Paradeplatz is a square on Bahnhofstrasse in downtown Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in Switzerland and has become synonymous with wealth and the Swiss banks, being the location of the headquarters of both UBS and Credit Suisse. It is surrounded by four blocks of buildings.

The site of the square lay outwith the medieval city walls, and was incorporated into the town with the construction of the new ramparts in 1642. During the 17th century, it served as a livestock market, known as Säumärt ("pig market"), renamed to Neumarkt ("new market") in 1819 and finally to its current name following the construction of Bahnhofstrasse (1865).

Paradeplatz is one of the main nodal points of the Zürich tram network, and the stop is served by lines 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 17.

Paradeplatz was the scene of clashes between insurgents and cantonal troops during the 1839 Züriputsch.

The first horse-drawn trams circulated in 1882 and were electrified in 1896.

Constituent buildings
In the block to the north, which is bounded by Talacker to the west, Bahnhofstrasse to the east and Paradeplatz to the south, is the home of Credit Suisse, amongst other businesses. The building, formerly known as the Kreditanstalt building, dates to 1873. The Lichthof shopping mall is at the eastern corner of the building.

The hotel Baur en Ville, on the eastern end of the square, opened in 1838. Also in this block is the Blancpain watch store and the Harry Winston jewellery store. This block is bounded by Züghusplatz to the north and Poststrasse to the south.

The Confiserie Sprüngli, in the southern block, opened in 1859. It is bounded by Paradeplatz to the north, Bahnhofstrasse to the east and Bleicherweg to the west.

The UBS (formerly Bankverein) building on the western side dates to 1897–1899. It is bounded by Talacker to the north, Paradeplatz to the east and Bleicherweg to the south.

Panoramic view

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Aliens is an American science fiction-action horror movie released in 1986. It is a science fiction movie because it takes place in outer space and there are alien creatures. It was directed by James Cameron and stars Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen. Aliens is a sequel to Alien (1979) and was followed by two more sequels; Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997).

This one is different than the original movie because instead of it being just a horror movie, it has more action in it and there is more than one alien in it, as said in the title of the movie.

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Hadúr, or Hodúr in old Hungarian, short for Hadak Ura, meaning "warlord" or "lord of the armies" in Hungarian, was the god of fire, later became a war god in the religion of the early Hungarians (Magyars). In Hungarian mythology, he was the third son of Arany Atyácska (Golden Father) and Hajnal Anyácska (Dawn Mother), the main god and goddess. He had many siblings, including his two brothers: Napkirály (King Sun) and Szélkirály (King Wind). In Heaven, on the top of the World Tree on the first level there was the castle of Arany Atyácska, and Napkirály's Golden Forest below it, and Szélkirály's Silver Forest below it, and Hadúr's Copper Forest was the third. There he lived as a blacksmith of the gods. He is thought to be a great man with long hair and with armour and weapons made of pure copper, since copper was his sacred metal. He supposedly made the legendary sword, Sword of God (Isten kardja) which was discovered by Attila the Hun and secured his rule. It was customary for the Magyars to sacrifice white stallions to him before a battle.

References

Bibliography
 Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths ch. XXXV (e-text)
 The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire vol. 3 Ch. XXXIV Part 1
 Patrick Howarth, Attila, King of the Huns : Man and Myth 1995:183f.
 Hermann Fillitz, Die Schatzkammer in Wien: Symbole abendländischen Kaisertums, Illustration of the "Sword of God"

External links
 ChicagoHungarians.com page on the Vienna Museum's "Attila Sword"

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Simon El'evich Shnol (; 21 March 1930 – 11 September 2021) was a biophysicist, and a historian of Soviet science. He was a professor at Physics Department of Moscow State University and a member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His fields of interest were the oscillatory processes in biology, the theory of evolution, chronobiology, and the history of science. He had mentored many successful scientists, including Anatoly Zhabotinsky.

Biography
Simon Shnoll was born in Moscow in 1930. His father was Eli Gershevich Shnol, a linguist and philosopher. His mother was Faina Yakovlevna Yudovich, a teacher of Russian language and literature. In 1946, he was enrolled to Moscow State University (MSU). After graduation, he was engaged in developing new methods for using radioactive isotopes in medicine, in the Central Institute for Improvement of Medicine in Moscow, where he worked until 1959. In 1960 he went to work at MSU. Since 1975 he taught as a Professor of Biophysics. Since 1963, he was the head of Laboratory of Physical Biochemistry at the Institute of Biophysics in Pushchino. The first scientific papers were devoted to ATPases and the use of radioactive isotopes in experimental and clinical studies. He was married and has a son, Alexey Kondrashov.

Research
From 1954 to 1957, Shnoll demonstrated a high probability of oscillatory modes in biochemical reactions. Study of chemical oscillating reactions conducted under his direction gained prominence to his graduate student Anatoly Zhabotinsky, who investigated in detail the reaction previously discovered by Boris Belousov. He later worked in the fields of Chronobiology and Astrobiology.

He was the author of over 200 scientific papers. He was also author of the books "Physico-chemical factors of biological evolution" (1979) and "Heroes, villains, and conformists of Russian Science" (2001). He mentored 70 successful PhD students. A minor planet «Shnollia» was named after him.

During many years, Simon Shnoll was a jury chairman on Biology Olympiads conducted at Moscow State University. He was a member of editorial board of Russian journal "Priroda" ("Nature").

Selected publications
S. Shnoll Physico-chemical factors of biological evolution. - Moscow: Nauka, 1979. - 263.
S. Shnoll Cosmophysical factors in random processes . - Stockholm (Sweden): Svenska fysikarkivat, 2009. - 388. -

See also
 Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction

References

External links
 Biography (in Russian)
 Biography of Zhabotinsky, in which Shnoll is mentioned

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Blaze was a rocking horse toy produced by Mattel toymakers and introduced in 1961. Blaze was featured prominently during children's television advertising (Mattel was the first toymaker to advertise year around with television commercials). Unlike other rocking-horses of the time, Blaze was mounted on a stand that was said to be "untippable" and had no springs. The apparatus prevented pinched fingers, and was fitted out with a mechanism that moved the horses legs in "real life action." Another Mattel feature allowed Blaze to talk when you pulled his "Magic Ring." His talking voice unit was the very same one produced by Mattel and unveiled in 1960 in its talking Chatty Cathy doll, and later toys like the Talking Mister Ed puppet. Blaze could say 11 different things like, "How about some hay?"; he could also whinny and neigh. A toy like this, that could gallop and move realistically when the horse was rocked forward and backward, was something special.

Blaze was made of what Mattel called "hi-impact plastic" with black-and-white markings (a pinto pony), and a molded black saddle and red blanket. Blaze also had attached reins, fixed hand-posts, and 2-position foot rests. The stand was made of 1-inch tubular steel and was advertised as being "untippable." Saddle height was 29 inches and was recommended for ages 1–7. Blaze was marketed in most retail catalogs, such as Sears, J.C. Penney, and Montgomery Wards. When first issued, Blaze did not have the talking feature, this was added very quickly after his initial release, so there may be versions of this toy that do not, and never did, talk.

References
 Kettelkamp, Sean, "Chatty Cathy and Her Talking Friends", Schiffer Publishing (1998)

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Blaze (toy)


British neoconservatism is an ideology that is a strong proponent of foreign intervention in the Arab world and beyond, supports the role of the private sector in military contracts and is in favour of an alliance with Israel. It shares a world view with its US counterpart in regards to threats and opportunities.

History
There is a suspicion in British public life of 'philosophy', which has meant that politicians in the UK rarely refer to any overarching theories.  In The Centre-left and New Right Divide?: Political Philosophy and Aspects of UK Social Policy in the Era of the welfare State, for example, Steven Smith argues that academic explanations of the resilience of the welfare state in the face of the New Right reforms have focused on the social, political and economic processes that tend to bolster the activities of state welfare provision, rather than the underlying philosophies.

Spinwatch describes Douglas Murray as 'the 'enfant terrible' of British neoconservatism. Murray is typical of the movement in arguing that the 'innate flaws of liberal democracy' leave Europe vulnerable to exploitation and domination by Islamic Fundamentalists; and that strong armed forces prepared to go to war are essential to the survival of what he sees as Conservative values. As head of the Centre for Social Cohesion his ideas have been influential in some NATO circles. Philosophically, he claims to be influenced by the authoritarianism of Leo Strauss, and the concept of dhimmitude as it was put forward by Bat Ye'or.

Murray's keynote book, Neoconservatism: Why We Need It was published by the Social Affairs Unit in 2005. An inspiration for Murray, who he frequently praises in the book, is the academic philosopher, Roger Scruton, who was part of a group of right-wing Cambridge University intellectuals under the influence of Maurice Cowling, an historian. In 1978 Cowling helped found the Salisbury Group of conservative thinkers (named after the earlier British Prime Minister). In the same year Cowling published Conservative Essays which states:

"If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. [...] It is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones".

The original Cambridge group however also included John Vincent, another historian, and Edward Norman, a theologian and historian. As Scruton says in his semi-autobiographical book, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts From a Life, it influenced a new generation of neo-con thinkers including Charles Moore, former editor of The Daily Telegraph, and former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Scruton himself offers the French post-war President Charles De Gaulle as a model because the General defined the French nation in terms of its high culture, while detesting the philosopher Michael Foucault, who he says was 'one of the gurus' of his students, for shallow relativism and for teaching that `truth' requires inverted commas.

British neoconservatism has also been directly influenced by its US counterpart. One example is the Henry Jackson Society, founded in Cambridge in 2005, and named after Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, a key influence on US neoconservatism.

People associated with British neoconservatism
The list includes public people identified as personally neoconservative.

Politicians
 Michael Gove – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Conservative MP for Surrey Heath

See also
 Euston Manifesto

Notes
 Bat Ye'or defined "dhiminitude" as the condition of the non-Muslim persons forced to live under Islamic law in the context of Jihad.

References

Further reading
Arun Kundnani, How are thinktanks shaping the political agenda on Muslims in Britain?, Institute of Race Relations, 2 September 2008.
John Kampfner, The British neoconservatives, New Statesman, 12 May 2003.
Category:UK - Neocon Europe, accessed 3 June 2009.

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BL Lacertae  or BL Lac is a highly variable, extragalactic active galactic nucleus (AGN or active galaxy). It was first discovered by Cuno Hoffmeister in 1929, but was originally thought to be an irregular variable star in the Milky Way galaxy and so was given a variable star designation. In 1968, the "star" was identified by John Schmitt at the David Dunlap Observatory as a bright, variable radio source. A faint trace of a host galaxy was also found. In 1974, Oke and Gunn measured the redshift of BL Lacertae as z = 0.07, corresponding to a recession velocity of 21,000 km/s with respect to the Milky Way. The redshift figure implies that the object lies at a distance of 900 million light years.

Due to its early discovery, BL Lacertae became the prototype and namesake of the class of active galactic nuclei known as  "BL Lacertae objects" or "BL Lac objects".  This class is distinguished by rapid and high-amplitude brightness variations and by optical spectra devoid (or nearly devoid) of the broad emission lines characteristic of quasars.  These characteristics are understood to result from relativistic beaming of emission from a jet of plasma ejected from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. BL Lac objects are also categorized as a type of blazar.

BL Lacertae changes in apparent magnitude over fairly small time periods, typically between values of 14 and 17. In January 2021, it exhibited extreme flaring behavior and was reported to reach magnitude 11.45 in the R filter band.

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Attestation of College Studies (ACS) (French: Attestation d'études collégiales (AEC)) is the name for a certificate awarded by a college in the Canadian province of Quebec. The Quebec education system is unique in North America, one aspect of that uniqueness is that it is the only system that has four different education levels: elementary school, high school, college, and university.

While a College Diploma for pre-university studies is awarded by the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports, these vocational certificates are awarded by a college's continuing education department.

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John Constantine Williams, Sr. (died 1892) was the cofounder of St. Petersburg, Florida, with Captain Peter A. Demens. Williams Park is named for him.

Williams came from Detroit, and purchased the land in the area of what became St. Petersburg in 1876. Williams suffered from asthma and moved to Florida for his health. He lived in Tampa until 1887 when a yellow fever epidemic chased him across Tampa Bay.

Peter Demens (Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev) was instrumental in bringing the terminus of a railroad to the area in 1888. Williams transferred part of his land holdings to the Russian exile in return for Demens extending his Orange Belt Railway line from Sanford, Florida, west to Tarpon Springs and then south along the Gulf coast to Williams's settlement. Williams agreed to let Demens name the settlement and the first train arrived in 1888. The town's population was 30 people but rose quickly after to about 270 by the 1890 census.

St. Petersburg was incorporated on February 29, 1892, the same year Williams died. It had a population of approximately 300 people. It was named after Saint Petersburg, Russia, where Peter Demens had spent half of his youth. A legend says that John C. Williams and Peter Demens flipped a coin to see who would have the honor of naming the city. Peter Demens is said to have won and named the city after his childhood home, while John C. Williams named the first hotel (built by Demens) after his birthplace of Detroit. The Detroit Hotel still exists downtown after a conversion into condominiums. The oldest running hotels are the historic Pier Hotel, built in 1921, formally Hotel Cordova and The Heritage Hotel, built in 1926. Demens died in 1919.

Williams had a Queen Anne-style Victorian house constructed in 1891 at 444 Fifth Avenue South. It was moved to the campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in 1995.

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Cryolite is a rare mineral that consists of sodium fluoride and aluminium fluoride bonded. It is used in the production of aluminium. It is first melted and then aluminium oxide is dissolved in it. Then the solution is electrolyzed. If it is immersed in water, it becomes invisible although it does not dissolve. It used to be found in large quantities in Greenland, but it has been all used up. Now it is made from fluorite artificially.

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Najeeb Tarakai (2 February 1991 – 6 October 2020) was an Afghan cricketer. He played international cricket for the Afghanistan national team. He also played domestic cricket for the Afghan Cheetahs and Twenty20 cricket for the Nangarhar Leopards.

On 2 October 2020, Tarakai was hit by a car while crossing a road in Jalalabad, Nangarhar. He suffered a head injury and was left in a coma. He died four days later at the age of 29.

References

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Edmund Harburger (4 April 1846, Eichstätt – 5 November 1906, Munich) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life
His father, Franz Xaver, was a merchant in Mainz, and his mother Elisabeth was the daughter of a flagstone dealer. As a result of this connection, Edmund was apprenticed as a mason; a profession he practiced until 1865. His employer's brother was the animal painter, Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel (1804-1885), who inspired him to become an artist. He began by dabbling in small murals at the local casinos. After six years of apprenticeship, he attended the Polytechnic School in Munich (precursor of the University of Technology) to study the building trades but, in 1866, he decided to follow his true passion and switched to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied under Karl Raupp and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger.

In addition to painting, he was also interested in illustrating and caricatures. In 1872 some of his first wood engravings appeared in a book by Friedrich Lennig, a dialect poet from Mainz. Later, he created political cartoons for Die Gartenlaube and, by the time of his death, had contributed over 1,500 humorous drawings to the Fliegende Blätter. Harburger was particularly attracted to the works of the 17th-century Dutch painters, such as  David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen van Ostade). From 1876 to 1878, he lived in Venice, where he copied the masters.

In 1882, the firm of Braun & Schneider printed a large-format album, containing 60 of his works. Exhibitions were given at the Glaspalast, the Paris Salon (1882/84), the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1905. He designed and built his own house in the Nymphenburger Straße.

Many of the major museums in Central and Northern Europe have displays of his drawings and engravings, including the Neue Pinakothek, the Landesmuseum Mainz, the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and museums in Gdansk, Gothenburg, Leipzig, Münster, Prague and Zürich.

Sources
Edwart Mager: Edmund Harburger - ein aus Eichstätt stammender Künstler, in: Historische Blätter für Stadt und Landkreis Eichstätt, 28 (1979), Nr. 5
Heimstätten münchener Künstler. (the houses of Matthias Schmidt, Edmund Harburger, Franz von Lenbach, Hans Theyer and Franz von Defregger), Holzstich nach Franz, 1890, 33x23 cm
Dorothea Stern: Harburger, Edmund. In: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künste von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Researched by Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Ed. by Hans Vollmer. Vol. 16, Leipzig (1923), S. 19f.
Article in Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), Vol. 4, Munich 1996,
 Adolf Wild: Karikaturen, die das Leben schrieb: Edmund Harburger, ein Mainzer Zeichner bei den Münchner "Fliegenden Blättern". In: Mainz. Vierteljahreshefte für Kultur, Politik, Wirtschaft, Geschichte. 21 (2001), 4, , ill.

External links

 More works by Harburger @ ArtNet
 Edmund Harburger in HeidICON Illustrations from the Fliegenden Blätter

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Oskar Speck (4 March 1907 – 28 March 1993) was a German canoeist who kayaked from Germany to Australia. He departed from Ulm, Germany in 1932 to seek work due to being an unemployed electrical contractor in Hamburg. He initially intended to kayak to Cyprus to work in the copper mines but ended up wanting to continue the journey through Southeast Asia and the Middle East to Australia.

Speck arrived in Australia in 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War. He was accused of being a spy and was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp. When the war ended, he was released from imprisonment and later became a successful opal merchant in Sydney.

Early life
In 1921, aged 14, Oskar Speck left school to work. During the 1920s, kayaking was becoming increasingly popular sport throughout Europe. One of the most common kayaks from the time was called a Sunnschien, which was manufactured by faltboots. They consisted of treated canvas skin that was pulled over a wooden frame.

As the great depression struck after the First World War, Speck was unable to find work in his hometown. Due to the lack of money and the rumours of miners being needed in the Cypriot mines, Speck decided to kayak there, disregarding the risks including dangerous conditions and his inability to swim.

The voyage

Germany to Cyprus
Speck left Ulm in May 1932 by kayaking down the river of Danube until he entered Romania. He continued to follow the river until he reached the Bulgarian border and paddled out into the Aegean Sea.  Speck had never kayaked out at sea, but nonetheless ended up paddling through high swell and large waves, even narrowly avoided a collision with a cargo ship.

Speck added sails to his kayak as well as splashguards to make the kayak more efficient as well as to keep the kayak from filling up. After these modifications, Speck was able to travel through the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas by going along the islands and following the coast of Turkey before reaching Cyprus.

Cyprus to Australia
He then travelled east to Syria to reach the Euphrates River, which he then kayaked down on through Iraq to get to the Persian Gulf. Along the Euphrates, Speck experienced a lack of food and water, intense heat as well as regularly being shot at by the locals. Further into his trip down the Euphrates River, Speck was stranded on a small island with a corpse, where he waited for a week for a storm to pass.

When he reached the Gulf, he continued to paddle down along the coast of Iran where he stayed for six months waiting for a new kayak to arrive. However, during his wait, he became ill and contracted malaria, which stayed with him throughout the rest of the voyage. Speck did not resume his voyage until September 1934, when he continued east through the Arabian Sea. After a few months, he arrived on the coast of Pakistan, where he stopped at various ports to trade stories of his voyage for food, water, and shelter. This allowed him to gain fame which further allowed him to fund the rest of his trip. Around this period, Nazi Germany had begun to develop, as a result, rumours of Speck being a German spy also began to develop. Various stories of his kayak being able to fly, and dive led to him being arrested at the next port he rested at; however, he was released two days later and resumed his trip.

As Speck reached Sri Lanka, he spent three months there to avoid the monsoon season. When the monsoon season passed and Speck was back on the water, he reached Chennai where he got a new kayak. He then continued to travel along the coast of India until he reached Kolkata in January 1936. A few months later, just off the Burmese coast, Speck happened to kayak through another monsoon. He would be driven off course, and he would spend 30–40 hours paddling to get himself back on route.

As Speck left Singapore on another new kayak, he headed to Jakarta, from which he continued to paddle east. However, he was often dehydrated, exhausted and sunburnt and unable to find a food supply. During this stage in his voyage, Speck was also stricken down with malaria again, as a result the voyage was again interrupted. During this period, locals who were initially welcoming of him, would turn hostile due to the language barrier between the German traveller and the locals. An incident occurred in Indonesia where he was beaten by 20 men leaving him semi-conscious with a punctured eardrum. Speck managed to escape by chewing through the ropes he was tied with before sailing away in his kayak. Speck's recount on this incident as documented in the Australasian Post Magazine:"The other natives closed in. Five or six of them held me down, half in and half out of the kayak. They all clung to me like leeches. Strong hands clutched my hair. With the strength of despair I tore one hand free from them and strove to pull the hands from my throat... With strips of dried buffalo hide some of them tied my legs and hands, while others looted the kayak. By the hair, they dragged my trussed body some yards across the sand. They constantly kicked me. They picked me up, carried me a short distance, then dropped me a few yards from the water."Back out at sea, he was not permitted to travel a shorter route, but rather a longer via the north of New Guinea. Speck reached Port Moresby in August, before continuing down to the Saibai Island in the far north of Australia, in September 1939. The voyage took him seven years and four months.

After the journey
Upon arrival, a group of locals welcomed him, but he was arrested by three police officers among the locals and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp due to his German background. The three officers welcoming and congratulating Speck as documented as in the Australasian Post Magazine:"Well done, feller... You've made it — Germany to Australia in that. But now we've got a piece of bad news for you. You are an enemy alien. We are going to intern you." Speck was first sent to a prisoner-of-war camp on Thursday Island for one month. He was then sent to Brisbane then to Tatura Internment camp in Victoria where he escaped the camp, but was recaptured and sent to Loveday Camp 14 in South Australia where he stayed until the end of the war.

Speck was released in January 1946 and within a week of his release he found work in an opal mine in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. He got his citizenship and settled into postwar Australia to establish a successful opal cutting and trading business. In the 1970s, Speck built his own home Killcare Heights on the New South Wales Central Coast before retiring. His partner, Nancy Steele, would commute from Sydney to Killcare every week for 30 years to see him until she moved in with him in 1993. In the 1970s, Speck also managed to travel back to Germany, however he did not really enjoy it, so he returned back to Australia.

Speck died in 1993 aged 86 years of an undisclosed illness.

Legacy
Even though Speck's adventures were reported in Europe, very few knew about his accomplishments in Australia. Shortly after his arrival in Australia, Speck planned on publishing his photographs and write about his experiences, however he did not end up doing this. Most of Speck's original photographs, letters and journals remain in the Australian National Maritime Museum, photographs of his original letters and journals as well as his original photographs are available on their website.

One of Speck's double ended paddles from his voyage was presented to Carl Toovey as a trophy for the 100 mile Cruising Canoe Club's Nepean Marathon on the Hawkesbury River in 1952. This was the first canoeing marathon to take place in Australia. Over time, Toovey and Speck became friends and began canoeing around Pittwater and Sydney Harbour together.

Speck's opinions on his popularity as documented in the Australasian Post Magazine: "But would Australians recognise my authority to speak about it? In Germany, I was a recognised kayakist before 1932. As my voyage progressed and reports of it went home from Cyprus, from Greece, from India, I became acknowledged as the most experienced sea-going kayak expert in the world... But the mass of Australians did not know me at all — except, perhaps, as a name appearing from time to time in local newspapers which briefly recorded the progress of the earlier parts of my voyage." Sandy Robson is a woman from Western Australia who retraced Speck's voyage by using a sea-kayak to paddle approximately 23,000 kilometres. She started the voyage at the age of 42 and spent 5 and half years on her journey from Germany to Australia. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2016, she claimed that she was inspired by the voyage of German Oskar Speck in the late 1930s. Unlike Speck, she did not face political issues as Australian Border Force personnel were on hand to provide customs clearance; however, she encountered crocodiles, pirates and malaria. Although Sandy Robson documented her voyage in detail on her blog 'Sea Kayaker Sandy', she claimed that like Speck, she also wants to write a book about her voyage. During her interview with The Australian Broadcasting Corporation she also claimed:"I was just captured by the journey he made and inspired to relive that journey in modern times... I've tried also to take something into myself from each of the different cultures as I've travelled across the world... I've been in 20 different countries — there are really fantastic things in each of those cultures that I've experienced."

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Cecil James Wallace Jr. (born April 17, 1985) is a former American football safety. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Washington. He also played for the Las Vegas Locomotives and San Diego Chargers.

Early years
Wallace played running back and free safety at Grant Union High School, accumulating 1,600 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns  and made 73 tackles at free safety as a senior.

College career
Wallace played 45 games, including 29 starts, for Washington. He totaled 258 career tackles (160 solo), five forced fumbles and one fumble recovery as a Husky. Wallace was an All-Pac-10 performer in his senior season. Wallace majored in American ethnic studies at college.

Professional career

Seattle Seahawks
Wallace, signed as an undrafted free agent, played in nine games with the Seattle Seahawks with two tackles in his first professional season. His season was cut short due to a knee injury and he was placed on the injured reserve list on December 5, 2007.

Las Vegas Locomotives
Wallace played for the Las Vegas Locomotives in 2010 where he helped them win a championship.

San Diego Chargers
Wallace signed a future contract with the San Diego Chargers on January 12, 2011. He was released on September 13.

External links
 Seattle Seahawks bio
 Washington Huskies bio

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Sir Pelham Francis Warner, known as Plum, (born 2 October 1873 in Port of Spain, Trinidad – died 30 January 1963 at West Lavington, West Sussex), was an England cricketer and a tour manager for England. He was tour manager during the 1932-33 "bodyline" tour of Australia where England bowled high and fast balls to the body of the Australian batsman, especially the famous Don Bradman.

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Bernd-Rainer Barth (born East Berlin 1957) is a German historian of the modern period.

Life
The son of an East German diplomat, Barth spent a large part of his early life in Hungary, studying between 1977 and 1983 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.   His subject here was Hungarian studies (especially philology and history).   He then worked in various academic institutions in East Germany until 1988 when he found himself banned from professional work.

After the reunification of Germany, during the 1990s, he worked as an academic research assistant at the Free University of Berlin.   Between May 2002 and September 2003 he was an academic research assistant focusing on the "Theory and history of power" ("Theorie und Geschichte der Gewalt") at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.   Since then he has worked as a freelance historian, translator and academic journalist.

Output
Bernd-Rainer Barth has become known, in particular, as a producer and co-author for the biographical collection "Wer war wer in der DDR?" ("Who was who in the German Democratic Republic"), a standard reference resource.  Barth has himself contributed to more than 600 of the entries in it.

He has also become known for a two volume study on Noel Field.

References

1957 births
Living people
People from East Berlin
20th-century German historians

Bernd-Rainer Barth


Ebba Gustavsdotter Stenbock ( – 8 March 1614, in Sweden) was a Swedish noble. She led the defense of the stronghold Turku Castle for the loyalist of Sigismund III Vasa during the Siege by Charles IX of Sweden in succession of her spouse Clas Eriksson Fleming (1530–1597), governor of Finland. The sister of queen Katarina Stenbock, she married Clas Eriksson Fleming (1530–1597), governor of Finland, in 1573.

Life
Ebba Stenbock was the daughter of riksråd Gustaf Olofsson Stenbock and Brita Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud, and the sister of Queen Catherine Stenbock. She was the niece of Queen Margareta Leijonhufvud, and thereby the cousin of the royal children of that marriage, including the future John III of Sweden and Charles IX of Sweden. In 1573, she married Clas Eriksson Fleming in the house of her sister, the Queen Dowager in Stockholm, and moved with him to Finland. She had three children during her marriage: the daughters Katarina, Hebla and Margareta, and her son Johan Fleming. In 1594, her spouse was appointed Governor-General of Finland.

Ebba Stenbock was noted for her fearless conduct toward Duke Charles. In the civil war the erupted in 1595 when Sigismund III Vasa was challenged by his uncle, the future Charles IX of Sweden, her spouse was one of the strongest supporters of Sigismund III Vasa and opposed to Charles IX of Sweden, and held the Swedish province of Finland against Duke Charles. In parallel, the Cudgel War erupted in Finland in 1596.

Cudgel War
In April 1597, after having subdued the Cudgel War and preparing to resist the expected invasion of Duke Charles, Fleming died. He was succeeded as governor by Arvid Stålarm the Younger, but Ebba took over the moral leadership and decided to continue the line of her spouse and defend Turku Castle against the army of Duke Charles with the help of two noble officers, who took the military leadership by her side. She prepared the castle for a siege awaiting relief from King Sigismund in Poland. In August 1597, Duke Charles and his army invaded Finland, took Åland, which was the fief of her sister Queen Dowager Catherine, and besieged Turku Castle. He offered the women of the Castle safe passage through the lines, including Ebba, but was given no reply. During the siege, he fired through the windows of the castle to frighten the female entourage of Ebba, but: "They would not allow themselves to be afraid, as Lady Ebba spoke to them both nobility and the rest, who were there with her, that they should keep themselves manly", that is to say, that they should show courage. Ebba was eventually forced to surrender, as no help from Poland arrived.

Fleming was still not buried, and, according to legend, Charles had the coffin opened to reassure himself that Fleming was indeed dead. After having identified the face of Fleming, he was to have pulled Fleming's beard with the words, "If you had been alive, your head would not have been safe", upon which Ebba Stenbock replied, "If my late husband was alive, Your Grace would never have been here."

Later life
Ebba and her daughters were taken prisoner and brought to Stockholm, where they were separated and placed in house arrest. Ebba was placed in a house belonging to Welam de Wijk, captain of Duke Charles' fleet, and in 1598, de Wijk was arrested for attempt to start a mutiny, encouraged by Ebba, who had promised him marriage to one of her daughters. In 1599, a messenger of Sigismund from Finland was arrested in Stockholm, with Ebba as one of the loyalists he had delivered letters to. Her son was executed in the Åbo Bloodbath the same year. No formal accusation was brought against her, and she and her daughters were released after the Linköping Bloodbath. Like many other wives and daughters of the exiled loyalists to Sigismund, whose estates had been confiscated by Charles, they took refuge with Queen Dowager Catherine Stenbock at Strömsholm.

See also
 Ebba Bielke

References

Sources
 Profile, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor

Notes

1614 deaths
16th-century Finnish people
16th-century Swedish people
Swedish nobility
Swedish prisoners and detainees
Women in 16th-century warfare
Year of birth unknown
Place of birth unknown
Women in war in Sweden
People of the War against Sigismund
16th-century Finnish women
16th-century Swedish women
1550s births
Year of birth uncertain

Ebba Stenbock


Polymer clay is a type of modelling clay made from the polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC). It usually does not contain any clay minerals, but the way it is made has given it the colloquial name of clay. A liquid is added to dry particles until it has gel-like working properties, and the part is put into an oven to harden. Polymer clay is generally used for making arts and craft items. There are many different brands of polymer clay.

References

Sculpture
Art materials

Polymer clay


Martin Cohen (born 1964) is a British philosopher, an editor and reviewer who writes on philosophy, philosophy of science and political philosophy.

Biography
He studied philosophy and social science at Sussex University where his tutors included some of the early group of philosophers who launched the university's pioneering language and values programme, including Terry Diffey and Bernard Harrison. He obtained a teaching qualification at Keele University and his PhD in philosophy of education from the University of Exeter. After research posts at universities in Britain and Australia, Cohen moved to France to concentrate on his writing, which typically blend "psychological and social studies with philosophical theory ... eschewing technical jargon and using easily understood scenarios to demonstrate the theme". The first of these, 101 Philosophy Problems has been published in a dozen languages and is now in its third edition. His book on thought experiments, Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments was selected by The Guardian as one of its 'books of the week' and the Times Literary Supplement said that 'With its sense of history, Wittgenstein's Beetle provides the opportunity to consider which thought experiments last.'

Another element of Martin Cohen's style in presenting philosophy is to use simple and unpretentious line drawings both to break up the text (and make it less monolithic) and to illustrate specific issues under discussion, for example the 'Traditional Chinese Problem' of the turtle told to cross a pan of boiling water by balancing on a piece of bamboo.

Cohen has been a frequent contributor and reviewer for the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), the New Statesman (on environmental issues) and the Guardian (London) (on the role of computers in education) as well as occasional pieces on economics including the obesity issue.  His writing, for example, on food and society, blends philosophy and social science as well as ethics.

An article in the New York Times (entitled Nuclear Power's Death Somewhat Exaggerated) quoted his book on energy policy and ethics to illustrate how business interests can join forces with environmentalists to improve their public image, a point he also explored in an article for the Times Higher (London) entitled 'The Profits of Doom'.

Mind Games was selected by France Culture as one of new philosophy books for dissection in the program essai du jour; Paradigm Shift: How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe and Everything was featured on RTE Radio 1 in Ireland;

Philosophical work

Paradigm Shift
Paradigm Shift: How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe and Everything (Imprint Academic UK September 2015) is a book by Cohen. It claims that scientific knowledge is less certain than it is usually portrayed. Cohen offers a number of examples to back up this claim, which he traces back to Thomas Kuhn, and the original theory of 'paradigm shifts' in 1962, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

In this key social science text, Kuhn claims that the progress of scientific knowledge is not the steady accumulation of pieces of a great jigsaw but rather a haphazard, political affair involving periodic paradigm shifts in which much of the old certainties are abandoned  in order to open up new approaches to understanding that scientists would never have considered valid before.

The idea behind Cohen's book is to treat a broader sweep of issues than Kuhn does, from public health to climate change and high finance, as a series of 'case studies' which he argues illustrate both the radical insights Kuhn's theory brings, and conversely the error of assuming that science and knowledge generally is 'a very sensible and reassuringly solid sort of affair'.  He advocates the 'separation of state and science'.

Cohen argues information cascades can distort rational, scientific debate, with a particular focus on health issues. The book looks at the example of highly mediatised 'pandemic' alarms, and why they have turned out eventually to be little more than scares.

Cow in the Field Thought Experiment
Martin Cohen is well known for having invented the famous 'cow-in-the-field' thought experiment in the spirit of Edmond Gettier's imaginary scenarios intended to explore the nature of knowledge. The Cow in the Field leads his book 101 Philosophy Problems including being on the cover of the second edition. However, numerous websites erroneously attribute the imaginary scenario directly to Gettier.

Select bibliography
 101 Philosophy Problems (1999, 2001, 2007 2013)
 Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (2000)
 Political Philosophy from Plato to Mao (2001, 2008)
 101 Ethical Dilemmas (2002, 2007)
 Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments (2004)
 No Holiday: 80 places you DON'T want to visit (2005)
 The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics (2006)
 Philosophical Tales (2008)
 Philosophy For Dummies, UK edition (2010)
 Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Mind (2010)
 The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel (pub. 2012, co-authored with Andrew McKillop)
 How to Live: Wise (and not-so-wise) Advice from the Philosophers on Everyday Life (2014)
 Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies (2015)
 Paradigm Shift: How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe and Everything (2015)
 Cracking Philosophy (2016). Also published under the title The Philosophy Bible
 Philosophy Hacks (2017)
 I Think Therefore I Eat (2018)
The Leader's Bookshelf (2020)
 Rethinking Thinking: Problem Solving from Sun Tzu to Google (2022)

External links

Articles for the Independent
Critique of Wikipedia as the "Big Mac" of knowledge in the documentary The Wikipedia Promise

See also
Technological paradigm

References

1964 births
20th-century British non-fiction writers
20th-century British philosophers
20th-century British essayists
21st-century British non-fiction writers
21st-century British philosophers
21st-century British essayists
Alumni of the University of Exeter
Analytic philosophers
British ethicists
British male essayists
Environmental philosophers
Epistemologists
Living people
Metaphysics writers
Ontologists
People associated with nuclear power
Philosophers of culture
Philosophers of economics
Philosophers of education
Philosophers of psychology
Philosophers of science
Philosophers of social science
Philosophers of technology
Philosophy academics
Political philosophers
Social philosophers
Theorists on Western civilization
Thought experiments

Martin Cohen (philosopher)


María Eugenia Llamas Andresco (19 February 1944 – 31 August 2014) was a Mexican actress best known for her roles as "La Tucita" in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the late 1940s and in the 1950s. She began appearing in these films in 1948 at the age of four. She was the winner of the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar, the Premio Ariel. While she appeared in many movies after her childhood, she is less known for them. However, she remained popular for her radio and television appearances, for her on-stage story telling talent, and as a live theater actress, and was the 2007 recipient of the Diploma Medalla al Mérito (Medal of Merit) award from the Spanish American Itinerate Academy of Itinerate Oral Narration.

Introduction
Llamas was born in 1944 in Mexico City. There is little published about her parents. Her father, José Maria Llamas Olaran, was Basque, and hailed from the Rioja region in Spain. Her mother, María Dolores Andresco Kuraitis, was born in Paris, France, to a Ukrainian Jewish father and a Lithuanian Roman Catholic mother. They immigrated to Mexico from Spain in 1939 as refugees from the Spanish Civil War and remained advocates of the lost Republican side of that war.

Los Tres Huastecos (The Three Men from Huasteca)
María Eugenia Llamas made her film debut in 1948 during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in memorable child roles. Llamas was selected for her screen debut when she was only three, at which age first met Pedro Infante, who is still known among his many fans as "The Idol (El Idolo)". When Llamas was only four years old, she co-starred with him as "La Tucita" in the 1948 classic film Los Tres Huastecos (The Three Men from Huasteca). In LLamas' screen debut, her feisty acting style stole scene after scene from no less than the "idol", Pedro Infante himself.

Dicen que Soy  Mujeriego (They Say I am a Womanizer)
Her next movie role, also as Tucita, was in the 1949 classic film Dicen que Soy un Mujeriego (They Say I am a Womanizer). In this film, Llamas co-starred again with Infante. In this comedy, Pedro Infante plays the philandering grandson of "Doña Rosa", a prominent rancher. Doña Rosa is constantly trying to get her grandson to behave properly – without success.

Premio Ariel (Mexican Oscar)
María Eugenia Llamas was nominated for the Premio Ariel Mexicano (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar) for her role, but did not win. María Eugenia Llamas did finally win the Ariel Award in 1952 for her role in the 1950 film, Los Niños Miran al Cielo (The Children Look to Heaven). Llamas went on to make many more movies, both as a child and as an adult.

Llamas and Pedro Infante maintained a cordial relationship for the following ten years, until his untimely death on 15 April 1957. Pedro Infante was an avid pilot. He was piloting his own multiengine plane to Mexico City, when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Mérida, Yucatán causing his death, along with the deaths of his co-pilot and the engineer.

Later life
In the 1980s, Llamas served as the Cultural Director of Mexican Social Security (IMSS or Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social). In 1987, Cuban-born author Francisco Garzón Céspedes persuaded her to take up public story telling, which she started and continued to do until late in life, even after her acting career ended.

Through her on-stage story telling, she became and remains active in the promotion of Mexican culture. She was the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Diploma Medalla al Mérito (Medal of Merit) for her 60 years of creative and successful artistic and cultural achievement. This award comes from the Spanish-American Academy of Itinerate Oral Narration, headquartered in Mexico City and Madrid, and which was founded by Garzón Céspedes.

Family
Her late sister María Victoria "Mariví" Llamas was a well-known author and telejournalist in Mexico City, who often wrote on feminist topics. She won the Premio Nacional de Periodismo three times and authored five books. Most notable was her collection of short stories entitled "Que Le Cuento (What Can I Tell You)". She also starred in many Spanish-language movies. She appeared in the movies Un Divorcio (A Divorce; 1953), Menores de Edad (Under Aged; 1951), Angelitos Negros (Little Black Angels; 1948), Ya Tengo a Mi Hijo (Now I Hold My Son; 1948). Mariví Llamas died in Mexico City on 5 January 2007, aged 67, from Hepatitis C and liver cancer. Their half brother, José Ángel Llamas, is a television actor.

Last years
Llamas lived in Monterrey, Mexico, where she married Rómulo Lozano in 1966, who was a popular announcer and actor in Mexico. Lozano was the emcee and comedian of a variety/talent show called Mira Que Bonito (Look How Nice) for almost 30 years. Lozano also appeared in several movies in the 1980s. Lozano died on 26 January 1996 in Monterrey of heart disease. Llamas has children and grandchildren and described her family as the true success story of her life. Her son, José Fernando Lozano Llamas, aka Fernando Lozano, is an actor and host of TV Azteca's Venga la Alegria. Fernando Lozano appeared on the stage in Defending the Caveman, and with his mother in the theatrical comedy Si Te Casas Te Aplasto (If You Get Married, I Will Crush You). She also had two daughters, Luz Maria Lozano Llamas and María Eugenia Lozano Llamas.

Death
Llamas died at the age of 70 on 31 August 2014 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, from cardiac arrest  while visiting her daughter.

Filmography

 Más Allá de Mí/Farther From Me (2008). La Tucita
 El Criminal' ... aka El Gatillo de la Muerte (The Criminal aka The Trigger of Death) (USA)  (1985)
 Cazador de Asesinos' (Hunter of Murderers) (1983) .... Dra. Campos
 El Gatillo de la Muerte (The Trigger of Death) (1980)
 La Edad de la Tentación (The Age of Temptation) (1959) (as María Eugenia Llamas "Tucita")
 Venganza en el Circo (Vengeance in the Circus) (1954) (as María Eugenia Llamas "Tusita") .... Pulguita
 La Segunda Mujer (The Second Woman) (1953) (as María Eugenia Llamas 'Tucita')
 Una Calle Entre Tú y Yo (The Street Between You and Me) (1952) (as Ma. Eugenia Llamas 'Tusita')
 Los Hijos de La Calle (The Sons of the Street) (1951) (as María Eugenia Llamas 'Tusita')
 The Two Orphans (1950) (as María Eugenia Llamas 'Tusita')
 Los Niños Miran al Cielo (The Children Look to Heaven) (1950)
 El Seminarista (The Theological Student) (1949) .... Tucita
 Dicen Que Soy Mujeriego (They Say that I Am a Womanizer) (1949) .... La Tucita
 Los Tres Huastecos (The Three Men from Huasteca) (1948) .... Tucita

TV shows
 ¡Pedro Infante Vive! (Pedro Infante Lives; 2007).... Herself
 La Historia Detrás del Mito (The Story Behind the Myth) .... Herself (1 episode, 2006)
 Estrellas Infantiles del Cine Mexicano (Child Stars of Mexican Cinema) (2006, TV episode) .... Herself

Footnotes

External links
Biography, hispanodetulsa.com; accessed 2 September 2014.
"María Eugenia Llamas: 'La Fama Es una Pompa de Jabón'"; accessed 2 September 2014.
Interview with Fernando Lozano; accessed 2 September 2014.

Mexican film actresses
Mexican stage actresses
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican television presenters
Mexican people of Basque descent
Mexican people of Spanish descent
Mexican people of French descent
Mexican people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Mexican people of Lithuanian descent
Actresses from Mexico City
People from Monterrey

1944 births
2014 deaths
Mexican women television presenters

María Eugenia Llamas


PlayStation Move Heroes, known in Japan as Gachinko Heroes (ガチンコヒーローズ Gachinko Hīrōzu, Hardcore Heroes), is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Nihilistic Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 video game console utilizing the PlayStation Move. It is a crossover of the Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, and Sly Cooper franchises to form a total of six main characters.

Gameplay

The game features both single-player as well as two-player co-operative multiplayer as players traverse through a series of levels. The game features six playable characters: Ratchet, Clank, Jak, Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Bentley. It also features a total of 50 levels, which can be categorized into five "archetypes", five weapon classes, and four environments, namely Paris, France from Sly Cooper, Metropolis on Kerwan from Ratchet & Clank, Haven City from Jak and Daxter, and Planet X, which is an original environment created for the game.
Players can choose which character they want to play as on each level; each character will have a different gameplay style and may have advantages on certain levels. Co-operative play allows the second player to play as the first player's sidekick character. For example, if the first player selects Jak as their character, the second player will automatically be assigned Daxter.

The five weapon classes are Disc, Whip, Bowling, Projectile, and Melee. The disc is thrown in a similar fashion to a frisbee; once thrown, players navigate it around the level remotely using the Move controller to achieve objectives, for example to hit moving targets. The whip is controlled by the Move controller via 1 to 1 movement. Bowling acts similar to the disc: the player throws the bowling ball and subsequently guides it with the Move controller. Projectiles involve the use of mainly guns as well as other weapons such as grenade launchers. Melee uses each character's iconic weapons — Sly's cane, Ratchet's wrench, and Jak's gunstaff — to hit enemies in a fashion similar to their original games.

Plot
A mysterious alien duo named Lunk and Gleeber have swept through the galaxy, fiendishly snatching entire chunks from the worlds of Ratchet, Jak, and Sly to create a ring around the mysterious Planet X. After being abducted to this new world, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, and Sly and Bentley are invited by their alien hosts to compete in a friendly, yet challenging competition to test their extraordinary skills and determine who the best hero duo is. The heroes discover that all is not as it seems as Gleeber and Lunk have made the Whibbles (a race of small floating aliens) their slaves and forced them to mine their planet hollow to build what appears to be a giant weapon. The heroes soon find themselves joined together in a battle to protect the Whibbles and themselves from Gleeber and Lunk and their evil Lunk heads. They defeat the three cities' challenges and complete the game's hardest challenges. While completing the challenges, the heroes also discover that Gleeber and Lunk had been recording their adventures in order to go to each of their universes to take their places — after killing the heroes — and take credit for their actions; in order to do this, they plan to use the weapon, which is revealed to be a teleportation device. After beating all of the levels and a suspicious tower hiding the Main Evil Lunk Head with the help of the Whibbles, Daxter destroys the rest of the Evil Lunk Heads and throws a disk at the large head, destroying the power source for the teleporter and foiling Gleeber and Lunk's plot. The heroes and Whibbles apprehend Gleeber and Lunk and send them into space using one of the duo's own rockets. Afterward, the Whibbles power up the teleporter and open a portal to each city. After saying a final goodbye to each other, the heroes return to the individual points in time in which they were first teleported. Each pair of heroes, however, maintains a communicator to keep in contact with the others, except Daxter, who slips his and Jak's behind a rock.

Development
The game was first announced as Heroes on the Move for the PlayStation Move during Sony's Press Conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010. The title was later changed in October to its current name, PlayStation Move Heroes. None of the developers of the original three franchises — Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, or Sucker Punch Productions — were working directly on the game.

Release and marketing
On January 14, 2011, it was announced on the US edition of PlayStation Blog that PlayStation Move Heroes would be released in North America on March 22, 2011. On February 9, 2011, Sony released a story trailer for the game, which confirmed that all the original voice actors would return to reprise their roles. On February 18, 2011, Sony released a developer diary featuring the lead designer and lead programmer, which explored how PlayStation Move Heroes was built "from the ground up, specifically for the PlayStation Move."

Sony had worked with Nihilistic and several retail partners for an exclusive skin pack featuring Pirate Sly, Freedom League Jak, and Trillium Armor Ratchet. It was included as a free pre-order bonus at participating retailers, including Amazon.com and GameStop. The skins have since been made available to all via the PlayStation Store, bundled together with additional skins for Clank, Daxter, and Bentley.

Alongside the standard edition, the game also came in a bundle with PlayStation Move, which included the game, a PlayStation Eye camera, and a PlayStation Move motion controller. The PlayStation Move Heroes bundle was only available in North American Toys "R" Us stores.

While announcing the exclusive North American PlayStation Move Heroes bundle, Sony confirmed that there would be a demo of the game on the PlayStation Store. The single player demo was released early in March in the PlayStation Store, while PlayStation Plus members had access starting March 1. On February 16, GameStop gave away 5,000 voucher codes for early access to the demo.

Reception
PlayStation Move Heroes received mixed reviews overall, with the game's spotty controls, repetitive gameplay, and camera being the most commonly criticized elements, while also being criticized for not being the true crossover that fans of each series had wanted. Holds a Metacritic score of 53/100 based on 39 reviews. IGN gave the game a 5.0/10, commenting on the lack of a decent story along with the "boring mini-game collection with spotty controls".

References

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2011 video games
Action-adventure games
Crossover video games
Ratchet & Clank
Sly Cooper
Jak and Daxter
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
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Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games about parallel universes
Video games scored by David Bergeaud
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Marcos Arouca da Silva (born 11 August 1986), commonly known as Arouca, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Figueirense.

Club career

Fluminense

Born in Duas Barras, Arouca made his professional debuts with Fluminense in 2004 Brasileirão, appearing 10 times. In the following year he appeared regularly with the side, and scored his first professional goal on 25 September 2005, netting his side's first of a 4–3 home success over Santos.

In 2007 Arouca played regularly during the Copa do Brasil winning campaign, and also appeared in 30 matches in the league with Flu finishing fourth. In the following year he was again starter, also being runner-up of that year's Copa Libertadores. In September 2008 he completed 200 matches for Fluminense, finishing the season with 54 appearances overall.

São Paulo
On 23 December 2008 Arouca agreed a five-year deal with São Paulo. He made his debut for Tricolor on 21 January 2009, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 home draw against Ituano.

However, Arouca served only as a backup to Hernanes and Richarlyson in his only season, and only started in 25 of the 40 matches played in 2009.

Santos

On 19 January 2010 Arouca joined Santos in an on-year loan deal, with Rodrigo Souto moving in the opposite direction. He made his debut for the club late in the month, playing the last 28 minutes in a 2–0 home win over Oeste. As a starter, Arouca was a key defensive unit in that year's Copa do Brasil and Paulista winning campaigns. On 23 July 2010 Santos bought him outright, signing a four-year deal for a €3.5 million fee.

In the following year Arouca was again ever-present, scoring his first goal for Peixe on 15 May 2011, netting the first of a 2–1 home success over Corinthians, in 2011 Campeonato Paulista final. He was also starter during the Copa Libertadores and FIFA Club World Cup, which Santos finished champions and runner-up, respectively; Arouca also assisted Neymar in the first goal of the Libertadores' final.

Arouca was again an ever-present figure during 2012, winning his third consecutive Paulistão, also scoring his second goal for Santos on 29 February, against Guarani. On 23 August 2013 he renewed his link with Peixe, running until the end of 2016.

In March 2014, Arouca was racially abused by the crowd in a state championship game against Mogi Mirim. The abuse was condemned by the nation's president Dilma Rousseff, who invited Arouca to meet her at the Palácio do Planalto along with two others who had suffered similarly, Cruzeiro player Tinga and gaúcho referee Márcio Chagas.

On 9 January 2015 Arouca took a legal action against Santos due to unpaid wages, despite previously stating that he would not make such action; on the 29th, after lengthy negotiations, he rescinded his link with the club and removed his legal action, with Santos also retaining 40% of his rights.

Palmeiras
One day after rescinding with Santos, Arouca signed a four-year deal with Palmeiras.

International career
After appearing with Brazil under-17 and under-20's squads, Arouca made his debut with the main squad on 7 September 2012, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–0 success over South Africa.

Despite the call ups and playing in four games, Arouca failed to impress in his performances with the national squad and as a result, he never solidified a position within the team; he was left out of the squad after the replacement of the former coach Mano Menezes by Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Fluminense
 Rio de Janeiro State League: 2005
 Copa do Brasil: 2007

Santos
 Campeonato Paulista: 2010, 2011, 2012
 Copa do Brasil: 2010
 Copa Libertadores: 2011
 Recopa Sudamericana: 2012

Palmeiras
 Copa do Brasil: 2015
 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 2016

Individual
 Campeonato Paulista Team of the year: 2010, 2014, 2015

References

External links

 Arouca at playmakerstats.com (English version of ogol.com.br)

1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (state)
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Fluminense FC players
São Paulo FC players
Santos FC players
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players
Clube Atlético Mineiro players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Brazil men's youth international footballers
Brazil men's under-20 international footballers
Brazil men's international footballers
Copa Libertadores-winning players

Arouca (footballer)


Issawi Frej (, ; born 14 December 1963) is an Arab-Israeli politician who currently serves as a minister and was a member of the Knesset for Meretz in 2021. He was also a member of Knesset for the party between 2013 and 2019. He is the Minister of Regional Cooperation since 2021. He is the second Muslim minister in Israeli history, after Raleb Majadle.

Frej was born in Kafr Qasim, Israel. He studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In February 2022, Frej was hospitalized under critical condition in Tel Aviv, Israel after having a stroke.

References

1963 births
Living people
Meretz politicians

Issawi Frej


Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker is a historic burial monument in the cemetery at Scullville Bible Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, along County Route 559 near Somers Point. It was built in 1887 and added to both the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Capt. Jeffries (1829-1887) is known for his association with the ship Twenty One Friends, which, following an incident at sea, floated without crew across the Atlantic Ocean for two years before being claimed and returned to service.

The Monument

The Capt. John Jeffries burial marker is approximately  tall and the largest marker in the Scullville Bible Church cemetery. The church was built in 1866 and, at the time of his death, was named Palestine Bible Protestant Church. The monument is made of marble and stands on a square brick base approximately  on each side. It is located in the Jeffries family plot behind the church, surrounded by other local-area family plots, many of which also date back to the 19th century. The square center section features an inscription, and above that a bas-relief engraving of the ship associated with Jeffries—and the source of his historical fame—the Twenty One Friends. Another smaller section above bears the initials "J.J." and a draped urn is carved at the top of the monument. The center inscription reads:
Capt. John Jeffries. Born Nov. 15, 1829. Died March 17th 1887. A member of the K. of P.

The Jeffries of Great Egg Harbor

The Jeffries family can trace its genealogy back to 18th-century European settlers of Rhode Island. John Jeffries Sr. (1735-1810) from Egg Harbor earned a pension for his service during the American Revolutionary War. The family owned land where Patcong Creek empties into Great Egg Harbor River, and it was here they built a two-storey plantation house. The area became known as Jeffries Landing and was an active port as well as later becoming a popular destination area for bathers.

The settlement that formed inland, north of Jeffries Landing, came to be called Jeffers, also named after the family. In the early 1900s, Jeffers was renamed Scullville, honoring a different family, the Sculls. Currently, where Patcong Creek meets Great Egg Harbor River is still called Jeffries Landing.

John Sr. and his wife, Judiah, had three sons, one of whom was John Jeffries Jr. (1789-1834). In 1819 John Jeffries Jr. was named wharf master at Jeffries Landing, responsible for collecting the wharfage of 30 cents per day to dock there. In 1829, John Jr.'s wife, Isabell, gave birth to John III (1829-1887), who would grow up to become a sea captain.

Capt. John Jeffries III later lived along English Creek, upstream from Jeffries Landing along the Great Egg Harbor River. He was married to Hannah Barrett Jeffries.

Variations of the name

The family name can be seen spelled different ways; Jeffries, Jeffryes, Jeffrys and Jeffers appear with interchangeability although all reasonably refer to the same family. Some evidence of this can be found within the penned family plot in Scullville (Palestine) Bible Church cemetery. On one side of the Captain, his wife Hannah "Jeffers" is buried and on the other side, his young son Samuel J. "Jeffers". In between stands the monument to Capt. John "Jeffries".

Shipbuilding along Great Egg Harbor River

The banks of Great Egg Harbor River, from Mays Landing to Somers Point, were an ideal environment for shipbuilding in the century following the American Revolutionary War due to natural resources in the area. These resources included lumber from pine, oak, and cedar as well as bog ore. The waterways were deep enough for ships up to 2000 tons (1,800 MT). Sawmills and blast furnaces were available in the area. What was not used to build ships was exported in their holds. One shipwright during this time was Capt. Samuel Gaskill of Mays Landing.

The Twenty One Friends

In 1872, Capt. Gaskill built a three-masted (tern) schooner for Capt. Jeffries. The ship was financed by a group of 21 Philadelphia Quakers and consequently named the Twenty One Friends.

In 1885, returning to Philadelphia with a full load of lumber from Brunswick, Georgia, the Twenty One Friends was rammed by the John D. May off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Capt. Jeffries removed his crew and abandoned the vessel. The ship and cargo were left to the mercy of the sea.

Capt. Jeffries' concern for the safety of his men was appropriate; however, the Gaskill-made ship proved itself to be more seaworthy than expected. After the collision, the ghost ship was sighted on both sides of the Atlantic over the next two years. It finally came ashore in Ireland, where its cargo was salvaged and it was employed as a fishing vessel. The Twenty One Friends remained in service until 1914.

Historical significance

The Jeffries monument represents not only the life of a sea captain from the Great Egg Harbor River, but also an industry along that river during the 19th century. There are few remaining relics from the marine and shipbuilding industries that mark this region's history during that time.

In addition, the monument has been singled out for its intricate carvings, which helped achieve its NRHP status.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Atlantic County, New Jersey
 National Historic Preservation Act

References

Cemeteries in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
Maritime culture
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey

Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker


Lobectomy means surgical excision of a lobe. This may refer to a lobe of the lung (also simply called a lobectomy), a lobe of the thyroid (hemithyroidectomy), a lobe of the brain (as in anterior temporal lobectomy), or a lobe of the liver (hepatectomy).

Lung lobectomy
A lobectomy of the lung is performed in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. It is not performed on patients that have lung cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Tumor size, type, and location are major factors as to whether a lobectomy is performed. This can be due to cancer or smoking.  Lung lobectomies are performed on patients as young as eleven or twelve who have no cancer or smoking history, but have conditions from birth or early childhood that necessitate the operation. Such patients will have reduced lung capacity which tends to limit their range of activities through life.  They often need to use inhalers on a daily basis, and are often classified as being asthmatic.

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Nick LaBrocca (born December 4, 1984) is a former American soccer player.

Career

Youth and college
LaBrocca played high school soccer at Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey before going on to having a three time All-Big East career at Rutgers University.

Professional
After impressing the scouts at the 2007 MLS Combine, LaBrocca was selected 35th overall by Colorado Rapids in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft. LaBrocca was a regular starter for the reserve team that won the 2007 MLS Reserve Division championship, and became a regular starter in the senior team during the 2008 MLS season.

In March 2010, LaBrocca was traded with a third-round pick in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft pick to Toronto FC in exchange for Marvell Wynne. He made his debut for Toronto FC on March 27, 2010 against Columbus Crew. LaBrocca scored his first goal for the club in a 4–1 home victory over Chicago on May 8.

In March 2011, LaBrocca was traded to Chivas USA in exchange for Alan Gordon. The move to Chivas USA would end up serving as the catalyst for LaBrocca's career year. On July 9,  LaBrocca scored the 10,000th goal in MLS history in a 1–1 draw with Sporting Kansas City.  Then, on July 19, LaBrocca was selected for the 2011 MLS All-Star Game against Manchester United. He played the second half as Manchester United won 4–0.

In January 2013, LaBrocca made his return to Colorado after he was traded from Chivas USA to the Rapids in exchange for Eric Avila.

LaBrocca signed with Chicago Fire in January 2016.

International
LaBrocca has played for the US national U-20 and U-23 national teams. On November 11, 2008 LaBrocca received his first call up to the senior national team camp ahead of a World Cup Qualifier against Guatemala, but did not play in the game.

Honours

Toronto FC
Canadian Championship (1): 2010

Individual
Major League Soccer All-Star (1): 2011

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Colorado Rapids players
Toronto FC players
Chivas USA players
Chicago Fire FC players
Christian Brothers Academy (New Jersey) alumni
People from Howell Township, New Jersey
Soccer players from Monmouth County, New Jersey
Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer players
American people of Italian descent
American men's soccer players
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
American expatriate sportspeople in Canada
American expatriate men's soccer players
Major League Soccer players
Major League Soccer All-Stars
Colorado Rapids draft picks
Men's association football midfielders

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was a town located in Nakakoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 16,934 and a population density of 1,678.30 persons per km². The total area was 10.09 km².

On February 20, 2006, Tatomi, along with the town of Tamaho (also from Nakakoma District), and the village of Toyotomi (from Higashiyatsushiro District), was merged to create the city of Chūō.

External links
 Chūō official website

Dissolved municipalities of Yamanashi Prefecture
Chūō, Yamanashi

Tatomi, Yamanashi


Geoffrey William Stirling  (March 22, 1921 – December 21, 2013) was a Canadian-American businessman and media magnate, best known for his work in his home city of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Life
Stirling was born in St. John's to Edgar Stiling and Ethel (Uphill) Stirling. He attended the University of Tampa, began his media career as a stringer for Time and the Chicago Tribune, and retained close ties to the United States throughout his lifetime, including a second winter home in Arizona in his later years. After his brief time in American media, he spent a brief time in Honduras hunting alligators for skin; he hated the job, but was inspired when he noted that The Miami Herald was available there, leading him to conclude that a Newfoundland newspaper would be viable.

Stirling was a co-founder in the Economic Union Party, a late-1940s political movement that sought closer ties to the United States for the Dominion of Newfoundland, which was then still independent from Canada. It was one of two organizations that unsuccessfully opposed the dominion's confederation into Canada, which eventually occurred in 1949. The leader of the confederation forces, Joey Smallwood, was an established rival of Stirling's, having doubted that Stirling's newspaper would succeed because Smallwood himself had failed. Stirling argued that Smallwood's overtly political polemics had alienated readers and that a newspaper would need to appeal to a broad audience to succeed.

Media businesses
Along with other members of his family, Stirling owned several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International. Specifically, the properties are independent television station CJON-DT; radio station CHOZ-FM; and the Newfoundland Herald, a weekly news, gossip and TV listings magazine.

Stirling pioneered many television firsts in North America. CJON-TV (NTV) was the first in Newfoundland to air programs in colour. CJON-TV became the first station to broadcast 24 hours a day in 1972.

Stirling was also the founder of CKGM, an English-language radio station in Montreal. in 1959. He owned the station until 1985.

Personal views
Stirling is regarded as an eccentric for both how he managed his businesses and for how he used his media outlets to promote a variety of personal interests such as eastern mysticism and intestinal health. For example, he devoted many hours of, often unscheduled, broadcast time to conversations with gurus such as Ram Dass and Swami Shyam and to a variety of esoteric subjects ranging from pyramids to unidentified flying objects, a practice which continues today as the station is run by his son G. Scott Stirling. Geoff's grandson, Jesse is the host of the CJON interview program "Meetings with Remarkable People." Many of his past interviews and archives can be seen currently on CJON on Saturday mornings from 2 to 4 am Newfoundland time, under the name "Captain Atlantis Late Night." When he watched his own television station he would sometimes phone Master Control to order that a favorite tape immediately pre-empt the current broadcast or that the technician apply a particular effect to the screen.

Stirling appeared in the 1974 documentary film Waiting for Fidel about a trip he made to Cuba along with former Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood and director Michael Rubbo. The trio never met the Cuban leader. Many segments of the program involve Smallwood and Stirling discussing what they would like to ask Castro whenever the expected meeting happens. Some of the dialogue occurs while Stirling is demonstrating yoga and standing on his head while he is conversing with Smallwood.

Stirling supervised the creation of the graphic novel Atlantis featuring the superheroes Captain Atlantis (Captain Newfoundland) and Captain Canada, drawing on elements of Canadian history as well as ancient alien astronauts mythology and New Age philosophy. Captain Canada has become a mascot for the NTV station and has appeared in television programs, commercials, and numerous public events.

Later life
In 2001, Sirling was inducted into the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame; in 2009, he was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. In his later years, Stirling split his time between Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador, and his ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona, where he once owned Wickenburg radio station KSWG. Stirling died at the age of 92 on December 21, 2013.

References

External links

Biography from the History of Canadian Broadcasting site
The Atlantis Universe – with photos of the characters

1921 births
2013 deaths
Businesspeople from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian mass media owners
People from Wickenburg, Arizona
Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people
Immigrants to the United States

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Beat is a 2000 American biographical drama film written and directed by Gary Walkow, and starring Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Norman Reedus, and Ron Livingston. The film focuses primarily on the last several weeks of writer Joan Vollmer's life in 1951 Mexico City, leading up to her accidental killing by her husband, the writer William S. Burroughs. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2000 and was entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.

Plot
In 1944 New York City, beat writers and students Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and David Kammerer all become acquainted with Joan Vollmer, a student at Barnard College. Joan and William carry on a romance. Lucien murders David after David makes unwanted sexual advances on him. Lucien visits Joan and William at their apartment after and Lucien confesses to the murder, claiming David had an obsession with Lucien, and attempted to rape Lucien in a park. Lucien ultimately serves two years in prison for the crime.

By 1951, Joan and William are married and living in Mexico City with their young son, William Jr., and Julie, Joan's daughter from her previous marriage. Joan is unhappy with her life in Mexico, as William carries on an affair with a male lover, Lee, to her chagrin. William leaves to Guatemala to meet Lee for a romantic liaison, avoiding an impending visit from Lucien and Allen who are traveling from New York. Upon Lee and Lucien's arrival, Joan and Lucien visit a local bar together, where Joan expresses her unhappiness over her marriage to William. Joan, Lucien, and Allen plan a weekend trip to visit the Parícutin volcano. Meanwhile, William, having met with Lee in Guatemala, finds Lee evasive and unwilling to be physically affectionate with him. When pressed, Lee suggests he feels that William only uses him for sex.

Joan, Lucien, and Allen travel through rural Mexico en route to Parícutin, camping along the way. Allen tries to convince Joan to return to the United States with him and Lucien, but, despite her unhappiness with her marriage, she does not want to abandon William, as she sees his potential. Joan also adds that William fears returning to the United States due to a pending heroin possession charge there. Sexual tension quickly develops between Joan and Lucien on the trip, but she rejects his numerous advances. The three return to Mexico City from their weekend trip. Lucien and Allen implore Joan to return to New York with them, bringing her children along with, but she refuses.

Willam returns from his trip to Guatemala, and he and Joan discuss the possibility of separating. Lucien and Allen's car breaks down near the Texas border, leaving them stranded. Lucien hitches a ride back to New York City, leaving Allen alone until the car is repaired, as he has to report to his new job at United Press International. Meanwhile, Lee arrives in Mexico City and visits William and Joan at their apartment. After a dinner in which alcohol is consumed, Joan is outwardly passive-aggressive toward Lee. To entertain themselves, William suggests that he and Joan perform their "William Tell" parlor trick, in which he attempts to shoot a shot glass off the top of her head with a pistol. Joan perches a glass atop her head and goads William, who misfires the gun, shooting her in the head and killing her.

Shortly after, while Lucien is working at the United Press International office, he receives a telegram notifying him of Joan's death.

Cast

Historical accuracy
Scholar Michael J. Prince notes that, in the film, "broad liberties are taken with the relationship between Lucien Carr and Joan, and much is imputed to Allen Ginsberg's unrequited love for Carr; lastly, Joan is portrayed as downright vindictive and insulting when chiding her husband about his sexual proclivities." Comparing the film's treatment of Joan to that of David Cronenberg's in Naked Lunch (1991), he concludes: "Even though it ends tragically, [director] Walkow is doing for Joan what Cronenberg has done for William but without the saturation of so much of his own visual character...  no one is shown writing more than her in the film...  She is bright, alluring, and reflective."

While the film depicts Vollmer leaving her two children behind during her trip to Parícutin with Ginsberg and Carr, in reality, Vollmer brought the children along.

Production

Filming
Principal photography of Beat took place in Mexico City in the summer of 1999. The apartment building which Vollmer and Burroughs are shown residing in the film was located across the street from the actual apartment building the couple shared, and in which Vollmer was killed. Walkow had initially sought to shoot in the original apartment, but upon arriving in Mexico City to scout locations, discovered the building had recently been demolished.

Post-production
Originally, Walkow intended to structure the film chronologically into two separate acts, with the first documenting Vollmer and Burroughs' meeting in 1944 New York City, and the second on their life in 1951 Mexico City. However, he instead decided to present the 1944 backstory in the form of flashbacks, with Ginsberg narrating.

Release
Beat premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2000, and was subsequently entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.

Critical response

Christopher Null of Contact Music wrote: "Judy Davis might have commanded the definitive Joan Vollmer role in Naked Lunch, but in Beat, Courtney Love makes a not-half-bad at reinterpreting the last weeks of her life... A loving portrait of the early beat lifestyle, Gary Walkow's ode to Vollmer is sweet and endearing, despite its tragic finale. The four lead players all imbue their characters with substantial flair, especially Sutherland's mannered and deadpan witticisms." Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a middling review, deeming the dialogue pretentious and adding: "Modestly mounted feature has adequate production design by Rando Schmook and some pretty Mexican landscape lensing by Ciro Cabello. But staging, pacing, score, et al are uninspired to tedious."

Film Threat wrote: "Generally fine performances help keep the film afloat through several tedious moments of angst-overdose, although Sutherland has a disconcerting tendency to play Burroughs as if channeling Jack Nicholson. Beautiful photography, aided by Mexico's rugged beauty as natural set dressing, also help. In the end, however, none of these people, except, perhaps, for Ginsberg, come across as particularly likable, at least as written here."

Ron Epstein of the website DVD Talk gave the film an unfavorable review, writing: "It's a shame that Beat is a bad movie. The turns from present to flashback are very stylish, and overall, the acting isn't bad. Hell, even Courtney Love does a pretty good job with what she's been dealt with. Unfortunately, the script doesn't allow for developed relationships between the characters; and feels very hollow when it's all said and done." J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader criticized the casting of Love in the role of Vollmer, as he felt Love was too glamorous to portray "a plain, brunette bookworm and alcoholic."

Home media
Lionsgate released Beat on VHS and DVD in 2002 featuring a shortened cut of the film, running 80 minutes as opposed to the original 89-minute cut shown at the film's Sundance premiere.

References

Sources

External links

2000 films
2000 drama films
2000 independent films
American drama films
American independent films
American LGBT-related films
2000s English-language films
Films about the Beat Generation
Films about writers
Films set in 1944
Films set in 1951
Films set in Mexico
Films set in New York City
Films shot in Mexico
Gay-related films
LGBT-related films based on actual events
Lionsgate films
William S. Burroughs
2000s American films

Beat (2000 film)


Ghost Corps, Inc. is an American co-production company formed in March 2015 to oversee the Ghostbusters media franchise and as a stock exchange for the Ghostbusters brand. It is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures and as of January 2021 currently no longer functions as a stock exchange C-Corporation business but is currently still active as a PR office on the Sony Pictures lot maintaining management of its online pages and productions related to the Ghostbusters brand.

History
The company was formed in March 2015 by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Pictures in order to create a Ghostbusters cinematic universe and expand the Ghostbusters brand into films, television series, and merchandise. The company is currently headed by Jason Reitman and Dan Aykroyd, along with Montecito Picture Company partners Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck.

Projects
The company's first project, titled Ghostbusters, was a live-action reboot with a female-oriented cast. directed by Paul Feig, was released on July 15, 2016.

Its second project, a sequel to the original Ghostbusters films, titled Ghostbusters: Afterlife was announced by Sony Pictures and Ghost Corps. It was released in theaters on November 19, 2021. The film takes place in the original timeline set by the first two films. Jason Reitman, the son of Ghostbusters' original director Ivan Reitman, directed the sequel. A teaser trailer was released on January 14, 2019.

A follow-up sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife was announced in April 2022 as the company's third project. It was originally scheduled for release on December 20, 2023, but was delayed to March 29, 2024 due to the ongoing 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

Filmography

References

External links

Columbia Pictures
Ghostbusters
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Mass media companies established in 2015

Ghost Corps


IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia.

It was discovered in 1887. Edwin Hubble suspected it might belong to the Local Group of galaxies, but this was uncertain for decades. The radial velocity of IC 10 was measured in 1962. It is approaching the Milky Way at about 350 km/s. This strengthened the evidence for its being in the Local Group. Its membership in the group was finally confirmed in 1996 by measurements of its distance by observations of Cepheids. Despite its closeness, the galaxy is rather difficult to study because it lies near the galactic plane of the Milky Way. It is heavily obscured by interstellar matter.

The apparent distance between IC 10 and the Andromeda Galaxy is about the same as the apparent distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, which suggests that IC 10 may belong to the M31 subgroup.

IC 10 is the only known starburst galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies. It has many more Wolf-Rayet stars per square kiloparsec (5.1 stars/kpc²) than the Large Magellanic Cloud (2.0 stars/kpc²) or the Small Magellanic Cloud (0.9 stars/kpc²). Although the galaxy has a luminosity similar to the SMC, it is much smaller. The evolutionary status of the Wolf-Rayet stars suggests they all formed in a relatively short period. The galaxy produces stars at the rate of 0.04–0.08 solar masses per year, which means that the gas supply in the galaxy can last for a few billion years longer.

Observations of IC 10 in the far-infrared show that the dust in this mild starburst galaxy is deficient in small grains. Perhaps small grains were destroyed by strong ultraviolet radiation in the areas around the hot luminous stars.

The galaxy has a huge envelope of hydrogen gas, with an apparent size measuring 68′ × 80′, which is far larger than the apparent size of the galaxy in visible light (5.5′ × 7.0′). IC 10 is also unusual in the respect that the visible part of the galaxy seems to rotate in a different direction than the outer envelope. It has an H II nucleus.

References

Local galaxies

IC 10


A homburg is a semi-formal hat of fur  felt, characterized by a single dent running down the centre of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a wide silk grosgrain hatband ribbon, a flat brim shaped in a "pencil curl", and a ribbon-bound trim about the edge of the brim. It is traditionally offered in black or grey.

The name comes from Bad Homburg in Hesse, in the  German Empire, from where it originated as hunting headgear. It was popularised in the late 19th century by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, as a less formal alternative to the prevalent top hat along with the bowler hat and the boater hat. The original homburg conceived in the 19th century was of slightly more generous proportions than seen in 21st-century versions. Although the homburg is traditionally associated with semi-formal wear, it has been extensively applied also to informal attire.

As with other hats, it largely fell out of everyday use of Western dress codes for men in the 1960s.

Use
The homburg was popularised in the 1890s by the future Edward VII after he visited Bad Homburg in Hesse, Germany, and brought back a hat of this style. He was flattered when his hat style was mimicked, and at times he insisted on being copied.

Anthony Eden made the black homburg so fashionable in the 1930s that it became known as "the Anthony Eden hat" on Savile Row in London. At his 1953 inauguration, Dwight D. Eisenhower broke with tradition by wearing a black homburg instead of a top hat. He also wore a homburg at his second inauguration, a hat that took three months to craft and was dubbed the "international homburg" by hatters, since workers from ten countries participated in its making.

Like other formal Western male headgear, the homburg ceased to be as common in the 21st century as it once was. Al Pacino gained some renewed fame for the homburg by wearing a grey one in the film The Godfather, for which reason the hat is sometimes called a "Godfather". Some Orthodox Jewish rabbis wear black homburgs to the rekel, though this practice is also in decline. The homburg was always considered to be more traditional and distinguished than the fedora.

It was sometimes jocularly referred to as a "hamburger", notably by actor Edward Brophy in the 1958 film The Last Hurrah.

In Italy it is known as a Lobbia, from  who famously was wearing one when he was assaulted.

See also
 Anthony Eden hat
 Boss of the Plains
 Bowler hat
 Campaign hat
 Cap
 Fedora
 List of headgear
 Shovel hat
 Stetson
 Tyrolean hat

References

External links

 "Felt dress hats" at Hat History
 "Homburg Hat – Past, Present and Future" at Gentleman's Gazette

1910s fashion
1920s fashion
1930s fashion
1940s fashion
1950s fashion
1960s fashion
Edward VII
Hats
Victorian fashion
1890s fashion
1880s fashion
Semi-formal wear
Anthony Eden

Homburg hat