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# Andy McGaffigan

Andrew Joseph McGaffigan (born October 25, 1956) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball from 1981 to 1991.

## Amateur career

A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, McGaffigan attended Twin Lakes High School, Palm Beach Community College and Florida Southern College. He was selected by the New York Yankees in the 6th round of the 1978 MLB Draft.

## Professional career

McGaffigan began his first season in professional baseball in 1978 with the Oneonta Yankees of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League and the Class A Fort Lauderdale Yankees of the Florida State League. He pitched to a 4–6 record with a 3.12 earned run average (ERA) and 36 strikeouts in 78 innings with the two teams.
For 1979, he was promoted to the Double-A West Haven Yankees of the Eastern League, where he went 10–6 with a 3.81 ERA and 113 strikeouts in 144 innings of work. He continued at Double-A in 1980 for the Yankees' new affiliate, the Nashville Sounds of the Southern League. McGaffigan led the circuit with a 2.38 ERA while accumulating a 15–5 record with 125 strikeouts over 170 innings. He was named to the postseason All-Star team and won the Southern League Most Outstanding Pitcher Award.
In 1981 with the Triple-A Columbus Clippers in the International League, he went 8–6 with a 3.23 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 103 innings before being called up to the Yankees after the season.
McGaffigan made his major league debut on September 22, 1981, pitching three innings of relief against the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium. He faced 14 batters, allowing one hit, walking three, and allowing no runs. He appeared in one other game that season.
Prior to the 1982 season, the Yankees shipped him to the San Francisco Giants in a trade for Doyle Alexander. After appearing in only four games for the Giants in 1982, McGaffigan became a regular contributor in 1983, tossing 134.1 innings for San Francisco.
After spending 1984 and 1985 with the Montreal Expos and Cincinnati Reds, McGaffigan had his most productive season in 1986 with the Expos, hurling 142.2 innings, and posting a 10–5 record with a 2.65 ERA for Montreal. He appeared in over 50 games for the Expos in each of the following three campaigns, and recorded impressive ERAs of 2.39 and 2.76 in 1987 and 1988.
The Expos traded McGaffigan back to the Giants prior to the 1990 season, but after just four appearances, San Francisco shipped him to the Kansas City Royals, where he appeared in 24 games and posted a 3.09 ERA for the duration of the season. The Royals released McGaffigan in July 1991.
McGaffigan batted .048 in his career with 6 big league hits in 126 at-bats.
# Attack Decay Sustain Release

Professional ratings :
| Aggregate scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 73/100 |
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Alternative Press | |
| The A.V. Club | B− |
| The Boston Phoenix | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| The Guardian | |
| MusicOMH | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10 |
| Spin | |
Attack Decay Sustain Release is the debut album from Simian Mobile Disco. It was released on 18 June 2007 on Wichita Recordings and reached #59 in the UK album charts.

## History

The title of the album is a reference to the ADSR envelope, a component of many synthesizers, samplers, and other electronic musical instruments the function of which is to modulate some aspect of the instrument's sound—often its volume—over time.
Five of the album's ten tracks ("Hustler", "Tits & Acid", "I Believe", "Hotdog" and lead single "It's The Beat") were available prior to the album's release.
A double-disc version of the album contains six alternate versions on a separate CD.
Initial copies bought from Rough Trade Shops came with a bonus 4-track rarities CD.

## Legacy

The Swedish heavy metal band Ghost covered "I Believe" for their Popestar EP, which consisted mainly of covers.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by J. Shaw and J. Ford except noted
# The Good Thief (film)

The Good Thief is a 2002 crime thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan. It is a remake of the French film Bob le flambeur (1955) by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film, shot in both Monaco and Nice, France, follows a heroin-addicted retired thief through the setup and completion of one last job.

## Cast

* Nick Nolte as Bob Montagnet
* Emir Kusturica as Vladimir
* Nutsa Kukhianidze as Anne
* Tchéky Karyo as Roger
* Saïd Taghmaoui as Paulo
* Patricia Kell as Yvonne
* Gérard Darmon as Raoul
* Julien Maurel as Philippe
* Sarah Bridges as Philipa
* Ralph Fiennes as Tony Angel (uncredited)

## Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews. Critic Roger Ebert notes of Nolte: "it is clear, that he was born to play Bob. It is one of those performances that flows unhindered from an actor's deepest instincts."
Reviewer Pam Grady, writing for Reel.com, also praised the film: "The Good Thief has many virtues, beginning with the sheer wit of Jordan's screenplay and Chris Menges's neon-saturated cinematography that renders Nice both beautiful and sinister, trapping the characters in the glare of its lights. The heist itself is a complicated affair – Jordan took Melville's original idea and added a distinctly 21st-century twist – and all the more satisfying for it."
The film holds a 77% 'fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 146 reviews, and an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

## Soundtrack

The film's score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal.
# Anthony Solometo

Anthony Epifanio Solometo (born December 2, 2002) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.

## Amateur career

Solometo began his high school career at Gloucester Catholic High School in Gloucester City, New Jersey. He committed to play college baseball at the University of North Carolina prior to his freshman year. As a sophomore in 2019, he went 5–2 with a 1.59 ERA and 64 strikeouts over 44 innings. Prior to his junior season in 2020, he transferred to Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, where he graduated in 2021. As a senior in 2021, he did not give up his first run or first hit until 17+1⁄3 innings into the season. He finished the season with a 0.22 ERA and 65 strikeouts over 32+1⁄3 innings.

## Professional career

Solometo was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the second round with the 37th overall selection of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft. Solometo signed with the Pirates for a $2.8 million signing bonus.
After starting the 2022 season in extended spring training, Solometo was assigned to the Bradenton Marauders of the Single-A Florida State League in late May to make his professional debut. Over 13 games (eight starts), he went 5-1 with a 2.64 ERA and 51 strikeouts over 47+2⁄3 innings. To open the 2023 season, Solometo was assigned to the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the High-A South Atlantic League. In mid-June, he was promoted to the Altoona Curve of the Double-A Eastern League. Over 24 starts between the two teams, Solometo went 4-7 with a 3.26 ERA and 118 strikeouts over 110+1⁄3 innings.
# Yamalokadalli Veerappan

Yamalokadalli Veerappan (transl. Veerappan in Yamaloka) is a 1998 Indian Kannada-language mythological action drama film directed by H C Prakash. The film's story is partly inspired by Veerappan's life and stars Dheerendra Gopal, Sarigama Viji, Satya Prakash and Akhila.

## Cast

* Dheerendra Gopal as Yama
* Sarigama Viji as Chitragupta
* Satya Prakash as Veerappan
* Akhila as an apsara
* Sadhu Kokila
* Michael Madhu
* Vaijanath Biradar
* Mandeep Roy
* Bank Janardhan
* G R Bheema Rao
* Sathyajith
* K. Manju
* MS Narasimhamurthy

## Soundtrack

Sadhu Kokila composed the film's background score and the soundtrack. The soundtrack album consists of four tracks.

## Reception

Srikanth Srinivasa of Deccan Herald wrote that "This film would definitely put critics in a spot, and leave them wondering whether to laugh or cry over the quality of such Kannada films churned out by Gandhinagar. After the success of Hallo Yama, our film-makers seem to have reached Yamaloka, going by the quality of films they are churning out".
# The Mageseeker

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story is an action role-playing video game developed by Digital Sun and published by Riot Forge. A spin-off game of the League of Legends franchise, the game was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in April 2023.

## Gameplay

The game story follows Sylas, as he escapes captivity and leads a group of rebel mages for a revolution against the tyrannical kingdom of Demacia. The Mageseeker is a 2D action role-playing video game played from a top-down perspective. Sylas can dash and use his chains to pull himself towards hostile opponents. He can cast a wide range of elemental spells, though he can also temporarily borrow enemies' magical abilities for one-time use in combat. In addition to the main campaign, the game also features side quests, allowing players to assault enemy bases or complete arena challenges.

## Development

The game was developed by Spanish studio Digital Sun, the studio behind Moonlighter (2018). The game was officially announced by Riot Forge in February 2023, and was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in April 2023.

## Reception

Aggregate scores :
| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | PC: 78/100 NS: 81/100 PS5: 74/100 XONE: 82/100 |
| OpenCritic | 78/100 79% Critics Recommend |
According to review aggregator Metacritic, the game received "Generally Favorable" reviews upon release.
# Mid Cheshire College

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Mid Cheshire College was a further education college based in Hartford and Winsford, Cheshire. The college merged with Warrington Collegiate in 2017 to form Warrington and Vale Royal College. It had approximately 9,000 students at the time of the merger.

## Curriculum

The college offered a wide variety of academic and vocational courses including BTEC National Diplomas, BTEC First Diplomas and National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ). Subjects included Art & Design, Beauty Therapy, Hospitality & Catering, Public Services and Construction. The college also offered Foundation Degrees accredited by the University of Chester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Subjects included Business, Fashion, ICT, Music Technology and Graphic Design.
The college promoted continuing education through a number a number of adult courses, return-to-work and study courses. The college also awarded Access to Higher Education Diplomas, which enabled adults - with none or few qualifications - the opportunity to go on to study at university.

## Campuses

Mid Cheshire College was based across two main sites:
* Hartford campus, the main campus, located in Hartford, offered courses including Art & Design, Performing Arts, Photography, Fashion, Engineering, Construction, Motor Vehicle, Business, ICT and Travel & Tourism. Beginning in 2008, the college began a large redevelopment of its Hartford campus replacing older buildings this included a new £3.5m Arts and Creative Media Building. In 2012, the Centre of Creative Arts and Sport opened to host sport, fashion, photography, dance, media, music and the performing arts.
* Winsford campus, in 2010 a new £10m campus opened to host courses in health and social care, child care, adult learning, and public uniformed services.

## Closure and redevelopment

In September 2018, a year after Mid Cheshire College merged with Warrington Collegiate to form Warrington and Vale Royal College in August 2017, Hartford campus was closed with the loss of 56 jobs. Despite local opposition from the local council, the new college said the decision was because the Hartford campus was ‘seriously under-utilised’. In August 2019, Sports England officially objected to plans to demolish the £7.5million Sports Centre (which opened in 2012) by the housing development company that acquired the former Hartford campus. In March 2020, plans to build 108 homes on the former campus site were passed after Cheshire West and Chester Council planning officers recommended it for approval. However, three years later the developer went to administration leaving the land as an unfinished building site. In 2023, the Weaver Vale MP, Mike Amesbury, who opposed the development, demanded action from the local government and Government agency Homes England.
# Crossed fingers

To cross one's fingers is a hand gesture commonly used to wish for luck. Early Christians used the gesture to implore the protection of the Holy Cross. The gesture is referred to by the common expressions "cross your fingers", "keep your fingers crossed", or just "fingers crossed".
The use of the gesture is often considered by children as an excuse for telling a white lie. By extension, a similar belief is that crossing one's fingers invalidates a promise being made.

## Origin

The crossed fingers gesture is believed to have originated with its resemblance to the Cross of Christ. It gained traction, especially in 16th-century England, where people crossed their fingers to ward off evils and ill health.
The practice of crossing fingers for luck or protection against misfortune is deeply ingrained in the cultural fabric of the UK and parts of Scandinavia. This tradition is less familiar in mainland Europe. Its earliest documented reference is from 1912, linked to the superstition surrounding ladders. Remarkably, the crossed fingers gesture persists in school playgrounds, where it serves as a symbolic shield against perceived threats.
Crossed fingers remain a widely recognized and practised symbol, showing the enduring nature of cultural superstitions and protective rituals. The symbol is used as the logo of the UK National Lottery.

## Related gestures

In Vietnam the gesture is considered rude, especially to another person. Referring to female genitals, it is comparable to the middle finger in American culture.
In German-speaking countries, as well as Sweden and Latvia, the gesture is a sign of lying. Instead, wishing for luck is gestured by holding one’s thumbs. The same gesture is used in many Slavic countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and ex-Yugoslav republics. In South Africa, Afrikaans speakers also have the related phrase "duim vashou" meaning "holding thumbs tightly".
In pre-Christian Western Europe, a related gesture had two people crossing their index fingers to form a cross, which represented perfect unity; this gesture was used to make wishes.
# National Highway 766C (India)

National Highway 766C, commonly referred to as NH 766C is a national highway in India. It is a spur road of National Highway 66. NH-766C traverses the state of Karnataka in India.

## Route

Byndoor(Baindur), Kollur, Hosanagara, Anandapur, Ananthapura, Shikaripura, Masur, Ranibennur.

## Junctions

    NH 66 Terminal near Baindur.
    NH 69 near Anandapur.
    NH 48 Terminal near Ranibennur.
# Yigal Calek

Yigal Yisroel Calek (29 May 1944—21 October 2024) was a British Orthodox Jewish conductor and composer of Israeli origin. He was the founder and conductor of the London School of Jewish Song, the first Orthodox Jewish children's choir.

## Early life

Calek was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv and grew up in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in South Tel Aviv in a family of Ger Hasidism. As a child he studied at Tachkamoni School, and performed in plays at the children's theater next to the Cameri Theatre under the direction of Yosef Milo. In 1957, when he was 13 years old, his family immigrated to London, United Kingdom. He studied at the Gateshead yeshiva and after his marriage began to work as a Judaism teacher at a non-religious Jewish school in London, where, according to him, he recognized the need to create religious Jewish music. He began his musical career when he founded the school choir.

## Musical career

In 1970 Calek founded the London School of Jewish Song choir. The choir was considered a pioneer in the genre of Jewish music. Its debut album, Ma Navu, contained 14 songs, most of which were composed by Calek. Prominent songs from the album included "Sali Umetzudasi", "Al Zeh Hayah Daveh Libeinu", "Shimu Malachim", "Hamavdil", "Ki Heim Chayeinu" and "Yevanim". The choir's second album, Barchi Nafshi, released in 1971, included hits such as "Mar'eh Kohen", "Darkecha Eloikeinu" and "Ein Meilitz Yosher". Its third album, Ashira Lashem, was released in 1973 with the Neginah Orchestra, from which the hits "Ashira Lashem", "Yadav Shel Moshe", "Pedei" and "Chamol" stood out.
In 1974, Calek visited Israel and founded the Jerusalem Choir which operated in Bnei Brak. Together with the choir, he released the album Jerusalem Choir - Yad Bzemer. Notable songs from the album included "Kol Berama", "Vaamartem" and "Hinei Ma Toiv". These three songs were the first famous songs of Yossi Green, who was then an 18-year-old yeshiva student. After a few months Calek returned to London and the choir disbanded. It was re-established a few years later by Hanan Avital in a different format.
After six albums of the London School of Jewish Song, in 1978, Calek closed the choir and took a break from musical activity. He renewed the choir's activities in 1988, when he released with the choir the album The Return Of The London School Of Jewish Music. In 1991, the choir released the album The London School of Jewish Song. In 1997, the choir released its ninth and last album V'nisa Bracha. The choir continued to perform for another three years and closed in 1999.

### Albums

* Ma Navu (1970)
* Barchi Nafshi (1971)
* Ashira Lashem (1973)
* London Live (Brooklyn College, 1975)

## Personal and later life

Calek suffered a stroke in 2021, leaving him in "severe" condition. He died on 21 October 2024, at the age of 80.
# Battle of Rohilla

The Battle of Rohilla, also known as the Battle of Hargobindpur, was a 1621 campaign by the Mughal Empire against the growing influence of the Sikhs.
After the execution of Guru Arjan Dev, Guru Hargobind fully militarized the Sikhs into a proper militia mostly based on an irregular cavalry style of warfare. In 1621, Hargobind envisaged a plan to develop a town, Sri Hargobindpur, that was founded by his father. A dispute over the possession of land and plans to erect a building ensued between the Guru and a Khatri Chaudhary named Bhagwan Das. Accordingly, Bhagwan Das attacked the Guru's camp and was subsequently killed in the fight. Das' son, Rattan Chand, and Karam Chand, the son of Chandu Shah (an antipathetic figure in Sikh tradition), forged an alliance and incited the Faujdar of Jalandhar, Abdul Khan, to send an expedition against Guru Hargobind. The Sikhs fought and defeated the contingent of 4,000 Mughal troops sent by Abdul Khan, near the Beas River. The Sikh General Jattu as well as Abdul Khan and his sons were killed in the fighting.
# Mewa Singhwala

Mewa Singhwala is a village in Sultanpur Lodhi tehsil in Kapurthala district of Punjab, India.It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the city of Sultanpur Lodhi, 22 kilometres (14 mi) away from district headquarter Kapurthala. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per the constitution of India and Panchayati raj (India).
# Michael Gaydos

Michael Gaydos is an American comics artist.

## Career

At Marvel Comics he has worked with Brian Michael Bendis on Alias, the last storyline of its follow up, The Pulse, and the current sequel comic, Jessica Jones. He has also illustrated the mini-series Powerless and Daredevil Redemption.
Gaydos' DC Comics work includes the series Manhunter (Vol. 3), issues 31–38, and Pearl, which reunited him with Brian Michael Bendis.
His work outside the Big Two include illustrating Virgin Comics' Snake Woman, a story for Fox Atomic Comics’ original graphic novel, The Nightmare Factory, and a Devlin Waugh story for 2000 AD.

### Television

On February 21, 2024, Gaydos and Bendis were announced as executive producers on the television series adaptation of Pearl for Amazon Prime Video.
# Manuel Blum

Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan born American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".

## Education

Blum was born to a Jewish family in Venezuela. Blum was educated at MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and 1961 respectively. In MIT, he was recommended to Warren S. McCulloch, and they collaborated on some mathematical problems in neural networks. He obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1964 supervised by Marvin Minsky.

## Career

Blum worked as a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley until 2001. From 2001 to 2018, he was the Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where his wife, Lenore Blum, was also a professor of Computer Science.
In 2002, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2006, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to abstract complexity theory, inductive inference, cryptographic protocols, and the theory and applications of program checkers.
In 2018 he and his wife Lenore resigned from Carnegie Mellon University to protest against sexism after a change in management structure of Project Olympus led to sexist treatment of her as director and the exclusion of other women from project activities.

## Research

In the 60s he developed an axiomatic complexity theory which was independent of concrete machine models. The theory is based on Gödel numberings and the Blum axioms. Even though the theory is not based on any machine model it yields concrete results like the compression theorem, the gap theorem, the honesty theorem and the Blum speedup theorem.
Some of his other work includes a protocol for flipping a coin over a telephone, median of medians (a linear time selection algorithm), the Blum Blum Shub pseudorandom number generator, the Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem, and more recently CAPTCHAs.
Blum is also known as the advisor of many prominent researchers. Among his Ph.D. students are Leonard Adleman, Dana Angluin, Shafi Goldwasser, Mor Harchol-Balter, Russell Impagliazzo, Silvio Micali, Gary Miller, Moni Naor, Steven Rudich, Michael Sipser, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Umesh Vazirani, Vijay Vazirani, Luis von Ahn, and Ryan Williams.
# Russian Academy

The Russian Academy or Imperial Russian Academy (Russian: Академия Российская, Императорская Российская академия) was established in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1783 by Empress Catherine II of Russia and princess Dashkova as a research center for Russian language and Russian literature, following the example of the Académie française. In 1841 it was merged into the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of today's Russian Academy of Sciences).

## Presidents

* 1783–1796 – Yekaterina Dashkova (concurrently serving as the Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences)
* 1796–1801 – Pavel Bakunin (Бакунин, Павел Петрович) (concurrently serving as the Director, and later President, of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences)
* 1801–1813 – Andrey Andreyevich Nartov (Нартов, Андрей Андреевич)
* 1813–1841 – Aleksandr Shishkov (Шишков, Александр Семёнович)