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Eugene McCabe (7 July 1930 – 27 August 2020) was a Scottish-born Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television screenwriter. He was born in Glasgow. He was known for his written works Cancer trilogy ("Cancer", "Heritage", "Siege") "Tales from the Poorhouse" and "King Of The Castle". His 1992 novel "Death and Nightingales" has been called by Irish writer Colm Tóibín "one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century" McCabe died on 27 August 2020 in London, aged 90.
The Drones were an Australian rock band, formed in Perth by mainstay lead vocalist and guitarist, Gareth Liddiard in 1997.  Their second album, "Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By" (April 2005), won the inaugural Australian Music Prize.  In October 2010 their third studio album, "Gala Mill" (September 2006) was listed at No. 21 in the book, "100 Best Australian Albums". Two of their albums have reached the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, "I See Seaweed" (March 2013) and "Feelin Kinda Free" (March 2016).  The group went on hiatus in December 2016 with Kitschin and Liddiard forming a new group, Tropical Fuck Storm, in the following year.
Arnaldo Saccomani (August 24, 1949 – August 27, 2020) was a Brazilian music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. A television personality, he was known for judging the reality shows "Ídolos" and "Qual é o Seu Talento?". Saccomani died on August 27, 2020 from renal failure caused by diabetes at a hospital in Indaiatuba, Brazil at the age of 71.
Jacob S. Blake is a 29-year-old African-American man who was shot by police in August 2020. He was hit by four of seven shots fired at his back during an arrest by police officer Rusten Sheskey. Blake did not die, but he cannot move his body below his waist. He is paralyzed. The shooting happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2020, as officers were attempting to arrest Blake. There was an arrest warrant against Blake for criminal trespass, domestic abuse, and sexual assault.  During the encounter, Blake was tasered and scuffled with officers. He was shot as he opened the driver's door to his SUV and leaned in. Three of Blake's sons were in the backseat.  The shooting was followed by protests, property damage, arson, and shooting deaths in downtown Kenosha. Both the state of Wisconsin and the U.S. federal government decided not to charge police officer Rusten Sheskey with a crime for the shooting.
In August 2020, in the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting, protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States and elsewhere occurred as part of the larger Black Lives Matter movement and reactions to other high-profile police killings of unarmed Black people in 2020.  Protests. After police shot Jacob Blake, many people protested in Kenosha. It was not wholly a peaceful protest. Some people broke into shops and stole the things inside. Some shops were burned down. Armed civilian counter-protesters also came, some of them from other states. They said they wanted to protect businesses. Responses. On August 24, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers activated the Wisconsin National Guard to protect fire fighters and critical infrastructure in Kenosha. On August 25, one of the civilian volunteers shot three people, two of whom were later pronounced dead. The shooter was a 17 year old named Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse later walked towards police vehicles with his hands up and still armed with a semi-automatic rifle, but the police vehicles drove past him. Both the men he killed, Anthon Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, were white. Many conservatives thought Rittenhouse did not deserve to go to prison, and an online fund for his $2 million bail was filled. Trial. Kyle Rittenhouse's trial is scheduled to start on November 1. He is charged with homicide: first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He is also charged with carrying a weapon even though he was under 18 years old, which is illegal in that state. The largest punishment he could get is life in prison.
Joseph Melton James (October 3, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American professional wrestler. In 2011, he was honored into the WWE Hall of Fame. He wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In his 50 year career, Armstrong held many championships throughout the Southeastern United States. He was born in Marietta, Georgia. His four sons, Joseph, Robert Bradley, Steve and Brian, all became wrestlers. Armstrong died on August 27, 2020 in Pensacola, Florida from bone cancer at the age of 80.
Jay is a town in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 524 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The University of West Florida (West Florida or UWF) is a public university in Pensacola, Florida. It was opened in 1963 as a member institution of the State University System of Florida. It is a research university without faculties of law or medicine, a space-grant institution, and the third largest campus in the State University System, at .  The main campus is a natural preserve that is bordered by two rivers and Escambia Bay. The university's mascot is an argonaut and its logo is the chambered nautilus.
Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (September 22, 1934 – August 27, 2020) was an American Hall of Fame basketball coach. He was born in Mayville, North Dakota. He was also honored in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (2006) and re-inducted in the class of 2019.  He was the head coach of the University of Arizona's men's team for 25 years. He was also head coach at the University of Iowa for nine years and California State University, Long Beach for one season. On October 23, 2008, Olson announced his retirement from coaching. Olson died on August 27, 2020 under hospice care in Tucson, Arizona from stroke-related problems at the age of 85.
Anthony Provenzano (May 7, 1917 – December 12, 1988), also known as Tony Pro, was an American mobster. He was a member of the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction. Provenzano was known for his dealings with Teamsters Union director Jimmy Hoffa due to Provenzano's job as an International Brotherhood of Teamsters president for Local 560 in Union City, New Jersey. He was born in New York City. On December 12, 1988, Provenzano died of a heart attack at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary in Lompoc, California, aged 71.
Avalanche Express is a 1979 Irish American action adventure thriller movie directed by Mark Robson and was based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Colin Forbes. It stars Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Joe Namath, Horst Buchholz, Mike Connors, Claudio Cassinelli, Sky du Mont, David Hess, Günter Meisner and Cyril Shaps and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Dan Yochum (August 19, 1950 – August 26, 2020) was an American-Canadian offensive lineman. He played for the Montreal Alouettes from 1972 to 1980. He played for the Edmonton Eskimos in 1980. He played for the Canadian Football League. He won three Grey Cups for the Alouettes. He was a four-time CFL All-Star. Yochum was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Yochum was added to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2004. Yochum died on August 26, 2020 at the age of 70.
George Harvey Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He played Leadville Johnny in the Broadway musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and its movie version. He appeared in "Fargo" (1996), "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), and "Flags of Our Fathers" (2006). In 1965, he won a Golden Globe Award. Presnell died on June 30, 2009, aged 75, from pancreatic cancer at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.
Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and writer. He is best known for his roles as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series "The O.C." from 2003 to 2007, as Deputy Chief William Dodds on "", Stacey Koons on the Showtime comedy-drama "Californication", and Nick on the Netflix series "Grace &amp; Frankie".
Cao Chunan (; August 15, 1930 – August 27, 2020) was a Chinese scientist. His works focused in corrosion and electrochemistry. He was a member of the Jiusan Society. In 1991, he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cao was born in Changshu County, Jiangsu. Cao died on August 27, 2020 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang at the age of 90.
Józefa Maria Hennelowa (1 April 1925 – 22 August 2020) was a Polish publicist, journalist and politician. She was born in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). As a journalist, she worked for "Tygodnik Powszechny". Hennelowa was a member of the Sejm from 1989 to 1993. Hennelowa died in Krakow, Poland on 22 August 2020, aged 95.
Mas'ud Yunus (1 January 1952 – 27 August 2020) was an Indonesian politician. He was born in Mojokerto, East Java. Yunus was a member of the Democratic Party of Struggle. Between 2013 to 2018, he was mayor of Mojokerto.  Yunus died on 27 August 2020 at a hospital in Mojokerto from COVID-19, aged 68.
Chaim Dov Keller (1930August 17, 2020) was an American Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and journalist. He was the co-founder and co-rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago. He wrote in Haredi newspapers such as the "Yated Ne'eman" in the United States. He was born in New York City. Keller was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020. He died on August 17, 2020 in Chicago, aged 90.
David Simon is an American journalist, screenwriter and producer.  Biography. David Simon's journalistic career began with articles in the school newspaper. After graduating from college in 1983, he came to "The Baltimore Sun", where he worked for twelve years. In the newspaper, Simon dealt with criminal issues.  In 1991, his first documentary, "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The book was based on his experiences shadowing the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit during 1988." Focusing on work in the series. Simon left the newspaper in 1995.  Simon was the creator, show runner, executive producer and head writer of the HBO drama series "The Wire".  Simon produced and wrote "Generation Kill" for HBO with Ed Burns.The miniseries is an adaption of the non-fiction book of the same name. It relates the first 40 days of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as experienced by 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and their embedded reporter, Evan Wright.  In 2014, HBO greenlit production for Simon's next project "Show Me a Hero." The miniseries is an adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin and tells the story of Nick Wasicsko, the youngest big-city mayor in the nation who finds himself thrust into racial controversy when a federal court orders to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers, New York.  Simon is married to writer Laura Lippman.
Davies' tree frog ("Ranoidea daviesae") is a tree frog from Australia. They live on the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales. The adult male frog is 5.3 cm long and the adult female is 6.3 cm long. This frog is gold-brown in color. Some frogs have green patches. It has a dark stripe from its nose over its eye and down its body. This frog has ears that are hard to see. It has fewer warts than other frogs in its family. Davies' tree frog tadpoles are different from other tadpoles. Their mouths have no beaks or teeth. There are fewer Davies' tree frogs than there were. The IUCN Red List says they are a vulnerable species. Scientists say there are fewer Davies' tree frogs because human beings have changed their places where they live from forests, because of predators, and because there are not enough Davies' tree frogs in one place for them to find unrelated partners and make healthy offspring. They also think the fungus disease chytridiomycosis could kill Davies' tree frogs but no scientist had seen any frogs sick with it as of 2007.
iNaturalist is an American website where people post scientific information about plants, animals and other living things. Usually, they send photographs of which living things they saw and say where and when they saw them. iNaturalist works by crowdsourcing, by asking many, many people to work on the project. Some of the people who send information to iNaturalist are professional scientists and some are citizen scientists, ordinary people who want to help scientific projects. iNaturalist sends information to International Union for the Conservation of Nature and other projects that watch endangered animals and other populations. iNaturalist users can help park rangers and other people who work in forests find and identify invasive species, for example kudzu. According to one park ranger from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the United States, rangers usually already know an invasive plant is in their park, but iNaturalist and programs like it help them find out exactly where it is. Then they can gather people to remove it. Parks, conservation programs and research teams in many countries have used iNaturalist, for example the United States, Canada and New Zealand. History. Students at the University of California at Berkeley founded iNaturalist in 2008. It was a master's thesis project. Since 2014, the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society have run iNaturalist together. Platform. People use their smart phones to look at or send information to iNaturalist, usually photographs. Then other users on the website figure out what the is in the picture. Seek. In 2020, iNaturalist launched a smaller program called Seek. Users with Seek can point their phones at a plant or animal and the program will try to tell them its name. According to iNature's Tony Iwane, "Seek's machine-learning model is based entirely on observations from . . the iNaturalist community, so it's really the hard work of thousands and thousands of people on iNaturalist that enables Seek to function."
Prezi is a cloud presentation software developed in 2009. The service uses a zoomable user interface that allows you to operate data in 2.5 D and Parallax.  Prezi is used by 50 million users and 80% of Fortune Global 500 companies. The project was created in Budapest, and the very name "prezi" translated from Hungarian — abbreviated form of the word "presentation".  History. The Prezi project (or Prezi.com) was created with the help of Kitchen Budapest and Magyar Telekom. Immediately after its launch, the company entered the international market.  During the first year, the company had virtually no funding. After 18 months in April 2009, Prezi launched in Budapest, and 5 months later opened an office in San Francisco. The founders of the company won a prize in the European competition of startups The Europas in the nomination "Best founder and co-founder of a startup". Among investors   — Sunstone Capital, TED Conferences, and Accel Partners.  A Prezi iPhone app was launched in late 2012.  In March 2014, Prezi pledged $100M in free licenses to Title 1 schools as part of the Obama administration's ConnectED program  Prezi for Android was launched in 2015, and in June 2016.  Products. Prezi is developed on Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR and Django, but since 2014 it is also possible to work on JavaScript.  The product has become extremely popular in education systems and among universities. It is used, in particular, by The Guardian and the TED conference.  Platforms. The company runs on the Freemium model, so free users should publish their presentations publicly on the Prezi website. There is a paid service that avoids this.  Prezi Viewer is a program designed for the iPad that allows you to view presentations created on the Prezi Desktop. Up to 10 users can participate in Prezi Collaborate at the same time.  Nutshell. The entertainment application Nutshell for iPhone allows you to glue photos into a comics with moving elements.  Nutshell creates a small square clip based on three images, which can then be posted to Instagram or Twitter.
Blackadder is a British sitcom that first broadcast on BBC1 between 1983 and 1989. There were four parts to the sitcom. All of them were set in different parts of history. All of the series starred Rowan Atkinson, as Edmund Blackadder; and Tony Robinson, as Baldrick. The four series were "The Blackadder", set at the end of the British Middle Ages; "Blackadder II", set in England during Queen Elizabeth I's rule; "Blackadder the Third", set during the British Regency; and "Blackadder Goes Forth", set during World War I. "Blackadder Goes Forth" was at number 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, which was a list made by the British Film Institute. "Blackadder" was at number 2 in the TV poll Britain's Best Sitcom in 2004. "Empire" magazine said it was the 9th-best television show of all time. Rowan Atkinson said "Blackadder" is "the thing he found the least stressful" to do.
The George Polk Awards in Journalism are American journalism awards given every year by Long Island University in the U.S. state of New York. A writer for a PBS group blog named the awards as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything". In 1949, Long Island University started the awards in memory of CBS journalist George Polk. Polk was murdered in 1948 while reporting on the Greek Civil War. In 2009, former "New York Times" editor John Darnton was named curator of the George Polk Awards.
is an anime television series. MAPPA, Avex Pictures and Cygames produced the anime. It aired in Japan between October 4 and December 20, 2018. It aired on AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, BS11, Saga TV, and TVQ. Munehisa Sakai is the director. Shigeru Murakoshi is the writer. MAPPA is the animator. Plot. In 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto plans to become an idol. However, a truck kills her on the morning she goes to submit her application. Ten years later, Sakura is one of seven "legendary" girls from many parts of Japanese history who return as zombies in an idol group known as . They are brought back to life by a man who plans to revive Saga Prefecture.           Production. Cygames announced the anime on July 5, 2018. On August 31, 2018, voice actor Mamoru Miyano announced the anime's cast members. Crunchyroll streamed the Japanese version with English subtitles. Funimation simulcasted an English version of the anime. A second season, titled "Zombie Land Saga Revenge", was announced on July 27, 2019. Music. The opening theme song is . The ending theme song is . Both songs are sung by Franchouchou (Kaede Hondo, Asami Tano, Risa Taneda, Maki Kawase, Rika Kinugawa, and Minami Tanaka).  Reception. The opening theme song, "Adabana Necromancy", charted at #13 in the Oricon Singles Chart on December 10, 2018. It charted at #1 in the Billboard Japan Download Songs chart on the same day. One of the anime's characters, Lily Hoshikawa, is transgender. "Anime News Network" named the revelation of Lily's gender identity as "the [eighth] episode's biggest talking point". "The Daily Dot" named Lily as "trans Twitter’s latest role model". "Zombie Land Saga" won the 2019 Tokyo Anime Awards Festival award for Animation of the Year. Other media. A manga adaptation by
The 2nd season of The Simpsons first started showing on the Fox network from October 11, 1990 to July 11, 1991. It has 22 episodes. The season started with the episode "Bart Gets an "F"" and ended with "Blood Feud". The season was first put on DVD for Region 1 on August 6, 2002, Region 2 on July 8, 2002, and Region 4 on July 24, 2002. The season's executive producers were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. They were the executive producers for the first season. The episode "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" won a Primetime Emmy Award. Production. "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" was the first episode made in the season. "Bart Gets an "F"" was broadcast first because Bart Simpson was liked by many people in 1990. The 2nd season had a new opening sequence. It was shorter than the one before (which was about 90 seconds). In the opening sequence before, it showed Bart taking a bus stop sign. The opening sequence in the 2nd season shows Bart skateboarding past characters that were shown in the first season. There were three opening sequences made for this season. One was 75 seconds, one was 45 seconds, and one was 25 seconds. This was done so that editors of "The Simpsons" could do more with the length of each episode. Many new characters were first shown in this season: Mayor Quimby, Kang and Kodos, Maude Flanders, Bill and Marty, Dr. Hibbert, Roger Meyers, Jr., Sideshow Mel, Lionel Hutz, Dr. Nick Riviera, the Blue Haired Lawyer, Rainier Wolfcastle, Troy McClure, Groundskeeper Willie, Hans Moleman, Professor Frink, and Comic Book Guy. Ratings. After the first season, Fox moved showings of "The Simpsons" from Sundays to Thursday so that more people would see it. It was to be shown on 8:00 PM, which
The Book of the City of Ladies or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (published in 1405), is perhaps Christine de Pizan's most famous literary work. Pizan originally wrote Le Livre de la Cité des Dames in Middle French but it was later translated into English (1999). The book serves as her formal response to Jean de Meun's popular "Roman de la Rose". Pizan combats Meun's statements about women by creating an allegorical city of ladies. She defends women by collecting a wide array of famous women throughout history. These women are "housed" in the City of Ladies, which is an imaginary city from the book. As Pizan builds her city, she uses each famous woman as a building block for the walls and houses of the city. Each woman added to the city adds to Pizan's argument towards women as valued participants in society. She also advocates in favour of education for woman. Summary. Part I. Part I opens with Christine reading from Matheolus's Lamentations, a work from the thirteenth century that addresses marriage wherein the author writes that women make men's lives miserable. Upon reading these words, Christine becomes upset and feels ashamed to be a woman. The three Virtues then appear to Christine, and tell her that she has been chosen by god to create a city for woman. Part II. In Part II, Lady Rectitude says she will help Christine "construct the houses and buildings inside the walls of the City of Ladies" and fill it with inhabitants who are "valiant ladies of great renown". As they build, Lady Rectitude tells Christine stories of powerful woman that will be housed inside the city. Lady Rectitude also refutes allegations that women are unchaste, inconstant, unfaithful, and mean by nature through her stories. This part closes with Christine addressing women and asking them to pray for her as she continues her work with Lady Justice to complete the city. Part III. In Part III, Lady Justice joins with Christine to "add the finishing touches" to the city, including bringing a queen to rule the city. Lady Justice tells Christine of female saints who
My Joy is a 2010 German Ukrainian Dutch road drama movie directed by Sergei Loznitsa and starring Victor Nemets, Olga Shuvalova, Vladimir Golovin, Maria Versami, and Vlad Ivanov.
Chadwick Aaron Boseman (November 29, 1976August 28, 2020) was an American actor, playwright, and film producer. He was known for his roles as Jackie Robinson in "42" (2013), James Brown in "Get on Up" (2014), Thurgood Marshall in "Marshall" (2017) and as Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including "Black Panther" (2018). He also starred and produced the 2019 thriller movie "21 Bridges". In 2021, Boseman posthumously won a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Levee Green in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". He is also nominated posthumously for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Chadwick died at his home in Los Angeles from colon cancer on August 28, 2020 at the age of 43.He had been battling the disease since 2016, even though the film studios did not know.