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Texan sloop-of-war Austin
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Naval Battle of Campeche
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the flagship Austin, exclaimed: "Damn them, give it to them!" There was a two-hour running battle in which the Austin was struck once in the fighting and lost some of her mizzen rigging. The commander of the Montezuma and twenty of his crew were killed. After a few hours, the Mexican sailing ships departed and only the two steamers remained. The Mexican blockade of the port of Campeche was lifted, however, and the Texan ships put into the port for repairs. Moore was determined to upgrade his guns in Campeche; Austin received two long-range 18-pounders from the Yucatecans ashore and
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Virtual community
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On health
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being studied.
Studies on health networks have mostly been conducted on groups which typically suffer the most from extreme forms of diseases, for example cancer patients, HIV patients, or patients with other life-threatening diseases. It is general knowledge that one participates in online communities to interact with society and develop relationships. Individuals who suffer from rare or severe illnesses are unable to meet physically because of distance or because it could be a risk to their health to leave a secure environment. Thus, they have turned to the internet. A study conducted by Haven B. Battles and
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Vladimír Šmicer
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International career
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to draw in order to qualify for the play-off rounds. Šmicer scored the all important equalizer two minutes before the end of the game. The Czechs then advanced through the play-offs to the final game, which they lost to Germany after extra-time.
Four years later, at Euro 2000, Šmicer scored both goals in the national team's only tournament victory, 2–0 against Denmark. At Euro 2004, he scored the winning goal in the team's 3–2 win over the Netherlands. In that game, the Czechs were 2–0 down after 20 minutes of play but still managed to recover. The comeback began an impressive
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Teufelsmoor
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History
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and being freed from taxes and military service. Until well into the 20th century the living conditions in these moor colonies were anything other than quaint or attractive. An impression of the very poor circumstances is given by the Low Saxon saying "Den Eersten sien Dood, den Tweeten sien Noot, den Drüdden sien Broot" (translates as something like "The first gets death, the second gets misery, the third gets bread."). Life expectancy in the dark, damp bog dwellings was short and the moor's soils were unsuited to farming.
An extensive network of drainage channels was created, the main drainage ditches being
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Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Bistromathic drive
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menus, watches, cheque books, credit cards, bill pads and scribblings on paper napkins.
Slartibartfast explains that "On a waiter's bill pad, numbers dance. Reality and unreality collide on such a fundamental level that each becomes the other and anything is possible."
Should the ship's captain sit at the table, the mathematical functions speed up; the customers become more vociferous and wave at each other. Eventually, the equation balances, and the customers become polite and civil once more. The more heated the argument, the more complex the equation, and the farther the ship may travel.
Effectively, the ship takes advantage of the strange rules
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Whale watching
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West Pacific –East and Southeast Asia
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were mainland China, Taiwan and Japan. India, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Maldives also have dolphin watching and some whale watching. China’s dolphin watching is almost entirely focussed on Sanniang Bay in Guangxi. Taiwan has several whale watching ports on its east coast. Japan has a range of whale and dolphin watching businesses on all main islands and Okinawa, Zamami, Ogasawara, Mikura-Jima and Miyake-jima.
In the Philippines, over thirty species of whales and dolphins can be observed around Pamilacan in Central Visayas, Davao Gulf, the northern coast of the province-island Babuyan Islands in Batanes, Pasaleng Bay, and Malampaya
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Ultramarine (novel)
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Background and development
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ship was changed from Nawab to Oedipus Tyrannus, "to conform with Hugh's ship in Under the Volcano."
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Under-reporting
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Crime
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Under-reporting Under-reporting usually refers to some issue, incident, statistic, etc., that individuals, responsible agencies, or news media have not reported, or have reported as less than the actual level or amount. Under-reporting of crimes, for example, makes it hard to figure the actual incidence of crimes.
Under-reporting is a failure in data reporting. Crime Various estimates have been provided in relation to under-reporting of crimes across the world. According to the American Medical Association (1995), sexual violence, and rape in particular, is considered the most under-reported violent crime. Common reasons for individuals not reporting crime include fear of not being believed,
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The Vanishing Lady
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Release
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the Méliès expert Jacques Malthête reconstructed a hand-colored version of the film in 1979, using authentic materials.
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Whale watching
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History
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resource. History Organized whale watching started in the United States, when the Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego was declared a public venue for observing the migration of gray whales; the spectacle attracted 10,000 visitors in its first year, 1950. In 1955 the first water-based whale watching commenced in the same area, charging customers $1 per trip to view the whales at closer quarters. The industry spread throughout the western coast of the United States over the following decade.
In 1971 the Montreal Zoological Society commenced the first commercial whale watching activity on the eastern side of North America, offering trips
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United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
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SS-20s pointing at Europe
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was 128.
Luckily, disarmament talks between East and West resulted in a disarmament treaty being signed by Soviet Communist Party Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan at the end of 1987 during Gorbachev's visit to the United States. The Soviet Union agreed to dismantle the SS-20s and with that the deployment of American cruise missiles in Europe was over once and for all.
The historic Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, ratified in 1988, mandated the first-ever elimination of an entire class of weapons from U.S. and Soviet inventories. USAFE completed removal of the ground-launched cruise missiles and other weaponry on 26
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Volkoff Industries
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Frost
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Stephen's base and intelligence, Mary slips Sarah a razor so that she and Chuck can escape, and she leads Ellie to one of Stephen's surviving laptops.
In "Chuck Versus the Gobbler", Sarah goes under cover as a double agent working for Volkoff, essentially becoming Mary's partner. Her plan is to have Sarah free Yuri the Gobbler from prison to gain access to Hydra. When Volkoff destroys the copy hidden in Yuri's false eye and downloads it to another location, Mary retrieves a piece of the micro chip. In "Chuck Versus the Push Mix", Volkoff discovers Mary's betrayal. She tells him that
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The Defenders (1961 TV series)
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Plot & Development
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The Defenders (1961 TV series) Plot It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, demonstrators of the Civil Rights Movement, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing. Development The series was a slight reworking of Rose's 1957 two-part drama, The Defender, from the anthology series Studio One. In the original program, Ralph Bellamy played the father and William Shatner played his son. Shatner guest-starred in various roles in
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Walter C. Oechel
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Research
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many K-20classrooms, and he has developed K-12 interactive science education among United States and Mexico border schools.ⁱˣ
That year he was named a Distinguished Teaching Scholar by the National Science Foundation, receiving the Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, NSF's highest award for combinative teaching and research excellence. ˣ Later, Oechel and Donatella Zona coinvented an on-demand heating system for atmospheric measuring towers in order for Arctic scientists to take measurements year-round. ˣⁱ
This system allowed the discovery of large fall emissions in methane loss from the Arctic, especially during the fall “Zero Curtain” period. It also allowed the discovery
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Trévou-Tréguignec
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Coat-Mez dolmen & Trestel Beach
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farm, near the Chateau of Boisriou, has the ruins of a type of dolmen (prehistoric stone formation) known as a "covered walkway". Trestel Beach Just off Trestel Beach are the underwater remains of a former forest. Benjamin Jolivet explained that the beach was once planted with tall trees. "Everywhere, in fact, at very shallow depths (60 to 80 centimeters) are found trunks of alders or oaks that people exploit and sell. Every day, an unfortunate population, pick in hand, searches the beach in every direction, sometimes finding fragments, sometimes whole trees. Grasslands adjoining the beach and which
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Whale watching
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Northeast Atlantic
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herring gathers in the fjords to stay over the winter and off the Lofoten islands during the summer. At Andenes on Andøya in Vesterålen and around Krøttøya in Troms, sperm whales can be observed year round, summer whale watching trips occur from May till September, winter trips with killer whales and humpback whales are offered from October till April. Tromsø also offers whale watching for sperm and other whales. The continental shelf Eggakanten and deep water where the sperm whales congregate, is very close to shore, beginning only 7,000 meters (23,000 ft) from the Andenes harbour.
In Portugal whale watching is available
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Wannia
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Discovery and naming
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also been referred to "P." scurriensis, however Stocker (2013) found no basis for this referral as the specimens do not share any synapomorphies. The holotype was collected near Lake Alan Henry, 4 km northeast of the town of Camp Springs, from the Camp Springs Formation of the Dockum Group. Previously known as the Camp Springs Conglomerate, this unit probably correlates with the lower member of the Santa Rosa Sandstone in Texas and the Tecololito Member of the Santa Rosa Formation in New Mexico. The age of this unit is not precisely known, it was originally considered to be late Carnian based
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Waregem
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Middle Ages
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the St Peter Abbey in Ghent. The local administrative center used by the Benedictines along the Leie River can still be seen today and is still known as the Munkenhof. At the end of the century, Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, made this area the base from which he could advance against Kortrijk. During the following centuries, the medieval feudal system allowed the land to be progressively parceled out to landowners from places as far as Dendermonde and Tournai. At that time, like in the rest of Flanders, most of the population consisted of farmers, spinners
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Tommy Woodcock
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Death
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of Australia's Most Remarkable Trainer in 1978, collected $465 to pay for Woodcock's ashes to remain in perpetuity in his original resting place.
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Tumse Milke Wrong Number
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Plot
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officer. Although Aditya thinks that Dr. Mathur is responsible for his social agony, but Mahi likes him as her elder brother. One day while Mathur was taking online class with his student Arti someone killed him. Arti saw the killer's face in the webcam. Before disclosing the name, the killer murdered Arti. Aditya investigates the case and suspect Karan since Dr. Mathur rejected his scholarship in spite of having good results. Arti's gambler uncle recovers the webcam record and finds out the killer. He tries to blackmail him and subsequently gets murdered. At the time of the murder, Monti took
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Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Total Perspective Vortex
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wrapped up by the radio series' conclusion.
The Total Perspective Vortex was referenced as the name of an achievement for the 2016 video game No Man's Sky, which uses procedural generation to deterministically produce a virtual universe containing 18 quintillion (1.8 x 10¹⁹) planets.
In real life, astronauts and cosmonauts experience a version of this phenomenon when in orbit and after their space experiences known as the Overview Effect.
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WAVY-TV
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History
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on Middle Street, also in downtown Portsmouth. The Wavy Street studio is located across the street from the nTelos Wireless Pavilion and near or across the street from the Elizabeth River.
Shortly after WVBT became the area's WB affiliate in 1995, WAVY began operating that station though a local marketing agreement (LMA). LIN TV came to an affiliation agreement with Fox in November 1995, and WVBT took the affiliation from original Fox affiliate WTVZ (channel 33) in 1998. LIN TV purchased that station out-right in February 2002. WAVY was the first in the market to broadcast a digital signal in 2001.
On
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Whale watching
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Whaling and whale watching & Canada & Greenland
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1994 and 1998. Canada Whale watching and hunting take place in different regions of Canada: the former mainly on Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the latter exclusively in the Arctic. Whale watching happens in the Saint Lawrence River, western Hudson's Bay near Churchill, and British Columbia. Hunting takes place in eastern Hudson's Bay (Nunavik, Quebec), Nunavut and the Beaufort Sea. Researchers have suggested the hunting areas would benefit more from whale watching than hunting, since hunting takes more resources than it earns. Greenland Greenland has small whale watching operations in Disko Bay and Nuuk. Both areas have beluga hunts. There has
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WAVY-TV
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History & WAVY Weather Station
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20, 2019 that the WTKR/WGNT duopoly, along with sister station WTVR-TV in Richmond, would be sold to the E. W. Scripps Company. WAVY Weather Station The WAVY Weather Station is a local cable channel, formerly seen as a digital subchannel of WAVY-TV and later WVBT-TV 43.2. The WAVY Weather Station broadcasts taped weather segments by WAVY-TV's meteorologists. It also shows live Super Doppler 10 imagery and Super Doppler 10 WeatherNet data.
The WAVY Weather Station started in 1995 as Local Weather Station, or LWS. It was one of the first 24-hour cable weather channels for LIN TV, the name was also
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Truett McConnell Bears
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Notable people
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Truett McConnell Bears Notable people Mitchell Wiggins, NBA player and father of NBA player Andrew Wiggins, played basketball at Truett McConnell from 1978 to 1979
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Volkoff Industries
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Packard, T.I., and MacKintosh & Pierre, Victor, and Hercule
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They managed to escape, and attempted to kill Casey several times before they finally gave up. At some point they went to work for Volkoff. When Chuck learned they may have had a connection to his mother he orchestrated a complex plan to lure them into the open by faking Casey's death and funeral. They were ultimately defeated and recaptured by Morgan when he electrocuted them, and himself, to prevent them from recovering the gold. They apparently take their names from electronics brands: Packard Bell, Texas Instruments, and Apple Macintosh. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Couch Lock. Pierre, Victor,
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Warlock (1989 film)
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Plot
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at Kassandra's flat. Whilst there, he places an ageing curse upon her and takes her bracelet. Redferne arrives with a "witch compass" with which to track the Warlock. After Redferne explains some basic rules of Witches and Warlocks, such as their weakness to purified salt, Kassandra follows him in order to regain her bracelet which will break the spell and allow her to become young again. Meanwhile the Warlock acquires the power of flight by murdering an unbaptised child and boiling his fat.
Using Redferne's witch-compass, Redferne and Kassandra pursue the Warlock to the rural home of a Mennonite family where
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Walter T. Skallerup Jr.
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Biography
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Walter T. Skallerup Jr. Biography Walter T. Skallerup Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. He attended Swarthmore College, receiving his B.A. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy and then enrolled at Yale Law School, receiving his LL.B. in 1947. After law school, Skallerup was involved in the private practice of law for a number of years.
Skallerup joined the United States Department of Defense in 1962, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Security Policy under United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. He held this office until 1967, when he returned to
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The House Show
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Background
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have played hundreds of these concerts or 'HOUSE SHOWS' - fifty or so people in someone's living room. Just songs and conversations with no production, no press."
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Wadham College Boat Club
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History
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is from this defeat of Trinity that Wadham claimed its traditional right to wear Cambridge Blue as its boating colors, and to this day the 1st Eight Blazers and Ties continue this tradition. The following year Wadham increased its good run by claiming the Headship in Summer Eights, and then reclaimed the Head six years later in 1856. Wadham would return to Henley in 1908 and 1925 when the 1st Eight won the Thames Challenge Cup in both years.
By 1897 Wadham College had emulated the example of the rest of the colleges and invested in a permanent Wadham Barge to
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The Color of Paradise
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Plot
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The Color of Paradise Plot The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammad who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammad's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammad over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammad's father eventually takes him home.
Mohammad's father, who is a widower, now wants to marry a local girl and is preparing for the wedding. He approaches the girl's parents with gifts and they give him . He tries to hide the fact that
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Ups (debugger)
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Ups (debugger) Ups is an open source source-level debugger developed in the late 1980s for Unix and Unix-like systems, originally developed at the University of Kent by Mark Russell. It supports C and C++, and Fortran on some platforms. The last beta release was in 2003.
Unlike more popular debugger stacks for modern Unix platforms, ups is completely self-contained — not merely a graphical front-end to lower-level debuggers like gdb (although some work has been done to make ups usable in that way). The ups user interface is built directly upon the X Window System and SunView, i.e.
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The Battle of the Somme (film)
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International
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advertisement for the film, describing it as "the extraordinary films of 'the big push' and "an awe-inspiring, glorious presentation of what our heroes are accomplishing today". In a review published on 16 October, it was written that "these pictures of the Battle of the Somme are a real and valuable contribution to the nation's knowledge and a powerful spur to national effort". The film premièred in Australia on 13 October at Hoyt's Picture Theatre in Melbourne. The Melbourne Argus considered that after the attack sequence, "... you are not in a Melbourne picture theatre, but in the very forefront of
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Tim O'Leary
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Time in prison
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vicious beating. Tinhead smiled while hearing Sotto being attacked.
Meanwhile, Emily wanted to earn extra money so that she and Tinhead could get married after his release. Carl took advantage of this and persuaded her to pose topless for some magazine photos. But Emily had second thoughts afterwards and after explaining everything to Nikki, Emily, with Nikki's help, called on Carl to demand the negatives.
Although Emily thought she had all the photos, one still found its way into a girlie magazine, thanks to Carl. It was not long before a copy of this magazine arrived at Tinhead's prison, and the other
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When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
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Summary
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refuses and tells Teddy he'll just have to shoot him. The stage goes black as Teddy fires.
Act two begins with the diner attendees tending to Richard's flesh wound. He's only been grazed in the arm. Teddy admonishes Red and Lyle for staring at Cheryl's breasts. He gives her his keys and tells her to follow Lyle to the car with the gun and make sure he repairs the car. In the meantime, Teddy begins to question the moral fiber of everyone there. He can see Clarisse and Richard's marriage is on the rocks and asks if she's happy with her
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1855
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Resolution
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on the issue made by the Tribunal’s President.
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Whale watching
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Southwest Atlantic –Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
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The region contains six natural reserves, and is considered to be one of the premier whale watching destinations in the world, particularly around the town of Puerto Pirámides and the city of Puerto Madryn, as the whales come within 200 m (660 ft) of the main beach and play a major part in the large ecotourism industry in the region.
In Uruguay, southern right whales are observable from the beach in two coastal departments – Maldonado and Rocha from June to November. The points where most sightings in Maldonado are made are Punta Colorada, Punta Negra, Playa Mansa and Punta Salinas in Punta
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USS Manatee (AO-58)
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Vietnam War
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a 65-mile stretch (105 kilometers) of beaches from the Mexican border northward to San Clemente, California, where President Richard Nixon was vacationing at his home there, a residence that reporters at the time often referred to as the "Western White House". The Navy took charge of the clean-up efforts. "Hundreds of sailors and marines" were dispatched and worked 10 days to clean the beaches. Following federal and state investigations of the incident, the commanding officer of the Manatee, Captain Jack L. Snyder, was relieved of his command.
Decommissioned in July 1973, Manatee was struck from the Naval Vessel Register
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Wheelchair
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Manual attendant-propelled wheelchairs & Powered wheelchairs
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in institutional settings and as loaner-chairs in large public venues. They are usually constructed from steel as light weight is less of a concern when the user is not required to self-propel.
Specially designed transfer chairs are now required features at airports in much of the developed world in order to allow access down narrow airliner aisles and facilitate the transfer of wheelchair-using passengers to and from their seats on the aircraft. Powered wheelchairs An electric-powered wheelchair, commonly called a "powerchair" is a wheelchair which additionally incorporates batteries and electric motors into the frame and that is controlled by either the
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Up (2009 film)
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Development
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rather than what people assume it thinks. Knowledge of canine communication, body language and pack behaviors for the artists and animators to portray such thoughts came from consultant Dr. Ian Dunbar, veterinarian, dog behaviorist, and trainer. The idea for Alpha's voice derived from thinking about what would happen if someone broke a record player and it always played at a high pitch. Russell was added to the story at a later date than Dug and Kevin; his presence, as well as the construction workers, helped to make the story feel less "episodic".
Carl's relationship with Russell reflects how "he's not really
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Upper Cumberworth
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Culture & Community facilities & Education & Religious sites
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Marquees host stalls selling cakes, plants and books, alongside tombolas and games. The carnival usually includes demonstrations from local groups such as the flyball and the dog agility group 'Springers', and the model helicopter group. For the 2007 carnival the evening event included a live band for the second year running and a barbecue. Community facilities The village has a pub, the Star Inn, and a small shop with a post office. Education The village has a small first school, Cumberworth CE (VA) First School. Religious sites The local Saint Nicholas' church is Anglican. The churchyard has a set of
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Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011
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Inquiry phase & Constitution
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coercive practices evident at present in the Victorian taxi industry (see Taxi Industry Inquiry).
In its second phase, the Commission is positioned as the Victorian Government's regulator of taxi services and other small commercial passenger vehicles. This role will require the TSC to, among other things, administer any licensing and accreditation schemes and conduct compliance and enforcement and other activities. Constitution The Commission consists of a Chairperson and up to two Commissioners. Professor Allan Fels has been appointed as Chairperson and Dr David Cousins AM as a Commissioner. Provision is also made for staff to be engaged by
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Vivian Beer
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Recognition
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furniture fellowship granted her the opportunity to travel the country in an RV for inspiration. She had the experience working at the National Air and Space Museum researching American aeronautic design history in which she received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship for. Along with this, she was amongst the few artists to be awarded $50,000 from United States Artists. She was featured on The Take magazine’s cover as “Manchester’s Sexy Industrialist” for her fine, yet functional art. Beer was the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award from Cranbrook Academy, which recognizes alumni who succeed early in their career.
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West Vancouver Secondary School
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History & The Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts
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Centre, were constructed. The Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts In 2004, new $12 million CAD performing arts centre was constructed over the school's old theatre. The Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts was the vision of West Vancouver resident Kay Meek who died in 2004. The centre features a main theatre with seating for 490 as well as a flexible black box studio theatre with seating up to 216 . The studio theatre was finished in February 2006. The first show in the theatre by WVSS was a very small show while the main theatre was still
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Vladislav Anisovich
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Biography
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Vladislav Anisovich Biography Vladislav Leopoldovich Anisovich was born June 7, 1908 in industrial city of Lugansk, in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). In 1927-1928 He studied at the Kharkov Art Institute, then came to Moscow to continue his education in VKHUTEIN. After the closure of VKHUTEIN, Anisovich transferred to the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts (formerly the Academy of Arts)in Leningrad, where he studied under Rudolf Frentz and Alexander Savinov. In 1931 he graduated from the Institute as an artist of monumental painting.
After graduation Anisovich continued his postgraduate studies at the Institute and received a degree
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What Goes On (Beatles song)
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Composition
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What Goes On (Beatles song) Composition The original version of the song was written by John Lennon in the Quarrymen days and considered as a follow-up to "Please Please Me" in early 1963. A demo of this version featuring Lennon and Paul McCartney was recorded in 1963, but the song was not used until 1965 as Ringo Starr's vocal piece for Rubber Soul. According to Lennon, "it was resurrected with a middle eight thrown in, probably with Paul's help" for Rubber Soul. Barry Miles also claimed that McCartney and Starr combined for the middle eight. There is no formal middle
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V12 engine
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Later V12s in aviation
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The long, narrow configuration of the V12 contributed to good aerodynamics, while its smoothness allowed its use with relatively light and fragile airframes. The Merlin was also used in the Avro Lancaster and de Havilland Mosquito bombers. In the United States the Packard Motor company was licensed by Rolls-Royce to produce the Merlin as the Packard V-1650 for use in the North American P-51 Mustang. It was also incorporated into some models of the Curtiss P-40, specifically the P-40F and P-40L. Packard Merlins powered Canadian-built Hurricane, Lancaster, and Mosquito aircraft, as well as the UK-built Spitfire Mark XVI, which was
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Thomas Gaal
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Thomas Gaal Thomas Gaal, a painter of portraits, birds, and flowers, was born at Dendermonde in 1739. He fixed his residence at Middelburg, and was one of the founders and directors of the Academy in that town. J. Perkois, J. H. Koekkoek, and S. De Koster were his pupils. He died at Middelburg in 1817. The painter Pieter Gaal was his son.
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Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011
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Context & Inquiry details and ongoing regulatory responsibilities
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on 19 July 2011. The initial commencement operated to establish and empower the Taxi Services Commission and to give legislative force to the Taxi Industry Inquiry being conducted by the Commission. Provisions in the Act transferring regulatory responsibility to the Commission are yet to be activated.
The responsible Minister for the Act is the Minister for Public Transport, the Hon Terry Mulder MP. Context The Victorian Government's pursuit of the Act was driven by concerns about the ongoing poor performance of Victoria's taxi industry and the desire to establish an inquiry and signal long term organisational and regulatory changes. Inquiry details
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WEGL
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History
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WEGL History WEGL was not the first radio station at Auburn University. In 1922, WMAV began broadcasting from Broun Hall with a 1,500 watt homemade transmitter. It became part of the University’s Extension Service and received a new name, WAPI-AM (WAPI) (for the school’s name at the time: Alabama Polytechnic Institute.) WAPI was later moved to Birmingham, Alabama.
On June 1, 1970, the Board of Trustees authorized then-University President Harry Philpott to submit an application, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a permit to construct and operate an FM radio station. The Student
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Virtual community
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User Experience Testing to Determine Social Codes
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for social media pages or virtual communities is structured around the users’ experience and designed specifically for online use.
User experience testing is utilized to reveal something about the personal experience of the human being using a product or system. When it comes to testing user experience in a software interface, three main characteristics are needed: a user who is engaged, a user who is interacting with a product or interface, and defining the users’ experience in ways that are and observable or measurable.
User experience metrics are based on a reliability and repeatability, using a consistent set of measurements to result
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Veterans Health Administration
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Initiatives & Mental health
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used by military forces in the Vietnam War.
In October 2012, the VHA announced a new goal "to care for and heal our wounded Veterans. In addition to repairing their damaged bodies and minds, VA has embarked on a unique campaign to repair their crumbling intimate relationships."
The VHA has also adopted Boston University's Project RED program, designed to improve the discharge process for veterans in hopes that, by educating patients, the VHA will experience a reduced number of readmission among veterans and provide more information on telerehabilitation. Mental health The percentage of patients with a mental illness was 15 percent in
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United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
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Original committee & Disbanding
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New York; Dan Coats and Dan Burton from Indiana; Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. and Frank Wolf from Virginia; Nancy Johnson from Connecticut; John R. McKernan, Jr. from Maine; and Barbara Vucanovich from Nevada. Disbanding Official documents provided by the Committee and maintained in by the US Government Printing Office ceased to be created in 1993. By the close of 1993, the Committee no longer existed.
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Walton War
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The orphan strip after the war & 1971 revival
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1861, pieces of Jackson County and Henderson County were split off to create present-day Transylvania County, where the Orphan Strip is located today. 1971 revival In 1971, in what some press reports called a symbolic, humorous dispute, the two states briefly revisited the issue. A Georgia legislative panel declared that the state did in fact have authority over part of the old Orphan Strip. North Carolina legislators responded by authorizing the governor to mobilize the National Guard to defend the area, but no troops were mobilized. The matter was soon allowed to drop again, with no change to any boundaries.
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Trévou-Tréguignec
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The Trévou church fire
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its moldings. Inside, one admires the high altar, including a cabinet whose panels, adorned with little steeples, include images of Christ and the Evangelists. The shelf at the back of the altar is no less remarkable for its canopy, its friezes and Gothic spandrels. It rises gracefully to the height of the wainscot, without blocking the stained glass window. Finally the pulpit, pews, catafalque, and railings, are all worthy of attention.
On March 16, 1924, the cornerstone of the new church received its blessing. On March 14, 1926, the new church of St. Samson was consecrated.
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WMAY
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History
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owns local stations 98.7 WNNS-FM, 97.7 WQLZ and 92.7 WUSW.
Three of the most well-known broadcasters to pass through the studio were Bob Hale (hired directly from Clear Lake, IA after the Buddy Holly plane crash in 1959. He mc'd the show at the Surf Ballroom that night, gave casualties the next day, and was hired by WMAY; he purportedly made the coin flip between Ritchie Valens and Tommy Allsup for the final seat on the plane.); Cal Schrum ("The State Policeman's Friend," on the overnight shift; starred in several B westerns and was beloved by law enforcement personnel working the
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WAVY-TV
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History
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Tribune Media—which has operated CBS affiliate WTKR (channel 3) and CW affiliate WGNT (channel 27) through a shared services agreement with partner company Dreamcatcher Broadcasting since December 2013—for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. Nexstar was precluded from acquiring WTKR/WGNT directly or indirectly while owning WAVY/WVBT, as FCC regulations prohibit common ownership of more than two stations in the same media market, or two or more of the four highest-rated stations in the market. (WAVY and WTKR consistently rank among the top four in terms of total-day viewership in the Norfolk–Virginia Beach–Hampton Roads market, while WVBT and WGNT have occasionally
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War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave
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Plot & Reception & Soundtrack
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spend a few moments in silence before the film ends. Reception Blu-Ray.com gave the film 1.5 stars of out 5, finding that while it opens well, it quickly falls apart, becoming a jumbled mess. Soundtrack The film's music was composed by Ralph Reickermann, a former composer for The Asylum. The film features the single "You Came into my Life" which featured the vocals of singer John Brown Reese.
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Volkoff Industries
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Dr. Stanley Wheelwright
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reference in dialogue and action to the character Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series—a role previously made famous by Englund—and Scarecrow from the Batman series. Wheelwright develops a nerve gas called atroxium that can send people into permanent nightmares. After Wheelwright demonstrates atroxium on a Volkoff security guard, Mary Bartowski risks breaking her cover and arranges for him to sell it to Volkoff's most trusted buyer, "Charles Carmichael" (cover for Mary's son Chuck). Chuck later locks Wheelwright and himself in the Buy More after being exposed to the drug, and the scientist tries to terrorize Chuck into
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Weird Western Tales
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Original series & Revival & Blackest Night
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The final issue was #70 (August 1980). Revival Weird Western Tales was revived in 2001 as a four-issue limited series. This series had no relation to the earlier title, instead featuring a series of one-shot Western-based stories. Blackest Night A one-shot revival of the series utilizing the original numbering #71 (March 2010) was published as a tie-in to the Blackest Night limited series.
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United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
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USAFE in Spain & USAFE in Turkey
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Force also gradually took over responsibility for all USAFE operations around the Mediterranean. USAFE in Turkey The U.S. Logistics Group (TUSLOG) was the primary USAF agency in Turkey. TUSLOG not only commanded various USAFE units, but also supported all other U.S. military organizations and government agencies in Turkey. TUSLOG was established in 1955 and was headquartered in the Turkish capital of Ankara. The 39th Air Base Wing at Incirlik Air Base near Adana supported training deployments and regional exercises; communications for National Command Authority taskings; providing support for various units and an Air Mobility Command tenant unit providing air transport
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Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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Use of the minus subspecies & Nutritional properties & Traditional medicine
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and Arctic regions of Alaska., as well as the Western Canadian Inuktitut. The Haida people, Hesquiaht First Nation, Wuikinuxv and Tsimshian all use the berries as food. Nutritional properties The berries contain plentiful organic acids, vitamin C, vitamin A (as beta carotene), B vitamins (B₁, B₂, B₃), and the elements potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. Traditional medicine In folk medicine, V. vitis-idaea has been used as an apéritif, astringent, antihemorrhagic, anti-debilitive, depurative, antiseptic (especially for the urethra), a diuretic, a tonic for the nervous system, and in various ways to treat breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, rheumatism, and various urogenital conditions.
In
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Trade Control and Expert System
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Features
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of member states and participating non-EU countries. Through it, central and local authorities, border inspection posts and economics operators are linked.
It provides electronic sanitary certificates mandatory for tracking goods and live animals: Common Veterinary Entry Document, or CVED as defined in decision 2003/279/CE of the Commission of 15 April 2003 for products (CVED P) and in regulation 2004/282/CE of the Commission of 18 February 2004 for CVED for live animals (CVED A).
TRACES sends an electronic message from the departure point to the transfer point and the arrival point to notify that a consignment is arriving. Similarly, every concerned point sends
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Virtual community
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On communication
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to represent a new form of human communal existence, providing new scope for building a shared experience of human interaction." Although Benkler's prediction has not become entirely true, clearly communications and social relations are extremely complex within a virtual community. The two main effects that can be seen according to Benkler are a "thickening of preexisting relations with friends, family and neighbours" and the beginnings of the "emergence of greater scope for limited-purpose, loose relationships." Despite being acknowledged as "loose" relationships, Benkler argues that they remain meaningful.
Previous concerns about the effects of Internet use on community and family fell into
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Whale watching
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West Pacific –East and Southeast Asia & Southeast Pacific –Chile and Peru
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those of the Irrawaddy dolphin, Bryde's whale, and humpback whales in Batanes, appear migratory. Other populations have yet to be studied. Some former coastal whaling communities in the Philippines have also started to generate whale watching income.
In Indonesia, whale sharks can be observed in Nabire of Papua region. Southeast Pacific –Chile and Peru In the Gulf of Corcovado and the waters of Guaitecas Archipelago a variety of whales and dolphins can be been spotted, including: Peale's dolphins, black dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales, minke whales and killer whales. The Gulf of Corcovado is "arguably the largest feeding and nursing ground
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Tim Legler
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NBA career
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and two with the renamed Washington Wizards) from 1995–1999. His best NBA season was 1995–1996, when he ranked first in the league in both 3-point field goal percentage and true shooting percentage, ranked second in turnover ratio, and won the 1996 Three-Point Shootout during All-Star Weekend. He holds the record for a 3-round aggregate of (23, 22 and 20 out of 30 each) 65 points (out of 90). He also was a runner up for the Sixth Man of the Year award, which was won by Toni Kukoč of the Chicago Bulls.
Legler was well known as an accurate
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Wheelchair
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Other variants & Buildings
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wheelchairs have lower seats which are designed for easy foot propulsion. The decreased seat height also allows them to be used by children and shorter individuals.
A knee scooter is a related device with some features of a wheelchair and some of walking aids. Unlike wheelchairs they are only suitable for below knee injuries to a single leg. The user rests the injured leg on the scooter, grasps the handlebars, and pushes with the uninjured leg. Buildings Adapting the built environment to make it more accessible to wheelchair users is one of the key campaigns of disability rights movements and local
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Voreifel Railway
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Opening of the line
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as a branch line and upgraded in later years as a main line. The maximum development of the line and its stations was achieved in the 1930s and 1940s. The line was then slowly downgraded to its present condition.
In the postwar years, the line was called the Kappes-Express ("Cabbage Express”) as it met the fate of many other lines: the second track was removed on more and more sections and passenger numbers declined as the timetable continued to be thinned in line with demand. At the end of the 1970s, the Voreifel Railway was still used by 3,000 passengers each
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Wadham College Boat Club
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History & Recent form
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by winning the Christ Church Regatta and the Lady Margaret Hall Regatta. In 1976 a women’s division was added to the Summer Eights schedule, and following a random draw which placed the Wadham women at 3rd on the river they immediately bumped up to second and first on successive days, and then rowed over on the Friday and Saturday to claim the first Women’s Head of the River. Recent form In recent years the Women of Wadham have achieved great successes in and out of Oxford rowing. Within college rowing the women won the Eights headship in 2014 after
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Vicente Lombardo Toledano
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Formation of the CTM and alliance with Cárdenas
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was never, as far as it is possible to determine, a member of the PCM. He had, however, even stronger support from the Soviet Union during the Popular Front era than the nominal leaders of the PCM. Following the policy of that era, he and the CTM supported the Cárdenas administration enthusiastically, intervening to moderate union demands during the railroad and electrical workers' strikes in 1936 and the petroleum workers' strike in 1937. Lombardo Toledano and the CTM were vocal supporters for Cárdenas' nationalization of the oil industry in 1938.
Lombardo Toledano also formed the Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina
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Wembley Wizards
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Background & Aftermath
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to your bed, put your head on your pillow and pray for rain." Rain would mean a heavy pitch, which would suit the small Scottish forwards. McMullan's prayers were answered as London awoke to heavy rain. Aftermath When asked for his comment after the game, Alex James simply beamed a smile and said, “We could have had ten!”
Back in Scotland the pubs did rather well and the newspapers were not slow in piling praise on the heads of those little no-hopers of the Scottish side. The Glasgow Herald was a typical example when they said: ‘ Want of height was
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Whale watching
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Northwest Atlantic
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admixture of cold fresh water from the Saguenay River into the inland end of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Humpbacks, minkes, fin and blue whales are also frequently seen off Tadoussac.The Bay of Fundy is an equally important feeding ground for large baleen whales and dozens of other creatures of the sea; it shares a population of migrating humpbacks with America and is a known summer nursery for mother right whales with calves.
On the east coast of the United States, Virginia Beach, Virginia whale watching is a winter activity from the end of December until the middle of March. Fin,
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United States Penitentiary, Allenwood
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Facility and programs & 1996 murder
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fence. Correction officers man six guard towers at each corner of the security fence and a seventh within the fence.
Educational programs include GED, ESL, adult continuing education, vocational training, correspondence classes, and evening college classes. Inmates work in a UNICOR upholstery factory and institutional maintenance jobs such as food service and building repair. Medical, psychological and drug treatment services are also available. 1996 murder In April 1996, USP Allenwood inmate David Paul Hammer strangled fellow inmate Andrew Hunt Marti to death with a piece of homemade cord. Hammer and Marti were cellmates in the Special Housing Unit, where especially violent
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Steve O'Callaghan
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Playing career
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Steve O'Callaghan Playing career In 1982, O'Callaghan joined newly admitted Canberra and played in the club's first ever game, a 37-7 loss against South Sydney at Redfern Oval.
O'Callaghan played in the club's first win, a 12-11 victory over Newtown at Seiffert Oval with O'Callaghan kicking a goal from the sideline to win the match.
Canberra would only go on to win 4 games in 1982 and finished last on the table claiming the wooden spoon. As of 2019, this is the only time that Canberra has finished last.
O'Callaghan played with Canberra until the end of the 1987 season before retiring
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Whale watching
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Central Pacific –Hawaii & West Pacific –East and Southeast Asia
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waters, sightings are extremely common. Whale watching is possible within as well as outside the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The best places to see whales in Hawaiʻi is in the protected channels between the Hawaiʻian islands. The best months to see the whales here are January and February when you can expect to see between 2 and 4 whales per 15 minute period, although fluctuations between 0 and 20 sightings are normal. West Pacific –East and Southeast Asia Many countries in Asia have large whale watching industries. In 2008 the largest, in terms of number of tourists,
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Valentine Ackland
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Critical assessment
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1930-1951, Pandora, London, 1988. With regard to her self-reflection as a poet, Ackland exhibits themes and explorations similar to poets such as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Of interest, too, is Ackland's explorations of the personal effects of terminal illness as her life was drawing to a close from cancer. In her later years, Ackland turned from Catholicism to Quaker beliefs and also to involvement with issues of environmentalism.
In overall assessment, Milford considers the two-minds at work in Ackland's work. She cites as examples Ackland's focus on optimism and dread, the longing for emotional closeness and the fear of intimacy,
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WARQ
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History
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In 2013, Springout had Jacksonville's Shinedown.
The station was owned for a bit by YMF Media LLC through licensee YMF Media South Carolina Licensee LLC. It is now owned by Alpha Media (formerly known as L&L Broadcasting) as of late 2013, which also bought Urban Contemporary WHXT, Urban AC WWDM, Modern rock WMFX, and Sports WOIC in the Columbia radio market at the time of purchase.
On March 21, 2014, after playing "Say Goodbye" by Theory of a Deadman, WARQ began stunting with a loop directing listeners to sister station WMFX.
On March 24, at Midnight, WARQ ended stunting and changed their
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Viche
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History
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Viche Viche (Ukrainian: Віче; English translation: Union or Council) is a political party in Ukraine registered in May 1993. Before September 2005 the party was known as Constitutional Democratic Party (Ukrainian: Конституційно-демократична партія; Konstytutsijno-Demokratychna Partija). History At the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election the part was part of the election bloc "Elephant - Social-Liberal Union" (Ukrainian: Виборчий блок партій "СЛОн - Соціально-Ліберальне Об'єднання") that won 0,90% of the votes and no seats.
At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the Constitutional Democratic Party was part of the Team of Winter Generation alliance, which didn't pass the 4% electoral threshold and obtained
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
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Chapter 7: Sex and Punishment
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organs in a hurry, Sharp was brutally yelled at by Cushing because he had forgotten a part he hadn't even known existed. He was later forgiven, as Cushing still had his pituitary.
Cushing was absolutely fascinated with the idea of mishaps in the pituitary gland. He often sought out circuses and freak shows in hopes that they would have a giant or a dwarf, and often stopped to talk with them about their lives and their pasts. One such man was one by the name of John who was a giant, a farmer from South Dakota, the man who Cushing's assistant
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WAVE Trust
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Activities
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WAVE Trust Activities WAVE works with police, government departments, academics and other voluntary organisations to improve understanding of the most effective strategies and policies for reducing violence and child maltreatment. The charity also delivers therapeutic programmes for violent offenders in prison and after release. In 2008 WAVE cooperated with the Centre for Social Justice and the Smith Institute to write and publish the booklet Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens. This publication calls on all political parties to unite around a long-term commitment to the policy of Early Intervention.
Concerned about the lack of measurable reductions in child maltreatment
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Weed, California
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Boles Fire & Beaughan Spring & Geography
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both Weed and Mt. Shasta lost power as a result of the fire. Beaughan Spring The town of Weed gets its water from the Beaughan Spring, with the water being piped directly to homes.
In September 2016, the New York Times reported French billionaire Pierre Papillaud demanded that Weed give up its Beaughan Spring spring water source so that Papillaud's bottle water company could have more water to sell. Disconnecting from Beaughan Spring would leave Weed without public water. Geography Weed is at 41°25'27" north, 122°23'4" west (41.424298, 122.384417). It is off Interstate 5, 49 miles (79 km) south of the California–Oregon
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Wherwell Abbey
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Later history & Dissolution
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the foot, a number of silver and silver gilt ciboria and pyxes to hold the sacred hosts, one in the form of a tower. There were also crosses, basins, cruets for wine and water, candlesticks, censers, incense boats with their spoons, and two crowns (perhaps for crowning a statue of the Virgin), all in silver or silver gilts. This indicates not idle riches, but a certain level of income plus an attention to the dignity of the liturgical services as already seen a century earlier under Abbess Euphemia. Dissolution After having been in substance harassed for some years, the abbey
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Warlock (1989 film)
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Sequels & Adaptations
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it. Bruce Payne starred in the title role. Adaptations The screenplay was adapted into a novel by Ray Garton, released by Avon Books in 1989. This novelization includes additional/alternate details which didn't make it into the final cut of the movie.
As part of a deal with Lions Gate Entertainment, Bluewater Productions released a Warlock comic book series in 2009. The 4-issue series featured an original storyline with the Warlock on a mission to destroy a book which had imprisoned a group of his peers. The series contained a few references to the original film and one of the two covers
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Walton War
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Ellicott's Rock & The orphan strip after the war
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was not willing to accept the 1807 commission's conclusion, Georgia hired Andrew Ellicott to survey the boundary once again. Georgia did this because they hoped that Ellicott, being from Georgia, would declare that the Orphan Strip actually resided within Georgia's territory. Unfortunately for Georgia, Ellicott reinforced what the commission had found and made the official location of the border at Ellicott's Rock on the east bank of the Chattooga River. The orphan strip after the war North Carolina took official governorship of the Orphan Strip in 1811, and in 1838 it was made into part of Henderson County. In
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United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War
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Colin Powell's presentation
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On February 5, 2003, Powell appeared before the UN to prove the urgency to engage a war with Iraq. Although the presentation failed to change the fundamental position of the Security Council, including France, Russia, China, and Germany, Powell succeeded in hardening the overall tone of the United Nations towards Iraq. Powell also noted that Iraq harbored a terrorist network headed by al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (in a small region controlled by Ansar al-Islam). Powell also claimed that Iraqis visited Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and provided training to al-Qaeda members, although thousands of Arabs from many countries did
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WWF Hasbro action figures
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Unreleased prototypes
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Valentine's figure in the advertisement appeared in his Rhythm and Blues attire, black hair, white jacket with black musical notes on it, white boots, and black trunks, whereas the figure released of Valentine in Series 3 was in his most regular singles attire of blond hair, black trunks and yellow boots. Fueling further collector speculation is the fact that on the back of some early foreign card figures, Rhythm and Blues was listed as an available tag team set. The exact reason this figure went unreleased is unknown, but it is assumed that it was due to the tag team
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Wendi Richter
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The Original Screwjob & Independent circuit (1987–2005)
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the airport, and booked herself on a flight out of New York. Afterward, she never spoke to Moolah again. Independent circuit (1987–2005) Upon leaving the WWF, Richter wrestled in Puerto Rico, Japan, and throughout the United States in independent promotions. In Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council, she traded the WWC Women's Championship with Monster Ripper, holding the belt twice: once in May 1987 and once in July 1987.
Richter surfaced in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in 1987 to challenge champion Madusa Miceli for the AWA Women's Championship, winning the title in December 1988. On December 13, 1988, she participated in
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Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale
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Plot
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to find a fiery world with lava pits and dragons (the Arabian Dance plays during this scene). A flame fairy gives Paulie his head back. A dragon wakes up but is hypnotized by Jerry into lifting them out of the pit.
They launch a cannon which blasts Jerry and his friends into a house with clocks (the Chinese Dance plays during this scene). Tom gives chase, but is crushed in the doors of an elevator and pecked on by wooden birds. The mice and toys are chased by the cats again, and run into a fairground (the Russian Dance plays during
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The Planet of Junior Brown (novel)
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Reception
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The Planet of Junior Brown (novel) Reception Barbara Bader reviewing The Planet of Junior Brown in Kirkus Reviews wrote "This is not a story to be judged on grounds of probability, but one which makes its own insistent reality; it endures along with its promise long after the story ends." and revisiting the book in Horn Book 40 years later noted that children were not borrowing the book from libraries but wrote "the human drama will prevail and Junior Brown will continue to find susceptible readers, here and there, to whom it will mean a great deal."
The Planet of Junior
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USS Bayfield
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Atomic testing & 1946–1960
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a one-day rehearsal for test "BAKER".
On 24 July Bayfield again departed the lagoon and at 08:35 on the 25th, observed the underwater detonation from a distance of 15 miles. She returned to the anchorage at dawn the following morning and remained until 3 August. She stopped at Kwajalein to check contamination levels, resumed her journey on 8 August, and arrived at San Francisco on the 20th. On 28 August 1946, Bayfield arrived at Puget Sounds Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton Washington for further decontamination as a result of the atomic blast test at the Bikini Atoll test site. 1946–1960
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WJMX-FM
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History
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WJMX-FM History 103.1 signed on July 17, 1979 as WPDZ in Cheraw as the area's first FM Top 40 (CHR) station, "Z103". Although the station broadcast with 3 kW of power at the time, Z103 quickly became the top station in the area, even passing heritage Top 40 outlet WJMX AM 970 in the ratings (WJMX would add an FM signal on 106.3 in 1985). Eventually, WPDZ got a construction permit to increase its power to 50 kW, with a frequency change to 103.3, but the station went into bankruptcy by 1987 before it could be acted upon.
In early 1988, WJMX-FM
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Will Rawls
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Collaboration
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Will Rawls Collaboration Dance Gang is an American performance art duo made up of Will Rawls and Kennis Hawkins started in 2006 in New York City.
The two, both over six feet tall, met in 2004 as fellow dancers in Shen Wei Dance Arts and then started their own project. Dance Gang began with playful dance interventions in public spaces and then continued into short and full-length site-specific choreographed works. They performed an hour-long site-specific work, "Dog Free" in the River to River Festival in 2009, shorter works with Neal Medlyn, a performance to Beyoncé's 'All the Single Ladies' at Joe's
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The Electras (band)
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History
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listings in a week.
Undaunted, Kendrick signed the Electras to his own record label named Scotty Records. Their follow-up, "This Week's Children", propelled to number 12 in Minneapolis in early 1966. It was the Electras' third single, "Dirty Old Man", that proved to be their biggest hit, as the band enjoyed 17 weeks with the record charting at number one regionally and selling 6,000 copies overall. Music historian Richie Unterberger prescribed that the group "sounded like a slightly rawer version of Paul Revere and the Raiders. That was never more true than on their regional hit 'Dirty Old Man', with its
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V12 engine
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Characteristics
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Compared to internal combustion engines with fewer cylinders and similar power ratings, a V12 will have more moving parts, a more complex exhaust system, and will be more expensive to manufacture. V12 engines are rarely found in modern luxury automobiles or highway trucks, but are still used in stationary engines, ships, locomotives, and military vehicles. Characteristics Since each cylinder bank is essentially a straight-six which is by itself in both primary and secondary balance, a V12 inherits perfect primary and secondary balance no matter which V angle is used, and therefore it needs no balance shafts. A four-stroke 12 cylinder
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Wheelchair
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Reclining and tilting wheelchairs
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the tilted position). Tilting wheelchairs are preferred for people who use molded or contoured seats, who need to maintain a particular posture, who adversely affected by sheer forces (reclining causes the body to slide slightly every time), or who need to keep a communication device, powered wheelchair controls, or other attached device in the same relative position throughout the day. Tilting wheelchairs are commonly used by people with cerebral palsy, people with some muscle diseases, and people with limited range of motion in the hip or knee joints. Tilting options are more common than reclining options in
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Walkathon
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History
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Laurel Norton of St. Paul, and Howard Freedland of Minneapolis, who convinced Johnny Carson to promote the event and organized local churches and synagogues to support the walk.
Additional walks were held in Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota, where 650 walkers finished the entire 33-mile route.
The other walkathon organizers included Harvey Silver and a former priest named Jack Healey. On a stopover in England, when returning from the Peace Corps, they saw adults participating in sponsored walks to raise money for causes. Together with Bob Schumacher, who provided the public relations support, the first walkathons were held in the USA,
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United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013
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Resolution
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17.
On January 14, 2014, the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees agreed on a spending plan that would fund the federal government for two years. A bill extending the previous continuing resolution through January 18 was also passed. On January 16, 2014, Congress passed a $1.1 trillion appropriations bill that will keep the federal government funded until October 2014. President Obama signed the appropriations bill into law on January 18.
On February 7, 2014, the debt limit suspension expired and treasury began applying extraordinary measures once again, warning that such measures would not last beyond February 27 due to large tax
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Wannia
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Description
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unambiguous autapomorphies (unique traits) and additionally by a unique combination of characters. Unlike all other phytosaurs, the basitubera, areas at the base of the skull in front of its attachment point with the neck, are widely separated mediolaterally. A distinctive ridge is present on the lateral surface of the jugal bone. A thickened shelf is present along the posteroventral edge of an expanded "wing" formed by the pterygoid bone and the quadrate bone. A swelling on the nasal bone is present behind the posterior borders of the nares. Finally, the "septomaxillae", probably not homologous to the septomaxillae of squamates and
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Weed, California
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2010
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(23.5 percent) aged 45 to 64, and 414 people (14 percent) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100 males.
There were 1,273 housing units at an average density of 265.5 per square mile (102.5/km²), of which 543 (48 percent) were owner-occupied, and 588 (52 percent) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 3.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.8 percent. Forty-three percent of the population (1,275 persons) lived in owner-occupied housing units
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V12 engine
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Later V12s in aviation
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These engines generated about 1,000 hp (750 kW) at the beginning of the war and above 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) at their ultimate evolution stage. The German DB 605DC engine reached 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) with methanol/water injection called MW 50-equipment. In contrast to most Allied V12s, the engines built in Germany by Daimler-Benz, Junkers-Jumo, and Argus (As 410 and As 411) were primarily inverted, which had the advantages of lower centers of gravity and improved pilot visibility for single-engined designs. Only the pre-war origin BMW VI V12 of Germany was an "upright" engine. The United States had the experimental Continental IV-1430 inverted V12 engine under
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