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"Duncan Free Duncan Seth Free (born 25 May 1973) is a retired Australian rower and Olympic gold medallist. He is dual Olympian and two-time world champion who represented Australia at four world rowing championships in both sculls and sweep oared boats. He was a six-time Australian national sculling champion. Free was born in Hobart, Tasmania. His father Reg Free rowed in numerous King's Cup crews for Tasmania from 1962 and in 1967, became the first Tasmanian oarsman selected to row in the Australian men's eight when they competed by invitation at the 1967 European Rowing Championships in Vichy, France. The family relocated to Queensland in 1983 and in the next decade Reg Free coached several Queensland King's Cup crews and coached his sons Marcus and Duncan to state, national and international victories. Duncan Free's senior rowing was from the Surfers Paradise Rowing Club in Queensland. Representing that club he raced for the national Australian sculling title at the Australian Rowing Championships for twelve consecutive years from 1993. He won that national title on six occasions. He was the Queensland state representative sculler picked to race the President's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships eight times from 1996 to 2004. Coached by his father, he won the interstate championship for Queensland on seven of those occasions. Free won Diamond Sculls event at the 2001 Henley Royal Regatta racing for the Surfer's Paradise Rowing Club. Duncan and his brother Marcus were paired in the men's double scull at two world championships (1997 & 1998) coached by Reg. They took a bronze medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France. Duncan was seated in Australian Olympic quad sculls for the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. He won a bronze medal at Atlanta 1996, placed fourth in Sydney and seventh in Athens. After the Athens Games, Duncan took a year off before switching to sweep rowing and establishing a partnership with gold medallist Drew Ginn in the coxless pair. They won at the World Championships 2006 and 2007 and took the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Duncan Free Duncan Seth Free (born 25 May 1973) is a retired Australian rower and Olympic gold medallist. He is dual Olympian and two-time world champion who represented Australia at four world rowing championships in both sculls and sweep oared boats. He was a six-time Australian national sculling champion. Free"
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"Robert Sward Robert Sward (born 1933) is an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's \"Collected Poems, 1957–2004\" (Black Moss Press, 2004) calls him, \"in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries. At once a Canadian and American poet, one with a foot in both worlds, Sward also inhabits an enormous in-between.\" Or, as Rainer Maria Rilke puts it, \"Every artist is born in an alien country; he has a homeland nowhere but within his own borders.\" Born in 1933 and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Sward began writing poetry at the age of 15 when he became involved with a street gang and used rhyming couplets in his notes to the other gang members. He graduated from Von Steuben High School at 17 and quit his job as a soda jerk in a pharmacy to join the United States Navy. In 1952 he was stationed in Korea on an amphibious ship, LST 914. A Yeoman 3rd Class, Sward soon became the head of the ship's library, while serving in the combat zone during the Korean War. He has taught at Cornell University, 1964–65, where he first experimented with computer-generated poetry and served on the editorial board of \"Epoch\". He went on to teach at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Victoria, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the 1980s he worked for the CBC, where he interviewed and produced 60-minute radio features on Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, John Robert Colombo, Al Purdy, Gwendolyn MacEwen, and other leading Canadian figures. His \"Quill & Quire\" interview with Nobel prize winner, Saul Bellow, was widely read. Sward also worked as journalist, book reviewer and feature writer for \"The Toronto Star\", \"The Globe and Mail\", and \"The Financial Times\" in Toronto, Ontario while living on the Toronto Islands. He received a Canada Council grant to research and write \"The Toronto Islands\" (1983), a best-selling (Source: Dreadnaught Press publisher, 1983) illustrated history of a unique community, from prehistoric times to the present. A Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he was chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award and is the author of 30 books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. He has been published widely in numerous anthologies and traditional literary magazines, such as \"The New Yorker\", \"Poetry Chicago\", and \"The Hudson Review\". Sward later worked as technical writer and editor for Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), and served as \"bridge person\" between traditional hard copy academic periodicals and literary eZines. In September 2016, at Second Annual Voices of the River Poetry Celebration, supported by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County, sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Poetry Santa Cruz and the Coastal Watershed Council, Robert Sward was named Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, 2016–2018. The preceding Poet Laureates included Gary Young, David Swanger and Ellen Bass He began publishing on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 90s with appearances in \"Alsop Review\", \"Blue Moon Review\", \"Web de Sol\", \"X-Connect\", \"eSCENE\", \"Fiction Online\", \"Hawk\", \"Realpoetik\", and \"Zero City\". His essay, \"Why I Publish in e-Zines\", appeared online in 1995 and has been widely reprinted. Sward's \"Earthquake Collage,\" impressions, news items, poetry, and facts regarding the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and its aftermath, appeared in \"Pathways to the Past, Adventures in Santa Cruz County History, History Journal Number 6,\" Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, April 2009. In addition to other external sites, Robert Sward also has an active personal website: www.robertsward.com As well as MonoBlogAlz.com which was created as a memorial for his late wife Gloria K. Alford 1928–2017, a well known West Coast visual artist. Sward's first book, \"Uncle Dog & Other Poems\" (1962), was published by Putnam & Co. in England. It was followed by \"Kissing the Dancer\" (Cornell University Press, 1964), with an Introduction by Pulitzer Prize poet William Meredith. \"The Carleton Miscellany\" reviewed the book saying, \"In the animal poems there is a bravery in the face of our limitations, a warmth for our absurdities, a way of life to be gleaned from our failings and ineptitudes... a self-critique that turns our freakishness into an ironic source of fulfillment and transcendence.\" Source: Theodore Holmes in \"The Carleton Miscellany\" 1964. The poem, \"Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9\", has been frequently anthologized and Sward continues to write about exotic animals and dogs in particular. Animated videos of these works (mini-movies with poetry) employ avatars, digital representations of the poet and his subjects, and appear in DVD format and online at Blue's Cruzio Cafe. A key theme in his most recent books, \"Rosicrucian in the Basement\" (2001), \"Heavenly Sex\" (2002), \"The Collected Poems, 1957–2004\" (2004), and \"God is in the Cracks\" (2006), is fathers and sons. Sward's father, Dr. Irving M. Sward, was a podiatrist and something of a mystic, combining his practice of Rosicrucianism with a study of the Kabbalah. Of \"Rosicrucian in the Basement\", Robert Bly writes, 'There are many mysteries between father and son that people don't talk about... There's much leaping [in Sward's poetry], but each line, so to speak, steps on something solid.' In commenting on the father and son series Dana Gioia adds, \"The CD is terrific... \"Rosicrucian in the Basement\" unfolds perfectly at its own pace and never loses the listener.\" Source: \"Robert Sward: Poetry, Review & Interview with Jack Foley, Recorded for KPFA-FM Berkeley, CA with readings from Heavenly Sex & Rosicrucian in the Basement\" (2002), \"Uncle Dog Audio\", Number 1002 (2002), and \"The Collected Poems,\" Black Moss Press,\"1957–2004\" (2004). Garrison Keillor selected \"God is in the Cracks\", one of the father and son poems and title poem of Sward's 2006 collection, for broadcast on his radio show \"Writer's Almanac.\" Sward and his life-partner, visual artist Gloria K. Alford (1928–2017), lived in Santa Cruz, California, where he took up residence in 1985, after fourteen years living and working in Canada, primarily in Victoria, B.C. (1969–1979) and on the Toronto Islands (1979–1985). A member of the League of Canadian Poets since 1975, Sward has toured Canada with each of his new books, reviewed and helped bring noted Canadian writers to the U.S. Sward's five children include Cheryl Cox Macpherson, a Professor of Bioethics; Kamala Joy, an environmental scientist; Michael Sward, a contractor and builder; Hannah Sward, a Los Angeles based fiction writer; and Nicholas Sward, a Toronto-based executive chef. His literary correspondence and papers are housed at University Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Special Collections, Olin Library, St. Louis, MO 63130. (WTU00110). Additionally Robert's papers are collected at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, and at the University of Victoria library, Special Collections, in Victoria, British Columbia. Robert Sward Robert Sward (born 1933) is an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's \"Collected Poems, 1957–2004\" (Black Moss Press, 2004) calls him, \"in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries. At once a Canadian and American poet, one with a foot in both worlds, Sward also inhabits an enormous in-between.\" Or, as Rainer Maria Rilke puts it, \"Every artist is born in an alien country; he has a homeland nowhere but within his own borders.\""
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"Heinrich Behnke (Medal of Honor) Heinrich Behnke (April 10, 1882 – June 19, 1952) was a seaman first class serving in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for bravery. Behnke was born April 10, 1882 in Germany and after immigrating to the United States he joined the navy in 1902. He was stationed aboard the as a seaman first class when, on January 25, 1905 a manhole plate blew out of boiler D. For his actions received the Medal of Honor March 20, 1905. He died June 19, 1952 and is buried in Long Island National Cemetery Farmingdale, New York. Rank and organization: Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy. Born: 10 April 1882, Germany. Accredited to: Washington, D.C. G.O. No.: 182, 20 March 1905. Citation: While serving aboard the U.S.S. Iowa, Behnke displayed extraordinary heroism at the time of the blowing out of the manhole plate of boiler D on board that vessel, 25 January 1905. Heinrich Behnke (Medal of Honor) Heinrich Behnke (April 10, 1882 – June 19, 1952) was a seaman first class serving in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for bravery. Behnke was born April 10, 1882 in Germany"
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"Lovin' Scoopful Lovin' Scoopful is a private company categorized under Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts-Distributors, located in Seattle, Washington. Founded in February, 2008, Lovin' Scoopful donates 25% of its profits to the Special Olympics International. This churned light ice cream focuses in an all-natural base product that comes from the milk and cream of cows not treated with the cow growth hormone, rBST. Lovin' Scoopful is a socio-friendly company founded by Daniel H. Samson, Angelo Moratti, Maria Shriver and Timothy P. Shriver, and they are the four principal architects of Lovin’ Scoopful LLC. The Kennedy family has had a long commitment to the developmentally disabled community. The late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Maria's mother, was the advocate and founder of the Special Olympics in 1962, where it started as a summer day camp in her backyard. Lovin’ Scoopful is a churned light premium ice cream composed of half the fat of full fat premium ice cream This brand has a line up of thirteen flavors that include: Lovin’ Scoopful launched its product on February 11, 2008 in Seattle, Washington. This brand began as a regional ice cream servicing Northern California and the Canada–US border on the northern edge of the state of Washington, and it can now can be found in most western states and has expanded eastward, available now in thirteen different flavors. Lovin' Scoopful Lovin' Scoopful is a private company categorized under Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts-Distributors, located in Seattle, Washington. Founded in February, 2008, Lovin' Scoopful donates 25% of its profits to the Special Olympics International. This churned light ice cream focuses in an all-natural base product that comes from the milk and cream of cows not treated with the cow growth hormone, rBST. Lovin' Scoopful is a socio-friendly company founded by Daniel H. Samson, Angelo Moratti, Maria"
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"Tékumel Tékumel is a fantasy world created by M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. In this imaginary world, huge, tradition-bound empires with medieval levels of technology vie for control using magic, large standing armies, and ancient technological devices. In time, Barker created the role-playing game \"Empire of the Petal Throne\", set in the Tékumel fictional universe, and first published in 1975 by TSR, Inc. Later, Barker wrote a series of five novels set in Tékumel, beginning with \"The Man of Gold\", first published by DAW Books in 1984. Barker, like the better-known J. R. R. Tolkien, considered not just the creation of a fantasy world but also an in-depth development of the societies and languages of the world. In other words, the setting also provided a context for Barker's constructed languages which were developed in parallel from the mid-to-late 1940s, long before the mass-market publication of his works in roleplaying game and book form. The most significant language created by Barker for his setting is Tsolyáni, which resembles Urdu, Pushtu and Mayan. Tsolyáni has had grammatical guides, dictionaries, pronunciation recordings, and even a complete language course developed for it. In order for his imaginary languages to have this type of depth, Barker developed entire cultures, histories, dress fashions, architectural styles, weapons, armor, tactical styles, legal codes, demographics and more, inspired by Indian, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Meso-American mythology in contrast to the majority of such fantasy settings, which draw primarily on European mythologies. The world of Tékumel, a fictional planet around star Nu Ophiuchi (a.k.a. Sinistra), was first settled by humans exploring the galaxy about 60,000 years in the future, along with several other alien species. Their extensive terraforming of the inhospitable environment, including changing the planet's orbit and rotation rate to create a 365-day year, disrupted local ecologies and banished most of the local flora and fauna (including some intelligent species) to small reservations in the corners of their own world, resulting in a golden age of technology and prosperity for Mankind and its allies. Tékumel became a resort world, where the wealthy from a thousand other stars could while away their time next to its warm seas. Suddenly, and for reasons unknown, Tékumel and its star system (Tékumel's two moons, Gayél and Káshi, its sun, Tuléng, and four other planets, Ülétl, Riruchél, Shíchel, and Zirúna) were cast out of our reality into a \"pocket dimension\" (known as a \"béthorm\" in Tsolyáni), in which there were no other star systems. One hypothesis is that this isolation happened through hostile action on the part of an unknown party or group. Another is that the cosmic cataclysm was due to over-use of a faster than light drive which warped the fabric of space. No one knows, but the inhabitants of Tékumel, both human, native, and representatives of the other starfaring races, were now isolated and alone. Severed from vital interplanetary trade routes (Tékumel is a world very poor in heavy metals) and in the midst of a massive gravitic upheaval due to the lines of gravitational force between the stars being suddenly cut, civilization was thrown into chaos. The intelligent native species, the Hlǘss and the Ssú, broke free from their reservations and wars as destructive as the massive geographic changes ravaged the planet. Several other significant changes took place due to the crisis: mankind discovered it could now tap into ultraplanar energies that were seen as magical forces, the stars were gone from the sky, dimensional nexi were uncovered and pacts with \"demons\" (inhabitants of dimensions near in n-dimensional space to Tékumel's pocket dimension) were made and a complex pantheon of \"gods\" (powerful extra-dimensional or multi-dimensional alien beings) discovered. Science began to stagnate until ultimately knowledge became grounded in traditions handed down from generations long ago, the belief that the universe was ultimately understandable slowly faded, and a Time of Darkness descended over the planet. Much of Barker's writing concerns a time approximately 50,000 years after Tékumel has entered its pocket dimension. Five vast tradition-oriented civilizations occupy a large portion of the northern continent. These five human empires (Livyánu, Mu′ugalavyá, Salarvyá, Tsolyánu, Yán Kór), along with various non-human allies (Ahoggyá, Chíma, Hegléth, Hláka, Hlutrgú, Ninín, Páchi Léi, Pé Chói, Shén, Tinalíya) who are descended from other star faring races, vie to control resources, including other planar \"magical powers\" and ancient technology, as they vie for survival and supremacy among themselves as well as hostile and other non-human races (Hlǘss, Ssú, Hokún, Mihálli, Nyaggá, Urunén, Vléshga). Much of the gaming materials and other writings focus particularly on these Five Empires (Tsolyánu in particular) which control much of the world's northern continent (only about an eighth of the planet's surface has published maps). Tsolyáni is one of several languages spoken on the world of Tékumel, and was the first conlang published as part of a role-playing game. It is inspired by Urdu, Pushtu and Mayan, the latter influence can be seen in the inclusion of the sounds hl and tl . As could be expected, Barker put great effort into the languages of Tékumel. Although Tsolyáni is the only Tekumeláni language that has had a full grammar book, dictionary, pronunciation tapes (on CD) and a primer, publicly released, it is not the only language for this world that Barker developed. Also available are grammar guides for the Yán Koryáni and Livyáni languages which are spoken in two other of the \"Five Empires\" of the known parts of Tékumel, as well as grammar books for Engsvanyáli and Sunúz. These two languages are now extinct, dead languages. Engsvanyáli is of use as it is the root language for Tsolyáni and many of the other currently spoken languages of the known parts of Tékumel. Sunúz is of interest because, although it is obscure, it is quite useful for sorcerous purposes. For instance, Sunúz contains terms to describe movement in a six-dimensional multi-planar space, something of use to beings who visit the other planar realms where \"demons\" live. Barker also published extensively on scripts for other languages of Tékumel. Barker designed \"War of Wizards\", a combat-oriented board game, based on his world of Tékumel. Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Barker tapped into this tradition and the setting he had developed from his childhood fantasies (much as H. G. Wells had done for his \"Floor Games\" leading into the better-known follow-up, \"Little Wars\") to further explore and develop Tékumel. His \"Thursday Night Groups\" were amongst the first roleplaying sessions anywhere and provided what was, at the time, an unusually detailed week-by-week development of the setting. In 1975, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc., the publishers of \"Dungeons & Dragons\", published Barker's roleplaying game and setting as a standalone game under the title of \"The Empire of the Petal Throne\" (a synonym for the Tsolyáni Empire), rather than as a \"supplement\" to the original D&D rules. Tékumel has spawned five professionally published roleplaying games over the course of the years: There have been a wide variety of materials of all sorts published over the years to further details this world. As well as the language materials, these include \"Deeds of the Ever Glorious —a History of the Tsolyani Legions\", \"The Tékumel Bestiary\", and \"The Book of Ebon Bindings,\" a guide to the demonic beings that are known to the Tsolyáni, and a six volume series of booklets that details the armies of",
"1975, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc., the publishers of \"Dungeons & Dragons\", published Barker's roleplaying game and setting as a standalone game under the title of \"The Empire of the Petal Throne\" (a synonym for the Tsolyáni Empire), rather than as a \"supplement\" to the original D&D rules. Tékumel has spawned five professionally published roleplaying games over the course of the years: There have been a wide variety of materials of all sorts published over the years to further details this world. As well as the language materials, these include \"Deeds of the Ever Glorious —a History of the Tsolyani Legions\", \"The Tékumel Bestiary\", and \"The Book of Ebon Bindings,\" a guide to the demonic beings that are known to the Tsolyáni, and a six volume series of booklets that details the armies of each of the Five Empires as well as surrounding states and the vast lands of the reptilian Shén. There have also been various wargames rules as well as small scale metal miniatures to represent the various races and legions. Miniatures for the world were formerly produced in 28mm scale under license by Eureka miniatures of Australia, but are now being made by a smaller, fan-driven company in Canada called The Tekumel Project. As interest in the game is driven to a large extent by a highly devoted, small number of enthusiasts, there have also been several non-commercially published rules as well as systems to adapt the Tékumel setting to other pre-existing, commercially available role playing rules including RuneQuest, GURPS and third edition Dungeons and Dragons. Many of these are available on the internet. In 1984, DAW Books published Barker's Tékumel novel \"The Man of Gold\". This was followed by \"Flamesong\" in 1985. In 2003, Zottola Publishing published three additional novels: \"Prince of Skulls\", \"Lords of Tsámra\", and \"A Death of Kings\". In 2004, Zottola Publishing produced the two-volume set \"Mitlanyál\", which deals with the Tsolyáni pantheon and provides much background regarding the Tsolyáni culture. The chronological order of the novels (as opposed to their order of publication) is as follows: There are several Yahoo! Groups devoted to Tékumel and various aspects of Tékumel. Tékumel Tékumel is a fantasy world created by M. A. R."
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"Eddy Planckaert Eddy Planckaert (born 22 September 1958 in Nevele) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. In 1988, Planckaert enjoyed perhaps his best year by capturing the green jersey (points competition) at the 1988 Tour de France and winning the Tour of Flanders. In 1990, he won Paris–Roubaix, his second \"monumental classic\", with the closest finish in the race's history beating Canadian Steve Bauer by less than a cm. More than 10 years after his cycling career, the former racer got back into the public eye with a long running reality TV show about his family life, on Vtm. Eddy is the brother of fellow cyclists: Willy and Walter Planckaert. Eddy is also the uncle of Jo Planckaert and the father of Francesco Planckaert. After the 2016 Paris-Roubaix, Planckaert declared that second-placed Tom Boonen should have made a deal with eventual winner Matthew Hayman in order to fix the race and let Boonen win. Eddy Planckaert Eddy Planckaert (born 22 September 1958 in Nevele) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. In 1988, Planckaert enjoyed perhaps his best year by capturing the green jersey (points competition) at the 1988 Tour de France and winning the"
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"Duinefontein Duinefontein 1 and 2 are early prehistoric archaeological sites near Cape Town in South Africa They have produced Acheulean stone tools and animal bones dating between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago. It was not a settlement site, but instead seems to have been a waterside location where animals could be hunted or scavenged when they died by hominids. The hominids used the tools to butcher the animals, although many of the animal bones from the site represent killings by other carnivores. One context, from Duinefontein 2, dated by optically stimulated luminescence dating to 270,000 BP contained ochre that must have been introduced to the site by people and which may have been used as body adornment. If so, it would represent some of the earliest evidence of an aesthetic sensibility in early peoples. Duinefontein Duinefontein 1 and 2 are early prehistoric archaeological sites near Cape Town in South Africa They have produced Acheulean stone tools and animal bones dating between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago. It was not a settlement site, but instead seems to have been a waterside location where animals could be hunted or scavenged when they died by hominids. The hominids used the tools to butcher"
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"Jesse James Rides Again Jesse James Rides Again (1947) is a Republic film serial. \"Jesse James Rides Again\" was budgeted at $149,967 although the final negative cost was $180,497 (a $30,530, or 20.4%, overspend). It was filmed between January 10 and February 5, 1947. The serial's production number was 1696. This was one of only four 13-chapter serials to be released by Republic. Three of the four were released in 1947, the only original serials released in that year. The fourth serial of the year was a re-release of the 15-chapter, 1941 serial \"Jungle Girl\". This marked the first time Republic had re-released a serial to add to their first run serial releases. Special effects created by the Lydecker brothers. \"Jesse James Rides Again\"'s official release date is 2 August 1947, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges. The serial was re-released on 28 March 1955 between the first runs of \"Panther Girl of the Kongo\" and \"King of the Carnival\". Jesse James Rides Again Jesse James Rides Again (1947) is a Republic film serial. \"Jesse James Rides Again\" was budgeted at $149,967 although the final negative cost was $180,497 (a $30,530,"
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"Charlie Albone Charles Albone (born 1981/1982) is an Australian landscape designer and television presenter known for co-hosting \"Selling Houses Australia\" (2008–present). He has also hosted other shows including \"The Party Garden\", \"Charlie and the Flower Show\" and \"Chelsea's Greatest Garden\". Albone was born in Hong Kong, his father was a flight engineer and his mother was a flight attendant. At the age of twelve he moved to the United Kingdom and developed an interest in gardening and landscaping. A few years later he began working maintaining the grounds of an English country manor, with no formal qualifications, Albone learnt his trade on the job and worked for many UK landscaping companies before travelling to Australia on a working holiday. He decided to move to Australia and has been living ever since. He completed a diploma of horticulture and landscape design and started his own landscaping company called Inspired Exteriors. Albone is married to stylist, interior designer and television host Juliet Love and they have two children. He now considers himself a pure Australian and is proud to be representing his adopted country. 'I like to think that I'm representing Australia and the rest of my team are Australian, my training, my life my family are all in Australia,' he said. 'I see myself as an Australian going over there rather than an Englishman going back'. While studying at TAFE, Albone received an email from The Australian Institute of Landscape telling him he should try out for a place on a new TV show. Albone applied and was successful in being part of Selling Houses Australia show. In 2008, Albone made his TV debut on the hit series \"Selling Houses Australia\" on Foxtel's The LifeStyle Channel. In its tenth series as of 2017, he has been a key member of the team; specialising in gardens and exterior make-overs for houses being sold. Albone has also hosted other LifeStyle Channel shows including \"The Party Garden\", \"Charlie and the Flower Show\" and more recently, \"Chelsea's Greatest Garden\". In 2015, Albone won a silver-gilt medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. The creation of his entry was documented for a two-part television special, \"Charlie's Chelsea Garden\", which aired on The LifeStyle Channel. In 2016 Albone won a second silver-gilt medal on the Chelsea Flower Show in London making him the first Australian to compete two times at the show and winning it. Charlie Albone Charles"
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"Azwan Saleh Azwan first played club football with QAF FC in the B-League Premier I, gaining his first international appearances while his team was sent to represent the national team for regional qualifying tournaments of the likes of AFC Challenge Cup and the AFF Championship. He transferred to the under-21 team of DPMM in 2007, initially playing as a striker. He played deeper in midfield as the 2007-08 season progressed, which would be the final season DPMM played in Malaysia. Moving to the Singaporean S.League in 2009 with his club, he was a key player for Vjeran Simunić who deployed him on the left side of DPMM's midfield. Their season was ended abruptly due to FIFA's suspension of Brunei, but not before winning the League Cup. Azwan was loaned to Indera SC in 2010 while his parent club were barred from playing in the S.League. The ban was lifted in 2012 and DPMM retained Azwan who started in their first game back against Tampines Rovers. They replicated their League Cup success that year, with Azwan scoring a direct free-kick in the final. Due to the emergence of namesake Azwan Ali Rahman from 2014, Azwan switched to a more defensive role, surrendering the number 7 shirt in 2015. He played in 15 games, half of them substitute appearances as DPMM won their first S.League title. He scored his first league goal in 3 years against Geylang International on 5 August via a long distance shot with his weaker right foot. Azwan was a member of the Brunei Under-21s for the 2007 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy held in his home country. He also played for the Under-23s at the 2011 SEA Games in Indonesia. Azwan holds the record number of appearances, with 26 caps to his name. His debut came in the 2006 AFC Challenge Cup in a 0-1 loss against Sri Lanka in Bangladesh. He scored on two occasions in AFF Suzuki Cup qualifying, one against Timor-Leste in 2008, the other against Cambodia in 2012. Azwan was appointed captain of the national team for the two-legged 2018 World Cup qualifier against Chinese Taipei. The team went down 0-2 at home after an encouraging 1-0 win at Kaohsiung. Azwan joined up with the Wasps for the 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup qualification held in Cambodia in October 2016. With Najib Tarif injured since the first game, he was placed at left-back in the third game against Laos which ended in a 4–3 loss. Azwan started the first match of the 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup in central midfield against Timor-Leste in Kuching, Malaysia. The match ended 4-0 to the Wasps in their biggest victory of date. He played a total of four games for the Wasps at central midfield in the tournament. Azwan Saleh Azwan first played club football with QAF FC in the B-League Premier I, gaining his first international appearances while his team was sent to represent the national team for regional qualifying tournaments of the likes of AFC Challenge Cup and the"
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"M. J. S. Wijeyaratne M. J. S. Wijeyaratne is a Sri Lankan academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Kelaniya and Professor of Zoology. Educated at Royal College Colombo, Prof. Wijeyaratne gained a BSc in Zoology from the University of Kelaniya and gained a MSc from the University of Michigan and return to the University of Kelaniya to complete his PhD. Joining the University of Kelaniya as a lecturer he served as Head of the Department of Zoology and thereafter Dean of the Faculty of Science and Director of the Staff Development Unit of the University of Kelaniya. He was also the Director of the Local Technical Secretariat of the World Bank funded Improvement of Relevance and Quality of Undergraduate Education (IRQUE) project of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education at the University of Kelaniya. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Vice-Chancellor. He was also a Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Directors. A fulbright scholar, he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Biology of Sri Lanka. Currently he is the Senior Professor and Chair of Zoology in the Department of Zoology and Environmental Management and Chairman of the Research Council of the University of Kelaniya. He is also the Chairman of the National Science and Technology Commission of Sri Lanka. He had served as a member of the Boards of Governors of many National Institutions in Sri Lanka. These include the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency, National Institute of Fisheries and Nautical Engineering, Arthur C Clarke Institute of Modern Technology, National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Standards Institution and Industrial Technology Institute. Currently he is a member of the Governing Board of the National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Council member of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka, Chairman of the Research Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation and the Chairman of the Board of Study of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing. He had also been the Chairman of the Oceanography and Marine Sciences Committee of the National Science Foundation and member of its several committees including Working Committee on Biological Sciences. Currently, he is a member of its Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Education Committee and the Policy Research Committee of the National Science Foundation. He is the Founder President of Sri Lanka Association for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Founder President of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Science of the University of Kelaniya. He had also been the General President of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Biology of Sri Lanka. Further, he has also served as the General Secretary of the National Academy of Science, Sri Lanka. He has been involved in quality assurance activities of the higher education system of Sri Lanka since 2002. As the Deputy Director of the World Bank funded HETC project, he was a key figure in developing the Sri Lanka Qualifications Framework. He is a well experienced quality assurance reviewer in higher education and has carried out 19 quality assurance reviews in Sri Lankan and Bangladesh Universities. He has also participated as a resource person in 54 quality assurance training workshops. He has carried out a large amount of research on Fish Biology, Fisheries Management, Aquatic Biology and Aquatic Resources Management. He has published 93 research papers in peer reviewed indexed journals and 12 text books. He has made 89 presentations in national and international conferences including 06 Keynote addresses and 02 Convocation Addresses. He is the recipient of the Fellowship on Conservation and Sustainable Development awarded by the University of Michigan, USA. In 1990, he was awarded the Third World Academy of Sciences Prize for the best young scientist in Biology in Sri Lanka. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Award for the Most Outstanding Senior Researcher in Biology by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Directors of Sri Lanka. He has also won Presidential Awards for Research publications in several years. M. J. S. Wijeyaratne M. J. S. Wijeyaratne is a Sri Lankan academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Kelaniya and Professor of Zoology. Educated at Royal College"
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"A priori and a posteriori The Latin phrases a priori ( \"from the earlier\") and a posteriori ( \"from the later\") are philosophical terms popularized by Immanuel Kant's \"Critique of Pure Reason\" (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. However, in their Latin forms they appear in Latin translations of Euclid's \"Elements\", of about 300 , a work widely considered during the early European modern period as the model for precise thinking. These terms are used with respect to reasoning (epistemology) to distinguish \"necessary conclusions from first premises\" (i.e., what must come before sense observation) from \"conclusions based on sense observation\" which must follow it. Thus, the two kinds of knowledge, justification, or argument, may be glossed: There are many points of view on these two types of knowledge, and their relationship gives rise to one of the oldest problems in modern philosophy. The terms \"a priori\" and \"a posteriori\" are primarily used as adjectives to modify the noun \"knowledge\" (for example, \"\"a priori\" knowledge\"). However, \"\"a priori\"\" is sometimes used to modify other nouns, such as \"truth\". Philosophers also may use \"apriority\" and \"aprioricity\" as nouns to refer (approximately) to the quality of being \"\"a priori\"\". Although definitions and use of the terms have varied in the history of philosophy, they have consistently labeled two separate epistemological notions. See also the related distinctions: deductive/inductive, analytic/synthetic, necessary/contingent. The intuitive distinction between \"a priori\" and \"a posteriori\" knowledge (or justification) is best seen via examples, as below: Several philosophers reacting to Kant sought to explain \"a priori\" knowledge without appealing to, as Paul Boghossian (MD) explains, \"a special faculty ... that has never been described in satisfactory terms.\" One theory, popular among the logical positivists of the early 20th century, is what Boghossian calls the \"analytic explanation of the a priori.\" The distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions was first introduced by Kant. While Kant's original distinction was primarily drawn in terms of conceptual containment, the contemporary version of the distinction primarily involves, as the American philosopher W. V. O. Quine put it, the notions of \"true by virtue of meanings and independently of fact.\" \"Analytic\" propositions are thought to be true in virtue of their meaning alone, while \"a posteriori analytic\" propositions are thought to be true in virtue of their meaning \"and\" certain facts about the world. According to the analytic explanation of the \"a priori\", all \"a priori\" knowledge is analytic; so \"a priori\" knowledge need not require a special faculty of pure intuition, since it can be accounted for simply by one's ability to understand the meaning of the proposition in question. In short, proponents of this explanation claimed to have reduced a dubious metaphysical faculty of pure reason to a legitimate linguistic notion of analyticity. However, the analytic explanation of \"a priori\" knowledge has undergone several criticisms. Most notably, Quine argued that the analytic–synthetic distinction is illegitimate. Quine states: \"But for all its a priori reasonableness, a boundary between analytic and synthetic statements simply has not been drawn. That there is such a distinction to be drawn at all is an unempirical dogma of empiricists, a metaphysical article of faith.\" While the soundness of Quine's critique is highly disputed, it had a powerful effect on the project of explaining the \"a priori\" in terms of the analytic. The metaphysical distinction between necessary and contingent truths has also been related to \"a priori\" and \"a posteriori\" knowledge. A proposition that is \"necessarily true\" is one whose negation is self-contradictory (thus, it is said to be true in every possible world). Consider the proposition that all bachelors are unmarried. Its negation, the proposition that some bachelors are married, is incoherent, because the concept of being unmarried (or the meaning of the word \"unmarried\") is part of the concept of being a bachelor (or part of the definition of the word \"bachelor\"). To the extent that contradictions are impossible, self-contradictory propositions are necessarily false, because it is impossible for them to be true. Thus, the negation of a self-contradictory proposition is supposed to be necessarily true. By contrast, a proposition that is \"contingently true\" is one whose negation is not self-contradictory (thus, it is said that it is \"not\" true in every possible world). As Jason Baehr states, it seems plausible that all necessary propositions are known \"a priori\", because \"[s]ense experience can tell us only about the actual world and hence about what is the case; it can say nothing about what must or must not be the case.\" Following Kant, some philosophers have considered the relationship between aprioricity, analyticity, and necessity to be extremely close. According to Jerry Fodor, \"Positivism, in particular, took it for granted that \"a priori\" truths must be necessary...\" However, since Kant, the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions had slightly changed. Analytic propositions were largely taken to be \"true by virtue of meanings and independently of fact\", while synthetic propositions were not—one must conduct some sort of empirical investigation, looking to the world, to determine the truth-value of synthetic propositions. Aprioricity, analyticity, and necessity have since been more clearly separated from each other. The American philosopher Saul Kripke (1972), for example, provided strong arguments against this position. Kripke argued that there are necessary \"a posteriori\" truths, such as the proposition that water is HO (if it is true). According to Kripke, this statement is necessarily true (since water and HO are the same thing, they are identical in every possible world, and truths of identity are logically necessary) and \"a posteriori\" (since it is known only through empirical investigation). Following such considerations of Kripke and others (such as Hilary Putnam), philosophers tend to distinguish more clearly the notion of aprioricity from that of necessity and analyticity. Kripke's definitions of these terms, however, diverge in subtle ways from those of Kant. Taking these differences into account, Kripke's controversial analysis of naming as contingent and \"a priori\" would, according to Stephen Palmquist, best fit into Kant's epistemological framework by calling it \"analytic a posteriori\". Aaron Sloman presented a brief defence of Kant's three distinctions (analytic/synthetic, apriori/empirical and necessary/contingent) in . It did not assume \"possible world semantics\" for the third distinction, merely that some part of \"this\" world might have been different. Thus, the relationship between aprioricity, necessity, and analyticity is not easy to discern. However, most philosophers at least seem to agree that while the various distinctions may overlap, the notions are clearly not identical: the \"a priori\"/\"a posteriori\" distinction is epistemological, the analytic/synthetic distinction is linguistic, and the necessary/contingent distinction is metaphysical. The phrases \"\"a priori\"\" and \"\"a posteriori\"\" are Latin for \"from what comes before\" and \"from what comes later\" (or, less literally, \"from first principles, before experience\" and \"after experience\"). They appear in Latin translations of Euclid's \"Elements\", of about 300 , a work widely considered during the early European modern period as the model for precise thinking. An early philosophical use of what might be considered a notion of \"a priori\" knowledge (though not called by that name) is Plato's theory of recollection, related in the dialogue \"Meno\" (380 ), according to which something like \"a priori\" knowledge is knowledge inherent,",
"posteriori\" distinction is epistemological, the analytic/synthetic distinction is linguistic, and the necessary/contingent distinction is metaphysical. The phrases \"\"a priori\"\" and \"\"a posteriori\"\" are Latin for \"from what comes before\" and \"from what comes later\" (or, less literally, \"from first principles, before experience\" and \"after experience\"). They appear in Latin translations of Euclid's \"Elements\", of about 300 , a work widely considered during the early European modern period as the model for precise thinking. An early philosophical use of what might be considered a notion of \"a priori\" knowledge (though not called by that name) is Plato's theory of recollection, related in the dialogue \"Meno\" (380 ), according to which something like \"a priori\" knowledge is knowledge inherent, intrinsic in the human mind. Albert of Saxony, a 14th-century logician, wrote on both \"a priori\" and \"a posteriori\". G. W. Leibniz introduced a distinction between \"a priori\" and \"a posteriori\" criteria for the possibility of a notion in his (1684) short treatise \"Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas\". \"A priori\" and \"a posteriori\" arguments for the existence of God appear in his \"Monadology\" (1714). George Berkeley outlined the distinction in his 1710 work \"A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge\" (para. XXI). The 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1781) advocated a blend of rationalist and empiricist theories. Kant says, \"Although all our cognition begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises [is caused by] from experience\" According to Kant, \"a priori\" cognition is transcendental, or based on the \"form\" of all possible experience, while \"a posteriori\" cognition is empirical, based on the \"content\" of experience. Kant states, \"[…] it is quite possible that our empirical knowledge is a compound of that which we receive through impressions, and that which the faculty of cognition supplies from itself sensuous impressions [sense data] giving merely the \"occasion\" [opportunity for a cause to produce its effect].\" Contrary to contemporary usages of the term, Kant thinks that \"a priori\" knowledge is not entirely independent of the content of experience. And unlike the rationalists, Kant thinks that \"a priori\" cognition, in its pure form, that is without the admixture of any empirical content, is limited to the deduction of the conditions of possible experience. These \"a priori\", or transcendental conditions, are seated in one's cognitive faculties, and are not provided by experience in general or any experience in particular (although an argument exists that \"a priori\" intuitions can be \"triggered\" by experience). Kant nominated and explored the possibility of a transcendental logic with which to consider the deduction of the \"a priori\" in its pure form. Space, time and causality are considered pure \"a priori\" intuitions. Kant reasoned that the pure \"a priori\" intuitions are established via his transcendental aesthetic and transcendental logic. He claimed that the human subject would not have the kind of experience that it has were these \"a priori\" forms not in some way constitutive of him as a human subject. For instance, a person would not experience the world as an orderly, rule-governed place unless time, space and causality were determinant functions in the form of perceptual faculties, i. e., there can be no experience in general without space, time or causality as particular determinants thereon. The claim is more formally known as Kant's transcendental deduction and it is the central argument of his major work, the \"Critique of Pure Reason\". The transcendental deduction argues that time, space and causality are ideal as much as real. In consideration of a possible logic of the \"a priori\", this most famous of Kant's deductions has made the successful attempt in the case for the fact of subjectivity, what constitutes subjectivity and what relation it holds with objectivity and the empirical. After Kant's death, a number of philosophers saw themselves as correcting and expanding his philosophy, leading to the various forms of German Idealism. One of these philosophers was Johann Fichte. His student (and critic), Arthur Schopenhauer, accused him of rejecting the distinction between \"a priori\" and \"a posteriori\" knowledge: A priori and a posteriori The Latin phrases a priori ( \"from the earlier\") and a posteriori ( \"from the later\") are philosophical terms popularized by Immanuel Kant's \"Critique of Pure Reason\" (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works"
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"Howard T. Odum Howard Thomas Odum (September 1, 1924 – September 11, 2002), usually cited as H. T. Odum, was an American ecologist. He is known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, and for his provocative proposals for additional laws of thermodynamics, informed by his work on general systems theory. Odum was the third child of Howard W. Odum, an American sociologist, and his wife Anna Louise (Kranz) Odum (1888–1965). He was the younger brother of Eugene Odum. Their father \"encouraged his sons to go into science and to develop new techniques to contribute to social progress. Howard learned his early scientific lessons about birds from his brother, about fish and the philosophy of biology while working after school for the marine zoologist Robert Coker, and about electrical circuits from \"The Boy Electrician\" by Alfred Powell Morgan. Howard Thomas studied biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he published his first paper while still an undergraduate. His education was interrupted for three years by his World War II service with the Army Air Force in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone where he worked as a tropical meteorologist. After the war, he returned to the University of North Carolina and completed his B.S. in zoology (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1947. In 1947, Odum married Virginia Wood; they had two children together. After her 1973 death, he married Elizabeth C. Odum in 1974; she had four children from her previous marriage. Odum's advice on how to manage a blended family was to be sure to keep talking; Elizabeth's was to hold back on discipline and new rules. In 1950, Howard earned his Ph.D. in zoology at Yale University, under the guidance of G. Evelyn Hutchinson. His dissertation was titled \"The Biogeochemistry of Strontium: With Discussion on the Ecological Integration of Elements\". This step took him from his early interest in ornithology and brought him into the emerging field of systems ecology. He made a meteorological \"analysis of the global circulation of strontium, [and] anticipated in the late 1940s the view of the earth as one great ecosystem.\" While at Yale, Howard began his lifelong collaborations with his brother Eugene. In 1953, they published the first English-language textbook on systems ecology, \"Fundamentals of Ecology\". Howard wrote the chapter on energetics, which introduced his energy circuit language. They continued to collaborate in research as well as writing for the rest of their lives. For Howard, his energy systems language (which he called \"energese\") was itself a collaborative tool. From 1956 to 1963, Odum worked as the Director of the Marine Institute of the University of Texas. During this time, he became aware of the interplay of ecological-energetic and economic forces. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was in the Department of Zoology, and one of the professors in the new Curriculum of Marine Sciences until 1970. That year he moved to the University of Florida, where he taught at the Environmental Engineering Sciences Department, founded and directed the Center for Environmental Policy, and founded the University's Center for Wetlands in 1973. It was the first center of its kind in the world that is still in operation today. Odum continued this work for 26 years until his retirement in 1996. In the 1960s-1970s Odum was also chairman of the International Biological Program's Tropical Biome planning committee. He was supported by large contracts with the United States Atomic Energy Commission, resulting in participation by nearly 100 scientists, who conducted radiation studies of a tropical rainforest His featured project at University of Florida in the 1970s was on recycling treated sewage into cypress swamps. This was one of the first projects to explore the now widespread approach of using wetlands as water quality improvement ecosystems. This is one of his most important contributions to the beginnings of the field of ecological engineering. In his last years, Odum was Graduate Research Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for Environmental Policy. He was an avid birdwatcher in both his professional and personal life. The Ecological Society awarded Odum its Mercer Award to recognize his contributions to the study of the coral reef on Eniwetok Atoll. Odum also received the French Prix de Vie, and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, considered the Nobel equivalent for bioscience, which was not originally honored by Nobel himself. Charles A S Hall has described Odum one of the most innovative and important thinkers of our time. He has noted that Howard Odum, either alone or with his brother Eugene, received essentially all of international prizes awarded to ecologists. The only higher education institute to award honorary degrees to both Odum brothers was The Ohio State University, which honored H.T. in 1995 and Gene in 1999. Odum's contributions to this field have been recognised by the Mars Society. They named their experimental station the \"H.T. Odum greenhouse\", at the suggestion of his former student Patrick Kangas. Kangas and his student, David Blersch, made significant contributions to the design of the waste water recycling system on the station. Odum's students have furthered his work at institutions around the world, most notably Mark Brown at the University of Florida, David Tilley and Patrick Kangas at the University of Maryland, Daniel Campbell at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Enrique Ortega at the UNICAMP in Brazil, and Sergio Ulgiati at the University of Siena. Work done at these institutions continues to evolve and propagate the Odum's concept of emergy. His former students Bill Mitsch [Ohio State University], Robert Costanza [Portland State University], and Scott W. Nixon [University of Rhode Island] are among a cadre of former students who have been recognized internationally for their contributions to ecological engineering, ecological economics, ecosystem science, wetland ecology, estuarine ecology, ecological modeling, and related fields. Odum left a large legacy in many fields associated with ecology, systems, and energetics. He studied ecosystems all over the world, and pioneered the study of several areas, some of which are now distinct fields of research. According to Hall (1995, p.ix), Odum published one of the first significant papers in each of the following areas: Odum's contributions to these and other areas are summarized below. Odum also wrote on radiation ecology, systems ecology, unified science, and the . He was one of the first to discuss the use of ecosystems for life-support function in space travel. Some have suggested that Odum was technocratic in orientation, while others believe that he sided with those calling for \"new values.\" In his 1950 Ph.D. thesis, H.T.Odum gave a novel definition of ecology as the study of large entities (ecosystems) at the \"natural level of integration\". Hence, in the traditional role of an ecologist, one of Odum's doctoral aims was to recognize and classify large cyclic entities (ecosystems). However another of his aims was to make predictive generalizations about ecosystems, such as the whole world for example. For Odum, as a large entity, the world constituted a revolving cycle with high stability. It was the presence of stability which, Odum believed, enabled him to talk about the teleology of such systems. Moreover, at the time of writing his thesis, Odum felt that the principle of natural selection was more than empirical, because it had a teleological, that is a \"stability over time\" component. And as an ecologist interested in the behavior and function of large entities over time, Odum therefore sought to give a more general statement of natural selection so that it was equally applicable to large entities as it was to small entities traditionally studied in biology. Hence Odum also had the aim of extending the",
"generalizations about ecosystems, such as the whole world for example. For Odum, as a large entity, the world constituted a revolving cycle with high stability. It was the presence of stability which, Odum believed, enabled him to talk about the teleology of such systems. Moreover, at the time of writing his thesis, Odum felt that the principle of natural selection was more than empirical, because it had a teleological, that is a \"stability over time\" component. And as an ecologist interested in the behavior and function of large entities over time, Odum therefore sought to give a more general statement of natural selection so that it was equally applicable to large entities as it was to small entities traditionally studied in biology. Hence Odum also had the aim of extending the scope and generality of natural selection, to include large entities such as the world. This extension relied on the definition of an entity as a combination of properties that have some stability with time. Odum's approach was motivated by Lotka's idea's on the energetics of evolution. In writing a history of the ecosystem concept, Golley noted that Odum tended to think in the form of analogies, and gave the example, \"if the world is a heat engine, then...\" In this vein, Odum can be understood as extending the dynamical analogies which establish the analogies between electrical, mechanical, acoustical, magnetic and electronic systems, to include ecological systems. Odum used an analog of electrical energy networks to model the energy flow pathways of ecosystems. Odum's analog electrical models had a significant role in the development of his approach to systems and have been recognized as one of the earliest instances of systems ecology. Electron flow in the electrical network represented the flow of material (e.g. carbon) in the ecosystem, charge in a capacitor was analogous to storage of a material, and the model was scaled to the ecosystem of interest by adjusting the size of electrical component. In the 1950s Odum introduced his electrical circuit diagrams of ecosystems to the Ecological Society of America. He claimed that energy was driven through ecological systems by an \"ecoforce\" analogous to the role of voltage in electrical circuits. Odum developed an analogue of Ohm's Law which aimed to be a representation of energy flows through ecosystems. In terms of steady state thermodynamics, Ohm's Law can be considered a special case of a more general flux law, where the flux (formula_1) \"is proportional to the driving thermodynamic force (formula_2) with conductivity (formula_3). That is: formula_4. Kangas states that Odum then also concluded that as thermodynamic systems, ecosystems should also obey the force-flux law. Hence Ohm's law and passive electrical analog circuits can be used to simulate ecosystems (\"Ibid.\"). In this simulation, Odum attempted to derive an ecological analog for electrical voltage. Voltage, or driving force, is related to something we have measured for years, the biomass, in pounds per acre. The analogous concept required is the biomass activity, that is, the thermodynamic thrust, which may be linear. Exactly what this is in nature is still uncertain, as it is a new concept. Such a consideration led Odum to ask two important methodological questions: 1) What is the electrical significance of a function observed in nature? 2) Given an electrical unit in a circuit, what is it in the ecological system? For example, what is a diode in nature? One needs a diode to allow biomass to accumulate after the voltage of the sun has gone down. Otherwise the circuit reverses. Higher organisms like fish are diodes. Silver Springs is a common type of spring-fed stream in Florida, with a constant temperature and chemical composition. The study Howard Odum conducted here was the first complete analysis of a natural ecosystem. Odum started with an overall model and in his early work used a diagramming methodology very similar to the Sankey diagrams used in chemical process engineering. In this model energy and matter flows through an ecosystem: H are herbivores, C are carnivores, TC are top carnivores, and D are decomposers. Squares represent biotic pools and ovals are fluxes or energy or nutrients from the system. Started from that overall model Odum \"mapped in detail all the flow routes to and from the stream. He measured the energy input of sun and rain, and of all organic matter - even those of the bread the tourists threw to the ducks and fish - and then measured the energy that gradually left the spring. In this way he was able to establish the stream's energy budget\". Around 1955 Odum directed studies into radioecology which included the effects of radiation on the tropical rainforest at El Verde, Puerto Rico (Odum and Pidgeon), and the coral reefs and ocean ecology at Eniwetok atoll. The Odum brothers were approached by the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake a detailed study of the atoll after nuclear testing. Apparently the atoll was sufficiently radioactive that upon their arrival the Odums were able to produce an autoradiographic image of a coral head by placing it on photographic paper. These studies were early applications of energy concepts to ecological systems. They were exploring the implications of the laws of thermodynamics when used in these new settings. From this view, biogeochemical cycles are driven by radiant energy. Odum expressed the balance between energy input and output as the ratio of production (\"P\") to respiration (\"R\"): \"P-R\". He classified water bodies based on their \"P-R\" ratios, this separated autotrophic from heterotrophic ecosystems: \"his measurements of flowing water metabolism were measurements of whole systems. Odum was measuring the community as a system, not adding up the metabolism of the components as Lindeman and many others had done\". This reasoning appears to have followed that of Odum's doctoral supervisor, G.E.Hutchinson who expressed the view that if a community were an organism then it must have a form of metabolism. However Golley notes that H.T.Odum attempted to go beyond the reporting of mere ratios, a move which resulted in the first serious disagreement in systems energetics. In a controversial move, Odum, together with Richard Pinkerton (at the time physicist at the University of Florida), was motivated by Alfred J. Lotka's articles on the energetics of evolution, and subsequently proposed the theory that natural systems tend to operate at an efficiency that produces the maximum power output, not the maximum efficiency. This theory in turn motivated Odum to propose maximum power as a fundamental thermodynamic law. Further to this Odum also mooted two more additional thermodynamic laws (see Energetics), but there is far from consensus in the scientific community about these proposals, and many scientists have never heard of H.T. Odum or his views. By the end of the 1960s Odum's electronic circuit ecological simulation models were replaced by a more general set of energy symbols. When combined to form systems diagrams, these symbols were considered by Odum and others to be the language of the macroscope which could portray generalized patterns of energy flow: \"Describing such patterns and reducing ecosystem complexities to flows of energy, Odum believed, would permit discovery of general ecosystem principles\". Some have attempted to link it with the universal scientific language projects which have appeared throughout the history of natural philosophy Kitching claimed that the language was a direct result of working with analogue computers, and reflected an electrical engineer's approach to the problem of system representation: \"Because of its electrical analogy, the Odum system is relatively easy to turn into mathematical equations ... If one is building a model of energy flow then certainly the Odum system should be given serious consideration... \" Due to the focus on systems thinking, Odum's language",
"generalized patterns of energy flow: \"Describing such patterns and reducing ecosystem complexities to flows of energy, Odum believed, would permit discovery of general ecosystem principles\". Some have attempted to link it with the universal scientific language projects which have appeared throughout the history of natural philosophy Kitching claimed that the language was a direct result of working with analogue computers, and reflected an electrical engineer's approach to the problem of system representation: \"Because of its electrical analogy, the Odum system is relatively easy to turn into mathematical equations ... If one is building a model of energy flow then certainly the Odum system should be given serious consideration... \" Due to the focus on systems thinking, Odum's language appears to be similar in approach to the Systems Modeling Language recently developed by INCOSE an international Systems Engineering body. In taking an energy-based view of hierarchical organization Odum also developed further the systems ecology understanding of energy quality. In the 1990s in the latter part of his career H.T. Odum together with David M. Scienceman developed the ideas of emergy, as a specific use of the term Embodied energy. Some consider the concept of \"emergy\", sometimes briefly defined as \"energy memory\", as one of Odum's more significant contributions. However the concept is neither free from controversy nor without its critics. Odum looked at natural systems as having been formed by the use of various forms of energy in the past: \"emergy is a measure of energy used in the past and thus is different from a measure of energy now. The unit of emergy (past available energy use) is the emjoule, as distinguished from joules used for available energy remaining now.\" This was then conceived as a principle of maximum empower which might explain the evolution of self-organising open systems. However this principle has only been demonstrated in a few experiments and is not widely recognized in the scientific community. For J.B. Hagen, the maximum power principle, and the stability principle could be easily translated into the language of homeostasis and cybernetics systems. Hagen claims that the feedback loops in ecosystems, were, for Odum, analogous to the kinds of feedback loops diagrammed in electronic circuits and cybernetic systems (\"Ibid.\"). This approach represented the migration of cybernetic ideas into ecology and led to the formulation of systems ecology. In Odum's work these concepts form part of what Hagen called an, \"ambitious and idiosyncratic attempt to create a universal science of systems\" (\"Ibid\"). Hagen has identified the systems thinking of Odum as a form of holistic thinking. Odum contrasted the holistic thinking of systems science with reductionistic microscopic thinking, and used the term \"macroscope\" to refer to the holistic view, which was a kind of \"detail eliminator\" allowing a simple diagram to be created. H.T.Odum was a pioneer in his use of small closed and open ecosystems in classroom teaching. These small ecosystems were often constructed from fish tanks or bottles and have been called . Odum's microcosm studies influenced the design of Biosphere 2. In observing the way higher order trophic levels have a control function in ecosystems, H.T. Odum arrived at the concept he termed hierarchical organization. Ecological economics is now an active field between economics and ecology with annual conferences, international societies and an international journal. From 1956 to 1963 H.T.Odum worked as Director of the Marine Institute of the University of Texas. During this time Odum became aware of the interplay of ecological-energetic and economic forces. He therefore funded the research into the use of conventional economic approaches to quantify dollar values of ecological resources for recreational, treatment and other uses. This research calculated the potential value of primary production per bay surface area. For Hall the importance of Odum's work came through his integration of systems, ecology, and energy with economics, together with Odum's view that economics can be evaluated on objective terms such as energy rather than on a subjective, willingness to pay basis. Ecological Engineering is an emerging field of study between ecology and engineering concerned with the designing, monitoring and constructing of ecosystems. The term ecological engineering was first coined by Howard T. Odum in 1962 well before he worked at the University of Florida. Ecological engineering, he wrote, is \"those cases where the energy supplied by man is small relative to the natural sources but sufficient to produce large effects in the resulting patterns and processes.\" Ecological engineering, as a practical field, was then developed by his former graduate student Bill Mitsch who started and continues to edit the standard journal in the field and helped to start both international and U.S. societies devoted to ecological engineering, and has written two textbooks on the subject One of H.T. Odum's last papers was his assessment of ecological engineering that was published in the journal Ecological Engineering in 2003, a year after Odum died. Odum was elected the 30th President (in 1991) of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS.org). This was the professional society that earlier was named the International Society for General Systems Research. He presented many papers on the topic at its annual conferences as well as edited the last published General Systems Yearbook. The second, revised edition of his major lifework was retitled Ecological and General Systems: An Introduction to Systems Ecology (1994). Some of his energy models and simulations contained general systems components. Odum has been described as a \"technocratic optimist\". His approach was significantly influenced by his father who was also an advocate of viewing the social world through the various lenses of physical science. Within the processes on earth, H.T.Odum (1989) viewed humans as playing a central role: He said that the \"human is the biosphere's programmatic and pragmatic information processor for maximum performance\". H. T. Odum wrote some 15 books and 300 papers, and a \"Festschrift\" volume (\"Maximum Power: The Ideas and Applications of H.T.Odum\" 1995) was published in honor of his work. Odum was also honored by the journal Ecological Engineering for his contributions to the field of ecological engineering and ecology in general in recognition of his 70th birthday. This publication included over 25 letters from distinguished scientists from all over the world including Bill Mitsch (lead editorial), John Allen, Robert Ulanowitcz, Robert Beyers, Ariel Lugo, Marth Gilliland, Sandra Brown, Ramon Margalef, Paul Risser, Gene Odum, Kathy Ewel, Kenneth Watt, Pat Kangas, Sven Jørgensen, Bob Knight, Rusong Wang, John Teal, Frank Golley, AnnMari and Bengt-Owe Jansson, Joan Browder, Carl Folke, Richard Wiegert, Scott Nixon, Gene Turner, John Todd, and James Zuchetto. Howard T. Odum Howard Thomas Odum (September 1,"
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"103rd Street (Rosemoor) station 103rd Street (Rosemoor) is a commuter rail station along Metra Electric's main line in the Rosemoor neighborhood of Chicago. It is located at 103rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, and is away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. In Metra's zone-based fare system, 103rd Street (Rosemoor) is in zone C. The station shares part of its name with two other stations on the Rock Island District line to the west. The first is on the Rush Hour Branch in Washington Heights, and the other is on the Beverly Branch (or \"Suburban Line\") in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Chicago to the west. This 103rd Station is the nearest Metra Electric station to Gately Stadium Park, which is used both by high school and Chicago State University athletic teams. Although Metra gives the address as 103rd Street & Cottage Grove Avenue, parking areas are actually located on 103rd Street and Dauphin Avenue. CTA 103rd Street (Rosemoor) station 103rd Street (Rosemoor) is a commuter rail station along Metra Electric's main line in the Rosemoor neighborhood of Chicago. It is located at 103rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, and is away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station."
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"Les Crane Les Crane (born Lesley Stein; December 3, 1933 – July 13, 2008) was a radio announcer and television talk show host, a pioneer in interactive broadcasting who also scored a spoken word hit with his 1971 recording of the poem \"Desiderata\", winning a \"Best Spoken Word\" Grammy. He was the first network television personality to compete with Johnny Carson after Carson became a fixture of late-night television. Born in New York, Crane graduated from Tulane University, where he was an English major. He spent four years in the United States Air Force, as a jet pilot and helicopter flight instructor. He began his radio career in 1958 at KONO in San Antonio and later worked at WPEN (now WKDN) in Philadelphia. In 1961, he became a popular and controversial host for the radio powerhouse KGO in San Francisco. With KGO's strong nighttime 50,000 Watt signal reaching as far north as Seattle, Washington, and as far south as Los Angeles, he attracted a regional audience in the West. \"Variety\" described him as \"the popular, confrontational and sometimes controversial host of San Francisco's KGO. Helping to pioneer talk radio, he was outspoken and outraged some callers by hanging up on them.\" A late-night program airing weekdays from 11pm to 2am, \"Crane at the hungry i\" (1962–63) found Crane interacting with owner and impresario Enrico Banducci and interviewing such talents as Barbra Streisand and Professor Irwin Corey. Crane, along with KRLA general manager John Barrett, were the original people \"responsible for creating the Top 40 (list of the most requested pop songs),\" said Casey Kasem in a 1990 interview. In 1963, Crane moved to New York City to host \"Night Line,\" a 1:00 a.m. talk show on WABC-TV, the American Broadcasting Company's flagship station. The first American TV appearance of The Rolling Stones was on Crane's program in June 1964 when only New Yorkers could see it. The program debuted nationwide with a trial run (telecast nightly for two weeks) in August 1964 starting at 11:15 p.m. on the ABC schedule and titled \"The Les Crane Show\". It was the first network program to compete with \"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\". ABC network officials used kinescopes of two episodes from the August 1964 trial run to pitch the show to affiliates that had not yet signed up to carry the program. One episode featured the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald debating Oswald's guilt with noted attorney Melvin Belli, Crane and audience members. The other featured Norman Mailer and Richard Burton. Burton encouraged Crane to recite the \"gravedigger speech\" from \"Hamlet\", and Crane did. More affiliates signed up for a November relaunch of \"The Les Crane Show\", and \"Look\" (American magazine) ran a prominent feature story with captioned still photographs from the August episodes. One image shows Shelley Winters debating a controversial issue with Jackie Robinson, May Craig (journalist) and William F. Buckley. While some critics found Crane's late-night series innovative (indeed, two-and-a-half years later \"The Phil Donahue Show\" would follow a similar format to much greater success on a local station in Dayton, Ohio during its daytime schedule), it never gained much of an audience. In late June 1965, following Crane's three-month absence from television, \"The Les Crane Show\" was retitled \"ABC's Nightlife\", sometimes advertised in newspapers as \"Nightlife\", and it returned to the late-night schedule of the ABC network. Network executives removed most of the controversy and emphasized light entertainment. Producer Nick Vanoff started forbidding guests from broaching controversial topics. After the summer 1965 run ended, network executives relocated the show from New York to Los Angeles, and the fall season began there. The Paley Center for Media has available for viewing the first 15 minutes of one of the last episodes before executives finally cancelled \"ABC's Nightlife\" in early November 1965. Crane can be seen and heard delivering his monologue, joking about words that could be censored and bantering with his sidekick Nipsey Russell. The two kinescopes that ABC used to pitch \"The Les Crane Show\" to its affiliates in 1964 constitute most of the surviving \"video and audio\" of Crane's show. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has a digitized collection of clips from the \"Les Crane Show\" early episodes in August 1964. It was assembled using 16 millimeter editing equipment, probably so network executives could use the collection of clips, in addition to the two entire episodes, to pitch the show to affiliates around the United States who had not yet signed up to carry the show. An archive of source material on Malcolm X has only the audio of the civil rights leader's December 1964 appearance with Crane. Audio of Bob Dylan's February 17, 1965 appearance has circulated online, and been transcribed but the picture is gone, and still photographs do not exist. The National Archives has a transcript of the August 1964 Oswald/Belli episode in its documents related to the JFK assassination that were declassified and released publicly in 1993 and 1994. Crane's daughter Caprice Crane has said she believes her father saved until he died a kinescope of this entire episode. The collection culled from various episodes (preserved digitally at UCLA Film and Television Archive) includes a short clip from the episode with Shelley Winters, Jackie Robinson, May Craig and William F. Buckley. Several people seem to be ridiculing Winters, and the studio audience cheers efforts to keep her quiet, but not enough of the kinescope was saved for viewers to understand exactly why. A transcript of the rest of this episode does not exist, and what the participants said during the remainder is unknown. The collection excludes Malcolm X, evidently because the collection has only clips from August 1964, and he appeared in December 1964. Les Crane's confrontational interview technique, along with a \"shotgun microphone\" he aimed at audiences, earned him the name \"the bad boy of late-night television.\" The profile in the \"Look\" magazine edition of November 3, 1964 called him \"television's new bad boy,\" but critical opinion was divided. \"The New York Times\"' media critic Paul Gardner considered him an incisive interviewer who asked tough questions without being insulting. One critic who did not like his show found Crane's trademark shotgun microphone distracting. \"Each time he points this mike into the audience, it looks as though he's about to shoot a spectator.\" (Laurent, 1964) Nearly every critic described Crane as photogenic. One described him as \"a tall, handsome and personable lad...\" (Smith, 1964) Crane was unable to dent Carson's ratings, and his show lasted 14 weeks before ABC executives transformed it into the more show-business-oriented \"ABC's Nightlife\". In addition to Dylan, who rarely appeared on American television, Malcolm X and Richard Burton, Crane's guests on \"The Les Crane Show\" included Martin Luther King, Ayn Rand, Judy Collins, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, and the voice of radio's \"The Shadow\", Bret Morrison. Immediately after the November 1965 cancellation of \"ABC's Nightlife\", Crane tried acting, but his career was brief. He appeared in the unsuccessful film \"An American Dream\" (1966), which was based on the Norman Mailer novel, and made a few guest-star appearances on network television shows, including a 1966 appearance on the western series \"The Virginian\". Folksinger Phil Ochs mentioned Crane in the lyrics of his satirical 1966 song \"Love Me, I'm a Liberal\". Some sources say that Crane gave the rock group The Mamas & the Papas their name, but this is disputed in other sources, including John Phillips' 1986 memoir, which says he and Cass Elliot (both founding members of the group) came up with the name while they were watching a television news segment about the Hells Angels. (see Bronson, 2003) Les Crane was known as an advocate for civil rights, and was praised by black",
"but his career was brief. He appeared in the unsuccessful film \"An American Dream\" (1966), which was based on the Norman Mailer novel, and made a few guest-star appearances on network television shows, including a 1966 appearance on the western series \"The Virginian\". Folksinger Phil Ochs mentioned Crane in the lyrics of his satirical 1966 song \"Love Me, I'm a Liberal\". Some sources say that Crane gave the rock group The Mamas & the Papas their name, but this is disputed in other sources, including John Phillips' 1986 memoir, which says he and Cass Elliot (both founding members of the group) came up with the name while they were watching a television news segment about the Hells Angels. (see Bronson, 2003) Les Crane was known as an advocate for civil rights, and was praised by black journalists for his respectful interviews with such black newsmakers as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali (Young, 1968). Crane was one of the first interviewers to have an openly gay guest, Randy Wicker, on his television show. This occurred in January 1964, when Crane's show that was titled \"Night Line\" aired locally on WABC Channel 7 in New York City. But when Crane tried to invite members of a lesbian advocacy group, the Daughters of Bilitis, to be guests on \"Night Line\" in June 1964 when it was still a local show, WABC officials ordered him to cancel the booking, and he did. After Crane's final television appearance in the early 1970s, he refused to discuss his television career and did not respond to queries about any kinescopes he may have owned of his late-night ABC show from 1964. His daughter Caprice Crane has said he had two August 1964 episodes in their entirety: the one with Richard Burton that is represented by a large still photograph of Burton and Crane in Crane's \"Look\" magazine profile (Norman Mailer supposedly appears in the episode, too), and the one in which Melvin Belli debates Lee Oswald's guilt with Lee's mother Marguerite. When Caprice was informed about the reel of clips from a handful of episodes that can be viewed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, she replied that she had never seen it and she did not know whether her father was ever aware of it. In 1968, Les Crane was back on the West Coast, hosting a radio talk show on KLAC in Los Angeles. Critics noted that in the style of the 1960s, he now dressed in a turtleneck and moccasins, sprinkling his speech with words like \"groovy.\" (\"Communicasters,\" 1968). However, he was still doing interviews with major newsmakers and discussing topics like civil disobedience, hippies and the rising popularity of meditation. (Sweeney, 1968) He also did some local TV talk. Crane left KLAC when the station switched to a country music format. In late 1971, the 45rpm recording of Crane's reading of \"Desiderata\" reached No. 8 on the \"Billboard\" charts. It became what one writer called \"a New Age anthem\" and won him a Grammy. Though Crane thought the poem was in the public domain when it was recorded, the rights belonged to the family of author Max Ehrmann, and royalties were distributed accordingly. When asked about the recording during an interview by the \"Los Angeles Times\" in 1987, Crane replied, \"I can't listen to it now without gagging.\" In the 1980s, Crane transitioned to the software industry and became chairman of The Software Toolworks, creators of the three-dimensional color chess series, \"Chessmaster\" and the educational series \"Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing\". Toolworks was also responsible for such games as \"The Original Adventure\" and the PC version of \"Pong\". The company was sold and renamed Mindscape in the early 1990s. Crane was married five times. The 1964 \"Look magazine\" profile includes a photograph of him with his wife Eve, maiden name King, on the lawn of their home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The text of the article says he is helping raise her three children from her previous marriage that had ended in divorce. Crane's fourth wife was \"Gilligan's Island\" cast member Tina Louise, whom he married in 1966 and divorced in 1971. Their only child together was Caprice (b. 1970), who became an author, screenwriter and television producer. Les Crane and Tina Louise can be seen as actors in a joint appearance on a 1969 segment of Love American Style. Crane died on July 13, 2008, in Greenbrae, California, north of San Francisco, at age 74. At the time of his death, he had been living in nearby Belvedere, California with his wife (coincidentally named Ginger, the character played by his ex-wife Tina Louise in Gilligan's Island). Les Crane Les Crane (born Lesley Stein; December 3, 1933 – July 13, 2008) was a radio announcer and television talk show host, a pioneer in interactive broadcasting who also scored a spoken word hit with his 1971 recording of the poem \"Desiderata\", winning a \"Best Spoken Word\" Grammy. He was the first network television personality to compete with Johnny Carson after Carson became a fixture of late-night television."
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"Media in Vancouver This is an overview of media in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver has two major English-language daily newspapers, \"The Vancouver Sun\" (a broadsheet) and \"The Province\" (a tabloid). Both are published by Postmedia Network. There are also two national newspapers distributed in the city: \"The Globe and Mail\", which began distribution of a \"national edition\" into B.C. in 1983, and in more recent years launched a three-page B.C. news section in an effort to increase its readership in the city. The \"National Post\", also owned by Postmedia, entered city markets only in the last few years but has very little British Columbia content. Vancouver has four Chinese-language daily newspapers, \"Ming Pao\", \"Sing Tao\", \"World Journal\" and \"The Epoch Times\". \"Ming Pao\" and \"Sing Tao\" cater to a Cantonese-speaking readership whereas \"World Journal\" and \"The Epoch Times\" target Mandarin speakers. Vancouver business publications include the following: One free daily newspaper, \"Metro\" is published in the city from Monday to Friday. It contains a small number of local news stories. \"The Georgia Straight\" is a weekly \"alternative\" newspaper, though in addition to left-leaning news and opinion it also features upscale advertising for products such as condominiums and has lifestyle articles on topics such as health and style. Its most extensive sections are focused on entertainment and music features and listings. \"The Georgia Straight\" began as a counterculture newspaper in the 1960s, full of controversial politics and occasional \"obscene\" cartoons and pictures, including the hippie classic comic \"Harold Hedd\". During this period the \"Straight\"s owner and publisher, Dan MacLeod, was repeatedly harassed by the city and its anti-hippie mayor Tom Campbell. MacLeod's offices were repeatedly raided and he was beaten by police. During the 1970s MacLeod converted the publication to a much more entertainment-oriented publication, avoiding political content until the mid-1980s. The Post Group Multimedia publishes 3 weekly newspapers: \"The Asian Pacific Post\" (Chinese), \"South Asian Post\" (Indo-Canadian), and \"The Filipino Post\", for the three largest immigrant communities in the Lower Mainland. \"The Express\" is the title used for an occasional union-published newspaper published by the press unions when they are on strike. The \"Vancouver Courier\", a free community newspaper, is distributed to most households in the city every Thursday. The \"WE\", a free weekly paper that used to be distributed primarily in the city's West End neighbourhood, has recently been trying to compete with the \"Georgia Straight\" as a weekly alternative newspaper for the entire city covering civic news and opinion (it does not try to compete with the \"Straight\"s exhaustive entertainment coverage and listings). There are three main news radio stations in Vancouver: CBC Radio One, CKNW and NEWS 1130. There are several other talk, information, and sports stations, primarily on the AM band, and a variety of music stations, mostly on FM. In addition, there are four campus and community licensed radio stations in the Vancouver market. CJSF-FM (SFU's Burnaby campus), CITR-FM (UBC's main campus), and CFML (BCIT's Burnaby campus) are staffed by students from their respective schools. CFRO (Vancouver Coop Radio) is located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. CJSF, CITR, and CFRO are members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association. In addition, both KARI from Blaine, Washington (AM 550) and KWPZ from Lynden, Washington (FM 106.5) are usually considered part of the Vancouver radio market; KARI and KWPZ both maintain offices in Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest television market in Canada, and the largest in western Canada. It is also the second largest television production centre in North America after Los Angeles. Global BC is the most popular evening newscast in the city, though CTV Vancouver, currently second in the ratings, has aggressively been trying to increase its market share — including the purchasing of a news helicopter known as 'Chopper 9'. In 2006 Global BC launched the Global One traffic helicopter for live traffic updates and breaking news. CBC also has local newscasts though they are far back in the ratings. Vancouver (and London, Ontario) were the first two cities in Canada to be served by cable television, in 1952. Vancouver and most of the Lower Mainland are served by Shaw Cable and by Delta Cable. Delta Cable is subsidiary of the Halifax-based telecommunications company EastLink. Telus TV also offers satellite television and IPTV service throughout most of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Other over the air television stations licensed to Bellingham that are available terrestrially in Vancouver but not carried on cable are KBCB (channel 24), an affiliate of Sonlife Broadcasting Network on subchannels 24.1, in high definition, and 24.2, in standard definition; and K24IC-D (channel 28.1), a rebroadcaster of PBS station KBTC-TV Tacoma. American network affiliates on Vancouver cable are from Seattle, Washington including KOMO (ABC), KING (NBC), KIRO (CBS), KCTS (PBS), KSTW (The CW), and KCPQ (Fox). Vancouver and Seattle are roughly the same size; Vancouver has 3.5 million people to Seattle's 4.6 million. KCTS, in particular, relies significantly on viewership from Vancouver; it has been carried on cable systems across southwestern British Columbia for the better part of four decades. Vancouver has some of the most concentrated media ownership in all of Canada. \"The Vancouver Sun\", \"The Province\", the \"National Post\", and 12 community newspapers are all owned by Postmedia Network. Partly in response to that concentration, a group of journalists — many of them ex-\"Sun\" employees — started up an online news publication, \"The Tyee\", that posts news and opinion pieces on a nearly daily basis. As of the 2000s there were various formats of media catering to ethnic minorities. They included 80 newspapers, 24 magazines, 15 television stations, 15 radio stations, and 10 printed business directories and online publications. Daniel Ahadi and Catherine A. Murray, the authors of \"Urban Mediascapes and Multicultural Flows: Assessing Vancouver’s Communication Infrastructure,\" wrote that publication turnover, or the creation and failure and publications, was very high. Media in Vancouver This is an overview of media in Vancouver, British Columbia. 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"British Workers League The British Workers League was a 'patriotic labour' group which was anti-socialist and pro-British Empire. The League operated from 1916 to 1927. The league's origins lay in a split in the British Socialist Party in 1915, primarily over the need to win the First World War. A group, dissenting from the pacifism of the Labour Party, would be formed by Victor Fisher and supported \"the eternal idea of nationality\" and aimed to promote \"socialist measures in the war effort\". Fisher, and Alexander M. Thompson, would form the Socialist National Defence Committee. This group, included H. G. Wells and Robert Blatchford . In 1916 the Committee transformed itself into the British Workers National League, subsequently shortened to the British Workers League. It executive included Edward Carson, Leo Maxse, H.G. Wells and fifteen Labour MPs including Will Crooks and John Hodge. Hodge would preside as chairman, and James Andrew Seddon was chairman of the organization committee. The Australian prime minister, Billy Hughes, spoke at the party's inaugural meeting. Now avowedly anti-socialist, it described itself as a \"patriotic labour\" group and focused on support for the war. Rev. Alfred Gough, Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, was chairman of the British Workers League for London and the Home Counties. Edward Robertshaw Hartley was also a member. The Labour MP Stephen Walsh and the Liberal MP Leo Chiozza Money were vice presidents. During the war period the British Workers League sometimes threatened to break up pacifist meetings. The League received funding from Viscount Milner and had links to the British Commonwealth Union. In 1918 the British Workers League stood candidates in the general election as the National Democratic and Labour Party. From 1921 to 1927 the League published a newspaper entitled \"The Empire Citizen\". British Workers League The British Workers League was"
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"Gemas railway station Gemas railway station is a Malaysian train station located at the eastern side of and named after the town of Gemas, Tampin District, Negeri Sembilan. Built in 1922, the station is the meeting point of and the railway junction connecting the West Coast Line (Padang Besar - Singapore) with the East Coast Line (Tumpat - Gemas). As part of the Seremban-Gemas double tracking and electrification, the tracks were realigned and a new station building was built adjacent to the old station building. The old station building, platforms and a section of the railway tracks have been spared demolition and preserved. The Gemas station was constructed sometime in 1922 as a hub for trains from Penang, Seremban, and Kuala Lumpur. The station also houses a railyard to store active motive power and rolling stock, the railyard also has another function as well: a scrapyard for old, broken down motive power and rolling stock to be scrapped off as cheap metal. Between October 2015 and June 2016 KTM Komuter also served the stretch between and this station. However, passengers to Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves or Tanjong Malim are required to switch trains at Seremban station then. Following a rescheduling exercise in June 2016 the shuttle service service was cut short and ended at Pulau/Sebang Tampin, removing Gemas and Batang Melaka from the line. Direct trains all the way to Tanjung Malim (and later to Batu Caves) was established from Pulau Sebang/Tampin and passengers were no longer required to change trains at Seremban. However, both Gemas and Batang Melaka were not included into the Seremban Line. On 10 October 2015 KTM ETS services were extended to Gemas. Gemas railway station Gemas railway station is a Malaysian train station located at the eastern side of and named after the town of"
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"Jeff Shield Jeff Shield (1953–2009) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Balmain Tigers and North Sydney Bears in the Australian NSWRL competition. He primarily played at . Shield started playing football with the Waratah-Mayfield club, in the Newcastle area, at the age of 6. He excelled early, and was chosen for New South Wales Primary Schools when they toured Queensland in 1965. Later, he was selected for NSW Combined High Schools in 1969, 1970 and 1971. He was made captain in 1971. In 1972, Shield signed with the Balmain Tigers at only eighteen years of age. He played just ten lower grade games before making his début at . Shield played for New South Wales in a match against the touring Great Britain side in 1974, scoring a try. At the end of that season, he played an off-season with the Leigh Centurions in England. Shield played two more years with the Tigers before joining the Bears for the 1977 season. He then returned to the Newcastle area to play with Macquarie United. Jeff Shield died on 2 November 2009. Jeff Shield Jeff Shield (1953–2009) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Balmain Tigers and"
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"Hutt Old Boys-Marist Hutt Old Boys-Marist (HOBM) is a New Zealand rugby football club. Playing in the competitions of the Wellington Rugby Football Union, it is based at the Hutt Recreation Ground in Lower Hutt. Hutt Old Boys-Marist is a product of mergers over many years between former clubs, including Hutt (founded 1910), Hutt Valley High School Old Boys (1953) and Hutt Valley Marist (1949). The clubs merged in 1992, and played their first season in 1993, as Hutt Old Boys Marist, making the Hutt Recreation their home ground, and club rooms, while Hutt Valley Marist abandoned its club rooms located at Fraser park in Taita. The club celebrated its centennial in 2010, marking 100 years since the formation of the Hutt Rugby Club from earlier clubs Woburn and Kia Ora. The Hutt Old Boys Club founded in 1967 played for many years in a gold jersey with green shorts and gold and green socks, but returned in the 1990s to the red and white of the previous Hutt club before adding green on amalgamation with Hutt Valley Marist. Hutt Valley Marist's strip was green, white, and maroon. HOBM has won Wellington's premier rugby trophy, the Jubilee Cup, several times. Hutt won in 1931 and 1934, Hutt OB in 1991, and HOBM in 2007 and 2014. Hutt OB also won the Swindale Shield, for the first-round competition in 1989 in their first year after being promoted, also claiming it in 1997, 2012 and 2015. HOBM has produced, or been the home club for, a number of All Blacks. Colin Loader represented the All Black in 1953–54, while former All Blacks Steven Pokere, Hika Reid and Mark Shaw played for the club in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Also Bernie Fraser represented the All Blacks, and Wellington, and also played for Hutt Valley Marist in the 70s and 80s. More recent All Blacks affiliated to HOBM include Piri Weepu, Hosea Gear and Jeremy Thrush. Hutt Old Boys-Marist Hutt Old Boys-Marist (HOBM) is a New Zealand rugby football club. Playing in the competitions of the Wellington Rugby Football Union, it is based at the Hutt Recreation Ground in Lower Hutt. Hutt Old Boys-Marist is a product of mergers over many years between former clubs, including Hutt (founded 1910), Hutt Valley High School Old Boys (1953) and Hutt Valley Marist (1949). The clubs merged in 1992, and played their first season in"
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"Chandrasekhar's H-function In atmospheric radiation, Chandrasekhar's \"H\"-function appears as the solutions of problems involving scattering, introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandrasekhar's \"H\"-function formula_1 defined in the interval formula_2, satisfies the following nonlinear integral equation where the characteristic function formula_4 is an even polynomial in formula_5 satisfying the following condition If the equality is satisfied in the above condition, it is called \"conservative case\", otherwise \"non-conservative\". Albedo is given by formula_7. An alternate form which would be more useful in calculating the \"H\" function numerically by iteration was derived by Chandrasekhar as, In conservative case, the above equation reduces to The \"H\" function can be approximated up to an order formula_10 as where formula_12 are the zeros of Legendre polynomials formula_13 and formula_14 are the positive, non vanishing roots of the associated characteristic equation where formula_16 are the quadrature weights given by In complex variable formula_18 the \"H\" equation is then for formula_20, a unique solution is given by where the imaginary part of the function formula_22 can vanish iff formula_23 is real i.e., formula_24. Then we have The above solution is unique and bounded in the interval formula_26 for conservative cases. In non-conservative cases, if the equation formula_27 admits the roots formula_28, then there is a further solution given by and Chandrasekhar's H-function In atmospheric radiation, Chandrasekhar's \"H\"-function appears as the solutions of problems involving scattering, introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandrasekhar's \"H\"-function formula_1 defined in the interval formula_2, satisfies the following nonlinear integral equation where the characteristic function formula_4 is an even polynomial in formula_5 satisfying the following condition If the equality is satisfied in the above condition, it is called \"conservative case\", otherwise \"non-conservative\". Albedo is given by formula_7. An alternate form which would be more useful in calculating the"
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"Troll 3 Troll 3 (also known as The Crawlers, Creepers, Contamination .7, or Troll III: Contamination Point 7) is an Italian horror film. It is from 1989 or 1990 and was directed for the most part by Fabrizio Laurenti under the pseudonym \"Martin Newlin\". Some parts of the film were also directed by its producer, Joe D'Amato, who remained entirely uncredited. Like \"Troll 2\", despite the English title, \"Troll 3\" has no plot connection to the original \"Troll\", features no trolls, and is also a horror film, not a fantasy-comedy. The film has none of the original cast, nor storyline continuation, from either \"Troll\" film. In one scene in a bar, a banjo-centric song from \"Troll 2\" can be heard in the background. D'Amato's fantasy film \"Quest for the Mighty Sword\" is also referred to as \"Troll 3\", its German release title, by some sources, so these two films can be confused. After a small town nuclear power plant dumps hazardous waste into a forest surrounding the town, people begin dying in increasingly gruesome ways. No one can pinpoint the source of the deaths until the EPA investigates; the forests' roots were mutated due to the waste, causing them to kill and eat people. The plants attempt to break loose, however the EPA bulldozes the plants, killing them, but leaving the possibility that some plants may have survived. Originally slated for a U.S. theatrical release in 1990, the film ended up as a straight-to-video release in 1993 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. It is also available for DVD rental through Netflix under its alternate name, \"Contamination .7\". Scream Factory (under license from MGM Home Entertainment) has released the film on DVD for the first time along with \"The Dungeonmaster\", \"Catacombs\" & \"Cellar Dweller\" in a 4 Horror Movie Marathon collection on October 29, 2013. On April 18, 2017, the film received a US and Canadian blu-ray release by Scream Factory, again under the title \"Contamination .7\". Troll 3 Troll 3 (also known as The Crawlers, Creepers, Contamination .7, or Troll III: Contamination Point 7) is an Italian horror film. It is from 1989 or 1990 and was directed for the most part by Fabrizio Laurenti under the pseudonym \"Martin Newlin\". Some parts of the film were also directed by its producer, Joe D'Amato, who remained entirely uncredited. Like \"Troll 2\", despite the English title, \"Troll 3\" has no plot connection"
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"Yves Michaud (philosopher) Yves Michaud (born July 11, 1944) is a French philosopher.As a student, he studied philosophy and science at École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. His early research involved the study of political violence and empiricism, especially the works of John Locke and David Hume. He was Director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1989 to 1997. In 2000, Michaud partnered with Jean-Jacques Aillagon to establish the \"Université de tous les savoirs (University of all knowledge)\", a French government initiative to disseminate information on new scientific advances. Michaud has published widely on the relationships of the arts and culture in a globalized, technological world. In 2007 \"Le Figaro\" published his article entitled \"Ce nouveau fondamentalisme moral qui menace la société française\". Yves Michaud (philosopher) Yves Michaud (born July 11, 1944) is a French philosopher.As a student, he studied philosophy and science at École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. His early research involved the study of political violence and empiricism, especially the works of John Locke and David Hume. He was Director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1989 to 1997. In 2000, Michaud partnered with Jean-Jacques Aillagon to establish the"
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"Dennis Byng Dennis E. Byng (6 November 1927 – 21 August 2008) was professor of art, State University of New York at Albany (1968–92), and a practicing artist who specialised in the use of coloured plastic in sculpture. Dennis E. Byng was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1927. He completed his M.S. at the University of Wisconsin in 1952. Byng taught at Purdue University, Smith College at the University of Minnesota and the Massachusetts College of Art before joining the State University of New York at Albany in 1968 where he became professor of art before retiring in 1992. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958 and 1959. Byng's artistic career started in painting where he experimented with transparent glazes to create colored light effects on semi-abstract figures but he was best known for his later use of plastic in sculpture. He first used the material when he cut a female figure in laminated plexiglas in 1966 and used it in a painting. By 1968 he was creating freestanding non-representational sculpture in an attempt to eliminate complex form and maximize the effect of colored light in his chosen materials. He developed techniques of coloring the outside of plastic blocks and of laminating plastics of different color, creating square and rectangular forms with a highly polished and seamless finish that belied the high degree of technical skill and processing required to make them. In 1972, he began to use lucite as his medium instead of plexiglas as lucite offered him greater flexibility in creating color effects. \"Untitled\" (Byng 74 A 70 2.2) was one of sixteen cubes of identical size that Byng cast in different colors and exhibited at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1974. It was created using successive casts in a mold that was tipped between casts to create a hollow centre that was then filled in white and sealed. The whole was then put under pressure for 12 hours in an industrial autoclave to remove air bubbles, then heated to cure the material into a solid, then milled, polished and annealed to complete the work. It is displayed on a transparent stand to allow light to enter and refract from all sides. By 1980, Byng had stopped making sculpture and was moving back to painting, partly due to the toxicity of plastics. Byng died on 21 August 2008. His work has been compared to that of Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine, and Robert Irwin. The Albany Institute of History and Art have six of his works in their collection and Byng's work is also represented in over 100 public and private collections. Dennis Byng Dennis E. Byng (6 November 1927 – 21 August 2008) was professor of art, State University of New York at Albany (1968–92), and a practicing artist who specialised in the use of coloured plastic in sculpture. Dennis E. Byng was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1927. He completed his M.S. at the University of Wisconsin in 1952. Byng taught at Purdue University, Smith College at"
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"Société Générale Srbija Société Générale Srbija (full name: Société Générale Banka Srbija a.d. Beograd) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the French-based Société Générale bank. It is one of the largest banks in Serbia, according to NBS data (fourth largest in terms of assets, as of 2017) Société Générale first established a representative office in Belgrade in 1977. On February 12, 1991, Société Générale Yugoslav Bank was founded as the first bank with foreign capital to be established in former Yugoslavia. The bank was a joint venture between Paris-based Société Générale (75%), and the now defunct Beogradska banka (20%) and Banque Franco-Yougoslave (5%). At first, it was established as a unit of SG Corporate & Investment Banking, and provided services to corporate customers only. In 2001, it became a full-service universal bank, providing services to both corporate clients and individuals. It was only in late 2007 that the bank changed name to reflect the name change of the country it operates in (Yugoslavia was renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, and Serbia became independent in 2006). It now has a network of more than 87 branches in Belgrade and other parts of Serbia. In 2014 Société Générale Srbija bought KBC banka's portfolio, while Telenor Srbija bought the KBC banka itself, creating Telenor banka. In December 2017, Société Générale Srbija took housing and cash loans to citizens, as well as credit card debt, from the Jubanka, which was bought by the Serbian AIK Banka in April 2017. According to its most recent annual financial report submitted to Serbian Business Register Agency, the company has more than 1,300 employees and it posted an annual profit of RSD 3,810,808,000 (approximately €31.75 million at the time) for the calendar year 2016. Société Générale Srbija Société Générale Srbija (full name: Société Générale Banka Srbija a.d."
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"United Nations Security Council Resolution 1733 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1733, adopted by acclamation at a closed meeting on December 22, 2006, after recognising the role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Council paid tribute to Kofi Annan, whose term as Secretary-General would come to an end on December 31, 2006. Ban Ki-moon would succeed Annan as Secretary-General from January 1, 2007. The Council praised Annan for guiding the United Nations under the United Nations Charter, his attempts to find durable solutions to conflicts around the world and to undertake reforms at the organisation. It acknowledged the contributions of Annan to international peace, security and development, attempts to solve international problems in economic, social and cultural fields and efforts to promote humanitarian needs, human rights and freedoms for all people. Finally, the resolution expressed \"deep appreciation\" to Kofi Annan for dedicating himself to the principles contained in the United Nations Charter and to the development of friendly relations among states. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1733 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1733, adopted by acclamation at a closed meeting on December 22, 2006, after recognising the role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Council paid"
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"Boeing Phantom Works Boeing Phantom Works is the advanced prototyping arm of the defense and security side of The Boeing Company. Its primary focus is developing advanced military products and technologies, many of them highly classified. Founded by McDonnell Douglas, the research and development group continued after Boeing acquired the company. Its logo is similar to one used for the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter. Phantom Works' organization mirrors that of Boeing's Defense business units, with 'Advanced' versions of each unit (e.g. Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft). The underlying technology is provided by the Boeing Research and Technology (BR&T) organization, who develop new technologies (i.e. Technology Readiness Level 1–4) for use by Boeing's Commercial and Defense units. Phantom Works responsibility is to grow those technologies into prototype (i.e. Technology Readiness Level 4–6) to then transition those prototypes to the business units to turn into products (i.e. Technology Readiness Level 7–9). Headquartered in Washington D.C., Phantom Works has projects in most Boeing locations in the United States. Additionally an international group does modelling and simulation work for various governments in the United States, Britain, Australia, and India. Boeing Phantom Works Boeing Phantom Works is the advanced prototyping arm of the defense and"
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"Yankuba Sonko Yankuba Sonko is a Gambian police officer who was the Inspector General of Police in the Gambia from 2010 to 2014, and from 2015 to 2017. Sonko joined the Gambia Police Force in 1982 and was promoted to the rank of Corporal in 1984, and to Cadet Officer in 1988. He studied at the Nigerian Police Training School in 1990, and, upon his return in 1991, he helped to found the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) and was posted to Barra Police Station in the North Bank Region. He was appointed as the force's first Public Relations Officer (PRO) in 1993 and was posted to Kanifing Division as second-in-command in 1994. In 1995, he became the officer commanding Kanifing Division. In 1998, Sonko became the officer commanding the Fraud Squad, and the next year he was appointed as Crime Management Coordinator (CMC) at the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). In 1999, he was also deployed on a UN mission in East Timor, where he was regional commander of one of the mission's 13 regions. He returned in 2000 and became the commanding officer of the PIU. In 2001, he was reassigned as officer commanding Kanifing Division. In 2002, he left the Gambia to study law in the UK and returned in 2007. He was posted as the acting Commissioner of the PIU, and then became officer commanding in the Prosecution Division. In 2008, he was appointed as the Crime Management Coordinator again. On 18 December 2009, Sonko was promoted to Deputy Inspector General of Police. He served as Inspector General of Police from March 2010 to 2014. He was replaced by Benjamin Wilson but was reinstated, in turn, to replace Wilson on 13 July 2015. Yankuba Sonko Yankuba Sonko is a Gambian police officer who was the"
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"Geometric abstraction Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art since ancient times. Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting religious figures, is a prime example of this geometric pattern-based art, which existed centuries before the movement in Europe and in many ways influenced this Western school. Aligned with and often used in the architecture of Islamic civilations spanning the 7th century-20th century, geometric patterns were used to visually connect spirituality with science and art, both of which were key to Islamic thought of the time. Throughout 20th-century art historical discourse, critics and artists working within the reductive or pure strains of abstraction have often suggested that geometric abstraction represents the height of a non-objective art practice, which necessarily stresses or calls attention to the root plasticity and two-dimensionality of painting as an artistic medium. Thus, it has been suggested that geometric abstraction might function as a solution to problems concerning the need for modernist painting to reject the illusionistic practices of the past while addressing the inherently two dimensional nature of the picture plane as well as the canvas functioning as its support. Wassily Kandinsky, one of the forerunners of pure non-objective painting, was among the first modern artists to explore this geometric approach in his abstract work. Other examples of pioneer abstractionists such as Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian have also embraced this approach towards abstract painting. Mondrian's painting \"Composition No. 10\" (1939–1942) clearly defines his radical but classical approach to the construction of horizontal and vertical lines, as Mondrian wrote, \"constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm.\" Just as there are both two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometries, the abstract sculpture of the 20th century was of course no less affected than painting by geometricizing tendencies. Georges Vantongerloo and Max Bill, for example, are perhaps best known for their geometric sculpture, although both of them were also painters; and indeed, the ideals of geometric abstraction find nearly perfect expression in their titling (e.g., Vantongerloo's \"Construction in the Sphere\") and pronouncements (e.g., Bill's statement that \"I am of the opinion that it is possible to develop an art largely on the basis of mathematical thinking.\") Expressionist abstract painting, as practiced by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, and Wols, represents the opposite of geometric abstraction. Abstract art has also historically been likened to music in its ability to convey emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to recognizable objective forms already existent in reality. Wassily Kandinsky has discussed this connection between music and painting, as well as how the practice of classical composition had influenced his work, at length in his seminal essay \"Concerning the Spiritual in Art\". Geometric abstraction Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art since ancient times. Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting religious figures, is a prime example of"
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"Utpal Chatterjee Utpal Chatterjee (born 13 July 1964, in Kolkata, India) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a left arm spinner and a low order batsman. He had his early education at the prestigious Shyambazar A.V School and Calcutta Boys' School in Kolkata, India. He played domestic cricket for Bengal and played three One Day Internationals for India in 1995.He is the only cricketer ever from Bengal to have picked up more than 500 first class wickets. He picked up 52 wickets in the ranji trophy' season of 1999-2000.He retired in 2004 with 504 first class Wicket's to his credit. Since 4 September 2008, he has been the head coach of Bengal cricket team. Utpal Chatterjee Utpal Chatterjee (born 13 July 1964, in Kolkata, India) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a left arm spinner and a low order batsman. He had his early education at the prestigious Shyambazar A.V School and Calcutta Boys' School in Kolkata, India. He played domestic cricket for Bengal and played three One Day Internationals for India in 1995.He is the only cricketer ever from Bengal to have picked up more than 500 first class wickets. He picked up 52 wickets in the"
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"The Wrong Man The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book \"The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero\" by Maxwell Anderson and in the magazine article \"A Case of Identity\" (\"Life\" magazine, June 29, 1953) by Herbert Brean. It is one of the few Hitchcock films based on a true story and whose plot closely follows the real-life events. \"The Wrong Man\" had a notable effect on two significant directors: it prompted Jean-Luc Godard's longest piece of written criticism in his years as a critic, and it has been cited as an influence on Martin Scorsese's \"Taxi Driver\". Alfred Hitchcock appears on screen to tell the audience that the film's \"every word is true\". Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda), a down-on-his-luck musician at New York City's Stork Club, needs $300 for dental work for his wife Rose (Vera Miles). When he visits the office of a life insurance company to borrow against Rose's policy, he is mistaken by the staff there for a man who had twice held them up. He is questioned by police, and without being told why, is instructed to walk in and out of a liquor store and delicatessen, which had also been robbed. He is then asked to write the words from a \"stick-up note\" note used in the insurance office robbery; he misspells the word \"drawer\" as \"draw\"the same mistake seen in the robber's note. After being picked out of a police lineup by a worker at the insurance office, he is arrested. Attorney Frank O'Connor (Anthony Quayle) sets out to prove that Manny cannot possibly be the right man: at the time of the first hold-up he was on vacation with his family, and at the time of the second his jaw was so swollen that witnesses would certainly have noticed. Of three people who saw Manny at the vacation hotel, two have died and the third cannot be found. All this devastates Rose, whose resulting depression forces her to be hospitalized. During Manny's trial a juror's remark forces a mistrial. While awaiting a second trial he is exonerated when the true robber is arrested holding up a grocery store. Manny visits Rose at the hospital to share the good news, but, as the film ends, she remains severely depressed; a textual epilogue explains that she recovered two years later. Cast notes The real O'Connor (1909–1992) was a former New York State Senator at the time of the trial, and later became the district attorney of Queens County (New York City, New York), the president of the New York City Council and an appellate-court judge. Rose Balestrero (1910–1982) died in Florida at the age of 72. A Hitchcock cameo is typical of most of his films. In \"The Wrong Man\", he appears only in silhouette in a darkened studio, just before the credits at the beginning of the film, announcing that the story is true. Originally, he intended to be seen as a customer walking into the Stork Club, but he edited himself out of the final print. Many scenes were filmed in Jackson Heights, the neighborhood where Manny lived when he was accused. Most of the prison scenes were filmed among the convicts in a New York City prison in Queens. The courthouse was located at the corner of Catalpa Avenue and 64th Street in Ridgewood. Bernard Herrmann composed the soundtrack, as he had for all of Hitchcock's films from \"The Trouble with Harry\" (1955) through \"Marnie\" (1964). It is one of the most subdued scores Herrmann ever wrote, and one of the few he composed with some jazz elements, here primarily to represent Fonda's appearance as a musician in the nightclub scenes. This was Hitchcock's final film for Warner Bros. It completed a contract commitment that had begun with two films produced for Transatlantic Pictures and released by Warner Brothers: \"Rope\" (1948) and \"Under Capricorn\" (1949), his first two films in Technicolor. After \"The Wrong Man\", Hitchcock returned to Paramount Pictures. Contemporary reviews were mixed to negative, with many critics finding the realism of the film to be less compelling than the dramatic suspense that Hitchcock was known for. A. H. Weiler of \"The New York Times\" wrote that Hitchcock \"has fashioned a somber case history that merely points a finger of accusation. His principals are sincere and they enact a series of events that actually are part of New York's annals of crime but they rarely stir the emotions or make a viewer's spine tingle. Frighteningly authentic, the story generates only a modicum of drama.\" Philip K. Scheuer of the \"Los Angeles Times\" agreed, writing that \"As drama, unhappily, it proves again that life can be more interminable than fiction.\" Richard L. Coe of \"The Washington Post\" wrote, \"Having succeeded often in making fiction seem like fact, Alfred Hitchcock in 'The Wrong Man' now manages to make fact seem like fiction. But it is not good nor interesting fiction.\" John McCarten of \"The New Yorker\" declared, \"Mr. Hitchcock makes a good point about the obtuseness of a police group that holds firm to the belief that everyone is guilty until proved innocent, but his story of the badgered musician is never very gripping.\" \"The Monthly Film Bulletin\" wrote that the early police procedural scenes \"make a powerful contribution to the effectiveness of the film's first part,\" but that Rose's hospitalization felt like a \"dramatically gratuitous development, particularly as its demands are ill met by the actress concerned,\" and that the final act of the film suffered a \"slow decline into a flatly factual ending.\" Some reviews were positive. \"Variety\" called the film \"a gripping piece of realism\" that builds to a \"powerful climax, the events providing director a field day in his art of characterization and suspense.\" \"Harrison's Reports\" was also positive, calling it \"Grim but absorbing melodramatic fare\" with Henry Fonda and Vera Miles \"highly effective\" in their roles. Jean-Luc Godard, in his lengthy treatise on the film, wrote: \"The only suspense in \"The Wrong Man\" is that of chance itself. The subject of this film lies less in the unexpectedness of events than in their probability. With each shot, each transition, each composition, Hitchcock does the only thing possible for the rather paradoxical but compelling reason that he could do anything he liked.\" More recent assessments have been more uniformly positive. The film holds a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes as of July 2018, based on reviews from 21 surveyed critics. Glenn Kenny, writing for RogerEbert.com in 2016, stated that the film may be the \"least fun\" of Hitchcock's Hollywood period, but that it \"is as fluently styled a movie as Hitchcock ever made.\" Richard Brody of \"The New Yorker\" wrote that \"few films play so tightly on the contrast between unimpeachably concrete details and the vertiginous pretenses of reality. Hitchcock’s ultimate point evokes cosmic terror: innocence is merely a trick of paperwork, whereas guilt is the human condition.\" The Wrong Man The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and"
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"Fort Crown Point Fort Crown Point was a British fort built by the combined efforts of both British and provincial troops (from New York and the New England Colonies) in North America in 1759 at a narrows on Lake Champlain on what later became the border between New York and Vermont. Erected to secure the region against the French, the fort is in upstate New York near the town of Crown Point and was the largest earthen fortress built in the United States. The fort's ruins, a National Historic Landmark, are now administered as part of Crown Point State Historic Site. The French built a fortress at Crown Point in the 1730s with thick limestone walls named Fort St. Frederic. British forces targeted it twice during the French and Indian War before the French destroyed it in the summer of 1759. The Crown Point fort was constructed by the British army under the command of Sir Jeffery Amherst following the capture of Carillon, a French fort to the south (which he renamed Ticonderoga), and the destruction of Fort St. Frédéric. Amherst used the construction of the fort as a means of keeping his men working through the winter of 1759 after pushing the French into modern Canada. Israel Putnam, who would later become a major general in the American Revolution, supervised much of the construction. According to archaeologist David R. Starbuck, Crown Point was \"the greatest British military installation ever raised in North America.\" The fort was never directly assaulted. Mostly built after the threat of French invasion had ended, it was used largely for staging rather than as a position in its own right. On April 21, 1773, a chimney fire broke out in the soldier's barracks. It quickly spread, burning for days. In May 1774, British military engineer John Montresor described the fort (post fire) with the following words: \"the conflagration of the late fort has rendered it an amazing useless mass of earth only\". Montresor proposed expanding and improving one of the outworks rather than attempting to repair the main fort. After the French and Indian War, the British left a skeletal force at the fort. They quickly yielded to Capt. Seth Warner and 100 Green Mountain Boys, a Patriot American militia, on May 12, 1775 in the battle of Crown Point at the start of the Revolutionary War. The Americans captured 111 cannons from the British at Crown Point, and transported 29 to Boston for the defense of Boston Harbor. The fort was used as a staging ground by Benedict Arnold during the Revolution for his navy on Lake Champlain. After the destruction of that navy in 1776 during the Battle of Valcour Island, the fort was abandoned to the British in 1777 after the failure of the patriot Invasion of Canada. In 1780 the British abandoned the fort and, following their success in the Revolution, the United States had no need for it, so left it to deteriorate. The large earthen walls of the Fort are still visible today in the 21st century. The fire of April 1773 had entirely destroyed the log and earth fortress. The stone ruins of two barracks buildings at the site are being preserved. The fort was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. Fort Crown Point Fort Crown Point was a British fort built by the combined efforts of both British and provincial troops (from New York and the New England Colonies) in North America in 1759 at a narrows on Lake Champlain on what later became the border between New York and Vermont. Erected to secure the region"
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"Gillian Brock Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. Brock did a PhD at Duke University titled \" 'On the moral importance of needs' \" in 1993. She moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor. In 2018, Brock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others and has written on issues such as the 'brain drain.' Gillian Brock Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. Brock did a PhD at Duke University titled \" 'On the moral importance of needs' \" in 1993. She moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor. In 2018, Brock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others"
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"Keeley Halswelle Keeley Halswelle (1831–1891) was an English artist. Keeley Halswelle was born John Keeley Haswell, son of David and Elizabeth Haswell, at Richmond, Surrey on 23 April 1831 and baptized 6 July 1831 at St. Dionis Blackchurch, London. At an early age he contributed drawings to the \"Illustrated London News\", and took up book illustration. Work for the \"Illustrated Shakespeare\" of Robert Chambers took him to Edinburgh, where he found a good friend in William Nelson, the publisher. In 1863 he is listed as living at Bellfield House in Duddingston Village on the southern outskirts of Edinburgh. In 1869 Halswelle left Britain for Italy, and during the next few years concentrated on subjects found there. He was elected a member of the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours in 1882. Halswelle lived in his later years at Stoner House, Steep, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he was a ruling councillor of the Primrose League. He died of pneumonia in Paris on 11 April 1891, and was buried at Steep on 20 April. Among the books which Halswelle illustrated were: In 1857 a painting of his was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, and in 1866 Halswelle was elected associate. The \"Roba di Roma\", exhibited at Burlington House, gained a prize at Manchester; but the popular work of this period was \"Non Angli sed Angeli\", painted in 1877, which was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1878. Halswelle in later life added to his reputation, as a landscapist. A painting in oil of the River Thames above Maidenhead was included in Henry Tate's gift to the nation, and went to the Millbank Gallery. In 1884 some of his views of the Thames, \"Six Years in a Houseboat\", were shown in London; and he wrote a book under the same title. Halswelle first married clandestinely on 25 May 1852 at the Independent Chapel, Bethnal Green, to Mary Jane Blackwood Gilbert, but they never lived together and Halswelle broke off contact the following November due to her infidelity and left London for Scotland in 1854. In 1859 he successfully petitioned for divorce. He next married at Edinburgh, 18 June 1861, to Maria Browne, daughter of the advocate James Browne, and Isabella Stewart. Following her death, in 1873 he married Helen, daughter of Major-General N. J. Gordon, who survived him with two sons, Major Gordon Halswelle (1874-1935) and Wyndham Halswelle. Keeley Halswelle"
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"Tactusa flexus Tactusa flexus is the mother of the Micronoctuidae family. It is known from Yunnan in China. The wingspan is about 115 mi. The forewings are narrow. The head, patagia and base of the costa are black and the ground colour of the forewings is light beige with a black silhouette costal-medial pitch and with a black terminal and post terminal area, including the fridge. The cross-lines are absent, except for the relatively broad white-beige terminal line and a post terminal line marked by black intervenal dots. The reniform stigma is almost invisible and beige, outlined by a few brown scales. The hindthings are unicorns grey, with a dismal spot. The fridge is grey. The ventral surface is light brown. The biotope consists of moist, mainly bread-loaf forest with shrubs and nervous plants, close to a river. All specimens were collected at night in mid Octeptember. Tactusa flexus Tactusa flexus is the mother of the Micronoctuidae family. It is known from Yunnan in China. The wingspan is about 115 mi. The forewings are narrow. The head, patagia and base of the costa are black and the ground colour of the forewings is light beige with a black silhouette costal-medial"
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"Jillian Schlesinger Jillian Schlesinger is an American filmmaker. She is known for her award-winning documentary \"Maidentrip\" about Laura Dekker, the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. Schlesinger was born in Ossining, New York and moved to Santa Cruz, California as a child. She has an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where she studied creative writing and linguistic anthropology. In 2009, Schlesinger read a New York Times op-ed about a young Dutch woman named Laura Dekker with intentions to sail around the world alone at the age of 14. The story captured her attention and she made an effort to get in touch with Dekker, who was notably media-shy at the time. Dekker responded positively to the idea of a collaboration with the first-time director and the two set off on the adventure of making a documentary together. Working with an all-women crew, Schlesinger met Dekker 10 times over the course of the 17-month voyage around the world, including a three-week passage across the Pacific Ocean on another sailboat. After Dekker successfully completed her circumnavigation in January 2012 at the age of 16, it took a year to complete the film, with Dekker visiting New York to work with Schlesinger and editor Penelope Falk. Maidentrip had its world premiere at SXSW Film Festival in March 2013 where it won the Visions Audience Award. The film was subsequently acquired and released by First Run Features. Jillian Schlesinger Jillian Schlesinger is an American filmmaker. She is known for her award-winning documentary \"Maidentrip\" about Laura Dekker, the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. Schlesinger was born in Ossining, New York and moved to Santa Cruz, California as a child. She has an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where she studied creative writing and linguistic anthropology. In 2009, Schlesinger"
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"Eddie Kirkland Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the \"Gypsy of the Blues\" for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John Lee Hooker from 1949 to 1962. After his period of working in tandem with Hooker he pursued a successful solo career, recording for RPM Records, Fortune Records, Volt Records, and King Records, sometimes under the stage name Eddie Kirk. Kirkland continued to tour, write and record albums until his death in February 2011. His last performance, the night before his death, was at Dunedin Brewery, Florida. Kirkland was born in Kingston, Jamaica to a mother, aged 11 (Kirkland was raised believing his mother was his sister and when was in his early twenties when the truth was revealed to him by his mother), and first heard the blues from \"field hollers\", and raised in Dothan, Alabama until 1935, when he stowed away in the Sugar Girls Medicine Show tent truck and left town. Blind Blake was the one who influenced him the most in those early days. He was placed on the chorus line with \"Diamond Tooth Mary\" McLean. When the show closed a year later, he was in Dunkirk, Indiana where he briefly returned to school. He joined the United States Army during World War II. It was racism in the military, he said, that led him to seek out the devil. After his discharge Kirkland traveled to Detroit where his mother had relocated. After a day's work at the Ford Rouge Plant, Kirkland played his guitar at house parties, and there he met John Lee Hooker. Kirkland, a frequent second guitarist in recordings from 1949–1962. \"It was difficult playin' behind Hooker but I had a good ear and was able to move in behind him on anything he did.\" Kirkland fashioned his own style of playing open chords, and transformed the rough, porch style delta blues into the electric age by using his thumb, rather than a guitar pick. He secured his own series of recordings with Sid Nathan of King Records in 1953, at Fortune Records in 1958 and, by 1961, on his own album \"It's the Blues Man\", with the King Curtis Band for Prestige Records. Kirkland became Hooker's road manager and the two traveled from Detroit to the Deep South on many tours, the last being in 1962 when Hooker abandoned Kirkland to go overseas. Kirkland found his way to Macon, Georgia and began performing with Otis Redding as his guitarist and band leader. As Eddie Kirk, he released \"The Hawg\" as a single on Volt Records in 1963. The record was overshadowed by Rufus Thomas's recordings, and Kirkland, discouraged by the music industry and his own lack of education to change the situation, turned to his other skill and sought work as an auto mechanic to earn a living for his growing family. In 1970, one of the revivals of the blues was taking place. Peter B. Lowry found Kirkland in Macon and convinced him to record again. His first sessions were done in a motel room, resulting in the acoustic, solo LP \"Front and Center\"; his second was a studio-recorded band album, \"The Devil and Other Blues Demons\". Both were released on Lowry's Trix Records label. It was during the mid-1970s that Kirkland befriended the British blues-rock band, Foghat. Kirkland remained with Lowry, Trix, and was based in the Hudson Valley for twelve years. It was during this period that Kirkland appeared on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert with Muddy Waters, Honeyboy Edwards, and Foghat. \"Eddie's thumb pick and fingers style give him freedom to play powerful chord riffs rich in rhythms and harmonic tension. He plays like a funky pianist, simultaneously covering bass lines, chord kick, and counterpoint.\" In 1973, Kirkland performed at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival. John Sinclair decided that they should salute Detroit blues musicians and had them play on the Saturday afternoon; these included Bobo Jenkins, Baby Boy Warren, One String Sam, Little Junior Cannaday, and Boogie Woogie Red. The 1990s brought Randy Labbe as manager, booking agent and on his own record label, Deluge, who recorded Kirkland. Three albums were produced during this Maine period, which included Gregg Hoover on guitar, James Thacker on bass, and Darren Thiboutot on drums. Darren Thiboutot Jr., son of Darren Thiboutot sat in with the band at The Venue in Portland, Maine. One live, one with a guest appearance from Hooker and one containing a duet with Christine Ohlman. By 2000, Kirkland was on his own again, always doing his own driving to concerts in his Ford County Squires, crossing the country several times a year. Labeled now as the Road Warrior, \"A thickset, powerful man in the waistcoat and pants of a pin strip suit; red shirt, medallion, shades and a black leather cap over a bandanna, his heavy leather overcoat slung over his arm... he's already a Road Warrior par excellence.\" Kirkland contributed two songs to long'time friends Foghat's album \"Last Train Home\" in 2010. Well into his eighties, Kirkland continued to drive himself to gigs along the coast and in Europe, frequently playing with the from Finland. A documentary short entitled \"Pick Up the Pieces\" was made about a year in Kirkland's life (2010). Kirkland's last performance, the night before his death, was at Dunedin Brewery. He died in a car accident on February 27, 2011 in Crystal River, Florida. At approximately 8:30 a.m. a bus hit Kirkland's car, a 1998 Ford Taurus wagon. Reportedly Kirkland attempted to make a U-turn on U.S. 98 and Oak Park Boulevard, putting him directly in the path of a Greyhound bus. The bus struck the vehicle on the right side and pushed it approximately 200 feet from the point of impact. Kirkland suffered serious injuries and was transported by helicopter to Tampa General Hospital, where he died a short time later. The bus driver and 13 passengers on the bus were not hurt. Kirkland was survived by his wife, Mary, and nine children. He was predeceased by one child Betty, and his first wife Ida. Eddie Kirkland Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the \"Gypsy of the Blues\" for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John Lee Hooker from 1949 to 1962. After his period of working in tandem with Hooker he pursued a successful solo career, recording for RPM Records, Fortune Records, Volt Records, and King Records, sometimes under the stage name"
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"Tacna Province (Chile) The Tacna Province was a territorial division of Chile that existed between 1884 and 1929, was created on 31 October 1884, on the basis of the provinces of Tacna and Arica of the Tacna Department. It covered from the Sama River to the north, to the Quebrada de Camarones to the south, and from the Andes mountain range to Pacific Ocean. This was under the conditions of Treaty of Ancón, by means of which Chile achieved dominion over the Tarapacá Department, and possession of the provinces of Tacna and Arica for a decade, after which a plebiscite was to be held to determine the region's sovereignty, however there were some problems to carry out the plebiscite. The provisional legal organization will end up working for 50 years until 1929. In 1885 Chile integrated Tarata to the administration since this country considered that the town was to the east of the Sama river. In 1925 Chile gave back Tarata because Calvin Coolidge, the President of the United States that was in charge of giving a solution to the issue, said that Tarata was in the west of the Sama river. In 1929 the Treaty of Lima was signed, Tacna was given to Peru and Arica to Chile, after the treaty, the Arica Departament was moved to the Tarapacá Province and the chilean Tacna Province stopped to exist. Some of the important persons that lived in Tacna during the Chilean administration is Salvador Allende and his family, they lived eight years in the city. Salvador lived in Tacna since he was a baby, he arrived in 1908 and he studied in the Tacna School (Liceo de Tacna). The Tacna Province was divided into two departaments: Tacna Province (Chile) The Tacna Province was a territorial division of Chile that existed"
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"Trevor Hastie Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is a South African and American statistician and computer scientist. He is currently serving as the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Statistics at the Stanford University. Hastie is known for his contributions to applied statistics, especially in the field of machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. He has authored several popular books in statistical learning, including \"The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction\". Hastie has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge. Hastie was born on 27 June 1953 in South Africa. He received his B.S. in statistics from the Rhodes University in 1976 and master's degree from University of Cape Town in 1979. Hastie joined the doctoral program at Stanford University in 1980 and received his Ph.D. in 1984 under the supervision of Werner Stuetzle. His dissertation was \"Principal Curves and Surfaces\". Hastie began his professional career in 1977 with the South African Medical Research Council. After receiving his master's degree in 1979, he spent a year interning at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the Biomath department at Oxford University. After receiving his doctoral degree from Stanford, Hastie returned to South Africa to work with his former employer South African Medical Research Council. He returned to United States in 1986 and joined the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey and remained there for nine years. He joined Stanford University in 1994 as Associate Professor in Statistics and Biostatistics. He was promoted to full Professor in 1999. During the period 2006-2009, he was the Chair of Department of Statistics at Stanford University. In 2013 he was named the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences. Hastie is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1979. He is also an elected Fellow of several professional and scholarly societies, including the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the South African Statistical Society. He is a recipient of 'Myrto Lefkopolou Distinguished Lectureship' award of Biostatistics Department at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2018, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Hastie is a prolific author of scientific works on various topics in applied statistics, including statistical learning, data mining, statistical computing, and bioinformatics. He along with his collaborators has authored about 125 scientific articles. Many of Hastie's scientific articles were coauthored by his longtime collaborator, Robert Tibshirani. Hastie has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge. He has coauthored the following books: Trevor Hastie Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is a South African and American statistician and computer scientist. He is currently serving as the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Statistics at the Stanford University. Hastie is known for his contributions to applied statistics, especially in the field of"
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"Monster Dog Monster Dog, also known as Leviatán, The Bite and Los Perros de la Muerte, is a 1984 Italian horror film filmed in Spain, written and directed by Claudio Fragasso (in his directorial debut) and starring Alice Cooper and Victoria Vera. Vince Raven (Cooper) is performing in the music video for his new song, \"Identity Crisis.\" Later, Vince, Vince's girlfriend Sandra, and Vince's film crew drive to Vince's old childhood home to shoot a music video. While waiting for the crew, Jos, the caretaker of the house, prepares a welcome home party for Vince. He is interrupted when he begins hearing strange noises. After searching around the house, he walks outside to find a pack of wild canines growling outside his door. The canines outnumber him and attack him. The next morning the crew continue their drive to the house. Along the way, they run into two police officers, Sheriff Morrison and Deputy Dan, who are standing at a barricade. The police warn the crew that there has been another \"attack\". After the crew leave, the sheriff and his deputy are both killed by the Monster Dog in the woods. The drive comes to a halt when Vince hits a German Shepherd with the van. The crew cannot stand to watch it suffer in pain, so Vince puts it to rest by killing it with a large rock. While the crew mourns the dog's death, an old man in blood-stained clothing attacks them. He warns them that they \"will all die\", except for Vince. The old man then runs into the woods. Vince and Sandra chase after him to get him to a hospital. When the crew finally arrives at the house, Jos is nowhere to be found. Vince is worried about what happened to Jos, so he takes a shotgun and searches around the house. While the crew waits for Vince to return, they discover the food for the party. After searching the house, Vince gives up and wanders into a room where he discovers a book about werewolves. Later that night Angela has a nightmare that the bloody old man murders everyone in the house. She runs from him and tries to get to Vince. She finds him reading a book in a rocking chair, his back toward her. She slowly walks up to him from behind until he gets up, revealing that he is the Monster Dog. Angela wakes up screaming and the crew tries to calm her down. She tells them about her dream and how Vince was a \"werewolf\". Vince is later found reading in the same rocking chair as in Angela's nightmare. Sandra comes to talk to him, and he tells her the story of his father's death. He says that his father had lycanthropy (the werewolf curse) and that he was blamed for many deaths. He was stabbed with pitchforks, doused with gasoline, and burnt alive. The next day, the crew decides to begin filming their next music video for Vince's song, \"See Me in The Mirror\". Angela is dressed as a bride and Vince sings to his reflection in a mirror. As Angela walks down the stairs, she notices the shadow of a body that is resting against the upstairs window. The light outside flashes and the body crashes through the window. It is revealed to be Jos's corpse. Angela leaves the house in shock while the others search the roof to find out what happened. Vince runs after Angela as a mysterious car pulls up to the house. Vince heads to the roof where he has a shootout with some of the armed men. Meanwhile, a pack of wild dogs break into the house and attack the crew and one of the armed men. Sandra and Marilou run upstairs, with the dogs chasing them. Vince and Sandra return to the car after another run in with a gunman. As they drive off, Marilou's corpse falls on Sandra and the Monster Dog attacks Vince from the back seat. Sandra jumps out and hears the car get destroyed with the sound of a gunshot. She finds the old man, who tells her about how he was attacked by Vince's father, which resulted in him becoming a \"lycanthrope\". The old man dies after telling Sandra that he has bitten Vince and that Vince will now become a werewolf. Sandra leaves to find Vince, who tells her to kill him before he turns into a werewolf. As Vince begins his transformation into the Monster Dog, Sandra shoots him. The film ends with a reprise of the \"Identity Crisis\" video, now interspersed with clips from the story. Filming took place in Torrelodones, Spain, with a partially Spanish crew (even though director Claudio Fragasso was Italian, and star Alice Cooper was American). The film was dubbed in post-production by other actors, and consequently the only time Cooper's real voice is heard in the film is during his two musical sequences. In a 1986 interview with The Georgia Straight, Cooper said of the film, In later years, Cooper revealed he agreed to be in the movie immediately after finishing rehab for his chronic alcoholism, \"to see if I could work sober,\" as he explained in 2012. He has said repeatedly that the producers told him the film would only be released in The Philippines. He has called the movie \"a turkey\" and \"just awful\" but expressed some degree of fondness for it: \"That’s the kind of movie I rent,\" he said in 2001. Co-Star Victoria Vera later recalled the film was \"wretched and unpleasant, but I had a tremendous time together with Alice; he is a very fabulous and funny person.\" Director Fragasso also remembered Cooper fondly, saying \"I developed a good working relationship with Cooper... [he] has a passion for horror movies, and every night we would watch them together as if we were little boys!\" The film features two original songs written by Alice Cooper, \"Identity Crisis\" and \"See Me In The Mirror,\" which were eventually released on 1999's box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper. Though filmed in the Spring of 1984 and released in Italy in December of that year, it was not released until 1986 in the United States, and then only direct-to-video. Substance/ Jef Films issued the DVD in 2005, apparently taking the print from a VHS copy (and widely claimed to be a bootleg release). In March 2016, Kino Lorber released the film on Blu-Ray for the first time. Monster Dog Monster Dog, also known as Leviatán, The Bite and Los Perros de la Muerte, is a 1984"
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"Pennsylvania Route 999 Pennsylvania Route 999 (PA 999) is a , east–west state highway located in western Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at PA 441, which has its southern terminus at this intersection, in Washington Boro. The eastern terminus is at PA 462 in Lancaster. PA 999 heads east from Washington Boro to rural areas to Millersville. Upon reaching Millersville, the route heads into developed areas and turns northeast, crossing PA 741. PA 999 continues northeast to its eastern terminus. The route is a two-lane undivided road its entire length. Between Millersville and Lancaster, the route follows a 19th-century private turnpike that runs along the Manor Road that was created in 1742. PA 999 was designated in 1928 between Millersville and U.S. Route 30 (US 30)/PA 1 (now PA 462) in Lancaster. The route was extended west to its current terminus at PA 441 in the 1950s. PA 999 begins at an intersection with the southern terminus of PA 441 in the community of Washington Boro, located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River in Manor Township, Lancaster County, heading east-northeast on two-lane undivided Penn Street. The route passes through residential areas before it leaves Washington Boro and continues into agricultural areas with some trees and homes. PA 999 continues through rural areas and becomes Blue Rock Road before it runs through the communities of Central Manor and Windom. Farther east, the road passes to the north of a residential neighborhood and crosses Little Conestoga Creek in a wooded area. The route continues east between farms to the north and homes to the south before it enters the borough of Millersville. At this point, PA 999 becomes Manor Avenue and turns to the northeast, passing through residential areas with some businesses. The road crosses PA 741 and becomes Millersville Pike, soon leaving Millersville for Lancaster Township and running through wooded residential neighborhoods. The route passes through Bausman and runs between a park to the northwest and a shopping center to the southeast. PA 999 enters the city of Lancaster and becomes Manor Street, passing through urban areas of homes and businesses. The route reaches its eastern terminus at an intersection with the eastbound direction of PA 462 at West King Street to the west of downtown Lancaster. The eastern section of PA 999 runs along the Manor Road, which was constructed in 1742. On March 13, 1839, the Manor Turnpike Road Company was chartered to build a turnpike running from West King Street in Lancaster southwest to the Little Conestoga Creek near Millersville along the Manor Road. When routes were first legislated in Pennsylvania in 1911, present-day PA 999 was not given a legislative number. By 1926, the road connecting Millersville to Lancaster was paved. PA 999 was designated in 1928 to run from Millersville northeast to US 30/PA 1 (now PA 462) in Lancaster, heading east on Frederick Street, north on George Street, and northeast along its current alignment. The road between Washington Boro and Millersville was an unnumbered, unpaved road. In the 1950s, PA 999 was realigned to head west to its current terminus at PA 441 in Washington Boro. Pennsylvania Route 999 Pennsylvania Route 999 (PA 999) is a , east–west state highway located in western Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at PA 441, which has its southern terminus at this intersection, in Washington Boro. The eastern terminus is at PA 462 in Lancaster. PA 999 heads east from Washington Boro to rural areas to Millersville. Upon reaching Millersville, the route heads into developed areas and turns northeast, crossing PA 741. PA"
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"Pittsfield Center Historic District The Pittsfield Center Historic District encompasses the civic and commercial heart of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. This area is defined by a roughly square bend in the Suncook River, whose power provided an impetus for the development of the town in the 19th century. The dominant feature of the district is the 1827 Joy Cotton Mill, a four-story brick building at the base of Main Street. There are three churches, including the 1863 Gothic Revival St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, and the town office building, a significantly altered 1789 meeting house. The district also includes the main commercial district and some of the surrounding residential areas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Pittsfield was settled in 1770, when John Cram erected a sawmill on the Suncook River and built his house, now part of the Washington House at the central Washington Square. The first meeting house was built in 1789, roughly midway between his house and mill, the route between these points defining what is now Main Street. Taverns were built near the meeting house soon afterward, creating the nucleus of a town center. In the 19th century, the river's water power was harnessed for use by textile mills, resulting in the construction of both mills and mill worker housing. One boarding house, built in 1827 for single women who worked in an early textile mill, is among the oldest buildings of its type in the state. The arrival of the railroad in 1869 spurred another development boom, in which the shoe industry took hold. Pittsfield Center Historic District The Pittsfield Center Historic District encompasses the civic and commercial heart of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. This area is defined by a roughly square bend in the Suncook River, whose power provided an impetus"
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"Macquarie Heads breakwater railway The Macquarie Heads Breakwater was a project of the Strahan Marine Board in Western Tasmania to sustain a reasonable depth to the Hells Gates and \"Macquarie Heads\" of the Macquarie Harbour area to allow for shipping of limited tonnage to serve Regatta Point while the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was exporting its mineral products by sea. The heads were notoriously difficult to navigate in good weather, and even more difficult in bad weather. The SS Kaiwatiri was wrecked at Macquarie Heads between 1907-1910, and the shoal to the east of the main entrance channel is now known as the Kaiwatiri Shoal. The breakwater lay on the west side of the entrance. In the 1905 cartographic map of the Heads (also designated 'West Coast Entrance to Macquarie Harbour'), evidence of a proposed or planned 'East Breakwater' is shown, with the existing named as the 'West Breakwater' the name 'West Breakwater' still carried on in later surveys in 1930 and the 1964 map, but with no sign of the planned 'East Breakwater'. The breakwater was regularly in need of maintenance The maps for \"Macquarie Entrance\" as it was also known show the breakwater's position clearly Between 1900 and 1946 there was a horse drawn wooden rail tramline that was utilised to provide access between locations on the Cape Sorell headland between the Cape Sorell Lighthouse and the jetty and wharf locations - as well as to move rock from quarries to the construction and maintenance of the Macquarie Heads breakwater. The named locations on the wooden rail system - were Macquarie Heads breakwater railway The Macquarie Heads Breakwater was a project of the Strahan Marine Board in Western Tasmania to sustain a reasonable depth to the Hells Gates and \"Macquarie Heads\" of the Macquarie Harbour area"
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"Jawahir Thontowi Jawahir Thontowi was born in West Java, on 8 September 1956. He is currently working as a lecturer in the Universitas Islam Indonesia. His education background is from the Law faculty of the Islamic University of Indonesia and on 1999 graduated his PhD from the University of Western Australia concerning Legal Anthropology. He was a member of the Constitution Commission RI 2003-2004 1, and received various awards and acknowledgments. He has become a speaker in the International Human Right Conference (Custom Center for Human Rights Studies, Law School Monash University of Melbourne on December 2003)2, Delegation for International Conference on Clinical Legal Education in Cambodia, Phnom Penh on November 2005 and received a Grant to become an Instructor in the International Symposium on Conflict Resolution –ICMCR, Erasmus University. Jawahir Thontowi is a professor in legal anthropology and he is an expert on the subject. The in a resource person Indonesia related to indigenous law and even regarding terrorism. He is a key person in the development of Indonesian Law. 26 January 2010 He was accepted as the title of Professor from the Minister of Education Republic of Indonesia for his dedication in the legal science and his contribution to law in Indonesia.3 In September 2010 undergoing the selection process in the Judicial Commission Indonesia. He is rank No. 1 candidate for the peak position in the Judicial Commission. 4 In 1976 Jawahir Thontowi graduated from the one of the first Education for Islamic Judges in Indonesia established in Yogyakarta. This was a school which will become of the pioneers of legal practitioners in Indonesia. As an example the head of the Constitution Court in Indonesia Mahfud MD is an alumnus. Between 1978 and 1979 became the president of the Student Representative Council in The law faculty UII and at the same time the Vice director of the Human Right Commission which was later turned into the Legal Aid Institute in Yogyakarta. In 1979-1980 become the Secretary General for Student Government Council UII then became the staff member of the community development in Muslim students association Yogyakarta. During these years he has become a prominent activist in the campus which builds the foundation of his organization skills in later life. In 1981 he received an LLB Degree from the Faculty of Law Universitas Islam Indonesia. Then in 1984 became the Head of Community Development Division Institute for Research and Community at the Universitas Islam Indonesia. Then in 1986 took a course in Center for Research Training of Social Science, Universitas Hasanudin. In August that year he received an Award for an outstanding field research Stunent given by YIIS and PLPIIS in Jakarta. Working in the campus and research would then lead to further development in his academic career and an opportunity to attain higher education in Australia. This was a turning point that would excel in academic career. In 1990 he started a preliminary Masters of Arts at the Anthology Department of UWA . Then in 1992 receive a research grant for the post graduate students from the University of Western Australia. In 1998 finally completed his Ph.D Degree in the University of Western Australia. He was ready to go back to Indonesia to implement his knowledge and skill in an Indonesia context, especially going back to campus to teach again. Upon return from Australia and going back to Indonesia holding a Ph.D he was appoint Head of the International Department for 3 years in 1999-2001. During this time he was focusing on building and improving the law faculty and made it more dynamic. He pas the team leader in various initiatives conducted by the campus such Designing University Joint Collaboration and development then Establishing the Doctorate Program in Law Faculty University. This was a major breakthrough for UII having established a Doctorate program in the field of Law. September 2000 he became the Director of the Doctorate Program law faculty. In September the next year in 2001 he made an initiative to make the International Program for Law in the campus which took a one-year process. For the Law faculty he made two important contributions that are the establishment of the Doctorate program and the second the International program. March that year he was elected to become the Dean of the Law Faculty until 2006. In 2006 the election for the Rector of UII He participated in first direct election for the position being the fourth rank, Edy Suandi Hamid having 284.5 votes, Amir Mu’alim 92 votes, Luthfi Hasan, 87.5 votes. Eddy Suandi Hamid came out as winner to lead the campus. The next election for the position as the Vice Rector I to be in charge of academics it was between Jawahir Thontowi and Sarwidi which was a very close election and Sarwidi manages to be elected for the position having 309,5 votes compared to only 298,5 votes. Supporters of Jawahir Thontowi in campus still remain strong. In 2010 election Jawahir Thontowi became in the running for the peak positions in campus again. Still competing versus Edy Suandi Hamid and Sarwidi, the election process was very tight Edy Suandi Hamid with only 32 votes, Jawahir Thontowi 31 votes and Sarwidi 25 votes. Interesting that in 2006 elections he lost to Sarwidi for the position but now in the 2010 he has more votes. After losing from the selection process, he came back to the law faculty to continue to teach, practice what he has learned and implement his understanding about the law in Indonesia. This experience will be the foundations of the position in the future for the next election process in 2014 to become the rector of campus. To have the highest academic career in UII starting as a student activist, then becoming a researcher and lecturer, then become the dean of the law faculty and hope the next position becoming the rector. Jawahir Thontowi Jawahir Thontowi was born in West Java, on 8 September 1956. He is currently working as a lecturer in the Universitas"
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"Palazzo Antonini, Udine Palazzo Antonini is a \"palazzo\" in Udine, northern Italy, designed by architect Andrea Palladio in the middle of the 16th century for the Antonini family, owner of various other palaces in Udine. The present owner is the Bank of Italy. The beginning of construction on the Palazzo Antonini is traditionally said to date to 1556, contemporaneous with the construction of the Bollani arch, another work by Palladio in Udine. The patron was Floriano Antonini, a young and ambitious member of one of the most high-profile families of Udine aristocracy. Antonini did not hesitate to resurrect erudite traditions by minting a foundation medal for the Palazzo, probably desiring to demonstrate that sophisticated taste was not the exclusive prerogative of aristocratic circles in the capital of the Serenissima, Venice. In 1559 the palace was already partially inhabitable, but in 1563 building works were still in progress. In the following century, at least two campaigns of works heavily altered the building’s appearance, going so far as to replace all the windows, except those to the right of the loggia on the back façade, as well as the internal staircases. In 1709 Martino Fischer executed the decorative ornaments, thereby contributing to the definitive transformation of the original Palladian interiors. In essence, all that remains of Palladio’s project are the plan (less the stairs) and the building’s basic volumes, the front and back loggias (whose pediments were never executed), and the components of the “Hall of the four columns”. This project opens the section in the \"Quattro Libri dell'Architettura\" (1570) dedicated to city palaces although, as was the opposite case in the Villa Pisani at Montagnana and the Villa Cornaro at Piombino, the Palazzo Antonini was actually a rather ambivalent building: it is truly an urban palace which assumes the typology of a suburban villa. In this respect, one must bear in mind that the palace rose on the borders of the urban centre, in an open area with gardens, just like the Palazzo Chiericati or the Palazzo Civena. The design of its façades facing the street incorporates engaged Ionic half-columns, fashioned from blocks of stone, which forecast those at the Villa Sarego at Santa Sofia. A thick web of openings transforms the loggia onto the street into a sort of diaphragm transparent to the light. The entire edifice seems to be strapped by continuous bands of stone, from the plinth of engaged columns to the entablature, right up to the band corresponding to the upper frieze, where the small unframed windows of the granary open. Palazzo Antonini, Udine Palazzo Antonini is a \"palazzo\" in Udine, northern Italy, designed by architect Andrea Palladio in the middle of the 16th century for the Antonini family, owner of various other palaces in Udine. The present owner is the Bank of Italy. The beginning of construction on the Palazzo Antonini is traditionally said to date to 1556, contemporaneous with the construction of the Bollani arch, another work by Palladio in Udine. The patron was Floriano"
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"Good Trouble Good Trouble is the tenth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1982 as a follow-up to \"Hi Infidelity\". It was the second-best selling album in the band's history, subsequently tied with \"Wheels Are Turnin'\", peaking at #7 on the \"Billboard\" charts. The single \"Keep the Fire Burnin'\" gave the band a #7 hit on \"Billboard\"s Pop Singles Chart and a #2 hit on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, their highest-charting hit on this chart. None of the songs from this album have been performed by the band in concert since 1983 except \"Keep the Fire Burnin'\", which was played as an acoustic version in their two shows at Valencia, Venezuela during the \"Live As We Know It Tour '87,\" and has been played occasionally in more recent years. \"The Key\" was part of a five-song medley the band performed during their 2001 tour. In 2013, the album was released on CD by UK-based company Rock Candy Records, with expanded liner notes and photos. Additional personnel Production Good Trouble Good Trouble is the tenth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1982 as a follow-up to \"Hi Infidelity\". It was the second-best selling album in the band's history,"
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"Bitterwater Creek (Buena Vista Lake) Bitterwater Creek, formerly Arroyo de Amargosa (Bitter Creek), is a stream with its source just southwest of the southern extreme of the Elkhorn Hills, just west of and inside the San Luis Obispo County boundary, 6.3 miles southwest of Maricopa, California. The creek flows northwest to dissipate in the dry lake bed of Buena Vista Lake, 3.7 miles north of Pentland, Kern County, California. In years of heavy rainfall it would be a tributary to Buena Vista Lake, which has been dry for many years due to agricultural diversion. Arroyo de Amargosa was a stream that provided a camping and watering place on El Camino Viejo at its \"sink\" near Maricopa, southwest of Buena Vista Lake, between Arroyo San Emigdio to the southeast and Aguaje de La Brea 20 miles to the northwest near McKittrick, California. Bitterwater Creek (Buena Vista Lake) Bitterwater Creek, formerly Arroyo de Amargosa (Bitter Creek), is a stream with its source just southwest of the southern extreme of the Elkhorn Hills, just west of and inside the San Luis Obispo County boundary, 6.3 miles southwest of Maricopa, California. The creek flows northwest to dissipate in the dry lake bed of Buena"
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"Α-Methylfentanyl α-Methylfentanyl (or \"alpha\"-Methylfentanyl) is an opioid analgesic that is an analog of fentanyl. α-Methylfentanyl was initially discovered by a team at Janssen Pharmaceutica in the 1960s. In 1976, it began to appear mixed with \"china white\" heroin as an additive. It was first identified in the bodies of two drug overdose victims in Orange County, California, in December 1979, who appeared to have died from opiate overdose but tested negative for any known drugs of this type. Over the next year, there were 13 more deaths, and eventually the responsible agent was identified as α-methylfentanyl. α-Methylfentanyl was placed on the Schedule I list in September 1981, only two years after its appearance on the street, but already other analogs were being developed. Following the appearance of α-methylfentanyl on the market, over ten new analogs of fentanyl have been reported, starting with para-fluorofentanyl, followed by α-methylacetylfentanyl, then by the highly potent 3-methylfentanyl, and subsequently by many others such as β-hydroxyfentanyl, ohmefentanyl, β-hydroxythiofentanyl and β-hydroxy-4-methylfentanyl. The development of such a wide structural family of novel narcotic drugs was a major factor responsible for the implementation of the Federal Analog Act which for the first time attempted to control entire families of drugs based on their structural similarity rather than scheduling new drug analogs individually as each appeared. In 1991, a group of Russian chemistry students discovered a simplified synthesis route which used phosgene instead of phenethylamine. Soon, abuse of the drug became widespread, causing a tenth of overdoses in the Moscow region. α-Methylfentanyl became notorious for low safety, and production declined. α-Methylfentanyl has similar effects to fentanyl. It is less potent by weight due to reduced binding affinity to its target site, yet longer acting as the α-methyl group interferes with binding to metabolic enzymes which break the drug down. The independent discovery of the effect of the α-methyl group on fentanyl also marked the first time clandestine recreational-drug research had an effect on practical scientific research. Since fentanyl itself is highly potent and notorious for causing fatal overdoses when abused, and also very short lasting with recreational users often administering doses every hour, α-methylfentanyl could have several advantages over the parent compound as a recreational drug. Side effects of fentanyl analogs are similar to those of fentanyl itself, which include itching, nausea and potentially serious respiratory depression (namely with overdoses or improper drug-combinations, such as with benzodiazepines) which can be life-threatening. Fentanyl analogs such as α-methylfentanyl and 3-methylfentanyl are often used as the \"cut\" in small amounts in normal heroin stamps and bags, making them more potent and profitable when sold as heroin alone due to the advantage of raising the retail price and potency per unit sold. Α-Methylfentanyl α-Methylfentanyl (or \"alpha\"-Methylfentanyl) is an opioid analgesic that is an analog of fentanyl. α-Methylfentanyl was initially discovered by a team at Janssen Pharmaceutica in the 1960s. In 1976, it began to appear mixed with \"china white\" heroin as an additive. It was first identified in the bodies of two drug overdose"
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"Sailing hydrofoil A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the hydrofoils lift the hull up and out of the water, greatly reducing wetted area, resulting in decreased drag and increased speed. A sailing hydrofoil can achieve speeds exceeding twice the wind speed. Both monohull and multihull sailboats can be retrofitted with hydrofoils, although greater stability can be achieved by using the wider planform of a catamaran or trimaran. Some multihulls use three foils; two main forward foils provide lift so that the boat \"flies\" while a horizontal foil on the rudder is trimmed to drive and control altitude. On catamarans, a single main foil can be attached between the hulls just in front of the center of gravity and at 2 degrees of incidence, spanning the tunnel with supporting struts. Hydrofoil catamarans are also called foilcats. Multihull sailboats can also employ hydrofoils only to assist performance. Just as daggerboards and rudders are foils that enhance the control of a boat, assisting hydrofoils provide lift to the hull to reduce the wetted area without actually lifting the boat completely out of the water. Monohull boats typically employ a \"ladder\" arrangement of hydrofoils splayed out with a dihedral angle of 50 degrees, with a stabilizing rudder foil. One of the earliest examples is the \"Monitor\" boat from 1957. This design offers the advantages of maximum lifting foil area at slow speeds and less at higher speeds, with rolling resistance arising from the dihedral support of the outboard ladder foils. The most widespread use of hydrofoils in sailboats to date has been in the International Moth class. Andy Paterson of Bloodaxe boats on the Isle of Wight is widely considered to have developed the first functional foiling Moth, though his boat had three foils in a tripod arrangement. Brett Burvill sailed a narrow skiff Moth with inclined surface-piercing hydrofoils to a race win at the Moth World Championships in 2001 in Australia, which was the first time a hydrofoil Moth had won a race at a World Championship. This hydrofoil configuration was later declared illegal by the class, as it was felt to constitute a multihull, which is prohibited by class rules. Initially Ian Ward in Sydney, Australia developed the first centerline foiling Moth which demonstrated that sailing on centerboard and rudder foils alone was feasible. Subsequently, Garth and John Ilett in Perth, Australia developed a two-hydrofoil system for the Moth with active flap control for the main foil via a surface sensor. John's company Fastacraft was the first to produce a commercially available hydrofoil International Moth. Fasta Craft's Prowler design, superseded in 2008 by the F-Zero, features a carbon-fiber hull, inverted \"T\" foils on the centerboard and rudder, and can reach speeds of over 27 knots. Fasta Craft has since been joined in producing hydrofoil Moths by several other companies, including Bladerider, Assassin, Exocet, and Aardvark Technologies. Although initially debated fiercely within the class, the adoption of hydrofoils has proven a success for the International Moth class, with rapid fleet growth in the years since 2001. All World Championships since 2004 have been won by hydrofoil-equipped Moths, which can become foilborne in as little as six knots of breeze when steered by an experienced sailor of lighter weight. The class rule remains open to development of all boat components including hydrofoil systems, and development within the class continues to be spurred by both commercial and individual/amateur efforts. The first time a Laser foiled was in December 2009 by Ian Ward in Sydney, Australia. Top speeds of around 23-25kts are possible with this kit. The foils can be removed and the boat remains class legal. This foiling system is unique in that it is retractable, has flapless foils and the height sensing 'wand' is integrated within the centerboard. The \"world's least advanced sailboat\" was converted to hydrofoiling by the Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, in 2017. The Optimist, only 2.3 metres in length and with a sail area of 3.3 square metres, is normally limited to speeds below 4 knots. The hydrofoils allows the optimist dinghy to achieve 12 knots in only 12 knots of wind. Foils were used in the Americas Cup since 2013. The 2013 America's Cup featured daggerboard catamarans. Under the terms of the protocol, these daggerboards could not feature trim tabs, could not exceed the beam of the boat when raised and could not be adjusted when lowered, but a loophole exploited by three teams was to create T-shaped rudders and L-shaped daggerboards of which the leeward appendage serves as a hydrofoil on all points of sailing conditions in winds over 10 knots. On September 6, 2012 in Auckland, during Team New Zealand's fifth day of trials, their boat achieved circa with a level trim and no heeling with 17 knots of breeze. The 2015–16 America's Cup World Series was raced with hydrofoiling AC45f catamarans, which are smaller versions of the AC72. The 2017 America's Cup was raced in the fully foiling AC50 class. Recent International C-class catamaran have been foiling, and further development is expected. International A-class catamaran rules initially allowed hydrofoils but were changed to specifically limit the foil span in 2000 after the measurer and president were approached by Jeremy Banks, an Australian sailor, with a hydrofoiling design. Over time sailors still found a way to foil. The 2014 A-Class Catamaran World Titles in Takapuna New Zealand demonstrated early foiling capabilities to the class. Now the A-Class can foil stably downwind in 6 knots and upwind in 12 knots or more. Peak speeds are reported to be about 30 knots and 2.5X wind speed. The A-Class has set the standard for 4-point foiling that many classes are now adopting. The Nacra 17 as raced at the 2016 Olympics was capable of elevated foiling under some conditions. For the 2017 World Championships, the Nacra was upgraded to a fully foiling yacht, to be raced at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The F20 is a catamaran similar in design to Nacra's former 20 foot catamaran, however it is made out of carbon fiber and uses curved daggerboards as hydrofoils. The Flying Phantom is a catamaran that uses curved daggerboards as hydrofoils. iFLY15 is a 15-foot hydrofoil catamaran equipped with automatic foils, built by CEC Catamarans GmbH. It uses a mechanical automatic system to stabilize the horizontal trim in the longitudinal and transverse directions. Jibes are facilitated by the four T-shaped foils which are always in the water and stabilize the boat. In the 1990s the Hobie Cat company manufactured the TriFoiler (no longer in production), a twin-sail trimaran with a mainsail on each outrigger capable of 35+ knot speeds in typical sailing conditions, making the TriFoiler the fastest production sailboat in the world. The prototype of the Hobie TriFoiler, called Longshot, was developed by brothers Dan and Greg Ketterman in conjunction with Russell Long. Though more streamlined than the Trifoiler and having smaller hydrofoils, Longshot still holds the Class A speedsailing record of 43.55 knots on a 500-meter course, set in Tarifa Spain in 1993. Until recently, it was the only existing speedsailing record held by a hydrofoil, but the recent records of Hydroptère have added to the list with record breaking runs across the English Channel. In 1998, WindRider LLC introduced the WindRider Rave, a popular two-person trimaran hydrofoil capable of lifting off in as little as 12-13 knots of wind. The Rave is capable of sailing between 1.5 and 2 times wind speed. The boat's mainsail has no boom. The Rave broke new ground in the development of flapped foils and control systems. Non-production experimental designs have been built: Sailing hydrofoil A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a",
"hydrofoils, Longshot still holds the Class A speedsailing record of 43.55 knots on a 500-meter course, set in Tarifa Spain in 1993. Until recently, it was the only existing speedsailing record held by a hydrofoil, but the recent records of Hydroptère have added to the list with record breaking runs across the English Channel. In 1998, WindRider LLC introduced the WindRider Rave, a popular two-person trimaran hydrofoil capable of lifting off in as little as 12-13 knots of wind. The Rave is capable of sailing between 1.5 and 2 times wind speed. The boat's mainsail has no boom. The Rave broke new ground in the development of flapped foils and control systems. Non-production experimental designs have been built: Sailing hydrofoil A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the"
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"Jean Poiret Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 in Paris – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play \"La Cage Aux Folles\". Poiret first rose to prominence in 1951 playing the role of Fred Transport, one of the heroes of Pierre Dac and Francis Blanche's radio series \"Malheur aux Barbus\". In 1952, he met his future co-star of \"La Cage\" Michel Serrault at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre. Together, they starred in the sketch \"Jerry Scott, Vedette Internationale\" In 1961, Poiret, as a member of the French cinematic society Pathé, wrote and recorded \"La Vache à Mille Francs\", a parody of \"La Valse à Mille Temps\" by Jacques Brel. In 1973, he married actress Caroline Cellier, with whom he had one child. In 1973, Poiret wrote and starred in the stage play \"La Cage aux Folles\". Its film adaptation in 1978 eventually brought Poiret immense success. Although Poiret was replaced by Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi in the role of Renato Baldi, Serrault reprised his stage-role of Zaza Napoli and won a César Award for his work. In 1992, Poiret directed his first and only film, \"Le Zèbre\" (\"The Zebra\"). This adaptation of Alexandre Jardin's novel starred Thierry Lhermitte and Mme. Poiret, Caroline Cellier. Poiret died of a heart attack in Paris on 14 March 1992, three months before the film's premiere. He is buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Jean Poiret Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 in Paris – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play \"La Cage Aux Folles\". Poiret first rose to prominence in 1951 playing the role of Fred Transport, one of the"
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"Brindletown, New Jersey Brindletown (also known as Brindle Town) is an unincorporated community located within Plumsted Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Brindletown was once a village home to a hotel, a mill, and large estates overlooking Brindle Lake. Brindletown was purchased by the federal government to expand Camp Dix in the 1920s (later known as Fort Dix). The site of the original Brindletown is within a weapons training site though the site of the current Brindletown is accessible to the public. The current settlement is centered about the intersection of Long Swamp Road and Carter Lane to the north of the original site. Houses line Long Swamp Road and other surrounding roads in the area while some farms are found to the north of Long Swamp Road. The portion of the community within the confines of Fort Dix is mostly forest. Brindletown, New Jersey Brindletown (also known as Brindle Town) is an unincorporated community located within Plumsted Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Brindletown was once a village home to a hotel, a mill, and large estates overlooking Brindle Lake. Brindletown was purchased by the federal government to expand Camp Dix in the 1920s (later"
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"Pleasant–School Street Historic District The Pleasant–School Street Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. It includes 37 properties on Pleasant and School Streets, between Main and South Streets, near the center of Hyannis. Pleasant Street was laid out in the 18th century, and School Street was laid out c. 1850, and is distinctive for its cohesive collection of Greek Revival cottages, most of which were owned by mariners active in the coasting trade. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The Pleasant–School Street District is located just north of Hyannis's innermost harbor on the south coast of Cape Cod. The district extends along the north side of South Street between Pleasant and School Streets, and then along both sides of Pleasant and School up to, but not including, the commercial properties that line Main Street. With a few exceptions, all of the properties are residential; these include a mid-19th century former Congregational church, and the former commercial premises of two small newspaper publishers. The oldest building in the district is the colonial-era Hallett House at 27 Pleasant Street; the largest number of houses are Greek Revival structures built between about 1830 and 1860. Houses are typically 1-1/2 stories in height, with wood-frame construction and shingle siding. At least eight of these have been connected to prominent local ship's captains active in the coasting trade in the 19th century. There are a few later Italianate and Queen Anne Victorian houses, and a smaller number of 20th-century intrusions. Pleasant–School Street Historic District The Pleasant–School Street Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. It includes 37 properties on Pleasant and School Streets, between Main and South Streets, near the center of"
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"Severna Park High School Severna Park High School is a public high school in the United States located in Severna Park, Maryland. It is a part of the Anne Arundel County Public Schools system. Its feeder school is Severna Park Middle School. SPHS opened its doors to students in 1959, making it the fourth public high school in Anne Arundel County, being built after Arundel, Annapolis, and Glen Burnie High Schools. Its current principal is Mr. Patrick Bathras, who has been at the school since 2008. A new school was built on the same grounds, and opened in January 2017. Severna Park High has gained a strong reputation in Anne Arundel County for its consistent success in academics and athletics. Severna Park High School students consistently achieve high scores in the High School Assessment (HSA). On a national level, the school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2011 and hosted nine National Merit Scholarship finalists in 2006. The Falcons are sport rivals with nearby Broadneck High School and have excelled at the state level in lacrosse (both the boys and girls lacrosse teams were state champions in 2007), field hockey, swimming and cross-country. The school's mock trial team won the state championship in 2006, 2008 and 2010, and was undefeated in the county until 2009. \"Severna Park High School It's Academic\" competes in a regional game show against outstanding students from other high schools. The team has now been the top Anne Arundel County team in back-to-back years and has also reached the Baltimore semifinals in 2015 and 2016. The school's DECA chapter qualifies for competition on the international level every year, and won first place at the 2012 state competition. The mock trial team has been a powerhouse in the county for many years and did not lose in county competition until 2009. In their 2010 run to the State Championship, the mock trial team went undefeated. The team reached the State Championship level in 2015 after being undefeated in the county and regional competitions, and won. The history department at Severna Park has competed in the Georgetown History Bowl since its inception in 2004. The team has been consistently good and usually places within the top three. Severna Park has three teams for special education students and other students to act as helpers. In the fall they have unified tennis, in winter they have unified bowling, and in the spring they have unified bocce. These teams consistently do well in their competitions. Severna Park High School Severna Park High School is a public high school in the United States located in Severna Park, Maryland. It is a part of the Anne Arundel County Public Schools system. Its feeder school is Severna Park Middle School. SPHS opened its doors to students in 1959, making it the fourth public high school in Anne Arundel County, being built after Arundel, Annapolis, and Glen Burnie High Schools. Its current principal is Mr. Patrick Bathras, who has been at the school"
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"Clyde Hart Clyde Hart (born 1935) is the director of track and field at Baylor University. Hart retired as head coach for the Baylor track program on June 14, 2005 after 42 years with the program. Hart is primarily known as the only coach to have instructed Michael Johnson, the gold medal winner in the individual 400 meters at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics Hart also recruited and coached Jeremy Wariner and Darold Williamson to gold medals in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece — Wariner in the individual 400 meters, and both in the 4x400 meter relay. Wariner and Hart briefly parted ways in 2008, reuniting a year later . Another one of his pupils, Greg Haughton, won bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and he currently coaches Sanya Richards, the top-ranked female 400 runner in the world in 2007 and the 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist. Hart was a state champion sprinter at Hot Springs, Arkansas and graduated from Baylor University in 1956 with a Bachelor's degree and later the University of Arkansas with a Master's degree. He is married to Maxine Hart. Clyde Hart Clyde Hart (born 1935) is the director of track"
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"* The ASU consists of the following items:\n\n\n The army encourages soldiers and leaders who own the current army blue uniform to wear it, when appropriate, as their dress, class \"A\", or class \"B\" Uniform. The fielding of the new uniform policy establishes a class \"B\" uniform category for the current army blue uniform as part of its bridging strategy. The class \"B\" uniform category defines those ASU items worn without the service coat. \n 1. Coat, army blue shade 450 \n 2. Trousers, army blue shade 451, low Waist With Belt Loops (male soldiers) \n 3. Slacks, Low Waist (female soldiers) \n 4. Skirt (female soldiers) \n\n\n * 1774:Blue Continental Army coat, with state facing colors, and white waistcoat and breeches or overalls. (Historical Note/Ref:The origin of \"blue\" as the primary uniform color is earlier during the Colonial period of the Continental Association or First Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia, PA and adjourned on Oct 26, 1774.) George Washington was the appointed Presiding Officer. \n\n\n * 1782:Red facings only with branch of service white (infantry) or yellow (artillery) metal buttons. \n * 1810:French uniform coat with cut-in skirt fastened in front; sleeved roundabout jacket for fatigue and field service. \n * 1813:Uniform coat devoid of buttonhole lace and facing colors. \n * 1821:Congressional confirmation of army wear of national blue; practical gray wool pantaloons for the winter mud, a tradition of contrasting shades. \n * 1829:Undress frock (full round skirt) coat in place of officer's civilian clothes. \n * 1832:Branch of service cap insignia, gold or silver officer grade insignia on epaulettes and sky-blue trousers for all but staff and generals. \n * 1835:Shoulder straps, used to hold fringed epaulettes, with undress, officer grade. \n * 1851:French frock (full skirt) coat only uniform, trimmed in system of branch of service colors. \n * 1854:New waist-length uniform jacket for mounted troops \n * 1872:Blouse for garrison and field, uniform coat for dress, with epaulettes for generals. \n * 1881:Dark blue flannel overshirt often in place of blouse on field service. \n * 1885:Sky-blue kersey trousers, aniline dye richer shade than original vegetable dye. \n * 1895:Officer's undress sack coat, with black trim; branch of service insignia and national cypher \"U.S.\" on collar, with national eagle on cap. \n * 1902:Olive drab wool and khaki cotton service uniforms introduced; blue retained only for dress, full dress, mess dress, and special evening dress, trimmed with branch of service color. New patterns of blue full dress and dress uniforms adopted for both officers and enlisted men Leather color changed from black to russet. The M1902 visored cap is adopted. \n * 1907 and 1912:Minor changes prescribed for 1902 model blue dress and full dress uniforms. \n * 1911:Wool felt M1911 Campaign Hat adopted. Hat cords were in Branch colors for enlisted men, a gold metallic thread and black cord braid for Subaltern and Field Officers, and woven of gold metallic thread for General Officers. \n * 1917:Wearing of blue dress, full dress and mess dress uniforms suspended for the duration of the war. Warrant Officers were authorized a hat cord of silver metallic thread and black cord braid for wear with the M1911 Campaign Hat. The side-folding cloth Overseas Cap was unofficially adopted by AEF personnel in a variety of styles influenced by similar Allied patterns. \n * 1921:The M1911 Campaign Hat was redesigned. \n * 1928:Return of pre-war blue dress uniforms with new visor cap, optional at expense of wearer. \n * 1938:Officer's blue roll-collar coat adopted, with branch of service-color trim and dress belt (from full dress coat). \n * 1939:The side-folding Overseas Cap is universally adopted as the Garrison Cap. \n * 1940:No blue uniform required during emergency (end of saber). \n * 1941:The M1911 Campaign Hat is declared Limited Standard. \n * 1947:President Harry S. Truman note on lack of dress uniform and return of pre-war pattern; evening dress uniform cuff with single gold lace and insignia of grade. \n * 1953:Post-war officer and EM pattern with patch pockets; no traditional branch of service color trim on EM uniform and officers' trousers stripes. \n * 1956:Distinctive uniform for bands and honor guards. Leather color changed from russet to black. \n * 1957:Women's army blue uniform same cut as 1951 Taupe-121 uniform. \n * 1959:Army blue uniforms for year-round wear. \n * 1962:Women's army blue same as army green uniform, with new service hat. \n * 1963:Mandatory possession of officer's army blue uniform. \n * 1972:Officers' mess jacket cuff ornamentation simplified to resemble that of 1947 evening dress (grade insignia replaced branch insignia; single strand of gold lace replaced multiple ones which previously showed grade). \n * 2008:the new blue army service uniform (ASU) is introduced for optional wear by soldiers. \n * 2010:blue ASU issued to all soldiers, beginning in autumn. \n * 2015:Army green class A uniform officially retired; blue ASU worn army-wide after October 1.",
"ALARACT 202/2008 specifies that the \"dress blue ASU\" for men includes a \"black bowtie.\" It makes no mention of the black four-in-hand necktie in connection with the \"dress blue ASU.\" Since, according to paragraph 10 of the same ALARACT and paragraph 27-19a of AR 670-1, the bow tie is worn only after retreat, this text suggests that the \"dress blue ASU\" is not conceived of as a uniform order for the daytime, that the \"dress blue ASU\" for males is not an all-hours uniform including an evening variant with bow tie, and that the \"class A ASU\" is the highest order of dress for daytime wear. \n After this, service uniforms started to become more elaborate, as they were not needed to be useful in combat, and could take on a unique appearance, with new features and embellishments. Units began to display their own special patches, and badges were added for various specialties. \n The ASU includes a midnight blue coat and low waist trousers for male soldiers; and a midnight blue coat, slacks and skirt for female soldiers. The fabric for the ASU is heavier and more wrinkle resistant than previously manufactured uniforms and will consist of 55% wool and 45% polyester material. The ASU coat has a tailored, athletic cut to improve uniform fit and appearance. The ASU includes an improved heavier and wrinkle resistant short and long-sleeved white shirt with permanent military creases and shoulder loops. The JROTC version replaces the white shirt with the prototype grey shirt and gold braid is not worn on the blue trousers or on the sleeves of the class A coat. Compared to the Army's previous uniforms, the ASU does not include a garrison cap; soldiers will continue to wear the Army's berets. \n The dress blue ASU for males includes the blue coat and trousers and a long-sleeved white shirt with black tie. The dress blue ASU for females includes the blue coat, skirt, and a long-sleeved white shirt with black neck tab. Currently, females in army bands, honor guards, and female chaplains are authorized to wear army blue slacks in the performance of their duties. The black beret and service cap are authorized for wear with this uniform. Combat boots and organizational items, such as brassards, military police accessories and distinctive unit insignia are not worn. All other accessories and insignia authorized for wear with the class \"A\" service uniform are authorized for wear on the dress blue ASU. \n Commissioned officers are given a one-time stipend when commissioned to purchase their required uniform items. Officers then maintain proper fit and appearance of their uniform items throughout their career. The army requires officers to purchase and maintain only the blue service uniform. \n The 1899 Army Uniform Regulations provided for a cotton khaki uniform for field service, drawing on the experience of the Spanish–American War when both blue and drab clothing had been worn. From 1902 to 1917, the army had two uniforms:a service uniform of wool olive drab Melton cloth for use by soldiers in the field, and a blue dress uniform used for ceremonies and off-post wear by enlisted men. \n The class \"B\" ASU includes the army blue trousers/skirt/slacks, a short or long sleeve white shirt. Soldiers will wear the four-in-hand necktie with the long sleeve white shirt when it is worn without the class \"A\" coat. Until the new ASU items are available, soldiers who have the low waist trousers with belt loops, or slacks, have the option of wearing a commercial short sleeve white shirt with shoulder loops in the open collar configuration or with a four-in-hand necktie (black neck tab for female soldiers). Soldiers have the option of wearing a commercial long sleeve white shirt with shoulder loops and a four-in-hand necktie (black neck tab for female soldiers). Soldiers who have the current commercial white shirt without shoulder loops must wear as appropriate, the black wind breaker, black pullover or black cardigan sweaters with this uniform. \n Around 1940, soldiers began to use special uniforms designed for combat or field operations, with numerous special equipment and packs. The M-1941 Field Jacket was one of the first clothing items which was approved specifically for use in the field, and which was not meant to be part of a standard service uniform. \n Soldiers who have the high waist blue trousers worn with suspenders (designed to wear with the blue mess uniform) may wear these trousers with the current ASU during this transition period. These high waist trousers must be worn with the service coat, black wind breaker, black pullover or black cardigan sweaters. \n * Officer and non-commissioned officers will wear trousers with a gold braid sewn on the outside of seam of each trouser leg of the new blue ASU. The braid will be sewn from the bottom of the waistband to the bottom of the trouser leg (soldiers assigned to the Old Guard are authorized the gold braid regardless of grade). \n * On the new ASU, service stripes are authorized for wear on the left sleeve for enlisted soldiers and Overseas Service Bars on the right sleeve for both officers and enlisted soldiers. The new service stripes and Overseas Service Bars are similar in size to the ones currently worn on the army green uniform. The new service stripes and Overseas Service Bars will be gold in color and trimmed in blue to match the ASU. During the transition to the new ASU, the traditional larger service stripes on the optional white and blue (short jacket) mess dress uniform will be maintained. \n * The current (old) blue uniform (with large service stripes) remains authorized for wear until the final quarter of Fiscal Year 2014. \n * Soldiers who have the current (old) blue uniform are not required to remove the existing large service stripes. \n * Privates through specialists who now own the current blue trousers are not required to remove the existing gold braid on their trouser legs. \n * Until the last quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 official photos can be in either the army green service uniform or the blue ASU. \n * The wear out date for the army green service uniform with accessories is the 4th quarter of Fiscal Year 2015. \n * All new insignia worn on the ASU will be designed and developed by the United States Army Institute of Heraldry \n * The grey shirt initially developed for the army service uniform is only authorized for army JROTC units. \n * The gold braid is only authorized for the active army and is not authorized for wear on the JROTC cadet ASU.I.e. the trousers or the coat sleeves.",
"The class \"A\" ASU includes the army blue coat and trousers/skirt/slacks, a short or long sleeved white shirt and four-in-hand necktie (male)/neck tab (female) (for accessories and other items authorized for wear on the class \"A\" ASU, see ASU accessory items authorized for wear). \n Washington used Thomas Webb's A Military Treatise on the Appointments of the Army as a guide for outfitting this particular unit. Washington would soon accept the additional field command of another four independent companies:in Prince William, Fauquier, Richmond, and Spotsylvania Counties. \n The ASU was announced in 2006 by then-Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker, and will serve as the U.S. Army's dress, garrison, and ceremonial uniform. Since the new army uniform is now standard, the only green uniform remaining in the U.S. military are the olive green Marine Corps service uniform. \n 1. Belt and buckle \n 2. Black combat boots (optional for wear with class \"A\" and class \"B\" uniforms for soldiers authorized to wear the tan, green, or maroon berets, those assigned to air assault coded positions, and military police soldiers performing MP duties.) \n 3. Black bow tie (worn after retreat) \n 4. Buttons \n 5. Black cape (officer only) \n 6. Blue cape (officer only) \n 7. Chaplain's apparel \n 8. Gold cuff links and studs \n 9. Black all-weather coat \n 10. Black leather dress gloves (worn with black all weather coat or black wind breaker) \n 11. White dress gloves \n 12. Black handbag \n 13. Black shoulder bag \n 14. Black clutch \n 15. Drill sergeant hat (authorized for wear with class \"A\" and class \"B\" uniforms) \n 16. Judge's apparel \n 17. Military police accessories (not authorized with the formal class \"A\" ASU) \n 18. Black necktie (worn on duty) \n 19. Neck tabs \n 20. Black scarf (only with black all weather coat or black windbreaker) \n 21. White long-sleeve shirt \n 22. White short-sleeve shirt \n 23. Black shoes \n 24. Black pumps \n 25. Black cushioned socks (worn with boots only) \n 26. Black dress socks (worn with trousers/slacks) \n 27. Sheer stockings \n 28. Black pullover sweater \n 29. Black unisex Cardigan \n 30. White undershirt \n 31. Black umbrella (female soldiers may carry and use an umbrella, only during inclement weather, when wearing the dress blue ASU. Umbrellas are not authorized in formations or when wearing field or utility uniforms) \n 32. Black windbreaker (only with class \"B\" uniform)",
"The first commendation ever used by the U.S. military was the original Purple Heart, designed personally by George Washington. It was originally a medal for valor, and at the time was the only one issued by the U.S. Army. It fell out of use after the American Revolution but was later revived and became the modern commendation for wounds in battle, which is how it is used today. World War I was the first time that the army began to award a variety of medals and decorations, except for the Medal of Honor, which was first awarded during the Civil War. \n The ASU used the preexisting \"army blue\" uniform as a model. Accordingly, in terms of color the ASU resembles the campaign uniforms worn by soldiers during the Mexican–American War, American Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War prior to the introduction of khaki uniforms in the 1890s (phased out in 1985) and olive drab uniforms in 1902 (phased out and replaced with \"army green\" between 1955 and 1957), making the blue uniform a dress uniform. Dress uniforms of dark-blue tunics and light-blue trousers were worn by all ranks until 1917 and reintroduced in a modernized form (with open collar and tie) for officers and warrant officers in 1937. \n This uniform also exists in the army JROTC program in a modified version. The main difference is that the AJROTC version mostly resembles the original trial version of the army service uniform which consisted of a grey, long or short sleeved shirt and the blue trousers without the gold stripe sewn on. The blue class A coat is exactly the same as the current issue coat except that the gold edge trimming is not worn on the sleeves of the blue coat, the main blue shade of army blue 450 is the same as on the current army service uniform and the official headgear authorized is the grey beret with a black center flash with gold trim. The official designation of the uniform is the \"AJROTC cadet service uniform,\" or The ASU as well. The new cadet army service uniform will completely replace the cadet army green uniform by October 2015. Most AJROTC units possessed the new blue uniform by October 2014. \n The Army Service Uniform (ASU) is a military uniform worn by United States Army personnel in situations where formal dress is called for. It can be worn at most public and official functions, and as an analog for business dress. In combat situations, the Army Combat Uniform is used. \n In the early days of the U.S. Army, the uniform worn in combat was essentially the same as that worn for everyday duties. This was the common practice with most armies of the time. This changed in modern times, as field uniforms were developed which were more suited for battle. \n When the dress blue ASU is worn for social events in the evening (i.e. after retreat), men may wear a black bow tie rather than a black four-in-hand necktie, and commanders may direct that headgear is not required. \n | This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) \n---|---\n The Army currently uses the blue Army Service Uniform. According to Army Regulation 670-1:Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia, Army White, and Army Blue uniforms are considered Dress Uniforms. The Army Service Uniform seeks to combine these distinctions through wear stipulations. Possession and use of the blue ASU is now mandatory for all soldiers as of October 1, 2015, when the green class A was retired. As of fall 2010, enlisted soldiers receive the blue service uniform as part of their basic clothing bag issue when they enter the army during initial entry training. The army further provides active-duty enlisted soldiers an annual clothing allowance to maintain proper fit and appearance of their basic clothing bag issue items. The army includes a series of stipends in this annual clothing allowance towards the replacement of the green service uniform and all basic clothing bag items. \n Among the earliest unit patches was for the 81st Infantry Division. This unit trained at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. They created patches showing a wildcat, so that they could identify each other quickly in combat. Some officers questioned this, but General John Pershing decided it was a good idea, so the army started to implement it for all units. \n The Combat Infantryman Badge and the Expert Infantryman Badge were created in 1943 by the United States Secretary of War. The combat infantryman badge was originally awarded for valor in combat. In 1947, every soldier who earned it was given a Bronze Star, and since then, it is awarded for having participated in ground combat. \n To streamline the number of uniforms soldiers purchase and maintain throughout their careers, the army has phased out the green and white service uniforms and retained the blue service uniform as the army service uniform. \n While Washington was in Philadelphia, one hundred neighbors in Fairfax County (VA), under the tutelage of George Mason, had organized themselves into a voluntary militia–probably the first in the colony–electing Washington their commander. Borrowing the colors of the English Whig party, the Fairfax Independent Company wore blue uniforms with buff facings and white stockings. \n Lieutenant General Edmund B. Gregory, the Quartermaster General, looking back in 1946, pointed out that World War I uniforms had subtly changed from a comfortable loose-fitting four pocket field garment to a tight-fitting version suitable only for garrison wear. At the outbreak of World War II, the army had to develop new loose-fitting patterns which the men could live in, as well as muster on the parade ground. Gregory noted that this gradual change to a tight-fitting uniform in peacetime has been characteristic of the history of uniforms in all armies. \n The ASU made its \"debut\" at the 2007 State of the Union Address, when General Schoomaker wore his army blue uniform. \n The blue ASU replaced the \"Army Green\" and \"Army White\" service uniforms. Originally created in 2008 as a secondary uniform to the former army \"class A greens\", in the autumn of 2010 it started being issued to all soldiers and now is worn army-wide as the official service uniform. \n It is based on the older \"dress blue\" dress uniform. Older antecedents include the uniforms of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and the Union Army's during the American Civil War. Their influence is apparent in the overall blue theme, the officers' passants (shoulder-straps) and trouser design. \n 1. Service aiguillettes (officers only) (not authorized on the class \"B\" ASU) \n 2. Airborne background trimming \n 3. Branch of service scarf (not authorized on the enlisted formal class \"A\" service uniform) \n 4. Branch insignia (not authorized on the class \"B\" ASU) \n 5. Brassards (not authorized on the dress blue ASU) \n 6. Combat service identification badge (CSIB). Worn when available in place of the Green uniforms shoulder sleeve insignia. The CSIB will be worn centered on the wearer's right breast pocket of the ASU coat for male soldiers; female soldiers wear the CSIB on the right side parallel to the waistline on the ASU coat. The CSIB is ranked fifth in order of precedence below the Presidential, Vice-Presidential, Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badges. The CSIB can also be worn on the shirt when wearing the class \"B\" versions of the ASU \n 7. Decorations and ribbons \n 8. Distinctive items authorized for infantrymen \n 9. Distinctive unit insignia (enlisted only) (authorized for wear on the class \"A\" and class \"B\" uniforms only) \n 10. Foreign badges \n 11. Fourragere lanyards \n 12. Gold Star lapel pin \n 13. Headgear insignia \n 14. Rank insignia \n 15. Officer candidate and warrant officer candidate insignia. \n 16. Nameplate \n 17. Organizational flash",
"7. Decorations and ribbons \n 8. Distinctive items authorized for infantrymen \n 9. Distinctive unit insignia (enlisted only) (authorized for wear on the class \"A\" and class \"B\" uniforms only) \n 10. Foreign badges \n 11. Fourragere lanyards \n 12. Gold Star lapel pin \n 13. Headgear insignia \n 14. Rank insignia \n 15. Officer candidate and warrant officer candidate insignia. \n 16. Nameplate \n 17. Organizational flash \n 18. Overseas service bars (optional) \n 19. Distinctive regimental insignia (optional) \n 20. Service stripes (enlisted personnel only) \n 21. Unit awards \n 22.U.S. badges (identification, marksmanship, combat and special skill) \n 23.U.S. Insignia (not authorized on the class \"B\" ASU)",
"1. Black, maroon, tan, or green beret. (Compared to the former green uniform, a garrison cap is no longer issued.) \n 2. Service cap (male/female; corporals and above) \n 3. Stetson (U.S. Cavalry) \n\n\n During the Civil War era, army uniforms were relatively simple. Typically, the same uniform served as a garrison uniform and as a combat uniform. Combat soldiers in the Civil War wore a standard dark blue coat, just like personnel in garrisons or in army offices and headquarters. In the first half of the war, many states supplied their regiments with uniforms, resulting in distinctive jackets and buttons. Rank was indicated by a shoulder strap for officers, and chevrons on the sleeves for non-commissioned officers. Branch or specialty could be indicated by the color of the enlisted badge of rank, or the background color for officers' shoulder straps. Uniform standards were relaxed during the war years, especially on campaign, and men often wore a variety of hats in the field."
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"Wonderful Fool One day Takamori, a young man living with his mother and dominant younger sister Tomoe, receives a letter from Singapore. After a while they manage to decipher the unusually poor Japanese, and figure out that Gaston Bonaparte, a man who used to be a pen friend of Takamori during his school days, will soon arrive in Japan. On the expected day, they find the poorly dressed Gaston (a striking contrast to his more famous relative, in the eyes of his Japanese hosts) in the cheapest class, deep down in the ship. Gaston immediately befriends a stray dog (who he initially calls 犬さん - \"Mr. Dog\", but later renames \"Napoleon\"), who is to follow him for most of the story but he is eventually captured by the dog catcher and killed. After staying a few days at Takamori and Tomoe's home, Gaston decides to carry on his mysterious mission in Japan. He ends up checking into a Love hotel in Shibuya with his dog, attracting some strange looks from the owner. During the night Gaston manages to help a thieving prostitute escape (although mostly due to misunderstanding the situation), which gets him kicked out of the hotel in the middle of the night, but she gets him food and puts him in contact with an old fortune teller, who makes Gaston his assistant. Soon Gaston is kidnapped by a gangster planning to murder two old army officers for revenge. Gaston tries to talk the man, Endo, out of his violent plans. When this doesn't work, he simply steals the bullets from Endo's gun, thus making the victim able to run away. Endo knocks Gaston out and flees, but Gaston manages to track the next victim down, and outside his house he finds Endo once again. The former is not overly happy to see him, but figures that he could use some help with digging up some silver that the army officer stole during the war. In the mountain swamp where the treasure is supposed to be located, Endo and the army officer get into a fight. Gaston gets between them, saving the life of Endo, who is later found by a fisherman and rushed to a hospital. Gaston disappears and is never found again. Takamori and Tomoe later get hold of Gaston's diary. All that is written is a scrawl about his failure in passing the missionary exam. It is written that he still must go to Japan. It is clear by the novel's end that Gaston's visit has led the main characters to reassess their lives, Takamori begins to look at the less well off in Tokyo for the first time. Wonderful Fool One day Takamori, a young man living with his mother and dominant younger sister Tomoe, receives a letter from Singapore. After a while they manage to decipher the unusually poor Japanese, and figure out that Gaston Bonaparte, a man who used to be a pen friend of Takamori during his school days, will soon arrive"
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"Chester Liverpool Road railway station Chester Liverpool Road was a station on the former Chester & Connah's Quay Railway between Chester Northgate and Hawarden Bridge. It was located at the junction of Liverpool Road and Brook Lane in Chester. The station was opened on 31 March 1890 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (which was renamed Great Central Railway in 1897). The station had an island with two adjacent side platforms because it served two routes. Services from North Wales or Seacombe with its ferry connection to Liverpool (using the Great Central Railway) could either terminate at Chester Northgate Station, the Chester terminus of the Cheshire Lines Committee, or continue on the through line to Manchester Central. The through lines, which linked Dee Marsh junction to the CLC route to Manchester, passed to the north of the island platform, whereas the branch lines that ran to Chester Northgate went to the south of the island platform. The station's four platforms were used as follows: Chester Liverpool Road also had a goods yard with sidings. Passenger services ceased on 3 December 1951. The station was completely closed . Even though steelmaking operations at the Corus plant at Shotton ceased in March 1980, freight continued to pass the former station on a double-tracked line until 20 April 1984. Goods services resumed on a single-track line on 31 August 1986 before final closure in the early 1990s. The trackbed is now a cycle way. The station was demolished in the 1970s. The site then became a coal yard. In the 2000s the area was completely redeveloped for a fitness centre. Chester Liverpool Road railway station Chester Liverpool Road was a station on the former Chester & Connah's Quay Railway between Chester Northgate and Hawarden Bridge. It was located at the junction of"
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"Electrokinetic phenomena Electrokinetic phenomena are a family of several different effects that occur in heterogeneous fluids, or in porous bodies filled with fluid, or in a fast flow over a flat surface. The term heterogeneous here means a fluid containing particles. Particles can be solid, liquid or gas bubbles with sizes on the scale of a micrometer or nanometer. There is a common source of all these effects—the so-called interfacial 'double layer' of charges. Influence of an external force on the diffuse layer generates tangential motion of a fluid with respect to an adjacent charged surface. This force might be electric, pressure gradient, concentration gradient, or gravity. In addition, the moving phase might be either continuous fluid or dispersed phase. Various combinations of the driving force and moving phase determine various electrokinetic effects. According to J.Lyklema, the complete family of electrokinetic phenomena includes: There are detailed descriptions of electrokinetic phenomena in many books on interface and colloid science. Electrokinetic phenomena Electrokinetic phenomena are a family of several different effects that occur in heterogeneous fluids, or in porous bodies filled with fluid, or in a fast flow over a flat surface. The term heterogeneous here means a fluid containing particles. Particles"
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"RoboCop (character) RoboCop is a fictional robotically enhanced Detroit police officer designated as OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001, and is the main protagonist in the film series of the same name. The character begins as a human Detroit Police Officer named Alexander James \"Alex\" Murphy, who is killed in the line of duty by a vicious crime gang. Subsequently, Murphy is transformed into the cyborg entity RoboCop by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP). He is referred to as Robo by creators Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner in their original screenplay. Edward Neumeier's script and idea was rejected by many studios, and even the name was thought as \"unsuitable\". The character was inspired from sources as varied as Iron Man and Judge Dredd. OCP holds a contract to fund and run the Detroit Police Department. Security Concepts is the division that provides oversight for the police. In order to supplement the police force that is overwhelmed with crime, Security Concepts begins developing robotic law enforcement units. Originally, the Senior President Dick Jones develops a fully robotic unit called ED (Enforcement Droid)-209, with plans to secure a long-term contract with the military for replacement parts and service. However, ED-209 severely malfunctions during the simulation of a disarm-and-arrest-procedure and kills the test subject, even though he dropped his weapon. Ambitious junior executive Bob Morton takes this as a justified reason to go over Jones's head and pitch his \"RoboCop Program\" directly to OCP's CEO, the \"Old Man\". Morton and his team restructure the police force to place prime candidates with high aptitude and experience in law enforcement into high crime areas where death in the line of duty is much higher. Once a death occurs, the deceased officer's body will be used in the construction of a cyborg law enforcement unit, since they have already signed waivers allowing OCP to do whatever they pleased with their corpses. This unit will be afforded the fastest reflexes made possible by modern technology, a memory assisted by an on-board computer, and programmed with a lifetime experience of on-the-street law enforcement. Murphy is one of these candidates. He is partnered with Officer Anne Lewis, a veteran herself of Old Detroit, plagued by crime boss Clarence Boddicker and his gang. One day, Murphy and Lewis are on patrol when Boddicker hits a pharmaceutical company. They give chase to the gang's panel truck, and after a rolling shootout, chase the truck to an abandoned steel mill. As they split up to search for the gang, Murphy is captured by three other gang members: Emil Antonowsky, Leon Nash and Steve Minh. When Boddicker shows up, he asks Murphy for his opinion of him, to which Murphy defiantly and honestly tells him, \"Buddy, I think you're slime.\" While Lewis is incapacitated after henchman Joe Cox knocks her off a catwalk, Boddicker shoots off Murphy's right hand with a shotgun. The gang members then take turns firing their shotguns, shearing off Murphy's right arm and blasting holes in every part of his body. Amazingly, Murphy is still alive on his knees afterwards (perhaps due to the protective body armor covering his upper body). Boddicker then walks up and executes him with a gunshot to the head. Murphy is rushed to the emergency room, where the doctors try in vain to keep him alive. Because of Murphy's stellar record and near-perfect psychological profile, portions of his body are subsequently used to create the prototype RoboCop designated as OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001. Because he is pronounced dead, the body is seized by OCP, citing the release forms Murphy signed when he joined the police force. The technicians of the RoboCop Program, led by Morton, take what is left of Murphy's face and portions of his cerebrum and cerebellum and apply them to a cybernetic body, in effect resurrecting Alex Murphy as RoboCop. RoboCop quickly proves to be an effective weapon against crime, but unbeknownst to Morton is that RoboCop begins to remember his past life as Murphy, starting with his death at the hands of Boddicker and his gang. Enraged at having had his life stolen from him, RoboCop embarks on a personal quest for vengeance as he hunts down and apprehends Boddicker's gang, resulting in the gang's arrest. RoboCop also tracks down OCP's senior executive, Dick Jones, in an attempt to make him pay for aiding Boddicker. However, RoboCop's classified 'Directive 4' comes into effect, preventing him from arresting Jones, and he is subsequently damaged by the ED-209 as well as Lt. Hedgecock and his SWAT team, though a few SWATs refuse to follow the order. After enduring a massed attack by SWAT, RoboCop is rescued by Lewis who was alerted by the few SWATs to LT. Hedgecock's treachery. The two hide in an abandoned steel mill after they escape, during which RoboCop confides to Lewis about his memories of his past life. He also uses a drill brought by Lewis to remove his headpiece, showing how he has his \"Alex Murphy\" face stretched over it. The two are attacked by Boddicker's gang, commissioned by Jones to destroy the cyborg after he realizes that his entire confession of ordering Morton's murder has been recorded. The final confrontation with Boddicker himself ends with RoboCop violently stabbing him in the throat with the computer data spike installed in his fist. RoboCop confronts Jones in the middle of an OCP board meeting, during which Jones takes the \"Old Man\" hostage. After admitting that he can take no action due to Directive 4, the \"Old Man\" fires Jones, allowing RoboCop to shoot him, since he is no longer an OCP employee and his orders on the Detroit police force to destroy him is put to an end. Complimenting RoboCop on his shooting skills, The Old Man asks him his name. Robocop smiles before answering, \"Murphy\". A year later, OCP attempts to replicate the success they had with Murphy with a new RoboCop Program; however, all of the candidates selected go insane upon activation and commit suicide or harmed others, due to the severe mental strain of their prostheses. RoboCop is captured, torn apart by the drug lord Cain and his gang and subsequently thrown in front of the police station in an effort to send them a message. He is reconstructed with numerous other directives that render him virtually ineffective on the street, but he is able to reset his programming and erase his directives by giving himself a massive electric shock, leaving him free to lead a counter-attack against Cain. To find a suitable personality for the new Robocop Program, Dr. Juliette Faxx turns to the criminal element in Cain, reasoning that someone with strong megalomania would relish the power of the new body instead of rejecting the new-found life, just as Murphy came through the process due to his strong sense of justice. Her plan is to use his addiction to the drug Nuke to control him. Upon his death, Cain's brain and spinal column are harvested and placed in a larger, more powerful cybernetic body, referred to as RoboCop 2. Ultimately, Cain's addiction to Nuke proves to be his undoing, as Lewis tempts him with a vial of the drug long enough for RoboCop to attack Cain from behind and remove his brain casing from the robot body. RoboCop smashes the brain on the pavement, eliminating Cain for good. Omni Consumer Products (OCP), on the verge of bankruptcy, creates an armed force called the Urban Rehabilitators (\"Rehabs\" for short), under the command of Paul McDaggett (John Castle). Ostensibly its purpose is to combat rising crime in Old Detroit, augmenting the ranks of the Detroit Police in apprehending violent criminals. In reality it has been set up to forcibly relocate the residents of Cadillac Heights, killing some of them (including the parents of Nikko, a Japanese-American computer whiz kid) in the process. The police force is gradually superseded by the Rehabs, and violent crime begins to spiral out of control. The Delta City dream of",
"attack Cain from behind and remove his brain casing from the robot body. RoboCop smashes the brain on the pavement, eliminating Cain for good. Omni Consumer Products (OCP), on the verge of bankruptcy, creates an armed force called the Urban Rehabilitators (\"Rehabs\" for short), under the command of Paul McDaggett (John Castle). Ostensibly its purpose is to combat rising crime in Old Detroit, augmenting the ranks of the Detroit Police in apprehending violent criminals. In reality it has been set up to forcibly relocate the residents of Cadillac Heights, killing some of them (including the parents of Nikko, a Japanese-American computer whiz kid) in the process. The police force is gradually superseded by the Rehabs, and violent crime begins to spiral out of control. The Delta City dream of the former OCP CEO, \"Old Man\", lives on with the help of the Japanese zaibatsu Kanemitsu Corporation, which has bought a controlling stake in the organisation. Kanemitsu (Mako) sees the potential in the citywide redevelopment, and moves forward with the plans to remove the current citizens. The company develops and uses its own ninja robots (called \"Otomo\") to help McDaggett and the OCP President (Rip Torn) overcome the resistance of the anti-OCP militia forces. When RoboCop (Burke) and partner Anne Lewis (Allen) try to defend civilians from the Rehabs one night, Lewis is mortally wounded by McDaggett and eventually dies. Unable to fight back because of the 'Fourth Directive', RoboCop is saved by members of a resistance and eventually joins them. Due to severe damage sustained in the shoot-out RoboCop's systems efficiency plummets, and he asks the resistance to summon Dr. Lazarus, one of the scientists who created him. Upon arrival she begins to treat him, deleting the Fourth Directive in the process. During an earlier raid on an armoury the resistance has picked up a jet-pack prototype, originally intended for RoboCop's use, which Lazarus modifies and upgrades. After recovering from his injuries RoboCop conducts a one-man campaign against the Rehabs. He finds McDaggett and attempts to subdue him, but McDaggett is able to escape. McDagget then obtains information from a disgruntled resistance member (Stephen Root) regarding the location of the resistance fighters base. The base is then attacked by the Rehabs and most of the resistance members are either killed or taken prisoner. Nikko escapes with the help of Lazarus before she is captured and taken to the OCP headquarters as a prisoner. RoboCop returns to the rebel base to find it abandoned. One of the Otomo ninjabots then arrives and attacks him. RoboCop experiences another power drain and his side-arm is destroyed, but eventually he is able to overcome his opponent. Meanwhile, Nikko infiltrates the OCP building and assists Lazarus broadcast an improvised video, revealing that OCP is behind the outbreaks of criminality in the city and implicating them in the removal and termination of the Cadillac Heights residents. The broadcast causes OCP's stock to plunge dramatically, driving the company into total ruin. McDaggett decides to execute an all-out strike against Cadillac Heights with the help of the Detroit City police department, but the outraged police officers refused to comply and instead defect to the resistance. As a result, McDaggett turns to hiring street gangs and hooligans to assist with his plans. Having heard Lazarus' broadcast Robocop takes to the air using the jet-pack. As the combined forces of the Rehabs and street gangs are about to wipe out the rebels and Detroit Police, RoboCop mounts an aerial assault on the attackers, leading to their defeat. He then proceeds to the OCP building and confronts the waiting McDaggett. Robocop is then attacked, and nearly defeated, by two Otomo robots. Nikko and Lazarus succeed in reprogramming them using a wireless link from a laptop computer, however, forcing them to attack each other. This triggers a timed self-destruct sequence in both units, forcing Robocop to flee. Igniting his jet-pack the flaming discharge hits McDaggett's leg, immobilising him. Robocop escapes with Nikko and Lazarus, leaving McDaggett to perish in the blast while attempting to stop the self-destruct devices. As Old Detroit is being cleaned up Kanemitsu arrives and confronts RoboCop and his group, while his translator (Doug Yasuda) tells the OCP president on Kanemitsu's behalf that he is fired. Kanemitsu then bows to RoboCop. The deposed OCP President turns to Robocop and says \"Well, I gotta hand it to ya... what do they call you? Murphy, is it?\" RoboCop replies, saying \"My friends call me Murphy. You call me RoboCop.\" Thirteen years after the first RoboCop was activated, OCP revives the RoboCop Program yet again. After the death of Delta City Security Commander John T. Cable, OCP uses portions of his body to create Crime Prevention Unit 002, moving back to the original elements of Morton's RoboCop Program. In a move of Corporate Espionage, this new RoboCop is activated in an attempt to eliminate his predecessor so that the conglomerate could freely participate in questionable activities. This programming is later overcome by Cable, who OCP had not remembered was a former friend, and partner, of Alex Murphy, and the two instead moved against OCP. In this reboot of the series, Alex Murphy and his partner, Jack Lewis, are attempting to arrest crime lord Antoine Vallon, unaware that he has contacts inside the department. When Lewis gets shot and is hospitalized after an undercover deal goes wrong, Murphy is badly injured when Vallon detonates a car bomb in his driveway; a subsequent medical evaluation states that Murphy has third-degree burns over eighty percent of his body, serious spinal damage left him paralysed from the waist down, his left arm and leg had to be amputated, serious damage to the optical nerves in his left eye left him blind in that eye, and he was likely to be deaf. Faced with this damage, Murphy's wife agrees for him to be made part of the new Robocop program as part of a campaign by OmniCorp's Director, Raymond Sellars, to overturn the Dreyfus Act, which prevents robots being used for law enforcement purposes in American streets, by putting a human in the robotic body. Murphy is virtually completely reconstructed with a cybernetic body; his face, central nervous systems, circulatory systems and respiratory systems are the largest part of him left intact, along with his right hand, but various chips have been implanted into his brain, as well as at least one eye being replaced, along with the rest of his body. However, he proves to operate at a slower rate than the drone counterparts in field simulations due to his natural hesitation when making judgements in the field. Attempting to get around this, Dr. Norton, the cyberneticist responsible for creating Murphy's implants, has a new chip installed in Murphy's brain that compensates for this by taking control of his responses in action. When faced with his public debut, Murphy is so overwhelmed by his emotions that Dr. Norton is forced to shut down Murphy's ability to feel emotions to prevent a psychological breakdown. With his emotions shut down, Murphy proves to be an effective detective and police officer, quickly tracking down assorted unarrested suspects through his access to various security systems. His inability to emotionally connect results in him avoiding contact with his wife Clara and son David. When Clara confronts Murphy about his distance, it causes the reversal of the effects of Dr. Norton's emotion augmentation, prompting Murphy to track down Vallon and his police contacts, effectively solving his own murder, only to be shut down when he attempts to force a confession out of the police chief after learning that she was one of Vallon's contacts. When Sellars attempts to use this discovery of police corruption to have RoboCops put in action on a country-wide scale and destroy the original, Norton has a",
"shut down, Murphy proves to be an effective detective and police officer, quickly tracking down assorted unarrested suspects through his access to various security systems. His inability to emotionally connect results in him avoiding contact with his wife Clara and son David. When Clara confronts Murphy about his distance, it causes the reversal of the effects of Dr. Norton's emotion augmentation, prompting Murphy to track down Vallon and his police contacts, effectively solving his own murder, only to be shut down when he attempts to force a confession out of the police chief after learning that she was one of Vallon's contacts. When Sellars attempts to use this discovery of police corruption to have RoboCops put in action on a country-wide scale and destroy the original, Norton has a crisis of conscience and not only reactivates Murphy, but admits what was done to him psychologically during the program. With the death of Sellars, Murphy is reconstructed by Norton and allowed contact with his family again. Police officer Alex Murphy is serving with the Detroit Police Department when its funding and administration is taken over by the private corporation Omni Consumer Products. Murphy is a devout Irish Catholic and a mild-mannered family man, living with his wife, Ellen (Nancy in the television series, Clara in the 2014 remake), and his son, Jimmy (James Daniel \"Jimmy\" Murphy in (see ep. 06, \"Zone Five\"), David in the 2014 remake). Murphy starts mimicking his son's television hero, \"T.J. Lazer\", by twirling his gun whenever he took down a criminal. Murphy's psychological profile states that he was top of his class at the police academy and possesses a fierce sense of duty. This dedication explains why Murphy exhibits none of the negative attitudes and statements shared by his fellow officers when he is transferred to the Metro West Precinct, the most violent area of Old Detroit. The police dissatisfaction is the result of OCP's deliberate mismanagement, and penny-pinching, which led to the deaths of many police officers in the precinct. Alex Murphy's police file (from the first RoboCop film) reads as follows: \"OD5839484E09\" \"Murphy, Alex J.\" \"548 Primrose Ln,\" \"Detroit, MI\" \"Grade: 1 00 33\" DECEASED \"Service: 7\" \"Merit:\" \"Miranda Award\" \"GD Conduct\" \"BRVRY\" RoboCop is programmed to follow three main \"prime directives\" (accompanied by a mysterious fourth) based on the \"\"To Protect and to Serve\"\" motto of the Los Angeles Police Department and many other police forces, and which are comparable with Isaac Asimov's \"Three Laws of Robotics\". The First Directive is the \"moral\" directive programmed: it establishes RoboCop as a police civil servant in the series. RoboCop must help the civilians in any ways possible; and must protect their rights to life, privacy, and property from any lethal or non-lethal harm. This disables him from prosecuting, arresting, trespassing or harming innocent civilians without warrant, or act in any way against the public's trust. If he detects innocent bystanders, his fellow officers or criminals of minor misdemeanors are attacked; it then activates the Second Directive and Third Directive. The Second Directive is the \"ethical\" directive programmed: it establishes Robocop must exercise duty to rescue, non-lethality and the presumption of innocence at all times. Lethal-force is authorized only during life-threatening situations, and only against criminals with a history of serious felonies (etc. murder). The Third Directive is the \"legal\" directive programmed: it establishes RoboCop as a law enforcement officer, and is obligated to \"protect and serve\" as required by law. It also forbids strike action or to request termination of employment, and disables him from directly assaulting, arresting, resisting, impreding or harming a police officer. In \"RoboCop 2,\" this is specifically what prevents Murphy from killing Boddicker during a drug raid: while Boddicker had been shooting at RoboCop minutes before, he then put his gun away and tried to flee, but RoboCop caught up with him and started severely beating him (based on echoes of memory of what Boddicker did to Murphy). The badly wounded and now unarmed Boddicker begs for his life, pleads that he surrenders, and that RoboCop can't kill him because he's a police officer – which activates the Third Directive, making Robocop take him in alive back to the police precinct. The Fourth Directive is Jones' contribution to RoboCop's psychological profile, deliberately programmed as \"hidden\" and is inaccessible by RoboCop. This directive renders him physically incapable of arresting or injuring any senior OCP employee: \"Any attempt to arrest a senior OCP employee results in shutdown.\". Jones informs RoboCop that he is an OCP product and not an ordinary police officer. As a result, RoboCop is unable to act against the corrupt Jones until the Old Man terminates Jones's employment with the company, allowing RoboCop to act against him. The Fourth Directive has been erased twice, in each of the sequels. \"RoboCop\" sees the deletion of all of the directives; after Dr. Faxx has RoboCop reprogrammed with so many new irrelevant directives that he is nearly incapable of taking action, RoboCop is forced to subject himself to high voltage electricity to clear his database. In \"RoboCop 3,\" Directive Four is declassified and reworded as \"Never oppose an OCP officer.\" It is eliminated so that RoboCop could avenge Lewis's death. In \"\", Directive Four was not present at all, but a saboteur instituted one which is stated as \"Terminate John T. Cable.\" In \"RoboCop: The Series\", Directive Four was also not present. At the end of \"Prime Directives\", all his directives were erased, but RoboCop stated to his son that he would do \"What I do: Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law,\" noting that he would keep his directives by his own free will, not through the imposition of programming. In the 2014 film, there is no reference to the Directives, but Murphy, like the drones, is programmed to protect 'red assets' in the form of individuals wearing coded bracelets identifying themselves as assets who must be protected, with the result that he is initially unable to shoot or arrest men who are genuinely threats to him without his cybernetic systems shutting down, although he is able to override this program at the end when the OmniCorp CEO threatens to shoot his wife and son. Robocop carries guns designed for him and is equipped with enhanced reflexes, speed and strength, visual and auditory capabilities. RoboCop's vision has an internal zoom capability for better aim as well as tracking. RoboCop also has different vision modes but the only one that has been used in the movies was thermal vision in \"RoboCop\" and \"RoboCop 3\". His systems use a grid which is crucial to RoboCop's targeting as well as bullet trajectory (allowing him to make ricochet shots), though apparently the targeting reticle of RoboCop is internal to him, as seen in the first movie. As seen in \"RoboCop 2\", RoboCop's programming prevents him from targeting children, which allowed Hob to shoot RoboCop and escape the Nuke drug lab. He also has a recorder which can detect voice fluctuations and stress as well as play back audio/visual. This recording capability enables RoboCop to document any situation he encounters with perfect recall and unbiased neutrality, with his memory being deemed through legal agreement as admissible evidence in a court of law. As seen in \"RoboCop 2\", RoboCop possesses a directional microphone with which he can track conversations from a distance. It would seem to be very sensitive, as he can hear vehicles approaching from afar despite being indoors (as he did when he was hiding out in \"RoboCop 3\"). In the television series, he is capable of lie detection by means of a polygraph. In the reboot film, his vision is greatly enhanced: His visor comes down when in attack mode, and is usually up when in sentry",
"recorder which can detect voice fluctuations and stress as well as play back audio/visual. This recording capability enables RoboCop to document any situation he encounters with perfect recall and unbiased neutrality, with his memory being deemed through legal agreement as admissible evidence in a court of law. As seen in \"RoboCop 2\", RoboCop possesses a directional microphone with which he can track conversations from a distance. It would seem to be very sensitive, as he can hear vehicles approaching from afar despite being indoors (as he did when he was hiding out in \"RoboCop 3\"). In the television series, he is capable of lie detection by means of a polygraph. In the reboot film, his vision is greatly enhanced: His visor comes down when in attack mode, and is usually up when in sentry mode. He uploaded the entire database of the Detroit PD in the visor, allowing him to instantly spot criminals in the crowd (as shown during a demonstration, where he spotted a criminal and arrested him). He also has an internal microphone allowing him to speak directly with OmniCorp officials. Various displays and interpretations range from RoboCop being mostly electronic and mechanical, while others depict his structure as balanced between the two. In the original print of the film, director Van recorded the death scene, in which crime lord Clarence Boddicker shoots Murphy in the head at point blank range, blowing out the complete rear right side of Murphy's head. This would necessitate the computer running RoboCop, with Murphy's only partial brain interacting with the computer. This scene and successive conflict structure was removed from the original release, though the back head explosion scene and destructive showing of Murphy's head is included in most successive home releases as a deleted scene. In the released theatrical version and original VHS home releases, only the front of Murphy's head and the entry wound are shown (visible when RoboCop removes his helmet in the final act). Alex Murphy's brain, nervous system and personality apparently remain intact; he is able to fully reassert himself after most of the external controlling systems are destroyed and punctuated at the end of the film, where he states his identity as \"Murphy\" rather than RoboCop. While all of Murphy's limbs have been replaced with \"total body prosthesis\" (as indicated with the scene where Murphy's left arm is announced as salvaged) Murphy's nervous system is maintained. The first movie lets the viewer assume that some of Murphy's organs were transplanted into the cyborg (without clearly stating which ones and to which extent), since he needs to feed on a \"rudimentary paste that sustains his organic systems\". Donald Johnson (played by Felton Perry) comments Robocop's paste \"tastes like baby food\". RoboCop's reconstructed external structure is protected by an armored shell composed of \"titanium laminated with Kevlar\" making RoboCop incredibly resilient against both bombs and bullets, as well as extreme impacts such as being hit by cars and falling off skyscrapers. In \"RoboCop\" and \"RoboCop 3\" the body armor is gray, and in \"RoboCop 2\" the armor is blue. RoboCop's hands, midsection, and neck armor are black. As demonstrated in \"RoboCop\", the body armor can sustain thousands of armor-piercing rounds before damage begins to appear on the armor. It is also highly resistant to heat, as in \"RoboCop\", he was unaffected after being caught in a gasoline station explosion and in \"RoboCop 3\" when he was briefly set aflame. His visor is made of the same material and a black strip of bulletproof anti-fog glass which protects the cranium apparatus and eyes. The visor also has an undercloth of Kevlar which protects the neck and covers up any wires etc. It should also be noted that the visor conceals most of Alex Murphy's face, and is attached with screws. When the visor is removed, only Murphy's face (which is grafted onto a completely mechanical skull) from the top of the neck up is exposed. When the helmet is removed, the back of his head exposes part of the metal casing and some minor mechanical elements. In \"RoboCop 2\", RoboCop's right arm contained a display that alerted personnel to his health status. RoboCop's hands also contain actuators strong enough to crush every bone in a human hand (about 400 foot pounds). His right hand also contains a spike (referred to by fans as a \"dataspike\" and by production as the \"terminal strip\") which is used to retrieve or display data from any computer bank with a corresponding port. At the end of the first film, the jack is also used as a stabbing weapon against the antagonist Clarence Boddicker. RoboCop is extremely strong, able to lift the front of the average car over his head with one arm or resist the crushing effort of a car crusher, as seen in the TV series (episodes 5 and 21, respectively). He was designed to be able \"to penetrate virtually any building,\" and breaks locks with ease. In \"Frank Miller's RoboCop\", RoboCop stores his reserve box magazines in his right wrist; this is never shown in the film series. He is seen reloading the Auto-9 in \"RoboCop 2\" with a magazine already in hand at the start of the scene. In the later television series, the holster area of his left thigh is used to store grenades, though on some schematic drawings the same area is used to store an emergency oxygen tank. \"RoboCop\" implies that only Murphy's face and brain was used in the construction of RoboCop, as Morton states that \"total body prosthesis\" was an agreed-upon parameter. It is unclear in the first two films whether or not RoboCop's human face is merely a replica of Murphy's, as it contains a scar where Boddicker shot him in the head, though he tells Murphy's wife, in \"RoboCop 2,\" that \"they made this to honor him.\" After touching it, she says, \"it's cold.\" In \"RoboCop 3,\" Dr. Marie Lazarus, RoboCop's chief technician, stated that Murphy's face was indeed transplanted onto a mechanical skull, and that it is not a replica. In the 2014 \"RoboCop\" reboot, RoboCop is seen in several bodies. While the original film left it unclear exactly how much of Murphy's body is left after his reconstruction, this film clearly confirms that Murphy's remaining organic parts are his head, his heart, his lungs, and his right hand, and one of his eyes has been replaced with a cybernetic implant and there are various chips in his brain to compensant for the cranial trauma and help him integrate with his cybernetic components. Initially, he is constructed in a silver body very similar to the one seen in the original films. Omnicorp CEO Raymond Sellars later has marketing executive Tom Pope conduct focus group testing on a number of other designs. One such design features a transformation function, in which RoboCop could switch from his usual, bulky shape into a slimmer, more human-like form for off-duty public relations purposes. Though Sellars rejects this concept, he selects the slimmer \"public relations\" design as RoboCop's permanent design, albeit painted black to make him more marketable. Following Sellars' death and the significant damaging of this body, RoboCop is rebuilt in his original body by Dr. Dennett Norton. Unlike in the original films, RoboCop's head is contained within a helmet, instead of his face being transplanted onto a metal skull. One feature common in every design seen in the reboot film is that the visor, which was screwed onto RoboCop's head in the original films, can move up and down freely, commonly moving over his eyes when his emotions spike and his crimefighting programs activate. In \"RoboCop: Creating a Legend,\" a bonus feature on the \"RoboCop: 20th Anniversary\" DVD, it is stated that Murphy's face was removed from his corpse and implanted on the cyborg's head to give RoboCop a sense of identity. 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"body by Dr. Dennett Norton. Unlike in the original films, RoboCop's head is contained within a helmet, instead of his face being transplanted onto a metal skull. One feature common in every design seen in the reboot film is that the visor, which was screwed onto RoboCop's head in the original films, can move up and down freely, commonly moving over his eyes when his emotions spike and his crimefighting programs activate. In \"RoboCop: Creating a Legend,\" a bonus feature on the \"RoboCop: 20th Anniversary\" DVD, it is stated that Murphy's face was removed from his corpse and implanted on the cyborg's head to give RoboCop a sense of identity. This psychological disruption RoboCop may have experienced is explained from the basis that a person whose memory has been erased would still possess the memory of being human and would suffer a psychotic breakdown if he saw the reflection of a robotic image instead of his original image of humanity. Since his 1987 film debut, the RoboCop character and franchise have been exercised through numerous entertainment media including multiple television series, comic books, video games, and action figures. RoboCop has appeared in numerous television series based on the films. These include: RoboCop has appeared in several video game adaptions for the films. RoboCop has appeared in several different comic books. The character has had a generally positive reception from critics. RoboCop (character) RoboCop is a fictional robotically enhanced Detroit police officer designated as OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001, and is the main protagonist in the film series of the same name. The character begins as a human Detroit"
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"Piero Piccioni Piero Piccioni (; 6 December 1921 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian lawyer and film score composer. A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his “013” Big Band, to return on air only after the liberation of Italy in 1944. “013” was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of Fascism. Piero Piccioni was born in Turin, Piedmont. His mother's maiden name was Marengo, hence his pseudonym Piero Morgan, which he adopted until 1957. When he was growing up, his father Attilio Piccioni (a prominent member of the Italian Christian Democratic Party with the post-war Italian government), would frequently take him to hear concerts at the EIAR Radio Studios in Florence. Having listened to jazz throughout his childhood (he dearly loved Art Tatum and Charlie Parker) and attending studies at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, Piero Piccioni became an extremely talented self-taught musician. Piccioni made his radio debut at 17 with his 013 Big Band in 1938, but only returned on air after the liberation of Italy in 1944. His 013 was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of Fascism. He was deeply influenced in his use of jazz by 20th century classical composers and American cinematography. Amongst his favourites were Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford and Alex North. He began writing songs of his own and was soon able to get some of his works published by Carisch editions. Piero Piccioni came into contact with the movie world in Rome during the fifties, when he was a practicing lawyer securing movie rights for Italian distributors such as Titanus and De Laurentiis. During that time, Michelangelo Antonioni had called Piero to score a documentary film directed by Luigi Polidoro, one of his apprentices. Piccioni’s first score for a feature film was Gianni Franciolini’s \"Il mondo le condanna\" (1952). He consequently changed his lawyer's \"toga\" for a conductor's baton. He developed close-knit working relationships with directors Francesco Rosi and Alberto Sordi, and established strong personal and professional bonds with them. Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Lina Wertmuller, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others. His film scores include \"Il bell'Antonio\", \"Minnesota Clay\", \"The 10th Victim\", \"More Than a Miracle\", \"The Deserter\", \"The Light at the Edge of the World\", \"Puppet on a Chain\", \"Lucky Luciano\", \"The Nun and the Devil\", \"Story of a Cloistered Nun\", \"Swept Away\", \"Christ Stopped at Eboli\", \"Fighting Back\", and many Alberto Sordi comedies. He is credited with over 300 soundtracks and compositions for radio, television, ballets and orchestra. Among his favorite vocalists were female soul singer Shawn Robinson and Edinburgh born Lydia MacDonald. Piccioni won many prestigious prizes including the David di Donatello Award for the movie \"Swept Away\" (1975), Nastro d’argento Award for the movie \"Salvatore Giuliano\" by Francesco Rosi (1963), Prix International Lumière 1991, Anna Magnani Award 1975 and Vittorio De Sica Award 1979. His song \"Traffic Boom\" was featured as the song for the fictional \"Logjammin\"' movie-within-a-movie in\" The Big Lebowski\". The song \"It's Possible\" was sampled by DJ Khaled in \"Jermaine's Interlude\" on his Major Key album . The song was also sampled in Soulja Boy's \"Whole Lotta Money\". He was involved in the Wilma Montesi murder scandal in 1953. Piccioni died in Rome in 2004. Piero Piccioni"
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"Gang de la Brise de Mer The gang de la Brise de Mer is one of the most powerful Corsican criminal organizations. Based in Northern Corsica, the gang controls various activities (racketeering, slots machines traffic, laundering, night clubs, gambling clubs, casinos, etc.) in Corsica, but also in the South of France, in Paris, in Italy, in Occidental African countries (Gabon, Mali, Cameroon, etc.), and in Latin American countries. The gang's moniker came from a Bastia cafe called \"La Brise de Mer\" (\"the sea breeze\"), where they held meetings throughout the 1970s. The gang is well known for its spectacular, violent armed robberies in Corsica, France and the rest of Europe. The robbery of the UBS bank in Geneva, Switzerland in 1990; the attack on a Securipost trunk in 1991 and the robbery of Air France Mercure in 1992 are probably the most important robberies of the gang. The \"Brise de Mer\" is also suspected of involvement in the murders in 2001 of members of Armata Corsa, a separatist Corsican armed group. Around ten families or clans constitute the \"Brise de Mer\" organization. Its capital is estimated to be between 120 and 150 million Euros. This money is invested in Corsica (in illegal activities like racketeering etc. but also legal activities like tourism and construction business) and the rest of France, through the running of night clubs, bars and illegal slots machines (principally in the Southern France cities like Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon) and gambling clubs in Paris. Other investments are casino activities in Africa, Latin America and Italy. In 2001, several gangsters escaped from a prison near Bastia by sending fake faxes from a judge ordering their release. Since 2008, several important suspected members of the gang (Richard Casanova, Daniel Vittini, Francis Mariani, Pierre-Marie Santucci) have been killed during violent conflicts among the various Corsican gangs. Gang de la Brise de Mer The gang de la Brise de Mer is one of the most powerful Corsican criminal organizations. Based in Northern Corsica, the gang controls various activities (racketeering, slots machines traffic, laundering, night clubs, gambling clubs, casinos, etc.) in Corsica, but also in the South of France, in Paris, in Italy, in Occidental African countries (Gabon, Mali, Cameroon, etc.), and in Latin American countries. The gang's moniker came from a Bastia cafe called \"La Brise de Mer\" (\"the sea breeze\"), where they held meetings throughout the 1970s. The gang is well"
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"Petrus Johannes Meindaerts Petrus Johannes Meindaerts (died 1767) served as the tenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1739 to 1767. After the death of his consecrator, Bishop Dominique Marie Varlet, Meindaerts consecrated other bishops, such that all later Old Catholic bishops derive their apostolic succession from him. Meindaerts was ordained to the priesthood in Ireland by Roman Catholic Bishop Jacob Fagan of Meath, Ireland. According to C.B. Moss, Meindaerts arrived in Ireland in the late summer of 1716 and was arrested on suspicion of being a Jacobite spy, avoiding imprisonment by convincing an officer familiar with Louvain that he was a student at the university there. Meindaerts subsequently served as Archpriest of Leeuwarden and a Dean of Friesland. Following the death of Theodorus van der Croon, Archbishop of Utrecht, on June 9, 1739, the Chapter of Utrecht elected Meindaerts as bishop-elect. On October 18, 1739, he was consecrated by Bishop Dominique Marie Varlet, former Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Babylon. Meindaerts was subsequently excommunicated for this act by Benedict XIV. At the time, 52 parishes acknowledged the jurisdiction of Meindaerts: 33 in the Diocese of Utrecht, 17 in Haarlem, one in Leeuwarden, and one in Nordstrand, Germany. After Varlet’s death on May 14, 1742, Meindaerts set himself to the task of ensuring apostolic succession within the Old Catholic Church. On September 2, 1742, he consecrated Hieronymus de Bock as Bishop of Haarlem, a see left vacant by the Roman Catholic Church since 1587. Upon Bock’s death, he consecrated John van Stiphout as Bishop of Haarlem on July 11, 1745. After three failed attempts of reunion with the Roman Catholic Church, Meindaerts consecrated a third bishop on January 25, 1758: Bartholomew John Byeveld, who served as Bishop of Deventer, a titular bishopric with no parishes. The consecration was denounced by Benedict XIV, and Meindaerts responded with a letter that was translated to French, Latin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Three editions of his French letter were reprinted. In 1763, Meindaerts convened the first synod in Utrecht since 1565, for the purpose of condemning the work of Pierre Le Clere, a French subdeacon living in Amsterdam. A total of twenty clerics gathered for the synod at the St. Gertrude Cathedral in Utrecht. The synod asserted the divine right of monarchs and condemned several works. It also approved 24 canons, including the warning that those who did not receive the Church’s sacrament of Confirmation risked salvation—a canon that is interesting insofar as no Roman Catholic bishop celebrated the sacrament in the Dutch Republic from 1703 to 1827, thus creating an opportunity for the bishops of the Old Catholic Church, who were the sole dispensers of this now-necessary sacrament. C.B. Moss says, “The acts of the synod were very well received throughout Roman Catholic Europe, and many [Roman Catholic] bishops sent letters of congratulations and communion to Archbishop Meindaerts.” Petrus Johannes Meindaerts Petrus Johannes Meindaerts (died 1767) served as the tenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1739 to 1767. After the death of his consecrator,"
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"Cody Cropper Cody Cropper (born February 16, 1993) is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the New England Revolution. Cropper has an English father. He was born in Atlanta and moved to Minnesota at the age of 12. After taking up the game, Cropper moved to England and spent time in the academy system of Ipswich Town before joining Southampton in August 2012. Although he featured for the Saints U-23 side, he never made a first team appearance. After 3 years at the south coast club, Cropper was released. On June 30, 2015, Cropper joined newly promoted Championship side Milton Keynes Dons and on August 11, 2015 made his debut for the club in a Football League Cup first round win against Leyton Orient. On April 16, 2016, Cropper was sent off for a foul on Preston North End's striker Eoin Doyle.Cropper was released after the 2015-16 season when the club decided not to take up the one-year option in Cropper's contract after being relegated to League 1. Cropper signed with the New England Revolution in August 2016. Cropper became the starter for the Revolution beginning the 2017 season, and is \"getting better every day\" according to his teammates. Cropper represented the United States at the 2011 and 2013 editions of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship, the latter of which the US finished as runners-up. He was also the first-choice goalkeeper for the United States at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2015 Toulon Tournament, the latter of which the US finished in third place. Cropper has appeared for the US up to U-23 level, including at the 2016 CONCACAF-CONMEBOL Olympic playoff. He received his first United States senior team call-up for an August 14, 2013 friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was an unrostered player at the USMNT training camp at Stanford University before the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and later received a senior call-up for a friendly against the Czech Republic on September 3, 2014. He was also called up to the United States senior squad for a friendly against Germany on June 10, 2015. Cody Cropper Cody Cropper (born February 16, 1993) is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the New England Revolution. Cropper has an English father. He was born in Atlanta and moved to Minnesota at the age of 12. After taking up the game, Cropper"
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"Grove Hill Cemetery The Grove Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 290 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Established in 1703, the cemetery was Waltham's only cemetery until 1857, when Mount Feake Cemetery opened. It was authorized in 1703, but its initial parcel of land was not purchased until 1704. The first documented burial, however, took place in November 1703. The northwest section of the cemetery is its oldest portion, and includes a number of unmarked gravesites. The cemetery continues in active use today, and contains a representative sample of funerary art spanning 300 years. It now covers more than , extending between Main and Grove Streets. Its main entrance features posts with an Egyptian Revival theme, a style continued with the presence of obelisks dispersed on the grounds. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Grove Hill Cemetery The Grove Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 290 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Established in 1703, the cemetery was Waltham's only cemetery until 1857, when Mount Feake Cemetery opened. It was authorized in 1703, but its initial parcel of land was not purchased until 1704. The first documented burial, however, took place in"
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"Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar Officers serving in the Myanmar Navy are assigned to ranks. There are ten ranks of Commissioned officers, from admiral down to ensign. As for non-commissioned officers, there are six ranks from warrant officer down to able seaman. The ranks are distinguished on uniforms by insignia worn on dark blue shoulder boards. Non-Commissioned Officers are referred to as Saya, meaning Teacher, by both seamen and officers. For example, Warrant Officers, Regimental Sergeant Majors and Staff Sergeants are referred to as Sayagyi, literally meaning \"Old Teacher\", Sergeant are referred to as Saya and Corporal/Lance Corporal as Sayalay. These unofficial ranks are used throughout the daily life of all branches. Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) within the Navy are usually seasoned veteran naval ratings with years of service and experience. Thus both Officers and ratings refer to them as \"teacher\" out of respect. Seamen wear no insignia at all. Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar Officers serving in the Myanmar Navy are assigned to ranks. There are ten ranks of Commissioned officers, from admiral down to ensign. As for non-commissioned officers, there are six ranks from warrant officer down to able seaman. The ranks are distinguished on uniforms by"
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"Tommy Nakashimba Tomas Nakashimba born in (Onayena Constituency, Namibia) is a professional boxer in the featherweight division. Nakashimba started practicing boxing at an earlier age but his professional fighting career started in the 2006. He have a boxing career spanning about six years now, most notably about his achievements is a record of 12 fights, 7 wins, 4 losses, 1 draw against fellow country boxers and international ones . He recently won the Namibia featherweight title against Matheus Kandala, in a fight organised by promoter Joseph ‘Smokey’ Hilongwa at the Khomasdal Community Hall in Windhoek bringing his total number of fights to twelve (12). Tommy Nakashimba Tomas Nakashimba born in (Onayena Constituency, Namibia) is a professional boxer in the featherweight division. Nakashimba started practicing boxing at an earlier age but his professional fighting career started in the 2006. He have a boxing career spanning about six years now, most notably about his achievements is a record of 12 fights, 7 wins, 4 losses, 1 draw against fellow country boxers and international ones . He recently won the Namibia featherweight title against Matheus Kandala, in a fight organised by promoter Joseph ‘Smokey’ Hilongwa at the Khomasdal Community Hall in Windhoek bringing"
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"Edward D. Dart Edward D. Dart, FAIA (May 28, 1922 – July 9, 1975), born Edouard Dupaquier Dart and known as Ned by those close to him, was a Mid-Century modern American architect. Dart was born in New Orleans to parents of French descent. He studied under the tutelage of Richard M. Bennett at Yale School of Architecture, whence he graduated in 1949. At Yale Dart also studied under Pietro Belluschi, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, Harold Spitznagel, and Paul Schweikher. One of Chicago's most distinguished architects, Dart was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects at age 44 and garnered 18 AIA awards. In 1975 Dart died of an aneurysm while completing a significant commercial development, Water Tower Place. The archives of the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, located at the Art Institute of Chicago, house a permanent collection of his works, donated in 1999 by his sister Susan. On January 19, 1946, Dart married the former Wilhelmina Plansoen, a Duke University alum. Dart died on July 9, 1975. At the time of his death, he was a resident of Barrington Hills, Illinois. From 1965, Dart was a partner in the Chicago firm of Loebl Schlossman Bennett & Dart. Between 1949 and 1968 he designed 52 custom houses, 26 custom churches and many commercial structures. His notable buildings include: Edward D. Dart Edward D. Dart, FAIA (May 28, 1922 – July 9, 1975), born Edouard Dupaquier Dart and known as Ned by those close to him, was a Mid-Century modern American architect. Dart was born in New Orleans to parents of French descent. He studied under the tutelage of Richard M. Bennett at Yale School of Architecture, whence he graduated in 1949. At Yale Dart also studied under Pietro Belluschi, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Louis"
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"Emo, Ontario Emo is a small rural township, located along the Rainy River in northwestern Ontario, Canada, directly north of the state of Minnesota. Emo had a population of 1,252 in the Canada 2011 Census. It is known for its stock car races, its picturesque, family-friendly waterfront park, the annual Rainy River Agricultural Fair (cattle industry is key in the area) and the Emo Walleye Classic fishing tournament. Emo was officially created on July 1, 1899, and celebrated its centennial in 1999. Emo's first reeve was Alexander Luttrell, an Irishman who named the town after a namesake village in Ireland near where he was born. The council was composed of Charles Fisher, John Dungey, Benjamin Phillips, and Thomas Shortreed. Emo has a four-season humid continental climate with extreme temperature differences between summer and winter. The daily mean difference between January and July is as much as 34 °C. Emo is located in the Rainy River District. The current mayor is Jack Siemens, while Michael Loney, Anthony Leek, Scott Kinnear, and Lori-Ann Shortreed are councillors. They were elected in 2014, with Shortreed being appointed in 2016. Elections are held every four years, in October. Emo is about halfway between two bridges to the United States, one at Fort Frances (approximately a 30-minute drive) and the other at Rainy River (about 40 minutes by road). It is identified in many cycling resources as an excellent overnight stopping point because of the facilities (shelter, showers and bathrooms) available in the waterfront park. There are many volunteer groups and a strong sense of community in Emo. In Emo's Lion's Park, a picturesque riverfront area, a new play structure was funded through volunteer fundraising efforts, and a 2005-2006 fiscal year grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation . The park is also home to the Emo Spray Park, a $500,000 community-driven project completed in July 2010. A safe way for kids to engage in water play, the spray park attracts thousands of visitors in the summertime. The Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps 144 Fort Frances meet in Emo, led by Lieutenant Terry Newman until its disbandment due to lack of interest in 2011. The spring brings the opening of the walleye fishing season, and the annual Emo Walleye Classic. The Emo Speedway draws race participants and fans from the central United States, Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba. The track is a 600-metre, high-banked dirt oval track which operates every Saturday from May through Mid-September. Emo is also home to five different religious denominations, including Knox United Church of Canada, as well as Baptist, Catholic, Anglican and Christian Reformed churches. Initially located in private homes of local women, the town library was moved to the schoolhouse in 1940 and to its own building in the 50s. Population trend: The Emo Walleye Classic is a two-day catch and release fishing tournament held annually in Emo, during the final week of May each year. It takes place on the Rainy River, which marks the border between Minnesota and Ontario. Upwards of sixty Canadian and American teams of two participate each year, each paying a participation fee ($500 in 2015). An organizing committee and many local volunteers assist at the event, and many local businesses and individuals sponsor the event. On each morning of the tournament, anglers head upstream and downstream from the Emo waterfront to their chosen fishing spots. The weigh-ins are held in the evenings at the Emo/LaVallee Community Centre where results are posted live. On the final day of the tournament, the top ten teams from day one are brought into the arena with their boats. The tournament began in 2002 with forty-four participating teams, and has grown since then, with thirty-eight teams competing in 2013. The first winners were Harvey Cochrane and Oliver Gibbons who won as a result of the leading team having three fish over the legal size. In 2008 Doug McBride of Devlin, Ontario and Steve Ballan of Fort Frances, Ontario became the first team to win the tournament twice. 2005 Tournament - Day 2 - Doug McBride and Steve Ballan: 10.02 lbs 2005 Tournament - Day 2 - Doug McBride and Steve Ballan: 15.06 lbs 2005 Tournament - Doug McBride and Steve Ballan: 25.82 lbs Emo, Ontario Emo is a small rural township, located along the Rainy River in northwestern Ontario, Canada, directly north of the state of Minnesota. Emo had a population of 1,252 in the Canada 2011 Census. It is known for its stock car races, its picturesque, family-friendly waterfront park, the annual Rainy River Agricultural Fair (cattle industry is key in the area) and the Emo Walleye Classic fishing tournament. Emo was officially created on July 1, 1899, and celebrated its centennial in 1999. Emo's first reeve was Alexander Luttrell, an Irishman who named the town after a namesake village"
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"Kaylin Whitney Kaylin Whitney (born March 9, 1998) is an American track and field athlete, specializing in sprinting events. Over a two-day period, at the USATF Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, July 5 and 6, 2014, she set the world youth bests for 100 meters and 200 meters. Her 100-meter time, set on July 5 was 11.10 with an aiding wind of +0.9 mps. Her 200-meter time was 22.49 was set on July 6 with an aiding wind of +1.3. Youth bests can be set by athletes who will not reach their 18th birthday within the calendar year of competition. Her \"bests\" will also count as bests on the continental and national level. Whitney placed 16th in the 100 meters at 2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) in 11.15 and 11th in the 200 meters at 2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) in 23.03. Whitney placed fourth in 200 meters at 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 22.47 behind winner Jenna Prandini 22.20, runner-up Candyce McGrone 22.38 and Jeneba Tarmoh 22.44. Whitney placed 17th in 100 meters at 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 11.18. In March 2015, Kaylin Whitney signed with Nike. Her 100 meters time also sets the national high school record as recognized by Track and Field News, though it will not be recognized by the NFHS as the USATF Junior Championships are not a high school competition. When published (the approval process by the magazine), the 200 meter record will be notated as a \"low altitude\" record by T&FN. Allyson Felix did run a faster 200 meters 22.11 at altitude in Mexico City before graduating from Los Angeles Baptist High School in 2003. Olympic gold medalist Felix is just one of the who's who of Olympians Whitney surpassed with the various records. Also on the list, the World Youth best in the 100 was held by Chandra Cheeseborough, the 200 best was held by Marion Jones, and the high school 100m record was held by Angela Williams. At the time of her performance, her 200-meter time ranked her as the #8 time of the year against all women of any age, her 100m ranked #17. While still a sophomore at East Ridge High School in Clermont, Florida, she was the 2014 Florida state champion in both events. As a youth athlete, Whitney was a star before reaching high school. In 2012, she set the American age 14 records in both the 100m and 200m in similar fashion, a day apart, destroying the youth records of future Olympic gold medalist, Sanya Richards. She trains with an elite group of athletes which includes Olympic gold medalist Justin Gatlin called Star Athletics coached by Olympic gold medalist Dennis Mitchell. She was \"Track and Field News\" \"High School Athlete of the Year\" in 2014. Kaylin Whitney Kaylin Whitney (born March 9, 1998) is an American track and field athlete, specializing in sprinting events. Over a two-day period, at the USATF Junior Championships"
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"Glaciovolcanism Glaciovolcanism is volcanism and related phenomena associated with glacial ice. The ice commonly constrains the erupted material and melts to create meltwater. Considerable melting of glacial ice can create massive lahars and glacial outburst floods known as jökulhlaups. Three forms of glaciovolcanism are known. Subglacial eruptions occur when a volcano erupts under ice. Such activity can produce landforms such as tuyas and subglacial mounds. Ice-marginal volcanism takes place when material from a subaerial eruption makes lateral contact with ice. Ice-marginal lava flows are a product of this phenomenon. Supraglacial eruptions deposit ejecta onto the surface of an ice sheet. Isostatic rebound in response to glacier retreat (unloading), increase in local salinity (i.e., δ18Osw), have been attributed to increased volcanic activity at the onset of Bølling–Allerød, are associated with the interval of intense volcanic activity, hinting at a interaction between climate and volcanism - enhanced short-term melting of glaciers, possibly via albedo changes from particle fallout on glacier surfaces. Glaciovolcanism Glaciovolcanism is volcanism and related phenomena associated with glacial ice. The ice commonly constrains the erupted material and melts to create meltwater. Considerable melting of glacial ice can create massive lahars and glacial outburst floods known as jökulhlaups. Three forms"
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"Hometown Girl Hometown Girl is the debut album from American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released on July 30, 1987 (see 1987 in country music) on Columbia Records. The album did not produce any chart singles. It was produced by John Jennings, except for the track \"Come On Home\", which was produced by Steve Buckingham. Vik Iyengar of Allmusic gave the album a two-and-a-half star rating out of five, saying that although \"her songwriting skills are apparent\" on the album, it did not contain as many \"rollicking\" tunes as Carpenter's following albums. \"The Washington Post\" gave it a more favorable review, praising the songs that Carpenter wrote. Initially, Carpenter intended to include the John Stewart song \"Runaway Train\" on this album. Her version did not make the final cut, and was instead recorded by Rosanne Cash on her 1987 album \"King's Record Shop\". All songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter unless noted. As listed in liner notes. Hometown Girl Hometown Girl is the debut album from American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released on July 30, 1987 (see 1987 in country music) on Columbia Records. The album did not produce any chart singles. It"
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"Margravate of Meissen The Margravate of Meissen () was a medieval principality in the area of the modern German state of Saxony. It originally was a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, created out of the vast \"Marca Geronis\" (Saxon Eastern March) in 965. Under the rule of the Wettin dynasty, the margravate finally merged with the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg into the Saxon Electorate by 1423. In the mid 9th century, the area of the later margravate was part of an eastern frontier zone of the Carolingian Empire called Sorbian March (\"Limes Sorabicus\"), after Sorbian tribes of Polabian Slavs settling beyond the Saale river. In 849, a margrave named Thachulf was documented in the \"Annales Fuldenses\". His title is rendered as \"dux Sorabici limitis\", \"duke of the Sorbian frontier\", but he and his East Frankish successors were commonly known as \"duces Thuringorum\", \"dukes of the Thuringians\", as they set about establishing their power over the older Duchy of Thuringia in the west. The Sorbian march had already lost its importance around 900 AD; the last known margrave Poppo was deposed by King Arnulf in 892 and replaced with Conrad who continued to appear as a \"Duke of Thuringia\". Conrad himself was replaced by Burchard, whose title in 903 was \"marchio Thuringionum\", \"margrave of the Thuringians\". Due to scarce sources, the geographical extent of the Frankish march east of the Saale is a matter of ongoing debate among historians; it may have reached up to the settlement area of the Slavic Glomacze (\"Talaminzi\") tribes beyond the Mulde river, identified as eastern neighbours of the Sorbs by the Bavarian Geographer about 850. These territories were under constant attacks by the East Frankish rulers; in 908 they were first campaigned by the Saxon prince Henry the Fowler, son of Duke Otto the Illustrious. By 928/29, the main Glomacze fortress on the Jahna river was destroyed and their lands up to the Dresden Basin incorporated into the \"Marca Geronis\". In 928 and 929, during the final campaign against the Glomacze tribes, Henry the Fowler, East Frankish king since 919, chose a rock above the confluence of the Elbe and Triebisch rivers to erect a new fortress, called Misni (Meissen) Castle after the nearby Meisa stream. The fortifications were renamed Albrechtsburg in the 15th century. A town soon developed around the castle. King Henry, however, made no attempts to Germanise the Slavs or to create a chain of burgwards around his fortress. Sat alone, like Brandenburg, with few defenses or towns around it; Meissen probably was temporarily occupied by Bohemian forces from 936 onwards. The town beneath the fortress grew, however, eventually becoming one of the most important cities in the vast \"Marca Geronis\", covering the Slavic lands east of the Saxon stem duchy. King Henry, and later on his son and successor Otto I, continued the Slavic campaigns into the lands of the Polabian Milceni tribes around Bautzen (\"Budissin\"), with their gained territory being gradually incorporated into the Saxon Eastern March. When the \"Marca Geronis\" was divided in 965 upon the death of Margrave Gero, Meissen became the center of a new march with the goal of controlling the local Slavic population. The first Meissen margrave, Wigbert, is mentioned in a 968 charter of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg. That same year, the Meissen fortress also became the see of the newly created Bishopric of Meissen. In 978, the Saxon count Rikdag became the Margrave of Meissen, and incorporated the marches of Merseburg and Zeitz into Meissen. By 982, the territory of the march had extended as far as the Kwisa (\"Queis\") river to the east and as far as the slopes of the Ore Mountains to the south, where it shared a border with the Přemyslid duchy of Bohemia. In 983, following the defeat of Emperor Otto II at the Battle of Stilo, the Slavic Lutici tribes bordering eastern Saxony rebelled in the Great Slav Rising. The newly established bishoprics of Havelberg and Brandenburg as well as the March of Zeitz were overrun by Lutici tribes. Margrave Rikdag joined forces with the Margraves of Lusatia and the Northern March, the Bishop of Halberstadt, and the Archbishop of Magdeburg and defeated the Slavs in the gau of Balsamgau near Stendal. Nevertheless, large territories of the Northern March were lost, and the German forces were pushed back west of the Elbe. Margrave Eckard I from Thuringia succeeded Rikdag as Margrave of Meissen in 985. His descendants of the Ekkeharding noble family would keep the margravial title until 1046. Upon his appointment, Eckard allied with Duke Mieszko I of Poland in order to reconquer Meissen Castle from Duke Boleslaus II of Bohemia whose forces occupied it the year before. When Eckard was assassinated in 1002, however, Mieszko's son, the Polish king Bolesław I Chrobry, took the occasion to conquer the margravial lands east of the Elbe and demanded the surrender of Meissen. The following German–Polish War ended with the 1018 Peace of Bautzen, whereby Meissen had to cede the Milceni region (later Upper Lusatia) to Poland. In 1031 however, King Conrad II of Germany was able to reconquer the Milceni lands, which were returned to Meissen. In 1046, Count Otto of Weimar-Orlamünde became margrave, followed by Egbert II of the Brunonids upon his death in 1067. Egbert II entered into a longstanding conflict with Emperor Henry IV, because of which he had to renounce the Milceni lands to Duke Vratislaus II of Bohemia in 1076, and was finally deposed during the Investiture Controversy in 1089. Emperor Henry IV then granted Meissen to Count Henry of Eilenburg of the Wettin dynasty. The margravate would remain under Wettin rule for the rest of its existence. Under Wiprecht von Groitzsch in the 1120s, Meissen underwent a process of Germanisation. He was succeeded by Conrad the Great (1123–56), Otto the Rich (1156–91), and Dietrich the Hard-Pressed (1191–1221), under whom the march would expand and develop. By then, Meissen had become a stronghold of the Wettin dynasty, suspiciously eyed by the Hohenstaufen emperors who nevertheless were not able to deprive the margraves of their power. In 1264, during the War of the Thuringian Succession, Margrave Henry III asserted himself in the Landgraviate of Thuringia, where his uncle Henry Raspe had died childless. Between 1243 and 1255, Henry III had also acquired the intermediate Pleisseland around Altenburg in pawn. In 1307, the attempt by the Luxembourg king Henry VII to once again subdue the Margraves of Meissen failed with his defeat at the Battle of Lucka. By that time the margravate was \"de facto\" independent of any sovereign authority. In the following years, there would be joint rule of Meissen by multiple members of the Wettin dynasty at any given time. In 1382 and 1445, this even led to the division of the march, however it would reunite soon after each time. Meissen was often enlarged by marriage, purchase, or conquest, which is how it gained the rights to the burgravate in 1426. In 1423, Margrave Frederick IV was assigned the heirless Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, formerly held by the House of Ascania, by Emperor Sisgismund in turn for his support against the Hussites. The Wettin rulers thereby entered into the Saxon electorate, in which they ultimately merged their margravial lands abandoning Meissen's status as an independent principality; though they retained the margravial title. In the late 15th century, the dynasty held a large contiguous territory between the Werra and Oder rivers. By the 1485 Treaty of Leipzig, however, the Upper Saxon lands were again divided between Frederick's grandsons Ernest ruling in Wittenberg and Albert, who took the former Meissen territory. The treaty marked the beginning of the permanent separation of the two states of Saxony and Ernestine Thuringia. Around 1068, Meissen Castle received its own burgrave. In time the Meinheringer family would come to control the burgravate. Margravate of Meissen The",
"the Hussites. The Wettin rulers thereby entered into the Saxon electorate, in which they ultimately merged their margravial lands abandoning Meissen's status as an independent principality; though they retained the margravial title. In the late 15th century, the dynasty held a large contiguous territory between the Werra and Oder rivers. By the 1485 Treaty of Leipzig, however, the Upper Saxon lands were again divided between Frederick's grandsons Ernest ruling in Wittenberg and Albert, who took the former Meissen territory. The treaty marked the beginning of the permanent separation of the two states of Saxony and Ernestine Thuringia. Around 1068, Meissen Castle received its own burgrave. In time the Meinheringer family would come to control the burgravate. Margravate of Meissen The Margravate of Meissen () was a medieval principality in the area of the modern German state of Saxony. It originally was a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, created out of the vast \"Marca Geronis\" (Saxon Eastern March) in 965. Under the rule of the Wettin dynasty, the margravate finally merged with the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg into the Saxon Electorate by 1423. In the mid 9th century, the area of the later margravate was part of an eastern frontier zone of the Carolingian Empire called Sorbian March (\"Limes"
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"First Run Film Festival The First Run Festival is an annual event showcasing over 120 intermediate and advanced projects in film, video, and animation. It is presented by the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television. and held in New York City. The event first ran in 1986. The selection runs a gamut of undergraduate and graduate films ranging between narratives, documentaries and animation produced during the filmmakers' time in the program. The work is evaluated by a trio of juries: a three-judge Undergraduate Intermediate panel looks at submissions from junior level courses; Graduate and Undergraduate Industry each have six-judge panels. The selections are then sent toward the respective faculty panels to announce the final top three winners. This annual week-long festival begins with the Craft Awards Ceremony and Wasserman Finalists Announcement and culminates with the Wasserman Awards Ceremony featuring the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards. The students' films and videos compete annually for over $50,000 in cash awards. Following First Run each year, the Wasserman Award finalist films and videos are screened in Hollywood for industry professionals and the public. Past years' showcases had been held at the Directors Guild of America. First Run Film Festival The First"
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"Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir is the world's tallest temple under-construction at Vrindavan, Mathura, India. When completed, it will be the tallest religious monument in the world. At cost of it will be one of the most expensively built temples in world by ISKCON Bangalore. The temple has a footprint of about 5 acres and rises to a height of about 700 feet (213 meters or 70 floors) and a built-up area of 5,40,000 sq. ft. The temple is planned to be vibrant with festivals and religious activities throughout the year. It is expected to be a must go place for every Hindu. A look-alike of the verdant forests of Vrindavan will be recreated around this magnificent temple. It will be spread over a sprawling 26 acres, it will consist of the twelve forests (dvadashakanana) of Braj, with varieties of lush vegetation, green pastures, elegant vistas of fruit bearing trees, flower laden creepers serenaded by bird songs, clear water lakes with lotuses and lilies and water falls that tumble from small artificial hillocks - all recreated from descriptions in the SrimadBhagavatam and other source books of Lord Sri Krishna - to transport the visitors to Krishna's times in Vrindavan. The project is set in 62 acres of land and includes 12 acres for parking and a helipad. In 1972, Srila Prabhupada, the founder and Acharya of ISKCON spoke about the principle of Yuklta Vairagya right in front of the Bhajan Kutir (a simple and austere dwelling of an ascetic primarily intended to perform his spiritual activities like chanting Krishna’s names, writing and teaching) of Sri Rupa Goswami (see picture) to his dozen or more western disciples who were accompanying him on a visit to Vrindavan, India. He said: Inspired by this vision and statement of Srila Prabhupada, the devotees of ISKCON Bangalore or the ritviks conceived the Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir project to build a skyscraper temple for Lord Sri Krishna. The foundation stone laying ceremony of Chandrodaya temple in Mathura district was done on 16 March 2014, on the eve of the auspicious occasion of Holi. ISKCON is hoping to conclude the temple construction within 2019. It was the desire of Srila Prabhupada, Founder Acharya of ISKCON to put Vrindavan on the world map on conceiving a project to set up an iconic temple of monumental proportions. The structural design advisors are from Civil Engineering Department, IIT Delhi and Structural Consultant is Thornton Tomasetti, USA. The lead architects are InGenious Studio Pvt. Ltd. of Gurgaon and Quintessence Design Studio of Noida will carry out landscaping for the whole temple area. HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) will be installed by Gupta Consultants & Associates and all the electrical fittings and wiring will be done with the help of WBG Consultants, whereas Behera & Associates will be involved as PHE & Fire Consultants. The temple, with a traditional Nagra architecture at the entrance, will have elements of a glass façade that would stretch to the 70th floor and Building Envelop Specialists from Mumbai will be involved for this aspect of the temple. LDP Pty. Ltd., Australia will involve with the construction as Lighting Design Consultants, whereas RWDI (Canada-India) will provide Wind Tunnel Analysis Consultancy. Pinkerton (USA-India) will provide physical security consultancy for the entire temple. Green Horizon Consulting LLP of Haryana will take care of Green Building Facilitation and Building Energy Simulation; HPG Consulting of Delhi will be a part of the project as a Waste Management, Kitchen and BOH Consultant. Dunbar and Boardman, London will be involved in the project as Vertical Transport Consultant. Madhu Pandit Dasa had a meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee where he briefed him about the idea of creating the temple. The foundation stone of the temple was laid by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee on 16 November 2014. The temple building is in under construction. All year there are plans for various festivals connected with Lord Sri Krishna and His pastimes like RathaYatra, Palkiutsav (palanquin festival), naukavihar (boat festival), kunjaviharautsava (forest festivals) and jhulanutsav (swing festival). These festivals are planned to be accompanied by music concerts and other opportunities for performing arts. Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir is the world's tallest temple"
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"Votive ship A votive ship, sometimes called a church ship, is a ship model displayed in a church. As a rule, votive ships are constructed and given as gifts to the church by seamen and ship builders. Votive ships are relatively common in churches in the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, as well as on Åland and Faroe islands, but are known also to exist in Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. The practice of displaying model ships in churches stems from the Middle Ages and appears to have been known throughout Christian Europe, in both Catholic and Lutheran countries. The oldest known remaining votive ship is a Spanish ship model from the 15th century. A model ship originally displayed in Stockholm Cathedral but today in the Stockholm Maritime Museum dating from circa 1590 is the oldest surviving example in the Nordic countries. Votive ships are quite common in France, in coastal towns (and in some inland ones as well) either as model ships (generally made by sailors after escaping a shipwreck ) or as paintings (generally depicting some awkward situation) they are known under the Latin term of Ex-Voto (made after a vow). The church of Sainte Anne d'Auray in Brittany has the biggest French collection of marine ex-votos, but the practice even extends to the Mediterranean French shores, including Corsica. Votive ship A votive ship, sometimes called a church ship, is a ship model displayed in a church. As a rule, votive ships are constructed and given as gifts to the church by seamen and ship builders. Votive ships are relatively common in churches in the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, as well as on Åland and Faroe islands, but are known also to exist in Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. The practice"
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"Syrniki In Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Serbian cuisine, syrnyky (Ukrainian: сирник[и]; ; ) are fried quark pancakes, garnished with sour cream, \"varenye\", jam, honey or apple sauce. The cheese mixture may contain raisins for extra flavour. In Russia, they are also known as tvorozhniki (творо́жники). Syrnyky or tvorozhniki is made from creamy \"tvorog\" (, quark), mixed with flour, eggs and sugar, sometimes adding vanilla extract. Pot cheese or farmer's cheese is suggested as a substitute for the \"tvorog\". The soft mixture is shaped into cakes, which are fried in vegetable oil or hot butter. The consistency should remain creamy, while they are slightly browned on both sides. They are traditionally sweet and served for breakfast or dessert, but can be made savory as well. Their simplicity and delicious taste have made them very popular in Eastern Europe. They are typically served with jam, \"varenye\", sour cream and / or melted butter. The name syrniki is derived from the word \"syr\" (сир), which now generally means \"(yellow) cheese\" in Russian, but once partly stood for soft white cheese. The Ukrainian language retains the old Slavic sense of the word, as in \"domashnii syr (домашній сир)\", whereas in Russian, the word for white cheese is \"tvorog\" (творог), which derived from Proto-Slavic \"tvorъ.\" Syrniki In Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Serbian cuisine, syrnyky (Ukrainian: сирник[и]; ; ) are fried quark pancakes, garnished with sour cream, \"varenye\", jam, honey or apple sauce. The cheese mixture may contain raisins for extra flavour. In Russia, they are also known as tvorozhniki (творо́жники). Syrnyky or tvorozhniki is made from creamy \"tvorog\" (, quark), mixed with flour, eggs and sugar, sometimes adding vanilla extract. Pot cheese or farmer's cheese is suggested as a substitute for the \"tvorog\". The soft mixture is shaped into cakes, which"
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"Potassium bromide Potassium bromide (KBr) is a salt, widely used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with over-the-counter use extending to 1975 in the US. Its action is due to the bromide ion (sodium bromide is equally effective). Potassium bromide is used as a veterinary drug, as an antiepileptic medication for dogs. Under standard conditions, potassium bromide is a white crystalline powder. It is freely soluble in water; it is not soluble in acetonitrile. In a dilute aqueous solution, potassium bromide tastes sweet, at higher concentrations it tastes bitter, and tastes salty when the concentration is even higher. These effects are mainly due to the properties of the potassium ion—sodium bromide tastes salty at any concentration. In high concentration, potassium bromide strongly irritates the gastric mucous membrane, causing nausea and sometimes vomiting (a typical effect of all soluble potassium salts). Potassium bromide, a typical ionic salt, is fully dissociated and near pH 7 in aqueous solution. It serves as a source of bromide ions. This reaction is important for the manufacture of silver bromide for photographic film: Aqueous bromide Br also forms complexes when reacted with some metal halides such as copper(II) bromide: A traditional method for the manufacture of KBr is the reaction of potassium carbonate with an iron(III, II) bromide, FeBr, made by treating scrap iron under water with excess bromine: The anticonvulsant properties of potassium bromide were first noted by Sir Charles Locock at a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1857. Bromide can be regarded as the first effective medication for epilepsy. At the time, it was commonly thought that epilepsy was caused by masturbation. Locock noted that bromide calmed sexual excitement and thought this was responsible for his success in treating seizures. In the latter half of the 19th century, potassium bromide was used for the calming of seizure and nervous disorders on an enormous scale, with the use by single hospitals being as much as several tons a year (the dose for a given person being a few grams per day). By the beginning of the 20th century the generic word had become so widely associated with being sedate that bromide came to mean a dull, sedate person or a boring platitude uttered by such a person. There was not a better epilepsy drug until phenobarbital in 1912. The British Army has historically been claimed to lace soldiers' tea with bromide to quell sexual arousal but that is likely untrue as doing so would also diminish alertness in battle. Similar stories exist about a number of substances. Bromide compounds, especially sodium bromide, remained in over-the-counter sedatives and headache remedies (such as the original formulation of Bromo-Seltzer) in the US until 1975, when bromides were outlawed in all over-the-counter medicines, due to chronic toxicity. Bromide's exceedingly long half life in the body made it difficult to dose without side effects. Medical use of bromides in the US was discontinued at this time, as many better and shorter-acting sedatives were known by then. Potassium bromide is used in veterinary medicine to treat epilepsy in dogs, either as first-line treatment or in addition to phenobarbital, when seizures are not adequately controlled with phenobarbital alone. Use of bromide in cats is limited because it carries a substantial risk of causing lung inflammation (pneumonitis) in them. The use of bromide as a treatment drug for animals means that veterinary medical diagnostic laboratories are able as a matter of routine to measure serum levels of bromide on order of a veterinarian, whereas human medical diagnostic labs in the US do not measure bromide as a routine test. Potassium bromide is not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in humans to control seizures. In Germany, it is still approved as an antiepileptic drug for humans, particularly children and adolescents. These indications include severe forms of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, early-childhood-related Grand-Mal-seizures, and also severe myoclonic seizures during childhood. Adults who have reacted positively to the drug during childhood/adolescence may continue treatment. Potassium bromide tablets are sold under the brand name \"Dibro-Be mono\" (Rx-only). The drug has almost complete bioavailability, but the bromide ion has a relatively long half life of 12 days in the blood, making bromide salts difficult to adjust and dose. Bromide is not known to interfere with the absorption or excretion of any other anticonvulsant, though it does have strong interactions with chloride in the body, the normal body uptake and excretion of which strongly influences bromide's excretion. The therapeutic index (ratio of effectiveness to toxicity) for bromide is small. As with other antiepileptics, sometimes even therapeutic doses (3 to 5 grams per day, taking 6 to 8 weeks to reach stable levels) may give rise to intoxication. Often indistinguishable from 'expected' side-effects, these include: Potassium bromide is transparent from the near ultraviolet to long-wave infrared wavelengths (0.25-25 µm) and has no significant optical absorption lines in its high transmission region. It is used widely as infrared optical windows and components for general spectroscopy because of its wide spectral range. In infrared spectroscopy, samples are analyzed by grinding with powdered potassium bromide and pressing into a disc. Alternatively, samples may be analyzed as a liquid film (neat, as a solution, or in a mull with Nujol) between two polished potassium bromide discs. Due to its high solubility and hygroscopic nature it must be kept in a dry environment. The refractive index is about 1.55 at 1.0 µm. In addition to manufacture of silver bromide, potassium bromide is used as a restrainer in black and white developer formulas. It improves differentiation between exposed and unexposed crystals of silver halide, and thus reduces fog. Potassium bromide Potassium bromide (KBr) is a salt, widely used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with over-the-counter use extending to 1975 in the US. 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"Charlie Cheever Charlie Cheever (born August 2, 1981) is the co-founder, along with Adam D'Angelo, of Quora, an online knowledge market. He was formerly an engineer and manager at Facebook, where he oversaw the creation of Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform. Prior to Facebook, Cheever was employed by Amazon.com in Seattle. He left Facebook to start Quora in June 2009. He stepped down from active management of Quora in September 2012 but remains an advisor. In 2016 it was announced that he is working as the CEO of Expo.io (formally known as Exponent), a startup company that is a, \"translation machine for mobile app code\". Cheever is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Harvard College, B.A. in Computer Science. He is a member of the Fly Club. Charlie Cheever Charlie Cheever (born August 2, 1981) is the co-founder, along with Adam D'Angelo, of Quora, an online knowledge market. He was formerly an engineer and manager at Facebook, where he oversaw the creation of Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform. Prior to Facebook, Cheever was employed by Amazon.com in Seattle. He left Facebook to start Quora in June 2009. He stepped down from active management of Quora in"
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"Georgia women's national football team Georgia women's national football team represents Georgia in international football. Georgia took part in the qualification for the European Championships in 1999, but withdrew after two matches, against Yugoslavia (0–11) and Turkey (0–1). After this, Georgia did not take part in qualification until the European Championships in 2009. Then, Georgia were placed in a group with Turkey, Northern Ireland and Croatia. Georgia finished last, with no points. Georgia won their first match on 11 May 2009, winning 3–1 against Macedonia, and also scoring their first goal in a competitive game that year, in a 1–3 defeat to Scotland in the qualification for the 2011 World Cup. However, they also set a new negative record that year; the qualification opened with a 0–15 defeat to Denmark. In the subsequent qualifiers for the 2013 European Championship and 2015 World Cup the team couldn't make it past the preliminary round, ranking third of four teams in both occasions. \"Squad for the 2015 World Cup qualification's preliminary round, 4–9 April 2013 <div style=\"text-align:left\"> Times are CEST () for dates between 29 March and 24 October 2015 and between 27 March and 29 October 2016, for other dates times are CET (). Georgia women's national football team Georgia women's national football team represents Georgia in international football. Georgia took part in the qualification for the European Championships in 1999, but withdrew after two matches, against Yugoslavia (0–11) and Turkey (0–1). After this, Georgia did not take part in qualification until the European Championships in 2009. Then, Georgia were placed in a group with Turkey, Northern Ireland and Croatia. Georgia finished last, with no points. Georgia won their first match on 11 May 2009, winning 3–1 against Macedonia, and also scoring their first goal in a competitive game that year, in"
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"Charles Moore and Co. Charles Moore and Co. was a company based in Adelaide, South Australia which owned a number of department stores in three Australian states. It was founded by Irish-born businessman, Charles Moore (\"ca.\" 1858 – 30 September 1916). Its best-known assets were the department store known to two generations of Adelaideans as \"Moore's on the Square\", Charles Moore's on Hay Street, , Western Australia and Read's in Prahran, Victoria. Charles Moore was born near Derry in the north of Ireland. He emigrated to Adelaide around 1881 and for a time worked for John Martin & Co. in Rundle Street, then for the wholesalers Matthew Goode & Co. He struck out on his own account by opening a store in 64–74 Gouger Street, later the site of Peoplestores Ltd., on 9 April 1884. In 1905 this store moved to larger premises on the Gouger Street market site. He took over Peter Smith and Co.'s \"Sandringham House\" (previously \"Gault's\") at 16–18 Rundle Street and reopened it as the \"Coliseum\" in 1898, managed by F. C. Catt, who later had his own Rundle Street store. This shop closed in December 1909 after water leaking from the fifth floor percolated through the building, resulting in extensive damage to stock and fittings. This occurred just four years after the store had been enlarged by the addition of another two storeys. It became Donaldson and Andrews (later Donaldson's), then in 1933 Glasson's, which was taken over by Myers in 1938. He opened a branch in the boom town of Kadina (on the corner of Graves and Hallett Streets) in 1887. By 1891 he also had stores in Eudunda and Balaklava in country South Australia. By 1893 a store in Manoora was being advertised, but was dropped by 1895. From 1900 only the Kadina shop was advertised, and that closed by 1981. Moore was a leading figure in the Central Traders' Association, which represented businesses around Grote and Gouger Streets, bravely making major investments away from the major retail precinct of Rundle, Hindley and Grenfell Streets. In 1914 he opened a new palatial store on the west side of Victoria Square between Grote and Gouger Streets, designed by architects Garlick & Jackman. No expense was spared in providing a maximum of display area behind large plate glass windows, generously lit by a huge leadlight cupola and extensive artificial lighting. A feature was a grand marble staircase leading to the first floor. The store was officially opened by the Mayor of Adelaide, Isaac Isaacs, on 29 August 1916. On 2 March 1948 Moore's was gutted by fire; all that remained was some ground floor structures, the external shell, and the staircase. The shop was rebuilt under the architects Garlick, Jackman and Gooden and business returned until a gradual decline in the 1970s. In 1979 the store was sold to the South Australian Government and was later transformed into a major law courts building containing some 26 courtrooms, library and administration. It was named the \"Sir Samuel Way Building\" by the Governor of South Australia Sir Donald Dunstan in 1983 commemorating the South Australian jurist Samuel Way. He opened a store \"Moore and Gobbett\" in Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia in 1895, and bought the \"Coliseum\" furniture shop, also on Hay Street, but sold it in 1902. By 1899 the shop was advertised as Charles Moore and Co. Moore is particularly remembered in Perth for his advocacy for a children's hospital (founding in 1897 the Children's Hospital Movement) and its generous support. He was principal partner of the \"Charles M. Read\" store in Chapel Street, Prahran, and owned the property. and was full owner when his partner Jacob Read died in 1910. In 1956 Read's was Australia's largest suburban store. Around 1900 Charles and his family moved to Melbourne, living at \"Woorigoleen\", Clendon Road, Toorak, where he died after a short illness, and was buried at Brighton cemetery. Substantial sums were left to his employees in his will. They owned a nearby property \"Warrawee\" on the corner of Grange and Struan Roads, where Mrs. Moore lived for a time, and subdivided for sale in 1918. She purchased \"Merriwa\", A. Rutter Clarke's home, noted for its garden of indigenous plants, on Orrong Road, Toorak in September 1917. From around 1930 until her death she lived at \"Tara\", also on Orrong Road, the last ten years as an invalid. Charles Moore married Jane Cocks Carty (1871 – 19 May 1944). They had four sons and three daughters. Jane Carty was born in Dublin, the daughter of the founder of the Band of Hope in Ireland. Both were interred at Brighton Cemetery. Charles C. Moore succeeded his father as Chief Executive Officer of Chas. Moore and Co. and was succeeded by a grandson Fred Moore some time before 1956. Campbell Smith, a nephew of Charles Moore, was General Manager until 1935. Charles Edward Stuart Smith, another nephew, managed the Charles M. Read store in Prahran from 1902 then managed the Adelaide business then from 1907 to 1930 managed the Perth business. He then worked for another company in Sydney but returned to the Prahran store on the death of his uncle and remained there until 1932. Charles Moore and Co. Charles Moore and Co. was a company based in Adelaide, South Australia which owned a number of department stores in three Australian states. It was founded by Irish-born businessman,"
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"Caitlyn Shadbolt Caitlyn Shadbolt is an Australian singer and songwriter. Shadbolt rose to fame after placing fifth on the sixth season of \"The X Factor Australia\". She released her debut extended play in 2015, which peaked at number 50. Shadbolt started playing in a band at the age of 12. In 2014, Shadbolt successfully auditioned for the sixth season of \"The X Factor Australia\" singing \"Life Is a Highway\" by Tom Cochrane. She made it through to the live shows and was mentored by Ronan Keating, ultimately coming fifth... In January 2015, Shadbolt released her debut single, \"Maps Out The Window\" which shot straight to the top of the iTunes Country Singles Chart and reached the Top 5 on the Australian Country Airplay Chart. In July, Shadbolt signed with ABC Music and released her second single, \"Shoot Out The Lights\". Her self-titled debut EP was released in August 2015 and peaked at number 50. In 2016, Shadbolt was nominated for \"Best New Artist\" Country Music Awards, losing to Chrissie Lamb. In March 2016, Shadbolt won New Oz Artist of the Year at the Country Music Channel Awards. In March 2017, Shadbolt released \"My Break Up Anthem\" as the lead single from her debut studio album \"Songs on My Sleeve\" released in May 2017. Caitlyn Shadbolt Caitlyn Shadbolt is an Australian singer and songwriter. Shadbolt rose to fame after placing fifth on the sixth season of \"The X Factor Australia\". She released her debut extended play in 2015, which peaked at number 50. Shadbolt started playing in a band at the age of 12. In 2014, Shadbolt successfully auditioned for the sixth season of \"The X Factor Australia\" singing \"Life Is a Highway\" by Tom Cochrane. She made it through to the live shows and was mentored by Ronan Keating, ultimately"
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"Palisades Hudson Financial Group Palisades Hudson Financial Group LLC, was founded in 1993 by Larry M. Elkin. The fee-only financial and tax-planning firm also has an affiliated Registered Investment Adviser arm, Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P., which began in 1997. Palisades Hudson Asset Management had more than $1.1 billion in assets under management as of April 2013. It offers services including personal financial planning, estate planning, tax planning and tax return preparation, and (through Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P.) investment management and asset allocation. In 2016, Palisades Hudson moved their headquarters from Scarsdale, New York to Stamford, Connecticut and had over 20 employees located in 5 cities. Its customers are based across the United States and in Brazil. In 1992, Larry M. Elkin departed Arthur Andersen in order to found a one-man financial planning firm in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. The firm, which opened in January 1993, came to be known as Palisades Hudson Financial Group LLC. It eventually expanded to four offices: the New York location, which moved from Hastings-on-Hudson to Scardsale; an office in Fort Lauderdale, FL; an office in Atlanta, GA; and a Portland, OR, Location. The firm has received notice for its estate planning work. In 2006, the firm's chief investment officer and staff successfully opposed a significant mutual fund fee increase at DWS Funds. Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P., was one of \"Investment News\"’ top 50 registered investment advisors (RIAs) that also provide financial services in 2012. \"Financial Advisor Magazine\" named Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P., one of the top RIAs in 2012 based on the firm’s assets under management. Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P. was one of \"AdvisorOne\"’s top 20 wealth managers for 2012. Palisades Hudson has produced a variety of publications, both in print and online. \"Current Commentary\" (blog) \"Current Commentary\" is a daily blog, authored by various members of the firm. It has appeared weekdays since 2009 and is republished in various online and print venues. \"Sentinel\" (quarterly newsletter) Palisades Hudson has published \"Sentinel\" four times a year since 1993, covering a variety of investment and financial planning topics. It has been available online since 1995. \"First Comes Love, Then Comes Money\" First published in 1994 by Doubleday Business, \"First Comes Love, Then Comes Money\" contains advice and worksheets for unmarried couples facing legal and financial challenges unique to their situation. It was written by Palisades Hudson’s founder and president Larry Elkin during the period when he comprised the entirety of the firm. Palisades Hudson Financial Group Palisades Hudson Financial Group LLC, was founded in 1993 by Larry M. Elkin. The fee-only financial and tax-planning firm also has an affiliated Registered Investment Adviser arm, Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P., which began in 1997. Palisades Hudson Asset Management had more than $1.1 billion in assets under management as of April 2013. It offers services including personal financial planning, estate planning, tax planning and tax return preparation, and (through Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P.) investment management and asset allocation. In 2016, Palisades Hudson moved their headquarters"
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"George Bähr George Bähr (15 March 1666 – 16 March 1738) was a German architect. George Bähr was born into a poor family of in Fürstenwalde (now a part of Geising, Saxony), the son of a weaver. The village priest, however, helped pay for his education, and Bähr was able to become a carpenter’s apprentice in Lauenstein, Saxony. In 1690, Bähr went to Dresden to start work as a carpenter. His dream was to go to Italy and see the famous buildings there, so in his spare time he studied mechanics, calling himself both an artist and a mechanic, and designing not only castles and palaces but also sketches of organs. In 1705, aged 39, Bahr was named Dresden’s City Master Carpenter, although he did not even have a master carpenter’s certificate. One of Bähr’s main goals was to modernise the city’s churches. He believed that the existing buildings did no justice to Protestant church services in particular. His first building was the parish church in the Loschwitz area of Dresden, a building in the shape of a stretched-out octagon, completed in 1708. The Dresden \"Waisenhauskirche\" (Orphanage Church) was built around 1710, followed by the \"Dreifaltigkeitskirche\" (Trinity Church) in Schmiedeberg, in the Ore Mountains, 1713-1716. Between 1719 and 1726 the church in Forchheim was built, as well as more in Königstein, Hohnstein and Kesselsdorf (all in Saxony) and a considerable amount of housing in Dresden. But Bähr is most famous for designing the Frauenkirche in Dresden. He was given the task in 1722; in 1726, the design was approved and work began. From 1730, Bähr became the first in Germany to go by the title of “Architect”. Whilst working on the Frauenkirche, Bähr also oversaw the building of the \"Dreikönigskirche\" (Church of the Three Kings) in Dresden’s Neustadt area – the church had however been designed by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. George Bähr did not live to see the Frauenkirche completed – he died in Dresden, aged 72, and was buried in the church’s vaults. In 2004, a memorial was built to him in the castle at Lauenstein, where he learned his trade. In 2018, researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena analyzed the genome of George Bähr. They found that he most likely had light skin pigmentation, brown eyes and is of central European origin George Bähr George"
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"Konstantin Kotsev Konstantin Kotsev (; June 4, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Bulgarian stage and film actor. Kotsev was amid the most popular Bulgarian actors from the last decades of 20th century. He is best known for his roles in classic Bulgarian films such as \"The Tied Up Balloon\" (1967), \"The Swedish Kings\" (1968), \"The white room\" (1968), \"Naked Conscience\" (1971), \"Toplo / Warmth\" (1978), \"Time of Violence\" (1988), as well as his numerous notable performances on the stage. Konstantin Kotsev was decorated with the high titles “Honoured Artist” and “People's Artist”. Born Konstantin Vasilev Kotsev on June 4, 1926 in the city of Istanbul, he entered the law faculty at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia where he graduated in 1950. Subsequently, he enrolled acting at The National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts graduating in 1958. After the graduation, Kotsev was appointed in the Burgas Theatre for a year. In 1959, he joined the troupe of the newly founded Satirical Theatre „Aleko Konstantinov“ in Sofia where he remained until 1984. During the end of the 1980s, Kotsev was part of the Municipal Theatre of Sofia. His film debut in a main role was in 1958 in the Bulgarian film classic \"On a Small Island\" directed by Rangel Valchanov. Kotsev has a son Dimitar (born 1971) and a daughter Zornitsa (born 1972). Konstantin Kotsev Konstantin Kotsev (; June 4, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Bulgarian stage and film actor. Kotsev was amid the most popular Bulgarian actors from the last decades of 20th century. He is best known for his roles in classic Bulgarian films such as \"The Tied Up Balloon\" (1967), \"The Swedish Kings\" (1968), \"The white room\" (1968), \"Naked Conscience\" (1971), \"Toplo / Warmth\" (1978), \"Time of Violence\" (1988), as well as"
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"Ethoxzolamide Ethoxzolamide (alternatively known as ethoxyzolamide) is a sulfonamide medication that functions as a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor. It is used in the treatment of glaucoma and duodenal ulcers, and as a diuretic. It may also be used in the treatment of some forms of epilepsy. Ethoxzolamide, a sulfonamide, inhibits carbonic anhydrase activity in proximal renal tubules to decrease reabsorption of water, sodium, potassium, bicarbonate. It also decreases carbonic anhydrase in the CNS, increasing the seizure threshold. This reduction in carbonic anhydrase also reduces the intraocular pressure in the eye by decreasing aqueous humor. Ethoxzolamide binds and inhibits carbonic anhydrase I. Carbonic anhydrase plays an essential role in facilitating the transport of carbon dioxide and protons in the intracellular space, across biological membranes and in the layers of the extracellular space. The inhibition of this enzyme effects the balance of applicable membrane equilibrium systems. Ethoxzolamide Ethoxzolamide (alternatively known as ethoxyzolamide) is a sulfonamide medication that functions as a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor. It is used in the treatment of glaucoma and duodenal ulcers, and as a diuretic. It may also be used in the treatment of some forms of epilepsy. Ethoxzolamide, a sulfonamide, inhibits carbonic anhydrase activity in proximal renal tubules to"
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"Cristina Pacheco Cristina Pacheco is a journalist, writer, interviewer and television personality who lives and works in Mexico City. While her journalism career began in 1960, continuing with regular columns in La Jornada, she is best known for her work in television, hosting two shows called Aquí nos tocó vivir and Conversando, con Cristina Pacheco, both on Once TV since 1980. Which these shows, Pacheco interviews notable people and profiles popular Mexican culture, which includes interviews with common people. She has received over forty prizes and other recognitions for her work including Mexico’s National Journalism Prize and the first Rosario Castellanos a la Trayectoria Cultural de la Mujer Award for outstanding women in the Spanish-speaking world. Cristina Pacheco was born Cristina Romo Hernández on September 13, 1941 in San Felipe Torres Mochas, Guanajuato. She was younger of one of six children of a family poor enough to know what hunger was. However, her parents taught her not to beg from others nor to cry. The family left Guanajuato to live in San Luis Potosí but only for briefly, because there Pacheco hurt herself gravely and the family moved to Mexico City for her medical treatment. Her mother decided that the family should stay in the city as she had family there. (passion) Her family all lived in one room with no privacy. Although she did not have money or toys, she did have freedom, as it was easy for her to escape as her mother was always busy. She would stay by the doors of houses and eavesdrop on neighbors. She says she saw and heard many things as no one took notice of her. For this reason she calls herself an “insignificant child, not because she thought she was insignificant but because other saw her as such. What she saw was the good and bad in life. This inspired in her the desire to be a writer and journalist, from which she never wavered. She attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México receiving a bachelor’s in Spanish. She is married to writer, poet and translator José Emilio Pacheco, from whom she took her professional name and with whom she has two daughters. She does not like to talk about the details of her relationship with her husband, stating only that it is an ordinary marriage although she admires her husband’s work greatly. Despite her successful career in radio and television, she has not encourage her daughters to follow this path because she does not believe these media inform the public as they should. She does not like being famous. She does much of her own housework because she says it “keeps her feet on the ground” and she cannot work unless there is a certain amount of order. She has been invited to run for political office but has declined. Her career began in writing and she has been an editor, journalist and writer of various genres. She is best known for her work chronicling the popular culture of Mexico, later doing this in radio and television. She still considers herself first a journalist and writer, which to her is adventure, imagination and improvisation. When she was younger and single she wanted to cover war stories and the like, but today she is quite satisfied with the work that she does. She began her journalism career in 1960 with the El Popular and Novedades newspapers. In 1963 she began writing for the Sucesos magazine with the pseudonym of Juan Ángel Real. In 1977 she joined the staff of the Siempre! magazine. She also published interviews and other articles for other publications such as El Sol de México (1976-1977), the Cuadrante de la Soledad section of El Día (1977-1985), and La Jornada from 1986 to the present. For the last, her best known work is a weekly column series entitled \"Mar de Historias\". She edited the Contenido book series, the Revista de al Universidad de México and \"Sábado\" a supplement of the Unomásuno publication. In addition to newspaper columns and reports, she has also written short stories, chronicles, novels, essays and children’s literature. She has published fifteen novels including \"Para vivir aquí\" (1983), \"Sopita de fideo\" (1984), \"Cuarto de azotea\" (1986), \"Zona de desastre\" (1986), \"La última noche del tigre\" (1987), \"El corazón de la noche\" (1989), \"Para mirar a lo lejos\" (1989), \"Amores y desamores\" (1996), \"Los trabajos perdidos\" (1998), \"El oro del desierto\" (2005). Books which feature collections of her interviews include \"Testimonio y conversaciones\" (1984), \"La luz de México\" (1988), \"Los dueños de la noche\" (1990), \"Al pie de la letra\" (2001), \"Limpios de todo amor, cuentos reunidos, 1997-2001\" (2001) (a collection of her works from \"Mar de historias\") and \"La rueda de la fortuna\" (1993). Her interview collections often have a narrative feel. Children’s books include \"La chistera maravillosa\" (2004), \"El eucalipto Ponciano\" (2006), \"La canción del grillo\" 2006, \"Se vende burro\" (2006), \"Dos amigos\" (2008), \"El pájaro de madera\" (2008) and \"Humo en tus ojos\" (2010). Despite her long journalism career, it has been her work on television which has made her famous. She began as a commentator on the show \"Séptimo Días\" on Channel 13 on which she realized a series of interviews with writer Renato Leduc. Since 1977 she has worked with Once TV starting as commentator on the shows \"Así fue la semana\" and \"De todos modo Juan te llamas\", a series of interview with writer Juan de la Cabada. In 1980, she began hosting two shows of her own on \"Once, Aquí nos tocó Vivir\" and \"Conversando, con Cristina Pacheco\", which remain on the air. Both cover cultural topics related to Mexico. With the show \"Conversando, con Cristina Pacheco\", she profiles people in the arts and popular culture such as writers, musicians, artists, artisans, sports figures, which have included Portuguese writer José Saramago, Catalan lyricist Joan Manuel Serrat, painters Juan Soriano and Perro Aguayo . With Aquí nos tocó vivir, the emphasis is on everyday Mexico, including interviews with people who are not famous but whose stories intrigue Pacheco. She researches her subjects prior to interview but she does not prepare a list of questions because she feels this is demeaning. She does not like to be interviewed herself, but it allows her to understand those she interviews. She is not confrontational with her interviews as not only is this not well viewed in Mexico, she also believes that there are limits to what an interviewer should ask. The interviews last from between two and three hours before they are edited down. She says every person has his/her unique story even interviewing the same person twice will yield different results. For this reason, she says that she is still nervous before each interview she does, worried that she might not get all of the most important information. She says all of her interviewees have impressed her, with no one person standing out. She also has done radio work, appearing on XEQ-AM radio with programs such as Voz pública and Los dueños de la noche, on XEW-AM with the program Aquí y ahora and Radio Fórmula with the programs Los amos de la noche and Periodismo y algo más. Pacheco has received over forty awards and other recognitions over her career. These include the National Journalism Prize in 1975 and 1985, the National Association of Journalist Price in 1986, the Teponaxtli Prize from Malinalco in 1986 and the Medalla al Mérito Ciudadano. In 2001, she was honored by Once TV with a commemorative plaque at the company. In 2006 she was honored with an episode of a program called “El ciclo Celebrando a …” from CONACULTA at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. In 2011 she received a national homage at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 2012, she received several important awards, such as the Juan Crisóstomo Doria Prize from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, recognition at the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara and the first Rosario Castellanos a la Trayectoria Cultural de la Mujer Award at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. This award was",
"the National Journalism Prize in 1975 and 1985, the National Association of Journalist Price in 1986, the Teponaxtli Prize from Malinalco in 1986 and the Medalla al Mérito Ciudadano. In 2001, she was honored by Once TV with a commemorative plaque at the company. In 2006 she was honored with an episode of a program called “El ciclo Celebrando a …” from CONACULTA at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. In 2011 she received a national homage at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 2012, she received several important awards, such as the Juan Crisóstomo Doria Prize from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, recognition at the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara and the first Rosario Castellanos a la Trayectoria Cultural de la Mujer Award at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. This award was created to recognize women in the Spanish speaking world who stand out in their fields and promote culture. Cristina Pacheco Cristina Pacheco is a journalist, writer, interviewer and television personality who lives and works in Mexico City. While her journalism career began in 1960, continuing with regular columns in La Jornada, she is best known"
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"Pavelló Barris Nord Pavelló Barris Nord (Catalan for \"Northern Neighborhood Pavilion\") is an arena in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It is primarily used for basketball games and the home arena of Força Lleida CE. The construction of the Pavelló Barris Nord began on 1 June 2001, after the promotion of CE Lleida Bàsquet to Liga ACB, with the aim to give to the club an arena that fulfills the requirements to play in the league. Built in four months, it was opened on 4 October 2001. From an initial capacity of 5,500 people, after being expanded in summer of 2003, its new capacity is of 6,100 seats. The pavilion is located in \"Barris Nord\", an area of Lleida made out of parts of the neighborhoods of Pardinyes, Secà de Sant Pere and Balàfia, in the intersection of Rambla de Pardinyes with Avinguda de Prat de la Riba. When CE Lleida Bàsquet reached the ACB league, the team left the old Pavilion \"Onze de Setembre\" as the former did not fulfill the minimum requirements of capacity marked by league. The construction of a new pavilion was entrusted to a team of forty companies of Lleida, which achieved every a milestone: finishing it before the first day of the league, that is, 125 days afterwards. The venue has hosted many musical events, including concerts by Fito & Fitipaldis, Miguel Bosé or El Canto del Loco, among others. On April 29, 2012, Barris Nord hosted the Final Four of the 2011–12 UEFA Futsal Cup. On 13 and 14 May 2017, Barris Nord hosted the Final Four of the rink hockey's 2016–17 CERH European League. Pavelló Barris Nord Pavelló Barris Nord (Catalan for \"Northern Neighborhood Pavilion\") is an arena in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It is primarily used for basketball games and the home arena of"
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"Louisdale, Nova Scotia Louisdale (pronounced Lewisdale) is a Canadian rural community in Richmond County, Nova Scotia. The community is located on Cape Breton Island at the centre of a French-Acadian region. Founded mainly by families from nearby Petit-de-Grat, its early settlers were primarily of Acadian and, from the early 19th century, Scottish descent. It has 2 schools, park areas, and places to eat catering to tourists and residents. Early 19th century migrants to Richmond were mainly Scottish settlers, with fishing and farming important parts of the economy. The Louisdale area was formerly known as \"Barachois St. Louis\" or \"The Barachois\", according to archival documents. To distinguish it from other communities, the name was statutorily changed by the provincial legislature on April 7, 1905. A barachois, is a term used in Atlantic Canada to describe a coastal lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand bar. The term comes from a Basque word, \"\"barratxoa\"\", meaning \"little bar\". The popular derivation from the French or Acadian French \"\"barachois is without historical merit. In 1871 there were four census districts spanning the three Roman Catholic parishes around Isle Madame. One of these districts, Petit de Grat, became a separate parish after the turn of the 20th century. Prior to that, it was part of the Arichat parish. The Louisdale region, whose founders were primarily from the Little Anse area of Petit de Grat, also came under the Arichat Notre Dame de L'Assomption parish. The various parishes came within the diocese of Arichat. On its establishment in 1844, it was part of the Halifax diocese, which itself formed 2 years earlier (it became an archdiocese in 1852). The seat of the diocese was Notre Dame de L'Assomption, until transferred to Antigonish, its current name, on August 23, 1886. The community's religious heritage remains visible to the present day, with Louisdale one of two communities in Richmond home to a Catholic shrine. There are two schools in Louisdale. Felix Marchand Education Centre, an elementary school, was built in 1967 and underwent major renovation in 1990. The Nova Scotia Department of Education published Student Assessment results on the school in 2009. Of 38 students, in the Early Elementary Mathematical Literary Assessment, 58% met expectations. In the Early Language Literary Assessment, (of 24 students) 67% met reading expectations, while 75% met expectations in narrative writing. The newer Richmond Academy is a Grade 9–12 school. The 2009 Junior High Literary Assessment results show that of 71 students, 90 and 93% met expectations for reading and writing, respectively. The NSE Mathematics assessments saw 54% of 28 students passing, rising to 88% of 25 students for the NSE Advanced Mathematics assessment. Both institutions come under the jurisdiction of the Strait Regional School Board. The community lies in a district identified by Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History geomorphologists as an area of Sedimentary Lowland within the larger Atlantic Coast Region. The landform was carved through erosion of \"weakly metamorphosed Carboniferous sandstones\". These characteristics contributed to Cape Breton Island's richer freshwater habitats and areas of natural beauty. This has acted as a draw to European people purchasing homes around the county, particularly those sited near the shore. Louisdale's conservation areas and park are recognised among Sites of Special Interest by the Natural History Museum. A habitat for wildlife, Louisdale is the site of the first record in Maritime Canada of a species of winged ground beetle, \"Agonum crenistriatum\". Richmond, with 9,500 people, has the second smallest population density of counties in Nova Scotia; at 230,000 land acres plus its coastline, it is the smallest by area. The Louisdale population is around 1,770 according to the 2006 Canadian census, over an area of 102 km. The community is bordered by Grand Anse, with Lennox Passage to the North. Its harbour is between St. Peter's bay and Isle Madame. Its town sign depicts the slogan \"The heart of Richmond County\". The area has largely been agrarian, including lowbush blueberry cultivation, along with forestry, and fishing, though this latter has declined since the 1990s. Louisdale is one of the four in Richmond that provide central municipal water services to the county. Louisdale, Nova Scotia Louisdale (pronounced Lewisdale) is a Canadian rural community in Richmond"
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"Skipwith Cannell Skipwith Cannell (1887–1957) was an American poet associated with the Imagist group. His surname is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. He was a friend of William Carlos Williams, and like Ezra Pound he came from Philadelphia. Cannell studied at the University of Virginia and was enthusiastic about the work of Edgar Allan Poe and the free verse of The King James Version of The Bible. He was briefly married to Kathleen Eaton Cannell, who was generally known as 'Kitty'. Cannell met Pound in Paris in 1913. Pound sent some of Cannell's poems to Harriet Monroe. Back in London, Pound took Cannell and Kitty to visit Yeats and found a room for the couple below his own in Church Walk, Kensington. Cannell's work appeared in the first Imagist anthology, edited by Pound and published by Poetry Bookshop in 1914 \"Des Imagistes\" and \"The New Poetry: An Anthology\", edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson in 1917 and later in Richard Aldington's \"Imagist Anthology\" in 1930. Cannell and Kitty divorced in 1921. There were no children from this first marriage. Cannell married secondly Juliette Del Grange, a French national with whom he had two daughters, May and Sarah. His second marriage also ended in divorce. He married a third time to Catherine Pettigrew, with whom he had five additional children, David, Mary, Michael, John and Susan. He was closely involved with Alfred Kreymborg's magazine \"\". Skipwith Cannell Skipwith Cannell (1887–1957) was an American poet associated with the Imagist group. His surname is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. He was a friend of William Carlos Williams, and like Ezra Pound he came from Philadelphia. Cannell studied at the University of Virginia and was enthusiastic about the work of Edgar Allan Poe and the free"
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"Julian Patrick Julian Patrick (26 October 1927 – 8 May 2009) was an American operatic baritone and voice teacher. Born in Mississippi, Patrick grew up in Birmingham, Alabama where he was a member of the Apollo Boys Choir. After graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, he began his professional career as a musical theatre performer in the 1950s; appearing in the original Broadway productions of \"The Golden Apple\" (1954), \"Bells Are Ringing\" (1956), \"Juno\" (1959), \"Once Upon a Mattress\" (1959), and \"Fiorello!\" (1959). He also studied singing privately in New York City with Cornelius L. Reid. After the 1950s Patrick worked mainly as a performer in operas, making appearances at the Dallas Opera, the De Nederlandse Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Houston Grand Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin, the San Francisco Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, and the Welsh National Opera among other major opera houses. In 1968 he starred as Private Don Hanwell in the world premiere of Hugo Weisgall's \"Nine Rivers from Jordan\" at the New York City Opera. He was particularly active with the Seattle Opera where he notably created the role of George Milton in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's \"Of Mice and Men\" in 1970. He also taught on the music faculty of the University of Washington for many years. He died at the age of 81 while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was survived by his life partner of 56 years, Donn Talenti. Julian Patrick Julian Patrick (26 October 1927 – 8 May 2009) was an American operatic baritone and voice teacher. Born in Mississippi, Patrick grew up in Birmingham, Alabama where he was a member of the Apollo Boys Choir. After graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,"
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"Giantommaso Gastaldi Giantommaso Gastaldi, O.P. (1597–1655) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Brugnato (1652–1655). Giantommaso Gastaldi was born in Alassio Albinganen, Italy in 1597 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. On 26 August 1652, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Brugnato. On 1 September 1652, he was consecrated bishop by Fabio Chigi, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo, with Ranuccio Scotti Douglas, Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, and Carlo Carafa della Spina, Bishop of Aversa, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Brugnato until his death in 1655. Giantommaso Gastaldi Giantommaso Gastaldi, O.P. (1597–1655) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Brugnato (1652–1655). Giantommaso Gastaldi was born in Alassio Albinganen, Italy in 1597 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. On 26 August 1652, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Brugnato. On 1 September 1652, he was consecrated bishop by Fabio Chigi, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo, with Ranuccio Scotti Douglas, Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, and Carlo Carafa della Spina, Bishop of Aversa, serving as co-consecrators. He served as"
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"Policy by press release Policy by press release refers to the act of attempting to influence public policy by press releases intended to alarm the public into demanding action from their elected officials. In modern times, the term is used to dismiss an opponent's claims by suggesting the arguments to be lacking in substance and created solely to generate media attention. Perhaps the most common use of the term refers to an infamous period during the Eisenhower administration when \"leaked\" documents were a common way for the various branches of the US military to attempt to garner funding for their pet projects when traditional chains of command failed, or they actively ended them. Practically any idea, no matter how outlandish, could gain some traction by simply claiming that the Soviet Union was working on a similar device. The first and most costly example of this behavior was the mythical \"bomber gap.\" After seeing the latest Soviet designs in 1955, a clamor broke out in Washington about the Soviets developing a lead in deploying strategic bombers, with estimates that hundreds would be available shortly. The result was a massive expansion of the US building program, which led to the eventual introduction of about 2,500 jet bombers. Although it was not revealed at the time, US intelligence services had actually made real estimates of the size of the Soviet fleet as early as 1956 by placing it at around 20 aircraft. Nevertheless, the tactic of claiming the gap existed and then brushing aside any criticism as being \"weak on defense,\" was so successful it led to a wave of similar claims. Another famous case was a claim that suggested the Soviets were working on a global-range nuclear aircraft. An article, complete with images claimed to be leaked by a spy agency, appeared in the December 1958 issue of \"Aviation Week\". The article described a system that was suspiciously similar to some of the designs that were currently under consideration by large US aviation companies. Concerns were soon expressed that \"the Russians were from three to five years ahead of the US in the field of atomic aircraft engines and that they would move even further ahead unless the US pressed forward with its own program.\" In fact, the entire article was a hoax; third parties later revealed that the aircraft appearing in the pictures was the entirely-conventional Myasishchev M-50 \"Bounder\", which never entered production. The rumored aircraft was a nuclear-powered version of the Tupolev Tu-95 bomber, called Tupolev Tu-119. The controversy managed to secure, for a time, continued funding of US efforts, which culminated in the NB-36 testbed aircraft. Another apparent case of policy by press release was the famous \"Look\" article on flying saucers. At the time, the US Air Force and then the US Army were funding the development of the Avrocar at Avro Canada in Toronto. The article, in the 14 June 1955 edition, suggested that the recent wave of saucer reports were possibly caused by Soviet flying saucers, and the article went on to describe them and their capabilities. It included several images that appeared to be provided to them by Avro Canada, or someone in contact with them, including a description of the control system, which was identical to the one used on the Avrocar. In the end, the concept proved unfeasible, and the Avrocar project was eventually cancelled in 1961. The article nevertheless remains famous, as it is often presented as a US government misinformation campaign to deflect attention away from \"real\" UFO's: to exactly what end varies by the source. The term is now more commonly used, especially in the US, to refer to environmental policy, but it is still used in discussions of defense policy. Myriad claims asserting global warming or ozone depletion have been described by editorialists, such as Mark Martin, the Chronicle Sacramento Bureau, and Hugh Ellsaesser, as \"policy by press release.\" Likewise, the implication that Iraq was involved in the 9-11 attacks or had weapons of mass destruction, based on evidence that the CIA's own reports had dismissed, was described as \"policy by press release\" by John Kerry and Lou Dobbs. A related term, \"public health by press release\", is occasionally used ironically to imply official pronouncements or media campaigns belie inadequate effort or funding, but the term appeared in an article warning against a pitfall from the opposite direction (potential misassessment of limited clinical studies by press and policymakers). Policy by press release Policy by press release refers to the act of attempting to influence public policy by press releases intended to alarm the public into demanding action from their elected officials. In modern times, the term is used to dismiss an opponent's claims by suggesting the arguments to be lacking in substance and created solely to generate media attention."
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"Philip Mosima Philip Mosima (born 1 February 1977) is a Kenyan professional runner who specialises in middle- and long distance running. He was a promising junior cross country runner, winning the junior men's race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1993. The following year proved to be his breakthrough season, as he repeated his cross country success at the 1994 edition, won the 1500 metres at the African Junior Athletics Championships, and took a bronze medal in the same event at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Lisbon. He also finished fifth in the 5000 metres race at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. He began to move up in distance over the next few years and set world junior records in the 3000 metres and 5000 m in 1996. He became a regular on the Dutch running circuit in the late nineties: at the Warandeloop cross country race he took third in 1996, won the 1997 edition, and came second the following year. He broke the meeting record for the 3000 m at the KBC Night of Athletics in 1998, setting a time of 7:41.17. Following this he beat Marathon world record holder Paul Tergat in the Belgrade Race Through History competition in 1998, winning the competition in 17:02. He ran in the senior short race at the 2000 World Cross Country Championships, finishing in seventh place overall. He made top ten finishes in the Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km race in 2000 and 2001 and won the 2002 Parelloop competition. He set a 10-mile race best in 2001 running in the Dam tot Damloop, where he finished in fifth place with 46:34. He took the silver medal in the 3000 m at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in 2002, his time of 7:42.76 not enough to beat compatriot Richard Limo. He joined the Hitachi running team in Japan and in 2004 he broke a meeting record at the Osaka Grand Prix. His time of 13:10.48 in the 5000 m bettered Haile Gebrselassie's previous mark by over three seconds. At the 2004 Sapporo Half Marathon, Mosima ran a personal best of 1:02:21 for ninth place. That same year, he formed part of the Kenyan team for the International Chiba Ekiden, and they finished second behind the Ethiopian team. Philip Mosima Philip Mosima (born 1 February 1977) is a Kenyan professional runner who specialises in middle- and long distance running. He"
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"Elizabeth Fuller (illustrator) Elizabeth Anne Fuller (born 24 June 1957) is the illustrator of many New Zealand children's books; including \"Mrs. Wishy-Washy\", \"My Brown Bear Barney\", \"Best-Loved Bear\". She was born in Hastings, New Zealand, daughter to Geoffrey and Margaret Fuller. Elizabeth went to primary and secondary schools in Hawke's Bay before attending Wellington School of Design. Before becoming a freelance illustrator Elizabeth worked as a Designer in the Graphics Department, Television New Zealand; Designer, Illustrator in Creative Department, Illotts Advertising, Wellington. She is now living in Auckland with her family of her husband, Hugh, and three children. She continues to illustrate for the international market. Gardening and photography are two of Elizabeth's pursuits when not illustrating. Elizabeth Fuller (illustrator) Elizabeth Anne Fuller (born 24 June 1957) is the illustrator of many New Zealand children's books; including \"Mrs. Wishy-Washy\", \"My Brown Bear Barney\", \"Best-Loved Bear\". She was born in Hastings, New Zealand, daughter to Geoffrey and Margaret Fuller. Elizabeth went to primary and secondary schools in Hawke's Bay before attending Wellington School of Design. Before becoming a freelance illustrator Elizabeth worked as a Designer in the Graphics Department, Television New Zealand; Designer, Illustrator in Creative Department, Illotts Advertising, Wellington. She"
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"Dalian Hi-Tech Zone Dalian Hi-tech Zone ( or ) or DHZ is an industrial district in the western suburb of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China. It spreads about 30 kilometers along Lushun South Road and Guoshui Highway in Shahekou District and Lushunkou District, where the world's high technology companies and organizations are situated. The construction of DHZ started in 1991. Dalian Software Park was added in 1998. The second phase of Dalian Software Park was kicked off in 2003 at the site of Dalian Ascendas IT Park, which officially opened in 2007. DHZ is often called \"Lushun South Road Software Industry Belt\". The whole area of Dalian Hi-tech Zone is under the control of Dalian Hi-tech Industrial Zone Administrative Committee, but all parks therein, except Dalian Hi-tech Zone and Animation Industry Base, written below, are managed by private enterprises. They are from east to west: Shahekou District Along Lushun South Road: Now being reclaimed from the Yellow Sea For example, Crystal Digital Technology (), etc. Lushunkou District Under construction Along GuoShui Highway (Guojia - Shuishiying Villages): Under construction There are universities and research centers in this area, where about half of all the universities of Dalian are located. From east to west are: In Dalian City, there are: There are other parks, often called the \"hi-tech zones\" of Dalian. Dalian BEST City () is located along Lushun North Road. New Jinzhou District including Dalian Development Area has DD Port and other hi-tech areas. Dalian Hi-Tech Zone Dalian Hi-tech Zone ( or ) or DHZ is an industrial district in the western suburb of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China. It spreads about 30 kilometers along Lushun South Road and Guoshui Highway in Shahekou District and Lushunkou District, where the world's high technology companies and organizations are situated. The construction of DHZ"
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"Zebda Zebda is a French music group from Toulouse (France) known for its political activism and its wide variety of musical styles. The group, which was formed in 1985, consisted of seven musicians of diverse nationalities, and the themes of much of their music involved political and social justice, the status of immigrants and minorities in France, and the inhabitants of the French \"banlieues\", or suburbs. Zebda earned widespread recognition, as well as several awards, for its 1998 single \"Tomber la chemise\" (\"Take Off Your Shirt\"). In 2001, the band spearheaded an independent political party that won over 12% of the first-round vote in Toulouse's municipal elections. The group disbanded in 2003 but reformed in 2011. Zebda was first formed in 1985 when Magyd Cherfi, a community organizer at the time, organized a small group of his musician friends to shoot a video for a community organization for which he was working. More members joined the group later—several of the members met one another through involvement in community projects geared towards supporting arts and music involvement among Toulouse youth. The group began performing together regularly in 1988. The band gained widespread recognition when they performed at the Printemps de Bourges music festival in 1990 and then performed on an international tour which included venues in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The group released its first album, \"L'arène des rumeurs\", in 1992, under the label of Barclay Records. As the band toured and performed, the members continued to be active in community work, and Zebda became known for its politicized lyrics. Its 1995 album, \"Le bruit et l'odeur\" (\"The Noise and the Smell\") took its name from a gaffe made by then-president Jacques Chirac in reference to the conditions in the French \"banlieues\", many of which have large immigrant populations. The record itself had a strong critical and commercial reception and has been said to have \"cause[d] a major stir\" in France. In 2003, Zebda released its only live album, \"La Tawa\", after which the band split up. The group reformed in 2011 and toured France. A new album, \"Second tour\", was released in January 2012. \"Zebda\" (زبدة, transliterated \"Zibdah\"), the Arabic word for butter (\"beurre\" in French), is a play on the word \"beur\", a French slang word referring to French citizens of Arab origin—several of the group's members are of North African and other immigrant descent. As Zebda was originally formed for a community organization and many of the members met through social initiatives and activism, the band remained highly political throughout its existence; Bruce Crumley of the Culture Kiosque has called the group \"politically engaged and culturally committed\" and \"politically progressive.\" Much of the group's music and lyrics have centered on issues of political and social justice among the immigrant community and inhabitants of the \"banlieues\". In fact, Bangor University's Jonathan Ervine, in a deconstructive analysis of Zebda's music and identity, states that \"Zebda's music invokes both the virtues of multiculturalism and the problems that exist within French society regarding the treatment of immigrants, ethnic minorities, and young people from France's \"banlieues\". Difference, discrimination, and exclusion are themes that feature heavily in \"J'y suis, j'y reste\" [a song from the album \"Utopie d'occase\"].\" The themes of Zebda's music were known for dealing in issues of racism and intolerance. In 1997, three members of Zebda formed a group called \"Tactikollectif,\" which was involved in fund-raising and advocacy for immigrant groups in the \"banlieues\". In the 2001 municipal elections, Zebda sponsored and spearheaded a list of independent candidates, \"Les Motivé-e-s\" (\"The Motivated Ones\"), who ran for office on the platform that the current local government was not representative of all demographic groups in the city; \"Les Motivé-e-s\" was also dedicated to encouraging local youth and immigrants to vote and become more involved in local political issues. The group of candidates, two of whom were Zebda band members, won 12.38% of the vote in the first-round elections, and advanced to the second round, where they were narrowly defeated. After the band's breakup in 2003, the individual members continued to be active in local politics and other activities for social advocacy. Zebda's music is influenced by these band members' multicultural as well as music from all over the world; the group's songs have incorporated rock, and reggae styles, and musical instruments and styles as diverse as Latin music, Arab, and French accordion. While the content and themes of their music are politically serious, typically detailing racism and discrimination, the group has been said to have a positive and \"upbeat\" sound that represents the ideal of peaceful coexistence and cultural diversity. The group is best known for its single \"\"Tomber la chemise\"\" (\"Take Off Your Shirt\"), from the 1998 platinum album \"Essence ordinaire\". In addition to being a commercial success, the song went on to be named the best French song of 2000 at both the Victoires de la musique awards and the NRJ Music Awards. Zebda Zebda is a French music group from Toulouse (France) known for its political activism and its wide variety of musical styles. The group, which was formed in 1985, consisted of seven musicians of diverse nationalities, and the themes of much of their music involved political and social justice, the status of immigrants and minorities in France, and the inhabitants of the French \"banlieues\", or suburbs. Zebda earned widespread recognition, as well as several awards, for"
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"Liberal Party–Hatoyama The Liberal Party–Hatoyama () was a political party in Japan. It was active during 1953. The party was established in March 1953, shortly before the April elections, by a group of 22 Diet members belonging to the Liberal Party who were supporters of Ichirō Hatoyama; within two days it gained a further 15 seats when the Kozen Hirokawa faction also defected. In May Mamoru Shigemitsu was elected party president. Of the 102 candidates nominated by the party for the House of Representatives, 35 were elected. However, the party failed to win a seat in the simultaneous House of Councillors elections. Talks were subsequently held with Kaishintō about a merger, but in November most of its Diet members rejoined the Liberal Party, with the exception of eight who subsequently formed the Japan Liberal Party. Liberal Party–Hatoyama The Liberal Party–Hatoyama () was a political party in Japan. It was active during 1953. The party was established in March 1953, shortly before the April elections, by a group of 22 Diet members belonging to the Liberal Party who were supporters of Ichirō Hatoyama; within two days it gained a further 15 seats when the Kozen Hirokawa faction also defected. In May"
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"Fruitopia Fruitopia is a fruit-flavoured drink introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in 1994 and targeted at teens and young adults. According to \"New York Times\" business reports, it was invented as part of a push by Coca-Cola to capitalize on the success of Snapple and other flavored tea drinks. The brand gained substantial hype in the mid-1990s before enduring lagging sales by decade's end. While still available in Canada and in Australia as a juice brand, in 2003, Fruitopia was phased out in most of the United States where it had struggled for several years. However, select flavors have since been revamped under Coca-Cola's successful Minute Maid brand. Use of the Fruitopia brand name continues through various beverages in numerous countries, including some McDonald's restaurant locations in the United States carrying the drink still to this day. Fruitopia was a pet project of Coke's former marketing chief, Sergio Zyman. The company spent an initial marketing budget of $30 million, allowing Fruitopia to quickly gain hype in the mid-1990s. \"TIME magazine\" named Fruitopia one of the Top 10 New Products of 1994, and the beverage would even be mentioned on the popular animated series, \"The Simpsons\". The brand's flagship flavor would be Strawberry Passion Awareness. This flavor was available at drink fountains as well at McDonald's as Coca-Cola pushed this drink to market in many places. Fruitopia vending machines have also appeared in schools and college campuses in addition to or as a replacement to soda. In addition to the popular Strawberry Passion Awareness, other flavors included The Grape Beyond, Tangerine Wavelength, Citrus Consciousness, Fruit Integration, Pink Lemonade Euphoria, Lemonade Love & Hope, Raspberry Psychic Lemonade, Strawberry Kiwi Ruckus, and Beachside Blast. These flavors were available in the United States while a much wider array was available in the UK. On March 23, 1995, a Fruitopia fruit tea line featuring Born Raspberry, Peaceable Peach, Lemon Berry Intuition, and Curious Mango was introduced in 16-ounce glass bottles. In a drive to remake the brand and remarket it as more relevant to Generation X, however, Coca-Cola dropped several Fruitopia flavors in 1996, added others (such as Beachside Blast and Banana Vanilla Inclination), and renamed others (Citrus Consciousness becoming Citrus Excursion). Fruitopia had rather unusual commercials despite the simplicity of the product behind them. They featured animation using imagery of fruit arrayed in colorful, spinning kaleidoscope patterns. This was accompanied by idealistic aphorisms reminiscent of hippie poetry of the 1960s, such as might be found in advertisements which ran in underground press newspapers of the period. Background music on several of the ads was provided by The Muffs, Kate Bush, and the Cocteau Twins. Ad copy ran as follows: \"There is a beautiful person<br> \"living inside you!<br> \"Please share a Raspberry Psychic Lemonade<br> \"with him or her.\" Its recurring slogan was \"Fruitopia: for the mind, body, and planet.\" In 1997, Greek writer Eugene Trivizas won the first stage of a legal battle against Coca-Cola, preventing the multinational company from registering in Greece the title of his TV serial and comic-strip books \"Fruitopia\" as a trademark for soft drinks. The court decided that Coca-Cola has unlawfully appropriated his intellectual property. Coca-Cola appealed against the decision and, in December 1999, the relevant court of appeal ruled once again in his favour prohibiting the use of his intellectual property as a trademark for soft drinks. By the end of the 1990s, Fruitopia had struggled to maintain a profitable profile. In 2003, the Fruitopia line was all but discontinued in the United States, with some flavors being revamped under the Minute Maid moniker; Minute Maid, the world's largest juice brand, was largely responsible for the lagging sales of Fruitopia. A similar situation occurred by PepsiCo, who replaced their own Fruitopia clone, Fruit Works, with the enduring Tropicana moniker. Fruitopia Strawberry Passion Awareness is still available in the United States (branded as Minute Maid) in McDonald's fountain machines nationwide. Due to its success in the region, Fruitopia juice is still available in Canada in a wide variety of flavours and continues to be sold in Australia as a juice brand. The ingredients in Canadian and former American Fruitopia drinks are not the same and taste(d) different; notably, the United States version has preservatives added. In 2007, Coca-Cola GmbH Germany released a new fruit juice line under the name \"Fruitopia by Minute Maid\", essentially an alternately named Minute Maid. In 2001, Fruitopia was relaunched in Australia as a juice brand but was unable to gain major success. Four years later, it held only 4% of the Australian juice market, prompting Coca-Cola Australia’s then general manager for Non Carbs, John McLoughlin, to invest several million dollars into revitalizing the brand in what was seen as a challenge to the reigning Berri brand. This was based on research suggesting that while consumers did not hold the product experience in high esteem, they chose Fruitopia as their favorite brand name. The plan involved the launch Fruitopia J, an ambient juice, and as Fruitopia Classic, a chilled juice as well as $100 million in dedicated Fruitopia coolers. Critics did not agree with the strategy, and within two years, Fruitopia maintained only a weak market share. A drink to dilute with the same name is being sold by the Coca-Cola Company in Argentina, under their Cepita branch. Fruitopia Fruitopia is a fruit-flavoured drink introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in 1994 and targeted at teens and"
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