title: M65 atomic cannon

text: The M65 atomic cannon, often called Atomic Annie, was an artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device. It was developed in the early 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War; and fielded between April 1955 and December 1962, in West Germany, South Korea and on Okinawa.


title: M65 atomic cannon

text: In 1949, Picatinny Arsenal was tasked with creating a nuclear-capable artillery piece. Robert Schwartz, the engineer who created the preliminary designs, essentially scaled up the 240 mm howitzer shell (then the maximum in the arsenal) to and used the similarly sized German K5 railroad gun as a point of departure for the carriage. (The name "Atomic Annie" likely derives from the nickname "Anzio Annie" given to a pair of German K5 guns which were employed against the American landings in Italy.) The design was approved by the Pentagon, largely through the intervention of Samuel Feltman, chief of the ballistics section of the ordnance department's research and development division. A three-year developmental effort followed. The project proceeded quickly enough to produce a demonstration model to participate in Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaugural parade in January 1953. The gun was initially designated T131 and the carriage was T72.


title: M65 atomic cannon

text: The cannon was transported by two specially designed tractors in the same manner as railroad Schnabel cars. Both tractors were capable of independent steering in the manner of some extra-long fire trucks. Each of the tractors was rated at , and the somewhat awkward combination could achieve speeds of and negotiate right-angle turns on wide paved or packed roads. The artillery piece could be unlimbered in 12 minutes, then returned to traveling configuration in another 15 minutes. The gun was deployed by lowering it from the tractors onto levelled ground. The whole gun assembly was balanced on a ball and socket joint so that it could be swung around the footplate. The traverse was limited by a curved track placed under the rear of the gun.


title: M65 atomic cannon

text: On May 25, 1953, at 8:30 a.m., the atomic cannon was tested at the Nevada Test Site (specifically Frenchman Flat) as part of the Upshot–Knothole series of nuclear tests. The test—codenamed "Grable"—was attended by the Chairman-delegate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford and United States Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson; it resulted in the successful detonation of a shell (W9 warhead) at a range of . This was the first and only nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon. (The Little Feller 1 test shot of a W54 used a Davy Crockett weapon system, which was a recoilless smooth-bore gun firing the warhead mounted on the end of a spigot inserted in the barrel of the weapon.)


title: M65 atomic cannon

text: After the successful test, at least 20 cannons were manufactured at Watervliet and Watertown Arsenals, at a cost of each. They were deployed overseas to Europe and Korea, and frequently shifted around to avoid being detected and targeted by opposing forces. Due to the size of the apparatus, their limited range, the development of nuclear shells compatible with existing artillery pieces (the W48 for the and the W33 for the ), and the development of rocket- and missile-based nuclear artillery (such as the Little John and Honest John tactical nuclear missiles), the M65 was effectively obsolete soon after it was deployed. However, it remained a prestige weapon and was not retired until 1963.


title: M65 atomic cannon

text: Of the twenty M65s produced, at least seven survive on display. Most no longer have their prime movers.


title: M65 atomic cannon

text: The Virginia War Museum in Newport News, Virginia has been erroneously identified as possessing a prototype of the M65. The weapon at the museum is actually a conventional T1 Gun, one of two produced as part of a separate design program which was abandoned in favor of the T131 Atomic Cannon program. Both the T1 and T131/M65 share T72 carriages.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: A remaster of "Gods Eater Burst" for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, titled God Eater Resurrection has been released on October 29, 2015, in Japan. It was released in Western territories in summer 2016 with North American and European divisions of Bandai Namco Entertainment publishing the game on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: "God Eater" is an action role-playing game in which players take control a young New-Type God Eater, special warriors dedicated to defeating monstrous enemies known as the . "God Eater" offers mission-based single-player mode, which consists over 100 missions, and cooperative play of up to three teammates over local ad hoc wireless multiplayer or AI-controlled teammates. The North American version of the game also supported the PlayStation 3's ad hoc Party. The game features character creation, allowing customization of hair style, hair color, face, skin color, clothing, and voice.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The goal of each mission is to defeat specific Aragami in the designated area within the time limit. Additional rewards are gained depending on how efficiently the mission was completed. Players can dash, sprint, and jump by consuming stamina (ST) that auto-regenerates over time. Players' sole weapon is the , a unique weapon that can instantly switch to four different forms: Blade, Gun, Shield and Predator. Attacking Aragami in Gun form consumes Oracle Points (OP). Oracle Points can be regained by successfully attacking in Blade form; however, this also consumes stamina. Once an Aragami has been defeated, materials can be collected from its remains by switching to Predator form and devouring it. If a player loses all of their health points (HP), AI teammates can use "Link Aid" to revive team members by sacrificing some HP of their own. By devouring an Aragami that is still alive, God Eaters obtain an Aragami bullet that can be fired back and temporarily enter a state called "Burst Mode" in which their speed, strength and energy regeneration increase. In addition, New-Type God Eaters can send teammates into an artificial Burst Mode called "Link Burst" by sending Aragami bullets at their teammates. The Link Burst is capable of "stacking" up to three times by receiving multiple Aragami bullets in succession.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: Players can upgrade, enhance and craft Blade, Gun, Shield, Upgrade Parts for their God arc using materials primarily found in missions. "Gods Eater Burst" introduces a new equipment part called the Control Unit which bestows different abilities to the user when in Burst Mode depending on the Unit equipped.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: "God Eater Resurrection" adds new and basic GE2RB updated features. Predator Style replaces the previously occupied Control Unit equip slot. It introduces a variety of new devouring moves such as various aerial devours, combo devours, step devours. Additionally, quick and charged devour can be changed with various other devours unlocked throughout the game. These devours can be further enhanced by the addition of various buffs, which are ranked from 1 to 3 depending on how useful they are. Devours have ranks too, from 1 to 3. The bigger the rank, the longer it takes to devour, but the better the available buffs. An updated feature from GE2 allows players the optional use of an Operator in battle, who will notify the player of any newly emerging Aragami and give status updates on players and NPCs in-battle.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: "Personal Abilities" given to the NPC characters (sometimes online players as well) can provide various extra rewards or modify mission rewards. Selecting an NPC character's Personal Ability can lead to a small post-mission cut scene giving more details about the characters. The updated game also adds four weapons: Charge Spear, Boost Hammer, Shotgun, and Variant Scythe. These weapons made their debut in "Gods Eater 2" and "Gods Eater 2 Rage Burst". In total "God Eater Resurrection" has 14 difficulty ranks: 1-6 are the original "God Eater" scenario, 7-10 are "Gods Eater Burst" and 11-14 are the new "God Eater Resurrection" story arc. Included with the game are also two "Predator packs", collections of high difficulty missions.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The game is set in a fictional country named New Asian Union (NAU) in the year 2071. Civilization has been ravaged by mysterious monsters known as the Aragami. The organization Fenrir was founded to exterminate Aragami using weapons called God Arcs, which are made from the cells of Aragami. Those who exterminate Aragami are known as God Eaters. God Eaters are classified as either old-type (which can only keep their God Arc in gun form or blade form) or new-type (that can switch between gun and blade form).


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The protagonist joins Fenrir Far East Branch alongside Kota. They are assigned to the first unit, which consists of Lindow (the leader), Sakuya, and Soma along with their instructor, Tsubaki. Dr. Paylor Sakaki teaches new recruits about Aragami, and an initiative to expand the arcology of the Far East Branch known as the Aegis Project. A God Eater from Russia named Alisa, a new-type like the protagonist, joins the first unit. During a mission, Alisa experiences a psychological episode and accidentally traps Lindow. The rest of the first unit escapes, leaving Lindow behind. Alisa is treated for her episodes and removed from combat duty. The protagonist visits Alisa when she is asleep and discovers he can see her memories by making physical contact. Her episodes are due to the childhood trauma of watching her parents eaten by an Aragami and hypnosis by her therapist. The protagonist retrains Alisa, and she returns to duty. Sakuya, grieving for Lindow, finds a secret message from him which is inaccessible without his armlet.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: After Lindow is declared missing in action, the protagonist is promoted to leader of the first unit. The director of the Fenrir Far East Branch, Johannes, uses them in top secret missions looking for the entity known as the singularity. Sakaki, aware of the director's intentions, deceives him into searching for the singularity in Europe by telling him a mysterious Aragami appeared there. Sakaki uses this time to send the first unit on a mission leading to the discovery of a human-like Aragami named Shio. They keep Shio a secret and educate her. The first unit searches for Lindow's armlet, recovering it in the body of an Aragami. Lindow's message for Sakuya reveals he was secretly investigating the Aegis Project. Sakuya and Alisa's further investigation leads them to Aegis Island. Johannes catches the two and admits that the Aegis project's true goal is to awaken the Aragami "Nova", destroy all life on earth, and save the Fenrir staff and their families by sending them into outer space in arks. Alisa's therapist hypnotizes Alisa into fighting Sakuya, but she overcomes it and the two escape.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The two inform the first unit about the Aegis Project. Kota decides to support the project to protect his family. A power outage causes the branch to go over to the backup generators controlled by Johannes, allowing him to see Sakaki is holding Shio, who is the singularity. Alisa and Sakuya rejoin the first unit after discovering that the Aegis Project is close to completion. Kota, discovering Shio is missing, decides to help the others and shows them a secret route into Aegis Island. Johannes extracts Shio's core and uses it to activate Nova. He urges the team to go into an ark before it's too late. Shio awakens, fuses her consciousness with Nova, and takes Nova to the moon in order to save the planet.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: Three months later, the first unit encounters a new-type Aragami that damages the protagonist's God Arc. Far East Branch is infiltrated by Aragami. With his God Arc undergoing repairs, the protagonist resorts to using Lindow's God Arc. Normally it is impossible to wield someone else's God Arc, but to save the life of Licca, the engineer, the protagonist endures the excruciating pain. He/She experiences Resonance through the God Arc, revealing Lindow is still alive. Before falling unconscious, the protagonist is saved from an Aragami by a God Eater, Ren, who used to work with Lindow. The search for Lindow is reopened. Ren explains that when a God Eater loses their armlet they eventually turn into Aragami themselves and can only be killed by their own God Arc. During the search for Lindow, the protagonist reencounters the new-type Aragami and experiences Resonance, revealing that the new-type is actually Lindow. The protagonist and Ren face Lindow alone on Aegis Island. Defying Ren's appeal to mercy kill Lindow, the protagonist uses Resonance to enter Lindow's mind with Ren and free him from the Aragami. During the battle, Ren reveals he is actually a projection of Lindow's God Arc and sacrifices himself to defeat the Aragami. Lindow returns to human form. Lindow marries Sakuya and begins training new-type God Eaters.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: A new Aragami, remnant of Nova, Arius Nova appears, having devoured various other Aragami. The monster becomes highly resistant to God Arcs, having similar components to the Outer Wall of Fenrir's Far East Branch.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: All three units search for Arius Nova, eventually leading to another encounter. The first unit team (the protagonist, Soma, Alisa, and Kota) are all defeated, but an Aragami resembling Shio stops it from killing them. Professor Sakaki and Licca come up with a theory that Arius Nova is increasing its power by consuming Aragami formed by other remnants of Nova, classified as "Dreadnought" class. The God Eaters attempt to stymie its growth and assemble a weapon capable of killing it by hunting Dreadnought class Aragami, while encountering various apparitions of Shio in the field. However, Arius Nova kills a Dreadnought Aragami and devours the core, as the baits set up by Sakuya and Lindow didn't distract it. Kota shoots Arius Nova, revealing that the new core introduced into its system makes it vulnerable for a small amount of time. The God Eaters assemble a mass of Dreadnought cores and fire it into Arius Nova, thus crashing its defenses while it metabolizes the cores. They defeat Arius Nova and say their goodbyes to Shio. Shio's apparition returns to the real Shio, who is still on the moon, watching over and protecting humanity from afar.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The game was directed by Yoshimura Hiroshi, produced by Yosuke Tomizawa. Character designs were provided by Koichi Itakura and Sokabe Shuji.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: "God Eater" was initially announced in July 2009 by Namco Bandai Games. Shortly after the game's Japanese release a North American release was announced by a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, D3 Publisher, for a Q3 2010 release, but was delayed to sometime in 2011.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: Namco Bandai teased a new "God Eater" project with an event known as "God Eater Fes 2010" which was scheduled to take place in Akiba Square on July 11, 2010. However, five days prior to the event, Famitsu revealed "God Eater Burst", an "evolved" version of the original "God Eater". The game was confirmed to contain additional arms, a new story, characters, enemies along with rebalanced gameplay and brushed up graphics. "God Eater Burst" was released in Japan in October 28, alongside an expansion pack "God Eater Burst: Append Edition" adding all the new content of GEB to the original GE game. The North American title was changed to "Gods Eater Burst" making the word "God" plural. In addition to the main story arc featured in the original, "Gods Eater Burst" features an added storyline not featured in the original Japanese release.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: There is a sequel to the game entitled "God Eater 2" on Famitsu, set two years after the first game. It was released on November 14, 2013.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: Several light novel series adaptations have been released. The first novel series was written by Yuurikin, illustrated by Sokabe Shuji, published by Enterbrain and serialized in Famitsu Bunko magazine. The chapters were compiled into a single volume and released on June 30, 2010, under the title . The second is made up of two-volumes: and . They were written by Ryuzaki Tsukasa, illustrated by Sokabe Shuji, and published by Kadokawa Shoten. The novels were released on September 18 and December 18 respectively.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The game had also received several manga adaptations written by Namco Bandai. The first is titled was illustrated by Osan Eijii, published by Kodansha, and serialized in Rival Comics magazine. As of December 28, 2011, the series was completed and compiled into five volumes. The second is titled "God Eater: the spiral fate" and was illustrated by Saito Rokuro, published by Dengeki Comics and serialized in Side-B.N Magazine. As of November 27, 2010, the manga was completed and compiled into two volumes. A third manga titled "God Eater: the summer wars" was illustrated by Okiura, published by Kadokawa Shoten and serialized in Dragon Age Comics Magazine. The series was completed and compiled into a single volume on May 7, 2012.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: A twelve-minute prequel original video animation was made by Ufotable and aired on September 28, 2009. An anime television series was also produced by Ufotable. The series is directed by Takayuki Hirao with character designs by Keita Shimizu. The anime began airing on July 12, 2015, after the first episode was delayed by a week due to production issues.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The official was released on a single disc on December 22, 2010. It was composed by Go Shiina and featured the game's opening and ending theme songs, "Over the Clouds" and "My Life", both of which are sung by Alan.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: A trading card game was released as "God Eater Burst Monster Collection Trading Card Game" in September 2011. Two 50-card decks were released as "God Eater Burst - God Eater" and "God Eater Burst - Aragami" that included special dice, a reference sheet, and a play mat. A set of nine miniatures featuring the Aragami was released in Japan as "Soul of Figuration God Eater". A cell phone game spin off titled, "God Eater Mobile" was developed by Mobage and released on December 16, 2010, in Japan for the i-Mode, EZWeb, and Yahoo! Keitai distribution service. Similar to the original PSP game, it features character customization, item purchasing and hunting Aragami.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The game received mixed reviews, with a 71/100 on Metacritic. The game scored well in Japanese gaming magazine "Famitsu", which gave a total score of 34 out of 40(9/9/8/8).


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The original "God Eater" sold 295,000 copies in the first week of its Japanese release, and by March 2011 "God Eater" had sold over 610,000 copies in Japan. The re-release version, "God Eater Burst", sold 263,150 copies within the first week of release in Japan. Both versions combined have sold over one million units in Japan.


title: God Eater (video game)

text: The 2015 remake, "God Eater Resurrection", sold a total of 167,857 copies across both PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 platforms within the first week of release in Japan; the majority of copies sold involved the Vita version, which took the top position within the Japanese software sales charts for that particular week.


title: Kohsuke Toriumi

text: He is a member of and . To commemorate twenty years of his debut, a book entitled released on May 16, 2016. He created his YouTube channel on March 19, 2020.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: In Hinduism, Savitri and Satyavan ( "Sāvitrī" and "Satyavān") are a legendary couple, known for Savitri's love and devotion to her husband Satyavan. According to the legend, princess Savitri marries an exiled prince named Satyavan, who was prophesied to die early. The later part of legend focuses on Savitri's wit and love, which saved her husband from the death god Yama.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: The oldest known version of the story of Savitri and Satyavan is found in "Vana Parva" ("The Book of the Forest") of the "Mahabharata". The story occurs as a multiply-embedded narrative in the "Mahabharata" as told by sage Markandeya. When Yudhishthira asks Markandeya whether there has ever been a woman whose devotion matched Draupadi's, Markandeya replies by relating this story.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: The childless king of the Madra Kingdom, Ashwapati, lives ascetically for many years and offers oblations to Sun God Savitr. His consort is Malavika. Finally, pleased by the prayers, God Savitr appears to him and grants him a boon: he will soon have a daughter. The king is joyful at the prospect of a child. She is born and named Savitri in honor of the god. Savitri is born out of devotion and asceticism, traits she will herself practice.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: Savitri is so beautiful and pure, she intimidates all the men in the vicinity. When she reaches the age of marriage, no man asks for her hand, so her father tells her to find a husband on her own. She sets out on a pilgrimage for this purpose and finds Satyavan, the son of a blind king named Dyumatsena of the Salwa kingdom; Dyumatsena lost everything including his sight and lives in exile as a forest-dweller with his wife and son.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: Savitri returns to find her father speaking with Sage Narada who announces that Savitri has made a bad choice: although perfect in every way, Satyavan is destined to die one year from that day. In response to her father's pleas to choose a more suitable husband, Savitri insists that she will choose her husband but once. After Narada announces his agreement with Savitri, Ashwapati acquiesces.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: Savitri and Satyavan are married, and she goes to live in the forest. Immediately after the marriage, Savitri wears the clothing of a hermit and lives in perfect obedience and respect to her new parents-in-law and husband.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: Three days before the foreseen death of Satyavan, Savitri takes a vow of fasting and vigil. Her father-in-law tells her she has taken on too harsh a regimen, but Savitri replies that she has taken an oath to perform these austerities, to which Dyumatsena offers his support.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: The morning of Satyavan's predicted death, Savitri asks for her father-in-law's permission to accompany her husband into the forest. Since she has never asked for anything during the entire year she has spent at the hermitage, Dyumatsena grants her wish.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: They go and while Satyavan is splitting wood, he suddenly becomes weak and lays his head in Savitri's lap. Servants of Yama the god of Death come and return without the soul of Satyavan due to Savitri's holiness. Then Yama himself comes to claim the soul of Satyavan. Savitri follows Yama as he carries the soul away. When he tries to convince her to turn back, she offers successive formulas of wisdom. First, she praises obedience to Dharma, then friendship with the strict, then Yama himself for his just rule, then Yama as King of Dharma, and finally noble conduct with no expectation of return. Impressed at each speech, Yama praises both the content and style of her words and offers any wish, except the life of Satyavan. First, Savitri asks that her father-in-law's sight be restored, then she asks that his kingdom be returned to him. And finally, she asks Yama that she be the mother of a hundred sons. The last wish creates a dilemma for Yama, as it would indirectly grant the life of Satyavan. However, impressed by Savitri's dedication and purity, he offers one more time for her to choose any wish, but this time omitting "except for the life of Satyavan". Savitri instantly asks for Satyavan to return to life. Yama grants life to Satyavan and blesses both of them to attain a long life.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: Satyavan awakens as though he has been in a deep sleep and returns to his parents along with his wife. Meanwhile, at their home, Dyumatsena regains his eyesight before Savitri and Satyavan return. Since Satyavan still does not know what happened, Savitri relays the story to her parents-in-law, husband, and the gathered ascetics. As they praise her, Dyumatsena's ministers arrive with news of the death of his usurper. Joyfully, the king and his entourage return to his kingdom.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: In Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha, married women observe Savitri Brata on the Amavasya (new moon) day in the month of Jyestha every year. This is performed for the well-being and long life of their husbands. A treatise entitled "Savitri Brata Katha" in the Odia language is read out by women while performing the puja. In Western India, the holy day is observed on the Purnima (full moon) of the month as Vat Purnima. In India, many women are named "Savitri".


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: It is believed that Savitri got her husband back on the first day of the Tamil month Panguni. This day is celebrated as "Karadayan Nonbu" in Tamil Nadu. On this day, married women and young girls wear yellow robes and pray to Hindu goddesses for long lives for their husbands. Girls start this practice at a very young age; they wear a yellow robe on this day from the time they are a year old so they will find a good husband in future.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: In England, Gustav Holst composed a chamber opera in one act in 1916, his Opus 25, named "Savitri" based on this story.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: There have been about thirty-four film versions of the Savitri/Satyavan story produced in India. One of the earliest is the Indian silent film, "Satyavan Savitri" (1914) directed by Dadasaheb Phalke. Other silent-era films include the failed "Savitri" (1912) by V. P. Divekar, A. P. Karandikar and Shree Nath Patankar, "Sukanya Savitri" (1922) by Kanjibhai Rathod, "Sati Savitri" (1927) by Baburao Painter, "Sati Savitri" (1931) by Bidkar. The 1923 version, "Savitri" also called "Satyavan Savitri", was an Italian co-production directed by Giorgio Mannini and J. J. Madan, produced by Madan Theatres Ltd. and Cines.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: "Sati Savitri" (1932), a sound film, was released in Hindi/Gujarati by Chandulal Shah and was the second talkie Gujarati film. "Savitri" (1933) was the first film produced by the East India Film Company. Directed by C. Pullaiah, it received an Honorary Certificate at the Venice Film Festival. Bhalji Pendharkar released "Savitri" (1936) in Marathi. In 1937, "Savitri" was produced in Hindi directed by Franz Osten. "Sathyavaan Savithiri" (1933), "Savithri" (1941) by Y. V. Rao were also made during British rule in India.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: Many films, centering on this story, were made after independence (especially in South India) and included: Telugu language film versions of the story in 1957, 1977 and 1981. "Satyavan Savitri" (1948), Mahasati Savitri (1955) by Ramnik Vaidya, "Savitri" (1961) by Phani Majumdar, "Satyavan Savitri" (1963) by Dinesh Rawal, "Sati Savitri" (1964) by Shantilal Soni, "Sati Savitri" (1965) by P. R. Kaundinya, "Mahasati Savitri" (1973) by Chandrakant, "Sathyavaan Savithri" (1977) by P. G. Viswambharan, "Savithri" (1978) by T. S. Ranga, "Sati Savitri" (1982) by Girish Manukant, "Savitri" (1983) by Murlidhar Kapdi, "Maha Sati Savitri" (1983) by Sona Mukherjee.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: The Tamil-language films "Doctor Savithri" (1955) and "Roja" (1992) are contemporary adaptations of the story of Savitri and Satyvan.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: "Savitri - EK Prem Kahani", an Indian television series which aired on Life OK in 2013 is a modern adaptation of the story.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: "Savitri" by Pavan Sadineni and "Warrior Savitri" (2016) by Param Gill are modern-day adaptations of the tale. The latter was controversial for its depiction of Savitri as a 21st-century woman.


title: Savitri and Satyavan

text: "Satyawaan Savitri" is a 2022 big budget "Marathi" TV series airing on "Zee Marathi" based on this story.


title: Glenn Carano

text: Glenn Thomas Carano (born November 18, 1955) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys for seven seasons. He also was a member of the Pittsburgh Maulers in the United States Football League. He played college football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He is currently the General manager of Eldorado Resorts properties of Circus Circus, Eldorado, and Silver Legacy Resort & Casino.


title: Glenn Carano

text: Born in San Pedro, California, Carano's Pop Warner football coach was former NFL quarterback Eddie LeBaron. He graduated from Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada, in 1973. He received high school All-American honors as a senior.


title: Glenn Carano

text: Carano accepted a football scholarship from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he became a four-year starter at quarterback for the Rebels. As a true freshman in 1973 under first-year head coach Ron Meyer, he was named the starter.


title: Glenn Carano

text: As a sophomore in 1974, Carano helped UNLV achieve a number two ranking in Division II, after they completed their one and only undefeated regular season. The Rebels met Delaware in the Grantland Rice Bowl, a national semifinal, but lost backfield with Carano was senior running back Mike Thomas, a fifth round selection in the 1975 NFL Draft and the offensive rookie of the year with the Washington Redskins. He finished with 49 completions out of 106 attempts, 839 passing yards, 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.


title: Glenn Carano

text: As a junior in 1975, he registered 128 completions out of 226 attempts, 2,039 passing yards, 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.


title: Glenn Carano

text: As a senior in 1976 under new head coach Tony Knap, Carano completed 148 of 277 passes for 2,024 yards, 13 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, while leading the Rebels to the Division II Midwest Regional (national quarterfinal) and a number seven national ranking. His twin brother Gene was his top receiver in his last season.


title: Glenn Carano

text: In his college career, Carano completed 337 of 636 passes for 5,095 yards, 37 passing touchdowns and 19 rushing touchdowns, while setting almost all of the school's passing records.


title: Glenn Carano

text: In 1989, he was inducted into the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame.


title: Glenn Carano

text: In the 1977 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys didn't have a second round draft choice, after trading three of them to the Seattle Seahawks as part of the package to acquire Tony Dorsett. On May 3, the Cowboys traded wide receiver Duke Fergerson to the Seahawks in exchange for the 26th position in the second round, used to The Cowboys used to carry only 2 quarterbacks on their roster until drafting Carano, who became the third-string quarterback after passing fellow rookie Steve Deberg on the depth chart.


title: Glenn Carano

text: From 1977 to 1979, Carano was the third-string quarterback behind Roger Staubach and Danny White. In 1980, he became the backup after the retirement of Staubach.


title: Glenn Carano

text: Carano is perhaps best remembered for replacing the injured White in the 1981 Thanksgiving game against the Chicago Bears and helping the Cowboys to a comeback win. The next game was the only start of his NFL career, in which he completed 7 of 18 passes for 51 yards in a against the Baltimore Colts. Notably, the opposing quarterback for the Colts, David Humm, was also making his first and only NFL start, the only time in NFL history two "one and done" quarterbacks have ever faced off. Carano and Humm were the subjects of an NFL Films piece entitled "My One and Only," recounting the 1981 game; it noted that the two had been friends since high school (both played high school football in Nevada), and remained friends until Humm's death in 2018.


title: Glenn Carano

text: In 1982, Carano was passed on the depth chart by Gary Hogeboom for the backup quarterback role behind White.


title: Glenn Carano

text: On December 1, 1983, Carano signed with the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League where he completed 53.7% of his passes for 2,368 yards, 13 touchdowns and 19 interceptions in the 1984 season. The next year owner Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. folded the team, after the USFL announced that they would be switching to a fall schedule in 1986.


title: Glenn Carano

text: Carano has served on the Nevada Athletic Commission, the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority Marketing Committee, the Board of Directors for the Airport Authority of Washoe Country, and the Board of Directors for Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows. He is married to Lamise and has three daughters, Kasey, Gina and Christi. Gina is a television personality, retired mixed martial arts fighter, actress and fitness model. His father, Donald Louis "Don" Carano (October 17, 1931 – October 3, 2017), was an attorney and entrepreneur in Reno, Nevada.


title: The Grand Old Duke of York

text: "The Grand Old Duke of York" (also sung as The Noble Duke of York) is an English children's nursery rhyme, often performed as an action song. The eponymous duke has been argued to be a number of the bearers of that title, particularly Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827) and its lyrics (where the duke marches ten thousand soldiers up and down a hill for no apparent reason) have become proverbial for futile action. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 742.


title: The Grand Old Duke of York

text: Like many popular nursery rhymes the origins of the song have been much debated and remain unclear. Unusually the rhyme clearly refers to an historical person and debates have tended to circulate around identifying which Duke is being referred to in the lyrics. The lyrics were not printed in their modern form until relatively recently, in Arthur Rackham's "Mother Goose" in 1913. Prior to that a number of alternatives have been found including a note that in Warwickshire in 1892 the song was sung of both the Duke of York and the King of France; from 1894 that it was sung of Napoleon. The oldest version of the song that survives is from 1642, under the title 'Old Tarlton's song', attributed to the stage clown Richard Tarlton (1530–1588) with the lyrics:


title: The Grand Old Duke of York

text: As a result, the argument has been made that it may have been a common satirical verse that was adapted as appropriate and, because it was recorded in roughly the modern form, has become fixed on the Duke of York. Candidates for the duke in question include:


title: The Grand Old Duke of York

text: A Dutch adaptation of the song replaces the Duke of York with Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), whose practice of training mercenaries (completely new, and mocked at first) became famous following his success in war. It is not known when the British song crossed the North Sea, but nowadays it is well-known within the Dutch scouting movement.


title: The Grand Old Duke of York

text: In February 2022, parodies of the nursery rhyme referencing Prince Andrew, Duke of York's reported £12 million out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre had entered circulation. A version reported in the media contained the lyrics:


title: The Grand Old Duke of York

text: Later in May, black comedy musician Kunt and the Gang released the satirical single "Prince Andrew Is a Sweaty Nonce" about the controversy surrounding his 2019 interview with Emily Maitlis on "Newsnight". The single's verses directly interpolate the nursery rhyme.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Joshua Wong Chi-fung (; born 13 October 1996) is a Hong Kong activist and politician. He served as secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosistō until it disbanded following the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020. Wong was previously convenor and founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism. Wong first rose to international prominence during the 2014 Hong Kong protests, and his pivotal role in the Umbrella Movement resulted in his inclusion in TIME magazine's Most Influential Teens of 2014 and nomination for its 2014 Person of the Year; he was further called one of the "world's greatest leaders" by "Fortune" magazine in 2015, and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.


title: Joshua Wong

text: In August 2017, Wong and two other democracy activists were convicted and jailed for their roles in the occupation of Civic Square at the incipient stage of the 2014 Occupy Central protests; in January 2018, Wong was convicted and jailed again for failing to comply with a court order for clearance of the Mong Kok protest site during the Hong Kong protests in 2014. He also played a major role in persuading US politicians to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. Wong was disqualified by the Hong Kong government from running in forthcoming District Council elections. In June 2020, he announced he would be running for a Legislative Council seat in the upcoming election, and officially applied on 20 July 2020, before his nomination was invalidated on 30 July 2020 along with that of 11 other pro-democracy figures. In December 2020, Wong was convicted and jailed for the third time over an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in June 2019.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Joshua Wong was born in Hong Kong on 13 October 1996, and was diagnosed with dyslexia in early childhood. The son of middle-class couple Grace and Roger Wong, Wong was raised as a Protestant Christian in the Lutheran tradition. His social awareness stems from his father, a retired IT professional, who was a convener of a local anti-gay marriage initiative, and often took him as a child to visit the underprivileged.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong studied at the United Christian College (Kowloon East), a private Christian secondary school in Kowloon, and developed organisational and speaking skills through involvement in church groups. Wong subsequently pursued undergraduate studies at the Open University of Hong Kong, having enrolled in a bachelor's degree in political studies and public administration. Due to his political activities, he took study leave from his studies, and has reportedly remained a student as of 2019.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 29 May 2011, Wong and schoolmate Ivan Lam Long-yin established Scholarism, a student activist group. The group began with simple means of protest, such as the distribution of leaflets against the newly announced moral and national education (MNE) curriculum. In time, however, Wong's group grew in both size and influence, and in 2012 managed to organise a political rally attended by over 100,000 people. Wong received widespread attention as the group's convenor.


title: Joshua Wong

text: In June 2014, Scholarism drafted a plan to reform Hong Kong's electoral system to push for universal suffrage, under one country, two systems. His group strongly advocated for the inclusion of civic nomination in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. Wong as a student leader started a class boycott among Hong Kong's students to send a pro-democracy message to Beijing.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 27 September 2014, Wong was one of the 78 people arrested by the police during a massive pro-democracy protest, after hundreds of students occupied Civic Square in front of the Central Government Complex as a sign of protest against Beijing's decision on the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform. Unlike fellow protesters, only in response to a court order obtained by writ of "habeas corpus" was Wong released by police, after 46 hours in custody.


title: Joshua Wong

text: During the protests, Wong stated: "Among all the people in Hong Kong, there is only one person who can decide whether the current movement will last and he is [Chief Executive of the region] Leung. If Leung can accept our demands ... (the) movement will naturally come to an end." On 25 September 2014 the state-owned Wen Wei Po published an article which claimed that "US forces" had worked to cultivate Wong as a "political superstar". Wong in turn denied every detail in the report through a statement that he subsequently posted online. Wong also said that he was mentioned by name in mainland China's Blue Paper on National Security, which identified internal threats to the stability of Communist Party rule; quoting a line in V for Vendetta, he in turn said that "People should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of their people."


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong was charged on 27 November 2014 with obstructing a bailiff clearing one of Hong Kong's three protest areas. His lawyer described the charge as politically motivated. He was banned from a large part of Mong Kok, one of the protester-occupied sites, as one of the bail conditions. Wong claimed that police beat him and tried to injure his groin as he was arrested, and taunted and swore at him while he was in custody.


title: Joshua Wong

text: After Wong's appearance at Kowloon City Magistrates' Court on 27 November 2014, he was pelted with eggs by two assailants. They were arrested and each fined $3,000 in August 2015, sentences which, on application for review by the prosecution, were subsequently enhanced to two weeks' imprisonment.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 2 December 2014, Wong and two other students began an indefinite hunger strike to demand renewed talks with the Hong Kong government. He decided to end the hunger strike after four days on medical advice.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong was arrested and held for three hours on Friday, 16 January 2015, for his alleged involvement in offences of calling for, inciting and participating in an unauthorised assembly.


title: Joshua Wong

text: The same month, an article appeared in the Pro-Beijing newspaper "Wen Wei Po" alleging that Wong had met with the US consul-general in Hong Kong Stephen M. Young during the latter's visit in 2011. It suggested that Wong had links with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, which had supposedly offered him military training by the US Army. Wong responded that the claims were pure fiction and "more like jokes."


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong was denied entry into Malaysia at Penang International Airport, on 26 May 2015, on the basis that he was considered "a threat to Malaysia's ties with China", largely due to his supposed "anti-China" stance in participating in the 2014 Hong Kong protests.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 28 June 2015, two days before a protest in favour of democracy, Wong and his girlfriend were attacked by an unknown man after watching a film in Mong Kok. The assault sent the two to hospital. Wong sustained injuries to his nose and eyes. No one was arrested.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 19 August 2015, Wong was formally charged by the Hong Kong Department of Justice with inciting other people to join an unlawful assembly and also joining an unlawful assembly, alongside Alex Chow, the former leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students.


title: Joshua Wong

text: While travelling to Taiwan for a political seminar, "pro-China" protesters attempted to assault Wong at the arrival hall of Taoyuan's Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, necessitating police protection. It was later found that local gangsters were involved.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong was detained on arrival in Thailand on 5 October 2016. He had been invited to speak about his Umbrella Movement experience at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the Thammasat University massacre, hosted by Chulalongkorn University.


title: Joshua Wong

text: A Thai student activist who invited Wong, Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, said that Thai authorities had received a request from the Chinese government earlier regarding Wong's visit. His own request to see Wong was denied.


title: Joshua Wong

text: After nearly 12 hours' detention, Wong was deported to Hong Kong. Wong claimed that, upon detention, the authorities would say no more than that he had been blacklisted but, just prior to deportation, they had informed him that his deportation was pursuant to Sections 19, 22 and 54 of the Immigration Act B.E. 2522.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Hong Kong Legislator Claudia Mo called the incident "despicable" and stated: "If this becomes a precedent it means it could happen to you or me at any time if somehow Beijing thinks you are a dangerous, unwelcome person". Jason Y. Ng, a Hong Kong journalist and author, stated that Wong's detention showed "how ready Beijing is to flex its diplomatic muscles and [how it] expects neighbouring governments to play ball".


title: Joshua Wong

text: In April 2016, Wong founded a new political party, Demosistō, with other Scholarism leaders including Agnes Chow, Oscar Lai, and Umbrella activists, the original student activist group Scholarism having been disbanded. The party advocated for a referendum to be held to determine Hong Kong's sovereignty after 2047, the scheduled expiration of the one country, two systems principle enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Hong Kong Basic Law. As the founding secretary-general of the party, Wong also planned to contest the 2016 Legislative Council election. Wong was still only 19 and being below the statutory minimum age of 21 for candidacy, he filed an application (ultimately unsuccessful) for judicial review of the election law, in October 2015. After his decision to found his own political party, Wong became a focus of criticism, especially on social networks.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 1 February 2018, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers, led by Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) Chair US Senator Marco Rubio and vice-ranking member US Representative Chris Smith, announced that they had nominated Wong, Nathan Law, Alex Chow and the entire Umbrella Movement for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, for "their peaceful efforts to bring political reform and protect the autonomy and freedoms guaranteed Hong Kong in the Sino-British Joint Declaration".


title: Joshua Wong

text: Joshua Wong's release coincided with the ongoing protests against extradition bill. Upon his release, Wong criticised the oppression of protesters by the Hong Kong police, and the extradition draft law as pro-Beijing and called for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam to resign.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong did not take part with the protesters who forcibly broke into the Hong Kong's parliamentary Legislative Council building on 1 July, but he explained the need behind the move. According to him, the reason behind people entering the Legislative Council is that the council is "never democratically elected by people".


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong was then arrested again on 29 August 2019 the day before a planned demonstration, which was not given city approval.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 9 September, Wong met with the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. The Chinese Foreign Ministry called this move "disrespectful of China's sovereignty and an interference in China’s internal affairs".


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 17 September, Wong and other student activists participated in a Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) commission in the United States Capitol. He said that the Chinese government should not grab all the economic benefit from Hong Kong, while attacking the freedom of Hong Kong. He also urged the U.S. Congress to pass the "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act". Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang responded that the U.S. should not interfere in China's affairs.


title: Joshua Wong

text: The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, met with Wong on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on 18 September. Chinese media sharply criticised Pelosi for this meeting, accusing her of "backing and encouraging radical activists."


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 29 October 2019, Joshua Wong was barred from running in forthcoming district council elections in the South Horizons West constituency by returning officer Laura Liang Aron, who temporarily took over for Dorothy Ma Chau Pui-fun (South Horizon West's returning officer) after the latter took sick leave. Many (including Joshua Wong himself) have accused the Chinese Central Government and the Hong Kong Government of pressuring Returning Officers into disqualifying Joshua Wong.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 30 June 2020, Wong, together with Agnes Chow and Nathan Law, announced respectively on Demosistō's Facebook page that they had quit the group in light of the risk of prosecution under the national security law enacted by China. Hours later, the Demosistō organisation also announced on its blog that it was ceasing all activity, signing off with the message "We will meet again".


title: Joshua Wong

text: Having risen to political prominence as a teenager, the 2020 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election, due on 6 September, was the first at which Wong was eligible to stand. He announced his candidacy on 20 July, following his poll-topping endorsement by 30,000 voters in the democratic camp's unofficial primaries.


title: Joshua Wong

text: However, just 10 days later, and five weeks ahead of the (later postponed) election, the government stated that Wong was among a dozen pro-democracy candidates whose nominations were 'invalid', under the same opaque process that had seen him struck from candidacy in the previous year's District Council election, in which, nominally, civil servants – returning officers – assess whether, for instance, a candidate had objected to the enactment of the national security law, or was sincere in statements made disavowing separatism.


title: Joshua Wong

text: In June 2020 during the George Floyd protests, Wong voiced his support for the Black Lives Matter movement and opposition to police brutality in the United States. In the same month, he also called American basketball player Lebron James "hypocritical" for only focusing on issues in the U.S. and staying silent regarding issues in China.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong, along with two other prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy student leaders Nathan Law and Alex Chow, were jailed for six to eight months on 17 August 2017 for unlawful assembly (Wong and Law) and incitement to assemble unlawfully (Chow) at Civic Square, at the Central Government Complex in the Tamar site, during a protest that triggered the 79-day Occupy sit-ins of 2014. The sentences halted their political careers, as they would be barred from running for public office for five years.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On the third anniversary of the 2014 protests, 28 September 2017, Wong started the first of a series of columns for "The Guardian", written from the Pik Uk Correctional Institution, where he said that despite a dull and dry life there, he remained proud of his commitment to the movement.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 13 October 2017, Wong was convicted with 19 others of contempt of court for obstructing execution of the court's order for clearance of part of the Occupy Central protest zone in Mong Kok in October 2014. The order had been obtained by a public minibus association.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 14 November 2017, Wong, together with Ivan Lam, commenced an application for judicial review in the High Court challenging the constitutionality of the provision in the Legislative Council Ordinance preventing persons sentenced to terms of imprisonment exceeding three months from standing for office for five years from the date of conviction.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 18 January 2018, Wong was sentenced by Mr Justice Andrew H C Chan of the High Court to three months' imprisonment in respect of his October 2017 conviction for contempt of court. Nineteen other protesters convicted in respect of the same incident all received prison terms, though the terms were suspended for all but Wong and fellow protester Raphael Wong. As part of his reasoning, Chan expressed the view that, by November 2014, the protests had become pointless and their only effect was to impact the lives of "ordinary citizens" of the region.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Wong was sentenced to two months of prison on 16 May 2019, for his involvement in events on 26 November 2014 in Mong Kok, an area in Hong Kong, where demonstrators opposed the police during the Umbrella revolution.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Joshua Wong was released on 17 June 2019, after just around a month time in jail because he had already served some time associated to this case back in 2018, thus adding up to a total of two months' term.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 24 September 2020, Wong was arrested when he reported to a police station regarding another case against him. He was charged with "unlawful assembly", which was related to his participation in the 2019 protest against a government ban on face masks, where he was said to have violated the anti-mask law of Hong Kong. On 30 September, he was temporarily released by the court along with activist Koo Sze-yiu (). The Principal Magistrate granted the two bail of HK$1,000 each, and imposed a travel ban on Wong at the prosecutors’ request.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 23 November 2020, Wong appeared with Ivan Lam Long-yin and Agnes Chow Ting in the West Kowloon District Court, where they had been expected to stand trial over their roles in the anti extradition bill protest on 21 June 2019. He was charged with organising an unauthorised assembly and of inciting others to take part in the event. The three pleaded guilty, and were put in custody until sentencing at a court hearing scheduled for 2 December 2020. Before appearing in court, Wong had said the trio were prepared to face immediate jail terms, and hoped their stance would draw global attention to a criminal justice system he claimed was being “manipulated by Beijing”. Wong, together with Ivan Lam, was remanded to Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 2 December 2020, Wong was found guilty of organising and inciting unlawful assembly, but not guilty of taking part in it. He was sentenced to 1 year and 1 month in prison. West Kowloon Magistrate Wong Sze-lai, stated: "The defendants called on protesters to besiege the headquarters and chanted slogans that undermine the police force". Amnesty International condemned the sentencing, saying that the Chinese authorities "send a warning to anyone who dares to openly criticise the government that they could be next". He is currently serving his prison term at Shek Pik Prison.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 29 January 2021, Wong pleaded guilty to two additional charges related to his involvement in a rally on Hong Kong Island on 5 October 2019: taking part in an unauthorised assembly and wearing a facial covering during an unauthorised assembly.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 13 April 2021, Wong was sentenced to four months in jail for unauthorised assembly and violating an anti-mask law.


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 6 May 2021, the Hong Kong District Court sentenced Wong to ten more months in prison for participating in an unauthorised assembly to mark the 2020 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The judge who sentenced him said that "[T]he sentence should deter people from offending and re-offending in the future."


title: Joshua Wong

text: In August 2022, Benny Tai and Joshua Wong along with 24 other Pan-democrat activists were plead guilty to subversion. The legal decision was made without a jury and the judge was a Pro-Beijing National Security judge hand picked by the Justice Secretary.


title: Joshua Wong

text: US House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement saying "China’s brutal sentencing of these young champions of democracy in Hong Kong is appalling." Pelosi further called on the world to denounce "this unjust sentencing and China’s widespread assault on Hong Kongers.” US Senator Marsha Blackburn also called the sentence destroying "any semblance of autonomy in Hong Kong." In addition, US State Secretary Michael Pompeo decried the prison term in an official statement issued by the State department.


title: Joshua Wong

text: UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab issued a statement urging "Hong Kong and Beijing authorities to bring an end to their campaign to stifle opposition" in response to the prison sentences of the three pro-democracy activists.


title: Joshua Wong

text: Japan's government spokesperson Katsunobu Kato in a regular news conference expressed Japan's "increasingly grave concerns about the recent Hong Kong situation such as sentences against three including Agnes Chow".


title: Joshua Wong

text: The Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) issued a statement referencing to the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) that "the decision to imprison Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam represents a failure by the Hong Kong government to protect the people's political rights and freedom of speech".


title: Joshua Wong

text: Maria Adebahr, a Germany's foreign ministry spokesperson, stated that the prison terms are “another building block in a series of worrisome developments that we have seen in connection with human and civil rights in Hong Kong during the last year.”


title: Joshua Wong

text: On 6 January 2021, Wong was among 53 members of the pro-democratic camp who were arrested under the national security law, specifically its provision regarding alleged subversion. The group stood accused of the organisation of and participation in the primaries of July 2020. He was arrested from prison, and his home was reportedly searched. On 28 February 2021, he was formally charged, along with 46 others for subversion.


title: John Stankey

text: John T. Stankey (born 1962) is an American businessman currently serving as CEO of AT&T Inc. and as a member of AT&T Inc.’s board of directors. He previously served as AT&T’s president and COO and was former CEO of WarnerMedia. Stankey led AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV and Time Warner in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He assumed the CEO role of AT&T effective July 1, 2020, succeeding Randall L. Stephenson.


title: John Stankey

text: Stankey was raised in Los Angeles, the youngest of three children. His father was an insurance underwriter and his mother a housewife. In the 1980s, he graduated with a B.B.A. in Finance from Loyola Marymount University. In 1991, he earned an M.B.A. from UCLA.


title: John Stankey

text: In 1985, Stankey took an entry-level position with Pacific Bell. which was acquired by SBC Communications in 1996. Stankey went on to serve as the Executive Vice President of Industry Markets beginning in 1998 becoming the Executive President of Industry Markets in 2000. In 2001 Stankey became the President and CEO for SBC Southwest.


title: John Stankey

text: Stankey served as CIO of the "new AT&T" after the merger of SBC with AT&T Corporation finalized in 2005, becoming the senior executive vice president and CTO for AT&T from 2008 to 2012, Stankey held various senior executive positions within the company and in January 2012, Stankey became the CSO and group president of AT&T.


title: John Stankey

text: Stankey took a seat on the board of directors for UPS in 2014 (a position he would hold until 2020). In 2015, he became the CEO of AT&T Entertainment Group (AEG), taking control of the newly acquired DIRECTV business. Stankey then assumed control of the newly acquired Time Warner company (acquired by AT&T in 2018), which was quickly renamed WarnerMedia (WM).


title: John Stankey

text: In 2018, Stankey was named CEO of WarnerMedia which owns various media and film corporations, including Warner Bros., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, and CNN.


title: John Stankey

text: On October 1, 2019, Stankey became the COO of AT&T while continuing to serve as the CEO of WarnerMedia.


title: John Stankey

text: Michael Sainato, writing for "The Guardian", noted that AT&T had "lobbied aggressively in favor of the 2017 Trump tax cuts", committing to significant job creation (7,000 new positions), as well as to capital investment on the order of US$ $ 1-billion, further noting the significant tax savings the legislation provided—US$ 21-billion at time of passage of the bill, and a further ca. US$ 3-billion annually thereafter (arising from the lower corporate tax rate). He goes on to note that AT&T had "eliminated more than 42,000 jobs" since the passage of the tax cut legislation, in the period before it began its June 2020 retail store closures. As such, in the period between 2015 (when Stankey assumed control of DIRECTV and the AT&T Entertainment Group) and 2021, AT&T laid off over 42,000 U.S. workers.


title: John Stankey

text: On April 1, 2020, AT&T announced that Stankey would be stepping down as CEO of WarnerMedia. Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar assumed the role effective May 1, 2020, reporting to Stankey. On July 1, 2020, Stankey replaced Randall L. Stephenson as CEO of AT&T Inc.


title: John Stankey

text: In February 2021, Stankey oversaw the sale of a third of AT&T’s stake in DirecTV to TPG Capital for $16.25 billion. AT&T had paid 48 billion ($67 billion including debt) to purchase DirecTV in 2015. Stankey also oversaw WarnerMedia’s sale to Discovery Inc. in May 2021, for $43 billion in cash, plus an estimated $59 billion in Discovery, Inc. stock. AT&T had paid $85 billion for WarnerMedia in 2018.


title: John Stankey

text: On April 30, 2021, AT&T announced that a nonbinding shareholder vote had rejected AT&T's executive compensation proposal by a slight majority. This came after reports that AT&T had "lost [US]$5.4 billion and cut thousands of jobs". The shareholder action sought to address pay issues in light of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in light of the company's massive layoffs, poor service and subscriber results, continued subscriber losses, and middling stock returns.


title: John Stankey

text: Stankey received US$ 22.5-million in compensation during the 2019 fiscal year, and US$ 21-million during the following year. In addition, AT&T executives Stankey and Jason Kilar were given significant stock awards for 2020.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Lake St. Clair () is a freshwater lake that lies between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Michigan. It was named in 1679 by French Catholic explorers after Saint Clare of Assisi, on whose feast day they first saw the lake.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: It is part of the Great Lakes system, and along with the St. Clair River and Detroit River, Lake St. Clair connects Lake Huron (to the north) with Lake Erie (to the south). It has a total surface area of about and an average depth of just ; to ensure an uninterrupted waterway, government agencies in both countries have maintained a 30 feet deep shipping channel through the shallow lake for more than a century.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: This lake is situated about northeast of the downtown areas of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Along with the St. Clair River and Detroit River, Lake St. Clair connects Lake Huron (to its north) with Lake Erie (to its south). The area is notable for the fact that the Canadian territory around the lake (Windsor metropolitan area) lies south of the adjacent United States territory.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Lake St. Clair measures about from north to south and about from east to west. Its total surface area is about . This is a rather shallow lake for its size, with an average depth of about , and a maximum natural depth of . However, it is deep in the navigation channel which is dredged for lake freighter passage by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The lake is fed by the St. Clair River, which flows to the south from Lake Huron and has an extensive river delta where it enters Lake St. Clair. This is the largest delta of the Great Lakes System.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Other rivers which feed Lake St. Clair are the Thames and Sydenham rivers which originate in Southwestern Ontario, and the Clinton River, which originates in Michigan. The outflow from Lake St. Clair travels from its southwestern end into the Detroit River, and then into Lake Erie.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: The tarry time (i.e. the time between entering and leaving) of the water in Lake St. Clair averages about seven days, but this can vary from as little as two to as many as thirty days, depending on the direction of the winds, the water circulation patterns, and the amount of water that is flowing out of Lake Huron. For water flowing through the navigation channel, the time period is only about two days.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Lake St. Clair is part of the Great Lakes system, but it is 17 times smaller than Lake Ontario by surface area, and more than 80 times by volume. It is rarely included in the list of "Great Lakes" but is sometimes referred to as "the sixth Great Lake". Scattered proposals have called for it to be officially recognized as a Great Lake, which might enable it to attract greater public funding for scientific research and other projects.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: First Nations/Native Americans used the lake as part of their extensive navigation of the Great Lakes. The Mississauga called it ', meaning "(at) the whirlpool". The Wea derived their name from a Miami cognate: '.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: In the latter part of the 17th century, the Mississauga established a village near the lake. Early French mapmakers had identified the lake by a variety of French and Iroquoian-language names, including ' [Seawater Lake]; "Lac Ganatchio" ("kettle," for its shape), in French '. A variety of Native names were associated with sweetness, as the lake was freshwater as opposed to saltwater. These included "Otsiketa" (sugar or candy), "Kandequio" or "Kandekio" (possibly candy), "Oiatinatchiketo" (probably a form of Otsiketa), and "Oiatinonchikebo". Similarly, the Iroquois nations called present-day Lake Huron a term meaning "The Grand Lake of the Sweet Sea" (fresh water as opposed to salt water.)


title: Lake St. Clair

text: The French expressed this association on their maps as ' (sweet sea) and the Dutch identified it in Latin as '.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: On August 12, 1679, the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle arrived with an expedition. He named the body of water "Lac Sainte-Claire," as the expedition sighted it on the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi. The historian on the voyage, Louis Hennepin, recorded that the Iroquoian tribes referred to the lake as "Otseketa".


title: Lake St. Clair

text: As early as 1710, the English adopted the French name, identifying the lake on their maps as Saint Clare. By the Mitchell Map in 1755, the spelling appeared as the shorter "St. Clair," the form that became most widely used. Some scholars credit the name as honoring the American Revolutionary War General Arthur St. Clair, later Governor of the Northwest Territory, but the name Lake St. Clair was in use with this current spelling long before St. Clair became a notable figure. Together the place name and general's name likely influenced settlers' naming a proliferation of nearby political jurisdictions: the Michigan county and township of St. Clair, as well as the cities of St. Clair and St. Clair Shores.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Some local historians attributed the namesake to Patrick Sinclair, a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outlet of the Pine River. There, in 1764, he built Fort Sinclair, which was in use for nearly twenty years before being abandoned.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Unlike most smaller lakes in the region—but like the Great Lakes—"Lake" comes at the front of its proper name, rather than the end; this is reflective of its French origins.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Lake St Clair's location, downstream from the largest freshwater delta in the Great Lakes, has a large effect on its turbidity (clarity). Current water quality is quite good despite past incidents and a history of chemical bio-accumulation. A number of cities source drinking water from or just downstream of the lake and quality is closely monitored.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: In the early 1970s, the Canadian and American governments closed the commercial fishery over concerns of bio-accumulation of mercury. The industry responsible for this contamination was the Dow Chemical Chlor-Alkali Plant in Sarnia, Ontario. Since 1949, Dow Chemical had been operating mercury cell plants for the production of chlorine and other chemicals. Through its production process, it discharged mercury into the river and contaminated the fishery. The fishery has since not been re-opened, although studies have now confirmed mercury levels are well within the safe range.


title: Lake St. Clair

text: Sport fishing remains popular in the lake. The governments on both sides of the lakes continue to monitor and publish guides for sport fish consumption.


title: 1988–89 NBA season

text: The 1988–89 NBA season was the 43rd season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Detroit Pistons winning the NBA Championship, sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers. This was the first season of the Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets.


title: 1988–89 NBA season

text: The League expands from twenty-three to twenty-five franchises, with new expansion teams in Charlotte and Miami.


title: 1988–89 NBA season

text: The Heat began its season as a member of the Western Conference despite its geographical position, enduring its longest road trips when playing Western Conference teams. It also began the season 0–17, at the time the worst start in NBA history. The Hornets finished at 20–62. Such records are typical of expansion NBA franchises in their initial seasons, with 15–67 being the poorest record repeated by the Cavaliers, Grizzlies, Rockets, and Mavericks, as well as the Heat. The Sacramento Kings were belatedly moved to the Pacific Division in their fourth season after leaving Kansas City.


title: 1988–89 NBA season

text: Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions are marked by an asterisk. Home court advantage does not necessarily belong to the higher-seeded team, but instead the team with the better regular season record; teams enjoying the home advantage are shown in italics.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: In number theory, the partition function represents the number of possible partitions of a non-negative integer . For instance, because the integer 4 has the five partitions , , , , and .


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: No closed-form expression for the partition function is known, but it has both asymptotic expansions that accurately approximate it and recurrence relations by which it can be calculated exactly. It grows as an exponential function of the square root of its argument. The multiplicative inverse of its generating function is the Euler function; by Euler's pentagonal number theorem this function is an alternating sum of pentagonal number powers of its argument.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: Srinivasa Ramanujan first discovered that the partition function has nontrivial patterns in modular arithmetic, now known as Ramanujan's congruences. For instance, whenever the decimal representation of ends in the digit 4 or 9, the number of partitions of will be divisible by 5.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: For a positive integer , is the number of distinct ways of representing as a sum of positive integers. For the purposes of this definition, the order of the terms in the sum is irrelevant: two sums with the same terms in a different order are not considered to be distinct.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: By convention , as there is one way (the empty sum) of representing zero as a sum of positive integers. Furthermore when is negative.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: , the largest known prime number among the values of is , with 40,000 decimal digits. Until March 2022, this was also the largest prime that has been proved using elliptic curve primality proving.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: apply the distributive law to the product. This expands the product into a sum of monomials of the form formula_5 for some sequence of coefficients


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: The exponent of the term is formula_7, and this sum can be interpreted as a representation of formula_8 as a partition into formula_6 copies of each number formula_10. Therefore, the number of terms of the product that have exponent formula_8 is exactly formula_12, the same as the coefficient of formula_13 in the sum on the left.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: The function that appears in the denominator in the third and fourth lines of the formula is the Euler function. The equality between the product on the first line and the formulas in the third and fourth lines is Euler's pentagonal number theorem.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: The exponents of formula_14 in these lines are the pentagonal numbers formula_15 for formula_16 (generalized somewhat from the usual pentagonal numbers, which come from the same formula for the positive values of formula_17). The pattern of positive and negative signs in the third line comes from the term formula_18 in the fourth line: even choices of formula_17 produce positive terms, and odd choices produce negative terms.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: More generally, the generating function for the partitions of formula_8 into numbers selected from a set formula_21 of positive integers can be found by taking only those terms in the first product for which formula_22. This result is due to Leonhard Euler. The formulation of Euler's generating function is a special case of a formula_23-Pochhammer symbol and is similar to the product formulation of many modular forms, and specifically the Dedekind eta function.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: As base cases, formula_25 is taken to equal formula_26, and formula_27 is taken to be zero for negative formula_17. Although the sum on the right side appears infinite, it has only finitely many nonzero terms,


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: If formula_33 denotes the number of partitions of formula_8 with no repeated parts then it follows by splitting each partition into its even parts and odd parts, and dividing the even parts by two, that


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: Srinivasa Ramanujan is credited with discovering that the partition function has nontrivial patterns in modular arithmetic.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: For instance the number of partitions is divisible by five whenever the decimal representation of formula_8 ends in the digit 4 or 9, as expressed by the congruence


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: For the integer 9, the number of partitions is 30; for 14 there are 135 partitions. This congruence is implied by the more general identity


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: Since 5, 7, and 11 are consecutive primes, one might think that there would be an analogous congruence for the next prime 13, formula_43 for some . However, there is no congruence of the form formula_44 for any prime "b" other than 5, 7, or 11. Instead, to obtain a congruence, the argument of formula_45 should take the form formula_46 for some formula_47. In the 1960s, A. O. L. Atkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago discovered additional congruences of this form for small prime moduli. For example:


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: This asymptotic formula was first obtained by G. H. Hardy and Ramanujan in 1918 and independently by J. V. Uspensky in 1920. Considering formula_51, the asymptotic formula gives about formula_52, reasonably close to the exact answer given above (1.415% larger than the true value).


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: Here, the notation formula_55 means that the sum is taken only over the values of formula_56 that are relatively prime to formula_17. The function formula_58 is a Dedekind sum.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: The error after formula_59 terms is of the order of the next term, and formula_59 may be taken to be of the order of formula_61. As an example, Hardy and Ramanujan showed that formula_62 is the nearest integer to the sum of the first formula_63 terms of the series.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: In 1937, Hans Rademacher was able to improve on Hardy and Ramanujan's results by providing a convergent series expression for formula_12. It is


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: The proof of Rademacher's formula involves Ford circles, Farey sequences, modular symmetry and the Dedekind eta function.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: Techniques for implementing the Hardy–Ramanujan–Rademacher formula efficiently on a computer are discussed by , who shows that formula_12 can be computed in time formula_70 for any formula_71. This is near-optimal in that it matches the number of digits of the result. The largest value of the partition function computed exactly is formula_72, which has slightly more than 11 billion digits.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: If no summand occurs repeatedly in the affected partition sums, then the so called strict partitions are present. The function Q(n) gives the number of these strict partitions in relation to the given sum n. Therefore the strict partition sequence Q(n) satisfies the criterion Q(n) ≤ P(n) for all formula_73. The same result results if only odd summands may appear in the partition sum, but these may also occur more than once.


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: The corresponding generating function based on the MacLaurin series with the numbers Q(n) as coefficients in front of x is as follows:


title: Partition function (number theory)

text: In comparison, the generating function of the regular partition numbers P(n) has this identity with respect to the theta function:


title: Hippo Campus

text: Hippo Campus is an American indie rock band from Saint Paul, Minnesota. They are signed to Grand Jury Records in the United States and Transgressive Records in the United Kingdom. The band has performed at South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Summerfest and Reading and Leeds Festivals, as well as on "Conan". Hippo Campus were named one of NPR Music's favorite new artists of 2017.


title: Hippo Campus

text: Hippo Campus was formed when Jake Luppen (lead vocals/guitar), Nathan Stocker (lead guitar/vocals), Zach Sutton (bass/keyboard), and Whistler Isaiah Allen (drums/vocals) met at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists where they studied jazz, and Luppen trained in opera. SPCPA friend DeCarlo Jackson (trumpet) began playing regularly with them in 2017. Many of them played in other bands (Blatant Youth/Whistle Kid; Danger, Will Robinson/Northern) before uniting as Hippo Campus, a name Nathan Stocker chose while in psychology class. They often performed under their stage names The Turntan, Stitches, Espo, and Beans respectively, but no longer use the names on stage.


title: Hippo Campus

text: Hippo Campus recorded and released an EP entitled "Tarzan Rejects" in 2013. This EP consisted of five tracks, two of which are original recordings of the songs "Little Grace" and "South".


title: Hippo Campus

text: On November 18, 2014, Hippo Campus independently released their EP titled, "Bashful Creatures", produced by Low's Alan Sparhawk. They later signed with Grand Jury records, and re-released "Bashful Creatures" with their new label on May 5, 2015. The band supported the release with an appearance at SXSW, and a performance on "Conan". The EP featured two singles, "Little Grace" and "Suicide Saturday", and Hippo Campus did live sessions at KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, and KEXP. On December 26, 2015, they appeared on the nationally broadcast "CBS This Morning". "Paste" named them Best of What's Next in 2015.


title: Hippo Campus

text: On August 30, 2015, the band's song "The Halocline" was featured in the series finale of the TNT series Falling Skies and later they toured with Modest Mouse, Walk the Moon, The Mowgli's, Rubblebucket, Vacationer, My Morning Jacket, and they made an appearance at Lollapalooza in Chicago, Summerfest in Milwaukee, Rock the Garden in Minneapolis, and Reading and Leeds Festivals in the United Kingdom.


title: Hippo Campus

text: Hippo Campus released their second EP, "South" in October 2015. "South" went to #16 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.


title: Hippo Campus

text: The band released the single "Boyish" prior to their first full-length album, the guitar-based "Landmark", which came out February 24, 2017. The #3 Billboard Heatseeker album was produced by BJ Burton, who produced albums for Low and Bon Iver.


title: Hippo Campus

text: "Landmark" was described by the "Minneapolis Star Tribune" as "loaded with thickly cushioned ambiance, billowy melodies and concisely written songs." Their second single from the album was "Way It Goes" which they performed on their second appearance on the "Conan" show.


title: Hippo Campus

text: They played a sold-out show at the iconic venue First Avenue in March 2017, and then Hippo Campus embarked on an international headline tour. That summer they played Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee and Lollapalooza in Chicago.


title: Hippo Campus

text: In spring and summer 2018, Hippo Campus performed at Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, Washington, and again at Reading and Leeds Festivals in the UK, and opened for Sylvan Esso at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado.


title: Hippo Campus

text: The band's sophomore album "Bambi", released September 28, 2018, was preceded by the singles "Passenger", "Golden", and "Bambi". Once again produced by BJ Burton, the "Boston Globe" noted that it was "a massive step forward" as the band used more synthesizer and programmed drums.


title: Hippo Campus

text: Hippo Campus headlined their own tour from Fall 2018 into Winter 2019 across the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. They did a live session at WFUV radio, among other similar appearances.


title: Hippo Campus

text: In Fall 2018, they performed at venues like Chicago’s Riviera Theater and New York City’s Terminal 5 and UK indie hotspot SWX Nightclub in Bristol on their Bambi Tour.


title: Hippo Campus

text: In March 2019, Hippo Campus performed in two countries in Asia. During the summer of 2019, Hippo Campus joined their tour with The Head and the Heart, opening at venues such as Red Rocks for two sold out shows.


title: Hippo Campus

text: During June and July 2019, the band released two demo albums. "Demos I" was released on June 14, 2019 and consisted of early/alternate versions of songs that had been previously released on "Bambi". "Demos II" was released on July 10, 2019 and consisted of songs that were worked on during the same time as "Bambi", but not included on the album.


title: Hippo Campus

text: Hippo Campus released the single "Boys" on October 18, 2021, as well as announcing a new album, "LP3", which was released on February 4, 2022.


title: Hippo Campus

text: As part of the Me Too movement, Hippo Campus teamed up with the Women's Foundation of Minnesota to help donate profits from their merchandise sales to that foundation. They partnered with Normal Parents and Everytown For Gun Safety selling special "Thoughts and Prayers" T-shirts to raise awareness.


title: Selina Griffiths

text: Selina Jane Griffiths (born 1969) is a British actress mostly known for her performances in sitcoms. She played Pauline Maltby in the ITV comedy series "Benidorm". She is the daughter of Annette Crosbie.


title: Selina Griffiths

text: Selina Griffiths is the daughter of Annette Crosbie and Michael Griffiths. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has appeared in several plays. Having graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama, she made her professional stage debut at London's Lyric Theatre in "The Way of the World" alongside Barbara Flynn, with whom she appeared in television's "Cranford".


title: Selina Griffiths

text: Griffiths has appeared in many television programmes, including "Doctor Finlay" and "Drop the Dead Donkey" and playing Janet in "The Smoking Room".


title: Selina Griffiths

text: In autumn 2007 she co-starred with Deborah Findlay in the BBC1 costume drama series "Cranford" playing Miss Caroline Tomkinson. In January 2011 she appeared as a frightened passenger in the BBC1 comedy series "Come Fly With Me", which is written by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.


title: Selina Griffiths

text: In February 2011, she appeared as Pauline in "Benidorm", reprising the role in the 2016 & 2018 series and through March–April appeared in the Jeremy Dyson play adaption of Roald Dahl's "Twisted Tales".


title: Selina Griffiths

text: In March 2012 she appeared as Yvonne Bradshaw in the BBC3 series "Being Human". Later that year she played several roles, including Beatrix Potter, in Sky's "Psychobitches" (part of "Playhouse Presents"), appearing in four episodes. She also plays Connie in BBC comedy "Cuckoo".


title: Selina Griffiths

text: In 2014 she appeared in the TV show "Jonathan Creek". In 2015 she appeared as Elspeth Rice in ITV's "Midsomer Murders" episode 17.4 "A Vintage Murder".


title: Selina Griffiths

text: In February 2017 she appeared as a primary school teacher Miss Anstis in the BBC sitcom "Not Going Out" starring Lee Mack and Sally Bretton. She reprised the role in April 2019.


title: Robert Cialdini

text: He is the Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University and was a visiting professor of marketing, business and psychology at Stanford University, as well as at the University of California at Santa Cruz.


title: Robert Cialdini

text: Cialdini received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in June 1967. He then went on to Graduate studies in Social Psychology at the University of North Carolina and earned his PhD in June 1970 and received Postgraduate training in social psychology at Columbia University. He has held visiting scholar appointments at Ohio State University, the University of California, the Annenberg School of Communications, and the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University. Currently, Cialdini is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University.


title: Robert Cialdini

text: He is best known for his 1984 book on persuasion and marketing, "". It was based on three "undercover" years applying for and training at used car dealerships, fund-raising organizations, and telemarketing firms to observe real-life situations of persuasion. He found that influence is based on six key principles: reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity. In 2016 he proposed a seventh principle. He called it the unity principle. The more we identify ourselves with others, the more we are influenced by these others.


title: Robert Cialdini

text: The book has sold over three million copies and has been translated into thirty languages. It has been listed on the "New York Times" Best Seller list and "Fortune" lists it in their "75 Smartest Business Books". It is mentioned in "50 Psychology Classics".


title: Robert Cialdini

text: One of Cialdini's other books, "Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive", was a "New York Times" Bestseller; and another of his books, "The Small BIG: Small changes that spark a big influence", was a "Times" Book of the year. Cialdini's most recent book is "Pre-suasion", which was published in 2016.


title: Robert Cialdini

text: The Robert B. Cialdini prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology is named after him in honor of psychological research that demonstrates societal relevance using field methods. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.


title: Robert Cialdini

text: Cialdini was hired alongside many other behavioural scientists for the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012. He also advised in the early stages of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Swiss cuisine is influenced by Austrian, French, German and Northern Italian cuisine, as well as by the history of Switzerland as a primarily agricultural country. As a result, many traditional Swiss dishes tend to be relatively plain and are made from basic ingredients, such as potatoes and Swiss cheese. The great cultural diversity within Switzerland is also reflected in the great number of regional or local specialties.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Well-known Swiss dishes include raclette and fondue (molten cheese eaten with bread or potatoes), rösti (fried grated potatoes), muesli (an oatmeal breakfast dish) and Zürcher Geschnetzeltes (veal and mushrooms on a cream sauce).


title: Swiss cuisine

text: There are many regional dishes in Switzerland. One example is Zürcher Geschnetzeltes, thin strips of veal with mushrooms in a cream sauce typically served with rösti. Italian cuisine is popular in contemporary Switzerland, particularly pasta and pizza. Foods often associated with Switzerland include particular types of cheese and milk chocolate. Swiss cheeses, in particular Emmental, Gruyère, Vacherin, and Appenzeller, are famous Swiss products. The most popular cheese dishes are fondue and raclette. Both these dishes were originally regional dishes, but were popularized by the Swiss Cheese Union to boost sales of cheese.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Rösti is a popular potato dish that is eaten all over Switzerland. It was originally a breakfast food, but this has been replaced by the muesli, which is commonly eaten for breakfast and in Switzerland goes by the name of "Birchermüesli" ("Birchermiesli" in some regions). For breakfast and dinner many Swiss enjoy sliced bread with butter and jam. There is a wide variety of bread rolls available in Switzerland. Bread and cheese is a popular dish for dinner.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Tarts and quiches are also traditional Swiss dishes. Tarts in particular are made with all sorts of toppings, from sweet apple to onion.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: In the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, the Ticino area, one will find a type of restaurant unique to the region. The Grotto is a rustic eatery, offering traditional food ranging from pasta to homemade meat specialties. Popular dishes are Luganighe and Luganighetta, a type of artisan sausages. Authentic grottoes are old wine caves re-functioned into restaurants. Due to their nature they are mostly found in or around forests and built against a rocky background. Typically, the facade is built from granite blocks and the outside tables and benches are made of the same stone as well. Grottoes are popular with locals and tourists alike, especially during the hot summer months.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Rivella, a carbonated Swiss drink based on lactose, is one of the most popular drinks in Switzerland. Apple juice, both still and sparkling, is popular in many areas of Switzerland, and is also produced in the form of apple cider. The chocolate drink Ovomaltine (known in the USA as "Ovaltine") originates in Switzerland and enjoys ongoing popularity, particularly with young people. Aside from being a beverage, the powder is also eaten sprinkled on top of a slice of buttered bread.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Wine is produced in many regions of Switzerland, particularly the Valais, the Vaud, the Ticino, Neuchâtel and the canton of Zurich. Riesling X Sylvaner is a common white wine produced in German-speaking parts of the country, while Chasselas is the most common white wine in the French-speaking parts of the country. Pinot noir is the most popular red grape in both the French-speaking and the German-speaking part, while this position is held by Merlot in the Italian-speaking part.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Absinthe is being distilled officially again in its Val-de-Travers birthplace, in the Jura region of Switzerland, where it originated. Long banned by a specific anti-Absinthe article in the Swiss Federal Constitution, it was legalized again in 2005, with the adoption of the new constitution. Now Swiss absinthe is also exported to many countries, with Kübler and La Clandestine Absinthe amongst the first new brands to emerge. Wine and beer can legally be purchased by youths of 16 or more years of age. Spirits and beverages containing distilled alcohol (including wine coolers like Bacardi Breezer) can be bought at 18.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Damassine is a liqueur produced by distillation of the Damassine prune from the Damassinier tree and is produced in the canton of Jura.


title: Swiss cuisine

text: Bon Pere William is a famous regional Swiss brandy produced from pears, alcohol 43% by volume. It is usually paired with fondue or raclette dishes or taken after dinner, sometimes poured in coffee with dessert. Some bottles are available with the full size pear inside the bottle, grown with the bud placed in the bottle. There are many other types of regional brandies made from local fruit, the most popular being cherries (kirschwasser).


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: The lithium-titanate or lithium-titanium-oxide (LTO) battery is a type of rechargeable battery which has the advantage of being faster to charge than other lithium-ion batteries but the disadvantage of having a much lower energy density.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Titanate batteries are used in certain Japanese-only versions of Mitsubishi's i-MiEV electric vehicle as well as Honda's EV-neo electric bike and Fit EV. They are also used in the Tosa concept electric bus. Because of the battery's high level of safety and recharge capabilities, LTO batteries are used in car audio applications as well as mobile medical devices.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: According to a Weatherflow Co. article, the Tempest weather-station device contains a 1300mAh LTO battery, charged via four solar panels, requiring "at least 4 hours of adequate sunlight every two weeks."


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: A lithium-titanate battery is a modified lithium-ion battery that uses lithium-titanate nanocrystals, instead of carbon, on the surface of its anode. This gives the anode a surface area of about 100 square meters per gram, compared with 3 square meters per gram for carbon, allowing electrons to enter and leave the anode quickly. Also, the redox potential of Li+ intercalation into titanium oxides is more positive than that of Li+ intercalation into graphite. This leads to fast charging (higher charging current) being much safer in the case of the titanate, than in the case of carbon, since lithium dendrites are less likely to form in the former case. Lithium-titanate cells last for 3000 to 7000 charge cycles; a life cycle of ~1000 cycles before reaching 80% capacity is possible when charged and discharged at , rather than the standard .


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: A disadvantage of lithium-titanate batteries is their lower inherent voltage (2.4 V), which leads to a lower specific energy (about 30–110 Wh/kg) than conventional lithium-ion battery technologies, which have an inherent voltage of 3.7 V. Some lithium-titanate batteries, however, have an energy density of up to 177 Wh/L.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Log9 is launching its tropicalised-ion battery (TiB) backed by lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP) and lithium-titanium-oxide (LTO) battery chemistries. Unlike LFP and LTO, the more popular NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) chemistry does not have the requisite temperature resilience to survive in Indian conditions. LTO is not only temperature resilient, but also has a very long life and is robust.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Altairnano produces lithium-titanate batteries under the "Nanosafe" line, mainly for battery electric vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers that have announced plans to use Altairnano batteries include Lightning Car Company, which plans to use them for the Lightning GT, an all-electric sports car; Phoenix Motorcars, for use in its electric sport-utility vehicles; and in Proterra, its all-electric EcoRide BE35 lightweight 35-foot bus.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Altairnano has also deployed their lithium-titanate energy storage systems for electric grid ancillary services as well as various military applications.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Grinergy is a South Korean battery manufacturer founded in 2017. We offer both commercial and Warfighter military grade LTO battery technology. They are 2023 CES Innovation Honoree


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Leclanché is a Swiss battery manufacturer founded in 1909. In 2006, it acquired Bullith AG (Germany) to


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: establish a Li-Ion manufacturing line in Germany. In 2014, their product "TiBox" was launched in the market. The energy content of the TiBox is 3.2 kWh, with an expected 15,000 cycle life span.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: Microvast, based in Houston, Texas, makes a lithium-titanate battery that it calls "LpTO". In 2011, the world's first ultrafast charge bus fleet was launched in Chongqing, China. An 80 kWh LpTO battery system was installed in 37 twelve-meter electric buses, which can be fully charged within 10 minutes with a 400 kW charger.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: As of 2014, a British bus OEM, Wrightbus, started to use Microvast LpTO batteries for 1,000 units of double-decker New Routemaster buses. An 18 kWh LpTO battery system is used to replace the initial Lithium Iron Phosphate battery because the LFP battery encountered performance failure.


title: Lithium-titanate battery

text: As of 2015, the European ZeEUS (zero emission urban transport system) was launched. Its VDL bus uses a 62.5 kWh LpTO battery system from Microvast for this demonstration project.