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Hermida was born in Ayamonte, Huelva.
Port Gibson is a city in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States.
The population was 1,567 at the 2010 census.
Port Gibson is the county seat of Claiborne County.
Pickling is a method of making food last longer.
In pickling, the food is put either into vinegar, or in salt water (called brine).
This food is often put in an airtight jar.
Pickling also changes the flavour of the food.
The key to pickling is that it produces low pH, 4.6 or lower.
This kills most bacteria.
Pickling can preserve perishable foods for months.
Anti-microbial herbs and spices, such as mustard seed, garlic, cinnamon or cloves, are often added.
The Archdiocese of Ottawa () is a Catholic archdiocese in Canada.
It includes part of the province of Ontario.
It is also in charge of three other smaller dioceses: Hearst, Pembroke, and Timmins.
Its leader is Archbishop Terrence Prendergast.
It became an archdiocese on June 8, 1886.
As of 2004, there are 111 parishes, 177 active diocesan priests, 102 religious priests, and 400,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese of Ottawa.
There are also 848 women religious, 147 religious brothers, and 60 permanent deacons.
Diocesan bishops
Joseph-Eugène-Bruno Guigues (1847–1874)
Joseph-Thomas Duhamel (1874–1909)
Charles-Hughes Gauthier (1910–1922)
Joseph-Médard Émard (1922–1927)
Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes (1928–1940)
Alexandre Vachon (1940–1953)
Marie-Joseph Lemieux (1953–1966)
Joseph-Aurèle Plourde (1967–1989)
Marcel André J. Gervais (1989–2007)
Terrence Prendergast (2007–)
Archdiocese of Ottawa page at catholichierarchy.org  retrieved July 13, 2006
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - Guigues
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - Duhamel
Curing refers to several processes of food preservation where salt, nitrates, nitrites or sugar is added to make the food last longer.
Curing is usually applied to fish, meat and vegetables.
Take-out or takeout (also called "carry-out", "take away" or "parcel") is food prepared in a restaurant that is eaten somewhere else.
A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is now common worldwide.
There are any number of different cuisines and dishes to choose from.
The concept of prepared meals to be eaten elsewhere dates back to antiquity.
Market and roadside stalls selling food were common in both Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
In Pompeii, archaeologists have found a number of thermopolia.
These were service counters opening onto the street, which provided food to be taken away and eaten elsewhere.
There is a distinct lack of formal dining and kitchen area in Pompeian homes.
This suggests that eating, or at least cooking, at home was unusual.
Over 200 thermopolia have been found in the ruins of Pompeii.
Emil Jones, Jr. (born October 18, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) was the President of the Illinois Senate from 2003 to 2009.
A Democrat, Jones served in the Illinois Senate from 1983 to 2009, where he served as President of the Illinois Senate from 2003 to the end of his term.
He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1973 until 1983.
He studied at Loop Junior College (now Harold Washington College) and at Roosevelt University.
His first wife, Patricia Jones died.
He is now married to Lorrie Jones.
Illinois General Assembly - Senator Emil Jones Jr. (D) 14th District — official IL Senate website
Bills Committees
Project Vote Smart - Senator Emil Jones Jr. (IL)  profile
Follow the Money — Emil Jones Jr
2006 2004 2002 campaign contributions
Illinois State Senate Democrats - Senate President Emil Jones, Jr.  profile
John J. Cullerton (born October 28, 1948) is an American politician.
He is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate.
He represents the 6th district since his appointment in 1991.
He was elected President of the Illinois Senate in 2009.
Biography, bills and committees at the 98th Illinois General Assembly
By session: 98th, 97th, 96th, 95th, 94th, 93rd
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton legislative website
Senate President John J. Cullerton  at Illinois Senate Democrats
Collected news and commentary at the Chicago Tribune
Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers (; 7 May 1939 – 14 February 2018) was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 November 1982 until 22 August 1994.
He was the youngest and longest serving Prime Minister in Dutch history.
In January 2001, Lubbers became the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
He resigned in February 2005 after a worker accused Lubbers of sexual harassment.
Dr. R.F.M. (Ruud) Lubbers Parlement & Politiek
R.F.M. Lubbers Rijksoverheid
Kabinet-Lubbers I Rijksoverheid
Kabinet-Lubbers II Rijksoverheid
Kabinet-Lubbers III Rijksoverheid
Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt (; born 2 February 1931) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 December 1977, until 4 November 1982.
Mr. A.A.M. (Dries) van Agt Parlement & Politiek
Kabinet-Van Agt I Rijksoverheid
Kabinet-Van Agt II Rijksoverheid
Kabinet-Van Agt III Rijksoverheid
Raymond Jean Bourque (born December 28, 1960) is a former Canadian ice hockey player.
He played for the Boston Bruins team.
Bourque is also an Olympian.
He played for 21 seasons for the Boston Bruins.
He was their longest-serving captain.
On March 6, 2000 the Bruins traded Bourque to Colorado with Dave Andreychuk for Brian Rolston, Martin Grenier, Samuel Pahlsson and New Jersey's 1st round choice (previously acquired by Colorado) in 2000 Entry Draft.
Bourque finished his career with the Colorado Avalanche.
There he won his only Stanley Cup in his final NHL game.
He officially announced his retirement on June 26, 2001.
Bourque was awarded the Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman five times (1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994) .
His jersey, #77 for both the Boston Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche, was retired by both teams in his honor.
In his first year of eligibility, 2004, Bourque was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Thaliacea are free-floating animals with a ton-like appearance.
Thaliaceae are Tunicates.
They are filter feeders and live from plankton.
Their reproduction is special, there is alternation of generations: One of the generations reproduces sexually, the following does not.
Some of them form colonies.
Zeki Alasya (18 April 1943 – 8 May 2015) was a Turkish actor and director.
He began his acting career in the 1970s on television and movies, and directed about 20 movies.
He also worked with comedian Metin Akpınar.
Alasya was born Istanbul and was of Turkish Cypriot ancestry.
He died from liver disease, aged 72.
Józef Pazdur (22 November 1924 – 7 May 2015) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop.
He became a priest in 1951.
He was later named auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław in 1984, and retired in 2000.
Soma (drink): a ritual drink of early Indo-Iranians, continued in Vedic and Persian sources.
A word of Ancient Greek origin meaning "body".
Somatic cell: a basic term in biology, describing the body cells as opposed to the reproductive cells
Soma (nerve cell), the body ("perikaryon") of a nerve cell as opposed to its dendrites or axon
Soma (fiction), a hallucinogenic drug in Aldous Huxley's novels Brave New World and Island.
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the name for the government that ruled Afghanistan between 2004 and 2021.
In August 2021 during the Fall of Kabul, most of the city fell to the Taliban, and president Ashraf Ghani escaped from Afghanistan.
On August 31, the Taliban had also taken the airport in Kabul.
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was founded following the United States invasion of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the earlier phases of the War in Afghanistan.
In 2014, Ashraf Ghani was elected to be the President of Afghanistan.
On 15 August 2021, the city of Kabul fell to the Taliban.
Central Asian countries
Former countries in Central Asia
War in Afghanistan (since 1978)
Atanas Georgiev Semerdzhiev (21 May 1924 – 8 May 2015) was a Bulgarian politician.
He served as the Vice President of Bulgaria from 1 August 1990 to 22 January 1992, under Zhelyu Zhelev.
He was Army Chief of Staff from 1962 until the fall of communism in 1989.
He was a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
Semerdzhiev was born near Velingrad.
He was a soldier during World War II.
Menashe Kadishman (lrm;; 21 August 1932 – 8 May 2015) was an Israeli sculptor and painter.
He presented his artworks in central locations in Israel, such as Habima Square.
His paintings can be found in many different galleries in Israel.
He is most famous for his metallic sculptors and colorful paintings of sheep.
In 1995, he won the Israel Prize.
Kadishman was born in Tel Aviv.
He was divorced and had two children.
Israeli painters
Israeli sculptors
Zhivko Gospodinov (; 6 September 1957 – 4 May 2015) was a Bulgarian footballer.
He was an attacking midfielder and playmaker.
He played for Spartak Varna, Vatev Beloslav, Spartak Pleven, AD Fafe, Cherno More Varna and Beroe Stara Zagora from 1974 to 1992.
Gospodinov was born in Vladimirovo.
He died on 4 May 2015 in Varna, aged 57.
Kava is a plant of the pepper family.
It comes from Polynesia and other lands in the Pacific Islands.
The roots of the plant are used to make a drink with sedative and anesthetic properties.
Kava is used in many cultures in the Pacific Ocean, besides its native Polynesia.
These include Hawaii, Vanuatu, Melanesia and some parts of Micronesia.
Kava is pain-relieving, calming.
and is usually taken as a drug to relax without losing mental clarity in thinking and remembering .
Evidence collected in studies show it is likely to be more effective than a placebo at helping calm some mild anxiety.
John Dangar Dixon (20 February 1929 – 7 May 2015) was an Australian comic book artist and writer.
He was best known for his comic strip creation, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors, which ran from 1959 until 1986.
Dixon was born in Newcastle, New South Wales.
He moved to the United States in the 1980s.
In 2012, he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia (LBD), a type of dementia related to Parkinson's disease.
He was married to Sue and had two children.
Dixon had a stroke on 18 April 2015 at his home in the U.S. state of California.
He died on 7 May, aged 86.
Lo Wing-lok  (; 13 September 1954 – 9 May 2015) was a Hong Kong doctor and politician.
He was a member of the Legislative Council for Medical from 2000 to 2004.
Lo was born in British Hong Kong.
He graduated from the University of Hong Kong.
His wife, Anna Yung Hiu-yan, died in 2013.
Leif Holger Larsen (27 January 1954 – 8 May 2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.
From 2014 until his death in 2015, he served as Norway's ambassador to Pakistan.
Larsen was born in Stavanger.
Larsen died on 8 May 2015 in a helicopter crash in Naltar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
Domingo D. Lucenario, Jr. (3 September 1960 – 8 May 2015) was a Filipino diplomat.
From 2013 until his death, he was the Ambassador to Pakistan.
Lucenario was born in Manila.
Lucenario died on 8 May 2015 in a helicopter crash in Naltar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
The 2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash happened on 8 May 2015 when a Pakistan Army helicopter crashed in Naltar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
Of the 17 passengers and three crew, eight people died, including ambassadors Domingo Lucenario, Jr. from the Philippines, Leif Holger Larsen from Norway, and Burhan Muhammad from Indonesia.
2015 disasters in Asia
Philip Charles "Phil" Skoglund  (20 June 1937 – 8 May 2015) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.
He competed in three Commonwealth Games (1974, 1978, 1990).
He competed in five World Championships (1966, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988), winning a gold medal (triples 1988).
Skoglund was born in Palmerston North.
He was the son of politician and cabinet minister Philip Oscar Skoglund and nephew of champion lawn bowls player Pete Skoglund.
Sir Maurice Flanagan  (17 October 1928 – 7 May 2015) was a British businessman.
He was the founding CEO of Emirates.
He was also the Executive Vice-Chairman of The Emirates Group.
Flanagan was born in Leigh, Lancashire.
He was married to Audrey Bolton from 1955 until his death.
He lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Michael John Randal MacKellar  (27 October 1938 – 9 May 2015) was an Australian politician and agricultural scientist.
He was the Liberal Member for Warringah from 25 October 1969 until 18 February 1994.
MacKellar was born in Moree, New South Wales.
He had a partner and had three children.
He died at the age of 76.
.5: The Gray Chapter is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band, Slipknot.
.5: The Gray Chapter was released on October 17, 2014 through Roadrunner Records.
It is Slipknot's first album to not feature bassist Paul Gray who died on May 24, 2010.
It also did not feature drummer Joey Jordison who was fired from the band in December 2013.
The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, #18 on the Top Hard Rock Albums, and at #2 on the Top Rock Albums.
In 2014, the song "The Negative One" was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Metal Performance.
"My Immortal" is the third single off American rock band Evanescence's first studio album Fallen.
The song was released in December 8, 2003.
The song was written by guitarist Ben Moody except for the bridge.
It is a piano and power ballad.
The lyrics of the song are about a spirit that haunts the memory of a grieving loved one.
It is based on a short story that Moody had written before.
On the Billboard charts, "My Immortal" was able to peak at #7 on Hot 100, #2 on the Mainstream Top 40, #1 on the Adult Top 40, and #19 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
In 2005, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
"My Immortal" on YouTube
, also known as , is a university in Nagoya, Japan.
Its first name was "Nagoya Imperial University".
Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Physics.
Isamu Akasaki, 2014 Physics
Makoto Kobayashi, 2008 Physics.
Toshihide Maskawa, 2008 Physics.
Osamu Shimomura, 2008 Chemistry.
Ryōji Noyori, 2001 Chemistry.
Igor Vasilievich Gorynin (; 10 March 1926 – 9 May 2015) was a Russian metallurgist and politician.
He was the creator of many new titanium and aluminium alloys, and reactor steels.
He was also the inventor of the radiation hardened steels.
He was the director of the Central Research Institute of Structural Materials (CRISM).
Gorynin was born in Leningrad.
He died after a long illness on 9 May 2015 in Saint Petersburg, aged 89.
Politicians from Saint Petersburg
Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga is a Costa Rican parasitoid wasp whose host is the spider Plesiometa argyra.
The wasp modifies the spider's web building behavior to make a web of very strong lines.
This supports the wasp's cocoon without breaking in the rain.
The adult female wasp temporarily paralyzes the spider and lays an egg on its abdomen.
The egg hatches into a larva.
The larva sucks the spider's blood through small holes, while the spider goes on about its normal web building and insect catching behavior.
When the larva is ready to pupate, it injects a chemical into the spider.
This causes the spider to build a web whose design is completely different from any it has ever made.
Then the spider sits still in the middle of the web.
The wasp larva then moults, kills the spider with a poison and sucks its body dry before discarding it and building a cocoon that hangs from the middle of the web the spider has just built.
The larva pupates inside the cocoon, then emerges to mate and begin the cycle over again.
Donald Ross "Don" Getty, (August 30, 1933 – February 26, 2016) was a Canadian politician and football quarterback.
He served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992.
Before entering politics, Getty had been a quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.
He passed for more than eight thousand yards over his ten-year career, and was put on the team's Wall of Fame in 1992.
Glyptapanteles is a genus of endoparasitoid wasp found in Central and North America.
The larvae of the members of Glyptapanteles manipulate their hosts into serving as bodyguards.
Female Glyptapanteles stick their ovipositor into caterpillar hosts.
The eggs hatch inside the caterpillar.
The caterpillar feeds and grows normally until the 4th or 5th instar.
Then up to 80 fully grown larvae emerge from its body to pupate.
Behaviour changes
After the larvae of Glyptapanteles emerge, the caterpillar takes up position near the cocoons of the pupae, arches its back, and ceases to move or feed.
It will occasionally spin silk over the pupae.
However, when disturbed, it begins to thrash violently.
This behavior is to strike at and repel possible predators of the pupae, so improving the survival odds of the wasp pupae.
Only about one in twenty non-parasitized caterpillars responded in this fashion.
In 60% of cases, the parasitized caterpillars successfully warded off these potential predators.
No longer eating, the affected caterpillar eventually dies.
In the course of Grosman's research, it was discovered that not all larval Glyptapanteles emerge from their caterpillar host.
One or two remain behind and active.
Probably these larvae manipulate the host.
It is a kind of altruism, since these larvae miss their own chance of pupating in order to protect the brood.
Jacques Parizeau, GOQ, (; August 9, 1930 – June 1, 2015) was a Canadian economist and noted Quebec sovereigntist.
He was the 26th Premier of the province of Quebec from September 26, 1994, to January 29, 1996.
Political blog  (in French)
The polydnaviruses (PDV) are a family of insect viruses.
There are two genera: ichnoviruses (IV) and bracoviruses (BV).
The ichnoviruses occur in ichneumonid wasps and bracoviruses in braconid wasps.
The genome of the virus is composed of multiple segments of double-stranded DNA packed in capsid proteins and a double or single layer envelope.
The sequences are quite different between BV and IV, suggesting that the two types evolved independently.
These viruses are part of a unique biological system with three parts: a parasitoid wasp, an insect (usually lepidopteran) larva, and the virus.
The full genome of the virus is integrated into the genome of the wasp and the virus only replicates in a particular part of the ovary of pupal and adult female wasps.
The virus is injected with the wasp egg into the body cavity of a host caterpillar and infects cells of the caterpillar.
The infection does not lead to replication of new viruses, rather it affects the caterpillar's immune system.
Without the virus infection, phagocytic haemocytes (blood cells) will kill the wasp egg.
The immune suppression caused by the virus allows the wasp egg to survive.
It hatches and develops in the caterpillar.
Also, genes from the polydnavirus in the host alter host development and metabolism to be good for the growth and survival of the parasitoid larva.
Thus the virus and wasp have a symbiotic (mutualistic) relationship.
William Grenville "Bill" Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician.
He was born in Toronto.
He was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985.
In a 2012 edition, the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, Policy Options, named Davis the second-best Canadian premier of the last forty years, beaten only by Peter Lougheed.
Davis died on August 8, 2021 in Brampton, Ontario at the age of 92.
Premiers of Ontario
David Barrett (October 2, 1930 – February 2, 2018), commonly known as Dave Barrett, was a Canadian retired politician and social worker in British Columbia, Canada.
He was the 26th Premier of British Columbia for three years between 1972 and 1975.
In 2014, it was announced that Barrett had Alzheimer's disease and was living in a care facility in Victoria, British Columbia.
He died o 2, 2018, aged 87.
Howard Russell Pawley (November 21, 1934 – December 30, 2015) was a Canadian politician and professor.
He was born in Brampton, Ontario.
He moved to Winnipeg at age 17.
He was the 18th Premier of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988.
Premiers of Manitoba
Roger Stuart Bacon (June 29, 1926 – October 4, 2021) was a Nova Scotia politician.
He was born in Upper Nappan, Nova Scotia.
He was the 21st Premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991.
He was also a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly between 1970 until 1993.
Bacon was a member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia.
Bacon died on October 4, 2021 in Amherst, Nova Scotia at the age of 95.
Gerald Augustine Paul Regan  (February 13, 1928 – November 26, 2019) was a Canadian politician.
He served as the 19th Premier of Nova Scotia from 1970 to 1978.
Acquitted sex crimes
On October 27, 1993, CBC News revealed that the RCMP were investigating Regan for sexual misconduct.
In March 1995 and May 1995 he was charged with a total of nineteen counts of sexual offences.
Regan faced trial on eight charges including rape and attempted rape, for crimes committed in 1956 and 1969 against victims aged 14 and 18 at the time.
Martin Nag (30 July 1927 – 2 May 2015) was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, poet, essayist, translator and biographer.
Nag was known for his books Uro, Rød lørdag (1976) and Steingjerde (1991).
Kinnie is a carbonated soft drink from Malta.
It was first developed in 1952 by Simonds Farsons Cisk in Malta.
Kinnie is amber in colour.
It has a bittersweet flavour.
Kinnie is drunk straight or mixed with alcohol to create a mixed drink.
Unlike cola products Kennie actually quenches thirst.
The taste takes some getting used to.
But it is very popular with locals and visitors.
Kinnie was first produced in 1952.
It was an alternative to the cola drinks that were popular in post-war Europe.
Kinnie's recipe is kept secret.
The official website has more information about its ingredients.
Kinnie may owe its bittersweet taste to a blend of Mediterranean chinotto bitter oranges.
It may be combined with a dozen different aromatic herbs and spices.
These include anise, ginseng, vanilla, rhubarb and liquorice.
A sales slogan was: "The problem with drinking kinnie is that you just can not get enough".
A diet version for Kinnie appeared in 1984.
In 2007, a new low calorie version of Kinnie called Kinnie Zest was made available.
This has a slightly darker colour and a stronger orange flavour.
It is advertised as only having one calorie per bottle.
The latest Kinnie variant is Kinnie Vita which is naturally sweetened using a blend of sugar and stevia leaf extract.
Sales locations
Kinnie is exported to the UK, Italy, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands, It is also exported to Libya and Canada.
In recent years, Simonds Farsons Cisk also started to franchise Kinnie production overseas.
In March 2009, it was announced that Farsons were going to start exporting Kinnie into Russia.
In the summer of 2010, Farsons and Kinnie UK Limited soft-launched Kinnie and its two variants in London's West End.
They reached almost 100 trial outlets by September 2010.
Kinnie: Malta's Own Favourite Soft Drink
Kennie Home Page
The UNAD or Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia is a public institution in Colombia.
It has 75,000 students, of which 60,000 students study undergraduate programs (higher education) and 15,000 study other courses.
Russell Carrington Wilson (born November 29, 1988) in Cincinnati, Ohio is the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.
He wears the number 3.
Wilson was selected by the Seahawks in the third round in the 2012 National Football League draft.
He lead the Seahawks to a Super Bowl win in 2014 against the Denver Broncos lead by Peyton Manning.
The first season of South Park, an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, aired on Comedy Central in the United States between August 13, 1997, and February 25, 1998, consisting of 13 episodes.
South Park Studios – official website with streaming video of full episodes
1997 in television
1998 television seasons
The second season of South Park, an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, aired from April 1, 1998 to January 20, 1999.
South Park Studios – official website with streaming video of full episodes.
The hairy water lily or pink water-lily (Nymphaea pubescens) is a species of water lily.
It is the Official National flower of Bangladesh respectively.
Elizabeth "Nana" Shineflug (1935 - 15 January 2015) was an American dancer and choreographer.
She started and led the Chicago Moving Company, a modern-dance troupe.
Her style was not traditional: "Shineflug nurtured our God-given right to weirdness...," according to critic Laura Molzahn.
Shineflug's maiden name was Elizabeth Strohmeier.
She grew up in Evanston, Illinois.
Shineflug graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in mathematics.
Later, she was awarded an M.A. (1986) and Graduate Certificate in Laban Movement Analysis from Columbia College, Chicago.
In 1972, she started the Chicago Moving Company.
She taught at Columbia College Chicago in the Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate Program and the Theater Department.
Shineflug also taught modern dance, Qi Gong, and Psychocalesthenics through the Chicago Moving Company.
She also performed and taught in other countries.
Nana Shineflug died of cancer in her Glenview, Illinois home on 15 January 2015.
She was seventy-nine years old.
Four Choreographic Fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts
The Katherine Dunham Award for Excellence and Dedication to the Arts
Chicago Dance Coalition/Ruth Page Lifetime Service to the Field Award
Three Illinois Arts Council Choreographic Fellowships
Chicago Dance Award for Outstanding Contribution
Ruth Page Award, Honorable Mention for the Dance Legacy Project
Boulevard Arts Center's Presidents Award
Two Illinois Alliance for Arts Education Service Recognition Awards
Prestigious National Endowment for Arts Arts-Plus Partnership
Columbia College Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award
Further sources
Ficus benghalensis, commonly known as the banyan, banyan fig and Indian banyan, is a tree that grows in India and Bangladesh.
Some Indian banyan trees are among the largest trees in the world.
It is recognized as the National trees of both the countries of the Indian subcontinent.
It is the largest canopy-holder tree of the world.
It can spread up to 2000 feet of land.
It is said by its scientific name that, this mammoth tree is native and endemic to the Great Bengal Region (both Bangladesh and West Bengal of India).
In Buddhism the banyan’s habit of supplanting its host tree is likened to the manner in which humans are overcome by sensual desire.
Interestingly, the name ‘banyan’ came about when early Portuguese travellers to India noted that traders, or banias, set up shop in the shade of these enormous trees.
Eventually the Gujarati word for ‘merchant’ became the name of the tree itself.
When traveling in the fascinating country of Bangladesh, be sure to take note of the most unusual banyan tree.
John Paul "Johnny" Gimble (May 30, 1926 – May 9, 2015) was an American country musician.
He played the fiddle and worked in the Western swing genre.
From the 1970s, he won five Best Instrumentalist awards from the Country Music Awards and eight Best Fiddle Player awards from the Academy of Country Music.
He worked with musicians including Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins, Carrie Underwood and Ray Price.
He appeared on Austin City Limits and Garrison Keillor's broadcasts.
He was also a member of the Million Dollar Band and his last album was Celebrating with Friends (2010).
Gimble was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Gimble was born in Tyler, Texas.
He had many strokes in his later life and died on May 9, 2015 in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Rutger Gunnarsson (12 February 1946 – 8 May 2015) was a Swedish musician, bass guitarist, arranger and record producer.
He was best known as a bassist for ABBA on tours and their albums, serving as a Kapellmeister.
He also worked with artists including Celine Dion, Westlife, Elton John, Adam Ant, Bobbysocks, Gwen Stefani, Elin Lanto, Joyride and Alla Pugacheva.
Gunnarsson was born in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland County.
He died in Stockholm, aged 69.
The Ontario Heritage Act is a law that was made on March 5, 1975.
It lets the Province of Ontario and cities protect important buildings and other places.
These places are called designated heritage properties.
Listing a place under the Act
If a place is listed as an important place under the Act, the person who owns the place needs to ask the government of their city to let them change any of the important parts of the place.
They also need to ask the government to let them destroy any buildings.
Changes to the law
Before 2005, people could still destroy buildings that were listed as important, even if the government of the city did not want to let them.
They did this by waiting for 180 days after asking to destroy the building.
Once 180 days were over, if the people who owned the buildings did not agree with the government of the city, the people who owned the buildings could destroy the building.
In 2005, the provincial government changed the Act.
People who own important buildings are not allowed to destroy the buildings any more if the government of the city does not let them.
If the government of the city does not let them destroy the building, they are allowed to ask the Conservation Review Board to let them do it anyway.
If the Conservation Review Board does not let them destroy the building, then the person who owns the building is not allowed to destroy the building.
There are some problems with the Ontario Heritage Act.
Sometimes the government of a city will say that a place is important because they do not want anyone to make changes to the place, even though the place is not important.
For example, one city said that a golf course was important because someone wanted to build houses there instead.
Another problem is that there are a lot of old churches that are important, but the people who use the churches sometimes need to make changes to the buildings because of their religion.
The government of the city needs to be careful to let the people practice their religion but also needs to take care of the building.
Another problem is that there are a lot of buildings in Ontario that belong to the Government of Canada.
These buildings are not protected by the Act.
The Government of Canada has laws that protect some of these buildings, but not all of them.
Canadian Register of Historic Places, search for sites designated under the Ontario Heritage Act
Ontario Heritage Toolkit
List of designated heritage properties in Toronto
Terrence Thomas Prendergast, SJ (born 19 February 1944) is the Archbishop of Ottawa, Canada.
He was formerly the Archbishop of Halifax.
Prior to that he was the titular (in title only) Bishop of Slebte and Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto.
Prendergast was born in Montreal.
He became a Jesuit priest in 1972.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University.
He then studied at Regis College, Toronto School of Theology, which was a part of Saint Mary's University in Halifax.
There he earned a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Theology degree.
Prendergast taught Latin and Greek at Loyola High School in Montreal from 1967 to 1969.
After he became a priest and earned his Doctor of Theology degree, he taught in Halifax at the Atlantic School of Theology from 1975 to 1981.
He was the rector of Toronto's Regis College from 1981 to 1987, and its Dean of Theology from 1991 to 1994.
From 1992 to 1994 he helped Bishop Frederick Henry visit English-language Canadian seminaries for the Vatican.
When he was asked to be Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto in 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at the École Biblique in Jerusalem.
Prendergast was chosen to become titular Bishop of Slebte and Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto on February 22, 1995.
Prendergast was consecrated in St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, on April 25, 1995.
He became Archbishop of Halifax on September 14, 1998.
The Archbishop of Halifax is in charge of dioceses in the provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Prendergast also became the Chancellor of Saint Mary's University in Halifax.
This is because the university always had the archbishop as its chancellor.
In 2007 the archdiocese and the university decided that the Archbishop would not be the chancellor anymore.
Instead, he would be called the "Visitor" to the university.
Prendergast became the ninth Archbishop of Ottawa on June 26, 2007.
He is also the Chancellor of Saint Paul University as the university has always had the archbishop as its chancellor.
Archbishop Prendergast has a sister and three brothers.
He is devoted to his many nieces and nephews, as well as to his Jesuit religious family.
His hobbies include squash, cycling, skating, foreign films and Italian cooking.
Craig Gruber (June 22, 1951 – May 5, 2015) was an American rock bassist and musician.
He was best known as the original bassist in the English band band Rainbow.
He also played in Elf with vocalist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, drummer Gary Driscoll and guitarist David Feinstein.
The Young Europeans Literary Award started in 2008.
Its goal is to promote European culture.
The European Union National Institutes for Culture organises it.
Each year 26 books are short listed, one book from each member of the European Union.
Selected books for 2016
Organisations that help
Instituto Cervantès
Instituto italiano
Maison de l’Europe et des Européens
Awards given already
2009 - The Nubian Princess by Juan Bonilla, a Spanish author.
2014 - Le blues du braqueur de banque by Flemming Jensen
2015 -  Maurice and Mahmoud by Flemming Jensen.
BBA INSEEC
Page Youtube officielle PLJE
Dufferin County is a county and census division in Ontario, Canada.
The county seat is Orangeville.
The county covers 1,486.31 square kilometers (573.87 square miles) and its population in 2011 is 56,881.
Dufferin County was formed in 1881 from parts of Grey County, Simcoe County, and Wellington County, Ontario.
It was named after Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1872 to 1878.
Grand Valley
East Garafraxa
Melancthon
Mulmur
Haliburton County is a county in Ontario, Canada.
The county seat is Minden Hills.
It was named after Thomas Chandler Haliburton, who helped bring settlers into the area.
The county covers an area of 4,071.86 square kilometers (1,572.15 square miles) and has a population of 17,026, according to the 2011 census.
There are two townships in Haliburton: Algonquin Highlands and Minden Hills.
It also has two municipalities: Dysart et al and Highlands East.
The county is a popular place for toruism, because there are so many lakes and rivers in the county for activities such as fishing and camping.
Some of the popular places for tourists to visit are Boshkung Lake, Haliburton Lake, and Kawagama Lake, which is the largest lake in the county.
Dysart et al, is the Corporation of the United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde.
Dysart et al is a municipality in Haliburton County in Central Ontario, Canada.
With 68 letters, it is the longest name of any place in Canada.
According to the Canada 2011 Census, it had a population of 5,966.
Municipality of Dysart et al
David Dejiro Defiagbon (12 June 1970 – 24 November 2018) was a Nigerian-Canadian boxer.
He competed for Canada at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Defiagbon competed at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
He won gold after defeating Greg Johnson.
He fought for Nigeria at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
He was defeated in the first round of the light middleweight division by Raúl Márquez 7 to 8.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Defiagbon competed for Canada and was able to win a silver medal after he defeated Nate Jones.
He was defeated by Félix Savón.
Myxophaga is a small suborder of beetles.
There are about  65 species of tiny beetles in four families.
Archostemata is the smallest suborder of beetles.
There are less than fifty known species.
They are similar to the first beetles, which appear in the fossil record about 250 million years ago.
The suborder contains the only paedogenic beetles, Micromalthus debilis.
These beetles are rare.
Fossil deposits from the Permian suggest that Archostemata were once much more common and were widespread over the globe.
The species which remain are just scattered vestiges of their former population.
White, Richard E. 1983.
A field guide to beetles of North America.
Tree of Life - Archostemata
"The oldest stem-group coleopterid is early Permian, 280 mya (million years ago)... true Coleoptera did not appear until the Triassic 230mya".
Interpreting the early fossil record of beetles has been difficult because their forewings are modified as elytra.
So no wing veins are visible.
Wing veins are the main way insect specialists classify insects.
Arnol'di L.V. et al 1977.
Mesozoic Coleoptera.
Simthsonian Inst.
Libraries & U.S. National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.
Crowson R.A. 1981.
The biology of the Coleoptera.
Ponomarenko A.C. 2003.
Ecological evolution of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera).
Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 46 (suppl.)
Mark Leduc (May 4, 1962 – July 22, 2009) was a Canadian boxer.
He competed for Canada at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Leduc began his training in the East End of Toronto.
His parents divorced when he was 15 and he had to live on the streets.
Leduc was arrested for robbing a jewellery store at gunpoint and he was sentenced to spend six years at the Collins Bay Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario.
He was released from prison after serving 3 years.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Leduc competed for Canada and was able to win a silver medal.
He defeated Leonard Doroftei 13-6 and was defeated by Héctor Vinent 1-11.
In 1992, he turned pro and he had limited success.
He recorded a record of 4-1-0 after losing to Michel Galarneau and retired.
In 1993, Leduc spoke on CBC Radio's documentary "The Last Closet" about being a gay athlete.
He was not ready to come out yet and he spoke anonymously and through a voice filter.
He officially came out as gay on the the TV documentary For the Love of the Game in 1994.
On July 22, 2009, Leduc collapsed in the sauna of a local hotel in Toronto and died.
Doctors said that he may have died due to heat stroke.
Milton is a hamlet in Stirling, Scotland near the bigger village Aberfoyle.
It was named after a mill that is no longer used.
The mill has a cast iron millwheel from 1667.
Canmore - Forth House, Milton, Aberfoyle site record
Canmore - Milton, Jean Macalpine's Inn site record
"Everybody's Fool" is the fourth and last single off American rock band Evanescence's first studio album Fallen.
The song was released in June 7, 2004.
The song was written five years before the album was released.
Amy Lee said that the song is about celebrities that have false images.
Lee said in an interview: "My little sister was really getting into these, I don't want to offend anyone, but like really fake, cheesy, slutty female cracker-box idols, and it really pissed me off.
She started dressing like them and she was like 8 years old.
So I gave her the talk and I wrote a song."
She also later revealed that it was written for pop singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera saying, "At this point, everybody knows that Britney is fake.
The song is not about Britney Spears; it's about a lot of people in this industry.
It's so fake, the whole Hollywood thing. '
Look at how perfect I am!'
Nobody looks like that.
It's all fake and it's really hurting a lot of girls' and women's self images.
Where are all the normal people?".
On the Billboard charts, "Everybody's Fool" was able to peak at #36 on Alternative Songs chart.
"Everybody's Fool" on YouTube
The Lokiarchaeota are a proposed phylum of the Archaea.
It was proposed in 2015 after the composite genome of Lokiarchaeum was sequenced.
The genome
The Lokiarchaeum genome has 5,381 protein coding genes.
Of these, about 32% do not correspond to any known protein.
26% closely resemble archeal proteins, and 29% correspond to bacterial proteins.
This is consistent with previous research which suggests significant gene transfer between bacteria and Archaea.
A small, but significant portion of the proteins (175, 3.3%) were most similar to eukaryotic proteins.
Analysis suggested the genes in question had their origin at the base of the eukaryotic clades.
In eukaryotes, the function of these proteins include cell membrane and cell shape formation, and a dynamic protein cytoskeleton.
Another shared protein, actin, is used in phagocytosis by eukaryotes.
Phagocytosis is the ability to engulf and consume another particle.
This ability is required for the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria.
Cells with mitochondria is one of the key differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
In a widely accepted theory, mitochondria began as bacteria and were gradually incorporated into eukaryotic cells.
Chloroplasts had a similar origin.
Brian Charles John Sedgemore (17 March 1937 – 5 May 2015) was a Labour Party politician.
He was a Member of Parliament from 1974 until 1979, and from 1983 until 2005.
He defected to the Liberal Democrats shortly before he stood down at the 2005 general election.
Samuel Taliaferro "Sam" Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician.
He served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1940 through 1947, again from 1949 through 1953, and again from 1955 through 1961.
Obituary, NY Times, November 16, 1961, Rayburn Is Dead; Served 17 Years As House Speaker
The leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn published 1961, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
"Mister Speaker", Time Magazine, September 27, 1943
RAYBURN: MR.
SPEAKER (A feature length documentary about Sam Rayburn's life and career)
The Friends of Sam Rayburn Website
Sam Rayburn House Museum Website
Address Delivered by The Honorable Sam Rayburn at the Dedication of the Marker over the Graves of His Great-Great Grandfather Col.
George Waller and his wife Ann Winston Carr, Oakwood Cemetery, Martinsville, Virginia, May 6, 1951
Associated Press, August 16, 2014 - Letter provides peek at personal Sam Rayburn
Luiz Henrique da Silveira (February 25, 1940 – May 10, 2015) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer.
He represented Santa Catarina in the Federal Senate since 2011.
He was governor of Santa Catarina from 2003 to 2006 and 2007 to 2010.
He was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
Ragne Tangen (12 March 1927 – 9 May 2015) was a Norwegian children's television presenter.
Her career began in 1958.
She then made the first children's television program in Norway, I kosekroken.
Nathalia Elisa Timberg (born August 5, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress.
She is known for her roles in Brazilian soap operas such as in Celebridade, Força de um Desejo, and in Páginas da Vida.
Ninad Gangadhar Bedekar (17 August 1949 – 10 May 2015) was an Indian historian, writer and orator.
He was from Pune, Maharashtra, India.
He wrote many books and also wrote scripts from television shows such as Son et lumière show and for the television serial Peshwai.
People from Pune
Mark Edward Fischbach (born June 28, 1989), known by his YouTube username Markiplier, is an American internet personality, video game commentator and charity fundraiser.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Fischbach began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio.
His father was of German descent, while his mother is Korean.
He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, later changing his degree to Biomedical Engineering.
He later left college and started his YouTube career.
Fischbach has done multiple charity streams and fundraisers with other YouTubers.
Forbes reported in 2017 that Fischbach and his fans had helped raise roughly $3 million for charity in past fundraising streams.
In April 2018, he raised $1,506,793.81 in charities.
Unus Annus
On November 15, 2019, Fischbach created a new channel with YouTuber Ethan Nestor (known online as CrankGameplays) called Unus Annus, a channel which planned to upload a video every day for one year, after which the channel would be deleted along with its videos.
The channel had 1 million subscribers in its first 5 days and 4.56 million in its last few minutes.
The channel was deleted on November 14, 2020.
The channel was meant to remind viewers about life and death and how quickly both can come and go.
Fischbach, along with Wade Barnes (LordMinion777) and Bob Muyskens (Muyskerm) has streamed a podcast on Twitch called 3 Peens in a Podcast since 2018.
In 2019, Fischbach co-produced and starred in Edge of Sleep, an audio drama released on iTunes.
In May 2021, Fischbach announced that he, Barnes, and Muyskens would be starting a podcast called Distractible.
Philanthropy works
Entertainers from Hawaii
Entertainers from Los Angeles
National Airlines (1934–1980) was an airline of the United States.
It began in 1934.
The airline was known for its coast-to coast flights between Miami, Los Angeles and New York City.
Pan American World Airways bought National in 1979.
The airline was founded in Jacksonville, Florida by George T. Baker.
During its first few years, it mostly flew between Florida and the southern US.
It began service to Havana, Cuba in 1946 and it stopped in 1961 because of the Cuban embargo.
In the 1970s National started flying to cities in Europe like, Amsterdam and London.
Pan American World Airways completed it's merger process with National in January 1980.
Royal Jordanian is the national airline of Jordan.
It began in 1963, under the name of Alia Airlines.
The airline's main hub is in Amman.
It's a member of Oneworld.
Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport or Guadalajara International Airport, is an airport in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Aeroméxico (hub)
VivaAerobus (hub)
Volaris (hub)
Glenview is a village in northeastern Illinois, USA.
It is about  north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois.
According to the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 44,692.
The village was named by a popular vote in 1895.
It was incorporated as a village in 1899.
There were 325 adults in Glenview that year.
The median age in 2010 was 45.5.
There were  23,496 (52.6%) women, and
21,196 (47.4%) men.
There were 14,818 households.
Glenview has a continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa).
The summers are generally wetter than the winters:
The highest recorded temperature was  in June 1988; the lowest recorded temperature was  in January 1982.
Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction has been defined in different ways.
It may be as simple as the feeling of satisfaction with a job.
If a person likes their job, they feel job satisfaction.
When an employee performs their work well, they feel a sense of job satisfaction.
If a worker has good relationships with their boss and their coworkers, they feel job satisfaction.
Psychologists who study the behavior of industries and organizations also look at job satisfaction in different ways.
Assessments of job satisfaction became commonplace in the 1930s.
In 1934, R.S. Uhrbrock was one of the first psychologists to use new techniques to assess factory worker attitudes.
In 1935, R. Hoppock published a study of 500 teachers on how satisfied they were with their jobs.
This study found that job satisfaction is affected by the work, the coworkers, and the managers.
Before the 1930s, not many job satisfaction studies were published.
Many factors influence job satisfaction.
Some factors are environmental.
They are particular to a situation.
They come from the work and the workplace.
In 1976, Edwin A. Locke wrote about the factors that lead to satisfaction or dissatisfaction at work.
Although this list was written in the 20th century, many factors are the same in the 21st century also.
Work is challenging.
The employee is able to do the work.
Tasks are at or slightly above his abilities, not below.
Work is not overly physically demanding.
Tiring work is frustrating.
Work is interesting, not boring.
Work is rewarding.
Employees receive awards, praise, and encouragement.
Workers have common objectives.
Managers and employees work together toward shared goals.
The organization supports its employees.
There are policies and processes that help employees achieve their goals.
There are pay supplements, non-monetary rewards, or bonuses that are not money, for example, travel and other perks.
A person can feel satisfied with their job if they get a good evaluation of their work.