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It is the fifth and final installment in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and serves as the direct sequel to The Battle of the Labyrinth.
There is a statement at the end of the book referencing the close of "the first Camp Half-Blood series," indicating that there might be more to follow.
The Last Olympian revolves around the demigod Perseus Jackson as he leads his friends in a last stand to protect Mount Olympus.
The book received many positive reviews.
Percy Jackson, his friends, and the Olympians fight in a war resembling the original war between the Greek gods and the Titans and in a final battle with the powerful Titan, Kronos.
Many fight for Olympus, including the Hunters of Artemis, dryads, satyrs, naiads, and tree nymphs, Chiron's centaur cousins the Party Ponies, and the hellhound Mrs. O'Leary.
They must defend Mt. Olympus from Kronos' huge army consisting of rogue half-bloods, dracaena, Hyperboreans, Laestrygonians, drakon, Hyperion, telekhines, Typhon, and hellhounds.
It is revealed that Luke had bathed in the River Styx, thus becoming nearly invincible (much like Achilles).
Seeking to defeat Kronos, Percy does the same, with some encouragement from Nico.
It is also revealed how Nico's mother died, and that the Oracle's foretelling of her death led to Hades cursing the Oracle.
Due to this, when Luke's mother attempts to become the Oracle, she loses her mind and is given glimpses of Luke's future.
Rachel, a mortal who can see through the Mist, tells Percy that he is not the hero of the Great Prophecy and that it will influence his choice when he turns 16.
Percy and Luke (who is possessed by Kronos) battle at the top of Mount Olympus in the throne room.
Luke is shocked back into his normal self when Annabeth reminds him of his promise that he would never harm her.
The 'cursed blade' of the prophecy was the knife that Luke gave to Annabeth when he promises her that they are family.
The Great Prophecy hinges on Percy's decision to give Luke the dagger rather than kill him.
Luke commits suicide by stabbing himself in his mortal point when Kronos takes over his body, becoming the hero of the prophecy and ending the war on Percy's 16th birthday.
The gods grant Percy, Grover, Annabeth, and Tyson rewards at the conclusion of their quest.
Tyson becomes the General of the Cyclops army and is gifted a new weapon, a "stick."
Grover is granted a place on the Council of Cloven Elders and becomes a new Lord of the Wild.
Annabeth's wish to become an architect is fulfilled as she is tasked to design and rebuild Olympus.
Percy, refusing godhood for himself, forces the gods to swear on the River Styx that they will recognize all of their children by the time they turn 13 and that they will end the pact of the Big Three, in which Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades were barred from fathering demigod offspring.
He also requires cabins for Hades and the minor gods to be built at Camp Half-Blood, and that they set Calypso free of her curse.
Rachel becomes the new Oracle of Delphi and speaks the next Great Prophecy.
Percy and Annabeth share a kiss, after which Clarisse La Rue and their other surviving friends dunk them in the lake, where they share another kiss, this time underwater.
Percy Jackson: Protagonist, a 16-year-old demigod son of Poseidon.
Annabeth Chase: Percy's friend, a 16-year-old demigod daughter of Athena.
Luke Castellan: Antagonist, a demigod son of Hermes, inhabited by Kronos.
Tyson the Cyclops: Percy's half brother
Rachel Elizabeth Dare: Percy's friend, a mortal girl who can see through the mist
Thalia Grace: daughter of Zeus and best friends with Percy, Annabeth, and Grover
Charles Beckendorf: Percy's friend, Hephaestus counselor
Silena Beauregard: Beckendorf's Girlfriend
Cronus/Kronos: The king of the Titans and the lord of time
The Last Olympian received overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Publishers Weekly wrote "...fans will not be disappointed" and remarked "As the capstone to this beloved series, this story satisfies."
They praised Percy's "brave leadership" and said that "the final clash would keep a Hollywood special effects team busy for years."
Booklist'''s starred review commented that "...Riordan’s imagination soars in the climactic battle scenes" but said that he manages to "bring the whole series to a satisfying close in the down-to-earth conclusion."
It also received starred reviews from Kirkus.
The unabridged audiobook version of The Last Olympian'' is read by Jesse Bernstein.
It was released on May 12, 2009, by Random House/Listening Library.
It is 10 hours and 50 minutes long.
A vineyard is a place where grapes are grown.
Some vineyards belong to wineries.
The grapes grown in those are used to make wine.
Tyson is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
He is a cyclops.
Percy Jackson, the main character of the series, is his half-brother.
They have the same father, the Greek god Poseidon.
He first appears as a homeless boy in the second book of the series, The Sea of Monsters the second book
Tyson is played by Douglas Smith in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the film adaption of The Sea of Monsters.
Tyson is the son of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon and a nature spirit.
He is a young cyclops who tries to be "the best little brother possible" and "make his family proud."
He meets Percy at Meriwether College Prep school; Tyson is the subject of a program at the school which seeks to take in a homeless kid and help him while also taking in some information about him.
The Mist obscures everybody's view of Tyson's one eye, making most think he has two eyes .
Tyson has severe scars on his back that were caused by a sphinx in the substation where he used to live.
Tyson finds Annabeth Chase pretty.
He uses his bare strength and metalworking ability to his avail in many situations.
For example, while fighting different monsters in The Sea of Monsters, his immunity to fire protected him from magical flaming spheres that would have killed anbody else that stepped in it's path of fire.
During his first summer at Camp-Half Blood, Tyson makes Percy a shield with depictions of all their adventures engraved on it; it retracts into a watch when not deployed.
Thalia's tree, the tree which serves as the magical border of Camp Half-Blood, is mysteriously poisoned.
Chiron is blamed for poisoning the tree and dismissed from camp; Tantalus takes his job.
The only thing able to cure the tree is the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans.
It is located on Polyphemus's Island in the Sea of Monsters (the Bermuda Triangle).
Clarisse La Rue, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece.
Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover, who is trapped in Polyphemus's cave.
Tyson, Percy, and Annabeth, after saving Camp Half-Blood from two fire-breathing bulls, set out to find Polyphemus, who believes that Grover is a female cyclops and not a satyr.
Instead of trying to sail in between, Clarisse goes for Charybidis.
Clarisse's ship is destroyed.
Tyson, who did not escape the ship in time, is presumed dead the until it is learned that he was saved by a hippocampus named Rainbow.
They all meet up on Polyphemus's Island and ultimately leave with the Golden Fleece.
When they return to the mortal world, Clarisse returns to camp on a plane.
Percy, Annabeth and Tyson are kidnapped by Luke.
He almost kills Percy in a duel, but Percy reveals that Chiron is innocent.
Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed relatives, the Party Ponies.
When they return to camp, the Fleece is put on the tree, reviving both it and Thalia.
Tyson plays a minor role in The Titan's Curse.
Once, while he is in Poseidon's underwater court making various items at the forge, he appears in an Iris message between him and Percy, where he explains that he is going back to camp.
Percy comes back to Camp Half-Blood to find Tyson already there cleaning their room for inspection.
Tyson has also fixed Percy's shield, which has been broken by a manticore, Dr. Thorn in the third book.
The shield retracts into a watch when not in use.
Annabeth leads the quest into Daedalus' Labyrinth.
She breaks the rule of having only two companions on a quest by choosing Percy, Grover, and Tyson.
Annabeth descends into the Labyrinth with them to find a way to stop Kronos's evil forces from entering the borders of Camp Half-Blood by searching for its inventor, Daedalus.
They run into many obstacles.
Tyson then finds Briares, the Hundred-Handed One, but is disappointed to find out he is afraid of Kampe and refuses to fight.
They split up, and Tyson follows Grover, who goes a different direction in search of Pan.
They all reunite and flee the Labyrinth after the help of Daedalus (Quintus).
After jumping off the exploding Princess Andromeda (a cruise ship that Kronos had made his headquarters), Percy finds himself in Poseidon's palace where Tyson is waiting for him.
Percy is in a grim state, so Tyson takes him to Poseidon.
Poseidon looks very aged due to all of the stress from the war going on.
Poseidon is not letting Tyson fight, for fear of losing him.
To Tyson's disappointment, he sends him back to the armory to make weapons.
The next time he is seen is through the mist of the hearth on Mount Olympus.
Percy gives Poseidon the idea to send Tyson and all the other Cyclopes to take down Typhon.
They do, and Typhon lands in the Hudson River.
Tyson is last seen on Mount Olympus where he is awarded a new "stick"; he is also given the role of general of Olympus' army.
Power and Abilities
Immensely strong
Works well with metal (skilled craftsman and smith)
Cannot be killed/harmed by fire (all cyclopes are immune to fire)
Inhuman hearing and can imitate voices
Gets along extremely well with hippocampi (or fish ponies, as he calls them), especially the hippocampus Rainbow, first introduced in " The Sea of Monsters"
Can communicate with Percy (or any other son of Poseidon) underwater mentally.
Has inhuman smelling abilities which allows him to smell all monsters
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an Arctic baleen whale, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length.
The arched mouth is up to 10 feet (3 m) wide and 20 feet (6 m) deep.
The eyes are very small and lips are huge.
Bowheads live in pods, are rich in blubber (a subcutaneous layer 20-inch (50 cm) thick in places), and have 2 blowholes.
Marcos Senna (born 17 July 1976) is a Spanish football player.
He plays for Villarreal and Spain national team.
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Coupe de France is a French football competition.
It is the premier knockout cup competition.
Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968 in Minsk) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess grandmaster.
He won the 2009 World Chess Cup.
In 1998, Gelfand emigrated to Israel, where he is their top ranking chess player.
Gelfand was Junior Champion of the Soviet Union at 17, and European Junior Champion two years later.
In 1988 he tied for first in the World Junior Championship, the title going to Joel Lautier.
He earned the GM title the following year.
He has won about 30 tournaments in his career, including tournaments at Wijk aan Zee (in 1992 and 1994) and first places in Biel (1993), Dos Hermanas (1994), Belgrade (1995), Tilburg (1996), Malmo (1999) and Pamplona (2004).
World Championship Candidate
Gelfand has several times qualified for Candidates tournaments for the World Chess Championship.
In 1993, he qualified for the Candidates via the Interzonal, and was knocked out in the quarter-final by England's Nigel Short.
In the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 he won the Interzonal, then won his first two Candidates matches, before being eliminated in the semi-final by Anatoly Karpov.
He had numerous strong results in the knockout tournaments for the FIDE Championships 1998–2004, with his best result being a semi-finalist in 1997.
He played in the 8-player 2002 Dortmund Tournament, which was the Candidates for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004, but failed to reach the semi-finals.
He qualified for the tournament for the World Chess Championship 2007, and surprised most observers by finishing joint second with reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik (third after tie breaks).
The tournament and the world championship was won by Viswanathan Anand.
The 2012 Candidates match series was held in Kazan, Russia.
In game three of the quarterfinals he played the Sicilian defense to defeat Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2.5–1.5.
In the semifinals he faced American Gata Kamsky.
After splitting the first four games 2–2, the match went into a rapid playoff.
Kamsky won game three in the playoff to go ahead 2–1.
This meant Gelfand had to win with black in the final game to avoid elimination.
Gelfand was up to the task, and then won the blitz playoff 2–0 to advance to the final.
In the final, he faced Alexander Grischuk.
After drawing the first five games, Gelfand won the sixth and final game on the white side of a Grünfeld defence to win the match 3.5–2.5.
As winner of the Candidates series, Gelfand face Anand for the 2012 World Championship.
In this match Gelfand tied 6–6, but he lost the four-game rapid play tie-breaker.
Yue Wang  is China's highest ever rated chess grandmaster, and the first to reach the elite top 10 in the world.
In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17.
In October 2007, Wang became the first Chinese player, and third Asian player, to cross the 2700 rating mark.
Winchester College football, also known as Wincofo or winkies, is a style of football, the game also called soccer, that is played at Winchester College in England during the spring term.
The Winchester students call this period "common time."
It was originally played during the autumn term, or "short half."
It is very similar to games played at other public schools such as Eton's wall game and Harrow game.
This game was originally played down Kingsgate Street, a long street that runs parallel to the college.
However, there were very few rules.
The only thing that has not changed is that the canvas (the pitch or field the game is played on) has the same measurements as the part of the street the original version of the game was played on.
Nobody knows when the game was moved.
It was moved away from the town to the grassland at the top of St. Catherine's Hill.
To stop the ball from going into the canal below, the players used junior men from the college to go fetch it when it was not caught by the players.
In the current version of the game, there are still classmates used as watchers who catch stray balls.
However, there were problems with this.
The biggest is the lines of watchers were depleted due to players being too enthusiastic and colliding with each other, causing injuries.
So they introduced ropes to mark out the border of the playing field.
These are now a core part of the game.
Nona Gaprindashvili (; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess player.
She was the strongest female player of the 1960s and 70s, and became the sixth Women's World Chess Champion (1962–1978).
She was the first woman to achieve the Grandmaster title.
In 1961, aged 20, Gaprindashvili won the fourth women's Candidates Tournament, setting up a title match against Russian world champion Elisabeth Bykova.
She won the match easily, with a final score of 9−2 (+7−0=4), and went on to defend her title successfully four times.
She finally lost her crown in 1978 to another Georgian, Maia Chiburdanidze, by a score of 6½–8½ (+2−4=9).
Gaprindashvili played for Soviet Union in the women's chess Olympiads of 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, and for Georgia in 1992.
She won as many as 25 medals, among which 11 team gold medals and 9 individual gold medals  At the Dubai Olympiad 1986 she won all the ten games she played.
She was a five-times winner of the Soviet women's chess championship: in 1964, 1973, 1981, 1983, and 1985.
During her career Gaprindashvili successfully competed in men's tournaments, tying for first place at Lone Pine, California in 1977.
In 1978 Gaprindashvili became the first woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title.
She was awarded the title partly as a result of winning Lone Pine 1977 against a field of 45 players, mostly grandmasters.
Although she did not meet the technical requirements for the GM Title, this result was so spectacular that FIDE found it sufficient.
Pal Benko wrote in Chess Life & Review (January 1979):
"...Of course (Nona) had earned the "woman grandmaster" title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE), as have some two dozen other women... in Buenos Aires in November 1978 FIDE bestowed upon Nona Gaprindashvili the (men's) international grandmaster title.
Not only is she the only woman ever to have received this title, she is the only woman ever to have deserved it.
"It is regrettable, therefore, that she did not actually earn the title in the regular way: FIDE requires that to earn the grandmaster title a player must achieve certain minimum scores in tournaments consisting of at least twenty-four games in aggregate (the description is highly oversimplified, but you get the idea), and Nona was two or three games short.
Yet the FIDE Qualifications Commission voted to give her the title.
In my opinion, this historic occasion should not have been allowed to carry even this slight tarnish".
Nona was the first President of the National Olympic Committee of Georgia.
In 2009 she won in Condino, Italy the World Senior Championship for women.
Laffy Taffy is a type of taffy that comes in many fruit flavours.
It is made by Nestlé and the Willy Wonka Candy Company.
Laffy Taffy comes with jokes written on the wrapper.
A piece of Laffy Taffy has 160 calories.
Giorgio de Chirico (10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian painter and writer.
In the years before World War I, he founded the Scuola metafisica art movement.
The name means "Metaphysical school".
The Scuola metafisica was a big influence on the surrealist painters.
After 1919, he became interested in more traditional ways of painting.
He began to paint in a neoclassical style.
De Chirico was born in Volos, Greece.
His parents were Italian.
He studied art first in Athens and then in Florence.
In 1906 he went to Munich in Germany where he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
Bestetti Edizioni
De Chirico Foundation
Giorgio de Chirico at the Museum of Modern Art
His has been to the Himalayas nineteen times.
Four of those times, he climbed Mount Everest.
He was the first to climb of the south part of the mountain Annapurna.
Jersey Telecom is the former monopoly incumbent operator in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
Jersey is incorporated into the UK National Telephone Numbering Plan Ofcom | The National Numbering Scheme - Telephone Numbers administered by Ofcom area codes of +44 1534 for landlines and +44 7797 for Jersey Telecom mobiles, +44 7700 for Cable and Wireless mobiles and +44 7829 for Jersey Airtel mobiles.
It is not connected to Jersey Post, the island's postal service.
Jim Carrey plays a man with borderline personality disorder who installs cable television in people's homes.
He is obsessed with one of his customers, played by Matthew Broderick.
The Cable Guy was released on June 14, 1996 in North America.
The movie received mixed reviews with a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 76 out of 100 from Metacritic.
Jim Carrey as Ernie "Chip" Douglas/Larry Tate/Ricky Ricardo a.k.a.
Matthew Broderick as Steven M. Kovacs
Leslie Mann as Robin Harris
Jack Black as Rick
George Segal as Mr. Kovacs
Diane Baker as Mrs. Kovacs
Ben Stiller as Sam Sweet/Stan Sweet
Tabitha Soren as Herself
Eric Roberts as Himself
Janeane Garofalo as Medieval Times Waitress
Andy Dick as Medieval Times Host
Harry O'Reilly as Steven's Boss
David Cross as Sales Manager
Amy Stiller as Steven's Secretary
Misa Koprova as Heather
Paul Greco as Raul
Owen Wilson as Robin's Date
1996 mystery movies
Movies about stalking
Annabeth is a female English given name.
People and fictional characters with the name include:
Annabeth Gish, American actress
Annabeth Chase, a character in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians stories
Lucy Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, and is currently being played by Hetti Bywater.
She is the daughter of Cindy and Ian Beale.
Her stepmother is Jane Beale.
Camilla Rosso and Rebecca Rosso (born 6 July 1994 in Wimbledon, London, England) are identical twin actresses.
They had a role on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, where they were the twins Janice (Camilla) and Jessica (Rebecca).
They also had the principal roles in the third movie in the series of Legally Blonde, Legally Blondes, which appeared on ABC Family and Disney Channel.
Camilla and Rebecca were discovered when they were selected in an audience by one of the executive producers of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody at a live taping of the show.
They then auditioned, and they started to perform the roles of twins Janice (Camilla) and Jessica (Rebecca).
They appeared in 7 episodes of the show.
They appeared in the film Legally Blondes, which was released direct-to-DVD on April 28, 2009 as a sequel to Legally Blonde.
Reese Witherspoon, star of the original Legally Blonde, presented and produced the film.
was a Japanese professional athlete.
He is best known as a judoka or expert in the sport of judo.
He is widely considered one of the greatest judoka of all time.
Japanese martial artists
Judoka
People from Kumamoto Prefecture
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR) is an athlete from the Russian Federation.
He is considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time and one of the best wrestlers of his time.
He won gold medals at the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympic Games.
Sunday School is a kind of schooling found in many churches or other Christian communities.
Classes are done on Sundays.
Before or after the main part of worship, a class is held to learn more about that church's teachings and about the Bible.
Sometimes the class is only for children, sometimes adults go there as well and sometimes there are different classes for adults and for children.
Sunday schools were first set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children on their one day off from the factory.
Robert Raikes contributed to their development.
Raikes was the editor of The Glouchestor Journal, and he wanted to stop children from becoming bad.
In 1805, Stockport Sunday School made a school for 5000 students.
In the late 19th century this was the largest in the world.
The first Sunday school in London opened at Surrey Chapel by a pastor named Rowland Hill.
By 1831, 1,250,000 children went every week to Sunday School in Great Britain.
This was bout 25 percent of the people.
Lesson guides and printable Bible activities
Apostolic Children's Ministry
The Grimké sisters were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Sarah Moore Grimke was born on November 26, 1792 and Angelina Emily Grimke was born on November 26, 1805.
They traveled in the North, talking about their experiences with slavery on their father's plantation.
They were often mocked and laughed at.
They both saw that women needed more freedom to help change society.
They began helping the women's rights movement.
In 1838, the sisters became the first women to speak at a meeting of the Massachusetts state legislature.
They spoke about slavery and abolitionism.
People were very shocked.
They helped attract thousands of women in New England to the movement.
Many came to hear Sarah and Angelina speak at public lectures.
In 1838, Sarah wrote a paper called "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women."
It answered many questions which were asked in a letter by a group of ministers who did not like the sisters because they had stepped out of their "woman's proper sphere".
Birney, Catherin H.  The Grimké Sisters.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1969.
Ceplair, Larry, Editor.
The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings 1835 - 1839.
Columbia University Press, New York, 1989.
Weld, Angelina Grimké. "
Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, in reply to An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, addressed to A. E. Grimké (1837)."
Grimké, Sarah.
"Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman," addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female anti-Slavery Society, 1838.
Faragher, John Mack, Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage.
Out of Many: A History of the American People.
5th Edition.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.
Lerner, Gerda, The Grimke Sisters From South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition.
New York, Schocken Books, 1971 and The University of North Carolina Press, Cary, North Carolina, 1998.
Willimon, William H.  Turning the World Upside Down; the story of Sarah and Angelina Grimké.
Sandlapper Press, 1972.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes; Letters to Catharine E. Beecher  Sunshine for Women, 2000.
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States , Sarah Grimké, 1836.
Grimké sisters’ anti-slavery message revived in Massachusetts state house  NECN.com
DjVu (pronounced like French déjà vu) is a open computer file format.
It is made mostly to store scanned documents.
It is especially used for things with a mix of words, line drawings, and photographs inside.
DjVu has been sold as an alternative to PDF, as it gives smaller files than PDF for most scanned documents.
The DjVu developers report that color magazine pages make smaller to 40–70 kB. Black and white technical papers make it smaller to 15–40 kB. Old manuscripts make smaller to around 100 kB; a satisfactory JPEG image usually needs 500 kB. Like PDF, DjVu can have a OCR text layer.
This makes it easy to cut and paste, and search for text.
DjVu.org
People for the American Way (PFAW) is a progressive organization that is involved in political activism.
Issues that it involves itself in are judicial nominations, church/state separation, civil rights, voting rights for Washington, DC in the U.S. Congress and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people and promotion of civic participation.
People For the American Way is dedicated to making the promise of America real for every American: Equality.
The right to seek justice in a court of law.
The right to cast a vote that counts.
Our vision is a vibrantly diverse democratic society in which everyone is treated equally under the law, given the freedom and opportunity to pursue their dreams, and encouraged to participate in our nation’s civic and political life.
Our America respects diversity, nurtures creativity and combats hatred and bigotry.
We believe a society that reflects these constitutional principles and progressive values is worth fighting for, and we take seriously our responsibility to cultivate new generations of leaders and activists who will sustain these values for the life of this nation.
Our operational mission is to promote the American Way and defend it from attack, to build and nurture communities of support for our values, and to equip those communities to promote progressive policies, elect progressive candidates, and hold public officials accountable.
PFAW.org PFAW officiate website
PFAW blog
Vladislav Listyev (, 10 May 1956 – 1 March 1995) was a Russian businessman, television presenter and journalist, the first Director-General of the Russian ORT television.
Russian television presenters
The Mac Pro is a workstation computer made by Apple Inc. It is part of the company's Apple Macintosh group of computers.
Also, it is the fastest computer Apple sells.
It runs on Intel Xeon microprocessors.
It is like the Power Mac G5, which is the computer it replaced.
The Mac Pro looks the same and the parts inside the computer can be changed the same, too.
There are two other computers sold by Apple that are also called "desktop" computers.
They are the iMac and Mac mini.
The first Mac Pro was announced at the 2006 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
The computer used the Intel Woodcrest microprocessor.
The Mac Mini is a personal computer made by Apple Inc. It is small for a desktop computer, at 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) square and 2 inches (5.1 cm) tall.
It was introduced on January 22, 2005.
The newest model came out on Nov 2020.
It weighs 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg).
The Mac Mini's power supply is outside of the machine.
It is about one third of the size of the computer itself.
The Mac Mini is the first Macintosh desktop to not ship with a keyboard or mouse.
Also, it does not come with a display.
The Mac Mini is mainly intended for buyers who are "switchers" (users moving from PC/Windows to Mac) who already own a display, USB keyboard and a mouse.
Others could easily buy these if needed.
The newest model comes with Apple M1, 8 or 16 GB RAM, 256 GB, 1, 2 or 4 TB solid-state drive.
It costs $699.
The Xserve is a server made by Apple Inc. which started in 2002.
It was Apple's first server since the Apple Network Servers that they made in 1996.
It first came with one or two PowerPC G4 processors.
Later, new PowerPC G5 were added.
Now, the server runs on two quad-core Intel Nehalem CPUs.
The Xserve can be used for many things, such as a file server and web server.
It can even be used for high-performance computing applications using clustering—a dedicated cluster Xserve, the Xserve Cluster Node.
This means there are many Xserves linked together so they can combine their power.
For this, it was available without a video card or optical drive.
Mackerel is a common name given to a number of species of fish.
Most mackerel are from the Scombridae family.
They are pelagic fish, found in both temperate and tropical seas.
Most live along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment.
Mackerel typically have vertical stripes on their backs and deeply forked tails.
They are superb swimmers, but are often eaten by larger predators such as cod, sharks and dolphins.
Mackerel is an oily fish with rich of omega-3.
The flesh of mackerel spoils easily, especially in the tropics, and can cause food poisoning.
So, it should be eaten on the day of capture, unless pickled in salt, or refrigerated.
History of Theravada Buddism
Theravada was founded in Nepal.
It is relatively conservative, and generally closest to early Buddhist practice.
For many centuries it has been the main religion of Sri Lanka (now about 70% of the population) and most of continental Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand).
Theravada is also practiced  by minorities in parts of southwest China (by the Shan and Tai ethnic groups), Vietnam (by the Khmer Krom),  Bangladesh (by the ethnic groups of Baruas, Chakma, and Magh), Malaysia and Indonesia.
Theravada today
Recently this oldest-surviving denomination of Buddhism gaining popularity in Singapore and the Western world.
Today Theravada Buddhists, who are also known as Theravadins, number over 100 million worldwide; in recent decades Theravada has begun to take root in the West and in the Buddhist revival in Nepal.
The poverty line, which is also sometimes called the poverty threshold, is the smallest amount of money a person or a family needs to live on; to buy what is needed and is a line which is a gulf between the rich and the poor.
It is the imaginary line drawn by the experts which has a particular amount if anybody earn income which is lower than this amount is known as poor and other who earn more than this amount is known as non-poor.
People who are below this line are classified as poor.
This line is used to decide who can get extra help with things like food, shelter or medical care.
There is a poverty line based on the income and another based on consumption levels.
The poverty line is not the same in all countries.
It can be decided by the economy.
In the United States, the poverty line is different depending on how many people there are in a family.
This is because it costs more to buy food and supplies for more people.
So, for example, it is higher in a family with eight people than in a family with three people.
The poverty line also makes sure the poor and rich are separated immensely.
If there were not a poverty line, the distribution of goods to those of whom are actually poor, would decrease.
Taquería (sometimes misspelled as taquiria) is a Spanish word meaning taco shop.
In some places, means a restaurant specializing in burritos, although tacos and other Mexican dishes are often served as well.
The first taquerías were people in stalls on the streets, but now many taquerías have moved into buildings and become restaurants.
The Second Fleet is the name of the second group of ships sent with settlers, convicts and supplies to colony at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson, Australia.
There were six ships in the fleet: one Royal Navy Escort, four convict ships, and a supply ship.
The ships were meant to sail to Australia together, and get to Sydney Cove in 1789.
However the escort ship was wrecked on the way and did not arrive, and one convict ship was delayed and arrived two months after the other ships.
Unlike the First Fleet, where great efforts were taken to keep the convicts healthy, the Second Fleet was run by private businesses who kept the convicts in horrific conditions.
When they got to Sydney, the sick convicts were a drain on the already struggling colony.
Fleet summary
The Lady Juliana sailed before the other convict ships and is not always counted as part of the Second Fleet.
The supply ship Justinian did not sail with the convict ships and arrived before them.
HMS Guardian set out before the convict ships but struck ice after leaving the Cape of Good Hope, went back to southern Africa and was wrecked on the coast.
The Surprize, Neptune and Scarborough were sent by the firm "Camden, Calvert & King".
They had agreed to transport, clothe and feed the convicts for a fee of £17 7s.
6d per head This fee was paid whether the convicts landed dead or alive.
This firm had previously been in the business of taking slaves to North America.
The only government people on the ship were the naval agent, Lieutenant John Shapcote, and the Captain of the Guard; all other crew were supplied by the firm.
The Second Fleet left England on 19 January 1790, with 1,006 convicts (928 male and 78 female).
Here 20 male convicts, survivors from Guardian, were taken on board.
The three ships made a faster trip than the First Fleet, arriving at Port Jackson in the last week of June 1790.
This was three weeks after Lady Juliana, and one week after the supply ship Justinian.
The trip was fast, but the rate of people dying was the highest in the history of transportation to Australia.
Of the 1,026 convicts who left, 267 (256 men and 11 women) died during the voyage (26%).
On Neptune the convicts were not given enough food, they were kept tied up with chains, and rarely let up onto the deck.
Many of them got scurvy.
On Scarborough, they were fed, but a reported mutiny attempt led to the convicts being kept locked up below the deck.
Captain William Hill, Captain of the guard, later wrote that the ships' captains did not feed the convicts so that they could sell the food in another country.
They wanted the convicts to die quickly so that they did not have to waste the food on them and could keep it for sale later.
Arrival in Sydney
When they got to Sydney, the half naked convicts were lying without bedding, too ill to move.
Those unable to walk were thrown over the side.
All were covered with lice.
At least 486 of the convicts were sick, 47% of those who had left England.
The others were described as “lean and emaciated” and showing “more horrid spectacles than had ever been witnessed in this country”.
Among the people on the Second Fleet were D'Arcy Wentworth and his convict mistress Catherine Crowley, on Neptune, and John Macarthur, then a young lieutenant in the New South Wales Corps, and his wife Elizabeth, on Scarborough.
Macarthur's eldest son, Edward Macarthur, who came with his parents on the Neptune and Scarborough, is believed to be the only person who sailed in the Second Fleet of whom we have a photograph.
He was also the last survivor of the voyage.
When news of the horrors of the Second Fleet reached England, both the public and government were shocked.
An enquiry was held but no attempt was made to arrest Donald Traill, captain of Neptune.
He had been described as an insane sadist.
The government did not charge him, the other captains, or the firm of contractors.
They had already been contracted by the government to prepare the Third Fleet for sailing to Port Jackson in 1791.
Traill and his Chief Mate, William Ellerington, were privately put in court for the murder of an unnamed convict, seaman Andrew Anderson, and John Joseph, cook.
But, after a trial lasting three hours before Sir James Marriott in the Admiralty Court, the jury set both men free "without troubling the Judge to sum up the evidence".
Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships, 1787-1868, Sydney, 1974.
French, Jenny, Australia's Second Fleet - 1790 , IFHAA, 2007
Hughes, Robert, The Fatal Shore, London, Pan, 1988
Rees, Siân, The Floating Brothel, Hodder, Sydney, 2001.
Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Buford Rediker, Marcus Rediker (eds.),
Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, chapter 6 by Emma Christopher, “Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists”.
Erin is the color halfway between green and spring green on the color wheel.
The color erin is named after the word Erin, a poetic name for Ireland.
The first written use of erin as a color name in English was in 1922.
Meaning of erin
The color Erin represents Ireland.
Tones of erin color comparison chart
Ancient Roman culture grew through the almost 1200 years of Rome's civilization.
The Romans conquered many people and brought back from their wars many things from each land.
Their way of life was a mix of many cultures, influences, and religions.
Starting in the 2nd century BC, Greek influence became very important.
Architecture, painting, sculpture, laws, and literature grew to a high level.
Slaves, and Christians were treated differently by different rulers.
Rome was a trading nation which kept military control over a wide range of peoples, mostly around the Mediterranean.
There were four classes of people in Rome: the aristocrats, the equestrians, the common citizens, and the slaves.
The aristocrat class had about 300 families, mostly senators.
The aristocrat class was very powerful.
The equestrians or “equites” were merchants, government builders, and bankers who were usually less rich.
The common citizens were farmers, industrial workers, and the city mob.
Slaves had to work hard and were usually released when they became old.
Some slaves were trained to be gladiators for people to watch.
Other slaves worked in rich homes as doorkeepers, litter-bearers, messengers, or servants.
Some Greek slaves were teachers who taught their language, or doctors.
At the time of the birth of Jesus, the Roman Empire ruled the entire Mediterranean area.
Jesus taught to worship God only.
Because Christians worshiped only God and did not join in the festivals to other gods, Romans thought they were unpatriotic.
Many Christians were crucified.
Romans persecuted them for many years.
Sometimes they were killed by animals for a show.
However, Christianity still spread in the Roman Empire.
A great change took place when Constantine I became emperor.
He moved the capital of the empire to Byzantium, converted to Christianity, and protected Christians from harm.
Many Romans continued to worship the old gods.
In the Imperial Age, the poorer Roman houses were built of sun-dried brick.
These houses only had one room.
In this one room the family slept, ate, and had visitors.
Richer people had mansions.
Statues and paintings were shown.
Small rooms were used as living and dining places.
In the center there was a court with a garden.
It was decorated with fountains, plants, and flowers.
Floors were often made of mosaics, tiles, or marble with lots of different colors.
Some walls were painted.
Dishes were made of pottery or glass.
There was plumbing in some houses and in the public baths, and a sewer system was used.
Hot air warmed the house from a heating system.
Many rich Romans had two houses, one in the town and one in the country.
Poor people lived in buildings where the top floors were for the poorest.
Sometimes they could have as many as 200 steps to reach them.
Many fires happened.
Buckets of water were used to put out fires, though many times it did not work.
Poor people ate vegetables, fish, salt, cheese, fruits, nuts, and olive oil.
Meat, especially beef, was usually not eaten.
Breakfast was usually not eaten and, for lunch, leftovers were used.
Rich people ate dinner before four in the afternoon.
They usually ate from three to ten hours.
Hands were washed between the courses.
One emperor served 22 courses at his dinner parties.
If visitors were invited to dinner, slaves were sent to bring them on time, because water clocks did not always work the same.
People enjoyed eating grapes for dessert.
At first, cold clams and oysters were eaten for dessert, but later people ate them at the beginning of a meal instead.
Public baths
The public baths were used not only for bathing.
Besides the hot water rooms and cold water rooms, there were gardens, stadiums, art galleries, libraries, and places to eat.
There were even underground passageways to get to places more easily.
Aqueducts fed water for the baths.
They were so well built that some are still used.
The Romans were very proud of their aqueducts.
They thought they were better than the "useless" Egyptian pyramids.
They also used these for drinking water.
Big ships called quinqueremes had 300 people to row with oars.
They could travel 100 miles (160 km) a day.
Trade paths were protected from pirates.
Many ships carried food; others carried pearls, pepper, cotton, cinnamon, and silk.
A pound of silk, at that time, cost a pound of gold.
The native language of the Romans was Latin.
Its alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn based on the Greek alphabet.
The surviving Latin literature is in Classical Latin  from the 1st century BC.
The spoken language of the Roman Empire was Vulgar Latin, which differed from Classical Latin in grammar and vocabulary, and eventually in pronunciation.
Out of Latin came Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Latin was used for medicine and science words.
Latin remained the main written language of the Roman Empire.
Greek became the language spoken by the well-educated elite, because most of the literature studied by Romans was written in Greek.
Roman literature was much influenced by Greek literature.
Some of the best known examples are the Aeneid by Virgil, Plutarch's Lives of Famous Men, and Odes by Horace.
In the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which later became the Byzantine Empire, Latin did not replace Greek at all.
After the death of Justinian, Greek became the official language of the Byzantine government.
The expansion of the Roman Empire spread Latin throughout Europe.
Vulgar Latin evolved into dialects in different locations, gradually changing into the distinct Romance languages.
The Romans built great roads and bridges.
They wrote plays and kept the Phoenician alphabet.
The Romans were usually practical, and kept the Grecian culture alive.
Many of the aqueducts they made are still there and used.
Rome also had the first hospitals in the Western World.
They also had the first system of state medicine for poor people.
The Romans' music was an important part of their lives.
Song (known as carmen) was part of almost every social occasion.
Music accompanied spectacles and events in the arena.
It was part of the performing arts form called pantomimus, an early form of story ballet that combined expressive dancing, instrumental music and a sung libretto.
They were influenced by Etruscan and Greek music.
What the Romans sang simply followed the natural melody of the song..
Lagerstätte (plural: Lagerstätten) is a German word for places (sites) of exceptional fossil preservation.
Adolf Seilacher coined the term in 1970 to describe sites, like Solnhofen, which yielded the most exceptional fossils.
Extra-special sites are called Konservat-Lagerstätten (conservation Lagerstätten).
These are deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fine details.
There skeletons are mostly articulated (bones together in life form), and the soft parts are preserved as impressions or casts.
In Lagerstätten the normal processses of decay after death were less active or halted as sediment was deposited.
This allowed the preservation of soft parts and exceptional detail.
Anoxic or near anoxic conditions (e.g. oxygen-free mud) which suppresses common bacterial decomposition long enough for the initial casts of soft body parts to register.
Rapid burial in volcanic ash from a nearby eruption.
This prevents scavengers and burrowing animals from reaching the dead body.
It also produces a low-oxygen environment.
Rapid burial by mud-slides.
High salt content in the water, which few organisms can live in.
This condition occurred in the lagoons which produced the Solnhofen limestone.
In these conditions, which are exceptional, scavengers, burrowers and bacteria are eliminated or reduced.
Then the normal processes of deposition and fossilisation produces strata containing exceptional fossils.
Most of what we know about the details of extinct life comes from these exceptional sites.
The soft-bodied Ediacaran biota, the fins of ichthyosaurs, the fur and wing structure of pterosaurs, the feathers on Mesozoic dinosaurs and birds, are all discoveries made on fossils from Lagerstätten.
These sites preserve much of the fauna and flora of the time and place.
That permits reconstruction of its ecology.
Short-list of Lagerstätten
Ediacaran: Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, Quebec
Cambrian: Sirius Passet, Greenland.
Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada
Qingjiang biota, Hubei, China
Ordovician: Fezouata Formation, Morocco
Devonian: Rhynie chert, Aberdeen, Scotland
Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian): Mazon Creek, Illinois;
Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia
Upper Jurassic: Morrison Formation, western U.S.A.
Solnhofen limestone, Bavaria, Germany
Lower Cretaceous: Jehol biota: Yixian and Jiufotang formations, China.
Upper Cretaceous: Burmese amber fossils;
Smoky Hill Chalk; Zhucheng dinosaur site
Eocene: Messel Pit, Germany
Eocene: Green River Formation, Utah.
Oligocene/Miocene: Riversleigh, Australia
Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea tar pits, Los Angeles, California.
Hellenistic civilization
Hellenistic period, in ancient Greek
Hellenistic Greece
Hellenization, the spread of Greek culture over foreign peoples
Hellenistic philosophy in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity
Hellenism (neoclassicism), a movement in 18th and 19th century England and Germany
Hellenism (Academia), the academic study of ancient Greece (a scholar in this discipline may be called a Hellenist)
Greek people and their culture in general
The proper use of the Greek (language)
Post-impressionism (or Post-Impressionism) is a term used to describe the development of French art after Manet (1832–1883).
The British artist and art critic Roger Fry used the term in 1910, and it is now a standard art term.
Fry organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists.
The post-impressionists were artists of the late 19th century who saw the work of the French Impressionist painters and were influenced by them.
Their art styles grew out of the style called Impressionism.
The word "Post-" means "after", so "post-impressionist" painting came after "impressionist" painting.
These artists developed impressionism but rejected its limitations.
They continued using the real-life subject matter, with vivid colours, often with thick paint.
However, they added other ideas.
Using geometric forms, to distorting form for effect, and using unnatural colours are some of their ways.
The critic Rewald said "the term 'post-impressionism' is not a very precise one, though a very convenient one".
The main post-impressionist painters were Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Rousseau ('Le Douanier').
Picasso and Braque were certainly post-impressionists, but we describe them as Cubists.
The post-impressionist painters lived in France and knew each other, but they did not work together as a group, in the way that some of the impressionists did.