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Laura Regan (born 17 October 1977) is a Canadian actress. She has had leading and supporting roles in the films "Saving Jessica Lynch" (2003), "My Little Eye" (2002), "They" (2002), "Dead Silence" (2007), and "" (2014). She had a recurring role as Jennifer Crane in the TV series "Mad Men" and starred as Agatha on "Minority Report" (2015). Personal life. Regan was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the youngest in a family of seven. Regan is the daughter of Anita Carole Regan (née Harrison) and former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan, and sister of Geoff Regan, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and former federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and "Live at Five's" Nancy Regan. Her maternal grandfather was Saskatchewan MP John Harrison. Career. Regan's first role was in M. Night Shyamalan's "Unbreakable". She landed her first starring role in Robert Harmon's "They".
Cheril Krishna Menon alias C. K. Menon, (18 September 1949 – 1 October 2019) was an Indian businessman and philanthropist. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Behzad Corporation, headquartered in Doha, Qatar. He was awarded the 2006 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman. Menon was honored again by the Government of India, in 2009, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. He was born in Thrissur, Kerala. Menon died at a hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 1 October 2019 at the age of 70.
Eric Pleskow (April 24, 1924 – October 1, 2019) was an Austrian-born American movie producer. He was President of the movie studios United Artists and Orion Pictures. He was born in Vienna. Under his presidency at United Artists, the company won the Academy Award for Best Picture three years in a row: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Rocky" (1976) and "Annie Hall" (1977). In 1978, Pleskow left United Artists and built up Orion Pictures, which he ran until 1992. Their greatest successes under his management were "Amadeus", "Dances with Wolves" and "The Silence of the Lambs". From 1998 until his death, he was the President of the Vienna International Film Festival. Pleskow died on October 1, 2019 in Westport, Connecticut at the age of 95.
The Vienna International Film Festival, or Viennale, is a movie festival taking place every October since 1960 in Vienna, Austria. The average number of visitors is about 75,000. At the end of the festival, the "Vienna Film Prize" is awarded. During the festival, the "Fipresci Prize" is awarded by international movie critics. Another prize is awarded by the readers of the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard".
Arto Tchakmakchian (, 26 June 1933 – 1 October 2019) was an Egyptian-born Canadian-Armenian sculptor and painter. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was awarded by the Armenian Order of Honor in 2015. He was born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in Yerevan, Armenia. His career was based in Montreal, Canada. In 1984 Tchakmaktchian won First Prize in the Wilfrid Pelletier Competition in Montreal for his bust of the competition's namesake. The work is on permanent display in the entrance hall of Place des Arts in Montreal. His works have also been exhibited at known museums internationally, notably in the Louvre. A notable exhibition was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in 2010. Tchakmakchian died on 1 October 2019 in Montreal at the age of 86.
Turkish delight or lokum is a type of sweet originating from modern day Turkey and Iran. It is mainly made out of rose water and several types of nuts. Traditionally they are served after a meal with Turkish coffee. There are a variety different flavours of Lokum, for example rose water, lemon and chocolate. It is very popular throughout the Middle East and the Balkans.
George Docking (February 23, 1904 – January 20, 1964) was the 35th Governor of Kansas, serving between 1957 and 1961. Biography. Docking was born in Clay Center, Kansas. Docking was educated in the public schools of Lawrence, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1925. He married Mary Virginia Blackwell, and they had two children. Career. Docking was elected Governor of Kansas in 1956. He was elected again in 1958. This makes him the first member of the Democratic Party to serve more than a single term as governor in Kansas.  Death and legacy. Docking died from emphysema in 1964 in a hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. He is interred at the Highland Park Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas.
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Biography. Early life and education. Evans was born on November 10, 1933, in St. Francis, Kansas. His parents were Clarence Ellwin Evans (1911–1985) and Marie A. Evans (; 1913–1992). He had two siblings, Larry Joe Evans (1935–1951) and Jay Evans. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America. He achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He graduated from Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas in 1951. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1956. He received a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1964. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi, Society of Sigma Xi, and Sigma Nu. NASA career. Evans was one of the 19 astronauts chosen by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 7 and Apollo 11 flights. He was in the backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 14. Later years. Evans retired from NASA in March 1977. He wanted to get a career in the coal industry. Later, he worked with Western American Energy Corporation in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was Director of Space Systems Marketing for Sperry Flight Systems. He died in his sleep of a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona, on April 7, 1990. He was survived by his widow Jan, his daughter, Jaime D. Evans (born August 21, 1959), and his son, Jon P. Evans (born October 9, 1961).
Daniel Ricardo Manning (born May 17, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and retired NBA player. He is the current men's head coach at Wake Forest. Manning played high school basketball at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas, college basketball at The University of Kansas, and played in the NBA for 14 years. After he retired from professional basketball, Manning became an assistant coach at the University of Kansas. He won the national championship with the Jayhawks in 1988 as a player. He won it again as an assistant in 2008. He is the all-time leading scorer in Kansas basketball history with 2,951 points. The next closest player to his point total is Nick Collison, who is 854 points behind Manning. Early life. Manning is the son of Ed Manning, who was a longtime NBA and ABA player and professional and college coach. When he was a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, Manning averaged 18.8 points and nine rebounds per game. He led the Pirates to a 26–0 record and the state title. When Ed Manning became an assistant coach at the University of Kansas before Manning's senior year, the family moved to Lawrence, Kansas. Manning went to Lawrence High School. While he was there as a senior, he was named Kansas Player of the Year. While in Lawrence High, Manning played along future United States federal judge Sri Srinivasan. College coaching. Wake Forest. On April 4, 2014, Manning agreed to become the head coach at Wake Forest University. Personal life. Manning is the son of former NBA player, Ed Manning. Manning's own son, Evan, accepted a walk-on invitation for the men's basketball team at Kansas for the 2012–13 season. His daughter, Taylor, is a member of the Kansas volleyball team.
A crystal oscillator, or system crystal, is a part of a computer. The computer uses it like a clock to keep track of time. It makes use of the mechanical resonance of the vibrating crystal, which has piezoelectric properties, in order to obtain an electric signal with a high-precision frequency. Crystal oscillators are considered superior to ceramic resonators as they have higher stability, higher quality, lower cost and are smaller in size. These oscillators are usually made of Quartz crystal, even though other substances like Rochelle salt and Tourmaline exhibit the piezoelectric effect because, quartz is inexpensive, naturally-available and mechanically-strong when compared to others.
In math, a linear combination is the sum of multiplying each value in a set by a constant. Example. For a set formula_1, the linear combination can be anything in the pattern formula_2. In this example, formula_3 and formula_4 are the constants.
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, (b. April 24, 1975) is the wife of the 23rd prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.  She is a former television host. Trudeau is involved in charity work and public speaking. She focuses mainly on women's and children’s issues.  On March 12, 2020, Grégoire isolated herself, along with her husband, after she showed flu-like symptoms during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The Prime Minister's Office announced later that day that she had tested positive for COVID-19. She had recovered by March 28. On August 2, 2023, Trudeau and Grégoire's separation was announced. According to the Daily Mail, "Sophie Grégoire Trudeau 're-partnered' with an Ottawa pediatric surgeon months before her shock separation from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was announced, according to allegations in a divorce claim made against the doctor."
A sarcoma is a cancer that comes from transformed cells of mesenchymal (connective tissue) origin. Connective tissue is a term that includes bone, cartilage, fat, vascular, or hematopoietic tissues, and sarcomas can arise in any of these types of tissues. As a result, there are many subtypes of sarcoma. The word sarcoma is derived from the Greek σάρξ "sarx" meaning "flesh".
Clear-cell sarcoma is a rare form of cancer called sarcoma. It is known to happen mainly in the soft tissues and dermis.  Recurrence is common. Clear cell sarcoma of the soft tissues in adults is not related to the pediatric tumor known as clear cell sarcoma of the kidney.
A synovial sarcoma (also known as: malignant synovioma) is a rare form of cancer which occurs mainly in the arms or legs, and affects tissue around the joints. It is a slow growing cancer and a type of soft-tissue sarcoma. The name "synovial sarcoma" was created early in the 20th century, as some researchers thought that the microscopic similarity of some tumors to synovium. It affects about 1,000 people each year. It is most often seen in people under age 30 and more common in males. The survival rate is 75% at 1 years to 45% at 5 years, but this does not mean a patient with synovial sarcoma will only live from 1 to 5 years. Unfortunately, synovial sarcoma can come back many years later.
The New York Post (sometimes abbreviated as NY Post) is a daily newspaper in New York City. The "Post" also runs the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com and the entertainment site Decider.com, and produces the television show "Page Six TV". It was created in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch, creator of Fox News, bought the "Post" for US$30.5 million.  Since 1993, the "Post" has been owned by News Corporation and its replacement, News Corp. Its distribution ranked 4th in the US in 2018.
Martin Bernheimer (September 28, 1936 – September 29, 2019) was a German-born American music critic. Bernheimer was born in Munich. He studied at Brown University. He worked for the "New York Post" and "The Los Angeles Times". During his thirty years with that paper, he was twice the recipient of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award (1974 and 1978) and in 1982 won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Bernheimer died one day after his 83rd birthday on September 29, 2019 of sarcoma at his Manhattan home.
Peter Brett Cullen (born August 26, 1956) is an American actor. He was born in Houston, Texas. Cullen played Dan Fixx in the 1980s CBS drama "Falcon Crest" for two seasons (1986–88). In 2009, he had a recurring role in the ABC Family television series "Make It or Break It". In 2011, he played stepfather to Selena Gomez's character in the romantic comedy "Monte Carlo", and in 2012, appeared as a congressman in the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises". In 2019, Cullen starred as Thomas Wayne in the 2019 movie "Joker".
The Suicide Squad, also known as Suicide Squad 2, is an American superhero movie based on the DC Comics antihero team Suicide Squad. It is being distributed Warner Bros. Pictures. It is a standalone sequel to "Suicide Squad" (2016) and the eleventh movie in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The movie, written and directed by James Gunn, stars Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Jai Courtney, Daniela Melchior, Joel Kinnaman, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Pete Davidson, Sylvester Stallone, Storm Reid, Taika Waititi, Sean Gunn, David Dastmalchian, Peter Capaldi, and Viola Davis. Principal photography began on September 20, 2019, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Filming in Atlanta is expected to last three months before moving to Panama for a month. "The Suicide Squad" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on August 6, 2021.
Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Henry in "" (1986), Terry Cruger in "Sea of Love" (1989), Rowdy Burns in "Days of Thunder" (1990), Bill Broussard in "JFK" (1991), Hal Tucker in "Cliffhanger" (1993), Jared Svenning in "Mallrats" (1995), Merle Dixon in AMC's "The Walking Dead" (2010–2013) and Yondu Udonta in "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014) and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017).
James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, musician, and the current co-CEO of DC Studios alongside producer Peter Safran. He is known for directing the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014) and its sequels, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017) and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (2023), and the DC Extended Universe movie "The Suicide Squad" (2021) and the spin-off television series "Peacemaker" (2022). He is also known for writing both "Scooby-Doo" (2002) and "" (2004).
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Always known as just "Tallula", she was one of the most famous actresses of her time. She was born into a wealthy and influential Alabama family. Her father was a leading 'Southern Democrat', and in the 1930s became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was a childhood friend of Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tallula was an actress from the beginning to the end of her life. She acted in nearly 300 film, stage, television, and radio roles. Her personal life was wild. She struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction. She was infamous for her sex life, which included both men and women.  Tallulah was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972, and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.  In her 1932 movie "Devil and the Deep" there were three major co-stars, with Tallulah getting top billing over Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, and Cary Grant. David O. Selznick, producer of "Gone with the Wind" (1939) called her the "first choice among established stars" to play Scarlett O'Hara. According to a memo from Selznick, November 11, 1936: Bankhead is first choice among established stars – and many votes coming in for her. Although her screen test for the role in black-and-white was superb, she photographed poorly in Technicolor. Selznick also thought that at age 36, she was too old to play Scarlett, who is 16 at the beginning of the film. The role eventually went to Vivien Leigh. Also notable was her performance in the Alfred Hitchcock film "Lifeboat" (1943–1944). It was her best on film and won her the New York Film Critics Circle award.  Onstage, Tallula appeared in a revival of Noël Coward's "Private Lives", taking it on tour and then to Broadway for the better part of two years. The play's run made her a fortune. On her death, she was worth $2 million, a vast sum in those days.
Eloisa Cianni, born Eloisa Aloisa Stukin Cianni (Rome, 21 June 1932), is a former Italian actress elected Miss Italy 1952 and Miss Europa 1953. Biography. After being elected, Miss Italy in 1952 in Merano, and Miss Europe in 1953 in Istanbul, she got a part in the film "Villa Borghese" directed by Gianni Franciolini, imposing herself for her beauty and charm. Linked by friendship with the stylist Vincenzo Ferdinandi, she posed for him on the catwalk and in multiple photo shoots. In the next ten years she continued to work in the cinema and as model until she gave up his film career when she was not yet even thirty.
This is a list of episodes of "My Dear Heart" which aired on ABS-CBN's "Primetime Bida" evening block from January 23, 2017 to June 16, 2017. The series was directed by Jerome Chavez Pobocan and Jojo A. Saguin. Series overview. &lt;onlyinclude&gt;
Nephrology (from Greek" nephros" "kidney", combined with the suffix "-logy", "the study of") is a specialty of medicine and pediatric medicine that about the kidneys. It is the study of normal kidney function and kidney disease, the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal replacement therapy (dialysis and kidney transplantation). The term "nephrology" was first used in about 1960. Before then, the specialty was usually referred to as "kidney medicine."
The Whamola is a bass instrument used in funk-jazz styles of music. The name is a portmanteau of whammy bar and viola. The Whamola is a direct descendant of the washtub bass, an American folk instrument popular with skiffle and jug bands, and features a single string which is manipulated via a pulley-and-lever system.
In medicine, a stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent. "Stent" is also used as a verb to describe the placement of such a device, particularly when a disease such as atherosclerosis has pathologically narrowed a structure such as an artery. A stent is different from a shunt. A shunt is a tube that connects two previously unconnected parts of the body to allow fluid to flow between them. Stents and shunts can be made of similar materials but perform two different tasks.
Joseph Roger Bismuth (4 November 1926 – 1 October 2019) was a Tunisian businessman and politician. He was elected into the newly formed upper chamber, the Chamber of Advisors in July 2005. He was also a member of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, formed in 2002. He founded the Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce.  Bismuth died in Tunis on 1 October 2019 at the age of 92.
Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech pop singer. He was thought to be the most successful male singer in the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual "Český slavík" over forty times, most recently in 2017. Gott was born in Pilsen, Czech Republic.  100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states (the Czech Republic and Slovakia). In 1968, he competed in the Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Tausend Fenster". On 12 September 2019 it was announced that Gott was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He died on 1 October 2019 from the disease at a Prague hospital at the age of 80.
Peter George Sissons (17 July 1942 – 1 October 2019) was an English broadcast journalist. He was the presenter of the "BBC Nine O'Clock News" and the "BBC Ten O'Clock News" between 1993 and 2003, and earlier a newscaster for ITN. He also presented the BBC's "Question Time" programme. He retired from the BBC in 2009. Sissons died at the age of 77 on 1 October 2019, at the Maidstone Hospital in Kent.
Mathew Knowles (born 1952) is an American record executive, talent manager, and businessman. He is best known for being the manager of Destiny's Child. He also managed his daughters Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. He is the ex-husband of Tina Knowles and father-in-law of Jay-Z. He was born in Gadsden, Alabama. In October 2019, Knowles announced that he is suffering from male breast cancer.
Célestine Ann Beyoncé (born January 4, 1954), known as Tina Knowles-Lawson, is an American businesswoman and fashion designer. She is known for her House of Deréon and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles fashion brands. She is the mother of singers Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. Until 2011, she was married to Mathew Knowles, the manager of Destiny's Child as well as Beyoncé.
Richard Lee Lawson (born March 7, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in movies and on television. Lawson is perhaps best known for his roles as Ryan in the 1982 movie "Poltergeist" and Dr. Ben Taylor in the 1983 NBC miniseries "V". He served 21 months in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and was wounded in action.
Stanley Frank "Tiny" Hill (9 April 1927 – 2 October 2019) was a New Zealand rugby union player and selector. Hill represented Canterbury and Counties. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1955 to 1959. He played 19 matches for the All Blacks, two of which were as captain, including 11 internationals.  After retiring as a player, Hill was New Zealand Army and Canterbury selector, and as an All Black selector from 1981 to 1986. Hill was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand. In 1996, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Hill died in Rolleston, New Zealand on 2 October 2019 at the age of 92.
Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi, better known as H. L. Trivedi, (31 August 1932 – 2 October 2019) was an Indian nephrologist, immunologist, transplantation medicine and stem cell researcher. He was a known physician of transplantation medicine in India. He was a founding director of the Kidney Hospital in Ahmedabad. He performed more than 5200 kidney transplantations. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015. He was born in present-day Gujarat, India. Trivedi died on 2 October 2019 in Ahmedabad, India from Parkinson's disease-related problems at the age of 87.
Mordicai Gerstein (November 24, 1935 – September 24, 2019) was an American artist, writer, and movie director. He was best known for illustrating and writing children's books. He illustrated the comic mystery fiction series "Something Queer is Going On". He directed the NBC television movie "The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree". He won the 2004 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers", which he also wrote. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Gerstein died on September 24, 2019 in Westhampton, Massachusetts of cancer at the age of 83.
The 2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis began when President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru on 30 September 2019. Congress responded by declaring Vizcarra's presidency suspended and appointed Vice President Mercedes Aráoz as interim president, moves that were largely seen as null and void. The next day, on 1 October 2019, Aráoz announced her resignation while Vizcarra issued a decree for legislative elections to be held on 26 January 2020.