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Edson René Braafheid

1983 (MCMLXXXIII) a fost un an obișnuit al calendarului gregorian, care a început într-o zi de sâmbătă.

Evenimente

Ianuarie
 1 ianuarie: Germania preia Președinția Consiliului Comunităților Europene.
 22 ianuarie: Björn Borg se retrage din tenis după ce câștigă de cinci ori consecutiv Turneul de tenis de la Wimbledon.

Februarie
 5 februarie: Anișoara Cușmir realizează un nou record mondial de sală la săritura în lungime (6,92 m).
 25 februarie: Dramaturgul american Tennessee Williams este găsit decedat în camera sa de hotel.

Martie
 1 martie: Trupa irlandeză U2 lansează al treilea album, War.
 8 martie: Președintele Ronald Reagan numește Uniunea Sovietică "un imperiu al răului".
 23 martie: Propunerea președintelui american, Ronald Regan, de a realiza un sistem de apărare antirachetă cu bază în spațiu, cu ajutorul unor noi tehnologii, Initiațiva de Apărare Strategică, supranumită și "războiul stelelor".
 28 martie: Consiliul de Stat al României a adoptat Decretul privind regimul aparatelor de multiplicat, materialelor necesare reproducerii scrierilor și al mașinilor de scris, prin care se introduce controlul milițienesc asupra folosirii acestor aparate.

Aprilie
 12 aprilie: Filmul Terms of Endearment câștigă Premiul Oscar.
 25 aprilie: Eleva Samantha Smith, din statul american Maine, este invitată să viziteze Uniunea Sovietică de liderul Iuri Andropov, după ce acesta a citit scrisoarea prin care fetița își exprima frica de un război nuclear.

Mai
 17 mai: Libanul, Israelul și Statele Unite semnează o înțelegere prin care Israel se retrage din Liban.

Iunie
 5 iunie: Anișoara Cușmir realizează un nou record mondial la săritura în lungime (7,43 m).

Iulie
 1 iulie: Grecia preia Președinția Consiliului Comunităților Europene.
 21 iulie: La stația Vostok din Antarctica de Est, se înregistrează cea mai scăzută temperatură de pe Pământ, -89,2°C  (−128,6°F; 184°K).

Septembrie
 1 septembrie: Războiul Rece: Avionul de pasageri sud-coreean KAL 007 este doborât de un supersonic sovietic atunci când a intrat în spațiul aerian sovietic. Cele 269 de persoane aflate la bord au murit.
 6 septembrie: URSS admite că a doborât un "avion neidentificat", dovedit mai târziu a fi un avion de pasageri sud-coreean, (KAL 007) care "a violat în mod grosolan granițele de stat și a pătruns adânc în spațiul aerian al URSS".

Octombrie
12 octombrie: Fostul prim-ministru japonez KakueiTanaka este găsit vinovat pentru luare de mită de 2 milioane dolari americani și condamnat la închisoare pentru patru ani.
25 octombrie: Forțele militare americane au invadat statul Grenada, șase zile după ce prim-ministrul Maurice Bishop și câțiva suporteri au fost executați în timpul unei lovituri de stat.
30 octombrie: În Argentina au loc primele alegeri democratice după șapte ani de dictatură militară.

Decembrie
 10 decembrie: Lech Walesa, liderul sindicatului Solidaritatea, a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Pace.
 24 decembrie: Preotul Géza Pálfi din Odorheiu Secuiesc a fost arestat de Securitate pe motiv că a făcut referire în predica de Crăciun, la faptul că ziua respectivă era zi obișnuită de lucru în România comunistă. Câteva luni mai târziu a murit în urma bătăilor primite.

Nedatate
 Este fondată trupa americană de thrash metal, Megadeth.

Nașteri

Ianuarie
1 ianuarie: Daniel Jarque, fotbalist spaniol (d. 2009)
1 ianuarie: Vojislav Vranjković, fotbalist sârb
 2 ianuarie: Abiodun Agunbiade, fotbalist nigerian
2 ianuarie: Jefferson de Oliveira Galvão, fotbalist brazilian (portar)
 5 ianuarie: Iosif Chirilă, canoist român
 6 ianuarie: Nasser Menassel, fotbalist francez
 7 ianuarie: Matteo Tagliariol, scrimer italian
 10 ianuarie: Paulică Ion, jucător român profesionist de rugby în XV
 11 ianuarie: Adrian Sutil, pilot german de Formula 1
 15 ianuarie: Jermaine Lloyd Pennant, fotbalist britanic
15 ianuarie: Hugo Viana (Hugo Miguel Ferreira Gomes Viana), fotbalist portughez
16 ianuarie: Alexandru Traian Marc, fotbalist român (portar)
 16 ianuarie: Emanuel Pogatetz, fotbalist austriac
 16 ianuarie: Daisuke Sakata, fotbalist japonez (atacant)
 17 ianuarie: Álvaro Arbeloa (Álvaro Arbeloa Coca), fotbalist spaniol
17 ianuarie: Ionuț Stancu (Ionuț Cristian Stancu), fotbalist român
 19 ianuarie: Glen Moss (Glen Robert Moss), fotbalist neozeelandez (portar)
 19 ianuarie: Maria Rus, atletă română
 21 ianuarie: Victor Leandro Bagy, fotbalist brazilian (portar)
21 ianuarie: Ranko Despotović, fotbalist sârb (atacant)
21 ianuarie: Svetlana Hodcenkova, actriță rusă
 24 ianuarie: Alexander Ivanov, cântăreț belarus
 24 ianuarie: Shaun Richard Maloney, fotbalist scoțian (atacant)
24 ianuarie: Scott Speed, pilot american de Formula 1
24 ianuarie: Teo (Iuri Vașciuk), cântăreț belarus
 25 ianuarie: Yasuyuki Konno, fotbalist japonez
 26 ianuarie: Marek Čech, fotbalist slovac
 28 ianuarie: Bogdan Macovei, sportiv din R. Moldova (sanie)
 30 ianuarie: Jordan Carver, actriță germană
 31 ianuarie: Fabio Quagliarella, fotbalist italian (atacant)

Februarie
 5 februarie: Anja Edin, handbalistă norvegiană
 6 februarie: Branko Ilić, fotbalist sloven
 6 februarie: Grigore Novac, politician din R. Moldova

7 februarie: Christian Klien, pilot austriac de Formula 1
 10 februarie: Lucian Goian, fotbalist român
11 februarie: Rafael van der Vaart (Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart), fotbalist neerlandez
 16 februarie: Mihai Bendeac (Mihai Valentin Octavian Bendeac), actor de teatru și film, scriitor, scenarist, cântăreț, regizor, vedetă de televiziune, poet și compozitor român
 18 februarie: Elena Baboia, cântăreață română
 18 februarie: Priscila Fantin (Priscila Fantin de Freitas), actriță braziliană
 18 februarie: Dieter Roth, boxer german de etnie română
 18 februarie: Roberta Vinci, jucătoare italiană de tenis
 19 februarie: Răzvan Cociș, fotbalist român
 19 februarie: Daigo Kobayashi, fotbalist japonez
 19 februarie: Mihai Neșu (Mihai Mircea Neșu), fotbalist român
 19 februarie: Mihăiță Pleșan, fotbalist român
 20 februarie: Eugen Nazare, pianist român
 20 februarie: Bogdan Ungurușan (Bogdan Alexandru Ungurușan), fotbalist român
 21 februarie: Adam Johansson, fotbalist suedez
 21 februarie: Mélanie Laurent (Mélanie Eugénie Laurent ), actriță, fotomodel, regizoare, scenaristă și cântăreață franceză
 23 februarie: Emily Blunt (Emily Olivia Leah Blunt), actriță britanică
 24 februarie: Ovidiu Anton, cântăreț român
 24 februarie: Santiago González, jucător mexican de tenis
25 februarie: Tennessee Williams (n. Thomas Lanier Williams), dramaturg american (n. 1911)

Martie
 1 martie: Daniel da Silva Carvalho, fotbalist brazilian
 1 martie: Maxi Warwel, actriță germană
 2 martie: Lisandro López, fotbalist argentinian (atacant)
 3 martie: Kelly Key, cântăreață braziliană
 5 martie: Pablo Daniel Brandán, fotbalist argentinian
 5 martie: Irina Șuțka, handbalistă ucraineană
 9 martie: Clint Dempsey (Clinton Drew Dempsey), fotbalist american (atacant)
 9 martie: Cristian Fabbiani, fotbalist argentinian
 9 martie: Shlomit Levi, cântăreață israeliană
 14 martie: José Furtado (José Emílio Robalo Furtado), fotbalist portughez (atacant)
 15 martie: Florencia Bertotti (María Florencia Bertotti Baleiron), actriță și cântăreață argentiniană
15 martie: Umut Bulut, fotbalist turc (atacant)
 16 martie: Jon Ecker (Jon Michael William Ecker), actor american
17 martie: Astrid Guyart, scrimeră franceză
 17 martie: Raul Meireles (Raul José Trindade Meireles), fotbalist portughez
 18 martie: Eldin Karisik, fotbalist suedez
 19 martie: Matthew Korklan, wrestler american
 19 martie: Bae Jung-nam, actor sud-coreean
 19 martie: Evghenie Pațula, fotbalist moldovean
19 martie: Bae Jung Nam, actor sud-coreean
19 martie: Evghenie Pațula, fotbalist din R. Moldova (atacant)
 20 martie: Claudiu Mircea Ionescu, fotbalist român
20 martie: Eiji Kawashima, fotbalist japonez (portar)
 21 martie: Anatolie Doroș, fotbalist din R. Moldova (atacant)
 22 martie: Aleksandar Petrović, fotbalist sârb
 23 martie: Hakan Kadir Balta, fotbalist turc
 26 martie: Roman Bednář, fotbalist ceh (atacant)
26 martie: Oana Bondar, handbalistă română
26 martie: J-five (Jonathan Kovacs), cântăreț american
 27 martie: Igor Picușceac, fotbalist din R. Moldova (atacant)
 30 martie: Linnea Torstenson, handbalistă suedeză
 31 martie: Ashleigh Ball (Ashleigh Adele Ball), actriță canadiană
 31 martie: Adrian Cruciat, jucător român de tenis

Aprilie
 1 aprilie: Ana Amorim, handbalistă braziliană
 1 aprilie: Matt Lanter, actor american
 2 aprilie: Arthur Boka (Arthur Etienne Boka), fotbalist ivorian
 2 aprilie: Oh Eun-seok, scrimer sud-coreean
 3 aprilie: Ben Foster (Ben Anthony Foster), fotbalist englez (portar)
 3 aprilie: Ben Foster, fotbalist englez
 4 aprilie: Paolo Pizzo, scrimer italian
 6 aprilie: Mitsuru Nagata, fotbalist japonez
 6 aprilie: Daniel Orac, fotbalist român
 7 aprilie: Franck Ribéry (Franck Henry Pierre Ribéry), fotbalist francez
 8 aprilie: Edson Braafheid (Edson René Braafheid), fotbalist din Țările de Jos
 9 aprilie: Lukáš Dlouhý, jucător ceh de tenis
 9 aprilie: Adrian Sălăgeanu (Adrian Ioan Sălăgeanu), fotbalist român
 10 aprilie: Jamie Chung (Jamie Jilynn Chung), actriță americană
 12 aprilie: Ismail Kouha, fotbalist marocan (portar)
 12 aprilie: Bogdan Panait (Bogdan Vasile Panait), fotbalist român
 13 aprilie: Claudio Bravo (Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz), fotbalist chilian (portar)
 15 aprilie: Alice Braga (Alice Braga Moraes), actriță braziliană
 15 aprilie: Dudu Cearense, fotbalist brazilian
 17 aprilie: Ioana Gașpar, jucătoare română de tenis
 17 aprilie: Ioana Gaspar, jucătoare de tenis română
 18 aprilie: François Clerc, fotbalist francez
 18 aprilie: Eduard Cristian Zimmermann, fotbalist român (portar)
 19 aprilie: Juan Pablo Garat, fotbalist argentinian
 20 aprilie: Adrian-Octavian Dohotaru, politician român
 20 aprilie: Julija Nikolić, handbalistă ucraineană
 21 aprilie: Paweł Łucasz Brożek, fotbalist polonez (atacant)
 22 aprilie: Nelson Cabrera (Nelson David Cabrera Báez), fotbalist paraguayan
 23 aprilie: Daniela Hantuchová, jucătoare slovacă de tenis
 24 aprilie: Cyril Théréau, fotbalist francez (atacant)
25 aprilie: Vladlen Babcinetchi, sculptor român
 25 aprilie: Oleh Gusev, fotbalist ucrainean
25 aprilie: Bogna Jóźwiak, scrimeră poloneză
 29 aprilie: Semih Șentürk, fotbalist turc (atacant)
 29 aprilie: Semih Şentürk, fotbalist turc
 30 aprilie: Nenad Milijaš, fotbalist sârb

Mai
 2 mai: Alessandro Diamanti, fotbalist italian
 2 mai: Michael Thwaite, fotbalist australian
 3 mai: Alin Moldoveanu, sportiv român (tir)
 3 mai: Satoru Yamagishi, fotbalist japonez
 4 mai: Jorge Oropeza (Jorge Oropeza Torres), fotbalist mexican
 5 mai: Henry Cavill, actor britanic de film și televiziune
6 mai: Dani Alves (Daniel Alves da Silva), fotbalist brazilian
12 mai: Alina Kabaeva, gimnastă, fotomodel, politiciană rusă de etnie uzbekă
 13 mai: Anita Görbicz, handbalistă maghiară
 13 mai: Grégory Lemarchal, cântăreț francez (d. 2007)
13 mai: János Székely (János József Székely), fotbalist român de etnie maghiară
13 mai: Yaya Touré (Gnégnéri Yaya Touré), fotbalist ivorian
 14 mai: Amber Tamblyn (Amber Rose Tamblyn), actriță americană
 16 mai: Nancy Ajram, cântăreață libaneză
16 mai: Mădălin Murgan, fotbalist român
 17 mai: Danko Lazović, fotbalist sârb (atacant)
 17 mai: Dimităr Stoianov, politician bulgar
 18 mai: Veaceslav Gojan, pugilist din R. Moldova
 18 mai: Moussa Kalisse, fotbalist din Țările de Jos
 18 mai: Nadejda Kucer, solistă belarusă de operă (soprană)
 19 mai: Eve Înger, actrița porno maghiară
 20 mai: Óscar Cardozo (Óscar René Cardozo), fotbalist paraguayan (atacant)
 21 mai: Kim-Sarah Brandts, actriță germană
 21 mai: Loni Willison (Loni Christine Willison), actriță americană (Baywatch)
 21 mai: Adrian Nalați, fotbalist român
 22 mai: Mîkola Oleksandrovici Udianskii, antreprenor ucrainean în domeniul IT, activist social și om de știință, cofondator și coproprietar al schimbului de criptomonede Coinsbit
 22 mai: Mîkola Oleksandrovici Udianskii, antreprenor ucrainean în domeniul IT, activist social și om de știință, co-fondator și fost coproprietar al schimbului de criptomonede Coinsbit
 23 mai: Heidi Range (Heidi India Range), muziciană britanică
23 mai: Randi (Andrei Ștefan Ropcea), cântăreț și compozitor român
 24 mai: Flavius Băd (Flavius Lucian Băd), fotbalist român (atacant)
 25 mai: Marcos António (Marcos António Elias Santos), fotbalist brazilian
 26 mai: Rodica Șerban, canotoare română
 26 mai: Tudor Ulianovschi, politician din R. Moldova
26 mai: Demy de Zeeuw (Demy Patrick René de Zeeuw), fotbalist din Țările de Jos
 27 mai: Malina Prześluga, dramaturgă poloneză
 28 mai: Andrei Carabelea, politician român
 28 mai: Virgil Alin Chirilă, politician român
 28 mai: Darijan Matič, fotbalist sloven
 29 mai: Jean II Makoun, fotbalist camerunez
 30 mai: Oleg Hromțov, fotbalist din R. Moldova (atacant)
 31 mai: Cabron (Alexandru Minculescu), cântăreț român

Iunie
 1 iunie: Florin Popa, fotbalist român
1 iunie: Daniel Popescu, sportiv român (gimnastică artistică)
1 iunie: Moustapha Salifou, fotbalist togolez
 4 iunie: Emmanuel Eboué, fotbalist ivorian
 4 iunie: Leticia (Letiția Elena Moisescu), cântăreață română
 4 iunie: Guillermo García-López, jucător spaniol de tenis
4 iunie: Christian Koffi Ndri, fotbalist ivorian
 8 iunie: Kim Clijsters, jucătoare belgiană de tenis
8 iunie: Pantelis Kapetanos, fotbalist grec (atacant)
 9 iunie: Sergio García de la Fuente, fotbalist spaniol (atacant)
 10 iunie: MakSim (Marina Sergheevna Abrosimova), cântăreață rusă
 11 iunie: Nestor Dinculeană (Dumitru-Cristian Dinculeană), cleric ortodox român care îndeplinește în prezent funcția de Episcop al Devei și Hunedoarei
 12 iunie: Ben Heine (Benjamin Heine), artist belgian
 15 iunie: Valeri Priiomka, scrimer belarus
 16 iunie: Adrian Piț, fotbalist român
 18 iunie: Matías Omar Degra, fotbalist argentinian (portar)
18 iunie: Risa Goto, actriță japoneză
 19 iunie: Aidan Turner, actor irlandez
 20 iunie: Deonise Cavaleiro, handbalistă braziliană
 21 iunie: Edward Snowden (Edward Joseph Snowden), informator american
 22 iunie: Cosmin Năstăsie (Cosmin Alin Năstăsie), fotbalist român
 22 iunie: Robert Săceanu (Robert Elian Săceanu), fotbalist român
 22 iunie: Arsenie Todiraș, muzician din R. Moldova
22 iunie: Nuno Viveiros (Nuno Filipe Viveiros), fotbalist portughez
 23 iunie: Juho Mäkelä, fotbalist finlandez (atacant)
 25 iunie: Florin Birta, primar al municipiului Oradea
25 iunie: Cleo (Joanna Klepko), cântăreață poloneză
 25 iunie: Marc Janko, fotbalist austriac (atacant)
 25 iunie: Liubov Șutova, scrimeră rusă
 25 iunie: Cleo, cântăreață poloneză
 26 iunie: Marek Čech, fotbalist slovac
 26 iunie: Felipe Melo (Felipe Melo Vicente de Carvalho), fotbalist brazilian
 27 iunie: Kuncio Kunciev, fotbalist bulgar
 29 iunie: Aundrea Fimbres (Aundrea Aurora Fimbres), cântăreață americană (Danity Kane)
29 iunie: Oana Nistor (Oana Paula Nistor), cântăreață română (Activ)
29 iunie: Rareș Soporan, fotbalist român

Iulie
 1 iulie: Marit Larsen, cântăreață norvegiană
 3 iulie: Dorota Masłowska, scriitoare poloneză
 4 iulie: Melanie Fiona, cântăreață canadiană
 5 iulie: Jonás Manuel Gutiérrez, fotbalist argentinian
5 iulie: Zheng Jie, jucătoare chineză de tenis
 6 iulie: D.Woods (Wanita Woodgette), cântăreață americană
 7 iulie: Jakub Wawrzyniak, fotbalist polonez
 8 iulie: Branko Grahovac, fotbalist bosniac (portar)
 10 iulie: Marius Cocioran, atlet român
10 iulie: Gabi (Gabriel Fernández Arenas), fotbalist spaniol
 13 iulie: Sebastian Nerz, politician german
13 iulie: Carmen Villalobos, actriță columbiană
 14 iulie: Igor Andreev, jucător rus de tenis
 15 iulie: Marcos Maidana (Marcos René Maidana), boxer argentinian
 15 iulie: Heath Slater (n. Heath Miller), wrestler american
 15 iulie: Gianina Șerban, politiciană română
 16 iulie: Adrian Piț (Adrian Florin Piț), fotbalist român
 17 iulie: Valentin Borș, fotbalist român (portar)
 18 iulie: Aaron Gillespie, muzician american (The Almost)
 18 iulie: Parid Xhihani, fotbalist albanez
 19 iulie: Nicolae Grigore (Nicolae Adrian Grigore), fotbalist român
 19 iulie: Dejan Martinović, fotbalist bosniac
 20 iulie: Máximo González, jucător argentinian de tenis
 21 iulie: Milan Jovanović, fotbalist muntenegrean
 22 iulie: Arsenie Todiraș, muzician din R. Moldova
 23 iulie: Szabolcs Nagy, politician român de etnie maghiară
 24 iulie: Daniele De Rossi, fotbalist italian
 25 iulie: Irina Sârbu, cântăreață română de jazz și actriță
 26 iulie: Radu Dărăban, scrimer român
27 iulie: Lorik Agim Cana, fotbalist francez
27 iulie: Iulia Lumânare, actriță română
27 iulie: Goran Pandev, fotbalist macedonean (atacant)
 27 iulie: Smiley (n. Andrei Tiberiu Maria), cântăreț, compozitor, prezentator, producător și actor român
 27 iulie: Jaka Štromajer, fotbalist sloven (atacant)
 28 iulie: Constantin Arbănaș (Constantin Dorian Arbănaș), fotbalist și antrenor român
28 iulie: Vladimir Stojković, fotbalist sârb (portar)
 30 iulie: Vadim Cobîlaș, rugbist din R. Moldova
 30 iulie: Richard Kruse (Richard Adam Kruse), scrimer britanic
30 iulie: Cristian Molinaro, fotbalist italian

August

 1 august: Michael Baird (Michael William Baird), fotbalist australian (atacant)
 2 august: Michel Bastos (Michel Fernandes Bastos), fotbalist brazilian (atacant)
 5 august: Gláuber (Gláuber Leandro Honorato Berti), fotbalist brazilian
5 august: Anca Măroiu, scrimeră română
5 august: Dumitru Popovici, fotbalist din R. Moldova
 6 august: Robin van Persie, fotbalist din Țările de Jos (atacant)
7 august: Maggie Castle, actriță canadiană
7 august: Claudiu Komartin, poet român
 9 august: Florin Nanu, fotbalist român
 11 august: Chris Hemsworth (Christopher Hemsworth), actor australian de film
 12 august: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, fotbalist din Țările de Jos (atacant)
 12 august: Zé Kalanga (n. Paulo Batista Nsimba), fotbalist angolez
 12 august: Meryem Uzerli, actriță turcă de film și fotomodel
 14 august: Elena Baltacha, jucătoare britanică de tenis, de etnie ucraineană (d. 2014)
 14 august: Shwan Jalal (Shwan Saman Jalal), fotbalist britanic (portar)
14 august: Mila Kunis (Milena Markovna Kunis), actriță americană de film de etnie ucraineană
14 august: Heiko Westermann, fotbalist german
 15 august: Alain Cantareil, fotbalist francez
 15 august: Katia Pascariu, actriță română
 16 august: Ilan Laufer, politician român
 18 august: Mika, cântăreț britanic
 20 august: Costel Alexe, politician român
 22 august: Bojan Golubović, fotbalist bosniac (atacant)
 20 august: Iuri Jirkov, fotbalist rus
 23 august: Bogdan Straton, fotbalist român
 25 august: James Rossiter, pilot britanic de Formula 1
 26 august: Matei-Adrian Dobrovie, politician român
 27 august: Jamala (Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova), cântăreață ucraineană
27 august: Felice Piccolo, fotbalist italian
 28 august: Christian Pander, fotbalist german
 29 august: Xabi Prieto (Xabier Prieto Argarate), fotbalist spaniol
 30 august: Juan Emmanuel Culio, fotbalist argentinian
 31 august: Adrian Ursu, cântăreț din Republica Moldova

Septembrie
 1 septembrie: José Antonio Reyes (José Antonio Reyes Calderón), fotbalist spaniol (d. 2019)
 1 septembrie: Antonio Fresco (Miguel Antonio Matos), DJ american, producător muzical și personalitate radio
 2 septembrie: Kim Jung-hwan, scrimer sud-coreean
 3 septembrie: Q527839, jucător de tenis olandez
 4 septembrie: Cristian Fabbiani (Cristian Gastón Fabbiani), fotbalist argentinian (atacant)
 6 septembrie: Pippa Middleton (Philippa Charlotte Middleton), scriitoare și editorialistă engleză, sora mai mică a Ducesei de Cambridge, Catherine
 6 septembrie: Vlad Voiculescu, economist român, ministru al Sănătății (în Guvernul Florin Cîțu și în Guvernul Dacian Cioloș)
 6 septembrie: Vlad Voiculescu, economist român, fost ministru al Sănătății în Guvernul Florin Cîțu și în Guvernul Dacian Cioloș
 6 septembrie: Pippa Middeletone, socialist englez, scriitor, editorialist, și sora mai mică a lui Catherine, Ducesa de Cambridge
 7 septembrie: Andre Berto (Andre Michael Berto), boxer american
 7 septembrie: Alessandro Caparco, fotbalist italian (portar)
 8 septembrie: Diego Benaglio (Diego Orlando Benaglio), fotbalist elvețian (portar)
8 septembrie: Michel Platini (Michel Platini Ferreira Mesquita), fotbalist brazilian (atacant)
 10 septembrie: Cosmin Băcilă (Cosmin Nicolae Băcilă), fotbalist român
10 septembrie: Jérémy Toulalan, fotbalist francez
 12 septembrie: Marcin Koniusz, scrimer polonez
 13 septembrie: Eduard Ratnikov, fotbalist estonian
 14 septembrie: Igor Cuciuc, interpret din R. Moldova
 14 septembrie: Ciprian Vasilache, fotbalist român
 14 septembrie: Amy Winehouse (Amy Jade Winehouse), cântăreață britanică (d. 2011)
 16 septembrie: Kirsty Coventry, înotătoare zimbabwiană
 18 septembrie: Nicolae Josan, fotbalist din R. Moldova
18 septembrie: Yuzo Kurihara, fotbalist japonez
 24 septembrie: Liam Finn, cântăreț neozeelandez
 25 septembrie: Daniel Fernandes (Daniel Márcio Fernandes), fotbalist canadian (portar)
 25 septembrie: Yuhei Tokunaga, fotbalist japonez
 26 septembrie: Ricardo Quaresma (Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo), fotbalist portughez
 30 septembrie: Diana Dumitrescu, actriță română
30 septembrie: Andreea Răducan (Andreea Mădălina Răducan), sportivă română (gimnastică artistică)

Octombrie
 1 octombrie: Bas Verwijlen, scrimer din Țările de Jos
 1 octombrie: Mirko Vučinić, fotbalist muntenegrean (atacant)
 3 octombrie: Daniel Alexandru David, fotbalist român
 3 octombrie: Fred (Frederico Chaves Guedes), fotbalist brazilian (atacant)
3 octombrie: Naoya Kondo, fotbalist japonez
 5 octombrie: Jesse Eisenberg (Jesse Adam Eisenberg), actor american
5 octombrie: Nicky Hilton (Nicky Oliva Hilton), actriță americană
5 octombrie: Juan Manuel Vargas (Juan Manuel Vargas Risco), fotbalist peruan
 6 octombrie: Petre-Florin Manole, activist pentru drepturile omului și politician român
 7 octombrie: Stelian Burcea, rugbist român
 10 octombrie: Paul Alexandru Șomodean, fotbalist român
 11 octombrie: Ruslan Ponomariov, șahist ucrainean
 12 octombrie: Alex Brosque, fotbalist australian
 12 octombrie: Zé Kalanga, fotbalist angolez
 14 octombrie: Renato Civelli, fotbalist argentinian
 15 octombrie: Andreas Ivanschitz (Andreas Ivanšić), fotbalist austriac
15 octombrie: Bruno Senna (Bruno Senna Lalli), pilot brazilian de Formula 1 și GP 2
 16 octombrie: Cristian Ianu (Cristian Florin Ianu), fotbalist român (atacant)
16 octombrie: Loreen (Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui), cântăreață suedeză
 17 octombrie: Daniel Kajmakoski, cântăreț macedonean
 17 octombrie: Felicity Jones, actriță britanică
 18 octombrie: Dante (Dante Bonfim Costa Santos), fotbalist brazilian
 18 octombrie: Dante, fotbalist brazilian
 19 octombrie: Rebecca Ferguson, actriță suedeză
19 octombrie: Jorge Valdívia (Jorge Luis Valdivia Toro), fotbalist chilian
 20 octombrie: Michel Vorm, fotbalist din Țările de Jos (portar)
 21 octombrie: András Rédli, scrimer maghiar
 23 octombrie: Iannis Zicu (Ianis Alin Zicu), fotbalist și antrenor român
 23 octombrie: Ianis Zicu, fotbalist român
 25 octombrie: Stanislav Oleksandrovici Boguș, fotbalist ucrainean (portar)
 26 octombrie: Sebastian Huțan, fotbalist român (portar)
 28 octombrie: Taras Mihalik, fotbalist ucrainean
28 octombrie: Alexandru Pițurcă (Alexandru Victorio Pițurcă), fotbalist român (atacant)
 29 octombrie: Jérémy Mathieu, fotbalist francez
 31 octombrie: Boris Galchev, fotbalist bulgar
31 octombrie: Aleksei Iakimenko, scrimer rus

Noiembrie
 2 noiembrie: Silviu Izvoranu, fotbalist român
 2 noiembrie: Răzvan Șelariu, sportiv român (gimnastică artistică)
 4 noiembrie: Viktoriia Tymoshenkova, handbalistă ucraineană
 6 noiembrie: Ameera al-Taweel, filantropă și prințesă din Arabia Saudită
 8 noiembrie: Pavel Pogrebniak, fotbalist rus (atacant)
 9 noiembrie: Andrey Nazário Afonso, fotbalist brazilian (portar)
 9 noiembrie: Gabriel Tamaș (Gabriel Sebastian Tamaș), fotbalist român
 11 noiembrie: Ebert William Amâncio, fotbalist brazilian
 11 noiembrie: Philipp Lahm, fotbalist german
 13 noiembrie: Kalle Kriit, ciclist estonian
 15 noiembrie: John Heitinga (John Gijsbert Alan Heitinga), fotbalist din Țările de Jos
 15 noiembrie: Ada Moldovan, handbalistă română
15 noiembrie: Rui Miguel (Rui Miguel Melo Rodrigues), fotbalist portughez
15 noiembrie: Fernando Verdasco, jucător spaniol de tenis
 19 noiembrie: Adam Driver (Adam Douglas Driver), actor american
 20 noiembrie: Future (Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn), rapper american
 24 noiembrie: Raul Ciupe (Raul Axente Ciupe), fotbalist român
 25 noiembrie: Cássio Barbosa (Cássio Vargas Barbosa), fotbalist brazilian (atacant)
25 noiembrie: Andrius Pojavis, cântăreț lituanian
 27 noiembrie: Professor Green (Stephen Paul Manderson), rapper, actor și compozitor britanic
 27 noiembrie: Miloš Pavlović, fotbalist sârb
 28 noiembrie: Beka Shekriladze, fotbalist georgian (portar)
28 noiembrie: Nelson Haedo Valdez (Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez), fotbalist paraguayan (atacant)
 30 noiembrie: Adrian Cristea, fotbalist român

Decembrie
 2 decembrie: Dan Cărămidariu (Dan Adrian Cărămidaru), jurnalist român
2 decembrie: Ana Lucía Domínguez, actriță columbiană
 4 decembrie: Alexandru-Răzvan Cuc, politician român
 6 decembrie: Ben Teekloh, fotbalist liberian
 9 decembrie: Dariusz Dudka, fotbalist polonez
 10 decembrie: Patrick Flueger (Patrick John Flueger), actor american
10 decembrie: Noé Acosta Rivera, fotbalist spaniol
 11 decembrie: Gheorghe Ignat, luptător român
 15 decembrie: Zlatan Ljubijankič, fotbalist sloven (atacant)
 16 decembrie: Ana-Claudia Țapardel, politician român
 17 decembrie: Sébastien Ogier, pilot francez de raliuri
 19 decembrie: Ionuț Costache, fotbalist român
20 decembrie: Jonah Hill (Jonah Hill Feldstein), actor american
20 decembrie: Olesea Stamate, politiciană din R. Moldova
 20 decembrie: Ognjen Vukojević, fotbalist croat
 22 decembrie: Andrew Hankinson (aka Luke Gallows), wrestler american
 22 decembrie: Drew Hankinson, wrestler american
 24 decembrie: Rareș Dumitrescu, scrimer român
 27 decembrie: Marco Zoro (Marco André Zoro Kpolo), fotbalist ivorian
 28 decembrie: Dominic Fritz, politician germano-român
 28 decembrie: Greg Hill, actor și compozitor american

Decese

Ianuarie
 12 ianuarie: Rebop Kwaku Baah (Anthony Kwaku Baah), 38 ani, muzician ghanez (n. 1944)
12 ianuarie: Lucian Predescu, 75 ani, scriitor și publicist român (n. 1907)
 13 ianuarie: Mihai Max Eisikovits, 74 ani, compozitor evreu din Transilvania (n. 1908)
 13 ianuarie: Mihai Max Eisikovits, compozitor evreu din Transilvania (n. 1908)
 20 ianuarie: Jochen Diestelmann, 60 ani, actor german (n. 1922)
20 ianuarie: Garrincha (Manuel Francisco dos Santos), 49 ani, fotbalist brazilian (n. 1933)
 26 ianuarie: Constantin Trestioreanu, 91 ani, ofițer român (n. 1891)
 27 ianuarie: Louis de Funès (Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza), 68 ani, actor francez de teatru și film (n. 1914)
 30 ianuarie: Emilio Polli, 81 ani, înotător olimpic Italian (n. 1901)
 31 ianuarie: Aleksander Kurtna (n. Aleksander Kurson), 68 ani, traducător și poliglot estonian (n. 1914)

Februarie
 4 februarie: Ernest Klein, 83 ani, rabin și lingvist canadian (n. 1899)

 8 februarie: Grigore Baștan, 61 ani, primul general parașutist român (n. 1923)
 10 februarie: Emil Grünzweig, 35 ani, profesor de matematică și militant pentru pace israelian de etnie română (n. 1947)
 10 februarie: Jacques Lassaigne, 71 ani, critic de artă francez (n. 1911)
 22 februarie: Mieczysław Jastrun, 79 ani, poet polonez (n. 1903)
 25 februarie: Tennessee Williams (n. Thomas Lanier Williams), 71 ani, dramaturg, poet și romancier american (n. 1911)
 28 februarie: Magdalena Rădulescu, 80 ani, pictoriță română (n. 1902)

Martie
 4 martie: Magdalena Rădulescu, pictoriță română (n. 1902)
 10 martie: Vilmos Cseke (aka William Cseke), 67 ani, matematician român (n. 1915)
 14 martie: Maurice Ronet (n. Maurice Julien Marie Robinet), 55 ani, actor francez (n. 1927)
 15 martie: Coloman Braun-Bogdan, 77 ani, fotbalist român (n. 1905)
 16 martie: Horia Lovinescu, 66 ani, dramaturg român (n. 1917)
 22 martie: Tiberiu Bone, 53 ani, fotbalist român (n. 1929)
 23 martie: Armand Lanoux, 69 ani, scriitor francez (n. 1913)
 25 martie: Thomas S. Gates Jr., 76 ani, diplomat american (n. 1906)
 27 martie: Hanna Malewska, 71 ani, scriitoare poloneză (n. 1911)
 30 martie: Lisette Model, 81 ani, fotografă americană (n. 1901)

Aprilie
 4 aprilie: Kārlis Šteins, 71 ani, astronom leton (n. 1911)
 7 aprilie: Gavin Gordon, 82 ani, actor american (n. 1901)
 11 aprilie: Dolores del Río (María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete), 78 ani, actriță mexicană (n. 1904)
 12 aprilie: Jørgen Juve, 76 ani, fotbalist norvegian (n. 1906)
13 aprilie: Ganjirō Nakamura, 81 ani, actor japonez (n. 1902)
 13 aprilie: Mercè Rodoreda (Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí), 74 ani, scriitoare spaniolă de limbă catalană (n. 1908)
 15 aprilie: Gyula Illyés, 80 ani, poet maghiar (n. 1902)
 20 aprilie: Mária Mezey, 73 ani, actriță maghiară (n. 1909)
 23 aprilie: Buster Crabbe (Clarence Linden Crabbe II), 75 ani, actor și atlet american (n. 1908)
 28 aprilie: Avram Bunaciu, 73 ani, comunist român (n. 1909)
 29 aprilie: Doru Năstase (Doru Ion Năstase), 50 ani, regizor român (n. 1933)

Mai
 2 mai: Pridi Banomyong, 82 ani, om politic thailandez (n. 1900)
 2 mai: Zoltán Fábián, 57 ani, scriitor maghiar (n. 1926)
 17 mai: Victor Halperin, 87 ani, regizor de film, american (n. 1895)
 19 mai: Jean Rey, 80 ani, politician belgian (n. 1902)
21 mai: Eric Hoffer, 80 ani, filosof american (n. 1902)
 21 mai: Gyárfás Kurkó, 73 ani, jurnalist român de etnie maghiară (n. 1909)
 22 mai: Albert Claude, 84 ani, biolog belgian, laureat al Premiului Nobel (1974), (n. 1899)
 25 mai: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek), 79 ani, scriitor turc (n. 1904)

Iunie
 1 iunie: Anna Seghers, 82 ani, scriitoare germană (n. 1900)
 14 iunie: Marcel Enescu, 83 ani, actor român (n. 1899)
 17 iunie: Miron Białoszewski, 60 ani, scriitor polonez (n. 1922)
 24 iunie: Vlad Ioviță, 47 ani, scriitor din R. Moldova (n. 1935)
 27 iunie: Ambrus Alaksza, 80 ani, jurnalist maghiar (n. 1903)

Iulie
 10 iulie: Estrellita Castro (Estrella Castro Navarrete), 75 ani, cântăreață spaniolă (n. 1906)
 29 iulie: Luis Buñuel (Luis Buñuel Portolés), 83 ani, regizor spaniol (n. 1900)

August
 2 august: Rudolf Kotormány, 72 ani, fotbalist român (n. 1911)
 7 august: Nicolae Brânzeu, 75 ani, compozitor și dirijor român (n. 1907)
 14 august: Musine Kokalari, 66 ani, scriitoare albaneză (n. 1917)
 17 august: Sidi Tal (Sorele Leibovna Birkental), 71 ani, cântăreață, actriță de teatru și film sovietică (n. 1912)
 19 august: Octav Onicescu, 90 ani, matematician român (n. 1892)
 20 august: Aleksandar Ranković, 73 ani, om politic iugoslav de etnie sârbă (n. 1909)
 22 august: Nicolae Georgescu, 47 ani, fotbalist român (n. 1936)
 22 august: Nicolae Georgescu, fotbalist român (1936-1983) (n. 1936)
 28 august: José Bergamín, 87 ani, scriitor spaniol (n. 1895)

Septembrie
 2 septembrie: Feri Cansel, 39 ani, actriță turcă de etnie cipriotă (n. 1944)
 3 septembrie: Piero Sraffa, 85 ani, economist italian (n. 1898)
 9 septembrie: Luis Monti (Luis Felipe Monti), 82 ani, fotbalist argentinian (n. 1901)
 10 septembrie: Felix Bloch, 77 ani, fizician elvețian laureat al Premiului Nobel (1952), (n. 1905)
 10 septembrie: Victor Ciocâltea, 51 ani, șahist român (n. 1932)
 12 septembrie: Roman Sikorski, 63 ani, matematician polonez (n. 1920)
 16 septembrie: Fory Etterle (n. Cristofor Etterle), 75 ani, actor român de etnie elvețiană (n. 1908)
 16 septembrie: Horia Lovinescu, 66 ani, scriitor român (n. 1917)
 25 septembrie: Regele Leopold al III-lea al Belgiei (n. Leopold Philip Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Michael), 81 ani (n. 1901)

Octombrie
 7 octombrie: Georges Abell (George Ogden Abell), 56 ani, astronom american (n. 1927)
 7 octombrie: Georges Abell, astronom american (n. 1927)
 17 octombrie: Romulus Guga, 44 ani, scriitor român (n. 1939)
17 octombrie: Mircea Sasu, 44 ani, fotbalist român (n. 1939)
 25 octombrie: Darie Magheru, 60 ani, actor român (n. 1923)
26 octombrie: Alfred Tarski, 82 ani, logician polonez-american, filozof al limbajului și matematician (n. 1901)
 26 octombrie: Nicolae Terchilă, 85 ani, scriitor român (n. 1898)
 29 octombrie: Sten Broman, 81 ani, compozitor suedez (n. 1902)

Noiembrie
 7 noiembrie: Ion Jalea, 96 ani, sculptor român, membru titular al Academiei Române (n. 1887)
 9 noiembrie: André Chamson (André Jules Louis Chamson), 83 ani, scriitor francez (n. 1900)
 11 noiembrie: Valter Roman (n. Ernő Neuländer), 70 ani, comunist român (n. 1913)
 15 noiembrie: Marc Bernard (Léonard Marc Bernard), 83 ani, scriitor francez (n. 1900)
 16 noiembrie: Q3726574, poet italian (n. 1898)
 18 noiembrie: Dumitru Bâșcu (aka Dimitrie Bîșcu), 81 ani, pictor român (n. 1902)
 20 noiembrie: Kristmann Guðmundsson, 82 ani, scriitor islandez (n. 1901)
 23 noiembrie: Mikola Bajan, 79 ani, scriitor ucrainean (n. 1904)
 25 noiembrie: Vladimir Gelfand, 60 ani, scriitor rus (n. 1923)
 26 noiembrie: Toma Petre Ghițulescu, 81 ani, inginer român (n. 1902)
 27 noiembrie: Manuel Scorza, 55 ani, scriitor peruan (n. 1928)
 30 noiembrie: Richard Llewellyn (Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd), 76 ani, romancier britanic (n. 1906)

Decembrie
 2 decembrie: Pavel Vejinov, 69 ani, scriitor bulgar (n. 1914)
 5 decembrie: Alexandru Oprea, 52 ani, scriitor, critic și istoric literar român (n. 1931)
 12 decembrie: Amza Pellea, 52 ani, actor român de film, radio, teatru, televiziune și voce (n. 1931)
 13 decembrie: Nichita Stănescu (Nichita Hristea Stănescu), 50 ani, poet și eseist român (n. 1933)
 19 decembrie: Samson Fainsilber, 79 ani, actor francez de etnie română (n. 1904)
 24 decembrie: Vasile Filip, 83 ani, compozitor român (n. 1900)
 25 decembrie: Joan Miró, 90 ani, pictor și sculptor spaniol (n. 1893)

Premii Nobel

 Fizică: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India), William Alfred Fowler (SUA)
 Chimie: Henry Taube (SUA)
 Medicină: Barbara McClintock (SUA)
 Literatură: William Golding (Regatul Unit)
 Pace: Lech Walesa (RP Polonă)

1983


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There were not two but three Talessanins when they arrived at Mac's for lunch. Hanna gritted her teeth and waved them over to the table where she waited with Rachel and Tiffany. The addition of the slender, dark-skinned man with the striking amber eyes and quiet, reserved manner blew Rachel's careful seating arrangement all to bits. Her strategy had been Divide and Conquer: Rachel and Tiffany facing Hanna across the table, with the fourth chair and another one filched from a nearby table placed at the ends for the aliens.
As it was, Tomin and the new guy took the ends, and Jon pulled another chair up on Hanna's side of the table, making her wonder if their seating strategy was Surround and Subdue.
She certainly felt surrounded, with Jon's bulky presence dominating the space on her right and the new guy occupying the end of the table to her left, but she refused to be subdued so she took a deep breath and cheerfully introduced her friends. After the three men had made their apparently obligatory bows and declared themselves honored to meet everyone, Jon informed the women that the new guy was called Chance. Since Hanna's knees were practically wedged up against Chance's under the table, she reflexively put her hand out to shake his as she said, "It's nice to meet you."
Chance hesitated, glancing first at Jon, then at Tomin, and Hanna realized her mistake; they didn't shake hands, they bowed. She froze, hot blood rushing to her face again, but Chance nodded solemnly and reached over to grasp her hand in a firm shake. The chestnut-brown membranes between his even darker fingers wrapped around her hand, and she was pleasantly surprised to find the touch warm, and soft, and not at all disagreeable. What had she expected, cold and clammy?
A flustered waitress interrupted the moment, handing around menus, and the ensuing food recommendations and explanations gave Hanna's heart time to slow to a normal pace again—at least until she noticed the uncertain, curious stares their table was drawing from the restaurant's other patrons. Talessanins were supposed to appear on TV, not in the neighborhood bar and grill. Well, Hanna supposed they would all just have to get used to it.
After everyone ordered and the waitress went away, an uncomfortable quiet descended over the table. Rachel arranged and rearranged her knife and fork. Tiffany pretended to read the advertisements on the folded cardboard centerpiece and surreptitiously stared at Chance's hands, which rested on the table. Hanna tried desperately to think of something to say as she glanced around the group. She almost came up with something, but then she caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of Jon gazing at her, his head tilted quizzically to one side, and whatever she'd thought of evaporated.
It was Tomin who finally broke the silence. "Hanna," he said, "Chance was very sorry to have missed your visit."
Chance took his cue. "Yes," he said, "I was in the back yard repairing connections on Jon's hot tub, and when I came inside there was chocolate cake, like a gift from the Sower."
Tiffany's eyes lit up at the mention of the hot tub, but then confusion clouded her face. "The Sower?" she asked.
"The predominant Talessanin creation myth," Tomin explained in the tone of an experienced tour guide. "An omnipotent being who scatters the seeds of life throughout the universe. The tradition offers a very poetic explanation for the similarities between Talessanins and humans, actually—seeds from the same tree sown in different gardens, but growing into trees that yield the same fruit."
Jon interrupted him. "Tomin has been working as a media relations officer at the Talessanin embassy in North America," he said. "He can tell you a great deal about Talessanin history, culture, and tradition if you let him. But you do not have to let him."
Tomin laughed. "I do have a tendency to lecture. The point is, it was kind of you to bring us a cake, Hanna. Thank you."
Hanna blushed. She seemed to be blushing a lot today. "It was no trouble," she said, floundering in her head for a way to shift the conversation away from herself. "So . . . an embassy media relations officer; that's impressive, Tomin. What do the rest of you do for a living?"
For a moment nobody said anything, and she worried that she'd shut the conversation down again. Then Chance said quietly, "The three of us served in the same unit during our basic military service, before Jon joined one of the specialized forces, and Tomin went into the diplomatic division. Jon recently retired and decided to come experience Earth culture first hand for a while, and he invited us along for company." He shrugged. "I mostly fix things."
Tomin grinned. "You certainly fixed the hot tub." Was he changing the subject? "It should be filled and heated by the time we get home. I can't wait to try it out."
Tiffany was starting to relax a little and didn't let another opportunity slip past; she beamed her full, blond, Tiffany simper at him. "I love hot tubs! You should totally have a party!"
Tomin stared at her, then chuckled. "You know, maybe we should. It would be a great community relations move, Jon. People wouldn't be as nervous to have us in the neighborhood if they'd been to our home and had a good time." His eyes flicked sideways, seeming to indicate the watchful locals, and his head tilted slightly as he looked back at Jon.
"Ever the diplomat, Tomin." Jon sighed, and Hanna tried not to flinch as the big man shifted to lean forward. "But whom would we invite? We have met only one neighbor and her friends. And I am not certain even you know enough about human culture to do it properly."
"Oh!" Tiffany practically squealed. "Rachel could help you with the planning. She does great parties!"
Rachel laughed. "And Tiffany has a lot of friends she'd love to invite."
"Are you serious?" Hanna demanded. "You two just met these guys, you can't invite all your friends over to their house!"
"Of course they can!" Tomin protested. "It would be fun. Say yes, Jon."
Jon frowned.
Chance reached across Hanna and poked his big friend hard in the shoulder. Grinning, he said, "Live a little. You just retired."
Jon sighed. "Yes. When?"
Tiffany did a little flutter clap under her perky chin.
Tomin thumped his webbed hands down on the table and asked, "Rachel, how quickly can you plan?"
Rachel grinned. "How quickly do you want me to plan?"
"Could we do it tonight?" Tomin asked.
"Wait a minute," Hanna interrupted. "Don't you need to finish unpacking or something?"
Tomin shrugged. "The furniture store set everything up when they delivered it, and when you're in the military like Jon and Chance, you cart everything you need around in one trunk. I'm only here on extended leave, so I just had a few things to put away, myself. There's really no unpacking left to do."
That opened the floodgates, and by the time the food arrived, Rachel and Tomin were talking animatedly about budgets and caterers, and Tiffany's fingers were flying on her cell phone texting all the "right" people in Freebridge.
Jon sat silent, his face bemused.
Hanna shook her head and chewed the end of a french fry. When she caught Jon looking down at her, she swallowed hard and cleared her throat. "I apologize for my friends. They do this sometimes. You can't stop them once it goes this far." The expression on his face made her smile as she looked away.
Tiffany kicked her playfully under the table and kept on texting. "You're coming this time, right Hanna?" she asked.
Hanna took another bite of french fry to give herself a moment to think. "I'm not sure," she said. "I might have a date with Mr. Bickles tonight."
Tiffany stopped texting. "Are you serious Hanna? You'd throw over a hot tub party with the only extraterrestrials in town for a date with Mr. Bickles? You need to have your head examined."
Hanna shrugged. "A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do, Tiff."
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Q: What does a colon do in this GNU configure script? I'm looking at the differences between configure scripts for two versions of Apache and I have noticed the following in the new version of configure:
if [ some test ]; then :
    do this
else
    do that

versus the old version:
if [ some test ]; then
    do this
else
    do that

The only difference is that : (colon), no-op, after the then statement.
Edit 1: So the new version is basically saying:
if "this" then "do nothing"
    "do this"
else
    "do that"

What's the intent of deliberately adding that colon?
N.B. I have seen this similar question What Is the Purpose of the `:' (colon) GNU Bash Builtin? but that doesn't cover this particular scenarios.
Edit 2: This is visible when you compare the configure script for the Apache APR in release 2.2.17 against that in release 2.2.24.
Download the two tarballs from the Apache site and after untarring the configure file is located in the directory httpd-2.2.x/srclib/apr for both releases.
Line 26015 in the v2.2.24 version shows this construct.

A: The colon built-in in this case does what it always does: nothing, successfully.
You can always write a command after the then keyword, like this:
if [ some test ]; then do one thing
    do another thing
fi

In this particular case the author is using : as the first command, possibly because of the typographic effect.
Another reason to use : after the then keyword could be ensuring correctness in case lines are removed or commented in the if statement. For example this would be illegal syntax if the colon was removed:
if [ some test ]; then :
    # do one thing     ## Disabled due to bug #12992
fi

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Thursday evening, M. and I spontaneously decided we wanted to celebrate our daughter's first birthday while camping by the ocean. We compiled a rough budget, and by four-thirty a.m. on Saturday morning, our rusty-orange Caliber was stuffed with gear and we were cruising five hundred miles to Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
The first day consisted mainly of driving for over ten hours and then staking a claim to our land upon arrival, followed by camp set-up.
We drove to Good Harbor beach during the morning, and then visited Wingaersheek Beach for some evening clamming during low tide. Lexi was delighted to watch Papa sift through and dig wayyy down into the sand with his bare hands, to harvest some fresh Atlantic clams.
We explored the Cape Ann and Ipswich area further, and browsed some antique shops in Essex. For dinner, we stopped by the docks and bought four live lobsters straight off the boat, and brought the wriggling, thrashing beasts back to camp for a scrumptious lobster feast over our campfire.
Lexi has the claws duke it out.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Lexi's first birthday!
It was my butter bean's first birthday and we spent the afternoon swishing through the streets of Salem and visiting the haunting, eerie sites from the witch trial hysteria of 1692.
Then it was off to the Cape Ann harbor for a festive dinner at the Gloucester House. I ordered some steamers and succulent seafood ravioli, and M. and I polished the birthday celebration off with a slice of triple-layer chocolate cake, with one unlit peppermint candle plopped among the buttery ripples.
We sang happy birthday to Lexi (who was absolutely tickled to be up past her bedtime) and, while she was absorbed with cooing and waving at the waitresses, Mommy slyly wolfed down the delectable chocolate treat.
Wednesday morning was gorgeous so we returned to Wingaersheek Beach during low-tide so Lexi could wade into the water and scout for sea shells and sand dollars. My precious girl was soo captivated by the beach and got a kick out of observing other children splashing around and playing in the ocean.
Spotted: clams, crabs, loads of fish, and sand dollars.
Stick figure built to ward against any lingering bad mojo from Salem. Seconds later, Lexi decapitated the poor chap.
The Cape Ann weather forecast was ominously warning about possible severe storms and hail, so we decided to break camp a day early and head to Boston before returning home.
We had a comical incident where I was gnawed on by a tick and consequently burned, and then it was off to the Boston Aquarium for the morning. We left Boston right before rush-hour traffic started to jam up the highways, and were homeward-bound by 3 p.m.
The original pre-planned budget was roughly $960.00.
Now that our vacation is over, it's back to the writing hole, so expect regular updates once again.
What a cute family! Your vacation sounds so fun–I think Salem is a really underrated vacay spot. My family and I stopped there for a day on our way back from Kinnebunkport and it was one of the highlights of the trip!
Thank you, Lauren, for the lovely and kind compliment.
Salem was fabulous – If I ever return, however, I'll skip over the flashy museums and just soak up the unique street culture.
Kinnebunkport, is that in Maine?
I think you've out done all my husband's camp cooking with that lobster! Mr. LH loves to cook up yummy gormet dishes when we camp, but we've never thought about lobster. Looks like you had a wonderful time on your camping trip.
Sorry for the delayed response, folks, I had to rescue a few comments from being chewed on by the spam filter.
@Maria, we've decided to make this a family tradition and take a vacation every year on Lexi's birthday. Soo psyched for next year.
@Aaron, there is nothing quite like New England lobster. Hopefully you had a tasty dinner in your corner.
@Little House, I always envisioned cowboy beans as suitable camping grub but not so with M., like your hubby, he is always whipping up the gourmet, too!
How was it camping with a baby?
Our daughter is only 4 months and could not imagine camping with her – would love to hear your experience and recommendation for next time?
Steve, it was a wonderful experience for everyone. I've heard of fussy, crying babies while camping but Lexi has been camping—even sleeping under the stars without a tent—since two weeks old, and loves it.
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Ontario Basic Income Pilot to Launch in Thunder Bay, Hamilton and Lindsay
April 24, 2017 9:15 A.M.
Ontario is launching a pilot project to assess whether a basic income can better support vulnerable workers, improve health and education outcomes for people on low incomes, and help ensure that everyone shares in Ontario's economic growth.
Premier Kathleen Wynne announced details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) project today at LiUNA Station in Hamilton. The three-year study will test how a basic income might expand opportunities and job prospects of those living on low incomes while providing greater security for them and their families.
Ontario's economy is in a relatively strong position, however many people in the province are not feeling that growth in their everyday lives. People are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living and facing "precarious employment" with little job security or benefits. This pilot will study whether a basic income can bridge that gap and give people the security and opportunity they need to achieve their potential.
Three regions will take part in the study. Pilots will start in late spring in Hamilton, including Brantford and Brant County; and in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area. The third pilot will start by this fall in Lindsay.
The Basic Income model Ontario has developed will ensure that eligible participants receive:
Up to $16,989 per year for a single person, less 50 per cent of any earned income
Up to $24,027 per year for a couple, less 50 per cent of any earned income
Up to an additional $6,000 per year for a person with a disability.
A basic income supports people to begin or continue working, or to further their education. Participants in the pilot will be able to increase their total income by combining a basic income with 50 cents from every dollar they earn at work.
Through this pilot, people who earn less than the basic income amount through employment will receive regular payments to help them better afford basic needs such as housing and food. The three test regions will host 4,000 participants eligible to receive a basic income payment, between the ages of 18 to 64. By late spring, people in these areas will begin receiving information about the pilot and how to participate. The province is partnering with these communities and other experts to make sure that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot is fair, effective, and scientifically valid.
Ontario is also in the early stages of planning a separate, parallel First Nations Basic Income Pilot, co-created and designed with First Nations partners.
Our approach to basic income is a simplified way to deliver income support that provides a floor under which nobody can fall, regardless of their circumstances. The design was based on advice received from Special Advisor on Basic Income, Hugh Segal, who delivered his report in November. It was also informed by the thousands of people and organizations we heard from during our province-wide consultations.
Ensuring everyone has the opportunity to reach their potential is part of our plan to create jobs, grow our economy and help people in their everyday lives.
Ontario is one of a number of places, including Finland, Kenya and the Netherlands, that have launched or are considering a basic income program.
People eligible for the Ontario Basic Income Pilot will be randomly chosen to receive the basic income or to be part of a control group who don't receive it.
People receiving support through Ontario Works who enter the pilot will continue to receive the Ontario Drug Benefit, and people on the Ontario Disability Support Program will continue to receive the Ontario Drug Benefit and dental benefits.
A single person earning $10,000 per year from a part-time job would receive an additional $11,989 in basic income ($16,989 less 50% of their earned income), for a total income of $21,989.
A third-party research consortium that will evaluate the study will be announced shortly. The province will form an advisory group with research and evaluation experts to ensure that the pilot is conducted with the utmost integrity, rigour and ethical standards.
Ontario's Basic Income Pilot
Find out more about eligibility for the Ontario Basic Income Pilot
Basic Income Consultations: What We Heard
Advice to the government in the Honourable Hugh Segal's discussion paper
A video on the basics of Basic Income
Premier Lays Out Plan for Fairness and Security in Uncertain Times
"Everyone should benefit from Ontario's economic growth. A basic income will support people in our province who are reaching for a better life. It gives people the security of knowing they can cover their basic needs and the ability to earn more through work. I believe this pilot is one way that government can be a force for good, and I am excited that Ontario is a leader in piloting this approach to help more people in our province get ahead and stay ahead."
Kathleen Wynne
Premier of Ontario
"The Ontario Basic Income Pilot will be testing a new approach to income support in a careful, step-by-step way to ensure we get it right. We are starting small, and using the lessons learned as we build the pilot out in further phases. Our goal is to better understand whether this approach could help people living on low incomes in their everyday lives."
Dr. Helena Jaczek
Minister of Community and Social Services
"Every person struggling in poverty is a person denied the ability to reach for a better life. The Basic Income Pilot will help us test ways to make everyday life easier for Ontarians by removing barriers that still stand in the way of improved health, employment and housing for too many among us. Testing a Basic Income is just one way we're working to ensure that every family has the dignity and security of a life free from poverty."
Chris Ballard
Minister Responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy
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This document was published on April 24, 2017 and is provided for archival and research purposes.


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WTO Issues
Customs Issues
Government Procurement Agreement
Import Licensing
Industrial Subsidies
State Trading Enterprises
Technical Barriers to Trade
Trade Policy Review Body
Trade and Development
Trade and Environment
Trade Remedies
World Trade Organization (WTO)
The WTO Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures (Import Licensing Agreement) sets out rules for all Members on the use of import licensing systems to regulate their trade. Import Licensing systems are administrative procedures requiring the submission of an application or other documentation (other than that typically required for customs purposes) to a designated administrative body as a prior condition for importation. In addition to import licensing itself, the Agreement also covers procedures associated with a range of practices meeting that definition, including import approvals, import permissions or permits, and activity licenses required for importation.
Agreement's provisions include guidelines for what constitutes a fair and non-discriminatory application of such procedures with the goal of protecting Members from unreasonable requirements or delays associated with a licensing regime.
These obligations are intended to ensure that import licensing procedures do not create additional barriers to trade beyond the policy measures implemented through licensing. In addition, the Agreement establishes requirements for periodic notifications that describe any licensing systems applied to imports, along with copies of the relevant legislation, in order to increase the transparency and predictability of Members' licensing regimes.
The Import Licensing Agreement's provisions discipline licensing procedures, and do not directly address the WTO consistency of the underlying measures that are being implemented through licensing. Members are required to have WTO justification for any licensing requirements established.
The Agreement covers both "automatic" licensing systems, which are intended only to monitor imports, not regulate them, and "non-automatic" licensing systems, under which certain conditions must be met before a license is issued. Governments often use non-automatic licensing to administer import restrictions such as quotas and tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), or to administer safety or other requirements (e.g., for hazardous goods, armaments, antiquities, etc.).
Requirements for permission to import that act like import licenses, such as certification of standards and sanitary and technical regulations, are also subject to the rules of the Import Licensing Agreement.
The Committee on Import Licensing Procedures
The Committee on Import Licensing (the Import Licensing Committee) administers the Agreement and meets twice a year.
The Committee seeks to encourage compliance with the mutually agreed rules laid out in the Agreement through a system of regular Committee reviews of the notifications submitted by WTO Members. The Committee also receives questions from Members on the licensing regimes of other Members, whether or not these regimes have been notified to the Committee. The Committee meetings also address specific observations and complaints concerning Members' licensing systems.
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The Agreements can be accessed on the WTO website.
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using Voxalia.Shared.Collision;
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using BEPUphysics.BroadPhaseEntries;
using BEPUphysics.BroadPhaseEntries.MobileCollidables;
using Voxalia.ServerGame.NetworkSystem.PacketsOut;
using Voxalia.ServerGame.OtherSystems;

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{
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Pope apologises to sex abuse victims
Pope Benedict XVI says sorry to victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, describing their acts as "evil" and a grave betrayal of trust.
By HT Correspondent | AP, Sydney
Pope Benedict XVI apologised on Saturday to victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, describing their acts as "evil" and a grave betrayal of trust.
"I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of minors by some clergy and religious in this country," Benedict said during an address at a Mass in Australia.
"I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured," the Pope said.
"I assure them as their pastor that I too share in their suffering."
He said those responsible for these "evils must be brought to justice."
Support groups for victims of church abuse in Australia, whose numbers are not known but who activists say are in the thousands, had demanded the pope make a full and open apology for clergy abuse and do more to prevent future abuse.
The pontiff is in Australia to lead hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in the church's World Youth Day, a global celebration meant to inspire a new generation of Catholics.
There was no immediate word whether Benedict would meet with victims of clergy abuse, as he did during his trip to the United States in April, when he also expressed his shame for the scandal.
A private car belonging to police officers was the target of the explosion.(AP file photo)
Taliban attacks, violence kills dozens: Afghan officials
PTI, Kabul
A statement from the defence ministry said four army soldiers were killed late Monday night in Taliban attacks on checkpoints in Kunduz province.
The trade deal with the European Union removed a key obstacle for U.K. assets just as the FTSE 100's undervalued shares are in demand amid expectations of a global economic rebound.(REUTERS)
EU slams Bosnia for failing to properly care for migrants
Bosnia has faced sharp criticism for leaving around 1,000 people without shelter after a fire gutted the makeshift Lipa refugee camp near the northwest border with EU-member Croatia just before Christmas.
US President-elect Joe Biden speaks at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, US.(Reuters)
From Neera Tanden to Vivek Murthy: Indian Americans in Joe Biden's administratio
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Mallika Soni
Here's a look at the Indian Americans set to be part of the Biden administration
A depot used to store pipes for Transcanada Corp's planned Keystone XL oil pipeline is seen in Gascoyne, North Dakota.(REUTERS)
Keystone XL pipeline: Why has Biden planned to cancel disputed Canada project
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav
Keystone XL pipeline was aimed to cut short the distance between Alberta's oil sands and the Gulf of Mexico, where most of North America's refineries are situated.
The officer who died was a six-year veteran of the department.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/representative use)
The shooting followed an attempted traffic stop and the driver ended up crashing on the Cal Expo grounds.
Parler's domain name is now registered with Epik Inc., a website services company based in Sammamish, Washington.(AFP)
'Our return is inevitable': Parler CEO after app reappears
"Our return is inevitable due to hard work, and persistence against all odds," CEO John Matze wrote in a new post. "Despite the threats and harassment not one Parler employee has quit. We are becoming closer and stronger as a team."
It comes days after UK business leaders called for a British government rescue of the Channel Tunnel rail operator as border closures enforced to stop a highly contagious virus variant threatened to push the service toward the brink of collapse.(Reuters Photo)
Concerns grow over future of pandemic hit Eurostar rail service linking UK, EU
Passenger numbers on the cross-Channel train service - which reaches UK, France, Belgium and Holland - have been down 95% since March and are currently believed to be less than 1% of pre-pandemic levels.
Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny.(File photo)(AFP )
Kremlin says unfazed by calls for sanctions over Navalny's detention
Reuters, Moscow
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have said they want European Union foreign ministers to discuss sanctions against Russia over its handling of the case.
In his speech Conte, who's heading his second government, sought to win over pro-European centrists, unaffiliated lawmakers and senators from Renzi's Italy Alive party.(REUTERS)
Italian PM Conte appeals to Senate for government's survival
Fresh from winning a majority in the lower house Monday night, Conte needs the support of the Senate after junior ally and ex-premier Matteo Renzi abandoned his coalition in a clash over European Union recovery funds.
Students get sanitised before entering classrooms as secondary schools reopen amid the second wave of the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Peshawar, Pakistan.(Reuters)
Pakistan crosses grim milestone of 11,000 Covid-19 deaths
Citing NCOC, Geo News reported that since the start of January 2021, the country has witnessed 48.8 deaths on average daily with hospital intensive care units nearing capacity as active Covid-19 cases surge to 35,485.
"The Trump administration views the ACAs as a model to be replicated with other countries around the world," said the document written by the Democratic staff of the Foreign Relations Committee and commissioned by incoming Committee Chairman Bob Menendez.(REUTERS)
Biden must end Trump's 'shameful' Central America asylum deals: Report
In 2019, the US signed Asylum Cooperation Agreements (ACAs) with the members of the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America -- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -- as part of its policy to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants across its southern border.
The EU official said the EU could give some vaccines to COVAX which would then distribute them to poor countries.(REUTERS)
EU eyes scheme to share surplus Covid-19 vaccines with poorer nations
The EU, with a population of 450 million, has already secured nearly 2.3 billion Covid-19 vaccines and candidates from six companies, although most of them still need regulatory approval.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his five-year economic plan unveiled in 2016 had failed "tremendously" in almost every sector, though he praised workers for maintaining "stable situations" despite the coronavirus. (REUTERS)
North Korea's trade with China plunges 80% as Covid-19 lockdown bites
China is North Korea's top ally and accounts for some 90% of its trade volumes. Two-way trade plummeted nearly 80.7% to $539 million last year from 2019, Chinese customs data released on Monday showed.
After receiving her vaccination against the novel coronavirus, 90-year-old Odores H. sits under the domed roof of the vaccination centre in the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany,(AP)
Covid-19 pandemic could be source of global crises for years: WEF
While the impact of the pandemic is dominant at the moment, other events will likely come to the fore, according to the survey.
Worries over possible unrest or other security threats following the attack on the Congress earlier this month seem to have abated somewhat as investors study the implications for markets of further stimulus. (Representative Image)(Reuters/ File photo)
Benchmarks were higher in Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong but slipped in Shanghai. World markets were subdued on Monday, with US exchanges closed for a holiday.


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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the Trump administration in a speech before leaders of the Arab League, who gathered in Tunisia on Sunday for the organization's annual summit. Abbas accused Washington of enabling "crimes committed by Israel" against Palestinians and international law over the past several years. America's missteps include moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and rejecting calls to talk about illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian lands, he said.
The continued bias, according to Abbas, means that the Palestinians will likely reject the deal which the Trump administration is preparing to resolve the decades-long Middle East conflict.
We will not accept any deal that does not account for the results of previous peace talks and resolutions of the UN Security Council, including the demand to stop Israeli occupation and create a sovereign Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem.
The terms of the promised "deal of the century" remain obscure, while the date it is to be made public has been pushed back several times. The current expectation is that the proposed agreement will be unveiled in early April.
The Arab League summit provided the opportunity for member states to briefly overcome regional rivalries and unite to condemn the US move to recognize Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights. The strategically located territory which was discovered to be rich in oil a few years ago has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 war. No nation except Israel, and now the US, considers it part of Israel.


This week I am sharing a photo that means a lot to me... why?
Because it is represents the beginning of a dream, my own photography business.
It is still a work in progress, my web site isn't even up yet.. but it is a dream and there are real steps happening towards it.
It is a process to start a business but the rewards are great. Good Luck.
I love that picture! Beautiful! Good luck with your dream. I think you take lovely pictures, so have no doubt of your success but good luck nonetheless.
How great to see your dream coming true! Don't stop till you reach it.
I'm inching toward doing the same. Good luck with it all and I hope you keep us all updated!
I need to make good on my promise and drum up some business for you.
I hope it's everything you dream it to be! Love you!
It's such a beautiful picture! Good luck!
Best of luck on your photo business! With photos like that (awww!) you'll do wonderfully.
Beautiful shot! I'm just about to throw my hat into the professional photography business myself. Good luck, and I'd love to hear how it's going for you.
Judging by the quality of this picture, you'll do wonderfully -- well done.
How exciting. I wish you all the best. This is a great job for a mom since you can set your schedule and pick your clients.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment on my hotel room and the array of pillows! It was a Holiday Inn but a fairly new one. I do appreciate a pretty bed and nice linens and his place had them to spare!!
We had a wonderful time in Florida and managed to get out just ahead of Hurricane Ida! Stop by again when you can. Blessings.
Yipee! I can't wait to see your website.
Congratulations on your new venture! What a great photo to represent a new beginning - good luck!
I love that picture...especially that it's in black and white. Good luck with the website...it can be so daunting but I know you can do it!!
Good luck taking the plunge! Keep us posted.
And updates about the call backs? Maybe?
Good for you! I love the photos you put up on your blog!!
What have you heard about call backs??


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A scene from "One Small Step," a movie co-directed by Waubonsie Valley High School graduate Andrew Chesworth and nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short film.
As a student at Waubonsie Valley High School, Andrew Chesworth was probably best known as the kid who could draw.
He was in show choir, played tennis and ran track, but his sketches are probably what most of his fellow classmates remember. Later this month, Chesworth will discover if his artistic talent wins him an Academy Award.
Nominated for best animated short film, Chesworth has been using his artistic talent for the last several years in the world of animation. But it wasn't until he and co-director Bobby Pontillas broke out on their own that his work drew the attention of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The short, "One Small Step," is the first film produced by Chesworth and Pontilla's start-up company, Taiko Studios. The two launched it two years ago after working for several years for Disney.
Originally from the East Coast, Chesworth moved to Aurora at the age of 10 with his family. He attended Granger Middle School and Waubonsie Valley High School. He also is a graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Andrew Chesworth, a graduate of Waubonsie Valley High School, is an animator whose work is nominated this year for an Academy Award in the category of best animated short film.
He said he can relate to Luna, the character in his short film. Though she faced trials throughout her journey, the young girl who fell in love with space eventually becomes an astronaut.
"I experienced a lot of failures and dead ends along my journey, but I'm very grateful for that experience and very happy with where I'm at right now in my career," he said.
Like Luna, Chesworth said he had support of several people throughout his journey. He credits teachers at Granger and Waubonsie Valley High School for their support and encouragement.
"I really had a very positive experience growing up in District 204," he said.
Teachers like John DeGroot, whom Chesworth had for his choir courses, and Carolyn Steward, who taught art classes, were among those he said helped encourage him and help him hone his skills.
Steward said she heard from Chesworth Friday after she sent him a congratulatory message on a work anniversary through LinkedIn. He didn't mention the nomination, she said.
Waubonsie Valley High School graduate Andrew Chesworth will learn Feb. 24 if the film he co-directed with Bobby Pontillas, "One Small Step," wins an Academy Award for best animated short film.
She said she still has some of Chesworth's drawings and has followed his career.
Chesworth, who also played tennis and ran cross country at Waubonsie, said his experiences in show choir also benefited his career by providing a good sense of timing and rhythm for his films.
Chesworth said his company has various projects in the developing stages, including feature films, another short film and a couple of television shows. His company also does service work for animation companies in China.
To learn more about Chesworth's work, go to www.artofandrewchesworth.com. The Academy Awards air on Feb. 24.


The speed, complexity, impact, and sheer amount of enterprise projects increases every day, especially if your business is going through a major initiative like digital transformation. Enhanced and integrated change control leadership across business units will keep up with the speed of the business while ensuring systems integrity, quality, and reducing risk. This is called Environment Management.
It's 4 pm on Friday, and the SAP (ERP) project team just got out of the change control meeting approving a bunch of changes to go to production systems that evening.
Meanwhile, on another floor, the business plans to start a long load process for data conversion from the recent acquisition that evening.
In another building, the IT team executes their first steps for an enterprise storage migration spanning the weekend, beginning that evening.
A few hours later, orders stop flowing, transactions are failing, customer service is panicked, the data loads fail with new errors, and IT has to scramble to get the system working right away…then go back and try to figure out what happened. What a mess! They trust IT will figure it out, especially if it was anything like what happened last quarter. However, now someone has to explain why another disruption that resembles the previous disruption has occurred.
Incidents like these are why businesses implement Environment Management in their Centers of Excellence.
How was Environment Management born?
The Environment Management function was born out of a need to close gaps in the way businesses communicate and collaborate on changes across separate groups. These groups include project teams, application production support, business operations, and IT services. They are classically separated by organizational charter with different leadership, expertise, and tools for planning and change management, often physically separated as well. As a result, their planning and execution of business and IT activities are done separately, increasing the risk of conflict which results in avoidable business disruptions and outages. This leads to higher cost of operations, potential loss of revenue and customers, bad press, stock price hits, and will frustrate the business and IT leadership.
What does Environment Management provide businesses?
Environment Management helps businesses collaborate and integrate change management processes across the enterprise to deliver operational excellence. It can integrate project and operational calendars, proactively identifying risks before they impact the business. By implementing environment management, businesses increase stakeholder engagement and reduce risk, while improving quality and lowering costs.
Does the Project Management Office Handle Environment Management?
The short answer is, not likely. Why? There are a few reasons. Often the classic PMO's charter doesn't crossover into production operations. Second, the PMO doesn't have any charter to manage changes outside of that project. At best they can manage project-based plans and changes from an application perspective. Unfortunately, that also means that the separate IT groups manage their projects and changes.
What does it take to implement and run Environment Management?
Establishing and running an effective Environment Management function means inherently integrating these different groups by erasing previous lines of separation and enabling a common platform for collaboration. It requires people, a process, and a common repository for activity tracking. If your business already has an effective SAP Change Control Board of some type, most of the foundation for Environment Management is already laid. Depending on how your company is organized and whether you have a Program Management Office or Enterprise IT Change Board, the stakeholders can be identified, and the charter of the Environment Management function can be agreed upon, complete with a level of authority. Finally, a transition process is set up to begin integrating these change drivers and their activities with a common repository, meeting schedule, and communication plan.
The benefits Environment Management made it a central component of our support. I had no idea at the time it would become an area of expertise we are passionate about and a foundational belief for Crosstek's delivery of operational excellence to our clients.
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Feds: Blacks Suffer Most From Fluoride, Fluoridate Anyway
By Alex Newman
The federal government has known for five decades that blacks were even more susceptible than whites to serious damage from fluoride added to water supplies, but it urged local governments to fluoridate the population anyway, according to newly released documents. In addition to knowingly inflicting major dental problems known as "fluorosis" on whites and especially blacks through the controversial forced mass-medication scheme, federal health officials never even bothered to inform blacks about the risks. Despite the mounting scientific evidence of harm and the ethical concerns surrounding the involuntary medical treatment, authorities across the United States continue fluoridating public water supplies.
The recently uncovered documents, obtained using Freedom of Information (FOIA) Act requests by the anti-fluoridation group Fluoride Action Network (FAN), reveal that the U.S. Public Health Service fully understood the consequences of its actions. The tale begins in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, when authorities there began a massive involuntary medical experiment by adding the controversial chemical to the water supply. The theory was that fluoride, now labeled a "neurotoxin" by perhaps the world's most prestigious medical journal and myriad experts, might reduce cavities.
The results of the experiment, which for the first time focused on the chemical's effects on the black community, revealed that blacks were far more susceptible to dental fluorosis than whites. Indeed, an internal 1962 memorandum from Public Health Service official F.J. Maier, "sanitary engineer director" with the "Division of Dental Public Health and Resources," stated that "negroes in Grand Rapids had twice as much fluorosis than others." The condition, which is caused by fluoride consumption, produces a wide range of problems. In moderate to severe cases, it damages tooth enamel to such an extent that teeth can literally fall apart.
In the memo, Maier expressed concerns over "opponents" of forcible fluoridation using the data to fight back against the mass-medication plot then under way across much of the nation. He also asked whether the explosive findings about fluoride's effects on blacks would change the "optimum fluoride levels" for communities "with a larger number of negroes" such as DeKalb County in Georgia. Despite being aware of the damage, no changes were made, and officials never took steps to educate black Americans about their increased risks of dental fluorosis, FAN said in a statement.
Today, dental fluorosis has reached unprecedented levels among all Americans — with blacks continuing to suffer the most. According to another set of recently released documents obtained using FOIA, well over one third of white children in America were diagnosed with the condition in a 1999-2004 national survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). By contrast, a shocking 58 percent of black children in the United States suffered from dental fluorosis in that period, according to the CDC survey.
In an internal e-mail to officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, J. Nadine Gracia with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health told colleagues that former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young was working with Georgia lawmakers to repeal the state's mandatory mass-medication program fluoridating public water. In letters to legislators, Young noted that "African Americans are disproportionately affected by dental fluorosis and have a greater burden due to higher rates of kidney disease and diabetes (concern about the impact of fluoride and kidney function)," Gracia explained, citing a news clip.
Though big portions of the e-mail were blacked out, what remained was still revealing. "Per CDC data, blacks did have higher levels of dental fluorosis than whites (58% vs 36%) based on 1999-2004 NHANES [National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey] data," she said, claiming most of the cases were so-called mild. "In a 2005 MMWR [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report], CDC acknowledged this difference and stated that it is unclear why it exists and that further research is needed."
In other words, Americans are being subjected to a giant experiment and those responsible for the disproportionate damage to the black community do not even understand what is causing it — yet those same officials insist that the experiment must continue under the guise of stopping cavities. "On a positive note, CDC data also show that in 1986-1987 blacks had more untreated tooth decay," Gracia added. It was not immediately clear what was "positive" about that.
According to FAN, which first highlighted the documents outlining the disproportionate damage to blacks, when the federal government initially endorsed involuntary mass-medication of the public with fluoride in 1950, the "safe level" based on those findings has now been wildly exceeded. One study cited by the group from Augusta, Georgia, found that 17 percent of black children suffered from moderate to severe fluorosis. The pain, suffering, and financial costs associated with the epidemic are impossible to calculate.
As evidence of harm continues to grow, minority leaders have started lashing out at fluoridation. "The Hispanic community is no longer going to be silent on this issue," said League of United Latin American Citizens Texas Chairman Henry Rodriguez after the national organization passed a resolution blasting forced medication and the disproportionate harm unleashed on minorities by fluoride. Water fluoridation, he added, "is about forcing us to be medicated through our drinking water without our consent or full disclosure of the risks."
Numerous black community leaders, including two of Martin Luther King's relatives as well as chapters of the NAACP, have also condemned water fluoridation. Black pastors have been speaking out in growing numbers, too. "Fluoridation takes away people's choice — many people can't afford unfluoridated bottled water or a home water fluoride removal system," explained Rev. William Owens, president of the Coalition of African American Pastors, in a letter also citing the damage to public health among blacks.
Attorney Michael Connett, who led the FAN team that uncovered the explosive federal documents, is sounding the alarm about the controversial practice as well. "The epidemic of fluorosis now seen in the black community is the visible legacy of the government's failure to act on what it knew," he explained in a statement about the revelations. "Dental fluorosis is only the most obvious effect of fluoride, because you can see it."
Indeed, dental fluorosis may actually be the least of your worries when it comes to the dangerous effects of fluoride, according to numerous scientific studies. An especially devastating blow to pro-fluoridation forces came in 2012, when Harvard researchers published an explosive peer-reviewed study in a U.S. government science journal suggesting that children exposed to the chemical suffered dramatic decreases in IQ.
"The children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ than those who lived in low fluoride areas," noted the Harvard research scientists about the results of their study, echoing claims by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that there is substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity associated with the chemical. "The results support the possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children's neurodevelopment."
Particularly at risk, the authors said, were pre-born children, who the researchers noted could suffer permanent harm from the neurotoxic chemical. "Fluoride readily crosses the placenta," they observed. "Fluoride exposure to the developing brain, which is much more susceptible to injury caused by toxicants than is the mature brain, may possibly lead to damage of a permanent nature."
Many experts now say the chemical ought to be classified with other extremely dangerous substances. "Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain," noted senior study author Philippe Grandjean, a professor of environmental health at Harvard. "The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us."
More recently, echoing the recent findings of the Harvard study, The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, also classified the chemical as a harmful neurotoxin. "Our very great concern is that children worldwide are being exposed to unrecognized toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting behaviors, truncating future achievements and damaging societies, perhaps most seriously in developing countries," explained the authors, citing fluoride as one of about a dozen dangerous "developmental neurotoxicants" that should be addressed.
With federal officials now openly discussing the possibility of vaccinating the entire country for Ebola, Americans would be wise to consider the damage that the CDC and other unconstitutional "health" agencies have already unleashed on the public. The overwhelming majority of governments around the world have refused to force medicate the population with fluoride; and Israel, one of the few that did, recently banned water fluoridation. While the decision to fluoridate water supplies is typically made by local governments in America, ending unconstitutional federal meddling in the process would be a good start.
Alex Newman is a correspondent for The New American magazine, covering economics, education, politics, and more. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com


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Sidney Burr Wood Jr. (ur. 1 listopada 1911 w Black Rock, zm. 10 stycznia 2009 w Palm Beach) – amerykański tenisista, zwycięzca Wimbledonu w grze pojedynczej, reprezentant w Pucharze Davisa.

Wood był wynalazcą nawierzchni tenisowej Supreme Court, powszechnie stosowanej w imprezach halowych.

Kariera tenisowa
W turnieju wimbledońskim praworęczny Amerykanin debiutował jako 15-latek w 1927 roku. Największy sukces w karierze odniósł w 1931 roku, wygrywając grę pojedynczą na Wimbledonie. Do meczu finałowego nie doszło, ponieważ jego przeciwnik – Frank Shields – skręcił nogę w czasie meczu mikstowego i został wycofany z finału singla. Był to zarazem jedyny walkower w finale Wimbledonu w historii.

W 1935 roku Wood awansował do finału na mistrzostwach USA (obecnie US Open), gdzie poniósł porażkę z Wilmerem Allisonem. Wood był również finalistą tego turnieju w grze podwójnej w 1942 roku, występując w parze z Tedem Schroederem. W decydującym meczu lepsi okazali się Gardnar Mulloy i Bill Talbert.

W 1932 roku Wood osiągnął finał gry mieszanej podczas French Championships (obecnie French Open) wspólnie z Helen Wills Moody. Pokonali ich Betty Nuthall i Fred Perry.

W latach 1930–1945 Wood klasyfikowany był w czołowej dziesiątce rankingu amerykańskiego (w 1934 był wiceliderem), pięć razy także był w czołowej dziesiątce rankingu światowego The Daily Telegraph (1931 jako 6. tenisista, 1938 jako 5. zawodnik).

W 1931 i 1934 roku był w składzie reprezentacji USA w Pucharze Davisa (bilans występów 5 zwycięstw i 6 porażek w singlu, 3 zwycięstwa w deblu). W 1934 roku brał udział w meczu przeciwko Australii, gdzie Amerykanom udało się odrobić stratę 0:2 po pierwszym dniu. Wood uległ Vivowi McGrathowi, a pokonał Jacka Crawforda. W meczu finałowym Pucharu Davisa przeciwko broniącym trofeum Brytyjczykom Wood przegrał z Bunnym Austinem i Fredem Perrym.

W 1964 roku został wpisany do Międzynarodowej Tenisowej Galerii Sławy.

Finały w turniejach wielkoszlemowych

Gra pojedyncza (1–1)

Gra podwójna (0–1)

Gra mieszana (0–1)

Bibliografia

 Bud Collins, Tennis Encyclopedia, Visible Ink Press, Detroit 1997
 Profil na stronie International Tennis Hall of Fame

Amerykańscy tenisiści
Triumfatorzy Wimbledonu
Członkowie Międzynarodowej Tenisowej Galerii Sławy
Urodzeni w 1911
Zmarli w 2009

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