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1919 Polish coup attempt in Lithuania
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Background
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Poland and Lithuania formed one state the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth from the Union of Lublin in 1569 to the Third Partition in 1795 Both Poland and Lithuania regained their independence in the aftermath of World War I but both soon became engaged in territorial disputes over the Suwalki and Vilnius Regions During the PolishSoviet War Poland launched an offensive against the Soviet Union and captured Vilnius Wilno during the Vilna offensive in April 1919 Lithuanians described Vilnius as their historical capital and an integral part of the ethnographic Lithuania while to the Poles because of its large Polish population it was a Polish city Polands Chief of State Jozef Pilsudski sought a union with Lithuania in hopes of reviving the old PolishLithuanian Commonwealth see Miedzymorze federation The Lithuanians believed they would lose their sovereignty under the proposed federation and wanted their own national state Although PolishLithuanian relations were not immediately hostile they grew worse as each side refused to compromise As tensions rose Lithuania asked the Allied Supreme Council to intervene and it proposed two demarcation lines to prevent open hostilities drawn in June and July 1919 the second one was known as the Foch Line However Poland ignored both lines and advanced deeper into the Lithuaniancontrolled territory Faced with pressure from the Entente Polish Chief of State Jozef Pilsudski who was significantly involved in planning of the coup did not want open PolishLithuanian hostilities which could lead to much bloodshed and even greater tensions between Poland and Lithuania Instead since he thought there were enough Polish sympathizers in Lithuania to stage a coup detat he decided to plan one to topple the Lithuanian government
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Shih Mingteh
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Early life
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Shih Mingtehs father Shih Kuotsui was a wellknown practitioner of Chinese medicine In February 1947 Shih Mingteh witnessed at Kaohsiung Station that would later be known as the February 28 Incident The student leaders of schools were charged as instigators and some were executed as riots broke out Students seized weapons from the Harbor Garrison and exchanged fire with the guards Shih entered Kaohsiungs ChungCheng Senior High in 1957 In 1959 after failing to pass his college entrance exam he signed up with the ROC Army passing the admission exams for the artillery school On occasion he vowed in public to overthrow the ROC government by force through an armed coup detat as an army officer That same year his girlfriend gave birth to a daughter when he was 19 Shih briefly served as an artillery officer in Kinmen
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Edward Prince
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Early life and education
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Edward was born on 9 November 1841 in Buckingham Palace He was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert of SaxeCoburg and Gotha He was christened Albert Edward at St Georges Chapel Windsor Castle on 25 January 1842 He was named Albert after his father and Edward after his maternal grandfather Prince Edward Duke of Kent and Strathearn He was known as Bertie to the royal family throughout his life As the eldest son of the British sovereign Edward was automatically Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay at birth As a son of Prince Albert he also held the titles of Prince of SaxeCoburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on 8 December 1841 Earl of Dublin on 17 January 1850 a Knight of the Garter on 9 November 1858 and a Knight of the Thistle on 24 May 1867 In 1863 he renounced his succession rights to the Duchy of SaxeCoburg and Gotha in favour of his younger brother Alfred The Queen and Prince Albert were determined that their eldest son should have an education that would prepare him to be a model constitutional monarch At age seven Edward embarked on a rigorous educational programme devised by Albert and supervised by several tutors Unlike his elder sister Victoria he did not excel in his studies He tried to meet the expectations of his parents but to no avail Although Edward was not a diligent studenthis true talents were those of charm sociability and tactBenjamin Disraeli described him as informed intelligent and of sweet manner After the completion of his secondarylevel studies his tutor Frederick Waymouth Gibbs was replaced by Robert Bruce as his personal governor After an educational trip to Rome undertaken in the first few months of 1859 Edward spent the summer of that year studying at the University of Edinburgh under among others the chemist Lyon Playfair In October he matriculated as an undergraduate at Christ Church Oxford Now released from the educational strictures imposed by his parents he enjoyed studying for the first time and performed satisfactorily in examinations In 1861 he transferred to Trinity College Cambridge where he was tutored in history by Charles Kingsley Regius Professor of Modern History Kingsleys efforts brought forth the best academic performances of Edwards life and Edward actually looked forward to his lectures
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Portland Choir Orchestra
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Equipment
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King used equipment characteristic of the different periods he played in He played guitars made by various manufacturers early in his career He played a Fender Esquire on most of his recordings with RPM Records Later he was best known for playing variants of the Gibson ES355 In the September edition 1995 of Vintage Guitar magazine early photos show him playing a Gibson ES5 through a Fender tweed amp In reference to the photo King stated Yes the old Fender amplifiers were the best that were ever made in my opinion They had a good sound and they were durable guys would throw them in the truck and theyd hold up They had tubes and theyd get real hot but they just had a sound that is hard to put into words The Fender Twin was great but I have an old Lab Series amp that isnt being made anymore I fell in love with it because its sound is right between the old Fender amps that we used to have and the Fender Twin Its what Im using tonight He later moved on from the larger Gibson hollowbodied instruments which were prone to feedback when played at high volumes to various semihollow models beginning first with the ES335 and then a deluxe version called the ES355 which employed a stereo option In 1980 Gibson Guitar Corporation launched the BB King Lucille model an ES355 with stereo options a varitone selector and fine tuners neither of which were actually used by King and at Kings direct request no fholes to further reduce feedback In 2005 Gibson made a special run of 80 Gibson Lucilles referred to as the 80th Birthday Lucille the first prototype of which was given as a birthday gift to King and which he used thereafter King used a Lab Series L5 2x12 combo amplifier and used this amplifier for a long time It was made by Norlin Industries for Gibson in the 1970s and 1980s Other popular L5 users are Allan Holdsworth and Ty Tabor of Kings X The L5 has an onboard compressor parametric equalization and four inputs King also used a Fender Twin Reverb He used his signature model strings Gibson SEGBBS BB King Signature Electric Guitar Strings with gauges 101317p32w45w54w and DAndrea 351 MD SHL CX medium 071mm tortoiseshell celluloid picks
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Kanam Kerala
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Communist Party
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The Mahathma Library sowed the seeds of the Communist movement in Kanam The Life of Karl Marx written by Swadesabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai Pattabhakki other dramas by K Damodharan and similar books lead to a consciousness of the evils of inequality The second general election to the State Assembly when Kangazha Baskaran Nair stood as a candidate on a Socialist party ticket was utilized by young students to educate common people about socialist ideologies TK Krishnan Nair was the first to become a party member and later when he returned after graduation a group was organized with Kanam Sivan Pillai KK Prabhakaran Nair KK Raghavan Nair etc The Janathiapathya Munnani under leadership of Kadayanikadu Purushothaman Pillai had its propaganda machinery working in Kanam along with Kangazha Kadayanikadu Mundathanam Nedumkunnam and neighboring villages The Rationkada Samaram brought people to the street against the unauthorized price hikes by ration dealers by way of service charges rounding off bills etc During the Panchayat election a candidate Perumal Pillai was put against Mr PV Varghese who later became the first Kangazha Panchayat President the Congress candidate but failed to get representation to Kangazha Panchayat By the time the CMS Primary School was upgraded to a middle school Vidyadhiraja Swamikal started the Sree Vidyadhiraja Vidya SVRV Nair Service Society NSS School at Theerthapadapuram Vazhoor After CMS UPS was upgraded to High School and St Pauls UPS at Pulickalkavala was also upgraded Education spread and every boy and girl had the facility to get general education Up until then only a few fortunate families had the facility for higher education because of its high cost Hostel charges which once accounted for 85 of education costs were rendered unnecessary with the establishment of several high schools and colleges in the vicinity With the advent of higher education the facility for political consciousness began to grow and Kanam was able to offer two candidates in the Vazhoor constituency for assembly elections Adv Kanam Sivan Pillai CPM and Kanam Rajendran CPI The latter won the seat twice Now the CPM and CPI have a strong hold over the village The communists of early years are leading their retired lives and some of them have died The names of Pampady Balan Anickadu PK Sankara Pillai Stalin Sankara Pillai is now Ganapthy Sankara Pillai Elakkadu purushan Kadayanickadu Purushothaman Pillai Ex MLA and Kottayam Bhasi and Johny Syriac are also associated with the spread of communist ideology in Kanam Kanam Rajendran CPI is one of the leading political leaders from the village
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Carbon Trade Exchange
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Purpose
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The economic problem with climate change is that the emitters of greenhouse gases GHGs do not face the external costs of their actions which include the present and future welfare of people the natural environment and the social cost of carbon This can be addressed with the dynamic price model of emissions trading An emissions trading scheme for greenhouse gas emissions GHGs works by establishing property rights for the atmosphere The atmosphere is a global public good and GHG emissions are an international externality In the capandtrade variant of emissions trading a cap on access to a resource is defined and then allocated among users in the form of permits Compliance is established by comparing actual emissions with permits surrendered The setting of the cap affects the environmental integrity of carbon trading and can result in both positive and negative environmental effects Emissions trading programmes such as the European Union Emissions Trading System EUETS complement the countrytocountry trading stipulated in the Kyoto Protocol by allowing private trading of permits coordinating with national emissions targets provided under the Kyoto Protocol Under such programmes a national or international authority allocates permits to individual companies based on established criteria with a view to meeting targets at the lowest overall economic cost
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Sarin
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Ornamentation and decorative accessories
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Saris are woven with one plain end the end that is concealed inside the wrap two long decorative borders running the length of the sari and a one to threefoot section at the other end which continues and elaborates the lengthwise decoration This end is called the pallu it is the part thrown over the shoulder in the nivi style of draping In past times saris were woven of silk or cotton The rich could afford finely woven diaphanous silk saris that according to folklore could be passed through a finger ring The poor wore coarsely woven cotton saris All saris were handwoven and represented a considerable investment of time or money Simple handwoven villagers saris are often decorated with checks or stripes woven into the cloth Inexpensive saris were also decorated with block printing using carved wooden blocks and vegetable dyes or tiedyeing known in India as bhandani work More expensive saris had elaborate geometric floral or figurative ornaments or brocades created on the loom as part of the fabric Sometimes warp and weft threads were tiedyed and then woven creating ikat patterns Sometimes threads of different colours were woven into the base fabric in patterns an ornamented border an elaborate pallu and often small repeated accents in the cloth itself These accents are called butti or bhutti spellings vary For fancy saris these patterns could be woven with gold or silver thread which is called zari work Sometimes the saris were further decorated after weaving with various sorts of embroidery Resham work is embroidery done with coloured silk thread Zardozi embroidery uses gold and silver thread and sometimes pearls and precious stones Cheap modern versions of zardozi use synthetic metallic thread and imitation stones such as fake pearls and Swarovski crystals In modern times saris are increasingly woven on mechanical looms and made of artificial fibres such as polyester nylon or rayon which do not require starching or ironing They are printed by machine or woven in simple patterns made with floats across the back of the sari This can create an elaborate appearance on the front while looking ugly on the back The punchra work is imitated with inexpensive machinemade tassel trim Fashion designer Shaina NC declared I can drape a sari in 54 different styles Handwoven handdecorated saris are naturally much more expensive than the machine imitations While the overall market for handweaving has plummeted leading to much distress among Indian handweavers handwoven saris are still popular for weddings and other grand social occasions
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Grand Valley State University
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Academics
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Grand Valley State University is a large primarily residential comprehensive university that has a large undergraduate enrollment and emphasis GVSU offers over 200 areas of study including 82 undergraduate majors and 36 graduate programs that include 74 graduate emphases and certificate programs at the certificate bachelors postbachelors masters postmasters and doctoral levels GVSU conferred 4448 undergraduate degrees and 1033 graduate degrees in 20122013 Its most popular undergraduate majors by 2021 graduates were Biomedical Sciences 262 Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences 250 Exercise Science and Kinesiology 250 MarketingMarketing Management 226 Psychology 226 Registered NursingRegistered Nurse 208 Finance 205 Grand Valleys student body consists of 21636 undergraduates and 3458 graduate students across all campuses and centers with the majority being on the Allendale campus as of Fall 2014 The fall 2014 incoming freshman undergraduate class of 4199 students represented 80 Michigan counties 23 states and 20 countries 86 of first year students live on campus 3591 freshman chose to live oncampus in fall 2014 while 608 chose to live offcampus As of fall 2014 more than 400 international students were enrolled at the university representing 82 countries Grand Valley is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission Grand Valley also has baccalaureate program accreditation with AACSB ABET APTA CSWE NASAD NASM NCATE and NLN
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Phnom Penh
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Administration
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Phnom Penh is an autonomous municipality of area 67846 square kilometres 26195 sq mi with a government status equal to that of the provinces The autonomous municipality is subdivided into 14 administrative divisions called khans sections The district s are subdivided into 105 sangkats quarters and further subdivided into 953 phums villages All khans are under the governance of Phnom Penh Dangkao Meanchey Porsenchey Sen Sok and Russey Keo are considered the outskirts of the city Phnom Penh is governed by the governor who acts as the top executive of the city as well as overseeing the Municipal Military Police Municipal Police and Bureau of Urban Affairs Below the governor is the first vice governor and five vice governors The chief of cabinet who holds the same status as the vice governors heads the cabinet consisting of eight deputy chiefs of cabinet who in turn are in charge of the 27 administrative departments Every khans also has a chief
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These Girls song
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Background
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In December 1994 the Spice Girls persuaded their former managersfatherandson team Bob and Chris Herbertto set up a showcase in front of industry writers producers and AR men at the Nomis Studios in Shepherds Bush London Producer Richard Stannard was originally at the studio to meet pop star Jason Donovan but he ended up in the showcase after hearing Melanie Brown as she went charging across the corridor Stannard recalls More than anything they just made me laugh I couldnt believe Id walked into this situation You didnt care if they were in time with the dance steps or whether one was overweight or one wasnt as good as the others It was something more It just made you feel happy Like great pop records Stannard stayed after everyone had left the showcase to talk to the group He then reported back to his songwriter partner Matt Rowe that he had found the pop group of their dreams In January 1995 Chris Herbert booked the groups first professional songwriting session with the producers at the Strongroom in Curtain Road East London Rowe remember feeling similarly to Stannard when he first met the group I love them Immediately They were like no one Id met before really The session was productive as the duo seemed to get along with the group together they discussed the songwriting process and what they wanted to do with the record In her autobiography Brown recalled that the duo instinctively understood their point of view and knew how to incorporate the spirit of five loud girls into great pop music
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Stop Hitting Yourself
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Effects
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Mona OMoore of the AntiBullying Centre at Trinity College in Dublin has written There is a growing body of research which indicates that individuals whether child or adult who are persistently subjected to abusive behavior are at risk of stress related illness which can sometimes lead to suicide Those who have been the targets of bullying can develop longterm emotional and behavioral problems Bullying can cause loneliness depression anxiety lead to low selfesteem and increased susceptibility to illness Bullying has also been shown to cause maladjustment in young children and targets of bullying who were also bullies themselves exhibit even greater social difficulties A mental health report also found that bullying was linked to eating disorders anxiety body dysmorphia and other negative psychological effects Both victims and perpetrators have been shown to exhibit higher levels of loneliness
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Effects of overtime
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Risk mitigation
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While a definitive conclusion could not be made suggestions exist to minimize the potential risks of long working hours Creation of the work schedule should be managed properly to avoid multiple consecutive shifts long periods of working without rest and balanced breaks during the day For families with children it is very important that employees can manage their schedule for family or personal needs This will help alleviate stress provide flexible work hours throughout the year and avoid many worklife conflicts In 1981 Jay Kim and Anthony Campagna researchers from Ohio State University studied the effects Flextime Flextime allows workers to change their start and end work time They first analyzed a wide range of studies done on flextime Then they separated 353 employees into two groups one that allowed flextime and one that did not control group Their study found that flextime largely reduced unpaid absences for employees They also found a general increase in worker performance Flextime could impact coordinating schedules and meetings as employee work schedules may vary
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Tibicen
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Cultural references
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The Australian magpie featured in aboriginal folklore around Australia The Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara in the northwest of the country used the bird as a signal for sunrise awakening them with its call They were also familiar with its highly territorial nature and it features in a song in their Burndud or songs of customs It was a totem bird of the people of the Illawarra region south of Sydney Under the name piping shrike the whitebacked magpie was declared the official emblem of the Government of South Australia in 1901 by Governor Tennyson and has featured on the South Australian flag since 1904 The magpie is a commonly used emblem of sporting teams in Australia and its brash cocky attitude has been likened to the Australian psyche Such teams tend to wear uniforms with black and white stripes The Collingwood Football Club adopted the magpie from a visiting South Australian representative team in 1892 The Port Adelaide Magpies would likewise adopt the black and white colours and Magpie name in 1902 Other examples include Brisbanes Souths Logan Magpies and Sydneys Western Suburbs Magpies Disputes over who has been the first club to adopt the magpie emblem have been heated at times Another club Glenorchy Football Club of Tasmania was forced to change uniform design when placed in the same league as another club Claremont Magpies with the same emblem In New Zealand the Hawkes Bay Rugby Union team from Napier New Zealand is also known as the magpies One of the bestknown New Zealand poems is The Magpies by Denis Glover with its refrain Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle imitating the sound of the bird and the popular New Zealand comic Footrot Flats features a magpie character by the name of Pew Other magpies depicted in fiction include Magpie in Colin Thieles 1974 childrens book Magpie Island Miss Magpie in The Adventures of Blinky Bill and Penguin the magpie in Penguin Bloom The sculpture Big Swoop in central Canberra was installed in Garema Place on 16 March 2022 The Australian Magpie won the inaugural Australian Bird of the Year poll conducted by Guardian Australia and BirdLife Australia in late 2017 The Australian magpie won the 2017 contest with 19926 votes 133 narrowly ahead of the Australian white ibis The magpie slumped to the 4 place in the 2019 poll and to the 9 place in the 2021 poll The voting rules changed in all three years of the Bird of the Year poll which may have affected the results The magpie also won a 2023 ABC Science poll for Australias favourite animal sound
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Mothra
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Noteworthy moths
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Atlas moth Attacus atlas one of the largest moths in the world Hercules moth Coscinocera hercules largest moth in Australia White witch moth Thysania agrippina the Lepidopteran with the longest wingspan Madagascan sunset moth Chrysiridia rhipheus considered to be one of the most impressive and beautiful Lepidoptera Deathshead hawkmoth Acherontia spp is associated with the supernatural and evil and has been featured in art and movies Peppered moth Biston betularia the subject of a wellknown study in natural selection Luna moth Actias luna Grease moth Aglossa cuprina known to have fed on the rendered fat of humans Emperor gum moth Opodiphthera eucalypti Polyphemus moth Antheraea polyphemus Bogong moth Agrotis infusa known to have been a food source for southeastern indigenous Australians Ornate moth Utetheisa ornatrix the subject of numerous behavioral studies regarding sexual selection
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List of Hollyoaks characters 2018
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Jay Johnson
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Jay Johnson portrayed by Michael Dixon was a criminal associate of Glenn Donovan Bob Cryer who threatens to stop purchasing drugs from Glenn after his employee Shane Sweeney Michael Salami confesses to the murders of Trigger Adam Sina and DS Geoff Thorpe James Bradshaw Glenn tries persuading Jay to stay and when Jay sees Glenns partner Grace Black Tamara Wall flirting with Farrah Maalik Krupa Pattani Jay agrees to continue business with Glenn on the condition that he can have sex with Grace As they prepare to have sex Glenn records them and blackmails Jay into returning to business with him Jay lies to Glenn that Grace wanted to have sex with him Jay later informs Glenn that someone has reported him to the police and when Glenn murders his son Adam Donovan Jimmy Essex Jay congratulates him Glenn tells Grace that Jay killed Adam so she tries to kill Jay When Courtney Campbell Amy Conachan delivers Jay some impure drugs under Glenns instruction Jay threatens to harm her boyfriend Jesse Donovan Luke Jerdy Jay later agrees to help Glenn hijack an ATM van but when he spots Grace speaking with DS Roxy Cassidy Lizzie Stavrou he confronts her she explains that Glenn has been emotionally abusing her and wants revenge so he agrees to perform the robbery and kill Glenn As Jay prepares to shoot Glenn he is murdered by Glenns son Liam Donovan Jude Monk McGowan
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Coming out
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Legal issues
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In areas of the world where homosexual acts are penalized or prohibited gay men lesbians and bisexual people can suffer negative legal consequences for coming out In particular where homosexuality is a crime coming out may constitute selfincrimination These laws still exist in 75 countries worldwide including Egypt Iran and Afghanistan People who decide to come out as nonbinary or transgender often face more varied and different issues from a legal standpoint Worldwide legally changing your documented gender or name based on your identity is often prohibited or extremely difficult A major negative effect of the inequality in regulations comes in the form of mental effects as transgender people who have to legally announce a gender they do not identify with or their dead name can face uncomfortable situations and stress
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The Diamond Age
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Setting
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The Diamond Age depicts a nearfuture world revolutionised by advances in nanotechnology much as Eric Drexler envisioned it in his 1986 nonfiction book Engines of Creation Molecular nanotechnology is omnipresent in the novels world generally in the form of Matter Compilers and the products that come out of them The book explicitly recognizes the achievements of several existing nanotechnology researchers Feynman Drexler and Ralph Merkle are seen among characters of the fresco in MerkleHall where new nanotechnological items are designed and constructed The book contains descriptions of various exotic technologies such as the chevaline a mechanical horse that can fold up and is light enough to be carried onehanded and forecasts the use of technologies that are in development today such as smart paper that can show personalized news headlines Major cities have immune systems made up of aerostatic defensive micromachines and public matter compilers provide basic food blankets and water for free to anyone who requests them Matter compilers receive their raw materials from the Feed a system analogous to the electrical grid of modern society The Feed carries streams of both energy and basic molecules which are rapidly assembled into usable goods by matter compilers The Source where the Feeds stream of matter originates is controlled by the Victorian phyle though smaller independent Feeds are possible The hierarchic nature of the Feed and an alternative anarchic developing technology known as the Seed mirror the cultural conflict between East and West that is depicted in the book This conflict has an economic element as well with the Feed representing a centrallycontrolled distribution mechanism while the Seed represents a more flexible openended decentralized method of creation and organization
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Z 1969 film
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Background
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The 1963 murder of Greek politician and physician Grigoris Lambrakis and subsequent military junta served as the basis for the story Among CostaGavras references to the actual events was the frequency with which the military compared ideologies to diseases seen when the General compares isms to mildew The Magistrate was based on reallife Greek jurist Christos Sartzetakis CostaGavras opted to show the Deputy had adulteries and conflicts with his wife to demonstrate he was simply a man CostaGavras was also motivated by the suspicious disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965 Some American viewers infer parallels between the film and the assassination of John F Kennedy particularly given how some stylistic elements seem to mimic the Zapruder film That said CostaGavras has stated that the Zapruder film had not been widely circulated in Europe at the time and that Kennedys assassination did not influence the production
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Peace symbols
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Broken rifle
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The broken rifle symbol is used by War Resisters International WRI and its affiliates but predates the foundation of WRI in 1921 The first known example of the symbol is in the masthead of the January 1909 issue of De Wapens Neder Down with Weapons the monthly paper of the International Antimilitarist Union in the Netherlands In 1915 it appeared on the cover of a pamphlet Under det brukne Gevaer Under the Broken Rifle published by the Norwegian Social Democratic Youth Association The German League for War Victims founded in 1917 used the broken rifle on a 1919 banner In 1921 Belgian workers marching through La Louvriere on 16 October 1921 carried flags showing a soldier breaking his rifle Ernst Friedrich a German who had refused military service founded the AntiKriegs Museum in Berlin which featured a basrelief broken rifle over the door The museum distributed brokenrifle badges girls and womens brooches boys belt buckles and mens tie pins
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GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance
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Other activities
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In 1994 GAPA participated in the Chinese New Year Parade in San Franciscos Chinatown District wearing sweatshirts with the phrase We are one family written in Chinese Members of GAPA carried a 25foot lavender Godzilla Current GAPA Chair Michael Nguyen explains how GAPAs purpose has broadened to advocate for anyone within the LGBTQ API community in the Bay Area On March 21 2021 in response to the mass murders of Asian women in massage parlors in the Atlanta area and in response to the ongoing violence against Asian lives in the Bay Area GAPA organized an LGBTQ Solidarity March for Asian Lives from the Castro to Chinatown On May 18 2021 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution officially declaring May 2229 2021 the nations first QTAPI Queer Transgender Asian Pacific Islander Week in the City and County of San Francisco Current GAPA Chair Michael Nguyen cofounder of the Bay Area QTAPI Coalition in 2017 was the lead organizer of the weeklong series of live and virtual events
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List of awards and honours received by Nelson Mandela
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1998
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Received Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of South Australia University of Fort Hare 23 April Awarded Honorary Doctorate University of Zululand 30 May Awarded the Freedom of the City and County of Cardiff Cardiff 16 June Awarded the Chris Hani Award at the 10th National Congress of the South African Communist Party Johannesburg 1 July Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of Mauritius 11 September Park in Montreal named again Parc NelsonMandela 14 September Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts 18 September Awarded Congressional Gold Medal Washington 23 September Appointed Honorary Companion of the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada on behalf of the Queen of Canada 24 September Nelson Mandela public school named in his honour in Toronto Presented with Award in Recognition of his Contribution to Democracy Human Rights and Freedom by the Supreme Council of Sport in Africa 19 November Created a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav by the King of Norway
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Naples
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Geography
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The city is situated on the Gulf of Naples on the western coast of southern Italy it rises from sea level to an elevation of 450 metres 1480 ft The small rivers that formerly crossed the citys centre have since been covered by construction It lies between two notable volcanic regions Mount Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei Phlegraean Fields Campi Flegrei is considered a supervolcano The islands of Procida Capri and Ischia can all be reached from Naples by hydrofoils and ferries Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast are situated south of the city At the same time the Roman ruins of Pompeii Herculaneum Oplontis and Stabiae which were destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD are also visible nearby The port towns of Pozzuoli and Baia which were part of the Roman naval facility of Portus Julius lie to the west of the city
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Culture Health Sexuality
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Health hazards
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Several chemical substances have been found to be effective in skin whitening but some have been proven or suspected to be toxic This includes compounds containing mercury which can cause neurological and kidney problems These products also contain collagen which can be harmful to the skin It is present in day creams and beauty masks Collagen is an insoluble fibrous protein that is too large to penetrate the skin thus it can clog pores The use of these products can be hazardous to health potentially causing acne stretch marks skin cancer hypertension or diabetes especially when the product contains hydroquinone mercury cortisone or vitamin A Allergic reactions or undesirable effects such as uneven hyperpigmentation or patchy depigmentation can also occur Among the ingredients hydroquinone is also commonly found and is responsible for multiple side effects It can interfere with the reagents used in capillary blood glucose meters artificially raising blood glucose levels In 1997 in Paris the French police dismantled a network involved in the illegal trafficking of skin lightening products primarily targeting Congolese migrants Such products represent a significant market despite their health risks Users resort to preparations containing mercury or bleach or products containing corticosteroids or quinine The SaintLouis Hospital in Paris had to establish a specialized department to deal with the skin disorders caused by skin bleaching The World Health Organization WHO has noted the significant presence of inorganic mercury added to skin lightening products which is known to be associated with skin cancer
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Johnson County War
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Background
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Conflict over land was a common occurrence in the development of the American West but was particularly prevalent during the late 19th century when large portions of the West were being settled by new immigrants for the first time through the Homestead Acts It is a period that one historian Richard Maxwell Brown has called the Western Civil War of Incorporation of which the Johnson County War was a part In the early days of Wyoming most of the land was in public domain which was open to stock raising as an open range and farmlands for homesteading Large numbers of cattle were turned loose on the open range by ranches Each spring roundups were held to separate the cattle belonging to different ranchers Before a roundup an orphan or stray calf was sometimes surreptitiously branded which was the common way to identify the cows owners However as more and more homesteaders called nesters and grangers moved into Wyoming competition for land and water soon enveloped the state and the large cattle companies also known as cattle barons reacted by monopolizing large areas of the open range preventing homesteaders from using it The often uneasy relationship between the wealthier ranchers and smaller settlers became steadily worse after the harsh winter of 18861887 when a series of blizzards and temperatures of 40 to 50 degF 40 to 45 degC followed by an extremely hot and dry summer ravaged the frontier Thousands of cattle were lost in the calamity To protect whatever livestock survived the cattle barons reacted with a catchall allegation of rustling against their competition Hostilities worsened when the Wyoming legislature passed the Maverick Act which stated that all unbranded cattle in the open range automatically belonged to the large ranchers The cattle barons also held a firm grip on Wyomings stock interests by limiting the number of small ranchers and grangers who could participate including in the annual roundups They also forbade their employees from owning cattle for fear of additional competition and they threatened anyone they suspected to be rustlers Although at a financial disadvantage the homesteaders outnumbered the cattle barons significantly and they tried to use this to win court cases by participating in the jury However records showed that they were still not successful
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
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Veneration
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The shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage destination in the world Over the Friday and Saturday of December 11 to 12 2009 a record number of 61 million pilgrims visited the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the apparition Religious imagery of Our Lady of Guadalupe appears in Roman Catholic parishes especially those with Latin American heritage In addition due to the growth of Hispanic communities in the United States religious imagery of Our Lady of Guadalupe has started appearing in some Anglican Lutheran and Methodist churches The Virgin of Guadalupe is considered the Patroness of Mexico and the Continental Americas she is also venerated by Native Americans on the account of the devotion calling for the conversion of the Americas Due to Marys appearance as a pregnant mother and her claims as mother of all in the apparition the Blessed Virgin Mary under this title is popularly invoked as Patroness of the Unborn and a common image for the ProLife movement
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Michael Dummett
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Philosophical work
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Dummetts work on the German philosopher Frege has been acclaimed His first book Frege Philosophy of Language 1973 written over many years is seen as a classic It was instrumental in the rediscovery of Freges work and influenced a generation of British philosophers In his 1963 paper Realism he popularised a controversial approach to understanding the historical dispute between realist and other nonrealist philosophy such as idealism nominalism irrealism He classed all the latter as antirealist and argued that the fundamental disagreement between realist and antirealist was over the nature of truth For Dummett realism is best understood as semantic realism ie the view that every declarative sentence in ones language is bivalent determinately true or false and evidencetranscendent independent of our means of coming to know which while antirealism rejects this view in favour of a concept of knowable or assertible truth Historically these debates had been understood as disagreements about whether a certain type of entity objectively exists or not Thus we may speak of realism or antirealism with respect to other minds the past the future universals mathematical entities such as natural numbers moral categories the material world or even thought The novelty of Dummetts approach consisted in seeing these disputes as at base analogous to the dispute between intuitionism and Platonism in the philosophy of mathematics Dummett espoused semantic antirealism a position suggesting that truth cannot serve as the central notion in the theory of meaning and must be replaced by verifiability Semantic antirealism is sometimes related to semantic inferentialism
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Blood cell
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Platelets
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Platelets or thrombocytes are very small irregularly shaped clear cell fragments 23 mm in diameter which derive from fragmentation of megakaryocytes The average lifespan of a platelet is normally just 5 to 9 days Platelets are a natural source of growth factors They circulate in the blood of mammals and are involved in hemostasis leading to the formation of blood clots Platelets release threadlike fibers to form these clots The normal range 99 of population analyzed for platelets is 150000 to 450000 per cubic millimeter If the number of platelets is too low excessive bleeding can occur However if the number of platelets is too high blood clots can form thrombosis which may obstruct blood vessels and result in such events as a stroke myocardial infarction pulmonary embolism or blockage of blood vessels to other parts of the body such as the extremities of the arms or legs An abnormality or disease of the platelets is called a thrombocytopathy which can be either a low number of platelets thrombocytopenia a decrease in function of platelets thrombasthenia or an increase in the number of platelets thrombocytosis There are disorders that reduce the number of platelets such as heparininduced thrombocytopenia HIT or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura TTP that typically cause thromboses or clots instead of bleeding Platelets release a multitude of growth factors including plateletderived growth factor PDGF a potent chemotactic agent and TGF beta which stimulates the deposition of extracellular matrix Both of these growth factors have been shown to play a significant role in the repair and regeneration of connective tissues Other healingassociated growth factors produced by platelets include basic fibroblast growth factor bFGF insulinlike growth factor 1 IGF1 plateletderived epidermal growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor VEGF Local application of these factors in increased concentrations through plateletrich plasma PRP has been used as an adjunct to wound healing for several decades
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Sullivan County New York
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Government and politics
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Sullivan County is a swing county backing the national winner in all but three presidential elections from 1952 to the present In 2004 Republican George W Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry by a margin of 4947 to 4855 or a difference of 285 votes In 2008 however it was won by Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain by a margin of 54 to 45 The margin remained virtually the same in 2012 as Obama won the county again over Republican Mitt Romney by 5444 But then in 2016 the county swung to Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of 53 to 42 In 2020 the county didnt back the winner nationally for the first time since 2000 Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump won the county with 54 of the votes that year compared to the national winner Democrat Joe Bidens 45 There are thirtysix town and village courts in Sullivan County Legislative authority is vested in the county legislature which consists of nine members each elected from single member districts Currently there are five Democrats and four Republicans
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Oneida County New York
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Education
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Tertiary Hamilton College Mohawk Valley Community College Oneida Institute defunct State University of New York Polytechnic Institute Utica University Public school districts Adirondack Central School District Brookfield Central School District Camden Central School District Central Square Central School District Clinton Central School District Holland Patent Central School District Madison Central School District Mount Markham Central School District New Hartford Central School District New York Mills Union Free School District Oneida City School District Oriskany Central School District Poland Central School District Remsen Central School District Rome City School District Sauquoit Valley Central School District Sherrill City School District Stockbridge Valley Central School District Utica City School District Waterville Central School District Town of Webb Union Free School District West Canada Valley Central School District Westmoreland Central School District Whitesboro Central School District Stateoperated schools New York State School for the Deaf
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Xinxin Ming
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Bibliography
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Blyth R 1960 Zen and Zen Classics Vol I Hokuseido Press ISBN 9780893462055 Clarke Richard 1973 1984 Hsin Hsin Ming Verses on the FaithMind Buffalo New York White Pine Press Third Chan Patriarch Chienchih Sengtsan Faith Mind Inscription Hsinhsin Ming Online text sacredtextscom Archived from the original on February 19 2007cite web CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Dumoulin Heinrich 1994 1998 Zen Buddhism A History Volume I India and China Simon Schuster and Prentice Hall International ISBN 0028971094 McRae John R 1986 The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chan Buddhism University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824810562 Pajin Dusan 1988 On Faith in Mind Journal of Oriental Studies Vol XXVI No 2 Hong Kong 1988 pp 270288 or here Putkonen Eric 2008 Hsin Hsin Ming Verses on the Perfect Mind interpretation not a direct translation Available as a free Ebook in PDF format Soeng Mu 2004 Trust in Mind The Rebellion of Chinese Zen Boston Wisdom Publications ISBN 0861713915 Suzuki DT 1960 Manual of Zen Buddhism NY Grove Press ISBN 0802130658 Cleary J C Yoshida Osamu trans 1995 Three Chan Classics The FaithMind Maxim T 48 no 2010 Berkeley BDK America ISBN 1886439079
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Dual systems model
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Adolescent risk-taking
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Risktaking in certain but not all domains peaks during adolescence Most notably mortality and morbidity rates increase significantly from childhood to adolescence despite the fact that physical and mental capabilities increase during this period The primary cause for this increase in mortalitymorbidity among adolescents is preventable injury According to the Center for Disease Control in 2014 about 40 of all adolescent deaths ages 1519 years were caused by unintentional accidents From 1999 to 2006 almost onehalf of all adolescent deaths ages 1219 years were due to accidental injury Of these unintentional injuries about 23 are due to motor vehicle accidents followed by unintentional poisoning unintentional drowning other land transportation accidents and unintentional discharge of firearms The dual systems model proposes that midadolescence is the time of highest biological propensity for risktaking but that older adolescents may exhibit higher levels of realworld risktaking eg binge drinking is most common during the early 20s not due to greater propensity for risktaking but due to greater opportunity For example individuals in their early 20s compared to midadolescence have less adult supervision greater financial resources and greater legal privileges The dual systems model looks to experimental paradigms in developmental neuroscience for evidence of this greater biological propensity for risktaking There is also a consistent relation between age and crime with adolescents and young adults being more likely to engage in violent and nonviolent crime These findings are linked to increases in sensationseeking which is the tendency to seek out novel exciting and rewarding stimuli during adolescence and continued development of impulse control which is the ability to regulate ones behavior The dual systems model points to brain development as a mechanism for this association
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Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility
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The construction of SARAF
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The construction of SARAF was initiated by the Soreq NRC in 2003 and is divided into two phases Phase I Achievements of Phase I include the first acceleration of 1 mA CW 4 MeV proton beams through a HWR based superconducting accelerator routinely delivered to targets and beam dumps and low duty cycle acceleration of 5 MeV deuterons Low energy acceleration of such beams is crucial for all present and future highintensity linear accelerator projects worldwide Phase II The completion of the accelerator to its specified performance the construction of a target hall target stations and all necessary infrastructure Phase II is planned to commence at 2in3 The Phase II accelerator is to be completed by 2018 and the target hall and stations are planned to be operational by the end of the decade
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HMS Agamemnon 1781
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Construction
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Agamemnon was ordered from the commercial shipbuilder Henry Adams at his Bucklers Hard shipyard on the Beaulieu River on 5 February 1777 to be built to the lines of the Ardent class as designed by Sir Thomas Slade Her keel was laid down in May She was constructed using timber sourced from the surrounding New Forest The total cost of her construction was PS38303 15s 4d She was commissioned on 28 March 1781 under Captain Benjamin Caldwella full 13 days before her launch on 10 April A painting of the launch of Agamemnon by Harold Wyllie depicts blue skies and scores of spectators despite the Hampshire Chronicle describing the day as windy with heavy rain and with few spectators in attendance She was named after King Agamemnon a prominent figure in ancient Greek mythology who participated in the siege of Troy and was the first Royal Navy vessel to bear the name Lord Nelson regarded her as his favourite ship and to her crew she was known by the affectionate nickname EggsandBacon According to an article in The Gentlemans Magazine her crew renamed her as they did not like the classical names that were in vogue at the Admiralty during this period the crews of Bellerophon and Polyphemus also renamed their ships to Billy Ruffian and Polly Infamous respectively for the same reason
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Denali National Park and Preserve
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Climate
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According to the Koppen climate classification Denali National Park has a subarctic climate Dfc The plant hardiness zone at Denali Visitor Center is 3a with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of 389 degF 394 degC Long winters are followed by short growing seasons Eighty percent of the bird population returns after cold months raising their young Most mammals and other wildlife in the park spend the brief summer months preparing for winter and raising their young Summers are usually cool and damp but temperatures in the 70s are not rare The weather is so unpredictable that there have even been instances of snow in August The north and south side of the Alaskan Range have completely different climates The Gulf of Alaska carries moisture to the south side but the mountains block water to the north side This brings a drier climate and huge temperature fluctuations to the north The south has transitional maritime continental climates with moister cooler summers and warmer winters
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Education in Sudan
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Female education
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Girls education was traditionally of the most rudimentary kind frequently provided in Muslim areas by a khalwa or religious school in which Quranic studies were taught Such basic schools did not prepare girls for the secular learning mainstream from which they were virtually excluded In 1902 the Coptic community in Khartoum opened a private school for girls which later became the Unity High School in Khartoum By 1920 the government had provided five elementary schools for girls Expansion was slow however and female education remained restricted to the elementary level until 1940 when the first intermediate school for girls the Omdurman Girls Intermediate School opened By 1955 there were 10 such schools In 1956 the Omdurman Secondary School for Girls with about 265 students was the only girls secondary school operated by the government By 1960 there were only two uppersecondary schools for girls and no vocational schools except for the Nurses Training College with just 11 students nursing not being regarded by many Sudanese as a suitable vocation for women This slow development of girls education was the product of tradition Parents of Sudanese girls tended to look upon girls schools with suspicion if not fear that they would corrupt the morals of their daughters Moreover preference was given to sons who if educated could advance themselves in society to the pride and profit of the family something girls could not do Their value was enhanced not at school but at home in preparation for marriage and the dowry that accompanied the ceremony Finally the lack of schools discouraged even those who desired elementary education for their daughters Female education claimed approximately onethird of all available educational resources by 1970 when there were 1086 primary schools 268 intermediate schools and 52 vocational schools for girls Among notable successes with female education was Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman Originally founded in 1907 as a primary school for girls in the early 2000s it was the oldest and largest private university in Sudan having evolved into the premier womens university with an enrollment approaching 5000 in 2006 It offered a mixture of academic and practical programs such as those that educated women to teach in rural areas The newly wealthy elites considered Ahfad as the first choice for their daughters and its graduates often went on to advanced studies abroad Stipends were also available to women students of modest means a step toward improving access by females to education at all levels
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Thomas Nazario
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Work for the United Nations and the U.S. State Department
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In 1999 Nazario traveled to Dharamshala India as part of a team of attorneys and psychologists sent by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to interview Tibetan children who escaped Tibet and went to India as refugees The report A Generation in Peril The Lives of Tibetan Children under Chinese Rule documented human rights abuses by the Chinese government against Tibetan children and their families as well as the childrens lives after arriving in India The report was presented to the UN on June 6 2005 As a result of his work on this report Mr Nazario has returned to India on more than eight occasions and has brought students from his university to work with refugee children developed a scholarship program for Tibetan students and coordinated a visit by the Dalai Lama to the University of San Francisco in September 2003 The Dalai Lama came to University of San Francisco specifically to receive an Honorary Doctoral Degree and to thank the university for the work Mr Nazario has spearheaded on the universitys behalf Since then Mr Nazario has continued to work with the Dalai Lama on various visits to the United States as well as projects related to the care and protection of the Tibetan people Nazario has since worked as an Inspector for the UN and other agencies documenting human rights violations involving women and children In this capacity Nazario has also visited children orphaned by AIDS in Botswana children sold in sexual slavery in the brothels of Thailand and children living in sewers in Romania As a Senior Trainer for the US State Department he has conducted workshops around the world designed to train officials within police agencies to work more humanely with the public
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Gobichettipalayam
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Transport
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The municipality of Gobichettipalayam has 67604 kilometres 42007 mi of roads of which 66 kilometres 41 mi is owned by the State Highways Department The town is well connected by roads with the major arterial roads including State Highway 81 State Highway 15 State Highway 15A The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation operates a depot as a part of the Coimbatore division of TNSTC Buses ply to all major towns and cities within Tamil Nadu and neighboring state of Karnataka KSRTC buses also connect to the town due to its proximity to Karnataka The nearest major railway station is Erode Junction located 38 kilometres 24 mi from the town A proposal to construct a railway line connecting Mysore with Erode via Gobichettipalayam was mooted during the British rule in 1915 Four official surveys were made in 1922 1936 1942 and as recently as 2008 but the plan failed to take off due to the concerns of railway line passing through the Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary The nearest airport is Coimbatore International Airport located 74 kilometres 46 mi from the town The airport has regular flights fromto major domestic destinations and international destinations like Sharjah Colombo and Singapore
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British Fashion Council
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Awards, nominations and prizes
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16 November 2016 The British Fashion council awarded Guccis New Creative Director Alessandro Michele the International Designer Award 2 September 2020 As part of its PS500000 grant scheme the British Fashion Council distributed grants to 30 British labels including Emilia Wickstead Preen by Thornton Bregazzi Rokh and Charles Jeffrey Loverboy 5 October 2020 The University of Salford and the Central Saint Martins Royal College of Art has announced recipients of the British Fashion Council MA Scholarship The recipients of the scholarships were selected from these institutions based on financial need and aptitude 15 October 2020 The British Fashion Council announced 2020 Fashion Awards would be held as a virtual event on 3 December As part of the ceremony 20 winners were celebrated for their resilience during the pandemic and their determination to see change within the industry Awards for Community were presented by Priyanka Chopra Jonas awards for People presented by Lewis Hamilton awards for Environment presented by Aja Barber and Maisie Williams and awards for Creativity were presented by Rosalia 18 February 2021 The BFC announced the shortlist of designers in line for receiving the prestigious BFCVogue Designer Fashion Fund From the shortlisted 11 Bethany Williams was named as the winner 16 February 2022 A shortlist of 8 designers was announced for the 2022 BFCVogue Designer Fashion Fund The 2022 winner was Richard Quinn
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Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science
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History
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An Engineering Science program first emerged in the early 1960s from a previous program offering the first two years of an engineering education to be completed at either Columbia University or Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn now NYU Tandon School of Engineering By 1963 several fouryear degree options were being offered within a BS Engineering Science including specializations in engineering science engineering mechanics engineering electronics and industrial engineering In 1965 Adams Hall a new mathematics and science building was completed By the early 1970s the BS Industrial Engineering had become a separate degree and evening parttime BS programs were available in Aerospace Engineering Electrical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics The BS in Engineering Science became the first engineering program at Hofstra to earn accreditation in 1971 and remained the only accredited program until the mid1980s In 1983 the degree title changed from a BS to a BE and after being established as separate programs in the 198485 academic year the BS Electrical Engineering and BS Mechanical Engineering programs received their initial accreditations in 1988 Over the last 25 years Civil and Biomedical Options have served as the two routes to a degree in the Engineering Science program Likewise the Department of Computer Science has offered BA and BS degrees since the 1960s A separate BS degree in Computer Engineering has been offered since 2003 A new BS degree in Cybersecurity was introduced in 2018 MA and MS degrees have been offered by the department since the 1980s and the 1990s respectively In 2012 the two departments became the constituent members of the School of Engineering and Applied Science The school was formally named the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science on October 20 2016 In 2017 the BS Bioengineering BS Civil Engineering and BS Computer Science and Cybersecurity programs were created and in 2019 the MS Cybersecurity and the MS Engineering Management were inaugurated
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Living Greyhawk
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Administration
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The campaign was overseen by the Circle a group of six RPGA staff Five of the members had individual oversight for one of the five metaregions the sixth Circle member had responsibility for Core adventures The responsibilities of the Circle included approval of all adventures that rewarded treasure coordination of overall campaign and metaregional story arcs approving story ideas for Core and metaregional adventures and editing same producing campaign documentation and rules ruling on reports of cheaters and unsportsmanlike conduct and appointing and maintaining a Triad for each region Due to the workload some metaregions also added a metaregional coordinator volunteer to assist with metaregional storylines and adventures Each region was overseen by its Triad three volunteers who lived in the region who reported to their respective Circle member The Triad was responsible for finding writers for regional adventures or writing the regional adventures themselves approving story ideas editing adventures and submitting finished adventures to the Circle for approval writing special missions for individual players answering questions from players arbitrating disputes regarding play auditing players documents and maintaining a regional website
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UrtenenSchonbuhl
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Education
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In UrtenenSchonbuhl about 2254 or 426 of the population have completed nonmandatory upper secondary education and 619 or 117 have completed additional higher education either university or a Fachhochschule Of the 619 who completed tertiary schooling 679 were Swiss men 229 were Swiss women 58 were nonSwiss men and 34 were nonSwiss women The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of nonobligatory Kindergarten followed by six years of Primary school This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship During the 201011 school year there were a total of 559 students attending classes in UrtenenSchonbuhl There were 6 kindergarten classes with a total of 122 students in the municipality Of the kindergarten students 279 were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland not citizens and 410 have a different mother language than the classroom language The municipality had 15 primary classes and 277 students Of the primary students 242 were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland not citizens and 375 have a different mother language than the classroom language During the same year there were 11 lower secondary classes with a total of 160 students There were 206 who were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland not citizens and 400 have a different mother language than the classroom language As of 2000 there were 34 students in UrtenenSchonbuhl who came from another municipality while 140 residents attended schools outside the municipality
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J N Adam Co
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Function
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When AMPK phosphorylates acetylCoA carboxylase 1 ACC1 or sterol regulatory elementbinding protein 1c SREBP1c it inhibits synthesis of fatty acids cholesterol and triglycerides and activates fatty acid uptake and boxidation AMPK stimulates glucose uptake in skeletal muscle by phosphorylating RabGTPaseactivating protein TBC1D1 which ultimately induces fusion of GLUT1 vesicles with the plasma membrane AMPK stimulates glycolysis by activating phosphorylation of 6phosphofructo2kinasefructose26bisphosphatase 23 and activating phosphorylation of glycogen phosphorylase and it inhibits glycogen synthesis through inhibitory phosphorylation of glycogen synthase In the liver AMPK inhibits gluconeogenesis by inhibiting transcription factors including hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 HNF4 and CREB regulated transcription coactivator 2 CRTC2 AMPK inhibits the energyintensive protein biosynthesis process and can also force a switch from capdependent translation to capindependent translation which requires less energy by phosphorylation of TSC2 RPTOR transcription initiation factor 1A66 and eEF2K When TSC2 is activated it inhibits mTORC1 As a result of inhibition of mTORC1 by AMPK protein synthesis comes to a halt Activation of AMPK signifies low energy within the cell so all of the energy consuming pathways like protein synthesis are inhibited and pathways that generate energy are activated to restore appropriate energy levels in the cell AMPK activates autophagy by directly and indirectly activating ULK1 AMPK also appears to stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis by regulating PGC1a which in turn promotes gene transcription in mitochondria AMPK also activates antioxidant defenses
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Apraxia
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Causes
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Aphasia is most often caused by stroke where about a quarter of patients who experience an acute stroke develop aphasia However any disease or damage to the parts of the brain that control language can cause aphasia Some of these can include brain tumors traumatic brain injury epilepsy and progressive neurological disorders In rare cases aphasia may also result from herpesviral encephalitis The herpes simplex virus affects the frontal and temporal lobes subcortical structures and the hippocampal tissue which can trigger aphasia In acute disorders such as head injury or stroke aphasia usually develops quickly When caused by brain tumor infection or dementia it develops more slowly Substantial damage to tissue anywhere within the region shown in blue on the figure in the infobox above can potentially result in aphasia Aphasia can also sometimes be caused by damage to subcortical structures deep within the left hemisphere including the thalamus the internal and external capsules and the caudate nucleus of the basal ganglia The area and extent of brain damage or atrophy will determine the type of aphasia and its symptoms A very small number of people can experience aphasia after damage to the right hemisphere only It has been suggested that these individuals may have had an unusual brain organization prior to their illness or injury with perhaps greater overall reliance on the right hemisphere for language skills than in the general population Primary progressive aphasia PPA while its name can be misleading is actually a form of dementia that has some symptoms closely related to several forms of aphasia It is characterized by a gradual loss in language functioning while other cognitive domains are mostly preserved such as memory and personality PPA usually initiates with sudden wordfinding difficulties in an individual and progresses to a reduced ability to formulate grammatically correct sentences syntax and impaired comprehension The etiology of PPA is not due to a stroke traumatic brain injury TBI or infectious disease it is still uncertain what initiates the onset of PPA in those affected by it Epilepsy can also include transient aphasia as a prodromal or episodic symptom However the repeated seizure activity within language regions may also lead to chronic and progressive aphasia Aphasia is also listed as a rare sideeffect of the fentanyl patch an opioid used to control chronic pain
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Maria Crawford
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Career
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In her 40 year long career Maria Luisa Crawford wrote 68 separate articles in various journals Her area of research changed several times throughout her career However the majority of Crawfords work centered around gaining an understanding of past geological processes related to Earths crust There was a period of time when Crawford became very interested in lunar petrology She was involved in the study of several Moon rocks that had been retrieved during the Apollo missions By studying these rocks she was able to determine that sometime in the Moons history large meteorites struck its surface causing flood lavas The work she did with lunar rocks is still mentioned in lunar studies to this day Later in her career she was involved in the ACCRETE study conducted in Alaska and British Columbia This study was a shift from the lunar petrology she had worked on previously This time she was studying continental collision This research was part of a larger study which detailed how a series of collisions between fragments of continents can build an entirely new continent Overall the geological community accepted and praised the ACCRETE study Another major area of research that Crawford took on was the geology of the Pennsylvania Piedmont She conducted a series of tests on the rocks in the area with the help of several graduate students In 2002 she became involved in a project that combined the expertise of geoscientists and computer scientists This project was given the name GEON its goal was to create a database that would combine geological data from several other unaffiliated databases At the time geologists had to search through several databases and then combine this information together in order to conduct their research This project was thought to have the potential to entirely change how geoscientific research was done Crawford was given a National Science Foundation grant because of the role she played in the GEON project Maria Crawford was also an environmental science and geology professor at Bryn Mawr College for a period of time She began with the college in 1965 when she was hired to be an assistant professor It wasnt until 1979 that she earned a position as a fulltime professor While at Bryn Mawr College she began research on the evolution of convergent continental margin orogenic belts she retired from this position in 2006 She was also notably a member of the Association of Women Geoscientists during her time as a professor as part of this association she received the Outstanding Educator Award
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Boolean satisfiability algorithm heuristics
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Data structures for storing clauses
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Source As SAT solvers and practical SAT problems eg circuit verification get more advanced the Boolean expressions of interest may exceed millions of variables with several million clauses therefore efficient data structures to store and evaluate the clauses must be used Expressions can be stored as a list of clauses where each clause is a list of variables much like an adjacency list Though these data structures are convenient for manipulation adding elements deleting elements etc they rely on many pointers which increases their memory overhead decreases cache locality and increases cache misses which renders them impractical for problems with large clause counts and large clause sizes When clause sizes are large more efficient analogous implementations include storing expressions as a list of clauses where each clause is represented as a matrix that represents the clauses and the variables present in that clause much like an adjacency matrix The elimination of pointers and the contiguous memory occupation of arrays serve to decrease memory usage and increase cache locality and cache hits which offers a runtime speed up compared to the aforesaid implementation
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Jonathan L
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Album Network Years
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In the fall of 1995 Rosen left Phoenix and radio to accept an opportunity to become senior editor of the long time now defunct music industry trade publication the Album Network He took control of Virtually Alternative magazine one of many music format magazines the Album Network published The monthly was not only informative but tongueincheek which Jonathan felt was a must for radio programmers At the same time Rosen wrote a weekly column in Album Network Pleasantly Annoying a phrase that he has become well known for in both publishing and radio Radio wasnt gone totally during his tenure Through the Album Networks radio syndication he was asked to host radio specials for The Cranberries Social Distortion Kula Shaker and Oasis that were run by radio stations throughout the United States The aggressive mouthpiece of alternative radio was asked to moderate panels at music industry conventions as he had done before back in the 1980s and early 1990s In 2000 at a convention Album Network put on in New York city dubbed Y2K Jonathan organized and hosted a panel of musicians to speak about everything from their careers to their personal lives in front of a packed house The guest speakers were Ronnie Spector The Ronettes Glenn Danzig Danzig and Dee Snider Twisted Sister Jonathan was friends with Spector and Danzig and thought they had more appeal and more to offer than many of the available alternative artists of that time period Joey Ramone also a friend was the confirmed 4th panelist but fell ill and couldnt make it In 1999 Jonathan was given Vice President stripes as SFX and later Clear Channel bought the Album Network and all its properties After more than six and a half years Rosen left the Network Magazine Group in 2002 to launch his own independent record promotion company which he operated until 2005 In the summer of that year Rosen decided to leave Los Angeles and go back to radio this time to do Lopsided World Of L at KUPDFM in Phoenix
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Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
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History
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The original KABC was developed from neuropsychological theory merging left brainright brain research on cerebral specialisation eg Sperry 1968 with Lurias sequential simultaneous processing dichotomy Luria 1966 and work in cognitive psychology The KABC focuses on the processes needed to solve problems rather than their content ie verbal vs non verbal The KABC was one of the first intelligence tests to be principally derived from strong theoretical basis and the first intelligence test to be based in neuropsychological theory Reynolds Kamphaus 1997 An important feature of the KABC is that it yielded smaller than average score differences than was typical between African American and European American ethnic groups making it particularly useful when assessing children of difference ethnicities The second edition KABCII which was published in 2004 is an individually administered measure of the processing and cognitive abilities of children and adolescents aged 318 As with the original KABC the KABCII is a theorybased instrument However the KABCII differs in its conceptual framework and test structure While the KABC is grounded in simultaneoussequential processing approach the KABCII incorporates two distinct theoretical models The KABCII is grounded in a dual theoretical foundation the CattellHornCarroll CHC psychometric model of broad and narrow abilities and Lurias neuropsychological theory of processing There are a number of important revisions in the KABCII The age range has been widened additional scales developed and the theoretical foundation expanded Eight of the original 16 subtests can be found in the KABCII and 10 new subtests have been introduced Four subtests have been removed from the measurement of Simultaneous processing Magic Window Spatial Memory Photo Series and Matrix Analogies Three have been retained Triangles Face Recognition and Gestalt Closure and three new ones have been added Conceptual Thinking Block Counting and Rover The Learning Ability scale is new as is the Planning Scale The Knowledge scale is made up of two original subtests Expressive Vocabulary and Riddles and a new addition Verbal Knowledge With the KABCII the examiner can choose which theoretical model to follow Typically the CattellHornCarroll model is useful for children from a mainstream cultural and language background Or if Crystallized Ability would not be a fair indicator of the childs cognitive ability examiners may choose the Luria model which excludes verbal ability
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RMS Atrato 1888
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Bibliography
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Haws Duncan 1982 Royal Mail Nelson Lines Merchant Fleets Vol 5 Crowborough Travel Creatours Ltd Publications ISBN 0946378002 Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping Vol ISteamers London Lloyds Register of Shipping 1910 via Internet Archive The Marconi Press Agency Ltd 1913 The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony London The St Katherine Press Mercantile Navy List London 1890 via Crew List Index Projectcite book CS1 maint location missing publisher link Monograph No 19 The Tenth Cruiser Squadron PDF Naval Staff Monographs Historical Vol VII Naval Staff Training and Staff Duties Division 1922 pp 566 Nicol Stuart 2001a MacQueens Legacy A History of the Royal Mail Line Vol 1 Brimscombe Port and Charleston SC Tempus Publishing ISBN 0752421182 Nicol Stuart 2001b MacQueens Legacy Ships of the Royal Mail Line Vol 2 Brimscombe Port and Charleston SC Tempus Publishing ISBN 0752421190 Osborne Richard Spong Harry Grover Tom 2007 Armed Merchant Cruisers 18781945 Windsor World Warship Society ISBN 9780954331085 Universal Register London Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping 1889 via Internet Archive
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The Newtown School
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Aftermath
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The school was closed indefinitely following the shooting partially because it remained a crime scene Sandy Hook students returned to classes on January 3 2013 at Chalk Hill Middle School in nearby Monroe at the towns invitation Chalk Hill at the time was an unused facility refurbished after the shooting with desks and equipment brought in from Sandy Hook Elementary The Chalk Hill school was temporarily renamed Sandy Hook The University of Connecticut created a scholarship for the surviving children of the shootings On January 31 the Newtown school board voted unanimously to ask for police officer presence in all of its elementary schools previously other schools in the district had such protection but Sandy Hook had not been one of those On May 10 a task force of 28 appointed members voted to demolish the existing Sandy Hook Elementary school and have a new school built in its place The $57 million proposed project was sent to the Newtown Board of Education for approval to be followed by a public ballot In October 2013 Newtown residents voted 4504558 in favor of the proposed demolition and reconstruction to be funded by $50 million in state money Demolition began on October 25 and was completed in December 2013 at a cost of nearly US$14 million After the town clerks office was inundated with requests from the media Connecticut House of Representatives Republican Dan Carter introduced legislation that would restrict access to public information available under the Freedom of Information Act On June 5 both houses Senate and House of Representatives of the Connecticut state legislature passed a bill modifying the states Freedom of Information Act in order to prevent the release of crimescene photos and video evidence from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and other Connecticut homicides concerned such records would be spread on the Internet The bill then went on to Gov Dannel P Malloys desk for his signature The bill creates a new exemption to the states Freedom of Information Act The release of photographs film video digital or other visual images depicting a homicide victim is prevented if such records could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of the victim or the victims surviving family members The Sandy Hook Promise Foundation a 501c3 nonprofit organization was formed to help survivors and families of the victims while also continuing the service of assisting others impacted by other shootings across the United States
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The Hamburg Syndrome
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Plot
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A deadly epidemic breaks out in Hamburg Out of the blue victims fall dead in an embryonic posture In one scene a doctor who autopsies the dead says Three days ago it was 12 bodies the day before yesterday 57 and now we dont have any more space Politicians and the military intervene set up quarantine stations and develop a vaccine which carries high risks People leave their home with face masks and protective suits There are travel restrictions and people who go near infected people have to go into quarantine The search for the index case patient zero takes place Hamburg is cordoned off and a small group of people wander across West Germany on the run In doing so they pass Luneburg The city is already cordoned off Fulda becomes a collecting basin for the refugee movement West Germany is in a state of emergency The plague suddenly dies out and the Hamburg disease ends in Southern Germany
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Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
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History
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MARTA was originally proposed as a rapid transit agency for DeKalb Fulton Clayton Gwinnett and Cobb counties These were the five original counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area and to this day are the five largest counties in the region and state MARTA was formed by an act of the Georgia General Assembly in 1965 In the same year four of the five metropolitan area counties Clayton DeKalb Fulton and Gwinnett and the City of Atlanta passed a referendum authorizing participation in the system but the referendum failed in Cobb Although a 1968 referendum to actually fund MARTA failed in 1971 voters in Fulton and DeKalb counties successfully passed a 1 sales tax increase to pay for MARTA operations while Clayton and Gwinnett counties overwhelmingly rejected the tax in the referendum Gwinnett County remains outside of the MARTA system In November 2014 however Clayton County voters passed a 1 sales tax to join the MARTA system reversing its 1971 decision Also in 1971 the agency agreed to purchase the existing busonly Atlanta Transit Company the sale of the company closed on February 17 1972 giving the agency control over all public transit in the immediate Atlanta area Construction began on MARTAs heavy rail system in 1975 with the first rail service commencing on June 30 1979 The system has since built most of the proposed rail lines as well as stations in Dunwoody Sandy Springs and North Springs which were not included in the original plan The missing rail segments from the original plan include a TuckerNorth DeKalb line with service to Emory University and North Druid Hills a Northwest line with service to Brookwood and Northside Drive the extension of the West line to BrownleeBoulder Park near Fairburn Road the extension of the Proctor Creek line to West Highlands and a branch off the south line to Hapeville and Clayton County Georgia State University was contracted to undergo archaeological excavations of rail construction areas in the late 1970s with the MARTA Archeology Project Artifacts from the excavations are still housed at GSU
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Tottenham Hotspur FC
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Statistics and records
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Steve Perryman holds the appearance record for Spurs having played 854 games for the club between 1969 and 1986 of which 655 were league matches Harry Kane holds the club goal scoring record with 280 goals scored Tottenhams record league win is 90 against Bristol Rovers in the Second Division on 22 October 1977 The clubs record cup victory came on 3 February 1960 with a 132 win over Crewe Alexandra in the FA Cup Spurs biggest topflight victory came against Wigan Athletic on 22 November 2009 when they won 91 with Jermain Defoe scoring five goals The clubs record defeat is an 80 loss to 1 FC Koln in the Intertoto Cup on 22 July 1995 The record home attendance at White Hart Lane was 75038 on 5 March 1938 in a cup tie against Sunderland The highest recorded home attendances were at their temporary home Wembley Stadium due to its higher capacity 85512 spectators were present on 2 November 2016 for the 201617 UEFA Champions League game against Bayer Leverkusen while 83222 attended the North London derby against Arsenal on 10 February 2018 which is the highest attendance recorded for any Premier League game The club is ranked No 21 by UEFA with a club coefficient of 800 points as of June 2023
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James Garrard
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Later life and death
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His dispute with the General Assembly over the naming of a land registrar left Garrard embittered and he retired from politics at the expiration of his second term He privately backed Christopher Greenups bid to succeed him in 1804 and Bourbon Countys vote broke heavily for Greenup in the election Although his sons William and James would continue running for public office into the 1830s Garrard never indicated a desire to run again Garrard returned to Mount Lebanon where he developed a reputation as a notable agriculturist His son James oversaw the daytoday operation of the farm and frequently won prizes for his innovations at local agricultural fairs The Mount Lebanon estate was badly damaged by one of the New Madrid earthquakes in 1811 but Garrard insisted on repairing the damage as thoroughly as possible in order to reside there for the rest of his life He imported fine livestock including thoroughbred horses and cattle to his farm and invested in several commercial enterprises including several saltworks which passed to his sons upon his death He died on January 9 1822 following several years of feeble health He was buried on the grounds of his Mount Lebanon estate and the state of Kentucky erected a monument over his grave site
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Skylab V
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Experiments
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Prior to departure about 80 experiments were named although they are also described as almost 300 separate investigations Experiments were divided into six broad categories Life science human physiology biomedical research circadian rhythms mice gnats Solar physics and astronomy sun observations eight telescopes and separate instrumentation Comet Kohoutek Skylab 4 stellar observations space physics Earth resources mineral resources geology hurricanes land and vegetation patterns Material science welding brazing metal melting crystal growth water fluid dynamics Student research 19 different student proposals Several experiments were commended by the crew including a dexterity experiment and a test of webspinning by spiders in low gravity Other human adaptability ability to work dexterity habitat designoperations Because the solar scientific airlock one of two research airlocks was unexpectedly occupied by the parasol that replaced the missing meteorite shield a few experiments were instead installed outside with the telescopes during spacewalks or shifted to the Earthfacing scientific airlock Skylab 2 spent less time than planned on most experiments due to station repairs On the other hand Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 far exceeded the initial experiment plans once the crews adjusted to the environment and established comfortable working relationships with ground control The figure below lists an overview of most major experiments Skylab 4 carried out several more experiments such as to observe Comet Kohoutek
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Works
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The Poetry Foundation lists these works among others A Street in Bronzeville Harper 1945 Annie Allen Harper 1949 Maud Martha Harper 1953 Bronzeville Boys and Girls Harper 1956 The Bean Eaters Harper 1960 We Real Cool Brooks Press 1960 In the Mecca Harper 1968 For Illinois 1968 A Sesquicentennial Poem Harper 1968 Riot Broadside Press 1969 Family Pictures Broadside Press 1970 Aloneness Broadside Press 1971 Report from Part One An Autobiography Broadside Press 1972 Black Love Brooks Press 1982 Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago the I Will City Brooks Press 1983 The NearJohannesburg Boy and Other Poems David Co 1987 Winnie Third World Press 1988 Report from Part Two Third World Press 1996 In Montgomery and Other Poems Third World Press 2003 Several collections of multiple works by Brooks were also published
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Happy Pharrell Williams song
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Music video
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To coincide with the single release the website 24hoursofhappycom was launched It features a visual presentation of Happy advertised as being the worlds first 24hour music video The video was directed by the French directing team We Are from LA with creative director Yoann Lemoine and shot by steadicam operator Jon Beattie It consists of the fourminute song repeated multiple times with various people dancing around Los Angeles and miming along The website allows users to navigate to various points in the 24hour timeframe including all 360 fourminute segments The video featured appearances by Jimmy Kimmel Tyler the Creator Jamie Foxx Magic Johnson Issa Rae Earl Sweatshirt Kelly Osbourne JoJo Sergio Mendes Ryan Heffington Whit Hertford Leah LaBelle Jasper Dolphin and Despicable Me 2 stars Steve Carell and Miranda Cosgrove It held the Guinness world record for the longest music video from 2013 to 2020 when it was surpassed by Twenty One Pilots 178 day long live stream of fan clips for their single Level of Concern A fourminute edit of the video was also released onto the iamOTHER and Pharrells own YouTube channel on November 21 2013 and January 8 2014 respectively both uploads of the video have received over 1 billion views as of April 2024 It was nominated for Best Male Video and Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards The 24hour music video for Happy was also projected at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in April 2014
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Ernest de Silva
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Formative years
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Sir Ernest de Silva was born to one of the most affluent families in Ceylon His parents and grandparents were extremely wealthy and owned much land all over the country His greatgrandfather Emans de Silva Gunasekere and his grandfather S D S Gunasekere bequeathed the properties to his father A E de Silva who later became the wealthiest businessman in Ceylon and named his son Albert Ernest de Silva Jr The young heir received his education first at Royal College Colombo graduated subsequently from Clare College Cambridge and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple He was a close friend of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who was a contemplory of his at Cambridge They met again in 1930 when Nehru arrived for a visit in Ceylon
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Google Play
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Google Play Store on Android
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Google Play Store shortened to Play Store on the Home screen and App screen is Googles official preinstalled app store on Androidcertified devices It provides access to content on Google Play including apps books magazines music movies and television programs Devices do not ship with the Google Play Store in China with manufacturers offering their own alternative Google Play Store filters the list of apps to those compatible with the users device Developers can target specific hardware components such as compass software components such as widget and Android versions such as 70 Nougat Carriers can also ban certain apps from being installed on users devices for example tethering applications There is no requirement that Android applications be acquired using the Google Play Store Users may download Android applications from a developers website or through a thirdparty app store alternative Google Play Store applications are selfcontained Android Package files APK similar to exe files used to install programs on Microsoft Windows computers On Android devices an Unknown sources feature in Settings allows users to bypass the Google Play Store and install APKs from other sources Depending on developer preferences some apps can be installed to a phones external storage card In 2020 Google decided to rewrite the Play Store apps UI code using Jetpack Compose which was in prealpha at the time It stated that the existing code was 10+ years old and had incurred tremendous tech debt over countless Android platform releases and feature updates
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Decompression sickness
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Predisposing factors
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Although the occurrence of DCS is not easily predictable many predisposing factors are known They may be considered as either environmental or individual Decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism in recreational diving are associated with certain demographic environmental and dive style factors A statistical study published in 2005 tested potential risk factors age gender body mass index smoking asthma diabetes cardiovascular disease previous decompression illness years since certification dives in the last year number of diving days number of dives in a repetitive series last dive depth nitrox use and drysuit use No significant associations with risk of decompression sickness or arterial gas embolism were found for asthma diabetes cardiovascular disease smoking or body mass index Increased depth previous DCI larger number of consecutive days diving and being male were associated with higher risk for decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism Nitrox and drysuit use greater frequency of diving in the past year increasing age and years since certification were associated with lower risk possibly as indicators of more extensive training and experience
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Kissena Creek
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Kissena Park
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The creek then turns west and flows into Kissena Lake Located at the northwestern corner of Kissena Park Kissena Lake is fed by the creek and was also fed by a smaller stream from the north that has since been buried with a playground built on top In its center is a bird sanctuary isle constructed following the lakes most recent restoration in 2003 The name of the lake park and creek comes from the Chippewa language meaning it is cold cold place or cool water The site of Flushing MeadowsCorona Park slightly west of Kissena Park was originally part of the ancestral path of the Hudson River and the presentday Kissena Lake was located on the eastern shore of the river A glacier covered much of Long Island where Queens is located and formed a terminal moraine through the center of the island When the glacier receded it created several recesses in the land some of these recesses such as Kissena Lake were filled with water The lake was used as an ice skating and ice harvesting site for much of the 19th century Its use as a recreational site led the city to purchase land around it for a park in 1906 The glaciation also created a natural source of well water for the area Originally the western end of Kissena Lake drained into the creek and was traversed by a bridge similar to Central Parks Gapstow Bridge Kissena Lake was dredged in 1942 as part of a Works Progress Administration initiative This transformed Kissena Lake into a bathtub lake with a concrete shoreline Prior to the renovation Kissena Lake was part of a wetland which was believed to be a worthless type of land during the 20th century Lacking natural aeration and warmed by its shallower depth and concrete shoreline the lake suffered a buildup of algae This necessitated another restoration project which was undertaken in 1983 In 2003 a $23 million restoration drained the lake in stages resulting in its current appearance The city water was replaced with well water an aeration system was installed the concrete bulkheads were replaced with naturallooking materials such as rocks and plants and a small island for birds and turtles was built within the lake
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Universe mathematics
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In a specific context
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Perhaps the simplest version is that any set can be a universe so long as the object of study is confined to that particular set If the object of study is formed by the real numbers then the real line R which is the real number set could be the universe under consideration Implicitly this is the universe that Georg Cantor was using when he first developed modern naive set theory and cardinality in the 1870s and 1880s in applications to real analysis The only sets that Cantor was originally interested in were subsets of R This concept of a universe is reflected in the use of Venn diagrams In a Venn diagram the action traditionally takes place inside a large rectangle that represents the universe U One generally says that sets are represented by circles but these sets can only be subsets of U The complement of a set A is then given by that portion of the rectangle outside of As circle Strictly speaking this is the relative complement U A of A relative to U but in a context where U is the universe it can be regarded as the absolute complement AC of A Similarly there is a notion of the nullary intersection that is the intersection of zero sets meaning no sets not null sets Without a universe the nullary intersection would be the set of absolutely everything which is generally regarded as impossible but with the universe in mind the nullary intersection can be treated as the set of everything under consideration which is simply U These conventions are quite useful in the algebraic approach to basic set theory based on Boolean lattices Except in some nonstandard forms of axiomatic set theory such as New Foundations the class of all sets is not a Boolean lattice it is only a relatively complemented lattice In contrast the class of all subsets of U called the power set of U is a Boolean lattice The absolute complement described above is the complement operation in the Boolean lattice and U as the nullary intersection serves as the top element or nullary meet in the Boolean lattice Then De Morgans laws which deal with complements of meets and joins which are unions in set theory apply and apply even to the nullary meet and the nullary join which is the empty set
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January Uprising
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Background
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Despite the Russian Empires loss of the Crimean War and weakened economic and political state Alexander II warned in 1856 against further concessions with the words forget any dreams There were two prevailing streams of thought among the population of the Kingdom of Poland One had patriotic stirrings within liberalconservative usually landed and intellectual circles centered around Andrzej Zamoyski and hoped for an orderly return to the constitutional status before 1830 they became characterized as the Whites The alternative tendency characterized as the Reds represented a democratic movement uniting peasants workers and some clergy For both streams central to their dilemma was the peasant question However estate owners tended to favour the abolition of serfdom in exchange for compensation but the democratic movement saw the overthrow of the Russian yoke as entirely dependent on an unconditional liberation of the peasantry Just as the democrats organized the first religious and patriotic demonstrations in 1860 covert resistance groups began to form among educated youth Blood was first to shed in Warsaw in February 1861 when the Russian Army attacked a demonstration in Castle Square on the anniversary of the Battle of Grochow There were five fatalities Fearing the spread of spontaneous unrest Alexander II reluctantly agreed to accept a petition for a change in the system of governance Ultimately he agreed to the appointment of Aleksander Wielopolski to head a commission to look into Religious Observance and Public Education and announced the formation of a State Council and selfgovernance for towns and powiats The concessions did not prevent further demonstrations On 8 April there were 200 killed and 500 wounded by Russian fire Martial law was imposed in Warsaw and brutallyrepressive measures were taken against the organisers in Warsaw and Vilna by deporting them deep into Russia In Vilna alone 116 demonstrations were held in 1861 That autumn Russians had introduced a state of emergency in Vilna Governorate Kovno Governorate and Grodno Governorate The events led to a speedier consolidation of the resistance Future leaders of the uprising gathered secretly in St Petersburg Warsaw Vilna Paris and London Two bodies emerged from those consultations By October 1861 the urban Movement Committee Komitet Ruchu Miejski had been formed followed in June 1862 by the Central National Committee CNC Its leadership included Stefan Bobrowski Jaroslaw Dabrowski Zygmunt Padlewski Agaton Giller and Bronislaw Szwarce The body directed the creation of national structures that were intended to become a new secret Polish state The CNC had not planned an uprising before the spring of 1863 at the earliest However Wielopolskis move to start conscription to the Russian Army in midJanuary forced its hand to call the uprising prematurely on the night of 2223 January 1863
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History of Saturday Night Live 20152020
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Cast overhaul: 1995–2005
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With the show being near cancellation Michaels decided to overhaul the show for the 19951996 season The only holdovers from the previous season were Norm Macdonald Mark McKinney Tim Meadows Molly Shannon and Spade Michaels added a number of performers that would become important to the show including Will Ferrell Cheri Oteri and Darrell Hammond The smaller cast also allowed producers to reduce the shows budget which had reached a reported $15 million a week in the previous season Lenny Pickett also took over for GE Smith as leader of the Saturday Night Live Band and Jim Downey was removed as head writer Of the cast members held over from the previous season only Meadows and Spade were actual veterans The other three were still newcomers to the show Macdonald had a few bit parts in his first year the 19931994 season and was the anchor of Weekend Update during the 19941995 season his performance considered a high point in a season widely considered lackluster The new cast members quickly made an impression and revitalised the show particularly with sketches like the Spartan Cheerleaders Mary Katherine Gallagher and the Roxbury Guys Hammond in particular built up an array of popular impersonations including Bill Clinton and Chris Matthews The show focused on performers in this period and writers were forced to supply material for the casts existing characters before they could write original sketches Newer cast members were restricted from filming movies during the season Shannon Oteri and Ana Gasteyer became cast standouts as their characters and impressions gained popularity Journalists said the womens prominence backed by writers like Paula Pell and later Tina Fey signaled a shift to a more femalefriendly SNL where women had greater visibility The rise of women in SNL would continue with the addition of cast members Rachel Dratch Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler in the next few years particularly with Fey and Poehler as the first two womenanchor team on Weekend Update to Kristen Wiig Kate McKinnon Cecily Strong and others in later seasons Tina Fey would become the shows first female head writer in 1999 SNL faced new competition in the form of Foxs sketch comedy show Mad TV which aired a half hour earlier than SNL and featured a more diverse cast Though Mad TV never posed a serious ratings threat to SNL it did at times beat the NBC show in some younger demographics A threehour prime time special aired in September 1999 to celebrate 25 years of the shows airing The show received a new set modelled after Grand Central Terminal in 2003 A widelypublicised incident involving singer Ashlee Simpson also occurred during the 20042005 season where she appeared to lip sync during her second performance appearing flustered when the wrong song was played Simpson was the only musical performer in the shows history to unexpectedly leave the stage midperformance later apologising for the incident and explaining that she had lost her voice earlier in the week
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Mayday
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Bulgaria
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On May Day Bulgarians celebrate Irminden or Yeremiya Eremiya Irima Zamski den The holiday is associated with snakes and lizards and rituals are made in order to protect people from them The name of the holiday comes from the prophet Jeremiah but its origins are most probably pagan It is said that on the days of the Holy Forty or Annunciation snakes come out of their burrows and on Irminden their king comes out Old people believe that those working in the fields on this day will be bitten by a snake in summer In western Bulgaria people light fires jump over them and make noises to scare snakes Another custom is to prepare podnici special clay pots made for baking bread This day is especially observed by pregnant women so that their offspring do not catch yeremiyaan illness due to evil powers
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John Mauchly
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EDVAC
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The ENIAC design was frozen in 1944 to allow construction Eckert and Mauchly were already aware of the limitations of the machine and began plans on a second computer to be called EDVAC By January 1945 they had procured a contract to build this storedprogram computer Eckert had proposed a mercury delayline memory to store both program and data Later that year mathematician John von Neumann learned of the project and joined in some of the engineering discussions He produced what was understood to be an internal document describing the EDVAC The term von Neumann architecture arose from von Neumanns paper First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC Dated June 30 1945 it was an early written account of a generalpurpose storedprogram computing machine the EDVAC Goldstine in a move that was to become controversial removed any reference to Eckert or Mauchly and distributed the document to a number of von Neumanns associates across the country The ideas became widely known within the very small world of computer designers Besides the lack of credit Eckert and Mauchly suffered additional setbacks due to Goldstines actions The ENIAC patent US patent 3120606 issued in 1964 was filed on June 26 1947 and granted February 4 1964 but the public disclosure of design details of EDVAC in the First Draft which were also common to ENIAC was later cited as one cause for the 1973 invalidation of the ENIAC patent
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Paris Peace Conference 19191920
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French approach
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French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau controlled his delegation and his chief goal was to weaken Germany militarily strategically and economically Having personally witnessed two German attacks on French soil in the last 40 years he was adamant for Germany not to be permitted to attack France again Particularly Clemenceau sought an American and British joint guarantee of French security in the event of another German attack Clemenceau also expressed skepticism and frustration with Wilsons Fourteen Points and complained Mr Wilson bores me with his fourteen points Why God Almighty has only ten Wilson gained some favour by signing a mutual defense treaty with France but he did not present it to his countrys government for ratification and so it never took effect Another possible French policy was to seek a rapprochement with Germany In May 1919 the diplomat Rene Massigli was sent on several secret missions to Berlin During his visits he offered on behalf of his government to revise the territorial and economic clauses of the upcoming peace treaty Massigli spoke of the desirability of practical verbal discussions between French and German officials that would lead to a FrancoGerman collaboration Massigli told the Germans that the French thought of the AngloSaxon powers the United States and the British Empire as the major threat to France in the postwar world He argued that both France and Germany had a joint interest in opposing AngloSaxon domination of the world and he warned that the deepening of opposition between the French and the Germans would lead to the ruin of both countries to the advantage of the AngloSaxon powers The Germans rejected Massiglis offers because they believed that the intention was to trick them into accepting the Treaty of Versailles unchanged also the German Foreign Minister Count Ulrich von BrockdorffRantzau thought that the United States was more likely to reduce the severity of the penalties than France was Lloyd George was the one who eventually pushed for better terms for Germany
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The Jitsu Foundation
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Uniform and customs
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Jitsuka wear a plain white or blue keikogi usually referred to simply as a gi which can either be a standard judogi or something slightly lighter Very light gis such as those used in karate are not worn as they are susceptible to damage during groundwork or when using certain throws A coloured belt is worn according to grade as described above In The UK Kyu grades wear a square badge with a white background black surround and the word JiuJitsu in black on the upper right arm Dan grades wear different colour badges as described in the Dan grades section above The badges vary in other countries usually reflecting the country of the student It is customary to rei bow towards the middle of the dojo training hall as one enters or leaves it When stepping on or off the training mat the jitsuka rei to the highest grade currently on the mat or the middle of the mat if it is empty Also at the beginning and end of the session students line up facing the sensei teachers The sensei calls out kiba dachi horse riding stance su dachi standing with feet together and suwaru kneeling position The highest nonteacher grade calls out sensei ni rei whereupon students bow The use of sensei ni rei is used as the highest grade currently attainable within The Jitsu Foundation is Tertiary Fellow Since a Third Dan Tertiary Fellow is still referred to as Sensei sensei ni rei is used However when Shihan Brian Graham was present on the mat the call of shihan ni rei would have been used in respect of his sixth Dan grade and title of Shihan The highestranked teacher then calls otagai ni rei and the teachers bow Before and after training with each other during the session individual pairs of jitsuka also bow to each other This bowing is not a bow of submission obeisance or homage Rather it is one of mutual respect forgiveness for any discomfort caused and thanks for the learning experience Instructors learn too
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Diane Barber
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Early life and education
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Barber was born and raised in Bakersfield California Her father Leo Barber Berberian and mother Helen Barber nee Garabedian were firstgeneration Armenian Americans whose families emigrated from the Anatolia region of Eastern Turkey Karput and Diyarbakir respectively She earned a BS in Biological Sciences in 1975 and MS in Physiology in 1977 from the University of California Davis followed by a PhD in Anatomy under Andrew Soll and John Walsh in 1985 in the Centre for Ulcer Research and Education at the University of California Los Angeles Supported by a National Research Service Award fellowship from the NIH she completed her postdoctoral work under Susan Leeman in the Department of Physiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester MA Her first faculty appointment was as an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the Department of Surgery Section of Anatomy between 19871991 She joined the faculty in the Department of Stomatology and Surgery at the University of California San Francisco in 1992 She is currently a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at the University of California San Francisco
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Anthony van Dyck
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Studio
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Van Dycks success led him to maintain a large workshop in London which became virtually a production line for portraits According to a visitor he usually only made a drawing on paper which was then enlarged onto canvas by an assistant he then painted the head himself The costume in which the client wished to be painted was left at the studio and often with the unfinished canvas sent out to artists specialised in rendering such clothing In his last years these studio collaborations accounted for some decline in the quality of work In addition many copies untouched by him or virtually so were produced by the workshop as well as by professional copyists and later painters The number of paintings ascribed to him had by the 19th century become huge as with Rembrandt Titian and others However most of his assistants and copyists could not approach the refinement of his manner so compared to many masters consensus among art historians on attributions to him is usually relatively easy to reach and museum labelling is now mostly updated country house attributions may be more dubious in some cases The relatively few names of his assistants that are known are Dutch or Flemish He probably preferred to use trained Flemish artists as no equivalent English training existed in this period Van Dycks enormous influence on English art does not come from a tradition handed down through his pupils In fact it is not possible to document a connection to his studio for any English painter of any significance Dutchman Adriaen Hanneman 16041671 returned to his native city The Hague in 1638 to become the leading portraitist there Flemish painter Pieter Thijs studied in van Dycks workshop as one of van Dycks last pupils He became a very successful portrait and history painter in his native Antwerp
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Manmarziyaan
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Plot
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Rumi a young woman is in love with Vicky a parttime DJ One day they are caught by Rumis family and pressure builds for them to get married Rumi promises her family that Vicky will come with his parents to ask for her hand in marriage and if he doesnt show up she will marry whomever her family chooses However nervous and immature Vicky repeatedly gets cold feet Eventually she gives up on him and agrees to an arranged marriage with a mature and responsible banker Robbie Rumi accepts the proposal but the night before the wedding refuses to marry believing Vicky has changed However he backs out again Robbie and Rumi get married the next day She gradually starts getting comfortable with Robbie One day Vicky shows up to tell Robbie about him and Rumi she tells Robbie that she wants to stay married to him He still reminds her that she has a choice She ends up sleeping with Vicky the next day Robbie suspiciously follows Rumi and ends up seeing her with Vicky Robbie realising that Rumi has cheated on him gets heartbroken When confronted Robbie confesses that he loves Rumi but she and Vicky deserve each other The next day Robbie files for an annulment Rumi realizes that she is in love with Robbie and Vicky was never the husband material she was looking for Initially reluctant Vicky leaves Rumi Rumi meets Robbie in court They sign the papers On the way Rumi answers the questions Robbie had asked her Ultimately Robbie forgives her and they reconcile
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Suleiman I of Persia
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Legacy
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The reign of Suleiman I is often seen as the start of the final decline of the Safavid realm According to the modern historian Rudi Matthee Suleiman was what the British historian Hugh Kennedy calls an internal absentee in reference to the tenthcentury Abbasid caliph AlMuqtadir a ruler who had no real appreciation of the constraints and limitations of the financial resources He was a king who never reached political adulthood and was considered a weak and cruel ruler whose indifference and debauchery influenced the decline of the state of his realm Jonas Hanway who visited Iran decades after the Siege of Isfahan calls Suleimans reign remarkable for nothing but a slavish indolence a savage and inhuman cruelty Modern historians who unanimously see him as a failed king According to Hans Robert Roemer the only redeeming aspect of Suleimans personality and regnant was his patronage of arts Suleiman gave up on the concept of siyast or the rulers punitive capacity an indispensable ingredient of statecraft and instead led his grand vizier rule for him As long as he had a competent grand vizier by his side and as long as he himself intervened decisively at crucial moments an idle shah was not necessarily fatal to good governance With Shaykh Ali Khan Suleiman chose a competent grand vizier Yet instead of supporting him wholeheartedly he abused Sheykh Ali and forced him into inactivity Suleiman was the first Safavid king who did not patrol his kingdom and never led an army in these circumstances power became concentrated in the hands of court eunuchs harem women and the Shia high clergy precluding a forwardlooking policy based on a realistic assessment of challenges and opportunities
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Alexander Bogomazov
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Early life
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Oleksandr Bohomazov was born in Yampil Kharkiv Region now Sumy Oblast Ukraine as a second child to Kostiantyn Anisia Bohomazovs The artists father was an accountant who worked at the local sugar factory and later rose to the status of a merchant The boy hardly knew his mother she left the family and remarried a visiting military officer Oleksandr started to show early interest in painting while studying at the gymnasium However his father did not approve of his style considering it too raw and insisted that the boy graduate from the Kherson Agricultural School where he majored in agronomy from 1896 to 1902 But the passion for art prevailed and with the support of his uncle Oleksandr convinces his father to allow him to move to Kyiv and enter the Kyiv Academy of Arts in 1902 In Kyiv Art School Bohomazov was taught by Oleksandr Murashko and Ivan Seleznev while Oleksandra Ekster and Oleksandr Arkhypenko future stars of the avantgarde studied with him In 1905 he was expelled from the school due to his participation in political demonstrations and strikes As of 1906 he studied in the Kyiv studio of Serhiy Sviatoslavskyi and spent the summer of 1907 in Crimea with Oleksa Hryshchenko and Vladimir Denisov fellowstudents in the Sviatoslavskyi studio They rented a wooden house in Vorontsovsky Park just outside Alupka 8 miles southwest of Yalta and sketched from dawn till dusk Bohomazov thereupon left for Moscow studying under Konstantin Yuon and Fyodor Rerberg alongside Malevych before returning to Kyiv in 1908 to participate in the citys first Modernist exhibition Zveno The Link together with David Burliuk Wladimir Burliuk Oleksandra Ekster and others
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Voodoo Dirty Dozen Brass Band album
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Beginnings
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band grew out of the youth music program established by Danny Barker at New Orleans Fairview Baptist Church In 1972 Barker started the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band to provide young people with a positive outlet for their energies The band achieved considerable local popularity and transformed itself into a professional outfit led by trumpet player Leroy Jones and known as the Hurricane Brass Band By 1976 however opportunities for brass bands were drying up Jones left the group to play mainstream jazz and after a brief period as the Tornado Brass Band the group fell apart A few of the musicians from the Tornado bandtrumpeter Gregory Davis sousaphone player Kirk Joseph trombone player Charles Joseph and saxophone player Kevin Harriscontinued to rehearse together into 1977 and they were joined by Efrem Towns trumpet playerlead singer and Roger Lewis on saxophone and Benny Jones and Jenell Marshall on drums By this point the popularity of brass band music in New Orleans was at a low ebb and paying gigs were rare a circumstance which influenced the early development of the band As Davis describes it In the beginning there was a lot of rehearsal going on and we started to develop a repertoire We were just rehearsing and we were interested in learning the chord progressions and the melodies We were all free to bring in whatever we wanted to rehearsal We werent thinking about getting gigs This sense of freedom allowed the band to incorporate bebop tunes and jazz standards into their repertoire as well as lighthearted pieces like The Flintstones theme song When Benny Jones who was active in the social and pleasure club scene was asked to get a band together for a parade he would draw from this rehearsal group before long Gregory Davis assumed leadership of the band I thought it would be better to use the same people as often as I could he explains That helped to keep it tight The band initially called themselves the Original Sixth Ward Dirty Dozen a name created to show their strong connection to the Treme neighborhood and the local social club scene as represented by the Dirty Dozen Social and Pleasure Club The band began playing regular Thursday night gigs at a Seventh Ward club called Daryls and later added a regular spot at the Glasshouse a neighborhood bar in a black neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans which lasted about seven or eight years The performances at Daryls caught the attention of Jerry Brock a radio broadcaster and cofounder of new local radio station WWOZ Brock describes his initial reaction to the band Ill never forget the first time I walked in there The people were so exuberantthe floor was covered with people rolling on the floor This is what the Fairview band and the Hurricane Brass Band had been leading up tothe Dirty Dozen had renewed this music to the New Orleans community The people were going wild Going to Daryls became the weekly ritual
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William Light
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After resignation
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By this time Light had spent a considerable amount of his own fortune on his work and was suffering illhealth He resigned from his position on 21 June 1838 after being directed to survey 150 sq mi 390 km2 within a week and refusing to use less accurate surveying methods for country surveys In July 1838 he formed a private company Light Finniss Co with assistant surveyors B T Finniss arr Cygnet Henry Nixon arr Navarino and William Jacob among those who came out on the Rapid and draughtsman Robert G Thomas being among those who came out on the Cygnet offering a range of services to prospective purchasers of city and country properties and to local government bodies By agreement with the new Governor George Gawler Light surveyed the Port River and for William Finke the town of Glenelg However Light had to resign due to ill health by September after Finniss had taken up a new appointment under Gawler as Deputy SurveyorGeneral His war wounds troubled him and he suffered from tuberculosis but he gained enjoyment from cultivating good crops of vegetables in his garden On 22 January 1839 the Land and Survey Office along with the adjoining huts belonging to Light and Resident Commissioner James Hurtle Fisher and the first Government House burned down taking some of the provinces early records and many of Lights possessions with it The fire was attributed to arson He had just begun work on preparing his journals kept for 30 years for publication having left cases of papers for safety in the survey office and apart from an excerpt already prepared the journals were lost a great blow to Light
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Nabucco pipeline
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Alternative projects
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The main competitor for the original project was South Stream In 2006 Gazprom proposed an alternative project in competition with the Nabucco pipeline that would involve constructing a second section of the Blue Stream pipeline beneath the Black Sea to Turkey and extending this up through Bulgaria and Serbia to western Hungary In 2007 instead the South Stream project through Bulgaria Serbia Hungary and Slovenia to Austria and Italy was proposed On 10 March 2010 CEO of Eni a partner in South Stream Paolo Scaroni proposed to merge Nabucco and South Stream projects to reduce investments operational costs and increase overall returns This proposal was rejected by energy minister of Russia Sergei Shmatko saying that South Stream is more competitive than Nabucco and that Nabucco and South Stream are far from being competitors According to Nobuo Tanaka former executive director of the International Energy Agency the Nabucco pipeline would be more effective in increasing Europes energy security than the South Stream project as it would increase the number of gas suppliers Even more important competitor became TANAP which would follow the Nabuccos original route in Turkey Therefore Nabucco consortium modified the project and sees the modified NabuccoWest as a prolongation of TANAP into Central Europe Nabucco West competed with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline and the Interconnector TurkeyGreeceItaly projects Also liquefied natural gas was seen as competitor to Nabucco and to pipeline projects in general Azerbaijan Georgia Romania and Hungary are developing AzerbaijanGeorgiaRomania Interconnector project which is proposed to transport Azerbaijani gas to Europe in form of LNG Increasing availability of LNG from large gasproducing countries in the MiddleEast and Africa stresses the economic viability of pipelines
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Nordic round churches
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Bibliography
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Ann Catherine Bonnier Goran Hagg Ingrid Sjostrom Svenska kyrkor En historisk reseguide Medstroms bokforlag Stockholm 2008 ISBN 9789173290159 Hugo F Frolen Nordens befasta rundkyrkor en konst och kulturhistorisk undersokning Lars Frolen Stockholm 1911 Rikard Hedvall Kyrkorna i Klastad in Manniskors rum och manniskors moten kulturhistoriska skisser Berit Wallenbergs stiftelse Stockholm 2007 Rikard Hedvall Karin Lindeblad Det medeltida Ostergotland En arkeologisk guidebok Historiska Media Lund 2007 Rikard Hedvall Helmer Gustavson Rundkyrkan i Klosterstad en presentation av ett pagaende projekt Fornvannen argang 1996 PDF 11 MB Digital Fornvannen Riksantikvarieambetet Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek Stockholm 2001 pp 145152 Rikard Holmberg Ett skanskt spridningscentrum for bysantinska kulturimpulser in Fornvannen argang 1970 PDF 21 MB Digital Fornvannen Riksantikvarieambetet Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek Stockholm 1970 pp 120135 Hermann Hinz Die ostskandinavischen Wehrkirchen In Chateau Gaillard etudes de Castellologie medievale Universite de Caen Centre de recherches archeologiques medievales 1983 ISBN 2902685017 Friedrich Laske Die Rundkirchen auf Bornholm und ihr mittelalterlicher Bilderschmuck 2005 ISBN 3980898385 Reprint of the original edition of 1902 Peter Eriksson Lindskog Forsok till en korrt beskrifning om Skara Stift 5 Volumes 18121816 1985 Reprint Erik Lundberg Ostergotlands romanska landskyrkor 1927 Torsten Martensson Borg och rundkyrka Stockholm 1936 Jorgen Rasmussen Thorsager Rundkirke Gennem 800 Ar Bog om kirkens historie og inventar Thorsager menighedsrad 1999 Leif Tornquist Svenska borgar och fastningar En historisk reseguide Varnamo 2007
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Rod Parsley
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Early life and education
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Parsley was born in Cleveland Ohio and was raised primarily in the Columbus area His parents had grown up in eastern Kentucky and his family traveled there often to visit relatives when Parsley was a young boy He still speaks with a noticeable Kentucky accent Parsley was raised as a Free Will Baptist At 8 years old Parsley had a salvation experience during a revival in a small Pentecostal church outside of Columbus As a teenager Parsley encountered the Baptism of the Holy Spirit at Christian Center Church in Gahanna Ohio Giving him a wider perspective of the church and his eventual call to the ministry After graduating from high school he worked in real estate and at a petfood factory Through a series of various events Parsley made the decision go into the work of ministry He enrolled at Circleville Bible College now Ohio Christian University but dropped out after two years As a young pastor Parsley was strongly influenced by Lester Sumrall an Indianabased evangelist missionary and broadcaster Sumrall became Parsleys mentor and the two traveled together often He is married to Joni Parsley They have a son Austin and a daughter Ashton now grown They live near Pickerington a suburb of Columbus
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William Jackson Boston loyalist
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Nonimportation agreement
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In 1767 the merchants of Boston signed a nonimportation agreement in response to the Townshend Acts The aim was to pressure Great Britain into withdrawing what they saw as punitive taxation legislation Author Richard Archer described the committee that drew up this agreement which included John Rowe William Phillips and John Hancock as a veritable whos who of Boston smugglers Most of the merchants did not expect the agreement to apply to existing stock or that they could not sell British goods They had just agreed not to import them In April 1769 a committee was formed to enforce the nonimportation agreement This committee began to demand inspections of merchants premises and forced them to put proscribed goods into storage Initially the nonimportation agreement created by Boston merchants was designed to have a definite time frame specifically between January 1769 and December 1769 The terms were agreed upon and carried out rather successfully Archer additionally wrote On May 2 after a report by the second committee the body of merchants concluded that only six of the 211 signers of the Agreement had broken their word through Inattention by neglecting to countermand their orders placed in the fall This can be seen through two different lenses on one hand the agreement was largely successful but on the other hand it showed that Jackson while in the minority was not the only one who continued to sell imported goods In retrospect it makes sense that Jackson imported British made goods Larger businesses were able to continue profiting during this time period but family owned stores such as the Brazen Head did not have the capital or domestic connections necessary to prosper without importing goods On top of this it was agreed on that the period of nonimportation would continue past 1769 if necessary in an effort to strengthen the colonists stance against the British Nonimportation was not exclusive to Boston and those identified as importers were blacklisted all throughout New England Jackson for example was listed in a newspaper located in New London Connecticut in 1770 The newspaper printed a list of those who audaciously continued to import British goods and singled out specific merchants as traitors to the revolutionary cause This shows the massive influence that the Sons of Liberty and the like had on the general population and how much the organizations propaganda affected the colonial population
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List of Coronation Street characters 2009
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Rick Peach
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Rick Peach was a vicar who was involved in scenes with Sophie Webster Brooke Vincent and Blanche Hunt Maggie Jones During Easter Sunday he allowed people to bring their animals to the church and Simon Barlow Alex Bain brought his rabbit Blanche wasnt happy however after she stood in dog excrement and accused Rick of using the animals as an excuse to get people to come to the church Rick found this funny Sophie revealed that she would be baptised by Rick as he had brought Jesus into her life During a memorial service on Christmas Eve 2010 in respect to the victims of a recent Tram Crash in Coronation Street Rick was conducting the service However it was interrupted with the return of Tracy Barlow Kate Ford who was released from prison
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Cutter GI Joe
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Hardtop
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Hardtop is the designer and driver of the GI Joe Teams Crawler His real name is Nicholas D Klas and his rank is that of sergeant E5 Hardtop was born in Chicago Illinois and was first released as an action figure in 1987 packaged with the Defiant space vehicle launch complex In 2004 he was released as part of the 40 Years of Adventure Tiger Force Box Set at the 2004 GI Joe Convention in Orlando Florida Hardtops primary military specialty is heavy equipment operator and his secondary military specialty is electronics He is a man known for getting the job done without questions for example moving the Crawler to the top of a mountain He is known for being quiet as talking is not one of his priorities Budget cuts later force the closing of the GI Joe space shuttle program Hardtop continues to work with the team as a heavy equipment operator and also becomes their liaison to the National Space Agency Due to later developments with fuel cells he is one of Cobra Commanders most wanted prisoners In the Marvel Comics GI Joe series he first appeared with Payload in issue 64 October 1987 In that issue he almost crushes Crankcases AWE Striker vehicle and BackStops Persuader tank
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Taos New Mexico
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In popular culture
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Taos has been featured in The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca 1960 and And Now Miguel 1966 Country music artist Waylon Jennings sang a song titled Taos New Mexico on his 1967 album Love of the Common People A different song also called Taos New Mexico was a chart hit for Canadian singersongwriter R Dean Taylor in 1972 The song charted in Canada Australia the Netherlands and the US reaching top 40 on the US Adult Contemporary charts The character Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud in the 1977 television series McCloud played by Dennis Weaver was portrayed as being from Taos A businessman from Taos is referenced in the 2022 Charley Crockett song Tom Turkey On September 18 1991 the PBS television series Reading Rainbow shot its 73rd episode The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush here The title was based on a book by Tomie dePaola and was narrated by Harold Littlebird born 1951 Santa Fes Dominic C Arquero introduced himself at this programs beginning The Volkswagen Taos introduced in October 2018 is named after the town to pay tribute to its former resident John Muir a structural engineer who authored a Volkswagen repair book in 1969 In Young Justice Outsiders Taos is the location of the MetaHuman Youth Center a community center formed by the Justice League and STAR Labs to help children and teens victimized by metahuman trafficking
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North East National Board of School Education
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Foreign schools
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According to the official website of CBSE there are 28 government as well as private affiliated schools in different countries outside India The reason of their establishment is largely serving the Indian community abroad or at least children or relative of Indian diplomats For countries where the population of Indian nationals even surpasses the countrys native population or in countries where they form a substantial share of the population like Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Oman Qatar Bahrain etc Indian embassies have set up CBSE schools and have allowed Indians or locals to set up private CBSE schools serving the needs of Indians in that particular country But in countries where Indians do not reside the Indian diplomatic missions have set up schools in countries such as Russia and Iran which mainly serves children of diplomats
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Oil sands
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Refining
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Heavy crude feedstock needs preprocessing before it is fit for conventional refineries although heavy oil and bitumen refineries can do the preprocessing themselves This preprocessing is called upgrading the key components of which are as follows removal of water sand physical waste and lighter products catalytic purification by hydrodemetallisation HDM hydrodesulfurization HDS and hydrodenitrogenation HDN hydrogenation through carbon rejection or catalytic hydrocracking HCR As carbon rejection is very inefficient and wasteful in most cases catalytic hydrocracking is preferred in most cases All these processes take large amounts of energy and water while emitting more carbon dioxide than conventional oil Catalytic purification and hydrocracking are together known as hydroprocessing The big challenge in hydroprocessing is to deal with the impurities found in heavy crude as they poison the catalysts over time Many efforts have been made to deal with this to ensure high activity and long life of a catalyst Catalyst materials and pore size distributions are key parameters that need to be optimized to deal with this challenge and varies from place to place depending on the kind of feedstock present
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Humphrey Lyttelton
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Humphrey Lyttelton Band
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For several years during the postwar period at 100 Oxford Street his regular band included Wally Fawkes the Christie brothers Pat Hawes and Johnny Parker From 1958 Lytteltons favoured lineup was an eightpiece band with three saxophones alto tenor and baritone although this was reduced to seven occasionally to save money But he would sometimes add the baritone again for broadcasts and recordings Lytteltons mainstream band usually included such established musicians as Jimmy Skidmore Joe Temperley Kathy Stobart Jimmy Hastings Mike McKenzie John Barnes Roy Williams and Pete Strange along with new talent such as Tony Coe Alan Barnes John Picard Karen Sharpe and Jo Fooks Lyttelton regarded his band as a family with some members returning to the fold after periods away andor staying for long periods Bruce Turner Stan Greig Adrian Macintosh Stobart Hastings The band maintained a busy schedule frequently performing soldout shows across the country Performances occasionally included a guest singer or a collaboration with another band During the 1990s the band toured with Helen Shapiro in a series of Humph and Helen concerts They also featured in several Giants of British Jazz tours with Acker Bilk and George Melly and John Chiltons Feetwarmers Lyttelton had a long established professional relationship with UK singer Elkie Brooks After working together in the early 1960s they rekindled their working partnership in early 2000 with a series of soldout and wellreceived concert performances In early 2000 the band played on the track Life in a Glasshouse on Radioheads album Amnesiac released the following year In 2003 they released the critically acclaimed album Trouble in Mind and continued to perform occasional concerts Lyttelton introduced American vocalist Stacey Kent to British audiences Lytteltons last band featured apart from himself on trumpet and clarinet Ray Wordsworth on trombone Jimmy Hastings on alto sax clarinet and flute Jo Fooks on tenor saxophone and flute Rob Fowler on tenor sax baritone sax and clarinet Ted Beament on piano John ReesJones on double bass and Adrian Macintosh on drums His last formal recordings one track each on trumpet and clarinet appeared on his last CD Cornucopia 3 CLG CD 46 all of which he supervised Trumpet on the other tracks was played by Tony Fisher He made some recordings as a vocalist After his death part of Lytteltons appearance with his 2007 Band with Karen Sharpe instead of Robert Fowler at the Brecon Jazz Festival in which he was joined by American tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton was shown by BBCtv as a tribute Humphs Last Stand The band continues to give concerts performing his music The trumpet part is played by Tony Fisher with occasional guest spots by singer Sue Richardson and exLytteltonians such as Karen Sharp
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Dressage
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Rider clothing
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Dressage riders like their horses are dressed for formality In competition they wear white cream or palecoloured breeches often fullseat leather to help them stick in the saddle with a white shirt and stock tie with a small pin Gloves are usually white although lessexperienced riders or those at the lower levels often opt for black as white gloves tend to accentuate the movement of a lessexperienced riders unsteady hands The coat worn is usually solid black with metal buttons although solid navy is also seen In upperlevel classes the riders wear a tailed jacket shadbelly with a yellow vest or vest points instead of a plain dressage coat Riders usually wear tall dress boots although field boots or paddock boots with half chaps may be worn by riders at the lower levels Spurs are required at the upper levels and riders must maintain a steady lower leg for proper use A whip may be carried in any competition except in a CDI or a national championship and the length is regulated Whips are not permitted in eventing dressage when entering space around arena or during the test for FEI events Whips no longer than 120 cm are permitted in eventing dressage at any time for USEA tests except USEFUSEA Championships and USEA Championship divisions If the dressage rider has long hair it is typically worn in a bun with a hair net or show bow A hair net blends in with the riders hair color whereas a show bow combines a barrette or hair tie with a small bow and thick hair net and is usually black Lowerlevel riders may use a derby hunting cap or ASTMSEIapproved Equestrian helmet In the United States junior riders and riders through Fourth Level at recognized competitions are required to wear an ASTMSEI approved helmet to protect against head trauma in the event of a fall At the upper levels a top hat that matches the riders coat is traditionally worn though use of helmets is legal and increasing in popularity At FEI competitions members of the military police national studs national schools and national institutes retain the right to wear their service dress instead of the dress required of civilian riders
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Willis family
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Ned Willis
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Ned Willis played by Ben Hall made his first screen appearance on 6 April 2016 Halls casting was announced on 11 March 2016 while the character has been referred to for several years following his offscreen birth Following his initial guest stint Hall later returned to filming and Ned returned on 10 August Ned is the son of Brad Willis Kip Gamblin and Beth Brennan Natalie Imbruglia His introduction united all of Brads children onscreen for the first time Hall explained that Ned has been living with his grandparents in Darwin Ned is a tattoo artist and Hall commented that it would lead to some mischief He also described Ned as being very complex and quite manipulative adding he has had a bit to deal with and its really interesting how his story line pans out The character was reintroduced as a regular on 20 June 2018
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James Francis Edward Stuart
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End of papal support
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Following Jamess death the pope refused to recognise the claim to the British and Irish thrones of his elder son Charles which had severely exacerbated the hostility between England and the Catholic Church Instead from 14 January 1766 in stages over the following decade Rome accepted the Hanoverian dynasty as the legitimate rulers of Britain and Ireland this was accompanied by a gradual relaxation and reform of the antiCatholic penal laws in Britain and Ireland Two months after Jamess death on 14 March the royal arms of England were removed from the doorway of the Palazzo Muti In 1792 the papacy specifically referred to George III as the King of Great Britain and Ireland which elicited a protest from Jamess younger son Henry who was by then the Jacobite claimant
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Novi Pazar
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Economy
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Lying on crossroads between numerous old and new states Novi Pazar has always been a strong trade center Along with the trade the city developed manufacturing tradition During the 20th century it became a center of textile industry Paradoxically during the turbulent 1990s and Novi Pazar prospered even during the UN sanctions boosted by the strong private initiative in textile industry Jeans of Novi Pazar first of forged trademarks and later on its own labels became famous throughout the region However during the relative economic prosperity in Serbia of the 2000s the Novi Pazar economy collapsed with demise of large textile combines in mismanaged privatization and incoming competition from the import As of 2023 Novi Pazar was having around 23000 unemployed inhabitants making it one of the cities in Serbia with the highest unemployment rate around 50 Some of the main reasons for this was unstable political situation during the 1990s and 2000s and underdeveloped infrastructure with no international airports motorways and railways nearby Economic figures The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity as of 2022
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Jack Liebowitz
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Early life
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Jack Liebowitz was born Yacov Lebovitz in Proskuriv presentday Khmelnytsky Ukraine in October 1900 to a Jewish family His mother Mindl never identified his biological father her first husband who had left the family but married Yulyus Lebovitz when her son was three Yacov soon adopted his stepfathers surname and in 1910 the family emigrated to the United States They arrived in the Jewish neighborhood of New York Citys Lower East Side and as was common at the time adopted Anglicized names His parents became Julius and Minnie Liebowitz while he became Jacob soon shortened to Jack Jack was a hardworking child and became a newsboy amongst other small jobs In high school he became adept at accountancy a career he thought would help him escape his poor background
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RomanPersian Wars
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Historical background
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According to James HowardJohnston from the third century BC to the early seventh century AD the rival players in the East were grand polities with imperial pretensions which had been able to establish and secure stable territories transcending regional divides The Romans and Parthians came into contact through their respective conquests of parts of the Seleucid Empire During the 3rd century BC the Parthians migrated from the Central Asian steppe into northern Iran Although subdued for a time by the Seleucids in the 2nd century BC they broke away and established an independent state that steadily expanded at the expense of their former rulers and through the course of the 2nd and early 1st century BC they had conquered Persia Mesopotamia and Armenia Ruled by the Arsacid dynasty the Parthians fended off several Seleucid attempts to regain their lost territories and established several eponymous branches in the Caucasus namely the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia the Arsacid dynasty of Iberia and the Arsacid dynasty of Caucasian Albania Meanwhile the Romans expelled the Seleucids from their territories in Anatolia in the early 2nd century BC after defeating Antiochus III the Great at Thermopylae and Magnesia Finally in 64 BC Pompey conquered the remaining Seleucid territories in Syria extinguishing their state and advancing the Roman eastern frontier to the Euphrates where it met the territory of the Parthians
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Loadfollowing power plant
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Base load and peaking power plants
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Base load power plants are dispatchable plants that tend to operate at maximum output They generally shut down or reduce power only to perform maintenance or repair or due to grid constraints Power plants operated mostly in this way include coal fuel oil nuclear geothermal runoftheriver hydroelectric biomass and combined cycle natural gas plants Peaking power plants operate only during times of peak demand In countries with widespread air conditioning demand peaks around the middle of the afternoon so a typical peaking power plant may start up a couple of hours before this point and shut down a couple of hours after The duration of operation for peaking plants varies from a good portion of the waking day to only a couple of dozen hours per year Peaking power plants include hydroelectric and gas turbine power plants Many gas turbine power plants can be fueled with natural gas fuel oil andor diesel allowing greater flexibility in choice of operation for example while most gas turbine plants primarily burn natural gas a supply of fuel oil andor diesel is sometimes kept on hand in case the gas supply is interrupted Other gas turbines can only burn a single fuel
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Swedish Police Authority
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General structuring
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The agency is headed by the National Police Commissioner who is appointed by the Government and has the sole responsibility for all activities of the police Although formally organised under the Ministry of Justice the Swedish police issimilar to other authorities in Swedenessentially autonomous in accordance with the constitution The agency is governed by general policy instruments and is subject to a number of sanctions and oversight functions to ensure that the exercise of public authority is in compliance with regulations Police officers typically wear a darkblue uniform consisting of combat style trousers with a police duty belt a polo shirt or a long sleeve button shirt and a sidecap embellished with a metal cap badge The standard equipment includes a handgun pepper spray and an extendable baton
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Phila Hach
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Success
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During one of her Paris flight layovers a young tobacco exporter visiting from the United States saw Phila and offered to help her with her luggage He was a wealthy Sorbonneeducated businessman named Adolph Hach Jr Two years after he returned to his home in Clarksville Tennessee he happened to see her again this time on television doing her cooking show After writing to her they met a romance was sparked and they were ultimately married in Clarksville in October 1955 The wedding was a grand affair with a reception for 1000 guests Hach described her husband as a darling fabulous man who spoke five languages He asked her to quit television and to give up flying she asked him to sell his tobacco business After each agreed they began a yearlong honeymoon traveling all over the world before settling in Tennessee to build their dream an inn modeled on the European style It was first called Hachland Hall Bed and Breakfast pronounced holland and was located on Madison Street in Clarksville Tennessee near Nashville Soon after opening they added lunch and dinner service and it became an inn in 1963 The Hachs later added Hachland Hill Vineyard on a 90acre site in nearby Joelton Tennessee for corporate retreats They also developed the Spring Creek Inn which adjoined the vineyard In 2005 they sold the original Hachland Hall in Clarksville and created a new version Hachland Hill on the Joelton site creating a venue which could as of 2009 serve 1500 guests Hach made herself available for talk shows newspaper feature articles and public speaking engagements With a young son at home she did a radio show broadcast from her kitchen She developed relationships with political leaders and celebrities and her tables began to include the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Henry Kissinger Hach said We get more business people for security reasonssmall inns and bed and breakfasts are where people get back to earth where they have a home experience
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Udipur
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Climate
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Udaipur city has a hot semiarid climate The three main seasons summer monsoon and winter respectively dominate the city of Udaipur Being located in the desert lands of Rajasthan the climate and weather of Udaipur is usually hot The summer season runs from midMarch to June and touches temperature ranging from 23 degC 73 degF to 44 degC 111 degF in the months of March to June Monsoons arrive in the month of July heralded by dust and thunderstorms With its greenery and lakes the city is one of the top monsoon destinations of the country The winter season prevails from the month of October till the month of March Humidity which prevails during monsoons diminishes at the arrival of winters The city observes pleasant sunny days and enjoyable cool nights with the temperature ranging from 5 degC 41 degF to 30 degC 86 degF Udaipurs monsoon and winter climates are the most appealing time to visit Tourists arrive in large numbers anytime between midSeptember to late March or early April Even in January the coldest month the days are bright sunny and warm with maximum temperature around 283 degC 829 degF Mornings evenings and nights are cold
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Pilgrim
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In culture
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Some prominent literary characters who were pilgrims include Chaucers The Canterbury Tales recounts tales told by Christian pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral and the shrine of Thomas Becket In the epic poem Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri portrays himself as a pilgrim traveling through the afterlife realms of Hell Purgatory and Paradise John Bunyan depicted multiple pilgrims eg Christian the protagonist Faithful Talkative Christiana Mercy Old Honest Mr Fearing Mr FeebleMind Mr ReadytoHalt and Mr Valiant as well as false pilgrims eg Formalist Hypocrisy and Mr ByEnds in his Christian allegory The Pilgrims Progress 1678 Wilfred of Ivanhoe a palmer medieval Christian from Europe who makes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the titular character of Sir Walter Scotts book Ivanhoe A palmer plays a significant role representing Reason in Book II of Edmund Spensers epic poem The Faerie Queene
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Jewels of Mary I of England
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Jewels at Marys accession
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In April 1553 Lady Mary was given a table diamond with a pendant pearl which had belonged to Anne Seymour Duchess of Somerset At the same time Jane Dudley Duchess of Northumberland was given a tablet locket with a clock enamelled black which had also belonged to the Duchess of Somerset Mary got custody of jewels which had belonged to her father and mother Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon in 1553 when she became queen According to Hugues Cousin le Vieux an Imperial courtier and quartermaster Henry Dudley had taken some jewels and rings from the royal treasury to reward potential supporters of the Duke of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey in France The Imperial ambassador Simon Renard had reported this story as an unconfirmed rumour in July 1553 Some manuscript inventories of jewels from 1553 and published versions or derivatives appear to be connected with Lady Jane Grey Andrew Dudley and Arthur Stourton Keeper of Westminster Palace or with the Duchess of Somerset but the evidence is unclear One list includes a zibellino a sable skin with a gold head with a ruby tongue and gold feet and paws which appears the inventory of Henry VIII Some of the jewels had been issued for weddings and Edward VI had requested by warrant a diamond jewel with a pendant pearl for Mary to wear in April 1553 An inventory of jewels held by the British Library Harley 7376 has marginal notes recording gifts made by Mary in 1553 and later years noting items taken for her coronation and pearls delivered to her embroiderer Guilliam Brallot Mary wore French hoods at this time decorated with gold and jewelset bands of billiments She gave pairs of billiments of goldsmith work to the ladies and gentlewomen in her coronation procession including Mistress Anne Poyntz mother of the maids These billiments were worn at the Royal Entry on 30 September 1553 before Marys coronation Mary wore a caul or veil of tinsel fabric set with pearls and precious stones with a newly made gold circlet or coronet like a hooped garland also set with precious stones According to some chronicle narratives she had to hold these heavy items on her head with her hands These comments may imply misogynistic criticism of the unprecedented female coronation suggesting that the trappings of majesty were too weighty A copy of an inventory of royal jewels made in 1550 was used to record items issued from the Jewel House to Mary On 4 June 1556 she requested a pair of steel and gold bracelets black enamelled each set with 9 small diamonds and 3 larger diamonds
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New Ancient Strings
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Music
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Composed by Diabate the albums eight duets each reinterpret or adapt a piece from the traditional jeli repertoire Two of the eight tracks are new versions of pieces from Ancient Strings under different titles Critics have compared the sound of the kora duets on New Ancient Strings to Western classical music Francis Dordor of the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles likened the albums fusion of traditional and modern elements to a collaboration between the 18thcentury French classical composer Marin Marais and the 20thcentury American minimalist composer Terry Riley Mark Jenkins of the Washington Post said the kora duets suggest Bach more than Robert Johnsondistinguishing New Ancient Strings from Diabates next album Kulanjan a collaboration with the American musician Taj Mahal intended to emphasize continuities between West African music and blues in the United States In terms of resemblance to classical music Diabate and Sissokos duets are similar to their fathers performances on Ancient Strings which Duran said had a very classical feel almost like Bach with an African tinge However Sissoko noted that their playing incorporated techniques that their fathers had never used such as muffling strings and other techniques inspired by flamenco guitar According to critic Simon Broughton the playing on New Ancient Strings sounds much more effortless than Ancient Strings
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High Orbit Ion Cannon
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Legality
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Primarily HOIC has been designed as a stress testing tool and can be lawfully used as such to stress test local networks and servers provided the person initiating the test has authorization to test and as long as no other networks servers clients networking equipment or URLs are disrupted HOIC can also be used to perform distributed denialofservice attacks which are illegal under various statutes The Police and Justice Act 2006 of the United Kingdom amended the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and specifically outlawed denialofservice attacks and set a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison In the United States denialofservice attacks may be considered a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with penalties that include up to ten years of imprisonment In 2013 criminal charges were brought against 13 members of Anonymous for participating in a DDoS attack against various websites of organizations including the Recording Industry Association of America the Motion Picture Association of America the United States Copyright Office of the Library of Congress Visa MasterCard and Bank of America They were charged with one count of conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer for the events that occurred between September 16 2010 and January 2 2011 DDoS attacks are federal offenses in the United States and are prosecuted by the Department of Justice under USC Title 18 Section 1030 In 2013 Anonymous petitioned the United States government via We the People demanding that DDoS attacks be recognized as a form of virtual protest similar to Occupy protests
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University of South Florida
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Libraries
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The USF Tampa Library is the largest and most comprehensive library in the USF System In addition to providing students access to more than 2 million academic journals databases and books the sevenstory USF Tampa library offers tutoring and writing services laptops a career resource center Course Reserves and reservable group study rooms The USF Tampa Library also houses several Special and Digital Collections including literature oral histories photographs artifacts and the university archives In 2012 the USF Tampa Library opened the Science Math and Research Technology SMART Lab a handson learning space which includes more than 300 computer work stations In 2013 USF students successfully protested to keep the library open 24 hours a day5 days a week during the Fall and Spring semesters for current students faculty and staff who possess a valid USF ID card In 2017 renovations were completed on the 5th floor to bring 400 individual study spaces with personal lamps electrical outlets and USB ports for device charging and provided new group study rooms with white boards In addition to the Tampa library the USF Libraries system includes two regional library spaces and the USF Health Libraries The regional library spaces are the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library located on the USF St Petersburg campus and the Information Commons Hub located on the USF SarasotaManatee campus USF Health Libraries serve the USF Health community with two locations the Hinks and Elaine Shimberg Health Sciences Library located on the USF Tampa campus and the Florida Blue Health Knowledge Exchange located at the USF Health campus in downtown Tampa Beyond providing support to USF students staff and faculty the libraries welcome members of the public who are doing health and medicalrelated research of their own
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Emergency medical services in New Zealand
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Communications
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The EMS system in New Zealand is served by three dispatch centres located in Auckland Wellington and Christchurch The dispatch centre in Christchurch provides coverage to the entire South Island and is operated by St John Ambulance The dispatch centre in Auckland provides coverage for the north half of North Island and is also operated by St John Ambulance The dispatch centre in Wellington provides coverage for the southern half of the North Island is jointly operated by Wellington Free Ambulance and St John Ambulance but is staffed by Wellington Free Ambulance personnel All three dispatch centres collaborate and are capable of handling overflow of call volume for one another The communication centre technology is fully integrated and seamless providing a single virtual national dispatch centre To illustrate if an emergency has occurred in Christchurch but those 111 lines are all busy the call will be forwarded to the dispatch centres in either Auckland or Wellington The call will be answered information gathered and placed into the computer network It will then appear as a pending call on the desk of the appropriate dispatcher in Christchurch all seamlessly The national emergency number for ambulances in New Zealand is 111 The three dispatch centres also include significant advanced technologies including AMPDS and Siren software for the triaging and assignment of calls They also include a nationwide network of Automatic Vehicle Location AVL showing the location and current status of every ambulance in the country All dispatchers in New Zealand are certified Emergency Medical Dispatchers EMDs and meet the international standard for that qualification Between them the ambulance dispatch centres process approximately 300000 calls per year originating with the 111 system They also process an additional 800000 calls per year from GPs hospitals requesting transfers medical alarm monitoring companies and from paramedics themselves The telephone triage system used within the communication centres is the internationally regarded Advanced Priority Medical Dispatch System also known as ProQA whereby the caller is interrogated to determine the most appropriate problem detriment to guide the level of response in terms of speed and clinical capability
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