hardy is the prince and a crowd gathers as they sign the register.
Laurel and Hardy eventually show their letter of introduction - they have come to work as staff, and play the roles of a footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel) at a swanky Broadway hotel. Jean Harlow also makes a brief appearance in this film, as a blonde bombshell who gets partially stripped by Laurel & Hardy. One of the funnier scenes is one with an automatic elevator. A haughty prince tries to get on the elevator from the first floor. Simultaneously Oliver summons the elevator. For some reason the outer doors don't close and when the prince (who has been busy giving a speech) tries to step in, he falls into the elevator well. Oliver rides down in the elevator and disappears. The prince is pulled out of the well, all disheveled and dirty. He tries it again. This time Stan summons the elevator and the whole thing repeats.

## Cast

* Stan Laurel – Stanley
* Oliver Hardy – Ollie
* Jean Harlow – swanky blonde
* Ed Brandenburg – bellhop
* William Gillespie – hotel manager
* Charlie Hall – cab driver
* Hans Joby – prince
* Ham Kinsey – cab driver
* Sam Lufkin – man poked in eye
* Charley Rogers – prime minister
* Tiny Sandford – policeman
* Rolfe Sedan – desk clerk

## 1969 "talkie" version

While this is a silent film, a version with post-synchronized dialogue tracks provided by voice actors was created in 1969. Laurel and Hardy imitator Chuck McCann plays both Stan and Ollie in the talking version. Dick van Dyke and McCann played Laurel and Hardy respectively in a skit on a 1958 broadcast of The Garry Moore Show. McCann also had his own local TV show in New York in the 1960s where he used puppets of Stan and Ollie to entertain kids. He was also seen in the 1970s and 1980s television commercial for ANCO windshield wipers, playing Oliver Hardy opposite Jim McGeorge, who played Stan.
# Embassy of France, Beirut

The French Embassy, Beirut is the chief diplomatic mission of France in Lebanon. Its ambassador has been Anne Grillo since 2020.

## History
### Pine Residence

The Pine Residence, built in 1916, hosted the high commissioner of France in the Levant (known today as Lebanon and Syria) from 1919 to 1945, before becoming the ambassador's residence in 1946.
A car bomb exploded inside the French embassy compound in Beirut on the morning of 24 May 1982. It killed ten Lebanese people and two French people; it injured another 27.
In October 1990, General Michel Aoun, while combating the Syrian invasion, took refuge at the embassy before going into exile in France.

### Espace des Lettres

The French embassy, including the general consulate of France and the cultural and economic services, are today in Espace des Lettres, Damascus Road in Beirut, which was the demarcation line between the Christian and the Muslim neighborhoods during the Lebanese Civil War. The new diplomatic chancellery building was integrated into the numerous pavilions in the Cité Bounoure, the old École des Lettres de Beyrouth.

### Architecture

Built in 2003 by the architects Yves Lion and Claire Piguet, it integrates Jean-Charles Moreux and André Leconte's colonnade built in the 1950s, walls built with Ramleh rocks and glass structures in the middle of hundred years old pine and olive trees. The building was meant to be secure while keeping an aesthetic look.
# 1917 Williams Ephs football team

The 1917 Williams Ephs football team represented Williams College as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Mysterious Walker, the Ephs compiled a record of 7–0–1. Quarterback Benny Boynton led the squad to its first undefeated record. Boynton scored all the points in a 9–6 defeat of Columbia.

## Schedule

| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
| September 29 | RPI | Weston FieldWilliamstown, MA | W 20–0 |
| October 6 | at Union (NY) | Schenectady, NY | W 13–6 |
| October 13 | at Cornell | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | W 14–10 |
| October 20 | Hamilton | Weston FieldWilliamstown, MA | W 12–0 |
| October 27 | at Columbia | South FieldNew York, NY | W 9-6 |
| November 3 | at Wesleyan | Middletown, CT | T 0–0 |
| November 10 | Middlebury | Weston FieldWilliamstown, MA | W 39–7 |
| November 17 | Amherst | Weston FieldWilliamstown, MA (rivalry) | W 20–0 |
# Crooks (surname)

Crooks is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Adam Crooks (activist) (1824–1874), Wesleyan Methodist
* Adam Crooks (politician) (1827–1885), Canadian politician
* Ann Marie Crooks (born 1965), female bodybuilder and professional wrestler
* Audi Crooks (born 2004), American basketball player
* Ben Crooks (born 1993), English rugby league footballer
* Bill Crooks (1908–1986), New Zealand horticulturalist
* Brendon Crooks (born 1971), New Zealand judoka
* Charmaine Crooks (born 1962), Canadian athlete
* Colin Crooks (born 1969), British diplomat
* Dave Crooks (born 1963), American politician
* David Crooks (RNZAF officer) (1931–2022), New Zealand air marshal
* Douglas Crooks (1872–1930), Cape Colony cricketer
* Evan Crooks, American actor
* Garth Crooks (born 1958), English former footballer
* Gavin E. Crooks, English chemist
* George Richard Crooks (1822–1897), American Methodist minister, writer, and educator
* Harold Crooks, Canadian-American filmmaker
* Hulda Crooks (1896–1997), American mountaineer
* Jack Crooks (1865–1918), American baseball player
* Jacqueline Crooks, British writer
* James Crooks (1778–1860), Scottish businessman
* James White Crooks (1866–1944), Canadian pharmacist, business owner and politician
* Jenelle Crooks (born 1994), Australian racing cyclist
* Jillian Crooks (born 2006), Caymanian competitive swimmer
* John Crooks (disambiguation), various people
* Jordan Crooks (born 2002), Caymanian competitive swimmer
* Julie Crooks, Canadian curator, researcher and instructor
* Kate Crooks (1833–1871), Canadian botanist
* Lee Crooks (born 1978), English former footballer
* Lee Crooks (rugby league) (born 1963), English former rugby league footballer
* Leon Crooks (born 1985), English footballer
* Tupac Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks, 1971–1996), American rapper
* Louis Crooks (1912–1989), Archdeacon of Raphoe
* Mary Crooks (born 1950), Australian public policy specialist
* Mildred Lucile Crooks (1899–1972), American abstract expressionist painter
* Morgan Crooks (born 1976), Canadian rower
* N. Patrick Crooks (1938–2015), American Supreme Court judge
* Norman Crooks (1917–1989), American tribal leader
* Paul Crooks, former Formula One engineer
* Paul Crooks (footballer) (1966–2019), English footballer
* Ramsay Crooks (1787–1859), Canadian fur trader
* Richard Crooks (1900–1972), American tenor
* Richard M. Crooks, American chemist
* Sammy Crooks (1908–1981), English footballer
* Sean Crooks (born 1983), Canadian cross-country skier
* Stanley Crooks (1941–2012), American tribal leader
* Sydney Crooks (born 1945), Jamaican singer and record producer
* Thomas Crooks (disambiguation), various people
* Tim Crooks (born 1949), British former rower
* Will Crooks (1852–1921), British trade unionist
* William Crooks (Canadian politician) (1776–1836), Canadian politician
# Roger Nokes

Roger I. Nokes (born 13 August 1958) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, specialising in fluid mechanics and is also a chess master. Nokes was a university council member, was head of the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering between 2009 and 2012 (coinciding with the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes) and has achieved a number of teaching awards. Nokes is a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

## Teaching awards

* 1993 – University of Auckland University Teaching Medal
* 2001 – UCSA Best Lecturer at the University of Canterbury
* 2003 – University of Canterbury University Teaching Award
* 2006 – National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award
* 2008 – UCSA Best Lecturer at the University of Canterbury

## Chess career

In 1980 Nokes was joint New Zealand Chess Champion with Ortvin Sarapu and Vernon Small and represented New Zealand at the Chess Olympiad in 1982, 2004, 2006, and 2008. He is a FIDE Master.

## Private life

Nokes lives in Golden Bay / Mohua's Tata Beach. He offers a chess club for students at Golden Bay High School.
# Lucian Dumitriu

Lucian Mihai Dumitriu (born 21 September 1992) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga I club Petrolul Ploiești.

## Honours

SC Bacău
* Liga III: 2012–13
Hermannstadt
* Cupa României runner-up: 2017–18
# Eaux d'Artifice

Eaux d'artifice (1953) is a short experimental film by Kenneth Anger.

## Summary

The film consists entirely of a woman dressed in eighteenth-century clothes who wanders amidst the garden fountains of the Villa d'Este ("a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth") to the sounds of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", until she steps into a fountain and momentarily disappears.

## Production

The film was shot in the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy. The actress, Carmilla Salvatorelli (not "Carmello"), was "a little midget" Anger had met through Federico Fellini. Anger used a short actress to suggest a different sense of scale, whereby the monuments seemed bigger (a technique he said was inspired by etchings of the gardens in the Villa d'Este by Giovanni Battista Piranesi).

## Inspiration

The title, a play on words, is meant to suggest Feux d'artifice (Fireworks), in obvious reference to Anger's earlier 1947 work. Film critic Scott MacDonald has suggested that Fireworks was a film about the repression of (the film-maker's) homosexuality in the United States, whereas Eaux d'Artifice "suggests an explosion of pleasure and freedom."

## Legacy

In 1993, this short film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
# Mir Afzal Khan

Mir Afzal Khan (born 1923) is a Pakistani politician from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He served as the 16th Chief Minister of the province from 7 August, 1990 to 19 July 1993.

## Early life

Afzal Khan was born to a wealthy family of landlords in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the home of Sarfaraz Khan, who was well known politician from Mardan in then NWFP now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was the brother of Begum Zari Sarfaraz, who was a politician and social worker.
# La'Ron Singletary

La'Ron Singletary (born 1979/1980) is an American law enforcement official who was active in the Rochester Police Department, serving as the chief of the department from July 2019 to September 2020. He resigned after disputes with then Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren in the aftermath of the killing of Daniel Prude. Formerly a Democrat, he ran for congress to represent New York's 25th congressional district in 2022 as a Republican, losing to Democratic incumbent Joseph Morelle.

## Early life and education

Singletary grew up in the 19th Ward neighborhood of Rochester, and wanted to become a police officer from a young age. He became a Police Explorer at 14 and graduated from John Marshall High School. He then went on to attend Monroe Community College, graduated from Keuka College, and then received a Master of Public Administration from SUNY Brockport.

## Rochester Police Department

Singletary joined the Rochester police force in 2000, and was sworn in by Robert Duffy. He became deputy chief of the department in January 2018, and became chief in July 2019.
While Singletary was police chief, Daniel Prude was killed in police custody in 2020. Prude was under the influence of Angel Dust and was walking the city streets naked before being physically restrained by the police. The incident gained nationwide attention, and after public pressure and a city council investigation that determined that Mayor Lovely Warren and Singletary concealed critical details about Prude's death from the public and lied about their knowledge of the case, Singletary and all other members of the Rochester Police Department command staff resigned. Later, a jury would not indict any of the officers involved.
In December 2020, Singletary accused Rochester mayor Lovely Warren of pressuring him to lie about the series of events following the death of Daniel Prude and firing him after he refused. Warren subsequently argued that Singletary downplayed the circumstances surrounding Prude's death. He later filed a successful lawsuit against the city asking for medical benefits promised to employees who work in the department for more than 20 years.

## Political career

Formerly a Democrat, Singletary joined the Republican Party in 2021.
In November 2021, Singletary announced that he was running for the U.S. House to represent New York's 25th district in 2022. He was encouraged to run by former state Senator Joseph Robach.

## Personal life

Singletary lives in Henrietta, New York.
# Ellie (film)

Ellie is a 1984 comedy film directed by Peter Wittman and distributed by Troma Entertainment.

## Premise

Set in the Deep South, the film follows Ellie (Sheila Kennedy), who, after her father's murder at the hands of her stepmother and her three lecherous stepbrothers, vows to avenge her father's death using the only weapon she has: her voluptuous body.

## Cast

The film also features appearances from as Shelley Winters, George Gobel, Edward Albert and Pat Paulsen.

## Production

Sheila Kennedy also appears in another Troma production, The First Turn-On!

## Release

The film was released on DVD in a 3-DVD box also containing Preacherman and Hot Summer in Barefoot County. The film, presented as a "rustic revenge comedy", was screened in 2019 in New York for Troma Tuesdays.
# Denver Harris

Denver Harris (born September 22, 2003) is an American football cornerback for the UNLV Rebels. He previously played for the Texas A&M Aggies, the LSU Tigers and the UTSA Roadrunners.

## High school career

Harris attended North Shore Senior High School in Harris County, Texas. As a senior he helped North Shore win a state championship in the states top division and played in the Under Armour All-America Game. A 5 star recruit ranked the nations 23rd overall prospect, he committed to Texas A&M over offers from Alabama, LSU and Texas.

## College career
### Texas A&M

Harris started as a freshman and at midseason was named to The Athletic/PFF midseason freshman All-American team. On October 25 it was announced that Harris and teammates Chris Marshall and PJ Williams had been indefinitely suspended from the team following a locker room incident prior to the Aggies loss to South Carolina.

### LSU

On December 22, 2022, Harris announced on Twitter that he would transfer to LSU.
On December 28, 2023, Harris announced that he would enter the transfer portal for the second time.

### UTSA

On February 6, 2024, Harris announced that he would transfer to UTSA.
On December 27, 2024, Harris announced that he would enter the transfer portal for the third time.

### UNLV

On January 14, 2025, Harris announced that he would transfer to UNLV.
# Stelian Badea

Stelian Badea (born 29 July 1958), widely known as Stelică Badea, is a retired Romanian football midfielder.

## Biography

He was born in Bucșani and his first steps in football were under the guidance of coach Stere Popescu. He debuted at I.O.R. Bucharest and at twenty years he joined FC Olt Scornicești. In 1980, he arrived in Pitești, where he soon took the left midfield position. He played ten seasons at FC Argeș Pitești, playing 244 matches and scoring twenty goals.

## Coaching activity

* 1990–1992 Dacia Pitești, 3rd League
* 1992–1993 FC Argeș Pitești, 2nd League and 1st League
* 1993–2000 Dacia Pitești, 3rd League and 2nd League with 2 promovations in 2nd League and 1st League
* 2000–2001 Cimentul Fieni, 2nd League
* 2001–2004 Internațional Pitești, 2nd League
* 2004–2005 Astra Ploiești, 2nd League
* 2005–2006 FC Național II, 2nd League
* 2006–2007 AL Hilal Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
* 2010–2011 AL Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
# APTIS

APTIS was the Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System used on the British Rail/National Rail network until 2007. It was originally called "Advanced Passenger Ticket Issuing System" as it was being developed at the time of the Advanced Passenger Train.
It was widely known as the All-Purpose Ticket-Issuing System, a description which was used during the development of the prototype devices.
It led to the introduction, on the national railway, of a new standardised machine-printable ticket, the APTIS ticket, which replaced the Edmondson railway ticket first introduced in the 1840s.

## Overview

APTIS issued impact printed tickets on credit-card sized card ticket stock, with a magnetic stripe on the centre of the reverse which could be encoded to operate ticket barriers; it could also use plain non-magnetic ticket stock.
APTIS could issue receipts for passengers paying by debit card or credit card. These receipts were a combination of a transparent carbonless copy paper top copy, for the customer; and a backing card, for retention by British Rail. The customer signed the receipt, handed it back; and, in return, was given the signed top copy and the train tickets.

## Adoption by British Rail

APTIS was derived from a private venture ticketing system, the General Purpose ticket-issuing system, developed by Thorn EMI in 1978. It had 25 kB of memory.
British Rail invited 23 firms to tender for a ticket-issuing system and Thorn EMI was successful. The first prototype was installed at Portsmouth & Southsea on 11 November 1982.
APTIS, along with the portable system PORTIS, was adopted as part of British Rail's £31 million investment, which was authorised in 1983. The production APTIS machines had 300 kB of memory; this could be upgraded to 500 kB.
Some 2,971 APTIS machines were scheduled to be installed at 1,600 staffed British Rail stations between August 1985 and September 1987.

## Phase-out of Edmondson tickets

The first production APTIS tickets were issued in October 1986 at stations including Didcot Parkway and Abbey Wood; the official launch was by Transport Minister David Mitchell at the British Rail Travel Centre, Regent Street, London, on 18 November 1986. The first ticket was sold at Benfleet in January 1987.
In 1988, the last of British Rail's Edmondson printing presses, located at the Paper and Printing Centre, Crewe, shut down. The last station to sell Edmondson tickets prior to full APTIS conversion was Emerson Park, on Network SouthEast's Romford to Upminster Line, on 29 June 1989.

## Phase-out of APTIS

APTIS survived in widespread use for twenty years, but in the early 2000s was largely replaced by more modern PC based ticketing systems although some APTIS were modified as APTIS-ANT (with no obvious difference to the ticket issued) Oyster card compatible machines in the Greater London area. The last APTIS machines were removed at the end of 2006 as there was no option to upgrade for accepting Chip and PIN credit-card payments. The last APTIS-ANT ticket to be issued in the UK using one of the machines was at Upminster station on 21 March 2007.
# Valeriu Lupu

Valeriu Lupu (born 24 January 1991) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a left-sided full back for Liga IV club FC Bolintin Malu Spart.

## Career

While playing for Steaua II București, Valeriu was loaned out to Unirea Urziceni. He made his Liga I debut on 11 September 2010, in a match against Steaua București.

## Honours

| Season | Club | Title |
| 2012–13 | Steaua București | Liga I |
| 2013 | Steaua București | Supercupa |

## Statistics

| Club | Season | League | League | Cup | Cup | League Cup | League Cup | Europe | Europe | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Steaua II București | 2007–08 | ? | ? | ? | ? | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? | ? |
| Steaua II București | 2008–09 | ? | ? | ? | ? | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? | ? |
| Steaua II București | 2009–10 | ? | ? | ? | ? | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? | ? |
| Steaua II București | 2010–11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 1 |
| Unirea Urziceni | 2010–11 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 0 |
| Steaua București | 2011–12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Steaua București | 2012–13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | 2 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Universitatea Cluj | 2012–13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 0 |
| Săgeata Năvodari | 2013–14 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 1 |
| Career Total | Career Total | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 2 |
Statistics accurate as of match played 14 December 2014