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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada and the country, but Cardus also questioned whether the schools have prepared students for their life of faith. # Comparing Cardus Survey Phase I (American) with Phase II (Canadian). In the two reports, many similarities between the countries are evident. Christian school graduates are more likely to have strong commitments to family, church and faith formation. Graduates are very involved in their churches, in mission trips and in volunteering in non-religious community work. Their views on morality issues are parallel, and both sets of graduates have a sense of a culture around them that is negative toward them. Three main differences can be seen in the reports. First, Canadian Christian
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Cardus Education Survey Canada school graduates show a stronger tendency to obtain a master's degree than American Christian graduates. Second, American Christian school graduates donate less and are involved less in political action, but like the Canadians, they agree that they should be involved. Third, Canadian Christian school graduates volunteer outside of their religious congregation more than their American counterparts. # Cardus Origins. Cardus is a Canadian think tank "dedicated to the renewal of North American social architecture, drawing on more than 2000 years of Christian social thought". Cardus focuses its research in four areas of North American public life: Cities; Volunteerism, Public-Good Services and
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada Support Programs; Education and Culture; and Work and Economics. It publishes four journals: Comment, Cardus Policy in Public, LexView, and Convivium. Cardus Audio is its podcast. http://www.cardus.ca/organization/about/ The word Cardus comes from the Latin root "cardo". In the Ancient Roman world, the cardo was a street running north to south in a city. Busy with many markets and stores, the cardo, was the center of business and the economy of any Roman town. Cardus uses this image of the busy street saying, "Cardus's wide-angle periodicals, policies, and punditry come together for a renewed vision of North American social architecture, up and down the Cardus—the Main Street." # Cardus Education
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada Survey Origins. In December 2007, thirty-seven Christian leaders in education and culture met at a California symposium to explore the through lines that weave Christian education and culture together. Quantified and qualified data was needed to learn more. A discussion paper was then published and followed by a research proposal. Cardus secured funding from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation based in Grand Rapids, Michigan; the William Voortman Foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario; and the Van Lunen Foundation based in Chicago, Illinois. The William Voortman Fund is a private foundation in Waterdown, Ontario, which supports selected Christian organizations, with a focus on education
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada in Ontario. The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation supports conservative policy and politics. The foundation has been a supporter of both Hope College and Calvin College, both West Michigan Christian colleges. The Van Lunen Foundation has been a supporter of Christian education by establishing the Van Lunen Center for Executive Management in Christian Schools established at Calvin College in January 2007. The University of Notre Dame joined in research partnership with an in-kind contribution to the project. The combined value of the funded and in-kind contributions to the project was $1,150,000. In August 2011, the first phase of the project published, Do the Motivations for Private Religious
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada Catholic and Protestant Schooling in North America Align with Graduate Outcomes? The research goals of this phase focused the connection between the motivations of Christian education and the outcomes, especially in academic excellence, spiritual formation, and cultural engagement. The Phase I report says, # The Research Team. Ray Pennings served as the chair and coordinator and is a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Cardus. Dr. David Sikkink was the head of quantitative studies. He completed his doctorate in sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and has been in Sociology at Notre Dame since 1999. Dr. Deani Van Pelt served as the author for the report and is
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada an Associate Professor of Education at Redeemer University College where she serves as Director of Teacher Education. Harro Van Brummelen served as an advisor and is former Dean of Education and Professor Emeritus at Trinity Western University, and currently the Executive Director of Christian Studies International. Amy von Heyking served as an advisor and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. # Methodology of Quantitative Research. The American Survey (Phase I)used two web-based surveys. Questions about schooling history were included in the Science of Generosity Survey conducted in 2010. This survey was conducted by survey firm Knowledge
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada Networks. This survey included nearly 2000 randomly sampled Americans ages 24 to 39 who completed a 60-minute survey. The survey included questions about academic excellence, spiritual formation, and cultural engagement. Toward the end of the survey, participants were asked to identify the type of high school that they attended. Choices included public, Catholic, conservative Protestant or "Christian school", other Christian, non-Christian religious, non-religious private or home-school. The second survey, also done by Knowledge Networks, included 1,003 graduates of non-government schools and 505 graduates of government schools. Graduates were sorted by the type of school, such as Catholic,
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Cardus Education Survey Canada
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Cardus Education Survey Canada evangelical Protestant, non-religious private, and home school. The survey includes questions about academic excellence, spiritual formation, and cultural engagement. Participants responded to a thirty-minute survey. The Canadian Survey (Phase II) was a parallel survey. A survey of randomly selected Canadians was administered by Vision Critical, a division of Angus Reid. This survey included a large oversample of non-government school graduates that was limited to participants between 23 and 40 years of age. Respondents chose from the following options: Catholic, conservative Protestant or "Christian school," other Protestant school, or other type of independent school. In addition, respondents
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Cardus Education Survey Canada were asked the name and location of the high school from which they graduated. From these responses, participants were sorted into categories of public, separate Catholic, independent Catholic, non-religious independent, "Christian," and home school. The forty-five-minute survey included questions about academic excellence, spiritual formation, and cultural engagement. In order to make the survey instrument comparable to the United States sample of the Cardus Education Study, several questions were replicated from the Knowledge Networks survey. The distribution of English-speaking, non-government high school participants in the analysis was as follows: - 683 Public - 368 Separate Catholic -
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Cardus Education Survey Canada 49 Independent Catholic - 110 Conservative Protestant or "Christian School" - 112 Non-religious independent - 34 Religious home school The small number of home school graduates that were identified puts into question the validity of the sample. Other larger surveys have been done that may reflect more clearly on the academic excellence, spiritual formation and cultural engagement of home school graduates. Although the Cardus Education Survey had participants from Islamic schools (5), Jewish schools (15), Sikh schools (2), mainline Protestant schools(22), and non-religiously-defined home school (17), the Cardus team decided that the numbers in each category were insufficient to study them
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Cardus Education Survey Canada as distinct groups, and they could not naturally be collapsed into another category. Responses from graduates of these categories were not analyzed. # References. Ajah Fundtracker (2012). William Voortman fund. Retrieved from http://ajah.ca/demo/fo/14336 Arai, A. B. (2000). Reasons for home schooling in Canada. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne De l'Éducation, 25(3), 204-217. Calvin College (2012) DeVos Communications Center. Retrieved from http://www.calvin.edu/map/devos/ Cardus (2012) Research projects education and culture. Retrieved from http://www.cardus.ca/research/education/publications/ Cardus (2012) The organization. Retrieved from http://www.cardus.ca/organization/about/ Hope
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Cardus Education Survey Canada College (2012) DeVos Fieldhouse. Retrieved from http://www.hope.edu/resources/devos/ Sun News (September 26, 2012) Why private schools make better people. Retrieved from http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/why-private-schools-make-better-people/1863112169001 Pennings, R, Seel, D.J., and Sikkink, D, Van Pelt, D, Wiens, K (2011) Cardus education survey. do the motivations for private religious Catholic and Protestant schooling in North America align with graduate outcomes? Hamilton, Canada: Cardus. Pennings, R.; Sikkink, D.; Van Pelt, D.; Van Brummelen, H.; and von Heyking,(2012) Cardus education survey. a rising tide lifts all boats. Hamilton, Canada: Cardus. Van Lunen Center (2012) History
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Cardus Education Survey Canada -better-people/1863112169001 Pennings, R, Seel, D.J., and Sikkink, D, Van Pelt, D, Wiens, K (2011) Cardus education survey. do the motivations for private religious Catholic and Protestant schooling in North America align with graduate outcomes? Hamilton, Canada: Cardus. Pennings, R.; Sikkink, D.; Van Pelt, D.; Van Brummelen, H.; and von Heyking,(2012) Cardus education survey. a rising tide lifts all boats. Hamilton, Canada: Cardus. Van Lunen Center (2012) History of the Van Lunen Center. Retrieved from http://www.calvin.edu/vanlunen/about/history.html Van Pelt, D, Seel, DJ (2007) The California table connecting education and culture a work research foundation paper. Ontario, CA: Cardus.
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Pro Veritate
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Pro Veritate Pro Veritate Pro Veritate was a Christian monthly journal published by the Christian Institute of Southern Africa from 1962 to 1977. Articles reflected a theological and Christian point of view on a wide range of topics during the Apartheid era of South Africa. The journal was banned on 19 October 1977 under the Internal Security Act of South Africa.
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Frinton Golf Club
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Frinton Golf Club Frinton Golf Club Frinton Golf Club is a coastal golf club, located on the suburbs of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England. The club was instituted founded in 1895 and officially instituted in August 1896. In 1910 it had a membership of 380. The course length is 6265 yards and was designed by Willie Park Jnr. in 1904, with later additions by Harry Colt. The club course also dates to this period, designed by Homer & Sharp and built between 1903 and 1905. The Ryder Cup golfers practiced here in 1929 prior to their first Ryder Cup victory at Moortown. In 1929-31 the club was involved in a legal dispute over the sale of alcohol on the premises. # External links. - Official site
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Al Lang
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Al Lang Al Lang Albert Fielding Lang (1870–1960), better known as Al Lang, was an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida from 1916 to 1920. Lang was an active mayor who took steps to beautify the city and increase its popularity especially among northerners who would come to Florida in the winter. However, Lang is best known for his work in bringing baseball spring training to the St. Petersburg area. # Early years. Lang was born in 1870 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his childhood, Lang was a well known Pittsburgh Pirates fan and associated with the players before and after the games even though he was of school age. Ignoring parental reprimands,
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Al Lang
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Al Lang Lang often attended games with his boyhood friend, Barney Dreyfuss As a young adult, Lang established a laundry business that became the largest in city. At the time, Pittsburgh was a city that had an economy focused on steel and smelting businesses and was known for its poor air quality. In 1910, at the age of 39, Lang suffered from respiratory ailments and was told by his doctors that his condition was terminal if he stayed in Pittsburgh. Subsequently, Lang sold his laundry business and moved to St. Petersburg. As a result of the move, Lang’s health improved and he began to extol the virtues of his new home town. At the same time, Dreyfuss had become a successful baseball executive and in
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Al Lang
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Al Lang 1913 bought the Pirates. Lang traveled back to Pittsburgh and asked Dreyfuss to consider moving the Pirates to St. Petersburg for spring training, but Dreyfuss was already using Hot Springs, Arkansas, for spring training and did not want to move his team. Dreyfuss also saw no value in traveling to such a small town unfamiliar to most. Convinced that St. Petersburg would make a good spring training site, Lang eventually convinced the St. Louis Browns to make St. Petersburg their spring training home for the 1914 baseball season. Branch Rickey, the Browns' parsimonious general manager, was attracted to the city’s financial package that included payment for the team’s travel expenses. The following
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Al Lang
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Al Lang year, Lang convinced the Philadelphia Phillies to make the same move. # Mayor of St. Petersburg. In 1916, Lang was elected mayor of St. Petersburg. During his four-year tenure, the city's population doubled as Lang relentlessly marketed the city's clean air, access to the ocean and relaxed lifestyle. As mayor, Lang established an ordinance making all benches in the city a standard size and the same color: green. Lang also extended the paving of streets and the construction of city parks along the waterfront with guaranteed access to the public. Lang took steps to clean up and revitalize the downtown area to include the construction of an open-air post office and the removal of store signs
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Al Lang
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Al Lang that were intrusive or offensive. During tourist season, Lang was known for greeting every train arriving in the city and personally welcoming the tourists as they disembarked. # Baseball legacy. Following his second term as St. Petersburg mayor, Lang devoted the remainder of his life to facilitating the success of baseball in the state of Florida. At that time, teams were still spread out among several southern states. "Lang was determined that Florida would become the center of the spring training world. Year after year, he continued proselytizing on behalf of not only St. Petersburg, but Florida in general. He delighted in calling attention to every frost in Georgia or to a freak snow
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Al Lang
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Al Lang squall that canceled a White Sox game in Shreveport in 1926 ... in the years Al Lang worked to make Florida the center of the spring training world, Florida became just that and nobody played a more central role." By 1925, nine of the twelve major league baseball teams were playing spring training games in Florida and they formed what was to become known as the Grapefruit League. Of the nine teams, none were as important or as well known as the New York Yankees with their lineup of baseball's greatest players to include Babe Ruth. Along with the Yankees came New York's many newspapers and numerous baseball reporters. The resulting effect of daily dispatches using a “St. Petersburg, Florida”
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Al Lang
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Al Lang dateline provided the city with immeasurable publicity across the country. In response to Lang's efforts over the years, the city constructed a new baseball park named for him and opened it in 1947 to great fanfare. The new park, called Al Lang Field hosted many major league teams over the ensuing decades to include the New York Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Tampa Bay Rays. # Death. On February 27, 1960, Lang died at the age of 89. His funeral was attended by thousands to include Stan Musial, Ford Frick and other baseball players and executives. Lang was childless but was devoted to children and made many donations to children's charitable organizations. After his death the bulk
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Al Lang
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Al Lang decades to include the New York Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Tampa Bay Rays. # Death. On February 27, 1960, Lang died at the age of 89. His funeral was attended by thousands to include Stan Musial, Ford Frick and other baseball players and executives. Lang was childless but was devoted to children and made many donations to children's charitable organizations. After his death the bulk of his estate was left to charities that helped children medically and educationally. The baseball field named after Lang continued to host spring training games until March 28, 2008, when the Tampa Bay Rays played their last game at the stadium and then moved to Port Charlotte for the 2009 season.
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Ambrogio Maestri
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Ambrogio Maestri Ambrogio Maestri Ambrogio Maestri (born 1970) is an Italian operatic baritone. He is especially known for his portrayal of the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff". He studied piano and singing in his home town, Pavia. In Italy he has performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Verdi in Trieste and the Arena di Verona. Abroad he has performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, San Francisco Opera House, the Konzerthaus and the Staatsoper
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Ambrogio Maestri
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Ambrogio Maestri in Vienna, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and others. He presents as a powerful, robust man on stage. "Gramophone" has described him as Italy's answer to Bryn Terfel, "fresh-voiced [and] emotionally sympathetic." He has been critically praised by the likes of Riccardo Muti. Edward Seckerson of "The Independent" said of his performance as Falstaff at the Royal Opera House of London that he is "wonderfully real, animating all aspects of the text and making great play of the innate contradiction between a booming, boorish, authority and those mellifluous remnants of wily old airs and graces." In 2003 he played Rolando in "La battaglia di Legnano" at the Teatro di San Carlo. In 2012 he
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Ambrogio Maestri
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Ambrogio Maestri played the role of Dr Dulcamara in Gaetano Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" in Vienna, and at the Metropolitan Opera in September and October alongside Anna Netrebko. In December 2013 he gave his 200th performance of Falstaff in a new production by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He appears in complete opera streaming videos of "Falstaff", "L'elisir d'amore", and "Adriana Lecouvreur" at Met Opera on Demand. # Repertory. - Giacomo Puccini: "Tosca" (Scarpia), "Gianni Schicchi" - Alfredo Catalani: "La Wally" - Gaetano Donizetti: "L'elisir d'amore", "Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale" (title role) - Ruggero Leoncavallo: "Pagliacci" - Pietro Mascagni: "Cavalleria rusticana" - Giuseppe Verdi:
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Ambrogio Maestri
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Ambrogio Maestri roduction by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He appears in complete opera streaming videos of "Falstaff", "L'elisir d'amore", and "Adriana Lecouvreur" at Met Opera on Demand. # Repertory. - Giacomo Puccini: "Tosca" (Scarpia), "Gianni Schicchi" - Alfredo Catalani: "La Wally" - Gaetano Donizetti: "L'elisir d'amore", "Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale" (title role) - Ruggero Leoncavallo: "Pagliacci" - Pietro Mascagni: "Cavalleria rusticana" - Giuseppe Verdi: "Falstaff", "Aida", "Il trovatore", "La battaglia di Legnano", "La forza del destino", "La traviata", "Nabucco", "Otello", "Rigoletto", "Simon Boccanegra", "Un ballo in maschera" # External links. - Interview at Operafocus.com
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Sio nordenskjoldii
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Sio nordenskjoldii Sio nordenskjoldii Sio nordenskjoldii, or Nordenskjold's bigscale, is a species of ridgehead found in the southern oceans at depths of from . This species grows to a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus. This species is of minor importance to commercial fisheries.
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Rubus allegheniensis
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Rubus allegheniensis Rubus allegheniensis Rubus allegheniensis is a species of bramble, known as Allegheny blackberry and simply as common blackberry. Like other blackberries, it is a species of flowering plant in the rose family. It is very common in eastern and central North America. It is also naturalized in a few locations in California and British Columbia. # Description. Characteristics can be highly variable. It is an erect bramble, typically 5 feet (150 cm) but occasionally rarely over 8 feet (240 cm) high, with single shrubs approaching 8 feet or more in breadth, although it usually forms dense thickets of many plants. Leaves are alternate, compound, ovoid, and have toothed edges. Canes adorning an armorment
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Rubus allegheniensis
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Rubus allegheniensis of prickles, with white, 5-petal, ¾ inch (19 mm) flowers in late spring and glossy, deep-violet to black, aggregate fruit in late summer. Shade intolerant. # Distribution and habitat. The presence of "Rubus allegheniensis" influences the dynamics of the understory vegetation of many forests in the eastern United States. An abundance of "Rubus allegheniensis" encourages new tree seedlings. Where the effects of herbivorous animals (such as deer) reduce the abundance of Allegheny blackberry, a competitor, "Dennstaedtia punctilobula" (hay-scented fern), takes over. Where "Dennstaedtia punctilobula" becomes common, the growth of tree seedlings is restricted. Concentrations of "Rubus allegheniensis"
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Rubus allegheniensis
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Rubus allegheniensis dtia punctilobula" (hay-scented fern), takes over. Where "Dennstaedtia punctilobula" becomes common, the growth of tree seedlings is restricted. Concentrations of "Rubus allegheniensis" increase greatly after events that destroy taller shrubs and trees and thus permit more light into the understory, such as fires or widespread blowdown. These populations often decline in later years as the tree seedlings sheltered by the blackberry canes grow and reduce the amount of light reaching the lower levels. # External links. - United States Department of Agriculture plants profile for "Rubus allegheniensis" - photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1992
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Despicable Me (franchise)
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Despicable Me (franchise) Despicable Me (franchise) The Despicable Me animated media franchise produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures, consists of four feature films, thirteen short films and additional merchandise. It centers on Gru, a reformed super-villain (who later becomes a dad and secret agent), his yellow-colored Minions; his three adoptive daughters, Margo, Edith and Agnes, and his wife, Lucy Wilde. The franchise began with the 2010 film of the same name and its 2013 and 2017 sequels "Despicable Me 2" (2013) and "Despicable Me 3" (2017). A prequel featuring Gru's Minions, titled "Minions", was released in 2015. A sequel to "Minions" titled "" will be released in 2020. It also includes
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Despicable Me (franchise)
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Despicable Me (franchise) a simulator ride attraction, "Despicable Me Minion Mayhem", at Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Universal Studios Japan. It is the highest-grossing animated film franchise in box office history, and the 13th highest-grossing film franchise of all time. It is also the first and only animated franchise with two films grossing over $1 billion worldwide ("Minions" with $1.16 billion and "Despicable Me 3" with $1.03 billion). The film series received generally mixed critical reception. The first two installments received generally positive reviews from critics while the third installment and first prequel received mixed critical reception. The film series has grossed $3.7
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Despicable Me (franchise)
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Despicable Me (franchise) billion to-date. # Film series. ## Main series. ### "Despicable Me" (2010). "Despicable Me", the first film in the series, and the first film from Illumination, was released on July 9, 2010. It was directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, based on an original story by Sergio Pablos and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. The film stars Steve Carell as the voice of Felonious Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Dana Gaier as Edith, Elsie Fisher as Agnes, Jason Segel as Vector, Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario and Julie Andrews as Marlena Gru, Gru's mother. It tells the story of Gru, a super-villain who adopts three girls, Margo, Edith and Agnes, from an orphanage to try and steal a shrink ray
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Despicable Me (franchise) from Vector (otherwise known as Victor), his rival, to shrink and steal Earth's moon. "Despicable Me" received positive reviews, and grossed over $543 million worldwide, against a budget of $69 million, launching a new franchise. ### "Despicable Me 2" (2013). A sequel, "Despicable Me 2", released on July 3, 2013, was once again directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher reprise their roles as Felonious Gru, Dr. Nefario, Margo, Edith and Agnes respectively. Kristen Wiig, who voiced Miss Hattie in the first film, voices Lucy Wilde, an agent of the Anti-Villain League who recruits
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Despicable Me (franchise) Gru to take down a new villain. New cast members include Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo; Bratt replaced the previously cast Al Pacino. Steve Coogan voices Silas Ramsbottom, lead director of the Anti-Villain League (AVL). The sequel was met with generally positive reviews and grossed more than its predecessor with over $970 million worldwide. ### "Despicable Me 3" (2017). A third film, "Despicable Me 3", was released on June 30, 2017. The film was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, and co-directed by Eric Guillon. Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the writers of the first two films, returned to write the screenplay for the third film. Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and
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Despicable Me (franchise) Steve Coogan reprise their roles as Felonious Gru, Lucy Wilde, Margo, Edith, and Silas Ramsbottom respectively (with Julie Andrews reprising her role as Marlena Gru, and Pierre Coffin as the Minions). Carell also voiced Gru's long-lost twin brother Dru. New cast members included Trey Parker as the voice of Balthazar Bratt, and Nev Scharrel (replacing Elsie Fisher, due to being mature for the role) as the new voice of Agnes. The film received mixed reviews by critics and grossed more than its predecessors with over $1 billion worldwide. ### "Despicable Me 4". Illumination's CEO Chris Meledandri said in September 2017 that a fourth "Despicable Me" film is in the works. ## Prequel series. ###
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Despicable Me (franchise) "Minions" (2015). A prequel to "Despicable Me", featuring the Minions, was released on July 10, 2015. Written by Brian Lynch, it was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. Sandra Bullock voiced Scarlet Overkill, the villain of the film and Jon Hamm voiced her husband and inventor, Herb Overkill.. The film received mixed reviews by critics and grossed more than $1.1 billion worldwide. #### The Rise of Gru" (2020). A sequel to "Minions" titled "Minions: The Rise of Gru" was officially announced on January 25, 2017, with a scheduled release date of July 3, 2020. It will be directed by Kyle Balda and Brad Ableson, and written by Brian Lynch. #
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Despicable Me (franchise) Short films. A total of 13 short films has been released in the franchise. Three short films based on the "Despicable Me" (2010) were released on December 2010 on the film's DVD and Blu-ray. The "Despicable Me 2" DVD and Blu-ray, released on December 2013, included another three short films. Three short films were released in 2015 on the Blu-ray and DVD of "Minions," while one short film were released in the Blue-ray and DVD of "Despicable Me 3" (2017). A short film titled "Mower Minions", was released in 2016 with "The Secret Life of Pets", being the first short Minions film released theatrically. A second theatrical short film was released in 2018 with "The Grinch" (2018), while another
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Despicable Me (franchise) one was released in "The Grinch"'s DVD and Blue-ray. ## "Home Makeover" (2010). Released in "Despicable Me" (2010)'s DVD and Blu-ray. Grouped in DVD "Minion Madness" (2010). After the events of "Despicable Me", two Minions help Margo, Edith and Agnes renovate Gru's house, so the inspector does not take the girls back to Miss Hattie's Home for Girls. ## "Orientation Day" (2010). Released in "Despicable Me" (2010)'s DVD and Blu-ray. Grouped in DVD "Minion Madness" (2010). Three new Minions go for bomb-carrying duty, which was harder than they thought when they suddenly have an argument with two others carrying a giant bomb. ## "Banana" (2010). Released in "Despicable Me" (2010)'s DVD and
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Despicable Me (franchise) Blu-ray. Grouped in DVD "Minion Madness" (2010). Three minions fight over a banana. In the process, they wreak havoc in the Minions' workplace. ## "Puppy" (2013). Released in "Despicable Me 2" (2013)'s DVD and Blu-ray. A minion watches neighbors walking their dogs on the street, which leads him to search for a puppy of his own. After several failed attempts, he comes across a UFO that takes the role of a puppy for him. After many happy moments, the UFO along with its master is expelled for the mess the UFO has made in Gru’s home. After the minion finds out that his pet is homesick, he sends an email to the UFO’s home planet and allows it to return home. ## "Panic in the Mailroom" (2013). Released
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Despicable Me (franchise) in "Despicable Me 2" (2013)'s DVD and Blu-ray. Two Minions, Ken and Mike, are working in a package room to send parcels through different parts of the lab, while Ken is busy playing a handheld video game. When a package containing expired PX-41 (the serum that El Macho used to transform the Minions and himself in "Despicable Me 2"), gets jammed in the pneumatic delivery system, it transforms Mike into an evil Minion but he keeps shifting back and forth between being transformed and back to his normal self, much to Ken's amusement. At the end, Mike spits out the PX-41 and it lands on some kittens, turning them evil. ## "Training Wheels" (2013). Released in "Despicable Me 2" (2013)'s DVD and
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Despicable Me (franchise) Blu-ray. Agnes is unsatisfied with her toy bike after collapsing off it while attempting to catch up to an ice cream truck with Margo, Edith and their friends. Three Minions then volunteer to modify the bike and help Agnes improve her skills. ## "Binky Nelson Unpacified" (2015). Released in "Minions" (2015)'s DVD and Blu-ray. After a successful robbery at a museum, the Nelsons tell their youngest son Binky, having lost his pacifier in the theft, that now he is a big boy and has to leave his pacifier. Binky at night sneaks into the museum and finds his pacifier. Just as he takes it the guard comes and finds all the museum artifacts missing and finds Binky and tells him to return all the property
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Despicable Me (franchise) but instead he causes a statue to fall over the guard and takes his pacifier. In the end the Nelson parents return to see Binky at night in his room and find him sleeping calmly. As they leave the room Binky takes out the pacifier and the guard's hat and wears it. ## "Competition" (2015). Released in "Minions" (2015)'s DVD and Blu-ray. Under the same street the Minions hitchhiked in "Minions", two Minions challenge themselves to numerous attacks, ending up on the lab's conveyor belt in the process. ## "Cro Minion" (2015). Released in "Minions" (2015)'s DVD and Blu-ray. Two Minions look after a cave baby while a caveman goes to find a bull to eat for lunch. But it's harder than the Minions
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Despicable Me (franchise) think. ## "Mower Minions" (2016). Released theatrically with "The Secret Life of Pets" (2016). In this short, five Minions mow a lawn at the local old people's home to try and earn allowances to buy a blender they have seen on a TV commercial. However, all their work results were chaotic, and four of them were in terrible states after the chaos, such as one Minion having their head stuck in a bee hive, another Minion blackened and naked after an explosion, another being shaped like a balloon in the hazmat, and another Minion ends up nauseous with their face turning green. But as it turns out, the old people were very entertained. For this the Minions get 2000 pennies and are able to purchase
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Despicable Me (franchise) the blender. However they then see a commercial of an improved version of the blender and then go to earn more money to buy that one. ## "The Secret Life of Kyle" (2017). Released in "Despicable Me 3" (2018)'s DVD and Blu-ray. After the events of "Despicable Me 3", we follow Kyle and his secret life when Gru and his family are gone. This short was directed by Bruno Chauffard and Glenn McCoy. ## "Yellow is the New Black" (2018). Released theatrically with "The Grinch" (2018). Before they all make their big escape from prison in "Despicable Me 3", a couple of lucky Minions get a taste of freedom as they break free with the help of one of their fellow human inmates. ## "Santa's Little Helpers"
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Despicable Me (franchise) (2019). Released in "The Grinch" (2018)'s DVD and Blu-ray. The Minions, having been accidentally dropped off at the North Pole, make the most of the situation by trying to become elves. ## "Minion Scouts" (2019). Released in "The Secret Life of Pets 2" (2019)'s DVD and Blu-ray. # Video games. ### The Game". "Despicable Me: The Game" is an adventure/action game released with the first film, on PlayStation 2, Wii, and PlayStation Portable systems. During the game, the player controls Gru as he fights off enemies. "Despicable Me: The Game – Minion Mayhem", on the other hand, is released on Nintendo DS systems only. Instead of controlling Gru himself, the player controls his Minions. ###
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Despicable Me (franchise) Minion Rush". An action video game (developed by Gameloft), titled "Despicable Me: Minion Rush", also played as a Minion who must defeat Vector, El Macho and two villains made for the game, was released with the second film, on iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Android, Tizen and Blackberry 10 devices. As of October 2016, the game had been downloaded more than 750 million times. ## "Minions Paradise". A free-to-play mobile game developed by Electronic Arts (otherwise known as EA), titled "Minions Paradise", was released in summer 2015. Playing as Phil, players will help Minions design and build their own utopia set in a tropical environment. # Books. Novels written by Annie Auerbach
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Despicable Me (franchise) are based on the films. # Theme park attractions. "Despicable Me Minion Mayhem" is a simulator ride that opened on July 2, 2012 at Universal Studios Florida and on April 12, 2014 at Universal Studios Hollywood, starring Steve Carell as Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Dana Gaier as Edith, Elsie Fisher as Agnes, and Pierre Coffin as the Minions. A similar attraction (featuring a Japanese voice cast) opened on April 21, 2017 at Universal Studios Japan. # Characters. ## Main characters. - Felonious Gru or Felonius Gru (voiced by Steve Carell): The protagonist in the "Despicable Me" series who speaks with a Russian accent. He is the adoptive father of Margo, Edith, and Agnes, husband of Lucy,
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Despicable Me (franchise) and the boss of the Minions. At the beginning of the original film, Gru is an ambitious supervillain, and seeks approval from his mother, until the adoption of the trio convinces him that their happiness is important. In the second film, Gru leaves his villainous past behind to care for the girls, but then soon joins forces - unwillingly - with secret agent Lucy Wilde, whom he later marries. In the third film, after he and Lucy are fired from their jobs at the Anti-Villain League, Gru learns that he has a twin brother, Dru. Along with Lucy and the girls, Gru meets Dru at his mansion in Freedonia, and they form a brotherly relationship over the course of the film. Felonious Gru was originally
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Despicable Me (franchise) conceived as a Dracula-like character, but directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin later opted for a villain who would echo "the world of James Bond, thinking of characters like Goldfinger and obviously the Bond-ian world of technology". Gru also bears some similarities with British comic-book character Grimly Feendish, and with the pre-Crisis version of Lex Luthor. - Minions (voiced by Pierre Coffin in all films and the theme park attraction, Chris Renaud in the first two films [except spin-offs and attractions], James Arnold Taylor in the 2010 video game, and Jemaine Clement as Jerry the Minion in the first film): Gru's small, yellow, comical henchmen who have one or two eyes. The Minions
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Despicable Me (franchise) speak a language that Coffin created by mixing gibberish with words from many languages, including French, English, Spanish and Italian. Although seemingly nonsensical, the English-sounding words are dubbed for every country, in order to make them recognizable. It is shown in "Minions" that they have existed since the beginning of life on Earth, and desire above all else to serve the most terrible of villains. In the short film "Banana", the Minions are revealed to have an uncontrollable craving for fruits, especially bananas. Mentioned in the films and other media are Stuart, Kevin, Bob, Mel, Dave, Jerry, Carl, Tom, Phil, Tim, Jorge, Paul, Donnie, Mark, Lance, Ken, Mike, John, Steve, Norbert,
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Despicable Me (franchise) Tony, Chris, Eric, Henry, Larry, Josh, Darwin, Bryan, Charlie, Barry, Mandi, Elly, Izzy, and Peter. - The Girls: Three sisters, whom Gru adopts to further his scheme in the first film and gradually comes to love. - Margo (voiced by Miranda Cosgrove): The oldest sister. In the first film, among the trio, Margo was the most suspicious of Gru initially; but came to trust him at the end of the film. She is something of a protectress to her sisters. - Edith (voiced by Dana Gaier): The tomboyish middle sister; the first to enjoy Gru's eclectic possessions, when adopted by him. Practices martial arts in the second film. - Agnes (voiced by Elsie Fisher in the first two films; Nev Scharrel in the
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Despicable Me (franchise) third film): The happy-go-lucky youngest sister, and the quickest to trust Gru in the first film. She is presented as an innocent, against her more worldly sisters, and has a strong love for unicorns. In the third film, she "adopts" a one-horned goat whom she names Lucky after mistaking him for a unicorn. Even after learning he was a goat, Agnes continues to love Lucky. - Lucy Wilde (voiced by Kristen Wiig): A cunning secret agent who has teamed up with Gru to hunt down an extremely dangerous super-villain. She loves one-upping Gru with her quirky gadgets and has perfected her own form of martial arts by combining jujitsu, krav maga, Aztec warfare and krumping. After 147 dates, she marries
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Despicable Me (franchise) Gru and becomes the girls' mother. - Dr. Nefario (voiced by Russell Brand, JB Blanc in the video game): Gru's hearing-impaired inventor and partner-in-crime who speaks with a British accent. He seems to have a romantic interest in Gru's mother, Marlena. He is planned to join Gru, Lucy and the Girls to meet Dru in the third film, but absent from the film having accidentally frozen himself in carbonite, similar to that of Han Solo from "Star Wars". - Dru (voiced by Steve Carell): Gru's charming, happy-go-lucky long-lost twin brother, who is also in the super-villain business. Dru looks just like his brother, only he has blonde hair and wears white attire. He is Lucy's brother-in-law and the
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Despicable Me (franchise) adoptive uncle of Margo, Edith, and Agnes. - Marlena (voiced by Julie Andrews): Gru and Dru's mother. Her neglect of Gru's ambitions is identified among the main reasons why he became a supervillain. In the denouement of the first film, she admits to him that he is a better parent than she. Marlena later makes a silent cameo appearance in the second film at Gru and Lucy's wedding. In the third film, Marlena reveals to Gru that after she and Gru and Dru's father divorced, they promised to never see each other again and they each got to take one son with them, with Marlena saying that she got "second pick". - Fritz (voiced by Steve Coogan): Dru's courteous, well mannered butler who speaks with
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Despicable Me (franchise) a British accent. He takes Gru, Lucy, and the girls to meet Dru at his mansion in Freedonia. - Silas Ramsbottom (voiced by Steve Coogan): Director of the Anti-Villain League in the second film. The Minions (and Gru) make fun of his surname. In the third film, he retires from the AVL and is replaced by Valerie Da Vinci as the new Director of the AVL. - Valerie Da Vinci (voiced by Jenny Slate): A ruthless member of the Anti-Villain League who replaces Silas Ramsbottom as Director in the third film. She fires Gru and Lucy due to them failing to capture Balthazar Bratt, but rehires them in the end for capturing Bratt and returning the diamond, though it wasn’t seen, but Gru imagines her rehiring
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Despicable Me (franchise) him along with Lucy. ## Villains. - Victor "Vector" Perkins (voiced by Jason Segel, Jason Harris in the video game): In the first film, Gru's rival, and the son of Mr. Perkins, the President of the Bank of Evil that supplies loans to villains in their schemes (formerly including Gru). - Mr. Perkins (voiced by Will Arnett): The enormous and equally strong President of the Bank of Evil, responsible for giving out loans to villains in their schemes. - Miss Hattie (voiced by Kristen Wiig): The charismatic but cruel owner of the orphanage from which Gru adopts his daughters. She sends Margo, Edith, and Agnes out to sell cookies and makes them sleep in cardboard boxes if they fail to meet their
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Despicable Me (franchise) quota. - Eduardo "El Macho" Perez (voiced by Benjamin Bratt): A Mexican-accented supervillain in the second film. As El Macho, he was believed to have died after strapping 250 pounds of TNT on himself and riding a shark into an active volcano. However, it turns out that he actually faked his death, and he became the owner of a Mexican restaurant. He has a son named Antonio, with whom Margo is infatuated at first, until Antonio abandons her. It turns out that Eduardo was aware of Gru's life as a villain and plans to abduct most of Gru's minions and turn them into hairy, purple, savage, evil minions with a dangerous chemical compound he stole called PX-41 and send the mutated Minions to major
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Despicable Me (franchise) cities to take over the world. In the final battle, as Gru manages to restore the mutated Minions to normal, Eduardo drinks the compound himself, turning into a big purple furry monster to fight Gru. He is defeated by Gru and Nefario. - Balthazar Bratt (voiced by Trey Parker): A supervillain in the third film. A former 1980s child star, he adopts the identity of his supervillain character after the onset of puberty leads to the cancellation of his television series. He is obsessed with 1980s pop culture and uses a giant robot armed with a laser and inflatable bubble gum to exact revenge on Hollywood. - Clive (voiced by Andy Nyman): a robot who acts as Balthazar Bratt's sidekick. - Scarlet
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Despicable Me (franchise) Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock): In "Minions", she is the world's first female super-villain who is bent on world domination. - Herb Overkill (voiced by Jon Hamm): Scarlet's husband and an inventor. # Chronology. - Minions (2015) - (2020) - Despicable Me (2010) - Despicable Me 2 (2013) - Despicable Me 3 (2017) - Despicable Me 4 (2021) # Cast. - Note: A grey indicates that the character does not appear in that medium. # Film reception. ## Box office performance. The film series has grossed a total of more than $3.7 billion, with an average of over $927 million per film, making the "Despicable Me" franchise the highest-grossing animated film franchise, and the 15th highest-grossing
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Despicable Me (franchise) k): In "Minions", she is the world's first female super-villain who is bent on world domination. - Herb Overkill (voiced by Jon Hamm): Scarlet's husband and an inventor. # Chronology. - Minions (2015) - (2020) - Despicable Me (2010) - Despicable Me 2 (2013) - Despicable Me 3 (2017) - Despicable Me 4 (2021) # Cast. - Note: A grey indicates that the character does not appear in that medium. # Film reception. ## Box office performance. The film series has grossed a total of more than $3.7 billion, with an average of over $927 million per film, making the "Despicable Me" franchise the highest-grossing animated film franchise, and the 15th highest-grossing film franchise of all time.
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Jane Lovering Jane Lovering Jane Lovering is a British writer of romance novels since 2008. In 2012, her novel "Please Don't Stop the Music" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2018, her book, Christmas at the Little Village School, won Love Story of the Year at the Romantic Novelists' Association awards. # Biography. Jane Lovering was born in Devon, England, UK, but now lives in Yorkshire with her five children. She works in a local school and also teaches creative writing. # Bibliography. ## Single novels. - "Reversing Over Liberace" (2008) - "Slightly Foxed" (2009) - "Please Don't Stop the Music" (2011) - "Star Struck" (2011) - "Hubble Bubble" (2013) -
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Jane Lovering antic Novelists' Association. In 2018, her book, Christmas at the Little Village School, won Love Story of the Year at the Romantic Novelists' Association awards. # Biography. Jane Lovering was born in Devon, England, UK, but now lives in Yorkshire with her five children. She works in a local school and also teaches creative writing. # Bibliography. ## Single novels. - "Reversing Over Liberace" (2008) - "Slightly Foxed" (2009) - "Please Don't Stop the Music" (2011) - "Star Struck" (2011) - "Hubble Bubble" (2013) - "How I Wonder What You Are" (2014) - "Christmas at the Little Village School" (2017) ## Otherworlders. - 1. "Vampire State of Mind" (2012) - 2. "Falling Apart" (2014)
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Gunji, Uttarakhand Gunji, Uttarakhand Gunji is a small village in Pithoragarh district in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India. It is near the borders of Tibet and Nepal and the confluence of the Kutti River and Kali River, at the east end of the Kutti Valley. It overlooks Mount Api in Nepal. The village is only populated seasonally, with winters coming people migrate to lower places (mostly to Dharchula, in the same district), however Sashastra Seema Bal, the Indo-Tibet Border Police and GREF personnel remain there throughout the year. Currently, it is possible to reach Gunji by helicopter, which takes off from Dharchula, as construction of a road link with Dharchula is still in progress. Trekkers and
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Gunji, Uttarakhand Mount Api in Nepal. The village is only populated seasonally, with winters coming people migrate to lower places (mostly to Dharchula, in the same district), however Sashastra Seema Bal, the Indo-Tibet Border Police and GREF personnel remain there throughout the year. Currently, it is possible to reach Gunji by helicopter, which takes off from Dharchula, as construction of a road link with Dharchula is still in progress. Trekkers and other travelers may get food and accommodation here, but in order to reach Gunji one has to obtain an Inner line permit which is issued by SDM at Dharchula. Travellers need a valid ID, a health certificate and a character certificate at hand for this permit.
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Hymenolepis Hymenolepis Hymenolepis may refer to: - "Hymenolepis" (plant) - "Hymenolepis" (tapeworm)
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Pro-Composites Pro-Composites Pro-Composites, Inc is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. The company is owned by Scott VanderVeen and specializes in the design and manufacture of aircraft design plans, parts and kits for amateur construction. The company was originally formed at and had its flight testing and manufacturing operations in Daytona Beach, Florida, circa 2008. By 2010 operations had been moved to Waukegan Regional Airport, near Chicago, with its business address at Buffalo Grove, Illinois. The company's designs are all based on the design work of Steve Rahn and his use of pre-formed flat fiberglass and foam composite panels which are then radius bent to shape,
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Pro-Composites ny is owned by Scott VanderVeen and specializes in the design and manufacture of aircraft design plans, parts and kits for amateur construction. The company was originally formed at and had its flight testing and manufacturing operations in Daytona Beach, Florida, circa 2008. By 2010 operations had been moved to Waukegan Regional Airport, near Chicago, with its business address at Buffalo Grove, Illinois. The company's designs are all based on the design work of Steve Rahn and his use of pre-formed flat fiberglass and foam composite panels which are then radius bent to shape, a method they refer to as "Fold-a-Plane". The company is currently developing the four seat Pro-Composites Freedom.
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Abyssoberyx Abyssoberyx Abyssoberyx is a genus in the pricklefish family containing the single species Abyssoberyx levisquamosus, which is found in the northeast Atlantic Ocean at depths of from . This species grows to a length of SL.
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Anne Collier Anne Collier Anne Collier (born Los Angeles, 1970) is an American visual artist working with appropriated photographic images. Describing Collier's work in "Frieze" art magazine, writer Brian Dillon said, "Collier uncouples the machinery of appropriation so that her found images seem weightless, holding their obvious meaning in abeyance." Writing in the "New York Times", Karen Rosenberg said "Anne Collier’s photographs of vintage books, album covers, posters and other ephemera, taken in an antiseptic white studio, look studiously detached at first. But after some time they reveal themselves as sensitive and involved responses to an earlier generation's visual culture." # Education and career. In
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Anne Collier 1993, Anne Collier received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California. In 2001 Collier received her MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She currently lives and works in New York City. She is currently represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York, The Modern Institute in Glasgow, and Galerie Neu in Berlin. ## "Anne Collier", Retrospective in 2014–2015. In 2014, a retrospective of Collier's work opened at Center for Curatorial Studies, or CCS Bard Galleries at Bard College. The exhibition traced her career from 2002 to present. Encompassing around forty works, the exhibition presents several recurring subjects and themes that have dominated
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Anne Collier Collier’s practice over the past decade. The exhibition includes the notable "Woman with a Camera" series, an ongoing project that tackles the perception of women in the photographic medium. In the series, Collier use common mechanisms found in advertising as she isolates old forms of media—photos, pages from books and magazine, cassette tapes, and record albums—and reshoots them. The re-photographed material typically features a woman holding a camera and by photographing this woman, Collier suddenly switches the subject from the woman photographed to the viewer, thus making the viewer question and reflect their position as a viewer. As Osman Can Yerebakan, art writer for Art Observed, aptly
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Anne Collier
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Anne Collier described Colliers' the "Woman with a Camera" series: "Film stills of actresses such as Faye Dunaway, Jacqueline Bisset or Marilyn Monroe with cameras in their hands adopt the position of the gazer, staring at the viewer as the roles exchange. These iconic women, commonly positioned as the objects of male gaze, confront the voyeuristic notions of the public eye with cameras in their hands, repositioned as the voyeurs. Attributing physical and emotional power to the camera as a metaphor, Collier celebrates the status as the gazer these women reclaim through their own hands." This exhibition has traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago on November 22, 2014 through March 8, 2015, and will
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Anne Collier
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Anne Collier travel to Aspen Art Museum on April 2 through July 15, 2015, and then at The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto from September 23, 2015 to January 10, 2016. The exhibition was organized by curator Michael Darling, and was accompanied by essays by Darling, curator Chrissie Iles, and the novelist Kate Zambreno. # Works. Typically, Collier creates photos from other existing photographic materials to examine the ways meaning and cultural values are embedded in photographic images. Her work typically involves arranged still life compositions of found photographic material (such as record covers, magazine pages, appointment calendars, and postcards). Re-occurring themes in Collier's work include pop
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Anne Collier
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Anne Collier culture and psychology, consumerism, feminism, gender politics, clichés & tropes, and conventions of commercial photography, autobiography, and the act of looking or seeing. # Collections. Collier's works are held in the collections of over twenty public museums, including the following: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Centre national des arts plastique, Paris, France - Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollings College, Winter Park, FL - FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France - The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA - Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA - Los Angeles County
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Anne Collier
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Anne Collier Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL - Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY - Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel - Tate Modern, London, UK - UBS Art Collection, New York, NY - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY # External links. - Anne Collier – Anton Kern Gallery, New York -
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Anne Collier
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Anne Collier - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY - Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel - Tate Modern, London, UK - UBS Art Collection, New York, NY - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY # External links. - Anne Collier – Anton Kern Gallery, New York - Anne Collier – Marc Foxx, Los Angeles - Anne Collier – The Modern Institute, Glasgow - Bard College - Exhibitions: Anne Collier - A Tale in Pictures of Pictures - Hamilton, Diana "Anne Collier: Reducing Women To Tears" Frieze, May 9, 2018
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2012–13 UCF Knights men's basketball team
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2012–13 UCF Knights men's basketball team 2012–13 UCF Knights men's basketball team The 2012–13 UCF Knights men's basketball team represented the University of Central Florida during the 2012–13 college basketball season. The Knights competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Conference USA (C-USA). The Knights, in the program's 44th season of basketball, were led by third-year head coach Donnie Jones, and played their home games at the UCF Arena on the university's main campus in Orlando, Florida. Due to NCAA sanctions, UCF was ineligible for the 2013 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament or a post-season berth. This was also the last season UCF played in Conference USA before moving to
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2012–13 UCF Knights men's basketball team
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2012–13 UCF Knights men's basketball team coach Donnie Jones, and played their home games at the UCF Arena on the university's main campus in Orlando, Florida. Due to NCAA sanctions, UCF was ineligible for the 2013 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament or a post-season berth. This was also the last season UCF played in Conference USA before moving to the American Athletic Conference. They finished the season 20–11, 9–7 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for fourth place. # Previous season. In the previous year, the Knights finished the season 22–11, 10–6 in C-USA play. UCF was invited to the 2012 National Invitation Tournament, which they lost in the first round to Drexel. # Schedule and results. !colspan=9| Regular season
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McPolin Farmstead
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McPolin Farmstead McPolin Farmstead The McPolin Farmstead is a historic farm north of Park City, Utah, United States. It has buildings constructed c. 1921 and later, including a large "improvement era" dairy barn, approximately in footprint. It was purchased by, and is owned by, the nearby city of Park City, Utah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. # External links. - McPolin Farm at parkcity.org
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Dorothy Rogers Tilly
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Dorothy Rogers Tilly Dorothy Rogers Tilly Dorothy Rogers Tilly (June 30, 1883 - March 16, 1970) was an American activist from the progressive era until her death. She was a noted activist in the Women's Missionary Society (WMS), Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, Southern Regional Council, Fulton-DeKalb Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and Fellowship of the Concerned (FOC). She was also appointed to the President's Committee on Civil Rights in 1946 by Harry S. Truman. Tilly was also an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta. # Bibliography. - Feldman, Glenn. "'City Mothers' Dorothy Tilly, Georgia Methodist Women, and Black Civil Rights".
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Dorothy Rogers Tilly
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Dorothy Rogers Tilly an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta. # Bibliography. - Feldman, Glenn. "'City Mothers' Dorothy Tilly, Georgia Methodist Women, and Black Civil Rights". "Politics and Religion in the White South". University Press of Kentucky, 2005. . - Houck, Davis W. and David E. Dixon. "Dorothy Tilly". "Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965". Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2009. . - Riehm, Edith Holbrook. "Dorothy Tilly and the Fellowship of the Concerned". "Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era". Ed. Gail S. Murray. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. . # External links. - Dorothy Rogers Tilly papers held at Emory University
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2012 Copa Agco Cordoba – Doubles
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2012 Copa Agco Cordoba – Doubles 2012 Copa Agco Cordoba – Doubles Facundo Bagnis and Diego Junqueira won the final 6–1, 6–2 against Ariel Behar and Guillermo Durán. # References. - Main Draw
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Covers: 2
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Covers: 2 Covers: 2 Covers 2 is the second English-language cover album released by Beni Arashiro under her new label Universal Music Japan under the mononym Beni on November 7, 2012. This album handles the same concept of "Covers", which featured Beni covering songs from popular Japanese male singers in Japan and translating the lyrics to English. # Background. "Covers 2" is the second cover album released by Beni. She recorded the album in Los Angeles, California. She performed a few of the songs at The Hotel Cafe, including "Uta Utai no Ballad", from which video footage was filmed and used in the music video of the song. "I Love You" was recorded in Los Angeles as well. # Charts. Oricon Overall
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Covers: 2
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Covers: 2 the second English-language cover album released by Beni Arashiro under her new label Universal Music Japan under the mononym Beni on November 7, 2012. This album handles the same concept of "Covers", which featured Beni covering songs from popular Japanese male singers in Japan and translating the lyrics to English. # Background. "Covers 2" is the second cover album released by Beni. She recorded the album in Los Angeles, California. She performed a few of the songs at The Hotel Cafe, including "Uta Utai no Ballad", from which video footage was filmed and used in the music video of the song. "I Love You" was recorded in Los Angeles as well. # Charts. Oricon Overall Sales Chart (Japan)
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Fadi Abboud
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Fadi Abboud Fadi Abboud Fadi or Fady Elias Abi Abboud (Arabic: فادي عبود; born 21 March 1955) is a Lebanese businessman, politician and Minister of Tourism. # Early life and education. Abboud was born into a Maronite Christian family in Sakiyat Al Misk on 21 March 1955. He graduated from the International School of Choueifat and later studied economics at the University of Westminster in London. # Career. Abboud began his career as the chairman of General Packaging Industries in 1982. He was twice appointed the president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists. He was also a member of the American Lebanese Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce. He was appointed minister
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Fadi Abboud
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Fadi Abboud as the chairman of General Packaging Industries in 1982. He was twice appointed the president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists. He was also a member of the American Lebanese Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce. He was appointed minister of tourism in the Saad Hariri's cabinet in November 2009. He was reappointed to the same post in the Najib Mikati's cabinet in June 2011. Abboud's term ended on 15 February 2014 and Michel Pharoun was appointed tourism minister. ## Alliances. Abboud is close to the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party and the Free Patriotic Movement. # Personal life. Abboud married Sara Lilianna Saban in 1986. They have two children.
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Acanthochaenus luetkenii
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Acanthochaenus luetkenii Acanthochaenus luetkenii Acanthochaenus luetkenii, the pricklefish, is a species of pricklefish found in the oceans at depths of from . This species grows to a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus.
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HMS Postillion
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HMS Postillion HMS Postillion Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Postillion", after the Postilion, the driver of a horse-drawn coach or post chaise, mounted on one of the drawing horses: - was a 10-gun sixth rate, previously the French "Postillion". She was captured in 1702 by and was wrecked in 1709. - was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French privateer "Duc D'Aiguillon". She was captured in 1757 and was sold in 1763. - was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1776 and sold in 1779. - was an launched in 1943 and transferred to the navy under lend-lease. She was returned to the United States Navy in 1946, and sold to the Greek Navy in 1947 and renamed "Machitis". She was sunk as a target
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HMS Postillion
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HMS Postillion llion Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Postillion", after the Postilion, the driver of a horse-drawn coach or post chaise, mounted on one of the drawing horses: - was a 10-gun sixth rate, previously the French "Postillion". She was captured in 1702 by and was wrecked in 1709. - was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French privateer "Duc D'Aiguillon". She was captured in 1757 and was sold in 1763. - was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1776 and sold in 1779. - was an launched in 1943 and transferred to the navy under lend-lease. She was returned to the United States Navy in 1946, and sold to the Greek Navy in 1947 and renamed "Machitis". She was sunk as a target in 1984.
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Wesley Kreder
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Wesley Kreder Wesley Kreder Wesley Kreder (born 4 November 1990) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Professional Continental team . # Career. Born in Leiden, Kreder has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2012 season, joining the team as a stagiaire, having been a member of the from 2010 onwards. Kreder achieved his first professional victory in October 2012, making a late-race attack at the Tour de Vendée, and held off the field by two seconds. Kreder remained with the team full-time into the 2013 season. Kreder joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team –  – folded at the end of the 2013 season. In September 2014 it was announced that Wesley, Michel and
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Wesley Kreder
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Wesley Kreder our de Vendée, and held off the field by two seconds. Kreder remained with the team full-time into the 2013 season. Kreder joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team –  – folded at the end of the 2013 season. In September 2014 it was announced that Wesley, Michel and Raymond Kreder would sign with the new squad for 2015. # Personal life. Wesley's brother Dennis, and cousins Michel and Raymond are all professional cyclists; Dennis was a team-mate of Wesley's at in 2009, while Michel and Raymond were team-mates at in 2015 and 2016. # Major results. - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2018 # External links. - Cycling Quotient profile
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Malacosarcus macrostoma
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Malacosarcus macrostoma Malacosarcus macrostoma Malacosarcus macrostoma is a species of pricklefish found in the western central Pacific Ocean and possibly the northeast Atlantic Ocean at depths of from . This species is the only known member of its genus.
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Frank Barsotti
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Frank Barsotti Frank Barsotti Franco A. "Frank" Barsotti (November 20, 1937, - June 6, 2012) was an American photographer. Youngest of three children, he was born and raised in Chicago's historic Pullman area by Italian immigrant parents. Italy, where he returned often, was a common theme through much of his work, such as the series "Italy 1974" and "White". His noted series "Artigiano" consists of photographs of tools hand-made by his father. Though trained in traditional black-and-white photography, Franco embraced digital technology and was one of the earliest professors to work with digital photography. Franco received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois
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Frank Barsotti
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Frank Barsotti Institute of Technology, where he studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He attended the graduate program in photography at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also taught for 38 years. The following is an excerpt from a statement from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago upon Frank Barsotti's death on June 6, 2012: Though living in Washington State for the [last] 10 years [of his life], Frank was born and raised in Chicago's historic Pullman area and spent the majority of his life in and dedicated to Chicago. He taught alongside luminaries including Joyce Niemanas, Barbara
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Frank Barsotti
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Frank Barsotti living in Washington State for the [last] 10 years [of his life], Frank was born and raised in Chicago's historic Pullman area and spent the majority of his life in and dedicated to Chicago. He taught alongside luminaries including Joyce Niemanas, Barbara Crane, and Ken Josephson, and during his years at SAIC taught nearly 2,000 students. # External links. - Franco A Barsotti official website - In Memory: Frank T. Barsotti (MFA 1969) - Barsotti Combines Art And Kitsch In Photo Fables - Barsotti Gives Old Ways The Brush, Paints In New Frontier - The Art Institute of Chicago Private Collection: Frank Barsotti - Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago: Frank Barsotti
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Stephanoberyx monae
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Stephanoberyx monae Stephanoberyx monae Stephanoberyx monae is a species of pricklefish found in the western Atlantic Ocean at depths of from . This species grows to a length of . This species is the only known member of its genus.
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1993 Comcast U.S. Indoor – Singles
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1993 Comcast U.S. Indoor – Singles 1993 Comcast U.S. Indoor – Singles Pete Sampras was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals this year. Mark Woodforde won the title, beating Ivan Lendl 5–4 in the final, when Lendl retired from the match. # References. - Main Draw
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