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Martin Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. He is known for interviewing Princess Diana in 1995 and Michael Jackson in the 2003 documentary Living with Michael Jackson. That year he was voted the fifth 'worst Briton'. He started being a journalist in 1986. He worked with BBC until 1999. Then he joined ITV. In December 2010 he joined MSNBC. He hosted "Martin Bashir" on MSNBC on weekdays. On 15 November 2013, Bashir made people angry when he said on his MSNBC show "Clear the Air" that someone should defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth and called her a 'world-class idiot'. In December 2013 Bashir stopped working at the MSNBC. Bashir was born to Pakistani parents in Wandsworth in South London. He speaks English and Urdu.
In the military, chaff is a bundle of small thin pieces of metal which are shot out of an airplane or warship. These thin strips of metal spread out to make many reflections for enemy radar to detect instead of the target. The many reflections also make it harder for radar-guided missiles to hit anything. The chaff tricks the enemy and helps to keep the plane or ship or other target safe. Chaff was invented during World War II. Later radar methods made it less effective but chaff is still used because it is cheap and simple.
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the office for seventeen months, from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892. Through his daughter, Abbott is the great-grandfather of Canadian Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer. Abbott died on March 12, 1893 from complications of pneumonia in his Montreal, Quebec home. He was 72 years old.
Bike rage refers to using bad words, bad gestures, or physcial conflict between cyclists and others on the road, including pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and drivers. Bike rage is similar to other road rage. A bike rage event can start because a cyclist, driver, or pedestrian thinks that another road user was breaking traffic rules, or in other ways because someone felt that their safety was threatened by another road user. Some people consider that the problem is city planners have mixed bikes and cars together in the same ways and may cause lots of chances for conflict. As such, cyclists feel threatened in traffic and hard done by and under attack.  An article in "Toronto Life" magazine argued that the source of the problem bike rage is neither the problem of drivers nor the problem of cyclists, but the environment in which they interact. A possible explanation between cyclists and drivers is the anonymity of the big city; all the cyclists and drivers know they will never meet each other again. Examples. Drivers attacking cyclists An event from New York Times show that a 41-year-old cyclist, Dan Cooley was injured by a driver who became angry at him after an exchange of insults. The event began when the driver overtake in front of Mr. Cooley. As Mr. Cooley moved off the road, the driver drove the car to him, and used car to hurted him. Mr. Cooley fell on the ground and then the driver got out of the car and attacked him. Mr. Cooley got concussion and a torn ligament when he was taken to hospital. Mr. Cooley said that the reason for anger between cyclists and drivers is the car had monopolized the road for long time, however, bicyclists become more and more popular to save gas in this time. No one knows how to share the road. Cyclists attacking drivers In 2004 Chicago had an event that a cyclist attacked a driver. A Pennsylvania bicyclist shot a truck driver after an altercation. The truck driver, William Nicoletti, 51, when he drove past the cyclist, the man on the bike made obscene gesture to him. Not only for this, but also he drew a pistol and shot Mr. Nicoletti
Sir Trevor McDonald OBE (born George McDonald on 16 August 1939) is a British journalist. He was ITN's first black journalist. Sir Trevor McDonald was born on 16 August 1939 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. In 1969, he was employed by the BBC Radio as a producer aged 30, based in London but still broadcasting to the Caribbean. In 1973, he joined the ITV News Corporation, initially as a general reporter, later as a sports correspondent before concentrating in international politics. In the 1980s, he presented the ITN-produced Channel 4 News before returning back to ITV News in 1989 for the early evening news. In 1992, McDonald became the presenter of the ITV News at Ten. In 1999 the programme ended.  In 1999 "Tonight with Trevor McDonald" started on ITV. In 2007 McDonald stopped presenting the programme. It is now simply called "Tonight". McDonald made occasional guest appearances in the 1970s children's comedy show Tiswas with Lenny Henry next to him during a performance of McDoughnut. In September 2020, McDonald split from his wife Josephine after 34 years.
Jeremy Kyle (born 7 July 1965) is an English television presenter. He is best known currently for presenting TalkTV and also formerly presented British talk show "The Jeremy Kyle Show" from 2005 to 2019. He also hosted the American version until May 2013. He was born in Reading, Berkshire. He went to the Reading Blue Coat School. He married Carla Germaine in 2003. In late 2007, Kyle started a radio show called "The Jeremy Kyle Show". In 2009 his first book, "I'm Only Being Honest", was published. In it he talks about 'Broken Britain'. On 11 October 2011, a game show called "High Stakes" started on ITV. Kyle presented the show until it ended 13 December 2011. In Blackpool's Madame Tussauds there is a wax figure of Kyle.
A zine is a photocopied newspaper, or magazine, about music or politics. Zines are small circulation, non-commercial publications that are printed by their creators on a topic of their choice. They come in all shapes and sizes from personal zine, artzines, zines about music and politics, fanzines. Zines are straight from the writer to the reader: raw, uncut and handmade. Zines are usually photocopied by hand, and made by amateurs who do not have training in journalism. Only a small number of copies of a zine are usually made. Zines are often sold at record stores. A music zine might include reviews of line music shows, interviews with bands, and advertisements for CDs. Zines were an important part of the punk rock and hardcore punk subcultures.
Lauren Cecilia Fisher (born 28 April 1978), known as Lauren Laverne, is an English television presenter. When she was at college she started a rock band called Kenickie with her brother Peter, Marie Nixon and Emma Jackson. The band broke up in 1998. In 2000 she sang on the single "Don't Falter" by Mint Royale. It reached No.15 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2010 her first novel was "Candypop – Candy and the Broken Biscuits" was published by HarperCollins. From 2010-2013 Laverne presented 10 O'Clock Live. She writes a style column for The Guardian.
Kamala Khan is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in "Captain Marvel" #17 (November 2013).  Fictional character biography. Khan is a 16-year-old Pakistani-American Muslim. She is from the suburbs of New Jersey. As the fourth and current incarnation of Ms. Marvel, she can shapeshift. She was made by Sana Amanat, Steve Wacker, and G. Willow Wilson. In other media. The character has appeared in action figures, television series, and video games. In live-action, she is played by actress Iman Vellani in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) miniseries "Ms. Marvel" (2022) and in the 2023 movie "The Marvels".
Joseph Paul Franklin (April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer. He tried to kill Larry Flynt, a magazine publisher, in 1978 and Vernon Jordan, Jr., the civil rights activist, in 1980. He has been given six life sentences. He lived at Potosi Correctional Center on death row. On November 20, 2013 he was executed at 8:30am with Propofol, a lethal drug, for killing a Jewish man outside a synagogue. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Franklin said that he thought he deserved to die for his crimes. Larry Flynt wrote in an essay published in the Hollywood Reporter, “I do not want to see him die.” Franklin was executed on November 20, 2013 by lethal injection.
Survivor Series (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on November 18, 2007 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. It was the 21st Survivor Series event held by WWE. In the main event for the SmackDown! brand, Batista defeated The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match to keep his World Heavyweight Championship. Raw's main match saw Randy Orton defeat Shawn Michaels to keep his WWE Championship, and in ECW's title match, ECW Champion CM Punk kept his title against John Morrison and The Miz in a Triple Threat match .
Iyengar Yoga is a type of yoga named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar (1918-2014). It is a form of Hatha Yoga. It emphasizes detail, precision and alignment. It focuses performing postures (poses) and breath control. This type of yoga helps to develop strength, mobility and stability.  B. K. S. Iyengar has created over 200 yoga poses. Students start with simple poses and move on to more complex ones. Iyengar Yoga often uses belts, blocks, and blankets to help people get into the postures. By using belts, blocks and blankets, people are less likely to hurt themselves.
All Souls College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1438 by Henry VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele. The full name of the college is "The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford". All Souls does not have any undergraduate students. It only has graduate students. All Souls is one of the richest colleges at Oxford.
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a way to help people (or animals) change their behavior, according to the ideas of radical behaviorism. "Applied behavior analysis" is a way to help organisms change their behavior, and to identify the things in the person's environment that result in this behavior change. In ABA, a behavior is anything that a person or animal does. Applied behavior analysis is based on the scientific approach known as radical behaviorism, which says that people engage in behavior for reasons that can be understood by studying what happens before and after someone engages in the behavior and not by studying the person's thoughts and feelings. Instead, radical behaviorism says that thoughts and feelings are a type of behavior called private events. Private events are things that happen in a person's mind or body that other people can't see. Because private events are a type of behavior, they can also be understood by studying what happens before and after the private event happens. ABA is often used to treat a developmental disability called autism spectrum disorder, but ABA can help people without autism too. For example, ABA can be used to improve workplace safety. It can also help people with mental disorders, and other developmental disabilities. History. Scientific experiments and articles about ABA are published in the "Journal for Applied Behavior Analysis" (JABA.) This journal was founded in 1968. In the first issue of JABA, three people wrote an article explaining what Applied behavior analysis is. Psychologists who study the way the environment influences behavior are called behaviorists. They study the external causes of behavior instead of a person's feelings. A person's feelings can't be seen by other people, so behaviorists think they cannot be studied scientifically. Psychologist John B. Watson founded Behaviorism in 1913 and he is regarded as one of the first psychologists to study the applied science of behavior. He thought that internal feelings should not be studied at all. He also thought that behavior is shaped by the environment over time due to the outcome of a person's actions. He believed all behavior is learned and can be changed. If a person gets something good as a result of doing a behavior they are more likely to repeat that behavior. If something
The Queen Elizabeth Islands are a group of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. They are split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories.  In the past the islands were called Parry Archipelago or Parry Islands. They were named after British Arctic explorer Sir William Parry. In 1953 the islands were renamed after Elizabeth II. According to the "Atlas of Canada" there are 34 large and 2,092 small islands in the archipelago. Many of the islands are among the largest in the world. The largest island in the archipelago is Ellesmere Island. Less than 400 people live on the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Juan Cristobal Tapia de Veer also known as "Cristo", is a Chilean-born Canadian movie and television score composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal, QC, Canada. He is mostly known for his music to the British 6-part drama UTOPIA for which he won an RTS Craft Award in the best original score category in 2013. Early life. Cristo was born during the military coup d'état in Chile. First, his parents fled to Paris, France. While his father decided to stay there, his mother took him back to Chile. Life under Pinochet's dictatorship still proved impossible, so they found political refuge in Québec, Canada. Career. He obtained a master's degree in Classical Music (specialization in percussion) from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. In 2001 he got signed to Warner Music with his pop-band "One Ton", putting a hold on his classical career. The trio won the Canadian Dance Music Award (SOCAN) in 2003 with the electro-dance single "Supersex World". It was Cristo who produced the album. Movie &amp; TV scoring. In 2011, his music for the Victorian 4-part drama "The Crimson Petal and the White" (dir: Marc Munden, BBC2) totally surprised the audiences. Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe, U.S.: "The soundtrack ranges from gnawing electronic hums to choral ecstasy. It's all brilliantly, effectively, appropriately jarring, even if it sends the Masterpiece crowd to the medicine cabinet for Dramamine." His latest work is in the conspiracy thriller "UTOPIA" created by Dennis Kelly, that aired on Channel 4. A second series has already been commissioned. The Royal Television Society awarded him a Craft &amp; Design Awards for "best original music" in November 2013. He wrote music for a new TV-show called "Série Noire", written and directed by the writers of "Les Invincibles", released in January 2014 on Radio-Canada.
Eruption was a popular disco, R&amp;B and soul band in the 1970s and 1980s. It was created by German producer Frank Farian.
Survivor Series (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on November 26, 2006 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the 20th Survivor Series event held by WWE. In the main event for the SmackDown! brand, Batista defeated King Booker to win his second World Heavyweight Championship Three traditional Survivor Series matches took place. Also Mickie James defeated Lita with to win her second WWE Women's Championship. This was Lita's last match as a full-time wrestler.
"One Way Ticket" is song which was recorded by Eruption.  The song was reached #1 on Austria and Switzerland music charts.  This song is a cover version of song "One Way Ticket (To The Blues)" by Neil Sedaka.
Elitserien () is the men's bandy top division of Sweden since the 2007–2008 season. It consist of 14 teams, and is followed up by the Swedish championships playoffs, ending with one single final game. Season structure. The season starts with a regular season comprising 14 teams and 26 rounds. The first eight teams qualify for the quarter finals, the eleventh and twelfth plays a relegation round robin tournament against teams from the Allsvenskan and the last two teams are relegated.
Allsvenskan is the highest league of Swedish association football for men. Allsvenskan ("the all Swedish") is also the name of several Swedish sport leagues:
The determinant of a square matrix is a scalar (a number) that indicates how that matrix behaves. It can be calculated from the numbers in the matrix. The determinant of the matrix formula_1 is written as formula_2 or formula_3 in a formula. Sometimes, instead of formula_4 and formula_5, one simply writes formula_6 and formula_7. Interpretation. There are a few ways to understand what the determinant says about a matrix. Geometric interpretation. An formula_8 matrix can be seen as describing a linear map in formula_9 dimensions. In which case, the determinant indicates the factor by which this matrix scales (grows or shrinks) a region of formula_9-dimensional space. For example, a formula_11 matrix formula_1, seen as a linear map, will turn a square in 2-dimensional space into a parallelogram. That parallellogram's area will be formula_2 times as big as the square's area. In the same way, a formula_14 matrix formula_15, seen as a linear map, will turn a cube in 3-dimensional space into a parallelepiped. That parallelepiped's volume will be formula_16 times as big as the cube's volume. The determinant can be negative or zero. A linear map can stretch and scale a volume, but it can also reflect it over an axis. Whenever this happens, the sign of the determinant changes from positive to negative, or from negative to positive. A negative determinant means that the volume was mirrored over an odd number of axes. "System of equations" interpretation. One can think of a matrix as describing a system of linear equations. That system has a unique non-trivial solution "exactly" when the determinant is not 0 ("non-trivial" meaning that the solution is not just all zeros). If the determinant is zero, then there is either no unique non-trivial solution, or there are infinitely many. Singular matrices. A matrix has an inverse matrix exactly when the determinant is not 0. For this reason, a matrix with a non-zero determinant is called invertible. If the determinant is 0, then the matrix is called non-invert
Philip the Arab ( 204 – September 249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249 AD. Early life. Philip () was born in around 204. He got the name "Philip the Arab" ( or ). (The "Chronicon Paschale", a Greek chronicle, and the Latin historian Aurelius Victor each have different dates for Philip's birth.) He was the son of Julius Marinus. Philip was probably born in the city he later named Philippopolis, in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea (now the city of Shahba, Syria). Emperor. 244–245. Philip became emperor at the start of 244. (The "Justinianic Code"'s writing means that Philip became emperor after 13 January 244 and before 14 March the same year.) Philip's wife, Marcia Otacilia Severa, became "augusta" (empress) early in 244. After Philip became emperor, the Romans and the Sasanian Empire made peace. With this success, Philip got the name (or ) in the middle of 244. Philip came to Rome in 244, probably in early summer. 245–247. In 245, Philip was Roman consul for the first time. That year, the Romans went to war with the Carpi. On 12 November 245, Philip was at Aquae in Dacia (Vidonac, Serbia). Wars against the Carpi and Germanic peoples continued into 247. In 247, Philip was Roman consul for the second time. In late summer 247, Philip held a triumph in Rome. For his military success against the Carpi, Philip probably got the name at the end of 247. 247–249. In 248, Philip was Roman consul for the third time. In April 248, Philip held a festival for the one thousandth anniversary of Rome, a thousand years since Romulus became the first king of Rome. (The chronicle of the Latin historian Cassiodorus says that this started on 21 April and ended on the 23 April 248.) John Chrysostom wrote that unlike other pagan rulers of the Romans, Philip was tolerant to
Loneliness is a sad emotion that a person can feel if they are isolated or feel a sense of lack of friends and family members. Loneliness can make people feel anxious. People can feel lonely even if they are surrounded by a lot of other people. Loneliness can occur even to people in marriages, relationships, families and successful jobs. One cause of loneliness is a lack of friends during childhood and teenage years. Loneliness can also be caused by chronic depression. Loneliness can also be caused when a relationship or marriage ends.  Moreover, in the scenarios where you are the only who understands the whole picture, the person might learn few techniques and read self-help guides that can help in coping up with loneliness.  Loneliness is a theme in literature, going back to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The Great Gatsby is a drama movie released in 2013. It is based on the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The movie was an Australian-American production. It was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce. The main actors in it are Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher. This movie also has Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan in a cameo appearance.
The Siege of Tobruk was a battle in Libya during the North African Campaign of World War II. It lasted for 231 days. The battle was between Axis and Allied Forces. The battle started on 10 April 1941, when Tobruk was besieged by an Italian and Nazi German force commanded by Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel. The siege continued for 231 days up to 27 November 1941. On that date, the Allied 8th Army took control of Tobṟuk The reason that both sides wanted to control Tobruk is that it had a deep protected harbour. This made it a good place for ships to seek shelter. As well, the Italians had built fortifications. There were also escarpments and cliffs near Tobruk, which helped to protect the town from attack. The Allies wanted to control Tobruk so that they could defend Egypt and the Suez Canal. When the Axis armies could no longer use the port at Tobruk, they had to bring in supplies at the distant port of Tripoli. This required the Axis armies to bring the supplies by truck through of desert. After the Allies won Tobruk, the Axis armies continuted fighting to take it back. The Axis armies fired many artillery shells at Tobruk and dropped many bombs on the town.
The Battle of Berlin was the British bombing raid on Berlin during the Second World War from November 1943 to March 1944. British bombers had new navigation aids to help them, such as the new H2S radar, and Bomber Command made 16 attacks on the city. Although the bombings were mostly done by British bombers, Australian and Canadian bombers also flew to Germany. The Battle of Berlin was considered a failure for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It lost 1,047 bombers, with 1,682 more damaged, and over 7,000 air crew members. Also, the bombings did not cause the Germans to give up but left 450,000 of them homeless.
Survivor Series (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on November 27, 2005 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. It was the 19th Survivor Series event held by WWE. In the first of two main event matches, John Cena defeated Kurt Angle to keep his WWE Championship. The second main event was a 5-on-5 Survivor Series match, where Team SmackDown! (Batista, Rey Mysterio, John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL), Bobby Lashley, and Randy Orton) defeated Team Raw (Shawn Michaels, Kane, The Big Show, Carlito, and Chris Masters). In another match, Triple H defeated Ric Flair in a Last Man Standing match.