A Russian medal awarded for diligence and zeal

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Diligence is steadfast application, assiduousness and industry—the virtue of hard work rather than the sin of careless sloth. It is one of the Seven Heavenly Virtues.

Diligent behaviour is indicative of a work ethic — a belief that work is good in itself.^[1]

Diligence in students[link]

Diligence in students is correlated with academic performance. This is especially found in younger students. The support of parents is significant in encouraging students to be diligent.^[2] Other factors which encourage diligence in students include discipline, concentration, conformity and spirituality.^[3]

Due diligence[link]

Due diligence is the necessary amount of diligence required in a professional activity to avoid being negligent. This commonly arises in major acquisitions where the legal principle of caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) requires the purchaser to make a diligent survey of the property or service.^[4]

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v t e Emotions (list) Emotions Adoration Affection Agony Awe Amusement Anger Anguish Annoyance Anxiety Arousal Attraction Caring Compassion Contempt Contentment Defeat Dejection Depression Desire Despair Disappointment Disgust Ecstasy Embarrassment Empathy Enthrallment Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Excitement Fear Frustration Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Homesickness Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Hysteria Infatuation Insecurity Insult Interest Irritation Isolation Jealousy Loneliness Longing Love Lust Melancholy Neglect Optimism Panic Passion Pity Pleasure Pride Rage Regret Rejection Remorse Resentment Sadness Sentimentality Shame Shock Sorrow Spite Suffering Surprise Sympathy Tenseness Thrill Revenge Wonder Worry Diligence Zest Worldviews Compatibilism Existentialism Fatalism Incompatibilism Metaphysics Nihilism Optimism Pessimism Reclusion Social justice Weltschmerz Source: Parrott, W. (2001), Emotions in Social Psychology, Psychology Press, Philadelphia.

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Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. is an American Bible teacher, pastor, and the founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International based in Fulton County, Georgia.^[1] Creflo Dollar Ministerial Association (formerly called International Covenant Ministries), Creflo Dollar Ministries, and Arrow Records.^[2] Each of these enterprises is overseen by Dollar and his wife, Taffi Dollar.

Biography[link]

In 1984, Dollar received a Bachelor of Science degree in education from West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia.^[3] He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Oral Roberts University in 1998.^[4]

Dollar indicates that he received the vision for World Changers Ministries Christian Center in 1986.^[5] He held the church's first worship service in the cafeteria of Kathleen Mitchell Elementary School in College Park, Georgia, with only eight people in attendance and successfully receiving over $100 in contributions from those present. Over the years the ministry has grown rapidly and was renamed World Changers Church International (WCCI). As of 2007, the congregation has grown to 30,000 members with $69 million in revenue (gross cash collections) for 2006.^[6] The congregation moved from its original cafeteria location to a modest-sized chapel, adding a weekly radio broadcast and four services each Sunday. On December 24, 1995, WCCI moved into its present location, the 8,500-seat sanctuary known as the World Dome. At a cost of nearly $18 million, it is claimed that the World Dome was built without any bank financing.^[7]

Dollar is also the publisher of CHANGE magazine, a quarterly international publication with nearly 100,000 subscribers and The Max, a bimonthly resource newsletter for ministers and ministry leaders.^[8] Creflo Dollar also frequently speaks at conferences and is a best selling author.^[9][10][11] Dollar and his wife, Taffi, have five children and live in Atlanta.^[12]

Controversy[link]

Dollar is known for his controversial teachings of Prosperity theology.^[9] He has been criticized for his lavish lifestyle as he owns two Rolls-Royces, a private jet, a million dollar home in Atlanta, and a 2.5 million dollar home in Manhattan.^[9] Dollar has refused to disclose his salary and Creflo Dollar Ministries received a grade of "F" for financial transparency by the organization MinistryWatch.^[9][13]

Dollar was subpoenaed during divorce proceedings between heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield and Holyfield's second wife, Janice Itson, after Itson alleged that Holyfield had donated $7 million to Dollar's ministry just before he filed for divorce.^[14] Dollar refused to yield his financial records, but avoided contempt of court charges when the divorce was settled out of court.^{[citation needed]}

Senate investigation[link]

On November 6, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced an investigation of several ministries by the United States Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley asked for financial information to determine whether Dollar made any personal profit from financial donations and requested that Dollar's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007. The investigation also asked for information from five other televangelists: Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, and Paula White.^[15]

On March 16, 2009, Grassley, now only an individual Senator on the committee, stated "My staff and I continue to review the information we’ve received from the ministries that cooperated, and we continue to weigh our options for the ministries that have not cooperated," noting that two of the ministries, Benny Hinn and Joyce Meyer, gave full financial disclosure. Dollar has contested the probe, arguing that the proper governmental entity to examine religious groups is the IRS, not the Committee on Finance.^[16]

The Wittenburg Door writes, 11/8/2007, "Creflo Dollar is one of six televangelists who has gotten letters from the Senate Finance Committee asking them to send in detailed accounting statements proving they are not converting church money to their personal use. Creflo Dollar is the pastor of World Changers Church International of College Park, Georgia. Presumably he chose that name himself, completely free of fear that it would be soon be better known as Money Changers Church International by the 30,000 members who weekly enrich its coffers and make it possible for Creflo to maintain the two jets—one Gulfstream 3 and one Lear—that he uses to shuttle back and forth between Madison Square Garden (where he does a Saturday night service for an audience of 6,000) and Atlanta (where he does a Sunday morning service), not to mention occasional visits to his offices in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Nigeria. Creflo's wife Taffi Dollar—and here we remind you once again that we are not lapsing into fiction at any point during the creation of this article—Taffi Dollar is responsible for the household budget at the $3 million Dollar mansion in Atlanta, and the more modest $2.44 million Dollar condo overlooking Central Park in Manhattan. Asked about the Dollar dollars by CBS News yesterday, Dollar said it was untrue that he had two Rolls-Royces; he claimed that he only had one Rolls-Royce and it was given to him by his congregation as a surprise. He also said he did not give $500,000 of church funds to fellow prosperity gospel evangelist Kenneth Copeland on the occasion of Copeland's 40th wedding anniversary. Accordingly, Dollar's annual budget for his operation was estimated at "about 80 million"(citation needed).

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External links[link]

	Atlanta portal
	Biography portal

• Official Biography
• Creflo Dollar Ministries homepage
• World Changers Church International homepage
• World Changers Church-New York homepage
• Creflo Dollar Sermons Delivered at Kenneth Copeland Believers Conventions
• National Public Radio story
• Copy of Senator Grassley's letter to Creflo Dollar

André Claveau at the Eurovision Song Contest 1958

André Claveau (17 December 1915, Paris – 4 July 2003, Brassac) was a popular singer in France from the 1940s to the 1960s.

He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep my love) with music composed by Pierre Delanoë and lyrics by Hubert Giraud.

Songography[link]

• "Dors mon amour"

Filmography[link]

• Le Destin s'amuse
• Les Vagabonds du rêve
• Coeur-sur-Mer
• Pas de vacances pour Monsieur le Maire (1951)
• Le Huitième Art et la Manière (1952)
• Les Surprises d'une nuit de noces
• Un jour avec vous
• Rires de Paris
• Saluti e baci
• French Cancan
• Prisonniers de la brousse

External links[link]

• André Claveau at the Internet Movie Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Corry Brokken with "Net als toen"	Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1958	Succeeded by Teddy Scholten with "Een beetje"
Preceded by Paule Desjardins with "La belle amour"	France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958	Succeeded by Jean Philippe with "Oui, oui, oui, oui"

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