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The new Occitanie Region is the main part of a wider cultural entity known as Occitania.
This wider region once included part of Spain (Aran Valley), and Monaco, and parts of Italy (the Occitan Valleys and Guardia Piemontese).
This wider area used to speak Occitan as their first language.
The Occitanie region is the third largest region of France, after Nouvelle-Aquitaine and French Guiana, and the second of Metropolitan France with an area of .
It is in southern France (the Midi) and borders to the south with Spain and Andorra; it also borders three French regions: Nouvelle-Aquitaine to the west, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to the north, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur to the east.
The Mediterranean Sea is to the southeast.
Its capital, Toulouse, is at  to the southwest of  Paris, the national capital, at  to the west of Marseille, at  to the southeast of Bordeaux and at  to the north of Barcelona (Spain).
Garonne river is  long but, in the region it is  long, more than half its total length.
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The Pic Vignemale (), at , is the highest mountain of the Occitanie region; it is on the border with Spain.
It is in the Pyrénées National Park.
The Occitanie region had a population, in 2014, of 5,730,753, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Hauts-de-France is an administrative region of France.
It was created in 2016.
It was created by combining the former regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy was the temporary name for the region.
Her song, "1944" is about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944.
It is also about her great-grandmother, who lost her daughter while being deported to Central Asia.
The Memorial Park Complex of the Heroes of the First World War is a cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
The cemetery opened in 1915 but was demolished during the Soviet period in 1932.
In 2004 the new memorial park was built on the land of the former cemetery.
Panorama view
Marie Madeleine Berthe LeBeau (10 June 1923 – 1 May 2016) was a French movie actress.
She was known for her roles in Hold Back the Dawn, Gentleman Jim, Casablanca, Paris After Dark, and 8½.
Julius La Rosa (January 2, 1930 – May 12, 2016) was an American traditional pop music singer.
La Rosa was born in Brooklyn, New York.
He worked in both radio and television beginning in the 1950s.
He was known for his songs "Anywhere I Wander", "Manhattan", and "Eh, Cumpari".
Balázs Birtalan (October 12, 1969. –
May 14, 2016) was a Hungarian author, poet, publicist, psychotherapist and activist.
He was mostly known for his activism in the gay Christian movement in Hungary.
He was the son of the poet Ferenc Birtalan.
Baba Hardev Singh (also known as Nirankari Baba; 23 February 1954 – 13 May 2016) was an Indian spiritual guru.
He was the chief leader of the Sant Nirankari Mission from 1980 until his death in 2016.
He was born in Delhi.
Anthony F. J. "Tony" Barrow (11 May 1936 – 14 May 2016) was an English press officer.
He worked with the Beatles between 1962 and 1968.
He created the phrase "the Fab Four", first using it in an early press release.
He was born in Crosby, Lancashire.
Monteagle "Monty" Stearns (December 5, 1924 – May 14, 2016) was an American diplomat.
He was the former Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) (1976–79) and Greece (1981–85).
He worked for Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
Stearns was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was a member of  the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
Thank You is the second major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor.
The album was released exclusively on Apple Music on May 6, 2016, and was fully released on May 13, 2016, through Epic Records.
"Woman Up" is a cover of the song of the same name by Ashley Roberts, with different lyrics.
Francesco Filippini (18 September 1853 – 6 March 1895) was an Italian painter from Lombardy.
He was much influenced by Tranquillo Cremona.
Filippini was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, on 18 September 1853, into a poor family.
His father Lorenzo was a carpenter, his mother Silvia Signoria a seamstress.
He was soon sent to work, first as a waiter in a pastry shop, later as a clerk to a notary.
Filippini attended the school of drawing at the Pinacoteca Tosio in Brescia, In 1872 he received a grant from the city council to continue his studies there.
In 1875 he received an allowance to study under Giuseppe Bertini in Milan.
In 1879 another grant allowed him to travel to Paris to visit the Salon, the official art exhibition of the French Fine Arts Academy.
Filippini exhibited at the annual shows of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan from 1879, and from 1880 lived in that city.
He made his living by teaching, both in schools and privately.
He was made an honorary member of the Accademia di Brera in 1878.
When he was young, Filipinni painted mostly religious or historical subjects, as well as some portraits.
In later life he painted mostly landscapes – of the Apennines, the Lombardy countryside and the Alps.
He also made paintings of the sea near  Genova, Naples and Venice.
His work shows the influence of the Scapigliatura painter Tranquillo Cremona.
Bust of Francesco Filippini (Troubetzkoy)
Editorial staff (4 November 2015). "
Francesco Filippini, il dossier.
Uno splendido pittore morto a 42 anni di tisi".
StileArte
Vasco Frati (1999).
Francesco Filippini: 1853-1895: un protagonista del naturalismo lombardo (exhibition catalogue, in Italian).
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Goosebumps is a 2015 American fantasy horror comedy movie.
It was based on the children's book series of the same name by R.L. Stine.
It is directed by Rob Letterman and produced by Deborah Forte and Neal H. Moritz.
It was written by Darren Lemke with music by Danny Elfman.
It was made by Columbia Pictures and Sony Animated Pictures.
The movie stars Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Halston Sage, Ryan Lee, and Jillian Bell.
The movie is set in present-day Delaware.
It was released on October 16, 2015 to mostly positive reviews.
It earned $156 million.
The Goosebumps Movie
North Louisiana, also known locally as Sportsman's Paradise, (a name sometimes attributed to the state as a whole) is a region in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
The region has two metropolitan areas: Shreveport-Bossier City and Monroe-West Monroe; the Shreveport area is the largest metropolitan area by population in North Louisiana.
Central Louisiana (Cenla), also known as the Crossroads, is the region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Acadiana (French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane) is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population.
Many are of Acadian descent and now identify as Cajuns or Louisiana Creoles.
Of the 64 parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment make up this intrastate region.
Charles Bertan Wheeler, Jr. (born August 10, 1926) is an American politician.
He is a former Missouri state senator and a former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1971 to 1979, in addition to having held other elected offices.
On March 28, 2016, Wheeler filed to for Governor.
He placed third in the primary with 7.9 percent in an election won by Chris Koster who had 78.08 percent of the vote.
Mayors of Kansas City, Missouri
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born 26 June 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil ( or ), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
He is known for both his musical innovation and political commitment.
Transcript of a Gil speech
Essay written by Gil (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)
Music Is Pleasure: An Interview with Gilberto Gil
Wide-ranging one-hour interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!,
June 25, 2008 (video, audio, and print transcript)
Gilberto Gil discography on Slipcue.com
He played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Detroit Red Wings.
He played 12 seasons in Philadelphia, winning two Stanley Cups with the Flyers in 1974 and 1975.
On May 11, 2016, MacLeish was hospitalized for meningitis.
He died at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from kidney and liver failure as a result of meningitis on May 30, 2016, aged 66.
In 1949, she began working with composer Miles Davis.
That same year, she began a new singing career with a number of well-known French writers writing lyrics; Raymond Queneau's "Si tu t’imagines" was one of her earliest songs to become popular.
In the late 1960s she featured in the TV serial Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre.
Juliette Gréco on Europopmusic.eu (English)
Biography of Juliette Gréco
Singing the Praises of Juliette Greco (TCM Movie Morlocks)
The Gullah (also called Geechee) are the descendants of African slaves who lived in the Lowcountry regions of Georgia and South Carolina.
They lived on the mainland and on the Sea Islands.
The Gullah were able to keep parts of their African culture, but were also influenced by North American culture.
The Gullah people speak a creole language that is based on English, but has many African loanwords.
The name "Gullah" may come from Angola, where the ancestors of some Gullah people likely came from.
They created a new culture from the numerous African peoples brought into Charleston and South Carolina.
Other scholars think that it came from the name of other ethnic groups in Africa.
Origin of Gullah culture
Along the western coast of Africa, the people had cultivated African rice for 3,000 years.
When British colonial planters discovered that rice would grow in the American South, they wanted enslaved Africans from this region.
Africans were taken as slaves from the Western region of Africa (in what is today Sierra Leone), transported to the Americas, and were traded in Charlestowne, South Carolina.
These African farmers brought their skills for farming and irrigation.
According to British historian P.E.H. Hair, Gullah culture had elements of many different African cultures.
The Gullah people were able to keep much of their African culture because the climate and geography of this area were similar to Africa, and because slaves lived in large groups and had little interaction with whites.
The slaves also brought the diseases malaria and yellow fever.
These diseases spread to English and European settlers because of the subtropical climate, and became endemic in the region.
Africans had more immunity to these diseases.
Many white planters left the area during seasons when the diseases were more common.
The European or African "rice drivers", or overseers, were left in charge of the plantations.
Civil War period
In the U.S. Civil War, white planters on the Sea Islands were afraid of an invasion by US naval forces.
They left their plantations and went to the mainland.
When Union forces arrived on the Sea Islands in 1861, the Gullah people wanted freedom.
Many Gullahs served in the Union Army.
The Sea Islands were the first place in the South where slaves were freed.
Long before the end of the War, Unitarian missionaries came to start schools for the newly freed slaves.
After the Civil War ended, the Gullah became more isolated from the outside world.
This happened because the rice planters on the mainland left their farms and moved away from the area.
The Gullahs continued to practice their traditional culture with little influence from the outside world until the 20th century.
In 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the "Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Act".
This act will provide $10 million over 10 years to preserve Gullah historic sites.
The Heritage Corridor will extend from southern North Carolina to northern Florida.
Cultural survival
The Gullah people still have their traditional culture.
Their traditions have survived in the Lowcountry mainland and on the Sea Islands, and also in urban areas such as Charleston and Savannah, Georgia.
Gullah people who have moved far away have also preserved their traditions.
In the summer, they usually send their children back to rural communities in South Carolina and Georgia, where they live with grandparents, uncles, and aunts.
Representation in art, entertainment, and media
Historical landmarks
"Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, North Carolina in the north to Jacksonville, Florida in the south."
Notable Americans with Gullah roots
There are over a hundred of them.
They are between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns Rivers along the coast of the US states of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
Barrier islands like these may change during storms.
They absorb energy and protect the coastlines.
Indirectly, they may help to create areas of protected waters where wetlands may flourish.
The Sea Islands are the home of the Gullah people.
Geography of South Carolina
Earth analog: another world that is very similar to Earth in size, make up, and distance from its star.
Earth-size planet: meaning, it is not a gas giant.
Terrestrial planet: a planet made of the same materials as Earth, i.e., primarily of silicate rocks and an iron core.
Terrestrial planets are often contrasted with gas giants.
A Molex connector is a standard connector, which is used on electronic circuit boards.
It is also used in many Personal computers, where it ofen transmits power.
It is a pin and socket design.
Originally, these connectors where manufactured by the company with the same name.
The TurboGrafx 16 was a games console.
It was originally released on 30 October 1987 in Japan and 29 August 1989 in North America.
It was also known as PC Engine in some areas of the world.
It was created by Hudson Soft and NEC.
It was the first game console ever to have a CD add on.
It competed with the SNES and Sega Genesis.
Marina Beach is a natural beach in Chennai, Tamil Nadu along the Bay of Bengal sea.
The beach is the first longest beach in India and the second longest in the world.
The length of the beach is 13 km.
It is a renowned beach because the memorial of the two chief ministers M.G.Ramachandran and C.N.Annadurai.
And now it houses the cemetery of Former Chief Ministers Kalaingar M.Karunanidhi and Amma J.Jayalalitha It is the most crowded beach in the country.
More than 10,000 to 25,000 visitors visit the beach on weekdays while more than 50,000 visitors visit the beach during holidays.
Marina Beach is a natural and city-centric beach in Chennai , Tamil Nadu , along the Bay of Bengal . [
1] The beach stretches from St. George's Castle in the north to the Forshore Estate in the south , with a total length of 6.0 km (3.6 mi). [
2] It is the longest natural city-centric beach in the country. [
3] [4] [5] Marina Beach is basically sandy, not filled with small boulders like Mumbai's Juhu Beach .
The average width of the beach is 300 m (960 ft), [8] And the widest place is 438 m (1,434 ft) wide.
Bathing and swimming on Marina Beach is dangerous, and is prohibited by law, as the underwater currents here are very turbulent.
It is one of the most populous beaches in the country and is visited by around 30,000 tourists every day of the week. [
8] On weekends and other holidays this number becomes 50,000. [
8] [9] [10] During the summer months, about 15,000 to 20,000 people go to the beach every day. [
11] This beach is the longest beach in India. [
12]
Giambattista Pittoni lists 247 extant and 117 lost, missing or destroyed works.
Some of his works are listed below.
Official sites of the museums.
Franca Zava Boccazzi (1979).
Pittoni: L'opera completa (in Italian).
Venezia: Alfieri.
Vipsania Agrippina (36 BC – 20 AD) was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his first wife Caecilia Attica.
Octavian and her father betrothed her to Tiberius before her first birthday.
In about 19 BC she married Tiberius.
Their son Drusus Julius Caesar was born in 14 BC.
Her father Agrippa died in March 12 BC.
He was then married to his third wife, Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus.
Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce Vipsania and marry Julia.
Tiberius reportedly loved Vipsania and disapproved of Julia.
Vipsania was pregnant with a second child in 12/11 when the couple divorced.
The second child did not survive.
Tiberius divorced Vipsania against his will in 11 BC, according to Suetonius.
He always regretted this.
On one occasion Tiberius caught sight of Vipsania and followed her with "an intent and tearful gaze".
Vipsania then married the Senator Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus.
They had a number of children, mostly sons.
Their eldest son Gaius was put to death by Messalina, the infamous third wife of the Emperor Claudius.
20s deaths
Citizens band radio (also known as CB radio) is, in many countries, a system of short-distance radio communications between individuals on a selection of 40 channels within the 27 MHz (11 m) band.
Citizens band not the same as the Amateur Radio Service ("ham" radio) which has a much longer range.
In many countries, CB operation does not require a license to operate.
It may be used for business or personal communications.
Like many other two-way radio services, citizens band channels are shared by many users.
Only one station may transmit at a time.
All other stations must listen and wait for the shared channel to be available.
It is customary for stations waiting to use a shared channel to broadcast the single word "break" (or "breaker") during a lull in the conversation.
This lets other people using the channel know that others are waiting.
In the US, channel 19 is most often used by truckers.
Channel 9 is reserved for emergencies.
The citizens band radio service originated in the United States as one of several personal radio services regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
These services began in 1945 to permit citizens a radio band for personal communication.
In 1948, the original CB radios were designed for operation on the 460–470 MHz UHF band.
There were two classes of CB radio: "A" and "B".
Class B radios had simpler technical requirements, and were limited to a smaller frequency range.
Al Gross established the Citizens Radio Corporation during the late 1940s to manufacture Class B handhelds for the general public.
In the 1960s it became popular with taxicab companies to communicate with their drivers.
In the 1970s it became popular with truckers, who
began using it to warn other truck drivers of police speedtraps.
Other drivers soon used CB radios, and the CB jargon of truckers was used in several movies.
Ten codes
When CB radios first started a series of "10 codes" were used.
This was due to the early CB radios need to warm up before use.
The 10 codes were used as a shortcut to longer standard messages.
A few of the more often used codes are:
10-4 (ten-four) meant message received.
10-9 (ten-nine) meant please repeat your last message.
10-10 (ten-ten), transmission complete, standing by.
10-17 (ten-seventeen), urgent business.
10-20 (ten-twenty) means your location.
Often shortened to "what is your 20?"
10-27 (ten-twenty seven) I am moving to channel .
10-200 (ten-two hundred) means police are needed at .
Today it remains popular with truck drivers.
It is used in rural areas by a wide variety of people and businesses where cellphone service is weak or unreliable.
CB radios are also used by off-roaders to communicate between drivers in a group of four-wheel drive vehicles.
It is used to warn drivers of various trail conditions, hazards, and delays.
CB radio is used as a system of short-distance communications between people in many countries.
Nearly all use a system of 40 channels in the 27 megahertz or 11 meter band.
How to Operate a CB Radio
List of 10 codes
Radio Codes and How to Operate a CB Radio
is a non-profit organization in the United States with the mission of responsible outdoor use with the use of "ethics, education and stewardship".
is supported by individuals, small business and corporations.
As off-roading with vehicles such as ATVs, off-highway motorcycles, snowmobiles and four-wheel drives like Jeeps and pickup trucks is becoming more and more popular, it poses more of a threat to the natural resources.
Off-road vehicles are only a part of the problem that Tread Lightly!
addresses.
All outdoor recreation poses a threat to the ecosystem.
People who engage in activities such as camping, hiking, fishing and hunting need to be careful in the outdoors so as not to destroy it for others.
was started by the United States Forest Service in 1985 as a public awareness program.
In 1990, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tread Lightly!
became a nonprofit organization.
Today, Tread Lightly!
is recognized as an important non-political organization.
Land Rover Great Divide Expedition
Land Rover’s inaugural Great Divide Expedition in the fall of 1989 helped launch Tread Lightly!
as a non-profit focused on supporting and encouraging stewardship on America’s lands and waterways.
Since the Great Divide Expedition, Tread Lightly!
and partners like Land Rover have built and led a national movement to protect and enhance recreation access and opportunities.
They do this by promoting outdoor ethics to heighten awareness.
To mark the 25 year anniversary of The Great Divide Expedition, Tread Lightly!
and Land Rover reunited for the 2014 Great Divide Expedition.
Land Rover auctioned off a fully restored 1990 Range Rover Great Divide replica as well as the opportunity to be a guest of Land Rover on a nine-day adventure.
The auction raised more than $55,000 for Tread Lightly!,
the largest single donation in the nonprofit's history.
The organization is "managed and financed by companies like Ford and Toyota."
It leads awareness workshops and restores trails.
The Washington Times noted in 2001 that "most manufacturers of off-highway vehicles — including Ford, GM, Jeep, Land Rover, Subaru and Toyota are active in this effort."
The organization has also worked with auto manufacturers to try to change the off-road images used in TV commercials.
Toyota, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz have asked Tread Lightly to review their ads.
At least one company cancelled a TV spot the organization didn't like.
Tread Lightly! "
offers extensive online tips and guidelines on being more responsible in hiking, camping, boating, hunting, horseback riding, ATVs and more," the Deseret News has reported.
Some off-highway enthusiasts, though, according to the New York Times, have been opposed to the concept, with  Brad Lark, the publisher of the website extreme4x4.com, calling Tread Lightly! "
a veiled form of extreme environmentalism."
An anonymous writer on offroad.com was quoted as saying: "I don't Tread Lightly.
I trample.
From tree-huggers to their totalitarian signage that follows.
I trample all in the path of freedom's future."
Brad Ullrich, the site's land-use editor, described the column as "tongue-in-cheek."
The Tread Lightly!
Phil Howell criticism of TreadLightly!
on the extreme4x4.org website.
Michał Kubiak (born 23 February 1988) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Polish national team and Turkish club Halkbank Ankara, a participant of the Olympic Games (London 2012), 2014 World Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2011 World Cup, bronze medalist of the 2011 European Championship and the 2011 World League, 2016 Turkish Champion.
Cauby Peixoto (10 February 1931 – 15 May 2016) was a Brazilian singer, and actor.
His career lasted from the late 1940s until his death in 2016.
He is known for his deep voice and hairstyles.
His genres include jazz and soft rock.
Peixoto was known for his album "Maxximum".
He also appeared in movies.
He was known for his appearance as a singer in the movie Com Água na.
Peixoto was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.
He studied at a Salesian school in Niteroi.
Peixoto died in São Paulo, São Paulo from pneumonia on 15 May 2016, aged 85.
Cauby was named by Time and Life magazines as the Brazilian Elvis Presley.
Entry on Dicionário Cravo Albin (in Portuguese)
is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake.
It was on the soundtrack to the DreamWorks Animation movie, Trolls.
The song entered at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
It reached the top five in the UK and Australia.
The song was Timberlake's comeback single after his son, Silas Randall Timberlake, was born to Justin and his wife, actress Jessica Biel.
Oya Aydoğan (10 February 1957 – 15 May 2016) was a Turkish actress, model and television presenter.
She was the winner of the Ses Magazine Movie Actress Contest in 1976.
Her career began in 1976 with the movie Deli Şahin.
She was born in Erzincan, Turkey.
She was an Alevi Muslim.
She retired in 2015.
She suffered an aortic aneurysm on 7 May 2016, the day before Mother's Day.
She died on 15 May 2016 in a hospital in Istanbul, aged 59.
Robert Louis "Bobby" Freeman (April 27, 1934 – May 16, 2016) was an American attorney and politician.
He was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana.
He was the Democratic lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana from 1980 to 1988.
He worked with governor Edwin Edwards.
Before becoming a politician, Freeman was an amateur boxer.
Romaldo "Aldo" Giurgola  (2 September 1920 – 16 May 2016) was an Italian-Australian academic, architect, professor and author.
Giurgola was born in Rome.
He was a partner in the Philadelphia firm Mitchell/Giurgola Architects from 1958 until his death in 2016.
He became an Australian citizen in 2000.
He was known for designing the Parliament House in Canberra.
Modena Volley is a professional volleyball team based in Modena, Italy.
It has played in the highest level of the Italian Volleyball League since 1968.
It is the most successful Italian club, having won the national league twelve times and the national cup as well: Modena is the current holder of both titles.
The club is one of the most prominent and prestigious in Europe.
It achieved thirteen European trophies including four CEV Champions League.
The main sponsor of the club is DHL Express.
Barry Knapp Bostwick (born February 24, 1945) is an American actor and singer.
He is best known as Brad Majors in the musical comedy horror movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Mayor Randall Winston in the sitcom Spin City (1996–2002).
Bostwick has also done well in musical theater.
He won a Tony Award for his role in The Robber Bridegroom.
comedians from California
people from San Mateo, California
A star chart is a graphic device or diagram which shows the night sky as seen from Earth.
They are one of the oldest types of written or carved communication.
There is a claim for a prehistoric carving as the first known star chart, but the evidence is not clear.
Star charts occur in Babylonian and Ancient Egyptian wall decorations and writing.
In the ancient world, knowledge was needed for practical reasons and for religious reasons.
Early star charts were used for all these purposes.
Even today, they are used for both astronomy and astrology.
In the renaissance, with its interest in ideas, hundreds of books were printed with star charts and other diagrams.
The key point for scientific charts is the use of data taken from observations, and listed in tables or databases.
Historically, the first tables were in Ptolemy's Almagest (~AD 150).
It has the last known star table from antiquity, with 1,028 stars.
Kevin Downes (born September 21, 1972) is an American film actor, writer, producer and director.
Downes grew up in Visalia, California, three hours north of Los Angeles.
Ojo is a town and local government area located in Lagos State, Nigeria.
The town is traditionally ruled by the Olojo of Ojo.
Alaba International Market and Lagos State University are located there.
Settlements in Lagos State
Local Government Areas in Lagos State
Lagos State University, most times called LASU, is an higher institution located in Ojo, Lagos State.
The university was established in 1983 as the only state university in the former British colony.
1983 establishments in Africa
The Camel Trophy was a vehicle-oriented competition that was held every year between 1980 and 1998.
It was best known for its use of Land Rover vehicles over extreme terrain.
The Camel Trophy began in 1980 as a team expedition over the Trans-Amazonian highway.
Camel Trophy events since then have been informally called "the Olympics of 4×4".
Over the next eight years, the expeditions crossed Sumatra, Papua New Guinea, Zaire, Brazil, Borneo, Australia, Madagascar (the first north-south crossing) and Sulawesi before returning to the Amazon.
These extreme tests of human endurance brought together teams from around the world.
Each team hoped they could triumph over some of the worst off-road conditions imaginable.
Teamwork and mutual trust were crucial.
The competition came in a series of "Special Tasks," such as winching and timed driving routes.
In each case national teams competed against each other.
In the 1990s, the Camel Trophy headed to Siberia and the USSR, followed by Tanzania, Burundi, Guyana, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile (the "Road to Hell" event), Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras (controversially serving 500 out-of-season lobster at a dinner), Kalimantan (a thousand miles and 18 rollovers to celebrate the first crossing of the island 100 years previously) and Mongolia.
The Camel Trophy however, did not simply change venue; over the years, the event evolved from a mud-plugging expedition to involve elements of adventure sport, such as kayaking, mountain biking and winter sports.
Teams were selected by each competing nation in competitions held nationally, designed to test the athletic, engineering and driving prowess of potential candidates.
Although the events had an impact on the environment where they travelled, there were ways in which the Camel Trophy benefited the local society or environment.
In 1993, for example, the teams worked through the night to build an environmental monitoring station in the jungle so biologists could accurately study the flora and fauna of an area.
In all the events, the convoy's progress reopened roads and trails which had fallen into disuse.
They frequently rebuilt bridges and repaired sections of damaged roads.
End of the Camel Trophy
In 1998 the Camel Trophy returned to Argentina and Chile for the penultimate Tierra del Fuego event.
The Land Rover Freelander made its debut and was used to speed the competitors six thousand miles across the remote and snowy environment.
Outdoor pursuits dominated the event.
Shortly afterwards, Land Rover, a major sponsor, felt that the Camel Trophy was moving away from adventure and exploration and a news release indicated they would not sponsor future events.
This ultimately led to the cancellation of the 1999 event which was planned for Peru.
In 2000 the Camel Trophy returned with a new style of event.
It developed the spirit of the Tierra del Fuego event and the Camel brand but with the 32 competitors exploring Tonga and Samoa in RIB powerboats.
This event was the single most successful Camel Trophy event as both a sporting activity and a Camel PR and marketing exercise.
At this time the international brands of RJ Reynolds (which included Worldwide Brand Inc, the owners of the CT brand) were in the process of being sold to Japan Tobacco Inc.  JTI subsequently chose to change direction and instead concentrate on the Camel Active fashion brand.
The Camel Trophy originated in 1980 with three Jeep-equipped German teams exploring the Amazon.
After that first event, the organisers turned to Land Rover.
Over the course of the next twenty years, all of the Land Rover vehicle range were used.
Range Rover, Series III, Defender, Discovery and Freelander vehicles all appeared in the distinctive "sandglow" colour scheme.
Safety Devices roll cages
Under body protection and steering guards
Modified electrical systems
Winches
Dixon Bate tow hitches and recovery points
Mantec snorkels
Transmission breathers
Michelin XCL or BF Goodrich Mud and snow tires
Upgraded suspension and transmission components
Auxiliary fuel tanks
Webasto fuel burning heaters
Brownchurch / Safety Devices roof racks
Hella driving, spot, fog and work lights.
Brownchurch Bull bars and bush wires
Flag poles
Event plaques, decals and sponsor logos (including Camel Trophy Adventure Wear/Bags/Boots/Watches, Lee Cougan, Perception, Sony, Scott USA, Safety Devices, Land Rover, Fjällräven, Warn, Malaysia Airlines, Superwinch, Shell, Avon)
Expedition tools, Jerry cans, Pelican cases, Zarges boxes, high lift or New Concept air jacks, sand ladders, axes, ropes, drawbars, spades
Garmin, Terratrip and other navigation and communication equipment
Usually the Land Rovers were only used once for one event.
Those vehicles that returned to the UK were highly sought after as they were low mileage—but they were "Camel Trophy miles".
They were stripped of most of their equipment by Land Rover before they were sold but kept the color and Camel Trophy markings.
First Camel Trophy - Camel Trophy 1980 Transamazonica, YouTube
Camel Trophy Land Rover History, YouTube
Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became the first person to make  repeated successful  gliding flights.
On August 9, 1896, his glider stalled and he was unable to regain control.
Falling from about 15 m (50 ft), he broke his neck and died the next day, 10 August, 1896.
The Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) is a very small desktop computer replacement that uses the ultra compact form factor.
It is build as a direct clone of the Apple Mac Mini, which was launched 7 years before in January 2005.
It is built to be a very small PC that can be used for basic computer jobs like word processing and internet reading.
It can also be used to play most computer games.
Some people use the NUC as a home theater computer because of its small size and how quiet it is.
The Intel NUC is on its sixth generation.
The generations were called, in order from oldest to newest, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Bay Trail, Haswell, Broadwell/Braswell, and Skylake.
The names come from the processor that is on the motherboard of the NUC.
Ikorodu is a city and local government area in Lagos State, Nigeria.
It is located along the Lagos Lagoon and shares a boundary with Ogun State.
The word Ikorodu was derived from two Yoruba words Oko (English: farm) and Odu (English: a plant that blackens).
Phetchaburi (, ) is one of the western provinces (changwat) of Thailand.
Phetchaburi is in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula.
The Gulf of Thailand is to the east.
Most of the province is a flat plain.
The Kaeng Krachan National Park is Thailand's largest national park, covering nearly half of the province.
It covers 3000 km2.
Phetchaburi is an old royal city, dating back to the Mon of the 8th century.
Later Khmer settled in the city, as can be seen by the prangs of Wat Kamphaeng Laeng.
In 1860, King Rama IV built a palace near the city of Phetchaburi, commonly known as Khao Wang, but its official name is Phra Nakhon Khiri.
Next to the palace the king built a tower for his astronomical observations.
On a hill near the palace is the royal temple Wat Phra Kaeo.
This park is a hilly area with an old palace and historical temples near the town.
It has royal halls, temples and groups of buildings, constructed in Thai, Western neoclassic and Chinese architectural styles.
This temple was originally a Khmer place of worship.
It was later turned into a Buddhist temple and a shrine hall was constructed.
However, the outlook of the place has not much changed due to the existence of sandstone walls and four Khmer style pagodas.
Legend says that King Naresuan the Great and King Eka Thotsarot made several royal visits here and enjoyed its beauty.
The villagers called it "Hat Chao Samran", which means "beach of royal leisure".
Phetchaburi is known for a vast variety of sweet food.
The reputation comes from the use of Tanot (palm) sugar.
Examples are Mo-kaeng, a sweet made from flour, sugar and eggs; A-lua and Sampanni, a sweet made from flour and sugar; Thong Yip, Thong Yot and Foi Thong, sweets made from baked egg-yolk; and Chao Tan Chueam (palm seed in thick syrup).
Phra Nakhon Khiri Fair (งานพระนครคีรี) , also known as Khao Wang, it is an important historical site.
During the reign of King Rama IV, it served as the king's out-of-town palace.
Website of province (Thai only)
Austenite is iron but in a metallic form.
It is one of the allotropes of iron, which means its physical form is different from iron but its chemical form is the same.
It is named after Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen (1843–1902).
Austenitization
Austenitization means to heat iron, iron-based metal, or steel to a high temperature.
At that temperature, the crystal structure of the metal changes from ferrite to austenite, which can dissolve more carbon.
For some irons, iron-based metals, and steels, the presence of carbides may occur during this austenitization step.
Fe-Fe3C phase diagram
A samara is an achene, a type of dry winged botanical fruit.
The shape of a samara enables the wind to carry the seed farther away than regular seeds from the parent tree:
The seed can be in the centre of the wing, like the elms and the hoptree.
The seed can be on one side, with the wing extending to the other side, making the seed self rotate it falls.
Ralph Lorenz 2006.
Spinning flight: dynamics of frisbees, boomerangs, samaras and skipping stones, ,  Copernicus New York.
British Petroleum, now called "BP plc", is one of the world's seven biggest oil and gas companies.
Its headquarters are in London.
The company grew out of the old Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which was founded in 1908.
It was privatised by the British government in stages between 1979 and 1987.
Bamberg, James H 1994/2000.
The history of the British Petroleum Company.
vols 2 & 3 of 3 vols, Cambridge University Press.
Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is an American producer and writer.
He was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live.
He and Garry Shandling were the co-creators of Showtime's It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Zweibel was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn and grew up in suburbs of Wantagh and Woodmere on Long Island.
Zweibel graduated from George W. Hewlett High School and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
In 2006, Zweibel won the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book The Other Shulman.
Alan Zweibel on Twitter
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The Today Show is a morning talk/news show.
It airs on National Broadcasting Company.
As of 2016, the anchors were Savannah Guthrie.
Natalie Morales reads the news and Al Roker forecasts the weather.
Carson Daly contributes to the program on a regular basis as well.
The show also has a third and fourth hour.
The third hour is hosted by Morales, Roker, Tamron Hall, and Willie Geist.
The fourth hour is anchored by Kathie Lee Gifford.
Craig Melvin & Willie Geist anchored the final edition of Today with with Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on August 30, 2019.
That day's broadcast ended with one of Kotb's favorite pieces of music instead of the traditional theme music.
Apportionment or apportionment by population is a concept in United States law of allocating representatives or taxes among the US states.
Apportionment is based on the United States Census taken every ten years.
Seats in the United States House of Representatives are then apportioned among the states.
Each state gets a number of seats based on its population (the minimum is one seat).
Congress enacted new apportionment legislation following every census until the mid-20th century.
Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution requires that direct taxes be apportioned among the states by population.
Apportionment by population proved to be a nearly impossible, uneven and unfair requirement for collecting taxes since the states had different populations.
This was overturned by the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which removed the apportionment requirement from Congress imposing direct taxes.
David Muir (born November 8, 1973) is the anchor of World News Tonight on ABC News.
Muir also hosts special events and breaking news stories.
He formerly anchored the weekend version of the show until he replaced Diane Sawyer in 2014.
He was born in Syracuse, New York.
Ikeja is a town and local government area of Lagos State, Nigeria.
It serves as the capital of Lagos State.
Ikeja is known for being a well-planned commercial settlement with shopping malls, pharmacies and government reservation areas.
Oral history has it that the word Ikeja was first coined from the Benin word Ikehdia (''English: military watch station).
Saheed Akorede Okunola (born 1969), popularly known as Saheed Osupa or King Saheed Osupa is a Nigerian musician, performer and film actor.
His genre of music is majorly fuji.
In 1983, Saheed Osupa chose music as his profession and went on to release his first record album titled Fuji Fa Disco which earned him fame.
He has released over 25 record albums.
Perlin noise was made by Ken Perlin in 1983.
He made it because when computers created pictures that were supposed to look natural, they didn't look very good.
Noise can be used to draw things that look natural, like clouds or smoke.
It helps computer artists draw patterns that look more real.
Mireia Lalaguna Royo (born 28 November 1992) is a Spanish model and actress.
She is the winner of the Miss Spain 2015 and Miss World 2015 beauty competitions.
Heliobatis is an extinct genus of stingray.
At present the genus contains the single species Heliobatis radians.
The fossil is found in the early Eocene, Wasatchian stage, Fossil Lake deposits.
Fossil Lake is part of the Green River Formation in southwest Wyoming.
Heliobatis is one of only two known rays to have been found in the Green River formation.
The other species, Asterotrygon maloneyi, was recognized and described in 2004.
The Taxing and Spending Clause contained in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, grants the federal government of the United States its power of taxation.
It authorizes Congress to levy taxes for two purposes: to pay the debts of the United States and to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.
Contained in the Taxing and Spending Clause are two additional clauses: the General Welfare Clause and the Uniformity Clause.
The Articles of Confederation (1781–1789) did not grant the central government the power to levy taxes.
Only the states had this power.
Congress could get money only by asking the states for funds.
They could also borrow money from foreign governments or sell off western lands.
This was designed to keep a weak central government with the majority of the governing powers reserved for the independent states.
Congress had no revenues to pay its debts or to enforce its laws and treaties.
This was one of the issues taken up by the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and changed in the Constitution.
Kinds of taxes
The power of Congress to levy taxes has an exception and two qualifications in the Constitution.
Any goods exported from any state may not be taxed.
Direct taxes must follow the rule of apportionment
General Welfare Clause
The power granted to “provide . . .
for the general welfare” is granted by the Constitution.
In 1791 Thomas Jefferson wrote:
He was writing about the constitutionality of having a national bank.
Here he was making the point that the clause was not an independent power granted to Congress, but was intended to qualify that taxing power.
The Supreme Court has not since had any occasion to make a formal ruling on the point.
There was a different of opinion on the meaning of “the general welfare” between the two authors of this clause.
Alexander Hamilton adopted a very plain view that the clause meant just what it said.
The general welfare meant for every citizen's benefit.
James Madison took a more limited view.
He believed the clause gave Congress the power of taxation just to support itself and remain in power.
Congress has followed Hamilton's view from the start.
They have made increasing appropriations for spending for the general welfare often requiring matching funds from the states.
Uniformity clause
Indirect taxes are subject to the rule of uniformity.
This states "all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States".
At first, the Supreme court declared that a tax is uniform "if it "operates with the same force and effect in every place where the subject of it is found."
In United States v. Ptasynski (1983), the Court concluded unanimously that any tax in which the subject is defined in non-geographic terms satisfies the Uniformity Clause.
Secondly, where a subject is defined geographically, the tax needs to carefully look for any "actual geographic discrimination."
Taxing and Spending Power, YouTube
Stephen Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African activist.
He is famous for for his activism against apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s.
He created the Black Consciousness Movement.
Biko was born in Ginsberg Township (now called the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa).
He started high school at Lovedale High School.
However, he was kicked out of school because of his political ideas about South Africa.
He finished high school at St. Francis College.
During the late 1960s, Biko was a medical student at the University of Natal.
During this time, he helped create the South African Students' Organisation.
The organization later changed into the Black Consciousness Movement, and elected Biko as its first president in 1968.
As a student, during the early 1970s, Biko fought against apartheid in many ways.
Eventually, in 1972, he was kicked out of the University of Natal.
In February 1973, the South African apartheid government banned Biko.
This severely limited his freedom of speech.
On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested.
He died on 12 September 1977 due to injuries he got while in police custody.
Young Black Leader Dies in Detention in South Africa, Raising Fears of New Unrest By John F. Burns, special to the New York Times
Thesis on the prospects of Bikoism in today's South Africa
The Steve Biko Foundation
The relevance of Black Consciousness today
Donald Woods talks in 1987 about his friendship with Steve Biko
New Introduction to I Write What I Like by Lewis Gordon
Black Consciousness: The dialectics of liberation
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, , was a Landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
In a 5–4 decision the Court ruled that the federal Income Tax Act of 1894 was unconstitutional.
The Pollock decision was overturned by the passing of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution required that direct taxes be apportioned among the states by population.
An income tax is a direct tax.
So the federal government relied on tariffs and other sources of revenue.
During the Civil War, in order to fund the war, the federal government passed an income tax law.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed a bill that called for a 3% tax on incomes between $600 and $5,000, 7.5% on incomes between $5,000 and $10,000 and 10% on incomes over $10,000.
The bill was declared unconstitutional in 1872 when it was repealed.
In 1894 Congress created a personal income tax as a part of theWilson–Gorman Tariff Act.
President Grover Cleveland was unhappy with the bill but let it pass without his signature.
All income over $4,000 was subject to a 2% tax.
It was the first peacetime federal income tax in the United States.
It was challenged right away on the grounds that the Constitution required direct taxes to be levied in proportion to each state's population (called apportionment).
The US government has levied taxes before but these were indirect taxes (such as on whiskey, carriages and other goods).
The Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 called for a 2% tax on any "gains, profits and incomes" over $4,000 for a period of five years.
Shareholders of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., based out of New York, would pay the required tax.
In addition they would provide a list of the names of shareholders to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
A Shareholder, Charles Pollock, who lived in Massachusetts and owned ten shares of stock, sued the company.
He did not want them to pay the tax.
He lost his case in the lower courts and appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case.
The high court ruled in Pollick's favor declaring the tariff act (sections 27 to 37) unconstitutional.
Two Minute Supreme Court Case Summary : Pollock v Farmers Loan and Trust Co, YouTube
It's Garry Shandling's Show is an American sitcom.
It is about the everyday life of Garry Shandling (portraying a fictionalized version of himself).