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Wilful Blindness (2021 book)
Wilful Blindness is an investigative book by Sam Cooper into the influence of soft power of China in Vancouver, Canada. It builds upon Project Sidewinder report from the RCMP and the CSIS and specifically focuses on "The Vancouver Model". Cooper's investigation claims the operation started during the World Expo in 1986 in Vancouver, and that the United Front Work Department, Chinese triads, and the Big Circle Boys laundered fentanyl drug money through Vancouver area casinos such as the Parq and River Rocks casino, corrupting government agencies, spies, influencers, and Canadian society. Leading to Vancouver's housing market bubble and destabilization of the western world with the opioid epidemic.

Parq Vancouver
Parq Casino is a mixed-use development located adjacent to BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia. The three towers house four-star hotels JW Marriott, The Douglas (an Autograph Collection hotel), a two-floor casino, eight restaurants and lounges which seat 846, a 2,800-square-metre (30,000 sq ft) open space on level 6 and 5,800 square metres (62,000 sq ft) of event space.

The two-floor casino at Parq Casino has 600 slot machines and 75 gaming tables, the same as at the former Edgewater Casino, which was located across the street at the Plaza of Nations. The Parq casino opened on September 29, 2017, the same day the Edgewater closed. The Parc Casino plans to add 300 more slot machines to increase the number of slot machines to 900.

Entrance lobby

The Douglas level 6 lobby

The Park on level 6

JW Marriott Parq Vancouver
Leslie Grossman
Leslie Erin Grossman (born October 25, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lauren on The WB sitcom What I Like About You, and for her frequent collaborations with Ryan Murphy, appearing as Mary Cherry on The WB's comedy-drama series Popular (1999–2001), and as various characters on the FX anthology series American Horror Story since 2017. Grossman also had a recurring role on the television series 10 Things I Hate About You, a reboot of the original cult classic movie of the same name.

10 Things I Hate About You (TV series)
10 Things I Hate About You is an American television sitcom broadcast on ABC Family beginning in 2009. Developed by Carter Covington, the show is a half-hour, single-camera series based on the 1999 film of the same name. It premiered on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at 8 pm. Following its initial 10-episode run, a second set of 10 episodes aired from March 29, 2010, to May 24, 2010. The series was cancelled in April 2010.
Blaine Gledhill Larson
Blaine Gledhill Larson (July 13, 1937 – November 24, 2022) was a prominent American post-war abstract expressionist artist and educator allied with the Washington Color Painters active in the vibrant Washington DC area art scene centred around the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. Although often included in the second generation of Colour Painters, like Leon Berkowitz, he rejected the label for his work, insisting he was sui generis.

Washington Color School
The Washington Color School, also known as the Washington, D.C., Color School, was an art movement starting during the 1950s–1970s in Washington, D.C., in the United States, built of abstract expressionist artists. The movement emerged during a time when society, the arts, and people were changing quickly. The founders of this movement are Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, however four more artists were part of the initial art exhibition in 1965.
Visak (Serbia)
Visak is a hill in the municipality of Rača (Serbian Cyrillic: Рача) located in the Šumadija District of Serbia. The top of the hill is 396 meters above sea level and is on State Road 157.

44°10′24″N 20°55′14″E﻿ / ﻿44.17333°N 20.92056°E﻿ / 44.17333; 20.92056

Rača, Serbia
Rača (Serbian Cyrillic: Рача) is a town and municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia. According to  2022 census, the population of the town is 2,362, while population of the municipality is 9,638.
The Dancing Mistress
The Dancing Mistress is a musical comedy with music by Lionel Monckton, book by James T. Tanner and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank. It depicts the fortunes of a school dancing mistress who is dismissed and finds fortune and happiness in Switzerland. The piece ran in the West End of London in 1912 and 1913, and toured the British provinces in 1914.

Lionel Monckton
Lionel John Alexander Monckton (18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924) was an English composer of musical theatre. He became Britain's most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the early years of the 20th century.
2011–12 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
The 46th World Cup season began on 22 October 2011, in Sölden, Austria, and concluded on 18 March 2012, at the World Cup finals in Schladming, Austria.

Two pre-Olympic races took place at Rosa Khutor, the alpine venue for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Two city events, first held as a part of World Cup in the 2011 season, were scheduled for Munich and Moscow, but the Munich event was cancelled due to warm temperatures.

Lindsey Vonn won her fourth overall women's title in five years, clinching it with a giant slalom win on 9 March at Åre, Sweden. Vonn's title put her second on the all-time list behind Annemarie Moser-Pröll's tally of six titles. The men's overall title went to the final event at Schladming, where Austria's Marcel Hirscher prevailed over Switzerland's Beat Feuz.

Marcel Hirscher
Marcel Hirscher (born 2 March 1989) is an Austrian-Dutch World Cup alpine ski racer. Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007. He competed primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G. Winner of a record eight consecutive World Cup titles, Hirscher has also won 11 medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships, seven of them gold, a silver medal in slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and two gold medals in the combined and giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Due to his record number of overall titles and many years of extreme dominance of both slalom and giant slalom, he is considered by many, including his former rivals Henrik Kristoffersen, Kjetil Jansrud and Alexis Pinturault, to be  the best alpine skier in history. He won a total of 67 World Cup races, ranking second on the male all-time list.
Cabinet Office (Sri Lanka)
The Cabinet Office is a department of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for supporting the Cabinet of Sri Lanka in its policy formulation process. The department was formed in 1947 when the first cabinet of the Dominion of Ceylon was formed, headed by The Rt Hon D.S. Senanayake, first Prime Minister of Ceylon. Headquarters for the office were located at the Republic Building, Colombo until 2022, when they moved to Lloyd's Building. The head of the Cabinet Office is the Cabinet Secretary.

The first Cabinet Secretary was T. D. Perera, who concurrently held the post of Deputy Secretary to the Treasury. Administration was handled by the Assistant Secretary Bernard Peiris, who functioned as de facto Secretary until his appointment as Cabinet Secretary, thus becoming the third person to hold theoffice. The current Cabinet Secretary is W.M.D.J Fernando, who has held the post since August 2020.

Cabinet secretary
A cabinet secretary is usually a senior official (typically a civil servant) who provides services and advice to a cabinet of ministers as part of the Cabinet Office. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service.

The title of cabinet secretary may also be used as an alternative term for a politically appointed cabinet minister, derived from secretary of state—the formal title for ministers. This naming convention is used in Japan, Kenya, Scotland and the United States.
Joan Maude
Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.

The daughter of actors Charles Maude and Nancy Price, Maude's great-grandmother on her father's side was the singer Jenny Lind, known as the "Swedish Nightingale". Maude was a cousin of the actor-manager Cyril Maude.

Maude married firstly Scottish Rugby International player and journalist Frank Waters (1909-1954), with whom she had a daughter. In 1956, she married Oliver Woods (1911-1972). She was the writer, producer, and production designer of the short film All Hallowe'en (1952).

Her mother, an author, and an actress, published a book Behind the Night-Light: The By-World of a Child of Three in 1912, recording 'faithfully' the beasts and animals Joan imagined as a 3-year-old.

Frank Waters (rugby union)
Frank Henry Waters (2 December 1908 –18 October 1954) was a Scottish rugby union player.

He was capped seven times between 1930 and 1932 for Scotland. He also played for Cambridge University RFC and London Scottish FC.

He was the son of Joseph Waters, who was also capped for Scotland.

He married actress Joan Maude in 1933, and they were together until his death in 1954.
Happy Ever After (Hong Kong TV series)
Happy Ever After  (Traditional Chinese: 金玉滿堂) is a 1999 Hong Kong grand-production television period drama. A TVB production, the drama was produced by Chong Wai-kin, written by Chan Ching-yee and Choi Ting-ting, and stars an ensemble cast. The drama is set during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of Late Imperial China's Qing dynasty. The drama tells of a story regarding the struggles of a poor chef and his best friend earning an opportunity to serve the Qianlong Emperor, also befriending the emperor along the way. The drama also places an emphasis on Chinese cuisine with documentations concerning the Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

Happy Ever After acclaimed positive reviews from critics and was TVB's third highest-rating drama of 1999, peaking to 40 points (over 3 million viewers). Happy Ever After was re-broadcast on the same channel in 2007 between January and March.

Manchu–Han Imperial Feast
The term Manchu–Han Imperial Feast (simplified Chinese: 满汉全席; traditional Chinese: 滿漢全席; pinyin: Mǎnhàn quánxí, and also Comprehensive Manchu–Han Banquet) refers to a style of cooking and a type of grand banquet that combines elements of Manchu and Han Chinese cuisine developed in the Qing dynasty of China (1644–1912). The origins are disputed, but by the nineteenth century, the style became popular and was emulated in twentieth and twenty-first-century restaurants.
Corfiot Italians
Corfiot Italians are a population from the Greek island of Corfu (Kerkyra) with ethnic and linguistic ties to the Republic of Venice. Their name was specifically established by Niccolò Tommaseo during the Italian Risorgimento. During the first half of the 20th century, Mussolini (whose fascist regime promoted the ideals of Italian irredentism) successfully used the Corfiot Italians as a pretext to occupy Corfu twice.

Judeo-Italian dialects
Judeo-Italian (or Judaeo-Italian, Judæo-Italian, and other names including Italkian) is a group of endangered and extinct Jewish dialects, with only about 200 speakers in Italy and 250 total speakers today. The dialects are one of the Italian languages and are a subgrouping of the Judeo-Romance Languages. Some words have Italian prefixes and suffixes added to Hebrew words as well as Aramaic roots. All of the dialects except Judeo-Roman are now extinct.
Long John's Blues
Long John's Blues was the début solo album by British blues singer Long John Baldry and his band, the Hoochie Coochie Men, featuring musicians who had previously played alongside Baldry in the Cyril Davies All-Stars. The album featured a track list that he would continue to play at live shows throughout his career.

In 1995 Long John's Blues / Looking at Long John was released on CD. It has since been re-released and remastered on Looking at Long John: The UA Years. The album had a vinyl reissue in 2009.

All-Stars (band)
The All-Stars were a short-lived English blues combo active in the early-mid 1960s. Originally known as the Cyril Davies (R&B) All-Stars, their later recordings are often credited to the Immediate All-Stars due to their releases on Immediate Records. In 1999, the group reformed as the Carlo Little All-Stars.
Petar Volgin
Petar Volgin (born 28 September 1969 as Peter Petrov Georgiev) is a Bulgarian journalist, military strategist and politician of Revival who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He previously worked as a radio host for Bulgarian National Radio.

2024 European Parliament election in Bulgaria
The 2024 European Parliament election in Bulgaria was held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This was the country’s fifth parliamentary election since its accession to the EU in 2007, and the first to take place after Brexit. Bulgaria also held a separate national parliamentary election that day.
Leikkikalugangsteri
Leikkikalugangsteri (English: The Toy Gangster) is a 1969 comedy directed by Ere Kokkonen, written and starring Spede Pasanen. It was released the same year as Spede's Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut and Pohjan tähteet. Though the film is principally in black and white, the last 20 minutes are filmed in colour.

Kari Sohlberg won the 1970 Jussi Award nomination for Best Cinematography jointly for the film along with Jörn Donner's Sixtynine 69 and Pohjan tähteet.

Tamara Lund
Tamara Adele Lund-Ioniță (née Lund; 6 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was a Finnish soprano singer and actress. She was born in Turku and was a graduate of the Sibelius Academy. She performed in the Finnish National Opera from 1967 and at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich from 1974 to 1987. Lund was the mother of the Finnish singer Maria Lund. Her second spouse was the Romanian opera singer Alexandru Ioniță. Lund died of stomach cancer in Turku in July 2005.
Tippera Krishak Samiti
Tippera Krishak Samiti (ত্রিপুরা কৃষক সমিতি) is a specially organized peasant organization comprising Greater Comilla, Comilla, Chandpur, Lakshmipur, Noakhali and Brahmanbaria districts. It was founded by Maulvi Emdadul Haque, a member of the Bengal Legislative Council in 1919 .

Comilla District
Comilla District, officially known as Cumilla District, (Bengali: কুমিল্লা জেলা) is a district located in southeastern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Chittagong Division. It lies about 100 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of Dhaka. Comilla is bordered by Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj districts to the north, Noakhali and Feni districts to the south, Tripura state of India to the east and Munshiganj and Chandpur districts to the west.
Paseo Las Mercedes
Centro Comercial Paseo Las Mercedes is a shopping mall located in Caracas, Venezuela. Its construction was completed in 1974, along with the Holiday Inn Hotel, designed by architect Jimmy Alcock between 1969 and 1971. The shopping center includes the Trasnocho Cultural, a cultural space inaugurated on 4 October 2001, which offers a wide variety of artistic and cultural activities. It has movie theaters that screen national and international films, as well as plays, art galleries, exhibitions, literary events, conferences, forums, and workshops. In addition, it has an agreement with the Baruta Municipality for municipal academic activities.

Jimmy Alcock
Walter James Alcock Pérez, known as Jimmy Alcock (Caracas, September 14, 1932) is a British-Venezuelan architect who resides in Caracas. He won the National Architecture Prize of Venezuela in 1993 and is the XXXIV Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Habitat of Venezuela.
EGS Gafsa
El Gawafel Sportives de Gafsa (Arabic: القوافل الرياضية بقفصة), known as EGS Gafsa or simply EGSG for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Gafsa. The club was founded in 1967 and its colours are green and yellow. Their home stadium, Mohamed Rouached Stadium, has a capacity of 7,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Mohamed Rouached Stadium
Mohamed Rouached Stadium (Arabic: ملعب محمد رواشد), known also as Gafsa Olympic Stadium, is a stadium in Gafsa, Tunisia. It has a capacity of 7,000 spectators.  It is the home of EGS Gafsa of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

The stadium was named encrypted the date that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumed  the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba.
Rita Daniela
Rita Daniela de Guzman Iringan (born September 15, 1995), popularly known as Rita Daniela (Tagalog: [ˈɾitɐ dɐˈɲɛlɐ]), is a Filipino actress, singer and television host. She won as the Grand Champion in the first season of Popstar Kids and has been tagged as "The Undeniable Star" for her soulful singing voice and versatile acting career.

In 2018, she gained recognition for her role as Susan "Aubrey" Palomares in the top-rated television drama My Special Tatay alongside Ken Chan, which spawned a popular love team between the two.

Daniela was one of the Journey Hosts in The Clash beginning from the second season until its fourth season. She is currently one of the main hosts in the musical-comedy variety show, All-Out Sundays.

The Clash (TV program)
The Clash is a Philippine television reality talent competition show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Louie Ignacio, it was originally hosted by Regine Velasquez, Andre Paras and Joyce Pring. It premiered on July 7, 2018 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi and on Sunday Grande sa Gabi line-up. Rayver Cruz and Julie Anne San Jose currently serve as the hosts.
To Grandmother's House We Go
To Grandmother's House We Go is a 1992 American made-for-television Christmas film directed by Jeff Franklin and starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The film's title comes from a part of one of the first lines of Lydia Maria Child's Thanksgiving song "Over the River and Through the Wood". It premiered on ABC on December 6, 1992 as a star vehicle for the Olsens, who were starring in Franklin's Full House at the time, and marked their first appearance as separate characters.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986), also known as the Olsen twins, are American fashion designers and former actresses. Mary-Kate and Ashley made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television sitcom Full House (1987–1995). As they grew older, they began starring in other television shows, films, and media through their own production company, Dualstar. The twins became preteen icons, and some of the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry at a young age.

The Olsens stepped away from acting in the mid-2000s and entered the fashion design industry. They founded their own luxury fashion label in 2006, The Row, based in New York City. They have won several awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).
Donald Crisp
Donald William Crisp (27 July 1882 – 25 May 1974) was an English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in How Green Was My Valley.

A Woman Rebels
A Woman Rebels is a 1936 American historical drama film adapted from the 1930 novel Portrait of a Rebel by Netta Syrett and starring Katharine Hepburn as Pamela Thistlewaite, who rebels against the social mores of Victorian England. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich; it was the film debut of Van Heflin, and the second last film of David Manners.

Hepburn's performance as the defiant young woman is considered by many critics the epitome of her feminist characterizations of the 1930s.
Embassy of China, Washington, D.C.
The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States (simplified Chinese: 中国驻美国大使馆; traditional Chinese: 中國駐美國大使館; pinyin: zhōngguó zhù měiguó dàshǐ guǎn) is the diplomatic mission of the People's Republic of China to the United States, located in Washington D.C.

The main chancery is located at 3505 International Place NW, Washington, D.C., in the Forest Hills neighborhood, while the visa section is located at 2201 Wisconsin Avenue NW in the Glover Park neighborhood. China also operates consulates general in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City.

Glover Park
Glover Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle (the Vice President's mansion). Every morning and evening, Glover Park residents can hear the Naval Observatory play the sounding of colors synchronized to the nation's Master Clock. It is named after Charles Carroll Glover.
Santa Cruz massacre
The Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre) was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.

Allan Nairn
Allan Nairn (born 1956) is an American investigative journalist. He was imprisoned by Indonesian military forces under United States-backed strongman Suharto while reporting in East Timor. His writings have focused on U.S. foreign policy in such countries as Haiti, Guatemala, Indonesia, and East Timor.
Cadets of the Republic
Cadets of the Republic, known in Spanish as Cadetes de la República, was the paramilitary wing of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in the twentieth century. The organization was also referred to as the Liberation Army of Puerto Rico (Ejército Libertador de Puerto Rico).

The Cadets of the Republic were founded and organized in the 1930s by Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, the president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Some members of the cadets participated in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s against United States colonial rule.

The following is a brief history of the Cadets of the Republic, covering the period from 1930 to 1950.

Clemente Soto Vélez
Clemente Soto Vélez (1905 – April 15, 1993) was a Puerto Rican nationalist, poet, journalist and activist who mentored many generations of artists in Puerto Rico and New York City. Upon his death in 1993, he left a rich legacy that contributed to the cultural, social and economic life of Puerto Ricans in New York and Latinos everywhere.
Headshot (2011 film)
Headshot (Thai: ฝนตกขึ้นฟ้า), is a 2011 Thai crime thriller film written and directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. Based on the novel Rain Falling Up the Sky by Win Lyovarin, the film stars Nopachai Chaiyanam, Sirin Horwang, Chanokporn Sayoungkul, and Apisit Opasaimlikit.

Headshot premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was later screened at the 2012 San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase, as well as the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film was selected as the Thai entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but did not make the final shortlist.

Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง; RTGS: Pen-ek Rattanarueang; born 8 March 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.