title: Golden Slumbers

text: "Golden Slumbers" is based on the poem "Cradle Song" from the play "Patient Grissel", a lullaby by the dramatist Thomas Dekker. McCartney saw sheet music for "Cradle Song" at his father's home in Liverpool, left on a piano by his stepsister Ruth. Unable to read music, he created his own music. McCartney uses the first stanza of the original poem, with minor word changes, adding to it a single lyric line repeated with minor variation. In the 1885 collection "St Nicholas Songs", p. 177, is W J Henderson's music set to the poem, titled "Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes". "Abbey Road" does not credit Dekker with the stanza or with the title. Thomas Dekker's poem was set to music by W J Henderson in 1885, Peter Warlock in 1918, also by Charles Villiers Stanford and Alfredo Casella.


title: Golden Slumbers

text: McCartney was the lead vocalist. He begins the song in a soft tone appropriate for a lullaby, with piano, bass guitar, and string section accompaniment. The drums come in on the line "Golden slumbers fill your eyes", and McCartney switches to a stronger tone, both of which emphasise the switch to the refrain. McCartney said, "I remember trying to get a very strong vocal on it, because it was such a gentle theme, so I worked on the strength of the vocal on it, and ended up quite pleased with it."


title: Golden Slumbers

text: The main recording session for "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight" was on 2 July 1969. John Lennon was not present, as he had been injured in a motor vehicle accident in Scotland on 1 July, and was hospitalised there until 6 July.


title: Golden Slumbers

text: Drums, timpani, and additional vocals were added in an overdub session on 31 July, the same day the first trial edit of the side two medley was created, with Lennon participating in the session. On 15 August, orchestral overdubs that marked 30 musicians altogether were added to "Golden Slumbers" and five other songs on "Abbey Road".


title: Golden Slumbers

text: Scottish band White Trash recorded "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" which was released as a single on Apple Records a week prior to the "Abbey Road" release.


title: Michael Finkel

text: Michael Finkel (born 1969) is a journalist and memoirist, who has written the books "True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa" (2005) and "The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit" (2017).


title: Michael Finkel

text: Finkel was a writer for "The New York Times" until 2002, when he was discovered to have used interviews with multiple people to create a composite protagonist, Youssouf Malé, for a story he had written on the Arabic slave trade within Africa, "Is Youssouf Malé A Slave?"


title: Michael Finkel

text: Finkel had originally pitched a child slavery story to "The New York Times", but his subsequent reporting did not uncover proof of enslavement, although he did encounter teenagers working for meager wages in difficult conditions.


title: Michael Finkel

text: The story Finkel submitted purported to profile an adolescent West African boy, Youssouf Malé, who sold himself into slavery on a cocoa plantation in the Ivory Coast. The story as published included photographs, including one described as being that of Malé. After publication, an official of Save the Children contacted Finkel to say that the boy pictured was not Malé. Upon questioning by his editors, Finkel admitted that the boy profiled in the article was in fact a composite of several boys he had interviewed, including one named Youssouf Malé. Finkel was then fired.


title: Michael Finkel

text: After his dismissal from "The New York Times", Finkel learned that Christian Longo, an Oregon man who had murdered his wife and three children in December 2001, had used "Michael Finkel" as an alias during his several weeks as a fugitive. After Longo's capture the next month, Finkel communicated with him. Finkel says that, before the trial, Longo had hoped the journalist would bring out "the real story" to help him win acquittal; after conviction, the convict gave Finkel interviews admitting his guilt. Finkel wrote a memoir on the relationship, "True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa" (2005).


title: Michael Finkel

text: Finkel is also the author of "The Stranger in the Woods" which tells the story of Christopher Thomas Knight, a hermit who lived alone in woods in the North Pond area of Maine for 27 years.


title: Michael Finkel

text: "True Story" was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime (2006). A film adaptation was released in April 2015, starring Jonah Hill as Finkel and James Franco as Longo.


title: Michael Finkel

text: In 2008, Finkel and photographer John Stanmeyer won the National Magazine Award for photojournalism for "Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria", published in "National Geographic" (July 2007).


title: LPP (company)

text: LPP S.A. - a Polish company whose activity comprises design, production and distribution of clothing. Owner of five recognizable fashion brands: Reserved, House, Cropp, Mohito and Sinsay whose offer is available today in stationary and online stores in nearly 40 markets worldwide.


title: LPP (company)

text: LPP's sales network consists of more than 1,700 stores with a total area of over 1.4m m2 located in 26 countries. The company currently employs over 24,000 people in its offices, distribution network and stores in Europe, Asia and Africa. In 2021, the company achieved record results, generating over PLN 14bn in revenue and PLN 954m in profits. LPP SA is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange as a part of the WIG20 index and belongs to the MSCI Poland index.


title: LPP (company)

text: In 1991 in Gdańsk, Marek Piechocki and Jerzy Lubianiec started their activity in the clothing industry. After four years, the company initially operating under the name of PH Mistral s.c. was transformed into LPP (abbreviation of the surnames of its founders - Lubianiec, Piechocki and Partners). In 1997 the office in Shanghai was officially opened. In the late 1990s, the owners of LPP decided to create their first  brand - Reserved - and build their own retail network. The first store of the brand was opened in 1998.


title: LPP (company)

text: In 2001, LPP made its début on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The next two years saw the expansion of Reserved brand to the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. In 2002, the company stores were opened in Russia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Hungary, and in 2003 in Lithuania, Ukraine and Slovakia. Thanks to the success of the brand, the company expanded its portfolio and opened a Cropp store in Poland in 2004. In the following years the brand was launched in Estonia, Slovakia, and Latvia (2005) as well as in Lithuania, Russia, and the Czech Republic (2006). The years 2007 - 2008 were the period of development of activity on the Romanian and Bulgarian markets. In 2008, LPP opened its Distribution Centre in Pruszcz Gdański. In the same year, LPP took over a Cracow-based company - Artman - owner of House and Mohito brands. Owing to this transaction, LPP became the largest clothing company in Poland and the owner of four brands. In 2013, the company's portfolio was expanded by Sinsay brand.


title: LPP (company)

text: In 2014, the company was included in the WIG20 index, and the flagship brand - Reserved - appeared on the German market. In the same year, all LPP products made their deébut in Croatia. In the following year, the company expanded into the Middle East. At the end of 2017, the LPP sales network comprised more than 1,700 stores with a total area of 1 million square metres. In 2017, the LPP product office was opened in Warsaw, and Reserved, Cropp and House brands made their débuts in Belarus and Serbia. In 2017 LPP opened a Reserved store on Oxford Street in London. 2018 saw further deébuts of LPP stores on new markets, including in Israel, Kazakhstan, and Slovenia. In 2019 the Company opened first stores in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Finland.


title: LPP (company)

text: In 2020, the company underwent an accelerated digital transformation in response to the restrictions on stationary trade caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby transforming itself into an omnichannel organisation. The distinction between online and stationary sales was removed, and both channels have been treated as a customer-centric whole. A year later, with the stabilisation of the market, LPP returned to its policy of foreign expansion and, strengthening its position in South-Eastern Europe, opened the first stores of all its brands in North Macedonia. Two years later, following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, LPP took the key decision to cease operations in Russia altogether and sell the subsidiary to a Chinese consortium. As a result of the loss of its second-largest market, the company adopted a new development strategy, which involves further expansion in the central, southern and western parts of Europe and increased sales volumes in the e-commerce channel. In the near future, LPP plans to debut all brands in Albania and open Sinsay stationary stores in Greece and Italy.


title: LPP (company)

text: On 4 March 2022, LPP suspended all of its business activities on the Russian market alongside many other global companies as a response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of 2022, Russia remained the second biggest market for the company with approximately 500 stores and a distribution centre located in Russia. On 28 April 2022, LPP sold its Russian subsidiary and close 20-year presence on said market.


title: LPP (company)

text: LPP’s global sourcing network is based on two distribution centres, dedicated to servicing over 1,700 stores worldwide, as well as Fulfillment Centres, supporting the company’s online sales. All logistics processes are designed and managed at the head office level, while the company carries out operations based on its own infrastructure and in cooperation with external partners.


title: LPP (company)

text: The company’s first distribution centre in Pruszcz Gdański was launched in 2008 and, through constant modernisation and several expansions, is now one of the largest and most modern distribution centres in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2017, LPP began shipping from its newly opened FC in Stryków near Łódź. As a result of the rapid growth of e-commerce, in 2019 the company opened another warehouse to handle online orders in Romania, and a year later signed a contract to lease warehouse space in Slovakia. Further demand for the expansion of logistics facilities resulted in contracts for further Fulfillment Centres in Pruszcz Gdański and Podkarpacie in 2021. At the same time, the construction of a second distribution centre in Brześć Kujawski also began, and the facility was launched in 2022. Thus, the total warehouse space of all LPP facilities currently amounts to 390,000 m2.


title: LPP (company)

text: LPP does not operate its own factories. The clothing of the Group's brands is produced mainly in Asia, but also in Poland and other European countries, including Italy, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Since 1997, the company has had an office in Shanghai, and since 2015 also in the capital of Bangladesh - Dhaka. The employees of the facility are responsible, among others, for the acquisition of suppliers, support for particular stages of production, as well as quality control.


title: LPP (company)

text: LPP SA has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2001. At the time of its début, the price per share was PLN 48. In 2014, LPP was included in the WIG20 index of the 20 largest companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In the same year, LPP was included in the MSCI index.


title: LPP (company)

text: According to the company's own data, the number of votes at the General Meeting of Shareholders is as follows:


title: LPP (company)

text: In 2018 the founders of the company, in order to ensure its long-term continuity and avoid the fragmentation of LPP capital in the future, decided to establish a foundation and contribute their shares there. In 2020, the Semper Simul Foundation, which is the majority shareholder of the company, took over the controlling stake of LPP in order to provide stable management of the family business and the implementation of its strategy.


title: LPP (company)

text: Since 2013, LPP has been systematically working on the implementation of standards for improving safety and working conditions in the clothing industry in Asia. Since 2014, a Code of Conduct has been in force for all suppliers working with LPP. The document takes into account the key provisions of the International Labour Organization conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and sets out the requirements for suppliers, including, among others, wage policy, prohibition of child labour, voluntary nature of work, freedom of association, occupational health and safety principles. In order to increase supervision over the factories producing for LPP in Bangladesh, in addition to controlling its own inspectors, the company decided to commission an international auditor, SGS, to verify the actual compliance of suppliers in Bangladesh with the Code of Conduct.


title: LPP (company)

text: In addition, in October 2013, LPP, as the only Polish clothing company, joined the ACCORD Agreement aimed at improving safety in clothing factories in Bangladesh (Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh). Thanks to the cooperation and financial support of the signatories of the agreement, a total of more than 1600 Asian production plants and sewing plants were subject to inspection. ACCORD also contributed to the implementation of recovery programmes in more than 90% of the factories (as at the end of 2017). As part of the “Safety Committee Training” programme, one of the key projects of the agreement, by the end of 2017, 882 training courses were conducted in which nearly 1.2 million employees participated.


title: LPP (company)

text: At the beginning of 2018, LPP signed another 3-year extension of the agreement, the so-called “Transition ACCORD”. Its main objective is to prepare the Bengali government to carry out independent inspections and audits in the factories and to ensure further implementation of measures aimed at sustainable improvement of working conditions. As of 1 September 2021, a new initiative - called the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry (International Accord for short) - was established to replace the existing ACCORD initiative. Its aim is to continue and expand the joint efforts of the signatories of the agreement together with trade unions to ensure safety in garment factories.


title: LPP (company)

text: According to a report by the Ministry of Finance, in 2018, LPP was ranked third among the largest CIT payers in Poland in the commercial sector.


title: LPP (company)

text: Since 2016, the company has paid a total of PLN 5.4 bn to the state budget for taxes and other tributes, while its contribution to the Polish budget in 2021 alone amounted to nearly 1.6 bn.


title: LPP (company)

text: Since its inception, LPP has been acting for the benefit of people in need and local communities. In addition, in December 2017, LPP established LPP Foundation. The aim of its activities is to support people threatened by social exclusion, help people in difficult life situations and ensure health protection.


title: LPP (company)

text: LPP conducts activities aimed at respecting natural resources at various stages of the company's activity — from the selection of raw materials for clothing, through sales, to the operation of the company's offices and logistics facilities.


title: LPP (company)

text: Since 2017, the company has been reporting regularly on its sustainability activities in the form of reports available at <nowiki>https://www.lppsa.com/zrownowazony-rozwoj/raport-roczny</nowiki>. Gradual reduction of its carbon footprint has been adopted as one of the main objectives of its sustainability-oriented activities. To this end, the company calculated its CO emissions independently in 2021, taking into account all three scopes and categories defined in the GHG Protocol.


title: LPP (company)

text: Taking into account the growing importance of non-financial elements of corporate performance, in 2021 LPP adapted its organisational structure by creating the position of Director of Purchasing and ESG. The role’s responsibilities comprise planning and coordinating the implementation of responsible business standards within LPP Group, developing and implementing guidelines in all three ESG pillars: environmental, social and corporate governance.


title: New Living Translation

text: The New Living Translation (NLT) is an English translation of the Bible. The origin of the NLT came from a project aiming to revise "The Living Bible" (TLB). This effort eventually led to the creation of the NLT—a new translation separate from the LB. The NLT relies on critical editions of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The first NLT edition (published in 1996) retains some stylistic influences of the LB, but these are less evident in text revisions that have been published since.


title: New Living Translation

text: The "New Living Translation" used translators from a variety of Christian denominations. The method combined an attempt to translate the original texts simply and literally with a dynamic equivalence synergy approach used to convey the thoughts behind the text where a literal translation may have been difficult to understand or even misleading to modern readers. A part of the reasoning behind adapting the language for accessibility is the premise that more people will hear the Bible read aloud in a church service than are likely to read it or study it on their own.


title: New Living Translation

text: It has been suggested that this "thought-for-thought" methodology, while making the translation easier to understand, is less accurate than a literal (formal equivalence) method, and thus the "New Living Translation" may not be suitable for those wishing to undertake detailed study of the Bible.


title: New Living Translation

text: The Old Testament translation was based on the Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) and was further compared to other sources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Greek manuscripts, Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate. The New Testament translation was based on the two standard editions of the Greek New Testament (the UBS 4th revised edition and the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition).


title: New Living Translation

text: Work on this revision began in 1989 with ninety translators; it was published in July 1996, 25 years after the publication of "The Living Bible". Advanced reader copies of the Epistle to the Romans were originally printed as the "New Living Version", but eventually renamed the New Living Translation to avoid confusion between this new work and "The Living Bible". NLV is still used to identify the New Living Translation in ONIX for Books. Soon after that, a new revision was begun and The Second Edition of the NLT (also called the NLTse) was released in 2004. A revision in 2007 comprised mostly minor textual or footnote changes. Other revisions were released in 2013 and 2015 with minor changes throughout.


title: New Living Translation

text: In 2016, Tyndale House Publishers, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India Commission for Bible, ATC Publishers Bengaluru, and twelve Biblical scholars collaborated to prepare a New Living Translation Catholic Edition. After reviewing the changes introduced in the Catholic edition, Tyndale subsequently approved and adopted the Indian Bishops' edits into the main body of the 2015 edition, where they appear in all subsequent editions, Protestant and Catholic alike.


title: New Living Translation

text: The New Living Translation is (according to its publisher) intended to be easily accessible to readers of modern English. As part of this effort:


title: New Living Translation

text: In July 2008, the NLT gained the No. 1 spot in unit sales, unseating the NIV for the first time in over two decades. According to the Christian Booksellers Association (as of March 2014), the NLT is the second most popular Bible translation based on unit sales, and the fourth most popular based on sales numbers.


title: New Living Translation

text: A Roman Catholic edition of the NLT with the Deuterocanon was published by ATC Publications in Bangalore, India. The NLT Catholic Edition (NLTCE) was granted an imprimatur by Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay and President of the Council of Catholic Bishops of India. It was later released in North America as the "Catholic Holy Bible Reader's Edition" on October 17, 2017. Although the imprimatur does not extend to use of the NLTCE in the liturgy, it has been officially approved by the Catholic Church for private study and devotional use.


title: New Living Translation

text: The NLT is available in numerous editions as well as numerous study Bible editions, including: "The Life Application Study Bible", "The Life Recovery Bible", "The NLT Study Bible", and the "NLT Illustrated Study Bible". The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series uses the second-edition NLT text as its base. In June 2017, the "Africa Study Bible", edited by Africa International University dean John Jusu, was offered to African English readers.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: The Neighbors is an American television science fiction sitcom that aired from September 26, 2012, to April 11, 2014, on ABC. The story line revolves around a family of humans living in a community of extraterrestrials. The series was created by Dan Fogelman, who also served as executive producer. Chris Koch, Jeffrey Morton, and Aaron Kaplan served as co-producers, and the first season was produced by ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: Its first season aired on ABC on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central in the 2012–2013 television season. On May 11, 2013, "The Neighbors" was officially renewed for a second season, which aired on Fridays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: The series, set in New Jersey, revolves around a family that has relocated to a gated townhouse community called "Hidden Hills". Upon their arrival, they discover that the entire community is populated by residents from another planet. Amongst their myriad quirks, these aliens identify themselves by the names of sports celebrities, patrol the community in golf carts, dress alike, receive nourishment through their eyes and mind by reading books rather than eating, and cry green goo from their ears. The aliens have assumed human form, but they can revert to their natural appearance by clapping their hands above their heads. They have been stuck on Earth for 10 years, still awaiting instructions to return home.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: Dan Fogelman devised the concept of the series, which was previously entitled "Down to Earth". It was described as a sitcom about "a New Jersey family that moves into a gated community occupied exclusively by extraterrestrials." The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) picked up the pilot episode of "The Neighbors" in October 2011, with a pilot commitment. In May 2012, the show renamed to "The Neighbors", and production of the program was green-lit.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: Fogelman conceived "The Neighbors" after visiting his mother, who lived in a gated townhouse community, and stated, "you could reach out my mom's bathroom window and touch her neighbor's bathroom window", but they never spoke to or knew each other, and the idea was "who are these people that she's living between?", and what if they were all aliens? He claimed that family is the best part of humanity, and he kept "exploring stuff". Fogelman wants "The Neighbors" to be a show that "the whole family can watch together". He said, "It's high concept but I do want to ground it as a family sitcom".


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: The show's premise has been described as "goofy", and has been considered as a "high-concept" show by "Entertainment Weekly". At the semi-annual press tour in Beverly Hills, ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee stated that "The Neighbors" has "high-concept nature", but "love[d]" it. "The Neighbors" was originally stated to premiere at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, but ABC decided to air it in 8:30 time interval. In response to this, Lee claimed that "8:30 p.m. suited the show better" as "there's so much pressure [to perform] after "Modern Family"". The 9:30 p.m. slot was replaced with "Suburgatory". Lee wants it to be on the air for a long time, and claimed that "Suburgatory" would better fit in the 9:30 slot. Lee praised Fogelman, calling him a "wondering writer"; he thinks he will give a "smart piece of storytelling".


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: The single-camera comedy was originally produced for ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television, but Warner Bros. Television was replaced by company Kapital Entertainment. Dan Fogelman, Chris Koch, Jeff Morton, and Aaron Kaplan executive produce the series. Chris Koch signed on to direct the pilot episode, which was written by Fogelman.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: In December 2011, Jami Gertz, Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, and Tim Jo obtained roles in the series. It was announced that Gertz would play Debbie Weaver, the matriarch of the human family; Templeman would play Larry Bird, the leader of the aliens; Olagundoye was cast as Jackie Joyner Kersee, the matriarch of the lead alien family; and Jo would appear as Reggie Jackson, the son of the alien family. Larry Bird, the lead alien, was originally to be named Wilt Chamberlain.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: In January 2012, Clara Mamet, Max Charles, and Isabella Cramp garnered roles in the series, Mamet as the teenage daughter and Charles and Cramp as her younger siblings. Later that month, Lenny Venito obtained the lead role as Marty Weaver, the father of the human family.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: "The Neighbors" initially received negative treatment from critics, but gained increasing critical praise as the season aired. Writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle", David Wiegand thought that it did not look "promising" as it was a high-concept show. He compared it to the NBC science fiction comedy series "3rd Rock from the Sun", claiming that the series' creator made it so different from "3rd Rock from the Sun", that it is "weird". He stated that if "The Neighbors" garnered low ratings, it could possibly be replaced with "Family Tools", an ABC comedy that is scheduled to air in mid-season. He compared it to other comedies set to air on the same channel, writing that those are better. According to Wiegand, "The Neighbors" seems like "Outsourced", which aired for one season on NBC.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: Other reviews were somewhat more positive. Dave Walker from "The Times-Picayune" thought that "The Neighbors" was a "fish-out-of-water"; he called it a "potentially comedic" show. Rob Owen, a "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" critic, claimed that he has "interest in high-concept shows"; he also "laughed a good bit at the pilot episode". His concern was "how long they can keep up the jokes. Seeing the unusual way aliens do the dishes in the pilot is hilarious. But that gag only works the first time. After that, it's stale."


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: "The Neighbors" premiered at 9:30 pm approximately on September 26, 2012, on ABC after "Modern Family", before moving to its regular time slot at 8:30 p.m. after "The Middle", the following week. Disney Channel aired four episodes (maybe to gain more viewers) which in fact is also owned by The Walt Disney Company.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: In Canada, it originally aired on Saturday at 10:00 pm on CTV network in the fall of 2012 after the "Crimetime Saturday" block. It has since moved to sister network CTV Two on Wednesday nights at 8:30 p.m., allowing simsubbing over the ABC broadcast.


title: The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

text: In Australia, "The Neighbors" premiered on September 28, 2013, on Seven Network. In India, "The Neighbors" season aired from September 24 only on Star World Premiere. In the Netherlands, Comedy Central shows and repeats the series. In Portugal, FX airs the series subtitled in Portuguese.


title: Radley College

text: Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley, is a public school (independent boarding school for boys) near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847. The school covers including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and farmland. Before the counties of England were re-organised, the school was in Berkshire.


title: Radley College

text: Radley is one of only three public schools to have retained the boys-only, boarding-only tradition, the others being Harrow and Eton. Formerly this group included Winchester, although the latter school is currently undergoing a transition to co-ed status. Of the seven public schools addressed by the Public Schools Act 1868 four have since become co-educational: Rugby (1976), Charterhouse (1971), Westminster (1973), and Shrewsbury (2014). For the academic year 2015/16, Radley charged boarders up to £11,475 per term, making it the 19th most expensive HMC (Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference) boarding school.


title: Radley College

text: Radley was founded in 1847 by William Sewell (1804–79) and Robert Corbet Singleton (1810–81). The first pupil was Samuel Reynolds, who in 1897 wrote his reminiscences of school life.


title: Radley College

text: The school was originally housed in Radley Hall, now known as "Mansion". Radley Hall was built in the 1720s for the Stonehouse family. Later in the 18th century the estate passed to the Bowyer family, who commissioned Capability Brown to re-design the grounds. After the school was founded, extensive building work took place, beginning with Chapel (replaced by the current building in 1895), F Social and Octagon (the earliest living accommodation for the boys), Clock Tower, and in 1910 the dining hall (Hall). Building work has continued throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, with three new Socials, a weights-room/gym, a rowing tank, a theatre, and a real tennis court being completed since 2006. The Science Block was also expanded and refurbished in 2019. The grounds include a lake, a golf course and woodland.


title: Radley College

text: On 31 August 2017, "The Daily Telegraph" reported that a whistleblower had suggested that teachers had helped their students in an art GCSE exam. Investigations by the exam board found no fault beyond a minor technical breach of exam regulations. Radley College issued a statement expressing full support for staff and procedures both within the art department and across the school.


title: Radley College

text: On 6 July 2018, a plane trailing a banner reading "Make Radley Great Again" was flown over the school, in protest against Warden John Moule's campaign of modernisation. The £750 cost of the plane hire was raised by pupils at the school.


title: Radley College

text: In 2005 Radley College was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty by the Office of Fair Trading of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £21,360 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a Trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. In their defence, Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had previously been exempt from the anti-cartel rules applied to business; they were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with one another and they were unaware of the current law.


title: Radley College

text: Like Winchester, with its Notions, Radley has its own specialised terminology and formalities. For example, all teachers are referred to as "dons", and female teachers and members of staff are addressed only as "ma'am"; the headmaster is known as the "warden"; boarding houses are known as "socials", with their masters being known as "tutors" and their head prefects as "pups"; ties earned by pups, top sportsmen, and other distinguished boys have flat bottoms and are known as "strings" ("social strings" if earned for distinction within the social, "college strings" if earned for distinction within the wider college); and the five year-groups, from first to last, are called "shell", "remove", "fifth", "6.1", and "6.2". During the Michaelmas and Lent terms, gowns are worn over uniforms, while during the summer term, shirts are worn without ties, jackets, or gowns (known as "Shirt Sleeve Order"). A house meeting is known as a "social prayers" (which takes place once a week, and is a mini-assembly) and a "cocoa" if informal; a weekend which a boy would usually stay in school for but has been allowed to leave on is known as a "privi"; and the final day of the academic year is known as "gaudy", from the Latin "gaudē" meaning 'rejoice thou!'


title: Radley College

text: There are 11 socials at Radley, each housing approximately 70 boys and distinguished by the colours of their members' ties. They are each known by a single letter, although they are formally named for their tutor (e.g. H, formally May's Social). When the college opened, most boys were living together in College, but they were under the care of six "social tutors" and the term "social" then referred to all the boys under the care of one tutor. When D Social was built in 1886 all the boys and their tutor were united in their own living quarters and so the word "social" came to mean the building and all of its inhabitants. Similar to Eton's houses and their dames, each social at Radley has a matron known as the "PHM" ("pastoral housemistress"), whose role is central.


title: Radley College

text: The school was inspected by the independent schools' Inspectorate in February 2008. The inspection report rated the school's standard of education as "outstanding", the highest rating. There was a subsequent inspection by ISI in 2013.


title: Radley College

text: In 2012, the Independent review of A level results, based on government issued statistics, ranked Radley 31st in the UK, ahead of Malvern (32nd), Harrow (34th), Winchester (73rd), Tonbridge (74th), Eton (80th) and Wellington (89th) By 2019 they were still in the top 100 but had dropped to 75th place.


title: Radley College

text: Sports played at the College are rugby football in the Michaelmas Term, hockey, rowing and football in the Lent Term and cricket, rowing, lawn tennis, and athletics in the Summer Term.


title: Radley College

text: Other sports played include badminton, basketball, beagling, cross-country, fencing, fives, lacrosse, rackets, real tennis, rugby sevens, squash and water polo.


title: Radley College

text: Rugby is the major sport of the Michaelmas term. The school fields 23 rugby teams on most Saturdays of the Michaelmas term and on some Thursdays. The Master in charge of Rugby is Gloucester loose-head prop Nick Wood, OR.


title: Radley College

text: Radley is recognised for its rowing, having won events at Henley Royal Regatta on 6 occasions. Only Eton, St Paul's, Shrewsbury, and St Edward's have won more events at the Regatta.


title: Radley College

text: Cricket is played in the summer term. Some Old Radleians have progressed to play cricket for England or captain county level cricket teams. The cricket grounds (including Smithson Fields) have been described as 'arguably one of the best in the country' while the sporting facilities have been described as world-class.


title: Radley College

text: Eighteen hockey teams are fielded during the Lent term. Teams train on three Astroturf pitches and a full-sized indoor hockey pitch. Radley takes part in the Independent Schools Hockey League.


title: Radley College

text: Twelve football teams are fielded in the Lent term. Radley competes in ISFA Southern Independent Schools Lent Term League. There is a yearly pre-season training camp before term starts.


title: Radley College

text: Sports such as fives, rackets, sailing, badminton, and polo are represented, as well as scuba diving. A real tennis court opened in July 2008, which made Radley the only school in the world to have fives, squash, badminton, tennis, racquets, and real tennis courts all on campus.


title: Radley College

text: The school lent its name to the thirty-first steam locomotive (Engine 930) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This Class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. "Radley", as it was called, was built in 1934 and was withdrawn in 1962. A nameplate from 930, Radley, is now displayed in the stationery department of Shop (the College's shop).


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: "Help Me Make It Through The Night" is a country music ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album "Kristofferson". It was covered later in 1970 by Sammi Smith, on the album "Help Me Make It Through the Night."


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: Smith's recording of the song (in May 1970) remains the most commercially successful, and best-known, version in the United States. Her recording ranks among the most successful country singles of all time in terms of sales, popularity, and radio airplay. It topped the country singles chart, and was also a crossover hit, reaching number eight on the U.S. pop singles chart. "Help Me Make It Through The Night" also became Smith's signature song.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: Inspired by Smith's success with the song, numerous other artists covered it soon thereafter, including Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell, Dottie West, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Mariah Carey, Ray Stevens, Willie Nelson, Olivia Newton-John, Engelbert Humperdinck, Scott Matthew, Lena Zavaroni and Kelly Jones.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: Other artists who have recorded charting versions of the song include Gladys Knight & the Pips, John Holt, and (in French) Claude Valade. The Michael Bublé version features American singer Loren Allred.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: Kris Kristofferson said that he got the inspiration for the song from an "Esquire Magazine" interview with Frank Sinatra. When asked what he believed in, Frank replied, "Booze, broads, or a bible...whatever helps me make it through the night."


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: During his time as a struggling songwriter, Kris Kristofferson wrote and composed the song while staying with Dottie West and her husband, Bill, at their home on Shy's Hill Road in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood. When he offered Dottie West the song, she originally claimed it was "too suggestive" for her. Eventually, she would record it before the year was out, and it is included on her album "Careless Hands." However, by then, several others had recorded and released versions of it, some garnering great success. Later on, West said that not recording "Help Me Make It Through The Night" when Kristofferson originally offered it to her was one of the greatest regrets of her career; though her version charted, it was not as successful as Smith's version had been.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: Kris Kristofferson's original lyrics speak of a man's yearning for sexual intimacy. They were controversial in 1970/1971 when the song was first covered by a woman, Sammi Smith in that case: ""I don't care what's right or wrong, and I won't try to understand / Let the devil take tomorrow; Lord tonight, I need a friend.""


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: Sammi Smith's recording (made in May 1970) reached number-one on the U.S. country charts and won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. On February 20, 1971, it reached number 8 on "Billboard"s U.S. pop singles chart, and also enjoyed success in Canada. Adult-Contemporary stations took to the song, and it peaked at number 3 on "Billboards" Easy Listening chart. Additionally, it spent three weeks at number 1 on the Country chart. The song became a gold record.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 1980, Willie Nelson covered the song. His rendition became a hit on the country music charts of both the U.S. and Canada.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 1972, a version by Gladys Knight & the Pips reached number 33 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 13 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and was a Top 10 pop hit in the United Kingdom.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 1974, John Holt included the song on his album "1000 Volts of Holt." That year, his recording of the song made it into the UK Top Ten.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 1975, the French Canadian singer Claude Valade recorded a French version of the song, "Aide-moi à passer la nuit," produced and distributed by London Deram Records. The French-language lyrics were written by Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Charbonneau. The song made its way to fame and was on the charts (3rd place) for more than six months.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 2007, it was recorded for a second time in French, with Annie Blanchard recording it on the Musicor Records label, and the song made the Top 20 for 26 weeks, reaching a high of #6.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 1972, John Huston used Kristofferson's version as the theme for his feature "Fat City." It plays under the title credits, with instrumental arrangements later in the movie.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 1978, Kristofferson made a guest appearance on the television series "The Muppet Show;" on that episode, he performed "Help Me Make It Through the Night" as a duet with a besotted Miss Piggy.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In the 1997 film "The Ice Storm," the Sammi Smith recording plays in the background in one of the key party scenes.


title: Help Me Make It Through the Night

text: In 2013, "American Idol" contestant Kree Harrison sang this song during season 12 on "Songs They Wish They Had Written" week.


title: Ryeoun

text: Go Yoon-hwan (; born August 26, 1998), better known by his stage name Ryeoun (), is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in "18 Again" (2020), "The World of My 17" (2020) and "Adult Trainee" (2021).


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The competition took place between 21 January and 12 February 2012 and was co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The bidding process for hosting the tournament ended in September 2006.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The matches were played in four stadiums in four host cities, with the final played at the newly built Stade d'Angondjé in Gabon's largest city, Libreville. Fourteen teams were selected for participation via a continental qualification tournament that began in July 2010.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The 2012 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations took place against the backdrop of political turmoil. Libya and Tunisia qualified for the tournament, even as the Arab Spring brought upheaval and regime change to both nations. Traditional African footballing nations such as reigning champions Egypt (also affected by political events), as well as Cameroon, Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa had failed to qualify. Players from third-placed Mali had pleaded for the insurgency in the north of their country to end.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These eight teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final. Both host nations, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, were eliminated from the competition at the quarter final stage.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: In the final, unfancied Zambia defeated third-time finalists Ivory Coast after a dramatic penalty shootout, despite the fact that Ivory Coast did not concede a single goal during the entire tournament, giving Zambia their first continental title. Manager Hervé Renard dedicated their win to the members of the national team who died in a plane crash near the final's venue in Libreville in 1993.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: On 4 September 2006, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) approved a compromise between rival countries to host the Africa Cup of Nations after it ruled out Nigeria. CAF agreed to award the next three editions from 2010 to Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Libya respectively. They assigned Angola in 2010, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, which submitted a joint bid in 2012, and Libya for 2014.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: This edition was awarded to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to rotate the hosting of the cup and give hosting chance for first-timer nations.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: Two-time former host Nigeria was the reserve host for the 2010, 2012 and 2014 tournaments, in the event that any of the host countries failed to meet the requirements established by CAF, although this ended up being unnecessary


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The 2014 tournament was pushed forward to 2013 and subsequently held in odd-numbered years to avoid clashing with the FIFA World Cup.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The qualification process involved ten groups of four, one of which was reduced to a group of three after the withdrawal of Mauritania, and one group of five. The top team from each group goes through, as well as the second placed team from the group of five. The two best second place teams also qualify. At the end of the qualification process, fourteen teams would have qualified, as well as the two host nations. The first qualifiers were held on 1 July 2010.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: Togo were initially banned from the 2012 and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments by CAF after they withdrew from the 2010 tournament following an attack on their team bus. Togo appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with FIFA president Sepp Blatter stepping in to mediate. The ban was subsequently lifted with immediate effect on 14 May 2010, after a meeting of the CAF Executive Committee. Togo were therefore free to play in the 2012 and 2013 qualifiers.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: On 30 June 2010, after Nigeria's exit from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan punished the team for a poor campaign by imposing a two-year ban from international competition. This would have resulted in the Nigerians missing out on both the 2012 qualifying phase and the 2012 African Cup of Nations. However, on 5 July, the Nigerian government dropped the ban after FIFA threatened to impose harsher international sanctions as a result of the government interference. Nigeria competed in qualifying for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations as scheduled but failed to qualify.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The opening match, one semi-final and the third place match were held in Equatorial Guinea, while the other semi-final and the final were held in Gabon.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The draw for the final tournament took place on 29 October 2011 at the Sipopo Conference Palace in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. The draw ceremony was attended by the two presidents from the host countries, President Ali Bongo of Gabon and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea. The draw saw the 16 qualified teams being pitted into four groups of four teams each. The two top teams from each group will qualify for the quarter finals with the winners progressing to the semi finals and final eventually.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The two hosts were automatically seeded into pot 1. The other 14 qualified teams were ranked based on their performances during the previous three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. For each of the last three African Cup of Nations final tournaments, the following system of points is adopted for the qualified countries:


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: Moreover, a weighted coefficient on points was given to each of the last three editions of the Africa Cup of Nations as follows:


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The teams were then divided into four pots based on the ranking. Each group contained one team from each pot.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: Each team's squad for the tournament consisted of 23 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. Each participating national association had to submit their squad by 11 January 2012 (midnight CET). Replacement of seriously injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team in question's first match of the tournament.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: Groups A and B took place in Equatorial Guinea, while Groups C and D were held in Gabon. Notably, there was not a single goalless draw during the group stage.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: If two or more teams end the group stage with the same number of points, their ranking is determined by the following criteria:


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The mascot for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations was unveiled on 16 September 2011 at a ceremony in Libreville, Gabon. The mascot, named Gaguie, is a gorilla sporting the national team colors of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.


title: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

text: The official match ball for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, manufactured by Adidas, was the "Comoequa". The name was inspired by the Komo River, which runs through the host nations, and the Equator, which runs throughout Africa and unites the host nations.


Awards and decorations of the United States government are civilian awards of the U.S. federal government which are typically issued for sustained meritorious service, in a civilian capacity, while serving in the U.S. federal government. Certain U.S. government awards may also be issued to military personnel of the United States Armed Forces and be worn in conjunction with awards and decorations of the United States military. In order of precedence, those U.S. non-military awards and decorations authorized for wear are worn after U.S. military personal decorations and unit awards and before U.S. military campaign and service awards.


title: Awards and decorations of the United States government

text: The National Intelligence Awards (NIA) Program is administered by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the United States Intelligence Community (IC).


text: The USDA’s Honor Awards is a tradition dating back to 1947 and represents the highest awards granted by the Secretary to an individual or group for contribution or achievement in support of the Department’s mission. Since 2018, the traditional honor awards program has been redesigned into a three-tier structure:


text: <br> CJCS Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award (JMCSA), its military equivalent is the Defense Meritorious Service Medal


text: <br> Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award (JCSCA), its military equivalent is the Joint Service Commendation Medal


text: <br> Joint Civilian Service Achievement Award (JCSAA), its military equivalent is the Joint Service Achievement Medal


text: <br> Department of the Army Civilian Service Commendation Medal (formerly the "Commander's Award for Civilian Service")


text: <br> PEAP—Achievement Award for Elementary, Middle and High Schools (with Certificate and Silver Seal in White Pin)


text: For authorized uniformed service awards of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, visit “Awards and decorations of the Public Health Service"


text: <br> Secretary's Award For Distinguished Public Safety Service (may be awarded by the Attorney General or FEMA Director)


text: Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor (awarded by the President to public safety officers cited by the Attorney General)


text: <br> Attorney General's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Community Partnerships for Public Safety


text: <br> GSA Gold Star Award for Excellence in Implementing the Federal Computers for Learning Program (Executive Order 12999)


title: Scott Wiener

text: Scott Wiener (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician and a member of the California State Senate. A Democrat, he represents the 11th Senate District, encompassing San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Prior to his election to the State Senate in 2016, Wiener served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 8. He also served as Chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, represented San Francisco as a commissioner on the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and represented San Francisco as a director on the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District Board.


title: Scott Wiener

text: During his political career, Wiener has been known as a prominent advocate for various measures to facilitate more housing construction in California to alleviate the California housing shortage.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in southern New Jersey, the son of small business owners. He graduated from Washington Township High School, received his bachelor's degree from Duke University, studied in Santiago, Chile on a Fulbright Scholarship, and received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler on the Supreme Court of New Jersey.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 1997, Wiener moved to San Francisco to work as a litigation attorney at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. In 2002, he went to work as a deputy city attorney, under San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Before running for Board of Supervisors, Wiener served as chair of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2016, Wiener ran for the 11th Senate District, to succeed termed out Senator Mark Leno. As it is required to include a Chinese name on the ballot (17% of the San Francisco population speak Chinese), Wiener, who is very tall, chose the name Wei Shangao, meaning "bold, majestic, charitable, and tall".


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener received several endorsements, including one by Senator Leno. He ultimately defeated fellow Supervisor Jane Kim in the November general election, to win election to the State Senate.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on November 2, 2010, carrying 42.4% of the vote in the first round of ranked choice voting. After the two lowest candidates were dropped, Wiener won election with 18,239 votes, or 55.4%, over the second-place finisher, attorney Rafael Mandelman.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener was re-elected on November 4, 2014, on the first round of ranked choice voting, carrying a majority of the vote.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2011, after a string of fires caused by arson in San Francisco's Castro district, Wiener authored legislation allowing residents temporarily displaced by fires or natural disasters to rent other apartments at below-market rates. Previously, landlords willing to rent out apartments to a tenant on a temporary basis could not offer lower rents without locking these rates in at that rate under rent control.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2012, Wiener passed legislation promoting the production of student housing while restricting the conversion of existing rental stock to student housing. That same year, the Board passed legislation to allow the construction of residential units as small as 220 square feet, known as micro-apartments.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2014, Wiener introduced two measures to allow the construction of new in-law units in San Francisco: The first allows units to be built within the Castro neighborhood, and the second allows owners of buildings undergoing seismic retrofit to add in-law units. In 2016, Wiener authored legislation to fast-track the approval of affordable housing projects.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2016, Wiener introduced legislation to extend rent control protections to people living with HIV/AIDS.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener focused much of his policy work on San Francisco's public transportation. He criticized the lack of investment in transit in San Francisco, and advocated for additional funding measures. His proposals included changing the transit-impact development fee and a ballot measure to tie Muni funding to population growth. The latter measure, Measure B, required 75% of increased funding to improve Muni reliability and 25% of the funding to improve street safety. Measure B was passed on November 4, 2014.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener also encouraged increases in the number of taxis in San Francisco and supported expanding access to car-share programs.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2013, the full Board of Supervisors passed Wiener's legislative package to streamline pedestrian safety projects. The legislation included creating a centralized Street Design Review Committee, making it easier for developers to implement pedestrian safety projects as gifts to the city, and amending the Fire Code to provide more leeway for sidewalk extensions.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Over his tenure as a Supervisor, Wiener advocated against widening streets. In 2014, this led to a public disagreement with the San Francisco Fire Department around street design at new developments at Hunters Point and Candlestick Point. The Fire Department sought to widen streets in these developments to be 26 feet wide, 6 feet wider than the legal requirement.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2012, Wiener sponsored controversial legislation banning nudity at un-permitted events, which was eventually passed by the Board. Wiener stated that "[t]his is what local government is for—to respond to the issues affecting citizens where they live."


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2013, the Board of Supervisors passed another bill authored by Wiener establishing park hours for San Francisco's parks. The supervisor claimed the ban was needed to combat vandalism and illegal dumping. Critics said it was unfairly aimed at the homeless.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener was active in promoting and regulating food trucks. In 2013, Wiener's legislation establishing guidelines for San Francisco's food truck industry was passed by the Board of Supervisors.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Another of Wiener's policy focuses was increasing government spending on parks, including supporting the expansion of park patrol in budget negotiations. Wiener also authored legislation to have the city government purchase a parking lot on 24th Street and turn it into a public park.


title: Scott Wiener

text: On the Budget Committee, Wiener advocated for adding government funding for maintenance and safety in San Francisco's parks and other public spaces. He was also involved in efforts to increase municipal spending on street resurfacing and maintenance of street trees and park trees.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2015, Wiener authored legislation to make San Francisco the first city in the country to require water recycling in new developments. He also proposed legislation to require each unit in multi-unit buildings have their own water submeters.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Early in his first term, Wiener requested a study of the economic impacts of entertainment and nightlife, an issue in his first campaign. The study, completed by the San Francisco City Economist, found San Francisco nightlife generated $4.2 billion in economic productivity in 2010.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2013, Wiener authored legislation to make it easier for businesses to get permits for DJs, and to offer a new permit to allow for live music in plazas.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In September 2014, in an online essay on the Huffington Post, Wiener revealed that he was taking Truvada, a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that reduces the risk of HIV infection. Wiener stated that he disclosed his usage of PrEP in an effort to reduce the stigma around taking the HIV prevention medication. Wiener also cited the need for more awareness and expanding access as other keys for making PrEP successful. He also worked with David Campos to support ensuring low-cost access to Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV after Wiener revealed his own PrEP use.


title: Scott Wiener

text: As a member of the Board's budget committee, Wiener advocated for HIV/AIDS services and restoring lost federal funds. In 2016, he helped secure funding for San Francisco's Getting to Zero effort, which aims to end all new HIV infections in San Francisco.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2016, he introduced a bill, passed by the Board, barring the city from doing business with companies based in states that have laws that bar policies banning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, such as North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2016, Wiener authored first-in-the-country legislation to require fully paid parental leave for new parents after childbirth or adoption, applying to both parents. As a result of this legislation, employers in San Francisco must give employees up to six weeks of paid time off.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2014, Wiener introduced a ballot measure that would have imposed a two cents per ounce tax on the distribution of sodas and other sweetened beverages, and used the money to fund "healthy choices" in San Francisco. The measure, which was also sponsored by Supervisors Malia Cohen, Eric Mar, John Avalos, David Chiu, and David Campos, aimed to reduce soda consumption and increase programs to combat the rise of diabetes and other related diseases in San Francisco. The proposal was endorsed by much of San Francisco's local political establishment, including all its state legislators, and many health organizations, but voters in the November 4, 2014 election did not give the measure the supermajority required to impose a new tax. The American Beverage Association spent more than $9 million to defeat Measure E, which was also opposed by the Libertarian Party of San Francisco. Ultimately, the measure garnered 55.6% of the vote, below the 66% needed to pass.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener serves as the Chair of the Senate Housing Committee in the California State Senate and is a member of the Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, as well as Governance and Finance, Joint Legislative Audit, and Public Safety Committees. He is also the Assistant Majority Whip and serves as the Chair of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2021, Wiener authored, sponsored, and introduced SB-519, a bill that provides for the decriminalization of psilocybin, DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine), LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), ibogaine, ketamine, mescaline, and MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) in the state of California. The bill would eliminate criminal penalties for the consumption, possession, and social sharing of these substances and the plants or fungi that contain them. The bill also has a provision that legalizes the furnishing of these substances by licensed physicians/NPs/PAs and licensed mental health practitioners for therapeutic purposes in the treatment of patients. SB-519 passed in the California State Senate by a vote of 21–16 on June 1, 2021. It will now head to the California Assembly for a vote to determine final approval.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2017, Wiener originated three bills centered around HIV and LGBT issues. He co-authored Senate Bill 239, which lowered the penalty of exposing someone to HIV without their knowledge and consent from a felony to a misdemeanor. Wiener said that the laws had unfairly singled out HIV-positive people. The bill passed and was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on October 6, 2017.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 179 in 2017, to create a third, non-binary gender option on government documents, which passed in 2018.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener authored Senate Bill 219 in 2017, which strengthened protections against "discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or HIV status" for LGBT seniors living in long-term care facilities. The bill was opposed by groups who argued that the bill criminalized bathroom gender designations and would force care providers to address those under their care with gender-appropriate language. Wiener called these arguments "transphobic" and "absurd". The naming provision of the law was overturned on July 16, 2021, after the Third District Court of Appeals ruled that the law violated employees' free speech rights.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In October 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Wiener's legislation expanding access to HIV-prevention medications PrEP and PEP. Under the new law, pharmacists can distribute HIV pre- and post-prophylaxes without a physician's prescription.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2019 and 2020, Wiener attempted to pass Senate Bill 201, a bill that would have restricted physician and parents' ability to decide to perform reconstructive genital surgery on intersex infants, and would instead require the impacted child be old enough to decide to undergo surgery. The bill was opposed by the California Medical Association and other medical groups who said they would not be able to apply medical expertise, which would threaten patient safety. The bill died in committee. Wiener re-introduced the bill a second time in January 2021, this time as Senate Bill 225.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener introduced Senate Bill 145 on January 18, 2019. The bill aimed to amend sections 290 and 290.006 of the Penal Code, relating to sex offenders. Wiener said the laws pertaining to sex offender registration had unfairly targeted LGBT individuals; Wiener's official website stated he "... introduced Senate Bill 145 to end blatant discrimination against LGBT young people regarding California's sex offender registry". Wiener received online harassment and death threats from what he said were conspiracy theorists associated with QAnon who claimed the bill protected pedophiles. The bill was signed into law by Gavin Newsom in September 2020.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2017, Wiener sponsored two bills that expanded solar and renewable energy use in California. Senate Bill 71 required solar to be installed on many new buildings in California; the bill's rooftop mandate was loosened by regulators in 2020 to allow offsite solar to be purchased instead. Senate Bill 700 created a 10-year program to give rebates to customers who install energy storage systems, including batteries.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2018, Wiener authored Senate Bill 822 which enacted net neutrality protections. Later signed by the governor, this bill reinstated Obama-era regulations in California and banned zero-rating. This legislation was the subject of litigation from the US Justice Department and several trade groups. In February 2021, the Justice Department dropped out of the lawsuit, and a federal judge dismissed the challenge by the trade groups.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2019, Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 27, which would have required presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns to be eligible to appear on a California primary ballot. The bill was signed into law by Gavin Newsom and subsequently challenged in court by lawyers of Donald Trump. In September 2019, a federal judge blocked the law, stating it violated four separate sections of the Constitution of the United States in addition to a separate federal law. The Attorney General of California appealed the judge's decision, with a decision expected by a federal appeals court sometime after the March 2020 primary election.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In a November 2019 unanimous ruling, the California Supreme Court said the law violated the California Constitution and that Donald Trump may appear on the state's March 2020 primary ballot without being required to release his tax returns.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2019, Senator Wiener authored Senate Bill 127, which would increase the amount of revenue from the state's new gas tax that could be directed to bike lanes or pedestrian improvements from $100 million to $1 billion. The bill received a veto from Governor Newsom due to opposition from Caltrans over its cost and the potential loss of federal highway funds.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2019, Wiener co-authored Senate Bill 378, which would have imposed a 40 percent estate tax in California for estates over $3.5 million, or $7 million for a married couple, until the federal estate tax threshold is reached. The bill failed to move out of committee.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2017, Wiener authored SB 35 (which was approved as part of a 15-bill housing package that also included funding and other bills to reform housing production in California) which will require the cities that have fallen behind on their state housing production goals to streamline approval of new housing.


title: Scott Wiener

text: "Local control is about "how" a community achieves its housing goals, not "whether" it achieves those goals," Wiener said in a statement. "SB 35 sets clear and reasonable standards to ensure that all communities are part of the solution by creating housing for our growing population."


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2018, in an effort to address the state's housing affordability crisis and emissions, Wiener introduced Senate Bill 827, which would require cities and counties to allow apartment buildings of four to eight stories in "transit rich areas"—defined as land within a half-mile of a major transit stop or a quarter mile of a stop on a high-frequency bus route. Wiener introduced the bill as part of a housing package, along with bills to make it easier to build farmworker housing and to improve local accountability to build new housing. SB 827 failed to make it out of committee. In 2019, Wiener introduced SB 50, a follow-up to Senate Bill 827. This version did not advance through committee in the senate in 2019 and was reconsidered in the 2020 legislative session, where it was killed in a senate floor vote, marking the third failed attempt by Wiener to pass a transit-density housing bill.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2020, in a fourth failed attempt at passing a statewide upzoning bill, Senator Wiener introduced legislation (Senate Bill 902) that would allow 2 to 4 unit apartment buildings on single-family lots throughout California, depending on a city's size.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener was the co-author of a fifth failed upzoning bill in 2020, Senate Bill 1120, which would have required the approval of duplexes proposed on any single family lot in California.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2021, Wiener successfully authored and co-authored several housing bills. Wiener authored Senate Bill 10 and Senate Bill 478, and he co-authored Senate Bill 9 as well. SB 9 upzones most of California to allow for up to 4 housing units per lot, and SB 10 makes it easier for local governments to rezone for higher densities near transit rich areas. SB 478 prevents local governments from imposing a FAR or a minimum lot size that would make dense housing impossible.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2022, Wiener proposed legislation that would exempt the UC, CSU and community college systems from the lengthy California Environmental Quality Act review process. The CEQA process has been used to obstruct, delay, and block campus and housing developments in California. Earlier in 2022, UC Berkeley was forced to cut its enrollment figures because some Berkeley residents used CEQA to block and delay Berkeley from enrolling students.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Nationwide, 2 AM is the most common last call time, though bars in New York City can serve until 4 AM and some until 5 AM in Chicago. Citing the cultural and economic benefits of nightlife, Wiener proposed legislation to allow cities to extend alcohol sales in bars and restaurants to 4 AM. Senator Mark Leno, Wiener's predecessor, had attempted to pass a similar bill. The bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support, but failed in the Assembly. Wiener reintroduced the bill the following year, this time limited to six cities whose mayors had supported the idea: San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, West Hollywood, and Long Beach. The bill (SB 905) was expanded to include Palm Springs, Cathedral City and Coachella, and passed the Assembly 51-22 and the Senate 28–8. Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the legislation September 28, 2018 citing California Highway Patrol concerns over drunk drivers.


title: Scott Wiener

text: Wiener's most recent bill, SB 930, would allow seven cities to serve alcohol until 4 AM under a five-year pilot program, if their city councils allow it. Proponents say that it would help venues still recovering from the pandemic stay in business, while opponents say that it would add to alcohol-related problems, including DUIs in cities adjacent to those allowing later last calls.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In January 2021, Wiener introduced SB 252, the Bear Protection Act. Sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States, SB 252 would ban the sport hunting of black bears, except in situations where the bears must be killed for safety reasons, protecting property, livestock, endangered species, or scientific research. This legislation drew immediate support from animal rights activists. Critics of SB 252 claim that Bear Tags (the license needed to go bear hunting) generate $1.39 million in revenue that goes towards California's wildlife agency.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In 2015, Wiener was robbed of his cell phone on the corner of 16th and Valencia in San Francisco. He negotiated with the would-be thieves and got them to agree to accept $200 for the return of his phone. The foursome walked to a nearby ATM, where the transaction was caught on tape by the cameras at the ATM. A Wells Fargo security guard also observed the robbery in progress, and called the police. A woman and a man were later arrested and charged with second-degree robbery.


title: Scott Wiener

text: In June 2022, Wiener was the victim of a false bomb threat, reportedly due to his work on behalf of LGBT community.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: No Good Deed is a 2014 American psychological thriller film directed by Sam Miller and written by Aimée Lagos. The film stars Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, and Henry Simmons. The film was released on September 12, 2014.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: Despite negative critical reception, the film was a box office success and received two Image Award nominations, winning one for Taraji P. Henson's performance.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: Colin Evans has been sentenced to prison for 15 years for manslaughter in the state of Tennessee. He is eligible for parole after five years, and during his parole hearing, Colin claims he is a changed man and has been rehabilitated; but the parole board denies his release, claiming that he is not trustworthy enough, and is sent back to prison for another five years until the next hearing. On the way back to prison, Colin kills the correctional officers transporting him and escapes with the van.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: In Atlanta, Terri Granger is a stay-at-home mother. Her best friend Meg suggests a "girls' night" to cheer Terri up after her husband Jeffrey abruptly leaves for a family visit, as she knows that Terri's relationship with Jeffrey has been suffering.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: Colin stalks his ex-fiancée Alexis and witnesses her meeting another man at an outdoor cafe. Colin follows her home where they argue violently, resulting in him murdering Alexis. Later that day, Colin loses control of his car and crashes into a tree during a storm. Walking down the road, he notices Terri's house. He asks her if he can use her phone to call for a tow truck. Apprehensive at first, she decides to help him, and eventually invites him inside. Meg later arrives and is shocked by Colin's presence.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: When Terri leaves momentarily to comfort her baby, Meg and Colin are left alone; Colin excuses himself for a cigarette break, but Meg follows him. Colin suggests that he is having an affair with Terri, but Meg does not believe him. As she begins to call out to Terri, Colin quickly grabs a shovel and bashes Meg in the head with it, killing her.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: As Terri returns, Colin tells her that Meg left, but Terri is suspicious, especially when she sees Meg's umbrella in the stand. Alarmed, she rushes to the kitchen to call the police, only to find out that Colin has disconnected all the wires and hidden all of her knives. Terri rushes into her daughter Ryan's bedroom to find Colin playing with her. As they exit the bedroom, Terri hits him with a fire extinguisher, making him fall down the stairs; she runs to get her children, but Colin has recovered. He tells her to put the children back in their rooms and reveals a gun. In a brief moment where she strikes him unconscious, she manages to flee to her home office and dials 911 for help. Colin recovers and discovers her in the office. She begs him to leave, explaining to him that the police are coming and that his blood is all over her kitchen (because she managed to cut him earlier). Colin forces her to take the children into her vehicle and drive away with him. While walking out of the garage, Terri sees Meg's dead body on the floor.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: Colin makes Terri drive to Alexis' house, and introduces Terri to his dead ex-fiancée. The high winds from the storm cause Terri's car alarm to activate; worried that the noise will attract attention, Colin ties her up while he goes to check on the car. Terri answers Alexis' phone as it starts to ring and is surprised to hear Jeffrey, who is calling Alexis to find out why she has not arrived at the hotel for a rendezvous with him. Terri realizes that he was not out of town with his father and has been having an affair with Alexis. She also realizes that her encounter with Colin was not coincidental as he wants revenge on Jeffrey because of his affair with Alexis. Terri tells her husband the truth and has him call 911. She misleads Colin into thinking that she and her children have escaped. When Colin finds her, she attacks him, grabbing his gun and shooting him until he falls out of a window.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: The police arrive with Jeffrey, he apologizes to Terri about the affair but she punches him in the face, and leaves him afterward. Sometime later, a much more confident Terri returns to her career and has moved into a new house with her children.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: "No Good Deed" was initially set to be released on October 18, 2013. In January 2013, Screen Gems announced the film would be moved to open on January 17, 2014, at the beginning of the MLK Holiday weekend. This date conflicted with another Will Packer-produced film, "Ride Along", a Universal Pictures release that stars Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. For this reason, in April 2013, the studio pushed back "No Good Deed"s release date for a second time to April 25, 2014. Yet again, in early October 2013 (and giving no specific reason), Screen Gems for a third time pushed backed the release date of the film to September 12, 2014. Sony Pictures Releasing debuted the first official trailer for the film on June 12, 2014. "No Good Deed" was released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 6, 2015.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: "No Good Deed" was released on Friday, September 12, 2014. The film was #1 at the domestic box office over the 3-day weekend, grossing $24,250,283 at 2,175 North American theaters ($11,150 per theater average). The film was producer Will Packer's third #1 film of 2014, following "Ride Along" and "Think Like a Man Too". "No Good Deed" grossed $54,323,210 worldwide.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: "No Good Deed" has received generally negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 12% based on reviews from 57 critics. The site's consensus reads, "Dull, derivative, and generally uninspired, "No Good Deed" wastes its stars' talents -- and the audience's time." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 26 out of 100 based on reviews from 17 critics.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: The audience for "No Good Deed" was 60 percent female, 59 percent over the age of 30. Filmgoers gave the movie a "B+" CinemaScore.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: Screen Gems and Madison Gate Records released the soundtrack to the film "No Good Deed" digitally and physically on September 9, 2014. The 15-track album contains the film's original score composed by Paul Haslinger.


title: No Good Deed (2014 film)

text: ""No Good Deed" offered a great opportunity to re-explore a style of score I had first developed for the film "Vacancy"; music designed to enhance psychological qualities in the telling of a story, in this case, a rather dark one. My personal preference for this kind of approach is to mix classic film noir elements with music, sound-design elements; sometimes alternating, sometimes superimposing them. The goal ultimately was to connect the headspace of the characters with that of the audience, to make the audience feel the threads of the story as they watch it unfold. Working off great performances by Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, this was a unique and rewarding project to be involved with!" - "Paul Haslinger."


title: Food Corporation of India

text: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is a statutory body created and run by the Government of India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India formed by the enactment of Food Corporation Act, 1964 by the Parliament of India. Its top official is designated as Chairman and Managing Director who is a central government civil servant of the IAS cadre. It was set up in 1965 with its initial headquarters at Chennai. Later this was moved to New Delhi. It also has regional centers in the capitals of the states.


title: Food Corporation of India

text: The Food Corporation of India or the FCI was set up on 14 January 1965 having its first District Office at Thanjavur – rice bowl of Tamil Nadu – and headquarters at Chennai (later shifted to Delhi) under the Food Corporations Act 1964 to implement the National Food Policy's objectives:


title: Food Corporation of India

text: It is one of the largest Corporations in India started by the government and probably the largest supply chain management in Asia. It operates through five Zonal offices and 26 Regional offices. Each year, the Food Corporation of India purchases roughly 15 to 20 percent of India's wheat output and 12 to 15 percent of its rice output. The purchases are made from the farmers at the rates declared by the Government of India. This rate is called MSP (Minimum Support Price).


title: Food Corporation of India

text: The Food Corporation of India procures rice and wheat from farmers through many routes like paddy purchase centres/mill levy/custom milling and stores them in depots. FCI maintains many types of depots like food storage depots and buffer storage complexes and private equity godowns and also implemented latest storage methods of silo storage facilities which are located at Hapur in Uttar Pradesh, Malur in Karnataka and Elavur in Tamil Nadu.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the fourth richest person in Africa. His company Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin. He owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust Bank and the oil exploration firm Conoil (formerly Consolidated Oil Company).


title: Mike Adenuga

text: His father, the Oloye Michael Agbolade Adenuga Sr, was a school teacher while his mother, Omoba Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga (née Onashile, of Okesopin, Ijebu Igbo), was a businesswoman of royal Ijebu descent.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: Adenuga received his secondary school education at Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria and Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro, for his Higher School Certificate (HSC). He worked as a taxi driver to help fund his university education. He graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Pace University, New York, with degrees in Business Administration.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: In 1990, he received a drilling license and in 1991, his Consolidated Oil struck oil in the shallow waters of Southwestern Ondo State, the first indigenous oil company to do so in commercial quantity.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: He was issued a conditional GSM licence in 1999; after it was revoked, he received a second one when the government held another auction in 2003.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: He was named "African Entrepreneur of The Year" at the first African Telecoms Awards (ATA) in August 2007.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: In May 2015, Adenuga made a takeover bid to purchase Ivorian mobile telecom's operator Comium Côte d'Ivoire for $600 million.


title: Mike Adenuga

text: In 2018, he was decorated with the insignia of a Commander of the Legion of Honour by President Emmanuel Macron of France.


title: Perentie

text: The perentie (Varanus giganteus) is the largest monitor lizard or goanna native to Australia. It is one of the largest living lizards on earth, after the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor, crocodile monitor, and intersecting by size with Nile monitor. Found west of the Great Dividing Range in the arid areas of Australia, it is rarely seen, because of its shyness and the remoteness of much of its range from human habitation. The species is considered to be a least-concern species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.


title: Perentie

text: Its status in many Aboriginal cultures is evident in the totemic relationships, and part of the Ngiṉṯaka dreaming, as well as bush tucker. It was a favoured food item among desert Aboriginal tribes, and the fat was used for medicinal and ceremonial purposes.


title: Perentie

text: British zoologist John Edward Gray described the perentie in 1845 as "Hydrosaurus giganteus", calling it the "gigantic water lizard". George Albert Boulenger moved it to the genus "Varanus".


title: Perentie

text: Within the monitor genus "Varanus", it lies within the subgenus "Varanus". Its closest relatives belong to a lineage that gave rise to the sand goanna and the Argus monitor.


title: Perentie

text: The lizard can grow up to long, although the typical length is around and weigh up to —maximum weight can be over . Its rival for the title of the third-largest lizard is the crocodile monitor, which although often longer, exceeding 2.4 m in length, is lighter and less bulky than the perentie. However, perenties are relatively lean lizards and are less bulky than either the Komodo dragon or the Asian water monitor. The Nile monitor can also compete in size, in some exceptional cases reaching more than 2.4 m in length.


title: Perentie

text: In late 2005, University of Melbourne researchers discovered that all monitors may be somewhat venomous. Previously, bites inflicted by monitors were thought to be prone to infection because of bacteria in their mouths, but the researchers showed that the immediate effects are caused by mild envenomation. Bites on the hand by Komodo dragons ("V. komodensis)", perenties ("V. giganteus"), lace monitors ("V. varius"), and spotted tree monitors ("V. scalaris") have been observed to cause swelling within minutes, localised disruption of blood clotting, and shooting pain up to the elbow, which can often last for several hours.


title: Perentie

text: University of Washington biologist Kenneth V. Kardong and toxicologists Scott A. Weinstein and Tamara L. Smith have argued that the suggestion of venom glands "... has had the effect of underestimating the variety of complex roles played by oral secretions in the biology of reptiles, produced a very narrow view of oral secretions and resulted in misinterpretation of reptilian evolution". According to the scientists "... reptilian oral secretions contribute to many biological roles other than to quickly dispatch prey". They concluded, "Calling all in this clade venomous implies an overall potential danger that does not exist, misleads in the assessment of medical risks, and confuses the biological assessment of squamate biochemical systems".


title: Perentie

text: Perenties are found in the arid desert areas of Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. Their habitats consist of rocky outcroppings and gorges, with hard-packed soil and loose stones.


title: Perentie

text: Perenties generally avoid human contact and often retreat before they are seen. Being able diggers, they can excavate a burrow for shelter in only minutes. Their long claws enable them to easily climb trees. They often stand on their back legs and tails to gain a better view of the surrounding terrain. This behaviour, known as "tripoding", is quite common in monitor species. Perenties are fast sprinters, and can run using either all four legs or just their hind legs.


title: Perentie

text: Typical of most goannas, the perentie either freezes (lying flat on the ground, and remaining very still until the danger has passed) or runs if detected. If cornered, this powerful carnivore stands its ground and uses its arsenal of claws, teeth, and whip-like tail to defend itself. It can inflate its throat and hiss as a defensive or aggressive display, and can strike at opponents with its muscular tail. It may also lunge forward with an open mouth, either as a bluff or as an attack. The bite of a perentie can do much damage, not only from the teeth, but also because of the oral secretions.


title: Perentie

text: They are highly active carnivores that feed on mostly reptiles, small mammals, and less commonly birds such as diamond doves. They hunt live prey, but also scavenge carrion. Reptilian prey includes mostly lizards and more seldom snakes, but this species also displays a notable example of intraguild predation, as it eats an unusually large number of other monitor lizard species such as ridge-tailed monitors, black-headed monitors, Gould's monitors, and even Argus monitors. Perenties also eat smaller members of their own species; such is the case of a 2-m perentie killing and eating a 1.5-m perentie. Other lizard prey include central bearded dragons and long-nosed water dragons. Coastal and island individuals often eat a large number of sea turtle eggs and hatchlings, and hide under vehicles to ambush scavenging gulls. Mammalian prey includes bats, young kangaroos & other small marsupials, and rodents. They have also been occasionally seen foraging for food in shallow water. They are able to kill kangaroos and dismember those too large to be swallowed whole using their powerful forelimbs and claws. Although adults feed predominantly on vertebrate prey, young perenties eat mostly arthropods, especially grasshoppers.


title: Perentie

text: Prey is typically swallowed whole, but if the food item is too large, chunks are ripped off for ease of consumption.


title: Sonic Riders

text: The game was produced in commemoration of the "Sonic" series' 15th anniversary and was the first "Sonic" racing game since the 1997 Traveller's Tales game "Sonic R". Sonic Team wanted to make their own game that was superior to any previous "Sonic" racing game. It was designed to appeal to fans of "Sonic" as well as extreme sports video games; the development team did not take inspiration from any prior games. "Sonic Riders" was also the last "Sonic" title produced with the involvement of franchise co-creator Yuji Naka, who acted as executive producer and left Sega shortly after its release.


title: Sonic Riders

text: "Sonic Riders" was released to mixed reviews from critics, but was a commercial success and was later re-released under the GameCube and PlayStation 2 bestseller lines. Reviewers mostly criticized the gameplay, controls, and overall design; while praise was directed at the game's visual style, soundtrack and sense of speed while racing. Many deemed it a lackluster game—both within the "Sonic" franchise and the racing game medium—that did have its highlights but ultimately fell to its shortcomings. Retrospectively, it has developed a cult following and despite the mixed reviews, two sequels, "" (2008) and "Sonic Free Riders" (2010), were developed and released to similar commercial success.


title: Sonic Riders

text: "Sonic Riders" is based around characters racing each other using devices known as "Extreme Gear", anti-gravity-equipped vehicles consisting of hover boards, hover skates, and hover bikes. Players compete to finish three laps around a racetrack before their opponents and complete the race in first place. Each race features up to eight characters competing. A key component of gameplay is the air tank, displayed in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Air serves as the fuel for Extreme Gear, and is depleted gradually as the race goes on. Characters can also perform a Boost, which will give them a sudden burst of speed at the cost of a significant amount of air. If a player boosts into an opponent, their character will attack and stun the opponent for a brief period. Air is also more quickly spent using techniques like drifting, which allows the player to round sharp turns with ease, and building tension before a jump, which involves using the air to propel the player higher off the edge of ramps. If a player runs out of air, their character will start running on foot; this prevents them from boosting, attacking, cornering easily or using charged jumps. Players can refill their air by using pit stops on the track, which force them to stay in place while their air meter recharges, or performing tricks when jumping off ramps or off an opponents' slipstream, with higher-rated trick sequences restoring more air. Players can also collect rings scattered across the track; collecting a certain number of rings will cause their character to level up for the remainder of the race, increasing the strength of their abilities and extending their maximum air capacity.


title: Sonic Riders

text: "Sonic Riders" features 16 playable characters, nine of which must be unlocked, including guest characters from "Nights into Dreams", "Space Channel 5", and "Super Monkey Ball". Each individual character has different statistics, altering their performance slightly in races, though some characters are restricted from using certain types of Extreme Gear. Characters are divided into three classes, each with different abilities: Speed characters can grind on rails, Power characters can break certain objects, and Fly characters can fly through boost rings. Each race track features multiple shortcuts that can only be accessed by characters of a specific class. Players can spend the rings they acquire at the in-game shop to purchase new Extreme Gear, each of which possesses unique statistics and properties. The game includes eight unique areas, each with two track variants, for a total of 16 tracks. Only five tracks are accessible from the start; the remainder are unlocked through progression in the game's story mode and by winning Gold in both the World Grand Prix tournaments, in which players race through five consecutive tracks and attempt to get the highest overall score.


title: Sonic Riders

text: The game's Story Mode is divided into two campaigns, whose events intersect with one another: The "Heroes" story, focusing on Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles; and the "Babylon" story, focusing on the Babylon Rogues, consisting of new characters Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross. In each campaign, players take part in consecutive races with predetermined characters, and must take first place in each race to continue the story. Completing the Heroes campaign unlocks the Babylon campaign, which includes an epilogue in which the two stories converge. The game also features a Mission Mode with 100 missions to complete, each of which tasks the players with completing a specific objective within a time limit, such as collecting objects on the track or destroying a certain number of obstacles. Completing each mission awards players a bronze, silver, or gold medal based on their performance; by completing missions, players can unlock new characters and special Extreme Gear. Up to four players can also compete in the game's single race and battle modes.


title: Sonic Riders

text: Jet, leader of the thieving Babylon Rogues, observes the Key to Babylon Garden, an artifact and family heirloom said to unlock the secrets of their Babylonian ancestors. Doctor Eggman arrives and claims he can use the Chaos Emeralds to make Babylon Garden rise, asking for the Rogues' help in retrieving them. The Rogues agree and steal an Emerald, but run into Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, who are also looking for the Emerald. Sonic gives chase, but Jet escapes with the Emerald. The next day, the three heroes see Eggman on a digital billboard advertising an Extreme Gear race known as the EX World Grand Prix, with the Chaos Emeralds offered as the grand prize. When they realize that the Rogues are participating, Sonic and his friends enter as well.