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Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna is an American producer, director, and writer. He is best known for his work in the science fiction and horror film genres. Yuzna began his career as a producer for several films by director Stuart Gordon, such as Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986), before making his directorial debut with the satirical body horror film Society (1989).

He also served as a co-writer for the comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). Yuzna was the first American filmmaker to adapt a manga, Bio Booster Armor Guyver, into a live-action feature, The Guyver (1991). He has helmed several adaptations of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, and has assisted many first time directors, including Stuart Gordon, Christophe Gans, and Luis De La Madrid, in getting their projects made.

Early life
Yuzna was born in Manila, Philippines, to American parents. He grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Panama, before moving to the United States in the 1960s, settling in Atlanta, Georgia. Yuzna was raised a Roman Catholic. Throughout the 1970s, Yuzna lived on a commune in North Carolina and worked jobs as a carpenter and at a restaurant.

Career
Yuzna began his career as a producer, co-producing the horror films Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), and Dolls (1987) for his friend, director Stuart Gordon. He also co-wrote From Beyond. The same year, Yuzna co-wrote the comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids alongside Gordon. In 1989, he made his directorial debut with the satirical body horror film Society, which focuses on a wealthy Beverly Hills community who are of a mutant species who feed on the social classes beneath them.

Yuzna went on to direct a series of horror sequels, including Bride of Re-Animator (1990), Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990), and Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993), before directing The Dentist (1996), a horror film about a murderous Los Angeles dentist who dentally tortures his victims. Yuzna also directed its sequel, The Dentist 2 (1998).

Having collected a large following in Europe, Yuzna started Fantastic Factory, with Julio Fernández, a label under the Barcelona film company Filmax, in the early-2000s. His goal was to produce "modestly budgeted genre (horror, science fiction, fantasy) films for the international market (shot in English language) using genre talent from all around the world and to develop local talent".

He was last working as the producer of the Wehrmacht zombie movie Worst Case Scenario, directed by Richard Raaphorst, which takes place after a fictional World Cup 2006 finale between Germany and Netherlands where Germany loses and seeks revenge with a zombie invasion. In May 2009, it was announced that this project was dead. The film eventually became Frankenstein's Army and was released in 2013. After four years, he returned to the director's chair and filmed Amphibious 3-D which stars Michael Paré and Francis Magee.

In 2014, in Hollywood, the Cinefamily screened and celebrated the 25th anniversary of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with Yuzna as guest of honor. In 2015, a retrospective of his work of 30 years, Brian Yuzna, A Retrospective, was presented and screened at the theater in the Soho House West Hollywood, curated by Diana Lado and produced by Logan Yuzna. In 2016, a new Yuzna-directed film was announced, The Plastic Surgeon, starring Corbin Bernsen and producer by Yuzna's production house, Dark Arts Entertainment. By the end of 2023, he was working on a novelization of the film Society.

Distinctions

 * 2014: Honorary Member of the Catalan Academy of Cinema in Barcelona

Personal life
He is married to Cathy Cherry Yuzna. They have four children: Conan Yuzna, Zoe Yuzna, Noah Yuzna and Logan Yuzna. He also has a daughter, Mercedes Bauer / Mercedes Perez-Bode from a previous relationship.

Film
Executive producer
 * Warlock (1989)
 * Ticks (1993)
 * Worst Case Scenario (2009)
 * Suitable Flesh (2023)

Associate producer
 * Bloody Bridget (2022)

Guest appearances

 * Stephen King's World of Horror (1986)
 * The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1989)
 * Fear in the Dark (1991)
 * Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror (1997)
 * Metrópolis (2001)
 * Working with a Master: Stuart Gordon (2006)
 * Re-Animator Resurrectus (2007)
 * Science of Horror (2008)
 * Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)

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Talk:Thelma and Louise

Removed contributions of User:200.113.117.204. There is no such thing as a plutonium mine, so I also doubt the other trivia facts. pstudier 07:40, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * they were all in the directors commentary of thelma and louise, ill try to see them what they were and discuss here what Scott sayd

# Scott fondly described actor Harvey Keitel as a rather childish actor, specially for one scene in which Keitel races another cop to the door bell (wich was improvised by Keitel).

from the directors commentary, time: 1:10:56

"That's Harvey... typical Harvey, having fun, he shoves the guy to one side as he race for the door.

Harvey is actually in many respects like a kid, harvey is a real kid... wich is one of his charming parts of his character, when you really get to know him."

# The old man from the abandonned plutonium mine and the ciclist were not actors, but rather real people that were hired on the spot (hence why they have no lines)

and on this matter, there are 2 different comments here, the first thing i must say, is that the ciclist is actually an actor, but theres a story on how i got confussed about it:

from the directors commentary, time: 1:39:58:

"Ive seen a rastafarian, on a mountain bike in that gear and i couldnt believe (...) we passed him and a mile ahead on i kept thinking about him and i sayd "Daisy, turn the car around and lets go back and find that guy". We found him and phtographed him and thats were i cast... the way the mountain biker looks on this"

and on the old guy, you were right, there are no plutonium mines, he was talking about a Uranium mine! (heh, they sound alike), anyways, heres the comment:

time: 1:19:9

"we found the oldman here, who lives in the trailer here, this is a minning community in the middle of Nowhere and was for uranium, all closed down, the oldman was 95 and had been a uranium miner and had only stopped minning 5 years before, physiclly"

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 * 1) Film reviewer Roger Ebert was confronted by Oprah in her show, as he said that it was buddy movie, she replied that it was a movie about sisterhood, which made all the female audience to aplaud Oprah's view (it eventually ended up in Ebert doing one of his re-reviews of a film, wich has happened a few other times)''

I found 2 Ebert reviews about Thelma & Louise, the first one  its a serious review, Ebert speaks of the movie in general lines. But, luckily i found the other review that backs up my previous statements

''Not long ago, I found myself discussing "Thelma & Louise" on the Oprah Winfrey program. "It's a female buddy movie," I said, meaning that as praise. "It isn't, either," a woman in the audience replied. "It's about sisterhood!" She got a rousing burst of applause. I wanted to ask her what the difference was between buddyhood and sisterhood, and then I realized something: That was the whole point.''

So i was basicly wrong, but right at the same time... ok, i was just wrong. But my trivia was only wrong in 2 things: 1.-Oprah did not really "Confronted" Ebert, he basiclly talked about the movie with him, 2.- Oprah never sayd that it was about sisterhood, a woman in the audience sayd it.

But all in all, Ebert wrote a piece on it, but certainly did not re-wrote his first review he made. (still, its worth a mention, i think)

Utah vs. the Grand Canyon
Although the scenes in the desert were filmed in Utah, the canyon that the women drive into is clearly meant to be the Grand Canyon. Just because the film was not shot on location doesn't mean that they were mistaken about what canyon they drove into. Joyous | Talk 22:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Coolgardie, Western Australia

population after was 2,ooo then soon after raised

Lack of Aboriginal Reference
Like many discussions of Western Australian history, Aborigines are totally absent. Can this be added. John D. Croft 01:41, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I guess the article could mention the supposed aboriginal origin of the name Coolgardie, and mention that the Wangai people lived in that general area (they weren't limited to the town site). However I would have thought that there are more significant points that are missing in this article. The article makes no mention of Arthur Bayley or William Ford, and they were the ones who discovered the gold that led to the establishment of the town in the first place! Not everything in WA is about aboriginals you know. As I understand it, Coolgardie isn’t particularly significant in Aboriginal history in the way that, say, Moore River, Rottnest Island, or even Northam (where the population were “cleared out” for “health reasons” in 1933) are. Nor have I heard about aboriginals being particularly prominent in the founding of the town, or the development of its mines (that may be my ignorance, but do you know differently?), and given the attitudes of the time, I wouldn’t expect otherwise. I haven’t heard of any great massacre of aboriginals in Coolgardie or the surrounding area either – if there was, it should go in. I guess that a proportion of the 800 people there today are aboriginals, but I don’t think it’s a town with a particularly high aboriginal population, unlike Wiluna. It seems a bit pointless to say that the population “includes aboriginals” – weasel words that apply to just about every town in the state and don’t add anything much to a reader’s knowledge of the town. You could give an ethnic breakdown of the population (do we even have one?) but is that a true aboriginal reference? That said, I think the aboriginal connection to the area, and the fact the name is apparently of aboriginal derivation, is at least as notable as the "Afghan" camel drivers, who got a whole paragraph devoted to them for some reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.58.245.247 (talk) 14:46, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

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Croaker, Virginia

Croaker is an unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia, United States on the south bank of the York River 10 miles downstream from West Point. The York River is formed from the confluence of the Mattaponi River and the Pamunkey River at West Point. The York River empties into the Chesapeake Bay about 30 miles downstream from Croaker.

The name "Croaker" is believed to have derived from the abundant quantity of Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus), an inshore, bottom-dwelling fish found in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the York River.

The town of Croaker was known in its early history as Taskinas Plantation, then Hollywood (due to the many holly trees). "Taskinask" was designated by the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 as the site public tobacco warehouse where local planters stored their crops to be shipped to England.

Croaker had several stores, two schools, a church, and several houses by the early 20th century. Some of the shopkeepers who established a presence before 1950 were members of the Garrett family. Garrett's Grocery opened in 1909 and was run by five generations of the family until its closing on December 31, 2013. Croaker General Store took over the building and opened up on May 25, 2015.

In February 2006, the historic Norge railroad station (circa 1908) of the Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) was relocated about 1 mile to a site adjacent to the James City County Branch of the Williamsburg Regional Library (opened in 1996) on Croaker Road. The following month, work was underway to set a new foundation for the building.

York River State Park, opened in 1980, is located at Croaker. In the state park, the historical Croaker Landing is an archaeological site listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1987.

While much of Croaker is now within York River State Park, the remaining area is divided among residential, farming, and woodland area. Interstate 64 skirts the edge of the community, and it is accessed from Exit 231, which is signed "Croaker-Norge." The old Richmond-Williamsburg Stage Road, now U.S. Route 60, also is nearby.

President heads
There is also a farm where 20-foot busts of the former presidents all the way up to George W. Bush are located. However, they are in a moderate state of disrepair. Said busts were once located at an old tourist attraction called Presidents Park, which went bankrupt in 2010, but have since been relocated to 8212 Croaker Road, at the site of local recycling company Hampton Roads Materials.

The movement of the busts from Presidents Park to their current location caused damage to the busts but saved them from being destroyed altogether. Using cranes, each bust was carefully lifted from its base, resulting in damage to each sculpture's during the removal process. The crane was affixed to a steel frame within the busts via a hole created atop each sculpture's head; Smithsonian Magazine comments that the resulting hole in the back of Abraham Lincoln's head is reminiscent of Lincoln's assassination. Following this process, every president's bust was transported on a flatbed truck to the field where they now reside.

The busts are now available to visitors for viewing at specific times throughout the year through organized tours. In prior years, the busts had been off-limits to visitors, owing to the site's then-lack of permits for tourist use.

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Amphitheatre, Victoria

Amphitheatre is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Pyrenees Highway in the Pyrenees Shire, south-west of Avoca. At the, Amphitheatre and the surrounding area had a population of 223.

The Avoca River rises near the town, at the foot of Mount Lonarch. Gold was discovered in the area in 1853, and a settlement was established at Amphitheatre as a result. By 1857, the Cobb and Co Telegraph Line of stage coaches passed through Amphitheatre on the Maryborough to Ararat line.

A post office opened on 22 June 1859.

The Avoca-Ararat railway, which opened in 1890, included a station at Amphitheatre. The station was closed, along with the line, in 1959. Although the line was eventually reopened, the station was not.

Amphitheatre has a primary school.

Amphitheatre Anzac Avenue
The Amphitheatre Anzac Avenue was planted on 7 June 1917. The girlfriend, fiancée or parent of each soldier who enlisted from Amphitheatre to fight in the Great War planted a tree in their honour. A brass plaque with each soldier's name and service number was later affixed to identify the trees. The avenue forms the northern approach to Amphitheatre and, as a mature avenue, provides a distinctive character to the town.

Amphitheatre Hotel
The town's most-prominent landmark is the Amphitheatre Hotel. Brothers Henry Edward Bird and John Bird, immigrants from Somerset, England, established the hotel under the title of 'The Amphitheatre Inn' to service the gold mining community in 1854–5. The original parts of the hotel are of timber construction, clad in weatherboards with Morewood and Rogers metal roof tiles. The tiles remain a rare example of metal roofing material used before the introduction of corrugated iron to Australia in the 1850s.

The Bird brothers erected a six-horse stable beside the hotel by 1857 as a staging post for the Cobb and Co line. This remains as part of the hotel complex. The hotel was robbed at gunpoint by a gang of highway robbers in 1857. A road bridge erected to cross the nearby Amphitheatre Creek caused a change in the alignment of the highway in 1862. As a result, the hotel no longer faced the main road. The Bird brothers moved the building 50 metres to face the new road alignment by 1865 and remodelled it, calling it 'Amphitheatre Hotel'.

Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, the hotel supported local administration by hosting coronial inquests, land auctions, mining board elections, and recreation club meetings. The addition of a large meeting room in the 1870s contributed to this support to the community. John Bird left the hotel to take over the Pyrenees Family Hotel at Lexton, Victoria in 1883. John's brother Henry remained the proprietor until 1914, leasing it to various publicans as he assumed pastoral interests. A fire broke out in the hotel on 3 February 1914 that threatened its total destruction, but it was extinguished in time.

The hotel passed to Henry Bird's son Fred on Henry's death in 1919, and Fred Bird sold it in 1924, concluding 70 years of ownership in the family. The hotel passed through a number of owners until its licence was not renewed in 2011, and the establishment was used as an ice-creamery and B&B. It is now a private residence and retains many of its gold rush era features, including the bar cut from a slab of Australian red cedar (Toona ciliata).

Mechanics' Institute Hall
The Mechanics' Institute Hall was built in 1901. Land was reserved for the purpose in 1895. The hall contained a library and provided a larger space for public meetings and community events than the Amphitheatre Hotel. It doubled as the town's cinema during the 1920 and 1930s and has hosted dances, private functions and public entertainments by local and visiting artists.

War memorial arch
The returned Amphitheatre soldiers of the Great War erected a granite arch 'to the memory of fallen comrades' during the 1920s. The arch is located in front of the Mechanics' Institute Hall. The local community added two brass plaques to the memorial on 28 October 2002 listing the names of all who served from the town in both World Wars.

Motor garages
Amphitheatre has three historic motor garages. This much-photographed trio no longer serves petrol and is a reminder of the days when cars had shorter range and roads conditions were tougher on them. Dridan's Esso garage was a small service station, while Shannon's Golden Fleece garage offered full driveway service, and Whytecross's Plume garage was converted from the former blacksmith's shop associated with the Amphitheatre Hotel.

Bakery Park
A recreation reserve called Bakery Park is situated on the Pyrenees Highway. It was improved in 1988 by members of the community as an Australian Bicentennial Project. A horse-drawn cart used by a local sawmiller in the 1920s is displayed in the park.

45 Bailey Street
Amphitheatre's most prominent house is situated at 45 Bailey Street (the Pyrenees Highway). The house began as the cottage of store keepers Henry and Eliza Spiers in 1860, and they extended it substantially in 1876, adding a second storey. A further two-storey extension was added in 1984. The brick residence retains many of its period features, including wrought-iron veranda balustrades and marble fireplaces.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skiathos Photographical Archive

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The result of the debate was Delete. --Ryan Delaney talk 02:30, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Skiathos Photographical Archive
NN. Jwissick (t)  (c)  07:46, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete NN --Rogerd 18:30, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If this website wants to advertise on Wp, then I suggest that they release some of those "copyrighted" photos for us to use for our Skiathos article and thereby get an external reference link. Jkelly 01:11, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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Burgundian Circle

The Burgundian Circle (Burgundischer Kreis, Bourgondische Kreits, Cercle de Bourgogne) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1512 and significantly enlarged in 1548. In addition to the Free County of Burgundy (the former administrative region of Franche-Comté), the Burgundian Circle roughly covered the Low Countries, i.e., the areas now known as the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and adjacent parts in the French administrative region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. For most of its history, its lands were coterminous with the holdings of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Empire (Franche-Comté and the Habsburg Netherlands).

The circle's territorial scope was reduced considerably in the 17th century with the secession of the Seven United Provinces in 1581 (recognized 1648 under the Treaty of Westphalia) and the annexation of the Free County of Burgundy by France in 1678. Consequently, in the 18th century the circle was known as Austrian Netherlands as the Austrian Habsburgs had obtained the territory from Spain earlier in that century. The occupation and subsequent annexation of Imperial territory to the west of the Rhine river by Revolutionary France in the 1790s effectively brought an end to the circle's existence.

Composition
After the 1548 Diet of Augsburg, the circle was made up of the following territories:

Seventeen Provinces

 * 1) the Margraviate of Antwerp.
 * 2) the County of Artois, ceded by France in 1493, annexed by France in 1659.
 * 3) the Duchy of Brabant.
 * 4) the County of Flanders.
 * 5) the Lordship of Frisia, which seceded to form part of the United Provinces in 1579.
 * 6) the Lordship of Groningen which is a grouping of the former Ommelanden, which seceded to form part of the United Provinces in 1579, and the City of Groningen, which joined the United Provinces in 1594.
 * 7) the Duchy of Guelders, which, with the exception of Upper Guelders, seceded to form part of the United Provinces from 1579.
 * 8) the County of Hainaut.
 * 9) the County of Holland, which seceded in 1579 to become part of the United Provinces.
 * 10) the Duchy of Limburg, held by the Dukes of Brabant.
 * 11) the Duchy of Luxembourg.
 * 12) the Lordship of Mechelen, a personal lordship of the Duke of Burgundy.
 * 13) the County of Namur.
 * 14) the Lordship of Overijssel, including the County of Drenthe, which seceded to form part of the United Provinces in 1579.
 * 15) the Prince-Bishopric, later Lordship of Utrecht, which seceded to form part of the United Provinces in 1579.
 * 16) the County of Zeeland, held by the Counts of Holland; seceded to form part of the United Provinces in 1579.
 * 17) the County of Zutphen, held by the Dukes of Guelders; seceded merging with the States of the Guelders in 1579.

County of Burgundy
both annexed by France under the 1678 Treaty of Nijmegen. The Prince-bishopric of Liège remained a part of the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle until its dissolution in 1795.
 * 1) the Free County of Burgundy and
 * 2) the Imperial City of Besançon

History
The Imperial Seventeen Provinces emerged from the Burgundian Netherlands ruled in personal union by the French Dukes of Burgundy. Most of the seventeen had been fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire on the territory of Lower Lorraine, except for Flanders and Artois. In 1482, they fell to the House of Habsburg.

In 1363, the French King John II of Valois enfeoffed his youngest son Philip the Bold with the Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne). Philip in 1369 married Margaret of Dampierre, the only child of Count Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384), whose immense dowry not only included Flanders and Artois but also the Imperial County of Burgundy. He thereby became the progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy, which systematically came into possession of different Imperial fiefs: his grandson Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1419, purchased Namur in 1429, and inherited the duchies of Brabant and Limburg from his cousin Philip of Saint-Pol in 1430. In 1432, he forced Jacqueline of Wittelsbach to cede him the counties of Hainaut and Holland along with Zeeland, under the Treaty of Delft, and finally occupied Luxembourg, exiling Duchess Elisabeth of Görlitz in 1443.

The Burgundian State then bore a faint resemblance to the early medieval Lotharingia, but fell suddenly with the death of the ambitious Charles the Bold. In 1473, he had agreed with Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor to marry his daughter Mary the Rich to the Emperor's son Archduke Maximilian I of Austria in exchange for the elevation of his Imperial territories to a "Kingdom of Burgundy", co-equal to the French kingdom of his Valois cousins. The Prince-electors, however, forestalled these plans, and Duke Charles started a desperate campaign against the Duchy of Lorraine and was killed at the 1477 Battle of Nancy. To secure her heritage against King Louis XI of France, his daughter Mary nevertheless married Maximilian the same year. The Archduke defeated the French troops at the 1479 Battle of Guinegate and by the 1493 Treaty of Senlis annexed the Seventeen Provinces – including the French fiefs of Flanders and Artois – for the House of Habsburg. The sovereignty finally passed to the Empire in the Treaty of Cambrai in 1529. The Duchy of Burgundy proper was seized as a reverted fief by the French crown.

Maximilian's grandson and successor, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor eventually won the Guelders Wars and united all seventeen provinces under his rule, the last one being the Duchy of Guelders in 1543. The Burgundian treaty of 1548 shifted the seventeen provinces from the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle to the Burgundian circle, resulting in a significant territorial gain for the latter and increased tax obligation. The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 determined that the Provinces should remain united in the future and inherited by the same monarch. After Charles V's abdication in 1556, his realms became divided between his son, King Philip II of Spain, and his brother, Emperor Ferdinand I. The Seventeen Provinces went to his son Philip. Meanwhile, a common political representation was established through the States General of the Netherlands.

Conflicts between Philip II and his Dutch subjects led to the Eighty Years' War, which started in 1568. The seven northern provinces gained their independence as a republic called the Seven United Provinces. They were:

 * 1) the Lordship of Groningen and of the Ommelanden
 * 2) the Lordship of Friesland
 * 3) the Lordship of Overijssel
 * 4) the Duchy of Guelders (except its upper quarter) and the county of Zutphen
 * 5) the lordship of Utrecht
 * 6) the county of Holland
 * 7) the county of Zeeland

The southern provinces – Flanders, Brabant, Namur, Hainaut, Luxembourg and so forth – were restored to Spanish rule thanks to the military and political talent of the Duke of Parma, especially at the siege of Antwerp (1584-1585). Hence, these Provinces became known as the Spanish Netherlands.

The northern Seven United Provinces kept parts of Limburg, Brabant and Flanders during and after the Eighty Years' War (see: Generality Lands), which ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

Artois, and parts of Flanders and Hainaut were ceded to France in the treaties of the Pyrenees and Nijmegen in the course of the 17th century.

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Amir Esmann

Amir Esmann (born 1965 in Zürich) is a Director of Photography in Austria, known for his association with multiple television and media companies. His productions as a Frontline Cameraman in former Yugoslavia are most recognized by his peers, and in addition to other commendations, Esmann received the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis, a journalist achievement award in Austria.

Esmann has led several pop documentaries for artists such as Whitney Houston and Jean Paul Gaultier. He worked as cameraman for the documentary on Whitney Houston, Whitney: Can I Be Me. During the days of the Shah, Esmann would live in Tehran, Iran, but would spend most of his time between Austria and Vienna, where in 1999 he would found the Camera Department, a resource for inspiring filmmakers.

Working for the stations ORF, BBC, ARTE, NHK, TV5, RAI, Esmann continues to be recognized for his contributions as a cameraman and director.

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Major Booth

Major William Booth (10 December 1886 – 1 July 1916) was a cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1908 and 1914, a season in which he was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Note that "Major" was a given name, not a military rank. His international career was restricted to the 1913–14 tour of South Africa, which was the last Test match tour before the First World War. After receiving a commission in the West Yorkshire Regiment, Booth became Second Lieutenant Major Booth, and died just under a year later when he went over the top on the trenches on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Somme offensive. After his death his sister would light a candle in his room every night in the hope that he would return.

Cricket career
Booth's earliest cricket was played at Fulneck School, and later he was associated with Pudsey St. Lawrence and the Wath Athletic Club, which played in the Mexborough League, and of which he was captain. He appeared regularly for Yorkshire Second Eleven in 1907 and the two following seasons, and in 1908 received his first trial for the county against Somerset at Dewsbury without success. He did not, however, secure a regular place in the team until two years later, but in 1911 he scored 1,125 runs for his county and took seventy-four wickets, with a highest innings of 210 against Worcestershire on the Worcester ground. Booth increased his reputation as a bowler in the following summer, and in 1913 made over a thousand runs and took 158 wickets for Yorkshire, whilst his aggregate of 181 wickets in first-class matches was the highest of any bowler that season. In 1914 he was not so successful in batting – it was said during the 1913 season that he should concentrate on bowling as his build was not ideal for hard work – but he obtained 141 wickets for Yorkshire at a cost of 18 runs apiece. Although a fine punishing batsman, Booth's claim to fame will rest chiefly upon what he accomplished as a bowler. Possessed of a free, natural action, he made the ball come quickly off the pitch. On occasion his off-break was quite formidable, but his strong points were swerve and pace off the ground.

Notable feats
His best feats with the ball may be summarised thus:

 * 8–47, Yorkshire v. Middlesex, at Leeds 1912
 * 8–52, Yorkshire v. Leicestershire, at Sheffield 1912
 * 8–64, Yorkshire v. Essex, at Leyton 1914
 * 8–86, Yorkshire v. Middlesex, at Sheffield: 1913
 * 7–21, Yorkshire v. MCC and Ground, at Lord's 1914
 * 14–160 (match figures), Yorkshire v. Essex, at Leyton 1914
 * 3 wkts in 3 balls, Yorkshire v. Worcestershire, at Bradford 1911
 * 3 wkts in 3 balls Yorkshire v. Essex, at Leyton 1912
 * 3 wkts in 4 balls Yorkshire v. Warwickshire, at Sheffield 1913
 * 3 wkts in 4 balls Yorkshire v. MCC and Ground, at Lord's 1914
 * 3 wkts in 4 balls Yorkshire v. Kent, at Sheffield 1914

In two consecutive matches in August 1914, he and Drake bowled unchanged throughout, Gloucestershire being dismissed for 94 and 84 at Bristol and Somerset for 44 and 90 at Weston-super-Mare. In the second innings of the latter match Booth had the very rare experience of bowling throughout without obtaining a wicket, Drake taking all ten for 35 runs.

In 1913 Booth was chosen for the Players at Lord's, and during 1913–14 toured South Africa with MCC's team under Douglas' captaincy. His doings abroad were somewhat disappointing, and so strong was the side that he was left out of three of the Test matches. In the 144 games in which he appeared for Yorkshire Booth scored 4,213 runs with an average of 22.65 and obtained 556 wickets for 18.89 runs each.

Booth was brought up at Town End House near the Britannia Inn at Pudsey. Tall, good-looking, and of engaging address, he was a very popular figure both on and off the cricket field. He was the best man at the wedding of his team-mate Roy Kilner, who named a son after him. There is a memorial tablet in St Lawrence Church in Booth's memory.

Football career
Booth had a short football career with Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers.

Army service
In the First World War Booth joined the British Army as an enlisted man and rose to the rank of sergeant before being commissioned as a second lieutenant on 16 July 1915. Later that year he was posted to Egypt, arriving on 22 December 1915, before returning to the Western Front.

On 1 July 1916 he went "over the top" near La Cigny on the Somme while serving with the 15th (Service) Battalion, the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), also known as "The Leeds Pals". He was followed a short while later by another wave of soldiers among whom was Abe Waddington (later also Yorkshire and England). Waddington was hit and found himself in a shell hole near Serre with Booth, who was also injured, and held him until he died. Booth's body then remained there until the spring, when he was buried at Serre Road No 1 Cemetery.

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Brushite

Brushite is a phosphate mineral with the chemical formula CaHPO4*2H2O. Crystals of the pure compound belong to the monoclinic space group C2/c and are colorless. It is the phosphate analogue of the arsenate pharmacolite.

Discovery and occurrence
Brushite was first described in 1865 for an occurrence on Aves Island, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, and named for the American mineralogist George Jarvis Brush (1831–1912). It is believed to be a precursor of apatite and is found in guano-rich caves, formed by the interaction of guano with calcite and clay at a low pH. It occurs in phosphorite deposits and forms encrustations on old bones. It may result from runoff of fields which have received heavy fertilizer applications. Associated minerals include tanarakite, ardealite, hydroxylapatite, variscite and gypsum.

Brushite is the original precipitating material in calcium phosphate kidney stones. It is also one of the minerals present in dental calculi.

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Ancona, Victoria

Ancona is a small town in Victoria, Australia named after Ancona in Italy.

Settled late, a Post Office (briefly named Ancorna) was not opened until 15 September 1905 (closed 1968). It is located on Ancona Road, in a valley in the Shire of Mansfield local government area.

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Ryan Hinds

Ryan O'Neal Hinds (born 17 February 1981) is a West Indian cricketer. He is a left-hand batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Hinds was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy.

Hinds made his debut for Barbados during the 1998 Commonwealth Games, aged just 17. He then captained the West Indian Under-19 side during the 2000 Youth World Cup.

While still a twenty-year-old he set a bowling record for Barbados by taking 15 wickets in a match against the Leeward Islands during the 2001 Busta Cup. His first innings figures of 9 for 68 were also a Barbados record. He went into the record books again in a game against the Leeward Islands in 2005/06 when he scored a century in both innings (168 and 150), becoming the first player for Barbados to do so.

His Test debut came against Pakistan at Sharjah in 2001–02 during which he scored a half-century.

In February 2007 while captain of Barbados Hinds showed dissent to an umpiring decision during a bad tempered regional game against Trinidad and Tobago. He escaped a ban, for actions that WICB director Deryck Murray described as the worst behaviour he'd seen in a regional match, because the match report was submitted too late. This along with other incidences of indiscipline have prompted his removal from the captaincy subsequent to which he announced his unavailability for the regional limited-overs championship. It was revealed that Hinds is "mentally exhausted" and that he has sought treatment.

In 2012 he was accused of raping a 28-year-old woman and was arrested but shortly after released on bail.

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South of the Border (Robbie Williams song)

"South of the Border" is a song by English recording artist Robbie Williams, released as the third single from his debut studio album, Life thru a Lens (1997). The song reached No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart, his only single to miss the top 10 until "Sin Sin Sin" in 2006. This was the only Life Thru a Lens single that did not appear on Williams' Greatest Hits album (2004).

Background
According to his home page, at the last second, Williams changed his mind and made this his single. This explains why the video is uncohesive and mostly a performance shoot. Williams has stated that the song was inspired by Kate Moss, giving way to the opening line "I know a freaky young lady name of cocaine Katie" (the line is changed to "no shame Katie" on the single version). After a few relatively unknown songs parallel to Gary Barlow's career and "South of the Border" failing, many thought this was the end of Williams.

Critical reception
A reviewer from Music Week rated the song three out of five, adding that "though fairly flat in its radio version, this single will only benefit from the superior house and garage mixes getting the play in clubs." The magazine's Martin Aston described it as "a touch of the funky Black Grapes and bluesy Ocean Colour Scene", "with lippy, declamatory vocals." Claudia Connell from News of the World felt that the song "is powerful and up-beat, in contrast to the more relaxed [previous single] Lazy Days. There are clear rap influences-Robbie's own favourite music-and a mean and moody edge to his vocals. Taken from the forthcoming album Life Thru' A Lens, Robbie has shown that, unlike some of his former Take That colleagues, he isn't afraid to develop and move on."

Track listings

 * UK CD1
 * 1) "South of the Border" – 3:40
 * 2) "Cheap Love Song" – 4:10
 * 3) "South of the Border" (187 Lockdown's Borderline Mix) – 6:11
 * 4) "South of the Border" (Phil 'the Kick Drum' Dance + Matt Smith's Nosebag Dub) – 8:31

 * UK CD2
 * 1) "South of the Border" – 3:40
 * 2) "South of the Border" (Mother's Milkin' It mix) – 7:08
 * 3) "South of the Border" (Phil' the Kick Drum' Dance + Matt Smith's Filthy Funk vocal remix) – 8:31
 * 4) "South of the Border" (187 Lockdown's Southside dub) – 6:11
 * 5) "South of the Border" (Shango + Danny Howells' the Unknown DJ's Meet Cocaine Katie mix) – 9:31

 * UK cassette single
 * 1) "South of the Border" – 3:40
 * 2) "Cheap Love Song" – 4:10

 * European CD single
 * 1) "South of the Border" – 3:40
 * 2) "South of the Border" (Mother's Milkin' It mix) – 7:08

 * European maxi-CD single
 * 1) "South of the Border" – 3:40
 * 2) "South of the Border" (Mother's Milkin' It mix) – 7:08
 * 3) "South of the Border" (187 Lockdown's Borderline mix) – 6:12
 * 4) "Cheap Love Song" – 4:10

Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from the Life thru a Lens album booklet.

Studios
 * Recorded at Matrix Maison Rouge (London, England)
 * Mixed at Battery Studios (London, England)

Personnel

 * Robbie Williams – writing, vocals, backing vocals
 * Guy Chambers – writing, guitar, keyboards, production, arrangement
 * Gary Nuttall – backing vocals, guitar
 * Fil Eisler – guitar, bass
 * Mark Smith – bass, programming
 * Chris Sharrock – drums
 * Andy Duncan – percussion
 * Mark Feltham – harmonica
 * Steve Power – production, mixing, programming
 * Jim Brumby – Battery Studios assistant
 * Matt Hay – Matrix Maison Rouge assistant


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Earl Lloyd

Earl Francis Lloyd (April 3, 1928 – February 26, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was the first African American player to play a game in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

An All–American player at West Virginia State University, Lloyd helped lead West Virginia State to an undefeated season in 1948. As a professional, Lloyd helped lead the Syracuse Nationals to the 1955 NBA Championship. Lloyd was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.

Early life
Earl Lloyd was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 3, 1928, to Theodore Lloyd Sr. and Daisy Lloyd. His father worked in the coal industry and his mother was a stay-at-home mom. Being a high school standout, Lloyd was named to the All-South Atlantic Conference three times and the All-State Virginia Interscholastic Conference twice. Lloyd did attend a segregated school, but gives gratitude to his family and educators for helping him through the tough times and his success after school.

Lloyd was a 1946 graduate of Parker–Grey High School, where he played for Coach Louis Randolph Johnson. He received a scholarship to play basketball at West Virginia State University, home of the Yellow Jackets. In school he was nicknamed "Moon Fixer" because of his size and was known as a defensive specialist.

College career
Lloyd led West Virginia State to two Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Conference and Tournament Championships in 1948 and 1949. He was named All–Conference three times (1948–50) and was All-American twice, as named by the Pittsburgh Courier (1949–50). As a senior, he averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds per game, while leading West Virginia State to a second–place finish in the CIAA Conference and Tournament Championship. In 1947–48, West Virginia State was the only undefeated team in the United States, with a 30–0 record. Lloyd graduated from WVSU with his B.S. degree in physical education in 1950.

Harlem Globetrotter
Prior to being drafted in the ninth round of the 1950 NBA Draft, Lloyd starred in the lineup of the Harlem Globetrotters. Lloyd led the team to two wins over the reigning Minneapolis Lakers; this proved his talents beyond his race. Except for racial segregation, he was one of the finest artists of his time. Lloyd's talents were recognized amongst other black teammates, the two being Chuck Cooper and Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton. All three would go on to be drafted by the NBA, Clifton in 1947, Cooper in 1950, and Lloyd in 1950, the 100th overall pick.

NBA career
Lloyd was drafted in the 9th round with pick #100 by the Washington Capitols in the 1950 NBA draft. Nicknamed "The Big Cat", Lloyd was one of three black players to enter the NBA at the same time. It was because of the order in which the team's season openers fell that Lloyd was the first to actually play in a game in the NBA, scoring six points on Halloween night. The date was October 31, 1950, one day ahead of Chuck Cooper of the Boston Celtics and four days before Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton of the New York Knicks.

Lloyd played in over 560 games in nine seasons. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound forward played in only seven games for the Washington Capitols before the team folded on January 9, 1951. He was then drafted into the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. While fulfilling his military duty, the Syracuse Nationals picked him up on waivers. Lloyd served time fighting in the Korean War before coming back to basketball in 1952. In the 1953–54 season, Lloyd led the NBA in both personal fouls and disqualifications.

In 1954–1955, Lloyd averaged career highs of 10.2 points and 7.7 rebounds for Syracuse, which beat the Fort Wayne Pistons 4 games to 3 to win the 1955 NBA Championship. Lloyd and Jim Tucker became the first African–Americans to play on an NBA championship team. Lloyd spent six seasons with Syracuse and two with the Detroit Pistons before retiring in 1961.

Regarding the racism black players faced in the early years of the NBA, Lloyd recalled being refused service multiple times and an incident where a fan in Indiana spit on him. He even went as far as to detail a time in which he was told to "go back" to Africa, and a plethora of times racial slurs were used towards him. However, Lloyd persevered and said that these instances only pushed him and made him play harder. Saying he didn't encounter racial animosity from teammates or opposing players, Lloyd said of fans' antics, “My philosophy was: If they weren’t calling you names, you weren’t doing nothing. If they’re calling you names, you were hurting them.”

"In 1950, basketball was like a babe in the woods; it didn't enjoy the notoriety that baseball enjoyed," Lloyd once said. "I don't think my situation was anything like Jackie Robinson's-a guy who played in a hostile environment, where some of his teammates didn't want him around. In basketball, folks were used to seeing integrated college teams. There was a different mentality."

“He’s an unsung star. Anybody can score. Lloyd was an excellent defensive player. That was No. 1 on my roster,” said his Syracuse Coach Al Cervi.

In his NBA career with the Washington Capitols (1950–1951), Syracuse Nationals (1952–1958) and Detroit Pistons (1958–1960), Earl averaged 8.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 560 games over nine seasons.

Coaching and scouting career
According to Detroit News sportswriter Jerry Green, in 1965 Detroit Pistons General Manager Don Wattrick wanted to hire Lloyd as the team's head coach. Dave DeBusschere was instead named Pistons player–coach. Lloyd was the first African–American assistant coach and was named head coach for the 1971–72 season, making him the third African–American head coach, after John McLendon and Bill Russell. A 2–5 start to the following campaign resulted in Lloyd being relieved of his duties and replaced by assistant coach Ray Scott on October 28, 1972. He had an overall record of 22–55 with the Pistons.

Lloyd worked for the Pistons as a scout for five seasons. Lloyd is credited with helping draft Bailey Howell and discovering Willis Reed, Earl Monroe, Ray Scott and Wally Jones.

Personal life
After his basketball career, Lloyd worked during the 1970s and 1980s as a job placement administrator for the Detroit public school system. During this time, Lloyd also ran programs for underprivileged children teaching job skills.

Lloyd served as Community Relations Director for the Bing Group, a Detroit manufacturing company in the 1990s.

Approached by a young African–American player who said he was indebted to Lloyd for opening the doors for future generations of black players, Lloyd replied that he owed him absolutely nothing.

“You cannot understand what an honor this is,” Lloyd said in 2007 about the court at T. C. Williams High School being named in his honor. “There’s no better honor than being validated by people who know you best. I will always, always treasure this.”

Lloyd and his wife, Charlita, had three sons and four grandchildren. Lloyd resided in Fairfield Glade, Tennessee, just outside Crossville, Tennessee, until his death on February 26, 2015.

Honors

 * In 1993, Lloyd was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
 * Lloyd was inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Hall of Fame in 1998.
 * The state of Virginia, proclaimed on February 9, 2001, as "Earl Lloyd Day" by action of Virginia's Governor.
 * In 2003, Lloyd was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor.
 * Lloyd was named to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Silver and Golden Anniversary Teams.
 * The newly constructed basketball court at T. C. Williams High School in Lloyd's home town of Alexandria, Virginia, was named in his honor in 2007. Lloyd attended Parker-Gray High School, as Alexandria's schools were racially-segregated at the time. T.C. Williams—the subject of the motion picture Remember the Titans—was created as a combined, desegregated school two decades later.
 * In November 2009, Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd, was released. Lloyd wrote this biography with Syracuse area writer, Sean Kirst.
 * In 2012, Lloyd was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
 * In 2014, a statue of Earl Lloyd was unveiled at West Virginia State University in the Walker Convocation Center. That same year, the "Earl Lloyd Classic" began, hosted at West Virginia State.
 * In 2015 Lloyd, along with fellow basketball player Alonzo Mourning, was one of eight Virginians honored in the Library of Virginia's "Strong Men & Women in Virginia History" because of his contributions to the sport of basketball.
 * In 2018, the road running in front of the Walker Convocation Center at West Virginia State University was renamed "Earl Lloyd Way."
 * In 2022, the 200 block of Madison Street in the city of Syracuse was named "Earl Lloyd Way."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Council of Fourteen Minus Ten

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Speedied Wikibofh 15:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Council of Fourteen Minus Ten
Nonsense The result of the debate was Speedy Deleted as patent nonsense --Doc (?) 11:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC) It is neither!! Stop making false accusations! And Someone answer my question: Why is it bad to keep this entry on the site? It is not false and it is not patent nonsence, its not a hoax, and its not vandalism. Why cant you people see that there is nothing against my site!!! Persept 03:58, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No meaningful content. It is however amusing patent nonsense.   sp 00n 17 :talk Octoboer Q, 2005
 * Delete. Gazpacho 07:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * and protect against reposting. Gazpacho 02:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete patent nonsense --Anetode 09:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The author keeps re-posting, so I have reopened this afd to get a binding result. Gazpacho 02:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please stop trying to delete my page, it is not vandalism and it contains factual truth. I did not make it up.  I just wanted to improve wikipedia by adding an article about the council.  I have a question for you all: Why is it bad to keep this entry on the site?  It is not made up of lies, its not a hoax and its not vandalism.  Please understand that I think you are being silly by trying to delete something where there is no problem to leave it up.  If you want to talk with me on aim about this, my screen name is "persept0", Thank You for your understanding. Persept 02:31, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I've requested references for the material in this article but have received no response (Talk:Council of Fourteen Minus Ten). My opinion is that no significant portion of the article has a legitimate source and it is unsalvageable. Moreover, the author has added redirects to this site from Council of Four and Council of Fourteen. The former was a legitimate article that the author moved, renamed and made into a disambiguation page (see histories for the two pages). Walter Siegmund 02:54, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This article basicly has no source because it is for a club type thing. It is something I am in.  I am trying to put it on wikipedia becuse it is basicly undocument.  I dont think that is a crime to come up with your own information!  Other people dont always have to do all the reasearch! As I said before, IM me at persept0 on aim if you want to talk about this. Persept 03:42, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * By the way, it was not me who wrote about Tolkien and Marvel comics and the Council of fourteen. I have no clue who put that there since it only showed an ip address.  It seems entirely made up to me.  And i put a disambiguation page to disinguish from The Council of Four Minus Ten(which equals 4) the council of four from india, and the council of four lands. I thought this was nessisary.  If i didnt think it was nessisary I wouldnt have gone to the trouble of changing all the links so there would be no redirects!  Persept 03:48, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I would like you to carefully read the requirements for patent nonsense:
 * Total nonsense - i.e. text or random characters that have no assignable meaning at all. This includes things like ".lz nbl[909nvn[904wv[90am[0vm43[ eiov", where random keys of the keyboard have been pressed.
 * Content that, while apparently meaningful after a fashion, is so completely and irredeemably confused that no intelligent person can be expected to make sense of it.
 * To quote from Alternative outlets:

Material is deleted from Wikipedia for a variety of reasons.

Among them is that Wikipedia is a project whose goal is to build an encyclopedia, within a broad understanding of the word. Sometimes material is submitted that is perfectly factual, but does not fall within the scope of Wikipedia or any of its sister projects.
 * You might find a better location for your article at one of the links listed. However, it seems to me that your fellow Wikipedeans don't think it belongs in an encyclopedia. -Walter Siegmund 04:36, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Non-notable club. Eric119 04:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. This is indeed patent nonsense, to wit, "Content that, while apparently meaningful after a fashion, is so completely and irredeemably confused that no intelligent person can be expected to make sense of it." MCB 07:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If editors had not once again abused the "patent nonsense" speedy deletion criterion, which this article does not come under (it being quite comprehensible), but had instead provided an applicable rationale for deleting this article, we perhaps wouldn't be having this discussion; because the original author would be looking at the policies that quite clearly explain why this article does not belong here, rather than looking at patent nonsense, which is irrelevant here. The original author,, has handed us the rationale for deletion on a platter in the discussion above: I am trying to put it on wikipedia becuse it is basicly undocument.  I dont think that is a crime to come up with your own information!  Other people dont always have to do all the reasearch!  By the original author's admission, this is unverifiable original research. Delete. Uncle G 07:46, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * comment: I was the editor responsible for adding the nonsense tag. In defense of this choice, I believe that (as MCB noted) this article is purposely absurd and an example of some weird sort of contrived incomprehensibility.  Going strictly by the patent nonsense policy page, I didn't think that this article was merely poorly written or immature, but appeared to be completely meaningless at the time of nomination.  I'm sorry if listing it for speedy deletion was too brash, but after re-examining the article and the author's comments concerning its creation, I still think it qualifies as nonsense. Anetode 18:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - I wouldn't have even known about this had Persept not vandalized the entry on Batman. This is nonsensical, non-notable, pretentious and any other adjective you want to put there. I'm a member of "Purple Monkey Dishwashers", but you don't see me trying to create an article on it.  - DrachenFyre 15:36, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Due to the many many requests for deletion, I agree to have this page deleted by a moderator, since i am the creator of the page. In addion I think there should be another criteria for deletion that might apply to this article.  Could someone please bring the topic up somewhere on the site?  Thank you.  Persept 18:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Diana Hayden is an indian.She is the winner of the miss world pagent. Recently she has acted in many Hindi films. Owing to the failures of many of her films, now she is not getting any chances.

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Added Anglo-Indian category, and Indian Christian category.--71.30.177.228 06:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup of article on 25 December, 2010
I have made the following changes to the article as part of a cleanup. - Idunno271828 (Talk | contribs) 03:04, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
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Indian? Or part-Indian?
Apparently another editor took issue with the description of Hayden as "Indian" in the note about her winning Miss World, since she has English ancestry. I've abbreviated their rather lengthy quibble down to an equivocating "Indian or part-Indian", but is even "part-Indian" justified? I mean, she was born in India, even if she has some foreign blood. Doesn't that make her Indian, full stop? Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 17:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Height
The present unsourced height was added by some sock master in 2014:. In fact, the height mentioned prior to that was also unsourced. So beware of WP:MIRRORS from Indian/Pakistani media. Fortunately, there are reliable sources that predate the existence of this project. So I will add one of them for her corrected height. Note that there is a minimum height requirement for the Indian beauty pageants. So the height is relevant. - NitinMlk (talk) 21:58, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

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System for Award Management

The System for Award Management (SAM or SAM.gov) e-procurement system collects data from suppliers, validates and stores this data, and disseminates it to various government acquisition agencies.

Users and registrants
Users of SAM include contracting officials, grant-makers, contractors, and the public. Those required to register in SAM include: There is no charge for registration. Renewal must be done annually.
 * Vendors: Those doing business with the federal government "will be able to log in to one system to manage their entity information in one record, with one expiration date, through one streamlined business process. Federal agencies will be able to look in one place for entity pre-award information.  Everyone will have fewer passwords to remember and see the benefits of data reuse as information is entered into SAM once and reused throughout the system."
 * Grant-seekers and grantees: "Active SAM registration is a pre-requisite to the successful submission of grant applications!"

History
The Central Contractor Registration (CCR) was the primary supplier database for the U.S. Federal government until July 30, 2012.

In October 1993, President Bill Clinton issued a memorandum that required the Government to reform its acquisition processes. Subsequently, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 was passed, requiring the establishment of a "single face to industry". To accomplish this, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) designated a centralized, electronic registration process, known as CCR, as the single point of entry for vendors that want to do business with the DoD. To this end, the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Subpart 204.7300, required contractors to register in the CCR to conduct business with the DoD.

A new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) policy, published October 1, 2003 (Circular 2003-016, FAR case 2002-018), requires that all federal contractors register in the CCR database prior to the awarding of any contract or purchase agreement.

The contractors providing services to DoD are required to file reports on the funding source, contracting vehicle, organization supported, mission and function performed, and labor hours and costs for contracted efforts through a separate ECMRA website.

Transition to SAM
July 24, 2012 began Phase I of a consolidation of federal government systems used for contracting to SAM (System for Acquisition Management). On that date, users were no longer permitted to enter new information into the CCR or the other systems being migrated in Phase I to allow sufficient time for their data to be migrated to SAM. After July 30, 2012, users who visited the CCR, ORCA, or EPLS websites are automatically redirected to SAM.gov.

On July 30, 2012, the CCR transitioned to the System for Award Management (SAM), which combined legacy users' records in the CCR and eight other separate websites and databases that aided in the management of Federal procurement from start to finish. This consolidation SAM was designed to "reduce the burden on those seeking to do business with the government." In addition to eliminating redundancies and streamlining processes, SAM provides a single help desk to resolve issues with any of the databases.

The systems combined into SAM are listed below, grouped by functional area. Their migration to SAM is being conducted in phases: Phase I of SAM includes the functionality from the entity management systems - Central Contractor Registry (CCR), Federal Agency Registration (Fedreg), Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) - and the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS).

beta.SAM.gov and DUNS to UID Change
In 2021, SAM.gov merged with beta.SAM.gov to form a complete redesign as well as new user experience and closure of the popular government run FEDBIZOPPS site. In addition, entities looking to receive a CAGE Code no longer register for a DUNS number. Instead, companies are issued a UID after providing minimal documentation to prove ownership of their business.

2022 Transition Issues
As of late 2022, the Federal Service Desk has seen an influx in civilian help desk tickets due to unclear instructions, delays, and user inability to update or register a CAGE Code. SAM.gov has been providing an automatic 30-day extension for any existing SAM.gov entity needing to be renewed with a registration date between April 29, 2022 and April 28, 2023. CAGE codes are vital for small business to receive grants and contracts. Many users are experiencing difficulty simply finding their entity in order to validate ownership - a burdensome new requirement once unnecessary due to prior issuance of a DUNS number.

Paid Registration Services Controversy
Due to the complexity and time required to register a new CAGE Code, many small businesses are resorting to online paid registration services. Many business owners find themselves paying anywhere from $600 to $1,500 - often times not realizing SAM.gov does not cost anything to use. Some service providers offer a legitimate, fairly priced, needed service to individuals and businesses who simply cannot navigate the ever more complicated SAM.gov process. On the other hand, many services seek to appear as 'Official' CAGE Code registrars often bilking unsuspecting clients with thousands of dollars in fees by promising bid services.

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Rupert Thomson

Rupert Thomson, FRSL (born November 5, 1955) is an English writer. He is the author of thirteen critically acclaimed novels and an award-winning memoir. He has lived in many cities around the world, including Athens, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Rome. In 2010, after several years in Barcelona, he moved back to London. He has contributed to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Granta and the Independent.

Youth and education
Rupert Thomson was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on November 5, 1955, to Rodney Farquhar-Thomson, a War Disability Pensioner, and Wendy Gausden, a nurse. His mother died playing tennis when he was eight. From the age of ten, he attended public school Christ's Hospital. While at Christ's Hospital, he began to write poetry. His early influences were Thomas Hardy and TS Eliot. When he was fifteen, he rode his bicycle 150 miles on a "pilgrimage" to Hardy country. He was also influenced by a series called Penguin Modern European Poets – in particular, Montale, Rilke, Yevtushenko, Pavese, and Zbigniew Herbert. In 1972 he was awarded an Exhibition to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge to study Medieval History and Political Philosophy. While at Cambridge University, he published poems in several small magazines, including The Windless Orchard. He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1976.

Early travels (1976–1977)
After leaving university, Thomson flew to New York. He has stated that there were cultural reasons behind choosing America as a destination, since it was linked with artists as diverse as David Bowie and Alexander Trocchi Thomson spent six weeks living in Hell's Kitchen with a 63-year-old alcoholic and his family.

Afterwards, he travelled throughout the United States, principally by Greyhound bus. He also visited Vancouver and the Canadian Rockies, and travelled through Mexico. Thomson returned to Eastbourne in November of that year and worked in the Birds Eye factory. In January 1977 he left again – this time for Athens.

Once in Athens, Thomson rented a flat on Iliados Street and made a living by teaching English. He began work on a novel. He met WH Auden's secretary, Alan Ansen, who read his poetry and gave him encouragement. Thomson completed a 160-page first draft of a novel, but it was never finished.

Working in London (1978–1982)
In 1978 Thomson moved to London and found a job as a copywriter. He was employed by Robin Wight's Euro Advertising. Later, he worked for FCB (Foote, Cone and Belding). While working in advertising, he kept notebooks and wrote 50-word short stories.

After four years in advertising, he gave up his job, moved a friend into his South London council flat, and set off for Italy in his Vauxhall Viva. From then onwards, he devoted himself to writing.

Seeing the world (1982–2000)
In November 1982, Thomson took a job as winter caretaker of a converted Tuscan farmhouse that belonged to Miriam Margolyes. In the Italian countryside that winter, he wrote the first draft of a book that would become Dreams of Leaving: "There was no heating in the house, and I worked in the kitchen, huddled against a free-standing gas stove. I typed on sheets of yellow foolscap, using a maroon Olympia portable I had inherited from my last agency. I was disciplined about the hours I put in: I would start at three in the afternoon and finish at one in the morning. The routine felt natural, comfortable, even seductive."The following year, he moved to West Berlin, where he rented an apartment on Sanderstrasse in Kreuzberg and continued to work on the novel he had started in Italy. He was on the point of taking up a job as a cleaner in the Olympiastadion when his father died.

He returned to Eastbourne in February 1984. The seven months Thomson spent with his brothers in the house where he grew up would provide the inspiration for his award-winning 2010 memoir, This Party's Got to Stop.

At the end of the year he moved to New York, where he worked at the Strand Bookstore, running the outdoor bookstall in Bryant Park In the summer of 1985 Thomson moved to Japan, inspired by his grandfather who lived there for more than thirty years. He spent several months in Tokyo, redrafting his first novel. By 1986, he was back in London.

Dreams of Leaving was picked up by Liz Calder and published by Bloomsbury in June 1987. It prompted the New Statesman to say: "When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it's a wonder other people bother", while Nicholas Lezard of the Guardian called it "one of the most haunting, resonant and clever parables about England you'll ever read". One of Thomson's fan letters came from Budgie, the drummer of Souxsie and the Banshees.

Three months after publication, Thomson flew to Sydney. While there, he received a phone-call from a film production company in Los Angeles, optioning Dreams of Leaving. He spent two summers in West Hollywood, writing an adaptation of his novel. The film was never made, but he was paid the sum of $50,000 for the screenplay, which financed his second novel, The Five Gates of Hell. This was followed by four more novels – Air and Fire (1993), The Insult (1996), Soft (1998) and The Book of Revelation (1999).

In 1999, he and his girlfriend, Katharine Norbury, began trying to conceive via in vitro fertilisation. Their daughter, Eva Rae, was born in 2000.

Up north (2000–2004)
In the spring of 2000, Thomson moved to a village in Cheshire to be close to his father-in-law, who was dying of cancer. While up north, Thomson wrote in a caravan, which he towed into an orchard next to the cottage where he was living. He was working on the book that would become Divided Kingdom.

Following a review in the New York Times,   Thomson received more than a dozen faxes from film-makers and film producers all over the world, including William Friedkin, wanting to option The Book of Revelation. He sold the rights to Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos. The film of The Book of Revelation was released in 2006.

The Barcelona Years (2004–2010)
In 2004, Thomson moved to Barcelona, renting a house in Sarrià. A year later, he married his long-term girlfriend, Katharine Norbury, in Las Vegas. While in Barcelona, he published two novels, Divided Kingdom (2005) and Death of a Murderer (2007), which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year. He also ventured into non-fiction for the first time, with memoir This Party's Got to Stop (2010). “An extraordinary memoir,” wrote Hisham Matar, “one of the best I have read in recent years”, while Hilary Mantel thought it was “very funny”, and Robert Macfarlane called it “completely brilliant, spikily funny, very dark, and beautifully constructed”. A Book of the Year in the Independent, the Guardian, Time Out, the New Statesman, and the Telegraph, Thomson's memoir went on to win the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Return to London (2010)
In 2010 the financial crash forced Thomson and his family to return to London. Three years later, in 2013, David Bowie selected The Insult as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time. Thomson has stated that being chosen by Bowie felt like an affirmation: "I'm not a writer who has had much luck with prizes, but as Lionel Shriver said to me the other day, when we were talking about not being celebrated: 'That Bowie accolade, though. No one can take that away from you.' She paused. 'You can take that to your grave.'"That year, Thomson's ninth novel, Secrecy, received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Boyd Tonkin, in the Independent, wrote: "Thomson has merged the pulse and pace of a thumping narrative heartbeat with an eerie and visionary gift for mystery, puzzle, and surprise…Scene after scene trembles with breath-stopping tension on the edge of bliss or dread", while Stephanie Merritt called Thomson "a writer of exceptional skill, though his work has perhaps not been as widely celebrated as it deserves" and added "his finest novel to date: exquisitely crafted, and with the power to possess and unsettle the reader in equal measure".

Thomson's next novel, Katherine Carlyle (2015), was feted by writers and artists as diverse as Jonathan Lethem, Lionel Shriver, Samantha Morton, Richard Flanagan, Deborah Moggach, Anne Enright, James Salter, and KT Tunstall. "Katherine Carlyle is the strongest and most original novel I have read in a long time," Philip Pullman wrote. "It's a masterpiece."

In 2016, Thomson's short story, "To William Burroughs, from His Wife", was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story of the Year Award.

Katherine Carlyle was followed by Never Anyone but You (2018), which was described by Sarah Waters as “a novel of tremendous beauty…an astonishing accomplishment”, and by Monica Ali as “nail-bitingly tense and unbearably moving”. The novel was a Best Books of the Year choice in the Guardian, the Observer, and the Sydney Morning Herald, and was shortlisted for the American Library of Paris Book Award.

In 2020, at the suggestion of his publisher, Thomson published a new novel, NVK, under the pseudonym of Temple Drake, a name he borrowed from a character in William Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary. NVK was an Amazon Best of the Month Pick, and a Top 10 Best Debut Novels of the Fall Pick from Apple. Thomson followed NVK with Barcelona Dreaming, which was published in 2021. Barcelona Dreaming received starred reviews in both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, and was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award. Among the book's many admirers are Irenosen Okojie, Colm Toibin, Andrea Wulf, Philip Pullman, Victoria Hislop, Maya C. Popa, DBC Pierre, Kitty Aldridge, and Gwendoline Riley.

Thomson has this to say about the creative process:"It's a headlong plunge into the unknown each time, with no framework, no plan, no end in sight…I'm trying to pin down some kind of psychological truth. I'm after an undertow – the flow of something fresh and unexpected. There's no need to be afraid, or even wary. No one will ever see my first attempt. I have a number of metaphors for how this process feels. I'm a sculptor with a piece of marble. I'm a driver on a motorway at night who turns his headlights off. I'm an actor, but without an audience. I chip away at something formless. I can't seem to remember any of my lines. I take wrong turnings, scenic routes. I get lost. I crash. But somehow I make progress. The marble gradually resolves itself into a shape. My characters slowly come alive. When day dawns and the road appears, I'm never where I thought I would be. The journey is always unpredictable. There is always risk, exhilaration, mystery, and panic. There is also, hopefully, the discovery of something that feels both recognisable and new." He has never won any prizes for his fiction, and is often referred to by literary critics as having been criminally overlooked.

Novels

 * 1987 – Dreams of Leaving
 * 1991 – The Five Gates of Hell
 * 1993 – Air and Fire
 * 1996 – The Insult
 * 1998 – Soft
 * 1999 – The Book of Revelation
 * 2005 – Divided Kingdom
 * 2007 – Death of a Murderer
 * 2013 – Secrecy
 * 2015 – Katherine Carlyle
 * 2018 – Never Anyone but You
 * 2020 – NVK (as Temple Drake)
 * 2021 – Barcelona Dreaming
 * 2023 - Dartmouth Park
 * 2024 - How to Make a Bomb

Memoir

 * 2010 –  This Party's Got to Stop

Short stories

 * 1988 – Look, The Monkey's Laughing
 * 1989 – Other Things
 * 2014 – To William Burroughs, from his Wife

Essays and articles

 * 2009 – The Lost Boy
 * 2009 – Call Me by My Proper Name (Granta 107)
 * 2010 – Park Life (Granta 110)
 * 2011 – Truman Capote: an introduction to In Cold Blood
 * 2013 – A life in writing by Nicholas Wroe
 * 2013 – “Fugitive Pieces”: Rupert Thomson on Gaetano Guilio Zumbo
 * 2014 – Patrick Modiano: an appreciation of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature -
 * 2015 – “In the Wilds of Industrial Russia for Research I Will Not Use”: Rupert Thomson on researching Katherine Carlyle
 * 2015 – James Salter: Write or Perish
 * 2015 – Rupert Thomson: “My Fear of Becoming a Father”
 * 2015 – Rupert Thomson discusses Katherine Carlyle with Max Liu
 * 2016 – Rupert Thomson: On trauma, death, and the power of fiction versus non-fiction (Part One)
 * 2016 – Rupert Thomson discusses his latest novel, Katherine Carlyle (Part Two)
 * 2018 – David Bowie: How my novel ended up on Bowie's Must-Read list
 * 2019 – Rupert Thomson: Books that made me
 * 2020 – Flannery O'Connor: I even mis-spell intellectual
 * 2020 – Rupert Thomson: Novels about Women on Their Own
 * 2021 – “On loving – and leaving – Barcelona”: Rupert Thomson on the writing of Barcelona Dreaming

Awards and distinctions

 * Air and Fire: Shortlisted for the 1994 Writer's Guild Novel of the Year
 * The Insult: Shortlisted for the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize and chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time
 * Death of a Murderer: Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year
 * This Party's Got to Stop: Winner of the 2010 Writer's Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year
 * Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015
 * To Williams Burroughs, from his Wife: Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Short Story of the Year
 * Never Anyone but You: Shortlisted for the 2018 American Library in Paris Book Award
 * Barcelona Dreaming: Shortlisted for the 2022 Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award

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Sun Cheng

Sun Cheng (died 132) was a Chinese court eunuch, military general, and politician at the Imperial Chinese court during the Han dynasty. Contrary to the stereotype of Han eunuchs being corrupt and power-hungry, he was loyal to the imperial family and tried (unsuccessfully) to counter the culture of corruption.

Contribution to Emperor Shun's restoration
During Emperor An's reign, those close to him, including the eunuchs Jiang Jing (江京) and Li Run (李閏) and his wet nurse Wang Sheng (王聖), as well as his wife Empress Yan Ji, effectively ran the imperial administration, and used the opportunity to seize power and wealth for themselves. In 124, Jiang and Empress Yan accused the nine-year-old Crown Prince Liu Bao (劉保) of crimes and persuaded Emperor An to demote him to Prince of Jiyin.

In 125, Emperor An died suddenly, and even though Prince Bao was Emperor An's only son, Empress Yan, evidently wanting someone younger she could control, made Liu Yi (劉懿), the Marquess of Beixiang, emperor. Empress Yan came to ruled the empire as empress dowager, but her regime and her family's dominance of power did not last long.

When the young emperor became gravely ill later in the year, Sun, who was then a mid-level eunuch, became concerned that Empress Dowager Yan would again bypass Prince Bao, the rightful heir, and so he entered into a conspiracy with a number of other eunuchs. They swore an oath to restore Prince Bao, and several days after the former Marquess of Beixiang died, they made a sudden assault on the palace and proclaimed Bao as Emperor Shun. After several days of battling with the empress dowager's faction, the eunuchs led by Sun prevailed, and the Yan clan was slaughtered.

For their contributions to his restoration, Emperor Shun created Sun and 18 of his fellow eunuchs marquesses.

Failed attempt to guide Emperor Shun onto the right path
Emperor Shun, whose temperament was weak, quickly fell under the control of the officials around him. In 126, when the eunuch Zhang Fang (張防) was accused of corruption by the governor of the capital district, Yu Xu (虞詡), he instead convinced the emperor that the accusations were false and that Yu should be sentenced to death. Sun and Zhang Xian (張賢), another eunuch who had helped put the emperor on the throne, interceded at great personal risk. Yu was spared, while Zhang was exiled. However, officials who were close to Zhang then accused Sun and his fellow eunuch-marquesses of being overly arrogant. Emperor Shun therefore sent them out of the capital Luoyang, to their estates. Sun, angered by this, had his marquess seal and emblems returned to the emperor and secretly stayed in the capital, looking to find another chance to try to guide the emperor onto the right path. He was soon captured, but Emperor Shun, remembering his accomplishments, simply sent him back to his estate without further punishment, but also without listening to his advice on stamping out corruption.

Later in life
In 128, Emperor Shun, remembering what Sun and the others had done for him, summoned them back to the capital, but largely again ignored their advice. In 132, Sun died and was buried with great honors, including the posthumous name Gang (剛, literally "unbending").

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Mayavi

Māyāvi is a Malayalam comic strip appearing in the Indian comic magazine Balarama owned by MM Publications. The series, was first published in the August 1984 issue of Balarama. Artist M. Mohandas gradually took over the drawing of the series after Balarama became a fortnightly.

Māyāvi, the protagonist in the series, is an imp, who helps keep the forest safe from villains and dark wizards. Most of the stories revolves around how two dark magicians and their companions try to capture Māyāvi, but fail hilariously. Māyāvi takes place in a secluded forest in Kerala. It is not exactly known when the story takes place. In the local language Malayalam Māyāvi is a combination of two words (māya+āvi) when translated mean magic and spirit respectively. As the target audience is young, the story takes the liberty to draw a fantasy world, in which wizards, demons and other strange creatures exist. However, despite the simplicity and slapstick comedy, Māyāvi became one of the most widely read children's comics in Malayalam language.

Māyāvi
Māyāvi, an imp (ചാത്തൻ), who was enslaved by the evil witch Dāgini(ഡാഗിനി) so she could take his powers for herself. Two kids, Rāju(രാജു) and Rādha(രാധ) help the imp escape from the bottle in which Dāgini had trapped him. Thankful to the children, Māyāvi promises to help them whenever they are threatened by the forces of evil. Dāgini pledges to take revenge on the children and re-capture Māyāvi. The comics pictures him staying alone in a forest without any notable family. Māyāvi is loathed by the evil creatures and villains of the forest. Robbers who often take refuge in the forest to hide are brought to light by Māyāvi.

Apart from the power of invisibility, Māyāvi is not known to possess any magical powers, but derives them from his red wand. Without his wand he can easily be captured as he becomes very subservient without it, obeying whoever holds his wand. This handicap has been one of the prominent vulnerabilities that is often exploited by the dark wizards who try to capture him. With Māyāvi around, the forest is safe from evil.

His wand (red in color and closely resembling a mace) has the ability to set of a cascade of random events that fulfill/are in favour to what the user wishes. Māyāvi has a hobby of sleeping under trees.

Rāju and Rādha (രാജുവും രാധയും)
Rāju and Rādha are siblings who rescued Māyāvi by chance and end up getting his protection. He also tells them a special chant to summon him. Whenever the children chant: "Öhm Hreem Kuttichaththa!(ഓം ഹ്രീം കുട്ടിചാത്താ!)", Māyāvi will come rushing to their aid. He will only appear if the children say the chant.

The children are often depicted as roaming about in the forest. The children are often imprisoned by Küttoosen(കുട്ടൂസൻ) and Dagini in a bid to lure Mayavi and thereby trap him. Another common storyline is one in which the children overhear the planning or execution of some dastardly crime. In such situations the children summon Mayavi using the spell "Om hreem kutichathaa".

Küttoosen (കുട്ടുസൻ)
One of Dāgini's companion a dark wizard who lives in a large hollowed out, dead tree trunk in the same forest. He serves as one of the main antagonists in the comic other than Dāgini. The storyline depicts Küttoosen as a bald old man in a blue robe whose sole purpose in life is to capture Māyāvi. He often goes out of his way to befriend beasts and other dark creatures (imps, wizards etc) in order to fulfill his aim. However, his clumsiness in handling matters related to magic, eventually leads him into trouble. His stupidity and stubbornness is a frequent source of humor in the comic.

Dākini
Dākini, a witch, appeared in the series well before Küttoosen, is a close aide of Küttoosen. However, despite being a witch, she is often shown to nag, ridicule and mock Küttoosen's wizardry as she thinks he will fail to capture Māyāvi. She is noted as much for her cowardice as for her noodle hair.

Well into her old age, she teams up with Küttoosen with the aim of capturing Māyāvi. She and Küttoosen also never leave out a chance to catch Rāju and Rādha, who they know to be friends of Māyāvi.

She has a pet owl.

Luttāppi (ലുട്ടാപ്പി)
Luttāppi, is a cute, innocent red coloured little imp who works as an aide ofKüttoosen. One of the primary sources of humor in the comic, Luttāppi is noted for his cheekiness and cowardice. His stupidity and over excitedness often lands everyone in trouble. Luttāppi owns a magical spear that can fly (it works exactly like a magic broom except that he has to wrap his tail around it to fly). Manned by Luttappi, the spear serves as a convenient mode of transport for Luttappi's and his comrades – Dakini and Kuttusan.

Luttāppi stays with Küttoosen at his home in the tree trunk. Despite being a very resourceful aide, Luttāppi isn't always at good terms with Küttoosen and Dāgini, who take little effort in hiding their dislike. Luttāppi is often portrayed as doing all the housework for Küttoosen. He is also often shown as grumbling under his breath.

Vikkramen and Muththu (വിക്രമനും മുത്തുവും)
Vikkramen and Muththu are two notorious criminals at large and wanted by the local police. The comics pictures them as using the forest as a hideout after breaking out of jail. Vikkramen and Muththu are friends of Küttoosen. However, their friendship is strictly limited to the mutual benefits they get out of it. Vikkramen and Muththu are never portrayed as having a grudge against Māyāvi. However, they often assist Küttoosen and Dāgini in order to capture him.

Vikkramen and Muththu's primary aim is to procure as much wealth and power as they can by robbing the bank. However, all their plans are foiled by Māyāvi, who is usually alerted by Rāju and Rādha.

Lottulodukku and Gulgulumal
Lottulodukku and Gulgulumal are two evil scientists who invent new gadgets and ideas to destroy the world. They are afraid of Vikraman and Muthu, who steal their inventions and use these tools for their purposes such as robbing the bank and breaking into people's houses. But Vikraman and Muthu always get into trouble using those gadgets. Their enemies are Raju and Radha, and they are always looking for a chance to kill them.

Puttalu
Uncle of Luttappi, unlike Luttappi, he is dark blue in colour. He is much bigger in size than Luttappi. Kuttusan and Dakini go to Puttalu's den to steal many charms and potions to trap Mayavi, but they get trapped in Puttalu's trap instead.

Everybody is afraid of Puttalu, but Puttalu does not have very significant role in Mayavi. He enjoys sleeping and don't want Luttapi to wander with Kuttusan and Dakini.

Dress-code change
Some of the characters in the series, including Mayavi and Luttappi, underwent a major dress-code change in 2011 after complaints from several parents regarding the inappropriate clothing. According to the editor of the magazine, the changes were intended to make the characters acceptable for readers of all age.

Mayavi VCD
Mayavi-VCD is a 3D animated version of the comic strip published in Balarama. It was released on 23 August 2010 by Manorama Music, a music production company owned by Malayala Manorama Group. Story and concept for this version was also by NM Mohan, who is the creator the comics, which is being published in Balaralam since many decades. The 3D version was developed by Hibiscus Digital Media Pvt. Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram. The music for the title song, Nammude Veeran Mayavi was done by Mohan Sithara, while the score and other songs were composed by Jaison. J. Nair. The lyrics were written by Sippy Pallippuram.

The CD featured 7 stories, some of which are already familiar to the readers through the comic series in Balarama, and two songs.
 * 1) Title Song - Nammude Veeran Mayavi
 * 2) Story - Mayavi Ethippoyi
 * 3) Story - Vikramanum Muthuvum
 * 4) Song - Poochappuli
 * 5) Story - Dakiniyude Soothrangal
 * 6) Story - Rakshasamarunnu
 * 7) Story - Kunjimarunnu
 * 8) Story - Mankoos Manthravadi
 * 9) Story - Maanthrikavilakku

In popular culture
Due to immense popularity of the magazine the characters became pop culture icons with TV shows, movies and other stories referencing or based around them.

 * The Balarama Cave at Wonderla, is modelled using characters from Mayavi.
 * The title of the malayalam film Mayavi (2007 film) is from the series.
 * The characters Vikraman and Muthu made an appearance in the movie Amen (2013 film).
 * In February 2019, rumours spread out that the Balarama publishers were going to replace Luttappi with a younger character Dinki. This received a lot of backlash on social media. Luttappi's fans took up the message of 'Save Luttappi' at India vs New Zealand third T20 match in Hamilton.
 * The main character in the 2024 movie Aavesham named Amban have a similar dressing style of Vikraman.

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Carson High School (Carson City, Nevada)

Carson High School is a high school (grades 9–12) in Carson City, Nevada, United States. It is a part of the Carson City School District.

Notable alumni

 * Mark Amodei – current member U.S. House of Representatives
 * Bob Ayrault – former major league baseball pitcher
 * Mackena Bell – NASCAR driver
 * Dusty Bergman – baseball pitcher, currently with the Sioux City Explorers
 * Chris Cox (DJ) – Grammy nominated music producer, remixer, and DJ
 * John Gamble – Former MLB player (Detroit Tigers)
 * Dean Heller – former U.S. senator from Nevada
 * Charlie Kerfeld – former major league baseball pitcher
 * Paul Laxalt (1922-2018) – Nevada governor and U.S. senator
 * Cdr. Kirk Lippold – commander of the USS Cole (DDG-67) during terrorist attack
 * David Lundquist – former MLB player (Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres)
 * Donovan Osborne – former major league baseball pitcher
 * Darrell Rasner – former baseball pitcher, currently a scout for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
 * Matt Williams – former major league baseball third baseman, major league coach, and former manager of the Washington Nationals baseball team.


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Land description

In surveying and property law, a land description or legal description is a written statement that delineates the boundaries of a piece of real property. In the written transfer of real property, it is universally required that the instrument of conveyance (deed) include a written description of the property.

Canada

 * In many parts of Canada the original subdivision of crown land was done by township surveys. Different sizes of townships have been used (e.g. Québec's irregularly shaped cantons and Ontario's concession townships), but all were designed to provide rectangular farm lots within a defined rural community. The survey of a township was essentially a subdivision survey, because the plan of the township was registered and the lots (sometimes called sections) were numbered. The description of a whole lot for legal purposes is complete in the identification of the township and the lot within the township.
 * A legal land description in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta would be defined by the Dominion Land Survey. For example, the village of Yarbo, Saskatchewan is located at the legal land description of SE-12-20-33-W1, which would be the South East quarter of Section 12, Township 20, Range 33, West of the first meridian.
 * A legal land description in British Columbia Fraser Valley Lower Mainland (Metro Vancouver) is defined by land surveys based out of New Westminster. Land in New Westminster Townsite corresponding to present day New Westminster is labelled as such while land outside the townsite is labelled as being in New Westminster District. The Main subdivisions are District Lots that represent parcel sales to settlers mostly in the time from 1860-1890. District lots are numbered from DL1 to over DL3,000. These District Lots are still represented on the cadastral maps of British Columbia. Later these lots would be subdivided to form blocks and residential lots. A typical address would thus indicate a lot number, a block range, and the original District Lot from which it was subdivided.

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