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Pavel Axelrod
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Early life and career
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Pavel Axelrod was the son of a Jewish innkeeper His parents lived in the Jewish poorhouse He was forced to work for a living from a young age though while still in his early teens he produced his first political essay on the condition of the Jewish poor in the Mogilev Region in modernday Belarus At the age of 16 he discovered the writings of the German socialist Ferdinand Lasalle which had a major influence on him Later he obtained a place at Kiev University with financial help from wealthy Jews and organised a political discussion group based on the ideas of PLLavrov In 1874 he was one among hundreds of idealistic students who left the cities to work among the peasants When that experiment failed he emigrated to Geneva where he was converted to anarchism and joined a circle of Russians who followed the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin He returned to Ukraine briefly later in 1875 joined the Land and Liberty party He devoted himself to propaganda work among factory workers in Kiev where in 1879 he and Yakov Stefanovich founded the Workers Union of South Russia Unlike other anarchist groups as well as aiming for the eventual transformation of society on anarchist foundations they also advocated immediate reforms such as democratic freedoms shorter working hours etc The Union disintegrated when Axelrod moved to St Petersburg at the time when Zemlya i Volya split over the issue of whether to assassinate the Tsar Alexander II He was a founder the populist Black Repartition group another of whose leading members was Georgi Plekhanov Axelrod was a moderate within the Russian revolutionary movement with an instinctive dislike of revolutionary violence In 1878 he warned against the possibility of the movement degenerating into Jacobinism He was indignant when two members of Black Repartition Elizaveta Kovalskaya and Nikolai Schedrin told him that they planned to kill a factory owner in Smolensk who locked his workers in the factory overnight with a result that many of them were burned to death when the building caught fire He argued in the journal Volnoe Slovo that the Kiev pogrom was damaging to the proletariat Axelrod emigrated to Switzerland again in June 1880 remaining in exile for 37 years
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Elbert County, Colorado
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Demographics
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At the 2000 census there were 19872 people 6770 households and 5652 families in the county The population density was 11 people per square mile 42 peoplekm2 There were 7113 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile 15km2 The racial makeup of the county was 9522 White 064 Black or African American 063 Native American 037 Asian 009 Pacific Islander 128 from other races and 176 from two or more races 385 of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race Of the 6770 households 4280 had children under the age of 18 living with them 7510 were married couples living together 570 had a female householder with no husband present and 1650 were nonfamilies 1220 of households were one person and 310 were one person aged 65 or older The average household size was 293 and the average family size was 319 The age distribution was 3020 under the age of 18 550 from 18 to 24 3280 from 25 to 44 2550 from 45 to 64 and 600 65 or older The median age was 37 years For every 100 females there were 10060 males For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 9990 males The median household income was $62480 and the median family income was $66740 Males had a median income of $45329 versus $29767 for females The per capita income for the county was $24960 About 250 of families and 400 of the population were below the poverty line including 460 of those under age 18 and 450 of those age 65 or over
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Ljig
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Development
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Development of Iji began in 2004 after Remar learned about and began to use Game Maker Inspired by the animations of Alien 3 and Another World he created a 3D model of the character Iji and started to build a basic platform game around it Remar has stated that the name Iji has no special meaning but that the character and name is a combination of his previous characters and that he wanted the main characters names to be short and easily recognizable The soundtrack for Iji is credited in the game manual to Chris Geehan and Dan Byrne McCullough with additional music from Tom Mauritzon Captain Goodnight and LifeForce The credits song Further is a song from the VNV Nation album Burning Empires covered by the band LifeForce which consisted of Mithra Sadeghati and Kahl Hellmer Not much is known about the band except that Kahl Hellmer later cofounded the band Machinae Supremacy Around 2013 the source code for the game was made available by Daniel Remar Asha later appeared as a playable character in the fighting game Slap City with Ansaksie as an alternate skin for the character
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William Tietz
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Other roles
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While serving as dean of the veterinary college at CSU Tietz was a member of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges AAVMC and served as AAVMC president for a year While serving as president of MSU Tietz also held a number of other positions He was a member of the board of directors of the Montana Energy Research and Development Institute from 1977 to 1985 and served as its chair for two years He served on the Council of Presidents of the National Association of State Universities and LandGrant Colleges now known as the Association of Public and Landgrant Universities from 1977 to 1990 on the board of directors of the Greater Montana Foundation from 1977 to 2004 and on the board of trustees of the Yellowstone Association from 1981 to 1993 serving as chair from 1987 to 1992 Even though retired William Tietz remained active in his local community As of 2007 he served as chair of the Board of Directors of MSUs Burton K Wheeler Center and was a member of Gallatin County Detention Center Planning Committee From 1958 to 2006 he also served on the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease Tietz was made a life member of the group in 2003
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Theatre in education
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Difference between Drama in Education and Theatre in Education
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Two widely used approaches are Drama in Education and TIE Drama in Education In the school curriculum this is both a method and a subject As a curriculum subject it uses various dramatic elements and acting out In many high schools drama is now a separate department In some primary schools it is used to teach a number of subjects Theatre in Education A professional team of trained and experienced actorteachers prepares materials projects and experiments to be presented in schools TIE programmes often involve more than one visit are usually devised and researched by the teamteachers and are for small groups of one or two classes of a specific age The aim of the programmes is educational using theatre drama in education and teaching techniques for educational purposes The number of participation sessions performances and discussions will vary according to location Many theatre companies using TIE start from a strong leftwing or didactic approach to their subject matter questioning societal ideas and values
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Feliks Zemdegs
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Biography
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Feliks Zemdegs is of Latvian descent and his maternal grandmother is Lithuanian Zemdegs bought his first speedcube in April 2008 after being inspired by speedcubing videos and tutorials on YouTube The first unofficial time he recorded was an average of 1973 seconds on 14 June 2008 Zemdegs has a website CubeSkills which includes tutorials on solving the Rubiks Cube and other puzzles There are free algorithm sheets and speedsolving tutorial videos The site also offers a premium membership which enables access to advanced speed solving videos Zemdegs attended St Kevins College Toorak and graduated in 2013 with a perfect study score in VCE English and an ATAR of 9990 Zemdegs has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne majoring in economics with a breadth study track in mechanical engineering As of March 2024 Zemdegs YouTube channel has more than 479000 subscribers In 2020 Zemdegs was one of the primary subjects of the Netflix documentary The Speed Cubers
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Whole Lotta History
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Reception
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Whole Lotta History received generally favourable reviews from most music critics Virgin Media stated that while Girls Aloud do so much better when they shift into uptempo gear the song is one of the Girls better efforts at ballads not quite as saccharine as Ill Stand By You and a good deal more engaging than the turgid See The Day The song received comparisons to ballads by 1990s girl groups Spice Girls and All Saints BBC Music called it a lush ballad reminiscent of the Spice Girls A reporter for The Irish Times compared the song to a subSpice Girls Christmas No 1 while an AllMusic reviewer compared it to 2 Become 1 specifically John Murphy of musicOMH described the song as the best lovelorn ballad since All Saints Never Ever
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Piper Alpha
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Upgrades and production modes
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In 1978 major works were carried out to enable the platform to meet British government gasconservation requirements and to avoid waste from the flaring of excess gas A gas conservation module GCM was added built on top of module B After this work Piper Alpha operated in what was known as phase2 mode ie using the GCM facility In phase2 mode the GCM would treat the gas obtained in the crude oil separation process separate condensate or natural gas liquids NGL from it reinject the condensate in the oil export pipeline to Flotta and compress the gas for export to the pipeline to MCP01 From the end of 1980 until July 1988 phase2 mode was its normal operating state In the late 1980s major construction maintenance and upgrade works were planned by Occidental and by July 1988 the rig was already well into major revamp with six projects identified including the changeout of the GCM unit This meant that the rig was returned to its initial phase1 mode ie operating without the GCM unit only three days before the accident Despite the complex and demanding work schedule Occidental made the decision to continue operating the platform in phase1 mode throughout this period and not to shut it down as had been originally planned The planning and controls that were put in place were thought to be adequate At the time of the accident Piper weighed around 34000 tonnes It continued to export oil at just under 125000 barrels 19900 m3 per day or 10 of the entire production of the UK sector of the North Sea which made it the worlds single largest oil producer and to export Tartan gas at some 33 million cubic feet 930000 m3 per day at standard conditions during this period
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Bernadette Mayer
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Early life and education
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Bernadette Mayer was born in a predominantly German part of Brooklyn New York in 1945 Her parents were as she writes in the autobiographical piece 019 a mothersecretary father draft dodger WWII electrician Mayers parents died when she was in her early teens and her uncle a legal guardian after the passing of her parents died only a few years later She had one sister Rosemary Mayer a sculptor who was a member of similar conceptual art communities during the 1970s and 1980s in addition to being a founding member of the feminist art space AIR Gallery Mayer attended Catholic schools early on where she studied languages and the classics and she graduated from the New School for Social Research in 1967 Mayers work first caught public attention with her exhibit Memory a multimedia work that challenged ideas of narrative and autobiography in conceptual art and created an immersive poetic environment During July 1971 Mayer photographed one roll of film each day resulting in a total of 1200 photographs Mayer then recorded a 31part narration as she remembered the context of each image using them as takingoff points for digression and to fill in the spaces between In the first fullshowing of the exhibit at the 98 Greene Street Loft the photographs were installed on boards in sequential rows as Mayers sevenhour audio track played a single time between the gallerys open and close Memory asked its observer to be a critical student of the work as one would with any poetic text while putting herself into the position of the artist An early version of Memory remembering toured seven locations in the US and Europe from 1973 to 1974 as part of Lucy R Lippards femalecentric conceptual art show c 7500 Memorys audio narration was later edited and turned into a book published by North Atlantic Books in 1976 Memory served as the jumping off point for Mayers next book a 3year experiment in streamofconscious journal writing Studying Hunger Adventures in Poetry 1976 and these diaristic impulses would continue to be a significant part of Mayers writing practice over the next few decades
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Law of Æthelberht
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Manuscript, editions and translations
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There is only one surviving manuscript of thelberhts law Textus Roffensis or the Rochester Book201 The Kentish laws occupy folios 1v to 6v of which thelberhts has 1v to 3v21246 This is a compilation of AngloSaxon laws lists and genealogies drawn together in the early 1120s half a millennium after thelberhts law is thought to have been first written down1 thelberhts law precedes the other Kentish law codes which themselves precede various West Saxon and English royal legislation as well as charters relating to Rochester Cathedral thelberhts law is written in the same hand as the laws of other Kentish monarchs20 The compilation was produced at the instigation of Ernulf bishop of Rochester friend of the lawyerbishop Ivo of Chartres12 Ernulf was a legally minded bishop like Ivo a canon lawyer and judge22 He was responsible for commissioning copies of the AngloSaxon Chronicle at Canterbury Cathedral Priory and Peterborough Abbey as prior and abbot respectively2223 Francis Tate made a transcription of Textus Roffensis c 1589 which survives as British Museum MS Cotton Julius CII Henry Spelman Ecclesiarum Orbis Brittanici London 1639 provided a Latin translation of provisions relating to the church In 1640 Johannes de Laet translated the whole code into Latin Though no original survives several 18thcentury authors copied it251 The first full edition with Latin translation was George Hickes and Humfrey Wanley Linguarum Vett Septentrionalium Thesaurus GrammaticoCriticus et Archaeologicus Oxford 170305252 Many other Latin translations editions of the Kentish laws or Textus Roffensis followed in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries mostly from English and German editors251256 Notable examples include Felix Liebermann Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen Halle 18971916 with German translation Frederick Levi Attenborough The Laws of the Earliest English Kings Cambridge 1922 with English translation Lisi Oliver The Beginnings of English Law Toronto 2002 with English translation In 2014 Rochester Cathedral and the John Rylands University Library of Manchester cooperated to make the complete text available online in facsimile
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1900 Hoboken Docks fire
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Aftermath
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The NDL replaced its Hoboken piers with larger stronger and more fireproof structures The new steel piers were known as Hoboken Pier Nos 1 2 and 3 All of the damaged ocean liners returned to maritime service Saale under a different name the SS J L Luckenbach On the first anniversary of the fire a large granite monument was dedicated in Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen New Jersey above a mass grave containing unidentifiable bodies of the victims listing the names of the dead and missing News stories of the fire had described belowdeck crew trying in vain to force their way through the small portholes while the flames pressed relentlessly upon them The fire prompted arguments that portholes on all ships should be at least 11 in 13 in 28 cm 33 cm in size to make it easier for them to serve as a means of escape Others responded that making portholes larger would be costprohibitive or come at the expense of structural strength In the end regulations required portholes to be big enough for a person of reasonable size to escape
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Soho Square
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Cultural references
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In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Soho Square is where Lucie and her father Doctor Manette reside It is believed that their house is modelled on the House of St Barnabas which Dickens used to visit and it is for this reason that the street running behind the House from Greek Street is called Manette Street it was formerly Rose Street Joseph Addison and Richard Steele wrote of their character Sir Roger de Coverley in The Spectator When he is in Town he lives in SohoSquare In the song Why Cant The English from the musical My Fair Lady Professor Henry Higgins laments Hear them down in Soho SquareDropping Hs everywhere In the novel Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke the eponymous Jonathan Strange and his wife Arabella maintain a home in Soho Square as their residence in London The Soho Square garden contains a bench that commemorates the singer Kirsty MacColl who wrote the song Soho Square for her album Titanic Days After her death in 2000 fans bought a memorial bench in her honour inscribing the lyrics One day Ill be waiting there No empty bench in Soho Square The Lindisfarne album Elvis Lives on the Moon also includes a song named Soho Square
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Haskell County, Oklahoma
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Demographics
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As of the 2010 United States Census there were 12769 people living in the county 749 were White 159 Native American 05 Asian 04 Black or African American 12 of some other race and 70 of two or more races 33 were Hispanic or Latino of any race 84 were of American 73 German 64 Irish and 50 English ancestry As of the census of 2000 there were 11792 people 4624 households and 3380 families living in the county The population density was 20 people per square mile 77 peoplekm2 There were 5573 housing units at an average density of 10 units per square mile 39km2 The racial makeup of the county was 7824 White 061 Black or African American 1460 Native American 029 Asian 045 from other races and 581 from two or more races 150 of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race There were 4624 households out of which 3170 had children under the age of 18 living with them 6060 were married couples living together 910 had a female householder with no husband present and 2690 were nonfamilies 2470 of all households were made up of individuals and 1300 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 252 and the average family size was 300 In the county the population was spread out with 2600 under the age of 18 810 from 18 to 24 2450 from 25 to 44 2420 from 45 to 64 and 1720 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 39 years For every 100 females there were 9570 males For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 9240 males The median income for a household in the county was $24553 and the median income for a family was $29872 Males had a median income of $25493 versus $17462 for females The per capita income for the county was $13775 About 1610 of families and 2050 of the population were below the poverty line including 2510 of those under age 18 and 1860 of those age 65 or over
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Stockport Tiviot Dale railway station
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Station closure
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The station was closed by British Railways on 2 January 1967 with most of its services having fallen victim to the Beeching Axe between 1964 and 1966 The station was demolished the following year The lines through the station remained in heavy use by coal trains heading for Fiddlers Ferry power station near Warrington from the Woodhead Line These however ceased in 1980 when damage was caused to the nearby Tiviot Dale tunnel during construction work on the M63 motorway now M60 motorway and the line temporarily closed for safety reasons The closure was made permanent west of Bredburys stone terminal in 1982 following the demise of the Woodhead route the track was subsequently lifted in 1986 and the tunnel partially filled in The area surrounding the station was further altered at the beginning of the 21st century to allow the construction of a supermarket and office buildings which now block the old trackbed
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Exchange interaction
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Exchange symmetry
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Quantum particles are fundamentally indistinguishable Wolfgang Pauli demonstrated that this is a type of symmetry states of two particles must be either symmetric or antisymmetric when coordinate labels are exchanged In a simple onedimensional system with two identical particles in two states a displaystyle psi a and b displaystyle psi b the system wavefunction can therefore be written two ways a x 1 b x 2 a x 2 b x 1 displaystyle psi ax1psi bx2pm psi ax2psi bx1 Exchanging x 1 displaystyle x1 and x 2 displaystyle x2 gives either a symmetric combination of the states plus or an antisymmetric combination minus Particles that give symmetric combinations are called bosons those with antisymmetric combinations are called fermions The two possible combinations imply different physics For example the expectation value of the square of the distance between the two particles is258 x 1 x 2 2
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Paul A. Chase
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Post-war political and judicial service
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In 1945 Chase was elected president of the Vermont Bar Association and he completed the oneyear term left vacant by the death of Leonard F Wing In January 1946 he was elected to the board of trustees of the Vermont Soldiers Home In November 1946 Chase was the successful Republican nominee to represent Ludlow in the Vermont House of Representatives Chase was serving in the legislature in April 1947 and was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when he was appointed to the Vermont Public Service Commission He was selected to serve as the commissions chairman and held the post until September 1948 when he was appointed a judge on the Vermont Superior Court He advanced through seniority to become the chief judge in March 1953 and served on the court until June 1953 In June 1953 Associate Justice Stephen S Cushing resigned from the Vermont Supreme Court Chase was appointed to the vacancy in keeping with Vermonts tradition of promoting the chief judge of the Superior Court In June 1956 news accounts indicated that Case and his wife were in ill health and had gone to California to recuperate Chase had not informed the governor or the chief justice of his location or the reasons for his absence and the courts caseload backed up because Chase did not complete or submit the opinions assigned to him to author As a result of Chases absence Chief Justice Olin M Jeffords requested his resignation Chase was initially resistant and said he intended to return to work and seek appointment to a new twoyear term in 1957 He later changed his mind and he submitted his resignation in August 1956 He was succeeded on the court by James Stuart Holden
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Robert Mailer Anderson
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Selected works
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Books Boonville Creative Arts Book Company 2001 reprinted HarperCollins 2003 The Death of Teddy Ballgame play Molotov Editions 2016 Films Pig Hunt Windows on the World Albums Executive Producer SFJAZZ Collective The Songs of Stevie Wonder Winner of Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards Honorary Producer SFJAZZ Collective Live 2006 3rd Annual Concert Tour Honorary Producer SFJAZZ Collective Live 2007 4th Annual Concert Tour Executive Producer Edward Simon Venezuelan Suite 2014 Executive Producer Edward Simon Latin American Songbook 2015 Winner of Outstanding Jazz Album at 48th Annual NAACP Image Awards Executive Producer Miguel Zenon Tipico 2017 Grammy nominee for Best Latin Jazz Album 2018 Grammy nominee for Best Latin Jazz Album Associate Producer Miguel Zenon Identities Are Changeable 2017 Latin Grammy nominee for Best Latin Jazz Album Executive Producer David Sanchez Carib Nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and for Outstanding Jazz Album at 51st Annual NAACP Image Awards Executive Producer Windows on the World Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Abdul Reza Pahlavi
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Early life and education
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Abdul Reza Pahlavi was born on 19 August 1924 in Tehran His parents were Reza Pahlavi and Princess Esmat Dowlatshahi the daughter of Prince Mojalale Dowleh Dowlatshahi Qajar She was a member of the Qajar dynasty and the fourth as well as last wife of Reza Pahlavi They married in 1923 Abdul Reza had three brothers and a sister Ahmad Reza Mahmoud Reza Fatemeh and Hamid Reza Pahlavi They lived in the Marble palace in Tehran with their parents During his fathers exile he accompanied him in Mauritius and then in Johannesburg South Africa from 1941 to 1944 During this period there were rumors that the Allies had been planning to install Abdul Reza as king instead of his elder brother Mohammad Reza He studied business administration at Harvard University
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James T. Stewart
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Post-war
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After the war ended Stewart was offered a regular commission and accepted it He attended the Aircraft Maintenance Officer course at Chanute Field in Illinois and in 1947 he returned to the University of Michigan from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1948 He was then assigned to the Air Proving Ground at Eglin Air Force Base where he pioneered techniques for longrange flying using cruise control and the delivery of nuclear weapons from jet fighter aircraft In 1952 during the Korean War Stewart was posted to Far East Air Force headquarters in Tokyo Japan where he established requirements for equipment supervised local modifications and developed the nuclear delivery capability of the Republic F84 Thunderjet fighters In 1954 he became the Far Eastern Air Force assistant deputy chief of staff for operations He later wrote a book Airpower The Decisive Force in Korea 1958 Stewart returned to the United States in 1955 and was assigned to US Air Force USAF headquarters in Washington DC where he was involved with development planning eventually becoming the assistant chief of staff for development planning He attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces from August 1959 to June 1960 and then was assigned to the Air Research and Development Command ARDC at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland as assistant deputy chief of staff for programming and then as assistant deputy chief of staff for systems when the ARDC became the Air Force Systems Command He received a master of business administration degree from George Washington University in 1963 In August 1964 General Stewart was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force as the director Office of Space Systems As such he was also the staff director of the National Reconnaissance Office After briefly serving at the USAF headquarters as director of space in early 1967 he became the vice director of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in March After the project was cancelled he became deputy chief of staff for systems at the Air Force Systems Command and them on June 1970 assumed command of the Aeronautical Systems Division at WrightPatterson Air Force Base in Ohio He retired as a on 1 September 1976 with the rank of lieutenant general Stewarts decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster the Distinguished Flying Cross the Bronze Star Medal the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters the Army Commendation Medal Air Force Commendation Medal with oak lef cluster French Croix de Guerre 19391945 and the United Nations Service Medal
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Lyman Trumbull
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Post-Senate career
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After leaving the Senate in 1873 Trumbull set up a law practice in Chicago He worked in private practice except for a brief period when he ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor as a Democrat in 1880 In January 1883 Trumbull was given a seat of honor at the dedication of the Pullman Arcade Theatre in George Pullmans company town He became a Populist in 1894 According to Almont Lindseys 1942 book The Pullman Strike Trumbull took part in defending Eugene Debs and other labor leaders of the American Railway Union who had been convicted for violating a federal court injunction during the 1894 Pullman railroad strike Trumbull was part of the threemember legal team which included Clarence Darrow when their habeas corpus case In re Debs was heard by the US Supreme Court in 1895 Trumbull died at his home in Chicago on June 25 1896 and was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery
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National Union of the Homeless
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Organizing model
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The National Union of the Homeless used what was called a Johnnie Tillmon model of organizing named for the woman who was the first chair of the National Welfare Rights Organization The model was based two central principles 1 Poverty victims must be at the forefront of the movement to end poverty and 2 You only get what you are organized to take Stemming from principles NUH stressed five interdependent ingredients of organizing 1 teams of organizers identifying and organizing around issues on which people are prepared to act 2 bases operation often associated with survival 3 mutual support networks with wideranging organizations of poor folks and allies 4 internal and external lines of communication 5 nationally connected and educated leaders trained in political and consciousness raising strategy able to unite diverse but related struggles
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Anti-paganism policies of the early Byzantine Empire
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Anti-pagan laws by Marcian (450–457)
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The continued vitality of pagans led Marcian who became emperor of the east in 450 upon the death of Theodosius II to repeat earlier prohibitions against pagan rites Marcian decreed in the year 451 that those who continued to perform the pagan rites would suffer the confiscation of their property and be condemned to death Marcian also prohibited any attempt to reopen the temples and ordered that they were to remain closed In addition to this in order to encourage strict enforcement of the law a fine of fifty pounds of gold was imposed on any judge or governor as well as the officials under him who did not enforce this law However not even this act by Marcian had the desired effect as his successor Leo I the Thracian will have to issue a new antipagan law in 472 Two more laws against paganism which may be from this period are preserved in the Justinian Code After the deposition of Avitus who ruled as emperor of the West from 455 to 456 there seems to have been a conspiracy among the Roman nobles to place the pagan general Marcellinus on the throne to restore paganism but it came to nothing
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LGBT rights in Nebraska
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Legality of same-sex sexual activity
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Prior to European settlement of Nebraska there were no known social or legal punishments for engaging in homosexual activity Among several Native American tribes customs of twospirit individuals existed where malebodied or femalebodied people would dress act and live as the opposite gender as well as perform tasks associated with the opposite gender Such individuals are known as mixuga in the OmahaPonca language spoken by the Ponca and Omaha peoples The Native Americans did not share the typical Western views of gender and sexuality In 1858 a few years after the creation of the Nebraska Territory a prohibition on sodomy crime against nature whether heterosexual or homosexual was passed into law Punishment varied between one year to life imprisonment In the 1910 case of Kinnan v State the Nebraska Supreme Court unanimously ruled that fellatio oral sex was not a violation of the sodomy statute In response the Nebraska Legislature revised certain parts of the law in 1913 outlawing fellatio and reducing the maximum penalty for sodomy to 20 years in jail In 1929 Nebraska amended its sterilization law to make it applicable to state inmates who were feebleminded insane habitual criminals moral degenerates or sexual perverts This law was upheld by the state Supreme Court in In Re Clayton in 1931 By 1934 276 people had been sterilized The law was repealed in 1969 having almost only being used on the insane or mentally retarded All sodomy laws were repealed at the state level when a revised criminal code was enacted in June 1977 effective on July 1 1978 The unicameral Nebraska Legislature accomplished the repeal by overriding the veto of the original legislation by Governor J James Exon by the minimum margin 32 to 15 No other state repealed its sodomy criminalization statute by such a veto override The extent to which the states antisodomy statute was enforced is unclear Nebraska has no published sodomy cases during the 1950s or 1960s Like many other states Nebraska enacted a psychopathic offender law in the years after World War II The Nebraska Bar Association objected when that law was revised to cover a first offense A study showed that 7 of commitments under the law were for consenting adult gay men
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Shabbat
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Secular traditions
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Secular use of Sabbath for rest day while it usually refers to the same period of time Sunday as the majority Christian use of Sabbath is often stated in North America to refer to different purposes for the rest day than those of Christendom In McGowan v Maryland 1961 the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws typically Sunday rest laws were intended to promote the secular values of health safety recreation and general wellbeing through a common day of rest and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days Massachusetts uncharacteristically does not specify which day of the week its Day of Rest statute applies to providing only that one day off from work is required every week an unspecified weekly day off is a very widespread business production cycle The Supreme Court of Canada in R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd 1985 and R v Edwards Books and Art Ltd 1986 found some blue laws invalid for having no legitimate secular purpose but others valid because they had no religious purpose The weekend is that period of the week set aside by custom or law for rest from labor In many countries the nonworking days are Saturday and Sunday and in that case the weekend is often considered to begin when Fridays workday ends This fiveday workweek arose in America when labor unions attempted to accommodate Jewish Sabbath beginning at a New England cotton mill and also instituted by Henry Ford in 1926 it became standard in America by about 1940 and spread among Englishspeaking and European countries to become the international workweek China adopted it in 1995 and Hong Kong by 2006 Businesses in India and some other countries might follow either the international workweek or a more traditional plan that is nearly the same but includes half a day of work on Saturday While Indonesia and Lebanon have the international workweek in most Muslim countries Friday is the weekend alone or with Thursday all or half or Saturday Some universities permit a threeday weekend from Friday to Sunday The weekend in Israel Nepal and parts of Malaysia is Friday all or half and Saturday Only the oneday customary or legal weekends are usually called Sabbath
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El Paso City
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Demographics
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At the 2010 US census 649121 people 216694 households and 131104 families resided in the city The 2019 US Census Bureau estimates determined El Paso had a population of 681728 an increase of 52 since the 2010 census By the 2020 United States census there were 678815 people 230905 households and 162460 families residing in the city The population density was 22630 inhabitants per square mile 8737km2 in 2010 There were 227605 housing units at an average density of 7775 per square mile 3002km2 Of the 216894 households in 2010 376 had children under 18 living with them 485 were married couples living together 207 had a female householder with no husband present and 253 were not families About 215 of all households were made up of individuals and 249 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 295 and the average family size was 347 The 226787 households in 2019 averaged of 297 people per household In the city the age distribution was 291 under the age of 18 75 from 20 to 24 262 from 25 to 44 228 from 45 to 64 and 111 who were 65 or older The median age was 325 years according to census statistics from 2010 As of 2010 the median income for a household in the city was $44431 and for a family was $50247 Males had a median income of $28989 versus $21540 for females The per capita income for the city was $21120 About 173 of families and 203 of the population were below the poverty line including 285 of those under age 18 and 184 of those age 65 or over The 2019 census estimates determined the city had an owneroccupied housing rate of 589 and median value of owneroccupied housing units at $127400 The median gross rent from 2015 to 2019 was $837 From 2015 to 2019 the citys median monthly homeowner cost with a mortgage was $1255 and without a mortgage $429 El Paso had a median household income of $47568 and per capita income of $22734 in 2019 Roughly 19 of the population lived at or below the poverty line
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Commando (comics)
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Publication history
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The comic series then going by the title Commando War Stories in Pictures was launched by DC Thomson of Dundee Scotland in July 1961 It was an addition to the companys already highprofile comics such as The Beano and The Dandy as well as The Victor launched earlier that same year During its launch year two issues were published per month but due to the comics increasing popularity this rose to four a month Since 1971 there have been eight issues published per month As of issue 539 certain stories have been reprinted In September 1993 the comic title changed to Commando For Action and Adventure The last issue to feature the former title was issue 2690 Password to Freedom published in August The first comic to feature the new title was issue 2691 A Race Against Time published the following month As well as the comics annuals were also produced in 1989 and 1990 each containing seven new stories The annuals were in full colour and illustrated in the style of the time not in the original style of the comics At its peak in terms of sales in one month during the 1970s Commandos comics circulation figures reached 750000 according to George Low who began working with Commando in 1963 and retired as editor in 2007 Current circulation is 9600 copies a fortnight per issue Landmark Issue no 4000 of Commando Aces All was released in April 2007 In 2011 Commando Comics celebrated their 50th anniversary of publication having begun in 1961 They issued reprints of several of the early Commando stories from the 1960s Commando in 2011 reprinted in reverse order all of the first twelve issues from 1961 Since 2007 half of Commando issues released have been reprints of earlier stories but the remainder are new and original stories and artwork A book celebrating the best of Commando comics cover art was released in October 2011 In 2011 new editions of Commando became available via digital download In June 2013 it was announced that Commando Comics whilst still owned by D C Thomson based in Dundee would now be printed by GGP Media in Germany Commando released their 5000th issue Zero Hour in March 2017
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Ginn's Furniture Store
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Preservation
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In the early 1980s Kentucky Heritage Council officials travelled throughout Trimble County to conduct a survey of its older buildings for historic preservation purposes As a result of the survey thirtythree buildings and one historic district in the county were nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a multiple property submission19 and all but one of them were added to the Register in 1983 and 1984 By that time just six pre1937 commercial buildings in the downtown were still in existence including Ginns Furniture Store Accordingly it was one of the buildings listed on the National Register in 1983 due largely to its place as a rare survivor among the earlier buildings in Miltons floodplain zone3 Moreover it was deemed to be the areas most significant building from an architectural point of view not just downtown but citywide
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Irumkulangara Durga Devi Temple
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Festivals
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The Painkuni Mahothsavam the major festival of the temple is mostly held in the month of March It lasts for 10 days and ends with Pongala and Ezhunnallathu In 2023 Painkuni Mahothsavam was from 1726 March The main Ulsavam was on 26 March 2023 The other festivals in this temple are Mandala Vratham Festival in connection with the annual Utsavam of Sabarimala Vinayaka Chathurthi Pooja to the Lord Ganapathy Pooja Vaypu Identical to Dussera festival Saraswathy Pooja and Vidyarambham Karthika Kazhchakula Samarpanam Navakabhishekam Karthika Pongala Annadhanam all months Ayilya Pooja Milk flowers etc offered to serpent god and special rites Monthly Pooja in Ayilyam day except in the months of Mithunam and Karkidakom Ayilyolsavam Nagaroottu and Sarpabali in the month of Thulam by Pambumekkattumana Karanavar Brhamasri P S Sreedharan Namboodiripad Ramayana Parayanam and Bhagavathi Seva All days of Karkidakom evening Vavu Bali In the month of Karkidakom
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Employment Act 2008
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Sections 1-7, dispute resolution
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Through the Employment Act 2002 the government had introduced a mandatory statutory dismissal procedure which had been designed to be followed in any case If employers did not follow the procedure before dismissing their employees the dismissal would be deemed automatically unfair This meant that any employer who did not follow the mandatory procedure precisely could face severe penalties even when acting in good faith Section 1 repealed that part of the EA 2002 and with it ERA 1996 s 98A and instead gave tribunals a discretion to adjust the award by 25 if an employer had not complied with the Code of Practice for its industry on dismissal procedure s 3 It also changes procedure for ACAS and employment tribunals Essentially ACAS need only endeavour to reach a settlement rather than having to reach a settlement and if someone does not turn up for a tribunal hearing both parties consent then a judgment can be given by the tribunal without the expense of the hearing ss 47
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Science fiction fandom
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In fiction
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As science fiction fans became professional writers they started slipping the names of their friends into stories Wilson Bob Tucker slipped so many of his fellow fans and authors into his works that doing so is called tuckerization The subgenre of recursive science fiction has a fanmaintained bibliography at the New England Science Fiction Associations website some of it is about science fiction fandom some not In Robert Blochs 1956 short story A Way Of Life sciencefiction fandom is the only institution to survive a nuclear holocaust and eventually becomes the basis for the reconstitution of civilization The sciencefiction novel Gather in the Hall of the Planets by KM ODonnell aka Barry N Malzberg 1971 takes place at a New York City sciencefiction convention and features broad parodies of many SF fans and authors A pair of SF novels by Gene DeWeese and Robert Buck Coulson Now You See ItHimThem and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats are set at Worldcons the latter includes an incharacter introduction by Wilson Tucker himself a character in the novel which is a sly selfparody verging on a selftuckerization The 1991 SF novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn constitutes a tribute to SF fandom The story includes a semiillegal fictional Minneapolis Worldcon in a postdisaster world where science and thus fandom is disparaged Many of the characters are barely tuckerized fans mostly from the Greater Los Angeles area Mystery writer Sharyn McCrumbs Bimbos of the Death Sun and Zombies of the Gene Pool are murder mysteries set at a sciencefiction convention and within the broader culture of fandom respectively While containing mostly nasty caricatures of fans and fandom some fans take them with good humor others consider them vicious and cruel In 1994 and 1996 two anthologies of alternate history science fiction involving World Science Fiction Conventions titled Alternate Worldcons and Again Alternate Worldcons edited by Mike Resnick were published
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Nurture
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Atmosphere, climate, and weather
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The Earths atmosphere is a key factor in sustaining the ecosystem The thin layer of gases that envelops the Earth is held in place by gravity Air is mostly nitrogen oxygen water vapor with much smaller amounts of carbon dioxide argon etc The atmospheric pressure declines steadily with altitude The ozone layer plays an important role in depleting the amount of ultraviolet UV radiation that reaches the surface As DNA is readily damaged by UV light this serves to protect life at the surface The atmosphere also retains heat during the night thereby reducing the daily temperature extremes Terrestrial weather occurs almost exclusively in the lower part of the atmosphere and serves as a convective system for redistributing heat Ocean currents are another important factor in determining climate particularly the major underwater thermohaline circulation which distributes heat energy from the equatorial oceans to the polar regions These currents help to moderate the differences in temperature between winter and summer in the temperate zones Also without the redistributions of heat energy by the ocean currents and atmosphere the tropics would be much hotter and the polar regions much colder Weather can have both beneficial and harmful effects Extremes in weather such as tornadoes or hurricanes and cyclones can expend large amounts of energy along their paths and produce devastation Surface vegetation has evolved a dependence on the seasonal variation of the weather and sudden changes lasting only a few years can have a dramatic effect both on the vegetation and on the animals which depend on its growth for their food Climate is a measure of the longterm trends in the weather Various factors are known to influence the climate including ocean currents surface albedo greenhouse gases variations in the solar luminosity and changes to the Earths orbit Based on historical and geological records the Earth is known to have undergone drastic climate changes in the past including ice ages The climate of a region depends on a number of factors especially latitude A latitudinal band of the surface with similar climatic attributes forms a climate region There are a number of such regions ranging from the tropical climate at the equator to the polar climate in the northern and southern extremes Weather is also influenced by the seasons which result from the Earths axis being tilted relative to its orbital plane Thus at any given time during the summer or winter one part of the Earth is more directly exposed to the rays of the sun This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit At any given time regardless of season the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience opposite seasons Weather is a chaotic system that is readily modified by small changes to the environment so accurate weather forecasting is limited to only a few days Overall two things are happening worldwide 1 temperature is increasing on the average and 2 regional climates have been undergoing noticeable changes
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Nis-Momme Stockmann
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Biography
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NisMomme Stockmann went to DuborgSkolen a Danish gymnasium operated by members of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig After graduating from school he studied Tibetian Language and Culture in Hamburg Media Studies in Odense Denmark and was trained as a cook In 2008 he started studying scenic writing at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin Since 2002 he has been working as a freelance artist writing filming photographing and paintingdrawing In 2005 he founded the Laboratorium a studio and housing project in an empty primary school His multiawardwinning debut play The Man Who Ate The World premiered on 17 December 2009 Since then the play has been restaged at numerous theaters among others at the Residenztheater Munchen and the Theater Basel His plays have been performed at the Deutsches Theater Berlin Schauspiel Frankfurt Staatstheater Stuttgart Residenztheater Munchen Staatstheater Hannover and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe They have been translated into several languages and are also staged abroad eg in France Denmark Italy and Japan Since the 200910 season he has been writer in residence at Schauspiel Frankfurt
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Laundromat (song)
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Release and promotion
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Jive released Laundromat in the UK as a double Aside single with Dont Mess With My Man on the week of April 28 2003 Dont Mess With My Man was previously distributed as a single on June 3 2002 In the US Laundromat was promoted as a single in 2003 first distributed to rhythmic contemporary and urban contemporary radio stations for the week beginning January 21 2003 according to Billboards Carla Hay this occurred even while Dont Mess With My Man was still in heavy rotation at many radio stations Laundromat was made available as a 12inch single cassette and a CD single Nivea did not perform the single live with Kelly and his part was done by a singer named Katrelle The song appeared on the 2003 compilation album Totally RB AllMusics Andy Kellman praised Laundromat as one of its highlights Nzingha Stewart filmed the music video for Laundromat in a laundromat Nick Cannon who had previously collaborated with Kelly was his standin for the video Discussing Kellys absence author Mark Anthony Neal wrote A man accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with minors obviously cannot show up in a music video cooing in the ear of a teenager
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History of Hyderabad
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Ancient history
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Archaeologists excavating near the city have unearthed Iron Age sites that can be dated to 500 BCE The area around Hyderabad was ruled by the Mauryan Empire in the third century BCE during the reign of Ashoka the Great After the death of Ashoka 232 BCE as the Maurya Empire began to weaken and decline the Satavahanas who started out as feudatories to the Mauryan dynasty declared independence and established their empire in this region The Satavahana Empire was a royal Indian dynasty based from Kotilingala in Telangana as well as Junnar Pune and Prathisthan Paithan in Maharashtra The territory of the empire covered much of the Deccan plateau and central India for 450 yearsie from 230 BCE onward until around 220 CE After the decline of the Satavahana Empire in 210 CE the region came under the rule of the Ikshvaku dynasty 225 CE 325 CE the successors of the Satavahanas in eastern Deccan The capital of Ikshvaku dynasty was the town of Nagarjunakonda in modern day Guntur district and named after Nagarjuna a southern Indian master of Mahayana Buddhism who lived in the 2nd century CE who is believed to have been responsible for the Buddhist activity in the area
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Penninghame
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Archaeology
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The National Gallery of Scotland Museum of Antiquities of Scotland has Bronze implements Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell 1885 lists item 48 8 21inch and item 49 2 21inch bronze axes from Penninghame There were between 1200 and 1500 ancient English coins found in a field in the Parish of Penningham showing the heads of King Edward King Alexander etc Some minted in Bristol may have been about AD1280 Some places in north Penninghame which are of interest to archaeologists artists and walkers on the Southern Upland Way are Castle Stewart on lands of Kilcreuchie or Calcruchie north of Newton Stewart Skaithe Motte and Bailey Castle Loch Black Loch which drains into Ochiltree Loch with Mickle Castle between both Lochs Ochiltree Loch with Little or Mickle Castle on the north shore Ochiltree north of Ochiltree Hill Loch Maberry with a castle on the eastern shore The Machars
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Mitzvah goreret mitzvah
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Categories of mitzvot
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The commandments have been divided also into three general categories mishpatim edot and chukim Mishpatim laws include commandments that are deemed to be selfevident such as not to murder and not to steal Edot testimonies commemorate important events in Jewish history For example the Shabbat is said to testify to the story that Hashem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day and declared it holy Chukim decrees are commandments with no known rationale and are perceived as pure manifestations of the Divine will The commandments are divided into positive thou shalt and negative thou shalt not commandments According to Jewish tradition the 613 commandments contain 365 negative commandments and 248 positive commandments Many commandments concern only special classes of people such as kings Kohanim the priesthood Levites or Nazarites or are conditioned by local or temporary circumstances of the Jewish nation as for instance the agricultural sacrificial and Levitical laws Some are sexdependent for example women are exempt from certain timerelated commandments such as shofar sukkah lulav tzitzit and tefillin Three types of negative commandments fall under the selfsacrificial principle yehareg veal yaavor meaning One should let oneself be killed rather than violate it These are murder idolatry and forbidden sexual relations For all other commandments one must violate the commandment if the only alternative is to be killed According to Rabbi Ishmael only the principal commandments were given on Mount Sinai the remainder having been given in the Tent of Meeting Rabbi Akiva on the other hand was of the opinion that they were all given on Mount Sinai repeated in the Tent of Meeting and declared a third time by Moses before his death According to the Midrash all divine commandments were given on Mount Sinai and no prophet could add any new ones
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Zainal Abidin Syah
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West New Guinea dispute
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Parts of West New Guinea had been counted under the Sultan of Tidore since at least the 17th century but after 1949 the Netherlands maintained their colonial rule over the halfisland for its lucrative resources strategic interests secure its economic interests in Indonesia and to repopulate it with fleeing Indo people The Sukarno government strove to incorporate this remaining Dutch East Indies territory in the Indonesian Republic to complete its revolution On 17 August 1956 President Sukarno announced the formation of the Propinsi Perjuangan Irian Barat Struggle Province of West Irian with its capital in Soasiu in Tidore The Indonesian government argued that Papua and its adjacent islands had belonged to the nowIndonesian Tidore Sultanate for hundreds of years He therefore appointed Sultan Zainal Abidin as Governor on 23 September 1956 Presidential Decision 1421956 As kepala of North Maluku he was succeeded by the Sultan of Bacan His tenure coincided with worsening IndonesianDutch relations Diplomatic relations were broken off in 1960 and the Sukarno government began to purchase arms to be able to confront the Dutch positions in New Guinea The military Operation Trikora started in December 1961 and eventually led to a political solution whereby Indonesia annexed West New Guinea 1963 While the operation was going on Zainal Abidins term ended and he was replaced as Governor by P Pamuji in 1962 After his tenure Zainal Abidin withdrew to Ambon where passed away on 4 July 1967 and was buried in the Taman Makam Pahlawan Kapahaha Ambon Heroes Graveyard of Kapahaha Ambon Although he left a son Mahmud Raimadoya no new sultan was appointed as the Sultanate had been practically defunct since some years With the law concerning local government in 1965 the traditional aristocrats in Maluku were no longer accorded a position in the formal government Much later his remains were moved to Tidore where he was reburied on 11 March 1986 at the Sonyine Salaka Golden Yard where the old palace had been situated A titular Sultan from another branch of the dynasty was eventually chosen in 1999
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Multicollinearity
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Numerical issues
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Sometimes the variables X j displaystyle Xj are nearly collinear In this case the matrix X T X displaystyle X^mathsf TX has an inverse but it is illconditioned A computer algorithm may or may not be able to compute an approximate inverse even if it can the resulting inverse may have large rounding errors The standard measure of illconditioning in a matrix is the condition index This determines if the inversion of the matrix is numerically unstable with finiteprecision numbers indicating the potential sensitivity of the computed inverse to small changes in the original matrix The condition number is computed by finding the maximum singular value divided by the minimum singular value of the design matrix In the context of collinear variables the variance inflation factor is the condition number for a particular coefficient
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Ten Thousand Days (album)
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Personnel
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Bebo Norman lead and backing vocals acoustic guitar percussion 8 Mark Stallings acoustic piano 2 5 7 11 Hammond B3 organ 2 7 Wurlitzer electric piano 11 Alan Kaufman accordion 7 Ben Wisch acoustic piano 9 Ed Cash acoustic guitar 1 2 5 7 10 11 percussion 1 3 7 8 backing vocals 1 4 7 8 11 electric guitar 2 4 5 6 10 bass 2 acoustic piano 3 Rhodes 4 6 9 drums 4 10 Wurlitzer electric piano 8 harmonica 11 David Johnson dobro 1 pedal steel guitar 5 8 banjo 11 fiddle 11 Kenny Greenberg electric guitar 4 8 baritone guitar 8 Byron House acoustic bass 1 3 bass 2 5 6 7 11 fretless bass 10 Aric Nitzberg bass 4 8 Jim Brock drums 1 2 6 7 percussion 5 10 Chloe Stephens flute 2 Rann Russell flute 4 Bob Blalock French horn 3 Mark Munson trombone 4 Phil Thompson clarinet 5 10 Jake Austell horns 11 Ed Sweeny horns 11 John Catchings cello 3 10 12 Blair Masters string arrangements 3 5 6 10 Nashville Recording Symphony strings 3 5 6 10 Carey Boaz backing vocals 1 3 Danielle Young backing vocals 2 6 Chad Ellenberg backing vocals 3 Cori Zarovsky backing vocals 5 10
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Waseca Subdivision
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Construction
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The line was originally planned in the 1850s when Minnesota was still Minnesota Territory though it took the formation and collapse of a handful of different railroad companies before it was completely built The first was the Transit Railroad Company which formed in 1854 and included figures such as Henry Hastings Sibley and Alexander Ramsey who soon went on to become the first and second governors of Minnesota respectively though Ramsey had already been an appointed governor of Minnesota Territory However construction didnt begin until a groundbreaking on June 9 1858 in Winona A contract had been awarded the previous day to DeGraff Co headed by Colonel Andrew DeGraff only two weeks after Henry Sibley entered office as governor The company was able to grade 50 miles of rightofway and build bridges along the route but was hit by the 18581859 financial crisis Work stalled and the property eventually went into foreclosure The Winona St Peter Missouri River Railroad Company was awarded the property in 1861 but failed to make sufficient progress toward a goal of having trains up and running to Rochester by a deadline set by the state legislature so ownership transferred to the Winona and St Peter Railroad Company in 1862 The first passenger train operated by Col DeGraff finally ran on December 9 of that year between Winona and Stockton and back and the first freight load was carried the next day This was less than six months after the William Crooks became the first locomotive to run in the state between Saint Paul and St Anthony now Minneapolis Many of miles of track were laid in the following years The railroad reached Rochester in 1864 Kasson in 1865 and Owatonna in 1866 The Chicago and North Western Railway CNW bought the Winona St Peter in 1867 though it continued as a distinct subsidiary until 1900 Though the existing property was transferred to the new owner the underlying land grants that made the line possible were transferred to investors in New York City headed by A H Barney a figure in the early days of Wells Fargo Company Todays subdivision was completed in 1868 with the addition of 16 miles through Waseca though the line continued to be built westward reaching Dakota Territory now South Dakota in 1872 Additional branch lines were added including three in 1878 from Eyota south to Chatfield north from Eyota to Plainview and north from Rochester to Zumbrota A fourth branch off the mainline was made farther west in todays Tracy Subdivision the same year from Sleepy Eye north to Redwood Falls Interchanges were also made between this line and other northsouth rail lines operated by other companies However these branches have largely been abandoned today
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Dornier Do 24
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Variants
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Do 24 V1 Luftwaffe trials aircraft powered by three 450 kW 600 hp Junkers Jumo 205C liquidcooled diesel inline engines Do 24 V2 Luftwaffe trials aircraft similar to V1 Do 24 V3 Dutch trials aircraft with three 660 kW 880 hp Wright R1820F52 Cyclone aircooled radial engines Later became the first Do 24K1 and was the first Do 24 to fly Assigned serial X1 Do 24 V4 Second K1 for Dutch trials Assigned serial X2 Do 24K1 Swiss production by Dornier Dutch license production aircraft 36 built The German civil registration DAYWI was allocated for these for their ferry flights to Holland from Dorniers production facility in Switzerland Do 24K2 Dutch licence production powered by three 750 kW 1000 hp Wright R1820G102 Cyclone engines 1 example completed by Dornier while 13 incomplete airframes were captured by the Germans and modified for airsea rescue with additional hatches and a hoist as 24N1s Do 24N1 13 incomplete Dutch Do 24K2s being built in Holland completed for the Luftwaffe for airsea rescue powered by three 750 kW 1000 hp Wright R1820G102 engines As supplies of spares for the R1820s ran out surviving aircraft were reengined with 645 kW 865 hp BMW 132N radials Do 24T1 French production 48 built Do 24T1 Dutch production for the Luftwaffe powered by three 750 kW 1000 hp BMW Bramo 323R2 Fafnir radial engines 159 built including T2 and T3 Do 24T2 as Do 24T1 with minor changes to equipment and weapons Do 24T3 as Do 24T1 with minor changes to equipment and weapons Do 24 ATT Postwar restorationamphibian conversion with three Pratt Whitney Canada PT6A45 turboprop engines one converted Do 318 One Do 24T modified in 1944 with a boundarylayer control system
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Thirty Years of Maximum R&B
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Manufacturers
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Bass amplifier equipment manufacturers include a variety of different types of companies ranging from companies that only make individual components to companies that only make bass amplifiers and loudspeakers eg GallienKrueger At the other end of the spectrum are companies that offer bass amplification equipment as part of a much broader offering of different types of instrument amplifiers and public address systems eg Peavey Carvin AI or Yorkville Sound Another way of categorizing bass equipment manufacturers is by which part of the market they are targeting While Peavey and Yorkville products are aimed at the generalist mass market some bass equipment manufacturers such as Acoustic Image or Walter Woods make expensive boutique equipment that is aimed at a niche market within the professional musician market Acoustic Image amplifiers and speaker cabinets tend to be used by professional acoustic folk and jazz musicians and Walter Woods amplifiers are associated with professional acoustic jazz bass players
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Salamis Island
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Municipality
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Salamina Island belongs to the Islands regional unit of the Attica region Since the 2011 local government reform the island is administered as one municipality Before the island was divided into two municipalities that became municipal units at the reform Salamina Ampelakia In the municipal unit of Salamina which has a land area of 80992 km2 31271 sq mi and a 2011 census population of 31776 the chief population centre is the city of Salamina also called Salamis Salamis City or Koulouris pop 25888 in 2011 consisting of the districts Alonia Agios Minas Agios Dimitrios Agios Nikolaos Boskos Nea Salamina Tsami and Vourkari Its secondlargest town is Aianteio pop 5888 In the municipal unit of Ampelakia which has a land area of 15169 km2 5857 sq mi and a population of 7507 the largest towns are Ampelakia pop 4998 and Selinia 2509
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Gladys Rockmore Davis
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1925–1936: marriage and family
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In 1925 Gladys Rockmore Davis the name she used for the rest of her career left the studio and became a freelance advertising artist After their marriage the couple moved to New York where Floyd dividing his time between advertising and magazine illustration soon became top man in both fields Art editors had to compete with art directors of advertising agencies for his drawings In 1932 they moved with their two young children to Cannes returning to New York a year later After their return David struggled with commercial work and began studying at the Art Students League She later spent time working with George Grosz Davis painted subjects with which she was familiar Her two children Noel and Deborah posed for many paintings from their babyhood through their youth
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History of Split
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Under Habsburg rule
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The Split region became part of the Kingdom of Dalmatia a separate administrative unit After the revolutions of 1848 as a result of the romantic nationalism two factions appeared One was the proCroatian Unionist faction later called the Puntari Pointers led by the Peoples Party and to a lesser extent the Party of Rights both of which advocated the union of Dalmatia with the Kingdom of CroatiaSlavonia which was under Hungarian administration This faction was strongest in Split and used it as its headquarters The other faction was the proItalian Autonomist faction also known as the Irredentist faction whose political goals varied from autonomy within the AustroHungarian Empire to a political union with the Kingdom of Italy The political alliances in Split shifted over time At first the Unionists and Autonomists were allied against the centralism of Vienna After a while when the national question came to prominence they separated Under Austria however Split can generally be said to have stagnated The great upheavals in Europe in 1848 gained no ground in Split and the city did not rebel Antonio Bajamonti became Mayor of Split in 1860 and except for a brief interruption during the period 186465 held the post for over two decades until 1880 Bajamonti was also a member of the Dalmatian Sabor 186191 and the Austrian Chamber of Deputies 186770 and 187379 In 1882 the Bajamontis party lost the elections and Dujam RendicMiocevic a prominent city lawyer was elected to the post
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Purley, London
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Notable residents
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Michael Arthur ViceChancellor of Leeds University Provost of University College London from September 2013 was born in Purley Jay Aston singer with Bucks Fizz was born in Purley Ronald Binge and his wife Vera lived at 18 Smitham Bottom Lane in the 1950s He composed the wellknown Elizabethan Serenade there Derren Brown magician and mentalist was born and grew up in Purley Kit Connor actor was raised in Purley Peter Cushing OBE actor was born in nearby Kenley and went to school in Purley Brian Fahey composer of At the Sign of the Swingin Cymbal the signature tune to BBC Radios Pick of the Pops Andy Frampton former professional footballer grew up in Purley Shelagh Fraser actress was born in Purley Laura Hamilton TV presenter and Dancing on Ice Contestant lives in Purley Nigel Harman actor was born in Purley Sir Bernard Ingham Margaret Thatchers former press secretary lived in Purley Sir David P Lane oncologist best known for identifying P53 went to John Fisher school in Purley Martin Lee singer with Brotherhood of Man was born in Purley Archibald Low pioneer of radio guidance systems was born in Purley Ray Mears TV survivalist went to school in Purley Ron Noades former chairman of Wimbledon FC Crystal Palace FC and Brentford FC and owner of the Altonwood Golf Group lived in Rose Walk Purley from 1993 until 2013 Innes Hope Pearse doctor and cofounder of the Peckham Experiment grew up in Purley Francis Rossi lead singer of Status Quo lives in the Webb Estate in Purley John Horne Tooke an English politician and philologist lived in Purley at the end of the 18th century where he began writing Epea Pteroenta Or The Diversions of Purley Wilfried Zaha footballer Crystal Palace FC lives in the Webb Estate
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Ottaviano Tenerani
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Discography (selective)
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Georg Friedrich Handel Complete solo sonatas Il Rossignolo SONY DHM Georg Philipp Telemann Telemann virtuoso Il Rossignolo Brilliant Classics Georg Friedrich Handel Germanico Il Rossignolo SONY DHM Giovanni Battista Sammartini Notturni a quattro Il Rossignolo Brilliant Classic Tactus Antonio Vivaldi I concerti per violino et organo obligato Sonate per flauto diritto Il Rossignolo Tactus Benedetto Marcello Sonate per flauto e basso op 2 Opere per clavicembalo Il Rossignolo Tactus AAVV Le sonate per flauto diritto flauto traverso e basso Il Rossignolo Orfeo Alessandro Scarlatti Concerti e Sinfonie Il Rossignolo CPO Giovanni Battista Martini Sinfonie a quattro Il Rossignolo Tactus Giovanni Battista Martini Sei Sonate per lorgano e il cembalo Tactus Orazio Caccini Madrigali et Canzonette a cinque voci Il Rossignolo EMA Francesco Maria Veracini Violin Sonatas Musica Antiqua Roma SONY DHM
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Alan King
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Early life
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King was born in New York City the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Minnie nee Solomon and Bernard Kniberg a handbag cutter He had one older sister Anita Kniberg He spent his first years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan Later Kings family moved to Brooklyn King used humor to survive the tough neighborhoods and performed impersonations on street corners for pennies When he was 14 King performed Brother Can You Spare a Dime on the radio program Major Bowes Amateur Hour He lost first prize but was invited to join a nationwide tour At 15 King dropped out of high school to perform comedy at the Hotel Gradus in the Catskill Mountains After one joke that made fun of the hotels owner he was fired but he spent the remainder of that summer and the one that followed as emcee at Formans New Prospect Hotel in Mountaindale New York He later worked in Canada in a burlesque house while also fighting as a professional boxer he won 20 straight bouts Nursing a broken nose King decided to quit boxing and focus on comedy He worked as a doorman at the popular nightclub Leon and Eddies while performing comedy under the last name of the boxer who beat him King
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Wu Can (Spring and Autumn period)
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Aristocracy
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While the aristocracy of the Western Zhou frequently interacted via the medium of the royal court the collapse of central power at the end of the first half of the dynasty left in its wake hundreds of autonomous polities varying drastically in size and resources nominally connected by bonds of cultural and ritual affiliation increasingly attenuated by the passage of time Whole lineage groups moved around under socioeconomic stress border groups not associated with the Zhou culture gained in power and sophistication and the geopolitical situation demanded increased contact and communication Under this new regime an emergent systematization of noble ranks took root Where the Western Zhou had concerned itself with politics the ancestral temples and legitimacy in the Eastern Zhou politics came to the fore Titles which had previously reflected lineage seniority took on purely political meanings At the top of the bunch were Gong and Hou favoured lineages of old with generally larger territories and greater resources and prestige at their disposal The majority of rulers were of the middling but tiered grades Bo and Zi The rulers of two polities maintained the title Nan A 2012 survey found no difference in grade between Gong and Hou or between Zi and Nan Meanwhile a new class of lowertier aristocrats formed the Shi gentlemen too distantly related to the great houses to be born into a life of wielding power but still part of the elite culture aiming at upward social mobility typically through the vector of officialdom One individual well attested in the process of fixing the ranks of rulers into a coherent scheme was Zichan of Zheng who both submitted a memorial to the king of Chu informing him of the proposed new system in 538 BCE and argued at a 529 BCE interstate conference that tributes should be graded based on rank given the disparity in available resources Alongside this development there was precedent of Zhou kings upgrading noble ranks as a reward for service to the throne giving the recipients a bit more diplomatic prestige without costing the royal house any land During the decline of the royal house although real power was wrested from their grasp their divine legitimacy was not brought into question and even with the king reduced to something of a figurehead his prestige remained supreme as Heavens eldest son Archaeologically excavated primary sources and received literature agree to a high degree of systematization and stability in noble titles during the Eastern Zhou indicating an actual historical process A 2007 survey of bronze inscriptions from 31 states found only eight polities whose rulers used varying titles of nobility to describe themselves
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ARNT2
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Etymology
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The word ant and the archaic word emmet are derived from ante emete of Middle English which come from mette of Old English these are all related to Low Saxon eemt empe and varieties Old Saxon emeta and to German Ameise Old High German ameiza All of these words come from West Germanic maitjon and the original meaning of the word was the biter from ProtoGermanic ai off away + mait cut The family name Formicidae is derived from the Latin formica ant from which the words in other Romance languages such as the Portuguese formiga Italian formica Spanish hormiga Romanian furnica and French fourmi are derived It has been hypothesised that a ProtoIndoEuropean word morwi was the root for Sanskrit vamrah Greek myrmex Old Church Slavonic mraviji Old Irish moirb Old Norse maurr Dutch mier Swedish myra Danish myre Middle Dutch miere and Crimean Gothic miera
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2006 Formula Palmer Audi season
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2006 Autumn Trophy
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The 2006 Autumn Trophy held on consecutive weekends at Snetterton and Brands Hatch in early November heralded the dawn of the next generation of young FPA stars At Snetterton 16yearold T Cars star Luciano Bacheta proved to be a contender winning his very first race in an openwheel car and following it up with a third place and another victory to lead the series at the halfway stage Meanwhile Team USA Scholarship driver Dane Cameron won the second race to remain just two points behind Bacheta At Brands Hatch however Cameron put in a stunning weekend performance on a track the Californian had never driven before winning all three races to become the third American to claim the title Bacheta had to settle for third in the series as the consistent Aaron Steele took the runnerup spot by virtue of podium finishes in all six races The Autumn Trophy was also notable for the openwheel racing debuts of Alex Brundle son of former Formula One driver Martin Brundle and Stefan Wilson brother of ChampCar star and former FPA champion Justin Wilson 2006 Autumn Trophy Schedule
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Tiruchy L. Saravanan
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Education
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Saravanan is also a disciple of the late Sri K S Narayanan senior most disciple of Sri Mali the late V Sundaresan and the eminent violinist Nagai R Muralidharan Saravanan is a Yuvakalabharathy Award winner Trained as a vocalist equally Saravanan incorporates both the demands of vocal and instrumental techniques in his renditions satisfying the needs of the composition rather than the wants of the audience He began at the age of 10 in both vocal and Carnatic flute After several years of schooling in music under renowned teachers he started performing by the age 14 in All India Radio Tiruchy After several years of performing experience he got the rare privilege of learning under the Flute Maestro Dr N Ramani aided by the Govt of India Advanced Learning sponsorship Dr N Ramani himself is the direct disciple of Mali who elevated the status of the flute in Carnatic concerts with vocal techniques Dr N Ramani polished his teachers methodology to high vocal standards and brought a new image and dimension to Indian Classical Music in the 1900s Saravanan being trained under vocal and violin teachers assimilated Dr N Ramanis techniques aptly He performs in Ramanis Academy of Flute regularly and with Dr N Ramani Saravanan has taken part in uniques flute concerts like 5flute concert incorporating a series of flutes in a single concert He has made solo albums with recording companies like Kalavardhini with his own gurus accompanying like the violin exponent Nagai Muralidharan and the famed mridangist Srimushanam V Raja Rao
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United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
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Diplomatic policy
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The diplomatic policy of the United States is created by the president and carried out by the Department of State The departments stated mission is to protect and promote US security prosperity and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive Its objectives during the 20222026 period include renewing US leadership promoting global prosperity strengthening democratic institutions revitalizing the diplomatic workforce and institutions and serving US citizens abroad As of 2022 the United States has bilateral relations with all but four United Nations members The United States government emphasizes human rights in foreign policy Annual reports produced by the Department of State such as Advancing Freedom and Democracy and the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices track the status of human rights around the world The National Endowment for Democracy provides financial aid to promote democracy internationally
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Flow Rate Technical Group
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Nodal analysis
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Uses input from reservoir modeling including pressure temperature fluid composition and properties over time and pressure and temperature conditions at the leak points on the sea floor along with details of the geometries of the well BOP and riser to calculate fluid compositions properties and fluxes from both before and after riser removal George Guthrie National Energy Technology Laboratory Department of Energy Lead Roger Aines Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Department of Energy Grant Bromhal National Energy Technology Laboratory Department of Energy Roy Long National Energy Technology Laboratory Department of Energy David Hetrick Oak Ridge National Laboratory Department of Energy Bryan Morreale National Energy Technology Laboratory Department of Energy Curt Oldenburg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Department of Energy Rajesh Pawar Los Alamos National Laboratory Department of Energy Jud Virden Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Department of Energy
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United States v. Dentsply Int'l, Inc.
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Background
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Dentsply manufactures artificial teeth for use in dentures and other restorative appliances and sells them to dental products dealers The dealers in turn supply the teeth and various other materials to dental laboratories which fabricate dentures for sale to dentists Dentsply has long dominated the industry which consists of a dozen manufacturers with a 7580 market share on a revenue basis and is at least 15 times larger than its next closest competitors which have market shares of 5 or less Dental laboratories sell artificial teeth and other supplies to dealers who sell them to dentists Dentsply sells teeth and other dental supplies to its network of 23 dealers Some other manufacturers sell both to dealers and directly to laboratories but Dentsply does not In 1993 Dentsply adopted Dealer Criterion 6 which provides that in order to effectively promote Dentsply products authorized dealers may not add further tooth lines to their product offering Dentsply does not have term agreements with dealers the relationship is at terminable will Dentsplys top five dealers account for 83 of its sales and Dentsply allowed them to continue to carry other manufacturers products that they were selling in 1993 at the adoption of Dealer Criterion 6 None of Dentsplys dealers has given up Dentsplys product line to take on a competitive line The Government sued Dentsply seeking to enjoin its exclusive dealing
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One Dance, One Rose, One Kiss
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Background and release
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Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa first met at a party shortly after Lipa released her single Be the One 2015 Two years later Harris discovered a halfwritten song that he thought Lipa would sound perfect on Shortly afterwards he contacted Lipa through Twitter DMs while she was in Jamaica and asked if she would like to work on a track which she agreed to Lipa met Harris at his house in Los Angeles while she was on the SelfTitled Tour where he played her his previous song and video to get a feeling for where One Kiss was going Harris desired to create dance music like his previous work ultimately wanting to create a housesounding song with Lipa One Kiss was written by the two and Canadian singer Jessie Reyez although Harris stated that he had little to do with the songs lyrical content It was recorded by Harris in January 2018 at Gods Eyes Studios in Los Angeles with him handling mixing as well at the same studio while the song was mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange Mike Marsh Mastering in Devon On 21 March 2018 Harris changed his Twitter header image to one featuring a QR code in the centre When scanned the code read Calvin Harris Dua Lipa One Kiss The following month both artists announced the song with identical social media posts revealing the blue cover art and the release date One Kiss was released for digital download and streaming on 6 April 2018 through Sony Music and Columbia Records The same day the song was sent for radio airplay in Italy while it impacted contemporary hit radio in the United States on 17 April In the US it was serviced to dance and rhythmic contemporary radio on 10 and 17 April respectively The song was released as a twelveinch single on 20 July 2018 with the songs extended mix as its bside The song was included as the fourth track on the second disc of the reissue of Lipas eponymous debut studio album Dua Lipa Complete Edition released on 19 October 2018
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Cable Street
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Location
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Cable Street starts near the edge of Londons financial district the City of London in southwestern Whitechapel and continues on through to central Shadwell and then to southeastern Stepney to the junction between Cable Street and Butcher Row in Limehouse The street is parallel to and south of the Docklands Light Railway and Commercial Road and north of The Highway The area is close to Wapping and Shadwell Basin to the south Tower Hill to the west and Aldgate to the north Since many Londoners define their locality by the nearest London Underground stations the Cable Street area is often referred to as Shadwell The street is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in postal district E1 It lies within the parliamentary constituencies of Bethnal Green and Bow and Poplar and Limehouse currently represented by Rushanara Ali and Jim Fitzpatrick both of the Labour party
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Yunnan nuthatch
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Distribution and habitat
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The Yunnan nuthatch is endemic to Southwest China and mainly occurs in the prefectures of Yunnan Sichuan and Guizhou A study published in 2003 identified the species being endemic to China and identified the Hengduan Mountains as the main area of endemism but the bird also occurs in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh in India The Yunnan nuthatch is a sedentary species It inhabits pine forests with sparse undergrowth and avoids dense spruce and fir forests Occasionally it occurs on small pine trees 2 to 3 m 66 to 98 ft high in open forests or among scattered groups of trees In the summer it lives at altitudes between 2440 and 3960 m 8010 and 12990 ft above sea level ASL and travels down into valleys during winter to heights up to 1200 m 3900 ft However it has been observed at between 2600 and 4000 m 8500 and 13100 ft between November and January in Shuangbai County
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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC)
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Tribunate
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Tiberius was elected as plebeian tribune for 133 BC While Livys depiction of the domestically placid middle republic is an overstatement the political culture in Rome at this time still was able to find solutions through negotiation peer pressure and deference to superiors There was substantial demand among the poor for land redistribution Tiberius enjoyed unprecedented levels of popularity in bringing the matter before the assemblies Tiberius unwillingness to stand aside or compromise broke with political norms A similar land reform proposal by Gaius Laelius Sapiens during his consulship in 140 BC was withdrawn after bitter opposition and its defeat in the senate Tiberius stubbornness however was motivated in part by his need to recover politically from the affair with the treaty Moreover victory on the matter of the lex agraria would have for Tiberius won him considerable support among the people and buttressed his prospects for higher office His refusals to compromise or withdraw his proposals led to suspicion among the elite that the bill was for his personal and familial political interests instead of his stated objectives The complex motives of Tiberius and his ally and fatherinlaw Appius Claudius Pulcher were not limited to pronatalist policymaking and its concomitant effects for army levies they also may have calculated that land distributions would coopt the loyalties of the soontoreturn Numantine war veterans Passage would have served to balance against Aemilianus political influence he was the commander in the final campaign of the Numantine war after his expected victory
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7/11 (song)
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Background
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On November 5 2014 it was announced through a press release by Parkwood Entertainment that Beyonce would release a platinum edition of her selftitled fifth studio album on November 24 2014 The Platinum Edition contains a disc titled Beyonce More which would include two new songs titled 711 and Ring Off On November 19 2014 30second snippets of the two songs appeared online along with reports that 711 would impact radio stations on November 25 The following day the full versions of both songs surfaced on the Internet 711 was sent to urban contemporary radio stations in the United States on November 25 2014 and contemporary hit radio in Italy on November 28 2014 711 was written by Beyonce Bobby Johnson and Detail while the production was handled by the latter along with Bobby Johnson and Sidney Swift Beyonce further served as the songs vocal producer while the coproduction was finished by Detail and Sidney Swift It was recorded with guidance by Stuart White at two studios Record Plant in Los Angeles and Le Royal Monceau in Paris Ramon Rivas and Jon Schacter served as the assistants of the tracks audio engineering while Tony Maserati and Stuart White were responsible for its mixing The mastering was finished by Dave Kutch at The Mastering Palace in New York City A remix of 711 by Diplo and Skrillex was released
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Greg LeMond anti-doping stance and controversies
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Floyd Landis
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On May 17 2007 LeMond testified at a USADA hearing convened to weigh the evidence of doping by Floyd Landis during the 2006 Tour de France Under oath LeMond described a phone conversation he had with Landis on August 6 2006 as well as another with Landis business manager Will Geoghegan on May 16 2007 the evening before LeMond appeared to testify The major points of the testimony were In an August 6 phone conversation LeMond said he told Landis that If you did admit to having used banned substances you could singlehandedly change the sport You could be the one who will salvage the sport LeMond said Landis responded by saying What good would it do If I did it would destroy a lot of my friends and hurt a lot of people In their conversation LeMond had disclosed his history of childhood sexual abuse to Landis and said the secret had nearly destroyed him LeMond stated he warned Landis Lying about doping will come back to haunt you when you are 40 or 50 If you have a moral compass and ethics this will destroy you Will Geoghegan attempted to stop LeMonds testimony by calling LeMond at his personal mobile phone number LeMond reported that Geoghegan claimed he was his uncle and that he would be at the hearing to talk about what had happened between them LeMonds BlackBerry with Geoghegans phone number captured in the call log was entered into evidence During a break in the testimony Geoghegan was observed by reporters approaching LeMond LeMond later stated to reporters that Geoghegan had admitted making the call and tried to apologize Following the testimony Landis legal team announced that Geoghegan had been fired Landis admitted to being in the same room as Geoghegan when the call was made and defended his decision not to fire Geoghegan until after the LeMond testimony saying he had been waiting for legal advice Landis testified at the hearing that Geoghegan came to know of LeMonds childhood sexual abuse through discussions with the defense team and obtained his personal mobile phone number by syncing their phones together Geoghegan blamed a beer or two for his action and entered an undisclosed rehab facility on May 21 The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Office opened an investigation of the incident as a potential witness tampering and then terminated the case without prosecution on July 31 LeMonds testimony was supported by an online posting Landis made on the Daily Peloton forum in which Landis stated that LeMond had disclosed personal information of a sensitive nature to Landis and Landis threatened to use that information to damage LeMond if LeMond continued to speak out about Landis doping case
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The Monocled Mutineer
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Synopsis
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In 1917 Percy Toplis arrives at Etaples the main depot and transit camp of the British Expeditionary Force in France Instead of being a rest and recuperation area weary troops are put through rigorous training drills in the Bull Ring overseen by brutal NCOs known as Canaries because of the yellow sash they wear on their caps The inhuman conditions begin to deeply affect the British New Zealand and Australian troops staying in the camp but their protests are rebuffed A group mutineers including Toplis take weapons from the camp arsenal attack the NCOs and make their demands directly to the camp commander General Thomson Toplis begins wearing an officers uniform and a monocle After a threeday standoff the camp is retaken and the mutiny ringleaders are executed Toplis switches disguises and returns to London where he meets Dorothy They live together for three years before he rejoins the Army under an assumed name in 1920 After he is recognised by someone who was at Etaples he deserts again Due to the ignominy the British government feels about the wartime mutiny a Special Branch officer is assigned to the hunt Toplis is killed by the officer The matter at Etaples is judged closed
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Environmental issues in Chile
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Prominent issues
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There are a series of environmental issues in this country with a dynamic and diversified economy Chiles main environmental problems are deforestation and the resulting soil erosion From 1985 to 1995 Chile lost nearly 2 million hectares of native forest these forests were destroyed for pulp and made way for industrial tree farms As a result Chile now has the worlds largest expanse of radiata pine tree farms and some of the worlds most endangered native forests Chile had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 73710 ranking it 43rd globally out of 172 countries Air pollution from industry and transportation and water pollution are especially acute in urban centers In 1996 Chiles industrial carbon dioxide emissions totaled 487 million metric tons Untreated sewage poses the major threat to the nations water quality As of 2001 Chile had 928 cu km of renewable water resources While 99 of its urban dwellers have pure drinking water only 58 of its rural dwellers have the same access Chile is one of the major mining countries of the world and bigscale mining also represents an important environmental challenge Severe water shortages affecting many local communities were due not only to persistent drought but to structural problems in the policies governing the exploitation of natural resources including privatized water management this led to major protests
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Wat Buddhananachat of Austin
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Description
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There are two buildings located on the temple complex The first building contains living quarters for the 8 monks as well as a kitchen and the main prayer hall The prayer hall is equipped with icons of Buddhas and Arahants A row of pictures along the wall depicts the life of the Buddha as well as the Buddhas previous incarnations There are also portraits of the royal family of Thailand and an American flag A large sofa is located at the back of the prayer hall for those who cannot sit on the floor The second building contains a large hall used for festivals weddings and other celebrations During the day this space is used by the lay community to sell fresh produce and delicacies such as Thai soup noodles and fried bananas At night the space is often rented out for private parties All of the proceeds from these activities serve to support the monastery The temple grounds also support gardens for produce herbs and flowers Many of the monks enjoy tending the gardens as a pastime
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Dar al-Manasir
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Meals and beverages
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The date fruit is nutritious sweet and can easily be stored all year long The Manasir believe that human beings can survive for years if they just have enough dates and water The Bedouin Manasir alternatively call dates alZad alnegidh with the meaning of the real food for travelling Dry dates are washed moistened in water and offered inbetween and following the two daily meals Date fruits constitute the traditional substitute for sugar and are consumed with tea The Manasir kitchen also uses dates for the following dishes Madidah Balah is a date pudding The dates are boiled until they thicken and subsequently are let to cool Butter can be added on top Kurasah alBalah is a simple dish that consists of the traditional fresh bread called Kurasah topped with small pieces of dates It can be kept for a few days and is used by the Bedouin Manasir as a sweat bread for travel Barbur is the traditional diet for women during the first three days after having given birth No other meals are allowed in order to let the blood out Pieces of dried dates are boiled in water until they develop a consistency between pudding and soup During festivals alcoholic beverages made from dates have been consumed traditionally Sharbut is a common date wine The dates are soaked in water and are fermented in a closed up Sir cf Material Culture of the Manasir for three to fifteen days Nabid The Nabid is a stronger variety of Sharbut A handful of sorghum grains that have just reached the stage of sprouting are dried in the sun and added to the young Sharbut as a substitute for yeast Baqaniah is a date beer Small dried sprouting seeds of sorghum are mixed with dates and are laid out on a watered Birsh cf Material Culture of the Manasir After a couple of days the Birsh is strained and the resulting liquid is cooled in a Sir The drink is considered halaal and given to ailing old people
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June 2006 abduction of United States soldiers in Iraq
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Trial of an Iraqi suspect
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In October 2008 an Iraqi court convicted and sentenced to death Ibrahim Karim Muhammed Salih alQaraghuli for the abduction torture and killing of Menchaca and Tucker Expert testimony linked alQaraghulis fingerprints to bloody prints found on the truck used to drag the bodies of Tucker and Menchaca through the streets of Yusufiyah Two additional suspects were acquitted by the court for lack of evidence The court partially relied on statements of six witnesses who all had failed to show up in court US officials stated that DNA evidence was recovered that tied a second defendant to the killings That evidence however was not addressed by the court due to their refusal to use a US DNA expert and the lack of an available Iraqi expert In 2017 one of the soldiers relatives filed a lawsuit against the Syrian government in a US court
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Sada Abe
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Family background
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Sada Abe was the seventh of eight children of Shigeyoshi and Katsu Abe an upper middleclass family of tatami mat makers in Tokyos Kanda neighborhood Only four of the Abe children survived to adulthood and of those Sada was the youngest Sadas father originally from Chiba Prefecture had been adopted into the Abe family to help with the business which he eventually inherited Aged 52 at the time of Sadas birth Shigeyoshi Abe was described by police as an honest and upright man who had neither conspicuous vices nor any brushes with the law although some acquaintances reported him to be somewhat selfcentered with a taste for extravagance Likewise Sadas mother had no known legal or moral blemishes on her record Sadas brother Shintaro was known as a womanizer and after his marriage ran away with his parents money Her sister Teruko was also known to have had several lovers Sadas father sent Teruko to work in a brothel then not an uncommon way to punish female sexual promiscuity in Japan although he soon bought her back Terukos past was not considered a hindrance to marriage for those of the Abes class at the time and she soon married
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LGBT rights in Kentucky
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Adoption and parenting
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Kentucky permits adoption by individuals or married couples only In February 2009 Senate Bill 68 SB 68 was introduced to the Kentucky Senate by Senator Gary Tapp RWaddy If passed SB 68 would have barred any unmarried cohabiting couples from fostering or adopting children in Kentucky Many Kentucky fairness supporters along with foster and adoption agencies rallied against the bill The Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 68 in a hastily called unadvertised meeting upon Senate adjournment March 5 2009 but it died when the legislative session ended without the full Senate putting SB 68 to a vote This was the first time a piece of antiLGBT legislation had passed a Kentucky Senate Committee without also passing the full chamber On January 5 2010 House Bill 195 HB 195 was introduced to the Kentucky House by Representative Tom Burch DLouisville If passed HB 195 would have redefined stepparent to include any nonrelative adult person who the court finds as sharing parental responsibility for the child The House Health and Welfare Committee held an informational hearing on HB 195 on March 11 2010the firstever hearing of a proLGBT piece of legislation in the Kentucky General Assembly HB 195 did not receive a vote but further informational hearings were requested
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Johnston Center for Integrative Studies
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History of Johnston
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Guided by the example of the Claremont College Consortium in 1965 planning started for an experimental college attached to the University of Redlands The intention was to develop a like consortium of colleges that would strengthen the reputation and resources of all member institutions James Graham Johnston of IBM made the founding grant and three new buildings were constructed exclusively for Johnston The trustees hired Dr Presley McCoy as the first Chancellor An opportunity was made where unique thinkers such as professors from Ivy League and top West Coast Universities who wanted less institutional constraint could creatively interact with the educational desires of bright and talented students who sought with a unique perspective Johnston College opened on September 2 1969 with 89 male and 92 female students Born in the midst of the Free Speech Movement Johnston immediately became controversial Chancellor McCoy declared We have the right to determine our own social rules over the conventions of the university Town and gown relations became further strained when McCoy hired Jeanne Friedman an alleged Communist as a faculty member after her arrest for two felonies at Stanford Johnston College lost support and became a financial burden on the university though it continued to operate as an autonomous unit for approximately 10 years In 1979 it was integrated into the College of Arts and Sciences CAS as the Johnston Center for Individualized Studies It operated under that name until the mid1990s when it was renamed The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies
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Juan López Sánchez
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Early years (1900–1936)
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Juan Lopez Sanchez was born in Bullas Murcia in 1900 where his father was a member of the Civil Guard A few years later his family moved to Barcelona where Lopez worked as a laborer He became involved in politics as a member of the construction union in Barcelona and was imprisoned in 1920 He was released by an amnesty in 1926 and joined the Solidaridad group During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera he fought in the underground and participated in the congress that produced the split between the CNT and the Federacion Anarquista Iberica FAI He stayed with the CNT In 1929 Lopez was part of Angel Pestanas national committee of the CNT He edited Accion in 193031 He was more interested in syndicalism than anarchism and generally supported moves to reduce the anarchist aspects of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo CNT in favor of the syndicalist aspects He was one of the signatories of the Manifiesto de los Treinta Manifesto of the Thirty in August 1931 This manifesto criticized the influence of the FAI in the CNT After the departure of Pestana from the CNT in 1932 Lopez supported collaboration with the government As a signatory of the Manifiesto de los Treinta he was excluded from the anarchistdominated CNT leadership and in 1932 was expelled from the CNT Lopez became a leader of the Sindicatos de Oposicion Opposition Unions Pestana and his allies launched the Federacion Sindicalista Libertaria FSL Anarchist Trade Union Federation in January 1933 Pestana was first secretary of the Federation The FSL at once began involved in the Opposition Unions providing a political ideology to this group just as the FAI was doing with the CNT In January 1934 Pestana and other moderate anarchosyndicalists formed a political party the Partido Sindicalista Lopez and Joan Peiro became the theoretical leaders of the FSL and worked to bring it back into the fold of the CNT At a conference of the Sindicatos de Oposicion in FebruaryMarch 1936 a new national committee was elected that arranged for the unions to rejoin the CNT
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Northern Qi
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Ethnocultural identity
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The Northern Qi although founded by a ruler of mixed HanXianbei origin strongly asserted their Xianbei ethnic cultural identity They regarded surviving ethnic Tuoba themselves also Xianbei and nonHan of the Northern Wei court and as well as literati of all ethnicities as near Han referring to them as Haner or Han kids However they employed Han and sometimes Central Asian courtiers While some Qi elite families had expressed strongly antiHan sentiments due to unclear reasons they may also lay claim to Han elite origin Emperor Wenxuans father Gao Huan himself said different things to Han and Xianbei saying to the Han Chinese that The Xianbei are your clients you give them a measure of grain and a bolt of cloth and they fight for you and enable you to have peace and order why do you hate them and he said in Xianbei to Xianbei people that The Chinese are your slaves they the men farm for you the women make your clothing they bring you your supplies and clothing keeping you warm and full why do you want to suppress them Gao Huan was descended from the Gao family of Bohai of ethnic Han descent in what is now modern Hebei He had become Xianbeified as his family had lived for some time in Inner Mongolia after his grandfather was relocated from Bohai
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Beer bottle
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Lightstruck beer
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Lightstruck or skunked or skunky beer has been exposed to ultraviolet and visible light The light causes riboflavin to react with and break down isohumulones chemicals that contribute to the bitterness of the beer and are derived from the hops A molecule resulting from a subsequent chain of reactions prenylthiol is very similar chemically and in odour to the muskborne mercaptans that are a skunks natural defences It has also been identified as the primary odorant in cannabis that contributes to its skunklike aroma In some cases such as Miller High Life a hops extract that does not have isohumulones is used to bitter the beer so it cannot be lightstruck A dark brown glass bottle gives some protection to the beer but green and clear glass bottles offer virtually no protection at all There are also other solutions available to prevent beer bottled in clear and green glass from becoming skunked or lightstruck such as taller walls on 6pack carriers which is common with craft beers and highlighted in Samuel Adams marketing
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Regional seat of government
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After the Civil Defence Corps
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By the time that the Civil Defence Corps was run down in 1968 following another economic crisis the network was as follows Region 1 Northern Hexham in the Border Country using a former hardened cold store from the Second World War rather than the purposebuilt structure the Home Office originally wanted Region 2 North East Bempton a former ROTOR bunker on the Yorkshire coast Conisbrough near Doncaster a former antiaircraft operations bunker Region 3 North Midlands Skendleby Loughborough a former hardened cold store Region 4 Eastern Bawburgh outside Norwich a former ROTOR bunker Hertford Region 5 London Kelvedon Hatch near Brentwood in Essex a deeply buried former ROTOR bunker Region 6 Southern Basingstoke a protected basement built under the HQ of the Civil Service Commission Dover Castle protected accommodation dated back to the Napoleonic Wars but a large citadel was built here for naval operations during the Second World War Stoughton Barracks Guildford Region 7 South West The Bolt HeadHope Cove RSG near Salcombe Devon Ullenwood a former antiaircraft control on a hilltop site near Cheltenham Spa Region 8 Wales A former ammunitions storage bunker at Brackla Hill Bridgend Sites for a North Wales SRC were considered at Llandudno Junction as well as a protected basement under Government buildings at Ruthin but neither came to fruition Region 9 West Midlands The Drakelow RSG and the former SRC at Swynnerton Staffordshire Region 10 North West There was little existing protected accommodation in the northwest and so a new SRC was built under a technical college at Southport Region 11 Northern Ireland Regional War Room Mount Eden Park Belfast The situation in Scotland remained the same By the 1970s the risk of war had receded dramatically and Britain had been forced to devalue the pound so this network was reduced to a careandmaintenance basis only There was no new construction and no renovation of surplus military accommodation Investment in communications was almost negligible and in the event of a nuclear war the infrastructure would have been largely useless The coming to power of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 led to the last hurrah of UK civil defence A review in 1980 called for the network to be recast as Regional Government Headquarters RGHQ which would be equipped with uptodate communications and either based on the existing SRCs or housed in completely new accommodation The programme was slow to start however and three new sites carried on again in complete secrecy were not completed until the 1980s with only a few years to go before the end of the Cold War made civil defence entirely redundant
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Self-funded health care
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Prevalence
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Historically selffunding has been most effective for large corporations and Fortune 500 companies with over 1000 employees but with the rising cost of healthcare over the past ten years at a rate of close to 10 selffunding has become an option for smaller employers It is now estimated that the average selffunded plan covers 300400 employees and that of private sector employees that have a workplace health plan 59 were covered by a plan that is at least in part selfinsured While some large employers selfadminister their self funded group health plan most find it necessary to contract with a third party for assistance in claims adjudication and payment Third party administrators TPAs provide these and other services such as access to preferred provider networks prescription drug card programs utilization review and the stop loss insurance market Insurance companies offer similar services under what is frequently described as administrative services only or ASO contracts In these arrangements the insurance company provides the typical third party administration services but assume no risk for claims payment Perhaps the biggest advantage of selffunded plans is transparency of claims data Selffunded employers who contract a TPA receive a monthly report detailing medical claims and pharmacy costs Knowing this information becomes instrumental in controlling costs by shifting buying patterns Other advantages include plan flexibility access to national PPO networks and financial savings
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Nova Scotia Party
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History of the NDP
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When reading about government party it is important to know where the party as a whole started off what struggles the party had to face and what major moments the party had to bring itself into becoming more popular gain more power In the 1960s and 1970s some members of the NDP tried to get the NDP party to shift more to the left on the political spectrum This is something that some members wanted to do when looking at Quebec Separatism After the 1980s the NDP party struggled to gain any support in Quebec until 2005 when the NDP passed the Sherbrooke declaration and the unity bill in 2013 which showed support to Quebecs selfdetermination Another important part NDP history is when the party was first created The party was first created to replace the CLC The idea behind replacing the CLC with the NDP was that the NDP would get a lot of votes and the NDP would also grow a connection with organized labour union members This plan did not work Archer 1990 The NDP had a good relationship with the Canadian Labour Movement but in recent years the relationship has gain some stresses The creation of the NDP followed decades of ideological divisions that impeded comprehensive trade union involvement in Canadian electoral politics The significant decline of communism as a political force within the labor movement the dilution of Gomperist attitudes due to the merger of the craftbased Trades and Labor Congress with the industrialbased Canadian Congress of Labour in 1956 the growing rejection of conservative Catholic trade unionism in Quebec and the electoral decline of the NDPs agrarian forerunner the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation CCF all played an important role in setting the stage for the creation of a new social democratic party in Canada A second large focus for the NDP is women indigenous people and other members of minority groups The NDP believe that race and gender still play a big role in todays politics even though in todays world everything is supposed to be equal The NDP are trying to change the race and gender norms in political parties The NDP showing support for these minority groups can have a very large positive impact for the party It can help them gain support and votes that they have not had in past years
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Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
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Electrification
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In the early 1960s electrification of suburban routes around Glasgow was being implemented using the 25 kV AC overhead system After several routes had been electrified in October 1964 the Gourock and Wemyss Bay lines were authorised for treatment The Glasgow and Paisley Joint Line was quadruple track but was reduced to double track as part of the work and the Wemyss Bay branch was mostly singled There are many areas on the line where you can still see where the line was doubled Most bridges can be seen to have abutments wide enough for two lines even although the steel bridges present today are single Parallel tunnels exist at both Whinhill and Inverkip where one tunnel has been closed and the second tunnel was retrofitted for Electrification and remains in use today A pair of viaducts existed in Inverkip During Electrification the steel bridge to the north was removed but the supports that once carried the second line are very much still evident when walking up the Glen 19 threecar units were ordered for the services from Cravens part of the Metro Cammell group the units became class 311 The electric train service started on 5 September 1967
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Seiko Hashimoto
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Political career
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Seiko deals with health issues in politics and a decline in birth rate and she is the Minister in Charge of Womens Empowerment She hopes that young women participate in politics and that their voices should be directly reflected in it As of 2020 the National Diet of Japan is 102 women Hashimoto resigned from Fuji Kyuko in 1993 and was elected to the House of Councilors in 1995 winning reelection in three subsequent elections She competed in the Olympics while serving as a lawmaker in 1996 She served as ViceMinister for Hokkaido Development from 2000 to 2001 as chair of the Education Committee from 2001 to 2003 as deputy secretarygeneral of the LDP from 2003 and as state secretary senior viceminister for foreign affairs under the Taro Aso administration 20082009 Following the resignation of Tokyo governor Naoki Inose on 19 December 2013 she was rumored to be a potential candidate for the gubernatorial election expected to be held in February 2014 along with Yuriko Koike Hakubun Shimomura Hideo Higashikokubaru and Yoichi Masuzoe The LDP excluded her name from consideration in a December 20 telephone poll due to her responsibilities as head of the Japanese competitor delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics Seiko had to leave her position as one of two women in Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugas cabinet to accept her role in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics committee In April 2024 Hashimoto was given 12 months suspension from the party office because of the slush funds scandal It has been revealed that Hashimoto received 2057 million yen in kickbacks from Liberal Democratic Party and Abe faction which was not recorded in the income and expenditure report
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Chris Haslam (skateboarder)
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Company owner
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In July 2012 Haslam released an online video commercial for Leftover Hardware a company that his close friend founded Haslam revealed in a December 2012 segment for Alli Sports that he has cofounded a griptape brand with a close friend entitled Gypsy Grip Haslam announced on his Facebook fan page that Leftover Hardware will release his signature hardware product in September 2013 Entitled Haslams Hardware the product is packaged in a cardboard box and features a drawn image of Haslam in a Viking helmet eating skateboard hardware like breakfast cereal Haslam started a deck company named Brainchild in 2019 which donates part of the proceeds from board and shirt sales to Project Semicolon and the Ben Raemers foundation to help with mental health and suicide prevention Haslam had started this company partially due to the sad events of Ben Raemers suicide in May 2019
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Horses (album)
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Musical style
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Smith characterized Horses as threechord rock merged with the power of the word Describing the music on the album Consequences Lior Phillips noted a minimalist quality that matched the tone of the nascent punk rock genre Author Joe Tarr identified a punk sensibility in the musics reliance on simple chord progressions while William Ruhlmann of AllMusic cited Lenny Kayes rudimentary guitar playing the anarchic spirit of Smiths vocals and the emotionally charged nature of Smiths lyrics as being representative of punk Tarr wrote that the band proudly flaunted a garage rock aesthetic and that Smith sang with the delirious release of an inspired amateur emphasizing honest passion over technical proficiency Smiths vocals on the album alternate between being sung and spoken an approach that according to Peter Murphy of Hot Press challenged the very notion of a demarcation between the two forms AllMusic critic Steve Huey observed that Horses borrowed ideas from the avantgarde with the music showcasing the bands free jazzinspired interplay and improvisation while still remaining firmly rooted in primal threechord rock roll He called Horses essentially the first art punk album Smith and her bands propensity for improvisation differentiated them from most of their punk contemporaries whose songs rarely diverged from straightforward threechord structures Throughout Horses they also tempered their punk sound with elements of other musical styles balancing more conventional rock songs with excursions into reggae Redondo Beach and jazz Birdland
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Ettore Petrolini
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Early years
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Born in Rome on 13 January 1884 Petrolini was the fourth of six children of a blacksmith from Ronciglione and grandson of a carpenter He had a difficult relationship with father who was a strict moralist but was close to his mother who supported him both emotionally and financially when he decided to embrace a performing career He attended theaters in Rome as a boy improvising for fun His first performances were in the sideshows on Piazza Guglielmo Pepe At the age of 13 Petrolini attended reform school as he bitterly recalls in his memoirs When 15 he decided to leave home to pursue a career in the theater In 1900 he participated in a show at the Pietro Cossa Theater on the Trastevere Later he performed in small provincial theaters and in some cafes chantants with the stage name Ettore Loris
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Biometrics use by the South African government
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Department of Agriculture
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The Department of Agriculture Head Office in Pretoria identified a need to implement more stringent system control mechanisms including the financial system logging onto secure applications and logging onto staff members personal workstations The Department applied a strict password management policy but it had different systems for finance Persal the Government standard salary payment system leave and performance management etc The regulated constant changing of passwords resulted in forgotten passwords lockouts and employees sitting next to each other having access to one anothers passwords This resulted in downtime an administrative burden on IT staff who had more pressing concerns and increased opportunity costs It was also noticed that unauthorized individuals had afterhours access to the facilities The Agriculture Department then implemented a fingerprint biometric reader to computers which eliminated passwords altogether Furthermore the readers were also installed at key access control points which meant that staff couldnt log on to machines if they didnt first gain access at these control points This also meant that staff could be regulated as to which hours they were supposed to be working or were allowed to work The system automatically logged you off of a computer when you clocked out of the work area which meant less wastage and stricter security Thus the implementation of the biometric system ensures superior security measures ease of use a centralized databank of access control information and the fact that staff didnt need to carry any access control instruments to work except for their fingers
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System Restore
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Overview
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In System Restore the user may create a new restore point manually as opposed to the system creating one automatically roll back to an existing restore point or change the System Restore configuration Moreover the restore itself can be undone Old restore points are discarded in order to keep the volumes usage within the specified amount For many users this can provide restore points covering the past several weeks Users concerned with performance or space usage may also opt to disable System Restore entirely Files stored on volumes not monitored by System Restore are never backed up or restored System Restore backs up system files of certain extensions exe dll etc and saves them for later recovery and use It also backs up the registry and most drivers
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Khushal Khattak
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Published works
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Khushals poetry consists of more than 45000 poems According to some historians the number of books written by Khattak are 260 His more famous books are Baznama a manual of falconry Swatnama a description of a journey to the beautiful Swat Valley Fazlnama a handbook on religious and social duties Tibbnama a book on homely medicinal recipes Farrukhnama a dialogue between the pen and the sword and Firaqnama a lament of his separation from his homeland during captivity Khushal also wrote many ghazals in Persian under the penname Ruhi and a Persian qasida on the futility of the world H G Raverty was the first translator of Khattak into English Selections from the Poetry of Afghans 1862 Kolkata has ninety eight poetic pieces This was followed by Biddulphs translation Selections from the Poetry of Khushhal Khan Khattak in 1890 published in London Evelyn Howell and Olaf Caroe jointly translated and published The Poems of Khushhal Khan Khatak in 1963 from the University of Peshawar Another translation was that by Dr N Mackenzie Poems from the Diwan of Khushhal Khan Khattak published from London in 1965 Dost Mohammad Khan Kamil was the first Pashtun scholar to initiate research on Khattak along scientific lines He wrote two important and comprehensive books one in English called On a Foreign Approach to Khushhal and the other in Urdu titled Khushhal Khan Khattak published in 1952 DiwaniKhushhal Khan Khattak was published under the directive of H W Bellew in 1869 Jail Press Peshawar the manuscript of which was provided by Sultan Bakhash Darogha an employee of the British government More recently his poetry has been translated again In October 2002 a book on Khushal Khushal Khan The Afghan Warrior Poet and Philosopher was published It is sponsored by Pashtun Cultural Society and Pashto Adabi Society of IslamabadRawalpindi The book is written by a wellknown writer and scholar Ghani Khan Khattak who is reputed for having established the literary and cultural societies and for promoting Pashto literary and cultural activities in the capital of Pakistan Islamabad The significance of the book lies in that this is the first book in English on Khushal Most of the written material available on Khattak is either in Pashto Persian or Urdu Although orientalists have always given importance to Khattak in their findings but they have not ever presented a detailed life story of Khushal Khan Ghani Khan Khattak has also authored three more books on the Khan ie in Urdu Pashto and another in English an improved version on his previous book Khushal Khan Afghan warrior Poet and Philosopher The book in Urdu published in 2009 ie gives extensive coverage to the Khushals philosophical thoughts The authors Pashto book deals with his thoughts on the Hero and the Sovereign The book was published in 2011 In his recent attempt on Khushal Khushal life thoughts and contemporary Pakhtunspublished in March 2014 is aimed at giving projection to the time and life of the great Khan for the benefit of English readers in Afghanistan Pakistan and beyond
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Larissa Bonfante
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Biography
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Bonfante was born in Naples the daughter of professor Giuliano Bonfante She grew up in Princeton New Jersey Bonfante would go on to study fine arts and classics at Barnard College earning her BA in 1954 she completed her MA in classics from the University of Cincinnati in 1957 and her PhD in art history and archaeology at Columbia University in 1966 She studied at Columbia with Otto Brendel Bonfante received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 2007 from the Archaeological Institute of America She was a founding member of the American section of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici She edited the periodical publication Etruscan News that reported on the activities of the American section In 2009 Bonfante was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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MC Lars
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Musical style and culture
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Originally releasing tracks under the name Lars Horris and then MC Lars Horris Nielsen eventually dropped Horris which later became the name of his record label becoming MC Lars Lars plays with a laptop and occasionally a punk rock band to back him up which he refers to as postpunk laptop rap Samples from bands such as Supergrass Piebald Brand New Fugazi and Iggy Pop play a key role in MC Larss music Hearts That Hate whose song Cry Tonight is sampled in Lars Signing Emo is a fictional group created by the rapper The Grammynominated Texan band Bowling for Soup performed as Hearts That Hate when MC Lars has supported them on tour A full version of Cry Tonight is available as a Bside to the UK Signing Emo single MC Lars has also shown an interest in using lyrics and song titles based on English and American literature Rapbeth references William Shakespeares play Macbeth while Mr Raven is inspired by Edgar Allan Poes The Raven Ahab is about the novel Moby Dick and Hey There Ophelia on This Gigantic Robot Kills retells the story of Shakespeares Hamlet The term iGeneration coined by Lars in 2003 was used to describe the generation born primarily in the midtolate 1980s was used in his song of the same name and given out for free to Facebook users in August 2006 in conjunction with iTunes In early 2006 his song Download This Song was featured on the popculture CBC Radio show Definitely Not The Opera
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Wörthersee Stadion
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FOR FOREST by Klaus Littmann
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The stadium was the site of Klaus Littmanns For ForestThe Unending Attraction of Nature Austrias largest public art installation which took place from 8 September to 27 October 2019 The exhibition inspired by Max Peintners pencil drawing The Unending Attraction of Nature from the 1970s and landscaped by architect Enzo Enea was a 300tree Central European forest occupying an entire football pitch The project was a warning that nature in general and specifically forests might be confined to specially designated spaces if humanity continued to take it for granted Partly funded by sponsors who each contributed 5000 it was open to the public free of charge daily from 10am to 10pm CET Austria Klagenfurt home matches were temporarily played at the adjacent Karawankenblick Stadion The trees were replanted in locations near the campus following the exhibitions conclusion
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List of 'Allo 'Allo! characters
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Edith Artois
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Edith Melba Artois nee La Fan Carmen Silvera Renes wife and the cafes resident cabaret performer However her singing is so bad and tuneless as Rene is once heard to comment my wife who cannot carry a tune in a bucket that the cafes customers stick cheese in their ears to block out the noise Whilst Rene views her with disdain she is also the subject of much romantic wooing by the local undertaker Monsieur Alfonse and the Italian Captain Alberto Bertorelli Occasionally however there are hints of affection between the two notably when reminiscing about their courtship When Edith recreates their honeymoon dinner for their wedding anniversary Rene tells her I dont deserve you with apparent sincerity Whenever she finds Rene embracing one of the waitresses she usually asks Rene What are you doing olding that servant girl in your arms While Rene is constantly feted as the hero of the resistance it is usually Edith who comes up with the solution to any problem
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Lofty Holloway
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Creation
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Lofty is one of the original 23 characters invented by the creators of EastEnders Tony Holland and Julia Smith who felt that to help complete the community there was a need for a character in his early twenties He had to be someone a bit different not brash and confident like a lot of the older men and not boisterous like the younger ones A loner maybe someone forced to be a loner A person who stuck out like a sore thumb Someone who was happiest in a group but still couldnt find one that he fitted in with Tony Holland had previously been in the army and found that exsoldiers had these problems when they tried to reintegrate as civilians So they decided that Lofty would be an exsoldier forced to quit because of his asthma He was happiest in the army and felt incomplete without the group setting the allmale camaraderie and even the security of the uniformity that the army provides Loftys original character outline as written by Smith and Holland appeared in an abridged form in their book EastEnders The Inside Story Born of a workingclass London family which was very respectable Church of England and exarmyLofty grew up in a house where his father was only really happy when reminiscing about his army days and his mother was ultrapossessive and narrow mindedHis friends were always vettedHe grew up to despise his mother and have a tolerant pity for his fatherHis best moments came in the Boy Scouts the summer camp and the feeling of belongingOn his eighteenth birthday he walked into an army careers office and from then until the age of twentyone had the happiest years of his life in the RASCHe adored the army It gave him a uniform and set the limitsThen the shock he was discovered to be physically unfitDormant asthmaHe was invalided out of the serviceAnd he had no taste for civilian lifeHis Auntie Irene now in a hospice secured the flat above Ethel Skinners for LoftyHe misses the security of the ArmyHe works in the pub cash in hand page 60 The invention of Lofty had been an afterthought and during the casting he was still considered as something of an enigma to the creators and writers alike This had made casting difficult as Holland and Smith were unsure about what they were looking for The actor Tom Watt was suggested by one of the writers Holland and Smith liked that his physical appearance gauche and childlike made him stand out they likened him to the accidentprone sitcom character Frank Spencer It was decided that these attributes fitted the character perfectly and Watt was subsequently cast in the role
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Only child
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Scientific research
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A 1987 quantitative review of 141 studies on 16 different personality traits failed to support the opinion held by theorists including Alfred Adler that onlychildren are more likely to be maladjusted due to pampering The study found no evidence of any greater prevalence of maladjustment in onlychildren The only statistically significant difference discovered was that onlychildren possessed a higher achievement motivation which Denise Polit and Toni Falbo attributed to their greater share of parental resources expectations and scrutiny exposing them to a greater degree of reward and greater likelihood of punishment for falling short A second analysis by the authors revealed that onlychildren children with only one sibling and firstborns in general score higher on tests of verbal ability than laterborns and children with multiple siblings A large n
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In This Life (Delta Goodrem song)
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Music video
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The video for the song was shot in Los Angeles on 10 August 2007 directed by Rocky Schenck According to insiders the video is the sexiest Goodrem has made to date with Goodrem having a Brigitte Bardot look in several scenes Goodrem herself said about making the video It took me a second to get back into gear because I havent made a video for so long but it felt better than ever The video premiered on 31 August 2007 on the TV program Sunrise Although the video has been criticised for being too basic it has been praised for its effectiveness by intentionally having a simple video with the focus placed upon Goodrems personality thus creating a fresh and bright mood rather than a story and having special effects Goodrem had also stated that she had wanted it to be about her singing the song In late March Goodrem returned from California where she filmed a new clip for the US version of In This Life The video clip in which she stretches seductively on a stretch of sand on Malibu Beach will be used to introduce her to the US audiences as well as a photoshoot for the new cover of her selftitled album Delta which was released in the US in July For the new video she worked with director Robert Hales who has also shot videos for Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley who choose to give a good introduction of Goodrem her basics as an artist Goodrem says about the video Its quite earthy and creative Its going to be an introduction for me I have to be at the piano I have to introduce myself and say Here I am this new artist The video premiered on Universal Music Groups YouTube channel on 15 May 2008 Throughout the video different leaves are created around her that can be compared with the way Goodrems Mistaken Identity album cover was designed
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Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
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Investment protection and investor-state-tribunals
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Section 4 of CETA pages 158161 provides Investment Protection to foreign investors and guarantees a fair and equitable treatment and full protection and security CETA allows foreign corporations to sue states before arbitral tribunals if they claim to have suffered losses because a state had violated its Non Discriminatory Treatment obligations CETA section 3 p 156 f or because of a violation of the guaranteed investment protection This license exists only in one directionstates cannot sue companies in these investorstate arbitrations Such investors complaints are nothing new under public international law UNCTAD listed 514 such cases at the end of 2012 most from the United States the Netherlands Great Britain and Germany but for transatlantic trade and investment this comprehensive level of parallel justice is new After much criticism of the hitherto often confidential arbitral proceedings CETA now provides for a certain amount of transparency by declaring the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treatybased InvestorState Arbitration applicable to all proceedings article X33 Transparency of proceedings p 174 While there is no appeal mechanism against arbitration awards comparable to scrutiny of court judgments awards made under CETA are subject to ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes annulment proceedings if the claim is brought under the ICSID Rules or settingaside proceedings if the claim is brought under the UNCITRAL Rules or any other rules the parties have agreed on Only after time limits set for these review mechanisms have lapsed is the tribunals final award to be binding between the disputing parties and in respect of that particular case article X39 Enforcement of awards p 177 On 26 March 2014 German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel wrote an open letter to EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht stating that investment protection was central sensitive point which could in the end decide whether a transatlantic free trade agreement would meet with German approval He further stated that investment arbitration was unnecessary between countries with welldeveloped legal systems The CETA InvestorState Dispute Settlement ISDS provisions could create a precedent for similar arrangements within TTIP Furthermore critics allege that CETA would allow US companies to sue EU states through Canadian subsidiaries In 2016 the EU Commission announced that it had agreed with the Canadian government to replace ad hoc arbitral tribunals in CETA with a permanent dispute settlement tribunal The tribunal will consist of 15 members named by Canada and the EU dealing with individual cases in panels of three An appeals mechanism will be established to ensure legal correctness of awards The tribunals members may not appear as experts or party counsel in other investment cases
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Baozou
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Baozou Big News Events
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Baozou Big News Events also referred to as Baozou Big News is a Chinese internet talkvariety show which is produced by Baozoumanhua The show has created Internet buzzwords that are widely used in China The host Wang Nima wears a headpiece with a comic face on it and reports ridiculous news events The show imitate the BBC comedy news show Russell Howards Good News The first season aired from March 29 to August 8 2013 the second season from December 20 2013 to June 20 2014 the third season from June 27 2014 to June 26 2015 and the fourth season was released on July 10 2015 The initial season aired ever two weeks with short episodes As the show evolved the style and schedule changed to being released once a week
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Lovebird (song)
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Live performances and music video
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Lewis performed Lovebird for the first time at the switchingon of the Christmas lights at Oxford Street in London on 5 November 2012 she also performed Trouble The singer performed the song live on Daybreak on 23 November 2012 on Loose Women on 29 November 2012 and again on 8 December 2012 at the National Lottery Awards To promote the song in Spain Lewis sung Lovebird on La Voz in December 2012 The songs accompanying music video was filmed in November 2012 and premiered on 5 December 2012 The video has a metaphorical theme and features Lewis in a giant bird cage in a dimly lit room Some scenes show the singer in a shadow and darker settings while others are light and colourful For most of the video Lewis ponders about being able to escape her cage and experience freedom At the end of the video she realises that the cage is in fact unlocked and she is able to leave her confine and leaves
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31st G8 summit
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Accomplishments
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The G8 summit is an international event which is observed and reported by news media but the G8s continuing relevance after more than 30 years is somewhat unclear More than one analyst suggests that a G8 summit is not the place to flesh out the details of any difficult or controversial policy issue in the context of a threeday event Rather the meeting offers an opportunity to bring a range of complex and sometimes interrelated issues The G8 summit brings leaders together not so they can dream up quick fixes but to talk and think about them together While many activists expressed disappointment that the agreements reached at the summit fell far short of their expectations others noted that the 2005 summit was perhaps the most productive in the 30year history of the G8 Some agreements were US$50 billion pledged some of it previously announced in aid to developing countries by 2010 of which US$25 billion will go to Africa on top of the ministeriallevel agreement to forgive debt to Highly Indebted Poor Countries Universal access to antiHIV drugs in Africa by 2010 Commitment to train 20000 peacekeeping troops for Africa in exchange for African commitments to good governance and democracy G8 members from the European Union commit to a collective foreign aid target of 056 of GDP by 2010 and 07 by 2015 Stated commitment to reduce subsidies and tariffs that inhibit trade US$3 billion to the Palestinian Authority to build infrastructure No agreement was reached to address global warming largely due to US opposition The US did agree to a joint communique stating that global warming exists and that human intervention may at least partially be at fault While the US had previously made such statements this was the first time it had agreed to a multilateral announcement on the issue Breaking with historical practice the British government had allowed nongovernmental organizations to play a key role in deliberations perhaps prompted by the public pressure of the Make Poverty History movement and Live 8 The summit continued the trend of including the developing world in talks The leaders of seven African nations attended as well as the five leading developing countries China India Brazil Mexico and South Africa
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25th Division (German Empire)
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Pre-World War I organization
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German divisions underwent various organizational changes after the FrancoPrussian War The division was subordinated to the newly created XVIII Army Corps in 1899 and in the same year the divisions 25th Field Artillery Brigade was created The organization of the 25th Division in 1914 shortly before the outbreak of World War I was as follows 49 InfanterieBrigade 1 Groherzoglich Hessische LeibgardeInfanterieRegiment 1 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 115 InfanterieRegiment Kaiser Wilhelm 2 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 116 InfanterieRegiment 5 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 168 50 InfanterieBrigade 2 Groherzoglich Hessische InfanterieLeibregiment Groherzogin 3 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 117 InfanterieRegiment Prinz Carl 4 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 118 25 KavallerieBrigade Groherzoglich Hessische GardeDragonerRegiment 1 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 23 LeibDragonerRegiment 2 Groherzoglich Hessisches Nr 24 25 FeldartillerieBrigade Groherzoglich Hessische Groherzogliches Artilleriekorps 1 Groherzoglich Hessisches FeldartillerieRegiment Nr 25 2 Groherzoglich Hessisches FeldartillerieRegiment Nr 61 Groherzoglich Hessische TrainAbteilung Nr 18 Groherzoglich Hessische GardeUnteroffizier Kompanie
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Street's Disciple
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Personnel
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Performance Nas Rap Vocals All Tracks Scarletts Vocals performed by tracks 107 108 Multiple Instruments 203 John F Adams Fender Rhodes Piano track 211 Strings 211 Amerie Background Vocals track 109 Kathryn Bostic Operatic Vocals track 201 Olu Dara Vocals tracks 202 210 Harmonica 210 Trumpet 210 Lead Guitar 210 David Downing Cello track 202 Doug E Fresh Human Beatbox track 204 Jesse DJ No Request Gladstone Additional Scratches tracks 104 107 Vincent Henry Clarinet tracks 103 209 Flute 103 209 Baritone Saxophone 210 Tenor Saxophone 103 209 211 Alto Saxophone 103 209 211 Harmonica 210 Strings 210 Additional Guitar 210 LES Drums tracks 102 109 Drum Machine 109 All Other Instruments 106 110 Herb Middleton Keyboards track 212 Bass played by 212 Nut Keyboards tracks 106 110 207 Bruce Purse Trumpet Flugelhorn tracks 103 209 211 Quan Outro Background Vocals track 201 Salaam Remi Organ played by track 102 Guitar 102 103 Bass played by 102 103 202 209 210 211 Fender Rhodes Piano 103 209 Drums 103 202 210 211 Piano 202 Strings 209 Synthesizer 209 Additional Guitar 210 Horns arranged by 209 Multiple Instruments 107 112 201 206 213 Makeba Riddick Background Vocals track 212 Chucky Thompson Piano track 102 Guitar 102 209 Drums 102 209 Bass played by 102 109 HiHat Cymbal 109 Percussion 209 Multiple Instruments 108 208 Production Technical Executive Producers Nasir Jones Salaam Remi LES Recording Engineers Kevin Crouse tracks 101 to 112 201 to 210 212 to 213 Gary Noble 211 Carlton Lynn Additional Music on 108 Assistant Recording Engineers Jesse DJ No Request Gladstone tracks 102 104 105 108 to 111 201 203 204 206 207 Bevin Robinson 102 104 105 108 to 111 201 203 204 206 207 Colin Miller 103 201 Rob Marks 103 109 112 202 210 to 213 Mark Rinaldi 106 107 212 Ryan Evans 106 107 109 206 209 212 Mimi 201 207 Ben Kane 203 Alex Ndionne 211 Audio Mixing Kevin Crouse All Tracks Assistant Audio Mixing Mark Rinaldi track 112 Mastering Chris Gehringer AR Direction Mike Brinkley Timothy Gov Ballard Dino Delvaille Album Coordination for Sony Urban Music Nikki Martin Marketing David Belgrave Management Sara Newkirk Legal Representation Peter Paterno ESQ Michelle Jubelirer Art Direction Design Chris Feldmann Photography Danny Clinch Imaging Justin Cohen Graphic Artist Patrick Cahalan Prop Stylist Debora Francis Stylist Tiffany Hassbourne
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Dan Price
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Early life and education
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Daniel Joseph Price was born on May 13 1984 in Lansing Michigan His father Ron Price worked as a business consultant and public speaker He is the fourth of six children and was raised in an Evangelical Christian household When he was young his family moved to Nampa Idaho where he was homeschooled until the age of 12 He attended and graduated from Nampa Christian High a private school While in high school he joined a Christian punk rock band called Straightforword playing bass guitar After the owner of a coffee shop where the band regularly performed complained of high credit card processing fees Price said he was able to negotiate the fees down for the owner His father was working in the credit card industry at the time and Price began to assist him Price then focused on launching a credit card processing business instead of pursuing music Price moved to Seattle to attend Seattle Pacific University SPU a private Christian university He graduated from SPU in 2008
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Vincent Cavallaro
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Selected Shows
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1941 Merit Award Group B United States Department of the Treasury Defense Poster Competition MoMA 1950 Solo Exposition Schwarts Gallery Chicago 1957 Solo Exposition Highgate Gallery Montclair New Jersey 1958 Group Exposition Henri Gallery Alexandria Virginia 1959 SemiSolo Exposition The Architectural League of New York 1959 SemiSolo Exposition Highgate Gallery New York 1960 Participant Salon International Monte Carlo 1960 Group Exposition Galerie Norval New York 1960 Group Exposition Carnegie Hall New York 1960 SemiSolo Exposition Highgate Gallery 827 Third Avenue New York Oct thru Nov 8 1961 SemiSolo Exposition Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ 1962 Group Exposition The Marble Arch Gallery Miami Florida 1962 SemiSolo Exposition International Graphics JL Hudson Gallery Detroit Michigan 1963 SemiSolo Exposition Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ 1965 Group Exposition Museum of Fine Arts Eilat Israel 1965 Film Featuring Aluminum works by Cavallaro produced by Alcoa 1965 SemiSolo Exposition Aluminum in Art Alcoa Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1966 Group Exposition Finch College Museum of Art 62 East 78th Street New York 1966 Group Exposition Allentown Art Museum PA 1966 SemiSolo Exposition International Art Hilton New York 1967 Group Exposition Weintraub Gallery 1193 Lexington Avenue New York 1968 Commission NASA Art Program Washington DC 1968 Commission National Gallery of Art in partnership with the NASA Art Program Washington DC 1969 Solo Exposition Galleria Toninelli Milan 1969 SemiSolo Exposition Catherine Viviano Gallery October 7 to Nov 1 New York 1980 SemiSolo Exposition Nardin Galleries 25 E 73rd St New York May 27 June 29 1980 SemiSolo Exposition Apokalypsis Nardin Galleries 25 E 73rd St New York Oct 29 Jan 4
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Short C-23 Sherpa
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Variants
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C23A Sherpa Twinengine transport aircraft for the US Air Force based on the Short 330UTT it was fitted with a strengthened cabin floor with a roller conveyor system plus a forward cargo door on the port side of the fuselage equipped with a hydraulically operated fullwidth rear cargo doorramp 18 built C23B Sherpa Twinengine transport aircraft for the US Army National Guard similar to the C23A but with cabin windows stronger landinggear inwardopening paratroop doors at the rear of the fuselage and an airoperable twosection cargo ramp 16 built C23B+ Super Sherpa Short 360 aircraft purchased as used aircraft by the US Army and modified by the West Virginia Air Center WVAC for the replacement of the rear fuselage of the Short 360 with its single tall fin with the twin tail and rear loading ramp of the Short Sherpa 28 civil aircraft were modified C23C Both C23B and C23B+ with flightdeck avionic upgrade under the Avionics System Cockpit Upgrade program 43 modified C23D C23C with upgraded avionics under the Safety Avionics Modification program from 2010 program was cancelled and only four aircraft were modified
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Filipino cuisine
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Cooking, serving and consumption
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Cooking and eating in the Philippines has traditionally been an informal and communal affair centered around the family kitchen Food tends to be served all at once and not in courses Like many of their Southeast Asian counterparts Filipinos do not eat with chopsticks The traditional way of eating is with the hands especially dry dishes such as inihaw or prito The diner will take a bite of the main dish then eat rice pressed together with their fingers This practice known as kamayan using the washed left hand for picking the centralized food and the right hand for bringing food to the mouth is rarely seen in urbanized areas However Filipinos tend to feel the spirit of kamayan when eating amidst nature during outoftown trips beach vacations and town fiestas During the Spanish occupation which yielded Western influences Filipinos ate with the paired utensils of spoon and fork The knife was not used as in other countries because Spain prohibited them to have knives Filipinos use the side of the spoon to cut the food Due to Western influence food is often eaten using flatwareforks knives spoonsbut the primary pairing of utensils used at a Filipino dining table is that of spoon and fork not knife and fork Kamayan is also used in the boodle fight concept a style of dining popularized by the Philippine Army which utilizes banana leaves spread out on the table as the main serving platter upon which is laid out portions of rice and a variety of Filipino dishes for friendly filial or communal feasting The use of spoons and forks however is still the norm
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