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After the last semi-final round on 8 December, Sylvia became the first female finalist on Singapore Idol.
On 27 December 2009, she competed against Sezairi Sezali for the title of Singapore Idol.
She did not win.
Although she wanted to win, Sylvia has was happy to be in the finals.
She said  "my Idol journey has been wonderful.
I would never change anything about it.
It’s been a really long and tiring journey, but it’s so fulfilling.... I’m really glad that I managed to touch many people’s hearts, and their lives.
I hope to continue doing that,"
In an interview with both Ken Lim and Ratonel, Lim said that he "didn't think that [Sylvia] did well" when asked about his opinions about the results.
He said her performances in the finals were weaker than those she had in the semi-final rounds.
Post-Idol career
Sylvia's firstperformance after Singapore Idol was at the Celebrate 2010 Countdown Party at Marina Bay.
She sang "Empire State of Mind" with the rest of the Singapore Idol Top 13.
In January 2010, Ratonel signed a contract with broadcast station MediaCorp.
She was also hired to promote the new Motorola Dext phone.
Later in March, she signed a record deal with Universal Music Singapore.
Her appearance caught the attention of cosmetics company Maybelline.
That same month, she became the new face of Maybelline New York.
She was the first Singaporean celebrity for the cosmetics brand.
Sylvia was a guest star in the MediaCorp television movie Seven Days.
In the movie, she performed "You and I" with Rai from the Singaporean pop duo Jack & Rai.
In June, Sylvia made her debut as co-host with Michelle Chia in the MediaCorp weekly food program "Buffetlicious"
She performed the National Anthem of Singapore before the start of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix race on September 26, 2010.
In the same month, Sylvia made it to the Top 100 Sexiest Women in the World list of FHM.
Sylvia was on the cover of Cleo in March 2010  and November 2010.
She was also on cover for Seventeen Magazine in June 2010.
Sylvia won the Breakout Star of the Year ELLE Awards 2010 in December 2010.
Later that month, Sylvia recorded a duet of "Come Home to 5" with Sezali.
Her self-titled debut album Sylvia Ratonel was released in Singapore on 27 October 2010.
The musical style of the album was different from the acoustic genre she used during Singapore Idol.
Other than a cover of an 1980s song titled "Manic Monday"  and a Malay language song "Mari Bersamaku", the album was all new music.
It was co-written by Sylvia and Don Richmond.
The album has many pop ballads and upbeat R&B songs.
The album has had four singles.
All of them were released only on radio format.
Sylvia Ratonel YouTube Channel Sylvia Ratonel - YouTube
Interview with RazorTV RAZORTV
Sylvia Ratonel Official Facebook Sylvia Ratonel | Facebook
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}}The Rules of Attraction' is a 2002 American satirical black comedy-drama movie.
It stars James van der Beek and Jessica Biel.
This movie is based on the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis.
It is about events at a fictional college in New Hampshire.
The Rules of Attraction'' was originally rated NC-17 by the MPAA, although edits were performed by Lionsgate so that the movie could get an R rating.
The term spa is associated with water treatment of disease by bathing.
Spa towns, spa resorts, and hot springs resorts often offer various health treatments.
People have believed in the helpful powers of mineral waters back to prehistoric times.
This practice has been popular worldwide.
It is especially widespread in Europe and Japan.
Origins of the term
The term came from the name of the town of Spa, Belgium.
This name was known back in Roman times, when it was called Aquae Spadanae.
It may be related to the Latin word "spargere" meaning to scatter, sprinkle or moisten.
Albert Dwayne Roloson (born October 12, 1969 in Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender and the current goaltending coach of the Anaheim Ducks.
Roloson played 606 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Minnesota Wild, Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning.
After Mark Recchi retired, Roloson became the oldest active NHL player and the last active NHL player to have been born in the 1960s.
He played for the Calgary Flames for 2 seasons, the Buffalo Sabres for 2 seasons, the Minnesota Wild for 4 seasons, the Edmonton Oilers for 4 seasons and the New York Islanders for 2 seasons before being traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning on January 1, 2011 for defenceman Ty Wishart.
He is married to his wife, Melissa and they have two sons, Brett, 7, and Ross, 5.
John Farey, Sr. (
1766 – January 6, 1826) was an English geologist.
However, he is better known for a mathematician, the Farey sequence is named after him.
He is also a writer.
Anthony Wilford Brimley (September 27, 1934 – August 1, 2020) was an American actor.
Brimley has appeared in the movies The China Syndrome, Cocoon, The Thing and The Firm.
He has also appeared in television commercials for Quaker Oats and Liberty Medical.
He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a former United States Marine.
Actors from Wyoming
Ernest Ellis Clark (1870 – 1932) was a Derby born artist.
Three of his paintings are in Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Clark was born in Derby and after studying art he started work at Royal Crown Derby.
He won many prizes for his art.
In his forties he served in the Royal Field Artillery during the first world war.
His only book was a guide for his students to design based on plant forms.
In the book he supplied the designs.
Clark said "... it cannot be too frequently urged upon students that the only right way for them is to make their own studies direct from nature."
Three of his paintings are in Derby Museum and Art Gallery after being gifted by Alfred E. Goodey.
The painting of Green Street records a time three years before the Hippodrome Theatre was built on the left and on the right is the College of Art where Clark trained.
The Derby Sketching Club is a members' club meeting in Derby, England.
It was founded in 1887, still providing members with facilities.
In 1887, a group of young men held a meeting at the County hotel in Derby and founded the Derby Sketching Club.
They wanted to have a place where they and others could work, share their interest in painting and sketching.
The fee for one year was two shillings and sixpence.
Their first exhibition was held in January 1889, at the Athenaeum Rooms in Derby.
In 1922, the Derby Ladies Art Group was formed.
The two groups first held a joint Exhibition in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
They finally merged in 1966.
The art collector Alfred E. Goodey.
collected some of their work about Derby made by Sketching Club members.
In the 1940s he presented the paintings to Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Current activities
There are regular sessions for members- for lifedrawing, and portrait painting and still life.
There are guest lectures and exhibitions and members use the website to promote their work.
Keene managed the family business with his brother Charles after their father's death.
Alfred John Keene was a founder member, in 1887, of the Derby Sketching Club with F Booty, William Swindell, George Thompson, Charles Terry And Frank Timms.
This club still meets today.
Keene's paintings were collected by Alfred E. Goodey who eventually purchased 77 of them.
Goodey gave his collection of paintings to Derby Museum in 1936.
Shadows of the Damned, also known as Damned or DMD, is a first-person shooter and horror video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Electronic Arts.
The game was made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The game was released on June 21, 2011 in North America and on June 24, 2011 in Europe.
Garcia Hotspur - A demon hunter.
Johnson - A demon that assists Garcia.
Paula - Garcia's girlfriend.
Fleming - The demon in charge of the underworld.
Christopher - A half-human/demon hybrid.
Shadows of the Damned's Official website
The Holy Land is an area in the Levant that is holy to Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism).
The name roughly refers to the region of Palestine.
Jews say God gave the Holy Land to them.
This is where Jesus was born, crucified and resurrected.
Several Crusades were fought there.
"Description of the Holy Land" is an old map from the 1500s which shows the Holy Land when Jesus was alive
Abraham Isaac Quintanilla III is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, most known for his works for his sister, Selena.
A.B. Quintanilla III, became a member of Kumbia Kings, which he founded several years after Selena's death.
A.B., left the band and soon founded another band Kumbia All-Starz with some alumni members and some from Selena y Los Dinos.
A.B.,'s hit singles "Como La Flor", Amor Prohibido", and "No Me Queda Mas" became classic hits for Selena and became her signature songs. "
Amor Prohibido" and "No Me Queda Mas" were the most successful singles in 1994 and 1995 in the United States Latino communities and Mexico.
Pedro "Pete" Astudillo (born 1963 in Laredo, Texas) is a Mexican American songwriter.
He became a back-up dancer and singer for the band "Selena y Los Dinos".
The band's lead singer, Selena, was the "Queen of Tejano music".
Astudillo, later left the band after writing several #1 Billboard hits.
He left to become a solo artist.
Most of his written and recorded songs were all nominated for awards.
Most of these did win the awards they were nominated for.
"Pete Astudillo", BMI
"Pete Astudillo arrestado "
Tejano music or Tex-Mex music (Texas–Mexico music) is a genre of music that originated in South Texas with help from German settlers in the 1800s.
Tejano music is a mix-music-genre of German folk, Ranchera, Mariachi, and Conjunto music.
The genre became popular during the 1990s.
The singer Selena, who was called the "Queen of Tejano music", helped attract younger and wider audiences to Tejano.
The Shire is a fictional location is part of the legendarium created by the British author J. R. R. Tolkien and appears in their novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
It is a region in the northwest of Middle-earth, one of the continents of the fictional world of Arda  where elapses the most part of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.
It is, in turn, within the great region of Eriador, where previously existed the kingdom of Arnor.
Is inhabited only by hobbits, a race similar to the men and characterized by their short stature.
Founded in the middle of the Third Age, their known history is small and with little significants events because the peaceful nature of its inhabitants, with the exception of the events that took place during the War of the Ring.
The Shire in the languages of the Middle-Earth
Hobbits sometimes call it Sûza (which means "Shire")  or Sûzat ("the Shire"), terms that have their origin in the Rohirric, the language of Rohan with which they came in contact before colonizing the Shire.
On the other hand, in the Elvish language Sindarin they call it i Drann.
It is also called "Four frames", the name refers to their territorial division.
According to Tolkien, the Shire measured 40 leagues (193 km, 120 miles) from the Far Downs in the west to the Brandywine Bridge in the east, and 50 leagues (241 km, 150 miles) from the northern moors to the marshes in the south,  This is confirmed in an essay by Tolkien on translating The Lord of the Rings, where he describes the Shire as having an area of 18,000 square miles (47,000 km²).
The original territory of the Shire was bounded on the east by the Baranduin River, on the north by uplands rising to the old centre of Arnor, on the west by the White Downs, and on the south by marshland south of the River Shirebourne.
After the original settlement, hobbits also expanded to the east into Buckland between the Baranduin and the Old Forest, and (much later) to the west into the Westmarch between the White Downs and the Tower Hills.
The Shire was originally divided into four Farthings.
The outlying lands of Buckland and the Westmarch were formally added after the War of the Ring when they were officially granted by King Elessar.
Within the Farthings there are some smaller unofficial clan homelands: the Tooks nearly all live in or near Tuckborough in Tookland, for instance.
A Hobbit surname often indicates where the family came from: Samwise Gamgee's last name derives from Gamwich, where the family originated.
Buckland was named for the Oldbucks (later called the Brandybucks).
The Shire was densely populated, with many towns and few cities, but still had large areas of forests and wetlands.
It is described as a "small land", but beautiful and fruitful, beloved by its inhabitants.
Their location gives it a natural fertility and therefore the hobbits have an extensive farming system, being able to find many supplies such as cereals, fruits, wood and pipe-weed (one of the favorite pleasures of the hobbits).
However, its economy is almost self-sufficient and hobbits typically consume all the products of their crops, or reserve them for gifts.
The Shire is a region of low elevations, and these are no higher than hills.
The main ones are:
Far Downs, are between the Tower Hills, west, and the White Downs to the east.
They were originally the western frontier of the Shire, but after expansion "in 32" of the "Fourth Age of the Sun," were included in it and became part of the Westfarthing.
They found the village of Greenholm
White Downs: also called White Hills, are in the Westfarthing, on the east of Far Downs.
The town Michel Delving was there.
The Free Fair, where hobbits elected there Mayor of the Shire, was held here.
Hills of Scary: in the Eastfarthing and extend from the river Baranduin until near the border with the Northfarthing.
Scary and Quarry villages are close to the hills, ob the south.
Green Hills, extending from the Westfarthing, through the Southfarthing and ending in the Eastfarthing, going into the Woody End.
All the lands who occupied were called the Green Hill Country.
In the west was the town Tuckborough, where the Took family and the Thain lived.
In these hills born the river of the Shire and the river of the Cardoon.
The climate in the Shire was primarily temperate maritime or ocean, depending on the area.
In general, temperatures are slightly warmer in the south than in the north and seasonal changes of temperature are lightly more pronounced (hotter summers and colder winters) in the extreme east than the extreme west.
The rainfalls are moderate throughout the whole year and especially in the Northframe, Can snow during the occasional visits of polar air from the north.
The Shire is populated only by hobbits.
By the time of the War of the Ring, most of the whole hobbit race was there, except those who lived in Bree-land to the east.
The original three tribes of hobbits (Harfoots, Fallohides, Stoors) united and mixed in the Shire.
Only in the east part of the Shire there is a bigger Stoorish influence, which can be seen in that those hobbits sometimes grow beards.
The Thain is the leader of all Shire-hobbits.
The Thain originates from the Took family.
The Master of Buckland, at the eastern border of the Shire.
The Master of Buckland is from the Brandybuck family.
The Mayor of Michel Delving.
He is elected every seven years by the Shire-hobbits.
He administers the post system and the police.
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American Psycho is a 2000 American satirical crime drama movie.
It stars Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny and Reese Witherspoon.
It is set in New York City in the late 1980s.
The central character is a narcissistic psychopath who is an investment banker and serial killer.
The MPAA initially gave the movie an NC-17.
Movie makers cut out 18 seconds so it could receive an R rating.
The movie is based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis that is also called American Psycho.
2000s satirical movies
"No Me Queda Más" () is a song by American singer Selena.
It was written by Ricky Vela.
Vela had fallen in love with Selena's sister, Suzette Quintanilla.
He then found out she was married.
Vela was angry at this and wrote down his feelings.
Selena's brother and producer of her music, A.B. Quintanilla III, liked the idea of turning his words into a song.
The song was then co-produced by Bebu Silvetti.
It was for Selena's fourth album Amor Prohibido (1994).
The song's lyrics are a reference to Vela's unreturned love.
"No Me Queda Más" is a Spanish language ballad.
It was released as a single in the United States and Mexico.
The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Latin Tracks for seven weeks.
The song became Selena's third number one single from her Amor Prohibido album.
In 1995, it became the number-one song on the Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart.
It also became the best-selling Latin single for 1995 in the United States.
The song had positive feedback from music critics. "
No Me Queda Más" was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the Broadcast Music Latin Awards.
However, the music video of the song won the 1995 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
The music video was shot at the Houston, Texas Amtrak station and other locations in San Antonio, Texas.
Since the song was released, it has been covered by several artists.
"No Me Queda Más" was written by Ricky Vela.
Vela was a keyboardist for Selena y Los Dinos.
He had fallen in love with the drummer of the group, Suzette Quintanilla.
Suzette is Selena and A.B. Quintanilla III's sister.
After finding out she was married, Vela wrote about his feelings on paper.
He was going to send it to Suzette.
However, Selena needed more songs on what was going to be her next album.
Selena's brother and music producer, A.B., decided to ask Vela if he had written anything.
Vela had written songs before and some of his works were recorded by Selena.
Vela told A.B. about his feelings for her sister Suzette.
He showed him the paper where he wrote about how hurt he was.
A.B., liked the idea of turning it into a song.
They then worked together and turned it into a ballad.
Selena recorded the song at her father and manager's record studio Q-Productions.
It was produced by A.B. The song was then co-produced by Bebu Silvetti.
It was for Selena's fourth album, Amor Prohibido (1994).
"No Me Queda Más" is a down-tempo ballad.
It also has flamenco and ranchera music in the song.
It is written in key of B minor.
The song has 95 beats per minute.
Selena's vocal range in the song spans two octaves. "
No Me Queda Más" uses traditional musical instruments such as the violin, trumpet and the Spanish guitar.
Jose Behar, president of EMI Latin, asked Silvetti to mix the song.
Behar believed if the song was "sweeten" it can help it's chart performance.
The mixed version was then added to the re-release of Amor Prohibido.
It was shown on the cover of the album as a "new version".
The song's lyrics explains the pain and sorrow of a woman who was betrayed by her boyfriend.
In the song, the boyfriend left her to marry another female he liked.
In the end, the woman hopes for the best for them and wishes them happiness while she cries.
The song tells the story of unreturned love.
Carlos Meléndez, writer for El Nuevo Dia, gave a positive feedback of the song because it had an orchestra feel to it.
Meléndez also enjoyed the use of the string instrument.
Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum named the song a "mariachi bolero" in their book.
Mario Tarradell of The Dallas Morning News, agreed to this statement and said that it was a "mournful mariachi-style ballad".
Jorge Velasquez called "No Me Queda Más" a "bonafide hit" in his book.
A Polish newspaper described "No Me Queda Más" as one of Selena's biggest hits.
Mark Schone of Newsday enjoyed the song's string arrangement and its Mexican trumpets.
Ramiro Burr, writer for the San Antonio Express-News, believed Selena had "over-dubbed vocals" for the song.
Burr later wrote that Selena used a "powerful" emotional voice when she recorded the song.
He then stated that the song is a "bittersweet story".
Mario Tarradell of The Dallas Morning News called the song a "heartbreaking mariachi ballad".
According to Bob Young of the Boston Globe, "No Me Queda Más" is a "mariachi" song.
According to one of the writers of the Lexington Herald-Leader, "No Me Queda Más" is a "bolero-influenced" song.
Carmen Lopez of Novedades de México, enjoyed the song's "soulful-rich sounds".
The song started at number 40 on the US Billboard Hot Latin Tracks on 12 November 1994.
It reached number one for seven weeks.
The recording became Selena's third number-one single off of Amor Prohibido.
The song got off the chart on 1 April 1995.
It returned two weeks later at number five.
This was followed by Selena's death which happened the day before.
The song then spent eleven weeks in the top 10.
With this single, Selena became the first Latin artist to have four number-one singles on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in a single year.
Enrique Iglesias tied this record in 1996.
He had four number-ones from his first album Enrique Iglesias.
With "No Me Queda Más" and thirteen other of Selena's top 10 singles, she was named "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best Selling Latin Artist of the Decade" by Billboard magazine.
In March 2010, "No Me Queda Más" and a few other Selena music videos were selected for a Selena tribute.
It was available to watch on Music Choice and was serviced to 42 million people in the United States. "
No Me Queda Más" became the most successful Latin single of 1995 in the United States.
According to Orlando Sentinel, "No Me Queda Más" was the second "Top 10 Spanish Hits of 1994".
The song was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the Broadcast Latin Music Awards.
However, the music video won "Video of the Year" at the 1995 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Kat DeLuna sang the song during a children's singing competition.
She won first place.
In 1998, Los Tres Reyes recorded the song.
They turned the song into a duet with Selena.
In 1995, salsa singer Tito Nieves recorded "No Me Queda Más" for his album Un Tipo Comun.
His version reached number seven on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay chart.
Pepe Aguilar sang the song at the Selena ¡VIVE! (
2005) tribute concert.
Michael Clark of the Houston Chronicle wrote that Aguilar's version reminded him of R&B singer Aaron Neville.
In the same year, Mexican group Paloma also covered the song.
They included it on their live album En Concierto-en Vivo Desde L.A. (2005).
Their version reached number 19 on the Hot Latin Tracks chart and number six on the Latin Regional Mexican Airplay chart.
In 2006, Puerto Rican singer José Feliciano recorded the song.
It was for his album José Feliciano Y Amigos (2006).
Ramiro Burr for the Chicago Tribune called Felicanio's version a "bittersweet ranchera".
Cuban-American singer Toñita also recorded a version of the song.
It was for her album Desafiando al Destino (2007).
In 2008, Mexican American singer Maria Williams recorded an English language version.
It was called "Nothing Left for Me".
It was for her first album Hybrid.
American singer David Archuleta sang the song several times on his tour.
He was asked to perform "No Me Queda Más" at the 2010 Tejano Music Awards.
Karen Rodriguez performed the song on the tenth season of American Idol in 2011.
Dominican singer Prince Roye has performed "No Me Queda Más" while touring.
Mexican singer Graciela Beltran performed the song during one of her concerts in Houston, Texas.
"No Me Queda Más" - 3:16
US cassette single
Mexico CD single
"No Me Queda Más" (new version) - 3:49
South America 12" single
"No Me Queda Más"
Selena – vocals
Joe Ojeda – backing keyboards
Ricky Vela – writer, electric keyboards
A.B. Quintanilla III – arranger, producer
Bebu Silvetti – arranger, producer
Arturo Meza, Jesse "O'Jay" Martinez – percussion/congas
Odalis Smith, Helen Stackhouse, Morgan Taylor – french horn
Gertrude Myers, Ruth Moore, John Foster, Alice Powell – violin
Lucy Richardson – cello
Francisca Malorie, James Watson – flute
Edward Jackson, Jose Deluna – trumpet
Freddie Corea, Don Shelton – tambourine
Sean Roberts – director
Jose Behar, Diego Aguilar – producer
Jonathan (last name unknown) – writer
Selena, Los Dinos – starring
Selena, Martin Gomez, Rosa Sullivan, Mark Duncan – costume designers
Diego Aguilar – production manager
Jorge Pinto, Alexander Martinez, Juan Felicio, Jorge Fernandez, Sebastian Rodriguez, Maria Lopez, Victor Nunez – mariachi band
Ezequiel Cintron – waiter
Emilio Perez – "Selena's crush"
Sophia Rodriguez – "The bride"
Luis Muñoz – "Bible reader"
The Entognatha is a class of ametabolous arthropods, which, together with insects, makes up the superclass Hexapoda.
Their mouthparts are entognathous, meaning they are retracted within the head.
The class contains three orders: Collembola (springtails), Diplura and Protura.
The Tejano Music Awards is an annual music awards ceremony that is held in San Antonio, Texas to recognize and build awareness for Tejano music.
The first TMA's began in 1980.
In 1986, Selena won the "Female Vocalist of The Year" award and continued to win the award for nine consecutive years, up until her death.
She had won two awards posthumously after her death.
Selena dominated the awards beginning the 90's when she helped spread the Tejano Music Movement into the United States.
She was then given the title "Queen of Tejano music".
Being a male-dominate genre, the Tejano Music Awards continued to see a rise in more male entertainers receiving awards such as Emilio Navaira, Jay Perez, and La Mafia.
The group, La Mafia, became the first male Tejano group to sell a gold album (sales of 50,000 units).
For the females, Selena's album Ven Conmigo (1990) became the very first Tejano album to ever be certified gold by the RIAA.
Tejano Music Awards for Male Vocalist of The Year
Tejano Music Awards for Female Vocalist of The Year
Tejano Music Awards for Best New Male Artist
Tejano Music Awards for Best New Female Artist
Tejano Music Awards for Best New Group
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Conjunto)
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Tejano)
Tejano Music Awards for Entertainer of The Year
Tejano Music Awards for Song of The Year
Tejano Music Awards decade ballots
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (group)
Tejano Music Awards for Crossover Song of The Year
Tejano Music Awards for Vocal Duo of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Lifetime Achievement Award
Tejano Music Awards for Most Promising Band
Tejano Music Awards for Showband of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Conjunto Progressive)
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Urban Tejano)
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Conjunto Norteño)
Tejano Music Awards for Mexican/Regional Song of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Tejano Norteño)
Tejano Music Awards for Tejano Music Video of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Traditional)
Tejano Music Awards for Humanitarian of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Orchestra)
Tejano Music Awards for Album of The Year (Overall)
Tejano Music Awards for Song of The Year (Tejano Country)
Tejano Music Awards for Instrumental of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year
Tejano Music Awards for Tejano Gospel Music Artist
Ricardo Vela or also known as Ricky Vela was a songwriter and keyboardist for Selena y Los Dinos.
Vela had won several awards at the Tejano Music Awards for his works with Selena.
Charted songs
(This is a list of songs written or co-written by Ricky Vela that impacted music charts on Billboard)
"Dame Tu Amor" #6 Hot Latin Tracks
"No Debes Jugar" #3 Hot Latin Tracks
"La Llamada" #6 Hot Latin Tracks
"Tu Robaste Mi Corazon" #5 Hot Latin Tracks
"No Me Queda Mas" #1 Hot Latin Tracks
"Fotos y Recuerdos" #1 Hot Latin Tracks
Q-Productions is an independent record label founded by Abraham Quintanilla Jr in 1993, to help build further awareness for his daughter, Selena.
After Selena's death, Abraham Quintanilla Jr opened the record label to the public to help find new stars in the music and film industries.
Q-Productions specializes in Tejano music.
Jennifer Pena (1996–2001)
La Fuerza
Cortez De La Sierra
Jorge Roel Y Potrillo
http://Q-productions.com/qzone.html
http://q-productions.com/about.html
The band was created when Selena was nine-years old by her father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr. He immediately spread his musical talent (which he pursued himself in his earlier days) among his three children.
Suzette was put on the drums.
A.B. was put on the bass guitar.
The family first showcased their band at their restaurant "Papa Gayos" (English: Parrots).
Then they continued to sing at more and more different places.
Within a year the family's restaurant went bankrupt and the family was forced to move in with relatives as Abraham had quit his job to manage the restaurant full-time.
The band then performed wherever they could, including weddings, street corners, fairs, and quinceañeras, at some places gaining a lot of appreciation, while others not so much.
The band was even "booed" off while performing at a wedding, followed by food being thrown on stage.
In 1988, the Quintanilla family was present at a party of the band Chris Pérez was currently in.
Impressed by his talent, A.B. asked Chris to join Selena y Los Dinos.
Although he accepted, his support to the band proved to be much more than anticipated.
Selena and Chris quickly fell in love and married in 1992.
After Selena's death, Chris formed a band called the Chris Pérez Band which he dedicated a song to the Selena called "The Best I Can".
After the band broke up in 2002, he formed another band with Selena's brother A.B. called Kumbia All Starz.
The band members reunited for the tribute concert, in honor of Selena, on April 7, 2005.
Selena ¡VIVE!,
was held at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Not only did the event sold-out, it became the highest-rated and most-viewed Spanish-language Television special ever in the history of American television.
The introduction was made by Jennifer Lopez.
Selena - lead vocals
Chris Pérez - lead and rhythm guitars
Ricky Vela - keyboards
Joe Ojeda - keyboards
A.B. Quintanilla III - bass, backing vocals
Suzette Quintanilla - drums, percussion
Jesse "O'Jay" Martinez - drums, percussion
Arturo Meza - percussion, congas
Pete Astudillo - backing vocals
Don Shelton - backing vocals
Fredy Correa - backing vocals
Selena y Los Dinos made seven independent LP records.
They also made eighteen compilation albums that were released and one remix album.
In 1984, Selena y Los Dinos signed with Freddie Records and released their debut album entitled Mis Primeras Grabaciones, the album ended up with disappointing sales and Freddie Records wanted to put Selena y Los Dinos second album on hold until the band became more seasoned, the band ended up leaving Freddie Records after contract disagreements.
In 1985, Selena y Los Dinos was signed with Cara Records.
Selena's father and manager, Abraham Quintanilla Jr felt that the band would do much better with a Tejano record label.
Selena y Los Dinos recorded a few singles for Cara Records but a full album was never produced.
Selena was moved to GP Productions which was owned by Manny Guerra.
Guerra was a Tejano singer-songwriter and music producer.
Selena y Los Dinos recorded Alpha and released it in 1986.
Alpha became the first LP record to be successfully released in stores without any issues involved.
The band then released their third LP record Muñequito de Trapo ("Rag Doll") on June 29, 1987.
They also released their fourth LP record And the Winner Is... later that same year.
Selena began recording the LP record right after she had won the "Female Vocalist of the Year" award at the Tejano Music Awards that same year.
In early 1987, the band were moved to Record Producer (RP Records).
This record company was also owned by Guerra.
They had released Preciosa ("Precious") in February 1988, and sold only 20,000 units.
They then released their last LP record Dulce Amor ("Sweet Love") in December 1988.
The album sold 24,000 units.
In early 1989, Selena signed a record deal with EMI Latin.
In March 1990, Selena y Los Dinos released their first compilation album called Mis Primeros Éxitos ("My First Hits").
The album had re-recorded songs that were released before Selena had signed with EMI Latin.
In 1990, the band released Personal Best.
In 1992, the band released their third compilation album called Baila Esta Cumbia ("Dance This Cumbia").
The next year, they released Quiero.... After Selena was killed in 1995, the band released Grandes Exitos ("Greatest Hits").
In the early 2000s, Selena's father had released an "early years" collection called Selena y Sus Inicios ("Selena and Her Beginnings"), a few years later, he had released another set of early recordings from Selena called Classic Series; which were re-issues of Selena's LP records from 1986-1989.
LP albums
Selena y Los Dinos (1984) Sales: 65,000
Alpha (1987) Sales: 5,000
Muñequito de Trapo (1987) Sales: 7,000
And the Winner Is... (1987) Sales: 12,500
Preciosa (1988) Sales: 20,000
Dulce Amor (1989) Sales: 24,000
1995 re-release (Mis Primeras Grabaciones).
LP record was not sold in stores.
Mis Primeros Éxitos (1990) Sales: 10,000
Personal Best (1990) Sales: 4,000
Baila Esta Cumbia (1992) Sales: 27,000
Quiero... (1993) Sales: 35,000
Grandes Exitos (1995) Sales: 57,000
Selena y Sus Inicios (2004) 4 volumes
Classic Series (2007) 5 volumes
Inolvidable (2009)
Enamorada De Ti (2012)
In 1988, Pérez met Grammy-winning Mexican American singer Selena.
Two years later, Selena's family hired him to play in her band and they quickly fell in love.
At first her father did not approve of the relationship and went as far as firing Pérez from the band.
However, he eventually came to accept the relationship.
On April 2, 1992, Selena and Pérez married in Nueces County, Texas and Selena legally added Pérez's surname to her own.
After Selena was murdered in 1995, Pérez remarried and had two children with his second wife, Vanessa.
They split up in March 2008.
At the 2000 Grammy Awards his Rock band, The Chris Pérez Band, won a Grammy Award for "Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album" for their debut album "Resurrection".
Pérez dedicated the song, "Best I Can," to Selena.
In 2001, The Chris Pérez Band made their final album called "Una Noche Más" (English: One More Night).
After the Chris Pérez Band disbanded, Pérez joined his former brother-in-law's (A.B. Quintanilla III) music group called Kumbia Kings.
However, Quintanilla had conflicts with the band and left the Kumbia Kings along with Pérez.
Quintanilla started a new band called, Kumbia All-Starz with Pérez as its current guitarist.
Chris Pérez Official Website
Chris Pérez Facebook!
Chris Pérez YouTube!
Chris Pérez Twitter!
Chris Pérez Bands Twitter!
Chris Pérez  at VH1.com
Abraham Issac Quintanilla, Jr. (born February 20, 1939) is a Mexican American singer.
He was Selena's manager throughout her life.
Los Dinos era
Abraham and his close friends formed a Mexican American doo-wop band called, Los Dinos beginning in the 1950s.
Los Dinos took to the road everywhere their music was much appreciated.
Through struggles, Los Dinos signed numerous minor Texas based record companies.
By the 1960s Los Dinos switched their musical styles to Tejano music due to their low popularity.
Abraham quite the band to tend to his family full-time soon after his third and final child, Selena was born in 1971.
Abraham became managing his children's music abilities, soon after his daughter Selena had the ability to sing high notes in perfect pitch tune and memorization.
Selena y Los Dinos era
In the late 1970s, Abraham formed a new group composed of his three children, which was named Selena y Los Dinos.
Abraham opened a Mexican American restaurant in 1982, which featured performances by his musically gifted children.
Unfortunately, the restaurant was unsuccessful and closed in its first year.
By 1984, Abraham became the children's manager full-time for live concerts, performance on television shows, and so forth with the help of the "Selena Tour Bus".
In 1993, Abraham opened up his own recording studio, Q-Productions which he managed with various artists.
In the same year, the "Selena Fan Club" was formed by Yolanda Saldivar who later took Selena's life.
In 1995, Abraham was no longer the manager of Selena and her band Selena y Los Dinos due to an upcoming crossover album that would have propelled Selena into the main strain American pop.
On March 31, 1995, Abraham's youngest child, Selena was murdered at the age of 23.
Soon after her death, Abraham and his family created The Selena Foundation, a charitable organization which would help children in crisis.
Abraham Quintanilla continues to produce new acts in the music business and film with his record company, Q-Productions.
Since Selena's death, Abraham Quintanilla appeared in numerous television Selena specials.
IMDB profile
Q-Productions.com web site
Robin Hood was designed by Stand Company and built by Vekoma in 2000.
It has a capacity of 815 people per hour.
The coaster has 2 trains, both having 4 cars with 6 seats (per train 24 people).
A ride takes about 2.5 minutes and the coaster is about 1 kilometer long.
The ride will close in 2018 for an RMC make-over.
The Tripartite Pact, also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact, or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany, on September 27, 1940, which set up the Axis Powers of World War II.
On that date, it was signed by three countries: Germany, Italy, and Japan.
The pact was later joined by Hungary (November 20, 1940), Romania (November 23, 1940), Slovakia (November 24, 1940), Bulgaria (March 1, 1941), Yugoslavia (March 25, 1941) and Croatia (April 10, 1941).
Japan included some countries that were under its control.
The countries that signed the pact agreed to give ten years of political, economic, and military help to one another.
Also, if any country that signed the pact was attacked by another other country that had not joined the war, such as the United States or the Soviet Union, all of the other countries in the pact countries would declare war and help.
In 1943, the pact began to fall.
Many countries had ended the war or joined the Allies.
Although the pact remained in effect until Japan's surrender in August 1945, Germany's surrender three months earlier had made the pact meaningless.
The text of the Tripartite Pact
"The Scientist" is the second single from English alternative rock band Coldplay's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head.
The song was written by all the band members for the album together.
It is built around a piano ballad.
Its lyrics tell the story about a man's desire to love and about an apology.
The song was released in the United Kingdom as the second single from A Rush of Blood to the Head and reached number 10 in the UK Charts.
It was released in the United States as the third single and reached number 18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
Critics praised "The Scientist".
Several remixes of the track have been made.
Its riff has been widely sampled.
The single's music video won three MTV Music Video Awards, for the video's use of reverse narrative.
The song was also featured on the band's 2003 live album Live 2003.
"The Scientist" - 5:11
"1.36" - 2:05
"I Ran Away" - 4:26
"1.36" features Tim Wheeler of Ash on guitar.
"The Scientist" (Edit)
"The Scientist" (video running backwards)
"Lips Like Sugar" (Live)
Roach, Martin (2003).
Coldplay: Nobody Said It Was Easy.
Omnibus Press. .
"The Scientist" music video on YouTube.
The Rhinelands used to mean an area on both banks of the Rhine, in Central Europe, but the Rhineland (or Rheinland in German) is now a general word for areas of Germany along the middle and the lower Rhine.
It borders Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west and the Rhine to the east.
After World War I, the western part of Rhineland was under Allied control and demilitarized, with no military activities allowed, under the Treaty of Versailles.
German forces sent armies back to it in 1936, three years before World War II began.
A handstand is the act of holding the body upside down balancing on the hands.
The body is held straight with arms and legs fully extended.
The hands are placed about shoulder-width apart.
A handstand performer must have balance and upper body strength.
Handstands are used in many activities, including acro dance, acrobatics, cheerleading and gymnastics.
Some types of handstand are performed on all gymnastic equipment.
Many tumbling skills pass through a handstand position as part of the action.
Breakdancers use handstands in freezes and kicks.
Sometimes a handstand is used as a starting position for diving.
In games or contests, swimmers will sometimes do underwater handstands on pool bottoms with legs and feet extended above the water.
In yoga, the handstand is known as Adho Mukha Vrksasana (pronounced AHD-hoh MOOK-hah vrik-SHAH-sah-nah) translating to Downward-facing Tree Pose, and in capoeira it is named bananeira.
There are two basic handstands used in modern gymnastics: curved-back and straight-back.
Straight-back style is used when straight body lines are wanted and possible.
In many cases the curved-back style is better as it has much better control over balance.
Balance is kept by shifting body weight towards the fingers or the heel of the hand.
Straight arms with hands placed on the ground about shoulder-width apart.
Straight legs, held together.
Pointed toes so as to continue the lines of the legs.
Tucked head (face pointed forward) as if standing upright.
Straight spine, with hips pushed forward.
If performed while lying flat, this would cause the small of the back to contact ground.
Straight legs held in a side or front split.
Stag split, in which legs are front split with bent knees.
Back very arched, with bent knees and toes touching the back of the head.
Hollowback, with the back bent so that legs go further forward than the head.
One-handed, in which only one hand contacts the ground.
Handstand pushups, in which one raises and lowers the body while standing inverted on the hands.
A globular cluster is a group of stars of a similar age which often orbits the central bulge of a galaxy.
Gravity holds clusters together and gives them their spherical shape.
Towards the centre of such clusters there are many stars in a relatively small space.
Globular clusters occur in the halo of a galaxy and in its disk.
Those in the halo contain many more stars and are much older than the less dense open clusters in the disk.
Globular clusters are fairly common: there are about 150 to 158 known globular clusters in the Milky Way.
Large galaxies can have more: Andromeda may have as many as 500.
Some giant elliptical galaxies, particularly those at the centres of galaxy clusters, such as M87, have as many as 13,000 globular clusters.
These globular clusters orbit the galaxy out to huge distances, 40 kiloparsecs (approximately 131,000 light-years) or more.
Every galaxy of sufficient mass in the Local Group has its group of globular clusters, and almost every large galaxy surveyed has  a system of globular clusters.
The Sagittarius Dwarf and Canis Major Dwarf galaxies appear to be in the process of donating their associated globular clusters (such as Palomar 12) to the Milky Way.
This demonstrates how many of this galaxy's globular clusters might have been acquired in the past.
Observation history
The first globular cluster discovered was M22 in 1665, but individual stars in a globular cluster were not seen until Charles Messier observed M4.
The first eight globular clusters discovered are shown in the table.
The M before a number refers to the catalogue of Charles Messier, while NGC is from the New General Catalogue.
William Herschel began a survey program in 1782 using larger telescopes and was able to resolve the stars in all 33 of the known globular clusters.
In addition he found 37 additional clusters.
In Herschel's 1789 catalog of deep sky objects, his second such, he became the first to use the name globular cluster as their description.
The number of globular clusters discovered continued to increase, reaching 83 in 1915, 93 in 1930 and 97 by 1947.
A total of 152 globular clusters have now been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, out of an estimated total of 180 ± 20.
These additional, undiscovered globular clusters are believed to be hidden behind the gas and dust of the Milky Way.
Star clusters
Boomerang is a coaster type made by Vekoma, named after the original boomerang.
The first Boomerang began operation in 1984 at Rafaela Padilla in Puebla, México (which has since been moved to Six Flags México), and it has become one of the most repeated roller coaster designs in the world, with 41 Boomerangs operating as of 2011, another two "Standing but not operating" or in storage, and one currently under construction.
The Boomerang operates with one train with 7 cars, each capable of carrying 4 people (28 people per train).
The ride starts with the train being pulled backwards out of the station, up a lift hill by a catch-car.
When the catch-car reaches the end of the lift hill, it releases the train, which rolls down through the station, then into a cobra roll.
After the cobra roll, it goes through a loop after which it clicks onto a chain on the second lift hill.
When the train reaches the end of the second lift hill, the chain is moved down, which causes the train to roll down (as it is not attached to the chain anymore) and do the same track backwards.
Boomerang coasters have sometimes stalled, often in the cobra Roll element.
As a precaution, many Boomerang coasters, are built with an access platform just under the cobra roll.
Also, sometimes the train gets stuck on the second lift hill.
Boomerang page on the Vekoma website
Listing of Boomerang roller coasters at the Roller coaster database.
Listing of Invertigo roller coasters at the Roller coaster database.
Listing of Giant Inverted Boomerang roller coasters at the Roller coaster database.
Detailed Technical Article about Boomerang Roller Coasters
Roller coasters manufactured by Vekoma
In number theory, a natural number is called semiprime if it can be written as the product of two prime numbers.
The two numbers do not need to be different.
A semiprime can also be the square of a prime number.
Such numbers are very useful for cryptography.
Rattle Snake (previous names Keverbaan, Road Runner and Woks Waanzin) is a steel roller coaster in Walibi Holland in the Netherlands.
It was built by Zierer
Rattle Snake was built in 1994 by Walibi Flevo as Keverbaan.
When Six Flags took over the park in 2000, the name was changed to Road Runner.
Six Flags decided to paint the track brown instead of red, but later they decided to paint it back to red in 2004.
After the park name was changed to Walibi World, Road Runner was renamed to Woks Waanzin, but due to the name change in 2011 to Walibi Holland, the mascotte Wok disappeared and the coaster was renamed to Rattle Snake.
It moved to another section of the park, replacing Flying Dutchman Gold Mine.
The coaster has a capacity of 1000 people per hour.
Bit rate (also called bitrate, data rate, or R) is how fast bits move from one place to another.
It is measured in bits per second (bit/s).
Renal disease is the name for a disease or condition that mainly affects the kidneys.
Medical words for renal disease are nephropathy or nephrosis.
Some pain medicines affect how well the kidneys work, if they are taken over a longer time period
If a person has an organ transplantation, certain drugs need to be taken to keep the immune system from attacking the new organ.
These often affect the kidneys.
Certain diseases, basically from eating bread contaminated with Aristolochic acid.
Certain viruses, such as HIV.
Florida is a city and commune in Chile with 10067 inhabitants and an area of 609 square kilometres, all according to the census on 2002.
The city is located at 42 kilometres to the eastern of Concepción.
Municipality of the city of Florida (Chile)