title: Kieron Dyer

text: Following his retirement from playing, Dyer took up a role as an academy coach at his first club Ipswich Town in 2014, becoming assistant manager of the under-18 youth team in August 2018. He departed the club in August 2019, outlining his intentions to move into first team management.


title: Kieron Dyer

text: On 26 October 2020, Ipswich confirmed that Dyer would be returning to the club to become the head coach of the club's under-23 team. Dyer also became more actively involved in first-team affairs following the appointment of new manager Paul Cook in March 2021, often assisting with coaching and being present in the dugout. Dyer unexpectedly resigned from the role on 21 March 2022.


title: Kieron Dyer

text: In November 2015, Dyer was named as a contestant on the fifteenth series of "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!". He came fourth on the show after lasting 21 days, and donated his entire fee to the Jude Brady Foundation.


title: Kieron Dyer

text: In February 2018, Dyer told the public that at the age of 11 he had been sexually abused by his great uncle Kenny, by then deceased.


title: Kieron Dyer

text: Dyer competed in the third series of "" in 2021. During filming, he clashed violently with instructor Jason Fox, which he attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. Dyer was withdrawn with a collapsed lung, for which he was hospitalised in October. On 31 October, following a series of tests in hospital, Ipswich Town confirmed that he had been diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis and would undergo a liver transplant.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. Rapid attribution analysis found this was a 1000-year weather event, made 150 times more likely by climate change. The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in Canada. It also affected inland regions of Central and Southern California, Northwestern and Southern Nevada and parts of Montana, though the temperature anomalies were not as extreme as in the regions farther north.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave appeared due to an exceptionally strong ridge centered over the area, whose strength was linked to the effects of climate change. It resulted in some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in the region, including the highest temperature ever measured in Canada at 49.6 °C (121.3 °F), as well as the highest temperatures in British Columbia, in the Northwest Territories, in the state of Washington as well as a tied record in Oregon. The record-high temperatures associated with the heat wave stretched from Oregon to northern Manitoba, and daily highs were set as far east as Labrador and as far southwest as Southern California. However, the Pacific Northwest suffered the vast majority of the disruption and damage connected with the extreme weather event.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave sparked numerous extensive wildfires, some reaching hundreds of square kilometers in area, which led to widespread disruption on the roads. One of them destroyed the village of Lytton, British Columbia, the day after it had set a record high temperature for Canada. The heat also damaged the road and rail infrastructure, forced closures of businesses, disrupted cultural events, and melted snowcaps, in some cases resulting in flooding. The heat wave also caused extensive damage to crops across the region, which was seen as likely to result in higher food prices globally, though the losses have yet to be calculated. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimated that the heatwave caused at least $8.9 billion (2021 USD) in damages in the USA.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The death toll exceeded 1,400 people, with a death toll of at least 808 estimated in western Canada. On July 6, the British Columbia Coroner Service released preliminary statistics that indicated 610 more sudden deaths than usual occurred in the province. Alberta logged 66 excess deaths the week of the heat wave. The Chief Coroner of British Columbia later said that in the week between June 25 to July 1, 569 deaths were confirmed to have had heat-related causes, and in a report released June 2022, the number was updated to 619. Confirmed deaths in the United States include at least 116 in Oregon (of which 72 are in Multnomah County, which includes Portland), and at least 112 in Washington and one death in Idaho; An analysis by "The New York Times" suggests that around 600 excess deaths occurred the week the heat wave passed through Washington and Oregon.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 23, the United States National Weather Service warned of an approaching heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, whose origins could be traced to torrential rains in China. There, the warm, moist air rose and was eventually entrained by the jet stream, which transported it east over cooler waters. When that air current encountered an upper-level high-pressure zone, also called a ridge, it started to significantly deform on June 25, forcing to accommodate the high-pressure area south of the jet stream's meander. At the same time, the Southwestern states were enduring an intense drought, which had earlier allowed higher-than-average temperatures over the Southwestern United States, leading to a similar hot wave earlier in June. Its remnants then moved north to the Pacific Northwest. Six days later, Environment Canada issued a heat warning for Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba, Yukon, and Northwest Territories.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: These conditions made way for a massive Rex block, which is more often formed during La Niña years. In this situation, a high-pressure area stays in place for a long time and does not let cyclones pass through it, which could have cooled the region; in this particular case, the high-pressure area was sandwiched between two stationary lows, which prevented the high-pressure region from moving anywhere. As the Pacific Northwest, just as the Southwest, experienced severe drought conditions, the already warm air was heating more quickly than usual, which intensified the ridge so strongly it caused a heat dome. Indeed, on June 27, the height at which 500 hPa air pressure was sustained (geopotential height) was reported at in Prince George, British Columbiathe highest ever recorded in the area; adjacent stations have similarly reported record-high values. The downslope winds from the Cascades and other mountain ranges further warmed the air in the valleys.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: After the heat dome hovered over British Columbia and the Northwestern United States for a few days, it began to move eastward, breaking records east of the Rocky Mountains, particularly in the northern parts of the Prairie provinces, but bringing relief to the Pacific coast. At this stage, the heat was kept between the warm and cold fronts of the low-pressure area that formed over southern Northwest Territories and was transported eastward towards Hudson Bay. Sweltering conditions were observed as far east as Montana, Manitoba, and Northwest Ontario, though the temperatures were not as high.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: By July 4–5, the remnants of the heat dome crossed Hudson Bay and, weakened somewhat by the cool waters, entered Quebec, and after that, Labrador, briefly triggering temperatures of around . Having beaten daily records in some localities in the easternmost province of Canada, the high-pressure area entered the Atlantic Ocean on July 7, when the heat carried by the high-pressure system finally dissipated.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Climate change in Canada and in the United States are widely considered to have worsened the heat wave's unprecedented intensity and duration. According to a preliminary study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, the heat wave would have been highly unlikely in the absence of anthropogenic climate change, the latter increasing the likelihood of such a heat wave at least 150-fold. According to this study, either the climate change made the heat wave more likely by increasing base temperatures and a combination of rare events, such as the recent drought and/or changes in the jet stream, resulted in the heat wave, or even a relatively small increase in mean global temperatures caused by climate change can pass a threshold that triggers a sharp increase in the probability of extreme heat wave phenomena.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: While it is yet unknown whether the frequency of these omega blocks is due to global heating, according to the data provided by Verisk, the Pacific Northwest is among the fastest-heating regions in the continental United States and southern Canada. Moreover, the urban heat island effect could have further exacerbated the impact in cities. Based on historic data, several meteorologists noted that this phenomenon should be expected to occur only once over a thousand or several thousand years, and David Sauchyn, a scientist at the University of Regina, said that climate models had been predicting the heat wave of a similar intensity to happen in late 2020s at the earliest.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Much of the Pacific Northwest, normally known for its temperate weather in June, received maximum temperatures above normal during this heat wave. In fact, the temperatures were so anomalous that nighttime lows were higher than the average high temperatures that this region would normally observe at this time of year. Ground temperatures were also reaching extremes - in Wenatchee, Washington, it reached .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: This heat wave, combined with other extreme weather occurrences elsewhere, yielded the hottest June on record in North America. It also contributed to the hottest June ever for some localities such as Victoria, Abbotsford, Kamloops and Edmonton, and in Portland, Oregon, as well as one of the hottest June mean temperatures for Seattle and Spokane. On a statewide level, June 2021 was the warmest on record in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho, and second warmest for Washington, Oregon and Montana, at least partly attributable to this heat wave.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The highest temperatures of the heat wave were registered in British Columbia, but areas as far east as Ontario were affected by the event. 103 all-time heat records were set across Western Canada.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave peaked in British Columbia on June 28–29. Most records of the coastal areas were made on June 28, while in the British Columbia Interior, the highest values were largely set the following day.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 28, records were set in Squamish, British Columbia at , Abbotsford at , Port Alberni at and Victoria at . Also, on the morning of June 28, a meteorological station at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby registered an overnight low of , the highest ever recorded in the province.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 27, local records were also set in Cultus Lake, Lillooet, Ashcroft () and Kamloops (). In all, there were 59 weather stations in B.C. that set records for hottest temperatures recorded for June 27. These were largely beaten in the following days (Kamloops, for instance, registered on June 28 and on June 29, the peak temperature recorded in a major population center in the region).


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 29, the temperature in Lytton, British Columbia, hit , the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, although a nearby more modern station reported that the extreme was 1 °C lower. The stations were temporarily isolated by the Lytton wildfire the next day. The record occurred after consecutively setting new record highs of on June 27 and on June 28. It is also the highest temperature ever recorded north of 45°N, the highest temperature in the U.S. or Canada recorded outside the Desert Southwest, and higher than the absolute maximum temperatures of Europe or South America.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: In Alberta, the highest heat was observed in the period from June 29 to July 1. Banff , Beaverlodge , Cochrane , Fort McMurray , Jasper , Grande Prairie , Hendrickson Creek , Nordegg , Red Earth Creek all saw the strongest heat ever measured in these communities, most after breaking all-time records of the previous day.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Calgary noted on June 29 and July 1, which stopped just 0.2 °C short of the highest observed temperature ever and beating the all-time records for June and July. Edmonton also saw temperatures approach the absolute maxima - the city centre registered on June 30, while the Edmonton International Airport, near Leduc, hovered around from June 29 to July 1. The heat wave had largely moved east by July 2, though e.g. Fort McMurray measured its fourth daily record in a row on that date.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: In the Northwest Territories, on June 28, Nahanni Butte set a regional record at . Two days later, Fort Smith, just north of the Alberta border, reached , which beat the previous all-time territorial record, registered in the same place in 1941. It was also the new highest reliably recorded temperature above 60 degrees latitude.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Yukon was largely bypassed by the heat wave, but on June 28, some areas in the territory went over , including Whitehorse () and Teslin (), both of which were daily records. Teslin also beat the record for June 29, at .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Saskatchewan's heat records were mainly concentrated in the northern parts of the province. Stony Rapids saw the mercury reach on June 30, an all-time high and record temperatures were also set at Key Lake Airport, sometimes dubbed "the cold pole of Saskatchewan", and Collins Bay Airport on July 1, both at , as well as in Uranium City (). July highs were also observed in these settlements on the first day of the month, when 26 daily records were set across the province, most in northern communities.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Elsewhere, the heat arrived slightly later. Saskatoon reached on July 1 and beat the monthly record the following day, at , a tenth of degree below the all-time record. La Ronge registered an all-time high with a reading of . Regina, like most of the southern part of the province was spared the extremes reached in the northern parts, with a maximum of on July 2. The heat wave over Saskatchewan largely dissipated by July 3 and moved east.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: In a similar way to Saskatchewan, the majority of heat records (including all-time highs) were noted in the northern parts of the province. A remote community of Tadoule Lake observed , beating the previous all-time record by , so did Lynn Lake (), while Churchill, on the shore of Hudson Bay, registered , the highest temperature for July.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Other parts of the province did not see heat as extreme as elsewhere, though 25 daily records were set on July 3, including in Winnipeg.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Northwestern Ontario did not see all-time high records beaten, but several daily records were pushed higher: on July 3, Thunder Bay equalled , Geraldton saw , while the hottest temperature was in Pickle Lake, at .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Weakened by interaction with the Hudson Bay waters, and having not set any record in Quebec, the heat wave arrived to the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador, but before dissipating in the Atlantic Ocean, it still managed to beat some daily records. Hopedale registered on July 5, while Happy Valley-Goose Bay reached the following day.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave broke numerous records by large margins. Several large cities, including Portland, Seattle, and Spokane, experienced high temperatures far exceeding and low temperatures higher than the area's normal daily high temperatures. The heat wave beat Washington's all-time heat record in Hanford () and tied one for Oregon ( at two places, including at Pelton Dam). The same temperature was noted in Peshastin in Chelan County, Washington, where temperatures soared to on June 29, slightly surpassing the previous all-time high for the state.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 26, Portland broke its previous all-time record high temperature of , set in July 1965 and August 1981, with a temperature of . It topped that record again on June 27, with a temperature of . The following day, the temperature increased further to . These extremes also beat the previous record June temperature, set on June 26, 2006.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Salem, Oregon, reached on June 26, its record high temperature for June. It then hit degrees on June 27, breaking the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in that city, which was previously . Salem then exceeded the previous day's record temperature on June 28, with a maximum temperature of . However, not all the regions of the mid-Willamette Valley experienced extreme heat on June 28. Regions south of Salem, for example, did not see highs above mid-90s Fahrenheit on that day, likely due to cooler ocean air in the area.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The Willamette Valley also experienced extreme overnight temperature drops (twice the size of normal fluctuations) due to cooler air coming from the oceanPortland cooled a record during the night, while Salem almost approached its all-time largest temperature swing, from to .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Between 1894, when the records in Seattle began, and June 2021, temperatures over were only noted three times; however, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport recorded three consecutive days of temperatures over . Notably, they rose to on June 27, only to be beaten to the following day. All of these values broke the previous June record (, 2017) by a large margin. The suburbs farther from the coast were even hottera local radio station in Maple Valley reported temperatures of .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 26, Port Angeles recorded an all-time record high of . The Quillayute Airport weather station, also on the Olympic Peninsula, reported on June 28, exceeding its prior record by .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On Mount Rainier, normally freezing temperatures reached degrees above on June 27. The heat wave was blamed for greater glacier melt on Mt. Rainier than had been seen in the state in the past 100 years.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: East of the Cascades, cities such as Spokane and a few other cities measured record-breaking or -tying temperatures, beating several records over the period of a few days. On June 29, Spokane, Ephrata and Omak all reached their all-time records, at , and , respectively. These are the hottest temperatures measured since records began for those areas. Extremely warm minimum temperatures were also noted: Ephrata's thermometers did not go lower than on June 28 and on June 29, and all-time highest low temperature records were set at Spokane International Airport on June 29 () and June 30 (), during overnight hours.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: It was even hotter on and near the Oregon-Washington border. In The Dalles, Oregon and Dallesport, on either side of the Columbia River, daytime high temperatures reached , tying the then all-time record for the state of Washington and beating the June statewide record by 5 degrees Fahrenheit. The same heat was measured in Tri-Cities on June 28–29. The state's new official temperature record was set at on June 29 in Hanford. The heat wave resulted in 128 all-time high temperature records set for individual weather stations across the state, including in Seattle.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Temperature records were observed in the northern part of the state. South Lake Tahoe observed on June 28, beating the previous June record, and tied or beaten daily records for three days in a row. In Redding, the temperatures soared to on June 27, a daily record, while in Siskiyou County, Montague tied an all-time high for the county, at .


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Southern California was also impacted. Palm Springs registered on June 27, surpassing the previous daily record, while other communities, such as Palmdale, Campo and Idyllwild, tied with them.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Being largely on the margin of the high pressure dome, Idaho did not see temperatures as extreme as elsewhere. In Lewiston, on the border with Washington, was noted on June 29, beating an all-time June record and becoming the third-highest temperature in the history of recordings for the city. Other localities in the Treasure Valley to the east were expected to sustain triple-digit heat for a week (which is in and of itself unusual) and in general to tie or beat daily records. Boise, for example, tied one for June 29 () and for June 30 (), and also recorded nine consecutive days of temperatures exceeding , which tied the record for such a streak. Records were also beaten in the Idaho Panhandle, with Coeur d'Alene registering , which surpassed the previous highest temperature for June and equaled the all-time high for the city.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Most of Montana was placed on heat advisories, but the areas that were most affected by the heat wave were on the extreme northwest and eastern parts of the state. Kalispell and Missoula registered temperatures of on June 29, both daily records and 1 °F short of the record for June; Libby succeeded in doing so, setting the plank at . In the eastern parts of the state, several daily records were also noted: Livingston reached on June 30 and Miles City saw two days later; Billings tied its daily record on July 1 and had not fallen below on July 3, while Glasgow bettered its July 1 record to , tied the daily high record the next day, and set the highest minimum temperatures on these days ( on July 2).


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Over 1,000 deaths occurred due to the direct consequences of the heat wave (such as hyperthermia). Most of the deaths occurred in Canada – about 600 more deaths than usual were noted in British Columbia and 66 in Alberta. It still unknown whether any of the excess deaths in Alberta were related to the heat wave, but the Chief Coroner of British Columbia stated that 569 casualties could be attributed to heat. A later report put the heat-related death toll at 619. She also said that in the prior five years, only three heat-related casualties had been registered. Among the deaths reported to the provincial coroner, Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities saw several times more deaths than usual, and the Vancouver Island and Interior Health health districts noted double the expected number of dead during the week from June 25 to July 1. Most of the deaths were registered on June 29.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: In British Columbia, E-Comm emergency dispatchers answered nearly 15,300 calls on June 26-27, which was about above normal for the month, and also deployed the ambulances 1,850 times on June 27 and 1,975 the following day - the highest number ever recorded for the province. Delays for non-emergency calls reached up to 16 hours in extreme cases. In addition to that, some ambulances were left inoperable as the emergency service was understaffed. These setbacks led to hours-long delays. The handling of the crisis drew criticism from the paramedics unions, which forced Adrian Dix, the provincial healthcare minister, to change the leader of British Columbia's emergencies response management to Jim Chu, former Vancouver's police chief, and to appoint a chief ambulance officer.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: In the United States, the death toll was lower but still in the hundreds: at least 116 deaths with confirmed heat-related causes in Oregon (72 in Multnomah County), at least 112 in Washington and one in Idaho. "The New York Times" analysis suggested that almost 450 excess deaths in Washington and 160 deaths in Oregon occurred during the heat wave, though it has not been demonstrated how many were related to the heat. For comparison, however, Oregon had only 12 heat-related deaths 2017–2019. Most of the deaths occurred among the elderly.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On July 13, 2021, Multnomah County, Oregon published an analysis which found that a majority of deaths occurred in households which had no air conditioning or had only fans.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: A surge in 9-1-1 calls and emergency department visits related to the heat saw 1,100 people were hospitalized in Oregon and Washington; and almost 2,800 heat-related emergency department visits were made on July 25–30. The Washington Department of Health estimated that over 2,000 such visits occurred statewide, not including visits to Veteran Administration or the military hospitals. In Portland, the number of calls and the response times doubled, setting a record for the area. On the other hand, in Oregon, while the number of heat-related visits skyrocketed, the total number of emergency visits stayed in the expected range. Non-emergency municipal services were also strained—on June 26, the non-emergency health information service (2-1-1) did not respond to 750 heat-related calls due to lack of working staff.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Some deaths also occurred among those seeking cooling in the Pacific Northwest's rivers. Two swimmers in Salem, who were trying to escape the heat, went missing in the Willamette River, another did so in Portland, while in Washington, three people drowned. With 30 deaths in King County, or was the deadliest weather event in the county. In fact, with 112 deaths, this became the deadliest weather event in Washington State history.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave was a problem for major cities in the Northwest. Seattle and Portland had the lowest and third-lowest percentage of air-conditioned households among major metro areas in the United States, respectively. In 2015, a U.S. Census Bureau survey found that only 33% of Seattle homes have air conditioning (A/C) units, but that number increased to 44% in the 2019 survey, likely due to the warming trend in that area (Portland had 79% coverage, which was still below the national average). The rate of air-conditioned households was even lower in British Columbia despite marked increases over the years – BC Hydro estimated that only 34% of the province's residents were using these cooling appliances, while a separate analysis indicated that only 21% of Metro Vancouver's households used air conditioning in 2017 (the number was only slightly higher for Edmonton and Calgary, at 29% and 24%, respectively). Authorities therefore waived restrictions related to COVID-19 for designated cooling shelters in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Trying to stay cool, residents in the Pacific Northwest and Alberta rushed to buy A/C units, which significantly increased their prices (some double the normal), created long installation and delivery backlogs, and ultimately made them unavailable in many stores. The pent-up demand for cooling forced electricity consumption to soar to record-high summer values. BC Hydro reported a peak of 8,500 MW, AESO registered 11,721 MW (8 MW short of an all-time high), SaskPower recorded 3,547 MW, while several electricity providers in Washington also logged record values. It also prompted power utilities in Alberta, Idaho (Idaho Power) and eastern Washington (Avista) to formally ask to conserve energy. The warning had the Idaho State Capitol voluntarily turn off lights as a result, while in the Spokane area, power outages were rolled.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Some residents chose to shelter from the heat by booking rooms in hotels, which often ran out of air-conditioned accommodation. According to CoStar calculations, the search for cooled rooms made the hotel occupancy in British Columbia reach the highest levels since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Washington County, Oregon (suburbs of Portland) hotels reported occupancy levels at or exceeding of total capacity on June 26–28, more than double the rate from 2020.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave strained and damaged the region's infrastructure. It caused the sidewalks to buckle due to thermal expansion of concrete (57 sidewalks were damaged in Edmonton alone). In Washington and Oregon, damage was even more severe, leading to closures of roads and other inconveniences for drivers, including on some lanes of Interstate 5, as well as some state highways. In order to prevent thermal fatigue to Seattle's steel drawbridges, the city announced it would hose them down with cool water.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Public transportation also deteriorated during the sweltering conditions. Trains on Link light rail and Sounder commuter rail in Seattle operated at reduced speeds as a precaution against possible deformation of railroad tracks and overhead lines. In the Portland metropolitan area, TriMet suspended MAX Light Rail and WES Commuter Rail service for part of June 27 and all of June 28 because the cables from which the light rail cars drew electricity had sagged. Heat-induced rail distortion, called sun kink, slowed down the passenger service on the route of the Amtrak Cascades. Moreover, school districts in Kamloops, Sooke (BC), Ephrata and Royal City (WA) all suspended school bus services, while Grant County, Washington limited the frequency of the buses under their management as they did not offer air conditioning or the built-in version could not cope with the heat.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On June 28, 15 school districts in British Columbia's Lower Mainland, including all districts within Vancouver, closed due to the heat and their lack of sufficient cooling infrastructure; many others also changed, or shortened, Tuesday schedules to avoid daytime high temperatures. COVID-19 vaccination sites also endured disruption because of the weather conditions.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Local businesses faced a choice to continue to work under oppressive heat or make a day off. Some restaurants, food stands and cafés closed, fearing excessive heat at the workplace or spoilage of solid products. Similarly, numerous grocers were forced to shut down aisles and halt the sale of perishable goods or use plastic sheets as impromptu thermal shields, as refrigeration units failed under the load. The businesses that decided to stay open often provided "de facto" sheltering from heat or converted parts of buildings to cooling centers, such as Amazon.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: In a few cases, workers in California and Oregon protested the lack of air conditioning and staged local walkouts, and agricultural trade unions had also noted increased calls to strike. An SMS survey among 2,176 farmworkers in Washington (mostly in the eastern part of the state) conducted by United Farm Workers, a labor union, reported that almost all farmers did not consider protections mandated by the state OSHA sufficient. Among the surveyed, about two-fifths reported not having had shade, just under a third not having received heat illness prevention training and a quarter of respondents had no access to cool water.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: After Sebastian Francisco Perez, an outdoor farm worker in St. Paul, Oregon, died while at work, Oregon OSHA faced calls to enforce safety rules for dealing with the heat wave, which had been first drafted in May. In response, Oregon's governor, Kate Brown, directed the agency to enforce the safety regulations for 180 days pending permanent implementation. In Washington state, the heat wave prompted state agencies to roll out additional protections. "The Washington Post" reported that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was also considering a set of heat-related safety rules, whose implementation was said to be a "top priority" for the Biden administration.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Sports events were disrupted by the heat wave. In Eugene, where the qualifiers for the 2020 Summer Olympics were held, the heat caused evacuation of the stadium in the afternoon and postponement of some events to the evening hours, as the temperature of the stadium's track exceeded . It also caused an athlete to withdraw from the race.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Among other disruptions, a public swimming pool in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood was closed due to dangerously high deck temperatures, so was a senior's center in Rathdrum, Idaho and a golf course on Vancouver Island. Some local concerts were also moved to avoid the heat.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Farms have experienced serious losses, as the heat wave baked the fruits and berries or otherwise destroyed the crop and the drought conditions worsened.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: 10 million pounds of fruit a day were being harvested in the Pacific Northwest at the time the heat wave struck. Farmers in Eastern Washington, facing a loss of the cherry and blueberry crop, sent workers into orchards at night to avoid the heat in the day. The British Columbia provincial fruit growers association estimated that 50 to 70 percent of the cherry crop was damaged, effectively "cooked" in the orchards. Raspberry and blackberry farms in the Lower Mainland, Oregon and Washington have also endured losses. In Whatcom County, Washington, which produces four-fifths of raspberries in the United States, estimates varied from quarter to half of the harvest; elsewhere, they went as high as 80-90%. Lettuce producers in the Okanagan Valley were also reported to be struggling with spoilt crops, so were those who grew Christmas trees and apples. In contrast, grapevines in Oregon and Washington did not seem to have sustained much damage, and corn in Skagit County, Washington was growing much ahead of schedule.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Farmers in the United States have also seen reduced yields of soft wheat, which additionally saw the quality deteriorate (68% of wheat harvest in the Pacific Northwest was estimated by the USDA to be of poor or very poor condition). In the Prairie provinces, an infestation of grasshoppers is threatening cash crops and farmers were reported to be struggling with feeding cattle as hay and forage was found to be in short supply. Saskatchewan has therefore extended additional drought support for farmers. In Alberta, lack of rain and excessive heat saw some grain plants catch fire, which has put the harvest in jeopardy. Beaumont, Alberta issued a mandatory ban on non-essential water usage, citing drought conditions. Further east, St. Laurent and Armstrong, Manitoba declared a "state of agricultural disaster" as the heat wave worsened the drought in the region, whose water reserves were already depleted.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat event sparked significant fires across the West Coast and Western Canada. One of the first fires to have struck the region was the Lava Fire, burning west of Mount Shasta, California, caused by a lightning strike on June 25, and which eventually burned around on the west slope of one of the highest peaks in the state. Some of the largest fires, such as the Beckwourth Complex Fire, grew over . Strong winds, which were causing fire tornadoes in some places, and dry vegetation hampered efforts to contain the fires. This led to road closures, such as the U.S. Route 97 and the North Cascades Highway, suspension of airport operations in Redmond, Oregon, and evacuation of settlements adjacent to the fires. The winds were so strong that residents of Medford, Oregon,   north of the fires, reported having seen ash falling from the sky.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Among the most known fires was the one that burst in the evening of June 30 in British Columbia. Then, Lytton, the settlement that had been beating national heat records in the previous days, along with several First Nations reserves, were ordered to be evacuated as a likely human-caused fire was approaching to the village, where it later did widespread destruction to the buildings. A local MP, Brad Vis, estimated damage to the settlement at 90%, while a local resident said that only "four or five houses, the post office and the church were still standing." The fire damaged roads, telecommunication and power facilities as well as the railway that comes through the settlement; two people died while hiding from the flames. The fire in the settlement forced the closure of a section of British Columbia Highway 1, part of Trans-Canada Highway, as well as Highway 12, which ends in Lytton. In total, 300 fires were ravaging the province as of July 13, and the wildfire season destroyed around of forests by July 15. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds formed due to such extensive burning, producing several hundred thousand lightning strikes in one day and further complicating efforts to contain fires.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Despite deployment of more than 9,000 firefighters in the United States to extinguish them by July 1 and more than 17,000 by mid-July, the size and number of the fires grew. Almost of forest were consumed by large wildfires, and more than were burnt in the United States as of July 15. The intensity of the fires moved the US fire preparedness alert level to 5 (highest) by July 14, which was an early start of the wildfire season. In addition to that, Governors Kate Brown of Oregon, Jay Inslee of Washington and Brad Little of Idaho declared states of emergency due to the extreme risk of wildfires. The Canadian army officials set up a coordination center in Edmonton in order to assist wildfire actions in British Columbia, which would be directed until July 19. Higher-than-average burning also appeared in Albertan, Saskatchewan and Manitoba forests.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: As the extreme heat and dry conditions persisted, scientists, firefighters and various politicians urged residents not to use fireworks during Independence Day celebrations in the Western United States and on Canada Day in Alberta. In addition to that, Washington and British Columbia enacted state-/provincewide bans on most open fires, and Washington authorities also issuing a total fire ban in state parks. Idaho and Manitoba were using more regionalized approaches, though the latter suspended all burning permits provincewide.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: Extreme temperatures were also noted for mountain regions, which accelerated the melting of glaciers. Extensive melting occurred in the snowcaps of Banff National Park, which a glaciologist estimated that the Albertan snow from the mountains melted three times faster than usual. On Mount Rainier, the heat wave caused the mass of the snow cap to shrink by 30%, and Washington's glaciers in general have come through what glaciologists say to be the strongest melting episode in 100 years. Additionally, the increased melting of glaciers caused high amounts of runoff to be present within some rivers. The unexpected snowmelt blocked some high mountain roads in Whatcom County, Washington and rendered three hiking trails in British Columbia impassable. More importantly, it caused flash flooding down the creeks and rivers, which the glaciers feed. This triggered i.a. a week-long evacuation order in the Pemberton Valley extreme water rises were also noted in Squamish, and flood alerts were issued for other parts of British Columbia. Soot from wildfires (→ 2021 British Columbia wildfires) is further expected to diminish the mass of ice.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: As the surrounding air was extremely hot, water temperatures rose, which proved to be a hazard for aquatic wildlife. On the Pacific shore, temperatures in the intertidal zone reached up to and more than a billion seashore animals, like clams, barnacles and oysters, died as a result of heat wave, impacting water quality. The deaths also impacted seafood producers, who faced losses of produce as it baked in the heatwave and started rotting. Inland, the population of sockeye salmon in Idaho rivers was preventatively caught out of water as increasing temperatures made it prone to disease; some salmon was also transported to cooler waters in the Columbia River. Fish kill, however, was not prevented in Albertan aquifers and appeared earlier than expected.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: The heat wave caused an increase in vibrio bacteria levels in oysters in the Pacific Northwest, causing a record number of people to be sickened from vibriosis, an intestinal disease caused by the bacteria. The Washington State Department of Health urged people not to eat raw oysters and other shellfish from the region due to the risk of bacterial contamination.


title: 2021 Western North America heat wave

text: On the land, trees in Metro Vancouver dried up and started shedding leaves; the same happened to the fir canopy in Oregon on the side where the trees faced the sun, and reportedly also in Lytton just before the wildfire swept through the community. Birds have also come through distress - in Seattle, nearly a hundred juvenile terns, whose nests were on top of an industrial building, died when they plunged to the pavement below, presumably trying to escape the heat - those that survived were treated for burns. Scores of British Columbian raptors, apart from heat exhaustion, were suffering from dehydration and starvation.


title: Angoor (1982 film)

text: Angoor () is a 1982 Indian Hindi-language comedy film. It stars Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in double roles, and directed by Gulzar. It is a remake of the Indian film "Do Dooni Char" which was a remake of 1963 Bengali language comedy film "Bhranti Bilas", that is based on Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Bengali novel by the same name, which itself is based on Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors" and is again getting adapted by Rohit Shetty as "Cirkus". All characters are innocent and destiny plays the main role in bringing all characters to one place. Most of the other films are generally based on false characters and deliberately make false statements to fool others.


title: Angoor (1982 film)

text: The film is about two pairs of identical twins separated at birth and how their lives go haywire when they meet in adulthood.


title: Angoor (1982 film)

text: Raj Tilak (Utpal Dutt) and his wife (Shammi) are on a trip with their twin sons, both of whom they call Ashok. Since they look the same, they should be called the same, is Mr Tilak's reasoning. As fate would have it, they adopt another set of twins, both of whom they call Bahadur. An unfortunate accident then divides the family, leaving both parents with one child out of each pair of twins.


title: Angoor (1982 film)

text: A few years later, Ashok (Sanjeev Kumar) is married to Sudha (Moushumi Chatterjee) and Bahadur (Deven Verma) is married to Prema (Aruna Irani). They all stay together with Sudha's younger sister Tanu (Deepti Naval). Into their lives enter the other Ashok, a detective novel aficionado, and Bahadur, a bhang (an edible form of cannabis which has been used in India since before the Vedic period) lover. Now there are two Ashoks and two Bahadurs in the same city. This is more than their families, the Jeweller, the Taxi Driver and the Inspector can handle.


title: Youku

text: Youku Tudou Inc. (formerly Youku Inc.), doing business as Youku (), is a video hosting service based in Beijing, China. It operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited.


title: Youku

text: On 12 March 2012, Youku reached an agreement to merger with Tudou in a stock-for-stock transaction, the new entity being named Youku Tudou Inc. In 2014, it had more than 500 million monthly active users, with 800 million daily video views.


title: Youku

text: Youku is one of China's top online video and streaming service platforms, along with iQiyi, Sohu, LeTV, Tencent Video, PPTV, 56.com and Funshion. However, Youku's domination in the Chinese market was toppled by its competitor Baidu's iQiyi in 2015.


title: Youku

text: Youku was founded by Victor Koo (Gu Yongqiang), former President of Chinese Internet portal Sohu. Initial funding for the site came from 1Verge, a fund raised by him. A beta version of the site was launched with limited geographic reach in June 2003, and the website was formally launched in December 2003. In 2007, the company received $25 million in funding from venture capitalists. In December 2009, the company announced that it had raised a total of $110 million in private equity funding. Major investors include Brookside (Bain) Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Maverick Capital, and Chengwei Ventures.


title: Youku

text: The company initially emphasized user-generated content but has since shifted its focus to professionally produced videos licensed from over 1,500 content partners.


title: Youku

text: As of January 2010, Youku.com was ranked #1 in the Chinese Internet video sector according to Internet metrics provider CR-Nielsen, (keeping in mind that YouTube is banned in China). In 2008, Youku partnered with Myspace in China. Later that year, Youku became the sole online video provider embedded in the China Edition of Mozilla Firefox.


title: Youku

text: In January 2010, Youku and competitor Tudou announced the creation of a video broadcasting exchange network, under which Youku and Tudou will cross-license professionally produced video content.


title: Youku

text: On 8 December 2010, Youku was listed at the New York Stock Exchange for its first time. The stock closed at $33.44 on its first day of trading giving the company a market capitalization of approximately $3.3 billion. For the first 9 months of 2010 Youku reported revenue of $35.1 million and recorded a loss of $25 million during this period. YouKu.com seems to have no relation to the Chinese domain youku.cn.


title: Youku

text: Victor Koo was once an employee of Bain & Company, one of the most prominent management consulting firms in the world.


title: Youku

text: In December 2018, the company announced a layoff of the president of the unit Yang Weidong due to his assistance to the police in investigation about the case of seeking economic benefits.


title: Youku

text: The mobile app of Youku was banned in India (along with other Chinese apps) on 2 September 2020 by the government, the move came amid the 2020 China-India skirmish.


title: Youku

text: On 12 March 2012, Youku and Tudou two of the biggest online video companies in China announced plans to merge, creating one of China's biggest video sites. Prior to the announcement of the merger, Youku was the #11 website in China, and Tudou was #14. The company's name was changed to Youku Tudou Inc. The chairman of the board is Victor Koo, the founder of Youku. The company had a stock listed on the NYSE, YOKU before being acquired by Alibaba Group on 6 November 2015. In December 2016 it reported it had 30 million subscribers.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: Death Certificate is the second studio album by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released on October 29, 1991 through Lench Mob Records and Priority Records. The production on the album was primarily handled by Sir Jinx, DJ Pooh and Ice Cube. The album was supported by two singles: "Steady Mobbin'" and "True to the Game".


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: Due to some of its racially and politically charged content, and Ice Cube's acerbic statements on drug dealing, racial profiling, and the right to keep and bear arms, the album was the source of both critical acclaim and much controversy upon its release. "Death Certificate" was a commercial success, debuting at number two on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 105,000 copies in its first week. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in December 1991.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: The recording and writing for "Death Certificate" began in late 1990, and carried on throughout most of 1991. While making the album, Ice Cube was also heavily involved in several other projects, including Yo-Yo's debut album "Make Way for the Motherlode", his younger cousin Del tha Funkee Homosapien's "I Wish My Brother George Was Here", and perhaps more importantly, his film debut, "Boyz n the Hood", in which he co-starred with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Laurence Fishburne. Similar to "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted", Ice Cube was very active in the album's production, though the overall sound differed. Unlike "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted", which featured the Bomb Squad's hard edged beats, "Death Certificate" featured a slightly more West Coast-oriented sound in comparison, with heavy use of 70's Funk and Soul samples. A number of the tracks also use samples taken from acts such as Zapp (Ohio) and Fishbone (California).


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: "Death Certificate" was roughly organized as two thematic elements of a larger whole, and opens with Cube's explanation: "The Death Side: a mirror image of where we are today; The Life Side: a vision of where we need to go." The first half, therefore, is replete with the tales of drug dealing, whore-mongering and violence expected of a gangsta rap album in 1991. The sleeve booklet also included the following quote from Ice Cube, which showed the influence of the Nation of Islam on his work.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: The Death Side's "A Bird in the Hand" laments a young man's slide into a life of drug-dealing for economic survival.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: The Life Side's "Black Korea" threatens rioting and arson alongside Black entrepreneurship as a response to the preponderance of Korean-owned grocery stores in ghettos across the United States. The track was seen as a response to the killing of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African American girl who was shot to death by a Korean-American store owner on March 16, 1991 in an altercation over a bottle of orange juice. Since the release of the track preceded the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which many of the people targeted were of Korean descent, Ice Cube was accused of inciting racism by African Americans towards Asians.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: The track "Look Who's Burnin'" tells of the dangers of sexually transmitted infection in low income neighborhoods, while "Alive on Arrival" tells the story of a young man caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout who slowly bleeds to death while in a hospital waiting room, being questioned by police. "Color Blind" preaches neutrality and brotherhood between gangs, such as the Bloods and Crips. Although Ice Cube's previous album avoided direct attacks on N.W.A, "Death Certificate" contained "True to the Game" and most notably "No Vaseline", which were diss tracks aimed at his former bandmates.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: Unlike Ice Cube's other albums, "Death Certificate" was not released in a censored version. The tracks "Steady Mobbin'", "True To The Game", and "Givin' up the Nappy Dug Out", were, however, recorded with clean lyrics and released for airplay.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: The album was originally released on October 29, 1991. It was highly anticipated with over one million advanced orders. In 2003, Priority Records re-released "Death Certificate" with the bonus track "How to Survive in South Central", which originally appeared on the "Boyz n the Hood" soundtrack. "Death Certificate" included the diss track "No Vaseline" which is a response to his former hip hop group N.W.A, and their album "Niggaz4Life" which included direct and indirect diss tracks and verses to Ice Cube. "No Vaseline" is considered to be one of the greatest diss tracks of all time due to its explicit and direct subject matter towards the members of the group.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: The album was re-released for the 25th anniversary edition on June 9, 2017 by Interscope Records after Cube announced signing to the label in late May 2017.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: In 1991, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission banned a poster for St. Ides Malt Liquor, which Ice Cube endorsed at the time, that displayed Ice Cube holding a can of St. Ides and flashing a gang sign.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: In the September 2006 issue of "FHM", Ice Cube stated in an interview that he did not regret the controversial statements made on the album.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: Due to fear that laws against racial incitement in the United Kingdom could see the album banned, the original United Kingdom release removed the tracks "Black Korea" and "No Vaseline". Island Records, the distributor of this version of the album, deleted these tracks with the consent of Priority Records, but not Ice Cube himself. "We're very excited about Ice Cube", said Island MD Marc Marot, "but on a personal level I just could not take those two songs. I understand that self-censorship after the NWA case puts us in a strange position, but we're not going to support minority racism or antisemitism. We came to a compromise with Profile that was acceptable." The tracks have since been reinstated on a CD reissue readily available in the UK.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: "Death Certificate" received critical acclaim. AllMusic called it "even harder and angrier than "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" ... It continues the sharp insights and unflinching looks at contemporary urban lifestyles that his solo debut only hinted at; in short, it's hardcore without any gangsta posturing." They also call it "funkier, noisier, and more musically effective (than "AmeriKKKa")." Initially giving a four-and-a-half out of five "mic" rating, "The Source" retrospectively awarded "Death Certificate" full marks in a list of "5 Mic Hip-Hop Classics", in its 150th issue.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: "His homophobia may be irksome", wrote Ted Kessler in "Select", "but the shock value of these views has been blunted by lesser rappers. It's the sublime combination of '70s P-Funk and Ice Cube's excellent, taut delivery of rhymes calculated to jolt that pleases." "Spin" wrote that it "integrates vitriolic politics with raw street knowledge" and "achieves an almost George Clinton-esque sense of celebratory freakiness".


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: "There's a rule in music journalism at the moment", observed the hip-hop fanzine "Louder Than A Bomb!". "It says that every Ice-T/N.W.A./Ice Cube record must be described as something like 'a grisly and uncompromising portrait of life in the ghetto'… "O.G." was the last. "Death Certificate" is the next. [But] you can't shut your eyes while listening and imagine the ghetto. It's just a lot of songs about shooting, shagging and N.W.A."


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: "Death Certificate" received a meager $18,000 promotion budget, and neither of its singles, "Steady Mobbin'" and "True to the Game", received much airplay, although they did receive music video treatment.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: "Death Certificate" debuted at number two on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 105,000 copies in its first week. This became Ice Cube's first US top-ten debut. The album also debuted at number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. On December 20, 1991, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million copies. It was certified only two months after the album was released. As of March 2020, the album has sold over two million copies in the United States.


title: Death Certificate (album)

text: On September 4, 2015, "Death Certificate" went back on the "Billboard" 200 chart and ranked at number 99 with 14,000 sales in that week; also, "Greatest Hits" and "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" came back on the "Billboard" 200 in that week with "Greatest Hits" charting at number 118 with 11,920 sales and "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" at number 150 with 8,300 sales.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: Tinkoff Bank (), formerly Tinkoff Credit Systems () is a Russian commercial bank based in Moscow and founded by Oleg Tinkov in 2006. The bank does not have branches and is considered a neobank. It is the second largest provider of credit cards in Russia, and is the world's largest digital bank, as measured by number of customers.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: , Tinkoff Bank has had its credit rating withdrawn in compliance with sanctions imposed as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: Entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov founded Tinkoff Credit Systems in 2006, after working with consultants from Boston Consulting Group to see if a bank without branches could work in Russia. Tinkov invested around $70 million in the bank, and based the bank on the American Capital One bank; Tinkov took over the Khimmashbank corporate bank in Moscow. In 2007, the bank received investment from Goldman Sachs. In 2013, Tinkoff was listed on the London Stock Exchange, raising $1.1 billion, and in the same year, the bank was named the Bank of the Year by the Financial Times' "Banker" magazine.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In 2013, a Russian named Dmitry Agarkov attempted to sue the bank for 24 million rubles ($724,000); Agarkov had edited a 2008 credit card agreement with the bank, and his edits had been accepted by the bank. The legal action was later withdrawn by both the parties after an undisclosed settlement was reached.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In 2015, the bank was officially renamed Tinkoff Bank, and was also named the Best Internet Retail Bank in Russia by the "Global Finance" magazine.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In December 2019, Tinkoff launched Russia's first fully digital ATM, without keyboard or the ability to print receipts. In the 2019 financial year, Tinkoff announced revenue increases of 33%. Tinkoff Bank has updated its app to include cinema and hotel tickets, as well as booking holidays through the bank's subsidiary, Tinkoff Travel. In March 2020, shares in the bank fell after Oleg Tinkov, who owns a 40% share in the bank, was indicted by the US Department of Justice. Also in 2020, the bank helped fund German mobile banking startup Vivid Money, which is supported by solarisBank and Visa.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: After the sale of part of the stake and the conversion of the remaining 35% into ordinary shares in early 2021, Oleg Tinkov ceased to be the majority shareholder of the TCS Group.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In February 2021, Tinkoff Bank took first place in the ranking of the Top 50 Russian banks, according to The Banker. The position is due to the increasing role of online banking during the Covid-19.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: 29 March 2021 Tinkoff Bank filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court. The bank accused the mobile operator MTS of unfairly setting tariffs for sending SMS and demanded compensation in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles. MTS disagrees with the accusations. A similar claim, but for 436.8 million rubles, against another operator of the Russian "big three" company, VimpelCom, was filed at the end of May.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In the April rating The World's Best Banks from Forbes, Tinkoff Bank was ranked fifth among Russian banks.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In October 2021, Tinkoff launched e-commerce division (part of Tinkoff Business), headed by Ilya Kretov, new arrival and ex-CEO at eBay Russia.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In October 2021, Central Bank of Russia granted the license to "Tinkoff Capital" asset management company, the part of "Tinkoff bank", allowing portfolio management. Since its foundation in June 2019, "Tinkoff Capital" has been permitted to manage investment, private pension and private equity funds. As per October 2021, net capital of "Tinkoff Capital" are estimated at 30 billion dollars. In the same month, TCS Group, managing company of "Tinkoff Bank", founded "Tinkoff Global PTE" in Singapore, focused on markets of South-East Asia according to group's international expansion strategy. In the same month, the Central Bank of Russia added Tinkoff Bank in the list of systemically important credit institutions as a result of bank's overweight development and customer basel.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In March 2022, Tinkoff Bank had its credit rating withdrawn in compliance with sanctions imposed as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: From 2006 to 2008, Tinkoff were the sponsors of the Tinkoff Credit Systems UCI Professional Continental cycling team. In June 2012, Tinkoff became the co-sponsors of the Team Saxo Bank, with the team being renamed Saxo Bank–Tinkoff Bank (later Saxo-Tinkoff, Tinkoff-Saxo and Tinkoff). For the 2016 cycling season, Tinkoff Bank became the sole sponsors of the cycling team.


title: Tinkoff Bank

text: In 2018, Tinkoff became the sponsor of the Russian comedy TV competition KVN with a contract for three years. The same year, Tinkoff sponsored a Depeche Mode concert in Moscow.


title: Supertramp discography

text: The following is intended to be the complete discography of the progressive rock British band Supertramp. Over the years they have released eleven studio albums, four live albums, five compilation albums and 28 singles.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: The story is centered around a young boy named Masaru Saiga, who inherits a massive fortune and aspires to become a puppeteer; Narumi Katō, a kung-fu expert who suffers from Zonapha syndrome (a strange illness that stops his breathing unless he makes people laugh); and Shirogane, a silver-haired woman and Masaru's caretaker who controls the puppet Harlequin. They must fight against the battling automatons (auto-mannequins) and save the world from the Zonapha syndrome.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: "Karakuri Circus" was adapted into an anime television series by Studio VOLN, which ran for thirty-six episodes from October 2018 to June 2019. In addition to the anime series, a mobile game was launched in December 2018 and stage play ran in January 2019.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: The events are tied to a cycle of reincarnation that began 200 years ago when two brothers, Bai Yin and Bai Jin, traveled from China to Prague in order to study alchemy and improve their puppetry skills. The brothers encountered a beautiful woman by the name of Francine and they both fell in love with her. The younger brother, Jin, was devastated when his elder brother Yin proposed to Francine and she agreed to marry him. Fueled by hatred and despair, Jin abducted her. After 9 years of searching, Yin arrived in Quiberon, France, only to discover that Francine had fallen ill and had been imprisoned by fearful villagers. In the hopes of curing and freeing her, Yin then worked to create the Aqua Vitae, an elixir of life that could impart incredible healing powers and a greatly increased lifespan. However when he finally completed it, he found that Francine's prison had been set ablaze and she died moments before he could give it to her.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: Another 23 years passed and the younger brother Jin had created an automaton in her image and injected it with Aqua Vitae in hopes of bringing it to life. He was greatly disappointed when he realised that in stark contrast to the original Francine, she would not laugh or smile no matter what he did. He then created automaton clowns to make her laugh, but they failed, so he released the Zonapha (Z.O.N.A.P.H.A.) syndrome into Kuroga village, forcing them to make her laugh or suffer a living death. The Zonapha syndrome is where the body is dominated by the parasympathetic nerves, the trachea contracts, causing breathing difficulties and excruciating pain is felt in every nerve. The symptoms continue unabated until the victim can make someone laugh. Lucille Berneuil was one of the villagers who suffered at the antics of the murderous clowns. Six years later, Yin returned and sacrificed himself to activate the Aqua Vitae with his blood and save the villagers. When Lucille drank the water, she acquired Yin's memories and knowledge along with his puppet Harlequin, and she vowed to crush Jin's automata.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: Years later, Shōji Saiga learned swordsmanship at Miura Dojo in Nagasaki while also studying to be a doctor under Dr. Bai Yin. Together they completed a marionette which Shōji named a shirogane. While treating a sick Mr. Nakayama, Shōji encountered a healing woman who called herself Tohno-dayu, although her real name was Angelina. She held the "Soft Stone" within her body which could produce Aqua Vitia. By accident, she revealed that she had Bai Yin's marionette, Arlequin, which she used to help Shōji escape from a burning building. Later, Shōji tracked down Angelina, where she told him about her past and the vial of Aqua Vitae which was given to her. Shōji had fallen in love with her and he drank the liquid, vowing to spend eternity with her.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: Shōji and Angelina began to create their own marionettes. They later adopted the shirogane, Dean Maistre as their son, naming him Sadayoshi. Shōji also encountered the Francine automaton who Jin abandoned because she could not laugh. Shōji adjusted her to make her less powerful, although she wanted to be dismantled because she felt that she was missing a vital gear. Some time later, Angelina became pregnant and gave birth to the baby girl, Éléonore.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: The family were attacked by automata searching for the Soft Stone, however the Soft Stone was now inside Éléonore and Angelina entrusted the baby to Francine. Francine fell into a well with Éléonore who automatically turned the water into Aqua Vitae which destroyed Francine although she saved Éléonore. Angelina was mortally wounded by the automata and Shōji decided to keep Éléonore's existence a secret so he sent her to the Quiberon orphanage to be raised by Lucille.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: 37 years later, Shōji visited the orphanage and found that Éléonore remembered him because of the memories of Francine transferred to her via the Aqua Vitae. Shōji then learned that Sadayoshi has had a son called Masaru whom Shōji raised as his grandson. However Sadayoshi's plan was to leave his fortune to Masaru as bait to cause the destruction of the Kuroga clan. Sadayoshi is the reincarnation of Bai Jin, who transferred his memories into a young Bai boy using his hair and Aqua Vitae and then called himself Dean Maistre who was later adopted by Shōji Saiga. He planned to transfer his memories into Masaru and essentially become immortal, but Shōji destroyed the memory data back at Karuizawa and asked Lucille to send Éléonore to protect Masaru and find the soft stone.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: The plot centers around Masaru Saiga, Narumi Katō and the shirogane Éléonore Saiga (known simply as Shirogane), and combines the settings of a circus, alchemy, and karakuri puppets. The story starts when Masaru's father dies and leaves 18 billion yen of inheritance solely to him. His uncle and half-siblings each plot to kill or abduct Masaru to seize the money. By coincidence, the Zonapha sufferer Narumi Katō rescues Masaru from his uncle's henchmen with help from Éléonore. As the story progresses, a 200-year-old tragedy is uncovered involving the origin of the Shirogane, Automatons, and the Zonapha syndrome. The people of the Shirogane group and the Nakamachi Circus group must work together to save the world and prevent its destruction from the Zonapha syndrome.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: After the third volume of the manga, the story splits into two separate but related arcs. In the first arc, Narumi Katō joins the Shirogane to battle the automatons (auto-mannequins) and save the world from the Zonapha syndrome. In the second arc, Éléonore and Masaru join the Nakamachi Circus and attempt to live a normal life as possible but their fates are still heavily linked to their pre-determined destiny. The events triggered by either Narumi or Éléonore's arcs are mentioned on each other's story, sometimes directly affecting one another. Eventually, during the climax of the story, the two paths intersect.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: "Karakuri Circus", written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita, was serialized in Shogakukan's "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" from July 23, 1997, to June 14, 2006. It spanned 425 chapters, which were collected in forty-three "tankōbon" volumes, released from December 10, 1997, to August 11, 2006. The manga has been reprinted and collected in multiple editions: "My first wide" edition (collected in sixteen volumes, released from November 2008 to February 2010); "wide-ban" edition (collected in twenty-three volumes, released from July 2011 to April 2013); "bunkoban" edition (collected in twenty-two volumes, released from May 2017 to February 2019); and "kanzenban" edition (collected in twenty-six volumes, released from September 2018 to September 2019).


title: Karakuri Circus

text: An official guidebook was published by Shogakukan under the Shōnen Sunday Comics Special imprint on July 16, 2004.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: A 36-episode anime television series adaptation aired from October 11, 2018 to June 27, 2019 on Tokyo MX and BS11. The series is animated by Studio VOLN and directed by Satoshi Nishimura, with series composition by Toshiki Inoue and Kazuhiro Fujita and character designs by Takahiro Yoshimatsu. Yuki Hayashi composed the series' music and Twin Engine produced the series. The episodes were collected in three Blu-ray sets released by VAP between June 19 and October 23, 2019. Bump of Chicken performed the series' first opening theme song "Gekkō", and Lozareena performed the first ending theme song "Marionette". The second opening theme song is "Haguruma" performed by KANA-BOON, and the series' second ending theme song "Yūdachi" is performed by Memai Siren. The third opening theme song is "Over me" performed by Lozareena, while the third ending is the previous first opening song "Gekkō" by Bump of Chicken. The series was simulcast exclusively on Amazon Video worldwide. In February 2021, Sentai Filmworks announced that they had licensed the series for home video and digital release. It was released on Blu-ray Disc on May 18, 2021.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: A RPG smartphone game developed by Tenda, Kick Ass and Game Gate, titled "Karakuri Circus: Larmes d'un Clown", was launched on December 18, 2018.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: A stage play adaptation ran in Tokyo at the Shinjuku Face theater from January 10–20, 2019. Yū Murai directed the play and Keita Kawajiri wrote the script. The cast included Taiga Fukazawa as Masaru Saiga, Koudai Takikawa as Narumi Kato, Momoka Onishi and Riho Iida as Shirogane/Francine (double cast), Kairi Miura as Bai In, Ryōtarō Kosaka as Bai Jin, Kento as Eiryo Ashihana, Shōjirō Yokoi as George LaRoche, Yūki Ochi as Guy Christophe Rech, Ryōko Tanaka as Lucille Berneuil, Natsuki Maeda as Harlequin, Saki Endō as Fatima, Yōjirō Murata as Faceless, Mitsuru Karahashi as Pantalone, Hiroya Matsumoto as Arlecchino, Seshiru Daigo as Columbine and Shūhei Izumi as Dottore.


title: Karakuri Circus

text: The manga had over 15 million copies in print as of 2018. "Karakuri Circus" was nominated for the 23rd Kodansha Manga Award in the "shōnen" category in 1999. It was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 5th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2001. It was nominated for the Seiun Award in the Best Comic category in 2007. On a 2020 poll conducted by the "Goo" website about the best "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" titles, "Karakuri Circus" ranked ninth. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, "Karakuri Circus" ranked #86.


title: Marie biscuit

text: A Marie biscuit is a type of biscuit similar to a rich tea biscuit. It is also known (in various languages) as María, Mariebon, Марія and Marietta, amongst other names.


title: Marie biscuit

text: The biscuit is round and usually has the name embossed upon its top surface, the edges of which are also embossed with an intricate design. It is made with wheat flour, sugar, palm oil or sunflower seed oil and, unlike the rich tea biscuit, is typically vanilla-flavoured.


title: Marie biscuit

text: The Marie biscuit was created by the London bakery Peek Freans in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. It became popular throughout Europe, particularly in Portugal and Spain where, following the Civil War, the biscuit became a symbol of the country's economic recovery after bakeries produced mass quantities to consume a surplus of wheat.


title: Marie biscuit

text: Marie biscuits have become popular in South Africa after going into production by Bakers Biscuits in 1898.


title: Marie biscuit

text: Many consider that the plain flavour of Maries makes them, like rich tea biscuits, particularly suitable for dunking in tea. Other popular methods of consuming the biscuit include using two to make a sandwich with butter and Marmite or condensed milk spread in between; covering it with golden syrup; or crumbling it up in custard and jelly (gelatin dessert). Marie biscuits are frequently served to children, and to infants who may be served the biscuits softened in milk as their first 'solid' food. Marie biscuits are also a common ingredient in home-baking recipes. In India, Marie biscuits are dunked in hot tea.


title: Marie biscuit

text: In Spain, "natillas" custard is typically served with a Maria biscuit on top. In Uruguay, they are served filled with dulce de leche and sprinkled with shredded coconut. In Brazil, they are soaked in milk and then stacked in layers of chocolate and vanilla-flavoured custard cream, with whipped cream and crushed cashew nuts on top to make "pavê", a popular Brazilian dessert. In Ireland, the biscuits are known as Marietta and manufactured by Jacob's. In Malaysia, people use them mainly for making batik cake.


title: Prince Caspian

text: Prince Caspian (originally published as Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia) is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951. It was the second published of seven novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia" (1950–1956), and Lewis had finished writing it in 1949, before the first book was out. It is volume four in recent editions of the series, sequenced according to the internal chronology of the books. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.


title: Prince Caspian

text: "Prince Caspian" features a "return to Narnia" by the four Pevensie children of the first novel, about a year later in England but 1300 years later in Narnia. It is the only book of "The Chronicles" with men dominating Narnia. The talking animals and mythical beings are oppressed, and some may be endangered. The English siblings, legendary , are magically recalled, once again children, by the refugee Prince Caspian.


title: Prince Caspian

text: "Prince Caspian" has been adapted and filmed as two episodes of BBC television series in 1989 and as a in 2008.


title: Prince Caspian

text: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are magically whisked away from a British railway station to a beach near an old and ruined castle. They determine the ruin is Cair Paravel, where they once ruled as the kings and queens of Narnia. They discover the treasure vault where Peter's sword and shield, Susan's bow and arrows, and Lucy's dagger and bottle of magical cordial are stored. Susan's horn for summoning help is missing, as she left it in the woods the day they returned to England after their prior visit to Narnia. Although only a year has passed in England, 1300 years have passed in Narnia.


title: Prince Caspian

text: The children rescue Trumpkin the dwarf from soldiers who are about to drown him. Trumpkin tells the children Narnia's history since their disappearance: Telmarines conquered Narnia, which is now ruled by King Miraz and his wife, Queen Prunaprismia. Miraz usurped the throne by killing his brother, King Caspian IX, the father of Prince Caspian. Miraz tolerated the rightful heir, Prince Caspian, until his own son was born. Caspian escaped from Miraz's castle with the aid of his tutor Doctor Cornelius, who schooled him in the lore of Old Narnia, and gave him Queen Susan's horn. Caspian fled into the forest but was knocked unconscious when his horse bolted. He awoke in the den of a talking badger, Trufflehunter, and two dwarfs, Nikabrik and Trumpkin, who accepted Caspian as their king.


title: Prince Caspian

text: The badger and dwarves took Caspian to meet many creatures of Old Narnia. During a midnight council, Doctor Cornelius arrived to warn them of the approach of King Miraz and his army; he urged them to flee to Aslan's How in the great woods near Cair Paravel. The Telmarines followed the Narnians to the How, and after several skirmishes the Narnians appeared close to defeat. At a second war council, they decided to wind Queen Susan's horn in the hopes that it would bring help.


title: Prince Caspian

text: Trumpkin and the Pevensies make their way to Caspian. The trek proves difficult, but Aslan appears to Lucy and instructs her to guide the others behind him. Aslan sends Peter, Edmund, and Trumpkin ahead to Aslan's How to deal with treachery brewing there, and follows with Susan and Lucy.


title: Prince Caspian

text: Peter, Edmund, and Trumpkin arrive and drive out or kill the creatures threatening Caspian. Peter challenges Miraz to single combat: the army of the victor in this duel would be considered the victor in the war. Miraz accepts the challenge, goaded by lords Glozelle and Sopespian. Miraz loses the combat, but Glozelle and Sopespian declare that the Narnians have cheated. The lords command the Telmarine army to attack, and in the commotion that follows, Glozelle stabs Miraz in the back. Aslan, accompanied by Lucy and Susan, summons the gods Bacchus and Silenus, and with their help brings the woods to life. The gods and awakened trees turn the tide of battle and send the Telmarines fleeing. Discovering themselves trapped at the Great River, where their bridge has been destroyed by Bacchus, the Telmarines surrender.


title: Prince Caspian

text: Aslan gives the Telmarines a choice of staying in Narnia under Caspian or returning to Earth, their original home. After one volunteer disappears through the magic door created by Aslan, the Pevensies go through to reassure the other Telmarines, though Peter and Susan reveal to Edmund and Lucy that they are too old to return to Narnia. The Pevensies find themselves back at the railway station.


title: Prince Caspian

text: The two major themes of the story are courage and chivalry and, as Lewis himself said in a letter to an American girl, "the restoration of the true religion after a corruption".


title: Prince Caspian

text: The Telmarine conquest of Narnia, as depicted in the book, is in many ways similar to the historical Norman Conquest of England. Though there is no precise parallel in actual English history to the specific events of this book, the end result – "Old Narnians" and Telmarines becoming a single people and living together in harmony – is similar to the historical process of Saxons and Normans eventually fusing into a single English people.


title: Prince Caspian

text: The second in the series of films from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, titled "", was released in the US on 16 May 2008. The UK release date was 26 June 2008.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: James W. Ware, Jr. (born June 20, 1958), better known by his ring name Koko B. Ware is an American retired professional wrestler. He debuted in 1978 and became widely popular in 1986. He later went on to the World Wrestling Federation, where he went from strong mid-carder to jobber to the stars. "The Birdman" came to the ring with a blue-and-yellow macaw named Frankie, both flapping and dancing before and after his matches. Before joining the WWF, he was in several tag teams, most notably with Bobby Eaton in Memphis and with Norvell Austin (The PYT Express) in several promotions. In 1993, he lost the first "Monday Night Raw" match to Yokozuna. In 2009 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware spent his early days in the sport in the Mid-South, Georgia and other NWA territories. Early in his career, "Koko Ware" (as he was then known) did not find great success, learning the ropes and paying his dues both in Jerry Jarrett's Continental Wrestling Association and Nick Gulas' territory in the south.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: It was not until late in 1980 that Ware's fortunes changed when he participated in a battle royal to crown the first ever Mid-American Television Champion. The crowd favorite was Jimmy Valiant, who Ware accidentally knocked into Danny Davis and eliminated. Moments later, Koko dumped Davis to the floor and won his first title. After the match, Valiant returned to the ring and beat Ware down. Ware's feud with Valiant was quickly expanded to include the heel Tojo Yamamoto and Ware's ally, Tommy Rich. When Dutch Mantel returned to the CWA in early 1981 he quickly defeated Ware for the TV title making Ware's first run with the gold a short one.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware floundered until September 1981, when he was chosen to referee a Southern Heavyweight Championship title match between Jerry Lawler and the "Dream Machine". Ware unfairly counted Lawler out to give the Dream Machine the victory, a decision that did not sit well with Lawler nor the fans in Memphis. Koko quickly aligned himself with manager Jimmy Hart and his First Family and changed his ring name to "Sweet Brown Sugar". Sugar never got the best of Lawler but did taste tag-team success alongside Steve Keirn and then with Bobby Eaton. Eaton and Sugar won the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: After successfully teaming for a while, Sugar and Eaton started to show signs of dissension, during their last run with the tag-team title Eaton beat Jacques Rougeau for the Mid-American Heavyweight title. During an interview where Eaton and Hart bragged about the victory, Sugar complained that he was unable to win the Southern Title from Terry Taylor. After being fed up, Hart finally slapped Sugar and sent the sulking superstar back to the dressing room after which Eaton commented that Sugar had been "whining like a woman". Later that night the duo defended their title against Taylor and Bill Dundee, losing the title when Sugar "accidentally" kicked Eaton and then left the ring. Eaton and Sugar contested a series of grudge matches centered around the Mid-America title and their issues with each other. The feud got so out of control that it had to be settled with a "loser leaves town" match, a match that Eaton won, driving Sugar out of the arena. Later, a masked man calling himself "Stagger Lee" debuted; the fact that he looked and wrestled like a masked version of Sugar helped make him instantly popular. Eaton, along with the rest of the First Family, tried in vain to unmask Lee but could not manage to do so. Bobby Eaton later turned face, he teamed with "Stagger Lee" for a series of matches.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: During a tag-team tournament in 1983, the masked Stagger Lee teamed up with fellow face Norvell Austin to take on "Fargo's Fabulous Ones" (Tommy Rich and "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert). During the course of the match Stagger Lee's mask was removed to reveal the man beneath it, prompting a heel turn for Ware. Austin and Ware became a regular tag team dubbed "The Pretty Young Things" or ("The PYT Express"). The two men soon began wearing red leather jackets, and each had a single white glove on, in an obvious imitation of Michael Jackson to further enhance their "pretty boy" image. The team defeated Elijah Akeem and Kareem Mohammad for the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship in February 1984; almost two weeks later, Akeem and Mohammad regained the title.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In August 1984, The Pretty Young Things began wrestling for World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas. They remained with the promotion until November 1984.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In December 1984 the Pretty Young Things began wrestling for Championship Wrestling from Florida. On February 26, 1985, Austin and Ware defeated Jay and Mark Youngblood to win the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship. Two weeks later on March 5, 1985, the team re-lost the title to the Youngbloods. They left the promotion in March 1985.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: After dropping the gold in Florida, the Pretty Young Things returned to the Continental Wrestling Association in April 1985. There, they won the AWA Southern Tag Team title twice, both times from The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane) as they feuded with the top face team of the promotion. The team dissolved in July 1985 when Austin left for Continental Championship Wrestling.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In August 1985, Ware won a tournament for the vacant NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship. He held the title until October, when he lost to Harley Race; he regained the title the following month. His final reign ended in January 1986 when he lost to Buddy Landel. Ware left the Continental Wrestling Association later that month to join the Universal Wrestling Federation.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In February 1986, Koko moved on to Bill Watts' Mid-South/UWF territory, where he started calling himself Koko B. Ware. Ware's persona was that of a face who entered the ring to the theme of Morris Day's "The Bird", doing an arm-flapping dance. He left the promotion in August 1986 upon signing with the World Wrestling Federation.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In August 1986, Ware signed with the World Wrestling Federation, where he continued his fun-loving "Birdman" Koko B. Ware" persona, complete with a macaw named "Frankie". Ware made his debut as a fan favorite on the September 6, 1986, episode of "Superstars", teaming with Paul Roma against Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) in a losing effort. His first victory was on the September 7 episode of "Wrestling Challenge" against Bob Bradley. He made his entrances dancing to the ring to the tune of Morris Day and The Time's "The Bird", flapping his arms and carrying Frankie, who sat on a perch at ringside while Ware wrestled. Bright outfits, colorful sunglasses, a constant smile and his vibrato singing voice made Ware popular, especially with the younger crowd that the WWF mainly catered to during the 1980s. Ware also sang the title track of the 1987 WWF album "", which then became his entrance music. The song's video featured top wrestlers of the day like Hulk Hogan and The Honky Tonk Man, as well as WWF owner Vince McMahon wearing a red "Hulkamania" shirt and hard hat.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware garnered his first big win of his initial WWF run when he upset Harley Race at a house show in East Rutherford, NJ, on October 13. On television, his first major showcase was at the November 29, 1986 "Saturday Night's Main Event VIII" where he defeated Nikolai Volkoff. He was then granted an Intercontinental Title match against champion Randy Savage on the November 16 edition of Wrestling Challenge, a bout which went to a double countout. The same taping later saw Ware defeat Savage by countout in a dark match.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware, however, would often be on the losing end when he came up against other established stars, such as Butch Reed, Hercules, Greg Valentine, and The Big Boss Man. From 1987 to 1993, Ware appeared on several WWF PPVs (including WrestleMania III where he lost to Reed) and editions of "Saturday Night's Main Event", being used mainly to make established or rising stars look good. Ware was the first wrestler on television to fall victim to the Perfect-plex of newcomer Mr. Perfect on the January 7, 1989, episode of "Saturday Night's Main Event XIX", while at the 1990 Survivor Series, Ware became the first wrestler to fall victim to The Undertaker's Tombstone piledriver in the Undertaker's WWF debut match. In a precursor to what would become a regular team years later, Ware occasionally teamed with Owen Hart, wrestling as The Blue Blazer at the time, throughout 1988 and 1989.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: During a 1989 European tour, Ware was fired for his part in a physical altercation with WWF executive Jim Troy. Troy had used racial slurs during an argument after which the dispute turned physical. Ware was later rehired, a little over a month later, when Troy resigned.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In 1992, Ware teamed up with Owen Hart to form the high-flying team known as High Energy, well known in wrestling circles for their gigantic baggy brightly colored pants and checkered suspenders. High Energy feuded with (and generally lost to) The Nasty Boys, The Headshrinkers, and Money Inc. They made only one PPV appearance as a team, a loss to the Headshrinkers at the 1992 Survivor Series. Ware appeared in the first match on the very first episode of "Monday Night Raw" on January 11, 1993, where he was defeated in a squash match by Yokozuna. The team ended in March 1993 after Hart injured his knee. High Energy's final match came in a loss to The Headshrinkers at a live event on March 10.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: With Owen Hart out of action Koko would return to singles competition and immediately entered a house show series with Skinner. At the same time, Ware made appearances in the USWA as part of a talent exchange program with WWF. He continued wrestling in the promotion through the remainder of the year.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Koko returned to WWF in 1994 when he appeared on the March 21 episode of "Monday Night Raw" and faced Jeff Jarrett. He would then appear on the April 9 episode of "Superstars" in a loss to Irwin R. Schyster. Koko picked up his first victory of his return by defeating Bastion Booger on the April 16, 1994, episode of "WWF Mania". Koko then embarked on a house show tour in England where he faced Jarrett and Kwang. On May 19, he defeated The Genius and followed it up a night later with three more wins over Poffo later that month. Koko faced his former partner Owen Hart on the June 18 episode of "Superstars". He ended his WWF run with three straight victories as he teamed with Bushwhacker Luke Williams in house show matches in Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore against Reno Riggins and Barry Horowitz.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In 1991 Koko made his debut in the USWA. By 1992 the WWF and the United States Wrestling Association started a talent exchange agreement which saw Koko B. Ware return to Memphis. In the USWA Koko was more successful than in the WWF, winning the USWA World Title twice, once from Kamala "The Ugandan Giant" and once from USWA icon Jerry Lawler. Koko also hooked up with Rex Hargrove and won the USWA Tag Team Championship once in 1993. In 1996 he feuded with Brian Christopher and Jerry Lawler. He left in 1997 before the company shut down later that year.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware made a few appearances for the American Wrestling Federation from 1994 to 1996 but did not become a regular before going into semi-retirement in 1997. Ware was interviewed briefly during the 1999 wrestling documentary "Beyond the Mat".


title: Koko B. Ware

text: After USWA, Ware did not wrestle as much. He started working for the independent circuit. In 1998 to 1999 he wrestled for Power Pro Wrestling in Memphis. In 1999, he retired from wrestling and took a couple of years off.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On the January 25, 1999, edition of WWF Raw is War, Ware made a short-lived return to the World Wrestling Federation where he put on the "Blue Blazer" mask during the Owen Hart angle and Jeff Jarrett in their victory for the tag team championship. When Hart died, the angle was dropped and Ware's services were no longer needed.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On May 18, 2001, Ware returned to wrestling and defeated Brickhouse Brown at Galaxy Championship Wrestling in Little Rock, Arkansas.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: By 2003 Ware began to wrestle full time again. He defeated Billy Maverick for the SCW Supreme Title for Supreme Championship Wrestling on August 22. Also in 2003, Ware began competing once again in the Memphis area for the Memphis Wrestling promotion from 2003 to 2007. He also competed at the "World Wrestling Legends" PPV on March 5, 2006, where he defeated Disco Inferno.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: He appeared at "WWE Homecoming", "Raw"'s return to the USA Network, on October 3, 2005. He fought (and was defeated by) Rob Conway on the October 28, 2005, edition of "WWE Heat".


title: Koko B. Ware

text: In April 2007, he wrestled in a tag match (while managed by special guest Slick) and lost to Bill Dundee and Dutch Mantel (managed by Jimmy Valiant) at Ultimate Clash of the Legends '07 headlined by Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Wight (Big Show).


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On August 23, 2007, he defeated his former nemesis Greg Valentine for Great North Wrestling at the Ottawa SuperEX in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On June 8, 2008, Ware made a special appearance at TNA's Slammiversary as a groomsman in the kayfabe wedding for "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal and SoCal Val, along with George "The Animal" Steele, Kamala the Ugandan Giant, and Jake "The Snake" Roberts.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware appeared at the 2010 edition of "Night of Legends", a card promoted by the International Wrestling Cartel (IWC), where he defeated "The Genius" Lanny Poffo.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On May 31, 2014, Ware appeared in the main event at Valour Wrestling's special event to raise money for Lou Gehrig disease.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On July 14, 2017, Ware appeared in Big Time Wrestling in Newark, CA, and teamed with Shane Kody to defeat the Ballard Brothers.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: On July 28, 2018, Ware appeared in Eastern Wrestling Federation and teamed with Blackcat Johnson in a winning effort.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware wrestled his last match on August 10, 2019 for Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling, teamed with John Wes and Matt Turner to defeat James Ellsworth, RJS and Alexander Bateman.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware was named as a defendant in a 2015 lawsuit filed by WWE after they received a letter from him indicating that he intended to sue them for concussion-based injuries sustained during his tenure with them. He was represented by attorney Konstantine Kyros, who was involved in several other lawsuits involving former WWE wrestlers. US District Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant dismissed Ware's lawsuit in September 2018.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: Ware's character featured him carrying a parrot called Frankie, which earned him the nicknames "The Birdman". He performed a brainbuster known as the "Ghostbuster". He used a wide range of signature moves including the Missile dropkick, bulldog. dropkick, headbutt or monkey flip.


title: Koko B. Ware

text: After being inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009, Ware has been a point of controversy because, working as a carpenter, he was inducted before world champions Ivan Koloff, Randy Savage or Bruno Sammartino. In 2020, 411Mania writers Steve Cook and Kevin Pantoja discussed Ware's induction. While Cook defended his Hall of Fame status since he was very over and some of his losses were historic, Pantoja described him as "the floor for inductees".


title: Matthew McNulty

text: Michael Anthony McNulty (born 14 December 1982), known professionally as Matthew McNulty, is a German-born English actor.


title: Matthew McNulty

text: McNulty was born on 14 December 1982 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, and lived in Berlin and Münster before moving to Atherton, Greater Manchester, England when he was 10 years old. He attended Hesketh Fletcher high school and then Winstanley College


title: Matthew McNulty

text: He changed his stage name to Matthew McNulty when he obtained his Equity card, as there was already another Michael McNulty on the Equity list.


title: Astraeus

text: In Greek mythology, Astraeus () or Astraios (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖος means "starry""") was an astrological deity. Some also associate him with the winds, as he is the father of the four Anemoi (wind deities), by his wife, Eos.


title: Astraeus

text: His name “Astraeus” (Ancient Greek , translit. "Astraîos") is derived from the Greek word ("astḗr") meaning “star”. itself is inherited from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂ster-" (“star”), from "*h₂eh₁s-" , “to burn”. "Astraea" shares this same etymology.


title: Astraeus

text: According to Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Bibliotheca", Astraeus is a second-generation Titan descended from Crius and Eurybia. However, Hyginus wrote that he was descended directly from Tartarus and Gaia and referred to him as one of the Gigantes.


title: Astraeus

text: Astraeus married Eos, the goddess of the dawn. Together as nightfall and daybreak, they produced many children associated with what occurs in the sky during twilight.


title: Astraeus

text: They had many sons, including the four Anemoi ("winds"): Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus, and the five "Astra Planeta" ("Wandering Stars", i.e., planets): Phainon (Saturn), Phaethon (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), Eosphoros/Hesperos (Venus), and Stilbon (Mercury). A few sources mention another daughter, Astraea, the goddess of innocence and, occasionally, justice.


title: Astraeus

text: He is also sometimes associated with Aeolus, the Keeper of the Winds, since winds often increase around dusk.