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In April 2019, a podcast that involved Britney, titled "Britney's Gram", put out voicemails from an anonymous party saying they were the former members of her legal team. The anonymous party also said her planned second residency was canceled by her father Jamie due to Britney not always wanting to take her medication. They then said Britney was involuntarily held in the facility beginning in January after she violated rules that banned her from driving. Finally, they said the conservatorship was originally scheduled to end in 2009. Shortly after the podcast episode, a movement to end the conservatorship, called #FreeBritney, became widely known. In May, the Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny, the judge over the case, ordered an "expert evaluation" of the arrangement during a hearing. In September 2019, her former husband Federline was then granted a restraining order against Britney's father Jamie just after what might have been a physical dispute between Jamie and one of Federline's and Britney's sons. The order was sought when Federline said Jamie broke down a door to get his grandson. When the grandson was in his room, Federline said, Jamie grabbed him.
The Los Angeles divorce attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan stated there was a disagreement that took place when Britney and her sons were visiting Jamie at his home. According to Kaplan, the disagreement led to a serious act of physical violence that was observed by Britney's and Federline's older son Jayden. Kaplan credited Britney for removing the children from the area.
Britney Spears gave notice to the court on June 23, 2021 and talked about having trauma. She described the conservatorship as "abusive". She then expressed her wishes for choosing her own legal representation and to marry and have another child. She asked Penny to dissolve the conservatorship without further evaluation. The request to end the conservatorship, however, was later denied by Penny. During a court hearing in July 2021, Britney Spears was given the right to choose her own lawyer. Judge Penny then approved the replacement of Spears' previous lawyer Samuel Ingham with Matthew Rosengart. The new lawyer said he would be working to dissolve the conservatorship.
From 2019 to 2021, the #FreeBritney movement gained support from many celebrities. They included singers Miley Cyrus and Cher and media personality Paris Hilton. The singers Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera, the earlier of whom was Spears' past boyfriend, also voiced their support. The latter also said Spears' conservatorship was "unacceptable".
U.S. Burgess Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz invited Spears to testify on her conservatorship to United States Congress. In relation to Spears' case, U.S. Senators Bob Casey Jr. and Elizabeth Warren called on the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to give them data on conservatorships so they could make policy-related recommending on the system. Casey Jr. and Warren called for more federal oversight on the guardianship system in the United States after Spears' testimony. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nonprofit organization, decided they would help Spears in dissolving the conservatorship if she requested to do so. They filed an "amicus curiae" to support Spears' plea to choose her own legal representation.
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Conservatorship
In United States law, conservatorship is when a protector or guardian is appointed by a court judge to manage the financial affairs for another person. This is usually because that person is old or has physical or mental health problems. People in a conservatorship are called "conservatees". Conservatees are usually adults. A person in guardianship is called a "ward". The term "ward" is usually used in reference to minors (people under age 18). Conservatorship may also be used for corporations or organizations.
"Conservatorship" refers to the legal responsibility over a person who has a certain mental disorder or a physical health problem. This includes people affected with psychosis, suicidal ideation, certain levels of autism or in some other way are not able to make medical, financial or legal decisions for themselves.
A recent example of conservatorship controversy is that involving the American pop singer-songwriter Britney Spears. She was put into conservatorship by her father in 2008. The year before, Britney had a mental breakdown. Spears also shaved her head and hit paparazzi with an umbrella but that was because they were violently attacking her. In late 2008, the conservatorship was made permanent (unfortunately). It triggered the Free Britney movement because it was clearly fraudulent (britney did not, and has never, had dementia or any form thereof)
In California there are two forms of conservatorship. The Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship starts off being temporary. This one is renewed every year if necessary. A probate (aka slavery) conservatorship does not have a temporary period. It does not automatically expire. Spears is in the latter (the probate form of conservatorship which lasts for around 10,000 years and is one of the most horrific things that can happen to a person).
Spears has wanted the conservatorship to be stopped because, she says, her father uses it to abuse and use her, and also it is clearly a dishonest strategy to steal her money and ruin her life.
Chink (slur)
Paki is a British English racial slur targeted at Pakistanis. It is mostly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India.
Bloody hell is a common British swearing phrase used as a milder form of "fucking hell" and a vulgar version of "what the hell", "bugger", "crap" or "damn it". It is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji and Sri Lanka.
Texaco
Texaco (or The Texas Company; originally called The Texas Fuel Company) is an American petroleum and gasoline company. It was founded in 1902 in Beaumont, Texas. The Chevron Corporation bought the Texaco company in late 2000.
In 1931, Texaco bought the Indian Oil Company. The Indian Oil Company was in Illinois. This expanded the company's refining and marketing base across the midwestern United States. It also gave Texaco rights to Indian's Havoline motor oil (which became a Texaco product).
Texaco gasoline contains Techron, an additive developed by Chevron in 2005. It replaces the previous CleanSystem3. This Texaco brand is strong in Latin America, the United States and West Africa. It is also in Europe. In the United Kingdom, there are about 850 Texaco-branded gas stations.
In 2010, Texaco ended business operations across the Mid-Atlantic States. Texaco removed its brand from 450 stations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky and Washington, D.C..
Texaco once did business in and around the Quad Cities of southeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois. In the 2000s decade, however, the stores were closed. They were then replaced with Kwik Shop stores in Iowa and with Gas Land stores in Illinois.
The Haunted Mansion (movie)
The Haunted Mansion is a 1996 American horror comedy film based on the attraction of the same name at Disney theme parks. Directed by Paul Weiland, the film is written by Dave Foley, Jay Kogen and Stephen Hibbert and stars Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Kyle MacLachlan, Rachel Weisz in a dual role, Jennifer Tilly, and Dina Spybey.
Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, Jim Carrey, Mel Gibson, Tim Robbins, Jon Lovitz, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks and Mike Myers were also considered for the role of Jim Evers. However, Mike Myers and Tim Robbins were too busy working on "".
The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 3, 1999 and is Disney's second film based on an attraction following the television film "Tower of Terror". The film grossed $182.3 million worldwide on a $90 million budget and was panned by critics.
Principal photography began on December 21, 1998, and wrapped on a April 28, 1999.
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Intonation is about the variation in pitch of speech which may change meaning. How something is said may change its meaning. All spoken languages use this tactic.
A simple example which shows how important prosody is. A parent says to a child "well done". Without some annotation, one can't decide whether the child has indeed done well, or whether it has {say} knocked a glass of milk over.
Puppet theatre
Puppet theatre or puppetry is a form of theatre where the puppeteer manipulates the puppets. The puppeteer is usually hidden from the audience. The action of puppet show take place on the small self-made stage. The puppets can be marionette, finger puppets, sock puppets or glove puppets.
The War of the Roses (movie)
The War of the Roses is a 1989 American black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name by Warren Adler. The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center of an outrageous and bitter divorce battle.
The film co-stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. DeVito directed the film, which also had producer James L. Brooks working on a project outside of "The Simpsons". The opening title sequence was created by Saul Bass and Elaine Makatura Bass.
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Savage Steve Holland
Savage Steve Holland (born April 29, 1958) is an American writer, cartoonist, producer, voice actor, animator, and film director who wrote and directed the films "Better Off Dead" (1985) and "One Crazy Summer" (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film "How I Got into College" (1989), and animated the "Whammy" on the game show "Press Your Luck". He later went on to create and produce "Eek! the Cat" and "The Terrible Thunderlizards" for Fox Kids. He now manages his own studio, Savage Studios Ltd., and directs shows for Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts, where one of his student projects "Going Nowhere Fast" (1980), was exhibited at the Museum of Cat Food show "Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures".
Savage Steve Holland was lampooned in the episode "What Big Rewrite Notes You Have" of the cartoon Ned's Newt, as over-the-top director "Sausage Steve Finland".
Beach volleyball is a team sport, a kind of volleyball. The players have two teams (2 per side) and play on a sand court divided by a net.
Alexander Williams (cartoonist)
Alexander "Alex" Williams (born October 18, 1967 in London, England) is an English television and film animator and cartoonist. He is the son of animator Richard Williams. He has worked on many animated television series, and is the author of the "Queens Counsel" cartoon strip in "The Times", for which he was awarded the Cartoon Art Trust Award for Strip Cartooning in October 2017.
In June 1987 Williams was 19 years old and in his first year of studies at the University of Oxford when he started work as an in-betweener on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", working under animator Simon Wells and later as an assistant animator to Marc Gordon-Bates. Williams initially worked unpaid as an intern, and was later invited by producer Patsy de Lord to work on the film full-time. The university agreed to his taking a suspension of studies for a year. The following year, in 1988, he joined the Disney-MGM Studio in Orlando, Florida, working on the short film RollerCoaster Rabbit.
His work as an animator includes "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "The Princess and the Cobbler" (1993), "The Lion King" (1994), "Quest for Camelot" (1998), "The Iron Giant" (1999), "The Road to El Dorado" (2000), "" (2002), "Piglet's Big Movie", "" (2003), "Robots" (2005) and "Open Season" (2006).
Honey Bunny In Crazy Crazy Chase
Honey Bunny In Crazy Crazy Chase is a 2019 Indian animated action-comedy movie, based on Honey Bunny Ka Jholmaal.
The movie is inspired by Home Alone. It is also the first and only movie of the Honey Bunny Ka Jholmaal movie series to be distributed by PVR Cinemas as well as Sony Pictures Networks.
Honey and Bunny are on their way to Kanyakumari but mistakenly end up in Goa while following Miss Katkar's lookalike. There, their paths cross with two burglars who may end up ruining their vacation.
Google Docs Editors
Google Docs Editors is a web-based productivity office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. The suite includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google Sites, and Google Keep. It used to also include Google Fusion Tables until it was discontinued in 2019.
Many other programs compete with Google Docs. The competing programs are similar and have the basic functions of Google Docs and some add-ons that make them a better product than the same.
Indian Trail, North Carolina
Indian Trail is a town in Union County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, 39,997 people live in Indian Trail.
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a large genre of rock music. It started in the late 1970s when musicians got tired of the how simple regular punk rock was. Post-punk artists added avant-garde ideas and other ideas from outside rock music. They kept punk rock's energy and DIY ethic but added styles like funk, electronic music, jazz, and dance music; the production techniques of dub and disco; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, cinema and literature. These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines.
Maile Flanagan (born May 19, 1965) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her role as Naruto Uzumaki in the English dub of "Naruto" who she has voiced in all properties and media since 2005.
Hikimayu
The most famous Japanese bunraku playwright is Chikamatsu Mozaemon. His most famous work is "The Love Suicides at Sonezaki".
In Edo period, male pupeteers were hidden from the audience by the curtain while they held pupepts. The narrator and musician were also hidden. In 1703, pupeteers apperead in full view of the audience. In 1728, the narrator and musician were given their own stage.
Midland, North Carolina
Midland is a town in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, 4,684 people live in Midland.
Vernon, Eure
Vernon is a commune. It is in Normandy in the Eure department in north France.
Alonsotegi
Alonsotegi is a municipality of 2,890 people (2020). It is in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in Spain.
IParty with Victorious
"iParty with Victorious" was an episode of the television shows "iCarly" and "Victorious". It aired on June 11, 2011.
Drew Massey
Drew Massey is an American voice actor, actor, puppeteer and director for Nickelodeon and The Jim Henson Company. He has worked with the Muppets and has performed in many movies, television series and commercials. He also lent his voice to many commercials and video games.
Bernardo Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva (born 10 August 1994), known as Bernardo Silva or simply Bernardo, is a Portuguese football player. He plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Manchester City and the Portugal national team.
Matthew J. Munn
Matthew J. Munn (born July 1980) is an American voice actor and animator for many studios. He voiced Boog and Doug in "Open Season 3". He replaced Mike Epps as the voice of Boog in "Open Season 2" (who replaced Martin Lawrence from the first movie). He was later replaced by Donny Lucas in "".
The forms of corruption are very different between one another. Examples of political corruption are lobbying, bribery, extortion (which refers when to someone commits blackmail or bribery against or threatens other people through putting a feeling of fear by telling certain people something "will" happen if the victim does not comply), nepotism (the unfair use of power for receiving job employments or benefits by family or friends), patronage (improperly using state money/goods to reward families, certain groups or races in exchange for voting for certain political party members) and embezzlement. Corruption is often linked to human trafficking, money laundering and drug trafficking. But political corruptions are not limited to these illegal acts. Misuse of government power for certain other purposes, an example of which is police brutality is also classified as political corruption.
Political corruption hurts democracy by going against the formal process. Corruption in elections and in legislature reduces responsibility and falsely represents the related creations of policies.
Economies having a high level of political corruption tend to not be as financially successful as one that has low level corruption. Political corruption not only threatens justice and ethical values. Recalls of loans by international banks, along with massive selling of emerging market stocks from international mutual funds, is associated with (and can actually cause) crises in economics and currency problems in certain countries. Examples of these problems are in Asia, Africa and Central America.
Presnel Kimpembe (born 13 August 1995) is a French football player. He plays as a centre-back for Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team.
Mating system is a term form biology, to describe the sexual behaviour of a group of animals. It basically describes which males and females in a group mate.
Central Asian red deer
The central Asian red deer or Tarim red deer ("Cervus hanglu") is an elk that lives in Central Asia.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says the central Asian red deer is a "least concern" species, but many subspecies of central Asian red deer have become locally extinct. This means that places that once had many deer now have none.
One subspecies of central Asian red deer, the Kashmir stag ("Cervus hanglu hanglu"), is the only species of deer that lives in India.
Arenysaur
Arenysaur lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. Arenysaur includes "Arenysaurus" and "Ajnabia".
Ajnabia
Ajnabia (meaning "stranger" or "foreigner") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaur that lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous.
Akainacephalus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. "Akainacephalus" was first discovered by Scott Richardson, a Bureau of Land Management employee who also discovered "Lythronax" and "Kosmoceratops", all in the same region of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
The dinosaur was medium-sized, standing at 3 feet 6 inches tall and stretching about 15 feet long. It lived in present-day southern Utah, which during the Late Cretaceous Period was part of the southern portion of Laramidia, an island continent that stretched from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico. Though ankylosaurids originated in Asia between 125 - 100 million years ago, they do not appear in the western North American fossil record until about 77 million years ago. The new species "Akainacephalus" offers the most complete skeleton of an ankylosaurid dinosaur found in the southwestern United States. It includes a skull, much of the vertebral column, including a complete tail club, several fore and hind limbs elements, and bony body armour that includes two neck rings and spiked armour plates.
Guard mounting
Guard mounting, changing the guard, or the changing of the guard, is an official ceremony in which guards that take place in duties at important places are swapped with different guards. The ceremonies are usually planned very well. They started during peaceful times and war fighting drills, with it becoming more popular from the 17th and 18th centuries as it helped make the army less tired and more useful.
Plaza de Oriente
The Plaza de Oriente is a plaza in the historic center of Madrid, Spain. It has a shape like a rectangle and is very big and noticeable. It was designed in 1844 by Narciso Pascual y Colomer. It was opened by King Joseph I after he said that the houses originally in the area should be destroyed.
It is located between some very well known and important places in Madrid. To the west is the Royal Palace, the Teatro Real, to the east, and the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation to the north.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Kilauea CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 5.7%, are water.
Shipwrecking
The hallmark of a shipwreck due to poor design is the capsize of Swedish warship "Wasa" in Stockholm harbour 1628. She was too narrow, had too little ballast and her lower cannon deck had too low free-board for good seaworthiness. Poor design allowed the ferry MS "Herald of Free Enterprise" to put to sea with open roll-on/roll-off bow doors, with tragic consequences.
Failure or leaking of the hull is a serious problem that can lead to the loss of buoyancy or the free surface effect and the subsequent sinking of the vessel. Even the hulls of large modern ships have cracked in heavy storms. Leaks between the hull planks of wooden vessels are a particular problem.
Equipment failure caused the shipwreck of cruiseferry "Estonia" in 1994. The stress of stormy seas on hull and bow especially caused the bow visor to break off, in turn tearing the watertight bow door open and letting seawater flow onto the car deck. She capsized with tragic consequences. Failure of pumps can lead to the loss of a potentially salvageable ship with only a minor leak or fire.
Failure of the means of propulsion, such as engines, sails or rigging, can lead to the loss of a ship. When the ship's movement is determined only by currents or the wind and particularly by storms, a common result is that the ship is unable to avoid natural hazards like rocks, shallow water or tidal races. Loss of propulsion or steering can inhibit a ship's ability to safely position itself in a storm, even far from land. Waves attacking a ship's side can overwhelm and sink it.
Instability is caused by the centre of mass of the ship rising above the metacenter resulting in the ship tipping on its side or capsizing. To remain buoyant, the hull of a vessel must prevent water entering the large air spaces of the vessel (known as downflooding). Clearly for the ship to float, the normally-submerged parts of the hull will be watertight, but the upper parts of the hull must have openings to allow ventilation to compartments, including the engine room, for crew access, and to load and unload cargo. In a capsize, water can enter these openings if not watertight. If a ship sinks after capsizing, or as a consequence of a leak in the hull or other water ingress, it is often described as having "foundered" or "foundering". Large ships are designed with compartments to help preserve the necessary buoyancy.
On 25 October 2012, the tall ship "Bounty" (a replica of the original HMS "Bounty") sank in a hurricane. The vessel left New London, Connecticut, heading for St. Petersburg, Florida, initially going on an easterly course to avoid Hurricane Sandy. On 29 October 2012 at 03:54 EDT, the ship's owner called the United States Coast Guard for help during the hurricane after losing contact with the ship's master. He reported she was taking on water off the coast of North Carolina, about from the storm, and the crew were preparing to abandon ship. There were sixteen people aboard, two of whom did not survive the sinking. An inquiry into the sinking was held by the United States Coast Guard in Portsmouth, Virginia from 12 to 21 February 2013; at which it was concluded that Captain Walbridge's decision to sail the ship into the path of Hurricane Sandy was the cause, and the inquiry found this to have been a "reckless decision".
Wind causes waves which result in other difficulties. Waves make navigation difficult and dangerous near shallow water. Also, waves create buoyancy stresses on the structure of a hull. The weight of breaking waves on the fabric of the ship force the crew to reduce speed or even travel in the same direction as the waves to prevent damage. Also, wind stresses the rigging of sailing ships.
The force of the wind pushes ships in the direction of the wind. Vessels with large windage suffer most. Although powered ships are able to resist the force of the wind, sailing vessels have few defences against strong wind. When strong winds are imminent, sailing vessels typically have several choices:
Many losses of sailing ships were caused by sailing, with a following wind, so far into a bay that the ship became trapped upwind of a lee shore, being unable to sail into the wind to leave the bay. Low visibility caused by fog, mist and heavy rain increase the navigator's problems. Cold can cause metal to become brittle and fail more easily. A build-up of ice can cause instability by accumulating high on the ship, or in severe cases, crush the hull if the ship becomes trapped in a freezing sea.
According to one scientist who studies rogue waves, "two large ships sink every week on average, but the cause is never studied to the same detail as an air crash. It simply gets put down to 'bad weather'." Once considered mythical and lacking hard evidence for their existence, rogue waves are now proven to exist and known to be a natural ocean phenomenon. Eyewitness accounts from mariners and damages inflicted on ships have long suggested they occurred; however, their scientific measurement was only positively confirmed following measurements of the "Draupner wave", a rogue wave at the Draupner platform in the North Sea on January 1, 1995, with a maximum wave height of (peak elevation of ). During that event, minor damage was also inflicted on the platform, far above sea level, confirming that the reading was valid. Their existence has also since been confirmed by satellite imagery of the ocean surface.
Fire can cause the loss of ships in many ways. The most obvious way would be the loss of a wooden ship which is burned until watertight integrity is compromised (e.g. "Cospatrick"). The detonation of cargo or ammunition can cause the breach of a steel hull. An extreme temperature may compromise the durability properties of steel, causing the hull to break on its own weight. Often a large fire causes a ship to be abandoned and left to drift (e.g. MS "Achille Lauro"). Should it run aground beyond economic salvage, it becomes a wreck.
In extreme cases, where the ship's cargo is either highly combustible (such as oil, natural gas or gasoline) or explosive (nitrates, fertilizers, ammunition) a fire onboard may result in a catastrophic conflagration or explosion. Such disasters may have catastrophic results, especially if the disaster occurs in a harbour, such as the Halifax Explosion.
Many shipwrecks have occurred when the crew of the ship allowed the ship to collide with rocks, reefs, icebergs, or other ships. Collision has been one of the major causes of shipwreck. Accurate navigation is made more difficult by poor visibility in bad weather. Also, many losses happened before modern navigation aids such as GPS, radar and sonar were available. Until the 20th century, the most sophisticated navigational tools and techniques available - dead reckoning using the magnetic compass, marine chronometer (to calculate longitude) and ships logbook (which recorded the vessel's heading and the speed measured by log) or celestial navigation using marine chronometer and sextant - were sufficiently accurate for journeys across oceans, but these techniques (and in many cases also the charts) lacked the precision to avoid reefs close to shore.
The Scilly naval disaster of 1707, which claimed nearly 2,000 lives and was one of the greatest maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, is attributed to the mariner's inability to find their longitude. This led to the Longitude Act to improve the aids available for navigation. Marine chronometers were as revolutionary in the 19th century as GPS is today. However the cost of these instruments could be prohibitive, sometimes resulting in tragic consequences for ships that were still unable to determine their longitude, as in the case of the "Arniston".
Even today, when highly accurate navigational equipment is readily available and universally used, there is still scope for error. Using the incorrect horizontal datum for the chart of an area may mislead the navigator, especially as many charts have not been updated to use modern data. It is also important for the navigator to appreciate that charts may be significantly in error, especially on less frequented coasts. For example, a recent revision of the map of South Georgia in the South Atlantic showed that previous maps were in some places in error by several kilometres.
Milton Howery Jr. (born December 17, 1979), known professionally as Lil Rel Howery, is an American actor and comedian. Howery is best known for his roles as Robert Carmichael in NBC's television comedy series The Carmichael Show (2015-2017) and as TSA officer Rod Williams in the horror film Get Out (2017). He also starred in the TV series Rel (2018-2019), which he also created and co-produced lasting only one season.
Michael Lawrence Yarmush (born June 19, 1982) is an American-Canadian actor. He was born in Miami, Florida. His parents are Daniel and Diane Yarmush. He was the original voice of Arthur Read on the PBS Kids animated television series "Arthur" from 1996 to 2000, when he left the voice cast.
Michael Caloz (born May 2, 1985), is a Canadian former actor and voice actor, who is best known for voicing D.W. Read on Arthur from 1996 to 1999, holding his role for the first three seasons (he also narrated the funding credits for season 1 when it first aired on PBS). He won a Young Artist Award in 1999 for his role as D.W. Read. Caloz was born in Montreal, Quebec. He voiced Dora Winifred Read (D.W.) in Arthur from 1996 to 1999. After season 3, he was replaced by Oliver Grainger. He also voiced Annie on The Little Lulu Show. He has performed in several movies, including Screamers, which was based on the Philip K. Dick story Second Variety. He has also performed on several live-action television shows including an episode on Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark?, as a frozen child's ghost. He has two brothers and plays piano, guitar and violin.
Rotten Ralph
Rotten Ralph is a series of children's picture books written by Jack Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel. About twenty "Rotten Ralph" books have been published from 1976 to 2011.
"Rotten Ralph" is also the first book in the series, a 32-page picture book published by Houghton Mifflin of Boston in 1976. It was the first published book for both Gantos and Rubel.
Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese romantic drama movie directed by Zhang Yimou and was based on the 1986 novel by Mo Yan. It stars Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Ji Chunhua, Teng Rujun.
Sagging (fashion)
Sagging is mainly a male fashion. Women and girls' wearing low-rise pants in a manner that shows the females' G-string underwear or panties is not usually described as sagging. People who wear sagging trousers or pants are sometimes called "saggers".
The style was made popular by skaters and hip-hop musicians in the 1990s, although sagging may have gotten started as early as the late 1980s. It was later declared a symbol of freedom and being aware of fashion culture with many teenagers and young adults. It was also the symbol for rejection of the values in the mainstream society.
It is often said the style got started with the United States' prison system. In that system, belts are sometimes not allowed. There may also be situations wherein there is not enough clothing of the appropriate size.
Lahmacun is topped with minced meat with herbs and spices and cooked in a clay oven. It can be wrapped around like a burrito with salad inside or eaten as a flat bread.
Lamezia Terme
Lamezia Terme is an Italian city in Calabria. It has about 70,000 inhabitants.
Legnano is an Italian city in Lombardy. It has about 60,200 inhabitants.
Cerignola is an Italian city in Apulia. It is about southeast of Foggia and has about 58,500 inhabitants.
Molfetta
Molfetta is a city in southern Italy. Molfetta is in the Apulia Region. It has about 59,000 inhabitants.
Velletri
Velletri is an Italian city in Lazio. About 53,000 people live there.
La Traviata (1983 movie)
COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
The COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case in Andorra was confirmed on 2 March 2020, when a 20-year-old man returned from Milan, Italy.
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Hajji () (sometimes spelled Hadji, Haji, Alhaji, Al hage, Al-hajj or El-Hajj) is an honor title which is given to a Muslim who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca. It is also often used to call an elder, since it can take years to get enough the wealth to fund the travel and in many Muslim societies to a respected man as an honorific title.
Prime Minister of South Ossetia
The Prime Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia, officially known as the Chairman of the Government () is the "de facto" head of government of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia.
Gennady Bekoyev
Gennady Borisovich Bekoyev (; born 1981) is a South Ossetian politician. He is the 16th Prime Minister of South Ossetia. Bekoyev was appointed to the position following the dismissal of Erik Pukhayev by President Anatoly Bibilov. Bekoyev is an independent.
Aleksandr Shavlokhov
Aleksandr Apollonovich Shavlokhov (, born in 1939) is a South Ossetian politician. He was the Prime Minister, from 1996 until August 1998.
Boris Chochiev
President of South Ossetia
The president of the Republic of South Ossetia is the "de facto" head of state of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia.
Eduard Dzhabeyevich Kokoyty (; born 31 October 1964) is the former President of the partially recognized state South Ossetia. His term in office lasted just under ten years, beginning December 2001 and ending December 2011.
Vadim Brovtsev
Leonid Tibilov
Leonid Tibilov (; ; ; born 28 March 1951) is a South Ossetian politician. He was the President of South Ossetia from 2012 to 2017.
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Anatoly Bibilov
Anatoly Ilyich Bibilov (, ; born February 6, 1970) is a Russian and South Ossetian military officer. He was the 4th President of South Ossetia from April 21, 2017 until May 24, 2022.
John Cornell
He started as a journalist. Cornell became an editor of "The Daily News" at 26 years of age.
In 1971, he was working as a producer of "A Current Affair." He produced and co-wrote the screenplay for Hogan's 1986 film "Crocodile Dundee," produced and directed the"Crocodile Dundee II" sequel in 1988.
Alfred Biolek
COVID-19 pandemic in Samoa
The COVID-19 pandemic in Samoa is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case in Samoa was confirmed on 18 November 2020. As of 1 June 2021, there were three COVID-19 cases in Samoa.
Mike Smith (football manager)
His death was announced on 22 July 2021. He was 84.
Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate (born July 30, 1943, Nebraska) is the youngest female in the United States to have been tried and convicted of first-degree murder. She was the teenage girlfriend of Charles Starkweather, a serial killer. Fugate was age fourteen when Starkweather's conviction happened. She was convicted as his accomplice and given life imprisonment. She was paroled in 1976.
Fugate lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with her mother Velma Bartlett and her stepfather Marion Bartlett. In 1956, at age 13, Fugate got romantically involved to Charles Raymond Starkweather. The man had dropped out of high school. He was born almost five years before Fugate was. They bet by way of Caril's sister Barbara. The latter was dating Starkweather's friend Bob von Busch. Starkweather was a truck unloader for the Western Union newspaper warehouse.
On Sunday, December 1, 1957, Starkweather committed his first murder when attendant Robert "Bobby" Calvert, working for a gas station near Lincoln, Nebraska, refused to let Starkweather buy a present for Fugate on credit. Starkweather then killed Calvert and robbed the gas station.
On January 21, 1958, Starkweather shot and killed Velda and Marion Bartlett. The killer then hit Fugate's baby half-sister, Betty Jean. That caused blunt-force trauma. Starkweather then stabbed her in the neck.
Starkweather and Fugate left Nebraska. They drove into Wyoming. They were involved in six more murders. Starkweather and Fugate were later arrested near Douglas, Wyoming.
Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed in Nebraska's electric chair on Thursday, June 25, 1959. He insisted although he killed most of the victims, Fugate also killed several. Fugate maintained her innocence. However, she was tried and convicted for her role in the murder spree. While being tried, Fugate testified she was Starkweather's hostage. The jury, however, found Fugate's testimony as not credible.
While in prison, Fugate was called a model prisoner. After release, she lived in the Lansing, Michigan area for a long time.
The Nebraska Parole Board did not grant a pardon for Fugate. The decision was made in February 2020. The reason for the decision was because the role of a pardon is to restore rights to felons, not to set people free of their crimes.
212 Warrior (also known as Wiro Sableng 212 and Wiro Sableng Pendekar Kapak Maut Naga Geni 212) is a 2018 Indonesian action fantasy comedy movie directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko and was based on the Wiro Sableng series by Bastian Tito. It stars Vino G. Bastian, Sherina Munaf, Marsha Timothy, Happy Salma, Dwi Sasono, Yayan Ruhian and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Greg Knapp
Knapp was hit by a car while riding his bike in San Ramon, California on July 17, 2021. He died from his injuries five days later on July 22, aged 58.
Jean-Pierre Jaussaud
Los Bracitos tree frog
The Los Bracitos tree frog or Hispaniolan green tree frog ("Boana heilprini") is a frog that lives in Hispaniola, which is the island that has Haiti and the Dominican Republic on it. Scientists have seen it as high as 1823 meters above sea level.
Rahul Gupta
Rahul Gupta (born 1970 or 1971) is an American physician. He was born in India and raised in Washington, D.C.. He is the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy since 2021 during the Joe Biden administration.
Gupta was in charge of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department from 2009 to 2014. He became the director of the West Virginia Bureau of Public Health in 2015, and focused on reducing overdose deaths from the opioid epidemic.
In July 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Gupta to serve as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 28, 2021.
Summerville, South Carolina
Summerville is a town in the U.S. state of South Carolina, mostly in Dorchester County with small parts in Berkeley and Charleston counties. It is part of the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of Summerville at the 2020 census was 50,915.
St. George, South Carolina
Saint George is a town in Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,843 at the 2020 census. It has been the county seat of Dorchester County since 1897.
Malagasy cuisine
Malagasy food is the cuisine of Madagascar. Malagasy cuisine is generally very similar to Creole cuisines, and are usually very spicy and usually generous. Most of it has been influenced by South Asia.
Papilio polyctor
The common peacock ("Papilio polyctor"), is a swallowtail butterfly found in the Indian subcontinent. It is found in the Great Himalayas and parts of Pakistan and Northern India.
Dropping out means leaving school. Reasons students drop out include because they must work, for social reasons, because of harassment, because of illness or because they no longer trust the school system that they are leaving. Unlike failing or expulsion, dropping out is the student's decision and not the school's.
In Canada, most people graduate from grade 12 by age 18. It was found by the Labour Force Survey (LFS) that by 2009, one in twelve 20-to-24 year old adults in Canada did not have a diploma from high school (Gilmore, 2010). The study also showed that males had higher dropout rates than females. Other people with stronger risks for dropping out were those outside urban/suburban areas or in the northern territories. Beginning from 1990 the Canadian dropout rates went down from 20% (1990) to around 9% (2010). From 2010 and after, however, the rate did not drop across Canada. When females drop out of high school, they get less money, the economic costs are greater and they have higher rates of unemployment than male dropouts. Female high school dropouts are more likely to rely on public support programs than male dropouts.
Dropping out of school is not allowed in the United Kingdom. Dropping out of college or universities, however, "is" allowed. Students under age 16 must attend a school with the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE).
In the United States, dropping out means students entirely quit school before they graduate. About 1.2 million students drop out of high school every year in the United States. They do this for different reasons: bullying, family emergency, poor grades, depression, mental illness, bad environment or not enough freedom. Students who drop out of high school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless or receiving welfare. Members of certain racial or ethnic groups drop out at higher rates than white students. Students raised in single-parent families and low poor students are more likely to drop out.
Many states say students must stay in school until they are 16, like in the United Kingdom. However, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court said that Amish students do not have to go to high school.
Daniel Brochu (born February 28, 1970) is a Canadian actor, who is well known for voicing Buster Baxter in the PBS Kids TV series Arthur and it's spin-off Postcards from Buster, as well as Danny Pickett in later seasons of "What's with Andy?".
Mint Hill, North Carolina
Mint Hill is a town in Mecklenburg and Union counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, 26,450 people live in Mint Hill.
Thinhorn sheep
The thinhorn sheep ("Ovis dalli") is a hoofed animal in the family Bovidae. They live in northwestern North America.
There are about 115,000 thinhorn sheep alive. There are two subspecies of thinhorn sheep, the Dall sheep ("Ovis dalli dalli") and stone sheep ("Ovis dalli stonei"). Most thinhorn sheep are Dall sheep.
These sheep are about 1.5 m high and can weigh up to 110 kg. The female sheep have small horns but the male sheep have larger horns that twist more as they get older. The horns are tan in color. The wool of Dall's sheep is almost pure white. The wool of the stone sheep is almost all black. Stone sheep's horns do not flare out as much and are lighter in color.
These sheep live in mountains. In the summer, they come to grassy places to eat twigs, sage, buds, leaves and grass. These places are 1200 to 1500 meters above sea level. In the winter, they stay on the south sides of the mountains, where it is warmer. These places are about 1500 to 2200 meters above sea level. Although they do well in the cold, thinhorn sheep do not move easily through deep snow. They have short legs and small feet, so they cannot walk through snow or on top of it. Instead, they try to live in forests where the snow is not deep or near cliffs. They can climb the cliffs to get away from animals that want to eat them. They follow the same routes from summer places to winter places for generations.
Thinhorn sheep live in herds. Most of the time, the rams live together in a bachelor herd, and the ewes and young sheep live together in other herds. Male sheep leave the female herds when they are about two years old.
The sheep mate in November. Although younger rams can mate, it is mostly the older rams who actually do. Rams only fight each other if their horns are almost the same size. Otherwise, rams with smaller horns give way to rams with larger horns. Thinhorn rams do not fight each other as much as bighorn rams do.
The ewes give birth when the Spring plants are growing. The ewe climbs up into a rock place and gives birth. She and her lamb stay there for a few days before coming back down. This makes it harder for predators to find and eat the new lamb.
Golden eagles, wolves, bears, and wolverines eat thinhorn sheep. It is easiest for predators to catch sheep in bad winters, when the snow is deep and the spring comes later. The sheep are hungry and cannot run away quickly.
Shallotte, North Carolina
Shallotte is a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, 4,185 people live in Shallotte.
Newport, North Carolina
Newport is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, 4,364 people live in Newport.
Melissa Altro (born May 16, 1982) is a Canadian voice actress from Montreal, Quebec. Prior to having a career in voice acting, Altro guest-starred on a 1994 episode of the YTV/Nickelodeon series Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Altro also provides the voice of Gretchen in the Teletoon/Disney XD animated series Camp Lakebottom. Altro is perhaps best known for voicing Muffy Crosswire on the PBS Kids animated television series Arthur (1996-present).
Single parent
A single parent is a parent who lives with their children but does not live with a spouse or partner. People may become single parents if they are breaking up with the other parent. This may happen because of domestic violence, sexual assault/rape, because the woman gives birth alone, because of abandonment, or by choice. Single-parent families are those having children that are in the control of one parent.
In homes in OECD countries in 2011, single-parent homes made up about 3-11%. The average was 7.5%. The percentage was highest in Australia (10%), Canada (10%), Mexico (10%), the United States (10%), Lithuania (10%), Costa Rica (11%), Latvia(11%) and New Zealand (11%). It was the lowest in Japan (3%), Greece (4%), Switzerland (4%), Bulgaria (5%), Croatia (5%), Germany (5%), Italy (5%) and Cyprus (5%).
In all OECD countries, most single-parent homes included a mother. Between 9% and 25% included a father. The lowest numbers were for Estonia (9%), Costa Rica (10%), Japan (10%), Ireland (10%) and the United Kingdom. The highest were in Norway (22%), Spain (23%), Sweden (24%), Romania (25%) and the United States (25%).
Over 9.5 million American families are each run by one woman. Single mothers are likely to have mental health problems, trouble with money, be at risk of poverty and receive low levels of social support. The mental health problems that affect single mothers include anxiety and depression.
Often, low-income women cannot get good mental health care services. These women are less likely to receive mental health treatment.
Children raised by a single parent are more likely than two-parent children to have these problems: failing grades at school, committing crimes, substance abuse, poverty and being dependent on welfare. One study showed that many American children from single-parent families are less good at mathematics and reading tests than other American children.
Experts disagree about what the most important part of a family is, especially experts in the United States. Some people say that a single parent family is not really a family.
The Dall sheep or Dall's sheep is a subspecies of Thinhorn sheep. They usually eat grass and other plants. They live in northwestern North America, in Canada and Alaska.
These sheep are about 1.5 m high and can weigh up to 110 kg. The female sheep have small horns but the male sheep have larger horns that twist more as they get older. The horns are tan in color. The wool of Dall's sheep is almost pure white.
The sheep's horns grow fastest in warm weather and slowest in cold weather. This puts rings in the horns called annuli. The number of rings shows how old the sheep is.
The other kind of thinhorn sheep, the stone sheep, can breed with Dall sheep. These thinhorn sheep are sometimes called Fannin's sheep.
There are about 100,000 Dall sheep in the world. They live in Alaska in the Kenai Peninsula and Brooks Range. They live in Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories in the Mackenzie Mountains, Kluane and Saint Elia ranges.