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Lint remover

A lint roller or lint remover is a roll of one-sided adhesive paper on a cardboard or plastic barrel that is mounted on a central spindle, with an attached handle.  The device facilitates the removal of lint or other small fibers from most materials such as clothing, upholstery and linen. Once expended, the roll can typically be replaced with a "refill" roll. Invented in 1956 by Nicholas McKay, Sr., his most well-known (and first commercial) product was the Lint Pic-Up, the world's first lint roller.

Reusable lint rollers use elastomers, including silicones and polystyrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene as a reusable tacky surface. 
The material is similar to polymers used in walking toys such as Wacky WallWalker.

A lint roller's design enables fast 360 degree rotation, which facilitates the easy removal of unsightly fiber (often animal hair). Lint rollers can be purchased in many sizes, from pet stores, supermarkets and online.

The product is popular among dog and cat owners, as it will also remove dog and cat hair from fabrics, carpets etc.

A similar device, the lint brush uses a fabric cushion mounted to a handle, that when rubbed one way across the fabric to be cleaned, picks up the small fibers. By reversing the direction of movement across the fabric or by picking off the excess lint, it is possible to clean the lint brush. Some lint brushes are double sided in order to allow the brush to be used in both directions and to extend the use of the brush by limiting wear.

See also 

 Lint (material)
 List of cleaning tools
 Nicholas McKay

References

Cleaning tools
American inventions
Equatorial College School

Equatorial College School, also known as ECS, is a private secondary school in the Ibanda District of Uganda. It was founded by a group of professionally skilled teachers in 2002 under the board of Directors headed by Robert Kamasaka, and the current Headmaster is Bigirwa Moses. It maintains strong links with its sister school, University College School in London, from which it receives funds, resources and a steady stream of gap year students. It also has links with Kingston University. 

The ECS is a mixed school where the pupils are aged 13-19 and it has a total of 470 students. The school teaches traditional subjects, such as maths, English and science and pupils who attend here, achieve some of the highest exam results in the region. Here, girls are given equal opportunities to the boys. 

Fees are between £150 a year which includes daily meals, and if boarding is required, these fees are doubled.

Regular trips to Uganda are made by students and teachers from University College School.

References 

Schools in Uganda
Educational institutions established in 2002
Ibanda District
2002 establishments in Uganda
Sara Aldrete

Sara María Aldrete Villareal (born September 6, 1964) is a Mexican alleged serial killer who was convicted for supposedly heading a drug-smuggling and human sacrifice cult with Adolfo Constanzo. The members of the cult, dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: "Los Narcosatánicos"), called her The Godmother ("La Madrina"), with Constanzo as "The Godfather"  ("El Padrino").  The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989. She received a sentence of 62 years.

Early life and education 
Born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, she attended high school in Brownsville, Texas, while still living south of the border, and gained resident alien status so she could attend Texas Southmost College. She was known among her peers as a good student. She is  tall and studied physical education, preparing to transfer to a university to earn a teaching certification in physical education.

Background 
Adolfo Constanzo, a Cuban American fortune-teller and religious cult leader, introduced her to witchcraft and dark magic. He gave her the nickname "La Madrina", Spanish for "godmother", and initiated her into his cult, which was a conglomeration of Santería, Aztec warrior ritual, and Palo Mayombe, complete with blood sacrifices. Constanzo sexually assaulted and killed drug dealers and used their body parts for religious sacrifice ceremonies in an old warehouse near Matamoros. Many of his victims' body parts were cooked in a large pot called a nganga. Constanzo made Sara Aldrete second-in-command of his cult, and directed her to supervise his followers while he was shipping marijuana over the border into the U.S.

Killings 
In 1989, the killings grew more frequent and gained attention when American tourist Mark J. Kilroy, a University of Texas student on Spring Break, was abducted. Constanzo, Aldrete and the rest of the cult went on the run when detectives discovered their 'shrine'. They found human hair, brains, teeth, and skulls at the site of the murders. Eventually, the police found their hideout in Mexico City on May 6, 1989. After a shootout, Constanzo and one of his accomplices were shot and killed by another member of the cult, apparently at Constanzo's behest. Aldrete was convicted of criminal association in 1990 and jailed for six years. In a second trial, she was convicted of several of the killings at the cult's headquarters, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. If Aldrete is ever released from prison, American authorities plan to prosecute her for the murder of Mark Kilroy.

See also 
List of serial killers by country
List of serial killers by number of victims

References 

1964 births
Crimes involving Satanism or the occult
Mexican female gangsters
Living people
Mexican crime bosses
Mexican female serial killers
Mexican occultists
Mexican people convicted of murder
Mexican Santeríans
People convicted of murder by Mexico
People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Yeah, right

Yeah, right may refer to:
 Yeah Right!, a skateboarding video
 Yeah Right! Records, an independent record label based in London, Ontario, Canada
 Yeah Right (Dionne Bromfield song)
 Yeah Right (Joji song)
 "Yeah, Right", a song by The Reverend Horton Heat from their 1994 album Liquor in the Front
 "Yeah Right", a song by Dinosaur Jr., from their 1994 album Without a Sound
 "Yeah Right", a song by Vince Staples from the album Big Fish Theory
Boyd Huppert

Boyd Huppert (born January 22, 1962) is an American journalist and television personality. He is a news reporter for KARE 11 in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the lead writer, producer and host of KARE 11's Land of 10,000 Stories news segment, which has received numerous awards for photojournalism. Huppert has been recognized for his emotional storytelling ability in television news; Neal Justin of the Star Tribune described Huppert as "one of the most admired and celebrated TV reporters in the country."

Early life and career
Huppert, a native of River Falls, Wisconsin, was born on January 22, 1962. He first began his career in journalism as an announcer for the radio station WEVR-FM at the age of 16. He graduated from University of Wisconsin–River Falls in 1984 with degrees in journalism and political science. He was named the university's 2013 Distinguished Alumnus for his contributions to broadcast journalism.

Television work
Huppert first worked in television at WSAW-TV in Wausau, Wisconsin, beginning in 1984. He then worked at KETV and WITI before joining KARE 11 in 1996. Regarding Huppert's work in television news, film critic Duane Dudek said that Huppert's "curiosity and craftsmanship are unique, which explains why we don't see more of it." Huppert's Land of 10,000 Stories segment has been noted for its showcase of local heroes and stories of compassion, as well as his use of natural sounds in story production. Huppert often collaborates with photojournalists, Chad Nelson & Devin Krinke for his Land of 10,000 Stories segment.

Huppert has also worked as a journalism educator, holding writing workshops for broadcast journalism worldwide. In 2007, Huppert received a national News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Portrait of Compassion", a six-minute feature on a Utah-based artist who created portraits of deceased soldiers. The story ran on NBC's Today Show and CNN, leading to its nomination for a national Emmy and eventual win. Huppert has won 20 RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards, multiple National Headliner Grant Awards and Scripps Howard Awards, and 128 regional Emmy Awards.

Personal life
Huppert is married to his wife Sheri Huppert (née Heltne), who works as a law librarian. The couple have two adult sons together, Sam and Matt Huppert.

In 2021, Huppert was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an uncommon form of blood cancer. There is no cure for the cancer, though Huppert plans to undergo chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. His diagnosis was announced in an interview with KARE 11 anchor and long-time colleague Randy Shaver; the interview ran as a Land of 10,000 Stories segment on October 31, 2021.

References

External links
 KARE 11 Biography
 National Headliner Award
 NPPA Best of Photojournalism

American male journalists
Living people
People with multiple myeloma
University of Wisconsin–River Falls alumni
20th-century American journalists
1962 births
The Seven Deadly Sins (1962 film)

Les Sept péchés capitaux is a 1962 French film composed of seven different segments, one for each of the seven deadly sins, each being by different directors and featuring different casts. At the time it served as a showcase for rising directors and stars, many of whom achieved later fame.

Segments

Anger 
Directed by Sylvain Dhomme and Max Douy from a script by Eugène Ionesco. Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world.

Envy
Directed by Édouard Molinaro. Starring Dany Saval (Rosette) and Claude Brasseur (Riri). Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does everything she can to seduce the actress's lover. Some time later, after having realized her ambition, she returns to the hotel as a client.

Sloth 
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Eddie Constantine, who plays himself, is approached by a starlet who he takes to his home with well-stated intentions. But the hero's laziness is so relentless that nothing untoward happens.

Lust
Directed by Jacques Demy from a script by himself and Roger Peyrefitte. Jacques (Laurent Terzieff) and Bernard (Jean-Louis Trintignant) search for the definition of lust in a reproduction of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Bernard recalls his childhood with his parents (Jean Desailly and Micheline Presle), when he confused lust with luxury. Also features Nicole Berger.

Pride
Directed by Roger Vadim from a script by Félicien Marceau.
A woman (Marina Vlady) leaves her lover (Sami Frey) to return to her husband (Jean-Pierre Aumont) who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.

Gluttony
Directed by Philippe de Broca from a script by Daniel Boulanger. Valentin (Georges Wilson) travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way causes him to be late for the meal which follows the funeral.

Greed
Directed and scripted by Claude Chabrol. A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are staggering. To raise the money, they organize a lottery among themselves so that at least the winner will enact their fantasy. Actors include Claude Berri, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Rich, Jacques Charrier and Claude Chabrol himself as a pharmacist (the career his father wanted for him).

References

External links 
 

1962 films
Titanus films
French anthology films
Films scored by Michel Legrand
Films directed by Roger Vadim
Films directed by Philippe de Broca
Films directed by Claude Chabrol
Films directed by Jacques Demy
Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Seven deadly sins in popular culture
1960s French films
Eugène Ionesco
Jill Neimark

Jill Neimark is an American writer. Her April 2007 cover story in Discover Magazine, "Understanding Autism" won the 2007 award from the Autism Society of America.

Career
Neimark has written one adult novel, a thriller titled Bloodsong, which was published in both hardcover and paperback, chosen by Book of The Month Club, and translated into German, Italian, and Hebrew. She has also published numerous children's books: I Want Your Moo (which was written with psychologist Marcella Bakur Weiner and translated and published in Spanish and Chinese), Toodles & Teeny, The Hugging Tree (which has been featured in dozens of read-a-louds around the world), The Secret Spiral and The Golden Rectangle, among others. She co-authored, with bioethicist Stephen Post, Why Good Things Happen to Good People, which was translated and published in Japan, Brazil, Russia, Portugal, India, Sweden, and Taiwan.

Neimark has also been published in The New York Times, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, Science, The Atlantic Monthly, Aeon, Undark Magazine, Sapiens, NPR, Nautilus  and Psychology Today on topics ranging from biology and physics to the mind and the soul. She has written poetry and reviews for the Massachusetts Review, Borderlands, Cimarron Review, The Blue Nib, The Rumpus and The New York Quarterly. She was a contributing editor for Discover Magazine, and has published on subjects ranging from human evolution to curing HIV.

Awards and honors
Her April 2007 cover story in Discover Magazine, "Understanding Autism" won the 2007 award from the Autism Society of America.

Bibliography
 Ice Cream!, 1986, 64 pages, Hastings House Publishers, 
 The Nose Knows, 1990, Hastings House Publishers, 
 Bloodsong, 1993, 275 pages, Random House, 
 I Want Your Moo!: A Story for Children About Self-Esteem (Paperback), 1994, 32 pages, Magination Press,  (with Marcella Bakur Weiner, and Jairo Barragan)reissued 2010, (Hardcover and Paperback)
 Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research That Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by Stephen Post, Ph.D. and Jill Neimark, 2007, 294 pages, Broadway Books, 
 The Secret Spiral by Gillian Neimark, 2011, 210 pages, Aladdin, 
 The Golden Rectangle by Gillian Neimark, 2013, Aladdin, 
 Toodles & Teeny (Hardcover and Paperback), 2013, 32 pages, Magination Press, 
 The Hugging Tree (Hardcover and Paperback), 2015, 32 pages, Magination Press,

References

External links
 Personal website

20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American children's writers
American women novelists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jewish American writers
American women poets
American women children's writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
20th-century American poets
21st-century American poets
21st-century American Jews
Wat Florida Dhammaram

Wat Florida Dhammaram () is a Buddhist monastery in Kissimmee, Florida, established by Lung-po Chaokhun Phra Tepvaraporn (Im Arindhamo) in the mid-1990s.

History
Lung-po visited lay-devotees in Florida and perceived the lack of a Buddhist monastery in the Central Florida area. After gaining approval from the late abbot of Wat Sommanat Vihara, Chaokhun Somdej Phra Wannarat Chop Thitadhammamahathera, he began fund raising in Thailand. In 1993, three monks were sent with Prakrupalad Sunnan (now Chaokhun Phra Vijitrdhammapani, the present abbot) to establish and further the development of Wat Florida Dhammaram.

External links 
 Wat Florida Dhammaram's Website

Asian-American culture in Florida
Buddhism in Florida
Buddhist monasteries in the United States
Thai-American culture
Thai Theravada Buddhist temples and monasteries
Buildings and structures in Kissimmee, Florida
Overseas Thai Buddhist temples
Buddhist temples in Florida
1990s establishments in Florida
Tshi

Tshi, Tchwi, or Oji are a group of people living in Ghana. The chief of these are the Ashanti, Fanti, Akim  and Aquapem. Their common language is Tshi, from which they gain their family name.

Notes

References

Ethnic groups in Ghana
Joseph von Mering

Josef, Baron von Mering (28 February 1849, in Cologne – 5 January 1908, at Halle an der Saale, Germany) was a German physician.

Working at the University of Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with Oskar Minkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin, a hormone which controls blood sugar levels.

Mering was curious about the pancreas, a comma shaped organ, situated between the stomach and the small intestine. In an effort to discover its function, he removed the organ from a dog. The dog was then noticed frequently urinating on the floor, although it was house trained. Mering realised that this was a symptom of diabetes and tested the urine, which was found to be high in sugar, confirming his suspicion.

Josef von Mering helped to discover barbiturates, a class of sedative drugs used for insomnia, epilepsy, anxiety, and anesthesia. In 1903, he published observations that barbital (then known as diethyl-barbituric acid) has sedative properties in humans. In 1904, he helped to launch barbital under the brand name Veronal. Veronal was the first commercially available barbiturate sedative in any country. Von Mering collaborated with the chemist Emil Fischer, who was also involved in the discovery of barbital.

References

 Joseph von Mering at Encyclopædia Britannica

1849 births
1908 deaths
19th-century German physicians
Physicians from Cologne
People from the Rhine Province
University of Bonn alumni
University of Greifswald alumni
University of Strasbourg alumni
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
Oji

Oji, Ōji or OJI may refer to:

People
 Chibuzor Oji (born 1977), stage name Faze, Nigerian musician and actor
 Geoffrey Oji, Nigerian singer and songwriter, winner of the seventh season of Project Fame West Africa
 Megumi Ōji (born 1975), Japanese actress
 Sam Oji (1985–2021), English footballer
 Oji Umozurike, Nigerian law professor, activist and former chairman of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
 Tshi, also called Oji, a group of tribes in Ghana

Places
 Ōji, Nara, a town in Nara Prefecture, Japan
 Ōji Station (Nara), a railway station 
 Ōji Station (Tokyo), a railway station 
 O-J-I, also called Oji, a mountain in Baxter State Park, Maine, United States

Other uses
 Oji Paper Company, a Japanese paper manufacturer
 Open Java Interface
 Ọjị (Igbo for the kola nut), an important component of Igbo culture
 Mochizō Ōji, a main character in Tamako Market, a Japanese anime television series
 Gohei and Michiko Ōji, Mochizō's parents
Limnophila aromatica

Limnophila aromatica, the rice paddy herb, is a tropical flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae.  It is native to Southeast Asia, where it flourishes in hot temperatures and grows most often in watery environments, particularly in flooded rice fields.  It is called  or  or  in Vietnam and used as an herb and also cultivated for use as an aquarium plant.  The plant was introduced to North America in the 1970s due to Vietnamese immigration following the Vietnam War.  It is called "ma om" (ម្អម) in Khmer.  It is used in traditional Cambodian soup dishes and Southern Vietnamese cuisine. It can grow in flooded rice paddies during wet season but it grows best on drained but still wet sandy soil of harvested rice paddies for a few months after the rainy season ended.  It dies out soon after it flowers.  Rural Cambodians often harvest them and put them on the roof of their houses to dry for later use.

Taxonomy
Limnophila aromatica was formerly classified as a member of the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, but is now classified in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae.

Culinary use
Limnophila aromatica has a flavor and aroma reminiscent of both lemon and cumin.  It is used most often in Vietnamese cuisine, where it is called ngò om.  It is an ingredient in canh chua, a sweet and sour seafood soup which also includes tamarind, not to be confused with ngò gai which is also added as an accompaniment to the noodle soup called phở.
In Thai cuisine it is known as phak khaeyng (ผักแขยง) and is also used to make om.

Ornamental use
Limnophila aromatica is able to live completely submerged, and as such it is a popular aquarium plant. The submerged leaf form is less rigid and bigger than the emergent leaf form, it is green with a purple underside, turning completely red under high light conditions.

See also
Cuisine of Vietnam
Cuisine of Cambodia
List of Thai ingredients

References

External links

Rice Paddy Herb (Limnophila aromatica [Lomk.] Merril) page from Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages

Herbs
Plantaginaceae
Asian vegetables
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Britney: The Videos

Britney: The Videos is the third video album by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on DVD on November 20, 2001 through Jive Records. The video brought a collection of Spears' videos as she promoted her then-latest studio album Britney (2001).

The video album managed to enter the top 10 in the UK top 50 music videos chart list.

Synopsis
Britney: The Videos is a collection of videos to promote the counterpart album Britney. It features video clips of songs from the album as well as live performances — including her 2001 MTV Video Music Awards performance — and the trailer for her film Crossroads (2002). It features a sneak peek of her much anticipated Live from Las Vegas concert, which was originally broadcast by HBO.

Track listing

Notes
 "Anticipating" was used in "Britney Strikes a Pose" for background music and "Let Me Be" was used in the credits after "The Making of the Movie Crossroads", and also included a photo gallery; however, it was not listed on the track listing.
 Subtitles available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Japanese.

Certifications

References

Britney Spears video albums
Britney Spears live albums
2001 live albums
2001 video albums
Live video albums
Jive Records live albums
Jive Records video albums
Logar River

The Logar River (also Lowgar) is a river of Afghanistan. It gives the name to the Logar Valley and Logar Province. In Maidan Wardak Province where the river originates, it is called Chak River. The Chaki Wardak Dam is built on the river in Chaki Wardak District, Maidan Wardak Province.

The Logar River drains a wide tract of country, rising in Maidan Wardak Province in the southern slopes of the Sanglakh Range and receiving tributaries from hills in the Kharwar District, north-east of Ghazni. It joins the Kabul River a few kilometres below the city of Kabul. The fertile and well irrigated Logar Valley, which is watered by its southern tributaries, is about  long by  wide. Lying in the vicinity of the capital, the district contributes significantly to its food supply.

External links
More details on the "underground city"
Land cover map (April 2002)

Former populated places in Afghanistan
Kabul River
Landforms of Logar Province
Rivers of Afghanistan
Rivers of Pakistan
Valleys of Afghanistan
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy from 11 to 20 February 2006. Eight countries qualified for the tournament.

Qualification

Canada, United States, Finland and Sweden qualified as the top four teams in the IIHF World Ranking in 2004. Italy qualified as host team. The remaining three teams qualified from qualification tournaments.

Notes

Rosters

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Placement round

Bracket

5–8th place semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Playoff round

Bracket

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final ranking

Statistics

Leading scorers

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes; +/− = Plus-minus; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SA = Shots against; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:IIHF.com

Awards
Most Valuable Player:  Hayley Wickenheiser
Best players selected by the directorate:
Best Goaltender:  Kim Martin
Best Defenceman:  Angela Ruggiero
Best Forward:  Hayley Wickenheiser
Source: IIHF.com
Media All-Stars
Goaltender:  Kim Martin
Defencemen:  Angela Ruggiero,  Carla MacLeod
Forwards:  Maria Rooth,  Hayley Wickenheiser,  Gillian Apps
Source: IIHF.com

References

External links
IIHF Official Site
Complete results

IIHF results index for 2006

 
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006
Olympics
Women's ice hockey competitions in Italy
Women's events at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Ted Corday

Theodore "Ted" Corday (May 8, 1908 – July 23, 1966) was a Canadian-American producer, director and co-creator of soap opera for NBC, most notably the hit series Days of Our Lives.

Biography
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Corday graduated from the University of Alberta in 1930 and studied law before moving to the United States in 1934. He served as a Captain in the United States Army.

He worked in Broadway for many years before producing dramas for radio, such as Tortilla Flat, Tobacco Road, Gangbusters and Counterspy. He then moved to television in the 1950s, producing Guiding Light for a time as well as directing As the World Turns, from its 1956 premiere until 1965.

Corday was later lured to NBC to create three new soap operas. The first two, Paradise Bay and Morning Star, were not successful, but his third NBC serial, Days of Our Lives, was a success, and remains on the air as of 2023.

Death
Before Corday could pen many stories for the serial, he was diagnosed with cancer, and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. After many months in the hospital, he died on July 23, 1966, aged 58. His widow, Betty Corday, continued to produce Days of our Lives until her death in 1987.

Executive Producing Tenure

References

External links 
 
 

1908 births
1966 deaths
Days of Our Lives
Soap opera producers
University of Alberta alumni
People from Winnipeg
Deaths from cancer in California
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Vanity sizing

Vanity sizing, or size inflation, is the phenomenon of ready-to-wear clothing of the same nominal size becoming bigger in physical size over time. This has been documented primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. The use of US standard clothing sizes by manufacturers as the official guidelines for clothing sizes was abandoned in 1983. In the United States, although clothing size standards exist (i.e., ASTM), most companies do not use them any longer.

Size inconsistency has existed since at least 1937. In Sears' 1937 catalog, a size 14 dress had a bust size of  . In 1967, the same bust size was a size 8. In 2011, it was a size 0. Some argue that vanity sizing is designed to satisfy wearers' wishes to appear thin and feel better about themselves. This works by adhering to the theory of compensatory self-enhancement, as vanity sizing promotes a more positive self-image of one upon seeing a smaller label. Designer Nicole Miller introduced size 0 because of its strong California presence and to satisfy the request of many Asian customers. It introduced subzero sizes for naturally petite women. However, the increasing size of clothing with the same nominal size caused Nicole Miller to introduce size 0, 00, or subzero sizes. The UK's Chief Medical Officer has suggested that vanity sizing has contributed to the normalisation of obesity in society. 

In 2003, a study that measured over 1,000 pairs of women's pants found that pants from more expensive brands tended to be smaller than those from cheaper brands with the same nominal size.

US pattern sizing measurements: 1931–2015

US misses standard sizing measurements: 1958–2011

Men's clothing
Although more common in women's apparel, vanity sizing occurs in men's clothing as well. For example, men's pants are traditionally marked with two numbers, "waist" (waist circumference) and "inseam" (distance from the crotch to the hem of the pant). While the nominal inseam is fairly accurate, the nominal waist may be quite a bit smaller than the actual waist, in US sizes. In 2010, Abram Sauer of Esquire measured several pairs of dress pants with a nominal waist size of 36 at different US retailers and found that actual measurements ranged from 37 to 41 inches. The phenomenon has also been noticed in the United Kingdom, where a 2011 study found misleading labels on more than half of checked items of clothing. In that study, the worst offenders understated waist circumferences by 1.5 to 2 inches. London-based market analyst Mintel say that the number of men reporting varying waistlines from store to store doubled between 2005 and 2011.

See also
 Body image
 EN 13402, emerging European and international clothing standard from 2007, based on body measurements in centimeters
 US standard clothing size, an inch based standard based on body measurements, gained little traction and was replaced by vanity sizing from the 1980s

References

External links

 Press release.
Rickey, M (2007-09-22). "Vanity sizing". The Times (London).

Clothing controversies
Fashion design
Sizes in clothing
Advertising techniques
Goplans

The Goplans or Goplanes (, ) was an early West Slavic tribe that inhabited the central parts of the Kujawy region, with their probable seat at Kruszwica. They might have been named after the Lake Gopło; Kmietowicz believes the Bavarian Geographer (845) overheard it and recorded it (as Glopeani). Many remnants of small strongholds have been unearthed around the lake. The tribe was absorbed by the Polans in the 10th century.

Bavarian Geographer

The medieval chronicle claims that Glopeani controlled 400 gords (fortified wooden settlements), as if the tribe was dominant in the area; however, the archeological research in Kruszwica has failed to uncover the fortress, although it does indicate the presence of a large settlement. A possible resolution has been offered by Gerard Labuda who hypothesized that the "Goplanie" were the same as, or a part of, the Polans, whose main center was located at Gniezno.
 
The chronicle doesn't indicate the location of the tribe; however, it can be inferred from the list of neighboring tribes and their known locations: #14 Osterabtrezi (identified as Eastern Obodrites), #15 Miloxi, #16 Phesnuzi, #17 Thadesi, #18 Glopeani, #19 Zuireani, #20 Busani (identified as Buzhans on the Bug river). The position on the list suggest the Glopeani tribe might have lived in Pomerania, Great Poland or Masovia.

See also
List of medieval Slavic tribes

References

Sources

Early medieval Poland
West Slavic tribes
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Roughing filter

Roughing filters provide pretreatment for turbid water or simple, low maintenance treatment  when high water quality is not needed.

External links 
SANDEC page
Blue filter Inc. (commercial site)
Rejuvenation of SSF using HRF technique

Appropriate technology
Water filters
Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Dance Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1990, as recognition each year for the best dance music recording by an artist from Canada. Due to the relatively single-oriented nature of the dance genre, the award is most commonly presented for an individual single or a remix, although it may also be presented for a full album.

At the Juno Awards of 2021, it was announced that a new category for Underground Dance Single of the Year will be created alongside the existing category, and presented for the first time at the Juno Awards of 2022.

Winners

Best Dance Recording (1990 – 2002)

Dance Recording of the Year (2003 - Present)

References 

Dance
Dance music awards
Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year

The Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year is an annual award presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for the best album by an Indigenous Canadian artist or band. It was formerly known as Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording (1994–2002), Aboriginal Recording of the Year (2003–2009), and Aboriginal Album of the Year (2010–2016). Indigenous artists are not excluded from consideration in other genre or general interest categories; in fact, some indigenous musicians, most notably The Halluci Nation, have actively chosen not to submit their music in the indigenous category at all, instead pursuing nomination only in the more general categories.

The award faced controversy in its inaugural year, after nominee Sazacha Red Sky was accused of cultural appropriation. According to the surviving children of Chief Dan George, the writer of the song she had been nominated for, she was not personally a member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation and according to the George family did not have the right to record it under their cultural traditions. George's son Leonard sought a legal injunction to prevent the award from being presented at the Juno Awards ceremony at all, and a final compromise revising Red Sky's nomination to reflect the album instead of the song was announced on the morning of the ceremony.

More recently, some indigenous artists have called for the category to be discontinued, on the grounds that a dedicated indigenous category "ghettoizes" their music as a niche interest not relevant to non-indigenous music fans, while others have defended it as a platform for increasing the visibility of indigenous music, arguing that even though indigenous artists are eligible in all Juno award categories, relatively few indigenous artists actually receive such nominations due to their lack of mainstream prominence and the much wider range of competition for nomination slots.

In late 2019, the Junos announced plans to rename the category as Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year for the 2020 ceremony. While the category would still honour particular albums, the organization said the decision was made to address questions they received from Indigenous artists "who believe they're submitting to a category meant to shine a spotlight on the accomplishments of Indigenous people." The Junos suggested the change would likely "eliminate a lot of the confusion and put us in a better position to explain the need for the category, when challenged."

At the Juno Awards of 2021, it was announced further changes were being made for the Juno Awards of 2022, splitting the category into two new categories for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year and Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year.

Winners

Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording (1994–2002)

Aboriginal Recording of the Year (2003–2009)

Aboriginal Album of the Year (2010–2016)

Indigenous Music Album of the Year (2017–2021)

See also

Aboriginal music of Canada
Aboriginal Canadian personalities

References

Indigenous
Indigenous Canadian music awards
Album awards
Women's Meijin

The  is a Go competition.  The Women's Meijin is the female version of the Meijin title.  This title is sponsored by Fuji Evening Newspaper and Nippon Life Insurance.  The winner's purse is 5,100,000 Yen ($48,000).

The tournament was not held in 2020 due to loss of sponsorship, but resumed for the 32nd tournament in 2021 with a new sponsor.

Past winners

Winners in chronological order:

Winners by number of titles:

References

External links
Nihon Ki-in archive (in Japanese)

Go competitions in Japan
Nippon Life
Andrew Startin

Andrew Startin is an Australian performer, impersonator and television personality.

Startin came to prominence in 1997 as a result of a video tape of him impersonating Sam Newman being sent into The AFL Footy Show in an attempt to win a trip to London. He won, and the incredible accuracy of his voice, expressions and mannerisms shot him to fame as he appeared four more times that year on The Footy Show, including one episode where he filled in for Sam Newman, after the controversial personality broke his leg.

In 1998, Startin split from Channel Nine amid much publicity. He was to join Channel Seven, and new football/variety show to rival Nine's The Footy Show. Live And Kicking provided guest appearances for Startin.

Startin has a vast repertoire of impersonations. They include football identities such as Bruce McAvaney, Dennis Cometti, Mike Sheahan, Gary Ayres and Leigh Matthews; as well as media personalities such as Molly Meldrum, Rove McManus and Roy Slaven.

After the demise of Live And Kicking, Startin has performed at corporate functions and made guest appearances at public interest functions such as the Grand Final Breakfast. He has been a guest on Channel Ten's The Panel and was a member of the cast on Russell Coight's Celebrity Challenge, also on Channel Ten. In 2005 he appeared on The Footy Show weekly as part of a parody of Seven's show Talking Footy. His most famous impersonation was of Gary Ayres, using such phrases as "At the end of the day".

References

Australian male comedians
Australian television personalities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Isle of the Ape

Isle of the Ape is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game World of Greyhawk campaign setting, in which the events occur in a magical demiplane of the same name created by the mad archmage Zagyg Yragerne.

Plot overview

Isle of the Ape is a scenario in which the player characters encounter a gargantuan ape on an isolated island.

The module includes two new magic spells, and uses rules from the Unearthed Arcana rulebook.

According to From the Ashes, this adventure was set in a demiplane accessed via Castle Tenser.

Publication history
Isle of the Ape, also referred to by its module code WG6, was written by Gary Gygax as a module for the 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It was published by TSR, Inc. in 1985 as a 48-page booklet with a two-color map and an outer folder. Because it is one of the WG modules, it is a module intended for the World of Greyhawk campaign setting. Its product code was TSR 9153. It is a challenging adventure intended for 18+ level characters and requires Unearthed Arcana for play. The adventure is loosely based on Skull Island in the story of King Kong. The module is used as an example of how to switch between vastly different magic levels within a campaign.

The Crook of Rao, a significant artifact found on the isle, is rediscovered in From the Ashes written by Carl Sargent and published by TSR in 1992. In addition, stock characters from the module reappear in Return of the Eight written by Roger E. Moore and published by Wizards of the Coast in 1998.

Further history of the Isle of the Ape was revealed in Dungeon Issue #143, where the origins of the tribe residing on the isle are determined to originate from the Isle of Dread. A portal to the Isle of the Ape was added to Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, written by Jason Bulmahn, James Jacobs, and Erik Mona and published by Wizards of the Coast in 2007.

Legal History
Isle of the Ape was one of many books named in a 1992 lawsuit between TSR and Game Designers' Workshop regarding the Dangerous Journeys role-playing game and various rulebooks/sourcebooks designed for that game.  One section of this lawsuit argued that "The Multiverse adventure concept in Mythus ... and Mythus Magick ... is derived from the Multiverse system found in the AD&D 1st ed. Dungeon Master's Guide (pages 40, ...) ... the AD&D Isle of the Ape game module (throughout, but particularly, pages 2-3, 6 and 8); ..."

Reception

References

Greyhawk modules
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1985
Dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase

Dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase (DHBP oxidase) is an enzyme.  In the IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature, dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase is .

Dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase produces oxidized forms of benzophenanthridine alkaloids:
 In Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot), dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase produces sanguinarine from dihydrosanguinarine, and chelirubine from dihydrochelirubine.
 In Eschscholzia californica (California poppy), dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase produces macarpine from dihydromacarpine.

External links
 Chelirubine, Macarpine and Sanguinarine Biosynthesis
 
 
 
 KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) Alkaloid biosynthesis I - Reference pathway

EC 1.5.3
Varshakonda

Varshakonda is a village in the Jagityal district of Telangana, India. It follows a panchayat form of government, where Sarpanch is the head of the village.

References 

Villages in Jagtial district
Corners (TV series)

Corners is a Children's BBC children's television series of the 1980s. Produced by Alison Stewart, the format of the programme was that viewers would submit questions and queries (usually general knowledge, but sometimes metaphysical or scientific), and the two hosts, Tracy Brabin (later Sophie Aldred and then Diane-Louise Jordan) and Simon Davies, would try to answer the questions, aided by an anthropomorphised animal puppet, Jo Corner, who was performed and puppeteered by Robin Stevens (who later performed as Tom on Ragdoll's Tots TV). Being children's programming, the explanations used humour to convey information and frequently involved demonstrations which degenerated into slapstick humour.  Songs were also used.  A show with a similar format, "Dear Mr. Barker", aired on CBBC in the mid-1990s, but did not last long.

One of the presenters of the show was Sophie Aldred, who later became famous for playing the role of Ace in the television series Doctor Who (in one segment prior to her involvement in Who, Aldred met Keff McCulloch to discover how the new Doctor Who theme tune was composed). The other was Simon Davies, whose career continues as a writer and performer.

References

External links 

Corners at BFI

1987 British television series debuts
1991 British television series endings
BBC children's television shows
British television shows featuring puppetry
English-language television shows
Nagyrév

Nagyrév is a village in Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok, central Hungary.  It was the location of the Nagyrév culture.

Between 1914 and 1929, a large group of female villagers calling themselves "the Angel Makers of Nagyrév" systematically poisoned to death an estimated forty people.

External links
  (in Hungarian)

Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County
Harmsen van der Beek

Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek (more commonly Harmsen van der Beek or just Beek; October 8, 1897 – July 24, 1953) was a Dutch illustrator and commercial artist. Abroad, he is best remembered for his illustration of Enid Blyton's Noddy books.

Van der Beek  was the creator of the  character in 1935. This was a comic strip featuring a character made of berries which was commissioned by a jam factory in Tiel. He was already well known in the Netherlands when he approached London publishers Sampson Low at the end of the 1940s. The result was the creation of the Noddy series for young children, authored by Enid Blyton - still a major property for animators half a century later. Van der Beek simply signed his work as "Beek". The conscious intention to create a Disney-style sympathetic focus character — a European Mickey Mouse — was reportedly a major factor. Beek's death in 1953 led to a few new illustrators for the Noddy books, amongst which was his assistant Peter Wienk.

Biography
Beek's father was a pharmacist in Amsterdam. As a child, he and his brother Hein sold postcards which Beek had drawn, on the streets of Amsterdam. Eelco attended the  Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid and the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1916 to 1918 and subsequently began a career as a commercial artist, as well as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines.  One of the first books he illustrated was De Driewenschen (1920), by Jac van der Klei, a writer of children's books and school textbooks.

In 1935, Beek started to draw the comic strip  for the jam factory "". It was a metre long and was displayed on shelves in front of the jam jars in stores. Beek's wife,  Freddie Langeler (1899–1948), herself an artist, wrote the rhyming text for the strip and coloured in the drawings. In 1936, a printer named De IJssel produced a cardboard theatre which could be used to display the comic strip as a slide show. It was illuminated from behind with a flashlight. It was dubbed the "Flipposcoop" (Flipposcope) and Flipje appeared in a special strip with instructions on how to assemble and load the theatre.

In 1953, Beek asked De Betuwe for permission to release the Flipje character in the United Kingdom. They refused and Beek severed relations with the company. He died six days later.

Beek and Langeler had a son and a daughter, Fritzi Harmsen van Beek (1927–2009), who was a writer, poet and herself an illustrator.

References

External links
Bio at the comiclopedia

1897 births
1953 deaths
Dutch comics artists
Dutch illustrators
Dutch children's book illustrators
Artists from Amsterdam
Enid Blyton illustrators
Willey house

The Willey House may refer to:
 Malcolm Willey House, a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934
 Willey House (New Hampshire), the site of the historic (Samuel) Willey family tragedy
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers () is a 1964 crime comedy anthology film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors.

Cast
 Mie Hama as a bar hostess (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
 Ken Mitsuda as a rich client (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
 Nicole Karen as a French tourist (segment "La rivière de diamants")
 Jan Teulings as a Dutch man (segment "La rivière de diamants")
 Gabriella Giorgelli (segment "La Feuille de Route")
 Guido Guiseppone (segment "La Feuille de Route")
 Giuseppe Mannajuolo (segment "La Feuille de Route")
 Jean-Pierre Cassel as Alain des Arcys (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
 Francis Blanche as Mr. Umlaut (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
 Catherine Deneuve as a swindler (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
 Jean Seberg as Patricia (segment "Le Grand escroc")
 Charles Denner as a con man (segment "Le Grand escroc")
 Laszlo Szabo as a police inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")

Release
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers was released in France in August 1964, in Italy in 1964, in Japan on 4 October 1964 and in the Netherlands on 12 November 1965. In the United States, the film was released on 12 September 1967 by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing.

The film was unavailable for many decades, until it was restored and released on home video in France on 23 September 2016 and in the United States on 25 April 2017.

Roman Polanski's segment of the film, "La rivière de diamants" ("A River of Diamonds"), has been removed, at his direct request, and that portion is thus still unavailable.

References

Bibliography

External links
 
 
 

1964 films
1964 comedy films
1964 crime films
1960s crime comedy films
1960s Dutch-language films
1960s French films
1960s French-language films
1960s Italian films
1960s Italian-language films
1960s Japanese films
1960s Japanese-language films
Dutch crime comedy films
Dutch multilingual films
Films directed by Claude Chabrol
Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Films directed by Roman Polanski
Films directed by Ugo Gregoretti
Films scored by Krzysztof Komeda
Films scored by Piero Umiliani
Films scored by Serge Gainsbourg
Films set in Amsterdam
Films set in Morocco
Films set in Naples
Films set in Paris
Films set in Tokyo
Films shot in Amsterdam
Films shot in Morocco
Films shot in Naples
Films shot in Paris
Films shot in Tokyo
Films with screenplays by Paul Gégauff
Films with screenplays by Roman Polanski
French anthology films
French black-and-white films
French crime comedy films
French multilingual films
French-language Italian films
Italian anthology films
Italian crime comedy films
Italian multilingual films
Italian-language French films
Japanese anthology films
Japanese crime comedy films
Japanese multilingual films
Women's Kisei

The  is a Japanese Go competition.

Outline 
The Women's Kisei is sponsored by NTT DoCoMo, and uses a hayago format, of 30 seconds per move and a 10x1 minute byo-yomi, unlike the Kisei, which uses an eight-hour thinking time format. The winner's purse is 5,000,000 Yen ($38,000).

Past winners

Winners in chronological order:

Winners by number of titles:

References

External links
 Nihon Ki-in archive (in Japanese)

Kisei (Go)