Love In Tokyo is a 1966 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed and produced by Pramod Chakravorty. The film was a hit at the box office.

Plot
A young man Ashok's (Joy Mukherjee) mother makes him go to Tokyo, Japan in search of his deceased elder brother's and his wife (also dead)'s son Ashok's nephew Chikoo. He is unhappy because he is in a loveless relationship with his fiancée Sarita.
Chikoo is in an orphanage and taken in by Ashok, his uncle.
Ashok tries to convince Chikoo to come back to India with him, but Chikoo refuses and runs away. Meanwhile, Mahesh (Mehmood) Ashok's friend is in love with Sheela (Shubha Khote) but her dad finds out and has goons (this is what the opening scene is) chase Mahesh, Sheela's father then takes her to Tokyo where Mahesh follows them and ends up at their shop "Indian Art Emporium", and pretends to dress up as a Sadhu Ascetic. He also falsely says to clear his sins that he needs to go to a river and he must say "i befriend mahesh". Mahesh calls the police and tells them Sheela's father is committing suicide which is not true, the police. Mahesh then Pursues Sheela and sings a song "Maine Tera Pyar Ka Bimar" while chasing her at a theme park, he then reveals his identity to her while singing the song, Chikoo meets (Asha Asha Parekh) who's on the run from Pran and her uncle (who later turns out to be her biological father)
Her father's apparent "last Wish" was for her to marry Pran (played by Pran but she doesn't and this is why she runs away, Pran only wants her for her money. Asha and Chikoo go to a tea house for food but two women quickly recognize her as her uncle and Pran had a reward of 5,000 dollars for the person who finds her first. They run away and Pran finds Asha trying to climb a roof to escape, Chikoo saves her by pretending to be hit by Pran's car when he tries to bring Asha back to her uncle's home.
The pair escape and disguise themselves. Asha pretends to be a Sardar Sikh man) and Chikoo pretends to be a girl, they then head to a restaurant. Ashok sees through their disguise and Chikoo falls from the window and goes to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Pran & Sheela's father are at the same geisha house, Pran quickly goes and Mahesh disguises himself as geisha and calls himself an "international geisha" and drugs Sheela's father with sake and quickly leaves to Sheela. Meanwhile, Chikoo recovers and is sent back home
while Asha maintains her disguise as a Sardar and pretends to be Chikoo's Biological Aunt (his mother's sister) and calls herself Chizuru. Ashok finds himself falling in love with Asha and she sings "Sayonara Sayonara". He goes back home where Asha is again disguised as Sardar Ji. She cuts her finger and Ashok puts a bandage on it. Asha disguised as Chikoo's Aunt goes to meet Ashok again and falls in love with him too, when they are about to kiss, she puts her hand on his face to stop him and Ashok finds out who she really is from the bandage as he himself tied it. The next day a mailman comes to Asha's hotel room and gives her a letter from Ashok, in the letter it says that He and Chikoo have gone on the 5 p.m. flight to Mumbai, India.
She jumps into a taxi and heads for the airport but is too late, or so it seems. She ends up missing the "supposed flight" where Chikoo and Ashok are on. Devastated she goes to The Tokyo Shrine, that when she was disguised told Ashok that you pray there for lost love. She goes there and Ashok Follows her. In disbelief, Asha realizes Ashok and Chikoo didn't actually leave and Ashok sings " Mere Shah e Khuba". Mahesh (disguised) meets them and asks them for their help in marrying Sheela, as her father is getting her married to Chatterjee, an ugly man. Sheela pretends to be mute and Mahesh arrives dressing as an Arab doctor Aziz Mahamood. Sheela's father sees through his disguise and kicks him out.
Mahesh goes to a costume store and gets a wig and toupee to look like Chatterjee. He then goes through the marriage ceremony and they become married, at the end The real Chatterjee shows up, realizing it's Mahesh. It is too late. they end up spending their honeymoon at a traditional onsen Mahesh runs away realizing its Sheela's dad and runs away, on the way he bumps into a scientists table and mixes the chemicals on his shoes giving him the ability to fly,on the way he saves a woman's child from getting run over by a train and holds onto a helicopter. Asha is then found by Pran and is imprisoned in her uncle's home. Mahesh, Sheela, and Chikoo show up as a Muslim couple looking for their child named Ghulfam and barge into the house. they hand Asha a tape with Chikoo's Voice and Sheela and Mahesh sing to "find him" and call the police. Asha pretends to tie him up and Chikoo tells the police that Asha's uncle had kidnapped him and took him in his car. Asha manages to escape and the group is almost caught so Asha slips into Sheela's Burqa and Pretends to be Mahesh's wife. Mahesh tells Pran that his father left a fortune for him when he died. They escape ad Sheela's father arrive with the police. Meanwhile, Asha and Ashok fall in love. Ashok's "fiancée"  Sarita and her father along with Ashok's mother Gayatri Devi come to Japan. Asha and Ashok attend a party and Ashok sings "Aa Ja Re Aa Zara". when leaving for a tour of tokyo Ashoks Mother catches them hugging and screams, and throws insults at Asha when she didn't even know Ashok had a fiancée, Chikoo, mad pelts Raisaheb,
(Sarita's father) and Sarita slaps him he goes to Asha and explains why he did that. Asha says to forgive his grandmother and hold Raisahebs feet and apologize to him for pelting him in the eye. Asha leaves to commit suicide and goes to the Tokyo shrine once again. singing "mere shah e khuba" Ashok finds  Asha  and as he Chases her, she runs away and Pran's car hits Ashok causing him to have an accident. Sarita, Ashok's fiancée and the rest of Ashok's family find out that Ashok may be blind after the operation. Sarita not wanting to be with a blind man all her life and backs out from the marriage. Raisaheb finds it to be a good thing because they can take advantage of Ashok's family and spend their money Chikoo hears this and exposes their plan to his grandmother to make her understand how greedy they are. Asha ready to give Ashok her eyes. Ashok's Mother finds that Ashok and Asha are meant to be,thankfully Ashok turns out to not be blind and still has his eyesight. Asha's uncle and Pran are at their engagement party and say that Pran and Asha were in love and had a child in wedlock and need to marry to avoid public scorn. Ashok's mother so crushed by that she shuns her again. Asha's uncle holds Chikoo hostage and threatens to kill him he also says that unless she marries Pran her life and Ashok will be destroyed. doing so she goes and Ashok finds her breaks in and rescues her from Pran's clutches they get their happily ever after and the movie ends with everyone happy.

Production
It was written by Sachin Bhowmick and produced and directed by Pramod Chakravorty. The film stars Joy Mukherjee, Asha Parekh, Pran, Mehmood, Lalita Pawar, Asit Sen, Shubha Khote, and Madan Puri. Music was by Shankar Jaikishan while Hasrat Jaipuri wrote the lyrics. Joy Mukherjee had also worked in the hit film Love in Simla. The success of Love in Tokyo led to the making of Love in Bombay also starring Joy Mukherjee. All the three films are part of Joy Mukherjee's Love in trilogy. The film was shot primarily in Tokyo, Japan a few of those are listed here.

Cast and characters

Soundtrack
The music of the film was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan. All songs were chartbusters in 1966. All songs are heard even today. The lyrics were provided by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra.

Filming
The film was shot primarily in Japan at locations including Tokyo, Ueno, Ginza, Tokyo Tower, Tokyo International Airport and Hiroshima.

Nominations
Filmfare Nomination for Best Performance in a Comic Role--Mehmood

Legacy
In this movie Asha Parekh's ponytail was held by a hair clip that consisted of two beads on a rubber band. In India this type of clip is known as "Love in Tokyo".

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 Filming Locations of Love in Tokyo

1966 films
1960s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan
Films set in Japan
Films shot in Tokyo
Indian romantic drama films
Films shot in Hiroshima
Cross-dressing in Indian films
Films directed by Pramod Chakravorty
Japan in non-Japanese culture
1966 romantic drama films

Love in Tokyo


American Digger is a bimonthly magazine about the hobby of recovering historical artifacts based in the United States.

History
American Digger was founded in 2004. The founder is Butch Holcombe and the first issue appeared in January 2005. It includes articles covering finds made by metal detecting, surface hunting, diving, and sifting. It also contains  photo stories on old coins, Civil War and Revolutionary War relics, stone artifacts, fossils, and bottles.

It was founded in response to reader requests for more material related to amateur archeology. Holcombe has said he wants to help bridge the gap between professional archeologists and amateur historians and has said he promotes only the responsible excavation and documentation of artifacts.

Founder Butch Holcombe is a humorist and amateur historian from Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in 1955, and since 1968 has spent numnerous hours searching for historic artifacts with a metal detector. He has since founded Greybird Publishers, who now publishes the magazine, as well as other books related to artifacts. In 2011, the name American Digger was licensed as a registered trademark.

Circulation
"The first issue of American Digger was 52 pages of black and white, with a circulation of only 500. This has now grown to 74 pages, much of which is in color, with a current print circulation of over 2000 in all 50 states, Canada, Jordan and Australia", quoted by Publisher Butch Holcombe "."  "Subscriptions are also sent free to US aircraft carriers on tour. In 2012, a digital version of the print magazine was offered for the first time, resulting in a worldwide interest. The magazine now claims a readership of over 20,000 including both platforms.

Featured Articles
 Just Dug, which is a collection of photos of recently recovered items submitted by readers.
 Can You ID written by noted Civil War artifact author Charles Harris and a network of experts attempt to identify items of significance recovered by both hobbyists and professionals.
 Stumpt contains photos of items which noted Civil War artifact author Charles Harris can not identify. This has resulted in several unknown or previously misidentified relics being positively identified by readers.
 News-n-Views by Mark Schuessler documents changes in laws and legal matters connected with artifacts and their recovery.
 The Whole Truth  by Butch Holcombe, light hearted look at what is happening in the world of relic hunting and collecting.
 Beepin''' by Sreve Meinzer, a cartoon series concerning metal detecting, running exclusively in American Digger.
 What's the Point by Jim Roberson, concerns identification of arrowheads and stone artifacts. This column was ended after Roberson's retirement in May 2015.
 Past columns include The Savage Facts by Ric Savage, which dealt with fraud and fakes in the world of antiquities, and how to spot them. Savage was dismissed from the magazine in early 2012 after becoming the star of a reality TV show which has no direct connection to the magazine of the same name.The show name has now been changed as a result of a settled lawsuit filed by Greybird Publishers.https://issuu.com/americandigger/docs/2011__sampler Page 96-97

Publisher
The magazine is published by Greybird Publishing LLC, Acworth, GA.

Related Ventures
In 2010, American Digger'' magazine took over a weekly internet radio show, Relic Roundup, previously owned and operated by My History Project, a non profit group in Atlanta, GA. The name was changed to American Digger's Relic Roundup at that time. The show averages several hundred listeners weekly, and is an extension of the magazine's focus on amateur archaeology and collecting.

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Davide Chiumiento (born 22 November 1984) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Early life
Chiumiento was born in Switzerland but spent most of his childhood abroad. His father, Gerardo Chiumiento, was a power tool salesman and plied his trade in Canada, Saudi Arabia and Japan before returning to his home country with his son.

Career

Juventus
Chiumiento began his career in 2004 at Juventus and quickly made an impressive name for himself at the club on his debut coming on as a substitute against Ancona at the age of 19. Chiumiento also played alongside his childhood hero Alessandro Del Piero, stating after the match "This was my dream".

In 2004, he was loaned out to Serie B club Siena to gain more experience. Chiumiento broke into the first-team with 14 apps and contributed to the second division side's promotion.
The following year he was loaned out to French side Le Mans playing 27 Ligue 1 matches scoring one goal. In 2006, he was loaned out to Swiss club BSC Young Boys. After his performances in the Swiss Super League, FC Lucerne showed interest in the player and signed him the following year.

Luzern
Chiumiento signed a three-year contract with FC Luzern in the summer of 2007, for €150,000 transfer fee. Chiumiento scored his first goal for Luzern against FC Basel. Chiumiento scored his first hat-trick against FC Aarau; the match ended 6–0.

Vancouver Whitecaps
Chiumiento signed with Vancouver Whitecaps of the USSF Division 2 Professional League in 2010. He made his USSFD2 debut for Vancouver on 24 September 2010 in a 1–0 loss to Montreal Impact. He signed an MLS contract with the club on 8 March 2011. Chiumiento made his Major League Soccer debut for the Whitecaps on 19 March 2011 against Toronto FC, assisting on two goals in a 4–2 win. He scored only two goals in his time with the Whitecaps, a botched cross against the San Jose Earthquakes on 11 May. His second goal was a cutback by Camilo where he chipped the ball up, spun 360 degrees, and went bar down with his right foot. It was a candidate for MLS Goal of the Year.

FC Zürich
On 11 July 2012, Chiumiento was transferred to FC Zürich for an undisclosed fee. He scored his first goal on 19 August, putting it bottom right, making it 1–1 against Servette FC. He won the 2013–14 Swiss Cup and 2015–16 Swiss Cup with Zürich. In June 2017 his contract was not renewed.

International

Chiumiento was called up as a replacement for Johann Lonfat in Switzerland's UEFA Euro 2004 squad. However, he turned the call-up down as he still had hope of appearing for Italy.

In February 2010, Chiumiento decided to play for Switzerland and made his first appearance for the Swiss national neam in a friendly match against Uruguay after having declined many call-ups. Although his dream was to play for Italy he decided he would play for Switzerland as he has a chance to be a regular in the starting team. Chiumiento was not chosen for the Swiss 2010 FIFA World Cup squad.

Playing style
Chiumiento is referred to as the Swiss Ronaldinho although he idolizes Alessandro Del Piero. He is recognized for his pace, dribbling skills, and playmaking ability. Chiumiento plays preferably as a central attacking midfielder, but can play on both wings, or as a second striker.

Personal life

Davide attended Heiden Primary School in his hometown before moving to Turin, Italy, to attend Scuola Privata Athenaeum. He has a mother, Manuela Chiumiento, and an older brother, Claudio Chiumiento. Davide is fluent in four languages, English, French, Italian, and German. These have all helped him have a successful career in many countries. Davide had a great friendship with former FC Zurich striker, Eric Hassli, in his time in Vancouver, not just off the field, but on it, as many Hassli's goals were set up or created by Chiumiento. Davide was Hassli's best man at his wedding right before he transferred to FC Zurich. Some of his hobbies include spending time with his family and friends, and listening to Latin or Brazilian music, as well as surfing the internet. He is a dual citizen as his father was born in Italy.

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Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Swiss men's footballers
Italian men's footballers
Italy men's under-21 international footballers
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ACR Siena 1904 players
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Angela Sue Spalsbury (born 1967) is an American mathematician specializing in functional analysis. She is a former president of Pi Mu Epsilon, the dean and chief administrator of the Geauga campus of Kent State University, and the co-author of a book on Haar measure, The Joys of Haar Measure, with Joe Diestel.

Spalsbury earned her bachelor's degree from Kent State. She has two master's degrees, one from Kent State and another from the University of Pretoria. She completed her doctorate at Kent State in 1996; her dissertation, Cyclic Vectors and Extremal Vectors of Linear Operators, was supervised by Per Enflo. She was on the faculty of Youngstown State University from 2001 until 2017, serving as chair of mathematics and statistics there from 2013 to 2017. She also co-advised the Youngstown student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), which under her mentorship won the inaugural Professional Development Award of the AWM in recognition of their efforts to encourage female students in mathematics. In 2018, Spalsbury returned to Kent State as dean.

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Huey Long (April 25, 1904 – June 10, 2009) was an American jazz and R&B guitarist and singer and band leader who was a member of the quartet  The Ink Spots. Long's career began in the 1919 as a banjoist before moving to guitar. He became a member of the Ink Spots in 1945 and participated in spinoff bands in the 1960s.

Career
Born in Sealy, Texas, Long began his musical career in 1919 playing banjo for Frank Davis' Louisiana Jazz Band Houston. He switched from banjo to guitar after moving to Chicago, where he appeared at the 1933 World's Fair with Texas Guinan's Cuban Orchestra. He performed with artists such as Lil Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and his career also encompassed sideman, band leader, music arranger and music teacher.

In 1943, the Ink Spots's guitarist Charlie Fuqua was drafted and replaced by Bernie Mackey. When Mackey departed in 1945, leader Bill Kenny offered Long the position. Long stayed with the Ink Spots for nine months until October 1945 when Fuqua returned from the Army. Long moved to New York City, where he taught music. In the 1960s he joined Ink Spots tribute groups.

He retired to Houston, where his daughter set up a museum commemorating him and the Ink Spots. Long died in Houston, Texas at the age of 105 on June 10, 2009.

References

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Ink Spot Museum

1904 births
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20th-century American guitarists
African-American banjoists
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Gordon Reginald Goodwin (17 December 1895 – February 1984) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 10 kilometre walk. He competed for Great Britain in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, in the 10 kilometre walk where he won the silver medal. He was born in Lambeth in London and died in Leigh, Greater Manchester.

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Canyons is a novel written by Gary Paulsen. It involves two boys - one lives in modern times (Brennan) while the other is an Indian boy (Coyote Runs) living nearly two hundred years ago.

Plot
Canyons is a book about two boys. One boy is named Coyote Runs (age 14) and the other boy is Brennan Cole (age 15).

The story starts with Brennan making a short narrative about his life and switches back and forth from Brennan and Coyote Runs. Later in the story, the switching ends when Coyote Runs gets shot in the head during his first raid that would, if successful, make him a man among his Apache tribe.  However, he is shot by American soldiers and dies instantly. Nearly two hundred years later, Brennan finds his skull with a bullet hole in its forehead and becomes obsessed with it. From that point on in the novel, a mystical link connects Brennan's mind with Coyote Runs' spirit. After talking to his old biology teacher, he runs sixty miles in a day and a night to return the skull to the top of a canyon - a place Coyote Runs calls his "medicine place." After a grueling run and a chase by Brennan's search party, he gets Coyote Runs' skull back to the medicine place, ending the bond and the novel.

Main characters
Brennan Cole- Brennan Cole lives in El Paso, Texas with his mother.

Coyote Runs- Coyote Runs is a 14-year-old Apache Indian, who lived in the same area during the Civil War.

Reception
In 1991 Publishers weekly wrote that "Paulsen's coming of age story is remarkable for its simple, restrained text."   Review and React.com said, "This book shows the adventurous mind of the author Gary Paulsen." Kirkus Review noted that "The author uses poetic and semantic resonance...that dims the tale.

Canyons was one of six books cited by the Young Adult Library Services Association when it awarded Paulsen the 1997 Margaret Edwards Award.

Adaptations
After reviewing the audio book of Canyons Peter Coyote.com said that the abridgement of canyons "does justice to the original story," and it "does not overload the listener."  Publishers weekly wrote that the abridgment of Canyons "heightens the dramatic effect of the tale."

Style
Gary Paulsen received mostly positive reviews for his original writing style used in Canyons. Publishers Weekly wrote that "Readers with an appetite for Paulsen's  blend of nature and mysticism will overlook Canyon's plot and find savor in its spirit."  SPPS HOME said "Paulsen's use of alternating chapters gets the reader to become more interested or involved in the book."

Major Themes
Canyons main or major themes have also received positive reviews Random House wrote that "Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they will become men.". Groveland parks also mentioned another main theme in its review saying that "The bond between the two boys a century apart in time...grows as Brennan now searches for the final answer.". Powell's books wrote That during "a Grueling journey through the canyon to return the skull Brennan Confronts the challenges of his life.". ABE Books wrote that "Brennan know that neither of the two will find peace until the skull is returned."

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1990 American novels
Novels by Gary Paulsen
American young adult novels

Canyons (novel)


Flinn Springs is an unincorporated community in the East County region of San Diego County, California.

History
Flinn Springs is named for early settler James Ebenezer Flinn, a native of Missouri who moved to the area and established a farm prior to 1874. Sometimes Flinn's father, Dr. William E. Flinn, is credited as the founder of Flinn Springs instead. The settlement was also known as "La Viñita" (Spanish for "the little vineyard") because the Flinns made and sold wine at their farm.

Geography
Flinn Springs straddles Interstate 8, which runs from east to west through the region. U.S. Route 80 passed through Flinn Springs from 1926 until the route was decommissioned in California in 1964. The historic highway continues to serve as the community's main thoroughfare.

Flinn Springs neighbors Lakeside to the west, Harbison Canyon to the south, and Alpine to the east. The community sits at an elevation of 1,063 feet.

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Unincorporated communities in San Diego County, California
El Cajon, California
Unincorporated communities in California

Flinn Springs, California


The Workers' Party (, PO) is an Argentine Trotskyist political party. It was the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International.

In the 2009 legislative election, the party received 1.1% of the vote. Its strongest vote in this and some other recent elections has been in Salta Province in the north west, particularly in the city of Salta itself; its next best was in neighbouring Catamarca.

Its members have included Jorge Altamira, Néstor Pitrola, Claudio del Plá, Amanda Martin and Mariano Ferreyra.

It participates in the Workers Left Front, which had some success in elections in 2011.  Following elections in 2013 it now has two national deputies, and several provincial deputies and councilors.

Organization
Funding
The party is financed entirely by its supporters and militants.  Due to its class politics it does not receive any money from private or public sources that could compromise its political actions. Members have the option of giving 5% of their wages to the party, in the case of members that hold elected office, they keep a sum equal to the minimum wage and they donate the rest to the party.

Trade Unions
The Worker's Party directs the Associated Teacher's Union,  the main teaching union of the University of Buenos Aires. It is also part of the Sitraic (Syndicate of Workers of the Construction Industry and Affiliates) leadership, a combative union facing the Uocra  (Union of Construction Workers of the Argentine Republic) leadership . It also directs the SUTNA (Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers) belonging to the CTA of workers since 2016. It also organizes numerous groups of workers, with regional and national reach. In the teaching union, the current Teaching Tribune developed, which participates in the direction of some sections of SUTEBA-CTERA and also develops an important activity in UTE-CTERA, ATEN-CTERA, ADOSAC-CTERA, UEPC-CTERA and the Self-convened Teachers of Salta.
In the UTA (Transportation and underground train union) participates in various sectors such as Ecotrans, Subte (Metrolines), Line 168 and Line 60 with affiliations by company and the Classical Transport Group nationwide.
The Worker's Party has a long tradition with graphics unions and has various delegates in various factories and in the Graphic Orange, the main opposition to union leadership. It is also in the front lines of the struggle in the press workers union (UTPBA) through the Orange Press. Inside the telephone industry (FOETRA) organizes the Telephone Orange.
Other affiliated groups are the Health Tribune, Worker's Fiber, as well as  The Orange Television. Combative Mercantile groups and the orange list of university teachers. In addition, the Workers' Party has a presence among the fairgrounds of the Centennial Park, painters, and  paper makers, among others.

Publications
Its main publication is the weekly Prensa Obrera (Workers' Press), started in 1982. whose articles are often distributed and translated in other countries. This publication has the function of being the main distributor of their ideas and analysis. In December 2007 it reached the 1,000th edition. On December 3, 2019, a publication edited by a new segment that was formed within the party during the internal crisis of 2019, Política Obrera, began to circulate.

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Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII (French: Jeanne d'Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII) is an 1854 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The work merges the style of Ingres' teacher Jacques-Louis David with that of the troubador style. The scene is marked by ambient light, sumptuous objects and rich colours.

History
In 1851, M. de Guisard, the state's Director of Fine Arts, gave Ingres a commission of 20,000 francs for a painting of a subject of Ingres's choosing. Ingres offered instead to fulfill the commission by finishing two paintings already in progress, Joan of Arc and a Virgin with a Host. Both were subjects he had depicted in earlier works: he had made a wash drawing of Joan of Arc as a model for an engraving by Pollet that was published in the 1840s in La Plutarque français, Vies des hommes et femmes illustres de la France by E. Mannechet. The drawing shows her in a pose similar to that of the later painting, dressed in armor and resting her hand on an altar, but with no accompanying figures.

For the painting Ingres made new preparatory drawings using a nude model. He then made drawings in which he added the clothes and armour. The final composition shows Joan at the coronation of Charles VII of France in Reims Cathedral, victorious and looking up to heaven, which she felt had given France the victory. To her right are three pages, the monk Jean Paquerel, and a servant. The servant is a self-portrait of the artist.

See also
 List of paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

References

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Works about Joan of Arc
Paintings in the Louvre by French artists
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Layla Rose Miller, also known as Butterfly, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in House of M #4 (Sept. 2005), and was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel. Peter David has developed the character, placing Layla at the center of the ensemble of mutant private detectives in his title X-Factor.

Fictional character biography

House of M

Layla Miller is first seen as a young mutant girl who lives in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. When she wakes up one morning, she finds everything has changed and she is one of a small number of unaffected characters. Layla was instrumental in bringing down the "House of M" by using her ability to restore the memories of superheroes who rebelled and helped restore reality. Doctor Strange suggested that the Scarlet Witch had created Layla as a failsafe to help the heroes in case something went wrong.

Origin
Contradicting Doctor Strange's theory of her origin, Layla's life prior to the events of House of M has been described: she was a young mutant living in an orphanage where she was teased and bullied by other orphans. However, Layla was shown to have fabricated a large portion of her experiences at the orphanage in order to facilitate her entry into X-Factor Investigations; the extent of what really occurred is unknown. When asked, Layla has purported to understand how it is that she "knows stuff." She claims that if she were to tell anyone, she would be struck down and die on the spot, but since she has proven to be capable of manipulation, the veracity of her contention is in doubt.

X-Factor Investigations

After Layla joins X-Factor Investigations, she helps the other team members in various, indirect ways. When an operative of Singularity Investigations tries to murder Rictor, Layla electrocutes him. She then sends his body back to Singularity Investigations with a note that says "stay out of Mutant Town." After being taken back to an abusive orphanage, Jamie Madrox makes an arrangement that allows her to return at X-Factor where she would be safe. When Cyclops arrives to inform Siryn that her father, Banshee, has died, he pretends not to recognize Layla.

Layla has taken steps to deal with Singularity Investigations, a rival investigations firm. When X-Factor have their final showdown with Singularity Investigations, she helps uncover the fact that Guido had been brainwashed by them at some point in his past while rescuing a client. Jamie organizes all X-Factor members to see Doc Samson for psychiatric evaluations; they play chess and she reveals she is willing to make sacrifices for the greater good and that even she is expendable.

Civil War

During the Superhero Civil War, Quicksilver makes repeated attempts to enter X-Factor Investigations Headquarters. Each time, he is thwarted by Layla, whom Quicksilver comes to consider his nemesis.

When the rest of the team are discussing their stance in the war, they eventually begin to talk about M-Day. Later it is revealed that she knew the truth about why and how it happened, leaving the other members distrustful of her.

Silent War

When the Inhumans come looking for Quicksilver, Layla advises him that Black Bolt isn't going to kill him during the confrontation and that he should take a small trip to the future to see the outcome of what happens to them. She and Jamie go to the meeting where she reveals to Jamie that she tried to kill Pietro but couldn't because he escaped and that his actions are meant to happen.

X-Cell and Nicole
A group made up of ex-mutants by the name of X-Cell, who believe the government has depowered mutants, hides in Mutant Town. When Siryn and Monet return from France, they bring an ex-mutant named Nicole, which shocks Layla because she didn't know of her arrival. Layla visits Quicksilver, who had restored most of X-Cell's powers. She reveals to Callisto and Marrow that it was he and Wanda Maximoff who caused the Decimation; the government did not depower them, and Pietro has lied. After a failed attempt on Layla's life, Nicole is tripped by Layla and falls in front of a train, which destroys her, revealing she was actually a robot.

Around this time, she is also offered a place among Nick Fury's Secret Warriors by Daisy Johnson but declines, claiming the mutants will need her more.

Messiah Complex

Layla goes with one of Jamie's dupes to investigate an alternate future caused by the birth of the mutant messiah. While there, they discover that the mutants are living in internment camps. While in an internment camp, the mutant scanners alternate between detecting Layla as a mutant and detecting Layla as human. They learn from a child version of Bishop that the mutant messiah had caused this world. Layla then proceeds to kill the dupe to send the information back to the original Jamie, leaving her alone and stranded in the future.

Divided We Stand

Despite being trapped in an alternate future, Layla is still seen interacting with Jamie as a figment of his imagination. This figment serves as "stuff [Jamie] knows deep down", appearing in moments of self-realization, such as when Jamie admitted to himself that he knows about Siryn's pregnancy.

It is implied in Layla's final words in the story—'but not the right stuff' (in response to Jamie's 'I'm Jamie. I know stuff.')—as well as her eight days in a trance in the Layla Miller one-shot (after which she whispers the same lines she says to Jamie, 'One of us, One of us') that this 'figment' of Jamie's imagination is actually Layla contacting Jamie to give him some guidance.

The Summers Rebellion
Layla eventually escapes the camp and helps a new mutant called Linqon. After revealing to some people an operation called Operation Purity, which involves every citizen being tested for mutant genes, she goes to Atlantic City and meets up with Cyclops and his daughter Ruby. Together with Ruby, she initiates the Summers Rebellion. Layla is last seen stating that, while she is unsure of the future, she is confident in her ability to "know stuff."

Layla finds a way back into the past but is now much older than she was before. She pretends to be a nun and works with John Maddox, a duplicate who settled down to raise a family. When she arrives at John's church, she finds Jamie about to kill himself. She stops him and reveals who she really is, much to his shock. She reveals herself to be a holographic projection and takes Jamie into the alternate future. When Layla and Jamie return to the future, Jamie meets Ruby, who berates Layla for traveling back in time when warned not to. The group is then attacked by Sentinels.

After Layla and Jamie argue about how they never came for one another, the two finally give into their emotions and share a kiss. Jamie is awkward about starting a relationship with Layla, feeling she is still a child, though Layla tells him she never really was.

Later, Layla, Jamie and Ruby go find an old, frail Doctor Doom, requesting his help with time travel. Doom reveals he has met Layla before and informs the trio about Doomlocks. They are then attacked by Sentinels and saved by Trevor Fitzroy. They bring the frail Doom back to their stronghold in Atlantic City where she gets into an argument with Cyclops about bringing him with them and Trevor Fitzroy's future. Taking Doom to an old lab, he creates a Doomlock and turns on them, bringing forth Cortex, the rogue Madrox dupe. Cortex kills Trevor, and Ruby asks Layla if she can bring him back. Layla reveals that her ability isn't to "know stuff" but to bring back the dead. There are consequences to bringing back a human: the cost of their soul, conscience and morality.

When the battle is over and Layla explains what her powers are to Jamie, they are teleported by a Doomlock back in time and Jamie ends up back with X-Factor while Layla is transported back to before she joined up at X-Factor Investigations. She ends up at the orphanage she lived at before M-Day and, after talking with her younger self, she sets forth the motions that lead her to joining X-Factor by downloading all her knowledge into her younger version's brain, which causes her to pass out and give her the ability to "know stuff". Layla then gets up and walks away, contemplating what she did to herself. Cryptically, she informs her younger self that while she knows why Doom sent her further back, Jamie will find out in "a couple of years", apparently indicating that much time has elapsed since the current X-Factor series began (since Layla has only been "knowing stuff" since after the "House of M" event; prior to this, her ability was to awaken lost memories).

Return to present
Following the disappearance of the Invisible Woman, it is revealed Layla has been living with Dr. Doom in an advisory capacity for a year, awaiting to cross paths with X-Factor while they search for Susan Richards.

During the events of Second Coming, Bastion assigns Bolivar Trask and his Mutant Response Division to target and kill every member of X-Factor Investigations. Arriving at Dublin Airport, Layla and Shatterstar have come to the aid of Theresa Cassidy, who is now going by the codename Banshee. During the confrontation, Layla uses technology acquired from Dr. Doom to combat the MRD soldiers and point Monet in the right direction to help turn the tide of the battle.

After Monet's encounter with Baron Mordo, Layla has an almost violent encounter with Monet who doesn't trust her since finding out about her partnership with Dr. Doom. After Monet faints from exhaustion, she informs Guido that Wolfsbane has returned and joins the rest of X-Factor on a trip to Las Vegas.

When Guido receives a fatal shot while protecting J. Jonah Jameson, the doctors pronounce him dead. But upon their return to the room, he is seen alive with Layla hiding in the closet, suggesting she resurrected Guido. Layla speaks to Guido in the hospital and begins to cry. She cryptically tells Guido she'll find a way to get his soul back. Madrox has figured out that Layla has brought Guido (Strong Guy) back from death at the cost of his soul.

Shatterstar and Layla have a cryptic conversation about what happened between them during their time together at Doctor Doom's castle in Latveria. Shatterstar asks her if she has ever thought about what happened between them. She replies that she has, but she learned not to give in to her impulses, and he should do the same.

During a confrontation with Bloodbath, he stops the fight and tells the team that he can steal souls, but makes the team think why he couldn't take Strong Guy's. After being questioned by her teammates, Layla tells the X-Factor team the truth about reviving Strong Guy at the cost of his soul, before chanting a spell that sends Bloodbath to hell. She is later sitting in the morgue for days isolating herself from her teammates. Banshee (Siryn) is talking with Wolverine in the background about her behavior. Banshee attempts to console Layla, and Layla tells her to remove her hand or it will end up like Jamie (Madrox). Wolverine talks with her. It turns out that Layla has night terrors from her ordeal being stuck in the future, but they are down to once a week. She has also kept Jamie in a cooler of dry ice, and had a third year med student make repairs on the cadaver. Layla also states she doesn't know what she is waiting for. With the exception of Banshee, none of her teammates are talking to her for what she did to Guido. Wolverine questions how Layla didn't see Madrox's death coming. There is a flashback (flash-forward since it takes place 80 years in an alternate future) that shows Layla writing in a journal that described the outcome if Guido was left dead. She thought she could just ignore it but by reviving Guido it was Jamie who paid the price. Layla tells Wolverine that the reason she is even cryptically telling him this is because like him, she knows in her heart she really is alone in the crowd just like Wolverine. After Jamie is brought back from the dead, an ecstatic Layla states that she knew Jamie would be back and that she's wasted too much time and gives into her feelings for him. She proceeds to warm up Jamie from his frozen state by having sex with him. After their tryst, Layla admits to Jamie that she did revive Guido (Strong Guy) and doesn't want to keep any more secrets from him. She proceeds to tell him about the changes in X-Factor Investigations during his time away. Monet (M) becomes enraged after seeing Madrox alive, thinking that Layla was responsible for his resurrection. She slams Layla into a brick wall, then flies off with her into the New York skyline. Madrox tells Terry (Banshee/Siryn) to fly after them, but Terry says that if Monet really wanted to hurt her, she would have done it right there. Monet drops her off at the Empire State building and scares the tourists away so she and Layla can have words. Monet says to Layla that she always knows what's going on. Layla states that this is not the case, and she didn't resurrect Jamie (Madrox). She uses the telescope as an example of her not knowing every event as the events get closer and then blackout. Layla then tells Monet that Guido was supposed to have died and not Jamie. She states she wanted to change fate so Monet wouldn't blame herself for Guido's death, which would have resulted in her going through a year-long depression. She wanted to spare Monet, who according to Layla will eventually become her best friend the pain. After hearing all this, Monet leaves Layla so that she could have some space and collect her thoughts.

Layla also has a hand in being responsible for Terry becoming a true Banshee deity, and leaving the team. Before she could admit to Madrox that she was part of the reason that Terry left X-Factor investigations, Havok steps in and takes the blame. Polaris states that she knew that he covered for her. Havok admits that he wants Layla to be happy. Madrox and Layla later on go to the kitchen for ice cream and Madrox asks Layla if they want to get married. She responds: "Okay". They elope in Las Vegas, but the honeymoon is cut short due to the wedding priest being murdered the same night.

Retirement
After the events of the "Hell on Earth War" storyline, she and Jamie retire to his family farm where they have a child together. Some time later, Jamie goes to Muir Island to investigate the Terrigen Mists and is killed by the M-Pox. Soon afterwards, a different Jamie appears to take care of her and Davey. After a while, Logan reappears, asking her advice on what to do with Cyclops and the missing X-Men. She also encourages the new Jamie to help Cyclops.

Powers and abilities
Layla has the mutant power to resurrect someone from death, at the cost of their soul. They retain their memories but experience a lack of empathy upon resurrection that is similar to sociopathy. Although this was first hinted at in the conclusion of X-Factor'''s initial story arc when Layla brought a butterfly back to life, it was not fully expanded upon and explained until much later when Layla resurrected Trevor Fitzroy, knowing full well the murderous villain he would become due to her actions.

Layla's most notable ability is to "know stuff": Layla has extensive knowledge of past and future events, an effect which enables Layla to see paths of causality to their ultimate conclusion and allows her to alter certain events from occurring (referred to as "causality" in Secret Warriors #1). Initially, the reason for Layla "knowing stuff" was not explained and presented as a form of precognition. Layla herself, when questioned, would also remain evasive. Layla's knowledge is later revealed to be the result of her older self (time-displaced and aged due to the events of X-Men: Messiah Complex) visiting herself as a child prior to the events of X-Factor vol. 3 #1 and uploading all her knowledge and memories into her younger self's brain. The sheer volume of knowledge was too much for a normal brain to take, and thus resulted in several gaps and blind spots (not knowing that Strong Guy was brainwashed, that Josef Huber's companion Nicole was a robot, or the machinations of Damian Tryp, for example). Layla's foreknowledge is also heavily dependent on what her future self experienced and read from her younger self's journals, and thus she does not know what effects straying from this source might have (as in the case of Madrox's death).

Layla has above normal scientific knowledge and advanced weaponry due to her partnership with and tutelage under Dr. Doom. One such device that Layla now regularly employs is a power gauntlet capable of various effects such as force fields, giant saws, and energy blasts. Additionally, her time with Dr. Doom has imparted on her a basic knowledge of magic and mysticism, and Layla has been shown to be capable of performing exorcisms and the working of basic spells.

During House of M, Layla was immune to the memory alteration created by the Scarlet Witch and thus was aware that reality had been altered. Layla also had the ability to "awaken" heroes and allow them to remember their lives before the reality warp. This ability was also distinct enough that Rogue was able to absorb and use it similar to other superhuman abilities. Layla has not exhibited any of these abilities since the House of M storyline.

Writer Peter David addressed this disparity with Layla's powers in the letter column of X-Factor vol. 3 #231: "Layla... We've seen her powers spelled out more in the past few issues than any other time in the past. I wouldn't get too hung up on HoM (House of M) if I were you since she's very different from what she was."

Other versions

Ultimate Marvel
In Ultimate Mystery'', Dr. Layla Miller is a member of the Roxxon Brain Trust. Nothing else is known about her except that she "knows stuff". She is in the middle of a meeting when she is made aware that Alex Summers is in the Roxxon building. It's shown she specializes in acquiring resources for Roxxon. She is also responsible for giving powers to Cloak and Dagger.

References

External links
 Layla Miller at Marvel.com
 Newsarama: Layla Who? Bendis and Brevoort talk Layla Miller.
Profile of the character in Uncanny X-Men.net

Characters created by Brian Michael Bendis
Comics characters introduced in 2005
Fictional characters with death or rebirth abilities
Fictional private investigators
Marvel Comics characters who use magic
Marvel Comics female superheroes
Marvel Comics mutants
X-Factor (comics)

Layla Miller


Anthony Paez (born June 18, 1984, in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a professional basketball player, currently starring in Hungary for Dombóvár KC of the Hungarian Basketball League.

He attended college at Stephen F. Austin from 2004-2006. In the 2004/05 season, Paez made appearances in 27 games, averaging 27 minutes per game, as well as 10.8 points per game, 4.6 rebounds per game and a .705 free-throw percentage. In his second season, his stats improved slightly as did his minutes. In 29 appearances, the Small forward averaged 11.6 points in 28.4 minutes per game, coupled with 2.3 assists and 4.7 boards per outing.

After graduation, Paez signed a deal with Danish club AaB Aalborg for the 2006-07 season. Despite the clubs failings (3-19, 11th-place finish out of 12), he led the stats board in points per game with 27.73, while being named in the All-Danish Basketliga 2nd Team, All-Imports Team, All-Newcomers Team, as well as being featured in the Basketliga All-Star Game and finishing 2nd in the 2007 Slam Dunk competition.

After much speculation, it was officially publicised on August 29, 2007, that Paez had agreed a deal with British Basketball League side Worcester Wolves, to become their third and final import player for the upcoming season. Wolves' coach Skouson Harker commented that Paez "can score inside and out and is a fearless player that lets his game do the talking. I fully expect Anthony to rise to the challenge and be a top performer in the BBL this season."

Career history
2006-07  AaB Aalborg
2007-2008  Worcester Wolves
2008–present  Dombóvár KC
2008–present  Worcester Wolves
2009-2010  Oberwart Gunners

1984 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Austria
American expatriate basketball people in Denmark
American expatriate basketball people in Hungary
American expatriate basketball people in the United Kingdom
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Brooklyn
Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks basketball players
Worcester Wolves players
Small forwards

Anthony Paez


Gaston Palewski (20 March 1901 – 3 September 1984), a French politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy Mitford, and appears in a fictionalised form in two of her novels.

Biography
Palewski was born in Paris into a Jewish family, the son of an industrialist Maurice Serge Moïse Herch Palewski (b. 1867 in Kobryń, then in Russian Empire, now in Belarus - d. 1938) and his wife Rose née Diamant-Berger (b. 1869 in Buzău, Romania - d. 1954). Gaston Palewski was educated at the Sorbonne, at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques and at Oxford University—he spoke excellent English and was a convinced Anglophile. Using family connections, he obtained a post with Marshal Hubert Lyautey, the French Resident-General in Morocco. In 1928 he became principal private secretary to Paul Reynaud, a leading politician who was then Minister for Finances and who became Prime Minister of France in March 1940. Through Reynaud, in 1934, he first met Charles de Gaulle, and became a supporter of his political and military views.

On the outbreak of war in 1939 Palewski was commissioned as a lieutenant in the French Air Force, and saw action following the German invasion of France in May 1940. He was in French North Africa at the time of the armistice of June 1940. Refusing to accept France's defeat, he reached London at the end of August and joined de Gaulle's Free French Forces. De Gaulle appointed him Director of Political Affairs of the Free French movement, and he played a leading role in negotiations between de Gaulle and the British government, which at first regarded de Gaulle with scepticism. In March 1941 he was given the rank of lieutenant-colonel and command of the Free French Army in East Africa, leading it against the Italian forces during the recapture of French Somaliland (now Djibouti). In September 1942, he was recalled to London to become de Gaulle's Directeur du Cabinet, a post in which he followed de Gaulle from London to Algiers in 1943 and then in August 1944 to liberated Paris. He became known as de Gaulle's homme de confiance (right-hand man), and his diplomatic skills and knowledge of the British made him invaluable to de Gaulle, who neither understood the British nor trusted them.

Palewski remained director of de Gaulle's cabinet (that is, his private office) until de Gaulle's resignation as head of the Provisional Government in January 1946. He then became a leading proponent of Gaullism and one of the founders of the first Gaullist party, the Rassemblement du Peuple Français (Rally of the French People, or RPF) in 1947. In 1951 he was elected to the National Assembly as an RPF deputy for the Department of the Seine (Paris). From 1953 to 1955 he was vice-president of the National Assembly. Following the failure of the RPF, however, he withdrew from politics. In 1957, at de Gaulle's request, he was appointed Ambassador to Italy, a post he held until 1962. In 1962 Palewski was appointed by Prime Minister Georges Pompidou as Minister of State in charge of Scientific Research, Atomic Energy and Space Questions, the first French minister with specific responsibility for such matters. On 1 May 1962 Palewski witnessed the French underground nuclear test codenamed "Beryl" in Algeria. The test shaft failed to contain the blast and he was exposed to radiation as result of a leak of radioactive lava and dust into the atmosphere. He believed that the leukemia which he contracted later in life was caused by this accident. From 1965 to 1974 he was President of the Constitutional Council of France. Palewski died of leukemia in 1984, aged 83.

Decorations and honorary positions

After 1974 he held a number of honorary posts. An amateur painter of some talent, he was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Because of his high office and his record in the war Palewski was awarded several French decorations. After his term as an ambassador to the Italian government, not to the Holy See, he was awarded an Italian Grand Cross.

The Grand Croix of the Légion d'Honneur,
The title  and cross of a Compagnon de la Libération,
The Croix de Guerre (twice),
The Médaille Coloniale, with a bar
The Croix du combattant volontaire 1939–1945.
The Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Character

In his personal life, Palewski was a notorious and reckless womaniser, and this earned him a reputation for frivolity that damaged his prospects for a serious political career. Only his standing with de Gaulle, to whom he was devoted and totally loyal, enabled him to hold high office. During the war in London he met the English writer and society figure Nancy Mitford, and began with her a long, passionate but intermittent affair. They were separated during the latter part of the war, but in 1946 she moved permanently to Paris, and their relationship, though never public, lasted until her death in 1973. This did not prevent him becoming involved with many other women. In 1969, without formally ending his affair with Mitford—he was with her when she died—he married Helen-Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord (1915–2003), duchesse de Sagan, the daughter of the seventh duc de Talleyrand and his wife Anna Gould. The two had been having a long affair prior to the duchess's divorce from her first husband and had had a son out of wedlock.

In the English-speaking world Palewski is known chiefly through his appearance as Fabrice, duc de Sauveterre, in two of Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949). The first of these contains a fairly accurate portrayal of their relationship, although it is moved from postwar to prewar Paris. Despite Mitford's love for Palewski, she depicted him in a very clear-eyed way in these novels, with no attempt to disguise his many infidelities. He took no offence at this, and when Mitford proposed to dedicate The Pursuit of Love to "The Colonel", he insisted on his real name being used.

References

1901 births
1984 deaths
Burials at Passy Cemetery
Politicians from Paris
Ambassadors of France to Italy
University of Paris alumni
Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Companions of the Liberation
French military personnel of World War II
French people of Polish-Jewish descent
Deaths from leukemia
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France)
Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Gaston Palewski


Monroe Silver (December 21, 1875 – May 3, 1947) was an American actor and singer who was also a comedian and monologist using a Jewish dialect-accent in his performances.

Career
For various record labels, he recorded 78rpm discs of parodies like "Cohen on the Telephone" and "Cohen Phones to His Friend Levy". Joe Hayman first recorded the monologue "Cohen on the Telephone" in London in July 1913 for Regal Records and released in the U.S. by Columbia Records.

Lee De Forest recorded Silver doing "Cohen on the Telephone" for the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film premiered as Monroe Silver, Famed Monologist with 17 other Phonofilm short films at the Rivoli Theater in New York City on 15 April 1923. This film is now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the Library of Congress. From 1925 to 1935, Silver appeared on The Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra radio show.

With Silver's Jewish/Yiddish accent, words like "What are you doing?" came out as "Vot arrr you doink?" Some performers like Barney Bernard and Louis Mann tried to imitate him in the early 1920s, while Silver himself adapted the monologues of British vaudevillian Joe Hayman and others. Silver made many recordings with Billy Murray, as an Irish and Jewish dialect combo "Casey and Cohen". Their last recording together was on February 11, 1943, for Beacon Records.

See also
Jewish humor

References

Bibliography
 Corenthal, Michael G., Cohen on the Telephone: Jewish Humor and Dialect (Yesterday's Memories, 1984)
 Silver, Monroe, Monroe Silver's Famous "Cohen on the Telephone" and Over One Hundred Original Jokes, Stories, Etc. (New York: Irving Berlin, 1927)
 Whitburn, Joel, Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, Inc., 1986)

External links

 Cohen on the Telephone at SilentEra with picture of Silver from the film
 Billy Murray and Monroe Silver recordings at Internet Archive
 Billy Murray and Monroe Silver "Oh, How We Love Our Alma Mater" (1927) at Internet Archive
 List of Victor recordings of Silver at UC Santa Barbara archive
 List of Victor recordings with Silver as speaker
 Monroe Silver recordings at Internet Archive
 Silver at Library of Congress "National Jukebox"
 Discography of Monroe Silver at HonkingDuck (81 listings)

Vocalion Records artists
Vaudeville performers
1875 births
1947 deaths

Monroe Silver


Anne Francis (also known as Anne Lloyd Francis; September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress known for her ground-breaking roles in the science-fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and the television action-drama series Honey West (1965–1966). Forbidden Planet marked a first in color, big-budget, science-fiction-themed motion pictures. Nine years later, Francis challenged female stereotypes in Honey West, in which she played a perky blonde private investigator who was as quick with body slams as witty one-liners. She earned a Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award nomination for her performance.

Francis was known largely for her physical assets, including a trademark mole near her lower lip. The beauty mark was even written into the script of one of her films. In 2005, TV Guide ranked Francis at  number 18 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.

Early life
Francis was born in Ossining, New York, on September 16, 1930. Contrary to some sources, which erroneously claim she was born Ann Marvak (rather than Francis), her parents' marriage registration and census records from 1925 and 1930 confirm that their names were Philip Ward Francis (19001974) and Edith (née Albertson) Francis (19011995). She was their only child.

Francis entered show business as a child, working as a model at 5 years old to assist her family during the Great Depression. She made her Broadway debut at the age of 11.

Career

Motion pictures
Francis made her first film appearance in This Time for Keeps (1947). She played supporting roles in the films So Young, So Bad (1950), The Rocket Man (1954), Susan Slept Here (1954), and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); her first leading role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955). Her best-known film role is that of Altaira in Forbidden Planet (1956), a science-fiction classic that was nominated for a best-effects Oscar.

Her movie roles were then confined to low-budget efforts: a call girl in Girl of the Night (1960), a scheming trophy wife in Brainstorm (1965), as Jerry Lewis's wife in Hook, Line & Sinker (1969), and as co-star to a young Burt Reynolds in the adventure movie Impasse (1969). An exception was her role as lead chorine Georgia James in Funny Girl (1968).

Television
When motion-picture opportunities became scarcer for Francis near the close of the 1950s, she moved, successfully, to television.
Beginning as a guest on The Untouchables and as the title character in The Doreen Maney Story, she appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone ("The After Hours" and "Jess-Belle"), two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Hooked" and "Keep Me Company"), and three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("What Really Happened", "Blood Bargain", and "The Trap"). In 1961, she appeared twice in Route 66, first in "Play it Glissando" and then "A Month of Sundays". Francis appeared in two episodes of the Western series The Virginian, two episodes of Columbo ("Short Fuse" and "A Stitch in Crime") and the episode "Incident of the Shambling Man" on the CBS Western Rawhide. She was cast in an episode of Gene Kelly's drama series, Going My Way, based on the 1944 film of the same name. During 1964, she guest-starred in "Hideout" and "Rachel's Mother" in The Reporter, as well as two successive appearances in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. She appeared in season four, episode 10 of Mission Impossible, titled "The Double Circle".

Honey West
Honey West was an action drama; the character was formally introduced in the April 21, 1965, episode of Burke's Law titled "Who Killed the Jackpot?", after which it was spun off as a series that lasted one season of 30 half-hour episodes. Honey was a shrewd, high-energy private investigator who collaborated with assistant Sam Bolt (John Ericson) in a company that was inherited from her father. At home, she cared for her pet ocelot named Bruce.

The show was cancelled due to budgetary considerations, and ABC executives imported the similarly themed hit British show The Avengers.

Late television career
Francis made a guest appearance in a 1967 episode of The Fugitive and in The Invaders the same year. She guest-starred in a 1973 episode of Barnaby Jones, "Murder in the Doll's House".

At the start of the final season of My Three Sons in 1971, Francis played bowling-alley waitress Terri Dowling, who married character Laird Fergus McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge, Scotland, and returned to his homeland as royalty. (Fred MacMurray played the dual-character roles of Steve Douglas and Fergus McBain Douglas in this four-part story arc.) She appeared twice as a guest star on Columbo, once as the manipulated lover of the murderer ("Short Fuse", 1972) and once as the murder victim ("A Stitch in Crime", 1973).

In 1974, Francis appeared as Ida, the madame of a bawdy house on the series Kung Fu in the episode "Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves".  In 1975, she appeared as Abby in an episode of Movin' On titled "The Price of Loving".  In 1976, she appeared as Lola Flynn in an episode of Wonder Woman, entitled "Beauty on Parade". In 1977, she appeared as Lieutenant Commander Gladys Hope, the head nurse in two episodes of the World War II series Baa Baa Black Sheep. She portrayed Melissa Osborne in the episode "How Do I Kill Thee?" of The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978.

During the 1980–81 season of Dallas, Francis had a recurring role as Arliss Cooper, the mother of Mitch and Afton Cooper. In 1982, she played the armored car-robbing mother in "In the Best of Families" episode of CHiPs. She later played Mama Jo in the first few episodes of the 1984 TV-detective series Riptide.  In that same year, she guest-starred in the premiere episode of Murder, She Wrote, credited as Anne Lloyd Francis; she went on to guest-star in two more episodes during the show's run. In December 1984 and again credited as Anne Lloyd Francis, she guest-starred in a Christmas-themed episode of The Love Boat playing the mother of Kim Lankford's character, Carol, in the storyline of "Noel's Christmas Carol".  She appeared on episodes of Matlock and The Golden Girls.

In 1996, Francis appeared in the Wings episode "The Lady Vanishes", as Vera, a 1940s gun moll-type character. In 1997, in the Home Improvement episode "A Funny Valentine", she appeared as Liddy, Tim Allen's high-school classmate's mother. She guest-starred in 1998 on The Drew Carey Show as the mother of Drew's girlfriend Nicki in the episodes "Nicki's Parents" and "Nicki's Wedding". Francis's final television acting role was in "Shadows", a 2004 episode of Without a Trace.

Personal life
Francis was married to United States Air Force pilot Bamlet Lawrence Price, Jr., from May 1952 through April 1955, and to Robert Abeloff from 1960 through 1964. She never remarried after divorcing Abeloff.

Francis was a Democrat and supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.

Francis and Abeloff had one daughter, Jane Elizabeth Abeloff (born March 21, 1962). Francis later adopted Margaret "Maggie" West in 1970, one of the first adoptions granted to an unmarried person in California.

Francis studied flying toward the end of the 1960s, eventually earning her pilot's license.

In 1982, Francis published an autobiography, Voices from Home: An Inner Journey.  On its cover, she wrote that the book "is my spiritual exposé. It is about our essence of being, the inner workings of mind and spirit which contribute to the growth of the invisible and most important part of us." A subsequent biography titled Anne Francis: The Life and Career was written by Laura Wagner and published by McFarland & Company in 2011.

A smoker for much of her adult life, Francis said that she quit the habit in the mid-1980s, but was diagnosed with nonsmall-cell lung cancer in 2006.

Francis died from complications due to pancreatic cancer on January 2, 2011, at a retirement home in Santa Barbara, California. Her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

Partial TV/filmography

 1947 This Time for Keeps as Bobby Soxer (uncredited)
 1948 Summer Holiday as Elsie Rand
 1948 The Pirate as Nina, Showgirl (uncredited)
 1948 Portrait of Jennie as Teenager In Art Gallery (uncredited)
 1950 So Young, So Bad as Loretta Wilson
 1951 The Whistle at Eaton Falls as Jean
 1951 Elopement as Jacqueline "Jake" Osborne
 1952 Lydia Bailey as Lydia Bailey
 1952 Dreamboat as Carol Sayre
 1953 A Lion Is in the Streets as "Flamingo" McManamee
 1954 The Rocket Man as June Brown
 1954 Susan Slept Here as Isabella Alexander
 1954 Rogue Cop as Nancy Corlane
 1955 Bad Day at Black Rock as Liz Wirth
 1955 Battle Cry as Rae
 1955 Blackboard Jungle as Anne Dadier
 1955 The Scarlet Coat as Sally Cameron
 1956 Forbidden Planet as Altaira Morbius
 1956 The Rack as Aggie Hall
 1956 The Great American Pastime as Betty Hallerton
 1957 The Hired Gun as Ellen Beldon
 1957 Don't Go Near the Water as Lieutenant Alice Tomlen
 1959 "Rawhide" as Rose Whitman (TV Show)
 1959 The Ten Commandments (TV movie)
 1960 The Untouchables (TV series) as Doreen Maney
 1960 The Crowded Sky as Kitty Foster
 1960 Girl of the Night as Robin "Bobbie" Williams
 1960-1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series) as Julia Reddy / Nyla Foster
 1961 Route 66 (TV series) as Arline Simms (season two, episode one)
 1960-1963 The Twilight Zone (TV series) as Jess-Belle Stone / Marsha White
 1963-1965 Burke's Law as Suzanne Foster (season one, episode five "Who Killed Wade Walker?") /  as Honey West (season two, episode 30 "Who Killed the Jackpot?")
 1964 Death Valley Days (TV series) as Pearl Hart (episode from March 17, 1964, titled "The Last Stagecoach Robbery")
 1964 The Virginian (TV series) as Victoria Greenly
 1964 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as Gervaise Ravel (season one, episode three "The Quadripartite Affair" and season one, episode seven "The Giuoco Piano Affair")
 1965 The Satan Bug as Ann Williams
 1965 Honey West (TV series) as Honey West
 1965 Brainstorm as Lorrie Benson
 1967 The Invaders (TV series) as Annie Rhodes (season two, episode two "The Saucer")
 1968 Funny Girl as Georgia James
 1969 More Dead Than Alive as Monica Alton
 1969 Hook, Line & Sinker as Nancy Ingersoll
 1969 Impasse as Bobby Jones
 1969 The Love God? as Lisa LaMonica
 1970 Lost Flight (TV movie) as Gina Talbott
 1970 Wild Women (TV movie) as Jean Marshek
 1970 Dan August as Gina Talbott (season one, episode one "Murder by Proxy")
 1970 The Intruders (TV movie) as Leora Garrison
 1971 The Forgotten Man (TV movie) as Marie Hardy Forrest
 1971 Steel Wreath (TV movie) as Angel
 1971 Columbo (Columbo, season one, episode "Short Fuse")
 1972 Fireball Forward (TV movie) as Helen Sawyer
 1972 Haunts of the Very Rich (TV movie) as Annette Larrier
 1972 Pancho Villa as Flo
 1972 Gunsmoke (TV Series, season-18 episode "Sarah") as Sarah
 1973 Columbo as Nurse Sharon Martin (season two, episode "A Stitch in Crime")
 1973 Cannon as Peggy Angel (season three, episode "Murder by Proxy")
 1973 Barnaby Jones as Miriam Woodridge (season one, episode  "Murder in a Dolls House")
 1974 Cry Panic (TV movie) as Julie
 1974 The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (TV movie) as Colette
 1975 The Last Survivors (TV movie) as Helen Dixon
 1975 A Girl Named Sooner (TV movie) as Selma Goss
 1976 Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (TV movie) as Flora Dobbs
 1976 Survive! as Anne
 1976 ''Wonder Woman'' as Lola Flynn (season one, episode "Beauty On Parade")
 1978 Little Mo (TV movie) as Sophie Fisher
 1978 Born Again as Patty Colson
 1979 The Rebels (TV movie) as Mrs. Harris
 1979 Beggarman, Thief (TV movie) as Teresa Kraler
 1980 Detour to Terror (TV movie) as Sheila
 1980 Dan August: The Jealousy Factor (TV movie) as Nina Porter
 1981 Dallas 4 episodes as Arliss Cooper
 1982 Mazes and Monsters (TV movie) as Ellie
 1983 O'Malley (TV movie) as Amanda O'Malley
 1983 Charley's Aunt (TV movie) as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
 1984 Riptide 6 episodes as Mama Jo
 1985 Return as Eileen Sedgeley
 1986 A Masterpiece of Murder (TV movie) as Ruth Beekman
 1987 Laguna Heat (TV movie) as Helene Long
 1987 Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (TV movie) as Marjorie Post Hutton
 1988 My First Love (TV movie) as Terry
 1989 The Golden Girls as Trudy McMahon (1989,  season four, episode 19 "Til Death Do We Volley")
 1990 Little Vegas as Martha
 1992 Love Can Be Murder (TV movie) as Maggie O'Brien
 1992 The Double 0 Kid as Maggie O'Brien
 1994 Burke's Law as Honey Best (season one, episode three "Who Killed Nick Hazard?")
 1995 Lover's Knot as Marian Hunter
 1996 Wings S7E22 "The Lady Vanishes" as Vera
 1996 Have You Seen My Son (TV movie) as Catherine Pritcher
 1997 Conan the Adventurer as Gagool (season one, episode nine "The Curse of Afka")
 1999 Fantasy Island as Cassie (season one, episode 13 "Heroes")
 2004 Without a Trace as Rose Atwood (season two, episode 20 "Shadows")

References

External links

 obituary, guardian.co.uk, January 3, 2011; accessed July 26, 2015.

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Google Wallet (or simply Wallet) is a digital wallet platform developed by Google. It is available for the Android, Wear OS, and Fitbit OS operating systems, and was announced on May 11, 2022, at the 2022 Google I/O keynote. It began rolling out on Android smartphones on July 18.

History
The "Google Wallet" brand name was first used for the company's mobile payment system of the same name, which was introduced in 2011 before being merged with Android Pay into a new app called Google Pay in 2018. The old Wallet app, with its functionality reduced to a peer-to-peer payments service, was rebranded Google Pay Send before it was discontinued as well in 2020. In 2020, the Google Pay app underwent an extensive redesign based on Google's India-focused Tez app, expanding into an all-encompassing personal finance app. This replaced the Tez app on the Play Store, while the 2018 Google Pay app continued to co-exist as a separate, pre-installed app on Android smartphones.

Google Wallet (2011) launches
Google demonstrated the original version of the original Google Wallet app at a press conference on May 26, 2011. The first app was released in the US only on September 19, 2011. Initially, the app only supported Mastercard cards issued by Citibank.

On May 15, 2013, Google announced the integration of Google Wallet and Gmail, allowing users to send money through Gmail attachments. While Google Wallet was available only in the United States, the Gmail integration was made available in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

In 2015, a physical Google Wallet card was launched as an optional addition to the app, which allowed users to make purchases at point-of-sale (in stores or online) drawing from funds in their Google Wallet account, attached debit card account, or bank account. The card could also be used to withdraw cash at ATMs with no Google-associated fee, and could be used like a debit card for virtually any purpose, including such things as renting a car. The Wallet Card was discontinued on June 30, 2016, and replaced with Android Pay.

The original version of Google Wallet allowed users to make point-of-sale purchases with their mobile devices using near-field communication (NFC) technology. As of September 2015, however, Google dropped NFC from Google Wallet, offering the technology only through Android Pay, which was a separate application available only to Android users. As a result, any gift cards, loyalty programs, and promotional offers stored in an older version of Google Wallet could no longer be used.

Android Pay launches
Originally launched as Android Pay, the service was released at Google I/O 2015. Android Pay was a successor to and built on the base established by Google Wallet which was released in 2011. It also used technology from the carrier-backed Softcard—Google had acquired its intellectual property in February 2015. At launch, the service was compatible with 70% of Android devices and was accepted at over 700,000 merchants. The old Google Wallet still powered web-based Play Store purchases and some app-based peer-to-peer payments.

In 2016, Google began a public trial in Silicon Valley of a related mobile app called Hands Free. In this system, the customer does not need to present a phone or card. Instead, a customer announces that they wish to "pay with Google" and give their initials to the cashier, who verifies their identity with a photo previously uploaded to the system. The customer's phone will only authorize payment if its geographic location system indicates that it is near a participating store.

On September 18, 2017, Google launched a payments app in India known as Tez, utilizing the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). On August 28, 2018, Google rebranded Tez to Google Pay.

Android Pay and Google Wallet become Google Pay

On January 8, 2018, Google announced that Google Wallet would be merged into Android Pay, with the service as a whole rebranded as Google Pay. This merger extends the platform into web-based payments integrated into other Google and third-party services. It also took over the branding of Google Chrome's autofill feature. Google Pay adopts the features of both Android Pay and Google Wallet through its in-store, peer-to-peer, and online payments services.

The rebranding began to roll out as an update to the Android Pay app on February 20, 2018; the app was given an updated design and now displays a personalized list of nearby stores that support Google Pay. The rebranded service provided a new API that allows merchants to add the payment service to websites, apps, Stripe, Braintree, and Google Assistant. The service allows users to use the payment cards they have on file in their Google Account.

Google Pay becomes Google Wallet (2022)
In January 2022, Bloomberg News reported that the company was planning to transform Google Pay into a "comprehensive digital wallet", following the app's reported slow growth and the shutdown of Plex. In April, it was reported that Google was planning to revive the "Google Wallet" branding in a new app or interface, and integrated with Google Pay. Google officially announced Google Wallet on May 11, 2022, at the 2022 Google I/O keynote. The app began rolling out on Android smartphones on July 18, replacing the 2018 app and co-existing with the 2020 Google Pay app in the U.S. While the app name itself was changed from Google Pay to Google Wallet, the service name of actually paying for things online or in-store remains as "Google Pay."

International deployment
Upon its UK launch, Android Pay supported Mastercard, Visa, and debit cards from many of the UK's major financial institutions including Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, MBNA and Nationwide Building Society "with new banks being added all the time", according to Google. Natwest, RBS and Ulster Bank launched on September 14, 2016. On September 8, 2016, it was reported that UK banks TSB and Santander would be participating in the following weeks. Android Pay was launched in Singapore on June 28, 2016 and in Australia on July 14, 2016.

Android Pay launched in the Republic of Ireland on December 7, 2016, and was initially available to customers of AIB and KBC, having since been extended to Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank. The service works with both credit and debit cards.

On December 21, 2018, Google Payment obtained an e-money license in Lithuania the license will enable Google to process payments, issue e-money, and handle electronic money wallets in the EU.

On November 17, 2020, Google Pay was enabled by Mastercard in ten new European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, and Romania. Cardholders of participating Mastercard partner banks for these countries will be able to use the Google Pay service through their respective mobile banking apps.

On June 30, 2022, it was announced at the Google for Mexico event that Google Pay & the Google Wallet app would soon be available in Mexico.

Features
Google Wallet allows users to store items such as payment cards for use via Google Pay, as well as passes such as loyalty cards, digital keys, digital identification cards, transit passes, event tickets, and health passes.

Digital car keys in Google Wallet can still be utilized when the screen is off or the battery is depleted. However, unlike most other secure element-based digital wallets, such as Samsung Wallet, Huawei Wallet, and Apple Wallet, this functionality does not extend to transit cards.

Although the Wear OS and Android versions of Wallet are currently very fragmented, Google has stated that its "long-term goal is for feature parity on your watch and phone."

Comparison between phone and wearable versions

Skip device unlock & Battery depletion
Most NFC passes can be transmitted when the Android device is locked, but the screen must be lit (Always On Display does not count.) This includes compatible transit cards, loyalty passes, tickets, and campus IDs. However, government IDs can only be used when the device is unlocked.

Only one class of NFC passes allows usage when the screen is unlit or the battery is depleted: car keys.

Usage
Passes and cards stored in Wallet require varying levels of authentication in order to convey to a reader.

Ecosystem

Google Wallet has a passes feature, which exists in a larger ecosystem. They are presented below the user's payment cards and can be sorted manually. Developers must first be granted access to the Google Wallet API before they can author such items. Passes can be shared to other users via a link, so long as the issuer of said pass does not restrict its addition to more than one user's Wallet.

In its simplest form, an interaction (or transaction) between a pass and a system is facilitated by a 1D or 2D code, although it requires the customer to initiate the activity. Passes can also contain nothing but plain text or an image.

In addition to retailer-specific passes, Google Wallet also supports contactless student IDs that can be added through the Transact eAccounts and CBORD GET Mobile applications. Government-issued IDs are also supported in four American states: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, and Maryland.

Smart Tap
Google Wallet offers Smart Tap technology for use by developers and merchants that enables NFC passes to be stored within a customer's Google Wallet for use at a compatible terminal. Google offers the technology free of charge through the Google Pay & Wallet Console. Each pass issuer is given a Collector ID to use to configure their compatible terminals. If multiple passes within a user's Wallet match a terminal's Collector ID, a carousel will appear when tapping, allowing the user to tap their device, swipe to the next pass, and then repeat the process until all desired passes are transmitted.

This technology is currently used by a variety of businesses worldwide for a wide range of uses. Walt Disney World Resort (USA), Ticketmaster (USA & UK), and Pathé Cinémas (France) use it for ticketing. Redbox (USA), Nando's (UK & Ireland), and Woolworth's (Australia) use it for loyalty programs. And Anytime Fitness (USA) and David Lloyd Clubs (UK) use it for memberships.

Financial Services

Google Pay
Google Pay is a service within Wallet that allows for payments with select banks and card networks. Currently available in all the same countries Wallet is available in, with the addition of India.

Google Pay Balance
Google Pay Balance is a P2P payment service that is managed through the separate GPay app. The service is provided by Pathward Bank in association with Google, and managed by Google Payment Corporation. Users can send and receive funds with others through the GPay app on Android or iOS. A digital card is available to be added to Google Pay for wherever Visa cards are accepted online or in-store. The digital card is only available in the United States of America, but the P2P service is available in two additional countries: India and Singapore.

QR Payments

Wallet allows for QR payments in Brazil. This service supports the Visa, Mastercard, and Elo networks, and is primarily intended for users that do not have NFC functionality in their Android-powered devices.

Availability

Supported countries

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Region locking
Google Wallet prohibits FeliCa-based payment, transit, and loyalty functionality (e.g. Suica, PASMO, WAON, etc.) from being accessed on non-Japanese devices by restricting the initialization of the required third-party Osaifu-Keitai middleware apps on both Android & Wear OS. However, users have discovered ways to enable the functionality on non-Japanese models of Pixels via rooting. This behavior is in contrast to other wallets such as Fitbit Wallet and Apple Wallet, which allow users from any regional device model (except iPhone 7 & Charge 4) to add FeliCa-based cards.

In turn, users with Japanese devices cannot access North American & European transit cards such as SmarTrip and Pop, though there is a workaround via previewing a route in Google Maps that uses the desired fare payment method, and selecting the banner that offers to add said card to Wallet.

Campus IDs are also locked to devices bought in the United States of America, Canada, and Australia. Google claims support for international devices is "coming soon," though this has been promised for several years as of 2023.

In addition, UWB functionality for car keys is limited to regions that allow the frequency to be broadcast in personal mobile devices by law.

Supported loyalty programs
These programs are conveyed through NFC through Google Wallet's Smart Tap feature. Some of these can be added through the Google Wallet app directly, while others must be added through the respective retailer's app or website. Programs that support One Tap are conveyed at the same time as a payment card stored in Google Wallet. Conversely, Two Tap programs are redeemed in a sequential manner, where a loyalty pass is scanned first, and then payment can be presented.

Usage within public transport systems
Due to the open nature of the Android platform, some transit cards are only available through other Android-based mobile wallets or via their own apps (e.g. Octopus for Samsung Wallet or TAP for Android). Transit cards that support direct provisioning can be issued within the Google Wallet app itself, without needing to download a separate third party application.

Supported car keys
These car models can be unlocked and started via NFC with select devices running Android 12 or later, most notably the Pixel 6 or later. In addition, certain car models that support operation via UWB (AKA "passive entry") require an UWB compatible device, such as the Pixel Fold or Pro models of Pixel 6 and later devices, for enhanced functionality.

Compatible mobile devices

Supported government-issued identifications
These territories permit their residents to save their government-issued identification credentials in Google Wallet. Mobile IDs in Google Wallet support three personal identification standards: ISO 18013-5, ISO 23220-4, and NIST 800-63. Users have a choice whether to present their ID via NFC or QR. Once the credential is read, the ID holder must confirm the personal information they wish to share (full name, age, etc.) The transmission to the reader device will be completed over BLE after the presentation is fully verified. Google has also announced plans for added credentials to be able to be requested by apps to present virtually in the future. Available for devices running Android 8 or later.

Supported campus identifications

See also
 Apple Wallet
 Google Checkout
 Samsung Wallet
 List of campus identifications in mobile wallets

References

External links

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Computer-related introductions in 2018
Computer-related introductions in 2022
Wallet
Mobile payments
Online payments

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Bullets don't come back () is a 1967 Greek adventure drama film written and directed by Nikos Foskolos and starring Kostas Kazakos, Angelos Antonopoulos and Mema Stathopoulou. It is the first film directed by Foskolos, a decision he took after his success writing Blood on the Land. Influenced by Spaghetti Western films, the film is set in the Greek countryside. It won the best music award at the 8th Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Plot
Stathis is a poor farmer, a widower with two children. He is arrested by the police who think he is the leader of a gang that has killed a man and stolen a large amount of money. The robbers think that he took the money from their leader when he died and threaten to kill his sister Pigi if he doesn't tell them where he has hidden it. Stathis escapes from the prison by seducing the warden's mistress in order to save his sister. Police send another prisoner, Tsakos, to capture Stathis, promising to commute his sentence if he captures him. Tsakos captures Stathis who saves his life after Tsakos is bitten by a snake. Tsakos agrees to let Stathis save Pigi and take care of his sons if he returns afterward. Meanwhile, Pigi manages to escape from the robbers and returns to the cabin where Tsakos has bonded with the kids. The robbers pursue her and attack them. Fortunately, Stathis returns in time and with the help of a young brigand who considers it dishonorable to attack a woman defeat and kill the rest of the gang. Tsakos who has fallen in love with Pigi returns to prison to serve the rest of his sentence knowing that someone will wait for him after he is released.

Cast
Kostas Kazakos as Tsakos
Angelos Antonopoulos as Stathis Karatasos
Mema Stathopoulou as Pigi
Spyros Kalogirou as Tsamis
Betty Arvaniti as Anaastasia
Pavlos Liaros

External links

Bullets don't come back at Greek Film Archive

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A ditonic scale is a  musical scale or mode with two notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale, or a dodecatonic (chromatic 12-note ) scale, both common in modern Western music. Ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl noted that ditonic scales were common in many parts of the world but often limited to specific music types, such as children's songs, with the exception of some tribal societies.

Distribution

Russia
The Cheremis (Mari people) of Russia employ ditonic scales in children's songs, generally with the two notes a minor third apart. Nettl theorised that these ditonic songs may be a remnant of a more archaic form of music.

Peru
The Shipibo people of Amazonian Peru used ditonic scales in approximately 2.5% of their music. The ditonic was found "almost exclusively in the complex ostinato songs."

Vietnam
The ca dao folk poetry of Vietnam is sometimes sung in ditonic scales.

North America
Several ditonic scales were noted about the Modoc and Klamath tribes of the North American West Coast, and are also found in the Great Plains in the rituals of the 1800s Ghost Dance religion. The scale was also used in the music of the Shawnee.

India
The ditonic scale type is recognised in Indian music, and termed the Dvisvara ("two tone"), but ditonic scales are not recognised as raga scales.

Nigeria
The ditonic is among the scale types employed in traditional Nigerian music.

Maori
In a study carried out in 1969, Mervyn McLean noted that among the Maori tribes he surveyed, ditonic scales comprised 17% of the scales used.

References

Musical scales

Ditonic scale


Timothy Sylvester Harris (born 6 December 1964) is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician, who served as the third prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 2015 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 August 2001 to 25 January 2008, as Minister of Finance from 2008 to 2010, and as Senior Minister and Minister for Agriculture from 2010 to 2013.

Life and career
Harris was born, in 1964, and grew up in the rural village of Tabernacle, Saint Kitts. He attended the Cayon High School and Basseterre High School before going to six university campuses, two in the Caribbean and four in Canada. In 1988, Harris graduated from the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill with a B.Sc. degree with a First Class Honours in Accounting, the only graduate of the B.Sc. Accounting programme to obtain this distinction. He also received the Victor Crooke Prize for Best Accounting Student. He returned home and worked for two years at managerial level with S. L. Horsfords and Co Ltd.

In 1990–92 he pursued his M.Sc. degree in accounting at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago. He graduated top of the class with an M.Sc. degree with a Distinction.

In 2001 Harris successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. The doctoral programme is a joint Ph.D. programme involving Concordia University, McGill and two francophone universities: H.E.C. (affiliated to Université de Montréal) and UQAM. Harris holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in administration majoring in accounting.

Harris participated in elective politics in 1993 and was elected as a Member of Parliament on the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party ticket in parliamentary elections held in 1995, 2000, 2004, and 2010. He held various cabinet posts, including Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Housing, Minister of Education, Labour and Social Security, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Industry and Commerce. He has published several works and received several awards, including the St. Kitts Youth Council Award for Excellence in Education, the FESTAB Community Award for outstanding contribution to FESTAB and a certificate for outstanding contribution to the Cayon High School.

In 2013 Prime Minister Denzil Douglas fired Harris from the cabinet. Harris established the People's Labour Party (PLP) later in the year. In the buildup to the 2015 general elections the PLP formed the Team Unity alliance with the People's Action Movement and the Concerned Citizens' Movement. The alliance won the elections, and although the PLP won only one seat, Harris became the third Prime Minister of independent St. Kitts and Nevis on 16 February. He succeeded the incumbent, Denzil Douglas, who served a historic near 20-year tenure.

Honors
 :
 Special Grand Cordon of the Order of Propitious Clouds (2019)

References

External links

 St. Kitts & Nevis - Government of St. Kitts and Nevis official website
 United Nations - Permanent Mission of St. Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations Statement by His Excellency Dr. Timothy Harris

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Think Beyond The Label (TBTL) is a public-private partnership that delivers information, outreach and resources to businesses, job seekers and the public workforce system to ensure greater recruiting and hiring opportunities for job candidates with disabilities.

The organization's purpose is to inform, connect and communicate with all stakeholders in the disability and employment system to create a more inclusive workforce.  TBTL  offers a network and digital hub that provides access to qualified job candidates and public resources to enable employers to find and recruit the talent. TBTL offers a range of business-specific tools that build the case for hiring workers with disabilities. The organization also gives job seekers access a range of opportunities available to them, from public employment system resources to private sector job leads, including a jobs portal where job seekers can become part of a national pool of candidates actively being sought out by our network of businesses and the public workforce system.

References

Sources
Using Humor in a Campaign Supporting Disabled People, The New York Times, January 28, 2010

Leveraging the Benefits of Hiring People with Disabilities, Evolved Employer, October 3, 2011

A New Push to Hire the Disabled, BloombergBusinessWeek, October 18, 2011

New Resource Calculates ROI of Hiring People with Disabilities, Society For Human Resource Management, October 20, 2011

New Federal Rule Proposed to Boost Employment of Individuals with Disabilities, Evolved Employer, January 26, 2012

Disability organizations based in the United States

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