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The film premiered in Philippine cinemas on December 25, 2019 as entry of the 2019 Metro Manila Film Festival.
Due to its critical success in the film festival's awarding night, the film organizers decided to sponsor the film's screening in future film festivals.
Tai Tau Chau (Sai Kung District)
Tai Tau Chau () also known for its less popular name Urn Island, is an island in the water body Sham Tuk Mun, Sai Kung District, Hong Kong.
Inner Port Shelter and Rocky Harbour are in close proximity to the island.
The name Urn Island was mentioned in "Asiatic Pilot" by the U.S. Hydrographic Office in 1910.
The book described that vessels can enter Rocky Harbour from Port Shelter by passing through water passage near islets Urn Island (Tai Tau Chau) and Yim Tin Tsai.
The book recommands to use sea chart as a guide, as the channel is narrow.
Since the 1980s, some part of the island became an approval buried site for fishermen.
62 species of vascular plant were discovered on the island.
Several floating fish farms were located in the waters next to the island, known as Tai Tau Chau Fish Culture Zone.
In 1982, councillors of the Sai Kung District Board, had requested to expand the area of the Fish Culture Zone, in order to accommodate fishermen from nearby .
In 1989, a refugee camp for Vietnamese was proposed to establish on High Island, a former island that near to the Fish Culture Zone.
Councillors and fishermen worried that sea water of the Fish Culture Zone would be polluted by the increasing human population.
In the past, the fish rafts were used for commercial fish farming.
Brown-dotted grouper and red grouper were the dominant species to culture in the Tai Tau Chau Fish Culture Zone.
However, in recent years some of them were converted to use by the tourists for recreational fishing.
Red tides were also observed, affecting the Fish Culture Zone.
In 2019, a teen tourist was drowned in a fish farm of the island.
Anton Kol
Anton Kol (born 31 May 1990) is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer competing in S1-classification events.
He represented Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the bronze medals in the men's 50 metre backstroke S1 and men's 100 metre backstroke S1 events.
At the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships he won the silver medal in the men's 50 metre backstroke S1 event and the bronze medal in the men's 100 metre freestyle S1 event.
At the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 metre freestyle S1 event, the bronze medal in the men's 50 metre freestyle S1 event and the silver medal in the men's 50 metre backstroke S1 event.
At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships he won the silver medal in the men's 50 metre backstroke S1 event and also the silver medal in the men's 100 metre backstroke S1 event.
He won the bronze medal in the men's 100 metres backstroke S2 event at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships.
Undercover Brother 2
Undercover Brother 2 is a 2019 American action comedy blaxploitation film directed by Leslie Small and starring Michael Jai White.
It is a sequel to the 2002 film "Undercover Brother".
Undercover Brother tracks The Man to his lair in Vienna, Austria, but he and his younger brother Lionel are buried in an avalanche.
Holding their breath, they survive for 16 years before being rescued.
Undercover Brother is left in a coma and his younger brother Lionel is recruited by B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D.
to aid them in their work.
Lionel disguises himself as a white cowboy and befriends The Man, who has fallen on hard times and become homeless due to losing control of his company to his gay son Manson.
Manson begins releasing a drug called "Woke" on the population to cause them to be hypersensitive and argumentative with each other, thereby dividing the population and installing himself as leader.
The members of B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D.
identify the café chain Resistance Brews as a front for Manson, who is putting "Woke" in the coffee.
Lionel is disguised as a hipster and sent to Resistance Brews, but The Man follows him and attempts to take control of his empire back from his son.
Manson ingests an ultra-pure form of the drug known as "Woke AF", causing his head to explode.
The Man splashes some "Woke AF" on Lionel then escapes and sets up a chain of cafés known as Blak Coffee to distribute his "Woke AF".
Undercover Brother awakens from his coma and stows away back to New York City aboard a ship transporting Vienna Sausages.
Together with B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., Undercover Brother and Lionel infiltrate The Man's organization dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan.
They capture The Man but are arrested when the police arrive, allowing The Man to escape.
Filming took place in Atlanta, Georgia.
The film was released direct-to-video on November 5, 2019.
The film received generally negative reviews, with many critics noting the minimal amount of time Michael Jai White spends on screen in the actual film.
Reviewer Rob Hunter of /Film called the drop in quality "severe" in comparison to the 2002 film and criticized the film's "lack of concern for quality", ultimately calling the film "a dud".
He concluded, "It’s not the least bit funny, and its desperation makes it even less so.
"Undercover Brother 2" doesn’t deserve to see the light of day."
Reviewer Jordi of The Serious Tip wrote, "Overall, Undercover Brother 2 was very underwhelming.
It was the result of many bad decisions.
And I made a bad decision in buying it."
World Film Geek called the film "not so solid" and gave it a rating of C-, writing, "Undercover Brother 2 is a very unnecessary sequel that attempts to launch a new star".
Ain't No Grave (Bethel Music song)
"Ain't No Grave" is a song performed by Bethel Music and Molly Skaggs which was released as a promotional single single from Bethel Music's eleventh live album, "Victory" (2019), on January 4, 2019.
The song was written by Jonathan David Helser, Melissa Helser and Molly Skaggs, with Claude Ely receiving a posthumous credit for the interpolation of his similarly titled original composition.
Ed Cash handled the production of the single.
The song peaked at No.
17 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart despite not being an official single.
"Ain't No Grave" was initially released by Bethel Music on January 4, 2019, as one of four promotional singles from "Victory" (2019), in the lead-up to the album's release which was slated for January 25, 2019.
Molly Skaggs shared the story behind the song, saying:
"Ain't No Grave" is composed in the key of B minor with a moderate rock tempo of 74 beats per minute and a musical time signature of .
The song debuted on the US Hot Christian Songs chart at No.
40 on the issue week of January 19, 2019.
After the release of "Victory", it jumped to No.
27.
In its fifteenth week on the chart, the song peaked at No.
17.
Bethel Music released the live music video of "Ain't No Grave" with Molly Skaggs leading the song during a worship service at Bethel Church through their YouTube channel on January 5, 2019.
The lyric video of the song was released on January 25, 2019, on YouTube by Bethel Music.
An acoustic performance video shot on location in North Carolina, with Skaggs singing was published on YouTube on September 11, 2019.
Gunnar Kullendorf
Gunnar Teodor Kullendorf (born March 26, 1914; died October 3, 1993) was a Swedish curler.
He was a and a 1965 Swedish men's curling champion.
Juliet McMaster
Juliet McMaster is a Canadian scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century English literature, a specialist in Jane Austen, and Full Professor at the University of Alberta.
Juliet McMaster was born in Kenya in 1937.
She earned a B.A.
(Honors) in English at St. Anne's College in Oxford.
After emigrating to Canada in 1961, .
she received a MA and PhD at the University of Alberta, where she was the Faculty of Art's first PhD graduate.
She joined the university as a faculty member in 1965, in the Department of English, achieving the rank of Full Professor in 1986.
In addition to teaching literature and theatre studies, she also taught a fencing course in the theatre department.
McMaster became a renowned scholar of Jane Austen.
McMaster was the founding President of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada in 1973.
She also served as president of ACUTE (Association of Canadian University Teachers in English) from 1976 to 1978.
An avid fencer, McMaster qualified for a place on Canada's fencing team in 1965, after placing second in the National fencing championships.
She was named the athlete of the year at the University of Alberta in the same year.
She returned to the sport at the age of 77, and was an active member of the Edmonton Fencing Club.
McMaster founded a pedagogical press, Juvenilia Press in 1994.
Publishing the early works of established writers, Juvenilia Press involves students in the editorial, annotation, illustration and design of editions under the supervision of leading scholars.
Death Force
Death Force (also known as Vengeance Is Mine) is a 1978 martial arts exploitation film directed by Cirio H. Santiago and written by Howard R. Cohen.
The film is an international co-production of the Philippines and the United States, and stars blaxploitation actor James Iglehart alongside Carmen Argenziano, Leon Isaac Kennedy, and Jayne Kennedy.
Iglehart plays Doug Russell, a veteran of the Vietnam War turned gold smuggler who is left for dead by his partners and, after being trained to wield a samurai sword by a Japanese soldier, seeks revenge on those who betrayed him.
In September 2013, "Death Force" was released on DVD by Vinegar Syndrome as a double feature with the 1978 film "Vampire Hookers", which was also directed by Santiago.
In June 2014, "Death Force" was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Germany by Subkultur Entertainment.
Sigurd Rydén
Sigurd Rydén (born January 10, 1910; died ?)
was a Swedish curler.