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Gregory Dion "Greg" Jelks (August 16, 1961 – January 5 or 6, 2017) was an American Australian baseball third baseman. He played with the Philadelphia Phillies of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1987. He later moved to Australia and played for Perth Heat and the national team. He was born in Centre, Alabama. Jelks died sometime returning to Australia from the United States. His death was confirmed when his plane arrived in Sydney. He was 55.
Sex Tape is a 2014 American comedy movie. Plot. Jay and Annie Hargrove are a married couple. After having two kids, they have sex every chance they get. When Jay struggles to have an erection, Annie suggests making a sex tape. After making it, Annie asks Jay to delete the recording. The son of Jay and Annie's friend says he will upload a copy of the sex tape to YouPorn unless they give him $25,000. They are not able to pay the money. Jay and Annie break into YouPorn's headquarters. They begin destroying the web servers. Their plan is stopped when an alarm sounds. The owner of YouPorn removes the sex tape. Jay and Annie watch the video once themselves. After this, they take the USB flash drive and later destroy it. Release. "Sex Tape" was released on July 18, 2014. Box office. The movie earned a total of $38.5 million in the United States alone. Worldwide, it earned a total of $126.1 million. In the United Kingdom, it topped the box office. It earned £1.43 million. The movie opened at #1 in markets, such as Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Slovenia. The biggest market was in countries like Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom. In those countries, the movie got back $12.14 million, $6.9 million and $7.14 million, respectively. Reviews. "Sex Tape" earned mostly negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has an approval rating of 17%. Metacritic gives the movie a score of 36, meaning generally unfavorable reviews. Awards. "Sex Tape" won a Golden Raspberry Award for the Worst Actress. It was also nominated for Worst Screen Combo and Worst Screenplay.
Michael Leigh Chamberlain (27 February 1944 – 9 January 2017) was a New Zealand-born Australian writer, teacher and pastor. He was best known due to the August 1980 death of his missing daughter Azaria as the result of a dingo attack while camping near Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia.  Chamberlain's then-wife Lindy was falsely convicted of the baby's murder in 1982 and he was convicted of being an accessory after the fact. The findings of a 1987 royal commission made sure that the couple was innocent, but not before they were hated by the public and negatively covered by the media. Chamberlain died on 9 January 2017 at Gosford Hospital, on the New South Wales central coast, aged 72 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.
Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis (born 19 May 1954), better known as Phil Rudd, is an Australian drummer. He is best known for being a member of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1975 to 1983, and again from 1994 to 2015. He lives in Tauranga, New Zealand. In November 2014, he was arrested for many crimes, including threatening to kill, trying to plan a murder and keeping illegal drugs. In July 2015, he was sentenced to eight months home detention. Rudd was born in Melbourne. He is of a German and Irish background. His stepfather was from Lithuania. He has six children.
Urk is a municipality in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands. It has about 20,000 people (2016), and is both a former municipality of North Holland and of Overijssel. Urk is a former island and well-known for its fishery activities. History. Urk is first mentioned in a document from 966. In that year Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great gives the northern part of the 'territory of Urk' to a monastery in Cologne. Around that time the western and northern parts of the Netherlands are mostly covered in peat. In the middle of it you could find a lake, Flevo lake or Almere.  Middle Ages. The territory of Urk was a large island in that lake. During the Middle Ages the connection between that lake and the North Sea widened, and eventually the Zuiderzee (Southern Sea) emerged as an inland sea. The territory of Urk became small and smaller and by the end of the Middle Ages two islands emerged from the former much bigger island. These islands were Urk and Schokland.  17th century. In the 17th century the island of Urk became very important for the city of Amsterdam. The island acted as a important point of navigation for the ships coming and going to Amsterdam. In 1660 the city bought the rights to Urk and the northern part of Schokland, on which the village of Emmeloord was located. Now that Amsterdam was in control of the island, it also had to pay for the upkeep of the island. Another consequence was that the people of Urk were now under the rule of protestants. 18th century. At the end of the 18th century the upkeep of the island became too exensive for the city of Amsterdam. Holland had come into conflicht with the English many times over in the 18th century and these wars had been very costly for both Holland and it's most important city, Amsterdam. In 1792 Amsterdam gives the rights to rule Urk to Holland. 19th century. In the 19th century the fishermen of Urk expanded there fleet slowly but surely. Especially in years when a lot of
Ulf Adolf Roger Dinkelspiel (4 July 1939 – 9 January 2017) was a Swedish politician and financier. He was a member of the Moderate Party. He served as the Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade from 1991 to 1994. He was born in Stockholm. Dinkelspiel died from cancer on 9 January 2017 in Stockholm. He was 77.
Winschoten is a small city in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 2010, it has been a part of the municipality of Oldambt. It has about 18,000 people (2013). There is a railway station with direct connections to Groningen and Leer (Germany).
Torgny is a village in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is part of the municipality of Rouvroy. About 200 people live there.  Torgny is the southernmost settlement in Belgium.
A tithe, means the tenth-part of something, usually income, paid to a religious organization. A tithe can be seen as a tax, a fee for a service or a voluntary contribution. Tithing came from the Book of Numbers. In ancient Israel, the tribes of Levites were the priests. The other tribes gave tithes to the tribes of Levies because they had been given no land in Canaan. Tithes may be money or crops or other valuable thing. Mosaic law. Under the Laws of Moses a tenth part is given to the priests. Then, the priests were required to give a tenth part of what they received as an offering to God. These tithes were paid once a year. Europe. In France, tithes were taxes levied by The Roman Catholic Church before the French Revolution. Tithes were levied on the Third Estate (common people), which made up about 98% of the French population. The Tithes were taxes for land owned by members of the Third Estate. The tithe was abolished after the creation of The New Constitution of France in 1791, when the Constitution was completed.
Gouda is a municipality in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 about 71,000 people lived there. The city is famous for its Gouda cheese and stroopwafels. The city hall was built in the 15th century.
Jacob Cats (10 November 1577 in Brouwershaven - 12 September 1660 in The Hague) was a Dutch poet, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books. His poems were told like nursery rhymes for many years. Cats was pensionary of Middelburg and Dordrecht, and grand pensionary of Holland.
The Bottom is the capital of the Caribbean island of Saba. In 2001, 462 people lived there. The town was first called "De Botte", which is old Dutch for "The Bowl". This is because the town made a bowl shape at the bottom of the mountains.
The ENAC Foundation (French: "Fondation de l'École nationale de l'aviation civile") has been created in 2012. It is to promote scientific and public interest activities in aviation, aerospace and aeronautics. History. The Foundation has been created in 2012. The first scholarships have been given in 2014, in order to help students to go abroad. In 2015, the first research activity in UAV is financed, in partnership with Ineo, Cofely and Sagem.
La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama movie. Its title is a reference to the nickname for the city of Los Angeles. It is also an idiom for being out of touch with reality. Plot. On a crowded Los Angeles highway, an aspiring actress named Mia is distracted by her preparation for an upcoming audition. That leads to a moment of road rage between her and a pianist named Sebastian. Her audition is yet another failure. At the same time, Sebastian is having a problem paying his bills. This leads to an argument with his sister, Laura. Mia's car is towed. She has to walk back to her apartment. Sebastian is told by the owner of a restaurant not to play any jazz. Instead, he plays simple variations of Christmas songs. But he begins a heartfelt improvisation at the restaurant. Mia overhears Sebastian playing. She is moved by his talent, and goes to watch him play. Sebastian, however, is quickly fired. Months later, Mia goes to another party. She sees Sebastian again. He is now playing as the keyboardist for a 1980s pop music cover band. Mia requests that the band play "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls. Afterward the two walk together and look for their cars. Five years later, Mia is a famous actress. She is married to another man, with whom she has a daughter. Release. The world premiere for "La La Land" was at the Venice Film Festival. It was an opening night movie on August 31, 2016. The movie also showed at the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and many others. Box office. "La La Land" has taken in more than $85 million against a budget of $30 million. The movie was released in the United States in December 2016. In January 2017, the movie showed in more theaters for a total of 1,515 theaters. Critical response. "La La Land" was named by Peter Travers as his favorite movie of 2016. Other critics gave the movie high marks. Rotten Tomatoes rated the movie 91%. Awards. "La La Land" won a number of awards. At the Golden Globe Awards, it won seven awards. These included Best Picture-Musical or Comedy, Best Actor-Musical or Comedy and Best Actress-Musical or Comedy.
Angelica Ross (born 1980/1981) is an American activist for transgender rights. She started TransTech Social Enterprises to help transgender people. She was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Work. In 2014, Angelica Ross started the TransTech Social Enterprises organization in Chicago. Transtech is a training and design organization. It trains and contracts transgender people in technology. Transtech is a project of Allied Media Projects, an NGO in Detroit. According to Ross, who transitioned in 2000, the time of gender transition can be difficult. Some people need work but do not have the skills. Other people have skills, but cannot find work because of discrimination. If people can telecommute, they can work during the time of gender transition. Awards. In 2016, Ros received a Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign.
Charles Julian "Charlie" Brotman (born December 30, 1927) is an American public relations specialist and public address announcer. He is known for his presentation of U.S. presidential inaugural parades of 12 presidents from Harry S. Truman to Joe Biden (excluding only Donald Trump). Personal life. Brotman was born on December 30, 1927 in Washington, D.C.. He sudied at the University of Maryland. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1948, then attended the National Academy of Broadcasting. Career. In 1949, while a student at the National Academy of Broadcasting, Brotman was recommended by his teacher to serve as an announcer for Harry S. Truman's second inauguration, which was the first presidential inauguration to be televised. Brotman has been behind the microphone for every inaugural parade in Washington, DC, since 1957, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in for his second term. Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013 was the 15th consecutive ceremony that Brotman has announced, and his 16th overall. In 2017, President-elect Donald Trump's Presidential Inauguration Committee said that Brotman would not broadcast his inauguration, ending his broadcasting streak. Brotman was, however, picked to welcome the National Organizers for the Women's March on Washington on January 21, 2017 - the day following the Inauguration. Brotman was again selected to serve as announcer for Joe Biden's inaugural parade on January 20, 2021.
Leanne Pittsford is an American entrepreneur. She started the professional network Lesbians Who Tech. Life. Pittsford received a master's degree in education, equity and social justice from San Francisco State University and a bachelor's degree in political science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Work. Leanne Pittsford started her career with the organization Equality California. She wanted to repeal Proposition 8, a law in California against marriage for same sex couples. She saw there were not enough networking opportunities for lesbian women. There were not any lesbian mentors to give help and advice to new people. In 2012, Pittsford started Lesbians in Tech. In 2015 she got Edie Windsor, a former manager from IBM, to speak to the organization, and started a scholarship in her name. Lesbians in Tech is now an international organization with 20 chapters from Berlin to Vermont. It has 10,000 members. In two years, they had over 200 events in 22 cities. Every year they have summits in New York, San Francisco, and Berlin. In 2015 they had their first summit in Tel Aviv. In 2015, Lesbians in Tech received a $165,000 award from the Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation. They wanted to create more inclusion in the technology sector. The money will help start two programs: Bring a Lesbian to Work Day, for mentoring, and the Coding Scholarship Fund, for tuition. In 2015, U.S. President Obama had an LGBT Pride reception at the White House for prominent member of the LGBT tech community. The event was attended by former Google executive and U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith, Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford, and others. Pittsford also helped support five other organizations for diversity in tech: AllOut, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, CODE2040, Chicana Latina Foundation, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Ramanuja Devanathan (2 April 1959 – 7 January 2017) was an Indian educator. He was the head of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan at Jammu and the former Vice Chancellor of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University. He was the Registrar of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi. In 2013, Devanathan was the recipient of Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF)'s 32nd annual award. He is also the editor of 2007 edition of English-Sanskrit Dictionary. Devanathan died on 7 January 2017 in Mumbai while traveling on work of a heart attack, aged 57.
Miriam Harris Goldberg (May 18, 1916 – January 8, 2017) was an American newspaper publisher. She was born in Chicago. From 1972 to 2017, she was the editor and publisher of the "Intermountain Jewish News" in Denver, Colorado. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1987. She turned 100 in May 2016. Goldberg died on January 8, 2017 in Denver at the age of 100.
Zygmunt Bauman (19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish-British sociologist and philosopher. He had been living in England since 1971.  Life. Bauman was born to a Jewish family in Poland.  After World War II, he rose in the ranks of Poland's military and by the early 1950s he had become one of the youngest majors in the Polish army, but was driven out of Poland by a political purge in 1953 engineered by the Communist government of the Polish People's Republic.  He was the Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds. Bauman was one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.
Ali Shariatmadari (6 January 1924 – 9 January 2017) was an Iranian academic and educationist. He was Minister of Culture in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was President of the Iranian Academy of Sciences from 1990 until 1998. He was also a Professor of Education at the Teacher Training University in Tehran and a member of High Council of the Cultural Revolution from 1982 until his death. Shariatmadari died in Shiraz, Iran on 9 January 2017, aged 93.
Bayezid Osman, also known as Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu with a surname as required by the Turkish Republic, or known by the Ottoman imperial name as Prince Şehzade Bayezid Efendi (; 23 June 1924 – 6 January 2017), was the 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1922. The monarchy was abolished in 1922, with the modern Republic of Turkey replacing it. Osman died in New York on 6 January 2017, aged 92.
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP; or the Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, after the doctors who described it in 1963) is a degenerative disease involving the deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain. Males and females are affected the same equally and there is no racial, geographical or occupational predilection. Approximately 6 people per 100,000 population have PSP. It has been described as a tauopathy.
Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017) was an English singer, instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter. He was the brother of musicians Eden Kane and Robin Sarstedt. His music was traditional folk music rather than traditional rock and roll. Career. He was best known for writing and performing the single "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?". It topped the UK Singles Chart in 1969 and won the Ivor Novello Award along with "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. Sarstedt remained a one-hit wonder, despite having released numerous successful albums and singles beginning from the late 1960s and releasing two singles a year from 1967 until 1987, with the popular track "Frozen Orange Juice" and the novelty song "Take off Your Clothes" entering the top ten. Death. Sarstedt had progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) since 2015. He died on 8 January 2017 in Sussex at the age of 75.
Buddy Bregman (July 9, 1930 – January 8, 2017) was an American arranger, television producer, and composer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He worked with many of the greatest musical artists of 20th Century popular music, including: Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., Peggy Lee, Bobby Darin, Anita O'Day, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Jerry Lewis, Paul Anka, Buddy Rich, Eddie Fisher, Annie Ross, and Carmen McRae. He became Ethel Merman's personal arranger. In the early 1960s Bregman became a television producer and director. After producing several TV specials in Europe, he was hired by David Attenborough for BBC 2 in 1964. In 1966, he was appointed head of light entertainment for the weekday ITV company Rediffusion London. Bregman wrote "Jump Jim Crow" – a musical for the Royal Shakespeare Company. It moved into London-based independent TV and movie production. Bregman died in Los Angeles, California from complications of Alzheimer's disease on January 8, 2017, aged 86.
Rauda Morcos, Arabic: روضة مرقص , (born 1974) is a Palestinian lesbian activist. She started Aswat (أصوات), the first Palestinian group for lesbian rights. In 2006, she received the Felipa de Souza Award from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (Now called OutRight Action International).  In 2002, Morcos joined the first online group for Palestinian lesbians in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. In 2003, she was outed after she gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper. Morcos asked that her sexual orientation not be published. But the newspaper wrote “lesbian” in the headline and printed her photograph. After Morcos's sexual orientation was made public, she was harassed and physically assaulted. Her car was vandalized many times. She lost her job. She volunteered her time at Aswat until the organization had enough money to hire her.
Our Revolution is an American progressive political action organization spun out of Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign to continue its work. Background. The organization officially launched on August 24, 2016, designated as a 501(c)(4), with a presentation that was live-streamed online via YouTube to meetings across the country and shown by Free Speech TV. The organization's mission is to educate voters about issues, get people involved in the political process, and work to organize and elect progressive candidates. "Our Revolution" is also the title of a book by Sanders released in November 2016. Board of Our Revolution. On August 29, 2016 the board of Our Revolution was announced as:
The Versailles University Foundation (French: "Fondation Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines") has been created in 2011. It is to promote scientific and public interest activities in medicine, sciences, disability, sustainable development. History. The Foundation has been created in 2011. The first scholarships have been given in 2014, in order to help students to go abroad. Between October 2014 and June 2015, the Foundation works to develop the library. In December 2015, a laboratory is created.
Gombojavyn Ochirbat (Гомбожавын Очирбат, born 15 November 1929) is a Mongolian Communist political figure.  He was a general secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 14 March, 1990 until 13 April, 1990. During his reign, the party's leading role was abolished (on March 23).
Eduardo Martínez Somalo (31 March 1927 – 10 August 2021) was a Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Martínez was born in the small town of Baños de Río Tobía in La Rioja, Spain.  Martínez received his episcopal consecration on 13 December 1975. He was Cardinal protodeacon from 29 January 1996 to 9 January 1999. Martínez retired as Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on 11 February 2004. Martínez Somalo had a heart attack in July 2021. He died a month later on 10 August 2021 in Vatican City, aged 94.
Kim Yong-ju (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김영주; 1920 – 2021) was a North Korean politician. He was the younger brother of Kim Il-sung, who ruled North Korea from 1948 to 1994.  Under his brother's rule, Kim Yong-ju held key posts in the Workers' Party of Korea during the 1960s and early 1970s, but he fell out of favor in 1974 following a power struggle with Kim Jong-il. Since 1998, he has held the ceremonial position of Honorary Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's parliament. His death was announced by state media on December 15, 2021.
The Fellhorn is a tall mountain in the Allgäu Alps near Oberstdorf, Germany, on the border with Austria. According to Austrian information the mountain is 2039 m tall. Access. In 1972, a gondola lift, the Fellhorn Lift, was built that goes up the mountain from the Stillach valley. Its top station is at 1,967 metres. The Fellhorn/Kanzelwand Ski Region has 24 kilometres of piste and 14 lifts.
Back to the Future is an American live action trilogy, consisting of three movies: The trilogy follows a teenager, who travels through time, by driving an automobile time machine, made by a scientist. Living in 1985, he travels to the past and future for several adventures in Hill Valley.
Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa (born May 18, 1951 in Barger-Compascuum) is a Dutch chemist, specialized in organic chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology and photochemistry. Feringa studied at the University of Groningen and is also an academic at the same university.  In 2010, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2016, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for supramolecular chemistry, together with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart.