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Malus
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Uses
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flame.
Crab apple has been listed as one of the 38 plants whose flowers are used to prepare the Bach flower remedies.
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Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli
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Deputy and senator
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to its political rules. In 1890 he launched his own electoral campaign, standing in the Catalan Vich close to where he lived and in the Aragon Huesca where his major estate was. Though in Huesca he clearly lost, the Vich result remained heavily contested; the voting took place in February 1891, but he was finally declared victorious in the summer of 1892, just a month before the Cortes was dissolved. Though his influence in Vich was described by the press as "grandisima", in the following campaign he did not stand; instead, having completed 35 years of age Solferino decided to
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Lauren Carpenter
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Wayne Duncan
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almost by accident and was initially helped along by Wayne's "matchmaking" brother, Troy (Damian Walshe-Howling). When Lauren got drunk at a dinner party, Wayne offered to walk her home and she grabbed him on the doorstep and kissed him in front of their friends. Sammy-Lee revealed "Then, when she invites him in for coffee, she spills milk on her blouse and takes it off. Wayne does the gentlemanly thing by covering her up with his jacket and putting her to bed. But Lauren reads more into it." The following day, Lauren woke up and was unable to remember what happened,
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Likhoslavlsky District
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History & Industry
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but on March 4, 1964 it was re-established. In 1990, Kalinin Oblast was renamed Tver Oblast.
Another district created on July 12, 1929 was Tolmachyovsky District with the administrative center in the selo of Tolmachi. It was a part of Tver Okrug of Moscow Oblast. On January 29, 1935 the district was transferred to Kalinin Oblast, and on March 5, 1935 it was renamed Novokarelsky District. On July 9, 1937 it was transferred to Karelian National Okrug. On July 4, 1956 the district was abolished and split between Spirovsky and Likhoslavlsky Districts. Industry There are enterprises of electrotechnical, ceramic, and food industries in the district.
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June Haver
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Career
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from 20th Century Fox. In 1943, Haver signed a $3,500-a-week contract with the studio and made her film debut playing an uncredited role as a hat-check girl in The Gang's All Here. She was dropped shortly after, because the studio executives felt that she looked too young, but was later resigned, after her costume and hairstyle were changed.
20th Century Fox had plans to mold Haver as a glamour girl stand-in for the studio's two biggest stars, Alice Faye and Betty Grable. She debuted on screen in a supporting role as Cri-Cri in Home in Indiana (1944). According to the actress,
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Malina Popivanova
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Personal life & Career
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to the city of Skopje from 1921 to 1924, and was an active member of the Cultural and Artistic Association, also known as "Abrasevic".
In the autumn of 1924, she moved to the USSR for schooling under the order of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and became the first Macedonian to graduate from Ia. M. Sverdlov Communist University in 1928. Career In order to deal with the factional fighting in the Yugoslav Communist Party, the Comintern in the spring of 1928 sent more reliable cadres to Yugoslavia, including Popivanova. She first got a job working in Zagreb, then in Dalmatia,
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Los Jaivas
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History & Name
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when Gabriel died in Peru in a car crash. His daughter Juanita took his place behind the drums.
In January 2003, the main singer, Gato Alquinta, died in Coquimbo, Chile, of a heart attack while swimming in the sea. Gato's three sons soon joined the band to replace him: Ankatu (guitar), Eloy (saxophone) and Aurora (vocals). Aurora left shortly after, and Eloy died of a heart attack in 2004 . Ankatu, however, is still a member of the band. Name The original name of the band, proposed by Rolando Fuentes (a friend of founding member Claudio Parra during high school)
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Kirstie Marshall
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Early life and sporting career
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four-month scholarship in Inawashiro, Listel Ski Fantasia, the center for Freestyle Skiing in Japan, with Takayo as her coach.
Following the 1988 Australian Freestyle competition where she placed first, Marshall decided to follow the European winter and compete on the four-month World Cup Season. Sponsored by a Melbourne-based travel company, she headed overseas as the only Australian representative in either Aerials, Moguls or Ballet (Acrobatics).
While not truly competitive with her single back layout and single front tuck, she completed her rookie season finishing in 10th position, at that time one of the highest placing by an Australian winter athlete, male or
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Manchester Cenotaph
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History
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of London, resulting in a sense of betrayal in the local community. Having cost £6,940, it was unveiled on 12 July 1924 by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Derby's family had been involved in politics for generations, and he had held various public offices during the war including Secretary of State for War. He was assisted by Mrs Bingle, a local woman from Rylance Street, Ancoats, who lost three sons in the war. Two years earlier, Lord Derby had unveiled Lutyens' Rochdale Cenotaph, 10 miles (16 km) away. Mrs Bingle represented "the mothers and wives of Manchester who had made
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Lightning
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Electrification
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Lightning Electrification The details of the charging process are still being studied by scientists, but there is general agreement on some of the basic concepts of thunderstorm electrification. The main charging area in a thunderstorm occurs in the central part of the storm where air is moving upward rapidly (updraft) and temperatures range from −15 to −25 °C (5 to −13 °F); see Figure 1. At that place, the combination of temperature and rapid upward air movement produces a mixture of super-cooled cloud droplets (small water droplets below freezing), small ice crystals, and graupel (soft hail). The updraft carries the super-cooled cloud
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Marcelle Auclair
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Biography
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Marcelle Auclair Biography Marcelle Auclair was born 11 November 1899 in Montluçon, central France, and died in Paris on 6 June 1984.
She was the daughter of the architect Victor Auclair and his wife Eugénie Rateau.
She spent part of her childhood and youth in Chile, where her father settled in 1906 to participate in the country's reconstruction after the a devastating earthquake. She did her schooling in Santiago (Chile), where she also learned Spanish and English while reading French authors.
Returning to France in 1923, she married the writer Jean Prévost (m. April 28, 1926), with whom she had three children (Michel,
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Manhattan, Kansas
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Intercity bus service & Public transportation
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McCall Road. Public transportation Within the City of Manhattan, limited mass-transit is provided by Riley County's subsidized paratransit service, ATA Bus. ATA Bus recently started its first set-route bus route in Manhattan connecting an apartment complex and an office campus, and is currently working with the city to develop a feasible mass-transit system. ATA uses four small buses and a number of minivans in its fleet. Five twenty-passenger transit buses have been purchased for fixed-route service and the agency is awaiting operational funding from Kansas State University and the City.
Historically, the city operated a streetcar system from 1909 to 1928.
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Mai Shiranui
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Guest and cameo appearances
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game Mad Blade (formerly Bladecraft) and an endless runner Kal Kal Kal All Together in 2013. Mai was featured as an avatar replacement model to promote the Japanese MMORPG Wizardry Online in 2014.
Mai has been appearing making guest character appearances in especially many Asian games since 2014, when she was added to several Chinese games, including MOBAs 300 Heroes and The King of Solider II, an action RPG Ultimate Heroes, beat 'em ups Fantasy Fighter and King of Fate, and an RTS Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs. She was also featured as a variant of character class Kunoichi in
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Loh tarang
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Instruments used in Indian Folk Music
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Folk instruments from India have been used by musicians in world music and ethnic fusion. Although Indian classical music is regarded as a higher art form than Indian folk music, there is no denying that classical ragas have been influenced by various forms of folk music. Instruments used in Indian folk music stir the soul. Dwell in the mystical sounds of India. Instruments used in Indian Folk Music • Udukai (Percussion Instrument)
• Algoza (Woodwind Instrument)
• Sarinda (Bowed String Instrument)
• Sruti upanga (Bagpipe)
• Ghungroo (Musical Anklet)
• Khol (Indian Drum)
• Chengila (Percussion Instrument)
• Pepa (Flute-like Instrument)
• Idakka (Hourglass-Shaped Drum)
• Tamak’(Double-Headed Drum)
• Pambai
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Kailash Chandra Meher
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Personal life and education & Career
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Award in 2001. Career Meher worked as an art designer in the Weavers Service Centre in Bhubaneswar, Govt. Of India, under Development Commissioner Handloom, New Delhi from 1978 to 1993 creating textile designs for weavers and weaving organisations, and developed some old Bomkai designs, which were developed into a product called "Bomkai Sari".
Meher creates new designs, techniques with research and experiments, aiming for better market promotion in India and abroad. His tree paintings were presented as an example for the Shilp Guru award. Because of his excellent work in paintings, many more students and followers got National Award and also
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Marc Bélanger (musician)
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Life and career
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Scherchen.
Bélanger began his career working as an ensemble musician, conductor, and arranger for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Between 1956-1971 he played the violin and viola in various orchestras at the CBC in Quebec and from 1972-1976 he played in the CBC Orchestra in Montreal. From 1958-1972 he was a member of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra; notably serving as the ensemble's principal violist from 1969-1972. In 1981 he played an instrumental role in establishing the Orchestre Métropolitain (OM) in Montreal; serving as the OM's first Musical Director from 1981–1986 and then Artistic Director in 1986-1987. At Expo 86 he was a
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Howard the Duck
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Publication history
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and Marvel's Howard an empty shell.
In 2001, when Marvel launched its MAX imprint of "mature readers" comics, Gerber returned to write a six-issue Howard the Duck miniseries illustrated by Phil Winslade and Glenn Fabry. Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters, the series, like the original one, parodied a wide range of other comics and pop culture figures, but with considerably stronger language and sexual content than what would have been allowable 25 years earlier. The series has Doctor Bong causing Howard to go through multiple changes of form, principally into a mouse (as a parody of Mickey Mouse, in
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Manuel the Armenian
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Escape to the Caliphate & Domestic of the Schools
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back south. Manuel, who by then had apparently won the confidence of his Arab minders, suggested that he and 'Abbas take a part of the army and raid over the Pass of Hadath into Byzantine Cappadocia. Once across the mountains, he and the other Byzantine captives neutralized 'Abbas and his escort, took their arms and escaped. 'Abbas and his companions were left behind unmolested, and allowed to return to Abbasid territory. Domestic of the Schools Theophilos welcomed Manuel with open arms, and named him Domestic of the Schools, commander of the elite tagma of the Scholae and de facto commander-in-chief
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Hellmuth von Ruckteschell
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Naval career & War crimes trial
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of 94,363 GRT, and 10 ships of 58,464 GRT (4th and 6th highest), and stayed at large for 358, and 180 days ( 4th and 9th longest). War crimes trial Ruckteschell was the subject of one of the first war crimes investigations undertaken by the British Admiralty. It was alleged that on several occasions Ruckteschell had continued firing on merchant vessels after they had surrendered. This contravened the laws of naval warfare, the Admiralty requested that Ruckteschell and his crew members be detained for interrogation. Ruckteschell spent the last years of the war on the staff of the German naval attaché in
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Margaret B. Fuller Boos
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Early life & Geological contributions
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at the University of Chicago, where she then completed her M.A. in Geology.
In 1924 Margaret Fuller received her Phd from the University of Chicago. Geological contributions Margaret B. Fuller Boos' primary interest was in mapping and interpreting the granite intrusives on the Colorado Front Range and discovered the first lithium pegmatite in the front range. During her time as a geology professor, she mapped the granite intrusives and pegmatites in the Denver Mountain Parks area. In 1922, Boos mapped the Precambrian area north and south of the Big Thompson River, as well as the extent of the Longs Peak and
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Just5
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History
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Just5 History Just5 mobile phones are developed in cooperation with the design-bureau Newplan which is based in Beijing and Shenzhen and a joint company Just5-Newplan was created in 2009. Just5 mobile phones are manufactured by ODMs in Taiwan and are based on Infineon and MediaTek hardware platforms.
Just5 started sales in Europe in the first quarter of 2009 and the devices appeared in the markets of Russia and US in the third quarter of 2009. As of September 2010, Just5 mobile phones were being sold in 33 countries worldwide. In 11 of those countries the devices were sold as rebranded under
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Manuel the Armenian
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Domestic of the Schools
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and taking some seven thousand prisoner. Manuel is also recorded as accompanying Theophilos on his great expedition in 837 against the Arab cities of northern Mesopotamia, which led to the sack of Zapetra and Arsamosata. This campaign, however, and the atrocities committed by the Byzantines' former Khurramite troops after the fall of Zapetra, provoked a large-scale retaliatory campaign by Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842). Manuel again accompanied the Emperor as his senior general, along with Nasr/Theophobos as commander of a large corps composed of former Khurramite refugees. Manuel participated in the disastrous Battle of Anzen on 22 July 838, where Theophilos
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Lorraine O'Grady
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Life and work
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In addition to the articles she has written for Artforum magazine and Art Lies, her essay, "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity," has now been anthologized numerous times, most recently in Amelia Jones (ed.), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2nd edition, Routledge, 2010).
She was featured in "We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85", an exhibition organized by Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Rujeko Hockley, former Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum. The exhibit was shown at the Brooklyn Museum April 21–September 17, 2017 and at the
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Marc Carol
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Career
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scoring one championship point.
Carol returned to the Supercopa in 2007, finishing thirteenth. He also competed in the Spanish GT Championship in 2007 and 2008. Carol also won the Spanish Endurance Championship in 2008. He currently leads the SEAT León Supercopa in 2009.
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Lightning
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Attachment & Return stroke
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a process referred to as attachment, a low-resistance path is formed and discharge may occur. Photographs have been taken in which unattached streamers are clearly visible. The unattached downward leaders are also visible in branched lightning, none of which are connected to the earth, although it may appear they are. High-speed videos can show the attachment process in progress. Return stroke Once a conductive channel bridges the air gap between the negative charge excess in the cloud and the positive surface charge excess below, there is a large drop in resistance across the lightning channel. Electrons accelerate rapidly as a
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Mai Shiranui
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Film and animation
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the god of war, Mars.
Mai has only a minor role in the first episode of original net animation The King of Fighters: Another Day (2005), voiced by Akoya Sogi and Sheryl Stanley, wherein she and Athena Asamiya save Soiree Meira and a little girl from a collapsing building in USA. She is more prominent in YouTube computer-animated series The King of Fighters: Destiny (2017), voiced by Ami Koshimizu. In KOF: Destiny, after beating up some lecherous punks in London, Mai joins up with Yuri and King, as the leader of their new Queens Team to "let men know that women
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Kolam
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History
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floor of the house, or wherever the Kolam may be drawn, is cleaned with water and the muddy floor swept well to create an even surface. The kolams are generally drawn while the surface is still damp so the design will hold better. Even powdered white stone (வெங்கசங்கள் பொடி / மொக்குமாவு) can be used for creating Kolam. Occasionally, cow dung is also used to wax the floors. In some cultures, cow dung is believed to have antiseptic properties and hence provides a literal threshold of protection for the home. It also provides contrast with the white powder.
The decoration is not
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Manuel the Armenian
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Biography
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was the most senior of the Byzantine Empire's thematic governors, and Leo himself had held the office prior to his accession. According to historians John B. Bury and Warren Treadgold, in early 819 and for about a year, Leo seems to have appointed Manuel to the exceptional post of monostrategos ("single-general") of the five land themes of Asia Minor, but this unusual concentration of command authority was apparently directed towards the more effective suppression of iconophile resistance against Leo's reinstatement of Iconoclasm rather than for military purposes. This appointment is, however, most likely a misreading of the primary source, according
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Lucky People Center
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Members
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Lucky People Center Members Lucky People Center is supposed to be more of a loose constellation than a group, and the projects done under the name has various members. The member list is in the sleeve-notes of the album Interspecies Communication listed as David Österberg, Jean-Louis Huhta, Johan Söderberg and Skander Chand, while the movie Lucky People Center International is credited to Söderberg and Erik Pauser.
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Iris gatesii
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Description
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shorter and narrower, than I. susiana.
It has a stout stem or peduncle, that can grow in March, up to between 35–60 cm (14–24 in) tall. The stem is also taller than the stem of I. susiana.
The stem has pale green spathes, (leaves of the flower bud), that are between 10–12.5 cm (4–5 in) long.
The stems hold a single terminal (top of stem) flower, blooming in late spring, between April and June.
The large flowers are between 13–20 cm (5–8 in) in diameter, they are the largest of the Oncocyclus series, (including I. susiana,) and of all irises, except the Japanese hybrids.
The flowers are very
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Lou Barletta
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Immigration
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reward some immigrants who are "murders, rapists, thieves, and terrorists" with legal status. In 2007, Barletta gave an interview to Americans for Immigration Control, which believes the "annual tidal wave of over a million immigrants (legal and illegal) is endangering our American way of life." In 2011, Barletta spoke at an event hosted by the anti-Muslim journal The Social Contract, whose editor is a white nationalist. In 2011, he appeared at an event hosted by the ultra-conservative student group Youth for Western Civilization, which opposes "radical multiculturalism, political correctness, racial preferences, mass immigration, and socialism."
When asked whether Barletta had known
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Longwood University
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Club sports & Student life
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1 in Virginia Beach, VA. The National Championship is the school's first. The club baseball team in their second year of competition made it to the Division II club baseball world series in Johnstown, PA. They went 2-2 and finished 4th. Student life Located in Farmville, Virginia, Longwood is within 65 miles of three of Virginia's urban centers: Richmond (65 miles), Charlottesville (60 miles) and Lynchburg (45 miles). In addition to existing adjacent to one of Southside Virginia's historic downtowns, there are several outdoors opportunities available to students. The 31-mile High Bridge Trail is a short walk from campus, and
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Managed lane
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Bus lanes & Truck lanes and lane restrictions
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solo vehicle pricing, it includes several sections where bus-only lanes and separate roadways into stations for buses exist. Houston has a similar approach to serving express bus transit on reversible HOV lanes and express toll lanes with direct access ramps connecting stations and park-and-ride lots. Truck lanes and lane restrictions Separated roadways for trucks are uncommon. One example is the New Jersey Turnpike, the northern portion of which features completely separated dual roadways, one reserved for passenger cars only, and the other open to both commercial and non-commercial traffic. Access ramps are provided to both roadways at major interchanges (Figure
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Lee Kernaghan
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Achievements
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nominated in award categories numerous times.
As of 2015, Kernaghan has had 33 #1 hits on the Australian country charts, and has sold over two million albums.
He was named "Hit Maker of the Decade" twice, in 2001 and 2011. This title goes to country artists from anywhere in the world who achieves the most hits in the Australian market over the past decade.
He has sold over two million albums, and won 36 Golden Guitars at the Country Music Awards of Australia (second to Slim Dusty).
Kernaghan was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2015 ARIA Awards, for Spirit of
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Main River (Newfoundland and Labrador)
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Main River (Newfoundland and Labrador) Main River is a river in Newfoundland, Canada, a very popular canoeing destination. It is 57 km long, originates in the Long Range Mountains and enters the sea at White Bay.
Main River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in February 2001.
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Ken Piesse
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Ken Piesse Ken Piesse is a Melbourne-based Australian sports journalist, commentator and after-dinner speaker. He has written many publications, mostly focusing on cricket and Australian rules football.
Piesse also appears on radio station Sport 927 with regular updates on news in the world of sport.
Ken Piesse has recently written his 62nd book, Great Australian Cricket Stories.
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Manic-1
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Characteristics
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station's hydraulic head is 120 ft (37 m) but can vary between 113 ft (34 m) and 128 ft (39 m) because of sea tides.
At the time of the plant's commission, Manic-1 was expected to operate as a peaker plant, generally run only at times of high demand for electricity, known as peak demand. It was expected to generate 40 gigawatt-hours annually.
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Hudson River Museum
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History & Funding
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up to 22 million stars compared to its Zeiss projector which displayed up to 5,000 stars.
Since 1995 the museum has offered a Junior Docent Program; the program was recognized by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities with a Coming Up Taller Award in 2008. Funding The late 1980s was a difficult time for the Hudson River Museum when it faced a decrease in funding, uncertainties in future funding, and a high level of staff turnover. The museum was forced to reduce its operating hours and cut some programming, but was able to expand the planetarium. The facility experienced
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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L'Esprit de la Revolution
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to its success: its ultimate object was to "edge society in the direction of the distant ideal".
The new work, like its predecessor, attracted minimal readership. On 21 June 1791, just days after it was published, all attention became focused on King Louis XVI's ill-fated flight to Varennes. Saint-Just's theories about constitutional monarchy were suddenly outdated. The episode fostered public anger toward the King which simmered all year until a Parisian mob finally attacked the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792. In response, the Assembly declared itself ready to step down ahead of schedule and called for a new election, this
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Major facilitator superfamily
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Fold
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is built around 12 transmembrane helices (TMH), with two 6-helix bundles formed by the N and C terminal homologus domains of the transporter which are connected by an extended cytoplasmic loop. The two halves of the protein pack against each other in a clam-shell fashion, sealing via interactions at the ends of the transmembrane helices and extracellular loops. This forms a large aqueous cavity at the center of the membrane, which is alternatively open to the cytoplasm or periplasm/extracellular space. Lining this aqueous cavity are the amino-acids which bind the substrate(s) and define transporter specificity. Many MFS transporters are thought
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Lou Barletta
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Immigration ordinance, lawsuit and financial distress
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Defense and Education Fund sued in Federal District Court to block the ordinance.
In July 2007, District Court Judge James M. Munley ruled that the act was unconstitutional for interfering with Federal immigration laws and violating the due process of individuals, employers and landlords. The ruling was upheld on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals on September 9, 2010. In a public statement shortly after the decision, Barletta vowed to appeal. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case. In 2014, the town of Hazleton was ordered to reimburse the ACLU $1.4 million in legal fees (which was more
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Major facilitator superfamily
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Substrate specificity
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transporters, a function conserved from prokaryotes to mammals, the MFS family is notable for the great diversity of substrates transported by the superfamily. These range from small oxyanions to large peptide fragments. Other MFS transporters are notable for a lack of selectivity, extruding broad classes of drugs and xenobiotics. This substrate specificity is largely determined by specific side chains which line the aqueous pocket at the center of the membrane. While one substrate of particular biological importance is often used to name the transporter or family, there may also be co-transported or leaked ions or molecules. These include water molecules
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Kevin Jepsen
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Arizona Diamondbacks & Washington Nationals & Texas Rangers
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with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was released on March 25. Washington Nationals Nearing a return after losing the first half of the season to a quadriceps injury, Jepsen reportedly signed a minor league deal with a July 26 opt-out date on June 29, 2017, to join the Washington Nationals organization. He elected free agency on November 6, 2017. Texas Rangers On December 14, 2017, Jepsen signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. Jepsen earned a spot on the Rangers' Opening Day roster. He was designated for assignment on May 21, 2018. He cleared waivers and elected free agency
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Le pauvre matelot
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Performance history
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in 1934 and 1935.
The United States premiere of the opera, produced by the Curtis Institute of Music, took place on 1 April 1937 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in a production directed by Austrian composer, librettist, and stage director Ernst Lert and using set and costume designs by Tony Award winning designer Donald Oenslager. The opera was presented in a double bill with the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball. Both operas were conducted by Fritz Reiner with Sylvan Levin serving as chorus master and a young Boris Goldovsky working as Assistant Conductor. The
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Lao rebellion (1826–1828)
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Rebellion
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1826 Anouvong was actively making military preparations for rebellion. His strategy involved three key points: 1) respond to the immediate crisis caused by the popular discontent over the forced tattooing; 2) remove the ethnic Laos on the Khorat Plateau to the Kingdom of Vientiane, conducting a scorched Earth policy as he did so to slow the inevitable Siamese pursuit; 3) seek a diplomatic victory by gaining support from Vietnam, China, or Britain.
Anouvong may have believed the balance of power in Southeast Asia was turning away from Siam. The factionalism at the Siamese court, the presence of the British in nearby
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Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
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Alternative fuels & Coastal restoration
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of scientific investigation including gasification and cellulose conversion technologies. Coastal restoration Maintaining and restoring Louisiana's valuable coastline is vital to the future of not only Louisiana but the nation. The Louisiana coast is the gateway to Central and South America and the corridor for the oil and gas that power much of the eastern half of the United States. The LSU AgCenter's part in the massive restoration effort includes developing coastal plant varieties that can proliferate rapidly. Acceleration of plant production requires fast seeding and efficient harvesting. These new varieties must be able to do what their ancestors have done
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Loto-Québec
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History
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win cash prizes. The show was first hosted by Guy Mongrain and is currently hosted by Sébastien Benoît and Julie Houle.
On May 25, 2004, activists and public personalities came together to create the EmJEU coalition (Ethics for moderation in gambling). While not prohibitionist or anti-gambling per se, coalition members demanded secure and ethical administration at Loto-Québec and for the entire games of chance industry. They were in part responsible for a public debate on the place games of chance should have in Quebec society and all related issues. In short, EmJEU members demanded the same kind of legislation and regulations
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Kevin Dowd
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Published work
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much of the developed world.
Dowd has also written extensively on financial risk measurement and management. He has argued that most financial modelling is conceptually invalid because it is based on a naïve 'scientistic' belief that economic systems can be modelled using quantitative methods inappropriately imported from natural sciences such as physics. He is particularly critical of the widely used Value-at-Risk or VaR risk measure, the assumptions inherent to, and so the use of the "normal" or Gaussian distribution in risk management, and the use of financial risk models for regulatory purposes.
Dowd is the co-inventor of the PensionMetrics Defined-Contribution (DC) stochastic
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Manuel the Armenian
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Domestic of the Schools
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of the entire army. Manuel would remain Theophilos's leading general for the remainder of his reign. Furthermore, as the uncle of Theophilos's wife, the Empress Theodora, his position at court was now unassailable, as shown by the fact that the Emperor later served as godfather for Manuel's children. The Syriac sources even report that Theophilos made Manuel governor of the "inner regions" of the Empire.
In 831, Manuel accompanied Theophilos in an expedition against a raid by the Cilician Arabs. The Byzantines caught up with the Arabs near the fort of Charsianon, and inflicted a heavy defeat upon them, killing 1,600
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Margit Johnsen
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Torpedoed in June 1940
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Margit Johnsen Margit Johnsen Godø, BEM, nicknamed Malta-Margit, (31 January 1913 – 20 July 1987) was a Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy. For her service on a merchant vessel in convoy to Malta in 1942 she was awarded the St. Olav's Medal with Oak Branch and several other gallantry decorations. Johnsen continued her work in the Norwegian merchant fleet until 1960. Her story is told in maritime and wartime history as an example of Norwegian women's effort during World War II. Torpedoed in June 1940 Johnsen worked for the Norwegian shipping company Wilh. Wilhelmsen as a messroom girl. She
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Llanvair Discoed
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Surroundings and amenities
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and amenities The village is nestled at the bottom of Gray Hill, an important archaeological site with earthworks and standing stones dating from the Neolithic period up to the Bronze Age.
It is on the road between Caerwent and Usk via Wentwood. It currently has 67 houses, one pub (The Woodlands Tavern), and one parish church, namely St. Mary's Church in Wales church.
To the north lies Pehhein, a "large, two storeyed villa of a standard Regency type." The house was designed for Samuel Brookes and took John Nash's villa at Cronkhill, Shropshire, as its inspiration. The villa is a
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Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum
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History
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a location situated on a former floodplain, and the area was leveled with decomposed granite.
Starting in 1957, the group installed elevated turntable steaming bays for 7.5" gauge and the smaller 4.75" and 3.5" gauges, then laid two concentric ovals of track. Prior to the construction of Zoo Drive and the Ventura Freeway in the 1960s, Crystal Springs Drive was the primary road through the area in what now forms the museum's member access driveway. In addition, the perimeter of the museum was encircled by the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Crystal Springs & Cahuenga Valley Railroad operated by Travel Town Museum
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Margie Orford
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Biography & Non-fiction
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Margie Orford Biography Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa. She was detained during the 1985 State of Emergency while a student at the University of Cape Town, taking her final examinations in prison. After travelling widely, she studied under J. M. Coetzee before embarking on a career in publishing in the newly emerged Namibia. She returned to live in South Africa in 2001. Non-fiction With Schimke, Karin (30 September 2006). Fabulously 40 and Beyond: Coming into Your Power an Embracing Change. Spearhead P. ISBN 978-0-86486-588-5.
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John Van Maanen
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high tech industries.
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LaVaughn Robinson
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Street dancing
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crowd, and then pass the hat. The competition required fierce demonstration of dancing prowess, like a gunfighter riding into town and challenging the local champion, with the winners getting better corners. The ultimate corner in Philadelphia was at Broad and South Streets. The better the dance ability, the nearer to Broad Street the dancer would be permitted busk. Broad Street being the same as 14th Street, the corners at either 2nd and South or 25th and South implied modest dance skills. Although he had no formal dance training, this competitive zeal influenced Robinson's style, and
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Longwood University
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Longwood University (2002–present) & Academics
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members of the Black Students Association, with the encouragement of Longwood's associate director for diversity and inclusion, staged a protest of Longwood's alleged mistreatment of minority students. Academics Longwood University is a small, highly residential public liberal arts university that offers more than 100 majors and minors across three main academic colleges. Longwood is ranked in the top regional universities in the South by U.S. News & World Report and has the largest percentage of classes taught by full-time faculty of all public universities in Virginia. Longwood is listed in the "Best in the Southeast" section of The Princeton Review's
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Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli
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Early political activity
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of Barcelona appointed him to commission coordinating charity activities.
Solferino is not listed as key protagonist in an internal Carlist conflict, developing between Ramón Nocedal and the claimant Carlos VII. Hitherto pilgrimage activities seemed to format him as an Integrist supporter, especially that he kept addressing Nocedal and Sardá with venerating letters and in 1886 the press reported him as one of "jefes del integrismo catalan". However, as one of two grands adhering to Carlism he was also celebrated - despite his young age - by the claimant, who already in 1885 invited Solferino to his Venice residence. Though in early
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London Wall
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Medieval period
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crenellations, additional gates and further towers and bastions. Aside from the seven City Wall gates and the four bars, there are the 13 water-gates on the Thames where goods were unloaded from ships. These include Billingsgate and Bridge Gate. Additionally there were pedestrian-only gates such as Tower Gate and the postern gate at the Tower of London.
A further medieval defensive feature was the restoration of the defensive ditch immediately adjacent to the outside of the wall. The street name Houndsditch recalls a part of this former feature.
As London continued to grow throughout the medieval period, urban development grew beyond the
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Love of Life
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1951–1960
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Dale and her courageous struggle for human dignity."
The show changed directions when the character of Meg was phased out and the show changed locales; first set in the fictional town of Barrowsville, it moved to Rosehill, where it would remain for the rest of the show's run.
The actress who originated the role of Van (Peggy McCay) left the show in 1955, and was replaced by actress Bonnie Bartlett (1955–1959). Bartlett was subsequently replaced by Audrey Peters, who played Van for the rest of the run (1959–1980). Peters had an unusual debut – Bartlett had played the role of Vanessa up
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Le Laudi
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homophony, accompanied by the orchestra. The text speaks of praise of the Almighty Creator. The tenor, echoed by the men's voices, continues saying that the creatures are not worthy to name their creator.
An interlude leads to the Allegro section, which the children's voices (ragazzi) begin singing Laudate sia, mio Signore, con tutte le tue creature (Be praised, my Lord, by all your creatures). The other voices, now in four parts, imitate in polyphony. The first creature, frate sole (Brother Sun), is mentioned first by the solo tenor. The movement ends with a reminiscence of the first melody in hymnic homophony.
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Mai Shiranui
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Other versions
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"Mai is a ninja in her own series, she seems to fit perfectly within the Dead or Alive ethos."
The character has received mostly negative reception in regards to her film appearances. GamesRadar's Henry Gilbert commented in 2014 that Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture director Masami Ōbari "never miss[ed] a chance to fill the screen with her heaving chest" while devoting more attention to her shower segment than to the film's fight scenes. In The Complete Anime Guide, Trish Ledoux noted that "the animation of modern-day ninja girl Mai Shiranui gave an all-new meaning to *bouncy* anime girls." John Funk of
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Major facilitator superfamily
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Function & Fold
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Major facilitator superfamily Function The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) are membrane proteins which are expressed ubiquitously in all kingdoms of life for the import or export of target substrates. The MFS family was originally believed to function primarily in the uptake of sugars but subsequent studies revealed that drugs, metabolites, oligosaccharides, amino acids and oxyanions were all transported by MFS family members. These protein energetically drive transport utilizing the electrochemical gradient of the target substrate (uniporter), or act as a cotransporter where transport is coupled to the movement of a second substrate. Fold The basic fold of the MFS transporter
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Mansfield Brewery
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History
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the brewery once stood was immediately put up for sale. In 2008, Mansfield District Council released blueprints, showing plans to develop the area in a mixed-use scheme, including offices, leisure facilities and residential developments. As of 2018, the site was still undeveloped and being marketed for commercial use, but work started in 2019 to transform the brownfield site into a mixed residential development with some completion anticipated by 2020.
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Madonna della Grazie, Petriolo
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History
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Madonna della Grazie, Petriolo The Chiesa della Madonna della Grazie is a Roman Catholic church located just outside the town of Petriolo, at the point where the Strada provincial 36 splits toward either Mogliano or the Abbey of Fiastra and Macerata, in the province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy. History The small brick church is located on the road from Petriolo to Mogliano. The church was built in the second half of the 18th century in simple Neoclassical lines, and houses a venerated fresco depicting a standing forward-facing Madonna and Child, felt to be miraculous.
The main altarpiece depicts
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Margrete Aamot Øverland
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in June 1941. Aamot was sent to Grini concentration camp and later Ravensbrück. However, both survived. In 1946 they moved in at Grotten. Arnulf died in 1968, Margrete in 1978.
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Lawrence Manor
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Education
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Manor, the separate Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), and the secular Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
Both TCDSB, and TDSB operate public elementary schools in the neighbourhood. TCDSB operates St. Margaret Catholic School, whereas TDSB operate Baycrest Public School. TCDSB is the only public school board to operate a secondary school in Lawrence Manor, Dante Alighieri Academy. Both TCDSB institutions operate a satellite campus for the school in the neighbourhood, known as Beatrice Campus.
TDSB does not operate a secondary school in the neighbourhood, with TDSB secondary school students residing in Lawrence Manor attending institutions in adjacent neighbourhoods. The French
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Lucia Joyce
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Early life and career
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James Joyce and his partner (later wife) Nora Barnacle, after her brother Giorgio. As her parents were expatriates living in Trieste, Lucia's first language was Italian. In her younger years, she trained as a dancer at the Dalcroze Institute in Paris. Joyce studied dancing from 1925 to 1929, training first with Jacques Dalcroze, followed by Margaret Morris (granddaughter of William Morris), and later with Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora Duncan) at his school near Salzburg. In 1927, she danced a short duet as a toy soldier in Jean Renoir’s film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "La Petite marchande d’allumettes" (The
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Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum
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History & Signaling & Facilities
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celebrated its 60th anniversary by hosting a special Spring Meet and commemorating a new 1 gauge elevated live steam layout. Signaling Since the 1980s, the track has gained a comprehensive signal system based on Automatic Block Signaling for maintaining safe separation between trains and route indication. The layout has more than 100 electronic signal blocks and 50 motorized turnouts and was extensively used for bidirectional operations from 1995-2005. In addition, the layout utilizes a restored Wigwag (railroad) crossing signal and has a replica 19th century highball signal on display. Facilities The museum has over 1.5 miles of 7.5" gauge track
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Marimbondo Dam
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Background & Specifications
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Marimbondo Dam Background Owned and maintained by Eletrobrás Furnas, the dam was their fourth power plant constructed. Construction began in 1971 and was complete in 1975 when the first generator went online. The last of the eight generators went online in January 1977. Specifications The Marimbondo Dam is a 3,100 metres (10,200 ft) long and 94 metres (308 ft) high earth-fill embankment dam with a concrete spillway and power house section. The total structural volume of materials for the dam is 14,400,000 cubic metres (510,000,000 cu ft). The dam's spillway contains nine floodgates that are 15 metres (49 ft) wide and 18.85 metres (61.8 ft) high
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London Wall
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Demise
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the devastation of an air raid on 29 December 1940 at the height of the Blitz. Another visible section is at St Alphage Gardens, and other sections form part of the walls or foundations of modern buildings and are only visible from inside those buildings. One of the largest and most readily accessed fragments of the wall stands just outside Tower Hill tube station, with a replica statue of the Emperor Trajan standing in front of it.
In 1984 the Museum of London set up a Wall Walk from the Tower of London to the museum, using 23 tiled panels. A
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Libertine (song)
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Synopsis
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man and runs away on a white horse, while the Woman in Red threatens revenge. Later, in a castle, Libertine has a bath with two other women, anatomies on full display. They then dress, Libertine in male attire, and go to a banquet hall filled with people engaged in various pleasures. A man sends Libertine a message and follows her to an upstairs room, rejecting the Woman in Red's advances. The man and Libertine make love. (At this stage Farmer is shown fully naked, including full frontal, and the music stops to give way to sounds evoking eroticism, (moans and
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Lenny Breau
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Turning to jazz
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his band with Vancouver CKNW's Rick Honey as his drummer.
In 1967, recordings of Breau's playing from The Lenny Breau Show found their way to Chet Atkins. The ensuing friendship resulted in Breau's first two albums, Guitar Sounds from Lenny Breau and The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau – Live! on RCA.
He lived in various Canadian cities until returning to the United States in 1976. For several years he moved between Maine, Nashville, Stockton, California, and New York City, eventually settling in Los Angeles in 1983. These years he spent performing, teaching, and writing for Guitar Player magazine. A few more
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Jawbone (company)
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Aliph & Expansion (2008 to 2010)
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Aliph released a YouTube demonstration of a wireless version of its Jawbone headset and announced that Yves Béhar would be hired as vice president and creative director.
The company’s earliest venture capital investor was the Mayfield Fund, which invested $0.8 million in December 2006.
In January 2007, Aliph revealed its wireless Jawbone headset at the Consumer Electronics Show.
In July 2007, Khosla Ventures made a $5 million investment in the company. Expansion (2008 to 2010) At the beginning of 2008, Aliph received another major investment of $30 million from Sequoia Capital.
Aliph announced another Bluetooth headset in May 2008. New Jawbone became available for
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Lenka Udovicki
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Other notable works & Academic career & Recent activity
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project "Henry V" by William Walton with the Zagreb Philharmonic conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in the Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall in Zagreb. Academic career Worked a visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts and UCLA in Los Angeles. In 2011, co-operating with Nataša Govedić, she directed the performance of "Unbreakable String – Workers in Culture" for workers in textile industry, supporting former workers of Kamensko factory, who themselves also participated in the performance.
In 2012, together with Rade Serbedzija, she founded the School of Acting and Media at the University of Rijeka, where she teaches acting. Recent activity
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Lesley Brooker
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published work on birds in the Australasian region.
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Last days
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of the First Coalition: France remained on the offensive until its eventual victory in 1797. After his return from the battle, Saint-Just was treated as a hero and "cheered from all sides".
Back in Paris, Saint-Just discovered that Robespierre's political position had degraded significantly. As the Terror reached its apogee – the so-called "Great Terror"—the danger of a counterstrike by his enemies became almost inevitable. Saint-Just, however, remained unshakable in his alliance with Robespierre. The French victory at Fleurus and others which followed, reduced the need for national security during the war which had been predicated as a justification for the
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Ludwik de Laveaux (officer)
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the main train station in Lviv between 3–4 November 1918. After the war he was assistant to Chief Executive lomendanta Czesław Mączyński in the peace negotiations.
From June to December 1919 he was a student at the military general staff School Course in Warsaw, but his studies were interrupted by the Polish-Soviet War where he was Chief of staff of the 5th Infantry Division but he resumed his studies from 1921 to 1922 at Doszkolenia Military School in Warsaw.
After graduating he was assigned to the 1st Division as Chief of staff. In December 1926 he transferred to Warsaw, and in July
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Lake Success (California)
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Lake Recreation
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kayaking especially popular. The lake is considered one of the best lakes in the Valley for large mouth bass, and tournaments are often held here. The bass aren't usually lunkers but are plentiful. In addition, bluegills, crappie, channel catfish and occasional trout are caught. A floating marina is also available on Success Lake; Success Lake Marina. The lake has since been refilled as the dam has passed all inspections
Rocky Hill Campground offers only non-electric sites, but has another boat launch ramp and a picnic area. Day-use Bartlett Park has picnic shelters and a playground. All three sites provide a
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Main Street, Gibraltar
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Description & Grand Casemates Square
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British Regency styles, most of which have shops on the ground floor. Upper floors provide residential accommodation or offices. Tourists and visitors will find a wide variety of shops, many of which will be familiar from British high streets.
Irish Town is a street name and one of Main Street's sub-districts and was named in the early 19th century when Gibraltar was split into differing quarters.
Gibraltar's town centre is largely protected by the Gibraltar Heritage Trust and is part of a continual restoration programme. Grand Casemates Square Grand Casemates Square at the northern end of Main Street, once the centre of
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Luís Pimenta (football manager)
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Personal life & Managerial career
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Luís Pimenta (football manager) Personal life Pimenta was born in Lisbon, Portugal to a Portuguese father and a German mother. At the age of 5, he moved to Luxembourg with his family. Managerial career At 15, Pimenta decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a football manager, and completed all his UEFA training courses. From Luxembourg he returned to the Portuguese capital to study human kinetics at the university. During his degree course, he went to Liverpool to learn psychology and football science, as well as deepen his knowledge of English. Back in Portugal, he met Gonçalo Pereira,
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Kansas City Bomber
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Development
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as a bad girl who gets hissed at, beat up, and spit on every week. The irony is that she is able to find the stardom she desperately yearned for, but not as a movie star--as a star on the roller derby track getting booed at and spit at every week. And so it's kind of dark, and much grittier and different, kind of almost along the lines of Midnight Cowboy.
The film was originally going to be made at Warner Bros, then at United Artists. Eventually Welch divorced Curtis and made the film for her own company in association with
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Lindsay Barrett
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As editor and contributor & Journalism and non-fiction
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Goodness of Life, Madheart, published in 1997. Barrett has been an associate editor of several periodicals, including Afriscope in Nigeria, and Transition Magazine in Uganda, and he was a contributor to seminal black British publications in the 1960s such as Daylight, Flamingo, Frontline and West Indian World.
He has also contributed numerous short stories, poems, essays, and articles to journals that include Black Orpheus, Negro Digest/Black World, Revolution, Two Cities, New African, Magnet, The Black Scholar, Black Lines, West Africa magazine, and The Africa Report. Journalism and non-fiction As a journalist, Barrett wrote on the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone,
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Margaret Manny
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Flags
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Margaret Manny Margaret Manny was a milliner in colonial Philadelphia who made flags for the United States during the American Revolution. She may have made the Grand Union Flag for the Continental Navy. Flags Manny began making jacks and ensigns for ships as early as December 1774. She also supposedly made the Grand Union Flag, or Continental Colors, first flown by John Paul Jones aboard the Alfred on 3 December 1775. The "Grand Union Flag" (also known as the "Continental Colors", the "Congress Flag", the "Cambridge Flag", and the "First Navy Ensign") is considered to be the first national
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Knockout rat
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Production challenges & Early methods
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genetic manipulation techniques widely used in the mouse are not possible in the rat. Early methods Until the commercial development of mobile DNA technology in 2007 and zinc-finger nuclease technology in 2009, there were only two technologies that could be used to produce rat models of human disease: cloning and chemical mutagenesis using N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU). Although cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) could theoretically be used to create rats with specific mutations by mutating somatic cells, and then using these cells for SCNT, this approach has not been used successfully to create knockout rats. One problem with this strategy
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LanSchool
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History & Acquisitions
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Doggett began exploring the concept of a software application that would allow an instructor to control multiple computers.
Doggett developed a software tool called PC Chalkboard that was then implemented by Novell. PC Chalkboard allowed Novell lab instructors to broadcast their screens to each PC in the lab. LanSchool was licensed by both Intel and IBM and actively marketed through each company's education sales channel. In April 2001, Doggett left Intel and formed a new company, LanSchool Technologies, LLC, where he could work on LanSchool full-time. Acquisitions LanSchool was acquired by Stoneware in 2011. In September 2012, Lenovo announced the
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Last Kiss
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Release and reception
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United States, the song reached number two on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart and became the band's highest-charting song in Canada. It later charted on the RPM Rock Report, where it reached number four and stayed there for two weeks. In Europe "Last Kiss" reached number 42 in the United Kingdom and number 77 in the Netherlands. In
Australasia, "Last Kiss" peaked atop the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for seven weeks and became a top-twenty success in New Zealand. It also reached number one in Iceland, staying at the summit for six weeks.
Christopher John Farley of Time said, "It's
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Lorraine O'Grady
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Life and work
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white, [who] walked around the float carrying empty gold picture frames." The performance not only encouraged onlookers - primarily people of color - to consider themselves art, but also drew attention to racism in the artworld. O'Grady also gives credit to Mlle Bourgeoise Noire for curating exhibitions, such as The Black and White Show in 1983 at Kenkeleba House, a black-run gallery situated in Manhattan's East Village. The concept for this event was to show the work of 30 black artists alongside 30 white artists.
Beginning in 1991 she added photo installations to her conceptually based work. And in 2007, she
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Llanvair Discoed
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History
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Llanvair Discoed History The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Lamecare'. The name means Mary's (Mair > Fair) church (llan) under (is) the wood (coed). The 'd' at the start of Discoed only appears in more recent versions of the name. The correct Welsh language name is Llanfair Is Coed or Llanfair-iscoed. The wood refers to Wentwood, which at the time of the Kingdom of Gwent separated the cantref of Gwent Is Coed ("this side of the wood", as envisaged from Caerwent), from that of Gwent Uwch Coed ("beyond the wood").
The village contains a small ruined
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Mai Shiranui
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Other media, promotion and merchandise
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if the number of pre-registered users exceeds half million.
Scores of figures, statuettes and dolls have been made in her image. Such figures include those made by A-Label, Aizu Project, Alphamax, Daiki, Gantaku, Hobby Japan, Kinetiquettes, Max Factory, Volks, and SNK themselves. Some of them can be stripped topless, and an exclusive Volks figure was sold in an auction for the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 2009. Two action figures of Mai were made in the Cy Girls series, and her figurines were included in the Pinky:St and Nendroid series. Various other licensed Mai-themed merchandise include several official T-shirts, including one from a
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Love of Life
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Production
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Love of Life Production Love of Life originally came from Liederkranz Hall on East 58th Street in Manhattan. Mike and Buff (Mike Wallace), Ernie Kovacs, and Douglas Edwards and the News, as well as Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light also came from that location. The program originated at other studios in Manhattan, but primarily at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street and CBS' Studio 52 behind the Ed Sullivan Theater. In 1975, the series moved to make way for a nightclub that became known as Studio 54. Until its final episode in 1980, Love of Life
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Lyman Lemnitzer
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Post-Korean War
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Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington". Lemnitzer presented the plans to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962. It is unclear how McNamara reacted, but three days later President John F. Kennedy told the general that there was no chance that the US would take military action against Cuba. Within a few months, after the refusal to endorse Operation Northwoods, Lemnitzer was denied another term as JCS chairman.
In November 1962, Lemnitzer was appointed as commander of U.S. European Command, and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe of the North Atlantic
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Manhattan, Kansas
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Earthquakes & Tornadoes
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earthquake. Tornadoes The state of Kansas falls within an area sometimes called Tornado Alley. The most destructive tornado in Manhattan touched down at approximately 10:30 pm on June 11, 2008. Thirty-one homes and several businesses were destroyed by the EF4 tornado. Kansas State University's campus incurred about $20 million in damage – a number of university buildings sustained significant damage and the tornado's winds destroyed the Wind Erosion Laboratory's garage. No one was killed.
Previously, the most destructive tornado to hit Manhattan was on June 8, 1966. The 1966 tornado caused $5 million in damage and injured at least 65 people in Manhattan.
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LRRC8B
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research has found that it is not as crucial to the activity of the channel in comparison to LRRC8A and LRRC8D. However, while we know that LRRC8A and LRRC8D are necessary for VRAC function, other studies have found that they are not sufficient for the full range of usual VRAC activity. This is where the other LRRC8 proteins come in, such as LRRC8B, as the different composition of these subunits affects the range of specificity for VRACs.
In addition to its role in VRACs, the LRRC8 protein family is also associated with agammaglobulinemia-5.
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Leon Milo
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New York
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“Buster” Bailey. At the same time and also at Juilliard, he began studying composition and contemporary music analysis with Stanley Wolfe, who encouraged him while writing his first pieces.
Between 1975 and 1981 he worked in numerous orchestras and ensembles at Juilliard and as a freelance percussionist in New York City and outlying areas. He was percussionist and timpanist in the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra during these years.
At Juilliard, he worked with conductors such as Sixten Ehrling, Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez and Myung-Whun Chung.
Milo also performed at places like The Kitchen, presenting early minimal, improvised and aleatoric
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Lou Barletta
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Donald Trump & Economy and budget
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had been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump. Barletta endorsed Trump for president in March 2016. According to NBC News, "Barletta is a favorite of Trump. ... Trump asked Barletta to run for Senate." Barletta was reportedly considered for a position in the Trump administration. In his 2018 Senate campaign, Barletta pledged to "give President Trump the help he needs". Economy and budget On April 15, 2011, Barletta voted with the Republican majority for Paul Ryan's budget. Barletta has characterized a balanced budget amendment as a gimmick and said he will not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
In 2017, Barletta
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Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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Stuffing the ballot box
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were a good offensive team, most baseball observers agreed that they did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game. An investigation ordered by Commissioner Ford Frick showed that over half of the ballots cast came from Cincinnati, as the Cincinnati Enquirer had printed up pre-marked ballots and distributed them with the Sunday newspaper to make it easy for Reds fans to vote often for their favorite stars.
Commissioner Ford Frick appointed Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves to substitute for Reds players Gus Bell and Wally Post, and took fan voting rights
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Luís Pimenta (football manager)
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Managerial career
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destined to be his deputy for the years to come. After finishing the course, Pimenta and Pereira entered the technical staff of Rui Jorge at Belenenses. At the same time, Pimenta worked at the Academia Carlos Queiroz in Carnaxide.
In October 2011, Pimenta was invited to manage the youth academy of the Norwegian club of Hønefoss, being also an assistant for the first team, where they reached the best classification in the club's history in 2012, under the lead of Leif Gunnar Smerud. He became the assistant manager of Roar Johansen in 2014, but they were both released that year.
In September
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Long Đại River
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Long Đại River The Long Đại River (Vietnamese: Sông Long Đại) is a river in Quảng Ninh District of Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast region of Vietnam. The river originates in the Annamite Range and flows generally northeastwards. Its total length is 77 km (48 mi). The Long Đại River creates a narrow fertile plain by its banks. Then it meets the Kiến Giang River, and together they form the Nhật Lệ River. The Nhật Lệ River flows generally northeastwards before emptying into South China Sea at Đồng Hới. The Long Đại River used to cause flooding in the rainy season
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Lonnie Liston Smith
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The Cosmic Echoes (1973–85)
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free jazz fans who had appreciated his earlier work, but this new relaxed fusion style proved popular with a cross-over audience not normally associated with jazz, and the following albums, Expansions (Flying Dutchman, 1974), Visions of a New World (Flying Dutchman, 1975) and Reflections of a Golden Dream (RCA, 1976) have since become mainstays of the jazz-funk and chill jazz genres with DJs and audiences worldwide, especially in Europe and Japan. Renaissance (RCA, 1977) continued this crossover fame, and the following year Smith expanded upon his success with a new contract with Columbia Records and two further crossover albums in
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Arrest of the Dantonists
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tumultuous show-trial, Fabre, Desmoulins, and other top supporters of Danton went to the scaffold with their leader on 16 Germinal (5 April 1794). In his report, Saint-Just had promised that this would be a "final cleansing" of the Republic's enemies.
The violent removal of the Hébertists and Dantonists provided only a mirage of stability. Their deaths caused deep resentment in the Convention, and their absence only made it more difficult for the Jacobins to influence the dangerously unpredictable masses of sans-culottes. The elimination of popular demagogues and the consequent loss of support in the streets would prove disastrous for Saint-Just and
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