Wild Card (2003 film)

Wild Card () is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Kim Yoo-jin.

Premise
Veteran detective Oh Young-dal and his younger, loose-cannon partner Bang Jae-su are investigating the serial rape-murders of young women in Seoul. They begin to close in on gang leader Kim Min-ki, a psychopath who carries a metal ball and chain.

Cast
Jung Jin-young as Oh Young-dal
Yang Dong-geun as Bang Je-su
Han Chae-young as Kang Na-na
Gi Ju-bong as Squad leader Kim
Kim Myeong-gook as Jang Chil-sun
Hwang Jun-yeong as Go Myeong-hwan
Yu Ha-bok as Hwang Cheol-gu
Bang Guk-hyeon as Shim Young-man
Lee Dong-kyu as Noh Jae-bong
Seo Jae-kyeong as Kim Min-ki
Kim Gi-se as Wang Su-chang
Kim Chang-gyu as Go Du-man
Lee Do-kyeong as Do Sang-chun
Jo Kyung-hoon as Gomtaeng-i
Chae Min-seok as Gal-chi
Shin Jung-geun as Neob-chi ("Halibut")
Lee Dol-hyung as Sun-dae ("Blood sausage")
Yang Han-seok as Kang Il-man
Shin Kyeong-ah as Kang Suk
Lee Jeong-in as Shin Suk-jeong
Baek Shin as Detective Kim
Han Seong-sik as Delivery guy of Chinese restaurant


Mohamed Kherrazi

Mohamed Kherrazi (born 29 June 1990) is a Dutch professional basketball player of Moroccan descent who currently plays for the Dutch Basketball League (DBL) club Landstede Hammers. He is also a member of the Dutch national basketball team. He is a record three-time DBL Defensive Player of the Year winner.

Professional career
In his first professional season with ABC Amsterdam Kherrazi was named the DBL Rookie of the Year. In 2011, he signed with Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden. In the 2014–15 season, Kherrazi was named the DBL Defensive Player of the Year. In 2019, Kherrazi won his third Defensive Player award, which was a new record.

On 12 August 2019, Kherrazi signed with Landstede Zwolle.

International career
Kherrazi made his debut for the Netherlands national basketball team in 2014, during the qualification rounds for EuroBasket 2015. With the Netherlands, Kherrazi qualified for EuroBasket 2015, which was the first continental tournament for the Dutch in 25 years.

Honours

Club
ZZ Leiden
Dutch Basketball League: 2012–13
Dutch Cup (2): 2011–12, 2018–19
Dutch Supercup (2): 2011, 2012
Landstede Hammers
Dutch Supercup: 2019

Individual awards
DBL Rookie of the Year: 2009–10
DBL Defensive Player of the Year (3): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2018–19

Player profile

Kherrazi is known as a good defender and solid rebounder. He usually plays as power forward but is occasionally used as small forward.


1969 World Outdoor Bowls Championship

The 1969 Women's World Outdoor Bowls Championship  was held at the Elizabethan Bowls Club in Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 4–12 December 1969.

The event was organised by the newly affiliated International Women's Bowling Board in 1969 without the British Isles as members. This resulted in a first International Tournament with just six nations taking part. Gladys Doyle won the singles which was held in a round robin format.
The Pairs, Triples and Fours Gold and Taylor Trophy all went to South Africa.

Medallists

Results

Women's Singles - Round Robin

Women's Pairs - Round Robin

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Women's Triples - Round Robin

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Women's Fours - Round Robin

Taylor Trophy


Gare de Saint-Jean-de-Verges

Saint-Jean-de-Verges is a railway station in Saint-Jean-de-Verges, Occitanie, France. The station is located on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by the SNCF.

Train services
The following services currently call at Saint-Jean-de-Verges:
local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse - Foix - Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg


Sidney Sanabria-Robles

Sidney Sanabria-Robles (born February 6, 1992) is a Puerto Rican female artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She won medals at international competitions and competed at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. In 2011, when active as a collegiate gymnast, she received a medical hardship for her knee injury that happened before a fall practice and will no longer compete.

Career
Sanabria-Robles wom the silver medal on the floor at the 2006 Central American Games in Colombia.  She also competed at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 2007 Pan American Games. In 2008, she won the bronze medal in vault and finished seventh on beam and floor at the 2008 Pan American Championships. She placed fifth on floor and sixth on beam at the 2008 World Cup in Doha, Qatar. With the team she won the 2010 national championships and won the bronze medal at the 2010 Central American Games. She competed at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.  She was further active as a collegiale gymnast. She competed for LSU and was part of the 2011 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll. Due to her knee injury she didn't compete.

Personal
Her parents are Ismael Sanabria Jr. and Dory Jean Robles. She has one younger sister, Ismael. Attended Freedom High School where she maintained a 4.0 GPA. She plans to major in biological sciences.


André Goodman

André Goodman (born August 11, 1978) is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round, third pick of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina. Goodman has also played for the Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, and Denver Broncos.

Early years
Goodman was an all-state wide receiver and defensive back at Eastside High School in Taylors, South Carolina. He was rated the No. 20 prospect by Super Prep during his senior season and was rated the No. 10 receiver in the Atlantic Coast region by Prep Star.

Goodman also excelled in track, setting personal bests of 10.5 seconds in the 100 meters and 22.4 in the 200 meters.

College career
Goodman was a four-year letterman from 1998-2001 at the University of South Carolina, where he started the final two seasons for the Gamecocks. During his collegiate career, Goodman totaled 86 tackles, four interceptions and 20 pass break-ups.

As a junior in 2000, Goodman started the first two games at free safety before moving to left cornerback. He registered 35 tackles (28 solo), returned an interception 71 yards and ranked second on the team with 11 pass deflections. In 2001, Goodman started the first eight games and final three games, including the Outback Bowl, at left cornerback as a senior. In the year, he amassed 43 tackles (36 solo), eight pass deflections and was tied for the team high with three interceptions.

Professional career

Pre-draft
Prior to the 2002 NFL Draft, Goodman ran a 4.36 40-yard dash.

Detroit Lions
Goodman was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round (68th overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft.

As a rookie in 2002, Goodman appeared in 14 regular season games including six starts. He missed the team's first two games with an ankle injury. On the year, he had 48 tackles, an interception, 12 passes defensed, a fumble recovery and six special team tackles. He saw his first regular season against the Green Bay Packers on September 22, finishing with four tackles. He had a pass breakup in the end zone and five solo tackles, including one for a loss, in his first career start against the New Orleans Saints the following week. Against the Packers on November 10, Goodman registered two pass breakups and five tackles (four solo) before being forced out of the game with a thumb injury. The injury would force him to wear a cast on his right hand for the rest of the season. Nevertheless, during season finale against the Minnesota Vikings on December 29, Goodman had a career-high nine tackles and also recorded his first career interception on a pass from quarterback Daunte Culpepper.

Goodman started all three games in which he played in 2003, recording 13 tackles and four passes defensed. He suffered a dislocated shoulder against the Minnesota Vikings on September 21, and was placed on season-ending Injured Reserve four days later.

In 2004, Goodman started four of the 11 games in which he played. In the season, he had 23 tackles, an interception, three passes defensed and a forced fumble. He recorded his lone interception in the season opener against the Chicago Bears on September 12, picking off a Rex Grossman pass. However, he also suffered a thigh injury during the game and missed the following five contests. He started the final four games of the season filling in for injured cornerback Fernando Bryant, and recorded five tackles and a forced fumble against the Bears on December 26.

Goodman played in 15 games with eight starts for the Lions in 2005. He had 47 tackles and a career-high three interceptions, a figure which ranked second on the club, and also came up with a fumble recovery, 12 passes defensed and a five special teams tackles. He had a season-high six tackles on four occasions, all within the first two months of the regular season. His first interception of the year came in a 13-10 win over the Cleveland Browns on October 23, when he picked off a Trent Dilfer pass in the fourth quarter to help preserve the victory. Against the Cincinnati Bengals on December 18, he intercepted a Carson Palmer pass and returned it a career-long 21 yards. He intercepted a Ben Roethlisberger throw in the season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 1, 2006.

Miami Dolphins
After his rookie contract with the Lions expired following the 2005 season, Goodman became an unrestricted free agent. He visited with the Miami Dolphins on March 11 and officially signed with the team on March 13.

Ankle and knee injuries to Dolphins cornerback Travis Daniels allowed Goodman to see significant playing time throughout the season. Goodman started 13 of the 15 games in which he appeared in 2006, accumulating 41 tackles (26 solo), a forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and nine passes defensed. He recovered a Bo Scaife fumble against the Tennessee Titans on September 24 and Justin Gage fumble against the Chicago Bears on November 5. His lone forced fumble came against running back Maurice Jones-Drew and the Jacksonville Jaguars on December 3.

While he did not nab an interception on the year and the Dolphins' secondary struggled as a unit, Goodman was the team's most consistent downfield cover corner in 2006. He suffered a shoulder injury against the New York Jets on December 25, and was placed on season-ending Injured Reserve the following day. It would be the second time during the season a shoulder injury had permanently forced him out of a contest against the rival Jets, with the first such occasion taking place more than two months prior on October 15.

After the 2006 season, Goodman switched jersey numbers with fellow cornerback Travis Daniels. Goodman, who had worn No. 29 during his first season with the Dolphins, switched to No. 21 while Daniels took No. 29.

Goodman's shoulder problems from the previous year plagued him during the 2007 offseason. He underwent arthroscopic debridement on his left shoulder on January 18. After being unable to participate in the team's first May minicamp, Goodman underwent further tests and had more surgery on the shoulder on May 11. On July 23, he was placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list. He finished the season with 20 tackles and two interceptions in 13 games (four starts).

Goodman started all 16 games for the Dolphins in 2008, leading the team and setting a career high with five interceptions. He also recorded 39 tackles and a career-high 19 pass deflections during the season.

Denver Broncos
On March 1, 2009, Goodman signed a five-year, $20.4 million contract with the Denver Broncos.  The deal includes $9.8 million guaranteed and Goodman having the potential to earn an additional $4.8 million if he played 75% of the defensive snaps. In 2009, Goodman had 44 tackles, and 5 interceptions, 1 sack, and a fumble recovery ran back for 30 yards into the end zone. On April 13, 2012, Goodman was released by the Denver Broncos.

Post-football career
Goodman is director of football development at the University of South Carolina.


Love Letter (R. Kelly album)

Love Letter is the tenth studio album by American R&B recording artist R. Kelly; it was released on December 14, 2010, by Jive Records. It was written and produced entirely by Kelly. A departure from his previous work's contemporary sound and sexually explicit themes, Love Letter incorporates classic soul music influences and features chivalrous lyrics concerning love and forgiveness.

The album debuted at number 6 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 154,000 copies in its first week. It produced two singles that attained respectable charting on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Upon its release, Love Letter received positive reviews from most music critics, who complimented its classically minded style and praised Kelly for his singing and songwriting. The album has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and, as of March 2011, has sold 496,600 copies in the United States.

Composition
Love Letter is an homage to the classic soul music of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Kelly was heavily inspired by such soul artists as Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Donny Hathaway, Sam Cooke, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder. Kelly further pays tribute to Jackson, who died in 2009, with his own version of "You Are Not Alone" (a song he had written for Jackson), featured on Love Letter as a hidden bonus track.

Release and promotion
Prior to its physical CD release on December 14, Love Letter was released as a digital download on December 10, 2010 to the iTunes Store, which included the album with the iTunes LP format feature. The album's first single "When a Woman Loves" peaked at number 16 and spent seven weeks on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It charted at number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single "Love Letter" also spent seven weeks and peaked at number 13 on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs. A three-part video documentary was released in promotion of the album, featuring footage of R. Kelly discussing the album and its conception. The third single "Number One Hit" reached number 83 and has spent four weeks on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs.

Critical reception

Love Letter received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 17 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Allmusic writer Andy Kellman called it "easily the least sexually charged album in [Kelly's] discography, ideal for those who admire him as a singer, arranger, and producer but tune out the fantastical come-ons". Los Angeles Times writer August Brown complimented its "slow-simmered, grown-man emoting" and Kelly's "melodicism and vocal powers". Jon Caramanica of The New York Times commended the album's "gentle adult-contemporary R&B" and Kelly for "singing as vigorously as ever, on songs that are some of the most elegant of his career", commenting that its songs are "in essence, secular spirituals, bombastic and warm, meant not to raise an eyebrow". Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot noted its classicist musical sources and viewed it as a departure from Kelly's previous work, stating "for the most part Kelly forgoes the sing-songy minimalism that made him rich in favor of more developed melodies, fully orchestrated arrangements and lyrics that are as much spiritual as sexual".

Pitchfork Media's Jess Harvell called Kelly's singing "a marvel throughout" and stated, "A few outright and faithful homages to the Marvin/Smokey era aside, Kelly smears these period references—tremulous Hi Records guitars, popping SOS Band bass, the percussion of Michael Jackson's disco years—into unexpected combinations". Mikael Wood of The Village Voice called it a "commitment-pimping [...] classically minded r&b album" and commented that "much of which plays like a modest about-face from Untitleds unabashed raunch". Maura Johnston of Spin praised Kelly's "exquisite phrasing and unparalleled ability to belt", commenting that "his decision to ditch the club and retreat to a more conventionally romantic setting allows him to let his voice take center stage". Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe called the album "a back-to-basics collection of beautifully sung and arranged tracks emphasizing romance and devotion", writing that its music "complements Kelly’s vocal flights and impeccable, expressive phrasing". The A.V. Clubs Nathan Rabin described it as "proudly old-fashioned soul [...] warm, reassuringly familiar" and called Kelly "a consummate showman".

In a mixed review, Slant Magazine's Eric Henderson found Kelly's sentiments "generic" and described its music as "vanilla-smooth, grown-folks grooves that hearken not just to stepping in the name of love, but also some of the faux-Motown simulations from that most mechanical of recent musicals, Dreamgirls". New York writer Nitsuh Abebe called its songs "the audio equivalent of buying flowers" and interpreted its theme of forgiveness to be directed at "the alleged capacity of women to forgive men for all failures, so long as a little knee-bending and charm is involved". Rolling Stone observed a "relatively novel concept", but commented that "it's a testament to Kelly's ingenuity as a singer and songwriter that Love Letter doesn't fizzle — even with the fly zipped up on his wildest eccentricities". Hugh Montgomery of The Observer wrote that "It's pastiche, certainly, but Kelly's expressive croon carries the day: equal parts honeyed and rasping, and bristling with a sincerity that reaches its zenith on the spine-tingling, a cappella finale of 'When a Woman Loves'".

Accolades
Jon Caramanica of The New York Times ranked the album number nine on his year-end top albums list for 2010. Love Letter was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, set to be presented at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012. The song "Radio Message" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance. "When a Woman Loves" was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance a year later.

Commercial performance
The album debuted at number 6 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 154,000 copies in the United States. It serves as Kelly's thirteenth US top-10 charting album. It also entered at number 2 on the Billboards R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number 3 on the Digital Albums chart. On March 1, 2011, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States. On March 30, 2011, Love Letter has sold 496,600 copies in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number 39 on the Top 40 R&B Albums chart. It charted at number 26 in the Netherlands.

Track listing
All songs written and produced by R. Kelly.

Personnel
Credits for Love Letter adapted from Allmusic.

 Diana Copeland – executive assistant
 Akua Auset – make-up
 Ann Carli – consultant
 DJ Wayne Williams – A&R
 Rodney East – keyboards
 Meghan Foley – art direction, design
 Andy Gallas – assistant
 Abel Garibaldi – engineer, mixing, programming
 Serban Ghenea – mixing
 John Hanes – mixing
 R. Kelly – arranger, composer, mixing, producer
 Gregg Landfair – guitar

 Susan Linss – set design
 Donnie Lyle – guitar, bass guitar, musical director
 Jeff Meeks – engineer, programming
 Ian Mereness – engineer, mixing, programming
 K. Michelle – vocals
 Jackie Murphy – creative director
 Chiquita Oden – grooming
 Herb Powers Jr. – mastering
 Tim Roberts – mixing assistant
 April Roomet – stylist
 Randee St. Nicholas – photography

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications


Ebosia

Ebosia is a genus of scorpionfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Two species have been described since 2014.

Species
There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:


Football in Sri Lanka

Football in Sri Lanka is mainly played at a semi-professional and recreational level. Despite not being as well-regarded as the country's cricket team, football is the third biggest sport in Sri Lanka (after cricket and rugby union).

Governing Body

The Football Federation of Sri Lanka  is the governing body for football in the country. The association administers the national football team as well as the Sri Lanka Football Premier League.

References


Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (HIIMR) is an organization located at Humboldt State University whose focus is to analyse and research marijuana issues in Humboldt County, California. HIIMR was officially established as a marijuana research institute in 2012, during a time of evolving laws and perceptions of marijuana. HIIMR is intended to be a statewide center of policy and research on marijuana, providing information and expertise for policy makers, health care and medical professionals, business and the media. The institute emphasizes "analysis, not advocacy," stating that they take no stance on legalization or decriminalization of Marijuana.  No classes or training are offered at HIIMR. The institute's mission is to share information, contribute research to public policy debated and to help broaden community and national understanding.

Publications
Publications
 Swartz, R. (2010). Medical marijuana users in substance abuse treatment. Harm Reduction Journal, 7(3)
 Gold Gregg J. and AT Nguyen (2009) Comparing entering freshmen's perceptions of campus marijuana and alcohol use to reported use. Journal of Drug Education. 39(2):133-48.
 Humboldt State University Library Special Collection on Marijuana Research (the library has DVDs available)

Video
 Video titled Ecological Impacts of Industrial Marijuana Operations of grow sites by Prof. Anthony Silvaggio and his students.
 Documentary titled Dispensing Cannabis: The California Story : Voices from Inside by Prof. Ann Alter and B. Shaw and S. Spain.
 For streaming videos from the Speaker Series and symposia, visit the News and Events page and Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Graduate theses
 August, Karen D. (2012) Playing the game: marijuana growing in a rural community.
 Bryant, Samantha M. (2011) Public policy assessment of local government approaches to implementing California's medical marijuana laws.
 Haskell, John Edward (2008) A Bird's Eye View: Medical Marijuana - The Patient's Perspective.
 Owen, Anna C. (2012) Industrial and nutritional hemp In Manitoba: A case study exploring stakeholder strategies and legitimacy.
 Trujillo, Colin William (2011) Marijuana, Mexico and the media.

Journals
 Call for paper submissions to the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations.

Current research
 Eschker, Erick. "Monthly Measure of Marijuana Production"
 Eschker, Erick and Joshua Meisel. "Determinants of College Student Marijuana Production"
 Gold, Gregg J. and S.L. Lee. "How Pre-College Perceptions of Alcohol and Marijuana Use Affect Actual College Use".
 Plume, Jason (2012). Cultivating Reform: Nixon's Illicit Substance Control Legacy, Medical Marijuana Social Movement Organizations and Venue Shopping. PhD dissertation, Syracuse University.
 Plume, Jason. "The Reagan and Bush Drug Years: Path Dependency of the War on Drugs 1981-1993."
 Plume, Jason. "Looking Away toward Reform: Multiple Coalitions of Medical Marijuana Social Movement Organizations in State Policy Making Institutions." Western Political Science Association presentation March 2013.
 Silvaggio, Anthony. "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Marijuana Industrial Complex."
 Silvaggio, Anthony. "Killer buds: Illegal pesticide use and environmental crimes of the marijuana industry in northern California."
 Silvaggio, Anthony. "Environmental Challenges of Marijuana Agriculture in the Age of Prohibition."

Speaker series


Khilek

Khilek is the name of the plant Senna siamea in Thai.

Several places in Thailand are named after this plant:

Khilek, Mae Taeng
Khilek, Mae Rim


Neoregelia 'Frog Prince'

'Frog Prince' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Neoregelia in the Bromeliad family.


Nathalie

Nathalie is a female given name. It is one popular variant of the name Natalie/Natalia, found in many languages but especially common in French-, Italian-, Spanish- and English-speaking countries.

Use
People with the given name Nathalie:
 Nathalie, Italian singer
 Nathalie Boltt, South African actress
 Nathalie Dechy, French former tennis player
 Nathalie Eisenbaum, French mathematician
 Nathalie Emmanuel, British actress
 Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian-Australian actress
 Nathalie Lahdenmäki, Finnish ceramic artist and designer
 Nathalie Loriers, Belgian jazz pianist and composer
 Nathalie Lupino, French judoka
 Nathalie Makoma, Dutch singer, runner-up in the Dutch TV series Idols 4
 Nathalie Paulding, American actress
 Nathalie Roussel, French actress
 Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer
 Nathalie Tauziat, French former tennis player
 Nathalie Vierin, Italian tennis player
 Nathalie Wild (comedian), British comedian, mother of Inessa Armand
 Natalie Zahle, Danish reform pedagogue


Mayrac

Mayrac (Languedocien: Mairac) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.


Khanthuli railway station

Khanthuli railway station is a railway station located in Khanthuli Subdistrict, Tha Chana District, Surat Thani. It is a class 3 railway station located  from Thon Buri railway station.

Services
 Local No. 445/446 Chumphon-Hat Yai Junction-Chumphon


Judah Vega

Judah Vega ( 16th–17th century)  was the first rabbi of the second synagogue of Amsterdam, Neveh Shalom, which was established in 1608. After a short time he resigned his office, and in 1610 went to Constantinople, where he is said to have written a work entitled Jazania (?), which treated of the life of the Jewish people from the time of the second destruction of Jerusalem. Conforte confounds this Judah Vega with another person of the same name (not Bizo), who lived at the same time, and who went from Salonica to Safed, where he conducted a Talmudic school and where he died. Judah Vega was a good preacher and haggadist; his small collection of sermons, entitled Malke Yehudah, appeared at Lublin in 1616.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
Isaac Trani, Responsa, i. 139;
De Barrios, Vida de Ishak Husiel, p. 42;
Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 48a;
De Rossi-Hamberger, Hist. Wörterb. p. 325;
Grätz. Gesch. ix. 523.


Nuclear reaction

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is semantically considered to be the process in which two nuclei, or else a nucleus of an atom and a subatomic particle (such as a proton, neutron, or high energy electron) from outside the atom, collide to produce one or more nuclides that are different from the nuclide(s) that began the process (parent nuclei). Thus, a nuclear reaction must cause a transformation of at least one nuclide to another. If a nucleus interacts with another nucleus or particle and they then separate without changing the nature of any nuclide, the process is simply referred to as a type of nuclear scattering, rather than a nuclear reaction.

In principle, a reaction can involve more than two particles colliding, but because the probability of three or more nuclei to meet at the same time at the same place is much less than for two nuclei, such an event is exceptionally rare (see triple alpha process for an example very close to a three-body nuclear reaction). The term "nuclear reaction" may refer either to a change in a nuclide induced by collision with another particle, or to a spontaneous change of a nuclide without collision.

Natural nuclear reactions occur in the interaction between cosmic rays and matter, and nuclear reactions can be employed artificially to obtain nuclear energy, at an adjustable rate, on demand. Perhaps the most notable nuclear reactions are the nuclear chain reactions in fissionable materials that produce induced nuclear fission, and the various nuclear fusion reactions of light elements that power the energy production of the Sun and stars.

History
In 1919, Ernest Rutherford was able to accomplish transmutation of nitrogen into oxygen at the University of Manchester, using alpha particles directed at nitrogen 14N + α → 17O + p.  This was the first observation of an induced nuclear reaction, that is, a reaction in which particles from one decay are used to transform another atomic nucleus. Eventually, in 1932 at Cambridge University, a fully artificial nuclear reaction and nuclear transmutation was achieved by Rutherford's colleagues John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who used artificially accelerated protons against lithium-7, to split the nucleus into two alpha particles. The feat was popularly known as "splitting the atom", although it was not the modern nuclear fission reaction later discovered in heavy elements, in 1938 by the German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann.

Nomenclature

Nuclear reactions may be shown in a form similar to chemical equations, for which invariant mass must balance for each side of the equation, and in which transformations of particles must follow certain conservation laws, such as conservation of charge and baryon number (total atomic mass number). An example of this notation follows:

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|- style="height:2em;"
| ||+ || ||→ || ||+ ||?.
|}
To balance the equation above for mass, charge and mass number, the second nucleus to the right must have atomic number 2 and mass number 4; it is therefore also helium-4. The complete equation therefore reads:
:{| border="0"
|- style="height:2em;"
| ||+ || ||→ || ||+ ||.
|}
or more simply:
:{| border="0"
|- style="height:2em;"
| ||+ || ||→ ||2 .
|}

Instead of using the full equations in the style above, in many situations a compact notation is used to describe nuclear reactions. This style of the form A(b,c)D is equivalent to A + b producing c + D. Common light particles are often abbreviated in this shorthand, typically p for proton, n for neutron, d for deuteron, α representing an alpha particle or helium-4, β for beta particle or electron, γ for gamma photon, etc. The reaction above would be written as Li-6(d,α)α.

Energy conservation
Kinetic energy may be released during the course of a reaction (exothermic reaction) or kinetic energy may have to be supplied for the reaction to take place (endothermic reaction). This can be calculated by reference to a table of very accurate particle rest masses, as follows: according to the reference tables, the  nucleus has a standard atomic weight of 6.015 atomic mass units (abbreviated u), the deuterium has 2.014 u, and the helium-4 nucleus has 4.0026 u. Thus:
 the sum of the rest mass of the individual nuclei = 6.015 + 2.014 = 8.029 u;
 the total rest mass on the two helium-nuclei = 2 × 4.0026 = 8.0052 u;
 missing rest mass = 8.029 – 8.0052 = 0.0238 atomic mass units.

In a nuclear reaction, the total (relativistic) energy is conserved. The "missing" rest mass must therefore reappear as kinetic energy released in the reaction; its source is the nuclear binding energy. Using Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc², the amount of energy released can be determined. We first need the energy equivalent of one atomic mass unit:
 1 u c² = (1.66054 × 10−27 kg) × (2.99792 × 108 m/s)²
 = 1.49242 × 10−10 kg (m/s)² = 1.49242 × 10−10 J (joule) × (1 MeV / 1.60218 × 10−13 J)
 = 931.49 MeV,
 so 1 u c² = 931.49 MeV.

Hence, the energy released is 0.0238 × 931 MeV = 22.2 MeV.

Expressed differently: the mass is reduced by 0.3%, corresponding to 0.3% of 90 PJ/kg is 270 TJ/kg.

This is a large amount of energy for a nuclear reaction; the amount is so high because the binding energy per nucleon of the helium-4 nucleus is unusually high, because the He-4 nucleus is "doubly magic". (The He-4 nucleus is unusually stable and tightly bound for the same reason that the helium atom is inert: each pair of protons and neutrons in He-4 occupies a filled 1s nuclear orbital in the same way that the pair of electrons in the helium atom occupy a filled 1s electron orbital). Consequently, alpha particles appear frequently on the right hand side of nuclear reactions.

The energy released in a nuclear reaction can appear mainly in one of three ways:
kinetic energy of the product particles (fraction of the kinetic energy of the charged nuclear reaction products can be directly converted into electrostatic energy);
emission of very high energy photons, called gamma rays;
some energy may remain in the nucleus, as a metastable energy level.

When the product nucleus is metastable, this is indicated by placing an asterisk ("*") next to its atomic number. This energy is eventually released through nuclear decay.

A small amount of energy may also emerge in the form of X-rays. Generally, the product nucleus has a different atomic number, and thus the configuration of its electron shells is wrong. As the electrons rearrange themselves and drop to lower energy levels, internal transition X-rays (X-rays with precisely defined emission lines) may be emitted.

Q-value and energy balance
In writing down the reaction equation, in a way analogous to a chemical equation, one may in addition give the reaction energy on the right side:
Target nucleus + projectile → Final nucleus + ejectile + Q.

For the particular case discussed above, the reaction energy has already been calculated as Q = 22.2 MeV. Hence:

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The reaction energy (the "Q-value") is positive for exothermal reactions and negative for endothermal reactions, opposite to the similar expression in chemistry. On the one hand, it is the difference between the sums of kinetic energies on the final side and on the initial side. But on the other hand, it is also the difference between the nuclear rest masses on the initial side and on the final side (in this way, we have calculated the Q-value above).

Reaction rates
If the reaction equation is balanced, that does not mean that the reaction really occurs. The rate at which reactions occur depends on the particle energy, the particle flux and the reaction cross section. An example of a large repository of reaction rates is the REACLIB database, as maintained by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics.

Neutrons vs. ions
In the initial collision which begins the reaction, the particles must approach closely enough so that the short range strong force can affect them. As most common nuclear particles are positively charged, this means they must overcome considerable electrostatic repulsion before the reaction can begin. Even if the target nucleus is part of a neutral atom, the other particle must penetrate well beyond the electron cloud and closely approach the nucleus, which is positively charged. Thus, such particles must be first accelerated to high energy, for example by:
particle accelerators;
nuclear decay (alpha particles are the main type of interest here, since beta and gamma rays are rarely involved in nuclear reactions);
very high temperatures, on the order of millions of degrees, producing thermonuclear reactions;
cosmic rays.

Also, since the force of repulsion is proportional to the product of the two charges, reactions between heavy nuclei are rarer, and require higher initiating energy, than those between a heavy and light nucleus; while reactions between two light nuclei are the most common ones.

Neutrons, on the other hand, have no electric charge to cause repulsion, and are able to initiate a nuclear reaction at very low energies. In fact, at extremely low particle energies (corresponding, say, to thermal equilibrium at room temperature), the neutron's de Broglie wavelength is greatly increased, possibly greatly increasing its capture cross section, at energies close to resonances of the nuclei involved. Thus low-energy neutrons may be even more reactive than high energy neutrons.

Notable types
While the number of possible nuclear reactions is immense, there are several types which are more common, or otherwise notable. Some examples include:
Fusion reactions — two light nuclei join to form a heavier one, with additional particles (usually protons or neutrons) emitted subsequently.
Spallation — a nucleus is hit by a particle with sufficient energy and momentum to knock out several small fragments or smash it into many fragments.
Induced gamma emission belongs to a class in which only photons were involved in creating and destroying states of nuclear excitation.
Alpha decay — Though driven by the same underlying forces as spontaneous fission, α decay is usually considered to be separate from the latter. The often-quoted idea that "nuclear reactions" are confined to induced processes is incorrect. "Radioactive decays" are a subgroup of "nuclear reactions" that are spontaneous rather than induced. For example, so-called "hot alpha particles" with unusually high energies may actually be produced in induced ternary fission, which is an induced nuclear reaction (contrasting with spontaneous fission). Such alphas occur from spontaneous ternary fission as well.
Fission reactions — a very heavy nucleus, after absorbing additional light particles (usually neutrons), splits into two or sometimes three pieces. This is an induced nuclear reaction. Spontaneous fission, which occurs without assistance of a neutron, is usually not considered a nuclear reaction. At most, it is not an induced nuclear reaction.

Direct reactions
An intermediate energy projectile transfers energy or picks up or loses nucleons to the nucleus in a single quick (10−21 second) event. Energy and momentum transfer are relatively small. These are particularly useful in experimental nuclear physics, because the reaction mechanisms are often simple enough to calculate with sufficient accuracy to probe the structure of the target nucleus.

Inelastic scattering

Only energy and momentum are transferred.
(p,p') tests differences between nuclear states.
(α,α') measures nuclear surface shapes and sizes. Since α particles that hit the nucleus react more violently, elastic and shallow inelastic α scattering are sensitive to the shapes and sizes of the targets, like light scattered from a small black object.
(e,e') is useful for probing the interior structure. Since electrons interact less strongly than do protons and neutrons, they reach to the centers of the targets and their wave functions are less distorted by passing through the nucleus.

Transfer reactions
Usually at moderately low energy, one or more nucleons are transferred between the projectile and target. These are useful in studying outer shell structure of nuclei.
(α,n) and (α,p) reactions. Some of the earliest nuclear reactions studied involved an alpha particle produced by alpha decay, knocking a nucleon from a target nucleus.
(d,n) and (d,p) reactions. A deuteron beam impinges on a target; the target nuclei absorb either the neutron or proton from the deuteron. The deuteron is so loosely bound that this is almost the same as proton or neutron capture. A compound nucleus may be formed, leading to additional neutrons being emitted more slowly. (d,n) reactions are used to generate energetic neutrons.
The strangeness exchange reaction (K, π) has been used to study hypernuclei.
The reaction 14N(α,p)17O performed by Rutherford in 1917 (reported 1919), is generally regarded as the first nuclear transmutation experiment.

Reactions with neutrons

Reactions with neutrons are important in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. While the best-known neutron reactions are neutron scattering, neutron capture, and nuclear fission, for some light nuclei (especially odd-odd nuclei) the most probable reaction with a thermal neutron is a transfer reaction:

Some reactions are only possible with fast neutrons:
(n,2n) reactions produce small amounts of protactinium-231 and uranium-232 in the thorium cycle which is otherwise relatively free of highly radioactive actinide products.
9Be + n → 2α + 2n can contribute some additional neutrons in the beryllium neutron reflector of a nuclear weapon.
7Li + n → T + α + n unexpectedly contributed additional yield in the Bravo, Romeo and Yankee shots of Operation Castle, the three highest-yield nuclear tests conducted by the U.S.

Compound nuclear reactions
Either a low-energy projectile is absorbed or a higher energy particle transfers energy to the nucleus, leaving it with too much energy to be fully bound together. On a time scale of about 10−19 seconds, particles, usually neutrons, are "boiled" off. That is, it remains together until enough energy happens to be concentrated in one neutron to escape the mutual attraction. The excited quasi-bound nucleus is called a compound nucleus.
Low energy (e, e' xn), (γ, xn) (the xn indicating one or more neutrons), where the gamma or virtual gamma energy is near the giant dipole resonance. These increase the need for radiation shielding around electron accelerators.


Odderade

Odderade is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.


The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars (season 3)

The second installment of The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars, a recurring special mini-series of MTV's long-running reality game show, The Challenge premieres April 17, 2018. In the multi-week event, ten alumni from The Challenge who made it to the finals on a regular season of The Challenge or the end of a Road Rules season competed against celebrities. For the first time, champs and stars had mixed teams.

Cast
Host: Mike "The Miz" Mizanin, WWE pro wrestler, former The Challenge winner and The Real World: Back to New York cast member

 The contestant is representing the Champs.
 The contestant is representing the Stars.

Draft
The winners of the first challenge were made team captains that would divide the Champs and Stars into two separate teams. Tony and CT were the captains.

In Episode 7, the remaining players were paired into teams of two. The leaders on the scoreboard got to choose their partners.

Game Summary

Challenge games
 Stair Down: Challengers compete in two heats, half Champs and half Stars each heat. They are covered in lube and must make their way to the top of a flight of stairs. The winners of each heat become the team captains for drafting the mixed teams. Once drafted, the total combined time from each individual player determined which newly formed team with the fastest time was the winner.
 Winners: Blue Team - MVP: Tony
 Over the Edge: Similar to shuffleboard, players must sit on top of a giant puck while another teammate pushes them to score points. Touching the ground while on the puck of going over the edge of the board disqualifies that player.
 Winners: Red Team - MVP: Ashley
 Release the Rainbow: Competitors are connected to a piece of ribbon and must untangle themselves from a giant jungle gym. Players may assist other players on their teams as long as they don't lock their ribbon in its final position. The first team to have all their players untangle themselves and connected to their final puzzle wins.
 Winners: Red Team - MVP: CT
 Face Off: Played on a football field in heats, players take turns on offense and defense. On offense, a player must kick a small ball past the 10-yard line while their teammates try to protect them, by blocking defenders with giant blown up balls. Similarly, the players on defense must stop the offensive player from bringing the small ball back into the endzone by knocking them over with the blown up balls.
 Winners: Blue Team - MVP: Louise
 Jumbo Table Hockey: Contestants play a game of field hockey, however the area they can move around is limited to moving their hockey sticks which are connected to the table.
 Winners: Blue Team - MVP: Daniel
 Crossfire: Players must divide their teams: half chosen to shoot dodgeballs using slingshots at giant stacks of boxes they must knock over, the other half hanging over the stack of boxes trying to defend them. When a player's stack of boxes is knocked over, they drop down to the ground and then may help retrieve balls for their teammates. The first team to have all the other team's boxes knocked over wins.
 Winners: Blue Team - MVP: Drake
 Go Deep: Partners must dive into an Olympic swimming pool and take turns moving a ring along a series of pipes. The first team to figure out the puzzle and remove the ring from the pipes and return it outside of the pool wins.
 Winners: Brooke & Shane - MVP: Shane
 Spot On: Similar to Twister, players must hold themselves between two walls with colored pegs. They must move their arms and legs to the corresponding colored peg that is called out. If players stop touching a peg, they are eliminated, and the last player remaining wins for their team, while the bottom 3 teams are on the chopping block.
 Winners: Casper & Louise - MVP: Casper
 Text Tile: Similar in style to the "Die Hard" Gulag from Cutthroat, teams must move a large crate across a beach, where one player lifts and moves the crate, while the other balances on top of the crate. Once at a certain mark, players must then open up their crate to find letters for a puzzle. The first players to solve the "Millennial Crossword Puzzle" wins and earn a spot in the final challenge.
 Winners: CT & Tony - MVP: Tony
 Bankroll: In the final challenge, the teams participate in four stations. After each station is complete, teams must collect a coin and deposit it to their "Miz Bank" before moving on to the next station.
 Puck It: Teams must use shuffle sticks to push a tire off an elevated ramp while standing on a balance beam. If a player falls off the balance beam, the team must start over.
 Blockhead: Teams must use a hoverboard to collect block puzzle pieces. Once all the pieces are collected, teams must then assemble a block wall puzzle with the faces of all the cast members.
 Eat and Run: Teams must use star poles to move five balls into a bucket. After each ball is deposited, they may then select a food item. Once all balls are deposited in the bucket, the teams may then eat their selected food items.
 Beat Box: Teams must unwrap, untie, and unchain several layers around a giant box to complete a slider puzzle inside.
Winners: CT & Tony (won $100,000)
Second Place: Casper & Louise (won $50,000)
Third Place: Daniel & Wes

Arena Games
Screw Off: Contestants must use a baseball bat to hit a flat piece of metal connected to a giant screw. The first contestant to successfully completely unscrew their piece wins.
Played by: Arian vs. Casper
Rock & Roll: Contestants start in the middle of a platform. Contestants must wrestle a large box with handles to their sides of the platform twice to defeat their opponent.
Played by: Brooke vs. Kam
Throwing Shade: Similar to cornhole, contestants must smash boxes and use the objects found inside to throw at picture targets of their opponent's face. The first contestant to hit all of the targets wins.
Played by: Shane vs. Tony
Popping Tags: Contestants are covered in large clothing tags and must wrestle their opponent to pull of three of their tags while defending their own tags.
Played by: Devin vs. Wes
Free Your Mind: This puzzle elimination has contestants placed within a cylinder bodysuit with pipes jutting out of it, and then placed within a cage with which the pipes they are connected to intersect. Contestants must figure out how to maneuver their bodies in order to escape from the cage. The first one to do so wins.
Played by: Ashley vs. Kailah
Flip Cup: Similar to the drinking game, players must flip over 3 cups face down before their partner must do the same. They then must flip over a giant flip cup with their partner inside, before switching with their partner and flipping the giant cup back to the start position.
Played by: Casper & Louise vs. Jozea & Selita
Icy Hot: Contestants must work with their partners and jump to touch buttons one thousand times total. They then must use an ice pick to break open a block of ice, untangle frozen jerseys inside, put on the jerseys, and then jump and touch the buttons another thousand times.
Played by: Casper & Louise vs. Drake & Kailah

Elimination chart

Episode progress

Competition
 The contestant won the final challenge.
 The contestant did not win the final challenge.
 The contestant won the challenge, was named "MVP" for their team, and was immune from the Arena.
 The contestant won the challenge with their team, but was not "MVP", and was immune from the Arena.
 The contestant won in the Arena.
 The contestant had immunity for the week.
 The contestant lost the challenge and was eligible for elimination by the MVP of that challenge, but was not chosen to be eliminated.
 The contestant lost in the Arena, but their team voted to save them.
 The contestant lost in the Arena and was eliminated.
 The contestant lost the challenge and was eliminated by the MVP of that challenge.
 The contestant was removed from the competition due to illness or injury.
 The contestant withdrew from the competition.

Bank progress

Competition
 The contestant won the final challenge.
 The contestant did not win the final challenge.
 The contestant won the challenge, was named "MVP" for their team, and was immune from the Arena.
 The contestant won the challenge with their team, but was not "MVP", and was immune from the Arena.
 The contestant won in the Arena.
 The contestant had immunity for the week.
 The contestant didn't win the challenge and was eligible for elimination by the MVP of that challenge, but was not chosen to be eliminated.
 The contestant lost in the Arena, but their team voted to save them.
 The contestant lost in the Arena and was eliminated.
 The contestant didn't win the challenge and was eliminated by the MVP of that challenge.
 The contestant was removed from the competition due to illness or injury.
 The contestant withdrew from the competition.

Power Play

Notes

Episodes

After filming
The reunion special aired on June 26, 2018, and was hosted by WWE pro wrestler, The Real World: Back to New York alum, and former Challenge champion Mike "The Miz" Mizanin. Most of the cast members attended at the MTV Studios in New York. Missing from the reunion were Hennessy Carolina and Arian Foster. Drake Bell made his appearance via video chat.


Tan Tolga Demirci

Tan Tolga Demirci (born 31 December 1974, in İstanbul) is a director, writer. He graduated from Cinematography at Dokuz Eylül University in 1996. In the meantime, he has written an extended essay named The Psychoanalysis of Horror Genre. This thesis has become a book in 2006.

Filmography

Notes

External links


Aircheck

In the radio industry, an aircheck is generally a demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer or programmer to a prospective employer, but mainly intended for legal archiving purposes. A scoped (short for "telescoped" - by analogy with pressing the ends of a hand-held telescope to reduce its size) aircheck usually contains only segments where the announcer is actually talking, along with a bit of the music or commercial on either side. In an unscoped aircheck, all programming is left intact and unedited, including music, commercials, newscasts, jingles and other on-air events.

Another category of airchecks are those recorded "off-the-air" by listeners, using consumer or semi-professional equipment. These airchecks became more common with the advent of commercial cassette recorders.

One of the oldest known surviving airchecks consists of a 15-minute broadcast by Bing Crosby on Los Angeles station KHJ and the CBS network from September 2, 1931. It was recorded by the RCA Victor company of Hollywood and is fully documented in the Victor files at the National Archives. The recordings were made by RCA Victor at the request of rival network NBC, which apparently wanted to monitor the then-rising young singer. The sound of the recording suggests that it was made by placing an open microphone before a high-quality radio (a method known in the radio trade as a "mic-feed"). This recording is available online at Reelradio .
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Methods
Airchecks can be recorded directly off the air (from a tuner or modulation monitor), from the pre-air feed that goes into the transmitter (which has usually been modified by the station's processing), or directly from before the station's processing has been applied.

Some radio stations used "logger reels" for airchecks. On these large reels of tape would be recorded the air signal at super-slow speeds. These reels were kept by the station for regulatory purposes (e.g. to provide an audio record that commercials ran as logged or to confirm aired content after allegations of inappropriate content). After a time, normally around 30 days for most stations, these logger reels would be reused or discarded.

Many airchecks are made by the announcers themselves on a recorder that begins recording when the microphone is turned on and then goes into pause when the microphone goes off. In the 1960s and 1970s reels of tape were used for these "skimmer" airchecks. Later it was cassettes. Today most stations use computer digital recordings (usually MP3 or WAV) for aircheck creation.

Airchecks made by listeners, generally with consumer-grade equipment, are often lost to poor quality copies made with tape playback machines that are not aligned to the recording machine. Many airchecks were made to record DXing reception, which often included fading, static and interference.

Uses
DJs use airchecks to critique themselves, sometimes with the Program Director listening along with them to provide suggestions for improvements. Announcers keep some of their airchecks as "audio snapshots" of their career.

Airchecks are also recorded at radio stations to send to clients to show how their live commercials, remote breaks or contests sounded.

Some airchecks of older radio programs are highly prized by collectors, due to their nostalgia value. For example, baby boomers often enjoy listening to airchecks recorded from Top 40 radio stations in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly if they are airchecks of the same stations that the person listened to when they were a teenager or young adult. Many such airchecks were made in the 1960s by DJs who then sent them to troops in Vietnam, and a surprising number have survived. Another class of aircheck has to do with transitions between programming formats on a given station, where recordings are made of the final hours of an old format or early beginnings of a new format.

A surprising number of airchecks have survived from listeners during the Top 40 era, many of whom recorded talented DJs to learn how to be DJs, and many who recorded Top 40 music because it was cheaper than buying the 45s.

For television
Airchecks are also used in the television industry, mostly for billing purposes. An aircheck is the only accurate record of what aired on a TV station. Stations generally retain airchecks for one year.

Generally, airchecks are recorded by the master control department of most TV stations, and for decades were recorded on VHS tapes, although today recordings are often made digitally. The standard is three 8-hour tapes per day, one per shift. On this tape is the video of the off-air receiver at the station recording what was actually broadcast; usually there is a time-of-day graphic superimposed over the video to keep track of what aired and when it aired.

Most local TV programs (and network TV broadcasts on local affiliated stations) were not recorded until the early 1970s, when video tape became available to consumers. With the advent of video sharing websites such as YouTube, video airchecks have been posted, and made viewable by the public, of TV programs (including news programs, sporting events, short-lived sitcoms and game shows) not seen since their original broadcast, or otherwise previously considered rare or even lost.


Diving at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's synchronized 10 metre platform

The women's synchronized 10 metre platform diving competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou was held on 23 November at the Aoti Aquatics Centre.

Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results


Marie Dähnhardt

Marie Dähnhardt (1818–1902), the daughter of an apothecary, was a German suffragette avant la lettre, for some time associated with the Berlin debating club Die Freien.

Biography
Dähnhardt was born in Gadebusch, now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

She was married to the philosopher Max Stirner from 1843 to 1846. After divorcing she moved to London, and in 1852 to Australia. After returning to England she joined a Catholic commune, where she was found by Stirner's biographer John Henry Mackay, but refused to talk about her ex-husband and claimed, "Stirner was a very sly man whom she had neither respected nor loved, and claiming that their relationship together had been more of a cohabitation than a marriage". She died in 1902 in London.


Yours If You Want It

"Yours If You Want It" is a song recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released in January 2017 as the first single from their tenth studio album, Back to Us (2017). The song was written by Andrew Dorff and Jonathan Singleton.

History
Rascal Flatts bassist Jay DeMarcus noted that the song was co-written by Andrew Dorff, who died at age 40 shortly before the song was released. He told Rolling Stone that "We've been working really hard and we're very proud of this track and what's more, the late Andrew Dorff is a writer on it, and we are so honored to be a small part of making sure his legacy lives on. We have a special angel watching over it, for sure."

Music video
The music video was directed by Billy Zabka, starring Kevin Farley and Kristy Swanson, and premiered on CMT, GAC and Vevo in April 2017. Zabka previously directed Rascal Flatts' music video for "Why Wait".

Critical reception
Billy Dukes of Taste of Country reviewed the song with favor, saying that "The production of 'Yours If You Want It' is as important as LeVox’s sterling vocals. Every instrument and backing vocal is razor sharp, yet there's no phony shine that often accompanies a heavily produced track. Visit Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney's simple and well-balanced backing vocals for an example." Matt Bjorke of Roughstock was also favorable, comparing the sound favorably to the band's earlier songs such as "Prayin' for Daylight" while noting the "modern and fresh" production.

Commercial performance
The song has sold 88,000 copies in the United States as of June 2017.

Charts
For the week ending August 5, 2017, the song became the group's fourteenth number one single. This is the first time since "Here" and "Here Comes Goodbye" in 2009 the group has achieved consecutive number one hits.

Year-end charts