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DC Extended Universe
Background
The movies are written and directed by a variety of screenwriters and feature large, often ensemble, casts. Several actors, including Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, and Ray Fisher, had been set to appear in numerous movies.
In May 2016, DC's chief creative officer Geoff Johns and Warner Bros. executive vice president Jon Berg were appointed to co-run the DC Films division and oversee creative decisions, production and story-arcs in order to create a cohesive overarching plot within the movies. However, after the movie Justice League failed to make as much money as expected and was considered lackluster, less focus was placed on making a shared universe and new president Walter Hamada wanted to focus on making less-expensive movies.
After a continued failure to make consistently good movies in the DCEU and money issues throughout the entire Warner Bros. organization, James Gunn and Peter Safran were hired to replace Hamada at DC Studios, as Warner Bros. went through a company reorganization and combined with the Discovery Channel to form Warner Bros. Discovery. Gunn and Safran plan to start the movie series over as the DC Universe (DCU), getting rid of most actors including Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, and Ray Fisher, and starting over with a brand-new storyline.
Movies
The first movie in the DCEU was Man of Steel (2013), which was followed by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Aquaman (2018), Shazam! (2019), Birds of Prey (2020), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), The Suicide Squad (2021), Black Adam (2022), Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) and The Flash (2023) with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) being the last movie of the franchise. The Tim Burton Batman movies Batman and Batman Returns became part of the DCEU in The Flash (2023) through time travel. The Flash is planned to "reboot" the DCEU into the DCU, with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom planned to wrap up the DCEU storyline before the first DCU movie Superman: Legacy comes out in 2025 with a brand-new Superman.
A movie about Batgirl titled Batgirl was going to be released in 2022 through HBO Max, but it was cancelled by Warner Bros. in August of that year.
Other projects were in many stages of development before James Gunn decided to reboot, including Justice League Dark, a third Wonder Woman movie, and untitled solo movies for Supergirl, and other characters.
Television shows for HBO Max include Peacemaker (2022). Shows being made is another Suicide Squad spin-off, and Green Lantern Corps.
Recurring cast and characters
List indicator(s)
This section shows characters who will appear or have appeared in three or more franchises.
Cementum
Cementum is the hard outside layer of a tooth root. It is not present in the crown (part above the gums) portion of a tooth. Cementum allows periodontal ligaments to attach onto it, allowing tooth to be connected to the maxilla or mandible.
Composition
Cementum is made up of
Development
The process of creating cementum is called cementogenesis. It is made by special type of cells known as cementoblasts. Cementoblasts are found on the surface of the cementum. When a cementoblast is no longer on the surface, or when it is found surrounded by cementum, it is then known as a cementocyte.
In contrast, cementoclasts are special cells that remove cementum instead of making cementum.
Cementoenamel junction
The cementoenamel junction, or the cervical line, is the where enamel and cementum meet. The cementum and enamel may meet in different ways.
Types
Cementum can be divided into two main types based on its location and whether it has cells or not.
Gălăneşti
Gălăneşti is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
Gene Littles
Eugene Scape Littles (June 29, 1943 – September 9, 2021) was an American basketball player and coach. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He coached the Charlotte Hornets between 1990 until 1991 and for the Denver Nuggets from 1994 until 1995.
Littles died on September 9, 2021 at the age of 78.
Reynolds Building
The Reynolds Building is a 21-floor apartment building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was originally built in 1929 as an office building for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The much larger Empire State Building in New York City is based on the design of the Reynolds Building.
Biological control
Biological control, or biological pest control, is the reduction of pest populations by using natural enemies. It is important because crop pests become resistant to chemical pesticides.
Natural enemies of insect pests include predators, parasitoids, and pathogens. Biological control agents of weeds include herbivores and plant pathogens. Predators, such as birds, lady beetles and lacewings, are free-living species that eat many prey during their lifetime.
Parasitoids are species whose larvae develop on or in a single insect host, ultimately killing or fatally infecting the host. Most have a very narrow host range. Many species of wasps and some flies are parasitoids.
Pathogens are disease-causing organisms including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. They kill or debilitate their host and are relatively specific.
Three strategies
There are three basic types of biological control strategies; conservation, classical biological control, and augmentation.
An early example
A Chinese text from 304 AD, Records of the plants and trees of the southern regions, by Hsi Han, describes mandarin oranges protected by large reddish-yellow citrus ants. The ants attack and kill insect pests of the orange trees. The citrus ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) was rediscovered in the 20th century, and now is again used in China to protect orange groves.
RCA connector
An RCA connector (sometimes called a phono connector or cinch connector), is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry audio and video signals. The yellow is for video, the white is for left stereo, and the red is for right stereo.
Leonardo
Leonardo is a male given name. Many people have this name. The name is Germanic in origin. It means "Strong as a lion." This name was ranked #87 on the US Popular Names in 2021.
Junko Ishida
Junko Ishida (石田 順子) is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Ishida was born on March 11, 1966. In June 1981, when she was 15 years old, she was selected the Japan national team for 1981 AFC Championship. At this competition, on June 7, she debuted against Chinese Taipei. This match is Japan team first match in "International A Match". She played in 2 matches at this championship. She played 3 games for Japan include this competition in 1981.
Cetartiodactyla
Cetartiodactyla is the taxonomical superorder which includes whales (and dolphins) and even-toed ungulates. The name was created by merging the name for the two orders, Cetacea and Artiodactyla, into a single word.
Cetartiodactyla is used because it is thought that whales evolved from the artiodactyls. Because of this, their closest living land relative may be the hippopotamus.
Pablo Saavedra Reinado
Pablo Saavedra Reinado (born January 29, 1975 in Pontevedra) is a swimmer from Spain. He has a disability and is an S9 type swimmer. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished third in 4 x 100 meter 34 point freestyle relay race. He raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty (or MB20, MBT, matchbox twenty, originally spelled Matchbox 20) is an alternative rock band from Orlando, Florida, United States. The members of the band are Rob Thomas (vocals, piano), Kyle Cook (guitar), Brian Yale (bass), Paul Doucette (guitar) and Ryan MacMillian (drums). Matt Beck is a live member, playing several instruments in their shows. Adam Gaynor was formerly with the band. He left it in 2005. Their three studio albums have been popular worldwide, and they have sold more than 29 million copies. They are Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season and More Than You Think You Are. They released recently an album with new material and their biggest hits, called Exile on Mainstream.
Formation (1995)
Rob Thomas, Brian Yale, and Paul Doucette were part of the band Tabitha's Secret, which was based in Orlando, Florida, with fellow members Jay Stanley and John Goff, before splitting to start a new band (what was to become Matchbox Twenty). After recruiting Adam Gaynor from Criteria Recording Studios in Miami and Kyle Cook from the Atlanta Institute of Music, the band named themselves Matchbox 20 and won a recording contract with Atlantic Records.
Yourself or Someone Like You (1996–2000)
Matchbox Twenty released their debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You, in 1996. While their first single, "Long Day", was a rock radio-only success, the album soon spawned several Top 40 singles throughout 1997 and 1998, including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", and "Back 2 Good". "Push" and "3 A.M." did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the rule in effect prior to 1998 that required a song to be released as a single in order to appear on the Hot 100. "Real World" and "Back 2 Good" proved to be the band's first entries into the Billboard Hot 100, after the rule was terminated. The album eventually sold more than 12 million copies in the U.S. alone, achieving a diamond certification. In 1998, Matchbox Twenty recorded a live version of their single, "3 A.M." for release on the charity album Live in the X Lounge, benefiting United Cerebral Palsy research. The band was sued by New Yorker Frank Torres for using his image without his permission on the cover of Yourself or Someone Like You. Torres had been walking down the street when he was asked by a photographer to pose for a picture.
Before recording their second album, Rob Thomas collaborated with Itaal Shur on a song called "Smooth" for Carlos Santana's comeback album, Supernatural. Thomas was supposed to act only as a songwriter for "Smooth", but Carlos Santana had him sing for it after hearing the song's demo. "Smooth" was the album's lead single and became a hit in 1999. Thomas won three Grammy Awards for writing and performing on "Smooth": Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Popular Music Collaboration with Vocals.
Mad Season (2000–02)
During 2000, Matchbox 20 renamed themselves to Matchbox Twenty and released their second album, Mad Season. The album, on the strength of several successful singles, including "Bent" (which peaked No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart) and "If You're Gone", was certified 4x platinum in the United States. The video for "Bent" made fun of singer Thomas' increased fame from "Smooth" by showing the other band members assaulting him. The next two singles, "Mad Season" and "Last Beautiful Girl" were not as successful.
More Than You Think You Are (2002–03)
For their third album, More Than You Think You Are, the band revived more of a rock sound. Thomas shared the songwriting efforts with the other band members on several songs. The album again spawned successful singles "Disease" (written with Mick Jagger), "Unwell", and "Bright Lights". The album was not as successful commercially as the previous two, and received mixed reviews from critics. However, the album had an enormous radio presence for well over a year.
During 2003, the band released EP, consisting of six songs. The EP had never before released live and acoustic versions of previously released songs like "Push" and "If You're Gone", as well as a new track, "Suffer Me".
In May 2004, the band released a live DVD, Show: A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty, filmed in Atlanta and featuring 20 songs, including all of their previous successful singles.
First hiatus and Gaynor's departure (2004–07)
In February 2005, rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor officially left the group, which had been on hiatus to allow other members to pursue side projects. Rob Thomas released a solo album, …Something to Be, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album featured four successful singles: "Lonely No More", "This Is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever the Same", and "Streetcorner Symphony".
In January 2007, Rob Thomas released a single, "Little Wonders", which he wrote for the Disney movie Meet the Robinsons.
Exile on Mainstream (2007–08)
The group reunited and began performing during 2007, with the release of their 'retrospective' album Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007. "How Far We've Come" was the first single from the new album, which was followed by the second single, "These Hard Times". "Exile on Mainstream" included four other new songs and a complete collection of all eleven of their previously released singles. The album was also released in the new MVI (Music Video Interactive) format, which included two video interviews discussing the six new songs and eleven greatest hits, plus extras including a photo gallery, U-MYX (to remix "How Far We've Come"), buddy icons and wallpapers. "How Far We've Come" was released on the band's MySpace page in July 2007, with the video released on September 6, 2007.
Matchbox Twenty toured during early 2008 with Alanis Morissette and opener Mutemath. The band began their US tour on January 25, 2008, in Hollywood, FL, and concluded in Las Vegas, NV, on March 18, 2008 before heading to Australia and New Zealand, where the Australian band Thirsty Merc was the supporting act. Following Australia, Matchbox Twenty visited the UK for the first time in five years to play six concerts in Cardiff, Wembley, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester. Matchbox Twenty performed at the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup award ceremony.
Second hiatus (2008–10)
When the band finished touring later during 2008, Rob Thomas began work on his second solo album, Cradlesong. He stated in an interview to Billboard that he expected that the other members of the band might begin work on Matchbox Twenty's next album without him. At the concert at Mohegan Sun Casino on December 18, 2009, Rob Thomas said that he was not frequently playing Matchbox Twenty songs at his 2009 tour stops because the band was planning to tour together in 2010.
Second return and North (2011–present)
At the Taste of Chicago on July 2, 2010, Thomas said that Matchbox Twenty would be recording in the fall for their fourth studio album. On September 4, 2010, while on VH1's Top 20 Music Video Countdown, Thomas stated that Matchbox Twenty was planning to start working on their next studio album in mid-September and that he was 80% sure that the album would be released sometime in 2011. Rob Thomas posted on Twitter that he was "heading out next week to start writing the new mb20 record" on September 13, 2010. It was stated on Matchbox Twenty's web site that the next show they will do together is on January 1, 2011 in Oklahoma. According to Paul Doucette, the new Matchbox Twenty album will likely be completed in the beginning of 2012. He explained, "That's the same question I was asking. We don't know -- the beginning of next year, we hope. It's a real important record for us. We haven't done anything in a long time. The older we get, the more we realize and appreciate the good fortune we have to do what we do at this level. Realistically, how many more times do we get? So we're going to really make this record the one we want it to be."
Matchbox Twenty played a one-off live show in Temecula, California on July 9, 2011, but no new material was played. During the show Rob Thomas stated the show was a "love letter to our fans."
North was released on September 4, 2012. The album's first single, "She's So Mean," was released on June 12, 2012.
In 2012, the band embarked on a worldwide tour, the North Tour, to promote the album. The tour continued as the 2013 Summer Tour, when they co-headlined with the Goo Goo Dolls.
Grămeşti
Grămeşti is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
Nijlen
Nijlen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
In 2007, 20978 people lived there.
It is at 51° 09 North, 04° 40 East.
Nieuwerkerken
Nieuwerkerken is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg.
In 2007, 6685 people lived there.
It is at 50° 51 North, 05° 11 East.
Patrick F. McManus
Patrick Francis McManus (August 25, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American humor writer. He was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. He wrote about the outdoors. He was a humor columnist for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other magazines, his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) up through The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012).
McManus died in Spokane, Washington on April 11, 2018 at the age of 84.
Dakhla, Western Sahara
Dakhla (Berber: ⴷⴰⵅⵍⴰ) is a city in the south of Morocco. It lies about 550 km south of El Aaiún. When South Morocco was under Spanish rule the name of the city was Villa Cisneros. The city was founded in the 16th century. Today, its main economic activities are fishing and tourism. In 2004, 55,618 people lived there. The city is built on a narrow peninsula of the Atlantic Coast.
There are daily bus connections form Dakhla to the north. There are no public transport connections to Mauritania to the south.
Minooka, Illinois
Minooka, a suburb of Chicago, is a village in Grundy, Kendall, and Will counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,924 at the 2010 census.
Grăniceşti
Grăniceşti is a commune in Suceava County, Romania.
Preamplifier
Preamplifier is a type of electronic amplifier. It doesn't have enough power to feed speakers. Rather a preamplifier amplifies weak signals, for example from a microphone, for electronic processing or distribution.
Hari (director)
Hari (born 26 December 1968) is an Indian movie director, best known for his action-masala in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in the movie Thamizh (2002).After this breakthrough, he gave many commercial success movies such as Saamy (2003), Kovil (2004), Ayya (2005), Thaamirabharani (2007), Vel (2007) and Singam (2010) movie. He has directed 15 movies.
Preamplifier
Early preamplifiers used vacuum tubes. Since the 1960s, most electronic amplifiers have been built with transistors. Transistors are lighter, less expensive, and more reliable.
Hari (director)
Background
Hari was born in the Thoothukudi District of Tamil Nadu, India. His father, Gopal, is a vessels merchant. Later, his family moved to Chennai, where Hari graduated with a degree in Commerce.
Career
Hari first joined as an assistant, gaining experience by working with various directors; K. Natraj in  Valli, Nassar in Avatharam and Alex Pandian. Later, he assisted K. Balachander in his film Kalki and worked as an associate director with Saran in the films Amarkalam, Parthen Rasithen and Alli Arjuna.
In 2010 Hari directed his tenth film Singam, with Suriya, marking their third collaboration. although reviewers identified it as a standard masala entertainer.
KY Cygni
KY Cygni is a red star in the Cygnus constellation. It is one of the largest stars known and with a radius about 1420 - 1503 solar radius. If it was placed at the center of the Solar System, it would extend past the orbit of Jupiter (or Saturn). It is also one of the most luminous stars, with about 300,000 or more times the Sun's luminosity. It is about 5,000 light-years away.
Jones County
Jones County is the name of six counties in the United States:
Hănțești
Hănţeşti is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
Mera (comics)
Mera is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was developed by Jack Miller and Nick Cardy. The character first appeared in Aquaman #11 (September 1963) as a queen of the sea. Mera was ranked 81st in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
Azerbaijan men's national basketball team
The Azerbaijan national basketball team (Azərbaycan milli baskebol komandası) is the national basketball team of Azerbaijan. The team is controlled by the Azerbaijan Basketball Federation.
Kale
Kale is a vegetable with green or purple leaves. It is also called borecole. It is in the group of vegetables called Brassica oleracea or wild cabbage. It is cruciferous because of the shape of its flowers.
Mera (comics)
American actress Amber Heard portrays Mera in the live-action movies Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder, Aquaman, directed by James Wan, and in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Kale
A plant that would have been first cultivated in the Mediterranean area, it was called in these times cabbage well before the well rounded variety existed. Kale was a significant crop in Roman times; it became a basic staple for peasants in the Middle Ages and it was brought in the United States by the English in the XVII century.
Azerbaijan men's national basketball team
Azerbaijan has been a FIBA member since 1991, although they have not fielded a senior national team in any competition in over five years.
Kale
Kale is one of the most resistant from the cabbage family; it can support temperatures as low as -­15 °C but it doesn’t sustain high temperatures. Since it resists to cold temperatures and grows easily, kale was for a long time a very appreciated winter vegetable especially in Scotland, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia. Today, it is eaten the world over.
Azerbaijan men's national basketball team
Current roster
At the 2013 EuroBasket Qualification: (last publicized squad)
Louw de Graaf
Louw de Graaf (12 April 1930 – 15 July 2020) was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and trade union leader.
Ziemetshausen
Ziemetshausen is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Kale
Nutrients
Kale is an excellent source of vitamin K, C, A and manganese; it is a very good source of fiber, copper, tryptophan, calcium, vitamin B6 and potassium. Kale is a good source of iron, magnesium, vitamin E, omega 3 fats, vitamin B2, protein, vitamin B1, folate, phosphorus and vitamin B3.
Usage
Kale is rarely eaten raw. We can add it sparingly to salads. It transmits its well-marked taste to soups and stews. You can blanch it to attenuate its flavour. Kale is delicious coated with sauce, sprinkled with cheese or in purée (alone or with mashed potatoes).
Louw de Graaf
De Graaf worked as a trade Union leader for the National Christian Trade Unions Federation from 1955 until 1977 and served as General-Secretary from 1970 until 1977.
Azerbaijan men's national basketball team
Past rosters
2012:
Louw de Graaf
After the election of 1977 De Graaf was appointed as State Secretary for Social Affairs, taking office on 28 December 1977.
Azerbaijan men's national basketball team
Past rosters
Coach: Samit Nuruzade
Louw de Graaf
De Graaf was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1981, taking office on 10 June 1981.
De Graaf died on 15 July 2020, aged 90.
Galab Donev
Galab Donev (Гълъб Донев; born 28 February 1967) has been the prime minister of Bulgaria from 2 August 2022 to 6 June 2023.
Kale
Cooking
Choose kale with firm leaves, well colored and relatively small, without stain or mold. One cup cooked makes 130 grams. Cut the leaves around the stem, cut the core, separate each leaf. Wash well with running water or with vinegary water to remove dirt and bugs that could remain. We cook kale in water or we steam it from 20 to 30 min, braised in a slow cooker, stuffed or sautéed in a wok.
Preservation
Put the kale leaves very tight rather than loose in refrigerator without washing it, inside a perforated plastic bag. It can be kept in this way from five to ten days, but it is more flavorful and less bitter when it is eaten rapidly. Kale can be frozen after having been blanched two to three minutes, until the leaves soften a bit.
Andrey Makeyev
Andrey Gennadyevich Makeyev (Андрей Геннадьевич Макеев; 3 February 1952 – 13 September 2021 ) was a Soviet basketball player. He played for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal. He was born in Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish SSR, Soviet Union.
Makeyev died on 13 September 2021 in Saint Petersburg, Russia at the age of 69.
Zimmer's conjecture
Zimmer's conjecture is a statement in mathematics "which has to do with the circumstances under which geometric spaces exhibit certain kinds of symmetries." It was named after the mathematician Robert Jeffrey Zimmer. The conjecture states that there can exist symmetries (specifically higher-rank lattices) in a higher dimension that cannot exist in lower dimensions.
In 2017, the conjecture was proven by Aaron Brown and Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar of the University of Chicago and David Fisher of Indiana University.
Hârtop
Hârtop is a commune in Suceava County, Romania.
Doug Sax
Doug Lionel Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He helped create three of The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six of Pink Floyd's albums, including The Wall; Ray Charles' multiple-Grammy winner Genius Loves Company in 2004, and Bob Dylan's 36th studio album Shadows in the Night in 2015.
Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson (February 9, 1922 - February 17, 2010 ) was an American actress and operatic soprano singer.
Gypsum
Gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O) is a common sulfate mineral made of calcium sulfate. Gypsum has been used as a building material for a long time, possibly since the neolithic. Today, it is an ingredient of plaster of paris. It can also be used as a fertilizer. It is softer than most minerals, with a value of 2 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. This mineral can be, somewhat, scratched with your fingernail. A fingernail, with a value of 2.5 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness is in fact higher than the mineral shown above. It is an ingredient of Portland cement.
Kathryn Grayson
Grayson trained as an opera singer starting at age 12. She was under contract to MGM by the early 1940s. Most of her work was in musicals. She was the lead in movies such as Thousands Cheer (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly,Show Boat (1951) and Kiss Me Kate (1953) (both with Howard Keel).
Musicals stopped being popular. She then worked in theatre. She was in Camelot (1962–1964). Later in the decade she was in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.
Grayson died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles, California on February 17, 2010, aged 88.
Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch publishing and analytics company specialized in scientific, medical and technical contents. It belongs to RELX Group.
Nigel Boocock
Nigel Boocock (17 September 1937 – 3 April 2015) was a British speedway rider. He appeared in eight Speedway World Championship finals and was a reserve in one other (1962). Boocock was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Elsevier
Major products
Elsevier provides various services to support researchers. Some of them are similar to Google Scholar by Google.
Nigel Boocock
Boocock died on 3 April 2015 in Queensland, Australia, aged 77.
Elsevier
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a website which gives subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and medical research. It stores many papers and academic journals as PDF.
Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database launched in 2004. It gives four types of quality measure for each title; those are h-Index,   CiteScore,  SJR (SCImago Journal Rank  ) and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper).
International relationships
Elsevier is not a non-profit organization. Therefore, some of their products are not cheap. Due to this difficulty, some universities have terminated their contract with Elsevier.
France
The French Couperin consortium agreed in 2019 to a 4-year contract with Elsevier. This agreement was made despite criticism from the scientific community.
Germany
Almost no academic institution in Germany is subscribed to Elsevier.
Italy
CRUI (an association of universities in Italy) sealed a 5-year-long deal for 2018–2022. This decision was made despite protests from the scientific community.
Taiwan
In 2016, CONCERT (an association of universities in Taiwan) announced it would not renew its contract with Elsevier.
Ukraine
In June 2020, the government of Ukraine cancelled subscriptions for all state universities because two parties did not negotiate on conditions.
Lobbying efforts against open access
Elsevier have been known to be involved in lobbying against open access. These have included the likes of:
Lawsuits
In 2015, Elsevier filed a lawsuit against the sites Sci-Hub and Library Genesis. They were making copyright-protected articles available for free. Elsevier also claimed illegal access to institutional accounts.
County Wicklow
County Wicklow (Irish: Contae Chill Mhantáin) is a county on the east coast of Ireland. It is directly south of Dublin. County Wicklow has an area of 2,024 square kilometres (781 sq mi). Wicklow is known as "The Garden of Ireland" because of its scenery.
The county town is Wicklow. County Wicklow's largest municipality is Bray. Bray has a population of 30,951 and is not a suburb of Dublin. Other main towns include Greystones and Arklow.
WWF Raw (2002 video game)
WWE Raw is a professional wrestling video game developed by Anchor Inc. and published by THQ. The game was titled WWF Raw on the Xbox. The game was released on the Xbox and Microsoft Windows.
It was released on February 11, 2002 in North America, September 27, 2002 in the United Kingdom and October 3, 2002 in Japan on the Xbox. The game was released on October 14, 2002 in North America and on November 1, 2002 in the United Kingdom. A sequel was released in 2002 called WWE Raw 2.
Reception
IGN rated the game a 9.1 out of 10 and said "The hardcore fans will get plenty of enjoyment out of the difficult AI, the awesome multiplayer modes and the super deep Create-A-Wrestler mode.”
Claudio Baggini
Baggini was born in Rome. He was became a priest on 14 June 1959. He served as the Bishop of Vigevano from 18 March 2000 until 12 March 2011. He resigned.
Paramount+
Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access) is an American streaming service, It is owned and operated by Paramount Streaming, a part of Paramount Global. It offers original content, content which was recently broadcast CBS companies and content from the Paramount Global library. In the United States, many markets offer a live stream from the main channel of the local CBS affiliate. As of November 5, 2020, it had 17.9 million subscribers. Paramount + expanded to international markets beginning in 2021. It started with Latin America on March 4, 2021. Nordic countries were added on March 25, 2021 and Australia in mid-2021.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Abdul-Mateen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before acting, Abdul-Mateen was an architect.
Rick Rude
Richard Erwin Rood (October 8, 1980-April 20, 1999), was an American professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name "Ravishing" Rick Rude and wrestled for the professional wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1987 to 1998. In his wrestling career he was a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion and won numerous championships in WCW and ECW.
Homa Rousta
Homa Rousta (‎; 26 September 1946 – 26 September 2015) is an Iranian actress. She was best known for her roles in the movies Report on a Murder (1986), The Little Bird of Happiness (1987), Travellers (1991) and From Karkheh to Rhine (1992).
Rousta was born in Tehran. She graduated in theatre from the School of Dramatic Arts in Bucharest, Hungary. She was the widow of stage director Hamid Samandarian.
Geoff Johns
Geoff Johns (born January 25, 1973 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American comic book and television writer, movie producer, and television producer. He is the president and Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics since 2010.
Homa Rousta
Rousta died from cancer on her 69th birthday (26 September 2015) in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist. Today, he is mostly known for his work regarding learning and forgetting. He was the first to do experiments to explore how memory works. He first described the forgetting curve, the learning curve and the spacing effect. The Ebbinghaus illusion, which is named after him is related to the perception, not memory. His son was the philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus.
In 1896, he did a test on children in school: The pupils had to complete sentences, and their teacher had to rate each pupil, if the pupil was in the lowest, the middle or the highest third of all the people in the class. Ebbinghaus saw a relationship between the teacher's rating, and the result of the pupil, but he could not give a correlation (because he was lacking the tools to do so). This was possibly the first test of verbal intelligence in a group.
Many of his experimental methods to rate memory performance are still in use.
Ebbinghaus died of pneumonia, when he was 59 years old.
Geoff Johns
His most notable work in different media has used the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, The Flash, and Superman. He is known for his work on The WB/The CW's Smallville, Arrow and The Flash.
Johns is also a comic book retailer who co-owns Earth-2 Comics in Northridge, California with Carr D'Angelo and Jud Meyers.
In 2016, Johns was made the co-runner of the DC Extended Universe, and co-chairman of DC Films in order to create a unified vision and overarching story for the franchise.
Ninove
Ninove is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders.
It is at 50° 50 North, 04° 01 East.
Gino D'Acampo
Gennaro Sheffield "Gino" D'Acampo (born 17 July 1976) is an Italian celebrity chef and TV presenter based in the United Kingdom, best known for his cooking TV shows and cookbooks.
Maxdorf
Maxdorf is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As of 31 December 2018, 7,218 people lived there.
Horodnic de Sus
Horodnic de Sus is a commune in Suceava County, Romania.
Horodnic de Jos
Horodnic de Jos is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
Akemi Iwata
Akemi Iwata (岩田 明美) is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Iwata was born on January 19, 1954. In June 1981, when she was 17 years old, she was selected the Japan national team for 1981 AFC Championship. At this competition, on June 11, she debuted against Thailand. She played in 2 matches at this championship. In September, she also played against Italy. However Japan was defeated this match by a score of 0–9. This is the biggest defeat in the history of Japan national team. She played 3 games for Japan in 1981.
Juan Antonio Saavedra Reinaldo
Juan Antonio Saavedra Reinaldo (born November 21, 1973 in Pontevedra) is a shooter from Spain. He has a disability and is an SH1-SH2 type shooter. He competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2004 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. In 2012, he finished second in the Free rifle lying R6, Mixed gender SH1 event.
Nivelles
Nivelles is a municipality in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.
In 2007, 24622 people lived there.
It is at 50° 35 North, 04° 19 East.
Recapitulation theory
Étienne Serres first proposed this idea in 1824–26. In 1886 Ernst Haekel suggested that the embryonic development of an organism (its ontogeny) followed the same path as the evolutionary history of its species (its phylogeny). It is also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism.
Although there is something to this idea, it is no longer thought to be such a useful way to look at development.
Haeckel's theory
Haeckel formulated his theory as "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". Ontogeny is the steps an organism takes in its development before it is born, starting as a single cell and ending as a baby. Phylogeny is the steps a species takes in its development, starting as a very simple organism and evolving into the current organism. "Recapitulates" is a synonym for "reflects" and implies that the ontogeny of an organism is similar to the phylogeny of its species.
For example, Haeckel realized that before they are born, there is a time when humans have slits in their necks. These slits look like the gills on adult fishes. Haeckel took this to mean that some time before our species became human, we were fish-like. This view is supported by the fossil record and other evidence. As the unborn human gets closer to being born, it develops a tail. In fact, some human babies are even born with tails. Haeckel concluded, again correctly, that at some time in humanities more recent evolutionary past (after we had gone through our fish stage) the species that would go on to become humans had a tail.
However, not all of Haeckel's evidence or conclusions were this good. Haeckel produced several embryo drawings that often overemphasized similarities between embryos of related species. These found their ways into many biology textbooks, and into popular knowledge, even though they were wrong. Furthermore, Haeckel used this "evidence" to conclude that white people were evolutionary superior to people of other races. Not only is this a racist view, but we know today that it is not true.
Rejection
Today, scientists think that Haeckel overstated the case. For example, the "gills" of a developing human do not work (though Haekel never said they did). Furthermore, as better observations were made, it was discovered that developing babies don't look exactly like the pictures Haeckel drew. He may have exaggerated what he saw in order to support his point better. Also, Haekel's discussion was entirely about morphology: he did not discuss the evolution and development of animal behaviour.
However, this is not to say that nothing about the theory makes sense. It is true that our ontogeny gives clues about our phylogeny. However, the relationship is not nearly as direct as Haeckel said it was. In fact, Haekel's over-emphatic claims led in due course to over-emphatic rejections.
Modern observations
Today, scientists agree that some parts of Haeckel's theory still make sense. For example:
U.S. Route 19
U.S. Route 19 (US 19) is a north–south United States highway in the United States. The highway's southern end is in Memphis, Florida at US 41. Its northern end is in Erie, Pennsylvania at US 20. The highway is 1438.2 mi long.
Iaslovăţ
Iaslovăţ is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (11 February 1938 – 29 May 2017) was a Panamanian politician and general.
Noriega went to high school and had a career in the army. He was the de facto ruler of Panama between 12 August 1983 and 20 December 1989. In 1992, a United States court convicted him of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. Noriega served a prison sentence in the US, which ended in 2007. He was then extradited to France, where he served another sentence.
A conditional release was given to him on September 23, 2011. Noriega was sent to Panama to serve 20 years. He arrived in Panama on December 11, 2011.
Noriega died at a medical center in Panama City on 29 May 2017 from complications of brain surgery at the age of 83.
Ohey
Ohey (Ohè) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Namur.
In 2007, 4318 people lived there.
It is at 50° 26 North, 05° 07 East.
Rhine River
The Rhine River (Rhein, Rhin, Rijn) is 1230 km long. Its name comes from the Celtic word "renos", which means 'raging flow'.
The Rhine is an important waterway. 883 km can be used by ships, and boats can go to the Black Sea using the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. Many goods are transported over the Rhine, and the Rhine valley is also an important wine producing region. The river Rhine begins at Tomasee, a lake in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland, and runs through Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. It is the border between Switzerland and Liechtenstein and also the border between Germany and France. It is also the border between Switzerland and Austria. It is also the border between the Netherlands and Germany. It is the border between France and Switzerland. It runs through Basel, Bonn, Cologne and Duisburg. It also separates the cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden. The Rhine has 50 species of fish. The Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe.
Geography
The river runs through only one lake on its way, Lake Constance, which is on the border of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
Together with the Danube it formed most of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
Cities near the Rhine
These are large cities that are found near the Rhine:
Switzerland:
France:
Germany:
Netherlands:
Smaller cities that are found near the Rhine:
Switzerland
Liechtenstein:
Ladies in Love
Ladies in Love is a 1936 American romantic comedy movie directed by Edward H. Griffith and based on the play of the same name by Leslie Bush-Fekete. It stars Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Paul Lukas, Tyrone Power, Virginia Field and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Shankar Lalwani
Personal life
Lalwani was born on 16 October 1961 to Jamnadas Lalwani and Gouridevi Lalwani in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He is a Sindhi whose family migrated from Pakistan after the Partition of India. Lalwani completed his Higher Secondary from Madhya Pradesh Board in 1978. He graduated with a B. Tech degree from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute affiliated to University of Bombay.
Lalwani married Amita Lalwani on 10 March 1985, with whom he has a son.
Ilişeşti
Ilişeşti is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
Donaustauf
Donaustauf is a market town in Bavaria, 5 km east of Regensburg at the foothills of the Bavarian Forest.
Ptychohyla zophodes
The Gloomy Mountain stream frog (Ptychohyla zophodes) is a frog. It lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it on the Atlantic side (east side) of the mountains. People have seen it between 400 and 1400 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is about 37.4 mm long from nose to rear end. The adult female frog is about 43.6 mm long. The color of the skin on the frog's back is brown or gray. The iris of the eye is bronze with black marks.
Scientists used to think this was the same frog as Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei, but it is not.
Olen
Olen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
In 2007, 11467 people lived there.
It is at 51° 08 North, 04° 51 East.
Frank Williams (actor)
Frank Williams (2 July 1931 – 26 June 2022) was an English actor. He was best known for playing the Reverend Timothy Farthing in the popular BBC comedy Dad's Army.
Williams died on 26 June 2022 at his home in Edgware, Greater London, one week before his 91st birthday.
Kurt Kasznar
Kurt Kasznar (born Kurt Servischer; August 12, 1913 – August 6, 1979) was a stage, movie and television actor. His movies include: Waiting for Godot, The Sound of Music and Barefoot in the Park.
Kasznar was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He married American heiress Cornelia Woolley. This was after her 1939 divorce from her second husband. She died at home unexpectedly in June 1948, at age 48. At the time, Kasznar was performing in John Houseman's Broadway production of Joy to the World.
County Louth
County Louth (Contae Lú) is a county on the east coast of Ireland, on the border with Northern Ireland.
Kurt Kasznar
Kasznar met his second wife, actress Leora Dana, when they worked together in the Broadway production of The Happy Time (1950). That marriage ended in divorce.
County Louth
The county town is Dundalk, which is also the largest town in Louth. Most people that live in Louth live in the two biggest towns, Dundalk and Drogheda. The 2006 Census showed that Dundalk and Drogheda as not only the largest towns in the Louth, but also the second and third largest towns in Ireland.
Kurt Kasznar
Kasznar died August 6, 1979, in Santa Monica, California. This was 10 months after being diagnosed with cancer. He had no known survivors.
County Louth
Louth is nicknamed "the Wee County" because it is the smallest county in Ireland ("wee" means small).
Where the name comes from
The old Irish name of the county Lughbhaidh comes from the place where people worshipped the Celtic god Lugh whose festival was celebrated at Lúnasa.
The name is now spelled as An Lú. This is just the modern way of spelling Lughbhaidh. 'Lú' means 'small' in Irish, but this is not where the name comes from.
History
The history of Louth goes back a long time. Before people wrote down histories and dates, a famous Irish story is supposed to have happened in Louth. It is called the Táin Bó Cúailge. In this story, a famous warrior called Cúchulainn fights a whole army by himself to protect a brown bull from being stolen.
In the fourteenth century the Scottish army of Edward Bruce lost the Battle of Faughart near Dundalk. Edward was killed in the battle. Oliver Cromwell attacked Drogheda in 1649 killing the Royalist garrison (Siege of Drogheda).
Sanae Mishima
Sanae Mishima (三島 早苗) is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Mishima was born on May 3, 1957. In June 1981, she was selected the Japan national team for 1981 AFC Championship. At this competition, on June 11, she debuted against Thailand. In September, she also played against Italy. However Japan was defeated this match by a score of 0–9. This is the biggest defeat in the history of Japan national team. She played 2 games for Japan in 1981.
Abdelhadi Tazi
Abdelhadi Tazi (June 15, 1921 – April 2, 2015) was a Moroccan scholar, writer, historian and former Moroccan ambassador in many countries. He has worked with the Nationalist Movement. He has experienced exile and prison during his career.
Pompei
It is known for the ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii which are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Twin towns
Pompei is twinned with:
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle is a 1958 American romantic comedy movie, made in Technicolor. It is based on a successful Broadway play of the same name. The plot for the movie was changed to add characters to the scenes. In the play, some minor people are only talked about, but never seen. Also, the movie has action in Manhattan, Greenwich Village, shops, offices and night clubs. The play's scenes take place in one apartment.