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She also had work featured in a major group exhibition in China in 2011 (called Tu Di – Shen Ti / Our Land – Our Body).
In 2007, one of her paintings, titled Kiwarr, was chosen as a finalist for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA).
It was eventually bought by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory as part of its NATSIAA collection.
Other of Davies' work are held in the National Gallery of Victoria, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the National Museum of Australia, and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.
Some of her paintings are also displayed in the State Paraliament building of Western Australia, and in a few major private galleries in Germany and the United States.
Pulpurru Davies at Kayili Artists
People of the Australian Western Desert (1966) National Film and Sound Archive, Australia
John Hemmingham (born 26 February 1963) is an association football fan and football administrator from Sheffield, England.
He is best known as the leader and trumpet player of the Pukka Pies England Band.
2052 Summer Olympics will be held.
March 30 – there will be a total solar eclipse, beginning over the Line Islands and will pass over Mexico with the centre of the eclipse passing the tip of the Mississippi Delta, and will then continue over Georgia and Savannah.
In Stephen Baxter's novel Flood, Mount Everest – the highest point on Earth – is submerged in this year.
On the new ABC series Defying Gravity, the Antares 6-year space mission begins in this year.
The events of Deus Ex take place in this year.
The racing video game Wipeout takes place in this year.
According to the Fallout Universe the United Nations have been disbanded on July 26th of this year.
Sergeant Cortez and Amy Chen raid U-Genix in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect in 2052.
Breuil-Cervinia is a village in the Valle d'Aosta region of Italy.
It is famous for its ski resort, which has a link to the one in Zermatt, Switzerland.
Breuil-Cervinia is a frazione of the comune of Valtournenche.
It is at 2,006 m above sea level.
It stands below the Matterhorn (in Italian: Cervino, in French: Cervin).
The name of the village comes from Breuil, which is the French name of the valley where the village is, and Cervinia from the Italian name of the Matterhorn.
The FIBT bobsleigh world championships took place here for three years: 1971, 1975 and 1985.
The Giro d'Italia also had a stage (a day of racing) finishing here for three times: 1960, 1997 and 2012.
Settlements in Valle d'Aosta
Aosta (, ) is a city in northern Italy.
It is the capital city of the Valle d'Aosta () region.
It is roughly in the middle of the region, along the Dora Baltea (), the main river that flows in the valley.
It is at 583 m above sea level.
Around the city there are many mountains (the Alps).
Romans conquered the area in 25 BC.
Later, the city was conquered by the Frankish Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Finally, it went under control of the House of Savoy in the 11th century.
Many Roman buildings still survive in the city, like the east and south gates.
The basic plan of the city, with rectangular blocks of streets, is Roman.
The valley of Aosta is a typical alpine valley, cut into a V-shape by glaciers during the ice age.
It runs from an upper part near Mont Blanc to lower areas like the city of Aosta.
The area has been Roman, French and Italian (House of Savoy) before the unification of Italy.
All street names are in French and Italian, and dialects of French are still spoken by many.
Roman Aosta
The Romans defeated the local Salassi tribe in 25 BC.
Their commander, Marcus Terentius Varro, then founded the Roman colony of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, housing 3,000 retired veterans.
After 11 BC Aosta became the capital of the Alpes Graies ("Grey Alps") province of the Empire.
Aosta is at the join of two rivers.
It is at the end of the Great St Bernard Pass (which leads to Switzerland) and the Little St Bernard Pass (which leads to France).
Its position gave it considerable military importance, and the layout of the town was that of a Roman military camp.
The valley was a way for trade and soldiers to get from Italy to Gaul (later, France).
This explains its importance to the Romans.
Now it sits  near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
At present Aosta Valley is a semi-autonomous region in northwestern Italy.
It is the smallest region in Italy, and is not divided into provinces.
Aostan
Aostan French () is the variety of French spoken in the Aosta Valley, where many speak some form of French.
Some expressions, words and phrase constructions are different from standard French; some are similar to Swiss French.
Some words come from the Piedmontese language or Italian.
Both modern French and Italian mix with this local patois, valdôtain, which is Franco-Provençal in type.
is a star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō.
It was the main fortress of the short-lived Republic of Ezo.
Goryōkaku was designed in 1855 by Takeda Hisaburō.
The fort is shaped like a five-pointed star.
This allowed for greater numbers of gun emplacements on its walls than a traditional Japanese fortress, and reduced the number of blind spots where a cannon could not fire.
Goryōkaku is famous as the site of the last battle of the Boshin War (Goryōkaku no Tatakai).
The fighting lasted for a week (June 20-27 1869).
Japan Atlas: Goryokaku Fort
Buildings and structures in Hokkaido
Sankagiri or Sankari () is a panchayat town.
It is in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu.
It is on the National highway 47.
Sankagiri Fort is a historical fort.
It is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Sankagiri Fort was built in the 15th century.
It was built by the Vijayanagar empire.
It has 14 fort walls built on and around a hill.
The last phase of these walls were built by the British.
Superman, a comic book character
The Man of Steel (comics), a 1986 comic book series
Superman: The Man of Steel, comic book series about Superman from 1991 to 2003
Man of Steel (movie), a 2013 Superman movie directed by Zack Snyder
The Lego Movie is a 2014 Warner Bros. comedy-animated-adventure brickfilm.
It was released theatrically on February 7, 2014.
The movie was a critical and commercial success, with many critics highlighting its visual style, humor, voice acting, and heartwarming message.
It earned more than $257 million in North America and $210 million in other territories for a worldwide total of over $467 million.
A sequel, titled The Lego Movie 2 is scheduled to be released on May 26, 2017, with Chris McKay set to direct.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller will return as producers.
In the Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius attempts to protect a superweapon called the "Kragle" from the evil criminal mastermind Lord Business.
He fails to do so, but prophesies that a person called "the Special" will find the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the Kragle.
Eight and a half years later, an ordinary construction worker named Emmet Brickowski from Bricksburg, a city run as a corporate state under the Octan Corporation, comes across a woman named Wyldstyle who searches for something after hours at Emmet's construction site.
When he investigates, Emmet falls into a hole and finds the Piece of Resistance.
Compelled to touch it, Emmet experiences vivid visions and passes out.
He awakens with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back in the custody of Bad Cop, Business' lieutenant.
There, Emmet learns of Business' plans to freeze the world with the Kragle, revealed to be a tube of Krazy Glue with the label partially rubbed out.
Wyldstyle rescues Emmet and takes him to meet Vitruvius in The Old West, explaining that they are Master Builders, people capable of building anything they need without instruction manuals.
She further explains that most of them are incarcerated due to Business' disapproval of such anarchic creativity.
Though disappointed to find Emmet displays no creativity, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his potential when he recalls visions of a gargantuan humanoid deity called "the Man Upstairs".
Meanwhile, Business, dissatisfied that Emmet had escaped, has Bad Cop come to his office and makes him freeze his own parents in order to make sure that he remains committed to his plan.
Upset at Bad Cop's refusal to do so, Business erases Bad Cop's "Good Cop" face, which served as his conscience.
Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cop's forces with the aid of Wyldstyle's boyfriend, the superhero Batman, and go to Cloud Cuckoo Land, home of Princess Unikitty.
They attend to a council of the remaining Master Builders, who are unimpressed with Emmet and refuse to fight Business.
Bad Cop's forces attack and capture all the Master Builders except for Emmet, Wyldstyle, Vitruvius, Batman, Princess Unikitty, and a "1980-something space guy" named Benny.
After being rescued by a pirate named Metal Beard, Emmet devises a team plan to infiltrate Business' headquarters to rescue the Master Builders and disarm the Kragle.
During a quiet moment, Wyldstyle and Emmet bond, and Wyldstyle reveals that her real name is Lucy.
However, Emmet and his allies are all captured and imprisoned, and Vitruvius is killed with a coin thrown by Lord Business.
With his dying words, Vitruvius reveals to Emmet that he had made up the prophecy.
Business throws the Piece of Resistance off the edge of the universe, programs the prison to electrocute all the Master Builders, and leaves them (and Bad Cop) to die.
As the execution timer counts down, Vitruvius' ghost appears and tells Emmet that it was not the prophecy, but his self-belief that made him the Special.
Tied to the execution mechanism's battery, Emmet flings himself off the edge of the universe to save his friends, who escape further danger with the aid of a newly-reformed Bad Cop.
Inspired by Emmet's sacrifice, Lucy rallies the Lego people across the universe to use whatever creativity they have to build machines and weapons to fight Business' forces, with the Master Builders leading the charge.
Emmet finds himself alive and in the real world, where the events of the story are being played out within the imagination of a boy named Finn on his father's Lego set.
His arrogant and selfish father — now revealed as "the Man Upstairs" — is jealous at his son ruining the set by creating hodgepodges of different playsets, and attempts to permanently glue his "perfect" creations together back to their normal forms.
Realizing the danger his friends are in, Emmet moves off the table and gains Finn's attention.
Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set where Emmet, now possessing the powers of a Master Builder due to his belief in himself, confronts Lord Business.
Meanwhile, Finn's father becomes shocked by his son's creations and discovers that Finn had based the villainous Lord Business on him and his meaningless greedy perfectionism, due to him believing that LEGO constructions are only for adults.
Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he is special and has the power to change everything.
Finn's father hugs Finn, which plays out as Lord Business has a change of heart and caps the Kragle with the Piece of Resistance, unglues his victims with mineral spirits and thanks Emmet.
As Lucy becomes Emmet's girlfriend with Batman's blessing.
Suddenly, Duplo aliens beam down and announce their plans to destroy the universe, as a result of Finn's father inviting Finn's younger sister to join them in playing with his Lego sets as an apology for his selfishness.
Chris Pratt as Emmet
Will Arnett as Batman
Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle
Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius
Will Ferrell as President Business/Lord Business
Liam Neeson as Bad Cop/Good Cop
Nick Offerman as Metal Beard
Jonah Hill as Green Lantern
Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman
Channing Tatum as Superman
Charlie Day as Spaceman Benny
Alison Brie as Uni-Kitty
Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian
Shaquille O'Neal as himself
Keith Ferguson as Han Solo
Will Forte as Abraham Lincoln
The Lego Movie received many positive reviews.
It currently has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
On February 3, 2014, Jared Stern was hired to write a sequel, along with another individual.
The sequel, titled The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, was released on February 8, 2019.
2014 movies
2010s animated movies
The United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service is called American Forces Network (AFN).
AFN broadcasts radio and television to American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Department of Defense and other US government civilians and their families stationed outside of the U.S. and on U.S. Navy ships.
AFN broadcasts popular American radio and television programs from  U.S. networks.
It is sometimes called the Armed Forces Network.
AFRTS, American Forces Network and AFN are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Defense.
American Forces Radio and Television Service
American Forces Network Europe
Patrick Morley: 'This Is the American Forces Network': The Anglo-American Battle of the Air Waves in World War II.
Praeger Publishing (2001).
Trent Christman: Brass Button Broadcasters: A Lighthearted Look at Fifty Years of Military Broadcasting.
Turner Publishing (1992).
History of AFRTS: The first 50 years.
U.S. Government Printing Office (1993).
George Andrew Davis, Jr. (December 1, 1920 – February 10, 1952) was a highly decorated flying ace of the United States (US) Army in World War II.
He was later part of the US Air Force during the Korean War.
Davis rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in "MiG Alley" during the war.
He was the only flying ace of the United States to be killed in action in Korea.
With a total of 21 victories he is one of only seven US military pilots to become an ace in two wars.
He is also one of only 31 to be credited more than 20 victories.
He was the fourth highest scoring ace of the Korean War.
George Andrew Davis Jr. was born in Dublin, Texas on December 1, 1920.
He was the seventh of nine children born to George Davis Sr.
and Pearl Love Davis.
In his childhood, Davis briefly lived in Maple, Texas.
Davis attended Morton High School in Morton, Texas.
Davis then attended Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas.
After completing a degree he returned to Texas.
He took up farming for a time with his family before eventually deciding to join the military.
Aerial victory credits
Throughout his career, Davis was credited with 21 confirmed victories, 1 probable victory and 2 aircraft damaged.
This made him one of only 30 US pilots to gain more than 20 confirmed victories over their careers.
He had been known to be an extremely talented pilot and was especially accurate at deflection shooting, even from long distances against moving targets.
Davis was one of 1,297 World War II aces from the United States, with seven confirmed kills during that war.
He later became one of 41 Korean War aces from the United States, with 14 confirmed victories during that war.
At the time of his death he was the top-scoring ace from the US, making him the ace of aces.
By the end of the war, he was the fourth-highest scoring ace.
Military awards
Distinguished Service Cross citation
Tanghmarg () is a town and tehsil of the Baramulla District in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
The Barak Valley (Bengali: বরাক উপত্যকা) (also South Assam) is located in the southern region of the Indian state of Assam.
The main city of the valley is Silchar.
The region is named after the Barak river.
The Barak valley mainly consists of three administrative districts of Assam State - namely Cachar, Karimganj, and Hailakandi.
Among these three states, Cachar and Hailakandi belonged to the erstwhile Cachar district in British-India, whereas Karimganj belonged to the Sylhet district .
Karimganj was separated from Sylhet after the 1947 referendem; with the rest of Sylhet falling under East Pakistan and Karimganj under India.
The name "Barak" has derived from the Dimasa words 'Bra' & 'Kro'.
Bra means bifurcation and Kro upper portion/stream.
The river Barak is bifurcated near Haritikar in the Karimganj district in to Surma River and Kushiyara River.
The upstream of this bifurcated river was called Brakro by the local Dimasa people.
Over the years, Brakro got converted in to Barak.
Barak valley had a population of 4,377,612 as per as 2021 census.
Hinduism have gone-down from 50% in 2011 to 47% in 2021 due to low fertility rate and large scale immigration of the community from the Valley to others parts of the region in search of jobs and livelihood.
The number of Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh into Barak Valley has varied estimates from year 1971-2014.
According to the Assam government, (1.3-1.5) lakhs such people residing in the Barak Valley are eligible for citizenship if the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 becomes a law.
Islam is the fastest growing religion in Barak valley, As per as  2011 census, Muslims were 48.1% in the valley and in 2021 census it have gone up to 51% due to high fertility rate and lower immigration of the community to others regions/parts of the country.
Christian missionaries have active in Barak region since from the time of independence.
As a result of Christian missionaries, Christianity is rapidly growing among the tribals and poor section of Muslim and Hindu society of the valley since from the past 2 decades.
In 2011, Barak valley had 57.9 thousand christians but in the year of 2021, it have grown to almost 74.4 thousands approximately due to high rate of conversion from various church denomination missionaries from the valley.
Ottawa Senators (CWHL) - current CWHL team
Ottawa Jr. Senators - junior-level team, founded in 1980.
Ottawa Senators (original) - History of Ottawa Hockey Club, senior-level team which played from 1883, and operated as the NHL Senators until 1934. (
1883–1954).
Ottawa Senators (senior hockey) - Second phase of Ottawa Hockey Club, senior-level amateur/semi-pro team, which won the Allan Cup in 1949. (
1934–1954)
Ottawa Senators (FHL) - professional team which played in 1908–09.
Ottawa Senators (baseball) - a minor league baseball team that operated at various times between 1912 and 1949.
Canadian Senate - the upper house of the Parliament of Canada
Ottawa Rough Riders - a Canadian football team that played under the name "Ottawa Senators" between 1925-1930.
The Ottawa Lady Senators are a women's ice hockey team, that are from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
They played in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) until 2010.
The team began playing in 1988.
The team was then known as the National Capital Raiders.
In 1989 the team changed its name to Ottawa Raiders.
In 2007 the team again changed its name to the Ottawa Capital Canucks.
The team changed its name to the Ottawa Senators in 2008.
The current coach of the team is Brad Marsh.
He used to play for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League (NHL).
South Chungcheong Province is a region of western South Korea.
It is one of the richest and fastest growing areas of South Korea.
The provincial capital is called Hongseong.
In ancient times, South Chungcheong Province belonged to Mahan - the ancient tribal country of Korea.
After Baekje conquered Mahan, it belonged to Baekje.
Later, in the Goryeo Dynasty, it was grouped with current Gyeonggi-do and North Chungcheong into 'Gwangyang-do'.
In the Joseon Dynasty, South Chungcheong and North Chungcheong were reorganized into Chungcheong-do.
On October 4, 1896, it was separated as South Chungcheong.
http://www.chungnam.go.kr/englishMain.do
Kenneth Mars  or Ken Mars (April 4, 1935 – February 12, 2011) was an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor.
He was known for his roles in Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, The Producers, and as Otto Mannkusser in Malcolm in the Middle.
Mars was born on April 4, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois.
He was married to Barbara Newborn from 1977 until his death in 2011.
Mars died on February 13, 2011 in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California from pancreatic cancer, aged 75.
Kiki Farrel (born in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 26, 1986) is an actor from Indonesia.
He began his career by being extras in a number of sitcoms, increasingly uphill career by participating in the event Supermama Selebconcert with her mother, Mama Dahlia.
After following Supermama Selebconcert, she starred in the soap opera Cinta Kirana.
Kiki Farrel was rumored to have a relationship with some of the women and the last relates to Natha Narita.
Kiki Farrel was also hit by news skewed to the issue of the release of his gay porn video entitled The Series Hot Kiki Farel which lasted about three minutes.
Kiki Farrel denied that it was not him who is in the video and did not know anything about the distribution of the videos.
Cinderella (Apakah Cinta Hanyalah Mimpi?)
Cinta
Cinta Kirana
Cinta Intan
Andra Cari Cinta
Actors from Jakarta
Lionel Charles Jeffries (June 10, 1926 – February 19, 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter, and director who is known for his roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Camelot, The Railway Children, The Amazing Mr Bluden, First Men in the Moon, Two-Way Stretch, and The Trails of Oscar Wilde.
Jeffries was born on June 10, 1926 in Forest Hill, London, England.
He studied at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School.
He was married to Eileen Mary Walsh from 1951 until his death in 2010.
Lionel Jeffries - Daily Telegraph obituary
Lionel Jeffries - Times obituary
Russell "Russ" B. Mayberry (December 22, 1925 – July 27, 2012) was a Scottish-American television director who directed Dallas, Matlock, Star Trek: The Next Generation, I Dream of Jeannie, and Kojak.
Mayberry was born on December 22, 1925 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mayberry was married to Sandy Mayberry until his death in 2012.
Mayberry died on July 27, 2012 in Fort Collins, Colorado from an illness, aged 86.
John Michael Riva (June 28, 1948 – June 7, 2012) or J. Michael Riva was an American production designer.
He worked on Halloween II, Bad Boys 2, Spider-Man 3, Iron Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Django Unchained.
His grandmother was actress Marlene Dietrich.
Riva was born on June 28, 1948 in Manhattan, New York City, New York to William Riva and Maria Sieber.
He studied at Institute Le Rosey and at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He was married to Wendy Riva until his death in 2012.
Riva died of a stroke in New Orleans, Louisiana while filming Django Unchained, aged 63.
Jane March (born 20 March 1973) is an English actress.
She was born in London to a Vietnamese-Chinese mother and Anglo-Spanish father.
These movies include The Lover and Color of Night.
Both of these movies were originally rated NC-17 by the MPAA.
Regina Taylor (who was born August 22, 1960 in Dallas) is an American movie actress who starred in many movies.
She starred in Courage under Fire with Denzel Washington.
Christine Joan Taylor (born July 30, 1971 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and comedian.
She played the character Marcia in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel.
She also starred in Party Girl, a television program based on the 1995 comedy of the same name.
The band was formed under the name Purgatory on January 20, 1985 by guitarist Jon Schaffer.
The band later changed their name to Iced Earth.
Since the band was created, they have had many different line-up changes with over twenty musicians joining and leaving Iced Earth.
They released their debut album, Iced Earth, in November 1990 in Europe and in February 1991 in North America.
They are currently signed to Century Media Records.
Jon Schaffer - rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals (1985–present)
Brent Smedley - drums (1996–1997, 1998–1999, 2006–present)
Jake Dreyer - lead guitar (2016–present)
Stu Block - lead vocals (2011–present)
Luke Appleton - bass guitar, backing vocals (2012–present)
Richard Bateman - bass (1985-1986)
Bill Owen - lead guitar (1985-1987)
Greg Seymour - drums (1985-1989)
Gene Adam - lead vocals (1985-1991)
Dave Abell - bass (1987-1996)
Randall Shawver - lead guitar (1988-1998)
Mike McGill - drums (1989-1991)
John Greely - lead vocals (1991-1992)
Rick Secchiari - drums (1991-1992)
Rodney Beasley - drums (1992-1995)
Matt Barlow - lead vocals (1994-2003, 2007-2011)
Mark Prator - drums (1995-1996, 1998)
James MacDonough - bass (1996–2000, 2001–2004)
Larry Tarnowski - lead guitar (1998–2003)
Steve DiGiorgio - bass (2000–2001)
Richard Christy - drums (2000–2004)
Ralph Santolla - lead guitar (2003–2004)
Tim "Ripper" Owens - lead vocals (2003–2007)
Bobby Jarzombek - drums (2004-2006)
Ernie Carletti - lead guitar (2006)
James "Bo" Wallace - bass (2006-2007)
Tim Mills - lead guitar (2006–2007)
Dennis Hayes - bass (2007)
Freddie Vidales - bass (2008-2012)
Troy Seele - lead guitar (2007-2016)
Iced Earth (1990, Europe) (1991, North America)
Night of the Stormrider (1991, Europe) (1992, North America)
Burnt Offerings (1995)
The Dark Saga (1996)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1998)
Horror Show (2001)
Framing Armageddon (2007)
The Crucible of Man (2008)
Dystopia (2011)
Plagues of Babylon (2014)
Incorruptible (2017)
A Narrative Soundscape (2022)
Holly Elizabeth Robinson Peete (born September 18, 1964) is an American actress.
She has acted in many television sitcoms.
These include the 1992-1997 sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper.
She is also an activist on the subject of autism.
Peete was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Strip Me" is a 2010 single by the English singer Natasha Bedingfield off her album, also named Strip Me.
The song didn't do well on Billboard Hot 100; it peaked near 91 on the chart.
This song was featured in the movie Morning Glory.
Guild Wars 2 is a type of computer game called a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that is played on the Internet.
It is owned by ArenaNet.
Guild Wars 2 takes place in a fantasy world that is called Tyria.
The game's story is about a guild called Destiny's Edge, and their attempt to kill six evil elder dragons.
It is the sequel to Guild Wars.
In August 2015, the game became free to play, and had sold more than 5 million copies by then.
Playing Guild Wars 2
The world of Guild Wars 2 is the same as the world in Guild Wars, but many changes has been made to it.
These changes include new buildings and new landscapes, because Guild Wars 2 takes place 250 years after Guild Wars.
Much of the land has also been corrupted by the elder dragons.
There are five different races to choose from when you create a new character.
These races are Human and Charr, from Guild Wars Prophecies, Norn and Asura from Guild Wars Eye of the North, and the Sylvari, a new race to the Guild Wars series.
There are also 8 professions to choose from.
The profession and race of the player decides what special abilities the player can use.
As in Guild Wars, the player has a skill bar where he/she can choose from a large pool of abilities.
The skill bar is different from Guild Wars.
It can now hold ten skills instead of eight, but is more limited.
The weapon the player is holding decides the first five skill slots.
The 6th slot is used for a healing skill.
The 7th, 8th and 9th slots are used to hold the remaining skills that the player can use.
Finally, the 10th slot is used for an elite skill, which is more powerful than the other skills.
ArenaNet has made the skill bar more limited to solve the balance problem many MMORPGs has.
Skills in Guild Wars 2 has also been made in quality instead of quantity.
The maximum level is higher than in Guild Wars.
The player can now get to level 80 instead of 20.
ArenaNet said that level 80 is a good maximum level because it allows the player to go through the game's storyline without having to grind.
It was very important for ArenaNet that players in Guild Wars 2 should not have to grind.
This is because ArenaNet wanted the players to have fun the entire time they were playing Guild Wars 2.
The player's level can also change depending on where in the world the player is.
When the players fight monsters the player's level will be the same level as the monsters of that area plus one.
For example, if a level 80 character goes to a level 5 area, he will become level 6, if he goes to a level 10 area, he will become level 11.
There are two ways the player can fight other players in Guild Wars 2: World versus World and Structured PvP. In Structured PVP the player gains the maximum level and gain access to all abilities in the game.
The players then fight players five versus five on matches that are about 10 minutes long.
Unlike World versus World the players can not use rewards from Structured PvP anywhere outside Structured PvP. In World versus World the player also gains the maximum level, but can not use abilities that are not unlocked by the players character.
World versus world matches are also one entire week long, so the player can join and leave whenever he wants.
The goal in World versus World is to take control of capture points; castles, forts and camps.
Holding these points gives points to the server holding them.
The points gives players rewards in the servers world, such as more experience and more money from killing monsters.
Because Guild Wars 2 takes place 250 years after Guild Wars, the player can not keep their character from Guild Wars in Guild Wars 2.
Instead the player can link their Guild Wars account to the Guild Wars 2 account to get rewards in Guild Wars 2.
The points are gained by completing a variety of tasks in Guild Wars.
When a task is completed, the player can turn the task into points by adding them to the Hall of Monuments.
The Hall of Monuments is available in the Eye of the North expansion.
Guild Wars 2 takes place 250 years after the player defeats the Great Destroyer in Guild Wars Eye of the North.
Over the past 2 centuries, Elder Dragons who has slept under the earth has awoken.
Currently, 5 dragons have awoken, and they have started to destroy and corrupt Tyria.
The humans have lost almost all of Ascalon to the Charr.
The remaining humans now live in Kryta and Ebonhawke.
The norn, a race of nordic hunters, has been driven from their homeland in the north by Jormag, an Elder Dragon of ice.
The Norn now live in the Southern shiverpeaks, instead of the northen shiverpeaks.
The asura, a small but smart race, has been driven out of their homeland to the west.
Their underground home has been invaded by destroyers.
The Destroyers are servants to Primordus, an Elder Dragon of fire.
The asura now live in Rata Sum, a very large city floating in the air.
East of Rata sum, a new race has arrived to Tyria; the sylvari, The sylvari are similar to humans, but they are made out of trees, bushes and even mushrooms.
They birth from the Pale Tree, a tree that was planted during Guild Wars Eye of the North.
Sister Sledge is an American R&B and pop music group.
It was founded in Philadelphia in 1971.
They have had several hit singles.
Their hits are We are Family, Frankie and He's the Greatest Dancer.
Their names are Kim, Kathy, Joni and Debbie.
Sledge is their actual last name.
The original identity of the group was "Mrs. Williams Grandchildren", though it was later changed to the current name "Sister Sledge".
They were especially popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host.
He was the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
He was a cast member of Saturday Night Live and has also hosted that show.
On April 3, 2013, NBC announced that Fallon would be the new host of The Tonight Show,  beginning at the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Fallon was born on September 19, 1974 in the Bay Ridge neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York.
He was raised in Saugerties, New York.
He studied at The College of Saint Rose.
Fallon married Nancy Juvonen in 2007.
NBC's Official Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Site
The band was formed in 1992 by guitarist Infernus after he made a "deal with the Devil".
The name of the band comes from the dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings.
They released their debut album, Pentagram, on 12 October 1994.
Infernus – guitars (1992–present)
Tomas Asklund – drums (2007–present)
Atterigner – vocals (2012–present)
Goat Pervertor – drums (1992–1994)
Hat – lead vocals (1992–1995)
Kjettar – bass guitar (1993)
Samoth – bass guitar (1993–1994)
Storm – bass guitar (1995)
Grim – drums (1995–1996)
Ares – bass guitar (1995–1997)
Vrolok – drums (1996–1998)
T-Reaper – bass guitar (1998–1999)
Gaahl – lead vocals (1998–2007)
Sersjant – drums (1999)
Kvitrafn – drums (2000–2004)
Frost – drums (1994–1995, 2004–2005)
King ov Hell – bass guitar (1999–2006, 2007)
Pest – lead vocals (1995–1997, 2008–2012)
Tormentor – guitars (1996–2002, 2008–2012)
Bøddel (2007–2015; died in 2015)
Pentagram (1994)
Antichrist (1996)
Under the Sign of Hell (1997)
Destroyer (1998)
Incipit Satan (2000)
Twilight of the Idols (2003)
Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam (2006)
Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt (2009)
Under the Sign of Hell 2011 (2011)
Instinctus Bestialis (2015)
Joseph Peter Breck (March 13, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American actor and personality who is known for his roles in The Big Valley, Shock Corridor, Black Saddle, The Beatniks, and in the Crawling Hand.
Breck was born on March 13, 1929 in Rochester, New York.
He studied at the University of Houston.
Breck was married to Diana Breck from 1960 until his death in 2012.
They had one son, Christopher.
Breck died on February 6, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from dementia, aged 82.
The Official Peter Breck website
Retinal migraine (also known as ophthalmic migraines, or ocular migraines) is a medical condition that affects the eyes by causing vision loss in one eye for less than 1 hour, usually for about 10–20 minutes.
When these retinal migraines happen they can also cause a headache, either a diffuse headache which is a headache that causes pain which is spread out and hurts a person's whole head, or, a unilateral headache, which is a headache that causes pain on one side of a persons head either, the left side or the right side.
It is believed retinal migraines are caused by vasospasms of the blood vessels of the eye in the area of the retina.
The retina is at the back of the inside of the eye.
In medicine a spasm is a sudden constriction or tightening of muscles that is involuntary - a person does not control them they move on their own.
Muscle spasms can happen in different muscles of the body, like when a person's leg or eye twitches.
The twitching is caused by the spasms.
Vaso- means something to do with the blood vessels, so a vasospasm causes the muscle cells inside the walls of a blood vessel to suddenly constrict or tighten up.
This causes the whole blood vessel to constrict which means makes the blood vessel narrower.
When a blood vessel constricts it is called vasoconstriction.
When vasoconstriction happens less blood the normal is able to flow through the blood vessel, like the way squeezing (constricting) a garden hose makes less water come out.
Vasoconstriction can happen for different reasons including because of a medical problem.
The second part of a vasospasm -vasodilation - occurs after the vasoconstriction.
After the blood vessel constricts it dilates - becomes bigger.
It may return to normal size or slightly larger than normal size.
The vasoconstriction and vasodilation complete one spasm.
Spasms often happen many times over and over again.
It is beleved that the muscle cells tigntening and loosenening may trigger the pain of a retinal migraine.
The band was formed in 1990 by vocalist Abbath Doom Occulta and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta after the bands Old Funeral and Amputation disbanded and members from both of the bands joined together to make Immortal.
Immortal disbanded in 2003 because of personal reasons but they reunited in 2006.
They released their debut album, Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, on 1 July 1992.
Abbath Doom Occulta – vocals, guitar (1989–2003, 2006–present), bass (1989-1998), drums (1992–1993, 1994–1995)
Demonaz Doom Occulta – lyrics (1989–2003, 2006–present), guitar (1989–1997)
Horgh – drums (1989–2003, 2006–present)
Apollyon – bass (2006–present)
Jörn Tonsberg – guitar (1989–1991)
Armagedda – drums (1990–1992)
Kolgrim (Jan Atle Åserød) – drums (1992)
Kapten Galachtik – bass (1992–1993)
Grim – drums (1993–1994; died 1999)
Hellhammer – drums (1995)
Ares – bass (1998)
Iscariah – bass (1999–2002)
Saroth – bass (2002–2003)
Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism (1992)
Pure Holocaust (1993)
Battles in the North (1995)
Blizzard Beasts (1997)
At the Heart of Winter (1999)
Damned in Black (2000)
Sons of Northern Darkness (2002)
All Shall Fall (2009)
Northern Chaos Gods (2018)
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress who has starred in lots of movies, including Hello I Must be Going, But I'm a Cheerleader and Heavenly Creatures.
She was in the sitcom Two and a Half Men and in other television programs.
She was born in New Plymouth.
Ashford & Simpson were an American R&B music duo who had a lot of hit singles dating to the mid 1960s and continuing through the early 1990s.
The duo consisted of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson.
Ashford was born May 4, 1941 and died due to throat cancer, August 22, 2011; Simpson was on August 26, 1946.
Singers associated with Ashford & Simpson included Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.
Barbara May Theresa Werle (October 6, 1928 – January 1, 2013) was an American actress who was known for her roles in The Ed Sullivan Show, Krakotoa: East of Java, Battle of the Buldge, and in Charro.
Werle was born on October 6, 1928 in Mount Vernon, New York.
She studied at a Catholic High School in New York.
Werle had one son.
Werle died on January 1, 2013 in Carlsbad, California from natural causes, aged 84.
Tony Lip (Frank Anthony Vallelonga; July 30, 1930 – January 4, 2013) was an American actor who was known for his roles in The Sopranos, Raging Bull, The Godfather, Goodfellas, and in Law & Order.
Lip was born on July 30, 1930 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
He was raised in The Bronx, New York.
He was married to Dolores Lip until her death in 1999.
Lip died on January 4, 2013 in Teaneck, New Jersey from an illness, aged 82.
Saint-Just (called the Angel of Death) was an important person in the French revolution and the Reign of Terror.
He worked closely with Robespierre.
Samantha Mathis (born on May 12, 1970, New York) is an American actress who has acted in lots of movies.
In particular, she acted in The American President, Broken Arrow and Little Women.
She also starred in some television programs.
Marat was a French doctor and journalist famous for writing about the French revolution and encouraging the Reign of Terror.
He was stabbed to death in Paris by Charlotte Corday, an act made famous in a painting by Jacques-Louis David.
French murder victims
Ayub K. Ommaya or Ayub Khan Ommaya (1930-2008) was a famous Pakistani neurosurgeon settled in the USA.
He is especially well known for being the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir, which is a method to help cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatment.
Ommaya was born in Mian Channu Tehsil, British India, now Pakistan,  in 1930.
He moved to Oxford, England in 1956.
He then moved to the United States in 1961.
Later, following illness, he moved to Islamabad, Pakistan with his wife in 2005.
He died there in 2008.
The term ragout refers to a main-dish stew of meat, poultry, fish or vegetables.
It uses "well-seasoned meat and vegetables cooked in a thick sauce".
A typical sauce to use would be roux.
The word is from the French ragoût.
The term comes from the French ragoûter, meaning: "to revive the taste".
The related word Italian ragù is a sauce, such as Ragù Napoletano.
It is used to dress pasta.
The main ingredients are many; ragouts may be prepared with or without meat, a wide variety of vegetables may be incorporated, and they may be more or less heavily spiced and seasoned.
Melissa Leo (born September 14, 1960 in Manhattan, New York) is an American movie and television actress.
She acted in the television series All My Children.
She won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for The Fighter, a movie from 2010.
Melissa Leo IMDB
The internal conflict in Myanmar refers to fighting between government soldiers and rebels in Myanmar, which began shortly after the country, formerly known as Burma, separated from the United Kingdom in 1948.
The government of Myanmar has fought different rebel groups from different ethnic minorities.
The cause of the conflict is the government's refusal to give minority groups such as the communists and the Karen people the amount of political representation that they want.
Since the beginning of the fighting, hundreds of thousands of civilians in Myanmar have been killed and millions have become refugees.
Ambient intelligence is an idea from computer science to create an environment of machines that meaningfully interact with people.
The idea is that these machines help people solve the problems they have, and that people can interact with the machines in a natural way.
An example would be a camera that recognizes the owner of a house or apartment, and that is able to turn off the alarm, and unlock the door.
The systems that control the camera, the alarm system and the door lock are all connected to each other.
When the camera sees the person, it works with the other systems to make the person's life easier.
Computer hardware should be small
Different networks of computers and home appliances need to be connected so they can communicate with each other
Computer networks are easy to control and program.
New devices in the networks should configure themselves automatically, or their configuration should be easy to do, without the need to understand how they all work.
The interfaces to control the devices focus on the user and are easy to use
The system should be forgiving with errors.
It should be secure and work as long as possible, even with errors
Ambient intelligence has also be shown in fiction.
The movie Minority Report shows how advertising changes for each user.
the book The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams shows intelligent doors that have emotions, which they show when people use them.
A stew is a dish cooked for a long time, and served in the gravy produced by the cooking.
The basic materials may be any  meat and/or vegetables.
It is ideal for tough meat like mutton and beef cuts which have marbling (fat) and connective tissue.
Also, the tougher vegetables should be used.
It is traditional to start off with a simple sauce, such as a roux.
Even simpler, flour and an Oxo stock cube can be stirred in some milk and water.
It is usual for the tougher meats to start off by themselves, with vegetables added later.
Casseroles and stews are similar.
Casseroles often have a topping; stews do not.
Stewing is a cooking process whereby heat is applied to the bottom of the cooking vessel (typically over a fire or on a stove), whereas casserole cooking is generally baked in an oven where heat circulates all around the cooking vessel.
Stews have been made since ancient times.
It figures in the Roman cookbook by Apicius.
Herodotus says that the Scythians (8th to 4th centuries BC) "put the flesh into an animal's paunch, mix water with it, and boil it like that over the bone fire.
The bones burn very well, and the paunch easily contains all the meat once it has been stripped off.
In this way an ox, or any other sacrificial beast, is ingeniously made to boil itself."
Amazonian tribes used the shells of turtles as vessels, boiling the entrails of the turtle and various other ingredients in them.
Other cultures used the shells of large mollusks (clams etc.)
to boil foods in.
There is archaeological evidence of these practices going back 8,000 years or more.
There are recipes for lamb stews and fish stews in the Roman cookery book Apicius, believed to date from the 4th century AD.
Le Viandier, one of the oldest cookbooks in French, written by the French chef known as Taillevent, has ragouts or stews of various types in it.
Hungarian goulash dates back to the 9th century Magyar shepherds of the area, before the existence of Hungary.
Paprika was added in the 18th century.
Joanna Cassidy (born Joanna Victoria Caskey, August 2, 1945 in Haddonfield, New Jersey) is an American actress.
She acted in the TV series Six Feet Under and Body of Proof.
These include Blade Runner (1982), Where the Heart Is and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.
Sir David Suchet CBE (born 2 May 1946 in London) is an English actor.
He mainly works on British television.
He has been in many films over the years.
He is perhaps best known for playing Hercule Poirot in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot.
He has made a film version of almost all of the books by Agatha Christie.
In 1974 he joined the famous Royal Shakespeare Company.
In 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 2010 he was made a Commander of the same order.
Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
He was one of the most important people in 20th century Italian literature.
("The Buried Port", 1916 and 1923)
La guerra ("The War", 1919 and 1947)
Allegria di naufragi ("The Joy of Shipwrecks", 1919)
L'allegria ("The Joy", 1931)
Sentimento del tempo ("The Feeling of Time", 1933)
Traduzioni ("Translations", 1936)
Poesie disperse ("Scattered Poems", 1945)
Il dolore ("The Pain", 1947)
La terra promessa ("The Promised Land", 1950)
Un grido e paesaggi ("A Shout and Landscapes", 1952)
Il taccuino del vecchio ("The Old Man's Notebook", 1960)
Vita di un uomo ("The Life of a Man", 1969)
Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981 in London) is an English television actress who began with the television program Fingersmith around 2005.
She is strongly known for playing Lady Mary Crawley in the television drama series Downtown Abbey.
Dockery is also a singer.
Bailee Madison (born October 15, 1999) is an American actress.
She was in the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
Madison was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Pamela Sue Martin (born January 5, 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress.
She played Nancy Drew in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.
She played Fallon Carrington Colby in the television series Dynasty.
She also acted in other television programs and movies.
Bonnie Gail Franklin (January 6, 1944 – March 1, 2013) was an American actress.
She worked mostly on television.
She starred in the situation comedy One Day at a Time.
Aisha N. Tyler (born September 18, 1970 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor, writer, comedian and television host.
She attended Dartmouth College studying political science.
She then began as an advertising executive before becoming a Stand-up comedian in the mid-1990s.
She was the host of Talk Soup.
She was a cast member for two years in Friends.
Tyler then played Andrea on Ghost Whisperer.
She is a co-host on the daytime talk show The Talk.
Francesca Angelucci Capaldi (born June 8, 2004)  is an American child actress.
She is best know for her role of  Chloe James in the Disney Channel TV series, Dog with a Blog.
2004 births
Philippe Bond (born 28 June 1979) is a Canadian comedian and radio host.
He is from Quebec.
Bond co-hosts the morning radio program C't'encore drôle, on the radio station NRJ.
In 2011, he was chosen to host a version of the game show The Price is Right in Montreal.
Bond has been described as a good storyteller because he always tells several anecdotes.
Through his comedy, he shows to everyone that it is sometimes in the most innocuous situations that people find the funniest facts of everyday life.
Bond graduated from the École nationale de l'humour in 2002.
He debuted on Radio Energy Hull / CKTF.
He quickly started work doing comedy shows in Quebec.
He appeared in several comedy festivals.
Since 2002, he has appeared in the Grand rire de Québec, Just for Laughs festival, the Fou rire de Sherbrooke, in Montreal High Lights Festival and in many corporate events.
In 2007, he worked with Louis-José Houde in the first part of his new show Suivre la parade.
He won the trophy for the 14th edition of the Gala les Oliviers in 2012.
This is the biggest award chosen by the public in the Gala which took place on Radio Canada.
http://www.enspectacle.ca/artistes/philippe-bond
Entertainers from Quebec
Imiyari "Yilpi" Adamson (born 1954) is an Aboriginal artist from central Australia.
She is known for her work in a range of art forms, including painting, sculpture, weaving, knitting and batik.