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Phil McGraw
Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), best known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality, psychologist and author. He is the host of the psychology-themed television show Dr. Phil. He became a celebrity after appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Early life
McGraw was born in Vinita, Oklahoma. He is the son of Jerry Stevens and Joe McGraw. He grew up with two older sisters, Deana and Donna, and younger sister, Brenda. They lived in the oil fields of North Texas. His father was an equipment supplier there. During McGraw's childhood, his family moved so his father could become a psychologist. McGraw attended Shawnee Mission North High School in Mission, Kansas. In 1968, he was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Tulsa. He played middle linebacker. His coach was Glenn Dobbs. Glenn Dobbs is the father of Gary Dobbs. Gary Dobbs went into business with McGraw. On November 23, 1968, McGraw's team lost to the University of Houston 100-6. This is one of the most badly played games in college football history.
After that season, McGraw moved to Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. He next got a Master's degree in experimental psychology in 1976. He then got a Ph.D in clinical psychology in 1979 at the University of North Texas. At the University of North Texas, his dissertation was titled "Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Psychological Intervention."
Career
After obtaining his Ph.D., McGraw joined his father, Dr. Joe McGraw, in Wichita Falls, Texas, where the elder McGraw had a private psychology practice.
In 1983, McGraw and his father joined Thelma Box, a successful Texas businesswoman, in presenting "Pathways" seminars, "an experience-based training which allows individuals to achieve and create their own results."
In 1990, McGraw joined lawyer Gary Dobbs in co-founding Courtroom Sciences Inc. (CSI), a trial consulting firm through which McGraw later came into contact with Oprah Winfrey. After some time, CSI became a profitable enterprise. It advising Fortune 500 companies and injured plaintiffs about achieving settlements. McGraw is no longer an officer or director of the company. After starting CSI, McGraw ceased the practice of psychology.
Oprah Winfrey and the Dr. Phil show
In 1995, Oprah Winfrey hired McGraw's legal consulting firm CSI to prepare her for the Amarillo Texas beef trial. Winfrey was so impressed with McGraw that she thanked him for her victory in that case, which ended in 1998. Soon after, she invited him to appear on her show. His appearance proved so successful that he began appearing weekly as a "Relationship and Life Strategy Expert" on Tuesdays starting in April 1998.
The next year, McGraw published his first best-selling book, Life Strategies, some of which was taken from the "Pathways" seminar. In the next four years, McGraw published three additional best-selling relationship books, along with workbooks to complement them.
Anzin-Saint-Aubin
Anzin-Saint-Aubin is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
List of U.S. states and territories by time zone
This is a list of U.S. states (and the one federal district, Washington, D.C.) and territories showing their time zones.
Most of the United States uses Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the summer. In the list, it will say if the state does not use DST.
Note: the time zones listed on this page are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as well as the names of the time zones as they are called within the United States. For an explanation on what UTC+# and UTC-# mean, please see the UTC page.
Territories
The territories of the United States do not use Daylight Saving Time (DST).
Meowth
Meowth (ニャース) is a Pokémon species in Nintendo's Pokémon series. Meowth first shows in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue. Meowth is one of the most popular Pokémon, because of an individual Meowth's role in the Pokémon anime series. This Meowth, owned by Team Rocket, is one of the few Pokémon who can speak in human language.
In the video games
Meowth appears as a wild Pokémon in many versions of the games. Meowth is one of the characters in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games. Meowth is also seen in the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap, the Nintendo GameCube game Pokémon Channel, and many others. Meowth is seen in the Super Smash Bros. series as a Pokémon used with a Poké Ball item, and uses its move "Pay Day" and throws coins at players.
In the anime
Meowth has made an appearance in almost every episode in the anime because one is owned by Team Rocket agents Jessie and James, the show's main antagonists. He first lived in the city, and tried to impress a female Meowth named Meowzie by learning to walk on two legs and speak human language. Instead of being impressed, she told him he was a freak, so Meowth joined Team Rocket. Meowth was cloned in Pokémon: The First Movie, but his clone could not talk or walk on two legs, because Meowth needed to learn how to do this. The Meowth clone is shown again in Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns. A trainer named Tyson owns a Meowth, which beat Ash's Pikachu at the Hoenn Pokémon League. This Meowth was dressed up like Puss in Boots.
In other media
In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Meowth's first appearance is a cameo in the first chapter as one of the Pokémon that escapes from Professor Oak's Laboratory. Meowth has appeared in the Pokémon Trading Card Game first in the Jungle series. A special Meowth card was given when buying the Pokémon Trading Card Video Game. In an open forum interview with ABC News, Pokémon anime director Masakazu Kubo noted Meowth as his favorite Pokémon, saying that while not a major Pokémon in the games, a Meowth is in the anime.
Critical reception
Team Rocket's Meowth ranked fourth on Game Daily's top 10 list of Nintendo characters that deserve their own games, describing him as "adorable" and explaining that his intelligence and ability to speak gave writers more depth than other Pokémon would. IGN stated that without the anime, the character would not have been as famous, further describing it as "probably the funniest part of the show". However, another editor stated it was also popular amongst people who have never seen the anime due to being a feline. IGN also said that Meowth would make a good choice as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl "if Brawl's developers really wanted much more representation for Pokémon as a franchise" also stating "it would be fun to face him in battle as a real fighter, just to be able to send him "blasting off again," referencing Team Rocket's Meowth GamesRadar described Meowth as "not all that useful", and questioned if the Pokémon would have stood out if it were not for its portrayal in the anime.
Excalibur (movie)
Excalibur is 1981 American British Irish fantasy movie directed by John Boorman and starring Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Nicol Williamson, Corin Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Clive Swift, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne. It was distributed by Warner Bros. and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1982.
Ardres
Ardres is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Marcel Poilievre (born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Opposition since 2022. He is a member of Parliament (MP) since 2004. He was minister for democratic reform from 2013 to 2015 and minister of employment and social development in 2015.
Lynne Cheney
Lynne Ann Vincent Cheney (born August 14, 1941) was the second lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009. She is the wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. She is a novelist, conservative scholar, and former talk-show host.
Early life
Lynne Ann Vincent was born in Casper, Wyoming. Her mother, Edna Lolita (nee Lybyer), became a deputy sheriff, and her father, Wayne Edwin Vincent, was an engineer. She is a descendant of Mormon pioneers. She has family roots in Denmark, Sweden, England, Ireland, and Wales. She was raised Presbyterian and became Methodist after she married Dick Cheney.
Books
Lynne Cheney is the author or co-author of several books:
Matilde Conesa
Matilde Conesa Valls (Madrid, April 13, 1928- Madrid, March 29, 2015) was a Spanish voice actress. She is one of the most known figures in the history of radio in Spain. Her most known works are the voice of Matilde in the radio serial Matilde, Perico y Periquín, as well as the voice of Lisa in David, the gnome and the witch Avería in the program La bola de cristal, as well as an extensive career in dubbing.
Brendan Meyer
Brendan Meyer (born October 2, 1994) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Adam Young in Mr. Young and Nelson Ort on the television show Dinosapien.
Semicircle
In geometry, a semicircle is a two-dimensional geometric shape that forms half of a circle. Being half of a circle's 360° (360 degrees), the arc of a semicircle always measures 180°. A triangle inscribed in a semicircle is always a right triangle.
HM Prison Manchester
HM Prison Manchester is a high-security men's prison in Manchester, England.
Ain't No Other Man
"Ain't No Other Man" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Christina Aguilera. It comes from her fifth studio album, Back to Basics (2006). It was sent to US contemporary hit radio on June 6, 2006, by RCA Records. It was the lead single from the album. The song was written by Aguilera, DJ Premier, Charles Martin Roane, Kara DioGuardi and Harold Beatty. Production of the track was handled by Premier. "Ain't No Other Man" has pop, R&B, and funk genres. It has elements of soul, blues and jazz music. Lyrically, the song was based on her 2005 marriage to Jordan Bratman.
Upon release, "Ain't No Other Man" received generally favourable reviews from music critics, who complimented Aguilera's new musical style and deemed it as a stand-out track from Back to Basics. It won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2007 ceremony. Commercially, the track peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of 1,783,000 million copies. Internationally, it went to the top five in many countries like Australia, Italy, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Arques, Pas-de-Calais
Arques, Pas-de-Calais is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Ain't No Other Man
Video
A music video for "Ain't No Other Man" was directed by Bryan Barber. The clip jumps back in time. It depicts Aguilera as her then-newly established alter ego Baby Jane. The video had mostly positive feedback, with praised the mature image Aguilera had adopted.
It earned four nominations at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. These include the Video of the Year. Aguilera sung "Ain't No Other Man" during several television performances, including the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and the 2007 NBA All-Star Game. The song was also featured on the set list of her Back to Basics Tour (2006-2007).
John Isner
John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American professional tennis player from Greensboro, North Carolina. He is best known for his first round marathon match at Wimbledon in 2010 against Nicolas Mahut, where they played the longest ever tennis match, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes and was played over three days.
Miiko Taka
Miiko Taka (高美以子) (born Miiko Shikata July 24, 1925 – January 2023) was an American actress. She is best known for co-starring with Marlon Brando as Hana-ogi in the 1957 movie Sayonara. She also worked with James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshirō Mifune (whom she also worked alongside of in the 1980 television miniseries, Shõgun).
Taka was born in Seattle, Washington. She grew up in Los Angeles, California. Taka married Japanese-American actor Dale Ishimoto in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1944, and they had one son, Greg Shikata, who works in the film industry, and one daughter. They divorced in 1958. Taka's death, at the age of 97, was announced by her grandson on January 4, 2023.
Eferding
Eferding is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is the capital of the Eferding District.
Steve Keirn
Steve Keirn is a professional wrestler. He was born on September 10, 1951. Since the early 1990s, he has had a wrestling school called the "School of Hard Knocks".
Vectrex
The Vectrex is a video game console created by Smith Engineering. The Vectrex is the only console of its kind to use vector graphics.
North Charleroi, Pennsylvania
North Charleroi is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,313 at the 2010 census.
International Commerce Centre
The International Commerce Centre is the tallest building in Hong Kong. The building was finished in 2009 and has a height of 1,588 feet. It has 118 floors. Inside the top floors of the building is a hotel for people to stay in.
Randolph County, Alabama
Randolph County is a county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,967. The county seat is Wedowee. The name is in honor of John Randolph, a member of the United States Senate from Virginia.
Randolph County was founded on December 18, 1832.
Under the Cherry Moon
Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 American romantic musical movie directed by Prince (who also stars) and stars Jerome Benton, Kristin Scott Thomas, Steven Berkoff, Francesca Annis. It was distributed by Warner Bros. and won 5 Razzies at the Golden Raspberry Awards in 1987.
Tye Sheridan
Tye Kayle Sheridan, (born on November 11, 1996) is a American actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Ben Goudy in Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse in 2015.
Carl Johan Thyselius
Carl Johan Thyselius (8 June 1811 - 11 January 1891) was a Swedish politician and government official. He served as Justice Councillor (1856-1860), Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs (1860-1863), Minister for Civil Affairs (responsible for trade, industry and ship transport (1875-80), and he served as the Prime Minister from 1883 to 1884.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Woonsocket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. As of the 2020 census, 43,240 people live in Woonsocket.
Muhammad Mustafa Mero
Muhammad Mustafa Mero (محمد مصطفى ميرو) (1941 – 22 December 2020) was a Syrian politician. He was Prime Minister of Syria from 7 March 2000 to 10 September 2003. Mero was a member of the Ba'ath Party. He was born in Al Tall, Syria.
Mero died in Al-Tall at age 79 on 22 December 2020, from COVID-19, during the pandemic in Syria.
Artur Avila
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician naturalized French. He works on dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such an award.
Wedowee, Alabama
Wedowee is a town in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the county seat of Randolph County. At the 2010 census the population was 823, up from 818 in 2000.
Graphium sarpedon
The Common bluebottle (Graphium sarpedon) is a species of swallowtail butterfly. It is found in South and Southeast Asia and in parts of Australia. There are 15 subspecies with different geographical distributions.
Ron Lurie
Ronald Philip Lurie (January 23, 1941 – December 22, 2020) was an American businessman and politician. He was the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada from 1987 to 1991. Lurie was a member of the Democratic Party. Lurie was born in Los Angeles, California.
Lurie, who had blood cancer, died under hospice care in Las Vegas from COVID-19 on December 22, 2020 at the age of 79.
Saltasaurus
Saltasaurus was a large plant-eating dinosaur with an elongated neck and bony armored plates on its body. It was a titanosaurid sauropod which lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 83 to 79 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Argentina.
It was the first genus of sauropod known to have armour of bony plates embedded in its skin. The small bony plates (called osteoderms, a feature of modern crocodiles) have since been found on other titanosaurs.
Description
Saltasaurus was named by paleontologists José Bonaparte and Jamie Powell in 1980. Salta is the name of the Northwestern Argentinian Province where fossils were found. They include: a few oval and circular armored plates, hundreds of bumps which covered its back (roughly 1/4 inch = 6-7 mm in diameter), and several incomplete skeletons, including some vertebrae, limb bones, and jaws.
Leader of the Opposition (New Zealand)
The Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand is the politician who leads the MPs that are not in government in the New Zealand Parliament. In the debating chamber the Leader of the Opposition sits directly opposite the Prime Minister. At present, the Leader of the Opposition is Christopher Luxon of National since 2021.
Role
Usually, the Leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest party of the Opposition.
3-Pentanone
3-Pentanone, also called diethyl ketone, is an organic compound. It is a ketone with five carbon atoms. It smells like acetone and is soluble in water. It is used as a solvent in paint and is used to make vitamin E.
Leader of the Opposition (New Zealand)
Role
The Leader of the Opposition also receives a higher salary than other members of the Opposition, being paid the same amount as a Cabinet Minister.
Second Ladies and Gentlemen of the United States
The second lady of the United States or second gentleman of the United States (SLOTUS or SGOTUS), is the informal title held by hostess of the Number One Observatory Circle, usually the wife or husband of the vice president of the United States, during the vice president's term in office.
Doug Emhoff is the current second gentleman of the United States, in role since January 2021 as the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Twelve women went on and became become first lady of the United States following their husbands becoming the president of the United States, the first woman was Abigail Adams and the most recent woman is Jill Biden.
Origins and Role
The second lady or gentleman is not elected by the people of the United States. There are no official jobs he or she is officially required to perform and they are not paid for being the second spouse, but they are often involved in political campaigns, managements of the Number One Observatory Circle, participating in social causes and representing the vice president at official and ceremonial occasions and accompanying the vice president on foreign summits and events.
List of second ladies and gentlemen of the United States
Abigail Adams · Ann Gerry · Hannah Minthorne Tompkins · Floride Calhoun · Letitia Christian Tyler · Sophia Dallas · Abigail Fillmore · Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge · Ellen Vesta Emery Hamlin · Eliza Johnson · Ellen Maria Colfax · Eliza Hendricks · Anna Morton · Letitia Stevenson · Jennie Tuttle Hobart · Edith Roosevelt · Cornelia Cole Fairbanks · Carrie Babcock Sherman · Lois Irene Marshall · Grace Coolidge · Caro Dawes · Mariette Rheiner Garner · Ilo Wallace · Bess Truman · Jane Hadley Barkley · Pat Nixon · Lady Bird Johnson · Muriel Humphrey Brown · Judy Agnew · Betty Ford · Happy Rockefeller · Joan Mondale · Barbara Bush · Marilyn Quayle · Tipper Gore · Lynne Cheney · Jill Biden · Karen Pence · Doug Emhoff
List of living former second ladies of the United States
As of 2023, there are only five living former second ladies.
Fairborn, Ohio
Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States. It is near Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 32,352 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Sphaenorhynchus dorisae
The adult male frog is 26 to 29 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog is green with small white and yellow spots. The iris of the eye is bronze in color.
This frog sits on plants in the water. It stays in pools, large lakes, and flooded places. Scientists have seen it near Pistia plants.
Overcome (Alexandra Burke album)
Overcome is the debut studio album by English singer Alexandra Burke. It was released 19 October 2009 on Syco Music. It was released a year after Burke won the British talent show, The X Factor. It was also re-released in 2010 with a new artwork and three extra songs.
Track listing
Information taken from Overcome liner notes.
(*) signifies co-producer
Deluxe edition
The deluxe edition track list.
I, Frankenstein
I, Frankenstein is a 2014 Australian-American fantasy action movie written and directed by Stuart Beattie. It is based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux. It stars Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Socratis Otto, Jai Courtney and Kevin Grevioux. It was released on January 24, 2014.
Schwa (Cyrillic)
Schwa or Ay (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Latin letter schwa. It is currently used in Abkhaz, Bashkir, Dungan, Itelmen, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kurdish, Uyghur and Tatar. It was also used in Azeri, Karakalpak, and Turkmen before those languages switched to the Latin alphabet.
Arras
Arras (Atrecht) is a commune. It is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
Sister cities
Arras is twinned with:
Chop, Ukraine
Chop (Чоп, Csap, Čop) is a city found in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza.
Demography
According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Gypsies, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, Jews.
Features
Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine.
Jack
Jack is a male given name. It might also mean:
Hick's law
Hick's law, or the Hick–Hyman law is named after British and American psychologists William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman. It describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices.
Harry Rabinowitz
Harry Rabinowitz MBE (26 March 1916 – 22 June 2016) was a South African conductor and composer of movie and television music. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was of Jewish descent.
Hick's law
Increasing the number of choices increases the decision time logarithmically. The amount of time taken to process a certain amount of bits in the Hick–Hyman law is known as the rate of gain of information.
Harry Rabinowitz
Career
Rabinowitz conducted the movie scores for many movies including Hanover Street (1979), Chariots of Fire (1981), Heat and Dust (1983), The Bostonians (1984), Return to Oz (1985), Lady Jane (1986), Maurice (1987), The Remains of the Day (1993), The English Patient (1996),  The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Cold Mountain (2003).
He also composed music for television including The Frost Report (1966), I, Claudius (1976), The Agatha Christie Hour (1982), and Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983).
In June 2015, Rabinowitz was the guest castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
Death
Rabinowitz died on 22 June 2016 at his home in France, aged 100.
Markethill
Markethill is a village in County Armagh in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. 1,647 people lived there in 2011.
Vowel
A vowel is a particular kind of speech sound made by changing the shape of the upper vocal tract, or the area in the mouth above the tongue. In English it is important to know that there is a difference between a vowel sound and a [letter] in the [alphabet]. In English there are five vowel letters in the alphabet.
The sounds of American English are written with letters in the English alphabet, as either vowels or consonants. All English words are written with vowel letters in them.
These letters are vowels in English:
It is said that Y is "sometimes" a vowel, because the letter Y represents both vowel and consonant sounds. In the words cry, sky, fly, my and why, letter Y represents the vowel sound /aɪ/. In words like myth and synchronize, Y represents the vowel sound /ɪ/. In words like only, quickly, and folly, Y represents the vowel sound /i/.
It can also be a consonant sound called a glide as in the beginning of these words: yellow, yacht, yam, yesterday. Y is a consonant about 2.5% of the time, and a vowel about 97.5% of the time.
The letter W can sometimes be the second part of a vowel sound as in words like such as cow, bow, or how. In these words the vowel has the sound of /aʊ/. The letter W can be used as a consonant sound at the beginning of in the words when, where, wet. In some languages, like Welsh, the letter W represents the vowel sound /ʊ/, like cwm (a kind of valley).
In written English the six vowel letters are used to represent the 13-15 vowel sounds (depending on the variety) in English. This means there are many more vowel sounds than letters in the English alphabet, and the English spelling systems doesn't always help us figure out what the English sounds are. This can be confusing.
Monophthongs and diphthongs
Simple vowels are called monophthongs. The letters, like /ɪ/, are the IPA letters for each vowel sound in English. (The IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet). In the IPA, each symbol represents a different sound, so using the IPA is helpful in pronouncing words. Common monophthongs in English (these are for General American English) include:
Lawrence F. Snowden
Lawrence Fontaine Snowden (April 14, 1921 – February 18, 2017) was an American lieutenant general. He was in the United States Marine Corps. He began serving in 1942 and retired in 1979. He was involved in World War II, the Vietnam War and the Korean War. Commands he held include Chief of Staff, United States Forces Japan (from 1972 to 1975) and Chief of Staff, Headquarters Marine Corps (from 1977 to 1979). He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Snowden died on February 18, 2017 in Tallahassee, Florida. He was 95.
Miranda (programming language)
Miranda is a functional programming language from the 1980s. It was not seen as a tool to teach functional programming. Miranda affected other programming languages like Haskell, but it is not used very much anymore.
Özkan Sümer
Sümer died on 22 December 2020 in Trabzon, Turkey at the age of 80.
Asunta Basterra Porto
Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto (born Fang Yong; September 30, 2000 – September 21, 2013) was a Chinese-born Spanish girl whose body was found in Teo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on 22 September 2013, shortly before her thirteenth birthday. The coroner determined she had died by asphyxiation, and had been given at least twenty-seven Lorazepam pills on the day of her death, more than nine times a high dosage amount for an adult. The investigation into the death became known as the Asunta Basterra case (Spanish: Caso Asunta Basterra).
The case has attracted widespread media interest in Spain and around the world, as well as a "statement of concern" from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A four-part documentary series about the case debuted in 2017 and was made available internationally on Netflix in 2019.
Vowel
Monophthongs and diphthongs
Common diphthongs in English include:
Like other languages, there are many dialects of English, and different dialects often use different vowel sounds. But the IPA symbols can tell us which vowel sound a dialects uses. For example, some American English speakers differentiate between the vowels in the words cot and caught, while in other dialects these words are homophones. People who study the differences between the dialects of English often study the different way vowel sounds are pronounced.
The difference between the way English is spelled and the way the words are pronounced came about because all languages change, so spoken English changes, but the spelling system does not.
The study of speech sounds is called phonetics.
Russell County, Alabama
Russell County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 59,183. The county seat is Phenix City. The name is in honor of Colonel Gilbert C. Russell, who fought in the wars against the Creek Indians.
Russell County was founded on December 18, 1832.
Hydrology
Hydrology is the study of movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the Earth. A person who studies hydrology is called a hydrologist.
The central theme of hydrology is how the water circulates. This is called the water cycle. The most vivid illustration of it is the water evaporation from the ocean with the formation of clouds. These clouds drift over the land and produce rain.
Samir Roychoudhury
Samir Roychowdhury (Bengali: সমীর রায়চৌধুরী) (1 November 1933 – 22 June 2016) was an Indian poet and writer. He was one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation.
Stuff
Stuff is a mass of many things listed below, matter, or events.
In computing:
Horrible Bosses 2
Horrible Bosses 2 is an American comedy movie. It is the sequel to 2011's Horrible Bosses. It stars Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Pine, Jamie Foxx, and Christoph Waltz. The script of the movie was written by Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. The movie was released on November 26, 2014 and was. It was produced by New Line Cinema and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Cosmonova
Cosmonova is an IMAX Dome cinema and planetarium.
It is located in an annex of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden.
History
Cosmonova opened in 1993. It was the first IMAX installation in Sweden (and third in the Nordic countries after Tietomaa Science Centre in Oulu, Finland and Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, Denmark). It is also the largest planetarium in Sweden.
Chlorofluorocarbon
A chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) is a gas used for various purposes including solvents, refrigerants, and aerosol sprays. They are organic chemicals and contain carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine. They were much used in the middle of the 20th century, replacing chemicals that were toxic or flammable or had other problems.
In 1978, Sweden became the first country that banned CFC products. Later, the US and Canada did the same. Now, CFC products are not allowed in most countries, because they cause ozone depletion. CFCs are greenhouse gases. An alternative to chlorofluorocarbons is hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). These do not destroy the ozone layer or increase global warming.
Athies, Pas-de-Calais
Athies is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door
The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door is a greatest hits album released in 2011. It was part of Why Pink Floyd...?.
Mostafa Tabrizi
Mostafa Tabrizi (, born 1945) is an Iranian politician.
Emmanuel Uduaghan
Emmanuel Uduaghan (born on 22 October 1954) is a retired Nigerian politician and doctor. Popularly known as Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uguaghan, he was the Governor of Delta State from 2007 to 2015. Before he became Governor, he served as the Commissioner for Health, Delta State and the Secretary to the State Government.
Fairview Park, Ohio
Fairview Park is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in the United States. At the 2010 census, the 16,826 people lived there.
Danny Havoc
He announced his retirement and on September 9, 2017. Two years later, Havoc came out of retirement for Matt Tremont's H2O Wrestling at a benefit show.
In February 2020, he returned to Game Changer Wrestling (who he had made special appearances from 2015 to 2017) for their Tokyo tour.
His death was announced on May 31, 2020 at the age of 34.
Attin
Attin is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Metronome
A metronome is a small device that can be used by people who are practising instruments to help them to play in time. It is also something a composer can use to show the performer what speed to play.
A traditional metronome works by clockwork. It has a pendulum which makes a loud tick as it goes to and fro, like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. It has to be wound up after a few minutes of ticking. There is a weight on the pendulum which can be slid up or down and set to a particular speed. There are numbers on the metronome to which you can set it. These numbers mean the number of ticks per minutes. A speed of 60 will make it tick 60 times a minute (i.e. every second). The numbers usually go from 40 (slow) to 208 (very fast). Nowadays many people use electronic metronomes. These are very accurate, do not need to be wound and often have other helpful things like an A to tune to (see musical tuning). Some of them are hardly bigger than a credit card.
The metronome was invented by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel in Amsterdam in 1812. A man called Johann Maelzel copied Winkel’s ideas and improved them. He made a small, portable metronome which was patented in 1816.
Thomas County, Kansas
Thomas County (standard abbreviation: TH) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010 census, 7,900 people lived there. Its county seat is Colby.
19th century
Thomas County was created on October 8, 1885. It was named after George Henry Thomas, a Union General during the American Civil War, hero of the Battle of Chickamauga. The townships of the county were named after the soldiers that died at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Presidential elections
Thomas County is very Republican. The last time a democratic candidate has won Thomas County was in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
St. Clair County, Alabama
St. Clair County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,103. It has two county seats in Ashville and another in Pell City. It is one of two counties in Alabama, and one of 33 in the United States, with more than one county seat. The name is in honor of General Arthur St. Clair, an officer in the French and Indian War.
St. Clair County was founded on November 20, 1818.
Louis Gerard De Geer
Baron Louis Gerard De Geer of Finspång, born 18 July 1818, dead 24 September 1896, was a Swedish statesman and writer. Between 1876 and 1880, he was the first Prime Minister of Sweden
Swallowtail butterfly
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies which form the family Papilionidae. There are at least 550 species, and though the majority are tropical, members of the family are found on all continents except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of Australia (genus  Ornithoptera).
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director and producer.
He starred in many roles, such as Dan August, Deliverance, The Longest Yard with its 2005 remake, Without a Paddle (2004) and Smokey and the Bandit. He won two Golden Globe Awards, including in Evening Shade for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy and in Boogie Nights for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Early life
Reynolds was the son of Harriette Fernette "Fern" (née Miller; 1902–1992) and Douglas Burton Reynolds (1906–2002). He had Dutch, English, Scots-Irish and Scottish ancestry, and also claimed Cherokee and Italian roots through his father. During his career, he often claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia, although he said in 2015 he was actually born in Lansing, Michigan. He was born on February 11, 1936, and in his autobiography stated that Lansing is where his family lived when his father was drafted into the United States Army.
He, his mother, and his sister joined his father at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and lived there for two years. When his father was sent to Europe, the family moved to Lake City, Michigan, where his mother had been raised. In 1946, the family moved to Riviera Beach, Florida. His father eventually became Chief of Police of Riviera Beach, which is adjacent to the north end of West Palm Beach, Florida. During 10th grade at Palm Beach High School, Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern as a fullback, and received multiple scholarship offers.
Bethlehem Township, Stark County, Ohio
Bethlehem Township is one of the seventeen townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,210 people in the township.
Burt Reynolds
Personal life and death
Reynolds married Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965. He had a relationship with Dinah Shore in the early 1970s for five years. He had a relationship with Sally Field from 1977 to 1982, during which time they appeared together in four films. Reynolds married Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1993. They adopted a son, Quinton. He and Anderson separated after he fell in love with a cocktail waitress, with whom he later traded lawsuits which were settled out of court.
His friends included Johnny Carson, James Hampton, Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tammy Wynette, Lucie Arnaz, Adrienne Barbeau, Tawny Little, Dinah Shore, Clint Eastwood and Chris Evert.
He also owned a private "dinner theater" in Jupiter, Florida, with a focus on training young performers looking to enter show business. The theater was later renamed to the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater and closed in 1997 after Reynolds declared bankruptcy. In 1984, he opened a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, "Burt & Jacks", which he co-owned with Jack Jackson.
While filming City Heat, Reynolds was struck in the face with a metal chair and had temporomandibular joint dysfunction. He lost thirty pounds from not eating. The painkillers he was prescribed led to addiction, which lasted several years. He underwent back surgery in 2009 and a quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery in February 2010. On August 16, 2011, Merrill Lynch Credit Corporation filed foreclosure papers, claiming Reynolds owed US$1.2 million on his home in Hobe Sound, Florida. He owned the Burt Reynolds Ranch, where scenes for Smokey and the Bandit were filmed and which once had a petting zoo, until its sale during bankruptcy. In April 2014, the 153-acre (62 ha) rural property was rezoned for residential use and the Palm Beach County school system was empowered to sell it which they did to the residential developer K. Hovnanian Homes. Reynolds also once purchased a mansion on a tract of land in Loganville, Georgia.
Reynolds died of a heart attack on September 6, 2018.
Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez
Rubén Tierrablanca González (24 August 1952 – 23 December 2020) was a Mexican-born Turkish Roman Catholic bishop. Tierrablanca González was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He became a priest in 1978. He was titular bishop of Tubernuca and as Vicar Apostolic of Apostolic Vicariate of Istanbul and Apostolic Administrator of Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul, from 2016 until his death in office in 2020.
Tierrablanca Gonzalez died in Istanbul, Turkey at age 68, from COVID-19 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ljubomir Popović
Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović (14 October 1934 – 12 August 2016) is a Serbian-born French surrealist painter. He was known for his many erotic and unusual subject matters. He was also known for his short documentary movie L'amour monstre de tous les temps (1978) by Walerian Borowczyk. He was born in Tuzla, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Bosnia).
Popović died on 12 August 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia at the age of 81.
Huber Heights, Ohio
Huber Heights is a city in Ohio, United States. It is in Montgomery, Miami and Greene counties. The city is named for Charles Huber who built many of the houses in the area. 38,101 lived there at the 2010 census.
Pasquale Squitieri
Pasquale Squitieri (27 November 1938 – 18 February 2017) was an Italian movie director and screenwriter. He was best known for his Spaghetti Western movies. He was also known as William Redfield. He was born in Naples.
Squitieri died on 18 February 2017 in Rome, at the age of 78.
Pyruvic acid
Pyruvic acid is the simplest of the keto acids, with a carboxylic acid and a ketone functional group. Pyruvate, the conjugate base, is an important part of several metabolic chemical reactions. Pyruvate is an important chemical compound in biochemistry.
Pyruvic acid can be made from glucose through glycolysis. One molecule of glucose breaks down into two molecules of pyruvate. These are then used to give more energy to living animals, plants and microorganisms. It is then changed back to carbohydrates (such as glucose) by a metabolic chemical reaction named gluconeogenesis, or to fatty acids through a similar reaction. It can also be used to make the amino acid alanine and can be converted into ethanol or lactic acid by fermentation.
Pyruvic acid gives energy to cells through the citric acid cycle, when oxygen is present (aerobic respiration), and also makes lactate when oxygen is lacking (fermentation).
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA; English: National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is widely considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in mathematics. It is in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was formerly known simply as Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, hence its official abbreviation IMPA.
People from IMPA
Artur Avila, a 2014 Fields Medalist, is a researcher at IMPA and received his Ph.D there. Among its researchers also are/were Jacob Palis, Elon Lages Lima, Maurício Peixoto, Manfredo do Carmo, Marcelo Viana, Welington de Melo, Enrique Pujals, Harold Rosenberg, Marcos Dajczer, Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Fernando Codá Marques, César Camacho, Arnaldo Garcia, Alfredo Noel Iusem, Karl-Otto Stöhr, Robert Morris, and Carolina Araujo.
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American movie musical romantic comedy movie starring Gene Kelly. It was directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen. It is set in Los Angeles, California in 1927. It gives an amusing look at Hollywood's change from silent movies to "talkies".
It is considered to be among the best movie musicals ever made.
Shooting on the movie began on June 18, 1951, and ended on November 21.
Apparatus
Apparatus can refer to:
Amjad Sabri
Amjad Farid (Fareed) Sabri (23 December 1976 – 22 June 2016) was a Pakistani singer. He became one of South Asia's most famous qawwali singers.
Sabri was shot dead in Karachi in a targeted killing by a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban on 22 June 2016, aged 39.
Magnon
A magnon in physics is a quasiparticle with magnetic properties. It is not a thing which exists on its own   in free space but exists only within the structure being studied  usually a crystalline solid.
Each atom in a solid has a magnetic field generated by its electrons as they spin. If these spins all align then the solid becomes magnetic at the bulk everyday level. Usually they do not align and the magnetic field of individual atoms cancel each other out.
Individual atoms can have their spin reversed by interaction with energy from elsewhere. A spin reversal itself can influence the spin of the electrons in neighbouring atoms. A wave of change in electron spins can then move through the electrons in the crystal lattice as it dissipates like waves on a pool of water. Since the electrons are very small and governed by quantum mechanics, this wave, can be treated as though it is a number of particle like entities. These are magnetic quasi particles or magnons.
Sumter County, Alabama
Sumter County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,345. The county seat is Livingston. The name is in honor of General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina.
Sumter County was founded on December 18, 1832.
Aplastodiscus heterophonicus
Aplastodiscus heterophonicus is a frog. It lives in Brazil in the Espinhaço mountains. People have seen it between 608 and 1326 meters above sea level.
Easy Crypto
Easy Crypto is a New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies. The platform supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP and many more.
Easy Crypto is located in New Zealand, and operates in the New Zealand, Australian, and South African markets.
Easy Crypto was founded in 2018 by Janine Grainger and Alan Grainger. In 2021, the company raised NZD $17 million ($11.7M USD) in a Series A funding round, breaking the record for a Series A funding round in NZ. In 2022, Easy Crypto partnered with Stripe.
Alex Morgan
Alexandra Patricia Morgan (born July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, California, United States) is a professional women's footballer. She plays as a forward for the San Diego Wave of the National Women’s Soccer League and the United States women's national soccer team (USWNT).
She won an Olympic gold medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics, and also the 2015 and 2019 World Cups with the US national team.
Career
Morgan began her career with West Coast FC in the WPSL in 2008. Then she moved to California Storm in 2010, and later that year she moved to Pali Blues of the USL W-League. In 2011, she transferred to Western New York Flash, and in 2012, she joined Seattle Sounders. Morgan moved to Oregon to play for Portland Thorns in 2013, and she stayed with the team until 2015. Orlando Pride bought her in October 2015, and Morgan played for them from 2016 to 2019. She also played one season with Olympique Lyon in France, and she won the UEFA Women's Champions League that season. She won three trophies with Olympique Lyon.
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North and South
North and South is a novel by John Jakes. It is the first of three books about two friends who must fight against each other during the American Civil War.
There were also TV versions made. Three miniseries were done in 1985, 1986, and 1994. The two main characters were played by James Read and Patrick Swayze (Swayze's character does not appear in the third part).
Suthep Thaugsuban
Suthep Thaugsuban (สุเทพ เทือกสุบรร; born 7 July 1949) is a Thai politician. He is the leader of People's Alliance for Democracy. In 2013, he organized a protest in Bangkok against the government. He led protesters in "Occupying Bangkok". In 2014 he became a Buddhist monk.
Sulfur cycle
The sulfur cycle is the way sulfur moves between rocks, waterways and living systems.