A feathered dinosaur is a dinosaur with feathers. It is now thought that all coelurosaurs, and perhaps all theropods, had feathers.

The possibility that dinosaurs are closely related to birds raised the possibility of feathers. Fossils of Archaeopteryx include well-preserved feathers, but it was not until the early 1990s that clearly non-bird dinosaur fossils were discovered with preserved feathers. About 40 genera of theropods are now known to be feathered.

Most of these fossils come from the Yixian formation in China. The fossil feathers of one specimen, Shuvuuia deserti, have been tested positive for beta-keratin in immunological tests. This is the main protein in bird feathers.

Fossil evidence

After a century without clear evidence, well-preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs were discovered during the 1990s, and more continue to be found. The fossils were preserved in a Lagerstätte — a sedimentary deposit exhibiting remarkable richness and completeness in its fossils — in  Liaoning, China.

The area had repeatedly been smothered in volcanic ash by eruptions in Inner Mongolia 124 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous. The fine-grained ash preserved the living organisms that it buried in fine detail. The area was teeming with life, with millions of leaves, angiosperms (the oldest known), insects, fish, frogs, salamanders, mammals, turtles, lizards and crocodilians discovered to date.

The most important discoveries at Liaoning have been a host of feathered dinosaur fossils, with a steady stream of new finds filling in the picture of the dinosaur-bird connection and adding more to theories of the evolutionary development of feathers and flight. Quill knobs were found an ulna of Velociraptor mongoliensis. These are associated with large, well-developed secondary feathers.

Behavioural evidence, in the form of an oviraptorosaur on its nest, showed another link with birds. Its forearms were folded, like those of a bird. Although no feathers were preserved, it is likely that these would have been present to keep eggs and juveniles warm.

Evidence in amber
The feathered tail of a non-avialan (non-bird) theropod has been found preserved in mid-Cretaceous (∼99 mya) amber from Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma). The BBC describe it as "perfectly preserved". Lida Xing found it at an amber market in Myitkina, Myanmar. The amber was already polished for jewellery: the seller thought it was plant material. However, it was the tail of a feathered dinosaur about the size of a sparrow. The feathers were not flight feathers. Dr Paul Barrett, from London's Natural History Museum, called the specimen a "beautiful fossil", describing it as a "really rare occurrence of vertebrate material in amber".

Cretaceous period
In 2011, samples of amber were discovered to contain preserved feathers from the Cretaceous period, with evidence that they were from both dinosaurs and birds. Initial analysis suggests that some of the feathers were used for insulation, and not flight.

Current knowledge

List of dinosaurs with evidence of feathers

Many non-avialan dinosaurs are now known to have been feathered. Direct evidence of feathers exists for the following genera, listed in the order of when the evidence was first published.

The evidence consists of feather impressions, or convincing skeletal or chemical evidence. Skeletal evidence would be the presence of quill knobs (the anchor points for wing feathers on the forelimb) or a pygostyle (the fused vertebrae at the tail tip which often supports large feathers).

For comparison: Archaeopteryx (1861; avialan) definitely had working flight feathers with off-centre rachis (stem). Otherwise, apart from the front limbs, it was a typical small carnivorous dinosaur.

 Avimimus portentosus (inferred 1987: quill knobs)
 Sinosauropteryx prima (1996)
 Protarchaeopteryx robusta (1997)
 GMV 2124 (1997).
 Caudipteryx zoui (1998)

 Shuvuuia deserti (1999)
 Sinornithosaurus millenii (1999)
 Beipiaosaurus inexpectus (1999)
 Caudipteryx dongi (2000)
 Caudipteryx sp. (2000)
 Microraptor zhaoianus (2000)
 Nomingia gobiensis (inferred 2000: pygostyle)
 Psittacosaurus sp.? (2002)
 Scansoriopteryx heilmanni (2002)
 Yixianosaurus longimanus (2003)
 Dilong paradoxus (2004)

 Jinfengopteryx elegans (2005)
 Juravenator starki (2006)
 Sinocalliopteryx gigas (2007)
 Velociraptor mongoliensis (inferred 2007: quill knobs)
 Epidexipteryx hui (2008)
 Similicaudipteryx yixianensis (inferred 2008: pygostyle; confirmed 2010)
 Zhongornis haoae (2008)

 Tianyulong confuciusi? (2009)
 Concavenator corcovatus? (inferred 2010: quill knobs?)

 Yutyrannus huali (2012)
 Microraptor hanqingi (2012)
 Ornithomimus edmontonicus (2012)
 Ningyuansaurus wangi (2012)
 Eosinopteryxbrevipenna (2013)
 Citipati osmolskae (inferred 2013: pygostyle)
 Conchoraptor gracilis (inferred 2013: pygostyle)
 Jianchangosaurus yixianensis (2013)
 Aurornis xui (2013; possibly avialan)
 Changyuraptor yangi (2014)
 Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus? (2014)
 Citipati osmolskae (inferred 2014: pygostyle)
 Conchoraptor gracilis (inferred 2014: pygostyle)
 Deinocheirus mirificus (inferred 2014: pygostyle)
 Yi qi (2015)

 Note, filamentous structures in some ornithischian dinosaurs (Psittacosaurus, Tianyulong) and pterosaurs may or may not be homologous with the feathers and protofeathers of theropods.

Related pages
Avialae
Dinobird
Coelurosaur

References

Coelurosaurs

Feathered dinosaur


Tempo Centar (formerly: Tempo Cash & Carry) is a Serbian hypermarket chain and a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize.

History
Tempo was founded in 2003, with headquarters located in Belgrade, Serbia. The first Tempo store, with 8,000 m2 of floor space, opened in Belgrade in 2004. Three more Tempo Cash and Carry stores were built in 2006: one in Niš (floor space 6,000 m2), one in Novi Sad (floor space 6,000 m2) and another one in Belgrade (kvantas) (floor space 8,500 m2). All three new stores opened in December 2006.

The first Tempo (Viline Vode) was opened on July 15, 2004. It occupies a floor space of 5500 m2 and it is situated in the centre of Belgrade at Belgrade Harbour. After two years of work the end of 2006 was met by three newly built Tempo centers. The new concept for TEMPO Hypermarket was realized and managed by Marc Ernest Garofani as Chief Operations Officer.

Novi Sad Tempo was opened on December 1, 2006 at n.n. Tekelija street. This is the largest store in Vojvodina with a floor space of 12,000 m2. Inside the centre are a bank, a pharmacy, and a playroom for children. On December 8, 2006, only a week after opening the Tempo store in Novi Sad, a new Tempo store opened in Niš.

At the entrance of Niš, at 80, February 12 street, the biggest store in South Serbia has opened, with a floor space of 6.000 m2 and 30,000 consumer articles, a parking lot, bank and coffee bar. The opening of the biggest store in the Balkans was organized for December 22 in Belgrade.

Tempo centre at Block 53 Autoput I, the industrial zone of New Belgrade, occupies a total area of 18,000 square meters. In front of the store is a parking lot for 550 vehicles. Inside the building are a bank, a coffee bar and a playroom for children.

Goods can be paid in cash or by card: MasterCard, Visa, Dina, Yuba, or Diners.

Tempo stores are open 24 hours a day, including Sundays. They close only on public holidays like New Year's Day or Serbian Orthodox Christmas (January 7).
Tempo offers a wide and deep assortment of more than 40,000 SKUs.

In June 2012, Marc Ernest Garofani was appointed to the position of Director of TEMPO Hypermarkets.
November 26, 2013, a new Tempo hypermarket opened in Belgrade, Bacvanska street. The total area of the store is 5,000 square metres.
Today, Tempo banner is present in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Cacak, Uzice, Vrnjacka Banja, Niksic (Montenegro) and opened in April 2014 a 2500-square metre store in Sabac (Serbia).

Since August 2014, Maxi and Tempo is no longer operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company Tropic Group from Banja Luka bought the ownership of 39 retail supermarkets (Tempo, Maxi) from Delhaize BiH.

Since April 2015, with renewal the object in Ada, Tempo Centar has used a new ident and logo (stylized as Tempo), with the change in ownership structure.

See also
 List of supermarket chains in Serbia

References

External links
 Official website

Ahold Delhaize
Retail companies established in 2003
Serbian brands
Supermarkets of Serbia

Tempo Centar


Amluk-Dara stupa is located in Swat valley of Pakistan.  It is a part of  Gandhara civilization at Amluk-Dara. The stupa is believed to have been built in the third century. The stupa was first discovered by a Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein in 1926. It was later studied by Domenico Faccena in the 60s and 70s.

The foundation of the stupa is a square plinth about 4 meters thick. This is surmounted by a hemispherical dome measuring 7 meter in height and 21 meters in diameter, making it visible for miles around it. Though it is the best example of a stupa in Swat, it is unprotected and is being damaged by treasure seekers.

Gallery

References

Stupas in Pakistan

Amluk-Dara stupa


John Hunter may refer to:

Politics
John Hunter (British politician) (1724–1802), British Member of Parliament for Leominster
John Hunter (Canadian politician) (1909–1993), Canadian Liberal MP for Parkdale, 1949–1957
Sir John Hunter (consul-general) (died 1816), British consul-general in Spain
John Hunter (Northern Ireland politician), Ulster unionist member of the Northern Ireland Forum
John Hunter (Royal Navy officer) (1737–1821), Governor of New South Wales
John Hunter (South Carolina politician) (c. 1750–1802), American politician
John Hunter (Westchester County, New York) (1778–1852), New York politician
John F. Hunter (1896–1957), U.S. Representative from Ohio
John W. Hunter (1807–1900), US Congressman from New York
Jon Blair Hunter (fl. 1990s–2000s), West Virginia politician
John Dunn Hunter (1796–1827), leader of the Fredonian Rebellion
John McEwan Hunter (1863–1940), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Sports

Soccer
John Hunter (Third Lanark footballer) (died 1891), Scottish football player
John Hunter (Australian footballer), Scottish-born Australian former footballer and coach
Ian Hunter (Scottish footballer) (born John Hunter, fl. 1960s), Scottish footballer (Falkirk)
John Hunter (Falkirk footballer) (fl. 1920s), Scottish footballer (Falkirk, Reading, Guildford)
John Hunter (footballer, born 1878) (1878–1966), known as 'Sailor', Scottish football player and manager (Motherwell)
Jock Hunter (1875–1950), Scottish footballer

Others
John Hunter (American football), American football player
John Hunter (golfer) (1871–1946), Scottish professional golfer
John Hunter (rower) (born 1943), New Zealand rower
Johnny Hunter (1925–1980), Australian rugby league footballer

Authors and academics
J. A. Hunter (John Alexander Hunter, 1887–1963), white hunter in Africa, later a writer
John Hunter (scientist) (born 1955), projectile researcher
John Hunter (screenwriter) (born 1911), American award-winning screenwriter
John E. Hunter (1939–2002), American psychologist and statistician
John Hunter (classicist) (1746–1837), joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Physicians
John Hunter (surgeon) (1728–1793), surgeon and anatomist
John Hunter (physician) (1754–1809), physician
John Irvine Hunter (1898–1924), Australian anatomist
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Others
John A. Hunter (judge) (1833–1887), chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory
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John Hart Hunter (1807–1872), college fraternity founder
John Hunter (bishop) (1897–1965), former bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
John E. L. Hunter (1897–1971), World War I fighter ace
Jackie Hunter (entertainer) (John Hunter, 1903–1951), Canadian entertainer
John Hunter (performer), New Zealand female impersonator
John Hunter (singer), American singer and musician
Sir John Adams Hunter, British colonial administrator
John Oswald Mair Hunter, Lord Hunter, Scottish judge

See also
Jack Hunter (disambiguation)

John Hunter


Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist.

He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. His biggest crossover hits include "It Was Almost Like a Song", "Smoky Mountain Rain", "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World", "Any Day Now", and "Stranger in My House". He is credited with six Grammy Awards and 35 number-one country hits, third to George Strait and Conway Twitty. He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

Career

Early life (1943–1971)
Milsap was born January 16, 1943, in Grifton, North Carolina. A congenital disorder left him almost completely blind from birth. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until he was sent to the North Carolina State School for the Blind and Deaf in Raleigh, North Carolina, at age five.

During his childhood, Milsap developed a passion for music, particularly the late-night radio broadcasts of country music, gospel music, and rhythm and blues. When he was 7, his instructors noticed his musical talents. Soon afterward he began studying classical music formally at Governor Morehead and learned several instruments, eventually mastering the piano. When he was 14, a slap from one of the school's houseparents caused him to lose what very limited vision he had in his left eye.

With the national breakthrough of Elvis Presley in 1956, Milsap became interested in rock and roll music and formed a rock band called the Apparitions with fellow high-school students. In concert, Milsap has often paid tribute to the musicians of the 1950s who inspired him including Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Presley.

Milsap was awarded a full college scholarship and briefly attended Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia, with plans to become a lawyer. During this time, Milsap joined a popular local R&B band called the Dimensions that played gigs in the Atlanta area, and became a regular attraction at the rough and rowdy Royal Peacock Club. In the fall of 1964, Milsap declined a scholarship to law school and left college to pursue a full-time career in music. He met Joyce Reeves one night at a dinner party during this period, and the two were married in 1965.

In 1963, Milsap met Atlanta disc jockey Pat Hughes who became an early supporter of his music career. Milsap recorded his first single, "Total Disaster/It Went to Your Head", which enjoyed some local success in the Atlanta area. The single sold 15,000 copies with the help of Hughes, who played the record on his radio show. Around this same time, Milsap auditioned for a job as a keyboardist for musician J. J. Cale. In 1965, Milsap signed with New York–based Scepter Records, recording several obscure singles for the label over the next few years, and working briefly with other soul musicians like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

Also in 1965, Milsap scored his first hit with the Ashford & Simpson–penned single, "Never Had It So Good", which peaked at No. 19 on the R&B chart in November of that year. It would be his only successful single during his time with Scepter. Milsap cut another Ashford & Simpson tune, "Let's Go Get Stoned", that was relegated to a B-side.

In the late 1960s, after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, Milsap worked for producer Chips Moman and became a popular weekly attraction at the Memphis nightclub T.J.'s. During this time, Moman helped Milsap land work as a session musician on numerous projects including several recordings with Elvis Presley such as "Don't Cry Daddy" in 1969 and "Kentucky Rain" in 1970. That same year, Milsap made the lower reaches of the pop charts with the single "Loving You Is a Natural Thing". He recorded and released his debut album, Ronnie Milsap, on Warner Brothers in 1971.

Breakthrough success (1973–1975)
In December 1972, Milsap relocated to Nashville after a chance meeting with country music star Charley Pride who was in the audience for a Milsap gig at the nightclub Whiskey A-Go-Go on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. Pride was impressed with Milsap's singing and encouraged him to change course and focus on country music. Milsap began working with Pride's manager, Jack D. Johnson, and was signed to RCA Records in 1973. He released his first single for RCA that year, "I Hate You", which became his first country music success, peaking at No. 10 on the country chart. In 1974, Milsap toured with Pride as an opening act and had two No. 1 singles: "Pure Love" (written by Eddie Rabbitt) and the Kris Kristofferson composition "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" which won Milsap his first Grammy. In 1975, he revived the Don Gibson song "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" and scored another No. 1 hit with "Daydreams About Night Things".

"It Was Almost Like a Song" (1976–1978)
From 1976 to 1978, Milsap became one of country music's biggest stars. He scored seven No. 1 singles in a row, including the Grammy-winning "(I'm a) Stand by My Woman Man" and "What a Difference You've Made in My Life". The most significant of this series was "It Was Almost Like a Song" in 1977, a piano-based ballad, which became his most successful single of the 1970s. In addition to topping the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, the song was his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart since "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" reached No. 95; "It Was Almost Like a Song," reached No. 16. It was also his first song to make the Adult Contemporary Chart, stopping at No. 7. While the song was Milsap's only crossover success of the 1970s, he continued to achieve hits on the country music charts for the remainder of the decade.

Crossover success (1979–1992)
Milsap's sound shifted toward string-laden pop ballads during the late 1970s which resulted in crossover success on the pop charts beginning in the early 1980s. From 1980 until 1983, he scored a series of eleven No. 1 singles. Milsap's Greatest Hits album, released in 1980, included a new single, "Smoky Mountain Rain", which became a No. 1 smash on the country charts. The single peaked in the Top 20 on the pop music chart and also became the first of two Milsap songs to score No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Other crossover successes included the Top 5 pop single, "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", and two Top 20 songs in "I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World" and "Any Day Now", the latter which lasted five weeks at No. 1 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart. He also had some success with "He Got You". All four songs reached No. 1 on the country music charts.

Although the series of No. 1 hits ended in 1983, the last song of the series, "Stranger in My House", was still successful on all three charts, peaking at No. 5 on the country music chart, No. 23 on the pop music chart, and No. 8 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Just a few months later, "Don't You Know How Much I Love You" was released, becoming Milsap's last significant entry on the pop music chart, stopping at No. 58. However it, along with others, still became major successes on the Adult Contemporary chart. These successful singles include "Show Her", "Still Losing You", and finally, the Grammy-winning song "Lost in the Fifties Tonight" (his last pop crossover success) in 1985.

Between 1985 and 1987, Milsap enjoyed a series of uninterrupted No. 1  country singles, enjoying great success at this time with "She Keeps the Home Fires Burning", "In Love", "Snap Your Fingers", "Where Do the Nights Go", and the Grammy-winning duet with Kenny Rogers, "Make No Mistake, She's Mine".

In 1989, Milsap had his last No. 1 song with "A Woman in Love", although he still remained successful on the charts. Other Top 10 singles between 1989 and 1991 include "Houston Solution", "Stranger Things Have Happened", "Turn That Radio On", a remake of the 1950s hit "Since I Don't Have You" (his last adult contemporary hit) and "Are You Loving Me Like I'm loving You". With the help of writer Tom Carter, Milsap wrote and released his autobiography, titled Almost like a Song, in 1990.

In 1992, he had a major success with "All Is Fair in Love and War". The song featured rock guitarist Mark Knopfler on lead guitar and peaked at No. 11; his last top-40 country hit, "True Believer," peaked in 1993 at No. 30. By that time, however, Milsap's chart success began to decline.

Since 1993: Life today

Milsap has remained one of country music's best-loved and most successful artists despite the lack of radio airplay since the mid-1990s. In 1993, he left RCA for Liberty and released the album True Believer which failed to achieve significant radio airplay, although the title song scored No. 30 on the country chart. In 2000, Milsap resurfaced with a two-CD set, 40 No. 1 Hits, featuring a new single entitled "Time, Love, and Money". The new collection earned a gold record although the single failed to score on the charts.

In 2000, Milsap's biography was featured by A&E Networks's Biography television series. Milsap has also been featured by CMT's numerous shows, including 40 Greatest Men of Country Music and a 2005 episode of Crossroads with Tex-Mex rock group Los Lonely Boys.

During 2004, Milsap worked with producer Jerry F. Sharell to record his first non-country album since the early 1970s, Just for a Thrill. The project was a collection of American popular/jazz music standards which earned Milsap a Grammy award nomination that year. In 2006, Milsap signed with his former company RCA and returned to a mainstream, contemporary country music style with the album My Life. The first single was "Local Girls" which reached No. 54.

In 2009, Milsap released a two-CD set entitled Then Sings My Soul which featured 24 hymns and gospel songs, including "Up To Zion". "Up To Zion" was co-written by Gregory James Tornquist and Noreen Crayton and became a No. 1 hit on the southern gospel charts. On May 12, 2010, he was part of a Gaither Video Taping.

Milsap's studio album Country Again was released in July 2011. The album was a return to a more traditional country sound.

On May 2, 2013, Milsap performed at the memorial service of country legend George Jones, singing the Jones classic "When the Grass Grows Over Me". The service was broadcast live on CMT, GAC, RFD-TV, The Nashville Network, and Family Net as well as Nashville stations. SiriusXM and WSM 650AM, home of the Grand Ole Opry, broadcast the event on radio.

On December 27, 2013, it was announced that Milsap would release a new album. Summer #17 was released in March 2014. The album features new recordings of classic pop and R&B songs from the 1950s and 60's.

On June 1, 2014, Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Smoky Mountain Rain" #96 in their list of the 100 greatest country songs.

In 2016, Milsap was selected as one of 30 artists to perform on "Forever Country", a mash-up track of "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "On the Road Again" and "I Will Always Love You" which celebrates 50 years of the CMA Awards.

In October 2018, Billboard announced that Milsap would release a duets album, titled Ronnie Milsap: The Duets in January 2019. The album was released on January 18, 2019. The Duets album has many artists including Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Little Big Town and many other of Country Music's finest. It also has the last recordings of Leon Russell and Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry. The Duets album charted on three different charts. Listed in the order from highest. Independent Album chart #15 - Top Current Album Sales chart #47 - Top Album Sales chart #57. The Duets album is Ronnie's latest album charting to date! The only song from The Duets album to chart was "Smokey Mountain Rain" with Dolly Parton. Charting #27 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Spending 5 weeks on the chart - Debuted 07.27.19 - peaked 08.10.19.

Mid 2020 Ronnie added an audio clip on his website saying that he has a new home studio and he's been recorded a new album! Then later on Oct 15th Milsap's team announced the release of his recording of the Christmas version of "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" - "Merry, Merry Christmas Baby". The song was then released October 16, 2020. This is Ronnie's first Christmas material since his first and only Christmas album in 1986. Milsap released the album A Better Word for Love in 2021, recorded at Ronnie's Place and released by Black River Entertainment. In addition to releases in 2021 Ronnie reissued his long out of print Christmas (only on CD) album "Christmas With Ronnie Milsap". It was announced on Sept 22, 2021 then released November 12, 2021.

In March 2022 Michael Feinstein released his tribute to the Gershwin brothers "Gershwin Country" which Included none other than Ronnie on the recording of "Oh, Lady Be Good". Their duet was released on March 11, 2022, On April 13, 2022, Ronnie's team announced the production of a new podcast "Music and Milsap" produced by Marty Mackeever (Mr. Producer as Ronnie calls him). The first episode was released April 22, 2022. Available on Spotify, Ronniemilsap.com, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music & more. On May 1, 2022, Ronnie Inducted his longtime friend Ray Charles into the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Sometime over the summer of 2022 Ronnie was reported to have been in the studio recording with his longtime friend & album producer Rob Galbraith. The next album is said to be an American song book album. Then on September 15 Ronnie was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall Of Fame alongside Mavis Staples, Priscilla Presley, Jim Gaines and many others.

Turning 80 on January 16, 2023, Ronnie later celebrated his 80th birthday on March 25 on the Grand Ole Opry. He was joined by Trace Adkins, Little Big Town, Jeannie Seely, and a few others. Ronnie has been featured on the tribute album for The Gaithers entitled "Gaither Tribute: Award Winning Artists Honor The songs of Bill & Gloria Gaither". He'll be singing their song "I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About To Happen". The album will also feature Alabama, Reba McEntire, Ronnie Dunn, Lee Ann Womack & many others. Being released August 25, 2023. On October 3, 2023, Ronnie Milsap will be joined by many of their musical friends to do his final show at the Bridgestone Arena. Although Ronnie will be retiring from the road he isn't fully retiring from music. He will continue with his podcast "Music and Milsap" and he'll continue to record.

On June 30, Ronnie released his latest duet "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" with Deborah Silver.

Amateur radio operator
Milsap is an Advanced-class amateur radio operator. His call sign is WB4KCG.

Personal life
In 1965, Milsap married Joyce Reeves. They had one son, Ronald Todd Milsap, who was found dead on his houseboat at the age of 49 on February 23, 2019, from an apparent medical condition. Ronald's son, who had not heard from his father for the previous two days, found the body. Joyce, who had been battling leukemia since 2014, died on September 6, 2021, at the age of 81.

Discography

Industry awards and honors
Academy of Country Music
1982 Top Male Vocalist
1985 Song of the Year – "Lost in the Fifties Tonight"
1988 Instrumentalist of the Year, Keyboards
2002 Pioneer Award

Billboard
1980 No. 1 Country Song of the Year – "My Heart"
1985 No. 1 Country Song of the Year – "Lost in the Fifties Tonight"

Country Music Association
1974 Male Vocalist of the Year
1975 Album of the Year – "A Legend in My Time"
1976 Male Vocalist of the Year
1977 Album of the Year – "Ronnie Milsap Live"
1977 Entertainer of the Year
1977 Male Vocalist of the Year
1978 Album of the Year – "It Was Almost Like a Song"
1986 Album of the Year – "Lost in the Fifties Tonight
Country Music Hall of Fame 2014 Inductee

Grammy awards
1975 Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends"
1977 Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "(I'm a) Stand by My Woman Man"
1982 Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"
1986 Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "Lost in the Fifties Tonight"
1987 Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "Lost in the Fifties Tonight"
1988 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals – "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (w/ Kenny Rogers)

Music City News Country
1975 Most Promising Male Artist

Miscellaneous achievements
40 No. 1 hits, 35 of which reached the top spot on the Billboard chart; the remaining 5 topped other trade charts, including Cashbox
Over 35 million albums sold
Inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1976
Inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2002
Awarded the Career Achievement Award by Country Radio Seminar in 2006
Awarded the 2007 Rocketown Legend Award

Other honors
On December 2, 2020, six miles of U.S. 129 in Graham County, North Carolina, from Yellow Creek near Robbinsville to the Swain County line, was designated Ronnie Milsap Highway.

Bibliography

See also
List of best selling music artists

References

External links

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American country pianists
American male pianists
American country singer-songwriters
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Blind musicians
Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
Living people
Country musicians from North Carolina
People from Grifton, North Carolina
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RCA Records Nashville artists
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Musicians from Appalachia
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Kaiserschmarrn is a well-known Austrian dessert.  It was popular in the former Austria–Hungary as well as in Bavaria. The Czech name is "trhanec" or "kajzršmorn". In Hungary it is called "császármorzsa" or simply "smarni".

Overview
Kaiserschmarrn is a light, caramelized pancake.  It is made from a sweet batter using flour, eggs, sugar, salt, and milk, baked in butter. Kaiserschmarrn can be prepared in different ways.  When making Kaiserschmarrn the egg-whites are usually separated from the yolk and beaten until stiff. Then the flour and the yolks are mixed with sugar, and the other ingredients are added.  The pancake is split into pieces while frying, shredded after preparation.  It is usually sprinkled with powdered sugar, then served hot with apple or plum sauce or various fruit compotes. Kaiserschmarrn is eaten like a dessert.

Traditionally Kaiserschmarrn is served with Zwetschkenröster, a fruit compote made out of Plums.

References

Austrian food
Desserts
Baked foods

Kaiserschmarrn


Glistening Pleasure 2.0 is the second studio album by Seattle indie band Brite Futures, formerly Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. The album is their first release under their new band name. It features remastered versions of most of the songs that were on their first full-length album, Glistening Pleasure, excluding the songs "Mouth Full of Bones," "The Malibu Highlife" and "Beard Lust," all of which were not rereleased.

Prior to 2.0'''s release, the band took Glistening Pleasure out of production and off the market.

The album's title is a tongue-in-cheek spinoff of Justin Bieber's album My World 2.0''.

Track listing
 "Me + Yr Daughter" – 4:29
 "Slow Motion Tag Team" – 3:15
 "My Funk" – 3:10
 "Iceage Babeland" – 4:05
 "Sophisticated Side Ponytail" - 2:50
 "Holding Hands in the Shower" – 3:15
 "L.A. Noir" – 3:52
 "Staying Cool" – 3:45
 "Hush Hush" – 3:19
 "Bedroom Costume" – 3:07
 "Confections" – 4:38
 "Dog Eared Summer" - 4:17

2010 albums
Reissue albums

Glistening Pleasure 2.0


Paul Stuart Keetch (born 21 Mey 1961; died 24 Mey 2017) wis an Inglis politeecian, an a member o the Unitit Kinrick pairlament at Wastmeinster, representin the Leiberal Democrat pairty.  He represents the Hereford consteetuency in the Hoose o Commons.

1961 births
2017 daiths
Fowk frae Hereford
Politics o Herefordshire
Creetics o the European Union
Leeberal Democrat (UK) MPs
Members o the Pairlament o the Unitit Kinrick for Inglis constituencies
UK MPs 1997–2001
UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
Fowk associatit wi the Ryal Naitional College for the Blind
Cooncillors in Herefordshire

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John Davey (June 6, 1846 – November 8, 1923) was an English-American landscape architect, considered the father of the science of tree surgery.

Biography
John Davey was born in Stawley, Somerset, England on June 6, 1846. Although he did not learn the alphabet until his early 20s, his intellect and analytical skills allowed him to become a skilled orator, author, publisher and inventor.

John Davey mastered agriculture under the tutelage of his father, the superintendent of a large farm, after which he served a six-year apprenticeship in horticulture, floriculture, and landscape architecture in Torquay. He developed a strong work ethic and passion for arboriculture. Davey believed that great lengths should be taken to preserve natural resources, especially those that take more than a lifetime to replace.

He took his convictions to America in hopes of preserving ailing trees and providing quality horticultural services. He subsequently launched a landscape and greenhouse business in Warren, Ohio, and then, in 1880, founded The Davey Tree Expert Company in nearby Kent.

The company, still headquartered in Kent today, is a tribute to John Davey's ingenuity. His motto, "Do It Right Or Not At All", and his commitment to environmental stewardship are the guiding principles inspiring the company's approximately 7,000 nationwide employees.

Davey married Bertha Alta Reeves on September 21, 1879. He was the father of both Martin L. Davey, governor of Ohio from 1935 to 1939 and Paul H. Davey, founder of the Davey Compressor company. Davey also had sons Wellington, Ira, and James (Jim) as well as daughters Belle and Mary.

John Davey died at his home in Kent, Ohio on November 8, 1923.

Societal benefit/scientific advancement

Davey began to share his passion and science with the general public in 1878, when he published Davey's Floral and Landscape Educator, a monthly newsletter for his customers. His signature work came in 1901, when he self-published The Tree Doctor, a comprehensive arboricultural guide. It is generally acknowledged that this book spawned an industry - tree care - and was ahead of its time.

The Tree Doctor discussed Davey's inventions and laid the groundwork for future patents. Available for $1, it became the comprehensive resource for those interested in tree and landscape preservation, and featured a multitude of descriptive photographs to enhance understanding, a rarity in Davey's day.

He analogized tree surgery to physician care, effectively changing attitudes and perceptions. For John Davey it was simple. If you needed surgery, you visited the surgeon, not the local butcher. Likewise, trees needing repair should be examined and restored by "tree scientists", those versed in the latest methods of arboriculture.

Davey urged citizens and governments to adopt a scientific approach to tree preservation, and he used his expertise to champion the causes of environmental stewardship and urban forest preservation.

A prolific speaker on the Chautauqua circuit, John Davey would often waive his fee if the audience would promise to plant the seed packet that he had distributed at the beginning of the discourse. He employed innovative methods to communicate his passion for tree care, and often used lantern slide projections to illustrate his talks.

Awards

John Davey received wide acclaim among the influential thinkers of his day. His recognition as the leader in tree science came through his company being retained by the United States and Canadian governments and scions of industry to protect, preserve and restore their precious trees.

For example, in 1920, he received acclaim from such clients as The White House, The Naval Academy, and innovators and entrepreneurs Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller and William Wrigley.

Research/inventions

John Davey's inventions in the field of tree surgery were numerous, and included tree cavity filling, tree cabling and bracing, large tree moving and innovations in fertilization and disease prevention. He was the named inventor, joined by two sons, on two patents, and developed the research leading to twelve others patented by family members and employees of The Davey Tree Expert Company.

Pruning innovations

Among his most enduring innovations, now revised, was his theory of proper tree pruning. John Davey hypothesized that, just as a wooden house needs paint or waterproofing protection, tree wounds need to be sterilized and waterproofed to heal and remain impervious to decay.

He had also noted that improperly pruned trees were unable to heal themselves. He thus became an early advocate of proper pruning techniques, including an angled cut to conform to a tree's natural physiological processes. This proper pruning innovation was radical for the time period, and has only been adopted as the industry standard within the past 25 years.

Cavity filling

Davey observed that hollow trees often fell victim to wounds beginning as an exterior callous and inflicting decay inwardly on either side of the cavity. In response, he invented a cavity-filling process to replace the supporting surface artificially and to induce the callus to heal naturally over the face of the cavity.

Again analogizing tree science to the medical profession, Davey determined that tree experts, like dentists, could effectively fill a tree cavity with a special substance, disinfect it, and then apply a sealer to protect the wound. The tree's natural growth process would cover the cavity filling, preventing further damage and, most importantly, preserving a healthy tree.

Cavity filling is now considered to be damaging and is not part of modern arboriculture; avoidance of making large wounds is the modern approach, which entails avoiding interference with the natural decay compartmentalization processes.

Cabling and bracing

Davey's research demonstrated that certain trees by reason of their branching patterns were structurally weak. To preserve these trees, such as stately elms, Davey invented steel bracing and cabling methods that served as protection from the stress and strain associated with heavy winds and storms.

This allowed urban areas to prevent property damage due to falling trees. It also served to ensure the safety of pedestrians and homeowners.

The Davey compressor

John Davey's youngest and only son to serve in World War I, Paul H. Davey returned from his service and was placed in charge of research at the Davey Tree Expert Company. The young and ambitious Paul Davey developed and patented a lightweight air compressor to be used in tree surgery and developed his designs to the point that the Davey Compressor Company was incorporated in 1929 to begin production. the "Davey Compressor", an air-cooled compressor, was developed initially for use by The Davey Tree Expert Company however its uses would prove far reaching in the years ahead. The compressor was truly innovative for its time – it was much less bulky and more portable than the conventional water-cooled compressors of the day. The use of a finned aluminum head helped conduct heat away from the engine and therefore avoid the need for water-cooling. The new compressor, although lighter and smaller, easily matched the power output of conventional compressors, and allowed Davey to more efficiently use power spraying to remove decay from tree cavities. Paul Davey would go on to patent over 50 designs and improvements in the compressed air and related fields. The Davey Compressor Company thrived in Kent, OH and operated in the large factory that was once the repair shops for the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company. During World War II Paul Davey and his company turned the efforts of both his ingenuity and his factory towards war production. The company manufactured truck driven equipment, such as flood lighting and field servicing units, as well as compressors for military uses. After World War II the Compressor Company began production of truck mounted drilling equipment. Davey's new line of drills became a common sight putting in new highway right of ways, as well as drilling water wells, oil wells and blastholes. After years of continued success and growth with its drill rigs a new company was founded in 1981 by John Davey's great grandson and Paul Davey's grandson, Joseph Thomas Myers II. The new company, Davey Kent Inc. began the Davey Drill Division which still serves the world market for foundation and geotechnical drilling equipment.

Scientific study

A true scientist, Davey was committed to improving the technology and tools needed to advance tree care research. His company developed the rhisotron, an underground research station. The square, -deep station featured one side of polished plate glass with a unique subterranean vantage point, allowing Davey to view and directly study tree root growth.

The invention propelled Davey to become the first to prove that tree root growth is shallow and lateral, as opposed to deep and vertical, the view common among Davey's contemporaries. This discovery led to the development of root fertilization and watering techniques designed to stimulate the growth of the tree.

Davey's passion for scientific study and knowledge led to his founding in 1908 of the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery. This cutting edge training facility was staffed by experts and dedicated to providing Davey employees with the skill and tools needed to advance the science. The Davey Institute continues to this day to provide basic tree science as the educational foundation for company employees.

Works

Books
 The Tree Doctor (1901)
 Davey's Primer on Trees and Birds (1905)
 A New Era in Tree Growing (1907)

Patents

The following patents were directly attributable to John Davey. He successfully defended his patents in 35 Federal District Courts. Each time these courts issued injunctions to prevent infringement.

 Patent #US890967A (1908): Means for Tying Tree Branches Together
As part of the science of tree surgery, John Davey patented the method allowing for the bracing of two branches to avoid further splitting where a wound existed at the base. This was done preparatory to surgery in order to maintain branch health. The mechanical apparatus consisted of a chain link device with hook bolts and a shank at either end, allowing the tied branches to move as a unit rather than through separate, divisive forces.

 Patent #US890968A (1908): Process of Treating and Dressing a Bruise or Wound in the Trunk or Live Branch of a Live Tree
This process, pioneered and patented by John Davey, helped preserve and revitalize injured and/or dying trees through a method akin to surgery. By removing the decayed and unsound wood from the tree and then filling the wound with cementitious material and well-placed anchor ties, the tree could effectively be reinforced. The tree cavity was first coated with molten tar, and a drainage system installed, and a waterproof covering added to ensure sustained vitality.

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1923 deaths
English horticulturists
People from Taunton Deane (district)
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Adventure in Paris (French: Aventure à Paris) is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Jules Berry, Lucien Baroux and Danièle Parola. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Eugène Lourié.

Synopsis
A carefree young man in Paris is enlisted by his landlord to try and teach him how to woo women.

Cast
 Jules Berry as Michel Levasseur
 Lucien Baroux as Raymond Sauvaget
 Danièle Parola as Lucienne Aubier
 Arletty as Rose Blondel de Saint-Leu
 Robert Seller as Le vicomte de Joymont
 Germaine Aussey as Lili Schiaparelli
 Julien Carette as Le chasseur du restaurant
 Robert Vattier as Maître Corneille
 Alsonia as Ida
 May Francis as Suzanne
 Gisèle Préville as Solange Surnisse
 Chaz Chase as Lui-même
 Floyd Du Pont as Lui-même
 Ray Ventura as Lui-même
 France Aubert as La chanteuse
 Georges Bever as Le domestique de Raymond
 Lucien Callamand
 Jean Deiss
 Doumel
 Abel Jacquin
 Philippe Janvier
 Marc-Hély
 Robert Ozanne
 Robert Ralphy
 Jacques Scey
 Grégoire Aslan as Un membre de l'orchestre de Ray Ventura
 Louis Gasté as Un membre de l'orchestre de Ray Ventura
 Michèle Rauge

References

Bibliography
 James Robert Parish. Film Actors Guide. Scarecrow Press, 1977.

External links

1936 films
French comedy films
1936 comedy films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Marc Allégret
Films shot at Billancourt Studios
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1930s French films

Adventure in Paris


Epi-Olmec ("post-Olmec") may refer to:
Epi-Olmec culture, pre-Columbian archaeological culture/area in the coastal Veracruz region of Mexico, ca. 300BCE–250CE
Isthmian script, also known as Epi-Olmec script, a Mesoamerican writing system

Contrast with
Olmec, earlier and distinct Mesoamerican archaeological culture and tradition, dating ca. 1200–400 BCE
Olmeca-Xicalanca, a Mesoamerican culture living in Mexico's Veracruz and Tabasco regions at the time of the 16thC Spanish conquest

Epi-Olmec


John Ozell (died 15 October 1743) was an English translator and accountant who became an adversary to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.

He moved to London from the country at around the age of twenty and entered an accounting firm, where he was successful in managing the accounts of several large entities, including the City of London itself.  He was a Whig and probably a dissenter who associated with the prominent figures of the whig establishment in the 18th century.  He was particularly associated with Joseph Addison and the "little senate" that met at Button's Coffee House in Covent Garden.

He was financially well off, due to his accounting work. He died on 15 October 1743, a lifelong bachelor.

Works

Ozell taught himself several contemporary languages and had a good grounding in Latin and Greek from school. He began to act as a translator in addition to his work in accounting. Ozell's translations were not very strict, but they were of a better quality than those of his contemporaries.

In 1705, Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books had appeared as a preface to A Tale of a Tub.  The Battle of the Books was part of a general quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, where the question was between ancient authors (Homer, Virgil, Horace, and Aristotle) and contemporary ones and whether contemporary philosophy and science had surpassed what could be gathered from the classics.  Swift's version of the Battle has all contemporary authors, and he names several of them, swept away by the ancient authors that they glossed.  The Battle was based on Le Lutrin by Boileau, and Ozell performed his own translation of Le Lutrin in 1708.  In his version, the contemporaries being blasted away were Tory authors, and, in particular, William Wycherley.

Boileau was a great favorite of the "ancients" camp and the Scriblerus Club in particular.  In 1711 through 1713, Ozell published The Works of Monsieur Boileau.  He thus took the French neoclassicist for the Whig side.  This infuriated the Tory defenders of Wycherley, and both Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope struck back at Ozell.  In 1708, Pope wrote Epigram, Occasion'd by Ozell's Translation of Bioleau's Lutrin and said, "those were slander'd most whom Ozell praised."  Swift satirized Ozell in the Introduction to Polite Conversation, and Pope mentioned Ozell again in The Dunciad.  In that poem, Dulness shows her champion her powers of conception and
"How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape,
Less human genius than God gives an ape,
Small thanks to France and none to Rome or Greece,
A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new piece,
'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Congreve, and Corneille,
Can make a Cibber, Johnson, or Ozell." (I. 235-40)

In 1712, he translated Anne Dacier's French retelling of the Iliad into blank verse.  He was also at pains to express his anti-Catholicism with a translation of the life of Veronica of Milan, whom he termed a saint, in 1716 (just after a Jacobite uprising), and he took a political stance by translating Paul de Rapin's Dissertation sur les Whig et les Torys with a pro-Whig slant.

In 1728, the Dunciad Variorum appeared, and, the same year, Richard Bundy published a translation of Histoire romaine, depuis la fondation de Rome, a work Ozell was planning to translate.  Ozell wrote a long treatise enumerating Bundy's mistakes and Pope's villainy, and he took out an ad to attack his enemies.

In 1738, Ozell translated L'Embarras des richesses (The Embarrassment of Riches) by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval, in so doing popularising the English phrase 'an embarrassment of riches'.

References

 Williams, Abigail. "John Ozell". In Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 42, 295. London: OUP, 2004.

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British translators
1743 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Translators of Homer

John Ozell


Apheloria tigana, known as the Yellow-and-black flat millipede, is a large North American flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae. It is reported to secrete cyanide compounds as a defense. It is recommended that one wash hands after handling this organism as the toxic compounds it secretes are poisonous and can cause extreme irritation if rubbed in the eyes.

Characteristics include yellow paranota (lateral segmental expansions on the dorsa), a yellow mid-dorsal spot on the anterior margin of the collum or 1st segment, and yellow mid-dorsal spots on the caudal-most 3-5 segments. South of the Cape Fear River basin there is an undescribed Apheloria species with yellow middorsal marks on most segments.

A. tigana occurs in the Eastern United States, from southeastern North Carolina northward throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains.

References

External links

Apheloria tigana  - BugGuide
Millipedes (Diplopoda)

Polydesmida
Millipedes of North America
Animals described in 1939

Apheloria tigana


Sydney Francis Foster (March 23, 1893 Cazenovia, Madison County, New York – November 21, 1973) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life
He graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1911, and LL.B. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1915. In 1916, he became a special deputy county clerk of Madison County, and was admitted to the bar in 1917. In 1918, he went overseas, serving for two years in the Department of the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, and left the Army with the rank of sergeant. Afterwards he practiced law in Liberty, and was elected District Attorney of Sullivan County, New York, in 1925.

In 1928, he was elected to the New York Supreme Court (3rd District). He sat on the Appellate Division (3rd Dept.) from 1939 to 1942, and from 1944 on. He was Presiding Justice from 1949 on. In 1950, Syracuse University conferred an honorary degree of LL.D. on him.

In 1954, he ran on the Republican ticket for the New York Court of Appeals, but was defeated by Democrat/Liberal Adrian P. Burke.

On January 1, 1960, Foster was appointed to the Court of Appeals by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Charles S. Desmond as Chief Judge. In November 1960, Foster he ran on the Republican and Liberal tickets to succeed himself, and was elected. He retired from the Court of Appeals at the end of 1963 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years, and returned to the Supreme Court as a certificated trial justice until 1967.

He died from a heart attack.

Sources
The History of the New York Court of Appeals, 1932-2003 by Bernard S. Meyer, Burton C. Agata & Seth H. Agata (pages 24f)
 Court of Appeals judges
SYDNEY F. FOSTER, A RETIRED JUDGE; Member of the State Court of Appeals Dead at 80 in NYT on November 23, 1973 (subscription required)
 History of the Third Department, with portrait (page 26)
 Bio at Court History

1893 births
1973 deaths
Judges of the New York Court of Appeals
Cazenovia College alumni
Syracuse University College of Law alumni
People from Cazenovia, New York
People from Sullivan County, New York
New York Supreme Court Justices
Sullivan County district attorneys
New York (state) Republicans
20th-century American judges
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New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department justices

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Jhijhiya (also called Jhijhari) is a cultural folk dance of Mithila of India and Nepal. It is performed during the Dusshera festival, in the Hindu month of Ashwin (September/October). The dance is performed to offer devotion towards goddess Durga—the goddess of victory as well as to protect one's family, children and society from witches and dark magic.

It is performed for ten consecutive evenings, from the day of Ghatasthapana to Bijaya Dashami, by women and girls, in a group of five to fifteen, by placing earthen pitcher on their head and dancing in a rotation manner. Inside the pitcher a fire lamp is place and multiple holes are made on the pitcher. It is believed that if a witch is successful in counting the holes on the pitcher, the dancer dies immediately.

Origin myth

Since the culture is passed in oral forms from generation to generation, there is no exact authority about the origin of the dance form. According to a myth associated to the dance, there once lived a king named Chitrasen. His consort, the queen was an expert in dark arts. She was also significantly younger than the king. The royal couple was however childless. The king decided to name his nephew Balruchi as his successor. The queen was infatuated with Balruchi. She tried to woo him multiple times but failed every time. One day, the queen was frustrated and decided to take revenge on Balruchi. She used her black magic to pretend she was ill. The king ordered the Ayurvedic physician for her treatment. The Ayurvedic medicine was not successful against the queen's magic. She then told the king that only way she could be fine again was if she bathed in Balruchi's blood. The king was hesitant against that treatment but since he loved his wife and wanted to save her life, he ordered the soldiers to kill Balruchi and bring his blood.

The royal soldiers could not bring themselves to kill Balruchi and decided to free him in the forest. Instead they brought the blood of a deer, with which the queen bathed and became fine again. In the forest, Balruchi met an old woman. Since, Balruchi was hungry and needed a shelter, he asked some food and a place to stay for the night with that woman. The woman took pity on him and adopted him instead. The old woman was however a powerful witch. She and Balruchi stayed together. One day, the king and queen were passing through the forest, when one of the king's palanquin carrier died. A search for a man was made in the forest for another palanquin carrier and Balruchi was found. However, both Balruchi and king did not recognise each other and neither did Balruchi and the queen.

As the king's procession continued again, the king started to hum a song but forgot some lines. The king was not able to remember the lines even after several tries. Then the king heard the new palanquin carrier singing the remaining lines. Only one person beside the king knew the lyrics to the song and that person was Balruchi. In this way, he recognised Balruchi. The queen also felt guilty at that moment and she and the king both asked Balruchi for his forgiveness and asked him to come back at the palace. Balruchi decided to go back with them, which angered the old witch very much. She started performing magic spells at him, which hurt him. The queen recognised that there was some black magic behind Balruchi getting hurt. So, she also started performing magic to counter the spells of the old witch. The queen and the old witch had a magic battle, at which the old witch was defeated after which the king, queen and Balruchi returned to the palace.

Balruchi was again declared as the king's successor and the queen ordered to perform tantrik rituals every year for Balruchi's protection. The ritual was then adopted by the regular people too, who started performing them for the protection of their offspring and family.

Performance
The dance is performed by the people of Mithila of India and Nepal. The dance is performed every evening from the day of Ghatasthapana to Bijaya Dashami. It is believed that this dance is performed to protect one's children and society from witches. It is believed that the ritual was initiated to reduce the influence of the witches' magic upon one's family. Women dance with a clay pot on their head. Multiple holes are made inside the pot and a lamp is kept inside it. There is also a popular belief that if a witch succeeds in counting the holes in the pot placed on a woman's head, the dancing woman will die immediately.

After dancing at a holy site on the first day of Dusshera, Jhijhiya formally begins. After the formal beginning of the Jhijhiya dance, there is a tradition of going from house to house and showing the dance. The dancers then ask the owner of the house for grains and food for the offering on the final day. On the day of Vijayadashami, final prayers are performed and the collected grains and money is used to organize a feast.

Jhijhiya song
The dance has its own type of songs and rhythms. The dance is performed by rotating round and round at a fixed place while singing the Jhijhiya songs. The songs are accompanied by music from folk instruments such as Dhol, Manjira, etc. There are two types of songs sung while performing the dance. The first one is a song in praise of the goddess and the second song is sung for the protection against the witches and dark magic.

A verse of Jhijhiya song in Maithili language, with the English translation, is given below:

See also

 Sama Chakeva
 Chhath
 Deusi/Bhailo

References

Ritual dances
Dance in India
Folk dances of Bihar
Dance in Nepal
Nepalese folk dances
Culture of Madhesh

Jhijhiya


The Imitation Game is a television play written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre, a BBC Play for Today, first broadcast on 26 April 1980.

Plot

It is 1940 in Frinton and 19-year-old Cathy Raine turns down a job at the local munitions factory and, much to the consternation of her parents and boyfriend Tony, joins the ATS. She is assigned to a wireless listening station, transcribing Enigma coded Morse transmissions from Nazi Germany and makes friends with Mary. After an altercation in a pub she is moved to Bletchley Park, the centre of the code-breaking operation, only to find herself cleaning and making tea. She overhears the male staff discussing the eponymous imitation game (as devised by Bletchley Park's Alan Turing). Cathy is befriended by Cambridge mathematics don Turner (based loosely on Turing) and they end up in bed together but for Turner it is a failure and he accuses her of planning it all to humiliate him. Later Cathy is caught in Turner's room reading documents relating to the Ultra programme, and she is incarcerated in military prison for the remainder of the war.

Cast

Harriet Walter as Cathy Raine
Lorna Yabsley as Anna Raine
Bernard Gallagher as Mr. Raine
Gillian Martell as Mrs. Raine
Simon Chandler as Tony
Brenda Blethyn as Mary
Nicholas Le Prevost as Turner
Patricia Routledge as ATS Officer
Geoffrey Chater as Colonel in cell
Keith Marsh as Factory Clerk
Danny Webb as Dispatch Rider
Rhys McConnochie as Technical Officer

Inspiration

Writing in 1980, Ian McEwan stated: "Initially I wanted to write a play about Alan Turing, one of the founding fathers of modern computers', but his researches provided very little material, 'by this time other facts about Bletchley Park interested me more. By the end of the war ten thousand people were working in and around Bletchley. The great majority of them were women doing vital but repetitive jobs...The 'need to know' rule meant that the women knew as much as was necessary to do their jobs, which was very little. As far as I could discover, there were virtually no women in at the centre of the Ultra secret. There was a widely held view at the beginning of the war that women could not keep secrets. I had come to think of Ultra as a microcosm, not only of the war but of a whole society...By having a woman at the centre of the film (I no longer thought of it as a play), I could disguise my own ignorance about Ultra as hers. The idea was to have her move from the outermost ring to the very centre, where she would be destroyed."

References

External links

 Ian McEwan writes about his television plays · LRB 5 February 1981

Home Video

The Imitation Game will be available on DVD 1 October 2018.

1980 television plays
Enigma machine
Films with screenplays by Ian McEwan
Plays about World War II
Bletchley Park
Play for Today
Cryptography in fiction
Jonathan Cape books

The Imitation Game (play)


The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is an annual film festival organized by the Metro Manila Development Authority and held nationwide in the Philippines. The festival, which runs from Christmas Day through New Year's Day and into first weekend of January in the following year, focuses on Filipino produced films. During the course of the festival, movie theaters show only films that are approved by its jurors and exclude foreign films except in 3D theaters and IMAX theaters. It is one of the two Filipino major film festivals to exclude foreign films in a week-long period, the other being the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino happening during August.

The annual event began with the 1975 Metro Manila Film Festival, during which Diligin Mo ng Hamog ang Uhaw na Lupa ("Water the Thirsty Earth with Dew") directed by Augusto Buenaventura won the best film award. For the 28th edition in 2002, the festival was expanded to be nationwide in scope instead of simply being held in Metro Manila.

One of the festival highlights is the parade of floats at the opening of the festival. The floats, each one representing a movie entry with their respective stars, parade down usually Roxas Boulevard, as was the case in many of the previous awards. Beginning in 2017, however, the float parade is now usually hosted by each of the 17 local governments of the capital region. On the awards night, a Best Float award is also announced along with the major acting awards.

A sister festival which is a spin-off of the MMFF, the Summer Metro Manila Film Festival, was supposed to have its first edition in April 2020. but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; its inaugural edition was instead launched in April 2023.

History

A precursor of the current festival began in 1966. Then-mayor of Manila Antonio Villegas inaugurated the "Manila Film Festival" ("Manila Tagalog Film Festival"). It was set up in order to get Philippine films screened in "first-run" theaters which at that time only screened American films. It was a 12-day event from June 14 through June 24, Manila's birthday, during which only locally produced films could be shown in theaters. The festival featured a parade in downtown Manila of actors and the featured films. Most of the first batch of the festival films came up with English titles. Despite the lack of support, there were different changes in making the festival flourish.

The best films of Manila Film Festival included Daigdig ng mga Api (1966), Dahil sa Isang Bulaklak (1967), Manila, Open City (1968), Patria Adorada (1969), Dimasalang (1970), Cadena de Amor (1971), Elias, Basilio at Sisa (1972), Nueva Vizcaya (1973) and Alaala mo Daigdig Ko (1974).

In 1973, the Manila Film Festival was discontinued as Martial Law was imposed in September the year before. On September 21, 1975, during the Marcos Presidency, the filmfest was expanded to include all the other cities and towns in the newly formed Metro Manila and began under the name "1975 Metropolitan Film Festival" (MFF). In 1977, name was changed to "Metro Manila Film Festival".

After Villegas' death in 1984, a special award in the Metro Manila Film Festival, the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Award, was created in his honor and is given to the best film that best portrays Philippine culture and Filipino people to the world. MRN Film International's Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina? was the first one to receive the lifetime achievement award in 1990. Since then, it has been awarding prestigious films that deserves the honors.

In 2010, the film festival underwent some changes. First, the commercial viability criterion (box-office performance of the entries) was removed. As of 2010, the criteria for the selection of Best Picture(s) are: artistry; creativity and technical excellence; innovation; and thematic value. Entries are also judged for global appeal (70 percent) and Filipino cultural and/or historical value (30 percent). In addition, the festival format gave a tribute to independent "indie" films. Lastly, the established board of jurors was expanded to include housewives, drivers, students, teachers, etc. The festival logo was changed to feature a map of the Metropolis of Manila, based on the old seal of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority with seventeen stars on it symbolizing the 17 cities and municipality of Metro Manila. The logo for the first 35 festivals featured a torch.

In September 2011, Atty. Francis Tolentino, then-chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) changed the category name of "indie" films to "New Wave" films to make it sound better and more attractive to hear, as well as including "Student Short Film Category" for the first time. Consequently, the next year, the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival held in 2012 became the highest earning MMFF to date with 767 million pesos, 21% higher than that of 2011.

In January 2013 Interaksyon.com review, writer Jessica Zafra complained, "Speaking of standards, why do we bother to review the festival entries when most of them are rubbish? Because they're not supposed to be rubbish! Contrary to what you've been led to believe, 'entertainment' and 'commercial appeal' are not synonyms for 'garbage'. There are good commercial movies, and there are bad commercial movies. The bad outnumber the good because the studios think the viewers are idiots."

Notable incidents
There have been numerous notable incidents during the various festivals.

In 1977, director Lino Brocka walked out of the awarding ceremonies at the Metropolitan Theater when Celso Ad. Castillo's Burlesk Queen starring Vilma Santos won eight of the ten awards including the Best Picture award during the 3rd Metro Manila Film Festival. Brocka reportedly threw invectives at Rolando Tinio, who was the chairman of the panel of judges of the festival.

In 1978, the board of jurors decided to not award honors for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress on the 4th Metro Manila Film Festival. Instead, the jurors gave Nora Aunor a "Best Performer" award for her role in the movie Atsay. Aunor beat Vilma Santos, whom fortune-tellers on the then-popular talk show of Inday Badiday and many moviegoers predicted would win the award for her role in the movie Rubia Servios. When Nora accepted her award, she cried "Mama, mali ang hula nila" ("Mama, their prediction is wrong") in an apparent reference to the fortune-tellers.

In 1983, during the awards night of the 9th Metro Manila Film Festival, many were surprised after Coney Reyes won the Best Actress award for the movie Bago Kumalat ang Dugo and Anthony Alonzo won the Best Actor award for the same movie, besting acting greats Charito Solis, Phillip Salvador, and Vic Silayan, who were all in the movie Karnal. In addition, the jury's standards of giving Willie Milan the Best Director award against Lino Brocka was questioned.

In 1986, for the first time, the 12th Metro Manila Film Festival did not give out the traditional first and second Best Picture awards as well as the other two categories: Best Story and Best Screenplay. One of the jurors, Tingting Cojuangco stated: "No one of the seven entries deserved these awards..." She added that they: "...would like to express [their] concern over the current state of the Philippine movie industry as reflected in the entries to the year's MMFF...[The entries] failed to reinforce and inculcate positive Filipino values by portraying negative stereotypes, imitating foreign films and perpetuating commercially-oriented movies...".

In 1988 during the award-giving ceremony of the 14th Metro Manila Film Festival, stuntman and character actor-turned-filmmaker Baldo Marro won the Best Actor for the film Patrolman, which also won him the Best Director award. In fact, he was not known before this. He bested prizewinning director Chito Roño of Itanong Mo Sa Buwan in the division, sending uproar from well-meaning critics and regular local film observers. Nevertheless, the announced Best Director award went to Laurice Guillen.

In 1993, during the "Gabi ng Parangal" of the 1993 Metro Manila Film Festival, the list of winners was supposedly leaked.

In 1994, during the "Gabi ng Parangal" of 20th Metro Manila Film Festival held in PICC, the six major awards (Three Best Pictures, Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards, Best Director, and Best Screenplay) were not given as Alejandro Roces, chairman of the Board of Jurors announced that "none of the entries was deserving".

On December 27, 2001, during the 27th Metro Manila Film Festival, Cesar Montano, despite receiving the Best Actor award, expressed his disappointment that his film, Bagong Buwan did not receive the Best Picture award. He states: "For me, Bagong Buwan is still the best picture. No offense meant, but for others, Yamashita may be the best picture. Kanya-kanya 'yan. Wala nga lang kaming trophy. Bibili na lang kami ng trophy sa Recto. (To each his own. We just don't have a trophy. We'll just buy one in Recto)." referring to a strip on C.M. Recto Avenue in Manila notorious for manufacturing fake diplomas, certificates and trophies.

In 2002, the cast of the film Dekada '70 walked out of the award ceremonies after Lualhati Bautista failed to win the Best Story and Best Screenplay awards. Even more controversial was the decision of the judges to name first-timer Ara Mina the Best Actress for her role in Mano Po, beating multi-awarded Vilma Santos, who was in Dekada '70. In addition, the producers of the films Spirit Warriors: The Shortcut and Lastikman protested the non-inclusion of the two films as official entries, prompting the Festival committee to extend the annual event. Consequently, the committee extended the film screenings to seven days to accommodate two more films which did not make it to the entries. Chito Roño, director of Second Best Picture Dekada '70, expressed wonder as to why Spirit Warriors was named the Third Best Picture award if the officials disqualified it as an official entry. The production team of Ang Agimat: Antin-Anting ni Lolo was also appalled at the decision of the jurors to give the Best Visual Effects award to Spirit Warriors if they only use "mono", beating their use of the more advanced "Dolby Digital system".

In 2005, director Joel Lamangan walked out after he lost to Jose Javier Reyes. Lamangan failed to win the Best Director for Blue Moon against Reyes' Kutob. In the same year, Regal Films's matriarch Lily Monteverde voiced out her disappointment as she lamented that some winners in the festival were "undeserving".

In 2006, Octoarts Films and M-Zet Production's Enteng Kabisote 3: Okay Ka, Fairy Ko: The Legend Goes On and On and On was declared the Best Picture after festival organizers changed the criteria for the award by giving more weight to "commercial appeal". As it was the only prize that the film won, the decision to let the film receive it became the subject of yet another controversy at the festival. Movie producer Star Cinema made a protest to the MMDA and wrote to then MMFF chairman Bayani Fernando, claiming that the movie Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo should have won Best Picture because it topped the box office for the first few days.

In 2007, the awards night ended in less than an hour after festival organizers decided to just announce the winners without even mentioning the nominees for each category. The organizers explained that it had to be rushed and had to end at exactly 9pm because a concert, featuring singer Lani Misalucha, was scheduled right after the awards ceremonies.

In 2011, Amable "Tikoy" Aguiluz declined to accept the award for Best Director for the movie Manila Kingpin: The Asyong Salonga Story after he claimed that the movie "was edited without his consent beyond his recognition."

In 2014, Rina Navarro, one of the producers of Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo questioned the result of the panel's judgement in the awards night. The movie won the most coveted Best Picture award but failed to win the other major categories such as the Best Director award, the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, the Best Screenplay award, and the Best Original Story award all of which went to Dan Villegas' English Only, Please.

In 2015, a day before the awards night, Erik Matti's Honor Thy Father was disqualified for the Best Picture award after being screened at the Cinema One Originals. Dondon Monteverde, the film's producer, revealed that they did disclose this information beforehand. He attested that its premiere at the Cinema One festival did not generate revenue which complies by the rules. He also questioned the timing of this decision and demanded an investigation.

In 2016, the festival gained attention after its EXECOM {Executive Committee} announced the top 8 entries for the 2016 edition. Different from past years, the movies of certified box-office drawers Vice Ganda & Coco Martin's The Super Parental Guardians, Vic Sotto's Enteng Kabisote 10 and the Abangers, Regal Entertainment's Mano Po 7: Tsinoy and Vhong Navarro's Mang Kepweng Returns were rejected in that edition. This was the first edition of the festival that showed only independent films. But despite good reviews about the 8 entries, the film festival only grossed , or a  drop from 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival's . This led to commercial films returning to the festival the following year.

Scope

As the name suggest, the Metro Manila Film Festival ran by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority covers cinemas within Metro Manila. The initial allocation of cinema slots for the film festival's entry films are determined through lottery. This allocation system had only been applied for cinemas in Metro Manila in the past, but this now utilized for cinemas outside the metropolis as well. However cinemas are free to drop or continue to screen certain entry films after the first day. Cinemas outside Metro Manila are also free to screen non-entries, as was the case during the run of the 2016 edition, where non-entry mainstream films The Super Parental Guardians and Enteng Kabisote 10 and the Abangers were screened by select provincial theaters during the festival's run.

Festivals

Awards

The Gabi ng Parangal () serves as the awarding ceremony for participating films in the Metro Manila Film Festival.

Merit categories

Festival awards

Special awards

Other awards

Short film categories
 Best Short Film: since 2016
 Special Jury Prize: since 2016
 Best Director: since 2016
 Best Screenplay: since 2016

Defunct New Wave categories
 Best Full-Length Film: 2010–2015
 Best Actress: 2011–2015
 Best Actor: 2011–2015
 Best Director: 2012–2015
 Gender Sensitivity Award: 2011–2015
 Special Jury Prize: 2011–2015
 Best Student Film: 2011–2015
 New Wave Animation Best Picture: 2011–2015

Most received wins
This is a list of superlative Metro Manila Film Festival winners. This list is current as of the 2021 Metro Manila Film Festival "Gabi ng Parangal" (awards ceremony) held on December 27, 2021.

The following are fifteen films which have received ten or more awards in different categories.

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Most combined wins
Most combined awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.

Most combined awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Highest-grossing entries
The table shows the highest-grossing Filipino film entries in the Metro Manila Film Festival that hits the hundred million mark.

Note: All figures are in Philippine Peso.

Notes

References

External links
IMDB: Metro Manila Film Festival
Official website of the Metro Manila Film Festival

Philippine film awards
Film festivals in the Philippines
Festivals in Metro Manila
1966 establishments in the Philippines
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

Metro Manila Film Festival


Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970) was a British geologist  and Professor of Geology at Imperial College. From 1947-1948 he was president of the Geological Society.

Life

He was born at Whitstable in Kent on 17 December 1889 the son of Herbert Read, a dairy farmer, and his wife, Caroline Mary Kearn. He attended St Alphege Church School in Whitstable then Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury. He then studied Sciences at the University of London, graduating BSc in 1911.

In the First World War he served in the Royal Fusiliers seeing active service on the Somme and at Gallipoli. He was invalided out of service in 1917 and returned to HM Geological Survey (Scottish section), where he had begun briefly in 1914. He stayed with the survey until 1931.

In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Horne, Sir John Smith Flett, Murray Macgregor and Sir Edward Battersby Bailey. From 1931 to 1939 he was Professor of Geology at Liverpool University.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939 and won its Royal Medal in 1963 for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the processes of rock metamorphism and the origins of granite". He also was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1935, the Wollaston Medal in 1952 and the Penrose Medal in 1967. He served as Dean of the Royal School of Mines from 1943-45.

He died on 29 March 1970. In 1917 he had married Edith Browning.

Publications
British Regional Geology: The Grampian Highlands. Second edition (1948) revised by A.G. MacGregorGeology: An Introduction to Earth History (1949)The Granite Controversy (1957)Beginning Geology (1966)Later Stages of Earth History'' (1975)

Quotes
"The best geologist is he who has seen the most rocks." (H. H. Read, 1940)

References

1889 births
1970 deaths
People from Whitstable
Alumni of the University of London
20th-century British geologists
Royal Medal winners
Penrose Medal winners
Wollaston Medal winners
Fellows of the Geological Society of London
Academics of Imperial College London
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Presidents of the Geologists' Association

Herbert Harold Read


Photorealism is a style of painting or drawing. The picture is done with a lot of detail to make it look exactly like a photograph. The subjects pictured were often boring, without any special interest. Photorealism developed as an art style in the 1960s and 1970s. Two famous photorealist artists are Richard Estes and Chuck Close.

References

Art movements

Photorealism


Of the 3,300 species of flowering plants in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in southern India, 132 are endemic. The reserve encompasses portions of the Western Ghats and Nilgiri Hills in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. They are listed by plant family. Plants with an asterisk* are listed in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Plants with a dagger (†) are presumed extinct.

References

Endemic flora of the Western Ghats
Flora of Karnataka
Flora of Kerala
Flora of Tamil Nadu
Endemic
Nilgiri, Endemic
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
South Western Ghats montane rain forests

List of endemic plants in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve


Soft laser desorption (SLD) is laser desorption of large molecules that results in ionization without fragmentation. "Soft" in the context of ion formation means forming ions without breaking chemical bonds. "Hard" ionization is the formation of ions with the breaking of bonds and the formation of fragment ions.

Background
The term "soft laser desorption" has not been widely used by the mass spectrometry community, which in most cases uses matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) to indicate soft laser desorption ionization that is aided by a separate matrix compound. The term soft laser desorption was used most notably by the Nobel Foundation in public information released in conjunction with the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Koichi Tanaka was awarded 1/4 of the prize for his use of a mixture of cobalt nanoparticles and glycerol in what he called the "ultra fine metal plus liquid matrix method" of laser desorption ionization. With this approach, he was able to demonstrate the soft ionization of proteins. The MALDI technique was demonstrated (and the name coined) in 1985 by Michael Karas, Doris Bachmann, and Franz Hillenkamp, but ionization of proteins by MALDI was not reported until 1988, immediately after Tanaka's results were reported.

Some have argued that Karas and Hillenkamp were more deserving of the Nobel Prize than Tanaka because their crystalline matrix method is much more widely used than Tanaka's liquid matrix. Countering this argument is the fact that Tanaka was the first to use a 337 nm nitrogen laser while Karas and Hillenkamp were using a 266 nm Nd:YAG laser. The "modern" MALDI approach came into being several years after the first soft laser desorption of proteins was demonstrated.

The term soft laser desorption is now used to refer to MALDI as well as "matrix free" methods for laser desorption ionization with minimal fragmentation.

Variants

Graphite
The surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization (SALDI) approach uses a liquid plus graphite particle matrix. A colloidal graphite matrix has been called "GALDI" for colloidal graphite-assisted laser desorption/ionization.

Nanostructured surfaces
The desorption ionization on silicon (DIOS) approach is laser desorption/ionization of a sample deposited on a porous silicon surface. Nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry (NIMS) is a variant of DIOS that uses "initiator" molecules trapped in the nanostructures. Although nanostructures are typically formed by etching, laser etching can also be used, for example as in laser-induced silicon microcolumn arrays (LISMA) for matrix-free mass spectrometry analysis.

Nanowires

Silicon nanowires were initially developed as a DIOS-MS application.   This approach was later commercialized as Nanowire-assisted laser desorption/ionization (NALDI) uses a target consisting of nanowires made from metal oxides or nitrides. NALDI targets are available from Bruker Daltonics (although they are marketed as "nanostructured" rather than "nanowire" targets).

Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI)

The  surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) variant is similar to  MALDI, but uses a biochemical affinity target. The technique known as surface-enhanced neat desorption (SEND) is a related variant of MALDI with the matrix is covalently linked to the target surface. The SELDI technology was commercialized by Ciphergen Biosystems in 1997 as the ProteinChip system.  It is now produced and marketed by Bio-Rad Laboratories.

Other methods
The technique known as laser induced acoustic desorption (LIAD) is transmission geometry LDI with a metal film target.

References

External links
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 – Information for the Public

Ion source
Mass spectrometry

Soft laser desorption


Michael Patrick Lawrence (born January 14, 1983) is an American comedian and writer from Davie, Florida. He formerly lived in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Early life
Lawrence was born in Miami but grew up in Davie, Florida. He attended Western High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University in English.

When he was 16 years old, he began working at a McDonald's in southern Florida. He attributes his ability to deal with hecklers to his time spent at McDonald's working the drive-thru. In his podcast interview on WTF with Marc Maron, he stated, "Heckling doesn't bother me because I've been yelled at for McNuggets."

Career
Lawrence started his career at the age of 15 by performing poetry at open mic nights in 1998. After realizing that the part he liked most about it was making people laugh, he moved to comedy.

In 2010, Lawrence was named one of the New Faces at the largest comedy festival in the world, Just for Laughs. He later performed at the festival in 2012 at both the Montreal and Chicago festivals. While in Montreal, he recorded a set for HBO Canada's Funny as Hell.

In 2011, Lawrence performed at Lance Bangs' Come Laugh With Us at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival with fellow features Kristen Schaal, Fred Armisen, Jon Daly, and Brett Gelman. Mike also performed on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show with fellow features Hannibal Buress, Michael Ian Black, and Hari Kondabolu. He regularly opened for Oliver soon after.

In 2012, Lawrence also made his first appearance on Conan O'Brien's TV show, Conan.

In 2013, his comedy album Sadamantium was released by Comedy Central Records in conjunction with his half-hour special on The Half Hour. Sadamantium was recorded at the Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown Comics. The album received positive reviews from The Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, America's Comedy, and The Laugh Button. In September, he wrote a piece for The Huffington Post called The Five Most Important Things I've Learned Doing Comedy in New York That I'd Pass on To Newer Comics where he shares his feelings about comedy and his career. He performed again on Conan in this year. Lawrence wrote a piece for and was a guest on W. Kamau Bell's show Totally Biased.

Podcasts
Lawrence hosts the Nerd of Mouth podcast with Jake Young on the New York City-based comedy podcast network, Cave Comedy Radio. Episodes are published weekly. Topics discussed on the podcast include comic books, video games, TV shows, and movies; things that Lawrence enjoys. Lawrence and the podcast were featured on an episode of Toy Hunter in the episode called Nerd of Mouth, in 2013.

Lawrence has also been a guest on many notable podcasts, including You Know What Dude! with comedian Robert Kelly, You Made It Weird with comedian Pete Holmes, WTF podcast with comedian Marc Maron, The Adam Carolla Show with Adam Carolla, Keith and The Girl with Keith Malley, The K Ohle Show with Kurt Braunohler, Hollywood Handbook with Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport, The Artie Lange Show hosted by comedian Artie Lange, "What Say You?" with Brian "Q" Quinn and Sal Vulcano of Impractical Jokers, and "What Do You Know?" with Joel Heyman of Rooster Teeth.

Personal life
He has one brother and sister. Lawrence married Adina Pliskin in 2014.

In 2021 Lawrence was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.

Filmography

Television
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|John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show
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|2012
|Naked Truth
| Writer
| TBS pilot for panel comedy show hosted by Tom Papa
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|2012–2013
|Conan
| Himself
| Guest comedian
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|2013
|The Half Hour
| Himself
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|2013
|Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
| Himself
| One episode. Wrote a piece for the show.
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|2013
|Toy Hunter
| Himself
| Featured in the episode Nerd of Mouth
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| 2013-2014
| @midnight
| Himself
| Five episodes
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| 2016
| Roast Battle
| Himself
| First Place Winner
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| 2018
|Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents| Himself
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Discography
 Sadamantium'' (2013)

References

External links

American stand-up comedians
American comedy writers
American male comedians
21st-century American comedians
Living people
People from Davie, Florida
People on the autism spectrum
1983 births
Florida Atlantic University alumni
Comedians from Florida

Mike Lawrence (comedian)


ESPN Africa is an African pay television sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%), that was re-branded in August 2014, replacing Setanta Sports and Setanta Action. The channel broadcasts in Sub-Saharan Africa in English and French. It was also previously available for a brief period in 2016 in Portuguese.

Its programming mainly features football from Eredivisie, Scottish Premiership, Belgian Pro League and English Football League. The network was also a long-standing broadcaster of the South American competitions Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana across Africa until the rights moved in 2017.

Also broadcasts: NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, NCAA, PFL, NRL rugby league and Basketball Africa League.

Previously, as the Irish-owned Setanta Africa, the channel broadcast GAA hurling and gaelic football, plus League of Ireland football.

In August 2019, it was announced that the network would rebrand as ESPN Africa on 30 August 2019, due to the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.

References

External links

ESPN media outlets
Sport in Africa
Sports television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Television in Africa

ESPN Africa


Medal of Honor: Heroes is a first-person shooter video game developed by Canadian studio Team Fusion for the PlayStation Portable, and is the ninth installment in the Medal of Honor series. It was released on October 23, 2006 in North America.

A direct sequel, Medal of Honor: Heroes 2, was released the following year on the PSP and the Wii.

Plot
The player takes the role of various heroes from the Medal of Honor series. There are three different campaigns, each with its own hero that spearheads squads to complete objectives. These heroes are: Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson, who was the star of the original Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor: Frontline, Sergeant John Baker from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough, and Lt. William Holt from Medal of Honor: European Assault. The campaigns take place in Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

After the player beats the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, they are treated to the end cinematic. It shows that Patterson proposed to Manon, but the mission briefer adds that a response has not been reported yet.

Gameplay
Objectives include sabotage, infiltration, capturing certain objectives. Most missions in each campaign include the player blowing something up, killing a certain number of enemies, stealing enemy intel, and then sometimes returning to a certain location to escape. There are three different levels to be attained in each level: bronze, silver and gold. To score bronze, the player must complete all primary objectives. To score silver, the player must complete the primary and secondary objectives. Gold is the same as silver but the player must have high accuracy and kills. Obtaining these different levels increases the player's rank and helps the player complete the game to 100%. Through gameplay, players may unlock skins to use in multiplayer and skirmish mode.

Multiplayer
Heroes features an online multiplayer that allows for 32 players in a match. It also lets the player access real weapons. These include the M1 Garand, Thompson submachine gun, M1911 pistol, and bazooka. Gameplay modes include Deathmatch, Infiltration, Demolition, Hold the Line, Battlelines, and Domination. Unlike most other online multiplayer games, no points are awarded even if the player successfully brings an enemy flag back to the base and scores. The game also has a ranking system that gives players' ranks by their kill-death ratios. It also has a top 100 leaderboard and the ranking system goes to 10,000-1.

Electronic Arts terminated online mulitplayer functionality for the Heroes duology on August 11, 2011, although players have bypassed the shutdown by leveraging XLink Kai or adhoc Party, the software that connects all players worldwide, provided that they have access to a wireless router.

Reception

The game received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

References

External links

2006 video games
Electronic Arts games
Heroes
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer online games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Team Fusion games
Video games developed in Canada
Video games set in Belgium
Video games set in Italy
Video games set in the Netherlands
Video games using Havok
World War II video games

Medal of Honor: Heroes


Hucclecote is a suburb in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, comprising a ward (population 8,826) in the City of Gloucester. It is located on the periphery of the city, between Barnwood and Brockworth, along Ermin Way, an old Roman road connecting Gloucester with Cirencester and the Cotswolds.

History and background
Hucclecote has been settled since ancient times, and a Roman villa dating from the second or third century AD has been found at Hucclecote. By the time that the Domesday Book was written in 1086, the village comprised 16 households. Administratively, it was recorded as lying within the hundred of Dudstone, in the county of Gloucestershire.

Later, Hucclecote was a hamlet in the ancient parish of Churchdown.

Hucclecote was a small village until development began prior to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Development was halted during the war and the area was bombed by the Luftwaffe due to the aircraft factories and other industrial facilities in the area, which were originally within the boundary of Brockworth. Due to redistricting, the airfield from which the world's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor, took off for test flights is now within the boundary of Hucclecote. The area bordering Brockworth is currently undergoing redevelopment, with the derelict land that formerly housed the airfield and factory having made way for Coopers Edge, a housing development of 1,900 homes, as well as shops and a school. The nearby Gloucester Business Park currently has a Tesco Supermarket, a Premier Inn, and many office buildings, with restaurants and other retail facilities currently being added.

Ermin Way through Hucclecote was a major trunk route until the construction of the Brockworth Bypass in 1995. Until the construction of the Severn Bridge in 1966, this was a strategic route from the south of England to south Wales, as the lowest bridge crossing of the River Severn was at Gloucester.

Hucclecote is split into two parts; with the dividing line being the M5 Motorway bridge. The part to the west of the bridge, and thus closest to Gloucester, is the larger part, and falls under Gloucester City Council, while to the east of the bridge, the Parish of Hucclecote is part of Tewkesbury Borough Council.

Origin of the name 'Hucclecote'
Possibly, though very doubtfully, Hucclecote derives from Welsh: 'Uchel'+'coed' = high wood (cf Wotton & Barnwood) meaning that the name 'Hucclecote' could be rendered as 'tall trees' or 'lofty woods'.

A "cote" is: A small shed or shelter for sheep or birds. [Middle English, from Old English.] cote
 2 (k t). tr.v. cot·ed, cot·ing, cotes Obsolete. To go around by the side of; skirt.

Eilert Ekwall gives the meaning as The COT of Hucel's people.

Floods of Summer 2007
During the floods of Summer 2007, Hucclecote escaped the damage on the scale that afflicted other parts of Gloucester. However, on Friday 20 July 2007, a few roads were submerged, which prevented access to many homes, and were blocked off by the Police. During the period, many homes were without water for two weeks, and some were also without electricity.

The Dinglewell area was badly affected, with one house receiving 18" of brook water throughout the lower floors.

Amenities

Hucclecote has many locally owned shops and two pubs; The Royal Oak and The Wagon & Horses, both operated by national chains. There's also the Community Centre Club Bar.
National brands such as The Co-operative and Lloyds Pharmacy have branches in the village. There are three schools in Hucclecote: Hillview primary school and Dinglewell Infants and Juniors.

The locals like to refer themselves as villagers.

In 2018, over 10,000 visitors are expected to the Hucclecote Show, a fayre held in George V playing fields and run by the Hucclecote Community Association.

Economy
The average household income was £27,040 in 2012.

Notable Residents
The antiquary Richard Furney lived  in Hucclecote.

The noted amateur rose grower Conway Jones (1846-1929) lived at Blenheim House.

The local solicitor, amateur botanist, poet and bibliophile John Wilton Haines (1875-1960) was a friend of the Dymock poets and his archive includes correspondence with various twentieth century literary figures.

Notes

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Areas of Gloucester

Hucclecote