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Murti
Going beyond murtis in Hinduism
The image or murti of worship is a focus for prayers, although Hindus can see God is in all things, in stone and water, fire, air and ether, in the enlightened person of a satguru and inside their own soul. Some temples do not have any murti in the sanctum but a symbolic diagram. Some Hindu branches reject the worship of images.
In Hinduism, one of the highest achievements is when one goes beyond the need of all form and symbol. This is the yogi’s goal obtained through meditation. Hinduism is also one of the religions that uses more symbols to represent God in preparation for getting beyond them.
Sacred images in other religions
Image worship appears to be an intelligent, mystical practice shared by all of the world’s great religions. All religions have their symbols of holiness: the Christian cross, or statues of Mother Mary and Saint Theresa, the holy Kaaba in Mecca, the Sikh Adi Granth enshrined in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Arc and Torah of the Jews, the image of a meditating Buddha, the totems of indigenous and Pagan faiths, and the artifacts of the holy men and women of all religions. Any Christian respects the Bible and considers it sacred. His book and the Hindu’s murtis are similar in this way.
Critics of image worship consider this practice "idolatry". People who practice idolatry believe that God is the material object itself. Instead, Hindus worship murtis to call on the presence of the spiritual God and then communicate with him.
Looney Tunes Cartoons
Looney Tunes Cartoons is an American animated television series. It was developed by Peter Browngardt. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is based on the characters from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. The series made its worldwide debut at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 10, 2019, and premiered on HBO Max on May 27, 2020.
Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box is an American fast food restaurant chain. It was founded in 1951 by Robert O. Peterson. Peterson opened his restaurant in Long Beach, California on the Pacific Coast highway. It featured a clown's head on top of the building. Instead of using carhops like other drive-in restaurants, Peterson used a two-way intercom. He also pioneered the drive-through. It allowed a customer to place their order while the car ahead of them was picking up their order. This made service much faster and Jack in the Box became known for fast service.
Alam Shah
Alam Shah was the fourth and last ruler of the Sayyid dynasty. He succeeded his father, Muhammad Shah to the throne. According to sources, at this time, the empire extended from Delhi to nearby suburb (locality) Palam..Alam Shah was an incapable ruler. He left the kingdom in 1448. He moved to Budaun. Three years later, Bahlul Lodi took control of the capital.
Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box has over 2,200 restaurants in 21 states and Guam. At first the menu was simple. Only 15 items were offered including hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries and soft drinks. Today the menu is expanded to include items such as onion rings, chicken tacos and shrimp. They also offer ice cream, shakes and hot apple turnovers.
Jack I. Box is a fictional character and the mascot for their advertising.
Muhammad Shah (Sayyid dynasty)
Muhammad Shah (r. 1434-1445) was the third king of the Sayyid dynasty. Sayyid dynasty is the fourth dynasty of Delhi Sultanate. He succeeded his uncle, Mubarak Shah. Alam Shah succeeded him as the king. Both of them were incapable or weak rulers. They only ruled from the city of Delhi and that was only the extent to which their kingdom was.
Lewis Fiander
Lewis Fiander (12 January 1938 – 24 May 2016) was an Australian movie, stage, television and actor.
He appeared in such movies as I Start Counting (1970), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), The Abdication (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Not Now, Comrade (1976), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Georgia (1988) and Paperback Romance (1994).
Data compression
Data compression is a set of steps for packing data into a smaller space, while allowing for the original data to be seen again. Compression is a two-way process: a compression algorithm can be used to make a data package smaller, but it can also be run the other way, to decompress the package into its original form. Data compression is useful in computing to save disk space, or to reduce the bandwidth used when sending data (e.g., over the internet).
Lewis Fiander
Fiander died in Melbourne, Victoria on 24 May 2016 from a stroke, aged 78.
Data compression
Lossless compression
Lossless compression packs data in such a way that the compressed package can be decompressed, and the data can be pulled out exactly the same as it went in. This is very important for computer programs and archives, since even a very small change in a computer program will make it unusable.
This type of compression works by reducing how much waste space is in a piece of data. For example, if you receive a data package which contains "AAAAABBBB", you could compress that into "5A4B", which has the same meaning but takes up less space. This type of compression is called "run-length encoding", because you define how long the "run" of a character is. In the above example, there are two runs: a run of 5 A's, and another of 4 B's.
The problem with run-length encoding is that it only works on long pieces of the same value of data. If you receive a package with "ABBAABAAB" inside, that can be compressed into "1A2B2A1B2A1B"; but that's longer than the original! In this case, there's another method that can be used: checking how often a particular value comes up in the whole data package. This is often called frequency compression.
The most common kind of frequency compression is called Huffman coding, after the scientist who came up with the idea. The basic plan is to give each distinct value in a piece of data a code:- values that crop up all the time get shorter codes, and values that only show up once or twice get longer codes.
Lossy compression
For some types of data, lossy compression can go much further; this is most often the case with media files, like music and images. Lossy compression loses some of the data so that there's less to store. Depending on what information is lost, people do not notice it is missing. As a result, it can simply be removed from the data.
Of course, this will not work for computer programs and other such data where every piece is important; throwing away pieces of a computer program is generally unhealthy for the program.
Lipstick (1976 movie)
Lipstick is a 1976 American crime drama thriller movie directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Margaux Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Anne Bancroft, Perry King, John Bennett Perry, Meg Wylie. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Beerwah
Beerwah (تحصیل بیروہ) is a town in the Budgam District of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq
Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq (reign: 1394 − February 1413 CE) was the last sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty. Tughlaq dynasty is the third dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. During this reign (rule) in 1398, Amir Timur the Turkic ruler invaded India. Soon after the invasion, the Tughlaq dynasty came to an end."
Successor
After Mahmud's rule, Khizr Khan found the Sayyid dynasty.
Hamilton (name)
The name Hamilton is of English origin and is derived from the Old English words "hamel" and "dun," which mean "crooked hill" or "lonely hill." The pronunciation of the name is [ ham-uhl-tuhn ]. This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
Andreas Herzog
Career
Andreas Herzog started his career with SK Rapid Wien. 1987 and 1988 he won the championship with this team and 1987 the Cup, but he played only few matches. Regularly he played since 1988. 1992 he went on to Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga, where he reached the championship 1994. Bayern München became interested and so he went, together with his mentor and coach Otto Rehagel to Muinich. But this year was not successful so he went back to Bremen. There he won the German Cup the second time. In Germany he played 264 matches for Bremen and Muinich and shot 59 goals(15 penalties).
In winter 2001/02 he went back to Vienna where he played two seasons for Rapid again. There he was teamcaptain. In Austria he scored in 174 league-, 17 cup- and 10 European matches 51 goals. His last team was Los Angeles Galaxy, where he played 27 matches and scored four goals.
International
With 103 international matches Andreas Herzog is record holder in Austria. He played his first match on April 6th, 1988 against Greece(2:2). With the team he played in the FIFA World Cup 1990 in Italy and 1998 in France. He played his last match on April 30th, 2003 in Glasgow against Scotland.
Manager career
2005 he was ambassador for the UEFA Euro 2008. After Hans Krankl resinged he became coach of the national team for the last two qualifying matches for the FIFA World Cup 2006. Afterwards he became assistant coach under Josef Hickersberger and Karel Brückner. Since 2009 he is coach of the Austrian U21-team. On 17 December 2011 he went to the USA where he became assistance coach of Jürgen Klinsmann for the USA national football team.
In TV he was match analyst for the pay TV group Sky.
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Zoigl
Zoigl is a beer which is brewed in brewhouses owned by the town. Its made only in then northeastern region of Bavaria. This right to brew exists since the Middle Ages.
A Dangerous Woman (1929 movie)
A Dangerous Woman is a 1929 American romantic drama movie directed by Rowland V. Lee and Gerald Grove. It was based on the story by Margery Lawrence. It stars Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook, Clyde Cook, Neil Hamilton, Leslie Fenton and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Apoica pallens
The Central American paper wasp (Apoica pallens) is a nocturnal eusocial wasp (family Vespidae). It is famous for its swarming behavior. It is native to the lowlands of central and northern South America.
This species has developed special night vision adaptations which help their night-time swarming and foraging behavior. It has important medicinal properties for the Pankararé people of Brazil.
Filfla
Filfla is a small uninhabited islet 5 km south of Malta, and is the most southerly point of the Maltese Archipelago. filflu (or filfluu), a small rocky islet some 102 m southwest of Filfla, has the southernmost point of Malta.
Apoica pallens
Distribution and habitat
Apoica pallens populations are native to the lowlands of Central and northern South America. Generally, they are found in areas of tropical savanna, semi-deciduous tropical dry forest, gallery forest, and marshland. Apoica is one of the prominent genera of the New World tropics, and is rather abundant.
Swarming
Apoica pallens is best known for its unique swarm founding behavior, in which the adult population of a colony abandons an old nest and emigrates to a new site. This has been observed for several reasons. Firstly, as part of normal colony reproduction. And secondly, in response to severe disturbance or destruction of the original nest. Additionally, nest abandonment is sometimes correlated with changing climates, and in the case of Apoica pallens, has been observed more frequently during the dry season. Males follow swarm emigrations and may stay with the newly created colony for the following weeks.
Epiponini are either permanently or mainly polygynous.
Foraging
Foraging takes place at night. Swarms of wasps explosively leave the nest, then quickly return only to leave again in a similar fashion. As the night progresses there are moderate to heavy levels of return and departures by smaller groups of wasps. The foraging patterns of Apoica pallens depends on the moon’s cycle: when the moon is new, it forages during the first four hours after sunset, with another small peak of activity just before dawn as wasps return to the nest. When the moon is waxing, it extends the hours of forage until individuals are out all night long. Their adaptations allow them to forage in low light conditions. These wasps have larger visual fields compared to those of relatives.
Dominance hierarchy
Apoica pallens is a caste species with morphological differentiation between females. These castes are classified as workers and queens. This is based on the size of ovaries. The differences between the castes of queens and workers are formed during the larval stage. Queen-destined larvae show faster growth rates in various bodily compartments than worker-destined larvae. This results in individuals with different shapes even though larvae are about the same size.
Uses in folk medicine
Folk medicine is prominent in various areas of Brazil. Insects are used in folk remedies. Medicinal insects are the focus of healing methods targeted to treat ailments, serving as drug resources that come from nature. The nests of Apoica pallens, is known to be significant in the practices of Pankarare ́Indians and also the rural people of Brazil.
Nests of these wasps are burned and the smoke released is inhaled in order to heal stroke. Furthermore, when the presence of evil is suspected in an Indian’s life, they must bath in this smoke of the burning nest as treatment. In Matinha dos Pretos, pieces of the nest may be boiled in water to make a tea that serves as treatment for asthma.
Diet
Apoica pallens collects various arthropods including flies, caterpillars, and beetles. It also collects pollen and nectar from banana blossoms. This species practices brood cannibalism: the adults will eat some of the brood if their own nutritional needs are not met. Generally, several adults will divide up a single larva. In addition, adults will exchange food via trophallaxis.
Defense
Apoica pallens displays active, rather than chemical defense behavior. During the day, when adult individuals are not swarming, they cover the comb face of the nest several layers thick. The wasps on the outer layer of the comb face outward. They watch for predatory ants trying to reach the interior of the nest. It is thought that the advantages of this protective formation during the day is what led to the nocturnal foraging and swarming.
Swimsuit
A swimsuit, bathing suit (sometimes shortened to bathers), or swimming costume (sometimes shortened to cozzie) is clothing designed to be worn for swimming. Swimming trunks are a pair of shorts or briefs worn for swimming or bathing.
In New Zealand English and some areas of Australian English, swimsuits are usually called togs. This term is less common in other parts of the English-speaking world where it may refer to clothes in general. Swimsuits can be skin-tight or loosely fitting. They range from garments designed to preserve as much modesty as possible to garments designed to reveal as much of the body as possible without actual nudity. They are often lined with a fabric that prevents them from becoming transparent when wet.
Nykvarn Municipality
Nykvarn Municipality (Nykvarns kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in central Sweden. The seat is in Nykvarn.
The municipality was established on 1 January 1999. It was broken out of Södertälje Municipality.
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22, 1959) is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor whose work is often paired with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his improv and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the role of Lewis Kiniski on The Drew Carey Show. He played Herb Melnick on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men and was a performer on the show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.
Early life and career
Stiles was born in Seattle, Washington, the youngest of five children. His father, Sonny, was a fishing plant supervisor. Stiles lived in Vancouver, British Columbia as a teenager. At the age of seventeen, he dropped out of his high school, Richmond Secondary, to have a career in comedy. He worked in his father's fish-processing plant to earn a living. He then began performing improv with Vancouver TheatreSports League. In 1986, Stiles successfully auditioned for a berth at Toronto's renowned Second City comedy ensemble.
Television work
By 1989, the producers of the comedy show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, noticed his work. Stiles was a regular guest on the show until 1998, and the show's short production season allowed him to make numerous television and motion picture appearances in the United States.
In 1995, Stiles was asked by American comic Drew Carey to be a regular on his comedy The Drew Carey Show. Stiles played Drew's smart but under best friend, Lewis Kiniski. Stiles' first line in the first episode of the show, "And that's why the French don't wash," is a line he had used in an episode of the British version of Whose Line?.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
In 1998, Carey successfully got ABC to get an American version of Whose Line? produced. Following the final season of the British version in 1998, the American version premiered, with both Stiles and Carey as executive producers. Stiles and Colin Mochrie were the only two actors to appear in every episode of the US version, though Wayne Brady also became a regular near the beginning of the second season. The series was produced until 2006.
Stiles was the most iconic performer on the original UK version of Whose Line?, appearing in 76 of the series 136 episodes (including compilations). He first appeared in the fifth episode of the second season, which aired in late 1988. He appeared in one other episode of that season, before returning for four episodes of the third season. His prominence increased with each season, including appearances in every episode of Season 4 which was filmed in New York; ultimately appearing in every episode from the seventh season onwards.
Stiles was known for several recurring impressions he performed on the shows, performed both at his own decision and as an assignment in games. These included Carol Channing, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Steve Irwin and Christopher Lloyd's character in Taxi, Jim Ignatowski. He made clear his dislike of the musical segments of the show at every opportunity whenever he was chosen to perform in them, mostly because of his inability to form lyrics quickly. In particular, he disliked the games Hoedown and Irish Drinking Song, often reacting negatively (or sarcastically positively) to its being announced. Other than in early UK playings, Stiles was always the last performer to sing in Hoedown and other similar musical games, allowing him more time to devise lyrics, and giving him the final punch-lines, as well as injecting (usually not-so subtle) jabs at the Hoedown itself, or of the host for having him perform in it.
Stiles had first met Colin Mochrie years before while performing stand-up. They first performed together in Vancouver TheaterSports then in Second City, Toronto.There were a number of games which paired Mochrie and Stiles at every playing. Though other performers did so, he was the most common performer to make bald jokes at Mochrie. In return, Mochrie often made jokes about Stiles's height, nose, attractiveness, and tendency to wear exotic, flamboyant shoes, which were designed by George Esquivel. However, he would sometimes stand up to or make jokes at the other performers (including Drew Carey) who made fun of Mochrie's baldness or Mochrie in general, mostly during Scenes From A Hat.
Personal life
Stiles once lived in a house previously owned by Liberace in Sherman Oaks, California, but he sold it.
Other appearances
Stiles appeared in the 1991 film Hot Shots as Mailman Farnham, and also starred in the 1993 sequel (follow-up) Hot Shots! Part Deux, as marine Rabinowitz.
Since 2004, Stiles has been seen as the reappearing character Dr. Herb Melnick in several episodes of the comedy Two and a Half Men which stars his Hot Shots co-star Jon Cryer and formerly Charlie Sheen. Stiles also made short guest appearances on Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Mad TV, and Dharma & Greg. In July 2008, he was a guest star on Reno 911! as Sergeant Clift, an acting coach.
During the 1994 Major League Baseball strike Stiles appeared in several commercials for Nike, hanging out in an empty ballpark doing things such as playing the organ and attempting to do the wave alone. The commercials ended with the tag line: "Play ball. Please."
Lerwick
Lerwick (Scottish Gaelic: Liùrabhaig, Norwegian: Leirvik) is the main port of Shetland Islands, Scotland. Its population was 6,958 in the 2011 census.
It also has the second largest port in the Northen Isles and the most northernmost town in the United Kingdom.
Red Norvo
Kenneth "Red" Norvo (31 March 1908, Beardstown, Illinois - 6 April 1999, Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz musician and dancer. He performed from the 1920s through the 1980s. During the 1920s, he was a tap dancer in Vaudeville. His main musical instrument was the vibraphone. He was also a member of The Three Ickkies.
Royal National Park
The Royal National Park is a national park in New South Wales of Australia. It is located 29 kilometres south of Sydney and is part of the Sydney metropolitan area.
History
The national park was founded in 1879 by Sir John Robertson, then premier of New South Wales, making it the second oldest national park in the world after Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Sir John Robertson cared for and supported him all the rest of his life. After coal was discovered on the terrain, it was founded out of economic interests to keep competition away from the gates of Sydney. Its original name was The National Park. In 1955 it was renamed after a visit from Queen Elizabeth II. The park is repeatedly ravaged by bushfires, which contribute to the constant change and regeneration of the vegetation. Plants like the native Waratah are adapted to the environmental factor fire and need the fires to bloom in subsequent years.
Location
The park is partly in the Sydney and Wollongong administrative districts and forms a jewel with unspoiled nature between these two major cities. It is bounded to the north by the Port Hacking fjord, to the west by the motorway between the cities and to the south to Otford. The Heathcote National Park connects across the freeway and continues the green belt around Sydney.
The Royal National Park offers very different landscapes and vegetation. It lies on sandstone hills that break off a few hundred meters down to the coast. They are mostly covered by eucalyptus forests with a wealth of species. Centrally, deeply cut, the Hacking River runs through the park, which flows into the seawater of Port Hacking at Audley. This rugged bay offers protection from the open sea. The water at Bundeena is very shallow and is home to an extensive mangrove forest. There are a few beaches and lagoons on the open coast to the Tasman Sea. Most of them can only be reached on foot via the coastal footpath. Wattamolla can be approached and offers ample picnic and barbecue facilities. In the southeast the forest merges into the subtropical rainforest of the Illawarra Escarpment, in which there are also palm trees.
Access
Access by car is via three routes, north from Sutherland, west from Waterfall and south from Otford via Stanwell Park. A daily or annual fee is required, which can be purchased at various points of sale as well as on NSW national parks website.
Freestyle football
Freestyle football is a sport played by one person by kicking a football. Freestyle football is a new sport, which has become more popular in recent years.
To play freestyle football, one needs skill to keep the ball off the ground. This is done by juggling the ball with one's feet. Many people can do this well. At the same time, they can add in more difficult tricks. The most famous trick is called 'around the world'. There are five or more different ways of doing 'around the world'. Freestyle football can be played anywhere, such as in the street or a park.
Leith Athletic F.C.
Leith Athletic F.C. is a football club which plays in Scotland.
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин ; 22 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian peasant, and a mystical faith healer. He was not a monk who lived in a monastery, but a religious pilgrim. In 1904 he arrived in the capital St Petersburg. The Tsar and Tsarina talked many times with Rasputin and asked for advice as he became their spiritual guide.
Life
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born a peasant in the small village of Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River in the Tobolsk Governorate (now Tyumen Oblast) in the Russian Empire. According to official records, he was born on 21 January O.S. 9 January] 1869 and christened the following day. He was named for St. Gregory of Nyssa, whose feast was celebrated on 10 January.
Rasputin had a lot of influence over Tsarina Alexandra, the wife of Tsar Nicholas II, the emperor of Imperial Russia. Alexandra believed that Rasputin was the answer to her worries. Her only son, Tsarevich Alexei, the heir to the throne was very sick. He had hemophilia. It caused heavy bleeding and pain in his groin and legs each time he fell. Rasputin calmed the boy and the parents. From then on, Alexandra believed Rasputin was the only person who could heal her son with his prayers.
Because of this, the Tsar and his family began to trust Rasputin more with important decisions on politics. Rasputin did not support the Tsar when he decided to lead his country into World War I. In July 1914, during a stay in his home village, he was stabbed in his belly by a female conspirator Khioniya Guseva. After seven weeks, Rasputin recovered and went back to the capital. There he lived with his two daughters, who went to school in the capital.
Death
In the night of 30 December 1916, Rasputin was led into the Yusupov palace's basement. He was offered wine. When he got drunk, he was shot twice by Prince Felix Yusupov. One shot went into his right kidney and then into his spine. He climbed some stairs and staggered out of the palace through a back door. Rasputin was shot again in the courtyard. To be sure he was dead, he was shot in the forehead at close range. Grand Duke Dmitri drove the conspirators to the Neva River. There they dropped his body from the bridge. In the meantime, Prince Felix had killed his favorite dog, to cover the blood in the courtyard. A few days later Rasputin's body, completely frozen, was found stuck in the ice. The next day the corpse was buried in a park next to the Alexander Palace. After the February Revolution, the new leaders decided to dig up his body to prevent it from becoming a place of worship; and eventually burned it.
Marco Reus
Marco Reus (born 31 May 1989) is a German association football player who plays for Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national football team. Reus is known for his speed and his ability to adapt easily to a new position. He was included in Germany's 2014 FIFA World Cup squad, however he was injured in a game before the World Cup, so he could not play.
International
He became the first Germany player to score a for his country at Russia 2018 after the footballing nation's poor start to the tournament.
Topman
Topman is the male clothing section of the Topshop franchise. The men's clothing stores are located throughout the United Kingdom.
Power system protection
Power system protection is part of an electric power system. It protects an electrical network from faults by isolating the faulted parts from the healthy parts. This keeps the power system working as much as possible.
Topman
As of 2016, Topman has over 400 stores. They continue to expand throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia.
Pangram
Pangrams are sentences that have one or more of every letter in an alphabet. They are used to show every letter in a font, or to test a keyboard or typewriter.
The most common example in English is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Takayoshi Yamano
Takayoshi Yamano (山野 孝義) is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Yamano was born in Osaka Prefecture on April 5, 1955. After graduating from Osaka University of Commerce, he joined his local club Yanmar Diesel in 1978. The club won the Japan Soccer League champions in 1980. The club also won 1983 and 1984 JSL Cup. He played 125 matches for the club until 1984. In 1986, he signed with Japan Soccer League Division 2 club Osaka Gas. He retired in 1991.
On June 11, 1980, Yamano debuted for the Japan national team against China. He played 2 games for Japan in 1980.
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Manchu Empire
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Andrew McCarthy
Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, travel writer, and television director. He is known for his roles in St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero. He also directed many episodes of Orange Is the New Black for Netflix.
Liane den Haan
She studied nursing, worked at a hospital, studied in the evening business administration and was a catering and party service business operative. Thereafter, she focused on leading jobs and has held various leading positions since then.
De Haan was heading senior citizen organisation ANBO from 2005 to 2020. Besides, she was a member of the socio-economic council SER from 2009 to 2013 and from 2018 to 2019, a member of the board of civil servants personnel organisation ACOP from 2012 to 2018, and also director of LGBT organisation COC Nederland.
Born in Woerden, she was councillor of this municipality in the province of Utrecht from 2006 to 2010, until 2007 for Democrats 66 (D66), and afterwards for the Labour Party (PvdA) in Progressief Woerden.
She was a member of 50+ from August 2020 to May 2021 and leaded the party into the 2021 Dutch general election in March 2021. 50+ gained one seat, so she has been both parliamentary group leader and an MP since March 2021. Because of serious disagreements with the party executive committee, she left 50+ on 6 May 2021 and continues as an independent MP.
De Haan is divorced with three children and still lives in Woerden.
Roxbury, Connecticut
Roxbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 2,260 at the 2020 census.
Miles Teller
Miles Alexander Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor. His movies include The Spectacular Now, Whiplash, Divergent, Bleed for This and Thank You for Your Service.
Teresa Gallagher
Teresa Gallagher is a British voice actress. She is the voice of Nicole Watterson in The Amazing World of Gumball, Gelatin and Paige King in Destiny's Side and Lucy Elektra in CyberAdult Girls.
Obdurodon tharalkooschild
Obdurodon tharalkooschild is an extinct species of platypus in the genus Obdurodon. Only one single tooth has been found. This was at the Miocene fossil beds in Riversleigh in Queensland, Australia.
The tooth was discovered in 2012 by a team from the University of New South Wales including Mike Archer, Suzanne Hand, and Rebecca Pian.
The species lived during in the middle and upper Miocene about 5–15 million years ago. Wear on the tooth shows that it probably crushed hard shells such as those of turtles. Because of this, scientists believe that O. tharalkooschild was carnivorous. They also believe that it was twice the size of the modern platypus at one metre long. Its name was chosen in honour of an indigenous Australian creation story for the platypus, where a duck named Tharalkoo gives birth to a strange and fantastic creature after being ravished by a water-rat.
Ted Dumitru
Theodore "Ted" Dumitru (born Dumitru Teodorescu; September 2, 1939 – May 26, 2016) was a Romanian football manager. He last worked as a technical director for Mamelodi Sundowns in the South African Premier Soccer League. He was the former coach of the South Africa national football team. Dumitru was one of a few coaches to have guided the 'big three' in South Africa Kaizer Chiefs, Sundowns and Orlando Pirates.
Oz Griebel
Richard Nelson "Oz" Griebel (June 21, 1949 – July 29, 2020) was an American banker, lawyer, and politician. He ran as a Republican primary candidate in the 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election, and as an independent in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
On July 21, 2020, Griebel was hit by a car while jogging in Pennsylvania. He died from problems caused by his injuries on July 29 at the age of 71.
IEC 61850
The IEC 61850 is a technical standard in the design of the automation of electrical substations. The standard specifies several protocols.
Taipei Songshan Airport
The Taipei Songshan Airport is an airport for commercial and military in Taipei, Taiwan.
For the commercial part, the name of the airport is Taipei International Airport. For the military part, the name is Songshan Air Force Base.
Ahimsa
Ahimsa (also ahiṃsā, ahinsa, Sanskrit:अहिम्स) is a Sanskrit word which means "non-violence” or "non-injury". The practice of ahimsa is an important aspect of religions like Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. A person who practices ahimsa generally eats vegetarian foods. A religious person who practices ahimsa does not take part in animal sacrifice.
In twentieth century, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King each followed a path of Ahimsa, though in different ways. They struggled without fighting, while asking for the rights of their followers.
Buddhism
The concept of ahiṃsā forms the base of Buddhism. In Buddhism, the first of the five basic vows (precepts) that are undertaken voluntarily by those who practice, is "I undertake the training rule to abstain from killing". In Buddhism, killing any living being out of passion is considered 'hiṃsā' (injury) and abstaining from such act is 'ahiṃsā' (non-injury or nonviolence).
Montfaucon
Montfaucon can mean:
69th FIFA Congress
The 69th FIFA Congress was held in Paris expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, on 5 June 2019.
Gianfranco Parolini
Gianfranco Parolini (20 February 1925 – 26 April 2018) was an Italian movie director and screenwriter. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his movies are The Sabata Trilogy, several sword and sandal movies, most of the Kommissar X movies and a number of Spaghetti Westerns. He was born in Rome, Italy.
He claimed to have written over 100 thriller novels before becoming an assistant to Giuseppe D'Amato.
Parolini died on 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy at the age of 93.
Deccan sultanates
The Deccan sultanates is the name for five Islamic kingdoms which existed in the Deccan Plateau, in the Middle Ages. They all had at least a part of the territory on the Deccan Plateau. The sultanates came into existence when the Bahmani Sultanate broke up. Much like the Bahmani Sultanate, these kingdoms regularly fought against the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire in South India but also commonly and most fought amongst themselves for territory.
Blind Ambition
"Blind Ambition" is the 3rd episode of Family Guy's 4th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on May 15, 2005. The episode was written by Steve Callaghan and Chuck Klein is the director of the episode. The episode is about Peter Griffin going blind after trying to get a world record.
Story
Mort Goldman gets popular for getting the highest possible score in bowling. Lois goes to the bowling alley and is shocked to see Glenn Quagmire watching her in a bathroom. Quagmire gets arrested but is freed by his neighbor Joe Swanson. Lois and other wives in her neighborhood want Quagmire taken away from the neighborhood. They later say they will let him stay if he stops harassing women. They help Quagmire control himself using operant conditioning (learning about the consequences of one's behaviors). They take Quagmire to a shopping mall. Quagmire sees cheerleaders in a fountain and starts to feel worried. He finds a room with video cameras of women in changing rooms. He sees a woman having a heart attack in one of the cameras. He runs to the woman and does CPR. Quagmire gets awarded for saving the woman from dying.
Peter feels sad because his friends have had success, but he says he has not. He thinks he will be famous if he gets a world record for eating the most nickels. He tries to eat many nickels, but gets poisoned and goes blind. Peter gets a guide dog and goes to a bar. He ties the dog's leash to a homeless person thinking it is a parking meter. He goes to the bar and does not know it is burning. He saves the bartender from the fire and is called a hero by a news anchor. Peter gets new eyes from the homeless person he tied his guard dog to.
Production
Family Guy was first cancelled after its 3rd season. 5 scripts were made in 2001 for if Family Guy was brought back by the Fox network. "Blind Ambition" was made from one of the scripts. This is the second episode where Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken get in a fight. This was supposed to be shown in the episode "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire". That episode was too long to show them fighting, so it was put in "Blind Ambition". Some parts of this episode were made but not broadcast. One of these was during Quagmire trying to control himself, where Brian Griffin uses a forklift to carry pornographic magazines away from Quagmire's house.
Many people called David Goodman to say they did not like blind Peter seducing his son Chris thinking he is Lois. Chris Sheridan said that people were also not happy with Quagmire watching Lois in the bathroom. The Fox network can not use the words "Jesus Christ" if they are not talking about Jesus himself. One part of the episode shows God saying "Jesus Christ!" when he accidentally kills a person. Jesus was put in the episode with God so that the part of the episode can be broadcast.
Reception
The episode was seen by about 9.26 million people when it was first broadcast.
Kevin Wong from PopMatters said that the episode was better than the 4th season's first two episodes. Mike Drucker from IGN thought that Peter and Ernie's fight was funny in the first episode they were in, but said it was not interesting this time. However, Drucker liked the reference to Star Wars at the end of the episode.
Talons (song)
"Talons" is a music single by British indie rock band Bloc Party.
Mike Gillespie (baseball)
Gillespie died on July 29, 2020, in Irvine, California from problems caused by lung disease and a stroke, aged 80.
Pope Innocent IV
Pope Innocent IV (Innocentius Quartus; c. 1195 – December 7, 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was an Italian cleric of the Roman Catholic Church and the 181st Pope from June 25, 1243 until his death in 1254.
Early life
Fieschi was born in Genoa. The Fieschi were a noble family of Liguria.
His nephew will become Adrian V.
He studied at the universities of Parma and Bologna.
Pope
Cardinal Fieschi was elected pope on June 25, 1243. He chose the name Innocent IV. Ottobuono Fieschi was the pope's cardinal-nephew during this reign.
Pope Innocent was involved in Italian and European political disputes. The central problem of his papacy was a conflict with Frederick II, who was the Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1245, Pope Innocent called church leaders to the Council of Lyons in France.
Innocent granted the use of the red hat to the cardinals in 1245. The red had was a symbol of the cardinal's readiness to shed their blood in the cause of the church.
Delara Darabi
Delara Darabi (September 29, 1986 - May 1, 2009) was a Iranian girl, who was sentenced to death at age of 17. She was convicted of murder, despite her highly probably innocence and was executed by hanging.
Case
Her case has raised controversy for number a reasons:
Delara's sentence was upheld by Iran's Supreme Court. The only person who could commute the sentence is Iranian Head of Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.
In January 2007, Delara attempted to commit suicide.
Darabi was kept in Rasht Prison. According to her family and attorney, she was severely beaten by prison guards and fellow prisoners and left with a broken arm. Conditions in prison were extremely poor, leading Delara to repeatedly file requests to be transferred to another prison with better sanitary and overall conditions. Her requests were not answered.
Darabi was also a talented painter, poet and pianist. Her paintings were exhibited in Tehran and, recently, in Amsterdam.
She was executed May 1, 2009.
Campaigns to save Darabi
There was a petition online to save Darabi. A similar petition was started by Miss Canada 2003 Nazanin Afshin-Jam for another Iranian minor, Nazanin Fatehi, who was also sentenced to death. After worldwide attention and over 350,000 signatures Nazanin Fatehi was finally found innocent and freed. Amnesty International has also made many public statements and a letter campaign about Darabi.
Personal background
She was born in city of Rasht (Province of Gilan), where she was a high-school student before her arrest. She had three sisters: Elaheh (21-year old), Ghazale (19) and Sheida (8). Elaheh and Ghazale are college students.
Electronic
Electronic could mean:
Visual novel
A visual novel is a type of video game. They use mostly static (non-moving) graphics, and usually have anime/manga-styled art. Sometimes they contain video footage. Almost all visual novels are produced in Japan, very few of these are ever sold in the Western market. Examples of popular visual novels are Kanon, Clannad, and Air.
Gameplay
Visual novels are different from other types of video games in that there is not much gameplay, most of the time the player clicks the screen to move through the game, and occasionally choices will come up for the player to make, which will determine what happens in the game. Most visual novels have more than one storyline and ending, the gameplay has been compared to Choose Your Own Adventure books.
Content and genre
Many visual novels are centered around drama, particularly themes involving romance or family, but visual novels centered around science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror fiction are not uncommon.
Adult content
Many visual novels have sexual or pornographic scenes in the game, even if they are not the whole purpose of the story.
St Paul's Island
St Paul's Island (Maltese: Il-Gżejjer ta' San Pawl), also known as Selmunett, is a small island off Selmun near the north-east of the main island of Malta. St Paul's Island is sometimes split into two islands and it is sometimes called to in the plural as St Paul's Islands.
St Paul's Island has been uninhabited since World War II, and it is the second largest uninhabited island of Malta, having an area of 0.1 km².
There are many shipwrecks on the island.
Arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is an arrondissement of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Aix-en-Provence.
History
When the Bouches-du-Rhône department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is in the northeast of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. It is bordered to the north by the Vaucluse department, to the east by the Var department, to the southeast by the Marseille arrondissement, to the southwest by the Istres arrondissement and to the northwest by the Arles arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is the second largest arrondissement of the department both in area, 1532.4 km2, and population (429,436 inhabitants).
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are 9 cantons in the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence and 5 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement:
Communes
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence has 44 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
Uppvidinge Municipality
Uppvidinge Municipality (Uppvidinge kommun) is a municipality in Kronoberg County in southern Sweden. The seat is in Åseda.
Premier of Anguilla
The Premier of Anguilla is the head of government in the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla. The Premier is appointed by the Governor of Anguilla on behalf of the Monarch of the United Kingdom.
Up until 2019 the office was known as Chief Minister of Anguilla, afterwards it was renamed as Premier.
Guild
A guild is an association of craftspeople or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a town.
Many groups of people started as guilds, including scholars, and religious guilds. Many modern organisations, like universities, started as guilds. However, the basic idea of a guild was to control the training and practice of a trade or business. In Europe, guilds were given authority by the monarch. New young members had to serve as apprentices to a master for a certain length of time (such as seven years). At the end they became full members of the guild, and could set up on their own, and take apprentices of their own. That is the way the European world worked up to and including the first part of the 20th century.
There were guilds of weavers and dyers in the wool trade, of masons and architects in the building trade. There were guilds of painters, blacksmiths, bakers, butchers, and so on. The Corporation of the City of London includes the "livery companies". These companies were originally guilds. The senior members of the livery companies choose the Lord Mayor of London, the sheriffs and certain other officers.
Guilds were common in the cities of the Middle Ages. After that, around 1700 to 1800 their influence lessened somewhat. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith were much opposed to the idea of guilds. They believed that guilds hindered economic development and free trade.
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Missouri. The Kansas River and Missouri River meet one another in Kansas City. The city has about 448,000 people, and the entire metropolitan area has about 2,000,000 people, some of whom live in the state of Kansas. Its mayor is Sly James. Some sports teams there are the Royals (baseball), the Chiefs (American football), and the Wizards (soccer). Kansas City is well known for some of its barbecue restaurants, and is also an important place for business.
BBC Electric Proms
The BBC Electric Proms were annual music festivals run by the BBC in a similar format to The Proms, but involving rock music.