title: Miranda Devine

text: Miranda Devine (born 1 July 1961) is an Australian columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted "The Miranda Devine Show" on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015. She has written for column, Fairfax Media newspapers "The Sydney Morning Herald" and "The Sun-Herald", and for News Limited newspapers "Daily Telegraph", "Sunday Telegraph", Melbourne's "Sunday Herald Sun", and Perth's "Sunday Times". As of 2022, she writes for the "New York Post". Some of her political opinion pieces and statements on race, gender, and the environment have been the subject of public scrutiny and debate.


title: Miranda Devine

text: She is the eldest daughter of Frank Devine, a New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor and journalist, who died in 2009. She attended school at Loreto Kirribilli in Sydney and the International School of the Sacred Heart Tokyo. She has a master of science in journalism from Northwestern University (USA) and a bachelor of science in mathematics from Macquarie University. Devine studied first-year architecture at Sydney University, where she was a resident at Sancta Sophia College and worked briefly at the CSIRO's Division of Textile Physics.


title: Miranda Devine

text: Devine worked for the "Boston Herald" as a reporter and feature writer. In 1989, Devine joined "The Daily Telegraph" as assistant editor, police reporter, and columnist after returning to Australia to live in Sydney. She had also previously worked at the British tabloid "the Sun" and the British newspaper "Sunday Times" in London. Most recently, Devine's columns, focused on United States politics, are published by the "New York Post" and she makes appearances promoting her articles on local media outlets. Devine formerly lived in Sydney with her husband and two sons. Devine is the author of the book "Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide."


title: Miranda Devine

text: Devine is noted for her conservative stance on a range of social and political issues. In April 2016, she coined the term "delcon" (delusional conservative) to describe conservatives who remained loyal to Tony Abbott after the Liberal Party ousted him in favour of Malcolm Turnbull.


title: Miranda Devine

text: In 2002, Devine opined in the "Sydney Morning Herald" that the racial element of the Sydney gang rapes had been "airbrushed" out of the media coverage of the events. She stated that the victims alleged that prosecutors had intentionally "censored" their official statements to remove any mention of racially sensitive material. Devine has also been accused by "The Guardian" and the "Sydney Morning Herald" of promoting the white genocide conspiracy theory and has been described as pivotal in popularising the concept within Australian politics. Referring to white South African refugees as "oppressed white, Christian, industrious, rugby and cricket-playing Commonwealth cousins", she has claimed they would "integrate seamlessly" with European Australians.


title: Miranda Devine

text: Devine suggested in 2009 that conservationists were to blame for the poor management of forested areas and national parks, and consequently for the deaths during the Black Saturday bushfires event. This rhetoric was revived during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, but promptly rejected by the scientific and firefighting community. In 2017, she claimed that shared bicycle schemes were a terror threat. Devine is also a climate change denier, advocating for the continuation of coal-fired electricity production and she has repeatedly stated that climate change is a political conspiracy.


title: Miranda Devine

text: In 2011, Devine used the news of Australian federal government minister Penny Wong's decision to parent a child with her female partner as the basis of a column in which she argued that the 2011 riots in England were the result of a "fatherless society". Writing for "ABC News", Catherine Deveny criticised Devine's claim that same-sex marriage was a "political tool to undermine the last bastion of bourgeois morality - the traditional nuclear family". Devine sparked further controversy in 2015 after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause of domestic violence in Australia and contending "if you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men". In 2016, Devine caused controversy by comparing the purported "vilification" of opponents of same-sex marriage in Australia to the victims of beheadings by ISIS, saying that critics of same-sex marriage were being "brutally made examples of" by "intolerant authoritarians".


title: Miranda Devine

text: In 2019, Devine defended Cardinal George Pell, at the time facing charges of which he was ultimately acquitted, related to the sexual assault of two 13-year-old boys, claiming that the victim's "accusations are implausible" and that "Victoria police chief Graham Ashton desperate for a distraction from the crime epidemic he’s incapable of stopping".


title: Miranda Devine

text: Devine is a strong supporter of former US President Donald Trump. In February 2020, Devine gained attention in the Australian media and was reported to be "over the moon" after being retweeted by Trump. In October 2020, The Guardian described her as "one of Trump's favourite writers" after the President again retweeted one of her articles. Devine drew criticism for a "fantastically fawning love letter" to Trump in which she described him as an "invincible hero" after his recovery from COVID-19 and called COVID-19 "the Chinese virus". Devine has since repeated Donald Trump's unsuccessful attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election with unsubstantiated claims that Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was driven by large-scale electoral fraud. In January 2021, Devine blamed past Black Lives Matter demonstrations for the actions of rioters during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.


title: Miranda Devine

text: In February 2020, Devine alleged in a series of tweets that a video showing Quaden Bayles, an Indigenous boy with achondroplasia dwarfism, crying after being bullied at school, was a scam and that Bayles was actually an adult actor. That led to Quaden's mother, Yarraka, suing Devine for defamation on behalf of her son, and also suing on her own behalf over Devine's suggestion she had coached Quaden. Devine's employer, News Corp subsidiary Nationwide News, publisher of "The Daily Telegraph", was also named as a defendant in the suit.


title: Miranda Devine

text: In September 2020, ahead of an anticipated settlement of the suit, Devine, who was on secondment at the "New York Post", tweeted an apology for her allegations that the video had been faked.


title: Ray Gillen

text: Raymond Arthur Gillen (May 12, 1959 – December 1, 1993) was an American rock singer. He is best known for his work with Badlands, in addition to his stint with Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s and recording most of the vocals on Phenomena's "Dream Runner" album.


title: Ray Gillen

text: Gillen was born on May 12, 1959, in New York, but was raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He was an only child and started singing while in high school. He played the New Jersey club circuit with various bands, including club bands Quest (1978–80), the punk rock influenced F-66 (1980–81), Savage, and, most notably, Vendetta and Harlette. In 1985, he joined Bobby Rondinelli's band, Rondinelli.


title: Ray Gillen

text: In 1986, Black Sabbath started touring for the "Seventh Star" album when after only a few shows, singer Glenn Hughes got into a fist-fight and lost his voice due to the related sinus and throat injuries. Gillen was offered the job to replace Hughes, which meant leaving Rondinelli to accept the offer. After finishing the "Seventh Star" tour, Black Sabbath recorded their next album "The Eternal Idol" with Gillen. However, due to mix of financial burden, writing difficulty (Bob Daisley was recruited for writing as Gillen turned out to be not much of a composer), mismanagement and miscommunication that plagued the band, Gillen and Black Sabbath drummer Eric Singer quit before the album was ever released. Gillen was eventually replaced by Tony Martin, and the vocal track of "The Eternal Idol" was hurriedly rerecorded note-for-note with Martin before the album was finally released in 1987. However, demo versions of "The Eternal Idol" featuring Gillen do exist on the bootleg circuit and on the 2010 deluxe Eternal Idol re-release. Also, in an interview Martin revealed that the sinister laugh heard on the track "Nightmare" is in fact Gillen's voice. The album was re-released on November 1, 2010, in Europe in a 2-disc expanded set including a bonus disc with Gillen's recording.


title: Ray Gillen

text: During the time of the "Seventh Star" tour, Gillen was asked by project director and co-producer Wilfried F. Rimensberger to join Mel Galley's Phenomena for the recording of the album "Dream Runner", which features vocals from Glenn Hughes, John Wetton and Max Bacon. He recorded 4 tracks. Gillen is also featured in Phenomena's 'Did it all for Love' music video although he was not involved in the actual recording of that song.


title: Ray Gillen

text: After the Phenomena recordings, Gillen joined John Sykes (previously with Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and a different band called Badlands) with the intention to form a new band Blue Murder. Gillen sang demos but parted company when Sykes decided to handle vocals himself.


title: Ray Gillen

text: Gillen then contacted Jake E. Lee (former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist) to form a band. In 1988, Gillen formed Badlands with Lee and recruited his friend Eric Singer with whom he had played in Black Sabbath. Gillen recorded three albums ("Badlands", "Voodoo Highway", and "Dusk") with Badlands and the band toured from 1989 until 1992. They enjoyed moderate commercial success with their first two albums, but tensions between its band members, as well as problems with both management and their label Atlantic Records, hastened the band's demise. Gillen was briefly replaced by John West and Badlands dissolved soon afterwards. Their third album "Dusk", which is made up of demos recorded shortly before Gillen's dismissal from the band, was released posthumously in 1998.


title: Ray Gillen

text: Following his split from Badlands, Gillen stayed in L.A. and was involved with two projects. He joined forces with drummer Randy Castillo and Iggy Pop band members Whitey Kirst and Craig Pike under the name Cockfight. He also joined the band Terriff, led by guitarist Joe Holmes, fresh off his stint with David Lee Roth on the "A Little Ain't Enough" tour. Gillen rehearsed with the group for several months before moving back to his native New York. He also went to form the band Sun Red Sun with old friends.


title: Ray Gillen

text: In 1993, Wilfried F. Rimensberger was planning a remake of his first Metal Hammer Loreley Festival but this time specifically to stage Phenomena's first ever live performance, with Gillen on vocals. It was going to be the launch event for a series of concerts across Europe in 1994. Gillen called from New York and told Rimensberger in Munich that he had to bow out because he was too ill to perform.


title: Ray Gillen

text: Gillen died from an AIDS-related disease in a New York hospital on December 1, 1993. He first showed symptoms of the disease around 1990, and according to his Badlands bandmate Jake E. Lee, "in between the first and the second record, he started getting really thin and didn't look quite as healthy". Lee also claimed that he had not been aware of Gillen's diagnosis with AIDS until a meeting with then-Badlands manager Paul O'Neill, who threatened to tell Atlantic Records about Gillen's illness if he was fired by the band. Gillen reportedly denied it, saying to Lee, "Well, it's not true, so fuck him. Fire him." Lee concluded, "So we did fire him. And he did tell Atlantic Records that. And we got kind of screwed on the second record because of it. They wouldn't even give us tour-support money at all…but, yeah, Paul O'Neill fucked us on that."


title: Ray Gillen

text: Gillen was survived by a daughter, Ashley (born July 1984). He is buried at Fairview Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey.


title: Tenali

text: Tenali is a city in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Tenali mandal and Tenali revenue division. The city is renowned for art, culture, drama and hence, it is called "Andhra Paris". It is one of the twelve urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh Capital Region and the twelfth most populous city in the state, with a population of 199,345 as of 2011. Tenali City is also part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA).


title: Tenali

text: Tenali Ramakrishna, one of the eight poets and jester of Maharaja Krishnadevaraya, hails from Tenali.


title: Tenali

text: Three canals of the Krishna River flow through Tenali City, making it a part of the rice bowl of Andhra Pradesh, resembling Paris, where three canals pass through the city. Hence Tenali is affectionately called "Andhra Paris".


title: Tenali

text: In 2011 the city limits were expanded by many kilometers. The expansion included the villages of Angalakuduru, Nandivelugu, Kolakaluru, Pinapadu, and Burripalem.


title: Tenali

text: The Andhra–Satavahana dynasty ruled the region around the present city from 225 B.C. to 225 A.D. The relics found in the excavations around Tenali reveal the existence of Jainism and Buddhism. One such example is the inscriptions in Ramalingeswara temple, dating back to the 16th century AD.


title: Tenali

text: Tenali is situated at , on the southern deltaic region of Krishna River. The city is spread over an area of . It lies at an average altitude of above mean sea level. It is also called as City without a National Highway. The East canal, the Nizampatnam canal and the West canal flow through the city, which originates from Krishna River. The region around the city forms a part of "Western Delta System" of Krishna river. The area is covered by Alluvium and the main soil varieties are Red and Black.


title: Tenali

text: Tenali has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen "Aw"). The average annual temperatures range from a high of to a low of . May is the hottest and December is the coolest months of the year. The city receives maximum rainfall due to the onset of southwest monsoon season from June to October. The annual precipitation averages with the month of August being the highest with and January being the lowest with .


title: Tenali

text: census of India, there were households with a population of . It comprises males, females and children (age group of 0–6 years). The average literacy rate stood at 82.75% with literates, of which males were 164,467 and females were 160,151. There are a total of workers and non–workers. The number of households in 74 slums (37 notified and 7 non–notified) were and the total slum population was .


title: Tenali

text: Telugu is the most spoken language with a total of native speakers, followed by Urdu speakers. A significant minority speak Hindi, Marathi and Bengali. The religious population constitute Hindus (83.76%), Muslims (13.11%), Christians (1.94%) and (0.82%) not stating any religion.


title: Tenali

text: The Tenali Municipality is the seat of local government and the Tenali municipal council is the legislative body. It was constituted in 1909 and is classified as a "special grade municipality". The jurisdiction of the civic body is spread over an area of . It has a total of 70 election wards: 27 unreserved and 43 reserved. The wards are reserved 4 for SCs, 12 for STs and 24 for BCs. Each ward is represented by a ward member and the wards committee is headed by a Chairperson. The present Municipal Commissioner of the city is Venkata Krishna. The municipality of the city has received several awards, such as the Green Leaf Award 2015 for Best Decentralised Solid Waste Management and "Green City" of the country for waste segregation management.


title: Tenali

text: The city is represented by Tenali Assembly constituency in the state legislative assembly. The assembly segment forms a part of Guntur Lok Sabha constituency, which represents the lower house of Indian Parliament.


title: Tenali

text: The municipality oversees civic needs, such as water supply, sewerage, roads, and parks, and is included in the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. The city residents rely on borewells, overhead reservoirs, and a filtration plant for daily water needs, which mainly draws water from the Krishna river of Prakasam Barrage. The city municipality implements two-bin garbage collection, sanitation campaigns like "Mana Tenali – It's people's creation" for hygiene of the people, ban on plastic bags etc.


title: Tenali

text: Tenali thrives on trade and agriculture. Irrigation in the Western Delta, the region in which the city lies, is supported by water from the Krishna river. Paddy is the major crop cultivated, producing on an average of 22–24 bags per acre. Major crops include black gram, maize, and jowar. The Tenali Agriculture Market Yard is used for trading and exporting agricultural products.


title: Tenali

text: The city being a part of the capital region, is recognized as one of the future growth centers. It is also a part of the Tenali–Ponnur growth corridor.


title: Tenali

text: The city is notable for drama, fine arts, literature and poetry. The iconic Martyr's Memorial at Ranarang Chowk denotes the impact of the city on the Indian freedom struggle during the Quit India Movement. The people of Tenali had responded to Mahatma Gandhi's call and organised a bandh on 12 August 1942. The British police had opened fire on them, and seven people had been killed on the spot, at Morrispeta which later came to be known as Ranarang Chowk. After Independence, seven pillars had been erected in the memory of the seven martyrs, and a statue of Mother India with a baby in her arms had been installed at Ranarang Chowk.


title: Tenali

text: It was the domicile of doyen of several social and revolutionary moments viz. Non Bramin Movement 1920 (Suryadevara raghavaiah Chowdary), Rationalist movement 1940 (Kaviraju Sri Tripuraneni), Radical Humanist Movement 1950 (Sri M.N. Roy) etc.


title: Tenali

text: The city has been the host for events such as the formation of the 1929 "Andhra Nataka Kala Parishad", the Kanyasulkam play, and cultural fests. Tenali Ramakrishna, one of the eight poets in the court of Sri Krishna Devaraya, hails from Tenali. In the area of modern literature are contributors such as Chakrapani, Gudipati Venkata Chalam, Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy. Furthermore, Nethi Parameswara Sarma wrote the book "Nurella Tenali Rangastala Charitra", which translates to "100 years of theater in Tenali".


title: Tenali

text: Many artists who hail from Tenali and the nearby villages have contributed a major share to the Telugu film industry, such as AVS, Govindarajula Subba Rao (the first Telugu cinema hero), Krishna, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Jamuna, Kanchanamala (the first Telugu cinema heroine), Kongara Jaggayya, Rama Prabha, Savitri, Sharada, Siva Parvati and Divya Vani.


title: Tenali

text: There are various religious worship centers in the city, such as the Vaikuntapuram Venkateswara temple and the Iglesia ni Cristo church. The notable Satyanarayana UDA Lake Park (or Chinaravuru park), named after former municipal chairman Ravi Satyanarayana, is maintained by VGTMUDA (now APCRDA).


title: Tenali

text: Tenali has a total road length of . Guntur, Mangalagiri, Burripalem and Ponnur roads are the arterial roads for road connectivity to the city. The road towards Guntur connects with SH 48 at Narakodur. The Tenali–Mangalagiri road, the Tenali–Narakodur road, and the Tenali–Chandole road are a part of the core road network of the district, which connects the city with Mangalagiri, Narakodur and Chandole respectively.


title: Tenali

text: Bus and rail transport are the major modes of public transport for inter district and inter state commuting. The bus transport is provided by Tenali bus station, owned and operated by APSRTC. The station is also equipped with a bus depot for storage and maintenance of buses. It operates bus services to nearby and intrastate destinations.


title: Tenali

text: The city has one of the largest railway station that is well connected to major cities like Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Chennai. As it is a junction railway station, the trains are more frequent to any of the cities. provides rail connectivity to the city and is classified as an A–category station in the Vijayawada railway division of South Central Railway zone. It is an important junction station on the line between the Howrah–Chennai and the New Delhi–Chennai sections, which also connects the Tenali–Repalle branch line and the Guntur–Tenali section.


title: Tenali

text: The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided, and private schools, under the "School Education Department" of the state. As per the school information report for the academic year 2015–16, there are a total of 71 schools, comprising 26 private schools, 44 municipal schools, and 1 other type of school. The total number of students enrolled in primary, upper primary and high schools of the city is 11,544.


title: Tenali

text: Adarsh Public School, Sharon Talent School St. John's Public School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, and Westberry School are some of the public and private schools under CBSE and state boards. Yalavarthy Veda Pathashala, one of the oldest vedic schools founded in 1894, is located in Gandhi Nagar area of the city.


title: Tenali

text: There are 20 private aided junior colleges, such as the Taluk Junior college, the JMJ college for Women, the VSR and NVR college, and the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Memorial Junior college. Additionally, fourteen unaided junior colleges provide undergraduate education. The JMJ college for women and the VSR and NVR college are the two autonomous colleges under Acharya Nagarjuna University. There are colleges for different fields of study, such as nursing, Government Industrial Training Institute, and other institutes for vocational courses.


title: Tenali

text: Sports personalities from the city include National Challengers Championship winner and chess master S. Ravi Teja and weightlifter Sai Revathi Ghattamaneni, a gold medalist at Senior Nationals in the 63-kg category.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: Babar (, ; ) is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and US HBO, and subsequently was rerun on Qubo from its launch 2006 until its closure in 2021. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original "Babar" books, and was Nelvana's first international co-production. The show has been dubbed in 30 languages in over 150 countries.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: The show was the first to be based on the "Babar" books; previously, two "Babar" specials narrated by Peter Ustinov were produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez for NBC: "The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant" on October 21, 1968, and "Babar Comes to America" on September 7, 1971.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: In 2010, a computer-animated sequel series spin-off of "Babar" titled "Babar and the Adventures of Badou" was premiered on Disney Junior in the U.S. The new series takes place several years after the original and focuses on a majority of new characters including Badou, Babar's grandson and Pom's son, but only one human character appears on the show.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: Based on the books by Jean de Brunhoff and Laurent de Brunhoff, the plot of the first two seasons focuses on the story of Babar as it is told by him to his children. The past Babar is a young elephant who, traumatized by a hunter slaughtering his mother, flees from his home forest in exile to the city, where a kind Old Lady adopts him and teaches him the ways of human life. He returns to his home forest full of ideas for progress and, following the previous elephant king's death from eating poisonous mushrooms, hatches a plan to drive out the unnamed hunter and his men. For his heroism, Babar is crowned king of the elephants, plans and builds Celesteville, and grows up to become a father himself.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: While the first two seasons focus on Babar's recollections of his childhood and early years as king, as well as some two stories told by his children, the series shifts its focus in the third season to Babar's family life in the present day.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: The series was first premiered in 1989 on CBC in Canada and HBO in the U.S., and subsequently was rerun on Qubo from 2006 until its closure in 2021. The show has been dubbed in 30 languages in over 150 countries.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: In Region 2, Fremantle Home Entertainment released a three-single disc collections on DVD in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2009.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: On June 5, 2012, Entertainment One released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: David Knox at TV Tonight commented on the subject of death and the way it is depicted in Children's Television, citing the pilot of Babar as an example, "This week ABC replayed the pilot episode of the animated series in which the baby elephant loses his mother to a hunter after being shot by a rifle. Produced by a Canadian company in 1989 it doesn't shy away from the separation of mother and child, as written in the original Babar the Elephant stories." An ABC spokesperson told TV Tonight that ABC had carefully considered the content which aired at 3:30 p.m. EST on ABC2 for a G-rated audience, ABC in Australia (2 July 1990 - 3 June 2012) "At no point in the sequence was there any depiction of blood or wounds, and the depiction of the rifle being used was very careful and discreet. The simple animation style reduced the level of detail of the rifle and the action. While there was a sense of threat and menace associated with the hunter and his use of violence, having regard to the animation style, the level of visual detail, and the stylized manner in which the action was depicted, Audience and Consumer Affairs considers that this sense of threat and menace was very low. The violence in the sequence was very discreetly implied, and was not gratuitous as it was a pivotal, dramatic moment of great significance to the story."


title: Babar (TV series)

text: Charles Solomon of "Los Angeles Times" gave a review of Babar's first few episodes, "The designs for the characters and the simple animation capture the essence of Jean de Brunhoff's understated watercolor illustrations. The artists occasionally seem to lose their sense of the characters' size and weight: The young Babar jumps and climbs in ways that seem very unelephantlike (but very few elephants wear uniforms and crowns, as the adult Babar does). As the voice of Babar, Gordon Pinsent gives the elephant king a reassuring presence and keeps the mildly didactic stories from bogging down in moralizing. Child actors provide the voices for the young Babar and his friends, which makes the show sound a lot like a "Peanuts" special at times. Created by the Canadian Nelvana studio—the producers of the entertaining "My Pet Monster"--"Babar" manages to be endearing without sliding into the saccharine cutesiness of "Hello Kitty". Parents with children in the 4-to-10-year-old range should plan on setting their VCRs: The kids will probably want to watch "Babar" more than once."


title: Babar (TV series)

text: Common Sense Media finds the series suitable for viewers aged 4 and up and has given the series 4 stars out of 5, adding, "Babar is a good role model who promotes sharing and getting along with others." They continued to say that Parents Need to Know that "Although the show is an ideal pick for preschoolers, most kids will probably outgrow it by the time they're 7". The review ended by saying, "Many shows adapted from books tend to move at a slow pace. But Babar provides enough adventure and silliness to keep even the most active preschooler engaged. As an extra plus, the music is beautifully orchestrated. Babar exemplifies the lesson that all of us are the same on the inside. These elephants hold their trunks high, but they also know that money doesn't conquer all. Many kids' shows depict well-off characters as villainous and/or gluttonous; Babar shows kids that wealth doesn't necessarily equate to greed."


title: Babar (TV series)

text: In 1990, the TV series won a "7 d'Or" award for Best Youth Program (Meilleure émission pour la jeunesse). In 1989, the TV series won a Gemini award for Best Animated Program or Series (Patrick Loubert, Lenora Hume, Clive A. Smith, and Michael Hirsh). In 1990, the show won a Gemini for Best Animated Program or Series (Patrick Loubert, Michael Hirsh, and Clive A. Smith). It was also nominated for a Gemini award for Best Original Music Score for a Series (Milan Kymlicka). In 1992, the TV series won a Gemini award for Best Animated Program or Series (Clive A. Smith, Patrick Loubert, and Michael Hirsh).


title: Babar (TV series)

text: In the year of 1989, US distributor New Line Cinema joined forces with two Canadian companies Nelvana and Astral Films announced that a of "Babar" would be released. This would be followed by a sequel released in 1999, titled "", and was released by Alliance Films theatrically and HBO Home Video as a direct-to-video film.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: The 1986 television film "Babar and Father Christmas" won the 1987 Gemini award for Best Animated Program or Series. It first aired on HBO in the U.S. on December 5, 1986, on the CBC in Canada on December 15, 1986, on the BBC in the United Kingdom on Christmas Eve 1986 and on the ABC in Australia on Christmas Day 1987. The film's DVD title is also known as "Babar et le Père Noël" in France. The film was made in Canada. The song "Christmas in Celesteville" was featured in the TV film. Gary Morton wrote the music and Merilyn Read wrote the lyrics. John Brough, Geri Childs, Teresa Dunn, and Craig Kennedy are credited as singers.


title: Babar (TV series)

text: There was a short-lived revival of the animated series in 2000 on Teletoon and KiKa, Nelvana Limited returned to produce this series, alongside Ellipseanime and the Kodansha company. Most of the episodes for the revival series have Babar and his family traveling in a hot-air balloon to different Lands of Adventure, such as the Land of Toys. None of the cast from the previous series returned for the revival, though Dan Lett would go on to voice adult Pom in "Babar and the Adventures of Badou".


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Dellen Millard (born August 30, 1985) and Mark Smich (born August 13, 1987) are two Canadian convicted murderers from Toronto, Ontario, who together murdered Laura Babcock and Tim Bosma in separate killings in July 2012 and May 2013 respectively. They were both convicted of the murders in December 2017 and June 2016, respectively. Millard has also been convicted individually of first-degree murder for the 2012 death of his father, Wayne Millard, which had initially been deemed a suicide but was later reinvestigated. The guilty verdict for that charge was delivered on September 24, 2018.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Dellen Millard was born on August 30, 1985, to Wayne Millard and Madeleine Burns. Wayne was a pilot who had worked at both Air Canada and Millardair, an aviation firm founded by his father, Carl. Burns was a flight attendant at Air Canada when they met. Millard grew up in Toronto, Ontario, the only child of his wealthy parents. In 1999, at age 14, Millard set a world record for the youngest person to fly both a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane solo on the same day.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Millard owned several properties in the Toronto area, including a $1.2 million home in Etobicoke, a $500,000 condominium in an unspecified location, a $2 million residential rental property, and a $850,000 hundred-acre farm in Ayr. In May 2013, he finalised the purchase of a $627,000 condo in Toronto's Distillery District.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Smich was born on August 13, 1987. Unlike Millard's parents, Smich's parents were middle-class. He had a criminal record involving petty offences such as drug possession, driving impaired, mischief, failure to appear, and breach of conditions. Smich sold drugs and cigarettes for a living and occasionally worked odd jobs in Millard's hangar.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Millard and Smich were introduced around 2006. Friends described their friendship as initially one-sided: "Mark worshipped Dell, but Dell hated him". By 2011, they had grown closer, and in 2012 Smich and his girlfriend Marlena Meneses moved into the basement suite of the Millard family house. Around the same time, Millard began to arrange for Smich and other friends to accompany him on what he termed "missions": night-time excursions to steal items such as Bobcat construction equipment, lawnmowers, and even trees. A friend later described these "missions" as being strictly "for the thrill of it", as Millard had more than enough money to have purchased such things if he had wanted to.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: 32-year-old Tim Bosma was a Canadian citizen from Ancaster, a small community within the city of Hamilton, Ontario. Bosma had not previously known Millard or Smich. The pair contacted Bosma by phone to arrange a test drive of a pickup truck he had been selling online on Kijiji. Millard and Smich arrived on foot for the test drive just after 9:20pm on May 6, 2013, telling Bosma's wife Sharlene they had been dropped off by a friend. Bosma told his wife he would be right back, but none of the three men returned. After several hours, Sharlene contacted police to report her husband missing.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: During the test drive, Bosma was shot and killed. It is unclear whether it was Smich or Millard who ultimately pulled the trigger. Bosma's body was incinerated that night at the Millard hangar.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: The Hamilton Police Service treated the Bosma case as "a missing persons investigation with unusual circumstances". They conducted a ground search of the area around Bosma's home with the assistance of a canine unit and local search and rescue, and held a press briefing on May 7. Police quickly discovered that the phone used to contact Bosma had been a burner phone. On May 9, Bosma's deactivated cell phone was found in an industrial area on the west side of nearby Brantford.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Using the call records from the burner phone, police discovered that the men had arranged two other test drives in similar vehicles in the days preceding Bosma's murder. The two failed to arrive on time for the first, so it never occurred. The pair took the second vehicle on a test drive in Toronto on May 5. The men from that test drive matched the descriptions of the pair who had left with Bosma. One of the men carried a small satchel bag and had a tattoo on his wrist of the word "ambition" inside a box, a detail the police released to the public hoping for an identification.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: On May 10, police from Peel and Toronto advised the Hamilton police about a Toronto man named Dellen Millard, who was known to carry a satchel bag and had an "ambition" tattoo on his wrist. On May 11, Dellen Millard was arrested. On May 12, Bosma's truck was found inside a trailer in the driveway of Millard's mother. The trailer was registered to Millardair.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Police publicly confirmed that Bosma was deceased on May 14. Burned remains believed to be Bosma's had been located inside the incinerator, which had been found at Millard's farm in Ayr.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: At trial, Smich, Millard, and the Crown all presented different theories of what happened on the night of Bosma's murder. Smich and Millard each attempted to blame the other for the shooting.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: Smich contended that he was actually in a separate vehicle following behind Bosma and Millard, testifying that Millard shot Bosma while they were together in Bosma's truck. Millard's lawyer, Nadir Sachak, argued that all three men were in Bosma's vehicle, with Millard driving, Bosma in the front passenger seat, and Smich in the back seat behind him. According to this version, during the ride, Smich pulled out a gun and told Bosma they intended to steal the vehicle. A struggle ensued and Bosma was shot by accident. Millard did not testify during the trial, but has repeated this version of events in interviews since. Smich strongly denied this version of events at trial.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: The Crown contended that both Smich and Millard were in the vehicle and participated in the killing. The Crown never definitively proved which of the men fired the gun. As long as both had participated in the planning and execution of the crime, both could be charged with first-degree murder regardless of who actually pulled the trigger. On June 17, 2016, the two men were convicted of first-degree murder in Bosma's killing and were sentenced to life imprisonment, with no parole eligibility for 25 years.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: In December 2017, Millard and Smich were convicted of the murder of Laura Babcock, who was last seen alive in July 2012. Her remains have never been recovered. Millard and Smich were again sentenced to life in prison, with the parole ineligibility period of 25 years to be served consecutively with that of the previous sentence, meaning they are to serve a minimum of 50 years and will not be released prior to 2063.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: On November 29, 2012, Millard's father, Wayne Millard, was found dead with a gunshot through the left eye. His death was initially ruled as a suicide. It was later discovered that father and son had disagreements over the family business. After the murders of Bosma and Babcock, police looked back into Wayne's death. Dellen was charged individually with the death of his father.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: During this trial by judge alone, which started in June 2018, Millard did not testify; his lawyer insisted that his father's death was by suicide and that the Crown did not prove any motive. Evidence presented by the Crown included the fact that Millard had purchased the gun which had killed his father, and the fact that Millard's cell phone had been at his father's home around 1:00 a.m. that night, where it stayed until shortly after 6:00 a.m.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: On September 24, 2018, Millard was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his father Wayne Millard. The 90-minute reading of Justice Maureen Forestell's finding included this statement: "I am satisfied that Dellen Millard killed his father by shooting him in the left eye as he slept. I can find no theory consistent with innocence". On December 18, 2018, Millard was sentenced to life in prison for a third time, again with no parole eligibility for 25 years, sentence to be served consecutively along with the other life sentences handed down in the Bosma and Babcock murders. This means that Millard must serve a minimum of 75 years before he will be eligible to apply for parole, which will not occur until 2088, at which point he would be 103 years old.


title: Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

text: On 12 January 2018, Matthew Ward-Jackson (born 1987), an acquaintance of Millard, was sentenced to eleven years of imprisonment after pleading guilty to nine charges relating to gun possession and trafficking. Among the charges were the sale of a .32 calibre Smith & Wesson revolver to Millard that he used to kill his father and the sale of a Walther PPK that was used in the murder of Bosma. As Ward-Jackson was already incarcerated for a different conviction at the time of the new sentence, credits were applied to his sentence and his final additional sentence was three years, seven months and two weeks.


title: Overseas collectivity

text: The French overseas collectivities ("" or "COM") are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status. The COMs include some former French overseas colonies and other French overseas entities with a particular status, all of which became COMs by constitutional reform on 28 March 2003. The COMs differ from overseas regions and overseas departments, which have the same status as metropolitan France but are located outside Europe.


title: Overseas collectivity

text: As integral parts of France, overseas collectivities are represented in the National Assembly, Senate and Economic and Social Council. Though some are outside the European Union, all can vote to elect members of the European Parliament (MEPs). (All of France became one multi-member EU constituency in 2019.) The Pacific COMs use the CFP franc, a currency pegged to the euro, whereas the Atlantic COMs use the euro itself.


title: Sarah Stephens

text: Sarah Elizabeth Stephens (born 7 June 1990) is an Australian model and actress, best known for winning "Girlfriend" magazine's Model Search 2006 and walking in the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the age of 18.


title: Sarah Stephens

text: Sarah Stephens was born in Lancashire, England. Her parents are Australian and she has three younger brothers. She grew up in Sydney and attended Brigidine College, St Ives. She played the bass clarinet in the school band.


title: Sarah Stephens

text: As the winner of "Girlfriend" magazine's Model Search, Stephens won a two-year contract with Chic Model Management and was later signed by Next Model Management in New York and Paris. Stephens has been on the covers of many magazines including "Russh" Australia, "Frankie" magazine, "Madison", "GQ", French Revue de Modes, and "Eurowoman". She has been featured in editorial spreads in Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Australian editions of "Vogue", as well as "Numéro" France, "Numéro" Tokyo, "Interview", "Nylon", "Madison", Italian "Amica", "10" magazine (UK), "Above" magazine (UK), "Lula" (UK), "Muse" (UK), "Vs." magazine, "Harper's Bazaar" (Australia), "Harper's Bazaar" (en Español), "Exit" magazine, "Karen" magazine, "Oyster" magazine and "Vogue Gioiello" (Italy). Stephens has also been featured in global advertising campaigns for Lacoste, Benetton, Diesel, Sephora, Alice Temperley, Forever 21, NastyGal, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Minelli (France), Dynamite and Kensie, and the lingerie brands; Honey Birdette, Bras N Things, Lasenza, Agent Provocateur, and Myla. Her Australian campaign portfolio includes David Jones, Sass & bide, Bonds, Alannah Hill, L'Oréal, Pandora, Peter Alexander, Forever New, Jag, Wrangler, Just Jeans, Ksubi, Levi's, Lisa Ho, Metalicus, Review Australia, Calibre menswear, Morrisey, Bardot, Sportsgirl, Sunsilk, Seafolly, Tigerlily Swimwear, Sunseeker Swimwear, Westfield, Willow, Wish, Witchery, and Yeojin Bae.


title: Sarah Stephens

text: She walked 18 shows at her debut Australian Fashion Week in 2007. In early 2008, she met with photographer Ellen von Unwerth in Paris who shot her for editorial spreads in Russian "Vogue", "Above" magazine and "Mixte" magazine. Ellen von Unwerth also shot her in 2009 for Italian Vogue and again in 2010 for Vs magazine. During a visit to New York in June 2008 she met with photographer Greg Kadel who shot editorials with Stephens for "Numéro" (France), "Numéro Homme", and Italian "Vogue". She was shot by David Sims for United Colours of Benetton's Fall/Winter 2009/2010 campaign and in 2010 she was shot by Guy Aroch for the inaugural edition of 'Untitled Project'. She has walked at several resort shows in New York including Gucci and Lanvin. She walked 14 shows at her debut New York Fashion Week in September 2008, including Jason Wu, Halston. J. Mendel and Tuleh but she is best known in the US for walking in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Miami in 2008 a few months after her 18th birthday. Stephens was the youngest model to walk in that show. She is best known in Europe as the face of the Lacoste fragrance, "Love of Pink". She has a role in the movie "Solitary Man" with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. In 2011, she was signed as a face of the Australian swimwear label Seafolly. In 2015, she played the young witch in the horror film "The Witch". In 2017 she starred in music video "The Other" by New York-based singer Lauv.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Rodney Rodell Reed (born December 22, 1967) is an American death row inmate who was convicted on May 18, 1998 by a Bastrop County District Court jury for the April 23, 1996 abduction, rape, and murder of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old resident of Giddings, Texas.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Although Reed initially denied knowing Stites, after his DNA matched semen inside Stites's dead body, Reed claimed that he was having a clandestine affair with Stites and that they had consensual sex the day before her death. During the penalty phase of the trial, the state argued for capital punishment on the basis of Reed being suspected in the rapes of four women and a 12-year-old and an attack on another woman. Reed was sentenced to death on May 29, 1998, and is incarcerated at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit death row facility in Polk County, Texas.


title: Rodney Reed

text: His conviction and death sentence remain controversial. Reed was scheduled to be executed on November 20, 2019, but doubt over Reed's guilt led to bipartisan support for a stay of his execution from Texas state legislators, as well as numerous celebrities and other public figures. On November 15, 2019, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended that Texas Governor Greg Abbott grant Reed a 120-day reprieve. Later that day, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals indefinitely stayed Reed's execution to review his claims of actual innocence.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Reed's father, Walter, was a native of Bastrop, Texas, and an Air Force veteran while his mother, Sandra, was a nurse. Reed was raised with his six brothers in Texas and attended Hirschi High School in Wichita Falls, Texas. He played on the school's football team and was a state Golden Gloves champion boxer.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old resident of Giddings, Texas, was found dead on April 23, 1996. Police had received a call at 3:11 pm that her unidentified body had been discovered in some bushes near a dirt road behind Bastrop High School in Bastrop, Texas. A pickup truck that belonged to Stites' fiancé that she regularly drove to work had been found earlier, parked at the school nearby. The authorities determined that Stites had been beaten, sodomized, and raped before being strangled to death with her own belt some time between 3:00 and 5:00 am. When discovered in the bushes, Stites was wearing a black bra and jeans. Part of the belt that had been used to kill her was found near her body, and the other part of the belt was found near the truck. Her body had been partially burned, and her shirt was found nearby.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Stites had lived in Giddings with her fiancé, a local police officer, Jimmy Fennell Jr., whom she was scheduled to marry in three weeks. Her fiancé said he last saw her around 3:00 am after the couple showered together and she left for work. Bastrop High School was en route from their home in Giddings on the way to her workplace in the produce section at the H-E-B grocery store in Bastrop. After Stites did not arrive for her 3:30 am shift, the store called her mother, who then called the police.


title: Rodney Reed

text: H-E-B offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of her killer, but it went unclaimed. On July 12, 1996, an anonymous woman called the authorities once and said she believed that her son may have been with Stites in the hours before she was killed, but the call could not be traced.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Stites was buried in her hometown of Corpus Christi on April 26, 1996. Her brother never recovered from her death and died by suicide in 1997.


title: Rodney Reed

text: The authorities began to suspect Reed had been involved in the Stites murder based on similarities in the case to an attack on another woman six months later on November 9, 1996. Linda Schlueter, age 19, had agreed to give a ride to a man she met after stopping at a drive-up payphone at a now-closed Long's Star Mart. When she went to drop him off, he attacked her and said he would kill her if she failed to perform sexual acts upon him, but then fled the scene with her vehicle after seeing car lights approaching. Reed was detained by police based on Schlueter's description, and she subsequently picked him out of a photo line-up. The police department had been familiar with him because of prior arrests.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Schlueter's vehicle was found close to where Stites's pickup truck had been abandoned at Bastrop High School. DNA extracted from three sperm found in Stites' vagina and saliva found on her chest matched to Reed. Local law enforcement already had Reed's DNA on file from an investigation into an alleged rape of a woman with intellectual disabilities in May 1995. Reed was officially charged with the murder of Stacey Stites on April 4, 1997, and held without bond. At the time, he was already in jail on an unrelated charge. He was indicted and "charged with two counts of capital murder, one for murder in the course of aggravated sexual assault and one for murder in the course of kidnapping." His arraignment was scheduled for May 29, 1997, and jury selection began in March 1998. The jury was described as "mostly white", with no African-Americans among the 12 jurors or two alternates. The case against Reed rested heavily upon the DNA evidence, with no additional physical evidence or eyewitness testimony.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Upon his initial questioning by police and before he learned about the DNA evidence, Reed denied knowing Stites outside of what he had heard in news reports. At trial, Reed's defense attorneys, Lydia Clay-Jackson and Calvin Garvey, argued that there had actually been a clandestine sexual relationship between Reed and Stites. Reed said that he initially denied knowing Stites because it would be best for him not to admit to knowing "a dead white girl" and later because "I knew she was seeing a cop, and we're in the South. There's still a lot of racism going on." The prosecutors noted that Reed had previously used a similar defense of a clandestine affair when charged with a different aggravated rape in 1987 which had led to him being acquitted.


title: Rodney Reed

text: According to prosecutor Lisa Tanner, DNA evidence was taken from 15 suspects, including Stites' fiancé and individuals who allegedly confessed to or bragged about the killing. DNA testing eliminated everyone except Reed as the source of the semen. Police investigators could find no one who would attest to a relationship between Reed and Stites, including her mother and sister, and the defense brought forward no witnesses who could testify to the affair. Further, Stites' mother claimed that her daughter and her fiancé "looked happy and in love". The prosecution put forward the DNA evidence and speculated that Reed may have ambushed Stites at a railroad crossing or a stoplight on her way to work the morning of the murder.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Reed was convicted on May 18, 1998, after a jury deliberation of six hours. Stites' family and friends were relieved by the conviction. Reed's family wept, because they were convinced that he was innocent. He was sentenced to death on May 28, 1998, after a deliberation of four hours. During sentencing, prosecutors pushed for the death penalty by arguing that Reed was likely to pose a danger in the future based on a history of similar previous charges. To bolster their case, the prosecution brought forward women Reed allegedly raped: Schlueter, a 12-year-old girl, the intellectually disabled woman, and a woman named Vivian Harbottle to testify against him in the penalty phase. The prosecution asserted that DNA found on them matched Reed.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Reed has unsuccessfully appealed nine times on grounds of ignored witnesses and evidence that may have raised reasonable doubt but was not handed over to defense attorneys because prosecutors claimed that it was irrelevant. Reed's attorneys have subsequently argued that the broken belt used in the murder has never been tested for DNA, and that forensic experts have admitted to making errors in their testimony. His case has since been taken up by the Innocence Project.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Reed was scheduled to be executed on January 14, 2015, but the execution was rescheduled to March 5, 2015, based on a request by the state. On February 23, 2015, his execution was stayed to allow the consideration of further evidence. His execution was later rescheduled for November 20, 2019.


title: Rodney Reed

text: In the weeks preceding the November execution date, celebrities such as Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Meek Mill, Pusha T, Susan Sarandon, Seth Green, and Oprah Winfrey publicly urged Texas Governor Greg Abbott to exonerate Reed or stay his execution. Some, such as Amanda Seales, have rescinded their support for Reed's exoneration after learning more about his history. The case received coverage in major news outlets, and Reed was interviewed on an episode of "Dr. Phil", in which host Phil McGraw opined that Reed should not be executed because he had not received a fair trial. By November 14, 2019, a petition to free Reed started by Shaun King had reportedly garnered more than three million signatures.


title: Rodney Reed

text: A bipartisan group of 16 Texas state senators has petitioned Abbott to stay the death penalty on grounds that new, possibly exculpatory evidence had come to light. On November 15, 2019, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended that Texas Governor Greg Abbott grant Reed a 120-day reprieve. Later that day, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals indefinitely stayed Reed's execution to review claims of "Brady" violations, false testimony, and actual innocence.


title: Rodney Reed

text: On February 24, 2020, the Supreme Court announced that it would not be taking up Reed's appeal, citing ongoing litigation in lower courts.


title: Rodney Reed

text: On October 31, 2021, a Bastrop County judge appointed to reexamine the case recommended to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Reed should not receive a new trial.


title: Rodney Reed

text: On April 25, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear Reed's case. Reed claims that the belt used to commit the murder was never tested for DNA, and that the state's statute of limitations on when a DNA test can be performed on evidence is unconstitutional, as (he claims) he should have been permitted to begin federal appeals once all state litigation had been completed, rather than immediately after the initial ruling that denied the testing. The case was set to be heard on October 11, 2022.


title: Rodney Reed

text: During Reed's hearing, the state argued that Reed was merely trying to delay his execution, which Chief Justice John Roberts had expressed concerns over. Other justices, including Neil Gorsuch and Elena Kagan, questioned Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone's view that Reed had filed his appeal too late.


title: Rodney Reed

text: Reed was the subject of the 2006 documentary film "State vs. Reed" and a 2018 episode of the CNN series "Death Row Stories".


title: National emblem of France

text: The current Constitution of France does not specify a national emblem. The unofficial coat of arms of France depicts a lictor's fasces upon branches of laurel and oak, as well as a ribbon bearing the national motto of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité". This composition was created in 1905 by heraldic painter-engraver Maurice de Meyère and was first used by the French Third Republic.


title: National emblem of France

text: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (; "liberty, equality, fraternity", is the national motto of France, and is an example of a tripartite motto. Although it finds its origins in the French Revolution, it was then only one motto among others and was not institutionalized until the Third Republic at the end of the 19th century.


title: National emblem of France

text: Fasces are a bundle of birch rods containing a sacrificial axe. In Roman times, the fasces symbolized the power of magistrates, representing union and accord with the Roman Republic. French architects began to use the Roman fasces ("faisceaux romains") as a decorative device during the reign of Louis XIII (1610–1643), and the imagery of the French Revolution used references to the ancient Roman Republic to an even greater extent. During the First Republic, topped by the Phrygian cap, the fasces is a tribute to the Roman Republic and means that power belongs to the people. It also symbolizes the "unity and indivisibility of the Republic", as stated in the French Constitution.


title: National emblem of France

text: French kings and emperors had personal arms of dominion, which by extension also represented France. The "fleur-de-lis" was used by French kings since the Middle Ages, which were followed by the Napoleonic eagle designs after the French Revolution. The fleur-de-lis is still popular, and used by overseas people of French heritage, like the Acadians, Québécois or Cajuns. The Napoleonic eagle is also used by Swedish royal house.


title: National emblem of France

text: The state was left without a coat of arms after the proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870. Consequently, the façade and balconies of French embassies and consulates were sometimes decorated with quasi-heraldic emblems, such as a simple RF monogram or a lictor's fasces topped with a Phrygian cap. This was lamented by diplomats, as it neither reflected the country's rich heraldic tradition nor matched other European countries' emblems.


title: National emblem of France

text: In 1881 Foreign Minister Charles de Freycinet sought to address this issue by proposing an arms. This first attempt was not successfully implemented. Count Horace de Choiseul, undersecretary of state in this department, invited the sculptor Francia to submit a project to him, which this denier executed on the drawing of Mr. Emile Bin.


title: National emblem of France

text: King Alfonso XIII of Spain's official visit to France in 1905, as well as preceding visits from king Edward VII and Victor Emmanuel III of the United Kingdom and Italy, respectively, once again brought attention to the fact that France had no coat of arms. The Foreign Ministry responded by consulting the Grand Chancellery, which in turn asked the heraldists to propose national heraldic devices. Among about twenty proposals which were approved by the government, heraldic painter-engraver Maurice de Meyère's composition was formally adopted as the new coat of arms of France. This design was to be used by embassies and consulates abroad, instead of previous quasi-heraldic emblems.


title: National emblem of France

text: In de Meyère's composition, the escutcheon was framed by an artistic console, whereas the Legion of Honour's star featured as the sole external heraldic device. The entire achievement was depicted upon an oval background with the words "French Republic" on the edge, a non-heraldic element. The console and oval background were mentioned as late as February 1914, but generally omitted after World War I, while the star of the Legion of Honour had been accompanied by the 1881 version of the grand collar.


title: National emblem of France

text: In 1924/1925, a greater version of the arms was invented for a decorative tapestry commissioned by the city of Strasbourg to Gustave Louis Jaulmes. It has no actual use.


title: National emblem of France

text: The coat of arms is still used, e.g. in relation to presidential inaugurations, including that of François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac and Emmanuel Macron in 1981, 1995 and 2017, respectively.


title: Pāramitā

text: Pāramitā (Sanskrit, Pali: पारमिता) or pāramī (Pāli: पारमी), is a Buddhist term often translated as "perfection". It is described in Buddhist commentaries as noble character qualities generally associated with enlightened beings. "Pāramī" and "pāramitā" are both terms in Pali but Pali literature makes greater reference to "pāramī," while Mahayana texts generally use the Sanskrit "pāramitā."


title: Pāramitā

text: Theravada teachings on the "pāramīs" can be found in late canonical books and post-canonical commentaries. Theravada commentator Dhammapala describes them as noble qualities usually associated with bodhisattas. American scholar-monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu describes them as perfections "(paramī)" of character necessary to achieve enlightenment as one of the three enlightened beings, a "samma sambuddha" a "pacceka-buddha" or an "arahant".


title: Pāramitā

text: In the Pāli Canon, the "Buddhavaṃsa" of the "Khuddaka Nikāya" lists the ten perfections ("dasa pāramiyo") as:


title: Pāramitā

text: Two of the above virtues, "mettā" and "upekkhā", also are brahmavihāras, and two – "vīrya" and "upekkha" are factors of awakening.


title: Pāramitā

text: The Theravāda teachings on the pāramīs can be found in canonical books ("Jataka tales", "Apadāna", "Buddhavaṃsa", "Cariyāpiṭaka") and post-canonical commentaries written to supplement the Pāli Canon at a later time, and thus might not be an original part of the Theravāda teachings. The oldest parts of the "Sutta Piṭaka" (for example, "Majjhima Nikāya", "Digha Nikāya", "Saṃyutta Nikāya" and the "Aṅguttara Nikāya") do not have any mention of the pāramīs as a category (though they are all mentioned individually).


title: Pāramitā

text: Some scholars even refer to the teachings of the pāramīs as a semi-Mahāyāna teaching added to the scriptures at a later time in order to appeal to the interests and needs of the lay community and to popularize their religion. However, these views rely on the early scholarly presumption of Mahāyāna originating with religious devotion and appeal to laity. More recently, scholars have started to open up early Mahāyāna literature, which is very ascetic and expounds the ideal of the monk's life in the forest. Therefore, the practice of the pāramitās in Mahāyāna Buddhism may have been close to the ideals of the ascetic tradition of the śramaṇa.


title: Pāramitā

text: Bhikkhu Bodhi maintains that, in the earliest Buddhist texts (which he identifies as the first four "nikāyas"), those seeking the extinction of suffering ("nibbana") pursued the noble eightfold path. As time went on, a backstory was provided for the multi-life development of the Buddha; as a result, the ten perfections were identified as part of the path for the bodhisattva (Pāli: "bodhisatta"). Over subsequent centuries, the "pāramīs" were seen as being significant for aspirants to both Buddhahood and arahantship. Bhikkhu Bodhi summarizes:


title: Pāramitā

text: Religious studies scholar Dale S. Wright states that Mahāyāna texts refer to the "pāramitās" as "bases of training" for those looking to achieve enlightenment. Wright describes the Buddhist "pāramitās" as a set of character ideals that guide self-cultivation and provide a concrete image of the Buddhist ideal.


title: Pāramitā

text: The Prajñapāramitā sūtras (प्रज्ञापारमिता सूत्र), and a large number of other Mahāyāna texts list six perfections:


title: Pāramitā

text: This list is also mentioned by the Theravāda commentator Dhammapala, who describes it as a categorization of the same ten perfections of Theravada Buddhism. According to Dhammapala, "Sacca" is classified as both "Śīla" and "Prajñā", "Mettā" and "Upekkhā" are classified as "Dhyāna", and "Adhiṭṭhāna" falls under all six. Bhikkhu Bodhi states that the correlations between the two sets shows there was a shared core before the Theravada and Mahayana schools split.


title: Pāramitā

text: The "Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra" ("महारत्नकूट सूत्र, the Sutra of the Heap of Jewels") also includes these additional four pāramitās with number 8 and 9 switched.


title: Pāramitā

text: According to the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism, Mahāyāna practitioners have the choice of two practice paths: the path of perfection (Sanskrit: "pāramitāyāna") or the path of tantra (Sanskrit: "tantrayāna"), which is the Vajrayāna.


title: Pāramitā

text: Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche renders "pāramitā" into English as "transcendent action" and then frames and qualifies it:


title: Pāramitā

text: The first four perfections are skillful means practice while the last two are wisdom practice. These contain all the methods and skills required for eliminating delusion and fulfilling other's needs. Also, leading from happy to happier states.


title: Work spouse

text: Historically, "work spouse" is a phrase, mostly in American English, referring to a co-worker, with whom one shares a special relationship, having bonds similar to those of a marriage. Early references suggest that a work spouse may not just be a co-worker, but can also be someone in a similar field who the individual works closely with from a partnering company.


title: Work spouse

text: A work spouse has been defined as “a special, platonic friendship with a work colleague characterized by a close emotional bond, high levels of disclosure and support, and mutual trust, honesty, loyalty, and respect”.


title: Work spouse

text: A "work spouse" is also referred to as "workplace spouse", "work wife", or "office husband", "work husband", or "wusband".


title: Work spouse

text: A CNN Money article characterizes the relationship as having the "immediate intimacy [of marriage] without commitment."


title: Work spouse

text: One source characterizes the relationships as "platonic, close, opposite-sex couplings, with no strings attached." The phrase is, however, sometimes used for same-sex relationships.


title: Work spouse

text: With so many of the quality hours of a day spent at work, having someone there who has an intuitive understanding of the pressures, personalities, interactions, and underlying narratives of the workplace society can add safety and comfort to what can otherwise be an alienating environment.


title: Work spouse

text: "Work marriage" appears to be a genuinely caring relationship fostered by the propinquity effect and associated with love-like feelings and possibly limerence. Some "work spouses" admit that while sexual attraction between them is present, it is rarely acted upon, but rather "channeled" into a productive collaboration.


title: Work spouse

text: This new social relationship is unique to the social milieu of the late 20th and early 21st century; and as a result the sociological and psychological implications this new social relationship poses to Western society's traditional notions of love, marriage, and friendship have not yet been fully explored.


title: Work spouse

text: The phrase "office wife" was common during the 1930s, popularized by Faith Baldwin's 1930 novel "The Office Wife" and its 1930 movie adaptation. But the concept, if not the exact phrase, is much older: a 1933 "New York Times" article says:


title: Work spouse

text: "Office wife" carried the connotation of subordinance or subservience. As feminism began to take hold in the 1980s, it became common to hear that "Many secretaries resent the 'office wife' syndrome," referring to being asked to do such things as paying personal bills for a boss, picking up everything from dry cleaning, or dusting the office. "I'm getting paid as a secretary," said one secretary. "I'm not a personal servant."


title: Work spouse

text: According to Timothy Noah, writing in "Slate", "The terms 'work wife,' 'work husband,' and 'work marriage' entered the national lexicon in 1987, when the writer David Owen wrote an "Atlantic" essay describing a particular platonic intimacy that frequently arises between male and female employees working in close proximity."


title: Work spouse

text: An executive coach and workplace adviser noted that as of 2005, "The workplace spouse is a relatively new concept ... Many people don't know what to make of it yet. It is only within the last 25 years that men and women have become peers in the workplace ... This new camaraderie, coupled with long hours spent at work, has caused a fundamental shift in the way people conduct business and interact with one another."


title: Work spouse

text: Male–female television news co-anchors are sometimes referred to as "TV spouses" for the way they work together and present themselves side by side. "I've known Don for 14 years," said Minneapolis anchor Amelia Santaniello of her co-anchor. "We like to joke he was my first TV husband." Miami anchor Pam Giganti called her co-anchor "my partner and my TV husband for the past eight years." Anchor Mark Bradshaw writes, "I've gone through many 'TV wives'. I can't even remember all their names. Bad husband."


title: Work spouse

text: Actress Ana Gasteyer refers to actor Chris Parnell as her "wusband," or work husband, whom she has played the wife of in The Groundlings, in "Saturday Night Live" sketches, and on "Suburgatory": "I have my husband, Charlie, and then Chris Parnell ... He's my work husband, my 'wusband.'"


title: Work spouse

text: On "Live with Kelly and Ryan", the co-hosts Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest frequently talk about their work spouse dynamic on their show.


title: Lavonte David

text: Lavonte Lamar David (born January 23, 1990) is an American football linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Nebraska, and was drafted by the Buccaneers in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Since entering the NFL, David has been named to 3 All-Pro teams, 1 Pro Bowl appearance and won Super Bowl LV during the 2020 season, in a 31–9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.


title: Lavonte David

text: A native of Miami, Florida, David attended Northwestern High School, where he was a teammate of Marcus Forston, Anthony Gaitor, Jacory Harris, Sean Spence, Tommy Streeter, and Brandon Washington. Northwestern won back-to-back state titles in 2006 and 2007, and was listed as mythical national champions by "USA Today" in 2007. Regarded as only a two-star prospect by Rivals.com, David was not highly recruited.


title: Lavonte David

text: David originally signed with Middle Tennessee State, but then decided to attend Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas. David led Fort Scott Community College to the Junior College National Championship Game, while ranking among the conference's leaders in tackles and tackles for loss. He was also a two-time first-team All-Jayhawk Conference selection and a Region VI All-American in 2009. David was the defensive most valuable player of the 2009 national championship game against Cam Newton-led Blinn. David racked up 12 tackles, including sacking Newton on the game's final defensive play, before Fort Scott lost on a punt return for a touchdown.


title: Lavonte David

text: In 2010, he transferred to Nebraska, where he set the school's single-season record for tackles with 152, in his first year with the team. In a game against South Dakota State, David recorded a career-high 19 tackles, the seventh- most in school history. After the season, David was named first-team All-American by Rivals.com and CBS, unanimous first-team Big 12 and Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, as selected by the coaches.


title: Lavonte David

text: Also led Nebraska in tackles for loss (13.0), sacks (5.5), interceptions (2), forced fumbles (2) and fumble recoveries (2) in 2011. At the conclusion of the season, he was named First-team All-Big Ten by both the coaches and media. He was also the winner of the inaugural Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year, awarded to the best linebacker in the Big Ten.


title: Lavonte David

text: David started all 27 games he played in at Nebraska (2010–11), recording 285 tackles, 28 tackles for loss, 11.5 sacks, two interceptions, 12 passes defensed, three forced fumbles and two fumbles recovered. His 285 career tackles rank fourth in school history, and most by a two-year player.


title: Lavonte David

text: In 2021, Lavonte returned to the University of Nebraska to finish his degree, receiving his B.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice in May.


title: Lavonte David

text: David entered the 2012 NFL Draft and attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. He completed all of the combine and positional drills. Teams spoke about possibly moving him to safety as they thought he was undersized to play linebacker in the NFL.


title: Lavonte David

text: David was projected to be a second or third round pick by "Sports Illustrated" and NFL draft experts. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, David was ranked as the third best outside linebacker in the draft by DraftScout.com, was ranked the fourth best outside linebacker prospect by NFL analyst Mike Mayock, and was ranked the tenth best outside linebacker in the draft by "Sports Illustrated".


title: Lavonte David

text: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected David in the second round with the 58th overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. The Buccaneers traded their third (68th overall) and fourth round (126th overall) pick to the Houston Texans in order to move up to the second round and draft David. In exchange, the Buccaneers received the Texans' second and seventh round (233rd overall) picks in 2012. He was the ninth linebacker drafted in 2012 and also became the highest drafted linebacker from Nebraska since Barrett Ruud in 2005.


title: Lavonte David

text: On May 19, 2012, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed him to a four-year, $3.47 million contract that included $1.36 million guaranteed and a $964,896 signing bonus.


title: Lavonte David

text: Throughout training camp, David competed to be the starting weakside linebacker against veteran Adam Hayward. He made his NFL debut in the Buccaneers' pre-season opener against at the Miami Dolphins and made two solo tackles, a pass deflection, and his first career interception in their 20–7 victory. He intercepted a pass by Dolphins' quarterback Matt Moore in the second quarter. Head coach Greg Schiano named David the starting weakside linebacker to begin the regular season, alongside Quincy Black and starting middle linebacker Mason Foster.


title: Lavonte David

text: He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' season-opener against the Carolina Panthers and made six combined tackles in their 16–10 victory. He immediately performed well and displayed great play recognition and instincts as a rookie. Defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan chose to give David the responsibility of wearing the green-dot helmet transmitter, in order to communicate with coaching staff and making defensive calls. In Week 4, David collected 14 combined tackles (12 solo) during a 24–22 loss to the Washington Redskins. The performance was his first career game registering double-digit tackles. On November 4, 2012, he collected a season-high 16 combined tackles (14 solo) in the Buccaneers' 42–32 win at the Oakland Raiders in Week 9. The following week, David recorded 14 combined tackles (13 solo) during a 34–24 win against the San Diego Chargers in Week 10. He earned Defensive Rookie of the Month in November and became the first member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win the award after amassing a league-leading 47 combined tackles in four games. On December 2, 2012, David made ten combined tackles (seven solo), a season-high two pass deflections, and made his first career regular season interception during a 31–23 loss at the Denver Broncos in Week 13. He intercepted a pass by Broncos' quarterback Peyton Manning, that was originally intended for tight end Jacob Tamme, and returned it for a 27-yard gain in the third quarter. In Week 14, he recorded nine combined tackles and made his first career sack on quarterback Nick Foles during the third quarter of a 23–21 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. David started all 16 games at weakside linebacker in 2012 and led the Buccaneers with 139 combined tackles (112 solo), while also making five pass deflections, two sacks, and an interception. His 139 tackles tied for eighth in the league along with linebackers London Fletcher and Paul Posluszny. David also finished with 20 tackles-for-loss, which was the most by a rookie since Kendrell Bell in .


title: Lavonte David

text: David remained the starting weakside linebacker in 2013, alongside middle linebacker Mason Foster and Dekoda Watson. He started in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' season-opener at the New York Jets and made nine combined tackles, two sacks, and an interception during their 18–17 loss. During the fourth quarter, David delivered a late hit on quarterback Geno Smith as Smith ran out of bounds after a ten-yard gain to stop the clock with 15 seconds left as the Jets were losing 17–15. David received a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness, giving the New York Jets the necessary distance for Nick Folk to make a 48-yard game-winning field goal. David later explained after the game that he thought Smith was going to stay in bounds before he delivered the blow. On September 12, 2013, David was fined $7,875 for his late hit on Smith. On November 11, 2013, David recorded seven combined tackles and earned the first safety of his career in a 22–19 win against the Miami Dolphins in Week 10. He earned the safety after he tackled running back Daniel Thomas in the endzone for a one-yard loss in the second quarter. In Week 12, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (nine solo), a pass deflection, and an interception in the Buccaneers' 23–21 victory at the Detroit Lions. He received NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his Week 12 performance against the Lions. On December 8, 2013, David made nine combined tackles, two pass deflections, two interceptions, and a sack during a 27–6 win against the Buffalo Bills in Week 14. He had his first multi-interception game of his career after intercepting two passes by E. J. Manuel. He started all 16 games in 2013 and recorded 145 combined tackles (107 solo), ten pass deflections, a career-high seven sacks, five interceptions, two forced fumbles, and a safety.


title: Lavonte David

text: On December 30, 2013, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired head coach Greg Schiano and general manager Mark Dominik after the Buccaneers did not qualify for the playoffs and finished with a 4–12 record. January 3, 2014, Lavonte David was named 2013 First-team All-Pro. Pro Football Focus gave David an overall grade of 93.5 in 2013. He was ranked 35th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2014.


title: Lavonte David

text: Head coach Lovie Smith named David and Jonathan Casillas the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season, along with middle linebacker Mason Foster. Defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier retained the base 4-3 defense and ran Lovie Smith's Tampa 2 scheme.


title: Lavonte David

text: On October 2, 2014, David collected a season-high 14 combined tackles (ten solo) and a pass deflection during a 37–31 loss at the New Orleans Saints. The following week, he tied his season-high of 14 combined tackles (ten solo) in the Buccaneers' 48–17 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 6. In Week 8, David collected 14 combined tackles (nine solo), for his third consecutive game, during a 19–13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. On November 16, 2014, David made 13 combined tackles (eight solo) before exiting in the fourth quarter of a 27–7 victory at the Washington Redskins due to an injury. He was listed as inactive for the next two games (Week 12–13) due to his hamstring injury, which also ended his 42-game streak of consecutive starts. On December 23, 2014, it was announced that David was selected as an alternate to the 2015 Pro Bowl. Unfortunately, David would not play after all of the primary selections participated. He finished the 2014 season with 146 combined tackles (101 solo), a four pass deflections, four forced fumbles, and a sack in 14 games and 14 starts. He was ranked 56th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015.


title: Lavonte David

text: On August 9, 2015, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed David to a five-year, $50.25 million contract extension with $25.55 million guaranteed.


title: Lavonte David

text: Head coach Lovie Smith named David and Danny Lansanah the starting outside linebackers to begin the 2015 season, along with rookie middle linebacker Kwon Alexander. On September 27, 2015, David collected a season-high 15 combined tackles (three solo) during a 19–9 loss at the Houston Texans. In Week 11, he made six solo tackles, two pass deflections, two interceptions, and scored his first career touchdown during the Buccaneers' 45–17 victory at the Philadelphia Eagles. David intercepted a screen pass by quarterback Mark Sanchez, that was originally intended for running back Darren Sproles, and returned it for a 20-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. On December 23, 2015, it was announced that David was selected as an alternate for the 2016 Pro Bowl. He finished the season with a career-high 147 combined tackles (85 solo), 13 pass deflections, three interceptions, three sacks, two forced fumbles, and a touchdown in 16 games and 16 starts. David had the third most tackles among all players in 2015, behind only NaVorro Bowman (154) and D'Qwell Jackson (150). On January 25, 2016, it was announced that David would play in the 2016 Pro Bowl and replace DeMarcus Ware, who was unable to attend due to his participation in Super Bowl 50 as part of the Denver Broncos. He was ranked 53rd on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016.


title: Lavonte David

text: On January 6, 2016, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired head coach Lovie Smith after they finished with a 6–10 record. Offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter was promoted to head coach. Koetter chose to replace defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier with former Atlanta Falcons' head coach Mike Smith. Head coach Dirk Koetter named David and Daryl Smith the starting outside linebackers in 2016, along with middle linebacker Kwon Alexander.


title: Lavonte David

text: On December 4, 2016, David recorded three combined tackles, a season-high two pass deflections, and returned an interception for a touchdown as the Buccaneers defeated the San Diego Chargers 28–21. David intercepted a pass by Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers, that was initially intended for wide receiver Tyrell Williams, and returned it for a 15-yard touchdown in the third quarter. In Week 15, he collected a season-high nine combined tackles during a 26–20 loss at the Dallas Cowboys. David started all 16 games in 2016 and recorded a career-low 87 combined tackles (67 solo), five sacks, four passes defensed, four forced fumbles, one interception, and a touchdown. David struggled in his first year under defensive coordinator Mike Smith's new scheme and received an overall grade of 77.6 from Pro Football Focus in 2016.


title: Lavonte David

text: Head coach Dirk Koetter officially named David and Kendell Beckwith the starting outside linebackers, along with middle linebacker Kwon Alexander. In Week 2, David made nine combined tackles and recovered a fumble by quarterback Mike Glennon, which set up the Buccaneers on an eventual touchdown scoring drive in their 29–7 victory against the Chicago Bears. On September 24, 2017, David made seven combined tackles before he was carted off the field in the third quarter of the Buccaneers' 34–17 win at the Minnesota Vikings in Week 3. In Week 7, he collected a season-high 14 combined tackles (12 solo) in a 30–27 loss at the Buffalo Bills. David was inactive for the Buccaneers' Week 15 loss to the Atlanta Falcons due to a hamstring injury. He finished the 2017 season with 101 combined tackles (76 solo), five forced fumbles, and a pass deflection in 13 games and 13 starts. Pro Football Focus gave David an overall grade of 94.2, which ranked second among all qualified linebackers in 2017.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 2 against the Philadelphia Eagles, David recorded a team-high nine tackles and recovered a fumble lost by running back Wendell Smallwood on a last second lateral attempt to seal a 27–21 win.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 7 against the Cleveland Browns, David recorded a team-high eight tackles and forced a fumble on rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield during the 26–23 overtime win.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 13 against the Carolina Panthers, David recorded a season-high 12 tackles and his first full sack of the season on Cam Newton during the 24–17 win.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 15 against the Baltimore Ravens, David matched his season-high 12 tackles, sacked rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson twice, and recovered a fumble lost by Jackson during the 20–12 loss.


title: Lavonte David

text: David finished the season with 120 combined tackles (94 solo), 3.5 sacks, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries, and two pass deflections in 14 games started.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 4 against the Los Angeles Rams, David recorded an interception off Jared Goff in the 55–40 win. This was David's first interception since the 2016 season.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 8 against the Tennessee Titans, David recorded a season high 12 tackles during the 27–23 loss.


title: Lavonte David

text: In the following week's game against the Seattle Seahawks, David recorded eight tackles and his first and only sack of the season on Russell Wilson during the 40–34 overtime loss.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 10 against the Arizona Cardinals, David recorded a team-high eight tackles and forced a fumble on running back David Johnson which he recovered in the 30–27 win.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 15 against the Detroit Lions, David recorded nine tackles and forced a fumble on running back Ty Johnson which was recovered by Devin White during the 38–17 win.


title: Lavonte David

text: In the following week's game against the Houston Texans, David recorded a team high ten tackles and forced another fumble, this time on running back Duke Johnson which was recovered again by Devin White during the 23–20 loss.


title: Lavonte David

text: David finished the season with 122 combined tackles (81 solo), one sack, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, seven pass deflections, and an interception in 16 games started. He was ranked 100th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2020.


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 2 against the Carolina Panthers, David forced a fumble on wide receiver Robby Anderson and recovered the ball during the 31–17 win. In Week 3, during a 28–10 win against the Denver Broncos, David recorded 4 total tackles and his first interception of the season.


title: Lavonte David

text: On October 1, 2020, David was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Month for his performance in September (24 total tackles, two pass deflections, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery, and one interception from Weeks 1–3).


title: Lavonte David

text: In Week 6 against the Green Bay Packers, David recorded nine tackles and sacked Aaron Rodgers 1.5 times during the 38–10 win. Overall, in the 2020 season, David recorded 117 total tackles, 1.5 sacks, 12 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles, one interception, and six defended passes.


title: Lavonte David

text: In the Wild Card Round of the playoffs against the Washington Football Team, David led the team with nine tackles and sacked Taylor Heinicke once during the 31–23 win. In Super Bowl LV, David recorded six tackles and helped the Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 31–9 to give David his first Super Bowl ring.


title: Lavonte David

text: On March 12, 2021, David signed a two-year, $25 million contract extension with the Buccaneers with $20 million guaranteed. On September 18, David was fined $12,875 for spiking his helmet during the season opener against the Dallas Cowboys. He suffered a foot injury in Week 15 and was placed on injured reserve on December 23, 2021. He was activated on January 15, 2022 in time for the Wild Card game against the Eagles.


title: Lavonte David

text: While at Nebraska, David volunteered his time with the team to hospital visits and the Husker Heroes program. In December 2012, David led students through football drills and promoted the importance of health and fitness for the opening of BUCS CARE School Fitness Zones at two local Elementary schools. In the same month, the linebacker also visited youth at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg and sang holiday carols to residents at Westminster Palms retirement home in December 2012. In June 2012, David visited MacDill Air Force Base in Downtown Tampa to tour a hurricane aircraft, witness a military dog training session, and thank civilian workers and active duty military for their service. In 2020, David was chosen as the Buccaneers' nominee for the 2020 Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award.


title: Lavonte David

text: In May 2021, David graduated from the University of Nebraska with a degree in Criminal Justice - fulfilling the dream of his late mother.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco (September 21, 1941 – February 1, 2010) was an American amateur and professional wrestler. As an amateur for Oklahoma State, Brisco was two-time All-American and won the NCAA Division I national championship. He turned pro shortly after and performed for various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA Tag Team Champion with his brother Gerald Brisco.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco is considered one of the greatest wrestlers of his era. Legendary champion Lou Thesz described him as "one of the toughest and most highly skilled wrestlers of the last 50 years". Don Leo Jonathan called him "probably the greatest champion of the 20th century." In the late 1970s, the Brisco brothers discovered Terry Bollea, the future wrestling legend best known as Hulk Hogan, whom they introduced to Hiro Matsuda for training.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco was raised in Blackwell, Oklahoma with five siblings. He grew up as a fan of professional wrestling, and particularly a fan of Lou Thesz, Danny Hodge and Dick Hutton. Brisco started wrestling in high school and was a three-time state champion at Blackwell, Oklahoma. He was also an all-state fullback on the high school football team. He was followed by his younger brother, Gerald Brisco, into sport wrestling and turned down a football scholarship at University of Oklahoma to go to Oklahoma State. During his junior year in 1964, he was NCAA runner-up in the 191 lbs weight class. In 1965, he improved on his finish, and by doing so became the first Native American to win an NCAA Wrestling National Championship.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco's first documented professional wrestling championship reign began on October 16, 1965, when he defeated Don Kent to win the NWA Missouri Junior Heavyweight Championship. He held the belt for less than a month, and regained it in November by defeating Kent again. Around this time, Brisco also wrestled for NWA Tri-State. While there, he won a couple of state titles (the Oklahoma Heavyweight Championship and the Arkansas Heavyweight Championship). He also won his first tag team title in this promotion, teaming with Haystacks Calhoun for his first reign as co-holder of the Tri-State version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship. He later held the title again, as he teamed with Gorgeous George, Jr. to win the belts on May 9, 1967.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco then moved to the Florida area, where he wrestled for Championship Wrestling from Florida for several years. His first title there was the NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship, which he won on February 11, 1969 by defeating The Missouri Mauler. He dropped the title to the Mauler and regained it on July 8. Two weeks later, he won the first of an eventual ten NWA Florida Tag Team Championships, with Ciclon Negro. Although he and Negro dropped the tag team belts the following month, Brisco held the Southern Heavyweight Title until November 1969, when he left the area to wrestle in Japan and Australia.


title: Jack Brisco

text: When Brisco returned to Florida, he began teaming with his brother, who he had trained in professional wrestling. He also continued competing as a singles wrestler, winning the NWA Florida Television Championship on November 27, 1970. On February 16, 1971, the Briscos teamed up to win the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. They dropped the belts the next month to Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk and regained them from the Funks in April. That month, Brisco also beat Terry Funk in a singles match to win the NWA Florida Television Championship again. Brisco's next major success was regaining the Southern Heavyweight Championship from Dick Murdoch on June 8, 1971. The title was later held up after a controversial rematch with Murdoch.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco then took a short break from Florida wrestling to work for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. While there, he won the NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Championship twice by defeating The Missouri Mauler and Rip Hawk.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Upon his return to Florida, he quickly won the NWA Florida Brass Knuckles Championship from Paul Jones on June 13, 1972, and vacated it the same day. He then won his third and final Television Championship on November 7, 1972. Nine days later, he won the Tag Team Championship, again with his brother.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco's first NWA World Heavyweight Championship win was scheduled to be over Dory Funk Jr., capping off a multi-year feud. However, Dory claimed to be injured in a truck accident and missed the scheduled date. Brisco and Terry Funk were sent out to make the bookings that were already scheduled for Brisco, and Dory later lost the title to Harley Race. Brisco and several others within the NWA power structure always questioned the legitimacy of the accident, claiming Dory Funk Sr. did not want his son to lose to a "pure" wrestler and harm his credibility Brisco won the title from Race after a brief reign, in Houston, Texas on July 20, 1973. He defended the championship in NWA-affiliated promotions across the world facing top names like Johnny Valentine, Stan Stasiak, Abdullah The Butcher, Gene Kiniski, The Sheik and Bobby Shane until losing to Giant Baba on December 4, 1974. He regained it four days later. Brisco then defended the title until losing it to Terry Funk on December 10, 1975. His loss continued the extensive feud between the Briscos and Funks, which went on for several more years. During his initial reign as champion, Brisco toured Australia where he successfully defended his title against local favorite, Spiros Arion.


title: Jack Brisco

text: In 1976, Brisco wrestled in several promotions and continued to add to his list of titles. He won the Memphis version of the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship on August 10, 1976, by defeating local favorite Jerry Lawler. He won the NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship from Bob Backlund on November 26. At this time, the Briscos were also awarded the ESA International Tag Team Championship, although they did not wrestle as a team in the area.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Wrestling in Florida again, Brisco teamed with his brother to win several more championships. In 1977, they defeated Bob Orton, Jr. and Bob Roop for the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Ox Baker and Superstar Billy Graham and soon regained it in a rematch. On January 25, 1978, they won the belts again by defeating Ivan Koloff and Mr. Saito. While holding these belts, they also won the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship on February 21, from Mike Graham and Steve Keirn. They dropped the United States tag belts back to Graham and Keirn but soon regained them. They were defeated for the United States title by Killer Karl Kox and Bobby Duncum, and were again successful in regaining it in a rematch. The same thing happened when the Briscos faced Mr. Saito and Mr. Sato that year: they lost the belts and quickly won them back. The Briscos also defeated Saito and Sato to regain the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. The following year, another victory over Saito and Sato earned the Briscos their final United States Tag Team Championship reign.


title: Jack Brisco

text: The Briscos also had success in Georgia Championship Wrestling, where they won the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship twice. They competed in a tournament for the tag team belts and finished in second place after a loss to the Funks. They defeated the Funks for the belts two months later. On November 25, 1979, the Briscos defeated Austin Idol and The Masked Superstar to win the belts a second time. Jack gave up his share of the title, however, to Ole Anderson. Later that year, Brisco became the first NWA National Heavyweight Champion by defeating Terry Funk in a tournament final.


title: Jack Brisco

text: In 1980, Brisco resumed wrestling in Florida. He won the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship again, teaming with Jimmy Garvin this time. After losing the belts, Brisco teamed with his brother to win them for a final time.


title: Jack Brisco

text: In 1981, Brisco won his final Southern Heavyweight Championship by defeating Bobby Jaggers. He finished his time in Florida with two reigns as co-holder of Florida's version of the NWA North American Tag Team Championship. He and his brother won a tournament to win their first title, defeating Assassin #1 and Bobby Jaggers in the finals. They lost the belts to the Funks on January 9, 1982, and regained them in a rematch one week later.


title: Jack Brisco

text: Brisco also wrestled in Puerto Rico in 1981, for the World Wrestling Council. He won the WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Championship on May 30, and held it for almost seven months. He teamed with his brother to win the WWC North American Tag Team Championship from Los Pastores (better known as The Bushwhackers) on August 8, holding it for six weeks before dropping it to The Fabulous Kangaroos. Brisco also returned to Missouri in 1981, defeating Ted DiBiase to win a second NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship. He held the belt for three weeks before losing it to Ken Patera.