Fallopia multiflora (Chinese Knotweed; Chinese: 何首乌; hé shǒu wū) is a species of Fallopia native to central and southern China.
It is also known as Polygonum multiflorum, and is predominantly referred to as such in Pubmed.
It is a herbaceous perennial vine growing to 2–4 m tall from a woody tuber. The leaves are 3–7 cm long and 2–5 cm broad, broad arrowhead-shaped, with an entire margin. The flowers are 6–7 mm diameter, white or greenish-white, produced on short, dense panicles up to 10–20 cm long in summer to mid autumn. The fruit is an achene 2.5–3 mm long.
It is also used in Chinese medicine.
Sarah Mary Kennedy MBE (born 8 July 1950 in East Grinstead, West Sussex) is a British TV and radio broadcaster. She presented her own daily early morning radio show, The Dawn Patrol, on BBC Radio 2 from 1993, before announcing her decision to leave the show on 3 September, 2010.
Kennedy was honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005, when she was awarded the MBE for services to broadcasting.
Sarah Kennedy was born in West Sussex. Her father was a stockbroker and her mother a nurse. She grew up in East Grinstead. She studied for two years at drama school, becoming a drama teacher. She was a Matron at Copthorne Prep School.
In her twenties she married a member of the armed forces. She has a partner, Eton-educated Adrian McGlynn, a director of horseracing's administrators, Weatherbys, whom she refers to as her "much beloved". He became a popular character in the show. He is sixteen years younger than Kennedy. They met at the wedding of Desmond Morris's son, where McGlynn was best man. They reside in Bedfordshire although Kennedy has an apartment in a converted school building in London.
Seth Woobury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, comedian, producer, director and singer. He created the animated sitcom Family Guy and co-created American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.
A native of Kent, Connecticut, MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for several television shows, including Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory and I Am Weasel, before creating his own series for 20th Century Fox entitled Family Guy in 1999. MacFarlane went on to co-create American Dad! in 2005, and The Cleveland Show in 2009 for Fox. He also went on to serve as executive producer on the Fox sitcom The Winner.
As an actor, he has made guest appearances on shows such as Gilmore Girls, The War at Home and FlashForward. MacFarlane's interest in science fiction and fantasy has led to cameo and guest appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise and voicing the character of Johann Kraus in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In 2008, he created his own YouTube series entitled Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. As a singer, MacFarlane has performed at several venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
Plot
Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself.
Keywords: aunt-niece-relationship, baklava, baptism, blockbuster, bride, brother-sister-relationship, bundt-cake, camera, chicago-illinois, chick-flick
Love is here to stay... so is her family.
Aunt Voula: What do you mean he don't eat no meat? [the entire room stops, in shock] Oh, that's okay. I make lamb.
Maria Portokalos: Toula, on my wedding night, my mother, she said to me, "Greek women, we may be lambs in the kitchen, but we are tigers in the bedroom."::Toula Portokalos: Eww. Please let that be the end of your speech.
Angelo: Hey Ian, we're gonna kill ya! Opa!
Toula Portokalos: [Pointing to Ian's bruised nose] What happened? Biker fight? nose job? What?::Ian Miller: Uh... yeah.::Toula Portokalos: No, really.::Ian Miller: You don't want to know.::Toula Portokalos: Oh I don't know. If I had survived an old lady ass-kicking I would want to brag about it.
Maria Portokalos: Nicko! Don't play with the food! When I was your age, we didn't have food!
Gus Portokalos: You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word "milo," which is mean "apple," so there you go. As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word "portokali," which mean "orange." So, okay? Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit.
Toula Portokalos: When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blonde and delicate, and I was a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns.
Toula Portokalos: I had to go to Greek school, where I learned valuable lessons such as, "If Nick has one goat and Maria has nine, how soon will they marry?"
Gus Portokalos: There are two kinds of people - Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek.
Harriet Miller: How are we supposed to know what's going on?::Rodney Miller: It's all Greek to me.