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Belarusians
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Belarusians are an East Slavic ethnic group. Most live in Belarus, and smaller communities live in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Lithuania, Moldova, and others. According to population census of 2019, there were 7,990,719 Belarusians in Belarus. About 600,000 Americans have Belarusian ancestry.
Language.
About 70% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while only 26% speak Belarusian at home.
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Douglas MacArthur
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General Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 - April 5, 1964) was an American general who served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Forces under his command twice suffered large defeats.
In 1941, he became Commander of United States Army forces in the Far East. From December 1941 to April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army conquered the Philippines. He fled but later returned, led an army, and liberated the country from Japan.
In 1950, he led United Nations forces in Korea. China defeated them at the Battle of Chosin of Reservoir, in North Korea. After he made several comments towards superiors that questioned their actions, he was relieved from command in April 1951 by President Harry S. Truman. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1880 and died in Washington, D.C., in 1964.
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Twitter
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Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is a social networking and microblogging service. Users of any device with an internet connection and a web browser can send and read messages, called "tweets", on X. For years, tweets could be up to 140 characters long, then doubled to 280 characters in November 2017. Tweets appear on the user's profile webpage. Tweets can usually be read by anyone, but senders can also keep messages private. Private tweets only go to their list of friends. Users may subscribe to tweets from other people. This is called "following", and subscribers are known as "followers". As of late 2009, users can also follow lists of authors.
All users can send and receive tweets using the X website. They can also use other applications that work with X on smartphones. Twitter by Short Message Service (SMS) is available in certain countries. Using X is free, but sending or getting tweets by SMS may cost money. The website is based in San Francisco, California. X also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts, and soon in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As Twitter, the service became very popular worldwide since Jack Dorsey created it in 2006. It had more than 126 million active users as of 2019. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".
On April 25, 2022, the Twitter board of directors agreed to Elon Musk's US$44 billion offer to buy the company. On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk took control of the company and fired CEO Parag Agarwal along with other top executives.
History.
Twitter started at a podcasting company Odeo. The company board members had a "daylong brainstorming session". During the meeting, Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of one person using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. At first, they called this project "twttr". It fit the five-character length of American SMS short codes and sounded like "Flickr". At first, the developers planned to use "10958" as a short code. Later they changed it to "40404" because it was easier to remember and type. Dorsey sent the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) March 21, 2006. The first tweet was, "just setting up my twttr."
The first version of Twitter was only for Odeo employees to use. They opened the full version for anyone to use on July 15, 2006. In October 2006, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey, and other members of Odeo started a new company called Obvious Corporation. Obvious Corporation bought Odeo and all of its property–including Odeo.com and Twitter.com–from the investors and shareholders. Twitter became its own separate company in April 2007.
Twitter started becoming very popular after the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. The Twitter company set up two very large computer screens in the hallways at the conference. These screens only showed Twitter messages. Hundreds of people at the conference checked on what each other were doing by looking at the many tweets. Panelists and speakers talked about Twitter. Bloggers at SXSW described it to others in a very positive way.
Reaction at the festival was very good. Blogger Scott Beale said that Twitter "absolutely rul[ed]" SXSW. Social software researcher Danah Boyd said Twitter "own[ed]" the festival. Twitter staff won the festival's Web Award prize. They said, "we'd like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!"
On September 14, 2010, Twitter changed the site design and added a new logo. On June 5, 2012, the Twitter logo was modified slightly and the text in the Twitter logo was removed.
On October 4, 2010, Evan Williams announced that he would not be CEO any more. Dick Costolo became the new CEO. He had been COO of Twitter. Williams will stay with the company and work on plans for the future of Twitter.
In April 2022, Elon Musk became the company's owner after buying it for USD $44 billion.
On July 24, 2023, Musk announced that he was changing the name of Twitter to X. He replaced the blue bird logo with an X.
On October 27, 2023, X (formerly Twitter) introduced new Premium subscription tiers: Basic, Premium, and Premium+, offering features like editing posts, verification, reduced ads, ad revenue sharing, and an ad-free experience.
Overview.
Technology author Steven Johnson described the basic way Twitter works. He called it "remarkably simple." Following is an important part of Twitter as a social network. Users' Twitter home pages show all of the tweets from people they follow. The tweets appear from newest to oldest. Johnson said:
People who use Twitter.
In 2009, Twitter was mainly used by older adults who might not have used other social sites before Twitter. Jeremiah Owyang studies social media. He said, "Adults are just catching up to what teens have been doing for years." Only 11% of Twitter's users were 12 to 17 years old in September 2009. This may be because Twitter first gained popularity in businesses and news media that attract more older people. Many famous people such as Shaq, Britney Spears, and Ashton Kutcher are Twitter users.
In June 2009, more women than men used Twitter—53% women; 47% men. Only 5% of users made 75% of all tweets. Also, New York City had the most Twitter users.
This is a brief summary of Twitter users in September 3, 2009.
The United States has the most Twitter users, followed by Japan, India and Brazil.
African Americans are more likely to use Twitter more than any other racial group.
Popularity.
Twitter is one of the 10 most visited websites in the world. It had more than 100 million users as of April 2010. At the start of February 2019, Twitter had 126 million users who used the service daily.
Logging in.
People can use software from other companies to access Twitter. These programs are called "third-party applications". The Twitter company changed the way this works on August 31, 2010. Now applications must use OAuth to connect to Twitter. This method means that users do not have to give their passwords to the third-party applications. Changing the login system to OAuth did cause some problems. Using OAuth had been optional and programs used to be able to ask for usernames and passwords. However, now third-party applications that try to use a username and password do not work at all. The Twitter company said that using OAuth will give users "increased security and a better experience."
Technology.
Interface.
On April 30, 2009, Twitter changed the way it looks on the web. They added a search bar and a space on the right side of the page with "Trending Topics". That space shows the most common phrases appearing in messages. Biz Stone explained that all messages are instantly indexed and explained the results of the change. The Trending Topics has made Twitter something "unexpectedly important — a discovery engine for finding out what is happening right now."
Service problems.
Sometimes Twitter users experience a problem with the service and cannot access the website. They cannot read or write tweets but only see the "Fail Whale" image created by Yiying Lu,
Twitter worked well approximately 98% of the time in 2007. That is about six full days of no service. The problems were particularly noticeable during events popular with the technology industry such as the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo keynote address.
Open source.
Twitter developed several software projects to improve their own service. The company shared these as open source software. Some of these software projects are related to databases, such as the Gizzard Scala framework and a distributed graph database called FlockDB.
t.co.
t.co is a service created by Twitter to make URLs shorter. It can only be used for links that people post to Twitter. It is not available for other uses. Eventually all links on Twitter will use t.co. The company hopes that the service will protect users from harmful websites. They will also use it to keep a record of people clicking on links in tweets.
History of t.co.
Twitter had used the services from other sites such as TinyURL and bit.ly. They began trying their own way of making URLs shorter for direct messages in March 2010. They used the domain, twt.tl, before they bought the t.co domain.
The company is using these accounts to test the service on the main site: @TwitterAPI, @rsarver, and @raffi.
On September 2, 2010, Twitter sent an email message to users to explain that they were starting to open the service to them.
Other.
Twitter can also be used as an amateur and professional news source.
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Microblog
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A microblog is a form of a blog where people send short messages of text or media (pictures, video, or sounds). These messages can be sent to a website and shown to either a small group or to the public. A "microblogger" (someone who uses a microblog) could send their messages from different sources including cell phone text messages, email, instant messages or through a website.
A microblog is usually different from a normal blog. It has much smaller pieces. A microblog entry can be just one sentence, or a link to an image or short video. A person writing a microblog can use many ideas from "what am I doing now," to Race cars or politics or information about their business or personal life.
Services.
Micro blogs are in use in many ways on different websites. They became popular with sites like Twitter where people send messages to each other with text comments or links to other media. Newer sites are also available now which allow you to share media like videos, pictures or sounds directly instead of sending a link.
Many social networking sites (such as Facebook or MySpace) use a type of microblogging using "status updates" where the person tells their friends what they are thinking or doing.
Usage.
A Harvard Business School study found that while most social networking websites are more popular with women microblogging, like Twitter, has been much more popular with men. Both men and women "followed" more men, this allows them to receive the messages that get sent out by the person they followed.
Micro blogs have also become new sources for news that just happened or is still happening, such as the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in November 2008.
Microblogging at work.
A new idea for Micro blogging has been to turn it into a way to talk to other people about work. It allows a person to give quick news or information to the people they work without sending a lot of emails and without the spam they get in their email account. New companies such as Yammer have been started who want to help allow workers to talk to each other with about work and share what they need.
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Clarkson University
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Clarkson University is a four-year university in . It was created in 1896 in Memory of Thomas S. Clarkson. Clarkson allows students to pursue bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees. As of 2025, Clarkson has the following schools and institutes: the David D. Reh School of Business, Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Earl R. and Barbara D. Lewis School of Health and Life Sciences, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and Institute for STEM Education.
Clarkson has a mascot known as The Golden Knight, and the sports teams are known as the Golden Knights. The school colors for the university are green and gold.
It is known for its Business and Engineering majors.
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Omegle
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Omegle was a website that allows one to talk with one person anonymously and randomly without signing up. The nicknames that are used are "You" and "Stranger". It was started in late March 2009 by an eighteen-year-old, Leif K-Brooks, who lives in Vermont.
On November 8, 2023, Leif K-Brooks announced Omegle's shutdown, attributing it to insurmountable challenges and highlighting his efforts to maintain user safety amidst growing misuse and societal fear.
Features.
The website has started using a lot of new things in the chat. One thing is that people can chat using webcams. Another feature of Omegle (which has since been removed from the website) was that one person could ask something while watching two other strangers discussing it. Usually, the asker couldn’t talk, but they could watch them discuss the question. You can also type in common interests, these will only connect you to people who have the same interests.
Criticism.
The website does not ban users because of their age. A user may experience nudity or sexual content on camera. K-Brooks says, that at one time, he felt "disappointment" at the way in which the site has been used. Since 2013, Omegle has monitored the video chats. There is a moderated video section and an unmoderated video section. The unmoderated video section is for adults who are 18 and over. The moderated video section is for everyone. If someone is seen naked on the moderated video section, they will be banned and only be able to use the unmoderated section.
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Kowloon Walled City
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Kowloon Walled City was a tiny Chinese enclave in Hong Kong.
It was a military fort for hundreds of years, but later became a very dense settlement. In 1980, the city had about 35,000 people on about 20,000 m² of land, making it one of the most densely populated places on earth. It was torn down in 1993, and a park called Kowloon Walled City Park was built in 1994.
The area where Kowloon Walled City was located is now called Kowloon City. It is part of the Kowloon City District of Kowloon, Hong Kong. At the end of the whole destruction process of the Kowloon Walled City, 51% of people had to go to temporary housing just outside the walled city. When they destroyed the walled city it was hard to destroy all the walled city's machinery. The walled city was known for its brothels, dentists, and opium houses.
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Lunch
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Lunch is a meal that is usually eaten around noon or in the early afternoon. In most countries, it is the second meal of the day, after breakfast and before dinner. A lunch can be cold (bread and fruit) or hot (a full meal, like a dinner). People that go to work or school during the day, usually have lunch together with their coworkers or classmates. Some people bring lunch to work or school in a brown paper bag or a lunchbox, but you can also buy lunch at a restaurant. In some countries, lunch is the most important meal of the day.
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Yoshihiro Nishida
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Yoshihiro Nishida (born 30 January 1973) is a former Japanese football player.
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Koji Maeda
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Koji Maeda (born 3 February 1969) is a Japanese former professional football player.
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Vincent Kompany
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Vincent Kompany (born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian former football player and current football manager of Bayern Munich.
Honours.
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Anderlecht
Hamburger SV
Manchester City
Belgium
Individual
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Anderlecht
Burnley
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Takeo Harada
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is a Japanese football player. He plays for V-Varen Nagasaki.
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Gerard Piqué
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Gerard Piqué (born 2 February 1987) is a Spanish football player. He played for Barcelona and Spain national team. He started his professional football career with Manchester United in 2004. In Manchester United he scored 2 goals in 12 matches. After that, he was loaned to Real Zaragoza in 2006-2007 season. Gerard came back to Manchester United in 2007, but he said that he wanted to go back to Spain. In 2008, Gerard signed a contract with Barcelona, with a 50 million Euro buy-out clause. He has been dating Shakira since 2010. According to Pinkvilla, Clara Chia Marti is Gerard's girlfriend.
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Osamu Umeyama
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Osamu Umeyama (born 16 August 1973) is a former Japanese football player.
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Takanori Nunobe
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Takanori Nunobe (born 23 September 1973) is a former Japanese football player.
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Pauleta
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Pauleta (born 28 April 1973) is a former Portuguese football player. He has played for Portugal national team.
Honours.
Deportivo
Bordeaux
Paris Saint-Germain
Portugal
Individual
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Tomoaki Komorida
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Tomoaki Komorida (born 10 July 1981) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Persela Lamongan.
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Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera (, 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a writer who was born in Czechoslovakia and wrote mainly in the Czech and French languages. He was best known as the writer of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", and "Identity". The sale of his books in his home country was forbidden until the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Kundera lived in France from 1975 until his death.
Kundera died after a long-illness in Paris, France on 11 July 2023, at the age of 94.
Writing.
A number of Kundera's novels appear to criticise totalitarianism and the impact of totalitarianism on art.
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Trisomy
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A trisomy is when there are three copies of a chromosome. Normally in humans there is only two copies of any given chromosome. The most notable condition is Trisomy 21 syndrome which is better known as Down syndrome, a form of developmental genetic disorder.
Trisomy 16 is a cause of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage).
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is a former Japanese football player and politician, an independent and member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).
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Makoto Segawa
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Makoto Segawa (born 26 November 1974) is a former Japanese football player.
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Yoshihito Yamaji
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Yoshihito Yamaji (born 13 January 1971) is a former Japanese football player.
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Östers IF
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Östers IF is an association football club in the town of Växjö in Sweden. The club won the Swedish national championship in the years of 1968, 1978, 1980 and 1981. It also won the Swedish cup in 1977.
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Yasunobu Chiba
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Yasunobu Chiba (born 11 April 1971) is a former Japanese football player.
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Lorenzo Staelens
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Lorenzo Staelens (born 30 April 1964) is a former Belgian football player. He has played for Belgium's national team.
Honours.
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Club Brugge
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True Blood was an American television show that was broadcast on HBO cable television. It is produced by Alan Ball and stars Anna Paquin as the main character, Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who can hear people's thoughts. The story is based on the novels "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" written by Charlaine Harris. Most of the events of the TV show occur is a small town in Louisiana named Bon Temps. Although there are other places, like Mississippi, this is one of the main places the show is centered around. On July 15, 2013, it was announced by HBO that the show was renewed for a seventh and final season and would premiere on June 22, 2014.
Plot.
Two years before the present (what the viewer sees now), vampires "came out of the coffin" (a coined phrase of "coming out of the closet"). After the creation of fake blood (called Tru Blood), vampires are allowed to enter the open and interact with humans (which is called "mainstreaming") more often. They can only come out at night, however (unlike Twilight, vampires will burn to death, until they are a pile of ashes, if they step out into the sunlight). The show is mostly centered around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepath, better known as a person who can hear the thoughts of others, and how her life changes after she meets vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).
Series overview.
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Sookie is a waitress for Merlotte's, a bar owned by her boss, Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammel). A rather lousy couple enters the bar, in Sookie's section. She serves them, and when a vampire enters the bar, the heads turn. She accidentely reads the rather rude couple's mind, and hears them both think that when they leave the bar, they will drain the vampire of his blood, a rather expensive substance used and seen as a drug in the series. Sookie leaves in a haste to stop them, and actually does save him. Something rather strange happens (Sookie gains the man's attention by throwing a chain around his neck, and it seems to squeeze itself around him and stay there), it is shrugged off. The woman, speaking for both of them, vows revenge on Sookie for getting in the way and runs off, with her male counterpart trailing behind her.
She removes small chains of silver off of him (which leads her to realize that one of a vampire's weaknesses is silver), and he thanks her, before she ends up pulling him out the way when the evil duo try to run him over with their truck. Because she works hard to shut the thoughts of other people out, she finds a surprise when she discovers she cannot hear Bill's thoughts. She learns that Bill is from an old time, and that he inherited his old family house from several hundred years ago.
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Eyal Berkovic
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Eyal Berkovic (; Born 2 April 1972) is a former Israeli football player and football manager. During his career he played for several clubs including Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, Celtic, Manchester City and West Ham United.
Honours.
Maccabi Haifa
West Ham
Celtic
Blackburn Rovers
Manchester City
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Alexander Skarsgård
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Alexander Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. He was born in 1976. He is the son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård.
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Ian Wallace
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Ian Wallace (born 10 July 1919; died 12 October 2009 in London) was a British bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and entertainer.
Wallace was born in London and went to school at Charterhouse. He soon became known at school as someone who was good at making people laugh. He learned to sing lots of songs and accompanied himself on the banjolele.
When he wanted to study at university he applied for a choral scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge, but he was not offered a place there, so he went to Trinity Hall. There he studied law and was known for the jokes that he played on people. He also had singing lessons.
Wallace wanted to go into music theatre, but the war broke out and he joined the army. Then he was ill with tuberculosis, but it did not stop him from singing to the people in the hospital.
He took a long time to get better. Gradually he started working in music theatre and then he got a chance to sing in opera. His voice was a bass baritone. He sang with the New London Opera Company in operas such as "La bohème" and "The Barber of Seville". From 1948 to 1961, he regularly sang at Glyndebourne. He usually sang comic parts (known as “buffo roles).
In 1948 he married Patricia Black. It was a long and happy marriage. The couple adopted two children.
The Glyndebourne season took place in the summer, so he had plenty of time to do other things the rest of the year. He sang in operas in the BBC studios and often appeared in pantomimes. Then he started to take part in a radio programme called “My Music”. Together with Frank Muir, Dennis Norden, David Franklin and Steve Race he made this programme extremely popular. It was a kind of lighthearted quiz programme with lots of stories and laughter. Wallace was particularly known for singing a song called “The Hippopotamus” by Flanders and Swann.
Wallace continued to sing in opera in the mid-1960s. He sang the roles of Leporello (in "Don Giovanni") and Pistol (in Verdi’s "Falstaff"). He acted on television and in films and appeared at many charity events. He was always very cheerful and friendly and he was liked by a lot of people.
He wrote two autobiographies: "Promise Me You'll Sing Mud" and "Nothing Quite Like It".
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A bass-baritone is a male singer whose voice is quite low, like a deep baritone, but not quite as low as really deep bass. People started to describe some singers as "bass-baritones" in the 19th century, particularly when the composer Richard Wagner wrote operas which needed singers with that kind of heroic voice. Wagner's roles for bass-baritone include: the Dutchman in Der fliegende Holländer, Wotan/Der Wanderer in the Ring Cycle and Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Wagner called these roles "Hoher Bass" ("high bass").
Some bass-baritones often sing baritone roles. Others prefer to sing bass roles.
Famous singers who have been, or are, described as bass-baritone include Hans Hotter, José van Dam, Thomas Quasthoff, Friedrich Schnorr, John Shirley-Quirk, Bryn Terfel and Willard White.
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Photopsins are chemical proteins within the cone cell receptors of the eyes. They recognize colors. They are also known as iodopsins. Rod cells have other opsins.
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Telus (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a Canadian company that provides phone, internet, television, and cellular phone service. They are a very large company, one of the largest telecommunication companies in Canada. Telus logo is stylized as TELUS. Telus' head office is in Burnaby, British Columbia.
History.
Telus was made from a merger of BCTel, the main phone company in British Columbia and Alberta Government Telephones, better known as AGT. AGT was owned by the government of Alberta. AGT wanted to separate from the government and formed a company called Telus in 1990. After that, they combined with BCTel to form the current Telus company in 1999. That remaining Telus company purchased Clearnet Communications, a cell phone company. Clearnet gave them the current style of their advertising, including the slogan «The future is friendly». Telus uses colorful animals to advertise their services. In 2019, Telus announced acquisition of ADT Inc.
Services.
Telus has cell phone, internet, phone and telephone services. They have a CDMA network for most of their cell phones, but on November 5th, 2009, they started up a new HSPA network, similar to Rogers cell phone network. They have started this with Bell. It allows a very large selection of cell phones.
They have television and internet service based on ADSL service. Telus is the major landline telephone service provider for British Columbia and Alberta.
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Brandon Roy
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Brandon Roy (born July 23, 1984 in Seattle, Washington) is a retired professional basketball player. He played for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2006 to 2011. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 2007, and was chosen as an All Star in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Roy played college basketball for four years at the University of Washington. The Minnesota Timberwolves chose him with the sixth pick in the 2006 NBA Draft, but traded him to the Trail Blazers later that night.
On December 9, 2011, Roy said that he would retire from basketball because of knee problems.
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Alexander Mikhaylovich Ovechkin (born September 17, 1985) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger. He plays for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL) and serves as their captain.
Ovechkin was picked first overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. He also played for the Dynamo Moscow of the RSL from 2001 to 2005 and again in 2012 because of the 2012-13 NHL lockout.
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WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 is a professional wrestling video game that is published by THQ, It is available for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Wii and Xbox 360 systems. The game was the first game in the series to be released as an app for the iPhone. The iPhone app was released on December 23, 2009. The game was removed from the app store on iTunes in June 2010. The game received positive reviews from video game reviewers.
It is part of the "WWE SmackDown vs. Raw" video game series.
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A number of problems from graph theory are called Minimum spanning tree. In graph theory, a tree is a way of connecting all the vertices together, so that there is exactly one path from any one vertex, to any other vertex of the tree. If the graph represents a number of cities connected by roads, one could select a number of roads, so that each city can be reached from every other, but that there is no more than one way to travel from one city to another.
A graph can have more than one spanning tree, just like there may be more than one way to select the roads between the cities.
Most of the time, graphs are weighted; each connection between two cities has a weight: It might cost something to travel on a given road, or one connection may be longer than the other, this means it takes more time to travel on that connection. In the language of graph theory, the connections are called "edges".
A minimum spanning tree is a tree. It is different from other trees in that it minimizes the total of the "weights" attached to the edges. Depending on what the graph looks like, there may be more than one minimum spanning tree. In a graph where all the edges have the same weight, every tree is a minimum spanning tree. If all the edges have different weights (that is: there are no two edges with the same weight), there is exactly one minimal spanning tree.
Finding the minimum spanning tree.
A first try.
It can be very simple to make an algorithm that will discover a minimum spanning tree:
function MST("G","W"):
while "T" does not form a spanning tree:
find the minimum weighted edge in "E" that is safe for "T"
return "T"
In this case, "safe" means that including the edge does not form a cycle in the graph. A cycle means starting at a vertex, travelling to a number of other vertices and ending up at the starting point again without using the same edge twice.
History.
Czech scientist Otakar Borůvka developed the first known algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in 1926. He wanted to solve the problem of finding an efficient coverage of Moravia with electricity. Today, this algorithm is known as Borůvka's algorithm. Two other algorithms are commonly used today. One of them was developed by Vojtěch Jarník in 1930, and put in practice by Robert Clay Prim in 1957. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra rediscovered it in 1959, and called it Prim's algorithm. The other algorithm is called Kruskal's algorithm, and was published by Joseph Kruskal in 1956. All three algorithms are greedy, and run in polynomial time.
The fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date was developed by Bernard Chazelle. The algorithm is based on the soft heap, an approximate priority queue. Its running time is "O"("m" α("m","n")), where "m" is the number of edges, "n" is the number of vertices and α is the classical functional inverse of the Ackermann function. The function α grows extremely slowly, so that for all practical purposes it may be considered a constant no greater than 4; thus Chazelle's algorithm takes very close to linear time.
What is the fastest possible algorithm for this problem? That is one of the oldest open questions in computer science. There is clearly a linear lower bound, since we must at least examine all the weights. If the edge weights are integers with a bounded bit length, then deterministic algorithms are known with linear running time. For general weights, there are randomized algorithms whose "expected" running time is linear.
The problem can also be approached in a distributed manner. If each node is considered a computer and no node knows anything except its own connected links, one can still calculate the distributed minimum spanning tree.
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WWE European Championship
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The WWE European Championship is a former championship for World Wrestling Entertainment. It was first established as the 'WWF European Championship'. The first and longest reigning champion, The British Bulldog became the first Champion after winning a tournament that was held over several shows in Germany, culminating in a finals victory over Owen Hart. When Shawn Michaels won the belt, it made him the first Grand Slam Champion in WWE. Michaels was and still is the only wrestler to have held both the WWF Championship and the European title at the same time. The title was on a brief hiatus in 1999 due to then-champion Shane McMahon's wanting to retire an "undefeated champion". The WWE European Championship was retired in a ladder match on July 22, 2002 when Rob Van Dam put his WWE Intercontinental Championship on the line, along with Jeff Hardy's European Championship in a winner-take-all type match. When RVD won the match he merged the two titles together, and continued to hold the Intercontinental Title. RVD's title reign is not listed in the official European title history on WWE's official website, and therefore he is not credited with being a Eurocontinental Champion, but is mentioned in RVD's profile.
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Transgender flag
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The Transgender Pride flag was made by a woman named Monica Helms, and was first seen at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona, United States in 2000.
The flag is a symbol of the transgender group and is made up of five stripes that go straight across from left to right. Two light blue stripes, two pink stripes, with a white stripe in the center.
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Christian (footballer, born 1975)
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Christian Corrêa Dionisio (born 23 April 1975) is a former Brazilian football player. He plays for Portuguesa Desportos.
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Kohei Hayashi
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Kohei Hayashi (born 27 June 1978) is a former Japanese football player.
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Haruki Seto
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is a former Japanese football player.
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Yukihiro Yamase
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Yukihiro Yamase (born 22 April 1984) is a former Japanese football player.
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Kenta Tokushige
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Kenta Tokushige (born 9 March 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Vissel Kobe.
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is a Japanese professional athlete. He is best known as an association football player.
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Cop Killer (song)
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"Cop Killer" is a very controversial song by the music group Body Count. It is off their 1992 self-entitled album. The lyrics are sung in the first person of a person who is mad because of police brutality and thinks to take the law into his own hands by killing violent, mad police officers. Lyricist Ice T said the song was a "protest record." It was made in 1990, and was mostly inspired by bands like Talking Heads.
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Insane Clown Posse are an American hip-hop/horrorcore group from Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of two members: Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J. They formerly had two other members John Kickjazz whose real name is John Utsler and Greez-E whose real name is Kalyn Garcia, but they left the band later on.
The band is known for spraying their fans with the soda, Faygo during their concerts. In one incident a man sued Violent J for throwing a bottle of Faygo at him during a concert in 2007
Insane Clown Posse and Horrorcore followers are usually known as "Juggalo"s (male) and "Juggalette"s (female).
Insane Clown Posse have feuded with Eminem in the past but in an interview with Violent J he said that the feud had ended.
They have formed a professional wrestling company called "Juggalo Championship Wrestling" which they founded in 1999.
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The attic is the highest level or levels of a house or another building, it is directly below the roof and old house or old things inside the house like a vintage. It is sometimes used as storage. Some people have "loft conversions" (change the attic into a room people can use) so that they can sleep in it. Attics can be hard to reach, which is why many of them are not used. They can help keep the temperature of the house stable.
Origin.
The word "attic" derived from the Attica region in Greece. It comes from the Attic style architecture.
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6teen was a Canadian animated television series and sitcom produced by Nelvana and Fresh TV. The show was about six sixteen-year-old friends and followed them in their first part-time jobs and teenage lives. The series premiered airs at 4:00 p.m. ET/PT times on November 7, 2004 on Cartoon Network in the United States.
The show had 95 episodes, 2 45-minute-long specials and a total of 4 season.
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Airline (1998 TV series)
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Airline is a British television program. It shows daily happenings of airport customers and staff. Series 1 are photographed in Britannia Airways and series 2 are photographed in EasyJet.
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Telepopmusik is a music group. Angela McClusky sang in the song "Brighton beach" and "Don't look back" off their album Angel Milk. "Breathe" is their most famous song.
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The 2008-09 NHL season was the 91st season of the National Hockey League. It was the first season since before to the 2004-05 lockout in which every team played each other at least once during the season, following three seasons where teams only played against two divisions in the other conference (one division at home and one on the road.) It began on October 4, with the regular season ending on April 12. The Stanley Cup playoffs ended on June 12, with the Pittsburgh Penguins taking the championship. The Montreal Canadiens hosted the 57th NHL All-Star Game at the Bell Centre on January 25, 2009, part of the Canadiens' 100th season celebration.
Regular season.
Final standings.
"GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime/Shootout Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points."
Conference standings.
Tiebreaking procedures.
In the event of a tie in points in the standings at the end of the season, ties are broken using the following tiebreaking procedures.
The higher ranked team is the one with:
Statistical leaders.
Scoring leaders.
"GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes"
Leading goaltenders.
"GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average"
Playoffs.
Playoff seeds.
After the regular season, the standard of 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The San Jose Sharks won the Presidents' Trophy for having the best record in the league, at 117 points. Division champions maintain their relative ranking during the entire playoffs while the remaining teams get reseeded below them after each round.
Eastern Conference.
"*Montreal finished with exactly the same record as the Florida Panthers (including number of wins), but garnered more points (the Canadiens with six, the Panthers with three) in the four game season series between them, to earn the 8th spot."
Playoff bracket.
In each round, the highest remaining seed in each conference is matched against the lowest remaining seed. The higher-seeded team is awarded home ice advantage. In the Stanley Cup Finals, home ice is determined based on regular season points. Each best-of-seven series follows a 2-2-1-1-1 format: the higher-seeded team will play at home for games 1 and 2 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary), and the lower-seeded team will be at home for game 3, 4 and 6 (if necessary).
NHL awards.
NHL All Star Team.
First All-Star Team
Second All-Star Team
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A Wavelet is a mathematical function used to write down a function or signal in terms of other functions that are simpler to study. Many signal processing tasks can be seen in terms of a wavelet transform. Informally speaking, the signal can be seen under the lens with a magnification given by the scale of the wavelet. In doing so, we can see only the information that is determined by the shape of the wavelet used.
The English term "wavelet" was introduced in the early 1980s by French physicists Jean Morlet and Alex Grossman.
They used the French word "ondelette" (which means "small wave").
Later, this word was brought into English by translating "onde" into "wave" giving "wavelet".
Wavelet is (complex) function from the Hilbert space formula_1. For practical applications it should satisfy following conditions.
It must have finite energy.
It must satisfy an admissibility condition.
Zero mean condition implies from admissibility condition.
The function formula_5 is called mother wavelet. Its translated (shifted) and dilated (scaled) normalized versions are defined as following.
Original mother wavelet has parameters formula_9 and formula_10. Translation is described by formula_11 parameter and dilatation by formula_12 parameter.
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The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow gold and white. The North Stars played 2,062 regular season games and made the NHL playoffs fifteen times, including two Stanley Cup Finals appearances. In the fall of 1993, the franchise moved to Dallas, Texas, and is now known as the Dallas Stars.
Seasons and records.
Season-by-season record.
The team had 15 playoff appearances, a 77-82 playoff record, 2 Norris Division championships, and 2 Campbell Conference championships.
"Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes"
Team scoring leaders.
This is a listing of the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history.
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game
NHL awards and trophies.
Clarence S. Campbell Bowl
Calder Memorial Trophy
Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
Leaders.
Team captains.
"Note: This list does not include Minnesota Wild, Dallas Stars, California Golden Seals and Cleveland Barons captains". >
Notable players.
Hall of Famers.
This is a listing of players in the Hockey Hall of Fame:
Retired numbers (in Minnesota).
After the move, the Dallas Stars retired the number 7 of Minnesota native, University of Minnesota graduate and 1980 Olympic hero Neal Broten, C, 1981-93.
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Superfluidity is a state of matter where fluid or a liquid can act very strangely.
Some of the things a superfluid can do are:
So far, scientists have only been able to create superfluids at extremely cold temperatures. However, superfluids have quite a few uses in science today, like:
There is also another state of matter called a "supersolid", although how they are formed is more complex.
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A princely state (also called a native state or Indian state) was a state within the former British Indian Empire where a native Indian sovereign came under subordinate alliance with the British via a treaty. Such treaties allowed for what was termed British Paramountcy as opposed to sovereignty over the native states. The peoples of these native states were officially not considered subjects of the British Indian Empire but rather as subjects of their native monarch. For the purposes of travel the term used on the passports of subjects of Native sovereigns was "British protected person". As according to treaty with the empire the native ruler had surrendered the subject of foreign affairs, such states could not have direct relations with other states without British approval.
From time to time, however, often for the purposes of its own security, the British Indian Empire
would interfere in the internal affairs of even the first class states in violation of the treaties made with them. Such interference was met by both public and formal protests buy native rulers and their subjects and was considered as an "encroachment on a native states sovereignty" by the empire.
The rulers of these states held various titles: e.g. raja (a Hindu ruling prince); maharaja (a greater Hindu ruling prince); nawab (a Muslim ruling prince such as the Nawab of Awadh); nizam, the title of the Nizam of Hyderabad. About 118 of the 565 princely states existing in 1947 were considered first class sovereign states and had state governments of their own and only five were large states (Hyderabad (Princely state), Mysore, Kashmir and Jammu, and Baroda). Of these three became part of the dominion of India while the status of Jammu and Kashmir was disputed.
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A Wookiee is a fictional race of aliens from the Star Wars series of movies. Their home planet is Kashyyyk. The best known Wookiee character is Chewbacca.
Origin.
When George Lucas was developing fictional characters for "Star Wars", he named Chewbacca after his dog, Chewbacca. The name "Wookiee" came from an in Lucas's first feature movie, "THX 1138". The line was "I think I ran over a Wookiee back there."
Features.
On Kashyyyk wookiees build their houses in mile-high trees. They have long arms and legs so they can climb the trees. Chewbacca is over seven feet tall and over 200 years old. By nature they are gentle and intelligent creatures. When angered they can pull a man's arms out of their s. Wookiees have a great sense of smell. They are fully covered with a thick coat of hair. Wookiees prize loyalty and above all else.
Language.
The Wookiee language is Shyriiwook. Wookiees are capable of understanding English but cannot speak it. In the original Star Wars trilogy Chewbacca showed he could understand humans. His human partner, Han Solo, also shows knowledge of Shyriiwook. In the Star Wars expanded universe books, Chewbacca builds a miniature translator droid ("Em Teedee") for his nephew Lowbacca. When Lowbacca begins training as a Jedi the droid helped him communicate with his fellow students.
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Monte Plata is a Dominican city and head municipality of the Monte Plata province.
The town was founded with people from Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata; they took the words "Monte" from the first town and "Plata" from the second town to form the name of the new town: "Monte Plata".
History.
The city was founded in 1606 when the Spanish Governor Antonio Osorio destroyed, by orders of King Phillip III of Spain, the towns of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata. The people and the cattle were moved to a new town that was given the name of Monte Plata to remember those two towns that were destroyed.
When the province of Monte Plata was created in 1982, the city was made the head municipality of this province.
Population.
The municipality had, in , a total population of 26,192: 13,288 men and 12,904 women. The urban population was of the total population.
Geography.
Monte Plata is in the northwestern part of the "Llano Costero del Caribe" (in English, "Caribbean Coastal Plain"), a large prairie with many important savannas.
The "Sierra de Yamasá" is found to the northeast of the municipality. "Los Haitises" is a karst region with many small hills; it is to the northwest of Monte Plata.
It has a total area of and has three municipal districts (a municipal district is a subdivision of a municipality); these are Boyá, Chirino and Don Juan.
The altitude of the city of Monte Plata is above sea level.
The municipality of Monte Plata has the municipality of Sabana Grande de Boyá to the north, the municipality of Bayaguana to the east, the Santo Domingo province to the south and the municipality of Yamasá to the west.
Climate.
Monte Plata has a tropical wet climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Af) with no dry or cold season as it is constantly moist (rainfalls during the whole year).
The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is August with of rainfall, followed by May with .
The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of followed by December with an average of .
Monte Plata is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .
Administrative division.
The municipality of Monte Plata has three municipal districts:
Economy.
Because there are many savannas, and by its history, the most important economic activity in the municipality is cattle raising is also important, mainly for milk.
Farming is also an important activity. Some crops are sugar cane and fruits like orange.
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The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (in English "Moral Letters to Lucilius") is the name for 124 letters Seneca the Younger wrote when he was over sixty-years-old. The "Letters" were probably written in the last three years of Seneca's life, during the years 62 to 64 AD. All letters start ""Seneca Lucilio suo salutem" (Seneca greets his Lucilius) and end with "Vale"" (Farewell). Lucilius was the Governor of Sicily at the time, but he is only known through Seneca's writings. Seneca wrote the letters to give Lucilius advice on how to become a better person. The letters are like a diary, or a handbook, of Stoic philosophy. Seneca writes about life, death, and virtue as the supreme good. He writes about the joy that comes from wisdom. He repeatedly refers to the shortness of life.
Quotations.
The tag "Vita sine litteris mors" ('Life without learning [is] death') is adapted from "Epistle" 82 (originally "Otium sine litteris mors", 'Leisure without learning [is] death') and is the motto of Derby School and Derby Grammar School in England, Adelphi University, New York, and Manning's High School, Jamaica.
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Yaniv Katan (; born 27 January 1981) is a retired Israeli international footballer who played most of his career for Maccabi Haifa. He earned 31 caps for Israel, scoring five goals.
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Sorbet, or sherbet, is a cold dessert made with water or fruit juice instead of milk. Most sorbets have fruit flavors. Lemon is the most common flavor, and other flavors include orange, lemon, cherry, lime, red wine. Rainbow is a mix of different-colored flavors, usually including lemon and cherry.
Sorbet is a French name, but the origin of the dessert is not known for sure. It has been around for several centuries. Before refrigeration frozen ice stores were used. Claims have been made that the idea was known in ancient Persia.
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Fergie (singer)
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Ken Nelson (British record producer)
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Ken Nelson (born 6 February 1959 in Liverpool) is an English record producer. He is the producer of the band Coldplay. This band brought him worldwide success.
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Homecoming (Kanye West song)
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"Homecoming" is a song by rapper Kanye West and featuring Coldplay's Chris Martin. The song is about his hometown.
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Instrumentation (music)
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Instrumentation in music is the use of different musical instruments to make up a certain mixture. This mixture is then used to make the music.
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Lead single
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A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band from a given album. The lead single does not have to be the first track on an album though. It does not have to be the first single either. Sometimes singles are released as part of promotions.
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Jonny Buckland
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Jonathan Mark "Jonny" Buckland (born 11 September 1977) is an English guitarist and musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the band Coldplay.
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Will Champion
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William "Will" Champion (born 31 July 1978) is the drummer for the English rock band Coldplay.
Personal life.
Champion's mother, Sara, died from cancer in 2000. Coldplay's debut album "Parachutes" was dedicated to her.
Champion was the first Coldplay member to marry. He married Marianne Dark, a teacher, in 2003. Their first child, a girl named Ava, was born on 28 April 2006. On 7 May 2008, Marianne gave birth to fraternal twins Juno and Rex.
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Trouble (Coldplay song)
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"Trouble" is a song recorded by British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was composed for their first album, "Parachutes". The band wrote the song and produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson. The word "trouble" is repeated many times in the lyrics of the song.
The song was released on 26 October 2000 as a single. It was the third single of the album. It reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. This made it the band's second Top 10 single in the country. "Trouble" did not chart on the main singles chart in the United States. But the music press said it was almost as successful as "Yellow". "Yellow" was the single released before "Trouble". Two different music videos for the single were released.
Production.
Chris Martin, the vocalist of Coldplay said that idea for writing "Trouble" came from his own behaviour. Martin said that there were "some bad things going in our band ... the song is about behaving badly towards somebody you really love and I was certainly doing that to some members of the band." The four members of Coldplay are credited as the co-writers of "Trouble". But, it was based on Martin's idea.
British record producer Ken Nelson and the band produced "Trouble" for their first album, "Parachutes". The song was recorded four times before the band got the recording they liked most. The band decided that the first three versions were not "working". The last take was recorded into Pro Tools with a shaker. This was done to provide the rhythm to the track. For the backing track, Will Champion played the drums and Martin played the piano. It was recorded in a little wooden room. Guy Berryman recorded the bass and then guitarist Jonny Buckland added the guitar section. In recording the piano section of the track, the band used two microphones. Nelson, who wanted to keep the song simple, chose the microphone which had a fuller sound for the mixing.
"Trouble" was mixed in New York by American mix engineer Michael Brauer. The first mixed version was sent back to the band and Nelson. However, it was not as good as they wanted and had to be mixed again. Nelson found some problems in the version. In spite of this, he did not blame Brauer because he was not present during the mixing. This was because they were recording the album at that time.
Composition.
Like in the song "Yellow", in this song the word trouble is used many times. The song's lyrics have "softer emotional themes". This includes apologies and unrequited love, and longing.
The song has a minimalistic approach. The song is mainly built around a piano. It has a snare drum in the background. The sound of the drum was mixed very low. The snare drum cannot be heard when the guitar is played. The song has a tempo of 70 beats per minute. Martin's vocal range in the song is from F4 to A5, the highest note being sung using his falsetto voice.
Release.
"Trouble" was released on 26 October 2000 in the United Kingdom, and on 18 December 2001 in the United States. It was the third single of "Parachutes". A limited edition CD of the single was released. It had a remix of the songs "Yellow" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Only 1,000 copies were made. It was given only to fans and journalists.
Coldplay did not accept many offers to use "Trouble" for advertisements. In 2004, the band rejected an offer from Diet Coke and Gap to use the song. The offer was worth many million Euros. American actor Sylvester Stallone wanted to use the song for the soundtrack of his 2001 film "Driven". But the band declined.
Reception.
"Trouble" was a commercial success. It reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. This made it the band's second Top 10 single in the UK after "Yellow". "Trouble" was successful because the previous singles did very well. Also, the album, "Parachutes" was very successful in the United Kingdom. The British band Lost Witness made a remixed version of the song. It was released and was successful.
In the United States, the single's chart performance was almost as good as "Yellow"s. It reached number 23 on the "Billboard" Adult Top 40 and 28 on the "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks. Martin has said the single had saved them from being a "one-hit wonder" band. The band thought it was not a "great single". They felt it would not do well in the United States.
Music videos.
The original European version of the music video for "Trouble" was directed by British director Sophie Muller. The video was shot in a Newhall, California ranch. Its theme was the Wild West.
The music video also had a U.S. version. This was directed by Tim Hope who won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction in 2002 for the video. It was also nominated for "Breakthrough Video". The video is similar to "Don't Panic".
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Epping tube station
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Epping on the London Underground is the north-eastern terminus of the Central Line. The next station before that is Theydon Bois. The tube station is in Epping in the Epping Forest District of Essex. It is one of eight London Underground stations in this District, and is in Travelcard Zone 6.
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Mixed number
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A mixed number (also called a mixed fraction) is a number which contains a whole number and a fraction added together. For instance 1 ½, in words "one and a half", is the same as 1 + ½, or "one plus one half." It is another way of writing 3/2 or "three over two" or "three halves", which is an improper fraction. Both ways of writing the number are correct.
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Trichome
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Trichomes are structures on a plant's leaves. They look like tiny hairs sticking out from the surface of the leaf.
Trichomes are made of living cells, which can look very different. Some trichomes have one long cell. Other trichomes are a long chain of cells. They may have branches which make them look like a star.
Trichomes help to shade the leaf from the sun. They block too much wind from moving across the leaf surface. This stops too much water from leaving the leaf. Animals might not eat leaves with trichomes because they do not like the taste.
Glandular trichomes have chemicals in them. They break when the leaf is touched, and then the chemicals come out.
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Shawn Daivari
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Shawn Daivari (born April 30, 1984) is an Iranian-American professional wrestler who currently works for Ring of Honor under his name, Shawn Daivari. He has also wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Daivari and for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Sheik Abdul Bashir.
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Shinji Jojo
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Shinji Jojo (born 28 August 1977) is a former Japanese football player.
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James Vaughan
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James Vaughan (born 14 July 1988) is an English former footballer. He is currently the loans pathway manager at Everton.
Honours.
Everton
Wigan Athletic
Portsmouth
Individual
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Yusuke Sato
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Yusuke Sato (born 2 November 1977) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tochigi.
Club career statistics.
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Satoshi Yokoyama
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is a former Japanese football player.
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Yoshiyuki Takemoto
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Yoshiyuki Takemoto (born 3 October 1973) is a former Japanese football player.
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Saúl Martínez
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Saúl Martínez (born 29 January 1976) is a Honduran football player. He plays for Miami United and Honduras national team.
Honours.
Nacional Montevideo
Shanghai Shenhua
C.D. Marathón
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