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# Javier López Vallejo
**Javier López Vallejo** (born 22 September 1975) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
## Club career {#club_career}
Born in Pamplona, López Vallejo began his career at hometown\'s CA Osasuna, making his first appearance for the main squad not yet 19 in a 3--0 home win over Sporting de Gijón on 15 May 1994, although the Navarrese had already been relegated from La Liga. He became an undisputed starter from the 1995--96 season onwards.
López Vallejo signed for Villarreal CF in 1999 alongside teammate Jesús Unanua (also a goalkeeper), appearing in all the games during the 1999--2000 campaign as the club returned to the top flight after a one-year absence. He retained first-choice status the following two years.
With the signing of Pepe Reina in 2002 and the subsequent arrival of imports Sebastián Viera and Mariano Barbosa, however, López Vallejo was consecutively demoted to backup and third-choice. In order to search more playing opportunities he joined Recreativo de Huelva in the same league on loan for the 2006--07 season, where he played the majority of the Andalusians\' matches.
In 2007--08, López Vallejo signed for Real Zaragoza on a free transfer, where he backed up former Real Madrid player César (two games). As the latter moved to Tottenham Hotspur in August 2008 he became the starter, with the side now in the Segunda División, and was instrumental as they immediately returned to the top tier.
López Vallejo started the 2009--10 season on the bench, then became first-choice over Juan Pablo Carrizo. However, he lost his position in January 2010 with the arrival of new coach José Aurelio Gay and, later that month, was released by mutual consent; he immediately found a new team, joining Levadiakos F.C. in Greece alongside his compatriot Kike Sola, from former club Osasuna.
## International career {#international_career}
In 1991, López Vallejo helped the Spain under-17s to win the UEFA European Championship in Switzerland (then named under-16). Later that year, in the FIFA World Cup equivalent, he was the starter in a final runner-up position in Italy.
López Vallejo also won caps for the unofficial Navarre and Basque Country regional sides
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# Politics of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is generally considered a highly competitive swing state. Throughout its entire history, it voted for the nationwide loser on only 10 occasions (1824, 1884, 1892, 1912, 1916, 1932, 1948, 1968, 2000, and 2004), meaning it has voted for the national winner 83% of the time as of 2024. Although, it generally supported Republicans between the Civil War and New Deal eras, as it voted Republican in every election between 1860 and 1932, except for 1912, when the Republican vote was split. Even then, the state\'s strong Republican ties meant that it backed Republican-turned-Progressive Theodore Roosevelt. The state backed a Democrat in 1936 for the first time since 1856. Pennsylvania generally leaned Democratic from the 1990s until the 2010s, as it backed the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1992 until 2016, when it was won by Republican candidate Donald Trump. After narrowly losing the state in 2020, Trump flipped it back in 2024.
In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won the state by a margin of over 10 percent, the largest victory seen in a presidential election in Pennsylvania since Richard Nixon\'s victory in 1972. In 2016, Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush in 1988, winning by a margin of 0.7 percent. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the state by 1.2 percent. In 2024, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris by 1.7 percent.
Pennsylvania has a split government as of June 2025, with the governor\'s office being held by Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state house being controlled by the Democratic Party, and the state senate being controlled by the Republican Party. Republicans control three statewide offices in Pennsylvania: Treasurer, Auditor General, and Attorney General. In the United States Senate, Pennsylvania is represented by Republican Dave McCormick and Democrat John Fetterman. In the United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania is represented by 10 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
Pennsylvania's former Senator, Arlen Specter, announced in April 2009 that he was switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democratic, citing the Republicans\' shift to the right since he was elected in 1980, though others suspected he switched because he would face a tough Republican primary election in 2010. As it turned out, he ended up losing the Democratic primary to Representative Joe Sestak. Congressman Sestak narrowly lost the general election to Pat Toomey in November 2010, returning the Senate seat to Republicans.
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# Politics of Pennsylvania
## History
Philadelphia is the Democratic stronghold of the state, often delivering huge margins for the Democrats in statewide elections. Other urban areas, such as Pittsburgh, Erie, Harrisburg, Allentown, and Scranton lean Democratic as well. Like most states, Pennsylvania\'s rural areas tend to be more conservative and support Republicans. The resulting political map of Pennsylvania is therefore a red \"T\" in the center of the state with the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas a strong blue. In more recent years, the traditionally Democratic-voting areas in southwestern Pennsylvania have become much more Republican, especially after 2004, similar to other coal country areas in West Virginia and Kentucky. By 2016, counties that once voted for John Kerry in 2004 in the counties surrounding Allegheny County supported Donald Trump by more than 60%. The true swing areas of the state are the suburbs of the large cities, notably Philadelphia\'s collar counties and the Pittsburgh suburbs.
On the state level, Pennsylvania has been a traditionally liberal Republican state, with a dominant state Republican Party that is much more oriented towards social spending than more conservative state Republican Parties in other regions of the United States. However, the recent Democratic trend in Pennsylvania has affected state politics, and the Democrats controlled the governor\'s mansion for all but four years since 2003 starting with the two terms under Governor Ed Rendell. After losing the governorship for four years to Tom Corbett from 2011 to 2015, Democratic Governor Tom Wolf defeated Corbett\'s re-election bid in 2014. Democrat Josh Shapiro succeeded him after the 2022 election, resulting in Democrats winning the governorship three times in a row for the first time since 1844.
On January 22, 2018, in *League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania*, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania mandated that the state\'s congressional map be redrawn, finding that the current map was unconstitutionally drawn to favor Republicans and disenfranchise Democratic voters, a process known as gerrymandering. Less than one month later, a new congressional map was drawn and approved. The new map would take place in the May primaries. With the new congressional map in place, Democrats had a net gain of three congressional seats, giving the Democratic Party half of Pennsylvania\'s congressional seats. Also in the 2018 midterm elections, Governor Tom Wolf won reelection by a margin of 17 percent, Bob Casey Jr. was reelected to a third term in the U.S. Senate, John Fetterman unseated incumbent lieutenant governor Mike Stack, and the Republican Party maintained control of the state legislature.
## Federal relations {#federal_relations}
During the Tom Ridge administration, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintained a permanent in-house lobbying office in Washington, D.C., to lobby the federal government of the United States. During the Ed Rendell administration, the Commonwealth closed that office and entered into a \$720,000 annual contract with Blank Rome to lobby the federal government. The Rendell administration says that the contract with Blank Rome was \$140,000 less per year than maintaining a permanent state office in Washington.
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# Politics of Pennsylvania
## Federal representation {#federal_representation}
Pennsylvania currently has 17 House districts. In the 119th Congress, ten are held by Republicans and seven are held by Democrats:
- Pennsylvania\'s 1st congressional district represented by Brian Fitzpatrick (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 2nd congressional district represented by Brendan Boyle (D)
- Pennsylvania\'s 3rd congressional district represented by Dwight Evans (D)
- Pennsylvania\'s 4th congressional district represented by Madeleine Dean (D)
- Pennsylvania\'s 5th congressional district represented by Mary Gay Scanlon (D)
- Pennsylvania\'s 6th congressional district represented by Chrissy Houlahan (D)
- Pennsylvania\'s 7th congressional district represented by Ryan Mackenzie (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 8th congressional district represented by Rob Bresnahan (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 9th congressional district represented by Dan Meuser (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 10th congressional district represented by Scott Perry (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 11th congressional district represented by Lloyd Smucker (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 12th congressional district represented by Summer Lee (D)
- Pennsylvania\'s 13th congressional district represented by John Joyce (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 14th congressional district represented by Guy Reschenthaler (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 15th congressional district represented by Glenn Thompson (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 16th congressional district represented by Mike Kelly (R)
- Pennsylvania\'s 17th congressional district represented by Chris Deluzio (D)
Pennsylvania\'s two United States senators are Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dave McCormick, serving since 2023 and 2025, respectively.
Pennsylvania is part of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in the federal judiciary. The district\'s cases are appealed to the Philadelphia-based United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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# Boxing at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
The boxing tournaments at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester took place from July 26 to August 3 at the Forum Centre, and the Manchester Evening News Arena
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# Réunion franc
The **franc** was the currency of Réunion until 1999. Before 1975, Réunion had its own franc, distinct from that of France. After 1975, the French franc circulated. Réunion now uses the euro. The Réunion franc was subdivided into 100 *centimes*.
## History
The French franc circulated on Réunion alone (except for a single coin issue) until 1874, when distinct issues of currency commenced. Initially, notes of the Banque de la Réunion and the Colonial Treasury circulated alongside French currency. In 1896, coins were issued, followed by bank tokens in 1920. In 1945, the CFA franc was created and was adopted in Réunion, with distinct coins introduced in 1948. Although Réunion\'s paper money was stamped with the equivalent value in new francs from 1960, the new franc did not replace the Réunion franc until 1975, when French currency replaced Réunion\'s at a rate of 1 French (new) franc = 50 Réunion (CFA) francs.
## Coins
- 1779/80 - 3 sols \"Isles de France et de Bourbon\"
- 1781 - 3 sous \"Isles de France et de Bourbon\"
- 1816, billon 10 centimes were struck in the name of the Isle de Bourbon (as Réunion was then known). In 1896, cupro-nickel 50 centimes and 1 franc coins were issued.
- 1920, aluminium 5, 10 and 25 centime bank tokens were issued, which circulated until 1941.
- 1948, aluminium 1 and 2 francs coins were introduced
- 1955 aluminium 5 francs and aluminium-bronze 10 and 20 francs.
- 1962 and 1964 Nickel 50 and 100 francs.
All denominations were issued until 1975
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# Yasunori
**Yasunori** is a masculine Japanese given name.
## Written forms {#written_forms}
**Yasunori** can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
- 安徳, \"tranquil, benevolence\"
- 安紀, \"tranquil, chronicle\"
- 安典, \"tranquil, law code\"
- 安範, \"tranquil, pattern\"
- 安憲, \"tranquil, constitution\"
- 安法, \"tranquil, method\"
- 保徳, \"preserve, benevolence\"
- 保紀, \"preserve, chronicle\"
- 保典, \"preserve, law code\"
- 保範, \"preserve, pattern\"
- 保憲, \"preserve, constitution\"
- 保法, \"preserve, method\"
- 靖徳, \"peaceful, benevolence\"
- 靖紀, \"peaceful, chronicle\"
- 靖典, \"peaceful, law code\"
- 泰徳, \"peaceful, benevolence\"
- 康規, \"healthy, to scheme\"
- 八洲乗, \"8, continent, to get on\"
The name can also be written in hiragana やすのり or katakana ヤスノリ
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# Nakajima Ki-49
The **Nakajima Ki-49** ***Donryu*** (呑龍, \"Storm Dragon\") was a twin-engine Japanese World War II heavy bomber. It was designed to carry out daylight bombing missions, without the protection of escort fighters. Consequently, while its official designation, **Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber**, was accurate in regard to its formidable defensive armament and armor, these features restricted the Ki-49 to payloads comparable to those of lighter medium bombers -- the initial production variant could carry only 1000 kg of bombs.
A mid-wing, cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction, the Ki-49 was one of the first Japanese aircraft fitted with a retractable tailwheel. During World War II, it was known to the Allies by the reporting name \"**Helen**\".
## Development
The Ki-49 was designed to replace the Mitsubishi Ki-21 (\"Sally\"), which entered service with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in 1938. Learning from service trials of the Ki-21, the Army realized that however advanced it may have been at the time of its introduction, its new Mitsubishi bomber would in due course be unable to operate without fighter escorts. The Japanese Army stipulated that its replacement should have the speed and defensive weaponry to enable it to operate independently.
The prototype first flew in August 1939 and the development programme continued through three prototypes and seven pre-production aircraft. This first prototype was powered by a pair of 708 kW Nakajima Ha-5 KA-I radial engines but the next two had the 932 kW Nakajima Ha-41 engines that were intended for the production version. Seven more prototypes were built and these completed the test programme for the aircraft. Eventually in March 1941, the *Donryu* went into production as the **Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber Model 1**.
## Operational history {#operational_history}
Going operational from autumn 1941, the Ki-49 first saw service in China. After the outbreak of the Pacific War it was also active in the New Guinea area and in raids on Australia. Like the prototype, these early versions were armed with five 7.7 mm machine guns and one 20 mm cannon. Combat experience in China and New Guinea showed the *Donryu* to be underpowered, with bomb capacity and speed suffering as a result. Thus, in the spring of 1942 an up-engined version was produced, fitted with more powerful Ha-109 engines and this became the production **Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber Model 2** or **Ki-49-IIa**. The Model 2 also introduced improved armor and self-sealing fuel tanks and was followed by the **Ki-49-IIb** in which 12.7 mm Ho-103 machine guns replaced three of the 7.7 mm Type 89 machine guns.
In spite of these improvements, losses continued to mount, as the quantity and quality of fighter opposition rose. In early 1943, further power increases were delayed, owing to development difficulties with the 1805 kW Nakajima Ha-117 engines, and the Ki-49-III never entered production, with only six prototypes being built.
In the face of its increasing vulnerability to opposing fighter aircraft while performing its intended role, the Ki-49 was used in other roles towards the end of the Pacific War, including anti-submarine warfare patrol, troop transport, and as a *kamikaze*.
After 819 aircraft had been completed, production ended in December 1944. Fifty of these were built by Tachikawa.
## Variants
Ki-49:Prototypes and pre-series models with a 708 kW Nakajima Ha-5 KAI or the 1250 hp Ha-4. The pre-series with little modifications from the prototype.\
Ki-49-I:Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber Model 1, first production version.\
Ki-49-II:Two prototypes fitted with two Nakajima Ha-109 radial piston engines.\
Ki-49-IIa:Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber Model 2A - Production version with Ha-109 engines and armament as Model 1.\
Ki-49-IIb:Version of Model 2 with 12.7 mm Ho-103 machine guns replacing rifle caliber weapons.\
Ki-49-III:Six prototypes fitted with two 1805 kW Nakajima Ha-117 engines.\
Ki-58:Escort fighter with Ha-109 engines, 5 x 20 mm cannon, 3 x 12.7 mm machine guns. 3 prototypes built.\
Ki-80:Specialized pathfinder aircraft - 2 prototypes; employed as engine test-beds.
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# Nakajima Ki-49
## Operators
### Wartime
`{{JPN}}`{=mediawiki}
- Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
- No. 61 Hikō Sentai IJAAF
- No. 62 Hikō Sentai IJAAF
- No. 74 Hikō Sentai IJAAF
- No. 95 Hikō Sentai IJAAF
- No. 110 Hikō Sentai IJAAF
- No. 11 Hikōshidan IJAAF
- Hamamatsu Army Heavy Bomber School
### Post-war {#post_war}
`{{FRA}}`{=mediawiki}
- 3 captured aircraft were used between 1946 and 1949 in Indochina
`{{IDN}}`{=mediawiki}
- Indonesian Air Force - Ex-Japanese Aircraft were operated by Indonesian guerilla forces after the war.
`{{THA}}`{=mediawiki}
- Royal Thai Air Force - Utilized 1 Nakajima Ki-49 as a transport post war, during 1945-46
## Specifications (Ki-49-IIa) {#specifications_ki_49_iia}
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# Bill Miller (wide receiver)
**William Joseph Miller** (April 17, 1940 -- December 14, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for six seasons in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes. He played in the AFL for the Dallas Texans (1962), the Buffalo Bills (1963), and the Oakland Raiders (1964--1968).
## Early life and education {#early_life_and_education}
Miller was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1940. He attended the University of Miami, where he played college football for the Miami Hurricanes. At the University of Miami, he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
## Professional football {#professional_football}
Miller launched his professional football career with the Dallas Texans in 1962.
Miller played in 66 games in his career, garnering 141 receptions for 1,879 yards and 10 touchdowns. In five career playoff games, he caught 9 passes for 121 yards and three touchdowns. Miller was 4th in receptions in 1963 with 69 catches, while being 7th in receiving yards with 860 and 8th in receiving yards per game at 61.4. He was named to the 2nd Team in the All-AFL level by the Associated Press that year. Miller caught two touchdown passes in Super Bowl II in 1968, the only scores from quarterback Daryle Lamonica in the Oakland Raiders\' 33--14 loss to the Green Bay Packers. Miller\'s five catches led all receivers in the game.
## Post-NFL life {#post_nfl_life}
After he retired, Miller served as an assistant coach for the Buffalo Bills for three seasons. He also worked at Hutchinson Central Technical High School as a substitute teacher. He started up a sports bar and later an exotic dance club in Miami called the Bird\'s Nest for several years. He is on the list of retired players that will receive brain testing for Alzheimer\'s disease, memory loss or dementia as part of the NFL plan to address injuries linked to concussions. He later resided in St. Augustine, Florida, where he died on December 14, 2024, at the age of 84
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# Darren Fay
**Darren Fay** (born 11 April 1976 in Trim, County Meath) is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Meath county team. He is regarded as the latest in a long line of accomplished Meath full-backs, following the likes of Mick Lyons, Jack Quinn, Paddy O\'Brien and Tommy \"The Boiler\" McGuinness. He plays club football for Trim. He came to prominence in 1996 when he won an All-Ireland senior medal in his first season as a Meath regular first team player. In 1999 he won his second All-Ireland medal. He is also the holder of 3 Leinster Senior medals. Fay has won 3 All Star awards. For the 2006 season Fay made himself unavailable for the Meath team but he returned to the Meath panel for the 2007 season. On 23 July 2008 Fay confirmed his retirement after a defeat to Limerick.
He was a selector when Barry Callaghan managed the Meath under-20 team
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# Craig Campbell (comedian)
**Craig Campbell** (born 1969) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, who now lives in Devon, England.
## Career
Campbell co-hosted Ed\'s Night Party (aka *Ed\'s Late Night*) with Ed the Sock on Citytv in Toronto, Canada for several seasons, and also hosted *From Wimps to Warriors*. He was also part of a comedy trio called The Dinks, with Tony Law and Dan Antopolski. He also appeared with Dennis Miller on *Mountain Madness* and performed with *Jim Carrey Live* and on *Just for Laughs*. In the UK he has appeared on *Russell Howard\'s Good News* on BBC Three and with Al Murray on *Edinburgh & Beyond*. He also appeared in the second series of *Michael McIntyre\'s Comedy Roadshow* on BBC One. In November 2008 he toured Kazakhstan with UK comic Nick Wilty, performing in Almaty, Aktau and Atyrau. He supported Frankie Boyle on his 2010 UK tour and performed his debut stand-up tour in 2011. He opened for Boyle on his 2012 tour. He appeared on *Dave\'s One Night Stand* in April 2011, with Chris Addison and Jo Enright. In November 2015, Craig performed in Moscow, Russia. Campbell hosted a monthly comedy night in Tiverton, Devon. However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, this has been cancelled
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# Frank Pitts
**Frank H. Pitts** (born November 12, 1943) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL). He played ten seasons for the AFL\'s Kansas City Chiefs (1965--1969) and then the NFL\'s Chiefs (1970), Cleveland Browns (1971--1973) and Oakland Raiders (1974).
## Kansas City Chiefs {#kansas_city_chiefs}
Pitts came to the Chiefs in 1965, the team\'s fourth-round draft pick. He had speed and desire, but throughout the wide receiver\'s first three seasons in Kansas City, he acquired a \"bad hands\" label. However, he worked through the problem, and when starting wide receiver Otis Taylor was injured in 1968, Pitts stepped in. He was a starter the next three seasons, and his end around reverse runs became a big part of the Chiefs\' offense.
### Super Bowl IV {#super_bowl_iv}
Hank Stram told the play to Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson. \"Listen, let\'s have a \... 9-0-8, 51 G-O reverse.\" As Dawson ran back to the huddle, Stram told everyone on the sidelines, \"Here comes the reverse from Tight I, it could be wide open.\" Dawson took the snap, faked to Wendell Hayes on the left side of the line, then turned the ball to a sprinting Frank Pitts, who turned the corner and jetted down the right sideline for 20 yards. It was one of the biggest plays of the Chiefs\' Super Bowl IV win over the Minnesota Vikings, and it set up Jan Stenerud\'s third field goal of the game.
Pitts ran the reverse again in the third quarter and picked up a critical first down. Otis Taylor scored on the next play.
In 74 games for Kansas City, Pitts caught 78 passes for 11 touchdowns and ran the ball 24 times for 238 yards and one touchdown.
## Cleveland and Oakland {#cleveland_and_oakland}
The Chiefs traded Pitts to the Cleveland Browns before the start of the 1971 season, where he became one of their starting wide receivers. He finished his career with the Oakland Raiders.
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Frank currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Frank is married to Diane Guidry Pitts and they have three children.
His grandson, Brandon Bolden, played running back collegiately at Ole Miss and in the NFL for the New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, and Las Vegas Raiders
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# Critique of ideology
The **critique of ideology** is a concept used in critical theory, literary studies, and cultural studies. It focuses on analyzing the ideology found in cultural texts, whether those texts be works of popular culture or high culture, philosophy or TV advertisements. These ideologies can be expressed implicitly or explicitly. The focus is on analyzing and demonstrating the underlying ideological assumptions of the texts and then criticizing the attitude of these works. An important part of ideology critique has to do with "looking suspiciously at works of art and debunking them as tools of oppression".
## Terminology
The critique of ideology has a particular understanding of \"ideology,\" distinct from political perspective or opinions. This specialized meaning comes from the term\'s root in the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For the critique of ideology, ideology is a form of *false consciousness*. Ideology is a lie about the real state of affairs in the world. In Raymond Williams\'s words, it is about \"ideology as illusion, false consciousness, unreality, upside-down reality\".
German philosopher Markus Gabriel defines ideology as \"any attempt to objectify the human mind \[\...\] to eradicate the historical dimensions of it, to turn something which is historically contingent, produced by humans, into some kind of natural necessity.\" In the work of Marx and Engels, ideology was the false belief that capitalist society was a product of human nature, when in reality it had been imposed, often violently, in particular circumstances, in particular places, at particular historical periods.
The term \"critique\" is also employed in a special manner. Rather than a synonym for criticism, \"critique\" comes from Immanuel Kant\'s usage of the term, which meant an investigation into the structures under which we live, think, and act. A critic of ideology, in this sense, is not merely one who expresses disagreement or disapproval, but who is able to bring to light the belief\'s true conditions of possible existence. Because conditions are constantly changing, showing a belief\'s existence to be built on mere conditions implicitly shows that they are not eternal, natural, or organic, but are instead historical, contingent, and therefore changeable. Frankfurt School philosopher Max Horkheimer termed a theory critical if it aims \"to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them.\"
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# Critique of ideology
## After Marx {#after_marx}
There is no universally agreed upon definition or model of ideology. The classical and orthodox Marxist definition of ideology is false belief, emergent from the oppressive society which educates its citizens to be obedient workers. The failures of the 1918 revolutions, the rise of Stalinism and fascism, and the explosion of another world war saw a new focus on the importance of ideology among Marxists. Rather than a mere lie of the political-economic establishment, ideology was recognized to be a force in its own right. Wilhelm Reich and later the Frankfurt School complemented Marx\'s theory of society with Freud\'s theory of the subject, departing from orthodox Marxism and the Leninist traditions, and setting the foundations of what later came to be called \"critical theory.\"
Reich saw the rise of fascism as an expression of a long-repressed sexuality. Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote in his essay \"The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception\" how the mass entertainment blunts the possibilities for liberatory action by creating and satisfying false needs.
> Interested parties like to explain the culture industry in technological terms. Its millions of participants, they argue, demand reproduction processes which inevitably lead to the use of standard products to meet the same needs at countless locations. The technical antithesis between few production centers and widely dispersed reception necessitates organization and planning by those in control. The standardized forms, it is claimed, were originally derived from the needs of the consumers: that is why they are accepted with so little resistance. In reality, a cycle of manipulation and retroactive need is unifying the system ever more tightly.
Adorno identifies supply and demand reasoning as ideological. It is not merely a false belief: it is a false worldview or philosophy which enables the maintenance of the contingent, historical status quo while appearing to be objective and scientific. A major theme of the Frankfurt School is that those modes of thinking which, at first, are liberatory, may become ideological as time goes on
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# Steven Birch
**Steven Birch** (born 25 September 1981, in Whiston) is a light heavyweight boxer from England, who won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom
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# Eddie Hinton (American football)
**Edward Gerald Hinton** (born June 26, 1947) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Hinton spent four seasons with the Baltimore Colts, including their 1970 Super Bowl winning season, and one season each with the Houston Oilers and New England Patriots. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma.
## Early life {#early_life}
Eddie Hinton was born on June 26, 1947 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Hinton began playing sports in fifth grade to escape his unpleasant home life. His parents were bootleggers and he claimed his family had a poor reputation in their neighborhood.
Hinton was a multi-sport athlete at Lawton High School. In his senior year, Hinton earned All-State honors as a halfback on the football team, started on the state-runner up basketball team, and won a state title in track in the low hurdles, earning him the Boomer Conference Athlete of the Year award. Hinton was also selected to represent Oklahoma in the 1965 Oil Bowl high school all-star game. He subsequently received a football scholarship to the University of Oklahoma.
## College career {#college_career}
Hinton played for three years at Oklahoma as a halfback and defensive back. Under offensive coordinator Barry Switzer, Hinton had a productive college career as both a pass catcher and rusher.
### 1966 season
In Hinton\'s sophomore year, Oklahoma started the season with four straight wins, reaching #10 in the AP poll. The team ultimately finished at 6--4, fifth in the Big Eight Conference. Hinton appeared in all 10 games with 26 receptions for 341 yards and two touchdowns and 270 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns. Hinton also recorded a 93-yard punt return for a touchdown against Colorado.
### 1967 season {#season_1}
In his junior season, Hinton again appeared in all 10 games and led the team in receiving with 28 receptions for 427 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 250 yards and three touchdowns. Oklahoma went 10--1 and won the Big Eight Conference. The #3 ranked Sooners faced #2 Tennessee in the Orange Bowl, winning 26--24.
### 1968 season {#season_2}
Despite suffering a broken hand, Hinton\'s senior year was his best statistical season at Oklahoma. Hinton led the Big Eight Conference in all major receiving categories with 60 receptions for 967 yards and six touchdowns. After his senior season, Hinton was named to the 1968 AP All-America Third team and was named as an Academic All-American.
Oklahoma went 7--4 on the season and were co-champions of the Big Eight Conference with Kansas. The Sooners earned a postseason bowl invite to play SMU in the Bluebonnet Bowl, which they lost 27--28. The team finished the 1968 season ranked #11 in the AP poll.
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## Professional career {#professional_career}
Hinton was drafted by the Baltimore Colts with the 25th overall pick in the first round of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft.
### Baltimore Colts (1969--1972) {#baltimore_colts_19691972}
#### 1969 season {#season_3}
In Hinton\'s rookie year, he saw limited playing time until the latter half of the season. His best game came in a snowy week 12 contest against the Detroit Lions where Hinton had five receptions for 134 yards and one touchdown. He finished the season with 13 receptions for 269 yards and one receiving touchdown and added another rushing touchdown. The Colts finished the season at 8--5, placing second in the Coastal Division standings and missing the playoffs.
#### 1970 season {#season_4}
In 1970, Hinton became a starter at wide receiver and was a key contributor to the Colts\' Super Bowl winning team. Hinton started 13 games and recorded his best statistical season in the NFL with 47 receptions for 733 yards and five touchdowns. He also added two rushing touchdowns. His best game of the season came in week two during the second-ever telecast of Monday Night Football against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Colts were routed 24--44, but Hinton served as the lone bright spot with 11 receptions for 190 yards and one touchdown.
The Colts recovered from the blowout loss and finished the regular season at 11--2--1. The Colts won the AFC East Division and earned a place in the 1970--71 playoffs. In Hinton\'s first playoff appearance against the Cincinnati Bengals he had three receptions for 86 yards and one touchdown. His longest catch was a 53-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Johnny Unitas in the fourth quarter to seal the Colts\' 17--0 victory.
The following week, the Colts faced the Oakland Raiders in the inaugural 1970 AFC Championship Game. Hinton again performed well with five receptions for 115 yards. Although he did not score, Hinton was the Colts\' leading receiver and had several long receptions to set up scoring plays. The Colts won 27--17 and earned a spot in the Super Bowl.
In Super Bowl V, the Colts faced the Dallas Cowboys at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. In what later became known as the \"Blunder Bowl\" due to the poor level of play, the Colts defeated the Cowboys 16--13 on a last second field goal by kicker Jim O\'Brien. Hinton had two receptions for 51 yards in the game.
Hinton was also involved in two plays that contributed to the game\'s mocking nickname. In the second quarter, a Unitas pass intended for Hinton sailed high and bounced off his hands. The ball was then tipped by Cowboys defender Mel Renfro before falling into the arms of Colts tight end John Mackey who ran for a 75-yard touchdown. Hinton later caught a pass from wide receiver Sam Havrilak on a broken flea flicker play, but the ball was stripped by Renfro and Cornell Green on the Cowboys\' 11-yard line. Several players attempted to control the ball before it eventually bounced through the back of the end zone for a Cowboys touchback.
#### 1971 season {#season_5}
In his third professional season, Hinton and fellow receiver Ray Perkins maintained the Colts\' dynamic passing attack. Hinton led the Colts in receiving yards with 25 receptions for 436 yards and two touchdowns. His two best regular season performances for the year came against the New England Patriots. In their week three matchup, Hinton had four receptions for 81 yards with the Colts winning 23--3. In week 14, Hinton scored both of the Colts\' touchdowns, with a total of four receptions for 74 yards, in a 17--21 loss.
The Colts finished 10--4 and earned a wild card berth to the playoffs. In a Divisional round win against the Cleveland Browns, Hinton had two catches for 30 yards. In the 1971 AFC Championship Game against the Miami Dolphins, Hinton caught six passes for 98 yards, but the Colts lost the game 0--21.
#### 1972 season {#season_6}
The 1972 season was a disappointment for both the Colts and Hinton. In the season\'s opening game, Hinton suffered a hamstring injury that lingered throughout the rest of the season. Hinton only appeared in eight games and totaled 11 receptions for 146 yards and one touchdown.
Hinton\'s lone touchdown was an important moment in an otherwise meaningless week 12 win against the Buffalo Bills. Quarterback Marty Domres, who had taken over earlier in the season for a benched Johnny Unitas, was injured and forced out of the game. Unitas entered the game and threw a 63-yard touchdown pass to Hinton in the fourth quarter, Unitas\' last touchdown pass as a Baltimore Colt.
Hinton later said about the play, \"I saw \[the ball\] coming and thought, \'Oh, my gosh, it\'s going to be intercepted.\' I couldn\'t allow that to happen. I came back for the ball, reached over my shoulder and snatched it. Then I reversed field and just kept running. It was like I was walking on air and nobody could touch me. But I felt like I had to score that for \[Unitas\].\"
The Colts ended the season at 5--9 and did not make the playoffs. Under new ownership, the Colts began to make coaching and player personnel changes. Hinton was a casualty of the team\'s new direction, and was cut by the Colts prior to the start of the 1973 season.
### Houston Oilers (1973) {#houston_oilers_1973}
Hinton was claimed by the Houston Oilers at the beginning of the 1973 season. Houston struggled throughout the season, finishing with a 1--13 record. Hinton also struggled. Hobbled by lingering injuries, Hinton only recorded 13 catches for 202 yards and one touchdown. Hinton also returned kickoffs, with eight returns for 141 yards.
Two days prior to the conclusion of the 1974 NFL Strike in August 1974, Hinton reported to Oilers training camp. However, the Oilers cut Hinton in early September prior to the start of the regular season.
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# Eddie Hinton (American football)
## Professional career {#professional_career}
### New England Patriots (1974) {#new_england_patriots_1974}
Hinton was signed by the New England Patriots on October 17, 1974. Hinton had multiple connections that brought him to New England. Patriots\' head coach Chuck Fairbanks was Hinton\'s head coach at Oklahoma, while Patriots\' receivers coach was former Colts teammate Ray Perkins. Fairbanks hoped that Hinton could easily adjust to the Patriots\' offense because of this familiarity. Hinton was brought in to strengthen the Patriots receiver group after Darryl Stingley suffered a spinal cord injury in a pre-season game, which ended Stingley\'s career and left him as a quadriplegic.
Hinton\'s role was limited during his season with the Patriots. He appeared in nine games, but only made one start, and recorded two receptions for 36 yards. The Patriots finished the season at 7--7. Hinton was placed on waivers by the Patriots in April 1975.
## NFL career statistics {#nfl_career_statistics}
Legend
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### Regular season {#regular_season}
Year Team Games Receiving
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1969 BAL 12 3 13 269
1970 BAL 13 **13** **47** **733**
1971 BAL **14** 11 25 436
1972 BAL 8 2 11 146
1973 HOU 11 1 13 202
1974 NE 9 1 2 36
[Career](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HintEd00.htm) 67 31 111 1,822
### Postseason
Year Team Games Receiving
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1970 BAL **3** **3** **10** **252**
1971 BAL 2 2 8 128
[Career](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HintEd00/gamelog/post/) 5 5 18 380
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# Eddie Hinton (American football)
## Personal life {#personal_life}
After retiring from football, Hinton became a homebuilder. Hinton now lives on a farm in Spring Branch, Texas, with his wife and several animals. He previously served as a school bus driver for local school districts with the goal of helping troubled children
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# Tokyojin
is a Japanese-language monthly magazine about the history and culture of Tokyo, and culture and leisure in the city. The title is a little-used term, almost a neologism, for somebody from, in or of Tokyo.
## History and profile {#history_and_profile}
The first issue of *Tokyojin* was published in January 1986. Until the June 2001 issue it was published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (`{{nihongo2|東京都歴史文化財団}}`{=mediawiki}, Tōkyō-to Rekishi Bunka Zaidan). The non-profit, non-commercial backing meant that the magazine stayed independent of the preoccupation with shopping and other consumption shared by the huge majority of Japanese magazines, and *Tokyojin* could concentrate on substantive issues of urban design and so forth.
From July 2001 the magazine was published by Toshi-Shuppan (`{{nihongo2|都市出版}}`{=mediawiki}), a commercial publisher; it has increasingly moved in the direction of a guide to culture, leisure and eating out in Tokyo for the middle-aged and retired, although it still has plenty of material of substance, and also of interest to other demographics.
In early 2007, its advisory editors were Saburō Kawamoto, Hidenobu Jinnai, and Mayumi Mori. The March 2007 issue, as an example, is a special issue titled \"Edo Yoshiwara\", about the Yoshiwara entertainment area of Edo: of the total of 162 pages (rather few of which are devoted to advertising, either overt or, as is common in Japanese magazines, covert), seventy-six pages are devoted to Yoshiwara. The contributors include Shōichi Ozawa and Makoto Takeuchi; features include a six-page interview with a very active and alert eighty-eight-year old geisha
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# CMC Magnetics
**CMC Magnetics Corporation** (`{{zh|t=中環股份有限公司}}`{=mediawiki}, *Central Ring Public Limited Company*) is a Taiwanese company that manufactures optical discs. Established in 1978, its factories are located in Taiwan (Memorex, HP, Philips, TDK, Maxell) and Hong Kong (Memorex, Philips). In December 2015, Taiyo Yuden, one of the inventors of the recordable CD and inventor of the original cyanine dye for CD-R, sold its optical disc brand and intellectual property to CMC Magnetics, ending its own production in Japan.
## Products
CMC produces CD and DVD storage media products, including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, and floppy diskettes. CMC produces the Mr. Data line of optical media, which is or was commonly rebranded and sold by HP, Maxprint, Imation, Memorex, Philips, TDK, BenQ, Verbatim Life Series, Staples, Office Depot, Datamax, Optimum, Auchan and other OEM brands.
After Taiyo Yuden sold its optical disc manufacturing business, CMC started the CMC Pro line of optical media, a new line of optical media based on the Taiyo Yuden technology that CMC acquired after Taiyo Yuden left the optical disc market.
## CMC in the UK and Ireland {#cmc_in_the_uk_and_ireland}
Europa Magnetics Corporation Limited, a CMC group company, operated floppy disk, CD-ROM and CD-R production facilities in Cramlington, Northumberland, UK in the 2000s.
CMC also operated a CD-R production plant, MC Infonics in Limerick (Ireland), which it had previously acquired from Mitsubishi Chemical/Verbatim
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# List of Argentine films before 1930
A list of earliest films produced in **Argentina** between 1897 and 1929 ordered by year of release. For an A-Z list of Argentine films see **:Category:Argentine films**
## Pre 1910 {#pre_1910}
Year Title Director Notability
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**1897** *La Bandera Argentina* Eugene Py
**1900** *Tango argentino* Eugene Py
**1901** *Bohemia criolla* Eugene Py
*El Calotero* Eugene Py
*En casa del fotógrafo* Eugene Py
*La Revista de la Escuadra Argentina* Eugene Py
**1903** *Pica, pica compadrito* Eugene Py
**1904** *Abajo la careta* Eugene Py
*Los Políticos* Eugene Py
**1905** *Ensalada criolla* Eugene Py
**1906** *El Soldado de la Independencia* Eugene Py
*Gabino, el Mayora* Eugene Py
*El Pechador*\' Eugene Py
**1907** *Dejá é jugar, ché, ché* Eugene Py
*Los Tocayos* Eugene Py
*Dejá é jugar, ché, ché* Eugene Py
*Mister Wiskey* Eugene Py
**1908** *Los Carreros* Eugene Py
**1909** *Avelino Viamonte* Eugene Py
*Cochero de tranvía* Eugene Py
*La Beata* Eugene Py
## 1910s
Year Title Director Actors Genre Notability
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**1910** *Justicia criolla* Eugene Py
*La Trilla* Eugene Py Eugene Py
*La Revista cielo centenario* Eugene Py
*La Revolución de Mayo* Eugene Py
**1911** *Los Escruchantes* Eugene Py
**1914** *Amalia* Eugene Py
**1917** *El Apóstol* Quirino Cristiani Animation First ever animation feature November 9
*Federación o muerte*
**1918** *En un día de gloria* Mario Gallo and Alberto Traversa
*Sin dejar rastros* Quirino Cristiani
*Buenos Aires tenebroso* Juan Glize
*La garra porteña* Juan Glize
*Violeta o La reina del tango* Juan Glize
**1919** *En buena ley*
*Campo ajuera*
*Juan Sin Ropa* Georges Benoît Camila Quiroga Social melodrama
## 1920s {#s_1}
Year Title Director Actors Genre Notability
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**1920** *Palomas rubias* José A. Ferreyra María Clais
**1921** *La Gaucha* José A. Ferreyra
**1922** *La Muchacha del arrabal* José A. Ferreyra
*Buenos Aires, ciudad de ensueño* José A. Ferreyra
*La Chica de la calle Florida* José A. Ferreyra
*En un pingo pagaré*
**1923** *Galleguita*
*Guapo del arrabal, El*
*De nuestras pampas*
**1924** *Los Misterios del turf argentino*
*Buenos Aires bohemio*
*El Consultorio de Madame René* Ada Cornaro Debut of Ada Cornaro
**1925** *Tu cuna fue un conventillo*
*Padre nuestro*
**1926** *La Vuelta al Bulín*
**1927** *Federales y unitarios*
**1928** *Alma en pena* Julio Irigoyen
*La Borrachera del tango*
*The Charge of the Gauchos* Albert H. Kelley Francis X
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# Charley Harraway
**Charles Edward Harraway, Jr.** (born September 21, 1944) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for eight seasons with the Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He also played one season in the World Football League, with the champion Birmingham Americans in 1974. He played college football for the San Jose State Spartans.
## Early years {#early_years}
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Harraway\'s father was in the U.S. Army and he attended the American high school in Baumholder, West Germany, and graduated from Monterey High School in California in 1962.
He played college football nearby at San Jose State University under head coaches Bob Titchenal and Harry Anderson and is a member of the Spartans\' hall of fame.
## Playing career {#playing_career}
### NFL
Harraway was selected in the 18th round of the 1966 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns, the 273rd overall pick. He was also taken in the 14th round of the AFL draft by the Kansas City Chiefs.
He signed with the NFL and played three seasons in Cleveland under head coach Blanton Collier; the Browns won the Century Division in 1967 and 1968 and went to the playoffs. Harraway was the Browns\' second-leading rusher in 1968, but he was waived in September 1969 and claimed by the Redskins, by Vince Lombardi in his only season as Washington head coach.
Harraway was paired in the backfield with Larry Brown, and the Redskins made the playoffs three consecutive seasons starting in 1971 under head coach George Allen, including the NFC title in 1972 and a berth in Super Bowl VII.
### WFL
Harraway played out his option in Washington in 1973 and signed for a significant salary increase with the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League in 1974, one of the few NFL starters to jump in the league\'s first season. The Americans won the first World Bowl by a point in early December, but were less successful financially and folded in March 1975.
His NFL rights were traded by Washington to the Miami Dolphins for veteran tight end Marv Fleming in 1975; Harraway did not report, Fleming was waived in September, and both retired.
## After football {#after_football}
In 2012, Harraway resided in Sarasota, Florida, and showed early signs of Alzheimer\'s disease.
## Video
- [You Tube](https://www.youtube
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# Low Rainfall Zone
The **Low Rainfall Zone** (**LRZ**) is one of three biogeographic zones into which south west Western Australia is divided, the others being the High Rainfall Zone and the Transitional Rainfall Zone. The LRZ is considered marginal to the south west, and extends throughout much of Australia.
The Zones were first defined by Stephen Hopper in his 1979 paper *Biogeographical aspects of speciation in the southwest Australian flora*. Initially, they were defined in terms of rainfall, with the LRZ being that part of the South West with annual rainfall of less than 300 millimetres (12 in). As the LRZ was marginal to his study area, Hopper did not give a clear demarcation of the zone, merely stating that it `{{quote|"occupies much of central Australia and is marginal to the area under review, extends along the western coast northerwards of Shark Bay to the tropics and along the south coast from Israelite Bay eastward across the low open shrubland of the Nullarbor Plain to temperate South Australia
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# Jens Todt
**Jens Todt** (born 5 January 1970) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
## Club career {#club_career}
Todt began playing professionally with TSV Havelse. In 1991, he followed manager Volker Finke to SC Freiburg, in the 2. Bundesliga, and the two would eventually gain legendary status at the Black Forest outfit. In his second season, he scored a career-best 11 goals in 42 games, being instrumental as the club promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time ever.
Freiburg managed to maintain its top flight status in the following three seasons - finishing third in 1995 - with Todt scoring 14 league goals combined. In the 1996 summer, he signed for SV Werder Bremen, as a replacement for ageing Dieter Eilts (31) and Mirko Votava (40), managing to appear regularly for the club during his three-year spell, which ended with DFB-Pokal conquest, with the player missing in the penalty shootout against FC Bayern Munich (1--1 after 120 minutes) in the final.
Todt subsequently joined VfB Stuttgart, rarely managing to appear due to injuries and loss of form. He retired in 2003 at the age of 33, with German top division totals of 209 games and 21 goals (plus 101/18 in the second level).
After retiring, Todt worked as a journalist for Der Spiegel, joining Hamburger SV as youth team coordinator shortly after. He left HSV in June 2009, and took up a similar role with VfL Wolfsburg seven months later.
## International career {#international_career}
Todt earned three caps for the Germany national team, his debut coming on 12 October 1994, in a 0--0 friendly draw with Hungary.
He was called up to the squad just before the final of UEFA Euro 1996 as a last-minute addition, due to injuries, but did not play for the eventual champions.
## Management career {#management_career}
He was the Sporting Director of VfL Bochum, before being sacked on 8 April 2013.
On 1 January 2017, he was named as the sporting director of Hamburger SV. On 8 March 2018, he was relieved of his duties after Frank Wettstein took over as HSV chairman.
## Honours
**SC Freiburg**
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# Rhizoctonia solani
***Rhizoctonia solani*** is a species of fungus in the order Cantharellales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are thin, effused, and web-like, but the fungus is more typically encountered in its anamorphic state, as hyphae and sclerotia. The name *Rhizoctonia solani* is currently applied to a complex of related species that await further research. In its wide sense, *Rhizoctonia solani* is a facultative plant pathogen with a wide host range and worldwide distribution. It causes various plant diseases such as root rot, damping off, and wire stem. It can also form mycorrhizal associations with orchids.
## Taxonomy
In 1858, the German plant pathologist Julius Kühn observed and described a fungus on diseased potato tubers and named it *Rhizoctonia solani*, the species epithet referring to *Solanum tuberosum* (potato). The disease caused was well known before the discovery and description of the fungus. In 1956, Dutch mycologist M.A. Donk published the new name *Thanatephorus cucumeris* for the spore-bearing teleomorph of *R. solani*, based on the species *Hypochnus cucumeris* originally described from diseased cucumbers in Germany.
Subsequent research has shown that *Rhizoctonia solani* is a complex of related species. This was originally based on observing hyphal anastomosis (or lack of it) in paired isolates grown in culture. Successful anastomosis indicated that the isolates were genetically similar, whilst unsuccessful anastomosis indicated they were dissimilar and distinct. As a result *Rhizoctonia solani* has been split into at least 25 different \"anastomosis groups\" (AGs) and sub-groups. These AGs tend to be associated with different plant diseases.
Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has largely supported the division of *R. solani* into AGs.
Following changes to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, the practice of giving different names to teleomorph and anamorph forms of the same fungus was discontinued, meaning that *Thanatephorus* became a synonym of the earlier name *Rhizoctonia*. In its current sense, therefore, *Rhizoctonia solani* includes both anamorphic and teleomorphic forms of the fungus. *Thanatephorus cucumeris* is part of the *R. solani* species complex, but since it is based on a different type species, it may not be a synonym of *R. solani* sensu stricto.
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# Rhizoctonia solani
## Hosts and symptoms {#hosts_and_symptoms}
*Rhizoctonia solani* sensu lato causes a wide range of commercially significant plant diseases. It is one of the fungi responsible for brown patch (a turfgrass disease), damping off (e.g. in soybean seedlings), black scurf of potatoes, bare patch of cereals, root rot of sugar beet, belly rot of cucumber, banded leaf and sheath blight in maize, sheath blight of rice, and many other pathogenic conditions. The fungus, therefore, has a wide host range and strains of *R. solani* may differ in the hosts they are able to infect, the virulence of infection, selectivity for a given host (which may range from nonpathogenic to highly virulent), the temperature at which infection occurs, the ability to develop in lower soil levels, the ability to form sclerotia, the growth rate, and survival in a certain area. These factors may not always be distinctive in every host that *Rhizoctonia* attacks or in every strain thereof.
*R. solani* primarily attacks seeds of plants below the soil surface, but can also infect pods, roots, leaves, and stems. The most common symptom of *Rhizoctonia* is \"damping off\", or the failure of infected seeds to germinate. *R. solani* may invade the seed before it has germinated to cause this pre-emergent damping off, or it can kill very young seedlings soon after they emerge from the soil. Seeds that do germinate before being killed by the fungus have reddish-brown lesions and cankers on stems and roots.
Various environmental conditions put plants at higher risk of infection. The pathogen prefers warmer, wet climates for infection and growth. Seedlings are most susceptible to disease in their early stages.
Cereals in regions of England, South Australia, Canada, and India experience losses caused by *R. solani* every year. Roots are killed back, causing plants to be stunted and spindly. Other non-cereal plants in those regions can experience brown stumps as another symptom of the pathogen. *R. solani* can also cause hypocotyl and stem cankers on mature plants of tomatoes, potatoes, and cabbages. Strands of mycelium and sometimes sclerotia appear on their surfaces. Roots turn brown and die after a period of time. The best known symptom of *R. solani* is black scurf on potato tubers, the scurf being the sclerotia of the fungus.
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# Rhizoctonia solani
## Disease cycle {#disease_cycle}
*Rhizoctonia solani* can survive in the soil for many years in the form of sclerotia. Sclerotia of *Rhizoctonia* have thick outer layers to allow for survival, and they function as the overwintering structure for the pathogen. In some rare cases (such as the teleomorph) the pathogen may also take on the form of mycelia that reside in the soil, as well. The fungus is attracted to the plant by chemical stimuli released by a growing plant and/or decomposing plant residue. The process of penetration of a host can be accomplished in a number of ways. Entry can occur through direct penetration of the plant cuticle/epidermis or by means of natural openings in the plant. Hyphae come in contact with the plant and attach to the plant by which through growth they begin to produce an appressorium which penetrates the plant cell and allows for the pathogen to obtain nutrients from the plant cell. The pathogen can also release enzymes that break down plant cell walls, and continues to colonize and grow inside dead tissue. This breakdown of the cell walls and colonization of the pathogen within the host forms the sclerotia. New inoculum is produced on or within the host tissue, and a new cycle is repeated when new plants become available. The disease cycle begins as such:
1. Sclerotia/mycelium overwinter in plant debris, soil, or host plants.
2. The young hyphae and fruiting basidia (rare) emerge and produce mycelia and rarely basidiospores.
3. The very rare production of the germinating basidiospores penetrate the stoma, whereas the mycelia land on the plant surface and secrete the necessary enzymes onto the plant surface to initiate invasion of the host plant.
4. After the mycelia successfully invade the host, necrosis and sclerotia form in and around the infected tissue which then leads to the various symptoms associated with the disease, such as soil rot, stem rot, damping off, etc. and the process begins all over again.
## Environment
The pathogen is known to prefer warm, wet weather, and outbreaks typically occur in the early summer months. Most symptoms of the pathogen do not occur until late summer, thus most farmers do not become aware of the diseased crop until harvest. A combination of environmental factors has been linked to the prevalence of the pathogen, such as presence of host plant, frequent rainfall/irrigation, and increased temperatures in spring and summer. In addition, poor drainage of the soil (whether caused by parent soil texture, or by compaction) is also known to create favorable environments for the pathogen. The pathogen is dispersed as sclerotia, and these sclerotia can travel by means of wind, water, or soil movement between host plants.
## Identification
Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are thin, effused, web-like, corticioid, smooth, and ochraceous. Microscopically they have comparatively wide hyphae without clamp connections. Basidia bear 2 to 4 sterigmata. Basidiospores are ellipsoid to oblong, smooth, and colourless, 7 to 10 × 4 to 5.5 μm. They frequently produce secondary spores and germinate by hyphal tubes. The anamorphs consist of hyphae and occasionally sclerotia (small propagules composed of thick-walled hyphae). The fungus produces white to deep brown mycelium when grown on an artificial medium and can often be recognized by the hyphae which are frequently monilioid (forming chains of swollen hyphal compartments), 4 to 15 μm wide, multinucleate, and tend to branch at right angles.
## Management
Complete control of *Rhizoctonia solani* is not possible, but the severity of the pathogen can be limited. Successful control depends on characteristics of the pathogen, host crops, and the environment. Controlling the environment, crop rotation, using resistant varieties, and minimizing soil compaction are effective and non-invasive ways to manage disease. Planting seedlings in warmer soil and getting plants to emerge quickly helps minimize damage. Crop rotation also helps minimize the amount of inoculum that results in infection. A few resistant varieties with moderate resistance to *R. solani* can be used, but they produce lower yields and quantity than standard varieties. Minimizing soil compaction helps water infiltration, drainage, and aeration for the plants.
One specific chemical option is a chemical spray pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB), which is known to be the best solution to reducing damping-off of seeds on host plants. To minimize this soil-borne disease, certified seed free of sclerotia can be planted. Although fungicides are not the most effective way to manage this pathogen, a few have been approved in the United States by the USDA for control of the pathogen.
As long as seed growers stay clear of wet, poorly drained areas while also avoiding susceptible crops, *R. solani* is not usually a problem. Diseases caused by this pathogen are more severe in soils that are moderately wet and a temperature range of 15--18 C.
Rice genetically engineered for overexpression of oxalate oxidase has increased *in vivo* resistance.
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# Rhizoctonia solani
## Economic importance {#economic_importance}
In the United States, *Rhizoctonia solani* can be found across all areas (environmental conditions permitting) where its host crops are located. The severity of infection can vary. Consequences include major yield losses (from 25% to 100%), increased soil tare (because the soil sticks to the fungal mycelium), and poor industrial quality of the crops based on increased levels of sodium, potassium, and nitrogen. Due to the number of hosts that the pathogen attacks, these consequences are numerous and detrimental to a variety of crops. Sheath blight caused by this pathogen is the second-most devastating disease after rice blast.
## Mycorrhizal association with orchids {#mycorrhizal_association_with_orchids}
*Rhizoctonia solani* is one of several *Rhizoctonia* species forming mycorrhizal associations with orchids. This association includes plant pathogenic strains of the fungus as well as non-pathogenic strains.
## Genome
The draft genome of *R. solani* strain Rhs1AP covers 51.7 Mbp, although the heterokaryotic genome of this strain was estimated at 86 Mb, based on an optical map of the chromosomes. The discrepancy is explained by the aneuploid, highly repetitive genome of this species which prevented sequencing (or assembling) the complete DNA. The genome is predicted to encode 12,726 genes. Another strain, AG1-IB 7/3/14, was recently sequenced too
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# Oscar Reed
**Oscar Reed** (born March 24, 1944) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Minnesota Vikings and Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). Reed played in Super Bowl IV, Super Bowl VIII, and Super Bowl IX. He played college football for the Colorado State Rams and was inducted into the Colorado State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993
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# Providence Industrial Mission
**Providence Industrial Mission (PIM)** was an independent church in Nyasaland, modern-day Malawi. The PIM was founded by John Chilembwe, who would later lead a rebellion against colonial rule, upon his return to Nyasaland in 1900 from the United States, where he had been studying in a Baptist seminary. PIM continues today to operate in conjunction with the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
The PIM served as the focal point of the 1915 Chilembwe uprising. In the aftermath of the uprising, the government shut the PIM down and either executed or imprisoned most of its leaders. The government demolished its main church, the New Jerusalem Baptist Church, after recapturing the village of Mbombwe in which it was situated. The PIM remained closed until 1926, when it reopened under the leadership of former student Daniel Sharpe Malekebu. Malekebu led the PIM until 1971, for a total of 45 years. Learnard Muocha took over as Chairman between 1971 and 1987
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# John Keegan Casey
**John Keegan \"Leo\" Casey** (1846 -- 17 March 1870), known as *the Poet of the Fenians*, was an Irish poet, orator and republican who was famous as the writer of the song \"The Rising of the Moon\" and as one of the central figures in the Fenian Rising of 1867. He was imprisoned by the English and died on St. Patrick\'s Day in 1870.
## Early life {#early_life}
He was born in Mount Dalton, County Westmeath to a teacher during the height of the Great Hunger of 1846. Eight years later he moved to Gurteen, near Ballymahon in County Longford, when his father was given the post of head master at the local school. Casey\'s work would come to be closely associated with Ballymahon.
As a teenager he worked as an assistant to his father and was expected to follow him into teaching; however, he was disillusioned by the insufficiently nationalistic nature of the curriculum and spent a great deal of time writing poetry. It was at this time, reputedly at the age of fifteen, that he wrote his best-known song, \"The Rising of the Moon\", which commemorates the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
## Fenians
Following the increasing popularity of his songs and ballads at nationalist gatherings, he moved to Dublin in the 1860s and became active in the Fenian movement. He was a major contributor to *The Nation* newspaper, for which he assumed his pen-name of \'Leo\'.
In 1866, at the age of 20, he published a collection of poems, entitled *A Wreath of Shamrocks*; most of the poems therein had already been published elsewhere, primarily in *The Nation*. The further fame engendered by the success of the book led him to be sought after as a speaker; he addressed mass rallies in Dublin, Liverpool and London that year, in the lead up to the Fenian Rising in 1867.
## Imprisonment
When the uprising failed, he was imprisoned without trial for eight months in Mountjoy Prison. Casey was released on the understanding that he would leave for Australia and not return to Ireland. However, he chose to stay on in Summerhill, Dublin in disguise, living as a Quaker and continuing to write and publish in secret.
## Death
He married Mary Josephine Briscoe in January 1868 and she bore a son Michael, who died shortly after birth in October 1869. His health had been broken by the treatment he had received in prison. He fell from a cab on or near O'Connell Bridge in the centre of Dublin in 1870. He died from his injuries.
Following his death, on St. Patrick\'s Day in 1870, he was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. The newspapers reported that between fifty and one hundred thousand mourners walked in his funeral procession
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# QuickSpot
***QuickSpot*** is a puzzle video game developed and published by Namco for the Nintendo DS. It is one of the last games to be released by Namco, whose successor Namco Bandai Games would release it internationally. the first in the *Unō no Tatsujin* series. A sequel, titled *Unou no Tatsujin Soukai! Machigai Museum 2*, was released exclusively in Japan on March 1, 2007. An updated port of the game, titled *QuickSpot: Master of the Right Brain*, was developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for Nintendo Switch. It was released on April 22, 2021 in Japan and on January 6, 2022 in the west.
## Gameplay
The game projects two images, the correct one on the top screen, and an error filled one on the bottom screen. Comparing the two images, the player has to locate and find the inaccuracies or changes from the top screen to the touch screen. Sometimes the player has to find the unused puzzle piece or part.
This game is based on the traditional game spot the difference. GamePro.com described the game \"like a mix between Where\'s Waldo and the Hidden Pictures section in *Highlights* magazine\".
The players use none of the face buttons or D-Pad on the DS. The entire game is played using the touch screen and stylus. The player draws a circle using the stylus when the player spots the differences between the top image on the bottom screen. In some instances, the built in microphone is used.
This game has 3 modes each for single player and multiplayer. Single player has 3 modes: Rapid Play, Focus Play, and Today\'s Fortune. Multiplayer has 3 modes: Time Bomb, Scramble, and Download Play. In the main stages of Rapid Play, there is 1 difference, except in some special stages. Special stages are unlocked by earning medals, the first medal unlocks \"Animation\". The 50th medal unlocks \"Story\".
Focus Play has 10 differences in 140 puzzles, of which 50 are unlocked from the start. After completing all available puzzles, 10 more are unlocked. If 3 mistakes are made in a puzzle, then it\'s game over. The amount of differences remaining are indicated by the frowns at the bottom right corner. After a difference is found, a frown will smile.
Today\'s Fortune has 5 differences in 5 images and after circling a difference in an image, it advances to the next image. There are 4 fortune types: Health, Study/Work, Romance and Money. The game will give a fortune from 0-5 after completing all images. These fortunes can be viewed once a day.
Time Bomb involves up to 8 players circling the difference so they can pass the system to the next player. Sometimes \"reverse\" and \"skip\" prompts show up. When the bomb explodes, the player with the DS loses.
## Development and release {#development_and_release}
It was announced on the website *GoNintendo* that the game would be localized for North America, and was released on March 19, 2007, 13 months after the Japanese launch. An early review of this game on *GameSpot* gave it a score of 6.3. The North American version also adds references to other Namco franchises like *Pac-Man*, *Mappy*, and *Mr. Driller*
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# Brent McClanahan
**Brent McClanahan** (born September 21, 1952) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for seven seasons with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils. After his playing career, he became a teacher.
## Career
Brent McClanahan played for the Minnesota Vikings, until his retirement. His contract was cut short because of injuries. His jersey number was #33.
## NFL career statistics {#nfl_career_statistics}
Legend
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**Bold**
### Regular season {#regular_season}
Year Team Games Rushing
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GP GS Att Yds Avg
1973 MIN 13 0 17
1974 MIN 14 0 9
1975 MIN 12 3 92
1976 MIN 13 13 **130**
1977 MIN 14 **14** 95
1978 MIN 13 0 10
1979 MIN **16** 0 14
95 30 367
### Playoffs
Year Team Games Rushing
------ ------ ------- ------- ---------
GP GS Att Yds Avg
1974 MIN **3** 0 0
1975 MIN 1 0 4
1976 MIN **3** **3** **24**
1978 MIN 1 0 0
8 3 28
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Brent played football for Arizona State University prior to playing professionally.
Brent is now a Computer Applications teacher at his alma mater South High School and has two daughters and two sons that attended South High as well. One of his two sons, Brent II is currently living in California.
He has earned bachelor\'s degrees in agribusiness and business administration, and a masters in curriculum education. He earned his teaching credential from CSU Bakersfield.
He has been awarded the NFL Teacher of the Year and has been inducted into the [Bob Elias Hall of Fame](http://kcsportshalloffame.org/) and the South High School Hall of Fame
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# Intellectual Asset Management
***Intellectual Asset Management**\'\' (***IAM**\'\') is a bimonthly magazine published in English and focused on \"intellectual property from a business point of view\". Its publisher is Globe White Page Ltd, and, as of 2010, its editorial board included former Corporate VP for IP at Microsoft, Marshall Phelps. Its tagline is \"Maximising IP value for business\". Its first issue was published in 2003 (July/August 2003 issue).
*IAM* is one of the publications produced by The IP Media Group, which was formed in 2008. The group also publishes *World Trademark Review*, a magazine for trademark specialists, organizes the IP Business Congress and runs the IP Hall of Fame
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# Christian Nerlinger
**Christian Nerlinger** (born 21 March 1973) is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. His professional career was mainly associated with Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
## Club career {#club_career}
Nerlinger was born in Dortmund. He signed for FC Bayern Munich at the age of 13, completing his formation at the Bavarian side. He was promoted to the first team in 1992, but made no Bundesliga appearances in his debut season.
In the following campaign, Nerlinger\'s impact, in a midfield which also comprised Jorginho, Lothar Matthäus, Mehmet Scholl and Christian Ziege, was immediate, and he helped the eventual champions by finishing as the second top scorer in the squad with nine goals -- a career-best in the German top-flight -- only behind Scholl and Adolfo Valencia\'s 11; he made his competition debut on 7 August 1993, in a 3--1 home win against SC Freiburg.
After another four solid seasons, Nerlinger moved to hometown club Borussia Dortmund, where he began suffering with injuries; this situation would be worsened in the following years, as he could hardly get a game at any of his following two clubs, Scotland\'s Rangers and 1. FC Kaiserslautern (he reunited with former Bayern teammate Carsten Jancker in the latter), forcing to his retirement from the game in December 2005.
## International career {#international_career}
Nerlinger was capped six times by Germany, his debut coming on 5 September 1998, in a 1--1 friendly with Romania, in which he scored the equalizer five minutes from time. He did not attend, however, any major international tournament.
## Managerial career {#managerial_career}
After his professional career ended, Nerlinger studied International Business at the Munich Business School. Shortly later he was appointed team manager at Bayern Munich. In January 2010, he succeeded Uli Hoeneß as technical manager, upgrading shortly after to general manager of the club. On 2 July 2012, Nerlinger was replaced by Matthias Sammer.
Nerlinger became Team Manager on 1 July 2008. He became Sporting Director of Bayern Munich on 1 July 2009. He held the position until June 2012 when he was replaced by Matthias Sammer.
## Career statistics {#career_statistics}
: *Score and result list Germany\'s goal tally first, score column indicates score after Nerlinger goal.*
No
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# Peter Burian
**Peter Burian** (born 21 March 1959) is a Slovak diplomat and the Ambassador at large for human rights.
Born in Hlohovec, Slovakia, Peter Burian graduated in Oriental Studies at St. Petersburg University in the USSR and entered the service of the Czechoslovak foreign ministry in 1983. Following the breakup of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993, he was appointed chargé d\'affaires at the newly independent Slovakia\'s embassy in Washington, D.C., and, shortly after, deputy chief of mission. In 1999, he became the Slovak Ambassador to NATO, based in Brussels, Belgium. He was also Slovakia\'s permanent representative to the UN from 22 December 2004 to November 2008 and sat on the Security Council when Slovakia was a Member (being the Security Council President for the month of February 2007). He became the Slovak Ambassador to the US in December 2008. He also served as the State Secretary at the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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# Ron Smith (wide receiver)
**Ronnie Bernard Smith** (born November 20, 1956) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, the San Diego Chargers, and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Smith played defensive end at Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Florida. At 6 ft and 185 lb, he received an offer to play for Cal State Fullerton, and instead enrolled at Fullerton College. He switched to playing wide receiver after his first year, and was a Junior College All-American the following season, when he earned a scholarship to play with San Diego State. As a senior in 1977, Smith caught 49 passes for around 700 yards and 14 touchdowns and was a key to the Aztecs\' 10--1 season.
In the 1978 NFL draft, Smith was selected in the second round by the Los Angeles Rams. He caught just one pass as a rookie in 1978. A seldom-used sophomore in 1979, he caught a 43-yard touchdown from Vince Ferragamo at the end of the first half to give the Rams a 14--5 lead in an eventual 21--19 win over Dallas in the divisional playoffs. In Super Bowl XIV, Smith caught a 24-yard touchdown on a halfback option pass from Lawrence McCutcheon, but the Rams loss 31--19 to Pittsburgh. The San Diego Chargers acquired him from the Rams at the end of the preseason in 1980 for a middle-round draft pick. He caught just four passes for 48 yards during the regular season for San Diego. However, he came up with another key playoff touchdown when he caught a game-winning 50-yard score from Dan Fouts with 2:08 remaining in a 20--14 win over the Buffalo Bills, advancing the Chargers to the AFC Championship Game.
After his NFL career, Smith signed with the Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1984. Smith played in six games, starting five, and caught nine passes for 107 yards and one touchdown before being placed on injured reserve on May 30, 1984
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# Sketchi
***Sketchi*** is an album by Cex released in 2007. The album\'s cover is a modified version of the movie poster for the 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito comedy *Twins*
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# The View from Pompey's Head
***The View from Pompey\'s Head*** is a novel by the American writer Hamilton Basso, first published by Doubleday in 1954. It spent 40 weeks on *The New York Times* bestseller list. The book is set in the fictional small town of Pompey\'s Head, South Carolina.
The book was reprinted by the Louisiana State University Press in 1998 as part of its \"Voices of the South\" series. Both *The View from Pompey\'s Head* and its prequel, *The Light Infantry Ball* (1960), were finalists for the National Book Award for Fiction.
## Reception
The book was reviewed positively in 1954 by *The New York Times*: \"Zestful and non-escapist entertainment\... The most pleasantly and sensibly romantic novel to come my way in a long time.\" and by the *Saturday Review*: \"His most impressive book to date. A long, mildly ironic, and deliberately discursive work, it weaves two of his favorite subjects, the subtle social distinctions of a small Southern city and the subtle questions of reputation and standing in New York literary and publishing circles.\"
Inez Hollander Lake, in her biography of Basso, wrote \"Comfortably placed on *The New York Times* bestseller list for 40 weeks, selling more than 75,000 copies, and sold to the movies for \$100,000, *The View from Pompey\'s Head* was the breakthrough that Basso had been waiting for. However, just as one cannot argue that Melville\'s *Typee* (1846) was a better book because it sold more copies than *Moby-Dick* (1851), so it is equally impossible to claim that *The View from Pompey\'s Head* was a masterpiece because it was so popular.\"
James Sallis, writing in *The Boston Globe*, commented: \"What it did was gather up, like a self-anthology, themes and preoccupations from Basso\'s earlier work: the return-of-the-native motif so important to at least three previous novels, his ongoing investigation of old vs. new South, his penchant for both the novel of character (*Relics and Angels*, *Courthouse Square*) and the novel of ideas (*Days Before Lent*, *Wine of the Country*). Its tale of a lawyer defending a black man is a direct precursor of, almost certainly a model for, *To Kill a Mockingbird*.
## Film adaptation {#film_adaptation}
Basso\'s novel was sold to 20th Century Fox for \$100,000. The 1955 film was written and directed by Philip Dunne. Exterior shots and some interior shots of the video adaption were filmed in Savannah and Brunswick, Georgia. The story begins when the Manhattan attorney Anson Page (Richard Egan) returns to his Southern roots after 15 years, arriving in Pompey\'s Head, South Carolina, to investigate the mystery surrounding missing royalties due famous author Garvin Wales (Sidney Blackmer). In the small Southern town, Page sees the same problems of racial and class prejudices that had once prompted him to leave Pompey\'s Head. However, he also encounters his former flame, Dinah Blackford (Dana Wynter), who has married the businessman Mickey Higgins (Cameron Mitchell). While their romance is rekindled, various secrets of the past rise to the surface.
The child actors Charles Herbert and Evelyn Rudie were in the cast, along with DeForest Kelley. Elmer Bernstein provided the music score. Released November 4, 1955, the film was retitled ***Secret Interlude*** in the UK. Marjorie Rambeau received a Best Supporting Actress Award from the National Board of Review.
The film was made for \$1.23 million and earned an estimated \$1.5 million at the North American box office in 1955
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# Yarraville Oval
The **Yarraville Oval** is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located on the corner of Williamstown Road and Anderson Street in Yarraville, Victoria. It is currently the home ground of the Yarraville/Seddon Eagles Football Club and the **Yarraville Cricket Club**.
The ground was most notable as the home of the Yarraville Football Club throughout almost its entire existence in both the Victorian Junior Football Association from 1903 until 1927, and then in the Victorian Football Association from 1928 until 1982; the club played its games at the Western Oval in its final season in 1983. The ground was originally managed by a group of trustees, but management of the ground was transferred to the Footscray Council in 1928 to enable the ground to be upgraded to Association standards. The City of Maribyrnong, which incorporates the former City of Footscray, remains the ground manager.
In 1942, Yarraville Oval was the home of the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League because its normal home ground, the Western Oval, was being used as an army base, whilst the VFA was in recess until 1945. The Western Region Football League had its head office at the Oval until 2010.
A ground record crowd estimated to be between 16,000 and 18,000 attended Ron Todd\'s first VFA match for Williamstown, played against Yarraville on 20 April 1940. The record crowd for a VFL game was set on 25 July 1942 when 15,000 fans turned out to see Footscray defeat eventual grand finalist Richmond by seven points in a high-scoring game.
One of the most noticeable features of the Yarraville Oval is the historic W. Pedley Stand. The grandstand was built in two sections and has a unique V shape: the southern half of the stand was built in 1929, and the northern half was built in 1940. The viewing area of the grandstand was damaged by fire in 2017.
## Tenants
Club Years Sport
-------------------------------------- ------------------------ ----------
Yarraville F.C 1903--1983, 1996--2006 Football
Yarraville C.C. 1903--present Cricket
Yarraville Boys Club 1968--2006 Football
Footscray F.C. 1942 Football
Kingsville F.C. 1990--1995 Football
Yarraville/Seddon Eagles 2007--present Football
W.R.F.L
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# Russell Gilbrook
**Russell Gilbrook** (born 17 May 1964) is an English musician, best known as the current drummer for the British rock band Uriah Heep.
Over the last few years, Gilbrook has been establishing himself on the UK clinic tour scene. He has supported artists such as Greg Bissonette and completed a tour with Liberty DeVitto. He has worked/toured with Chris Barber and his band and also Alan Price, on whose album, *Liberty*, Gilbrook featured. He also replaced Cozy Powell in Bedlam (where he played with the brothers Dave and Denny Ball, plus singer Frank Aiello). Gilbrook has also played with Pete Bardens and featured on one of his albums.
Gilbrook has also worked with Tony Iommi, Lonnie Donegan, John Farnham, Van Morrison, and Tobias Sammet.
Gilbrook teaches on the musician\'s channel on Sky Television and holds a position at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music. He has published several teaching guides. He has demonstrated specialist drum clinics across Europe.
Gilbrook has co-designed, with Marrell Drums, the bass drum beaters that he plays. He uses British Drum Company drums, Code drumheads, Baskey Drum Mats and Rug Lugs, Paiste cymbals and Pellwood drumsticks.
In 2012, it was announced that Gilbrook would be the drummer in the 2013 album of the metal opera project Avantasia, called *The Mystery of Time*
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# Ricky Patton
**Ricky Riccardo Patton** (born April 6, 1954) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, and San Francisco 49ers. He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers. He started in Super Bowl XVI for the 49ers
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# Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
***Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph*** (also known as ***Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers*** and ***The Corbett-Courtney Fight***) is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent film produced by William K.L. Dickson and starring James J. Corbett. It was only the second boxing match to be filmed, following *The Leonard-Cushing Fight* which had been filmed by Dickson on June 14, 1894.
The films are listed as \"1st Round,\" \"2nd Round,\" \"3rd Round,\" \"4th Round,\" \"5th Round,\" and \"6th Round\". Only one partial round of the original six rounds remains intact.
## Plot
James J. Corbett (1866--1933) and Peter Courtney (1867--1896) both take part in a specially arranged boxing match under special conditions that allow for it to be filmed and displayed on a Kinetograph. The match consists of six one-minute rounds. James J. Corbett was a boxing hero of the time while Courtney was the underdog.
## Production
The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of one of the earliest pioneers to film William K.L. Dickson. It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the USA, which is widely referred to as \"America\'s First Movie Studio\". It was filmed on September 7, 1894. Courtney died a little over a year after the film was made.
According to the Internet Movie Database, the film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33 : 1. The movie was intended to be displayed on a Kinetoscope.
## Cast
- James J. Corbett as Boxer (Boxing hero of the time)
- Peter Courtney as Boxer (Underdog)
## Current status {#current_status}
The film\'s copyright has now expired and it is freely available on the internet to download. A copy is kept by the Library of Congress and can be viewed on their American Memory website. In 1997 it was featured in *Sports on the Silver Screen*, an anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films. It also included on disc one of the DVD *Edison: The Invention of the Movies*
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# Félix de Mérode
**Philippe Félix Balthasar Otto Ghislain, Count de Merode** (13 April 1791 -- 7 February 1857), known as *Félix de Merode*, was a Belgian politician. He has been called \"the architect of Belgian independence\'.
## Biography
Born in Maastricht, he was the second son of Charles-Guillaume-Ghislain de Merode, a mayor of Brussels during the period in which modern Belgium formed part of France. Under the First French Empire, Merode lived in Paris. In 1809 he married Rosalie de Gramont, niece by marriage of the Marquis de Lafayette. From then until 1830 he habitually resided in France, with the Grammont family, making short stays with his father in Brussels or at the castle of Everberg, near Louvain.
In 1823, he lost his wife and lived in an even deeper retirement, but without ever losing interest in the great social problems which then agitated France. Imbued with both Christian and liberal ideas, as a convinced follower of the religious traditions of the past, he supported constitutional freedoms. In 1829, he published in the *Catholique*, a work entitled: \"A word on the political conduct of Belgian Catholics, of French Catholics.\" It was an eloquent defense of the doctrines then held by Lamennais.
Félix inherited the Château de Rixensart from his father. He settled in the southern part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands---modern Belgium---and was one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution of 1830. On 8 September he was appointed member of the Commission of public safety, and advanced a considerable sum to come to the assistance of the workmen left without work in consequence of the disturbances, hoping thus to contribute to the restoration of order.
But after the day of the 20th, during which the people disarmed the Bourgeois Guard and expelled the Commission of public security at the town hall, discouragement seized the Count, like many other defenders of the national cause. He left the city and, on the 22nd, went to join his mother at the castle of Rixensart from where he went to Solre -sur-Sambre.
Returning to Brussels on 26 September, he was head of the Provisional Government of Belgium and served in the Belgian National Congress which was elected in November 1830. He was a co-author and signatory of the Belgian Constitution. The participation of members of such an illustrious family as the Merodes did much to lend credibility to the revolution as a *bona fide* movement and not just a display of civil disorder.
He refused to encroach on the prerogatives of Congress and supported a representative constitutional monarchy. Merode was proposed as a candidate for the throne of the newly created Belgium, but refused to be considered as he was not a prince, merely a count. Merode\'s younger brother, Frédéric de Merode, was wounded during the fighting against the forces of King William I in Berchem on 23 October 1830 and died on 5 November.
He formed part of the delegation to Paris which sought to have Louis, Duke of Nemours, second son of King Louis Philippe I, accept the throne, but this approach was rebuffed by the French king. Merode was a confidant of the eventual king, Leopold I, and was made a Minister of State in 1831.
He served as Foreign affairs, War, and Finance minister in the 1830s. He resigned from office in 1839 as he was unwilling to sign the Treaty of London ceding Belgian territory to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On 9 August 1832 he was at the Château de Compiègne as one of the witnesses to the marriage of Léopold I with Princess Louise of Orléans. Merode represented the arrondissement of Nivelles for twenty-four years.
In 1848, he contributed in large part to the expenses of the erection of the statue of Godfrey of Bouillon by Eugène Simonis for the Place Royale, Brussels.
## Issue
- His son, Xavier de Mérode became a member of the Papal Court and was involved in many public works.
- His daughter, Marie Théodoline de Merode, born in Villersexel on 22 July 1817 and died in Paris on 26 February 1909, married Alof, marquis de Wignacourt (died in Paris in January 1897) on 9 August 1843. On the death of her father, Félix de Merode (7 February 1857), Marie Théodoline inherited Solre-sur-Sambre Castle.
- His daughter, Anne married Charles Forbes René de Montalembert; Montalembert\'s political ideas were supported by Merode.
Count Félix de Merode died in Brussels on 7 February 1857 and was buried five days later at Rixensart, the burial place of the Counts of Merode.
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# Félix de Mérode
## Honours
- : Iron Cross.
- : Minister of State, By Royal Decree.
- : Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold (posthumously, by decree of 2 July 1857.
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Saint Gregory the Great.
- : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Christ.
- : Officier in the Legion of Honour.
- On the occasion of his death in 1857, the government issued a commemorative copper medal
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# Erle Wiltshire
**Erle Wiltshire** (born 18 January 1973 in Pyin U Lwin, Mandalay) is an Australian former flyweight boxer, who was born in Burma. He represented his second country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the first round by France\'s Jérôme Thomas.
Wiltshire won the Australian championship in his division in 1997, 1998 and 2003, when he also claimed a gold medal at the International Invitational tournament in Sydney in December 1999.
He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder
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# Hitonari Tsuji
**Hitonari Tsuji** (辻 仁成, *Tsuji Hitonari*; born 1959) is a Japanese writer, composer, musician, painter and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the art name **Jinsei Tsuji**, an alternative reading his given name. His novels and essays have been bestsellers in Japan as well as overseas, with his work being translated into 20 languages and selling over ten million copies.
He has directed ten films including `{{nihongo|''[[Hotoke]]''|ほとけ}}`{=mediawiki} (2001) and `{{nihongo|''Filament''|フィラメント}}`{=mediawiki} (2002) which were officially presented at the 51st Berlinale and the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where he won a special mention in the Ecumenical Jury Award category.
Additionally, Tsuji launched a web magazine entitled *Design Stories* and in 2016, for which he is currently the editor and chief.
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Tsuji was born in Tokyo in 1959. He originally found success as vocalist, singer and songwriter for the rock band ECHOS which he formed in 1981. ECHOS\' hit song \"ZOO\" has sold over a million copies.
In addition to music and writing Tsuji was a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design from 2007 to 2016.
Tsuji was married to actress Kaho Minami from 1995 to 2000. Together they have one son. He was married to singer and actress Miho Nakayama from 2002 to 2014 and resided together in Paris, France. Tsuji has a son from this marriage as well. After their divorce, Tsuji continued to live in Paris, retaining custody of their son.
## Career
### Writing
Tsuji published his first novel, *Pianissimo* in 1989. HIs debut work won the 13th Subaru Prize for Literature (Subaru Bungaku Sho) in 1990. In 1997, he was awarded the 116th Akutagawa Prize for *Kaikyo no Hikari* (Light from the Straits).
In 1999, he was awarded the Prix Femina Award, a prestigious French literary prize, in the foreign novel category, for the French translation of *Le Boudda blanc* (*The White Buddha*, or *Hakubutsu*, published by Mercure de France). He is the first Japanese writer to ever win the Prix Femina Award.
In 2003, his seven short stories were published in the French literary magazine *Je Bouquine*.
In 2005, he was selected by French literary magazine *LIRE* as one of the world's 50 prospective novelists.
In 2005, his serial novel was featured in the South Korean newspaper *The Hankyoreh*. Tsuji is the first Japanese native novelist to have his work published in The Hankyoreh.
In 2011, Tsuji wrote a children's book called *In Rapet's World* dedicated to children who were struck by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.
### Film
In the 1980s, Tsuji started producing independent films through his college's movie club.
In 1999, his directorial debut, *Sennen-Tabito* (for which he did the direction, screenwriting, and music) was presented as an official invitation film for the 56th International Critic week of the Venice Film Festival.
In 2001, his movie *Hotoke* (director, writer, and music) was presented as an official selection in the 51st Berlin International Film Festival, in the Panorama section. In the same year, *Hotoke* was presented to the Deauville Asian Film Festival, in the Competition section, and won best image award. The film was featured in the 27th Seattle International Film Festival.
In 2002, his movie *Filament* (director, screenwriter, music) was submitted to the 37th Czech Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Official Selection Competition section and awarded the International Ecumenical Jury of the Christian Churches.
Tsuji also wrote and directed a TV movie titled *Mokka no Koibito* in 2002.
In summer 2008, his other movie *Acacia* was produced; it was presented at the 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival in the Competition section in 2009.
In 2010, his movie *Paris Tokyo Paysage* was produced and submitted to the 7th Festival du cinéma japonais contemporain Kinotayo (2012-2013) and awarded the *Prix de la meilleure image* (best cinematography).
### Painting
Tsuji began oil painting in the 1970s while he was still in high school and used the barn at his home as a gallery to showcase his works. His creations, which combine painting, photography, and writing, led to the development of a unique composition in his oil paintings.
Tsuji later established a studio in Normandy and began painting the region\'s landscapes. His distinctive pictorial style was noticed and appreciated by the Japanese painter Hiroshi Senju, which helped to bring Tsuji\'s work to the attention of the general public.
[Official web gallery](https://tsuji-art.com/)
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# Hitonari Tsuji
## Works
### Novels (Japanese editions) {#novels_japanese_editions}
- *Pianissimo* (1990)
- *Cloudy* (1990)
- *Kai no Omochyabako* (1991)
- *Tabibito no Ki* (1992)
- *Fragile* (1992)
- *Glasswool no Shiro* (1993)
- *Hahanaru Nagi to Chichinaru Zika* (1994)
- *Open house* (1994)
- *Ai ha Pride yori tsuyoku* (1995)
- *Passagio* (1995)
- *Sabita Sekai no Guidebook* (1995)
- *Newton no Ringo* (1996)
- *Antinoise* (1996)
- *Kyō no Kimochi* (1996)
- *Kaikyō no Hikari* (1997)
- *Ai no Kumen* (1997)
- *Hakufutsu* (1997)
- *Wild Flower* (1998)
- *Sennenn Tabibito* (1999)
- *Reisei to Zyonetu no Aida Blue* (1999)
- *Shitto no Kaori* (2000)
- *Ai wo kudasai* (2000)
- *Sayonara Itsuka* (2001)
- *Koisuru tame ni umareta* (2001)
- *Taiyō Machi* (2001)
- *Mokka no Koibito* (2002)
- *Ai to Eien no Aoisora* (2002)
- *Kanojo wa Uchyūfuku wo kitenemuru* (2002)
- *O\'keeffe no Koibito Ozwald no Tsuioku* (2003)
- *99sai made ikita Akanbō* (2003)
- *Ima Kono Syunkan Aishiterutoiukoto* (2003)
- *Katana* (2004)
- *Daihitsy Ya* (2004)
- *Koufuku na Ketsumatsu* (2005)
- *Acacia Ashita no Yakusoku* (2005)
- *Yada to Iiyo* (2005)
- *Ai no atoni Kurumono* (2006)
- *Pianissimo Pianissimo* (2007)
- *Hito ha Omoide ni nomi shittosuru* (2007)
- *Ugan* (2008)
- *Madam to Okusama* (2009)
- *Mokka no Koibito* (2009)
- *Dahlia* (2009)
- *Acacia no Hana no sakidasukoro Acacia* (2009)
- *Kuroe to Enzō* (2010)
- *Get Far Away from Me* (2011)
- *Eiensha* (2012)
- *Mistake* (2012)
- *Two People in the Future* (2013) \*Original novel of the movie "Two People in the Future"
- *The Unfading Dream We Have* (2014) \*Original novel of the movie "The Unfading Dream We Have"
- *The Date Line* (1st and 2nd volume) (2015)
- *Eggman* (2017)
### Novels (English edition) {#novels_english_edition}
- *Pianissimo* by Hitonari Tsuji, translated by Rebecca Clare Lindsay, Shueisha Inc. 1992 `{{ISBN|978-4-08-749812-7}}`{=mediawiki}
### Films (Japanese edition) {#films_japanese_edition}
- Tenshi no Wakemae (1995)
- *Sennen-Tabito* (1999)
- *Hotoke* (2001)
- *Filament* (2002)
- Meshita no Koibito (2002)
- *Acacia* (2008)
- *Tokyo Paris Paysage* (2010)
- The Unfading Dream (2014)
- *Tokyo Decibels* (2017)
- The Children of Nakasu (2023)
### Exhibitions of paintings {#exhibitions_of_paintings}
- 1995: Exhibition \"Le Guide d\'un monde rouillé\" at the Parco Gallery (Tokyo, Japan).
- 2024: Exhibition \"Les Invisibles\" at the ISETAN Art Gallery (Tokyo, Japan).
- 2024: Exhibition \"Porte du temps immobile\" at the Shinseido Gallery (Tokyo, Japan).
- 2024: Exhibition \"Les Invisibles\" at GALERIE 20 THORIGNY (Paris, France).
- 2025: Group exhibition \"CHOSIS TA MONTURE\" at GALERIE 20 THORIGNY (Paris France).
- 2025: Exhibition \"Le Visiteur\" at the Mitsukoshi contemporary galerie (Tokyo, Japan).
- 2025: Exhibition \"Le Visiteur\" at Tenmaya galerie (Okayama, Japan).
- 2025: Exhibition \"Le Visiteur\" at GALERIE 20 THORIGNY (Paris, France).
### Collections and Publications of paintings {#collections_and_publications_of_paintings}
- Several works, including \"NEHAN\" and \"Moment blue,\" are housed in the Teikyo University Museum
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# Leo Casey
**Leo Casey** (born 17 September 1965) is a former Ireland international rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and coached in the 2000s. He played at representative level for Ireland, and at club level for Oldham, Featherstone Rovers and Swinton, as a `{{rlp|pr}}`{=mediawiki}, and coached at club level for Oldham (Reserve team).
## Background
Leo Casey is the father of the rugby league footballer; Callum Casey, and Sean Casey (born c. {{birth year and age, `{{rlp|hb}}`{=mediawiki} for Leeds Rhinos (Reserve team c. 2010)), Connor Casey (born c. {{birth year and age, `{{rlp|sr}}`{=mediawiki} or `{{rlp|lf}}`{=mediawiki} for Leeds Rhinos (scholarship c. 2010)) and Patrick Casey (born c. {{birth year and age, Oldham St Annes ARLFC/Oldham St Anne's ARLFC[1](https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/oldhamstannes) (Juniors c. 2010)).
## Playing career {#playing_career}
### International honours {#international_honours}
Leo Casey won 5 caps for Ireland in 1995--1997 while at Featherstone Rovers, and Swinton.
### County Cup Final appearances {#county_cup_final_appearances}
Leo Casey played at `{{rlp|pr}}`{=mediawiki} (replaced by substitute John Fairbank) in Oldham\'s 16-24 defeat by Warrington in the 1989 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1989--90 season at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Saturday 14 October 1989.
### Division Two Premiership Final appearances {#division_two_premiership_final_appearances}
Leo Casey played at `{{rlp|pr}}`{=mediawiki} in Featherstone Rovers\' 20-16 victory over Workington Town in the Division Two Premiership Final during the 1992--93 season at Old Trafford, Manchester on Wednesday 19 May 1993
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# Nick Ramsay
**Nick Ramsay** (born 10 June 1975) is a British politician who served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Monmouth from 2007 to 2021. Originally a member of the Welsh Conservatives, he served as Shadow Minister of Finance under Conservative Leader in the Senedd, Paul Davies, but lost the position in January 2021 under the new leadership of Andrew RT Davies. Ramsay sat as an Independent member before unsuccessfully seeking reelection as an Independent in the 2021 Senedd election.
Ramsay defected to the Liberal Democrats in February 2022.
## Early life {#early_life}
Nicholas Ramsay was born in 1975 and is originally from Cwmbran. He was educated at Croesyceiliog Comprehensive School and Durham University where he graduated in English and Philosophy. He later gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics from Cardiff University.
## Professional career {#professional_career}
Between 1999 and 2001, Ramsay worked as a driving instructor in Monmouthshire and the South Wales Valleys.
## Political career {#political_career}
Ramsay contested the Labour Party stronghold of Torfaen at the 2003 Assembly election, and then the UK Parliament constituency of the same name at the 2005 United Kingdom general election. He also served as a Monmouthshire County Councillor for the ward of Mardy, which had previously been in Labour hands for over 20 years.
Ramsay succeeded David T. C. Davies as an Assembly Member for Monmouth, and was appointed shadow minister for Local Government in the Third Assembly Term. Nick stood for leadership of the Conservative group in the summer of 2011 and joined the Conservative Shadow Cabinet as shadow minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science as well as chairing the Business and Enterprise Committee.
After Nick Bourne lost his seat in May 2011, Ramsay stood for leadership of the Welsh Conservative Senedd Group against South Wales Central AM, Andrew RT Davies. Davies was elected leader with 53.1% of the membership vote.
Ramsay joined the shadow cabinet under Conservative Leader, Paul Davies MS, in the position of shadow minister of Finance and to chair the Public Accounts Committee. In January 2021, Andrew RT Davies was named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd and sacked Ramsay as finance spokesperson.
On 2 January 2020 it was reported that Ramsay had been suspended from the Welsh Conservatives and his parliamentary group following what was described as a \"police incident\" at his home the previous evening. He was held in police custody for 24 hours before being released without charge, but continued to be suspended from the party pending an investigation. On 13 February, Ramsay confirmed that he had been reinstated to the Welsh Conservative Party Group in the Senedd and had dropped his legal challenge against the decision by group leader Paul Davies to suspend him. Following a period of nearly seven months Ramsay was reinstated to the Conservative party in July 2020 no further comment was made by the Police or the Conservative party. Ramsay left the Conservative Party in March 2021 and sat as an Independent member.
In 2019 Ramsay had been adopted by the Monmouth Conservative Association as its chosen candidate for the elections to the Senedd (due in 2021) but was deselected in December 2020. He stood as an Independent candidate and lost to the Conservative candidate, Peter Fox.
### S025
In 2008 Ramsay spent much of his time on the Special Assembly Procedure Committee, and in particular the \"S025,\" which re-considered the Robeston Wathen by-pass proposed by the Welsh Assembly Government. These types of Orders and challenges are rare occurrences. The last one which was heard in Parliament was in 1999.
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# Nick Ramsay
## Political career {#political_career}
### Alcohol-related problems {#alcohol_related_problems}
In 2011, while a contender for the leadership of the Welsh Conservatives, Ramsay had to apologise after being barred from a pub following a charity pub quiz in aid of Help for Heroes. The landlord is quoted as saying that he resigned his membership of the party over the issue as \"Nick Ramsay heckled the quizmaster repeatedly, telling him that his questions were rubbish. He challenged the quizmaster, a local antiques dealer, to bid £100 for a rugby jersey in an auction we held on the same evening for the charity. He was quite rude and objectionable and his comments didn\'t go down well -- I think he\'d had a few beers.\"
In 2012, Ramsay was criticised for missing a committee session; after an evening\'s drinking in Cardiff at a leaving party for a Labour member of staff at a Cardiff Bay pub before heading into town at closing time for a late city centre bar. He failed to notify the clerk that he was ill until two hours after the meeting was due to start. when an email was received by the clerk from a member of Ramsay\'s staff to say he had been taken ill during the night. Ramsay was not in the Assembly chamber for the majority of the afternoon\'s session, but arrived at 5.25pm to vote on a Liberal Democrat motion of no confidence in Health Minister Lesley Griffiths.
In 2014, Ramsay was accused of having been drunk during a debate in the Assembly. The Assembly\'s Presiding Officer had to launch an investigation after she received a complaint alleging that a Tory AM appeared \"drunk\" and made \"slurred, incoherent and insolent\" contributions to a debate on mental health in the Senedd, but he denies being drunk. Ramsay, who also celebrated his birthday that day, had intervened twice during a speech by health minister Prof Mark Drakeford AM, who at one point told him he would pursue the matters raised directly with him outside the confines of the debate. An online clip demonstrated the awkwardness of the debate. Presiding Officer, Dame Rosemary Butler, did not support the claim and no further action was taken.
In 2020, Ramsay was accused of involvement in a further alcohol-related incident when he was seen drinking alcohol on Senedd premises during a period when this was not legal due to coronavirus public health measures.
### Charitable donation {#charitable_donation}
Ramsay criticised the proposed £10,000 pay rise for assembly members prior to the 2016 election and stated that he would donate his pay rise to charity. The *Western Mail* reported in 2019 that Ramsay had not responded to questions that asked which charity his pay raise had been donated to. The editor of the *Monmouthshire Beacon* stated that, at a meeting with Ramsay in 2018, Ramsay said he did not wish to make a public announcement at this stage because of the nature of the charity and that the money is tied with an ongoing charitable project which will be announced later in the year. As of March 2019, no announcement had been made.
### Legal actions against the Conservative Party {#legal_actions_against_the_conservative_party}
Ramsay has brought legal action against the Conservative Party on two occasions. The first was against Paul Davies, leader of the Conservative Group in the Senedd, when Davies had suspended him from the group after he was arrested following a 'police incident' at his home on New Year\'s Day 2020 and held in police custody for 24 hours. Eight members of the 11-strong assembly group had supported the suspension. On 13 February, Ramsay confirmed that he had been reinstated to the Welsh Conservative Party Group in the Senedd and had dropped his legal challenge against the decision to suspend him. Davies was ordered to pay legal costs plus nominal damages fee of £2 to Ramsay, according to a High Court order. Ramsay remained suspended from the Conservative Party.
Further legal action followed Monmouth Conservative Association arranging to meet on 23 November to discuss a petition that called for Ramsay\'s selection as a candidate to be discussed again. Ramsay and his lawyers claimed the move was \"unconstitutional\" and warned party members could face legal costs and damages. The Party argued that the association believed it was acting within party rules as per their constitution. Ramsay attempted to withdraw his legal challenge at the last minute which meant the High Court hearing went ahead. The judge ordered Ramsay to pay £25,000 in costs to Monmouth Conservative Association. At the virtual hearing at Bristol Civil Justice Centre, Ramsay\'s injunction application was withdrawn, and a judge said if the application to injunct had been made it would have failed.
In December 2020, Conservative Party members in Monmouth told Ramsay that they did not want him to be their candidate for the May 2021 election. He lost a vote of the constituency\'s party association and the party opened a candidate selection process.
### Defection to the Liberal Democrats {#defection_to_the_liberal_democrats}
On 8 February 2022, Ramsay defected to the Liberal Democrats and was announced as a candidate for Monmouthshire County Council in the upcoming local elections. He said: \"The Conservative Party is not the party I once joined. They have lost the trust of the people, and are unable to manage our country. They have failed the fundamental test of competence. I can think of little of them with which I agree
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# Sunshine Radio (Ludlow)
**Sunshine Radio (Ludlow)** is an Independent Local Radio station based in Ludlow, Shropshire. The station currently serves south Shropshire, north Herefordshire and north Worcestershire.
## History
Sunshine Radio in Ludlow dates back to the late-1970s. In the summer of 1986 a special event radio station for the Stoke-on-Trent national garden festival occupied the 1017 kHz frequency. It was to be 12 months before Sunshine was heard again The Government once again announced plans for community radio licences in 1988. In 1990 the Sunshine management formed a new company, South Shropshire Communications Ltd. They were granted a test and development licence. In 1992, the Radio Authority advertised a licence for Ludlow and South Shropshire. South Shropshire Communications Ltd applied and won the licence finally taking to the air on 18 October 1992 as Sunshine 855. The new transmitters were still at Villa Farm with studios in a converted house in Ludlow. In 2013 Sunshine Radio won a broadcasting licence to take the Ludlow version of the station onto the FM band.
## Transmitting stations {#transmitting_stations}
- 105.9 FM -- Woofferton transmitting station, south of Ludlow
- 107.8 FM - Clee Hill
### Former
- 855 kHz AM -- Villa Farm, between Ludlow and Tenbury Wells
The station ended transmissions on MW on 19 January 2024, after permission was granted by Ofcom on the grounds of the expensive cost of maintaining the transmitters and the small number of listeners who listen on mediumwave
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# Derrick Jensen (American football)
**Derrick Jensen** (April 27, 1956 -- April 7, 2017) was an American football running back and tight end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played eight seasons for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders. He played college football for the Texas--Arlington Mavericks and was selected by the Raiders in the third round of the 1978 NFL draft.
Following his playing career, he worked as a scout for the Seattle Seahawks for 22 seasons, beginning in 1991.
## High school and college career {#high_school_and_college_career}
Jensen grew up in Osawatomie, Kansas. He attended Osawatomie High School, and led the Osawatomie Trojans to their second state championship in 1973. Osawatomie won its first state football championship in 1966 led by future Green Bay Packers quarterback Lynn Dickey. After graduating from high school, Jensen attended University of Texas at Arlington. Jensen was a two-time Southland Conference most valuable player playing for the Texas--Arlington Mavericks. He finished his career with 3,346 rushing yards, the first player in conference history to top 3,000 yards.
## Professional career {#professional_career}
Jensen was selected by the Oakland Raiders with the 57th overall pick in the third round of the 1978 NFL draft. He played in 106 games, starting in 21 throughout his career, including a streak of 105 straight. He served as the captain of the Raiders special teams for five seasons and contributed a blocked punt, which he recovered for the first touchdown, in the Raiders 38--9 win over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. He was also part of the Raiders Super Bowl XV championship team. He finished his Raiders career with 780 yards on 224 carries, with five touchdowns. He added 44 receptions and three scores and returned an onside kick 33 yards for a touchdown against the New York Giants in 1980.
## Executive career {#executive_career}
After he retired from the NFL, Jensen served as a scout for the Seattle Seahawks for 22 season, from 1991 through 2012.
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Jensen\'s wife died as a result of a hit-and-run automobile accident on December 31, 2009. They had one son, Davis, who was 12 years old at the time of his mother\'s passing.
## Death
Jensen was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 2012. He died of complications from the disease on April 7, 2017, at his home in Panama City Beach, Florida
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# Henry Collins (boxer)
**Henry Collins** (born 1 September 1977 in Gayndah, Queensland) is a former indigenous light welterweight boxer from Australia, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Winning the Arthur Tunstall Trophy at the 1999 Australian National Championships is considered to be his best performance during his amateur career, in which he also claimed two Oceania Championships (1999 and 2000) in the 65 kg division.
He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder
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# 2007 Polish Film Awards
The **2007 Polish Film Awards** ran on March 5, 2007 at Teatr Narodowy. It was the 9th edition of Polish Film Awards: Eagles. The ceremony was hosted by Zbigniew Zamachowski and Wojciech Malajkat.
Nominations for the awards were announced on January 29, 2007. As many as 29 films competed for the award nominations.
## Awards nominees and winners {#awards_nominees_and_winners}
*Winners are highlighted in **boldface**.*
### Best Film {#best_film}
- ***Plac Zbawiciela* - Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze**
- *Jasminum* - Jan Jakub Kolski
- *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Marek Koterski
### Best Actor {#best_actor}
- ***Jasminum* - Janusz Gajos**
- **\[\[Po sezonie\]\]** - Leon Niemczyk
- *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Marek Kondrat
### Best Actress {#best_actress}
- ***Plac Zbawiciela* - Jowita Budnik**
- *Kochankowie z Marony* - Karolina Gruszka
- *Statyści* - Kinga Preis
### Supporting Actor {#supporting_actor}
- ***Statyści* - Krzysztof Kiersznowski**
- *Jasminum* - Adam Ferency
- *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Andrzej Chyra
### Supporting Actress {#supporting_actress}
- ***Plac Zbawiciela* - Ewa Wencel**
- *Co słonko widziało* - Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
- *Statyści* - Anna Romantowska
### Film Score {#film_score}
- ***Jasminum* - Zygmunt Konieczny**
- *Palimpsest* - Bartłomiej Gliniak
- *Plac Zbawiciela* - Paweł Szymański
### Director
- ***Plac Zbawiciela* - Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze**
- *Jasminum* - Jan Jakub Kolski
- *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Marek Koterski
### Screenplay
- ***Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Marek Koterski**
- *Statyści* - Jarosław Sokół
- *Plac Zbawiciela* - Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, Jowita Budnik, Arkadiusz Janiczek, Ewa Wencel
### Cinematography
- ***Jasminum* - Krzysztof Ptak**
- *Palimpsest* - Arkadiusz Tomiak
- *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Edward Kłosiński
### Costume Design {#costume_design}
- ***Jasminum* - Ewa Helman**
- *Kochankowie Roku Tygrysa* - Andrzej Szenajch
- *Kochankowie z Marony* - Magdalena Biedrzycka
- *Oda do radości* - Magdalena Biedrzycka
- *Samotność w Sieci* - Ewa Machulska
- *Statyści* - Paweł Grabarczyk
- *Tylko mnie kochaj* - Elżbieta Radke
- *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Magdalena Biedrzycka, Justyna Stolarz
### Sound
- ***Jasminum* - Jacek Hamela**
- *Pope John Paul II* - Maurizio Argentirei, Marek Wronko
- *Kochankowie z Marony* - Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski
- *Plac Zbawiciela* - Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski
- *Statyści* - Andrzej Bohdanowicz
### Editing
- ***Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* - Ewa Smal**
- *Kochankowie z Marony* - Anna Wagner
- *Plac Zbawiciela* - Krzysztof Szpetmański
### Production Design {#production_design}
- ***Jasminum* - Joanna Doroszkiewicz**
- *Kochankowie z Marony* - Jacek Osadowski
- *Kto nigdy nie żył\..
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# Uppland Runic Inscription 53
**Uppland Runic Inscription 53** is a runestone built into a wall in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
## History
The stone first appears in historical records in the 17th century, when Johannes Bureus (1568-1652) wrote down parts of its message. Preserved written records from the old town give no hints of a developed knowledge in writing and reading runes in Stockholm. Also, as these stones are too heavy to be transported very far. Therefore they are believed to have been brought in from nearby Iron Age settlements, like those discovered on both Norrmalm and Södermalm, and they are believed to be considerably older than the city itself.
## Description
The runestone sits at the intersection of the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken. It is not remarkable for its size or beauty. Nonetheless, it is famed because of its prominent location in the pathway of tens of thousands of tourists and school children.
It is about half a metre tall and richly decorated with an arabesque of winding loops depicting a dragon. The body of the dragon carries fragments of a commemorative message: \"Torsten and Frögunn had the stone erected after their son.\" The son\'s name remains unknown.
While the stone is not signed and its style can not be associated with any known runemaster, it is typical for stones carved in Uppland, north of Stockholm, during the later part of the 11th century. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, which is considered to be Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. An interesting detail of the inscription is the cross-shaped engraving on centre right, probably added to the stone after its completion to underline its Christian message.
A laser range scanner analysis of the stone was made by Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt and Magnus Källström in 2000. 16 scans of individual grooves on the stone were processed mathematically to produce 3D-charts. These unveiled statistical differences in the depth and shapes of the grooves, variations interpreted as stroke patterns from more than one carver. The result showed the ornaments of the stone were most likely cut by an experienced master (deep grooves, regular stroke pattern) and a less proficient apprentice (more shallow grooves, irregular strokes), while the cross shape might very well have been added after the stone was erected (when the weight of the mason tools quickly makes the cutting awkward). The stone on Prästgatan is however both damaged and shabby, and as the laser analysis have proven an accuracy of about 80 per cent on freshly cut stones, the analysis is far from certain.
## Other runestones {#other_runestones}
This runestone is one of three found in the old town. A second runestone found in the old town, U 274, originally located in a wall by the southern city gate near Slussen, is today kept in the Museum of Medieval Stockholm. It contains the words \"Karl and Adisla had \[this stone\] erected \[after\] Arnsil, \[their\] father\" and is similar in style to stones found in Södermanland south of Stockholm. The third runestone, U 54, is today lost but was once located in a stairway in the church Riddarholmskyrkan
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# Orson Mobley
**Orson Odell Mobley** (born March 4, 1963) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for five seasons with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the sixth round of the 1986 NFL draft. Mobley played in three Super Bowls (XXI, XXII, XXIV), and started in two of them. He ran into problems with the league late in his career and was suspended for substance abuse violations.
## College career {#college_career}
Mobley signed with Florida State University out of high school, then transferred from Florida State where he played football and baseball to Salem where he played both tight end and punter for Terry Bowden and starred along with future Florida State Head Coach Jimbo Fisher. Mobley won All-West Virginia Conference honors at Salem.
## Professional career {#professional_career}
Mobley was picked 151st overall pick in the sixth round of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. He caught a career high 22 passes and averaged 15.1 yards per reception as a rookie. Mobley\'s blocking paved the way for Bobby Humphrey to run for consecutive 1,000 yard seasons.
Mobley was named Bronco\'s Player of the Game after having 6 receptions for 55 yards vs. the Browns on November 13, 1988. He played in three Super Bowls.
### Receiving record {#receiving_record}
Year No. Yards Avg. TD
-------- ----- ------- ------ ----
1986 22 332 15.1 1
1987 16 228 14.3 1
1988 21 218 10.4 2
1989 17 200 11.8 0
1990 8 41 5.1 0
Totals 84 1,019 12.1 4
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Mobley currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida. During his time in the NFL, he was suspended by the league for illegal substance use. He also was arrested in the Tampa Bay for alleged sexual assault of two women
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# Christophe Marichez
**Christophe Marichez** (born 12 December 1974) is a French former footballer who played as a goalkeeper
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# Juncker
**Juncker** is a surname
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# Darren Millar
**Darren David Millar** (born 1976) is a Welsh politician who has served as the leader of the Welsh Conservatives since December 2024, and Member of the Senedd (MS) for Clwyd West since 2007.
## Background
Millar was born and grew up in Towyn.
## Political career {#political_career}
Millar joined Clwyd North Conservative Association at age 15, and shortly after became chairman.
### Local government {#local_government}
In 1999, Millar ran for the Towyn ward on Conwy County Borough Council, and for Towyn and Kinmel Bay town council. He was not elected to the county council, but was elected to the town council. From 2000 to 2001, Millar was mayor of the township of Towyn and Kinmel Bay. He was also a member of Conwy County Borough Council from 2004, the North Wales Police Authority and the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
In 2005, he was the sole dissenter to a budget that saw an increase of 5% in the policing budget, and therefore an increase in local council tax.
In 2006, while a member of Conwy Council, Millar was referred to the standards watchdog, after complaints from the Unite, Unison and GMB trade unions about comments he made alleging that staff were abusing or misusing the sick pay system.
### Senedd
In the 2003 Senedd election, at age 25, he stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for the Vale of Clwyd.
Millar was first elected to represent Clwyd West in 2007, and was re-elected in the 2011, 2016 and 2021 elections.
#### Third Senedd {#third_senedd}
In 2006, Millar was selected to contest the Clwyd West seat. During a hustings in April of 2007, Millar allegedly described homosexuality as a sin, and stated he believed that creationism should be taught in science lessons. Millar alleged that he had been misrepresented, and stated that he did not believe anyone should be discriminated against on the basis of sexuality, and stated that \"school governors, parents and teachers should have flexibility in their curriculum\". He was successfully elected to the Clwyd West seat, unseating the incumbent Labour MS, Alun Pugh. Pugh was the only Cabinet Minister to be defeated in the election.
After his election to the Senedd in 2007, Millar was appointed Shadow Minister for Environment and Planning by Nick Bourne. While in this role he campaigned for targets to reduce emissions, supported the banning of single-use plastic bags, and was supportive of investment in biofuels. He also initially said that fear of flooding must not prevent construction on floodplains, but that \"you\'ve also got to look at strengthening our flood defences\", but later supported a ban on building on floodplains, and a substantial increase in spending on flood defences.
He was critical of the Welsh Government\'s provision of free prescriptions, saying it would lead to prescription tourism, and that he was aware of caravan owners who registered with GPs in his constituency to avoid paying charges.
He served in this role until February 2009, when he was moved to be Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government. In November 2010, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Economy and Transport.
#### Fourth and Fifth Senedds {#fourth_and_fifth_senedds}
After his re-election in 2011, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Health by interim leader Paul Davies. He retained this role after Andrew RT Davies was elected leader and formalised the interim Shadow Cabinet, and throughout the remainder of the term. After the 2016 Senedd elections, Millar was appointed Welsh Conservative education spokesperson, as Plaid Cymru became the Official Opposition. In April 2017, he became Shadow Minister for Education, as the Welsh Conservatives returned to opposition.
Millar was discussed as a candidate to replace Andrew RT Davies at the 2018 Welsh Conservatives leadership election, but he did not contest the election. After Paul Davies was elected as leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Millar was appointed as Welsh Conservative Chief Whip, Welsh Conservative Policy Director, and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs and International Relations.
##### COVID-19 regulations investigation {#covid_19_regulations_investigation}
In January 2021 the Senedd Commission investigated Millar for an alleged breach of COVID-19 regulations. He resigned from his frontbench roles on 23 January 2021 after the leader Paul Davies resigned on the same day. Both Millar and Davies were later cleared of any wrongdoing by South Wales Police, Cardiff City Council, the Senedd Commission and the Senedd Standards of Conduct Committee. In April 2022 a report published by the Senedd Standards Committee found that no laws or standards of conduct had been breached.
#### Sixth Senedd {#sixth_senedd}
He returned to the role of Chief Whip in May 2021, after the 2021 Senedd election, alongside a role as Shadow Minister for the Constitution and North Wales.
Millar has been drawn to table a Members\' Bill on three occasions.
In November 2023, he was selected as the Conservative Party prospective parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of Clwyd North at the 2024 general election. He came second, losing to the Labour candidate by 1,196 votes.
In 2024, Millar tabled a non-binding motion of no confidence in First Minister Vaughan Gething, over donations made during the 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election and the sacking of former Social Partnership Minister Hannah Blythyn. The motion passed 29-27. Gething described the motion as a \'gimmick\' and said he would remain as First Minister.
### Leadership of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd {#leadership_of_the_welsh_conservatives_in_the_senedd}
After Andrew RT Davies resigned as leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, Millar put out a statement saying he would run to lead the Senedd group. He quickly obtained the support of six of his colleagues, Paul Davies, Russell George, Tom Giffard, James Evans, Altaf Hussain and Gareth Davies within 24 hours, and the whole group within 48 hours.
## Broader career {#broader_career}
Millar is the chief executive of a Christian organisation that he works for alongside his job in politics.
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# Darren Millar
## Political views {#political_views}
### Brexit
He was one of four then-sitting Conservative MSs (along with Andrew RT Davies, Janet Finch-Saunders and Mark Isherwood) to vote for Brexit in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
### Prescription charges {#prescription_charges}
Millar has been a \"fierce critic\" of NHS prescriptions having been made free.
### Women\'s rights {#womens_rights}
Millar has stated he is pro-life but that he \"believes in freedom of choice and personal responsibility\" and is \"not a person who likes to impose \[his\] views on other people\".
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Millar lives in the Kinmel Bay area with his wife and two children. He enjoys reading and history, and is a Christian, attending Festival Church. He has been a citizen of both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland for decades
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# Polish Academy Award for Best Film
**Polish Academy Award for Best Film** is one of the awards given to the best Polish motion picture.
## Winners and nominees {#winners_and_nominees}
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Year | Film | Director |
+======+===============================================================+===========================+
| 1999 | ***Historia kina w Popielawach*** | **Jan Jakub Kolski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Zabić Sekala* | Vladimír Michálek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Nic* | Dorota Kędzierzawska |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Kroniki domowe* | Leszek Wosiewicz |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Farba* | Michał Rosa |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2000 | ***Dług*** | **Krzysztof Krauze** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wojaczek* | Lech Majewski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Ogniem i mieczem* | Jerzy Hoffman |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pan Tadeusz* | Andrzej Wajda |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Tydzień z życia mężczyzny* | Jerzy Stuhr |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2001 | ***Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową*** | **Krzysztof Zanussi** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca* | Teresa Kotlarczyk |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Daleko od okna* | Jan Jakub Kolski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wrota Europy* | Jerzy Wójcik |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Duże zwierzę* | Jerzy Stuhr |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2002 | ***Cześć Tereska*** | **Robert Gliński** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Angelus* | Lech Majewski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Boże skrawki* | Yurek Bogayevicz |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Requiem* | Witold Leszczyński |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Weiser* | Wojciech Marczewski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2003 | ***Pianista*** | **Roman Polański** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Edi* | Piotr Trzaskalski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Tam i z powrotem* | Wojciech Wójcik |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Dzień świra* | Marek Koterski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Anioł w Krakowie* | Artur Więcek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2004 | ***Zmruż oczy*** | **Andrzej Jakimowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Żurek* | Ryszard Brylski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pornografia* | Jan Jakub Kolski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2005 | ***Wesele*** | **Wojciech Smarzowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Mój Nikifor* | Krzysztof Krauze |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pręgi* | Magdalena Piekorz |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2006 | ***Komornik*** | **Feliks Falk** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Jestem* | Dorota Kędzierzawska |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Persona Non Grata* | Krzysztof Zanussi |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2007 | ***Plac Zbawiciela*** | **Krzysztof Krauze** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Jaśminum* | Jan Jakub Kolski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* | Marek Koterski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2008 | ***Katyń*** | **Andrzej Wajda** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Sztuczki* | Andrzej Jakimowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pora umierać* | Dorota Kędzierzawska |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2009 | ***33 sceny z życia *** | **Małgorzata Szumowska** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Cztery noce z Anną* | Jerzy Skolimowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Mała Moskwa* | Waldemar Krzystek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2010 | ***Rewers*** | **Borys Lankosz** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wojna polsko-ruska* | Xawery Żuławski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Dom zły* | Wojciech Smarzowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2011 | ***Essential Killing*** | **Jerzy Skolimowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Różyczka* | Jan Kidawa-Błoński |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wszystko, co kocham* | Jacek Borcuch |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2012 | ***Róża*** | **Wojciech Smarzowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *W ciemności* | Agnieszka Holland |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Sala Samobójców* | Jan Komasa |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2013 | ***Obława*** | **Marcin Krzyształowicz** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Jesteś Bogiem* | Leszek Dawid |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pokłosie* | Władysław Pasikowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2014 | ***Ida*** | **Paweł Pawlikowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Imagine* | Andrzej Jakimowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Chce się żyć* | Maciej Pieprzyca |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2015 | ***Bogowie*** | **Łukasz Palkowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Jack Strong* | Władysław Pasikowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | * Miasto 44* | Jan Komasa |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2016 | *** Body/Ciało*** | **Małgorzata Szumowska** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Moje córki krowy* | Kinga Dębska |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Excentrycy, czyli po slonecznej stronie ulicy* | Janusz Majewski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2017 | ***Wołyń*** | **Wojciech Smarzowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Ostatnia rodzina* | Jan P. Matuszyński |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Jestem mordercą* | Maciej Pieprzyca |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2018 | ***Cicha noc*** | **Piotr Domalewski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Twój Vincent* | Dorota Kobiela |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pokot* | Agnieszka Holland |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2019 | ***Zimna Wojna*** | **Paweł Pawlikowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Kler* | Wojciech Smarzowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Kamerdyner* | Filip Bajon |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2020 | ***Boże Ciało*** | **Jan Komasa** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Pan T.* | Marcin Kryształowicz |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Supernova* | Bartosz Kruhlik |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Obywatel Jones* | Agnieszka Holland |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza* | Maciej Pieprzyca |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2021 | ***Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta*** | **Mariusz Wilczyński** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Szarlatan* | Agnieszka Holland |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Sala samobójców. Hejter* | Jan Komasa |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *25 lat niewinności. Sprawa Tomka Komendy* | Jan Holoubek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Jak najdalej stąd* | Piotr Domalewski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2022 | ***Quo Vadis, Aida?*** | **Jasmila Žbanić** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *My Wonderful Life* | Łukasz Grzegorzek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Żeby nie było śladów* | Jan P. Matuszyński |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wszystkie nasze strachy* | Łukasz Gutt\ |
| | | Łukasz Ronduda |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Wesele* | Wojtek Smarzowski |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2023 | ***EO*** | **Jerzy Skolimowski** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *The Silent Twins* | Agnieszka Smoczyńska |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Kobieta na dachu* | Anna Jadowska |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Johnny* | Daniel Jaroszek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Chleb i sól* | Damian Kocur |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2024 | ***Zielona Granica*** | **Agnieszka Holland** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Doppelgänger. Sobowtór* | Jan Holoubek |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Scarborn* | Paweł Maślona |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Filip* | Michał Kwieciński |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Chłopi* | Dorota Kobiela\ |
| | | Hugh Welchman |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| 2025 | ***Dziewczyna z igłą*** | **Magnus von Horn** |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Biała odwaga* | Marcin Koszałka |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| | *Kulej
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# Gyula Mándi
**Gyula Mándi**, also referred to as **Mándi Gyula** or **Julius Mandel** (14 July 1899 -- 26 November 1969) was a Hungarian Olympic national team (for whom he played 32 matches) and club footballer (with whom he won 10 league titles), who played as a defender and fullback/ He was also a manager of club and national teams. He was Jewish.
## Playing career {#playing_career}
### Club
Mándi was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a footballer, he was dubbed \"the artist of positioning, and world champion of timing.\" Playing club football, he won 10 league titles.
He was part of the greatest era of MTK, the 1920s and 1930s. He was signed by MTK in 1919 at 20 years of age. He played alongside the likes of Franz Platko, Béla Guttmann, Gusztáv Sebes, Jenő Kálmár, Imre Schlosser, Iuliu Baratky and Ferenc Sas. Between 1919 and 1925 he won seven consecutive championships with MTK.
The professionalisation of the game in Hungary weakened MTK\'s absolute dominance, but they remained amongst the leading sides. Until the end of his career in 1937, he could celebrate three more championships. Between 1923 and 1933, he also won cups with the club; altogether, Mándi made 325 appearances for MTK.
### International
Mándi\'s career with the Hungary national team commenced in June 1921 with a match against Germany. Soon he featured regularly in the side, forming the defense together with Károly Fogl. He won 32 international caps.
Hungary participated in the football tournament of the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. Hungary\'s hopes rose after a decisive first round win over Poland. However, a sensational 0--3 defeat at the hands of Egypt in the second stage ended the aspirations of the Magyars. Mándi played in both matches.
A knee injury prevented Mándi from continuing his international career until 1929, when he again featured regularly until 1932, including five matches for the Central European International Cup. After missing out on further nominations for a two years, he returned once more to the Hungarian side for a World Cup qualifier against Bulgaria in 1934. Altogether he played 32 times for his country.
## Nazi occupation {#nazi_occupation}
Mandi survived the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II with the assistance of his Christian brother-in-law, György Szomolányi. Szomolányi was the managing director of a paper mill that had been converted to produce wooden stocks for rifles to support the Nazi war effort. He was able to employ whomever he wished.
In 1942 he saved Mándi from a Jewish labor detail by giving Mándi papers to work in his factory. Two years later, however, Mándi couldn't avoid labor service. He was sent on a train bound for Ukraine, but wrote a postcard to Szomolányi and threw it from the train. Someone found it and mailed it, but when it arrived it had been torn, and all that could be read was the word 'KELPUSZTA'. Szomolányi realised this must be Ekelpuszta, where a transit camp had been set up. He donned his World War I officer's uniform, strode into the camp, and demanded that he be given five men for an essential task. Impressed, the guards told him to take his pick. Szomolányi selected Mándi and four others.
## Coaching career {#coaching_career}
After retiring as a player, Mándi became a coach and was the manager of the Hungary national football team during the era of the *Mighty Magyars*. His training regimen for the team was unusual for the time, as he encouraged the men to practice athletics and mountaineering, and to train with the ball and in match situations.
From 1956 to 1958 he coached Brazil.
In mid-August 1957 Mándi became coach of America FC in Rio de Janeiro. His spell there with a mid-table placing at the State Championship of Rio 1957 and a joint last place at the Rio-São Paulo Tournament of 1958 was considered unsatisfactory and ended at the end of April 1958.
Between 1959 and 1964, Mandi had two spells as coach of Israel, with whom he reached the final of the 1960 Asian Cup
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# Hy Vandenberg
**Harold Harris \"Hy\" Vandenberg** (March 17, 1906 -- July 31, 1994) born in Abilene, Kansas, was a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1935), New York Giants (1937--40) and Chicago Cubs (1944--45).
Vandenberg helped the Giants win the 1937 National League pennant and the Cubs win the 1945 NL pennant.
Over seven seasons, Vandenberg had a 15--10 win--loss record, 90 games (22 starts), seven complete games, one shutout, 43 games finished, five saves, 291`{{fraction|2|3}}`{=mediawiki} innings pitched, 304 hits allowed, 166 runs allowed, 140 earned runs allowed, 17 home runs allowed, 128 walks allowed, 120 strikeouts, six hit batsmen, four wild pitches, 1,277 batters faced and a 4.32 ERA.
Vandenberg died of cancer in Bloomington, Minnesota at the age of 88
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# Dylan Jones-Evans
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**Dylan Jones-Evans** (born 16 May 1966) was born in Bangor, Gwynedd and brought up in Pwllheli on the Llyn Peninsula. He is currently Assistant Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise) and the chair in entrepreneurship at the University of South Wales. He is visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Turku in Finland, newspaper columnist and the creator of the Wales Fast Growth 50, an annual barometer of entrepreneurial firms in Wales.
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# Dylan Jones-Evans
## Career
Following a BSc (Hons) in Physics, an MSc in Technical Change and Industrial Strategy from Manchester University, and a PhD in technology entrepreneurship from Aston University, Jones-Evans held postdoctoral posts at Durham University Business School and University College Dublin (as an EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow).
At the age of 29, he was appointed chair of entrepreneurship and small business management at the University of Glamorgan in 1996, where he set up the Welsh Enterprise Institute.
He has subsequently held academic chairs at the University of Wales Bangor and NEWI in Wrexham. He was Director of the National Entrepreneurship Observatory at Cardiff University for the period 2005--2008, Director of Enterprise and Innovation at the University of Wales 2008--2013 and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Bristol Business School 2013--17. He has been chair of the Irish Research Council\'s postgraduate scholarship programmes, and was formerly a member of the Research, Innovation and Engagement Committee for the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.
Jones-Evans has published over 100 articles within edited books, academic conference proceedings and refereed journals, including the *Journal of Economic Geography*, *R&D Management*, *Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice*, *Small Business Economics*, *International Small Business Journal*, *Technovation* and *Regional Studies*. Along with Professor Sara Carter, he is the co-author of the textbook *Enterprise and Small Business*.
He has initiated over £40 million of development projects, and has attracted research grants from the ESRC, the European Commission, the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation. One project was the first European transnational research study of the role of universities in technology transfer and spin-off activities in Europe.
He has worked as a consultant for the OECD, the European Union and other economic development bodies`{{which|date=March 2022}}`{=mediawiki}, and was the lead author of the Entrepreneurship Action Plan for Wales, the first regional enterprise strategy in the world.`{{which|date=March 2022}}`{=mediawiki} He led the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project in Wales for eight years and is currently a member of the \"Be The Spark\" panel, which has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop an entrepreneurship strategy for Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government. He also served as a member of the Business Advisory Panel for the Secretary of State for Wales between 2010 and 2014 and led a major review of business finance for the Welsh Government.
He was the first chairman of Outlook Expeditions Ltd, and has been a member of the boards of Finance Wales, the Institute of Small Business and Enterprise, the Institute of Welsh Affairs, ICE, the Wales Management Council, the Institute of Directors in Wales, Prime Cymru (one of the Prince of Wales\' charities) and was Vice-President (UK) for the European Council of Small Business.
He is currently chairman of Town Square, which is developing facilities for entrepreneurs in the UK, and a trustee of Fabric, a social enterprise in Swansea helping homeless young people.
Jones-Evans has created number of events to promote and celebrate entrepreneurship in Wales including the Wales Fast Growth 50, the Cardiff Business Awards, Wales Start-Up Awards, and the Wales Legal Awards. He is a weekly columnist since 2004 in the *Western Mail* - where he compiles the annual lists of the Top 300 firms in Wales and the Wales Fast Growth 50 list of the fastest growing Welsh businesses - and the *Daily Post*, and is now a contributor to the online news site Business News Wales.
## Recent journal publications {#recent_journal_publications}
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# Dylan Jones-Evans
## Development Bank of Wales {#development_bank_of_wales}
In 2013, he was asked by the Welsh Government to undertake a detailed review examining Access to Finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Wales. The two reports produced by the review criticised the Welsh Government\'s former investment fund Finance Wales as being unfit for purpose, mainly because of the high interest rates charged to businesses and the unwillingness to consider using state aid rules to make finance affordable to Welsh firms. He recommended the creation of a new Development Bank to support funding for Welsh SMEs. He was subsequently appointed chair of the Development Bank of Wales\' Task and Finish Group, which drew up a plan for the creation of this body by the Welsh Government. In May 2015, the National Assembly for Wales voted to call \"on the Welsh Government to establish a Welsh Development Bank, as recognised in the report published by Professor Dylan Jones-Evans\". The DBW was established in 2017.
## Richard Burton {#richard_burton}
Jones-Evans was responsible for starting a campaign in 2011 to raise funding to secure a star for Richard Burton on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This was unveiled in Los Angeles on St David\'s Day, 1 March 2013.
## Honours
Jones-Evans was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours
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# Richard Dean Starr
**Richard Dean Starr** (born March 6, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, editor, screenwriter, and author of fiction, comics, and graphic novels. He is also a former journalist and film critic who has written for newspapers and magazines.
Starr is also a copywriter and marketing consultant through Diamond Pacific Media Group. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Eread Technologies, Inc., which owns and is developing Ereading.com, eComicBooks.com, and other reading-centric domains.
## Biography
Starr was born in Torrance, California, but spent thirteen years in Florida. He returned to Los Angeles in 2006 and was named Special Projects Coordinator for Moonstone Books in 2007. Starr edited *Tales of Zorro*, the first anthology of original Zorro short fiction ever authorized by Zorro Productions, Inc. The second volume, *More Tales of Zorro*, was released in the summer of 2011. In 2016, Starr co-authored a comic book team-up featuring Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. with *New York Times* bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson.
Starr has served as a judge for the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers 2009 Scribe Awards, awarded at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, and as a volunteer expert in the \"Getting Published and E-Published\" section of AllExperts.com since 2006.
## Works
### Anthologies
**Hellboy**
- *Hellboy: Odder Jobs* (Dark Horse, 2004)
**Zorro**
- *Tales of Zorro* (Moonstone Books, 2009)
- *More Tales of Zorro* (Moonstone Books, 2011)
**The Green Hornet**
- *The Green Hornet Case Files* (Moonstone Books, 2012)
- *The Green Hornet Chronicles* (Moonstone Books, 2010)
**Kolchak: The Night Stalker**
- *Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Other (Big)Foot* (with Matthew Baugh) (Moonstone Books, 2016)
- *Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook* (Moonstone Books, 2007)
- *Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles* (Moonstone Books, 2005)
**Sherlock Holmes**
- *Sherlock Holmes: Crossovers Casebook - Volume I* (Moonstone Books, 2012)
**The Lone Ranger**
- *The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice* (Moonstone Books, 2016)
- *The Lone Ranger Chronicles* (Moonstone Books, 2012)
**The Phantom**
- *The Phantom Chronicles 2* (Moonstone Books, 2010)
- *The Phantom Chronicles* (Moonstone Books, 2007)
**The Avenger**
- *The Avenger Chronicles* (Moonstone Books, 2008)
### Other short fiction {#other_short_fiction}
- \"Eat Your Heart Out\" (R. Allen Leider\'s *Hellfire Lounge*, 2009)
- \"Fear Itself\" (*Cemetery Dance* magazine, Stephen King Halloween issue, 2005)
### Graphic novels {#graphic_novels}
- *Wyatt Earp: The Justice Riders* (Moonstone Books, 2008)
### Comic books {#comic_books}
- *Kolchak: The Night Stalker* and *Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.: Unnaturally Normal* (with Kevin J
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# Château de Guirbaden
The **Château de Guirbaden** (or Girbaden) is a ruined castle in the *commune* of Mollkirch in the Bas-Rhin *département* of France.
It is situated in the Guirbaden forest, near the village of Mollkirch on the left bank of the Magel River, at an altitude of 565 m. The castle covers a larger area than any other in Alsace. Dating from the 11th century, over more than 500 years it suffered several attacks, destructions and reconstructions.
Privately owned, it has been listed since 1898 as a *monument historique* by the French Ministry of Culture
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# Polish Academy Award for Best Actor
The **Polish Academy Award for Best Actor** is an award given out at the annual Polish Film Awards to honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in the Polish film industry. The award is presented by the Polish Film Academy and was first presented in 1999.
## Winners and nominees {#winners_and_nominees}
Year Actor Movie title Role
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1999 **Olaf Lubaszenko** ***Zabić Sekala*** **Jura Baran**
Bartosz Opania *Historia kina w Popielawach* Józef Andryszek I
Krzysztof Kolberger *Kroniki domowe* The Father
Piotr Fronczewski *Łóżko Wierszynina* \"Wierszynin\"
Zbigniew Buczkowski *Złote runo* Rysio
Marek Kondrat *Złoto dezerterów* Jan Kania
2000 **Robert Gonera** ***Dług*** **Adam Borecki**
Mirosław Baka *Amok* Maksymilian \"Max\" Rybak
Michał Żebrowski *Ogniem i mieczem* Jan Skrzetuski
Bogusław Linda *Pan Tadeusz* Jacek Soplica
Jerzy Stuhr *Tydzień z życia mężczyzny* Adam Borowski
2001 **Zbigniew Zapasiewicz** ***Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową*** **Tomasz Berg**
Jerzy Stuhr *Duże zwierzę* Zygmunt Sawicki
Janusz Gajos *Ostatnia misja* Piotr Sobczak
Marek Kondrat *Prawo ojca* Michał Kord
Andrzej Seweryn *Prymas - trzy lata z tysiąca* Stefan Wyszyński
2002 **Zbigniew Zamachowski** ***Cześć Tereska*** **Edzio**
Rafał Królikowski *Pół serio* \"Angel\"/pastor Lovborg/Skywalker/Frederic Chopin/SB general/Józef K.
Franciszek Pieczka *Requiem* Bartłomiej Grab
Marek Kondrat *Weiser* Paweł Heller
Michał Żebrowski *Wiedźmin* Geralt of Rivia
2003 **Marek Kondrat** ***Dzień Świra*** **Adaś Miauczyński**
Henryk Gołębiewski *Edi* Edi
Adrien Brody *Pianista* Władysław Szpilman
Janusz Gajos *Tam i z powrotem* Andrzej Hoffman
*Zemsta* Maciej Raptusiewicz
2004 **Zbigniew Zamachowski** ***Zmruż oczy*** **Jasiek**
Jerzy Stuhr *Pogoda na jutro* Józef Kozioł
Krzysztof Majchrzak *Pornografia* Fryderyk
2005 **Marian Dziędziel** ***Wesele*** **Wiesław Wojnar**
Michał Żebrowski *Pręgi* Wojciech Winkler
Jan Peszek *Ubu król* Ubu
2006 **Andrzej Chyra** ***Komornik*** **Lucjan Bohme**
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz *Persona non grata* Wiktor Leszczyński
Tomasz Kot *Skazany na bluesa* Ryszard Riedel
2007 **Janusz Gajos** ***Jasminum*** **Brother Zdrówko**
Leon Niemczyk *Po sezonie* Leon Kos
Marek Kondrat *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* Adaś Miauczyński (55 years old)
2008 **Robert Więckiewicz** ***Wszystko będzie dobrze*** **Teacher Andrzej**
Andrzej Chyra *Katyń* Porucznik Jerzy
Andrzej Hudziak *Parę osób, mały czas* Miron Białoszewski
2009 **Krzysztof Stroiński** ***Rysa*** **Jan Żółwieński**
Maciej Stuhr *33 sceny z życia* Piotr Malkiewicz
Marcin Dorociński *Boisko bezdomnych* Jacek Mróz
2010 **Borys Szyc** ***Wojna polsko-ruska*** **Andrzej Robakowski \"Silny\" (\"Strong\")**
Marian Dziędziel *Dom zły* Zdzisław Dziabas
Marcin Dorociński *Rewers* Bronisław Toporek vel Falski/Marek, Sabina\'s son
2011 **Robert Więckiewicz** ***Różyczka*** **Roman Rożek**
Vincent Gallo *Essential Killing* Mohammed
Mateusz Kościukiewicz *Wszystko, co kocham* Janek
2012 **Robert Więckiewicz** ***W ciemności*** **Leopold Socha**
Marcin Dorociński *Róża* Tadeusz
Jakub Gierszał *Sala samobójców* Dominik Santorski
2013 **Maciej Stuhr** ***Pokłosie*** **Józef Kalina**
Bartłomiej Topa *Drogówka* staff sergeant Ryszard Król
Marcin Dorociński *Obława* Kapral \"Wydra\" (\"Otter\")
2014 **Dawid Ogrodnik** ***Chce się żyć*** **Mateusz Rosiński**
Janusz Gajos *Układ zamknięty* prosecutor Andrzej Kostrzewa
Robert Więckiewicz *Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei* Lech Wałęsa
2015 **Tomasz Kot** ***Bogowie*** **Zbigniew Religa**
Marcin Dorociński *Jack Strong* Ryszard Kukliński
Robert Więckiewicz *Pod Mocnym Aniołem* Jerzy
2016 **Janusz Gajos** ***Body/Ciało*** **Prosecutor Janusz Koprowicz**
Maciej Stuhr *Excentrycy, czyli po słonecznej stronie ulicy* Fabian Apanowicz
Marian Dziędziel *Moje córki krowy* Tadeusz Makowski
2017 **Andrzej Seweryn** ***Ostatnia rodzina*** Zdzisław Beksiński
Mirosław Haniszewski *Jestem mordercą* Janusz Jasiński
Arkadiusz Jakubik *Wołyń* Maciej Skiba
2018 **Dawid Ogrodnik** ***Cicha Noc*** Zdzisław Beksiński
Jakub Gierszał *Najlepszy* Jerzy Górski
Bogusław Linda *Powidoki* Władysław Strzemiński
2019 **Jacek Braciak** ***Kler*** Priest Leszek Lisowski
Tomasz Kot *Zimna wojna* Wiktor Warski
Janusz Gajos *Kamerdyner* Bazyli Miotke
2020 **Bartosz Bielenia** ***Boże Ciało*** Daniel
Borys Szyc *Piłsudski* Józef Piłsudski
Dawid Ogrodnik *Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza* Mieczyslaw Kosz
Jacek Braciak *Córka trenera* Maciej Kornet
Paweł Wilczak *Pan T.* Mr. T
2021 **Piotr Trojan** ***25 lat niewinności. Sprawa Tomka Komendy*** **Tomasz Komenda**
Arkadiusz Jakubik *Jak najdalej stąd* Marek Mazurek
Maciej Musiałowski *Sala samobójców. Hejter* Tomasz Giemza
Ivan Trojan *Szarlatan* Jan Mikolášek
Andrzej Seweryn *Zieja* Priest Jan Zieja
2022 **Maciej Stuhr** ***Powrót do tamtych dni*** **Alek**
Piotr Głowacki *Mistrz* Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
Tomasz Ziętek *Żeby nie było śladów* Jurek Popiel
Jacek Braciak *My Wonderful Life* Witek Lisiecki
Robert Więckiewicz *Wesele* Rysiek Wilk
2023 **Dawid Ogrodnik** ***Johnny*** **Jan Kaczkowski**
Ireneusz Czop *Broad Peak* Maciej Berbeka
Tomasz Schuchardt *Chrzciny* Wojtek
Jacek Beler *Inni ludzie* Kamil
Piotr Trojan *Johnny* Patryk Galewski
2024 **Eryk Kulm** ***Filip*** **Filip**
Jakub Gierszał *Doppelgänger. Sobowtór* Józef Wieczorek/Hans Steiner
Bartosz Bielenia *Kos* Ignac Sikora
Tomasz Włosok *Zielona Granica* Jan
Leszek Lichota *Znachor* Prof. Rafał Wilczur/Antoni Kosiba
2025 **Filip Pławiak** ***Biała odwaga*** **Andrzej**
Jacek Borusiński *Wróbel* Remigiusz Wróbel
Maciej Damięcki *Cisza nocna* Lucjan
Marcin Dorociński *Minghun* Jurek
Tomasz Włosok *Kulej
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# Eugene James
**Eugene D. James** (March 14, 1914 - June 10, 1933) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, James was a very promising young jockey who began racing in 1930 at age seventeen. According to *Time* magazine, he \"made a sensation\" in his first season of racing. Although he didn\'t start until June, his 138 wins that year ranked him fourth among all North American jockeys. Among his first major wins, he guided the filly Cousin Jo to victory in the 1931 Kentucky Oaks.
In 1932, Eugene James was a jockey for the prominent horseman Col. Edward R. Bradley, owner of the highly successful Idle Hour Stock Farm. Bradley\'s number one jockey was future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Laverne Fator. He chose to ride Brother Joe in the 1932 Kentucky Derby, leaving Eugene James to ride Burgoo King. Fator and Brother Joe finished nineteenth in a field of twenty Derby runners while James rode Burgoo King to victory. He would follow it up with a win in Preakness Stakes. The horse was not entered in the Belmont Stakes.
Unfortunately, Eugene James had problems maintaining his weight and suffered from bulimia that became so severe he had to stop riding. Though he was not racing, he was in Chicago, Illinois, in June 1933 when the season at Arlington Park and Hawthorne Race Course was in full swing. During the evening of June 10, the nineteen-year-old James and two friends went to Chicago\'s popular Oak Street Beach on Lake Michigan where he went swimming, and drowned.
Eugene James is buried in the Resthaven Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky
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# Charles F. Howard
**Charles F. Howard**, known more commonly as **Charlie Howard**, (30 May 1942 -- 2 May 2017) was an American politician and had been a member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1995. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Howard was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), serving as Texas state leader.
## Early life and career {#early_life_and_career}
After moving to Sugar Land, Texas, a fast-growing suburb of Houston at the time, Charlie Howard became involved in the Sugar Land community, at one time serving as President of the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce, which is highly influential in Fort Bend County and also of which he is a life member. He was also a founding director of the Fort Bend Economic Development Council and has served as President of The C. Howard Company, which specializes in real estate development. Prior experience included serving as Executive Vice President and Operating Officer of Sugarland Properties, which developed the First Colony master-planned community that now comprises most of the southern and southeastern areas of both Sugar Land and State House District 26. Additionally, Howard had been involved in numerous charitable, political, business, religious and educational organizations.
## Political career {#political_career}
In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress. Howard made an issue of Tallas\' resistance to term limits, which was exhibited when the latter (as chair of a subcommittee) struck down a measure calling for term limits in the Texas Legislature. `{{unfit|1=[https://archive.today/20130414225041/http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/BG994.cfm]}}`{=mediawiki} Using this issue as the centerpiece of his campaign, Howard defeated Tallas with 71 percent of the vote in the primary, which was considered the real contest in the heavily Republican district, which has not elected a Democrat since 1978. In fact, Howard had faced a Democratic challenger only once, in 2000, winning with 70% of the vote, and had, with the exception of 1996 (when he faced only a token third-party candidate), won without opposition in other previous general election cycles.
After being elected, Howard had developed a largely conservative voting record in the Texas Legislature, and had received awards from various conservative groups, including the Christian Coalition, the Eagle Forum, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Family Association, and Concerned Women of America. He had also been recognized by various publications, including the *Houston Chronicle*, for his efforts in securing funds for the expansion of U.S. Highway 59, which runs through Sugar Land, and by the Republican Party of Texas for Howard\'s strong recognition of the party\'s values.
Because of his accomplishments in Austin, *Texas Monthly* named Charlie Howard among the \"Worst Legislators\" three times, ranking seventh worst in 1997 and fourth worst in 1999. In 2007, considered`{{By whom|date=December 2019}}`{=mediawiki} one of the worst legislative sessions in Texas history, Howard was named to the worst list for the third time in his seven sessions. [1](http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/bestworst.php).
In 2006, Howard fended off a primary challenge, the first time such a scenario occurred in his political career, but faced no opposition in the general election. In 2008, Howard easily won reelection over his two Republican primary opponents, educator Paula Stansell and student Norm Ley with 63% of the vote.
In 2013, Howard chose not to seek re-election due to health issues.
Howard died on May 2, 2017, after a long battle with cancer
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# Catherine Charlotte de Gramont
**Catherine Charlotte de Gramont** (`{{IPA|fr|katʁin ʃaʁlɔt də ɡʁamɔ̃}}`{=mediawiki}; 1639 -- 4 June 1678) was Princess of Monaco from 1662 to 1678 as the consort of Prince Louis I, and was once a mistress of Louis XIV of France in 1666.
## Life
### Early life {#early_life}
Catherine Charlotte de Gramont was the eldest daughter of Marshal, Duke Antoine de Gramont and Françoise Marguerite du Plessis de Chivré (1608--1689), a niece of Cardinal Richelieu. Catherine Charlotte\'s elder brother was Guy Armand de Gramont, the celebrated *Count of Guiche*, known for his arrogance and good looks, who was successively the lover of Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans and Princess Henrietta of England, husband and wife.
Catherine Charlotte was educated in a fashionable convent school, the Visitation Faubourg Saint Jacques in Paris, where many daughters of the aristocracy were educated. She was described as a sophisticated, vivacious, strong-willed beauty. She fell mutually in love with her cousin, Antonin Nompar, marquis de Puyguilleim, and when her father refused his permission for them to marry, they became lovers all the same.
### Duchess of Valentinois {#duchess_of_valentinois}
In March 1660 at the Chateau de Gramont, Catherine married Louis de Grimaldi, the second Duke of Valentinois and heir to the throne of Monaco, who was described as \"a glorious and avaricious Italian\". They had six children.
The marriage was arranged to strengthen the alliance between Monaco and France against Spain by forging a connection between the Princely House of Monaco and a member of the French high nobility, which could provide valuable connections to the French court. Catherine Charlotte\'s family connections fit this description, Louis was impressed by her beauty, and the French monarch gave his consent. Catherine Charlotte herself was convinced because her lover refused to elope with her, she was older than most noblewomen when they married, and that her marriage would give her a high rank at the French royal court, which she would not have to leave, at least not until her husband became Prince of Monaco. After marriage, the couple resided in Paris and regularly attended the French court, and Catherine Charlotte continued her relationship with her cousin.
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# Catherine Charlotte de Gramont
## Life
### Princess of Monaco {#princess_of_monaco}
In 1662, she became Princess of Monaco when her husband succeeded to the throne. Catherine Charlotte was forced to accompany him to Monaco against her will, but Puyguilleim accompanied her on the way in disguise. She remained in Monaco for three years. She did not like her stay in Monaco, where the Princely court did not consist of much more than the Grimaldi relatives and hardly any court life or high society life existed at the time.
In 1665, the Prince and Princess of Monaco returned to the French royal court, where Catherine Charlotte was appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Henrietta of England, sister-in-law and former lover of Louis XIV, with whom she was rumoured to have a bisexual love affair. Her aunt, Suzanne Charlotte de Gramont, marquise de Saint Chaumont, was also a member of Henrietta\'s household as the governess of her two daughters, Marie Louise and Anne Marie. She continued her love affair with Puyguilleim, but also became involved in a love affair with the Duke de Guiche. She was renowned for her beauty and wits, and attracted many lovers, including the king, the marquis de Villeroi, and her cousin, \"the little Lauzun\". Madame de Sévigné described her as \"greedy for pleasure\", and she was nicknamed Catherine *the Torrent*.
Henrietta encouraged Catherine Charlotte to have an affair with the king to attract him away from his mistress, Louise de la Vallière, back to Henrietta. The king\'s affair with Catherine Charlotte in danger of being exposed to a public scandal because of Catherine Charlotte\'s other lovers, de Guiche and Puyguilleim: after a scene at court, there was a fear that the rivalry between the three men (as well as her husband) would result in a duel. After the scene, Catherine Charlotte\'s husband and her lover Duke de Guiche left the court to serve in the war. In the end, the king did leave Louise de la Vallière, but after his affair with Catherine Charlotte, he did not return to Henrietta, but begun an affair with Madame de Montespan instead.
In 1668, Catherine Charlotte had a love affair with Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, lover of the king\'s brother and Henrietta\'s husband Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Henrietta regarded Lorraine to be her mortal enemy and was deeply offended by the affair, and successfully asked the king to exile Catherine Charlotte from court. At the same time, Catherine Charlotte\'s long-time lover Puyguilleim married. She returned to Monaco, where she lived a quiet life and remained for four years.
In 1672, Catherine Charlotte was able to return to Paris when she was offered a position as lady-in-waiting to the king\'s mistress, Madame de Montespan. Her employment ended the following year, but she was given her own house in Paris, where she was able to stay. During the following years, however, she fell ill with a progressive cancer.
Catherine Charlotte died in Paris on 4 June 1678, aged 39.
## Issue
1. Antoine Grimaldi (25 January 1661 -- 20 January 1731) Prince of Monaco, married Marie of Lorraine.
2. Maria Teresa Carlotta Grimaldi (14 January 1662 -- 1738), died unmarried.
3. Giovanna Maria Devota Grimaldi (14 January 1662 -- 21 April 1741), twin of Maria Teresa, a nun in San Remo.
4. Teresa Maria Aurelia Grimaldi (20 May 1663 -- 15 February 1675), *Mademoiselle des Baux*.
5. Anna Ippòlita Grimaldi (26 July 1664 -- 23 July 1700), married Jean Charles de Crussol, 7th Duke of Uzès, son of Emmanuel de Crussol, 5th Duke of Uzès.
6. Francesco Onorato Grimaldi (31 December 1669 -- 18 February 1748), Archbishop of Besançon.
7. Amelia Grimaldi (ca. 1675 -- died young)
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# Shaibah
**Shaibah** (*الشعيبة*) is the name of a small village and a site of a military airfield near Az Zubayr, 7 mi south west of Basrah in Iraq. The area was the site of a battle with Turkish Forces during the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War.
It was the site of RAF Shaibah from 1920 until 1956 when it was then handed over to the Iraqi Air Force.
3rd Indian Motor Brigade was reformed as 43rd Lorried Infantry Brigade here in December 1942 -- February 1943 during the Second World War.
It was the site of Multi-National Division (South East)/Coalition Forces\' Shaibah Logistics Base (SLB) during the invasion and occupation of Iraq from 2003 until 2007. While in operation it was home to British, Czech, Danish and Norwegian forces. In 2007 the SLB was handed over to Iraqi Army
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# Duane Young
**Curtis Duane Young Sr.** (born May 29, 1968) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans. Young was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round of the 1991 NFL draft. Young played in the NFL for six seasons with the Chargers (1991--1995) and the Buffalo Bills (1998).
Young is from Kalamazoo, Michigan and is a graduate of Kalamazoo Central High School. Since retiring from the NFL he has coached many high school teams. Most recently he was the head coach at Loy Norrix High School in Kalamazoo
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# Niyazi Öktem
**Niyazi Öktem** (born 1944) is a Turkish academic. Born in Elazığ, he is a professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law, and Sociology of Law in the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is president of the *Intercultural Dialogue Platform*, the most prominent inter-faith organisation in Turkey
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# Boon Gould
**Rowland Charles** \"**Boon**\" **Gould** (4 March 1955 -- 30 April 2019) was an English musician and one of the four founding members of Level 42.
## Career
Gould was born in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight. He was the guitarist of Level 42 and an occasional saxophone player on their earliest albums. Boon was the brother of Phil Gould, who was the drummer and also a founding member of Level 42. Gould\'s tenure as a full-time member of Level 42 ended in 1987 after a period of sustained illness and nervous exhaustion, culminating in him suffering from panic attacks whilst onstage. He continued writing lyrics with the band and was present during studio work for the *Staring at the Sun* album in 1988.
Gould released two solo studio albums: *Tin Man* and *Love Kills Overtime*, the second under the pseudonym \'Zen Gangsters\'. The second studio album used a number of his brother\'s drum samples from his later work with Level 42.
Gould maintained a relationship with lead vocalist and bassist Mark King, who was occasionally seen attending King\'s concerts in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Gould provided lyrics for King\'s second solo studio album *One Man* (1998) and the full 2004 reunion of the band was officially announced on his website, although this reunion was very brief.
Gould provided lyrics, some guitar work, and some music for Level 42\'s eleventh studio album *Retroglide* (2006), although he and King had an agreement that Gould was credited solely for lyrics and King solely for music.
In 2018, Gould made his last recording when he contributed a guitar solo to his brother Phil\'s album *Beautiful Wounds*, on a track called \"The Russian Submariner\".
## Reunions
In October 2012, Gould joined his longtime bandmates and friends, Mark King and Mike Lindup, for a one off guest appearance in Bristol. Gould performed alongside the band for the songs \"Heathrow\" and \"Love Games\". Although Gould had a lot of writing involvement with Level 42 after the dissolution of the original line-up, the Bristol show marked his first public appearance with Level 42 in 25 years. Gould\'s appearance also coincided with King\'s birthday.
## Death
Gould was found dead at a friend\'s home in Uffculme, Devon on 30 April 2019, aged 64. A coroner\'s inquest found the death was suicide by hanging. Boon had suffered from bipolar disorder throughout his life
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# Pat Dunsmore
**Patrick Neil Dunsmore** (born October 2, 1959) is an American former professional football player who played tight end for three seasons for the Chicago Bears. He is a graduate of Ankeny High School in Ankeny, Iowa and Drake University. He switched sports (to football) as a senior in high school and switched positions (to tight end) as a senior in college. He played for Drake during a historically successful era for the school. As a professional, he is best remembered as the recipient of a Walter Payton playoff touchdown and a victim of a pileup in a bench clearing brawl. He is the father of Drake Dunsmore.
## Early life {#early_life}
At Ankeny, he competed in basketball until his senior year, when he became a football player and earned a football scholarship. At Drake, he was a highly regarded tight end, after converting from wide receiver as a senior, who slipped to the 106th pick in the 1983 NFL draft after suffering a knee injury while skiing in early 1983. On September 13, 1980, he had 142 yards and six receptions for two touchdowns against Ball State. Dunsmore, was part of a historic era for Drake Bulldogs football including the nearly undefeated 1981 Drake Bulldogs football team. The team\'s 7--0 start was the school\'s first in 37 years, which caused *Sports Illustrated* to do a feature on the team. Then, he was part of the Bears 1983 Draft class with Jimbo Covert, Willie Gault, Mike Richardson, Dave Duerson, Tom Thayer, Richard Dent and Mark Bortz.
## Professional career {#professional_career}
He played all 16 games for the 1983 Bears, making 8 receptions for 102 yards. He was placed on injured reserve on August 30, 1984, and taken off of injured reserve on September 29, 1984. He then played in 11 regular season games for the 1984 Bears, totaling 9 receptions for 106 yards and a touchdown. He caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Walter Payton in the 1984–85 NFL playoffs on December 30 against the Washington Redskins, but was on injured reserve during the 1985 Bears Super Bowl XX season. The 23--19 victory at RFK Stadium was the team\'s first playoff victory since 1963. The play occurred two minutes before the half when Payton took a pitch from Steve Fuller and threw the pass, giving the Bears a 10--3 halftime lead.
Dunsmore was able to play with the 1986 Bears in the preseason. In a late preseason game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Dunsmore came to the aid of teammate Keith Van Horne during a bench-clearing brawl. Dunsmore and Van Horne were pinned against the wall behind the Cardinals bench. Dunsmore was trampled, kicked and punched by Charlie Baker, Ottis Anderson and Earnest Gray on national television. Dunsmore was among the last four players cut when the team cut to the 45-man roster limit a little over a week later. The following week, when fines were announced by the NFL, Otis Wilson expressed his disbelief \". . . Dunsmore got fined? He almost got killed
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# Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey
**Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey**, `{{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|LVO|sep=,|size=100%}}`{=mediawiki} (*née* **Morgan**; 4 December 1924 -- 21 January 2017), better known as **Dame Shirley Paget**, was a British public servant and writer.
## Early life and education {#early_life_and_education}
She was born in Chelsea, London, the daughter of novelists Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan and granddaughter of engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. She was named after the heroine in Charlotte Brontë\'s 1849 novel *Shirley*.
She and her younger brother, Roger Morgan (1926--2018), grew up in Notting Hill, London. She was educated at Francis Holland School and Malvern St James until the Second World War, when she, her brother, and their mother moved to America. She finished her schooling at Kent Place School in New Jersey.
## Career
Shirley Morgan began her career in the Foreign Office as personal secretary to Gladwyn Jebb until her marriage to Lord Anglesey in 1949.
As Marchioness of Anglesey, she served as President of the National Federation of Women\'s Institutes 1966--1969, a board member of the British Council 1985--1995, chairman of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission 1987--1991, and vice-chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission 1989--1996.
As an author she wrote *The Countrywoman\'s Year* (1960).
## Personal life {#personal_life}
She married Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (8 October 1922 -- 13 July 2013) on 16 October 1948, a year after he succeeded to the marquessate. They had met at the 1946 Paris peace conference. Queen Mary was a guest at their wedding as King George V was a godfather of the groom. Their marriage produced three daughters and two sons.
Along with her husband, she attended the Coronation in 1952 of Elizabeth II. At the time of her husband\'s death in 2013, it was believed they were the only living married couple apart from Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to have attended the Coronation.
She died in 2017, aged 92, at a Moorlands Lodge nursing home in Surrey.
## Honours
Paget was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1977. She was invested as a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1983. She was later invested as a Lieutenant, Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1993
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# BBC Radio Durham
**BBC Radio Durham** was a BBC local radio station set up in 1968.
## Background and history {#background_and_history}
BBC Radio Durham was part of the BBC\'s original plan to have nine sites where local radio experiments would be carried out. It is the only one of the original stations to have fully closed down.
It opened on 3 July 1968, but after the government restricted the BBC to twenty local radio stations, the corporation responded by ceasing transmissions on 25 August 1972. Its resources were transferred to Carlisle where BBC Radio Carlisle, now BBC Radio Cumbria, was formed.
It was the only one of the original stations to cover a county rather than a city. When the BBC opened Radio Newcastle which covered the north of the county and Radio Teesside (later Radio Cleveland and now BBC Tees) covered the south, it was sandwiched between the two.
The northern part of County Durham is now covered by BBC Radio Newcastle, with the southern part served by BBC Radio Tees.
Former BBC News correspondent Kate Adie worked at Radio Durham, before joining BBC Radio Bristol in 1970. Other presenters included Mike Hollingsworth, Eileen McCabe and Barbara Bailey
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# Sylvester equation
In mathematics, in the field of control theory, a **Sylvester equation** is a matrix equation of the form:
$$A X + X B = C.$$ It is named after English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester. Then given matrices *A*, *B*, and *C*, the problem is to find the possible matrices *X* that obey this equation. All matrices are assumed to have coefficients in the complex numbers. For the equation to make sense, the matrices must have appropriate sizes, for example they could all be square matrices of the same size. But more generally, *A* and *B* must be square matrices of sizes *n* and *m* respectively, and then *X* and *C* both have *n* rows and *m* columns.
A Sylvester equation has a unique solution for *X* exactly when there are no common eigenvalues of *A* and −*B*. More generally, the equation *AX* + *XB* = *C* has been considered as an equation of bounded operators on a (possibly infinite-dimensional) Banach space. In this case, the condition for the uniqueness of a solution *X* is almost the same: There exists a unique solution *X* exactly when the spectra of *A* and −*B* are disjoint.
## Existence and uniqueness of the solutions {#existence_and_uniqueness_of_the_solutions}
Using the Kronecker product notation and the vectorization operator $\operatorname{vec}$, we can rewrite Sylvester\'s equation in the form
$$(I_m \otimes A + B^T \otimes I_n) \operatorname{vec}X = \operatorname{vec}C,$$ where $A$ is of dimension $n\! \times\! n$, $B$ is of dimension $m\!\times\!m$, $X$ of dimension $n\!\times\!m$ and $I_k$ is the $k \times k$ identity matrix. In this form, the equation can be seen as a linear system of dimension $mn \times mn$.
**Theorem.** Given matrices $A\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ and $B\in \mathbb{C}^{m\times m}$, the Sylvester equation $AX+XB=C$ has a unique solution $X\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times m}$ for any $C\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times m}$ if and only if $A$ and $-B$ do not share any eigenvalue.
**Proof.** The equation $AX+XB=C$ is a linear system with $mn$ unknowns and the same number of equations. Hence it is uniquely solvable for any given $C$ if and only if the homogeneous equation $AX+XB=0$ admits only the trivial solution $0$.
\(i\) Assume that $A$ and $-B$ do not share any eigenvalue. Let $X$ be a solution to the abovementioned homogeneous equation. Then $AX=X(-B)$, which can be lifted to $A^kX = X(-B)^k$ for each $k \ge 0$ by mathematical induction. Consequently, $p(A) X = X p(-B)$ for any polynomial $p$. In particular, let $p$ be the characteristic polynomial of $A$. Then $p(A)=0$ due to the Cayley--Hamilton theorem; meanwhile, the spectral mapping theorem tells us $\sigma(p(-B)) = p(\sigma(-B)),$ where $\sigma(\cdot)$ denotes the spectrum of a matrix. Since $A$ and $-B$ do not share any eigenvalue, $p(\sigma(-B))$ does not contain zero, and hence $p(-B)$ is nonsingular. Thus $X= 0$ as desired. This proves the \"if\" part of the theorem.
\(ii\) Now assume that $A$ and $-B$ share an eigenvalue $\lambda$. Let $u$ be a corresponding right eigenvector for $A$, $v$ be a corresponding left eigenvector for $-B$, and $X=u{v}^*$. Then $X\neq 0$, and $AX+XB = A(uv^*)-(uv^*)(-B) = \lambda uv^*-\lambda uv^* = 0.$ Hence $X$ is a nontrivial solution to the aforesaid homogeneous equation, justifying the \"only if\" part of the theorem. **Q.E.D.**
As an alternative to the spectral mapping theorem, the nonsingularity of $p(-B)$ in part (i) of the proof can also be demonstrated by the Bézout\'s identity for coprime polynomials. Let $q$ be the characteristic polynomial of $-B$. Since $A$ and $-B$ do not share any eigenvalue, $p$ and $q$ are coprime. Hence there exist polynomials $f$ and $g$ such that $p(z)f(z)+q(z)g(z)\equiv 1$. By the Cayley--Hamilton theorem, $q(-B)=0$. Thus $p(-B)f(-B)=I$, implying that $p(-B)$ is nonsingular.
The theorem remains true for real matrices with the caveat that one considers their complex eigenvalues. The proof for the \"if\" part is still applicable; for the \"only if\" part, note that both $\mathrm{Re}(uv^*)$ and $\mathrm{Im}(uv^*)$ satisfy the homogenous equation $AX+XB=0$, and they cannot be zero simultaneously.
## Roth\'s removal rule {#roths_removal_rule}
Given two square complex matrices *A* and *B*, of size *n* and *m*, and a matrix *C* of size *n* by *m*, then one can ask when the following two square matrices of size *n* + *m* are similar to each other: $\begin{bmatrix} A & C \\ 0 & B \end{bmatrix}$ and $\begin{bmatrix} A & 0 \\0&B \end{bmatrix}$. The answer is that these two matrices are similar exactly when there exists a matrix *X* such that *AX* − *XB* = *C*. In other words, *X* is a solution to a Sylvester equation. This is known as **Roth\'s removal rule**.
One easily checks one direction: If *AX* − *XB* = *C* then
$$\begin{bmatrix}I_n & X \\ 0 & I_m \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} A&C\\0&B \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} I_n & -X \\ 0& I_m \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} A&0\\0&B \end{bmatrix}.$$ Roth\'s removal rule does not generalize to infinite-dimensional bounded operators on a Banach space. Nevertheless, Roth\'s removal rule generalizes to the systems of Sylvester equations.
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# Sylvester equation
## Numerical solutions {#numerical_solutions}
A classical algorithm for the numerical solution of the Sylvester equation is the Bartels--Stewart algorithm, which consists of transforming $A$ and $B$ into Schur form by a QR algorithm, and then solving the resulting triangular system via back-substitution. This algorithm, whose computational cost is $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ arithmetical operations, is used, among others, by LAPACK and the `lyap` function in GNU Octave. See also the `sylvester` function in that language. In some specific image processing applications, the derived Sylvester equation has a closed form solution
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# Johnny Rembert
**Johnny Lee Rembert** (born January 19, 1961) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 10 seasons with the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Clemson Tigers. Rembert was a member of the 1985 AFC champions who played the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XX in New Orleans. In the Wild Card Round of the 1985--86 NFL playoffs, he had a fumble recovery return for a touchdown against the New York Jets. He was selected to the AFC Pro Bowl team twice (1988 and 1989). He won AFC Defensive Player of the Week in Week 10 of the 1988 season.
After his playing career, Rembert was the director of athletics at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida and also the quality control representative for the NFL
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# Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The **Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor** is an annual award given to the best Polish supporting actor of the year.
## Winners and nominees {#winners_and_nominees}
Year Actor Movie title Role
------ ---------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------
2000 **Andrzej Chyra** ***Dług*** **Gerard Nowak**
Krzysztof Majchrzak *Amok* \"Rekin\" (\"Shark\")
Janusz Gajos *Fuks* Śledczy Mazur
Bohdan Stupka *Ogniem i mieczem* Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Krzysztof Stroiński *Tydzień z życia mężczyzny* Oleś
2001 **Janusz Gajos** ***To ja, złodziej*** **Roman Wyskocz**
Krzysztof Pieczyński *Daleko od okna* Jodła
Zbigniew Zamachowski *Prymas - trzy lata z tysiąca* Stanisław Skordecki
Franciszek Pieczka *Syzyfowe prace* Józef
Jan Frycz *Zakochani* Alfred Bobicki
2002 **Jerzy Trela** ***Quo Vadis*** **Chilon Chilonides**
Krzysztof Kiersznowski *Cześć, Tereska* Stasiek, Tereska\'s father
Jan Frycz *Egoiści* Filip
Maciej Stuhr *Przedwiośnie* Hipolit Wielosławski
Zbigniew Zamachowski *Weiser* Kołota
2003 **Jacek Braciak** ***Edi*** **Jureczek Sokołow**
Jerzy Trela *Anioł w Krakowie* Kloszard
Ed Stoppard *Pianista* Henryk Szpilman
Jan Frycz *Tam i z powrotem* Piotr Klimek vel Jurek
Daniel Olbrychski *Zemsta* Dyndalski
2004 **Jan Frycz** ***Pornografia*** **Siemian**
Sławomir Orzechowski *Warszawa* Jan Gołębiewski
Zbigniew Zamachowski *Żurek* Matuszek
2005 **Jan Frycz** ***Pręgi*** **Andrzej Winkler**
Borys Szyc *Symetria* Albert
Arkadiusz Jakubik *Wesele* Jan Janocha
Krzysztof Globisz *Zerwany* Teacher in youth detention center
2006 **Jerzy Stuhr** ***Persona non grata*** **Solliciteur**
Marek Kondrat *Wróżby kumaka* Marczak
Jerzy Trela *Zakochany Anioł* Kloszard \"Szajbusek\"
2007 **Krzysztof Kiersznowski** ***Statyści*** **Edward Gralewski**
Adam Ferency *Jasminum* father Kleofas
Andrzej Chyra *Wszyscy jesteśmy Chrystusami* Adaś Miauczyński (33 years old)
2008 **Tomasz Sapryk** ***Sztuczki*** **Father of Stefek and Elka**
Artur Żmijewski *Katyń* rotmistrz Andrzej
Jan Frycz *Korowód* professor Zdzisław Dąbrowski
2009 **Robert Więckiewicz** ***Ile waży koń trojański?*** **Darek Albrecht**
Andrzej Hudziak *33 sceny z życia* Jurek Szczęsny
Rafał Maćkowiak Tomek
2010 **Janusz Gajos** ***Mniejsze zło*** **Mieczysław Nowak**
Robert Więckiewicz *Dom zły* prosecutor Tomala
Adam Woronowicz *Rewers* Mr. Józef
2011 **Adam Woronowicz** ***Chrzest*** **\"Gruby\" (\"Fat\")**
Jan Frycz *Różyczka* colonel Wasiak
Andrzej Chyra *Wszystko, co kocham* Janek\'s father
2012 **Jacek Braciak** ***Róża*** **Władek**
Adam Ferency *1920 Bitwa warszawska* chekist Bykowski
Wojciech Pszoniak *Kret* Stefan Garbarek
2013 **Arkadiusz Jakubik** ***Drogówka*** **Bogdan Petrycki**
Dawid Ogrodnik *Jesteś Bogiem* Sebastian Salbert \"Rahim\"
Maciej Stuhr *Obława* Henryk Kondolewicz
2014 **Arkadiusz Jakubik** ***Chce się żyć*** **Paweł Rosiński**
Eryk Lubos *Dziewczyna z szafy* Dzielnicowy Krzysztof
Adam Woronowicz *Miłość* Adam Kostrzewski
2015 **Piotr Głowacki** ***Bogowie*** **Marian Zembala**
Ireneusz Czop *Jack Strong* Marian Rakowiecki
Adam Woronowicz *Pani z przedszkola* Hubert Myśliwski
Arkadiusz Jakubik *Pod Mocnym Aniołem* \"Terrorysta\" (\"Terrorist\")
2016 **Wojciech Pszoniak** ***Excentrycy, czyli po słonecznej stronie ulicy*** **Felicjan Zuppe**
Adam Woronowicz *Demon* Doctor
Marcin Dorociński *Moje córki krowy* Grzegorz
2017 **Arkadiusz Jakubik** ***Jestem mordercą*** **Wiesław Kalicki**
Jacek Braciak *Volhynia* Głowacki
Dawid Ogrodnik *Ostatnia rodzina* Tomasz Beksiński
2018 **Arkadiusz Jakubik** ***Cicha noc*** **Adam\'s Father**
Arkadiusz Jakubik *Najlepszy* **swimming pool manager**
Tomasz Ziętek *Cicha noc* Paweł
2019 **Janusz Gajos** ***Kler*** **Archbishop Mordowicz**
Adam Woronowicz *Kamerdyner* Hermann von Krauss
Borys Szyc *Zimna wojna* Lech Kaczmarek
2020 **Łukasz Simlat** ***Boże Ciało*** **Father Tomasz**
**Robert Więckiewicz** ***Ukryta gra*** Alfred
Tomasz Ziętek *Boże Ciało* Pinczer
Andrzej Chyra *Mowa ptaków* Lucjan
Sebastian Stankiewicz *Pan T.* Filak
2021 **Jan Frycz** ***25 lat niewinności. Sprawa Tomka Komendy*** **Stary**
Andrzej Konopka *25 lat niewinności. Sprawa Tomka Komendy* Toloczko
Maciej Stuhr *Sala samobójców. Hejter* Paweł Rudnicki
Andrzej Chyra *Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie* Captain
Łukasz Simlat *Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie* Wika\'s husband
2022 **Jacek Braciak** ***Żeby nie było śladów*** **Tadeusz Popiel**
Andrzej Chyra *Wszystkie nasze strachy* Daniel\'s father
Łukasz Simlat *Sonata* Łukasz Plonka
Borys Szyc *Bo we mnie jest seks* Kazimierz Kutz
Adam Woronowicz *Moje wspaniałe życie* Maciek
2023 **Andrzej Seweryn** ***Śubuk*** **Feliks**
Sebastian Fabijański *Apokawixa* Blitz
Grzegorz Damięcki *Fucking Bornholm* Dawid Nowak
Andrzej Konopka *Chrzciny* Reverend Wiesław
Mateusz Kościukiewicz *IO* Mateo
2024 **Tomasz Schuchardt** ***Doppelgänger. Sobowtór*** **Jan Bitner**
Robert Więckiewicz *Filip* Staszek
Jacek Braciak *Kos* Tadeusz Kościuszko
Robert Więckiewicz Dunin
Piotr Pacek Stanisław Duchnowski
2025 Andrzej Chyra *Kulej
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# Northrop Grumman Bat
The **Northrop Grumman Bat** is a medium-altitude unmanned air vehicle originally developed for use by the United States Armed Forces. Designed primarily as an intelligence \"ISR\" gathering tool, the Bat features 30 lb payload capacity and a 10 ft wing span.
Northrop Grumman received design and marketing rights from Swift Engineering to the **Killer Bee**, renamed the Bat in April 2009.
The Bat UAS was redeveloped to increase payload carrying capacity and extend range. The latest variant has a wing span of 14 ft and can carry up to 100 lb of payload. The Bat \"14\" UAS has a maximum altitude of 17,000 ft above sea level and a maximum endurance of 18 hours.
On August 12, 2011, Northrop Grumman won a \$26m contract for Sand Dragon B Tier II UAVs able to detect IEDs and roadside bombs.
## Characteristics
- The Bat UAS System is packaged for transport into two major assemblies: Launch/Recovery and Air Vehicle/GCS.
- Transportable on MV-22, HUMVEE, C-130 and by helicopter
- Bat UAVs incorporate COTS payloads for reduced costs and ease of maintenance.
- Automatic Recovery is programmed and controlled via autonomous computer and differential GPS using a portable net system.
- Catapult launcher functions are controlled and monitored by GCS software.
The blended wings merge with the fuselage into a single airfoil to reduce aerodynamic drag, improve fuel economy and increase flight endurance. Made largely of composites, including epoxy/carbon fiber and fiberglass, the airfoil is rigid, providing a structural efficiency which reduces materials and manufacturing costs. With net hooks in the nose and a rear pusher propeller, the craft lands in a mobile retrieval net.
The current Hirth engine with its five-bladed propeller provides a flight time of up to 18 hours. The Bat is designed to have a lower than average visual and radar cross-section profile. A heavy-fuel engine version is also available.
The payload capabilities include still image and real-time video cameras, EO/IR and SAR sensors, Kestrel MTI, laser range finders, laser designators, infrared cameras, communication relays, IED detection, radar jamming EW, chemical and biological detection systems, psy ops, and flare dispensers.`{{fact|date=August 2022}}`{=mediawiki}
## Uses
The Bat UAS can carry numerous types of payloads for collecting intelligence, including still image and real time video cameras, EO/IR and SAR sensors, laser range finders, laser designators, Infra-Red cameras, communications relay equipment, chemical, biological, and IED detection systems and flare dispensers. The Bat series is offered for surveillance of civil disturbances, borders, pipe- and power-lines, as well as meteorology
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# Shade–Lohmann Bridge
The **Shade--Lohmann Bridge** is a pair of twin cantilever bridges that carry Interstate 474 (I-474) and U.S. Route 24 (US 24) over the Illinois River near the Peoria Lock and Dam located at River Mile 158.0 in Tazewell County, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It connects Bartonville and Creve Coeur. Built in 1973, the bridge was named after Pekin\'s former mayor and Illinois legislator J. Norman Shade, and Martin B. Lohmann, who served in the Illinois Legislature continuously from 1923 to 1953.
On March 26, 2017, it was announced that the bridge would undergo reconstruction for steel repairs, electrical work, removing the sediment from bridge piers, and painting the bridge. The project cost \$13.5 million. Work started in April 2017 and was completed in November 2018
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# Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The **Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress** is an annual award given to the best supporting actress in Polish movie.
## Winners and nominees {#winners_and_nominees}
Year Actress Movie title Role
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2000 **Ewa Wiśniewska** ***Ogniem i mieczem*** **Kurcewiczowa**
Stanisława Celińska *Fuks* Mrs. Poznańska
Kinga Preis *Poniedziałek* Renata
Danuta Szaflarska *Egzekutor* Old lady
*Tydzień z życia mężczyzny* Adam\'s mother
2001 **Krystyna Feldman** ***To ja, złodziej*** **Babcia \"Jaja\"**
Zofia Kucówna *Syzyfowe prace* \"Przepiórzyca\"
Kinga Preis *Wrota Europy* Hala
Katarzyna Figura *Zakochani* Edyta Bobicka
Monika Krzywkowska *Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową* Hanka
2002 **Stanisława Celińska** ***Pieniądze to nie wszystko*** **Mrs. Ala**
Olga Frycz *Boże skrawki* Marysia
*Weiser* Elka in 50s/ Rachela, Elka\'s daughter
Małgorzata Rożniatowska *Cześć, Tereska* Terseka\'s mother
2003 **Kinga Preis** ***Wtorek*** **Renata**
Janina Traczykówna *Dzień świra* Adaś\'s mother
Maureen Lipman *Pianista* Szpilman\'s mother
Beata Schimscheiner *Anioł w Krakowie* Ramona Talarek
Agata Buzek *Zemsta* Klara Raputsiewiczówna
2004 **Dominika Ostałowska** ***Warszawa*** **Wiktoria**
Małgorzata Foremniak *Zmruż oczy* mother of \"Mała\"
Natalia Rybicka *Żurek* Iwonka Iwanek
2005 **Iwona Bielska** ***Wesele*** **Eluśka Wojnarowa**
Dorota Kamińska *Pręgi* Tania\'s mother
Kinga Preis *Symetria* Dawid\'s wife
2006 **Małgorzata Braunek** ***Tulipany*** **Marianna**
Edyta Jungowska *Jestem* mother of \"Kundel\"
Anna Dymna *Skazany na bluesa* Polowa
2007 **Ewa Wencel** ***Plac Zbawiciela*** **Teresa Zielińska**
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak *Co słonko widziało* Róża Świder
Anna Romantowska *Statyści* Maria Narożna
2008 **Danuta Stenka** ***Katyń*** **Róża**
Krystyna Tkacz *Parę osób, mały czas* Zosia
Stanisława Calińska *Południe-Północ* Woman with cows
2009 **Danuta Szaflarska** ***Ile waży koń trojański?*** **Stanisława Zwierzyńska**
Izabela Kuna *33 sceny z życia* Kaśka
Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik Barbara Rostawicka
2010 **Anna Polony** ***Rewers*** **Sabina\'s grandmother**
Krystyna Janda *Rewers* Irena Jankowska
Sonia Bohosiewicz *Wojna polska-ruska* Natasza Blokus
2011 **Stanisława Celińska** ***Joanna*** **Kamińska**
Kinga Preis *Joanna* Staszka Kopeć
Magdalena Cielecka *Wenecja* Joanna
2012 **Kinga Preis** ***W ciemności*** **Wanda Socha**
Kinga Preis *Róża* Amelia
Roma Gąsiorowska *Sala samobójców* Sylwia
2013 **Joanna Kulig** ***Sponsoring*** **Alicja**
Izabela Kuna *Drogówka* Ewa
Sonia Bohosiewicz *Obława* Hanna Kondolewiczowa
2014 **Anna Nehrebecka** ***Chce się żyć*** **Mrs. Jola**
Joanna Kulig *Nieulotne* Marta
Marta Nieradkiewicz *Płynące wieżowce* Sylwia
2015 **Kinga Preis** ***Pod Mocnym Aniołem*** **Mania**
Kinga Preis *Bogowie* Ewka\'s mother
Karolina Gruszka *All About My Parents* Karolina
2016 **Anna Dymna** ***Excentrycy, czyli po słonecznej stronie ulicy*** **Bayerowa**
Ewa Dałkowska *Body/Ciało* Prosecutor\'s friend
Kinga Preis *Córki dancingu* Vocalist
2017 **Agata Buzek** ***Niewinne*** **Sister Maria**
Agata Kulesza *Jestem mordercą* Lidia Kalicka
Izabela Kuna *Wołyń* Głowacka
2018 **Agnieszka Suchora** ***Cicha noc*** **Adam\'s mother**
Bronisława Zamachowska *Afterimage* Nika Strzemińska
Karolina Gruszka *Ach śpij kochanie* Anna
2019 **Aleksandra Konieczna** ***Jak pies z kotem*** **Iga**
Gabriela Muskała *7 uczuć* Weronika Porankowska
Agata Kulesza *Cold War* Irena Bielecka
2020 **Eliza Rycembel** ***Corpus Christi*** **Marta**
Agata Buzek *Córka trenera* Kamila
Jowita Budnik *Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza* Mietek\'s mother
Marta Żmuda-Trzebiatowska *Mowa ptaków* Jakubcowa
Kasia Smutniak *Słodki koniec dnia* Maria\'s daughter
2021 **Kinga Preis** ***Jak najdalej stąd*** **Ola\'s mother**
Maria Sobocińska *Wszystko dla mojej matki* Agnes
Magdalena Różczka *25 lat niewinności. Sprawa Tomka Komendy* Remigiusz\'s wife
Agata Kulesza *Sala samobójców. Hejter* Beata Santorska
Danuta Stenka *Sala samobójców
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# Thomas M. DiBiagio
**Thomas Michael DiBiagio** is a former United States Attorney in the state of Maryland. After eight U.S. attorneys were fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for performance-related issues under a clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy), DiBiagio stated in March 2007 that he was ousted because of political pressure over public corruption investigations into the administration of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
However, he had also faced criticism in his office\'s handling of the John Allen Muhammad arrest in the D. C. sniper attacks. He ordered FBI agents to effect a federal arrest to gain jurisdiction over the local police task forces who had been leading the investigation. This arrest permanently stopped the local police task force\'s interrogation of the defendants. The snipers\' motives would never be known
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
The 2007 season was the San Diego Chargers\' 38th in the National Football League (NFL) and their 48th overall. After four games, the team failed to equal their 14--2 2006 regular season record, as they immediately stumbled to a bad 1--3 start under new head coach Norv Turner. However, they finished the regular season strongly by winning 10 of 12 games (including their final six games) to take the AFC West title. The Chargers went further in the playoffs than the previous year, but fell again to the New England Patriots, this time in the AFC Championship game. For the second consecutive season, star running back LaDainian Tomlinson led the NFL in rushing with 1,474 yards. In the offseason, the Chargers introduced a new logo, with the lightning bolt changing to yellow with bright blue and regular blue outlines. It would be their logo for 10 years. As of 2024, the Chargers have not made it past the second round of the playoffs since this season.
## Offseason
After a postseason loss to the New England Patriots, offensive and defensive coordinators Cam Cameron and Wade Phillips left for new coaching jobs with the Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys respectively. Marty Schottenheimer, after originally being told he would stay as head coach, was fired in February. Replacing Schottenheimer was Norv Turner, who was signed to take over the helm later in the month. Turner, who installed the Chargers offensive set when he was their offensive coordinator in 2001, was selected to be the head coach largely because he was expected to maintain the offensive game plan that led the team to its best regular season record in team history. Turner also agreed with general manager A. J. Smith on the hiring of defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell, who had worked with Phillips when both were with the Buffalo Bills and later was the defensive coordinator with the Bills. Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Ron Rivera, who interviewed for the Chargers\' head coaching job, was hired to coach the Chargers\' linebackers instead. Smith also re-signed Charger free agent offensive guard Kris Dielman to a six-year contract that will virtually guarantee him almost \$17 million and put him around \$40 million over the life of the deal. Linebacker Donnie Edwards was not offered a contract and signed with his former team, the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chargers released veteran wide receiver Keenan McCardell during the offseason along with safety Terrence Kiel.
### Draft
The Chargers started out by making the 30th overall pick in the 2007 NFL draft due to their 14--2 season in 2006. They selected Craig Davis out of Louisiana State University. In the second round, the Chargers made a trade with the Bears in order to move up and select safety Eric Weddle at slot 37#. He was selected as a possible replacement to Terrence Kiel, who was released earlier in the off-season following his arrest on drug charges during the 2006 season. The Chargers exchanged their second round selection in 2007 as well as third round, fifth round and 2008 third round selection. The Chargers also selected linebacker Anthony Waters from Clemson University, who missed his senior season due to a leg injury.
### Supplemental draft {#supplemental_draft}
## Roster
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
## Preseason
### Schedule
Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Recap
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1 Seattle Seahawks **L** 16--24 0--1 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.nfl.com/games/seahawks-at-chargers-2007-pre-1)
2 St. Louis Rams **W** 30--13 1--1 Edward Jones Dome [Recap](https://www.nfl.com/games/chargers-at-rams-2007-pre-2)
3 Arizona Cardinals **W** 33--31 2--1 University of Phoenix Stadium [Recap](https://www.nfl.com/games/chargers-at-cardinals-2007-pre-3)
4 San Francisco 49ers **W** 16--13 3--1 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.nfl.com/games/49ers-at-chargers-2007-pre-4)
## Regular season {#regular_season}
### Schedule {#schedule_1}
Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Recap
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1 September 9 Chicago Bears **W** 14--3 1--0 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709090sdg.htm)
2 September 16 at New England Patriots **L** 14--38 1--1 Gillette Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709160nwe.htm)
3 September 23 at Green Bay Packers **L** 24--31 1--2 Lambeau Field [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709230gnb.htm)
4 September 30 **Kansas City Chiefs** **L** 16--30 1--3 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709300sdg.htm)
5 October 7 at **Denver Broncos** **W** 41--3 2--3 Invesco Field at Mile High [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200710070den.htm)
6 October 14 **Oakland Raiders** **W** 28--14 3--3 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200710140sdg.htm)
7 *Bye*
8 October 28 Houston Texans **W** 35--10 4--3 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200710280sdg.htm)
9 November 4 at Minnesota Vikings **L** 17--35 4--4 Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711040min.htm)
10 November 11 Indianapolis Colts **W** 23--21 5--4 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711110sdg.htm)
11 November 18 at Jacksonville Jaguars **L** 17--24 5--5 Jacksonville Municipal Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711180jax.htm)
12 November 25 Baltimore Ravens **W** 32--14 6--5 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711250sdg.htm)
13 December 2 at **Kansas City Chiefs** **W** 24--10 7--5 Arrowhead Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200712020kan.htm)
14 December 9 at Tennessee Titans **W** 23--17 `{{small|(OT)}}`{=mediawiki} 8--5 LP Field [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200712090oti.htm)
15 December 16 Detroit Lions **W** 51--14 9--5 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200712160sdg.htm)
16 **Denver Broncos** **W** 23--3 10--5 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200712240sdg.htm)
17 December 30 at **Oakland Raiders** **W** 30--17 11--5 McAfee Coliseum [Recap](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200712300rai.htm)
### Game summaries {#game_summaries}
#### Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears {#week_1_vs._chicago_bears}
The Chargers began their 2007 campaign at home as they matched up their offensive firepower against the Chicago Bears and their stingy defense. In this defensive slugfest, the Bears held RB LaDainian Tomlinson, the previous year\'s league MVP, to just 25 yards rushing on 17 attempts, while getting a 27-yard field goal from kicker Robbie Gould in the second quarter. This game also marked the first time since 2001 that the Chargers were shut out in the first half. In the third quarter, San Diego started to bounce back as Tomlinson threw his 7th career touchdown pass to TE Antonio Gates from 17 yards out. In the fourth, Tomlinson delivered the final blow with a 7-yard TD run.
With the win, the Chargers began their season at 1--0.
#### Week 2: at New England Patriots {#week_2_at_new_england_patriots}
Following their low-scoring home win over the Bears, the Chargers flew to Gillette Stadium for a Week 2 Sunday night fight against the New England Patriots in a rematch of last year\'s AFC Divisional game. In the first quarter, San Diego trailed early as the Patriots took their opening drive and ended it with QB Tom Brady completing a 7-yard TD pass to TE Benjamin Watson. Afterwards, New England continued its opening assault as Brady completed a 23-yard TD pass to WR Randy Moss. In the second quarter, the Chargers continued to show last week\'s first half struggles as Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski getting a 24-yard field goal, while LB Adalius Thomas intercepted one of QB Philip Rivers\' passes and returned it 65 yards for a touchdown.
In the third quarter, the Chargers finally managed to score as Rivers completed a 1-yard TD pass to FB Lorenzo Neal, but New England responded with Brady and Moss hooking up with each other again on a 24-yard TD pass. In the fourth quarter, San Diego tried to fight back with Rivers completing a 12-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates, but the Patriots ended the game with RB Sammy Morris getting a 3-yard TD run.
RB LaDainian Tomlinson was a non-factor, as he was only able to muster 43 yards on 18 carries. At this point, he was off to a rough start, totalling only 68 rushing yards in the first two games.
With the loss, the Chargers fell to 1--1.
#### Week 3: at Green Bay Packers {#week_3_at_green_bay_packers}
Trying to rebound from their primetime road loss to the Patriots, the Chargers flew to Lambeau Field for Week 3, as they played an interconference game with the Green Bay Packers. In the first quarter, San Diego struck first with QB Philip Rivers completing a 27-yard TD pass to WR Vincent Jackson. The Packers responded with kicker Mason Crosby getting a 28-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Green Bay took the lead with QB Brett Favre completing a pair of 5-yard TD passes, one to WR Donald Driver and one to TE Bubba Franks. The Chargers responded with Rivers completing a 9-yard TD pass to WR Craig Davis.
In the third quarter, the Chargers took the lead with Rivers completing a 21-yard TD pass to RB LaDainian Tomlinson for the only score of the period. However, in the fourth quarter, the Packers retook the lead with Favre\'s record-tying 57-yard TD pass to WR Greg Jennings, along with RB Brandon Jackson getting a 1-yard TD run. San Diego tried to come back, as kicker Nate Kaeding got a 44-yard field goal. However, the onside kick failed with Green Bay holding on to win.
Notable: Philip Rivers broke a Chargers record completing 15 consecutive passes in the first half. With the loss, the Chargers fell to 1--2.
#### Week 4: vs. Kansas City Chiefs {#week_4_vs._kansas_city_chiefs}
Trying to snap a two-game skid, the Chargers went home for an AFC West duel with the Kansas City Chiefs. In the first quarter, San Diego\'s struggling offense found some life with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 24-yard field goal, while RB LaDainian Tomlinson got a 5-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Chargers increased its lead with Kaeding kicking a 51-yard field goal. The Chiefs answered with a 25-yard field goal by Dave Rayner. Afterwards, San Diego ended the half with Kaeding getting a 38-yard field goal. In the third quarter, the Chargers lost their lead, with Kansas City getting a 41-yard field goal from Rayner and QB Damon Huard completing a 22-yard TD pass to TE Tony Gonzalez. Even worse, San Diego ended up losing in the fourth quarter with Huard completing a 51-yard TD pass to WR Dwayne Bowe, along with CB Tyron Brackenridge returning a fumble 50 yards for a touchdown.
With their third-straight loss, the Chargers fell to 1--3.
One of the few positives from the game, Tomlinson finally got his first 100-yard game of the year, with 132 rushing yards on 20 carries.
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
## Regular season {#regular_season}
### Game summaries {#game_summaries}
#### Week 5: at Denver Broncos {#week_5_at_denver_broncos}
Hoping to rebound from their embarrassing divisional home loss to the Chiefs, the Chargers flew to Invesco Field at Mile High for a Week 5 divisional duel with the Denver Broncos. In the first quarter, San Diego got off to a fast start with QB Philip Rivers getting a 2-yard TD run. Immediately afterwards on the ensuing kickoff, rookie LB Brandon Siler returned a fumble 23 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, the Chargers increased its lead with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 26-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Broncos got their only score of the game with kicker Jason Elam getting a 30-yard field goal. San Diego ended the half with Kaeding nailing a 45-yard field goal.
In the third quarter, the Chargers continued their offensive revival with Rivers completing a 9-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates and a 15-yard TD pass to WR Vincent Jackson. In the fourth quarter, RB Michael Turner helped San Diego seal their easy victory with a 74-yard TD run.
With the win, the Chargers improved to 2--3. The win also marked San Diego\'s first back-to-back wins in Denver since 1967 and 1968.
#### Week 6: vs. Oakland Raiders {#week_6_vs._oakland_raiders}
Coming off of their blowout divisional road win over the Broncos, the Chargers went home for a Week 6 divisional duel with the Oakland Raiders. In the first quarter, the Chargers came out striking with RB LaDainian Tomlinson got a 3-yard and a 27-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Raiders managed to get on the board with LB Thomas Howard returning an interception 66 yards for a touchdown, along with the only score of the period. In the third quarter, San Diego went back to work with Tomlinson getting a 13-yard TD run for the only score of the period. In the fourth quarter, Oakland tried to salvage a comeback as QB Daunte Culpepper threw a 1-yard TD pass to TE Zach Miller. However, the Chargers sealed the victory a 41-yard TD run by Tomlinson.
With the win, the Chargers entered their bye week at 3--3.
#### Week 8: vs. Houston Texans {#week_8_vs._houston_texans}
After speculation about the games location because of the ongoing California wildfires, it was confirmed on October 26, 2007, that Qualcomm Stadium would no longer be an evacuation site for San Diego residents, with most of the evacuees moved to Del Mar. Before, sites in the Phoenix area were being considered to host the game, as well as Houston\'s Reliant Stadium, and also the Dallas Cowboys' Texas Stadium. Before the game a special tribute was paid to at the stadium for the fire fighters, National Guard, and volunteers who assisted in fighting the fires and helping the evacuees. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended the game and flipped the coin, which the Chargers won. With an emotional charge from both the players and fans, as well as some victims, the Chargers played one of the best games of their season. Philip Rivers threw 3 touchdown passes despite only throwing 11 passes. Two TDs went to tight end Antonio Gates, and the remainder went to newly acquired wideout Chris Chambers, who was just traded from the Miami Dolphins a two weeks earlier and played his first game as a Charger (due to San Diego\'s bye week). However, that performance was second to second-year corner Antonio Cromartie, who performance included two interceptions, and two defensive touchdowns. He had a 70-yard INT return for a score, and the other was a complicated snap where the Texans snapped the ball over punter Matt Turk's head, and the ball fell into the end zone. Quickly having to recover, Turk missed grabbing the ball and it fell into the hands of Cromartie, easily scoring. The Chargers won, 35--10 in a home blowout, which was, in the quote of LaDainian Tomlinson, \"one for the fans."
With this win, the Chargers improved to 4--3.
#### Week 9: at Minnesota Vikings {#week_9_at_minnesota_vikings}
After an emotional home win over the Texans, the Chargers flew to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for a Week 9 interconference duel with the Minnesota Vikings. In the first quarter, San Diego struck first with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 1-yard TD run. The Vikings responded with RB Adrian Peterson getting a 1-yard TD run. In the second quarter, there was no scoring until the final play of the half, as CB Antonio Cromartie returned a missed field goal 109 yards for a touchdown, the longest play in NFL history.
In the third quarter, things started to get grim for San Diego as Minnesota took the lead with Peterson getting a 64-yard TD run and QB Brooks Bollinger completing a 40-yard TD pass to WR Sidney Rice. In the fourth quarter, the Chargers tried to come back as kicker Nate Kaeding nailed a 36-yard field goal. The Vikings sealed the win with Peterson getting a 46-yard TD run, along with RB Chester Taylor getting a 2-yard TD run. LaDainian Tomlinson, despite getting only 1 rushing touchdown, managed to surpass Jim Brown for most career rushing touchdowns with his 107th TD.
With the loss, San Diego fell to 4--4.
During the game, Minnesota rookie running back Adrian Peterson broke the NFL single-game rushing record with 296 yards rushing on 30 carries.
#### Week 10: vs. Indianapolis Colts {#week_10_vs._indianapolis_colts}
After an upset loss to the Vikings, the Chargers faced the defending Super Bowl champions in San Diego following their first loss of the season to the New England Patriots. Darren Sproles return the opening kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown. After a Nate Kaeding field goal, Sproles returned a punt 45 yards for his second special teams touchdown of the game with less than 6 minutes left in the first quarter. The PAT snap wasn\'t held and the PAT failed. Peyton Manning threw four interceptions in the first quarter alone. In the second quarter the Chargers put together a 45-yard drive resulting in a 4-yard touchdown run by LaDainian Tomlinson. Manning was able to score a touchdown to Reggie Wayne leaving the score 23--7 at halftime.
After a scoreless third quarter Manning threw a touchdown to Kenton Keith and the Colts were able to complete the two-point conversion. On third and 10 from the Chargers 8-yard line, Philip Rivers went back to pass and the ball slipped out of his hand and into the end zone. Colts linebacker Gary Brackett picked up the ball for a touchdown with 14:28 to play. The Colts failed the two-point conversion. With six minutes left in the game Rivers threw an interception to rookie Clint Session. In the red zone the Colts picked up the first down, but the booth reviewed the play and it was determined to be fourth and inches. The Colts intended to go for the first down, but a false start penalty by Ben Utecht moved them five yards back, and instead they went for the field goal. With 1:31 left the Colts lined up the kicking team for a game-winning field goal, but Adam Vinatieri's 29-yard kick was wide right. The Chargers ran down the clock and the Colts had 22 seconds to score, but the game ended with Clinton Hart intercepting the ball with time expiring for the Chargers win. Manning set a franchise record by throwing six interceptions in one game (3 to Antonio Cromartie and one apiece to Clinton Hart, Matt Wilhelm, and Shaun Philips).
Both teams had significant injuries coming into the game. For the Chargers CB Quentin Jammer and DE Luis Castillo were out of the game. The Colts had 10 players out of the game including TE Dallas Clark, WR Marvin Harrison, and OT Tony Ugoh. Dwight Freeney left the game with an injured foot.
With the win, the Chargers improved to 5--4. With Kansas City losing to Denver, San Diego retained first place in the AFC West.
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
## Regular season {#regular_season}
### Game summaries {#game_summaries}
#### Week 11 at Jacksonville Jaguars {#week_11_at_jacksonville_jaguars}
Coming off their win over the Colts, the Chargers flew to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for a Week 11 intraconference duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars. In the first quarter, San Diego trailed early as Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee managed to get a 48-yard field goal, along with RB Maurice Jones-Drew getting a 1-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Chargers got on the board with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 23-yard field goal. However, Jacksonville responded with QB David Garrard completing a 36-yard TD pass to WR Reggie Williams.
In the third quarter, San Diego responded with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 6-yard TD run, yet the Jaguars answered with Garrard completing a 1-yard TD pass to TE Marcedes Lewis. In the fourth quarter, the Chargers tried to make a comeback as QB Philip Rivers completed a 24-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates which would be the last scoring play as Jacksonville\'s defense held on to win.
With the loss, San Diego fell to 5--5.
#### Week 12: vs. Baltimore Ravens {#week_12_vs._baltimore_ravens}
Hoping to rebound from their road loss to the Jaguars, the Chargers went home for a Week 12 duel with the Baltimore Ravens. After a scoreless first quarter, San Diego struck first with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 27-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Ravens took the lead with RB Willis McGahee getting a 1-yard TD run. The Chargers regained the lead with QB Philip Rivers completing a 35-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates (with a failed PAT), Kaeding kicking a 46-yard field goal, Rivers completing a 5-yard TD pass to WR Chris Chambers, and Kaeding kicking a 41-yard field goal.
In the third quarter, San Diego increased its lead with Rivers and Gates hooking up with each other again on a 25-yard TD pass. Baltimore managed one final score as Ravens QB Kyle Boller completed a 13-yard TD pass to FB Le\'Ron McClain. In the fourth quarter, the Chargers sealed the win with Kaeding nailing a 41-yard field goal.
With the win, the Chargers improved to 6--5.
RB LaDainian Tomlinson (24 carries for 77 yards) became the fourth-fastest player and the 23rd player in NFL history to get 10,000 career rushing yards.
#### Week 13: at Kansas City Chiefs {#week_13_at_kansas_city_chiefs}
Coming off their home win over the Ravens, the Chargers flew to Arrowhead Stadium for a Week 13 AFC West rematch with the Kansas City Chiefs. In the first quarter, San Diego trailed early as Chiefs kicker John Carney managed to get a 38-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Chargers got on the board with kicker Nate Kaeding nailing a 25-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Kansas City regained the lead as QB Damon Huard completed a 2-yard TD pass to DE Jared Allen. Afterwards, San Diego tied the game again as QB Philip Rivers completed a 38-yard TD pass to WR Vincent Jackson.
In the second quarter, the Chargers pulled away as RB LaDainian Tomlinson got a 31-yard TD run in the third quarter and a 28-yard TD run in the fourth quarter. His two rushing touchdowns helped him surpass Walter Payton for third place on the NFL\'s all-time rushing touchdowns list. The game also gave him his 3rd-straight 100-yard game against the Chiefs. Also, CB Antonio Cromartie recorded 2 INT to bring his league leading total to 8.
With this win, San Diego improved to 7--5.
#### Week 14: at Tennessee Titans {#week_14_at_tennessee_titans}
Coming off their divisional road win over the Chiefs, the Chargers flew to LP Field for a Week 14 intraconference duel with the Tennessee Titans. In the first quarter, San Diego trailed early as Titans kicker Rob Bironas managed to get a 44-yard field goal for the only score of the half.
In the third quarter, the Chargers got on the board as kicker Nate Kaeding nailed a 20-yard field goal, yet Tennessee responded with RB Chris Brown getting a 7-yard TD run. In the fourth quarter, the Titans increased their lead with RB LenDale White getting a 7-yard TD run. San Diego tied the game with QB Philip Rivers completing a 7-yard TD pass to RB LaDainian Tomlinson and a 2-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates. In overtime, the Chargers got the win with Tomlinson getting the game-winning 16-yard TD run.
With the win, the Chargers improved to 8--5.
For Tomlinson, it was his 3rd overtime touchdown (the most in NFL history).
For CB Antonio Cromartie, his lone interception gave him 9 on the year, tying the franchise single-season record set by Charlie McNeil in 1961.
#### Week 15: vs. Detroit Lions {#week_15_vs._detroit_lions}
Coming off their overtime road win over the Titans, the Chargers went home for a Week 15 interconference duel with the Detroit Lions. The Chargers struck first with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 6-yard TD run, Kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 22-yard field goal, and Tomlinson getting a 2-yard TD run. In the second quarter, San Diego continued its domination with Kaeding getting a 22-yard field goal and LB Shaun Phillips returning an interception 18 yards for a touchdown. The Lions got on the board with QB Jon Kitna completing a 9-yard TD pass to WR Brandon Middleton. The Chargers ended the scoring for the half with QB Philip Rivers completing a 1-yard TD run to TE Brandon Manumaleuna.
In the third quarter, San Diego continued its annihilation with RB Darren Sproles getting a 1-yard TD run and Kaeding nailing a 45-yard field goal. Detroit got its final points of the game as Kitna completed a 17-yard TD pass to WR Shaun McDonald. In the fourth quarter, the Chargers ended their day with Sproles getting an 11-yard TD run.
With this win, not only did the Chargers improve to 9--5, but they also clinched their second-straight AFC West title.
For Darren Sproles (25 attempts for 122 yards and 2 touchdowns) and LaDainian Tomlinson (15 attempts for 116 yards and 2 touchdowns), they became the first RB duo in franchise history to both get 100 rushing yards in the same game. Also, Tomlinson ended this part of his career with 127 career touchdowns, surpassing Jim Brown for 7th All-Time.
Also, CB Antonio Cromartie received his 10th interception.
#### Week 16: vs. Denver Broncos {#week_16_vs._denver_broncos}
Trying to make it 5 straight wins and stay in contention for the No. 3 seed in the AFC playoffs, the Chargers continued their domination over the Denver Broncos on Christmas Eve. Not only did they stop them from scoring a touchdown for the second time this season they also made it 4 straight victories over Denver.
The game started off inauspiciously for the Broncos when Denver QB Jay Cutler fumbled the ball leading to a 40-yard K Nate Kaeding field goal for San Diego, and after a 3 and out, the Chargers gave the ball to RB LaDainian Tomlinson for a 17-yard TD run.
The second quarter was relatively quiet as 2 Kaeding Field goals (23-yards & 29-yards) gave the Chargers a 16-point lead going into halftime.
In the third quarter San Diego QB Philip Rivers and WR Chris Chambers hooked up on a 14-yard pass and catch to make the score 23--0. Denver finally began to move offensively until a tipped pass was intercepted by San Diego SS Clinton Hart, but some defensive miscues including a San Diego QB Billy Volek fumble led to a 23-yard field goal by Denver K Jason Elam.
In the fourth quarter the defense stepped up for the Chargers on two fourth down plays and a Quentin Jammer interception sealed the victory for San Diego.
The result ensured that a San Diego win at Oakland would secure the No. 3 seed in the AFC playoffs.
The win in Denver at home made San Diego only the second team in NFL history to shut out every opponent at home in the first quarter, outscoring opponents 81--0.
With the win, the Chargers improved to 10--5.
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
## Regular season {#regular_season}
### Game summaries {#game_summaries}
#### Week 17: at Oakland Raiders {#week_17_at_oakland_raiders}
Coming off their Christmas Eve victory of the Broncos, the Chargers ended the regular season at McAfee Coliseum for a Week 17 AFC West rematch with the Oakland Raiders. In the first quarter, San Diego struck first as QB Philip Rivers completing a 7-yard TD pass to RB LaDainian Tomlinson. The Raiders responded with RB Dominic Rhodes getting a 1-yard TD run. In the second quarter, the Chargers regained the lead with Rivers completing a 19-yard TD pass to WR Chris Chambers. Oakland ended the half with kicker Sebastian Janikowski getting a 53-yard field goal.
In the third quarter, the Chargers increased their lead with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 36-yard field goal, along with rookie LB Jyles Tucker recovering a Raider fumble in the endzone for a touchdown. Oakland responded with QB JaMarcus Russell completing a 32-yard TD pass to WR Jerry Porter. In the fourth quarter, San Diego sealed the win with Kaeding nailing a 31-yard and a 24-yard field goal.
With the win, not only did the Chargers close out their regular season at 11--5, but they also secured the AFC\'s No. 3 seed.
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
## Postseason
Round Date Opponent (seed) Result Record Venue Recap
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Wildcard January 6, 2008 Tennessee Titans (6) **W** 17--6 1--0 Qualcomm Stadium [Recap](http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/29519/SD_Gamebook.pdf)
Divisional January 13, 2008 at Indianapolis Colts (2) **W** 28--24 2--0 RCA Dome [Recap](http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/29522/IND_Gamebook.pdf)
AFC championship January 20, 2008 at New England Patriots (1) **L** 12--21 2--1 Gillette Stadium [Recap](http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/29524/NE_Gamebook.pdf)
### Game summaries {#game_summaries_1}
#### AFC wildcard playoffs: vs. Tennessee Titans {#afc_wildcard_playoffs_vs._tennessee_titans}
Entering the playoffs as the AFC\'s No. 3 seed, the Chargers began their playoff run at home against the sixth-seeded Tennessee Titans, in a rematch of Week 14, which saw San Diego trail early, then rally to tie the game in the fourth quarter and win in overtime.
In the first half, the Chargers trailed early as Titans kicker Rob Bironas managed to get a 30-yard field goal in the first quarter and a 44-yard field goal in the second quarter. In the third quarter, the Chargers rallied to take the lead with kicker Nate Kaeding nailing a 20-yard field goal, along with QB Philip Rivers completing a 25-yard TD pass to WR Vincent Jackson. In the fourth quarter, San Diego pulled away with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 1-yard TD run. However, San Diego Chargers tight end Antonio Gates had to leave the game with a right toe injury earlier in the game, and never returned.
With the win, not only did the Chargers improve their overall record to 12--5, but they also gave the franchise its very first playoff win since the 1994--95 AFC Championship Game which led them to Super Bowl XXIX. The team advanced to the AFC Divisional Playoff. Chargers go to the Divisional Round and win to the Colts 28-24. But lost in the AFC Championship Game to the Patriots 21-12.
#### AFC divisional playoffs: at Indianapolis Colts {#afc_divisional_playoffs_at_indianapolis_colts}
Coming off their wild card home win over the Titans, the Chargers flew to the RCA Dome for their AFC Divisional duel with the second-seeded/defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts, in a rematch of Week 10. In the first scoring play, Peyton Manning threw a TD to Dallas Clark for 25 yards. LaDainian Tomlinson was injured on a running play and despite an attempt to return to action later in the first half, he did not return to the game. Philip Rivers then threw a pass to Vincent Jackson for San Diego\'s first TD of the game. Adam Vinatieri made a 46-yard FG to put the Colts up 10--7. Antonio Cromartie intercepted Peyton Manning at the end of the first half and ran it 89 yards for a touchdown; however, the play was called back on a dubious holding call by Phil Luckett. The second half began with Rivers tossing a pass to Chris Chambers for 30 yards. At 3:19 of the third quarter, Manning completed a pass for Reggie Wayne for 9 yards. Rivers managed to complete a 56-yard pass to Darren Sproles for a touchdown. On that play, Rivers injured his leg and did not return to the game. Billy Volek replaced Rivers at quarterback. Starting the fourth quarter, Manning threw a TD pass to Anthony Gonzalez for 55 yards. Volek engineered a long drive culminating in a 1-yard sneak for a TD putting the Chargers up for good.
The Colts had two late opportunities to score on separate drives. On the first drive, the Colts faced a 4th down from inside the Charger 20-yard line. They decided against a field goal which still would have left them down by 1 point. Trying for the touchdown, Peyton Manning was hurried by a blitzing Shawne Merriman as his throw came up short. The Chargers took over on downs but failed to get a first down. After a long punt by Mike Scifres, the Colts had less than 2 minutes to try to win the game. Once again, the Chargers defense stifled the Colts, taking over on downs with seconds to play.
With the win, the team improved their overall record to 13--5. The team advanced to the AFC Championship Game. There were a total of 7 lead changes throughout the game. Chargers go to the AFC Championship Game but lost to the Patriots 21-12.
#### AFC championship game: at New England Patriots {#afc_championship_game_at_new_england_patriots}
After squeaking out their victory over Indianapolis, San Diego then traveled to Foxborough, Massachusetts to take on the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game in a rematch of Week 2. The Patriots were undefeated going into this game, at 17--0. Despite the Patriots being heavily favored to win by a large margin and advance to Super Bowl XLII, the game remained tight throughout, as the Chargers kept the score at 14--12 through the third quarter. Philip Rivers played through a torn ACL. LaDainian Tomlinson left early in the 1st quarter with another injury, never to return. Hampered by these key players\' absences, the Chargers were unable to find the end zone the entire game. All twelve of their points were field goals. Chargers and in 2008 finished 8-8. In the Wild Card win to the Colts 23-17. But lost to the Steelers 35-24.
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# 2007 San Diego Chargers season
## Awards
Nine Chargers were named to the 2008 Pro Bowl, and four were named first or second team Associated Press (AP) All-Pros. Also, Cromartie had 3 votes for AP NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year
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# Kevin Schindler
**Kevin Schindler** (born 21 May 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as a right winger. He works as assistant manager for Werder Bremen II.
## Club career {#club_career}
Schindler was born in Delmenhorst. While under contract with Bundesliga side Werder Bremen, he went on loan to Hansa Rostock, FC Augsburg and MSV Duisburg.
In July 2017, United Soccer League club FC Cincinnati signed Schindler. Following the end of the 2017 season, FC Cincinnati announced that Schindler\'s contract had expired and would not be renewed.
In 2020 he was player and assistant manager of Faroe Islands Premier League side Havnar Bóltfelag
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