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In May 2021, Biden formally nominated Emmanuel to serve as ambassador to Japan.
His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 18, 2021.
He met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in February 2022.
While a high school student working part-time at an Arby's restaurant, Emanuel severely cut his right middle finger on a meat slicer, which was later infected from swimming in Lake Michigan.
His finger was partially amputated due to the severity of the infection.
Emanuel married Amy Merritt Rule in 1994.
They live in Ravenswood, Chicago.
Chicago for Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign site
Office of the Mayor at City of Chicago
Profile at CityMayors.com
Profile: Rahm Emanuel at BBC News, 7 November 2008
Profile at the Jewish Virtual Library
Rahm Emanuel  archive at the Chicago Reader
Rahm Emanuel news, photos and video at the Chicago Tribune
Articles about Rahm Emanuel at the Chicago Tribune
The mayoral term in Chicago was one year from 1837 through 1863, when it was increased to two years.
In 1907 it was again lengthened to four years, the present duration.
Until 1861, municipal elections were held in March.
In that year, legislation changed them to April.
In 1869, however, election time was changed to November, and terms expiring in April of that year were lengthened.
In 1875, the election day was moved back to April by the city's vote to operate under the Cities and Villages Act of 1872.
Lester L. Bond was the acting mayor when Joseph Medill left to a tour around Europe.
Thomas Hoyne won election as mayor, but could not become the mayor so the election became a void.
As of 1995, no mayor can run for a political party, they are considered as nonpartisans.
Vice Mayor
The city council elects a vice mayor who is interim mayor in the event of a vacancy in the office of the mayor or the inability of the mayor to serve due to illness or injury.
As of May 2019, the current vice mayor is Tom Tunney.
1 Rahm Emanuel is a Democrat, but he and all other candidates in the 2011 election officially ran as nonpartisans.
Under a 1995 Illinois law, "candidates for mayor . . .
no longer would run under party labels in Chicago."
Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) was an American politician.
He was the 54th Mayor of Chicago.
Daley was mayor from 1989-2011.
He was a member of the Democratic party.
His father was also the Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley.
Basic Instinct is a 1992 American erotic thriller.
The movie was directed by Paul Verhoeven and stars Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
Douglas plays a San Francisco police detective who investigates the murder of a rich rock star.
During this investigation he gets personally involved with the prime suspect, Catherine Tramell (played by Stone).
The movie generated a lot of controversy due to its strong and graphic violence.
It was strongly opposed by gay rights activists for its portrayal of a bisexual woman as a narcissistic psychopath.
The movie was given mixed reviews, but it took in millions at the box office.
It was originally under a rating of NC-17.
It was later edited down for an R rating before release.
It was followed by a sequel, Basic Instinct 2.
1990s mystery movies
French LGBT movies
LGBT erotic movies
Movies about writers
A Boomerang is a toy.
Boomerang (TV channel), a world TV channel controlled in the United States.
Boomerang (British TV channel), a unit of Boomerang seen in Britain.
Boomerang (roller coaster), a roller coaster type.
The Congressional Gold Medal is awarded by the United States Congress.
It is one of the highest awards like Presidential Medal of Freedom given to people who are not in the military.
Gold medals have been awarded since the days of the Continental Congress.
A gold medal often includes a picture of the person who received it.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award given by the President of the United States.
It recognizes those individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors".
The award is not limited to U.S. citizens and, while it is a civilian award, it can also be awarded to military personnel and worn on the uniform.
Medal of Freedom
"Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients", a list of recipients from May 5, 1993, through August 19, 2009, from senate.gov, the U.S. Senate's official website.
Accessed August 22, 2009.
Like all organisms, plants have cells.
Plant cells have a nucleus with chromosomes and DNA, and they have mitochondria.
Those are common to all eukaryotic cells.
But in some ways they are different from animal cells and the cells of other eukaryotes.
They have cell walls composed of cellulose and some other compounds.
Pectin, and sometimes lignin, is secreted on the outside of the cell membrane.
This is different from the cell walls of fungi (which are made of chitin), and of bacteria (which are made of peptidoglycan).
The cell wall gives the cell a definite shape.
There are special cell-to-cell communication pathways known as plasmodesmata.
These are pores in the cell wall through which the cell content of adjacent cells (including endoplasmic reticulum)  are continuous.
They have plastids.
The most notable are the chloroplasts, which contain chlorophyll.
This green-colored pigment absorbs sunlight, and allows the plant to make its own food by photosynthesis.
Other types of plastids are the amyloplasts, which store starch, elaioplasts for fat storage, and chromoplasts for making and storing pigments.
Like mitochondria, plastids have their own genomes of about 100–120 unique genes.
It is thought they started as prokaryotic endosymbionts living in the cells of an early eukaryotic ancestor of the land plants and algae.
They have a large central vacuole, a water-filled volume enclosed by a membrane.
The vacuole keeps the cell's turgor (stiffness), controls movement of molecules between the cytosol and sap, stores useful material and digests waste proteins and organelles.
Cell division by construction of a 'cell plate' late in cytokinesis is characteristic of land plants and a few groups of algae.
The sperm of bryophytes and pteridophytes, cycads and Ginkgo have flagella similar to those in animals.
However, higher plants (including gymnosperms and flowering plants) lack the flagella and centrioles that are present in animal cells.
Abé is a language spoken in Côte d'Ivoire.
Its name is also spelled Abbé, Abbey, and Abi.
About 170,000 people spoke the language in 1995.
These people mostly lived in the Department of Agboville.
The Abé language is part of the Niger-Congo language family.
It has four dialects: Tioffo, Morie, Abbey-Ve, and Kos
Ethnologue report for Abé
The Southern Bantoid languages are a group of African languages of the Niger-Congo language family.
This group was first described by Kay Williamson in 1989.
Williamson described a way of splitting the Bantoid languages into two groups, North and South.
According to the Ethnologue, there are 643 languages in the Southern Bantoid group.
Many of these languages are mutually intelligible (someone who is speaking one language can be understood by someone who speaks another language.)
The group includes a number of smaller language families:
Narrow Bantu languages
Jarawan languages
Tivoid languages
Beboid languages
Mamfe languages
Grassfields languages
Ekoid languages
Southern Bantoid on the Ethnologue
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is number 210 in the Perry Index.
The fable is about a shepherd boy who keeps tricking people into believing that a wolf is attacking his flock of sheep.
The boy tricks the people so many times that when a wolf actually comes to kill the flock, the townspeople don't believe his cries for help and the wolf eats his flock.
The moral of the story is that this is how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them.
The story dates back  to Classical times.
"The Crow and the Pitcher" is a fable by Aesop. "
The Crow and the Pitcher" is numbered at 390 in the Perry Index.
The fable is in the 2nd century AD Greek fable collection by pseudo-Dositheus and also later appears in the 4th–5th century Latin verse collection by Avianus.
The fable is about a crow that is thirsty and comes across a pitcher of water.
When the crow looks in the pitcher, the water is at the bottom and is out of the crow's reach.
The crow tries to push the pitcher over but fails to do so.
It drops pebbles in the pitcher, one by one, until the water rises to the top of the pitcher which allows the crow to drink.
Avianus follows the fable with a moral that emphasizes the virtue of ingenuity: "This fable shows us that thoughtfulness is superior to brute strength."
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) is a programme of activities for anyone aged 14 to 24.
There are three levels of the award: Bronze, Silver and Gold.
There are different sections in each level.
At Bronze and Silver level, participants must do four sections: Volunteering, Physical, Skills and Expedition.
At Gold level, participants must do another section, as well as the other four, called Residential.
Each level can take between 1-4 years to complete.
All activities must be done by the participant's 25th birthday.
Around 275,000 participants are taking part in their DofE programme at any time in the United Kingdom.
The aim of the programme is to evidence a person's dedication to improving themselves.
DofE is also run in other countries under the name of the International Award.
eDofE
eDofE is an online system that lets participants manage their DofE programme.
It also enables leaders to look at participants' progress.
The languages of Africa include more than 3,000 languages.
These languages include native languages (languages that come from Africa) and colonial languages, which were brought to Africa by colonists from Europe.
The continent has the highest concentration of languages in the world.
At least 30% of the world's languages come from and are spoken in Africa.
Over the years, many African languages have died out and become extinct.
This happens for several reasons, including wars and genocide by other African tribes.
Other languages were abandoned, or its speakers disappeared.
There are more than 3,000 languages spoken in Africa.
These languages are grouped into several major language families.
Linguists do not agree about which groupings are "correct" and valid.
Most linguists organize the African languages into four major language families.
Afroasiatic languages, spoken by 350 million people in the Middle East, North Africa, Horn of Africa, and Sahei.
Niger-Congo languages, possibly the world's largest language family, spoken in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nilo-Saharan languages, spoken by 50 million people in the upper parts of the Chari River and Nile River.
Khoisan languages, spoken by about 120,000 people,  which include all "click" languages.
This classification of languages is based on the research of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who published The Languages of Africa in 1963.
The African languages were traditionally (historically) organized into six language families.
Today, some linguists doubt that some of these groupings are valid.
The six traditional families are:
Afroasiatic languages, spoken from North Africa to the Horn of Africa and Southwest Asia
Niger-Congo languages, spoken in West, Central, and Southeast Africa
Nilo-Saharan languages, spoken in Sudan and Chad
Khoe languages, spoken in the deserts of Namibia and Botswana
Austronesian languages, spoken in Madagascar
Indo-European languages, spoken in Southern Africa
Still other linguists believe that the Nilo-Saharan languages and the Niger-Congo languages are part of the same family.
These linguists organize the African languages into only three language families: Niger-Congo languages, Afroasiatic languages, and Khoisan languages.
No matter how the major language families are organized, there are many smaller families and language isolates.
In addition, there are some obscure (rare, uncommon) languages that are not yet classified into any family.
Africa also has some sign languages, which are mostly language isolates.
Herbert Rettensteiner (born 26 August 1946 in Schwarzach, Austria) was an Austrian football goalkeeper.
He also played for the Austrian national football team.
He started playing with his local club SV Lend.
In 1967 he went to SK Bischofshofen and played with them in the second league.
His next team was FC Wacker Innsbruck in the Nationalliga (then first league in Austria).
In Innsbruck the club joined with Wattens and Wacker Innsbruck and formed SSW Innsbruck.
The goalkeeper of Wattens, Friedl Koncilia, often played instead of him so Rettensteiner, after the second title with Innsbruck, went to SK VOEST Linz.
In 1975 he went on to SV Austria Salzburg, where he played in the first and second division until 1982.
In his time with Salzburg he scored two penalty goals.
After the end of his professional career he became part of the coaching team of SV Austria Salzburg and was coach of SV Grödig.
He played his first match for the national football team on 12 April 1970 against CSSR when he came on in the second half.
He played his last international match in 1974.
Austrian Cup:1970 (Innsbruck)
Austrian Champion:1970/71; 1971/72(Innsbruck) ;  1973/74 (SK VOEST Linz)
15 matches for the Austrian national football team
The term "multiple independent sources" in journalism, criminal justice, science and general research, are two or more unconnected people, organizations, or objects which provide a given set of information or samples.
For example, two separate people who see a traffic accident, at the spot, could be considered independent sources.
However, if one person saw the accident and told the other one about it, then they would not be independent, since one would depend on the other for their information.
Also, if two witnesses to an event discuss what they saw before they are asked about it and agree to tell the same story, then they are also no longer independent.
As another example, two scientific devices could be considered independent sources of measurement data, unless they shared the same wiring or electrical power supply (or similar factors).
Famously, the New York Times'  minimal standard for reporting a fact not otherwise attributed to a single speaker is that it be verified by at least two independent sources.
Circular reporting is a situation where multiple sources appear to be independent, but in reality originate from a single source.
Because circular reporting can happen inadvertently in many situations, extra care must be taken to ensure that multiple sources actually are independent, rather than interconnected in an obscure manner.
Editorial independence, not permitting advertisers to dictate news content
According to some theories, the Nair have Indo-Scythian ancestry.
During British rule, Nair were known as Nayarkutti and were important in politics, government, medicine, education, and law.
Fawcett, Fredrick. (
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Some Aspects of Nayar Life," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, July-December 1918, Vol.
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Digital Colonial Documents (India)
Clifford Joseph Trahan (born September 25, 1938 in Moss Bluff, Louisiana; died September 3, 2016 in Rayne, Louisiana), better known as Johnny Rebel or Pee Wee Trahan, is an American country music singer-songwriter who is known for writing and performing racist songs under the name, Johnny Rebel.
His songs usually use the racial slur nigger and sometimes he voices sympathy for Jim Crow-era segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.
He went on hiatus for about three decades and then came back in 2001 after the September 11, 2001 attacks and issued his CD single "Infidel Anthem".
Clarissa Explains It All is an American teen sitcom set in Ohio.
It was aired on Nickelodeon from March 1991 to October 1994.
Melissa Joan Hart plays Clarissa Darling, who lives with her parents and younger brother.
Television series set in Ohio
Withermarsh Green is a village in Babergh, Suffolk, England.
It has a church.
Polstead Heath is a hamlet in Polstead, Babergh, Suffolk, England.
A chapel was built in 1838.
It also has three listed buildings, including Spencer's Farmhouse, The Orchards and White House Farmhouse.
In "The Dentists Register 1999" there was a dentist at Spencers Farm.
A developer (someone who plans housing) wanted to add some housing in Polstead Heath, but this was not wanted.
There is also a 19th century orchard in Polstead Heath.
Hadleigh Heath is a hamlet in Polstead, Babergh, Suffolk, England.
A chapel was built in 1823, it was removed to Polstead in 1849.
It also has one listed building called Evans Hall.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/churchentry?CCC=SFK,ID=10669,FT=Polstead%20Chapel%20Evans%20Heath-Hadleigh%20Heath%20General%20Baptist
Levamisole is a drug that was used to treat infections with parasitic worms, and for some forms of chemotherapy, to treat cancer.
The drug was discovered in 1966.
It was withdrawn from  the US and Canadian markets in 2000 and 2003, because of a serious risk of side effects; better drugs can replace it.
Currently, levamisole remains in veterinary use as a dewormer for livestock.
The drugs has also been used as an adulterant in cocaine sold in the US and Canada.
This use resulted in serious side effects.
Roland Ratzenberger (4 July 1960 – 30 April 1994) was an Austrian Formula One driver.
He was killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
He had a short career, and drove for Simtek.
He was born in Salzburg.
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American drama movie.
The cast of the movie are Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg.
The story of the movie is about a young woman's 18 month stay on a mental ward in Pennsylvania in the late 1960s after taking a drug overdose.
Ryder plays Susanna Kaysen, the central character on whose novel the movie is based.
Kaysen has borderline personality disorder.
Jolie won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe, who has antisocial personality disorder.
Murphy's character Daisy Randone has bulimia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Movies directed by James Mangold
Bupropion is an antidepressant.
It is also used to help people quit smoking.
It is marketed as Wellbutrin.
Dunkleosteus was a prehistoric arthrodire.
It was a primitive fish from the later Devonian period, about 360 million years ago.
Dunkleosteus was a heavily armoured placoderm.
Fossils have been found in Morocco, Africa, Poland, Belgium, China, and the USA.
Placodermi first appeared in the Silurian, and the group became extinct during the transition from the Devonian to the Carboniferous, leaving no descendants.
The class lasted barely 50 million years, in comparison to the 400 million year long history of sharks.
This top predator was up to 11.5 ft (3.5 m) long and had large, scissor-like cutting jaws with serrated, razor-sharp bones, but no teeth.
Its skull was over 2 feet (65 cm) long.
It had a jointed neck, an eel-like tail, a scale-less body, and hinged body shields.
Placoderms
A vector in biology is an animal on or in which a small living thing gets transported.
The vector gets no benefit and sometimes loses fitness by the arrangement.
The term is most used for the transport of parasites and agents of infection or disease.
So, deadly diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, are carried by some mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus transmit human malaria and elephantiasis (a roundworm disease).
Aedes mosquitoes  are vectors of avian malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and chikungunya (a viral disease).
Sand flies transmit leishmaniasis, bartonellosis and pappataci fever.
Tsetse flies Several genera are vectors of human African trypanosomiasis also  known as "African sleeping sickness".
Aphids are the vectors of many viral diseases in plants.
Triatomine bugs such as Rhodnius prolixus are vectors of Chagas disease.
Other insects
Fleas such as the human flea, Pulex irritans and the Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, transmit bubonic plague, murine typhus and tapeworms.
Rodents, such as rats and mice carry the fleas, and spread them.
Glassy-winged sharpshooter (a leafhopper) transmits the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium among plants, resulting in diseases of grapes, almonds, and many other cultivated plants.
Ticks of the genus Ixodes are vectors of Lyme disease and babesiosis.
and along with lice transmit various members of the bacterial genus Rickettsia.
Cyclopoid copepods: a number of species transmit the nematode Dracunculus medinensis.
Bats which represent about 20% of all known mammalian species act as both a natural reservoirs for viruses such as the Hendra virus (HeV) and the SARS like coronaviruses and in many cases as a vector for various viruses such as the lyssaviruses including the rabies virus.
Felids (cats) are the primary hosts for Toxoplasma gondii a  parasitic protozoan which causes Toxoplasmosis.
Approximately 30% of the human population is infected with Toxoplasmosis.
Donald Edward "Donnie" Wahlberg (born August 17, 1969, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American singer, movie actor, director and producer.
In the 1980s and 1990s he was a part of the group New Kids on the Block; he has rejoined the group from 2008 and after.
He also had featured roles in the Saw franchise.
His father is of Swedish and Irish descent and his mother is of English, French-Canadian, Irish and Scottish descent.
He stars on Blue Bloods since 2010 on CBS.
New Kids on the Block are an American pop group who were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1984.
They had many hit songs in the 1980s and 1990s.
They disbanded in 1994 and regrouped in 2008.
New Kids on the Block (1986)
Hangin' Tough (1988)
Step by Step (1990)
Face the Music (1994)
The Block (2008)
Little Walter, born as  Marion Walter Jacobs, (*May 1, 1930 in Marksville, Louisiana  †February 15, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American blues harp player.
He was very important for the development of playing harp.
Jacobs was born in Marksville, Louisiana and grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana, where he first learned to play the harmonica.
At the age of 12 he left school and travelled around.
He played in the streets of New Orleans, Memphis, Helena, Arkansas and St. Louis and made his living.
He learned more about playing harp from  Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Honeyboy Edwards and others.
1945 he went to Chicago.
There he made first recordings playing guitar for Floyd Jones.
Frustrated about the fact that guitars were louder than his harmonica he started using a microphon and pluging it into the guitar amplifiers.
So he could compet with any guitar sound.
1947 he did his first recordings for a small label in Chicago.
1948 he became member of Muddy Waters band and recorded with him for Chess records.
First he played acoustic, the first appearance on record of Little Walter's amplified harmonica sound was on Muddy's "Country Boy"/"Too Young To Know" (Chess 1452), recorded on July 11, 1951.
His first hit record was "Juke", an instrumental, which was intended to be the signature song of Muddy Waters band.
The song was published on Checkers, a sub label of Chess.
It stayed 20 weeks in the charts, eight of them on #1.
Till 1957 he played with Muddy Waters but in this year he was replaced by Junior Wells.
Walter took his band "The Aces" and renamed them into "The Jukes".
Walter had a lot of hits, f.e. "
My Babe" written by Willie Dixon, but with the beginning of the 1960s his success faded away.
1964 and 1967 he came with the American Folk Blues Festival to Europe.
After his second tour he was involved in a fight during a concert break.
Although he was not severely injured he died in the night due to an heart failure.
He was buried on February 22, 1968   at St. Mary's Cemetery in Evergreen Park, IL on February 22, 1968.
1964   Little Walter   Pye
1967   Super Blues   Chess
1969   Hate To See You Go Universal Distribution
1986  Windy City Blues [live]   Blue Moon
1992 Juke Snapper
1997 His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)  MCA / Chess
1997 Confessin' the Blues  MCA/Chess
1997 Blues With a Feelin'  MCA/Chess
2000  Live in the Windy City   Columbia River Entertainment Group
2004 Classics 1947–1953  B&R Classics
2005 Little Walter 1947–1953 Classics
2005 Juke - Proper Introduction to Little Walter Proper
2006 Stray Dog Blues  Rev-Ola
2006 The Essential Blue Archive-Blues With a Feeling Blue Label (SPV)
2008 Blowin' the Blues Music Ave
2008 Classics 1953–1955 B&R Classics
2009 The Complete Chess Masters (1950–1967)'' Hip-o Select
Singles in the charts
Little Walter made 15 singles that reached the  Billboard R&B chart.
*Also reached #106 on the Billboard Pop chart.
Nedging is a village in the civil parish of Nedging-with-Naughton in Babergh, Suffolk, England.
Nedging has a church.
Nayland is a village in the civil of Nayland With Wissington, in Babergh, Suffolk, England.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=7535
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle (born January 17, 1955 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American country/rock singer-songwriter.
He has received a total of fourteen nominations for Grammy Awards and has won three; one for Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Revolution Starts Now, one for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album (Vocal or Instrumental) for Washington Square Serenade and one for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album for Townes.
People from Hampton, Virginia
Wissington is a village in the civil parish of Nayland With Wissington, in Babergh, Suffolk, England.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=21211
Nicolae Dică (born 9 May 1980) is a former Romanian football player.
He plays for Romania national team.
Steaua Bucureşti
Romanian First League: 2004–05, 2005–06
Romanian Cup: 2010–11
Romanian Supercup: 2006
UEFA Cup semi-finalist: 2005-06
Romanian First League: 2009–10
Romanian Cup: 2009–10
Romanian Footballer of the Year: 2006
In the 2006–2007 season, Dică was voted by the fans across the whole of Europe as the third best football player in the UEFA Champions League after Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Club activity
Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "
Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.
Nicolae Dica Fansite
Nicolae Dica at National Soccer Teams
Nicolae Dică at Romaniansoccer.ro
Nicolae Dică at UEFA.com
Metaphilosophy is the study of the nature of philosophy.
Philosophy is the study of ideas connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Metaphilosophy investigates the aims, boundaries, and methods of philosophy.
Metaphilosophers ask the question, "What is philosophy?"
and seek to understand what its purpose is.
Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 - June 23, 2006) was an American executive producer of many television shows.
He was born in Dallas, Texas.
His shows included Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place.
The earlier had Spelling's daughter Tori starring with Shannen Doherty, Gabrielle Carteris and Luke Perry.
The latter had Courtney Thorne-Smith, Heather Locklear and Marcia Cross acting in the show.
Spelling was diagnosed with oral cancer in 2001.
He died of a stroke in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Men in Black is a 1997 American supernatural action comedy movie.
It is set in New York City and stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
In the story, a New York police officer, James Edwards, is persuaded to join a very secret organisation known as Men In Black.
The name comes from the black clothes they wear.
He is given the new name Agent J and works with Agent K. The organisation is intended to monitor the many alien beings that live on Earth - mainly in New York - disguised as normal humans.
One day, a flying saucer crashes into Earth.
The 'Bug' that it contains is a powerful alien that takes the body of a human.
It is searching for an energy source called "The Galaxy".
Agents J and K must stop the bug before it can escape.
This they manage to do.
At the end of the film, Agent K decides that he doesn't want to do this work anymore, and is treated by Agent J so that he won't remember the work he used to do.
Tommy Lee Jones as Kevin Brown / Agent "K"
Will Smith as James Edwards / Agent "J"
Linda Fiorentino as Dr. Laurel Weaver / Agent "L"
Vincent D'Onofrio as Edgar the Bug
Rip Torn as Chief Zed
Tony Shalhoub as Jack Jeebs
Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug
Mark Setrakian as a Rosenberg alien
Brad Abrell as a worm guy
Thom Fountain as a worm guy
Carl J. Johnson as a worm guy
Drew Massey as a worm guy
Fred Newman as various other aliens
Movies directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Richard Lee Petty  (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR racing driver.
Petty won 200 Cup races, more than any other driver in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
Richard has also won the Winston Cup (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) seven times.
Only Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson and Petty have this championship seven times.
Richard is often called "The King" of NASCAR.
App Store means "Application Store" and means a method of online shopping for software, including mobile apps.
It may be a mobile app itself, or a Web site:
Google Play, for the Android system (was Android Market)
App Store (iOS), for the iPhone and iPad
Mac App Store, for the macOS operating system
Amazon Appstore, for Google's Android
Several other digital distribution platforms
The barycenter (or barycentre; from the Greek βαρύκεντρον) is the point between two objects where they balance each other.
For example, it is the center of mass where two or more planets orbit each other.
When a moon orbits a planet, or a planet orbits a star, both bodies are actually orbiting around a point that lies outside the center of the larger body.
For example, the moon does not orbit the exact center of the Earth.
It actually orbits a point on a line between the center of the Earth, and the Moon.
This is about 1,710 km below the surface of the Earth.
This is the point where the mass of the moon, and the mass of the Earth balance.
This is the point about which the Earth, and Moon orbit as they travel around the Sun.
Also the barycenter exists in the world of geometry.
For example, the circle has a barycenter.
Jonathan Southworth "John" Ritter (September 17, 1948 - September 11, 2003) was an American television and movie actor and comedian.
He was featured in the 1970s television series The Waltons.
He performed in several situation comedies on the television, including Three's Company.
He also appeared in It.
Ritter was born in Burbank, California and died there on September 11, 2003 of aortic dissection caused by heart disease.
He also did the voice for Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Ritter was first married actress Nancy Morgan, from 1977 to 1996.
Together they have three children, Two sons, Jason and Tyler who are also actors, and a daughter Carly.
After divorced from Morgon, he later married actress Amy Yasbeck on September 18, 1999, at the Murphy Theatre in Wilmington, Ohio.
Their daughter was born on September 11, 1998, one year before they married.
The Southern Bantu languages, also known as Bantu zone S, are a group of languages in the Bantu language family.
It was first described by Malcolm Guthrie in 1948.
Guthrie's divisions of the Bantu languages were based on geography, not on language characteristics.
The Southern Bantu languages, however, are also a valid linguistic group.
The Southern Bantu languages are a group of languages in the Niger-Congo language superfamily.
The group includes all of the important Bantu languages of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana.
It also includes some important languages of southern Mozambique.
Sotho-Tswana
Tswa-Ronga
Estelle "Mama" Yancey (January 1, 1896–April 19, 1986) was an American blues singer.
She was the wife of pianist Jimmy Yancey.
She recorded often with her husband.
Yancey, born Estelle Harris, grew up in Chicago, where she sang in church choirs and learned how to play the guitar.
In 1917, when she was 21, she married Jimmy Yancey.
She often sang with him at meetings and house parties in the 1930s and 1940s and performed with him at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1948.
Because Jimmy Yancey was a great boogie-woogie/blues piano player, but a poor singer, Estelle recorded frequently with her husband.
In 1943, the Yanceys recorded for Session Records, and went back into the studio to record the album Pure Blues for Atlantic Records.
The session was just a few months before Jimmy Yancey's death that same year.
Estelle continued to perform and record.
Mama Yancey's recordings with other pianists include "South Side Blues" for the Riverside label (1961), some records with Art Hodes for Verve Records in 1965, and Maybe I'll Cry with Erwin Helfer for the Red Beans label in 1983, recorded at age 87.
Mama Yancey Bio
Born in West Helena, Arkansas he was brought up in Cairo, Illinois.
He began playing professionally in 1951.
He joined Muddy Waters' band in 1954.
He was again member of the band in 1966.He left Chicago and spent much of his adult life on the West Coast.
Smith played with the blues combo, Bacon Fat, and mentored its harmonica player Rod Piazza.
After this he played harmonica for Big Mama Thornton in the 1970s.
He appeared on her album Jail (1975).Another student of him was William Clarke.
On the few solo albums he recorded one can hear the influence of Little Walter on his harmonica playing.
George "Harmonica" Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles, California at the age of 59.
Selected Discography
Harmonica Ace - Ace Records
Harmonica Blues King - Dobre Records 1061
Biography at bluesharp.ca
Rochester is a city in southeast Minnesota.
It is Minnesota's third largest city, with about 115,700 people as of 2017.
The Mayo Clinic is there.
It was named after Rochester, New York.
On August 21, 1883, a strong tornado severely damaged much of the city.
Almost 40 people were killed by the tornado.
Uchiwa is a traditional Japanese fan.
It is often used to create a breeze to keep cool in hot weather.
They are part of Japanese seasonal traditions and are often given as gifts during these times.
Originally, uchiwa were made from big leaves and animal hair.
The purpose was to purify and pray.
Over time they have changed, and are now made from bamboo and paper.
There are many kinds of pattern; during the Han Dynasty they were often decorated by famous calligraphers.
During the Edo period they were made as souvenirs for shrines.
During the Meiji period they were admired by foreigners and imported to other countries.
The oldest uchiwa can be seen in the records of ancient China, as well as the wall paintings of Ancient Egypt.
By the end of the Kōan (Muromachi period) period, uchiwa was made from bamboo and paper.
Uchiwa is used to fan cooking and to keep cool.
Some people use it to purify disease.
Uchiwa is almost always used in summer festival dances.
Alessandro Matri (born 19 August 1984) is an Italian football player.
He plays for Brescia (on loan from Sassuolo) and Italy national team.
Fabio Quagliarella (born 31 January 1983) is an Italian professional football player.
He plays for and captains U.C. Sampdoria and Italy national team.
Scores and results list Italy's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Quagliarella goal.
An expedition usually means a long journey or voyage done for a specific purpose, often exploratory, scientific, geographic, military or political in nature.
Some famous expeditions
The Burke and Wills expedition in 1860—61 to cross Australia from south to north.
The Central Australian Expedition of 1844 led by Charles Sturt to find an Australian inland sea.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804—06 to explore Louisiana.
The Overland Expedition in 1897—98 to rescue whale ships trapped in ice.
The Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1910—13 led by Robert Falcon Scott.
Secret sharing is used as a term to refer to ways of sharing a secret among many people.
Each person knows part of the secret that is shared, but a number of people need to cooperate to rebuild the secret.
The knowledge of one person alone is not enough to reconstruct the secret.
Adi Shamir and George Blakley developed the method independently of each other, in 1979.
One example where secret sharing is used is the RSA cryptosystem.
It uses a secret key.
If this key is distributed among many people, no single person can make a signature.
Even if the part of one person is revealed or lost, a number of them can still make a signature.
This is often used is areas where security is very important, such as banks, or the military.
The dealer hands each player their part of the secret.
In an easier setup, the parts of the players can be combined to form the secret, but with each part there is extra information.
Say that a secret needs five parts, and three parts are known.
In this setup, guessing the two parts that are missing will be easier than guessing the secret awhen no parts are known.
The other setup is said to be secure from the point of view of information theory, because knowing part of the required number of player parts will not change how difficult it is to guess the secret.
Shamir's method
In this method, any t out of the n shares may be used to recover the secret.
The idea is that a polynomial of degree t-1 is defined by t points on the polynomial: It takes two points to define a straight line, three to define a quadratic curve, four for a cubic, and so on.
It takes t points ot define a polynomial of degree t-1.
That way it is possible to build a polynomial, the first coefficient is the secret; there are n randomly picked coefficients.
Each player receives one of the n coefficients.
If there are at least t players, they can rebuild the original curve, and get the secret.
A zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a protocol used in cryptography.
In such a protocol, two parties are communicating.
The task of one party is to convince the other that it knows some secret, but without revealing the secret.
There is a well-known story showing some of the ideas of zero-knowledge proofs.
Usually, the two parties in a zero-knowledge proof are called Peggy (the prover of the statement) and Victor (the verifier of the statement).
In this story, Peggy has uncovered the secret word used to open a magic door in a cave.
The cave is shaped like a circle, with the entrance on one side and the magic door blocking the opposite side.
Victor says he'll pay her for the secret, but not until he's sure that she really knows it.
Peggy says she'll tell him the secret, but not until she receives the money.
They devise a scheme by which Peggy can prove that she knows the word without telling it to Victor.
First, Victor waits outside the cave as Peggy goes in.
They label the left and right paths from the entrance A and B. Peggy randomly takes either path A or B. Then, Victor enters the cave and shouts the name of the path he wants her to use to return, either A or B, chosen at random.
Providing she really does know the magic word, this is easy: she opens the door, if necessary, and returns along the desired path.
Note that Victor does not know which path she has gone down.
However, suppose she did not know the word.
Then, she would only be able to return by the named path if Victor were to give the name of the same path that she had entered by.
Since Victor would choose A or B at random, he would have a 50% chance of guessing correctly.
If they were to repeat this trick many times, say 20 times in a row, her chance of successfully anticipating all of Victor's requests would become very small.
Universidad del Desarrollo is a private university in Chile.
Three headquarters in Concepción and other 3 headquarters in Santiago de Chile.
There are about 9,950 students.
Architecture and Art
Business & Economy
Humanities and Education
Political Sciences
Universidad del Desarrollo official website
1990 establishments in Chile
Universidad de Los Andes is a private university with headquarters located in Santiago de Chile.
There are about 6,048 students.
Some Faculties
Business & Economy Sciences
Universidad de Los Andes official website
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (also known as a CED) was a type of video disc.
It was made in 1964 by the company RCA.
The CED is similar to a record because it stores the video and sound as small groves on a black disk.
Because of this, the CED is an analog disc format instead of a digital format like a CD.
The CED is stored inside a plastic case so you can not touch the disk as it is very easy to damage.
On the plastic case is a label that has the name of the movie on the disc as well as other information such as a summary of the movie.
The first CED was made in 1964 but were not available for purchase until 1981.
About 200 movies were made available on CED.
Each movie that was on CED was about $15 to $35 depending on the length of the movie.
The CED did not sell well, this is because you could not record on the disc like you could with a video tape.
The production of the CED stopped in 1986.
Details of a CED
CEDs are conductive vinyl platters that are 30.0 cm (11.8 in) in diameter.
To avoid using the metric system to name their discs, they were called "12 inch discs" even though they were actually slightly smaller.
Each side of the disc has grooves that are about 19 miles long and are 37 times smaller than the grooves on a regular phonograph record.
When the disc is playing, it spins at about 450 times per minute and each rotation of the disc contained several frames of audio and visual information.
To read the disc, a titanium needle was placed very lightly on the outer edge of the disc.
A small electric current was then passed through the center of the needle, where it would touch the bottom of the groove and read the audio information, which was stored in small holes.
The needle would read these by detecting how much air was between the needle and the pit and then the electronics of the player would convert these into audio.
The visual information was stored in the grooves and were read like a regular phonograph record.
As the needle passed over the grooves, it would vibrate and the player would convert the vibrations into the pictures.
Superstars is TV program.
The show is a sports competition between very good athletes from different sports.
They try to win a series of athletic events similar to a decathlon.
Figure skating champion Dick Button developed the idea.
ABC bought it as a special for the winter of 1973.
The first Superstars competition was held in Rotonda West, Florida in March 1973.
The winner was pole vaulter Bob Seagren.
The BBC covered the competition and aired their own programme on December 31, 1973.
The BBC version featured British athletes.
Competitors usually participate in ten different sporting events, including a 100-yard dash,  run, obstacle course, weightlifting, bowling, rowing, tennis, basketball, bicycle racing, and swimming.
Sometimes the sports have changed over time and between the European and American competitions.
For example, in the first USA competition, there was no obstacle course, but there was table tennis and baseball.
Athletes get points for the position they finish in each event.
The competitor with the most points at the end of all ten events is the winner.
List of American winners
'The Superstars': a page describing the Superstars competitions over the years.
BBC Superstars website
is a dish of braised pork found in Nagasaki, Japan.
The name literally means simmered square.
Kakuni of pork is the dish which is boiled softly with sweet sake, soy sauce, and sake.
It is very popular among Japanese people.
When people visit Nagasaki, they often buy it as a souvenir.
Christina "Kiki" Cutter (b. July 24, 1949) is an alpine skier from the United States.
She was the first American to win a World Cup skiing event.
She came in first in the World Cup slalom race in 1968 in Oslo, Norway.
She only competed in World Cup skiing for a just over three years.
But, she had five World Cup wins.
That was the U.S. record for most World Cup victories by a U.S. skier for eleven years from 1968 to 1979.
Phil Mahre went past her total in 1979.
Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
It is next to the Atlantic Ocean on the Jersey Shore.
Asbury Park is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area.
In the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 16,116.
Asbury Park started as a borough on March 26, 1874.
It included parts of Ocean Township.
Asbury Park became a city as of March 25, 1897.
The city is known for music.
Bruce Springsteen comes from the city and started his career there.
The New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium called Asbury Park the sixth best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest.
1874 establishments in the United States
Donkey Kong Country (also called DKC) is the first installment of the Donkey Kong Country series and the first game in the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy, overall.
This video game was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
This game is a platformer developed by Rare and published by Nintendo.
The playable characters in this game are Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.
Donkey Kong Country was followed by two sequels: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
in 1995 and 1996.
The game was remade for the Game Boy Color in 2000 and was also remade again for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.
Donkey Kong Country was ported over to the Wii's Virtual Console in 2006 and 2007.
On November 25, 2012, for reasons unknown, Donkey Kong Country and both its sequels were delisted from the Wii's Virtual Console worldwide except in South Korea, but on October 30, 2014, the games were relisted only in Europe and Australia.
Around the same time, the games were released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Europe and Australia, in Japan on November 26, 2014, and in the United States and Canada on February 26, 2015.
For handhelds, Donkey Kong Country was ported exclusively over to the New Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console in March 2016.
It is one of the 21 games included on the Super NES Classic Edition and was made available for the Nintendo Switch Online on July 15, 2020.
The story for Donkey Kong Country involves the Kremlings stealing Donkey Kong's bananas.
There are six worlds and a final boss battle on Gangplank Galleon sometimes referred to as a world.
The worlds are;
Kongo Jungle
Monkey Mines
Vine Valley
Gorilla Glacier
Kremkroc Industries Inc.
Chimp Caverns
Gangplank Galleon (sometimes considered as a world)
There are seven bosses in Donkey Kong Country.
These bosses include;
Very Gnawty
Master Necky
Queen B.
Really Gnawty
Dumb Drum
Master Necky Snr.
Changes between the ports
Donkey Kong Country had received two remakes; one for the Game Boy Color and one for the Game Boy Advance.
The Game Boy Advance version has a larger amount of changes, while the Game Boy Color version doesn't have as much changes.
The changes are listed below;
This version contains three different title screens, one chosen out of random.
Even in the North American version, the game can have English, Spanish, French, German, or Italian chosen as the language.
This is not present in the Japanese version.
The mode selection screen is made to resemble that of Donkey Kong 64.
Only one Kong can be present at once.
When one of them is hit, the other one appears.
The other Kong is located at the bottom-left part of the screen with a DK Barrel icon to indicate the that Kong is there.
The victory dance and victory music is taken out of the game.
The world map can be viewed all over by the player pressing SELECT and then uses the left or right buttons on the D-Pad to view the overworld of a world.
The Game Boy Color version added compatibility with the Game Boy Printer as Sticker Pads were also added.
Winky's Walkway has been extended from the original version and even features another Mini-Necky.
A new stage named Necky Nutmare has been added in this version.
It appears in Chimp Caverns as the fourth level of the world.
This stage is located after Funky's Flights and before Loopy Lights.
Two new minigames called Funky Fishing (this one reappears in the Game Boy Advance version under the title of Funky's Fishing) and Crosshair Cranky.
Candy's Save Point has been renamed to Candy's Challenge.
This makes the game autosave after a level is completed.
Some of the music has been reused from Donkey Kong Land.