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"Poughkeepsie Regatta The Poughkeepsie Regatta was the annual championship regatta of the U.S. Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) when it was held in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1895 to 1949. The IRA was established by Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania in 1891, the third year of their race on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. There Harvard and Yale, from 1878, had established and maintained \"The Race\" as an exclusive head-to-head contest. The newly formed IRA \"left New London in frustration and disgust\" next year and selected a permanent site for its own annual regatta in June 1895. The very first IRA race was held in June 1895, on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, with one Varsity Eight team from Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania competing. Cornell won with a time of 21:25.0. The course was a straight four miles, wide enough for 20 boats. In 1899 there were 48 cars in the observation train that slowly followed the race as \"a moving grandstand\" (on the heights above the river). People soon named the championship regatta after its permanent location and the name Poughkeepsie Regatta was used on the cover of the official program from 1922. In the early years the Eastern schools dominated the race. Typically only a four-mile Varsity Eight race was held, but if there were enough teams entered, there was also a two-mile Freshman Eight race, and occasionally a Varsity Four race. Eventually, this evolved into a format that included an annual two-mile Freshman Eight race, followed by a three-mile Junior Varsity Eight race, and finally the four-mile Varsity Eight race. In 1923 the University of Washington became the first Western crew team to win the Poughkeepsie Regatta. From that year on the Western schools that participated, namely the University of Washington, and the University of California, became a dominating factor. They consistently placed in the top three, and more often than not, they won. The University of Washington became the first and only school to sweep the Regatta two years in a row. The Regatta grew to be \"the greatest one-day sporting event in America\" early in the 20th century, the culmination of a \"carnival\" regatta week on both sides of the river. Every June tens of thousands of spectators would come pouring into Poughkeepsie to watch the races. They covered the shores next to the river, many waiting all day, picnicking on blankets, to ensure they had a good view. The railroad tracks on the west side of the river had a flatbed train which held grandstands from which spectators could watch the race. As the crews rowed up the river, the train would keep pace with them, giving the people on board the best view possible. Hundreds of boats, yachts, and occasionally even Navy destroyers sailed to Poughkeepsie, and moored on the sides of the river to watch the event. The town of Poughkeepsie came alive on the day of the Regatta, with parades, bands, vendors, and banners. In addition, colorful pennants displaying the school colors of all the participants were flying everywhere. The Regatta was extensively covered by newspaper reporters, and as time went on it was even broadcast over local and national radio stations. But the crowds, the cheers, the reporters, parades, and pennants were not the reasons why the Regatta became so intensely popular, the explanation lay in the physical feats of the crew teams. To race at full-speed for four miles required such a breathtaking amount of strength, skill, and endurance that it was awe-inspiring to watch. After 55 years, the IRA Championship Regatta moved in 1950 to Marietta, Ohio; in 1952 to Syracuse, New York; and in 1995 to Camden, New Jersey. Harvard and Yale remained self-segregated for a century, long after the IRA championship left Poughkeepsie and the Hudson River. The Hudson River Rowing Association \"welcomed back\" the Poughkeepsie Regatta in October 2008, running races in eight classifications on a 2.3-mile segment of the traditional course. In October 2009, to celebrate the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's exploration of the Hudson River, Marist College hosted a reenactment of the Poughkeepsie Regatta at Longview Park. 2009 competitors included Marist, Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Army, and Vassar College. There was a repeat in 2010 and a cancellation caused by foul weather in 2011. The September 2012 rendition was called \"annual\" by Marist. Peter Mallory. \"The Sport of Rowing: Two Centuries of Competition\". Four volumes. Henley-on-Thames, England: River Rowing Museum. 2011. Selections published online in advance as \"row2k.com\" Exclusive Features. Poughkeepsie Regatta The Poughkeepsie Regatta was the annual championship regatta of the U.S. Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) when it was held in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1895 to 1949. The IRA was established by Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania in 1891, the third year of their race on the Thames River in New"
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"Atlantic Boulevard (Los Angeles County) Atlantic Boulevard/Atlantic Avenue/Los Robles is a major north-south thoroughfare in eastern Los Angeles County, California. The street passes through the cities of Alhambra, Monterey Park, East Los Angeles, Eastside Los Angeles, Commerce, Vernon, Maywood, Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood, Compton, and Long Beach. Atlantic Boulevard starts off as a southerly continuation of Los Robles Avenue at Huntington Drive in northern Alhambra, and ends on East Ocean Boulevard in Downtown Long Beach.Through most of its route from Maywood south, Atlantic travels parallel to the Long Beach Freeway and the Los Angeles River. South of Randolph Street, Atlantic Boulevard becomes Atlantic Avenue, roughly at the city border of Maywood and Bell. Atlantic crosses, with access: Interstate 10, State Route 60, Interstate 5 (Golden State Freeway), Interstate 710 (Long Beach Freeway), State Route 91, Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway), former State Route 42, and State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway). It also passes underneath, without freeway access, Interstate 105 (Century Freeway). Bus service along Atlantic Boulevard between Huntington Drive and Artesia Boulevard is provided by Metro Local line 260 and Metro Rapid line 762. Bus service south of Artesia Boulevard is provided by Long Beach Transit line 61. The Metro Gold Line Atlantic Station is at the intersection of Atlantic Boulevard and Pomona Boulevard in East Los Angeles. It is the southeastern terminus of the Gold Line currently. It connects the East Los Angeles community to Downtown Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, and other Metro rail lines. Atlantic Boulevard (Los Angeles County) Atlantic Boulevard/Atlantic Avenue/Los Robles is a major north-south thoroughfare in eastern Los Angeles County, California. The street passes through the cities of Alhambra, Monterey Park, East Los Angeles, Eastside Los Angeles, Commerce, Vernon, Maywood, Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood, Compton, and Long Beach. Atlantic Boulevard"
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"Ulf Nilsson (ice hockey) Ulf Gösta \"Lill-Pröjsarn\" Nilsson (born 11 May 1950 in Nynäshamn, Sweden) is a former professional ice hockey player who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Winnipeg Jets and in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers. Part of the first major wave of Europeans to star in North American hockey, he was a major star in the World Hockey Association from 1974 to 1978. He scored at least 114 points in each of his four seasons in the upstart league, finishing third or fourth among overall scorers every time. He led the WHA with 85 assists in 1976–77, and tied Marc Tardif for the lead the next season with 89. Along with countryman Anders Hedberg and established superstar Bobby Hull, he played a starring role as the Jets won Avco Cup titles in 1976 and 1978. In the 1976 playoffs, he scored 26 points in just 13 games and was named WHA Playoff MVP. In the summer of 1978, Nilsson and Hedberg signed with the National Hockey League's New York Rangers for $2.4 million, further weakening the struggling WHA which would cease operations after just one more season. Nilsson's NHL career was marred by two significant injuries. The first was a broken ankle suffered when his skate blade got caught in a crevice in the Madison Square Garden ice as he was hit by Denis Potvin of the New York Islanders, which resulted in Nilsson bearing the entire force of the hit on only one leg. Although Nilsson has never characterized the hit as dirty and, in 2009, said, \"He [Potvin] was always fair. But the ice was never great in the Garden, because they had basketball and other events. My foot got caught. It was a freak thing,\" the incident is nevertheless commemorated by the \"Potvin Sucks\" chant that takes place during every Rangers home game. Nilsson's second serious injury was to his knee while representing Sweden at the 1981 Canada Cup which caused him to miss the entire 1981–82 season. Nilsson was limited to 160 games in his three full seasons with the Rangers, though he scored an impressive 163 points in that time. He scored 8 goals and 16 points in the 1980–81 playoffs as the Rangers advanced to the semi-finals before being eliminated by their local rivals, the defending champion Islanders. After missing the previous season, he returned to the Rangers lineup for ten games early in the 1982–83 season. Nilsson tested positive for ephedrine after Sweden's 4–1 victory over Poland on 6 April 1974, at the 1974 World Ice Hockey Championships. As a result, Sweden's win was vacated, and Poland was awarded a 5–0 walkover win. Nilsson was suspended for the remainder of the tournament. Ulf Nilsson (ice hockey) Ulf Gösta \"Lill-Pröjsarn\" Nilsson (born 11 May 1950 in Nynäshamn, Sweden) is a former professional ice hockey player who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Winnipeg Jets and in the National Hockey League"
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"Torran Rocks The Torran Rocks are a group of small islands and skerries located between the islands of Mull and Colonsay in Scotland. The main rocks are Dearg Sgeir, MacPhail's Anvil, Na Torrain, Torran Sgoilte and Torr an t-Saothaid although there are numerous others including the southernmost of Sgeir Dhoirbh (or Otter Rock). They cover an area of about some south of the tidal island of Erraid and the Ross of Mull. The largest islets of Na Torrain reach or more above sea level and are up to long. West Reef is made up of half a dozen skerries about west of Na Torrain. Between 1867 and 1872 a lighthouse was built on the isolated reef of Dubh Artach some to the south west in response to the hazards these rocks jointly presented to shipping. Between 1800 and 1854 thirty ships were wrecked on the Torrans with the loss of over fifty lives. An astonishing 24 vessels were lost in the area in a storm on 30–31 December 1865. The writer Hamish Haswell-Smith describes the rocks as \"being scattered over a wide area like dragon's teeth. They lurk menacingly just beneath the surface, occasionally showing themselves in a froth of white spittle\". Nicholson (1995) calls them \"4½ miles of jumbled granite teeth\" and that \"the extent and confused nature of this reef claimed untold numbers of vessels plying between America or the Baltic ports and Oban\". The reefs are so hazardous that only small boats can hope to navigate them with any degree of safety. In addition to being a hazard to navigation, they are one of the locations featured in the novel \"Kidnapped\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was in this \"stoneyard\" that Alan Breck Stewart and David Balfour were ship-wrecked. David Balfour, the hero of this tale was then marooned on neighbouring Erraid for a while. Stevenson's father, Thomas was the designer of Dubh Artach lighthouse, and the young Robert Louis knew the area well. He wrote of a \"black brotherhood - the Torran reef that lies behind, between which and the shore the Iona Steamers\" (taking visitors to Iona and Staffa) \"have to pick their way on their return to Oban. The tourist on this trip can see upwards of three miles of ocean thickly sown with these fatal rocks, and the sea breaking white and heavy over some and others showing their dark heads threateningly above water\". This passage begs comparison with \"Kidnapped\" itself: Altogether it was no such ill night to keep the seas in; and I had begun to wonder what it was that sat so heavily upon the captain, when the brig rising suddenly on the top of a high swell, he pointed and cried to us to look. Away on the lee bow, a thing like a fountain rose out of the moonlit sea, and immediately after we heard a low sound of roaring. \"What do ye call that?\" asked the captain, gloomily. \"The sea breaking on a reef,\" said Alan. \"And now ye ken where it is; and what better would ye have?\" \"Ay,\" said Hoseason, \"if it was the only one.\" And sure enough, just as he spoke there came a second fountain farther to the south. \"There!\" said Hoseason. \"Ye see for yourself. If I had kent of these reefs, if I had had a chart, or if Shuan had been spared, it's not sixty guineas, no, nor six hundred, would have made me risk my brig in sic a stoneyard! But you, sir, that was to pilot us, have ye never a word?\" \"I'm thinking,\" said Alan, \"these'll be what they call the Torran Rocks.\" \"Are there many of them?\" says the captain. \"Truly, sir, I am nae pilot,\" said Alan; \"but it sticks in my mind there are ten miles of them.\" Mr. Riach and the captain looked at each other. \"There's a way through them, I suppose?\" said the captain. \"Doubtless,\" said Alan, \"but where? But it somehow runs in my mind once more that it is clearer under the land.\" Haswell-Smith (2004) states that the name is derived from the Gaelic for \"loud murmering or thunder\" although in a different context Mac an Tàilleir describes \"Torrain\" as meaning \"hillocks\". Torran Rocks The Torran Rocks are a group of small islands and skerries located between the islands of Mull and Colonsay in Scotland. The main rocks are Dearg Sgeir, MacPhail's Anvil, Na Torrain, Torran Sgoilte and Torr an t-Saothaid although there are numerous others including the southernmost of Sgeir Dhoirbh (or Otter Rock). They cover an area of about some south of the tidal island of Erraid and the Ross of Mull. The largest islets of Na Torrain reach or more above sea level and are up to long. West Reef is made up of half"
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"Playin' Around Playin' Around is a CD/DVD by Play. Also known by the title \"Playin' Around the World\", it contains about an hour of video segments featuring the members of Play - Anaïs Lameche, Anna Sundstrand, Faye Hamlin and Rosie Munter - as they perform a set of songs in concert, rehearse their music videos, discuss their life performing and living on their tour bus, and prepare for their new album \"Replay\" by recording tracks in the studio. The disc also includes several Play music videos in full length. In some editions, this product is available as a 2-disc set including both the video format presentation and a music CD containing the seven tracks featured on Play's 2002 self-titled debut CD. Playin' Around Playin' Around is a CD/DVD by Play. Also known by the title \"Playin' Around the World\", it contains about an hour of video segments featuring the members of Play - Anaïs Lameche, Anna Sundstrand, Faye Hamlin and Rosie Munter - as they perform a set of songs in concert, rehearse their music videos, discuss their life performing and living on their tour bus, and prepare for their new album \"Replay\" by recording tracks in the studio. The"
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"Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé Saint Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé (24 March 1815 – 11 June 1876) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun. Following her solemn profession as a nun she assumed the name of \"Maria Rosa\" and also established the religious congregation known as the Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation. Vallvé decided that her order would be devoted to women and for service to the poor who mostly required aid. Pope Paul VI beatified her in mid 1977 and she was beatified in late 1988 as a result of the recognition of three miracles attributed to her intercession. She remains as a patron saint of her order. Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé was born on 24 March 1815 in Spain to Jose Molas and Maria Vallvé. She was baptized on 25 March. She was known as a child for her intuitive and sensitive nature with tenderness to the poor and those on the peripheries. As a child she was empathetic to the plight of others and wanted to devote herself to alleviating the suffering of those people. Her First Communion witnessed the birth of her religious calling and she decided that she wanted to consecrate herself to God as a professed religious, assuming the name of \"Maria Rosa\". In January 1841 she entered the Corporation Sisters of Charity who served in a hospital in Reus. She remained in the city on 11 June 1844 to help people despite the bombardment of the city by the troops of General Zurbano. She later went with her fellow sisters to Tortosa in 1849 where the scope of her mission expanded. On 14 March 1857 she established her own religious congregation for women to assist in aiding the poor and the outcasts. She named the order the Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation on 14 November 1858. In May 1876 she could feel that her health was slowly declining and that her end was near. She remarked to her confessor: \"Be it done the holy will of God\". She died on 11 June 1876. The canonization process commenced under Pope Pius XII on 27 July 1951 with the commencement of two local processes in Spain that would collect documents and witness testimonies in order to compile the Positio. The commencement of the cause gave her the title Servant of God and the processes were both ratified on 23 November 1956 so that the cause could proceed to the next stage. The documentation did not receive consideration until almost a decade after and it culminated on 4 October 1974 when Pope Paul VI proclaimed her to be Venerable after recognizing the fact that she lived a life of heroic virtue. The diocesan tribunal for the evaluation of two miracles commenced and concluded in 1954 and was ratified on 23 November 1956 along with the process for the accumulation of documentation. It was not until two decades later that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome began to evaluate it. On 20 January 1977 the Pope approved them and beatified her on 1 May 1977. The miracle was the healing of Elvira Ruiz Llopis who had severe peritonitis and was taken to hospital on 4 October 1944 where the sisters running the hospital prayed for the intercession of Vallvé. Against all odds of survival, she recovered from her ailment. The miracle for canonization was also investigated and was ratified in 1987. Pope John Paul II approved it on 28 March 1988 and canonized her on 11 December 1988. Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé Saint Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé (24 March"
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"W.H. Biney William Hamilton Biney was a Ghanaian businessman who built a large stevedore company in Lagos. Biney was a philanthropist and a generous businessmen who had friends all over the country. His house in Lagos served as residence to many traditional rulers vising the former capital. Biney was born in the Gold Coast, now Ghana in 1896. After his elementary education in the Gold Coast, he went to Sierra Leone and attended the Wesleyan Boys High School, Freetown, completing studies in 1904. Biney immigrated to Nigeria in 1911 and settled in Lagos. He initially worked as a bookeeper for Miller Bros but in 1918, he left the firm and began working as a sub-contractor to Elder Dempster. A pioneer in stevedoring, he founded W. Biney & co in 1918 as a labor contracting firm providing loading and offloading services at the quay to firms such as UAC. The company started with two sheds and expanded as port activities grew. The company was also involved in the offloading of kerosene and petrol at the Ijora Wharf from firms such as Vacuum Oil Company, and it later added railway contracting services. In 1959, the firm was involved the establishment of stevedoring business in Tema, Ghana. The firm was highly respected and up till 1964 was the sole contractor handling loading and offloading of cargoes in Apapa. Biney was also involved in labour related activities, in 1941, he established a privately funded labour registration bureau and a bulletin on labour issues. Biney established a zoo, the first privately own zoo in Nigeria, he was a boxing patron and horticulturist. He was a foundation member of the Island Club. W.H. Biney William Hamilton Biney was a Ghanaian businessman who built a large stevedore company in Lagos. Biney was a philanthropist and a generous"
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"Blackie Chen Blackie Chen or Chen Chien-chou (born 2 May 1977) is a Taiwanese television host, actor, basketball manager, entrepreneur and a former basketball player. In 1994, when Chen Chien-chou was 17, his father was killed in the China Airlines Flight 140 crash. He got into a brawl and was detained by the police. In order to secure his release, his aging grandfather tearfully begged the police officers. Chen Chien-chou felt so ashamed that he was determined to turn himself around. He practiced basketball very seriously. He made the Chinese Taipei junior national team and played in the 1995 ABC Under-18 Championship where they finished 5th. Although only 190 cm (short for even Taiwanese standards), Chen played in the paint. He modelled his game after Charles Barkley, also an undersized big man (hence his English name of \"Charles Chen\"). In 1999, after missing the cut for the Chinese Taipei national basketball team, he played for the B national team at the William Jones Cup. Later, playing for a club in the Singaporean league (where he led the league in scoring and rebounding), he tore his anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in an accident. His basketball career ended prematurely as a result. Chen became a performing artist, and a host of numerous variety shows. Because of his dark skin, he has come to be known by the nickname \"Blackie\", it is also because the name rhymes with Jackie Chan, in which they both are trained in judo, which Blackie obtained a blue belt. He has been in a relationship with Christine Fan for 10 years, before finally getting engaged in 2010. They were married in Taipei on May 7, 2011. Currently the team leader and head of marketing for the Taiwan Beer Basketball Team, Chen directed a 2008 documentary entitled Attitude (態度) on the team's quest to become Super Basketball League champion. The documentary was well received and earned him widespread acclaim and accolades from the Taiwanese film industry. Many consider it the high-water mark of Taiwanese sports related documentary films. Chen is also a television personality and host for several television shows. He is slated to play Peng Dehuai in the highly anticipated miniseries Untold Stories of 1949, to be produced for HBO Asia. Chen, along with his wife Christine Fan, are also the co-founder and spokespeople for the Love Life campaign, after becoming a Christian, as influenced by her mother-in-law while Christine was recovering from severe depression and mild anorexia. Blackie Chen Blackie Chen or Chen Chien-chou (born 2 May 1977) is a Taiwanese television host, actor, basketball manager, entrepreneur and a former basketball player. In 1994, when Chen Chien-chou was 17, his father was killed in the China Airlines Flight 140 crash. He got into a brawl and was detained by the police. In order to secure his release, his aging grandfather tearfully begged the police officers. Chen Chien-chou felt so ashamed that he was determined to turn himself around. He practiced basketball very seriously. He"
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"Awanzai (Pashtun tribe) Awanzai (Pashto: آعوانزي) is a Pashtun allied tribe that resides in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Awan claim Arab descent from Qutb Shah of Ghazni, who ruled at Herat, but joined Mahmud of Ghazni in his invasions of India in 1004 A.D. and received from him the name of Awanor, which means Helper. Qutb Shah was descended from Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad but through the Family tree of Ali's other wife. The Awans have been Muslims from the beginning. Qutb Shah had six sons, Kalan Shah, who settled near Kalabagh while two settled in Tirah and the Kurram Valley. The rest settled in Punjab, Pakistan. The Awans who have been living in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for centuries have mixed up with other Pashtun tribes like the Yousafzai tribe in Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which in turn gave birth to a Sub-clan called 'Awanzai'. On a rural level, Awanzai historically were of the zamindar or landowning class and many Awanzai families to this day live on and cultivate land, which their ancestors have held for centuries. Awanzai (Pashtun tribe) Awanzai (Pashto: آعوانزي) is a Pashtun allied tribe that resides in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Awan claim"
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"Lego Jurassic World Lego Jurassic World is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by TT Fusion and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. It adapts the plots of the first four films in the \"Jurassic Park\" franchise, and is part of a series of Lego-themed video games. The game was released on 12 June 2015 to coincide with the theatrical release of \"Jurassic World\". \"Lego Jurassic World\" was later released for Android and iOS on 31 March 2016. \"Lego Jurassic World\"'s gameplay is similar to previous Lego video games. Gameplay consists of the player solving puzzles. The game features 20 levels, with five levels based on each film. The levels are accessed through a free-roaming overworld area. The game incorporates a two-player cooperation mode. The game features more than 100 unlockable characters to play as, including more than 20 dinosaur species, such as \"Ankylosaurus\", \"Stegosaurus\", \"Triceratops\" and \"Tyrannosaurus\". Mr. DNA, a cartoon character featured in the 1993 \"Jurassic Park\" film, is also an unlockable character. Throughout the game, Mr. DNA provides the player with hints; and with dinosaur trivia, as he did in the \"Jurassic Park\" video game for the Super NES. Human characters include Dr. Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Owen Grady. Each character has a special ability. The utilization of each character's ability is required to progress through the game. \"Jurassic World\" producers Pat Crowley and Frank Marshall appear as unlockable characters, as well as the film's director, Colin Trevorrow. Steven Spielberg, who has acted as director and executive producer for films in the series, is also an unlockable character. The player can also create new human characters by travelling to either the Jurassic Park Visitor Center or the Jurassic World Innovation Center. Hybrid dinosaurs can also be created from various parts of dinosaurs that can be unlocked during the game's progression. Enemies include \"Compsognathus\", \"Dilophosaurus\" and \"Velociraptor\". The 3DS version excludes the free-roaming mode for a central hub instead, but is otherwise nearly identical to the home console versions of the game. The Android and iOS versions also use a main hub section to access levels; because of limitations on digital storage space, these versions feature fewer levels and fewer cutscenes than the home console versions, and the levels are also reduced in size. The iOS version supports use of iCloud and Game Center. The game follows the storylines from the \"Jurassic Park\" films: \"Jurassic Park\", \"The Lost World: Jurassic Park\", \"Jurassic Park III\" and \"Jurassic World\". However, the developers modified the storylines to fit the events into five levels per film. Notable scenes from each film have been recreated in the game. Serious scenes from the films, including characters' deaths, were replaced with humor for the video game as it was aimed at children (for example, after most scenes depicting a character being eaten by a dinosaur occur, the dinosaur will later on regurgitate the character unharmed). \"Lego Jurassic World\" was developed by TT Fusion. Voice clips were taken directly from characters in the series' first three films and were implemented into the game. Many actors from \"Jurassic World\" provided new vocal footage for the game, including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Vincent D'Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Jake Johnson, and Lauren Lapkus. Comedian Jimmy Fallon, who had a cameo in the film, also provided his voice for the game's \"Jurassic World\" chapter and is also a playable character. Peter Stormare reprised his role as Dieter Stark from \"The Lost World: Jurassic Park\", making him the only actor from the second or third films to contribute new lines. Original music for the game was written by Rob Westwood, and was composed by Chad Seiter. \"Journey to the Island\", \"T-Rex Rescue and Finale\" and \"\", three tracks written by composer John Williams for \"Jurassic Park\" and \"The Lost World: Jurassic Park\", were also implemented into the game, along with music composed by Michael Giacchino for \"Jurassic World\". The game was first teased when Plastic Man's \"Tyrannosaurus\" form appeared during the end credits of the 2014 video game, \"\". The game was officially announced in January 2015. In March 2015, a trailer was released for the game. A second trailer was released on 14 May 2015, giving a release date of 12 June 2015, to coincide with the theatrical release of \"Jurassic World\". According to review aggregator Metacritic, the PC, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One versions of \"Lego Jurassic World\" received \"Mixed or average reviews,\" while the iOS version received \"Generally favorable reviews.\" Ebenezer Samuel of the \"New York Daily News\" noted the \"largely simple and friendly\" gameplay and puzzles, and wrote, \"By and large, there's plenty to love in LEGO Jurassic World, despite a smattering of little bugs. TT Games doesn't reinvent with LEGO Jurassic World at all. But it does build a solid gaming experience that parents and kids can appreciate together.\" Gieson Cacho of \"San Jose Mercury News\" criticized the game's camera angles, difficulty, and also noted that the game was too similar to previous Lego video games. Cacho enjoyed the game's playable dinosaurs, but also wrote, \"Unfortunately, there are only a handful of moments where players control them.\" Dave Rudden of IGN praised the PC version for its fast pacing and \"fun puzzles\". However, Rudden criticized the \"frustrating\" presence of \"Compsognathus\" in each chapter of the game and said \"the overworld is a bit of a mess, especially when I had to explore the islands to find the entrance to a new level.\" Matt Clapham of GamesRadar, who reviewed the PlayStation 4 version, enjoyed the game's playable dinosaur characters, but criticized the \"occasionally patchy\" quality of dialogue that was incorporated into the game from the first three films, saying it \"stands out next to the freshly voiced extras.\" Clapham also criticized the \"Compsognathus\" enemies; the artificial intelligence of the game's computer-controlled companion characters; and noted that the game is prone to crashing. Joe Juba of \"Game Informer\", who reviewed the PlayStation 4 version, enjoyed the game's colorful graphics and its use of theme songs from the films, but also felt that the gameplay was too similar to previous Lego video games. Juba criticized the \"annoying\" \"Compsognathus\" enemies, and considered battles with other enemies to be \"boring.\" Juba also felt that the game's feature to play as dinosaurs took \"too long to gain any steam.\" Juba also criticized the game for technical glitches, and felt that the limited amount of audio from the first three films was \"distracting and poorly used.\" Juba concluded that, \"Lego Jurassic World is a dull, occasionally frustrating experience with a lot of cute nods to the series for hardcore fans. That's as good as it gets.\" Jeremy Signor of GameSpot reviewed the PlayStation 4 version, and wrote that it had \"style and undeniable charm that will melt your cynical heart, but the boring things the game makes you do hamper the joy.\" Signor wrote, \"The problem is that you can't actually experiment with anything in any real sense. The different abilities are simply keys to unlock progress or secrets. You never get the chance to noodle around with the mechanics or improvise since there's always just one solution to every obstacle the game puts in your way.\" Signor also criticized the audio from the original films, saying that it \"wasn't mixed very well with the game audio, which sounds jarring next to the pristine, polished sounds and voices recorded for the game\". Signor concluded that the game focused too much on \"visual and thematic experience almost entirely while letting the actual gameplay languish.",
"and undeniable charm that will melt your cynical heart, but the boring things the game makes you do hamper the joy.\" Signor wrote, \"The problem is that you can't actually experiment with anything in any real sense. The different abilities are simply keys to unlock progress or secrets. You never get the chance to noodle around with the mechanics or improvise since there's always just one solution to every obstacle the game puts in your way.\" Signor also criticized the audio from the original films, saying that it \"wasn't mixed very well with the game audio, which sounds jarring next to the pristine, polished sounds and voices recorded for the game\". Signor concluded that the game focused too much on \"visual and thematic experience almost entirely while letting the actual gameplay languish. \"Jurassic Park\" in particular doesn't suit this design because flattening the mechanics removes all notions of tension from the game, an essential part of the film series.\" Dave Letcavage of Nintendo Life, reviewing the Wii U version, wrote that the game \"is exactly what we've come to expect of the LEGO series, with very few surprises. Thankfully, a herd of the missions are designed expertly, and they prove why such a prolific series has stayed relevant all these years. But there are also numerous missions that fall flat, relying too heavily on unneeded combat or working too many playable characters into the mix. The campaign is a bumpy ride to be sure, though it's nowhere near being classified a disaster.\" Letcavage wrote that in certain levels, the \"poor quality\" of the audio clips from the original films \"and their contrast with the music and sound effects make them hugely jarring\". Letcavage also noted that the Wii U version did not run smoothly in comparison to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions. \"NF Magazine\", which reviewed the Wii U version, wrote, \"LEGO Jurassic World is as 'more of the same' as a game gets.\" \"Official Xbox Magazine\" (UK) wrote about the Xbox One version: \"Plenty of expense spared, we think.\" Ron DelVillano of Nintendo Life criticized the 3DS version for its poor audio, and noted that its gameplay was too similar to previous Lego video games. DelVillano wrote that utilizing the system's 3D feature \"ruins the entire experience. Jagged lines make themselves present, the once smooth visuals deteriorate, and the frame rate drops just enough to make you feel like you're playing at a slower speed. It's a disappointingly ugly experience.\" DelVillano also wrote that, \"Because each film is condensed into a certain number of stages, large portions of the plots are left out in order to make room for more action. What we're left with is a mash up of interactive scenes that are loosely strung together by cinematic sequences that don't fully explain what is going on around you.\" Kimberly Keller of Nintendo World Report praised the 3DS version: \"As amazing as it is that there has never been a Lego and dinosaur match-up before now, this game makes up for lost time.\" However, she noted slow loading times between levels, the \"annoying\" \"Compsognathus\" enemies, and felt that the game was, \"Not too unique compared to previous Lego titles.\" Rob Rich of Gamezebo reviewed the mobile version and praised the large amount of unlockable content and the \"cleverly implemented\" skills of its characters. However, Rich criticized the mobile version for its hub feature, as well as its exclusion of certain cutscenes and levels from the home console versions; Rich also noted that most of the game's levels were smaller in comparison, and concluded, \"LEGO Jurassic World on mobile is a bit disappointing, but that's because I'm so fond of the original release and can spot what's missing. Honestly, it's no wonder some content was cut when you consider how much less digital storage space the average mobile device has when compared to a console or PC. Still, as with the earlier releases it shows plenty of reverence for the movies, and is easily the best mobile LEGO game I've played to date.\" Ray Willmott of Pocket Gamer wrote that the iOS version was \"good-old fashioned entertainment at its finest,\" writing that \"Traveller's Tales has done a remarkable job of making everything feel refreshing, yet authentic.\" Willmott wrote that the touch controls \"occasionally aren't receptive to your gestures - particularly for jumping. But the experience is generally fluid throughout.\" Willmott noted the sound effects as being \"a bit tinny\", but praised the soundtrack and wrote that the graphics \"occasionally sparkle and dazzle on the small screen.\" Willmott concluded that while the game was not flawless, it was \"a pleasure to play.\" Shaun Musgrave of TouchArcade reviewed the iOS version, and noted the game's new vocal clips as well as the clips of \"questionable quality grabbed from the movies,\" stating that \"the two styles of voice samples certainly don't mesh well at all.\" However, Musgrave praised the game's support of iCloud and Game Center, as well as its diverse iOS-specific control settings, stating, \"While I may rag on these games for the way they pull their designs back from the console versions, it's nice to see iOS-specific features get proper attention.\" Musgrave concluded that the game would appeal most to fans of Lego video games and of the \"Jurassic Park\" series. In the UK, \"Lego Jurassic World\" became the top-selling game for the week ending 20 June 2015. \"Lego Jurassic World\" became the best-selling game of July 2015, with the Xbox 360 version selling the most copies. In the UK, \"Lego Jurassic World\" took the top-selling spot again for two consecutive weeks during August 2015. On 13 October 2015, Warner Brothers revealed that the game had sold 4 million copies. Lego Jurassic World Lego Jurassic World is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by TT Fusion and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. It adapts the plots of the first four films in the \"Jurassic Park\" franchise, and is part of a series of Lego-themed video games. 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"Takanyi Garanganga Takanyi Garanganga (born 5 September 1990) is a professional Zimbabwean tennis player. He was born in Mbare, Zimbabwe, a suburb of Harare, and began playing tennis at the age of 8. He is currently the top-ranked player from Zimbabwe. He first found success at the age of 14 playing tennis, winning the African Junior Championship at the age of 14. This success sparked the interest of Zimbabwean coach Brian de Villiers, who brought Garanganga to the United States. After a career on the junior circuit and graduating from high school at Keystone National High School in 2008, Garanganga turned down offers to play collegiate tennis at the University of Georgia and the University of Illinois to focus on a professional career. Takanyi Garanganga has primarily spent his time on the Futures circuit, while also playing challengers some ATP World Tour qualifying tournaments. He began playing on the tour in 2008, competing in tournaments in the United States and Africa. He has also represented Zimbabwe in Davis Cup action. His most notable tournament success was winning the gold medal at the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique for Men's Singles. Takanyi Garanganga Takanyi Garanganga (born 5 September 1990) is"
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"Quảng Trạch District Quảng Trạch () is a district of Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam. The district capital is Ba Đồn. This district is divided into 34 commune-level subdivisions and faces the South China Sea. The Hòn La Economic Zone is located in this district. Hòn La has a capacity for vessels up to 10,000 metric tons, and may handle up to 12 million metric tons at full capacity. A coal-fueled thermalelectrical plant with a total designed capacity of 2,400 MW was built by Petrovietnam in 2009. As of 2007 the district had a population of 199,659. The district covers an area of 612 km². The district capital lies at Ba Đồn. Trần Nhân Tông founded the Tri Kien temple in present-day Bố Trạch. Quảng Trạch District Quảng Trạch () is a district of Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam. The district capital is Ba Đồn. This district is divided into 34 commune-level subdivisions and faces the South China Sea. The Hòn La Economic Zone is located in this district. Hòn La has a capacity for vessels up to 10,000 metric tons, and may handle up to 12 million metric tons"
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"Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to 2005's \"\". The game is a third-person shooter with an open world, set in a fictionalized war-torn Venezuela, the game's primary objective is to kill the President of Venezuela whose betrayal of the protagonist mercenary acted as a stepping stone to his current position, Following the closure of Pandemic Studios, EA announced on November 24, 2009 that EA Los Angeles were working on a title known as \"Mercs Inc\". The game was eventually canceled following the closure of Danger Close Games in 2013. The player can pick one of three mercenaries: Mattias Nilsson, an ex-operative with a love of explosives, Chris Jacobs, an amoral ex-Delta Force member with a cynical attitude, and Jennifer Mui, a former-MI6 turned mercenary who cares about nothing but money. Helped in part via a contract with and subsequent betrayal of the mercenary, Ramon Solano becomes the Venezuelan President of an interim government following a military coup, and successfully builds the trust and support of the population via his \"for the people\" nationalization of the country's oil. The mercenary vows revenge on Solano, and must work there way towards this by performing contracts for various conflicting factions across Venzuela. In preparation for the release of \"Mercenaries 2\", Electronic Arts opened a commercial campaign in August 2008, with scenes of the plot of the game in a stylized world, featuring background music reminiscent of a \"hip-hop musical\" singing about how the protagonists are going to get revenge for being double crossed and getting no pay to boot. The song was written and performed by the Wojahn Brothers and was released as a single on September 23, 2008. EA took over the Last Stop petrol station in Finsbury Park, North London, on the release day of the game in order to give away £20,000 worth of petrol for free, with each driver receiving a maximum of £40. The petrol station was transformed into a military bunker, with sandbags, oil barrels and jeeps. The area's member of parliament, Lynne Featherstone, described the campaign as an \"ill thought-out media stunt\" after it created unnecessary traffic congestion. The demo of the game became available after-release on September 18 on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. On September 30, 2008, Pandemic Studios announced that they were working on a free patch, called \"Total Payback\", that would add six new playable characters, cross-region co-op, and cheats. It was scheduled to be released on October 13 on Xbox Live, but was delayed until October 23 and again until \"early November.\" The patch was released on October 23 for PS3 and October 31 for 360 users. On December 12, 2008, the Mercenaries 2 DLC content pack \"Blow It Up Again\" was released for download on the PlayStation Store. Pandemic later stated that they are \"working with Microsoft\" to ensure that the Xbox 360 content pack is released promptly, to follow Sony's sudden release. The DLC had relatively little advertising and failed to even have an official announcement from Pandemic aside from a simple trailer available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It has also been raised from free to $1.99. The \"Total Payback\" patch and \"Blow It Up Again\" content pack have not been released for the Windows version. \"Mercenaries 2: World in Flames\" received \"average\" reviews on all platforms except the PlayStation 2 version, which received \"generally unfavorable reviews\", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Though praised for its colorful and destructive environments, many reviews have complained of \"nagging annoyances\" throughout the game that occasionally feel rushed and unfinished. One of the major problems was the unintelligent AI of both friendly and enemy NPCs, and the issue was aggravated by voice acting and repetitive lines. Some reviewers found several gameplay mechanisms questionable, such as the air supports and airstrikes being of limited value, over-powerful melee attacks, and simplistic faction dynamics. The reactions from the new co-op mode were divided; while another player added to the fun, there were limitations, such as the tether between players and limited role of the passenger when in a vehicle. \"Edge\" gave the PlayStation 3 version a score of six out of ten and said that it \"remains an absolute blast.\" In Japan, where the game was ported for release on November 20, 2008, \"Famitsu\" gave it a score of one eight, one nine, and two sevens for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions; and one six, one seven, and two fives for the PS2 version. \"Mercenaries 2\" was nominated for \"Dubious Honors: Worst Game Everyone Played\" by GameSpot in their 2008 video game awards, which was a category for games with large sales that had been panned by the critics. In addition, it won \"Dubious Honors: Most Disappointing Game\" by GameSpot. The game has been criticized by the Venezuelan government, accusing the U.S. government of trying to drum up support from the American public for a real-life invasion with the purpose of overthrowing Hugo Chávez. Pandemic Studios had previously developed training aids for the U.S. Army. In response to the criticism, the official website of the game included the following disclaimer: Gunnar Gundersen, cofounder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, dismissed arguments that it's \"just a game\", saying: Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Mercenaries 2: World in"
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"Andries Treurnicht Andries Petrus Treurnicht (19 February 1921 – 22 April 1993) was a South African politician, Minister of Education during the Soweto Riots and for a short time leader of the National Party in Transvaal. In 1982 he founded and led the Conservative Party of South Africa whose successes among the white electorate made him Leader of the Opposition in 1987, a position he retained until his death. He was born in Piketberg (Cape Province) and began his working life as a journalist, being editor of \"Die Kerkbode\" and \"Hoofstad\". He was a keen sportsman, excelling on the rugby field, playing provincial rugby against the All Blacks in 1949. After obtaining his MA in Theology at the University of Stellenbosch, he completed a Doctorate in Political Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He subsequently entered the Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk), serving various congregations as minister for 14 years. He was elected Deputy Chairman of the Cape Synod and later of the General Synod. He married Engela Dreyer on 18 January 1949. In 1971, he became the National Party MP for Waterberg. Newly appointed as Deputy Minister of Education in 1976, his instruction to implement the policy that black students should be taught half in English, half in Afrikaans triggered the Soweto Riots. In 1978, he was chosen, over the heads of 12 ministers, as Leader of the National Party in the Transvaal, and, in 1979, he became Minister of State for Administration and of Statistics. He was chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) from 1972 -1974. He had to leave the AB in 1983, when the newly formed Conservative Party members were not welcome anymore. On 20 March 1982, he and 22 other MPs quit the National Party to form the Conservative Party to oppose P.W. Botha and the National Party's limited reforms to apartheid. The CP's English language programme booklets from 1987-89 stated that the party was established \"to continue the policy of self-determination after the [NP] government had exchanged self-determination\" (something the CP described as an \"infallible policy\"), for power-sharing. In 1987, the Conservative Party became the official opposition in the House of Assembly, winning 550,000 votes, displacing the liberal Progressive Federal Party. Donald Simpson, writing in the South African newspaper, \"The Star\", went as far as to predict that the National Party would lose the next election and that the Conservative Party would become the new government of South Africa. In June 1989, accompanied by Clive Derby-Lewis, Carl Werth, and several other Conservative Party officials, Treurnicht made an official visit to London and some other European capitals. The far-right Western Goals Institute organized his London visit, and the Conservative Monday Club held a dinner in his honour, at which at least one British Conservative Party MP, Tim Janman, was present. Already nicknamed \"Doctor No\", in 1992, he led the opposition campaign during the referendum called by F.W. de Klerk to gain white approval for negotiations to end apartheid. This campaign marked the peak of Conservative support in South Africa, gaining just under one million votes, but the \"No\" vote was defeated 2 to 1 by white voters. Treurnicht was the author of no fewer than 16 books, many in the cultural field. He died on 22 April 1993, in Cape Town, during a heart operation. His death came shortly after the Conservative Party suffered a major blow with the arrest of senior member Clive Derby-Lewis for the murder of Chris Hani. His former deputy minister, Ferdinand Hartzenberg, became the last leader of the Conservative Party. Andries Treurnicht Andries Petrus Treurnicht (19 February 1921 –"
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"Death Knights of Krynn Death Knights of Krynn is the second in a three-part series of Dragonlance \"Advanced Dungeons & Dragons\" \"Gold Box\" role-playing video games, published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. The game was released in 1991. The story is a continuation of the events after \"Champions of Krynn\" and is followed by \"The Dark Queen of Krynn\". One year after the defeat of Myrtani, the party, now stationed at Gargath Outpost, has had little to do. The outpost is soon attacked by undead forces. The party's old colleague, Sir Karl, is revealed to be brought back from the grave as an undead death knight under the command of the evil Lord Soth. Soth has been raising dead, great warriors and turning them into his own evil undead forces. His primary goal is to possess the body of the legendary hero Sturm Brightblade. He and his vast undead armies now threaten the land. It is up to the party to overcome this threat. The party's ultimate goal is to storm Dargaard Keep and defeat Lord Soth. Along the way, it will travel to many towns and face numerous monsters. One particular monster, the Dread Wolf, will taunt the party many times until they finally fight the creature. The party may enlist the aid of the knight Sir Durfey at the Clerist's Tower. He will join and help the party for most of the game. There are a few optional side quests the party can undertake if desired. The party can gain some extra experience points and usually some extra treasure items can be found. To play \"Death Knights of Krynn\", the player needs to create characters and form a party. The available character races are humans, dwarves, elves, half-elves and kender, while the selectable classes are fighter, ranger, knight, mage, cleric and thief. The gameplay basics are identical to all games in the series. Characters can also be transferred from \"Champions of Krynn\". However, the useful magical items from the previous game will not be retained. There are some differences in play from the prior goldbox games: There are only two known versions for MS-DOS: SSI sold 61,958 copies of \"Death Knights of Krynn\". It had more substantial tie-ins to the Dragonlance setting than its predecessor, and was well received at the time of its release. The game was reviewed in 1991 in \"Dragon\" #173 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in \"The Role of Computers\" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. \"Computer Gaming World\"s Scorpia in 1991 was less positive, stating that \"there is a humdrum feel to the game\", criticizing the lack of puzzles or role-playing. She stated that \"even the side quests begin to look depressingly similar after awhile\", and warned that the Gold Box series \"has fallen into a predictable rut\". In 1993 Scorpia called \"Krynn\" \"mainly just another chop-em-up\". According to GameSpy, \"the game's more substantial ties to the DragonLance universe made it relatively well-received in its day, though at this point, it doesn't particularly stand out\". Ian Williams of \"Paste\" rated the game #10 on his list of \"The 10 Greatest Dungeons and Dragons Videogames\" in 2015. Death Knights of Krynn Death Knights of Krynn is the second in a three-part series of Dragonlance \"Advanced Dungeons & Dragons\" \"Gold Box\" role-playing video games, published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. The game was released in 1991. The story is a continuation of the events after \"Champions of Krynn\" and is followed by \"The Dark Queen of Krynn\". One year after the defeat of Myrtani, the party, now stationed at Gargath Outpost,"
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"Mosaic (film) Mosaic is an animated superhero film about a new character created by Stan Lee. It features the voice of Anna Paquin as Maggie Nelson with supporting roles done by Kirby Morrow, Cam Clarke, Garry Chalk, Ron Halder, and Nicole Oliver. It was released under the \"Stan Lee Presents\" banner, which is a series of direct-to-DVD animated films distributed by POW Entertainment with Anchor Bay Entertainment. The story was by Stan Lee, with the script by former X-Men writer Scott Lobdell. \"Mosaic\" was released on DVD on January 9, 2007, and had its television premiere on March 10, 2007 on Cartoon Network. Aspiring young actress Maggie Nelson (Anna Paquin), who lives in New York City, gains chameleon-like powers after she is exposed to an electrical storm and a magic rune which her father, an Interpol agent, had brought home to study after it was found at the scene of a murder at a New York City museum. Her powers are from a secret and ancient race known as the Chameliel, who are able to hide in plain sight of the public due to their shape shifting abilities, and she is told all about the Chameliel after meeting a young Chameliel named Mosaic (Kirby Morrow). The murder victim at the museum was a Chameliel who was killed by another Chameliel named Maniken, who is stealing some of the many powerful Chameliel stones that are hidden around the world, intent on using them to gain the alchemical powers of his dead wife Facade, and ruling the world. After Maniken kidnaps her father, Maggie becomes determined to help Mosaic to fight Maniken. They go from New York City, to the catacombs of Rome, to a large radio dish at the magnetic North Pole, trying to stop Maniken as he plans to sacrifice Maggie's father to use the Chameliel stones in a ceremony that will transfer to Maniken the powers of his wife from her body and rule Earth like a god. As Maniken prepares to begin the ceremony on the radio dish, Maggie uses her acting skills and shape-shifting abilities to fool Maniken into believing she is his dead wife come back to life, to distract him from noticing Mosaic is planting explosives that destroy everything on the radio dish and render the ceremony impossible, and getting her father to safety. During the battle against Maniken, it is revealed that Mosaic is Maniken and Facade's son who had volunteered to the rest of the Chameliel to go after his father and to stop him. They both end up tumbling into an icy gorge, never to rise again. Maggie then sneaks aboard the Interpol copter her father is on, overhearing him vowing to destroy all Chameliel. Upon returning home, she plans to continue acting and agrees to her father's request to continue her studies, but at the same time, acknowledging her powers as the piece of the Chameliel within her, she vows to search for the remaining Chameliel stones and use their power for good, and honor Mosaic and the rest of the Chameliel by becoming the new Mosaic. Maggie's powers include shapeshifting, superhuman strength, the ability to cling to surfaces allowing for scaling walls and ceilings (much like Spider-Man), seeing the DNA of other creatures (which is how she can compare humans to apes), regeneration, infrared vision, camouflage, invisibility and the ability to mimic voices as well as a gift for understanding the Chameliel language (it is never explained if this ability shows that she can understand other languages or speak them but it makes sense). Strangely, when Maggie becomes invisible, her outline gives off the appearance that she is completely naked, even though she is in fact wearing clothes. Why her clothes are not outlined when her body is invisible is never made clear. \"Mosaic\" has received mixed reviews. Movie reviewer Rotten Tomatoes gave it an audience rating of 49%, based on 2 reviews. Mosaic (film) Mosaic is an animated superhero film about a new character created by Stan Lee. It features the voice of Anna Paquin as Maggie Nelson with supporting roles done by Kirby Morrow, Cam Clarke, Garry Chalk, Ron Halder, and Nicole Oliver. It was released under the"
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"Robert Daglish Robert Daglish (1779-1865) was a colliery manager, mining, mechanical and civil engineer at the start of the railway era. Daglish was born in North East England. He became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1830. He died at Orrell on 28 December 1865 and is buried at Wigan Parish Church. He had married Margaret Twizel in 1804. Their children included George (1805-1870), who became a surgeon and Robert. Dalglish moved to Lancashire in 1804 where he was employed by Lord Balcarres to manage Haigh Foundry and the adjacent Brock Mill Forge. While at Haigh he built pumping, winding and blast engines which in their day were described as \"improved and efficient machines\". Around 1810, Daglish moved to Orrell where he was appointed manager of John Clarke's Orrell Colliery. Having seen the rack locomotives John Blenkinsop designed for the Middleton Railway near Leeds in 1812, under licence, he built the \"Yorkshire Horse\" to the same design as Blenkinsop's \"Salamanca\". He converted the colliery wagonway between the collieries at Winstanley and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Crooke to a running track with stone sleepers and iron rails. The locomotive was built at Haigh Foundry. Under Daglish's management the colliery was extremely profitable. He built a second locomotive and said they each did the work of 14 horses saving the company about £500 per year. Dalglish supervised much of the construction work on the Bolton and Leigh Railway which opened in 1828. he rebuilt the locomotive, \"Novelty\", for the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway in 1833. With his son, Robert who erected the machinery for that railway's inclined planes, they operated the line from 1839 until 1848. Dalglish was consulted by other railway companies such as the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway in 1832 and the Great North of England Railway. He won a prize in the London and Birmingham Railway's competition for the best design for rail chairs. In North America, Dalglish was consulted by the Baltimore and Susquehanna, the Boston and Providence, the New York and Harlem and Norwich and Worcester Railroads. Daglish's son, Robert (1809-1883) was also an engineer. He trained with Hick and Rothwell in Bolton before moving to Lee Watson and Company's St Helens Iron Foundry. The foundry supplied machinery for mills, mines, waterworks, glassworks, and railways. Iron lattice truss bridges were supplied to the Liverpool and Bury Railway in 1846. He was also a railway contractor. Robert Daglish Robert Daglish (1779-1865) was a colliery manager, mining, mechanical and civil engineer at the start of the railway era. Daglish was born in North East England. He became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1830. He died at Orrell on 28 December 1865 and is buried at Wigan Parish Church. He had married Margaret Twizel in 1804. Their children included George (1805-1870), who became a surgeon and Robert. Dalglish moved to Lancashire in 1804 where he was employed by Lord Balcarres to manage Haigh Foundry and the adjacent Brock Mill"
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"Detritivore Detritivores, also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders, or detritus eaters, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as faeces). There are many kinds of invertebrates, vertebrates and plants that carry out coprophagy. By doing so, all these detritivores contribute to decomposition and the nutrient cycles. They should be distinguished from other decomposers, such as many species of bacteria, fungi and protists, which are unable to ingest discrete lumps of matter, but instead live by absorbing and metabolizing on a molecular scale (saprotrophic nutrition). However, the terms \"detritivore\" and \"decomposer\" are often used interchangeably. Detritivores are an important aspect of many ecosystems. They can live on any type of soil with an organic component, including marine ecosystems, where they are termed interchangeably with bottom feeders. Typical detritivorous animals include millipedes, springtails, woodlices, dung flies, slugs, many terrestrial worms, sea stars, sea cucumbers, fiddler crabs, and some sedentary polychaetes such as amphitrites (\"Amphitritinae\", worms of the family Terebellidae) and other terebellids. Scavengers are not typically thought to be detritivores, as they generally eat large quantities of organic matter, but both detritivores and scavengers are same type of cases of consumer-resource systems. The eating of wood, whether alive or dead, is known as xylophagy. Τhe activity of animals feeding only on dead wood is called sapro-xylophagy and those animals, sapro-xylophagous. In food webs, detritivores generally play the roles of decomposers. Detritivores are often eaten by consumers and therefore commonly play important roles as recyclers in ecosystem energy flow and biogeochemical cycles. Many detritivores live in mature woodland, though the term can be applied to certain bottom-feeders in wet environments. These organisms play a crucial role in benthic ecosystems, forming essential food chains and participating in the nitrogen cycle. Fungi, acting as decomposers, are important in today's terrestrial environment. During the Carboniferous period, fungi and bacteria had yet to evolve the capacity to digest lignin, and so large deposits of dead plant tissue accumulated during this period, later becoming the fossil fuels. By feeding on sediments directly to extract the organic component, some detritivores accidentally concentrate toxic pollutants. Detritivore Detritivores, also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders, or detritus eaters, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as faeces). There are many kinds of invertebrates, vertebrates and plants that carry out coprophagy. By doing so, all"
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"Favaios Favaios () is a civil parish of the municipality of Alijó, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,064, in an area of 21.45 km. The region is known for its wines, namely, the moscatels like \"Moscatel de Favaios\". Favaios originally was part of the region of Panoias, before being occupied by Roman legions between 218 AD and 201 AD. Lost to the tribes of Lusitanians and Hispanic clans after 200 AD. The founders came from the families and relations of the Flavian dynasty, of Imperial Rome, who rose to prominence after Emperor Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus. The parish's name is derived from \"Flávios\", a corruption of the original \"Flavius\" of this leader. Panoias was a vast territory which extended from Marão to Tua Rivers, and from the Douro River until the municipality of Murça. The invasion of the Iberian peninsula by Arabs reached the north, where the Moors took the Roman \"Castle of Flávias\": it would later be remembered as the \"\"Castelo dos Mouros”\" (). This occupation forced the locals to escape the region and re-established settlements away from Favaios: half the population took refuge in the area that would be renamed São Bento. From this new colony the Portuguese battled the Moors of Favaios; after the expulsion of the Moors the region was covered in the destruction of these battles. The destruction lead to a slow reconstruction of Favaios. Favaios received in 1211 its \"Carta de Alforria\" (\"Charter of liberty/freedom\") from King Afonso II, and its foral (\"charter\") in 1270 by Afonso III (which was later confirmed in 1284 by King Denis). Strangely, during the reign of Manuel I the charter was revoked in 1514, to be reinstituted the following year, ordering that the local fountain be marked with the Royal shield over an armillary sphere, surmounted by a crown. With an area of 21.45 km, Favaios is located along a plateau in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro province, district headed by Vila Real de Trás-os-Montes city. Favaios Favaios () is a civil parish of the municipality of Alijó, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,064, in an area of 21.45 km. The region is known for its wines, namely, the moscatels like \"Moscatel de Favaios\". Favaios originally was part of the region of Panoias, before being occupied by Roman legions between 218 AD and 201 AD. Lost to the tribes of Lusitanians"
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"Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland (, , , ) is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the Cantons of Bern, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Aargau and Zürich. \"Evangelical\" translates as \"evangelisch\", the German term for \"Protestant\", as opposed to \"evangelical\" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity. The EVP is conservative on euthanasia, abortion, registered partnerships and other typically Christian issues, centrist on economic issues and stands rather centre-left on issues of wealth redistribution, education, environmentalism and immigration. Among other things, it claims to be \"dedicated to protecting the environment out of a sense of responsibility for Creation\" and states that \"the ethical values of the Bible should be the foundation of society.\" The EVP is a member of the European Christian Political Movement (EPCM) and was previously an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) until 2008. In the Federal Assembly of Switzerland the EVP forms a joint group along with the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) and the Christian Social Party Obwalden (CSP OW). Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland (, , , ) is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the"
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"Jeet filmography Jeet (born Jeetendra Madnani on 30 November 1969) is an Indian Bengali film actor, producer and television presenter. He made his film debut with a Telugu film, named \"Chandu\" that was released in 2001 which did not do that well at the box office. Further, Jeet moved on to do Bengali films and had his first breakthrough by portraying the lead character in \"Sathi\". He has become one of the biggest superstars and highest-paid actors in Bengali cinema through the years, with films like - \"Awara\", \"\", \"Bachchan, , , Badsha - The Don, Inspector Nottyk, Jor, Beshi Korechi Prem Korechi, Fighter, Dui Prithibi, to\" his credit, all of them being Blockbuster. From 2014 to 2016, he has starred in many films, including critically and commercially successful venture- the psychological thriller \"The Royal Bengal Tiger\". Jeet filmography Jeet (born Jeetendra Madnani on 30 November 1969) is an Indian Bengali film actor, producer and television presenter. He made his film debut with a Telugu film, named \"Chandu\" that was released in 2001 which did not do that well at the box office. Further, Jeet moved on to do Bengali films and had his first breakthrough by portraying the lead"
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"Sylvain Beuf Sylvain Beuf (born April 6, 1964, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Beuf studied classical music in Orsay and jazz music at CIM with Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Bernard Maury, and Claude Tissendier among others. He is a prolific composer and leads ensembles of several sizes which play regularly at international jazz festivals. In 1993, he won the Django Reinhardt award for French musician of the year. He is now the director of the jazz department at the conservatoire de Versailles. Musicians he has worked with include Martial Solal, René Urtreger, Michel Legrand, Daniel Humair, Henri Texier, Richard Galliano, the collective Zhivaro, André Ceccarelli, Aldo Romano, Pierre de Bethmann, Michel Marre, Maurice Vander, Gérard Badini, the ensemble Océan, Moutin Réunion, Patrice Caratini, Andy Emler, Franck Amsallem, Ivan Paduart, Gordon Beck, Alain Jean-Marie, Bojan Z, Billy Hart, Jean-Michel Pilc, Emmanuel Bex, Sylvain Luc, Stéphane Huchard, Éric Le Lann, Baptiste Trotignon, Minino Garay, and Jean Pierre Como. Sylvain Beuf Sylvain Beuf (born April 6, 1964, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Beuf studied classical music in Orsay and jazz music at CIM with Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Bernard Maury, and Claude Tissendier among others. He is a prolific"
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"Melrose/Williamson House Melrose, also known as the Williamson House, is a historic plantation house located near Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It consists of two two-story, frame blocks connected by a 1 1/2-story breezeway. The original section dated to about 1780 and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Federal style details. The later section was built about 1840, and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Greek Revival style details. The later section features a portico supported by four unfluted Doric order columns. Also on the property is an octagonal, Williamsburg-style pump house with a conical roof. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Melrose/Williamson House Melrose, also known as the Williamson House, is a historic plantation house located near Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It consists of two two-story, frame blocks connected by a 1 1/2-story breezeway. The original section dated to about 1780 and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Federal style details. The later section was built about 1840, and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Greek Revival style details. The later section features a portico supported by four unfluted Doric order columns. Also on"
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"H2O Networks H2O Networks, sometimes called the Water Networks, was a British telecommunications company founded in 2003 by Elfed Thomas. It was supposed to be rolling out Fibrecity around the UK. They were formally part of the i3 Group. H2O networks in their Fibrecity (Bournemouth) and Fibrecity (Dundee) guises ceased their builds in October 2010 stating that there would be a short delay due to company restructuring. Their installation contractors in both cities were laid off. In January 2011 it was announced that there had been a management buy-out of the H2O Networks part of the i3 business, including Fibrecity, by the ex i3 Group CCO Greg Mesch, the new company is to be called City Fibre Holdings. Revelations about the financial backing behind H2O Networks were released in February 2011. H20 was one of ten companies used by Stephen Dartnell and his co-conspirators to fraudulently obtain over £250m, with H20 the biggest victim, with an amount of over £160m. Total Asset Finance, the backers, were subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and, allegedly owed a Belgian bank over £130 million. Over £90 Million of this is apparently related to loans being used to finance H2O Networks. Four individuals were convicted in 2017 of conspiracy to commit fraud, and two acquitted. The crown court case started in September 2016, with the final sentencing handed down in February 2017. George Alexander and Stephen Dartnell, of Total Asset Limited, were sentenced to 12 and 15 years respectively at Southwark Crown Court. Simon Mundy, who worked for KBC Lease was sentenced to 7 years. Carl Cumiskey of H20 Networks Limited was sentenced to 10 year's imprisonment. Elfed Thomas was found not guilty and exonerated from all charges. In January 2018, Elfed Thomas announced the launch of his first business venture since the court case, British Fibre Networks, which aims to build pure fibre connections to more than 35% of new homes by 2021. H2O Networks H2O Networks, sometimes called the Water Networks, was a British telecommunications company founded in 2003 by Elfed Thomas. It was supposed to be rolling out Fibrecity around the UK. They were formally part of the i3 Group. H2O networks in their Fibrecity (Bournemouth) and Fibrecity (Dundee) guises ceased their builds in October 2010 stating that there would be a short delay due to company restructuring. Their installation contractors in both cities were laid off. In"
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"User requirements document The user requirement(s) document (URD) or user requirement(s) specification (URS) is a document usually used in software engineering that specifies what the user expects the software to be able to do. Once the required information is completely gathered it is documented in a URD, which is meant to spell out exactly what the software must do and becomes part of the contractual agreement. A customer cannot demand features not in the URD, whilst the developer cannot claim the product is ready if it does not meet an item of the URD. The URD can be used as a guide to planning cost, timetables, milestones, testing, etc. The explicit nature of the URD allows customers to show it to various stakeholders to make sure all necessary features are described. Formulating a URD requires negotiation to determine what is technically and economically feasible. Preparing a URD is one of those skills that lies between a science and an art, requiring both software technical skills and interpersonal skills. User requirements document The user requirement(s) document (URD) or user requirement(s) specification (URS) is a document usually used in software engineering that specifies what the user expects the software to be able"
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"Harry Wills Harry Wills (May 15, 1889 – December 21, 1958) was a heavyweight boxer who three times held the World Colored Heavyweight Championship. Many boxing historians consider Wills the most egregious victim of the \"color line\" drawn by white heavyweight champions. Wills fought for over twenty years (1911–1932), and was ranked as the number one challenger for the throne, but was denied the opportunity to fight for the title. Of all the black contenders between the heavyweight championship reigns of Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, Wills came closest to securing a title shot. His managers included Jim Buckley and Paddy Mullins. Wills fought many of the top heavyweights of his era. He defeated Willie Meehan, who had decisioned Jack Dempsey, Gunboat Smith and Charley Weinart. He also fought Luis Firpo in a match that ended in No Decision. Wills faced future heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey in 1926, and was being decisively beaten when he was disqualified. The next year, Wills was knocked out by heavyweight contender Paolino Uzcudun in a bout that signalled the end of his reign as a serious title contender. His final record was 75 wins (with 47 knockouts), 9 losses and 2 draws. In 2003, he was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. The top black fighters of Wills' era were forced to continuously fight each other, as many white fighters also drew the \"color line\". As a result, Wills fought the redoubtable Sam Langford 22 times. His record against Langford was 6 wins, 2 losses and 14 No Decisions, although the two losses were by knockout. He beat Langford three times for the colored heavyweight title, with Langford winning it back twice. (He was forced to vacate his third title when he fought Jack Sharkey in 1926 and was lost the bout due to a disqualification.) Wills also defeated colored heavyweight champ Sam McVey three times and fought two No Decision bouts with Joe Jeanette. Midwestern boxing promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons rendered a check to Wills for his fee, but failed to produce even a downpayment for Dempsey's much larger fee for a bout between the two fighters, who had, in July 1925, signed an agreement for a 1926 title match, which never materialized as a result. Disagreement has existed among boxing historians as to whether Dempsey had avoided Wills– though Dempsey swore he was willing to fight him –as having said he would no longer fight Black boxers after winning the title. Wills twice attempted to sue Dempsey for breach of contract over the canceled bout, which had also been barred in New York State by Athletic Commissioner James Farley, an early champion of African-American equal rights. A deadly race riot in the wake of The Johnson-Jeffries Fight (film depiction) also created reluctance to promote the match. Wills retired from boxing in 1932, and ran a successful real estate business in Harlem, New York. He was known for his yearly fast, in which, once a year, he would subsist on water for a month. Wills admitted that his biggest regret in life was never getting the opportunity to fight Dempsey for the title. Wills was confident that he would have won such a match. Wills died at Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York City of complications from Diabetes on December 21, 1958. Harry Wills Harry Wills (May 15, 1889 – December 21, 1958) was a heavyweight boxer who three times held the World Colored Heavyweight Championship. Many boxing historians consider Wills the most egregious victim of the \"color line\" drawn by white heavyweight champions. Wills fought for"
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"Polikarpov I-17 The Polikarpov I-17 was a Soviet single-seat fighter prototype designed and built by a team headed by Polikarpov at the Central Design Bureau (TsKB) The I-17 was a lightweight single-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane. Developed under the design bureau designation TsKB-15 it first flew on 1 September 1934 powered by a 567 kW (760 hp) Hispano-Suiza 12 Ybrs engine. The second prototype designated the TsKB-19 had a revised inward retracting wide-track main landing gear and a Soviet M-100 engine. This second prototype was displayed at the 1936 \"Salon de l'Aeronautique\" in Paris. The third prototype designated the TsKB-33 had reduced armament to save weight and a revised engine cooling system, but the further development was abandoned in 1936. A number of related unbuilt projects were also under development including the I-17Z parasite fighter under the designations TsKB-25 with a M-34RNF engine and the TsKB-43 with a Hispano-Suiza engine, none were built. Polikarpov I-17 The Polikarpov I-17 was a Soviet single-seat fighter prototype designed and built by a team headed by Polikarpov at the Central Design Bureau (TsKB) The I-17 was a lightweight single-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane. Developed under the design bureau designation TsKB-15 it first flew on 1 September"
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"Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (French: \"Organisation conjointe de coopération en matière d'armement\"; OCCAR) is a European intergovernmental organisation that facilitates and manages collaborative armament programmes through their lifecycle between the nations of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. OCCAR was established on 12 November 1996 by the Defence Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Legal status was not achieved, however, until January 2001 when the parliaments of the four founding nations ratified the OCCAR Convention. Other European nations may join OCCAR, subject to their actual involvement in a substantive collaborative equipment programme involving at least one OCCAR partner and ratification of the OCCAR Convention. Belgium and Spain joined the organisation in respectively 2003 and 2005. Other States can participate to OCCAR programmes without becoming a Member State. Currently the EU and/or NATO members Turkey, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Poland participate in one or more OCCAR programmes without being a formal member. The highest decision-making body within OCCAR as corporate organisation is the Board of Supervisors (BoS). The OCCAR programmes are each supervised by a Programme Board (strategic decisions) and a Programme Committee (operational decisions). The programmes are executed by the OCCAR Executive Administration (OCCAR-EA) in accordance with the decisions of the supervisory bodies. OCCAR-EA is headed by the OCCAR Director and consists of a Central Office and the Programme Divisions. OCCAR-EA employs approximately 270 staff members. The 13 programmes currently managed by OCCAR are the following: Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (French: \"Organisation conjointe de coopération en matière d'armement\"; OCCAR) is a European intergovernmental organisation that facilitates and manages collaborative armament programmes through their lifecycle between the nations of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. OCCAR"
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"Gerald Clarke (artist) Gerald Clarke (February 24, 1967-) is a sculptor, installation, and conceptual artist from the Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians. His work often reflects on and questions current issues in Native America and the United States, as well as his personal life. Gerald Clarke was born in Hemet, California in 1967 to Carol and Gerald Clarke, Sr., his father being born Cahuilla. At the age of 3 his parents divorced and he moved with his siblings and mother to Orange County, and on the weekends he would return to the reservation to spend time with his father. At age 16, he moved to Arkansas with his mother and sister. He attended Ozarka College, where he majored in welding, electrical maintenance, and hydraulics; three necessary components to the artworks Clarke would create as a full-time artist. After graduation from vocational school, Clarke worked as a welder, and eventually met Stacy Brown, whom he would eventually marry. Ready for change, Clarke was accepted to University of Central Arkansas where in 1991 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in painting and sculpture. Clarke then went on to obtain his Master of Arts in 1992 from Stephen F. Austin State University. After graduation he became an adjunct professor of art at Lon Morris College all the while working on his Masters thesis. With his thesis, which looked at the use of traditional American Indian themes and images in contemporary art, accepted Clarke received his Masters of Fine Arts from Stephen F. Austin in 1994. With his Masters in hand, Clarke headed the art department at Northeast Texas Community College in 1996, eventually moving on to East Central University to serve as assistant professor of art in 1998. With the death of Gerald Clarke, Sr. in 2003, Clarke and his family returned to the Cahuilla Band of Indians reservation. When not creating his own work or teaching art at Idyllwild Arts Academy, Clarke runs a storage business with wife Stacy, assists in running the Clarke family cattle ranch, and remains heavily involved in Cahuilla culture. He is also a frequent lecturer, speaking regionally about Native art, culture and issues. In 2008 he was elected to the Cahuilla tribal government, which he still serves on. When not working, Clarke participates in Bird Singing, a traditional form of singing that tells the cosmology of the Cahuilla people. \"My ultimate goal as an artist is to remind people of our shared humanity. I wish to give Indian culture back the humanity that has been taken from it by stereotypes created over the past five centuries. Neither the super-shaman nor the drunken-indian do anything to convey what we as a people feel. In my work, I search for the unconventional beauty one finds only in the TRUTH. It celebrates, it mourns and out outshines all else. I'm a California Indian- part traditionalist, part Disneyland. I want to express the passion, pain and reverence I feel as a contemporary Native person.\" -Gerald Clarke, 2000 A traditional art form of the Cahuilla people, basketry is not only a community, but a family tradition for Clarke. While his artworks do not utilize the same materials as seen in traditional basket making, he sees his creation process as similar to theirs: \"Cahuilla basket makers go out and gather materials, and they put them together to produce something that is both functional and aesthetic. I kind of do my work the same way. I go out and I gather these things. I combine them.\" Clarke's work is often politically minded, reflecting on current and past issues taking place in Indian Country, California, the United States as a whole, and within his personal life. \"...through art, I can come to an understanding of myself, my community and the world around me.\" - Gerald Clarke In 1996 Clarke created \"Artifacts\", a collection of four shovels with the blades down, meant to be leaned against a wall. The top handles are wrapped in colored ribbons: black, green, red and yellow, colors indicative of the American Indian community. Writing, in black marker, travels around the handle, until the top of the blade. The four shovels represent his father and one for his three aunts, who are represented on their own shovel by a photograph affixed before the blade. A cattle brand is welded into each shovel blade, like those found on Clarke's family ranch. His goal with \"Artifacts\" is to show how one can dig up the past to reveal American Indians in the world today. In 2009 Clarke's solo show \"One Tract Mind\" looked at the effects of tract housing on Native communities in Southern California. In this show Clarke experimented heavily in digital art as well as other mixed media forms looking at water rights, the preservation of sacred sites, and the opposition by Native communities to the invasion of suburbia. In 2001 Clarke started to create road signs to be displayed along roads on the Cahuilla reservation and near his family's ranch entrance. These road signs show words in the Cahuilla language: The signs, welcomed by the community, eventually disappeared off the side of the road, plucked off by vandals or road side collectors. Clarke sought to remind his own tribal members that they are valuable to this world. When Clarke was rewarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship, from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, in 2007 he created three signs relevant to the Miami people, connecting with the Miami Nation of Indians in Indiana. Working with Miami artist and historian Scott Shoemaker the three pieces were installed on the museum grounds where they reside to this day: Examining not only Native America today, Clarke also looks at the current state of affairs in the United State and beyond. In the video and installation artwork \"Task\" (2002 and 2007) he is shown \"ironing out the wrinkles that plague our world\" in response to September 11, 2001, which he describes as his own type of healing ritual, a ritual and experience that caused him to question the future that his own children would face and how the creation of fine art and freedom of speech is an intricate part to the healing of the United States through this fragile time. The question of authenticity is a frequent discussion in art markets where Native American art is the emphasis. Another connection to his family cattle ranch, Clarke created two works to discuss the topic of authenticity: \"To the Discriminating Collector\" in 2002 and \"Branded\" in 2006. Creating a branding iron that spells out \"INDIAN\", \"To the Discriminating Collector\" sets aim at collectors that put their stamp of \"Indian\" on artworks and creators they deem worthy of the term, allowing them to brand books, clothing, films, objects, religion \"Indian\" with one stamp of the branding iron. He followed up the branding iron with using it, burning the branding into a white sheet of paper. Conceptually the work is simple yet the meaning is meant to question the lack of authenticity that Native American art collectors find in conceptual art by contemporary artists. Many of these collectors seek traditional art forms as a valid form of Native art, while contemporary artists are placed on the back burner in collections and Indian markets. Performance pieces and other conceptual installation works further to examine Indian markets throughout the country. Native Americans, specifically writers and religious figures, have often been sought by non-Native people to provide guidance and wisdom not often found in traditional Western religions. Artworks such as 1998's \"Indian Wisdom and Manifest Destiny\" is an installation piece featuring two gumball machines: \"Manifest Destiny\" which is covered in fabric displaying the flag of the United States and a white cowboy hat and \"Indian Wisdom\" which is covered in fabric reminiscent of Southwestern Indian blankets, and features a picture of Clarke stating \"Indian Wisdom\" in it. Clarke describes it as his own form of selling out and while the gumball machines display containers filled dollar bills,",
"pieces and other conceptual installation works further to examine Indian markets throughout the country. Native Americans, specifically writers and religious figures, have often been sought by non-Native people to provide guidance and wisdom not often found in traditional Western religions. Artworks such as 1998's \"Indian Wisdom and Manifest Destiny\" is an installation piece featuring two gumball machines: \"Manifest Destiny\" which is covered in fabric displaying the flag of the United States and a white cowboy hat and \"Indian Wisdom\" which is covered in fabric reminiscent of Southwestern Indian blankets, and features a picture of Clarke stating \"Indian Wisdom\" in it. Clarke describes it as his own form of selling out and while the gumball machines display containers filled dollar bills, which only cost a mere 25 cents to obtain, the purchaser actually receives a print out with politically minded statements on the back. Performance pieces such as \"Extreme Makeover\" and \"Antiques Road Show\" depict Clark questioning Native American stereotypes, the \"whitening\" of Native peoples by Europeans, and further exploration into authenticity of being a \"real Indian.\" Diabetes and alcoholism are serious factors of reservation life for many Native communities. Responding to the unhealthy social conditions Clark created \"Continuum Basket\" (2002); a large wall sculpture that shows the spiraling technique traditional in Cahuilla basketry, it is made of beer and soda cans. Gerald Clarke (artist) Gerald Clarke (February 24, 1967-) is a sculptor, installation, and conceptual artist from the Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians. His work often reflects on and questions current issues in Native America and the United States, as well as his personal life. Gerald Clarke was born in Hemet, California in 1967 to Carol and Gerald Clarke, Sr., his father being born Cahuilla. At the age of 3 his parents divorced"
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"Hunterdon County Courthouse The Hunterdon County Courthouse is an historic site located in Flemington, the county seat of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, that is best known as the site of the 1935 \"Trial of the Century\" of Bruno Hauptmann and his conviction and sentence of death for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping. While Hunterdon County was established in 1714, the first courthouse in the county was built in 1791, replacing a facility that existed in Trenton, in Mercer County. This first courthouse lasted until it was destroyed by fire in 1828, with arson the suspected cause. The current courthouse was built in 1828 on the site of the original facility, with stone from the first building used to construct the jail behind the courthouse. The jail was used until 1985 when it was replaced by a new county jail; the courthouse remained in use until 1996 when a new justice center was opened. The trial of Hauptmann attracted sightseers to the courthouse and the attached jail. In October 1934, \"The New York Times\" reported that the courthouse was drawing hundreds of curious spectators. Edward J. Reilly was hired by the \"Daily Mirror\" to serve as Hauptmann's attorney. Two other lawyers, Lloyd Fisher and Frederick Pope, were co-counselors. David T. Wilentz, New Jersey Attorney General, led the prosecution. In addition to Hauptmann's possession of the ransom money, the State introduced evidence showing a strong similarity between Hauptmann's handwriting and the handwriting on the ransom notes. The State also introduced photographic evidence demonstrating that the wood from the ladder left at the crime scene matched a plank from the floor of Hauptmann's attic. Condon and Charles Lindbergh both testified that Hauptmann was \"John\". Another witness, Amandus Hockmuth, testified that he saw Hauptmann near the scene of the crime. Hauptmann was ultimately convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death. His appeals were rejected, though New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman granted a temporary reprieve of Hauptmann's execution and made the politically unpopular move of having the New Jersey Board of Pardons review the case, though the Board found no reason to overturn the verdict. He was electrocuted on April 19, 1937, just over four years after the kidnapping. A matching grant of more than $500,000 for restoration, rehabilitation and stabilization of the site was received from the New Jersey Historic Trust in 1997, part of $11.5 million granted to 30 historic sites across the state, and the only site selected in Hunterdon County. It is part of the Flemington Historic District. Artifacts from the courthouse remain on display, including the witness chair from the Lindbergh Kidnapping trial and hand-carved jury chairs The courthouse has been used for reenactments of the 1935 trial, including a 1994 presentation of the play \"Lindbergh and Hauptmann: The Trial of the Century\". Hunterdon County Courthouse The Hunterdon County Courthouse is an historic site located in Flemington, the county seat of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, that is best known as the site of"
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"Supracondylar humerus fracture A supracondylar humerus fracture is a fracture of the distal humerus just above the elbow joint. The fracture is usually transverse or oblique and above the medial and lateral condyles and epicondyles. This fracture pattern is relatively rare in adults, but is the most common type of elbow fracture in children. In children, many of these fractures are non-displaced and can be treated with casting. Some are angulated or displaced and are best treated with surgery. In children, most of these fractures can be treated effectively with expectation for full recovery. Some of these injuries can be complicated by poor healing or by associated blood vessel or nerve injuries with serious complications. A child will complain of pain and swelling over the elbow immediately post trauma with loss of function of affected upper limb. Late onset of pain (hours after injury) could be due to muscle ischaemia (reduced oxygen supply). This can lead to loss of muscle function. It is important to check for viability of the affected limb post trauma. Clinical parameters such as temperature of the limb extremities (warm or cold), capillary refilling time, oxygen saturation of the affected limb, presence of distal pulses (radial and ulnar pulses), assessment of peripheral nerves (radial, median, and ulnar nerves), and any wounds which would indicate open fracture. Doppler ultrasonography should be performed to ascertain blood flow of the affected limb if the distal pulses are not palpable. Anterior interosseus branch of the median nerve most often injured in postero-lateral displacement of the distal humerus as the proximal fragment is displace antero-medially. This is evidenced by the weakness of the hand with a weak \"OK\" sign on physical examination (Unable to do an \"OK\" sign; instead a pincer grasp is performed). Radial nerve would be injured if the distal humerus is displaced postero-medially. This is because the proximal fragment will be displaced antero-laterally. Ulnar nerve is most commonly injured in the flexion type of injury because it crosses the elbow below the medial epidcondyle of the humerus. A puckered, dimple, or an ecchymosis of the skin just anterior to the distal humerus is a sign of difficult reduction because the proximal fragment may have already penetrated the brachialis muscle and the subcutaneous layer of the skin. Swelling and vascular injury following the fracture can lead to the development of the compartment syndrome which leads to long-term complication of Volkmann's contracture (fixed flexion of the elbow, pronation of the forearm, flexion at the wrist, and joint extension of the metacarpophalangeal joint ). Therefore, early surgical reduction is indicated to prevent this type of complication. The distal humerus grows slowly post fracture (only contributes 10 to 20% of the longitudinal growth of the humerus), therefore, there is a high rate of malunion if the supracondylar fracture is not corrected appropriately. Such malunion can result in cubitus varus deformity. This in turns results in tardy ulnar nerve palsy due to the stretching of the ulnar nerve behind the medial epicondyle of the humerus. Extension type of supracondylar humerus fractures typically result from a fall on to an outstretched hand, usually leading to a forced hyperextension of the elbow. The olecranon acts as a fulcrum which focuses the stress on distal humerus (supracondylar area), predisposing the distal humerus to fracture. The supracondylar area undergoes remodeling at the age of 6 to 7, making this area thin and prone to fractures. Important arteries and nerves (brachial artery, median nerve, radial nerve, and ulnar nerve) are located at the supracondylar area and can give rise to complications if these structures are injured. Meanwhile, the flexion-type of supracondylar humerus fracture is less common. It occurs by falling on the point of the elbow, or falling with the arm twisted behind the back. This causes anterior dislocation of the proximal fragment of the humerus. Diagnosis is confirmed by x-ray imaging. Antero-posterior (AP) and lateral view of the elbow joint should be obtained. Any other sites of pain, deformity, or tenderness should warrant an X-ray for that area too. X-ray of the forearm (AP and lateral) should also be obtained for because of the common association of supracondylar fractures with the fractures of the forearm. Ideally, splintage should be used to immobilise the elbow at 20 to 30 degrees flexion in order to prevent further injury of the blood vessels and nerves while doing X-rays. Splinting of fracture site with full flexion or extension of the elbow is not recommended as it can stretch the blood vessels and nerves over the bone fragments or can cause impingement of these structures into the fracture site. Depending on the child's age, parts of the bone will still be developing and if not yet calcified, will not show up on the X-rays. The capitulum of the humerus is the first to ossify at the age of one year. Head of radius and medial epicondyle of the humerus starts to ossify at 4 to 5 years of age, followed by trochlea of humerus and olecranon of the ulna at 8 to 9 years of age, and lateral epicondyle of the humerus to ossify at 10 years of age. Carrying angle can be evaluated through AP view of the elbow by looking at the Baumann’s angle. There are two definitions of Bowmann's angle: The first definition of Baumann's angle is an angle between a line parallel to the longitudinal axis of the humeral shaft and a line drawn along the lateral epicondyle. The normal range is 70-75 degrees. Every 5 degrees change in Bowmann's angle can lead to 2 degrees change in carrying angle. Another definition of Baumann's angle is also known as the humeral-capitellar angle. It is the angle between the line perpendicular to the long axis of the humerus and the growth plate of the lateral condyle. Reported normal values for Baumann's angle range between 9 and 26°. An angle of more than 10° is regarded as acceptable. On lateral view of the elbow, there are five radiological features should be looked for: tear drop sign, anterior humeral line, coronoid line, fish-tail sign, and fat pad sign/sail sign (anterior and posterior). Tear drop sign - Tear drop sign is seen on a normal radiograph, but is disturbed in supracondylar fracture. Anterior humeral line - It is a line drawn down along the front of the humerus on the lateral view and it should pass through the middle third of the capitulum of the humerus. If it passes through the anterior anterior third of the capitulum, it indicates the posterior displacement of distal fragment. Fat pad sign/sail sign - A non-displaced fracture can be difficult to identify and a fracture line may not be visible on the X-rays. However, the presence of a joint effusion is helpful in identifying a non-displaced fracture. Bleeding from the fracture expands the joint capsule and is visualized on the lateral view as a darker area anteriorly and posteriorly, and is known as the sail sign. Coronoid line - A line drawn along the anterior border of the coronoid process of the ulna should touch the anterior part of the lateral condyle of the humerus. If lateral condyle appears posterior to this line, it indicates the posterior displacement of lateral condyle. Fish-tail sign - The distal fragment is rotated away from the proximal fragment, thus the sharp ends of the proximal fragment looks like a shape of a fish-tail. Undisplaced or minimally displaced fractures can be treated by using an above elbow splint in 90 degrees flexion for 3 weeks. Orthopaedic cast and extreme flexion should be avoided to prevent compartment syndrome and vascular compromise. In case the varus of the fracture site is more than 10 degrees when compared to the normal elbow, closed reduction and percutaneous pinning using X-ray image intensifier inside operating theater is recommended. In one study, for those children who was done",
"lateral condyle of the humerus. If lateral condyle appears posterior to this line, it indicates the posterior displacement of lateral condyle. Fish-tail sign - The distal fragment is rotated away from the proximal fragment, thus the sharp ends of the proximal fragment looks like a shape of a fish-tail. Undisplaced or minimally displaced fractures can be treated by using an above elbow splint in 90 degrees flexion for 3 weeks. Orthopaedic cast and extreme flexion should be avoided to prevent compartment syndrome and vascular compromise. In case the varus of the fracture site is more than 10 degrees when compared to the normal elbow, closed reduction and percutaneous pinning using X-ray image intensifier inside operating theater is recommended. In one study, for those children who was done percutaneous pinning, immobilisation using a posterior splint and an arm sling has earlier resumption of activity when compared to immobilisation using collar and cuff sling. Both methods gives similar pain scores and activity level at two weeks of treatment. Gartland Type II fractures requires closed reduction and casting at 90 degrees flexion. Percutaneous pinning is required if more than 90 degrees flexion is required to maintain the reduction. Closed reduction with percutaneous pinning has low complication rates. Closed reduction can be done by applying traction along the long axis of the humerus with elbow in slight flexion. Full extension of the elbow is not recommended because the neurovascular structures can hook around the proximal fragment of the humerus. If the proximal humerus is suspected to have pierced the brachialis muscle, gradual traction over the proximal humerus should be given instead. After that, reduction can be done through hyperflexion of the elbow can be done with the olecranon pushing anteriorly. If the distal fragment is internally rotated, reduction maneuver can be applied with extra stress applied over medial elbow with pronation of the forearm at the same time. Gartland III and IV are unstable and prone to neurovascular injury. Therefore, closed or open reduction together with percutaneous pinning within 24 hours is the preferred method of management with low complication rates. Straight arm lateral traction can be a safe method to deal with Gartland Type III fractures. Although Gartland Type III fractures with posteromedial displacement of distal fragment can be reduced with closed reduction and casting, those with posterolateral displacement should preferably be fixed by percutaneous pinning. Percutaneous pinning are usually inserted over the medial or lateral sides of the elbow under X-ray image intensifier guidance. There is 1.8 times higher risk of getting nerve injury when inserting both medial and lateral pins compared to lateral pin insertion alone. However, medial and lateral pins insertions are able to stabilise the fractures more properly than lateral pins alone. Therefore, medial and lateral pins insertion should be done with care to prevent nerve injuries around elbow region. Percutaneous pinning should be done when close manipulation fails to achieve the reduction, unstable fracture after closed reduction, neurological deficits occurs during or after the manipulation of fracture, and surgical exploration is required to determine the integrity of the blood vessels and nerves. In open fractures, surgical wound debridement should be performed to prevent any infection into the elbow joint. All Type II and III fractures requiring elbow flexion of more than 90° to maintain the reduction needs to be fixed by percutaneous pinning. All Type IV fractures of supracondylar humerus are unstable; therefore, requires percutaneous pinning. Besides, any polytrauma with multiple fractures of the same side requiring surgical intervention is another indication for percutanoeus pinning. For routine displaced supracondylar fractures requiring percutaneous pinning, radiographic evaluation and clinical assessment can delayed until the pin removal. Pins are only removed when there is no tenderness over the elbow region at 3 to 4 weeks. After pin removal, mobilisation of the elbow can begin. Absence of radial pulse is reported in 6 to 20% of the supracondylar fracture cases. This is because brachial artery is frequently injured in Gartland Type II and Type III fractures, especially when the distal fragment is displaced postero-laterally (proximal fragment displaced antero-medially). Open/closed reduction with percutaneous pinning would the first line of management. However, if there is no improvement of pulse after the reduction, surgical exploration of brachial artery and nerves is indicated, especially when there is persistent pain at the fracture site (indicating limb ischaemia), neurological deficits (paresthesia, tingling, numbness), and additional signs of poor perfusion (prolonged capillary refilling time, and bluish discolouration of the fingers). Meanwhile, for pink, pulseless hand (absent radial pulse but with good perfusion at extremities) after successful reduction and percutaneous pinning, the patient could still be observed until additional signs of ischaemia develops which warrants a surgical exploration. Isolated neurological deficits occurred in 10 to 20% of the cases and can reach as high as 49% in Type III Gartland fractures. Neurapraxia (temporary neurological deficits due to blockage of nerve conduction) is the most common cause of the neurological deficits in supracondylar fractures. Such neurological deficits would resolve in two or three months. However, if the neurology is not resolved for this time frame, surgical exploration is indicated. Supracondylar humerus fractures is commonly found in children between 5 and 7 years (90% of the cases), after the clavicle and forearm fractures. It is more often occurs in males, accounting of 16% of all pediatric fractures and 60% of all paediatric elbow fractures. The mechanism of injury is most commonly due to fall on an outstretch hand. Extension type of injury (70% of all elbow fractures) is more common than the flexion type of injury (1% to 11% of all elbow injuries). Injury often occurs on the non-dominant part of the limb. Flexion type of injury is more commonly found in older children. Open fractures can occur for up to 30% of the cases. Supracondylar humerus fracture A supracondylar humerus fracture is a fracture of the distal humerus just above the elbow joint. 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"Single and Married Single and Married is a 2012 Ghanaian Nigerian romantic blue comedy film, produced by Yvonne Nelson and directed by Pascal Amanfo. It stars Yvonne Nelson, Chris Attoh, Nadia Buari, Tana Adelana, Kofi Adjorlolo, Eddie Watson and Jane 'Efya' Awindor. The film \"centres on the drama, the intrigue and the dirty little secrets of three male friends, their sex lives, being single or married, and all the in-betweens\". The film received ten nominations at the 2012 Ghana Movie Awards and won four awards at the event, including Best Picture, Best Directing (English Language), Best Actress in a Support Role (English), and Best Cinematography. A sequel, \"Single, Married and Complicated\", was released in 2014. Jay (Chris Attoh), a casanova, to the surprise of his friends, proposes to his girlfriend, Kimora (Yvonne Nelson). Jay's friend, Raymond (Kweku Elliot) a casanova who's now also married to one of Kimora's friends, Paula (Nadia Buari), is indifferent. Andy (Eddie Watson), the \"baddest\" of the trio, thinks Jay is about to get into a lifetime imprisonment. One year after the marriage, Jay is having an affair with Judith (Jane Awindor), and constantly lies to Kimora. Jay eventually breaks up with her, because she's become too possessive of him; on his way out of her apartment, Jay bumps into Raymond, who's also coming out of a mistress' apartment, thereby discovering each other's secrets. Apparently, Paula, a lawyer, is always busy with work and never finds time for Raymond, while Kimora has also refused to give Jay a blowjob. Paula introduces Raymond to Yolanda (Itz Tiffany), her old friend, and Raymond starts an affair with her as well. Vida (Tana Adelana), a friend of Kimora and Paula, is married to Ranesh (Kofi Adjorlolo), a 59-year-old man who leaves her very unsatisfied in bed. She meets her new neighbor Andy, and eventually confesses that she wants to have sex with him, leading to them having an affair. Judith turns out to be a friend of Kimora's, and she's come to stay with the couple for a month. Judith constantly taunts Jay in front of his wife. Jay speaks out of tune during an argument with Kimora, leading to him confessing his affairs, including the one with Judith. Paula realizes that she's had a very bad sex life with her husband, so she makes a sex timetable; infuriates Raymond and he asks for a divorce. During the divorce deliberation, Paula reveals that she knows about Raymond's affair with Yolanda, and that it was in fact a bet between her and Yolanda. Kimora leaves Jay's house. Ranesh catches his wife and Andy having sex; Andy escapes by jumping down from the first storey of the building, breaking his leg as a result. Paula gets back together with her husband, having been convinced to do so by her counselor. Raymond apologizes about everything, while Paula asks sweetly how many times he'd want to have sex in a week. Kimora also sees a counselor, then goes back to Jay and asks him to pull down his pants for a blowjob, but he refuses, overwhelmed by her presence. Andy is accosted by a lady who claims she's pregnant by him and tries to make a scene; Andy however cunningly escapes. The film's trailer was released on YouTube on 25 July 2012, and currently has about ten million views, making it one of the most watched Nollywood trailers. It was released in Ghana on 22 September 2012, and premiered at the Silverbird Cinema, Victoria Island, Lagos on 28 September 2012. The film has a 24% rating on Nollywood Reinvented, which criticized the story direction, and the actors' performances. It concluded by stating, \"Cinematography was nearly nonexistent! Pascal Amanfo did not do a shabby job - It wasn’t that bad; [However], with a movie like this and a title like \"Single and Married\", I think it’d be a bit far-fetched to watch this movie looking for an amazing storyline. If you go in seeking a magnanimous storyline or to be thrilled, sorry but you will be disappointed. So go in to watch people drive fancy cars, live in pretty houses and wear colourful clothes\". The \"Ghanaian Chronicle\" gave a positive review, commenting: \"The storyline raised serious issues about why spouses cheat on their partners and how to stop them. But it was told in a rather subtle, entertaining way. It is indeed a must-see movie\". \"Single and Married\" had ten nominations at the 2012 Ghana Movie Awards, including Best Actress in a Lead Role (English) for Nelson, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (English) for Attoh, Best Picture – African Collaboration, Best Editing, Best Art Direction and Best Music (Original Song). It eventually won Best Picture, Best Directing (English Language), Best Actress in a Support Role (English), and Best Cinematography. Single and Married Single"
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"International Society for Third-Sector Research The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), founded in 1992, is an international association that is dedicated to promoting research and education on civil society, philanthropy, and the nongovernmental sector. ISTR works to unite scholars and researchers to exchange ideas and advance knowledge on both a local and international scale, regarding the third sector, human welfare and international development. Since its founding, ISTR has been housed at The Johns Hopkins University, most currently residing under the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Institute for Health and Social Policy. According to their website, ISTR’s mission is “to increase, share, and apply knowledge about the Third Sector in all countries of the world” and to build a global community of scholars and researchers for the advancement of knowledge and discussions regarding the Third Sector, and its global impact. ISTR holds biennial conferences as well as Regional Network meetings, allowing locally focused researchers to meet and discuss region-specific issues. Additionally, the organization is working to increase the number of third sector researchers from the developing world and East and Central Europe. Both the international and regionally held meetings, along with other ISTR-led endeavors, comprise a large part of achieving the organization’s vision. Currently, ISTR has nearly 900 members from 76 countries globally. The organization has been recognized for its role in shaping development globally through the research of its members. According to the organization Learning To Give, the main aim of the network has been to create a space for collaboration in order to understand and make use of the positive impact of the third sector. In this regard, “ISTR has almost single handedly changed the face of the third-sector around the globe. Associations are no longer forced to operate on information islands with little communication exchange, since the ISTR has opened up a dialogue for scholars and practitioners who benefit from one another on an international basis”. ISTR was admitted as an affiliate member of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1997. Aside from being a member of numerous civil society groups, ISTR is itself composed of a network of researchers, other civil society actors, and students. Other research networks that collaborate with ISTR include the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), and the EMES International Research. The ISTR leadership team is run by a 15-member board of directors that is “staffed by an Executive Director, Margery Daniels, and a Program Assistant”. Additionally, there are “three ex officio members, including the past president, the Editor of Voluntas, and the liaison to Johns Hopkins University, the host institution for ISTR”. ISTR is composed of five regional networks. These include: Africa Regional Network, Asia Pacific Regional Network, European Regional Network, Latin American and the Caribbean Network, and Post Soviet Regional Network. Every two years ISTR holds a conference in a different country to bring together members to discuss new research in the third sector and promote. ISTR has had 12 of these international conferences with the most recent one being held in Stockholm, Sweden in 2016. A list of the locations of previous conferences is given below. The next international conference is set to take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands in July 2018. ISTR also holds regional network meetings. Africa Regional Network Conferences Asia Pacific Regional Network Conferences Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Network Conferences ISTR publishes an interdisciplinary research and policy journal, Voluntas, six times a year, offering a platform for scholarly theory, empirical studies, and critical commentary, and providing a central forum for international research in the third. The journal combines full-length articles with shorter research notes and book reviews. Voluntas is published six times a year and has occasional thematic issues. Some thematic issues include Civil Society and Happiness: Japan and Beyond (Volume 26, Number 1 February 2015), Civil Society and Third Sector in Asia (Volume 26, Number 4 August 2015), Welfare Mix and Hybridity (Volume 26, Number 5 October 2015), Unlikely Partners? Evolving Government-Nonprofit Relationships, East and West (Lester M. Salamon Guest-Editor) (Volume 26, Number 6 December 2015), Latin America (Volume 27, Number 1 February 2016), and Citizenship in China (Volume 27, Number 5 October 2016). International Society for Third-Sector Research The International Society for"
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"Remus Cernea Remus Cernea (; born June 25, 1974) is a Romanian activist against discrimination based on faith and religion, an advocate of the separation of church and state and the founder of the \"Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience Association\". He is a currently serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and as the president of the Green Party. He ran in the 2009 Romanian presidential election, and was a candidate for Green Party, gaining over 60,000 votes, or a share of 0.62% of the votes. In October 2010, he left the Green Party over ideological differences and created the Green Movement (\"Mișcarea Verzilor\"). Born in Bucharest, he lived in Hunedoara for 14 years, where his father worked as a geologist, then moved back to Bucharest in 1988. In 1998, he founded the Noesis Cultural Society, an organization which edited the first Romanian e-books and multimedia encyclopedias dedicated to subjects of the Romanian culture: a CD-ROM containing 50 ebooks and encyclopedias about Ion Luca Caragiale and Constantin Brâncuși. These projects earned the Noesis Society the prize for the best educational product (2002 edition) given by the Presidency of Romania. Cernea studied some philosophy at the University of Bucharest but he hasn't graduated. In 2003, he founded the Association \"Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience\", a secularist and humanist organization which militates for freedom of thought, separation of church and state and against discrimination based on faith and religion. Cernea published in 2007 a book of essays and articles named \"Manifest împotriva becalizării României\" (\"A Manifest Against the Becalization of Romania\"), in which he argues that the \"Becalization\" (derived from the name of Gigi Becali, a nationalist politician who stresses his allegiance to the Orthodox Church) is threatening the values of an open society. Cernea argues that in Romania there is an \"unacceptable collusion between the politicians and the Church\", and that although officially there is a separation of Church and state, practically, the Romanian Orthodox Church and the state are \"intimately linked\". He considers himself a \"freethinker\", which he describes as being more encompassing than the term of \"atheist\", considering the term of atheist a bit too limited and wanting to retain an \"area of speculation and openness\". His 2009 electoral platform was based on 10 points which he details on his blog and include: supporting conciliation and dialog within the Romanian society, supporting human rights and fight against discrimination, closer ties with Romania's neighbours, supporting green technologies, sustainable development and green agriculture, increase in funding for education and research to 10% of the Romanian GDP, freer election system that is more fair to smaller parties, full separation of church and state and a national dialog on social issues such as legalization of prostitution, the problem of drugs and the recognition of heterosexual and homosexual civil unions. In 1997, as a protest toward the nationalism found in Romanian politics, Cernea joined the ethnic Hungarian party, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, despite being ethnically Romanian. Cernea announced his intention to run as a Green Party candidate in the January 17, 2010 by-election for the Romanian Chamber of Deputies seat (in the Sector 1 of Bucharest), vacated after the appointment of Bogdan Olteanu as deputy governor of the National Bank, however, the Bucharest Central Municipal Bureau rejected his candidature, because he is not a member of a parliamentary party, as the law requires in case of a by-election. The appeal of the decision and of the constitutionality of the law were rejected and Cernea announced he wants to dispute the law at the European Court of Human Rights. In August 2009, Cernea announced his intention of running for presidency as a candidate of the Green Party. He and the Green Party gathered the needed 200,000 signatures and submitted them to Electoral Bureau on the last day before the beginning of the electoral campaign, October 23, 2008. In an interview for \"Evenimentul Zilei\", Cernea said that he wants to offer an alternative to the mainstream politics and he tries to attract the 60-70% of the voters who are disappointed by the politicians and do not want to go to the polls. Although Cernea tried to obtain a debate, no candidate from the top three parties accepted a debate involving him. Cernea's political campaign was especially visible on the Internet, having the most Facebook supporters of all the candidates. He says that unlike the top candidates' campaigns, his campaign was exclusively based on the enthusiasm of some young volunteers who helped him purely through pro-bono work. Cernea was the 8th out of 12 candidates, gaining 60,539 votes, or a share of 0.62%. The highest percentages were in the Bucharest sectors 3 (1.13%) and 6 (1.04%), Cluj County (0.9%) and among the voters abroad (1.0%). Cernea ran in the Romanian legislative election, 2012 on the center-left Social Liberal Union ticket in a constituency in Constanța County, being one of the three candidates of the Green Party in the elections. He won the district, having 20,565 votes (57.23%). In April 2013, Cernea announced that he is preparing a law proposal that would cut the state financing of churches from the state budget and institute a church tax similar to the one in Germany. Prime Minister Ponta announced that the USL coalition does not support his proposal and his proposal was met with opposition. Mayor of Constanța, Radu Mazăre, called him \"an idiot\" and said that he'll \"break his legs\" if Cernea comes to Constanța. Gigi Becali called him a \"satanist\" and argued that Cernea should be sent to an insane asylum or to prison. The Romanian Orthodox Church reacted to Cernea's proposal through a press release in which they argued that the state assumed an obligation in 1863 following the Secularization of monastery estates and that the proposal is \"unrealistic and inadequate for today's Romania\" and that it would create a \"crisis in the relationship between the state and religious organizations\". Also in April 2013, Cernea announced that he intends to propose the legalization of civil unions for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples. Cernea introduced a bill for same-sex civil unions, which was defeated in Parliament on 17 December 2015. In 1998, the Philosophy and Law departments of the University of Bucharest shared a building and in its courtyard, it was decided to build a church. After the place was hallowed, Cernea, who was studying philosophy at the University, together with three other students, wrote a letter of protest, organized a conference about the subject and gathered 150 signatures against the building of the church. The Association of Christian Orthodox students gathered a list of 3000 signatures supporting the building of the church. As the scandal was booming, the rector decided to defuse it by banning any conference on the subject. The project of the building of the church was cancelled and the Orthodox icons in the University classrooms were removed. According to Cernea, following the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, in schools, his portraits were replaced with Romanian Orthodox icons. In 2005, Emil Moise, a philosophy teacher from Buzău began a campaign against the display of religious items in schools. Cernea's association supported his case for the removal of icons from schools, arguing that the religious symbols represent a discrimination against non-Orthodox children and an infringement against the neutrality of the state. Additionally, as 90% of the schools held religious services, Cernea argued that this practice was also illegal, as the Romanian penal code bans forcing anyone to participate to any religious ceremony. The movement against icons in schools generated a large debate in the Romanian society and media. In CNCD Decision 323/2006, the National Council for",
"fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, in schools, his portraits were replaced with Romanian Orthodox icons. In 2005, Emil Moise, a philosophy teacher from Buzău began a campaign against the display of religious items in schools. Cernea's association supported his case for the removal of icons from schools, arguing that the religious symbols represent a discrimination against non-Orthodox children and an infringement against the neutrality of the state. Additionally, as 90% of the schools held religious services, Cernea argued that this practice was also illegal, as the Romanian penal code bans forcing anyone to participate to any religious ceremony. The movement against icons in schools generated a large debate in the Romanian society and media. In CNCD Decision 323/2006, the National Council for Combating Discrimination ruled that the display of religious icons was discriminatory. However, the Ministry of Education argued that it cannot remove the icons because they were not the ones who put them there in the first place and that local communities should decide whether to keep the icons or not. The Romanian People Salvation Cathedral is a large-scale cathedral construction project envisioned by the Romanian Orthodox Church. The government of Romania originally wanted the cathedral to be built it in the place of Carol Park, but following protests, including those organized by the Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience Association, it changed the plans. Finally, in 2007, the state gave the Orthodox Church about 11 hectares of land in central Bucharest, next to the Palace of the Parliament and it promised it will pay partly the construction costs. Cernea argued that both the donation of the terrain and giving the additional funds represent a misuse of state funds and is illegal. The Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience Association also contested the name \"Romanian People Salvation Cathedral\", arguing that it has nationalistic overtones, by linking being Romanian to affiliation to the Orthodox Church. In 2007, Cernea's association announced that the new curriculum of Romania had quietly removed the requirement of teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from biology textbooks, as well as the debate on the existence of God (the study of Voltaire, Camus and Nietzsche), from philosophy textbooks. Cernea argues that the current curriculum lacks the scientific and philosophical points of view, but in the same time, in religion classes, the seven-day creationism is taught, distorting the children's understanding of how the world came into being. In February 2008, his association asked the Ministry of Education to re-introduce explicitly the theory of evolution in the biology curriculum, arguing that Romania is the only European country in which it is not studied in detail and organized a protest in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Education for the reintroduction of evolution in the curriculum. In a 2009 interview for \"Dilema Veche\", Cernea says that there are not only textbooks that do not describe evolution, but there are some approved textbooks that teach creationism. He argues that the school curriculum is particularly important, since it influences the high school students' choice of university study and that this is why in Romania there's a huge number of those studying theology, with a dwindling number of students studying sciences. In 2006, the association organized a concert against the new law regulating religion in Romania, which banned \"religious defamation\". In the concert participated Luna Amara, Vama, Sarmalele Reci among others. In May 2007, he organized a small-scale protest against president Traian Băsescu's racist and sexist affirmations, and in August 2007, the association argued against the practice at the national radio station of beginning the programme with a reading of Lord's Prayer. In August 2009, he protested against a law project made by the Romanian Government, which would have increased the number of signatures needed for running in the presidential elections to 500,000 and also required a €300,000 sum to be paid as a bail, only to be returned if the candidate gets a certain percentage. Cernea argued that this breaks the free and fair election standards found in \"Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters\" of the Council of Europe and that it would monopolize the elections to those \"rich and corrupt\". Prime Minister Emil Boc, however, announced that the law project would be dropped. In May 2010, Remus Cernea is taking part, along with other high-ranking members from the Green Party at the GayFest, the annual gay pride festival of Bucharest. Remus Cernea Remus Cernea (; born June 25, 1974) is a Romanian activist against discrimination based on faith"
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"Chris Goulding Christopher James Goulding (born 24 October 1988) is an Australian professional basketball player for Melbourne United of the National Basketball League (NBL). He has also previously played in the Queensland Basketball League for the Brisbane Spartans, Northside Wizards and Gladstone Port City Power, and has spent time in Spain and Italy. Goulding is one of the most accomplished players in the NBL. He was the NBL All-Star Game's MVP in 2012, the NBL's scoring champion in 2014, has twice been named to the All-NBL First Team and has won two NBL championships, including winning the finals MVP in 2018. He has also represented Australia twice and has helped bring home a gold medal on both occasions. Goulding was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania but moved to Queensland as a youth and attended Brisbane State High School. Goulding started his NBL career as a development player with the Brisbane Bullets in the 2006–07 NBL season, winning a championship under coach Joey Wright that season. He remained with the Bullets for the 2007–08 NBL season, but following their demise in 2008, Goulding joined the Perth Wildcats for the 2008–09 NBL season. In June 2009, Goulding signed with the Gold Coast Blaze, where he re-united with Joey Wright. In August 2012, following the Blaze's demise, Goulding signed with the Melbourne Tigers for the 2012–13 season. In December 2012, he was named MVP of the NBL All-Star Game for his 24 points. On 19 April 2013, Goulding re-signed with the Tigers on a two-year deal. In July 2013, Goulding joined the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 2013 NBA Summer League. On 9 March 2014, Goulding recorded a career-high 50 points, as he played the entire 40 minutes of the Tigers' 92–82 win over the Sydney Kings. It was the NBL's first individual 50-point game in the 40-minute era. He went on to win the 2014 scoring title, with an average of 23.0 points per game, edging out Sydney Kings import Sam Young by 1.1 points. In July 2014, Goulding joined the Dallas Mavericks for the 2014 NBA Summer League. On 22 July 2014, Goulding signed a one-year deal with CAI Zaragoza of the Liga ACB. In 33 league games for Zaragoza, he averaged 8.6 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game. On 30 June 2015, Goulding signed a one-year deal with Melbourne United. Goulding helped lead United to the minor premiership after finishing the regular season in first place on the ladder with an 18–10 win/loss record. However, in their semi-final series against the fourth-seeded New Zealand Breakers, United were swept 2–0 to bow out of the playoffs. In 29 games for United in 2015–16, Goulding averaged 18.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. On 22 February 2016, Goulding signed with Auxilium Torino of Italy for the rest of the 2015–16 Lega Basket Serie A season. In 10 games for the club, he averaged 4.2 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. On 30 May 2016, Goulding re-signed with United on a two-year deal. On 26 April 2018, Goulding re-signed with United on a two-year deal. Goulding made his debut for the Australian under 19 national team at the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship. Seven years later, he made his debut for the senior national team, the Boomers, at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. He re-joined the Boomers for the 2015 FIBA Oceania Championship and the 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2018, he won a gold medal with the Boomers at the Commonwealth Games. Source: FIBA.com Chris Goulding Christopher James Goulding (born 24 October 1988) is an Australian"
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"Trey Bruce Trey Bruce (born December 4, 1965) is an American country music songwriter. Bruce has co-written three songs that became number one singles on the \"Billboard\" country charts: \"Look Heart, No Hands\", \"Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man\" and \"Whisper My Name\" by Randy Travis, and \"How Your Love Makes Me Feel\" by Diamond Rio. He has also co-written several Top 5 country singles for other artists, including Faith Hill, Doug Stone, Trisha Yearwood and Trace Adkins. Bruce received a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Original Song in 2001 along with co-writers John Bettis and Brian D. Siewart. He is the son of singer Ed Bruce Bruce's musical career began at an early age, when he played drums at various clubs around Memphis, Tennessee. In 1989, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and signed with MCA Music Publishing as a songwriter. His first hit as a songwriter came in 1990, when Shelby Lynne reached the U.S. Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with \"Things Are Tough All Over\"; in 1993, Randy Travis reached Number One on the same chart with Bruce's \"Look Heart, No Hands\". (Travis also recorded two more songs written by Bruce: 1994's \"Whisper My Name\" and 1998's \"Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man\".) In 1994, the publishing company Big Tractor Music was formed, with Bruce being signed as one of the company's first songwriters. Since then, he has written songs for several country music artists, including Doug Stone, Lee Roy Parnell, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Mindy McCready, Diamond Rio, and SHeDAISY. Bruce has also co-produced albums for Trace Adkins, Rebecca Lynn Howard and Chris LeDoux. Bruce also produced three of Adkins's albums: 1999's \"More\", 2001's \"Chrome\" and 2003's \"Comin' On Strong\". Trey Bruce Trey Bruce (born December 4, 1965) is an American country"
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"Through the Forest Through the Forest is the fifth studio album by Christian rock band Mad at the World. Released in 1992, it was their last album to feature a hard rock sound. The CD sleeve has the following text on the band's inspiration for the album's title: \"Life is like the forest: It's full of beauty, mystery, danger and so many paths to choose. We all need a guide to lead us through the forest. - Psalm 119:105.\" \"Through the Forest\" was released in 1992, the band's fifth studio album and the last to feature founding member Mike Pendleton and guitarist Brent Gordon. The two would leave the band following this disc. Why Pendleton and Gordon left is unclear, Gordon makes little reference to the band on his blog and no mention of why he joined or left. In an interview, Roger said, \"they didn't really quit the band--they kinda quit and got fired all at the same time.\" Roger thanked them in the liner notes for the next disc. Although Roger has stated that \"Mad at the World\" was the band's first and last disc not recorded entirely at Roger's home studio, the drum tracks for \"Through the Forest\" were recorded at Randy's studio, Rose Studios. All songs written by Roger Rose, except \"Trapped\" and \"Alone\" written by Randy Rose, and \"If I Can Dream\" written by W. Earl Brown. \"M.A.T.W. (Reprise)\" is a re-recording of \"Mad at the World\" which appeared on the band's debut album, \"Mad at the World\". Both versions are true to their respective albums, the first one being more techno, the reprise having a more hard rock sound. Ray Rose, Roger and Randy's older brother, was not a member of the band but did play bass on some of the songs. Through the"
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"Rob Kane Rob Kane is a former Republican member of the Connecticut Senate, representing the 32nd District from 2009 to 2017. Kane is the former State Senator for the 32nd Senate District from 2009 to 2017, representing part of the Naugatuck River Valley and Litchfield County in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Middlebury (part), Oxford, Roxbury, Seymour (part), Southbury, Washington, Watertown, and Woodbury. Kane was appointed to the position of Auditor of Public Accountants in January 2017. Kane graduated from Central Connecticut State University and later earned an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven in 2009. Rob Kane Rob Kane is a former Republican member of the Connecticut Senate, representing the 32nd District from 2009 to 2017. Kane is the former State Senator for the 32nd Senate District from 2009 to 2017, representing part of the Naugatuck River Valley and Litchfield County in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Middlebury (part), Oxford, Roxbury, Seymour (part), Southbury, Washington, Watertown, and Woodbury. Kane was appointed to the position of Auditor of Public Accountants in January 2017. Kane graduated from Central Connecticut State University and later earned an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven"
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"Donna Summer singles discography The discography of singles for American singer and songwriter Donna Summer consists of ninety-two singles, eight promo-only singles, and two other charted songs. To see Summer's albums performance please go to \"Donna Summer albums discography\". Summer's first single, \"Wassermann\" was taken from the German cast recording of the musical \"Hair\" and released by Polydor Records. The next few singles were one-offs, released on different labels until she was signed to the Dutch label Groovy Records in 1974 (\"The Hostage\" being her first single for them). Atlantic Records became responsible for distributing Summer's work in Germany at the same time and both labels would continue to distribute Summer's work in the respective countries for the following few years (including the first few years of her signing to Casablanca Records in North America). None of the above singles were released in the United States and \"Sally Go 'Round the Roses\" and \"The Hostage\" were released in the United Kingdom. These singles were all released commercially in at least one format in one country. Promotional formats may have also been released in that country/those countries or in others. Summer's recordings during this era were distributed by Casablanca Records in North America and, from late 1977 onwards, in most other nations. Various other labels released Summer's work internationally prior to said time (and in a small number of cases, during it). Summer left the label in 1979 but they continued to issue previously released material for a while afterwards. Singles from the film soundtracks of \"The Deep\" and \"Thank God It's Friday\" were distributed internationally by Casablanca, as that label was responsible for releasing the soundtracks worldwide. These singles were all released commercially in at least one format in one country. Promotional formats may have also been released in that country/those countries or in others. Summer's material during this era was released by three different Warner Bros. labels: Geffen, Atlantic and the main Warner Bros. label. In North America, Summer was signed to Geffen from 1980-1988 and Atlantic from 1989-1991. Internationally, Geffen released her material from 1980-1981 but all subsequent Geffen/Atlantic releases were released by Warner Bros. Records. Summer's original North American label (Casablanca), now owned by PolyGram, also released two official Donna Summer singles in the United Kingdom in 1982 and 1983 respectively; these were new remixes and/or edits of two of Summer's biggest hits from during her time with that label. See notes below for details. During Summer's court battle regarding her leaving Casablanca, it was decided that she still owed them an album. Subsequently, PolyGram's Mercury Records released the 1983 album \"She Works Hard For The Money\", so all singles from that album were also released by Mercury. These singles were all released commercially in at least one format in one country. Promotional formats may have also been released in that country/those countries or in others. Several of the singles from this era are in fact from albums by various artists on which Summer appeared. PolyGram released the 1994 compilation album \"\", so the two singles from that album (both newly recorded tracks) were released on Mercury, as were the 1999 and 2000 re-releases of \"Last Dance\" and \"I Feel Love\" respectively. The remixes of \"I Feel Love\" and \"State of Independence\" were released by the former UK-based Manifesto label, a division of Universal (who had owned the rights to much of Summer's back catalogue for some time). Summer signed to Sony in 1999 and both her singles from that year were released by their Epic label. Summer's final album (2008's \"Crayons\") and the singles from it were released by Sony's Burgundy Records. Universal released 2005's \"I Got Your Love\", originally featured two years earlier in the television series \"Sex and the City\". The final Donna Summer single, \"To Paris with Love\" was released on her own Driven by the Music label. The posthumous remix album released in 2013 (entitled \"Love to Love You Donna\") and its singles were released by Verve Records, by then part of Universal Music Group, who had long since owned the rights to Summer's Casablanca/PolyGram recordings from 1975 to 1983. From the inception of the \"Billboard\" Dance Club Play chart (also known as Club Play Singles, and formerly known as Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance/Disco) until the week of February 16, 1991, several (or even all) songs on an EP or album could occupy the same position if more than one track from a release was receiving significant play in clubs. Beginning with the February 23, 1991 issue, the dance chart became \"song specific,\" meaning only one song could occupy each position at a time. Therefore; All of the following singles were released commercially. Donna Summer singles discography The discography of singles for American singer and songwriter Donna Summer consists"
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"Yang Chongrui Yang Chongrui () was a Chinese obstetrician who is credited with modernising women's healthcare in China. Her contributions to the field of obstetrics and her training of midwives and nurses led to a significant decrease in deaths relating to pregnancy. Between 1949 and 1954 the percentage of women dying through childbirth dropped from 0.7% to 0.05%, while infant mortality was reduced from 11.7% to 4.6%. Yang was born in 1891 in Tongzhou District, Beijing to a family of farmers. Her father was well educated, having passed governments exams at the age of eighteen and became a government official candidate. Yang graduated with a degree in medicine from a Peking Union Medical College and chose to practice at a hospital in Dezhou, Shandong Province. Moving back to Beijing six years later she worked in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital where she worked to decrease infant mortality. To expand her knowledge, the hospital sent Yang to the United States to learn about more modern childbirth techniques at Johns Hopkins University. After graduating in 1927 she returned to China and organised a number of training sessions for childbirth assistants to teach them the importance of cleanliness and how to care for newborn babies. Under Yang's advice the government established a midwifery education committee in 1929 and opened the nation's first midwifery school with Yang as its principal. By the late 1930s, more than 60 midwifery schools were set up across China and with scholarships provided by the Rockefeller Foundation many doctors went to study midwifery in England. In 1934 Yang was appointed as a director of the Maternal and Infant Health department in a newly established government Central Health Experiment Division. After war broke out she worked in Hankou, Hubei Province then Guiyang, Guizhou Province before traveling to the wartime capital Chongqing to open a medical school. In 1939 she caught typhoid fever and went to the United States to seek treatment, while here she continued her studies of obstetrics while recovering. After returning to China years later to re-open the midwifery schools she was invited by officials of the newly founded People's Republic of China to become director of the Bureau of Maternal and Infant Health under the Ministry of Health. After meeting with Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou she accepted the role and went about creating a network of clinics across China to promote pre- and post-natal care. Yang died in 1983 at the age of 93. A statue of her was erected in 1999 at Dongcheng District Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Beijing yo commemorate her contributions to Women's healthcare. Yang Chongrui Yang Chongrui () was a Chinese obstetrician who is credited with modernising women's healthcare in China. Her contributions to the field of obstetrics and her training of midwives and nurses led to a significant decrease in deaths relating to pregnancy. Between 1949 and 1954 the percentage of women dying through childbirth dropped from 0.7% to 0.05%, while infant"
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"Paul Burani Paul Burani (real name: Urbain Roucoux) (Paris, 26 March 1845 – Paris, 9 October 1901), was a French author, actor, songwriter and librettist. He had a short career as an actor at the Théâtre de Belleville and in the French provinces, after which he directed a journal, Le Café-Concert. At the commencement of his career as a songwriter he used the name Burani, an anagram of his first name. He collaborated on libretti for the following operas: \"Le Sire de Fisch Ton Kan\" was a popular song during the Paris Commune (1871), with words by Paul Burani and music by Antonin Louis, which denounced Napoléon III who was leading France to military disasters; the song contains many plays on words. Paul Burani Paul Burani (real name: Urbain Roucoux) (Paris, 26 March 1845 – Paris, 9 October 1901), was a French author, actor, songwriter and librettist. He had a short career as an actor at the Théâtre de Belleville and in the French provinces, after which he directed a journal, Le Café-Concert. At the commencement of his career as a songwriter he used the name Burani, an anagram of his first name. He collaborated on libretti for the following"
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"Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts On January 1, 2011 the two academies Dramatiska institutet (the Dramatic Institute/University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre) and Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm (Swedish National Academy of Dramatic Arts/Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts) founded a new academy: Stockholms dramatiska högskola, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (SADA). SADA is now Sweden’s largest institution for higher education in the arts of film, radio, television and theatre with BA and MA courses together with research. SADA is a national university and offers University Diploma in Performing Arts and Media. The professional training aims at enabling the students to start a professional career directly after their graduation. The Diploma programmes consist of three years full-time studies, leading to a bachelor's degree, consisting of practical production and team-exercises linked to theoretical specific and interdisciplinary courses. The programmes concentrate mainly on practical work, but also include theory. Continual contact with professionals and professional work is maintained by means of guest lecturers, study visits, and co-productions with other institutions, film companies, radio teams, and theatres. SADA also offer postgraduate courses, as well as shorter courses as further education for professionals within the field of theatre and media. Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts"
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"Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (29 November 1856 – 30 March 1946) was a German-Canadian composer of operettas, conductor and educator, and violinist best known for his operetta \"Leo, the Royal Cadet\". Telgmann was born in Mengeringhausen (now part of Bad Arolsen), Waldeck, Germany, to Jean Ferdinand Telgmann and Dorette Margaret Leonhardti. In 1863, at age 6 emigrated with his parents to Kingston, Ontario via New York. He began his musical studies in Canada. In 1882, with his siblings, Telgmann formed the Telgmann Concert Party, a touring ensemble. He founded, in 1892, the Kingston Conservatory of Music and School of Elocution of which he was principal for over 25 years. He led the school's student orchestra. In 1914, he founded the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted until his retirement in 1936. Telgmann composed three operettas, \"The Miller and the Maid\", \"King of Siam\" and \"Leo, the Royal Cadet\". The latter achieved over 1,700 performances between its premiere in 1889 and 1925 and has recently been revived in a revised version. Other compositions included marches such as \"Boo Hoo's Queen's Dominion Victory March\" (1922) and \"The Mascot: Boo Hoo's March to Queen's Rugby Team\". He composed songs such as \"The Nutcracker Mazurka\", \"Mr. Craig\", \"The Laird of Glenburne\", and \"Scotch Country Dance\". Telgmann married Alida Jackson. Their daughter Mignon Telgmann (born 1898) was a violin teacher. Telgmann died in Toronto in 1946 at the age of approximately 91. A music bursary established by his family in his memory and that of his daughter Mignon (born 1898) was subsequently established at Queen's University. Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (29 November 1856 – 30 March 1946) was a German-Canadian composer of operettas, conductor and educator, and violinist best known for his operetta \"Leo, the Royal Cadet\". Telgmann was born in"
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"Oceans Apart Oceans Apart is the ninth and final studio album by The Go-Betweens, released in 2005. All the songs were written by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster. The album was recorded at the Good Luck Studios in London between November 2004 through to January 2005, except for \"Boundary Rider\" which was recorded at The White Room Recording Studio in Brisbane. The live recordings on the bonus disc were recorded at The Barbican Concert Hall, London on 27 June 2004. The album won the 2005 \"Adult Contemporary Album\" award at the 2005 ARIA music awards. Many reviews and fans complained of the aggressively loud and distorted mastering of the initial release by Jon Astley to the extent that Lo-Max offered to exchange the original pressing for a newer release where the problem is less evident. Forster later claimed \"Darlinghurst Nights\" was the song he was most pleased with writing throughout his career. He said \"I loved writing the lyric, and I could just get all these people in - Frank Brunetti, who used to be in Died Pretty and was a music journalist on RAM; Clinton Walker is in it. It's a song that no-one else could have written but me - for better or worse.\" McLennan said, \"We didn't want to be on the outer ripples of the pond anymore. We wanted to jump back into the maelstrom – London, just the energy, the competition of the place. We've made enough records and have listened to enough records by other people that we know this is a fucking good one.\" Oceans Apart Oceans Apart is the ninth and final studio album by The Go-Betweens, released in 2005. All the songs were written by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster. The album was recorded at the Good Luck Studios in London"
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"Eduard Streltsov Stadium Eduard Streltsov Stadium, formerly Torpedo Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Moscow, Russia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Torpedo Moscow. The stadium was built in 1959. It had very modest facilities at the time and was used as a training ground by Torpedo Moscow. By 1979 the stadium had been completely overhauled. The capacity was enlarged to 16,000 and an under-soil heating system was installed, the first in Russia. The stadium was home to Torpedo Moscow from 1978 to 1996. At present the stadium holds 13,450 people. The stadium is named after Eduard Streltsov, a famous Soviet footballer who played for Torpedo Moscow. Eduard Streltsov Stadium Eduard Streltsov Stadium, formerly Torpedo Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Moscow, Russia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Torpedo Moscow. The stadium was built in 1959. It had very modest facilities at the time and was used as a training ground by Torpedo Moscow. By 1979 the stadium had been completely overhauled. The capacity was enlarged to 16,000 and an under-soil heating system was installed, the first in Russia. The stadium was home"
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"1201 Third Avenue 1201 Third Avenue (formerly Washington Mutual Tower) is a , 55-story skyscraper in Downtown Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the second-tallest building in the city, the eighth-tallest on the West Coast of the United States, and the 74th-tallest in the United States. Developed by Wright Runstad & Company, construction began in 1986 and finished in 1988. 1201 Third Avenue was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and The McKinley Architects. The building was the world headquarters of the financial company Washington Mutual from the building's opening until 2006, when the company moved across the street to the WaMu Center (renamed the Russell Investments Center after the bank collapsed in 2008). Kohn Pedersen Fox was hired to design the tower while visiting Seattle to be interviewed as a possible candidate for the job of designing the Seattle Art Museum. It was the first major office building built under Seattle's 1985 downtown zoning plan, largely implemented in response to the Columbia Center, which called for height limits, interesting profiles, and height and density bonuses for public amenities to create a 24-hour downtown. The tower took advantage of all the height bonuses for public amenities that the 1985 plan called for including an entrance to the Metro Bus Tunnel (later renamed the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel), retail space, day care, public plaza, sculptured top, hillside public escalators, and lobby/atrium public access, as well as donating $2.5 million for off-site housing. By providing the amenities the designers were able to add 28 stories to the tower and almost double the base floor area ratio of the site. The building was built on the site of the 12-story Savoy Hotel which was imploded in 1986; however, the architects incorporated the historic Brooklyn Building into the design of the tower. \"The New York Times\" named it one of the three best new office buildings in the United States in 1988, and in the May 1989 issue of \"Architecture Magazine\" Walter McQuade called it \"perhaps the best recent addition to any U.S. skyline\". Paul Goldberger said of the tower, \"The building seems proud of its height; for all its classical elements it has a certain sleekness, and in this sense it is characteristic of our time, at least in intention, for it bespeaks a desire to combine the formal imagery of classicism and the energizing aura of modernity.\" Seattlites have voted the 55-story skyscraper as one of their favorite buildings. The building is managed by Wright Runstad & Company. MetLife Real Estate Investments and Clarion Partners bought the building in 2012 for $548.8 million. 1201 Third Avenue 1201 Third Avenue (formerly Washington Mutual Tower) is a , 55-story skyscraper in Downtown Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the second-tallest building in the city, the eighth-tallest on the West Coast of the United States, and the 74th-tallest in the United States. Developed by Wright Runstad & Company, construction began in 1986 and finished in 1988. 1201 Third Avenue"
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"Kozy Kozy (German: \"Seiffersdorf, Seibersdorf, Kosy (1941–45)\"; Wymysorys: \"Zajwyśdiüf\") is a large village with a population of 12,457 (2013) within Bielsko County, located in the historical and geographical south-west region of Lesser Poland, between Kęty and Bielsko-Biała, and about 65 kilometres south-west of Kraków and south of Katowice. It is the largest village in Poland (by comparison - the population of Wiślica, the smallest town in Poland, is only 503). The village name translates to 'Goats' in English, and has an area of 26,9 km. Since 1 January 1999, following Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, Kozy has been part of the newly established Silesian Voivodeship (province); between 1975-1998 it was formerly part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship. The village is well connected with the nearby city of Bielsko-Biała. It has a railway transport station, and lies on National Road No. 52. Kozy is the centre of the administrative district of Gmina Kozy. The village settlement was first mentioned in 1326 under two names \"\"Duabuscapris seu Siffridivilla\"\" in Latin, translated as \"\"two goats or goats village\"\", recorded in the parish Peter's Pence list, deanery of Oświęcim, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kraków. In old Polish the village was known as \"Dwyekozy\" (\"Dwiekozie\"); \"two goats\", and consisted of two settlements - \"Upper Kozy\" (\"Kozy Górne\"), and \"Lower Kozy\" (\"Kozy Dolne\"). Kozy was historically located on lands held by the Silesian Piast branch of the Polish royal Piast dynasty. The village was in the Duchy of Oświęcim, located in the historic region of Upper Silesia. From 1327 the duchy was part of the Bohemian Crown lands (Kingdom of Bohemia). In 1457 the duchy was sold to the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon and returned to the Kingdom of Poland. In the accompanying document issued on 21 February the village was mentioned as \"Dwe Kozy\". Kozy was a privately owned village, owned by such wealthy noble families as Mikołaj Szłop of Dębowiec during the 15th century and from the early 16th century became part of the House of Saszowski estates. The village had a parish church, and castle fortification built during 1327–1330, which formed part of the Duchy defense system, surrounded by a rampart and moat, the castle had two wings and a bastion with 2–3 metre thick walls. The castle ruins remained visible until the mid-1930s, when it was sold and gradually dismantled for building materials, sporadic parts of the castle foundations remain. The first wooden church was built about 1326, and rebuilt during the 16th century after suffering fire damage. In 1559, the parish Catholic church was Reformed (to Calvinism), introduced to the parish by a member of the House of Saszowski, the nobleman and Burgrave of Kraków Jakub Saszowski of Gierałtowic. The church remained so until 1658, when during the Swedish Deluge, it was restored the Roman Catholic faith. The majority of village inhabitants, nevertheless, remained faithful to the Reforms. Although Kozy was in the Kingdom of Poland, the village community were mostly German-speaking, embraced the Protestant Reformation, and would thus come under persistent attack from the Catholic Church during and after the Counter-Reformation. In the late 18th-century, the subsequent new village owners Jordanów, an affluent Polish burgher family from Kraków, started a strong local persecution of Protestants. In response, an exodus resulted, 64 families and 360 individual refugees with their belongings, crossed north-west from Kozy over the border at Dzieditz (Czechowice-Dziedzice) into Prussia controlled Upper Silesia, on the night of 25 April 1770, and there founded the village Anhalt (Holdynow/Hołdunów) near Pleß (Pszczyna). The escape route was secured by a Prussian Army cuirassier cavalry squadron escort under General Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz; the resettlement was supported by the King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, who asked only whether the refugees from Poland understood German. Thus came a 200-year end in the history of evangelicalism in Kozy. Only a few, undecided inhabitants, remained in Kozy, and were subjected to further reprisals by the Jordanów landowners. A few years later, in the First Partitions of Poland (1772), the Duchy of Oświęcim and thus the almost deserted village of Kozy, was annexed by the Habsburg Austrian Empire, as part of the Austrian Partition. Until November 1918, the Duchy of Oświęcim remained part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria crown-lands of Austria. During the 19th-century, Kozy revived once again as one of the most affluent villages of \"Oświęcim Land\", famous for its skilled stonemasons, carpenters and loom weaving cloth makers. The 16th-century parish wooden church, was demolished in 1899, paving way for the new neo-Gothic style church. The 16th-century church ceiling murals, however, were preserved and transferred into the collections of the National Museum in Kraków. According to an Austrian census in 1900, the population of Kozy was 3,693, 403 buildings, and an area of 1,358 hectare (13.58 km); 3,646 residents were Roman Catholic, 1 Greek-Catholic, 40 Israelite, and 12 residents of other religion. 3,688 declared Polish- and 8 German-speaking, and 6 declared other language. In the Second Polish Republic (1918), the lands of Oświęcim and thus Kozy, were reincorporated into Poland's Kraków Voivodeship at the end of World War I. During World War II, it was a local centre for the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (Home Army). After the war, Kozy belonged to the administrative district (gmina) of Biała Wieś, and in 1954, it emerged as a separate administrative district Gmina Kozy. In June 1979, Pope John Paul II's papal visit to Poland encompassed various papal motorcade trails. One such trail planned with the Vatican, was from Kozy to , where Pope John Paul II began his journey from the Church of St. Simon and Jude Tadeusza in Kozy. Kozy currently has three twin towns and sister cities Kozy Kozy (German: \"Seiffersdorf, Seibersdorf, Kosy (1941–45)\"; Wymysorys: \"Zajwyśdiüf\") is a large village with a population of 12,457 (2013) within Bielsko County, located in the historical and geographical south-west region of Lesser Poland, between Kęty and Bielsko-Biała, and about 65 kilometres south-west of Kraków and south of Katowice. It is the largest village in"
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"MV Craigantlet MV \"Craigantlet\" was a German-owned, Cyprus-registered container ship operated on time-charter by Cawoods Containers Ltd of Belfast. She ran aground on 26 February 1982 at Killantringan Lighthouse in Portamaggie Bay, Wigtownshire in southwestern Scotland. The 800 ton cargo ship was bound to Liverpool from Belfast at the time. The lighthouse keeper raised the alarm, and \"Craigantlet's\" crew was rescued via airlift by a Sea King from 819 Squadron based at the stone frigate HMS \"Gannet\" at Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Because the \"Craigantlet\" carried some containers marked with hazardous material codes — and reportedly some containers mislabeled as empty that were not — there was concern that a dangerous chemical spill could occur. The immediate area was evacuated and an unmanned warning light was put in place. The containers were removed over the next six weeks. The wreck of the \"Craigantlet\" was left in place, and partial remains of the bow were still visible in 2012 during low tide at Killantringan. The bow section is still visible from the cliff top at low tide (06/03/2017) MV Craigantlet MV \"Craigantlet\" was a German-owned, Cyprus-registered container ship operated on time-charter by Cawoods Containers Ltd of Belfast. She ran aground on"
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"Number Ten Creek Number Ten Creek is a creek in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Number Ten Creek begins in an unnamed field at an elevation of about southeast of the community of Moira. It flows west into an unnamed pond where it takes in an unnamed right tributary, then turns south. The creek continues to the east of the community of Phillipston, then heads southwest through the community of Zion Hill. Finally, it turns southeast and reaches its mouth at Chrysal Creek, at an elevation of , which flows via the Moira River into the Bay of Quinte in downtown Belleville. Number Ten Creek Number Ten Creek is a creek in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Number Ten Creek begins in an unnamed field at an elevation of about southeast of the community of Moira. It flows west into an unnamed pond where it takes in an unnamed right tributary, then turns south. The creek continues to the east of the community of Phillipston, then heads southwest through the community of Zion Hill. Finally, it turns southeast and reaches its mouth"
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"Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area (also known as the C.F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area) is a Wildlife Management Area located in Fauquier and Culpeper counties, Virginia. It contains over of open land previously used for agriculture; additional open areas may be found within the forests on the property. Most of the terrain is rolling, low, and shallow; the steepest land can be seen near the Rappahannock River, which forms a large part of the property's western border. A number of small streams cross the land, and a pond is located near its center. The forests on the property contain both pine and hardwood. The area allows seasonal hunting for deer, turkey, small game, and waterfowl. A shooting range for sighting-in rifles is available. Fishing includes opportunities for bluegill, sunfish, carp, bass, and channel catfish in Phelps Pond; the Rappahannock River at Kelly's Ford contains smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rock bass, sunfish, carp, channel catfish, and suckers. A canoe/kayak boat ramp is available at Kelly's Ford. Other permissible activities include fishing, hiking, horseback riding, boating, and primitive camping. Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area is owned and maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Access for persons 17 years of age or older requires a valid hunting or fishing permit, or a WMA access permit. Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area (also known as the C.F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area) is a Wildlife Management Area located in Fauquier and Culpeper counties, Virginia. It contains over of open land previously used for agriculture; additional open areas may be found within the forests on the property. Most of the terrain is rolling, low, and shallow; the steepest land can be seen near the Rappahannock River, which forms"
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"Anthony Ashley Bevan Anthony Ashley Bevan (1859-1933) was a British orientalist. He was the son of the banker Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, and his second wife, the translator and poet Frances Bevan. Frances was the author of the famous book , and \"\". He was educated at Cheam, Surrey, the Gymnase Littéraire, Lausanne, and the University of Strasbourg, where he studied under Theodor Noeldeke, one of the greatest scholars in the field of oriental studies. His relationship with Nöldeke lasted to the end of his life as he kept up a pretty regular correspondence with him covering about half a century. He said in his introduction to the third volume of Al-Mufaddaliyat, in 1924, : \"I desire to express my deep gratitude to Professor Theodor Nöldeke, who from the first had contributed much towards the elucidation of the Arabic text and most kindly answered a large number of questions which I addressed to him with regard to various difficulties\". Educated in Lausanne and Strassburg, Bevan had already laid the foundations of his immense Semitic learning when in 1884 he came from Nöldeke to William Wright. Their influence appears in all his work. He had a pretty regular correspondence with Ignaz Goldziher as well for about 30 years i.e. to the end of Goldziher's life. Anthony entered Trinity in 1884, and obtained a first in the Semitic languages tripos of 1887. In 1888 he gained a Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship and the Mason prize for biblical Hebrew, and two years later was elected a Fellow and appointed lecturer in oriental languages. In 1893 he became Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, a post previously held by his brother-in-law. It had an annual stipend of only £50, but Bevan had ample private means (his father was the head of the banking house which would become Barclays) and was soon dispensed from the one obligation of lecturing formally once a year. The post was abolished after his death. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1916, resigning in 1928. Bevan was \"one of the dozen most learned Arabists, not of England and Europe only, but of the whole world. He was almost equally distinguished for his knowledge of Hebrew and Old Testament literature. He knew Syriac thoroughly and other Semitic languages well, and he had an excellent acquaintance with Persian language and literature\". (Burkitt). He also had a knowledge of Sanskrit, and was fluent in French, Italian, and German. His published work was relatively small, but of the highest scholarship. He was fastidious and scrupulously careful: as he observed in the course of one of his typically uncompromising reviews, ‘even slight inaccuracies are liable to become sources of confusion’. His friends and pupils could well believe the story that he was almost reduced to tears on discovering a misprint in one of his own works. If Bevan's output was slight he spared himself no pains in assisting his colleagues, among other ways by reading their proofs: many, including his brother Edwyn, an archaeologist and Hellenist, were indebted to his scholarship. He was generous with his inherited wealth. He was a benefactor of the University Library and Museum of Archaeology, gave all his books to the Faculty of Oriental Languages, and left £10,000 to Trinity. Unostentatious, he was determined to ensure that his benefactions were made without drawing attention to himself. Bevan never visited any Arab countries, and his pronunciation of Arabic was thought \"weird\" by a former student. He was well liked by students and faculty, described as generous, and called a \"liberal benefactor\" to the college. Anthony Ashley Bevan"
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"The Next Stage The Next Stage is a Belgian non-profit organisation that organises a concerts for unsigned talent in the best clubs over Belgium and the Netherlands. It is being held in 10 provinces: (in 2009) Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Gelderland, Limburg, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Antwerpen, Brabant, Hainaut en West-Vlaanderen. Musicians play in a sort of \"Battle of the Bands\"-format, whereby the bands with the most votes move on to the next round. In between shows, the bands get courses and workshops to teach them how to be more successful in promoting their band. The 10 winners of each provincial final will move on to the 'main event' : a big live concert organised by Exit Live Stage. The Next Stage The Next Stage is a Belgian non-profit organisation that organises a concerts for unsigned talent in the best clubs over Belgium and the Netherlands. It is being held in 10 provinces: (in 2009) Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Gelderland, Limburg, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Antwerpen, Brabant, Hainaut en West-Vlaanderen. Musicians play in a sort of \"Battle of the Bands\"-format, whereby the bands with the most votes move on to the next round. In between shows, the bands get courses and workshops to teach them how to be"
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"Yellow Ribbon Project The Yellow Ribbon Project () (Malay: Projek Riben Kuning) started in 2004, is a community initiative organised by the Community Action for Rehabilitation of Ex-offenders (CARE) Network in Singapore. Aimed at reintegrating ex-prisoners into society, the Yellow Ribbon Project advocates a second chance for ex-offenders and their families through concerted efforts. The Yellow Ribbon Project seeks to engage the community in accepting ex-offenders and their families, giving them a second chance at life and to inspire a ripple effect of concerted community action to support ex-offenders and their families. Every year, more than 9,000 ex-offenders in Singapore complete their sentences and are released from the various prisons and drug rehabilitation centres (DRCs). The Yellow Ribbon Project's objective is to raise awareness of the need to give second chances to ex-offenders and their families and inspire community action to support rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders back into society. The Yellow Ribbon Project is managed by the CARE Network. Members of the CARE Network include Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), Singapore Prison Service (SPS), Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE), National Council of Social Service (NCSS), Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd (ISCOS), Singapore After-Care Association (SACA) and Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association (SANA). The inspiration behind the Yellow Ribbon Project was taken from the 70s song, \"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree\", sung by Tony Orlando and Dawn, which is in turn based on the true story published in a 1971 article in The New York Post. Almost nine in 10 Singaporeans are able to identify the aims of the initiative according to a survey conducted by the Yellow Ribbon Project organisers. Beyond awareness, the Yellow Ribbon Project also actively encourages employers and volunteers to offer second chances to offenders who are willing to change for the better. Since its inception, YRP has set a different theme each year. The Yellow Ribbon Project was established in 2004 by the various CARE Network's member agencies. Former President of Singapore, Mr S.R. Nathan officially launched the community engagement campaign at the Yellow Ribbon Project Charity Concert. A special album featuring songs performed by inmates was produced in commemoration of the inaugural Yellow Ribbon Project in 2004. In 2005, the campaign introduced the Tie-A Yellow-Ribbon Walk which encouraged more Singaporeans to learn about the offenders' journey of reintegration. The Yellow Ribbon Concert, \"New Hope, New Dreams\", was held in 2006 to launch the third edition of the community campaign. The concert featured celebrities performing alongside inmates and was broadcast on local television. A series of events was held in 2007 to raise funds for the Yellow Ribbon Fund. The events included the Yellow Ribbon Culinary Competition, Yellow Ribbon Charity Gala Dinner, and the Yellow Ribbon Appreciation Dinner. In 2008, 467 foreign delegates, government officials, academics, aftercare professionals and community partners attended the Yellow Ribbon Conference on \"Aftercare: A Collaborative Approach\" The inaugural Yellow Ribbon Prison Run was launched on 6 September 2009, and saw the participation of more than 6,000 runners. A contingent of 80 reformed ex-offenders also participated in the Run. The Yellow Ribbon Project was themed \"Little Gestures, Big Difference\" in 2011, and sought to engage more inmates and ex-offenders to step forward to share details of their reintegration journey and to give back to society. The 2012 edition aimed to inspire inmates and ex-offenders to take charge of their own rehabilitation and continue to give back to society. This marked the first year that grassroots divisions were engaged to recruit more volunteers to render assistance to the families of inmates. Since its inception in 2004, the Yellow Ribbon Project has attracted more than 380,000 members of the community to participate in its activities and 1,500 community partners to show their support to the cause through various initiatives. In a survey conducted by the organisers to measure community support, the Yellow Ribbon Project achieved 97% awareness. One of the Yellow Ribbon Project's signature annual event is the Yellow Ribbon Prison Run. The inaugural Yellow Ribbon Prison Run was first held in September 2009, which attracted 6,500 participants. Funds raised through the event go towards the Yellow Ribbon Fund to rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for ex-offenders and support programmes for their family members. Local marathon icon, Madam Jenap, was involved in a personal 12-hour challenge to raise funds for ex-offenders in 2012. In 2013, a record 1,230 run participants came together to form a Giant Human Yellow Ribbon in celebration of 10 years of YRP. The formation was recorded in the Singapore Book of Records. The Yellow Ribbon Project seeks to engage the community in accepting ex-offenders and their families, giving them a second chance at life and to inspire a ripple effect of concerted community action to support ex-offenders and their families. The Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition provides a platform for inmates and ex-offenders to express their hopes and aspirations through art, showcase their artistic talents, foster closer family relationships and communicate with the community. The Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition was first held in 2007 at The Arts House. Out of the 73 pieces of artworks, ten were winning entries selected by Japanese artist Kon Saishu. The Yellow Ribbon Art Competition was also held from 2008 to 2011 and the artworks were also showcased at the Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition. The exhibition was then held at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in 2008 and at the Singapore Art Museum from 2009 onwards. In 2012, the Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition 2012 featured artwork by inmates from Changi Women's Prison for the first time. The first Celebrating Second Chances Awards Ceremony was held in 2006. As an encouragement for the continued commitment of those who have stayed crime- and drug-free, ex-offenders receive tokens of commendation at the biennial event. In conjunction with the Yellow Ribbon Project's 10th anniversary, a new Celebrating Second Chances Award category was created to honour four organisations and two individuals. A commemorative book chronicling 10 years of YRP was also launched at the 2013 ceremony. The first Yellow Ribbon Charity Golf Tournament was held in November 2008. The second and third editions of the tournament were held in 2010 and 2012. The biennial event consisted of the golf tournament and an appreciation dinner for participants of the tournament, donors and sponsors of the Yellow Ribbon Fund. Proceeds raised through the event went towards the development and implementation of family support programmes to strengthen family ties of inmates and ex-offenders. The Yellow Ribbon Song Writing Competition was organised as part of the Yellow Ribbon Project Creative Festival. The competition was conceptualised as part of the inmates' rehabilitation programmes and is used as a platform for inmates and ex-offenders to express their hopes for acceptance. The Yellow Ribbon Song Writing Competition started in 2008 with twelve inmates competing in the finals. 76% of inmates achieved distinction for the internationally recognized music theory exam by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), proving the strength of rehabilitation through music. • 2013 onwards Launched in 2013, the annual competition is aimed at rehabilitating inmates and allowing them to express themselves while picking up new skills. Jointly organised by the Yellow Ribbon Project and Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS), the volunteer-led initiative is a channel",
"The competition was conceptualised as part of the inmates' rehabilitation programmes and is used as a platform for inmates and ex-offenders to express their hopes for acceptance. The Yellow Ribbon Song Writing Competition started in 2008 with twelve inmates competing in the finals. 76% of inmates achieved distinction for the internationally recognized music theory exam by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), proving the strength of rehabilitation through music. • 2013 onwards Launched in 2013, the annual competition is aimed at rehabilitating inmates and allowing them to express themselves while picking up new skills. Jointly organised by the Yellow Ribbon Project and Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS), the volunteer-led initiative is a channel for inmates to express their hopes for acceptance and forgiveness from their family and friends. Another aim of the Yellow Ribbon Song Writing Competition is to aid in rehabilitation and provide them with skills that would improve their employability. The first Yellow Ribbon Concert was held in October 2004 to mark the launch of the community campaign. Besides featuring local and foreign artistes, reforming offenders and ex-offenders also shared their experience of rehabilitation and reintegration through drama, song and dance. Local celebrities who participated in the concerts included Dick Lee, Shiek Haikel, Azrina Ahmad, Koh Chieng Mun, Mark Lee, Sharon Ismail, Jai, Nathan Hartono and Project Superstar Season 1 winners, Chen Wei Lian and Kelly Poon. Regional artistes including Taiwanese singers, Wakin Chau, B.A.D, Tension and Chinese singer Anson Hu have also participated in the various Yellow Ribbon Concerts. The Yellow Ribbon Culinary Programme is organised by YRP to allow inmates an opportunity to improve their culinary skills through a certified training course to earn certificated qualification. The certifications seek to help increase inmates' employability after their release. Graduation ceremonies were held in 2010 and 2012 to present inmate-graduates with the Certificate in Basic Culinary Skills Course, conducted by SHATEC Institutes. Under the Yellow Ribbon Culinary Programme, the Yellow Ribbon Culinary Competition was first held in 2007 as part of the Yellow Ribbon Creative Festival which aims to give inmates the opportunity to acquire culinary skills. As part of the programme, teams comprising prison inmates learnt to create several dishes which was cooked and presented to their family members during the Tribute of Love event. The Yellow Ribbon Poetry-Writing and Story Telling Competition was held in 2006 and 2007. The poetry competition allows ex-offenders to express their thoughts and reflections through their self-penned poems. The 2006 competition saw the participation of 480 inmates and 20 of them were selected to recite their entry in front of their families. Organised by CARE Network and the National Library Board, the 2007 competition saw the participation of 24 inmates who were asked to write on the theme of giving and how they hoped to contribute to their families and society. The inaugural Tie-A-Yellow-Ribbon Walk was held on 3 September 2005 and drew a crowd of 14,000. The second Tie-A-Yellow-Ribbon Walk was held in 2007 which saw more than 10,000 participants walking from Pasir Ris Town Park to the new Prison Link Centre. The event was graced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Launched in 2004, the Yellow Ribbon Fund (YRF) is the first national charitable fund devoted entirely towards the development and implementation of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for inmates and ex-offenders, as well as family support programmes to strengthen family ties of inmates and ex-offenders. Proceeds from the various fund-raising activities will go towards funding a variety of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes as well as family support programmes which are in line with the vision of the Community Action for the Rehabilitation of Ex-offenders (CARE) Network YRF provides financial support for: The Yellow Ribbon Fund comprises Main Committee, Advancement Committee, Audit Committee, Family & Children's Welfare Committee, Fund Disbursement Committee and Bursary Selection Committee. Some of the members include Mrs Wong Ai Ai, Mr Manraj Singh Sekhon, Dr Lucas Chow Wing Keung, Mr Stanley Tang, Mr Woo Woh Kuan Christopher, Ms Shie Yong Lee, Mr Ajay Kanwal, Mr Leow Tze Wen, Mr Bernard Peh, Mr Asad Jumabhoy, Ms Michelle Eng, etc. The YRF STAR (Skills Training Assistance to Restart) Bursary, initiated in 2010, aims to provide financial support to ex-offenders for vocational and skills training. Recipients of the bursary receive full financial assistance for their course fees. Formerly known as the Yellow Ribbon Community Outreach Project, the Yellow Ribbon Community Project is a grassroots-led project that provides support and assistance to the families of offenders. Yellow Ribbon Community Project (YRCP) is a grassroots-led initiative that aims to provide proactive support and assistance to the families of offenders. Trained grassroots volunteers will visit the families of newly admitted offenders to render assistance, such as linking them to the relevant social support networks. This benefits and stabilises the families who are affected by the offenders' incarceration, and also allows the offender to focus on rehabilitation. Since September 2010, the YRCP has expanded from eight participating GRC divisions to a total of 63 (see Annex A for breakdown). As of March 2015, more than 700 grassroots volunteers have undergone basic training (e.g. understanding the ex-offenders and their families, conducting effective home visits, basic interviewing/case assessments) to better equip themselves with the knowledge and skills to effectively reach out to more than 2,800 families of offenders. The Community Action for the Rehabilitation of Ex-offenders (CARE) Network was formed in 2000 to co-ordinate and improve the effectiveness of the efforts of the many agencies engaging in rehabilitative works for ex-offenders throughout Singapore. In a relatively short period of 10 years, a hitherto little known cause has grown and matured into a national movement that has also managed to become a social model to several countries internationally. SANA is a Voluntary Welfare Organisation set up in 1972 to work with the community and grassroots organisations to rein in the spread of drug and inhalant abuse and to work towards the vision of keeping Singapore drug-free. SANA is an approved charity with IPC status and cash donations to SANA are tax-exempt. SACA was formed in 1956 and was registered as a charity in 1984. SACA is the key agency providing welfare and rehabilitation services for discharged offenders and their families. The association aims to assist ex-offenders and their families to cope with problems arising from the offending behaviour and the consequent incarceration. Such assistance would hopefully give these ex-offenders the chance to reintegrate into society successfully thereby reducing the chances of recidivism Singapore Corporation Of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE) was established as a statutory board under the Ministry of Home Affairs on 1 April 1976. SCORE plays an important role in the Singapore correctional system by creating a safe and secure Singapore through the provision of rehabilitation and aftercare services to inmates and ex-offenders. SCORE seeks to enhance the employability of offenders and prepare them for their eventual reintegration into the national workforce by focusing on four main building blocks of training, work, employment assistance and community engagement SPS is an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs. As a key member of the Home Team, SPS operates a secure prison system. SPS protects society through the safe custody and rehabilitation of offenders, cooperating with its partners in aftercare and prevention. The SPS",
"was established as a statutory board under the Ministry of Home Affairs on 1 April 1976. SCORE plays an important role in the Singapore correctional system by creating a safe and secure Singapore through the provision of rehabilitation and aftercare services to inmates and ex-offenders. SCORE seeks to enhance the employability of offenders and prepare them for their eventual reintegration into the national workforce by focusing on four main building blocks of training, work, employment assistance and community engagement SPS is an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs. As a key member of the Home Team, SPS operates a secure prison system. SPS protects society through the safe custody and rehabilitation of offenders, cooperating with its partners in aftercare and prevention. The SPS is committed to realising its Captains of Lives vision. Its team of uniformed officers and civilian staff work together to realise its vision of steering offenders towards becoming responsible citizens with the help of their family and the community. ISCOS is a social organisation that helps ex-offenders and their families make positive changes to reintegrate successfully into society. Established in 1989, it has over 13,000 members who have benefited from various employment and training programmes. Founded in 1958, the Singapore Council of Social Service leads and coordinates the social service sector in Singapore. The Council was renamed National Council of Social service in 1992. The NCSS works closely with voluntary welfare organisations to build organisational capabilities for better management and delivery of social service programmes. The Ministry of Home Affairs was set up in 1959 when Singapore attained self-government. After Singapore gained independence, MHA was part of the Ministry of Interior and Defence. In 1970, it was separated into two ministries, MHA and the Ministry of Defence. MHA is responsible for public safety, civil defence and immigration. The ministry is headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Teo Chee Hean. MHA consists of seven departments: Previously known as the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, the Ministry was officially restructured on 1 November 2012 to become the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). MSF aims to bring a sharper focus to the Singapore Government's work in the development of families, social services and social safety nets. According to statistics released by the Singapore Prison Service in 2015, the penal recidivism rate for the 2012 cohort was 27.5 per cent, compared to 27.0 per cent for the 2011 cohort and 23.3 per cent for that in 2010. The statistics also showed that fewer drug abusers released from Drug Rehabilitation Centres (DRC) in 2012 went back to their old habits. The recidivism rate for the 2012 release cohort was 28.3 per cent, down from 31.1 per cent in 2011. Overall, fewer people were admitted into prison and DRC in 2014. There were 11,595 convicted penal admissions in 2014, compared to 12,744 such admissions in 2013 and 12,530 in 2012. DRC admissions meanwhile dropped from 1,384 in 2012 and 1,364 in 2013 to 1,139 admissions in 2014. In 2014, there were 4,433 employers registered with the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE) to provide job opportunities for inmates, up from 3,876 employers in 2013 and 3,457 in 2012. A total of 4,245 inmates were also engaged in work programmes in prison last year, up from 4,200 in 2013 and 4,183 in 2012. The introduction of the Singapore-conceived Yellow Ribbon Project in Fiji in 2008 introduced programmes specifically aimed at shifting the general public's perception of inmates and ex-offenders. In October 2008, Fiji officially launched their Yellow Ribbon Campaign after attending the Yellow Ribbon Walk in 2007. The Fiji YRP campaign aimed to shift the general public's perception of inmate and ex-offenders. In 2012, the campaign reported a rise in corporate support. In 2008, Prison Fellowship Nigeria started a similar campaign called the Green Ribbon Campaign. The Nigeria Green Ribbon campaign aims to reduce crime through the provision of a constructive moral environment for returning ex-prisoners back to society and meaningful socio-economic reintegration. The campaign, similar to YRP, also reaches out to public and volunteers to raise awareness for the cause. American Eric Schulzke began the Apollo 13 Project which develops necessary ground support to help prisoners return to society after their release. Schulze was inspired by YRP's vision of uniting custodians, ex-offenders, employers and society to change the public perception of ex-offenders. Inspired by the Yellow Ribbon Projects organised in Singapore and Fiji, Australia celebrates Second Chance Day: YRP Australia every 1 May. The initiative was launched in 2011 and aims to engage the community in accepting former female inmates and their families. A team from BuCor LOVE Foundation Inc. attended YRP activities in Singapore in 2008. The team partners the Bureau of Corrections in Manila to conduct similar YRP activities such as the first Philippine Prison Run. Yellow Ribbon packs were also given to participants at the event. Yellow Ribbon Yellow Ribbon Project The Yellow Ribbon Project () (Malay: Projek Riben Kuning) started in 2004, is a community initiative organised by the Community Action for Rehabilitation of Ex-offenders (CARE) Network in Singapore. Aimed at reintegrating ex-prisoners into society, the Yellow Ribbon Project advocates a second chance for ex-offenders and their families through concerted efforts. 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"Bruno Girard Bruno Girard (born November 25, 1970 in Blois, France) was a French boxer (187 cm height) at super middleweight and light heavyweight division who held the Lineal and WBA super middleweight titles. The light-hitting Girard turned pro in 1991 and challenged Byron Mitchell for WBA and Lineal Super Middleweight Titles in 1999, in his first US fight. The fight was a draw, and in the rematch in 2000 Girard won a unanimous decision to win the titles. Girard defended the belt once against Manny Siaca and then was stripped of the title for declining a rematch. In late 2001 he moved up to light heavyweight and took on southpaw Lou Del Valle for the Vacant WBA Light Heavyweight Title and drew with him. Later that year, he took on Robert Koon for the Vacant belt, and won via TKO. He defended the belt twice before losing to Mehdi Sahnoune via 7th-round TKO in 2003. Girard retired after the bout. Bruno Girard Bruno Girard (born November 25, 1970 in Blois, France) was a French boxer (187 cm height) at super middleweight and light heavyweight division who held the Lineal and WBA super middleweight titles. The light-hitting Girard turned pro"
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"Prime Mover (film) Prime Mover is a 2009 Australian/British comedy-crime love story which stars Michael Dorman, Emily Barclay, Ben Mendelsohn, Gyton Grantley, William McInnes, Anthony Hayes and Andrew S. Gilbert. It is directed by acclaimed film and television director David Caesar of \"Mullet\" and \"Dirty Deeds\" fame, in which he also worked with McInnes, Mendelsohn and Gilbert. The film was released to European audiences in Germany on 8 February 2009 and in Australia on 8 June 2009. David Caesar first wrote the script in 1983. The Australian Film Commission had provided Caesar money to research the script in Alice Springs and offered him $1 million to make the movie but Caesar felt that he needed $2 million. In the late 1980s he almost got the film funded through the Film Finance Corporation but was unable and instead made \"Greenkeeper\". \"Prime Mover\" grossed $52,119 at the box office in Australia. Prime Mover (film) Prime Mover is a 2009 Australian/British comedy-crime love story which stars Michael Dorman, Emily Barclay, Ben Mendelsohn, Gyton Grantley, William McInnes, Anthony Hayes and Andrew S. Gilbert. It is directed by acclaimed film and television director David Caesar of \"Mullet\" and \"Dirty Deeds\" fame, in which he also"
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"Mahdi Pakdel Mahdi Pakdel (, born July 1, 1980 in Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian actor. Mehdi Pakdel lived in his hometown until the age of 17 when he left for the capital, Tehran, to pursue a career in arts. While studying graphic arts at the Islamic Azad University, he designed a few theatrical posters and later established his own graphic studio to broaden his field of work. His first stage appearance was in 1997, after which he began to pursue an acting career. While his main focus has been on stage acting, he had several cinematic and television roles which gained him nationwide fame. Pakdel has appeared in the series ‘The Scarlet Pearl’ (2004), ‘The Silence of the Sea’ (2005), ‘The First Night of Peace’ (2005), ‘The Innocent Ones’ (2008), ‘The Night Shall Pass’ (2008), ‘Missing’ (2010), ‘Setayesh’ (2009-2010), and ‘Kimiya’ (2013-2015). He has also acted in a number of movies, including ‘Blue’ (2000), ‘Fish Fall in Love’ (2004), ‘Hardships of the Maiden’ (2006), ‘Trouble’ (2007), ‘Tambourine’ (2007), ‘The Snitch’ (2008), ‘Without Permission’ (2010), ‘The Freeway’ (2010), ‘A Decent Ceremony’ (2011), and ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ (2014). Pakdel married Behnoosh Tabatabaei (an Iranian actress) on March 2011 and they divorced in 2016. Mahdi Pakdel Mahdi Pakdel (, born July 1, 1980 in Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian actor. Mehdi Pakdel lived in his hometown until the age of 17 when he left for the capital, Tehran, to pursue a career in arts. While studying graphic arts at the Islamic Azad University, he designed a few theatrical posters and later established his own graphic studio to broaden his field of work. His first stage appearance was in 1997, after which he began to pursue an acting career. While his main focus has been on stage acting, he had several"
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"* Dani Reynolds–Jennifer O'Neill \n * Mac Harper–Jon-Erik Hexum (1984) \n * Jack Striker–Antony Hamilton (1984–85) \n * Henry Towler–Richard Anderson \n\n\n 1. \"Pilot, Part 1\"–September 22, 1984 (1984-09-22) \n 2. \"Pilot, Part 2\"–September 22, 1984 (1984-09-22) \n 3. \"Death in Vogue\"–September 29, 1984 (1984-09-29) \n 4. \"The Million Dollar Face\"–October 6, 1984 (1984-10-06) \n 5. \"Harper-Gate\"–October 10, 1984 (1984-10-10) \n 6. \"Sudden Exposure\"–October 17, 1984 (1984-10-17) \n 7. \"Nothing to Lose\"–October 24, 1984 (1984-10-24) \n 8. \"Golden Opportunity\"–November 3, 1984 (1984-11-03) * \n 9. \"Writer's Block\"–November 24, 1984 (1984-11-24) * * \n 10. \"Murder in Malibu\"–December 1, 1984 (1984-12-01) \n 11. \"Midnight Highway\"–December 8, 1984 (1984-12-08) \n 12. \"A Subtle Seduction\"–December 29, 1984 (1984-12-29) \n 13. \"Black Widow\"–January 5, 1985 (1985-01-05) \n 14. \"Murder Offshore\"–January 12, 1985 (1985-01-12) \n 15. \"The Assassin\"–January 26, 1985 (1985-01-26) \n 16. \"Rules to Die By\"–February 2, 1985 (1985-02-02) \n 17. \"Healthy, Wealthy, and Dead\"–February 23, 1985 (1985-02-23) \n 18. \"The Ugliest American\"–March 2, 1985 (1985-03-02) \n 19. \"Who's Trying to Kill Miss Globe?\"–March 9, 1985 (1985-03-09) \n 20. \"Adam's Rib\"–March 23, 1985 (1985-03-23) \n 21. \"Jack of Spades\"–March 30, 1985 (1985-03-30) \n 22. \"Passions\"–April 6, 1985 (1985-04-06) \n\n\n Cover Up is an American action/adventure television series that aired for one season on CBS from September 22, 1984, to April 6, 1985. Created by Glen A. Larson, the series stars Jennifer O'Neill, Jon-Erik Hexum, Antony Hamilton, and Richard Anderson. \n During a break between scenes on the set on October 12, 1984, Jon-Erik Hexum became bored with the filming delays. He began playing Russian roulette with what he believed was a harmless. 44 Magnum prop gun and jokingly placed it to his temple and pulled the trigger. The shot sent the wadding from the blank cartridge at Hexum's skull, driving a bone fragment the size of a quarter into his brain and causing massive hemorrhaging. Hexum was rushed to the hospital, where he eventually was declared brain dead. On October 18, he was taken off life support. \n * * Hexum's last episode \n * * * Hamilton's first episode \n\n\n Henry Towler, her husband's boss, then offers her the late husband's job. Dani would pretend she was still a photographer and Mac would be her model. Henry would send them anywhere in the world where Americans are in trouble or criminals need to be caught. Once there, they act pretty much on their own. \n After the death of actor Jon-Erik Hexum, who played Mac, the episode \"Writer's Block\" introduced Dani's new assistant, Jack Striker. Jack was a CIA agent who, like Mac, operated under the cover of a model. \n Fashion photographer Dani Reynolds's life suddenly changes after the death of her husband. It is only then that she discovers that he was actually an undercover CIA agent. When she learns he had been murdered, she recruits Mac Harper, a former Special Forces Operator, to help her find her husband's killers. \n Cover Up \n--- \nJon-Erik Hexum and Jennifer O'Neill \nGenre | Action/Adventure \nCreated by | Glen A. Larson \nDirected by | Phil Bondelli Richard A. Colla Peter Crane Don Carlos Dunaway Walter Grauman John D. Hancock Jeffrey Hayden Sidney Hayers Christopher Hibler Bruce Kessler Guy Magar Bernard McEveety Arthur Allan Seidelman Michael Vejar Don Weis \nStarring | Jennifer O'Neill Jon-Erik Hexum Antony Hamilton \nTheme music composer | Dean Pitchford Jim Steinman \nOpening theme | \"Holding Out for a Hero\" performed by EG Daily \nComposer (s) | Joseph Conlan J.A.C. Redford Morton Stevens \nCountry of origin | United States \nOriginal language (s) | English \nNo. of seasons | \nNo. of episodes | 22 \nProduction \nExecutive producer (s) | Glen A. Larson \nProducer (s) | Brian Alan Lane Bob Shayne Harker Wade \nEditor (s) | David Howe Gene Ranney \nCamera setup | Single-camera \nRunning time | 44 mins. \nProduction company (s) | 20th Century Fox Television Glen A. Larson Productions \nRelease \nOriginal network | CBS \nAudio format | Monaural \nOriginal release | September 22, 1984 (1984-09-22)–April 6, 1985 (1985-04-06) \n Hexum appeared in only seven episodes of the series, including the pilot. He was replaced by Antony Hamilton for the remainder of the season. Jennifer O'Neill appeared in all of the episodes. As Cover Up continued to air throughout the winter of 1984–85, ratings held up. The network ultimately canceled the series after its first season due to mediocre ratings."
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"Dietary indiscretion Dietary indiscretion is the tendency of certain animal of eating unusual items. These are frequently relatively small items not encountered in a natural habitat and thus sampled because of mistaken identity, a familiar flavor, or simple curiosity. This includes modern manufactured items such as shiny metal foil or plastic objects, as well as foods harmful to health. Domesticated animals such as dogs and goats, and even circus animals like Ostriches are even more prone to the effect due to their contact with people. The dietary indiscretion of fish, especially Sharks, may occur when the mouth is the major organ of detection and processing. Dietary indiscretion Dietary indiscretion is the tendency of certain animal of eating unusual items. These are frequently relatively small items not encountered in a natural habitat and thus sampled because of mistaken identity, a familiar flavor, or simple curiosity. This includes modern manufactured items such as shiny metal foil or plastic objects, as well as foods harmful to health. Domesticated animals such as dogs and goats, and even circus animals like Ostriches are even more prone to the effect due to their contact with people. The dietary indiscretion of fish, especially Sharks, may occur when"
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"Comper Kite The Comper Kite was a single-engined, two-seat touring monoplane built in the UK, derived from the contemporary Comper Streak racer. Only one was built. The Kite was created by redesigning the single-seat Comper Streak racing aircraft as a two-seat tourer. The main changes, apart from the installation of the second cockpit by inserting an extra bay into the fuselage were the fitting of a more economical engine and the provision of extra tankage. Those things apart, only a few minor changes distinguished the two aircraft. The Kite, the last aircraft to be completed by the Comper Aircraft Company, was flying in early 1934, only a month after the Streak. The wings almost identical to those of the Streak. They were built up around a pair of spruce and plywood box section spars, carrying three-ply and spruce ribs and skinned with stressed three-ply sheet. They were gently tapering in plan with rounded tips. There was 5° dihedral outboard, but none on the centre section. Mass balanced ailerons, narrower than those of the Streak filled more than half of the trailing edge. The mass balances were conspicuously mounted on extended upward arms from near the aileron root. The tailplane and split elevators were also of spruce and plywood, but fabric covered. The rounded fin and rudder, though fabric covered had a steel tube structure. The elevators and rudder were mass balanced, with external weights like those on the ailerons. The rudder extended to the bottom of the fuselage, operating in a cut-out between the elevators. The rectangular cross-section fuselage consisted of four spruce Warren girders, fabric covered behind the engine. The pilot's cockpit was at the trailing edge of the wing and behind there was a deep, rounded fabric covered decking. Immediately in front of the pilot's cockpit was an extra fuselage bay containing the passenger's position, placed over the centre of gravity so that the trim would not be disturbed by their presence or absence. The fuel tanks of the Kite were in the wing roots, again to minimise changes in trim. The mounting for the Pobjoy Niagara engine, constructed of square section steel tube, started immediately in front of the passenger compartment. The 90 hp (67 kW) 7-cylinder radial engine was a development of the earlier Pobjoy R; two notable features were that it was very compact, with a diameter of only 26 in (660 mm) and that it was geared down with a gearbox that off-set the propeller shaft vertically. The result was a very neat cowling with Pobjoy's characteristic front ring and trade mark baffle. The exhaust exited from shallow individual cowls and scooped channels. The Pobjoy drove a two-bladed propeller. The main wheels, which were provided with brakes, were mounted at the end of the wing centre section, each between pairs of compression legs. Pairs of cross braced struts, joining the legs a little way above the axle and hinged at top and bottom, rotated to retract the wheels rearwards. As on the Streak, the retracted wheels protruded to give some protection in a wheels up landing, but on the Kite there were small fairings ahead of them. At the rear there was a simple, sprung tailskid. The Kite first flew, registered as \"G-ACME\", early in the summer of 1934 and gained its Certificate of Airworthiness on 10 July. With the front cockpit faired over, it flew in the 1934 King's Cup Race at an average speed of 144 mph (232 km/h), but was eliminated in the heats. The Kite was never tried in the tourer role it was designed for, as Comper Aircraft ceased business in August 1934, taken over by the Heston Aircraft Company who had no interest in it. The Kite was broken up at Heston in 1935. Comper Kite The Comper Kite was a single-engined, two-seat touring monoplane built in the UK, derived from the contemporary Comper Streak racer. Only one was built. The Kite was created by redesigning the single-seat Comper Streak racing aircraft as a two-seat tourer. The main changes, apart from the installation of the second cockpit by inserting an extra bay into the fuselage were the fitting of a more economical engine and the provision of extra"
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"Godfrey–Milliken Bill The Godfrey–Milliken Bill, also called the American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, was a private member's bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by Liberal MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey. The bill was intended as a parody of the American Helms–Burton Act. The Helms–Burton Act set up stringent punishments on any business or person that profited from property of American businesses and people that had been seized in the Cuban Revolution. The bill included a policy of punishing foreign nations and companies who had profited from this seized property (which in practice means trading with Cuba at all, since everything in Cuba is in some way connected to such property). This included a number of Canadian companies. The 1996 bill responded by calling for descendants of United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to be able to reclaim land and property that was confiscated by the American government. The bill would have also allowed the Canadian government to exclude corporate officers, or controlling shareholders of companies that possess property formerly owned by Loyalists, as well as the spouse and minor child of such persons from entering Canada. In total some three million Canadians are descendants of United Empire Loyalists, including Milliken and Godfrey. The current value of the land and property seized during the American Revolution is many billions of dollars. The bill received widespread attention in Canada and also some publicity in the United States, including a feature on \"60 Minutes\". The Godfrey–Milliken Bill did not become law. Milliken later supported Bill C-54 to amend the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act which effectively neutralized any attempt to enforce the Helms–Burton Act on Canadians or Canadian companies. The amendments blocked access to Canadian records for the prosecution of any case under the Helms–Burton Act, allowed the Attorney General to block Canadian courts from enforcing judgments emanating from US jurisdictions against Canadian defendants, permitted Canadian defendants to counter-sue in Canadian courts, and imposed a $1.5 million fine (equivalent to $ million in ) to any Canadian entity that aided any prosecution under Helms–Burton. Godfrey–Milliken Bill The Godfrey–Milliken Bill, also called the American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, was a private member's bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by Liberal MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey. The bill was intended as a parody of the American Helms–Burton Act. The Helms–Burton Act set up stringent punishments on any business"
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"International Waste Working Group – IWWG The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) is a registered not-for-profit international waste organisation founded in 2002 to serve as a forum for the scientific and professional community. The IWWG aims to provide an intellectual platform to encourage and support integrated and sustainable waste management and to promote practical scientific development in the field. The objectives of IWWG will be pursued mainly by means of: Dissemination of Information: Discussion Forums: Education: Services: The group was conceived as a think-tank, whose work would be based on scientific principles oriented towards practical applications. IWWG is run by a Managing Board, assisted by a Scientific Advisory Panel and supported by Associate Members. Furthermore, is organised in a smooth, non-bureaucratic manner allowing members to focus on a range of subjects, to react promptly to problems in the field, and to communicate efficiently within the professional community. Task Groups are international working groups aimed at furthering interdisciplinary research in major areas of environmental engineering. List of the groups: International Waste Working Group – IWWG The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) is a registered not-for-profit international waste organisation founded in 2002 to serve as a forum for the scientific and professional"
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"Longus colli muscle The Longus colli muscle (Latin for \"long muscle of the neck\") is a muscle of the human body. The Longus colli is situated on the anterior surface of the vertebral column, between the atlas and the third thoracic vertebra. It is broad in the middle, narrow and pointed at either end, and consists of three portions, a superior oblique, an inferior oblique, and a vertical. It is commonly injured in rear end whiplash injuries, usually resulting from a car crash. This muscle is in front of the spine and is thought by some scientists that it may cause some whiplash patients to have an unnatural lack of curvature in the patients' neck. Acute calcific tendinitis of the longus colli muscle can occur. This presents with acute onset of neck pain, stiffness, dysphagia and odynophagia, and must be distinguished from retropharyngeal abscess and other sinister conditions. Imaging diagnosis is by CT or MRI, demonstrating calcification in the muscle in addition to retropharyngeal oedema. Treatment is supportive, with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Longus colli muscle The Longus colli muscle (Latin for \"long muscle of the neck\") is a muscle of the human body. The Longus colli is situated on the"
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"Torrentfish The torrentfish (\"Cheimarrichthys fosteri\") is an amphidromous freshwater fish that is endemic to New Zealand. Torrentfish are well adapted to life in shallow, fast-flowing riffles and rapids. They grow to a maximum of in total length, but more commonly reach . Torrentfish are stocky, with a flattened underside, arched back and a broad, downward-tapering head with eyes set high. The lower jaw is very undercut and is surrounded by a fleshy upper lip – an adaptation for picking invertebrates off the surface of stones. The fins are very robust. The pectoral fins are very large and triangular, angled so that water flowing over them presses the fish against the riverbed, helping them to stay in position in fast-flowing water. The pelvic fins are set underneath the head. The dorsal and anal fins have very long bases, the dorsal fin extending for nearly half of the body length. The tail fin is short and truncated or slightly forked, suited to sudden burst swimming rather than sustained swimming. All torrentfish have a similar pattern of five dark stripes on a lighter background. There are three stripes on the body, generally angled downwards towards the head, with a fourth stripe vertically at the base of the tail and a fifth passing through the eyes and angling downwards towards the base of the pectoral fin. Their colouration is either dark grey on a lighter grey background, or dark brown on a lighter brown background, changing according to the surroundings of the fish. This colour pattern camouflages the torrentfish and help it to blend in with its stony habitat. Torrentfish are primarily found in shallow, fast-flowing riffles and rapids. They spend little time actively swimming against the rapids, living instead amongst and beneath loose gravels and cobbles. They emerge from the rapids at night to feed. Torrentfish are solitary and benthic, but may be found in high densities where there is a large population. Because part of their life cycle is spent in the sea, they are found in higher numbers near the coast. Torrentfish are mainly found in gravelly rivers, particularly braided rivers with wide, open channels. They favour rivers with highly unstable substrates, as the regular movement of the gravels maintains open gaps around and underneath the stones where the torrentfish can take refuge from fast water. Although they are strong swimmers, they are poor climbers and are only found far inland if the gradient is low and there are no barriers. Torrentfish are amphidromous: the fry go to sea after hatching, and return as juveniles to fresh water where they grow to adulthood. Female torrentfish are found further upstream than males, up to 235 km from the sea, with a large area of overlap. Females migrate downstream over summer and autumn when ready to lay eggs, and return upstream once spent. It is likely that they spawn in the lower reaches of waterways. Fry hatch and migrate to sea in late summer and autumn, returning a short time later in late autumn and winter. Because they have to spend time at sea, torrentfish are unable to form landlocked populations like some other New Zealand native fishes. The torrentfish is related to the blue cod, an obligate marine fish, and is one of only two New Zealand freshwater fish with local marine origins. All of the other New Zealand freshwater species have Australian freshwater ancestors which arrived in New Zealand via dispersal through the sea. The torrentfish is the only member of both its genus and its family. In 2014 the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified the torrentfish as \"At Risk: Declining\" with the qualifier \"C – very large population and low to high ongoing or predicted decline\". Also in 2014 the IUCN rated the torrentfish as \"Vulnerable\". Torrentfish require a specialised habitat with cool, highly oxygenated, fast-flowing water, and so are threatened by water being taken for irrigation, water pollution, and climate change. River sedimentation is also a threat, as torrentfish need to live amongst loose gravels and are less common in waterways with compacted substrate. Torrentfish The torrentfish (\"Cheimarrichthys fosteri\") is an amphidromous freshwater fish that is endemic to New Zealand. Torrentfish are well adapted to life in shallow,"
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"Hala Misrati Hala Misrati () is a Libyan writer, television anchor and journalist. She came to wide prominence around the Arab world during the Libyan Civil War, during which she was considered to be acting as the mouthpiece for the Gaddafi government. Hala Misrati was born in Tripoli; she obtained a BA in Law from Al Fateh University in 2003. She published a collection of short stories in 2007 entitled \"The moon has another face\", which a review from Middle-East-Online.com praised her \"humane honesty\", and described her as someone who \"is angry like a child about the lies of others.\". She began working in television in 2008. On 24 April 2009, the quasi-independent al-Libiyya satellite television channel interview show \"Ain Qurb\" (\"Up Close\") was abruptly interrupted when its signal was replaced by the one from the state-run al-Jamahiriya channel. According to the WikiLeaks United States diplomatic cables leak, the show host Hala Misrati, who was hardball-style interviewing senior Revolutionary Committees member Mustafa Zaidi, was questioned by state security officers who entered the studio after the cut. On 29 April, Misrati was interviewed in the Oea newspaper, where she downplayed the interruption of her program, saying that the individuals who questioned her were not security officers, and that their questions were benign. She blamed differences of opinion between her guest Mustafa Zaidi and other Revolutionary Committees members for the crisis, and criticized the strictures placed on journalists in Libya by reactionary regime figures. Misrati's pro-Gaddafi stance made her a famous TV personality during the Libyan Civil War. Video clips of her mistakes and loyalty to Gaddafi were widely viewed on YouTube. In one famous example, Hala Misrati claimed that Muslims could not accept the UN's move to \"adopt\" the draft resolution authorizing NATO airstrikes over Libya because Islam prohibits adoption – of children. In her last broadcast– a day before Libyan State TV was taken over by the Libyan rebels– Misrati brandished a pistol and vowed \"You [the Libyan rebels] won't take the channel, Tripoli, or Libya! I will protect my colleagues at the [Libyan State TV] channel…we are willing to become martyrs\" adding \"with this weapon I either kill or die today!\". On 22 August 2011, the rebels stormed the headquarters of Libyan State TV and captured Misrati. She was arrested when she was driving through Tripoli, and was taken to an office building for questioning. An armed mob of rebels tried to storm the office where she was, and they had to be dispersed by a rebel officer by firing his gun through the ceiling. The next day, Misrati appeared on a video arguing with her captors, even when they pointed their automatic rifles at her. She also appeared veiled (when she usually don't wear veil when she appeared on TV) on 19 February 2012 in another brief video, denying the media reports of her assassination, saying \"I'm still alive, and I am still among the rebels. I was not killed, was not treated badly,\" On February 2012, Hala Misrati was released in Tripoli, where she had been jailed. In an interview with the Libyan resistance radio, she declared that the armed militias were controlling the country, and not the National Transitional Council and that the pro-Gaddafi resistance was still fighting. Finally. she revealed that the Gaddafi government forces had 23 battalions during the war, while the rebels had more than 100. Hala Misrati Hala Misrati () is a Libyan writer, television anchor and journalist. She came to wide prominence around the Arab world during the Libyan Civil War, during which she was considered to be acting as the"
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"Smail Morabit Smail Morabit (born 5 July 1988 in Forbach) is a French-Moroccan football player, who plays for SV Elversberg. Morabit began his career with Union Sportive Forbach and signed in summer 2007 for German club SF Köllerbach. After one season with SF Köllerbach, in which he scored 7 goals in 26 matches, Morabit signed a two years contract with Eintracht Braunschweig on 21 August 2008. After two years, he left Eintracht Braunschweig on 30 June 2010. Morabit then signed a contract with CS Fola Esch of the Luxembourg National Division. However, after only one week and without playing any matches for Fola Esch, Morabit terminated his contract. As his reason, he later stated to have been disappointed by the lack of professionalism in football in Luxembourg. Smail Morabit Smail Morabit (born 5 July 1988 in Forbach) is a French-Moroccan football player, who plays for SV Elversberg. Morabit began his career with Union Sportive Forbach and signed in summer 2007 for German club SF Köllerbach. After one season with SF Köllerbach, in which he scored 7 goals in 26 matches, Morabit signed a two years contract with Eintracht Braunschweig on 21 August 2008. After two years, he left Eintracht Braunschweig"
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"Garry MacDonald Garry MacDonald is an English retired footballer who played for five clubs in the Football League. After making over 50 league appearances for Middlesbrough he moved to Carlisle United in 1984-85. However, he soon moved on to Darlington where he managed 162 league appearances (35 goals), and also scored a crucial goal for them in their 1984-85 FA Cup tie victory over Middlesbrough. Following his time at Darlington he was transferred to Stockport County in 1989/90, although he only made a single league appearance for them. He returned to the North East with Hartlepool United and made 18 league appearances with them until he finished his Football League career in 1990-91. His last match for Hartlepool was in October 1990 against York City, and after Hartlepool he moved into non-league football with South Bank F.C.. Garry MacDonald Garry MacDonald is an English retired footballer who played for five clubs in the Football League. After making over 50 league appearances for Middlesbrough he moved to Carlisle United in 1984-85. However, he soon moved on to Darlington where he managed 162 league appearances (35 goals), and also scored a crucial goal for them in their 1984-85 FA Cup tie victory"
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"Red Dirt Road Red Dirt Road is the eighth studio album for country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2003 on Arista Nashville. Certified platinum for sales of one million copies in the U.S., the album produced three top ten singles: \"Red Dirt Road\" (#1 on the Hot Country Songs chart), \"You Can't Take the Honky-Tonk out of the Girl\" (#3) and \"That's What She Gets for Lovin' Me\" (#6). \"I knew we were going to call this album \"Red Dirt Road\" before the first song was even picked,\" said Ronnie Dunn. \"I wanted that thread, that growing up in rural America and all the universal touchstones we all go through—that first beer, wrecking my first car two weeks after I got it, being taken to a revival by my cousins who lived a few miles farther down that road. That road ran through every major event in my young life… and who would think a kid growing up like that, going to Bible college, would end up here? But that's the power of life and roots and dreams—it can.\" As listed in liner notes. Horns performed by Jeff Coffin, Jim Horn, Samuel Levine, and Steve Patrick, and arranged by Jim Horn. Red Dirt Road Red Dirt Road is the eighth studio album for country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2003 on Arista Nashville. Certified platinum for sales of one million copies in the U.S., the album produced three top ten singles: \"Red Dirt Road\" (#1 on the Hot Country Songs chart), \"You Can't Take the Honky-Tonk out of the Girl\" (#3) and \"That's What She Gets for Lovin' Me\" (#6). \"I knew we were going to call this album \"Red Dirt Road\" before the first song was even picked,\" said Ronnie Dunn. \"I wanted that thread, that growing"
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"Dorothea of Saxony Dorothea of Saxony (; 4 October 1563 in Dresden – 13 February 1587 in Wolfenbüttel) was a Saxon princess from the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Dorothea was born 4 October 1563, the daughter of the Elector Augustus of Saxony (1526-1586) and his wife Anna (1532-1585), daughter of King Christian III of Denmark. Of the four 15 children from the marriage of her parents, only four survived their father; Dorothea among them. On 26 September 1585 in Wolfenbüttel, the twenty-two-year-old Dorothea married the future Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1564-1613), who was one year her junior. At the time, her mother Anna was seriously ill and Dorothea had \"felt very badly and cried pitifully\" when she said farewell. The marriage would consolidate a Protestant alliance of German princes, led by Count Palatine John Casimir of Simmern, who had married Dorothea's sister Elizabeth in 1570. Unfortunately, the marriage would be short-lived as Dorothea would die in childbirth aged 23 on 13 February 1587. Henry remarried a few years later on 19 April 1590. By his second wife, Elizabeth of Denmark, Henry had ten more children, one of whom was named Dorothea. From her marriage to Henry Julius Dorothea had one daughter: Dorothea of Saxony Dorothea of Saxony (; 4 October 1563 in Dresden – 13 February 1587 in Wolfenbüttel) was a Saxon princess from the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Dorothea was born 4 October 1563, the daughter of the Elector Augustus of Saxony (1526-1586) and his wife Anna (1532-1585), daughter of King Christian III of Denmark. Of the four 15 children from the marriage of her parents, only four survived their father; Dorothea among them. On 26 September 1585 in Wolfenbüttel, the twenty-two-year-old Dorothea married the future Duke Henry"
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"Societal racism Societal racism, or structural racism, is the formalization of a set of institutional, historical, cultural, and interpersonal practices within a society that more often than not puts one social or ethnic group in a better position to succeed and at the same time disadvantages other groups in a consistent and constant matter that disparities develop between the groups over a period of time. Societal racism has also been called structural racism, because, according to Carl E. James, society is structured in a way that excludes substantial numbers of people from minority backgrounds from taking part in social institutions. = Background & Importance = According to Walter R. Allen, racism can be categorized into five types: Structural Racism is harder to detect because it requires data to be examined over time to determine how the set of institutional, historical, cultural, and interpersonal practices maintain racial inequalities over a period of time. However, structural racism is the most prevalent form of racism because of how it pervades every level of society by incorporating the institutional, historical, cultural, and interpersonal practices within a society that perpetuate racial inequalities therefore evaluating society as a whole. The same facts that make structural racism the most prevalent in society make it difficult to analyze and a poor choice when looking at an individual organization because it needs to analyze every level of a society not just a certain organization. The decisive factors for if structural racism is active in a society is if there are racial inequalities present in wealth, power, education, healthcare, and opportunities. = In the United States = George M. Fredrickson has written that societal racism is deeply embedded in American culture and that in the 18th century, societal racism had already emerged with the purpose of maintaining a white-dominated society. and that \"societal racism does not require an ideology to sustain it so long as it was taken for granted\". When looking specifically at structural racism within the United States of America it is the formalization of practices that frequently puts whites, or Caucasians, in a position of advantage while at the same time being consistently detrimental to people of color, such as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Asians, and Middle Easterners. This position of advantage often entails: more opportunities to hold positions of power; privilege, white privilege; and superior treatment by institutions. This results in racial inequalities between whites and other ethnic groups which often manifest as issues of poverty or health disparities between the groups. Although structural racism often manifest as poverty or healthcare disparities it actually includes the whole structure of white supremacy that pervades the United States including cultural,politics, historical, and socioeconomic parts of society; therefore one can see that structural racism exists within and around every level of society and is what allows for the formalization of structural racism by maintaining it across all levels of a society. The analysis of poverty levels across different ethnic groups can give an indication of structural racism. To start one must look at the current poverty level in each race group and then the trends over a period a time. The 2017 poverty guideline for the contiguous United States for a household of 3 is $20,460.00 according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. . A household size of three was chosen since the average size in the United States is about three. Using the poverty guideline for a household size of three from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a baseline to compare incomes by household in each ethnic group, one can see the trends and compare the groups. Based on the 2017 U.S. census data and the poverty guideline roughly 13.4% of households who identify as white only make at or below the poverty level and about 20.3% make double or less than double the poverty limit; for those households who identify as black about 26.8% are at or below the poverty line and about 26.9% make double or less than double the poverty limit; for the households who identify as Asian about 12.6% are at or below the poverty line and about 15.1% make double or less than double the poverty limit; and for the households that identify as Hispanic about 18.1% are at or below the poverty line and about 26.2% make double or less than double the poverty limit. Compared to households who identify as white those who identify as Black or Hispanic have higher rates of poverty. The households who identify as Asian actually have lower rates of poverty whether it is due to higher education here or immigrating already educated and ready to work but one thing is certain this contributes to the model minority stereotype that comes with, bringing along a whole new set of concepts not always good and causes more distance between Asians and other ethnic groups. Regardless of what the difference is between the Asian household sand the others the disparities between the others is clear. A little more than twice the percentage of Black households are impoverished compared to white households and Hispanic households are about five percent more likely to at or below the poverty line. Both Hispanic and Black households have about a six percent amount of households that make less than or double the poverty line compared to white households. As expected these differences in also translate when considering households of each ethnic group that bring in six figures or more. Still based off of the 2017 U.S. census data the percentage households that identify as white alone who have over six figure incomes is 32.9%; only 16.1% of households that identify as Black have six figure incomes; 41.7% of households that identify as Asian have six figure incomes; and the percentage of Hispanic households that have six figure incomes or more is 19.8%. Once again the same trend emerges here as with the poverty lines. There are disparities between the white households and the Black and Hispanic households. There are more than twice the percentage of Black households with six figure incomes compared to white households;on the other hand Hispanic households have 13% lower amount of households with six figure incomes comparatively. This shows how extensive the wealth gap is between the ethnic groups because they have more impoverished and less wealthy households. The wealth gap between ethnic groups has been present for awhile and can be seen over time as median income in the following figure from the U.S. Census website. This figure shows that even though as a whole every group got wealthier, the gap between the ethnic groups has stayed relatively the same or slightly grown. This is one of the key concepts of structural racism, there are poverty inequalities that have persisted for decades. Poverty leads to health issues, less higher education, more high school dropouts, more teenage pregnancy, and less opportunities. Therefore a large part of structural racism has to do with perpetuating a cycle of poverty onto other ethnic groups which makes it substantially harder for them to get to same point or work there way up as a white person in America. This is because the impoverished start with less and because it has been a cycle of poverty most ethnic families do not have property, savings, or valuables to pass on, which just perpetuates the cycle further. It should be noted that these comparisons were not intended to ostracize,exclude, or lump any ethnic groups; there was not current data on Pacific Islander,Native American, or Middle Easterners in the U.S. Census Bureau study that was used. As noted above the cycle of poverty that structural racism imposes on minorities has adverse effects on their overall health, among other things. Health inequities can",
"with perpetuating a cycle of poverty onto other ethnic groups which makes it substantially harder for them to get to same point or work there way up as a white person in America. This is because the impoverished start with less and because it has been a cycle of poverty most ethnic families do not have property, savings, or valuables to pass on, which just perpetuates the cycle further. It should be noted that these comparisons were not intended to ostracize,exclude, or lump any ethnic groups; there was not current data on Pacific Islander,Native American, or Middle Easterners in the U.S. Census Bureau study that was used. As noted above the cycle of poverty that structural racism imposes on minorities has adverse effects on their overall health, among other things. Health inequities can manifest as disparities in several aspects of health such as obesity, heart disease, life span, infant mortality, sexual education, exercise, drug use, and cancer. Furthermore, racism itself is thought to have a negative impact on both mental and physical health. According to a paper that analyzed published research, on PubMed from the years 2005-2007, on the connection between discrimination and health there is an inverse relationship between the two; furthermore, the pattern is becoming more apparent across a greater variety of issues and data. The fact that a pattern has emerged from the study of this published research data shows that these health inequities are being maintained and reinforced by structural racism. Although this study relies on data from 2005-2007 to support it and show the pattern,this pattern was noticed as far back as 1985 and since then healthcare has come an even longer way. According to the 1985 Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in general Americans were getting healthier and had increased longevity but there is a persisting inequality between Blacks and other minority groups in the rate of death and illness contrasting to the overall population; furthermore, the report notes that this inequality has been around for more than a generation at this point or since better, more factual federal records have been kept. This is definitive proof that the federal government noticed these racial inequalities in health long before the 2005-2007 study of research data that revealed a pattern. More importantly it shows structural racism has maintained these health inequalities across decades even though the in general Americans have become more healthy and have increased lifespans. Based on the studies they reviewed it became apparent that regardless of socioeconomic status there are racial inequalities in health were present between minority groups for several health issues such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and obesity. This shows the health inequities caused by structural racism can be alleviated by increasing socioeconomic status but they still persist at all levels, showing the overarching power and cycle that structural racism submits minorities too. In addition, there is data that supports the fact that as health care has advanced worldwide overall there are more increases in health inequalities between races. One such study that supports this is The Progress Toward the Healthy People 2010 Goals and Objectives which is a review, done by members of the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Morehouse School of Medicine, that explores progress towards improving the overall health quality and longevity of Americans and the health disparities between ethnic groups. To accomplish this they used a system of 31 measures to analyze the progress and disparities; which consisted of 10 leading health indicators (LHI), created by the Department of Health and Human Services, with a few objectives each for twenty two total and the remaining measures were formulated by the group who did the review. The ten leading health indicators are: Physical activity, overweight and obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, environmental quality, immunization, and access to healthcare; the group who did the review supplemented the leading health indicators with 7 more objectives and 2 more measures, infant mortality and life expectancy to give 31 in total. They used these measures to track the disparities be tween Asians, Hispanic or Latino, Black Non-Hispanics, white non-Hispanic, American Indian or Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders; However it is important to note that data is not available for every ethnic group for all 31 measures. However using the available data for the objectives they have more than one time period on they found 6 objectives showed a decrease in disparity between ethnic groups and the national average while they found 18 disparity increases across 11 objectives. This confirms that even as healthcare is advancing and new scientific discoveries are being made overall the disparities between ethnic groups are increasing. This is a trend that was noticed in the 1985 report and has continued through the time worsening its effects and contributing to greater health inequalities. Therefore it can be said that structural racism acts in such a way that it actively hinders the health and longevity of minorities. = Relationship to agency = Structure and agency are opposites. Agency is the idea that a person's life outcomes are due entirely, or significantly influenced by their own individual efforts. Social structure is the idea that life outcomes are due entirely, or significantly influenced by the individual's race, class, gender, social status, inherited wealth, legal situation, and many other factors that are outside the individual's control. A society, even a \"colorblind\" society, can be structured in a way that perpetuates racism and racial inequality even if its individual members do not hold bigoted views about members of other racial groups. Society can still effectively exclude racially disadvantaged people from decision-making or make choices that have a disparate impact on them. =References= Societal racism Societal racism, or structural racism, is the formalization of a set of institutional, historical, cultural, and interpersonal practices within a society that more often than not puts one social or ethnic group in a better position to succeed and at the same time disadvantages other groups in a consistent and constant matter that disparities develop"
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"Line group A line group is a mathematical way of describing symmetries associated with moving along a line. These symmetries include repeating along that line, making that line a one-dimensional lattice. However, line groups may have more than one dimension, and they may involve those dimensions in its isometries or symmetry transformations. One constructs a line group by taking a point group in the full dimensions of the space, and then adding translations or offsets along the line to each of the point group's elements, in the fashion of constructing a space group. These offsets include the repeats, and a fraction of the repeat, one fraction for each element. For convenience, the fractions are scaled to the size of the repeat; they are thus within the line's unit cell segment. There are 2 one-dimensional line groups. They are the infinite limits of the discrete two-dimensional point groups C and D: There are 7 frieze groups, which involve reflections along the line, reflections perpendicular to the line, and 180° rotations in the two dimensions. There are 13 infinite families of three-dimensional line groups, derived from the 7 infinite families of axial three-dimensional point groups. As with space groups in general, line groups with the same point group can have different patterns of offsets. Each of the families is based on a group of rotations around the axis with order \"n\". The groups are listed in Hermann-Mauguin notation, and for the point groups, Schönflies notation. There appears to be no comparable notation for the line groups. These groups can also be interpreted as patterns of wallpaper groups wrapped around a cylinder \"n\" times and infinitely repeating along the cylinder's axis, much like the three-dimensional point groups and the frieze groups. A table of these groups: The offset types are: Note that the wallpaper groups pm, pg, cm, and pmg appear twice. Each appearance has a different orientation relative to the line-group axis; reflection parallel (h) or perpendicular (v). The other groups have no such orientation: p1, p2, pmm, pgg, cmm. If the point group is constrained to be a crystallographic point group, a symmetry of some three-dimensional lattice, then the resulting line group is called a rod group. There are 75 rod groups. Going to the continuum limit, with \"n\" to ∞, the possible point groups become C, C, C, D, and D, and the line groups have the appropriate possible offsets, with the exception of zigzag. The groups C(\"q\") and D(\"q\") express the symmetries of helical objects. C(\"q\") is for |\"q\"| helices oriented in the same direction, while D(\"q\") is for |\"q\"| unoriented helices and 2|\"q\"|, helices with alternating orientations. Reversing the sign of \"q\" creates a mirror image, reversing the helices' chirality or handedness. The helices may have their own internal repeat lengths; \"n\" becomes the number of turns necessary to produce an integer number of internal repeats. But if the helix's coiling and internal repeating are incommensurable (ratio not a rational number), then \"n\" is effectively ∞. Nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, are well known for their helical symmetry. Nucleic acids have a well-defined direction, giving single strands C(1). Double strands have opposite directions and are on opposite sides of the helix axis, giving them D(1). Line group A line group is a mathematical way of describing symmetries associated with moving along a line. These symmetries include repeating along that line, making that line a one-dimensional lattice. However, line groups may have more than one dimension, and they may involve those dimensions in its isometries or symmetry transformations. One constructs a line group by taking a point group in"
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"Dominican amber Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic. Resin from the extinct tree \"Hymenaea protera\" is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics. Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil inclusions. This has enabled the detailed reconstruction of the ecosystem of a long-vanished tropical forest. A study in the early 1990s returned a date up to 40 million years old. However, according to Poinar, Dominican amber dates from Oligocene to Miocene, thus about 25 million years old. The oldest, and hardest of this amber comes from the mountain region north of Santiago. The \"La Cumbre\", \"La Toca\", \"Palo Quemado\", \"La Bucara\", and \"Los Cacaos\" mining sites in the \"Cordillera Septentrional\" not far from Santiago. Amber has also been found in the south-eastern \"Bayaguana\"/\"Sabana de la Mar\" area. There is also subfossil \"copal\" found in the Cotui deposits with an age of less than 280 years. There are three main sites in the Dominican Republic where amber is found: \"La Cordillera Septentrional\", in the north, and \"Bayaguana\" and \"Sabana de la Mar\", in the east. In the northern area, the amber-bearing unit is formed of clastic rocks, washed down with sandstone fragments and other sediments that accumulated in a deltaic environment, even in water of some depth. In the eastern area, the amber is found in a sediment formation of organic-rich laminated sand, sandy clay, intercalated lignite, and as well as some solvated beds of gravel and calcarenite. Both areas seem to have been part of the same sedimentary basin but were later disrupted by movements along major faults. Dominican amber, especially Dominican blue amber, is mined through bell pitting, which is extremely dangerous. The bell pit is basically a foxhole dug with whatever tools are available. Machetes do the start, some shovels, picks and hammers may participate eventually. The pit itself goes as deep or safe as possible, sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, but never level. It snakes into hill sides, drops away, joins up with others, goes straight up and pops out elsewhere. 'Foxhole' applies indeed: rarely are the pits large enough to stand in, and then only at the entrance. Miners crawl around on their knees using short-handled picks, shovels and machetes. There are little to no safety measures. A pillar or so may hold back the ceiling from time to time but only if the area has previously collapsed. Candles are the only source of light. Humidity inside the mines is at 100%. Since the holes are situated high on mountainsides and deep inside said mountains, the temperature is cool and bearable, but after several hours the air becomes stale. During rain the mines are forced to close. The holes fill up quickly with water, and there is little point in pumping it out again (although sometimes this is done) because the unsecured walls may crumble. Dominican amber can be found in many colors, besides the obvious amber. Yellow and honey colored are fairly common. There is also red and green in smaller quantities and the rare blue amber (fluorescent). The blue amber reportedly is found mostly in Palo Quemado mine south from La Cumbre. The \"Museo del Ambar Dominicano\", in Puerto Plata, as well as the \"Amber World Museum\" in Santo Domingo have collections of amber specimens. Numerous organisms have been described from amber specimens including: Dominican amber Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic. Resin from the extinct tree \"Hymenaea protera\" is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found"
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"Sexual revolution The sexual revolution, also known as a time of sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the United States and subsequently, the wider world, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships (primarily marriage). The normalization of contraception and the pill, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, and alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed. The term \"sexual revolution\" has been used since at least the late 1920s. Some early commentators believed the period of 1960–1980 was in fact the second such revolution in America, with the first during the Roaring Twenties after World War I. Indicators of non-traditional sexual behavior (e.g., gonorrhea incidence, births out of wedlock, and births to teenagers) began to rise dramatically in the mid to late 1950s. It brought about profound shifts in attitudes toward women's sexuality, homosexuality, pre-marital sexuality, and the freedom of sexual expression. Psychologists and scientists such as Wilhelm Reich and Alfred Kinsey influenced the changes. As well, changing mores were both stimulated by and reflected in literature and films, and by the social movements of the period, including the counterculture, the women's movement, and the gay rights movement. The counterculture contributed to the awareness of radical cultural change that was the social matrix of the sexual revolution. The sexual revolution was initiated by those who shared a belief in the detrimental impact of sexual repression, a view that had previously been argued by Wilhelm Reich, D. H. Lawrence, Sigmund Freud, and the Surrealist movement. The counterculture wanted to explore the body and mind, and free the personal self from the moral and legal sexual confines of modern America, as well as from 1940s-50s morals in general. The sexual revolution of the 1960s was grew from a conviction that the erotic should be celebrated as a normal part of life and not repressed by family, industrialized sexual morality, religion and the state. The development of the birth control pill in 1960 gave women access to easy and reliable contraception. Another likely cause was a vast improvement in obstetrics, greatly reducing the number of women who died due to childbearing, thus increasing the life expectancy of women. A third, more indirect cause was the large number of children born in the 1940s and early 1950s all over the western world—the 'Baby Boom Generation'--many of whom would grow up in relatively prosperous and safe conditions, within a middle class on the rise and with better access to education and entertainment than ever before. By their demographic weight and their social and educational background they came to trigger a shift in society towards more permissive and informalized attitudes. The discovery of penicillin led to significant reductions in syphilis mortality, which, in turn, spurred an increase in non-traditional sex during the mid to late 1950s. There was an increase in sexual encounters between unmarried adults. Divorce rates were dramatically increasing and marriage rates were significantly decreasing in this time period. The number of unmarried Americans aged twenty to twenty-four more than doubled from 4.3 million in 1960 to 9.7 million in 1976. Men and women sought to reshape marriage by instilling new institutions of open marriage, mate swapping, swinging, and communal sex. Sigmund Freud of Vienna believed human behavior was motivated by unconscious drives, primarily by the libido or \"Sexual Energy\". Freud proposed to study how these unconscious drives were repressed and found expression through other cultural outlets. He called this therapy \"psychoanalysis\". While Freud's ideas were sometimes ignored or provoked resistance within Viennese society, his ideas soon entered the discussions and working methods of anthropologists, artists and writers all over Europe, and from the 1920s in the United States. His conception of a primary sexual drive that would not be ultimately curbed by law, education or standards of decorum spelled a serious challenge to Victorian prudishness, and his theory of psychosexual development proposed a model for the development of sexual orientations and desires; children emerged from the Oedipus complex, a sexual desire towards their parent of the opposite sex. The idea of children having their parents as their early sexual targets was particularly shocking to Victorian and early 20th century society. According to Freud's theory, in the earliest stage of a child's psychosexual development, the oral stage, the mother's breast became the formative source of all later erotic sensation. Much of his research remains widely contested by professionals in the field, though it has spurred critical developments in the humanities. Anarchist Freud scholars Otto Gross and Wilhelm Reich (who famously coined the phrase \"Sexual Revolution\") developed a sociology of sex in the 1910s to 1930s in which the animal-like competitive reproductive behavior was seen as a legacy of ancestral human evolution reflecting in every social relation, as per the freudian interpretation, and hence the liberation of sexual behavior a mean to social revolution. The publication of anthropologist Margaret Mead's \"Coming of Age in Samoa\" brought the sexual revolution to the public scene, as her thoughts concerning sexual freedom pervaded academia. Published in 1928, Mead's ethnography focused on the psychosexual development of Samoan adolescent children on the island of Samoa. She recorded that their adolescence was not in fact a time of \"storm and stress\" as Erikson's stages of development suggest, but that the sexual freedom experienced by the adolescents actually permitted them an easy transition from childhood to adulthood. Mead called for a change in suppression of sexuality in America, and her work directly resulted in the advancement of the sexual revolution in the 1930s. Mead's findings were later criticized by anthropologist Derek Freeman, who investigated her claims of promiscuity and conducted his own ethnography of Samoan society. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Alfred C. Kinsey published two surveys of modern sexual behaviour. In 1948 Alfred C. Kinsey and his co-workers, responding to a request by female students at Indiana University for more information on human sexual behavior, published the book \"Sexual behaviour in the Human Male\". They followed this five years later with \"Sexual behaviour in the Human Female\". These books began a revolution in social awareness of, and public attention given to, human sexuality. It is said that public morality severely restricted open discussion of sexuality as a human characteristic, and specific sexual practices, especially sexual behaviours that did not lead to procreation. Kinsey's books contained studies about controversial topics such as the frequency of homosexuality, and the sexuality of minors aged two weeks to fourteen years. Scientists working for Kinsey reported data which led to the conclusion that people are capable of sexual stimulation from birth. Furthermore, Kinsey's method of researching sexuality differs significantly from today's methods. Kinsey would watch his research subjects engage in sexual intercourse, sometimes engaging with his subjects as well. He would also encourage his research team to do the same, and encouraged them to engage in intercourse with him, too. These books laid the groundwork for Masters and Johnson's life work. A study called \"Human Sexual Response\" in 1966 revealed the nature and scope of the sexual practices of young Americans. In 1953, Chicago resident Hugh Hefner founded Playboy, a magazine which aimed to target males between the ages of 21 and 45. The coverpage",
"years. Scientists working for Kinsey reported data which led to the conclusion that people are capable of sexual stimulation from birth. Furthermore, Kinsey's method of researching sexuality differs significantly from today's methods. Kinsey would watch his research subjects engage in sexual intercourse, sometimes engaging with his subjects as well. He would also encourage his research team to do the same, and encouraged them to engage in intercourse with him, too. These books laid the groundwork for Masters and Johnson's life work. A study called \"Human Sexual Response\" in 1966 revealed the nature and scope of the sexual practices of young Americans. In 1953, Chicago resident Hugh Hefner founded Playboy, a magazine which aimed to target males between the ages of 21 and 45. The coverpage and nude centerfold in the first edition featured Marilyn Monroe, then a rising sex symbol. The pictures were taken when Monroe was an unknown struggling actress and she received $50 for the photo shoot. The photographs were published without her consent and she received no further compensation from Playboy. Featuring cartoons, interviews, short fiction, Hefner \"Playboy Philosophy\" and - most crucially - half-naked female \"Playmates\" posing provocatively, the magazine became immensely successful. In 1960, Hefner decided to expand his enterprise and opened the first Playboy Club in Chicago. The private clubs, which expanded in numbers throughout the 1960s, offered relaxation for its members, who were waited on by Playboy Bunnies. While Hefner claimed his company contributed to America's more liberal attitude towards sex, others believe he simply exploited it. In the United States in the years 1959 through 1966, bans on three books with explicit erotic content were challenged and overturned. This also occurred in the United Kingdom starting with the 1959 Obscene Publications Act and reaching a peak with the LCL court case. Prior to this time, a patchwork of regulations (as well as local customs and vigilante actions) governed what could and could not be published. For example, the United States Customs Service banned James Joyce's \"Ulysses\" by refusing to allow it to be imported into the United States. The Roman Catholic Church's \"Index Librorum Prohibitorum\" carried great weight among Catholics and amounted to an effective and instant boycott of any book appearing on it. Boston's Watch and Ward Society, a largely Protestant creation inspired by Anthony Comstock, made \"banned in Boston\" a national by-word. In 1959 Grove Press published an unexpurgated version of \"Lady Chatterley's Lover\" by D. H. Lawrence. The U.S. Post Office confiscated copies sent through the mail. Lawyer Charles Rembar sued the New York City Postmaster, and won in New York and then on federal appeal. Henry Miller's 1934 novel, \"Tropic of Cancer\", had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States. (, used book dealers asked $7,500 and more for copies of this edition.) In 1961 Grove Press issued a copy of the work, and dozens of booksellers were sued for selling it. The issue was ultimately settled by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1964 decision in \"Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein\". In 1963 Putnam published John Cleland's 1750 novel \"Fanny Hill\". This was the turning point, because Charles Rembar appealed a restraining order against it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. In \"Memoirs v. Massachusetts\", 383 U.S. 413, the court ruled that sex was \"a great and mysterious motive force in human life\", and that its expression in literature was protected by the First Amendment. Only books primarily appealing to \"prurient interest\" could be banned. In a famous phrase, the court said that obscenity is \"utterly without redeeming social importance\"—meaning that, conversely, any work with redeeming social importance was not obscene, even if it contained isolated passages that could \"deprave and corrupt\" some readers. This decision was especially significant, because, of the three books mentioned, \"Fanny Hill\" has by far the largest measure of content that seems to appeal to prurient interest, and the smallest measures of literary merit and \"redeeming social importance\". Whereas an expurgated version of \"Lady Chatterley's Lover\" had actually once been published, no expurgated version of \"Fanny Hill\" had ever been. By permitting the publication of \"Fanny Hill\", the U.S. Supreme Court set the bar for any ban so high that Rembar himself called the 1966 decision \"the end of obscenity\". The court decisions that legalised the publication of \"Fanny Hill\" had an even more important effect: freed from fears of legal action, nonfiction works about sex and sexuality started to appear more often. In 1962, Helen Gurley Brown published \"Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men, Careers, the Apartment, Diet, Fashion, Money and Men.\" The title itself would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. (In 1965 she went on to transform \"Cosmopolitan\" magazine into a life manual for young career women.) In 1969 Joan Garrity, identifying herself only as \"J.\", published \"The Way to Become the Sensuous Woman\", with information on exercises to improve the dexterity of one's tongue and how to have anal sex. The same year saw the appearance of Dr. David Reuben's book \"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)\". Despite the dignity of Reuben's medical credentials, this book was light-hearted in tone. In 1970 the Boston Women's Health Collective published \"Women and Their Bodies\" (which became far better known a year later under its subsequent title \"Our Bodies, Ourselves\"). Not an erotic treatise or sex manual, the book nevertheless included frank descriptions of sexuality, and contained illustrations that could have caused legal problems just a few years earlier. Alex Comfort's \"The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Love Making\" appeared in 1972. In later editions though, Comfort's libertinism was tamed as a response to AIDS. In 1975 Will McBride's \"Zeig Mal!\" (Show Me!), written with psychologist Helga Fleichhauer-Hardt for children and their parents, appeared in bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic. Appreciated by many parents for its frank depiction of pre-adolescents discovering and exploring their sexuality, it scandalised others and eventually it was pulled from circulation in the United States and some other countries. It was followed in 1989 by \"Zeig Mal Mehr!\" (\"Show Me More!\"). These books had a number of things in common. They were factual and, in fact, educational. They were available to a mainstream readership. They were stacked high on the tables of discount bookstores, they were book club selections, and their authors were guests on late-night talk shows. People were seen reading them in public. Earlier books such as \"What Every Girl Should Know\" (Margaret Sanger, 1920) and \"A Marriage Manual\" (Hannah and Abraham Stone, 1939) had broken the silence in which many people, women in particular, had grown up in. By the 1950s, in the United States, it had become rare for women to go into their wedding nights not knowing what to expect. But the open discussion of sex as pleasure, and descriptions of sexual practices and techniques, was revolutionary. There were practices which, perhaps, some had heard of. But many adults did not know for sure whether they were realities, or fantasies found only in pornographic books. The Kinsey report revealed that these practices were, at the very least, surprisingly frequent. These other books asserted, in the words of a 1980 book by Dr. Irene Kassorla, that \"Nice Girls Do — And Now You Can Too\". Television, the new mass communication device of the age, along with other media outlets such as radio and magazines, could broadcast information in a matter of seconds to millions of people, while only a few wealthy people",
"for women to go into their wedding nights not knowing what to expect. But the open discussion of sex as pleasure, and descriptions of sexual practices and techniques, was revolutionary. There were practices which, perhaps, some had heard of. But many adults did not know for sure whether they were realities, or fantasies found only in pornographic books. The Kinsey report revealed that these practices were, at the very least, surprisingly frequent. These other books asserted, in the words of a 1980 book by Dr. Irene Kassorla, that \"Nice Girls Do — And Now You Can Too\". Television, the new mass communication device of the age, along with other media outlets such as radio and magazines, could broadcast information in a matter of seconds to millions of people, while only a few wealthy people would control what millions could watch. Some modern historians have theorized that these media outlets helped to spread new ideas, which were considered radical. The struggles, skirmishes and rhetorical confrontations happening in the course of these movements also became directly visible to ordinary people in a way they would never have been before; the sense of involvement in a social and sexual shift happening in the present could rapidly win new converts and spread discussions afield. The counterculture of the 1960s was becoming well known through radio, newspapers, TV, books, music and other media by the end of the 1960s. In 1969, \"Blue Movie\", directed by Andy Warhol, was the first adult erotic film depicting explicit sex to receive wide theatrical release in the United States. The film helped inaugurate the \"porno chic\" phenomenon in modern American culture. According to Warhol, \"Blue Movie\" was a major influence in the making of \"Last Tango in Paris\", starring Marlon Brando, and released a few years after \"Blue Movie\" was made. In 1970, \"Mona the Virgin Nymph\" became the second film to gain wide release. The third, \"Deep Throat\", despite being rudimentary by the standards of mainstream filmmaking, achieved major box office success, following mentions by Johnny Carson on \"The Tonight Show\", and Bob Hope on television as well. In 1973, the far-more-accomplished (though still low-budget) \"The Devil in Miss Jones\" was the seventh-most-successful film of the year, and was well-received by major media, including a favorable review by film critic Roger Ebert. In 1976, \"The Opening of Misty Beethoven\" (based on the play \"Pygmalion\" by George Bernard Shaw) was released theatrically and is considered by Toni Bentley the \"crown jewel\" of \"the golden age of porn.\" By the mid-1970s and through the 1980s, newly won sexual freedoms were being exploited by big businesses looking to capitalize on an increasingly permissive society, with the advent of public and hardcore pornography. The Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century and the growth of science and technology, medicine and health care, resulted in better contraceptives being manufactured. Advances in the manufacture and production of rubber made possible the design and production of condoms that could be used by hundreds of millions of men and women to prevent pregnancy at little cost. Advances in chemistry, pharmacology, and biology, and human physiology led to the discovery and perfection of the first oral contraceptives, popularly known as \"the Pill.\" All these developments took place alongside and combined with an increase in world literacy and decline in religious observance. Old values such as the biblical notion of \"be fruitful and multiply\" were cast aside as people continued to feel alienated from the past and adopted the lifestyles of progressive modernizing cultures. Another contribution that helped bring about this modern revolution of sexual freedom were the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich, who took the philosophy of Karl Marx and similar philosophers. When speaking of sexual revolution, historians make a distinction between the first and the second sexual revolution. In the first sexual revolution (1870–1910), to caucasians, Victorian morality lost its universal appeal. However, it did not lead to the rise of a \"permissive society\". Exemplary for this period is the rise and differentiation in forms of regulating sexuality. \"No-fault\" unilateral divorce became legal and easier to obtain in many countries during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The women's movement redefined sexuality, not in terms of simply pleasing men but recognizing women's sexual satisfaction and sexual desire. \"The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm\" by Anne Koedt illustrates an understanding of a women's sexual anatomy, arguing against Freud's \"assumptions of women as inferior appendage to man, and her consequent social and psychological role.\" The women's movement was able to develop lesbian feminism, freedom from heterosexual act, and freedom from reproduction. Feminist Betty Friedan published the Feminine Mystique in 1963, concerning the many frustrations women had with their lives and with separate spheres which established a pattern of inequality. The Gay Rights Movement started when the Stonewall Riots of 1969 crystallized a broad grass-roots mobilization. New gay liberationist gave political meaning to \"coming out\" by extending the psychological-personal process into public life. During the 1950s the most feared thing of the homosexual culture was \"coming out\", the homosexual culture of the 1950s did everything they could to help keep their sexuality a secret from the public and everyone else in their lives, but Alfred Kinsey's research on homosexuality alleged that 39% of the unmarried male population had had at least one homosexual experience to orgasm between adolescence and old age. The \"coming out\" phenomenon helped mobilize people to live full-time as a homosexual, they no longer had to live in secret. They no longer had to sneak around and occasionally receive the sexual attention that they desire or force themselves into a heterosexual relationship in which they had no interest, and was full of lies. Brad Gooch wrote in the \"Golden Age of Promiscuity\" that the gay male community finally had reached a rich culture of \"easy sex\", sex without commitment, obligation or long-term relationships. Coinciding with second-wave feminism and the women's liberation movement initiated in the early 1960s, the sexual liberation movement was aided by feminist ideologues in their mutual struggle to challenge traditional ideas regarding female sexuality and queer sexuality. Elimination of undue favorable bias towards men and objectification of women as well as support for women's right to choose her sexual partners free of outside interference or judgement were three of the main goals associated with sexual liberation from the feminist perspective. Since during the early stages of feminism, women's liberation was often equated with sexual liberation rather than associated with it. Many feminist thinkers believed that assertion of the primacy of sexuality would be a major step towards the ultimate goal of women's liberation, thus women were urged to initiate sexual advances, enjoy sex and experiment with new forms of sexuality. The feminist movements insisted and focused on the sexual liberation for women, both physical and psychological. The pursuit of sexual pleasure for women was the core ideology, which subsequently was to set the foundation for female independence. Although whether or not sexual freedom should be a feminist issue is currently a much-debated topic, the feminist movement overtly defines itself as the movement for social, political, and economic equality of men and women. Feminist movements are also involved the fight against sexism and since sexism is a highly complex notion, it is difficult to separate the feminist critique toward sexism from its fight against sexual oppression. The feminist movement has helped create a social climate in which LGBT people and women are increasingly able to be open",
"movements insisted and focused on the sexual liberation for women, both physical and psychological. The pursuit of sexual pleasure for women was the core ideology, which subsequently was to set the foundation for female independence. Although whether or not sexual freedom should be a feminist issue is currently a much-debated topic, the feminist movement overtly defines itself as the movement for social, political, and economic equality of men and women. Feminist movements are also involved the fight against sexism and since sexism is a highly complex notion, it is difficult to separate the feminist critique toward sexism from its fight against sexual oppression. The feminist movement has helped create a social climate in which LGBT people and women are increasingly able to be open and free with their sexuality, which enabled a spiritual liberation of sorts with regards to sex. Rather than being forced to hide their sexual desires or feelings, women and LGBT people have gained and continue to gain increased freedom in this area. Consequently, the feminist movement to end sexual oppression has and continues to directly contribute to the sexual liberation movement. Nevertheless, among many feminists, the view soon became widely held that, thus far, the sexual freedoms gained in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, such as the decreasing emphasis on monogamy, had been largely gained by men at women's expense. In \"[Anticlimax (book)|[Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution]]\", Sheila Jeffreys asserted that the sexual revolution on men's terms contributed less to women's freedom than to their continued oppression, an assertion that has both commanded respect and attracted intense criticism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, feminist sex wars broke out due to disagreements on pornography, on prostitution, and on BDSM, as well as sexuality in general. As birth control became widely accessible, men and women began to have more choice in the matter of having children than ever before. The 1916 invention of thin, disposable latex condoms for men led to widespread affordable condoms by the 1930s; the demise of the Comstock laws in 1936 set the stage for promotion of available effective contraceptives such as the diaphragm and cervical cap; the 1960s introduction of the IUD and oral contraceptives for women gave a sense of freedom from barrier contraception. The opposition of Churches (e.g. \"Humanae vitae\") led to parallel movements of secularization and exile from religion. Women gained much greater access to birth control in the \"girls world\" decision in 1965, in the 1960s and 1970s the birth control movement advocated for the legalization of abortion and large scale education campaigns about contraception by governments. Influenced by and exposed to the revolution in America, the UK had a similar, though smaller experience. In the United Kingdom, the new generation growing up after World War II had grown tired of the rationing and austerity of the 1940s and 1950s and the Victorian values of their elders, so the 1960s were a time of rebellion against the fashions and social mores of the previous generation. An early inkling of changing attitudes came in 1960, when the government of the day tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Penguin Books for obscenity, for publishing the D. H. Lawrence novel \"Lady Chatterley's Lover\", which had been banned since the 1920s for what was considered racy content. The prosecution counsel Mervyn Griffith-Jones famously stood in front of the jury and asked, in his closing statement: \"Is it a book you would wish your wife or servants to read?\" When the case collapsed, the novel went on to become a bestseller, selling two million copies. The Pill became available free of charge on the National Health Service in the 1960s, at first restricted to married women, but in 1968 its availability was extended to all women. In 1967, laws prohibiting abortion and male homosexuality were repealed, although the age of consent for homosexual men was set at 21, in contrast to the heterosexual age of consent of 16. This is how it stayed until 1994, when the male homosexual age of consent was lowered to 18, and then equalised at 16 in 2001. Also in 2001, lesbian sex was recognised in British law for the first time ever, with an age of consent of 16. Beginning in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, a new culture of \"free love\" emerged, with thousands of young people becoming \"hippies\", inspired by Indian culture, who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex as part of ordinary life. This is part of a counterculture that continues to exist. By the 1970s, it was socially acceptable for colleges to permit co-ed housing. Free love continued in different forms throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s, but its more assertive manifestations ended abruptly (or at least disappeared from public view) in the mid-1980s when the public first became aware of AIDS, a deadly sexually-transmitted disease. Swedish filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman contributed to sexual liberation with sexually themed films that challenged conservative international standards. The 1951 film \"Hon dansade en sommar\" (\"She Danced One Summer AKA One Summer of Happiness\") (directed by Arne Mattsson) starring Ulla Jacobsson and Folke Sundquist was notable in this regard for depicting explicit nudity, including nude bathing in a lake. This film, as well as Bergman's \"Sommaren med Monika\" (\"The Summer with Monika\", 1951) and \"Tystnaden (The Silence\", 1963), caused an international uproar, not least in the United States, where the films were charged with violating standards of decency. Vilgot Sjöman's film \"I Am Curious (Yellow)\", also created waves of international outcry, but it was very popular in the United States. Another of his films, \"491\", highlighted homosexuality among other things. \"Kärlekens språk\" (\"The Language of Love\") was an informative documentary about sex and sexual techniques that featured the first real act of sex in a mainstream film, and inevitably it caused intense debate around the world. From these films the concept (or catchphrase) of \"Swedish sin\" (licentiousness and seductive nudity) developed, even though Swedish society in the 1950s was still fairly conservative regarding sex, and the international concept of Swedish sexuality was and is largely exaggerated. The image of \"hot love and cold people\" emerged. Sexual liberalism was seen as part of the modernization process that, by breaking down traditional borders, would lead to the emancipation of natural forces and desires. These films caused debate there as well. The films eventually progressed the public's attitude toward sex, especially in Sweden and other northern European countries, which today tend to be more sexually liberal than others. In Sweden and nearby countries at the time, these films, by virtue of being made by directors who had established themselves as leading names in their generation, helped delegitimize the idea of habitually demanding that films should avoid overtly sexual subject matter. It proved hard to question the seriousness of purpose of Bergman, Sjöman and others, and in their wake a consciously permissive and questioning attitude to sex, nudity and \"difficult\" subject matter in film - and on TV - became the new standard framework. Explicit sex on screen and frontal nudity of men and women on stage became acceptable in many Western countries, as the twentieth century drew towards its close. Special places of entertainment offering striptease and lap dancing proliferated, and limits to 'acceptable' dress in pop/rock music and at discotheques and live music festivals, especially open-air festivals ever since the flower-power generation and Woodstock (1969), became very vague, both among performers and in the audiences or attendee crowd. The rich use of crossdressing and androgynous attributes and clothes in rock and pop stage costumes and even",
"and in their wake a consciously permissive and questioning attitude to sex, nudity and \"difficult\" subject matter in film - and on TV - became the new standard framework. Explicit sex on screen and frontal nudity of men and women on stage became acceptable in many Western countries, as the twentieth century drew towards its close. Special places of entertainment offering striptease and lap dancing proliferated, and limits to 'acceptable' dress in pop/rock music and at discotheques and live music festivals, especially open-air festivals ever since the flower-power generation and Woodstock (1969), became very vague, both among performers and in the audiences or attendee crowd. The rich use of crossdressing and androgynous attributes and clothes in rock and pop stage costumes and even references to this in song lyrics, to express sexual, fashion or literary themes is also notable, from the Velvet Underground (in Lou Reed's lyrics) and the glam rock wave and onward. All of this persists in the early 21st century. In many Western countries, nudity is used as a part of artistic or erotic performance, such as in nude body painting, sex show, striptease, Neo-Burlesque, and in adult-only public events like Folsom Street Fair, Nudes-A-Poppin', Fantasy Fest, etc. Sexual character is closely linked with developments in technology, and the somewhat more open and commercial circulation of pornography was a new phenomenon at the time of the sexual revolution. Pornography operated as a form of \"cultural critique\" insofar as it transgresses societal conventions. Manuel Castells claims that the online communities, which emerged (from the 1980s) around early bulletin board systems originated from the ranks of those who had been part of the counterculture movements and alternative way of life emerging out of the sexual revolution. Lynn Hunt points out that early modern \"pornography\" (18th century) is marked by a \"preponderance of female narrators\", that the women were portrayed as independent, determined, financially successful (though not always socially successful and recognized) and scornful of the new ideals of female virtue and domesticity, and not objectifications of women's bodies as many view pornography today. The sexual revolution was not unprecedented in identifying sex as a site of political potential and social culture. It was suggested during the sexual revolution that the interchangeability of bodies within pornography had radical implications for gender differences and that they could lose their meaning or at least redefine the meaning of gender roles and norms. Porn had portrayed sexual activity honestly and bluntly in fiction, on stage and in movies. It could reinforce the crudest stereotypes of sex roles, standards of beauty, and power dynamics or educate about human desire. In 1971 \"Playboy\" stopped airbrushing pubic hair out of its centerfold picture spreads; this new addition caused the magazine to hit its all-time peak circulation of more than seven million copies in 1972 and men started having more choices when it came to magazines. In 1972 \"Deep Throat\" became a popular movie for heterosexual couples. The movie played all over America and was the first porn movie to earn a gross of a million dollars. The fact that pornography was less stigmatised by the end of the 1980s, and more mainstream movies depicted sexual intercourse as entertainment, was indicative of how normalised sexual revolution had become in society. Magazines depicting nudity, such as the popular \"Playboy\" and \"Penthouse\" magazines, won some acceptance as mainstream journals, in which public figures felt safe expressing their fantasies. Feminists have offered mixed responses to pornography. Some figures in the feminist movement, such as Andrea Dworkin, challenged the depiction of women as objects in these pornographic or \"urban men's\" magazines. Other feminists such as Betty Dodson went on to found the pro-sex feminist movement in response to anti-pornography campaigns. In India, an organization named Indians For Sexual Liberties is advocating the legalization of the porn business in India. The organization's founder, Laxman Singh, questioned the reasoning behind deeming as illegal the depiction of legal acts. Premarital sex, which had been heavily stigmatised for some time became more widely accepted during the sexual revolution. The increased availability of birth control (and the quasi-legalisation of abortion in some places) helped reduce the chance that pre-marital sex would result in unwanted children. By the mid-1970s the majority of newly married American couples had experienced sex before marriage. The central part of the sexual revolution was the development of relationships between unmarried adults, which resulted in earlier sexual experimentation reinforced by a later age of marriage. The counterculture and the new left were the source of this later age of marriage. Americans were attending colleges and rebelling against their parents' ideals, which caused them to marry later in age, if at all. This meant that on average, Americans were becoming more sexually experienced before they entered into monogamous relationships. The increasing divorce rate and the decreasing stigma attached to divorce during this era also contributed to sexual experimentation. By 1971, more than 75% of Americans thought that premarital sex was okay, a threefold increase from the 1950s, and the number of unmarried Americans aged twenty to twenty-four more than doubled from 1960 to 1976. Americans were becoming less and less interested in getting married and settling down and less interested in monogamous relationships. In 1971, 35% of the country said they thought marriage was obsolete. The idea of marriage being out-of-date came from the new development of casual sex between Americans. With the development of the birth control pill and the legalization of abortion in 1973, there was little threat of unwanted children out of wedlock. Also, during this time every sexually transmitted disease was treatable; there was no incurable bacterial STDs, no AIDS. Swinger clubs were organizing in places ranging from the informal suburban home to disco-sized emporiums that promised a smorgasbord of sexual possibilities and free mouthwash. In New York City in 1977, Larry Levenson opened Plato's Retreat it was probably the closest that heterosexual America has ever gotten to the sexual frenzy of gay bathhouses. The retreat was eventually shut down in 1985 because of the constant hassle from public health authorities. Politics in the United States has become intertwined with sexually related issues, called the \"politics of sex\". A differing view of abortion pitted pro-life activists against pro-choice activists. Women and men who lived with each other without marriage sought \"palimony\" equal to the alimony. Teenagers assumed their right to a sexual life with whomever they pleased, and bathers fought to be topless or nude at beaches. Fraenkel (1992) believes that the \"sexual revolution\", that the West supposedly experienced in the late 1960s, is indeed a misconception and that sex is not actually enjoyed freely, it is just observed in all the fields of culture; that is a kind of taboo behavior technically called \"repressive desublimation\". Among radical feminists, the view soon became widely held that, thus far, the sexual freedoms gained in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, such as the decreasing emphasis on monogamy, had been largely gained by men at women's expense. In \"\", Sheila Jeffreys asserted that the sexual revolution on men's terms contributed less to women's freedom than to their continued oppression, an assertion that has both commanded respect and attracted intense criticism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, feminist sex wars broke out due to disagreements on pornography, on prostitution, and on BDSM, as well as sexuality in general. Allyn argues that the sexual optimism of the 1960s waned",
"observed in all the fields of culture; that is a kind of taboo behavior technically called \"repressive desublimation\". Among radical feminists, the view soon became widely held that, thus far, the sexual freedoms gained in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, such as the decreasing emphasis on monogamy, had been largely gained by men at women's expense. In \"\", Sheila Jeffreys asserted that the sexual revolution on men's terms contributed less to women's freedom than to their continued oppression, an assertion that has both commanded respect and attracted intense criticism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, feminist sex wars broke out due to disagreements on pornography, on prostitution, and on BDSM, as well as sexuality in general. Allyn argues that the sexual optimism of the 1960s waned with the economic crises of the 1970s, the massive commercialization of sex, increasing reports of child exploitation, disillusionment with the counter-culture and the New Left, and a combined left-right backlash against sexual liberation as an ideal. The discovery of herpes escalated anxieties rapidly and set the stage for the nation's panicked response to AIDS. Although the rate of teenage sexual activity is hard to record, the prevalence of teenage pregnancy in developed nations such as Canada and the UK have seen a steady decline since the 1990s. For example, in 1991 there were 61.8 children born per 1,000 teenage girls in the United States. By 2013, this number had declined to 26.6 births per 1,000 teenage girls. Sexual revolution The sexual revolution, also known as a time of sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the United States and subsequently, the wider world, from the 1960s to"
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"Big Brother 4 (Bulgaria) Big Brother 4 was the fourth season of the reality show Big Brother in Bulgaria. It was aired on Nova Television and Nova+. The show launched on 22 September 2008, 20:00 h and continued for 3 months (12 weeks), ended on 14 December 2008, lasted for 84 Days - the shortest regular \"Big Brother\" season so far in Bulgaria (although \"Big Brother 3\" was just one day longer). Milen Tsvetkov was the host of Big Brother 4. The money prize was 300 000 leva, which was the highest in the history of Big Brother Bulgaria (winners from the previous three seasons won 200 000 leva each). Veneta Raykova (a former Housemate from VIP Brother 2), who was pregnant during the show, was the host of a new late talk-show called Little sister. Rumen Lukanov was the host of the interactive part of the show (voting). The show was aired at 20:00 h from Monday to Saturday (live shows are on Monday and Thursday), and after 22:30 on Sunday. Nova+ aired live footages at 10:00, 13:00, 16:00, 19:00 and 22:30. Repetitions of the episodes aired on Nova Television were broadcast at 18:00 the next day. The talk show Little sister was aired on Monday and Thursday at 23:45. Georgi Alurkov won with Natalia Mihaylova as the runner-up. From 22 June until 22 July auditions were held in the ten biggest cities in Bulgaria - Pleven, Veliko Tarnovo, Rousse, Shumen, Varna, Bourgas, Stara Zagora, Plovdiv, Blagoevgrad and Sofia. 13 955 candidates in total showed, 2700 of which were in Sofia. The third and final round of the auditions was held in Sofia from 20 July to 10 August, with 415 candidates. On 15 September, 10 of the Housemates were isolated in separate secret places. 10 women entered the House on 22 September. Originally, an eleventh Housemate - Neli was expected to enter the House. However, she lost consciousness before entering the show and was decided not to take part in Big Brother 4. Instead, Violeta entered the show the next day. 11 men entered the House on Day 4. On Day 10, one of them - Tsvetan, was sent into the women's part of the House, and one of the women - Irena, into the men's. Two new Housemates - Ventsislav and Denislav, entered the House on Day 53. Denislav was chosen by the viewers, and Ventsislav - by the female Housemates in the House. Angelina Angelova is from Plovdiv. She entered the House on Day 1 and left voluntarily on Day 15, just a few minutes after moving into the House. Danail Panchev is from Sofia. He entered the House on Day 4 and was ejected on Day 8, after a fight with Daniel. Daniel Delchev is from Sliven. He entered the House on Day 4 and was ejected on Day 8, after a fight with Danail. Daniela Kostova is from Sofia. She entered the House on Day 1 and finished third in the finale on Day 84. Denislav Minev is from Shumen. He entered the House on Day 53, after being chosen by the viewers. His girlfriend is the Bulgarian pop-folk singer Sonya Nemska, who was in the House for a few minutes during one of the Housemates' week task. He finished fourth in the finale on Day 84. Emilia Arabadzhieva is from Ruse. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the third evicted on Day 29. Filip Ralev from Sozopol entered the show on Day 4, posing as the mentally disabled man Toshko from Grudovo. When he entered the studio, the viewers and audience were not told about this, and they only learned the truth about Toshko when Big Brother called him in the Diary Room to confirm his secret mission: to fool all housemates into thinking he really has mental disabilities. He was the thirteenth evicted on Day 64. Georgi Alurkov is from Sofia. He entered the House on Day 4 and became a winner on Day 84. Irena Ivanova is from Burgas. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the second evicted on Day 22. Ivan Gyumishev is from Lom. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the seventh evicted on Day 39. Ivanina Koleva is from Haskovo. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the fifteenth evicted on Day 71. Jeni Chervenkova is from Shumen. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the ninth evicted on Day 50. Kamen Tonov is from Pleven. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the fifth evicted on Day 37. Konstantin Mihaylov is from Varna. He entered the show on Day 12 and was the first Housemate to live in the new House. He was the eleventh evicted on Day 57. Martin Ivanov is from Harmanli. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the fourteenth evicted on Day 67. Mila Petrova is from Shumen. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the fourth evicted on Day 36. She was the first blind Housemate in the history of Big Brother Bulgaria. Natalia Mihaylova is from Shumen. She entered the House on Day 1 and finished second in the finale on Day 84. Neli Hristova is from Plovdiv. She was supposed to enter the House on Day 1, but she lost consciousness just before entering the show. The producers and the medical team decided that it was better not to take part in the show, and became a reserve. However, she entered the House on Day 81 for one night with all ex-Housemates from the season. Petar Georgiev is from Plovdiv. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the first evicted on Day 22. Samie Dzheferova is from Ruse. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the seventeenth evicted on Day 78. Tanya Velkova is from Altimir. She entered the House on Day 1 and was the eighteenth evicted on Day 81 after receiving the least number of positive votes from the viewers. Tsvetan Hristov is from Varna. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the eighth evicted on Day 43. Umberto Dasilva is from Paris. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the tenth evicted on Day 50. Ventsislav Daskalov is from Plovdiv. He entered the House on Day 53, after he was chosen by the female Housemates in the House. He was the sixteen evicted on Day 74. Violeta Peneva is from Plovdiv. She entered the House on Day 2, instead of Neli. She was the twelfth evicted on Day 60. Vladimir Ivanov is from Dobrich. He entered the House on Day 4 and was the sixth evicted on Day 38. The first Housemate listed is nominated for two points, while the second Housemate is nominated for one point. The two or more Housemates with the most nomination points face the public vote to evict. On Day 81 all ex-Housemates from \"Big Brother 4\" entered the House for one night, including Neli, who was supposed to enter the show on Day 1. Meanwhile, the current Housemates moved to the airplane wrackage again. Originally, it was planned either \"Big Brother 4\" or \"VIP Brother 3\" to air in the beginning of 2008. However, the start of a new season has been delayed due to the competition for the building company. \"Big Brother 4\" was recorded in a new house near Sofia in the village of \"Novi khan\", as the old one has been destroyed. There was a secret room, two bathrooms and a shop. The total area of the House is 3000 km. There was a fireplace at the middle of the garden. There was the airplane wrackage, where the Housemates lived. A total of 70 cameras was following the new Housemates' every move. Big Brother 4 (Bulgaria) Big Brother 4 was the fourth season of the reality show Big Brother in Bulgaria. It was aired on Nova Television and Nova+. The show launched on 22 September 2008, 20:00 h and continued for 3 months (12 weeks), ended on 14 December 2008, lasted for 84 Days - the shortest regular \"Big Brother\" season so far in Bulgaria (although \"Big Brother 3\" was just one day longer). Milen Tsvetkov was the host of Big Brother 4. The money prize was 300 000 leva, which was the highest in the history of Big Brother Bulgaria"
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"The Happiest Millionaire The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 musical film starring Fred MacMurray and based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Costume Design by Bill Thomas. The musical song score is by Robert and Richard Sherman. The screenplay is by AJ Carothers based on the play that was based on the book \"My Philadelphia Father\" by Cordelia Drexel Biddle. This was the last film with personal involvement from Walt Disney, who died during its production. Costume Designer Bill Thomas, whose film credits passed the 200 mark in 1965, created more than 250 lavish costumes for the principal \"Millionaire\" players alone. More than 3000 complete outfits, valued at $250,000, were required for the entire production. The story begins in Autumn of 1916, and follows an Irish immigrant named John Lawless (Tommy Steele) as he applies for a butler position with eccentric Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (Fred MacMurray). Even though the family is a bit strange, Lawless soon learns that he fits right in. Mr. Biddle takes a liking to him immediately. For the rest of the film, Lawless serves as the narrator/commentator. Mr. Biddle busies himself with his Biddle Boxing and Bible School (located in his stable) and with his alligators in the conservatory. He is also anxious to get America into the War in Europe (World War I), despite the government's policy of neutrality. His wife, Cordelia (Greer Garson), stands quietly by, accepting his eccentricities with a sense of pride and class. Their two sons, Tony and Livingston (Paul Petersen and Eddie Hodges, respectively) are headed off to boarding school, never to be seen in the film again. Their daughter, Cordy (Lesley Ann Warren, in her film debut), is a tomboy with a mean right hook who was educated by private tutors and has had limited contact with conventional society. She is frustrated by her apparent inability to attract suitors and wants to see what is beyond the Biddle manor. Mr. Biddle reluctantly lets Cordy go to a boarding school as well (after some prodding from both Cordy and from his Aunt Mary (Gladys Cooper), where her roommate teaches her how to lure men with feminine wiles, known as \"Bye-Yum Pum Pum\". At a social dance hosted by her aunt and uncle, Cordy meets Angier Buchanan Duke (John Davidson, in his film debut) and they fall in love. He tells Cordy that he is fascinated with the new automobile and wants to head to Detroit, Michigan to make his fortune there, instead of taking over his family's tobacco business. That winter, Cordy comes back to her parents' home and tells them that she is engaged. At first, this is a difficult thing for Mr. Biddle to take. He does not want to give up his little girl. But, after meeting Angie and witnessing first-hand his Jiu Jitsu fighting skills, Mr. Biddle takes a liking to him and accepts the engagement. Then Cordy travels with Angie to New York City to meet his mother (Geraldine Page). Soon the Biddles and the Dukes are making arrangements for a very grand wedding. Constant condescending comments from Angie's mother anger Cordy. To make matters worse, their families' elaborate planning for the \"social event of the season\" (it is by now the spring of 1917), makes both Cordy and Angie feel pushed aside. The tension reaches a climax when Cordy learns that Angie has abandoned his plans for Detroit, and is instead taking his place in the family business, following his mother's wishes. Cordy angrily calls the wedding off, thinking of Angie as a mama's boy, and Angie storms out of the house. Both families are instantly in a tremendous state of upheaval. Mr. Biddle sends John Lawless to look after Angie. John finds Angie at the local tavern, contemplating what he will do next. During a rousing song-and-dance sequence, John tries to convince Angie to go back to Cordy. However, Angie is stubborn and thinks of other ways to deal with his problems, among other things saying that he wants to join the Foreign Legion. Angie unwittingly starts a bar fight (with a little help from John) and is hauled off to jail. The next morning, Mr. Biddle comes to bail Angie out. He tells Angie he has to forget about his own dreams and accept his place in the family business. His words have the desired effect, inspiring Angie to defy his mother and elope with Cordy and go to Detroit. Cordy, however, believes her father talked Angie into it, so to prove his sincerity, amid the cheering of the cell mates, Angie throws Cordy over his shoulder and carries her out of the jail house to start their new life together. (The short version of the film ends at this point.) After Mr. and Mrs. Biddle return home a delegation of Marines arrive to inform him he has been made a \"provisional captain\" in the Marine Corps; and is wanted immediately to go to Parris Island to help/continue training the recruits, now that America is finally entering the War. Mr. Biddle accepts with delight, and the hearty congratulations of his suddenly appearing Bible Boxing Class. Behind the final credits, a car is seen driving toward a city skyline (apparently Detroit) dominated by factories spewing smoke to blacken the sky over the city. The song \"Detroit\" contains the lyric \"F.O.B. Detroit\" (free on board). According to the Shermans, Walt Disney was walking down the hall of the studio animation building and overheard them singing the song. Walt, misinterpreting the phrase as \"S.O.B.\", immediately went into their office and scolded them for using such offensive language in a Disney movie. The Shermans explained Walt's misinterpretation and they all had a good laugh about it. The original cast soundtrack was released on Buena Vista Records in stereo (STER-5001) and mono (BV-5001) versions. A second cast recording with studio singers and orchestrations by Tutti Camarata appeared on Disneyland Records in stereo (STER-1303) and mono (DQ-1303). The cast soundtrack was re-released on CD in 2002 (60781-7), remastered from the original 8-track master tapes to reduce the heavy reverb from the original LP. It is currently available on iTunes. Diana Ross and the Supremes covered \"It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas\" for their planned album of Disney covers, but the tracks from that session were not released until the 1980s. The 1955 book \"My Philadelphia Father\" by Kyle Crichton laid the foundation for the story. Crichton adapted his book for the Broadway stage. The play, now called \"The Happiest Millionaire\", opened on Broadway on November 20, 1956 at the Lyceum Theatre. Walter Pidgeon portrayed Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, while George Grizzard played Angie Duke. The production ran for 271 performances, closing on July 13, 1957. Walt Disney acquired the rights to the play in the early 1960s, but he had no intent of making it into a musical at first. After noting the collective box office success of \"Mary Poppins\", \"My Fair Lady\" and \"The Sound of Music\", the first of which he actually produced, the film's original producer, Bill Walsh, decided to make the film into a musical. Afterwards, Walt reassigned him to \"Blackbeard's Ghost\", replacing him with Bill Anderson. While the Sherman Brothers wanted Rex Harrison for the lead role, Walt Disney insisted on, and eventually got, Fred MacMurray. Harrison would have been unavailable anyway, as he was shooting \"Doctor Dolittle\" for 20th Century Fox. Lesley Ann Warren, whom Walt had seen in the 1965 CBS television production of \"Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella\", made her film debut here. She also met her future husband, Jon Peters, during the film's production. When Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, the film had a first cut already completed. Walt told Anderson to use his own judgement, but added, \"Don't let the distribution people rush you...\" Anderson wanted to shorten the film (he disliked \"It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas\" and Greer Garson's performance of it ), but not as much as Disney",
"While the Sherman Brothers wanted Rex Harrison for the lead role, Walt Disney insisted on, and eventually got, Fred MacMurray. Harrison would have been unavailable anyway, as he was shooting \"Doctor Dolittle\" for 20th Century Fox. Lesley Ann Warren, whom Walt had seen in the 1965 CBS television production of \"Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella\", made her film debut here. She also met her future husband, Jon Peters, during the film's production. When Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, the film had a first cut already completed. Walt told Anderson to use his own judgement, but added, \"Don't let the distribution people rush you...\" Anderson wanted to shorten the film (he disliked \"It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas\" and Greer Garson's performance of it ), but not as much as Disney COO Card Walker wanted to. They fought bitterly over the extent of the cuts. The film opened at 164 minutes to mixed reviews. Robert Sherman was in England during the film's Hollywood premiere at the Pantages Theatre, but he became furious when he discovered in the \"Los Angeles Times\" that a theater in the vicinity was showing a double feature of \"The Shaggy Dog\" and \"The Absent-Minded Professor\" at a much lower price. In order to satisfy requests from Radio City Music Hall, the site of the film's New York premiere, Disney cut 20 minutes from the film after the LA Premiere. For the general release, the film was shortened even further to 118 minutes. After that, it never had any theatrical reissues or appeared on TV until 1984 (coincidentally, the same year the real Cordelia Drexel Biddle died), when the 164-minute version was screened at the Los Angeles International Film Expo and aired on The Disney Channel. The film was first released to VHS in 1983, then reissued in 1986. Both releases are of the 144-minute version. Anchor Bay Entertainment released separate DVDs of both the long and short versions on July 20, 1999. The long version, presented on video for the first time, was in 1.66:1 non-anamorphic widescreen, but the short version was 1.33:1. Disney released its own DVD of the film on June 1, 2004, including only the long version. It adds two things missing from the Anchor Bay DVD: the Intermission music at the end of act I and the exit music at the end of act II. The Happiest Millionaire The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 musical film starring Fred MacMurray and based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Costume Design by Bill Thomas. The musical song score is by Robert and Richard Sherman. The screenplay is by AJ Carothers based on the play that was based on the book \"My Philadelphia Father\" by Cordelia Drexel Biddle. This was the last film with personal involvement from Walt Disney, who died during its production. Costume Designer Bill Thomas, whose film credits passed the"
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"Edward B. Lewis Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology. Lewis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the second son of Laura Mary Lewis (née Histed) and Edward Butts Lewis, a watchmaker-jeweler. His full name was supposed to be Edward Butts Lewis Jr., but his birth certificate was incorrectly filled out with \"B.\" as his middle name. Lewis graduated from E. L. Meyers High School. He received a BA in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota in 1939, where he worked on \"Drosophila melanogaster\" in the lab of C.P. Oliver. In 1942 Lewis received a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), working under the guidance of Alfred Sturtevant. After serving as a meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force in World War II, Lewis joined the Caltech faculty in 1946 as an instructor. In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Biology, and in 1966 the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology. His Nobel Prize–winning studies with \"Drosophila\", (including the discovery of the \"Drosophila\" Bithorax complex of homeotic genes, and elucidation of its function), founded the field of evolutionary developmental biology and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conserved strategies controlling animal development. He is credited with development of the complementation test. His key publications in the fields of genetics, developmental biology, radiation and cancer are presented in the book \"Genes, Development and Cancer\", which was released in 2004. During the 1950s, Lewis studied the effects of radiation from X-rays, nuclear fallout and other sources as possible causes of cancer. He reviewed medical records from survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as radiologists and patients exposed to X-rays. Lewis concluded that \"health risks from radiation had been underestimated\". Lewis published articles in \"Science\" and other journals and made a presentation to a Congressional committee on atomic energy in 1957. At the scientific level of the debate, the crucial question was whether the \"threshold theory\" was valid or whether, as Lewis insisted, the effects of radioactivity were \"linear with no threshold\", where every exposure to radiation had a long-term cumulative effect. The issue of linearity versus threshold re-entered the debate on nuclear fallout in 1962, when Ernest Sternglass, a Pittsburgh physicist, argued that the linearity thesis was confirmed by the research of Alice Stewart. (See also John Gofman ) On November 20, 2001 Lewis was interviewed by Elliot Meyerowitz in the Kerckhoff Library at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. This interview was released on DVD in 2004 as \"Conversations in Genetics: Volume 1, No. 3 - Edward B. Lewis; An Oral History of Our Intellectual Heritage in Genetics\" 67 min; Producer Rochelle Easton Esposito; The Genetics Society of America. Lewis received numerous awards and honours during his career including the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal in 1983, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1992, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1989. He was also awarded the Gairdner Foundation International award in 1987, the Wolf Foundation prize in medicine in 1989, the Rosenstiel award in 1990 and the National Medal of Science in 1990. Edward B. Lewis Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental"
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"Common Informers Act 1951 The Common Informers Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6, c. 39) is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament that abolishes the principle of, and procedures concerning a common informer. A common informer was a person who provided evidence on criminal trials or prosecuted for breaches of Irish penal laws solely for the purpose of being rewarded with the penalty recovered, or a share of it. In medieval England, there was no police force and the state bureaucracy was insufficiently well developed to be able to ensure obedience to new laws. The practice of allowing the public to sue for penalties was successful and soon became widespread. An action by a common informer was termed a \"popular\" or \"qui tam\" action. A legal action by an informer had to be brought within a year of the offence, unless a specific time was prescribed by the statute. The informer had to prove his case strictly and was given no assistance by the court being denied discovery. Following the Revolution of 1688 in England, the Popery Act 1698 introduced a reward of £100 for the apprehension of any Roman Catholic priest. The result was that Catholics were placed at the mercy of common informers who harassed them for the sake of gain, even when the government would have left them in peace. Jonathan Swift described common informers as \"a detestable race of people\" while Edward Coke called them \"viperous vermin\". In 1931, Millie Orpen, a solicitor's clerk, brought an action as a common informer against a cinema chain for opening on a succession of Sundays, contrary to the Sunday Observance Act 1780, s.1. Orpen claimed £25,000 against the cinema company and individual members of its board of directors. The claim was based on a forfeit of £200 per performance per defendant. The judge, Mr Justice Rowlatt, expressed some distaste for the proceedings. He found against the cinema chain, awarding Orpen £5,000, with costs, but found for the individual directors on the grounds there was no evidence they were guilty on any particular Sunday. Costs were awarded to the directors against Orpen. The judge granted a stay pending an appeal by the company. Later in the year, Orpen brought a claim against another chain, but was thwarted by a change in the law legalising Sunday opening for cinemas before her case could be decided. Many statutes, such as the Simony Act 1588 and the White Herring Fisheries Act 1771, provide for penalties for offenders in breach of the provisions. Before the Common Informers Act 1951, there were further statutory provisions for the levied penalties to be paid over to an informer. For example, section 15 of the Commissioners Clauses Act 1847, still in force, states: The Common Informers Act 1951 removed the right to recover a penalty from 48 Acts, including: Most of these have themselves been repealed. The Crown was also prohibited from bringing actions as a common informer (s.1(5)). The former penalties were not all abolished but were commuted to £100, later revised to level 3 of the standard scale though the purpose of this provision was obscure as it was thought that not even the Crown could now bring such an action. \"Qui tam\" claims were codified in the United States under the False Claims Act, under which Lincoln sought to penalise manufacturers who sold his Army shoddy goods. It saw a revival in the U.S. from 1986 in actions by \"whistleblowers\". In May 2007 a consultative document from the Home Office Ministry of John Reid raised the question of whether members of the public who informed on companies or individuals defrauding the government should be entitled to a reward. It gained the attention of the House on 24 May 2007: The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Vernon Coaker): Seizing criminal assets delivers a wide range of benefits, from depriving criminals of capital to reducing the incentives for crime and the harm caused by crime, as well as promoting fairness and confidence in the criminal justice system. In 2006-07 the total amount recouped by all agencies involved in asset recovery in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was £125 million. This is a five-fold increase over five years. We want to build on this success. The Government are therefore publishing today an Asset Recovery Action Plan. The Action Plan has two purposes. Firstly it sets out robust proposals on how we are to reach our challenging target of recovering £250 million of the proceeds of crime by 2009-10. The Plan goes on to outline, for consultation, policy proposals for taking things further, including some radical ideas to move towards the Government's long term vision of detecting up to £1 billion of criminal assets. The consultation period will end on 23 November 2007. A copy of the Action Plan is being placed in the Library of the House. Submissions were obtained from the Fraud Advisory Panel, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services, amongst others. Common Informers Act 1951 The Common Informers Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6, c. 39) is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament that abolishes the principle of, and procedures concerning a common informer. A common informer was a person who provided evidence on criminal trials or prosecuted for breaches of Irish penal laws solely for the purpose of being rewarded"
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"Christopher Johnson (physician) Christopher Johnson or Jonson (1536?–1597) was an English physician, educator and neo-Latin poet. Born about 1536, at Kedleston in Derbyshire, he became a scholar at Winchester College in 1549. He went on to New College, Oxford, and was made perpetual fellow in 1555. He graduated B.A. in 1558, and M.A. in 1561. In 1560 Johnson was recommended made to Archbishop Matthew Parker by Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, and appointed to the head-mastership of Winchester College. He remained there for ten years. Johnson, who had always intended to become a physician, practised in Winchester while he was still head-master. He was granted the degree of bachelor of medicine at Oxford, with licence to practise, 14 December 1569, and proceeded M.D. 23 June 1571. In 1570 he resigned his post at Winchester, and moved to London, where he practised within the parish of St. Dunstan-in-the-West. He was admitted a fellow of the London College of Physicians about 1580, and filled several of the college offices: as censor in 1581 and several subsequent years; elect, 28 May 1594; consiliarius, 1594–6; treasurer, 1594–6. Johnson died in July 1597 in London, leaving a fortune and several children. Johnson was a reputed Latin poet of his time. He published \"Ranarum et murium pugna, Latina versione donata, ex Homero\", London, 1580, and wrote three poems in connection with Winchester, \"Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton. Episcopi\", dated 14 December 1564, in elegiacs; \"Custodum sive Præsidum Coll. Winton. series\"; and \"Didascalorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus\". All these were published at the close of the \"Poemata\" (1573) by Richard Willes. In 1564 Johnson edited and had printed for the use of his scholars two orations delivered at Louvain by Richard White of Basingstoke, \"De circulo Artium et Philosophiæ\", and \"De Eloquentiâ et Cicerone\".’ In 1568 White dedicated to him a short Latin dissertation on an ancient epitaph (\"Ælia Lælia Crispis. Epitaphium\", Padua). Johnson's only medical work was a \"Counsel against the Plague, or any other Infectious Disease\", with a \"Question, Whether a man for preservation may be purged in the Dog-days or No?\", London, 1577. Christopher Johnson (physician) Christopher Johnson or Jonson (1536?–1597) was an English physician, educator and neo-Latin poet. Born about 1536, at Kedleston in Derbyshire, he became a scholar at Winchester College in 1549. He went on to New College, Oxford, and was made perpetual fellow in 1555. He graduated B.A."
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"Heyne Verlag The Heyne Verlag (formerly Wilhelm Heyne Verlag) is a German publisher based in Munich, which was founded in Dresden in 1934 and sold to Axel Springer in 2000. In 2004 it became part of Random House. Heyne was one of the largest publishing houses in Germany in 1999. Wilhelm Heyne founded the publisher, named after him, on 15 February 1934 in Dresden. The first authors included Reinhold Conrad Muschler (\"Die Unbekannte\"), Werner Bergengruen (\"Die drei Falken\"), Ernst Moritz Mungenast (\"Christop Gadar\"), and Arthur-Heinz Lehmann (\"Rauhbautz will auch leben!\"), as well as the US-American writer Gwen Bristow with \"Tiefer Süden\". In 1940, Franz Schneekluth acquired minority shares in the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, after he became director of the publishing house in 1935. During the air raids on Dresden the publishing house in Reichsstrasse was completely destroyed. After the war, the activities in Munich were resumed in 1948, with Wilhelm Heyne holding only 40 percent of the shares in the publishing house. In 1951, Rolf Heyne joined the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, where he took over the management at the beginning of the 1960s. Under his leadership, the publisher's paperback program was created. It was expanded in 1966 by the works of Georges Simenon, which was given to the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. In addition, the paperbacks of the Kindler Verlag were taken over. The 1950s and '60s were also characterized by the introduction of various series in addition to the regular program (General Series). These included Heyne Paperbacks for world literary works as well as Heyne Science Fiction and Heyne Trade books. The latter started with \"Profiles in Courage\" by John F. Kennedy, for which the author received the Pulitzer Prize. In 1970, the Moewig Verlag, which the Heyne family had bought before the Second World War, was sold to Bauer Media Group. In 1974, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag co-operated with the publishing group Bertelsmann, with the intentions to better cover the market for paperbacks. At the same time, Heyne should be facilitated access to youth, trade and specialist titles. They also worked with Hestia Verlag from Bayreuth. At the end of the 1970s, a number of licenses from the publisher Fritz Molden was also purchased to expand Heyne's program. At that time, the Heyne paperbacks had a total circulation of over 100 million copies. The Karl May series began with \"Winnetou I\" in 1976, and other specialized programs such as Heyne Geschichte and Heyne Lyrik In 1982 the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag was finally transformed into a GmbH & Co. KG under the direction of Hans-Joachim Brede and Friedhelm Koch. Rolf Heyne was a limited partner with a contribution of eight million Deutsche Mark. In the early 1990s, the publisher bought the majority of Zabert Sandmann and worked together with publishers Haffmans and Beltz-Quadriga in the areas of various Imprints. By the end of 1993, Heyne Verlag had published a total of 16,000 titles in an edition of 500 million copies. At the end of the 1990s, the media reported about interests from several major publishers wanting to takeover Wilhelm Heyne, including Bertelsmann and the publishing group Holtzbrinck. According to media reports, Bertelsmann was given the best chances, but Axel Springer stepped up in December 2000. Rolf Heyne was to join the supervisory board of the new publishing group Heyne Ullstein, but died shortly after the acquisition. In February 2003 the publishing group Random House wanted to take over the publishers Ullstein Heyne List from Axel Springer. The Federal Cartel Office, however, did not approve the acquisition, as a dominant market position of German-language paperbacks was feared. The acquisition was limited to the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, while the remaining publishers including the Heyne programs for esoterism and fantasy were distributed to the Swedish Bonnier Group. The guidebooks and audiobook publishers were part of the transaction, to which the Federal Cartel Office finally agreed to in November of that year. Wilhelm Heyne was merged with Random House during the takeover. Since then, the Heyne Verlag has been a part of the Random House publishing group, but is treated as a separate publisher in bookstores. Previously, the Heyne Verlag organized its program in so-called series, of which a total of more than 50 pieces existed. The subject of a series were either certain subjects (e.g., Heyne Film Library) or events (e.g., the Heyne Jubilee Series since 1993). In 2014, all available works were divided into the following categories: Suspense, Entertainment for Women, Historical Programs, Young Program, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Hardcover, Nonfiction and Guidebooks. Heyne published both hardcover and paperbacks, including Authors such as Nicholas Sparks, Robert Harris, Amelie Fried, Sabine Thiesler, John Grisham and Stephen King. In the mid-1980s, the publisher launched the Rolf Heyne Collection for the first time to expand the hardcover program. The aim of the imprint was, according to various statements of the publication of high-quality illustrated volumes, to meet the \"aesthetic requirements\" of the publisher. A central theme of the series was, for example, the French cuisine, but also baby photos by Anne Geddes. With the takeover of the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag by Axel Springer in the year 2000, the program of the Rolf Heyne CollectionGmbH was continued as an independent publisher. At the end of 2014, Rolf Heynes' widow Anja closed business of the Rolf Heyne Collection. Heyne Verlag The Heyne Verlag (formerly Wilhelm Heyne Verlag) is a German publisher based in Munich,"
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"Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin \"\" (; In peace and joy I now depart) is a hymn by Martin Luther, a paraphrase in German of the , the canticle of Simeon. Luther wrote the text and melody in 1524 and it was first published in the same year. Originally a song for Purification, it has been used for funerals. Luther included it in 1542 in \" (Christian chants ... for funeral). The hymn appears in several translations, for example Catherine Winkworth's \"In peace and joy I now depart\", in nine hymnals. It has been used as the base for music, especially for vocal music such as Dieterich Buxtehude's funeral music and Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata . The text and melody were composed by Luther in the spring of 1524. Later in the same year, it was published in Wittenberg in Johann Walter's (Wittenberg hymnal), but was not included in the Erfurt Enchiridion. Originally a song for Purification, it has been used for funerals. Luther included it in 1542 in \" (Christian chants ... for funeral) as one of six hymns. The hymn appears in several translations, for example Catherine Winkworth's \"In peace and joy I now depart\", in 9 hymnals, for example as No. 48 in the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. The hymn is based on the , the canticle of Simeon. Luther expanded the thoughts of each of the four verses to a stanza of six lines. The first stanza expresses accepting death in peace (), the second gives as a reason the meeting with the Saviour (), the third accents his coming for all people (), the fourth the coming as a light for the heathen and glory for Israel.() The lines are of different length, meter 8.4.8.4.7.7, stressing single statements. Luther, a former monk, was familiar with the Latin from the daily night prayer (compline). The hymn was dedicated to the celebration of the Purification on 2 February, which was kept by the Lutherans as a feast day. It became also one of the most important songs for the dying () and for funerals. It is listed among those in the Protestant hymnal as No. 519. The tune in dorian mode () follows the text of the first stanza. \"Joy\" is expressed by upward fifths, dotted rhythm and melismas. In the last line, the melody turns below the key note on the text \"\" (gentle and calm). The hymn is the base of several compositions. Organ music has been written though the centuries, such as Dieterich Buxtehude's chorale prelude of 1674, Max Reger's No. 5 and 10 of his Choral Preludes for Organ, Op. 79b (1901–03), and Ernst Pepping's Partita No. 3 (1953). Several composers wrote vocal settings, some intended for funerals. Four-part choral settings have been composed by Johann Walter (1524), Lupus Hellinck, published in 1544, Bartholomäus Gesius (1601), Michael Praetorius, Johann Hermann Schein, Samuel Scheidt and others. Heinrich Schütz used it in movement 21 of his , composed for the funeral of Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera. Buxtehude wrote four different versions for the four stanzas in complex counterpoint as a funeral music for Menno Hanneken, , which he later expanded by a (lament) into a funeral music for his father. Johann Sebastian Bach used the hymn as the base for his chorale cantata . Bach used single stanzas in his cantatas, the funeral cantata (), , for the 16th Sunday after Trinity (1723), and , for Purification 1724). Georg Philipp Telemann composed around 1729 a first sacred cantata for voices, strings and basso continuo, and a second cantata for voice, violin and continuo which is lost. Johannes Brahms used the first stanza to conclude his motet . Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin \"\" (; In peace and joy I now depart) is a hymn by Martin Luther, a paraphrase in German of the , the canticle of Simeon. Luther wrote the text and melody in 1524 and it was first published in the same year. Originally a song for Purification, it has been used for funerals. Luther included it in 1542 in \" (Christian chants ... for funeral). The hymn appears in several translations, for example Catherine Winkworth's \"In peace"
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"Amphiprion barberi Amphiprion barberi, is a species of anemonefish that is found in the western Pacific Ocean. It was previously considered a geographic color variation of other anemonefish, initially \"Amphiprion rubrocinctus\" from 1972 and then \"Amphiprion melanopus\" from 1980 however further study and DNA sequencing resulted in \"A. barberi\" being described as a new species in 2008. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male will change to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male. The fish's natural diet includes zooplankton. The body of adults are generally red-orange with a single white bar. The snout and breast are orange. Each of the caudal, dorsal and anal fins are orange. They have 10 dorsal spines, 2 anal spines, 16-18 dorsal soft rays and 14 anal soft rays. They reach a maximum length of . Some anemonefish species have color variations based on geographic location, sex and host anemone. \"A. barberi\" does not show any of these variations. \"A. rubrocinctus\" and \"A. melanopus\" are geographically distinct. \"A. rubrocinctus\" has a distribution restricted to north western Australia while \"A melanopus\" is widely distributed in the western Pacific, from the Great Barrier Reef north to the Marshall Islands and Guam, New Guinea and from Vanuatu and New Caledonia to eastern Indonesia. There are significant color-pattern differences, with \"A. melanopus\" having a dark brown or blackish body, compared to the red orange of \"A. barberi\". \"A. melanopus\" also has 19-26 spines in the upper-opercular series while \"A. barberi\" has only 11-19. \"A. barberi\" is reliably only known in the Western Pacific in Fiji, Tonga, and the Samoan Islands, a regional hotspot of endemism. The relationship between anemonefish and their host sea anemones is not random and instead is highly nested in structure. \"A. barberi\" is specialised, being hosted by only 2 out of the 6 host anemones found in the region. \"A. barberi\" is hosted by the following species of anemone: Anemonefish and their host anemones are found on coral reefs and face similar environmental issues. Like corals, anemone's contain intracellular endosymbionts, zooxanthellae, and can suffer from bleaching due to triggers such as increased water temperature or acidification. Characteristics known to elevate the risk of extinction are small geographic range, small local population and extreme habitat specialisation. While \"A. barberi\" has a small geographic range, it is said to be common in Fiji and frequently encountered in Samoa and its ability to use two different anemone hosts may reduce the risk of extinction associated with extreme specialisation. This species was not evaluated in the 2012 release of the IUCN Red List. The specific name honours Paul Barber of Boston University in recognition of his contributions to the study of genetic relationships of the organisms of Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Amphiprion barberi Amphiprion barberi, is a species of anemonefish that is found in the western Pacific Ocean. It was previously considered a geographic color variation of other anemonefish, initially \"Amphiprion rubrocinctus\" from 1972 and then \"Amphiprion melanopus\" from 1980 however further study and DNA sequencing resulted in \"A. barberi\" being described as a new species in 2008. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with"
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"Division No. 9 School The Division No. 9 School is a historic former one-room schoolhouse on Maine State Route 9 in Wells, Maine. Built in 1900, it is the best-preserved of the town's surviving district school buildings, and is now a museum owned by the town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The Division No. 9 School is located on the south side of Maine State Route 9 in rural southwestern Wells, east of its junction with Bragdon Road. It is set on a small grassy lot surrounded by forest. It is a single-story wood frame structure with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The front facade has a pair of matching entrances flanking a doubled sash window at the center, with a slightly smaller similar window pair in the gable above. The doors are topped by transom windows, and both doors and windows have drip molding caps. The west facade has two groups of three sash windows flanking a single sash window, and the east facade has two sash windows. The south side of the building has a shed-roof ell, which contains the building's bathrooms and a woodshed. The interior of the building is well preserved, with tongue-and-groove wainscoting in both the entrance vestibules and the classroom. The school was built in 1900 by a local contractor for a total cost (including land) of $873.72; the ell was added in 1917 for $300. The previous school for this district had been located across the street. This school remained in service until 1948, and was designated a local landmark in 1992. It is the best-preserved of nine surviving district schoolhouses in the town. Division No. 9 School The Division No. 9 School is a historic former one-room schoolhouse on Maine"
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"Muzaffar Shah of Pahang Sultan Muzaffar Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Shah (died 1540) is the sixth Sultan of Pahang who reigned from 1530–1540. He succeeded on the death of his father, Mahmud Shah in 1530. Known as Raja Jainad before his accession, Muzaffar Shah is the eldest son of the fifth Sultan of Pahang, Mahmud Shah by his first wife, Raja Putri Olah binti al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad. Muzaffar Shah was killed in 1540 by Khoja Zainal, leader of a Bruneian envoy, for committing adultery with his wife, at Pekan. He is styled \"Marhum Tengah\" after his death and was succeeded by his younger brother, Raja Ismail. Muzaffar Shah of Pahang Sultan Muzaffar Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Shah (died 1540) is the sixth Sultan of Pahang who reigned from 1530–1540. He succeeded on the death of his father, Mahmud Shah in 1530. Known as Raja Jainad before his accession, Muzaffar Shah is the eldest son of the fifth Sultan of Pahang, Mahmud Shah by his first wife, Raja Putri Olah binti al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad. Muzaffar Shah was killed in 1540 by Khoja Zainal, leader of a Bruneian envoy, for committing adultery with his wife, at Pekan. He is styled"
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"Ceratiidae Sea devils are the family of deep-sea anglerfish known as the Ceratiidae, from the Greek \"keras\", \"horn\", referring to the bioluminescent lure that projects from the fishes' forehead. They are among the most widespread of the anglerfishes, found in all oceans from the tropics to the Antarctic. They are large and elongated: females of the largest species, Krøyer's deep sea angler fish, \"Ceratias holboelli\", reach in length. Males, by contrast, are much smaller, reaching , and, like other anglerfishes, spend much of their lives attached to a female after a free-living adolescent stage in which they are very small - at most - and have sharp, beak-like, toothless jaws. One or more males attach themselves permanently to a female, eventually merging circulatory systems. As this genetic chimera matures, the male grows large testicles, while the rest of its body atrophies. Ceratiidea are the only creatures known to become chimeras as a normal part of their lifecycle. Ceratiidae Sea devils are the family of deep-sea anglerfish known as the Ceratiidae, from the Greek \"keras\", \"horn\", referring to the bioluminescent lure that projects from the fishes' forehead. They are among the most widespread of the anglerfishes, found in all oceans from"
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"Boeing 307 Stratoliner The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner was the first commercial transport aircraft to enter service with a pressurized cabin. This feature allowed the aircraft to cruise at an altitude of 20,000 ft (6,000 m), well above many weather disturbances. The pressure differential was 2.5 psi (17 kPa), so at 14,700 ft (4,480 m) the cabin air pressure was equivalent to an altitude of 8,000 ft (2,440 m). The Model 307 had capacity for a crew of six and 33 passengers. The cabin was nearly 12 ft (3.6 m) across. It was the first land-based aircraft to include a flight engineer as a crew member (several flying boats had included a flight engineer position earlier). In addition to its civilian service it was also flown as the Boeing C-75 Stratoliner by the United States Army Air Forces, who used it as a long-range cargolift aircraft. In 1935, Boeing designed a four-engine airliner based on its B-17 heavy bomber (Boeing Model 299), then in development, calling it the Model 307. It combined the wings, tail, rudder, landing gear, and engines from their production B-17C with a new, circular cross-section fuselage of diameter, designed to allow pressurization. The first order, for two 307s (named Stratoliners), was placed in 1937 by Pan American Airways; Pan Am soon increased this to six, and a second order for five from Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA), prompting Boeing to begin production on an initial batch of the airliner. At the time the United States entered World War II in December 1941, flying across oceans was a rare luxury. The war required government and military officials to do so and most four-engined long-range commercial aircraft, including Pan American Airways' 14 flying boats and TWA's five Boeing 307s, were pressed into service. Additional fuel tanks were added to give them the extra range required; once converted they were designated C-75 for military use. Before World War II ended their production, ten commercial 307s had been built. TWA flew domestic routes between New York and Los Angeles for 18 months until the Army purchased their Stratoliners for wartime use as long-range, transatlantic transports for various VIPs or critical cargo. TWA converted their 307s to military service in January 1942, and its Intercontinental Division (ICD) then operated these C-75s under contract to the Army's Air Transport Command (ATC) until July 1944. These were the only U. S. built commercial aircraft able to cross the Atlantic with a payload until the arrival of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster in November 1942. Conversion to the C-75 included removal of the pressurization equipment to save weight, removal of the forward four (or five) of nine reclining seats along the port side, and alteration of the two forward Pullman-like compartments (of four) starboard of the left-of-centerline aisle. Space was thus provided for crew requirements on extremely long flights and for the addition of five fuel tanks. The landing gear was strengthened, the maximum takeoff weight was increased from ), and the exterior painted military olive drab. The maiden flight of the first Boeing 307 Stratoliner (not a prototype, as it was planned to be delivered to Pan Am following testing and certification), registration \"NX 19901\" took place from Boeing Field, Seattle on December 31, 1938. It crashed on March 18, 1939, while being demonstrated to representatives of KLM. After takeoff the aircraft climbed to an altitude of 11,000 feet. At this altitude, longitudinal stability tests were made. The next tests, as outlined by the flight plan, were side-slip tests. The aircraft went into an inadvertent spin subsequent to a stall at an altitude of approximately 11,000 feet. It made two to three turns in the spin, during which the engines were used to aid recovery. In recovering from the dive subsequent to the spin, the wings and horizontal tail surfaces failed upward apparently due to air loads in excess of those for which the aircraft was designed. The ten people aboard, including the KLM technical director, a representative of the Dutch Air Ministry, a Boeing test pilot, the Boeing Chief Aerodynamicist, the Boeing Chief Engineer, and a TWA representative were killed. Subsequent wind tunnel testing showed that the addition of an extended dorsal fin ahead of and attached to the vertical tail prevented rudder lock. This was incorporated into the 307's rudder redesign, while also being incorporated in Boeing's rear fuselage redesign for their models \"E\" through \"G\" B-17 bomber. The first delivery to a customer was to multi-millionaire Howard Hughes, who bought one 307 for a round-the-world flight, hoping to break his own record of 91 hours 14 minutes set from July 10–14, 1938 in a Lockheed 14. Hughes' Boeing Stratoliner was fitted with extra fuel tanks and was ready to set out on the first leg of the round-the-world attempt when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, causing the attempt to be abandoned. This 307 later had the extra fuel tanks removed, was fitted with much more powerful Wright R-2600 engines, and was transformed into a luxurious \"flying penthouse\" for Hughes, although it was little used, eventually being sold to oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy in 1949. Deliveries to Pan Am started in March 1940, with TWA receiving its first 307 in April. TWA's Stratoliners flew three-stop flights between Los Angeles and New York while Pan Am's flew from Miami to Latin America. Ten 307s were built, three being delivered to Pan-Am (\"Clipper Flying Cloud\", \"Clipper Comet\", and \"Clipper Rainbow\") and five to TWA (\"Comanche\", \"Cherokee\", \"Zuni\", \"Navajo\", and \"Apache\") with one aircraft going to Hughes. On the entry of the United States into World War II, Pan Am continued operating its Stratoliners on routes to Central and South America, but under direction of the Army Air Forces, while TWA's 307s were sold to the United States government, being designated Boeing C-75 and operated by the United States Army Air Forces (although normally still flown by TWA crews). The Army returned its five C-75s to TWA in 1944, who sent them back to Boeing for rebuilding. Boeing replaced the wings and horizontal tail with those from the B-17G, while more powerful engines were fitted and the electrical system was replaced with one based on the B-29 Superfortress. Passenger capacity was increased from 33 to 38. The total rebuilding cost to TWA was $2 million; the five aircraft re-entered passenger service on April 1, 1945. Although TWA was committed to the larger and faster Lockheed Constellation, it kept the Stratoliners until April 1951. TWA sold its Stratoliner fleet to the French airline Aigle Azur who used them on scheduled flights from France to North and Central Africa, and later to French Indo-China. These 307s were later transferred to Aigle Azur's Vietnamese subsidiary and were used by a number of airlines in South East Asia, with at least one aircraft remaining in commercial use until 1974. Pan Am flew its unmodified 33-passenger Stratoliners between Miami and Havana until 1947, then sold them to small operators. One aircraft was purchased by the Haitian Air Force, being fitted as a Presidential transport for François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier. This aircraft later returned to the U.S. and was purchased by the Smithsonian Museum. Two main routes were flown: Washington, D.C., to Cairo across the South Atlantic, and New York to Prestwick, Scotland, across the North Atlantic. They often flew non-stop the 2,125 statute miles (3,415 km) between Gander, Newfoundland and Prestwick, Scotland in the north, and the 2,550 statute miles (4,100 km) between Natal, Brazil and Accra, Ghana in the south. After July 1942 a refueling stop at Ascension Island was an option in the south. In the north, stops at Iceland or Greenland were often necessary, especially flying westbound against the prevailing winds. As C-54s took over the Gander to Prestwick route, the C-75s operated a Marrakech-to-Prestwick service out over",
"François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier. This aircraft later returned to the U.S. and was purchased by the Smithsonian Museum. Two main routes were flown: Washington, D.C., to Cairo across the South Atlantic, and New York to Prestwick, Scotland, across the North Atlantic. They often flew non-stop the 2,125 statute miles (3,415 km) between Gander, Newfoundland and Prestwick, Scotland in the north, and the 2,550 statute miles (4,100 km) between Natal, Brazil and Accra, Ghana in the south. After July 1942 a refueling stop at Ascension Island was an option in the south. In the north, stops at Iceland or Greenland were often necessary, especially flying westbound against the prevailing winds. As C-54s took over the Gander to Prestwick route, the C-75s operated a Marrakech-to-Prestwick service out over the Atlantic. In April 1945, the five C-75s were returned to TWA, having been restored by Boeing and recertified by the CAA as SA-307B-1 civilian transports with their old registration numbers. TWA then restyled the interior cabin in two sections, ten seats forward and 28 aft. According to the Aviation Safety Network, the Boeing 307 was involved in eight hull-loss incidents for a total of 54 fatalities. The only surviving Boeing 307 Stratoliner (NC19903) is preserved in flying condition at the Smithsonian Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. On March 28, 2002, this aircraft crashed into Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington, on what was to be its last flight before heading to the Smithsonian. Despite the incident, it was again restored, flown to the Smithsonian, and is now on display. The fuselage of Howard Hughes' personal 307 also survives, although it has been converted into a houseboat. The aircraft was awaiting restoration at Fort Lauderdale international airport when it was severely damaged in a hurricane in the early 1960s, having been blown into a stand of trees after its tiedowns failed. The aircraft languished for nearly a year before being removed and longer still until later salvaged for its conversion into the house boat. The interior is notable for the original finishes and fitments added by Howard Hughes. Boeing 307 Stratoliner The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner was the first commercial transport aircraft to enter service with a pressurized cabin. This feature allowed the aircraft to cruise at an altitude of 20,000 ft (6,000 m), well above many weather disturbances. The pressure differential was 2.5 psi (17 kPa), so at 14,700 ft (4,480 m) the cabin air pressure was equivalent to an altitude of 8,000 ft (2,440 m). The Model 307 had capacity for a crew of six"
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"Love Tide Love Tide is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle. The initial \"Billboard\" magazine review from December 11, 1961 described the music as being \"played smoothly and capable by the Riddle crew. Attractive cover should also help the set get attention\". Paul D. Miller, in his book \"Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture\", described the title track as demonstrating \"moody and tender writing at its best\". A detailed review by the website Ambient Exotica contrasted the album to Riddle's earlier water themed \"Sea of Dreams\" and wrote that \"The most glaring example for the different soundscapes between both albums are the instruments that are neglected on the first work, but added in the latter: vibraphones, harps, pianos and bongos altogether lessen the romantic notions in Love Tide, but cannot leave an impact once the melodrama and yearning are aurally displayed via the many violin strings. ...And since Riddle occasionally breaks the overarching concept that is thrown at him by the marketing people at Capitol, you should not expect an adamant frame that solely focuses on the loving couple of the front cover, let alone the liquedous setting. That's actually great, for it is these formula-expanding moments where the album starts to get interesting for Exotica followers, regardless of whether they are fans of Nelson Riddle or not.\" Love Tide Love Tide is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle. The initial \"Billboard\" magazine review from December 11, 1961 described the music as being \"played smoothly and capable by the Riddle crew. Attractive cover should also help the set get attention\". Paul D. Miller, in his book \"Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture\", described the title track as demonstrating \"moody and tender writing at its best\". A detailed review by the website Ambient"
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"Tore Austad Tore Austad (born 8 April 1935) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Born in Skedsmo, Akershus, he received a cand. philol. degree in 1962, and worked as a professor of Norwegian at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1966. Returning to Norway he worked at various academic institutions, before being elected to the Storting from the county of Vest-Agder in 1977, where he sat for three periods, until 1989. On 14 October 1981, he was appointed Minister of Education and Church Affairs in the new government of Kåre Willoch. On 8 June 1983, the Conservative Party joined in a coalition with the Christian Democratic Party and the Centre Party, in order to form a majority government. Austad had to resign, and his position was taken over by Kjell Magne Bondevik. Tore Austad Tore Austad (born 8 April 1935) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Born in Skedsmo, Akershus, he received a cand. philol. degree in 1962, and worked as a professor of Norwegian at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1966. Returning to Norway he worked at various academic institutions, before being elected to the Storting from the county of Vest-Agder in"
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"United Democratic Forces of Rwanda The United Democratic Forces of Rwanda (, FDU-INKINGI) is a coalition of Rwandan opposition groups. The party was established on 29 April 2006 as an alliance of the Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda (RDR), Action for Impartial International Justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Forces for Resistance and the Rwandan Democratic Alliance , with RDR leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza elected President of the UDF. Having been formed in exile, the alliance's leadership returned to Rwanda in January 2010 and applied to be registered in order to field candidates in the presidential elections later in the year. However, the alliance was prevented from registering and Ingabire was arrested. United Democratic Forces of Rwanda The United Democratic Forces of Rwanda (, FDU-INKINGI) is a coalition of Rwandan opposition groups. The party was established on 29 April 2006 as an alliance of the Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda (RDR), Action for Impartial International Justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Forces for Resistance and the Rwandan Democratic Alliance , with RDR leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza elected President of the UDF. Having been formed in exile, the alliance's leadership returned to Rwanda in January 2010 and applied to be registered"
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"Really Useful Group The Really Useful Group Ltd. (RUG) is an international company set up in 1977 by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is involved in theatre, film, television, video and concert productions, merchandising, magazine publishing, records and music publishing. The name is inspired by a phrase from the children's book series \"The Railway Series\" in which Thomas the Tank Engine and other locomotives are referred to as \"Really Useful Engines\". The company was set up in 1977 when Lloyd Webber, frustrated with the terms of his contract with the impresario Robert Stigwood, decided to take greater control over the management of his creative works. All Lloyd Webber compositions and productions created from that point have been owned by the company. The Really Useful Group was floated on the stock market in 1986. Four years later, Lloyd Webber took it back into private ownership, selling 30% to film and music group PolyGram to fund the cost of buying back shares. In 1995, PolyGram was bought by Canadian conglomerate Seagram, with the Really Useful stake being passed to its own film and music subsidiary, Universal. In 1999, Lloyd Webber paid $75m for Universal's 30% stake, giving the Really Useful Group 100% ownership of all the composer's works. The Really Useful Theatre Company produces and manages plays and musicals, mainly, but not limited to those written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is also responsible for licensing its productions worldwide. In the 1990s, RUT mainly produced shows on its own, but more recently has again developed partnerships with other producers and production companies, notably Bill Kenwright, to produce its works, as it had done in the 1980s with Cameron Mackintosh. Among its productions and co-productions are: Really Useful Films is responsible for the production of film versions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's catalogue. Until recently, these had consisted of lower budget straight-to-video versions of the shows (notably \"Cats\", \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" and \"Joseph\"), but 2004 saw Really Useful Films complete the major motion picture \"The Phantom of the Opera\", directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum, which was nominated for three Academy Awards and three Golden Globes. The film was a commercial success. It has also released DVD and video versions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday concert at the Royal Albert Hall, the 2001 \"Masterpiece – Andrew Lloyd Webber in China\" concert, and a musical version of the Gruffalo, with music and lyrics by Jon Fiber, Robin Price and Olivia Jacobs. The film director Nick Morris is regularly involved with the films division. Really Useful Records produces cast albums of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. From 1986 until Lloyd Webber regained full control of the company in 1999, Really Useful Records had an exclusive deal with PolyGram to release albums through its Polydor label. Really Useful continues to release its albums and DVDs through Universal, current owners of PolyGram. Aside from cast albums, Lloyd Webber has also produced albums for Marti Webb, Sarah Brightman, Connie Fisher, Andrea Ross and Michael Ball via the label. The managing director of the record division is Tris Penna, who has recently overseen the remastered and re-release of a significant portion of the back-catalogue. Long-time Lloyd Webber collaborator Nigel Wright has served as co-producer on most Really Useful Records albums since 1990. Lee Mead, who won the lead role in 2007's West End revival of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\" by taking part in BBC One's \"Any Dream Will Do!\" recorded a single of the song \"Any Dream Will Do\". The contest's third-placed Lewis Bradley and second-placed Keith Jack joined him on \"Close Every Door To Me\". Really Useful Records released the double-A side single to raise funds for the BBC's annual Children in Need charity appeal. LW Theatres owns and manages six West End theatres: The group also includes the Off West End venue The Other Palace, formerly known as the St. James Theatre. Lloyd Webber purchased the Palace Theatre in 1983, followed by the Gillian Lynne and the Adelphi. In 1999, Lloyd Webber and NatWest Equity Partners bought the Stoll Moss group, owners of 10 London theatres, including the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for £85m from Australian businesswoman Janet Holmes à Court, and formed Really Useful Theatres. In 2004, operational control of the Queen's Theatre reverted from Really Useful Theatres back to Cameron Mackintosh's Delfont Mackintosh Theatres. The transfer of operational control of the adjoining Gielgud Theatre from Really Useful Theatres to Delfont Mackintosh Theatres followed two years later. On 11 July 2005, the company sold four theatres (the Apollo, the Duchess, the Lyric, and the Garrick) to Nimax Theatres Ltd, a company owned by Broadway producer Max Weitzenhoffer, who previously had been a rival bidder for the Stoll Moss theatres, and Nica Burns, production director of Really Useful Theatres. Lloyd Webber invested £10m of the proceeds from the sales in October 2005 to buy out his ownership partners Bridgepoint (formerly NatWest Equity Partners), and the group was renamed \"Really Useful Theatres Group\". The Palace was sold to Nimax in 2012. In 2014, the group split into two companies, and the owner of the theatres was named \"Really Useful Theatres\". In 2018, Really Useful Theatres changed their name to \"LW Theatres\" to avoid confusion with the other companies owned by Lloyd Webber. Really Useful Magazines Ltd was formed to distribute \"Theatregoer\" magazine, a monthly magazine edited and published on the Really Useful Group's behalf by the publishing agency Axon Publishing. Published beginning in 2000, the magazine was available in conjunction with the programmes in all Really Useful Theatres. Its Editor-in-Chief was Madeleine Lloyd-Webber. \"Theatregoer\" magazine was sold Bandwidth Communications, the publisher of \"Whatsonstage.com\", in April 2005. The Really Useful Group has, in the past, set up sub-labels to cater for pop and dance acts, such as \"Carpet Records\", featuring Timmy Mallett's Bombalurina (\"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini\") and Doctor Spin (\"Tetris\"); and It Records, home to My Life Story in the late 1990s. The name Carpet Records was a play on the acronym RUG, of the Really Useful Group. The group on 27 June 2007 announced that it would donate all receipts from two special performances of a revived West End production of \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\" to the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal, which would benefit from ticket sales for 16 July's booked-out preview and the sold-out performance of 16 November, on the night of the annual Children in Need telethon. Cast members, the group added, would not get the usual first night gifts on 17 July – the money would, instead, go to Children in Need. Viewers of a BBC One television show, \"Any Dream Will Do!\" had voted 25-year-old West End ensemble player and understudy Lee Mead to take role of Joseph in the production. Children in Need had benefited by more than £500,000 in income from viewers' voting on premium-rate telephone lines, host Graham Norton said during the contest's 9 June 2007 final. Really Useful Group The Really Useful Group Ltd. 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"Anne Roiphe Anne Roiphe (born December 25, 1935) is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel \"Up The Sandbox\" (1970), which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book \"a feminist classic.\" Roiphe is Jewish and was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from the Brearley School in 1953, and received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1957. Over a four-decade career, Roiphe has proven so prolific that the critic Sally Eckhoff observed, \"tracing Anne Roiphe's career often feels like following somebody through a revolving door: the requirements of keeping the pace can be trying.\" (Eckhoff described the writer as \"a free-thinking welter of contradictions, a never-say-die feminist who's absolutely nuts about children\"). Roiphe published her first novel, \"Digging Out\", in 1967. Her second, \"Up The Sandbox\" (1970), became a national best-seller and made the author's career. Roiphe has since published seven novels and two memoirs, while contributing essays and reviews to \"The New York Times\", \"The New York Times Magazine\", \"New York Magazine\", and others. In 1993, \"The New York Times\" described her as \"a writer who has never toed a party line, feminist or otherwise.\" Her 1996 memoir \"Fruitful: A memoir of Modem Motherhood\" was nominated for the National Book Award. From 1997 to 2002, she served as a columnist for \"The New York Observer\". Her memoir \"Epilogue\" was published in 2008, and another memoir, \"Art and Madness\", in 2011. Her most recent book, \"Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind\", was published by Seven Stories Press in May 2015, and received starred reviews from \"Publishers Weekly\" and \"BookList\". Roiphe is the mother of Katie Roiphe and Emily Carter. Anne Roiphe Anne Roiphe (born"
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"Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents RFC is a gay and inclusive rugby union club based in Brighton & Hove in Sussex, England. The Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents were formed on 4 November 2015 at a meeting at the Camelford Arms pub in Kemptown, Brighton, to give gay and bisexual men the opportunity to play rugby in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The Sea Serpents played their first match against the 4th XV of London's gay and inclusive rugby club, the Kings Cross Steelers, on 20 February 2016 at Hove Recreation Ground, losing by 25 points to 0. Over the next two months during March and April 2016, the Sea Serpents played a return match in London against the Steelers' 4th XV, an away match against the Birmingham Bulls, and were admitted as members of IGR. The Sea Serpents kicked off their second season in existence with a summer touch rugby tournament in Birmingham organised by the Birmingham Bulls - Touch My Brum 2016. During the tournament the club registered their first ever win, a 2-1 victory against the Amsterdam Lowlanders. The club continued to play friendly matches against other IGR teams, and local Sussex teams. The Sea Serpents registered their first win in a full XVs match on 21 January 2017 against the Reading Renegades, a 37-3 victory, including 7 tries, also witnessed by the Mayor of Brighton & Hove. At the end-of-season Union Cup in Madrid, the Sea Serpents caused quite an upset by winning all of their group matches in the third-tier Union Bowl and making the Gold Final ahead of their closest rivals Kings Cross Steelers IV, the more established Bristol Bisons and Manchester Village Spartans III and the newly formed Munich Monks. They lost in the final to French side Rebelyons, finishing runners-up in their first international tournament. Once again the Sea Serpents kicked off their season with a trip to the Birmingham Bulls touch rugby tournament finishing in the middle tier competition, a level above the previous year. The team was led by vice captain Paul Tindle. The club was accepted into the Sussex Leagues and are competing in the Sussex Division 4 East against 9 other teams home and away. Their first league match was on 9 September 2017 against Heathfield & Waldron III at Hove Recreation Ground, the visitors winning 58-12. Their first league win came at the end of the season on 28 April 2018 against East Grinstead III in a double header match with the Sea Serpents winning 33-31. The Sea Serpents were moved to the West division of the Sussex League's Division 4. After registering three losses, they won their 4th match of the season away at Burgess Hill by 62-12. The Sea Serpents took part in their first league campaign during the 2017/2018 season in the Sussex Division 4 East. The following season they were swapped to the West division. <br> <br> <br> The Sea Serpents took part in their first international tournament at the Union Cup in Madrid in April 2017 and were drawn in the third level competition - the Union Bowl. \"Pool Q Matches\" \"Challenger Bowl/Shield Quarter Finals\" \"Challenger Bowl Semi Finals\" \"Challenger Bowl Final\" \"Group Matches\" \"Gold Final\" The club's emblem depicts a rampant green sea serpent, carrying a white rugby ball, with a blue, rolling wave in the background, to signify the fact that Brighton & Hove is a seaside city. The club's colours are light blue and green, taken from the colours of the respective railings on the seafront in Brighton (light blue) and Hove (green), with the double symbolism of representing the English Channel and the South Downs which surround the city to the South and North respectively. The first kit used from the 2015/2016 season onwards was sponsored by the Camelford Arms, a pub situated in Brighton's gay village, and site of the first meeting of the club in November 2015. Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents RFC is a gay and inclusive rugby union club based in Brighton & Hove in Sussex, England. The Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents were formed on 4 November 2015 at a meeting at the"
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"Heuristic (computer science) In computer science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical optimization, a heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω \"I find, discover\") is a technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to find any exact solution. This is achieved by trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, or precision for speed. In a way, it can be considered a shortcut. A heuristic function, also called simply a heuristic, is a function that ranks alternatives in search algorithms at each branching step based on available information to decide which branch to follow. For example, it may approximate the exact solution. The objective of a heuristic is to produce a solution in a reasonable time frame that is good enough for solving the problem at hand. This solution may not be the best of all the solutions to this problem, or it may simply approximate the exact solution. But it is still valuable because finding it does not require a prohibitively long time. Heuristics may produce results by themselves, or they may be used in conjunction with optimization algorithms to improve their efficiency (e.g., they may be used to generate good seed values). Results about NP-hardness in theoretical computer science make heuristics the only viable option for a variety of complex optimization problems that need to be routinely solved in real-world applications. Heuristics underlie the whole field of Artificial Intelligence and the computer simulation of thinking, as they may be used in situations where there are no known algorithms. The trade-off criteria for deciding whether to use a heuristic for solving a given problem include the following: In some cases, it may be difficult to decide whether the solution found by the heuristic is good enough, because the theory underlying heuristics is not very elaborate. One way of achieving the computational performance gain expected of a heuristic consists of solving a simpler problem whose solution is also a solution to the initial problem. An example of approximation is described by Jon Bentley for solving the travelling salesman problem (TSP): so as to select the order to draw using a pen plotter. TSP is known to be NP-Hard so an optimal solution for even a moderate size problem is difficult to solve. Instead, the greedy algorithm can be used to give a good but not optimal solution (it is an approximation to the optimal answer) in a reasonably short amount of time. The greedy algorithm heuristic says to pick whatever is currently the best next step regardless of whether that prevents (or even makes impossible) good steps later. It is a heuristic in that practice says it is a good enough solution, theory says there are better solutions (and even can tell how much better in some cases). Another example of heuristic making an algorithm faster occurs in certain search problems. Initially, the heuristic tries every possibility at each step, like the full-space search algorithm. But it can stop the search at any time if the current possibility is already worse than the best solution already found. In such search problems, a heuristic can be used to try good choices first so that bad paths can be eliminated early (see alpha-beta pruning). In the case of best-first search algorithms, such as A* search, the heuristic improves the algorithm's convergence while maintaining its correctness as long as the heuristic is admissible. In their Turing Award acceptance speech, Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon discuss the heuristic search hypothesis: a physical symbol system will repeatedly generate and modify known symbol structures until the created structure matches the solution structure. Each following step depends upon the step before it, thus the heuristic search learns what avenues to pursue and which ones to disregard by measuring how close the current step is to the solution. Therefore, some possibilities will never be generated as they are measured to be less likely to complete the solution. A heuristic method can accomplish its task by using search trees. However, instead of generating all possible solution branches, a heuristic selects branches more likely to produce outcomes than other branches. It is selective at each decision point, picking branches that are more likely to produce solutions. Antivirus software often uses heuristic rules for detecting viruses and other forms of malware. Heuristic scanning looks for code and/or behavioral patterns common to a class or family of viruses, with different sets of rules for different viruses. If a file or executing process is found to contain matching code patterns and/or to be performing that set of activities, then the scanner infers that the file is infected. The most advanced part of behavior-based heuristic scanning is that it can work against highly randomized self-modifying/mutating (polymorphic) viruses that cannot be reliably detected by simpler string scanning methods. Heuristic scanning has the potential to detect future viruses without requiring the virus to be first detected somewhere else, submitted to the virus scanner developer, analyzed, and a detection update for the scanner provided to the scanner's users. Some heuristics have a strong underlying theory; they are either derived in a top-down manner from the theory or are arrived at based on either experimental or real world data. Others are just rules of thumb based on real-world observation or experience without even a glimpse of theory. The latter are exposed to a larger number of pitfalls. When a heuristic is reused in various contexts because it has been seen to \"work\" in one context, without having been mathematically proven to meet a given set of requirements, it is possible that the current data set does not necessarily represent future data sets (see: overfitting) and that purported \"solutions\" turn out to be akin to noise. Statistical analysis can be conducted when employing heuristics to estimate the probability of incorrect outcomes. To use a heuristic for solving a search problem or a knapsack problem, it is necessary to check that the heuristic is admissible. Given a heuristic function formula_1 meant to approximate the true optimal distance formula_2 to the goal node formula_3 in a directed graph formula_4 containing formula_5 total nodes or vertexes labeled formula_6, \"admissible\" means roughly that the heuristic underestimates the cost to the goal or formally that formula_7 for \"all\" formula_8 where formula_9. If a heuristic is not admissible, it may never find the goal, either by ending up in a dead end of graph formula_4 or by skipping back and forth between two nodes formula_11 and formula_12 where formula_13. The word \"heuristic\" came into usage in the early 19th century. It is formed irregularly from the Greek word \"heuriskein\", meaning \"to find\". Heuristic (computer science) In computer science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical optimization, a heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω \"I find, discover\") is a technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to find any exact solution. This is achieved by trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, or precision for speed. In a way, it can be considered a shortcut. A heuristic function, also called simply a heuristic, is a function that ranks alternatives in search algorithms at each branching step based on"
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"Gorman, North Carolina Gorman is a census-designated place (CDP) in Durham County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,011 at the 2010 census. Gorman is located in east-central Durham County at (36.039342, -78.819783), between the city of Durham to the southwest and Falls Lake on the Neuse River to the northeast. Interstate 85 forms the northwestern border of the community, with access from exits 180, 182, and 183. The main road through the community is East Geer Street, running roughly parallel to I-85. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Gorman CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.89%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1002 people, 406 households, and 291 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 325.1 people per square mile (125.6/km²). There were 428 housing units at an average density of 138.9 per square mile (53.7/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 82.04% White, 15.97% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 1.00% from other races, and 0.80% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.29% of the population. There were 406 households out of which 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% were married couples living together, 13.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.3% were non-families. 24.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.91. In the CDP, the population was spread out with 22.1% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $42 236, and the median income for a family was $43,977. Males had a median income of $36,143 versus $30,789 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $19,083. About 9.3% of families and 6.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.9% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over. Gorman, North Carolina Gorman is a census-designated place (CDP) in Durham County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,011 at the 2010 census. Gorman is located in east-central Durham County at (36.039342, -78.819783), between the city of Durham to the southwest and Falls Lake on the Neuse River to the northeast. Interstate 85 forms the northwestern border of the community, with access from exits 180, 182, and 183. The main road through the community is East Geer Street, running roughly parallel to I-85. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Gorman CDP has a total area"
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"Toritama Toritama is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, in the mesoregion of Agreste Pernambucano. It is located at an altitude of 349 m, and it is 153 km west of the capital Recife. In 2009 has an estimated population of 33,206 and an area of 30,93 km², which makes it the smallest municipality of Pernambuco, if Fernando de Noronha is not taken into account. Toritama is best knowns for its production and sale of textiles, in particular jeans. In the middle of the 19th century, Toritama was a cattle farm on the left bank of the Capibaribe River. The name Toritama comes from the indigenous words \"tori\" (\"stone\") and \"tama\" (\"region\"), in allusion to the 30-m tall stones that give the impression of a tower on the right bank of the Capibaribe. The area became a municipality on December 29, 1953; before that it consisted of the districts of Vertentes and Taquaritinga do Norte. The municipality had as its first provisional administrators Joaquim Aurélio Correia de Araújo and Antônio Manoel da Silva. The first elected mayor was José Jota de Araújo, three and a half years after the municipality's creation. Toritama has also made an effort to increase its tourism potential. Outside of the market square, 70 percent of the vehicles have license plates from another city in Brazil. The city's location on a seasonal river which doesn't provide sufficient water for irrigation compelled the population to make a living in industrial activities. The municipality became a significant center of footwear manufacture in the 1970s. However, thereafter the industry declined due to strong competition from major footwear producers, which resulted in the factories producing leather shoes entering a period of decline and rapidly going bankrupt. The population then moved into the manufacture of jeans. The industry grew rapidly, and now 15 percent of the jeans produced in Brazil are made in Toritama. Attracted by their quality and low price, consumers from all over Brazil come to Toritama to buy and resell the jeans. The Parque das Feiras (market square) is where the city's commerce is concentrated and the majority of the town's clothing stores are located. Located on the BR 104, it has an area of nine hectares divided into stalls, plus restaurants and a parking lot with space for 2000 vehicles. It was opened in September 2001, with 875 stalls of three square meters each, but the endeavor was so successful that it was subsequently enlarged by 1518 stalls. Economy by Sector 2006 Toritama Toritama is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, in the mesoregion of Agreste Pernambucano. It is located at an altitude of 349 m, and it is 153 km west of the capital Recife. In 2009 has an estimated population of 33,206 and an area of 30,93 km², which makes it the smallest municipality of Pernambuco, if Fernando de Noronha is not taken into account. Toritama is best knowns for its production and sale of textiles, in particular jeans. In the"
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"Suite 16 (film) Suite 16 is a 1994 Dutch-Belgian-British thriller film directed by Dominique Deruddere and starring Pete Postlethwaite, Antonie Kamerling, and Géraldine Pailhas. The film takes place in an expensive hotel at the Côte d'Azur, where Chris, a young gigolo gets into a fight with one of his female customers and seemingly accidentally kills her. He runs off and hides in room 16, a penthouse where the rich but physically disabled man Glover lives. Glover offers him refuge from the police, alcohol, drugs and as much prostitutes as he wishes. Chris then discovers that Glover records everything on video. He explains that he is so old and disabled that he can no longer have sex on his own, but still likes to watch others do it. He offers Chris lost of money to fulfull his sexual fantasies for him, so he can watch. Slowly but surely the fantasies get more perverted and sado-masochistic, until Glover offers Chris to murder a woman during the sex act. In exchange for a lot of money they go a search for the best potential female victim... Suite 16 (film) Suite 16 is a 1994 Dutch-Belgian-British thriller film directed by Dominique Deruddere and starring"
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"Nguyễn Lộc The founder of Vovinam was grandmaster Nguyễn Lộc (Thạch Thất district, 8 April 1912 – 4 April 1960) was a Vietnamese martial arts teacher. He was the founder of Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo. Grandmaster Lộc was born in Hữu Bằng village, Thạch Thất district, then part of Sơn Tây province, now a district of Hanoi. He was the eldest of five children of Nguyễn Dinh Xuyen and Nguyễn Thị Hoa. In his younger years he trained in traditional Vietnamese martial arts. In 1938, grandmaster Nguyễn introduced his style \"Vovinam\" to the public. After a demonstration in 1939 in Hanoi, Vovinam quickly spread across the country, and internationally to the Vietnamese diaspora via France. However the French banned the movement in 1942. In 1946 when Vietnam became officially at war with the French Lộc organised his students in resistance in the Hanoi area, but a disagreement with the Viet Minh led to him disbanding his group and retreating to his home village. He emigrated to South Vietnam in the 1950s. After grandmaster Nguyễn's death in 1960, His senior student, Grandmaster Lê Sáng continued the development and international promotion of Vovinam until his own death on September 27, 2010. Nguyễn"
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"First Citizens Bank (Trinidad and Tobago) First Citizens is a bank based in Trinidad and Tobago. First Citizens has assets of over TT$38 billion, 25 branches in Trinidad and three in Tobago and five in Barbados. It also has a representative office in Costa Rica, which handles its Latam business. It wholly owns First Citizens (St. Lucia) Limited, which it established as an offshore financial vehicle for the Bank and its subsidiaries and also to conduct selected banking and financial service operations in the Caribbean Region. The Group's Chief Executive Officer is Karen Darbasie and the office of Group Chief Financial Officer is held by Shiva Manraj. There are two deputy CEO's, Jason Julien (Business Generation) and Sterling Frost (Operations and Administration). Lindi Ballah Tull is the Group's Corporate Secretary and head of the legal department. On September 13, 1993 the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago merged three government-owned entities, National Commercial Bank (NCB), the Trinidad Co-operative Bank (TCB), and the Workers' Bank to form First Citizens Bank. In a strange twist of fate, all three institutions ran into severe financial difficulties to varying degrees between 1986 and 1992 resulting in a Government takeover of all three entities. In what was considered a bold, even absurd move, in 1993 the Government of Trinidad and Tobago merged all three banks into one, and First Citizens Bank was born. Given the history of the previous three entities, not many people gave First Citizens Bank much hope of survival and felt that it was only a matter of time before the institution folded. However, by its first birthday, the Bank was able to declare a consolidated profit and had reduced the loan portfolio in arrears to 33% by August 1994 (it had been 62% in September 1993). Other significant initiatives in its early years were: Established in 1993, the First Citizens Group comprises: The First Citizens Asset Management team manages a range of mutual funds and several major pension fund plans, with funds under management at approximately $11.1 billion. Another subsidiary, the Trustee Services Company increased its revenue generating capability and also increased its fee income from $21.0 million in 2010 to $22.3 million in 2011. For the financial year ended September 30, 2011, the First Citizens Group showed an increase in profit after tax of $718.2 million. The Group’s Asset base increased from $29.5 billion to $31.2 billion and in spite of the general deceleration in the local economy, the Group’s gross loan base grew from $8.8 billion to $9.0 billion. In the year under review the Group successfully issued a US$175 million bond on the international capital market which was significantly oversubscribed. Standard & Poor's and Moody’s also re-affirmed First Citizens investment grade ratings of BBB+/A2 and Baa1/A1 respectively. First Citizens Bank (Trinidad and Tobago) First Citizens is a bank based in Trinidad and Tobago. First Citizens has assets of over TT$38 billion, 25 branches in Trinidad and three in Tobago and five in Barbados. It also has a representative"
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"Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It created the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority which is in charge of human embryo research, along with monitoring and licensing fertility clinics in the United Kingdom. The Authority is composed of a chairman, a deputy chairman, and however many members are appointed by the UK Secretary of State. They are in charge of reviewing information about human embryos and subsequent development, provision of treatment services, and activities governed by the Act of 1990. The Authority also offers information and advice to people seeking treatment, and to those who have donated gametes or embryos for purposes or activities covered in the Act of 1990. Some of the subjects under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990 are prohibitions in connection with gametes, embryos, and germ cells. It also addresses licensing conditions, code of practice, and procedure of approval involving human embryos. This only concerns human embryos which have reached the two cell zygote stage, at which they are considered “fertilised” in the act. It also governs the keeping and using of human embryos, but only outside the woman’s body. The act contains amendments to UK law regarding termination of pregnancy, surrogacy and parental rights. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Act 1990 regulates ex-vivo human embryo creation and the research involving them. This act established the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to regulate treatment and research in the UK involving human embryos. In 2001, an extension of the Act legalized embryo research for the purposes of “increasing knowledge about the development of embryos,” “increasing knowledge about serious disease,” and “enabling any such knowledge to be applied in developing treatments for serious disease.” The HFEA grants licenses and research permission for up to three years, based on approval of five steps by the Research License Committee. HFEA policies are reviewed by specialists in the field regularly. After research and literature are reviewed, and open public meetings are held, the summarized information is presented to the Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority. Donors must meet certain criteria in order to be eligible for sperm, egg, or embryo donation. The donor can donate for research purposes or fertility treatment. Donors should find a HFEA licensed clinic, or can go through the National Gamete Donation Trust. The HFEA is carrying out a detailed review to determine the best way to reduce the risk of multiple pregnancies with in vitro fertilization (IVF). For example, Nadya Suleman (or \"Octomom\") is publicly known for giving birth to octuplets after IVF treatment. This policy allows for the use of techniques which alter the mitochondrial DNA of the egg or an embryo used in IVF, to prevent serious mitochondrial diseases from being inherited. The policies reviewed by HFEA cover everything from human reproductive cloning to the creation of human-animal hybrids, and include subjects such as ethics with scientific and social significance. Sperm, eggs and embryos received in the donation process are currently tested for many medical conditions, and also quarantined for six months to reduce the risk of complications to the mother and child. Other than a screening for genetic disorders, donors are tested for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. Embryos must be donated by a woman between the ages of 18-35 years old, who has also undergone a medical screening and given informed consent (which can be revoked at any point up until the embryo is used). \"Welfare of the Child\" review (multiple pregnancy), for people seeking IVF treatment. While there is always a risk of having a multiples pregnancy after receiving IVF treatment, HFEA is reviewing policies which will reduce this dangerous possibility. No more than two eggs or embryos can be legally implanted in a woman in an IVF treatment. There is a 25% success rate of this procedure per treatment cycle. Includes safety procedure regulations at fertility clinics; includes safe cryopreservation of eggs and embryos. Eggs and embryos are stored for ten years after the initial treatment. If the patient decides not to pursue another pregnancy, the eggs and embryos can be donated for research or to another couple for fertility treatments. In donor-assisted conception, the donor may not receive any monetary compensation (in the UK), although they may have related expenses covered. Sperm, eggs and embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen using cryopreservation (defined as the freezing of cells or whole tissues to sub-zero temperatures—the boiling point of liquid nitrogen). This method preserves living organisms in a state where they can be restored to how they were before freezing. A cryoprotective compound (a liquid called cryopreservation medium), along with carefully controlled cooling and warming cycles ensure that minimal damage is done to the cells. However, the freezing process is still somewhat damaging. Therefore, men wishing to donate sperm or have it stored for future use must make six sperm deposits for every one child they wish to have, due to the 50% survival rate of the sperm in each deposit. The sperm is then put into straw shaped vials, and placed in a storage tank of either liquid nitrogen, or liquid nitrogen vapor. The sub-zero temperatures of the liquid generally range from -150 degrees Celsius, to -196 degrees Celsius. According to HFEA, the storage period for both human gametes and embryos cannot exceed ten years. HFEA requires a full informed consent from each party that has any relation to the egg, gametes, or embryo, all of which must be stored in accordance with their consents. Exceptions to the informed consent of gamete storage: The act states that it is legal to \"take\" gametes or accept those provided, and store them without a person's consent, if the person is considered incapable, or until they \"acquire such capacity.\" However, under paragraphs 9 and 10 of HFEA 1990, a person's gametes cannot be legally stored in the UK after their death. In July 1982 the Warnock Committee Inquiry was established. It was \"to consider recent and potential developments in medicine and science related to human fertilisation and embryology; to consider what policies and safeguards should be applied, including consideration of the social, ethical, and legal implications of these developments; and to make recommendations.\" The Warnock Report was published on July 18, 1984. The report stated that a regulator was needed due to the 'special status' of embryos. In 1985 the Interim Licensing Authority was created. It was supposed to regulate work and research regarding human in vitro fertilisation until a permanent government legislation was passed. It remained the only authority until 1990. The Unborn Children Protection Bill was also created in 1985. It was written by Enoch Powell and prohibited embryonic research. The Health Secretary would only have been allowed an embryo to be kept and implanted if it was for the sole purpose of assisting a named woman to bear a child. No other reason was allowed. This bill was not passed. It was reintroduced in 1986, where it again failed to pass. This was repeated again 1989. The Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 was the first law that governed surrogacy arrangements. It criminalized commercial surrogacy arrangements. In 1987 the framework for human fertilisation and embryology was created. A white paper was published in regards to the recommendations of the Warnock Report. In 1990 the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 was passed. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, HFEA, officially started work August 1, 1991. The act covers several areas: Within the act an embryo is defined as a live human embryo where fertilisation is complete, complete is defined",
"of assisting a named woman to bear a child. No other reason was allowed. This bill was not passed. It was reintroduced in 1986, where it again failed to pass. This was repeated again 1989. The Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 was the first law that governed surrogacy arrangements. It criminalized commercial surrogacy arrangements. In 1987 the framework for human fertilisation and embryology was created. A white paper was published in regards to the recommendations of the Warnock Report. In 1990 the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 was passed. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, HFEA, officially started work August 1, 1991. The act covers several areas: Within the act an embryo is defined as a live human embryo where fertilisation is complete, complete is defined as the appearance of a two cell zygote. The act states that eggs, sperm, and embryo can only be stored for a finite amount of time in very specific conditions that are regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Research on human embryos can only be performed for specifically defined purposes that must be considered 'necessary and desirable' by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Research can only be performed on an embryo for a maximum of fourteen days or until the primitive streak appears. The genetic composition of any cell within the embryo cannot be altered during the embryo's formation for research. The act defined several purposes: Section 37 of the Act amends the Abortion Act 1967. The section specifies and broadens the conditions where abortion is legal. Women who consider abortion are referred to two doctors. Each doctor then advises her whether abortion is a suitable decision based on the conditions listed below. An abortion is granted only when the doctors reach a unanimous decision that the woman may terminate her pregnancy. An abortion that is performed without this decision or under any other circumstances is considered unlawful. Abortion may be granted under one of the following circumstances: The registered medical practitioner that performs the abortion will continue to act in accordance with the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929. In 1991 the statutory storage period and special expeditions sections were revisited. Regulations were extended storage periods for eggs and sperm. Licensing rules for egg and sperm storage were also clarified. A Disclosure of Information Act was created in 1992. This allowed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to disclose information to others with the patient's consent. for example, information could be shared with their general practitioner. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 added section 156. This prohibited the treatment of cells from aborted embryos. During the same year the Parental Orders regulations allowed parental orders to be made in surrogacy cases. In 1996 the permitted storage period for embryos was extended. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003 amended section 28 in 2000. Sperm may be taken from a deceased male to fertilize an egg if the corresponding man and woman were: In 2001 the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Regulations were added. These regulations extended the purposes that an embryo can be created for in regards to research. In addition, the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001 was passed. This essential made human reproductive cloning illegal by outlawing the implantation of research embryos. As of 2004 the Disclosure of Donor Information Regulations were formed. Any sperm or egg donors registered after April 1, 2005 were required to pass on name and last address given to the offspring. During this time Parliament began reviewing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Licensing of all establishments handling gametes for treatment was required as of 2007 in the Quality and Safety Regulations. In 2006 a white paper was published regarding a revised legislation for fertility. This led to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, HFE, being passed. This was a major review of fertility legislation, updating and amending the act of 1990. In 2009 the HFE act was passed. This is the current law in the UK. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It created the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority which is in charge of human embryo research, along with monitoring and licensing fertility clinics in the United Kingdom. The Authority is composed of a chairman, a deputy chairman, and however many members are appointed by the UK Secretary of State. They are in charge of reviewing information about human embryos and subsequent development, provision of treatment services, and activities governed by"
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"Piranhaconda Piranhaconda is an American science fiction film, premiered on June 16, 2012, on the Syfy Channel. It is directed by Jim Wynorski, produced by Roger Corman, and stars Michael Madsen, Rib Hillis, Rachel Hunter, and Terri Ivens. Two piranhacondas hunt for their stolen egg. Scientist Professor Lovegrove, who stole the egg, hitchhikes to a Hawaiian island and meets a movie crew filming on location. The star, the scientist, and some crew members are kidnapped and held for ransom. A piranhaconda roaming the island devours several women and some scientists who are searching for a rare flower. The creature attacks the kidnappers' hideout, but the film crew and the scientist escape unharmed. The lead kidnapper finds a camera. The film within it shows that the scientist stole the egg, which caused the piranhaconda to attack, and he decides to kill the snake and the film crew. The snake follows the film crew, who are in a truck, but it is wounded by a grenade. The second piranhaconda arrives and, sensing blood, attacks and kills its wounded mate. It then decides to track down the film crew. Lovegrove reveals that he had the egg, so they try to escape via boat, but the piranhaconda stalls their plans. Lovegrove pretends to get rid of the egg, but doesn't, causing the creature to follow them. The crew become trapped by five remaining kidnappers, but the piranhaconda eats the kidnappers. Lovegrove, Jack, and Rose get back to the boat, but Jack stays on shore to destroy the creature. On the boat, Rose realizes that Lovegrove had the egg all along. She throws it into the river and shoves him overboard. He is then killed by the piranhaconda. Rose goes back to shore and finds Jack. Using the egg, they lure the piranhaconda to a waterfall. Jack slips a bomb into the case and throws it at the beast; then he and Rose jump into the river below. The bomb goes off and decapitates the piranhaconda. The two make a date with one another. They kiss before being killed by a third piranhaconda, thus ending the film. \"Piranhaconda\" was filmed in Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi and financed with an estimated $1,000,000. Piranhaconda Piranhaconda is an American science fiction film, premiered on June 16, 2012, on the Syfy Channel. It is directed by Jim Wynorski, produced by Roger Corman, and stars Michael Madsen, Rib Hillis, Rachel Hunter, and"
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"Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey (26 October 1738 in Lauzerte – 12 May 1811 in Paris) was a French classical cellist, the brother of Jean-Baptiste Rey. Like his brother, Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey began as a choirboy at the Abbey of Saint-Sernin, where he studied music. At the age of sixteen, he joigned the theater in Montpellier as a cellist. He went to Paris in 1755, where he took lessons from Martin Berteau. Two years later, he became a cellist at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. He returned to Paris in 1766 and entered the orchestra of the Paris Opera the following year. In 1772, he was admitted to King Louis XVI's chapel. He retired from the Opera House in 1806 and committed suicide less than five years later, cutting his throat with a razor. He was the author of vocal and instrumental music (three ballets, one opera, four ariettas, six cello sonatas, six duos for cello and a trio). Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey (26 October 1738 in Lauzerte – 12 May 1811 in Paris) was a French classical cellist, the brother of Jean-Baptiste Rey. Like his brother, Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey began as a choirboy at the Abbey of Saint-Sernin, where he studied music."
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"Alexandre Da Costa Alexandre Da Costa is a Canadian concert violinist from Montreal, Quebec. Sony Classical artist and winner of the 2012 Juno Award, Alexandre Da Costa was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He showed an uncommon interest for both the violin and piano at a very early age. By the age of nine, he had the astonishing ability to perform his first concerts with stunning virtuosity on both instruments, which brought him recognition as a musical prodigy. His chosen professional career as a violinist began very early and, after encouragement from Charles Dutoit, he was soon performing regularly as soloist with orchestra as well as in recital. At age 18, he obtained a master's degree in violin and a first prize from the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec. Concurrently, he also obtained a bachelor's degree in piano interpretation from the University of Montreal. Subsequently, told he had to choose one instrument, he studied in Madrid at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia with a legendary violin teacher who became his mentor, Zakhar Bron (whose previous students famously include the likes of Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin). He later pursued post-graduate studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst of Vienna, Austria, with G. Schulz, C. Altenburger and R. Honeck, and is currently completing a research PhD. Among the many other prizes that followed were the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award from the Canada Council for the Arts, and in 2003 the Council's Musical Instrument Bank decided to go further and award him the \"1689 Baumgartner Stradivarius\". In 2010, he received the prestigious Virginia-Parker Prize, one of Canada's highest cultural distinctions. Winner of many national and international first prizes, including the International Violin Competition Pablo Sarasate, Alexandre Da Costa has given close to two thousand concerts and recitals throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has performed the major halls of Vienna (Musikverein), Berlin (Philharmonie), New York (Carnegie Hall), Beijing (Poly-Theater) and beyond. He has played and recorded as guest soloist with more than a 100 different orchestras including London's Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna, Berlin, Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, the Dresden, Bergen, Buffalo and Prague Philharmonic Orchestras, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the National TV and Radio Orchestra of Spain, the YOA Orchestra of the Americas and many more. Conductors he has played under include Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Tugan Sokhiev, Vasily Petrenko, Matthias Bamert, John Axelrod, Johannes Wildner and Peter Oundjian. His live performance broadcasts have aired on BBC, WestDeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), CBC, NPR, ORF and many others. Da Costa has given world premieres of works by Elliott Carter, Michael Daugherty, Lorenzo Palomo, Paul Sarcich, Jean Lesage and Airat Ichmouratov. Alexandre Da Costa is also active as a chamber musician and has recently recorded the complete Brahms sonatas, alongside pianist Wonny Song. Da Costa has performed alongside acclaimed chamber musicians such as Menahem Pressler, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Matt Haimowitz and Hélène Mercier. As a recording artist, he has recorded 25 CDs with Sony Classical, Warner Classics, JVC/Victor, Naxos, Acacia Classics/Universal, ATMA, XXI-21 and Octave/Universal, among them the world premiere recordings of the Violin Concertos by Portuguese composers Luis de Freitas Branco and Armando José Fernandes. In 2012, he won the JUNO award for \"Classical Album of the Year\" for his recording of the concertos by American composer Michael Daugherty, with the Montreal Symphony under Pedro Halffter for Warner Classics. The Washington Post selected his recording of the Beethoven concerto with Klezmer cadenzas by A. Ichmouratov as CD of the Year. He now records for Spectra and Sony Classical. His latest release Stradivarius at the Opera, recorded with the Vienna Symphony, quickly attained the best-seller status, and was converted into a multimedia concert booked around the world. Alexandre Da Costa is Music Director of both the Acacia Ensemble (Canada) and the Indian Ocean Ensemble (Australia). He also regularly performs as guest soloist and conductor (Play & Conduct) with ensembles such as the Queen Sofia Royal Chamber Orchestra, the Virtuosos of Venezuela Symphony and the Vienna Symphony (Wiener Symphoniker). In addition to his soloist activities, Alexandre Da Costa is Associate Professor and Head of Strings at the Edith Cowan University and regularly gives masterclasses at various universities and conservatories around the world. Institutions he visited include the Sydney Conservatorium, the University of Toronto and the Superior Conservatories of Montreal, Madrid and Shanghai. He also served as benchmarking consultant for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and guest speaker for TEDx. As Concertmaster, he regularly leads orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Singapore Symphony, under conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Tugan Sokhiev, Günter Herbig and Lorin Maazel. He currently holds the position of Artistic Director of the Laurentians Classical Festival of Canada and Artistic Director at Acacia Classics Productions. Alexandre Da Costa plays the \"Deveault\" Stradivarius of 1701 loaned by his friends Guy and Maryse Deveault. Alexandre Da Costa Alexandre Da Costa is a Canadian concert violinist from Montreal, Quebec. Sony Classical artist and winner of the 2012 Juno Award, Alexandre Da Costa was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He showed an uncommon interest for both the violin and piano at a very early age. By the age of nine, he had the astonishing ability to perform his first concerts with stunning virtuosity on both instruments, which brought him recognition as a musical prodigy. His"
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