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Sony Pictures Kids Zone is the children's and family entertainment label owned by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. History. Sony Music Video launched its "Sony Kids' Music" and "Sony Kids' Video" labels in February 1992 after months of planning under the banner SMV Children's Library. Artists signed to Sony Kids' Music at launch included Dan Crow, Tom Chapin, Tom Paxton, Kevin Roth, Rory, and Lois Young, who would all release product in the spring. After Sony Music Video dissolved in October, Sony Kids' Music and Video were coordinated and marketed through Epic Records beginning in January 1993. On May 22, 1993, Nickelodeon signed a long-term agreement with Epic Records as well. On July 3, Sony Kids' Music and Video were merged as "Sony Wonder"; Sony Wonder's president Ted Green sought new strategic alliances like their one with Nickelodeon. On April 24, 1995, Children's Television Workshop entered a long-term agreement to distribute "Sesame Street" videos, music, and books through Sony Wonder, while Columbia Pictures began development on two Muppet films which would be released on video by Columbia TriStar Home Video. Sony Wonder also took over distribution of Random House Home Video titles, also during April.  On July 29, Nickelodeon and Sony Wonder launched a Nick Jr. Channel Video with three titles based on "Eureeka's Castle", "Gullah Gullah Island", and "Allegra's Window"; an audio line launched on March 26, 1996. In 1996, two years after Viacom's acquisition of Paramount Communications, the owners of Paramount Pictures, Sony Wonder's deal with Nickelodeon expired, leaving Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. videos and DVDs to be distributed by Paramount Home Video (and CIC Video internationally until 1999). On August 2, 1997, Sony Wonder entered a long-term worldwide joint venture with Together Again Video Productions to create and distribute new and previous "Kidsongs" titles, starting with 20 new episodes of "The Kidsongs Television Show". On December 27, Sony Wonder and Golden Books Family Entertainment joined forces to release hit titles from
Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel "All the Light We Cannot See" was given the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It was also on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 200 weeks. His writing has been translated into more than forty different languages.
The 1930-31 Austrian Cup was the cup competition in Austrian football. The competition was held in championship mode for Clubs from the first league. It is natural that this new competition met with resistance from the second-rate and amateur clubs, who were prevented from matches with clubs from the highest league. An announced replacement competition for these clubs did not take place. Round 1.   Round 2.   Round 4.   Round 5.   Round 6.   Round 7.   Round 8.   Round 9.
On January 21, 2023, a mass shooting happened in Monterey Park, California, United States. Eleven people were killed, and nine others were injured. The shooting happened after a Lunar New Year celebration at Star Ballroom Dance Studio at about 10:22 p.m. PST (UTC-8).  The gunman shot and killed himself during a standoff with Torrance police the next day. He was identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran (September 30, 1950 — January 22, 2023). It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of Los Angeles County.
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist and poet. In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal. In 2011 she was given the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her life's work. Her novel, "The Poisonwood Bible" was a finalist for the Pultizer Prize in Fiction for 1999.
Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is an Irish-American dancer. He became known for Irish dance shows "Riverdance", "Lord of the Dance", "Feet of Flames", and "Celtic Tiger Live".  In 2003, Flatley was treated for a malignant melanoma. In January 2023, Flatley announced that he had surgery for "an aggressive form of cancer".
Christopher Joseph Ford (January 11, 1949 – January 17, 2023) was an American basketball player and head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Ford was nicknamed "the Mad Bomber". He played most of his NBA career with the Detroit Pistons, Ford finished his playing career with the Boston Celtics. In the Celtics' first game in 1979–80, he made the first official three-point shot in NBA history. He won an NBA championship with the Celtics in 1981. Between 1990 and 1995, Ford was the head coach of the Celtics. He also had been the coach for three other NBA teams until 2004. He died on January 17, 2023, six days after his 74th birthday.
A nian ( 年獸) is a mythological creature from the Chinese mythology. According to Chinese legend, a fierce beast called Nian terrorized villages on the last day of the lunar year. Villagers fled to the mountains each year to escape it, until an old man promised to drive it away.  On that night, the old man used firecrackers and red clothing to scare Nian off, revealing himself as a celestial being. The villagers then adopted customs like hanging red decorations and setting off firecrackers, leading to the celebration of Lunar New Year’s Eve.
Firewalker is a 1986 American action adventure comedy movie directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Will Sampson, Melody Anderson, John Rhys-Davies, Sonny Landham, Ian Abercrombie and Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez. It was distributed by The Cannon Group.
Kenneth Koch (February, 27 1925 – July 6, 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and teacher. As a student at Harvard University, Koch met fellow students Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery. With them and others in the 1950s, he was part of what people called The New York School, a loose group of poets and painters. At Harvard, he received a bachelor of arts degree. Then he attended Columbia University for his PhD.. He taught at Columbia University. He thought about how to teach children and older people to write poetry. He explained these ways in books like "Wishes, Lies and Dreams;" "Rose, Where Did You Get That Red;" and "I Never Told Anybody". He was known for using much humor in his poems. "New Addresses" (2000) was a finalist for the National Book Award. "One Train" and "On the Great Atlantic Rainway, Selected Poems 1950–1988" both earned him the Bollingen Prize in 1995. He won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 1996. He was given three Fulbright scholarships and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
The Tiger I was a tank made by Nazi Germany. It was first made in 1942 by the Henschel und Sohn company. The tank was used during World War II in the North African Campaign and Operation Barbarossa. The Tiger I used a 8.8 cm KwK 36 gun. It had of armor.  The Tiger I has been called an outstanding design for its time. It has also been called overengineered. It was built using costly materials. The methods used to make it were labour-intensive. Early version of the Tiger would often have track failures and breakdowns. It also had a limited range because it used a large amount of fuel. The tank was costly to maintain but was mechanically reliable. It was hard to transport. It could not move well in areas with mud, ice and snow. These conditions would often jamming the tracks solid. The tank was given its nickname "Tiger" by Ferdinand Porsche. The Roman numeral was added after the Tiger II was being made. The original name was "Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausführung H."  Today, only seven Tiger I tanks still exist. They are in museums and private collections worldwide. , Tiger 131 (captured during the North Africa Campaign) at the UK's Tank Museum is the only Tiger I restored to running order.
Cesare Borgia (1475–1507) was the son of Pope Alexander VI. He benefited from Pope Alexander VI's nepotism (placing family in important roles) and became ruler of Romagna, a historical region of Italy, by murdering those who opposed him. He was banished by Pope Julius II and died during the invasion of Castile. His policies were famously described by Niccolò Machiavelli in "The Prince".
Karl Adolf Verner (1846-1896) was a Danish linguist and a pioneer linguist in the study of phonetics. He was deeply interested in phonetic systems of the Indo-European languages. One of his linguistic fascinations was accentology. Verner was born in Denmark and studied at the University of Copenhagen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1867. He was a famous linguist. He never worked for any university as a professor. Some universities asked him to work as professor for them. He always refused and preferred his job in the library of Halle. In Halle, he met many young linguists from the University in Leipzig. Contacts with other linguists further directed him towards his linguistic future. Verner’s work and influence on linguistics was so important that people still study him and use his ideas for their own books and articles. His greatest contribution to linguistics is called Verner’s Law. The discovery of this law explained some issues with Grimm’s Law whose rules were not enough to explain all exceptions in the historical development of languages. Early life. Karl Adolf Verner was born in Aarhus on 7 March 1846. He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Werner, a German immigrant whose occupation was a sock-weaver, and Catharina Dorothea Hansen. He had five brothers, and he was the second oldest of them. Verner obtained his secondary education at the Aarhus Cathedral School which he attended from 1857 to 1864. It was here that his interest in the field of linguistics started. It was in the city of Aarhus where he would later in his life come up with the discovery that would make him known worldwide. His interest in linguistics would form during his school years in the lessons of geography that he attended. Unlike many other geography teachers, Mr Erslev taught his students about linguistic and social aspects of life in the countries they covered. Mr Erslev treated his subject contrastively. Verner appreciated Erslev’s teaching a lot. It is possible to say that Verner’s contrastive linguistic method was born in his geography lessons. University years. He could not continue chasing his academic dream due to
Heinrich "Wudi" Müller (May 13, 1909 – April 5, 2000) was an Austrian football player and coach. In the early 1930s he was an part of Austria's Wunderteam. He played as midfielder mainly for Wiener AC and later for FK Austria Wien. Club career. The trained shoemaker played from 1921 to 1935 for Wiener AC. With this club he won the 1931 Cup of Austria. In 1935 the midfielder moved to MTK Budapest where he won the Hungarian championships of 1936 and 1937. In June 1940 Müller returned to Vienna and joined Austria Wien. International career. In the early 1930s he played five times for the Austria national football team. He scored four goals. This includes two nominations for the famed Wunderteam. Manager career. As a coach, his name is primarily associated with FK Austria Wien. He was three times coach of the team. In total, he coached the club for 12 years. Most successful was his first period which reached from 1945 to 1954. They became champions in the years 1949, 1950 and 1953 and Austrian Cup winner in 1948 and 1949. In the first three years he also played league matches for the club. In 1956 he was coach of the Netherlands national football team for one match. In the later 1950s and early 1960s he coached Neherlands first division side Willem II in Tilburg. In December 1964 after a short time with AEK in Athens, he returned to "Austria" Although they had promising players the club ended up seventh in the league and Ernst Ocwirk was placed as "sporting director" alongside Müller and replaced him fully by the end of the year. In the 1971–72 season he made another comeback on the coaching bench of "Austria", but was without titels again.
Brinkmanship (or brinksmanship) is the practice of trying to get a good outcome by pushing events to the brink of active conflict. This succeeds by causing the opponent to back down and make concessions. If they do not back down, they risk engaging in a conflict that would not be good for either side. That might be done with diplomacy. It is done by making the others think that one party will do something bad rather than concede. The tactic occurs in international politics, foreign policy, labor relations, modern military strategy, terrorism, and high-stakes litigation.  The term is mainly associated with US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, from 1953 to 1956 during the Eisenhower administration. Dulles tried to prevent aggression by the Soviet Union by warning that the cost might be massive retaliation against Soviet targets.
Phyllodytes praeceptor is a frog. It lives in the state of Bahia in Brazil not far from the ocean. People have also seen it in Serra da Jiboia, 694 m above sea level. The adult male frog is 20.7-25.8 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog has large eyes. This frog is not in danger of dying out. This is because it lives in such a large place. Human beings cut down much of its forest during the past hundred years, but the forest is so big that there is still a large place left. This frog lives in forests where the branches of the trees come together like a roof. This frog lives on bromeliad plants that live on large trees. The female frog lays eggs in the plant and the tadpoles swim in the water in the middle of the plant. Human beings grow cacao under trees to shade the cacao plants. These frogs can live on these farm trees too. This is another reason why the frogs are not in danger. Scientists think that the frogs might be in danger if people take away their bromeliad plants, but they do not think anyone is doing this as of 2021.
Sophomore is a term used in the United States to describe a student in the second year of study (generally referring to high school or university study). The word is also sometimes used in the USA as jargon for the second album released by a musician or group, the second movie of a director, or the second season of a professional athlete. The word comes from Greek, "sophisma" ‘clever device’ from "sophizesthai" ‘to devise, become wise’, and the original English spelling was "Sophumer". It was not until 1726 that the spelling was established in America as "sophomore."  Education. High school. In the United States, the 10th grade is usually the second year of a student's high school period and is referred to as sophomore year. High school sophomores are expected to begin preparing for the college application process, including reducing and focusing their extracurricular activities. Most students reach the age of 16 while they are sophomores. The year is considered a watermark for independence, closely connected with getting a driver's license in most states. The PSAT, a college preparatory exam taken across the U.S., is now most commonly taken during a student's sophomore year. Students at this level are also considered to be developing greater ability for abstract thinking. College. In the U.S., colleges generally require students to declare an academic major by the end of their sophomore year. College sophomores are advised to begin thinking about career options and to get involved in volunteering or social organizations on or near campus.
Jeffrey Dunston Zients (born November 12, 1966) is an American businessman and politician who was the 31st White House Chief of Staff from 2023 until 2025 during the Joe Biden administration. From February 2014 to January 2017, he was the director of the National Economic Council. Zients was also acting director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2010 and 2013. Zients was a member of Facebook's board of directors from 2018 to 2020. In December 2020, Joe Biden named Zients as coordinator of the COVID-19 response and counselor to the president in his administration. In January 2023, it was announced that Zients would replace Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff in February.
The 2023 New Zealand general election was held on 14 October 2023 to determine the 54th Parliament of New Zealand. Voters elected 120 members to the New Zealand House of Representatives under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, a proportional representation system in which 72 members were elected from single-member electorates and 48 members from closed party lists. The incumbent centre-left Labour majority government, led by Chris Hipkins, tried to win a third term in government. However, they were defeated by the centre-right National Party, led by Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon, in a landslide. National will need support from the ACT party (and possibly also New Zealand First) to form government. At the 2020 election, the centre-left Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, won an outright majority in the House. The main opponents to the Labour government is the centre-right National Party, led by Christopher Luxon, and the right-wing ACT party, led by David Seymour. On 19 January 2023, Ardern announced she would resign as Labour leader and prime minister before 7 February.
The Avenida de las Matemáticas is a public avenue located in Seville, Spain. Background. In December 2019, a group of young people from the "Montaigne College" in Seville promoted, together with their mathematics teacher, José Carlos Gámez, a campaign on Change.org to collect signatures and create a mathematics avenue in Seville. They created a website (callematematicassevilla.wordpress.com). In 2020, they had the support of the Seville Institute of Mathematics and the University of Seville. On March 14, 2022, International Mathematics Day, the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, received the promoters of the campaign and approved the proposal. That same year it was presented at the "XX Jornadas para el Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de las Matemáticas". Inauguration. On January 10, 2023, the Avenue was presented with the mayor of Seville, the education minister of the Junta de Andalucía, and various members of the Seville mathematical community. Criticism. Just after the Mathematics Avenue was inaugurated, Carlos Navarro Antolín, opinion journalist from the Diario de Sevilla, suggested that now a Latin and Greek street will be released, criticizing that the mayor is more concerned with mathematics. Some people also complained that the opening ceremony of the Avenue was too exclusive, or that the street chosen was not the most suitable.
Nataša Pirc Musar (born May 9, 1968) is a Slovenian attorney and author. She is the 5th President of Slovenia since December 23, 2022. She is the former Information Commissioner and former president of the Slovenian Red Cross (2015–2016). She is the first female president of Slovenia.
Denys Anatoliiovych Monastyrsky (; 12 June 1980 – 18 January 2023) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He was Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs from 16 July 2021, until his death in a helicopter crash in January 2023.
Universal Credit is part of the United Kingdom Social Security system. It was started in 2013 to replace six benefits for working-age people with a low income: income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit and Housing Benefit. Like them it is means tested.  It is paid to families once a month and is designed to help people to work as much as they can. People under 25 get less. An extra amount is paid for children, but only for 2 unless they were born before 6 April 2017, are adopted or are born as part of a multiple birth. Extra money is paid for disabled people, disabled children and carers. According to the New Economics Foundation the rates of benefit were not sufficient to meet the minimum income standard calculated by Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Social Policy in April 2023. People who are working can claim back up to 85% of their childcare costs. People who are responsible for a child or young person or living with a disability or health condition that affects their ability to work get a ‘work allowance’. Each £1 earned (above the monthly work allowance if there is one) reduces the payment by 55p. Universal Credit is paid monthly. People who are paid 4 weekly will get 2 sets of wages in one assessment period once a year, which will reduce their Universal Credit payment. There is money for rent and some service charges. This is called the housing element. In every area there is a Local Housing Allowance for people renting private property. Help is limited to this level. It was set at the rent of one of the cheapest 30% of homes in the area in 2012. There are different levels for homes with different numbers of bedrooms. It was increased in September 2019 but since then in many places rents have risen more than the allowance. Two-thirds of lower income privately renting households have to find at least a quarter of their rent.  People who are able to work must look for work or increase their earnings or their payment may be reduced. Self employed people are generally given a "minimum income floor." This is
Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is a Thai-born American actress. She became well known for her role in "Downsizing". She had roles in the television shows "Watchmen" (2019) and "Homecoming" (2018–2020). In 2023, Chau was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The Whale".
Kerry Condon (born 9 January 1983) is an Irish actress. She played Octavia of the Julii in "Rome" (2005–2007), Stacey Ehrmantraut in "Better Call Saul" (2015–2022), and has voiced F.R.I.D.A.Y. for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  Her role in the 2022 movie "The Banshees of Inisherin", earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for directing "In the Bedroom" (2001), "Little Children" (2006), and "Tár" (2022). Field has earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. His father-in-law was screenwriter Bo Goldman.
Ruben Östlund (born 13 April 1974) is a Swedish filmmaker. He is known for his movies "Force Majeure" (2014), "The Square" (2017) and "Triangle of Sadness" (2022). For his 2022 movie "Triangle of Sadness", he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
All Quiet on the Western Front () is a 2022 German epic anti-war movie. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. It is directed by Edward Berger. It stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic and Devid Striesow.  "All Quiet on the Western Front" was released to streaming on Netflix on October 28, 2022. It had strong positive reviews from critics. It received a leading 14 nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards and nine at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The Banshees of Inisherin is a 2022 dark tragic comedy movie directed, written, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh. The movie stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends, who are no longer friends which causes bad things to happen to their lives. Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan also star. Plot. The setting is year 1923 on an island, that also is a place of fiction (or not real); The island is on the Irish west coast; A farmer (Colin Farrell) lives there in a simple house with his sister Siobhan (Kerry Condon); They have two cows and a small donkey. Awards. The movie received nine nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for McDonagh), Best Actor (for Farrell), Best Supporting Actor (for both Gleeson and Keoghan), Best Supporting Actress (for Condon) and Best Original Screenplay.  It also had eight nominations at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, winning three Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actor – Musical or Comedy (for Farrell), and Best Screenplay.