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21st Independent Spirit Awards March 4, 2006 Best Film:   Brokeback Mountain  The 21st Independent Spirit Awards, given by Film Independent on 4 March, 2006, awarded who they thought were best in movie for 2005. Winners and nominees. Best Actor. "' Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"  Best Actress. "' Felicity Huffman - "Transamerica" Best Cinematography. "' "Good Night, and Good Luck." - Robert Elswit Best Director. "' Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain" Best Film. "' "Brokeback Mountain" Best First Film. "' "Crash" Best Foreign Language Film. "' "Paradise Now", Palestinian Authority Best Screenplay. "' "Capote" - Dan Futterman  Best Supporting Actor. "' Matt Dillon - "Crash" Best Supporting Actress. "' Amy Adams - "Junebug" Award breakdown. Biggest losers:
Lefkada City is a Greek town which is the capital of the Greek island Lefkada. The population of Lefkada City was 10,875 people, according to the 2001 census. It is located in the north of the island Lefkada.  Here is the narrow isthmus which separates Lefkada from continental Greece. Lefkada City is the first place visitors see, going to the island of Lefkada from continental Greece. Lefkada has many earthquakes, so its houses are built by wood and metal.
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC, also called "dub-dub") is an event held every year for software developers who create software for macOS and iOS. The first WWDC took place in 1987. After 13 years of being held in early June in San Francisco, California, WWDC returned to San Jose, California in 2017. Sometimes new products are announced at the conference. Since 2020, WWDC is a virtual event due to COVID-19 pandemic. However, since 2023 insiders can attend an in-person event at Apple Park during WWDC.
Strum is a village in Trempealeau County of the state of Wisconsin in the United States. It can be found along the Buffalo River. 1,076 people were living in Strum as of the 2020 census. Strum has an area of 1.3 square miles, says the United States Census Bureau.
Anthony Mark "Tony" Mowbray (born 22 November 1963) is an English former professional football player and the current manager of Coventry City. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender. Mowbray was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Riding of Yorkshire. He previously managed West Bromwich Albion, Hibernian and Celtic. Career statistics. Source: Honours. Playing career. Middlesbrough Ipswich Town Individual Managerial career. West Bromwich Albion Blackburn Rovers Individual Awards
A primary cell is a battery that is made to be used one time only. It cannot be recharged. Once all the power is used up, the battery must be thrown away. It no longer makes electricity. Primary cells are often used to give power to small appliances that are used in the home. The advantages about this kind of disposable battery include: The disadvantages about this kind of disposable battery are that: Historic primary cells. The following primary cells are only of historical interest. The dry cell is now almost universal.
Liam Finn is a rock singer who was born in Australia, grew up in New Zealand but now lives in London in England. Liam is the son of Neil Finn, the singer of the famous group Crowded House. He is currently a member of Crowded House, as guitarist and vocalist, along with his brother Elroy on drums. Liam was lead singer of the band Betchadupa in New Zealand. Liam continues to have a solo career, playing shows in Ireland and the UK in June and July 2024 while on tour with Crowded House. His solo work is marked by his ability as a multi-instrumentalist, he records multiple guitar riffs and drum beats using foot pedals and loops them while playing and singing over the top. Liam Finn played a song in the television show of David Letterman in 2008.
Twilight is a 2008 American teen romantic-fantasy movie. It is based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. The movie was directed by Catherine Hardwicke and stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner. Stephenie Meyer has a cameo appearance in the movie. The movie is about a teenage girl and a vampire falling in love. The movie was a huge success. It was released in cinemas on November 21, 2008 and grossed $35.7 million on this day. Since then, it has gone on to gross over $382,133,300 worldwide. The soundtrack for the movie was released on November 4, 2008 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The soundtrack contains all of the music from the movie including music created and sung by actor Robert Pattinson, who appeared in the movie. Plot. Bella Swan, who is seventeen years old, moves to Forks, a small town in Washington, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries. She meets many new friends at High School and they inform her about the Cullen family, and Bella becomes intrigued. Edward Cullen, who is in Bella's Biology class, acts very strangely when he sees her for the first time, which makes Bella confused. A few days later, Bella is almost hit with a blue van in the school parking lot. Edward manages to move extremely quickly by her side and pushes the van away with his hand, leaving a huge pressure mark in the side of the van. Bella did not know how he managed to do this, so she is determined to find out. However, Edward refuses to explain what happened, and warns her not to be friends with him. After Bella does lots of research, she finds out that Edward Cullen is a vegetarian vampire. Bella and Edward fall in love and Edward introduces her to his family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie who are also vampires. They invite Bella to play baseball with them, and she agrees. However, three other vampires called James, Victoria and Laurent arrive and disrupt the game. James, who is a tracker vampire, is intrigued by
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that destroyed the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974. It is the most compact tropical cyclone on record in Australia, with the gale force winds reaching out only from the centre. It is the second most compact cyclone in the world. Tropical Storm Marco of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season had gale-force winds reaching only from the centre. After forming over the Arafura Sea, the Tracy moved south and hit the city with Category 4 winds on the Australian cyclone scale. It is possible that it had reached Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale when it made landfall. Tracy killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage (1974 AUD) and destroyed more than 70% of Darwin's buildings, including 80% of the houses. Of the 49,000 people who lived in Darwin, 20,000 people were left homeless. More than 30,000 people had to leave the city. Most of Darwin's population were moved to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs and Sydney. Many people never returned to Darwin. The city was rebuilt using modern materials and updated building methods. Bruce Stannard of "The Age" stated that Cyclone Tracy was a "disaster ... without parallel in Australia's history."
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress working in television and movies. She is known for roles in the films "Catch That Kid", "Panic Room", "Zathura", "In the Land of Women", "Adventureland", "Into the Wild", "The Messengers", "Twilight", ' and '. In 2021, she played Princess Diana of Wales in the biopic drama "Spencer" and the role earned her her first Academy Award nomination. Early life. Kristen Jaymes Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her father, John Stewart works as a stage manager and television producer. Kristen's mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script supervisor and was born in Australia. Kristen has an older brother, Cameron Stewart. Career. Kristen started acting when she was eight years old, after an agent saw her perform at her school's Christmas event. Her first minor roles were in programs such as "The Thirteenth Year" and "The Safety Of Objects" and her first major role was in a movie called "Panic Room". Since then, Kristen has appeared in films such as "Cold Creek Manor", "Catch That Kid", "Undertow" and "Speak". She won the Orange Rising Star Award in 2010.
An art museum or art gallery is a museum where works of arts are shown for people to look at. These works of art are usually paintings, but they can also be sculptures, photographs or other visual art works. Most art museums are open for the public to visit, but there are also some which are private. What distinguishes an art museum from other galleries is that it owns the works of art. A museum has staff called "curators", who are expert on art. Art museums are often used to help teach students about the history of art. There are about 700 university art museums and galleries in the United States.
The Bavarian State Opera (in German: Bayerische Staatsoper) is an opera company based in Munich, Germany. It has been in existence since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra. While opera performances are held in the Prinzregententheater (completed in 1901), the company's home base is the National Theatre Munich on Max-Joseph-Platz. Peter Jonas is the General Director. He has been there since 1993 and is the first British director of any major German speaking Opera House. Since 1998 the conductor Zubin Mehta was music director of the Bavarian State Opera and Bavarian State Orchestra. He was followed in 2006 by Kent Nagano.
The Indian National Congress (INC), also called the Congress Party, is a major Indian political party. The party was founded in 1885. It is in the opposition against the ruling NDA coalition led by Bharatiya Janata Party. As of 2024's first quarter, the Congress Party is the largest opposition party. It is the largest constituent party of the UPA, a coalition of Indian political parties that form the opposition against the ruling NDA coalition. The party's parliamentary chairperson is Sonia Gandhi. It has registered its worst performance in an election in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. In 1969, the party suffered a major split. A faction was led by Indira Gandhi, leaving to establish the Congress (R), with the remainder becoming the Congress (O). The Congress (R) became the dominant faction, winning the 1971 general election with a considerable margin. However, another split occurred in 1979, leading to the creation of the Congress (I), which was recognized as the Congress by the Electoral Commission in 1981. Under Rajiv Gandhi's leadership, the party won a massive victory in the 1984 general elections, nevertheless losing the election held in 1989 to the National Front. The Congress then returned to power under P. V. Narasimha Rao, who moved the party towards an economically liberal agenda, a sharp break from previous leaders. However, it lost the 1996 general election and was replaced in government by the National Front (then the BJP). After a record eight years out of office, the Congress-led coalition known as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) under Manmohan Singh formed a government post-winning 2004 general elections. Subsequently, the UPA again established the government after winning the 2009 general elections, and Singh became the first Prime Minister since Nehru in 1962 to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. However, in the 2014 general election, the Congress suffered a heavy defeat, winning only 48 seats of the 543-member Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Parliament of India). In the 2019 general election, the party again suffered a heavy defeat, winning only 52 seats in the Lok Sabha.
In mathematics and statistics, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is a measure of correlation. It is named after its maker, Charles Spearman. It is written in short as the Greek letter "rho" (formula_1) or sometimes as formula_2. It is a number that shows how closely two sets of data are linked. It only can be used for data which can be put in order, such as highest to lowest. The general formula for formula_2 is formula_4. For example, if you have data for how expensive different computers are, and data for how fast the computers are, you could see if they are linked, and how closely they are linked, using formula_2. Working it out. Step one. To work out formula_2 you first have to "rank" each piece of data. We are going to use the example from the intro of computers and their speed. So, the computer with the lowest price would be rank 1. The one higher than that would have 2. Then, it goes up until it is all ranked. You have to do this to both sets of data. Step two. Next, we have to find the "difference" between the two ranks. Then, you multiply the difference by itself, which is called squaring. The difference is called formula_7, and the number you get when you square formula_7 is called formula_9. Step three. Count how much data we have. This data has ranks 1 to 5, so we have 5 pieces of data. This number is called formula_10. Step four. Finally, use everything we have worked out so far in this formula: formula_11. formula_12 means that we take the total of all the numbers that were in the column formula_9. This is because formula_14 means total. So, formula_12 is formula_16 which is 4. The formula says multiply it by 6, which is 24. formula_17 is formula_18 which is 120. So, to find out formula_2, we simply do formula_20. Therefore, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is 0.8 for this set
is a traditional kind of Japanese comedy. "Manzai" is a special kind of stand-up comedy. It is both dialogue and performance. A comedy team brings together a straight man ("tsukkomi") who feeds punchlines to a funny man ("boke"). A pair of comedians with a special back-and-forth style is called "kakeai manzai". History. The history of "manzai" began in the Nara period. In the Edo period, the traditional dialogue was performed on stage. In modern times, "manzai" performances are televised in Japan. New Year's tradition. In Japan's past, traditional "manzai" performers would go from house to house in the New Year's season. They would sing songs and perform good-luck dances in return for a small amount of rice or money.
Arsenal tube station is a London Underground station in Highbury, north London. The station is on the Piccadilly line. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is between Holloway Road and Finsbury Park tube stations. The station was originally known as Gillespie Road. In 1932, it was renamed after Arsenal Football Club. It is the only Tube station named directly after a football club. History. Gillespie Road station was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&amp;BR) on 15 December 1906. When the different London Underground companies were joined together, the GNP&amp;BR became the Piccadilly line. The original station building and ticket hall were designed by Leslie Green. The buildings had red terracotta on the outside. The station is similar to Holloway Road and Caledonian Road stations, also on the Piccadilly line. The station was renamed to Arsenal in 1932.
Leadbeater's possum ("Gymnobelideus leadbeateri") is an endangered species of Australian possum. They need food all year round, and trees with holes where they can hide during the day. They live in mixed-age wet sclerophyll forest with plenty of "Acacia". The possum was once thought to be extinct. It now lives only in small areas of old and mixed age mountain ash forest in the central highlands of Victoria, north-east of Melbourne.  These trees are a species of "Eucalyptus": they give off vapour which catches fire easily. About half this area was burnt in the disastrous Black Saturday bushfire in 2009. Large areas of the forest around Marysville, Narbethong and Healesville were destroyed.
Vostok 1 (, "East" or "Orient" 1) was the first flight to take a human into space. It used a Vostok 3KA spacecraft, and was launched on April 12, 1961. It took into space Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union. The Vostok 1 mission was the first time a person went into outer space and the first time anyone had entered into orbit. The flight made one orbit and lasted for 1 hour, 48 minutes. The Vostok 1 was launched by the Soviet space program and made by the Soviet rocket scientists Sergei Korolev and Kerim Kerimov. The Vostok spacecraft weighed , was long and in diameter. The cosmonaut flew inside a spherical module. He sat on a seat which was also an ejection seat which allowed the cosmonaut to escape from the spacecraft in case of an emergency. The flight was simple, the cosmonaut was simply a passenger. There were controls for use in an emergency. The spacecraft had a food locker, radio, a cabinet with experiments inside, and two windows, one above the ejection seat and one to the right.. Gagarin ejected from the spacecraft after re-entry and landed by parachute. There were six manned Vostok flights, the last one, Vostok 6, carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go into space on June 16, 1963.
A glazed tile is a tile with glaze. It is made by putting chemical glazes on the tile, let it dry, and putting it into a kiln (an oven that heats up to high temperatures). The kiln heats to about 2000 degrees turning the chemical glaze to colors. It is often framed and sold. This is a popular form of art. Glazed tiles were used to make the roof on buildings in China.
Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a Brigadier general for the United States Air Force from 1937 to 1966. Paul is famous for dropping the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the B-29 Superfortress called Enola Gay. He was born in Quincy, Illinois. Tibbets died of heart failure after suffering a small stroke in Columbus, Ohio, aged 92. His remains were cremated where his ashes were later scattered across the English Channel.
Kennel cough or tracheobronchitis is a very easily caught dog illness. The dogs have swelling and pain of the upper breathing passages. It can be caused by viral infections such as canine distemper, canine adenovirus, canine parainfluenza virus, or canine respiratory coronavirus, or bacterial infections such as "Bordetella bronchiseptica". It is called kennel cough because the infection can spread very quickly among dogs, who live together as in a kennel or an animal shelter. Infection. Both viral and bacterial causes of kennel cough are spread through the air by infected dogs sneezing and coughing. It can also be spread through contact with things that have the bacteria or virus on them. It can still be spread days or weeks after symptoms disappear. Symptoms usually begin about 3 to 5 days after the dog is around the infected animal or object. The disease can turn into pneumonia. Symptoms. Symptoms can include a harsh, dry coughing, retching, sneezing, snorting (noise made with the nose), gagging or vomiting in response to light pressing of the trachea or after excitement or exercise. The symptoms are caused by the inflammation of the airways. It can increase after excitement or exercise because of the quick breathing that takes place which causes the nerves of airway to become more stimulated. A fever is not always present. The disease can last 10–20 days and can come back when the dog is put into a stressful situation which puts stress on the dog's immune system. Medical diagnosis is made by seeing these symptoms, having a history of exposure is also helpful but not always found as kennel cough is easily spread through contact with the ground, toys, sidewalks, dog parks. Treatment and prevention. Antibiotics are given to treat any bacterial infection present. Cough suppressants are used if the cough is not productive (nothing is being coughed up). The usual outcome is good. Prevention is by vaccinating for canine adenovirus, distemper, parainfluenza, and "Bordetella". In kennels, the best prevention is to keep all the cages clean. Most kennels will not board dogs without proof of vaccination.
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French musician and other things, like an inventor and engineer, and more. He was born in Nancy. He created a kind of music called musique concrète (which in the French speak means "concrete music"). This music was different from regular music, and had many sounds from things in the real world. Schaeffer died of Alzheimer's disease in Aix-en-Provence.
Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base. Conspiracy theorists claim that extraterrestrial entities inhabit Area 51. There is no evidence for these claims. Location. Area 51 is in the southern part of Nevada in the western United States. It is 83 miles (133 km) north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas. At its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield. The base's primary purpose is to develop and test experimental aircraft and weapons systems. The base is in the United States Air Force's Nevada Test and Training Range NTTR, formerly called the Nellis Air Force Range NAFR. The facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base. However, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Force Flight Test Center AFFTC at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around 186 miles (300 km) southwest of Groom. As a result, the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center Detachment 3. Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency documentation, other names used for the facility include “Dreamland”, “Paradise Ranch”, “Home Base”, “Watertown Strip”, “Groom Lake”, and most recently “Homey Airport”. The area is part of the Nellis Military Operations Area, and the restricted airspace around the field is referred to as R- 4808N, known by the military pilots in the area as "The Box" or "the Container ". Uses. The facility is not a conventional airbase, as frontline operational units are not normally deployed there. It instead appears to be used for highly classified military/defense Special Access Programs. These are programs that are kept secret by the government, military personnel, and defense contractors. Its mission may be to develop, test, and train new aircraft weapons systems or research projects. Once these projects have been approved by the United States Air Force or other agencies such as the CIA, and are ready to be announced to the public, operations of aircraft are then moved to a
Ding Liren (born 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He won the Chinese Chess Championship in 2009. On 6 June 2009, at the age of 16, he became the youngest ever person to win the national title. In October 2009. In April 2011, Ding won the Chinese Championship for a second time. He was the World Champion from 2023-2024, being defeated by Gukesh Dommaraju.