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"Fruitvale Station" received critical acclaim. The film has a 94% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 8.1/10, based on 195 reviews. The critical consensus states: "Passionate and powerfully acted, "Fruitvale Station" serves as a celebration of life, a condemnation of death, and a triumph for star Michael B. Jordan." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 85, based on 46 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave an "A" average grade.

Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" called it "a compelling debut" and "a powerful dramatic feature film". He also praised the lead performances stating, "As Oscar, Jordan at moments gives off vibes of a very young Denzel Washington in the way he combines gentleness and toughness; he effortlessly draws the viewer in toward him. Diaz is vibrant as his patient and loyal girlfriend, while Spencer brings her gravitas to the proceedings as his stalwart mother."

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has praised the film as the "best film" of Sundance Film Festival 2013.

In writing for "The Village Voice", chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek called it "a restrained but forceful picture that captures some of the texture and detail of one human life" and praised first-time director Ryan Coogler, writing that he "dramatizes Oscar's last day by choosing "not" to dramatize it: The events unfold casually, without any particular scheme. And yet because we know how this story will end, there's a shivery, understated tension running beneath."

In his Sundance festival wrap-up, critic Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" said of "Fruitvale Station", "Made with assurance and quiet emotion, this unexpectedly devastating drama based on the real life 2009 shooting of an unarmed young black man at an Oakland Fruitvale Station of BART (San Francisco Bay Area Transit Fruitvale Station) impressed everyone as the work of an exceptional filmmaker."

In a more mixed review, Geoff Berkshire of "Variety" called it "a well-intentioned attempt to put a human face on the tragic headlines surrounding Oscar Grant." Though he praised Michael B. Jordan's performance, he critiqued the "relentlessly positive portrayal" of the film's subject: "Best viewed as an ode to victim's rights, "Fruitvale" forgoes nuanced drama for heart-tugging, head-shaking and rabble-rousing."

In a negative "New York Post" review and subsequent opinion piece in "Forbes", Kyle Smith accused Coogler of omitting key information and fabricating other scenes in order to manipulate viewers into a distorted impression of what happened.

The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2013:

"Fruitvale Station" was available in Digital HD via Anchor Bay on December 31, 2013. DVD and Blu-ray combo packs were released on January 14, 2014.

= = = Aphyle affinis = = =

Aphyle affinis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It found in the upper Amazon basin and Peru.

= = = Aphyle cuneata = = =

Aphyle cuneata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1905. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana and the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

= = = Aphyle flavicolor = = =

Aphyle flavicolor is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Talbot in 1928. It found in Brazil.

= = = Aphyle onorei = = =

Aphyle onorei is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Ecuador.

= = = Aphyle steinbachi = = =

Aphyle steinbachi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It found in Bolivia.

= = = Ocean (1808 ship) = = =

Ocean was built in 1808 at Whitby, England, that once carried settlers to South Africa and twice transported convicts to Australia.

"Ocean" appeared in the "Register of Shipping" ("RS") in 1809 with Barrick, master and owner, and trade Whitby–London.

"Lloyd's Register" ("LR") for 1818 showed "Ocean" with Remington, master, Attys, owner, and trade London–New South Wales. She had undergone a "good repair" in 1815.

Under the command of Samuel Remington she sailed from Spithead, England, on 21 August 1817, and arrived at Port Jackson on 10 January 1818. She transported 180 male convicts, none of whom died on the voyage.

"Ocean" left Port Jackson on 15 February bound for Batavia.

In 1820 "Ocean" carried settlers from England to South Africa under the British Government's 1820 Settlers scheme. Captain Davis sailed from London on 13 December 1819 with 206 settlers. "Ocean" arrived at Table Bay, Cape Town, on 29 March 1820, and Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, on 15 April.

Under the command of William Harrison, "Ocean" sailed from Portsmouth on 24 April 1823, and arrived at Port Jackson on 27 August 1823. She transported 173 male convicts, six of whom died on the voyage.

"Ocean" left Port Jackson in February 1824 bound for London. While en route she encountered a large gale and she lost her live stock overboard. She also rescued the 36-man crew of the whaler "Arab", before "Arab" sank. "Ocean" went to Saint Helena to undertake repairs and buy provisions. She arrived in London in 1825.

In 1828 her owners changed her registration to London. "Lloyd's Register" for 1829 still showed Atty as her owners. It gave her master as Dean, and her trade as London-Quebec. The "Register of Shipping" for 1830 showed her with Major, master, T.Ward, owner, and trade London–Sierra Leone.

However, the change of master and trade had changed in actuality in 1828. In late 1828 "Ocean", Major, master, carried the missionary William Munro to Sierra Leone, where he died a year or so later.

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= = = Apiconoma opposita = = =

Apiconoma opposita is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It found in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, French Guiana and Suriname.

= = = Larks, They Crazy = = =

Larks, They Crazy is the debut album of Robin Holcomb, released in 1989 through Sound Aspects Records.

= = = William B. Johnson (mathematician) = = =

William Buhmann Johnson (born December 5, 1944) is an American mathematician, one of the namesakes of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma. He is Distinguished Professor and A.G. & M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at Texas A&M University. His research specialties include the theory of Banach spaces, nonlinear functional analysis, and probability theory. He was born in Palo Alto, California and raised from an early age in Dallas, Texas.

Johnson graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1966, and earned a doctorate from Iowa State University in 1969 under the supervision of James A. Dyer. After faculty positions at the University of Houston, and Ohio State University, he joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1984.

In 2007, Johnson was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2018 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. His doctoral students include Edward Odell.

= = = Keith Raffel = = =

Keith Raffel (born 1951) is an American novelist, technology executive, university lecturer, and former United States Senate aide and political candidate. He is the author of five novels: "Dot Dead" (2006), "Smasher" (2009), "Drop By Drop: A Thriller" (2011), "A Fine and Dangerous Season" (2012), and "Temple Mount" (2014). After graduating from Harvard Law School, Raffel served as counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He returned to his home state of California in 1982, where he unsuccessfully ran for United States Congress. Raffel then embarked on business career in the technology sector. In 1996, he founded UpShot Corporation, a customer relationship management (CRM) software company that was a pioneer in cloud computing and was later acquired by Siebel Systems. From 2011 to 2013 Raffel served as senior vice president and chief commercial officer at Complete Genomics, a life sciences company that specializes in human genome sequencing and analysis. He is currently a resident scholar and lecturer at Harvard University.

Raffel was born in 1951, grew up in Palo Alto, California, and attended Palo Alto High School. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. He also earned a Master of Letters in modern history from the University of Oxford.

Raffel served as counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1977 to 1981. During this time Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (1978), the Classified Information Procedures Act (1980), and the Intelligence Oversight Act (1980). In 1982, Raffel ran for the Democratic Party nomination for the United States House of Representatives seat from California's 12th congressional district, which was vacated by incumbent Republican Pete McCloskey. Raffel was defeated in the primary election. The seat was eventually won by Republican Ed Zschau.

Raffel served in a number of executive roles with ROLM from 1982 to 1989 and with Echelon Corporation from 1989 to 1996. In 1996, he founded UpShot Corporation, a software company that delivered Internet-based customer relationship management and sales automation tools for businesses. UpShot was the first company in Silicon Valley to provide cloud computing solutions. Within two years, UpShot released its first product, and by 2003 the company provided services for small, midsize, and large organizations. UpShot competed with Salesforce.com for market share among large, Fortune 1000 companies. In July 2003, Salesforce.com filed a complaint against UpShot in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that advertising put out by Raffel's firm had violated state and federal laws pertaining to fair business competition. Raffel argued that his firm's ads were truthful, and noted that Salesforce.com had been aggressive in its advertising, particularly in targeting Siebel Systems. He was quoted as saying, "Salesforce suing over an ad is like the person who kills both his parents and then asks for mercy because he's an orphan."

In November 2003, Siebel Systems purchased UpShot for $70 million. Raffel then worked for Siebel until 2006, when it was purchased by Oracle Corporation. He remained with Oracle until 2008. At Siebel, Raffel served as group vice president of the company's OnDemand operation, where he oversaw a series of software upgrades and added features to provide social networking and market segmentation tools to his firm's customers. In June 2011 Raffel joined Complete Genomics as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. The life sciences company, based in the Mountain View, California, began operations in 2006, and provides sequencing and analysis of human genomic data. He left the company in June 2013 three months after it was purchased by the Chinese company, BGI-Shenzhen. Since September 2017, he has been at Harvard University where he serves as writer-in-residence in Mather House, a fellow at the Office of Career Services, and a lecturer at the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He will be co-teaching Eng-Sci-28, “Technology, Ethics, and Society” in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.

Raffel's first novel, "Dot Dead", was published in 2006 by Midnight Ink, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide of Woodbury, Minnesota. The murder mystery is set in Silicon Valley, and centers on Ian Michaels, a young technology executive. Michaels discovers his housekeeper, Gwendolyn Goldberg, dead on his bed when he returns home one day, and is suspected of her murder. "The New York Times" called "Dot Dead" "a murder mystery worthy of a Steve Jobs keynote presentation". Raffel followed up with his second novel in 2009, entitled "Smasher", which was also published by Midnight Ink. "Smasher" continues the story of Ian Michaels as he defends his company from a potential takeover, investigates the work of his aunt at Stanford University's physics department, and protects his wife—a deputy district attorney—from a mysterious threat.

Raffel's third novel, "Drop By Drop: A Thriller", was published in 2011. The story's main character is Sam Rockman, a history professor at Stanford, who loses his wife in a bombing at San Francisco International Airport. Rockman reunites with a United States Senator for whom he had worked before graduate school, and is appointed to the Senate's Intelligence Committee to investigate the terrorist attack.

Raffel's fourth novel, "A Fine and Dangerous Season", was self-published in September 2012 and republished by Thomas & Mercer, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, in November 2013. The work of historical fiction is set during the Cuban Missile Crisis and is centered upon Nathan Michaels, a salesman for Hewlett-Packard who knew President Kennedy two decades earlier during their time at Stanford. Kennedy enlists Michaels to use his connections to a KGB agent to communicate with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and resolve the international crisis. Reviews of "Drop By Drop" and "A Fine and Dangerous Season" have noted Raffel's professional experience in Washington, D.C. and the verisimilitude with which he portrayed the workings of the government in his novels.

Raffel raised the funds to publish and publicize his fifth novel via a Kickstarter campaign where he crowd-sourced comments, edits, and suggestions. Maris Kreizman of Kickstarter commented, "It was the first time I'd come across a project in which an author specifically solicited editorial feedback from backers…. This was a creative way to invite his audience in closer." In November 2014, Raffel’s novel "Temple Mount" was published. In it, high tech entrepreneur Alex Kalman rushes to his dying grandfather’s bedside and finds himself promising to find the Ark of the Covenant, missing for over 2,500 years. In Israel, Kalman picks up a partner in his quest—archeologist Rivka Golan. Within days they are targeted by a sniper, chased through the streets of Jerusalem by a bulldozer, interrogated by Israeli intelligence, and trapped in a tunnel under Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

= = = Reza Rahadian = = =

Reza Rahadian Matulessy (born 5 March 1987) better known as Reza Rahadian is an Indonesian actor who rose to prominence following his role in Perempuan Berkalung Sorban or "(Woman with a Turban"). Born in Bogor, he took up acting while in senior high school and made his feature film debut in 2004. Since receiving his first Piala Citra (Citra Award) in 2009, he has acted in over a dozen films, ranging from comedies and romances to dramas and biopics.

In 2004 he was crowned Top Guest, an award for models, by the Indonesian variety magazine "Aneka", although he was never a professional model. Instead, he considered modelling as a way to help him become an actor. Through the coverage he received from his modelling career, Rahadian was cast in several "sinetron" (Indonesian soap operas), including "Culunnya Pacarku" and "Idola". He made his film debut in 2007, with the horror-comedy "Film Horor"; the following year he acted in another horror film, "Ghost Island 2".

Rahadian made his first critically acclaimed film in 2009, when he acted in Hanung Bramantyo's "Woman with a Turban"; he had become weary of acting in horror films. Although he had initially auditioned for a minor character, Bramantyo chose Rahadian for a larger role – of Samsuddin, the main character Anissa (Revalina S. Temat)'s abusive, polygamous husband. He acted in another four films that year, including three comedies.

The following year Rahadian acted in four films, including "3 Hati Dua Dunia, Satu Cinta" and "How Funny (This Country Is)". The former film, which dealt with interfaith romance, won a Citra Award for Best Film at the 2010 Indonesian Film Festival, while the latter was Indonesia's nomination to the 83rd Academy Awards.

In 2011 Rahadian acted in four films. This included the role of Tudo, a dolphin expert, in Kamila Andini's directorial debut "The Mirror Never Lies"; for the role he had to study about dolphins at Ancol in North Jakarta. Aside from acting he directed a short film, entitled "Sebelah" ("A Side").

Rahadian played in six films in 2012. For "BrokenHearts", in which he played as an anorexic, he lost to prepare for his role. Later he acted in "Perahu Kertas" and its sequel, adapted from the novel of the same name by Dewi Lestari; Rahadian played Remi, a businessman who becomes romantic foil for the leading character. Writing for "The Jakarta Post", Niken Prathivi found that Rahadian had performed well "as expected", showing a mental struggle between love and business.

At the end of 2012 Rahadian played former president B.J. Habibie in Faozan Rizal's biopic "Habibie & Ainun", which followed the romance between Habibie and his future wife Ainun (played by Bunga Citra Lestari). In a review, Prathivi wrote that Rahadian had given a "flawless" representation of the former president and his mannerisms.

In 2017, Reza reunited as a couple with Adinia Wirasti in .

= = = Richard Kollmar = = =

Richard Tompkins "Dick" Kollmar (December 31, 1910 – January 7, 1971) was an American stage, radio, film and television actor, television personality and Broadway producer. Kollmar was the husband of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.

Kollmar was born in Brooklyn, New York to John and Christine L. (née Smith) Kollmar. His great-great grandfather was Daniel D. Tompkins, the fourth Governor of New York and the sixth Vice President of the United States. The Kollmars moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey where John Kollmar worked as an architect. Kollmar later attended Tusculum College where he became interested in acting. While in college, he performed in the school's glee club and was the editor of the school newspaper. Upon graduation, he enrolled at the Yale School of Drama but dropped out after winning a role on a radio drama.

After moving to New York City and getting steady work on radio commercials, Kollmar appeared in the Broadway musicals "Knickerbocker Holiday" (1938) and "Too Many Girls" (1939). The cast of "Too Many Girls" included 22-year-old singer-actor Desi Arnaz. More than 35 years later, after Kollmar's death, Arnaz's memoir was published in which he said he and Kollmar had become close friends during the run of their musical show.

In the early 1940s, Kollmar portrayed the role of Dennis Pierce on the radio series "Pretty Kitty Kelly" on CBS Radio. From 1945 to 1950, Kollmar portrayed the role of Boston Blackie on the radio program of the same name on the Mutual Radio Network. He also had lead roles in other radio shows including the soap opera "Bright Horizon", "Gang Busters" and "Grand Central Station".

Kollmar tried his hand at producing a Broadway musical in 1943 when he helped launch "Early to Bed". Its songs were composed by jazz pianist/popular song composer Fats Waller. Kollmar's role in introducing Waller's music to New York theatergoers was recalled in a 2016 essay about Waller by John McWhorter, an American academic and linguist who is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he teaches linguistics, American studies, philosophy, and music history. (He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations.)Even as late as 1943, the idea of a black composer writing the score for a standard-issue white show was unheard of. When Broadway performer and producer Richard Kollmar began planning "Early to Bed", his original idea was for Waller to perform in it as a comic character, not to write the music. Waller was, after all, as much a comedian as a musician. Comedy rarely dates well, but almost 80 years later, his comments and timing during “Your Feet's Too Big” are as funny as anything on Comedy Central, and he nearly walks away with the movie "Stormy Weather" with just one musical scene and a bit of mugging later on, despite the competition of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Lena Horne, and the Nicholas Brothers.

Kollmar's original choice for composer [of "Early to Bed"] was Ferde Grofé, best known as the orchestrator of George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue,” whose signature compositions were portentous concert suites. But Grofé withdrew, and it is to Kollmar's credit that he realized that he had a top-rate pop-song composer available in Waller. Waller's double duty as composer and performer was short-lived. During a cash crisis and in an advanced state of intoxication, Waller threatened to leave the production unless Kollmar bought the rights to his Early to Bed music for $1,000. (This was typical of Waller, who often sold melodies for quick cash when in his cups. The evidence suggests, for example, that the standards “I Can't Give You Anything but Love” and “On the Sunny Side of the Street” were Waller tunes.) Waller came to his senses the next day, but Kollmar decided that his drinking habits made him too risky a proposition for eight performances a week. From then on, Waller was the show's composer only, with lyrics by George Marion, whose best-remembered work today is the script for the Astaire-Rogers film "The Gay Divorcée".

In April 1945, Kollmar and columnist wife Dorothy Kilgallen (whom he married in April 1940) began hosting a 45-minute breakfast radio show called "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick". The program aired Monday through Friday on WOR and was broadcast from the couple's 16-room apartment at 630 Park Avenue in Manhattan. Over breakfast, served by their butler Julius who eventually was replaced by an African-American named James Clement, the couple talked about New York City entertainment, celebrity gossip and the city's nightclub scene. The couple sometimes chatted on the radio airwaves with sports figures; Friday morning, May 9, 1947 was one such occasion. The couple's two children, Richard, Jr. ("Dickie") and Jill, often made appearances.

"Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick" was broadcast locally throughout New York City and its suburbs, drawing an audience of 20 million listeners. In 1952, the Kollmar family moved from their Park Avenue apartment to a townhouse at 45 East 68th Street, and the show began originating from there. "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick" ceased production on March 21, 1963.

On April 11, 1945, Kollmar began playing the lead role in the nationally syndicated radio series “Boston Blackie." He worked on the series from April 11, 1945 to October 25, 1950. His fellow cast members included Jan Miner as Blackie's girlfriend, Mary, and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

In 1948, Kollmar made his first and only film appearance in the 1948 low-budget crime drama "Close-Up", directed by Jack Donohue. In June 1949, he began hosting the live television variety series "Broadway Spotlight". The series, which aired on NBC, was canceled in September 1949. Throughout the early to mid-1950s, Kollmar continued his career as an actor with guest roles on network television. In 1952, he became the master of ceremonies of "Guess What" (American game show) on the DuMont Television Network. It was telecast from July 8 to August 26, 1952, then was canceled, and no kinescopes were preserved. From 1952 to 1965, Kollmar made five appearances on the game show "What's My Line?", on which his wife was a regular panelist. Kollmar appeared once as an occupational guest, twice as part of a group of mystery guests and twice as a panelist. The episode that aired live on July 6, 1952, first of his five appearances, was lost due to wiping, but the other four are available for viewing.

In addition to his work in radio and television, Kollmar produced and directed several Broadway stage plays. He produced his first Broadway show, "By Jupiter", in June 1944. In May 1944, he produced and directed the fantasy musical "Dream With Music". The production starred ballerina Vera Zorina and was written by Kollmar's wife Dorothy, Sidney Sheldon and Ben Roberts. The musical was praised for its ballet sequences, but received largely poor reviews. It closed after 28 performances.

Kollmar fared better with his next two productions, "Are You With It?" and "Plain and Fancy", both of which were hits.

In 1958, Kollmar produced "The Body Beautiful", a musical about prize fighters starring Steve Forrest, singers Lonnie Sattin and Barbara McNair (in their Broadway debuts), Mindy Carson and Jack Warden. He hired two newcomers, lyricist Sheldon Harnick and composer Jerry Bock, the team who would go on to write the lyrics and music for the hit shows "Fiddler on the Roof", "She Loves Me", and "Fiorello!". "The Body Beautiful" made its debut on January 23, 1958, and reviews were generally mixed. However, more influential critics panned the show and the music (though two songs, "All of These and More" and "Summer Is", became standards) with one critic from "The New Yorker" calling the show "vulgar and feeble minded in equal degrees." "The Body Beautiful" failed to attract an audience and closed in March 1958, after 60 performances. It was the last show Kollmar would produce.

When not active in acting and producing, Kollmar operated a New York City supper club called The Left Bank, located at 309 West 50th Street in Manhattan. The 1965 obituary for his wife Dorothy Kilgallen in Jet (magazine) said The Left Bank, which was no longer in business, had been ahead of its time with featuring African-American performers in a midtown Manhattan setting. Kollmar was also involved in the arts community, working with the Art Students League of New York and operating an art gallery in midtown Manhattan.

Kollmar was married twice and had three children. On April 6, 1940, he married columnist Dorothy Kilgallen at the St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan. The couple had three children: Richard, Jr. (born 1941), Jill (born 1943), and Kerry (born 1954). They remained married until Kilgallen's death in November 1965.

In June 1967, Kollmar married fashion designer Anne Fogarty to whom he remained married until his death.