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"Gin gang A gin gang, wheelhouse, roundhouse or horse-engine house, is a structure built to enclose a horse engine, usually circular but sometimes square or octagonal, attached to a threshing barn. Most were built in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The threshing barn held a small threshing machine which was connected to the gin gang via wooden gears, drive shafts and drive belt, and was powered by a horse which walked round and round inside the gin gang. The \"gin\" (short for \"engine\") was the motive power driving a small threshing machine, and the horse did the \"gang\", or \"going\". The gin gang was always attached to the main threshing barn, where the gin was situated. It was almost always of one storey and it could be circular, polygonal or square. There was a hole for a drive−shaft or drive−belt, linking it with the threshing barn. The gin was connected by cogs to a vertical spindle. The spindle was connected to a horizontal arrangement including a shaft attached to a horse, which turned the spindle and powered the machine by \"ganging\" or walking round and round the cogs and vertical spindle inside the walls of the gin gang. This arrangement was necessary in locations where there was no power for a water wheel, hence in Wales and Ireland there is evidence of fewer gin gangs. Gin gangs were not usually thatched but were stone−flagged, tiled or pantiled, possibly because the gin damaged potential thatching straw. Its structure tended to reflect locally available materials and hence local vernacular building style, because railways had not generally distributed brick and slate. Building materials include thatch in Sussex, pantiles in North Yorkshire, stone tiles and sandstone in Northumberland, granite pillars in Devon, wooden poles and flint in Norfolk, weatherboarding in Berkshire, brick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, white magnesian limestone in West Yorkshire, ironstone in Bedfordshire, and one instance of hexagonal ashlar pillars salvaged from Finchale Priory in Finchale, County Durham. Gin gangs were required to shelter the wooden gears, and not to protect the horse; hence in some places there is evidence of \"horse−walks\" or open−air horse−powered threshing machines instead. The horse in the gin gang could also power machinery outdoors. Local names for covered gin gangs were \"covered gin−house\", \"covered horse−walk\", \"enginehouse\", \"gin−case\", \"gin−gan\", \"gin−gang\", \"gin−house\", \"gin−race\", \"horse−gear\", \"horse mill\"/horse-mill, \"round−house\", \"track−shed\", \"four−wheelhouse\", \"wheel−rig\", \"wheel−shade\" and \"wheel−shed\". These are not to be confused with the uncovered ones which were called \"gin−circle\", \"ginnyring\", \"horse−course\", \"horse−gang\", \"horse−path\", \"horse−track\" and \"horse−walk\". In Scotland, Wales, and Warwickshire a gin gang was commonly called a \"horse engine house\". In 1976, 1,300 gin gangs were identified in Great Britain, and a few others in Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and East Germany. Most gin gangs were built from around 1785 to 1851, peaking in 1800 to 1830. The most recent ones were built in the Isle of Wight and Cornwall from 1845 to 1868. In the 19th century there were 575 gin gangs in Northumberland and 227 in West Cumberland, but between the 1890s and the 1960s, hundreds of these were destroyed. In the 1970s, 276 survived in Northumberland and 200 in County Durham. In the same decade a survey found most remaining gin gangs were in the north−east and south−west of England, and it was suggested that this distribution could have been affected by the 1830 Swing Riots which destroyed most threshing machines in the south−east of England. As a result of this, in the 1970s Scotland still had 150 gin gangs, North East England had 800 and Cornwall had 100 remaining, but Wiltshire and Berkshire had 8 between them. Conversely, the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815 created a dearth of labour and a corresponding demand for gin gangs in Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset. The truly portable horse engine was invented around 1840; this obviated the necessity for building further gin gangs. No gin gang remains in operation commercially; the known examples outside museums are either derelict or have been renovated as barn conversions. The surviving Low Walworth gin gang was built around the late 18th century. In Northumberland examples exist in Harlow Hill, Hepple, Redesmouth and Stanton. In North Yorkshire two remain at Burn Bridge and Stapleton (\"see Commons link below\"). Scottish examples survive at St Quivox, South Ayrshire, at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Carsegour, Kinross, but the one at Westruther, Westertown in Berwickshire appears to have been destroyed since 1974. The site of a former gin gang exists at Kildinny steading at Forteviot in Strathearn, Scotland. However quite a few do survive in Perth and Kinross, and there is one at Tresness Farm on Sanday in Orkney. There is a listed gin gang at The Grange farmhouse at Muggleswick in County Durham, and there used to be one in 1979 at Holbeck farmhouse in Barrow-in-Furness. There is an example at Nettlecombe in Somerset. There is an extant gin gang at Ystum Colwyn Farm, Meifod, in Wales. The Beamish Museum in County Durham contains a restored gin gang. Another has been preserved at Weald and Downland Open Air Museum but is now labelled as a horse whim for raising water, as is the one at Brewers' House Museum in Antwerp. In Chopwell in Tyne and Wear a gin gang is part of a barn conversion. Another one was renovated to become holiday cottages in the face of local controversy at Lanchester, County Durham. A barn conversion development, from a group of farm buildings known as a \"steading\" including an octagonal gin gang, was completed in 2010 at Longhorsley, Northumberland. Another example survives as a barn conversion at Southstoke, Somerset. Another recent renovation completed in January 2013 is The Wheelhouse in Barton North Yorkshire, now a holiday let. Home Farm at the Beamish Museum, County Durham, contains an early 19th-century, semi-octagonal gin gang with sandstone or millstone grit walls and slate roof. The renovated internal roof structure is based on a traditional space frame truss with its primary plane in line with the tie beam (or joist), and with members fixed between king post and rafters to support the semi-octagonal plan of the roof. There is one main transverse oak tie beam on which the king post of the main truss is based. The king post is in tension to prevent sagging of the horizontal tie beam, so neither the king post nor the tie beam are resting on the mill below. The roof construction is not structurally dependent on the horse mill, or connected with it. The Beamish gin gang and its \"in−situ\" horse mill have not been used since the 1830s when portable engines superseded it. The gin gang survived because its original mill was removed and it was converted for other uses. The present mill was brought by the museum from Berwick Mills Low Farm in Northumberland. The museum has repaired and installed it as a museum exhibit, but it is not currently fit for purpose. The top of the mill's main vertical axle and the end of the main drive shaft are pivoted at the centre of their own separate tie beam, which is below and parallel with the main roof tie beam and set in the gin gang's side walls at either end. The mill's tie beam has to be stabilised with two massive oak beams which run, either side of the drive shaft, from tie beam to barn wall. A large and basic engine like this can create great stresses from the torque engendered. Gin gang A gin gang, wheelhouse, roundhouse or horse-engine house, is a structure built to enclose a horse engine, usually circular but sometimes square or octagonal, attached to a threshing barn. Most were built in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The threshing barn held a small threshing"
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"Gaius Caristanius Fronto Gaius Caristanius Fronto was a Roman soldier and equites whom Vespasian promoted to the Roman Senate for his loyalty to the latter in the Year of Four Emperors (AD 69). He was appointed suffect consul in AD 90. According to an inscription found at Antioch in Pisidia, which has been assumed to be his home, Caristanius had a typical equestrian career, first as a prefect of a cohort, followed by serving as tribunus angusticlavus, and lastly as prefect of an auxiliary alae raised from natives of the Bosporus. It was after he was promoted to the Senate with first tribunician rank, then adlected with praetorian status -- thus excusing him from the trouble and expenses of the praetorship -- he was appointed governor of Bithynia et Pontus in the 70s. Next Caristanius served as legatus or commander of the Legio IX Hispana; Birley believes this was c. 76-9, during the administrations of Sex. Julius Frontinus and Agricola. Afterwards Caristanius served as governor of Lycia et Pamphylia from 81 to 84 according to Werner Eck, then became suffect consul. A fragmentary inscription found near Synnada led Cheesman to suggest he might have been Proconsul of Asia. Other inscriptions found at Antioch in Pisidia provide further personal information. Caristanius was the descendant of C. Caristanius Fronto Casesianus Julius, a Roman colonist settled there during the reign of Augustus. Married to Sergia L. f. Paulla, likely a daughter of the Proconsul of Cyprus, the colonist is known to have two sons, Fronto and Paulinus. C. Caristanius Julianus, proconsul of Achaea around 101, was either Fronto's younger brother or a cousin. Gaius Caristanius Fronto Gaius Caristanius Fronto was a Roman soldier and equites whom Vespasian promoted to the Roman Senate for his loyalty to the latter in the Year of Four"
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"Champ for a Day Champ for a Day is a 1953 American crime film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Irving Shulman. The film stars Alex Nicol, Audrey Totter, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson, Joseph Wiseman and Barry Kelley. The film was released on August 15, 1953, by Republic Pictures. Big pug George Wilson shows up at a motel and diner run by Ma and Pa Karlsen, saying he's supposed to meet his manager, Dolan. He catches the eye of another customer, the attractive Miss Gormley, but she seems to be in a bad mood. George has a fight lined up, but boxing promoters Guido and Healy believe that Dolan has run off with George's advance payment. George decides to go ahead with the fight, with down-and-out trainer Al Muntz agreeing to work in his corner. By winning the fight, George angers ex-boxer Willie Foltis, who had bet heavily on the loser. George stays with the Karlsens and becomes better acquainted with Miss Gormley, who, it turns out, had also come there to meet Dolan, who was trying to blackmail her into marriage. A bout with the tough \"Soldier\" Freeman is set up, but Guido and Healy insist that George throw the fight. Muntz warns him that Guido and Healy are connected with organized crime. Willie also comes to rob George of his prize winnings from the previous fight, but George knocks him cold. Dolan's dead body is found in the river. George schemes to turn Guido and Healy against one another, resulting in them exchanging gunfire after the fight. Miss Gormley likes the way George has handled himself and they look like a perfect match. Champ for a Day Champ for a Day is a 1953 American crime film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Irving"
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"Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada, located north-west of Grimshaw in northern Alberta, west of the junction of Highway 2 and Mackenzie Highway. It was named \"Lac Cardinal Provincial Park\", and was renamed to Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park in 1978, to commemorate the visit of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The park is situated on the eastern shore of Cardinal Lake, at an elevation of and has a surface of . It was established on March 1, 1956 and is maintained by Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation. The following activities are available in the park: Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada, located north-west of Grimshaw in northern Alberta, west of the junction of Highway 2 and Mackenzie Highway. It was named \"Lac Cardinal Provincial Park\", and was renamed to Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park in 1978, to commemorate the visit of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The park is situated on the eastern shore of Cardinal Lake, at an elevation of and has a surface of . It was established on March 1, 1956 and is maintained by Alberta Tourism, Parks"
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"Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia Bull Run is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia. The population was 14,983 at the 2010 census. Two major battles of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run and the Second Battle of Bull Run, took place in the vicinity of Bull Run. Ben Lomond Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Bull Run is located at (38.785090, −77.523577). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.7 square miles (6.9 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 11,337 people, 4,728 households, and 2,709 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 4,237.8 people per square mile (1,633.3/km²). There were 4,948 housing units at an average density of 1,849.6/sq mi (712.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 63.45% White, 18.97% African American, 0.27% Native American, 5.46% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 8.04% from other races, and 3.73% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.03% of the population. There were 4,728 households out of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.3% were married couples living together, 16.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.7% were non-families. 32.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.03. In the CDP, the population was spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 12.4% from 18 to 24, 44.1% from 25 to 44, 12.9% from 45 to 64, and 4.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $49,519, and the median income for a family was $55,355. Males had a median income of $38,216 versus $33,450 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $22,384. About 8.5% of families and 9.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.1% of those under age 18 and 18.3% of those age 65 or over. Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia Bull Run is"
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"The Cranberries discography The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989, originally under the name The Cranberry Saw Us. Although widely associated with alternative rock, the band's sound incorporates post-punk and rock elements. Since their formation, The Cranberries have released seven studio albums, six EPs, and 22 singles (including two re-releases). The Cranberries rose to international fame with their debut album \"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?\", which became a commercial success and was certified Platinum in Australia, 2× platinum in Britain and 5× platinum in the US. Their next studio album \"No Need to Argue\" gave the band the hit single \"Zombie\" and was their best-selling studio album. The band has achieved one number-one album on the UK Albums Chart (\"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?\"), and two number one singles on the Modern Rock Tracks chart (\"Zombie\") and (\"Salvation\"). The album \"Roses\" was released on 27 February 2012. Their most recent album, \"Something Else\", covering earlier songs together with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, was released on 28 April 2017. The group covered \"(They Long to Be) Close to You\" on the 1994 tribute album, \"If I Were a Carpenter\". Notes The Cranberries discography The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989, originally under the name The Cranberry Saw Us. Although widely associated with alternative rock, the band's sound incorporates post-punk and rock elements. Since their formation, The Cranberries have released seven studio albums, six EPs, and 22 singles (including two re-releases). The Cranberries rose to international fame with their debut album \"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?\", which became a commercial success and was certified Platinum in Australia, 2× platinum in Britain and 5× platinum in the US. Their next studio"
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"Diggers' Song The \"Diggers' Song\" (also known as \"Levellers and Diggers\") is a 17th-century ballad, in terms of content a protest song concerned with land rights, inspired by the Diggers movement, composed by Gerrard Winstanley. The lyrics were published in 1894 by the Camden Society. It is sung to a version of the family of tunes later used for \"Sam Hall\", \"Captain Kidd\" and Admiral \"John Benbow\", which according to Roy Palmer was first printed in 1714. The English band Chumbawamba recorded a version of this song on their 1988 album \"English Rebel Songs 1381–1914\". It is often thought that \"The World Turned Upside Down\" (not to be confused with the 17th century ballad of the same title), composed by Leon Rosselson in 1975, taken into the charts in 1985 by Billy Bragg, and performed by several other artists, is a version of \"Diggers' Song\". In May 2009 Leon Rosselson corrected this belief in the \"Guardian\" newspaper: I wrote the song in 1974 ... It's the story of the Digger Commune of 1649 and their vision of the earth as 'a common treasury'. It's become a kind of anthem for various radical groups, particularly since Billy Bragg recorded it [1985], and is not adapted from any other song. The title is taken from Christopher Hill's book about the English revolution. Rosselson later recorded a version of The Diggers' Song (under the title \"You Noble Diggers All\"), using the traditional lyrics and tune, on his album \"Harry's Gone Fishing\". Chumbawamba also released a version of Rosselson's composition on their 1993 single \"Timebomb\". Also, Chumbawamba sang The Diggers' Song in 1988 on their LP English Rebel Songs 1381–1914 and they recorded it again in 2003 for the re-made CD \"English Rebel Songs 1381–1984\". In 2007, they sang it on their live \"CD Get On With It – Live.\" <poem> You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now, You noble Diggers all, stand up now, The waste land to maintain, seeing Cavaliers by name Your digging do disdain and your persons all defame Stand up now, Diggers all. Your houses they pull down, stand up now, stand up now, Your houses they pull down, stand up now. Your houses they pull down to fright poor men in town, But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown. Stand up now, Diggers all. With spades and hoes and ploughs, stand up now, stand up now, With spades and hoes and ploughs, stand up now. Your freedom to uphold, seeing Cavaliers are bold To kill you if they could and rights from you withhold. Stand up now, Diggers all. Their self-will is their law, stand up now, stand up now, Their self-will is their law, stand up now. Since tyranny came in they count it now no sin To make a gaol a gin and to serve poor men therein. Stand up now, Diggers all. The gentry are all round, stand up now, stand up now, The gentry are all round, stand up now. The gentry are all round, on each side they are found, Their wisdom's so profound to cheat us of the ground. Stand up now, Diggers all. The lawyers they conjoin, stand up now, stand up now, The lawyers they conjoin, stand up now, To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise, But the devil in them lies, and hath blinded both their eyes. Stand up now, Diggers all. The clergy they come in, stand up now, stand up now, The clergy they come in, stand up now. The clergy they come in and say it is a sin That we should now begin our freedom for to win. Stand up now, Diggers all. 'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests, stand up now, stand up now, 'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst Priests, stand up now. For tyrants are they both even flat against their oath, To grant us they are loath free meat and drink and cloth. Stand up now, Diggers all. The club is all their law, stand up now, stand up now, The club is all their law, stand up now. The club is all their law to keep poor folk in awe, But they no vision saw to maintain such a law. Glory now, Diggers all. </poem> The song was selected by the Rt Hon Tony Benn when he appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sun 15th Jan 1989. Diggers' Song The \"Diggers' Song\" (also known as \"Levellers and Diggers\") is a 17th-century ballad, in terms of content a protest song concerned with land rights, inspired by the Diggers movement, composed by Gerrard Winstanley. The lyrics were published in 1894 by the Camden Society. It is sung to a version of the family of tunes later used for \"Sam Hall\", \"Captain"
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"Nancy M. Dowdy Nancy M. O'Fallon Dowdy is an American nuclear physicist who was instrumental in nuclear disarmament negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Cold War. She received her doctorate in physics in 1966. After she developed her career as a nuclear physicist, she turned to politics, where she served as a representative of the United States on a commission for arms control. In 1992 she was nominated by Pres. George H. W. Bush to be Special Representative for Arms Control Negotiation and Disarmament in the aftermath of the Cold War. She has been designated a Fellow of the American Physical Society, in recognition of her role on treaty verification, her research accomplishments and leadership in research, and leadership and service on behalf of women in physics. Dowdy received her B.S. in electrical engineering from St. Louis University in 1960. She then received her M.S. in nuclear engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1961, where she stayed to earn her doctorate in physics in 1966. Upon finishing her graduate studies, she was appointed a teaching position at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1967. From 1974 to 1976 she was an Assistant Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1976 she was promoted to Physicist at Argonne, where she worked until 1983, when she was appointed to be the Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of ChicagoIn 1989 she turned to politics, becoming a representative to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties delegation for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for three years. She was also the Chief Science Advisor at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.Starting in 1991, she was also a Representative to the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission in Geneva. From 1992 to 1993 she was the Special Representative for Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations, a position for which she was nominated by President George H.W. Bush. In 1993 she returned to industry and joined Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratory as Senior Program Manager. She retired in 1995 and runs a national security consulting service with her husband under the name Dowdy Associates. She was a William C. Foster Fellow for the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1987-1989. In 1992, she received the Superior Honor Award from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The next year, she was awarded the Meritorious Honor Award, also from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1996 she was appointed a fellow of the American Physical Society. Dowdy has collaborated on several journal articles throughout her career. In one article entitled \"Instrumentation and Monitoring\" written by Bernard R. Cooper and William A. Ellingson, she \"provided leadership in development of synthetic fuels instrumentation\". Nancy M. Dowdy Nancy M. O'Fallon Dowdy is an American nuclear physicist who was instrumental in nuclear disarmament negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Cold War. She received her doctorate in physics in 1966. After she developed her career as a nuclear"
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"Flag of Sutherland The Sutherland flag is the flag of the Scottish county of Sutherland. It was revealed on 14 December 2018 as the winner of competition in which over 3,000 people from the county voted. The overlaid Saltire and Nordic crosses denote Sutherland's unique history on the mainland where the extent of Viking control met Scotland. The golden sun that is formed where the arms of the crosses meet symbolise the sun raised high in the south for the origin of the county's name \"South Land\" as well as the sunrises seen on the east coast and sunsets on Sutherland's west coast. The black recalls the peat of the Flow Country and dark skies and together with the white recall the central colours of the former Sutherland Council arms. A competition was established by the local community in conjunction with the Flag Institute, and a flag was announced as the winner in the Northern Times newspaper in January 2018. The design was selected by a judging panel. The county's Lord Lieutenancy, however, froze the flag's registration with the Court of the Lord Lyon in March 2018 in light of opposition to the flag's design and the nature of the competition. The Sutherland Flag Committee announced in October 2018 that a public vote would be held to choose a flag. The shortlist of designs chosen by the judging panel will include the originally announced design. The original design announced by the Lord Lieutenancy in January 2018 features a swooping eagle, seen face on, against a vertical bicoloured red and yellow background, with the eagle counterchanged yellow and red. The bicolour of red and yellow represents the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea, which border the county on its west and east coasts respectively. At the hoist are three stars or mullets. These, plus the red and yellow colour combination, are taken from the arms borne by Hugh de Moray, Earl of Sutherland. After a county newspaper, \"The Northern Times\", published the final design, some Sutherland residents expressed disapproval, mainly through social media. Complaints focused on the colours, said to evoke communism, and that the eagle was crudely drawn and not the best choice to represent the region. It was suggested that the Scottish wildcat, a symbol associated with Sutherland, would have made a more appropriate choice. A spokesman for the flag selection committee countered that the \"eagle featured prominently on a considerable number of the entries\", that the wildcat is more associated with Caithness, and an eagle is more unifying as being prominent across the county. The Court of the Lord Lyon started of the process of formally recognising the flag in early February 2018. A petition was put forth by one Sutherland resident to redesign the flag. The Vice Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland and chairman of the Flag Selection Committee asserted though that feedback, outside of social media, and especially from schools and young people from across Sutherland continues to indicate very strong support for the design. Due to the opposition towards the design, the office of the Lord Lyon halted the process of registering the flag, stating: \"I understand that the petitioners (the Lord Lieutenancy) are considering the matter and, until we hear from them, no further procedures will take place in our office.\" In October 2018, the Sutherland Flag Committee announced that a public vote would be held to choose the Sutherland flag. The shortlist of designs, selected by the judging panel, will include the design originally announced as the flag. Flag of Sutherland The Sutherland flag is the flag of the Scottish county of Sutherland. It was"
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"Bayraktar-class landing ship tank The \"Bayraktar\" class are a class of landing ship tanks (LSTs) built in Turkey. The two amphibious vessels of the class were built for the Turkish Navy by Anadolu Shipyard (Anadolu Deniz Insaat Kizaklari Sanayi ve Ticaret- ADIK). The LSTs will satisfy the current and future operational requirements of the Turkish Naval Forces Command. The LSTs are primarily intended for amphibious missions and transportation of troops and equipment, while their secondary missions include humanitarian aid, disaster relief, medical assistance and transportation. Anadolu Shipyard was awarded a contract to construct two LSTs for the Turkish Navy by Turkish SSM (Turkish Armament Authority) in June 2011. Under the agreement, the shipyard is responsible for their design, build, system integration, testing and delivery. Anadolu Shipyard and Havelsan signed a contract in 2012 for the integration of the combat management system (CMS) on the LST vessels. The second contract was signed by both companies for the LST project in March 2013. Anadolu Shipyard signed supply contracts with Aselsan, Havelsan and ISBIR Elektrik for the LST project in May 2013. Aselsan was responsible for the delivery of the electronics and communications systems, while Havelsan was responsible for the CMS and GENESIS software for the vessels. ISBIR Elektrik provided the diesel generator sets for the LSTs. In May 2014, the first steel was cut for the lead vessel in class, TCG \"Bayraktar\" (L-402). The LST was launched in October 2015 and was commissioned to the navy in 2017. The second LST, TCG \"Sancaktar\" was commissioned in April 2018. The LSTs incorporate an upper-intermediate-sized monohull design made of steel. Each vessel is designed to meet the sea-keeping and stability requirements of the Turkish Navy, and will have an anticipated service life of 40 years. The ships comply with the IMO MARPOL 73/78 and Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. The fast amphibious vessels are equipped with significant armament and are capable of carrying large quantities of arms and ammunition, as well as marines in support of amphibious operations. TCG \"Bayraktar\" will also serve as a flagship and a logistic support vessel. The ships of the class can operate in Sea State-5 conditions and can also be operated at Sea State-6 or higher, with limitations. Additionally the vessels will support limitless helicopter operations at Sea State-4 conditions. Each vessel has an overall length of , a beam of and a draught of less than forward and less than aft when fully loaded. The displacement of the vessel is and the load carrying capacity is , including a mix of vehicles or cargo on open decks. The LSTs have a ship's company of 12 officers, 51 petty officers and 66 ratings, as well as 17 officers and 350 marines from the Joint Group Headquarters. The Turkish LSTs are armed with two OTO Melara 40 mm Fast Forty single naval gun mounts, two Mk 15 Phalanx close-in weapon systems (CIWS), and two machine guns on remotely controlled stabilised mounts. The amphibious ships feature a Smart Mk2 3D air/surface search radar, AselFLIR 300D EO director, torpedo countermeasures systems and a laser warning receiver. The sensors and weapons aboard the vessel will be controlled by Genesis CMS. The vessels are powered by four main diesel engines, driving two controllable pitch propellers through twin shafts. The ships will also integrate a bow thruster and four diesel generators with a power management system (PMS). The propulsion system provides a maximum continuous speed of more than at full load displacement. Bayraktar-class landing ship tank The \"Bayraktar\" class are a class of landing ship tanks (LSTs) built in Turkey. The two"
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"Dorothea Krag Dorothea Krag (27 September 1675–10 October 1754) was a Danish Postmaster General and noble. Dorothea was married first to count Jens Juel in 1694, and second to the king's illegitimate half brother Christian Gyldenløve in 1701. As the widow of Count Christian Gyldenløve, the Postmaster General since 1686, she was granted the income from the office from 1703 until 1711. This was expected to be a pure formal office for her part, but instead, she actually managed the post of Postmaster, something unique for a woman of her time and the first for her country. She reformed the office of postmaster (1705), and introduced uniforms and signal horns (1709). Married thirdly to nobleman Hans Adolf Ahlefeld in 1715. Dorothea Krag Dorothea Krag (27 September 1675–10 October 1754) was a Danish Postmaster General and noble. Dorothea was married first to count Jens Juel in 1694, and second to the king's illegitimate half brother Christian Gyldenløve in 1701. As the widow of Count Christian Gyldenløve, the Postmaster General since 1686, she was granted the income from the office from 1703 until 1711. This was expected to be a pure formal office for her part, but instead, she actually managed the"
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"Capital News Service (Maryland) The Capital News Service (CNS) is a news wire affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park. Operated by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, Capital News Service provides students with real-life reporting experiences—covering a beat, developing sources, generating story ideas and writing on deadline—all in close consultation with an instructor/editor. Capital News Service operates across all platforms: Print bureaus in Annapolis and Washington, D.C., provide a daily news feed to scores of clients, including daily and weekly newspapers, wire services, radio, television and online news outlets; the broadcast bureau produces a nightly newscast that goes to more than 400,000 households in suburban Washington; and an online newsmagazine, Maryland Newsline, does original news and feature reporting while showcasing work from the print and broadcast operations. The print bureaus transmit about 300 stories each semester for publication. Each student typically produces 25 to 30 stories that are usually picked up by several clients, giving students as many as 90 clips for the semester. CNS news, feature and investigative stories often appear on A1 of client papers, and have appeared in The Washington Post, The (Baltimore) Sun and The Washington Times. Select stories are sent to the McClatchy-Tribune News Service for distribution, and have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, among other papers. The program has led directly to top internships and reporting jobs for most CNS alumni. Selected Merrill College of Journalism undergraduates and graduate students in the public affairs reporting sequence receive 12 credits in their bureau semester. The program is divided into three sections: Students receive six credits for acting as full-time (35 to 40 hours a week) reporters from Tuesday through Friday, covering either Annapolis or Washington for Capital News Service. Participants also are enrolled in an upper-level journalism seminar on Mondays with Knight Chair Haynes Johnson, one of the college's Pulitzer Prize–winning faculty members. The class explores various topics in public affairs reporting, often with guest lecturers. Students can receive their final three credits from a School of Public Policy class designed specifically for the bureau program or by taking an advanced writing or reporting course with the College's award-winning faculty. Capital News Service (Maryland) The Capital News Service (CNS) is a news wire affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park. Operated by the Philip Merrill College of"
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"Tokyo subway The is a part of the extensive rapid transit system that consists of Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway in the Greater Tokyo area of Japan. While the subway system itself is largely within the city center, the lines extend far out via extensive through services onto suburban railway lines. There are two primary subway operators in Tokyo: , the combined subway network of the Tokyo and Toei metros comprises 278 stations and 13 lines covering a total system length of . The Tokyo Metro and Toei networks together carry a combined average of over eight million passengers daily. Despite being ranked first in worldwide subway usage, subways make up a small fraction of heavy rail rapid transit in Tokyo alone—only 274 out of 882 railway stations, as of 2007. The Tokyo subway at 8.7 million daily passengers only represents 22% of Tokyo's 40 million daily rail passengers (see Transport in Greater Tokyo). Other urban commuter rail systems include Keihin Electric Express Railway, Keio Corporation, Keisei Electric Railway, Odakyu Electric Railway, Seibu Railway, Tobu Railway and Tokyu Corporation. In addition, but not formally designated as subways: The Yokohama Subway and the Minatomirai Line also operate in the Greater Tokyo Area, but they are not directly connected to the Tokyo subway network. However, direct through services from the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line regularly run into Yokohama's Minatomirai Line via the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line railway. On special occasions, typically around holidays, the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line and Namboku Line operate special \"Minatomirai\" (みなとみらい号), formerly known as \"Yokohama Mirai\" (横浜みらい号), direct through services to the Minatomirai Line. Both the Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway systems are closely integrated with a unified system of line colors, line codes, and station numbers. However, the separate administration of metro systems has some ramifications: As is common with Japanese subway systems, many above-ground and underground lines in the Greater Tokyo Area operate through services with the Tokyo Metro and Toei lines. In a broader sense they are considered a part of the Tokyo subway network, allowing it to reach farther out into the suburbs. In 1995, Aum Shinri Kyo, a doomsday cult, attacked the subway system with sarin nerve gas at Kasumigaseki Station and a few others, leading to 13 deaths and over 5,000 people injured. Tokyo subway The is a part of the extensive rapid transit system that consists of Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway"
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"Pancyprian Union of Chemists The Pancyprian Union of Chemists (PUC; ) is the chemical society for Cypriot chemists. It comprises a board of nine members which is elected every two years by the General Assembly of the PUC. The PUC was founded in 1960. This coincides with the period during which the Republic of Cyprus was established. The PUC currently has over 550 members. It also publishes the Greek language magazine 'Chemica Nea', or the Chemical News Magazine in English. This magazine is distributed quarterly to PUC members plus approximately one hundred additional subscribers throughout Cyprus and Greece. The society has various aims centred on promoting chemistry education and research within Cyprus and on representing Cypriot chemists internationally. The PUC protects and regulates the Cypriot chemical profession through the Chemists' Registration Council. It also promotes information exchange between Chemists across the country. The PUC participates in an advisory capacity on several committees within the public sector including the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS). Through this, the Union supplies opinion and advice surrounding a range of public interest topics such as education in the chemical sciences and the environment. In education, the PUC works to improve the standard of teaching in the chemical sciences and advises on the chemistry curriculum taught within schools. Together with the Union of Chemistry Teachers in Secondary Education the PUC organises the local Chemical Olympiads within Cyprus and facilitates educational and outreach events such as local and international seminars and conferences which are open to the public. Pancyprian Union of Chemists The Pancyprian Union of Chemists (PUC; ) is the chemical society for Cypriot chemists. It comprises a board of nine members which is elected every two years by the General Assembly of the"
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"Earl of Breadalbane and Holland Earl of Breadalbane and Holland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1681 for Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet, of Glenorchy, who had previously been deprived of the title Earl of Caithness. He, as a principal creditor, had \"acquired\" the estates of George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness who had died heavily in debt and without issue in 1670. Campbell was consequently created Earl of Caithness in 1673, but after much litigation and even bloodshed, George Sinclair of Keiss (died 1698), second son of George, 5th Earl of Caithness (died 1643), recovered the estates, and successfully petitioned parliament regarding the earldom, which was removed from Campbell. Sinclair's title was finally restored to him in 1681. Deprived by parliament of the Caithness earldom, Sir John Campbell was created Lord Glenorchy, Benederaloch, Ormelie and Weick, Viscount of Tay and Paintland, and Earl of Breadalbane and Holland on 13 August 1681, with the precedency of the former patent and with the power to nominate any of his sons by his first wife to succeed him. The titles were created with remainder to the heirs male of the son chosen to succeed him, failing which to the heirs male of his body, failing which to his own heirs male, failing which to his heirs whatsoever. The \"of Holland\" part of the title derived from the fact that Campbell was the husband of Lady Mary Rich, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (see Earl of Holland). The member of a junior branch of Clan Campbell, Breadalbane was a descendant of Sir Colin Campbell, 1st of Glenorchy (died 1475), the son of Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell by his second wife Margaret Stewart and the half-brother of Archibald Campbell, Master of Campbell, ancestor of the Dukes of Argyll. Colin Campbell was granted Glenorchy and other lands by his father and built Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe in Argyll. King James III knighted him and granted him land around Loch Tay in thanks for hunting down the local earls who had assassinated James II, and to end the power vacuum in the surrounding region that had resulted when they were executed. The land around Loch Tay formed Breadalbane, creating the association between the area and Colin Campbell's descendants. His son Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy was one of the many Scottish nobles killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. Sir Duncan's great-grandson and namesake Duncan Campbell, known as \"Black Duncan\", represented Argyllshire in the Scottish Parliament. He was knighted in 1590 and created a baronet, of Glenorchy in the County of Perth, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1625. His elder son, Sir Colin, the second Baronet, died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, Sir Robert, the third Baronet. He represented Argyllshire in the Scottish Parliament. He was succeeded by his son, Sir John, the fourth Baronet. He also represented Argyllshire in Parliament. He was succeeded by his son by his first marriage, the aforementioned Sir John Campbell, the fifth Baronet, who was created Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in 1681. Lord Breadalbane and Holland's elder son Duncan Campbell, styled Lord Ormelie, was overlooked for the succession (owing to his \"incapacity\") and died childless in 1727. Breadalbane nominated his younger son John as his successor, and he consequently succeeded in the titles on his father's death in 1717. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1736 and 1747. He was succeeded by his son, John, the third Earl. He was a prominent statesman. Lord Breadalbane and Holland married as his first wife Lady Amabel Grey, daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent. Their daughter Lady Jemima Campbell succeeded her maternal grandfather as Marchioness Grey in 1740. Through Lady Jemima Lord Breadalbane was a great-grandfather of Prime Minister Lord Goderich. Lord Breadalbane outlived both his only son by his first wife and his two sons by his second marriage to Arabella Pershall. On his death in 1782 the male line of the first Earl failed. The late Earl was succeeded by his kinsman, John Campbell, who became the fourth Earl. He was the great-grandson of Colin Campbell of Mochaster, younger son of Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Baronet, and uncle of the first Earl. He was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1784 and 1806. The latter year he was created Baron Breadalbane, of Taymouth Castle in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. In 1831 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Ormelie and Marquess of Breadalbane in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Marquess. He was a Liberal politician and served twice as Lord Chamberlain of the Household. He was childless and the barony of Breadalbane, earldom of Ormelie and marquessate became extinct on his death in 1862. He was succeeded in the Scottish titles by his kinsman, John Campbell, the sixth Earl. He was the grandson of James Campbell, great-great-grandson of William Campbell of Glenfalloch (died 1648), brother of the aforementioned Colin Campbell of Mochaster. On his death the titles passed to his son, the seventh Earl. He was a Liberal politician and notably served as Treasurer of the Household and Lord Steward of the Household. In 1873 he was created Baron Breadalbane, of Kenmure in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. In 1885 he was made Earl of Ormelie, in the County of Caithness, and Marquess of Breadalbane in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was childless and these titles consequently became extinct on his death in 1922. He was succeeded in the Scottish titles by his nephew, Iain Campbell, the eighth Earl. He was the son of Captain the Honourable Ivan Campbell, second son of the sixth Earl. The eighth Earl died at an early age in 1923, only a year after succeeding his uncle. He was succeeded by his kinsman, Charles Campbell, the ninth Earl. He was the son of Major-General Charles William Campbell of Borland, grandson of John Campbell of Borland, younger brother of the aforementioned James Campbell, grandfather of the sixth Earl. The ninth earl sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1924 and his death in 1959. He was succeeded by his only son, John, the tenth Earl. He was severely wounded while serving with the Black Watch in the Second World War. He died childless in 1995 when the titles became dormant. Hungarian-born Huba Campbell (born 1945), a third cousin once removed from the tenth Earl, has petitioned the Lord Lyon for recognition of his right to the Earldom of Breadalbane and Holland, together with the subsidiary titles, and to the undifferenced arms, this as the great-great-grandson of George Campbell, brother of George Andrew Campbell (1791–1852), brother of Charles William Campbell of Borland, grandfather of the ninth Earl. A British aristocrat, Sir Lachlan Campbell, 6th Baronet, also claims the titles. He is a descendant of Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, grandson of John Campbell, son of the Honourable Colin Campbell, the son of first Earl by his second marriage to Lady Mary Campbell. Sir Lachlan however, is apparently unable to succeed because his ancestor John Campbell was illegitimate (see Campbell baronets, of St Cross Mede, for further history of this branch of the family). The main seat of the Earls of Breadalbane and Holland from the early 19th century was the vast Taymouth Castle in Scotland, which was sold by the ninth Earl shortly after the end of the First World War. The father of the Scottish writer Fred Urquhart was chauffeur to the Earl in the early twentieth century, and Urquhart's novel \"Palace of Green Days\" (1979) draws on his childhood memories of this. Genealogy of the Earls of",
"of Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, grandson of John Campbell, son of the Honourable Colin Campbell, the son of first Earl by his second marriage to Lady Mary Campbell. Sir Lachlan however, is apparently unable to succeed because his ancestor John Campbell was illegitimate (see Campbell baronets, of St Cross Mede, for further history of this branch of the family). The main seat of the Earls of Breadalbane and Holland from the early 19th century was the vast Taymouth Castle in Scotland, which was sold by the ninth Earl shortly after the end of the First World War. The father of the Scottish writer Fred Urquhart was chauffeur to the Earl in the early twentieth century, and Urquhart's novel \"Palace of Green Days\" (1979) draws on his childhood memories of this. Genealogy of the Earls of Breadalbane Earl of Breadalbane and Holland Earl of Breadalbane and Holland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1681 for Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet, of Glenorchy, who had previously been deprived of the title Earl of Caithness. He, as a principal creditor, had \"acquired\" the estates"
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"Usama ibn Zayd Usama bin Zayd () was the son of Zayd ibn Harithah, Muhammad's freed slave, whom he adopted as his son. His mother was Umm Ayman (Barakah). Usama bin Zayd was born in the seventh year before Hijra (615 on the Christian calendar) according to some, and in the tenth year before hijra according to others. Because of his father's status as the adopted son of Muhammad, and his mother's closeness to Muhammad's own mother, Usama was considered almost a grandson, and Muhammad treated him the same way he did the sons of his daughter Fatimah, al-Hasan and al-Husayn. His mother was Umm Ayman, the nurse-maid of Muhammad. Even though his father was white and short, Usama was black, tall, and thin. During Usama's youth, Muhammad was presented with an expensive thawb (the long gown the Muslim men wear). After wearing it once to the Friday Jumu'ah Prayer, he gave it to Usamah as a gift. When Usama was ten years old, he asked to join his elders in defending the faith in the Battle of Uhud, but was not allowed. His first experience participating in a battle was when he was seventeen, in the Battle of the Trench. During the Battle of Hunayn, in which the Muslim army was ambushed, Usama was among the few men who continued to fight with Muhammad, helping turn the near-defeat into victory. He was the youngest person ever to be appointed a general by Muhammad. In Medina, after the Farewell Pilgrimage and the event of Ghadir Khumm, Muhammad ordered an army under the command of Usama bin Zayd. He commanded all the companions, except for his family, to go with Usama to Syria to avenge the Muslims’ defeat at the Battle of Mu'tah. Muhammad gave Usama the banner of Islam on the 18th day of the Islamic month of Safar in the year 11 A.H. Abu Bakr and Umar were among those that Muhammad commanded to join Usama’s army. However, Abu Bakr and Umar resisted going under the command of Usama because they thought that he, who was 18 or 20 at the time, was too young to lead an army, despite Muhammad’s teachings that age and standing in society did not necessarily correspond to being a good general. In response to these worries, the Prophet said: \"O Arabs! You are miserable because I have appointed Usama as your general, and you are raising questions if he is qualified to lead you in war. I know you are the same people who had raised the same question about his father. By God, Usama is qualified to be your general just as his father was qualified to be a general. Now obey his orders and go.\" Whenever Muhammad felt any relief from his fatal sickness, he would inquire as to whether Usama’s army had left for Syria yet, and would continue urging his companions to leave for Syria. Muhammad even reportedly said, \"Usama's army must leave at once. May Allah curse those men who do not go with him.\" However, while a few companions were ready to join Usama’s army, many other companions, including Abu Bakr and Umar, disobeyed Muhammad’s orders. It is also noted that this was the only battle expedition where Muhammad urged his companions to go the battle no matter what; for other battles, if someone was unable to go to the fight, Muhammad would let them stay at home. His father, Zayd bin Harithah, died in the Battle of Mu'tah, 629 CE, and is considered a martyr (shahid). Although Usama was the son of a freed slave and only seventeen years of age, he was appointed by Muhammad as the commander of the army sent to Sham. This army was the second Muslim army to encounter the Romans. The Muslims had faced a stalemate with the Byzantines at the Battle of Mu'tah and had lost their leader Zayd bin Harithah. A follow up defensive expedition had been initiated by Muhammad to safeguard the northern approaches to Medina. Among the orders he received was \"go to where your father was killed\". Although the army was waiting in Jurf, outside of Madina, set to march to Syria, Usama heard word that Muhammad was ailing, upon which Usama promptly returned to Madina. Muhammad died soon after his arrival. With the death of Muhammad, certain companions tried to persuade Abu Bakr, who succeeded Muhammad as leader of the Islamic community, to replace Usama as commander of the army with Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, due to his youth, but Abu Bakr reaffirmed the decision of Muhammad and dispatched an expedition under Usama's leadership. He then requested that Usama allow Umar ibn al-Khattab to stay behind in Madina to help in the administration, and Usamah obliged. The expedition was successful and it demonstrated the strength and cohesiveness of the Muslims even in the absence of Muhammad. The army reached Sham and became the first Muslim forces to defeat the Romans in battle, thus paving the way for the subsequent conquests of the Syrian and Egyptian regions, both of which were captured during Usama's lifetime. Despite his accomplishments in helping defeat the Roman army, he is best known as the person Muhammad admonished for killing a man who had got the best of the Muslims in battle and then when Usama approached him to take off his head, he pronounced the words one officially states to become Muslim. Thinking this was just an attempt to spare his life, Usama killed him anyway. When the news of this got back to Muhammad, he asked Usama, \"Did you kill him in spite of his professing \"La ilaha illallah\" (There is no God but Allah)?\" Usama replied, \"O Messenger of Allah! He said it out of fear of our arms.\" Muhammad said, \"Why did you not cut his heart open to find out whether he had done so sincerely or not?\" He continued repeating it until Usama wished he had embraced Islam only that day (so that he could be forgiven for whatever sins he committed before that). (Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad, Tayalisi, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, al-`Adni, Abu `Awana, al-Tahawi, al-Hakim, and Bayhaqi.) Usama died at an unknown age in the year 54AH (674 CE) according to some and 58AH or 59AH according to others. He had a son, named Muhammad bin Usama. Usama ibn Zayd Usama bin Zayd () was the son of Zayd ibn Harithah, Muhammad's freed slave, whom he adopted as his son. His mother was Umm Ayman (Barakah). Usama bin Zayd was born in the seventh year before Hijra (615 on the Christian calendar) according to"
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"Mabel Pines Mabel Pines is one of the lead characters of the Disney Channel animated series \"Gravity Falls\". The character is voiced by Kristen Schaal, and designed by the series creator, Alex Hirsch. She is inspired by Hirsch's own twin sister, Ariel Hirsch. Mabel first appeared on the unreleased, unnamed pilot created by Hirsch which he used to pitch the show; she then appeared on the first episode \"Tourist Trapped\". Mabel, with her brother Dipper Pines, stars in every episode of the show. Mabel also has two series of shorts dedicated to her: \"Mabel's Guide to Life\" and \"Mabel's Scrapbook\". Mabel is an energetic 12-year-old girl (she and her brother turn 13 at the end of the series finale) who is sent with her brother to spend her summer vacation in her great-uncle's tourist trap called the \"Mystery Shack\". She helps her brother Dipper as he endeavors to uncover the secrets of the fictional town of Gravity Falls and to find an explanation for the strange situations he experiences. They are helped by the handyman that works there, Soos, Wendy, Dipper's crush and the twins best friend/co-worker, and other characters throughout the series. The situations that they encounter include dealing with various supernatural or legendary creatures, like gnomes, cryptids, demons, aliens, minotaurs and the ever nefarious Bill Cipher. The adventures of Mabel and her brother are inspired by the childhood of series creator Alex Hirsch and his own twin sister. As a character, Mabel has been critically well received. She appears in various \"Gravity Falls\" merchandise, such as on clothing and in video games. Mabel Pines is an energetic, optimistic and bouncy girl from Piedmont, California, forced to spend her summer together with her great uncle Stan in the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. She is accompanied by her twin brother Dipper Pines. Their parents aren't revealed in the show. She makes the best of every situation with a big, goofy smile and her variety of colorful sweaters and skirts. She is a self-proclaimed arts and crafts master, going so far as to make a wax figure of her uncle Stan with the leftover wax of a melted figure during the episode \"Headhunters\". She is actually growing to like Grunkle Stan and he likes her too, and is often protective of her and Dipper. Mabel is boy-crazy and dislikes anyone who opposes her brother. She has a pet pig named Waddles who she won in the episode \"The Time Traveler's Pig\". Despite seeming as just being there for comic relief, Mabel is frequently instrumental in helping her brother solve the mysteries of Gravity Falls and played a pivotal role in all three of the fights that the twins have had against the main antagonist, Bill Cipher, to the point that Dipper says that he has no chance of defeating Bill without Mabel's help. Mabel Pines Mabel Pines is one of the lead characters of the Disney Channel animated series \"Gravity Falls\". The character is voiced by Kristen Schaal, and"
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"Hollow (Alice in Chains song) \"Hollow\" is the first single by American rock band Alice in Chains from their fifth studio album, \"The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here\", released in May 28, 2013. On December 18, 2012, the band debuted the song on YouTube with a fan-made lyric video. The lyric video contains static images submitted by fans via Instagram. The song was made available for digital download on January 8, 2013. \"\"Hollow\"\" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. It is played in a 6/4 time signature during the verses, and in a standard 4/4 signature during the choruses. Asked by \"Music Radar\" if he worked out the phrasing over time or if it was immediate, Jerry Cantrell said of the riff: \"That one was pretty immediate. It came about on the last night of the \"Black Diamond Skye\" tour we did [in 2010], our headlining run with the Deftones and Mastodon. It was the very last show, we were in Vegas and I was sick as hell - I was about a click above pneumonia. But I was warming up in my dressing room, and I started playing that riff. Right away, I knew it was a good one to store away for later, so I recorded it. Nick [Raskulinecz] happened to be at that show, and so were my managers. Everybody perked up when they heard me playing it. 'What's that? That's pretty good!' [Laughs] I was like, 'Yeah, it is.' So I tucked it away. It was pretty immediate the way it came to me.\" Cantrell said of the song during an interview with \"Ultimate Guitar\" in 2013: We didn't intend for it to do what it's done and that's all the more the better. It's just like, \"F--k that's cool.\" It's like a six-minute kind of sludgy metal song and it ended up being a number one f--kin' single. We didn't intend on it being a single. We put that song out for our fans as a taste and get them involved in helping us make a lyric video for it. We put it out on our own and we didn't really serve it to radio until radio started to call us and then we started sending it to 'em. It just kinda got a head of steam and started rolling so it was way cool. Very cool and very proud of that and completely organic. The website Musically Diversified describes \"Hollow\" as \"a mix of stoner or doom metal and grunge\" that \"starts off with some feedback that soon launches into a very chorus-soaked grunge riff that is accompanied by heavy drums and bass. This intro section concludes and the song goes into a very sludge or stoner metal-influenced verse where the instruments chug along at a very lethargic pace that is kept tight by the rhythm section of Mike Inez and Sean Kinney. But then the chorus comes in and picks up things with Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall's harmonized vocals. This sequence repeats itself one more time and then the listener gets a great guitar solo at 3:43. This solo continues until we hit another verse and chorus which marks the end of the song.\" An official music video was made for the song by director Robert Schober (aka Roboshobo), premiered on the band's official website on January 10, 2013. The video depicts the daily routine of an astronaut (played by Ian Mackay) orbiting around earth whilst performing various floral experiments on the ship. He is shown often chatting to his significant other (played by Eli Jane) on Earth via video calling. As the video progresses, and his tenure in orbit turns from months into years, the astronaut slowly but steadily tires of his mundane routine, leading to emotional conflict with his significant other and suffering a mental breakdown. Near the end of the video, having completely lost his mind, and a visible tumor on his neck, the astronaut takes a flamethrower and destroys the experiments on board, which leads to the entire ship catching fire and crumbling with him inside. Hollow (Alice in Chains song) \"Hollow\" is the first single by American rock"
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"Through a Glass Darkly (Koen novel) Through a Glass Darkly is a 1986 historical fiction novel by American author Karleen Koen. A former magazine editor, Koen had never before written a novel and spent four years developing it while living as a housewife with her family. She sold the hardcover rights to Random House for $350,000, which was then a record for a new novelist. The circumstances behind the work's publication led to Koen becoming the subject of much media attention in the late 1980s. Koen's story is set in the midst of the turbulent politics of the English and French aristocracy as well as the South Sea Bubble. The novel begins in 1715 England, when teenage protagonist Barbara Alderley becomes married to the handsome, older Earl Devane. Though in love with him, Barbara soon discovers a secret from his past that threatens to tear their relationship apart. Barbara must learn to navigate courtly intrigues and financial crises while experiencing personal tragedies. Released on July 12, 1986 by Random House, \"Through a Glass Darkly\" landed on \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list. Critical reception was largely mixed, with reviewers focusing on the novel's prose and attention to historical detail. It has been translated into more than ten languages. \"Through a Glass Darkly\" was the first novel written by American author Karleen Koen. She had previously been a reporter for the \"Houston Business Journal\" and also served as the editor of \"Houston Home & Garden\" before leaving to spend more time with her husband and two children. Desiring to once again have her name in print, Koen was persuaded by her husband to write a novel to help keep busy in between housework. At first sceptical at writing fiction, Koen began mentioning the idea at parties to avoid appearing as a mere housewife. \"When you're at home raising children your status is – well, there is no status,\" Koen later recalled. Commencing the novel in 1980, she wrote three long drafts during a four-year period; the final manuscript ultimately contained 1,300 double-spaced pages. Koen found inspiration from her interest in the eighteenth century. Rather than use the \"virginity-sexual tango\" trope of most historical romance novels, Koen sought to circumvent the \"rules\" of the genre and concentrate on characterization. Koen engaged in an intensive research period on the eighteenth century using approximately 300 books, which she often obtained from a local university's library. She also traveled briefly to England and France. Koen found writing the novel to be \"a very intense thing\" and became very attached to her characters, even the villains. She sought to \"hook the readers emotionally and make them care. I guess it's soap opera (but) there's a kind of sigh you heave when you finish a certain type of book. I wanted that sigh.\" She added: To gain a publisher for her novel, she sent the manuscript to several literary agents she had discovered in \"Writer's Digest\". Though two turned her down, one agent, Jean Naggar, encouraged Koen to continue finishing the book, believing it to be \"the launching of a major author.\" Naggar mailed the manuscript to five major publishing companies, with Random House purchasing it for a \"whopping\" $350,000 in August 1985, which was at the time a record for a new novelist. Random House's publisher, Howard Kaminsky, wanted to publish \"Oprah Winfrey-type books\" in the \"how-to-be-the-best-you-can-be\" genre. He reasoned, \"I'm sure that's up there with the highest prices ever paid for the hardcover rights alone to a first novel. But then it is not that big a price when you consider that it's such a deserving novel – and it will undoubtedly go for a very large amount in paperback later.\" In 1715 England, fifteen-year-old Barbara Alderley lives with her widowed grandmother, the Duchess of Tamworth, and her younger siblings on their family's country Tamworth estate. Barbara's indebted and calculating mother, Lady Diana Alderley, arrives to inform them of Barbara's possible marriage to Roger Montgeoffry, Earl Devane, a former aide to the deceased Duke. Barbara is pleased with the news, believing herself to be in love with the handsome, wealthy, and popular earl despite his age (nearly thirty years her senior). Roger in turn desires Barbara's dowry of land in London, which he hopes to develop into an opulent estate and townhouses; she and her mother travel to London to make arrangements for the betrothal. Due to Diana's greed, negotiations almost fall apart until the intervention of the Duchess results in Barbara and Roger finally marrying. The couple travel to Paris. While learning to navigate through Parisian society, Barbara remains in love with her husband but Roger has no thoughts at all for his young bride other than mere fondness. Roger however has a secret: he once had a long-term affair with the French aristocrat the Prince of Soissons, with whom he begins anew soon after arriving in Paris. Through the actions of courtiers jealous of Barbara's devotion to Roger, pamphlets eventually spread about the affair. The young and naive Barbara is among the last to hear of it and breaks down in tears and shock. The plot jumps forward to 1720 England, where the country is unknowingly approaching the South Sea Bubble economic collapse; Barbara has separated from her husband and conducted affairs with several men in Paris and London. Still in love with Roger despite his affair, she is unhappy and becomes horrified when she discovers that one of her jealous lovers, Lord Charles Russel, killed Jemmy, a young nobleman who she accidentally slept with for one night. Later, the bursting of the Bubble causes chaos and violence through London. Barbara's only surviving sibling, Harry, is in severe debt and commits suicide; many citizens blame Lord Devane, who helped run the South Sea Company, for the country's finances. At the Tamworth estate, Barbara and Roger attempt a reconciliation but he collapses from an apoplexy soon after while evaluating his own precarious financial situation in London. With the help of several of Roger's friends, Barbara attempts to oversee his finances and takes him out of the still-chaotic city. At Tamworth, Roger gradually becomes worse and dies. Stricken and in mourning, Barbara holds a public memorial in London for her deceased husband, despite being warned that it would draw attention to his estate during the Parliamentary inquest into the financial crisis. To give her peace, the Duchess develops a scheme of spiriting her granddaughter out of the country by having her visit their plantation in Virginia. The novel ends with Barbara and several servants leaving on a ship intended for the colonies. \"Through a Glass Darkly\" is a long, complex narrative that features more than 60 characters and at least 15 subplots. The title of the novel comes from the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 13. Before she began writing it, Koen envisioned creating a story about the relationship between a young woman and an older man, a plot element riddled with emotional tension that required much planning and foresight. Koen also sought to create a story that featured issues relevant to contemporary women, such as the non-existence of \"legal rights. If a husband wanted to beat his wife to death he could do it, and if her parents didn't care... No birth control. If you had any normal sexual urges you were pregnant all the time, and half the women died in childbirth. Life was very violent and short and I just wanted to show how it was without getting up on a soapbox, so someone reading it would say, 'I'm glad I live now.'\" According to Koen, another consistent theme throughout \"Through a Glass Darkly\" is how vital family is to our well-being, family in this case being a loose term that does not necessarily equate to being biologically-related. She was also interested in writing how people are connected to each other. \"Through a Glass Darkly\" was first released in hardcover on July 12,",
"women, such as the non-existence of \"legal rights. If a husband wanted to beat his wife to death he could do it, and if her parents didn't care... No birth control. If you had any normal sexual urges you were pregnant all the time, and half the women died in childbirth. Life was very violent and short and I just wanted to show how it was without getting up on a soapbox, so someone reading it would say, 'I'm glad I live now.'\" According to Koen, another consistent theme throughout \"Through a Glass Darkly\" is how vital family is to our well-being, family in this case being a loose term that does not necessarily equate to being biologically-related. She was also interested in writing how people are connected to each other. \"Through a Glass Darkly\" was first released in hardcover on July 12, 1986. Koen became known as the \"unknown author who hit the jackpot\" of a book that \"everyone's been talking about.\" Media stories angled the book's backstory as a \"phenomenon,\" particularly because it was purchased by a prestigious publisher at such a high price for a first time novelist. After its release, Koen began a seven-city promotional tour that ended in late September 1986. Avon Books paid more than twice Random House's price to gain paperback rights, and released the novel on paperback on September 1, 1987. Even before it was officially published, \"Through a Glass Darkly\" landed on \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list, where it stayed for more than a year. It was translated into ten languages the year it was published. In February 1987, \"People\" reported that \"plans to turn the book into a big-budget miniseries are also underway.\" After reviewing the hype surrounding the book, author Barbara Schaaf concluded that its prose \"was first-rate – literate and with flashes of timeless insight. Anyone who can take a 15-year-old heroine... and dash off over 700 pages just to get her to age 21 without losing the reader, has real talent.\" Schaaf added that Koen has a \"fine eye for art, architecture, fashion, manners and relays the everything,\" though she critiqued the author for sometimes inserting too many historical details. She believed that the book especially shone in depicting the South Sea Bubble; \"most historical writers,\" Schaaf opined, \"neglect the economic background of their periods, regardless of its importance, and [Koen's] grasp of a complicated situation makes it as fascinating as her descriptions of the sexual behavior of the upper and lower classes.\" \"People\"s Harriet Shapiro declared that \"Through a Glass Darkly\" \"is no run-of-the-mill bodice buster, trade slang for bosom-heaving historical romances. Koen paints a lavish, carefully researched portrait of a young woman's turbulent coming of age in 18th-century England and France.\" \"Texas Monthly\" asserted that characterization was Koen's greatest asset, though the story's \"sense of pacing falters\" after two hundred pages. Another criticism was directed at the numerous monologues, which felt like having \"commercials stacked toward the end of a late-night TV movie.\" \"Texas Monthly\" ended their review on a positive note, giving praise to the historical detail as well as the story's ending, which the reviewer believed would encourage readers to buy the forthcoming sequel. In a guest column for \"The New York Times\", author Erica Jong called Koen's work a \"well-researched, workmanlike historical novel [...] of the sort that Kathleen Winsor or Thomas B. Costain used to write: packed with details of costume, architecture and cuisine, populated by rudimentary paper-doll characters, full of undigested Continued on next page gobbets of research.\" Jong shone a negative light on some of the characters, which she believed \"seem[ed] derived from movies, mini-series and other books\" and overshadowed by the attention to historical detail. She concluded that \"Koen's publishers [did] her a disservice in presenting this rather routine and turgid book as though it were \"Gone With the Wind\",\" when it was actually a \"well-researched bodice-ripper.\" Phoebe-Lou Adams of \"The Atlantic\" gave a negative review and criticized the \"enormous, gigantic, monstrous historical novel\" for containing a protagonist who \"suffers and suffers and suffers while innumerable soap-opera types minuet about in fancy dress. The period is early eighteenth century, and the research underlying the gallimaufry is thorough beyond the call of duty.\" In response to some bad attention her novel received, which she said \"hurt like hell,\" Koen noted the persistence of \"in-fighting\" within the publishing industry. \"Who reviews your book has a lot to do with the kind of review you get,\" she said. Through a Glass Darkly (Koen novel) Through a Glass Darkly is a 1986 historical fiction novel by American author Karleen Koen. A former magazine editor, Koen had never before written a novel and spent four years developing it while living as a housewife with her family. She sold the hardcover rights to Random House for $350,000, which was then a record for a new novelist. The circumstances behind the work's publication led to"
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"116th Air Refueling Squadron The 116th Air Refueling Squadron (116 ARS) is a unit of the Washington Air National Guard 141st Air Refueling Wing located at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. The 116th is equipped with the KC-135R Stratotanker and RC-26B Metroliner. The squadron is a descendant organization of the World War I 116th Aero Squadron, established on 28 August 1917. It was reformed on 6 August 1924, as the 116th Observation Squadron, and is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II. The squadron insignia, the ace of spades with a dagger driven through the center of the card scripted \"Caveat hostis,\" Latin for \"Let the enemy beware,\" was approved on 18 July 1931 by the War Department and is still in use today. One of the original sheet metal hand painted insignia from the fuselage of a Consolidated O-17 Courier can still be seen today in the squadron commander’s office. Current Air Force heraldry regulations require squadron emblems include circular background; however, the 116th's patch as worn today by its members is the ace and dagger with no circle. The 116th Air Refueling Squadron traces its origins to 29 August 1917 with the organization of the 116th Aero Squadron at Kelly Field, Texas. The squadron consisted of 80 men reporting from Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri and 40 men from Vancouver Barracks, Washington. An additional 14 men reported from Jefferson Barracks and other men were transferred into the squadron at Kelly Field, bringing the total to 150. Initially, the squadron was trained in basic indoctrination into the Army, with drill, fatigue duty, classroom training, and other things that are done in military training camps. During its time at Kelly Field, men were transferred in and out of the squadron, depending on their qualifications and the needs of other units in training. Once basic indoctrination training was completed, the 116th was ordered for overseas duty, being ordered to report to the Aviation Concentration Center, Garden City, Long Island on 26 October. It was there that final arrangements were made for the trip overseas, complete equipment was drawn and a final few transfers were made. On 7 December, the squadron was ordered to move by train to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where it boarded the RMS Tunician, and began its trans-Atlantic crossing. It arrived in Liverpool, England on 26 December and was moved immediately by train to Southampton. It remained at Southampton until the 29th when the squadron crossed the English Channel, arriving on 29 December at Le Havre, France. In France, the squadron was ordered to the Replacement Concentration Center, AEF, St. Maixent Replacement Barracks, France, arriving on 2 January 1918 for further assignment. On 17 January 1918, the squadron was again moved, this time to Romorantin Aerodrome, in central France. There, along with the 75th Aero Construction Squadron and the 109th Aero Squadron, it was part of the first regular detachments of Americans to be stationed at the airfield. It was quartered in French barracks at the Camp de Bluets, on the outskirts of the town of Romorantin. Members of the squadrons were at once put into construction work to develop the Air Service Production Center No. 2. Work was performed in erecting buildings and also the construction of a railroad line into the camp next to the airfield. After several weeks of basic construction at the camp, much of the work was transferred to Chinese laborers who began to arrive and the Americans were placed in charge of details of these workers. On 1 February, the designation of the squadron was changed from the 116th to the 637th Aero Squadron. On 4 February, the 637th was again ordered to move, being transferred to Colombey-les-Belles Airdrome. It arrived on 6 February, being the 4th Aero Squadron to arrive at the \"Zone of Advance\" (Western Front). At Colombey the squadron was assigned to construction of the 1st Air Depot. Work consisted of the construction of barracks, bomb shelters, ditching and draining the land so streets and utility lines could be laid. Also, the construction of a large flying field was begun. Once the basic construction was completed, the majority of ongoing construction was again performed by Chinese laborers brought in to complete the work. The 637th was assigned to the 1st Air Depot as a Supply Squadron. The men were assigned to warehouse duties, storing new equipment and all manner of supplies that arrived at the Center, and issuing and delivering the necessities of operating the Center to the various units and divisions of the station. The squadron was tasked in maintaining accurate inventory records and advising the Commander of shortages and ordering additional or new equipment from Depots in France. The 637th was also responsible for the operation of the various mess halls, with squadron members acting as cooks, bakers and performing dish washing duties. After the signing of the Armistice with Germany on 11 November, some men of the squadron were assigned to transportation and convoy duty, driving trucks performing collection of equipment from front-line units and also moving personnel back from the lines. The 637th Aero Squadron returned to the United States in late May 1919. It arrived at Mitchel Field, New York, where the squadron members were demobilized and returned to civilian life. In 1924, the Adjutant General for the Washington National Guard, who was traveling through Spokane, made a simple proposal to the city fathers. Whichever city, Spokane, Seattle or Tacoma, could raise $10,000 dollars first for building hangars would get an Observation Squadron. As the General's westward train pulled out of the station and was approaching the city limits, a telegraph wire sent out ahead of the train stated, \"The $10,000 has been raised. We want the squadron.\" On 6 August 1924 the 116th Observation Squadron, Washington National Guard, received federal recognition. They established their unit headquarters at the former Parkwater Municipal Golf Course (now Felts Field) near Spokane. Major John T. \"Jack\" Fancher, a World War I veteran, would act as the units' first commander. By early 1925, construction of the new hangars began with federally funded building materials, locally bought concrete and the squadron members themselves donating most of the labor. The 116th soon received its first airplanes, three Curtiss JN-6-A2 \"Jenny\" aircraft, a derivative of the Curtiss JN-4. They arrived at the rail yards still in the crates; however, no funds were provided to transport or construct the planes for use. A few creative enlisted men managed to haul, assemble and fire up these planes with oil donated by local businesses and gasoline bought on Fancher's personal credit. On 8 August 1926, the unit was redesignated as the 116th Observation Squadron, 41st Division Aviation, and expanded to include a photo section, medical detachment and transportation section. The 116th was the first National Guard unit to achieve full flight qualifications for every officer in the unit. During the summer of 1927, Fancher, a local pioneer for both the development of the 116th and the growth of aviation, flew to New York to persuade officials for the National Air Races to sponsor that year's race out of Spokane. He was successful and on his return flight, he continued to rally support for aviation in the Inland Empire by stopping off at the summer home of then President Calvin Coolidge. As a result of the air races, the northern route from Minneapolis to Spokane was established and later became the route used by Northwest Airlines. In April 1928, Fancher was attempting to dispose of unexpended pyrotechnics left from an aerial demonstration at the Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee. The ordnance detonated while Fancher was carrying it, resulting in his death a few hours later. Flight instructor Caleb V. Haynes",
"local pioneer for both the development of the 116th and the growth of aviation, flew to New York to persuade officials for the National Air Races to sponsor that year's race out of Spokane. He was successful and on his return flight, he continued to rally support for aviation in the Inland Empire by stopping off at the summer home of then President Calvin Coolidge. As a result of the air races, the northern route from Minneapolis to Spokane was established and later became the route used by Northwest Airlines. In April 1928, Fancher was attempting to dispose of unexpended pyrotechnics left from an aerial demonstration at the Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee. The ordnance detonated while Fancher was carrying it, resulting in his death a few hours later. Flight instructor Caleb V. Haynes succeeded him in command of the 116th. In the late 1930s, the unit, tasked by the federal government to perform an aerial survey of the Columbia River, provided invaluable information to geologists and engineers for the site selection and construction of Grand Coulee Dam, the largest dam in the world at the time. In response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8530, the 116th went into federal active duty effective 16 September 1940. The unit's first prominent World War II duties occurred immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese when the unit was assigned to Gray Army Airfield at Fort Lewis, Washington, flying anti-submarine patrols along the Pacific Coast. The squadron swelled in numbers as new draftees were added to the roster and it underwent a number of moves to various airfields. Finally, after being assigned to Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma it would be inactivated in 1943. The experienced pilots and crews were split up to provide training and leadership to newer draftee units. The experiences and assignments of the unit members during the war were as varied as the men themselves which can be attested to in a few of these brief accounts: — The unit commander both before and after the inactivation, Hillford Wallace, would head up various Army Air Corp Reconnaissance Groups in the South Pacific. — Frank Frost, a future commander of the unit, was assigned to a bomber squadron in Central America to protect the strategically important Panama Canal. — Einar Malmstrom, a founding member of the squadron and the namesake for Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, was commander of the 356th Fighter Group in the European Theater. On his 58th combat mission, he was shot down over France and became a Prisoner of War (POW) in a German Prison Camp for a year. — Spokane, Washington native and 116th flyer, Sam Grashio, chronicled his World War II experience in his book, \"Return to Freedom: The War Memoirs of Colonel Sam C. Grashio USAF.\" Grashio had fought against the Japanese forces right from the outset of the war in the Philippines. After depleting much of their food and virtually all their military resources, he and his other U.S. and Filipino comrades under direction of General Wainwright surrendered to the Japanese on 6 May 1942. He then went on to endure the Bataan Death March and the struggle for life at Camp O'Donnell. Grashio and several others were later assigned to a smaller work camp set so far into the jungle the Japanese did not think prison walls were necessary to keep the weakened and sickly POWs from trying to escape through an \"impassable\" jungle, but by will power and planning they did indeed escape and became the only group of Japanese prisoners to ever do so by their own means during the entire war. After being returned to stateside, the Colonel continued to serve his country by participating in War Bond tours, drumming up support for the war effort by recounting the harsh treatment he saw while a prisoner of the Japanese Army. The wartime 116th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron was reconstituted on 21 June 1945. It was then re-designated as the 116th Fighter Squadron, and was allotted to the Washington Air National Guard, on 24 May 1946. It was organized at Felts Field, Spokane, Washington and was extended federal recognition on 1 July 1947 by the National Guard Bureau. The 116th Fighter Squadron was entitled to the history, honors, and colors of the 116th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. The squadron was equipped with F-51D Mustangs and was allocated to Washington ANG 142d Air Defense Group, with a mission of the air defense of Eastern Washington. The short runway and other issues with Felts Field led to the movement of the squadron to the larger Geiger Field on 1 July 1948. In March 1950 the squadron received five F-84C Thunderjets. The F-84s were received from the 33d Fighter Group at Otis AFB, Massachusetts. As a result of the Korean War, the 116th Fighter Squadron was federalized and brought to active-duty on 1 February 1951. The squadron was assigned to the 81st Fighter-Interceptor Group and moved to Moses Lake AFB, Washington. The squadron was re-designated as the 116th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. The 81st was assigned to Tactical Air Command (TAC) as a replacement squadron for the group's 93d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron which was at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico performing air defense duties at the Sandia National Laboratories. It was converted from the F-51s and F-80s to F-86A Sabre jet fighters and performed transition training at Moses Lake. After only four months of training, the 81st FIG was ordered to RAF Shepherds Grove, England, to bolster NATO forces in Europe. The move was the first time in aviation history a National Guard fighter squadron would cross over to the European Theater under its own power and only the second time such a move was ever attempted without air refueling. RAF Shepards Grove was a former World War II RAF Fighter Command base located in East Anglia. The bulk of the ground station buildings were the metal Nissen hut type, with some wood frame and tar paper buildings, and were grouped together in numbered \"sites\", widely separated to blend into natural, rustic surroundings for purposes of camouflage. The main administrative building and clubs were of the larger Quonset hut type. Headquarters of the 81st FIG was located at RAF Bentwaters, and the 116th FIS joined with Royal Air Force Fighter Command to provide air defense of Great Britain. The 81st FIG was the first F-86 equipped unit in Europe. On 1 November 1952, the federalized 116th FIS was returned to the Washington National Guard and its personnel and equipment transferred to the newly activated USAF 78th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. Upon its return from England, the 116th FIS was organized and re-equipped with F-86A Sabre interceptors and again assigned to the 142d Air Defense Group. It resumed its peacetime mission of the air defense of eastern Washington. For the next 23 years the squadron performed that mission, being upgraded by ADC in 1955 to the dedicated F-94 Starfire all-weather interceptor. With this new aircraft, the mission of the 116th Fighter Interceptor Squadron changed from day interceptor to day and night all-weather interceptor. In 1957 the 116th again upgraded to the improved F-89D Scorpion, followed later by the nuclear armed F-89J, then in May 1965 to the supersonic F-102A Delta Dagger. In 1969 it received the Mach-2 F-101B Voodoo. 1967 was a \"trophy\" year for the 141st Fighter Group and the 116th. Trophies and awards received included the Spaatz Trophy for the most Outstanding Air National Guard Flying Unit, the Air National Guard Outstanding Unit Plaque, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Trophy and the Winston P. Wilson Award. In 1969, the unit accumulated an outstanding record, 37,900 accident-free flying hours, receiving the 25th Air Division Flying Safety Award five years in a row. In July 1976, the 116th converted to the KC-135 Stratotanker, becoming the fifth Air National Guard unit to join the Strategic Air Command (SAC). The new air refueling squadron moved from Geiger Field to nearby",
"the nuclear armed F-89J, then in May 1965 to the supersonic F-102A Delta Dagger. In 1969 it received the Mach-2 F-101B Voodoo. 1967 was a \"trophy\" year for the 141st Fighter Group and the 116th. Trophies and awards received included the Spaatz Trophy for the most Outstanding Air National Guard Flying Unit, the Air National Guard Outstanding Unit Plaque, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Trophy and the Winston P. Wilson Award. In 1969, the unit accumulated an outstanding record, 37,900 accident-free flying hours, receiving the 25th Air Division Flying Safety Award five years in a row. In July 1976, the 116th converted to the KC-135 Stratotanker, becoming the fifth Air National Guard unit to join the Strategic Air Command (SAC). The new air refueling squadron moved from Geiger Field to nearby Fairchild Air Force Base to accommodate the larger aircraft. During the 1990 Gulf Crisis Aircrew, maintenance and support personnel responded to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, and deployed to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Upon federal activation in December 1990, all eight of the unit’s KC-135's deployed to the Middle East. The 116th refueled coalition attack aircraft during Operation Desert Storm. In December 1992, the unit responded with aircrew and support personnel for Operation Restore Hope, a United Nations relief mission to aid hunger victims in Somalia, flying missions from Moron AB, Spain. June 1995, several rotations deployed to Pisa, Italy, for Operation Deny Flight, NATO mission enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. In May 1999, six KC-135E's deployed to Budapest, Hungary in support of Operation Allied Force to deter ethnic aggressions in Yugoslavia. On 13 January 1999, one of the unit's KC-135E's crashed at Geilenkirchen Air Base, Germany, killing all four crew members. This was the first time the unit lost an aircraft or lives since beginning the aerial refueling mission in 1976. A monument was erected at the site the following year. After the 11 September 2001 attacks, the squadron began refueling flights supporting Operation Noble Eagle almost immediately. In 2002 a new digital navigation system, called Pacer CRAG, was added to the aircraft and crews trained to function without a navigator. Members of the 116th also joined the thousands of Guard and Reserve forces called up to deploy all over the world in support of America's \"War on Terror.\" When the first Guard KC-135 R-model landed on Fairchild AFB in January 2003, with its new engines, it became the 40th different airplane the 116th pilots had flown since it was created back in 1924. Each one of the four engines of the KC-135R produces over 21,000 pounds of thrust. The unit's first plane, the JN-6-A2 \"Jenny,\" had a wooden body covered in fabric and only weighed 1,430 pounds. At the time President George W. Bush ordered coalition military units into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003, the 116th was in a training status to transition into the R model KC-135. Since then the 116th has supported continuous deployments including antiterrorism efforts abroad under Operation Enduring Freedom and air refueling missions over the US for homeland defense flights under Operation Noble Eagle. During a banquet ceremony in July 2003, the 141st Air Refueling Wing accepted the coveted Solano Trophy marking the wing as the best Air National Guard unit in the 15th Air Force. Overseas deployments and homeland security refueling missions have dominated the tasking landscape for the squadron since 2004. In response to the Congress-mandated 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process, the last of the KC-135 Stratotankers belonging to the 141st Air Refueling Wing were redirected to Iowa, and as of 1 October 2007 116th crew members now share aircraft with the active duty 92d Air Refueling Wing. Today, 116th crews still deploy around the world to fulfill Air Expeditionary Force commitments much the same as during the First World War. 116th Air Refueling"
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"Sila tryokh SILA TROKH ( Translated: \"Power Of Three\") is the third studio album of Russian girlband Serebro. It was released 27 May 2016 by Moonlit Records in Russia Information that the Serebro team will release a third studio album, appeared in late August 2015. Future plate was planned to present the October 30, 2015 at a big solo concert of group \"Izvestiya Hall then\" Moscow club. Later all the material the girls had been working on, which had the working title of \"925\" in honor of the samples of the precious metal, was stolen and the release was delayed. April 27, 2016 in iTunes has been opened pre-order the upcoming album, called \"The Power of Three.\" The disc includes 16 tracks, most of which had come out as singles. Songs from the album, \"Malo Tebya\" and \"Ya Tebya Ne Otdam\" have become hits and were able to reach the top 5 main chart Tophit, and the track \"Mimimi\" became sensational in the world music market. The album also included a joint single with Russian musician, DJ M.E.G., as well as the collab \"Blood Diamond\", with the Dutch EDM production team Yellow Claw, previously included on their debut album, \"Blood For Mercy\". The entire album was recorded material as part of a trio of Olga Seryabkina, Polina Favorskaya and Daria Shashina. The song \"Chocolate\" was the only song recorded with the participation of Katya Kischuk, replacing Daria Shashina after her departure from the group. The track \"My Money\" was recorded exclusively by Olga Seryabkina under the solo project by Molly. Sila tryokh SILA TROKH ( Translated: \"Power Of Three\") is the third studio album of Russian girlband Serebro. It was released 27 May 2016 by Moonlit Records in Russia Information that the Serebro team will release a third studio album,"
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"E. Premkumar Reddy E. Premkumar Reddy is a molecular biologist specialising in molecular oncology. He is the Director of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics program and Professor in the Departments of Oncological Sciences and Structural and Chemical Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Reddy obtained his PhD in molecular biology in 1971 from the Regional Research Laboratory and Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He completed post-doctoral training in the United States of America at the UCLA School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He joined the National Cancer Institute after his post-graduation, with which he was associated till 1984 as the chief of the molecular genetics section. In 1984, he moved to Hoffman LaRoche Roche Institute of Molecular Biology as a full member and in 1986, he joined the Wistar Institute as their deputy director. In 1992, he was appointed as the Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, which is affiliated with Temple University. He moved to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2010. Reddy served as a member of the board of directors of NIEHS from 1990-1995. In 1993, he was awarded the Scientific Achievement Award by the American Cancer Society. He has published over 250 papers. The most notable of his findings are the molecular cloning and sequence determination of a number of viral oncogenes and their cellular homologues. According to data published in 2000 by the Institute for Scientific Information, which compiled the list of most highly cited authors, Reddy was amongst the top 0.5% of the most highly cited authors in the world. Reddy co-founded the international cancer journal \"Oncogene\" in 1986, for which he served as an Editor from 1986 to 2009. In 2010, he founded a new cancer journal named \"Genes & Cancer\" for which he serves as the Editor-in-Chief. E. Premkumar Reddy E. Premkumar Reddy is a molecular biologist specialising in molecular oncology. He is the Director of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics program and Professor in the Departments of Oncological Sciences and Structural and Chemical Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Reddy obtained his PhD in molecular biology in 1971 from the Regional Research Laboratory and Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He completed post-doctoral training in the United States of America at the UCLA School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He joined the National Cancer Institute after his post-graduation, with which he was"
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"Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College, also known as Moores Hill High School, is a historic educational building located at Moores Hill, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1907, and is a 2 1/2-story, \"T\"-plan, brick building with Collegiate Gothic and Jacobethan Revival style design elements. It sits on a raised limestone faced basement. The building consists of a central portion flanked by projecting wings bisected by a central bell tower with pyramidal roof. It features a steeply pitched gable roof, parapeted gables, terra cotta trim, and pointed arch openings. The building housed Moores Hill College until 1917, when it moved to Evansville to later become the University of Evansville. It was funded in part by Andrew Carnegie, who donated $18,750 to its construction. It later housed the local high school and elementary school until 1987. The original college was named Moores Hill Male and Female Collegiate Institute when it was established in 1854, and was founded by the Methodist Church. The college's governing board entered enthusiastically upon construction of the original building known as Moore Hall (in the grassy lot to the north of the later site of Carnegie Hall), then ran short of funds as so many similar early endeavors did. At the same time the town's Masonic lodge, Allen Lodge No. 165 was just being established. Its members accepted an offer by the college trustees to provide quarters for any fraternal organization that would contribute to the building fund. The building was completed in part through the financial assistance of the Masons. A room on the third floor was set aside for the Lodge's use. The Brethren met in their new hall for the first time in January 1856 and continuously thereafter for the next 59 years. The original Moore Hall was destroyed by fire in 1915. A Masonic historical marker was placed on the site in 1974. Carnegie Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College, also known as Moores Hill High School, is a historic educational building located at Moores Hill, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1907, and is a 2 1/2-story, \"T\"-plan, brick building with Collegiate Gothic and Jacobethan Revival style design elements. It sits on a raised limestone faced basement. The building consists of a central portion flanked"
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"The Sterile Cuckoo The Sterile Cuckoo (released in the UK as Pookie) is a 1969 American comedy-drama film released by Paramount Pictures that tells the story of an eccentric, young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadequacies. It stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim McIntire. The film was adapted by Alvin Sargent from the 1965 novel by John Nichols, and directed by Alan J. Pakula in his directing debut. The film received two Academy Awards nominations for the 42nd Academy Awards: Liza Minnelli for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and; Fred Karlin and Dory Previn's song \"Come Saturday Morning\" for Best Original Song. Mary Ann \"Pookie\" Adams is an oddball, quirky teenager who meets the quiet, reserved Jerry Payne while waiting for a bus heading to their colleges. Their colleges are near each other, and they have each enrolled as freshmen. Jerry immediately sees that Pookie is different, even strange. She lies to a nun on the bus so the nun will switch seats with her. Jerry is beginning to settle into college life with his roommate, Charlie Schumacher, when the aggressive Pookie arrives unannounced one Saturday morning. Pookie and Jerry spend much time together over the weekend, and soon begin to see each other regularly. Jerry falls in love with Pookie, but their different personalities start to pull them apart. After having sex, Pookie tells Jerry she might be pregnant. After the pregnancy scare is over, Jerry wants to spend spring break alone to catch up on his studies. Pookie pleads to stay with him, and he relents. A week alone with the needy and somewhat unstable Pookie makes Jerry realize that they need time apart. Discovering later that she has dropped out of her college, Jerry finds her in the same boarding house where she had stayed on the first day she came to visit. He puts her on a bus for home, and the young lovers part ways. Much of \"The Sterile Cuckoo\" was filmed at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Some of it was filmed in Sylvan Beach, New York, including the Sylvan Beach Union Chapel. Some scenes, including the bus stop scenes, were filmed at the park in Vernon Center, New York. The film was well-received by critics, and holds an 88% \"Fresh\" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $13,982,357 at the North American box office, making it the 13th highest-grossing film of 1969. The Sterile Cuckoo The Sterile Cuckoo (released in the UK as Pookie) is a 1969 American comedy-drama film released by Paramount Pictures that tells the story of an eccentric, young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadequacies. It stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim McIntire. The film was adapted by Alvin Sargent from the 1965 novel by John Nichols, and directed by Alan J. Pakula in his directing debut. The film received two Academy Awards nominations for the 42nd Academy Awards: Liza Minnelli for Best Actress in a Leading"
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"Posser A posser or a washing dolly was historically a tool used for \"possing\" laundry by pumping the posser up and down on the laundry in the dolly tub or directly in the copper, or mixing laundry while hand washing it. Possers come in various forms; there is usually a vertical pole with a handle bar at the top but the base can be conical or domed. It has a double rim with a row of holes around the edge of the outer one. A similar tool with three (or more) legs was called a posstick or peggy-legs. Sometimes they took the form of a flat disk. The naming of each of these items was regionally specific and the specific meaning of word changed over time. Clothes washing in the early nineteenth rarely used soap, bucking with lye instead. It was a communal event, and infrequent. It involved clothes boards and bats. By the end of the nineteenth century, the tradition of a weekly washing day had been established. Soap was available in the forms of flakes and powder. The posser was not so much used to hammer the dirt out of the clothes, as to agitate the water which would be forced under pressure through the holes. As hand washing has been replaced by electric and mechanical washing machines, words and implements used for hand washing have fallen out of common use. Posser A posser or a washing dolly was historically a tool used for \"possing\" laundry by pumping the posser up and down on the laundry in the dolly tub or directly in the copper, or mixing laundry while hand washing it. Possers come in various forms; there is usually a vertical pole with a handle bar at the top but the base can be conical or domed."
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"Frequency (statistics) In statistics the frequency (or absolute frequency) of an event formula_1 is the number formula_2 of times the event occurred in an experiment or study. These frequencies are often graphically represented in histograms. The cumulative frequency is the total of the absolute frequencies of all events at or below a certain point in an ordered list of events. The (or empirical probability) of an event is the absolute frequency normalized by the total number of events: The values of formula_4 for all events formula_1 can be plotted to produce a frequency distribution. In the case when formula_6 for certain i, pseudocounts can be added. The following are some commonly used methods of depicting frequency: A histogram is a representation of tabulated frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangles or squares (in some situations), erected over discrete intervals (bins), with an area proportional to the frequency of the observations in the interval. The height of a rectangle is also equal to the frequency density of the interval, i.e., the frequency divided by the width of the interval. The total area of the histogram is equal to the number of data. A histogram may also be normalized displaying relative frequencies. It then shows the proportion of cases that fall into each of several categories, with the total area equaling 1. The categories are usually specified as consecutive, non-overlapping intervals of a variable. The categories (intervals) must be adjacent, and often are chosen to be of the same size. The rectangles of a histogram are drawn so that they touch each other to indicate that the original variable is continuous. A bar chart or bar graph is a chart with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally. A vertical bar chart is sometimes called a column bar chart. A frequency distribution table is an arrangement of the values that one or more variables take in a sample. Each entry in the table contains the frequency or count of the occurrences of values within a particular group or interval, and in this way, the table summarizes the distribution of values in the sample. An example is shown below Under the frequency interpretation of probability, it is assumed that as the length of a series of trials increases without bound, the fraction of experiments in which a given event occurs will approach a fixed value, known as the limiting relative frequency. This interpretation is often contrasted with Bayesian probability. In fact, the term 'frequentist' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called \"non-frequentists\". He observed Frequency (statistics) In statistics the frequency (or absolute frequency) of an event formula_1 is the number formula_2 of times the event occurred in an experiment or study. These frequencies are often graphically represented in histograms. The cumulative frequency is the total of the absolute frequencies of all events at or below a certain point in an ordered list of events."
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"Patric Curwen Patric Curwen (14 December 1884 – 31 May 1949) was a British stage and film actor. Curwen, son of John Spencer Curwen of the music publishing company, and grandson of John Curwen, founder of the Tonic sol-fa system, was educated at Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, then New College, Oxford. He studied acting under Rosina Filippi and started his career at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1907, appearing in productions of \"The Lyons Mail\", \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" and \"The Bells\", among others. During World War I he joined the Artists Rifles, then received a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He served with the armoured car unit in France, but was moved to Naval Intelligence Division for health reasons, where he continued until 1920. He spent four years in India learning tea and coffee planting, then returned to work in England with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. From 1926 to 1928 he undertook an overseas tour, including visits to Australia and New Zealand, and on his return to England he continued to work as an actor in London in the years leading up to moving into film in 1931 and the start of his broadcasting career in 1934. He became well known as compère of the BBC programmes \"Scrapbook\" and \"Those Were The Days\". He died in 1949 at Rondebosch, Cape Town at the age of 64. Patric Curwen Patric Curwen (14 December 1884 – 31 May 1949) was a British stage and film actor. Curwen, son of John Spencer Curwen of the music publishing company, and grandson of John Curwen, founder of the Tonic sol-fa system, was educated at Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, then New College, Oxford. He studied acting under Rosina Filippi and started his career at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1907,"
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"Shell River Township, Wadena County, Minnesota Shell River Township is a township in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 276 at the 2000 census. The township was named for the Shell River, which flows through it; the river was named for abundant clam and mussel shells found along its banks. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.1 square miles (93.6 km²); 34.8 square miles (90.1 km²) of it is land and 1.3 square miles (3.5 km²) of it (3.71%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 276 people, 102 households, and 73 families residing in the township. The population density was 7.9 people per square mile (3.1/km²). There were 185 housing units at an average density of 5.3/sq mi (2.1/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 95.65% White, 0.72% African American, 1.09% Native American, and 2.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.72% of the population. There were 102 households out of which 41.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.8% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% were non-families. 20.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.16. In the township the population was spread out with 29.3% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 109.7 males. The median income for a household in the township was $30,000, and the median income for a family was $33,750. Males had a median income of $27,250 versus $24,375 for females. The per capita income for the township was $16,529. About 5.0% of families and 8.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.6% of those under the age of eighteen and 15.4% of those sixty five or over. Shell River Township, Wadena County, Minnesota Shell River Township is a township in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 276 at the"
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"Automated tissue image analysis Automated tissue image analysis is a process by which computer-controlled automatic test equipment is used to evaluate tissue samples, using computations to derive quantitative measurements from an image to avoid subjective errors. In a typical application, automated tissue image analysis could be used to measure the aggregate activity of cancer cells in a biopsy of a cancerous tumor taken from a patient. In breast cancer patients, for example, automated tissue image analysis may be used to test for high levels of proteins known to be present in more aggressive forms of breast cancers. Automated tissue imaging analysis can significantly reduce uncertainty in characterizing tumors compared to evaluations done by histologists, or improve the prediction rate of recurrence of some cancers. As it is a digital system, suitable for networking, it also facilitates cooperative efforts between distant sites. Systems for automatically analyzing tissue samples also reduce costs and save time. High-performance CCD cameras are used for acquiring the digital images. Coupled with advanced widefield microscopes and various algorithms for image restoration, this approach can provide better results than confocal techniques at comparable speeds and lower costs. The United States Food and Drug Administration classifies these systems as medical devices, under the general instrumentation category of automatic test equipment. ATIS have seven basic processes (sample preparation, image acquisition, image analysis, results reporting, data storage, network communication, and self-system diagnostics) and realization of these functions highly accurate hardware and well-integrated, complex, and expensive software. Specimen preparation is critical for evaluating the tumor in the automated system. In the first part of the preparation process the biopsied tissue is cut to an appropriate size (typically 4 mm), fixed in buffered formalin, dehydrated in ethanol-xylene, embedded in paraffin, thin sectioned typically to 4 um slices, then mounted onto at least two barcoded slides (a control and a test). Next the paraffin is removed from the tissue, the tissue is rehydrated, then stained. Any inconsistency in these procedures from case to case may result in uncertainties in the outcome of the analysis. These potential and irreducible inconsistencies in analysis results motivated the development of Automated Tissue Image Systems. Digital micrographs are acquired of the stained specimen on the glass slide. The images are taken by a set of charge-coupled devices (CCD). Image analysis involves complex computer algorithms which identify and characterize cellular color, shape, and quantity of the tissue sample using image pattern recognition technology based on vector quantization. Vector representations of objects in the image, as opposed to bitmap representations, have superior zoom-in ability. Once the sample image has been acquired and resident in the computer's random access memory as a large array of 0's and 1's, a programmer knowledgeable in cellular architecture can develop deterministic algorithms applied to the entire memory space to detect cell patterns from previously defined cellular structures and formations known to be significant. The aggregate algorithm outcome is a set of measurements that is far superior to any human sensitivity to intensity or luminance and color hue, while at the same time improving test consistency from eyeball to eyeball. The systems have the capability of presenting the resulting data in text and graphically, including on high definition monitors, to the system user. Computer printers, as relatively low image resolution devices, are used mostly to present final pathology reports that could include text and graphics. Storage of the acquired data (graphical digital slide files and text data) involves saving system information in a data storage device system having at least convenient retrieval, and file management capabilities. Medical imaging industry standards includes the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), of European origin, which are image and information management solutions in computer networks that allow hospitals and clinics to acquire, distribute and archive medical images and diagnostic reports across the enterprise. Another standard of European origin is the Data and Picture Archiving and Communication System (DPACS). Although medical images can be stored in various formats, a common format has been Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM). Automated tissue image analysis Automated tissue image analysis is a process by which computer-controlled automatic test equipment is used to evaluate tissue samples, using computations to derive quantitative measurements from an image"
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"Ardmillan Ardmillan is a mainly residential suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. The boundary north of Ardmillan is bordered by the area of Dalry. To the west is the area of Gorgie, and to the east is the area of Fountainbridge. Polwarth and North Merchiston are to the south of Ardmillan. The name means the \"high bare place\" in Scottish Gaelic (\"Aird a' Mhaolain\"). The area contains many tenements as well as \"Diggers\" pub, so called because the gravediggers from the large graveyard in the Ardmillan-Dalry area would go in there after work. Another pub in the area, the Caledonian Sample Room, is often mistakenly assumed to be owned by the nearby Caledonian Brewery (actually it is owned by Punch Taverns). Ardmillan has two churches. The first is St Michael's Parish Church, which is an ecumenical church. Building of the church began in 1879 and was completed for services in 1883. There is also an old congregation of Wesleyan Methodists in the area. Ardmillan is also home to a large, modern health centre called Ardmillan House. The health centre is the location of the South East Scotland Breast Screening Centre. On the southern boundary with North Merchiston is a large public park - Harrison Park. The origins of the park lie with a public purchase of land by Edinburgh City Council in 1886, with additional land expanding the park being bought in 1930. Ardmillan Ardmillan is a mainly residential suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. The boundary north of Ardmillan is bordered by the area of Dalry. To the west is the area of Gorgie, and to the east is the area of Fountainbridge. Polwarth and North Merchiston are to the south of Ardmillan. The name means the \"high bare place\" in Scottish Gaelic (\"Aird a' Mhaolain\"). The area contains many tenements as well"
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"Sivananda yoga Sivananda yoga, after teachings of Swami Sivananda, is a non-proprietary form of hatha yoga in which the training focuses on an integrative approach to yogic disciplines. Sivananda Yoga is a school of traditional Hatha yoga, developed in the 20th century. It teaches the 4 paths of yoga; karma, bhakti, raja and jnana yoga. Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh followed Vivekananda's vision of yoga as having four parts, but asanas became more important in his teaching. His pupils, especially including Swami Vishnudevananda in Canada from 1959, helped to set up Sivananda Yoga Centres around the world. Tony Sanchez, a founder of the U.S. Yoga Association, stated that Sivananda worked together with B. C. Ghosh to \"develop a system of hatha yoga asanas for health and fitness, based on the original classic 84 postures.\" Vishnudevananda was largely responsible for driving the importance of asanas in Sivananda Yoga. The Sivananda asana program had \"a profound effect\" on the development of modern postural yoga. For example, Ghosh went on to train Bikram Choudhury, who founded Bikram Yoga, another of the major schools of modern yoga. Another of Sivananda's pupils, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founded the influential Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. The discipline teaches 4 paths of yoga: karma, bhakti, raja and jnana yoga, and requests the student to practise all four and eventually to pick one as their main focus. Sivananda Yoga teachers are all graduates of the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course. The Sivananda training system aims to teach an authentically Vedic system of yoga and believes that retaining the vitality of the body is a byproduct of the discipline and not the goal. The system philosophies are summarized in 5 principles: A session of training typically starts with every practitioner resting in \"Savasana\", and begins with Pranayama (breathing exercises) Kapalabhati and Anuloma Viloma, preceding rounds of Sūrya namaskāra, before the standard program of the 12 basic asanas. A session averages 90 minutes, and the traditional program has a basic sequence, allowing for some variation in the later part of the sequence. Sivananda Yoga identifies a group of 12 asanas as basic. Sivananda yoga Sivananda yoga, after teachings of Swami Sivananda, is a non-proprietary form of hatha yoga in which the training focuses on an integrative approach to yogic disciplines. Sivananda Yoga is a school of traditional Hatha yoga, developed in the 20th century. It teaches the 4 paths of yoga;"
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"Peter Baker (Canadian politician) Peter Baker (1887–1973), birth name Bedouin Ferran, also Ahmad Ali Ferran, and as Faron Ahmed upon death) was a Lebanese-born Canadian trader, politician, and author. Baker was born in 1887 as Bedouin Ferran or as Ahmad Ali Ferran on the territory of Levant, which is now Lebanon. At the turn of the century, he emigrated to Canada from the Turkish (Ottoman) conscription for young Arabs whom Turkey made to fight against the Yemenis. Ferran worked at a Holy Cross College as a labourer, and in 1909, was given his anglicised name by the college's Catholic priest. Thereonafter, he moved to the province of Alberta. In 1910s, Baker began work as a trapper and trader of northern fur and essentials with Canadian First Nations, establishing with his native trading partners novel and adaptive ways of both trade and credit. After his trade ended, Baker entered politics, and was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for the period of 1964–1967. He was one of the earliest Muslim politicians in Canada. Baker's funeral took place on 13 November 1973 in Al-Rashid Mosque in Edmonton, Alberta. Notably, Baker was identified in the 17 November 1973 press of Edmonton Journal's Deaths and Notices section as \"Faron Ahmed, 62\". Baker authored a book, \"Memoirs of an Arctic Arab\", published posthumously in 1976. Peter Baker (Canadian politician) Peter Baker (1887–1973), birth name Bedouin Ferran, also Ahmad Ali Ferran, and as Faron Ahmed upon death) was a Lebanese-born Canadian trader, politician, and author. Baker was born in 1887 as Bedouin Ferran or as Ahmad Ali Ferran on the territory of Levant, which is now Lebanon. At the turn of the century, he emigrated to Canada from the Turkish (Ottoman) conscription for young Arabs whom Turkey made to fight against"
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"Sistar19 Sistar19 () was the first and only official sub-group of South Korean girl group Sistar and was formed by Starship Entertainment in 2011. The sub-group is composed of Hyolyn and Bora. Their debut single \"Ma Boy\" was released in May 2011. Their second and most successful single \"Gone Not Around Any Longer\" was released in 2013, with an EP with the same title. The sub-group disbanded the 4 June 2017 alongside the official group. Sistar19 is a two-member sub-unit of Sistar under Starship Entertainment. Sistar19 was created in 2011, with Sistar's main vocalist Hyolyn and rapper Bora. They held their debut performance as Sistar19 on May 5, 2011 on \"M! Countdown\" with the single \"Ma Boy\", released that month. Their first mini album entitled \"Gone Not Around Any Longer\" was released on January 31, 2013. The lead single of the same name ascended to the top of the \"Billboard\" Korea K-Pop Hot 100 chart. In 2013, Sistar19 was nominated in the 2013 World Music Awards. These are a collection of Sistar19's first place wins on Korea's televised music shows. \"Show Champion\" is aired on MBC Music every Wednesday, \"M Countdown\" on general cable channel M.net every Thursday, \"Music Bank\" on Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) every Friday, \"Music Core\" on Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) every Saturday and \"Inkigayo\" on Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) every Sunday. \"Mnet Music Triangle\" was a music program aired by Mnet. Sistar19 Sistar19 () was the first and only official sub-group of South Korean girl group Sistar and was formed by Starship Entertainment in 2011. The sub-group is composed of Hyolyn and Bora. Their debut single \"Ma Boy\" was released in May 2011. Their second and most successful single \"Gone Not Around Any Longer\" was released in 2013, with an EP with the same title. The"
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"The Sentinel, Hout Bay The Sentinel or Hangberg is a peak marking the western end of the mouth of Hout Bay in South Africa. It has a shear cliff dropping towards the sea, and a coastal hiking path is accessible at low tide. It is adjacent to Hout Bay Harbour and the Hangberg settlement, and to the higher Karbonkelberg peak. Just offshore to the south is a colony of Cape fur seals known as Seal Island, and a big wave surf spot known as \"Dungeons\", which has hosted the Red Bull Big Wave Africa competition. The mountain has been privately owned since 1901. In 2008, the mountain was advertised for sale by G&R Marine Services CC, who purchased it in 2003. The potential sale led to protests by the local Hangberg community. The land is zoned rural, which in theory would allow a single dwelling to be built, but it is surrounded by national park land, and SANParks, which wishes to see the peak incorporated into the Table Mountain National Park, indicated that it would not allow an access road under any circumstances. The Sentinel, Hout Bay The Sentinel or Hangberg is a peak marking the western end of the"
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"Laojie station Laojie station (), is a station on the Shenzhen Metro. It provides cross-platform interchange between Line 1 and Line 3. The station is the busiest on the network with 61,600 passenger entries and exits a day. The Line 1 platforms opened on 28 December 2004 and the Line 3 platforms opened on 28 June 2011. It is located underneath the junction of Shennan Fudao (), Jiefang Road () and Jianshe Road () in the Luohu District of Shenzhen, China. The station is the closest to the Dongmen Business Area (), one of the oldest areas in Shenzhen established in the Ming dynasty. Laojie station Laojie station (), is a station on the Shenzhen Metro. It provides cross-platform interchange between Line 1 and Line 3. The station is the busiest on the network with 61,600 passenger entries and exits a day. The Line 1 platforms opened on 28 December 2004 and the Line 3 platforms opened on 28 June 2011. It is located underneath the junction of Shennan Fudao (), Jiefang Road () and Jianshe Road () in the Luohu District of Shenzhen, China. The station is the closest to the Dongmen Business Area (), one of the oldest"
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"Captain Kremmen Captain Kremmen was a science fiction radio serial set in the early 21st Century. (The pilot opens in 2005.) It was written and performed for Capital Radio by the DJ Kenny Everett, and was also broadcast on Liverpool's Radio City and Nottingham's Radio Trent. It featured the eponymous vain and dimwitted spaceship captain. Everett took the name Kremmen from a record label owned by the son of comedian Mel Blanc. Each episode began with a recap by Everett's fellow DJ, Tommy Vance. The premise was subsequently adapted for television and other media. Captain Elvis Brandenburg Kremmen - Born in Liverpool on Christmas Day in 1950, Kremmen grew up with an interest in becoming an astronaut like his idol, Dan Dare. In the animated version, he bears a striking resemblance to Kenny Everett, who was also born in Liverpool on Christmas Day (but in 1944). Graduating from the Space Academy, Kremmen went on to become the world's most fabulous man, as well as a captain for Star Corps. He also has bionic veins, and a bionic left foot with a detachable big toe that converts into a space cannon. According to a 'computer read-out' at the beginning of the episodes, he has an IQ of 498 and a height of 6ft 10 inches, and is a Supreme Athlete, a Concert Pianist, Concorde Pilot, Mountain Climber, Diplomat, Space Captain & Genius. Another variation on the opening script said he had 'muscles in places where most other people don't even have places'. Carla - Born in New York on July 27, 1950 was an American, Carla is the world's most voluptuous woman. She came from a poor family, and used her beauty to get a job in Star Corps. Whenever alone with Kremmen, she persuades him to have casual sex with her. Her first visual appearance saw her looking like Marilyn Monroe, but this was changed in the TV series. But the Sketches as Anna Dawson, who was also born in Bolton on July 27, 1937. Dr. Heinrich von Gitfinger - Named \"Grelbman\" in the graphic novel, Gitfinger is Kremmen's scientific aide from Germany. In some areas, he is portrayed as a Nazi. He is married and has children living in West Germany. Other minor characters include Gonad, Schmuckstein, Threllmer and Fooman, who are all technicians aboard the Troll-1 – Kremmen's spaceship, which is more than a little reminiscent of a portable cassette recorder. The Thargoids - Based on their synthetic homeworld of Thargoidia, the Thargoids are a race of beings led by Gort (a parody of a movie character with the same name), who drain all other beings of their knowledge so that they will be the most intelligent beings in the universe. They are described as having transparent heads, furry green eyeballs, seven legs and three lips. This latter feature is the reason the Thargoids drink tea; as Gort explained: \"You try asking for llllager and llllime with llllips llllike these!\" Thargoids are also an enemy alien race in the video game Elite. The Krells - Originally nine-headed creatures with enormous lips, the Krells later became slimy lumps in the TV series. They are the second alien race to appear in the series after the Thargoids. Their first leader was Queen Iris, followed by King Zarno during their \"lump\" stages in the radio and TV series. The \"nine-heads\" appeared only in the book, and were led by Zorro, who was more welcoming to Kremmen than the other leaders. Their final appearance was in a war against the Macronites, who were planning revenge for an earlier Krell attack. They seem to be named after the alien civilisation mentioned in \"Forbidden Planet\". The Sun-Suckers - A nearby sun died out years ago, and a race of beings called the Sun-Suckers began to die from the intense cold. By stealing solar energy from the Earth's sun, the Sun-Suckers were able to stay alive for a little longer. Their number was 1,000 when Kremmen arrived, and their leader was known as Vardak the Elder. The Sun-Suckers are lumps like the Krells, but have four ears according to Kremmen. In 1977 a comic book was released by Corgi, explaining Kremmen's time before he became a space hero. In his earlier years, Kremmen was more of an anti-hero, offering to allow the Krells to destroy Birmingham instead of his hometown of Liverpool. The story was quite surreal, and portrayed Kremmen as a womaniser as well as a control freak. The Krells planned to dump poisonous Thronn over Liverpool to destroy it, but the Thronn quickly turns into jelly when it reacts with grease from various fish and chip shops en route. The comic also introduced several new characters, with some politically incorrect ones, such as the Jewish Moyshe Pukestein, and the Jamaican nightnurse, Dr. Winston. The series became an animated cartoon in \"The Kenny Everett Video Show\" and \"The Kenny Everett Television Show\". This was produced for the series by Cosgrove Hall Films. The characters were designed and animated by Graham Kennedy. The single \"Captain Kremmen (Retribution)\" was a chart hit for Kenny Everett and Mike Vickers in late November 1977. Its main lyric, \"Tread boldly, men\", was a skit on \"Star Trek\"'s opening monologue. In 1979, a View-Master three-reel blister card was produced titled \"Kenny Everett's Captain Kremmen\". The View-Master company was well known for creating products aimed at children during the years the Captain Kremmen set was produced. The cover art features the three main characters with the Carla character drawn with erect nipples, a rare sexual image for a View-Master product. The final piece of memorabilia on Captain Kremmen was made in 1980: a 20-minute film entitled \"\". However, like the comic book, it was unusual. As well as several new characters, the only original characters were Kremmen, Carla and Gitfinger. The plot itself centered on Kremmen finding a giant space-monster that was eating planets. When his new spaceship is eaten by the monster, Kremmen is able to help the ship escape by pumping oxygen into the stomach and making the monster vomit, but the creature itself isn't destroyed, and it is not made clear if the other planets that were eaten were rescued. Captain Kremmen Captain Kremmen was a science fiction radio serial set in the early 21st Century. (The pilot opens in 2005.) It was written and performed for Capital Radio by the DJ Kenny Everett, and was also broadcast on Liverpool's Radio City and Nottingham's Radio Trent. It featured the eponymous vain and dimwitted spaceship captain. Everett took the name Kremmen from a record label owned by the son"
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"North Park Theatre The North Park Theatre is a historic single screen movie theatre in Buffalo, New York's North Park Neighborhood. It has functioned as a cinema since it opened on November 21, 1920. Originally called Shea's North Park, the theatre, along with Shea's Performing Arts Center, serves as a remnant of the now defunct Shea's theatre chain, once owned by early twentieth century businessman Michael Shea. Its design by Henry Spann was influenced by the neoclassical movement. The auditorium features a proscenium above the screen and a 5-paneled recessed dome arched into the ceiling, both decorated with murals by Raphael Beck. The North Park operated under Dipson Theatres until May 2013, when it was purchased by a new ownership group.. The theater closed for an eight-month restoration that included returning ornamental features such as the plaster dome and proscenium in the auditorium to their former glory. The theater reopened on March 7th, 2014, and screens a mixture of children's', independent, specialty, and occasionally first-run films. In November 2014, a restored stained-glass window above the marquee that had long been hidden behind a concrete panel, was unveiled. In June 1998, the North Park held the world premiere of \"Buffalo '66\". This marked the first major film to premiere in Buffalo since \"The Natural\" opened in 1984. In attendance were Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, and Asia Argento. In July 2018, The First Purge, which filmed in 2017 in Buffalo, NY, premiered starring “The City of Buffalo”. North Park Theatre The North Park Theatre is a historic single screen movie theatre in Buffalo, New York's North Park Neighborhood. It has functioned as a cinema since it opened on November 21, 1920. Originally called Shea's North Park, the theatre, along with Shea's Performing Arts Center, serves as a remnant of the now defunct"
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"Jerzy Vetulani Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965. Associated with the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, at which he was a Professor, Head of the Department of Biochemistry (1976–2006), Deputy Director for Science Affairs (1994–2002) and Vice Chairman of the Scientific Council (2003–2017), he published more than 200 original research papers. He first gained recognition for an early hypothesis of the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs, suggesting together with Fridolin Sulser in 1975 that downregulation of beta-adrenergic receptors is responsible for their effects. At the time, Vetulani was a Research Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University (1973–1975). In 1983 he received Anna-Monika Prize for research on the mechanisms of action of electroconvulsive therapy. Beside depression, his scientific interests included memory, addiction and neurodegeneration. Active also in the field of popular science, he became a recognizable science communicator in Poland. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine \"Wszechświat\" (1981–2002), and was known for his popular lectures that gathered large audiences on various occasions. Since 2010 he ran a blog and social media channels. In the Polish People's Republic he was an activist of the democratic opposition and became a member of the Solidarity trade union in 1980. Being an atheist, for several decades he kept a close and cordial relationship with Pope John Paul II. Throughout his life, he also participated in several art initiatives: in his twenties he was an announcer at Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret (1954–1961), and in his seventies he became a performer in the anthropological live magazine \"Gadający Pies\" (\"The Talking Dog\", 2010–2015). He was a candidate for president of Kraków in the elections of 2002. He publicly argued for the legalization of marijuana and depenalization of all drugs for adult users, often criticizing repressive drug policy in Poland. An honorary fellow of Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Oxford Neurological Society, honorary doctor of the Medical University of Silesia and the Medical University of Łódź, he received several other awards and state distinctions, including Gold Cross of Merit and Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta. He was born on January 21, 1936 at the private gynecological hospital at Garncarska Street in Kraków, Poland as the son of Adam Vetulani, Professor and head of the Department of Church Law at the Jagiellonian University, and Irena Latinik, a biologist and daughter of Polish Army general Franciszek Latinik. In 1938 his younger brother Jan was born. The family occupied an apartment on the ground floor of the house of professors of the Jagiellonian University at Plac Inwalidów, employing a maid, cook and Olga Rutter, a child educator. As Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Adam Vetulani took part in the defense war. With his unit, he went to Romania and then to France, where he also fought on the front. Eventually he was interned in Switzerland, where he spent the rest of the war organizing school camps for Polish soldiers. The correspondence sent to the occupied Poland was signed by the Fraulein Kupfer alias. After the German army entered Cracow, Irena Vetulani and her sons had to leave the apartment. They were given forty-eight hours to move, with the possibility of keeping movable property. They moved to the premises at Garncarska Street 4, where Józefa Onitsch, the wife of General Zygmunt Zieliński, gave them refuge. The family was supported by Adam Vetulani's brother, Tadeusz, who has been living in Cracow during the war. Thanks to her good knowledge of German, Irena took up her job as a translator in the spirit monopoly. Jerzy and Jan remained in war years under the care of the mother who raised both sons \"in a patriotic sense of honor\". Every Sunday at home there was a \"mystery\" and the family used to sing Polish, Catholic religious song \"Boże, coś Polskę\". In his childhood, Jerzy was a religious boy; he even served as an altar boy at St. Mary's Basilica. Vetulani recalled the war years as interesting, full of fascinating activity and exploring the surrounding world, undermining the collective, martyrological picture of despair and misery. Together with his younger brother and friend from the tenement house, Andrzej Mirocki, they founded an insect gatherer club. For the most spectacular and precious part of their collection, they recognized a diverse collection of butterflies. Mother never let children witness one of the street executions. Jerzy began his education in 1942 and immediately entered the second class of secret sets led by Mrs. Iwiczowa, as he was already able to read and write. From 1948 he attended the Henryk Sienkiewicz High School in Cracow, and then, after his liquidation, Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School, where he passed matura in 1952, obtaining a certificate with a distinction for best pupils. Already as a teenager, Vetulani has completely walked away from religion. He described himself from a young age as \"a rebel who did a lot of things in spite of his parents.\" At the age of twelve he enrolled in the Union of Polish Youth. He was removed from the organization as a result of a typo in the school newspaper article. In the text he mistakenly and unconsciously, instead of \"the basis of socialism\" (\"podstawy socjalizmu\"), he wrote \"the washers of socialism\" (\"podsrawy socjalizmu\"). Later he also joined the Atheists and Freethought Club. He belonged to the Revolutionary Youth Union, a formation of idealistic communists who were striving for reform of Polish communist system that they considered defective. In 1952 he began his studies in biology at the Jagiellonian University (specializing in animal physiology), which he completed in 1957, defending his thesis on the effects of ascorbic acid on rabbit blood. In March 1956, he began a volunteer internshipat at the Department of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (later renamed the Institute of Pharmacology), where he has been working since, until the end of his life. Janusz Supniewski was head of the Department at that time. In 1957, after obtaining master's degree, Vetulani was hired as an assistant. Later, also at the Jagiellonian University, he studied chemistry (specializing in theoretical chemistry). He graduated in 1963. As an exchange student he spent seven weeks in Swansea, where he worked at the British Iron and Steel Research Association. He rented a room at a senior Welsh marriage and studied English intensively; every day he bought an edition of \"Daily Mirror\" and underlined unknown words, that he later learned. He was one of the founders and permanent regulars of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret. In the mid 1950s, together with a group of friends: Edmund Jarosz, Bronisław Chromy and Lala Skąpska, he took part in the demolition of the basement at Palace Pod Baranami, which soon became room for the cabaret. In 1958, when Piotr Skrzynecki left for Paris, Vetulani temporarily replaced him as a conference caller. It was in Piwnica that he met his future wife, Maria Pająk, whose appearance at the time he compared to Marina Vlady's. They married on 8 July 1963. Soon after that their sons Marek and Tomasz were born, respectively in 1964 and 1965. They also have four grandchildren. In 1955–1962 he acted as a speaker at the Cracow Student Film Discussion Club. Vetulani admitted that \"it was a good thing because \"it taught him to speak short, interesting and fast\". In 1972 he was a scientific consultant for the film \"Illumination\" directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. After the death of his brother, who drowned during a canoeing on the Dunajec",
"at Palace Pod Baranami, which soon became room for the cabaret. In 1958, when Piotr Skrzynecki left for Paris, Vetulani temporarily replaced him as a conference caller. It was in Piwnica that he met his future wife, Maria Pająk, whose appearance at the time he compared to Marina Vlady's. They married on 8 July 1963. Soon after that their sons Marek and Tomasz were born, respectively in 1964 and 1965. They also have four grandchildren. In 1955–1962 he acted as a speaker at the Cracow Student Film Discussion Club. Vetulani admitted that \"it was a good thing because \"it taught him to speak short, interesting and fast\". In 1972 he was a scientific consultant for the film \"Illumination\" directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. After the death of his brother, who drowned during a canoeing on the Dunajec River in 1965, he mobilized to begin work on his Ph.D. dissertation. He obtained Ph.D. degree in natural sciences in 1966 from Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences upon dissertation \"The action of isoxazole and pyrazole derivatives on the metabolism of the animal system\" prepared under the direction of Professor Józef Hano. In the same year went to Great Britain for one year Riker scholarship. In the UK he worked on mastering spectrofluorimetric methods at the University of Cambridge under the direction of Arnold Burgen. During his stay in Cambridge, he encountered Bożena Puchalska and Juliusz Hibner. After returning to Poland he started work in the field of psychopharmacology under the direction of Jerzy Maj. After submitting a habilitation dissertation, he left to the United States for almost two years. There, he worked from 1973 to 1975 as Research Associate Professor at the Vanderbilt University. He gained international recognition after the discovery in 1975, with Fridolin Sulser, of β-downregulation by chronic administration of antidepressants and the formulation of β-downregulation hypothesis as a mechanism of action of antidepressants. The work on this subject, published by Vetulani and Sulser in \"Nature\", became citation classic, receiving 580 vocations by 2007. After his mother's death, he and his family decided to return to Poland. Vetulani received his habilitation degree in 1976 (upon work \"Neuroleptics, monoamine oxidase inhibitors and dopamine beta-hydroxylase inhibitors: their actions and synergies\"), an associate professor in 1983, and a professor in 1989. In 1976, he was appointed Head of the Department of Biochemistry at Institute of Pharmacology. In the 1970s he translated several short stories by Ursula le Guin for magazine \"Przekrój\". In \"Przekrój\" he also published short articles on his stay in the United States. Back in the 1960s he was offered regular work in \"Przekrój\" by its long-time editor-in-chief Marian Eile, but refused due to lack of possibility to combine scientific career with a full-time job as a columnist in a weekly. Since 1978 he has regularly collaborated with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, National Research Council) in Rome. On behalf of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences he was a coordinator of the joint research program of his home Institute with the Istituto di Biology Cellulare and Neurobiology (IBCN). When visiting Rome, he usually received an audience with John Paul II, who was a student of his father and friend of the family. In 1983 Vetulani received International Anna-Monika Prize (2nd class) for his research on the mechanism of electroconvulsion. In years 1981–2002 he was the editor-in-chief of \"Wszechświat\", one of the oldest Polish popular science magazines. He was also the editor-in-chief of the \"Polish Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacy\" (1993–1996). He obtained the tilte of Associate Professor in 1983 and the title of full Professor in 1989. From 1980 he was an activist in the Solidarity movement. He was a member of the Solidarity Work Committee to the Department and Branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków and was the 56th member of the Coordinating Commission for Science. In 1987–1989 he was a member of the Solidarity's Board of the Małopolska Region, at the end of that period, from 1989–1990 he was a member of the Presidium of the Board. He mainly dealt with programming matters and advised organization's authorities in the region. In the work for Solidarity he took advantage of the position of the editor-in-chief of a scientific magazine; during the martial law he smuggled a letter from Solidarity's region authorities from Poland to Vatican, where he passed it to pope John Paul II. He thought this smuggling was possible only because he wasn't searched, as a person at such an important position, and accompanied in his travel to Italy then by Mieczysław Czuma, editor-in-chief of \"Przekrój\". Vetulani was a member of Solidarity Citizens' Committee (1989–1990) and Kraków Solidarity Club (1994–1995). Between 1992 and 1998 he was a member of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum. In 1999–2001 he was the President of the Polish Neuroscience Society. He also introduced Polish term for neurofibrillary tangles, which he called \"splątki neurofibrylarne\". In 1991 he was appointed a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Learning. He was appointed a full member in 1996. He regularly held meetings of the Scientific Cafe at the Polish Academy of Learning at Sławkowska Street 17, as the opening and moderator of the discussions. He was a Member of the Board of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts (2001–2017) and a member of the chapter of the Laurel of Kraków Award (also 2001–2017). He was a member of the Board of the Society for the Advancement and Promotion of Science and member of the Warsaw Scientific Society and the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB). In 2002 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Insitiute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was a founding member of the Forum for Małopolska Association and ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the city of Kraków, obtaining 2375 votes (1.19%) in the first round of elections. In 2008 he was elected a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Over the years, he held various functions in the Academy's structures. He was the Secretary of the Committee of Physiological Sciences (1978–1981), Chair of the Neurobiology Committee (2007–2011), a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Experimental Biology (1993–2007) and the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine (2003–2007) of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2006, Vetulani left the position of Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and devoted himself to a large degree to popular science. In this field he was active already in the 1960s when he published short texts in \"Wszechświat\", as a rule signing articles with his own name or with pseudonym J. Latini. After 2000 he became known for his popular science lectures, which focused on themes connected with the functioning of human brain and the relationship between neuroscience and various social and cultural aspects. In 1999 he was a lecturer during the Cracow Brain Days, and since 2000 he has performed every year at the Cracow Brain Week organized as a part of World Brain Awareness Week. Since June 2010 Vetulani ran a blog titled \"Piękno neurobiologii\" (\"The Beauty of Neuroscience\") on WordPress. There, he published articles on discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and psychopharmacology and comments on the curiosities of the human brain and, additionally, various cultural and social matters. The direct cause of the founding of the site was the removal of Vetulani's column in \"Wprost\" magazine by the newly elected editor-in-chief Tomasz Lis. As the main motivator for blogging Vetulani has pointed the desire to share his own knowledge with others. In a 2011",
"and various social and cultural aspects. In 1999 he was a lecturer during the Cracow Brain Days, and since 2000 he has performed every year at the Cracow Brain Week organized as a part of World Brain Awareness Week. Since June 2010 Vetulani ran a blog titled \"Piękno neurobiologii\" (\"The Beauty of Neuroscience\") on WordPress. There, he published articles on discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and psychopharmacology and comments on the curiosities of the human brain and, additionally, various cultural and social matters. The direct cause of the founding of the site was the removal of Vetulani's column in \"Wprost\" magazine by the newly elected editor-in-chief Tomasz Lis. As the main motivator for blogging Vetulani has pointed the desire to share his own knowledge with others. In a 2011 interview he said, \"Soon, what's in my brain will kick the bucket, so I have to try to pass on to others as much as I can.\". He chose this form of sharing his texts because of the ability to reach wide group of readers, as well as because of the independence and freedom of content and deadlines. Since December 2011, he has also run a channel on YouTube, on which has published videos and records of his lectures. Vetulani published several popular articles on the topic of neuroscience, he has often given interviews for various magazines and appeared in the radio and television, becoming, especially in the last decade of his life, a celebrity in science. After 1989 Vetulani politically sympathized with the center and the left. He has publicly supported specific candidats for public offices. In the 2010 presidential election in both rounds he supported Bronisław Komorowski and in the parliamentary election a year later Józef Lassota. In 2014 European Parliament election he supported Jan Hartman, expressing at the same time his solidarity with Róża Thun. Prior to the first round of presidential election in 2015, he supported Janusz Palikot. In the same year, in the parliamentary election he again supperted Lassota's candidature, congratulating him after obtaining a seat in the Sejm. In the 2000s he lectured regularly at several colleges in Kraków. He was a Professor of the Małopolska Higher Vocational School of J. Dietl in Kraków, where he taught classes in cosmetology and dietetics (neurobiological aspect) and the School of Medicine in English at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum. He also lectured at the Faculty of Applied Psychology at the Jagiellonian University and at the Pontifical University of John Paul II. In 2010 he performed in a lip dub created by the community of Jagiellonian University. He appeared in its opening sequence as a grandfather of a little girl, the main character in the clip. Also from 2010 Vetulani regularly appeared on the stage of the talking magazine \"Gadający Pies\" (\"The Talking Dog\"), of which he became one of the main attractions and recognizable signs over time. One of the showrunners, Maciej Piotr Prus, described Vetulani as \"the star of the first magnitude\", adding that all participants were always waiting for his speeches. Vetulani compared the atmosphere of \"The Talking Dog\" to the ambience present in the beginnings of Piwnica pod Baranami. In his short presentations, the scientist used obscene humor and vulgarity, which some considered to be a violation of good taste, but most of the audience was enthusiastic to this kind of performance. In 2013 Vetulani performed and was the executive producer of the short film \"Hydrophobia\", a mockumentary that ridiculed social phobias and premiered also at \"The Talking Dog\". He co-created the performance \"Dreams Music\" directed by Czet Minkus, where he performed alongside Jan Peszek and Agata Zubel; the show was presented on December 19, 2013 in the Małopolska Garden of Art (MOS). In 2010 and 2015 Vetulani performed with Leszek Długosz with a concert program \"Rozumie mój\" (\"Oh, My Mind\"), in which poetry sung by Długosz was exchanged with Vetulani's neuroscience commentary. On December 31, 2014 he was appointed a member of the Program Board of the Station in Rome of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2014, he has been supporting auctions of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity; he devoted for auctions signed books and the opportunity to meet him at coffee or dinner. In 2015 and 2017 he was in the Honorary Committee of the Parada Równości (Equality Parade, pride parade held in Warsaw). Following the rule of Law and Justice party in Poland he sharply criticized their reforms, expressing his support for some of the actions undertaken by the Committee for the Defence of Democracy; he participated in the protest against taking over public media by the ruling party in January 2016, saying that although he found some parts of the protest \"rather of primitive character\", he \"had the fantastic atmosphere of the event: in spite of the January chill – the crowds of old and young full of energy, each step you meet a friend (...). The event had both high civic and social value\". Invited by students, he participated in the protest on the Main Market Square in Kraków in January 2017. He also supported Black Protest, what he manifested by simply wearing black clothes. In November 2016, an exhibition of photographs by Adam Golc from Vetulani's eightieth birthday party, that Vetulani organized in his home hosting at once around one hundred and eighty people, was opened at the Galeria Olympia. During Vetulani's party, Golec portrayed the guests in a specially prepared mini-studio, on the background painted by Iwona Siwek-Front. On March 2, 2017, in the evening, Vetulani, who was at the age of 81, was hit by an automobile at the pedestrian crossing receiving serious injuries. Vetulani was walking home from his regular place of work, the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, taking a route he knew very well. Directly after the accident he was put into a pharmacological coma, and his condition was determined as severe but stable. He was being treated at the Emergency Medicine Rescue and Disaster Center at the Szpital Uniwersytecki (University Hospital) in Kraków, under the supervision of the team of Professor Jerzy Wordliczek. Vetulani's health, however, did not improve and he died in the hospital on April 6, 2017. He was buried on April 18, 2017 in the Avenue of the Meritorious at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków. Aleksander Janicki, visual artist and Vetulani's friend was the master of the ceremony which was carried out in a secular rite. Among the speakers at the funeral were Mayor of Kraków Jacek Majchrowski, president of the Polish Academy of Learning Andrzej Białas, Member of the Sejm Józef Lassota, and also friends and family of the late scientist. His wife Maria Vetulani died few months later, on September 21, 2017. As crucial in shaping his worldview, Vetulani pointed \"The Naked Ape\" by English zoologist Desmond Morris. He first came across Morris's work in Cambridge in 1967 and said: \"Thanks to this book for the first time I saw that you could approach a man like a normal animal species. (...) I realized at that time how ridiculous is a man who, as an animal instead of on all fours, is walking on two legs. How funny we look, hairless almost all over the body. (...) I also got rid of the belief in the superuniqueness of Homo sapiens\". Vetulani defined the source of happiness and fulfillment of life, considered from the perspective of biology, as the immortalization of one's own genes by passing them on to the next generations. He often referred to Theodosius Dobzhansky's well-known quotation and the title of one of Dobzhansky's works: \"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution\". Vetulani was close to the philosophy of utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill; he said: \"Moral is what serves to increase the happiness of mankind. There is only one problem – unfortunately we have no way of summing up that happiness\". He was a fan of fantasy and science",
"is walking on two legs. How funny we look, hairless almost all over the body. (...) I also got rid of the belief in the superuniqueness of Homo sapiens\". Vetulani defined the source of happiness and fulfillment of life, considered from the perspective of biology, as the immortalization of one's own genes by passing them on to the next generations. He often referred to Theodosius Dobzhansky's well-known quotation and the title of one of Dobzhansky's works: \"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution\". Vetulani was close to the philosophy of utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill; he said: \"Moral is what serves to increase the happiness of mankind. There is only one problem – unfortunately we have no way of summing up that happiness\". He was a fan of fantasy and science fiction literature, and especially of authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin. As his motto he adopted a phrase from Asimov's \"Foundation\": \"May your moral sense never lead you to make a wrong decision\". Jerzy Vetulani Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish"
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"Marta Wittkowska Marta Wittkowska (January 1, 1882 – May 24, 1977) was a Polish–American contralto opera singer popular during the early decades of the twentieth century. Martha Paula Wittkowski was born in the German city of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland), the second of five children raised by Polish immigrants Joseph and Mathilde Wittkowski, and grew up in Syracuse, New York where her family had lived since she was about eight. As a young girl she sang in church choirs and at community events. Music professor C. J. Kresser was among the first to realize Wittkowski's potential when he heard her sing at a church function and would serve as her mentor for a number of years. Later Mrs. Edward Joy, the wife of a local businessman, arranged to have Wittkowski attend music classes at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University and then study under the soprano Emma Cecilia Thursby in New York City. At a recital organized by Thursby at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Wittkowski’s performance so impressed Bessie Oakman, the daughter of former U. S. Senator Roscoe Conkling, that in 1906 she arranged to have the young singer travel abroad to be tutored by the famed Italian baritone, Antonio Cotogni. Two years earlier, Wittkowski had been given the opportunity to sing in front of the noted contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, at the time in Syracuse to perform at a concert. Heink told her that her voice was one of the most promising she had ever heard, and suggested that she study Wagnerian operas at Bayreuth and participate in their annual festival to gain the training and experience not yet available in America; a path that at the time was beyond Wittkowski's means. As Marta Paula, she made her professional debut in the fall of 1908 in Italy playing rolls such as the Mother in Amilcare Ponchielli’s \"La Gioconda\" and Maffio Orsini in Gaetano Donizetti's \"Lucrezia Borgia\". Two years later she was engaged at London’s Covent Garden Theatre for a season or two before accepting an offer by opera impresario Andreas Dippel to join the Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera Company in the fall of 1911. As Marta Wittkowska, she sang for Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia, the Met in Manhattan and opera companies in St. Louis, Syracuse, Chicago, Cincinnati and Detroit. In 1913 Wittkowski returned to the Covent Garden Theatre to play the alternate lead in the Raymond Rôze opera \"Joan of Arc\" and the Wagnerian roles Isolde and Ortrude. During her time with the Cincinnati Zoo Opera, Wittkowski opened a studio in 1930 at the Hotel Biltmore in Troy, Ohio, teaching voice culture, opera and opera chorus, and a few years later formed with her husband the Columbus Civic Opera Company at Columbus, Ohio. In 1917, she married Arlington Humphrey Mallery (1877–1968), a civil engineer, a veteran of the Spanish–American War, a one-time Democratic Party candidate for the United States Congress, and president of the Syracuse Bridge Company. In 1903 her husband had designed the swiveling head block or \"Mallery Type\" transfer bridge for loading or unloading railcars from floats (patent number 743,901). He was the author of \"Lost America: The Story of the Pre-Columbian Iron Age in America\" and had once written a thesis on his belief that the Vikings had reached North American some five hundred years in advance of Christopher Columbus and was among the first to speculate on the possible pre-Columbian origins of the 1513 world map created by Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri. She retired around 1937 to write and translate music and to try her hand as a novelist. Wittkowski died in 1977, aged 95, at Madison, New Jersey and was interred at the Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira, New York. In 1922 the publication \"The Grand Opera Singers of To-day\" wrote:\"When Mr. Dippel produced \" \"Die Walküre\" in Chicago in December 1911, a portion of one of the reviews read as follows: \"\"Marta Wittkowski's splendid sonorous tones as Waltraute echoed from the mountain heights soaring superior to the sea of sound in the orchestra.\"\" Marta Wittkowska Marta Wittkowska (January 1, 1882 – May 24, 1977) was a Polish–American contralto opera singer popular during the early decades of the twentieth century. Martha Paula Wittkowski was"
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"Dixiana (film) Dixiana (1930) is a lavish American pre-Code comedy, musical film directed by Luther Reed and produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The final twenty minutes of the picture were photographed in Technicolor. The film stars Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Ralf Harolde, Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson (in his film debut) and Dorothy Lee. The script was adapted by Luther Reed from a story by Anne Caldwell. The Technicolor sequences were considered lost for years but were re-discovered in 1988 and subsequently included in the restored DVD. At the end of 1958, the film entered the public domain in the United States because RKO did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. This is the film in which composer Max Steiner received his first screen credit for orchestration. Additionally, it was Wheeler & Woolsey's third film; however, as they were not yet an official \"team\", they were still billed separately. Dixiana Caldwell and her friends, Peewee and Ginger, are circus performers in the antebellum South. When Dixiana falls in love with a young Southern aristocrat, Carl Van Horn, she leaves the circus where she is employed and, with Peewee and Ginger, accompanies Carl to his family's plantation in order to meet Van Horn's family. At first thrilled with the news of their impending nuptials, Carl's father and stepmother, Cornelius and Birdie Van Horn, throw a lavish party for the couple. However, Peewee and Ginger inadvertently disclose Dixiana's background as a circus performer, creating a scandal for the elder Van Horns. Asked by the stepmother to leave in disgrace, Dixiana and her friends return to New Orleans, seeking to gain re-employment from her former employer at the Cayetano Circus Theatre, but they are regretfully refused by him, due to way she had departed. Desperate, she takes employment at a local gambling hall, run by Royal Montague, who also has personal designs on Dixiana. As part of his plan, he intends to financially ruin Carl and his family and use Dixiana to accomplish that purpose. Things come to a head when Dixiana is crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras. When Montague absconds with her, Carl challenges him to a duel, but, when a disguised Dixiana shows up in his stead, she tricks Montague into revealing his nefarious plans. Carl and Dixiana are reunited. Reviewer Mordaunt Hall of \"The New York Times\" wrote of the singing, \"...one wishes there was more of it and less of the somewhat futile attempt at a story\" and noted that Bill Robinson \"...gives an excellent exhibition of tap dancing, which won a genuine round of applause\" and concluded, \"The early glimpses of the circus theatre ... lead one to expect more than one is apt to get out of this production.\" The film reunited the director and most of the cast of RKO's most successful film of the year before, Rio Rita, but lackluster performances and direction, as well as a glut of movie musicals led to the film being one of RKO's biggest disappointments of 1930. The film lost an estimated $300,000. Dixiana (film) Dixiana (1930) is a lavish American pre-Code comedy, musical film directed by Luther Reed and produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The final twenty minutes of the picture were photographed in Technicolor. The film stars Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Ralf Harolde, Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson (in his film debut) and Dorothy Lee. The script was adapted by Luther Reed from a story by Anne Caldwell. The Technicolor sequences were considered lost for"
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"Fort Cherry School District Fort Cherry School District is a small, rural public school district located in southwestern Pennsylvania. It covers a portion of suburban Pittsburgh and some outlying rural areas. The district serves students in a area that includes the towns of McDonald and Midway and the village of Hickory, as well as the townships of Robinson and Mount Pleasant. According to a 2008 local census, it serves a resident population of 8,878. The residents' per capita income was $17,963, while median family income was $45,688. According to District officials, in school year 2007-08 the Fort Cherry School District provided basic educational services to 1,236 pupils through the employment of 95 teachers, 16 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 9 administrators. Fort Cherry School District received more than $8.9 million in state funding in school year 2007-08. Established in 1959, this area was absolutely rural. The original board sat down to discuss what the school should be named after. Then someone suggested a fort that was down the road several decades prior. This became the inspiration for the district name. The land is still rural, but the school provides education to more than 69,420 students. The school district is governed by 19 individually elected board members (serve four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills. The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives Sunshine Review gave the school board and district administration a \"D-\" for transparency based on a review of \"What information can people find on their school district's website\". It examined the school district's website for information regarding; taxes, the current budget, meetings, school board members names and terms, contracts, audits, public records information and more. In 2011, the school district ranked 230th of 498 Pennsylvania school district. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and three years of science. In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of the Fort Cherry School District was in the bottom 51st percentile among 500 Pennsylvania school districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best) In 2011, the Fort Cherry School District's graduation rate was 95%. In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4-year cohort graduation rate. Fort Cherry High School's rate was 81% for 2010. In 2011, Fort Cherry Senior High School declined to \"Warning\" AYP status due to lagging student achievement. In 2009 and 2010, the school achieved AYP status under the federal No Child Left Behind law. College remediation: According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 38% of the Fort Cherry Junior Senior High School graduates required remediation in mathematics and or reading before they were prepared to take college level courses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or community colleges. Less than 66% of Pennsylvania high school graduates, who enroll in a four-year college in Pennsylvania, will earn a bachelor's degree within six years. Among Pennsylvania high school graduates pursuing an associate degree, only one in three graduate in three years. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, one in three recent high school graduates who attend Pennsylvania's public universities and community colleges takes at least one remedial course in math, reading or English. The Fort Cherry School Board requires that students earn 4 credits to graduate, including: English .5 credits, Social Studies .5 credits, Mathematics .5 credits, Science .5 credits, Arts/Humanities .5 credits, and Senior Project 0.25 credit. By law, all Pennsylvania secondary school students must complete a project as a part of their eligibility to graduate from high school. The type of project, its rigor and its expectations are set by the individual school district. By Pennsylvania State School Board regulations, beginning with the graduating class in 2016, students must demonstrate successful completion of secondary level course work in Algebra I, Biology, English Composition, and Literature for which the Keystone Exams serve as the final course exams. Students’ Keystone Exam scores must count for at least one-third of the final course grade. Fort Cherry High School offers foreign languages through an online program offered by Keystone National High School. The work is done on an independent basis. World Language courses offered include: German I-IV; French I, II; Mandarin I, II; Japanese I, II; and Latin I, II. German and Spanish languages are offered in a traditional classroom setting. The high school offers a dual enrollment program. This state program permits high school students to take courses, at local higher education institutions, to earn college credits. Students remain enrolled at their high school. The courses count towards high school graduation requirements and towards earning a college degree. The students continue to have full access to activities and programs at their high school, including the graduation ceremony. The college credits are offered at a deeply discounted rate. At Fort Cherry Calculus and Statistics are offered for college and high school credit through University of Pittsburgh. Students must earn a C to get reimbursement for the costs. The state offers a small grant to assist students in costs for tuition, fees and books. Under the Pennsylvania Transfer and Articulation Agreement, many Pennsylvania colleges and universities accept these credits for students who transfer to their institutions. For the 2009-10 funding year, the school district received a state grant of $2,439 for the program. 8th Grade Reading: 8th Grade Math: 8th Grade Science: 7th Grade Reading 7th Grade Math: In 2011, the Fort Cherry Elementary Center achieved \"AYP\" status. In 2009 and 2010, the school achieved AYP status. In 2010 and 2011, the attendance rate was 95% while in 2009 the rate was 94%. 6th Grade Reading: 6th Grade Math: 5th Grade Reading: 5th Grade Math: In 2009, the administrators noted that there were zero \"reported\" incidents of bullying in the district. The Fort Cherry School Board has provided the district's antibully policy online. All Pennsylvania schools are required to have an anti-bullying policy incorporated into their Code of Student Conduct. The policy must identify disciplinary actions for bullying and designate a school staff person to receive complaints of bullying. The policy must be available on the school's website and posted in every classroom. All Pennsylvania public schools must provide a copy of its anti-bullying policy to the Office for Safe Schools every year, and shall review their policy every three years. Additionally, the district must conduct an annual review of that policy with students. The Center for Schools and Communities works in partnership with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency and the Pennsylvania Department of Education to assist schools and communities as they research, select and implement bullying prevention programs and initiatives. Education standards relating to student safety and antiharassment programs are described in the 10.3. Safety and Injury Prevention in the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Health, Safety and Physical Education. In compliance with state law, Fort Cherry School Board established a district wellness policy in June 2006 Student Wellness Policy 246. The policy deals with nutritious meals served at school, the control of access to some foods and beverages during school hours, age appropriate",
"that policy with students. The Center for Schools and Communities works in partnership with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency and the Pennsylvania Department of Education to assist schools and communities as they research, select and implement bullying prevention programs and initiatives. Education standards relating to student safety and antiharassment programs are described in the 10.3. Safety and Injury Prevention in the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Health, Safety and Physical Education. In compliance with state law, Fort Cherry School Board established a district wellness policy in June 2006 Student Wellness Policy 246. The policy deals with nutritious meals served at school, the control of access to some foods and beverages during school hours, age appropriate nutrition education for all students, and physical education for students K-12. The policy is in response to state mandates and federal legislation (P.L. 108 - 265). The law dictates that each school district participating in a program authorized by the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq) or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq) \"shall establish a local school wellness policy by School Year 2006.\" The legislation placed the responsibility of developing a wellness policy at the local level so the individual needs of each district can be addressed. According to the requirements for the Local Wellness Policy, school districts must set goals for nutrition education and physical education that are aligned with the Pennsylvania State Academic Standards for Health, Safety and Physical Education, campus food provision, and other school-based activities designed to promote student wellness. Additionally, districts were required to involve a broad group of individuals in policy development and to have a plan for measuring policy implementation. Districts were offered a choice of levels of implementation for limiting or prohibiting low nutrition foods on the school campus. In final implementation these regulations prohibit some foods and beverages on the school campus. The policy requires that the Superintendent or designee shall report to the Board on the district’s compliance with law and policies related to student wellness. The Pennsylvania Department of Education required the district to submit a copy of the policy for approval. In December 2009, the district administration reported that 190 pupils or 16% of the district's pupils received Special Education services. In order to comply with state and federal laws, the school district engages in identification procedures to ensure that eligible students receive an appropriate educational program consisting of special education and related services, individualized to meet student needs. At no cost to the parents, these services are provided in compliance with state and federal law; and are reasonably calculated to yield meaningful educational benefit and student progress. To identify students who may be eligible for special education, various screening activities are conducted on an ongoing basis. These screening activities include: review of group-based data (cumulative records, enrollment records, health records, report cards, ability and achievement test scores); hearing, vision, motor, and speech/language screening; and review by the Special Education administration. When screening results suggest that the student may be eligible, the District seeks parental consent to conduct a multidisciplinary evaluation. Parents who suspect their child is eligible may verbally request a multidisciplinary evaluation from a professional employee of the District or contact the Special Education Department. In 2010, the state of Pennsylvania provided $1,026,815,000 for Special Education services. The funds were distributed to districts based on a state policy which estimates that 16% of the district's pupils are receiving special education services. This funding is in addition to the state's basic education per pupil funding, as well as, all other state and federal funding. Fort Cherry School District received a $745,726 supplement for special education services in 2010. For the 2011-12 school year, all Pennsylvania public school districts received the same level of funding for special education that they received in 2010. This level funding is provided regardless of changes in the number of pupils who need special education services and regardless of the level of services the respective students required. The District Administration reported that 55 or 3.31% of its students were gifted in 2009. By law, the district must provide mentally gifted programs at all grade levels. The referral process for a gifted evaluation can be initiated by teachers or parents by contacting the student’s building principal and requesting an evaluation. All requests must be made in writing. To be eligible for mentally gifted programs in Pennsylvania, a student must have a cognitive ability of at least 130 as measured on a standardized ability test by a certified school psychologist. Other factors that indicate giftedness will also be considered for eligibility. In a budget presentation in June 2010, the school administration noted a 300 student enrollment decline in 2000. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, there are fewer than 1155 students enrolled in Fort Cherry School District, K-12, in 2010. There were 97 students in the Class of 2010. The district's class of 2009 had 102 students while the Class of 2005 had 97 students. Enrollment in Fort Cherry School District has been projected, by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, to continue to decline to 1000 pupils K-12 total enrollment, by 2020. Pennsylvania is experiencing a decline in population. Deaths have outnumbered births for a decade in many counties. More than 40 percent of elementary schools and more than 60 percent of secondary schools in western Pennsylvania have been experiencing significant enrollment decreases (15 percent or greater). Pennsylvania has one of the highest numbers of school districts in the nation. In Pennsylvania, 80% of the school districts serve student populations under 5,000, and 40% serve less than 2,000. This results in excessive school administration bureaucracy and not enough course diversity. Reynolds School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $905.90 per pupil. This is ranked 102nd among in the 500 school districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The lowest administrative cost per pupil in Pennsylvania was $398 per pupil. In a survey of superintendents of the small districts, 42% stated that they thought consolidation would save money without closing any schools. A Standard and Poors study found that an optimal school district size, to conserve administrative costs, was at least 3000 pupils. The study examined consolidation of Fort Cherry School District with Chartiers-Houston School District. It found significant savings were achievable, including the elimination of redundant administration salaries. According to a proposal made in 2009, by Governor Edward G. Rendell, the excessive administrative overhead dollars could be redirected to improve lagging academic achievement, to enrich the academic programs or to substantially reduce property taxes. Consolidation of two districts' central administrations into one would not require the closing of any local schools. In March 2011, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Fiscal Responsibility Task Force released a report which found that consolidating school district administrations with one neighboring district would save the Commonwealth $1.2 billion without forcing the consolidation of any school buildings. The study noted that while the best school districts spent 4% of the annual budget on administration, others spend over 15% on administration. In 2007, the district employed 90 teachers. The average",
"overhead dollars could be redirected to improve lagging academic achievement, to enrich the academic programs or to substantially reduce property taxes. Consolidation of two districts' central administrations into one would not require the closing of any local schools. In March 2011, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Fiscal Responsibility Task Force released a report which found that consolidating school district administrations with one neighboring district would save the Commonwealth $1.2 billion without forcing the consolidation of any school buildings. The study noted that while the best school districts spent 4% of the annual budget on administration, others spend over 15% on administration. In 2007, the district employed 90 teachers. The average teacher salary in the district was $46,792 for 180 days worked. Fort Cherry School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $781.19 per pupil. The administrative spending ranks 220th out of 500 school districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The lowest administrative cost per pupil in Pennsylvania was $398 per pupil. In 2008, the district administration reported spending $12,880 per pupil which ranked 268th among Pennsylvania's 501 school districts. In 2009, the district employed 103 teachers. The average teacher salary in the district was $49,951 for 187 days worked. The beginning salary was $28,500, while the highest salary was $124,035. Teachers work a 7-hour 30 minutes day, with one planning period and a paid 30 minute lunch included. Hours worked may not exceed 37.5 per week. Additionally, the teachers receive: a defined benefit pension, health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, professional development reimbursement, 2 paid personal days, 10 paid sick days which accumulate, 4 paid days bereavement leave and many other benefits. Early retirees receive paid health insurance benefits for the employee and spouse for up to 120 months. The district offers an extensive retirement/longevity package which includes payment for unused sick days accumulated and a payment of $13,000. The union received 3 paid days to conduct union business. The union pays for the substitute for the first 5 days. According to Rep. Glen Grell, a trustee of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System Board of Trustees, a 40-year educator can retire with a pension equal to 100 percent of their final salary. In October 2009 the district and union ratified a contract with annual raises of 3% to 45 and a small employee contribution to their health insurance premium. In December 2010, the Pennsylvania Auditor General conducted a performance audit of the district. The findings were reported to the administration and the school board by state officials. It found that the Fort Cherry School District inaccurately reported payments made to a transportation contractor, resulting in a $115,424 underpayment to the Fort Cherry School District. Reserves In 2008, the district reported a $1,335,476 in an unreserved-undesignated fund balance. The designated fund balance was reported as zero. The district is funded by a combination of: an income tax, a property tax, a real estate transfer tax 0.5%, coupled with substantial funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the federal government. Grants can provide an opportunity to supplement school funding without raising local taxes. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pension and Social Security income are exempted from state personal income tax and local earned income tax, regardless of the income level. In 2011-12, the district will receive $6,265,884 in state Basic Education Funding. Additionally, the district will receive $83,782 in Accountability Block Grant funding. The enacted Pennsylvania state Education budget includes $5,354,629,000 for the 2011-2012 Basic Education Funding appropriation. This amount is a $233,290,000 increase (4.6%) over the enacted State appropriation for 2010-2011. The highest increase in state basic education funding was awarded to Duquesne City School District, which got a 49% increase in state funding for 2011-12. For the 2010-11 budget year, the Fort Cherry School District was allotted a 2.00% increase in Basic Education Funding for a total of $6,525,220. The highest increase in Washington County was provided to Charleroi School District which received a 9.90% increase. One hundred fifty Pennsylvania school districts received the base 2% increase. The highest increase in 2010-11 went to Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County which received a 23.65% increase in state funding. The amount of increase each school district receives is set by the Governor and the Secretary of Education as a part of the state budget proposal given each February. In the 2009-2010 budget year the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided a 2.16% increase in Basic Education funding for a total of $6,401,196. The state Basic Education funding to the Fort Cherry School District in 2008-09 was $6,265,884.46. The highest increase in Washington County went to Burgettstown Area School District which received a 6.45% increase. Eleven Washington County school districts received an increase of less than 5% in 2009-10. Muhlenberg School District of Berks County received an increase of 22.31 percent. Sixteen school districts received an increase in funding of over 10 percent in 2009. In 2008, the administration reported that 400 students received a free or reduced-price lunch based on the federal poverty levels. Beginning in 2004-2005, the state launched the Accountability Block Grant school funding. This program has provided $1.5 billion to Pennsylvania’s school districts. The Accountability Block Grant program requires that its taxpayer dollars are focused on specific interventions that are most likely to increase student academic achievement. These interventions include: teacher training, all-day kindergarten, lower class size K-3rd grade, literacy and math coaching programs that provide teachers with individualized job-embedded professional development to improve their instruction, before or after school tutoring assistance to struggling students, For 2010-11 the district applied for and received $227,406 in addition to all other state and federal funding. The Fort Cherry School District uses the funding to increase instructional time for struggling students, to pay teacher to write new curriculum and revise current classes and to make research based changes in the curriculum and instruction. The Classroom for the Future state program provided districts with hundreds of thousands of extra state funding to buy laptop computers for each core curriculum high school class (English, Science, History, Math) and paid for teacher training to optimize the computers use. The program was funded from 2006-2009. Fort Cherry School District applied, but was denied funding in 2006-07. In 2007-08, the district received $148,013. In 2008-09, the district received 45,413 for a total funding of $193,426. The EAP initiative provides extended learning opportunities and is designed to boost student achievement and help all students succeed by utilizing evidenced-based instructional models. The funding provides tutoring in Math and Reading for students in grades 7-12. Tutoring is mandatory for all students who do not score Proficient or Advanced on the PSSA Reading Assessment and/or PSSA Mathematics Assessment AND/OR do not meet proficiency standards on the Performance Series Reading and/or Mathematics Assessment. Students are required to participate in a minimum of 45 hours of tutoring in each subject in which they do not meet the proficiency requirement. Tutoring is provided during the school day, during study halls and after school. In 2010-11 the Fort Cherry School District received $26,345. The district received an extra $750,000 in ARRA - Federal Stimulus money to be used in specific programs like special education and meeting",
"evidenced-based instructional models. The funding provides tutoring in Math and Reading for students in grades 7-12. Tutoring is mandatory for all students who do not score Proficient or Advanced on the PSSA Reading Assessment and/or PSSA Mathematics Assessment AND/OR do not meet proficiency standards on the Performance Series Reading and/or Mathematics Assessment. Students are required to participate in a minimum of 45 hours of tutoring in each subject in which they do not meet the proficiency requirement. Tutoring is provided during the school day, during study halls and after school. In 2010-11 the Fort Cherry School District received $26,345. The district received an extra $750,000 in ARRA - Federal Stimulus money to be used in specific programs like special education and meeting the academic needs of low-income students. The grant was for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. School district officials did not apply for the Race to the Top federal grant which would have brought the district up to million additional federal dollars for improving student academic achievement. Participation required the administration, the school board and the local teachers' union to sign an agreement to prioritize improving student academic success. In Pennsylvania, 120 public school districts and 56 charter schools agreed to participate. Pennsylvania was not approved for the grant. The failure of districts to agree to participate was cited as one reason that Pennsylvania was not approved. The Fort Cherry School District School Board chose to not participate in the Pennsylvania Department of Education Common Cents program. The program called for the state to audit the district, at no cost to local taxpayers, to identify ways the district could save tax dollars. After the review of the information, the district was not required to implement the recommended cost savings changes. In 2011, the Fort Cherry School Board set the property taxes rate at 118.5000 mills (both Allegheny County and Washington County residents) for the 2011-12 school year. A mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of a property's assessed value. Property taxes, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, apply only to real estate - land and buildings. The property tax is not levied on cars, business inventory, or other personal property. Certain types of property are exempt from property taxes, including: places of worship, places of burial, private social clubs, charitable and educational institutions and government property. Irregular property reassessments have become a serious issue in the commonwealth as it creates a significant disparity in taxation within a community and across a region. Additionally, service related, disabled US military veterans may seek an exemption from paying property taxes. Pennsylvania school district revenues are dominated by two main sources: 1) Property tax collections, which account for the vast majority (between 75-85%) of local revenues; and 2) Act 511 tax collections, which are around 15% of revenues for school districts. The Act 1 of 2006 Index regulates the rates at which each school district can raise property taxes in Pennsylvania. Districts are not permitted to raise taxes above that index, unless they allow voters to vote by referendum, or they seek an exception from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The base index for the 2011-2012 school year is 1.4 percent, but the Act 1 Index can be adjusted higher, depending on a number of factors, such as property values and the personal income of district residents. Act 1 included 10 exceptions, including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increase in health insurance costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases. The base index is the average of the percentage increase in the statewide average weekly wage, as determined by the PA Department of Labor and Industry, for the preceding calendar year and the percentage increase in the Employment Cost Index for Elementary and Secondary Schools, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S. Department of Labor, for the previous 12-month period ending June 30. For a school district with a market value/personal income aid ratio (MV/PI AR) greater than 0.4000, its index equals the base index multiplied by the sum of .75 and its MV/PI AR for the current year. With the 2011 state education budget, the General Assembly voted to end most of the Act 1 exceptions leaving only special education costs and pension costs. The cost of construction projects will go to the voters for approval via ballot referendum. The School District Adjusted Index for the Fort Cherry School District 2006-2007 through 2011-2012. For the 2011-12 school year, the Fort Cherry School Board did not apply for exceptions to exceed the Act 1 Index. Each year, Fort Cherry School Board has the option of adopting either 1) a resolution in January certifying they will not increase taxes above their index or 2) a preliminary budget in February. A school district adopting the resolution may not apply for referendum exceptions or ask voters for a tax increase above the inflation index. A specific timeline for these decisions is published annually, by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. According to a state report, for the 2011-2012 school year budgets, 247 school districts adopted a resolution certifying that tax rates would not be increased above their index; 250 school districts adopted a preliminary budget. Of the 250 school districts that adopted a preliminary budget, 231 adopted real estate tax rates that exceeded their index. Tax rate increases in the other 19 school districts that adopted a preliminary budget did not exceed the school district’s index. Of the districts who sought exceptions: 221 used the pension costs exemption and 171 sought a Special Education costs exemption. Only 1 school district sought an exemption for Nonacademic School Construction Project, while 1 sought an exception for Electoral debt for school construction. Fort Cherry School Board did not apply for exceptions to exceed the Act 1 index for the budgets in 2009-10 or in 2010-11. In the Spring of 2010, 135 Pennsylvania school boards asked to exceed their adjusted index. Approval was granted to 133 of them and 128 sought an exception for pension costs increases. In 2011, property tax relief for 2,502 approved residents of Fort Cherry School District was set at $180. In 2009, the Homestead/Farmstead Property Tax Relief from gambling for the Fort Cherry School District was $181 per approved permanent primary residence. In the district, 2,485 property owners applied for the tax relief. The relief was subtracted from the total annual school property tax bill. Property owners apply for the relief through the county Treasurer's office. Farmers can qualify for a farmstead exemption on building used for agricultural purposes. The farm must be at least and must be the primary residence of the owner. Farmers can qualify for both the homestead exemption and the farmstead exemption. In Washington County, the highest tax relief went to Washington School District at $407 in 2009 and $414 in 2010. In Allegheny County, the highest property tax relief in 2009 was awarded to the approved property owners in Duquesne City School District at $346. The greatest tax relief in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was given to Chester Upland School District of Delaware County set at $632 in 2009 and $641 in 2010. In Washington County, 73% of eligible property owners applied for property tax relief in 2009. Additionally, the Pennsylvania Property Tax/Rent Rebate program is provided for low income Pennsylvanians aged 65 and older; widows and widowers aged 50 and older; and people with disabilities age 18 and older. The income limit is $35,000 for homeowners. The maximum rebate for both homeowners and renters is $650. Applicants can exclude one-half (1/2) of their",
"at $407 in 2009 and $414 in 2010. In Allegheny County, the highest property tax relief in 2009 was awarded to the approved property owners in Duquesne City School District at $346. The greatest tax relief in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was given to Chester Upland School District of Delaware County set at $632 in 2009 and $641 in 2010. In Washington County, 73% of eligible property owners applied for property tax relief in 2009. Additionally, the Pennsylvania Property Tax/Rent Rebate program is provided for low income Pennsylvanians aged 65 and older; widows and widowers aged 50 and older; and people with disabilities age 18 and older. The income limit is $35,000 for homeowners. The maximum rebate for both homeowners and renters is $650. Applicants can exclude one-half (1/2) of their Social Security income, consequently individuals who have income substantially more than $35,000, still qualify for a rebate. Individuals must apply annually for the rebate. This can be taken in addition to Homestead/Farmstead Property Tax Relief. Property taxes in Pennsylvania are relatively high on a national scale. According to the Tax Foundation, Pennsylvania ranked 11th in the U.S. in 2008 in terms of property taxes paid as a percentage of home value (1.34%) and 12th in the country in terms of property taxes as a percentage of income (3.55%). This district is a single \"A\" school. The district offers a variety of clubs, activities and sports. Eligibility for participation is determined by school board policy. By Pennsylvania law, all K-12 students in the district, including those who attend a private nonpublic school, cyber charter school, charter school and those homeschooled, are eligible to participate in the extracurricular programs, including all athletics. They must meet the same eligibility rules as the students enrolled in the district's schools. Fort Cherry School District Fort Cherry School District is a small, rural public school district located in southwestern Pennsylvania. It covers a portion of suburban Pittsburgh and some outlying rural areas. The district serves students in a area that includes the towns of McDonald and Midway and the village of Hickory, as well as the townships of Robinson and Mount Pleasant. According to a 2008 local census, it serves a resident population of 8,878. The residents' per capita income was $17,963, while median family income was $45,688. According to District officials, in school year 2007-08 the Fort"
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"Max Julius Max Nordau Julius (9 March 1916 – 27 February 1963) was an Australian barrister and communist. Born in South Brisbane to Hungarian tailor Julius Isack (known as Isack Julius) and his Romanian-born wife Ernestina, \"née\" Lang, he was raised a non-orthodox Jew and attended Leichhardt Street State School, winning a scholarship to Brisbane Grammar School in 1929. He attended the University of Queensland from 1934, gaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1938 and a Bachelor of Law in 1940. He was secretary of the Radical Club from 1937 to 1938 and edited the Student Union's paper, \"Semper Floreat\", in 1938. He joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1936. Julius was involved in socialist theatrical productions in the 1930s and he co-founded the Eureka Youth League in 1940 with Connie Healy. In 1941 his application to join the Queensland Bar was blocked due to his communism; he took the matter to court with Fred Paterson as his counsel. The judge found in his favour and he was admitted to the bar on 29 June. He was nevertheless shunned by much of the legal community but stayed solvent by charging a token fee. He married Kate Doreen Gillham on 22 October 1943 at Brisbane (they divorced in 1962). In 1948 Julius was sentenced to three months' gaol for not paying fines resulting from his involvement in the St Patrick's Day march, but he was released after two weeks when widespread sympathy led an anonymous donor (rumoured to be the Hanlon Labor government) to pay his fine. He was a frequent candidate for elections, and it was his preferences that decided the seat of Moreton in the 1961 federal election in favour of the Liberal James Killen, allowing Robert Menzies to retain government. Julius was involved in the legal case regarding Menzies' attempted dissolution of the Communist Party in 1950–51, and in 1954–55 he cross-examined the Petrovs at the royal commission on espionage. He was also a supporter of the peace movement and Aboriginal rights. On 16 February 1960, under financial difficulties, he had himself removed from the roll of barristers and became a solicitor. Julius died at Princess Alexandra Hospital in South Brisbane on 27 February 1963 of myocardial infarction and was cremated. Max Julius Max Nordau Julius (9 March 1916 – 27 February 1963) was an Australian barrister and communist. Born in South Brisbane to Hungarian tailor Julius"
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"Arellano Chiefs The Arellano University Chiefs is the athletic team of Arellano University. It is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Capital Region Athletic Association (NCRAA). The team has several intercollegiate varsity sports teams for women and men at Arellano. Originally as the Arellano Flaming Arrows, the team won the National Student's Championship (NSC) in the 1970s. Years later, the Chiefs entered the best-of-three finals in the men's basketball division of the NCRAA in 2006 when they were defeated by the Saint Francis of Assisi College Doves. In a repeat finals appearance in 2007, head coach Leo Isaac finally led the Chiefs to the championship with a 67–64 game three win against the EAC Generals. The Chiefs relied on their defense to stop EAC's Ronjay Buenafe, while supporters of the rival teams had to be restrained inside the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The then Baby Chiefs also defeated the Olivarez College juniors team in their own title series to ensure both NCRAA basketball titles would go to their Juan Sumulong Campus. In 2008, the Chiefs reigned anew against 2006 tormentor St. Francis in two games., while the Baby Chiefs also swept the Dovelets in juniors' competition to keep both basketball trophies. The Chiefs' NCRAA championship caused their qualification to the 2008 Philippine Collegiate Championship for basketball. In the PCC, they defeated UCN Golden Dragons in the first round, but they were eliminated in the quarterfinals by three-peat NCAA champions San Beda Red Lions. The Chiefs were able to qualify anew for the 2009 NCRAA finals, but they were defeated by upstarts Universal College Golden Dragons in overtime to deny the Chiefs of a third consecutive championship, while the Baby Chiefs were luckier as they defeated the Rizal Technological University Baby Thunders to clinch their third consecutive championship. The Chiefs are also the reigning three-time Fr. Martin Cup champions, their last championship coming in 2009 against Philippine Merchant Marine School. With the departure of Philippine Christian University (PCU) Dolphins after exposure of several juniors' players enrolling with forged documents, the NCAA originally opened its doors for new members, and Arellano was one of the schools that lodged their application. Arellano was named as one of the frontrunners, but the NCAA Policy Board fail to garner enough number of votes to admit a new member which closed the doors for new members for their 2009–10 season. However, the NCAA invited \"guest teams\" instead, and Arellano, along with the AUF Great Danes and fellow NCRAA member EAC Generals were accepted as guest teams for the 2009–10 season, where they are also eligible to win championships. The Chiefs finished their 2009 campaigned fifth, the best among the guest teams, with an 8–10 record. At the end of the tournament, Giorgio Ciriacruz was named as part of the Mythical Five (all-NCAA team), the only player from a guest team to be named in the five-member roster. On the NCAA Season 86, Arellano has upgraded from its guest to probationary status. While on the Season 87 of NCAA, Isiah Ciriacruz won't play for the season due to a sustained injury and Adrian Celada was named as Team Captain. And the school grab its regular membership on the league during the 89th Season. Head Coach: Carlos Padilla Arellano Chiefs The Arellano University Chiefs is the athletic team of Arellano University. It is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Capital Region Athletic Association (NCRAA). The team has several intercollegiate varsity sports teams for women and men at Arellano. Originally as the Arellano Flaming Arrows, the team won"
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"Movimiento Estudiantil (Venezuela) Movimiento Estudiantil (en. \"The Student Movement\") is a student movement started in 2007, made up of students who organized in opposition to the government of the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. According to several analysts, it had a decisive effect on the rejection of the Venezuelan constitutional referendum of 2007. This movement is active in Venezuela since the protests by the end of the concession of RCTV, which began on May 27 of 2007, when the government of Hugo Chavez did not renew the concession television channel RCTV by the expiration of its grant and its participation in the 2002 coup. At the height of the protests, the movement applied to intervene in the National Assembly of Venezuela . The request was granted and a debate between opponents and other college students affects students left government was organized. However, the leaders of the opposition movement refused to discuss and withdrew after a brief intervention. After the call Student Awakening occurred in 2007, various political factions organized student movements in all of higher learning in the country formed the so-called National Student Movement in principle be represented by Yon Goicoechea, Stalin Gonzalez, Ricardo Sanchez, Freddy Guevara, Nixon Moreno, and others. However, this national organization did not have the expected gear due to political, geographical and ideological differences of the various sectors that formed, so despite the \"Victoria\" electoral said teachers sectors yours in the elections December 2 of 2007, this set of groups was not very relevant in the political arena for some years, being displaced by the political leaders of the traditional parties. Student Representatives are directed to the crowd during a college march in Caracas, Venezuela. 2013. The authorities of the autonomous universities of Venezuela have claimed budget increases Venezuela's government since the end of the first decade of the century. The government, meanwhile, has demanded increases in these institutions the number of admitted students. In early 2013 the professors of various universities, grouped in the Federation of University Teachers' Associations of Venezuela ( FAPUV ) began the Venezuelan government pressure for increased wages and benefits, as well as increases the budget of public institutions in which they work. In June, after a hunger strike by students of various houses Studio. The FAPUV calls for a national strike of university professors, which intensified the conflict, launching a series of student protests, supported by some teachers and university employees . The protests marches consisted headquarters of various public agencies, obstruction of major roads in major cities, concentrations in places, among others. The government offered a package of wages and benefits under the title One University Sector Collective Bargaining Agreement, which offered, among other things, a stepwise increase of wages. The same was rejected by the FAPUV, because the contract was discussed without his presence, as it included items specifically socialist ideological tone, which in his opinion violated the constitution and freedom of thought that must exist in the university sector. The government called FAPUV and student federations at various negotiations, but did not get great results, managed to reduce conflict. In September, the teacher decides to raise FAPUV unemployment, with the caveat resume later if they felt that the negotiations did not have the desired progress. After a day of protests in Venezuela in 2014, which began on January 5 in the City of Mérida and February 4 in the city of San Cristobal after the death of Hector Moreno of ULA-Mérida and the attempted rape of a student-ULA Táchira, plus the street call made by national political leaders Antonio Ledezma, Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo Lopez called \"La Salida\" or \"12F\", several student leaders decided to organize a political bloc with leaders of civil society which they called \"Patriotic Meeting Student and Popular\", which later christened under the eponym of \"José Félix Ribas\". Some student leaders decided not to annex this group maintaining its call under, including Juan Requesens of the National Student Movement FCU President of the Central University of Venezuela and Yorman Barillas, President of the University of Zulia . Movimiento Estudiantil (Venezuela) Movimiento Estudiantil (en. \"The Student Movement\") is a student movement started in 2007, made up of students who organized in opposition"
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"Agios Dimitrios, Cephalonia Agios Dimitrios is a village, about north of Lixouri in the Paliki peninsula of Cephalonia. The village which lies on the hillside just above the gulf of Argostoli and is a five-minute drive along the main road out of Lixouri. The overall geography of Agios Dimitrios can be appreciated in a satellite view from Google Maps . The village largely straddles the main road running north from Lixouri. The immediate view from the main road is of small houses, a taverna, a variety holiday accommodation, including a two hotels. The area is rural and consists largely of agricultural land. There is a very low density of building. Turning off from the main road to the East, towards the sea, brings one past small residences with some accommodation for renting and eventually down to the shoreline of the gulf of Argostoli. The shoreline is a long narrow strip of mainly sandy beach with scrub vegetation and no facilities. A small number of fishermen work from the area in small boats. The immediate sea is shallow with extensive weed beds. This area is known to be inhabited by turtles. In addition to agriculture and tourism, a small activity in fishing is supported. Nearby to the south, just before the village, is an auto mechanics car workshop and garage. In addition to the small number of local residences, there are various holiday accommodations, from bed & breakfast studios, villas and hotels. There are also small hotels, for example the Hotel Terra Mare with several acres of associated grounds in which holiday bungalows are set. Taverna Angelos is situated on the main street. Another Taverna, Faros, can be found by turning up a side road off the west side of the main street. There are no shops or banks in the village. The nearest shops are back south on the main road towards Lixouri, 25 minutes to walk but five minutes in a car. They comprise a general grocery and household goods store, a takeaway food shop, and a butcher who sells a range of meats. Most main shops, banks, medical services, and schools are to be found in Lixouri. An exception to this is a nearby store located immediately south of the village on the main road to Lixouri which is a large outdoor centre, stocking swimming, snorkeling, fishing and leisure equipment. The fact that the local beach is very narrow and there are no facilities means that tourists are hardly ever seen and it is therefore a quiet area in which to walk and admire very open views over the bay. Cephalonia is renowned for having several world-class beaches (for example, Myrtos Beach, Xi Beach, Petani Beach and Vatsa Bay) and it is very easy to travel to one of these by car, which is what most tourists who come to stay in this part of the island do. As with many areas in Cephalonia, Agios Dimitrios was originally based on agriculture and a small contribution from fishing. In recent years tourism has become an increasing priority within the economy of Cephalonia with investment from the EU under the Operational Programme 'Western Greece - Peloponnesus - Ionian Islands' Programme under the Convergence objective co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the period 2007-2013. The budget of the programme is around €1.14 billion. Within this framework are several priorities which include These high level strategic priorities are starting to have an effect and the evidence can be seen even in Agios Dimitrios. The number of buildings dedicated to tourist trade and tourist accommodation has increased with an increase in local development. There has been an increase in the number of non-Greek nationals becoming residents and developing properties within the village. There has also been a migration back to Cephalonia of Greek nationals (or family members) who had originally been displaced as a consequence the earthquake in the 1950s. Recent geological studies suggest that the Paliki Peninsula, in which Agios Dimitrios is sited, was originally a separate island. Known as the Paliki Hypothesis, it is now suggested that in the Bronze Age, a large earthquake caused a landslide to fill in a sea channel creating the bridge between the Paliki and the main island. One implication of this is that the Paliki Peninsula, and the area in which Agios Dimitrios is located is in fact the original location for Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, to which he journeyed after the Trojan War and written as the epic tale, Homer's The Odyssey. Google Maps satellite view of Agios Dimitrios Agios Dimitrios, Cephalonia Agios Dimitrios is a village, about north of Lixouri in the Paliki peninsula of Cephalonia. The village which lies on the hillside just above the gulf of Argostoli and is a five-minute drive along the main road"
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"Edward Anthony Hatton Edward Anthony Hatton (1701 – 23 October 1783 at Stourton Lodge, near Leeds, Yorkshire - according to some authorities, 1781) was an English Dominican apologist. He was probably the son of Edward Hatton, yeoman, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, who registered his estate as a Catholic non-juror in 1717, and whose family appears in the recusant rolls. He received his education in the Dominican college at Bornhem, near Antwerp, where he was professed, 25 May 1722, taking the name in religion of Antoninus. Having filled the duties of teacher for several years, he was ordained priest and on 7 July 1730, he left college for the mission work in his own country. He first officiated as chaplain, in turn, to several gentleman in Yorkshire, and in the year 1749 he went to assist Father Thomas Worthington, O.P, at Middleton Lodge, near Leeds. After the latter's death, which occurred on 25 February 1753 (or 1754), Father Hatton was entrusted with the care of the mission. Shortly afterwards he was compelled to remove the mission to Stourton Lodge, where ultimately he succeeded in having a new chapel erected (1776), a few miles distant from the former site. Twice was Father Hatton appointed to the office of provincial of his order in England: on 21 May 1754-until the year 1758; his second term of office lasted from 7 May 1770, till 1774. In 1776 he began the mission at Hunslet, near Leeds, but did not live long to see its work. His writings include: \"Moral and Controversial Lectures upon the Christian Doctrines and Christian Practice (By E.H.)\". To this work neither place of publication nor date is assigned. \"Memoirs of the Reformation of England; in two parts. The whole collected chiefly from Acts of Parliament and Protestant historians\", published (London, 1826; 2nd ed., 1841) under the pseudonym of Constantius Archaeophilus. Hatton is also the author of \"Miscellaneous Sermons upon some of the most important Christian Duties and Gospel Truths\", 7 vols., MS. Edward Anthony Hatton Edward Anthony Hatton (1701 – 23 October 1783 at Stourton Lodge, near Leeds, Yorkshire - according to some authorities, 1781) was an English Dominican apologist. He was probably the son of Edward Hatton, yeoman, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, who registered his estate as a Catholic non-juror in 1717, and whose family appears in the recusant rolls. He received his education in the Dominican college at Bornhem,"
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"Demons of War Demons of War (Polish: \"Demony wojny według Goi\") is a 1998 Polish war drama by Władysław Pasikowski set during the Bosnian War. After the Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina is occupied by the NATO-led (IFOR) Implementation Force. In February 1996, a unit of Polish IFOR troops detains and releases three foreign mercenaries in Srebrenica, before they can be executed by a Bosnian mob. The Polish unit is led by Major Edward \"Edek\" Keller (Boguslaw Linda). Soon later, Keller is under investigation for insubordination and for clashes with the Bosnian militia and foreign mercenaries. The investigation is led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki (Olaf Lubaszenko) and Major Czesław Kusz (Tadeusz Huk), who will replace Keller as the commanding officer of the battalion on 1 March. The investigation comes at a sensitive time for Polish forces, as the Polish government tries to become a member of NATO. Keller maintains command of the unit, until his commission ends. Upon Czacki and Kusz's arrival, the unit receives a distress call from a downed Norwegian helicopter. Keller assembles his unit for a search and rescue mission to the downed chopper. However, his mission is rejected by the IFOR command. Despite the order, Keller ignores it and goes on with the mission. After locating the helicopter, members of the crew are found dead. Keller and the unit goes after the militia that killed the helicopter crew. The unit manages to locate a group of twenty Bosnian militia fighters, that are led by Skija (Slobodan Custic), a foreign mercenary. The militia is also holding two captives, a young French female journalist named Nicol (Aleksandra Niespielak) and a male Bosnian press representative named Dano Ivanov (Denis Delic). Keller, himself, manages to stealthily kill one of the militiamen and rescue the captives. The unit then heads for a helicopter extraction, while the militia discovers that someone killed one of their fighters. Skija sends his men to hunt them down and locate an important missing videotape, that was held by Ivanov. During extraction, the unit's helicopter is shot down before landing. Immediately, the unit is ambushed by the militia and several troops are wounded. The unit manages to eliminate some of the fighters and break out. After the engagement, some of the Polish soldiers argue with Keller that they are just a peacekeeping force and wish not to fight. However, Keller manages to keep them in line. The unit continues on foot and then establishes camp at a farm. There, Keller and the unit discover that Ivanov was in possession of videotape that the militia is trying to acquire. According to Nicol, the tape shows a mass execution of a Bosnian village ordered by the Bosnian Prime Minister. The next morning, Ivanov kills one of Keller's soldiers and escapes the camp. As the unit heads for their base, they are ambushed yet again by the militia and Keller is forced to give up the important videotape. Keller and his unit are spared by the militia, and then go after Skija and the militia, who are trying to burn down the Gypsy village where Keller and his unit had established camp earlier. Keller and his unit attack the militia at the village. Keller eventually confronts Skija and it is revealed that Ivanov promised to bribe one of Keller's officers for the videotape. Keller then kills Skija after being saved by Kusz. After arriving at the base, the cost and pain of warfare takes a toll on the unit. It is also revealed that the unit retrieved the videotape, and Ivanov was actually in possession of a Polish pornography tape. Keller is then relieved of his command, and Kusz takes control of the Polish battalion. Before heading back to Poland, Keller gives the tape to the French journalist Nicol. The film closes with Keller sitting on the plane with several coffins of dead soldiers from his unit. Demons of War Demons of War (Polish: \"Demony wojny według Goi\") is a 1998 Polish war drama by Władysław Pasikowski set during the Bosnian War. After the Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina is occupied by the NATO-led (IFOR) Implementation Force. In February 1996, a unit of Polish IFOR troops detains"
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"Mass in G major, K. 49 Mozart's Mass in G major, K. 49/47d), is his first full mass. It is a missa brevis scored for SATB soloists and choir, violin I and II, viola, and basso continuo. Mozart wrote the Mass in G major at the age of 12. It was however neither his first setting of a part of the mass ordinary — two years earlier he had already composed a Kyrie (K. 33) —, nor was it his largest composition with a religious theme up to date: his sacred musical play \"Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots\" had been premiered in the previous year. Composed in Vienna in the autumn of 1768, this mass is Mozart's only missa brevis to feature a viola part. It is not clear what occasion it was composed for, and it has been confused with the \"Waisenhausmesse\", composed in the same year. Religious music at the time was increasingly influenced by opera and Baroque embellishments in instrumentation; Mozart's early masses, such as K. 49/47d, have been seen as a return to the more austere settings of the pre-Baroque era. The six movements of the mass follow the traditional Order of Mass: Mass in G"
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"Ambushed (2013 film) Ambushed (also released as Hard Rush) is a 2013 American action-thriller film directed by Giorgio Serafini, written by Agustin, and starring Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones, Randy Couture, Gianni Capaldi, and Daniel Bonjour. Lundgren, Jones, and Capaldi would go on to work with Serafini in \"Blood of Redemption\" and \"Puncture Wounds\". Mid-level drug dealers Eddie and Frank grow restless with their limited growth potential and set up a meeting with their supplier, Madsen. Instead of negotiating, Frank impulsively murders Madsen and takes his cocaine. Eddie's excitement quickly turns to apprehension when he hears about Madsen's death, but Frank talks him into bluffing their way back into drug lord Vincent Camastra's good graces. At the same time, dirty cop Jack Reiley investigates the murder and is annoyed when DEA agent Maxwell takes over the investigation. As Frank attempts to save his relationship with his naive girlfriend, Ashley, Reiley violently bullies his informants for information, and Camastra sends assassins to kill Eddie. After Eddie engages in a brief gunfight with the assassins, Camastra himself beats Eddie unconscious. Ashley, who has become suspicious of Frank's secretive lifestyle, is shocked when Kathy and Beverly, Eddie's friends, interrupt them to explain that Camastra has kidnapped Eddie. Beverly, an undercover DEA agent, is in a relationship with Maxwell, who is concerned that she has gone too deep. However, she protests when he requests that she abandon the case. Beverly and Maxwell expand their investigation to include Reiley, but they are forbidden from taking action until they can also get Camastra. Frustrated, they bide their time until Camastra makes his move. Frank visits Camastra, and Eddie successfully buys them two days time to pay Camastra back. At the nightclub Frank owns, Reiley attempts to blackmail him, only to be shot in his hand and left on the side of the road. Unable to explain his predicament, Reiley is put on unpaid leave and learns that Internal Affairs is preparing a case against him. Forced to abandon his plans to retire comfortably, Reiley becomes even more unstable and kidnaps Ashley. He breaks into Eddie's apartment, takes Kathy and Beverly hostage, and waits for Frank and Eddie to return. As Maxwell and his team race to the apartment, Frank and Eddie discuss their future plans. Frank wants to retire from the criminal life; Eddie, while wishing Frank well, says that he will stay in the business and take over. Frank admits that he will miss the excitement, but he wants a normal life with Ashley, whom he plans to marry. Frank, Eddie, and the DEA agents all enter the apartment within minutes of each other. Panicked, Reiley kills several people, including Eddie and Ashley. In the chaos, Beverly sets Kathy free, and Reiley and Frank escape. Maxwell corners Reiley, and they face off against each other; reinforcements arrive just as Maxwell subdues Reiley. In the last scene, Frank mourns the loss of Ashley and speculates on what he will do next, now that both his main plan and backup plan have been ruined. Capaldi, Lundgren, and Jones acted together in three of Serafini's films back-to-back. Each film also used the same crew. Originally titled \"Rush\", the film was renamed to \"Hard Rush\" and finally \"Ambushed\" to avoid conflicts with other upcoming films. \"Ambushed\" was released in the UK on September 28, 2013, and in the US on November 12, 2013. Ian Jane of DVD Talk rated it 3/5 stars and called it \"a fine pizza and a six pack movie\" despite the cliches. David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote that the film's main characters are too uninteresting and unlikeable. Ambushed (2013 film) Ambushed (also released as Hard Rush) is a 2013 American action-thriller film directed by Giorgio Serafini, written by Agustin, and starring Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones, Randy Couture, Gianni Capaldi, and Daniel Bonjour. Lundgren, Jones, and Capaldi would go on to work with Serafini in \"Blood of Redemption\" and \"Puncture Wounds\". Mid-level drug dealers Eddie and Frank grow restless with their limited growth potential and set up a meeting with their supplier, Madsen. Instead of negotiating, Frank impulsively murders Madsen and takes his cocaine. Eddie's excitement quickly turns to apprehension when he hears about Madsen's death,"
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"Nikasil Nikasil is a trademarked electrodeposited lipophilic nickel matrix silicon carbide coating for engine components, mainly piston engine cylinder liners. Nikasil was introduced by Mahle in 1967, initially developed to allow rotary engine apex seals (NSU Ro 80, Citroën GS Birotor and Mercedes C111) to work directly against the aluminium housing. This coating allowed aluminium cylinders and pistons to work directly against each other with low wear and friction. Unlike other methods, including cast iron cylinder liners, Nikasil allowed very large cylinder bores with tight tolerances and thus allowed existing engine designs to be expanded easily. The aluminium cylinders also gave a much better heat conductivity than cast iron liners, an important attribute for a high-output engine. The coating was further developed as a replacement for hard-chrome plated cylinder bores for Mercury Marine Racing, Kohler Engines, and as a repair replacement for factory-chromed snowmobiles, dirt bikes, ATVs, watercraft and automotive V8 liners/bores. Nikasil is short for Nickel Silicon Carbide. Silicon carbide is a very hard ceramic (much harder than steel) that can be dissolved in nickel. The nickel solution can then be electroplated onto the aluminium cylinder bore. The piston rings will then rub off the exposed nickel, leaving a very hard layer of silicon carbide to protect the aluminium piston from direct contact with the aluminium cylinder. With this setup, the engine tolerances can be much tighter for better performance. The cylinder must be re-plated after it is re-bored, but Nikasil is extremely durable, so the cylinder does not need to be reworked as often as an iron or chrome cylinder. Porsche started using this on the 1970 917 race car, and later on the 1973 911 RS. Porsche also used it on production cars, but for a short time switched to Alusil due to cost savings for their base 911. Nikasil cylinders were always used for the 911 Turbo and RS models. Nikasil coated aluminium cylinders allowed Porsche to build air-cooled engines that had the highest specific output of any engine of their time. Nikasil is still used in today's 911s. Nikasil was very popular in the 1990s. It was used by companies such as BMW, Ducati, Jaguar and Moto Guzzi in their new engine families. However, the sulfur found in much of the world's low-quality gasoline caused some Nikasil cylinders to break down over time, causing costly engine failures. Nikasil or similar coatings under other trademarks are also still widely used in racing engines, including those used in Formula One and ChampCar. Suzuki currently uses a nickel phosphorus-silicon-carbide proprietary coating trademarked SCEM (Suzuki Composite Electro-chemical Material) to maximize cylinder size and improve heat dissipation in the TU250X, Hayabusa and other motorcycles. Nikasil Nikasil is a trademarked electrodeposited lipophilic nickel matrix silicon carbide coating for engine components, mainly piston engine cylinder liners. Nikasil was introduced by Mahle in 1967, initially developed to allow rotary engine apex seals (NSU Ro 80, Citroën GS Birotor and Mercedes C111) to work directly against the aluminium housing. This coating allowed aluminium cylinders"
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"Raymond G. Davis Raymond Gilbert \"Ray\" Davis (January 13, 1915 – September 3, 2003) was a United States Marine Corps four-star-general who had served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Davis was decorated several times, he was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II and the Medal of Honor during the Korean War. While serving as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, he retired with over 33 years service in the Marine Corps on March 31, 1972. General Davis had a close association with Marine Corps legend, Chesty Puller, having served with General Puller on Guadalcanal during World War II and in Korea during the Korean War. A middle school was built and named the \"General Ray Davis Middle School\", in 2006, in Conyers, Georgia near Stockbridge where he had resided. General Davis was born on January 13, 1915, in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and graduated in 1933 from Atlanta Technical High School, Atlanta, Georgia. He then entered the Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating in 1938 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. While in college he was a member of the ROTC unit. After graduation, he resigned his commission in the U. S. Army Infantry Reserve to accept appointment as a Marine Corps second lieutenant on June 27, 1938. In May 1939, Second Lieutenant Davis completed the Marine Officers' Basic School at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and began a year of service with the Marine Detachment on board the in the Pacific. He returned to shore duty in July 1940 for weapons and artillery instruction at Quantico, Virginia, and Aberdeen, Maryland. Completing the training in February 1941, he was assigned to the 1st Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battery, 1st Marine Division at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He returned to the United States with the unit in April, and the following month was appointed battery executive officer, serving in that capacity at Parris Island, South Carolina, and Quantico. He was promoted to first lieutenant in August 1941. That September, he moved with the battery to the Marine Barracks, New River (later Camp Lejeune), North Carolina. Upon his promotion to captain in February 1942, he was named battery commander. During World War II, Captain Davis participated in the Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings, the capture and defense of Guadalcanal, the Eastern New Guinea and Cape Gloucester campaigns, and the Peleliu operation. Beginning in June 1942, he embarked with his unit for the Pacific area, landing at Guadalcanal two months later. After that campaign, he was appointed executive officer of the 1st Special Weapons Battalion, 1st Marine Division. He was promoted to major on February 28, 1943. In October of that year, Major Davis took over command of the battalion and served in that capacity at New Guinea and Cape Gloucester. In April 1944, while on Cape Gloucester, he was named Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Major Davis' extraordinary heroism while commanding the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines at Peleliu in September 1944 earned him the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart Medal. During the first hour of the Peleliu landing he was wounded. He refused evacuation, and on one occasion, due to heavy Marine casualties and point-blank Japanese cannon fire, the Japanese broke through, he personally rallied and led his men in fighting to re-establish defensive positions. In October 1944, he returned to Pavuvu and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Returning to the United States in November 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Davis was assigned to Quantico as Tactical Inspector, Marine Corps Schools. He was named Chief of the Infantry Section, Marine Air-Infantry School, Quantico, in May 1945, and served in that post for two years before returning to the Pacific area in July 1947 to serve with the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade on Guam. He was the 1st Brigade's Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 (Operations and Training), until August 1948, and from then until May 1949, was Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4 (Logistics). Upon his return from Guam in May 1949, he was named Inspector-Instructor of the 9th Marine Corps Reserve Infantry Battalion in Chicago, Illinois. He served there until August 1950 when he embarked for Korea. In Korea, Lt. Col. Davis commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, from August to December 1950. During this time one of his men described him as, \"\"...from Georgia and soft spoken. No gruff, no bluff. Never talked down to you and made you feel comfortable in his presence.\"\"\" During the 1st Marine Division's fight to break out of the Chosin Reservoir area in North Korea during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir on December 1, 1950, Lt. Col. Davis led his battalion in and through fierce firefights with the Chinese army from Yudam-ni to Hagru-ri. Lt. Col. Davis led in front of his men all the way... marching his battalion at night over mountains in a driving snowstorm, he rescued and saved Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment from annihilation at the Toktong Pass. This action also opened the blocked mountain pass to Hagaru-ri allowing two trapped Marine regiments to escape and link up with the rest of the 1st Division at Hagaru-ri. He was recommended for the Medal of Honor. The medal was presented to Lt. Col. Davis by President Harry S. Truman in a White House ceremony on November 24, 1952. Lt. Col. Davis was also awarded two Silver Star Medals for gallantry in action, exposing himself to heavy enemy fire while leading and encouraging his men in the face of strong enemy opposition. He received the Legion of Merit with Combat \"V\" for exceptionally meritorious conduct and professional skill in welding the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines into a highly effective combat team. Later, as executive officer of the 7th Marines, from December 1950 to June 1951, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat \"V\" for his part in rebuilding the 7th regiment in Korea after the Chosin Reservoir campaign. He returned to the United States in June 1951 and was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. Lt. Col. Davis served with Headquarters Marine Corps at the Pentagon until June 1954. Lt. Col. Davis served in the Operations Subsection, G-3, Division of Plans and Policies, until February 1952, when he took charge of the subsection. In April 1953, he became Head of the Operations and Training Branch, G-3 Division. While serving in this capacity, he was promoted to full colonel in October 1953. The following July, Colonel Davis attended the Special Weapons Employment Course, Fleet Training Center, Norfolk, Virginia, under instruction. In September 1954, he entered the Senior Course, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico. Upon completing the course in June 1955, he served consecutively as assistant director and, later, director, of the Senior School. In October 1957, he was again transferred to Washington, D. C., and served there as Assistant G-2, Headquarters Marine Corps, until August 1959. In June 1960, Colonel Davis completed the course at the National War College in Washington, D.C. Assigned next to Headquarters, United States European Command, in Paris, France, he served from July 1960 through June 1963, as Chief, Analysis Branch, J-2, Staff of the Commander in Chief, Europe. On July 1, 1963, he was promoted to brigadier general while en route to the United States. Brigadier General Davis' next assignment was in the Far East, where he served as assistant division commander, 3rd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, on Okinawa, from October 1963 to November 1964. During this period, he also performed additional duty as commanding general, SEATO Expeditionary Brigade, EXLIGTAS, in the Philippines, during June 1964; and as commanding general, 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, in China Sea Contingency Operations, from August 2, to October 16, 1964. In December 1964, he was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps. He served as assistant director of personnel until March 1965, then served as",
"1963, as Chief, Analysis Branch, J-2, Staff of the Commander in Chief, Europe. On July 1, 1963, he was promoted to brigadier general while en route to the United States. Brigadier General Davis' next assignment was in the Far East, where he served as assistant division commander, 3rd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, on Okinawa, from October 1963 to November 1964. During this period, he also performed additional duty as commanding general, SEATO Expeditionary Brigade, EXLIGTAS, in the Philippines, during June 1964; and as commanding general, 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, in China Sea Contingency Operations, from August 2, to October 16, 1964. In December 1964, he was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps. He served as assistant director of personnel until March 1965, then served as assistant chief of staff, G-1, until March 1968. For his service in the latter capacity, he was awarded a second Legion of Merit medal. He was promoted to major general in November 1966. In March 1968, Major General Davis was sent to the Republic of Vietnam and served until May 1968 as the Deputy Commanding General of the Provisional Corps in South Vietnam. He then became Commanding General, 3rd Marine Division until April 1969. When he took command of the division, he ordered Marine units to move out of their combat bases and engage the enemy. He had noted that the manning of the bases and the defensive posture they had developed was contrary to their normally aggressive style of fighting. As part of this change in tactics, he would order Operation Dewey Canyon in early 1969 to engage the NVA in the A Shau Valley. During this battle, his son \"Miles Davis\", a rifle company platoon commander in K Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, was wounded in action. For his service as Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Division from May 22, 1968 until April 14, 1969, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal. The South Vietnam government awarded him several decorations including three Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Crosses. In May 1969, Major General Davis was assigned duty as deputy for education with additional duty as director, Education Center, Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia. After his promotion to lieutenant general on July 1, 1970, he was reassigned duty as commanding general, Marine Corps Development and Education Command (Marine Corps Combat Development Command). On February 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lieutenant General Davis for appointment to the grade of general and assignment to the position of Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate and he received his fourth star on March 12, 1971. General Davis served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps until he retired from active duty on March 31, 1972. Davis' decorations and awards include: Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place and date: Vicinity Hagaru-ri, Korea, 1 through December 4, 1950. Entered service at: Atlanta, Ga. Born: January 13, 1915, Fitzgerald, Ga. Citation: Citation: General Davis died of a heart attack at the age of 88 on September 3, 2003, in Conyers, Georgia. Interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in College Park, Georgia. His Funeral Detail and Honor Guard were personally commanded by General Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps. Raymond G. Davis Raymond Gilbert \"Ray\" Davis (January 13, 1915 – September 3, 2003) was a United States Marine Corps four-star-general who had served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Davis was decorated several times, he was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II and the Medal of Honor during the Korean War. While serving as the Assistant Commandant"
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"Gliclazide Gliclazide, sold under the brand name Diamicron among others, is an anti-diabetic medication used to treat diabetes mellitus type 2. It is used when dietary changes, exercise, and weight loss are not enough. It is taken by mouth. Side effect may include low blood sugar, vomiting, abdominal pain, rash, and liver problems. Use by those with significant kidney problems, liver problems, or who are pregnant is not recommended. Gliclazide is in the sulfonylurea family of medications. It works mostly by increasing the release of insulin. Gliclazide was patented in 1966 and approved for medical use in 1972. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system. The wholesale cost in the developing world is about US$2.46–3.92 per month. In the United Kingdom a month of medication costs the NHS about 2.12 pounds. It is not available for sale in the United States. Gliclazide is used for control of hyperglycemia in gliclazide-responsive diabetes mellitus of stable, mild, non-ketosis prone, type 2 diabetes. It is used when diabetes cannot be controlled by proper dietary management and exercise or when insulin therapy is not appropriate. National Kidney Foundation (2012 Update) claims that Gliclazide does not require dosage uptitration even in end stage kidney disease. Hyperglycemic action may be caused by danazol, chlorpromazine, glucocorticoids, progestogens, or β-2 agonists. Its hypoglycemic action may be potentiated by phenylbutazone, alcohol, fluconazole, β-blockers, and possibly ACE inhibitors. It has been found that rifampin increases gliclazide metabolism in humans in vivo. Gliclazide overdose may cause severe hypoglycemia, requiring urgent administration of glucose by IV and monitoring. Gliclazide selectively binds to sulfonylurea receptors (SUR-1) on the surface of the pancreatic beta-cells. It was shown to provide cardiovascular protection as it does not bind to sulfonylurea receptors (SUR-2A) in the heart. This binding effectively closes the K+ ion channels. This decreases the efflux of potassium from the cell which leads to the depolarization of the cell. This causes voltage dependent Ca++ ion channels to open increasing the Ca++ influx. The calcium can then bind to and activate calmodulin which in turn leads to exocytosis of insulin vesicles leading to insulin release. The mouse model of MODY diabetes suggested that the reduced gliclazide clearance stands behind their therapeutic success in human MODY patients, but Urbanova et al. found that human MODY patients respond differently and that there was no consistent decrease in gliclazide clearance in randomly selected HNF1A-MODY and HNF4A-MODY patients. Its classification has been ambiguous, as literature uses it as both a first-generation and second-generation sulfonylurea. According to the Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS), gliclazide falls under the BCS Class II drug, which is poorly soluble and highly permeable. Water solubility = 0.027 mg/L Gliclazide undergoes extensive metabolism to several inactive metabolites in human beings, mainly methylhydroxygliclazide and carboxygliclazide. CYP2C9 is involved in the formation of hydroxygliclazide in human liver microsomes and in a panel of recombinant human P450s in vitro. But the pharmacokinetics of gliclazide MR are affected mainly by CYP2C19 genetic polymorphism instead of CYP2C9 genetic polymorphism. Gliclazide Gliclazide, sold under the brand name Diamicron among others, is an anti-diabetic medication used to treat diabetes mellitus type 2. It is used when dietary changes, exercise, and weight loss are not enough. It is taken by mouth. Side effect may include low blood sugar, vomiting, abdominal pain, rash, and liver problems. Use by those with significant kidney problems, liver problems, or who are pregnant is not recommended. Gliclazide is in the sulfonylurea family of medications. It works mostly by increasing the release of insulin. Gliclazide was patented"
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"Kim Jong-chang Kim Jong-chang (born 13 October 1948) served as the seventh governor of South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service from March 2008 to March 2011. He was named to his position on 27 March 2008, after nearly three decades in finance-related positions in the government and the government-owned Industrial Bank of Korea, and retired on 25 March 2011. Kim was born on 13 October 1948 in Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do near the Sobaek Mountains. He was raised by his mother and paternal grandfather after losing his father to the Korean War at the age of two. He studied primary, middle, and high school in his hometown; he states that his home room teacher at Daechang High School left an indelible mark on him during his formative years. He matriculated at Seoul National University as an undergraduate in 1967, graduating in 1971 with a degree in commerce. He passed the State Administration Examination for Civil Servants in 1970 while in his senior year. When his daughters got married in 2008 and then in 2009, he publicly broke with Korean wedding traditions by refusing gifts of cash, out of concern for the propriety of a person in his official position accepting such gifts from people in the sector he was supposed to regulate, and held comparatively simple weddings. Kim's first official assignment as a civil servant was in the Economic-Science Council, a presidential advisory body. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1976. He received a master's degree in economics from the University of Washington in 1985. In 1992, he went to the United Kingdom to begin his service as financial and economic counselor in the South Korean embassy there. He returned to South Korea in 1996 in the Ministry of Finance. After serving as the FSS' vice-governor from 2000 to 2001, Kim took up the position of chairman and CEO of the government-owned Industrial Bank of Korea, which he held until 2004. He redirected the bank towards an emphasis on consumers and service, and was awarded the Dasan Financial Prize in January 2003 and the Korea Customer Satisfaction CEO award in November the same year. Under his leadership, the state bank’s profitability peaked and its stock price jumped to reflect the changes that were made during his helm to turn IBK into \"a state bank that makes money\". During his tenure at IBK, he also wrote a 240-page not-for-sale promotional book entitled \"Humorous Bundle\" (유머보따리), which was distributed in an effort to bring about a spirited corporate culture by changing the stiff image of bankers and create a livelier place of work. Kim then joined the monetary policy committee of the Bank of Korea. As one of his first acts upon taking office, Kim set up the Change Management Task Force and charged it with eliminating the deep-seated practices and embedded culture of heavy-handedness for which the financial supervisory authority was criticized. He also ordered a probe into how the organization was perceived at large in order to identify areas that the market viewed as heavy-handed of the financial regulator, and to clearly set down the accountability and performance of senior officials, a structure of divisions was adopted to complement the oversight of the respective areas of financial services. In November 2008, Kim had the Corporate Credit Task Force set up within the FSS in a joint FSS-FSC step to back a corporate restructuring drive, to be led by creditor financial institutions. Unlike the aftermath of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, when the restructuring of insolvent corporate debtors had taken place in an atmosphere of panic, Kim championed a preventive restructuring drive based on corporate debtors and industrial sectors that were likely to face difficulties in meeting their obligations. Corporate restructuring moved forward in those industries particularly susceptible to global economic cycles, such as shipbuilding, shipping, and construction industries. The media credited Kim for having quelled some of the looming uncertainties that unnerved financial markets. In an effort to raise the level of financial support to low-income earners, Kim also encouraged the country’s banks to lend to those who were hardest hit by the global financial crisis. He dispatched bank examiners to banks to ensure that industry malpractices such as compensating deposits and balances were restrained. He also launched a series of programs within the FSS to redress financial negligence and malpractices and to respond to consumer reports of financial malpractice, such as commissions for intermediation. He also pointed out the need to lower the financial costs of those in the lower income brackets by doing away with the banking practice of requiring cosignatories for loans. Kim Jong-chang Kim Jong-chang (born 13 October 1948) served as the seventh governor of South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service from March 2008 to March 2011. He was named to his position on 27 March 2008, after nearly"
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"ITIM (news agency) ITIM was a news agency established in 1950 in Tel Aviv, by journalist Hayim Baltsan (1910- 2002) חיים בלצן . Israel. ITIM was founded in 1950 by and the seven main Israeli newspapers of the time, who each held an equal stake in the agency. Founder and executive director for the first 25 years was leading Israeli journalist Hayim Baltsan (1910 - 2002)/ The agency went into receivership in November 2003 and nearly ceased operations due to massive debts. On 19 February 2004, it was bought by an Israeli company for US$75,000. The agency now specialises in providing reports to foreign news agencies such as Germany's Deutsche Presse-Agentur and the Federal News Agency based in Washington, D.C., United States. <br> The agency was closed in 2006. ITIM (news agency) ITIM was a news agency established in 1950 in Tel Aviv, by journalist Hayim Baltsan (1910- 2002) חיים בלצן . Israel. ITIM was founded in 1950 by and the seven main Israeli newspapers of the time, who each held an equal stake in the agency. Founder and executive director for the first 25 years was leading Israeli journalist Hayim Baltsan (1910 - 2002)/ The agency went into receivership"
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"Exit/In Exit/In is a music venue in Nashville, Tennessee. Exit/In is located on Elliston Place near Centennial Park and Vanderbilt University. It opened in 1971 under the management of Owsley Manier and Brugh Reynolds. As a small venue seating 200 or so, it developed its unique reputation in the 1970s because of the unusual things that occurred almost nightly. The club was expanded in the early 1980s to accommodate 500 patrons. Several documentaries have been shot on the inside of Exit/In, and many artists, including Kellie Pickler, have used the space to shoot music videos. The club is featured in the 1975 Robert Altman film, \"Nashville\". The club was also featured in Steve Martin's \"Born Standing Up\". On the cover of The Police's \"Zenyatta Mondatta\" album, Sting can be seen in one of the small photos wearing an Exit/In t-shirt. Nashville recording artist The Howboy Catts recorded a live album at the venue in July 2010, which was released in early 2011. Exit/In Exit/In is a music venue in Nashville, Tennessee. Exit/In is located on Elliston Place near Centennial Park and Vanderbilt University. It opened in 1971 under the management of Owsley Manier and Brugh Reynolds. As a small venue"
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"Lime Kiln Remains, Ipswich Lime Kiln Remains is a heritage-listed lime kiln at 82 Chermside Road, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was built by William Hancock. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The Lime Kiln Remains are thought to have been built by William Hancock (a local builder) in the 1860s. This lime kiln was not the first to be established in Ipswich; however the remains of this kiln are significant as a link to the original settlement of Ipswich, formerly known as \"Limestone\". Prior to the settlement at Ipswich, lime for building purposes in Brisbane had been obtained by burning sea-shells. It was in 1827 that Captain Patrick Logan discovered limestone deposits on the banks of the Bremer River:\"In the general course of last year Captain Logan, in tracing the Bremer (of the late Mr. Oxley, who merely passed its mouth in 1824) from its junction with the Brisbane, discovered at ten miles through its many windings from that point, the calcareous hummocks on its right bank, now named the \"Limestone Hills\". ... Some months after this discovery a kiln was built, and a party of convicts, consisting of an overseer (acquainted with the operations of sapping and mining), and five men (convicts) were stationed at these hills to commence lime-burning.\" The kiln operated on what was called Limestone Station until 1839 when the penal settlement was closed. It was reported to have produced 300 - 400 baskets of quick lime per week which were sent to Brisbane via the Bremer and Brisbane Rivers. The town of Limestone, now Ipswich, was established in 1842 on the site of Limestone Station. Other kilns were constructed subsequent to the original convict construction, the remains of the existing kiln being one of them. Advertisements regarding the setting up of lime kilns at this location, and for the supply of lime by W Hancock, appeared in the \"Queensland Times\" from 1864. Hancock's Kiln was later reported as having been \"\"erected on the most approved English methods.\"\" (Queensland Times, 25 August 1892). William Hancock migrated from England in 1856 and worked for a short time in Brisbane prior to moving to Ipswich where he lived until his death on 23 August 1892. Hancock was born at St Ives, Cornwall, went to live in Yorkshire, and was married at Leeds in 1844. Hancock was well known in Ipswich as a \"builder in brick\" and building contractor and was involved in the construction of a number of buildings including, additions to Rockton Villa, Colinton Station, Booval House, the foundations of the first railway workshop, the Lands Office and the Wesleyan Parsonage as well as laying pipes for the waterworks in 1877. He also owned a soap and candle works at Churchill. It is quite likely that Hancock would have used lime from this kiln for his own building purposes as well as for sale. The lime is believed to have come from the hummock of lime residue nearby as early photographs of the hummock show a much greater height than at present and also evidence of terracing such as would occur with mining. The site was included in land granted to the Ipswich Girls' Grammar School in 1890. The kiln remains were buried by road widening activities for Brisbane Street but were recovered in 1961 by excavations undertaken by the Limestone District Scout Group. The site has been subsequently infilled. There are signs of a stone kiln into the steep bank below Brisbane Street. The kiln is in the form of an inverted cone with the lower part of the interior sloping inwards. The stone blocks are of silicified limestone of irregular size. Brickwork was mentioned in a newspaper report of the Scouts' excavation but is not exposed although brick fragments have been observed towards the outer side of the structure. A second kiln could exist alongside the excavated kiln as evidenced by the unusual depression into the bank roughly parallel to the excavated kiln. The kiln lies at the base of the eastern of two north-northwest / south-southeast spine ridges of Tertiary silicified magnesian limestone. The hollow near the hummock believed to be the source of limestone quarrying in the 19th century. Lime Kiln Remains was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The Lime Kiln remains are a legacy of the early settlement of the Moreton Bay District. The lime-burning industry was the first established in the Ipswich area and the discovery of lime was the reason for the original settlement. The remains of the Lime Kiln are a link to the initial settlement of Ipswich. The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. The Lime Kiln remains are a rare example of 19th century lime-burning technology. They are the only surviving example in the district. The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. The Lime Kiln Remains have special association with prominent local builder William Hancock who was a well known building contractor and \"builder in brick\" contributing significantly to the built environment of nineteenth century Ipswich. Lime Kiln Remains, Ipswich Lime Kiln Remains is a heritage-listed lime kiln at 82 Chermside Road, Ipswich, City"
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"Bradley Hart Bradley Hart is a New York-based Canadian contemporary artist, best known for the photorealistic portraits that he creates by injecting paint into bubble wrap. He is represented by Anna Zorina Gallery in New York City. Hart was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Hart family business of restaurant design and construction introduced young Bradley to the workings within wood and metal shops, where his interest in the creative process was kindled. At age 11, Hart was enrolled into Thornton Hall, a private art school where he took classical art training including the replication of Renaissance masters works for 20 hours a week. In 2002, Hart received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, Canada, with a double major in Visual Art and Semiotic Communication Theory and a minor in Cinema Studies. Hart relocated to New York City in 2008, where he lives and works today. Hart works mainly with bubble wrap as his unique canvas and creative material. According to the artist, the idea of turning the commonly used packing plastic into art came from his encounter of overly protective museum security guards and a leftover roll of bubble from his first solo show in New York. Since then, Hart has developed \"a conceptually complex and elaborate system that includes the perpetual invention of mechanized methods allowing for his art to spawn more art.\" Hart's oeuvre of interrelated series initiates with the Injection paintings. The subjects of Hart's paintings, ranging from portraiture of celebrities and friends to full-scale scenery and snapshots of life, come from his personal photograph collection. Using software that he developed with a friend, Hart assigns a color code to each bubble which corresponds with a paint-loaded syringe. The artist then injects the acrylic paint into each cell of the bubble wrap, resulting in pixelated hyperrealist recreations of the chosen images. Take Hart's well-known portrait of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for example, the artist injected over 16,000 individual bubbles with 89 different hues of paint. On average, it takes Hart about 150 hours to finish each \"Injection\" work. While injecting, Hart intentionally overfills the bubbles with a calculated amount of paint so that the excess paint would drip down the flat side of the bubble wrap. The drips fuse upon drying and are then removed from the plastic. This layer becomes the next series, titled Impression, which is a natural byproduct of the previous \"Injection\" work and yet constitutes an independent body of works on its own. Hart recycles at every level of his studio practice. Dried paint from the mixing jars and studio surfaces, such as the floor, palette, the bubble wrap and the drop sheet, is collected and assembled to produce either the Created Waste or the Wasted Paint series. Intention distinguishes the two. For \"Creative Waste\", the artist decisively spills the acrylic in a way that mimics the natural splatters from his previous series. \"Wasted Paint\", on the other hand, is composed solely of accidental spills including those produced in the \"Created Waste\" process. Hart related during an interview that \"[t]he created waste and the waste paint series are created through an emotional response to what I see much like an action painter but for me it is more sculptural than painterly,\" and that different series provided him with different types of satisfaction. 2015 \"Descendants\", Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City<br> 2014 \"The Masters Interpreted\", Cavalier Galleries, New York City<br> 2013 \"SCOPE\", Cavalier Galleries, Miami, Florida <br> 2013 \"An Artist’s Impressions\", RePopRoom, New York City <br> 2013 \"The Bubble Wrap Proposition: Chapter 1\", Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut <br> 2012 \"What? Where? When? Why? How?\", Gallery Nine5, New York City <br> 2009 \"Signature New York\", Chashama Gallery, New York City <br> 2009 \"I was here\", Union Square Subway Terminal, New York City 2015 \"Raw Pop\", Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, New York City<br> 2015 \"Pixelated\", Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York City<br> 2015 \"FACES\", Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City<br> 2014 \"Exploring the Unconventional\", Cavalier Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut<br> 2014 \"Contemporary Realism\", Cavalier Galleries, New York City<br> 2014 \"Summer Group Show\", Cavalier Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut<br> 2014 West Palm Beach Art Show, Palm Beach, Florida<br> 2014 Naples National Art Festival, Naples, Florida<br> 2013 Figurative Group Show, Cavalier Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut<br> 2013 Group Show, Cavalier Galleries, New York City<br> 2013 \"Systems\", Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York<br> 2013 \"Summer Group Show\", Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut<br> 2013 SCOPE, Gallery Nine5, New York City<br> 2013 West Palm Beach Art Show, Palm Beach, Florida<br> 2013 Naples National Art Festival, Naples, Florida<br> 2011 Mott Haven Open Studio Expo, New York City<br> 2011 Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, New York City<br> 2011 \"No Comment Art III\", Pop-Up Show, New York City<br> 2010 Mott Haven Open Studio Expo, New York City<br> 2009 \"The Bookmark Project Obsolete\", Koffler Center of the Arts, Toronto, Canada<br> 2009 \"People, Eggs, Hats, and Abstractions\", Bruckner Gallery, New York City<br> 2002 \"Sweet Heartache\", Propeller Center for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada<br> 2002 \"Insulated 1\", Spadina Circle, Toronto, Canada<br> 2002 \"Transcript\", University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada<br> 2001 Juried Exhibition, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada<br> 2001 Annex Outdoor Patio Art Show, Toronto, Canada<br> 2001 Exhibition of commissioned work, St. Joseph Medical Center, Toronto, Canada Bradley Hart Bradley Hart is a New York-based Canadian contemporary artist, best known for the photorealistic portraits that he creates by injecting paint into bubble wrap. 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"John B. Poindexter John B. Poindexter is an American businessman and former soldier. He is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. and owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch. Poindexter was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors. After several years' military service, he entered New York University, where an MBA in 1971 was followed by a Ph.D in Economics and Finance in 1976. Poindexter joined OCS in 1967 and graduated that July. After three years with L Troop of the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (as Platoon Leader and Executive Officer in Germany, and then Troop Commander in Fort Lewis, WA), he joined the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam in 1970. Initially serving as Commander of Headquarters Troop, he was then appointed as Commander of 1st Squadron's A Troop. On March 26, 1970, the hundred-strong Charlie Company of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, unwittingly entered into an area of dense jungle containing a complex of North Vietnamese bunkers and were pinned down by approximately 400 NVA troops. Captains Poindexter and Ray Armer (of the 2nd Battalion's airborne infantry Alpha Company) heard their call for assistance, and in the absence of orders from Command, Poindexter directed Alpha Troop to aid Charlie Company. In the resulting battle, 20 U.S. troops were wounded, including Poindexter, and there were at least two fatalities. At dusk, with concern that the night would advantage the North Vietnamese, Poindexter ordered a full retreat. During the next few months before he returned to the United States, Poindexter applied for dozens of decorations to be awarded to members of his troop, and wrote an unpublished account of the battle. In 1999 he used this account to develop a presention on small unit leadership for an 11th Cavalry professional development program, and subsequently revised it for publication in \"Armor\" in 2000. In 2002, he discovered through reading Keith W. Nolan's \"Into Cambodia\" that the decporations he had applied for on behalf of members of Alpha Troop had never been awarded. He resubmitted applications for award in 2003, however only 14 additional individual awards were made. To remedy this, he coordinated a team of a hundred volunteers to help obtain and compile evidence from both documentary and eyewitness sources, and self-published \"The Anonymous Battle\" (2004), an account based on his manuscript and the collected evidence. Because the time elapsed was significant, and consequently not all individual medal claims could be sufficiently substantiated, Poindexter sought award of a Presidential Unit Citation to provide recognition to all members of Alpha Troop. During his campaign for recognition, he obtained support from generals including Brigadier General John Bahnsen, the retired commander of the 11th Cavalry's 1st Squadron, as well as from Texas Senator John Cornyn, who submitted the dossier in 2004 to the then-Secretary of the Army. In late 2008, award of a Presidential Unit Citation was approved; this was unveiled in California (11th Cavalry being stationed at Fort Irwin) in September, 2009. On October 20, 2009, President Barack Obama presented attending Alpha Troop veterans with the Presidential Unit Citation at the White House. Philip Keith's 2012 \"Blackhorse Riders: A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot\" details the action and Poindexter's campaign for its recognition. For his military service, Poindexter was awarded the Silver Star, the Soldier's Medal, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star. Poindexter joined Salomon Brothers as an investment banker in New York City in 1971 while completing his doctorate, and until 1985 worked in Venture Capital including a vice presidency at Smith Barney. In 1985, he founded J.B. Poindexter & Co., which as of 2010 was the world's largest manufacturer of commercial truck bodies. Poindexter acquired Cibolo Creek Ranch in 1990, and operates it as a hunting resort. His attempt to acquire 46,000 acres of Big Bend Ranch State Park was widely noted, with charges made that bulldozer activity in the development of his ranch had damaged or destroyed archaeological sites. Poindexter holds a leadership position in the International Order of St. Hubertus, a hunting society. John B. Poindexter John B. Poindexter is an American businessman and former soldier. He is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. and owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch. Poindexter was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors. After several years' military service, he entered New York University, where an MBA in 1971 was followed by a Ph.D in Economics and Finance in"
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"The Advertiser Democrat The Advertiser Democrat is a weekly newspaper serving 18 towns in the Greater Oxford Hills region of western Maine in the United States. It is published weekly on Thursday from its editorial/advertising offices in Norway, Maine. The newspaper is printed in Lewiston. Depending on how it is dated, the \"Advertiser Democrat\" is either the oldest weekly newspaper in Maine, or the oldest paper, period. The current paper is the result of a merger between two competing periodicals, the \"Norway Advertiser\" and the \"Oxford Democrat\", which merged in 1933. Since June, 2005, the \"Advertiser Democrat\" has been owned by the Costello family, which also owns the daily \"Lewiston Sun Journal\", as well as a number of weekly newspapers, including: the \"Bethel Citizen\", the \"Falmouth Forecaster\", and the \"Rumford Falls Times\". The Advertiser Democrat traces its ancestry to the first newspaper published in Oxford County, Maine, the \"Oxford Observer\". Founded by Asa Barton, the \"Observer\" was published from what was then the county seat, Paris Hill, Maine. The first issue appeared on July 8, 1824. People who claim the \"Advertiser\" is the oldest newspaper in Maine tend to use this date. The next oldest surviving newspaper, the \"Kennebec Journal\" was founded in 1826. However, for reasons unknown, the \"Advertiser\" officially dates itself from 1826, when Barton moved the newspaper from Paris Hill to neighboring Norway, Maine. Barton was a supporter of John Quincy Adams for president, a move which reportedly put him out of step with his Paris Hill neighbors, and even, seemingly, his own editorial staff. It is said that Barton moved his presses in the dead of night, by ox cart. The first issue published from Norway appeared on November 29, 1826. On December 14, 1826, the paper carried this terse notice: The first Norway issue of the \"Observer\" carried this notice, which also gives some insight to the world of early 19th century newspaper publishing: The \"Observer's\" existence in Norway was short-lived however. In 1829, Barton sold the paper to William Goodnow, who rechristened it The Politician in 1832 and moved it to Portland, Maine. Undaunted, Asa Barton started a second newspaper, The Oxford Oracle in 1833. When dating the lineage of what is now known as The Advertiser Democrat, this 1833 marker would seem to be best, rather than the 1824, or 1826 dates of Barton's earlier publications. However, the current paper does hearken back to the original \"Oxford Observer\", using a masthead which a similar font to the original publication and a printing press in the flag that is nearly identical to the one used in that very first 1824 issue. Barton's second go-round as a newspaper publisher was short-lived. After just seven issues, he sold the paper to George W. Millett, of Norway, and Octavious King, of Paris, Maine, both of whom had been apprentice printers at the original \"Observer\". Millett and King quickly changed the name of their paper to the Oxford Democrat and moved it back to Paris Hill. Like many newspapers of the era, the \"Democrat\" largely reflected the views of the political party for which it was named. In 1839, Millett took over as sole owner, by which time the paper had returned to Norway. A decade later, fire destroyed the \"Democrat's\" printing offices and the following year, 1850, Millett sold the paper to George L. Mellen & Co. According to the 175th anniversary issue of the \"Advertiser Democrat\", published January 3, 2002, \"After several more ownership changes,\" the \"Democrat\" was moved to South Paris, Maine in 1907 by its then-current owners, George Atwood and Arthur Forbes. Then, during the height of the depression, in 1933, Forbes, who appears to have had sole ownership of the \"Democrat\" by then, sold out to Fred W. Sanborn, owner and publisher of the Norway Advertiser. The last issue of the 'Oxford Democrat' was published November 7, 1933. Its subscribers were signed up to receive the Norway Advertiser. In a column published in the October 22, 1886 issue of the Oxford County Advertiser, Dr. Osgood N. Bradbury recalled the origins of the paper. The subscription salesman was Ira Berry and, true to his word, he did indeed start a newspaper. The first issue of the \"Norway Advertiser\" appeared on Tuesday, March 10, 1844. In the April 12, 1844 issue, Berry and his co-publisher, Francis Blake, Jr., wrote in a \"Prospectus\" for the \"Advertiser\": \"It may be well to state that it is not intended to make the paper the organ of any political party, nor to interfere with partisan politics.\" The editorial, which billed the \"Advertiser\" as \"A newspaper calculated for working men and their families,\" may well have been a jab at the rival \"Oxford Democrat\". In April, 1882, the printing offices of the paper, along with its list of subscribers, was lost in a fire that wiped out 10 structures along Norway's Main Street. By that time, the paper has been re-dubbed the \"Oxford County Advertiser\" and it was under the ownership of Simeon Drake and C. E. Meserve. The fire was reported to have started in an attic directly over the print shop. For two months, the \"Advertiser\" was out of business while its owners scrambled to rebuild their operations. Fred Sanborn arrived on the scene right after the 1882 fire, having sold his interest in a New Hampshire newspaper. Having attended high school in Norway for a short time, he had returned hoping to make a home in the town and take up the newspaper trade there. Sanborn partnered with Drake and bought out the job printing job of the Rev. J. A. Seitz, located at the present home of the \"Advertiser Democrat\" at 1 Pikes Hill. Rev. Seitz, whose son Don Seitz would later go on to become business manager off the New York World, had a weekly newspaper at the time called New Religion. He sold the subscription list for this paper, and the print shop business to Drake and Sanborn. However, he took his four-horsepower, steam-driven printing press to North Conway, New Hampshire, where \"New Religion\" resumed publication with the July 14, 1882 issue. Meanwhile, the \"Advertiser\" returned to the streets with the July 23, 1882 issue, thanks to a printing press Sanborn purchased in Somersworth, New Hampshire for $100. When the \"Advertiser\" resumed publication, Sanborn announced that it would continue politically as an \"independent.\" On January 1, 1883, Sanborn, along with his wife, Laura, bought Drake's interest in the \"Advertiser\". At that time, the four-page publication had struck \"Oxford County\" from the masthead and was once again circulated under the banner of the \"Norway Advertiser.\" With Sanborn at the helm, the 'Advertiser' soon became the paper of record for Oxford County. Circulation grew to 2,000 copies weekly, thanks in large part to promotions that gave away free papers. A January 1, 1882, notice had listed circulation of the \"Oxford County Advertiser\" at 800. Free papers may have helped, but one assumes content mattered. Otherwise, the \"Advertiser\" would never have been able to hold onto its readership base. For that end of the business, much thanks may be given to Sanborn's wife, Laura, who served as editor of the paper from 1882 until her death, following surgery, in 1923. When Laura died, Sanborn's nephew, Ralph S. Osgood, originally of Lowell, Massachusetts, became editor and manager of the paper, having begun his apprenticeship in 1908 during summers spent with his aunt and uncle. However, Sanborn still exercised a strong influence of the paper. He was said to believe that no personal item was too insignificant to print, holding a strong view that these details produced a living history of the community. With the depression cutting sharply into revenues, the merged papers, now called the \"Advertiser Democrat\", became a tabloid. When Sanborn died in 1938, ownership of the paper passed to Osgood. The leadership styles of the two men were recounted by Mearle M. 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"her death, following surgery, in 1923. When Laura died, Sanborn's nephew, Ralph S. Osgood, originally of Lowell, Massachusetts, became editor and manager of the paper, having begun his apprenticeship in 1908 during summers spent with his aunt and uncle. However, Sanborn still exercised a strong influence of the paper. He was said to believe that no personal item was too insignificant to print, holding a strong view that these details produced a living history of the community. With the depression cutting sharply into revenues, the merged papers, now called the \"Advertiser Democrat\", became a tabloid. When Sanborn died in 1938, ownership of the paper passed to Osgood. The leadership styles of the two men were recounted by Mearle M. Brown in a 1963 issue of the Oxford County Review: Osgood never married and, like his uncle, had no children. Taking his cue from Sanborn's example, Osgood invited his nephew, Robert C. Sallies, of Weirs Beach, New Hampshire to summer in Norway and learn the newspaper trade, beginning in 1949. Sallies graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1954, became business manager of the \"Advertiser Democrat\" in 1955, and inherited the business on July 2, 1959, when Osgood died. Sallies promoted Benjamin Tucker from the paper's staff to the editor's post in 1960. Then, in 1961, Sallies entered the Andover Newton Theological School, where he received his B.D. degree in 1964. The following year, Sallies became minister of the Universalist Church in Westbrook, Maine. Meanwhile, Sallies continued to serve as publisher of the \"Advertiser Democrat.\" In 1964, Stanley Newhall, of Waterford, Maine, replaced Tucker as the paper's editor. When Newhall retired, Sallies wife, Margie, took the reins. On July 22, 1976, Sallies sold the paper to Howard James. Sallies operation had become a central printing plant a decade earlier with the installation of a Goss Community Offset printing press. The papers it printed included the \"Bridgton News\", the \"Rumford Falls Times\" and the \"Berlin Reporter\". James, a 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner for a series \"Crisis in the Courts,\" team-written while he was Chicago Bureau Chief for the Christian Science Monitor, moved to New Hampshire in 1972, while he continued to write books and lecture around the country. That year, he married Judith Vogel Munro, who had taken sole ownership of the \"Berlin Reporter\" in 1970 upon the death of her husband, Stevenson Munro, in a horseback riding accident. At one point, Howard and Judy James owned seven newspapers in Maine and New Hampshire, with Horwad James acting as publisher, often writing and editing as well, and Judy James active in management, editing, advertising sales, writing and photography over the years. However, by the turn of the century the couple had sold off or closed all of their holdings except for the \"Advertiser Democrat\" and the \"Rumford Falls Times\". With none of the James and Munro children expressing an interest in taking over the papers, James sold out to the Costello Family, publishers of the daily \"Lewiston Sun Journal\" in June, 2005. Today, Ed Snook serves as publisher, while editor Anne Sheehan heads up the newsroom of two full-time reporters. Since Snook and Sheehan took the helm, the paper has won numerous awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Newspaper & Press Association as well as the 2011 George Polk Award for Local Reporting, Finalist, Michael Kelly Award - 2012 and A.M. Sheehan and Matt Hongoltz-Hetling were Nominees for a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for the body of work they did on Section 8 rental housing in the area. Usually every Friday, up to four of the 11 front-page stories from that week's \"Advertiser Democrat\" appear on the newspaper's website: www.advertiserdemocrat.com. Pointers to the paper's online presence is www.advertiserdemocrat.com. The \"Advertiser Democrat\" is more popularly known as simply \"The Advertiser.\" Much of the data on the history of the \"Advertiser Democrat\" was taken from the paper's 175th anniversary issue, published January 3, 2002. The Advertiser Democrat The Advertiser Democrat is a weekly newspaper serving 18 towns in the Greater Oxford Hills region of western Maine in the United States. It is published weekly on Thursday from its editorial/advertising offices in Norway, Maine. The newspaper is printed in Lewiston. Depending on how it is"
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"KXLX KXLX (700 AM) is a radio station licensed to Airway Heights, Washington and broadcasting to the Spokane area. The Morgan Murphy Media station broadcasts at 10 kW day/600 W night pattern. KXLX is an affiliate of ESPN Radio and is also the home station of the Eastern Washington Eagles football team. According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) application and license renewal information, KXLX's license was transferred from KMJY 700 which had been broadcasting from Newport, Washington since 9 June 1986. KMJY was owned and operated by James and Helen Stargel. The call signs for this station before KMJY were KZUN and KTMI. Another Spokane area station used the call sign KZUN from 1955 to 1985 on 630 kHz. This station was licensed to Opportunity, Washington. The FCC records also show that KXLX began broadcasting on 700 on February 27, 2004. In 2016, an FM translator of KXLX went on air. KXLX KXLX (700 AM) is a radio station licensed to Airway Heights, Washington and broadcasting to the Spokane area. The Morgan Murphy Media station broadcasts at 10 kW day/600 W night pattern. KXLX is an affiliate of ESPN Radio and is also the home station of the Eastern Washington"
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"Russell, Kentucky Russell is a home rule-class city on the south bank of the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 3,380 as of the 2010 census, down from 3,645 in 2000. Russell is a suburb of Ashland and part of the Huntington-Ashland-Ironton metropolitan area. It has close economic affiliations with its neighbors, Ashland and Flatwoods in Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio. The hilly site near the confluence of White Oak Creek and the Ohio was chosen by pioneer Jeff Moore in 1823 in order to provide protection for his camp against attacks by local American Indian tribes. In 1829, James E. McDowell, William Lindsay Poage, and his brother erected an iron furnace; they named the foundry and the community that grew up around it \"Amanda Furnace\" after William's infant daughter. The furnace ceased operation in 1861. John Russell and his Means and Russell Iron Company purchased the land of the present city beside Amanda Hill from the Poage brothers. They laid out and established the town of Riverview in 1869 in expectation of an expansion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad westward from Huntington, West Virginia, to Cincinnati, Ohio. Ferry service to Ohio began in 1870, local landowners agreed to rename the community after its founder in 1873, and the city was formally incorporated under the name \"Russell\" in 1874. The expected C&O spur did not arrive until 1889 but, when it did, it constructed a railyard, roundhouse, and shops and the city grew quickly. The city celebrates this influence with the annual \"Russell Railroad Days\" each August. Numerous disasters limited the city's growth. The Ohio River flooded the city in 1884, smallpox struck in 1901, and a fire consumed downtown and the city hall in 1903. In 1905, it was still the largest city in Greenup County, but the Ohio flooded again in 1913 and 1937. The 1937 flood affected all but 30 homes, and over 500 people were forced to shelter in C&O boxcars and cabooses until the waters receded. Despite the completion of a bridge to Ironton in 1922 and a floodwall in 1950, Russell was no longer the county's largest municipality by the mid-1950s. The Fortune 500 company Ashland Oil relocated its headquarters to Russell in 1974, but moved to the Cincinnati suburb of Covington in 1999. Russell is located in the eastern corner of Greenup County at (38.518176, -82.697680), directly across the Ohio River from Ironton, Ohio. It is bordered to the northwest by the city of Worthington, to the west by the city of Flatwoods, and to the south by the city of Bellefonte. The southeast border of Russell is the Boyd County line, separating Russell from the unincorporated community of Westwood. Downtown Ashland is southeast of Russell via U.S. Route 23. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Russell has a total area of , of which , or 0.48%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,645 people, 1,428 households, and 1,106 families residing in the city. The population density was 910.5 people per square mile (351.8/km²). There were 1,584 housing units at an average density of 395.7 per square mile (152.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.49% White, 0.71% African American, 0.03% Native American, 2.14% Asian, 0.22% from other races, and 0.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 0.82% of the population. There were 1,428 households out of which 30.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.6% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families. 20.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.88. In the city the population was spread out with 21.7% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 29.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.5 males. The median income for a household in the city was $53,869, and the median income for a family was $62,018. Males had a median income of $50,306 versus $30,494 for females. The per capita income for the city was $29,453. About 4.1% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.1% of those under age 18 and 2.1% of those age 65 or over. Part of AK Steel's Ashland Works is located in Russell. Russell was also once home to the headquarters of Ashland Inc., a diversified chemical company. The two-building headquarters was located on Kentucky Route 1725 (Ashland Drive), with another facility on KY 693 (Diederich Boulevard). The company has since relocated to Covington. The Ashland Drive facility is now operated by Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital and is used as physician, clinic and hospital business offices along with rental office space. The city has a large railroad classification yard, built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and now owned and operated by CSX Transportation. The C&O Rail Yard was formerly the largest individually-owned rail yard in the world. Vehicles may cross the Ohio River via the Ironton–Russell Bridge or the Ben Williamson Memorial Bridge in Ashland. A new Ironton-Russell Bridge, opened in 2016, connects downtown Ironton with U.S. 23 and KY 244 just south of downtown Russell. The original Ironton-Russell Bridge, which connected downtown Ironton directly with Willow Street in downtown Russell, opened in 1922, closed when the new bridge opened in 2016 and was demolished in late 2016–early 2017. Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital is a 214-bed not-for-profit acute care hospital located in Russell. The hospital is part of the Catholic-based Bon Secours Health System Inc. Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital employs approximately 1,200 healthcare professionals, making the hospital the largest employer in Greenup County. Russell's students are served by Russell Independent Schools, which it shares with its neighbors, Flatwoods and Bellefonte. The main campus, which includes Russell High School, Russell Middle School, Russell Primary School and the Russell Area Technology Center, sits on the Russell/Flatwoods city line (all of the schools' mailing addresses are Russell, but they receive primary police and fire protection from Flatwoods). The Russell High School football field is home to a fire-breathing Red Devil, the school's mascot Rudy, who sits atop the scoreboard. Russell High School was the 1978 Kentucky State 3A football champion, as well as the 2005 Kentucky State 2A football champion. Russell, Kentucky Russell is a home rule-class city on the south bank of the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 3,380 as of the 2010 census, down from 3,645 in 2000. Russell is a suburb of Ashland and part of the Huntington-Ashland-Ironton metropolitan area. It has close economic affiliations with its neighbors, Ashland and Flatwoods in Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio. The hilly site near the confluence of White Oak Creek and the Ohio was chosen by pioneer Jeff Moore"
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"Adel Fakeih Adel bin Muhammad Fakeih (born 1 July 1959) (Arabic:عادل فقيه) is a Saudi Arabian engineer and the former mayor of Jeddah. He was the minister of labor from 18 August 2010 to April 2015. During that same period, between 21 April 2014 and 8 December 2014 he also served as the minister of health. In April 2015 he was appointed minister of economy and planning. Fakeih was born in Mecca in 1959 into a family known for its active members in the fields of finance and business. His father Muhammad bin Abdul Qadir Fakeih was a businessman and published poet, and his uncle Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Qadir Fakeih is President of the Fakeih Group. Adel Fakeih obtained a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from King Abdulaziz University. Fakeih worked in both private and public sectors, holding several prominent positions such as Chairman of Al Jazeera Bank and a member on the board of directors of the Trade and Industrial Chamber of Commerce in Jeddah. He served as a member on the commissions of different organizations, including the Holy Mecca Provincial Council, the Supreme Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, the Fund for Management of Human Resources, the Hail Development Authority, the Power Services Regulation Authority, and the Al Marai Group. He was also the chairman of the council of directors of the Saudi Arabian Glass Company and the Sagco. From 1993 to 2005 he served as the chairman of the Savola Group, Saudi Arabia's biggest food company, as well as many of its subsidiaries. During this period, from 2003 to 2005, he was also the chairman of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Adel Fakeih was appointed mayor of Jeddah in March 2005. In 2006, the project to turn the Old Airport of Jeddah into a new 12 million m2 city was launched. In 2008, the Central Jeddah Redevelopment Project, which consisted of revitalizing a 6 million m2 area including the historic downtown, was also launched. In 2009, the city of Jeddah revealed the project for the construction of the King Abdullah Sports City. The city unlocked a $1.3 billion budget to further develop the city's infrastructure that same year, for the construction of bridges, tunnels, roads and parks in Jeddah. In 2009, he collaborated with a recruitment initiative targeting Saudi locals, Bab Rizq Jameel, and dedicated 22 market stalls to Saudi women in the Al-Safa neighborhood (northern Jeddah) to use for displaying and selling merchandise. He was replaced by Hani Abu Ras as mayor in August 2010. On 18 August 2010, Adel Fakeih was appointed minister of Labor, replacing Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi. In 2014, Adel Fakeih signed a memorandum of understanding with the Sri Lankan minister of foreign employment promotion and welfare Dilan Perera to improve the rights of Sri Lankan household workers in the Kingdom, regarding their passports and salaries. He reviewed estimated figures by the Central Department of Statistics following discrepancies between unemployment data and the number of applicants to the national monthly unemployment allowance. In June 2011, he introduced the Nitaqat program. It reviewed the existing quota system and made it more effective as it took into account the different sectors and sizes of companies. It also enforced sanctions on delinquent firms: following a 2013 crackdown on the black market in foreign labor, over a million people left the country. He announced 38 amendments to the country's labor legislation including more training for Saudi workers, longer fixed-term contracts, and greater inspection powers for ministry officials. On 21 April 2014, Adel Fakeih also served as minister of Health to handle a major public health crisis when the Middle East respiratory syndrome broke out, replacing Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah who had served since February 2009. This term ended on 8 December 2014 when Mohammed bin Ali bin Hiazaa Al Hiazaa was appointed to the post. Adel Fakeih's term as minister of labor ended in April 2015 when he was appointed minister of economy and planning. He replaced Muhammed Al Jasser in the post, and was commissioned by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to develop reforms aimed at ending the Kingdom' s vulnerability to an unpredictable oil market. In February 2016, Adel Fakeih's Economy and Planning Ministry was reported to have collaborated with the Crown Prince to develop a national transformation plan to this effect, which was officially introduced as Vision 2030 in April that same year. In March 2017, he played a forefront role at a Saudi-Chinese Investment Forum in Riyadh during which 45 agreements were signed between China and the Kingdom. In April 2017, he received South Korean Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Joo Hyung-hwan to strengthen bilateral trades between the two countries, in light of the Kingdom's industries' diversification from oil. He also joined the board of the Public Investment Fund. He was removed from his position after the Royal Decree announced on 4 November 2017, replaced by his deputy Mohammad Al Tuwaijri, who was also the former Head of Global Banking and Markets, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at The Saudi British Bank. On 4 November 2017, Adel Fakeih was arrested in Saudi Arabia in the \"corruption crackdown\" conducted by a new royal anti-corruption committee. Fakeih's wife, Maha Fitaihi, is a leading businesswoman and social figure. They have five children. Adel Fakeih Adel bin Muhammad Fakeih (born 1"
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"\\- Mr. Vijayanand assumes charges as Managing Director of bank from 01/03/2004 \n \\- Crisil has reaffirmed the A+& P1+ratings assigned to the bond issue & the CD programme of bank. \n * Merged with State Bank of India. \n\n\n The Bank had a chequered history and was the smallest of the five Associate Banks of State Bank Of India. The Bank suffered as the Staff Union and Officers Association did not had a strangle hold on the affairs of the Bank resulting in lack of visionary management. The Bank was merged with its parent, State Bank of India on 1 April 2017. \n State Bank of Mysore was established in the year 1913 as The Bank of Mysore Ltd. under the patronage of Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, at the instance of the banking committee headed by the great Engineer-Statesman, Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya. During 1953, \"Mysore Bank\" was appointed as an agent of Reserve Bank of India to undertake Government business and treasury operations, and in March 1960, it became a subsidiary of the State Bank of India under the State Bank of India (subsidiary Banks) Act 1959. Now the bank is an Associate Bank under State Bank Group and the State Bank of India holds 92.33% of shares. The Bank's shares are listed in Bengaluru, Chennai, and Mumbai stock exchanges. \n \\- State Bank of Mysore has joined the Real Time Gross Settlement Systems (RTGSs) network that facilitates inter-bank funds settlement on 22 July. \n \\- Ties up with HMT Ltd & launches SBM-HMT Agri Farm Scheme, to promote agricultural mechanisation in south India. \n * 2005:100% computerisation and Core Banking Solutions (CBS) introduced. \n * 2005:SBM unveils new single window system \n * 2006:Mr P.P. Pattanayak has assumed charge as Managing Director of State Bank of Mysore. Mr Pattanayak was earlier Deputy Managing Director (DMDs) & Chief Credit Officer of State Bank of India, Mumbai. \n * 2009:The Company splits its share with face value from Rs. 100/- to Rs. 10/-. \n * 2009:Sri Dilip Mavinkurve takes charge as Managing Director of the Bank. He was earlier Chief General Manager of the Bank. \n * 2012:Shri Sharad Sharma takes charge as Managing Director of the bank. \n * 2013:The Bank celebrated its Centenary year during the period 2 October 2012 to 1 October 2013. \n * 2017:After 104 years of banking history, State Bank of Mysore was merged with State Bank of India on 1 April 2017. \n\n\n \\- Enters the market with a coupon of 6.4% per annum for its Tier-II capital bonds issue of Rs. 60cr on a private placement basis. \n State Bank of Mysore was a nationalised bank in India, with headquarters at Bengaluru. It was one of the five associate banks of State Bank of India. \n \\- Considers new method of appraisal for lending to the agricultural sector more on the lines of industrial credit given to trade & commerce. \n * The Bank has sponsored two Regional Rural Banks, Cauvery Grameena Bank & Kalpatharu Gameena Bank which were merged to form Kaveri-Kalpatharu Gramin Brank, headquartered at Mysore with more than 250 branches for growth of agriculture & rural industries. \n * The Bank, as part of State Bank Group has been engaged in financing agriculture and MSME in 1960 & introduced the concept of need based rather than security oriented finance & the Entrepreneur scheme under which technically qualified persons were financed the entire requirement up to Rs. 2 lacs. \n * The Bank has 3 specialised SSI branches to assist the SSI units & proposes to establish 3 more such 551 branches shortly. \n * The Bank has correspondent & agency arrangements all over the world & offers spot services in 18 major approved currencies. \n * State Bank of Mysore handles a significant part of day-to-day banking business of both the Central & State Governments in the State of Karnataka & is a Banker to various Public Sector Undertakings in various sectors of Economy. \n * The Bank has been actively participating in welfare banking needs of public through its community services. \n * The Bank is a member of society for worldwide Inter Bank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFTs) which was established to offer cost effective & fast transmission of financial messages globally, 2 branches of Bank are presently covered under the scheme and an additional 15 branches are proposed to be covered under SWIFT shortly. \n * 1992-The State Government has also taken up vigorously' ASHRAYA' , a new housing scheme for weaker sections &' VISHWA' , a new rural & cottage industry scheme. A new programme called' AKSHAYA' has also been launched to help the children in primary education. The Konkan Railway Project & the New Mangalore Port Project are also progressing satisfactorily. \n * 1994-Several important measures have been introduced in the busy season credit policy of November 1993 & slack season credit policy of May 1994, announced by Reserve Bank of India. \n * 2000-Mr.M. Sitarama Murty has been appointed as Managing Director, of Bank. \n\n\n \\- The Bank actively participated in all Government sponsored schemes and contributed its share of financial assistance or the economically weaker sections through DIR, IRDP, Prime Minister Rojgar Yojna & SUME schemes. \n State Bank of Mysore ಸ್ಟೇಟ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಆಫ್ ಮೈಸೂರು Erst. State Bank of Mysore logo \n--- \nNative name | ಮೈಸೂರು ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ \nType | Public sector \nTraded as | BSE:532200 NSE:MYSOREBANK ISIN:INE651A01020 \nIndustry | Banking, Insurance, Capital Markets and allied industries \nFate | Merged with State Bank of India \nPredecessor | The Bank of Mysore Ltd. \nSuccessor | State Bank of India \nFounded | 2 October 1913; 104 years ago (1913-10-02) as The Bank of Mysore Ltd. \nFounder | Sir M. Visvesvaraya \nHeadquarters | Bengaluru \nNumber of locations | 1074 branches and 9 extension counters \nArea served | India \nKey people | \n\n * Chairman:Arundhati Bhattacharya \n * Managing Director:N.K. Chari \n\n \nProducts | Deposits, Personal Banking Schemes, C & I Banking Schemes, Agri Banking Schemes, SME Banking Schemes \nServices | Loans, Deposits, Mobile Banking, ATM Services, NRI Services, Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Transactions, National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT), Internet Banking, Debit Card \nTotal equity | 3988 Crores as on 31 Mar 2014 \nNumber of employees | \n\n10,226 (December 31, 2016) \n\n * 3,600 supervisory staff \n * 6,626 non-supervisory staff \n\n \nParent | State Bank of India (90.00% shares) \nWebsite | bank. sbi \n \\- The Bank has closed its issue of unsecured non-convertible debentures after raising the target of Rs 60 crore. \n \\- Declared a dividend of 40% on equity capital for year ended. \n \\- Slashes interest rate on domestic term deposits & on NRE deposits by 25-50 basis points. \n This bank had 976 branches and 10627 employees (June 2014) and the Bank has 772 branches (79%) in Karnataka State. The bank had regional offices in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Mandya, Hassan, Shivamogga, Davangere, Ballari, Tumakuru, Kolar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. The bank's turnover in the year 2013-2014 was around US$19Billion and Profit about US$46Million. \n * 1913-The Bank was established as' Bank of Mysore Ltd. ', on 19 May, with an authorised capital of Rs. 20.00 lakhs. \n * Commenced its business on 2 October 1913. \n * 1953-During the year, the Bank was appointed as an Agent of Reserve Bank of India to conduct Government business & treasury operations. \n * 1959-With effect from 10 September, the Bank was constituted as State Bank of Mysore as a Subsidiary of State Bank of India, under State Bank of India (Subsidiary Bankss) Act, 1959 enacted through an Act of Parliament, (Act No. 38 of 1959s). \n * 1959-The bank has formulated schemes for financing coffee planters/coffee traders against coffee curers certificate, financing coffee traders, coffee exporters & coffee curers who also engage in trading.",
"\\- Maruti Udyog forges alliances with SBM to offer car finance. \n * 2001-State Bank of Mysore has opened a foreign exchange cell at its Hirehally Industrial estate branch in Tumkur district to enable small-scale industrialists to manage their foreign exchange transactions."
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"Chal Bhaag Chal Bhaag is a comedy plus action Bollywood movie directed by Prakash Saini and presented under the banner of Alimoh Films. It was produced by Mohammad Zaheer Mehdi, Fatima Zaheer Mehdi, Ali Mehdi and Tamkanat Ali Mehdi.Starring Deepak Dobriyal, Keeya Khanna, Sanjay Mishra(actor), Yashpal Sharma, Mukesh Tiwari among others,it released on 13 June 2014.It was written by Tarun Bajaj, who also acted in a role. This film movie revolves around three main characters named Munna, Bunty and Daler. Bunty is a self made goon while Daler is a small-time thief who roams around town.The film starts on the scene where a MLA is shown to be shot dead by three shooters belonging to a dangerous don.They are arrested by the Police.Meanwhile,Munna, Bunty and Daler are arrested for their small crimes in the city. It takes a sharp turn when the Police Inspector has to replace the shooters with Munna,bunty and Daler because of the pressure of the don.The three become wanted criminals and their struggle to get out of the formidable situation forms the story. The music for \"Chal Bhaag\" is composed by Satish Kashyap, Sadhu Sushil Tiwari and Sanjay Pathak. The Times of India gave the film 2 stars and wrote \"While the motive and twists in the story are interesting, the comic execution ruins it and the film would have still worked had it been a black comedy.\" Bollywood Hungama gave 1.5 stars writing \"The film has an interesting premise, but the director doesn't have the grip on the plot and it shows in the film.\"Performance of Deepak Dobriyal was particularly praised. Faheem Ruhani from India Today gave 1.5 stars and wrote \"Chal Bhaag's got a poorly written screenplay, amateur production design, shoddy performances, listless dialogues and useless item songs which play out as and when the director fancies.\" Rahul Desai from Mumbai Mirror criticised the film heavily and gave 1.5 stars.He wrote that the film was awfully-executed and the makers got the basics and technicalities all wrong. The film got appreciation only from IndiaGlitz,getting 3 stars. Vishal Verma praised the director and most of the actors.However,he opined that the director should have come to the point earlier,without taking much time to establish the characters. Chal Bhaag Chal Bhaag is a comedy plus action Bollywood movie directed by Prakash Saini and presented under the banner of Alimoh Films. It was produced by Mohammad Zaheer Mehdi, Fatima"
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"Milan Area C Area C is a congestion charge active in the city center of Milan, Italy. Area C was introduced on January 16, 2012, replacing the previous pollution charge Ecopass. It is based on the same designated traffic restricted zone or ZTL (), corresponding to the central \"Cerchia dei Bastioni\" area. The \"ZTL\" encompasses about and 77,000 residents (4.5% and 6% of the city total, respectively). The area is accessible through 43 gates, monitored by video cameras. Area C started as an 18-month pilot program based on the partial implementation of the results of a referendum that took place on June 2011. The objective of the program was to drastically reduce the chronic traffic jams that take place in the city of Milan, to promote sustainable mobility and public transport, and to decrease the existing levels of smog that have become unsustainable from the point of view of public health. Area C was definitively approved as a permanent program on 27 March 2013. Milan has one of the highest European rates of car ownership, as more than half of Milan citizens use private cars and motorcycles, ranking second only after Rome, and among the highest in the world. The city also has the third-highest concentration of airborne particulate matter among large European cities, both in terms of average annual level and days of exceeding the European Union PM10 limit of 50 micrograms per cubic meter, according to a 2007 study supported by several environmental groups. Due to its lingering air pollution problems and associated health problems, in 2007, and for a trial period, the city banned 170,000 older cars and motorcycles that do not pass strict environmental emission standards. In January 2008, the mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, launched the Ecopass program expecting a 30% cut in pollution levels and a 10% reduction in traffic. The program imposed a charge on vehicles with higher pollution levels. Ecopass was an incentive for motorists to buy less pollutant cars, and in a few years the number of cars with free access were the majority. Despite the fact that these vehicles having less polluting engines, the free access helped less with the congestion problem. This trend contributed to a return to previous traffic levels and at the same time reducing revenue collected. This threatened the ability to keep the system in operation. The charge applies to every vehicle entering the city centre on weekdays (except Saturday) from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, on Thursdays the operation is limited to 6 pm. Every vehicle entering the charging zone must pay regardless of its pollution level. Residents inside the restricted area must also pay to reach their houses but they have 40 free accesses per year and a discounted fare of . Access to the area is forbidden for diesel Euro 3 or below, gasoline Euro 0, and private vehicles over long. Electric vehicles, motorcycles and scooters, public utilities' vehicles, police and emergency vehicles, buses and taxis are exempt from the charge. Hybrid electric and bi-fuel natural gas vehicles (CNG and LPG) were exempt until 1 January 2013. This was later extended until the end of 2016. The program was temporarily suspended between 25 July and 17 September 2012 due to a ruling by the Council of State after protests by parking owners in the center of Milan. After the suspension in summer 2012, the entrance in the area is free from 6 pm on Thursday. Chauffeur vehicles (, NCC) with over 9 seats pay higher entrance fees, from 40 to 100, depending on the length of the vehicle. In the first month cars entering the city center decreased by 33%, with a total of about 700,000 vehicles less during the month or about 40,000 per day. A substantial decrease in traffic congestion in the restricted area was also reported, while traffic outside the area remained unchanged. The congestion charge did not appreciably affect pollution levels, with the exception of black carbon level, which decreased by about 30% in the \"ZTL\". Data from the first two months showed a decrease in traffic also outside the restricted zone. There was a reduction of about 6% of vehicles outside the ZTL compared to the same months of 2011. The reduced congestion in the city center resulted in increased average speed for public transport, especially for buses and during peak hours. While there has been an increase of only about 3% in the whole day, the average speed in the morning peak hour (8-9 am) for surface public transport was about 10% higher than pre-Area C levels. The traffic reduction inside Area C restricted area since its implementation, compared to the same period of the previous year, was 34.3% by 30 April 2012. The total traffic reduction in the Milan area was about 7% By 30 September 2012, Area C had been operating for a total of 140 days (since 16 January). During this period there has been a decrease of 32.8% in vehicles entering the area, compared to 2011. Later results confirm the decreasing trend in traffic congestion in the city. In the first 6 months of 2015 the average number of cars entering the restricted area was 28.6% less than in the same period in 2011, during Ecopass. There were 21.6 million entrances to the restricted area in 2014 during the time of operation of Area C. Most of users enter the restricted area only few times a year, with about two thirds of cars entering for 4 times or less during 2014. Moreover, most of residents (71%) living inside the area did not use up all the 40 free permits a year. Taking into account an estimate for the willingness to pay for PM10 reduction, a study estimated that the welfare gain produced by Area C from air pollution reductions alone is $3 billion. This is despite the fact that Milan's vehicle fleet is relatively clean compared to other cities in the world. All net earnings from the scheme are invested to promote sustainable mobility and policies to reduce air pollution, including the redevelopment, protection and development of public transport, \"soft mobility\" (pedestrians, cycling, Zone 30) and systems to rationalize the distribution of goods. In 2012, the program had a total revenue of about €20.3 million and net earnings after expenses of over €13 million. These resources were used to increase service on the Milan Metro, on surface public transportation network and to finance the extension of the BikeMi bike sharing scheme. Area C, as its predecessor Ecopass, came with much criticism, especially from right-wing politicians. Demonstrations were held against Area C and a piece of hate mail containing a bullet case and text against the congestion charge was sent to the mayor Giuliano Pisapia. A referendum to stop the program was promoted by opponents. However, promoters of the referendum failed to reach the minimum number of signatures to propose it. Protests by parking owners in the center, who had seen a decrease in profits, led to a ruling by the Council of State which suspended the program on 25 July awaiting further investigations on the legitimacy of the scheme. Area C was subsequently reintroduced on 17 September. Related articles Further reading Similar congestion pricing schemes Milan Area C Area C is a congestion charge active in the city center of Milan, Italy. Area C was introduced on January 16, 2012, replacing the previous pollution charge Ecopass. It is based on the same designated traffic restricted zone or ZTL (), corresponding to the central \"Cerchia dei Bastioni\" area. The \"ZTL\" encompasses about and 77,000 residents (4.5% and 6% of the city total, respectively). The area is accessible through 43 gates, monitored by video cameras. 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"Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm is a Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. It was founded in 1965 and is the spiritual birthplace of the \"khất sĩ\" tradition of Vietnamese Buddhism that attempts to recreate the original tradition of the Buddhist sangha by walking barefoot and begging for alms. The temple is located at 7 Nguyễn Trung Trực Street, in Bình Thạnh District. It is known for its weekly Bát Quan Trai Giới (Eight Precept Ritual) retreat, which is staged more frequently than at other institutions in the city, and has a reputation among its followers for rigour and discipline. The attendees of the temple are typically over 40 years of age and are overwhelmingly female. The temple is set on a plot of , and construction took ten years. Initially, the complex comprised two halls, two compounds for the sangha other buildings. The temple was the headquarters of the Vietnamese \"khất sĩ\" Sangha Association until 1980. In 1998, an octagonal nine-story tower, named the Buddha Gem Tower, was built. The tower is lit at night and is visible throughout the surrounding area. The bottom four floors form the library as well as the repository for some relics of Gautama Buddha. Many of the inner walls of the halls of the temple are adorned with relief carvings and paintings depicting important events in the life of Buddha. In the courtyard stands a statue of Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva. The founding patriarch of the \"khất sĩ\" tradition was Thích Minh Đăng Quang, who was born Nguyễn Thành Đạt in 1923 to a peasant family from the village of Phú Hậu, Bình Phú prefecture, Tam Bình District in Vĩnh Long Province in the Mekong Delta. He founded the tradition in 1944 with the vow \"Nối truyền Thích-ca chánh pháp Đạo Phật Khất sĩ Việt Nam\" (\"Transmitting the correct dharma of Sakyamuni, Khất sĩ Buddhism of Vietnam\"), which came to be the motto of the \"khất sĩ\" tradition. Although he disappeared in 1954, his followers continued to expand and went on to open Tinh Xa Trung Tam. The temple is set on a plot of ; construction of the building began in April 1965 and took ten years. The plot of land was donated by a Buddhist layperson named Nguyễn Văn Chà. Initially, the complex comprised a main ceremonial hall, a patriarch hall, two compounds for the sangha and a set of huts for solitary religious practice. The temple was the headquarters of the \"khất sĩ\" Sangha Association from 1966 until 1980. In November 1980, the abbot Thích Giác Toàn along with Thích Giác Phúc organised an expansion that involved the erection of a two-storied compound that included the main ceremonial hall. The compound was built in an octagonal shape, as planned by the architect Nguyễn Hữu Thiện. The tower part of the compound is tall, with octagonal sides of length . At the top of the temple are 13 miniature levels, which represent the 13 realms of existence. The tower was constructed from wood, with lotuses depicted on the exterior walls. There are 12 paintings that depict various events in the life of Gautama Buddha, including the birth at Lumbini, the enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the first dharma talk at Deer Park in Varanasi and the entering of nirvana at Kushinagar. Further parts of the wall display quotes from the Dhammapada written in Vietnamese. The entire artwork on and within the tower was the work of Thiện Ngộ and his group of artists from the Art School of Long An. The artwork was created between 1982 and 1984. The main lecture hall on the ground floor has wooden benches and can house several hundred people. A large statue of the patriarch Thich Minh Dang Quang stands at the front of the hall, in front of the wall paintings and a table on a platform where the speaking monk sit while giving a dharma talk. The centrepiece of the main ceremonial hall on the second level is a statue of Gautama Buddha in the Buddha Hall. It is carved from wood, is tall, and is enclosed in a glass case. Also on this level is a ceramic statue depicting the birth of Prince Siddhartha. It depicts the traditional account of the prince taking seven steps, which resulted in seven lotuses blooming spontaneously, followed by Siddhartha pointing to the sky with his index finger and declaring that this life would be his last in samsara. On the internal wall of the temple are eight murals of the life of Gautama Buddha by Minh Dung and Hai Long. They are high and carved into the wall. There are two other chambers on the second floor. Behind the Buddha Hall is the patriarch's alcove. The founder of any Vietnamese monastery is typically commemorated there, but in this case, Thích Minh Đăng Quang left no remains, so only his begging bowl and robe are present, protected by a glass enclosure. The bowl is smaller than usual and the robe is of a saffron-dark orange colour. Buddhists often prostrate before the two objects, although as the glass enclosure and the Buddha statues in the main hall lie on the central symmetry axis of the building, they do so at an angle so that their posteriors are not pointing towards the statue of the Buddha. Behind the patriarch's alcove is another chamber, the centre of which is a statue of the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. Instead of being depicted with the typical staff with six rings around it —representing the six realms of existence—Ksitigarbha is shown with a \"wish-granting gem\". To either side of Ksitigarbha are photos of deceased monks and nuns. To the extreme left and right are photographs and names of deceased lay Buddhists, and their ashes are stored in urns below the altar. In the front courtyard of the temple is a statue Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva, which stands , on a lotus seat high. This is unusually high for an Avalokiteshvara statue in an outdoor courtyard. Before 1975, the \"khất sĩ\" Sangha Association had around 300 temples in southern Vietnam, and the temple was the headquarters of the organization. In 1998, an octagonal nine-story tower, named the Buddha Gem Tower, was built next to the Bodhi tree. It is high and has a symbolic Torch of Wisdom at the top, which is lit at night and is visible throughout the surrounding area. The bottom four floors form the library as well as the repository for some of the Buddha's relics. The top five levels are used to enshrine the ashes of monks and nuns. To the left of the gate is the bookstore, which is run by the lay disciples of the temple. Unlike many other Buddhist institutions, the publications are generally not free. The outlet offers journals published by the government-run Buddhist media, as well as material written by Vietnamese monks, translations of canonical texts, works by internationally renowned Buddhist scholars, and audiovisual recordings of dharma talks by Vietnamese monks. It also sells images and statues of Gautama and Amitabha Buddha, and Avalokiteshvara. Next to the bookstore is the medical clinic, Tue Tinh Duong (Tue Tinh Hall), named after a Trần Dynasty monk and herbal medicine practitioner who was famed for attending to the impoverished and compiling the first known book on Vietnamese herbal medicine. As is the case with medical clinics named in Tue Tinh's honour, the services dispensed are complimentary. The outlet at Tinh Xa Trung Tam is the mendicant sect's most active medical facility. The Triple Gate (Tam Quan) is accessible by both pedestrians and vehicles. Two-wheeled vehicles and pedestrians use the left and right wings respectively, and cars, buses, and trucks can use the central wing. The three gates represent emptiness, impermanence and middle-view. It is decorated with sculptures and engravings of lotuses, lanterns and swastikas, all prominent symbols in Buddhism. On the left hand side of the grounds, there is a Bodhi tree, a symbol of the enlightenment of the Buddha. The tree is located in a concrete lotus, and around it are eight samsara-wheel-shaped signs that represent the Noble Eightfold Path. Signs with text explain each of the eight paths. Aside from the two tower complexes,",
"outlet at Tinh Xa Trung Tam is the mendicant sect's most active medical facility. The Triple Gate (Tam Quan) is accessible by both pedestrians and vehicles. Two-wheeled vehicles and pedestrians use the left and right wings respectively, and cars, buses, and trucks can use the central wing. The three gates represent emptiness, impermanence and middle-view. It is decorated with sculptures and engravings of lotuses, lanterns and swastikas, all prominent symbols in Buddhism. On the left hand side of the grounds, there is a Bodhi tree, a symbol of the enlightenment of the Buddha. The tree is located in a concrete lotus, and around it are eight samsara-wheel-shaped signs that represent the Noble Eightfold Path. Signs with text explain each of the eight paths. Aside from the two tower complexes, there is a reception office, administrative block, monastic quarters, meditation halls and a kitchen complex where lay supporters prepare meals for the monks and visitors. The monastic quarters and meditation hall are not open to laypeople and can provide accommodation for hundreds of monks. This large capacity is often utilised during the Rains Retreat. This retreat commemorates events during the life of the Buddha, when the rainy season came between the full moons of the fourth and seventh lunar months. As a result, monks of the time stayed in one place to practice rather than travel from place to place. As with other Buddhist temples in Ho Chi Minh City, rapid urban sprawl in the city has enveloped Tinh Xa Trung Tam and disturbed the serenity that existed when it was first constructed. The area surrounding Tinh Xa Trung Tam is now a noisy neighborhood, and most prominent among the sources of disturbances is a karaoke bar located on an alley leading to the temple. Due to overcrowding in the neighbourhood, joggers often use the monastery grounds, so a sign has been erected indicating \"Ladies and gentlemen exercisers please follow this route\" so that they circle the Dharma Tower in a clockwise direction, a path usually taken by Buddhists around stupas as an act of devotion. In response to the growing noise, a sign has been placed at the gate to remind visitors—Buddhists and non-Buddhists—about etiquette. It says that bicycles and motorcycles should be pushed into the yard with engines turned off. A policy of locking the halls when they are not in use has also been enacted to prevent homeless people from camping there. Some stray dogs have adopted Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm as their home and traipse about during rituals; they are fed vegetarian food. Although begging is not allowed inside the monastery grounds, it is allowed on the footpath outside the camp, and several handicapped people have made themselves a regular presence there. The monastery runs a fundraising program for cataract operations in the city, and receives wide support due to public suspicion of charities affiliated with the ruling Communist Party government, due to the communists' strong reputation for rampant corruption. Following the fall of Saigon and the communist takeover, religious bodies were required to be registered with and loyal to the party. The khat si complied and became one of the nine schools within the state-sanctioned Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation. However, the temple does not fly the national flag, and the only government material or symbols on display within Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm are letters of congratulations for charity initiatives. The lay attendees at Tinh Xa Trung Tam are predominantly female by a ratio of around 5 to 1, and most of the temple-goers are over 40. Most of the younger lay disciples are relatives of regular, older attendees. In addition to local residents, who make up the bulk of the disciples, some are from other parts of Vietnam, as well as overseas Vietnamese who are temporarily in the country. According to the American professor of Vietnamese history and religion Mark W. McLeod, who did fieldwork at Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm, he did not survey the laypeople about their income, for fear of embarrassing them, but conjectured that most had an above average income as they were able to devote a considerable amount of time to organized religious activity instead of working longer hours. A regular occurrence at the temple is the weekly Bát Quan Trai Giới (Eight Precepts Ritual). As part of this, the participants take on three additional vows apart from the Five Precepts and stay at the temple for a 24-hour period. These vows prohibit adornments such as makeup and jewellery, the use of comfortable beds and chairs, and eating impurely. During the retreat day, meals are taken in silence and talking is avoided, apart from during dharma talks, sutra chanting and religious debate. Meditation is also a part of the routine. Tinh Xa Trung Tam holds the Eight Precepts Ritual more often than any other institution in the city; the next most frequent temple holds the retreat once every two weeks. Dharma talks are held weekly by the resident monks and nuns, which is generally more frequent than at other places in the city. The disciples and monks at the temple told McLeod that they chose Tinh Xa Trung Tam because of what they regarded as a higher level of discipline, rigor and scholarship at the institution. The monks are transported by their disciples as they are forbidden to drive. The founder of khất sĩ had been a supporter of freeing birds as an act of compassion, and this has been continued by some monks and lay people as it is believed to be meritorious, but others have spoken out against on the grounds that the demand for birds used for such ceremonies merely prompt more people to capture them in the first place. According to the scholar Mark McLeod, the temple incorporated aspects of both Mahayana and Theravada traditions in its style of practice and architecture. He felt that the modest and uncomplicated wooden statue of the Buddha is more reminiscent of Theravada architecture, while the Ksitigarbha and Avalokiteshvara statues are distinctly Mahayana, as these figures are absent from Theravada teachings. One monk interviewed by McLeod said that his temple's interpretation of Buddhism and its inclusiveness of Mahayana and Theravada aspects is \"like a tree, which needs roots, a trunk, branches, and leaves; it cannot survive if any is missing.\" He added that the appropriateness of a teaching, practice, symbol, is independent of its origin, but is determined by \"whether or not it accords with the Buddha's Teachings.\" Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm is a Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. It was founded in 1965 and is the spiritual birthplace of the \"khất sĩ\" tradition of Vietnamese Buddhism that attempts to recreate the original tradition of the Buddhist sangha by walking barefoot and begging for alms. The temple is located at 7 Nguyễn Trung Trực Street, in Bình Thạnh District. It is known for its weekly Bát Quan Trai Giới (Eight"
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"James Coyne James Elliott Coyne, (July 17, 1910 – October 12, 2012) was the second Governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a debate often referred to as the \"Coyne Affair\" (or sometimes the \"Coyne Crisis\"), which led to his resignation and, eventually, to greater central-bank independence in Canada. Coyne was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Edna Margaret (née Elliott) and James Bowes Coyne, a judge at the Manitoba Court of Appeal, who was co-prosecutor of the men accused of seditious conspiracy in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. His grandfather was lawyer and historian James Henry Coyne. Coyne graduated Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1925, and had conferred upon him a BA in 1931 from the University of Manitoba. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, playing for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club, and in 1934 received a B.A. Jurisprudence and BCL. During World War II, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. From 1944 to 1949, Coyne was executive assistant to Graham Towers at the Bank of Canada and from 1950 until 1954 was Deputy Governor. He was appointed Governor in 1955, resigned in 1961, and was succeeded by Louis Rasminsky. He was the father of journalist Andrew Coyne and actress and playwright Susan Coyne, and stepfather of Sanford Riley, Patrick Riley and Nancy Riley. He was also an uncle of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne. The Coyne Affair, or the Coyne Crisis, was a public disagreement between the government of John Diefenbaker, notably the finance minister Donald Fleming, and the governor of the Bank of Canada. As Governor, Coyne heavily criticized the government's fiscal policies, in which the Diefenbaker government spent and borrowed heavily in an effort to stimulate growth amid a flagging economy. Government officials urged Coyne to lower interest rates and create economic activity. Coyne disagreed, arguing that loose-money policies were creating a debt crisis and that Canada was relying too much on capital exports and loans from the United States and that a tightening was needed. In speeches and brochures, he criticized the government's expansionary policies. The government took the position that an elected government, especially one elected with a large mandate, should direct monetary policy. Matters came to a head when Coyne raised his own pension, to $25,000, which Diefenbaker deemed excessive when he himself had no entitlement to one. The Conservative majority in the House of Commons passed a bill declaring his position vacant, but the Liberal-controlled Senate of Canada rejected it. Nevertheless, Coyne resigned the next day. For his role in this controversy, the Canadian Press named him Canadian Newsmaker of the Year in 1961. James Coyne James Elliott Coyne, (July 17, 1910 – October 12, 2012) was the second Governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate"
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"Radio New Zealand Radio New Zealand (), commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995. It operates a news and current-affairs network, RNZ National, and a classical-music and jazz network, RNZ Concert, with full government funding from New Zealand on Air. Since 2014, the organisation's focus has been to transform RNZ from a radio broadcaster to a multimedia outlet, increasing its production of digital content in audio, video, and written forms. The organisation plays a central role in New Zealand public broadcasting. By law, it is responsible for an international service (RNZ Pacific); this is broadcast to the South Pacific in both English and Pacific languages through its Pacific shortwave service. It has a statutory role under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 to act as a \"lifeline utility\" in emergency situations. The New Zealand Parliament also fully funds its AM network, used in part for the broadcast of Parliamentary proceedings. Government-funded public service radio in New Zealand was historically provided by the Radio Broadcasting Company between 1925 and 1931, the New Zealand Broadcasting Board between 1931 and 1936, the National Broadcasting Service between 1936 and 1962, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation between 1962 and 1975, and the Radio New Zealand state-owned enterprise between 1975 and 1995. The organisation placed a strong emphasis on training its staff in Received Pronunciation, until it began promoting local and indigenous accents in the 1990s. As part of the process of privatisation carried out by the fourth National government, the government's commercial radio operations were sold to private investors as The Radio Network in 1996 and the government's non-commercial assets (known previously as New Zealand Public Radio) became the current Radio New Zealand Crown entity. The broadcaster is bound by the Charter and Operating Principles included in the Radio New Zealand Act, which is reviewed by the New Zealand Parliament every five years. The Radio New Zealand Amendment Act received Royal assent on 1 April 2016. There were some amendments to the Radio New Zealand Charter which can be found at rnz.co.nz/about/charter. Purpose: (1) As an independent public service broadcaster, the public radio company’s purpose is to serve the public interest. (2) Freedom of thought and expression are foundations of democratic society and the public radio company as a public service broadcaster plays an essential role in exercising these freedoms. (3) The public radio company fosters a sense of national identity by contributing to tolerance and understanding, reflecting and promoting ethnic, cultural, and artistic diversity and expression. (4) The public radio company provides reliable, independent, and freely accessible news and information. RNZ broadcasts over three nationwide networks; RNZ National, RNZ Concert and the AM network which relays Parliamentary proceedings. RNZ Pacific (formerly Radio New Zealand International or RNZI) is our overseas shortwave service, broadcasting to the South Pacific and beyond, while Radio New Zealand News provides comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news and current affairs information. RNZ also allows for the archiving of broadcast material of historical interest. It must also produce and commission high quality programming based on research of public needs, and balance mass appeal and minority appeal programming. In achieving these objectives, it must be socially and financially responsible. RNZ National, formerly National Radio, is RNZ's comprehensive, authoritative and independent News and Current Affairs platform and is RNZ's core offering and the primary driver of audiences to RNZ; for both its own on-air and online services and also those from third party services. It includes the flagship news and current affairs programmes \"Morning Report\", \"Midday Report\" and \"Checkpoint\" as well as having news bulletins every hour. Its news service has specialist correspondents, overseas correspondents, reporters and a network of regional reporters. Magazine programmes include a broad range of contributors, interviews, music pieces and dramas, with reports and regular features in English and Māori. The network provides coverage of science, politics, philosophy, religion, rural affairs, sports and other topics. RNZ National broadcasts in AM and FM via mono terrestrial transmitters based around New Zealand and the Optus satellite. It is also available on Sky Digital TV channel 421, Freeview satellite channel 50, and RNZ National is available in stereo on the terrestrial Freeview HD service. You can visit RNZ's audience research page for up-to-date research for RNZ audiences. RNZ Concert is New Zealand’s fine music network. Concert promotes New Zealand music and composition and features live broadcasts of concerts and recitals, as well as international content from other public radio broadcasters, podcasts, and on-demand programmes. RNZ Concert is an FM radio network broadcasting classical and jazz music, as well as world music, specialist programmes and regular news updates. The network was previously known as Concert FM but the name was changed as part of a wider name change within Radio New Zealand to associate Concert FM with the RNZ brand. Some changes were made to RNZ Concert in February 2018 and you can read what's new and the reasons why here. The station broadcasts in FM stereo via terrestrial transmitters located around New Zealand, as well as from the Optus satellite. It is also available on Sky Digital TV channel 422, and on Freeview's satellite and terrestrial services on channel 51. The playlist is among the most diverse and eclectic of the world's state run classical music networks. The AM Network is a network of radio transmitters operated by RNZ which broadcast all sittings of the New Zealand Parliament through a contract with the Parliament. Sitting hours are seasonal, and may be extended due to certain circumstances, but are generally 14:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Thursday and 19:30 to 22:00 Tuesday and Wednesday. AM Network Parliamentary coverage is also streamed online, with podcasts and transcripts available. \"The House\" is broadcast on RNZ on the House sitting days at 6:55pm and 5:40am and Sunday at 7:30am and 10:45pm. It looks at legislation, issues and insights from Parliament. To help fund the operation of the station, RNZ has leased the remaining hours to Christian broadcaster Rhema Broadcasting Group since 1997, which uses the frequencies to broadcast the low-budget easy listening Southern Star network. The transmitters were previously used by The Concert Programme before it moved to FM broadcasting. The RNZ Pacific network broadcasts on shortwave and via Digital Radio Mondiale to New Zealand's neighbouring countries in the Pacific from transmitters located at Rangitaiki, near Taupo, in the North Island. There also is a relay via WRN Broadcast and a livestream on the internet. The network was previously known as RNZ International, or RNZI. RNZ has a wide variety of podcasts and series. RNZ's main news centres are located in Wellington and Auckland, with additional newsrooms in Whangarei, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Napier Hawkes Bay, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin. There is also a Parliamentary Press Gallery office situated in the Beehive in Wellington. Before 1996, the News service provided news to all commercial stations operated by Radio New Zealand as well as many independently owned stations. New owner The Radio Network launched its own news service. As well as on the hour news bulletins, the RNZ News service provides vital elements throughout RNZ's 24-hour programming schedule - programmes such as \"Morning Report with Susie Ferguson and Guyon Espiner\", \"Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan\", \"Midday Report\", and drive-time current affairs programme \"Checkpoint",
"series. RNZ's main news centres are located in Wellington and Auckland, with additional newsrooms in Whangarei, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Napier Hawkes Bay, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin. There is also a Parliamentary Press Gallery office situated in the Beehive in Wellington. Before 1996, the News service provided news to all commercial stations operated by Radio New Zealand as well as many independently owned stations. New owner The Radio Network launched its own news service. As well as on the hour news bulletins, the RNZ News service provides vital elements throughout RNZ's 24-hour programming schedule - programmes such as \"Morning Report with Susie Ferguson and Guyon Espiner\", \"Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan\", \"Midday Report\", and drive-time current affairs programme \"Checkpoint With John Campbell\" - bringing impartial news and information to New Zealanders every day. The RNZ website, radio.co.nz, was launched in October 2005 and includes news coverage, programme information, online station streaming and podcasting. RNZ National, RNZ Concert, AM Network Parliament coverage, and RNZ International are available as Windows Media Audio streams. Almost all RNZ-produced programmes are available back to January 2008, and have MP3 and Ogg Vorbis and download and podcasts options. Some material is not available due to insufficient copyright clearances. With rebranding, the radionz.co.nz website is referred to on-air as rnz.co.nz, which operates as a redirect. The website was awarded the Qantas Media Award for Best Website Design in 2007, a New Zealand Open Source Award in 2008, New Zealand Radio Award for Best Radio Website in 2009, and ONYA awards for \"Best use of HTML and CSS\" and \"Best Accessibility\" in 2010. The site was re-launched on 26 May 2013 with a new design and a custom CMS built using the open source Ruby On Rails framework. A further redesign of the website along with a site re-launch happened in July 2016. In October 2013, Radio New Zealand launched the youth-focused and non-commercial website 'The Wireless'. The website emerged from the push for a youth radio station as part of Radio New Zealand's offerings. Instead of creating a youth radio station, RNZ decided to create a website or online magazine that focused on 18- to 30-year-olds which would be more relevant to the demographic. Project manager Marcus Stickley noted that: \"RNZ has had the wisdom to recognize that it didn’t necessarily need to be under the RNZ brand. It needed to develop something specifically for that audience, and they’ve given us the freedom to go away and figure out exactly how to do that.\" The CEO of RNZ commented in April 2014 that \"The Wireless\" is “the most exciting innovation from RNZ in recent years.” Prior to 1996 Radio New Zealand operated a large number of commercial stations around New Zealand. These stations were typically local stations with their own local identity with the origin of many stations going back to the 1930s up until more recent stations created in the 1990s. In 1996 the New Zealand Government sold off all of their commercial stations to a syndicate that included United States radio company Clear Channel Communications and publisher Wilson & Horton, in New Zealand the new owner became known as The Radio Network. The following stations were previously owned by Radio New Zealand, some listed stations were closed down before the 1996 sale and Gore radio station Radio Hokonui was sold privately in 1994. All of the early local radio stations started by Radio New Zealand originally broadcast on an AM frequency. FM broadcasting did not begin in New Zealand until the 1980s. In the 1980s and early 1990s most stations listed below switched to an FM frequency but continued to broadcast on the original AM frequency. Some stations utilised the AM frequency for specialised shows such as local talkback, sports talk and local news shows. In 1993 the majority of these stations were split in two with the AM frequency used to broadcast Auckland based Newstalk ZB which was originally Auckland's 1ZB. The local station on the FM frequency adopted a common format and brand called Classic Hits with all stations retaining local programming under Radio New Zealand's operation. Radio New Zealand community stations operated in the heartland areas of New Zealand, typically these stations ran limited local programming such as a local breakfast show and at other times relayed a nearby station or relayed National Radio. Following the sale to The Radio Network most of these stations became part of the Community Radio Network with programming outside the breakfast show originating from Taupo. These stations later became part of the Classic Hits network in 2001. Radio New Zealand operated a youth network of stations under the ZM brand with the three original stations being in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The Auckland station 1ZM changed format in 1987 to Classic Hits leaving just the Wellington and Christchurch stations. Since the sale to The Radio Network ZM has been expanded to a nationwide network based in Auckland. Sports Roundup was a network which conducted seasonal sports broadcasts in the main centres during the 1980s and 1990s, particularly used to broadcast Cricket matches in New Zealand. Following the sale to The Radio Network, Sports Roundup became known as Radio Sport. Radio New Zealand Radio New Zealand (), commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New"
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"Shell tools in the Philippines Shell tools, in the archaeological perspective, were tools fashioned by pre-historic humans from shells in lieu of stone tools. The use of shell tools during pre-historic times was a practice common to inhabitants of environments that lack the abundance of hard stones for making tools. This was the case with the islands surrounding the Pacific, including the Philippines. Shells were fashioned into tools, as well as ornaments. From adzes, scoops, spoons, dippers and other tools to personal ornaments such as earrings, anklets, bracelets and beads. These different artefacts made of shells were unearthed from various archaeological sites from the country. Shell adzes were made by percussion flaking and grinding. A piece of shell was extracted from the main shell by either direct percussion flaking or possibly by sticking against an anvil underneath as in bipolar percussion flaking. The final shaping and finishing work was done by either grinding the shell against a wet abrasive surface such as sandstone or by grinding against loose wet sand placed on a hard surface. There are two locations on a giant clam that produces the largest pieces of shell. One is at the hinge and the other is at the ribs. Sections cut from these locations provide the thickest pieces of shell and the largest adzes. The shells of giant clams were fashioned into large spherical beads with holes drilled end to end at the center while pendants for the ear were ground from cone shells. Perforations were drilled at the center of the disk. Bracelets and anklets were both made from giant clams and cone shells. Shell bracelets made from the top shoulder of the body whorls of cone shells (Conus litteratus) are characteristic of the Late Neolithic Age. The natural spiral found along the shoulders of the shell serves as a decorative motif. The oldest known ornaments made from cone shells were found in the early 1960s in the grave of an adult male in Duyong Cave in Palawan. A shell disk with a hole in the center was found next to his right ear and a disk with a hole by the edge was found on his chest. The shell ornaments were dated 4854 B.C. Duyong Cave, near the Tabon Caves of Palawan's western coast (Philippines) produced a \"Neolithic Burial\" with four Tridacna shell adzes and two different types of shell ornaments as well as other types of shell tools. The calibrated Carbon 14 date for the burial is 3,675 - 3,015 B.C. and 4,575 - 4,425 B.C. for a nearby fire hearth that also had shell debris associated with it. Manufactured from the hinge line of a giant clam (Tridacna gigas), the shell adze was found associated with a Neolithic burial assemblage in Duyong Cave, Quezon, Palawan. This shell tool is similar to the shell adzes recovered in Okinawa, Japan. Shells were used as tools in the Pacific as a replacement for hard stones which were not available on the islands. The presence of shell adzes not only in Palawan but also in Tawi-Tawi is very significant in the study of movements of people from the insular Southeast Asia to the Pacific. This shell tool is similar to the shell adzes recovered in Micronesia and Ryukyu Islands in Okinawa, Japan. The Manunggul Shell Spoon is a concave utensil with a sharp point at one end and a figure at the other end. The latter has a right extremity that forms to what appears like an arm with five digits. The left extremity and the head are missing. The outer surface of the body whorl near the figure has an angular shoulder. This shell spoon is not bilaterally symmetrical. The Mataas shell scoop is a concave utensil with a sharp point at one end and a figure at the other end. The latter has a right extremity that forms to what appears like an arm with five digits. The left extremity and the head are missing. The outer surface of the body whorl near the figure has an angular shoulder. This shell scoop, recovered in Cagraray Island, Albay is not bilaterally symmetrical. Shell scoops made from the body whorl of Turbo marmoratus first appeared in the Late Neolithic Period at Manunggul Cave, Quezon, Palawan. Up to the Metal Age, shells were the major material for the manufacture of both tools and ornaments but shell technology attained its highest development during the Neolithic Period. At present, the people of Palawan living near Tabon Caves still fashion bracelets from shells. The boring and polishing of the shell ornaments is done with stone tools. Shells were found to be useful during pre-historic times when they provided an alternative material for the production of tools which made the development of pre-historic humans possible. These tools were found in various sites which suggests the vast reaches of its utility. Even up to the present many cultures and traditions still make use of these shells as either tools or ornaments. Although the use of shells as tools may have become just a ceremonial practice but its use as ornamentation still persists. Shell tools in the Philippines Shell tools, in the archaeological perspective, were tools fashioned by pre-historic humans from shells in lieu of stone tools. The use of shell tools during pre-historic times was a practice common to inhabitants of environments that lack the abundance of hard stones for making tools. This"
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"Mary Wilkinson Streep Mary Wolf Wilkinson Streep (July 30, 1915 – September 29, 2001) was an American fine-artist and art editor. She was also the mother of actress Meryl Streep. Born Mary Wolf Wilkinson in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Mary Agnes (née Wolf; 1886-1976) and Harry Rockefellow Wilkinson. She grew up in Madison, New Jersey, graduating from Madison High School, she then studied Fine art at the Art Students League in New York. Streep trained as a fine artist and became the art-editor for Home Furnishings Magazine and also did commercial artwork on an freelance basis. Mary had an art studio in the back of her home. She married Harry William Streep Jr, a pharmaceutical company executive. They had a daughter, Mary Louise \"Meryl\" Streep and two sons: Dana Streep and Harry William Streep III (husband of actress Maeve Kinkead). She is also the grandmother of Streep's children, musician Henry Wolfe, actresses Mamie Gummer and Grace Gummer, and model Louisa Gummer. Her daughter's husband, Don Gummer is also an artist, a sculptor. Her daughter Meryl Streep has often stated in interviews that her mother has been the inspiration for some her characters she has played on the screen. Mary enrolled her daughter in voice lessons at the age of twelve after noticing her daughter's need to perform. Streep died at Cornell Medical Center from complications of heart disease after a short illness. Her husband died two years later on July 22, 2003, aged 92. They were residents of Mason's Island, Connecticut. Mary Wilkinson Streep Mary Wolf Wilkinson Streep (July 30, 1915 – September 29, 2001) was an American fine-artist and art editor. She was also the mother of actress Meryl Streep. Born Mary Wolf Wilkinson in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Mary Agnes (née Wolf; 1886-1976) and"
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"Kyler Jukes Kyler Jukes (born April 9, 1979) is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Jukes played three season (1998-2000) as a defensive lineman with the Okanagan Sun Football Club of the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) winning a National Championship in 2000. During his rookie year, Jukes played defensive end, starting the last half of the season including 1998 CJFL National Championship, which the Okanagan Sun lost to the Regina Rams, 36-13. During the 1999 season, Jukes moved to defensive tackle starting all 10 regular season games, playoffs, and the 1999 CJFL National Championship, which the Okanagan Sun lost to the Windsor AKO Fratmen, 32-29. During the Okanagan Sun's 2000 national championship season, Jukes played on the defensive line culminating in being named the most outstanding defensive lineman and a conference all-star. Played four seasons (2001-2004) with the University of Regina Rams. Spent the first three seasons of his college playing career as a dominant defensive player. Twice named most outstanding defensive lineman. In 2004, made the switch from the defensive to offensive line to improve his chances of being selected in the 2005 CFL Canadian College Draft. Kyler Jukes is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) offensive lineman who is now retired. Selected in the fourth round, 27th overall in 2005 CFL draft by the Calgary Stampeders Football Club, Jukes officially signed with the club on May 26 and subsequently reported to training camp. He spent the entire 2005 season as a backup offensive lineman with the football club. Following the 2006 Stampeders training camp, Jukes was a final cut. He then signed as a free agent with the Toronto Argonauts on August 31, 2006, making his debut with the Argonauts 40-6 Labour Day Classic victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Ivor Wynne Stadium. Jukes was then traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats football club on September 12, 2006. He made his Tiger-Cats debut in Hamilton’s 20-18 victory over the Edmonton Eskimos at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on September 22, 2006. On January 3, 2007, Jukes signed a 2-year contract extension with the Hamilton club. He officially retired prior to the start of the 2008 training camp. Kyler Jukes Kyler Jukes (born April 9, 1979) is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Jukes played three season (1998-2000) as a defensive lineman with the Okanagan Sun Football Club of the"
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"IBM cloud computing IBM cloud computing is a set of cloud computing services for business offered by the information technology company IBM. IBM cloud includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offered through public, private and hybrid cloud delivery models, in addition to the components that make up those clouds. IBM offers three hardware platforms for cloud computing. These platforms offer built-in support for virtualization. For virtualization IBM offers IBM Websphere application infrastructure solutions that support programming models and open standards for virtualization. The management layer of the IBM cloud framework includes IBM Tivoli middleware. Management tools provide capabilities to regulate images with automated provisioning and de-provisioning, monitor operations and meter usage while tracking costs and allocating billing. The last layer of the framework provides integrated workload tools. Workloads for cloud computing are services or instances of code that can be executed to meet specific business needs. IBM offers tools for cloud based collaboration, development and test, application development, analytics, business-to-business integration, and security. IBM cloud computing emerged from the union of its mainframe computing and virtualization technologies. Known as the original virtualization company, IBM’s first experiments in virtualization occurred in the 1960s with the development of the virtual machine (VM) on CP-40 and CP-67 operating systems. CP-67, a hypervisor used for software testing and development, enabled memory sharing across VMs while giving each user their own virtual memory space. With the machine partitioned into separate VMs, mainframes could run multiple applications and processes at the same time, making the hardware more efficient and cost-effective. IBM began selling VM technology for the mainframe in 1972. In February 1990, IBM released the RS/6000 (which later became known as POWER processor) based servers. The servers, in combination with the IBM mainframe, were built for complex and mission-critical virtualization. Power systems servers include PowerVM hypervisors with live partition mobility and active memory sharing. Live migration was introduced with POWER6 in May 2007. Next, IBM looked to implement standardization and automation in their technology in order to keep up with the proliferation of data produced by increasingly efficient hardware and data centers. This combination of virtualization, standardization and automation led to the development of IBM cloud computing. IBM began to develop a strategy for cloud computing in 2007, announcing that it planned to build clouds for enterprise clients and provide services to fill what it regarded as gaps in existing cloud environments. In October 2007, IBM announced a partnership with Google to promote cloud computing in universities. In addition to donating hardware and machines, the two companies also provided a curriculum to teach students about cloud computing. IBM claimed in April 2011 that 80% of Fortune 500 companies were using IBM cloud, and that their software and services were used by more than 20 million end-user customers, with clients including American Airlines, Aviva, Carfax, Frito-Lay, IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company, and 7-Eleven. On 4 June 2013 IBM announced its acquisition of SoftLayer, to form an IBM Cloud Services Division. By March 4, 2014 IBM acquired Cloudant. The IBM SmartCloud brand includes infrastructure as a service, software as a service and platform as a service offered through public, private and hybrid cloud delivery models. IBM places these offerings under three umbrellas: SmartCloud Foundation, SmartCloud Services and SmartCloud Solutions. SmartCloud Foundation consists of the infrastructure, hardware, provisioning, management, integration and security that serve as the underpinnings of a private or hybrid cloud. Built using those foundational components, PaaS, IaaS and backup services make up SmartCloud Services. Running on this cloud platform and infrastructure, SmartCloud Solutions consist of a number of collaboration, analytics and marketing SaaS applications. IBM also builds cloud environments for clients that are not necessarily on the SmartCloud Platform. For example, features of the SmartCloud platform—such as Tivoli management software or IBM Systems Director virtualization—can be integrated separately as part of a non-IBM cloud platform. The SmartCloud platform consists solely of IBM hardware, software, services and practices. IBM SmartCloud Enterprise and SmartCloud Enterprise+ compete with products like those of Rackspace and Amazon Web Services. Erich Clementi, vice president of Global Technology Services at IBM, said in 2012 that the goal with SmartCloud Enterprise and SmartCloud Enterprise+ was to provide an Amazon EC2-like experience primarily for test and development purposes and to provide a more robust experience for production workloads. In 2011, IBM SmartCloud integrated Hadoop-based InfoSphere BigInsights for big data, Green Hat for software testing and Nirvanix for cloud storage. In 2012, the then new CEO Virginia Rometty said the company planned to spend $20 billion on acquisitions by 2015. Users may build their own private cloud or purchase services hosted on the IBM cloud. Users may also purchase IBM hardware, software and services to build their customized cloud environment. By 2014, the name SmartCloud was replaced with products that have a prefix of IBM Cloud. A product called IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack was IBM's integration of OpenStack along with a multitude of value additions that would serve enterprise customers. A product called IBM Cloud Orchestrator would serve the orchestration needs of an enterprise. The aforementioned SmartCloud products have been discontinued. By 2016, the aforementioned product called IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack was discontinued, although the services organization may be using other versions of OpenStack for large scale cloud deployments. IBM offers cloud delivery options including solely private cloud, solely public cloud, and variations in between. Private, public and hybrid clouds are not strictly distinct, as IBM allows the option to build a customized cloud solution out of a combination of public cloud and private cloud elements. Companies that prefer to keep all data and processes behind their own firewall can use private cloud services managed by their own IT staff. A company may also choose pay-as-you-go pricing. Hybrid cloud options allow for some processes to be hosted and managed by IBM, while others are kept on a private cloud or on a VPN or VLAN. IBM also offers planning and consultation throughout the deployment process. IBM offers five cloud provision models: The majority of cloud users choose a hybrid cloud model, with some workloads being served by internal systems, some from commercial cloud providers and some from public cloud service providers. On August 25, 2011, IBM announced the release of a new hybrid cloud model orchestrated by IBM WebSphere Cast Iron integration of on- and off-premises resources. Enterprises can use Cast Iron integration to link their public cloud appliances— hosted on environments like Amazon EC2, Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Oracle CRM, SugarCRM and a number of others—to their existing systems or in-house, private cloud environments. Cast Iron Integration aims to reduce the time and effort needed for customized coding, in favor of simple workload provisioning through Tivoli Management Framework. The IBM public cloud offering, SmartCloud Enterprise, was launched on April 7, 2011. SCE is hosted IaaS with service level agreements (SLA)s, and can be offered in a private, public or hybrid model. The environment is hosted on IBM servers (System p or System x), with a standard set of software images to choose from. For customers who perceive that the",
"resources. Enterprises can use Cast Iron integration to link their public cloud appliances— hosted on environments like Amazon EC2, Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Oracle CRM, SugarCRM and a number of others—to their existing systems or in-house, private cloud environments. Cast Iron Integration aims to reduce the time and effort needed for customized coding, in favor of simple workload provisioning through Tivoli Management Framework. The IBM public cloud offering, SmartCloud Enterprise, was launched on April 7, 2011. SCE is hosted IaaS with service level agreements (SLA)s, and can be offered in a private, public or hybrid model. The environment is hosted on IBM servers (System p or System x), with a standard set of software images to choose from. For customers who perceive that the security risk of cloud computing adoption is too high, IBM offers private cloud services. IDEAS International wrote in a white paper, \"IBM believes that its clients are currently more comfortable with private clouds than public or hybrid clouds, and that many are ready to deploy fundamental business applications in private clouds.\" For building strictly private clouds, IBM offers IBM Workload Deployer and Cloudburst as ready-to-deploy, “cloud in a box” style solutions. Cloudburst provides blade servers, middleware and virtualization for an enterprise to build its own cloud-ready virtual machines. Workload Deployer connects an enterprise’s existing servers to virtualization components and middleware in order to help deploy standardized virtual machines designed by IBM. For customers who prefer to perform their own integration of private clouds, IBM offers a choice of hardware and software building blocks, along with recommendations and a reference architecture, prior to deployment. Clients may choose from IBM virtualization-enabled servers, middleware and SaaS applications. IBM participates in several cloud standards initiatives within various standards development organizations involved in cloud service models IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, all of which work toward improvements in cloud interoperability and security. IBM is a member of The Open Group, a council that works for the development of open, vendor-neutral IT standards and certifications. Other members of the group include HP, Oracle, SAP and numerous others. IBM contributed the Cloud Computing Reference Architecture in February 2011 to The Open Group as the basis of an industry-wide cloud architecture. IBM’s CCRA is based on real-world input from many cloud implementations across IBM. It is intended to be used as a blueprint/guide for architecting cloud implementations, driven by functional and non-functional requirements of the respective cloud implementation. HP and Microsoft have also published Cloud Computing Reference Architectures. Within the IaaS space, IBM is a member of the Cloud Management Work Group (CMWG) within the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), which released a draft version of their IaaS APIs, called the Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI), on September 14, 2011. The CIMI APIs define a logical model for the management of resources within the Infrastructure as a Service domain. With these APIs, clients can create, manage and connect machines, volumes and networks. For PaaS and SaaS standards, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, Citrix, EMC and others contribute to the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) technical committee within Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), which aims to provide a standardized way of managing the lifecycle of cloud services, for portability of cloud based applications. TOSCA's goal is to advance an interoperability standard that will make it easier to deploy cloud applications without vendor lock-in, while maintaining application requirements for security, governance, and compliance. IBM participates in a number of cloud security related standards including the DMTF Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) working group, and the OASIS Identity in the Cloud (IDCloud) technical committee. CADF is designed to address the need for a cloud provider to provide specific audit event, log and report information on a per-tenant and application basis. IDCloud aims to addresses the serious security challenges posed by identity management in cloud computing and investigates the need for profiles to achieve interoperability within current standards. IBM founded the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) in April 2011, with the Object Management Group (OMG) Kaavo, Rackspace and Software AG, as an end user advocacy group that aimed to accelerate adoption of cloud services and eliminate barriers to security and interoperability associated with the transition to the cloud. In addition to contributing standards requirements to various standards development organizations (SDO), the CSCC also creates guides that companies can use on their own path to cloud adoption. March 2018 July 2016 October 2014 March 2014 October 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 April 2011 November 2010 October 2010 July 2010 February 2010 November 2009 October 2009 June 2009 January 2009 IBM cloud computing IBM cloud computing is a set of cloud computing services for business offered by the information technology company IBM. 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"Streets of Bakersfield \"Streets of Bakersfield\" is a 1973 song written by Homer Joy and popularized by Buck Owens. In 1988, Owens recorded a duet version with country singer Dwight Yoakam, which became one of Yoakam's first No. 1 Hot Country Singles hits. According to Homer Joy, the original songwriter, he was approached in 1972 by representatives from Buck Owens' studio in Bakersfield, California, about recording a \"Hank Williams Sr. soundalike-album\". Joy initially refused, saying \"I don't want be like Hank, I just want to be me!\" Eventually, he agreed to come in and record it, on the condition that he would also get to record some of his own songs as well. After the recording, however, the studio manager told Joy that he'd forgotten that the Buckaroos (Buck Owens' band) were practicing for an upcoming tour, and that Joy would have to wait to record his songs. Refusing to back down, Joy would show up at the studio at 8:00 every morning, only to be told that the Buckaroos were busy and that he would still have to wait. One night, Joy decided to take a walk around downtown Bakersfield, only to have the brand-new cowboy boots he'd been wearing to wear blisters all over his feet: \"[I] barely made it back to the car, and on top of that, I was still upset about everything, and I went back to my hotel room and wrote \"Streets of Bakersfield\"\". As usual, Joy went to the studio at 8:00 the following morning, and the studio manager, out of frustration, grabbed a guitar off of the wall and gave it to Joy, saying, \"Sing me one of the songs that you'd record if we could get some time to record it.\" As kind of an \"in-your-face\" gesture, Joy performed his eight-hour-old \"Streets of Bakersfield\". Afterward, the studio producer went into the back of the studio, brought out Buck Owens, and had Joy play it again. Owens then said to the manager, \"The Buckaroos have the day off, but you call them and tell them that we're going to do a recording session on Homer this afternoon.\" Buck Owens released a recording of the song in 1973, and while that version wasn't a major hit, the re-recording he did with Dwight Yoakam in 1988 (with slightly changed lyrics) reached #1 on the Billboard Country Music charts. The song details the journey of the narrator, told in first person, to Bakersfield, saying \"I came here looking for something | I couldn't find anywhere else | I don't want to be nobody | Just want a chance to be myself\" and \"I've done a thousand miles of thumbing | And I've wore blisters on my heels | trying to find me something better | here on the streets of Bakersfield\". (Both of these stanzas came from Homer Joy's experience in Bakersfield leading up to him writing the song). The chorus (originally a poke at the studio producer) says, \"You don't know me but you don't like me | You say you care less how I feel | But how many of you that sit and judge me | Ever walk the streets of Bakersfield?\". The second half of the song details an incident in San Francisco where the narrator is arrested and has to spend a night in jail, presumably for vagrancy. During the night that he was incarcerated, the police throw a drunk man in the narrator's jail cell. While he was passed out, the narrator takes $15 from the drunk man, leaving him his watch and his old house key, saying \"I don't like folks thinking that I'd steal | Then I thanked him as he was sleeping | and I headed out for Bakersfield\" (whether or not this was something that actually happened to Joy is unknown). The music video for the Yoakam/Owens single was directed by Marcus Stevens. Actor and comedian Vince Vaughn sang the song live with Dwight Yoakam to a live audience in Bakersfield, California on his Wild West Comedy Tour. Streets of Bakersfield \"Streets of Bakersfield\" is a 1973 song written by Homer Joy and popularized by Buck Owens. In 1988, Owens recorded a duet version with"
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"Matt Carroll (producer) Matthew Carroll (born 6 June 1944) is an Australian film and TV producer. He is best known for producing films since the early 1970s including \"Breaker Morant\", \"Storm Boy\" and \"Sunday Too Far Away\". Later, he went into television production, producing the television series \"G.P.\" for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He was a principal in the production house Roadshow, Coote and Carroll which produced television shows for Australian and international audiences. Carroll was born in 1944 in Sydney. Originally, he studied to be an architect at the University of New South Wales – where he met Jim Sharman, Brian Thomson and others – but became involved in television, working on \"Skippy\" and \"Spyforce\" while completing his degree. He formed Kolossal Productions with Jim Sharman in 1972. The company produced \"Private Collection\" and \"Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens\" neither of which achieved popular or critical success. Carroll joined the South Australian Film Corporation in 1973. His first significant role as producer was \"Sunday Too Far Away\" in 1975 produced with Gil Brealey. There were significant disagreements in post-production as several minutes were cut from the film, causing friction with director Ken Hannam. However, the finished film was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival, opened the Sydney Film Festival and won the Golden Reel at the 1974–75 Australian Film Awards. \"Storm Boy\", produced the next year, was another critical success. It was a popular children's film both in Australia and Britain and won a medal at the Moscow Film Festival in 1977 for Best Children's Film. Carroll produced \"Breaker Morant\" in 1980 which was another critical success. Carroll left the South Australian Film Corporation in 1983. In 1984, Carroll joined the television production company Roadshow Coote Carroll as managing director. It produced Australian television series and miniseries which were sold to Australian broadcasters and to international broadcasters in the UK, the Public Broadcasting Service or cable broadcasters and to European broadcasters. He produced the 1988 miniseries \"True Believers\" written by Bob Ellis, a dramatisation of Australian political life between 1940 and 1954. It was a particular favourite of Paul Keating who stated in his 1993 victory speech: \"This is a victory for the true believers, for those who kept the faith through difficult times\". In 1992 Carroll produced the film \"Turtle Beach\", based on the 1981 Blanche d'Alpuget book of the same name. It caused controversy in Malaysia where the Government took exception to scenes of Malays executing refugees. Between 1989 and 1996 he produced \"G.P.\" for the ABC, which was set in an inner-Sydney suburb, with locations shot mainly in the Newtown area. It was shown on Thames Television in the UK from 1990. Carroll was proud of its focus on social issues. The show won a Human Rights Award in 1989 for its portrayal of a young child dying of AIDS. During his time at Roadshow Coote Carroll, he was also involved in the development of the highly acclaimed \"Brides of Christ\" set in a Sydney convent during the 1960s. Carroll set up as an independent producer in 1995. His first production was the 1996 film \"Diana & Me\" starring Toni Collette, which failed to break through commercially or critically. In 1999, he produced the first series of the science fiction series \"Farscape\" as well as the film \"Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger\". In 2003, he produced \"The Postcard Bandit\", which was nominated for Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie in the Logie Awards of 2004. Matt Carroll (producer) Matthew Carroll (born 6 June 1944) is an Australian film and TV producer. He is best"
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"James Eddie James Eddie (born 3 June 1985) is a Scottish former professional Rugby Union player. He played as a flanker or lock for Glasgow Warriors in the Guinness PRO12. Eddie has represented both Scotland A and Scotland Sevens and has made 126 appearances for his club since joining as an apprentice in 2004 and earning his professional contract in 2006. On 26 April 2016 James Eddie announced his retirement from playing professional rugby with immediate effect. A huge fans favourite, Eddie paid tribute to the fans on his retiral: \"The Glasgow Warriors supporters have always had my back, they've been amazing and I want to thank them for all the support they've given me.\" This was echoed by Gregor Townsend: “James has been a great role model for what the Warriors are all about - working hard every day to improve himself and also doing all he can to get the best out of his teammates. He has also been a great ambassador for the club and is rightly held in high regard from our supporters.\" In May 2016 he was named as Specialist Skills Coach for GHA. James Eddie James Eddie (born 3 June 1985) is a Scottish"
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"Jonathan Hadary Jonathan Hadary (born October 11, 1948) is an American actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, Hadary arrived at Tufts University already an accomplished actor. He was cast in many shows at Tufts, both student and faculty directed. During his sophomore year, he became an understudy for the Boston company of \"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown\". This being the Vietnam era, the actor playing Charlie Brown was drafted. The actor playing Schroeder was moved to the Charlie Brown role, and Hadary took the part of Schroeder. He finished the Boston run of the show and the toured with it for some time. Hadary made his New York City stage debut in the 1976 Playwrights Horizons staging of Albert Innaurato's \"Gemini\". Critical acclaim for the off-Broadway production resulted in it transferring to PAF Playhouse and then to Circle Repertory Company, and finally to Broadway, where it ran for 1819 performances. Hadary worked off-Broadway again on the 1979 Howard Ashman and Alan Menken musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's \"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater\", Ted Tally's 1980 play \"Coming Attractions\", and the 1981 Tom Lehrer revue \"Tom Foolery\". The following year he returned to Broadway to replace Harvey Fierstein in \"Torch Song Trilogy\". A member of the acting company at Circle Repertory Company, Hadary won an Obie Award for his performance in the 1985 William M. Hoffman play \"As Is\" at Circle Rep, and again, the play moved to Broadway, where it was nominated for three Tony Awards and won the Drama Desk Award for Best Play. In 1989, he co-starred opposite Tyne Daly in \"\", which earned him Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations. Hadary played the role of Roy Cohn in the national touring production of \"Millennium Approaches\", the first part of Tony Kushner's theatrical epic \"Angels in America\" in 1994-95. He also appeared in the 2006 revival of \"Awake and Sing!\", for which he shared the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. He most recently portrayed King Arthur in the Broadway production of \"Monty Python's Spamalot\". Hadary's feature film credits include \"A Time to Kill\", \"Private Parts\", and \"Intolerable Cruelty\". On television he has appeared in \"Miami Vice\", \"Party of Five\", \"Law & Order\", \"\", \"Hope and Faith\", \"Sex and the City\", \"Louie\". \"Veep\" and \"The Heart, She Holler\". Notes Jonathan Hadary Jonathan Hadary (born October 11, 1948) is an American actor."
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"Mahattaya Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja (1956 – 28 December 1994), also known as Mahattaya was a member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who was killed for leaking secrets to India's RAW. Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja was related to Velupillai Prabhakaran, former LTTE leader. He was born in Point Pedro. Mahattaya joined the LTTE in 1978. In 1987 he became the deputy leader of the LTTE, and in 1989 he became the head of the short-lived People's Front of Liberation Tigers, a political party founded by the LTTE. Mahattaya is the person who was leading to most of the attacks done by LTTE when Prabakaran was in India until 1986. Mahattaya was sent to Jaffna by Prabakaran to inquire the conflict matters arose between LTTE and University of Jaffna in 1986 as a uni student Vijetharan was kidnapped and killed by Kittu group. Prabakaran returned to Jaffna at the end of 1986. Mahattaya was second in command at one time in the LTTE. Velupillai Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman found out that he was leaking information to India's RAW, which helped the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) destroy LTTE bases, and kill innocent Tamil civilians. Mahattaya group was famous for doing all well planned attacks. In 1993, the LTTE took him into custody. He was executed on December 28, 1994 by the LTTE. Mahattaya Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja (1956 – 28 December 1994), also known as Mahattaya was a member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who was killed for leaking secrets to India's RAW. Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja was related to Velupillai Prabhakaran, former LTTE leader. He was born in Point Pedro. Mahattaya joined the LTTE in 1978. In 1987 he became the deputy leader of the LTTE, and in 1989 he became the head of the short-lived People's Front of Liberation Tigers, a political party founded by"
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"Not Tonight \"Not Tonight\" is a song performed by the American rap artist Lil' Kim, featuring Jermaine Dupri, for her debut studio album \"Hard Core\" (1996). A remix was made the next year, featuring Lil' Kim with other female rappers including Da Brat, Missy \"Misdeameanor\" Elliott, Angie Martinez, and Lisa \"Left Eye\" Lopes from the \"Nothing to Lose\" soundtrack. The song became a hit in the U.S., peaking at number 6 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and number 2 on the Rap Songs chart. The original version of \"Not Tonight\" was featured on Lil' Kim's first album \"Hard Core\" (1996). It was produced by Jermaine Dupri, who was also featured on the song. The remix, known as \"Not Tonight (Ladies Night Remix)\" (1997) was released as a single and was performed by Lil' Kim, Da Brat, Missy Elliott, Angie Martinez and Lisa \"Left Eye\" Lopes\" and was featured on the \"Nothing to Lose\" soundtrack. This version samples \"Ladies' Night\" by Kool & the Gang. The remix became a top 40 hit in the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and the Netherlands. It was produced by Rashad \"Ringo\" Smith. The video was shot in West Palm Beach, Florida, from June 27 to 28, 1997. The video starts showing the girls on a boat and eventually in a jungle setting. The music video shows clips from the movie \"Nothing to Lose\". It also features guest appearances from other female celebrities including Mary J. Blige, T-Boz, Queen Latifah, SWV, Xscape, Blaque, Changing Faces, Total, and Maia Campbell. Credits from \"Not Tonight\" are taken from the single's liner notes. Recording Personnel Not Tonight \"Not Tonight\" is a song performed by the American rap artist Lil' Kim, featuring Jermaine Dupri, for her debut studio album \"Hard Core\" (1996). A remix was made the next"
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"Fred Jackson (saxophonist) Fred Jackson (born 1929) is an American rhythm and blues and jazz tenor saxophonist. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson began his career as an R&B saxophonist. He performed in Little Richard's band from 1951 until 1953. Jackson also accompanied vocalist Billy Wright, appearing on several recordings for Savoy Records. Later in the decade, he joined vocalist Lloyd Price's band, performing in concert tours during a peak in Price's popularity. Jackson also served as the bandleader for vocalist Chuck Willis. In 1961, Jackson recorded with B.B. King. Jackson began making jazz recordings during the early 1960s, accompanying soul jazz organists such as John Patton and Baby Face Willette on several Blue Note albums. In 1962, he recorded one album, \"Hootin' 'n Tootin'\", under his own name for Blue Note. (The album's organist, Earl Van Dyke, joined the Funk Brothers at Motown.) Jackson led a subsequent recording session for Blue Note, but these tracks were not released until 1998, when they were appended to the CD edition of \"Hootin n Tootin\". After the mid-1960s, Jackson continued playing R&B and soul music but largely disappeared from the jazz scene. With Baby Face Willette With Big John Patton With others Fred"
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"Banff-Windermere Highway The Banff-Windermere Highway, also known as the Banff-Windermere Parkway, is a highway which runs through the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia and Alberta. It runs from Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia to Castle Junction, Alberta (midway between Banff and Lake Louise), passing through Kootenay National Park and Banff National Park. It is designated as part of British Columbia Highway 93 and Alberta Highway 93. The Banff-Windermere Highway begins at British Columbia Highway 95 in village of Radium Hot Springs at the north end of the Highway 93/95 concurrency, approximately north of Windermere Lake where the highway gains its name. The highway passes through the village, passing numerous tourist services, overlooking Sinclair Creek. Approximately northeast of Highway 95, it enters Kootenay National Park, passing through the park gates. It continues through Sinclair Canyon and the Radium Hot Springs pools before passing through a short tunnel. East of the tunnel, the speed limit increases to and begins its climb to Sinclair Pass, reaching an elevation of . East of the summit, the highway reaches a viewpoint of the Kootenay River valley, where it turns north and descends into the valley. The highway follows the Kootenay River to and area known as \"Kootenay Crossing\", where the highway crosses the river and follows the Vermilion River. The highway follows the valley northeast and climbs up to Vermilion Pass at the Continental Divide, reaching an elevation of . At the summit, the highway leaves both British Columbia and Kootenay National Park, entering Alberta and Banff National Park. The highway descends into the Bow River valley, with a full view of Castle Mountain, and intersects the Trans-Canada Highway (Alberta Highway 1) at Castle Junction, approximately west of Banff. From there, Highway 93 follows Highway 1 to Lake Louise, while the roadway (still referred to as part of the \"Banff-Windermere Highway\") continues another to the Bow Valley Parkway (Alberta Highway 1A) on the north side of the Bow River. The corridor along the Kootenay and Vermilion Rivers had been uses as a first nations travel route for thousands of years. In 1858, Sir James Hector travelled through Vermilion Pass and recommended that it would be the best route for a wagon road. In the early 1900s settlers in the Columbia Valley advocated for improved connections with Banff and Calgary and lobbied the BC provincial government to construct a road. With the overall goal of constructing an all-Canadian road between the Canadian Prairies and Pacific Ocean, the Alberta provincial and federal governments were consulted. Construction began in 1911, and by 1914 the road was opened between Calgary and Vermilion Pass as well as a western section. The outbreak of World War I resulted in a suspension of construction, and following the conclusion of the war the British Columbia provincial government did not have enough funds to complete the project. The \"Banff-Windermere Road Agreement\" was reached whereby the federal government would complete the remaining of road, and in exchange they would receive a buffer of land on each side of the highway for conservation purposes; approximately in total. This resulted in the creation of Kootenay National Park. The road opened in 1922 and was first highway to cross the Central Canadian Rockies, with the Kicking Horse Trail across Kicking Horse Pass (the corridor which eventually became part of the Trans-Canada Highway) opening in 1926, connecting Lake Louise and Golden. The Banff-Windermere Highway took on the designation of \"Route 'U in the 1930s until 1941 when British Columbia adopted a numbered highway system, and was designated as Highway 1B\"'. In 1953, the highway between Roosville and Elko opened and was designated as \"Highway 93\" as it was a northern extension of U.S. Route 93, and in 1959 the Banff-Windermere Highway and Icefields Parkway were renumbered to be a part of Highway 93. From south to north: Banff-Windermere Highway The Banff-Windermere Highway, also known as the Banff-Windermere Parkway, is a highway which runs through the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia and Alberta. It runs from Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia to Castle Junction, Alberta (midway between Banff and Lake Louise), passing through Kootenay National Park and Banff National Park. It is designated as part of British Columbia Highway 93"
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"Constance Quéniaux Constance Quéniaux (born on 9 July 1832 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne; died 7 April 1908 in Paris) was a dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet and the likely model for Gustave Courbet's painting \"L'Origine du monde\". Constance Quéniaux was born to Marie Catherine Quéniaux in Saint-Quentin on 9 July 1832. Her mother was unmarried and she grew up in poverty. She joined the ballet corps of the Paris Opera in 1847, performing minor roles in its repertoire. She rose to secondary soloist position along with Claudina Couqui, receiving acclaim. She combined her dance career with prostitution. By the age of 34, she had retired from the Opera and was eyeing the favour of an Ottoman diplomat, Halil Şerif Pasha. Quéniaux was a model for several works, including the \"Portrait de Mademoiselle Constance Quéniaux, de l'Académie Impériale de Musique\" (1867), by Jules-Émile Saintin, Quéniaux in later life was well-off, owning a villa in Cabourg. She became a philanthropist, actively supporting, for instance, the \"Orphelinat des Arts\", an institution for orphaned or abandoned children of artists. She died in Paris on 7 April 1908. In her will, she left a Courbet painting of camellias. This flower, since the publication of Alexandre Dumas fils' \"La Dame aux Camélias\" had been associated with courtesans. Halil Şerif Pasha was a notable collector of arts. He commissioned Gustave Courbet to paint Quéniaux, whom he called his \"lucky charm\". The work \"L'Origine du monde\" hides the model's face. While her identity was known at the time, as Quéniaux grew respectable, the information was lost. Indeed, experts long identified the model with Joanna Hiffernan, an Irish model who was Courbet's lover. Correspondence between Alexandre Dumas and George Sand was discovered in 2018 by a French historian, Claude Schopp, referring to this painting. It mentions “One does not paint the most delicate and the most sonorous interior of Miss Queniault (sic) of the Opera.” This combined with Quéniaux's bequest of Courbet's painting of camellias (associated with courtesans) strongly suggests that Constance Quéniaux was Courbet's model. Constance Quéniaux Constance Quéniaux (born on 9 July 1832 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne; died 7 April 1908 in Paris) was a dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet and the likely model for Gustave Courbet's painting \"L'Origine du monde\". Constance Quéniaux was born to Marie Catherine Quéniaux in Saint-Quentin on 9 July 1832. Her mother was unmarried and she grew up in poverty. She joined"
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"Segundo Montes Segundo Montes, S.J. (Valladolid, Spain, May 15, 1933 – San Salvador, El Salvador, November 16, 1989) was a scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest. He was one of the victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador. Segundo Montes grew up in Valladolid, Spain, where he also went to secondary school until 1950. On August 15, 1950, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Orduña. After a year there, he moved to Santa Tecla in El Salvador under the mentorship of Miguel Elizondo, who described him as an adolescent who hit the football so hard against the wall of the Iglesia El Carmen that he rattled the roof tiles. When he fulfilled his studies in the novitiate in 1952, he followed the steps of other Jesuit students in Central America and moved to Quito to study classical humanities at the Catholic University. In 1954, he began studies in philosophy, fulfilling his licenciatura (licenciate) in 1957. He then returned to San Salvador to teach at the school Externado San José. In 1960, he returned to university to study theology. He started in Oña, where he lived for a year. He later moved to Innsbruck, where he completed the three remaining years of studies. He was ordained a priest July 25, 1963. He returned to Externado San José as a teacher and was naturalised as a Salvadoran citizen. Segundo Montes spent most of his time in the school Externado San José or in Universidad Centroamericana \"José Simeón Cañas\" (UCA). He worked for two periods in Externado; from 1957 to 1960 and 1966 to 1976. He taught physics for many years, and he was responsible for the laboratories in the school. He was a Prefect of Discipline and Administrative Director. In between 1973 and 1976, he was Rector of Externado San José, which was precisely a moment when the school was going through a deep identity crisis. The consequences of the Second Vatican Council and the Episcopal Conference of Medellín had made Externado San José express a preference for the poor and to prioritize education that contributed to modify the social differences in El Salvador. This sort of discourse was not well received by the Salvadoran elites, who had been traditionally served by Externado San José. Segundo Montes handled this crisis in a constructive way. He was very popular among students and he had many friends. This changed, however, as the political environment in El Salvador became more polarized later in the 1970s. He was not singled out in propagandistic government pamphlets against critical intellectuals until towards the end of his life, when his name started figuring in the lists of Jesuits who were accused of being revolutionaries. His name was commonly the third one after Ignacio Ellacuría and Ignacio Martín-Baró. Gradually Segundo Montes started assuming more responsibilities in UCA as a lecturer in social sciences. For a period, he worked as a Dean in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. To prepare himself for academia, he travelled to Spain, and in 1978 he completed a PhD in Social Anthropology in Universidad Complutense in Madrid. His dissertation was about \"compadrazgo\" relationships in El Salvador. His field work included interviews that he performed on weekends in the western part of the country. He returned to teach Sociology in UCA, and starting in 1980, he was the head of the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology. Between 1978 and 1982, he was a member of the editorial board in the academic journal \"Estudios Centroamericanos\" (ECA). He was also a member of the editorial board of the \"Boletín de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales\" and the journal \"Realidad Económico Social\". He was a regular contributor to these journals. He also gave many lectures for national institutes, colleges, worker's unions, cooperatives and political parties. He was also a member of the board of directors in UCA. He headed the team of lawyers who put together UCA's law study program. Beginning in 1984, he headed the research project on Salvadoran refugees. Toward the end of the 1980s, he was the managing director of the human rights institution he founded: Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la UCA (IDHUCA), and before his death, he was preparing the program for the master's degree in sociology. A prolific writer, Segundo Montes left behind a series of articles and books. From 1982 and onwards he wrote at least one book a year. He wrote mostly in Spanish, and so far none of his works originally in Spanish have been translated to English. However, his research on refugees, displaced people and human rights made him well-known internationally. He visited Washington, D.C., on repeated occasions, to testify in the corresponding committees in the United States Congress, to defend the rights of Salvadoran refugees. His last trip to Washington was in early November 1989. In one of the halls of Congress, the organisation CARECEN (an organisation for the assistance of refugees) granted him a prize for defending the rights of Salvadorans. Segundo Montes did research and wrote on social stratification, land ownership, the possibilities for democracy and the military. His work on these issues is still a dominant influence on the theoretical frameworks employed by researchers to analyse Salvadoran society. His work is referenced in studies of power distribution and the effects of emigration on Salvadoran society. His published articles included an analysis of economic, political, and other motives for Salvadoran emigration to the United States. It addressed claims by the United States government that Salvadoran immigrants were economic refugees who therefore did not qualify for political asylum. The political implications of Montes' commitment to his ideas met strong opposition from the conservative religious and political forces in El Salvador. This opposition led to Montes' murder by the Salvadoran Army in 1989 at his residence in UCA along with five other fellow Jesuit priests (among them Ignacio Ellacuría and Ignacio Martín-Baró) and two employees. Their murders marked a turning point in the Salvadoran civil war (see History of El Salvador). It increased international pressures on the Salvadoran government to sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords with the guerrillas. Segundo Montes Segundo Montes, S.J. (Valladolid, Spain, May 15, 1933 – San Salvador, El Salvador, November 16, 1989) was a scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest. He was one of the victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador. 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"Park Range (Colorado) The Park Range, elevation approximately , is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Colorado in the United States. The range forms a relatively isolated part of the Continental Divide, extending north-to-south for approximately along the boundary between Jackson (east) and Routt counties. It separates North Park in the upper basin of the North Platte River on the east from the Elk River basin in the watershed of the Yampa River the west. It rises steeply out of the Yampa River basin, forming a climatic barrier that receives much snowfall in winter. The northern end of the range lies in Wyoming and is known as the Sierra Madre Range. Steamboat Springs, a popular ski resort community, sits on the southwestern flank of the range, at the base of Mount Werner. Much of the range is located within the Routt National Forest, with the summit of the ridge located within the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, named for Mount Zirkel, elevation . The range is prominently visible from both sides and forms a picturesque skyline from much of North Park. It is traversed at its southern end by Rabbit Ears Pass which carries US 40. It is also traversed by Buffalo Pass which carries a gravel road between Steamboat Springs and Walden, and which is traversable by most vehicles in good weather during summer. Park Range (Colorado) The Park Range, elevation approximately , is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Colorado in the United States. The range forms a relatively isolated part of the Continental Divide, extending north-to-south for approximately along the boundary between Jackson (east) and Routt counties. It separates North Park in the upper basin of the North Platte River on the east from the Elk River basin in the watershed of the"
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"Burwell Bridge The Burwell Bridge was a historic bridge on the northern edge of Burwell in Garfield County, Nebraska which was built in 1940-41. It was a steel girder bridge that brings Nebraska Highway 11 over the North Loup River. It is also known as the North Loup River Bridge and denoted as NEHBS Number GFOO-13. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was designed by the Nebraska Bureau of Roads & Bridges to replace the previous bridge which had been washed out by floodwaters on June 25, 1939. The bridge is at a 30 degree skew over the river. It has a roadway wide. It has three spans with total span length of and total bridge length of . The center span is . It has concrete abutments, wingwalls and spill-through piers. It has a concrete deck over steel stringers. It was built by contractor W.A. Biba Engineering Company of Geneva, Nebraska at cost of $44,763.28, using steel from Omaha Steel Works. According to its NRHP registration, the bridge was deemed notable as one of \"the longest cantilevered beam structures identified in the statewide bridge inventory. It is technologically significant for its representation of long-span beam bridge experimentation conducted by the state engineer's office in the 1930s.\" By 2010, however, the bridge appeared to have been replaced by a new reinforced concrete and girder bridge. Uglybridges.com, a website which uses National Bridge Inventory data, reports the bridge was reconstructed in 2007 and now has a wide roadway, with total deck width . It has a concrete cast-in-place deck. Burwell Bridge The Burwell Bridge was a historic bridge on the northern edge of Burwell in Garfield County, Nebraska which was built in 1940-41. It was a steel girder bridge that brings Nebraska Highway 11"
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"Buffalo Box A curb box (also known as a valve box, buffalo box, or b-box) is a vertical cast iron sleeve, accessible from the public way, housing the shut-off valve (curb cock or curb stop) for a property's water service line. It is typically located between a building and the district's water main lines and usually consists of a metal tube with a removable or sliding lid, allowing access to the turn-key within. It typically serves as the point denoting the separation of utility-maintained and privately-maintained water facilities. A curb box is often called a \"Buffalo Box\", because it originated in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo Box A curb box (also known as a valve box, buffalo box, or b-box) is a vertical cast iron sleeve, accessible from the public way, housing the shut-off valve (curb cock or curb stop) for a property's water service line. It is typically located between a building and the district's water main lines and usually consists of a metal tube with a removable or sliding lid, allowing access to the turn-key within. It typically serves as the point denoting the separation of utility-maintained and privately-maintained water facilities. A curb box is often called a \"Buffalo"
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"Charles Drake (actor) Charles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor. Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers, but he was not immediately successful. During World War II, Drake served in the United States Army. Drake returned to Hollywood in 1945 and was cast in \"Conflict\" which starred Humphrey Bogart. His contract with Warner Brothers eventually ended. In the 1940s, he did some freelance work, like \"A Night in Casablanca\" (1946). In 1949, he moved to Universal Studios. where Drake co-starred with James Stewart and Shelley Winters in \"Winchester '73\" (1950) and again co-starred with Stewart in the film \"Harvey\" (also 1950) a screen adaptation of the Broadway play. He co-starred in the Audie Murphy bio pic, \"To Hell and Back\" (1955), as Murphy's close friend \"Brandon\". In 1955, Drake turned to television as one of the stock-company players on \"Montgomery's Summer Stock\", a summer replacement for \"Robert Montgomery Presents\" and from 1957 he hosted the syndicated TV espionage weekly \"Schilling Playhouse\" (also known as \"Rendezvous\"). In 1959, he starred in the Western film, \"No Name on the Bullet\", where he played a doctor dedicated to saving a small town from a dangerous assassin. On November 14, 1961, Drake played the role of state line boss Allen Winter in the episode \"The Accusers\" of NBC's \"Laramie\" western series. In the story line, housekeeper Daisy Cooper (Spring Byington) identifies Winter as having left a hotel room right after a saloon girl, Carla Morton, portrayed by Joanne Linville, is murdered there. At first, few believe Daisy because Winter is a respected man in Laramie and the boss of Cooper's boss, series character Slim Sherman (John Smith). Carla had pressured Winter to leave his wife and marry her. When Daisy searches for further proof of Winter's guilt, Winter resorts to sabotage of Daisy's carriage and stakes out the Sherman Ranch, posing as an Indian, while Slim is away on an overnight assignment authorized by Winter. Slim suddenly becomes convinced of Daisy's story and rides swiftly to her rescue. Drake played the part of Oliver Greer in \"The Fugitive\" episode \"The One That Got Away\" (1967). He guest starred in the fourth season (1968–1969) of NBC's \"Daniel Boone\" as Simon Jarvis. He played in eighty-three films between 1939 and 1975, including \"Scream, Pretty Peggy\". More than fifty were dramas, but he also acted in comedies, science fiction, horror, and film noir. In an episode of the original \"\" series (\"The Deadly Years\", 1967), he guested as Commodore Stocker. He died on September 10, 1994 in East Lyme, Connecticut, at the age of seventy-six. Charles Drake (actor) Charles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor. Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting"
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"Cezary Grabarczyk Cezary Stanisław Grabarczyk (born 26 April 1960) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 13,775 votes in the 11th Sieradz district. He stood for election as a candidate on the Civic Platform list. Again elected to the Sejm in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, in which he received 44,610 votes in the Łódź district. Following the 2007 parliamentary election, Grabarczyk was Minister of Infrastructure from November 2007 to November 2011, under Prime Minister Donald Tusk. After the 2011 parliamentary election, he was elected to serve as one of the deputy marshals (vicepresidents) of the Sejm. From 2013 to 2016 he was deputy leader of Civic Platform. From September 2014 to April 2016 he served as Minister of Justice, but got dismissed after controversy aroused around his firearms licence. He regained his parliamentary seat after 2015 parliamentary election. Cezary Grabarczyk Cezary Stanisław Grabarczyk (born 26 April 1960) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 13,775 votes in the 11th Sieradz district. He stood for election as a candidate on the Civic Platform list. Again elected to the Sejm in the 2007 Polish parliamentary"
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"Zinc cyanide Zinc cyanide is the inorganic compound with the formula Zn(CN). It is a white solid that is used mainly for electroplating zinc but also has more specialized applications for the synthesis of organic compounds. In Zn(CN), zinc adopts the tetrahedral coordination environment, all linked by bridging cyanide ligands. The structure consists of two \"interpenetrating\" structures (blue and red in the picture above). Such motifs are sometimes called \"expanded diamondoid\" structures. Some forms of SiO adopt a similar structure, wherein the tetrahedral Si centres are linked by oxides. The cyanide group shows head to tail disorder with any zinc atom having between one and four carbon neighbours, and the remaining being nitrogen atoms. It shows one of the largest negative coefficients of thermal expansion (exceeding the previous record holder, zirconium tungstate). Typical for an inorganic polymer, Zn(CN) is insoluble in most solvents. The solid dissolves in, or more precisely, is degraded by, aqueous solutions of basic ligands such as hydroxide, ammonia, and additional cyanide to give anionic complexes. Zn(CN) is fairly easy to make by combining aqueous solutions of cyanide and zinc ions, for example via the double replacement reaction between KCN and ZnSO: For commercial applications, some effort is made to avoid halide impurities by using acetate salts of zinc: Zinc cyanide is also produced as a byproduct of certain gold extraction methods. Procedures to isolate gold from aqueous gold cyanide sometimes call for the addition of zinc: The main application of Zn(CN) is for electroplating of zinc from aqueous solutions containing additional cyanide. Zn(CN) is used to introduce the formyl group in to aromatic compounds in the Gatterman reaction where it serves a convenient, safer, and non-gaseous alternative to HCN. Because the reaction uses HCl, Zn(CN) also supplies the reaction with ZnCl \"in-situ\", a Lewis acid catalyst. Examples of Zn(CN) being used in this way include the synthesis of 2-Hydroxy-1-nafthaldehyde and Mesitaldehyde. Zn(CN) is also employed as a catalyst for the cyanosilylation of aldehydes and ketones. Zinc cyanide Zinc cyanide is the inorganic compound with the formula Zn(CN). It is a white solid that is used mainly for electroplating zinc but also has more specialized applications for the synthesis of organic compounds. In Zn(CN), zinc adopts the tetrahedral coordination environment, all linked by bridging cyanide ligands. The structure consists of two \"interpenetrating\" structures (blue and red in the picture above). Such motifs are sometimes called \"expanded diamondoid\""
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"Armand Gouffé Armand Gouffé (22 March 1775 – 19 October 1845) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, goguettier and vaudevillist. Hired as an employee in the Finance Ministry, he became chief deputy. Afflicted with a delicate health and inclined to sadness, he was nevertheless one of the most joyful poets of his time, singing the wine he could not drink and brightening his refrains with names of desserts which his stomach almost forbade him to touch. The ease of his verse had him nicknamed \"the Panard of the XIXth ». Gouffé was one of the first members of the dîners du Vaudeville. In 1806, with Pierre Capelle, he revived the defunct \"Caveau\", by creating the \"Caveau moderne\". This new goguette would exist until 1817. He was a predecessor of Désaugiers and Béranger. Several of his songs were long popular as that which has for title and chorus \"Plus on est de fous, plus on rit\". He occasionnally collaborated with the \"\" between 1800 and 1814 Armand Gouffé Armand Gouffé (22 March 1775 – 19 October 1845) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, goguettier and vaudevillist. Hired as an employee in the Finance Ministry, he became chief deputy. Afflicted with a"
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"Karl Georg von Raumer Karl Georg von Raumer (* 9 April 1783 in Wörlitz; † 2 June 1865 in Erlangen) was a German geologist and educator. Raumer was born in Wörlitz. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Halle, and at the mining academy in Freiberg as a student of Abraham Gottlob Werner. In 1811 he became professor of mineralogy at Breslau, and two years later, participated in the German Campaign of 1813. In 1819 he relocated as a professor to the University of Halle, then in 1827 settled at the University of Erlangen as a professor of natural history and mineralogy. He also wrote an autobiography, published after his death in 1866. He was the brother of the historian Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer. His son Rudolf von Raumer was a noted philologist. Karl Georg von Raumer Karl Georg von Raumer (* 9 April 1783 in Wörlitz; † 2 June 1865 in Erlangen) was a German geologist and educator. Raumer was born in Wörlitz. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Halle, and at the mining academy in Freiberg as a student of Abraham Gottlob Werner. In 1811 he became professor of mineralogy at Breslau,"
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"Dmytro Korchynsky Dmytro Oleksandrovych Korchynsky (; born 22 January 1964, Kiev) is a Ukrainian writer, poet, public figure and leader of Bratstvo (\"Brotherhood\"), a Ukrainian Orthodox rooted religious and political organization in Ukraine. Korchynsky is the former leader of the ultra-nationalist UNA-UNSO party. In 1987–1988 Korchynsky was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In the fall of 1992 he ran for a seat in the Ukrainian parliament, but lost it placing fourth out of six in the 13th electoral district. Korchynsky ran again in 1994 and again lost it placing third out of 24 in the 2nd electoral district in city of Kiev (none were elected at all). After being excluded from UNA-UNSO in 1997, Korchynsky became a media pundit and political analyst. He founded the Bratstvo Organization in 2002, which he claims has several hundred members in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Chernihiv. Bratstvo was not officially registered until March 2004. Though the group describes itself as an Orthodox Christian organization, it is not affiliated with any of the three Orthodox churches operating in Ukraine. He has described his group in his self-published newsletter as the \"Orthodox Taliban\", and on his website as a \"Christian Hezbollah\" Anton Shekhovtsov, a well-known specialist on far-right organizations spoke of Korchynsky as being “widely considered an agent provocateur, and his \"Bratstvo\" already took part in several actions that were meant to provoke police suppression of peaceful protests”. During the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Korchynsky ran again for parliament as a member of the All-Ukrainian Party of Workers. He placed eight out of 23 in the 220th electoral district. On December 29, 2003 Bratstvo organized a street fight with Berkut near the Canadian Embassy in Kiev. Few days earlier on December 25, 2003, Ukrayinska Pravda received some correspondence () from other journalists about intentions of the government to discredit opposition by connecting it to the problem with the arrested Ukrainian plane (Antonov An-124 Ruslan) in Canada. On March 31, 2004 members of Bratstvo poured glue and then water onto George Soros during the forum among human rights organizations in Kiev \"Human rights at elections\". In summer of 2004 in Kerch Bratstvo organized a strike at the Zaliv Shipbuilding yard, co-owner of which was David Zhvania, a member of Our Ukraine. In the fall of 2004 Korchynsky participated in the presidential elections. After losing in the first round, Korchynsky supported another candidate Viktor Yanukovych. After Viktor Yushchenko was announced a winner, Korchynsky officially went in opposition. In 2005 the Russian pro-Vladimir Putin youth organisation Nashi invited Korchynsky to a youth summer camp to teach \"how to prevent public disturbances\" and how to confront the threat of an Orange Revolution reprisal in Russia. In 2013 during the Euromaidan protests, 300 members of the Bratstvo organization led by Korchynsky attacked the presidential administration building (of then president Viktor Yanukovych). He then became a fugitive on the international wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for his role in inciting riots during the Euromaidan-related 1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots. On January 2, 2013 during the program \"Freedom of Speech\" on ICTV, Serhiy Sobolev claimed that Korchynsky cooperates with Viktor Medvedchuk. After the 2014 Ukrainian revolution Korchynsky returned to Ukraine and founded the St. Mary battalion to fight the East Ukraine separatists in the War in Donbass. These separatists have, according to independent experts, been armed and helped by regular soldiers from Russia. Russia has opened several criminal cases against Korchynsky on \"terrorist\" charges. Korchynsky was born on January 22, 1964 in Kiev. In 1982 he finished a high school and enrolled in the Kiev Institute of Food Industry at the Department of Industrial Power Generation. After two years of study, he left the institute without finishing. Later Korchynsky participated in number of archaeological expeditions in the Southern Ukraine. In 1985-87 he served in the Soviet army. Korchynsky was in the 24th Iron Division of the Carpathian Military District as a commander of BMP-2. After demobilization he was dismissed in reserves as an assistant to a platoon leader. After the army, Korchynsky enrolled in the Kiev University, but later that year left it. Under his leadership, UNSO took part in several armed conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including Transdniester, Abkhazia and Chechnya. In 1992 as a volunteer he left for Transnistria. In 1996 Korchynsky participated in the Chechen war. Next year he was completely ousted from the nationalist movement in Ukraine. He is the President of the Institute of Regional Politics and Modern Political Science. He is an author of a poem collection \"Philosophy of distemper\" (2002), an author of the following books: \"War in the crowd\" (1998), \"This and It\" (2002) and \"Revolution haute couture\" (2004). His books are banned in Russia based on its law on extremism. Korchynsky is an advocate of several ideologies - Christianity, Orthodoxy, and Nationalism. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Korchynsky's wife Oksana placed 24th on the (nationwide) party list of Radical Party and she was elected into the Ukrainian parliament. Dmytro Korchynsky Dmytro Oleksandrovych Korchynsky (; born 22 January 1964, Kiev) is a Ukrainian writer, poet, public figure and leader of Bratstvo (\"Brotherhood\"), a Ukrainian Orthodox rooted religious and political organization in Ukraine. Korchynsky is the former leader of the ultra-nationalist UNA-UNSO party. In 1987–1988 Korchynsky was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In the fall of 1992 he ran for a seat in the"
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"Hagood Mill Hagood Mill is an operational water-powered gristmill built (or rebuilt) in 1845 by James Hagood near Pickens, South Carolina. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Hagood Mill is located on Hagood Branch, earlier known as Jennings Creek, a tributary of the Twelve Mile River. Although mills had existed on the site as early as the 1790s, the current mill was built in 1845 by James Hagood; and it remained in the Hagood family and continued to operate until 1966 when federal regulations requiring the testing of corn before grinding effectively ended the operations of commercial grist mills in Pickens County. During the historic period the mill and the neighboring (non-extant) store were a gathering place for county residents. The mill and surrounding property were donated to the Pickens Country Museum in 1973. The water wheel and mechanical components of the mill were rebuilt in the mid-1970s using much of the surviving fabric, and they were restored again by local historian and miller Alan Warner in the 1990s. The 1845 mill is an unpainted, two-story building constructed of hand hewn logs and covered with clapboard siding. Its original dam site is 1,650 feet above it, where water from the creek was diverted to an earthen headrace (essentially a ditch). Today, water is pumped underground from the creek to the headrace, the last 80 feet of which is wooden. The overshot wooden water wheel, which produces 22 horsepower, is in diameter and 4 feet wide. The ring gear is 18 feet in diameter, and the two granite millstones weigh approximately 1,600 pounds each. The mill is the centerpiece of the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center, which also includes two historic cabins, a blacksmith shop, a moonshine still, and a cotton gin. The site also includes the Hagood Creek Petroglyph Site, which preserves significant Native American rock carvings, and the 64-foot (20 m) steel Prater's Creek Bridge, built by the Greenville Steel and Foundry Company in 1930 and brought to the site in 2007. Hagood Mill Hagood Mill is an operational water-powered gristmill built (or rebuilt) in 1845 by James Hagood near Pickens, South Carolina. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Hagood Mill is located on Hagood Branch, earlier known as Jennings Creek, a tributary of the Twelve Mile River. Although mills had existed on the site"
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"Tujia people The Tujia (Northern Tujia: \"Bifzivkar\", IPA: ; Southern Tujia: \"Mongrzzir\" ; ), with a total population of over 8 million, is the 8th largest ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China. They live in the Wuling Mountains, straddling the common borders of Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou Provinces, and Chongqing Municipality. The endonym \"Bizika\" means \"native dwellers\". In Chinese, \"Tujia\" means also \"local\", as distinguished from the Hakka () whose name implies wandering. Although there are different accounts of their origins, the Tujia may trace their history back over twelve centuries, and possibly beyond, to the ancient Ba people who occupied the area around modern-day Chongqing some 2,500 years ago. The Ba Kingdom reached the zenith of its power between 600 BC and 400 BC but was destroyed by the Qin in 316 BC. After being referred to by a long succession of different names in ancient documents, they appear in historical records as the Tujia from about 14th century onwards. The Tujia tusi chieftains reached the zenith of their power under the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), when they were accorded comparatively high status by the imperial court. They achieved this through their reputation as providers of fierce, highly disciplined fighting men, who were employed by the emperor to suppress revolts by other minorities. On numerous occasions, they also helped defend China against outside invaders, such as the \"wokou\" (\"Japanese\" pirates) who ravaged the coast during the 16th century. The Manchus invaded and conquered the Ming in 1644 and established the Great Qing Empire, known in China as the Qing Dynasty. Ever suspicious of local rulers, the Qing emperors always tried to replace Han officials with Manchu officials wherever they could. In the early 18th century, the Qing court finally felt secure enough to establish direct control over minority areas as well. This process, known as \"gaituguiliu\" (literally 'replace the local [ruler], return to mainstream [central rule]'), was carried out throughout south-west China gradually and, in general, peacefully. The court adopted a carrot-and-stick approach of lavish pensions for compliant chieftains, coupled with a huge show of military force on the borders of their territories. Most of the Tujia areas returned to central control during the period 1728-1735. Whilst the Tujia peasantry probably preferred the measured rule of Qing officials to the arbitrary despotism of the Tujia chieftains whom they had replaced, many resented the attempts of the Qing court to impose national culture and customs on them. With the weakening of central Qing rule, numerous large-scale uprisings occurred culminating in the Taiping Rebellion which affected the area badly. Following the collapse of the Qing, the Tujia found themselves caught between various competing warlords. More and more land was given over to the cultivation of high-earning opium at the insistence of wealthy landlords, and banditry was rife. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Tujia areas came under Communist control and banditry was rapidly eradicated. The Great Leap Forward led to mass famine in Tujia communities. The Tujia were officially recognised as one of the 55 ethnic minorities in January 1957, and a number of autonomous prefectures and counties were subsequently established. State Councillor Dai Bingguo, one of China's top officials on foreign policy, is the most prominent Tujia in the Chinese government. Today, traditional Tujia customs can only be found in the most remote areas. The Tujia are renowned for their singing and song composing abilities and for their tradition of the Baishou Dance (摆手舞), a 500-year-old collective dance which uses 70 ritual gestures to represent war, farming, hunting, courtship and other aspects of traditional life. They are also famous for their richly patterned brocade, known as \"xilankapu\", a product that in earlier days regularly figured in their tribute payments to the Chinese court. Regarding religion, most of the Tujia worship a white tiger totem, although some Tujia in western Hunan worship a turtle totem. Tujia is a Sino-Tibetan language and is usually considered an isolate within this group, although it has grammatical and phonological similarities with Nuosu (though its vocabulary is very different). Today there are at most 70,000 native speakers of the Tujia language, most of whom live in the northern parts Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in north-western Hunan Province. The vast majority of the Tujia use varieties of Chinese, mainly Southwestern Mandarin; a few speak Hmongic languages. Few monolingual Tujia speakers remain; nearly all are bilingual in some dialect of Chinese. Children now learn Chinese from childhood and many young Tujia prefer to use Chinese when communicating among themselves. Among fluent Tujia speakers, Chinese borrowings, and even sentence structures, are more common. The Fifth National Population Census of 2000 recorded 8,028,133 Tujia in China. In Chongqing, Tujia make up 4.67% of the total population; in Hunan, 4.17%; in Guizhou, 4.06%; in Hubei, 3.66%; and in Guangdong, 0.16%. Tujia people The Tujia (Northern Tujia: \"Bifzivkar\", IPA: ; Southern Tujia: \"Mongrzzir\" ; ), with a total population of over 8 million, is the 8th largest ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China. They live in the Wuling Mountains, straddling the common borders of Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou Provinces, and Chongqing Municipality. The endonym \"Bizika\" means \"native dwellers\". In Chinese, \"Tujia\" means also \"local\", as distinguished from the Hakka () whose name implies wandering. Although there are different accounts of their origins, the Tujia may trace their history back over twelve centuries,"
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"Neslihan (singer) Neslihan (born September 26, 1983, in Malatya, Turkey) is a Turkish pop music singer, songwriter, and composer. She has been called the Céline Dion of Turkey, and composer Atilla Özdemiroğlu likened her to a modern-day bard. Her songs are known for their ability to express common people's troubles, and Neslihan has stated that her goal is to help humanity through her music. Neslihan was born in Malatya, Turkey, in 1983. When she was in second grade, her family moved to Mersin, Turkey, a city whose vibrant musical culture she credits with deepening her interest in music, particularly the guitar. Neslihan started writing lyrics for her songs when she was in middle school. She composed her first song when she was 14 years old. In high school, she sold her university exam preparation books in order to buy her first guitar. She taught herself to play the guitar by practicing five hours a day. After living in Mersin for ten years, Neslihan and her family moved to Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her last year of high school there and started studying for a degree in business. In 2005, Neslihan rose to national prominence in Turkey when her father encouraged her to upload two demo songs, \"Hiç Sevmedim\" and \"Sen,\" onto VazgectimSenden.com, a website popular with the younger generation in Turkey that had more than 150,000 members at the time. Thousands of people listened to her songs, and Arma Müzik offered her a record deal shortly thereafter. Neslihan made her mark in Turkey by being one of the first artists to rapidly reach success online, a feat made possible by her popularity among university students. Neslihan's first album, \"Karalarda Beyazlar\" [\"Whites in Blacks\"], was released in April 2006 by Arma Müzik, and it was produced by Ömer Aydın. Neslihan composed the lyrics and music for all ten of the songs in this album, which featured traditional instruments like the ney (end-blown flute), bağlama (special stringed instrument), and Qanun (zither) that shaped the album's \"unique pop\" style. In December 2006, she gave her first concert at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. Even though the venue only allowed for a capacity of 1,000 seats, more than 3,000 people attended. In March 2007, Neslihan was nominated for Best Female Breakout Artist of 2006 in the 13th Kral TV Video Music Awards. In 2009, Neslihan released her second album, \"Pollyanna\", for which she once again composed all of the lyrics and music. \"Pollyanna\" was released by Su Müzik Productions and the Raks Müzik label, and it was distributed by Maksimum Müzik. It was produced by Serdar Uygun and Aslı Hünel, arranged and managed by Erhan Doğancıoğlu, and recorded by Uluberk Hekimoğlu. Mehmet Ali Nalbant filmed the first music video for this album based on the song, \"Vurgun Yedim.\" While composing the songs for this album, Neslihan worked by candlelight in her music studio because that atmosphere inspired her. In 2012, Neslihan released her third album, \"Masal Gibi\". The album included a new arrangement of Neslihan's first hit song, \"Hiç Sevmedim,\" alongside ten other new songs. Mehmethan Dişbudak arranged the songs and also contributed to the lyrics in one song. Neslihan's mother, Selma Zafer, contributed to the lyrics of another song. The lyrics and music of all other songs were composed by Neslihan. Neslihan also hosted music-related radio programs for five years: three years on Dünya Radyo, one year on the Turkish national radio channel TRT FM, and one year on Radyo 7. Neslihan is known for spontaneously writing and performing songs based on one-word prompts from audience members during live performances. She says she values her listeners' feedback and tries to incorporate their suggestions into later songs and music videos. Neslihan has been influenced by listening to Barış Manço, Leman Sam, Sezen Aksu, Zeki Müren, and Belkıs Özener, as well as Göksel Baktagir and Müzeyyen Senar. Neslihan responded to criticisms of her lack of revealing her body by stating that she wants people to take an interest in her for her skills as a musician, not for her choice of clothing. Neslihan (singer) Neslihan (born September 26, 1983, in Malatya, Turkey) is a Turkish pop music singer, songwriter, and composer. She has been called"
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"Rico Suave (wrestler) Julio Domingo Estrada Caceres (born July 4, 1970) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler and manager, better known as Rico Suave. He is best known for his 18-year run in the World Wrestling Council promotion. Estrada started training to become a wrestler at age 14 and made his debut in 1984 wrestling under various names mostly at independent shows in east of Puerto Rico. Teamed with Solid Gold #1 which was his father José Estrada Sr. former WWF, WWE wrestler in 1991 in the Americas Wrestling Federation in Puerto Rico. He left the company to enter WWC in 1992, where he worked with his brother Jose Estrada Jr. and later became the top manager in the company that year when Joe Don Smith left to play for the then-expansion team Colorado Rockies so Estrada took his spot and managed various wrestlers like Greg Valentine, Dick Murdoch, Eddie Gilbert, Kane, Buddy Landell, Mabel, Val Venis, Glamour Boy Shane, Abdullah the Butcher, Ray Gonzalez, El Nene, Rex King, El Diamante, La Tigresa, Victor The Bodyguard, Jesus Castillo, \"Jungle\" Jim Steele, Chicky Starr and others. Feuded with Carlos Colon on and off for many years. Had a memorable feud with Antonio Pantojas known as El Profe that lasted a long time during the 90s. In 1998 he also was the leader of Invasion Azteca, which was a Mexican group that came to invade WWC combined by Pierroth, Jr., Jerry Estrada, Villano III and the late Texano Sr. Estrada spoke with a Mexican accent and used a Sarape during that angle. Estrada toured Japan in 2000 where he competed at Big Japan Pro Wrestling known as Crazy Sheik. By 2003 Estrada became a good guy after twelve years working in WWC as a Heel when Estrada was attacked by longtime allied El Bronco I after Estrada allegedly ripped an El Bronco picture. El Bronco I and La Revolición Dominicana (The Dominican Revolution) lead El Bronco I attacked Estrada. Estrada is the leader of El Poder Supremo (The Supreme Power) Heel stable in the WWC. On November 23, 2006, he managed Hannibal and Black Pain to win the WWC Tag Team titles from Jesus Castillo and Chris Joel in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Began using the nickname \"Mr. Hardcore\" when he adopted the Hardcore wrestling style and formed a tag team with Huracan Castillo Jr. and formed \"La Evolucion Hardcore\" or The Hardcore Evolution due to the hardcore wrestling style that this two superstars have. Being both the most dangerous second-generation tag-team wrestlers to dominate Puerto Rico. Estrada then moved on to work in Japan where he tagged with Abdullah The Butcher, went to Mexico and various independent companies in the United States. Quit WWC in June 2009 after a dispute with the office. Julio Estrada married Ruby Colón on October 16, 2010 in Florida where he resides. Estrada still continues to wrestle in Florida at charity wrestling events but has a career in loss prevention. He is also the godfather of Bronco I youngest son. Rico Suave (wrestler) Julio Domingo Estrada Caceres (born July 4, 1970) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler and manager, better known as Rico Suave. He is best known for his 18-year run in the World Wrestling Council promotion. Estrada started training to become a wrestler at age 14 and made his debut in 1984 wrestling under various names mostly at independent shows in east of Puerto Rico. Teamed with Solid Gold #1 which was his father José Estrada Sr. former WWF, WWE wrestler in 1991 in the Americas Wrestling Federation in Puerto Rico. He left the company"
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"Hacking tool A hacking tool is a program designed to assist with hacking, or a piece of software which can be used for hacking purposes. Examples include Nmap, Nessus, John the Ripper, p0f, Winzapper, mSpy and iKeyMonitor. Bribes have also been described as among the most potent hacking tools, due to their potential exploitation in social engineering attacks. Occasionally, common software such as ActiveX is exploited as a hacking tool as well. Hacking tools such as Cain and Abel, however, are well known as Script Kiddie Tools. Script kiddies are people who follow instructions from a manual, without realising how it happens. These Script Kiddies have been an enormous threat to computer security as there are many hacking tools and keyloggers up for download which are free. Another example of a hacking tool is a computer worm. These malicious programs detect vulnerabilities in operating systems. Not all worms, however, are malicious. The Nachi Worms have actually fixed operating system vulnerabilities by downloading and installing security patches from the Microsoft website. Although not much is said about threats to the Linux system, they do exist and could increase in the future. One of the biggest threats to the Linux system is given by the so-called Rootkits. These are programs that have special privileges and are able to hide their presence from the system administrator. Hacking tool A hacking tool is a program designed to assist with hacking, or a piece of software which can be used for hacking purposes. Examples include Nmap, Nessus, John the Ripper, p0f, Winzapper, mSpy and iKeyMonitor. Bribes have also been described as among the most potent hacking tools, due to their potential exploitation in social engineering attacks. Occasionally, common software such as ActiveX is exploited as a hacking tool as well. Hacking tools such as Cain"
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"St. Joseph's Hospital (Fairbanks, Alaska) St. Joseph's Hospital, the very first hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska was built in 1906. Fairbanks was a frontier town when a Jesuit priest named Rev. Francis M. Monroe decided to build a church and hospital. The church stood in the heart of town, while the hospital, also named St. Joseph’s, was constructed on the north side of the Chena River, a little downstream from the church. Later the church would be moved across the river. Monroe’s hospital was ready to admit its first patients on November 18, 1906, filling 35 of the 40 beds. It was the first framed building in Fairbanks. All the other buildings were built of logs. The church closed the Hospital in 1915. The next hospital was St. Joseph's. It was built by the Roman Catholic church. The St. Matthew's hospital was on one side of the Chena River and the St. Joseph's hospital was on the other side of the Chena River. St. Joseph's was almost out of town. St. Joseph's was opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1906. The hospital had 40 beds when it opened. The nuns of the Church were the nurses. They used to go out at night and lock up the hospital very, very, very tight. When somebody knocked on the door because they were sick, the nuns would peek out of the window before they let them in. A new addition to St. Joseph's was built in 1951. This building is now the Denali State Bank. The old part of the hospital was torn down in 1973. A view of St. Joseph’s church and hospital before the church roof was changed and the belfry added. An article appearing in Jessen’s Weekly, July 8, 1954, recounted the cost of building: “Following the discovery of gold by Felix Pedro, several thousand people rushed into the promising area and among them were many Catholics. The price of real estate and labor was beyond the means of the Jesuits, so a group of local men organized for the purpose of raising the necessary finances for a church. A rough 65-by-30-foot structure was erected at the cost of $6,512. A keg of eight-penny nails cost $50 at the time. Father Monroe traveled all over the mining camps and around in Interior Alaska soliciting help and finally raised $4,795.75. This, added to the $3,051 the committee of men had collected, enabled the missionary to pay off the debt and decorate the church and also install a small library along with his living quarters. Not a few people in the camp criticized Father severely for what they thought was too large a building, saying there would never be enough Catholics in Fairbanks to justify the size.” In 1910, the population of Fairbanks was 3,541 and growing. St. Joseph's Hospital (Fairbanks, Alaska) St. Joseph's Hospital, the very first hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska was built in 1906. Fairbanks was a frontier town when a Jesuit priest named Rev. Francis M. Monroe decided to build"
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"Lake Aschersleben Lake Aschersleben is a former lake in Germany, northeast of the Harz Mountains, south of the town of Aschersleben. The lake was connected to the rivers of Eine and Elke and was about 12 km long. When the lake began to shrink in the course of the 15th century, a dam was built at the source of the Elke. The lake was completely drained at the beginning of the 18th century by an order of Frederick I. The lake contains 20-25m thick Pleistocene and Holocene sediments, from the Eemian Stage (previous interglacial period) to the present. Fluviatile, limnic and periglacial sediments interchange. All in all, 11 sedimentation cycles are present. Lake Aschersleben Lake Aschersleben is a former lake in Germany, northeast of the Harz Mountains, south of the town of Aschersleben. The lake was connected to the rivers of Eine and Elke and was about 12 km long. When the lake began to shrink in the course of the 15th century, a dam was built at the source of the Elke. The lake was completely drained at the beginning of the 18th century by an order of Frederick I. The lake contains 20-25m thick Pleistocene and Holocene sediments,"
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"Kit car A kit car is an automobile that is available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then assembles into a functioning car. Usually, many of the major mechanical systems such as the engine and transmission are sourced from donor vehicles or purchased new from other vendors. Kits vary in completeness, consisting of as little as a book of plans, or as much as a complete set with all components to assemble into a fully operational vehicle such as those from Caterham. There is also a sub-set of the kit car, commonly referred to as a \"re-body\", in which a commercially manufactured vehicle has a new (often fiberglass) body put on the running chassis. Most times, the existing drive gear and interior are retained. These kits require less technical knowledge from the builder, and because the chassis and mechanical systems were designed, built, and tested by a major automotive manufacturer, a re-body can lead to a much higher degree of safety and reliability. The definition of a kit car usually indicates that a manufacturer constructs multiple kits of the same vehicle, each of which it then sells to a third party to build. A kit car should not be confused with Kit cars have been around from the earliest days of the automobile. In 1896 the Englishman Thomas Hyler-White developed a design for a car that could be assembled at home and technical designs were published in a magazine called \"The English Mechanic\". In the USA, the Lad's Car of 1912 could be bought for $160 ($3000 US in 2006) fully assembled or $140 ($2600 US in 2006) in kit form. It was not until the 1950s that the idea really took off. Car production had increased considerably and with rust proofing in its infancy many older vehicles were being sent to breaker yards as their bodywork was beyond economic repair. An industry grew up supplying new bodies and chassis to take the components from these cars and convert them into new vehicles, particularly into sports cars. Fiber reinforced plastic (aka \"GRP,\" or \"fiberglass\") was coming into general use and made limited-scale production of automobile body components much more economical. Also, in the UK up to the mid-1970s, kit cars were sometimes normal production vehicles that were partially assembled as this avoided the imposition of purchase tax as the kits were assessed as components and not vehicles. During the 1970s many kits had bodies styled as sports cars that were designed to bolt directly to VW Beetle chassis. This was popular as the old body could be easily separated from the chassis leaving virtually all mechanical components attached to the chassis and a GRP-body from the kit supplier shop fitted. This made the Beetle one of the most popular \"donor\" vehicles of all time. Examples of this conversion include the Bradley GT, Sterling, and Sebring which were made by the thousands and many are still around today. Volkswagen based dune buggies also appeared in relatively large numbers in the 1960s and 1970s based usually on a shortened floor pan. Current kit cars are frequently replicas of well-known and often expensive classics and are designed so that anyone with a measure of technical skill can build them at home to a standard where they can be driven on the public roads. These replicas are in general appearance like the original, but their bodies are often made of fiberglass mats soaked in polyester resin instead of the original sheet metal. Replicas of the AC Cobra and the Lotus 7 are particularly popular examples, the right to manufacture the Lotus 7 now being owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder Colin Chapman in 1973. Caterham Cars are a \"Component Car\" and are a continued development of Chapman's design, whereas all other Lotus 7 style cars are replicas, and are \"Kit Cars\" costing significantly less and not having the residual values of the Caterham. These Replica kit cars enable enthusiasts to possess a vehicle similar in appearance to a vehicle which because of scarcity they may not be able to afford, and at the same time take advantage of modern technology. The Sterling Nova Kit originally produced in the UK was the most popular VW based Kits being produced worldwide and licensed under several different names with an estimated 10000 sold. Many people react sceptically when they first hear about kit cars as it appears to them to be technically impossible to assemble a car at home and license it for public roads. They may also be worried that such a car would not subsequently pass the mandatory quality control (road worthiness test) that is required in most countries. For example, to obtain permission to use a kit car in Germany, every such vehicle with a speed over 6 km/h without a general operating license (ABE) or an EC type permission (EC-TG) has to undergo, as per the § 21 of Road traffic licensing regulations (STVZO), a technical inspection by an officially recognized expert of a Technical Inspection Authority. In the United Kingdom it is necessary to meet the requirements of the IVA (Individual vehicle Approval) regulations. In the United States SEMA has gone state by state to set up legal ways for states to register kit cars and speciality vehicles for inspection and plates. A survey of nearly 600 kit car owners in the US, the UK and Germany, carried out by Dr. Ingo Stüben, showed that typically 100–1,500 hours are required to build a kit car, depending upon the model and the completeness of the kit. However, as the complexity of the kits offered continues to increase, build times have increased as well some running to 5000 hours plus for accurate replica kits. Several sports car producers such as Lotus, Marcos, and TVR started as kit car makers. To obtain permission to use a kit car in Germany, every such vehicle with a speed over 6 km/h without a general operating license (ABE) or an EC type permission (EC-TG) has to undergo, as per the § 21 of Road traffic licensing regulations (StVZO), a technical inspection by an officially recognized expert of a Technical Inspection Authority. New Zealand had a long history of small garages and vehicle enthusiasts modifying and creating sports and sports racing cars. In the early 1950s, with the advent of fibreglass bodied cars, a new opportunity arose for local companies associated with car enthusiasts to create car bodies. Among these early manufacturers was Weltex Plastics Limited of Christchurch, which imported a Microplas Mistral sports car mould and began making bodies and chassis in 1956. They were followed in 1958 by Frank Cantwell's Puma and Bruce Goldwater's Cougar. Also in New Zealand during this period, Ferris de Joux was constructing a variety of sports racers. De Joux is noted in particular for his Mini GT from the 1960s. Ross Baker's Heron Cars started in 1962 making racing cars and eventually began producing kit cars in 1980. Bill Ashton, formerly of Microplas and Weltex, joined with Ted George in the 1960s and made the Tiki. Three were known to have been made. Graham McRae with Steve Bond of Gemini Plastics imported a replica Le Mans M6B styled GT mould in 1968, The cars were made and sold by Dave Harrod and Steve Bond of Fibreglass Developments Ltd, Bunnythorpe as the Maram. McRae went on to make a Porsche Spyder replica in the 1990s. A number of new companies entered the market in the 1980s – Almac 1985, Alternative Cars (1984), Cheetah (1986), Chevron (1984), Countess Mouldings (1988), Fraser (1988), Leitch (1986), and Saker (1989). Some recent ones are Baettie (1997), which became Redline in 2001 and moved to the United Kingdom in 2007 as Beattie Racing Limited, and McGregor (2001). Two companies who specialise in making replicas of various models to order are Classic Car Developments (1992) and Tempero. Technically, kit cars are not allowed in Sweden, but provided that most of the components and material are sourced by the builder personally it is possible to register them as amateur built vehicles.",
"Fibreglass Developments Ltd, Bunnythorpe as the Maram. McRae went on to make a Porsche Spyder replica in the 1990s. A number of new companies entered the market in the 1980s – Almac 1985, Alternative Cars (1984), Cheetah (1986), Chevron (1984), Countess Mouldings (1988), Fraser (1988), Leitch (1986), and Saker (1989). Some recent ones are Baettie (1997), which became Redline in 2001 and moved to the United Kingdom in 2007 as Beattie Racing Limited, and McGregor (2001). Two companies who specialise in making replicas of various models to order are Classic Car Developments (1992) and Tempero. Technically, kit cars are not allowed in Sweden, but provided that most of the components and material are sourced by the builder personally it is possible to register them as amateur built vehicles. Before the law requiring a mandatory crash test in 1970 there was a booming kit car industry in Sweden with most companies basing their kits on the VW Beetle chassis. When amateur built vehicles again were allowed in 1982 all kit car companies in Sweden had disappeared. The inspection (SVA equivalent) in Sweden is handled by the car builder's association SFRO who makes two inspections; one when the car has reached the rolling chassis stage and the second when the car is finished. Amateur built cars are currently limited to per 100 kg. Earlier the limit was per 100 kg, so for very light cars (like a Lotus 7 type car) it was a problem to find a suitable engine. Vehicle regulations in the UK allow the production of up to 200 vehicles a year without the extensive regulation and testing requirements applied to mass-market vehicles. This has led to an expanding industry of small producers capable of offering partial and complete kits, some for export, and finished vehicles for domestic use. The DVLA regulate kit cars in the UK, which helps to ensure that vehicles used on the road are safe and suitable for the purpose. The current test for this is Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA), which has replaced Single Vehicle Approval (SVA). When SVA was first introduced in 1998, many believed this would kill off the kit car market, but in reality it has made the kit car market stronger, as the vehicles produced now have to meet a minimum standard. IVA was introduced in summer 2009 and it is too early to tell what impact this will have on the industry. People not involved in the UK kit car scene may believe all kit cars are given a 'Q' registration plate which signifies a vehicle of unknown or mixed age, where in fact a significant number (majority?) do not. All kit cars are subject to a Vehicle Identity Check, VIC, by the DVLA to determine the registration mark a kit car is assigned. This will be either, a new, current year, registration; an 'age-related' registration; or a 'Q' plate. Once a kit car has been correctly registered, a V5C, or log book, will be assigned and then a kit car is treated in exactly the same way as a production car, from any larger manufacturer. A kit car must pass its MOT test and have a valid car tax, or have a valid Statutory Off-Road Notification (SORN) declaration. As part of the IVA, a kit car can sometimes be permitted to assume the age of a single, older car (the \"donor car\") if the major parts were taken from it in its construction. If the age identifier assigned to a kit car falls before 1973 the vehicle may be road taxed free of charge. According to figures given to \"Kit Car\" magazine, the most popular kit in the United Kingdom in 2005 was made by Robin Hood Sportscars, who sold 700 kits a year. The Editor of \"Kit Car Magazine\" suggests in 2016 the MEV Exocet was the best selling kit car. Manufacturers in the UK are actively supported by Owners Clubs, some of which are marque specific; while others follow a specific type, such as Cobra replicas. Some groups are also area related, (for example, by county or geographic location). Examples of US kit manufacturers and cars include: A glider kit is a term used in the United States for a kit of components used to restore or reconstruct a wrecked or dismantled vehicle. Glider kits include a chassis (frame), front axle, and body (cab). The kit may also contain other optional components. A motor vehicle constructed from a glider kit is titled as a new vehicle. More common terms include \"partial-turnkey,\" \"turnkey-minus,\" and (though it technically refers to a vehicle without a body, rather than body without drivetrain) \"rolling chassis,\" or \"roller.\" Kit car A kit car is an automobile that is available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then assembles into a functioning car. Usually, many of the major mechanical systems such as the engine and transmission are sourced from donor vehicles or purchased new from other vendors. Kits vary in completeness, consisting of as little as a book of plans, or as much as a complete set with all components to assemble into a fully operational vehicle such as those from Caterham. There is also a sub-set of the kit car, commonly"
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"300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 300 is the soundtrack to the 2007 film \"300\". It was composed by Tyler Bates and was released on March 6, 2007, three days before the film opened for public viewing. The lyrics sung are in Bulgarian, Greek and Latin. The opening lines of the track \"Come and Get Them\" are \"\"Ferto! – Parte to!\"\" () translating as \"bring it! – take it!\". It is said that Leonidas exclaimed Molōn Labe! () when asked by Xerxes to surrender their weapons, which is translated into English as \"Come and Get Them\". There exist a normal edition and a deluxe edition containing photos and artwork from the film. The soundtrack debut at #74 on the Billboard Top 200 and rose to #52 in its second week. It has sold 37,638 copies to date. The song used in the trailers of the movie, Nine Inch Nails' \"Just Like You Imagined\", is absent from the soundtrack. The song \"Knights of Cydonia\" by Muse is used in one of the movie's DVD advertisements. The track, \"Come And Get Them\" was used for the trailer of \"\". The track \"Message for the Queen\" is based on a Bulgarian folk song, commonly known as Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce. 300 was orchestrated and conducted by Nick Glennie-Smith. 300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 300 is the soundtrack to the 2007 film \"300\". It was composed by Tyler Bates and was released on March 6, 2007, three days before the film opened for public viewing. The lyrics sung are in Bulgarian, Greek and Latin. The opening lines of the track \"Come and Get Them\" are \"\"Ferto! – Parte to!\"\" () translating as \"bring it! – take it!\". It is said that Leonidas exclaimed Molōn Labe! () when asked by Xerxes to surrender their weapons, which"
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