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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.

Appointment of conservatorships
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. 

In relation to the government control of businesses and corporations, like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, conservatorship means more temporary control than does nationalization.

Conservatorship controversy
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. In late 2008, the conservatorship was made permanent. It triggered the Free Britney movement.

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 conservatorship does not have a temporary period. It does not automatically expire. Spears is in the latter (the probate form of conservatorship).

Spears has wanted the conservatorship to be dissolved because, she says, her father uses it to abuse and exploit her.

References

Legal terms
Chink (slur)

Chink or ching chong ( or 清衝 (qīng chōng), is a racial slur for a Chinese person. It is primarily used in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malaysia. Sometimes, it can be used to refer to anyone of Asian heritage or appearance.

Related pages 
 Anti-Chinese sentiment
 China
 Chinese diaspora
 Chinese Americans
 Chinese Australians
 Chinese Brits
 Chinese Canadians
 Chinese Malaysians
 Chinese New Zealanders
 Chinese Singaporeans
 Nigger

Pejoratives
English profanity
Slurs
Paki

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. 

Pejoratives
English profanity
Slurs
Bloody hell

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.

English profanity
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). 

In 1994, the System3 gasolines by Texaco were replaced with new CleanSystem3 gasoline for improved engine performance.

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.

References

Companies based in Texas
Companies based in California
American fuel companies
1902 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Texas
List of slang words referring to the penis

This is a dynamic list of slang words for the penis.

List 
 Cock
 Dick
 Man parts
 Peen
 Wang
 Willy

Slang
Language-related lists
The Haunted Mansion (movie)

The Haunted Mansion is a 1999 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 Zak Penn and Kerry Ehrin and stars Alec Baldwin, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Marsha Thomason in a dual role, Jennifer Tilly, and Dina Spybey.

Production
Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, Jim Carrey, Mel Gibson, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks and Mike Myers were also considered for the role of Jim Evers.

Release
The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 10, 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.

Filming
Principal photography began on December 18, 1998, and wrapped on April 21, 1999.

References

1999 comedy movies
1990s fantasy-comedy movies
1990s ghost movies
American horror movies
Disney movies
English-language movies
Movies about dysfunctional families
Movies set in Louisiana
American black comedy movies
American children's comedy movies
American fantasy-comedy movies
Zombie movies
Movies directed by Paul Weiland
Balinese language

Balinese () is a language spoken on the island of Bali in Indonesia. It is written in both Balinese script and Latin script.

Languages of Asia
Bali
Intonation (speech)

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.

"He found it on the street?" It is a question when street in emphasised (technically, rising pitch).

"Yes, he found it on the street". (street not emphasised, not rising pitch)

The study of intonations is part of prosody.

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.

References 

Linguistics
Pronunciation
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.

Puppets
Theatres
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 Alec Baldwin, 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.

In both the novel and the film, the married couple's family name is Rose, and the title is an allusion to the battles between the warring Houses of York and Lancaster who were contending for the English throne during the late Middle Ages. In Germany, the film was such a huge success that its German title Der Rosenkrieg became synonymous with high-conflict divorce and is now regularly used in the media.

Cast

1980s black comedy movies
American movies
American black comedy movies
English-language movies
Movies directed by Danny DeVito
20th Century Fox movies
Movies about divorce
1989 comedy movies
Frankenstein 90

Frankenstein 90 is a 1984 French comedy movie directed by Alain Jessua and starring Jean Rochefort and Eddy Mitchell.

Other websites
 

1984 comedy movies
French comedy movies
Movies directed by Alain Jessua
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.

Education
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.

Selected filmography
Better Off Dead (1985)
One Crazy Summer (1986)
How I Got into College (1989)
The Last Halloween (1991)
The Incredible Crash Dummies (1993) (writer only)
Safety Patrol (1998) (TV film)
Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) (TV film)
The Days in the Lives of Beau: Grow Up, Beau! (2006) (TV film)
Shredderman Rules (2007) (TV film)
Legally Blondes (2009)
Ratko: The Dictator's Son (2009)
A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011) (TV film)
Big Time Movie (2011)
A Fairly Odd Christmas (2012) (TV film)
A Fairly Odd Summer (2014) (TV film)
Santa Hunters (2014)
Rufus (2016)
Rufus 2 (2017)

Selected television series credits
Press Your Luck (1983–1986) (designer and animator of the "Whammy", all episodes)
Saturday Night Live (1988–1990) (assistant director for two seasons)
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987–1988) (wrote and directed most episodes)
Encyclopedia Brown (1989–1990) (director)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990–1991) (writer)
Eek! the Cat (1992–1998) (co-creator, executive producer, and wrote most of the episodes)
The Puzzle Place (1994–1998) (director)
V.I.P. (1998–2002) (directed many episodes)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–1998) (directed 3 episodes)
Kenan & Kel (1997–1999) (wrote 6 episodes)
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (1999–2002) (directed 8 episodes)
Sabrina: The Animated Series (1999–2000) (creator, casting director, voice director and executive producer)
Even Stevens (2000-2002) (directed 3 episodes)
Lizzie McGuire (2001–2003) (directed 9 episodes)
Phil of the Future (2004) (directed 4 episodes)
Unfabulous (2005–2007) (directed 7 episodes)
Zoey 101 (2005–2007) (directed 5 episodes)
Zeke and Luther (2009–2011) (directed 11 episodes)
Big Time Rush (2009–2013) (directed 14 episodes, 5 of them being 2-part specials)
Bizaardvark (2016) (directed 3 episodes)
Malibu Rescue (2019) (creator)

Popular culture
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"

References

Other websites

1958 births
American screenwriters
American animators
American television directors
American television producers
American television writers
American voice actors
Living people
American cartoonists
Beach volleyball

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.

Related pages 

 Volleyball

Volleyball
Team sports
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.

Animation
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), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), Piglet's Big Movie, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), Robots (2005) and Open Season (2006).

Animators
1967 births
Artists from London
Living people
People educated at Westminster School, London
Cartoonists
Comics artists
Honey Bunny In Crazy Crazy Chase

Honey Bunny In Crazy Crazy Chase is a 2019 Indian animated action-comedy film, based on Honey Bunny Ka Jholmaal.
The film is inspired by Home Alone. It is also the first and only film of the Honey Bunny Ka Jholmaal film series to be distributed by PVR Cinemas as well as Sony Pictures Networks.

Plot 
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.

References 

Action comedy movies
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.

The Google Docs Editors suite is available freely for users with personal Google accounts: through a web application, a set of mobile apps for Android and iOS, and a desktop application for Google's Chrome OS.

References

Google
André Silva (footballer, born 1995)

André Miguel Valente da Silva (born 6 November 1995) is a Portuguese football player. He plays as a striker for RB Leipzig and the Portugal national team.

References 

1995 births
Living people
Portuguese footballers
Association football forwards
A.C. Milan players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Indian Trail, North Carolina

Indian Trail is a town in Union County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 33,518 people live in Indian Trail.

Towns in North Carolina
Post-punk

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.

Notable artists
 Au Pairs
 Cabaret Voltaire
 Devo
 Gang of Four
 Joy Division
 Magazine
 Pere Ubu
 Public Image Ltd
 Siouxsie and the Banshees
 Talking Heads
 The Cure
 The Fall
 the Pop Group
 the Slits
 They Might Be Giants
 Wire

Music genres
Maile Flanagan

Maile Flanagan (born May 19, 1965) is an American voice actress, comedian, clown, jester, mime, magician, dancer, tap dance, professional wrestler, amateur wrestling and tomboy.  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.

Other websites
IMDB

References

1965 births
LGBT people
American voice actors
Hikimayu

Hikimayu was a Japanese tradtiion of removing the eyebrows and painting two smudges on the forehead from Nara period to 19th century.

In culture 

 Hikimayu is found in The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book. 
 Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa showed this tradition in his films Rashomon, Ugetsu.

Japanese culture
Bunraku

Bunraku, also known as Ningyō jōruri, is a Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the 17th century. It was mainly related to kabuki from Genroku period. Bunraku developed in Edo period combining puppet art with joruri. Bunraku has the narrator with puppets and the action is accompained by a game on the shamisen. 

The most famous Japanese bunraku playwright is Chikamatsu Mozaemon. His most famous work is The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.

History 
Originally the term bunraku referred to theatre founded in Osaka in 1805.  

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.

Related pages 
 Kabuki

References 

Japanese culture
Puppets
Theatres
Midland, North Carolina

Midland is a town in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 3,073 people live in Midland.

Towns in North Carolina
Ousmane Dembélé

Masour Ousmane Dembélé (born 15 May 1997) is a French football player. He plays as a forward for Barcelona and the France national team.

References 

1997 births
French footballers
Association football forwards
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Living people
Vernon, Eure

Vernon is a commune. It is in Normandy in the Eure department in north France.

Twin towns 
Vernon is twinned with:
  Bad Kissingen, Germany
  Massa, Italy

Communes in Eure
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.

Municipalities in the Basque Country
IParty with Victorious

"iParty with Victorious" was an episode of the television shows iCarly and Victorious.  It aired on June 11, 2011.

Special Guest Stars: Victoria Justice as Tori Vega:
Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine:
Danielle Monet as Trina Vega:
Matt Bennet as Robbie Shapiro:
Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver:
Elizabeth Gilles as Jade West:
Leon Thomas III as Andre Harris:

References

2011 television episodes
Nickelodeon
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.

1968 births
Living people
Actors from Pennsylvania
American voice actors
American cartoonists
Bernardo Silva

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.

References 

1994 births
Portuguese footballers
Association football midfielders
Manchester City F.C. players
Premier League players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Sportspeople from Lisbon
Living people
Matthew J. Munn

Matthew James Munn (born 1980) is an American voice actor and animator for various studios. He was the voice of 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 film), but was replaced by Donny Lucas in Open Season: Scared Silly.
Political corruption

Political corruption is using powers of government officials or their network contacts for inappropriate private gain. 

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.

References

Politics
Economic systems
Controversies
Oviraptoridae

Oviraptorians lived between 83.6 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous.

Dinosaurs
Presnel Kimpembe

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.

References 

1995 births
French footballers
People from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Association football defenders
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Living people
Beaumont-sur-Oise

Beaumont-sur-Oise is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.

References 

Communes in Val-d'Oise
Mating system

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.

 Monogamy: One male mates with one female. There is the case, that this lasts for one season only, or the case that the pair bond (as it is called) lasts for life:
 Polygamy
 Polygyny: One male has a sexual relationship with two or more females. In vertebrates, this seems to be the most common type
 Polyandry: One female has a relationship with more than one male
 Promiscuity: A member of one sex mates with any other member of the same group, of the opposite sex

Biology
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.

References

Deer
Mammals of Asia
Arenysaur

Arenysaur lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. Arenysaur includes Arenysaurus and Ajnabia.

Dinosaurs
Ajnabia

Ajnabia lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous.

Dinosaurs
Akainacephalus

Akainacephalus was a herbivorous Dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Akainacephalus was first discovered by Scott Richardson, a BLM 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 inhabited 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.

References 

Dinosaurs
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.

Military
Ceremonies
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 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.

Madrid
Town squares
Kīlauea, Hawaii

Kīlauea is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,803.

Kīlauea shares the name of the active volcano Kīlauea on the island of Hawaii. The name translates to "spewing" or "much spreading" in the Hawaiian language.

Geography

Kīlauea is on the northeastern shore of Kauai and is bordered to the west by Kalihiwai and to the north by the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii Route 56 passes through the south side of the community, leading west  to Hanalei and east  to the Moloaa area which includes Moloaa Forest Reserve and overlooks Moloaa Bay.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Kilauea CDP has a total area of , of which  are land and , or 5.71%, are water.

References

Census-designated places in Hawaii
Lil Rel Howery

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.

1979 births
Living people
comedians from Chicago
actors from Chicago
Michael Yarmush

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.

Other websites

1982 births
Living people
Actors from Miami, Florida
Michael Caloz

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.

Other websites

1985 births
Living people
Actors from Montreal
Canadian actors
Canadian voice actors
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.

Alternatively, Rotten Ralph is the title character of the series, initially "a very very nasty cat" —a bright red domestic cat who enjoys playing mean, practical jokes on his human family.

There was a children's television series by  Cosgrove Hall Films, Tooncan Productions and Italtoons Corporation based on the books, first broadcast on BBC from 1998 to 2001. It also went to air on Nickelodeon in the UK too, around 2000. The show hasn't been aired in the UK since reruns ended in 2005. The show aired in the United States on the Nickelodeon in 1999–2001. The voice cast were recorded in Los Angeles and the animation was done in Manchester.

1976 books
Children's books
1998 British television series debuts
1998 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
1990s animated television series
2000s animated television series
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.

Other websites

1987 romance movies
1987 drama movies
1980s romantic drama movies
Chinese movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Zhang Yimou
Sagging (fashion)

Sagging means when someone wears their trousers or jeans just below the waist. 

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 origin
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.

References

Trousers and shorts
Clothing controversies
Lahmacun

Lahmacun, also spelled Lahmajoon, is a Middle Eastern dish. 

The name Lahmacun comes from Arabic (لحم بعجين "lahma bi'ajeen") meaning meat and dough. Lahmacun is often described as Turkish Pizza or Armenian Pizza but it is not a pizza because it doesn’t have cheese on it.

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.

References 

Turkish food
Middle Eastern foods
Zōri

Zōri are Japanese sandals made of rice straw, leather, rubber and lacquered wood. In English-speaking countries, flip-flops (renamed zōri) are popular.

Related pages 

 Geta
 Tabi
 Okobo
 Flip-flops

Japanese clothing
Roxanne Ducharme

Roxanne Ducharme (born July 16, 1964) is an American animator and layout artist. She was born of French-Canadian descent.

Education
BA, Studio Arts, emphasis animation & Graphic design at the Loyola Marymount University (1981-1985).

Filmography

Television

Film

Awards and nominations

References

Other websites
 

Living people
People from Los Angeles
1964 births
Lamezia Terme

Lamezia Terme is an Italian city in Calabria. It has about 70,000 inhabitants.

Cities in Calabria
Legnano

Legnano is an Italian city in Lombardy. It has about 60,200 inhabitants.

Cities in Lombardy
Cerignola

Cerignola is an Italian city in Apulia. It is about  southeast of Foggia and has about 58,500 inhabitants.

Cities in Apulia
Molfetta

Molfetta is a city in southern Italy. Molfetta is in the Apulia Region. It has about 59,000 inhabitants.

Cities in Apulia
Velletri

Velletri is an Italian city in Lazio. It has about 53,000 inhabitants.

Cities in Lazio
Days of Youth

is a 1929 Japanese comedy movie directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Ichirō Yūki, Tatsuo Saitō, Junko Matsui, Chōko Iida, Eiko Takamatsu, Shōichi Kofujita, Ichirō Ōkuni. It was distributed by Shochiku.

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1929 movies
1920s comedy movies
Silent movies
Japanese movies
Movies directed by Yasujirō Ozu
La Traviata (1983 movie)

La Traviata is a 1983 Italian Dutch musical movie directed by Franco Zeffirelli and was based on the 1853 opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave. It stars Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeill, Allan Monk, Pina Cei and was distributed by Universal Pictures.

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1983 movies
1980s musical movies
Italian movies
Dutch movies
Universal Pictures movies
Movies directed by Franco Zeffirelli
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.

References 

Andorra
Andorra
Bucharest Non Stop

Bucharest Non Stop () is a 2015 Romanian comedy-drama movie directed by Dan Chișu and starring Gheorghe Ifrim, Ion Besoiu, Adrian Titieni, Dorina Lazăr, Dorian Boguță, Olimpia Melinte.

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2015 comedy-drama movies
Romanian comedy movies
Romanian drama movies
Movies directed by Dan Chișu
Pak Watan

Pak Watan (Urdu:پاک وطن) is a National personification and a term of endearment for Pakistan, usually the Snow Leopard as Ali Faisal is depicted as the National mascot for Pakistani Personification respectively. The Word Watan refers to this sacred homeland, heimat, country, or nation.

 
National personifications
Hajji

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.

References

Muslims
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.

List

Other websites
 Rulers of South Ossetia
Rulers.org: South Ossetia
 Osinform: Thirteen South Ossetian PMs (2 November 2008)
Gennady Bekoyev

Gennady Borisovich Bekoyev (; born 1981) is a South Ossetian politician. He is the acting 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.

References

1981 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of South Ossetia
Aleksandr Shavlokhov

Aleksandr Apollonovich Shavlokhov (, born in 1939) is a South Ossetian politician. He was the Prime Minister, from 1996 until August 1998.

References

1939 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of South Ossetia
Boris Chochiev

Boris Eliozovich Chochiev (Russian: Борис Елиозович Чочиев; ; 1 November 1957 – 22 July 2021) was a South Ossetian politician. He was the acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia in 2008. He became Prime Minister on 18 August 2008, after South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity had fired the former government.

Chochiev died on 22 July 2021 in Vladikavkaz, Russia from COVID-19 at the age of 63.

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1957 births
2021 deaths
Prime Ministers of South Ossetia
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
Hamzanama

Hamzanama (Urdu: داستان امیر حمزه) A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation; not necessarily a nation-state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy. The Pakistani author Maqbool Jahangir wrote Dastan-e-Amir Hamza for children in the Urdu language. His version contains 10 volumes and was published by Ferozsons (also Ferozsons Publishers). The Hamza romance spread gradually, usually in its briefer and less elaborate forms, into a number of the modern languages of Southern Asia. Pashto and Sindhi were particularly hospitable to the Hamza story, and at least in Pashto it continues to flourish today, with printed pamphlet versions being produced. It therefore considered as the “National Epic of Pakistan” respectively.

Poems
National symbols of Pakistan
Pakistani culture
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.

List

Chairmen of the Supreme Council (1992–1994, Chairman of the State Nyhas)

Presidents

Other websites
Official website 
Rulers.org: South Ossetia
PlanetRulers.com: President of South Ossetia
Eduard Kokoity

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.

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References

1964 births
Living people
Presidents of South Ossetia
Vadim Brovtsev

Vadim Vladimirovich Brovtsev (, Brovtsête Vlâdimire fert Vâdim; , , Vadim Brovcevi; born 26 July 1969) is a Russian businessman who was Prime Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia from 5 August 2009 to 26 April 2012, as well as Acting President from December 11, 2011 to April 19, 2012.

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1969 births
Living people
Presidents of South Ossetia
Prime Ministers of South Ossetia
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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1951 births
Living people
Presidents of South Ossetia
Yi Yi

Yi Yi () is a 2000 Taiwanese Japanese drama movie directed by Edward Yang and starring Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Issey Ogata.

Other websites

2000 drama movies
Taiwanese movies
Japanese movies
Movies directed by Edward Yang
Anatoly Bibilov

Anatoly Ilyich Bibilov (, ; born February 6, 1970) is a Russian and South Ossetian military officer. He is the 4th and current President of South Ossetia since April 21, 2017.

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1970 births
Living people
Presidents of South Ossetia
Current national leaders
John Cornell

John Cornell (2 March 1941 – 23 July 2021) was an Australian movie producer, writer, actor, and businessman. He was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He was best known for his role as "Strop" on The Paul Hogan Show and for writing the Crocodile Dundee movies. He also helped create the World Series Cricket in 1977.

Life and career 
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 theCrocodile Dundee II sequel in 1988. 

Cornell died on 23 July 2021 at his home at Byron Bay, New South Wales from Parkinson's disease-related problems, aged 80.

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Australian movie producers
Australian movie directors
Australian television actors
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Australian screenwriters
1941 births
2021 deaths
Australian businesspeople
Actors from Western Australia
Alfred Biolek

Alfred Biolek (born Alfred Franz Maria Biolek; 10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021) was a German entertainer and television producer. Biolek was an honorary professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Biolek was born in Freistadt, Czechoslovakia. He helped produce some television specials for Monty Python.

Biolek died on 23 July 2021 in Cologne, aged 87.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
German entertainers
Television producers
German academics
German businesspeople
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.

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Samoa
Samoa
Mike Smith (football manager)

Michael John Smith (1937 – July 2021) was an English football manager. He managed the Wales  and Egypt national teams and Hull City. His managing career lasted from 1974 until 1995.

His death was announced on 22 July 2021, aged 84.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
English footballers
English football managers
212 Warrior

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.

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2018 comedy movies
2010s action movies
2010s fantasy movies
Indonesian movies
Movies based on books
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko
Greg Knapp

Gregory Fishbeck Knapp (March 5, 1963 – July 22, 2021) was an American football coach. He was an assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 25 seasons with the New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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.

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1963 births
2021 deaths
Road accident deaths in California
American football coaches
Sportspeople from Louisiana
People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Jean-Pierre Jaussaud

Jean-Pierre Jaussaud (3 June 1937 – 21 July 2021) was a French racing driver. He was known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and 1980. Jaussaud was born in Caen, France. He raced with Formula Three cars.

Jaussaud died on 21 July 2021 in Caen of a heart attack, aged 84.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in France
People from Caen
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.

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Frogs
Animals of South America
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.

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1970s births
Living people
American physicians
Politicians from Washington, D.C.
Politicians from West Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
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 2010 census was 43,392.

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Towns in South Carolina
St. George, South Carolina

Saint George is a town in Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,084 at the 2010 census. It has been the county seat of Dorchester County since 1897.

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Towns in South Carolina
County seats in South Carolina
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.

Madagascar
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. 

Butterflies
National symbols of Pakistan
Dropping out

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.

Canada
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.

United Kingdom
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).

United States
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.

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Human behavior
Education
Daniel Brochu

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?.

1970 births
Living people
Actors from Montreal
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 2010 census, 22,722 people live in Mint Hill.

Towns in North Carolina