title: Andy Goram

text: In 1987, he returned to Scotland, joining Hibernian for a fee of £325,000. His father had also briefly been a goalkeeper with the Edinburgh club. He made his debut for Hibs on 10 October 1987, keeping a clean sheet in a 4–0 win over Dunfermline Athletic. He served as club captain for the majority of his stay in the capital, and in 1988 achieved the unusual feat of scoring a goal in a Premier Division match, against Morton, with a long kick. He also scored again in a penalty shoot-out after a goalless draw against Clydebank in a League Cup tie in August 1989, Hibs winning 5–3. A save he made in a European tie against RFC Liège was described by Lou Macari as having "defied logic". Goram twisted in mid air to touch a header from Angelo Nijskens away for a corner kick.


title: Andy Goram

text: In a BBC podcast, "Remembering Andy Goram", he said of his time at Hibs, "Everybody associates me with Rangers because of my time there, but I had four fantastic years with Hibs. My Dad played for Hibs and I've a great affinity for them."


title: Andy Goram

text: In the summer of 1991, Goram signed for Rangers in a £1 million transfer deal. He made his debut in a 6–0 win over St Johnstone on the opening day of the season. Having replaced Chris Woods, Goram found himself under scrutiny in his first few months, and was criticised for goals conceded against Hearts and Sparta Prague which some regarded as being "soft".


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram soon settled at Ibrox and established himself by playing in all 55 of Rangers competitive games and keeping 26 clean sheets during his first season there. He helped Rangers win the 1991–92 Scottish Premier Division title. He also helped them win the Scottish Cup for the first time in several years, defeating Airdrie 2–1 in the final to clinch a league and cup double.


title: Andy Goram

text: The following season, 1992–93, saw Rangers take part in the newly revamped UEFA Champions League. Goram played in all ten of their European fixtures that season, conceding seven goals. These games included home-and-away wins over Leeds United and an unbeaten run that saw the club narrowly miss out on a place in the final. Rangers swept to a domestic treble that season, winning their fifth-consecutive league title and defeating Aberdeen in both the League Cup and Scottish Cup finals. Goram won both the Scottish Football Writers and Scottish Professional Footballers Association player of the year awards.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram underwent knee surgery in the summer of 1993 and missed most of the following season whilst recovering, making ten appearances. He was placed on the transfer list by manager Walter Smith in the summer of 1994; however, he was allowed to remain at Rangers when he proved his fitness and commitment during pre-season training, and he returned as first-choice goalkeeper for season 1994–95. He continued to excel in goal for Rangers, with Celtic manager Tommy Burns lamenting in January 1996, "If anyone gets round to doing my tombstone, it will have to read: "Andy Goram Broke My Heart."" Goram went on to win a further three league titles, a Scottish Cup and a Scottish League Cup in his time at Rangers.


title: Andy Goram

text: After it was reported in the press that Goram had a mild form of schizophrenia, he was greeted with the chant of "Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams". This chant quickly gained popularity, and became the title of a book documenting humorous football chants. Goram left Rangers at the end of season 1997–98.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram had brief spells at Notts County and Sheffield United before signing for Motherwell in January 1999. In 2000, he helped Motherwell to fourth place in the league.


title: Andy Goram

text: He had a loan spell with Manchester United during their 2000–01 title run-in, playing in two games. In the summer of 2001, he had a spell on trial with Hamilton Academical, then signed for Coventry City and made seven appearances.


title: Andy Goram

text: In July 2002, Goram signed for Queen of the South, with whom he won the Scottish Challenge Cup. This made Goram the first player to collect a full set of winners' medals from the four Scottish football competitions. A four-game return to Oldham Athletic followed, and he retired at the end of the 2003–04 season after a season-long spell at Elgin City, for whom he played five league games.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram's first involvement in international football was in 1983, when Howard Wilkinson named him in an England under-21 squad; however, despite his club form at Oldham, Wilkinson had doubts about his relative lack of height and instead played Alan Knight in goal. As such, Goram remained eligible to play for Scotland.


title: Andy Goram

text: In October 1985, Scotland caretaker manager Alex Ferguson named Goram in his squad for a friendly match against East Germany at Hampden Park. He made his debut in that game on 16 October 1985, coming on in the second half as a substitute for Jim Leighton. In the run-up to the 1986 FIFA World Cup, Goram played the full 90 minutes in friendly matches against Romania and the Netherlands, keeping clean sheets in both games. He travelled to Mexico in the summer of 1986 as a member of Scotland's World Cup squad, although he was third choice behind Leighton and Alan Rough and did not play in any of Scotland's three games.


title: Andy Goram

text: Leighton remained first-choice goalkeeper for Scotland in their qualifying campaigns for Euro 1988 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup, with Goram as his understudy. Goram played one competitive game during this time: a 1–1 home draw against Yugoslavia in October 1988 during the qualifiers for the 1990 World Cup. He did play in several friendly matches, and was in the Scotland squad that took part in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, although once again he did not actually play in games there.


title: Andy Goram

text: After the 1990 World Cup, Goram established himself as Scotland's first-choice goalkeeper. He played in all eight of Scotland's qualifying ties for Euro 1992, helping them qualify for the finals of the tournament held in Sweden. Scotland lost in their first two group matches to the Netherlands and Germany but won their final match, against the CIS (former Soviet Union), 3–0.


title: Andy Goram

text: Scotland failed to build on their showing at Euro 1992 in the qualifiers for the 1994 World Cup. A campaign, which included a 5–0 defeat away against Portugal in April 1993, saw Scotland slump to fourth place in their group and fail to qualify. The match against Portugal was Goram's last Scotland appearance for almost a year due to his undergoing knee surgery and a lengthy return to fitness. He returned to the side in March 1994, playing in a friendly against the Netherlands, and played in a 2–0 win away against Finland on 7 September 1994 in the opening qualifying tie for Euro 1996. Goram kept his place in the side and played in Scotland's next three qualifying ties; however, in August 1995, days before a qualifying match against Greece, Goram withdrew from the squad stating that he was not "mentally attuned" to play. Jim Leighton played against Greece and kept his place in the team for the remaining two qualifying matches, although Goram did play for the last 17 minutes of a friendly match against Sweden in between those final two ties.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram had a long-running rivalry with Leighton for the goalkeeping position in the Scotland team. Craig Brown controversially selected Goram ahead of his counterpart for Scotland's matches in Euro 96, despite the fact that Leighton had played in most of the qualifiers. In their final game against Switzerland, Goram was required to make several important saves, notably when he clawed away a header from Kubilay Turkyilmaz in the final ten minutes. Brown then selected Leighton for France 98 which prompted Goram to walk out of the squad completely, fifteen days before Scotland were scheduled to play Brazil in the opening game of the tournament.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram also worked as a goalkeeping coach with various clubs after retiring from playing. He took on part-time coaching duties when he returned to Motherwell in 2002. He later coached at Airdrie United in March 2006 and then Clyde in February 2008. He left Clyde in September 2008. In January 2012, Goram helped Hamilton Academical with their goalkeeping coach crisis. In January 2014, he took up the role of goalkeeping coach in the coaching staff at Ayr United, joining up again with godson David Hutton, as he did at Clyde and Hamilton.


title: Andy Goram

text: In October 2014, he became goalkeeping coach at Lowland League side BSC Glasgow. He returned to professional football in January 2015, when he was appointed goalkeeping coach at Dunfermline Athletic, until May 2015 when he left the position. He later had a spell at Airdrieonians as goalkeeping coach from May 2016 until October 2016, leaving the club following a spate of managerial and coaching changes.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram was also a league cricketer, appearing as a wicket-keeper and batsman for various Oldham clubs in the Saddleworth League, including Delph & Dobcross, Moorside and East Lancashire Paper Mill in Radcliffe, Bury. Goram played for Penicuik, Kelso, West Lothian and Uddingston in Scottish cricket leagues. He represented Scotland four times: twice (1989 and 1991) in the annual first-class game against Ireland and twice (again in 1989 and 1991) in the NatWest Trophy. He is the only person to have played in a first-class cricket match and a full international football match for Scotland.


title: Andy Goram

text: A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler, his most significant act was probably to bowl England Test player Richard Blakey in a NatWest Trophy game against Yorkshire in 1989. Rangers manager Walter Smith effectively ended Goram's cricket career when he ordered him to concentrate on his football career.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram made a cricketing comeback after ending his football career, finally playing for Freuchie Cricket Club in their centenary week matches versus Cricket Scotland President's XI, Falkland Cricket Club and Sussex Ladies. In May 2016, Goram played for a Scotland over-50s team against Lancashire over-50s.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram was born on 13 April 1964 and raised in England, although he was brought up self-identifying as Scottish. He was the son of Edinburgh-born Lewis Goram, who had played professionally in goal in the 1940s and 1950s for Leith Athletic, Hibernian, Third Lanark and Bury.


title: Andy Goram

text: Goram was accused in the late 1990s of having sympathies with Ulster loyalists during his regular visits to Belfast. His ex-wife Tracey accused him of collecting loyalist memorabilia and associating with the Ulster Volunteer Force. He denied the accusations, said that he supported the Northern Ireland peace process and threatened to sue his accusers. He was accused of associations with the loyalist Billy Wright and of wearing a black armband against Celtic four days after his murder; he said that the armband was in memory of an aunt who died four months earlier. In September 2007, Goram was assaulted at a fundraising dinner by a man who accused him of sectarianism; he condemned sectarianism and said he was "sick of being called a bigot for no reason".


title: Andy Goram

text: On 30 May 2022, it was announced that Goram had been diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer and had been told he had six months to live. He died on 2 July 2022, aged 58. On 29 August 2022, the league game between Hibs and Rangers at Easter Road was preceded by a minute's applause for Goram and his picture was shown on big screens.


title: TVF Tripling

text: TVF Tripling is an Indian Hindi-language web series created by The Viral Fever. It was developed by Sameer Saxena and written by Akarsh Khurana and Sumeet Vyas. The series star Vyas, Maanvi Gagroo and Amol Parashar in lead roles, along with Kunaal Roy Kapur, Nidhi Bisht, Kumud Mishra, and Shernaz Patel. It traces the story of three siblings, who together start a hilarious journey to find themselves and their relations. The first season has music and background score composed by Amar Mangrulkar, with cinematography and editing done by G. Srinivas Reddy, Anand Subbaiya and Tamojit Das respectively.


title: TVF Tripling

text: "TVF Tripling: Season 1" was premiered simultaneously in the company's media streaming platform TVF Play and in YouTube, from 7 September 2016 to 7 October, with five consecutive episodes were aired every week. The show received positive response from audience and along with some other contributions, the series has won several awards, including the Asian Television Award. It was recognised as one of the best web-series of 2016 and also a benchmark of success in Indian branded content and has since developed a cult status.


title: TVF Tripling

text: Following the success of "TVF Tripling", the makers renewed for a second season with Sameer Saxena directing the series, and retaining the same technical crew, with the exception of music composer Mangrulkar, who worked in the first season, as he was replaced by Nilotpal Bora, whereas the cinematographer and editors were same. The series aired through Sony Liv on 5 April 2019, and unlike that of the first season, it received mixed reviews from critics.


title: TVF Tripling

text: The show was renewed for a third season in 2021 and moved to ZEE5 as the streaming platform. The third season premiered on October 21, 2022. The season is written by Sumeet Vyas and directed by Neeraj Udhwani. In this season the three siblings find out that their parents are getting a divorce. It received positive reviews from critics.


title: TVF Tripling

text: For the soundtrack album of "TVF Tripling: Season 1", Rajesh Krishnan chose Amar Mangrulkar, who earlier composed background music for the 2014 film "Hasee Toh Phasee" to work on the series. This marked Mangrulkar's maiden collaboration with The Viral Fever, as the company previously collaborated with Vaibhav Bundhoo for "Permanent Roommates" and "TVF Pitchers". The soundtrack album consists of 13 songs which was composed, produced and programmed by Mangrulkar, who also wrote lyrics for the songs along with the series' director Krishnan, Kapil Sawant, Vaibhav Modi, Rajnigandha Shekhawat and Jaspreet Jasz. It also features a traditional folk song "Kesariya Balam" which is based on Rajasthani music and "Amma Puchchadi" which is originated from Himachali music.


title: TVF Tripling

text: For the second season of "TVF Tripling", The Viral Fever associated with Sony Music India in their maiden collaboration, and Mangrulkar was eventually replaced by Nilotpal Bora as the composer. The eight-song soundtrack has lyrics written by Hussain Haidry, Rahul Dey Das and Varun Likhate. Arup Jyoti Barua composed one song "Mon Chole Re" based on a poem written by Rahul Dey Das, which had two versions in the original soundtrack album. Bora recreated the song "Mada Faqa" from the first season composed by Mangrulkar and titled it as "Mada Faqa 2.0". The song had rap versions crooned, written and additionally composed by Varun Likhate.


title: TVF Tripling

text: The Viral Fever released the first trailer of the series on 25 August 2016. As a part of the promotional purpose, TVF partnered with Tata Motors for the project to promote the newly launched Tata Tiago. The first season of TVF Tripling was scheduled to be released on 7 September 2016, with its first episode being released simultaneously through TVF's media streaming platform TVF Play, and also through its official YouTube channel. The season finale premiered on 7 October.


title: TVF Tripling

text: Following the success of the first season, The Viral Fever renewed for a second season of "TVF Tripling", with the teaser and trailer eventually released on 7 and 15 March 2019, respectively. The digital rights of the second season was sold to SonyLIV and the series was released on 5 April 2019.


title: TVF Tripling

text: For the third season, the series moved to ZEE5. The teaser for the season was released on 3 October 2022.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: The Son is a 2022 drama film directed by Florian Zeller from a screenplay written by himself and Christopher Hampton. It is based on Zeller's 2018 stage play of the same name and serves as a prequel to 2020's "The Father". The film stars Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Hugh Quarshie, and Anthony Hopkins.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: "The Son" had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2022, and was released for a limited one-week theatrical run in New York City and Los Angeles on November 25, 2022, before a wide release in the United States on January 20, 2023, by Sony Pictures Classics. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with the performance of most cast received praise (particularly Jackman's), but the script, directing, and McGrath's performance were heavily criticised.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: During an interview via Zoom after the 93rd Academy Awards nominations were announced, director Florian Zeller revealed to Deadline that he's currently finishing up an adaptation of one of his plays titled "The Son". In April 2021, Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern were cast to star in the film. In June 2021, Vanessa Kirby joined the cast of the film.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: Principal photography began in August 2021. As of October 2021, production had concluded. It was reported Anthony Hopkins and Zen McGrath had also joined the cast, the former of whom is reuniting with Zeller after working on "The Father" (2020), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: In July 2021, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film. STX Entertainment claimed the distribution rights for the UK, Benelux, Italy, Scandinavia and Iceland that same month. However, UK distribution rights are currently in question following the announcement that STX Entertainment's British offices were shutting down.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: The film had its world premiere in-competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2022. Its North American premiere took place at the Toronto International Film Festival that same month on September 12, 2022. It also screened at the 2022 AFI Fest on November 5, 2022.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: The film was initially scheduled for a limited release in the United States on November 11, 2022, with expansions in the following weeks, before its limited release was shifted to November 25. Its US limited release was later shifted again to a one-week engagement from November 25, only in limited New York City and Los Angeles theaters, before a nationwide release on January 20, 2023.


title: The Son (2022 film)

text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website‘a consensus reads, "Despite reliably solid work from Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman, "The Son" remains mired in off-puttingly aggressive melodrama." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews."


title: Climate of California

text: The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast. California's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate, with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter. The influence of the ocean generally moderates temperature extremes, creating warmer winters and substantially cooler summers in coastal areas.


title: Climate of California

text: The cool California Current offshore, enhanced by upwelling of cold sub-surface waters, often creates summer fog near the coast, creating a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification "Csb"). Further inland, the climate becomes more continental, with some areas turning semi-arid (Köppen "BSk"), with colder winters and markedly hotter summers. Low-lying inland valleys, especially the Central Valley, have a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen "Csa"), with subtropical temperatures but a well-defined summer dry season and a foggy, rainy season in winter.


title: Climate of California

text: The temperature gradient between immediate coast and low-lying inland valleys in the south is about 7 °F (4 °C) in winter, the coast being warmer, and in summer roughly 25 °F (14 °C), the interior being warmer. For example, the average daily high in San Francisco in July and August is between , and in Walnut Creek, some inland, the average daily high in July and August is : a temperature gain of more than one degree (Fahrenheit) per mile. In Southern California, the temperature differences are approximately 4 °F in winter and 23 °F (2 °C and 13 °C) in summer. At the coast in Santa Monica, the average high in August is , while in Burbank, approximately inland, the average high in August is : a temperature gain of about two degrees Fahrenheit per mile.


title: Climate of California

text: During the cooler winter months (October–March), the Coachella Valley regularly has the warmest winter temperatures out of any place west of the Rocky Mountains. East Los Angeles, the Gateway Cities, and parts of the San Gabriel Valley average the warmest winter high temps () in all of the western U.S., and Santa Monica averages the warmest winter lows () in all of the western U.S. Palm Springs, a city in the Coachella Valley, averages high/low/mean temperatures of 75 °F/50 °F/63 °F, (24 °C/10 °C/17 °C) respectively during the period of cooler weather from November to April.


title: Climate of California

text: The extreme southwest, around San Diego, has a subtropical semi-arid or steppe climate (Koppen "BSh") as winters are drier there.


title: Climate of California

text: The southeastern regions have a hot arid climate (Koppen "BWh"), similar to that of the Sahara Desert. In the northern portion of the Mojave Desert on the east side of the state is Death Valley, which has recorded temperatures among the highest in the world. It is common in the summer for temperatures in the valley to surpass . The highest reliably recorded temperature in the world, , was recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. Temperatures of or higher have been recorded as recently as 2005. The 24-hour average July temperature in Death Valley is (1981–2010 NCDC Normals).


title: Climate of California

text: The highest temperature ever recorded in California was in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. This is also the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth. The lowest was in Boca on January 20, 1937.


title: Climate of California

text: The prevailing westerly winds from the oceans also bring moisture, and the northern parts of the state generally receive higher annual rainfall amounts than the south. California's mountain ranges influence the climate as well: moisture-laden air from the west cools as it ascends the mountains, dropping moisture; some of the rainiest parts of the state are west-facing mountain slopes. Northwestern California has a temperate climate with rainfall of to per year. Some areas of Coast Redwood forest receive over of precipitation per year.


title: Climate of California

text: The Central Valley has a wide range of precipitation. The northern parts of the Central Valley receive substantially greater precipitation from winter storms which sweep down from the Pacific Northwest, while the southernmost regions of the Central Valley are near desert-like because of a lack of precipitation. Parts of the Valley are occasionally filled with thick fog (known locally as "tule fog").


title: Climate of California

text: The high mountains, including the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, and the Klamath Mountains, have a mountain climate with snow in winter and mild to moderate heat in summer. Ski resorts at Lake Tahoe, Mammoth Lakes, and Mount Shasta routinely receive over of snow in a season, and some years, substantially more – leading, for example, to annual ski races on the Fourth of July.


title: Climate of California

text: On the east side of the mountains is a drier rain shadow. California's desert climate regions lie east of the high Sierra Nevada and southern California's Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges. The low deserts east of the southern California mountains, including the Imperial and Coachella valleys and the lower Colorado River, are part of the Sonoran Desert, with minimal frost in the winter; the higher elevation deserts of eastern California, including the Mojave Desert, Owens Valley, and the Modoc Plateau, are part of the Great Basin region, which has a more continental climate. During the summer months, especially from July through early September, the region is affected by the Mexican Monsoon (also called the "southwest monsoon"), which drives moisture from the tropical Pacific, Gulf of California, and/or Gulf of Mexico into the deserts, setting off brief, but often torrential thunderstorms, particularly over mountainous terrain.


title: Climate of California

text: Despite its long coastline, California is not vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" west, California has only been hit with two tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los Angeles area and interior deserts. The remnants of tropical systems will affect California more commonly, every several years.


title: Climate of California

text: The ENSO cycle has a huge effect on rainfall and snowfall patterns in California, especially during the winter and spring seasons. During the El Niño phase, the jet stream is located south through California, allowing for warmer temperatures and more heavy rains to occur, particularly in the southern portions of the state. During the La Niña phase, the jet stream is much further north, and therefore the far northern portions of California are wetter, while the southern half stays cool and dry.


title: Climate of California

text: Summers in inland California can see temperatures well over during the day and less than of monthly rainfall, particularly in the southern areas. This makes them prone to wildfires. These can be life-threatening and cause evacuation. Wildfires are less common along the coast because of the cooler, more humid summers, but can occur in autumn when the marine layer is less common, making temperatures warmer and humidity drop significantly.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Gilbert Melendez (born April 12, 1982) is an American mixed martial artist who formerly competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a two-time Strikeforce Lightweight Champion and a former WEC Lightweight Champion. He also competed in PRIDE FC, Shooto and Rumble on the Rock.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez was nicknamed after the El Niño storm, it was given to him by a Japanese broadcaster describing his fight-style and the manner in which he stormed through the Shooto Lightweight division.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez is from Santa Ana, California, of Mexican descent. He wrestled at Santa Ana High School. Melendez always enjoyed combat sports and competition, but did not start training in MMA until after college when he was introduced to the sport by his good friend and MMA fighter Jake Shields. Melendez attended San Francisco State University and was studying in liberal arts, he anticipated becoming a teacher but did not finish his college education and get a degree, on account of training for MMA and working outside of college. He has stated that someday he plans on finishing his college education. Before becoming a professional fighter, he worked as a waiter and he also had a job at a Fairtex gear shop, which would later be one of his sponsors.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez made his debut in the World Extreme Cagefighting and started off his career dominating his opponents, winning his first three career fights all by knockout due to punches before receiving an opportunity to fight for the first WEC Lightweight Championship against fan-favorite Olaf Alfonso at WEC 10. Melendez won the bout by TKO due to punches and became the first WEC Lightweight Champion. Two fights later, Melendez, still undefeated, made his debut in Japan's Shooto against Hiroyuki Takaya, which Melendez won by unanimous decision. He followed this up with two more TKO wins in Shooto to bring his record to 8-0 before making his Strikeforce debut against Harris Sarmiento, which Melendez won after his opponent tapped out due to punches received.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez won the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship from future UFC veteran Clay Guida by a split decision on June 9, 2006.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez then made his debut in PRIDE FC at PRIDE Bushido 12, winning by unanimous decision. In his next fight for the organization he faced then Shooto Lightweight Champion Tatsuya Kawajiri. Melendez won again by unanimous decision. He returned to Strikeforce to fight Tetsuji Kato in a non-title bout, and won his third straight fight by a unanimous decision.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez then faced Mitsuhiro Ishida at the Yarennoka! event on New Year's Eve in 2007 at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan. Melendez received his first career loss against the Japanese fighter by unanimous decision.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez held the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship belt for two years before losing it on June 27, 2008, to Josh Thomson by unanimous decision (50–45, 50–45, 50–45) at .


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: On August 15, 2009, Melendez was again set to rematch Josh Thomson at but Thomson was not cleared to fight, due to lingering problems with his leg. Mitsuhiro Ishida was selected to replace Thomson in what became Melendez' first Interim title defense.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: On December 19, 2009, Melendez fought Josh Thomson to unify the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship belts. Melendez won the fight via unanimous decision to become the Strikeforce Lightweight Champion. With the win he also avenged the second of his only two losses to date.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez successfully defended the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship against current DREAM Lightweight Champion and former Shooto Middleweight Champion Shinya Aoki on April 17, 2010.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: A rematch between Melendez and Tatsuya Kawajiri took take place on April 9, 2011, at Strikeforce 33 in April. Melendez dominated his opponent showing excellent striking, knocking down Kawajiri with a right hand near the beginning of the fight. Melendez then again knocked down Kawajiri with a combination of knees to the body and a right hook followed by a right uppercut. The beginning of the end came when Melendez sprawled one of Kawajiri's takedowns and then began landing short left hands which knocked Kawajiri down into half-guard where Melendez began landing vicious right elbows before the referee stopped the fight declaring Melendez the winner by TKO 3:14 into the first round.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez faced Jorge Masvidal next. UFC president Dana White briefly put the bout in question when he revealed to reporters that he was working to bring Melendez into the UFC fold "ASAP" with the possibility of Melendez entering with an immediate shot at the belt. Melendez eventually defended his title against challenger Jorge Masvidal at . He won the fight via unanimous decision.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez took on Josh Thomson in a rubber match for the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship at in San Jose, California on May 19, 2012. He won the fight via split decision. Fans did not agree with the decision and Josh Thomson was visibly disappointed by the decision. Booing immediately followed the decision and continuously throughout Melendez's post fight interview. Thomson, although not pleased with the decision, showed class in defeat by asking the crowd to stop booing and support the local fighter.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez was expected to face Pat Healy for the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship on September 29, 2012, in Sacramento, California. It was announced on September 22, 2012, that Melendez suffered an injury and had to withdraw from the fight. Due to Melendez' injury, Showtime opted not to air the card without the main event, thus causing Strikeforce to cancel the card becoming the second MMA card cancelled within a month under the Zuffa organization.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: The bout with Healy was rescheduled for January 12, 2013 at , but again, Melendez pulled out of the bout citing a shoulder injury.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: The Strikeforce promotion was dissolved into the UFC by parent company Zuffa on January 12, 2013. Melendez received an immediate UFC title shot and made his promotional debut against Benson Henderson on April 20, 2013, at UFC on Fox 7. Melendez lost a split decision in a closely contested bout.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: In his second UFC fight, Melendez faced Diego Sanchez on October 19, 2013, at UFC 166. He won the fight via unanimous decision. The win also earned him his first "Fight of the Night" award. On UFC.com Joe Rogan called the brawl between Melendez and Sanchez the best he's ever seen.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez was scheduled to face Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 170. However, the fight was later cancelled due to undisclosed reasons.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: After negotiating with the UFC for his new contract, there was speculation that Melendez may sign with Bellator. In the process, Melendez also got an offer from World Series of Fighting. He then agreed to sign with Bellator, but the UFC had the right to match their offer. Melendez ultimately re-signed with the UFC after he was given the opportunity to serve as a coach on , opposite UFC Lightweight Champion Anthony Pettis, the two would face each other at UFC 181 on December 6, 2014. He lost the fight via guillotine choke in the second round.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez then faced Eddie Alvarez on June 13, 2015, at UFC 188. He lost the fight by a close split decision.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez was tabbed as a short notice replacement to face Al Iaquinta on July 15, 2015, at UFC Fight Night 71, taking the place of Bobby Green. However, Melendez was removed from the card on July 6 after it was revealed that he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs after his previous fight at UFC 188. In addition, Melendez was suspended for one year from the date of the bout for violation of the UFC Fighter Conduct Policy.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez next faced Edson Barboza on July 23, 2016, at UFC on Fox 20. Melendez lost the fight by unanimous decision.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez faced Jeremy Stephens in a featherweight bout on September 9, 2017, at UFC 215. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Both participants were awarded "Fight of the Night" honors for their performance.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez was scheduled to face Arnold Allen on November 30, 2018, at . However, Melendez pulled out of the fight on November 5 and was replaced by Rick Glenn.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez and his wife Keri Anne Taylor-Melendez have a daughter born August 8, 2010. Keri Anne is a Muay Thai fighter with a 3–10 record as a pro (Muay Thai and Kickboxing). She also has a knockout win as an MMA fighter.


title: Gilbert Melendez

text: Melendez starred alongside teammates Jake Shields and the Diaz brothers in the award-winning mixed martial arts documentary "Fight Life", the film is directed by James Z. Feng and produced by RiLL Films, it was released in 2013.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Rebekah D. Jones (born July 25, 1989) is an American geographer, specializing in using geographic information system (GIS) data to track hurricanes. She used geographic information system software to create the Florida Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard but was fired from her job in May 2020, which she said was due to her refusal to hide COVID-19 data. In May 2022, Florida's Office of Inspector General found her claims to be unsubstantiated or unfounded, and exonerated officials she accused of wrongdoing. In the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Florida, Jones was the Democratic Party nominee against Matt Gaetz for Florida's 1st congressional district; she was defeated on November 8, 2022.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Jones graduated "cum laude" from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University with dual degrees in geography and journalism in 2012. In 2014, she received a master's degree in geography and a minor in mass communication from Louisiana State University, where she won an award the same year from the Association of American Geographers. In 2015, her research titled "Quantifying Extreme Weather Event Impacts on the Northern Gulf Coast Using Landsat Imagery" was published in the "Journal of Coastal Research".


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Jones was a graduate student in the Department of Geography at Florida State University from 2016 through 2018 where she worked on a doctoral dissertation titled "Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis".


title: Rebekah Jones

text: In September 2018, she became a geographic information system analyst at Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee. From November 2019 until May 2020, Jones was GIS manager for the Florida Department of Health where she assisted in creating a geospatial presentation for Hurricane Michael. She used geographic information system software to create the Florida Department of Health's COVID-19 dashboard.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: On May 18, 2020, Jones was fired from her position at the Florida Department of Health. Jones claimed that officials pressured her to strategically align COVID-19 data with Florida's goal to reopen the state. The "Associated Press" reported that Jones's public remarks led to her firing; the report cited state records detailing repeated warnings by her supervisor not to publicly discuss her work without permission. On May 6, after these warnings were ignored, her supervisor was told by human resources to fire her. Jones was subsequently reassigned, but an unauthorized email she sent out to researchers and other data recipients on May 15, which suggested her reassignment should cast doubt on the data's integrity, ultimately led to her firing on May 18. The spokesperson for Florida governor Ron DeSantis said Jones was dismissed for making unilateral decisions about the dashboard without consulting others on the team. A report released by the Inspector General's report found "insufficient evidence" that Jones was directed by officials to falsify or misrepresent the data.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Her initial allegations amounted to disagreements about the method by which the state computed test positivity rates which had been previously announced on April 24, as well as a state policy on reopening of rural counties, which was permitted under federal guidelines. Jones alleged that the state ordered her to delete positive test results from January 2020. A report released by the Inspector General's report found this claim to be "unsubstantiated". A spokesperson for the Department of Health responded that the dates Jones referred to were "event dates" which corresponded to dates when individuals may have come into contact with the virus, rather than dates when they tested positive.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Jones was granted formal whistleblower protections by the Florida Office of Inspector General in May 2021 while the investigation into her claims was ongoing. In May 2022, the Florida Office of Inspector General reported that her claims were unsubstantiated and lacked sufficient evidence, and exonerated officials she accused of wrongdoing. Marc Caputo of "NBC News" wrote that "the independent report paints a portrait of an employee who did not understand public health policy or the significance of epidemiological data, did not have high-level access to crucial information and leveled claims that made professional health officials 'skeptical.'" On October 26, 2022, Jones posted an altered image of a letter from the Florida Commission on Human Relations on her Instagram account, which she claimed proved that her whistleblower claims were validated. She subsequently deleted the post, but still maintains that the version Marc Caputo received from FCHR was the forgery.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: On December 7, 2020, at 8:30 a.m., state police executed a search warrant upon Jones' home, where they confiscated electronic devices including her personal phone and laptop computer. She posted video of the encounter taken from a home security camera on Twitter. Florida Department of Law Enforcement said in a statement later that day that the warrant was issued because Jones was suspected of hacking into a Florida Department of Health computer system and sending an unauthorized message to members of the State Emergency Response Team on November 10, 2020. The alleged statement urged recipients to "speak up before another 17,000 people are dead". In a press interview later that morning, Jones denied sending the unauthorized message. She stated that because the authorities seized only her personal electronic devices and not other electronics in her house that could have been used to send the unauthorized message, she does not think she was the target of the investigation at all, but rather that her phone was seized so authorities could identify the Florida Department of Health workers with whom she had been communicating, including her confidential sources.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: On January 16, 2021, an arrest warrant was issued for Jones by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement claiming she illegally breached state systems and downloaded the confidential contact information for nearly 20,000 people and sent a message to state employees telling them to "speak out." Jones stated she was not allowed to speak to the media about the charges because it could "result in the police 'stacking' additional charges". Jones turned herself in on January 18 to the police, after which she tested positive for COVID. After numerous case management hearings, a trial date was set for Jones's felony charge, scheduled for January 23, 2023. On December 8, 2022, she entered into a deferred prosecution agreement to avoid trial, where among other requirements, she would have to admit guilt, pay a $20,000 fine to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, do community service, and see a mental health professional monthly.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Jones filed a lawsuit on December 20, 2020, against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Commissioner Rick Swearingen alleging that the police obtained a "sham" search warrant whose true purpose was to retaliate against her. Her suit claimed that one of the FDLE agents grabbed her "without consent, authorization, or legitimate basis" while searching her home. She also alleged that the FDLE violated her First Amendment free speech rights, and had performed an unlawful search and seizure when they confiscated computers and her personal cell phone. Attorneys for Jones sought damages and a jury trial, stating in the 19-page lawsuit, which was filed in Leon County court, that "They entered her home with guns drawn, terrorizing her family." On February 6, 2021, court records show Jones dropped the lawsuit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, although the disposition of her seized property remains unresolved. Bodycam footage was later released by FDLE, though this footage did not show the officers entering the house, as seen in the footage from Jones's home security cameras.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: After her firing, Jones launched an independent COVID-19 data dashboard for the state of Florida, which gained her a national award by "Forbes". A Florida spokesperson criticized Jones's COVID-19 dashboard for including antibody tests, for counting virus tests with antibody tests, and for counting non-resident deaths. The non-profit FinMango partnered with Jones for a national project.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: In June 2021, she was suspended from Twitter for violations of the Twitter rules on spam and platform manipulation. Governor DeSantis's office welcomed the suspension, with a spokesperson calling it "long overdue" and accusing Jones of spreading "defamatory conspiracy theories".


title: Rebekah Jones

text: On December 8, 2022 it was announced that Jones would be hosting a new podcast, "Miss Informational" on Big Mouth Media, a new venture by former congressional candidate Dr. Cindy Banyai.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: In May 2021, Jones announced that she would not run for congress, either in Maryland where she was living at the time, or in Florida, stating that she did not feel safe running in Florida, and that she was not well-enough prepared to run in Maryland. A day after her suspension from Twitter in June, she announced her intention to run against incumbent Matt Gaetz in the 2022 U.S. House elections but subsequently downplayed her announcement in another post, saying that if a Republican or Democratic challenger did not appear, "Well, November 2022 is a long ways away". Jones launched her campaign for Florida's first congressional district in July 2021. Although she filed with the FEC as an independent, she later had to change her filing to run as a Democrat due to voting and election law changes enacted before Jones declared her candidacy.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: On July 15, 2022, a lawsuit was filed against Jones by her primary campaign opponent, Margaret "Peggy" Schiller and a Northwest Florida resident, asserting that Jones violated a state law that requires someone to be a member of a political party for a full year ahead of qualifying if they are running for that party's nomination. The suit sought an injunction to remove Jones from the primary ballot. She was removed from the ballot on August 5 after a judge ruled she failed to meet political party registration requirements. On August 12, Jones was granted a motion to stay with regards to her appeal of the ruling, allowing her to continue her campaign. On August 22, 2022, the 1st District Court of Appeals reversed the lower court ruling, letting Jones stay on the ballot as a valid candidate. On August 23, 2022, she won the Democratic primary election, and ran against Gaetz in the November general election, which she lost on November 8, 2022.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Jones has had prior criminal charges. At the time the search warrant was executed, Jones was facing an active misdemeanor charge on allegations of cyberstalking a former student of hers who was a romantic partner and publishing sexual details about their relationship online. She was fired from her Florida State University teaching position for threatening to give a failing grade to her romantic partner's roommate. She faced prior charges including felony robbery, trespass, and contempt of court stemming from an alleged violation of a domestic violence restraining order related to the same ex-boyfriend, but those charges were dropped. In 2017, she had been arrested and charged with criminal mischief in the vandalism of his car, but the charges were dropped.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: Jones faced criminal charges in Louisiana in 2016 where she was arrested and charged by the LSU Police Department with one count each of battery on a police officer and remaining after forbidden and two counts of resisting arrest after refusing to vacate a Louisiana State University office upon being dismissed from her staff position.


title: Rebekah Jones

text: In 2020, Jones was recognized by "Fortune" magazine's 40 Under 40 in Healthcare for founding Florida COVID Action. She was named "Forbes" 2020 Technology Person of the Year for creating alternative Florida COVID-19 tracking dashboards.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: USS "Bataan" (LHD-5) is a in the United States Navy. The ship is named for the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines, during World War II.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: Ship's sponsor, Linda Sloan Mundy, wife of former Marine Corps Commandant Gen Carl E. Mundy, Jr., christened the new ship "in the name of the United States and in honor of the heroic defenders of Bataan." at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. More than 100 members of veterans groups associated with both the Battle of Bataan and the infamous "Bataan Death March" that followed, as well as the Battle of Corregidor, and the aircraft carrier , were at the christening ceremony. She was commissioned on 20 September 1997.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: The USS "Bataan" Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) were the first ships to respond after the 11 September 2001 attacks. The ship was home on leave during the attack and was scheduled to be deployed on 19 September 2001. The crew was called back from early leave and the ship headed for New York Harbor, as she is capable of acting as a 600-bed hospital ship with surgical suites on board. Once it was determined there were few survivors, "Bataan" returned to Norfolk, Virginia. The ship's crew prepared and onloaded the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit with gear both pierside in Norfolk, and off the coast of North Carolina from Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune. The "Bataan" ARG delivered more than 2,500 Marines and their equipment to Pakistan with the aim to enter Afghanistan, thus opening Operation Enduring Freedom. The "Bataan" ARG stayed on station off the coast of Pakistan and completed the longest sustained amphibious assault in U.S. history with sailors not touching ground for over four months.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: "Bataan" was one of many vessels in the Middle East region at the beginning of the Iraq War on or about 20 March 2003. After delivering her attack and transport helicopters, troops, and vehicles she was employed as a "Harrier Carrier" with primary duties supporting two Marine AV-8B Harrier II squadrons along with . She has made two deployments to the region since the invasion. For her third deployment, she joined the Fifth Fleet in the Gulf region, transiting the Suez Canal into the Red Sea on 30 January 2007.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: "Bataan" provided relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. She was positioned near New Orleans prior to Katrina making landfall on 29 August, and began relief operations the following day. The ship's helicopters were among the first to provide damage assessment. They went on to transport over 1,600 displaced persons. "Bataan" delivered more than of cargo and 8,000 U.S. gallons (30,000 liters) of fresh water to the area. The ship served as a base for two fly-away medical teams, consisting of 84 medical professionals, who provided emergency medical care in New Orleans.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: "Bataan" served as a naval testbed for evaluation of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft in September 2005. This work included OPEVAL II operational and live fire tests and was accomplished with eight Ospreys.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: In 2009, "Bataan" became the first Navy ship to host an operational squadron of V-22 rotorcraft when she embarked ten Ospreys of the VMM-263.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: Early in September 2008, "Bataan" participated in the HURREX exercise where the U.S. Second Fleet directed tests designed to evaluate the ship's ability to respond to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief needs during the 2008 hurricane season. She was ordered to be prepared to deploy in the event that the Navy is directed to provide assistance to civilian authorities after Hurricane Gustav came ashore.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: In June 2008, the UK-based human rights organization Reprieve issued a report that listed "Bataan" as one of up to 17 ships they believed were used to imprison terrorism suspects.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: On 2 June 2008, "The Guardian" reported that "The US has admitted that "Bataan" and were used as prison ships between December 2001 and January 2002".


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: On 13 January 2010, "Bataan" was ordered to assist in the humanitarian relief efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She was deployed to Grand-Goâve and returned home 1 April 2010.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: During the 2014 air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, AV-8B Harriers from "Bataan" participated in reconnaissance missions and at least one air strike, including the first use of Marine Corps ordnance against an ISIS-controlled target.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: In May 2016, "Bataan" conducted well deck operations with the Mark VI patrol boat, demonstrating the capability to launch and dock the 85 ft patrol boat with an amphibious assault ship. This was the first time the Mark VI operated out of an LHD and the second time it operated out of a well deck overall.


title: USS Bataan (LHD-5)

text: After killing Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), commander of the Quds Force, which is designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the "Bataan" was retasked to head to the Middle East to be on standby for operations.


title: Brad Colbert

text: Brad Colbert (born July 25, 1974) is a former active duty United States Marine, whose platoon's role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was featured in a series of articles in "Rolling Stone" by Evan Wright. Wright was an embedded reporter who rode in the backseat of Colbert's vehicle during this time until his departure on May 4, 2003. Wright later expanded these articles into the book "Generation Kill" which was turned into a HBO miniseries of the same name in which Colbert was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård.


title: Brad Colbert

text: A U.S. Reconnaissance Marine, Colbert was nicknamed the "Iceman" by his colleagues, for his ability to stay calm in battle and his overall military competency. During the War in Afghanistan, he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for valor for his role in taking out an enemy missile battery. In the Iraq War, his platoon, the 2nd Platoon of Bravo Company of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion led by Lieutenant Nathaniel Fick, was often at the spearhead of the initial invasion, with his team, of which he was team leader, often on point.


title: Brad Colbert

text: For his efforts during the Iraq War, Colbert received a combat meritorious promotion to Staff Sergeant and went on to serve two years with the Royal Marine Commandos as part of an exchange program. He was later promoted again to Gunnery Sergeant and served as the Company Gunnery Sergeant of H&S Company of 1st Recon. He served two additional tours in Iraq and left the Reconnaissance community in 2010.


title: Brad Colbert

text: In October 2012, Colbert was a special skills operations chief at the U.S. Army's airborne school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was responsible for making sure that Marines who attend the program receive the necessary skills and meet their requirements. He regularly leapt from C-130s to reinforce proper jump techniques.


title: Brad Colbert

text: "Military.com" reported that in July 2016, Colbert was still on active duty as a project officer for Raids and Amphibious Reconnaissance at Marine Corps Systems Command. Colbert retired from the Marine Corps as a master sergeant on October 24, 2016.


title: Brad Colbert

text: Colbert was adopted into a Jewish family. He has been a speaker on combat related PTSD issues for the Heroes and Healthy Families organization. Colbert has 3 children but is not married.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (known as Citizens Utilities Company until May 2000 and Citizens Communications Company until July 31, 2008) is an American telecommunications company. The company previously served primarily rural areas and smaller communities, but now also serves several large metropolitan markets.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In addition to local and long-distance telephone service, Frontier offers broadband Internet, digital television service, and computer technical support to residential and business customers in 29 states in the United States. Frontier has 3,069,000 broadband Internet subscribers and 485,000 video subscribers. The company filed for bankruptcy in April 2020.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Originally based in Minneapolis, Citizens Utilities Company was formed from remnants of Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation, owned by Wilbur B. Foshay, in 1935. As the post-war years started, the company caught the interest of a New York investor. Thirty-year-old Richard Rosenthal was named president of the company in 1946, the youngest company president in the industry at that time. From the 1950s through the 1970s the company expanded nationwide.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens Utilities began a rapid expansion in 1993, announcing an agreement to acquire 500,000 rural access lines from GTE. In December 1993, it acquired 190,000 lines in four states, Idaho, Tennessee, West Virginia and Utah. Coghest Frontier of DGF City East/West & Contel of the West lines in Utah became part of Citizens Telecommunications of Utah. GTE Northwest lines in Idaho became part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Idaho. GTE South lines in Tennessee became part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Tennessee, while lines in West Virginia became part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In June 1994, it completed the acquisition of 270,000 lines, formerly part of Contel of New York, which became part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York. In November that year, Citizens acquired 38,000 lines. Lines in Arizona, formerly part of Contel of the West, became part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of the White Mountains, while lines in Montana became part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Montana.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In January 1995, the company acquired 5,000 access lines in California. These lines became a part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of California.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens, in 1994, announced that it would acquire 117,000 telephone lines and cable franchises in eight states from Alltel for $292 million. On June 30, 1995, it acquired two operating companies from Alltel. One of them was in Oregon and merged into Citizens' existing company there. The other, Mountain State Telephone, was in West Virginia and was renamed Citizens Mountain State Telephone. Citizens Mountain State Telephone later absorbed the former GTE operations and took on the Citizens Telecommunications name. On September 30, Citizens completed the acquisition of Alltel's lines in Tennessee, which became a part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of the Volunteer State. On October 31, it completed the acquisition from Alltel of Navajo Communications, which operates lines for the Navajo community in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.


title: Frontier Communications

text: On January 2, 1996, Citizens acquired 3,600 lines in Pennsylvania and 20,000 lines in California from Alltel. On April 1 that year, it acquired Alltel Nevada, which included 23,000 telephone lines. The company was renamed Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nevada.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In 1999, Citizens announced that it planned to acquire 187,000 local access lines from GTE for $664 million in Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota. The sales were closed following the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic to form Verizon Communications.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Lines in Nebraska were split from GTE Midwest to become a part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska. Lines in North Dakota were split. Some became part of Citizens of Montana while the rest joined with lines formerly part of Contel of Minnesota to become part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Minnesota. Lines in Illinois became a part of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Illinois.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens, in 1999, announced plans to acquire 530,000 rural access lines from US West, a "Baby Bell", for $1.65 billion. The sale would not have included US West Dex directories in those territories.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In 2001, Qwest, which acquired US West in 2000, terminated the sale because Citizens refused to complete the transaction.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens sold its non-telephone divisions in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The following divisions were sold:


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens Communications acquired the Frontier name and local exchange properties from Bermuda-based Global Crossing in 2001. Global Crossing acquired the local exchange properties in 1999 when it purchased Frontier Corporation, originally Rochester Telephone Corporation.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens acquired the operations from Global Crossing North America for $3.65 billion. The companies included in the acquisition included Frontier incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) companies in New York as well as Frontier Subsidiary Telco, which included all Global Crossing North America ILEC operations located outside of New York, Frontier Communications of America, a long-distance provider, and Frontier Communications of Rochester, a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). The acquisition was completed in June 2001.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Citizens Communications stockholders approved changing the corporate name to Frontier Communications Corporation at the annual meeting on May 15, 2008. The name change became effective on July 31, 2008, and the company's stock symbol on the New York Stock Exchange changed from "CZN" to "FTR". On December 2, 2011, Frontier announced trading of its stock would move from the New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ stock exchange. The stock began trading under the same "FTR" symbol on the NASDAQ exchange at the start of the December 16, 2011, trading day. Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. added to S&P 400 Communications (Sector) NASDAQ: FYBR


title: Frontier Communications

text: In May 2009, Frontier announced that it would acquire Verizon Communications' landline assets in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin for $8.6 billion. Verizon had been in the process of divesting its landlines in an effort to focus more on its broadband and wireless businesses.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In all states other than West Virginia, this takeover primarily involved rural exchanges that were formerly a part of the GTE system when Verizon Communications was formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. However, in West Virginia, Frontier acquired Verizon West Virginia, formerly The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia, a former Bell System unit. When combined with its existing subsidiary Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia, Frontier became the incumbent local exchange carrier (or ILEC) telephone company for all but five exchanges in the entire state. The transition was finalized on July 1, 2010; in some states, Frontier was required not to raise rates, and in others, broadband access was to be expanded. Ninety-two percent of people in Frontier's existing service area had access to broadband, while just 65 percent did in the newly acquired areas, with a goal to reach 85 percent in three years.


title: Frontier Communications

text: On February 5, 2015, Frontier announced that it would acquire Verizon's wireline assets in California, Florida and Texas for $10.5 billion. The transfer went into effect on April 1, 2016.


title: Frontier Communications

text: On October 24, 2014, Frontier closed its acquisition of AT&T's wireline, DSL, U-verse video and satellite television businesses in Connecticut. The deal included the wireline subsidiaries Southern New England Telephone and SNET America and consumer, business and wholesale customer relationships.


title: Frontier Communications

text: On May 29, 2019, Frontier announced that it had agreed to sell its operations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to WaveDivision Capital (led by former Wave Broadband CEO Steve Weed) and Searchlight Capital Partners for $1.352 billion. In 2020, WaveDivision Capital revealed the acquired operations will be named Ziply Fiber.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Ziply Fiber finalized acquisition of Frontier Communications' Northwest operations on May 1, 2020. The acquisition now serves customers across Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In February 2018, Frontier started with an 8 percent year-over-year decline in revenue, outpacing attempts to cut costs. The ratio of operating income to sales in Q1 dropped from 16.1 percent to just 14.1 percent in the next year. In January 2020, Bloomberg News reported that Frontier was "asking creditors to help craft a turnaround deal that includes filing for bankruptcy by the middle of March", amidst declining revenue. On April 14, 2020, Frontier Communications filed for bankruptcy. As filed, the restructuring plan would wipe out current shareholders, who had already lost more than 90 percent just since the beginning of the year. Frontier went public again on May 4, 2021 at $30.00 a share, with FYBR as its trading symbol on NASDAQ, after changing its name to "Frontier Communications Parent."


title: Frontier Communications

text: In addition to the purchase of copper lines from Verizon, over time Frontier also acquired the fiber-optic system built by Verizon primarily in Fort Wayne, Indiana, around Portland, Oregon, the Tampa Bay area of Florida, southern California, some eastern suburbs of Seattle, Washington, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and the Greenville area in South Carolina. The company kept the name "FiOS" for the fiber systems and licenses it acquired from Verizon.


title: Frontier Communications

text: The initial transition was rocky, with Frontier initially claiming that it had no plans for changes after the transition, but later attempted to institute a $500 installation fee for new television subscribers, backed out of franchise agreements in some cities in Oregon, and increased rates by 50% in Indiana. Frontier later retracted the rate increases and installation fee, but has not reclaimed franchises in the cities that it relinquished and not before losing Fiber TV subscribers.


title: Frontier Communications

text: Frontier Fiber service in most markets operates on the same technology and software as the Verizon FiOS system. As of 2021, Frontier has re-branded FiOS services, as they do not currently have the licensing rights to call it FiOS anymore.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In parts of upstate New York and other rural markets Frontier offers only DSL Internet service to its customers using traditional copper wires. PC Magazine's annual survey of ISP customer satisfaction regularly lists Frontier's DSL service at or near the bottom in terms of "Overall Satisfaction"; other outlets, including Consumer Affairs, report similar general sentiments from customers regarding Frontier DSL.


title: Frontier Communications

text: In 2015, Frontier agreed to a settlement in West Virginia, over a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company's DSL services in the region did not meet the advertised speeds (such as advertising 6 Mbit/s but only delivering 1.5). The company agreed to spend at least $150 million on improving its broadband infrastructure in the region, and promised to discount the rate for users who were affected and until the advertised speeds were implemented.


title: Frontier Communications

text: All Frontier FiOS subscribers are charged a fee of $10 for renting a router, even if they have installed their own router, or bought one outright from Verizon prior to the acquisition of their market's operations by Frontier. The company argued that these fees are necessary in order to cover the additional costs of supporting equipment that is not provisioned by Frontier itself.


title: Frontier Communications

text: As of 2021, Frontier does not currently require a rental fee for all customers and packages for the Fiber services.


title: The Glamorous Imperial Concubine

text: The Glamorous Imperial Concubine (Chinese: 倾世皇妃) is a 2011 Chinese television series based on a novel of the same title by Murong Yin'er (慕容湮儿). Starring Ruby Lin with Kevin Yan and Wallace Huo, it was Lin's producing debut.


title: The Glamorous Imperial Concubine

text: Filming for the series started on 19 January 2011 in Hengdian and wrapped up on 6 April 2011. It was first aired in China on HBS on 30 September 2011.


title: The Glamorous Imperial Concubine

text: Set under the backdrop of the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom period of 10th century Imperial China, follows the story of a kind and beautiful princess, Ma Fuya of Chu. In one night, her kingdom perished under the hands of the manipulative Ma Yi Fang, Fuya’s uncle. Forced to flee her home after being betrayed and losing everything she loved, she bravely ventures on the path to restoring her kingdom with the help of the mysterious Meng Qiyou, the unfavored prince of Shu. Although he has ulterior motives and uses Fuya as a political tool, he falls in love with her and secretly protects her from danger.


title: The Glamorous Imperial Concubine

text: As she hides in Shu, the crown prince of Northern Han, Liu Liancheng who has an unrequited love for Fuya, searches for her desperately.


title: The Glamorous Imperial Concubine

text: The exiled princess becomes the subject of the affections of various princes and emperors, entangled in the battle of inner states affairs of Shu and Han as well as raging wars between contending states.


title: Palmer Raids

text: The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 3,000 arrested. Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to Palmer's methods.


title: Palmer Raids

text: The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution. There were strikes that garnered national attention, and prompted race riots in more than 30 cities, as well as two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer's home.


title: Palmer Raids

text: During the First World War there was a nationwide campaign in the United States against the real and imagined divided political loyalties of immigrants and ethnic groups, who were feared to have too much loyalty for their nations of origin. In 1915, President Wilson warned against hyphenated Americans who, he charged, had "poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." "Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy", Wilson continued, "must be crushed out". The Russian Revolutions of 1917 added special force to fear of labor agitators and partisans of ideologies like anarchism and communism. The general strike in Seattle in February 1919 represented a new development in labor unrest.


title: Palmer Raids

text: The fears of Wilson and other government officials were confirmed when Galleanists—Italian immigrant followers of the anarchist Luigi Galleani—carried out a series of bombings in April and June 1919. At the end of April, some 30 Galleanist letter bombs had been mailed to a host of individuals, mostly prominent government officials and businessmen, but also law enforcement officials. Only a few reached their targets, and not all exploded when opened. Some people suffered injuries, including a housekeeper in Senator Thomas W. Hardwick's residence, who had her hands blown off. On June 2, 1919, the second wave of bombings occurred, when several much larger package bombs were detonated by Galleanists in eight American cities, including one that damaged the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in Washington, D.C. At least one person was killed in this second attack, night watchman William Boehner, and fears were raised because it occurred in the capital. Flyers declaring war on capitalists in the name of anarchist principles accompanied each bomb.


title: Palmer Raids

text: In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would "on a certain day...rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop." He requested an increase in his budget to $2,000,000 from $1,500,000 to support his investigations of radicals, but Congress limited the increase to $100,000.


title: Palmer Raids

text: An initial raid in July 1919 against an anarchist group in Buffalo, New York, achieved little when a federal judge tossed out Palmer's case. He found in the case that the three arrested radicals, charged under a law dating from the Civil War, had proposed transforming the government by using their free speech rights and not by violence. That taught Palmer that he needed to exploit the more powerful immigration statutes that authorized the deportation of alien anarchists, violent or not. To do that, he needed to enlist the cooperation of officials at the Department of Labor. Only the Secretary of Labor could issue warrants for the arrest of alien violators of the Immigration Acts, and only he could sign deportation orders following a hearing by an immigration inspector.


title: Palmer Raids

text: On August 1, 1919, Palmer named 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover to head a new division of the Justice Department's , the General Intelligence Division (GID), with responsibility for investigating the programs of radical groups and identifying their members. The Boston Police Strike in early September raised concerns about possible threats to political and social stability. On October 17, the Senate passed a unanimous resolution demanding Palmer explain what actions he had or had not taken against radical aliens and why.


title: Palmer Raids

text: At 9 pm on November 7, 1919, a date chosen because it was the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, agents of the Bureau of Investigation, together with local police, executed a series of well-publicized and violent raids against the Union of Russian Workers in 12 cities. Newspaper accounts reported some were "badly beaten" during the arrests. Many later swore they were threatened and beaten during questioning. Government agents cast a wide net, bringing in some American citizens, passers-by who admitted being Russian, some not members of the Russian Workers. Others were teachers conducting night school classes in space shared with the targeted radical group. Arrests far exceeded the number of warrants. Of 650 arrested in New York City, the government managed to deport just 43.


title: Palmer Raids

text: When Palmer replied to the Senate's questions of October 17, he reported that his department had amassed 60,000 names with great effort. Required by the statutes to work through the Department of Labor, they had arrested 250 dangerous radicals in the November 7 raids. He proposed a new Anti-Sedition Law to enhance his authority to prosecute anarchists.


title: Palmer Raids

text: As Attorney General Palmer struggled with exhaustion and devoted all his energies to the United Mine Workers coal strike in November and December 1919, Hoover organized the next raids. He successfully persuaded the Department of Labor to ease its insistence on promptly alerting those arrested of their right to an attorney. Instead, Labor issued instructions that its representatives could wait until after the case against the defendant was established, "in order to protect government interests." Less openly, Hoover decided to interpret Labor's agreement to act against the Communist Party to include a different organization, the Communist Labor Party. Finally, despite the fact that Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson insisted that more than membership in an organization was required for a warrant, Hoover worked with more compliant Labor officials and overwhelmed Labor staff to get the warrants he wanted. Justice Department officials, including Palmer and Hoover, later claimed ignorance of such details.


title: Palmer Raids

text: The Justice Department launched a series of raids on January 2, 1920, with follow up operations over the next few days. Smaller raids extended over the next 6 weeks. At least 3000 were arrested, and many others were held for various lengths of time. The entire enterprise replicated the November action on a larger scale, including arrests and seizures without search warrants, as well as detention in overcrowded and unsanitary holding facilities. Hoover later admitted "clear cases of brutality." The raids covered more than 30 cities and towns in 23 states, but those west of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio were "publicity gestures" designed to make the effort appear nationwide in scope. Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents arrested everyone found in organization meeting halls, not only arresting non-radical organization members but also visitors who did not belong to a target organization, and sometimes American citizens not eligible for arrest and deportation.


title: Palmer Raids

text: The Department of Justice at one point claimed to have taken possession of several bombs, but after a few iron balls were displayed to the press they were never mentioned again. All the raids netted a total of just four ordinary pistols.


title: Palmer Raids

text: While most press coverage continued to be positive, with criticism only from leftist publications like "The Nation" and "The New Republic", one attorney raised the first noteworthy protest. Francis Fisher Kane, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, resigned in protest. In his letter of resignation to the President and the Attorney General he wrote: "It seems to me that the policy of raids against large numbers of individuals is generally unwise and very apt to result in injustice. People not really guilty are likely to be arrested and railroaded through their hearings...We appear to be attempting to repress a political party...By such methods, we drive underground and make dangerous what was not dangerous before." Palmer replied that he could not use individual arrests to treat an "epidemic" and asserted his own fidelity to constitutional principles. He added: "The Government should encourage free political thinking and political action, but it certainly has the right for its own preservation to discourage and prevent the use of force and violence to accomplish that which ought to be accomplished, if at all, by parliamentary or political methods." "The Washington Post" endorsed Palmer's claim for urgency over legal process: "There is no time to waste on hairsplitting over infringement of liberty."


title: Palmer Raids

text: In a few weeks, after changes in personnel at the Department of Labor, Palmer faced a new and very independent-minded Acting Secretary of Labor in Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis Freeland Post, who canceled more than 2,000 warrants as being illegal. Of the 10,000 arrested, 3,500 were held by authorities in detention; 556 resident aliens were eventually deported under the Immigration Act of 1918.


title: Palmer Raids

text: At a Cabinet meeting in April 1920, Palmer called on Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson to fire Post, but Wilson defended him. The President listened to his feuding department heads and offered no comment about Post, but he ended the meeting by telling Palmer that he should "not let this country see red." Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who made notes of the conversation, thought the Attorney General had merited the President's "admonition", because Palmer "was seeing red behind every bush and every demand for an increase in wages."


title: Palmer Raids

text: Palmer's supporters in Congress responded with an attempt to impeach Louis Post or, failing that, to censure him. The drive against Post began to lose energy when Attorney General Palmer's forecast of an attempted radical uprising on May Day 1920 failed to occur. Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7–8, Post proved "a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue" and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: "I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely."


title: Palmer Raids

text: On May 28, 1920, the nascent American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which was founded in response to the raids, published its "Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice", which carefully documented unlawful activities in arresting suspected radicals, illegal entrapment by "agents provocateur", and unlawful incommunicado detention. Such prominent lawyers and law professors as Felix Frankfurter, Roscoe Pound and Ernst Freund signed it. Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee criticized the raids and attempts at deportations and the lack of legal process in his 1920 volume "Freedom of Speech". He wrote: "That a Quaker should employ prison and exile to counteract evil-thinking is one of the saddest ironies of our time."


title: Palmer Raids

text: The Rules Committee gave Palmer a hearing in June, where he attacked Post and other critics whose "tender solicitude for social revolution and perverted sympathy for the criminal anarchists...set at large among the people the very public enemies whom it was the desire and intention of the Congress to be rid of." The press saw the dispute as evidence of the Wilson administration's ineffectiveness and division as it approached its final months.


title: Palmer Raids

text: In June 1920, a decision by Massachusetts District Court Judge George W. Anderson ordered the discharge of 17 arrested aliens and denounced the Department of Justice's actions. He wrote that "a mob is a mob, whether made up of Government officials acting under instructions from the Department of Justice, or of criminals and loafers and the vicious classes." His decision effectively prevented any renewal of the raids.


title: Palmer Raids

text: Palmer, once seen as a likely presidential candidate, lost his bid to win the Democratic nomination for president later in the year. The anarchist bombing campaign continued intermittently for another twelve years.


title: DJ Maphorisa

text: Themba Sonnyboy Sekowe (born ), known professionally as DJ Maphorisa, is a South African DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter. As a record producer with a blend of house music, amapiano and afropop, he has worked with and has received production credits from several notable artists, including Wizkid, Sizwe Alakine, Kwesta, Uhuru, Drake, Black Coffee, Major Lazer, Runtown, C4 Pedro, TRESOR, Kabza De Small and Era Istrefi. He was signed to Kalawa Jazmee Records prior to establishing his own record label, BlaqBoy Music.


title: DJ Maphorisa

text: He rose to stardom after producing several hit singles for artists of multiple music genres, such as Uhuru ("Y-Tjukuta"), Kwesta ("Ngud'"), Busiswa ("Lahla"), DJ Zinhle ("My name Is"), Professor ("Jezebel") and Shekinah ("Suited").


title: DJ Maphorisa

text: In September 2018, he released a single "Midnight Starring" featuring Moonchild Sanelly, DJ Tira and Busiswa. At the 2018 DStv Mzansi Viewers Choice Awards he received two nominations: Favourite Song Of the Year and Favourite DJ. On November 27, 2018, at the third ceremony of Mzansi Kwaito and House Music Awards his single "Midnight Starring" won an award for most voted-for song.


title: DJ Maphorisa

text: On April 9, 2021, Maphorisa, TRESOR and Kabza De Small released the collaboration studio album "Rumble in the Jungle". On April 16, 2021, Maphorisa and Tyler ICU's studio EP "Banyana" was released. The EP featured Sir Trill, Daliwonga and Kabza De Small, Mpura, and Visca. The single "Banyana" surpassed 4.2 million streams and was certified double platinum by the Recording industry of South Africa. In 2021, he embarked to Made in Lagos Tour for an opening act with Wizkid. At the 2021 Music Kwaito and House Music Awards he received a nomination for Best DJ.


title: DJ Maphorisa

text: In October 2021, he produced Congolese-born singer TRESOR’s singles, "Makosa" and "Nyota" from the album, "Motion".


title: DJ Maphorisa

text: In November 2022, he worked with Afrika Memani on the Road To Private EP, which was released on the 4th of November


title: New York Film Academy

text: New York Film Academy – School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a private for-profit film school and acting school based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television and theater producer. It was originally located at the Tribeca Film Center. In 1994, NYFA moved to 100 East 17th Street, the former Tammany Hall building in the Union Square. After 23 years of occupancy, the academy relocated from Tammany Hall to 17 Battery Place.


title: New York Film Academy

text: As of 2012, the school has 400+ employees and over 5,000 students per year (many of them from outside the United States). NYFA offers master, bachelor, and associate degrees, as well as one- and two-year conservatory programs, short-term workshops, and youth programs and summer camps.


title: New York Film Academy

text: In 2010 the contract between NYFA and NBC expired, but the broadcast journalism programs at NYFA continue to be offered with many of the original faculty.


title: New York Film Academy

text: NYFA degree programs, workshops and short-term courses are held around the world. Summer workshops are offered at Harvard University. International locations include Australia, Florence, Paris, Beijing, and Shanghai. Other international locations are offered at various times of the year.


title: New York Film Academy

text: Since 2007, the New York Film Academy has been collaborating with museums and major art institutions to organize cultural and filmmaking education initiatives for teens and young adults. Since 2010, the New York Film Academy has partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Working closely with each individual institution, the Film Academy contributes resources in curriculum development, teaching staff, and equipment to deliver programs that teach students the creative art of the moving image, as well as the importance and value of all forms of art and the institutions that preserve, protect and display them. The partnering institutions include:


title: New York Film Academy

text: NYFA draws faculty who are active, working professionals in their fields, many of whom are award winners or have formerly taught at such prestigious institutions as Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University, AFI Conservatory, University of Southern California, Stanford University, Harvard University, Yale University and University of California, Los Angeles.


title: New York Film Academy

text: Notable faculty members have included SAG Award-winning actor Matthew Modine, BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond BSC, ASC, film critic Peter Rainer, actor Bill Duke, writer Heather Hach, director Nag Ashwin, filmmaker Mark Lester, actress Brenda Vaccaro, actor Louis Gossett Jr., actor Mark Olsen, actress and musical theater performer Kristy Cates, director Adam Nimoy, game designer Chris Swain, director Claude Kerven, screenwriter Jim Jennewein, actress Lynda Goodfriend, and actor/director Michael Zelniker.


title: To rob Peter to pay Paul

text: "To rob Peter to pay Paul", or other versions that have developed over the centuries such as "to borrow from Peter to pay Paul", and "to unclothe Peter to clothe Paul", are phrases meaning to take from one person or thing to give to another, especially when it results in the elimination of one debt by incurring another. There are many other variants and similar phrases in numerous languages. "Maneuvering the Apostles", which has the same meaning, was derived from this expression. In patchwork, "Rob Peter to pay Paul" is an alternative name for the Drunkard's Path patchwork block.


title: To rob Peter to pay Paul

text: English folklore has it that the phrase alludes to an event in mid-16th century England in which the was deemed a cathedral by letters patent; but ten years later it was absorbed into the diocese of London when the diocese of Westminster was dissolved, and a few years after that many of its assets were expropriated for repairs to Saint Paul's Cathedral. However, the phrase was popular even before that, dating back to at least the late 14thcentury.


title: To rob Peter to pay Paul

text: This phrase may have originated in Middle English as a collocation of common namessimilar to, for example, Tom, Dick, and Harrywith the religious connotations accruing later, or alternatively as a reference to Saint Peter and Saint Paul (who are often depicted jointly in Christian art and regarded similarly in theology). One reason for the frequent use of the two names in expressions is the alliteration they form. The aforementioned Peter and Paul were apostles of Christ; both were martyred in ancient Rome and have the same feast day (i.e. the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul on June29th). Today, the feast occurs with minimal notice, but it was widely celebrated within England in the Middle Ages. Many churches there were dedicated to the pair. All of that, combined with the medieval English people being almost universally Christian, made it quite common to hear these names together. The expression was coined at a time when almost all English people were Christian and they would have been well used to hearing Peter and Paul paired together.


title: To rob Peter to pay Paul

text: "Robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul" is Rudyard Kipling's adaptation of the phrase, used to criticize the concepts of income redistribution and collectivism. Kipling included the expression in his "Gods of the Copybook Headings", and proposed that it should be featured in "catechisms" of the Conservative Campaign Headquarters. The lesson of the phrase in his version, and of the poem in general, was that ""only" out of the savings of the thrifty can be made the wage-fund to set other men on the way to be prosperous."


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: The Art of Racing in the Rain is a 2008 novel by American author Garth Stein that is narrated by a dog named Enzo. The novel was a "New York Times" bestseller for 156 weeks. A film adaptation of the same name directed by Simon Curtis and starring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, and Kevin Costner as the voice of Enzo, was released in 2019.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: The novel follows the story of Denny Swift, a race car driver and customer representative at a Seattle BMW dealership, and his dog, Enzo, who believes in the legend that a dog "who is prepared" will be reincarnated in his next life as a human. Enzo sets out to prepare, with "The Seattle Times" calling his journey "a struggle to hone his humanness, to make sense of the good, the bad and the unthinkable."


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: Enzo spends most of his days watching and learning from television, gleaning what he can about his owner's greatest passion, race car driving—and relating it to life. He watches as Denny marries Eve, the birth of their daughter, Zoe, and then Eve's development of brain cancer, which only he can detect through his acute sense of smell. Enzo eventually plays a key role in Denny's child-custody battle with his in-laws and distills his observations of the human condition in the mantra "that which you manifest is before you." Enzo helps Denny throughout his life, through his ups and downs, and gets Zoe back.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: Inspiration for the novel came after Stein watched the 1998 Mongolian documentary "State of Dogs", and then later in 2004 heard poet Billy Collins give a reading of the poem "The Revenant" told from a dog's point of view.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: Stein had originally named the dog "Juan Pablo" after Colombian race car driver Juan Pablo Montoya, but changed his name at the suggestion of his wife, naming the dog instead after Enzo Ferrari, founder of the famous Italian automobile marque of the same name.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: The race car driving experience of the novel's character, Denny, is based on Stein's own experience in racing cars, and on another race car driver who is a close friend of Stein's who was dealing with some family turbulence at the time. Stein moved from New York City to Seattle in 2001 and became involved in "high performance driver education," received his racing license with the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), and won the points championship in the Northwest region Spec Miata class in 2003. Stein left racing after crashing while racing in the rain.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the novel in July 2009, for Patrick Dempsey to star in. The project was unable to find a director.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: After the project came to a halt with Universal Studios, Disney acquired the rights in January 2016 with the film adaptation to be produced by Neal Moritz.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: In 2017, screenwriter Mark Bomback revealed that the project was now set up at Fox 2000, saying, "I'm hoping the third time's the charm, and I'm optimistic that next year will be when it finally goes into production."


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: The film was released on August 9, 2019, by 20th Century Fox. It is the first 20th Century Fox film to be marketed on the Walt Disney Studios' official website since the acquisition of the studio by Disney. Milo Ventimiglia and Amanda Seyfried play Denny and Eve, respectively, while Enzo is voiced by Kevin Costner.


title: The Art of Racing in the Rain

text: In 2022, "The Art of Racing in the Rain" was listed among 52 books banned by the Alpine School District following the implementation of Utah law H.B. 374, “Sensitive Materials In Schools." Forty-two percent of removed books “feature LBGTQ+ characters and or themes.” Many of the books were removed because they were considered to contain pornographic material according to the new law, which defines porn using the following criteria:


title: Venus of Urbino

text: The Venus of Urbino (also known as Reclining Venus) is an oil painting by the Italian painter Titian, which seems to have been begun in 1532 or 1534, and was perhaps completed in 1534, but not sold until 1538. It depicts a nude young woman, traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. It is now in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.


title: Venus of Urbino

text: The figure's pose is based on the "Dresden Venus", traditionally attributed to Giorgione but for which Titian at least completed the landscape. In this depiction, Titian has moved Venus to an indoor setting, engaged her with the viewer, and made her sensuality explicit; some even believe the figure is engaging in masturbation.


title: Venus of Urbino

text: Interpretations of the painting fall into two groups; both agree that the painting has a powerful erotic charge, but beyond that, it is seen either as a portrait of a courtesan, perhaps Zaffetta, or as a painting celebrating the marriage of its first owner (who according to some may not have commissioned it). This disagreement forms part of a wider debate on the meaning of the mainly Venetian tradition of the reclining female nude, which Titian had created, or helped to create, some 25 years before with the "Dresden Venus" of around 1510–11. For Charles Hope, "It has yet to be shown that the most famous example of this genre, Titian's "Venus of Urbino", is anything other than a representation of a beautiful nude woman on a bed, devoid of classical or even allegorical content." Even the indefatigable finder of allegories drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Edgar Wind, had to admit that in this case "an undisguised hedonism had at last dispelled the Platonic metaphors".


title: Venus of Urbino

text: The Venus stares straight at the viewer, unconcerned with her nudity. In her right hand she holds a posy of roses whilst she holds her other hand over her genitals. In the near background is a dog, often a symbol of fidelity. In a different space in the background two maids are shown rummaging through a "cassone" chest, where clothes were kept.


title: Venus of Urbino

text: The detailed depiction of the interior setting is unusual, perhaps unique, in Titian. Titian contracted for the 21-year-old Ippolito de' Medici, reluctantly made a cardinal (though not a priest), by his uncle, Pope Clement VII. He was trying to pursue a military career, and was a papal diplomat. On 20 October 1532 he spent the night in Venice with Angela del Moro, or Angela Zaffetta, a leading courtesan in Venice and sometimes a dining companion of Titian and Aretino, the latter a friend of the cardinal. Titian painted Ippolito's portrait, and it seems likely that he was asked to add a nude portrait of Angela Zaffetta, or that Titian decided to paint one in the hope he would like it.