the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
The track features the singles "Alive" (which was written with Adele, who turned down releasing the song) and "Cheap Thrills".
A remix of "Cheap Thrills" features the Jamaican reggae recording artist Sean Paul.
This version of the song reached number one in the US and Canada, number two in the UK, and the top ten in Australia.
It was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
It lost to "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots.
This Is Acting was re-released as a deluxe edition in late 2016.
It includes the Sean Paul remix of "Cheap Thrills" and a version of the song "The Greatest" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, which reached the top 20 in the US.
In 2017, she released the album Everyday is Christmas.
Healing Is Difficult (2001)
Colour the Small One (2004)
Some People Have Real Problems (2008)
We Are Born (2010)
1000 Forms of Fear (2014)
This Is Acting (2016)
Everyday Is Christmas (2017)
Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (2021)
Top Thrill Dragster is a steel accelerator roller coaster built by Intamin at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.
It was the sixteenth roller coaster that was built at the park.
It was the first roller coaster to be over  tall and was the tallest roller coaster in the world before its record was broken by Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure when it opened in May 2005.
Top Thrill Dragster, along with Kingda Ka, are the only strata coasters in the world.
After it leaves the station, the train enters the launch area.
To the left of the launch area is a "Christmas tree" light, which is similar to a Christmas tree light at a drag strip.
A message is then played to riders: "Keep arms down, head back, and hold on."
Once the train is ready to launch, a motor revving sound effect is played and its magnetic braking fins are lowered from the launch track.
The train is then launched from the track at a speed of  in 3.8 seconds.
After it reaches its top speed, it goes up at a 90 degree angle and climbs a  hill, or top hat element.
Once it goes down, the track twists 270 degrees before it levels out, and then it is stopped by magnetic brakes.
Sometimes, a train does not have enough speed to go over the  hill.
This is known as a rollback, and it usually happens during cool, wet, or breezy weather.
It can also happen when the wind is blowing against the train.
In these conditions, the launch doesn't give the train enough speed to go over the hill, which causes it to stop before reaching the top of the hill and then roll back down the hill, which is why it is called a rollback.
On extremely rare occasions, the train may stall at the top of the hill.
When this happens, a mechanic takes an elevator to the top of the hill and pushes the train forward down the hill.
This has only happened three times with passengers on board the train, June 24, 2005, October 25, 2008, and May 25, 2009.
Cedarpoint.com - Top Thrill Dragster Official page
Roller Coaster Philosophy review of Top Thrill Dragster
Video of how Top Thrill Dragster works
Construction photos video
Top Thrill Dragster Photo Gallery  at The Point Online
La Gata, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa.
It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Gata, produced in 1968 and Mexican telenovela Rosa Salvaje produced in 1987.
Maite Perroni and Daniel Arenas stars as the protagonists, with Erika Buenfil as the adult protagonist.
Jorge Poza, Mónika Sánchez and first actress Laura Zapata stars as the antagonists.
Mexico broadcast
La Gata premiered on May 5, 2014, and earned 17.7 points of rating in its 4 p.m. time slot.
It was the third highest rated telenovela of the evening on Canal de las Estrellas.
Telenovelas by Televisa
2014 Mexican television series debuts
2010s disestablishments in Mexico
Çolpan İlhan (August 8, 1936, İzmir – July 25, 2014, Istanbul) was a Turkish movie and theatre actress.
She was awarded the title of 'State artist of Turkey".
She acted in more than 300 movies and theatre plays.
İlhan died of a heart attack at her home in Istanbul.
Her funeral ceremony was scheduled for 27 July 2014.
María Antonia Iglesias González (15 January 1945 – 29 July 2014) was a Spanish writer and journalist.
She wrote for many newspapers and magazines such as Informaciones, Triunfo, Tiempo, Interviú and El País.
Besides writing for magazines and newspapers, she worked on radio and television.
Her father was pianist and musicologist Antonio Iglesias Álvarez.
She was a Catholic but did not have the same views as the current Roman Catholic Church.
Central City Shopping Centre (formerly Surrey Place Mall) is a Shopping mall and office tower in the Whalley neighborhood of Surrey, British Columbia.
It is the second largest mall in Surrey, behind Guildford Town Centre.
It is home to the Simon Fraser University - Surrey Campus.
In October 2007, the building was sold to Blackwood Partners Management Corporation of Toronto for $245.75 million.
It was awarded the Special Jury Award in 2004 by Le Marché International des Professionnels de l’Immobilier as the world's best overall new development for architecture and building innovation.
The tower has appeared in many movies and television shows.
It has appeared in the beginning of the movie Fantastic Four and was the home of LuthorCorp headquarters in season three of Smallville.
It was also shown in the movies Firewall, Alone in the Dark, I, Robot, Catwoman, and Painkiller Jane.
Simon Fraser University - Surrey campus website
Emporis.com - Central City
SkycraperPage.com – Central City
Buildings and structures in Canada
Jon Robert Cavaiani (August 2, 1943 – July 29, 2014) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Cavaiani was released by the Provisional Government of Vietnam on April 27, 1973.
Cavaiani died at the age of 70 in Stanford, California.
He had myelodysplastic syndrome.
Julio Humberto Grondona (September 18, 1931 – July 30, 2014) was an Argentine football executive.
He served as president of the Argentine Football Association (Asociación del Fútbol Argentino) from 1979 until his death in 2014.
He also served as Senior Vice-President of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association).
He was involved in numerous scandals and has been accused by media outlets of being a member of the Mafia.
GRONDONA Julio H.
An aortic aneurysm is a general term for an enlargement (dilation) of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal size.
While the cause of an aneurysm may be unknown, the result is weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location.
The aneurysm may occasionally cause pain, which is a sign of impending rupture.
When rupture occurs, massive internal hemorrhage results, and, unless treated immediately, shock and death can occur within minutes.
James Govan (September 2, 1949 – July 18, 2014) was an American Blues soul singer.
His most recent album, I'm in Need, was released in 1996.
He had also performed alongside such artists as The Boogie Blues Band and Charlie Wood.
Govan had become one of the favorite musicians on Beale Street.
He routinely performed for over two decades at the Rum Boogie Café.
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (born 11 October 1948) is a Ghanaian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
He is the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 October 2009.
He had served as Archbishop of Cape Coast.
He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
Many people think that Turkson might become the first black pope.
Garry Francis McCarthy (born May 4, 1959) an American police officer.
He was the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
McCarthy joined the New York City Police Department in 1981 at age 22.
He rose through the ranks and became Deputy Commissioner of Operations in 2000.
McCarthy was hired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to take over the Chicago Police Department shortly after Emanuel's election in early 2011.
On December 1, 2015, the mayor asked for McCarthy's resignation.
He said this was because  public trust in the leadership of the city's police department had been shaken and that McCarthy had become "an issue" and "a distraction."
On March 21, 2018, McCarthy announced his candidacy for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 election.
He lost the first round of the election.
The Catalonia national football team (, ) is the national football team for the autonomous community of Catalonia.
As of 15 November 2013, the head coach is Gerard López.
The team is often called La Selecció ("The Selection") or just La Segadora ("The Reaper").
The team is not a member of UEFA or FIFA, so they can't be in the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Football Championship.
Catalonia had their first match on 21 February 1912 against France.
Their most recent game was on December 30, 2013 against Cape Verde, in which they won 4–1.
Players of the team are full Spanish citizens who are able to play for Spain if they want to.
People who have played on the team include Cesc Fàbregas, Pep Guardiola, Carles Puyol, Gerard Piqué, Xavi, Víctor Valdés, Sergio Busquets and Sergio González.
All time record
Rafał Majka (born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional cyclist.
He rides for the Tinkhoff-Saxo team.
He won the Polka dot jersey in the 2014 Tour de France.
Majka won his first professional victory on Stage 14 of the 2014 Tour de France.
He won again on Stage 17.
He did well in the other mountain stages too, and won the polka dot jersey for the best climber.
He is the first Pole to win a jersey in the Tour de France.
In 2013, he competed in the Giro D'Italia for the first time.
He finished 7th, eight minutes behind the winner Vincenzo Nibali.
In 2014, he finished 6th.
Significant results
1st Trofeo Enzo Sacchi
3rd GP Città di Monsummano
4th Trofeo S.C. Corsanico
1st Firenze–Viareggio
3rd Bologna–Raticosa
4th Gran Premio Città di Empoli
5th Trofeo Nesti & Nelli
8th GP Capodarco
8th Trofeo Pedalata Elettrica
9th Trofeo S.C. Corsanico
9th Coppa Caduti
2nd GP Chianti Colline d'Elsa
3rd Overall Giro delle Pesche Nettarine
3rd Trofeo Città di Lastra a Signa
5th Coppa Sportivi Malvesi
7th GP Brogio
9th GP Palio del Recioto
9th Firenze–Viareggio
10th Overall Karpacki Wyścig Kurierów
1st Stage 2 (ITT)
10th Trofeo Matteotti
3rd Japan Cup
7th Overall Tour of Beijing
1st  Young rider classification
2nd Milano–Torino
3rd Giro di Lombardia
4th Overall Tour de Pologne
1st  Points classification
7th Overall Giro d'Italia
Held  after Stages 7, 10–14, 18–19
1st Stages 14 & 17
1st  Mountains classification
4th Overall Critérium International
6th Overall Giro d'Italia
Held  after Stages 8–15
Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American science fiction movie directed by Roger Christian and starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker and Kelly Preston.
It was adapted from the novel of the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
The movie got very poor reviews from movie critics.
It also did poorly at the box office, because the money earned from the cinemas was less than  half of its budget.
It won seven Golden Raspberry Awards.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a positive rating  of only 3% from the audience.
The movie takes place in the year 3000, when Earth is a ruined wasteland ruled by the Psychlos, who are a brutal race of giant humanoid aliens who have ruled the planet for 1,000 years, and use human slave labor to strip its minerals and other resources, with a special desire for gold.
The humans rebel against the aliens.
Robert Lewandowski (; born 21 August 1988) is a Polish footballer that plays as a striker.
He currently plays for Bayern Munich and is the captain of the Poland national team.
A full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned over 100 caps and was a member of their team at Euro 2012, Euro 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
With 60 international goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland.
In 2015, he was voted Polish Sportspersonality of the Year and in 2016 he claimed fourth place at the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards.
He has been named the Polish Player of the Year a record seven times.
The Guardian has ranked him as the fifth-best footballer on the planet in 2015.
Likely one of Lewandowski's most famous records is scoring 5 goals in 9 minutes (8:59).
For achieving this, Robert Lewandowski was awarded 4 Guinness World Records.
Jack and Jill is a 2011 American comedy movie starring Adam Sandler as a twin brother and sister.
Though successful at the box office, The movie was almost universally panned by critics and became the first and so far, only movie to win every single category at the Razzies.
It is considered by many to be one of the worst movies ever made.
They had worked at a factory on Orange, New Jersey.
Their job was to paint the dials of watches with radium paint, so that the numbers would glow in the dark.
The substance used to paint was luminous paint, which contained radium.
Radium is radioactive, and causes radiation sickness.
The workers used paintbrushes to draw fine lines; the brush would only draw such a line when it was wet.
The girls would put the brushes in their mouths to lick them.
The women were told the paint was harmless.
Over time, they ingested deadly amounts of radium paint.
Five workers sued their employer.
The case that followed made it clear that people could sue their employer, if they contract occupational diseases.
1917 in the United States
Cedar Point is an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States.
It opened in 1870.
It is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the United States.
2014 park map
Cedar Point at the Roller Coaster DataBase
Cedar Point Brochures & Park Guides
Queen Forever is a compilation album by British rock band Queen.
It is the first album since 1995 to have new music from former group members Freddie Mercury (who died) and John Deacon (who retired).
The album features three new songs, "Let Me In Your Heart Again" (written by Brian May, it was a song from the Works sessions), "Love Kills - The Ballad" (the song is a reworked version of Mercury's disco hit from 1984) and "There Must Be More To Life Than This (William Orbit Mix)" (a Mercury/Michael Jackson duet from the early eighties, reworked to feature guitars, drums and bass).
The rest of the album includes songs which May and Taylor chose.
Let Me In Your Heart Again
Love Kills - The Ballad
There Must Be More To Life Than This (William Orbit Mix)
It's A Hard Life
Drowse
Long Away
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Las Palabras De Amor
Who Wants To Live Forever
One Year of Love
A Winters Tale
Is This The World We Created
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
Freddie Mercury – lead and backing vocals, piano, keyboards, acoustic guitar on "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
Brian May – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, piano on "Las Palabras de Amor", "Save Me" and "Too Much Love Will Kill You", lead vocals on "Long Away", "'39" and "Sail Away Sweet Sister", co-lead vocals on "Las Palabras de Amor", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "Mother Love", bass guitar on "Love Kills"
Roger Taylor – drums, backing vocals, keyboards, lead vocals and rhythm guitar on "Drowse"
John Deacon – bass guitar, acoustic guitars, keyboards, additional electric guitar on "Love Kills"
Michael Jackson – co-lead vocals on "There Must Be More to Life Than This" original demo producer
William Orbit – keyboards, programming on "There Must Be More to Life than This"
Fred Mandel  – piano on "Let Me in Your Heart Again"
This is a list of all cities and towns in North Carolina with more than 25,000 people.
It is in order by how many people they have.
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Huntersville
Goldsboro
Indian Trail
New Bern
Asheboro
Statesville
The Works Tour was a concert tour by the English rock band Queen.
During the tour, Queen participated in the Rock in Rio festival in 1985.
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
This concert was part of "Rock In Rio"
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
Tour band
John Deacon – Bass guitar, Vocals
Brian May – Lead guitar, Vocals
Freddie Mercury – Lead vocals, Piano, Rhythm Guitar (Crazy Little Thing Called Love)
Roger Taylor – Drums, Vocals
Spike Edney – Keyboards, piano, Vocals, Rhythm guitar (Hammer to Fall)
Lincoln Park is a 1,208 acre (488.86 ha) park along the lakefront of Chicago, Illinois' North Side, facing Lake Michigan.
It is Chicago's largest public park.
It is named after Abraham Lincoln.
Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the neighborhood that takes its name from the park, Lincoln Park.
The park further to the north is surrounded by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors.
To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown.
With 20 million visitors a year, Lincoln Park is the second most visited park in the United States.
Durham TurfDogs is a professional indoor lacrosse team that plays in Oshawa, Ontario.
It is part of the Canadian Lacrosse League.
The team started playing in 2012.
Its home games are played in the GM Centre.
The Chicago Riverwalk is an open, pedestrian waterfront located on the south bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
It spans from Lake Shore Drive to Franklin Street.
It is often called the city's "Second Lakefront".
It contains lush green spaces, cafes, retail spaces and is an overall "great place where office workers and families can relax, and a great place to get a bite to eat.”
The Ohsweken Demons is a professional indoor lacrosse team that plays in Hagersville, Ontario.
The team plays its home games in Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.
The team played its first season in 2012.
It won the Creators' Cup league championship that year.
Wacker Drive is a major street in Chicago, Illinois, United States, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River.
The street is a multilevel street.
Hagersville is a town in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
It is about 45 kilometers southwest of Hamilton, Ontario.
According to the 2011 census, the town's population is 2,579.
The town started in 1855, when a roadway (now Ontario Highway 6) was built through the area.
It started growing after the Canadian Southern Railway built a line through the area in 1870.
During World War II, the Royal Canadian Air Force built a training school near the town.
Hendrikus Johannes "Johan" Witteveen (12 June 1921 – 23 April 2019) was a Dutch economist, retired  politician and author.
He was a member of the Senate (1958–63; 1971–73) and the House of Representatives (1963; 1965–67) for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.
He was Minister of Finance (1963–65; 1967–71) and managing director of the International Monetary Fund (1973–78).
People from Zeist
Politicians from Utrecht (province)
Writers from Utrecht (province)
Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands, GCMG, KA, QC (5 August 1926 – 11 October 2017) was a Barbadian politician.
He was the Governor-General of Barbados.
He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of Dame Nita Barrow, until he retired on 31 October 2011.
Haldimand County is a single-tier municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.
It is on the nothern shore of Lake Erie, on the Niagara Peninsula.
The county was created in 1800 from part of Norfolk County.
In 1974, Haldimand was merged with Norfolk County to form the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk.
In 2001, they were separated into two counties again.
Dunnville
There are also several smaller communities across the county.
Two of the major highways through the area are Ontario Highway 3 and Ontario Highway 6.
Rock Point Provincial Park is in the county.
The county's population according to the 2011 census is 44,876.
The county is part of the federal riding of Haldimand—Norfolk and the provincial riding of Haldimand—Norfolk.
Counties of Ontario
César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect.
He was known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks.
In 1991, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects.
His many awards include the 1995 AIA Gold Medal.
Perhaps his most famous work are the Petronas Twin Towers, which were for a time the world's tallest buildings.
He also designed the World Financial Center complex in downtown Manhattan.
Uhm Ji-won (born December 25, 1977) is a South Korean actress.
She is known for her roles in The Scarlett Letter, Traces of Love, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Like You Know It All, and in Hope.
Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, along the Pajaro River.
The population was  51,199 according to the 2010 census.
Kylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American reality television personality, businesswoman and model.
She is known for appearing on the E!
reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
She is a daughter of Caitlyn Jenner and Kris Jenner.
She has one sister, Kendall Jenner, and eight half-siblings: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian.
Jenner is famous for creating her own cosmetics line called Kylie Cosmetics.
She also recently created her individual clothing line where she sells items from customized undergarments to customized sweatshirts.
Before fame
Kylie appeared in People and Beautiful People magazine with her sister Kendall.
She started her modeling career with the Sears line "Crush Your Style"; she also posed in photo shoots for OK!
magazine, Teen Vogue and for photographer Nick Saglimbeni.
She also modeled during New York Fashion Week 2011 for the Abbey Dawn Avril Lavigne collection and in the Hello Kitty show in Los Angeles for Forever 21.
In 2015 she took part in the fashion show of her brother-in-law Kanye West (husband of her half-sister Kim Kardashian) held in New York during Fashion Week.
Kylie also created, together with her sisters, the glazes of O.P.I.'s "Kardashian Kolors" line, and two other glazes called "Wear Something Spar-Kylie" and "Rainbow in the S-Kylie".
Kylie & Kendall launched a clothing line called Kendall and Kylie for Pacsun in February 2013.
In June, together with their sister Kendall, they collaborated with the Topshop brand to launch a new capsule collection.
The sisters also created a capsule collection with OVS.
In October 2015, Jenner starred in Tyga's music video in the song "Dope'd Up".
In May 2016, she made her musical rapping debut on Burberry producer Perry's song "Beautiful Day" with Lil Yachty.
In the fall of 2016, Jenner was announced as the new face of PUMA along with Rae Sremmurd.
In November 2016, Jenner also launched a cosmetics line called Kylie Cosmetics: she created a vast amount of products such as matte lip kits, gloss lipsticks, eyeshadow palettes, eyeliner, blush and highlighter.
On December 10, 2016 she opened an online merchandising shop, called The Kylie Shop.
In 2019, Jenner founded her skin care brand Kylie Skin, which was launched on May 22, 2019.
The brand began producing derma products, including face washes, scrubs, moisturizers and makeup removal wipes.
In 2020, Kylie started selling her skin products not just in America and in the USA but also in Europe through Douglas.
According to Forbes, in 2019, Jenner's net worth was said to be at US$1 billion, making her, at age 21, the world's youngest billionaire as of March 2019, though the notion of Jenner being self-made is a subject of controversy, owing to her privileged background.
In May 2020, however, Forbes released a statement accusing Jenner of faking tax documents so she would appear as a billionaire.
It also said that Jenner faked money numbers for Kylie Cosmetics.
Afterwards, she was stripped of her billionaire status and her title.
Jenner and rapper Travis Scott have a daughter, Stormi Webster, born February 1, 2018 and a son, Wolf Webster, born February 2, 2022.
The couple separated in September 2019.
Scott was accused of cheating on Jenner.
Jenner had previously dated rapper Tyga from 2014 to 2017.
She dated Jaden Smith when she was 15 years old.
In March 2019, Forbes magazine included Kylie Jenner on its list of billionaires.
Jenner became the world's youngest billionaire at the age of 21.
Aside from her television career that began with Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jenner's wealth also comes from her make-up company, Kylie Cosmetics, valued at $800 million.
David G. Sills (March 21, 1938 – August 23, 2011) was an American jurist.
Sills served as the presiding justice for the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District, Division Three.
He is a former mayor of Irvine, California.
He was married to the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan.
Jack Hogan (born Richard Roland Benson, Jr.; November 25, 1929) is an American actor.
He is most notable for the role of PFC William G. Kirby on the 1960s TV show Combat!.
Dundas is an unincorporated community in Richland County, Illinois, United States.
Dundas is  north of Olney.
Dundas has a post office with ZIP code 62425.
A sockpuppet is a false identity used on the Internet intended to hide a person's real identity.
Another word to describe a sock puppet would be alter ego.
Often, a sock puppet identity is used to promote ideas or gather intelligence anonymously.
Very often, they are used by individuals on the Internet praising themselves while pretending to be someone else.
Politicians have frequently been accused of using sock puppets.
Straw man sockpuppets are designed to create political mischief (making fun of an opponent's position for example).
It can make it appear many people hold a certain opinion, when in fact that is false.
Many online communities attempt to block sockpuppets.
The term "sockpuppet" was used as early as July 9, 1993.
By 1996 it was in general use.
The Oxford English Dictionary at first defined it as "a person whose actions are controlled by another".
In 2000 the U.S. News and World Report associated the word minion with a sock puppet.
In 2006, an aide to a Republican congressman was caught posting messages on Democratic Party sites.
Using a false identity the aide was trying to convince Democrats not to support a certain candidate.
Walt Whitman and Anthony Burgess both reviewed their own books under pseudonyms (false names).
Benjamin Franklin was known to have used many pseudonyms.
Some were invented to avoid censorship.
Other alter egos were to invent people to argue every side of an issue.
Some of his invented names were for the purpose of satire.
Others were for humor to entertain his readers.
US Intelligence agencies use sockpuppets to hide the identities of people collecting intelligence.
The Huffington Post ran an article a software provider working with the US agencies on software to help manage multiple online identities.
On October 21, 2013 the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) condemned paid advocacy sockpuppeting on Wikipedia and, on October 23, specifically banned editing by the public relations firm Wiki-PR.
Meatpuppet
A meatpuppet is similar to a sockpuppet, except a person joins users to a website, such as Wikipedia, to be used with sockpuppet behaviors.
Such users are actually real individuals that come to support another user.
If a person uses real people to create accounts that support that person's opinions, this form of meatpuppetry is often called "astroturfing", a type of false impression of support.
Unmask Wikipedia sock puppets by the way they write
How to Recognize an Internet Sockpuppet
Richard Allen "Dick" Wagner (December 14, 1942 – July 30, 2014) was an American rock music guitarist, songwriter and author.
He was best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and KISS.
He also fronted his own Michigan-based bands, the Frost and the Bossmen.
On July 30, 2014, Wagner died of respiratory failure at the age of 71.
He had contracted a lung infection as a complication of recent heart surgery.
Official Book Website
Interview on Outsight Radio Hours
Richard Emerson "Dick" Smith (June 26, 1922 - July 30, 2014) was an American special effects make-up artist (nicknamed "The Godfather of Make-Up").
He was known for his work on such movies as Little Big Man, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and Scanners.
He won a 1985 Academy Award for Makeup for his work on Amadeus and received a 2012 Honorary Academy Award for his career's work.
Smith died from a long illness at the age of 92.
Dick Smith's website
Dick Smith Legends of Makeup Scholarship at Cinema Makeup School
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall, FBA (19 March 1932 – 30 July 2014) was an English town planner and human geographer.
He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, a Faculty of University College London.
He was President of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association.
Interview in The Guardian, 2007
He has made over 90 movies, most of them were documentaries.
Farocki studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1966 to 1968.
He was a teacher at the University of California, Berkeley from 1993 to 1999.
German educators
Mukku Raju () (born Sagiraju Rajamraju) (died July 31, 2014) was a Tollywood movie actor.
He started his career as choreographer but ended as an actor and has acted in over 1000 movies.
He got Nandi Award for Best Character Actor in 2008 for his movie 1940 Lo Oka Gramam.
Raju died at the age of 83 after a short illness.
His funeral will take place at Cherukuvada.
George Ian Kenneth "Kenny" Ireland (7 August 1945 – 31 July 2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director.
He was best known to television viewers as part of Victoria Wood's "rep company" in the BBC series Victoria Wood As Seen On TV.
He played Donald in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014.
Muhammad died in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interview in Allaboutjazz
Artist and album page of Lipstick Records
Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 – 31 July 2014) was an Indian Bengali writer.
He was committed to a revolutionary and philosophy.
Bhattacharya was born at Baharampur (Berhampur), West Bengal.
He was the only child of actor Bijon Bhattacharya and writer Mahashweta Devi.
He was known for his novel, Herbert (1993), which was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, and adapted into a movie of the same name in 2005, by Suman Mukhopadhyay.
Sex and the City is an American television romantic comedy-drama television series.
It was created by Darren Star and produced by HBO.
It was broadcast from 1998 until 2004.
The show has 94 episodes.
Throughout its six-year run, it was made by various producers, writers and directors.
The series stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon.
They play four friends who live in New York City.
The series was followed by two movies, Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010) and prequel TV series The Carrie Diaries.
She first rose to fame for playing the role of Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place (1995-1996) and went on to achieve greater success as Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City (1998-2004).
For her role on Sex and the City, she received an Emmy Award nomination in 2004.
Her movies include Deck the Halls (2006), Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Couples Retreat (2009).
and Sex and the City 2 (2010).
Barnes and Noble biography
Kristin Davis at Emmys.com
Helen Rachel Slater (born December 15, 1963) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
She played Sandy Kessler in Ruthless People, and Bonnie Rayburn in City Slickers.
Other movies include Supergirl and The Secret of My Success.
Slater was born in Bethpage, New York.
She is best known for her role of Judy Winslow on the ABC/CBS sitcom Family Matters for four seasons (1989-1993).
She later became a pornographic actress under the name Crave.
She first became known for her appearance in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in the early 1990s.
She also works as an actress and reality TV show judge.
Her career began in 1987.
Heather Kuzmich (born April 19, 1986) is an American fashion model.
She lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she is studying video game design.
She is best known for being a contestant of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9, in which she was the fourth runner-up of the show.
Heather Kuzmich Famous people with Asperger Syndrome
Jorge Alberto Jacobson (25 February 1936 – 31 July 2014) was an Argentine radio and television journalist and newscaster.
He was anchor of Telefe Noticias from 1997 to 2010 and as host in AM Del Plata, Radio 10 and Radio Continental.
Argentine journalists
Ricardo César Andreu (27 July 1919 – 1 May 2012) was an Argentine actor, comedian and musician.
He was known for his roles in Crosswords (2003), India pravile (2003), and in Gemini (2005).
Andreu was born in a family of actors.
When he was 12 years old the tango singer José Razzano, brought him to the Broadway theatre where he met Carlos Gardel.
Ontario Highway 6 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada.
It is 472.4 kilometers (293.5 miles) long.
It starts in the community of Port Dover and ends at the Trans-Canada Highway (Ontario Highway 17) in Baldwin, Ontario.
The highway is divided into two parts.
A ferry runs between one end in Tobermory, on the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula, and the other in Tehkummah, on Manitoulin Island.
Javier Portales (Miguel Ángel Álvarez; 21 April 1937 - 14 October 2003) was an Argentine actor with work in television, movie and theater.
He was known for his role in the 1962 movie Una Jaula no tiene secretos.
Abel Santa Cruz (1915 - February 4, 1995 in Buenos Aires) was a major Argentine screenwriter.
He has been thanked for writing nearly 130 movies spanning seven decades of Argentine cinema.
Santa Cruz first wrote the script for a movie called Un Señor mucamo in 1940.
Ten years later in 1950 that his career had a breakthrough with his adaption of the Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being Earnest in Al compás de tu mentira.
In 1963 he wrote the script to the gangster comedy Alias Flequillo.
In 1969 he wrote the script to the Fernando Ayala movie  El Profesor Hippie.
Juan Carlos Altavista (Buenos Aires, January 4, 1929 - July 20, 1989) was an Argentine actor and comedian.
He was known for his roles in Mingo y Anibal, dos pelotazos en contra (1984), Mingo y Aníbal contra los fantasmas (1985), and in Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada (1986).
Luminous paint or luminescent paint is a kind of paint that gives off visible light and that glows in the dark.
There are several ways this can be done:
It is possible to convert invisible UV light into visible light.
Typically, blue light, and the near-blue part of UV light is changed to a bigger wavelength, such as blue-green, yellow or red.
This effect is known as fluorescence.
At the same intensity, tones of red or yellow appear brighter to the human eye.
This kind of paint is used for high-visibility clothing, for example.
It is possible to store the energy of the light, and to emit this energy in the form of visible light later on.
The effect is known as phosphorescence.
Emergency exits are marked with this kind of paint.
A  radioactive substance can be used; the energy of this radioactive decay can be converted into visible light.
Today, the radiation of these substances is shielded easily, since the substances used only emit alpha radiation, or low-energy beta radiation.
At the beginning of the 20th century, radium isotopes were used, which led to a number of cases of radiation poisoning; one of the most prominent cases is that of the Radium girls.
National Holiday of Quebec () is the official national holiday in the Canadian province of Quebec celebrating its national culture and language.
It takes place annually on June 24th.
Harald Fairhair (c. 850 – c. 932) was the first King of Norway.
According to traditions today in Norway and Iceland, during the 12th and 13th centuries, he was king from 872 to 930.
Most of what we know about him comes from several sagas, written up to three centuries after he died.
He was the son of Halvdan the Black.
Harald was the first petty king to gain control of the coastal areas of Norway.
After the battle of Hafrsfjord in 872 Harald became king of most of Norway.
It was the last of a series of battles between Harald and other feudal states in Norway.
Because of Skaldic poems (poems honouring heroes in Scandinavia), we know that he was successful in fighting against his opponents in Norway.
Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, his two sons, became King after he died of old age.
Fairhair may have had as many as 11-20 sons according to different Sagas.
Twelve of them became Kings and were all assigned land.
Viking Empires by Angelo Forte, Richard Oram and Frederik Pedersen (Cambridge University Press.
June 2005)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings Peter Sawyer, Editor (Oxford University Press, September 2001)
Jakobsson, Sverrir, "Erindringen om en mægtig personlighed : den norsk-islandske historiske tradisjon om Harald Hårfagre i et kildekristisk perspektiv]," Historisk tidsskrift, 81 (2002), 213–30.
Raffensperger, Christian, "Shared (Hi)Stories: Vladimir of Rus' and Harald Fairhair of Norway," The Russian Review, 68,4 (2009), 569-582.
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One Wall Centre, also known as the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, is a mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
From 2001 to 2008, it was Vancouver's tallest building until the Living Shangri-La was built.
The tower has 25 hotel floors in the lower levels with 344 rooms and 17 condo floors in the upper levels with 74 units.
There are another 389 hotel rooms that are found in the connected Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel.
In 2001, the building was awarded the Emporis Skyscraper Award for Best New Skyscraper.
The building was featured in the 2006 movie X-Men: The Last Stand as the Worthington labs building that they used to give the cure to the mutants.
Emporis.com - One Wall Centre
SkycraperPage.com – One Wall Centre
Berkley Warren Bedell (March 5, 1921 – December 7, 2019) was an American politician.
He was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
He served as representatives from 1975 to 1987.
Bedell was a Democrat and supported Barack Obama in 2012.
He was an active critic on Ronald Reagan during his presidency.
Jennifer Esposito (born April 11, 1973) is an American actress, dancer and model.
She was known for her appearances in the movies I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Sam, and Crash, and in the television series Spin City, The Looney Tunes Show, Samantha Who?,
and Blue Bloods.
Valyantsin Byalkevich (; 27 January 1973 – 1 August 2014), also sometimes spelled "Valiantsin Bialkevich") was a Belarusian football player.
He is known for being a member of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv from 1996 to 2008 and their all-time leader in assists.
Tavernier is a census-designated place (CDP) and Unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, on Key Largo.
It is the largest island in the upper Florida Keys.
Tavernier's population was 2,173 at the 2000 census.
Patricia Barry (November 16, 1922 – October 11, 2016) was an American movie and television actress and philanthropist.
She was known for her roles in Riders of the Whistling Pines, Dear Heart, Send Me No Flowers, Safe at Home!,
and in Sea of Love.
Barry was nominated for an Emmy Award three times during her career.
She retired in 2001.
Barry was born in Davenport, Iowa.
She studied at Stephens College.
Barry married Philip Barry, Jr.  in 1950.
Philip Barry died in 1998.
Cry Wolf (1947)
The Man I Love (1947)
Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)
The Undercover Man (1949)
The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
The Donna Reed Show (1961)
Dear Heart (1964)
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)
Sea of Love (1989)
Richard Norman Anderson (August 8, 1926 – August 31, 2017) was an American actor in movie and television.
His best-known role was that of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in both television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.
An hour long video interview with Retro Rewind covering his career  (from 2010)
Earl Holliman (born September 11, 1928) is an American actor.
Holliman was known for his roles in Forbidden Planet, Giant, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and in The Sons of Katie Elder.
He won a Golden Globe Award in 1956.
Earl Holliman Fan website
Jan Roar Leikvoll (7 June 1974 – 1 August 2014) was a Norwegian author.
Leikvoll made his debut in 2008 with the novel A Winter Story, followed by The Violins (2010), The Bovara Monastery (2012) and The Songbird in 2013.
He was awarded Nynorsk Literature Prize for The Violins and Stig Sæterbakkens memorial prize for his three first novels.
Leikvoll died on 1 August 2014 from a brain tumor, aged 40.
Byron Raymond White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) was an American judge and former football player.
he served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He was appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
Before becoming an associate justice, White played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) in 1938 and for the Detroit Lions from 1940 to 1941.
He played as a halfback.
Brisbane Roar F.C. is a professional soccer club from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
It competes in the A-League, under license from Football Federation Australia (FFA).
Roar entered the competition as Queensland Roar FC.
They won two league Premierships and three Championships.
It has competed in two AFC Champions League competitions.
Brisbane Roar holds the record for the longest unbeaten run at the top level of any Australian football code, with 36 league matches without defeat.
Brisbane Roar are also the first and only club to win two straght A-League championships.
Premiers (2): 2010–11,  2013–14
Runners-up (1): 2011–12
A-League Finals
Champions (3): 2011, 2012, 2014
Western Sydney Wanderers F.C. is an Australian professional soccer club from Western Sydney, New South Wales.
Champions (1): 2014
Premiers (1): 2012–13
Runners-up (1): 2013–14
Runners-up (2): 2013, 2014
Central Coast Mariners FC is an Australian professional soccer club from the Central Coast of New South Wales.
It competes in the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia (FFA).
A-League Premiership
Premiers (2): 2007–08, 2011–12
Runners-Up (2): 2010–11, 2012–13
A-League Championship
Champions (1): 2013
Runners-Up (3): 2006, 2008, 2011
'''A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup
Runners-Up (1): 2006
James Travis Tritt (born February 9, 1963 in Marietta, GA) is an American country music singer.
He is best known for his bluesy, rock-and-roll country songs.
In the 1990s he had three number one hits and a string of platinum albums.
Country Club (1990)
It's All About to Change (1991)
T-R-O-U-B-L-E (1992)
Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof (1994)
The Restless Kind (1996)
No More Looking over My Shoulder (1998)
Down the Road I Go (2000)
Strong Enough (2002)
My Honky Tonk History (2004)
The Storm (2007)
The Calm After... (2013)
"It's a Great Day to Be Alive" (2000)
Roeder was born in Berlin.
He fought in World War II in 1945.
In 1997, he stood as the NPD candidate (a far-right party) for Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern during the parliamentary elections, promoting himself as "Chancellor alternative 1998", but was unsuccessful.
Monty Meares Wyche (December 4, 1926–July 28, 2014) was an American judge.
He was a judge of the Louisiana 26th Judicial District Court based in Benton.
He served from 1969 to 1988.
The Liberal Democratic Party (abbreviation as LDP or called the Liberal Democrats) is a political party in Australia.
It is a libertarian party.
It was started in 2001.
The party has one senator, David Leyonhjelm, in the Australian Senate.
It also also has two representatives at the local government level in New South Wales.
The Australian Country Alliance (or ACA) is a small political party in Victoria, Australia.
It was started in 2004 as an alternative to the National Party in Victoria.
In 2014, the Victoria branch of the Katter's Australian Party merged with the Country Alliance.
The Government of New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy.
The head of state in New Zealand is the monarch of the United Kingdom.
The monarch is represented by the Governor-General.
He is also a member of the Parliament of New Zealand.
The current head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand; the current Prime Minister is Jacinda Ardern.
The Prime Minister is the leader of the Cabinet.
19th-century establishments in New Zealand
The New Zealand Parliament is the legislature of New Zealand.
Currently, it has only one chamber, the House of Representatives, which has 120 members.
The parliament was created by the British parliament with the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852.
It used to have an upper chamber, the New Zealand Legislative Council, but it was abolished in 1962.
There have been several proposals to create a new upper chamber but none have passed into law.
Politicians in New Zealand can belong to one of several political parties.
Two of the largest parties are the Labour Party and the National Party.
List of major political parties
National Party
List of minor political parties
The following parties are registered political parties that can stand in elections but currently have no elected members of the New Zealand Parliament:
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
Heartland New Zealand Party
New Conservative
New Zealand Outdoors Party
ONE Party
Social Credit Party
Sustainable New Zealand Party
Tea Party New Zealand
The Opportunities Party (TOP)
Vision NZ
Wong Tai Sin Temple (黃大仙祠, or literally: the Temple for Big Deity Wong) is a famous temple in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The temple sits on land of about 18,000 m².
This temple holds statue of Wong Chor Ping (黃初平) - a well-known celebrity of southern-China during East Jin Dynasty's time.
Hong Kong MTR (港鐵) to Wong Tai Sin Station (黃大仙站).
The station is on Kwun Tong Line (觀塘綫) between stops of Lok Fu (樂富站) and Diamond Hill (鑽石山站).
Virtual Tour to Wong Tai Sin Temple
Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple
Sik Sik Yuen
Temples in Asia
Wong Tai Sin Temple () is a Taoist temple in Huadi County, Fangcun District, Guangzhou.
It is dedicated to the Chinese deity Wong Tai Sin.
This temple is very famous in the Pearl River Delta.
Springfield is a city in southwestern Ohio.
At the 2010 United States Census, 60,608 people lived there.
The city was founded in 1801.
It was incorporated in 1827 as a village, and as a city in 1850.
Knowledge of results is a term in the psychology of learning.p619 A psychology dictionary defines it as feedback of information:
"(a) to a subject about the correctness of [their] responses; (b) a student about success or failure in mastering material, or (c) a client in psychotherapy about progress".
It describes the situation where a subject gets information which helps them to change behaviour in a desirable way, or to gain understanding.
A primitive example is avoiding a behaviour after punishment.
An advanced example is the way a human may improve understanding and behaviour after a teacher explains what was wrong with the previous effort.
KCR: this means "knowledge of correct results", which implies that there is always a specific correct result.
Operant conditioning and reinforcement: this implies a behaviourist approach using "schedules of reinforcement" to "shape behaviour".
Feedback: this is a more general term, perhaps too general.
It is often used for the way systems adjust to preset limits.
The Watt "governor" which controlled steam engines is a classic example.
So, knowledge of results, or sometimes immediate knowledge of results, is a useful term.
It can be used for any learning where a student (or any animal) gets information after the action.
The information is about how satisfactory the action is.
Experimental evidence
An early experiment on knowledge of results was the machine invented by Sidney Pressey, where a device both tested and taught multiple-choice questions.
Note that this method tells the user (by inference) only whether the choice was correct or not.
Since the material was multiple choice items, it was only intended as an addition to collecting classroom test scores.
An important question was whether scores would be improved more if direct teaching was given either before or after the question was asked.
The answer in both cases was (broadly) yes.
Using instructional films, Michael and Maccoby split groups into two halves.
Half the students were given material which required active, explicit responses.
After a pause, they were told the correct answer.
The other half was not given feedback.
Instructional time was identical.