Fred

Fred may refer to:

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Television and movies

Fred (footballer)

Frederico Chaves Guedes (born 3 October 1983), known as Fred (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈfɾɛd(ʒ)i]), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker and captains Brazilian Série A club Fluminense.

Fred began his career at América Mineiro before transferring to local rivals Cruzeiro in 2004. After two seasons there, he moved to Lyon of France in a protracted transfer saga, and won three consecutive Ligue 1 titles. He made his international debut for Brazil in 2005 and was selected for the 2006 World Cup, and was also part of their victories at the 2007 Copa América and the 2013 Confederations Cup. Since 2009, Fred has played for Fluminense, where he won two Campeonato Brasileiro Série A titles in 2 years (2010 and 2012) and Campeonato Carioca (2012 – scoring in final).

Fred scored one of the fastest goals in professional football history while playing for América Mineiro, against Vila Nova during a Copa São Paulo de Juniores match. The goal was scored 3.17 seconds after the match started.

Fred (2014 film)

Fred is a 2014 American documentary film that chronicles the 2012 presidential campaign of the first openly gay candidate, Fred Karger. Fred premiered at the Monadnock International Film Festival on April 4, 2014.

Background

Director John Fitzgerald Keitel followed the Fred Karger Presidential campaign for more than two years as it crisscrossed the country. Keitel had documented Karger's efforts to save the Boom Boom Room, a historic gay bar in Laguna Beach, California. The award winning documentary Saving the Boom. Keitel captured hundreds of hours of campaigning and tied this together by interviewing young gay activists, like Belinda Carlisle's son James Duke Mason, about how Karger's campaign changed their lives.

Synopsis

In 2009, Karger launched his presidential campaign at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Over the next two and a half years, Fred shows one man's struggle to bring his and his community's voice into the Republican presidential primary. Fred captures Karger qualifying for a Fox News Debate and for CPAC, but being excluded from these.

Amata

Amata (also called Palanto), in Roman mythology, was the wife of King Latinus of the Latins. She and Latinus had a daughter Lavinia, and no sons.

When the hero Aeneas sued for Lavinia's hand in marriage, Amata opposed him because she had already promised Lavinia to Aeneas' nemesis Turnus. At the same time, she was instigated by Alecto, who acted according to the request of the goddess Juno.

Hiding her daughter in the woods and arousing the womenfolk of the Latins, managed to stir up the war between the people of King Mezentius, the Etruscans (now allied with Turnus) and Aeneas' Trojans (allied with King Evander's people and the Aborigines). This story fills the greater part of the seventh book of Virgil's Aeneid. When Amata was informed that Turnus had fallen in battle, she hanged herself.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Amata". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

Amata (moth)

Amata is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family.

Selected species

1035 Amata

1035 Amata, provisional designation 1924 SW, is a large, carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 51 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany on 29 September 1924.

The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.5–3.8 AU once every 5 years and 7 months (2,042 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.19 and an inclination of 18 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic.

In 2002, a photometric light-curve analysis by American amateur astronomer Robert Stevens at the Santana Observatory (646) in California rendered a rotation period of 7000908100000000000♠9.081±0.001 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.44 in magnitude (U=3). In the same month, another observation was made at the Oakley Observatory in the U.S. state of Indiana and gave a very similar period of 7000905000000000000♠9.05±0.01 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.32 in magnitude (U=2).

According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's WISE with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has a low albedo in the range of 0.038 to 0.052 and a diameter between 50.7 and 62.2 kilometers. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derived a diameter of 50.7 kilometers and an albedo of 0.057.