In 1999, Abel appeared in the documentary "Private Dicks: Men Exposed", in which he claimed to be the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest penis. Abel did not take off his clothes for the documentary crew. He said that he would only take off his clothes if they agreed to have group sex afterwards. Abel stated that "They said no. So I didn't have to take off my shorts."
At the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Abel introduced a campaign to ban all breastfeeding because "it is an incestuous relationship between mother and baby that manifests an oral addiction leading youngsters to smoke, drink and even becoming anti-social." After 200 interviews over two years, Abel confessed the hoax in U.S. News & World Report.
Abel once ran for Congress. He promised to install a lie detector in the White House and truth serum in the Senate drinking fountain; he wanted all doctors to publish their medical school grade point average in the telephone book after their names; he proposed removing Wednesday to establish a four-day workweek.
Abel died of heart failure complicated by cancer on September 14, 2018 in Southbury, Connecticut at the age of 94.
Deep Throat (Watergate)
Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein.
Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for "The Washington Post", and Deep Throat gave key details about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.
In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim.
Hal Holbrook played Deep Throat in the 1976 political thriller "All the President's Men".
Gery Chico
Gery J. Chico ( ; born August 24, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician.
Chico is a former Democratic primary candidate for United States Senate and former candidate for Mayor of Chicago.
Chico was the Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley from 1992 to 1995, and board president of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001. From 2007 to 2010, he was board president of the Chicago Park District, and in 2010 he was board president of the City Colleges of Chicago.
On June 7, 2011, Chico was named Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.
In September 2018, Chico announced his candidacy for mayor again for the 2019 election. He lost in the first round of the election in February 2019.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Marceline Loridan-Ivens (19 March 1928 – 18 September 2018) was a French writer and movie director. She was married to Joris Ivens. Her memoir "But You Did Not Come Back" details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was born in Épinal, France.
Loridan-Ivens died on 18 September 2018 in Paris at the age of 90.
Jean Piat
Jean Piat (23 September 1924 – 18 September 2018) was a French actor and writer. He was born in Lannoy, Nord, France. Piat was known for his roles in many French classic movies in the 1940s to 1960s such as "The Lame Devil", "The Milky Way", "Rider on the Rain". He retired in 2017.
Piat died on 18 September 2018 in Paris from a short-illness at the age of 93.
Norifumi Yamamoto
Yamamoto competed in the bantamweight division of the UFC. He became popular in the Shooto organization due to his aggressive persona. He moved on to K-1 Hero's, where he became the K-1 Hero's 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion in December 2005.
On September 18, 2018, Yamamoto died of stomach cancer in Guam; he was 41 years old.
Southbury, Connecticut
Southbury is a town in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. Southbury is north of Oxford and Newtown and east of Brookfield.
Its population was 19,904 at the 2010 census.
Oxford, Connecticut
Oxford is a residential town located in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,683 at the 2010 Census.
Relevance
Relevance is the idea that one topic may be useful to another topic: so consider the second topic when considering the first.
The concept of relevance is studied in many fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and information science. It is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge).
"Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it makes it more likely that the goal (G) can be reached. Similarly, understanding one concept often means understanding other concepts beforehand. This is the main reason why educators work from a syllabus which guides the order in which topics should be taught.
If schizophrenia is caused by bad communication between mother and child, then family interaction studies become relevant. If it is inherited genetically, then the study of family trees becomes relevant. If you are an empiricist, then only carefully designed observations are relevant. If you are a feminist, then the sex of the observer becomes relevant.
Epistemology is not just one domain among others. Epistemological views are always at play in any domain. Those views determine or influence what is regarded relevant.
Relevance is argued to depend upon the "remoteness relationship" between an actual world in which relevance is being evaluated and the set of possible worlds within which it is true.
During the 1960s, "relevance" became a fashionable buzzword, meaning roughly 'relevance to social concerns', such as racial equality, poverty, social justice, world hunger, world economic development, and so on. The implication was that some subjects, e.g., the study of medieval poetry and the practice of corporate law, were not worthwhile because they did not address pressing social issues.
The contrary view is that the social world is not our only concern. We can be (and are) concerned also about many other things. Also, real-world problems are problems because there is no obvious way to solve them. Increases in crop production in the 20th century were all fuelled by developments in basic science, not by social movements.
Leisel Jones
Leisel Marie Jones (born 30 August 1985) is a former Australian swimmer. She has one nine Olympic medals (three gold, five silver and a bronze). She competed at the 2000, the 2004, the 2008 and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She confirmed her retirement on 16 November 2012.
Jones was born in Katherine, Northern Territory. She trained in Brisbane, Queensland.
Jeffrey Titford
Jeffrey William Titford (born 24 October 1933, West Mersea, Essex) is a British politician. He served as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2000 until 2002. He served again as a temporary leader in September to November 2010. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2009.
Before becoming a politician he was a businessman. He was president of the National Association of Funeral Directors.
Jefferson County, Illinois
Jefferson County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, the population was 38,827. The county seat is Mount Vernon.
Jersey County, Illinois
Jersey County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 22,985 people lived there. The county seat is Jerseyville.
Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Jo Daviess County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 22,678 people lived there. The county seat is Galena.
Johnson County, Illinois
Johnson County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 12,582. The county seat is Vienna. Johnson County was founded in 1812 and named for Richard M. Johnson, who was then a U.S. Congressman from Kentucky.
Knox County, Illinois
Knox County is a county in Illinois.
Lawrence County, Illinois