title: Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu

text: "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" earned 9.81 crore on its first day at the AP-Nizam box office—according to trade analyst Trinath, probably the best-ever opening for a star-studded Telugu film. Taran Adarsh called the film's opening "mindblowing" as it earned US$205,347 (1.13 crore) at 62 locations on its Thursday previews in the United States. It earned $338,228 on Friday, bringing its two-day total to $552,041—the most successful opening for a Telugu film in the U.S. "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" netted 25.01 crore in four days at the global box office, the most successful opening in Babu and Venkatesh's careers. The film grossed $1,262,100 (6.87 crore) from reported screens in its first four-day weekend in the United States, affecting other films (such as "Naayak" and "Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola") and surpassing the US lifetime earnings of "Gabbar Singh" (2012). The film's earnings declined 25 percent on its fifth day, and its five-day total nett was 28.66 crore. Earning about 35 crore in its first week, "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" broke box-office records in several parts of the world. The film's earnings declined 50 percent over its second weekend, with a ten-day global box-office nett of 45 crore. In its second U.S. weekend the film earned $203,160 (1.09 crore), bringing its ten-day U.S. total to $1,548,709 (8.31 crore) and setting a record for a Telugu film in that country.


title: Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu

text: By the end of its second week, "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" netted 51 crore at the global box office. In the film's third weekend it was affected by "Vishwaroopam", earning about 0.193 crore from 20 screens in the United States. It completed its 50-day run on 3 March in 25 theatres. "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" netted 38.75 crore at the AP/Nizam box office during its run, earning a distributor share of 51 crore at the global box office and declared a commercial success. It was the second-highest-grossing Telugu film of the year, after "Attarintiki Daredi."


title: Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu

text: "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" was one of twenty Telugu film entries for the 61st National Film Awards. The film received seven nominations at the 61st Filmfare Awards South, including Best Telugu film, Best Director — Telugu and Best Actor — Telugu. It won two awards: Best Actor — Telugu (Babu) and Best Female Playback Singer — Telugu (K. S. Chithra for ""Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu"").


title: Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu

text: The film received eleven nominations at the 3rd South Indian International Movie Awards, where Venkatesh and Babu were nominated for Best Actor — Telugu and Anjali and Jayasudha were nominated for Best Supporting Actor Female — Telugu. It won three awards, again for Best Actor — Telugu (Babu) and Best Female Playback Singer — Telugu (Chithra for ""Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu"") besides Anantha Sreeram, who earned the award for Best Lyricist — Telugu for the same song. Babu also received the "Best Actor for the Year 2013" award at the 2015 TSR – TV9 National Film Awards.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRD; ; ) is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. It is one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered a megacity. It is now the wealthiest region in South China and one of the wealthiest in the whole of China along with the Yangtze River Delta in East China and Jingjinji in North China. The region's economy is referred to as Pearl River Delta Economic Zone. It is also part of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The PRD is a megalopolis, with future development into a single mega metropolitan area, yet itself is at the southern end of a larger megalopolis running along the southern coast of China, which include metropolises such as Chaoshan, Zhangzhou-Xiamen, Quanzhou-Putian and Fuzhou. The nine largest cities of the PRD had a combined population of 57.15 million at the end of 2013, comprising 53.69% of the provincial population. According to the World Bank Group, the PRD has become the largest urban area in the world in both size and population. The region's traditional language is Cantonese; in the late 20th century and the 21st century, due to the high inflow of migrant workers coming from other regions, Mandarin has gradually became a lingua franca.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The west side of this region, along with Chaoshan, was also the source of much Chinese emigration from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries, including to the Western world, where they formed many Chinatowns. Today, much of the Chinese diaspora in the US, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and much of Southeast Asia traces their ancestry to the west side of this region.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The river delta, also known as the Golden Delta of Guangdong, is formed by three major rivers, the Xi Jiang (West River), Bei Jiang (North River), and Dong Jiang (East River). The flat lands of the delta are criss-crossed by a network of tributaries and distributaries of the Pearl River. The Pearl River Delta is actually two alluvial deltas, separated by the core branch of the Pearl River. The Bei Jiang and Xi Jiang converge to flow into the South China Sea and Pearl River in the west, while the Dong Jiang only flows into the Pearl River proper in the east.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Xi Jiang begins exhibiting delta-like characteristics as far west as Zhaoqing, although this city is not usually considered a part of the PRD region. After passing through the Lingyang Gorge and converging with the Bei Jiang, the Xi Jiang opens up and flows as far east as Nansha District and as far west as Xinhui. Major distributaries of the Xi include Donghui Shuidao, Jiya Shuidao, Hutiaomen Shuidao, Yinzhou Hu, and the main branch of the Xi Jiang. Jiangmen and Zhongshan are the major cities found in the western section of the delta.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Bei Jiang enters the delta plains at Qingyuan but doesn't begin to split until near Sanshui. From here the two main distributaries are Tanzhou Shuidao and Shunde Shuidao which form multiple mouths along the west side of the Pearl River's estuary. Two other distributaries, Lubao Yong and Xinan Yong, split from the Bei further north and converge with the Liuxi He to form the main branch of the Pearl River just north of Guangzhou. The other major city in the north section of the delta is Foshan.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Dong Jiang flows through Huizhou into the delta. It begins diverging northeast of Dongguan into many distributaries, including the Dongguan Shuidao. Distributuares enter the Pearl River as far north as Luogang and as far south as Hu Men (Tiger Gate).


title: Pearl River Delta

text: As well as the delta itself, the term Pearl River Delta refers to the dense network of cities that covers nine prefectures of the province of Guangdong, namely Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Zhaoqing, Zhongshan and Zhuhai and the SARs of Hong Kong and Macau. The 2010/2011 State of the World Cities report, published by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, estimates the population of the delta region at 120 million people; it is rapidly urbanising.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The eastern side of the PRD (Shenzhen, Dongguan), dominated by foreign capital, is the most developed economically. The western areas (Foshan, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Jiangmen), dominated by local private capital, are open for development. New transport links between Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai in the PRD are expected to open up new areas for development, further integrate the cities, and facilitate trade within the region. The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, and the proposed Shenzhen–Zhongshan Bridge, currently in the planning phase, will be amongst the longest bridges in the world with a total length of approximately each.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: Until 1985, the PRD had been mainly dominated by farms and small rural villages, but after the economy was reformed and opened, a flood of investment turned it into the land's economic powerhouse. The PRD's startling growth was fueled by foreign investment coming largely from Hong Kong manufacturers that moved their operations into the PRD. In 2003, Hong Kong companies employed 11 million workers in their PRD operations. Lately there have been extreme labour shortages in the region due to runaway economic growth which caused wages to rise by about 20 to 30 percent in the past two years.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Pearl River Delta has been one of the most economically dynamic regions of the People's Republic of China since the launch of China's reform programme in 1979. With annual gross domestic product growth of 13.45 percent over three decades since 1978, it is 3.5 percentage points higher than the national average. Since 1978, almost 30% of all foreign investment in China was in the PRD. In 2007 its GDP rose to US$448 billion which makes its economy about the size of Taiwan's and by 2019 this figure has increased to US$2.0 trillion or about the same size as Canada. The abundance of employment opportunities created a pool of wealthy, middle-income, professional consumers with an annual per capita income that puts them among China's wealthiest. Since the onset of China's reform program, the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone has been the fastest growing portion of the fastest growing province in the fastest growing large economy in the world.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The industrial cities in the Pearl River Delta has been called the "Factory of the World" or the "World's Factory" due to the presence of industrial parks populated with factories from foreign investments. The target market of the delta region's exports, however, has become increasingly domestic rather than foreign. Dongguan, Zhongshan, Nanhai, and Shunde (the later two are now districts of Foshan) the four cities known as the Four Guangdong Dragons for its high growth rates and rapid development from late the 1980s to the 2000s.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: Although the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone encompasses only 0.4 percent of the land area and only 3.2 percent of the 2000 Census population of mainland China, it accounted for 8.7 percent of GDP, 35.8 percent of total trade, and 29.2 percent of utilised foreign capital in 2001. By 2016, the Pearl River Delta accounted for 9.1% of China's GDP. These figures show the remarkable level of economic development to which the Pearl River Delta has been subjected in order to become an 'Economic Zone', as well as the international orientation of the region's economy. This orientation has attracted numerous investors from all over the world who use the Greater Pearl River Delta region as a platform for serving global and Chinese markets.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: As of 2008, the Central Government has introduced new labor laws, environmental and other regulations to reduce pollution, industrial disputes, produce safer working conditions and protect the environment. The costs of producing low margin and commodity goods have increased. This is on top of the rising cost for energy, food, transport and the appreciation of the Renminbi against the falling US Dollar. Some manufacturers will need to cut costs by moving up the value chain or moving to more undeveloped regions.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Pearl River Delta has become the world's workshop and is a major manufacturing base for products such as electronic products (such as watches and clocks), toys, garments and textiles, plastic products, and a range of other goods. Much of this output is invested by foreign entities and is geared for the export market. The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone accounts for approximately one third of China's trade value.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: Private-owned enterprises have developed quickly in the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and are playing an ever-growing role in the region's economy, particularly after year 2000 when the development environment for private-owned enterprises has been greatly relaxed.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: Nearly five percent of the world's goods were produced in the Greater Pearl River Delta in 2001, with a total export value of US$289 billion. Over 70,000 Hong Kong companies have factory plants there.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: PRD is served by six different metro systems throughout the metropolitan area consisting of Guangzhou Metro, Shenzhen Metro, MTR, FMetro, Macau Light Rail Transit and Dongguan Rail Transit. In addition, the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region intercity railway provides regional transit between cities of the PRD.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: All cities are served by buses and taxis, while some cities may still offer motorcycle service. The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge provides a road connection across the Pearl River between Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai, and is regularly traversed by buses and other public transit.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: PRD is covered by seven civilian airports, with five in Mainland China and two in special administrative regions. Two of the Mainland Airports have international flights.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: Another new airport in the Mainland — Pearl River Delta International Airport — located in Gaoming District, Foshan — is under construction.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: A 2011 article in British newspaper "The Telegraph" reported on a "Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One" project. The stated goal was to "mesh the transport, energy, water and telecommunications networks of the nine cities together."


title: Pearl River Delta

text: (Hong Kong and Macau were not included.) However, the Chinese government denied that such a project existed.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: The Pearl River Delta is notoriously polluted, with sewage and industrial waste treatment facilities failing to keep pace with the growth in population and industry in the area. A large portion of the pollution is brought about by factories run by Hong Kong manufacturers in the area. Much of the area is frequently covered with a brown smog. This has a strong effect on the pollution levels in the delta.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: On March 22, 2007 the World Bank approved a $96 million loan to the PRC government to reduce water pollution in the Pearl River Delta. On December 23, 2008 it was announced that ¥48.6 billion (about $7.1 billion) will be spent on the river by mid-2010 to clean up the river's sewage problems quoted by Zhang Hu, the director of Guangzhou municipal bureau of water affairs. The city will build about 30 water treatment plants, which will treat 2.25 million tonnes of water per day. The program hopes to cut down the amount of sewage in the area by 85%, and was also of fundamental importance for the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou from November 12, 2010 to November 27, 2010.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: In October 2009, Greenpeace East Asia released a report, "Poisoning the Pearl River" that detailed the results of a study it conducted in which 25 samples were collected from five manufacturing facilities in the Greater Pearl River Delta. The study concluded that all the facilities sampled were discharging waste-water containing chemicals with proven or suspected hazardous properties including beryllium, copper, manganese, and heavy metals, as well as high levels of organic chemicals. These substances are associated with a long list of health problems such as cancer, endocrine disruption, renal failure and damage to the nervous system as well being known to harm the environment. Three of the five facilities sampled (Qingyuan Top Dragon Co. Ltd, Wing Fung P.C. Board Co. Ltd. and Techwise Qingyuan Circuit Co. Ltd. ) contained concentrations of chemicals which exceeded the limits set by Guangdong provincial effluent standards. These companies were then subjected to a Clean Production Audit according to Article 28 of China's Cleaner Production Promotion Law. Guangdong Environmental Protection Bureau took a stance against the companies by blacklisting them.


title: Pearl River Delta

text: Pearl River Delta is a strong source of greenhouse gases as well. Although it is hard to estimate overall greenhouse gas emissions from such a large megacity, scientists have shown that Pearl River Delta exhibits one of the strongest anomalies in carbon dioxide concentration around the world. This enhancement is easily discernible from satellite observations.


title: Getir

text: Getir (; "bring" in Turkish) is a Turkish start-up founded in 2015. Through its mobile app, it offers an on-demand delivery services for grocery items and a courier service for restaurant food deliveries. In March 2022, Getir announced that it had raised $768 million in its Series E, valuing the company at nearly $12 billion.


title: Getir

text: The company was founded in 2015 by a team including Nazım Salur, who also founded Turkish ride-hailing app BiTaksi. Getir has expanded rapidly since then, having doubled its orders in the second half of 2019 to reach almost 1.5 million in December of that year. It generated $120 million from sales in 2019.


title: Getir

text: In July 2021, Getir bought Spanish online grocery startup BLOK, adding several major cities in Southern Europe to its delivery spots. On 23 November 2021, Getir bought U.K.-based hyper fast grocery delivery startup Weezy.


title: Getir

text: In March 2022, the company closed a Series E funding round, raising $768 million, with Mubadala Investment Company leading the round. Getir's valuation subsequently rose to $12 billion.


title: Getir

text: In November 2022, Getir announced a partnership with the Dutch online food ordering company Just Eat Takeaway, that will integrate Getir's portfolio with apps under Just Eat Takeaway.


title: Getir

text: All five of the company's services ("ultrafast" delivery, takeaway food delivery, online grocery shopping, online water ordering, ordering from local businesses, ordering a taxi (via BiTaksi), finding local employment) are offered through a single Getir app.


title: Getir

text: Getir Hackathon or also known as Getir-BiTaksi Hackathon was a yearly hackathon that started in 2016 was hosted until 2018. The main point of the event was to develop an iOS/Android app in 48 hours. The main prize for the event was 5000 TL.


title: Getir

text: As of November 2021, Getir services are offered in all 81 Turkish provincial capital cities, 15 UK cities, 15 Dutch cities, 7 German cities, 9 French cities, 6 Spanish cities, 3 US cities, 1 Portuguese city, and 3 Italian cities:


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940) is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. He was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Leonard Susskind was born to a Jewish family from the South Bronx in New York City. He began working as a plumber at the age of 16, taking over from his father who had become ill. Later, he enrolled in the City College of New York as an engineering student, graduating with a B.S. in physics in 1962. In an interview in the "Los Angeles Times", Susskind recalls a discussion with his father that changed his career path: "When I told my father I wanted to be a physicist, he said, 'Hell no, you ain't going to work in a drug store.' I said, 'No, not a pharmacist.' I said, 'Like Einstein.' He poked me in the chest with a piece of plumbing pipe. 'You ain't going to be no engineer,' he said. 'You're going to be Einstein.'" Susskind then studied at Cornell University under Peter A. Carruthers, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1965.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind was an assistant professor of physics, then an associate professor at Yeshiva University (1966–1970), after which he went for a year to the Tel Aviv University (1971–72), returning to Yeshiva to become a professor of physics (1970–1979). Since 1979 he has been professor of physics at Stanford University, and since 2000 has held the Felix Bloch professorship of physics.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize for his "pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking." Susskind's hallmark, according to colleagues, has been the application of "brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical world."


title: Leonard Susskind

text: In 2007, Susskind joined the faculty of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, as an associate member. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a distinguished professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind was one of at least three physicists, alongside Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, who independently discovered during or around 1970 that the Veneziano dual resonance model of strong interactions could be described by a quantum mechanical model of oscillating strings, and was the first to propose the idea of the string theory landscape. Susskind has also made important contributions in the following areas of physics:


title: Leonard Susskind

text: "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design" is Susskind's first popular science book, published by Little, Brown and Company on December 12, 2005. It is Susskind's attempt to bring his idea of the anthropic landscape of string theory to the general public. In the book, Susskind describes how the string theory landscape was an almost inevitable consequence of several factors, one of which was Steven Weinberg's prediction of the cosmological constant in 1987. The question addressed here is why our universe is fine-tuned for our existence. Susskind explains that Weinberg calculated that if the cosmological constant was just a little different, our universe would cease to exist.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: "The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics" is Susskind's second popular science book, published by Little, Brown, and Company on July 7, 2008. The book is his most famous work and explains what he thinks would happen to the information and matter stored in a black hole when it evaporates. The book sparked from a debate that started in 1981, when there was a meeting of physicists to try to decode some of the mysteries about how particles of particular elemental compounds function. During this discussion Stephen Hawking stated that the information inside a black hole is lost forever as the black hole evaporates. It took 28 years for Leonard Susskind to formulate his theory that would prove Hawking wrong. He then published his theory in his book, "The Black Hole War". Like "The Cosmic Landscape", "The Black Hole War" is aimed at the lay reader. He writes: "The real tools for understanding the quantum universe are abstract mathematics: infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, projection operators, unitary matrices and a lot of other advanced principles that take a few years to learn. But let's see how we do in just a few pages".


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind co-authored a series of companion books to his lecture series "The Theoretical Minimum". The first of these, "The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics", was published in 2013 and presents the modern formulations of classical mechanics. The second of these, "Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum", was published in February 2014. The third book, "Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum" (September 26, 2017), introduces readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind teaches a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses about modern physics referred to as "The Theoretical Minimum". The title of the series is a clear reference to Landau's famous comprehensive exam called the "Theoretical Minimum" which students were expected to pass before admission to his school. "The Theoretical Minimum" lectures later formed the basis for the books of the same name. The goal of the courses is to teach the basic but rigorous theoretical foundations required to study certain areas of physics. The sequence covers classical mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology, including the physics of black holes.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: These courses are available on "The Theoretical Minimum" website, on iTunes, and on YouTube. The courses are intended for the mathematically literate public as well as physical science/mathematics students. Susskind aims the courses at people with prior exposure to algebra, and calculus. Homework and study outside of class is otherwise unnecessary. Susskind explains most of the mathematics used, which form the basis of the lectures.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: Susskind gave 3 lectures "The Birth of the Universe and the Origin of Laws of Physics" April 28-May 1, 2014 in the Cornell Messenger Lecture series which are posted on a Cornell website.


title: Leonard Susskind

text: The Smolin–Susskind debate refers to the series of intense postings in 2004 between Lee Smolin and Susskind, concerning Smolin's argument that the "anthropic principle cannot yield any falsifiable predictions, and therefore cannot be a part of science." It began on July 26, 2004, with Smolin's publication of "Scientific alternatives to the anthropic principle." Smolin e-mailed Susskind asking for a comment. Having not had the chance to read the paper, Susskind requested a summarization of his arguments. Smolin obliged, and on July 28, 2004, Susskind responded, saying that the logic Smolin followed "can lead to ridiculous conclusions." The next day, Smolin responded, saying that "If a large body of our colleagues feels comfortable believing a theory that cannot be proved wrong, then the progress of science could get stuck, leading to a situation in which false, but unfalsifiable theories dominate the attention of our field." This was followed by another paper by Susskind which made a few comments about Smolin's theory of "cosmic natural selection." The Smolin–Susskind debate finally ended with each of them agreeing to write a final letter which would be posted on the edge.org website, with three conditions attached: (1) No more than one letter each; (2) Neither sees the other's letter in advance; (3) No changes after the fact.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: Odsonne Édouard (born 16 January 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Crystal Palace.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: Having progressed through the youth ranks of AF Bobigny, Édouard signed with Paris Saint-Germain in July 2011 before being loaned to fellow Ligue 1 side Toulouse for the 2016–17 season. The following season, he was loaned to Celtic, where he won the domestic treble, before joining them on a permanent move for a club record fee.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: He has also represented France at various youth levels and was a key player for the country at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, where he won both the Golden Player and Golden Boot awards.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: Édouard was born in Kourou, French Guiana. He joined the Paris Saint-Germain Academy in 2011 from amateur side AF Bobigny. His first noticeable achievement was during the 2013–14 season when he was the club's top goalscorer at U17 level; scoring 25 goals in 22 appearances in the U17 National Championship. He scored 22 goals in 14 league appearances for the U17s the following season and was part of the squad which won the Al Kass Cup, ending the competition with a return of three goals in five appearances. He also represented the club's U19, playing two UEFA Youth League matches, a Coupe Gambardella match and seven U19 Championship matches during which he scored seven goals. In two years, he scored more than 60 goals for the club at youth level, earning him the nicknames of "The Rocket" and "Magic Odsonne".


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: During the 2015–16 season, Édouard played with both the U19 team and the CFA team. In January 2016, he won the 2015 Titi d'Or, an award voted for by the club's supporters for the best academy player for a particular season. The award was notably won by players such as Kingsley Coman and Jean-Kévin Augustin in previous years. PSG also made it to the Youth League final but were ultimately beaten 2–1 by Chelsea. Édouard scored three goals and registered three assists during the competition.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: On 27 April 2016, he signed a professional contract with Paris Saint-Germain's senior side. During the 2016–17 pre-season, Édouard was included in PSG's squad for the 2016 International Champions Cup. Having previously featured as a substitute, he came on in the 79th minute against Leicester and scored in his non-competitive debut, making it 4–0 in the closing minutes of the club's last International Champions Cup game. As a result of the victory, PSG were crowned International Champions Cup champions.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: On 8 August 2016, Édouard joined Toulouse on a season-long loan. He made his debut for the club on 14 August 2016 against Marseille, replacing Issiaga Sylla after 74 minutes in a 0–0 away draw. Édouard scored his first professional goal on 19 November against Metz, scoring a consolation goal late in added time in a 2–1 home loss.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: On 30 March 2017, Édouard was suspected of having shot at a passer-by with an airsoft gun on 11 February, injuring him in the head. As a result of the incident, he was interrogated by police and his loan was prematurely terminated by Toulouse. At the time of his loan being cancelled, Édouard had made 17 appearances and scored one goal for the club. It was later revealed that his teammate, Mathieu Cafaro, had confessed to being the one who had fired the gun. Cafaro later recanted, however, and on 13 June the Toulouse Prosecutor asked that Édouard be charged with a four months suspended prison sentence and a €6,000 fine for his involvement in the incident. Édouard alleged that Cafaro fired the shot while Cafaro claimed not to have been in the car at the time of the shooting. On 4 July, Édouard was sentenced to a suspended four months' prison sentence by the Correctional Court of Toulouse. He was also ordered to pay a fine of €6,000 as well as damages of €2,600 to the victim for the wounds suffered to his ear.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: Édouard signed for Scottish Premiership club Celtic on 31 August 2017 on a season-long loan. He scored on his debut away to Hamilton Academical on 8 September, helping Celtic to a 4–1 victory. Later that year, on 2 December, he scored his first career hat-trick in a 5–1 win over Motherwell at Celtic Park. He made his UEFA Champions League debut three days later, coming on as a substitute for compatriot Moussa Dembélé in a group stage defeat to Anderlecht.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: On 11 March 2018, he scored the winning goal in the 69th minute of a 3–2 win over rivals Rangers at Ibrox Stadium, and on 29 April he added two more goals in a 5–0 win over the same opposition to seal Celtic's seventh consecutive league title.<ref name="Celtic17/18titlewin"></ref> He ultimately made 29 appearances for the season and scored 11 times as Celtic completed a domestic treble.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: On 15 June 2018, Édouard signed a four-year contract with Celtic for a fee that the club said was the highest in their history. The amount would have had to have exceeded the £6 million that the club paid for Chris Sutton and John Hartson in 2000 and 2001, respectively, with sources estimating it as over £8 million. The following month he was named on the 100-man shortlist for the 2018 Golden Boy award; he was the only footballer playing in Scotland to be nominated for the accolade. In his first game of the season, Édouard scored the opening goal in a 3–0 win over Alashkert in the first qualifying round of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League. He continued his scoring run in the following round, netting twice in a 3–1 victory against Rosenborg at Celtic Park with manager Brendan Rodgers describing him as a 'top striker' after his displays.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: In March 2019, he scored two goals and made one assist in three league matches, scoring a goal against Dundee and scored a goal and made an assist against Rangers to grant Celtic wins in both matches. He subsequently won the Scottish Premiership Player Of The Month for March 2019, first in his of career based on his performance. On 25 May 2019, Édouard scored twice as Celtic beat Hearts to secure the Scottish Cup and a historic "treble treble", that is, winning the Scottish Premiership, the Scottish League Cup, and the Scottish Cup in three consecutive years.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: In September 2019, Édouard was adjudged the Scottish Premiership Player Of The Month for August 2019, after he netted in the 7–0 win over St Johnstone and 5–2 victory over Motherwell. In November he suffered from a minor injury, described as a "niggle" by manager Neil Lennon, who later said Édouard should be fit to play in the League Cup final. In January 2020, he scored three goals in three league games, a goal against Kilmarnock and a brace against Ross County to help Celtic extend their lead in the league and win the Scottish Premiership Player Of The Month for January.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: Édouard was the top goalscorer with 22 goals in the 2019–20 Scottish Premiership, which was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was later adjudged as the SFWA Footballer of the Year for 2019–20 becoming the first French player to win that award and Celtic Player of the Year.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: In March 2021, Édouard was awarded Scottish Premiership Player Of The Month for February 2021, after scoring 7 goals in 7 league matches including braces against St. Johnstone and Kilmarnock. Eventhough Celtic ended the 2020–21 season trophyless, Édouard however won the top scorer award in the 2020–21 Scottish Premiership in a second consecutive season and was named on the PFA team of the year. He ended the season with 22 goals in 40 matches in all competitions. In August 2021, he left Celtic and joined Crystal Palace. At the time of his departure, he was second highest ever scorer in the Scottish Premiership with 66 goals in 116 matches behind only Leigh Griffiths. His ratio of 0.57 was the highest on the all time table.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: During his 4 year stay, he played 179 matches in all competitions and scored 88 goals, winning the Scottish Premiership on three occasions and Scottish Cup twice and Scottish League Cup twice.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: On 31 August 2021, transfer deadline day, Édouard signed for Premier League club Crystal Palace on a four-year contract. He made his debut on 11 September in a 3–0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur, when he came off the bench for Christian Benteke in the 84th minute and scored two goals.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: After his impressive performances at club level, Édouard was selected by coach Jean-Claude Guitini for the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, which France went on to win, scoring 15 goals and only conceding twice. Édouard was crowned as the Golden Player and the top goalscorer after scoring eight of France's 15 goals in five matches, a record in the competition. He notably scored the match-winning hat-trick in the final against Germany.


title: Odsonne Édouard

text: In 2017, while on loan at Toulouse, Édouard was convicted of violence with a weapon, after he shot a passer-by with an air-rifle from his car, leaving him deaf; Édouard was ordered to pay €24,000 in damages, which was unpaid as of 2021. Additionally, Édouard received a four-month suspended sentence.


title: 2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election

text: The Indian National Congress became the single largest party with 100 seats, short of majority by 1 seat. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 73 seats, much lower compared to the previous election in which it won an absolute majority of 163 seats. The Indian National Congress formed the government with the Bahujan Samaj Party.


text: The tenure of Rajasthan assembly ended on 20 January 2019. The main political contenders are the BJP, INC, BSP and the RLP. Most of the bypolls preceding the election were won by the Indian National Congress. There was a lot of anti-incumbency and infighting in the BJP government, which eventually led to a Congress victory.


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), also known as mean absolute percentage deviation (MAPD), is a measure of prediction accuracy of a forecasting method in statistics. It usually expresses the accuracy as a ratio defined by the formula:


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: where is the actual value and is the forecast value. Their difference is divided by the actual value . The absolute value of this ratio is summed for every forecasted point in time and divided by the number of fitted points .


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: Mean absolute percentage error is commonly used as a loss function for regression problems and in model evaluation, because of its very intuitive interpretation in terms of relative error.


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: Consider a standard regression setting in which the data are fully described by a random pair formula_2 with values in formula_3, and i.i.d. copies formula_4 of formula_5. Regression models aims at finding a good model for the pair, that is a measurable function from formula_6 to formula_7 such that formula_8 is close to .


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: In the classical regression setting, the closeness of formula_8 to is measured via the risk, also called the mean squared error (MSE). In the MAPE regression context, the closeness of formula_8 to is measured via the MAPE, and the aim of MAPE regressions is to find a model formula_11 such that:


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: From a practical point of view, the use of the MAPE as a quality function for regression model is equivalent to doing weighted mean absolute error (MAE) regression, also known as quantile regression. This property is trivial since


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: As a consequence, the use of the MAPE is very easy in practice, for example using existing libraries for quantile regression allowing weights.


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: The use of the MAPE as a loss function for regression analysis is feasible both on a practical point of view and on a theoretical one, since the existence of an optimal model and the consistency of the empirical risk minimization can be proved.


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: WMAPE (sometimes spelled wMAPE) stands for weighted mean absolute percentage error. It is a measure used to evaluate the performance of regression or forecasting models. It is a variant of MAPE in which the mean absolute percent errors is treated as a weighted arithmetic mean. Most commonly the absolute percent errors are weighted by the actuals (e.g. in case of sales forecasting, errors are weighted by sales volume).. Effectively, this overcomes the 'infinite error' issue.


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: Where formula_18 is the weight, formula_19 is a vector of the actual data and formula_20 is the forecast or prediction.


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: Confusingly, sometimes when people refer to wMAPE they are talking about a different model in which the numerator and denominator of the wMAPE formula above are weighted again by another set of custom weights formula_18. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call this the double weighted MAPE (wwMAPE). Its formula is:


title: Mean absolute percentage error

text: Although the concept of MAPE sounds very simple and convincing, it has major drawbacks in practical application, and there are many studies on shortcomings and misleading results from MAPE.


title: National highways of India

text: The National highways in India are a network of trunk roads owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. National highways have flyover access or some controlled-access, where entrance and exit is through the side of the flyover, at each intersection of highways flyovers are provided to bypass the city/town/village traffic and these highways are designed for speed of 100 km/hr. Some national highways have interchanges in between but they don't have total controlled-access throughout the highways. It is constructed and managed by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL), and the public works departments (PWD) of state governments. Currently, the longest National Highway in India is National Highway 44 at 4,112 km (2,555 mi).


title: National highways of India

text: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) are the nodal agencies responsible for building, upgrading, and maintaining most of the National Highways network. It operates under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) is a major effort to expand and upgrade the network of highways. NHAI often uses a public–private partnership model for highway maintenance, and toll-collection. NHIDCL uses Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) model to build, develop and maintain strategic roads in International borders of the country.


title: National highways of India

text: In India, National Highways are at-grade roads, whereas Expressways are controlled-access highways where entrance and exit is controlled by the use ramps that are incorporated into the design of the expressway.National Highways follows standards set by Indian Roads Congress and Bureau of Indian Standards.


title: National highways of India

text: <mapframe latitude="21" longitude="78" zoom="4" width="500" height="500" text="NHs in India" align="center">


title: National highways of India

text: National Highways constituted 2.7% of India's total road network, but carried about 40% of road traffic, as of 2013. In 2016, the government vowed to double the highway length from 96,000 to 200,000 km.


title: National highways of India

text: The majority of existing highways are now four-lane roads (two lanes in each direction), though much of this is being expanded to six or more lanes. Some sections of the network are toll roads. Only a few highways are built with concrete. Bypasses have been constructed around larger towns and cities to provide uninterrupted passage for highway traffic. Some existing roads have been reclassified as National Highways.


title: National highways of India

text: The National Highways Act, 1956 provided for public i.e. state investment in the building and maintenance of the highways.


title: National highways of India

text: The National Highways Authority of India was established by the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. Section 16(1) of the Act states that the function of NHAI is to develop, maintain, and manage the National Highways and any other highways vested in, or entrusted to, it by the Government of India.


title: National highways of India

text: In 1998 India launched a massive program of highway upgrades, called the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), in which the main north–south and east–west corridors and highways connecting the four metropolitan cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata) have been fully paved and widened into four-lane highways. Some of the busier National Highway sectors in India were also converted to four- or six-lane limited-access highways.


title: National highways of India

text: National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited started functioning w.e.f. 18 July 2014. It is a fully owned company of Government of India under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and was created to develop, maintain and manage the national highways, strategic roads and other infrastructure of India. It was dedicated to the task of promoting regional connectivity in parts of the country which share international boundaries. It is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of National Highways in hilly terrain of North-East part of India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Uttarakhand. It works as a specialised agency in high altitude areas and border areas. Apart from highways, NHIDCL is constructing logictic hubs and transport related infrastructure e.g. multimodal transport hubs such as bus ports, container depots, automated multilevel car parking etc.


title: National highways of India

text: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways adopted a new systematic numbering of National Highways in April 2010. It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. The new system indicates the direction of National Highways whether they are east–west (odd numbers) or north–south (even numbers). It also indicates the geographical region where they are with even numbers increasing from east to west starting from NH2 and odd numbers increasing from north to south starting from NH1.


title: National highways of India

text: Bharatmala, a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India with a target of constructing of new highways, has been started in 2018. Phase I of the Bharatmala project involves the construction of 34,800 km of highways (including the remaining projects under NHDP) at an estimated cost of by 2021-22.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Alexis Tsipras (, ; born 28 July 1974) is a Greek politician serving as Leader of the Official Opposition since 2019. He served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras has led the Coalition of the Radical Left, known as Syriza, a left-wing political party, since 2009. He was the fourth Prime Minister who governed in the course of the 2010s government-debt crisis.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In January 2015, Tsipras led Syriza to victory in a snap legislative election, winning 149 out of 300 seats in the parliament and forming a coalition with the Independent Greeks. On 20 August 2015, seven months into his term as prime minister, he lost his majority after intraparty defections; he then announced his resignation and called for a snap election to take place the following month. In the September 2015 election that followed, Tsipras led Syriza to another victory, this time winning 145 out of 300 seats and re-forming the coalition with the Independent Greeks. During his premiership, he oversaw negotiations regarding the Greek government-debt crisis, initiated the Greek bailout referendum and responded to the European migrant crisis. In 2015, he was named by "Time" magazine as one of the 100 most influential people globally.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Alexios (Alexis) Tsipras was born 28 July 1974 in Athens. His father, Pavlos, was from Athamania in Epirus and was a well-off public works contractor, while his mother, Aristi, was born in Eleftheroupoli, a town in Greek Macedonia. His maternal grandparents were from the village of Babaeski, Eastern Thrace, Turkey and moved to Eleftheroupoli as a result of the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras joined the Communist Youth of Greece in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, as a student at Ampelokipoi Multi-disciplinary High School, he was politically active in the student uprising and the school occupations against the controversial law of Education Minister Vasilis Kontogiannopoulos. He rose to prominence as a representative of the student movement when he was featured as a guest on a television show hosted by journalist Anna Panagiotarea. During the interview, Panagiotarea implied that Tsipras was being disingenuous in defending middle and high school students' right to absenteeism without parental notification in the context of protests. Newspapers and opposition politicians contrasted his early activism for the free state education to his choice to enroll his children in private schools when he became prime-minister.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, graduating in 2000, before undertaking postgraduate studies in Urban and Regional Planning following an inter-departmental MPhil at the School of Architecture of NTUA. Alongside his postgraduate studies, he began working as a civil engineer in the construction industry. He wrote three studies and projects on the theme of the city of Athens.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: As a university student, Tsipras joined the ranks of the renascent left-wing movement, particularly the "Enceladus" () group, and as member of it, he was elected to the executive board of the students' union of the Civil Engineering School of NTUA and also served as student representative on the University Senate. From 1995 to 1997 he was an elected member of the Central Council of the National Students Union of Greece (EFEE).


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: After the departure of the Communist Party of Greece from Synaspismos in 1991, Tsipras remained in the coalition. In May 1999 he became the first political secretary of "Synaspismos" youth-wing, the Synaspismos Youth. During this period he was described as a centrist, different from the very clear radical, left-wing profile he would later maintain as leader of Synaspismos. He won many awards during this time. In November 2003, he was succeeded by Tasos Koronakis and moved on to the mother party. He managed quite efficiently to maintain a strong adherence to the policy of the party, effectively out talking both the left and right political wings. As secretary of Synaspismos Youth, he took an active part in the process of creating the "Greek Social Forum" and attended many of the international protests and marches against neoliberal globalization. In December 2004, at the 4th Congress of Synaspismos, he was elected a member of the party's Central Political Committee and consequently to the Political Secretariat, where he was responsible for educational and youth issues.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras first entered the limelight of mainstream Greek politics during the 2006 local election when he ran for Mayor of Athens under the "Anoikhti Poli" (Greek: Ανοιχτή Πόλη, "Open City") Syriza ticket that gained 10.51% of the Athenian vote, finishing third overall. Tsipras won a seat on the Municipality of Athens council by virtue of him being first on the Syriza list. He did not run for the Greek Parliament in the 2007 election, choosing to continue the completion his term as a member of the municipal council of Athens.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras was elected Leader of Synaspismos during its 5th Congress on 10 February 2008, after its previous Leader Alekos Alavanos decided not to stand for election again due to personal reasons. Tsipras became leader of Synaspismos at the age of 33, thus becoming the youngest leader of a Greek political party since 1931. In the 2009 election, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament for Athens A and was subsequently voted unanimously to be the head of the Syriza parliamentary group. Tsipras led SYRIZA through the 2012 elections, overseeing a swing of over 22% to the party and becoming the Leader of the Opposition and head of the Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In December 2013, Tsipras was the first candidate proposed for the position of president of the Commission of the European Union by the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL). The vote was an EU member states election to the European Parliament in May 2014.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras campaigned as the only candidate of the south periphery countries. At the beginning of May 2014, in a speech in Berlin, he clarified many of his positions, in opposition to the allegedly Merkel-dominated neoliberal political course in Europe. Tsipras declared a substantial change for a better future for all Europeans is visible within 10 years. He addressed those who lost out in the fallout of the financial crises from 2008 to 2014, which produced unexpectedly high jobless rates in most of the EU. The speech was given in English to a German audience and intended to be listened to throughout Europe. Although the GUE/NGL won in Greece, winning six of the 21 Greek seats in the European Parliament, it finished fifth in Europe overall.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras led Syriza to victory in the general election held on 25 January 2015, falling short of an outright majority in Parliament by just two seats. The following morning, Tsipras reached an agreement with the right-wing populist Independent Greeks party to form a coalition.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On the same day he was sworn in by President Karolos Papoulias as the youngest Prime Minister in Greek history since 1865, using the words "I declare in my name, honour and conscience to uphold the Constitution and its laws." Tsipras was also the first prime minister to take a civil oath rather than a religious oath of office, marking a rupture with Greek orthodox ceremonial culture. While reaffirming the good relations between his party and the Church, he generated further religious controversy during a meeting with Archbishop Ieronymos. Tsipras explained that as an atheist who neither married in a religious ceremony nor baptised his children, he would not take a religious oath of office.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In his first act after being sworn in, Tsipras visited the Resistance Memorial in Kaisariani, laying down red roses to commemorate the 200 members of the Greek Resistance executed by the German Wehrmacht on 1 May 1944.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: During the first meeting of the new cabinet, Tsipras declared the priorities of his government to be the fight against the "humanitarian crisis" in Greece, negotiations with the EU and the International Monetary Fund on restructuring the Greek debt, and the implementation of promises made by SYRIZA such as the abolition of the previous government's privatization policies.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 3 February, Tsipras made his first official state visit, meeting with his Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi in Rome. They held a joint press conference expressing concerns about austerity measures imposed by the Juncker Commission and stated that economic growth is the only way to exit from the crisis. After the press conference, Renzi presented Tsipras with an Italian tie as a gift. Tsipras, who is notable for never wearing ties, thanked Renzi and said that he would wear the gift in celebration when Greece had successfully renegotiated the austerity measures.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 20 February, the Eurogroup came to an agreement with Greece to extend the Greek bailout for four months. Tsipras had also announced a trip to Moscow on 8 April, in a bid to secure Russian support.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 31 May, Tsipras laid out his complaints and outlined his plan in a recap of events since his election. He concluded that there were at least two competing visions for the integration of Europe, both of which he seemed to reject, and that certain unnamed institutional actors had "an obsession" with their own technocratic programme.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 22 June, Tsipras presented a new Greek proposal, which included raising the retirement age gradually to 67 and curbing early retirement. It also offered to reform the value-added-tax system to set the main rate at 23 percent. On 29 June Greek banks stayed shut and Tsipras said they would remain so to impose capital control. Trading in Greek stocks and bonds halted as well.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 27 June 2015, Tsipras announced a referendum to decide whether or not Greece should accept the bailout conditions proposed jointly by the Juncker Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras recommended a "No" vote. On 3 July, during an address to at least 250,000 people gathered in the capital's Syntagma Square in front of parliament, he rejected some leaders' warnings that a "No" result in Sunday's plebiscite could see Greece forced to leave the eurozone. He declared "On Sunday, we are not simply deciding to remain in Europe—we are deciding to live with dignity in Europe". The result of the referendum was 61.3% voting "No."


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: After several days of negotiation, on 13 July 2015, Tsipras came to an agreement with lenders. Greece was to get a loan of 82 to 86 billion euros, which would be handed to Greece gradually from 2015 until June 2018. In return, Greece would have to increase the VAT, reform the pension system, assure the independence of ELSTAT, automatically cut public spending to get primary surpluses, reform justice so decisions can be made faster, follow the reforms proposed by OECD, revoke the laws passed by Tsipras except for the one concerning the "humanitarian crisis", recapitalize the banks, privatize 50 billion of state assets, and decrease the cost of the public sector. In return, Greece would be given the Juncker package, 35 billion euros, which is meant to help the Greek economy grow. The Syriza-led government of Greece accepted a bailout package that contains larger pension cuts and tax increases than the one rejected by Greek voters in the referendum.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 14 August, the Greek parliament backed the country's new bailout deal, although more than 40 MPs from Syriza voted against the deal and Tsipras had to rely on the support of the pro-EU opposition: New Democracy, To Potami and PASOK. Tsipras told MPs they were facing a choice between "staying alive or suicide". He also said: "I have my conscience clear that it is the best we could achieve under the current balance of power in Europe, under conditions of economic and financial asphyxiation imposed upon us."


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 20 August 2015, Tsipras resigned from position of the Prime Minister of Greece due to the rebellion of MPs from his own party Syriza and called for a snap election. He made the announcement in a televised state address. After opposition parties failed to form a government, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou was appointed as an interim prime minister until elections could be held.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Despite a low turnout of only 57% versus 64% in previous elections, at the 20 September election, Tsipras received a solid vote of confidence, with Syriza achieving 35.50% of the vote, enough to form a coalition with ANEL. Among others, Tsipras appointed in his new government Dimitris Kammenos, a politician from ANEL, as deputy minister for infrastructure, transport and networks, causing reactions because of Kammenos' anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic comments on Twitter, such as accusations of 9/11 being a 'Jewish' plot. The outcry against him eventually forced Kammenos to resign, being a minister for less than 12 hours.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In September 2015, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos celebrated the Greek victory in the battle of Salamina, causing criticism due to the junta's celebrations of similar events with the same style. In 2015, Tsipras and Kammenos oversaw the military exercise Parmenion.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In October 2015, Tsipras sacked Greece's top tax collection official, Katerina Savvaidou, because she had allegedly granted an extension to television stations to pay a 20% tax on advertising. The government's fiscal measures prompted some backlash, with farmers threatening to bring their tractors into Athens and pharmacists going on strike. In November 2015, Tsipras received an angry reception at a refugee camp in Lesbos by around a hundred protesters, wearing life jackets and brandishing placards calling on the European Union to stop deaths by allowing asylum seekers safe and legal passage to Europe.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In November 2015, Tsipras became the first Greek prime minister to visit Turkey's Aegean province of Izmir since the days of the Occupation of Smyrna, meeting Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu; they agreed to cooperate on the refugee crisis and to establish technical cooperation between Greek and Turkish coast guards.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In December 2015, he introduced the Cohabitation agreement for the same sex-couples.The bill was approved by the Greek Parliament on 23 December 2015. in May 2018, a law allows adoption for same-sex couples.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: On 19 March 2016, Tsipras spoke at a conference of the Alliance Against Austerity for Democracy in Europe held in Athens. In his speech, he expressed concern over the possibility of Donald Trump becoming US President. He said as follows: "Tell me who of you would believe a few months ago that in the US today, the front-runner on behalf of the Republicans for the nomination of the candidate President would be Mr. Trump? And of course what this nomination marks, the ideas it represents, the appeal it reaches, and the threat to become even President – I hope we will not face this evil."


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In May 2016, new austerity measures proposed by Tsipras passed Parliament. The legislation increased taxes to middle- and high-level income earners; make across-the-board budget cuts amounting to about 3% of Greece's GDP; removed value-added-tax discounts; cut pensions; and increase deregulation. Tsipras called for calm on the streets and defended the austerity package, saying it fell in line with the agreement reached with the EU the previous year. Further austerity legislation included a provision for "contingency" measures, including wage and pension cuts, that would take effect automatically if budget targets were derailed next year. Taxes on cigarettes, coffee and craft beer were also raised, while an unpopular property tax was restructured to increase revenues from larger buildings. A new privatisation agency was set up which would have a 99-year remit to develop and sell state-owned property. Tsipras defended his adoption of new fiscal measures, telling Parliament: "Spring may be almost over but we are looking forward to an economic spring and a return to growth this year." In December 2016, a social reform aimed at the poorest pensioners caused the suspension of Greek debt relief measures by the European Union.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: The economic policy of his government, often described as aligned with the directives of the European Commission, earned him strong opposition from the left. Thus, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) is in opposition and some of the militants of Syriza leave the party to create the Unity. On the other hand, those close to the government believe that it had to face "the obstruction of state institutions and the oligarchy" and that "a left-wing government cannot succeed alone, especially if its country is small and on the verge of bankruptcy". For their part, senior European officials acknowledge that "this government will, more than any other, be scrutinized when it regains its autonomy."


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In a July 2017, Tsipras opined that the Greek economy was "on the up" and that "the worst is clearly behind us." He also expressed confidence that Greece will no longer have to rely on bailouts and international oversight in 2018. According to media reports from mid-July, Greece was considering rejoining the bond market for the first time since 2014 to borrow from the capital market. It was speculated that the government could issue a five-year bond at a time when yields on Greek bonds are their lowest since the country left the market in 2014. The announcement came a few days after the IMF "in principle" approved Greece for a conditional loan of up to $1.8 billion. The IMF made the payment of the loans contingent on Greece's debt sustainability, demanding that euro-zone countries provide debt relief to the country.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In October 2017 Prime Minister Tsipras met with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., at which Trump told Tsipras that he supported a "responsible debt relief' plan for Greece as they recovered from the economic crisis in the country. Trump added that his administration had informed Congress of a potential sale to upgrade the F-16 aircraft in Greece's air force, a deal that could be worth $2.4 billion.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Greece officially concluded its three-year European Stability Mechanism (ESM) financial assistance programme on 20 August 2018, following the disbursement of €61.9 billion by the ESM over three years to support the country's macroeconomic adjustment and bank recapitalization. ESM Members agreed on the financial assistance package in August 2015. "The conclusion of the ESM programme marks a very important moment and historic for all of us. We had eight very difficult years, often painful years, but now Greece can finally turn a page in a crisis that has lasted too long," according to EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici. A day after Moscovici's statement, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during a state address from the island of Ithaca: "A new day is dawning in our country, today is the beginning of a new era". Tsipras furthermore asserted that the country had regained its sovereignty to determine its own future, reaching a destination that would allow the Greeks "to make our place as it deserves to be."


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: In January 2019, Greece Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and his Independent Greeks party quit Greece's ruling coalition over a deal struck on the Macedonia naming dispute, potentially leaving the governing coalition without a workable majority in parliament. Despite this, some days later, Tsipras managed to win a confidence vote and gain again the support of the absolute majority of the Greek parliament (151 votes) for his government (this time backed by one political party, i.e. SYRIZA). The confidence vote was followed by the successful ratification of the Greek parliament with 153 votes of the Prespa Agreement, an agreement which resolved a long-standing dispute and named Greece's northern neighbour as North Macedonia.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Along with the austerity measures, Alexis Tsipras had promised a "parallel programm" with social reforms in order to achieve a balance between the agreement with Europe and the fight against poverty and neo-liberalism. Some of the main reforms were raise of the minimum wage, introduction of a minimum income scheme, raise of the budget for healthcare and education etc.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Syriza suffered a harsh defeat in the European election on 26 May 2019, losing to the opposition party New Democracy. Following the defeat, snap elections were called.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Syriza was defeated in the 2019 legislative election, scoring 31.53% of votes and securing 86 seats in the Hellenic Parliament. Tsipras conceded defeat and resigned the following day.


title: Alexis Tsipras

text: Tsipras is not married. His registered partner is Peristera "Betty" Baziana, an electrical and computer engineer. They met in 1987, at the age of 13, at Ampelokipoi Branch High School. Both eventually became members of the Communist Youth of Greece. They live together in Athens with their two sons. Their younger son's middle name is Ernesto, a tribute to the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Tsipras is an avid football fan and, having grown up near the stadium, supports Panathinaikos, attending every home game that he can. Tsipras is a self-described atheist. His cousin, Giorgos Tsipras, is also a Syriza MP.


title: Gong Jun

text: Gong Jun (, born 29 November 1992), also known as Simon Gong, is a Chinese actor. He gained attention for his role in "Lost Love in Times" (2017), and further recognition for his roles in "Begin Again" (2020), and "Word of Honor" (2021).


title: Gong Jun

text: Gong Jun was born on 29 November 1992, in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. He studied art in the second year of high school, a teacher came to the school to search for students to learn performance or choreography. Gong was selected by the teacher to study acting due to his appearance. At the beginning, Gong took the exam at Nanjing University of the Arts. He passed the preliminary examination but did not have the courage to participate in the second examination, since he was not well prepared. Later, Gong went to Beijing to participate in intensive training. After a long and difficult training, Gong took his entrance examination and was finally admitted to the Performance Department of Donghua University in Shanghai. He eventually graduated and moved to Beijing seeking opportunities in the entertainment industry. Gong had once signed with a company which promised to give him works and living expenses every month. Eventually, he did not receive any works or living expenses, so he terminated the contract. Prior to his debut, Gong was working as a model for various advertisements. Since he appeared in many advertisements, he was given a nickname: The Little Prince of Advertising.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2015, Gong made his acting debut in the historical drama "Sword Chaos," played the upright and straightforward Bi Lu.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2016, Gong co-starred with Xu Feng (徐峰）in the youth drama "Advance Bravely," adapted from the danmei novel with the same name (势不可挡) by Chai Ji Dan, in which he played Xia Yao, who becomes caught in a love triangle with a brother and a sister. He was selected by the novel author to act in her series after she saw his pictures on Weibo. On August 23, the urban adventure comedy film "Lost in Japan" was released.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2017, Gong co-starred with Chen Yao in the youth fantasy drama "The Player", adapted from the online game "Fantasy Westward Journey" which is inspired by the classic novel “Journey to the West”, he played Ren Yi Xia, a game expert. He gained recognition for his role as the frank, loyal, free and unrestrained 11th Prince Yuan Che in the fantasy historical drama "Lost Love in Times", based on the novel “Drunken Exquisiteness” (醉玲珑) by Shi Siye. Due to the success of the drama, Gong starred in a 12-episode spin-off of the drama as the main character with Xu Mu Chan. On September 19, Gong was announced as a member of reality show "The Cute Teacher Arrives". On September 29, Gong science fiction film "Rebirth Partner" with Wang Wan Zhong was launched on Tencent Video, in which he played the helpful and cute student Yi Sheng. In December, he starred in the campus idol inspirational drama "Shining Like You".


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2018, Gong co-starred with Zheng Qiu Hong in the ancient costume drama "Unique Lady" "Part 1 and 2", based on the visual novel game “Lust for Gold” (好色千金), played the domineering and affectionate Prince Zhong Wu Mei.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2019, the French fantasy adventure animated film "Tall Tales from the Magical Garden of Antoon Krings" was released in mainland China. Gong dubbed the voice of Apollo. On November 7, the urban love drama "Flavor It's Yours" with Song Yiren was broadcast on iQIYI, in which he played Lu Wei Xun, a genius wine critic who is cold and unapproachable.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2020, Gong starred in the campus youth drama "The Love Equations with" Liu Renyu, in which he played Zhao Fan Zhou, a seriously dedicated student in the forensic science department, based on the novel “The Sweet Love Story” (舟而复始) by Zhao Qian Qian. On October 29, the urban emotional drama "Begin Again" with Zhou Yutong was broadcast, in which he played Ling Rui, a mature and kind surgeon. The series attracted attention, and Gong popularity became increasingly, with 1.8 billion views on Mango TV. On December 24, "Unique Lady 2" with Zheng Qiu Hong was broadcast on Youku.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2021, Gong's ancient Wuxia drama "Word of Honor" with Zhang Zhehan was broadcast on Youku, based on the danmei novel "Faraway Wanderers" (天涯客) by Priest. He played Wen Ke Xing, gentle, but also a deep-minded, innocent and cruel Chief of the Ghost Valley. Ma Tao, the main producer of "Word of Honor" was not familiar with him, but several of her friends recommended him to her. This gave Gong the opportunity to audition, he got the role through auditioning with Wen Kexing's drinking scene and after Long Que's death. The series surprisingly became a hit, opened with 8.2 scored on Douban and steadily increasing to 8.6, became the highest rated danmei drama on the site. The drama also received over 11 billion views on China popular media platform Douyin. On April 12, he co-starred with Qiao Xin in the romantic suspense drama "Dream Garden", played Lin Shen, a professional psychological counsellor, the series was later aired on December. On July 5, Gong was announced as a member of reality show "Chinese Restaurant 5" along with Huang Xiaoming, Ning Jing, Zhou Ye, Ding Zhen and Annabel Yao. On July 8, the rescue emotional drama "The Flaming Heart" with Zhang Huiwen was broadcast, in which he played Huo Yan, an introverted and determined firefighter. On July 20, Gong began filming alongside Dilraba Dilmurat and Liu Yuning in the historical drama "Legend of Anle", based on the novel "The Emperor's Book" (帝皇书) by Xing Ling, acting as Crown Prince Han Ye. On December 7, Gong attended the booting ceremony and began working on the new youth romance drama "Rising With The Wind" with Zhong Chuxi, based on the novel with the same name by Wei Zai (未再). He will be playing the role of Xu Si, an investor.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2022, Gong and Yang Mi announced as leads in Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Yue Hong, adapted from the manhua "Hu Yao Xiao Hong Niag" (狐妖小红娘) by Tuo Xiao Xin (庹小新). On June 18, the eighth season of "Go Fighting!" officially announced its return. The starred line-up was Jia Nai Liang, Yue Yun Peng, Wang Xun, Justin, Johnny Huang, Yang Chao Yue, Guo Jing Fei and Gong Jun.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2019, Gong is named as brand ambassador for men's care products Mentholatum. He was chosen as brand ambassador for skincare Little Touch, spokesperson for clinical skincare DR. WU, and officer for Youku in 2020.


title: Gong Jun

text: With the success of "Word of Honor" series, Gong commercial resources have been soaring. Partnered with 31 brands, his endorsements covered multiple categories such as sunscreen protection L'Oréal Paris, health supplements products Centrum, car brand Roewe, fast food KFC, beauty cosmetics 3CE Stylenanda, fruity instant coffee Nescafé, smartphone Honor, and sportswear 361 Degrees. He also the face of luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany & Co.


title: Gong Jun

text: In April 2021, Gong was announced as spokesperson for Vita lemon flavoured drink, but by July he has ceased his commercial cooperation with Vitasoy, after an employee circulated a memo online offering condolences to the family of a worker who stabbed a Hong Kong policeman, then committed suicide afterwards.


title: Gong Jun

text: On his birthday, November 29, Gong Jun was promoted to brand spokesperson for YA-MAN and was awarded the brand ambassador title by Tiffany. On December 1, Honor launched the Honor 60 series in China and announced Gong Jun as the Honor 60 Series Global Spokesperson.


title: Gong Jun

text: In February 2022, Italian luxury brand Hogan (owned by the TOD’S Group) announced Gong as its global ambassador. The shoes Gong endorsed sold out at the brand's Tmall flagship store over six hours, demonstrated his substantial influence on the luxury brand. By May 2022, Gong has collaborated with 6 more brands such as Colgate, Safeguard, Mujosh, and Charlotte Tilbury.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2021, Honor launched the Honor 50 series in China and announced Gong as their smartphone spokesperson. This was the firm's first major smartphone release since it was sold by Huawei. The series sales exceeded ¥500 million Yuan in one minute. This leads to their market share rose up by 14.6% and helped them return to top three brands in China's mobile market. Similarly, after 361 Degrees announced Gong as their global spokesperson, their stock price soared by 14.37%. By the first half of 2021, their net profit rose 32.9% into ¥401.4 million Yuan, gained 15.7% in revenue and 28.0% in gross profit. On June 17, Roewe announced the release of 500 Roewe RX5 PLUS Limited Edition and Gong was their global spokesperson, the first patch of 100 cars was sold out within 9 minutes 20 seconds, achieved a fastest record of a car been sold every 2 seconds in a single day. After selling 100 cars per day for 5 consecutive days, the series completely sold out and the total pre-sale value was at ¥644 million Yuan. On June 23, Gong was announced as brand ambassador for luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton, he is one of the fastest artists in China to receive the brand ambassador title from them in less than a year. On October 15, Gong was chosen as Beauty Ambassador for the 18th Cosmo Beauty Awards.


title: Gong Jun

text: In the first half of 2021, Gong gained over 8 million followers and became the most-followed and most-searched artist on Sina Weibo platform, appeared 187 times on their real-time hot search trends list. Gong is named as the hottest actor of the second quarter and was listed as one of 23 GQ's Men of The Year.


title: Gong Jun

text: Gong has graced the front covers of various magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, SE Weekly, OK!, Madame Figaro, Elle, Glitz, Lifestyle, Esquire, T Magazine, and Cosmopolitan.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2018, Gong's first book work, “1129”, was released, all proceeds from the book were donated towards charity to support the development of public welfare undertakings. In 2020, Gong donated ¥150,000 Yuan to China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to equip three rural schools in Nanjiang County, Sichuan Province with caring kitchen equipment, so that children can study hard and make progress every day while also getting continuous nutritional improvement. He was also chosen as Moji Weather Charity Ambassador and Officer for two consecutive years.


title: Gong Jun

text: In 2021, Gong was appointed as Hello Childhood Charity Ambassador, Charity Promotional Ambassador for World Book Day, Charity Communication Ambassador for International Day for Biological Diversity, and Charity Advocacy Ambassador for World Environment Day.


title: Gong Jun

text: In April 2021, "Word of Honor"’s outfits were sold through online auction. Among them, the red costume of Wen Ke Xing played by Gong Jun was sold at the highest price ¥224,601 Yuan, the auction earned total ¥584,207 Yuan for Wen’s costumes and accessories. After the event, his red costume proceeds were donated towards China Social Assistance Foundation as part of public welfare project. On July 21, Gong donated ¥500,000 Yuan to China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation for flood relief efforts in Henan. Gong Jun's Studio reached out to Lock & Lock donated 10,000 water bottles, 1000 blankets, 200 quilts, and 200 sets of bedding supplies to support the flood victims and disaster areas. Gong Jun's Studio along with Unif Beef jointly donated further 5000 boxes of noodles to support the frontline disaster relief. Gong joined hands with 361 Degrees donated ¥10 million Yuan in cash and materials to help with flood relief and future restoration work. On July 27, as part of the sustainability program “L’Oréal for the Future”, the Group has set up €50 million Euro to help with the restoration of ecological.


title: Gong Jun

text: Due to the pandemic situation in China, in April 2022, Gong donated 65,000 medical and N95 masks. Further 3,536 rapid COVID-19 antigen kits and hand sanitizers, plus 950 boxes of milk & snacks to his alma mater Donghua University. On September 08, Gong donated ¥500,000 Yuan to support Sichuan earthquake relief efforts.


title: The Hymn of Death

text: The Hymn of Death () is a 2018 South Korean television miniseries based on true events, starring Lee Jong-suk and Shin Hye-sun. It aired on SBS from November 27 to December 4, 2018, and is available on Netflix worldwide.


title: The Hymn of Death

text: The series depicts the tragic romance between Joseon's first soprano Yun Sim-deok and the genius playwright, Kim Woo-jin


title: The Hymn of Death

text: The drama serves as a reunion between Lee Jong Suk and Shin Hye-sun who previously worked together on the KBS drama "School 2013" (2013).


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: Uncle Grandpa is an American animated television series created by Peter Browngardt for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 2, 2013 to June 30, 2017. It is based on Browngardt's animated short of the same name from the unaired "Cartoonstitute". "Uncle Grandpa" is also a spin-off of "Secret Mountain Fort Awesome", which was in turn a spin-off of the Cartoonstitute short. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: The show is a surreal action-adventure comedy that relies extensively on visual gags and catchphrases. Creator Pete Browngardt has cited the work of cartoonists Don Martin, Gary Larson and Robert Crumb, as well as Golden Age–era animators such as Tex Avery and Max Fleischer when it came to developing the style of the show. Each 11-minute episode is presented in a unique format, consisting of a main seven to nine-minute story, some short bumpers typically composed of a quick visual joke, and an original short that focuses on the show's side characters.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: Cartoon Network renewed the series for the fourth and fifth seasons: first splitting the second season (of 52 episodes) into two halves, which respectively became the second and third season, then also dividing in half the already announced third season into the fourth and fifth season (of 26 and 23 episodes, respectively), which served as the final seasons.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: Uncle Grandpa, a magical shapeshifting humanoid, stops by children's houses every day to see how they are doing. The children he visits have a problem of their own and Uncle Grandpa tries to help them through a series of chaotic and surreal misadventures. He is a clowny sort of person who sometimes eats inedible objects (paper, and mostly books). He drives/lives in a UG-2000 model robotic RV known as the Perpetual Persistence and is accompanied by a talking red fanny pack named Belly Bag, a green dinosauroid named Mr. Gus, a static photographic cutout of a tiger named Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, and an anthropomorphic pepperoni pizza slice named Pizza Steve. He greets everybody using “Good Morning.”


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: The first-season episode "Christmas Special" was aired in December 2014. A double-length Christmas special, it centers on Uncle Grandpa who reluctantly agrees to disguise himself as his brother Santa Claus, after the latter character injures a leg. The episode received mostly praise in international publications, and in the United States it was viewed by 1.5 million. Cartoon Network developed a browser game adaptation named "Sneakin' Santa" to promote the episode. The episode was well received by the critics during its respective Christmas season.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: A crossover special between "Uncle Grandpa" and "Steven Universe" was aired as an episode of the latter series' second season in April 2015. Conceived of by the creator of the latter series, Rebecca Sugar, the episode has Uncle Grandpa teach Steven how to bear a shield from his gemstone. Nearly two million viewed the episode, which received acclaim from critics.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: The second-season episode "Guest Directed Shorts" was aired in June 2015 and consists of three animated shorts. The first short, directed by M. Wartella, has Uncle Grandpa using time travel in order to find the best hamburger; the second, by Pendleton Ward, has Pizza Steve beatboxing with Uncle Grandpa in the park; and the third, by Max Winston, has the RV gang getting trapped in Uncle Grandpa's claymation mind after their television set breaks down. Wartella is known for his work on the animated series "Superjail!" and "Mad", while Ward is the creator of "Adventure Time"; Winston is a professional stop-motion artist. The episode was viewed by 1.3 million. The episode was very well received by the critics, while Winston's short was nominated for best television production at the 2015 edition of the Annecy Film Festival.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: Uncle Grandpa Babies first appeared as a short in the 2014 episode "Grounded" as a faux Cartoon Network ad that presents a series called "Uncle Grandpa Babies" and claims to be made by the same creators of "Adventure Time" (Pendleton Ward) and "Steven Universe" (Rebecca Sugar). One year later, a full episode based on the babies saving America from a foreign country's missile launch aired on August 20, 2015.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: The "Uncle Grandpa" pilot was created by former "Chowder" storyboard artist Peter Browngardt, who first pitched the idea to Cartoon Network in 2006. Browngardt, who grew up the youngest in a large family of eight children (his eldest brother Tom would go on to work as the show's film editor), based the character upon the various and often eccentric relatives who would often drop by and visit them, as well as aspects of his own personality. The style of the show was inspired by his love of comics and Warner Bros. Cartoons. The pilot was produced in 2008, then aired online in 2009 on Cartoon Network Video as part of "The Cartoonstitute". Akin to the "Regular Show" pilot, the "Uncle Grandpa" pilot was successful, but it to have been green-lit into its own series.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: In 2011, the TV series "Secret Mountain Fort Awesome" (based on the creatures that appear in the original short) aired on Cartoon Network, but was not as well-received as the other Cartoon Network shows at the time, and was eventually put on hiatus in February 2012. Despite the failure, "Secret Mountain Fort Awesome" went on to win several awards, including the coveted Crystal Award for "Best Television Production" at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the first United States-based production to do so. This helped boost Browngardt's profile in getting "Uncle Grandpa" greenlit as a series. Another factor that contributed to the launch of the show was the redesign of the character by John Kricfalusi, "The Ren & Stimpy Show"s creator.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: On July 27 and 28, 2013, Cartoon Network aired a sneak peek of the series as part of Big Fan Weekend, along with "Clarence" and "Steven Universe".


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: On August 17, 2022, it was announced that HBO Max would be removing several series, including "Uncle Grandpa".


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: In Canada, it premiered on September 2, 2013 on Cartoon Network. It also premiered on Cartoon Network channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland on April 14, 2014 and in Australia on May 5, 2014.


title: Uncle Grandpa

text: On April 30, 2014, Kaboom! announced that "Uncle Grandpa" comics were in the works. Issue 1 was released on October 15, 2014.


title: Barque

text: A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.


title: Barque

text: The word "barque" entered English via the French term, which in turn came from the Latin "barca" by way of Occitan, Catalan, Spanish, or Italian.


title: Barque

text: The Latin "barca" may stem from Celtic "barc" (per Thurneysen) or Greek "baris" (per Diez), a term for an Egyptian boat. The "Oxford English Dictionary", however, considers the latter improbable.


title: Barque

text: The word "barc" appears to have come from Celtic languages. The form adopted by English, perhaps from Irish, was "bark", while that adopted by Latin as "barca" very early, which gave rise to the French "barge" and "barque".


title: Barque

text: In Latin, Spanish, and Italian, the term "barca" refers to a small boat, not a full-sized ship. French influence in England led to the use in English of both words, although their meanings now are not the same.


title: Barque

text: Well before the 19th century, a barge had become interpreted as a small vessel of coastal or inland waters, or a fast rowing boat carried by warships and normally reserved for the commanding officer. Somewhat later, a bark became a sailing vessel of a distinctive rig as detailed below. In Britain, by the mid-19th century, the spelling had taken on the French form of "barque". Although Francis Bacon used this form of the word as early as 1592, Shakespeare still used the spelling "barke" in Sonnet 116 in 1609. Throughout the period of sail, the word was used also as a shortening of the barca-longa of the Mediterranean Sea.


title: Barque

text: The usual spelling convention is that, to distinguish between homophones, when spelled as barque it refers to a ship, and when spelled as bark it refers to either a sound or to a tree hide.


title: Barque

text: "Barcarole" in music shares the same etymology, being originally a folk song sung by Venetian gondolier and derived from "barca" — "boat" in Italian, or in Late Latin.


title: Barque

text: In the 18th century, the Royal Navy used the term bark for a nondescript vessel that did not fit any of its usual categories. Thus, when the British admiralty purchased a collier for use by James Cook in his journey of exploration, she was registered as to distinguish her from another "Endeavour", a sloop already in service at the time. She happened to be a full-rigged ship with a plain bluff bow and a full stern with windows.


title: Barque

text: William Falconer's "Dictionary of the Marine" defined "bark", as "A general name given to small ships: it is however peculiarly appropriated by seamen to those which carry three masts without a mizzen topsail. Our Northern Mariners, who are trained in the coal-trade, apply this distinction to a broad-sterned ship, which carries no ornamental figure on the stem or prow."


title: Barque

text: The UK's National Archives state that a paper document surviving from the 16th century in the Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service, notes the names of Robert Ratclyfe, owner of the bark "Sunday" and 10 mariners appointed to serve under Rt. Hon. the Earl of Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland.


title: Barque

text: By the end of the 18th century, the term barque (sometimes, particularly in the US, spelled bark) came to refer to any vessel with a particular type of sail plan. This comprises three (or more) masts, fore-and-aft sails on the aftermost mast and square sails on all other masts. Barques were the workhorse of the golden age of sail in the mid-19th century as they attained passages that nearly matched full-rigged ships, but could operate with smaller crews.


title: Barque

text: The advantage of these rigs was that they needed smaller (therefore cheaper) crews than a comparable full-rigged ship or brig-rigged vessel, as fewer of the labour-intensive square sails were used, and the rig itself is cheaper. Conversely, the ship rig tended to be retained for training vessels where the larger the crew, the more seamen were trained.


title: Barque

text: Another advantage is that, downwind, a barque can outperform a schooner or barkentine, and is both easier to handle and better at going to windward than a full-rigged ship. While a full-rigged ship is the best runner available, and while fore-and-aft rigged vessels are the best at going to windward, the barque and the barquentine, are compromises, which combine, in different proportions, the best elements of these two.


title: Barque

text: Whether square-rig, barque, barquentine or schooner is optimal depends on the degree to which the sailing-route and season can be chosen to achieve following-wind. Square-riggers predominated for intercontinental sailing on routes chosen for following-winds.


title: Barque

text: Most ocean-going windjammers were four-masted barques, due to the above-described considerations & compromises. Usually the main mast was the tallest; that of "Moshulu" extends to 58 m off the deck. The four-masted barque can be handled with a surprisingly small crew—at minimum, 10—and while the usual crew was around 30, almost half of them could be apprentices.


title: Barque

text: A well-preserved example of a commercial barque is the "Pommern", the only windjammer in original condition. Its home is in Mariehamn outside the Åland maritime museum. The wooden barque "Sigyn", built in Gothenburg 1887, is now a museum ship in Turku. The wooden whaling barque "Charles W. Morgan", launched 1841, taken out of service 1921, is now a museum ship at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. The "Charles W. Morgan" has recently been refit and is (as of summer, 2014) sailing the New England coast. The United States Coast Guard still has an operational barque, built in Germany in 1936 and captured as a war prize, the USCGC "Eagle", which the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London uses as a training vessel. The Sydney Heritage Fleet restored an iron-hulled three-masted barque, the "James Craig", originally constructed as "Clan Macleod" in 1874 and sailing at sea fortnightly. The oldest active sailing vessel in the world, the "Star of India", was built in 1863 as a full-rigged ship, then converted into a barque in 1901.


title: Barque

text: This type of ship inspired the French composer Maurice Ravel to write his famous piece, "Une Barque sur l'ocean", originally composed for piano, in 1905, then orchestrated in 1906.


title: Barque

text: Statsraad Lemkulhl is in active operation in its barque form, stripped down without most of its winches and later improvements more aligned to the upbringing of future sailors both as a schoolship, training operations for the Norwegian Navy and generally available for interested volunteers.


title: Barque

text: During the summer of 2021, it hosted "NRK Sommarskuta" with live TV everyday sailing all of the Norwegian coast from North to South and crossing the North Sea to Shetland. After this it will perform its first full sailing trip around world, estimated to take 19 months with many promotional events along the way.


title: Barque

text: Scientific equipment has been installed in support of ongoing university studies to monitor and log environmental data.


title: Barque

text: In Ancient Egypt, barques, referred to using the French word as Egyptian hieroglyphs were first translated by the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion, were a type of boat used from Egypt's earliest recorded times and are depicted in many drawings, paintings, and reliefs that document the culture. Transportation to the afterlife was believed to be accomplished by way of barques, as well, and the image is used in many of the religious murals and carvings in temples and tombs.


title: Barque

text: The most important Egyptian barque carried the dead pharaoh to become a deity. Great care was taken to provide a beautiful barque to the pharaoh for this journey, and models of the boats were placed in their tombs. Many models of these boats, that range from tiny to huge in size, have been found. Wealthy and royal members of the culture also provided barques for their final journey. The type of vessel depicted in Egyptian images remains quite similar throughout the thousands of years the culture persisted.


title: Barque

text: Barques were important religious artifacts, and since the deities were thought to travel in this fashion in the sky, the Milky Way was seen as a great waterway that was as important as the Nile on Earth; cult statues of the deities traveled by boats on water and ritual boats were carried about by the priests during festival ceremonies. Temples included barque shrines, sometimes more than one in a temple, in which the sacred barques rested when a procession was not in progress. In these stations, the boats would be watched over and cared for by the priests.


title: Barque

text: The Barque of St. Peter, or the Barque of Peter, is a reference to the Roman Catholic Church. The term refers to Peter, the first Pope, who was a fisherman before becoming an apostle of Jesus. The Pope is often said to be steering the Barque of St. Peter.


title: Republic Airways

text: Republic Airways Inc. is a regional airline subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings that operates service as American Eagle, Delta Connection, and United Express using a fleet of Embraer 170 and Embraer 175 regional jets. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its call sign "Brickyard" is derived from the nickname of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


title: Republic Airways

text: In 1999, Republic Airways Holdings incorporated a new subsidiary, "Republic Airline, Inc." but the subsidiary had no activity prior to 2004 and no ability to operate aircraft prior to 2005. In 2004 the holding company activated Republic Airways in reaction to a pilots' suit against American Airlines.