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Egg donation
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Religious views
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(especially Catholic) who are concerned about all in vitro fertility therapies because they disrupt the natural act of conceiving a child where gamete donations, both egg and sperm donations, are seen to "compromise the marital bond and family integrity". and they encourage infertile couples to consider adoption instead.
In the Orthodox Jewish community there is no consensus as to whether an egg donor needs to be Jewish in order for the child to be considered Jewish from birth. In the 1990s religious authorities said that if the birth mother was Jewish that the child would be Jewish as well, but in
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Bridge to Nowhere (San Gabriel Mountains)
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Bungee jumping & Safety issues
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hike generally as a group. After individuals jump from the bridge, people hike back either alone or in pairs or in groups, some times doing so after dark. Safety issues There have been a large number of fatalities along the East Fork of the San Gabriel River due in part to the swift water of the San Gabriel River which can rise significantly and without warning when heavy rainfall to the Northeast of the region introduces flash flood waters to the river. Crossing the river to and from the Bridge to Nowhere can be dangerous and even individuals crossing in
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Dennis Fox
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Early life & Horsa Bridge
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Dennis Fox Early life Dennis Barraclough Fox was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fox was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in April 1941 and was posted to the 7th Ox and Bucks. He transferred to the 2nd Ox and Bucks (the 52nd) in February 1942. Originally from B Company, he joined Major John Howard's D Company as a platoon commander in April 1944. Horsa Bridge On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Fox's No 17 platoon was one of three platoons tasked with capturing the bridge over the Orne River at Ranville, later to be known as Horsa Bridge.
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Emilio Palacios
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International career
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2001 friendly match against Belize and has earned a total of 26 caps, scoring 11 goals. He has represented his country in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 2001,2003, 2007, and 2009 UNCAF Nations Cups.
He was the first Nicaraguan to score a hat-trick in an international competition, in February 2007, when Nicaragua won 4-2 against Belize, during the IX UNCAF Copa de Naciones. After a good performance in this event, he was contacted by Salvadoran side Independiente, and left Diriangen FC for the Salvadoran side.
His final international was a January 2009 UNCAF Nations Cup match against
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Celebrity (TV programme)
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Background
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Celebrity (TV programme) Background After Geri Halliwell's departure, the Spice Girls had a hiatus in 1999. The other members started their solo careers in music, but Bunton devoted to television projects and presented her own VH1's show, Emma. After the original screening VH1 wanted to sign a long-term program with Bunton, but she declined, focusing on her group's new album. The show was announced in 12 August and aired originally in October 8, with five weekly episodes. In 2000 she signed with ITV and hosted the breakfast programme, broadcast on weekdays from 9.00 am to 10.00 am. Bunton talked about the celebrity
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Early February 2016 nor'easter
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Meteorological history
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Early February 2016 nor'easter Meteorological history On February 7, an elongated area of low pressure developed offshore to the west of Florida. While moving inland, it produced a decent dose of rainfall to the Sunshine State as it moved to the northeast. Later the same day, it moved offshore into the Atlantic Ocean and began to undergo bombogenesis, its pressure dropping from 1,004 millibars (29.6 inHg) at 7 a.m EST February 7 to 979 millibars (28.9 inHg) at 1 a.m EST February 8. As it did so, it also began to transition into a nor'easter, as rainbands began to impact the eastern
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Eagle, Lincolnshire
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Toponomy & History
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Eagle, Lincolnshire Toponomy Scholars believe that the name means "Oak-tree wood or clearing.", from Old English āc, an oak-tree and Old English lēah, a forest, wood, glade or clearing. History Eagle appears in Domesday Book: the landowners were: Roger of Poitou (property formerly by Arnketill Barn), Durand Malet, Odo the Crossbowman (land formerly owned by Gunnketill), and Countess Judith (land formerly owned by Earl Waltheof of Northumbria). Eagle had a church and a priest. Countess Judith's manor had a value of £12. Countess Judith was a niece of King William I of England – she was the daughter
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Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field
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Geology
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series of narrow stratigraphic traps, with the more porous, oil-bearing sections of the sandstone interbedded with impermeable units, rather like a long layer cake slightly warped up along its long axis. Oil has pooled at the top of the anticlinal fold for each unit. A fault underneath this large interbedded sand unit has allowed the formation of yet another producing formation, called the Subthrust Pico; in this unit oil has pooled up against the fault, which has positioned impermeable units on top of porous, oil-bearing sand strata turned on their side. Average depth to the Pico Sands unit
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Eagle, Lincolnshire
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Geography
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Rise off the southern High Street, built in the 1980s.
The areas and hamlets adjacent to the village are Eagle Moor, north-east; Eagle Hall, south-west; and Eagle Barnsdale, south-east. The nearest villages are Swinderby, south; North Scarle, west; and Thorpe on the Hill, east.
Eagle is excellently situated for access to the A1 going north and south via the A57 and A46 respectively. It is also only 15 minutes from Newark Northgate station with East Coast Line connections to Edinburgh, Leeds and London (90 mins travel time) . Consequently, villages on the SW side of Lincoln are attracting commuters able to afford
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Dispatch (band)
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Final concert
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and Brian Sayers on drums. For some of their songs at the Hatch Shell, Dispatch shared the stage with Phil Keaggy (guitar), Paul Tillotson (keyboard), Brian Sayers (drum kit), and Reinaldo DeJesus (percussion).
Dispatch then released a documentary film The Last Dispatch (2005) which chronicles their final twelve days together as a band and tells the story of how they became "the band that redefined independent music history". The film was released and previewed in Somerville, at the same theater they used for the Last Dispatch warm-up shows. Urmston, Corrigan, and Heimbold attended the showing and celebrated throughout the weekend with
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Eads, Colorado
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Education
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High School was the first high school in the state of Colorado to provide notebook computers for each of its students and to move to a computer-based curriculum.
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Daz Eden
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Storylines
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to allow it, his father - Billy Hopwood (David Crellin) - wasn't. He opposed the adoption as he felt the Sugdens had already stolen one of his sons, he wasn't prepared to let them have both.
On his release from prison, Billy moved to the village. He got a job with King & Sons and moved into Edna Birch's (Shirley Stelfox) spare room. He tried to build relationships with Andy and Daz but Andy made it clear that Jack was his father. He also tried to make amends with Viv Hope (Deena Payne), Kelly Windsor (Adele Silva) and Donna Windsor-Dingle (Verity
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Elaine M. Goodwin
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BAMM and TE-21 & Personal
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mosaicists, exhibiting together around the world, and thereby helping to establish this artistic medium in national galleries and collections. The name, Tessellated Expression for the 21st Century, deliberately avoids the word "mosaic", due to its common associations with classic and utilitarian design. Personal Goodwin has two sons.
In 2016 Goodwin moved her studio homes from Exeter in England and Marrakech in Morocco to Burgundy in France. Here she set up her studios and a large gallery for her work.
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Emma Beard Delaney
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African missions & Recognition
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contracted hematuric fever and died in Fernandina Beach in October 1922. She was buried in Bosque Bello Cemetery. Recognition The Women's Mission and Education Convention of Florida unveiled a monument stone at Delaney's burial site in Bosque Bello Cemetery in 1935. On August 26, 1979, the First Missionary Baptist Church in Fernandina Beach named its new education block Emma B. Delaney Fellowship Hall in Delaney's honor.
Delaney was honored by the state of Florida which recognized her as one of the Great Floridians. Her Great Floridian plaque is placed in the First Missionary Baptist Church, 22 South 9th Street, Fernandina Beach.
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Dulal Panda
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Biography
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Dulal Panda Biography Born on 28 January 1964, Dulal Panda did his doctoral studies at Bose Institute to earn a PhD in biochemistry in 1994 and subsequently, did his post-doctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara during 1998–2000 as a research associate. On his return to India, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2000 as an assistant professor at the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering and has been serving the institute since then. During this period, he became an associate professor in 2003 and a professor in 2007, and serves as a chair professor at
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Dalton railway station
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History & Facilities and services
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only two are in use today. The disused one is adjacent to the Barrow-bound platform and separated by a wooden fence. The area is now very overgrown and inaccessible to the public. Facilities and services The station is operated by Northern. It is unstaffed, with a card only ticket machine on the southbound side- passengers have to obtain a promise to pay notice to pay by cash onboard the train. Digital signs and timetable posters are provided on each platform for train running information purposes. The station buildings are no longer in rail use, though
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Egg donation
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The egg donor's process in detail
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the screening is complete and a legal contract signed, the donor will begin the donation cycle, which typically takes between three and six weeks. An egg retrieval procedure comprises both the Egg Donor's Cycle and the Recipient's Cycle. Birth control pills are administered during the first few weeks of the egg donation process to synchronize the donor's cycle with the recipient's, followed by a series of injections which halt the normal functioning of the donor's ovaries. These injections may be self-administered on a daily basis for a period of one to three weeks. Next, follicle-stimulating hormones (FSH) are given to
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Dawn Elder
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Early management, festivals (1990-1995)
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and co-organizing the first bi-annual conference T.E.A.M EXPO, which drew 100,000 participants. With the name standing for 'Teaching. Entertainment. Arts. Music.,' she worked with the T.E.A.M. organization until 2000.
Elder produced the first P.A.T.H.E.S. Festival, which was sponsored by the Preservation of Artistic Traditional Heritage Entertainment Society, in May 1995. According to the Los Angeles Times about the events, "when Latin rock took off as a popular strain in California music, [Elder] pioneered a Spanish dance festival and concert events to celebrate the Latino history of the Central Coast." Also in 1995, Elder coordinated the Project Teach Tomorrow’s Teachers scholarship program,
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Egg donation
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Intended parent
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HIV, such testing does not exclude the possibility that the donor has contracted HIV very recently, so the recipient faces a residual risk of exposure. However, the FDA governs this and requires full infectious disease testing no more than 30 days prior to retrieval and/or transfer. Most clinics now require, however, that donors be retested a few days prior to retrieval so the risk to the recipient is minimal. Intimate partners of both the egg donor and the recipient are also tested.
The recipient also trusts that the medical history of the donor and her family is accurate. This factor of
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Emmy Rossum
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Acting career
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at the Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. For her role, Rossum received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance and also had the opportunity to sing a duet with Dolly Parton on the Songcatcher soundtrack. Variety magazine named Rossum as "One of the Ten to Watch" in 2000.
In Nola (2003), Rossum played the title character, an aspiring songwriter. In her first major studio film, Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Rossum starred as Katie Markum, the ill-fated daughter of small-business owner Jimmy Markum, played by Sean Penn.
Rossum had a breakthrough
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Douglas Gonzales
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Selected legal cases
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commission government who was charged in the assassination in Baton Rouge in July 1976 of public relations specialist Jim Leslie, D'Artois's former campaign consultant from Shreveport. D'Artois was soon released pending lack of evidence but was later indicted for murder. He died in 1977 during heart surgery before he could face a jury, and the Leslie case remains legally unsolved.
In the fall of 1979, Judge Gonzales heard the case Fitzmorris v. Lambert in the Baton Rouge district court. Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Fitzmorris, a Democrat from New Orleans, sued to obtain a runoff berth in the 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election.
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Dispatch (band)
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Dispatch 2011 and Reunion
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Berkeley, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; and Harrison, New Jersey.
On January 1, 2011, Dispatch officially announced that they would mount a reunion tour the following June. Additionally, the band announced that "a portion of all ticket proceeds will go towards education programs in local communities."
They also decided to join Dave Matthews Band as well as several other prominent bands and performers on two stops of the DMB CARAVAN. They were slated to perform at Governors Island in New York on Saturday, August 27 and the Gorge, in George, WA on Sunday, September 4. The second two days (Saturday, August
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Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe
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Political career
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Conservative Association. In addition he served as Commissioner for the St John Ambulance Brigade for Buckinghamshire, 1953–1955, was a Trustee of the King William IV Naval Asylum in Penge. He also served as President of the British Automobile Racing Club, the Institute of Road Safety Officers, and the Fiat Motor Club (Great Britain). He was a Steward and Vice-Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, a director of Automobile Proprietary Ltd. and Motoring Services Ltd., and a member of the RAC Public Policy Committee, the British Motor Sport Council, and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Committee of Management. He was an
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Edinburgh Marathon
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History
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Edinburgh Marathon History On 5 September 1982, the Edinburgh Festival Marathon was the first mass marathon event to be held in the city. Starting in Holyrood Park and running through the Grassmarket and down Lothian Road, along Princes Street and down into Leith, along to Cramond and along the coast back through Silverknowes to Leith, up Easter Road and finishing in Meadowbank Stadium. The following year the race was called the Scotway Marathon and got off to an eventful start when a foolish fun-runner brought down the previous year's winner, breaking bones in the latter's hand. An Edinburgh Waverley Market
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Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare
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Nine Years War & O'Sullivan's march
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The Spanish sent a force under the command of Don Juan D'Aquilla in 1601. O'Sullivan wrote to the Spanish king in submission to his authority, but the letter was intercepted by the English. In early 1602 the allied Irish and Spanish forces met the English and Irish force at the Battle of Kinsale and were defeated.
O'Sullivan resolved to continue the struggle by taking control of the castle of Dunboy. In June 1602 English forces attacked Dunboy and the castle fell after a vicious siege. The entire company of defenders was killed in combat or executed. O'Sullivan's march Donal himself was
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EnOcean
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Alliance & Software automation
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of OEM partners, in order to bring about the existence of a broad range of interoperable wireless monitoring and controlling products for use in and around residential,
commercial and industrial buildings. For this the EnOcean Alliance has drawn up the
application level protocols are referred to as EEPs (EnOcean Equipment Profiles). Together
with the three lower levels of the international wireless standard ISO/IEC 14543-3-10/11 the
Alliance lays the foundation for a fully interoperable, open wireless technology. More than 400
companies currently belong to the EnOcean Alliance. The headquarters of the organization is
in San Ramon, California. Software automation EnOcean is supported by Fhem and ago control.
Fhem
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Eduardo Gageiro
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Influences
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decisive moment he tends to capture is often gently composed and finely balanced. True to this tradition, Gageiro works exclusively in black and white.
Jorge Pedro Sousa, in his thesis on the history of photojournalism in Portugal characterised Gageiro's photographic practice by the same "aesthetic-compositional quality, human value and dramatic form" that are also found in W. Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Deimantas Narkevičius
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The Role of a Lifetime
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highlighting distinct bodies of work and visions: Narkevičius's audio interviews with Watkins, drawings by Mindaugas Lukošaitis (filmed by Audrius Kemežys, who catches Lukošaitis's hand), and archival footage of Brighton filmed by Geoffrey Cook in the 1960s. In his role as a master editor, Narkevičius mismatches these silent images and invisible sounds not only to question documentary's veracity but also to begin that elusive discussion with the audience, who must put parts together. Experiencing the gap between Watkin's eloquent remarks on creativity and Cook's quirky views of Brighton comes close to participant observation. Cook's Brighton initially appears to be part of
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Dave Pirner
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Commercial success
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matted dreadlocks made an unmistakable impression on fans and critics alike, making Pirner easily recognized and associating the band with the grunge scene.
By 1999, Soul Asylum went into hiatus after making 1998's Candy from a Stranger, which sold the fewest copies of the three albums released at that point (after Grave Dancers Union and Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995), which yielded the big hits "Misery" and "Just Like Anyone"). After four years, Soul Asylum reunited and started writing songs in the studio. Bassist Karl Mueller died on June 17, 2005, at the age of 42 from esophageal cancer. About
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Domaine Coche-Dury
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Wines
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vineyard Corton-Charlemagne and doubled the surface whereof half of the plot is owned by the domain and the other half hired. Production will start in 2013.
A number of red wines are produced from Pinot noir grapes, vineyard holdings include 0.5 acres of Auxey-Duresses, 0.28 hectares of Monthelie, 0.34 hectares of Pommard Vaumuriens and 0.39 acres of a Premier cru Volnay which is usually blended together but in 1999 was split into Clos des Chênes and Taillepieds specific bottlings.
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Dreamscape (2007 film)
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Reception
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excellent," and that it stood "a cut above the normal sort of indie features that one sees."
Pulp Movies revisited the film upon release of an extended version in 2009. The review dealt with the director having reworked the film to produce an 86 minute extended version and wrote that while the "core of the film remains the same", some of "the action sequences had been toned down in this longer edit in order to play up the surveillance and manipulation themes that pervade the film." They further noted that an altered pacing and a "greater emphasis on the ubiquity of screens
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Eduardo Gageiro
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Travels and prizes & Influences
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to document life in the immediate post-independence period.
He received his first photographic prize in 1955. Since then he has gone on to win more than 300 prizes around the world. In 2005 he was awarded first prize at the 11th International Photography Exhibition in China, the world's biggest photography competition. Influences Gageiro work is similar of the postwar French photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis. The vicissitudes of the daily life in all his monotony and the historical are recurring in his wide-ranging body of work. This does not mean that Gageiro's images are merely accurate snapshots, the
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Doris Coley
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Personal life
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Doris Coley Personal life Coley was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Through marriages, she became Doris Coley Kenner and later, Doris Kenner Jackson.
She was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame with the other original members of the Shirelles in 1996.
She died of breast cancer at the age of 58 in 2000.
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Emily Lau
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Last years of the colonial period
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a private member's bill which would have allowed all 60 Legislative Council seats to be directly elected in the 1995 election. The bill was beaten by only one vote.
In 1993, Lau tabled a motion to seek assurances of right of abode in Britain for the British National (Overseas) passport holders in case they were expelled from Hong Kong after 1997. The motion was supported by 36 legislators but was rejected by the Secretary for Security Alistair Asprey. In October 1994, Lau led legislators in urging Britain to grant full citizenship to 3.5 million native Hong Kong British Dependent Territories Citizens (BDTC).
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Dunmore railway station
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Heritage listing
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illustrates the declining use of rail transport by the dairying industry in the 20th century.
Dunmore (Shellharbour) Station Master's residence is of State historical significance as part of the overall Shellharbour Railway Station Group, as evidence of late 19th century railway operational requirements to accommodate railway station staff on site, as an early (1887) brick example of a J2 Station Master's residence design, constructed prior to the issue of a series of standard plans for railway residences in 1899, and for its historical association with the first phase of construction of the Illawarra line.
The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics
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Cannonball Run II
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Box office
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after the tenth highest 1984 opening weekend of US$8.3 million, Cannonball Run II slowed down, becoming the 32nd most popular 1984 film at the US and Canada box office with a total lifetime gross of US$28 million, less than half the takings of the first Cannonball Run. According to one review of the film, Cannonball Run II still turned a healthy profit, the reviewer attributing the film's financial success to preselling.
The film had more success overseas. In Japan, it was the second highest-grossing foreign film of 1984 (along with Jackie Chan's Project A at number three), grossing ¥2.96 billion.
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Dry rot
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Discussion
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Dry rot Discussion Dry rot is the term given to brown rot decay caused by certain fungi that deteriorate timber in buildings and other wooden construction without an apparent source of moisture. The term is a misnomer because all wood decaying fungi need a minimum amount of moisture before decay begins. The decayed wood takes on a dark or browner crumbly appearance, with cubical like cracking or checking, that becomes brittle and can eventually crush the wood into powder. Chemically, wood attacked by dry rot fungi is decayed by the same process as other brown rot fungi. An outbreak of
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Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
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Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is a China-based multinational particle physics project studying neutrinos. The multinational collaboration includes researchers from China, Chile, the United States, Taiwan, Russia, and the Czech Republic. The US side of the project is funded by the US Department of Energy's Office of High Energy Physics.
It is situated at Daya Bay, approximately 52 kilometers northeast of Hong Kong and 45 kilometers east of Shenzhen. There is an affiliated project in the Aberdeen Tunnel Underground Laboratory in Hong Kong. The Aberdeen lab measures the neutrons produced by cosmic muons which may
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Efterklang
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Piramida (2012) & Leaf Label Re-issues (2015)
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musicianly affair employing lorry loads of classical instruments, brass, synths and what appears to be a choir of thousands broadcasting from the deep end of a fjord". Q magazine commented: "here’s a band on top of the world, and on top of their game… Piramida is a revelation."
From December Efterklang went on tour with their new 6-piece band. In 2013, the Piramida tour took the band around North America and Europe. Leaf Label Re-issues (2015) In 2015, The Leaf Label released a number of re-issues as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations. A poll enabled fans to vote for which
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David Tod Roy
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Translating Jin Ping Mei
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contributions are fully acknowledged)".
The scholar Perry Link reviewing the last volume to appear, also in the New York Review of Books, wrote that "Roy can point to a life’s work of enviable concreteness: 3,493 pages, five volumes, and 13.5 pounds, the world’s only translation of 'everything,' as he puts it, in a huge and heterogeneous novel that has crucial importance in Chinese literary tradition."
Link added that Roy may have overestimated the novel. When Roy defends it "by calling it a 'work in progress,' he recalls for me G. K. Chesterton’s insight that 'if a thing is worth doing, it
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Dawn Elder
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Production and songwriting (2001-2004)
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She worked with Quincy Jones again in 2004 to coordinate including world artists into We Are the Future, a program of performances in Rome including artists such as Khaled of Algeria, Kadim Al Sahir of Iraq, Simon Shaheen of Palestine, and Riffat Sultana of Pakistan. It was broadcast live on several international networks, including MTV. Elder also co-wrote with Rod Temperton the lyrics to a composition by Simon Shaheen ("Everyone Everywhere") originally written as an instrumental piece for the United Nations.
In 2003, she co-wrote the song "Love and Compassion," which featured Kazem Al Sahir performing his first English and Arabic
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Doriot Anthony Dwyer
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
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on April 26, 1990. The caption below a photo of her in the Boston Globe said: "Doriot Anthony Dwyer, a living legend of flute playing."
Dwyer is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Boston University and is on the faculty at the Boston Conservatory. She has received honorary doctorates from Regis College, Simmons College, and Harvard University in 1982. She was the recipient of the Sanford Medal from Yale University in 1975, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association in 1993, and the Hutchison Medal from the University of Rochester in 1995. The Boston Woodwind Society's Flute Merit
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Dunkirk, Nottingham
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Demography & Health care
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and 11.5% are 30-44, highlighting Dunkirk's high student population due to its proximity to Nottingham's University Park Campus. Health care The Queens Medical Centre is an accident and emergency hospital situated in the area. Until 2012 the QMC was the largest hospital in the United Kingdom and the largest teaching hospital in Europe, and still is the largest teaching hospital in Europe. The hospital employs over 6,000 people and the total area of the floors of the main block is 30 square miles.
The QMC has an overhead bridge to the University of Nottingham main campus. Inside the QMC is
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Electricity sector in Bolivia
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Installed capacity
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Electricity sector in Bolivia Installed capacity In Bolivia, the National Interconnected System (SIN) connects major population centers and represents 83% of the installed capacity. The SIN provides electricity to the largest cities and operates in the Departments of Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro, Potosí and Chuquisaca. Its grid extends over 1,200 miles and covers the central and southern parts of the country. The population in the northern and western parts of the country remains largely unconnected to the national grid, either served by the off-grid system (the Aislado) or having no access to electricity at all. The off-grid system consists of
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Eduardo Gageiro
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Beginnings & Photographic career
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Eduardo Gageiro Beginnings Gageiro became interested in photography at a very early age whilst working at the Sacavém Factory, with life of its workers providing the theme to his early work. The first photograph of him to be published appeared on the front page of the Diário de Notícias, of Lisbon, when Gageiro was twelve years old. Photographic career He began his photojournalism career at Diário Ilustrado, later working for Vida Ribatejana, before joining weekly O Século in 1957. He later worked for Eva and also edited Sábado. He continues to work with various publications and press agencies, mainly the
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Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New York and New England
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Impact
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to about 3,000 customers in the Schoharie and eastern Mohawk Valleys. In the northeast portion of the state, a few trees and power lines were blown down in Moriah, Westport, and Lewis. Precipitation was generally light in the state, with a few scattered locations reporting over 1 inch (25 mm). In Livingston County, the rainfall overflowed the reservoir, causing moderate flood damage. Initially, gasoline futures on the New York Stock Exchange rose in anticipation of a threat from the hurricane, though later dropped when the storm failed to disrupt oil refining facilities. The hurricane brought unusual birds to the western portion of
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El Felino
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La Peste Negra (2008–current)
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to work with La Pestra, the turn led to Princesa Blanca winning the Mexican National Women's Championship from Marcela on January 30, 2009. La Pesta Negra's biggest triumph to date is Negro Casas' title win over Místico that brought the CMLL World Welterweight Championship into the group. After the title win, La Peste Negra continued their feud with Místico and his various allies. The feud led to Místico and Negro Casas facing off in a Lucha de Apuesta on the CMLL 76th Anniversary Show, where Casas lost two falls to one and had his hair shaved off. After the match
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Diastolic depolarization
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slow diastolic depolarization (pacemaker phase) thus governs the cardiac chronotropism. It is also important to point out that the modulation of the cardiac rate by the autonomic nervous system also acts on this phase. Sympathetic stimuli induce the acceleration of rate by increasing the slope of the pacemaker phase, while parasympathetic activation exerts the opposite action.
The amount of net inward current required to move the cell membrane potential during the pacemaker phase is extremely small, in the order of few pAs, but this net flux arises from the time to time changing contribution of several currents that flow with different
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Douma chemical attack
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Reports
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to the attack. On-site medics reported smelling a chlorine-like odour, but that symptoms and death toll pointed to something more noxious such as sarin nerve agent caused the deaths. A video from the scene showed dead men, women, and children with foam at their mouths.
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) reported over 500 injured people at Douma "were brought to local medical centers with symptoms indicative of exposure to a chemical agent." SAMS also said a chlorine bomb struck a Douma hospital, killing six people, and that another attack with "mixed agents" affected a building nearby. According to the Syrian
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DuPont Manual High School
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Academics
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college programs in engineering, science and math. Minimal requirements for MST students include courses in algebra, trigonometry, calculus (including mandatory AP Calculus), biology, chemistry and computer programming. The Journalism & Communication (J&C) magnet focuses on journalism, publishing, and media production. To earn class credit, J&C students can participate in production of the school's national award-winning yearbook (The Crimson), student newsmagazine (On the Record), award-winning literary magazine (One Blue Wall), multimedia website (RedEye) or a daily morning television show called CSPN-TV, which is broadcast to all classrooms. The J&C program was formerly known as CMA (Communications and Media Arts), but the
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Electric bacteria
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Electric bacteria Electric bacteria are forms of bacteria that directly consume and excrete electrons at different energy potentials without requiring the metabolization of any sugars or other nutrients. Shewanella and Geobacter are two known types of electric bacteria. This form of life appears to be especially adapted to low-oxygen environments. Normal life forms require an oxygen environment in which to release the excess of electrons which are produced in metabolizing sugars. In a low oxygen environment, this pathway for releasing electrons is not available. Instead, electric bacteria "breath" metals instead of oxygen, which effectively results in
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Elaine M. Goodwin
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Education and art career
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Elaine M. Goodwin Education and art career Goodwin studied at the Exeter College of Art and Design, earning a bachelor's degree in Art. She subsequently gained international recognition with her artwork, and one of her first exhibitions, in 1991, was with the Barbican Centre in London. In subsequent years, Goodwin has exhibited her work around Europe, Japan, Egypt, and Morocco.
The majority of Goodwin's artworks are abstract pieces, using a combination of light-reflecting materials such as Venetian gold, smalti, and Carrara marble. Goodwin has stated that her art is "...about light...For all who look, at each and every
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Endocrine disruptor
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Endocrine system
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both males and females early motor development impairment, and learning disabilities.
There are studies of cell cultures, laboratory animals, wildlife, and accidentally exposed humans that show that environmental chemicals cause a wide range of reproductive, developmental, growth, and behavior effects, and so while "endocrine disruption in humans by pollutant chemicals remains largely undemonstrated, the underlying science is sound and the potential for such effects is real." While compounds that produce estrogenic, androgenic, antiandrogenic, and antithyroid actions have been studied, less is known about interactions with other hormones.
The interrelationship between exposures to chemicals and health effects are rather complex. It is hard
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Dokdonia donghaensis
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Discovery and isolation & Morphology and genome & Pathology & Metabolism
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are chemoorganotrophs and are able to degrade biopolymers like chitin and cellulose. Morphology and genome D. donghaensis is a gram-negative bacterium that is rod-shaped, nonmotile, and a non-spore-former. The bacteria are able to grow on seawater media with agar, in which the colonies appear circular, slightly convex, glistening, smooth, yellow, and 1–2 mm in diameter. The DSW-1T strain of D. donghaensis has about 3,923,666 base pairs in its genome. The DNA G+C content for D. donghaensis is 38%.
Image of the phylogenetic tree can be viewed here. Pathology D. donghaensis has not been identified as a human pathogen. Metabolism D. donghaensis performs
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Denchworth
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Manors
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Denchworth Manors The Abingdon Chronicle claims that Cædwalla of Wessex granted Deniceswurth to Abingdon Abbey late in the seventh century AD, and that this was confirmed by Coenwulf of Mercia early in the ninth century.
The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Henry de Ferrers held the manor of Denchesworde:
"The same Henry de Ferrers holds Denchworth and Reiner holds of him. Aethelric held it TRE. Then assessed at 7 hides now at five and a half hides. There is land for five ploughs. In demesne is one plough and five villans and five cottars with one plough and 30 acres (12 ha)
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Emotional lateralization
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Lateralization and sex differences & Evidence of lateralization
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had greater activation of their right hemisphere while viewing unpleasant faces and left hemisphere activation while viewing pleasant faces. Yet, another study found contrasting sex difference while recording EEG waves in the parietal and frontal lobes. Negative pictures activated the left hemisphere in women more than in men, and the right hemisphere in men more than in women when shown unpleasant images. Evidence of lateralization The vast majority of the data comes from functional imaging, skin conductance response (SCR), standardized tests ranging from cognitive (e.g. IQ tests) to emotional intelligence, and subjective questionnaires such as those rating how fearful
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Elmhurst Hall
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First hall (1683-1806)
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Elmhurst Hall Elmhurst Hall was a country house in the village of Elmhurst, Staffordshire. The house was located approximately 1.5 miles north of the city of Lichfield. First hall (1683-1806) The original hall was built by Sir Michael Biddulph after his succession in 1683. This building replaced a smaller house on the site which had been occupied by his father Sir Theophilius Biddulph. The hall consisted of three storeys with a parapeted roof, seven bays wide, with three central bays projecting. Sir Michael Biddulph who was MP several times for Lichfield gained possession of the land after succeeding his father
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Endocrine disruptor
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Phthalates
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toys. One phthalate, bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), used in medical tubing, catheters and blood bags, may harm sexual development in male infants. In 2002, the Food and Drug Administration released a public report which cautioned against exposing male babies to DEHP. Although there are no direct human studies the FDA report states: "Exposure to DEHP has produced a range of adverse effects in laboratory animals, but of greatest concern are effects on the development of the male reproductive system and production of normal sperm in young animals. In view of the available animal data, precautions should be taken to
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Emotional lateralization
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Behavioral differences and cortical activation
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in expressing emotions. Handedness does not appear to affect the processing associated with viewing facial expressions.
Situations that contradict moral teachings generally produce negative emotions. Watching people behave badly by breaking moral codes most significantly activates the right parahippocampal gyrus, the right medial frontal gyrus, and left amygdala. Watching emotionally negative situations most significantly activates the right amygdala. This study indicates that lateral processing of emotions extends beyond the basic emotions to higher cognitive responses.
Depression or having previously been depressed probably is due to altered brain structure or alters brain structure. Patients who have been depressed or are depressed show more
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Deutschneudorf
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Geography & History
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Deutschneudorf Geography Deutschneudorf is situated next to the border to the Czech Republic in the valley of the Schweinitz river, downstream from Nová Ves v Horách. It is a dispersed settlement typical for the upper regions of the Ore Mountains.
The villages of Deutschkatharinenberg and Oberlochmühle, located downstream on the Schweinitz, Brüderwiese, located upstream on the Schweinitz tributary Mühlgraben, and Deutscheinsiedel, northeast of the latter, have been incorporated administratively. The municipality is traversed by state road S214, which meets in Deutscheinsiedel with Saxon state roads S207 from Sayda and S213 from Seiffen, and with Czech state road 271 from Litvínov. History
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Code of Points (artistic gymnastics)
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The FIG Code of Points & 2006 Revised Code
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Code of Points (artistic gymnastics) The FIG Code of Points Gymnasts competing at lower levels or outside the FIG's jurisdiction (e.g., NCAA gymnastics and local club teams) may not be scored according to the FIG code. 2006 Revised Code In 2006, the Code of Points and the entire gymnastics scoring system were completely overhauled. The change stemmed from the judging controversy at 2004 Olympics in Athens, which brought the reliability and objectivity of the scoring system into question, and arguments that execution had been sacrificed for difficulty in artistic gymnastics. It follows a similarly radical scoring change in figure skating
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Emblem of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
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First version
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coat of arms should coincide in shape with the USSR coat of arms, have the image of a five-pointed star, sickle and hammer, the motto "Workers of all countries, unite!" and the name of the republic. The main geographical and economic features of the republic were to be reflected in the coat of arms: the geographical position was suggested to be depicted by images of mountains with snowy peaks in the rays of the rising sun, and economic - by symbols of animal husbandry, grain farming and cotton growing. The wreath in the coat of arms was proposed to be
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Doris Miles Disney
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Reviews & Biography
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Doris Miles Disney Reviews Her first novel was reviewed by The New York Times; subsequent novels and the films made from them were regularly reviewed. Biography She was born Doris Miles in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and married George J. Disney in 1936. She died in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Their daughter Elizabeth Disney Laing, a writer and theatrical actress, was born 1943.
The Disneys' relatives included two of Mrs. Disney's sisters, Elizabeth H. Miles and Mrs. George B. Tolve, and the Disneys had nieces and nephews, some of whom told their aunt of their disliking that she killed off too many women in her stories.
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Electricity sector in Bolivia
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Rural electrification efforts & Recent developments
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the energy mix (substitution of diesel by natural gas, biomass and other renewable energies) and an increase in distribution capacity. The Rural Electrification Decree and its associated regulatory framework encourages stakeholders in the energy sector to establish partnerships with other government agencies to implement the rural electrification plan. An agreement between the Ministry of Public Works, Services and Housing and the Ministry of Education will allow for the installation of solar PV systems in rural areas in conjunction with the literacy program, “I can” (Yo, sí puedo). Under the pilot phase, 500 solar panels are expected to be installed. Recent
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Edinburgh Marathon
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History
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Marathon was held on Sept 2nd 1984 with winner Lindsay Robertson in a then PB of 2:15:55. The Edinburgh Waverley Market Marathon again took place on Sept 1st 1985. Winner was M Carroll in 2:18:41. In 1986 it was called the Commonwealth Games People’s Marathon and held in June, a month ahead of the Commonwealth Games. In 1999 the PUMA Edinburgh Marathon was held, leaving from Dunfermline and finishing in Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Marathon Festival was founded by Geoff Sims and the first year’s event on 15 June 2003, attracted just 3,000 participants. The course started at
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Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
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3D laser scanned artifact images
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Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery 3D laser scanned artifact images In 2008, with funding from the US National Endowment for the Humanities and the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, the DAACS began a project to provide three-dimensional laser scans of Afro-Caribbean artifact sherds as part of its online dataset. 3D image files are created using a NextEngine 3D Scanner HD at a resolution of 40,000 points/in², using 3D digital scanning techniques established by the University of California, San Diego Levantine and Cyber-Archaeology Laboratory. Though the project is currently limited to Afro-Caribbean sherds from select sites, the DAACS has stated
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EnOcean
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Technology
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thermoelectric energy converters are used.
EnOcean-based products (such as sensors and switches) perform without batteries and are engineered to operate maintenance-free. The radio signals from these sensors and switches using the EnOcean wireless standard can be transmitted wirelessly over a distance of up to 300 meters in the open and up to 30 meters inside buildings. Early designs from the company used piezo generators, but were later replaced with electromagnetic energy sources to reduce the operating force (3.5 newtons), and increase the service life to 100 operations a day for more than 25 years.
Data packets of the EnOcean wireless
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Diplomacy of John Adams
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Presidency
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to France to resolve the dispute. The mission proved to disaster called the XYZ Affair. It led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
Adams sent Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry. They were approached through informal channels by agents of the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand, who demanded bribes and a loan before formal negotiations could begin. Although such demands were not uncommon in European diplomacy of the time, the Americans were offended by them, and eventually left France without ever engaging in formal negotiations. Gerry, seeking to avoid all-out war, remained for several months after the other two
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Emmy Rossum
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Acting career
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functioning as a guardian/surrogate mother to her five younger siblings. The series has received consistent acclaim, with Rossum's performance being universally praised. She made her directorial debut with episode four of season seven, "I Am a Storm." In December 2016, Rossum was in a contract dispute with the show's producers over her desire for a salary equal to that of co-star Macy and back pay for the differential over seven seasons, which was resolved later that month. Following this news, Shameless was renewed for its eighth season beginning production in 2017. In August 2018, Rossum announced her departure from Shameless
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Crates of Mallus
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The Globe of Crates
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the other side of Oceanus also there are certain Ethiopians, the most remote of the other group of peoples in the temperate zone, since they dwell on the shores of this same Oceanus; and that they are in two groups and are "sundered in twain" by Oceanus.
The classic drawing of the sphere displays the known world, or Oecumene (Europe, North Africa, and Asia), with three other continents, labeled the Perioeci, the Antipodes, and the Antioeci. Crates' Perioeci and Antipodes arguably do exist, corresponding roughly to North America and South America respectively, but the continent of the Antioeci, Terra Australis, does
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Douma chemical attack
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Media commentary & OPCW investigation
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'continues to make it clear that the Douma attack was yet another chlorine attack delivered by helicopter, using the same type of modified gas cylinders as seen in previous chlorine attacks.' OPCW investigation On 10 April, the Syrian and Russian governments invited the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send a team to investigate the attacks. The investigators arrived in Douma on 14 April; however, their access to the site was blocked by Russia and Syria who cited security concerns.
On 17 April, the OPCW was promised access to the site, but had not entered Douma and was unable
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Electoral Reform Society
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Analysis of 2016 EU referendum & 2018 gender analysis
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noted a generally negative response to establishment figures with 29% of voters saying David Cameron (a Remain supporter) made them more likely to vote leave whilst only 14% said he made them want to vote remain. Looking ahead, the society called for an official organisation to highlight misleading claims and for Ofcom to define the role of broadcasters are expected to play. 2018 gender analysis In February 2018 the ERS reported that hundreds of seats were being effectively 'reserved' by men, holding back women’s representation. Their report states that 170 seats are being held by men first elected in 2005
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Denchworth
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Parish church
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a small part of the south wall of the nave, which seems to have been rebuilt and extended westwards in the 13th century. The south doorway is a plain late Norman arch.
Later in the 13th century the north chapel and the north-west tower were added. The south transept was added in the 14th century and was originally Decorated Gothic. The chancel, north chapel and possibly the south transept were rebuilt in the 15th century, mostly with Perpendicular Gothic windows. The church was restored from 1852 onwards. St James' church is a Grade II* listed building.
The Perpendicular Gothic font is also
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Devils–Flyers rivalry
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Rivalry outside NHL
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have a significantly larger fanbase than the Devils. Coupled with poor performance on the ice (missing the playoffs 3 out of 4 seasons) and attendance figures near the bottom of the league, the Devils suspended operations in July 2011. A week later, the franchise was revived under the original Titans brand and reestablished affiliation with the Flyers.
For several years, the American Hockey League had a rivalry between the Adirondack Red Wings and Capital District Islanders/Albany River Rats, both served by Interstate 87. After the former team folded, the area was without an AHL team until 2009, when the Philadelphia Phantoms
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Egg donation
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Legality and financial issues
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(another several thousand dollars).
Having an attorney draft a contract is recommended in order to ensure that the donor has no possible legal rights or responsibilities over the child or any frozen embryos. Hiring an attorney who specializes in reproductive law is thus strongly recommended, at least in the United States; other countries may have other procedures for clarifying the parties' rights, or may simply have legislation that defines the parties' rights. In the US, before the egg donor's IVF cycle begins she typically must sign the Egg Donor Contract, which specifies the rights of the donor and the recipient(s) with
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song)
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Release
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song) Release The song was first released in the United Kingdom on 3 September 1994, going straight in at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. It had a slow and steady decline down the charts shortly after, slipping from its number 18 debut down to 67, exiting the top 100 the following week. On 22 October 1994, it returned to the UK charts after a few weeks out of the top 100, coming straight back in at number 85 before sliding to number 97 and then exiting the top 100 once more. The record seemed to
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Dunmore railway station
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History
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of the platform buildin; a milk shed; platform building with water tank at south end; lamp room and separate WC (toilet) building; cattle yards to the northeast of the platform building; and the Station Master's residence with underground water tank to the northeast of the station.
In 1923 a small line was linked to the main line at Dunmore (Shellharbour) Station to allow the blue metal quarry at Dunmore (which had operated since at least c. 1905) to access the rail network. The extra rail traffic generated by this may have given rise to the 1925 refurbishment plans which led to the
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Chrysophyllum cainito
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Overview
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Chrysophyllum cainito Overview It has numerous common names including cainito, caimito, tar apple, star apple, purple star apple, golden leaf tree, abiaba, pomme de lait, estrella, milk fruit and aguay. It is also known by the synonym Achras cainito. In Vietnam, it is called Vú Sữa (literally: milky breast/nipples). In Malayalam it is called "Swarnapathry" meaning '[the tree with] golden leaves'. In Cambodia, this fruit is called "Plae Teuk Dos" which means milk fruit due to its milky juices inside.
The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple oval, entire, 5–15 cm long; the underside shines with a golden color when seen from a
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Emilio Vedova
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Career
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1960. In 1984 he designed a highly original light setting for Nono's opera Prometeo at La Fenice. Nono dedicated his first work for magnetic tape Omaggio a Vedova (1960) to Vedova.
Vedova had a number of gallery and museum exhibitions, at places like the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. His work has proven to be very successful in auctions.
Vedova spent most of his life in Venice, where he taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti.
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El Felino
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La Peste Negra (2008–current)
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Black Plague), a Rudo group that had a more comical approach to wrestling. The trio started wearing large afro wigs, painting their faces black and dancing during their entrances and generally worked a less serious style of match than was unusual, especially for a serious wrestler like Negro Casas. On September 2, 2008 the last Casas brother, El Felino turned Rudo as well and joined La Peste Negra. After Felino joined the group Heavy Metal was quietly phased out as he was not comfortable working the comedic style. Felino's wife Princesa Blanca joined the group in early 2009, turning Rudo
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Doug Nussmeier
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Coaching
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was the quarterbacks coach under head coach Scott Linehan for the St. Louis Rams for two seasons (2006–07). He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Fresno State for a season in 2008, then was hired in the same capacity at Washington in Seattle in early 2009 under new head coach Steve Sarkisian. His annual salary at UW was just under $300,000.
In January 2012, Nussmeier became the new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Alabama in Tuscaloosa under head coach Nick Saban, replacing outgoing coordinator Jim McElwain, the new head coach at Colorado State. Under Nussmeier's guidance in 2012,
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Dream Days at the Hotel Existence
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Touring
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critics and audiences, with AdelaideNow commenting that "local ring-in Lachlan Doley added shimmering keys to the band's richly textured sound". Powderfinger and Doley performed the single "Lost and Running" on popular Australian variety show Rove on 17 June 2007. The group performed at Splendour in the Grass on 4 August 2007, and then followed it up by performing at Triple J's AWOL Concert in Karratha, Western Australia on 18 August 2007.
Powderfinger announced the Across the Great Divide tour on 12 June 2007. The band were accompanied on the nationwide concert tour by Australian rock group Silverchair. The tour is featured not
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Ding Yiping
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Early life and career & North Sea Fleet command and submarine accident
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1970s.
In the 1980s, he served as chief of staff of a PLAN minesweeper branch (1983), commander of a frigate branch (1984), deputy commander of a guard command (1987), commander of a destroyer detachment (1989), and chief of staff of a naval base (January 1993). He was appointed President of Guangzhou Naval Academy in July 1993, and promoted to the rank of rear admiral the same month. North Sea Fleet command and submarine accident Ding was appointed chief of staff of the North Sea Fleet in January 1995 and deputy commander in December 1997. In December 2000, he was promoted to
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Dupont Circle Fountain
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Dedication
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Florence Harding, Secretary of War John W. Weeks and Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby. Chairs were placed along the walkways surrounding the fountain and sailors served as ushers for the event. While invited guests were being seated, the Navy Band performed music. Following the concert, members of the public were allowed to enter the area and soon filled the surrounding park.
The invocation was given by Episcopal bishop Alfred Harding followed by presentation of the colors while the band performed "The Stars and Stripes Forever". The cloth screens concealing the fountain were then removed by Du
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East West Records
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History
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Records and The Gold Mind Inc.
In 1994, Rhone was appointed Chairman & CEO of Atlantic's sister label Elektra Records. At the time, East West (along with most of its roster) also broke away from the Atlantic umbrella to continue to operate under Rhone at Elektra. By the new millennium, budget cuts at Warner Music Group resulted in East West being absorbed into Elektra, where some of its acts were shifted over as well. In 2004, Time Warner sold Warner Music Group to private investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. Subsequently, more budget cuts were made, this time resulting in Elektra
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Definitely, Maybe
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Plot
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Definitely, Maybe Plot 38-year-old father Will Hayes is in the midst of a divorce. After her first sex-ed class, his 10-year-old daughter Maya insists on hearing the story of how her parents met. Will reluctantly gives in, but decides to change the names and some of the facts relating to the various love affairs of his youth, thereby creating a love mystery; Maya is left guessing which of the women will turn out to be her mother. The story he tells Maya is depicted in flashbacks. From time to time the film switches back to the present, where Maya comments
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Douma chemical attack
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OPCW investigation
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States believes the Syrian government is stalling the OPCW to give itself time to remove evidence.
On 19 April, OPCW still was unable to access the sites. According to a US State Department spokeswoman, there was "credible information" that "Russian officials are working with the Syrian regime to deny and to delay these inspectors from gaining access to Douma," and "to sanitize the locations of the suspected attacks and remove incriminating evidence of chemical weapons use."
OPCW inspectors visited the site and collected samples on 21 April and 25 April. The organization said that it would submit to its member states a
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Education in ancient Rome
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Influences & Moral education
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of itself. Also, prior to the war, they had focused more on government and politics rather than army and military. Moral education At the foundation of ancient Greek education was an effective system of formal education, but in contrast, the Romans lacked such a system until the 3rd century BC. Instead, at the foundation of ancient Roman education was, above all else, the home and family, from which children derived their so-called "moral education".
Whereas Greek boys primarily received their education from the community, a Roman child's first and most important educators were almost always his or her parents. Parents
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Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe
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Political career
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first elected Member of the London County Council for Battersea South in 1937, serving until 1946. In November 1940 he was appointed a Sheriff for Buckinghamshire in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.
His career continued post-war. Curzon was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1946, and was elected as an Alderman of Buckinghamshire in 1958, and was a County Councillor from 1973, serving as Vice Chairman of Buckinghamshire County Council from 1976. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire on 1 February 1960, and was again appointed a Sheriff for Buckinghamshire in the Queen's
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Dispatch (band)
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Elias Fund & The Relief Project
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development and education while empowering the American youth culture to embrace their global role and make it an active one. The Relief Project On December 22, 2005, Corrigan helped to organize a benefit concert, known as The Relief Project, at Irving Plaza in New York City. Along with several other performers, Corrigan invited Heimbold and State Radio to play. The three reunited very briefly, playing the song "Here We Go" as an encore. Corrigan stated there that he plans further Relief Project concerts featuring all three.
The Dispatch Foundation
In 2007 The Dispatch Foundation was created following the Dispatch
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Duping (gaming)
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Response
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perceived to be an unjust punishment, several players joined a mass demonstration at a central location in the game world. SOE responded to the disruption caused by the large gathering by teleporting all player characters involved away from the demonstration area. A popular online urban legend is that many player characters were teleported into space, essentially killing them. Although evidence as to whether or not this occurred cannot be substantiated, it has been voiced in many popular gaming avenues, such as Penny Arcade.
Another method to mitigate the effects of duping would be a rollback, in which game data is reset
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song)
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Release & Style & Reception
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24 years after its original release in 1994. Style An example of Italo house and Eurodance, the song nonetheless is said to blend elements from different electronic genres. Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger explained: "The bumping, cut-up rhythms and vocals that begin the remixed 'Dreamer' [that was a hit] feel like garage, for example, but as Janice Robinson takes the song into its urgently blissful chorus I want to call it house – or even go more specific and say handbag house, that showy, uplifting offshoot that strutted across superclub dancefloors in the mid-90s." Reception Billboard wrote about the song:
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Diatone
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History
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ahead with full-scale speaker development.
At the time, the company benefited from cutting-edge technical help from NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories -- a relationship that would continue for many years. In 1947 Mitsubishi produced an adjustable resonance cone, and combined it with the OP magnet to produce the 16 cm P-62 F-type dynamic speaker (the antecedent of the P-610).
In the 1940s, practically all speaker diaphragms were constructed from plain paper pasted together into a cone shape. Mitsubishi Electric's speaker used a special single-cone paper made from a sheet of Japanese washi paper formed into a conical shape, and delivered groundbreaking performance.
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Education in ancient Rome
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Influences
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Greeks, the ability to play an instrument was the mark of a civilized, educated man, and through an education in all areas of mousike it was thought that the soul could become more moderate and cultivated. The Romans did not share this view and considered the study of music as a path to moral corruption. However, they did adopt one area of mousike: Greek literature.
Athletics, to the Greeks, was the means to obtaining a healthy and beautiful body, which was an end in and of itself and further promoted their love of competition. The Romans, though, did not
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Delta Air Transport
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History
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of which other airliners were gradually phased out. DAT became a member of the European Regional Airlines Association in 1993. In 1996, Sabena bought the remaining KLM stake, thus DAT became a wholly owned Sabena subsidiary, moved its headquarters from Antwerp to Brussels and was re-branded as DAT Belgian Regional Airline, offering low-cost flights. Gradually, the livery of Sabena was applied to all DAT aircraft.
On 1 November 2001, Sabena collapsed due to financial difficulties. DAT could re-launch its operations on 10 November with a flight to Geneva, having received all of Sabena's slots at Brussels Airport and thus being able
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Eclogue of Theodulus
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Eclogue of Theodulus The Eclogue of Theodulus was a Latin verse dialogue, which became a standard school text of the Middle Ages. Scholarship generally dates it to the 10th century, though earlier dates are also given.
The work is attributed to Gottschalk of Orbais, and in fact the name Theodolus is the Greek translation of Gottschalk (God's slave). The poem is an argument between Alithia (truth) and Pseustis (falsehood}, with Phronesis (reason), acting as referee.
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Dushman (1957 film)
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Reception
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one of his best performances."
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Elmhurst Hall
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First hall (1683-1806) & Second hall (1808-1921)
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leasehold on Lea Grange and the leasehold of the land owned by the Vicars Choral of Lichfield Cathedral. Eliot eventually held 850 acres of land north of Lichfield, he borrowed heavily to buy the land and in 1797 he unsuccessfully put up the land for sale as he could not meet repayments. Eliot moved out to Lichfield and demolished the derelict hall in 1806 when it would not sell. Second hall (1808-1921) In 1808, John Smith of Fenton bought a large part of the estate, including the site of the Hall, from Eliot who moved back to London. Smith built
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Cut steel jewellery
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History
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rivets and pieces becoming increasingly flimsy, the final production ending in the 1930s.
Over the long term cut steel jewellery has proven brittle resulting in relatively small amounts surviving to the present day. Collections of cut steel jewellery are held by a number of museums including Lady Lever Art Gallery Birmingham Museums Trust and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
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Don't Rush Me
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Cover photo
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Heart making the original cover hard to come by and a collector's item.
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