David DeJulius

# David DeJulius

## Abstract

David DeJulius (born August 9, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for Aris of the Greek Basket League and the EuroCup. He previously played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats, where he was a two-time Third-team All- AAC performer, as well as for the Michigan Wolverines. He attended Edison Public School Academy for two years before transferring to East English Village Preparatory Academy, where he finished 3rd in the 2018 Mr. Basketball of Michigan and was 2018 Mr. PSL for his play in the Detroit Public School League.

## Early life

DeJulius was born August 9, 1999, in Detroit, Michigan to Latrice Halthon and Ladell DeJulius. He has a brother, Terrell Thornton, and three sisters, Aaliyah DeJulius, Cerisse DeJulius and Latriece DeJulius.

## High school

DeJulius attended Edison Public School Academy for his freshman and sophomore seasons. As a freshman, he was selected to the 2015 Class C All-State team (2nd team, The Detroit News; 4th team Detroit Free Press). As a sophomore, he was again selected to the 2016 Class C All-State team (2nd team, The Detroit News; 3rd team Detroit Free Press; honorable mention Associated Press).

DeJulius transferred to East English Village Preparatory Academy for his junior and senior seasons. As a junior, he visited the University of Michigan a few times (including September 17, 2016, and October 25, 2016). He scored 46 points with 7 rebounds and 5 assists against Dakota High School and Michigan State Spartans men's basketball signee Thomas Kithier in front of head coach John Beilein and the entire coaching staff on December 17, 2016. DeJulius got an offer and gave a verbal commitment on December 22. At the time, he was the 172nd ranked player in the national class of 2018 and the 32nd ranked point guard. DeJulius was a 2017 Class A All-state honoree (1st team Associated Press).

On November 10, 2017, DeJulius tendered his National Letter of Intent as part of a five-man recruiting class that included Ignas Brazdeikis, Colin Castleton, Brandon Johns, and Adrien Nunez. DeJulius also had offers from Michigan State and DePaul. DeJulius earned 2018 Mr. PSL for his play in the Detroit Public School League. In January 2018, DeJulius scored 49 points in a 92–82 victory against Chicago's Orr Academy High School with 13-of-19 shooting from the field, including 9-of-11 3-point shooting. Orr was the defending 2017 Illinois High School Association Class 2A state champion and would repeat in 2018.

With 2,542 points, DeJulius finished 3rd behind Michigan State signee Foster Loyer (3,691) and Michigan signee Brandon Johns (2,792) in the 2018 Mr. Basketball of Michigan voting. In his only head-to-head meeting with Loyer, DeJulius scored 42 points in an 80–71 comeback to give Clarkston High School its only regular season loss against 21 points, 12 assists, and eight rebounds from Loyer. East English had trailed in the battle of the state's two best point guards 49–31 at halftime and 63–53 after three quarters. Then, DeJulius had 25 points in the second half, including 17 in the fourth quarter, against the defending 2017 Michigan High School Athletic Association Class A state champions, who would repeat in 2018. DeJulius was a 2018 All-class first team All-state selection by The Detroit News.

## College

### Michigan

#### Freshman season

The 2017–18 Michigan team was the national runner-up in the 2018 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The 2018–19 team was expected to be ranked by ESPN (17) and CBS Sports (21). Of the incoming class, Brazdeikis had the highest expectations from Yahoo! Sports and ESPN. USA Today expected Johns to be the brightest newcomer. DeJulius played 25 games as a freshman for the 2018–19 Wolverines. By the end of the season, DeJulius was behind Zavier Simpson and his backup Eli Brooks on the depth chart for head coach John Beilein. The team lost the last game of the regular season to Loyer's Michigan State Spartans, finishing one game behind the Spartans and Purdue for the Big Ten regular season championship. The team was unable to defend its Big Ten Tournament championship in the championship game of the 2019 Big Ten men's basketball tournament against Michigan State, who swept three rivalry games from Michigan that season. The Wolverines finished the season with a 30–7 record, for its second consecutive 30-win season, losing in the Sweet Sixteen round of the 2019 NCAA tournament to (#9/#10) Texas Tech.

#### Sophomore season

On May 22, 2019, Juwan Howard signed a five-year contract as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team. Brazdeikis, Charles Matthews and Jordan Poole declared for the 2019 NBA draft. During the Michigan Wolverines' 2019–20 season, DeJulius played as a sophomore alongside starting guards Simpson and Brooks as well as Franz Wagner. Serving in a sixth man role, he averaged 7.0 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.5 assists in 20.9 minutes per game coming off the bench.

On November 15, Michigan defeated Elon 70–50 DeJulius added 10 points and eight assists, which were both career highs at the time. On November 27, Michigan defeated Iowa State 83–76 in the quarterfinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament. DeJulius added a career-high 14 points. On January 28, with Simpson suspended and Isaiah Livers sidelined, DeJulius started against Nebraska and played 34 minutes. On March 8, Michigan lost to (#9/#9) Maryland 70–83 in their final game of the regular season. Michigan was led by DeJulius with a career-high 20 points. Michigan was scheduled to play Rutgers in the Big Ten tournament on March 12. However, the tournament and the remainder of the college basketball season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

DeJulius entered the NCAA transfer portal in April 2020 even though Simpson had completed his eligibility and Brooks would be a senior. In the portal, he received interest from Maryland, Missouri, Marquette, Cincinnati, Iowa State, DePaul, Rhode Island, Creighton and Arizona State. With over 20 schools expressing interest, DeJulius announced four finalists by April 10: Iowa State, Cincinnati, Marquette and Missouri. During his sophomore year with the Wolverines, DeJulius scored 10 or more points in eleven games. There was speculation that he might secure the starting point guard position if he continued with the team. However, Michigan had been pursuing point guards Bryce Aiken and Mike Smith in the transfer portal and recruiting Josh Christopher prior to DeJulius's announcement that he would transfer.

### Cincinnati

#### Junior season

In August 2020, he was granted a waiver to play immediately as a transfer. On February 25, 2021, he became the fifth member of the 2020–21 Cincinnati Bearcats to opt out of the rest of the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season due to the mental impact of COVID-19. Within two days after the March 14, 2021 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament championship game loss to Houston, the Bearcats saw six players enter the transfer portal. On March 26, the Athletic Director John Cunningham announced an investigation against the basketball program. On April 3, Cincinnati head coach John Brannen was placed on indefinite leave. On April 9, Cincinnati fired Brannen. On April 14, 2021, Cincinnati hired Wes Miller to become their next head coach, replacing Brannen.

#### Senior season

On January 30, 2022, he scored the go-ahead basket with 3.7 seconds left against East Carolina. DeJulius posted 3 consecutive 20-point games on February 6 (25, #6 Houston), February 9 (24, South Florida), and February 12 (23, Tulsa), marking the first such streak by a Bearcat since Jarron Cumberland did so for the 2018–19 Bearcats over 3 years before. On February 24, 2022, he announced that he would not partake in Senior Night fanfare, in part because he was eligible to return with another year due to special COVID-19 waiver. DeJulius earned third-team All-American Athletic Conference as a true senior for the 2021–22 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team. He averaged a team-leading 14.5 points per game, was the team's only All-AAC performer and decided to exercise his option to return.

#### COVID Redshirt 5th year season

DeJulius earned 2022–23 Preseason All-Conference Second Team recognition for his redshirt senior season. Before the season, he announced that he would donate his student athlete compensation proceeds from his team-licensed jersey sales to provide books to inner city youth in Detroit and Cincinnati. He began the season by leading the 2022–23 Cincinnati Bearcats to three victories, averaging 21.3 points and 3.7 assists while shooting 56.1% from the field, including 7-of-9 on three-point shots, and earning American Athletic Conference player of the week honors. When DeJulius was honored on March 5, 2023 Senior Night, along with Kalu Ezikpe and Rob Phinisee prior to the game against SMU, he posted a career-high 30 points with 6 assists. He repeated as an All-American Athletic Conference third-team honoree. DeJulius entered the 2023 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament with the nation's longest streak of five or more assists (16 games). In the 2023 National Invitation Tournament first round victory over Virginia Tech, DeJulius had 21 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists. After three years at Cincinnati, DeJulius posted 1187 points and ended his final season with 192 assists, which is third in school history behind two Oscar Robertson totals on the school list for single-season assists.

## Professional career

On August 3, 2023, DeJulius signed his first professional contract overseas with Greek club Lavrio. He averaged 14.4 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in the Greek Basket League.

On January 13, 2024, his contract was bought out by German club BG Göttingen, where he averaged 13.6 points and 5.1 assists per game.

On June 22, 2024, DeJulius returned to Greece, signing with Aris.

## Career statistics


Hurricane Francine (2024)

# Hurricane Francine (2024)

## Abstract

Hurricane Francine was a moderately strong tropical cyclone that brought extensive flooding to parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States, especially Louisiana, and Tamaulipas in September 2024. The sixth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, its formation brought the end to a significant quiet period in tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic. Originating from a tropical wave that was initially spotted in the central Atlantic by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in late August, the disturbance that eventually became Francine began gradually organizing on September 7 as it exited the Yucatan Peninsula and entered the Bay of Campeche. The disturbance consolidated further and was designated by the NHC as Potential Tropical Cyclone Six on September 8. The next day, it was upgraded to tropical storm status and was named Francine by the NHC.

## Meteorological history

On August 26, the NHC noted that a low-pressure area could form in the Central Tropical Atlantic. Two days later, they began tracking a tropical wave producing disorganized showers. Initially, showers from the wave were a bit more concentrated along its axis, becoming more organized by August 31. However, an unfavorable environment for development caused the wave to become disorganized. Several days later, on September 7, the wave crossed into the Bay of Campeche, becoming a low-pressure area the next day. As a result, a few hours later, it was designated Potential Tropical Cyclone Six at 21:00 UTC on September 8. Higher wind gusts in the system were enhanced by a barrier jet near the Sierra Madre Oriental. Early the next day, the disturbance intensified into Tropical Storm Francine. The nascent storm slowly moved northwest over the next day close to the Mexico–United States border before beginning to move more to the northeast due to a ridge of high pressure over the state of Florida. Steady intensification ensued, with Francine becoming a hurricane at 03:00 UTC September 11.

Beginning to accelerate northeast towards the Gulf Coast of the United States, an eyewall began developing, even as wind shear began to increase and environmental conditions worsened. Despite this, a ragged eye developed on satellite imagery later that morning, leading to a peak intensity as a Category 2 hurricane. At its peak, the storm recorded maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 972 mb (28.7 inHg) at 21:00 UTC. Shortly thereafter, at 22:00 UTC, Francine made landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, still maintaining Category 2 strength. Rapid weakening began after the hurricane made landfall, and at 03:00 UTC on September 12, Francine weakened into a tropical storm. The system further weakened overland, becoming a tropical depression then a post-tropical cyclone.

## Preparations

### Mexico

Tropical storm watches were issued from Barra del Tordo to the mouth of the Rio Grande. Other parts of Northeast Mexico were placed under tropical storm warning. Tamaulipas shut down schools in Matamoros, San Fernando, and Valle Hermoso.

### United States

ExxonMobil and Shell canceled operations in the Gulf of Mexico and evacuated their employees. Amtrak modified and/or suspended service to New Orleans from September 11–16.

#### Texas

South Texas was placed under a tropical storm warning as Francine approached. Galveston County raised their emergency management facility's level to two. Governor Greg Abbott mobilized water rescue teams.

#### Louisiana

Hurricane warnings were issued from Sabine Pass to Morgan City. Louisiana was placed under a state of emergency by the governor. The governor also sent 2,300 guardsmen of the Louisiana National Guard to parishes that were likely to be affected. Several school districts in Louisiana closed in preparation for Francine. Mandatory evacuations were issued for Grand Isle, Lafitte, and Barataria. Lafourche, Terrebonne, and Washington Parishes issued curfews. St. Mary and Terrebonne Parishes raised their floodgates. Iberia Parish and Baton Rouge distributed sandbags.

Louis Armstrong International Airport canceled all flights. Five USPS locations were shut down. Port Fourchon, a major supplier of offshore oil producers, and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port were closed.

#### Elsewhere

The coast of Mississippi and Alabama was placed under a tropical storm warning. Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves issued a declaration of a state of emergency. Jackson, Mississippi, set up a shelter in the police training academy. Several schools in the state were closed for Francine. In Memphis, Tennessee, a trial adjourned early due to the threat of inclement weather.

## Impact

### Mexico

Several areas in Matamoros flooded from 200 millimetres (7.9 in) of rain; aid from the Mexican Government was requested as a result. Water pumps were set up across the city in response. Plans DN-III and Tamaulipas were initiated to provide aid to areas affected by Francine.

### United States

Exports out to the Gulf of Mexico were disrupted as a result of Francine. Reductions in production caused crude oil national prices to jump by 2% on September 11.

#### Texas

By September 9, Port O'Connor was experiencing flooding conditions. Rainfall in the state peaked at 7.44 in (189 mm) in Brownsville.

#### Louisiana

Francine made landfall near Southern Louisiana in Terrebonne Parish with sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) at 22:00 UTC on September 11. A tornado warning was issued for Plaquemines Parish. Around 450,000 people suffered from power outages, most of which were caused by fallen debris, and around 500 people took refuge in emergency shelters. Francine's winds downed numerous trees and power lines, which resulted in blocked roads. Numerous streets sustained flooding as a result of heavy rainfall. The flash flooding resulted in several flash flood emergency alerts being issued. Several rivers crested in Saint Tammany Parish. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office conducted numerous water rescues northwest of Thibodaux after rising flood waters surrounded multiple housing units, and all residents, including many small children, were safely evacuated. Other water rescues were also carried out in other parts of the Thibodaux area as well as the Kraemer area. A 39-year-old man rescued another man, who had water up to his head, from a sinking truck below an overpass in New Orleans by smashing the truck's back window with a hammer and pulling him out through it and cutting his hand in the process. Two people were injured: a Louisiana State Police officer who was struck by a falling tree while removing downed trees on Interstate 10, and a woman in Ascension Parish who was also hit and pinned by a fallen tree.

The federal government approved a FEMA declaration.

#### Mississippi

Strong winds swept through the Mississippi Coast before sunrise on September 12. The Jackson County Office of Emergency Services reported minor damage across the county, including power outages, downed trees, and flooded streets. As Francine moved further north, it was downgraded to a tropical depression, bringing heavy rainfall to Jackson and central Mississippi. South Mississippi faced significant flooding and related issues during the storm's passage. Other areas of the state also experienced downed trees and power lines. During the morning of September 12, 60,000 customers experienced power outages in Mississippi. Around 500 people were in state shelters.

#### Elsewhere

There were 39,000 reported power outages in Alabama. Trees and power lines were also downed in the western portion of the state.


Devil's Doorway (Wisconsin)

# Devil's Doorway (Wisconsin)

## Abstract

Devil's Doorway is a rock formation which is found in Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin). It is the signature feature of Devil's Lake State Park and a popular spot for climbing and photographs. The rocks are quartzite; they form a doorway-shaped natural rock arch.

## Description

Devil's Doorway is a main attraction in Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin. The park is 9,217 acres (3,730 ha) and Devil's Lake is 360 acres (150 ha). The formation got it's name because it looks much like a doorway or a stone arch, with two separate columns of rock and other rocks atop the formation. The formation is more than 30 ft (9.1 m) high. From the vantage point at the formation Devil's lake is visible.

Devil's Doorway is made up of quartzite, which is grains of sand tightly packed together. The geological formation in the area are estimated at 1.6 billion years old. The geological formations of Devil’s Doorway was created by many years of water both freezing and expanding. Cracks in the rocks allowed the water to help create the formation.

## History

Devil's Doorway is located at the southeast corner of Devil's Lake in Devil's Lake State Park. It is found on The East Bluff Trail. Between 1909 and 1910 The State Park Board acquired 740 acres (300 ha) for the park and by 1911 the board had secured a total of 1,100 acres (450 ha). When the park was established in 1911, there was much graffiti painted on the rocks of the formation.

The Devil's Doorway is just one of the many rock formations which is in Devil's Lake State Park. The Milwaukee Journal referred to the rock formation as one of "Wisconsin's natural wonders" and a "Wisconsin treasure". World Atlas has said the formation is the signature feature of Devil's Lake State Park. Visitors often climb on the rocks that make up the formation and take photographs. It is the most photographed rock formation in the park. The formation stays in position because of the weight of quartzite which is 165 lb (75 kg) per square foot. People occasionally climb the formation without safety gear and some visitors have been seriously injured or killed after falling in the area.


Leading Report

# Leading Report

## Abstract

Leading Report is an American website and Twitter account that describes itself as a "leading source for breaking news". It is known for promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories, including about United States politics and COVID-19.

## History

The Leading Report Twitter account was created in May 2022. A corresponding website was later created in February 2023. The fact-checking website Science Feedback traced the website's ownership to two individuals named Jacob Cabe and Patrick Webb. Cabe is a former baseball athlete, while Webb is a car wash owner who is an admin of the Facebook group "Patriots for Trump " and has promoted misinformation on social media.

## Misinformation and conspiracy theories

Leading Report has promoted misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, climate change denial and false claims of electoral fraud in the U.S., including the "ballot mule" conspiracy theory. It has also promoted the false claim that hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID-19. The misinformation tracker NewsGuard gave Leading Report a score of 0/100, stating that it "severely violates basic journalistic standards".

In October 2023, after the Israel–Hamas war started, Leading Report tweeted that Hamas claimed to have received support from Ukraine. Hamas had not made such a statement.

### United States politics

In May 2023, Leading Report falsely claimed that Kevin McCarthy had called for the "immediate expulsion and possible prosecution of Rep. Adam Schiff for committing crimes of treason against the United States".

In June 2024, Webb falsely claimed that CNN would implement a 1-2 minute delay for a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, "potentially allowing time to edit parts of the broadcast". The false claim was repeated by generative AI chatbots ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

In September 2024, following Trump's widely-criticised debate performance against Kamala Harris, Leading Report claimed that an ABC News whistleblower would "allegedly" release an affidavit proving that Harris had been given the debate questions ahead of time. The claim originated from an account named "Black Insurrectionist", which did not offer proof for its claim. The claim was amplified by Bill Ackman.

### COVID-19

In July 2023, Leading Report published an article claiming a "new comprehensive study" by Steve Kirsch, who is known for promoting misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, found "that for Amish children, who are strictly 100 percent unvaccinated, typical chronic conditions barely exist, if any at all", including "auto-immune disease, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, ADHD, arthritis, cancer, and autism". The article cited anecdotal evidence Kirsch provided, and Kirsch had made no claim of a study finding zero cases of the conditions.

In September 2023, Leading Report baselessly claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine would increase the risk of stillbirths. The false claim was amplified by Australian senator Matt Canavan.


# Scottish Union of Bakers and Allied Workers

## Abstract

The Scottish Union of Bakers and Allied Workers was a trade union representing bakers and confectioners in Scotland.

The union was founded in 1888, when it was known as the Operative Bakers' National Federal Union of Scotland. By the following year, it had more than 3,000 members, but a decision to undertake a national strike led many new members to resign. Membership fell below 2,000 before gradually increasing, rising above 5,000 by 1910, and to around 7,500 by 1923.

During World War I, the union changed its name to the Operative Bakers and Confectioners of Scotland National Federal Union, then to the Scottish Union of Bakers and Confectioners in 1923, and to the Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners and Bakery Workers in 1927. From 1926, the union accepted women as members, and sought to become an industrial union, including unskilled workers in the industry.

In 1949, the union again changed its name, to the lengthy Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners, Biscuit Bakers and Bakery Workers, shortening this in 1955 to the "Scottish Union of Bakers and Allied Workers".

Membership of the union peaked in 1971 at 11,713, but fell below 9,000 as the decade progressed. As a result, it decided to merge into the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1978.

## Election results

The union sponsored Norman Hogg, its national organiser, as a Labour Party candidate in a Parliamentary election.

## General Secretaries


Cristina D'Avena

# Cristina D'Avena

## Abstract

Cristina D'Avena (born 6 July 1964) is an Italian actress, singer and television personality. She has sold nearly 7 million copies of her albums.

D'Avena was selected to join the prestigious Institute of Antoniano choir, following her debut, Lo Zecchino d'Oro, at age three. In the early 1980s, she sang numerous anime theme songs, which were compiled into several successful albums. Around the same time, D'Avena made her debut as an actress. In 1986, she appeared in Love me Licia, an Italian adaption of the Japanese manga Ai Shite Knight. D'Avena has been performing concerts in Italy since the late 1990s.

In 1987 D'Avena recorded the French version of the Italian theme song "Lovely Sara" (which she performed a few months earlier), intended to accompany the broadcast of Princesse Sarah, the first cartoon produced in Japan to be broadcast on La Cinq.

From the end of the 80s D'Avena began a more than ten-year and practically uninterrupted series of live performances in numerous places, from large arenas to shopping centers to street parties and small venues. In November 1989 and 1990 he held two concerts at the PalaTrussardi in Milan which were attended by a total of around 20,000 spectators, while the one in 1992 at the FilaForum in Assago brought together 13,000 people in the room and 3,000 outside.

In 1989 she also began working as a television and radio presenter with the Saturday night variety show on Canale 5 Sabato al Circo, which won the Telegatto in the Children's Programs category. The program continued for four years, until 1992, when it changed title, network and programming day and became Il grande circo di Rete 4. Together with Gerry Scotti, Cristina D'Avena presented the 1989 New Year's Eve special on Canale 5, "L'allegria fa novanta", and the one from 1990, Long live cheerfulness.

Thanks to the success of her first tests as a presenter, in the early 1990s Cristina D'Avena was chosen for numerous programs. Since 8 November 1992 he has hosted the children's version of Fiorello 's Karaoke on Italia 1, Cantiamo con Cristina, broadcast at 8pm on Sundays: in each episode two teams compete to the tune of his theme songs. In the 1993/1994 season he participated in the sixth edition of Buona Domenica alongside Gerry Scotti and Gabriella Carlucci, hosting Radio Cristina, the commentary column on letters and faxes sent by children, and performing in some musical and dance numbers (in these spaces he also has the opportunity to perform the songs from the newly released Cristina Canta Disney album). In the fifth edition of La sai l'ultima?, broadcast on Canale 5 in the 1995/1996 television season hosted by Gerry Scotti and Paola Barale, she obtained the role of special correspondent traveling around Italy. Starting from 15 September 1996, for two years in a row, alternating weekly with Pietro Ubaldi, he hosts the program of cartoons and telephone games Game Boat broadcast every day in the early evening on Rete 4; in this period the fourteenth chapter of Fivelandia was also published, one of the singer's greatest successes, awarded platinum for over 100,000 copies sold.

While continuing her activity as a singer for the Mediaset networks, since 1998 Cristina D'Avena has worked as a presenter in Rai, first at the Zecchino d'Oro for three years until 2000 as co-presenter alongside Cino Tortorella and Milly Carlucci, and then from autumn 1998 with Andrea Pezzi he hosts the Friday night variety show on Rai 2 Serenate, created by Fabio Fazio who was initially supposed to be the host. In 1999 and 2000 he hosted two editions of Concerto di Primavera in April and Buon Natale a tutto il Mondo in December on Rai 1.

Furthermore, in this decade, D'Avena's fame went beyond the confines of television. In 1994 Mina included in her album Canarino mannaro a cover of a song written by her son Massimiliano Pani and originally sung by Cristina D'Avena in 1988 with the title Always attentive to the regulation; for the occasion, the title and lyrics were changed and the song became "Tu dimmi che città".

On 13 February 2016 Cristina D'Avena took part as a super guest in the final evening of the Festival di Sanremo singing a medley of hits.

In 2017, after 35 years of career with the Five Record/RTI Music label, Cristina D'Avena moved to the Warner Music Italy record company taking a more general artistic direction: on 10 November 2017 the album Duets - Tutti cantano Cristina was released with some of his songs rearranged and recorded in duets with 16 big names in Italian music; the operation was highly commercially successful and reached the top of the best-selling albums chart, obtaining gold status (25,000+ copies) after three weeks and platinum (50,000+ copies) on 2 January 2018; Duets made Cristina D'Avena the only woman in the top 20 best-selling albums in Italy in 2017.

On 8 February 2019 the singer was a guest on the fourth evening of the Festival di Sanremo as a duet with Shade and Federica Carta in Senza farlo apposta, while on 8 March " Centouno Dalmatian Street " was published, the artist's first theme song for a Disney animated series. In the summer, Netflix entrusted Cristina with "My Life Is Going On", the theme song for the TV show Money Heist, in which the singer makes a brief cameo dressed like the characters from the series.

## Career

### Music career and theme songs for animated series

D'Avena's main line of work is recording theme songs for animated series. Overall, she has sung 743 songs, including theme songs for Miracle Girls, Sailor Moon, Kimagure Orange Road, Ai Shite Knight, Marmalade Boy, Ace o Nerae!, Touch, Pokémon, Attack No. 1, One Piece, Candy Candy, La Seine no Hoshi, Magic Knight Rayearth, Dr. Slump, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Himitsu no Akko-chan, Little Women, Wedding Peach, Attacker You!, Glass Mask, Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Sarah and Rose of Versailles. Cristina has also recorded songs for other television programs. The dubbed Italian songs she sings are not covers of the Japanese songs but newly written songs for the Italian dub of the anime. For the Italian dub of Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami, D'Avena both performed the theme songs and dubbed the singing voices of character Creamy Mami and her rival Megumi Ayase. D'Avena has performed themes for live-action TV series and Western cartoon series such as Batman: The Animated Series, Count Duckula, The Mask, My Little Pony and Friends, The Smurfs, The Magic School Bus, The Snorks, Totally Spies, and Jem.

In December 2009, D'Avena released her Magia di Natale album, which includes 12 traditional Christmas songs, all arranged by Valeriano Chiaravalle. In this album, she sang in English for the first time. She also paid homage to the recently deceased Michael Jackson by including a cover of his song " Childhood ". She later released another album dedicated to Christmas as well as special albums commemorating her 30th year in the music industry.

D'Avena has presented stories and created fairy tales through VHS tapes, and audio CDs for De Agostini and other editions.

On 10 November 2017, following her contract with Warner Music Italy, she released her 76th album, Duets – Tutti cantano Cristina, which includes songs with Italian artists including Loredana Bertè, Emma Marrone, J-Ax, Giusy Ferreri, Annalisa, Francesca Michielin, Arisa and Michele Bravi. The album became her first number one album and received the platinum certification by Fimi.

On 23 November 2018, her 77th studio album Duets Forever – Tutti cantano Cristina was released, containing 16 duets with many singer-songwriters of Italian music, such as Il Volo, Elisa, Patty Pravo, Carmen Consoli, Federica Carta, Elodie, Max Pezzali and Alessandra Amoroso. The album reached number three on the Italian Albums Chart, and is certified gold.

On 14 April 2023, Cristina was contacted by HoYoverse to sing the song "Ti cercherò" for Italy, the theme song for the video game "Genshin Impact".

### Acting and television programs

D'Avena performed the Italian theme song for the anime series, Ai Shite Knight (known in Italy as Kiss Me Licia). She also starred as the female lead, Licia (Yakko-chan), in four live-action drama sequels: Love me Licia, Licia, dolce Licia, Teneramente Licia, and Balliamo e cantiamo con Licia.

A four-season telefilm was created about D'Avena: Arriva Cristina, Cristina, Cri Cri and Cristina, l' Europa siamo noi. They were also hugely successful in the 1990s.

Cristina has been the presenter and the special guest of many TV programs for children, such as Holyday on Ice, Sabato al Circo, Luna Party, L' Allegria fa '90, Bim Bum Bam, Buona Domenica, I Fatti Vostri, Lo Zecchino d' Oro, Game Boat, and Matricole e Meteore.

After co-hosting the TV program Matricole e Meteore for Canale 5, from 2012 to 2013 D'Avena hosted two music-themed programs on the TV channel Super!. In 2014, she was the voice of Beatrice in the Italian dub of Over the Garden Wall. She was a special guest in the 2016 edition of the Festival of Sanremo and was cast for the comedy TV program Colorado. On 16 February 2018, D'Avena returned to television as a member of the jury on the first edition of Sanremo Giovani, a teenage talent show hosted by Antonella Clerici.

On 25 October she won the Telegatto for her 40-year career and on the occasion of her forty-year career, a compilation titled 40 - The dream continues on 25 November, which includes the original versions of her theme songs, unreleased singles and six new duets including Elettra Lamborghini, Lorella Cuccarini, Orietta Berti and Cristiano Malgioglio.

On 15 December 2022, she is among the guests who take the stage of a celebratory public event organized in Rome for the tenth anniversary of the political party Fratelli d'Italia. Her presence arouses bitter controversy among her fans, who consider the values usually communicated by D'Avena to be incompatible with those that characterize the political party, particularly in the field of civil rights, or accuse her of having used the label of "gay icon" without real merit. On stage the singer performs with a skirt in the colors of the rainbow flag and pronounces words in support of universal love, but at the end of the performance she receives and exhibits the sweatshirt of the political party.

## Discography

## Filmography


Cavaleiros do Forró

# Cavaleiros do Forró

## Abstract

Cavaleiros do Forró is a Brazilian Forró band formed in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, in 2004. The group has sold more than 2.5 million albums.


Foresthill Bridge

# Foresthill Bridge

## Abstract

The Foresthill Bridge, also referred to as the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge or the Auburn Bridge, is a road bridge crossing over the North Fork American River in Placer County and the Sierra Nevada foothills, in eastern California. It is the highest bridge by deck height in California, the fourth highest in the United States, and among the seventy highest in the world at 730 feet (220 m) above the river.

## History

Originally constructed to replace a river-level crossing of the American River that would have been flooded by the reservoir that would have been created by the unbuilt Auburn Dam, the deck of the steel cantilever bridge stands 730 feet (220 m) above the river. It was fabricated in 1971 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan, built by Willamette Western Contractors, and opened in 1973. The bridge spans the North Fork of the American River in Placer County between the city of Auburn and the town of Foresthill in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Pedestrians can walk the length of the bridge in both directions. There was anti-Auburn Dam graffiti, showing protest of the planned dam, on the bridge's underside.

A seismic retrofit project began in January 2011 and was completed in 2015, with an estimated cost of $74.4 million. The original bridge cost less than $13 million.

## In media

The bridge can be seen in the beginning of the 2002 film XXX in which Vin Diesel 's character Xander Cage is seen driving a stolen red Chevrolet Corvette off it, then jumping from the car mid-flight and parachuting to his accomplices at the bottom of the American River Canyon.

It also appears in a montage sequence toward the end of the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth, and has been utilized in multiple exercise equipment advertisements.

## Suicides

Due to its height, the bridge is a noteworthy suicide site. As of February 2024, there have been 102 suicides since the bridge's construction. As part of the bridge's 2011–2015 renovations, a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 -foot-tall (2.0 m) pedestrian barrier was installed to prevent further attempts.

## Bridge Fire (2021)

The Bridge Fire, which burned under the Foresthill Bridge, started on September 5 and burned for a total of 9 days. 411 acres (166 ha) were burned, with CAL-FIRE reporting one injury.


Cameron Grimes

# Cameron Grimes

## Abstract

Trevor Lee Caddell (born September 30, 1993), best known under the ring name Trevor Lee (a shortened version of his real name), is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW) and also appears on various independent promotions. He is also known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Cameron Grimes. He is a former NXT North American Champion and was the final Million Dollar Champion.

Caddell made his debut on the independent circuit in 2009 as Trevor Lee, most notably in Pro Wrestling Guerilla (PWG), where he was PWG Tag Team Champion with Andrew Everett. In 2015, he worked with Impact Wrestling, where he stayed for the next four years, winning the Impact X Division Champion three times and the TNA World Tag Team Champion once with Brian Myers. After leaving Impact, Caddell signed with WWE and was assigned to NXT with the name Cameron Grimes. He joined the SmackDown brand in 2023 until his release from the company the next year.

## Professional wrestling career

### Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2014–2019)

Caddell began his career in 2009 working for numerous independent promotions under the name Trevor Lee, starting with CWF-Mid Atlantic in North Carolina. He then made his debut with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) on March 28, 2014, at Mystery Vortex II, losing to Andrew Everett in a three-way match also involving Cedric Alexander. However, Lee received a big push in PWG, defeating the top names of the promotion. On July 26, 2014, at Eleven, Lee picked up a huge upset win by defeating three-time PWG World Champion, Kevin Steen in Steen's farewell match for the company. Lee was one of 24 participants in the 2014 Battle of Los Angeles tournament. Lee defeated Cedric Alexander in the 1st round and Michael Elgin in the quarter-finals, before ultimately losing to Johnny Gargano in the semi-finals. On October 17, 2014, at Untitled II, Lee defeated the longest reigning PWG World Champion in the title's history, Adam Cole. On December 12, 2014, at Black Cole Sun, Lee defeated yet another PWG World Champion, Chris Hero. On February 27, 2015, at From Out of Nowhere, Lee received his first shot at the PWG World Championship against Roderick Strong, but was unsuccessful in his attempt. On May 22, 2015, Lee and Andrew Everett won the 2015 DDT4 tournament, defeating the PWG World Tag Team Champions The Beaver Boys (Alex Reynolds and John Silver) in the finals to win the tournament and also the PWG World Tag Team Championship. On June 26, 2015, at Mystery Vortex III, Lee and Everett lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship to The Young Bucks, following outside interference from PWG World Champion, Roderick Strong. On July 24, at Pro Wrestling Guerrilla 's 12 year anniversary show, Threemendous IV, Trevor Lee defeated Tommaso Ciampa via Small Package Driver after a hard-hitting match. He entered PWG's Battle Of Los Angeles tournament on the first night defeating Trent?. The second night he teamed up with Biff Busick and Andrew Everett to take on Mount Rushmore 2.0 (The Young Bucks and Super Dragon) on a six-man Guerrilla Warfare match, which his team lost. In the third night he lost in the second round of the tournament against Marty Scurll.

At PWG's All Star Weekend 11, he began to show villainous traits such as cheap shotting opponents before matches and insulting the crowd. He achieved victory on both nights defeating Will Ospreay on night one, and Matt Sydal on night two. He entered the 2016 Battle of Los Angeles and made it all the way to the finals, a three-way elimination match where along with Marty Scurll eliminated Will Ospreay before once again tapping to Scurll's crossface chicken wing submission. On February 18, 2017, at Only Kings Understand Each Other, Lee defeated Cody Rhodes. Following that Lee started a losing streak for the rest of 2017 losing to the likes of Lio Rush, Keith Lee, Chuck Taylor and Ricochet.

Lee later entered into the 2017 edition of the Battle Of Los Angeles, getting eliminated in the first round by Donovan Dijak. At PWG All Star Weekend 14, Lee was defeated by Rey Horus on night one but defeated Morgan Webster on night two. In the 2018 Battle Of Los Angeles, Lee defeated Marko Stunt in the first round, then Brody King in the second round, but lost to Jeff Cobb in the semi-finals. On October 19, at Smokey and the Bandido, Lee defeated Darby Allin. Lee wrestled at PWG's Hand of Doom on January 18, 2019, against the current champion Jeff Cobb in a losing effort. Following the match, Lee gave a farewell address to crowd ask WWE.

### Independent circuit (2024–present)

Lee has also wrestled for other independent companies, including OMEGA Championship Wrestling, where on May 21, 2015, he won the OMEGA Heavyweight Championship in a triple threat match that included his mentor Matt Hardy. On February 27, 2016, Lee – while wrestling at a CWF Mid-Atlantic event – defeated Roy Wilkins in one hour and forty-five minutes (105 minutes) to win the CWF Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship.

At All American Wrestling 's AAW Showdown 2018, Lee defeated DJZ to win the AAW Heritage Championship. On April 7, 2018, Lee unsuccessfully challenged A.C.H. for the AAW Heavyweight Championship. On November 24, 2018, he wrestled ACH to a 60-min time limit draw for AAW. DJZ regained the Heritage Championship beating Lee on December 8, 2018. His first match of 2019 was a successful defense of his CWF Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight title against Cain Justice.

### Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / Impact Wrestling

#### The Helms Dynasty (2015 – 2017)

Lee made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) debut on the August 12, 2015 episode of Impact Wrestling, where he teamed with Brian Myers as part of Team GFW and lost to The Wolves. On the September 2 episode of Impact Wrestling, Lee and Myers defeated The Wolves in a rematch to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship with help from Sonjay Dutt. The next week on the September 9, 2015 episode of Impact Wrestling, they lost the title to The Wolves. On October 4, at Bound for Glory, Lee and Myers had a rematch for the TNA World Tag Team Championship against The Wolves but were unsuccessful.

After a four-month hiatus; on the February 2, 2016 episode of Impact Wrestling, Lee defeated Tigre Uno to win the TNA X Division Championship with the help from his new manager Gregory Shane Helms. During the reign, he successfully retained his title against Tigre Uno in a two rematch, Eddie Edwards and DJZ. In April, Andrew Everett joined Lee and Helms, forming the Helms Dynasty. At Slammiversary, he lost his title against Eddie Edwards in a four-way who including Everett and DJZ. At Destination X, he lost a ladder match for #1 contendership to the X Division Championship. On October 2, at Bound for Glory, Lee unsuccessfully challenged DJZ for the X Division Championship. On the February 2, 2017 episode of Impact Wrestling, he defeated him in a ladder match to win the title for the second time. The following week, Everett was attacked by Lee and Helms, and kicked out of The Helms Dynasty. On the April 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Lee lost the X Division Championship to Low Ki in a six-way match that included Everett, Dutt, Dezmond Xavier and Suicide.

#### The Cult of Lee (2017 – 2019)

On the July 6 episode of Impact, Lee attacked new X Division Champion Sonjay Dutt after his match with Caleb Konley and stole the X Division Championship, declaring himself the new X Division Champion. He then began "defending" the X Division Championship against handpicked local competitors and even wrestled with the title around his waist. On August 17, at Destination X, Dutt regained his title against Lee after interference from a returning Petey Williams. On the September 14 episode of Impact!, Lee would form an alliance with Konley, where he would help him regain the X Division Championship in a Falls Count Anywhere match. Lee would go on to recruit former Helms Dynasty teammate Andrew Everett to face Dutt, Williams and Matt Sydal on the October 5 episode of Impact! in a losing effort. At Bound for Glory, Lee successfully retained the title in a Six-way match.

On the November 9, 2017 episode of Impact, Lee would lose the X Division Championship against Taiji Ishimori. In January 2018, Lee and Konley would start a feud against the Latin American Xchange, defeating them on January 11, thus earning a championship match that they lose. At Redemption, Lee competed in a Six-way match which was won by Brian Cage. On the July 26 episode of Impact, Lee was defeated by Johnny Impact. On December 31, 2018, his contract with Impact Wrestling expired. To write him off television they did an angle where Killer Kross punched a concrete block through his face. This aired on the January 3, 2019 episode of Impact.

### WWE

#### NXT beginnings (2019–2020)

After leaving Impact Wrestling, Caddell revealed on January 12, 2019, at a CWF Mid-Atlantic show, that he signed a contract with WWE. It was made official on February 11, 2019, as he began working at the WWE Performance Center. Shortly after, he started appearing at NXT Live events in the Florida area, and he made his Full Sail University debut in a dark match before the May 1 NXT television tapings, defeating Shane Strickland. In June, his ring name was changed to Cameron Grimes. That same month, it was announced that Grimes would compete in the NXT Breakout Tournament, where the winner would get an opportunity to challenge for any title in NXT. Grimes made his debut on the July 3 episode of NXT, defeating Isaiah "Swerve" Scott in the first round of the tournament. On the July 31 episode, Grimes defeated Bronson Reed to move on to the final round, but lost against A.C.H. on the August 14 episode.

On September 18, Grimes defeated Sean Maluta on NXT ' s debut on the USA Network. Over the next few weeks, Grimes would develop a winning streak, defeating the likes of Raul Mendoza and Boa. On the October 23 episode of NXT, Grimes was defeated by Matt Riddle. Grimes would begin a feud with Kushida when he attacked him backstage after losing to him. On the December 11 episode of NXT, Kushida cost Grimes his match against Raul Mendoza and would taunt him by stealing his signature hat. The following week, Grimes defeated Kushida to end the feud. After defeating Dominik Dijakovic on the February 26, 2020 episode, Grimes would issue a challenge to Keith Lee for the NXT North American Championship, which Lee accepted. He faced Lee for the title in a losing effort on the March 11 episode.

On the May 6 episode of NXT, he defeated Denzel Dejournette but was attacked by Finn Bálor after the match, who Grimes had called out earlier. The following week, Grimes defeated Bálor in a match following interference from Damian Priest. Grimes would go on to flaunt his victory over Bálor while mocking Priest for losing to Bálor at TakeOver: In Your House and calling him a loser, which led to Priest attacking him backstage. On the June 17 episode of NXT, Priest found the tires of his Dodge Challenger punctured, which turned out to be done by Grimes, who once again mocked Priest. Priest would challenge Grimes to a match the following week. Prior to the match, Priest was attacked and came into the match injured, giving Grimes the victory. A rematch was scheduled on the June 24 episode of NXT in which Grimes lost. On the August 12 episode, Grimes defeated Velveteen Dream and Kushida to qualify for the NXT North American Championship ladder match at TakeOver XXX. At the event, Grimes was unsuccessful in capturing the title.

On the September 23 episode of NXT, Grimes competed in the first ever Gauntlet Eliminator match to determine the #1 contender for the NXT Championship at TakeOver 31 against Finn Bálor, losing to Kyle O'Reilly. Grimes then entered a feud with Dexter Lumis, attacking him on the October 7 episode of NXT, after his match with Austin Theory for disrespecting him last week. After distracting him during his North American title match against Damian Priest the following week, Grimes was put in a Haunted House of Terror match against Lumis on October 28 at Halloween Havoc, losing to him in the ring by submission. On the November 11 episode of NXT, Grimes interfered in Lumis's match against Timothy Thatcher, subsequently wrapping his head in a burlap sack and attacking him. The following week, they faced off in a blindfold match, which ended in an apparent no contest after Grimes unknowingly knocked the referee unconscious and eventually ran off. He would lose to Lumis again in a strap match on December 6 at TakeOver: WarGames. On the December 9 episode of NXT, Grimes was defeated by Tommaso Ciampa and attacked by Timothy Thatcher after the match because Grimes had angrily questioned Thatcher about being at ringside. It was announced the following week that Grimes was out injured for four to six weeks after Thatcher's attack. This was used to write him off television as Grimes legitimately needed arthroscopic knee surgery.

#### The Richest Man In NXT (2021–2022)

Grimes returned on the February 10, 2021 episode of NXT with a new gimmick as he claimed to have become a GameStop investor during his time away (in reference to the GameStop stock rise) thus making him the "richest man in NXT." He then failed to win a gauntlet match at TakeOver: Stand & Deliver for a future North American Championship match. On the April 27 episode of NXT, Grimes began a feud with WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase after encountering him in a jewelry store over their watches. Over the next few weeks, "The Million Dollar Man" would continue to one-up Grimes, outbidding him in various purchases, and would end up costing Grimes a match to Jake Atlas on May 18. The two then had a "Million Dollar Face-Off" on the May 25 episode where LA Knight attacked Grimes and aligned himself with DiBiase, turning Grimes into a babyface in the process. On the June 8 episode, DiBiase reintroduced the Million Dollar Championship and announced that the winner of a ladder match between Grimes and Knight at TakeOver: In Your House would win the title, where Grimes was unsuccessful. On the following episode of NXT, Grimes saved DiBiase from an attack by Knight further signaling his face turn. Grimes would subsequently challenge Knight to a rematch for the title at The Great American Bash, under the stipulation that if he loses, he will be forced to become Knight's butler. At the event, Grimes failed to win the title and as a result, was forced to become Knight's butler. At NXT Takeover 36 Cameron Grimes faced L. A. Knight for the Million Dollar Championship where if he loses Ted DiBiase becomes LA Knight's butler. Grimes defeated Knight at the event and won his first Million Dollar Championship. On August 24, the storyline finally came to a conclusion on NXT, as they talked about Grimes’ journey to the title and how he was now headed "Straight to the moon!". The celebration ended with fake $100 bills with Grimes’ face raining down over the Capitol Wrestling Center.

A segment later aired with Grimes seeing The Million Dollar Man to his limousine in the parking lot, to say their goodbyes. Grimes gave the Million Dollar Title back to DiBiase, but Ted handed it back and said he wanted Grimes to have the strap so he thinks of their partnership and what they accomplished when he looks at it. Grimes took the title back, but noticed how it felt lighter, and was made out of a different material. Grimes looked on the back of the title and confirmed that Ted switched the belts out, giving him a WWE Shop replica to keep. DiBiase drove away while doing his signature laugh, while Grimes also laughed to end the segment.

#### NXT North American Champion (2022–2023)

Grimes faced Carmelo Hayes for the NXT North American Championship at the Vengeance Day special episode on February 15, 2022, and lost. He would win the NXT North American Championship on April 2, 2022 at NXT Stand & Deliver, by defeating Carmelo Hayes, Santos Escobar, Solo Sikoa and Grayson Waller in a fatal five-way ladder match. He made his first successful title defense against Solo Sikoa on the April 12 episode of NXT 2.0. Grimes would make another successful title defense in a Triple Threat match at NXT Spring Breakin' against Carmelo Hayes and Solo Sikoa. At NXT In Your House, Grimes lost the North American Championship to Hayes, ending his reign at 63 days.

Grimes then entered a rivalry with NXT Champion Bron Breakker, which culminated in a championship title match at NXT: The Great American Bash, where Grimes failed to win the NXT Championship. On the July 12 edition of NXT 2.0, Grimes would cut an emotional promo, only for JD McDonagh to interrupt and attack him. However, Grimes would retaliate, thus setting up a match for the following week which he lost. Shortly after, he entered a feud with Joe Gacy as the latter claimed that he could be his father figure as Grimes lost his real life father years prior. During this rivalry, the debuting Ava Raine would join Schism and cost Grimes in his final match with Gacy on the November 8th episode of NXT.

#### SmackDown (2023–2024)

As part of the 2023 WWE Draft, Grimes was drafted to the SmackDown brand. He debuted in the main roster on the May 12 show of SmackDown, defeating Baron Corbin in 6 seconds. On April 23, 2024, Lee announced that he had been released from WWE.

### Major League Wrestling (2024–present)

On September 9, 2024, Major League Wrestling announced that Lee would make his debut for the promotion at Slaughterhouse.

## Personal life

Caddell's father, Tracy Caddell, was a professional wrestler and promoter who died on July 29, 2018.

## Championships and accomplishments

- All American Wrestling AAW Heritage Championship (1 time) AAW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Andrew Everett

- AAW Heritage Championship (1 time)

- AAW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Andrew Everett

- Carolina Wrestling Federation Mid-Atlantic CWF Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time) CWF Mid-Atlantic Rising Generation League Championship (1 time) CWF Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chet Sterling CWF Mid-Atlantic Television Championship (2 times) PWI Ultra J Championship (1 time) CWF Annual Rumble (2017) Kernodle Brothers Tag Team Tournament (2018) – with Chet Sterling

- CWF Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

- CWF Mid-Atlantic Rising Generation League Championship (1 time)

- CWF Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chet Sterling

- CWF Mid-Atlantic Television Championship (2 times)

- PWI Ultra J Championship (1 time)

- CWF Annual Rumble (2017)

- Kernodle Brothers Tag Team Tournament (2018) – with Chet Sterling

- OMEGA Championship Wrestling OMEGA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

- OMEGA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

- Pro Wrestling Guerrilla PWG World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Andrew Everett DDT4 (2015) – with Andrew Everett

- PWG World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Andrew Everett

- DDT4 (2015) – with Andrew Everett

- Pro Wrestling Illustrated Ranked No. 61 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016

- Ranked No. 61 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016

- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / Impact Wrestling TNA / Impact X Division Championship (3 times) TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Brian Myers Race for the Case (2017 – Blue Case)

- TNA / Impact X Division Championship (3 times)

- TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Brian Myers

- Race for the Case (2017 – Blue Case)

- WWE NXT North American Championship (1 time) Million Dollar Championship (1 time, final)

- NXT North American Championship (1 time)

- Million Dollar Championship (1 time, final)


Rod Ansell

# Rod Ansell

## Abstract

Rodney William Ansell (1 October 1954 – 3 August 1999) was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from " the bush ", Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and the story of his survival for 56 days with limited supplies became news headlines around the world. Consequently, he served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan 's character in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee. In 1999, he was killed in a shootout by policemen of the Northern Territory Police.

## Early life

Ansell was born in Murgon, Queensland, to George William Ansell and Eva May Ansell, the third of four children. He then moved to the Northern Territory at the age of 15. As a young man, he made a living hunting feral water buffalo in the Top End, the meat being exported to foreign markets.

### Survival ordeal

In May 1977, shortly after completing a buffalo catching job in Kununurra, Western Australia, Ansell decided to travel to the Victoria River on what he claimed was a fishing trip. He was not specific about his plans, only telling his then-girlfriend Lorraine he would be back in a few months. When Ansell's motorboat was capsized and sunk by "something big" (he later sensationally claimed it was a whale), no one knew where to find him. Ansell managed to board his tender, a small dinghy with only a single oar, and retrieve his two 8-week-old bull terriers and a small amount of equipment (a rifle, a knife, some canned food, and bedding). But with no fresh water, Ansell was in a perilous situation, stranded almost 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the nearest permanent human settlement, and one of his dogs had a broken leg.

During the night, Ansell's dinghy drifted out to sea, eventually washing up on a small island at the mouth of the Fitzmaurice River, north of the Victoria River. Over the next 48 hours, Ansell travelled up the Fitzmaurice on tidal flows, becoming severely dehydrated but eventually finding fresh water above the saltwater tidal range. Ansell subsisted on wild cattle and buffalo, hunting by day to feed himself and his dogs. He sometimes resorted to drinking cattle blood as a substitute for water, the fluids helping to maintain his body's electrolyte balance. He was also able to follow bees to their hive to retrieve honey. During the night, Ansell slept in a tree fork out of reach of crocodiles, although he shared the tree with a brown tree snake. At one point, he shot a 5-metre (16 ft) crocodile, whose head he kept as a souvenir.

Ansell never counted on being rescued; he had told others he would be away for months, and any search parties would be combing over the Victoria River, not the Fitzmaurice. He rested his hope on walking overland to a pastoral station when the wet season began. One day, Ansell heard the distinctive tinkling of horse-bells, which drew him to two Aboriginal stockmen and their cattle manager, Luke McCall. Although he was somewhat emaciated, Ansell was otherwise healthy. Once back home, he apparently kept his seven-week ordeal to himself, fearing he would upset his mother with his recklessness. He later claimed the experience was hardly a big deal, explaining:

All the blokes up in this country, who work with cattle, ringers, stockmen, bull-catches, whatever, all of them, have really narrow shaves all the time. But they never talk about it...I think the opinion is that if you come through in one piece, and you're still alive, then nothing else really matters. It's like going out to shoot a kangaroo. You don't come back and say you missed by half-an-inch. You either got him or you didn't. So that is how I looked at it. Until the paper got hold of the story, and that changed a lot of things.

Newspapers dubbed Ansell the "modern-day Robinson Crusoe " and he was making headlines by August 1977.

### Media attention

In 1977, after becoming a sensation in the Australian media following his harrowing ordeal in the Outback, Ansell met Joanne van Os, 22, a radio operator originally from Melbourne who was then working at the remote Aboriginal community of Wadeye. The two fell in love and married, having two sons: Callum (born 1979) and Shawn (born 1981). The family spent much of their early years living "under just a canvas sheet". With no electricity or running water, they cooked by campfire and communicated by radio.

In 1979, filmmaker Richard Oxenburgh asked Ansell to relive his adventures in the documentary film To Fight the Wild, which the following year was published as a book. Although both accepted Ansell's version of events uncritically, his story was frequently treated with skepticism by locals in the Top End. Some believed it was a publicity stunt and others wondered why Ansell did not follow the river downstream to the nearest town. When Ansell was asked in interviews what he was doing in the remote Australian wilderness by himself, he claimed he was on a fishing trip. Privately, however, he confided to friends that he was actually poaching crocodiles.

In 1981, Ansell was invited to Sydney where he was interviewed by English journalist Michael Parkinson for his television program Parkinson. Ansell attended the interview barefoot. While staying at the famous five-star Sebel Townhouse Hotel, he slept in his sleeping bag on the floor rather than on his bed, and was reportedly mystified by his room's bidet. Ansell's interview and curious city antics sparked Paul Hogan's interest, inspiring him and co-writers Ken Shadie and John Cornell to create the character Mick "Crocodile" Dundee. Following the unexpected blockbuster success of Crocodile Dundee, Ansell unsuccessfully took Hogan to court.

According to Ansell's friends, he was "at one" with Arnhem Land 's Indigenous Australians, and like the film character, he spoke "Urapunga" (Ngalakgan) fluently, having become a "fully initiated white man". An "unassuming achiever" who embodied "the spirit of the Territory", Ansell was named Territorian of the Year in 1987 for helping to put Top End on the world map. Journalist Chips Mackinolty, who met Ansell in the 1980s, described him as "articulate and likable, if somewhat intense". However, Ansell's new-found fame alienated him from his peers, and he later lamented of his rejection back home:

Proving the point about the story being true or not wouldn't matter that much. Because the people it would affect, who affect me, are the people who live where I work, and know me. And people up here have a phobia about appearing on the media. So that was detrimental to my standing in their eyes...they thought it was a terrible thing to do.

## Later life

In 1985, Ansell borrowed money and secured a pastoral lease in northern Arnhem Land. He started up Melaleuca, a cattle station 140 kilometres (87 mi) east of Darwin, near Kakadu National Park, named after the Melaleuca paper bark trees which dot the landscape. The Ansells built their homestead on the station, not far from the Mary River. In the 1980s, he found himself in a protracted dispute with the Northern Territory government over the controversial Bovine Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign (BTEC). To comply with BTEC, Ansell was forced to kill 3,000 head of feral buffalo on his property. He had originally planned to capture and domesticate the animals, creating a pastoral herd that would have afforded his family a comfortable lifestyle. Arguing that money spent on the BTEC program "would be better spent on research on AIDS ", Ansell considered the destruction of the animals an outrageous waste of good livestock.

Three neighbouring graziers were eventually awarded AUD $100,000 in government loans, but Ansell was never compensated for his losses. Mimosa pigra weeds also began taking over the floodplain, rendering it useless. With no money to fight the invasive weeds, the Ansells were forced to sell their cattle station in June 1991.

In June 1996, he began dating Cherie Hewson. The couple lived at Urapanga Station, an Aboriginal outstation on the Roper River about 483 kilometres (300 mi) south of Darwin. Over the next several years, the couple's drug addiction became more destructive, culminating in a psychotic episode that ultimately claimed Ansell's life in a shootout with police.

## Death

Ansell was killed following a police shootout on 3 August 1999. The deadly altercation began at approximately 10:45 a.m. on the roadblocked intersection of Stuart Highway and Old Bynoe Road, near Acacia Hills. Ansell ambushed veteran Sergeant Glen Anthony Huitson and his partner, rookie Constable Jamie O'Brien, with a shot from Ansell's.30-30 Winchester lever-action rifle deflecting off a police car and fatally striking Huitson in the abdomen below his bulletproof vest, and severely injured onlooker Jonathan Anthonysz in the pelvis and lower back. A gun-battle immediately erupted between Constable O'Brien and Ansell upon arrival of specialist police officers from the Territory Response Group. About five minutes into the fight, Ansell was shot dead. O'Brien killed Ansell with a shotgun after unloading on Ansell's position with his Glock pistol, having missed all his previous shots. The battle ended the authorities' 12-hour search for an attacker who shot and seriously injured two nearby residents (David Hobden in the eye and Brian Williams in his index finger) the previous night. Ansell's girlfriend Hewson was with him but escaped before the gun-battle occurred; she fled, eventually turning herself in to Brisbane police on 7 August 1999.

Although police were at a loss to explain Ansell's motive (he could have easily escaped the roadblock had he chosen to), it was later determined that Ansell had been raving about Freemasons prior to his death; he was distraught, apparently convinced that Freemasons had kidnapped his two sons and were now stalking him. During the coroner's inquest, psychiatrist Robert Parker made the following observations on Ansell's mental state before his death:

There is no doubt that Ansell was affected by amphetamine intoxication prior to his fatal interaction with Sergeant Huitson...Ansell's behaviour prior to the initial shots being fired is consistent with amphetamine intoxication with restlessness, hypervigilance, anxiety, anger and impaired judgement (DSM IV). He was also affected by a paranoid psychotic state which is typical of chronic amphetamine use.

Parker also determined that Ansell and Hewson had developed a shared psychosis, stating:

...the two of them developed a shared delusional state or folie a deux...It is possible, therefore, that one or both parties had an underlying vulnerability to mental illness which was enhanced and sustained by their regular use of amphetamines.

An autopsy of Ansell's remains showed he had suffered 30 entry wounds or grazes, all caused by shotgun pellets; the fatal injury was caused by a pellet that had perforated his aorta. The cause of death was determined to be " haemorrhage from multiple gunshot wounds involving various parts of the body". Following the request of his sons, Ansell was given a full Aboriginal burial at Mount Catt, Arnhem Land. His funeral was attended by his sons and parents.


Nantucket Sound

# Nantucket Sound

## Abstract

Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is 30 miles (48 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on the west. Between Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard it is connected to the Vineyard Sound. Ports on Nantucket Sound include Nantucket and Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Nantucket Sound possesses significant marine habitat for a diversity of ecologically and economically important species. "The Sound" has particular significance for several federally protected species of wildlife and a variety of commercially and recreationally valuable fisheries.

The Sound is located at a confluence of the cold Labrador Currents and the warm Gulf Stream. This creates a unique coastal habitat representing the southern range for Northern Atlantic species and the northern range for Mid-Atlantic species. Nantucket Sound has much biological diversity and contains habitats that range from open sea to salt marshes, as well as warm-water beaches on the Cape and Islands coasts.Nantucket Sound is well known for the numerous shoals within its boundaries.


# Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (video game)

## Abstract

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a 2007 video game based on the film of the same name and stars the Marvel Comics characters Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer published by 2K. It is a sequel to the 2005 video game Fantastic Four, itself based on the film of the same name.

## Gameplay

The game allows the player to take on the role of any member of the Fantastic Four team and to switch characters at any time. Each of the characters has a special ability:

- Reed Richards/ Mister Fantastic has the ability to shift his body into a super-malleable state, enabling him to stretch, or otherwise reshape his physical form at his will.

- Susan Storm/Invisible Woman possesses the ability to bend light and ultimately become invisible (wholly or partially) at will. She also has telekinetic powers and the ability to project force energy from her body.

- Johnny Storm/The Human Torch can manipulate fire. He usually allows his entire body to be engulfed in flames considering his body can sustain the highest levels of heat. He can also fly.

- Ben Grimm/The Thing is incredibly strong and with skin stronger than diamonds. Ben Grimm can also carry heavy objects with ease.

During the game, the player faces enemies from the Fantastic Four universe, such as Silver Surfer, Terrax, Red Ghost, Super-Skrull, and Dr. Doom.

In addition to missions featuring the whole team, there are various solo missions during the game, such as the Human Torch chasing the Silver Surfer through New York and Sue Storm using her invisibility powers to sneak through a Military Base.

The game also allows the use of fused attacks, giving the player the ability of combining powers to pull off new moves. There are 12 different moves in the game, one with each combination of team members. One example is Sue creating an energy field & Johnny filling it with flame, effectively creating a bomb. Another is Ben charging toward enemy hordes and Sue projecting spinning telekinetic blades around him.

## Reception

Hyper ' s Daniel Wilks commended the game for "being better than Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ", but criticized it for being "dull, repetitive and lazy".


Dario Božičić

# Dario Božičić

## Abstract

Dario Božičić (Cyrillic: Дарио Божичић; born 30 August 1989) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.


These Days (Vince Gill album)

# These Days (Vince Gill album)

## Abstract

These Days is the eleventh studio album and the first box set by American country music artist Vince Gill. Consisting of 43 original songs spanning four discs, the album displays the range of Gill’s lyrical and musical styles, ranging from traditional country and bluegrass to jazz and rock. The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and won Best Country Album. In 2012, the album was number 10 on People Magazine's "Top 10 Best Albums of the Century (So Far)". It is also ranked #9 on Country Universe's "The 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade."

## History

To accompany him on this undertaking, Gill turned both to artists he knew and had worked with before and to those whose music he admired froma distance. "I never try to fill up my records with famous people," Gill says. "I try to fill them up with the most talented people I can find on the face of the earth." By the time the project was completed, that group included Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Rodney Crowell, Patty Loveless, Phil Everly, the Del McCoury Band, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, John Anderson, Lee Ann Womack, Jenny Gill, Amy Grant, LeAnn Rimes, Gretchen Wilson, Guy Clark, Trisha Yearwood, Bekka Bramlett, Michael McDonald, steel-guitarist Buddy Emmons and many other musical standouts.

Initially, Gill planned to pare down the songs to a single album. Then, in one of the studios he used, he spotted some Beatles memorabilia and recalled that the Fab Four had routinely released multiple albums within the same year.

The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 17, with 42,000 copies sold in its first week. This was also the album's peak position on the chart.

## Singles

Three singles were released from this album, of which two were duets. The first single, "The Reason Why" (featuring Alison Krauss) reached #28 on the Hot Country Songs charts; following it was "What You Give Away", which featured Sheryl Crow and peaked at #43. The third single, "How Lonely Looks", failed to chart.

## Track listing

### Workin' on a Big Chill

"The Rockin' Record"

- "Workin’ on a Big Chill" (Gill, Al Anderson, Leslie Satcher) - 4:03

- "Love’s Standin’" (Gill, Joe Henry, John Hobbs) - 4:05

- "Cowboy Up" (featuring Gretchen Wilson) (Gill, Pete Wasner) - 4:00

- "Sweet Thing" (Gill, Gary Nicholson) - 3:20

- "Bet It All on You" (Gill, A. Anderson) - 4:26

- "Nothin’ for a Broken Heart" (Duet w/ Rodney Crowell) (Gill, A. Anderson) - 3:03

- "Son of a Ramblin’ Man" (featuring Del McCoury Band) (Gill, A. Anderson) - 2:45

- "Smilin’ Song" (featuring Michael McDonald) (Gill) - 2:59

- "The Rhythm of the Pourin’ Rain" (featuring Bekka Bramlett) (Gill, Wasner) - 3:26

- "Nothin’ Left to Say" (Gill, Billy Thomas) - 3:56

### The Reason Why

"The Groovy Record"

- "What You Don't Say" (with LeAnn Rimes) (Gill, Hobbs, Reed Nielsen) - 5:03

- "The Reason Why" (with Alison Krauss) (Gill, Nicholson) - 2:50

- "The Rock of Your Love" (with Bonnie Raitt) (Gill, A. Anderson, Satcher) - 3:51

- "What You Give Away" (with Sheryl Crow) (Gill, A. Anderson) - 4:52

- "Faint of Heart" (with Diana Krall) (Gill, A. Anderson) - 4:30

- "Time to Carry On" (with Jenny Gill) (Gill, Wasner) - 4:09

- "No Easy Way" (Gill, Nielsen) - 3:40

- "This Memory of You" (with Trisha Yearwood) (Gill, A. Anderson, Hobbs) - 3:43

- "How Lonely Looks" (Gill, Beverly W. Darnell) - 5:10

- "Tell Me One More Time About Jesus" (with Amy Grant) (Gill, Grant) - 4:02

- "Everything and Nothing" (with Katrina Elam) (Gill, Darnell, Kyle D. Matthews) - 4:02

- "Which Way Will You Go" (Gill, Hobbs, Nielsen) - 4:11

- "These Days" (Gill) - 3:55

### Some Things Never Get Old

"The Country and Western Record"

- "This New Heartache" (Gill) - 3:31

- "The Only Love" (Gill, Nielsen) - 3:53

- "Out of My Mind" (featuring Patty Loveless) (Gill, A. Anderson, Satcher) - 3:18

- "The Sight of Me Without You" (Gill, A. Anderson, Hobbs) - 4:07

- "I Can’t Let Go" (featuring Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski) (Gill) - 3:28

- "Don’t Pretend with Me" (Gill, A. Anderson, Satcher) - 2:32

- "Some Things Never Get Old" (featuring Emmylou Harris) (Gill, A. Anderson, Tia Sillers) - 4:11

- "Sweet Little Corrina" (featuring Phil Everly) (Gill, A. Anderson) - 2:52

- "If I Can Make Mississippi" (featuring Lee Ann Womack) (Gill) - 3:44

- "Take This Country Back" (Duet w/ John Anderson) (Gill) - 3:37

### Little Brother

"The Acoustic Record"

- "All Prayed Up" (Gill) - 2:16

- "Cold Gray Light of Gone" (featuring The Del McCoury Band) (Gill, Bill Anderson, Otto Kitsinger) - 4:03

- "A River Like You" (featuring Jenny Gill) (Gill, Randy Albright, Mark D. Sanders) - 4:50

- "Ace Up Your Pretty Sleeve" (Gill, Mark Germino) - 3:33

- "Molly Brown" (Gill, Jim Waggoner) - 4:19

- "Girl" (Guest Vocalist: Rebecca Lynn Howard) (Gill) - 4:30

- "Give Me the Highway" (featuring The Del McCoury Band) (Gill) - 3:14

- "Sweet Augusta Darlin’" (Gill) - 3:12

- "Little Brother" (Gill) - 4:46

- "Almost Home" (Duet w/ Guy Clark) (Gill) - 5:19

## Personnel

- John Anderson – duet vocals on "Take This Country Back"

- Eddie Bayers – drums

- Bekka Bramlett – background vocals on "The Rhythm of the Pourin' Rain"

- Tom Britt – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut string guitar, slide guitar

- Mike Bub – upright bass

- Tom Bukovac – electric guitar

- Guy Clark – duet vocals on "Almost Home"

- Lisa Cochran – background vocals

- Jim Cox – Hammond B-3 organ

- Chad Cromwell – drums, tambourine

- Sheryl Crow – duet vocals on "What You Give Away"

- Rodney Crowell – duet vocals on "Nothin' for a Broken Heart"

- Charlie Cushman – banjo

- Eric Darken – bells, chimes, percussion, tambourine, vibraphone

- Jerry Douglas – Dobro

- Mark Douthit – tenor saxophone

- Stuart Duncan – fiddle

- Katrina Elam – duet vocals on "Everything and Nothing"

- Buddy Emmons – steel guitar

- Phil Everly – duet vocals on "Sweet Little Corrina"

- Paul Franklin – Dobro, steel guitar

- Benny Garcia – choir

- Jenny Gill – background vocals on "Time to Carry On" and "A River Like You"

- Vince Gill – choir, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, resonator guitar, guitar sound effects, mandolin, soloist, lead vocals, background vocals

- Carl Gorodetzky – concert master

- Amy Grant – duet vocals on "Tell Me One More Time About Jesus"

- Barry Green – trombone

- Emmylou Harris – duet vocals on "Some Things Never Get Old"

- Mike Haynes – trumpet

- Wes Hightower – background vocals

- John Hobbs – choir, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ, piano, Wurlitzer

- Jim Hoke – harmonica

- Jim Horn – baritone saxophone, horn arrangements

- Rebecca Lynn Howard – duet vocals on "Girl"

- John Hughey – steel guitar

- Sonya Isaacs – background vocals

- Kim Keyes – background vocals

- Diana Krall – piano and duet vocals on "Faint of Heart"

- Alison Krauss – background vocals on "The Reason Why" and "I Can't Let Go"

- Patty Loveless – background vocals on "Out of My Mind"

- Del McCoury – acoustic guitar and background vocals on "Son of a Ramblin' Man", "Cold Gray Light of Gone", and "Give Me the Highway"

- Rob McCoury – banjo on "Son of a Ramblin' Man", "Cold Gray Light of Gone", and "Give Me the Highway"

- Ronnie McCoury – mandolin on "Son of a Ramblin' Man", "Cold Gray Light of Gone", and Give Me the Highway"

- Michael McDonald – duet vocals on "Smilin' Song"

- Gene Miller – background vocals

- Doug Moffet – baritone saxophone

- The Nashville String Machine – strings

- Justin Niebank – choir

- Calvin Nowell – choir

- Michael Omartian – horn arrangements

- Williams Owsley III – background vocals

- Desmond Pringle – choir

- Bonnie Raitt – duet vocals on "The Rock of Your Love"

- Jon Randall – background vocals

- Drea Rhenee – choir

- Michael Rhodes – bass guitar, upright bass

- LeAnn Rimes – duet vocals on "What You Don't Say"

- Leslie Satcher – background vocals

- Dawn Sears – background vocals

- Steuart Smith – electric guitar

- Billy Thomas – drums, background vocals

- Dan Tyminski – background vocals on "I Can't Let Go"

- Billy Joe Walker Jr. – electric guitar

- Pete Wasner – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer

- Jeff White – acoustic guitar, background vocals

- Gretchen Wilson – duet vocals on "Cowboy Up"

- Lee Ann Womack – background vocals on "If I Can Make Mississippi"

- Trisha Yearwood – duet vocals on "This Memory of You"

- Andrea Zonn – background vocals

## Chart performance


2024 LIV Golf League

# 2024 LIV Golf League

## Abstract

The 2024 LIV Golf League is the third season of LIV Golf. The season consists of 54-hole tournaments, featuring 54 players and no cut, with a team championship event at the season end.

## Qualification

Players who did not play in the 2023 LIV Golf League will have two opportunities to qualify for the 2024 LIV Golf League. The first is by winning the 2023 Asian Tour International Series Order of Merit. This spot was won by Andy Ogletree.

The other three spots will be claimed by the top three finishers in the 2023 LIV Golf Promotions event which will be held 8–10 December 2023 at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. The event will take place over three days, with 72 holes being played in total. The first round will be open players finishing 6–32 in the 2023 International Series Order of Merit, winners of leading amateur tournaments, players ranked inside the top-200 of the Official World Golf Ranking and players ranked inside the top-20 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The top-20 and ties from the first round advance to the second round, where scores are reset. Also entering at this stage will be players relegated from the 2023 LIV Golf League, tournament winners during the 2022–23 PGA Tour and 2023 European Tour seasons, major champions since 2018, Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup players, and players finishing 2–5 on the 2023 International Series Order of Merit. The top-16 from the second round will advance to the final two rounds, with the scores being reset once again. The top three finishers over the final two rounds will earn status to play in the 2024 LIV Golf League.

On 30 November 2023, LIV Golf released the field for the promotions event. The field included more than 70 players from 23 different countries. Notable entries included 2013 PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner and two-time PGA Tour winner Kyle Stanley. Also in the field were three players who were relegated from LIV Golf after the 2023 season: Sihwan Kim, Jediah Morgan, and James Piot. Laurie Canter, Kieran Vincent, and Wade Ormsby, who played in various events of the 2023 season as reserve players, were also in the field. The three spots were won by Kalle Samooja, Jinichiro Kozuma, and Kieran Vincent.

## Broadcasting

In the United States, LIV Golf will be in the second year of a multi-year deal with The CW to broadcast and stream its tournaments.

## PGA Tour agreement

In June 2023, it was announced that the Public Investment Fund, the PGA Tour and the European Tour would create a new entity to serve the best interests of each entity. As of 15 November 2023, terms of that agreement have not been finalized, and LIV Golf is moving forward with its plans for the 2024 LIV Golf League.

## Player movements

From the end of the 2023 season until the beginning of the 2024 season saw numerous changes to team rosters.

### Lock Zone contract extensions

Players who finished in the top 24, also called the Lock Zone, of the 2023 individual standings whose contracts expired after the season will be offered extensions for a minimum of one year to remain with their current teams. Players can choose to accept the contract extension or become free agents.

The following table lists players who finished in the Lock Zone and were offered contracts by their teams for 2024 and whether they accepted the contract extension or became a free agent.

### Free agents

Players who declined their contract extensions, along with those who finished in places 25–44 of the individual standings, also called the Open Zone, whose contracts expired after the season will become free agents and can negotiate with any team. Free agents are not guaranteed to be signed and may lose their playing privileges in 2024 if they are not signed. The free agency period began on 16 November 2023. The following table lists players who became free agents.

### Relegated players

Players who finished in places 45 and below and are not team captains are relegated out of LIV Golf and may not be signed by another team unless they earn their way back into the 2024 season through the LIV Golf Promotions event. The following table lists players who were relegated after the 2023 season.

### Newly signed players

In addition to qualifying for the 2024 season through the International Series or via the LIV Golf Promotions event, players who have not played for LIV Golf can join the 2024 season by signing with the league or with a team.

### Trades

The following trades took place during the offseason before the 2024 season started:

- 7 December 2023: RangeGoats GC sent 2023 individual champion Talor Gooch to Smash GC in exchange for Matthew Wolff.

- 7 December 2023: RangeGoats GC sent Harold Varner III to 4Aces GC in exchange for Peter Uihlein.

### Departures

The following players (full-time only) are no longer with LIV Golf after the conclusion of the 2023 season:

- Bernd Wiesberger returned to the DP World Tour full-time for the 2024 season, after his contract was not renewed.

- Chase Koepka was ineligible for the 2024 LIV Golf League after withdrawing from the 2023 LIV Golf Promotions event.

- Sihwan Kim and James Piot were eliminated after Day 2 of the LIV Golf Promotions event, making them ineligible for the 2024 LIV Golf League.

- Jediah Morgan was eliminated after the final day of the LIV Golf Promotions event, making him ineligible for the 2024 LIV Golf League.

## Rosters

### Wild cards

New for the 2024 season were wild card players, who will compete in the individual competition without being a member of a team. On 31 January 2024, LIV Golf announced the first two wild cards who will play during the 2024 season, the first being Hudson Swafford; who will play for the entire season as a wildcard. The second wild card was Laurie Canter, who was signed to play in the first two events of the season. In late February, Anthony Kim was announced as the second wild card player for the remainder of the season; Kim had last played professionally in 2012, when he retired due to injuries.

### Reserve players

LIV Golf maintains a roster of reserve players who are available to fill in on any team when there are injuries or other absences for tournaments. The reserve players announced for 2024 are Ben Campbell, Laurie Canter, Luis Carrera, John Catlin and Wade Ormsby.

## Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2024 season.

## Standings

### Individual standings

The top ten in the LIV Golf individual standings as of 18 August 2024 (LIV Golf Greenbrier):

### Team standings

The LIV Golf team standings as of 18 August 2024 (LIV Golf Greenbrier):


Darjan Matović

# Darjan Matović

## Abstract

Darjan Matović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дарјан Матовић; born 12 October 1988) is a Bosnian football goalkeeper who plays for FK Proleter Teslić.


Austin Thunder

# Austin Thunder

## Abstract

The Austin Thunder was an American soccer club based in Austin, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.

## History

In 1987, Nigel Bowman and Jeff Brown founded The Austin Thunder, the first semi-professional soccer team in Austin, as part of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance, initially playing at House Park. The Thunder ended their first season with a 3–3 record, finishing third in the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.

Lone Star Soccer Alliance announced that the 1998 season would have five teams in an eight-game season format. For the second season in a row, The Austin Thunder finished in third place in the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.

In the 1989 season, Nigel Bowman continued to encourage soccer in Austin by developing new talent for the team. Working to improve the players understanding of the game, in addition to their physical talents. These changes lead the team to their first championship game, where they played FC Dallas, who had 35 straight wins over the last three seasons. The Thunder were able to beat FC Dallas 3–2 in the final, claiming their only LSSA championship. Three players made the all-star team that year. Richard Johnson at defense, Nigel Bowman at midfield, and Derek Missimo at forward.

LSSA added two more teams for the 1990 season and split the league into two divisions. The Thunder played in the South Division and was aligned the Houston Dynamos, Houston Alianza, and San Antonio Alamo. Bringing back nine players from their 1989 championship team allowed the Thunder to reach the playoffs for a second year in a row. In a repeat of the 1989 finals, the Thunder met FC Dallas in the semi-finals, losing 1–0.

1991 was another successful season for the Austin Thunder, with the team winning the South division and earning a spot in the LSSA championship against long time powerhouse FC Dallas. In a rematch of the 1989 finals, the Austin Thunder fell to FC Dallas in the seventh round of a penalty shoot-out, after playing 120 minutes to a 3–3 tie. For the 1991 LSSA all-star game, Nigel Bowman was selected to co-coach the South's team.

The Austin Thunder started the 1992 season with a friendly against Queen's Park F.C., a professional team from Scottish Football League Second Division. The Austin Thunder's 1992 season was both their last season in the LSSA and last season as a semi-professional team. As of 2024, they continue to play amateur soccer in the Austin Men's Soccer Association.

## Austin Thunder Ladies

Austin Thunder also had a girls program that was a finalist in the Division One Texas State Cup in 1989. Playing in youth tournaments, the Austin Thunder Ladies won the 1991 South Texas State Cup. The Thunder Ladies team's success continued and in 1991 they were invited to England for the Watford International Women's Tournament. After losing their first game to Sheffield Wednesday, the Thunder Ladies beat Manchester women's select, North West to earn a place in the finals. The Austin Thunder Ladies beat Sheffield Wednesday 3–2 in the finals to capture the Watford International Women's Tournament.

## Honors

- Lone Star Soccer Alliance Champions: 1989 Runners up: 1991

- Champions: 1989

- Runners up: 1991

- South Texas State Cup Champions: 1987

- Champions: 1987


List of Spotify streaming records

# List of Spotify streaming records

## Abstract

The following lists contain the most streamed songs and albums as well as chart records on the audio streaming platform Spotify.

As of September 2024, " Blinding Lights " (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the most streamed song on Spotify. Three artists tie for having the most songs (including features) in the top 100; The Weeknd, English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa, and American musician Bruno Mars each have five. The newest song in the top 100 is " Flowers " by Miley Cyrus (2023), while the oldest song in the top 100 is Queen 's " Bohemian Rhapsody " (1975).

Ten songs are known to have claimed the top of the ranking, beginning with " Viva la Vida " by the British band Coldplay in 2008. Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was " Shape of You " (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.

Currently, 733 songs have surpassed one billion Spotify streams, 101 have surpassed two billion, 14 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.

## Most-streamed songs

On this chart, songs are ranked by cumulative streams since their release.

## Historical most-streamed songs

## Milestones and achievements for songs

### Annual top five most-streamed songs

The following table lists the five songs that Spotify reported as most-played in each calendar year.

The following table lists the top song that Spotify reported as most-played in each calendar year, for the years 2008 to 2011.

### Most-streamed songs in a single day

#### Non-seasonal songs

The following table lists the 20 non-seasonal songs to receive the most streams in a single day, as registered on the Spotify Global Daily chart.

#### Christmas season songs

The following table lists the 20 songs associated with the Christmas season to receive the most streams in a single day, as registered on the Spotify Global Daily chart. Historically, these songs have performed well yearly on December 24, and often reach new peaks with each season.

† - Version featuring The B. Swason Quartet.

### Historical number one most-streamed non-seasonal songs in a single day

The following table lists the progression by date of number one ranked most-streamed songs in a single day, as registered on the Spotify Global Weekly chart.

### Most-streamed songs in a single week

The following table lists the top 20 most-streamed in a single week, as registered on the Spotify Global Weekly chart.

### Historical number one most-streamed songs in a single week

The following table lists the progression by date of number one ranked most-streamed songs in a single week, as registered on the Spotify Global Weekly chart.

### Longest-running number-one songs by days

The following table lists the songs with more than 60 days in the number 1 position on the Global Spotify Chart.

## 10 most-streamed albums

As of September 2024, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny is the most-streamed album of all time on Spotify, while Sour (2021) by American singer Olivia Rodrigo is the most-streamed album by a female artist. Canadian singer The Weeknd and American rapper Post Malone are the only men with multiple albums in the top 10, while Albanian-British singer Dua Lipa is the only woman with multiple albums in the top 10.

The following table lists the top 10 most-streamed albums on Spotify, with streams rounded to the nearest million, as well as the number of tracks, the artist and the date it was released.

## Milestones and achievements for albums

### Annual top five most-streamed albums

The following table lists the five albums most-played on Spotify in each calendar year.

### Most streamed albums in a single day

The following table lists the most streamed albums in a single day, registering the total of obtained streams, the artist, the publication of the album and the date in which these streams were reached.

### Historical number one most-streamed album in a single day

The following table lists the progression by date of number one ranked most-streamed albums in a single week, as registered on the Spotify Global Weekly chart.

### Most streamed albums in a single week

The following table lists the most streamed albums in a single week, registering the total of obtained streams, the artist, the publication of the album and the date in which these streams were reached.

### Historical number one most-streamed album in a single week

The following table lists the progression by date of number one ranked most-streamed albums in a single week, as registered on the Spotify Global Weekly chart.