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12328746 | 1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane | 1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane
1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane
1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane is a chlorinated hydrocarbon. It is a colorless liquid with a sweet chloroform-like odor. It is used as a solvent and in the production of wood stains and varnishes.
# See also.
- 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane | 6,135,100 |
12328771 | Gringo (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gringo%20(manga) | Gringo (manga)
Gringo (manga)
# Plot.
In 1982, the Edo Shoji Corporation is a large Japanese trading company that has created a new branch in the fictional country of Cannibalia (or Kanivaria depending on how you transcribe it). Executive Director Yabushita assigns Hitoshi Himoto to be the head of the new South Ameri... | 6,135,101 |
12328771 | Gringo (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gringo%20(manga) | Gringo (manga)
the affair had leaked. This severely affects Hitoshi as he is then demoted and transferred to a different location in South America.
Hitoshi finds himself assigned to the city of Esecarta in the Republic of Santalna, a South American country that is in a state of political turmoil. Each day, the governm... | 6,135,102 |
12328771 | Gringo (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gringo%20(manga) | Gringo (manga)
José García.
Hitoshi attempts to make a name for himself in a dangerous land, working together with the people that know him as the "Gringo". Political and corporate intrigue and drama are all around in Tezuka's last manga.
# Characters.
- Hitoshi Himoto: An ex-sumo wrestler who now works for a major ... | 6,135,103 |
12328771 | Gringo (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gringo%20(manga) | Gringo (manga)
the territory around the Fego Province which contains Mt. Montetombo.
- Kondo
- Kumagai
- Pepe
- Ambassador Kageyama: A Japanese ambassador stationed in the Japanese Embassy within the Republic of Santalna.
- Tomonaga
- Toto
# Unfinished work.
Osamu Tezuka died on February 9, 1989, leaving "Gring... | 6,135,104 |
12328771 | Gringo (manga) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gringo%20(manga) | Gringo (manga)
apped in the Philippines in 1986 and released after four months of captivity. This event was a major piece of shocking news that shook Japan. Coincidentally, the day Tezuka died was also the day Nobuyuki Wakaoji died.
# Other manga.
In the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works release of "Gringo", one of T... | 6,135,105 |
12328808 | Cotts baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cotts%20baronets | Cotts baronets
Cotts baronets
The Cotts Baronetcy, of Coldharbour Wood in the parish of Rogate in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 June 1921 for Sir William Cotts, KBE. He was head of Mitchell Cotts and Co, of London, and of allied companies, merchants, col... | 6,135,106 |
12328808 | Cotts baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cotts%20baronets | Cotts baronets
e second Baronet assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Mitchell in 1932. He was an actor, writer, journalist, and publisher.
# Cotts baronets, of Coldharbour Wood (1921).
- Sir William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts, KBE, 1st Baronet (1871–1932)
- Sir (William) Campbell Mitchell-Cotts, 2nd Baronet (... | 6,135,107 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
Cervantine Library
The Cervantine Library (also known as the Library Miguel de Cervantes) is a library located on the main campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey, in the city of Monterrey, N. L, México.The library has about 130,000 items in its collection, with its holdings on Mexican history and cultur... | 6,135,108 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). The first works arrived shortly after the institution was established in 1943. Initially, they were simply stored at the Monterrey campus. This changed when one day in 1954 the founder of ITESM, Eugenio Garza Sada, happened to be at the general li... | 6,135,109 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
of the institution.
Del Hoyo became the new collection/library's first director, serving in that role until 1979. The name of the library come from one of the first donations, that of about 1,000 copies of Don Quixote donated by a Monterrey businessman. Under Del Hoyo the nascent library continued t... | 6,135,110 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
privately held donations which has uncovered and consolidated rare and one-of-a-kind books from the 16th century and even some dating before 1501.
The original space in the administration building was allotted without thought to the growth of the collection, which has led to elements being housed in... | 6,135,111 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
the library received a visit from Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz. Elizondo became a member of Mexico's committee for UNESCO's Memory of the World program, with the purpose of proposing collections for their inclusion. His efforts resulted in two collections being accepted. The first was a digitalizin... | 6,135,112 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
documents 40 years of his career.
The library continues to promote its resources and collaborate with outside institutions. These include the Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Virtual Library Foundation (of the University of Aliante in Spain), the Virtual Library of Mexican Letters, SINAFO, RABID and it ... | 6,135,113 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
is not known as past donations are still being cataloged. About half of the library's collection is related to Mexican history and culture, a quarter to language and literature and the rest to various disciplines such as medicine, travel logs, architecture and art. Its collection related to Mexican h... | 6,135,114 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
in the 16th century. The oldest printed book is a History of Venice (in Latin) published in 1490 and the oldest manuscript dates to 1452. The eight incunables are "History of Florence" (1476), "Book of Psalms" (1478), "Sermones Roberti de Licio de Laudibus Sanctorum" (1490), "Comentarios a Santo Tomá... | 6,135,115 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
(1576), a book on the Passion of Christ in the Purhepecha language (pre-1800) which was saved from the local parish during the eruption of the Paracutin volcano, one related to the presidential election of 1910 signed by author Francisco I. Madero and 80 original works by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, t... | 6,135,116 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
archeological pieces were donate by Grupo Lamosa, along with 258 pieces of colonial-era ironwork. Most of the archeological pieces are from the Mexica culture and almost all are from the center and south of the country.
The microfilm collection contains about 2,000 rolls of microfilm. They are mostl... | 6,135,117 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
containing over 5,000 volumes in Spanish and English, along with over 20,000 manuscripts dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. English language items include "The Americas" and the "Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology" along with writings by Irishman Guillen de Lampart, who led a colorful lif... | 6,135,118 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
include those in English, French, German, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Hebrew, Latin, Korean and Mongolian. The collection also include one from Brussels dated 1607, one from Milan dated 1610 and one from 1957 with illustrations by Salvador Dalí.
The Salvador Ugarte Collection os one of the ... | 6,135,119 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
to the library by Grupo Cemex. This collection of works on Mexican history and culture made the Cervantine Library the second most important in the Americas in these areas. The collection was amassed by Dr. Ignacio Bernal over 60 years, starting with books inherited from his grandfathers and great gr... | 6,135,120 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
including autographs of celebrities such as Judy Garland and Elizabeth Taylor.
The Pedro Robredo Collection has over 6,000 volumes on history, 100 of which are manuscripts It also includes a complete collection of the Actas de Cabildo (municipal council) of Mexico City from 1524 to 1903.
The Alonso... | 6,135,121 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
of the 20th century. The collection was originally that of the founder of the El Norte newspaper in Monterrey. The collection was donated to the Library in the 1970s.
The Conde-Zambrano Collection consists of studio photographs by various notable photographers from Mexico, the United States and Euro... | 6,135,122 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
of Benito Juarez and Porfirio Díaz, among others.
The Alberto Flores Varela Collection is that of the namesake, who was a photographer from 1919 to 1996. The main theme of his work is liturgical, with images of churches and clegery in and around the Monterrey area. The collection was donated in 1998... | 6,135,123 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
that of the namesake who was a professional photographer until his death in 1951. These photos were donated mixed with those of Desiderio Lagrange, which together total 4,000 prints and 38,000 negatives. Most photos are from 1896 to 1940, with most being studio photographs.
The Aureliano Tapia Ménde... | 6,135,124 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
result of many small donations.
The Isauro Villareal Garcia Collection contains work by the namesake, a businessman and amateur photographer. It consists of 712 prints and 90 negatives. Most are related to Monterrey landscape, both urban and rural, as well as local family life.
The Mario Pani Darqu... | 6,135,125 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
collection documents the architect's career extending from 1911 to 1993 with most from 1934 to 1964. It was acquired by the library from Pani's daughter in 2012.
# Sites.
From its inception in 1954 to the present, the collection has been centered on the second floor of the Monterrey campus's main a... | 6,135,126 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
opened a new library building with a section for the Cervantine Library, but this move has been controversial. Director Daniel Sanabria left the same year over disagreements over space and storage of the various collections. There are plans to move at least some of the collection from its traditional... | 6,135,127 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
began in 1998. The rise of the Internet prompted this effort as the library noticed a decline in visitors and it needed a way to make the collection more accessible to more people. Today the site received about 1,800 visitors per month, most from the United States, Mexico and China. They include rese... | 6,135,128 |
12328745 | Cervantine Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervantine%20Library | Cervantine Library
e students and journalists. Most of the hits from China are from Spanish language students.
Digitalized works include many of the library's oldest documents, a collection of Mexican marriage licenses, baptism and criminal records for genealogy purposes and many of the holdings in or related to Mexic... | 6,135,129 |
12328840 | List of political parties registered ahead of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20political%20parties%20registered%20ahead%20of%20the%20Nepalese%20Constituent%20Assembly%20election,%202008 | List of political parties registered ahead of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2008
List of political parties registered ahead of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2008 | 6,135,130 |
12328831 | Dick Woodard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Woodard | Dick Woodard
Dick Woodard
Richard Ernest Woodard (born July 26, 1926) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins. Woodard also played in the All-America Football Conference for the Los Angeles Dons.
Woodward was born in Britt, Iowa. He played c... | 6,135,131 |
12328887 | 2007–08 2. Frauen-Bundesliga | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2007–08%202.%20Frauen-Bundesliga | 2007–08 2. Frauen-Bundesliga
2007–08 2. Frauen-Bundesliga
The 2nd Fußball-Bundesliga (women) 2007–08 was the 4th season of the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga (women), Germany's second football league. It began on 19 August 2007 and ended on 25 May 2008. | 6,135,132 |
12328941 | Haymon Krupp | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haymon%20Krupp | Haymon Krupp
Haymon Krupp
Haymon Krupp, a Jewish Texan merchant and member of the Texas wildcatters, was born in Lithuania on March 14, 1874. In 1890 he immigrated to El Paso, Texas, where he worked in a dry-goods store and soon opened his own men's clothing store. He pioneered what is now El Paso's outdoor clothing i... | 6,135,133 |
12328941 | Haymon Krupp | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haymon%20Krupp | Haymon Krupp
huania on March 14, 1874. In 1890 he immigrated to El Paso, Texas, where he worked in a dry-goods store and soon opened his own men's clothing store. He pioneered what is now El Paso's outdoor clothing industry with one of the first clothing factories in the Southwest. Krupp joined Frank Pickrell, also of ... | 6,135,134 |
12328834 | Paget baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paget%20baronets | Paget baronets
Paget baronets
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Paget, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and a fourth created for the Bayly, which later became the Paget Baronetcy. As of 2016, two of the creations are extant.
The Paget Baronetcy, of Harewood Place in th... | 6,135,135 |
12328834 | Paget baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paget%20baronets | Paget baronets
noted surgeon. As of 2016 the title is held by his great-great-grandson, the fifth Baronet, who succeeded his father, in 2016. The fourth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and author. He wrote "The Yeoman of the Guard" (1984), "Second to none: the Coldstream Guards, 1650–2000" (2000), ... | 6,135,136 |
12328834 | Paget baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paget%20baronets | Paget baronets
Richard Paget. The second Baronet was married to Lady Muriel Paget, and had issue, including the third Baronet. He was also a great-grandfather of the actress Anna Chancellor through his daughter Sylvia, Lady Chancellor (wife of Christopher Chancellor) and her elder son John.
The Paget Baronetcy, of Sut... | 6,135,137 |
12328834 | Paget baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paget%20baronets | Paget baronets
Bayly, 2nd Baronet (1709–1782)
- Sir Henry Bayly Paget, 3rd Baronet (1744–1812) (succeeded as Baron Paget in 1769)
See Marquess of Anglesey for further succession.
# Paget baronets, of Harewood Place (1871).
- Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet (1814–1899)
- Sir John Rahere Paget, 2nd Baronet (1848–1938)
... | 6,135,138 |
12328834 | Paget baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paget%20baronets | Paget baronets
r Richard Horner Paget, 1st Baronet (1832–1908)
- Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, 2nd Baronet (1869–1955)
- Sir John Starr Paget, 3rd Baronet (1914–1992)
- Sir Richard Herbert Paget, 4th Baronet (born 1957)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother David Vernon John Paget (born 1959).br
... | 6,135,139 |
12328819 | Evanílson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evanílson | Evanílson
Evanílson
Evanílson Aparecido Ferreira (born 12 September 1975), known simply as Evanílson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer.
A player of wide range who spent most of his career with Borussia Dortmund, he could play as either a right back or midfielder.
# Club career.
Born in Diamantina, Mina... | 6,135,140 |
12328819 | Evanílson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evanílson | Evanílson
his compatriot Márcio Amoroso moved from Parma A.C. to Dortmund for €25 million. In return, Evanílson was sold in the opposite direction for €17,5 million, for accounting reasons; Dortmund then received Evanílson on loan, only paying "beer money" for this move and, in 2003, a contractual clause was triggered ... | 6,135,141 |
12328819 | Evanílson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evanílson | Evanílson
his final two years, however, he appeared rarely due to several injuries, namely a serious cruciate ligament one, and returned in late April 2005 to his country, joining Clube Atlético Mineiro on a two-year contract, which was prematurely terminated due to lack of salary payments, with the subsequent court ac... | 6,135,142 |
12328819 | Evanílson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evanílson | Evanílson
career.
Evanílson gained 13 caps for Brazil in one year, playing in two games at the 1999 Copa América as Cafu's backup, with the national team winning the tournament in Paraguay.
Additionally, he was selected for two FIFA Confederation Cups: in the 1999 edition, he appeared in four games - including the 8–... | 6,135,143 |
12328819 | Evanílson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evanílson | Evanílson
gained 13 caps for Brazil in one year, playing in two games at the 1999 Copa América as Cafu's backup, with the national team winning the tournament in Paraguay.
Additionally, he was selected for two FIFA Confederation Cups: in the 1999 edition, he appeared in four games - including the 8–2 semifinal routing... | 6,135,144 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
Attenuation coefficient
The linear attenuation coefficient, attenuation coefficient, or narrow-beam attenuation coefficient characterizes how easily a volume of material can be penetrated by a beam of light, sound, particles, or other energy or matter. A large attenuation coefficient means that... | 6,135,145 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
"e"-foldings of the original intensity that will be had as the energy passes through a unit (e.g. one meter) thickness of material, so that an attenuation coefficient of 1 m means that after passing through 1 metre, the radiation will be reduced by a factor of "e", and for material with a coeffi... | 6,135,146 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
of a beam is reduced as it passes through a specific material. It is used in the context of:
- X-rays or gamma rays, where it is denoted "μ" and measured in cm;
- neutrons and nuclear reactors, where it is called "macroscopic cross section" (although actually it is not a section dimensionally ... | 6,135,147 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
symbol (given the standard use of for slant paths);
A small attenuation coefficient indicates that the material in question is relatively transparent, while a larger value indicates greater degrees of opacity. The attenuation coefficient is dependent upon the type of material and the energy of ... | 6,135,148 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
path length of the beam.
## Spectral hemispherical attenuation coefficient.
Spectral hemispherical attenuation coefficient in frequency and spectral hemispherical attenuation coefficient in wavelength of a volume, denoted "μ" and "μ" respectively, are defined as
where
- Φ is the spectral rad... | 6,135,149 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
denoted "μ" and "μ" respectively, are defined as
where
- "L" is the spectral radiance in frequency;
- "L" is the spectral radiance in wavelength.
# Absorption and scattering coefficients.
When a narrow (collimated) beam passes through a volume, the beam will lose intensity due to two proces... | 6,135,150 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
set up to measure beam leaving in different directions, or conversely using a non-narrow beam, one can measure how much of the lost radiant flux was scattered, and how much was absorbed.
In this context, the "absorption coefficient" measures how quickly the beam would lose radiant flux due to t... | 6,135,151 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
attenuation coefficient, mass absorption coefficient, and mass scattering coefficient are defined as
where "ρ" is the mass density.
# Napierian and decadic attenuation coefficients.
Decadic attenuation coefficient or decadic narrow beam attenuation coefficient, denoted "μ", is defined as
Jus... | 6,135,152 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
simply "attenuation coefficient". The terms "decadic" and "Napierian" come from the base used for the exponential in the Beer–Lambert law for a material sample, in which the two attenuation coefficients take part:
where
- "T" is the transmittance of the material sample;
- "ℓ" is the path leng... | 6,135,153 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
its "N" attenuating species as
where
- "σ" is the attenuation cross section of the attenuating species "i" in the material sample;
- "n" is the number density of the attenuating species "i" in the material sample;
- "ε" is the molar attenuation coefficient of the attenuating species "i" in t... | 6,135,154 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
of material required to reduce the radiant flux of the transmitted radiation to half its incident magnitude. The half-value layer is about 69% (ln 2) of the penetration depth. Engineers use these equations predict how much shielding thickness is required to attenuate radiation to acceptable or r... | 6,135,155 |
12328822 | Attenuation coefficient | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attenuation%20coefficient | Attenuation coefficient
- Attenuation
- Attenuation length
- Beer–Lambert law
- Cargo scanning
- Compton edge
- Compton scattering
- Computation of radiowave attenuation in the atmosphere
- Cross section (physics)
- Grey atmosphere
- High-energy X-rays
- Mass attenuation coefficient
- Mean free path
- Propa... | 6,135,156 |
12328945 | Marvin Whited | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marvin%20Whited | Marvin Whited
Marvin Whited
Marvin Eugene Whited, Jr. (July 26, 1918 – June 13, 1957) was an American football guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma and was drafted in the fifteenth round of the 1942 NFL Draft. | 6,135,157 |
12328910 | Michael Renwick | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Renwick | Michael Renwick
Michael Renwick
Michael Renwick (born 29 February 1976 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played for Hibernian, Ayr United, Greenock Morton, Cowdenbeath, East Fife and Stenhousemuir. He also had a spell as manager of Berwick Rangers.
# Playing career.
Renwick played for Hu... | 6,135,158 |
12328910 | Michael Renwick | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Renwick | Michael Renwick
following season with Glenavon before returning to Scotland in the 2004 close season. He joined Stirling Albion on trial before joining Arbroath where he played as a trialist against Stirling. Soon after, he signed for East Fife. He joined Stenhousemuir in May 2005, leaving in May 2006.
# Coaching care... | 6,135,159 |
12328910 | Michael Renwick | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Renwick | Michael Renwick
h in May 2006. Renwick was appointed manager of Berwick Rangers in October 2007, but he was sacked in April 2008. He joined Falkirk's backroom staff in August 2008, and was then appointed as head coach of Heriot-Watt University in 2009. In January 2011 he was appointed head coach of the Scottish Univers... | 6,135,160 |
12328756 | Child laundering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Child%20laundering | Child laundering
Child laundering
Child laundering is a scheme whereby intercountry adoptions are effected by illegal and fraudulent means. It may involve the trafficking of children, the acquisition of children through monetary arrangements, deceit and/or force. The children may then be held in sham orphanages while ... | 6,135,161 |
12328756 | Child laundering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Child%20laundering | Child laundering
ring from the middle classes to societies' more affluent groups. These "baby broker" families subsequently forge a new identity for the laundered child, "validating" the child's legal status as an orphan and ensuring the scheme will not be uncovered.
Child laundering is highly controversial; while man... | 6,135,162 |
12328756 | Child laundering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Child%20laundering | Child laundering
and adoptive families. The people who oversee these child laundering rings are estimated to make $2,000 to $20,000 per overseas adoption. Therefore, it is advantageous for these individuals to have the necessary language and social skills in order to work closely with Western adoption agencies. Interme... | 6,135,163 |
12328756 | Child laundering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Child%20laundering | Child laundering
the biological family on the grounds that the child will be better reared in the West. Many members of foreign governments are bribed to hasten these illegitimate adoptions, and also to ignore the illegality of these criminal organizations.
# Process of illegal adoptions.
Illegal child laundering ado... | 6,135,164 |
12328756 | Child laundering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Child%20laundering | Child laundering
the child is sent to the West to be united with his or her adoptive parents.
## Child acquisition.
There are several different ways by which "orphans" are acquired and later sold within the adoption system. Parent nations are almost always poor, and in most places, these countries also have a system ... | 6,135,165 |
12328756 | Child laundering | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Child%20laundering | Child laundering
the child and family's economic and social vulnerability to illegally profit by making the child available to overseas adoption markets, netting orphanage owners thousands of dollars per child. Another instance where children are wrongly deemed orphans is when said children become lost or separated fro... | 6,135,166 |
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an outright purchase of the child. The recruiters for these adoption rings seek out poor, pregnant women and offer to pay for their child. Relinquishing parents may be led to believe that they will be kept in contact with the child and receive financial support from the adoptive parents. Likewise, they... | 6,135,167 |
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other countries associated with the business of child laundering, with shocking findings. The conditions of the babies were inhumane; the children were unwashed and unclothed, unprotected from malaria lying in rusty cribs (Smolin: Child Laundering 139). Additionally, there was no experienced nurse cari... | 6,135,168 |
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orphans adopted annually. The Westerners who adopt from developing nations pay thousands of dollars to process the paperwork of one child. This provides a lucrative incentive for those involved in the process. In many cases, the prospective adoptive parents are motivated by a sense of altruism, coupled... | 6,135,169 |
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Due to the fact that most of the children adopted overseas are so young, they will not have any memories of their birth families. Without a paper trail and without any input from the child, it makes it near impossible to detect whether a child is truly an orphan.
# International legislation.
## Hague... | 6,135,170 |
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therefore the Convention mostly represents an anti-trafficking treaty. In 2000 the U.S. Congress enacted the "Intercountry Adoption Act" in order to implement the ideas of the Hague Convention. However, this Act is limited in the fact that the United States cannot enforce any measures against the sendi... | 6,135,171 |
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within a completely legitimate sphere, and have no way of knowing whether they are a party to this human rights violation. Therefore, the United States does not have the jurisdiction to prosecute these agencies working in the developing countries.
# Case studies.
Child laundering is a global issue, a... | 6,135,172 |
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children aged 3–18 years of age
Before Guatemala's adoption of the Hague Convention in 2007, child laundering was a widespread and notorious issue in Guatemala. The recruiters are called "jaladoras" or "buscadoras", and these individuals often work with medical personnel who give the recruiters inform... | 6,135,173 |
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in the adoption process. Since signing of the Hague Convention, new laws were passed by Guatemala to create new standards for the adoptions process. All adoption agencies have to be accredited and be accountable for their actions, as well as keep detailed and accurate financial records. Additionally, f... | 6,135,174 |
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Following the restructuring of the Guatemalan government, Guatemala had ceased all foreign adoptions. In 2011 however, they announced that the government will be reviewing cases that had been in the works in 2007, but were not going to accept any more cases. At the present time, the United States is no... | 6,135,175 |
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years of age
China has experienced rampant child laundering in past decades, although now they are considered to be better off than most other sending countries. China reports about 10,000 kidnappings or abductions a year, although the true numbers are considered to be much higher. The official statis... | 6,135,176 |
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that are then moved around Hunan and given fraudulent documents in order to cover up the situation. Some argue that the issue of child laundering in China stems from the one-child policy, which created what was once a surplus of children to be adopted. However, since the demand for Chinese children has... | 6,135,177 |
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have a better life without any connection to the biological family in the West, but some believe that the family should be preserved at all costs.
## Cambodia.
From 1999–2011 there have been:
- 2,355 adoptions of Cambodian children
- 1,369 females and 986 males
- 1,370 of these adoptions have been... | 6,135,178 |
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LICADHO, a Cambodian human rights group, has expressed that recruiters target poor families and women in their efforts to gain access to young children. Tactics such as the outright purchase of babies for as little as $20 USD or deception of birthparents into relinquishing physical custody are systemat... | 6,135,179 |
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community service. Currently, the United States, formerly one of the most common destinations for Cambodian adoptees, no longer processes adoptions from Cambodia.
# See also.
- Child-selling
- Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
- Hague Convention on Protection of... | 6,135,180 |
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"How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children." Cumberland Law Review. 2005.
- Petit, Juan Miguel. "Rights of the Child." United Nations: Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights. 6 January 2003.... | 6,135,181 |
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26 October 1998, p. 2
- Mezmur, Benyam D. "'The Sins of the 'Saviors: Child Trafficking in the Context of Intercountry Adoption in Africa." Permanent Bureau. June 2010, p. 6
- Meier, Patricia J. and Xiaole Zhang. "Sold into Adoption: The Hunan Baby Trafficking Scandal Exposes Vulnerabilities in Chine... | 6,135,182 |
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ntercountry Adoption: An Update on Guatemala in 2008."
- Hoffman, Meredith. "Amid Allegations of Human Trafficking, Guatemala to Review Adoptions." New America Media. 24 August 2011
- Custer, Charles. "China's Missing Children." Foreign Policy Magazine. 10 October 2011
- Smith-Gary, Laura. "Internat... | 6,135,183 |
12328965 | Lissajous knot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lissajous%20knot | Lissajous knot
Lissajous knot
In knot theory, a Lissajous knot is a knot defined by parametric equations of the form
where formula_2, formula_3, and formula_4 are integers and the phase shifts formula_5, formula_6, and formula_7 may be any real numbers.
The projection of a Lissajous knot onto any of the three coordi... | 6,135,184 |
12328965 | Lissajous knot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lissajous%20knot | Lissajous knot
in a cylinder.
# Form.
Because a knot cannot be self-intersecting, the three integers formula_8 must be pairwise relatively prime, and none of the quantities
may be an integer multiple of pi. Moreover, by making a substitution of the form formula_10, one may assume that any of the three phase shifts f... | 6,135,185 |
12328965 | Lissajous knot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lissajous%20knot | Lissajous knot
the 10 knot, the granny knot, and the composite knot 5 # 5. In addition, it is known that every twist knot with Arf invariant zero is a Lissajous knot.
# Symmetry.
Lissajous knots are highly symmetric, though the type of symmetry depends on whether or not the numbers formula_2, formula_3, and formula_4... | 6,135,186 |
12328965 | Lissajous knot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lissajous%20knot | Lissajous knot
or fewer crossings are strongly plus amphicheiral prime knot, the first of which has crossing number ten. Since this is so rare, ′most′ prime Lissajous knots lie in the even case.
## Even case.
If one of the frequencies (say formula_2) is even, then the 180° rotation around the "x"-axis formula_23 is a... | 6,135,187 |
12328965 | Lissajous knot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lissajous%20knot | Lissajous knot
0° rotation around the "x"-axis formula_23 is a symmetry of the Lissajous knot. In general, a knot that has a symmetry of this type is called 2-periodic, so every even Lissajous knot must be 2-periodic.
## Consequences.
The symmetry of a Lissajous knot puts severe constraints on the Alexander polynomia... | 6,135,188 |
12328968 | Sandy Mouche | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandy%20Mouche | Sandy Mouche
Sandy Mouche
Sandy Mouche is a Swedish band from Lund, Skåne County, southern Sweden. It consists of songwriter- and singer couple Martinique and Helena Josefsson, and the brothers Per (drums) and Ola (guitar) Blomgren. On live shows they bring a bassist and a pianist. They sing in English and French.
# ... | 6,135,189 |
12328968 | Sandy Mouche | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandy%20Mouche | Sandy Mouche
Back on the beach, Per played with the hot sand and shouted "sandy!" Helena looked at her friends, and noticed they all had a mouche on their faces. The name clicked, to the band it sounded like a woman's name, about whom they would make up stories. Following the name was the idea to sing in both English a... | 6,135,190 |
12328968 | Sandy Mouche | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandy%20Mouche | Sandy Mouche
recorded and released an EP, which they sent to producer Christoffer Lundquist, whom the band felt to be "the perfect collaborator". Sandy Mouche decided they would release their first album, "White Lucky Dragon" (2004) on their own label, Magpie Music. "White Lucky Dragon" was released in Sweden and Japan... | 6,135,191 |
12328968 | Sandy Mouche | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandy%20Mouche | Sandy Mouche
ABBA, jazz, disco, pop, and even children's music among its influences. According to the band, they made the kind of album they would like to buy themselves.
# Recent Years.
Since 2006, Helena Josefsson, Martinique Josefsson, Per Blomgren and Ola Blomgren have been working in solo projects.
On 28 Februa... | 6,135,192 |
12328968 | Sandy Mouche | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandy%20Mouche | Sandy Mouche
in the gigs).
Martinique toured Europe with his own songs as the support act during Per Gessle's Party Crasher tour in 2009.
# Discography.
## Albums.
- Sandy Mouche (spring 2003) - ep
- White Lucky Dragon (September 2004) - just in Sweden and Japan
- ...and poems for the unborn (January 2006) - in S... | 6,135,193 |
12328968 | Sandy Mouche | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandy%20Mouche | Sandy Mouche
Dragon (September 2004) - just in Sweden and Japan
- ...and poems for the unborn (January 2006) - in Sweden, Belgium and Australia
- Glory and grace (2014)
## Singles.
- Cherry pie (2003) - promo
- C'est pas juste (2004) - promo
- Papillon (2004) - promo
- Une histoire (2005)
- In the sand (2005)
... | 6,135,194 |
12328976 | George Alfred Carlson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Alfred%20Carlson | George Alfred Carlson
George Alfred Carlson
George Alfred Carlson (October 23, 1876 in Alta, Iowa – December 6, 1926) was the 20th Governor of Colorado from 1915 to 1917.
# Biography.
He was born on October 23, 1876 in Alta, Iowa.
Carlson graduated from the University of Colorado in 1902 and earned his law degree t... | 6,135,195 |
12328976 | George Alfred Carlson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Alfred%20Carlson | George Alfred Carlson
vernor as a Republican in 1914 and won, benefiting from vote-splitting between Democrats and Progressives.
Carlson's administration was noted for labor reforms, including the passage of a workers' compensation law and the establishment of the Industrial Commission of Colorado. He also supported a... | 6,135,196 |
12329060 | 2000 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2000%20European%20Speedway%20Club%20Champions'%20Cup | 2000 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup
2000 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup
The 2000 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup.
# Group B.
- May 7, 2000
- Rivne
# Group A.
- June 11, 2000
- Daugavpils
# Final.
- September 10, 2000
- Pila | 6,135,197 |
12329062 | 2001 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2001%20European%20Speedway%20Club%20Champions'%20Cup | 2001 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup
2001 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup
The 2001 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup.
# Group A.
- May 27, 2001
- Daugavpils
# Final.
- September 16, 2001
- Daugavpils | 6,135,198 |
12329057 | Esplen baronets | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Esplen%20baronets | Esplen baronets
Esplen baronets
The Esplen Baronetcy, of Hardres Court in Canterbury in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 July 1921 for Sir John Esplen, KBE,. He was a Senior Director of Esplen, Sons and Swainston, consulting engineers and naval architects, an... | 6,135,199 |
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