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In 1612 it became the first 'corporation' in intercontinental trade with 'locked in' capital and limited liability.
Closely held vs publicly traded corporations
The type of company most often referred to by the word "corporation" is a publicly traded corporation.
In this type of company the shares are traded on a public stock exchange.
For example, shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq in the United States.
This is where shares of stock of corporations are bought and sold by and to the general public.
Most of the largest businesses in the world are publicly traded corporations.
However, the majority of corporations are said to be closely held, privately held or close corporations.
This means that no ready market exists for the trading of shares.
Many such corporations are owned and managed by a small group of businesspeople or companies.
They can also be as vast as the largest public corporations.
Closely held corporations have some advantages over publicly traded corporations.
A small, closely held company can often make decisions much more rapidly than a publicly traded company, because there will generally be fewer voting shareholders or the shareholders would have common interests.
A publicly traded company is also at the mercy of the market.
It can have capital flow in and out based on what the company is doing and also what the competitors are doing.
Publicly traded companies also have advantages over their closely held counterparts.
Publicly traded companies often have more working capital.
They can also delegate debt throughout all shareholders.
This means shareholders of publicly traded company will each take a much smaller hit to their returns as opposed to those involved with a closely held corporation.
Publicly traded companies though suffer from this exact advantage.
A closely held corporation can often stand a hit to profit with little or no long-term effect.
A publicly traded company though often comes under extreme scrutiny if profit and growth are not evident to stock holders.
If profits go down stock holders may sell, further damaging the company.
Often this blow is enough to make a small public company fail.
Stable or long-lived neutral particles
Long-lived neutral particles do not decay for a very long time.
Examples of such particles include photons, neutrons, and neutrinos.
Other neutral particles
Other neutral particles are very short-lived.
They decay before they can be detected by a particle detector.
They have been observed only indirectly, such as tracks of ionized particles in a particle accelerator.
Z bosons
Dozens of heavy neutral hadrons:
Neutral mesons such as the pion and kaon
The neutral Delta baryon, and other neutral baryons, such as the xi baryon and lambda baryon
K. Nakamura et al. (
Particle Data Group), JP G 37, 075021 (2010) and 2011 partial update for the 2012 edition
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, movie producer, author, television personality and philanthropist.
He is the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV.
As of September 2015, Cuban has publicly expressed interest in running for president in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, citing that he "could beat both Trump and Clinton".
He later decided not to run.
On October 9, 2015, Cuban announced his intentions to run for Speaker of the House to replace John Boehner.
Corneliu Vadim Tudor (; 28 November 1949 – 14 September 2015) was a Romanian politician.
He was the leader of the Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare), poet, writer, journalist and a Member of the European Parliament.
He was a Romanian Senator from 1992 to 2008.
MEPs for Romania
Brazil competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012.
Brazil the next host of the Summer Paralympics, holding the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
DQ = Disqualified
DNS = Did not start
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser
WR = World record
PR = Paralympic record
Football 5-a-side
Football 7-a-side
5th–8th place semi-final
5th/6th place match
9th/10th place match
Adam Richard Deadmarsh (born May 10, 1975) is a Canadian-American retired professional ice hockey right winger.
Deadmarsh played parts of 10 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, and Los Angeles Kings.
Deadmarsh played for Team USA during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics.
He won a gold medal in 1996 and a silver medal in 2002.
Before playing in the NHL, Deadmarsh played 4 seasons with the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
He was drafted with the 14th overall pick by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
He played 1 season with them and stayed with the franchise when they relocated to Denver, Colorado to become the Colorado Avalanche.
During his time with the Avalanche, Deadmarsh won the Stanley Cup in 1996.
His name was misspelled as "Deadmarch" when the names were being added to the Cup.
It was the first time that a misspelling on the Stanley Cup had ever been corrected.
On February 21, 2001, the Avalanche traded Deadmarsh along with Aaron Miller in exchange for Jared Aulin, and Colorado's first round pick in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft (Dave Steckel) for Rob Blake and Steven Reinprecht.
During round one of the 2001 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Deadmarsh scored an overtime goal which caused the Kings defeat the very favoured Detroit Red Wings.
The Kings would lose against his old team, the Avalanche, in seven games.
The Avalanche would end up winning their second Stanley Cup.
Deadmarsh would miss most of the 2002–03 NHL season because of a concussion and missed the whole 2003–04 NHL seasonbecause of another concussion.
He also did not play the next season because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout.
On September 22, 2005, he announced that he was retiring from playing professional ice hockey.
On March 20, 2006, Deadmarsh was honoured before a game between the Avalanche and Kings at Staples Center.
Éric Dazé (born July 2, 1975) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger.
Dazé played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), all with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Before playing in the NHL, Dazé played parts of 5 seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL); 2 with the Hull Olympiques and 3 with the Beauport Harfangs.
He was drafted with the 90th overall pick by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
In 1995, he was a member of the gold medal winning team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
After he scored 30 goals as a rookie, he was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team in 1996.
In 2002, Dazé was chosen to play in his first NHL All-Star Game.
He recorded 2 goals and 1 assist and was named the game's MVP.
He became the first Blackhawk player to win the award since Bobby Hull did so in 1971.
Dazé suffered from severe back problems during his career and he only played 19 games in the 2003–04 NHL season.
On March 20, 2010, He officially announced that he was retiring from professional ice hockey during the Comcast Sportsnet pregame show before the Blackhawks game.
Echo is the second studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis.
It was released in November 2009 by Syco.
The music on Echo is a mixture of europop and R&B. It also has a Cover version of the Oasis song "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"  Two singles were released from the album.
One of them was the R&B ballad "Happy".
The album also features a duet with American pop rock group OneRepublic called "Lost Then Found".
Echo met mixed to favourable reviews by critics.
Leona Lewis albums
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Black, inter-collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity in the United States.
It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
It uses an icon from ancient Egypt, the Great Sphinx of Giza, as its symbol.
Its aims are "manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind."
Its motto is First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All.
Its archives are preserved at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
Chapters were chartered at Howard University and Virginia Union University in 1907.
The fraternity has over 290,000 members.
Since 1940 it has been open to men of all races.
Currently, there are more than 730 active chapters worldwide.
Grace  Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, and actress.
She was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
She released her first album, Portfolio, in 1977.
Her music is a mixture of R&B, disco, reggae, electronica and funk.
She is also known for her unusual album covers.
Her most important movie roles include the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill and the 1986 horror movie Vamp
2015: I'll Never Write My Memoirs
In 2015, Jones wrote an autobiography called I'll Never Write My Memoirs.
In the book, she wrote her opinion on Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé.
She wrote that she felt that they were copying her style.
Portfolio (1977)
Fame (1978)
Muse (1979)
Warm Leatherette (1980)
Nightclubbing (1981)
Living My Life (1982)
Slave to the Rhythm (1985)
Inside Story (1986)
Bulletproof Heart (1989)
Hurricane (2008)
United States Botanic Garden is the national botanical garden of the United States.
It is in Washington D.C., United States.
It was established in 1920 by the United States Congress.
The gardens are a feature of the National Mall directly across from the United States Capitol.
They are funded by the non-profit organization the National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden.
Website contains a link to download a free electronic version of an illustrated 180 page book about the U.S. Botanic Garden (Botanic Garden for the Nation: the United States Botanic Garden.
Publisher: Congress, Architect of the Capitol, United States Botanic Garden,  2007.)
U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, Tanglewood Conservatory
Botanical gardens  in the United States
We often talk about “classical music” meaning European music which is not pop music or jazz or folk music.
It is music which has been written by composers who have studied the art of composition.
The article Classical music talks about classical music in this sense.
This article is about “Classical music” in the late 18th century and the early 19th century.
The word “classical” is often used to refer to the arts of Ancient Greece and Rome.
It has also come to mean any art form which has become very famous and is remembered for centuries afterwards.
In music the Classical period comes between the Baroque and the period of Romanticism.
In some ways Classical music is often simpler than the music of the Baroque composers.
There is often a tune with a simple accompaniment using broken chords called an “Alberti bass”.
For classical composers the form of the piece was very important.
Composers started their work with a tune (theme) and this tune would be developed in different ways: put in different keys, changed from a fast to a slow tune, changed from major to minor or from minor to major.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1789)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)
Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
William Robert Guerin (born November 9, 1970) is an American retired professional ice hockey right winger.
He works as the assistant general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Guerin played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the New Jersey Devils, Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues, San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, and Pittsburgh Penguins.
Guerin played for Team USA during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, 1998 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics, 2004 World Cup of Hockey, and 2006 Winter Olympics.
Before playing in the NHL, Guerin played 2 seasons of college hockey with the Boston College Eagles.
He was drafted with the 5th overall pick by the New Jersey Devils in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft.
He played parts of 7 seasons with the Devils and won the Stanley Cup with them in 1995.
On January 4, 1998, the Devils traded Guerin along with Valeri Zelepukin to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Jason Arnott and Bryan Muir.
Guerin played 4 seasons with the Oilers.
On November 15, 2000, the Oilers traded him to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Anson Carter, Boston's 1st (Aleš Hemský) and 2nd (Doug Lynch) round choices in 2001 NHL Entry Draft.
Guerin played 2 seasons with the Bruins and recorded 41 goals in his final season with them.
He did not play as well as expected during his time with the Stars.
He only recorded 40 points during the 2005–06 NHL season and the Stars decided to buy-out his contract.
Dallas had to pay Guerin two-thirds of the remaining salary from his contract which was spread out over twice as many years.
On July 3, 2006, he signed a one-year, $2 million contract with the St. Louis Blues.
During his time with the Blues, Guerin played on a line with his former Oiler teammate Doug Weight.
Guerin played 1 season with the Blues.
He scored 61 goals and recorded 47 points.
Guerin was chosen to play in the 2007 All-Star Game, which was hosted by the Dallas Stars.
Even though he was criticized for his play in Dallas, Guerin was still given a standing ovation from the fans.
He became the 214th NHL player to play in 1,000 games on February 2, 2007.
On February 27, 2007, the Blues traded Guerin to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Ville Nieminen, Jay Barriball and a conditional first-round pick.
He played 16 regular season games with them.
On July 5, 2007, Guerin signed a two-year contract with the New York Islanders.
On July 9, 2007, the Islanders named Guerin the captain of the team.
This made Guerin the 11th captain in Islanders history.
On March 4, 2009, the Islanders traded Guerin to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
On June 12, 2009, Guerin won the Stanley Cup after the Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2–1 in Game 7 at Joe Louis Arena.
On June 29, 2009, Guerin signed a one-year contract extension with the Penguins with a greatly reduced salary to play through the 2009–10 NHL season.
He was not offered a contract for the 2010–11 NHL season.
On September 7, 2010, the Philadelphia Flyers invited Guerin to their training camp for a try out.
They released him on October 4 before the start of the regular season.
On December 6, 2010, Guerin announced that he was retiring from playing professional ice hockey and that he was retiring as a Pittsburgh Penguin.
On June 6, 2011, he was hired as the player development coach for the Penguins.
On June 6, 2014, Penguins General Manager Jim Rutherford announced that Guerin was being promoted to the assistant general manager of the team.
Guerin, represented the US in the Olympics three times as it's player (1998 in Nagano, 2002 in Salt Lake City and 2006 in Torino), and has won a silver medal in 2002.
John J. Farrell (1872 – July 22, 1946) was the Dairy and Food Commissioner of Minnesota in 1917 and president of the National Creamery Buttermakers' Association.
By 1921 he was the secretary of National Dairy Products.
He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the United States Senate elections of 1924 for senator from Minnesota.
He was the Minnesota Democratic state chair in 1931.
Farrell was born in 1872 in Ohio to Daniel Farrell and Mary Guyton, both Irish immigrant parents.
They migrated to Minnesota in 1886.
He married in August 1901 Mabel Sanborn of Faribault, Minnesota, a daughter of W. N. Sanborn.
By 1921 Farrell was the secretary of National Dairy Products Committee.
In 1924, he was the unsuccessful Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
Bernard Van de Kerckhove (8 July 1941 – 15 September 2015) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1971.
He was known for winning the 1964 Tour de France and 1965 Tour de France after which he wore the yellow jersey for two and three stages respectively.
Meir Pa'il, ‎ , (June 19, 1926 – September 15, 2015) was an Israeli colonel, politician and military historian.
He served as a member of the Knesset from 1974 through 1980.
Mihai Volontir (9 March 1934 – 15 September 2015) was a Moldovan actor.
He was known for his role as Volentair in the comedy movie In the Zone of Special Attention.
Volontir biography and photos
Slattery was born in Athens, Ohio on January 31, 1877.
His parents were John A. Slattery (1847-1895) and Lena DeSteiguer (1854-1925).
He attended the United States Military Academy where he graduated fifth in his class for the year 1900.
He was assigned to the Philippines to work on bridges and roads as an engineer officer.
He was assigned to Honolulu in November 1904 as the Honolulu District's first District Engineer for lighthouses.
Slattery married Elizabeth Virginia Bradley (1879-1949) around 1915.
He died on September 24, 1932 in Jackson Heights, New York City.
Pamela E. "Pam" Ferris (born 11 May 1948) is a British actress.
She was born in Hanover to Welsh parents.
She starred on television as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, and as Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme.
On movies, she is known for her roles as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda and as Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Michael X. Mockus (October 26, 1864 – October 23, 1939) was a Lithuanian-American Unitarian minister.
Mockus is remembered for having been convicted in nationally publicized trials for having violated Connecticut and Maine state laws prohibiting blasphemy as a result of his public challenges of certain points of orthodox religious belief.
Mockus was born on October 26, 1864 in Lithuania.
In 1916 he was charged with blasphemy in Waterbury, Connecticut.
In 1917 he gave a series of lectures in Maine and was arrested and found guilty of blasphemy.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine did not overturn his conviction.
In 1916, Mockus gave a lecture to the Lithuanian Freethought Association in Waterbury, Connecticut in the Lithuanian language.
He was charged with blasphemy under the 1821 affirmation of the 1642 blasphemy law.
He was the first person convicted under the law and was sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.
He retained Theodore Schroeder of the Free Speech League as his attorney.
In 1917, Mockus gave a series of lectures in Maine on atheism.
He made the following eight statements:
(1) "Mary (meaning the Virgin Mary) had a beau.
When her beau called one evening (both being young) he seduced her.
He brought her a flower and put her in a family way.
No woman can give birth to a child without a man." (
2) "The father of Christ was a young Jew and was no Angel Gabriel.
Any girl who wants a child can call a Gabriel or some John." (
3) "Religion, capitalism, and government are all damned humbugs, liars, and thieves.
Those three classes combine into one organization. (
4) "All religions are a deception of the people." (
5) "A young man came to Mary during the night, and, coming near her with a flower in his hand, took her by the hand and said: 'Sh; sh.'
Look how the priests teach you, the falsifiers, thieves.
It is not possible that he could be of the Holy Ghost, there must be a man.
A young Jew was the father of the Christ.
No woman can have a child without a man; that never happened and never can happen." (
6) "You see the Trinity (pointing to a picture of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which he had caused to be thrown upon a screen), God the Father, Ghost, and Son, a young Jew, but that old man never was and never can be; if he was God from the Ghost, then where did that belly button come from which is sprouted like a button?
Bear in mind that the black army is a trinity, clergy, capitalism, and government; they govern the world together." (
7) "There is no truth in the Bible; it is only monkey business.
Religion, capitalism, and government are a black army and only profiteer from the poor people.
You see here (pointing to a picture of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which he had caused to be thrown upon a screen) scarecrows.
Here is God the Father, Son, and Ghost, a whole Trinity, just as the priest, capitalists, and government.
How can the Holy Ghost be God when she is afraid a cat will kill her?
And do you believe in these scarecrows?" (
8) "You see this fool (pointing to a picture of Jesus Christ upon the cross, with the private parts of his body covered with a cloth, which he had caused to be thrown upon a screen) and you believe in Him.
The women were sorry for the holy thing and covered the holy thing, while the rest of the body was left uncovered."
Mockus was found guilty by a jury trial in 1917 for his eight statements.
His appeal went before the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine on March 25, 1921 as State v. Mockus and his conviction was upheld.
Cornelius is a lakeside town located along Lake Norman in northern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States.
The population was 24,866 at the 2010 census.
Anton Chigurh is a fictional character from the 2005 novel No Country for Old Men by American writer Cormac McCarthy and the 2007 movie of the same name directed by the Coen brothers.
He is a psychopathic professional hitman of unknown nationality.
He serves as the main antagonist of No Country for Old Men.
In the movie, Chigurh is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
For this role, Bardem won many awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
A gallstone, also called a shav-stone, is a (stone) formed inside the gallbladder.
Gallstones may pass into other parts of the biliary tract.
If the stones pass out of the gall bladder they may cause extreme pain, which requires surgery or other treatment.
Suvigya Sharma (born July 28, 1983) is an award winning Indian artist and painter based in Mumbai, India.
He is known for creating miniature paintings, Tanjore painting, Fresco work and lifelike portraits.
He was awarded with "Bharat Gaurav Award" in 2012 for his contribution in filed of Arts.
His latest collection An Art Collector's Paradise featuring colonial stamp paper paintings embellished with 24 carat gold were inaugurated by actress Rani Mukherji in September, 2014.
Moscow Pavilion is a famous pavilion that was built for the Expo 67 world exhibition.
It was moved to the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in Moscow a year later.
The pavilion was called Pavilion 70 and later Moscow Pavilion.
Before the World Exhibition was held in Canada in 1967 the Soviet architects hoped that the World Exhibition would be held in Moscow and in the early 1960s offered to adapt the exhibit to the Soviet Union's to document the the history of the country for the the "50th anniversary of the October Revolution in with an emphasis on "progress and peace."
Moscow's chief architect Mikhail Pusuchin proposed to create a spherical pavilion the size of: "Moscow State University Main Building" on an artificial lake.
However, Nikita Khrushchev's forced resignation and financial problems due to heavy costs led to the Soviet Union's refusal to organize the exhibition.
The Bureau of International Exhibitions finally decided to entrust the task to the City of Montreal in Canada on the anniversary of the founding of Montreal.
In 1970 the building began to move to Moscow and construction took five years.
In 1977, the Pavilion was inaugurated on the site of the Moscow Exhibition Center.
Moscow Pavilion  in the All-Russia Exhibition Centre website
Moscow Pavilion in the "westland" website
Moscow Pavilion in the "architectuul" website
Pink Friday is the debut studio album by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj.
It was released on November 19, 2010, by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Motown.
The album was re-released as a deluxe CD and featured the hit single "Super Bass".
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Pink Friday.
"Check It Out" samples "Video Killed the Radio Star" performed by The Buggles, and elements and samples of "Think (About It)" written by James Brown, performed by Lyn Collins.
"Blazin" samples "Don't You (Forget About Me)", written by Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff, as performed by Simple Minds.
"Here I Am" samples "Red Sky" by John B and Shaz Sparks.
"Your Love" samples "No More I Love You's" by Annie Lennox.
"Girls Fall Like Dominoes" samples "Dominos" written by The Big Pink, and "Trailar Load a Girls" written by Cleveland Browne, Greville Gordon and Whycliffe Johnson.
The blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi), also known as the Grand Cayman iguana,  or Cayman Island blue iguana, is an endangered species of lizard endemic to the island of Grand Cayman.
The blue iguana is the largest native land animal on Grand Cayman.
It has a length from nose-to-tail of .
It is tan to gray in color with a bluish cast (more so in males and during breeding season).
It is large and heavy-bodied with a dorsal crest of short spines running from the bottom of the neck to the end of the tail.
It weighs as much as .
The iguana prefers rocky, sunlit, open areas in dry forests or near the shore.
The blue iguana's herbivorous diet is plants, fruits and flowers.
Fossil records suggest there were many blue iguanas before European settlement; but less than 15 of them were left in the wild in 2003, which were predicted to disappear within a few years.
Their decline is due to predators like feral pets (cats and dogs) and also the destruction of their natural habitat.
Fruit farms have been turned into pasture for cattle grazing.
Since 2004, hundreds of bred and collected blue iguanas have been led into a reserve on Grand Cayman.
In this way it is hoped to save the species.
At least five non-profit organizations are working with the government of the Cayman Islands to ensure this.
The conservancy program has released over 700 captive bred Grand Cayman blue iguanas since the 2004 all-time low of 12 remaining animals.
Blue Iguana Recovery Program (B.I.R.P.)
Bedford was born on November 5, 1863 in Brooklyn, New York City.
He married Edith Kinsman Clark on January 8, 1890.
He was promoted from treasurer to president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey starting on December 22, 1916.
He was made chairman of the board on November 15, 1917.
He was made a Commandant of the Legion in 1922.
Bedford died on September 21, 1925 leaving an estate of $3,000,000.
He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is the second studio album by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj; it was released on April 2, 2012, by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Republic.
The album was much more fun sounding and featured a hip hop sound to the first half.
The second half was more pop heavy.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.
The Pinkprint is the third studio album by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj.
It was released on December 12, 2014, by Young Money, Cash Money and Republic Records.
The album's music returned Minaj to her hip hop roots.
Portfolio is the debut studio album by Jamaican singer Grace Jones.
It was released on  6 September 1977 by Island Records by Island Records.
Before releasing Portfolio Jones had been a model.
The album's music is a mix of disco and R&B. The album was recorded from 1975-1977.
Standard release
"Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim) – 7:33
"What I Did for Love" (Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban) – 5:15
"Tomorrow" (Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse) – 5:48
"La Vie en rose" (Édith Piaf, Louis Guglielmi) – 7:27
"Sorry" (Grace Jones, Pierre Papadiamondis) – 3:58
"That's the Trouble" (Grace Jones, Pierre Papadiamondis) – 3:36
"I Need a Man" (Pierre Papadiamondis, Paul Slade) – 3:23
Italian release
"I Need a Man" (Pierre Papadiamondis, Paul Slade) – 7:30
Portfolioon Discogs
Grace Jones albums
Glassheart is the third studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis.
It was released on 12 October 2012 by Syco and RCA Records.
The album is different from Lewis' previous pop and R&B sound.
This album's music is electronic, dubstep and R&B.
"Favourite Scar" samples  "Head over Heels" by Tears for Fears.
"Collide" samples "Perpetuum Mobile" by Simon Jeffes.
Christmas, with Love is a Christmas album and the fourth studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis.
It was released on 29 November 2013, by Syco and RCA Records.
It was the last album that Lewis made with Syco and RCA.
She left them to sign with Island Records and Def Jam Recordings in 2015.
Def Jam Recordings is an American record label that mainly produces hip hop and urban music.
In the UK, the label takes on the name Def Jam UK and is operated through Virgin EMI.
In Japan, it is Def Jam Japan operating through Universal Sigma Music.
The label distributes various record labels.
One is Roc-A-Fella Records.
Another is Kanye West's GOOD Music,
Def Jam was founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University.
The label's first release was a single by his punk-rock group Hose.
On 16 September 2015, an 8.3 Mw earthquake happened  offshore Illapel, Chile.
12 deaths and 34+ injuries were reported.
The cities of Coquimbo and Concón reported flooding from a tsunami.
Six aftershocks were also reported.
Tsunami warnings were given to Ecuador, Peru, New Zealand, Fiji, Japan, the Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, and the U.S. states of Hawaii and California.
The earthquake was felt in Argentina and Brazil.
Coquimbo earthquake
Earthquakes in the 2010s
Illapel is a Chilean city; it is the capital of the Choapa province, Coquimbo region.
It is in the most narrow point of the country along a parallel, .
The commune of Illapel has an area of .
It is to the north of Santiago at  and to the northeast of the seaport city of Los Vilos at .
The city of Illapel is along the Illapel river, a tributary of the Choapa river, that is  long.
(last national census), there were 30,355 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The city of Illapel has an urban area of  and a population, in 2002, of 21,826 inhabitants.
Gobierno Regional de Coquimbo Official website
Province of Choapa website
Guy Béhart-Hasson (16 July 1930 – 16 September 2015), better known as Guy Béart, was a French singer and songwriter.
He released over 240 songs and 25 albums during his sixty-plus year career.
Béart was born in Cairo, Egypt to a Jewish family.
He also grew up in Lebanon and later moved to Paris.
His daughter is actress Emmanuelle Béart (born 1963).
French singer-songwriters
Aaron Ekblad (born February 7, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.
He has also played for the Team Canada junior team.
He won a gold medal with them during the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
He suffered a concussion in an exhibition game against the Czech Republic in December 2014.
Before playing in the NHL, Ekblad played 3 seasons with the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
He was drafted with the 1st overall pick by the Florida Panthers in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
On September 3, the Panthers signed Ekblad to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Ekblad made the Panthers' opening night roster for the 2014–15 season.
He made his NHL debut on October 9 in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
During the game, Ekblad scored his first career NHL point, an assist on a Jonathan Huberdeau goal in a 3–2 overtime loss.
On November 1, he scored his first NHL goal against Steve Mason of the Philadelphia Flyers in a 2–1 Panthers win.
On December 6, Ekblad scored a career-high three points in a 3–2 win against the Buffalo Sabres.
He was given the first star of the game.
On January 23, 2015, he was chosen to play in the 2015 NHL All-Star Game to replace an injured Erik Johnson.
Kim Kielsen (born 30 November 1966) is a Greenlandic politician.
He is the Prime Minister of Greenland and the leader of the Siumut party since 2014.
Longyearbyen is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard, Norway.
As of 2013, the town had a population of 2,043.
Because Longyearbyen is quite far north, it has very long daylight hours during the summer, and very short daylight hours in the winter.
It has midnight sun between 19 April and 25 August.
Longyearbyen has polar night between 27 October and 15 February.
It is milder than other places at the same latitude, due to warming from the sea.
This means that surprisingly high temperatures can occur.
For example, Longyearbyen reached almost into double figures Celsius on 30 January 1984.
The warmest recorded temperature was as high as  on 17 July 1977.
The coldest temperature was a very cold  on 4 March 1986.
Longyearbyen is badly affected by global warming, due to its Arctic position.
On 1 August 2015, a record August temperature of  was recorded.
The broad-billed moa or coastal moa (Euryapteryx curtus) was an extinct moa from New Zealand.
It lived in the North and the South Islands and on Stewart Island.
The coastal moa mainly lived in dry shrubland areas.
It was lived almost all over North Island.
The dominant species lived in the center, the volcanic plateau and along the Wanganui-Taranaki Coast.
The birds were fat and short-legged.
Males were about a meter tall.
Females were a little bit taller (1.3 meters).
They varied in size, some were even twice as big as others.
They weighed about 20 kg.
It is thought that they mainly ate fruit, leaves and large insects.
Chicks ate insects.
New Zealand birds website: Coastal Moa
The bush moa or lesser moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) is an extinct bird from New Zealand.
It was about 1 meter long.
It weighed about 30 kilograms.
It lived all over New Zealand.
The bush moa had a sharp beak.
It could not fly.
It is thought that it ate twigs and other tough plant material.
The bush moa had predators such as the Haast's eagle and Eyles' harrier.
All bush moas died 500-600 years ago, after humans came to New Zealand.
Rani Mukerji (born 21 March 1978) is an Indian actress active in Bollywood.
She has won 7 Filmfare awards.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
Saathiya  (2002)
Yuva (2004)
Hum Tum (2004)
Veer-Zaara (2004)
Black (2005)
Bunty Aur Babli (2005)
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2022)
No One Killed Jessica (2011)
Talaash: The Answer Lies Within (2012)
Mardaani (2014)
Hichki (2018)
Agrahari is an Indian surname, mainly found in North Indian states.
Maharaja Agrasen is believed to be their ancestor.
The mainly found in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra and Gujarat of States of India.
They are believed to be Vaishya, the third highest community as per Hindu Caste System.
Maharaja Agrasen (or Agrasena) was a legendary Indian king of Agroha in India.
This was a city of traders from whom the cities of Agrawal and Agrahari descend.
He started a kingdom of traders in North India named Agroha.
He is known for his compassion in refusing to slaughter animals in yajnas.
are two 2014 Role-playing video games published by The Pokémon Company and developed by Game Freak.
It was released for the Nintendo 3DS.
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were released on November 21, 2014 in Japan, North America, and Australia.
It was released on November 28, 2014 in Europe.
The games are a remake of the 2002 Game Boy Advance games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
A trailer for the game was shown at Nintendo's 2014 E3 video.
The trailer included new gameplay footage, as well as, the new playable character designs and new Mega Evolutions for Sceptile and Swampert that were not in X and Y like Blaziken was.
Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were given positive review.
IGN rated the game a 7.8 out of 10.
Kallie Plagge of IGN sai that she liked the 3D reinvention of the Hoenn region and online functionality.
She was critical of the HMs needed to play the game and the perceived imbalance that favored Water-type Pokémon (she played Alpha Sapphire).
She said that "Too much water" was a negative.
GameSpot rated the game 8 out of 10.
Peter Brown of GameSpot said that he liked the 3D visuals and the super training mechanic but didn't think that the game did not fix general issues in the game formula.
As of June 30, 2015, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have sold 10.27 million copies worldwide.
Official website (International)
Wesley Augustus Williams (August 26, 1897 - July 3, 1984) was the first African-American officer in the New York City Fire Department.
He was promoted to lieutenant in 1927.
He was the third African-American man to join the New York Fire Department.
He was one of the founders of the Vulcan Society in 1940.
He wanted to join the New York City Fire Department when he read about Samuel Jesse Battle joining the New York City police department.
The first African-American to join the New York City Fire Department was William H. Nicholson, who joined in 1898.
Williams had a very high score on his written test.
He scored perfect on his physical examination.
All firefighter candidates must have a character reference.
His was written by former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt.
Even so he was put on the waiting list while others were hired ahead of him.
Williams finally joined on January 10, 1919.
He was assigned to Engine Company 55 in Manhattan, New York City.
Williams was promoted to lieutenant in 1927.
Wesley Augustus Williams at Find-a-Grave
Sir David Valentine Willcocks CBE, MC (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator.
He was born in Newquay, Cornwall.
He was particularly well known for his works with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
He directed from 1957 to 1974.
Interview with Sir David Willcocks by Bruce Duffie, January 22, 1989
Leland Milo Hamilton (September 2, 1927 – September 17, 2015) was an American sportscaster.
He was best known for calling play-by-play for seven different Major League Baseball teams since 1953.
He received the Ford Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.
He was known for his works with the Atlanta Braves, Houston Rockets, Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs.
He was born in Fairfield, Iowa.
Adam Purple (David Lloyd Wilkie; November 10, 1930 – September 15, 2015) was an American environmentalist.
He was known for being an activist for defending gardens in New York City.
He helped save a well known garden in New York's Lower East Side.
Harry Jeannot Lipkin (June 16, 1921 in New York City − September 15, 2015 in Rehovot), also known as Zvi Lipkin, was an Israeli theoretical physicist.
He was known for working in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics.
He won the Wigner Medal.
Miriam Margolyes  (born 18 May 1941) is an English people-Australian actress.
She is best known for her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter movie series.
She also appeared appeared in the movies The Age of Innocence (1993), which won her a BAFTA Award, Babe (1995), and Babe: Pig in the City (1998).
She has appeared in television series such as Merlin, Doc Martin and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Margolyes was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
She was the daughter of Ruth (née Walters; 1905–1974), a property investor and developer, and Joseph Margolyes (1899–1996), a Scottish physician from Glasgow.
She was grew up in a Jewish family and her ancestors are from Poland and Belarus.
She is a lesbian and has been with her partner Heather for over forty years.
She has also been an Australian citizen since 2013.
Family Guy - Maggie Smith's Right Eye
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship - Mother, Mrs. Forester
Tinga Tinga Tales - Giraffe and Squirrel
Live action roles
The Water Margin - Hu San-niang
Babe - Fly
Babe: Pig in the City - Fly
Balto - Additional Voices
Early Man - Queen Oofeefa
Electric Dreams - Ticket Girl
Flushed Away - Rita's Grandma
Happy Feet - Mrs. Astrakhan
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Professor Pomona Sprout
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 - Professor Pomona Sprout
Immortal Beloved - Nanette Streicherová
James and the Giant Peach - Glowworm (speaking)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole - Mrs. Plithiver
Little Shop of Horrors - Dental Nurse
The Man Who Invented Christmas - Mrs. Fisk
Maya the Bee Movie - Queen
Mulan - Matchmaker
Pacific Heights - Realtor
Romeo + Juliet - The Nurse
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island - Mrs. Krepnick
The Thief and the Cobbler - Maiden from Mombassa
Valhalla - Elda, Mother, Sif
Yentl - Sarah
Magdalene Mary "Magda" Szubanski (born 12 April 1961) is an English-born Australian actress, comedian, television presenter, radio host, author and LGBT rights advocate.
She is best known for playing Sharon Strzelecki in the television comedy show Kath & Kim.
She also portrayed Esme Hoggett in the movie Babe (1995) and its sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998).
Szubanski was born in Liverpool, Lancashire.
She is of Polish, Irish and Scottish ancestry.
She moved to Melbourne, Victoria with her family in 1965.
She came out as lesbian in 2012.
Cheesy Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971) is an English singer, musician and actor.
He was born in Windsor, Berkshire.
He had a hit record "The One and Only".
It was number 1 for five weeks in 1991.
He starred in the movie Buddy's Song along with Roger Daltrey.
Øvre Årdal is a village near Årdal in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.
It is the largest village in Årdal.
It is sits on the northern end of the  long lake Årdalsvatnet.
The village of Årdalstangen is at the southern end.
The  village has a population (2013) of 3,206.
This gives the village a population density of .
Farnes Church is in this village.
The road Tindevegen goes from Øvre Årdal, through the Fardalen valley to Turtagrø in Luster municipality.
There is also a road which goes south past the lake Tyin to the European route E16 highway which goes through Valdres to Oslo.
Øvre Årdal is the starting point for tours into the nearby Utladalen Landscape Protection Area and Jotunheimen National Park.
There are trips to the Utladalen and Avdalen valleys, to the mountain Falketind and to the Vettisfossen waterfall.
There are also trips to the historic farms of Vetti, Vettismorki, and Avdalen.
Årdal FK is an association football club.
They play at Jotun stadium in Øvre Årdal.
Årdal Sogelag
Porten.no
Tindevegen
Färila is a locality in Ljusdal Municipality in Gävleborg County in Sweden.
In 2010, 1,293 people lived there.
Färila is in a valley next to the river of Ljusnan.
William H. Nicholson (1869-1911) was the first African American fireman in the New York City Fire Department.
He was assigned to Engine Company 6 and detailed to the veterinary department to feed the horses and shovel manure.
Mario Benjamín Menéndez (3 April 1930 – 18 September 2015) was an Argentine military officer.
He was a Brigadier General of the Argentine Army.
After the 1982 Argentine occupation, he served as Governor of the Falkland Islands from 3 April until 14 June.
He surrendered to British forces during the Falkland Wars.
Menéndez was born in Buenos Aires.
His brother was Luciano Benjamín Menéndez (1927–2018), a general of the Dirty War.
Logan City is a city and local government area in south east Queensland, Australia.
Logan City has 63 suburbs and 12 divisions, and, as of 2012, 293,353 live in there.
The city was named after Patrick Logan.
Vadim Alexeevich Kuzmin (; 16 April 1937 – 17 September 2015) was a Russian theoretical physicist, meaning he worked on using mathematical processes to develop the theories used to explain data.
He was known for working in the elektroweak baryogenesis field.
Homepage at the INR, Russian
Kuzmin's 70th birthday
Biographical entry with photograph
2006 Pomeranchuk Prize
Mishael Cheshin (‎; February 16, 1936 – September 19, 2015) was an Israeli Justice.
He served in the Supreme Court of Israel from 1992 to 2006.
Fired Up is the debut studio album by  British recording artist Alesha Dixon.
The album was recorded after Dixon's group Mis-Teeq had split up.
Dixon signed a deal with Polydor Records.
Her single "Lipstick" reached number 14 on the UK chart.
Her next single with Polydor, "Knockdown" failed to reach the Top 40 (it reached number 45).
Dixon left Polydor afterwards but kept the rights to her songs from the album.
Fired Up was finally released as a CD in Japan in 2008.
The album was billed as just Alesha instead of using Dixon's full name.
Anoka ( ) is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota.
The population was 17,142 at the 2010 census.
Anoka calls itself the "Halloween Capital of the World".
This is because it hosted one of the first Halloween parades in 1920.
It continues to celebrate the holiday each year with several parades.
The Entertainer is the third studio album by English recording artist Alesha Dixon.
It was released on 26 November 2010 in the United Kingdom by Asylum Records.
It was released by Atlantic Records in the United States.
The album was originally called Unleashed but was renamed to The Entertainer instead.
The Entertainer was the second album that Dixon used her first name instead of her full name.
The first was 2006's Fired Up.
Dixon also rapped on some of the songs.
The album has an American precision pop beat feel to it.
It is a club record with the same kind of songs Britney and Lady GaGa love to sing.
Mauritian Creole is a French-based creole language.
It is spoken in Mauritius.
It is not an official language but is well known among the Mauritian people.
It is mostly French with a few non-French words.
Mauritian Creole is spoken in over 65% of Mauritius.
I Am is the fifth studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis.
It was released on 11 September 2015, by Island Records after Lewis left Syco Music in June 2014, she had been with that label ever since she had won The X Factor in 2006.
Reverend Timothy Lovejoy is  a fictional character on the long running TV show The Simpsons.
His voice is performed by Harry Shearer.
He is the reverend of The First Church of Springfield.
Janet Jackson is the self-titled debut album by American recording artist Janet Jackson.
It was released on September 21, 1982, by A&M Records.
Janet Jackson received mixed reviews from music critics.
The Minnesota Senate is the upper house of the Minnesota Legislature of the U.S. State of Minnesota.
There are 67 members, each representing a senatorial district.
Each senator represents about 79,163 residents.
In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any U.S. state legislature.
Floor sessions are held in the west wing of the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Offices of members of the majority party are located in the Capitol.
Those of the minority party are in the State Office Building.
It is connected by a tunnel just to the west of the Capitol.
Senate committee meetings are held in the Capitol building.
Aaron B. Rollins (1818 - December 4, 1878) was a politician connected to the Tammany Hall political machine.
He served in New York's legislature in 1852.
He was later elected coroner for New York City from 1867 to 1870.
Rollins was born in 1818.
He died on December 4, 1878 at the Union-Place Hotel in Manhattan.
Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy (January 13, 1955 – September 18, 2015), was a Chilean footballer.
He played as a defensive midfielder and later developed a TV and radio sports commentator career.
Bonvallet was found dead by hanging using a belt at Nogales Hotel in the kitchen of room 213.
Local news report he was suffering from depression.
The Medical Society of New Jersey is the oldest professional society in the United States.
It was founded in 1766.
Bruce José Djité (born 25 March 1987) is a retired American-born Australian soccer player.
He last played in Indonesia for PSM Makassar.
He also played for the Australian national team as a striker.
Djite was born in Washington, D.C., United States.
His father is from the Ivory Coast and his mother is from Togo.
He moved to Sydney, New South Wales when he was three years old.
Djite speaks French and English.
He was the Governor of Okinawa Prefecture from 10 December 2014 to his death in 2018.
Before this, he served four terms as the Mayor of Naha from November 2000 until December 2014.
Governors of Japanese prefectures
Peter Joseph Noozhumurry Varghese  (born 1956) is an Australian diplomat and public servant.
He has been the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 3 December 2012.
Varghese was born in Kenya to Nasrani parents from Kerala, India.
He moved to Australia as a child in 1964.
He studied history and graduated from the University of Queensland.
Rostam Giv or Arbab Rostam Giv (  alternative spellings: Rustam Guiv) (1880, Yazd, Iran  - October 7 1980, Whittier, California),  was the founder of Giv charity foundation.
He was the third representative of Iranian Zoroastrians in the Iranian parliament.