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Lekh Tandon

Lekh Tandon (13 February 1929 – 15 October 2017) was an Indian actor and movie director. His best known directorial works were Professor, Prince, Ek Baar Kaho and Agar Tum Na Hote. In the 2000s, he began his acting career with movies such as Swades, Rang De Basanti,  Chennai Express, and Chaarfutiya Chhokare.

He shared the 1978 Filmfare Best Screenplay Award for his movie, Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye, with Vrajendra Gaur and Madhusudan Kalekar.

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 Official Website 

1929 births
2017 deaths
Indian movie directors
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Television directors
Wolfgang Bötsch

Wolfgang Bötsch (8 September 1938 – 14 October 2017) was a German politician. He was born in Bad Kreuznach. He was a representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Between 1974 and 1976 he represented the Landtag of Bavaria. From 1976 to 2005 he was a member of the Bundestag, and between 1993 and 1997 he was the last Minister of Post and Telecommunications. 

Bötsch died on 14 October 2017 in Würzburg, Germany at the age of 79.

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Rhins

The Rhins or Reins is a river in central France in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is a right tributary of the Loire river.

Geography
The Rhins river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .

Course
The Rhins starts in the Monts du Beaujolais, in the commune of Ranchal, (Rhône department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Rhins flows first to the south, then to the west and ends flowing to the northwest.

The Rhins river flows within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 2 departments and 21 communes. It flows through the following communes, among others:
 Rhône : Saint-Vincent-de-Reins, Cublize, Amplepuis
 Loire : Saint-Victor-sur-Rhins, Régny, Le Coteau, Roanne

Finally, it flows into the Loire river in the commune of Roanne.

Main tributaries

The main tributaries of the Rhins river are:

Left tributaries:
 Gand - 28.1 km

Right tributaries:
 Trambouze - 19.9 km

Hydrology 
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Saint-Cyr-de-Favières in the Loire department, for the period 1969 - 2017.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Saint-Cyr-de-Favières (1969 - 2017)

The Rhins is a very irregular small river; it shows typical seasonal fluctuations. The highest levels of the river are in winter and spring, from November to May inclusive, with the highest level in February. They are followed by a rapid fall in the flow during the low water period that goes from late June to early October.

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Rivers of France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Cinemax

Cinemax (Max in short) is an American pay cable television and satellite television network. It is owned by the Home Box Office division of Time Warner. The network usually broadcasts theatrically released feature movies, original series and softcore pornographic series and movies.

As of July 2015, Cinemax and its channels are available to more than 21 million subscribers in the United States.

Cinemax began on August 1, 1980.

The channel and its other channels play a variety of movies and television series, such as Erotic Confessions, the Lethal Weapon franchise and some adult programming.

Channels of Cinemax include Action, Vanguard, Comedy, Suspense and Classic.

References

American television channels
Viva Piñata

Viva Piñata is an animated television series. Released in 2006. based on the Xbox video game of the same name.

Main Characters                                                                                                                                                                
Hudson Horstachio, a horse piñata with a green teal body.                                                                                                                        
Franklin Flizzybear, a brown bear.                                                                                                                                                  
Fergy Fudgehog, a green hedgehog.                                                                                                                                                  
Paulie Pretzetail, a red fox with a pretzel-tail.                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                               2006 television series debuts
Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein /wɑɪnstin/ (born March 19, 1952) is an American movie producer, movie studio executive and convicted rapist. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded Miramax, which produced several popular independent movies including Pulp Fiction, Clerks, The Crying Game, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

Career
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and won seven Tony Awards for producing a variety of winning plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County.

Weinstein and his brother Bob were co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company from 2005 to 2017.

Weinstein is Jewish and a Democrat.

In Oscar acceptance speeches given since 1966, Weinstein has been thanked a total of 34 times by actors and actresses – equalling thanks given to God, and second only to Steven Spielberg with 43 mentions.

Sexual harassment allegations
In October 2017, following many allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape, Weinstein was fired by his company's board of directors, and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As a result, the #MeToo movement began to raise awareness of victims of sexual abuse and harassment.

Arrest and trial
On May 25, 2018, Weinstein was arrested in New York, charged with rape and other offenses, and released on bail.

On February 24, 2020, he was found guilty of two of five felonies in New York, charges which carry a sentence of up to twenty five years.

On March 22, 2020, Weinstein was diagnosed with COVID-19 while in prison in New York.

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Ryan White

Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after failing to be readmitted to school following an AIDS diagnosis. As a hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment (Factor VIII) and, when diagnosed in December 1984, was given six months to live.

A lengthy administrative appeal process ensued, and news of the conflict turned Ryan into a popular celebrity and advocate for AIDS research and public education. Surprising his doctors, Ryan White lived five years longer than predicted but died in April 1990, one month before his high school graduation.

The United States Congress passed a major piece of AIDS legislation, the Ryan White CARE Act, shortly after White's death. The Act has been reauthorized twice; Ryan White Programs are the largest provider of services for people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.

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Dawn Brancheau

Dawn Therese Brancheau (née LoVerde, April 16, 1969 – February 24, 2010) was an American senior animal trainer at SeaWorld. She worked with orcas at SeaWorld Orlando for fifteen years, including a leading role in revamping the Shamu show, and was SeaWorld's poster girl.

Brancheau was killed by an orca, Tilikum, becoming the only SeaWorld trainer killed by an animal. However, her death was the third fatality associated with Tilikum, and many other trainers have been seriously injured by orcas.

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2010 deaths
Deaths by drowning
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Paul F. Tompkins

Paul Francis Tompkins (born September 12, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, and comedian.

He was born in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania. He is known for his work in television on such programs as Mr. Show with Bob and David, Real Time with Bill Maher and Best Week Ever, later renamed Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins.

Early life
Tompkins was born Paul Francis Tompkins in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania on September 12, 1968. He has two brothers (one older, one younger) and three sisters (all older).

Career

Early work
In 1986, Tompkins first performed comedy at 17 years of age at the Comedy Works in Philadelphia (a club now located in Bristol, Pennsylvania), where he performed as half of a sketch comedy duo with the late Rick Roman.

Tompkins attended Temple University; however, he dropped out and left for Los Angeles, California in 1994.

Filmography

Television

References

Other websites

 Official website
 
 
 
 The Pod F. Tompkast

1968 births
Living people
American stand-up comedians
American voice actors
Comedians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American movie actors
American television actors
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Medina, Washington

Medina is a city located in the Eastside, a region of King County, Washington, United States. Surrounded on the north, west, and south by Lake Washington, opposite Seattle. Medina is bordered by Clyde Hill and Hunts Point, as well as the satellite city of Bellevue. The city's population was 2,969 at the 2010 census. The city is mostly residential and includes Bill Gates's house.

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Mlondi Dlamini

Mlondi Edward Dlamini (3 March 1997 – 8 October 2017) was a South African professional footballer. He played for Maritzburg United. He played as a midfielder. He was born in Howick, South Africa.

Dlamini died in a car accident on 8 October 2017.

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El Ranco Province

The El Ranco Province () is one of two provinces of the Chilean region of Los Ríos (XIV). The provincial capital is the city of La Unión.

The El Ranco province, as Ranco province, was created with the creation of the Los Ríos region in 2007. The name of the province was changed from Ranco to El Ranco in 2008.

Geography
The El Ranco province is in the southern half of the Los Ríos region with an area of . The capital, La Unión, is in the western part of the province.

El Ranco is bordered to the north by the Valdivia province, to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Los Lagos region and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The main river in the province is Bueno river that flows from the Ranco lake to the Pacific Ocean; it is  long.

Climate 
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Lago Ranco, at an altitude of , is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of .

Population
In 2002 (last national census), there were 97,153 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km². The urban population was 51,273 persons ( of the total population).

The largest city of the province, in 2002, is its capital, La Unión, with 25,615 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, El Ranco is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 4 communes (comunas). The city of La Unión serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Related pages
 Provinces of Chile

References

Other websites
 Territorial division of Chile 
 Gobierno Regional de Los Ríos Official website 
 Province of El Ranco website 

Provinces of Chile
Ninozca Vasquez

Ninoska Vásquez Álvarez (born August 25, 1992 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen. She won the titles of Miss Tourism Universe 2014 and Miss Earth Venezuela 2017. She will represent Venezuela in Miss Earth 2017.

References

Other websites
Miss Earth Official website
Miss Earth Venezuela Official website

1992 births
Living people
Venezuelan models
Valdivia Province

The Valdivia Province () is one of the two provinces in the Chilean region of Los Ríos (XIV). The capital of the province, and of the region, is the city of Valdivia.

Geography
The Valdivia province is in the northern half of the Los Ríos region with an area of . The capital, Valdivia, is in the western part of the province.

Valdivia is bordered to the north by the Cautín province (La Araucanía region), to the east by Argentina, to the south by the El Ranco province and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The main river in the province is the Valdivia river.

Climate 
The climate of the Valdivia province, in the city of Valdivia, is an oceanic climate, Cfb (Marine West Coast Climate) in the Köppen climate classification.

The average temperature for the year in Valdivia is . The warmest month, on average, is January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of .

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Valdivia is . The month with the most precipitation on average is June with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of .

Population
 (last national census), there were 259,243 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km². The urban population was 192,066 persons ( of the total population).

The largest city of the province, in 2002, is its capital, Valdivia, with 127,750 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, Valdivia is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 8 communes (comunas). The city of Valdivia serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Related pages
 Provinces of Chile

References

Other websites
 Territorial division of Chile 
 Gobierno Regional de Los Ríos Official website 
 Province of Valdivia website 

Provinces of Chile
Isnilon Hapilon

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon (March 18, 1966 – October 16, 2017), also known by the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al-Filipini ("Abu Abdullah the Filipino"), was a Filipino Islamist militant affiliated with ISIS. 

He was formerly leader of Abu Sayyaf Group before its battalions pledged their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. 

An April 2016 issue of ISIS' weekly newsletter Al Naba said that Hapilon had been appointed as "emir of all Islamic State forces in the Philippines". 

In the early morning of October 16, 2017, he was killed at the age of 51 by the Philippine military in the Battle of Marawi along with Omar Maute.

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Sean Hughes

Sean Hughes (born John Hughes; 10 November 1965 – 16 October 2017) was an English-born Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He starred in his own Channel 4 television show Sean's Show and was one of the regular team captains on the BBC Two musical panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He was born in London.

Hughes died on 16 October 2017 from cardiac arrest complicated by cirrhosis of the liver in London, aged 51.

References

Other websites
 – official site
Sean Hughes at the British Film Institute
Sean Hughes on Chortle

1965 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cirrhosis
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Cardiovascular disease deaths in London
Irish movie actors
Irish television actors
Irish comedians
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Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia (; 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017) was a Maltese journalist and blogger. She was known for her work as an investigative journalist and revealing controversial sensitive information, including reports and allegations related to the Panama Papers. 

Caruana Galizia was born as Daphne Anne Vella on 26 August 1964 in Sliema, Crown Colony of Malta. She studied at University of Malta. Her career began in 1987. She was married to Peter Caruana Galizia from 1985 until her death in 2017. They had three children.

Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb explosion close to her home in Bidnija on 16 October 2017. The perpetrator is currently unknown. She was 53 years old.

Invicta: The Life and Work of Daphne Caruana Galizia

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Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer (born 1977 in Rosenheim) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning German investigative journalist with the Munich-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), and the reporter who received the Panama Papers from an anonymous source. 

Obermayer is also author of several books, among them the best selling account of the Panama Papers: The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money - co-authored by his colleague Frederik Obermaier.

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Floodplain restoration

Flood plain restoration is the process of returning a flood plain to its condition before people modified the landscape for development or agriculture.

Flood control
Abdul Ali Mazari

Abdul Ali Mazari () was an ethnic Hazara politician and leader of the Hezbe Wahdat political party in Afghanistan.

Biography 
Abdul Ali Mazari was born in 1946, in Charkent District, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, He died in March 1995, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

Related pages 
 Hezbe Wahdat
 Hazara people

Gallery

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John Dunsworth

John Francis Dunsworth (April 12, 1946 – October 16, 2017) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for playing the always drunk trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey on the comedy series Trailer Park Boys and the mysterious reporter Dave Teagues on the supernatural drama series Haven. He also appeared in Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, a CBC movie.

Dunsworth died on October 16, 2017 in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 71. In a statement to CBC News, Dunsworth's daughter Sarah described the illness as "short and unexpected" and stated that her father was an "amazing husband, father and grandfather".

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Official homepage

1946 births
2017 deaths
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Canadian voice actors
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Phonetic transcription

Phonetic transcription is the act of writing down the way a word sounds. One way of writing phonetic transcription is by using the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is helpful because in many languages, words are sometimes written differently than how they are pronounced. Some people also pronounce words differently due to their accent. Different languages also use different writing systems. Phonetic transcription can tell a person how a word sounds even if they can not read the language's writing system.

Pronunciation
Language transcription
Don Pedro Colley

Don Pedro Colley (August 30, 1938 – October 11, 2017) was an American actor. Some of his best known roles include Gideon on Daniel Boone, Ongaro in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, SRT in George Lucas' THX 1138, Joshua in The Legend of Nigger Charley and Sheriff Little in the 1980s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard.

Colley was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon. He studied at the University of Oregon. He played American football and track and field (athletics), which led to an unsuccessful try-out for the 1960 Summer Olympics. Colley died on October 11, 2017 in Klamath Falls after a battle with cancer at the age of 79.

References

Other websites

Interview with Don Pedro Colley about his experiences working on THX 1138 at Lucasfan.com
WFMU interview

1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in the United States
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Oregon
Samara Weaving

Samara Weaving (born 23 February 1992) is an Australian actress and model. Her first role was Kirsten Mulroney in the Australian-produced BBC TV series Out of the Blue. From 2009 to 2013, she played Indi Walker in Home and Away. For her role of Indi, Weaving was nominated for the Audience Choice Award for Best Female Performance in a Television Drama at the 1st AACTA Awards in 2012.

Weaving had a recurring role as Heather in the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead in 2015.

References

Other websites

 Canberra Girls' Grammar newsletter announcing Samara's role
 Samara Weaving on TVSA
Samara Weaving on SamaraWeaving.com

1992 births
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Australian television actors
Australian voice actors
Australian child actors
Australian models
Actors from Adelaide
Almost Heroes

Almost Heroes is an American 1998 comedy movie directed by Christopher Guest and it starred Chris Farley in his final movie role, Matthew Perry, Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria. It was distributed by Warner Bros.

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English-language movies
American comedy movies
Winnie Couture

Winnie Couture is a California-based fashion clothing and apparel brand, established in 2001. Winnie Couture designs a broad range of luxury attires and is internationally distributed through its portfolio of retail stores.This brand is said to be one of the fastest growing bridal collections across the USA.

History 
Winnie Couture was established in 2001 by husband and wife, Chris Lee and Winnie Chlomin Lee. With its headquarters in Beverly Hills, Winnie Couture has subsidiaries in Dallas(Texas), Atlanta(Georgia), and Charlotte(North Carolina) in the USA. In 2016, this luxury bridal brand opened its first Asian flagship store at Staunton Street, Hong Kong.

Overview 
Wedding gowns from Winnie Couture, are known for their exquisite beadwork and embroidery details and matching veils. The designs are largely said to be a blend of the modern translation of vintage fashion and royal embellishments.

In 2006, Winnie Couture introduced its Destination Collection, and in 2008, Winnie Chlomin Diamond Label Collection was introduced. Avant Mariée Collection was introduced on 2009.

Recognition 
Winnie Couture is featured in publications such as, Modern Brides, The Knot, InStyle Weddings, Brides, and Modern Luxury.

The brand is said to be well-known in Hollywood, having dressed the celebritieslike Jennifer Aniston, Lea Michele, Kelly Clarkson, Scarlett Johansson, Giuliana Rancic and Helen Hunt.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France (; ; ) is the name given to various political entities of France in the Middle Ages and modern times.  According to historians, three major events started the Kingdom of France: the advent of Clovis I in 481, the Treaty of Verdun and the election of Hugues Capet in 987.  The kingdom lasted until 1792 and was briefly restored in 1814 to 1815 and then from 1815 to 1848.

The King of the Franks, Clovis I, sealed the alliance of Frankish Kingdoms with the Catholic Church at his baptism.  That alliance was perpetuated in the Kingdom of France by the crowning of kings at Reims, which made them monarchs by divine right.  The first Capetians were anxious to crown their eldest son in their lifetime because their authority was limited in reality to the Ile de France.  It was not until Philippe Auguste that their official acts called it the Kingdom of France and that they are able to make a real act of authority throughout the kingdom.  Their territory was the feudal fiefs of which king of Western France had been the suzerain since the 843 division of the Carolingian Empire.

The gradual integration of the feudal fiefs into the royal domain required the establishment of a royal administration.  Louis IX attached the main importance to its role as justiciary.  The parlement, the high court of justice, was put in place.  The Hundred Years' War allowed Charles VII to establish an army and permanent taxes.  Richelieu and Louis XIV strengthened the royal authority in the provinces by bringing the local governors of the nobility under their stewardship and by delegating to them stewards appointed by the king.

The tendency of royalty to exercise more and more absolute power could be challenged in times of turmoil, civil wars and the reigns of minor kings.  The dispute took a more pronounced character on the occasion of the diffusion of the philosophy of enlightenment and of the values that it carried: government of reason, separation of powers, individual liberties.  The French Revolution led to the establishment of a French constitutional monarchy.  However, the different formulas experienced failure in 1792, 1830 and 1848, which ended the French monarchy.

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Wamego, Kansas

Wamego is a city in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States. 4,372 people lived there in the 2010 census. and an estimated 4,715 in 2016.

The Kansas River flows along the southern edge of the city.

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Aylesford railway station

Aylesford railway station is a railway station in Aylesford in Kent. The station is 30 minutes away from South Aylesford Retail Park. The station is on the Medway Valley Line.

Railway stations in England
Kent
1856 establishments in Europe
1850s establishments in England
Schnaus

Schnaus is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Schnaus, Castrisch, Ilanz, Ladir, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Modernist music

Modernist music is the name of a movement in classical music, which was common in the early 20th century.

Musical movements
Palm Islands

Palm Islands is the name of a project to build three artificial archipelagos on the coast of Dubai.

Dubai
Dine and dash

Dine and dash is eating or drinking in a restaurant or similar places without paying or unable to pay. It is often treated as a crime if someone do it willfully.

There are many slang variations for this act.

Theft
Deception
Aylesford, Kent

Aylesford is a village and civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, It is 4 miles northwest of Maidstone in England.

It has a railway station, Aylesford railway station and it has a retail park, South Aylesford Retail Park.

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Aylesford

Aylesford may mean:

Aylesford, Kent, the village in England
Aylesford, Nova Scotia, the village in Canada
Woodland Park, Lexington, (Sometimes called Aylesford), the neighborhood in United States
Particularly Dangerous Situation

A Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) is a type of enhanced wording first used by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), a national guidance center of the United States National Weather Service, for tornado watches and eventually expanded to use for other severe weather watches and warnings. It is issued at the discretion of the forecaster composing the watch or warning and implies that there is an enhanced risk of very severe and life-threatening weather, usually a major tornado outbreak or (much less often) a long-lived, extreme derecho event, but possibly another weather hazard such as an exceptional landslides.

Meteorology
Panama Papers

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that talked about financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore tax accounts. The documents, some traced back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and were leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source to German journalist Bastian Obermayer.  

The documents contain personal financial information about wealthy individuals and public officials that had been kept private. While offshore business tax activities are legal, reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions.

Related pages
 Paradise Papers
Pandora Papers

References

History of Panama
2016
Mychael Knight

Michael Anthony Knight Jr. (April 11, 1978 – October 17, 2017) was an American fashion designer. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany to Pamela and Michael Anthony Knight, Sr..

In 2005, Knight auditioned for the second season of the Bravo network reality television series, Project Runway, but he was not accepted as a season two contestant. In 2006, Knight reauditioned for Project Runway, and this time he was accepted as a contestant for season three. Knight went on to win season three's Fan Favorite award and to place fourth in the overall competition.

In 2007, Knight introduced his label, Mychael Knight, on BET's Rip the Runway  and he designed a line of custom tees for the Starbucks Corporation.

Knight died on October 17, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 39. His death was possibly related to recent treatments for intestinal infection.

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American fashion designers
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People from Nuremberg
Ricardo Vidal

Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal (; 6 February 1931 – 18 October 2017) was a Filipino cardinal-priest and the Archbishop-Emeritus of Cebu in the Roman Catholic Church. On 15 October 2010 his resignation as Archbishop of Cebu was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI; he was replaced by Jose S. Palma, formerly Archbishop of Palo, on 13 January 2011. He was born in Mogpog, Marinduque.

Vidal was President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) from 1986 to 1987, and became Chairman of the  CBCP-Episcopal Commission on the Clergy in 1989. He was appointed as the  Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences's Convenor of the Standing Committee (1985 to 1994).

Vidal died on 18 October 2017 in Cebu City, Philippines from sepsis at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
Vatican Cardinal Bio
Biography at catholic-pages.com 
Catholic Hierarchy – Ricardo Jamin Cardinal Vidal
Cardinal Ricardo Jamin Vidal at cardinalrating.com 
Cardinal Ricardo J. Vidal at cbcponline.net 

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2017 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Deaths from sepsis
Filipino educators
Filipino Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic archbishops
Winnie Chlomin Lee

Winnie Chlomin Lee (born August 25, 1977 in Hong Kong) is a Chinese-American fashion and wedding dress designer. She is the co-founder and creative director of the Winnie Couture, wedding attire brand, based in Beverly Hills, California.

Early Life 
Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong, immigrated to the United States at the age of 15. Lee is said to be passionate about sewing dressmaking from a very young age, with an innate sense of style and these are said to reflect in her designs.

She attended the School of Architecture at the University of Houston.She married her life partner Chris Lee in 1999.

Career 
Lee and her husband found Winnie Couture in 2001. Lee’s designs are largely said to embody “classic-feminine” bridal fashion. Lee is known for her structural, tailored and flawless designs. Winnie Couture is known to be one of the fastest growing and high-in-demand bridal collections nationally and internationally in places like Europe and Asia.

Lee’s label is well-known Hollywood having dressed celebrities like, Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Clarkson, Lea Michele, Jennifer Aniston, Masiela Lusha, and Helen Hunt.

Lee’s designs have been featured in InStyle, Brides, Modern Luxury, Modern Brides, and People. Lee has appeared on various TV shows such as, ABC’s The Bachelorette, The CW’s Shedding for the Wedding, Oprah Winfrey Network’s Don't Tell the Bride, E!’s Bridalplasty, VH1’s Basketball Wives, and WE TV's My Fair Wedding.

References 

American fashion designers
1977 births
Maidstone Barracks railway station

Maidstone Barracks railway station is one of three railway stations which serve Maidstone in Kent.

Related pages
Maidstone East railway station
Maidstone West railway station

Other websites 
Train times and station information for Maidstone Barracks railway station from National Rail

Railway stations in England
Kent
Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr

The Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr was an anti-tank rifle, of German production, used towards the end of World War I. At the Battle of the Somme, the British first used tanks. The Germans were surprised, and had no weapons (rifles) that could be used against tanks.  For this reason, they developed one: The Mauser anti-tank rifle was the first rifle that was able to penetrate the larger shell of a tank. It was used towards the end of WWI. It was able to penetrate 20-25mm of tank shell, at a distance of .

Rifles
MIMO

MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) is a technology which allows an antenna or multiple antennas to communicate with multiple devices, which minimizes errors and maximize efficiency. The most commonly used MIMO variant is MU-MIMO, which stands for Multiple User-Multiple Input, Multiple Output. In layman's terms, imagine a classroom with one teacher and many students who need help. Since there is only one teacher, it will take the teacher a while to fully help all the students. But if there are multiple teachers, students will get help much faster and better. The same way, a router with MU-MIMO technology will be able to communicate with multiple devices with increased speed and minimal errors.

MIMO technologies are most commonly found in routers, smartphones, laptops, TVs, etc. Wi-Fi, LTE; Long Term Evolution, and many other radio, wireless and RF technologies are using the new MIMO wireless technology to provide increased link capacity and spectral efficiency combined with improved link reliability using what were previously seen as interference paths.

Two researchers: Arogyaswami Paulraj and Thomas Kailath were first to propose the use of spatial multiplexing using MIMO in 1993 and in the following year their US patent was granted.

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Computer networking
Issam Zahreddine

Issam Jad'aan Zahreddine (;  1961 – 18 October 2017) sometimes called as Issam Zaher Eldin or Issam Zaher al-Deen, was a Major General of the Syrian Republican Guard. He played a major role in the Syrian Civil War, leading Syrian government forces on several fronts. His most prominent role was the leadership of the surrounded Syrian forces during the over three-year long Siege of Deir ez-Zor.  

Syrian news agencies reported on 18 October 2017, that Zahreddine was killed by a land mine explosion during operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Saqr island in Deir ez-Zor.

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Beverly Reid O'Connell

Beverly Reid O'Connell (May 12, 1965 – October 8, 2017) was an American judge. She served as United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from April 30, 2013 until her death on October 8, 2017. She was nominated by President Barack Obama. She was born in Ventura, California.

O'Connell died on October 8, 2017 at a hospital in Santa Monica, California while being in a coma after suffering from a brain aneurysm at the age of 52.

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1965 births
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American judges
Politicians from California
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Kowalczyk brothers

Ryszard Kowalczyk (20 February 1937 – 18 October 2017) and Jerzy Kowalczyk (born 1942) are Polish brothers who planted a bomb as a protest against the communist rule in Poland. The Kowalczyk brothers were scientists at Opole University. They were born in Warsaw.

Bombing
On 6 October 1971 as a protest specifically against the violence perpetrated by the communist authorities against a large workers' protest. The big explosion destroyed the university hall where the celebrations were to take place.

Pardoning
With the rise of Solidarity in the 1980s, pardons were issued and the brothers were freed for good behavior: Ryszard in 1983 and Jerzy in 1985. In 1991 President Lech Wałęsa decided that their sentences were legally forgotten which would allow them to work again.

Life
Ryszard Kowalczyk died on 18 October 2017 in Warsaw at the age of 80.

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Yeoh Tiong Lay

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Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay''' (; 18 December 1929 – 18 October 2017) was a Malaysian business tycoon. He founded YTL Corporation, Malaysia's largest conglomerate, with interests in construction, utilities, hotels, property development and technology.

YTL is based primarily in Malaysia but has extensive operations in Asia, Australia and the United Kingdom, where it owns the utility Wessex Water.

Yeoh was one of the richest individuals in Malaysia; his family is estimated to have a net worth of US$2.96 billion as of October 2017. Yeoh was honored with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Emperor of Japan.

Yeoh died of a heart attack on 18 October 2017 at the age of 87.

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Deaths from myocardial infarction
Malaysian businesspeople
Eamonn Campbell

Eamonn Campbell (29 November 1946 – 18 October 2017) was an Irish musician. He was known for being a member of The Dubliners from 1987 until his death in 2017. He was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. 

Campbell was known as a guitarist and has a rough voice similar to the late Dubliner founding member Ronnie Drew. He produced all of the Dubliners' albums from 1987 onwards, as well as albums for many other Irish artists, including Foster and Allen, Brendan Shine, Daniel O'Donnell and Paddy Reilly. 

Campbell died on 18 October 2017 in Dublin of heart failure at the age of 70.

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1946 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Irish guitarists
Musicians from Dublin
Ingvar Lidholm

Ingvar Natanael Lidholm (24 February 1921 – 17 October 2017) was a Swedish composer. He was born in Jönköping, Sweden. Lidholm completed a number of new works: the piano pieces Sonatin (“Sonatina”), (10) Miniatyrer (“Ten Miniatures”), and Lätta pianostyken (“Easy Piano Pieces”). In 1956, Lidholm left his conducting post in Örebro to assume the head of the Chamber Music Department at Swedish Radio.

Lindholm was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in 1993.

Lidholm died in Stockholm, Sweden on 17 October 2017 at the age of 96.

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 Biography
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1921 births
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Middlemarch

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is the best-known book written by English author George Eliot. It was first published in eight volumes during 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32.

Further reading

 Adam, Ian, ed. (1975). This Particular Web: essays on Middlemarch. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
 Bloom, Harold, ed. (2009). George Eliot. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea. .
 Carroll, David, ed. (1971). George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & K Paul. .
 Chase, Karen, ed. (2006). Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
 Daiches, David (1963).  George Eliot: Middlemarch. London: Arnold.
 Dentith, Simon (1986). George Eliot. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press. .
 Garrett, Peter K (1980). The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form. New Haven: Yale University Press. .
 Graver, Suzanne (1984). George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form. Berkeley: University of California Press. .  
 Harvey, W. J. (1961). The Art of George Eliot. London: Chatto & Windus.  
 Harvey, W. J. (1967). "Criticism of the Novel: Contemporary Reception". In Hardy, Barbara Nathan. Middlemarch: Critical Approaches to the Novel (2013 ed.). London: Bloomsbury. .  
 Kettle, Arnold (1951). An Introduction to the English Novel, Volume I: To George Eliot. London: Hutchinson.    
 Neale, Catherine (1989). George Eliot, Middlemarch. London: Penguin Books. .

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Other websites

 Manuscript of Middlemarch at the British Library
 Middlemarch on the British Library's Discovering Literature website
 Middlemarch at Goodreads
 
 Middlemarch at Victorian Web
Sphere Fluidics

Sphere Fluidics is an England-based Life Sciences Research and Development company specializing in developing novel tools for biopharmaceutical discovery and development, cell therapy engineering, analysis and isolation. Sphere Fluidics has been named one of the UK's top 50 disruptive SMEs by Real Business in 2015.

History 
Sphere Fluidics Limited was originally established in 2010, by two chemistry professors of Cambridge University, namely, Professor Chris Abell and Professor Wilhelm Huck along with Dr. Frank F. Craig, an entrepreneur, and Dr. Maher Khaled, a Cambridge University Enterprise.

In 2013, Sphere Fluidics spun out of Cambridge University to a new research facility in Babraham Research Campus. In 2013, Sphere Fluidics won an award for academic spin-outs at the ACES awards.

Overview 
Sphere Fluidics operates in various markets including biopharmaceutical discovery and development, anti-microbial screening, synthetic biology and genome editing of single cells. 

In January 2017, Sphere Fluidics launched an e-commerce platform which had, microfluidic products, research instrument accessories, and microfluidic biochips, in its product line.

In July 2017, Sphere Fluidics won “Best Investment in Life Sciences” Award, in the event held by the UK Business Angels Association.

Funding 
Sphere Fluidics has raised £11 million as of 2017, from investors namely, 24 Haymarket, Amadeus Capital Partners, Greenwood Way Capital, University of Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge, Parkwalk Advisors, Providence Investment Company, London Business Angels, Envestors, Angels5K, Cambridge Angels, Q-Ventures and a Japanese corporate investor.

Cyto-Mine Technology 
Cyto-Mine Technology is one of the patented products of Sphere Fluidics.

Cyto-Mine technology is the integrated device that is able to automatically perform single cell analysis, sorting, imaging and dispensing into individual wells of microtitre plates in a single compact system. Based on the research made by Professors Chris Abell and Wilhelm Huck, this biochip system can automatically process millions to billions of miniaturised tests in tiny picodroplets.

According to the scientists at Sphere Fluidics, Cyto-Mine can perform millions of single-cell assays daily, offering up to a 100-fold improvement over conventional techniques, at lower capital and operational cost.

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Mountain weasel

The mountain weasel (Mustela altaica), is a type of weasel. It is also called the pale weasel, Altai weasel or solongoi.

Description
Males are about 12.5–17 in (320–630 mm) long. Males can weigh 8–12 oz (230–340 g). Females are a little bit smaller. They are 12–15 in (309–377 mm). Females weigh about 4–8 oz (110–230 g). The summer fur is gray to gray-brown fur with some light yellow. The winter fur is more of a dark yellow with some brown. In both seasons, the underbelly is pale yellow to creamy white.

Distribution and Habitat
This weasel lives in high-altitude environments, and also on rocky tundra and grassy woodlands. This weasel rests in rock crevices, tree trunks, and abandoned burrows of other animals or the animals it previously hunted. The home range size of this animal is currently unknown.

Geographical distribution for this species lies in parts of Asia from Kazakhstan, Tibet, and the Himalayas to Mongolia, northeastern China, southern Siberia, Korea, and also some parts of Russia. The most common area for this species, however, is Ladakh, India.

Reproduction
Overall, these animals are thought to be live by themselves except when mating. The mountain weasel breeds once a year. Males fight for the females. The mountain weasel usually mate in February to March, and the young are usually born in May. The gestation period is 30–49 days. The mountain weasel gives birth to one to eight young ones. The young ones are blind, and their fur is not well developed. Lactation lasts about two months. After weaning, the young become independent but they still live with their brothers and sisters until fall. Young are able to breed in the next season when they are just under a year old.

Behavior
The mountain weasel is able to climb, run, and swim. Their long bodies and short legs allow them to be very agile. Mountain weasels are generally nocturnal, but may hunt during the day. Even though they live by themselves, they communicate with each other visually and sound. This animal has very good eye sight. They also communicate by sound to warn off predators, to protect their territories, and when mating. When scared, they make a loud chirring sound and excrete a very smelly odor.

Feeding
Mountain weasels are carnivores. They mainly feed on pikas and voles. They have an important ecological role in controlling the population of the voles. Muskrats, rabbits, ground squirrels, small birds, lizards, frogs, fish, and insects are also eaten.

Threats
Some of the threats that makes the weasel to be near-threatened include habitat change, mainly caused by human development. Other dangers, such as traffic on roads, can reduce their population. Overgrazing by cattle, goats, and sheep causes the prey of the weasel to decrease because their hiding spots and food are reduced.

Conservation status
The conservation status, according to the IUCN, is "near threatened" because it is considered to be in a significant decline. It requires monitoring mainly because of habitat and resource loss.

References

IUCN Red List near threatened species
Mammals of Pakistan
Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (born September 15, 1944 in Ntungamo) also known as Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni is a Ugandan politician.

Museveni is the 10th President of Uganda and has been in power since January 29, 1986, succeeding Tito Okello. He is also presiding the National Resistance Movement.

He studied economics and political science at the University of Dar es Salaam.

In the 1970s and 1980s Museveni rebelled against president-dictator Idi Amin and president Milton Obote.

Since 2005 the constitution has been allowing him to be president forever. Because of this and his negative attitude against opponents Uganda faces internal political difficulties.

He also faces internal problems caused by the rebellion of the Lord's Resistance Army in the north.

Furthermore he has also external problems because of his participation in the civil war in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the conflicts of other neighbouring countries.

Museveni is an Evangelical  and known for his opposition against homosexuality.

References 
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1944 births
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History of genetic engineering

The history of genetic engineering started around 12,000 BC. At the time, humans tried to domesticate animals. 

The first artificial genetic engineering occurred in 1972. Two scientists named Herbert Norman Cohen transferred DNA then. In 1983, the first tobacco plant was created using genetic engineering. A gene that resisted antibiotics was introduced to the pl ant.

Agriculture
Officially, genetic engineering is the direct manipulation of the genome with techniques developed in the 1970s. Without technology, genetic engineering has occurred in ancient times. It was through domestication and artificial selection that plants and animals were engineered. It is believed that the dog is the first domesticated animal, most likely from wolves.

Research
Development of genetic engineering allows scientists to study diseases.

Genetic engineering