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"L.E. Doug Staiman Eliyahu Noah \"Eli\" Staiman (born February 15, 1988), professionally known as L.E. Doug Staiman, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known as the frontman of the Jewish pop punk band The Groggers, which he formed with guitarist Ari Friedman in 2010. He is also a musician in Aryeh Kunstler's backing band, the Aryeh Kunstler Band, and is half of the Jewish pop duo 3 Day Yuntif. In addition to his own music, he has directed, edited, produced, and acted in music videos for various artists, and has contributed to several YouTube comedy videos. Staiman was born in 1988 in Binghamton, New York. His family moved several times during his childhood. He attended the Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy and the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore, and later studied in Israel at Yeshivas Ner Yaakov. He graduated from Touro College. One of Staiman's early bands performed at Yeshiva University's Battle of the Bands, where he met guitarist Ari Friedman, then an undergraduate at the school. The two were later reintroduced at Queens College and briefly played together in a classic rock cover band called Steel Eagle. In 2010, Staiman recruited Friedman and several other musicians to film a video for a song he had written called \"Get\". After the video became a minor viral hit, Staiman officially assembled the group as The Groggers. Their debut album, \"There's No 'I' in Cherem\", was released on August 29, 2011. For the band's 2012 video \"Jewcan Sam\", Staiman received rhinoplasty from the video's co-producer, Miami plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer. Following the song's release and subsequent controversy, the band went on a brief hiatus, during which Staiman moved to Los Angeles and pursued a solo career. However, the band returned later in the year with a song called \"Mindy\". Staiman is also currently part of the Jewish pop duo 3 Day Yuntif with Ira Silver. They released their debut single, \"Thank God It's Shabbos (TGIS)\" in 2015. In addition to his own music, Staiman has also written, produced, and directed several music videos for other musicians, primarily on YouTube. Artists he has worked with include Avery, Taylor Carroll, Bart Baker, Dave Days, Mayim Bialik, and The Groggers themselves. He is also an actor, most notably appearing on a Season 1 episode of \"Brand X with Russell Brand\" as a pedophile name Morry Urple. He appeared in a 2014 BuzzFeed video entitled \"Jews Decorate Christmas Trees For The First Time\". In 2017, Staiman directed and co-wrote \"Find Your Song\", a music video promoting Shalhevet High School that featured student and \"Gotham\" actor David Mazouz. L.E. Doug Staiman Eliyahu Noah \"Eli\" Staiman (born February 15, 1988), professionally known as L.E. Doug Staiman, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known as the frontman of the Jewish pop punk band The Groggers, which he formed with guitarist Ari Friedman in 2010. He is also a musician in Aryeh Kunstler's backing band, the Aryeh"
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"Marin Transit Marin Transit is a public bus agency in Marin County, California, in the United States. Originally formed in 1964 as Marin County Transit District (MCTD), Marin Transit was re-branded on 30 July 2007 and now provides a variety of fixed-route and demand-response services using contractors. Marin Transit was formed by a vote of the people of Marin County in 1964 and was given the responsibility for providing local transit service within Marin County. It has since played a key role in providing local transit service within the county through various funding sources (Measure A Funds, State Transportation Development Act Funds, fares, property taxes and Federal Section 5311 rural transit funds). For a history of Marin Transit service in relation to Golden Gate Transit, click here. Marin Transit serves all major cities, towns, and communities within Marin County except Muir Beach, Nicasio, and Peacock Gap (East San Rafael). Route information listed below is current as of 10 June 2018. \"See Golden Gate Transit for information on Regional and Commute bus routes serving Marin County, which have no affiliation with Marin Transit.\" Note: \"Italicized\" locations are served on select trips only. Supplemental routes operate on school days only. Marin Transit provides four services that do not operate on fixed routes, as well as ADA complementary paratransit. Marin Transit Connect provides curb-to-curb service in northern San Rafael on weekdays. On-demand service is available by requesting a ride through the Marin Transit Connect app. Passengers without smartphones can schedule rides by calling a phone number. The Dillon Beach/Tomales Dial-a-Ride provides curb-to-curb service from Dillon Beach and Tomales to Petaluma by reservation only. Service operates on Wednesdays. The Novato Dial-a-Ride provides curb-to-curb service within Novato by reservation only. Novato Dial-a-Ride, which replaced the EZ Rider service that served only portions of the city, supplements fixed-route bus service and operates to areas not served by buses, including Bahia, Bel Marin Keys, and Black Point. Service operates daily. The Point Reyes Dial-a-Ride provides curb-to-curb service from Point Reyes to Novato shopping destinations by reservation only. Service operates the second Monday of each month. Complementary paratransit () service, as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), is operated within Marin County using the Marin Access name. Service is available to eligible passengers by reservation only. Marin Transit supplements paratransit with the STAR and TRIP volunteer driver programs and Marin Catch-a-Ride program. As of 10 June 2018, Marin Transit owns a fleet of approximately 67 buses. Marin Transit also uses approximately eight buses owned by the National Park Service, Caltrans, MV Transportation, and Marin Airporter. These vehicles are not reflected in the table above. All Marin Transit fixed-route fares and passes are also valid on Golden Gate Transit bus routes within Marin County. These fares do not apply to the Muir Woods Shuttle. See Muir Woods Shuttle fares in the following section. Notes: School-based \"Youth Passes\" are available to students ages 5 through 18 from Marin County schools. Passes are available for $175.00 for 6 months and $325.00 for one year. Passes allow unlimited rides on all Marin Transit fixed routes (excluding Muir Woods Shuttle). However, unlike other Marin Transit fare media, the passes are not valid on any Golden Gate Transit bus routes. Round-trip fares on the Muir Woods Shuttle are $3.00 for adults (ages 16 and over) and free for youths (ages 15 and under). No one-way fares are available. Marin Transit fare media and Clipper cards are not accepted. Fares must be purchased online prior to boarding. Clipper cards are not accepted on any demand-response services. Marin Transit Connect fares are $4.00 per trip. The fare is $2.00 for Marin Access users, as well as for all trips to/from fixed-route bus stops. A $40 monthly pass is also available. Marin Transit Marin Transit is a public bus agency in Marin County, California, in the United States. Originally formed in 1964 as Marin County Transit District (MCTD), Marin Transit was re-branded on 30 July 2007 and now provides a variety of fixed-route and demand-response services using contractors. Marin Transit was formed by a vote of the people of Marin County in 1964 and was given the responsibility for providing local transit service within Marin"
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"Seoul Lantern Festival The Seoul Lantern Festival is an annual festival held every November in Seoul in South Korea when hundreds of lanterns decorate the public recreation space of Cheonggyecheon. The Seoul Lantern Festival started in 2009. The two-week festival starts on the Friday of the first week in November and covers downtown Seoul in sparkling lights, illuminating the city at night during the early winter. Visitors can encounter various types of lanterns from Cheonggye Plaza to Supyo Bridge (1.2 kilometers). Seoul Lantern Festival offers different concepts of festival every year. The first Seoul Lantern Festival celebrated the 'Visit Korea Year 2010 to 2012' for 5 days. The festival had four themes that were related to 'ryu' Korean. The second Seoul Lantern Festival drew 2.3 million visitors, including about 370,000 foreign tourists. The festival's paper lanterns were from 24 countries including Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Malaysia. The festival was originally planned for 10 days, but public pressure, largely from the foreign tourists, convinced the organisers to extend the festival by seven additional days. The main theme of the 2011 festival was 'The History of Seoul by Lanterns' (alternately, '…Told with Light'; literally 'An Old Story of Seoul with Lantern'). Lantern art was used to tell the history of Korea from the Joseon Dynasty through modern times, with special attention to the stories told for Children. 'The Roots of Seoul, the Life of Ancestors'. was the theme for 2012, once again running a total of 17 days with lanterns illuminated from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Highlighting the design, colour and exotic atmosphere created by lanterns, the overall display extended to over and included over 35,000 lights from around Korea (including Suncheon, Namwon, Uiryeong, Inje, Yeongju and Yeongwol, among others) as well as Japan, the Philippines and Singapore. This fifth Seoul Lantern Festival opened on 1 November to 11 November with a main theme of 'Millennial dream of Hanseong Baekje'. During this festival, visitors could make hanji lanterns, watch musical performances and enjoy other entertainments and events along Cheonggye Plaza and other Seoul sites. A modern lantern in the form of a falcon symbolized the lionhearted Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and an opening musical performance and parade was based on the life of Geunchogo of Baekje who oversaw the apex of that kingdom. The Seoul Lantern Festival changed its Korean name in 2014 to the Seoul Bitcholong Festival, but there was no change to the name in English. According to the organizing committee, it has changed the Korean name because the festival has expanded to be a combination of traditional lanterns and modern lights like LEDs. It has opened from Cheonggye Plaza to Supyogyo(Bridge) about 1.2 km and displayed about 30,000 light bulbs and about 300 lanterns of 58 lantern light arts. Moreover, the wish tree that is displayed at Kwangtong Bridge was 8 m high and it contained the wishes of Seoul citizens and foreign visitors. As a result, about 3.14 million visitors enjoyed the Seoul Lantern Festival 2014. The total visitors rate has increased 25% from the year before. The largest number of visitors enjoyed the Seoul Lantern Festival 2014. Total foreign visitors are about 630,000 and this rate has increased 16% from the year before. The Seoul Lantern Festival was organized just in time to celebrate the 'Visit Korea Year 2010 to 2012'. It was decided to hold the Seoul Lantern Festival annually, and in response the city of Jinju criticized the festival severely. They said that the Seoul Lantern Festival was a copy of their Jinju Namgang Yudeng Festival, which itself is annual and had begun earlier, in 2000. It had been started in that year as a public requiem, and also as an occasion for a Korean prayer rite in honour of about 70,000 soldiers and civilians who had died in the historic second battle at Jinju Castle in 1593. More than 20 Jinju associations asked for the Seoul Lantern Festival to be discontinued. There was a one-man protest in front of the Seoul city hall and an assembly at the Seoul station. As a result, the city of Seoul and the city of Jinju agreed to change the Korean name of the Seoul Lantern Festival, and thus differentiated the Seoul Lantern Festival from the Jinju Namgang Yudeng Festival. Seoul Lantern Festival The Seoul Lantern Festival is an annual festival held every November in Seoul in South Korea when hundreds of lanterns decorate the public recreation space of Cheonggyecheon. The Seoul Lantern Festival started in 2009. The two-week festival starts on the Friday of the first week in November and covers downtown Seoul in sparkling lights, illuminating the city at night during the early winter. Visitors can encounter various types of lanterns from Cheonggye"
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"Iliocostalis The iliocostalis is the muscle immediately lateral to the longissimus that is the nearest to the furrow that separates the epaxial muscles from the hypaxial. It lies very deep to the fleshy portion of the serratus ventralis (serratus posterior). The iliocostalis cervicis (cervicalis ascendens) arises from the angles of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs, and is inserted into the posterior tubercles of the transverse processes of the fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae. The iliocostalis dorsi (musculus accessorius; iliocostalis thoracis) arises by flattened tendons from the upper borders of the angles of the lower six ribs medial to the tendons of insertion of the iliocostalis lumborum; these become muscular, and are inserted into the upper borders of the angles of the upper six ribs and into the back of the transverse process of the seventh cervical vertebra. The iliocostalis lumborum (iliocostalis muscle; sacrolumbalis muscle) is inserted, by six or seven flattened tendons, into the inferior borders of the angles of the lower six or seven ribs. Iliocostalis The iliocostalis is the muscle immediately lateral to the longissimus that is the nearest to the furrow that separates the epaxial muscles from the hypaxial. It lies very deep to"
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"The Connaught (Sydney) The Connaught is a landmark residential apartment building in Sydney, Australia overlooking Hyde Park. It is known for being one of the first high-rise strata apartment buildings in Sydney and for its string of famous residents. The site where The Connaught stands today was originally the site of the Paris Theatre designed by architect Walter Burley Griffin, and demolished in 1981. The thirty-storey Connaught was completed in 1984 by Civil and Civic, builders of the Sydney Opera House, and was named in honour of the Duke of Connaught, HRH Prince Arthur, third son of Queen Victoria and former Governor-General of Canada. The Connaught has been home to many famous and infamous residents over its thirty-year history. Notable residents have included singers Michael Hutchence and Kylie Minogue, reporter Jana Wendt, film critic Margaret Pomeranz, showbusiness veteran Barry Crocker, reporter Richard Wilkins, infamous criminal Christopher Dale Flannery, lawyer and socialite Chris Murphy and businessman Max Moore-Wilton In 1995 Tony Byrne was a resident in The Connaught when his model daughter Caroline Byrne was found dead at the bottom of the notorious 'The Gap'. The mistress of the late Richard Pratt, Shari-Lea Hitchcock, was also a resident of The Connaught. Current socialites Robert Hannan, Steven Horner, Ryan John and Mustafa are residents. In 2010 The Connaught was the scene of the high-profile murder of an elderly resident allegedly by his 92-year-old wife, who at the time was the oldest women in Australian to be trialled for murder. The Connaught (Sydney) The Connaught is a landmark residential apartment building in Sydney, Australia overlooking Hyde Park. It is known for being one of the first high-rise strata apartment buildings in Sydney and for its string of famous residents. The site where The Connaught stands today was originally the site of the Paris"
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"Land of the Free (Gamma Ray album) Land of the Free is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 1995. Continuing a trend that would conclude with the band's fifth studio release, the lineup for the album was different from the previous one, as \"Land of the Free\" was the first Gamma Ray album to be released since the departure of Ralf Scheepers, leaving Kai Hansen to take up lead vocals. While not his first stint as a vocalist (Hansen had sung lead for Helloween until 1987 and had also recorded lead vocals on \"Heal Me\" from \"Insanity and Genius\"), it would be the first time he had performed lead vocals exclusively in 8 years. Additionally, bassist Jan Rubach was to swap positions with guitarist Dirk Schlächter. Rubach initially agreed, but then resisted making the move. Rubach and drummer Thomas Nack instead decided to leave Gamma Ray. Rubach left towards the tail end of \"Men on a Tour\"; Schlächter took over the bass duties and Henjo Richter took over as the second guitarist. Nack would complete the tour and then leave, with both Rubach and Nack rejoining their former band Anesthesia. Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween) and Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) were featured on the album as guest vocalists. The track \"Afterlife\" was written as a tribute to Ingo Schwichtenberg, Kai Hansen's former bandmate in Helloween, who committed suicide prior to the album's release. Along with most of the band's past catalogue, the album was re-released in 2003 with a different cover and expanded track list which featured three tracks that had either appeared as bonuses on various editions of the album (namely \"Heavy Metal Mania\", which was a Japanese bonus track on the original release) or were unreleased tracks. The face of the figure in the cover is the same of the Helloween album Walls Of Jericho. Critics praised the album, with one review stating that it served \"the definition of power metal well and is indeed one of the most metal albums of the late '90s\". \"Land of the Free\" is by far Gamma Ray's most successful album with the most copies sold worldwide. Land of the Free (Gamma Ray album) Land of the Free is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 1995. Continuing a trend that would conclude with the band's fifth studio release, the lineup"
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"Johann Christian von Hellbach Johann Christian von Hellbach 15 July 1757 – 18 October 1828) was a German lawyer and writer. He wrote extensively but not exclusively on history. Johann Christian Hellbach was born in Arnstadt, a small but locally important town in central Germany, which earlier in the century had been the home town of Johann Sebastian Bach. Hellbach's father was Ludwig Gottfried Hellbach. At the local school Hellbach's teacher was the historian Johann Gottlieb Lindner. (In 1812 Hellbach would edit and publish Lindner's autobiography.) On leaving school, between 1777 and 1780 Hellbach studied Jurisprudence, after which he lived in Arnstadt. From 1788 he lived on his estate at Berga, roughly 100 km (60 miles) to the north. During this period he was also employed closer to Arnstadt, at Wechmar, working as Commission Secretary for the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. In the end he returned to living full-time in Arnstadt, promoted to the post of and for the Principality of Saxe-Meiningen. Hellbach married Charlotte Friedericka Wilhelmina Ernestina von Berga at his Berga estate on 17 May 1789. On 3 December 1819 confirmed and renewed the ancient nobility of Hellbach's family within Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. In terms of the sources, it was at this point that the name \"Hellbach\" became \"von Hellbach\". Johann Christian von Hellbach Johann Christian von Hellbach 15 July 1757 – 18 October 1828) was a German lawyer and writer. He wrote extensively but not exclusively on history. Johann Christian Hellbach was born in Arnstadt, a small but locally important town in central Germany, which earlier in the century had been the home town of Johann Sebastian Bach. Hellbach's father was Ludwig Gottfried Hellbach. At the local school Hellbach's teacher was the historian Johann Gottlieb Lindner. (In 1812 Hellbach would edit and publish Lindner's autobiography.) On leaving school, between 1777"
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"Cochylis dubitana Cochylis dubitana, the little conch, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Heilongjiang) and most of Europe. It is also found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado, Maine, Ontario and Washington. The wingspan is 11–16 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing in June and again in August. The larvae feed inside the flowers and developing seedheads of various Asteraceae species, including \"Senecio\", \"Crepis\" and \"Hieracium\" species and \"Sonchus arvensis\" and \"Solidago virgaurea\". Larvae can be found in July and from August to April. They overwinter in a cocoon among debris. Pupation takes place from April to July in a cocoon on the ground among debris. Cochylis dubitana Cochylis dubitana, the little conch, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Heilongjiang) and most of Europe. It is also found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado, Maine, Ontario and Washington. The wingspan is 11–16 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing in June and again in August. The larvae feed inside the flowers and developing seedheads of various Asteraceae species, including \"Senecio\", \"Crepis\""
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"1999 Malaysian general election A general election was held on Monday, 29 November 1999 for members of the 10th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 193 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 394 state constituencies in 11 out of 13 states of Malaysia (except Sabah and Sarawak) on the same day. 6,631,094 out of 9,564,071 registered voters cast their vote in this election. Although Barisan Nasional maintained its majority in Parliament, its overall popular vote dropped to roughly 56%. The parliamentary results are as follows: The opposition won a total of 113 state assembly seats, 98 of which went to the PAS, 11 to the DAP and 4 for Keadilan. In the states of Kelantan and Terengganu, the PAS won by a huge margin–41-2 against Barisan Nasional out of a total of 43 seats and 28-4 out of a total of 32 seats respectively, hence allowing them to form the state governments in these states. In addition, PAS also captured one-third of the state seats in Kedah, with the remaining two-thirds going to Barisan Nasional (UMNO won 16 seats, MCA 2 seats in Kedah). The election results were seen as a great gain for PAS, who previously had no state seats in Kedah and capturing only one seat in Terengganu in the 1995 General Elections. Observers attributed this to the neglect by the Federal Administration in the states of Terengganu and Kelantan. 1999 Malaysian general election A general election was held on Monday, 29 November 1999 for members of the 10th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 193 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament."
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"Ivan Megharoopan Ivan Megharoopan () is a 2012 Malayalam biographical film written and directed by P. Balachandran. The film is based on the life of Malayalam poet P. Kunhiraman Nair and is particularly based on his autobiography, \"Kaviyude Kalpadukal\". Prakash Bare, who is the producer of the film, also plays the protagonist K. P. Madhavan Nair. \"Ivan Megharoopan\" is P. Balachandran's debut film as a director. He has earlier written certain notable scripts including \"Ulladakkam\", \"Pavithram\" and \"Punaradhivasam\". Balachandran had discussed the story with filmmaker V. K. Prakash after writing \"Punradhivasam\" (which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 2000) for him. He suggested Prakash to direct the film but somehow the project didn't take off. In 2008, Balachandran decided to make the film on the poet, himself. \"When I spoke to Prakash of my plans, he encouraged me to direct the film. And that is how \"Ivan Megharoopan\" was born. The film is not a biography of Kunhiraman Nair, It is based on the life and the soul of the great poet,\" Balachandran says. He adds he was fascinated by the life of Kunhiraman Nair long before he wanted to make a film on it. \"It was direction that I learnt at the School of Drama in Thrissur, so I am not surprised that I have become a director. I have sometimes felt that I could have contributed a lot more to Malayalam cinema. Not that I am complaining; if I didn't do more it was because I didn't try hard,\" Balachandran says. \"Kaviyude Kalpadukal\", the autobiography of Kunhiraman Nair, is one of the foundations for the film, the director says. \"But the film is not based only on that book. \"Ivan Megharoopan\" is a fictionalised version of the life of the poet,\" he clarifies. The audition for the casting was held at Kochi in October. The protagonist of the film is K. P. Madhavan Nair, a character which obviously reflects P. Kunhiraman Nair. Prakash Bare, who played the lead role in the award-winning feature \"Sufi Paranja Katha\", was chosen to play Madhavan Nair. Bare also produced the film under the banner of Silicon Media. Padmapriya and Anu play the leading ladies while a few new faces play the other important female roles. Jagathy Sreekumar and Chembil Ashokan also act in notable roles. O. N. V. Kurup and Kavalam Narayana Panicker have written the lyrics, which have been tuned by Sharreth. \"No, I won't be using any of the poems of Kunhiraman Nair, but music will be important for the film,\" says Balachandran. Actress Remya Nambeeshan has sung a track in the film. A folk song titled \"Aande Londe\" is sung by the actress, who was trained in Carnatic vocal singing during her childhood days. The song is penned by Kavalam and is said to have prime importance in the film. The filming, planned to begin on 5 November 2010, was started a week later only. Major parts were shot from Ottapalam. Film released on 27 July 2012 with critics giving a positive review. <br>Paresh C. Palicha of Rediff.com rated the film and stated that the film has soul. <br>Sify.com gave the verdict as \"good\" and said that the film \"succeeds in taking the viewer along with the narrative and the intriguing life of the poet has been presented in an attractive style.\" <br>Veeyen of Nowrunning.com also gave a rating and said that, the film \"is full of life, and the vivaciousness that pervades the narrative lets the dazzling sparkle on this character study remain right on place.\" <br>\"The Times of India\" rated the film and stated that the film \"is a moving, poignant account of a poet's life that gains a lot from a carefully chosen cast.\" <br>Theater Balcony gave a rating and wrote: \"This one is one of the best from 2012 and cannot be missed for its feel, daring narration and the splendid performances. Surly Ivan Megharoopan will haunt us for long time.\" Sharreth composed music for the songs and soundtrack. The songs in the film are written by ONV Kurup and Kavalam Narayana Panikkar. It also includes a poem by \"\"Mahakavi\"\" P. Kunhiraman Nair, on whose life the film is based on. \"Ivan Megharoopan\" original sound track was the first Malayalam release of Universal Music Group. Ivan Megharoopan Ivan Megharoopan () is a 2012 Malayalam biographical film written and directed by P. Balachandran. The film is based on the life of Malayalam poet P. Kunhiraman Nair and is particularly based on his autobiography, \"Kaviyude Kalpadukal\". Prakash Bare, who is the producer of the film, also plays the protagonist K. P. Madhavan Nair. \"Ivan Megharoopan\" is P. Balachandran's debut film as a director. He has earlier written certain notable scripts including \"Ulladakkam\", \"Pavithram\" and \"Punaradhivasam\". Balachandran had discussed the story with"
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"Comarcas of Andalusia In Andalusia, comarcas have no defined administrative powers; many municipalities have gathered together to form \"mancomunidades\" in order to provide basic services, but those do not always coincide with the traditional \"comarcas\". The current (2007) Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia, unlike its 1981 predecessor, allows for the establishment and regulation of official \"comarcas\" under its Title III, Article 97, which defines the significance of \"comarcas\" and sets the basis for future legislation in this area. In 2003 the Council of Tourism and Sports of the Andalusian Autonomous Government published an order in which it defined the \"comarca\" as \"a geographic space with some homogeneous natural characteristicas, which produce social relations of immediacy and closeness, and present some common natural, economic and social characteristics and some common interests.\" This defined the official comarcas of Andalusia in the number of 62, as the following ones: Comarcas of Andalusia In Andalusia, comarcas have no defined administrative powers; many municipalities have gathered together to form \"mancomunidades\" in order to provide basic services, but those do not always coincide with the traditional \"comarcas\". The current (2007) Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia, unlike its 1981 predecessor, allows for the establishment and regulation of"
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"At Dawn (Undercover Brothers Ug EP) At Dawn is the debut EP released in 2014 by the Ugandan music duo Undercover Brothers Ug. It was co-written by the duo and released at their first ever concert dubbed 'Unveiling Undercover Brothers Ug' at Alliance Francaise, Kampala on December 13 and at the Uganda Museum on December 20, 2014. The concerts acted as their official release dates for their first album, \"At Dawn\" which sold physical copies at the concerts. The first concert was blessed by a performance by Uganda's king of Mwooyo Maurice Kirya. The third single \"Nsikatila\" marketed the album which increased album sales in December 2014. The duo released their first music video for the song \"Diamond\", a collaboration with Ugandan rapper Young Zee in May 2014. At Dawn (Undercover Brothers Ug EP) At Dawn is the debut EP released in 2014 by the Ugandan music duo Undercover Brothers Ug. It was co-written by the duo and released at their first ever concert dubbed 'Unveiling Undercover Brothers Ug' at Alliance Francaise, Kampala on December 13 and at the Uganda Museum on December 20, 2014. The concerts acted as their official release dates for their first album, \"At Dawn\" which"
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"John Dicker John Dicker (30 March 1815 – 30 March 1895) was an English cricketer who played for Kent. He was born in Cudham and died in Westerham. Dicker made two first-class appearances for Kent in 1840, scoring one run in the first match, batting first as a tailender, and in the middle order, while in his second match for the team, he was promoted to second in the batting order, where he scored two runs in what is, to this day, one of the lowest totals in first-class cricket for Kent. Four years later, Dicker played one further first-class match in a Married v Single game, in which he scored four runs. Dicker died on his eightieth birthday. John Dicker John Dicker (30 March 1815 – 30 March 1895) was an English cricketer who played for Kent. He was born in Cudham and died in Westerham. Dicker made two first-class appearances for Kent in 1840, scoring one run in the first match, batting first as a tailender, and in the middle order, while in his second match for the team, he was promoted to second in the batting order, where he scored two runs in what is, to this"
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"1969 Maccabiah Games At the 8th Maccabiah Games in 1969, 1,450 athletes from 27 countries competed in 22 sports. Germany and Greece sent teams for the first time since the 1935 Games. A new swimming pool was dedicated at Yad Eliyahu. The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In 1961, they were declared a \"Regional Sports Event\" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, the International Olympic Committee. American swimmer Mark Spitz won 6 gold medals. Tal Brody, having moved from the U.S. to Israel, captained the Israeli basketball team to a gold medal over the United States. Israeli Olympian Shaul Ladany won gold medals in the 3-km walk (13.35.4), the 10-km walk, and the 50-km walk. Esther Roth of Israel won the long jump with a 19-foot, 3/4 inch (5.81 meter) jump. David Berger, an American, won a gold medal in the middleweight weight-lifting contest. He later represented Israel in the 1972 Summer Olympics, but was one of the 11 Israeli sportsmen killed by Arab terrorists in the Munich Massacre. In tennis, Julie Heldman, who was ranked # 2 in the US, won the Women's Singles, the Women's Doubles with Marilyn Aschner, and the Mixed Doubles with Ed Rubinoff. Bruce Fleisher of the US won gold medals in both individual and team golf. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed. 1969 Maccabiah Games At the 8th Maccabiah Games in 1969, 1,450 athletes from 27 countries competed in 22 sports. Germany and Greece sent teams for the first time since the 1935 Games. A new swimming pool was dedicated at Yad Eliyahu. The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In 1961, they were declared a \"Regional Sports Event\" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, the International Olympic Committee. American swimmer"
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"NBU Osiyo FC NBU Asia () is Uzbekistani football club based in Tashkent. Currently it plays in Uzbekistan First League \"NBU Osiyo\" was founded in 2000 and in its first season became champion of Uzbekistan Second League and promoted to Uzbekistan First League. 2013 season club finished 7th in 2nd championship round of First League. After 2013 season finished club head coach Mukhtor Qurbonov left the club and on 6 January 2014 was appointed as head coach of Shurtan Guzar which relegated to First League for 2014 season. In January 2014 Jafar Irismetov was appointed as new head coach of the \"NBU Osiyo\". NBU Osiyo FC NBU Asia () is Uzbekistani football club based in Tashkent. Currently it plays in Uzbekistan First League \"NBU Osiyo\" was founded in 2000 and in its first season became champion of Uzbekistan Second League and promoted to Uzbekistan First League. 2013 season club finished 7th in 2nd championship round of First League. After 2013 season finished club head coach Mukhtor Qurbonov left the club and on 6 January 2014 was appointed as head coach of Shurtan Guzar which relegated to First League for 2014 season. In January 2014 Jafar Irismetov was appointed as new"
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"Vapi Busbakara Vapi Busbakara (; ; 25 June 1891 – 15 December 1982) was the Princess of Siam (later Thailand). She was a member of Siamese Royal Family. She is a daughter of Chulalongkorn, King Rama V of Siam. She was one of the longest-living personages in the Thai history. Her mother was Chao Chom Manda Phrom (daughter of Phraya Phitsanuloka Thibodi), but her mother died while she was so young. Later, Queen Savang Vadhana took her became the adopted daughter, along with her elder sister, Princess Prabha Bannabilaya, including Princess Yaovabha Bongsanid, and Prince Rangsit Prayurasakdi. She had 3 siblings; 2 elder sisters, and 1 younger brother; Princess Vapi Busbakara was the only adopted daughter of Queen Sri Savarindira, who managed and took care of her stepmother's body before the Royal Cremation. She died on 15 December 1982, at the age of 90. Royal crematorium was created on 26 March 1983, by King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Vapi Busbakara Vapi Busbakara (; ; 25 June 1891 – 15 December 1982) was the Princess of Siam (later Thailand). She was a member of Siamese Royal Family. She is a daughter of Chulalongkorn, King Rama V of Siam. She was one of the"
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"Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (Spanish: \"Banco Central de El Salvador\") is the central bank of El Salvador, which controls the currency rate and regulates certain economic activities within El Salvador. The bank was originally privately owned, but was brought under state control through The Law of the Reorganization of Central Banking. The bank is active in developing financial inclusion policy and is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. In 2013, the bank made a joint Maya Declaration Commitment with the Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero of El Salvador to carry out a series of concrete and measurable actions. Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (Spanish: \"Banco Central de El Salvador\") is the central bank of El Salvador, which controls the currency rate and regulates certain economic activities within El Salvador. The bank was originally privately owned, but was brought under state control through The Law of the Reorganization of Central Banking. The bank is active in developing financial inclusion policy and is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. In 2013, the bank made a joint Maya Declaration Commitment with the Superintendencia"
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"Verb phrase In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntactic unit composed of at least one verb and its dependentsobjects, complements and other modifiersbut not always including the subject. Thus in the sentence \"A fat man put the money quickly in the box\", the words \"put the money quickly in the box\" are a verb phrase; it consists of the verb \"put\" and its dependents, but not the subject \"a fat man\". A verb phrase is similar to what is considered a \"predicate\" in more traditional grammars. Verb phrases generally are divided among two types: finite, of which the head of the phrase is a finite verb; and nonfinite, where the head is a nonfinite verb, such as an infinitive, participle or gerund. Phrase structure grammars acknowledge both types, but dependency grammars treat the subject as just another verbal dependent, and they do not recognize the finite verbal phrase constituent. Understanding verb phrase analysis depends upon knowing which theory obtains in context. In phrase structure grammars such as generative grammar, the verb phrase is one headed by a verb. It may be composed of only a single verb, but typically it consists of combinations of main and auxiliary verbs, plus optional specifiers, complements (not including subject complements), and adjuncts. For example: The first example contains the long verb phrase \"hit the ball well enough to win their first World Series since 2000\"; the second is a verb phrase composed of the main verb \"saw\", the complement phrase \"the man\" (a noun phrase), and the adjunct phrase \"through the window\" (a prepositional phrase). The third example presents three elements, the main verb \"gave\", the noun \"Mary\", and the noun phrase \"a book\", all which comprise the verb phrase. Note, the verb phrase described here corresponds to the predicate of traditional grammar. Current views vary on whether all languages have a verb phrase; some schools of generative grammar (such as principles and parameters) hold that all languages have a verb phrase, while others (such as lexical functional grammar) take the view that at least some languages lack a verb phrase constituent, including those languages with a very free word order (the so-called non-configurational languages, such as Japanese, Hungarian, or Australian aboriginal languages), and some languages with a default VSO order (several Celtic and Oceanic languages). Phrase structure grammars view both finite and nonfinite verb phrases as constituent phrases and, consequently, do not draw any key distinction between them. Dependency grammars (described below) are much different in this regard. While phrase structure grammars (constituency grammars) acknowledge both finite and non-finite VPs as constituents (complete subtrees), dependency grammars reject the former. That is, dependency grammars acknowledge only non-finite VPs as constituents; finite VPs do not qualify as constituents in dependency grammars. For example: Since \"has finished the work\" contains the finite verb \"has\", it is a finite VP, and since \"finished the work\" contains the non-finite verb \"finished\" but lacks a finite verb, it is a non-finite VP. Similar examples: These examples illustrate well that many clauses can contain more than one non-finite VP, but they generally contain only one finite VP. Starting with Lucien Tesnière 1959, dependency grammars challenge the validity of the initial binary division of the clause into subject (NP) and predicate (VP), which means they reject the notion that the second half of this binary division, i.e. the finite VP, is a constituent. They do, however, readily acknowledge the existence of non-finite VPs as constituents. The two competing views of verb phrases are visible in the following trees: The constituency tree on the left shows the finite VP \"has finished the work\" as a constituent, since it corresponds to a complete subtree. The dependency tree on the right, in contrast, does not acknowledge a finite VP constituent, since there is no complete subtree there that corresponds to \"has finished the work\". Note that the analyses agree concerning the non-finite VP \"finished the work\"; both see it as a constituent (complete subtree). Dependency grammars point to the results of many standard constituency tests to back up their stance. For instance, topicalization, pseudoclefting, and answer ellipsis suggest that non-finite VP does, but finite VP does not, exist as a constituent: The * indicates that the sentence is bad. These data must be compared to the results for non-finite VP: The strings in bold are the ones in focus. Attempts to in some sense isolate the finite VP fail, but the same attempts with the non-finite VP succeed. Verb phrases are sometimes defined more narrowly in scope, in effect admitting only those elements considered as strictly verbal to compose verb phrases, which, accordingly, would consist only of main and auxiliary verbs, plus infinitive or participle constructions. For example, in the following sentences only the words in bold would be used in forming the verb phrase: This more narrow definition is often applied in functionalist frameworks and traditional European reference grammars. It is incompatible with the phrase structure model, because the strings in bold are not constituents under that analysis. It is, however, compatible with dependency grammars and other grammars that view the verb catena (verb chain) as the fundamental unit of syntactic structure, as opposed to the constituent. 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"UFC 23 UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 19, 1999 at Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Tokyo, Japan. UFC 23 was the second UFC event to take place in Tokyo, Japan, where the newly formed PRIDE Fighting Championships were enjoying massive success. UFC 23 was headlined by a Heavyweight Championship Title bout between Kevin Randleman and Pete Williams (mixed martial artist), held to determine the champion after Bas Rutten's retirement. The event also featured a four-man \"Japanese\" tournament, held to crown the first ever UFC Japan Champion. The tournament was the first in the UFC since UFC 17, and the last ever tournament held by the UFC. SEG originally intended UFC Japan to be a separate company, run by local promoters, but due to mounting financial problems, a lack of cooperation from Japanese promoters, and the rise of the popular PRIDE and K-1 organizations, the idea was scrapped following \"UFC 25: Ultimate Japan 3\". UFC 23 was the first UFC event to not see a home video release, as SEG was nearing bankruptcy and struggling to keep the UFC alive through extremely limited pay per view in the US, as well as minor coverage in Brazil and Japan. UFC 23 has now been released as part of a DVD collection (UFC 21–30). It was also the first to feature James Werme who handled backstage interviews. Bas Rutten announced on UFC 23 that he dropped his heavyweight championship title so he could drop down to middleweight to bring Frank Shamrock out of retirement to fight for the middleweight championship. UFC 23 UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 19, 1999 at Tokyo Bay NK Hall in"
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"Cassanova McKinzy Cassanova McKinzy (born November 17, 1992) is an American football outside linebacker for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Auburn, and was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2016. McKinzy is the son of Joann Brown and Charles Drake. He attended Woodlawn High School, where he played high school football for the Colonels. Before the 2012 season, McKinzy committed to Auburn University to play under head coach Gus Malzahn. He played three seasons from 2012-2015. McKinzy was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent following the 2016 NFL Draft. On August 22, 2016, he was released by the team. On January 3, 2017, McKinzy signed a reserve/future contract with the Los Angeles Rams. He was waived on September 2, 2017 and was signed to the Rams' practice squad the next day. He was released by the team on September 19, 2017. On January 1, 2018, McKinzy signed a reserve/future contract with the Washington Redskins. He was released on April 30, 2018, but re-signed on August 6. On September 1, 2018, McKinzy was waived for final roster cuts before the start of the 2018 season but signed to the team's practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on October 29, 2018, but was waived the next day and re-signed to the practice squad. He was promoted back to the active roster on November 9, 2018. He suffered a torn pectoral in Week 12 and was ruled out for the season. Cassanova McKinzy Cassanova McKinzy (born November 17, 1992) is an American football outside linebacker for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Auburn, and was signed by the Tampa"
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"Jonathan Edward Caldwell Jonathan Edward Caldwell (born March 24, 1883, date of death unknown) was a self-taught aeronautical engineer who designed a series of bizarre aircraft and started public companies in order to finance their construction. None of these was ever successful, and after his last known attempt in the later 1930s he disappeared, apparently to avoid securities fraud charges. His name was later connected with mythical German flying saucers, and he remains a fixture of the UFO genre to this day. Little of Caldwell's early life is known, and what has been documented was reconstructed from college records. He appears to have been born in Hensall, Ontario, Canada, the fifth son (and one of twelve children) of William Thomas Caldwell (1848–1930) and Sarah Alice Chamberlain (1852–1933). He emigrated to the United States in 1910, and attended Oregon State College, from 1912 to 1913, majoring in mechanical engineering. In the 1920s, according to statements he made later in life, he became interested in aviation and began to study the fundamentals of aerodynamics. In February 1923 Caldwell filed for a patent on a device he called the \"cyclogyro\". It consisted of an airplane fuselage with two paddle-wheel like attachments in place of the wings. The wheels were powered by an engine in the fuselage, spun to power the upper portion of the attachments forward – clockwise, as seen looking left from the cockpit. The wheels each featured four high aspect ratio airfoils, which were able to rotate around their horizontal axis in order to change their pitch. By changing the pitch continually through the entire rotation, the lift of the airfoils could be tuned to produce thrust in any direction. For instance, to lift off vertically the airfoils were pitched to have a positive angle of attack only at the top of their rotation, just generating lift only at that point. In forward flight the angle at the top of the arc would be reduced to make the lift neutral, but they would retain their positive angle even through the forward part of the circle, producing forward thrust. By changing the angle in this fashion, the aircraft could be \"lifted\" in any direction, with differential thrust between the two \"wings\" allowing yaw to be applied. Caldwell formed Gravity Aeroplane Company in Reno, Nevada (Caldwell was living in Santa Monica at the time) and issued stock in 1928. Their company stationary included an illustration showing the cyclogyro, a version with four airfoils per \"wing\", attached on the fuselage end to a large disk and the outer end to a cross-like support. Caldwell then turned to an even more bizarre aircraft design, an ornithopter. The wings were equipped with flexible fabric valves which were supposed to open on the upstroke and close on the downstroke, allowing it to generate lift with no forward motion and thus provide VTOL service, like the cyclogyro. Caldwell, now living in Denver filed a patent on his new design in December 1927, which was finally granted as US1730758 in October 1929. In early 1928 he started another company in Nevada to raise funds to develop it, \"'Gray Goose Airways', inc.\", issuing 10,000 shares of stock at ten cents per share, retaining a 51 percent interest. The funds were used to develop a human-powered prototype. By 1931 there was still no working prototype, and Caldwell moved to Orangeburg, New York, and later to Madison, New Jersey. A January 14, 1932 newsreel film shows the ornithopter being readied for a test. This was apparently attempted without success, by the otherwise unknown Emile Harrier. Additional funds were then raised by another stock issue in order to build a full-sized prototype at Teterboro Airport. He also apparently restarted his cyclogyro work, and an article appeared in one of the Popular Mechanics-like magazines showing the design equipped with a V-8 engine mounted in an odd twin-fuselage with the pilot and passengers below. Before the ornithopter prototype could be completed, the New Jersey Assistant Attorney General charged Caldwell with fraud in September. In his notes, the Attorney, Robert Grossman, noted that \"no one connected with the company possessed sufficient knowledge of aeronautics to build a practical ship.\" Caldwell eventually reached an agreement that allowed him to continue construction of the ornithopter prototype until December, as long as no more shares of stock were sold in that time. Grossman also noted that Caldwell had begun work on yet another entirely new design, using a disk wing. In December there was still no prototype, and Caldwell moved the company to New York. The New York Attorney General started questioning the business almost immediately. In 1934 Caldwell moved again, this time to Washington, DC. In a filing with the Maryland Securities and Exchange Commission he described the company as working solely on a new type of autogyro, which he referred to as a \"disk-rotor plane\". The design consisted of a fairly conventional autogyro layout, but the wing was disk-like instead of the more traditional helicopter-like bladed assembly. The disk had airfoils formed out of fabric on the inside of the rim, and four small solid surfaces on the outside. In forward motion the airstream blowing across the four small surfaces would spin the disk, which would provide lift from the fabric airfoils inside. On reaching cruising altitude, the disk would be braked to stop it spinning, and unbraked again for a near-vertical landing. The advantage to this arrangement was that there was no theoretical limit on forward speed, whereas a conventional autogyro cannot be stopped in flight, and has a limit when the speed of the rearward moving blade approaches the stall speed. Unlike his previous attempts, the disk-rotor aircraft was actually completed between 1936 and 1938, and was issued a CAA experimental registration number \"NX99Y\". In late 1937 or early 1938 a test flight was attempted with the company mechanic at the controls, Willard Driggers. According to later claims (see below), Driggers managed to get the aircraft airborne from the Benning Race Track, and in a panic cut power, causing the aircraft to crash-land, damaging the landing gear. Although damage was minor, Caldwell had apparently already lost interest in the design and did not repair it. In 1939 Caldwell shut down Grey Goose and swapped shares once again, forming Rotor Planes, Inc. His latest design retained the disk-rotor from his earlier autogyro, but replaced the fuselage with a smaller disk in the center. According to some accounts, around 1940 the Maryland securities commission also started examining Caldwell, who promptly disappeared, abandoning the broken disk-rotor and the partially completed rotorplane. In May 1949, officers of the U.S. Air Force's Project Sign received a letter from a Gray Goose shareholder, who explained that the company had been building aircraft similar to the \"flying saucers\" which were then a popular topic in the press. This was during the UFO craze following Kenneth Arnold's reports of seeing UFO's over Mount Rainier and the Roswell Incident that followed. The Air Force had canvassed for reports of flying saucers, and the shareholder apparently felt that Caldwell's disk-rotor might explain them. Tracking down the leads, the team, accompanied by the Maryland Police, visited an abandoned farm in Glen Burnie, Maryland (outside Baltimore), where the damaged remains of Caldwell's disk-rotor aircraft were discovered. They also tracked down Driggers, who told them the story of the attempted flight in 1937/8. The team reported that the prototypes could not be responsible for the \"flying saucer\" reports that were being received from all around the country. Photographs of the broken disk-rotor machine continue to appear in UFOs books to this day. They were often described as \"crashed\" flying saucers in earlier works, claiming it was one more example of the USAF being in possession of such vehicles. More",
"and the shareholder apparently felt that Caldwell's disk-rotor might explain them. Tracking down the leads, the team, accompanied by the Maryland Police, visited an abandoned farm in Glen Burnie, Maryland (outside Baltimore), where the damaged remains of Caldwell's disk-rotor aircraft were discovered. They also tracked down Driggers, who told them the story of the attempted flight in 1937/8. The team reported that the prototypes could not be responsible for the \"flying saucer\" reports that were being received from all around the country. Photographs of the broken disk-rotor machine continue to appear in UFOs books to this day. They were often described as \"crashed\" flying saucers in earlier works, claiming it was one more example of the USAF being in possession of such vehicles. More recently they are normally connected with the claims that the Nazis had built working flying saucers late in the war, lumped together with other disk-shaped aircraft like the Avrocar, Arthur Sack A.S.6 and Vought V-173, in an effort to demonstrate that such aircraft were both possible and well-researched. In 1909/10, Caldwell married Olive E Davis. Caldwell emigrated to the United States in 1910. In 1930, Caldwell was living in Denver with his wife, Olive E Caldwell (48, born Wisconsin) and son Carl Davis Caldwell (July 17, 1917, Montana – November 27, 1993, Cupertino, California). Jonathan Edward Caldwell Jonathan Edward Caldwell (born March 24, 1883, date of death unknown) was"
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"Oregon Route 282 Oregon Route 282 is a state highway running from OR 281 north of Odell to OR 35 east of Odell within the U.S. state of Oregon. OR 282 is known as the Odell Highway No. 282 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs northwest to southeast (signed west and east), entirely within Hood River County. OR 282 was established in 2002 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned. OR 282 begins at an intersection with OR 281 five miles (8 km) south of Hood River and heads south approximately 2½ miles to Odell. At Odell, OR 282 turns east and continues approximately one mile to an intersection with OR 35 where it ends. OR 282 was assigned to the Odell Highway in 2002. Oregon Route 282 Oregon Route 282 is a state highway running from OR 281 north of Odell to OR 35 east of Odell within the U.S. state of Oregon. OR 282 is known as the Odell Highway No. 282 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs northwest to southeast (signed west and east), entirely within Hood River County. OR"
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"Catenane A catenane is a mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture consisting of two or more interlocked macrocycles, i.e. a molecule containing two or more intertwined rings. The interlocked rings cannot be separated without breaking the covalent bonds of the macrocycles. Catenane is derived from the Latin \"catena\" meaning \"chain\". They are conceptually related to other mechanically interlocked molecular architectures, such as rotaxanes, molecular knots or molecular Borromean rings. Recently the terminology \"mechanical bond\" has been coined that describes the connection between the macrocycles of a catenane. Catenanes have been synthesised in two different ways: statistical synthesis and template-directed synthesis. There are two primary approaches to the organic synthesis of catenanes. The first is to simply perform a ring-closing reaction with the hope that some of the rings will form around other rings giving the desired catenane product. This so-called \"statistical approach\" led to the first successful synthesis of a catenane; however, the method is highly inefficient, requiring high dilution of the \"closing\" ring and a large excess of the pre-formed ring, and is rarely used. The second approach relies on supramolecular preorganization of the macrocyclic precursors utilizing hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic effect, or coulombic interactions. These non-covalent interactions offset some of the entropic cost of association and help position the components to form the desired catenane upon the final ring-closing. This \"template-directed\" approach, together with the use of high-pressure conditions, can provide yields of over 90%, thus improving the potential of catenanes for applications. An example of this approach used bis-bipyridinium salts which form strong complexes threaded through crown ether bis(\"para\"-phenylene)-34-crown-10. Template directed syntheses are mostly performed under kinetic control, when the macrocyclization (catenation) reaction is irreversible. More recently, the groups of Sanders and Otto have shown that dynamic combinatorial approaches using reversible chemistry can be particularly successful in preparing new catenanes of unpredictable structure. The thermodynamically controlled synthesis provides an error correction mechanism; even if a macrocycle closes without forming a catenane it can re-open and yield the desired interlocked structure later. The approach also provides information on the affinity constants between different macrocycles thanks to the equilibrium between the individual components and the catenanes, allowing a titration-like experiment. A particularly interesting property of many catenanes is the ability of the rings to rotate with respect to one another. This motion can often be detected and measured by NMR spectroscopy, among other methods. When molecular recognition motifs exist in the finished catenane (usually those that were used to synthesize the catenane), the catenane can have one or more thermodynamically preferred positions of the rings with respect to each other (recognition sites). In the case where one recognition site is a switchable moiety, a mechanical molecular switch results. When a catenane is synthesized by coordination of the macrocycles around a metal ion, then removal and re-insertion of the metal ion can switch the free motion of the rings on and off. If there are more than one recognition sites it is possible to observe different colors depending on the recognition site the ring occupies and thus it is possible to change the color of the catenane solution by changing the preferred recognition site. Switching between the two sites may be achieved by the use of chemical, electrochemical or even visible light based methods. Catenanes have been synthesized incorporating many functional units, including redox-active groups (e.g. viologen, TTF=tetrathiafulvalene), photoisomerizable groups (e.g. azobenzene), fluorescent groups and chiral groups. Some such units have been used to create molecular switches as described above, as well as for the fabrication of molecular electronic devices and molecular sensors. There are a number of distinct methods of holding the precursors together prior to the ultimate ring-closing reaction in a template-directed catenane synthesis. Each noncovalent approach to catenane formation results in what can be considered different families of catenanes. Another family of catenanes are called pretzelanes or bridged [2]catenanes after their likeness to pretzels with a spacer linking the two macrocycles. In one such system one macrocycle is an electron deficient oligo Bis-bipyridinium ring and the other cycle is crown ether cyclophane based on para phenylene or naphthalene. X-ray diffraction shows that due to pi-pi interactions the aromatic group of the cyclophane is held firmly inside the pyridinium ring. A limited number of (rapidly interchanging) conformers exist for this type of compound. In handcuff-shaped catenanes, two connected rings are threaded through the same ring. The bis-macrocycle (red) contains two phenanthroline units in a crown ether chain. The interlocking ring is self-assembled when two more phenanthroline units with alkene arms coordinate through a copper(I) complex followed by a metathesis ring closing step. In catenane nomenclature, a number in square brackets precedes the word \"catenane\" in order to indicate how many rings are involved. Discrete catenanes up to a [7]catenane have been synthesised. Catenane A catenane is a mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture"
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"Auditorio Nacional (Mexico) National Auditorium () is an entertainment center at Paseo de la Reforma #50, Chapultepec in Mexico City. The National Auditorium is considered among the world's best venues by specialized media. It was designed by Mexican architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Gonzalo Ramírez del Sordo, and remodeled by Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León. There are concerts, art, theatre, dance and more. It also has a small venue available for smaller events, called Auditorio Lunario. The total seating capacity of 10,000. Constructed in 1952, it was used for volleyball and basketball matches of the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games and had seen performances of the San Francisco Ballet and New York Philharmonic in 1958. The auditorium was the venue for the gymnastics events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since the 1970s, it has been used primarily for international music, song, dance and film festivals, fairs and exhibitions. From 1988 to 1990, the auditorium went through an 18-months-long renovation, designed by architects Abraham Zaludovsky and Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, which brought it to the current design. It hosted the 1993 and 2007 Miss Universe pageants. In 2007, the American magazine \"Pollstar\" made the National Auditorium a nominee for International Theatre of the Year. In November 2007, the Auditorio Nacional won the \"Billboard\" Touring Award for best concert venue under 10,000 seats. Auditorio Nacional houses the largest pipe organ in Latin America. In 2016, it hosted the premiere of the largely anticipated comic-book film, \"\". Auditorio Nacional (Mexico) National Auditorium () is an entertainment center at Paseo de la Reforma #50, Chapultepec in Mexico City. The National Auditorium is considered among the world's best venues by specialized media. It was designed by Mexican architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Gonzalo Ramírez del Sordo, and remodeled by Abraham Zabludovsky and"
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"Michael Doucet Michael Louis Doucet (born February 14, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known as the founder for the Cajun band BeauSoleil. Doucet was born in Scott, Louisiana. He learned banjo at age six, guitar at eight, and belonged to a Cajun rock band with his cousin, Zachary Richard, at twelve. In his early 20s, Doucet and his cousin went to France, and when he got home he added violin to his music studies. Violin became his primary instrument, though he also plays accordion and mandolin. In 1975, he started the Cajun band Coteau, and two years later he started BeauSoleil with Kenneth Richard and Sterling Richard. Beausoleil plays an eclectic combination of traditional Cajun music, blues, country, jazz, and zydeco. Doucet has been a member of a more traditional Cajun band, the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band with Ann Savoy and Marc Savoy, and Fiddlers 4 with Darol Anger, Rushad Eggleston, and Bruce Molsky. He began teaching in 1977 at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. In 1975, Doucet received an NEA Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant to study Cajun fiddle styles from masters such as Varise Conner, Hector Duhon, Canray Fontenot, Lionel LeLeux, and Dennis McGee. Doucet is a recipient of a 2005 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Two years later, he was named a USA Collins Family Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists. Michael Doucet Michael Louis Doucet (born February 14, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known as the founder for the Cajun band BeauSoleil. Doucet was born in Scott, Louisiana. He learned banjo at age six, guitar at"
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"Sepp Kuss Sepp Kuss (born September 13, 1994) is an American cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Sepp Kuss started out in mountain bike racing as a junior. Kuss won 2 races at the Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals in 2014. In 2015, Kuss began to race on the road, where he quickly found his footing. At the end of 2015, Kuss won yet another Collegiate MTB title. Kuss began the 2016 season racing for the amateur Gateway Harley Davidson / Trek team. His first breakout result was a surprise win on a summit finish stage in the Redlands Bicycle Classic. After that, Kuss finished 4th at the Mogollon stage at the Tour of the Gila UCI 2.2 Stage race. Kuss had an excellent showing at Collegiate Road Nationals while racing for the University of Colorado that year. His results earned him a contract with Rally Cycling the following year. At Rally, Kuss had many impressive results that caught the eye of Team LottoNL-Jumbo, where he signed a two year contract for the 2018-2019 seasons. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Vuelta a España. Sepp Kuss Sepp Kuss (born September 13, 1994) is an"
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"Sam Goldbloom Samuel Mark \"Sam\" Goldbloom AM (31 December 1919 – 25 May 1999) was an Australian peace and human rights activist. Goldbloom worked in the clothing trade from the age of sixteen. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Commonwealth aircraft factory, becoming shop steward for his sheet metal workers' union. He enlisted as a flight mechanic in the Australian Air Force in 1941. In 1942 he married Rosa Segal. After the war, he became a prominent member of the Australian Labor Party, and was also active in the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism. Active in the Victorian Peace Council, he was a founding member, first secretary, and president of the Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament, and Australian representative on the World Peace Council. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1990. According to historian, John Ballantyne, the Melbourne branch of the Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament \"was supposedly a broad-based spontaneous movement of peace-lovers, but was in fact effectively controlled by the World Peace Council and the Communist Party. Behind the scenes, running the show, were familiar WPC identities (Alf) Dickie and (Frank) Hartley -- chairman and vice-chairman respectively -- and a brilliant full-time organising secretary, the late pro-Soviet activist Sam Goldbloom. Chairing many of its public sessions was Dr Jim Cairns.\" Sam Goldbloom Samuel Mark \"Sam\" Goldbloom AM (31 December 1919 – 25 May 1999) was an Australian peace and human rights activist. Goldbloom worked in the clothing trade from the age of sixteen. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Commonwealth aircraft factory, becoming shop steward for his sheet metal workers' union. He enlisted as a flight mechanic in the Australian Air Force in 1941. In 1942 he married Rosa Segal. After the"
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"Jimmy Serrano James Serrano (born May 9, 1976 in Grand Junction, Colorado) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals in , and in the KBO League for the SK Wyverns in . He bats and throws right-handed. Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft after attending the University of New Mexico, Serrano pitched for the Single-A Vermont Expos and Cape Fear Crocs in . In , Serrano had an ERA of 2.13 for the Single-A Jupiter Hammerheads in 44 games and was promoted to Double-A Harrisburg to start . He had a 4.20 ERA and stayed at Double-A in until a promotion to Triple-A Ottawa after recording a 2.18 ERA. On March 24, , Serrano was traded to the New York Mets with Jason Bay for Lou Collier. He pitched for Triple-A Norfolk until the Kansas City Royals purchased his contract on July 5, . He made his major league debut for the Royals on August 7, , appearing in 10 games that season, including 5 starts. Serrano became a free agent at the end of the season. On November 18, 2004, Serrano signed with the Oakland Athletics, with whom he became a full-time starting pitcher. He was released after 16 starts for Triple-A Sacramento during which, he went 8-3, compiled a 3.91 ERA, and struck out 89 in 92 innings. On July 3, he signed with the Cincinnati Reds. In 12 starts for Triple-A Louisville, Serrano had a 3.75 ERA and became a free agent after the season. On December 9, , Serrano signed with the Boston Red Sox recording a 2.50 ERA for Triple-A Pawtucket, but was released in June. He signed with the Wyverns and finished the 2006 season with them. On January 4, , Serrano signed a one-year minor league contract with the Florida Marlins and spent most of the year with Double-A Carolina and only 4 games with Triple-A Albuquerque. After sitting out a year, Serrano played for the independent Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in 2009, his most recent professional season. Jimmy Serrano James Serrano (born May 9, 1976 in Grand Junction, Colorado) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals in , and in the KBO League for the SK Wyverns in . He bats and"
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"Insys Therapeutics Insys Therapeutics is an American specialty pharmaceutical company based in Chandler, Arizona. Insys' main product is Subsys, a sublingual spray of fentanyl. The drug fentanyl is a very fast acting and powerful opiate used to relieve peaks of pain in cancer patients. The company also markets Syndros, a synthetic THC, and is actively working toward approval on other cannabis derivatives. Syndros is a prescription medicine used in adults to treat loss of appetite (anorexia) in people with AIDS who have lost weight, as well as nausea and vomiting caused by anti-cancer medicine (chemotherapy) in people whose nausea and vomiting have not improved with usual anti-nausea medicines. Syndros is the first and only FDA-approved (DEA schedule 1) liquid THC formulation, which allows for fast absorption, flexible dosing and a potential solution for patients who may prefer a liquid medication. The company was founded in 1990 by billionaire John Kapoor. Kapoor also served as CEO and president after former CEO Michael Babich was arrested. Kapoor retired from Insys in 2017 and was ultimately replaced by Saeed Motahari. In 2016, the company was ranked #52 on the Deloitte Fast 500 North America list. Seven former executives and managers employed by Insys were taken into custody by law enforcement on Thursday, December 13, 2016. U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz, alleges that several former employees of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. - including the once CEO and president of the company - conspired to bribe medical staff in several states to get them to prescribe a specific pain medication. This was the topic of an NBC special feature report on Megyn Kelly's 'Sunday Night' on Sunday, June 4, 2017. In August 2017, Insys Theraputics was sued by Arizona Attorney General, Mark Brnovich, for misleading patients and doctors about the dangers of the drug Subsys, and for lying to insurers about the condition of the patients in a bid to get payment for the drug. He said the firm deceived insurers and pharmaceutical benefit companies into agreeing to pay for the expensive drug by misleading them to believe that the payment request was coming from a doctor's office and not the company making the drug. Brnovich also said those Insys employees misrepresented the medical conditions of the patients, lying that they had breakthrough pain, lying that the patients had tried other medications, and lying that the patients needed the sublingual spray rather than less expensive pills marketed by other firms because they had difficulty swallowing. Insys Therapeutics issued a response to the Arizona filing on their website, stating, in part, that \"[t]he allegations contained in the Arizona Attorney General’s complaint relate to former employees and physicians that are no longer associated with our Company or our speaker bureau.\" In October 2017, Insys founder John Kapoor was arrested in Arizona and charged with RICO conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wirefraud, and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Law related to Insys' effort to secure prescriptions of Subsys. Kapoor is also alleged to have conspired to defraud health insurance providers. In 2016, Insys donated $500,000 to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, a group opposing a marijuana legalization ballot initiative in the state of Arizona. Investor filings confirm the company was concerned about the impact of legalization on sales for a cannabis-based drug it was developing. The reason publicly given for opposing the measure was to \"protect children\". However, medical marijuana advocates have criticized Insys' position as hypocritical and profit driven as the company has pursued synthetic cannabis derived products. In 2017, US Senator Claire McCaskill released a report and audio recording of an Insys representative allegedly falsely claiming to represent a doctor's office and lying about a patient's diagnosis in order to circumvent prescribing rules for Subsys. The patient later died due to an adverse reaction to her medications. Insys Therapeutics Insys Therapeutics is an American specialty pharmaceutical company based in Chandler, Arizona. Insys' main product is Subsys, a sublingual spray of fentanyl. The drug fentanyl is a very fast acting and powerful opiate used to relieve peaks of pain in cancer patients. The company also markets Syndros, a synthetic THC, and is actively working toward approval on other cannabis derivatives. Syndros is a prescription medicine"
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"2009–10 OK Liga Femenina The 2009–10 OK Liga Femenina was the second edition of Spain's premier women's rink hockey championship. This edition was the first one with Catalan teams, after the refusal of these to play the first edition due to the high cost of the travels during the competition. Cerdanyola HC won its first title ever. The 2010 Copa de la Reina was the 5th edition of the Spanish women's roller hockey cup. It was played in Vilanova i la Geltrú, between the first three qualified teams after the first half of the season and Vilanova as host team. Cerdanyola won its first cup ever by beating Voltregà in the final with a goal of MVP Mònica Piosa with 13 seconds left. 2009–10 OK Liga Femenina The 2009–10 OK Liga Femenina was the second edition of Spain's premier women's rink hockey championship. This edition was the first one with Catalan teams, after the refusal of these to play the first edition due to the high cost of the travels during the competition. Cerdanyola HC won its first title ever. The 2010 Copa de la Reina was the 5th edition of the Spanish women's roller hockey cup. It was played"
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"Brad Tunbridge Brad Tunbridge (born 26 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Tunbridge was already 26 when he made his AFL debut, having started his career in the WAFL playing for East Fremantle. A ruckman, he struggled with a back injury in his first season but performed well in the ruck in 1991 and 1992. He had 293 hit-outs in 1992, the third most in the league. That season he also took 107 marks and finished as Sydney's equal best vote getter with Dale Lewis in the Brownlow Medal count with eight. Brad Tunbridge Brad Tunbridge (born 26 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Tunbridge was already 26 when he made his AFL debut, having started his career in the WAFL playing for East Fremantle. A ruckman, he struggled with a back injury in his first season but performed well in the ruck in 1991 and 1992. He had 293 hit-outs in 1992, the third most in the league. That season he also took 107 marks"
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"Samuel Heinicke Samuel Heinicke (10 April 1727 – 30 April 1790), the originator in Germany of systematic education for the deaf, was born in Nautschutz, Germany. Entering the electoral bodyguard at Dresden, he subsequently supported himself by teaching. Around 1754, he took his first deaf pupil. His success in teaching this pupil was so great that he determined to devote himself entirely to this work. Heinicke promoted a chiefly oral/aural method of instruction, though he did use some form of a manual alphabet. He believed a spoken language to be indispensable to a proper education, and that it formed the basis for reasoning and intellectual thought. He died before his contributions to Deaf education became widespread, but John Baptist Graser (1766-1841) and Frederick Maritz Hill (1805-1874) continued to espouse the oral method. The outbreak of the Seven Years' War upset his plans for a time. Taken prisoner at Pirna, he was brought to Dresden, but soon made his escape. In 1768, when living in Hamburg, he successfully taught a deaf boy to talk, following the methods prescribed by Amman in his book \"Surdus loquens\", but improving on them. Recalled to his own country by the elector of Saxony, he opened the first deaf institution in Leipzig, Germany, in 1778. He directed this school until his death. He was the author of various books on the instruction of the deaf. Samuel Heinicke Samuel Heinicke (10 April 1727 – 30 April 1790), the originator in Germany of systematic education for the deaf, was born in Nautschutz, Germany. Entering the electoral bodyguard at Dresden, he subsequently supported himself by teaching. Around 1754, he took his first deaf pupil. His success in teaching this pupil was so great that he determined to devote himself entirely to this work. Heinicke promoted a chiefly oral/aural method"
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"Ryan Denney Ryan Craig Denney (born June 15, 1977) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round (61st overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at BYU. Denney also played for the Houston Texans. Denney attended Horizon High School (Thornton, Colorado) and won three varsity letters in football and two in basketball. In football, as a senior, he was named the Denver Post Defensive Player of the Year, won All-Conference honors as both an offensive lineman and as a defensive lineman, and won All-State honors as a defensive lineman. Denney graduated from Horizon High School in 1995. He served as a Mormon missionary for two years in Argentina before playing for Brigham Young University in college. Denney was two-year starter at BYU and finished his career with 156 tackles (92 solos), 16 quarterback sacks, 40 stops behind the line of scrimmage and 13 pass deflections. As a senior, was a Second-team All-America selection by The NFL Draft Report, earning fourth-team honors from The Sporting News He was an Academic All-American and a First-team All-Mountain West Conference selection. He started all year at right defensive end and recorded 68 tackles (45 solos) as he led the team with seven sacks and 19 tackles for losses and intercepted a pass and ranked second on the squad with eight pass deflections. In 2000, he earned Academic All-Mountain West Conference honors. He missed the 1996-97 season while serving on a mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ryan had a spectacular game against the Miami Dolphins on September 17, 2006, when he recorded 3 sacks on Miami quarterback, Daunte Culpepper in just the first half of the game. On August 17, 2007, during the opening kickoff of a preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons, Denney suffered a broken bone in his foot. He was one of three Bills position players to play in every year since 2003. At the end of the 2007 NFL season he had played in the league for six years. He caught a touchdown in the Bills season opener Sept 7th 2008 from a Brian Moorman pass on a fake field goal and one more in 2009, again on a fake field goal. On February 27, 2010, the Buffalo Bills announced that they would not be offering Ryan Denney a contract which rendered him an unrestricted free agent. On September 15, 2010, the Houston Texans announced they had signed Denny to an undisclosed contract. On October 7, 2010, the Texans waived Denny. Ryan is the brother of Miami Dolphins long snapper John Denney, who also wears number 92 on his jersey. Ryan and his wife, Laura have two daughters, Kyle and Kate, and one son, Tyler. Ryan Denney Ryan Craig Denney (born June 15, 1977) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round (61st overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at BYU. Denney also played"
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"Dilhara Lokuhettige Loku Hettige Danushka Dilhara (born July 3, 1980 in Colombo), known as Dilhara Lokuhettige, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played limited over cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Lokuhittege had captained Colombo's Asoka Vidalaya from Under-13s to senior level. Dilhara Lokuhettige was suspected by Al Jazeera along with Jeevantha Kulatunga for being involved in match fixing during a fake T20 series in the United Arab Emirates. The Al Jazeera's Investigation Unit also revealed that former Pakistani cricketer Hasan Raza, Jeevantha Kulatunga and Dilhara Lokuhettige were preparing to make money by organising and arranging a fake tournament in the UAE solely to make huge collection of money to fix matches in the future. When he was first picked for the Indian Oil Cup in 2005, there was relative shock, as Lokuhettige was picked practically out of obscurity after moderate domestic performances. However, he proved a quality acquisition, capturing both good batting and bowling statistics. His big break came when he joined Bloomfield and met Ruchira Palliyaguru in 1999, who recommended him to the cricketing academy. He has Twenty-20 cricket since 2004 and was picked for the national team for the first time in July 2005. Lokuhettige announced his retirement from Tests and ODIs on 24 September 2016. He criticized captain Angelo Mathews by stating that he cannot enter to the squad until Mathews playing for the team. Dilhara Lokuhettige Loku Hettige Danushka Dilhara (born July 3, 1980 in Colombo), known as Dilhara Lokuhettige, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played limited over cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Lokuhittege had captained Colombo's Asoka Vidalaya from Under-13s to senior level. Dilhara Lokuhettige was suspected by Al Jazeera along with Jeevantha Kulatunga for being involved in match fixing"
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"Phil Gormley Philip Gormley, is a senior British police officer whose most recent post was as Chief Constable of Police Scotland. He was Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary from 2010 to 2013, and Deputy Director General of the National Crime Agency from its creation in 2013 until July 2015. Gormley was named as the new head of Police Scotland in December 2015, and was sworn in on 5 January 2016. In February 2018 he stepped down from the role. Gormley studied at the University of Gloucestershire, graduating in 1984. He later undertook postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. In 1985, Gormley began his policing career as a constable with Thames Valley Police. In 1999, he was promoted to superintendent and appointed commander with responsibility for the Southern Oxfordshire area. In 2003, he joined the Metropolitan Police and was appointed Commander of Specialist Operations. In 2005, he organised the merger of the Anti-Terrorist Branch and Special Branch into what would become the Counter Terrorism Command in 2006. From 2007 to 2010, Gormley was Deputy Chief Constable of West Midlands Police. From 22 March 2010 to 2013, he was Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary. He was the second highest paid Chief Constable in the United Kingdom with a salary of £260,000. In May 2013, he was appointed Deputy Director General of the newly created National Crime Agency (NCA). As of 2015, Gormley was paid a salary of £185,000 by the NCA, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. In March 2015, it was announced that he would be leaving the NCA in the Autumn of 2015. He stepped down in October 2015. On 2 December 2015, it was announced that Gormley would be the next Chief Constable of Police Scotland. He will be only the second CC of the force after the Scottish police forces merged in 2013. He beat two of the Deputy Chief Constables for Police Scotland to the job; Neil Richardson, the Designated Deputy for Chief Constable, and Iain Livingstone, the Deputy Chief Constable (crime and operational support). He took up the appointment on 5 January 2016, with a salary of £212,280. On 26 July 2017, Gormley announced that he was the subject of, and cooperating with, a probe by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC), following a referral by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA). On 7 February 2018, he resigned from his Police Scotland post with immediate effect, being replaced on a temporary basis by his deputy Iain Livingstone, who had already been leading the organisation in his absence for some months. In the 2013 New Year Honours, Gormley was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in recognition of his service as Chief Constable of Norfolk Police. Phil Gormley Philip Gormley, is a senior British police officer whose most recent post was as Chief Constable of Police Scotland. He was Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary from 2010 to 2013, and Deputy Director General of the"
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"Charlotte P. Morris Charlotte P. Morris is an African-American academic administrator. She serves as the interim president of Tuskegee University, a private, historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. Morris was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She graduated from Jackson State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in business education. She subsequently earned a master's degree from Delta State University, followed by a PhD in education and business management from Kansas State University. Morris taught at Kansas State University and Trenholm State Community College. She was an administrator at Mississippi Valley State University. Morris joined the Tuskegee Institute in 1984. Morris served as the interim president between Benjamin F. Payton and Gilbert L. Rochon in 2010. She was interim dean of the Andrew W. Brimmer College of Business and Information Science until 2017, when she began her second term as interim president. She is expected to be succeeded as president by Lily McNair. Morris is the widow of late Dr. William R. Morris. She has a son, and she lives in Montgomery, Alabama. Charlotte P. Morris Charlotte P. Morris is an African-American academic administrator. She serves as the interim president of Tuskegee University, a private, historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama."
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"HMS L33 HMS \"L33\" was a British L-class submarine built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend, laid down in September 1917, launched in May 1919, and completed in December 1920. She was armed with six torpedo tubes, and had a top speed of while surfaced. She had an uneventful career that included a deployment to the China Station in 1928. Obsolescent by the early 1930s, \"L33\" was sold in February 1932 and broken up. \"L33\" was long overall and she had a beam of and a draught of at normal loading. She displaced surfaced and submerged. Her propulsion system consisted of two diesel engines for use while surfaced and two corresponding electric motors for use submerged. The diesel engines were rated at , while the electric motors produced . She could cruise at while surfaced and while submerged. While running on the surface at , the ship could cruise for a range of . \"L33\" was armed with a primary armament of four torpedo tubes in the bow. These were supplied with eight torpedoes in total. Two additional, tubes were located on the broadside, with a single torpedo apiece. She was also equipped with a deck gun for use whilst surfaced. The gun was mounted on a revolving platform on the bridge level to increase its range and permit it to engage surfaced enemy submarines beyond torpedo range and in heavier seas. She had a crew of thirty-eight. \"L33\" was built at the Swan Hunter shipyard; she was laid down on 26 September 1917, and she was launched on 29 May 1919. Fitting-out was completed on 22 December 1919. After construction was completed, she underwent sea trials on the Tyne, which included both submerged and surface trials. On 16 March 1926, \"L33\" collided with another unknown vessel, though there were no injuries in the incident. In 1919, \"L33\" appears in the Ship's Log of HMS Titania as one of the submarines assigned to the 4th Submarine Flotilla. She sailed with HMS Titania to Hong Kong, arriving there on 14th April 1920. In 1928, \"L33\" was assigned to the China Station, along with her sister ships , , and . Late in 1929, HMS \"Titania\", under the command of Commander A. B. Lockhart, D.S.C, returned from Hong Kong to England with six submarines, L3, L6, L15, L19, L20 and L33, and arrived at Portland in February 1930. By the 1930s, the L-class submarines had become obsolescent, and so most of them were removed from the Royal Navy's inventory. Accordingly, \"L33\" was sold for scrapping in February 1932 and subsequently broken up. HMS L33 HMS \"L33\" was a British L-class submarine built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend, laid down in September 1917, launched in May 1919, and completed in December 1920. She was armed with six torpedo tubes, and had a top speed of while surfaced. She had an uneventful career that included a deployment to the China Station in 1928. Obsolescent by the early 1930s, \"L33\" was sold in February 1932 and broken up."
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"Montpelier Crescent Montpelier Crescent is a mid 19th-century crescent of 38 houses in the Montpelier suburb of Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in five parts as a set-piece residential development in the rapidly growing seaside resort, the main part of the crescent was designed between 1843 and 1847 by prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds and is one of his most distinctive compositions. Extra houses were added at both ends of the crescent in the mid-1850s. Unlike most other squares, terraces and crescents in Brighton, it does not face the sea—and the view it originally had towards the South Downs was blocked within a few years by a tall terrace of houses opposite. Montpelier was an exclusive and \"salubrious\" area of Brighton, and Montpelier Crescent has been called its \"great showpiece\". Wilds's central section has been protected as Grade II* listed, with the later additions listed separately at the lower Grade II. The crescent is in one of the city's 34 conservation areas, and forms one of several \"outstanding examples of late Regency architecture\" within it. Brighton (originally known as Brighthelmston) developed as a large fishing and agricultural village on the English Channel coast. Despite intermittent periods of decline and destitution, it was the largest town in the county of Sussex by 1600. In the mid-18th century, the damaging economic effects of a terminal decline in the fishing industry were reversed by the new fashion for sea-bathing, and the town's new role as a seaside resort began. Northwest of the old town, around the parish church and the road leading to Devil's Dyke and on to London, was an expanse of gently sloping downland known as Church Hill. It was given over to sheep-grazing and was owned by two prominent locals: MP Thomas Kemp and John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. Helped by royal patronage (particularly from the Prince Regent) and good transport links to London and other important towns, Brighton grew rapidly in the early 19th century, and high-class suburbs were laid out. The completion in 1841 of the main railway line from London provided a further stimulus. By this time, Church Hill—ideally situated close to the sea and the town's main attractions, largely undeveloped and with a pleasant southwesterly aspect—was developing as a high-class residential area called Montpelier. Montpelier Road was laid out from 1820 as a major road running from the seafront to the Ditchling Road, past the house built in 1819 for the late Thomas Kemp's son Thomas Read Kemp. Prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds is believed to have designed it, although his father Amon Wilds may have been involved. Thomas Read Kemp's finances were overstretched by his involvement with the Kemp Town estate east of Brighton, and by the time he fled to France in 1837 he had sold or given away most of his landholding in the Montpelier area. Parcels of land were bought by builders and speculators, and a series of carefully planned \"set-piece\" residential developments were laid out. Work on Montpelier Crescent started in 1843, on and behind a stretch of Kemp's land previously occupied by a cricket pitch. The Lillywhite's Ground (also known as the Temple Fields Ground) was in use between 1831 and 1844 and was one of Brighton Cricket Club's venues. Amon Henry Wilds was commissioned to design the first set of houses; in view of the vast scale he worked to, which was unusual on a site so far inland from the coast, the crescent has been called \"the grandest of his many works\". The houses lacked a sea view, as they faced northwest towards the open land of the South Downs. The crescent was completed in 1847; within ten years, the downland vista had been obscured by the construction of Vernon Terrace opposite. This \"impressive\" set of four-storey terraced houses, dating from between 1856 and the mid-1860s, lined the west side of the former Montpelier Road, which by this stage had been renamed except for the stretch south of Denmark Villas. Between the east side of Vernon Terrace and the crescent, a curved area of green space was retained. The section completed in 1847, consisting of paired and tripartite groups of linked villas (a unique arrangement within Brighton), comprised house numbers 7 to 31 inclusive. Two wings flanking the original crescent were added in the mid-1850s, taking the number of houses to 38. They had a different, slightly less elaborate design: for example, they lacked the tall Classical-style pilasters and Wilds's characteristic ammonite capitals, as seen on the earlier houses. All houses were comparatively plain inside: features included characteristic Victorian decorative mouldings and wooden staircases. The crescent has changed little since its construction, although some buildings at the north end (adjacent to the present number 1) were demolished in the late 19th century to allow Seven Dials, a major road junction, to be built. The buildings are shown in a steel engraving dated approximately 1856, which also suggests that the crescent was closed at one end with railings which also continued around the gardens. The older central section of Montpelier Crescent (incorporating numbers 7–31) was listed at Grade II* on 13 October 1952. The mid-1850s section were separately listed at the lower Grade II in four parts, covering numbers 1–3, 4–6, 32–33 and 34–38. Montpelier Crescent forms part of the Montpelier & Clifton Hill Conservation Area, one of 34 conservation areas in the city of Brighton and Hove. This area was designated by the council in 1973. Describing the crescent as \"one of the architectural set-pieces for which [it] is rightly renowned\" and \"probably one of Brighton's most famous landmarks\", the council has identified several features by which Montpelier Crescent contributes to the character of the conservation area. Good tree cover, both in the back gardens and in front of the crescent on the \"very pleasant\" green, the use of pale cream-coloured paint to improve the architectural harmony of the façades, the existence of a rare \"Edward VII\"-style pillar box, and the relationship with the \"imposing\" Vernon Terrace opposite, create \"a townscape of outstanding quality\". Work took place over the course of more than 10 years (Wilds completed the central section in 1847, and the other parts were added in about 1855), and the differences in design make the crescent \"difficult to appreciate as a single composition\". Despite this lack of coherence, the overall effect is of a \"magnificent sweeping crescent\". Each unit was designed as a villa-style mansion and was linked to its neighbours under large pediments. The development took place at the point in Brighton's development when Regency architecture was evolving into the Victorians' interpretation of the Italianate style. Amon Henry Wilds designed four landmark residential crescents, of which Montpelier Crescent was the third; the others were Hanover Crescent (Brighton), Park Crescent (Brighton) and Park Crescent (Worthing). Architectural historians have noted that Montpelier Crescent's inland-facing orientation \"surprises\": most squares and crescents in Brighton and Hove were built facing the sea, and its layout was accordingly unusual. Hanover Crescent was another example of a west/northwest-facing development, which may have encouraged Wilds to try the layout again. These three houses rise to three storeys and form a slightly outward-curving nine-bay composition whose outermost bays (containing the entrances for numbers 1 and 3) are recessed. The curved effect is much less pronounced than in the centre of the crescent. At first-floor level, a cast iron balcony supported on brackets spans the other seven bays. The houses are topped by a parapet which is supported on a modillion cornice and which continues round the side elevation of number 1, which faces Clifton Hill. Each house has a three-window range; those at first-floor level have",
"Brighton and Hove were built facing the sea, and its layout was accordingly unusual. Hanover Crescent was another example of a west/northwest-facing development, which may have encouraged Wilds to try the layout again. These three houses rise to three storeys and form a slightly outward-curving nine-bay composition whose outermost bays (containing the entrances for numbers 1 and 3) are recessed. The curved effect is much less pronounced than in the centre of the crescent. At first-floor level, a cast iron balcony supported on brackets spans the other seven bays. The houses are topped by a parapet which is supported on a modillion cornice and which continues round the side elevation of number 1, which faces Clifton Hill. Each house has a three-window range; those at first-floor level have architraves of various styles (flat cornices, curved pediments and triangular pediments), while at the top floor original sash windows survive. The doors, which are four-panelled and have decorative fanlights, are set in porches flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature. The ground-floor walls are heavily rusticated. The roof has chimneys at the sides and is hidden behind the continuous parapet. Similar to their neighbours at the end of the crescent, these three houses have three windows to each of three storeys and have stuccoed, partly rusticated façades which curve outwards slightly. There are differences as well: the outer bays of the outermost houses are not recessed, every window is set in a moulded surround with pedimental architraves and \"unusual\" wreath-shaped decoration, and the slate-tiled roof (a hipped mansard) is visible behind the low parapet and cornice. The roof also has dormer windows. The 25 houses in the original section of the crescent form a northwest-facing concave curve. The composition consists of ten \"blocks\", each linked to the next by a recessed one- or two-storey wing and each with either two or three houses (a layout found nowhere else in Brighton). From north to south (starting at number 7) the pattern is 3–3–3–2–2–2–2–2–3–3. Each house is clad with stucco and painted pale cream. The crescent rises to three storeys throughout, except for the smaller linking bays, and most houses have parapets which hide their tiled roofs. Amon Henry Wilds did not use a consistent design for each building, and he used various decorative elements such as moulded wreaths and his characteristic ammonite capital design. Invented by George Dance the Younger but popularised by Wilds, the shell-shaped volutes of the capitals recall ammonite fossils. Other Wilds-built houses in Castle Place, Western Terrace, Oriental Place, Hanover Crescent, Old Steine and Montpelier Road display them. Each house has three windows to each storey (except numbers 24 and 25, with four each); in some cases, original sash windows survive, and window surrounds vary between straight-headed and round-arched. Many are flanked by small pilasters supporting an entablature. Each block is capped by a large pediment supported on full-height fluted Corinthian pilasters. Many of these pilasters are topped with ammonite capitals, and there are some slight differences: the pilasters at number 29 lack fluting, and those at number 30 have a panelled pattern. The stucco is rusticated at ground-floor level. Some houses have cast iron balconies at either first- or ground-floor level; the latter are more intricate and are later additions. This pair of stucco-fronted houses are not symmetrical: number 32 (the more southerly of the two) has three windows to each storey, but number 33 has four. They are both flat-fronted with no curve, and share a slate mansard roof in which small dormer windows are inset. This spans the central five bays; the outermost bays are set back, have partly vermiculated quoins on their inner sides, and have an entrance (with a fanlight and a segmental arch) at ground-floor level. There are cast iron balconies at ground- and first-floor level; the former runs across the width of the building, whereas each first-floor window has an individual balcony. Some windows have decorative pediments and architraves. The northern end of Montpelier Crescent curves outwards and ends (at number 38) in a large projecting bay. At ground-floor level across the whole width of the five-house terrace is heavy rustication. The roof is hidden behind a parapet with a modillion cornice and a fourth (attic) storey with another cornice. Most of the windows have architraves or pediments (either curved or triangular) and are straight-headed. A continuous cast-iron balcony, supported on brackets and separated at intervals by stuccoed piers, spans the houses at first-floor level. Number 38's entrance faces Dyke Road at Seven Dials and has a two-storey entrance porch with decorative mouldings and pilasters. Montpelier Crescent Montpelier Crescent is a mid 19th-century crescent of 38 houses in the Montpelier suburb of Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in five parts as a set-piece residential development in the rapidly growing seaside resort, the main part of the crescent was designed between 1843 and 1847 by prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds and is one of his most distinctive compositions. Extra houses were added at both ends of the crescent in"
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"Three (Sugababes album) Three is the third studio album by British girl group Sugababes, released by Island Records on 27 October 2003, in the United Kingdom. It generated four singles that charted in various parts of the world; the first, \"Hole in the Head\", became the group's third UK number one single. The three members of the Sugababes each recorded a \"solo\" song on the album—\"Whatever Makes You Happy\" (Keisha Buchanan), \"Sometimes\" (Heidi Range) and \"Maya\" (Mutya Buena). \"Three\" debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart. After releasing \"Shape\", the fourth and final single from their successful previous album \"Angels with Dirty Faces\" (2002), the group announced that they had gone back into the studio to start work on the next album with producers whom they worked with on the previous album such as Jony Rockstar and Xenomania. They went over to America to work with bigger producers such as Linda Perry and Diane Warren, who wrote the ballad \"Too Lost in You\". They had also aimed to release the new album in America. The girls co-wrote and recorded their own tracks on the new album—Keisha's being \"Whatever Makes You Happy\", Heidi's being \"Sometimes\", and Mutya's being \"Maya\", a song about her sister who died unexpectedly. The Sugababes later announced the lead single \"Hole in the Head\" and its release date of 13 October. The UK release was a special edition with two extra tracks, \"Twisted\" and \"Buster\". Initially, the digital download version offered by Woolworths in the UK accidentally contained an earlier demo version of \"Whatever Makes You Happy\" but the mistake was quickly rectified. \"Three\" debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart with 52,905 copies sold in its first week. The first single, \"Hole in the Head\", was the group's third number-one single in the United Kingdom and also went to number one in Denmark. It reached number two in Ireland and Norway, and the top forty in Australia. The second single, \"Too Lost in You\", reached the top ten in the UK and Norway, and the top forty in Australia. The third single, \"In the Middle\", went top ten in the UK, top twenty in Ireland and top forty in Europe and Australia. A fourth single, \"Caught in a Moment\", also reached the top ten in the UK. In 2004, \"Hole in the Head\" was serviced to radio in the United States and became a top forty hit on pop radio. Following the moderate success of the single, \"Three\" was due for release in the US with an altered track listing featuring singles from the group's previous album, \"Angels with Dirty Faces\" (2002). The release was subsequently cancelled when a second single, \"Too Lost in You\", failed to make any impact. In the UK, the album is certified two times Platinum by the BPI. The album also received a Platinum Europe Award by the IFPI in recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million copies. \"Three\" received positive reviews from critics, who praised the experimental new urban and hip hop sounds on the album. Alan Braidwood from the BBC gave \"Three\" a positive review, stating the album takes lead from \"Angels with Dirty Faces\" and calling it a fresh and exciting album. He also praised the new sound on the album. Ross Hoffman from AllMusic described the album as \"tuneful, R&B-inflected dance-pop with fresh-sounding but accessible productions, along with a healthy smattering of big droopy ballads with an expanded stylistic range\". Notes and sample credits Three (Sugababes album) Three is the third studio album by British girl group Sugababes, released by Island"
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"David S. Creamer David S. Creamer (September 3, 1858 – November 17, 1946) was an Ohio politician. He was state treasurer from 1909 to 1913, state fire marshal and Columbus City Treasurer, among other positions. One of David's early childhood heroes was Ross J. Alexander, and Creamer's first political experience was pulling a sleigh carrying voters at the time of Alexander's running for the United States Congress. Creamer's early political career began when he was elected School Director, as well as serving as a township clerk (for Mead Township, Belmont County), being a member of the township Democratic committee and also serving for three years as manager of the Belmont Agricultural Association. In 1892 he accepted the position of Belmont County recorder, a task that many people saw as impossible. He did an excellent job at this position and was re-elected in 1894. On June 1, 1906, Creamer accepted appointment to the position of state fire marshal, during the early part of the administration of then Gov. John M. Pattison. In April, 1908 he was nominated by the Democratic State Convention for state treasurer, the only other Democrat besides Gov. Judson Harmon on the ticket. Creamer served as state treasurer from 1909 until his second term as treasurer expired on January 13, 1913. Two years later in March 1915, he was appointed a member of the Ohio State Board of Administration by Gov. Frank Willis. This board was in charge of the twenty-two state institutions for Ohio. After his political career Creamer continued to live in Columbus, where he was involved in the real estate business and was elected City Treasurer of Columbus in 1930. Creamer was born David Staley Creamer on September 3, 1858 on his family's homestead in Key, Belmont County, Ohio to David Jackson (1829–1911) and Amanda Masters Creamer (1835–1867). The homestead was first purchased by his grandfather, the original David Creamer (1777–1865), an early settler of Ohio, around 1815. Besides an older brother Zadock, he had 2 younger sisters, Emma and Carrie. Creamer lost his mom when he was just 8 years old, and consequently his father remarried in 1869 to Margaret Haines. Mr. Creamer was married to Gertrude Rebecca Fowler (1874–1944) on October 16, 1890 in Bellaire, Ohio. They had 4 kids, Lorena Verdell [Creamer] McClure, Effie Marie Creamer, David Harold Creamer and Genevieve Fowler Creamer; and six grandchildren, one of whom, Kenneth D. McClure (1921–2000), would later be Mayor of Bexley, Ohio. Creamer resided in Columbus for the rest of his life, living to be 88 years old, and died there on November 17, 1946. He was buried in his family's plot at Union Cemetery in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Columbus Ward 16, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: T625_1383; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 265; Image: 835. David S. Creamer David S. Creamer (September 3, 1858 – November 17, 1946) was an Ohio politician. He was state treasurer from 1909 to 1913, state fire marshal and Columbus City Treasurer, among other positions."
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"Gerso Fernandes Gerso Fernandes (born 23 February 1991), known as Gerso (), is a Bissau-Guinean footballer who plays for American club Sporting Kansas City as a left winger. Born in Bissau, Gerso moved to Portugal in his early teens, joining C.F. União de Coimbra's youth system in 2004 at age 13. As a junior, he signed with neighbouring Académica de Coimbra where he went on to complete his formation; he did not play football for two years during his formative spell, after a priest from the charity facility where he was living advised him against the dangers of turning professional. Gerso made his debut as a senior with G.D. Tourizense in the third division, who acted as Académica's farm team. Released in summer 2011, he moved to G.D. Estoril Praia in the second level, contributing with 20 scoreless appearances in his first season as the club returned to the Primeira Liga after seven years. Gerso made his debut in Portugal's top flight on 17 August 2012, playing 30 minutes in a 1–2 away loss against S.C. Olhanense. He continued to be played almost exclusively as a substitute in the following campaigns, by manager Marco Silva. For 2014–15, Gerso was loaned to fellow league side Moreirense FC. On 4 January 2017, Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer announced the signing of Gerso from C.F. Os Belenenses on a three-year designated player contract, with an option for a fourth year. On 17 May, he scored a hat-trick in a 3–0 win against Seattle Sounders FC at Children's Mercy Park. Gerso Fernandes Gerso Fernandes (born 23 February 1991), known as Gerso (), is a Bissau-Guinean footballer who plays for American club Sporting Kansas City as a left winger. Born in Bissau, Gerso moved to Portugal in his early teens, joining C.F. União"
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"2015–16 Detroit Red Wings season The 2015–16 Detroit Red Wings season was the 90th season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that was established on September 25, 1926. The regular season began on October 9, 2015 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and former Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock, with a 4–0 victory. This season also involved the Red Wings extending their playoff streak to 25 straight seasons. On June 9, 2015, Jeff Blashill was named the head coach of the Red Wings, following the departure of Mike Babcock to the Toronto Maple Leafs. On June 23, 2015, the Red Wings finalized their coaching staff, Tony Granato will return as an assistant coach, along with Pat Ferschweiler, who was an assistant coach under Blashill with the Grand Rapids Griffins. Dave Noel-Bernier was named video coach, and Chris Chelios will evaluate in-game player performance, and will continue to play a role in player development, by working on-ice with the team's defensemen during practices. Jim Bedard will return for his 19th season with the organization as goaltending coach. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Red Wings. Stats reflect time with the Red Wings only. Traded mid-season Bold/italics denotes franchise record The Red Wings have been involved in the following transactions during the 2015–16 season: The Detroit Red Wings' picks at the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, held on June 26–27, 2015 at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida. 2015–16 Detroit Red Wings season The 2015–16 Detroit Red Wings season was the 90th season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that was established on September 25, 1926. The regular season began on October 9, 2015 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and former Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock, with a 4–0 victory. This season also involved the Red"
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"Inseparable (album) Inseparable is the 1975 debut studio album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on May 11, 1975 by Capitol Records. The album became her first gold-certified album and spawned the number-one R&B hits \"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)\" and \"Inseparable\". The hit album and its singles earned Cole two Grammy Awards including Best New Artist. By 1974, Natalie Cole, the daughter of legendary jazz/pop crooner Nat King Cole, was struggling to get her own music career off the ground. Ever since she had started performing at clubs and festivals, Cole had tried to forge her own path away from the one that several of her father's fans thought she would turn to. Cole refused to record jazz material in fear she would be accused of riding her father's coattails. A longtime fan of soul and blues singers such as Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin, Cole had instead inspired to follow in their footsteps. After performing at one club, she was spotted by musicians Chuck Jackson (step-brother of Jesse Jackson) and Marvin Yancy, who was shopping songs that had been turned down by Franklin herself. Cole, Yancy and Jackson recorded demos for songs that later led to Cole being signed to her father's label, Capitol Records. Released in the spring of 1975, \"Inseparable\" shot to the top of the R&B album charts and was also a top ten hit on the \"Billboard\" pop album charts sparked by the album's first single, \"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)\". The song's Franklin-inspired production's catchy melodies and hooks helped to make it a number-one hit on the Hot Soul Singles chart while also reaching number six on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The title track also became a hit reaching number-one on the R&B chart while reaching number thirty-two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Altogether, the album went gold selling over a million copies and helping Cole win two Grammy Awards including Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, where she broke the winning streak set by Aretha Franklin, who had won the award eight years in a row. (For a time before Cole's win, the award was nicknamed \"The Aretha Award\".) The album's success was the beginning of Cole's mid-1970s successes, as an R&B star releasing five gold albums and two platinum albums during her Capitol tenure. Inseparable (album) Inseparable is the 1975 debut studio album by American singer"
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"Lycée Albert Premier The Lycée Albert Premier of Monaco (or the Albert 1st of Monaco High School) is a prestigious public secondary school founded in 1910 in the Principality of Monaco. The school offers courses according to the curriculum prescribed by the French Directorate of National Education, Youth and Sports. It is located in Monaco-Ville on the Rock, site of the Visitation. The main building was constructed between 1665 and 1675 as a convent for noble girls, as requested by the Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont, wife of Louis I. Today, the monastery still shows vaulting from this period. During the French Revolution, the convent was transformed into barracks for Sardinian troops. They occupied the buildings until 18 July 1860 when the King of Sardina's rule over the Principality ended. For the next 10 years, the buildings were vacant, until, on 31 May 1870, a group of Italian Jesuits began to use them to provide open college courses. This lasted until 1910. In Monaco, many religious schools were created in Monaco after 1860, including the Ladies of Saint-Maur, a primary school that is still in use today, and the Christian Brothers College. Seeking a secular alternative to these religious schools, Albert I, an eminent scientist, founded the \"School of Monaco\" in September, 1910. He also founded the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco that faces the high school in the same year. The school was originally only for boys, and followed the French model. The first candidates for BA (French) graduated in 1913. However, in 1918, the school expanded to include girls. On the 50th anniversary of its founding, Rainier III renamed the school \"Lycée Albert I st\" to commemorate its founder. He also had a plaque place at the schools entrance, detailing the school buildings various transformations. The High School Albert 1st continues to deliver courses to this day, having celebrated its centenary in 2010. Currently, one hundred faculty offer courses to 751 students. The library was inaugurated by Grace Kelly. The library preserves many ancient works from private donations including a copy of the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert. Originally named the Prince Albert Library, the name was changed to the Prince Albert II Library during the centenary celebrations in 2010 to honor Albert II. \"Translated from in Wikipédia en français\" Lycée Albert Premier The Lycée Albert Premier of Monaco (or the Albert 1st of Monaco High School) is a prestigious public"
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"USS Snohomish County (LST-1126) USS \"Snohomish County\" (LST-1126) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after Snohomish County, Washington, she was the only U.S. naval vessel to bear the name. \"LST-1126\" was laid down on 16 November 1944 at Seneca, Illinois by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company; launched on 9 February 1945; and commissioned on 28 February 1945 with Lieutenant F. C. Helm, USNR, in command. Between 1945 and 1960, \"LST-1126\" deployed to the western Pacific eight times. Her first tour of duty there came in April 1945, when she departed New Orleans, transited the Panama Canal, stopped at San Diego, Seattle and Pearl Harbor, before continuing westward. As she continued her voyage, she visited Eniwetok Atoll; Apra Harbor, Guam; Saipan; and Okinawa. In late September, she joined the post-World War II occupation forces in China. Operating off the west coast of the United States out of San Diego when not in the western Pacific, \"LST-1126\" returned to the Far East in 1948, 1953, during the winters of 1945-55, 1957, 1958 and 1959-60. The ship also made three Distant Early Warning Line re-supply runs to Alaska in 1949, 1950, and 1953. On 1 July 1955, just after her return from her fourth deployment to the western Pacific, the ship was renamed USS \"Snohomish County\" (LST-1126). The permanent assignment of an LST squadron to United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, made the 1959-60 deployment \"Snohomish County\"s last until the escalation of the Vietnam War. Until 1964, she operated out of San Diego and made two Mid-Pac cruises in 1961 and 1962. The second cruise was in support of Operation Dominic, a series of nuclear tests. Upon completion of this assignment, she returned to normal operations along the Pacific coast. In 1965, the American buildup in South Vietnam began in earnest. Accordingly, the need for support ships grew, and \"Snohomish County\" returned to the Far East once more. She drew normal tours of duty (five to seven months at a time) in 1965, 1966, and 1967. In July 1965 \"Snohomish County\", was permanently assigned to support Coast Guard Squadron One Division 12 at Da Nang. On 16 July the ships of Division 12 formed around \"Snohomish County\" in U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippines for the transit to Da Nang where they arrived at 07:00 on 20 July 1965. In 1968, she was sent on an extended deployment which did not end until the spring of 1970, just before her decommissioning. On each of these last deployments, the ship made the circuit from Japan to South Vietnam to Subic Bay. For the most part, she hauled men and supplies from American bases in Japan and the Philippines to South Vietnam; though, on occasion, she received other assignments, notably one with the Mobile Riverine Force in 1968. There were also ports-of-call such as Hong Kong and Keelung and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. \"Snohomish County\" resumed normal operations, exercises, drills, and upkeep in and around San Diego when not deployed to the Far East. On 22 April 1970, Snohomish County returned to her WestPac homeport, Apra Harbor, Guam, and went through an inspection and survey. She was declared unfit for further naval service. On 1 July 1970, she decommissioned at Naval Station, Guam, and her name was struck from the Navy List. In January 1971, her hulk was sold to Chin Ho Fa Steel and Iron Co., Ltd., of Taiwan for scrapping. \"Snohomish County\" earned eight battle stars for the Vietnam War. USS Snohomish County (LST-1126) USS \"Snohomish County\" (LST-1126) was an built for the United States Navy during"
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"Beeliar people The Beeliar people are a clan or group of Indigenous Australians belonging to the Noongar tribal people of the South West region of Western Australia. Robert Lyon referred to the Beeliar people as one of the five groups of the Perth metropolitan area, but it is now thought that they may have been a family subgroup of a larger group, which Daisy Bates refers to as \"Beelgar\". When British settlers arrived to establish the Swan River Colony in 1829, there were about 60 Beeliar people, including Midgegooroo and Yagan. The Beeliar group no longer exists, and although some present-day Noongars trace their ancestry to Yagan, they identify as Noongars rather than Beeliar. The Beeliar people had customary land usage rights over the land from the Swan and Canning Rivers south to Mangles Bay. This area was sometimes also referred to as Beeliar. Beeliar people The Beeliar people are a clan or group of Indigenous Australians belonging to the Noongar tribal people of the South West region of Western Australia. Robert Lyon referred to the Beeliar people as one of the five groups of the Perth metropolitan area, but it is now thought that they may have been a"
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"As the Roots Undo As the Roots Undo is the debut studio album by screamo band Circle Takes the Square in 2004. It was released on CD and vinyl by the Robotic Empire and HyperRealist labels respectively. The album would later see a repress on the LP format in 2014 through GatePost Recordings The album is a contender for the most celebrated screamo record. Noisey called it \"one of the most critically acclaimed cult classics in modern hardcore\" which has \"long garnered praise from both the press and fans alike for its forward-thinking blend of 90s screamo, fractured grindcore, and experimental post-rock.\" On June 11, 2010, Sputnikmusic placed it at number 3 on its list of the 100 best album of the decade. The CD is packaged in a four-fold flap with artwork along each side; the artwork was done by band member Drew Speziale. When asked about his influences at the time of writing \"As the Roots Undo\", Drew Speziale referred to bands that were innovating punk and hardcore through incorporating a lot of melody, including their tour-mates Majority Rule, Pg. 99 and City of Caterpillar and bands who had \"really dark melodies going on underneath [an] overtly pretty brutal sound\" such as Orchid and His Hero Is Gone, besides less intense artists such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Modest Mouse and Built to Spill. As the Roots Undo As the Roots Undo is the debut studio album by screamo band Circle Takes the Square in 2004. It was released on CD and vinyl by the Robotic Empire and HyperRealist labels respectively. The album would later see a repress on the LP format in 2014 through GatePost Recordings The album is a contender for the most celebrated screamo record. Noisey called it \"one of the most critically acclaimed cult"
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"Rivera, Switzerland Rivera is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The municipalities of Medeglia, Bironico, Camignolo, Rivera and Sigirino merged on 21 November 2010 into the new municipality of Monteceneri. Rivera is first mentioned in 1296 as \"Sorenzino\". In 1348 it was mentioned as \"Rivera\". Archeological objects and graves from the Iron Age and the Roman era have been found in Rivera. In the Middle Ages, Rivera was part of the valley community of Carvina. In the 13th Century Como Cathedral possessed estates in Sorencino. Starting in 1678, representatives from the twelve members of the Swiss Confederation in Ticino met in Casa dei landfogti before they assembled in Lugano. Rivera was a member of the parish of Bironico, before it became an independent parish in 1754. From 1779 until 1793, the parish church of S. Spirito was rebuilt. The villagers earned their living from agriculture, mostly in alpine meadows and pastures. During construction of the Ceneri tunnel in 1872-82, the population increased sharply. The completion of the road in 1811 and the construction of the tunnel and the station led to the emergence of a new district in the flatter part of the valley. This area forms the northern boundary of the agglomeration of Lugano. The base station of the Monte Tamaro gondola opened in 1972 in Rivera. Rivera has an area, , of . Of this area, or 7.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 76.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 5.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.5%. Out of the forested land, 64.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 3.1% is used for growing crops and 3.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 4.6% is unproductive vegetation. The village is located in the Lugano district, in the upper Vedeggio valley along the old main road. It consists of the village of Rivera and the hamlets of Soresina, Sorencino and Capidogno. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is \"Tierced per fess first azure two bendlets wavy argent overall a letter R counterchanged second or coupeaux vert and third gules two tunnel holes sable issuant from base.\" The coat of arms is fairly recent, being adopted in 1952. The top portion of the coat of arms represents the radio waves from Radio Svizzera Italiana on Monte Ceneri. Monte Ceneri is represented by the middle section. The black arcades represent the tunnels connecting both parts of Ticino, the Sopraceneri and Sottoceneri (over and under the Mount Ceneri). Rivera has a population () of 1,462. , 20.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997-2007) the population has changed at a rate of 6.4%. Most of the population () speaks Italian (88.6%), with German being second most common (4.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (2.2%). Of the Swiss national languages (), 68 speak German, 28 people speak French, 1,253 people speak Italian. The remainder (66 people) speak another language. , the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 613 Swiss men (38.5% of the population), and 172 (10.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 660 Swiss women (41.4%), and 149 (9.3%) non-Swiss women. In there were 16 live births to Swiss citizens and 6 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 7 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 9 while the foreign population increased by 5. There were 2 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 44 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 7 people. This represents a population growth rate of 3.3%. The age distribution, , in Rivera is; 146 children or 9.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 153 teenagers or 9.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 217 people or 13.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 227 people or 14.2% are between 30 and 39, 286 people or 17.9% are between 40 and 49, and 231 people or 14.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 155 people or 9.7% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 110 people or 6.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 69 people or 4.3% who are over 80. , there were 581 private households in the village, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. there were 294 single family homes (or 68.4% of the total) out of a total of 430 inhabited buildings. There were 76 two family buildings (17.7%) and 23 multi-family buildings (5.3%). There were also 37 buildings in the village that were multipurpose buildings (used for both housing and commercial or another purpose). The vacancy rate for the village, , was 0.14%. there were 649 apartments in the village. The most common apartment size was the 4 room apartment of which there were 217. There were 30 single room apartments and 178 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 574 apartments (88.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 49 apartments (7.6%) were seasonally occupied and 26 apartments (4.0%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 5.2 new units per 1000 residents. The historical population is given in the following chart: The Stazione Radio Monte Ceneri (shared with Bironico) is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 38.07% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21.28%), the Ticino League (13.43%) and the SVP (11.87%). In the federal election, a total of 520 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.5%. In the \"Gran Consiglio\" election, there were a total of 1,022 registered voters in Rivera, of which 722 or 70.6% voted. 22 blank ballots and 4 null ballots were cast, leaving 696 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PLRT which received 251 or 36.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the PPD+GenGiova (with 131 or 18.8%), the LEGA (with 98 or 14.1%) and the SSI (with 88 or 12.6%). In the \"Consiglio di Stato\" election, 8 blank ballots and 1 null ballot were cast, leaving 713 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PLRT which received 234 or 32.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the LEGA (with 145 or 20.3%), the PPD (with 134 or 18.8%) and the PS (with 95 or 13.3%). , Rivera had an unemployment rate of 4.01%. , there were 12 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 277 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 24 businesses in this sector. 540 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 84 businesses in this sector. There were 685 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.5% of the workforce. , there were 937 workers who commuted into the village and 445 workers who commuted away. The village is a net importer of workers, with about 2.1 workers entering the village for every one leaving. About 18.8% of the workforce coming into Rivera are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 65.4% used a private car. , there were 4 hotels in Rivera with a total of 33 rooms and 65 beds. From the , 1,162 or 82.1% were",
"277 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 24 businesses in this sector. 540 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 84 businesses in this sector. There were 685 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.5% of the workforce. , there were 937 workers who commuted into the village and 445 workers who commuted away. The village is a net importer of workers, with about 2.1 workers entering the village for every one leaving. About 18.8% of the workforce coming into Rivera are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 65.4% used a private car. , there were 4 hotels in Rivera with a total of 33 rooms and 65 beds. From the , 1,162 or 82.1% were Roman Catholic, while 72 or 5.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There are 125 individuals (or about 8.83% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), and 56 individuals (or about 3.96% of the population) did not answer the question. In Rivera about 63.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a \"Fachhochschule\"). In Rivera there were a total of 246 students (). The Ticino education system provides up to three years of non-mandatory kindergarten and in Rivera there were 35 children in kindergarten. The primary school program lasts for five years and includes both a standard school and a special school. In the village, 72 students attended the standard primary schools and 2 students attended the special school. In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education. There were 67 students in the two-year middle school, while 21 students were in the four-year advanced program. The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college. In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student). There were 15 vocational students who were attending school full-time and 32 who attend part-time. The professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields. There were 2 students in the professional program. , there were 44 students in Rivera who came from another village, while 155 residents attended schools outside the village. Rivera is served by the nearby Rivera-Bironico station, on the Gotthard railway. Rivera, Switzerland Rivera is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The municipalities of Medeglia, Bironico, Camignolo, Rivera and Sigirino merged on 21 November 2010 into the new municipality of Monteceneri. Rivera is first mentioned in 1296 as \"Sorenzino\". In 1348 it was mentioned as \"Rivera\". Archeological objects and graves from the Iron Age and the Roman era have been found in"
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"Cassino Band of Northumbria Army Cadet Force The Cassino Band of Northumbria Army Cadet Force is a Cadet-Youth Band. The band was formed in 2000, by George Morrison and consisted of Cadets from various cadet detachments in Northumbria ACF's catchment area. As with all infantry bands, the Cassino Band takes its name from a battle honour. George chose the Battle of Monte Cassino as troops from all of the local regiments in the North East of England fought in it. It is in their name that band plays to this very day. It is a Voluntary Organisation sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Army. The band performs in many different locations. In the past it has played in Germany, The Federation Brewery, Eden Camp and more recently it has performed at the prestigious Berwick Tattoo. The Band has also recently been on a tour of Italy in order to play a retreat in honour of the place from which the band takes its name, Monte Cassino. The Band started as a Corps of Drums containing only fifes and drums but it soon evolved into a full military band boasting not only a Corps of Drums and Military Band but also its own Bugle Platoon. As with all youth organisations it is totally dependent upon new members joining and is therefore open to all who wish to come and play with the band regardless of experience. Cassino Band of Northumbria Army Cadet Force The Cassino Band of Northumbria Army Cadet Force is a Cadet-Youth Band. The band was formed in 2000, by George Morrison and consisted of Cadets from various cadet detachments in Northumbria ACF's catchment area. As with all infantry bands, the Cassino Band takes its name from a battle honour. George chose the Battle of Monte Cassino"
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"Wanda Chunda Chunda (Urdu:وانڈہ چنڈہ) is a village of district Dera Ismail Khan, province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Wanda Chunda is located east side of the Dera Ismail Khan-Bannu Road. It is about four kilometer 4 km away from Pakistan famous Cement Factory, Lucky Cement Factory(Darra Pezu) . There are small villages lying around Chunda (i.e. Wanda Kali,Obbo Wanda,Garra Imam Shah & Wanda Jandar. Famous tourists place Sheikh Badin has a small distance with Chunda. Wanda Chuda is 8 km eight kilometer away from its union council Giloti and having the same distance from Darra Pezu. Wanda Chunda on Urdu wiki Wanda Jandar Wanda Chunda Chunda (Urdu:وانڈہ چنڈہ) is a village of district Dera Ismail Khan, province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Wanda Chunda is located east side of the Dera Ismail Khan-Bannu Road. It is about four kilometer 4 km away from Pakistan famous Cement Factory, Lucky Cement Factory(Darra Pezu) . There are small villages lying around Chunda (i.e. Wanda Kali,Obbo Wanda,Garra Imam Shah & Wanda Jandar. Famous tourists place Sheikh Badin has a small distance with Chunda. Wanda Chuda is 8 km eight kilometer away from its union council Giloti and having the same distance from Darra Pezu. Wanda Chunda on"
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"The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education is an American biweekly magazine which focuses on Hispanic education in institutions of higher learning. It is notable for its annual Top 100 list of colleges and universities awarding degrees to Hispanic students. For 25 years, \"The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine,\" has been a top information news source and the sole Hispanic educational magazine for the higher education community, and those involved in running our institutions of higher learning. Published biweekly, except in June, July and August, when we are on a summer schedule as outlined in our rate card, \"HO\" covers events, news, and ongoing trends that affect our multicultural institutions of the 21st century. \"HO\" reaches a large minority audience. As of September 2008, \"HO\" started putting a selection of articles online. As of December 2011, \"HO\" started the digital format of the magazine with free Apps available on iTunes and Google Play. As of June 2013 Hispanic Outlook kept its presence as a full color digital magazine. \"Hispanic Outlook Magazine\" maintains high quality control standards and a strict privacy policy on our databases. \"HO\" is a member of NAHP, NAHJ, NCCHC, ACE and AAHHE. FILLING THAT POSITION: When you are ready to fill a faculty or administrative position, \"HO\" readers are the audience you want to reach with your job announcement. Our subscribers and readers are part of the growing majority in higher education. Additionally, all ads placed in the magazine are also placed on \"HO\" Website under \"Employment & Other Opportunities\" for six weeks, free of charge, giving you unlimited exposure for your ad. \"HO\" also has web only package availability, and single web postings for those immediate needs. REGULAR COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS INCLUDE: Political Beat – Monthly political commentary from our Washington Reporter on current events. Targeting Higher Education– Ongoing articles from our board member covering prevalent issues or concerns. Uncensored – Monthly column of short comments concerning ongoing issues, be it “pro or con ” from our Washington correspondent. THEME ISSUES: During the year, \"HO\" has theme issues that place particular emphasis on specialized topics with in-depth detail. Each theme issue includes articles on topics as they relate to the Financing a College Education Issue, Women in Higher Education, Community College Issue, Graduate School Issue, Top 100 Issue, Health Professions Issue, Arts Issue, Hispanic Heritage Issue, and Law School Issue. The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education is an American biweekly magazine which focuses on Hispanic education in institutions of higher learning. It is notable for its annual Top 100 list of colleges and universities awarding degrees to Hispanic students. For 25 years, \"The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine,\" has been a top information news source and the sole Hispanic educational magazine for the higher education community, and those involved in running our institutions of higher learning. Published biweekly, except in June, July and August, when we are on a summer schedule as outlined"
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"Park Yong-woo Park Yong-woo (born March 16, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering professor and his mother was a music teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. Instead, he nurtured his imagination. When he first chose to become an actor, Park felt hampered by the fact that he didn't have any childhood or family trauma to draw from, but later realized that a vivid imagination was the key to his acting process because it didn't require him to show his \"naked face.\" Park failed the college entrance exams twice before he was accepted to the prestigious Theater and Film department at Chung-Ang University in 1991. He failed twice more when he joined MBC's actor's auditions, then finally passed in 1995. Park spent a decade playing minor and supporting roles on television and film, notably in \"Shiri\" (1999), \"Ditto\" (2000) and \"Age of Warriors\" (2003). He later said those ten years of experience enabled him to have greater freedom and control with his acting, and that he believes a person is not just born a good actor, but rather good acting requires much preparation and work, with some luck thrown in. Park said, \"I guess every actor dreams of playing a main character and I'm not an exception. But for me, it is more important to become a good actor regardless of how big my roles are.\" In 2005, Park drew critical notice with his much-praised portrayal of the influential son of a paper mill owner in Kim Dae-seung's period thriller \"Blood Rain\" (2005). He won Best Supporting Actor honors at the Chunsa Film Art Awards and the Korean Film Awards, as well as nominations at the Grand Bell Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards. But his career breakthrough would come in his first leading role, in dark romantic comedy \"My Scary Girl\" (2006) opposite Choi Kang-hee. Titled \"Sweet, Bloodthirsty Lover\" in Korean, Park played a timid college lecturer in his late 20s who finally finds his first girlfriend, only he begins to suspect that she may be a serial killer. With a relatively low budget and lead actors who were not particularly famous at the time, Son Jae-gon's debut film was a sleeper hit and became the tenth top-selling domestic film of the year with 2,286,745 tickets sold. After its release, witty dialogue from the film were continuously quoted and parodied, and their performances made Park and Choi stars. Park spent the next several years acting in various genres. He played a kindly handyman with a crush on a piano teacher in \"For Horowitz\" (2006), a world-weary cop investigating the murders of orphaned girls in \"The World of Silence\" (2006), a detective who sacrifices his ethics to pay for his wife's medical bills in \"Beautiful Sunday\" (2007), one husband of two partner-swapping married couples in \"Love Now\" (2007), and a suave con artist out to steal treasure in \"Once Upon a Time\" (2008). At the press conference of Kim Han-min's 2009 thriller \"Handphone\", Park said he hoped viewers wouldn't interpret the two characters as simply good and evil, but as real people with understandable motivations within the context of their situations. 2010 marked Park's return to television for the first time in six years in the period medical drama \"Jejungwon\", about the establishment of Gwanghyewon (later renamed Jejungwon) in 1885, the nation's first \"modern\" Western hospital which historical records show treated sick people regardless of their economic status despite the hierarchical society of the era. Loosely based on a real-life person, the protagonist Park played is born a poor butcher's son and becomes Joseon's first surgeon and an independence fighter. Park said he didn't hesitate to take the role, describing his character as someone who \"doesn't stop trying to achieve his goals and starts thinking not only about saving people's lives but also his country. Although he seems somewhat unsophisticated, for ordinary people he is a humane and caring doctor, and I tried to portray those qualities so that viewers would empathize with him.\" He added that he liked the social message imparted by the drama which resonates in the present day, and that he felt his character's story reflects his own journey toward becoming an actor. In the mystery suspense film \"Children...\" (2011), Park played a documentary filmmaker who delves into the unsolved Frog Boys case. Initially driven by ambition and opportunism, he later becomes sincerely attached to it. Multicultural comedy \"Papa\" followed in 2012, in which his character is an entertainment manager who becomes an adoptive father to six children in the United States, and encourages the eldest daughter to join an audition program. In drama series \"My Lover, Madame Butterfly\", Park played the white knight to a divorced, has-been actress. He next appeared in Song Il-gon's \"Forest of Time\" (2012), which blurs the boundary between documentary and narrative filmmaking, as Park and Japanese actress Rina Takagi spend ten days searching for the reportedly 7,200-year-old Jōmon Sugi, a cryptomeria tree in the renowned forest of Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that inspired the Hayao Miyazaki animated film \"Princess Mononoke\". In 2014, he played a genius sculptor who suffers from a progressive muscular paralysis after the Korean War in \"Late Spring\". Park said in a 2007 interview, \"Although I am not completely devoted to acting, it may look that way because I am not lucky enough to be able to enjoy my life fully. Although I usually get bored doing something for a long time, acting makes me feel alive and changes me; even though it entails pain. I want to be an extraordinary actor while being an ordinary person.\" In 2018, he stars in the medical exorcism drama \"Priest\". Park Yong-woo Park Yong-woo (born March 16, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering professor and his mother was a music teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. Instead, he nurtured his imagination. When he first chose to become"
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"Peder Fredags Gränd Peder Fredags Gränd is a small blind alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching north from Köpmangatan, it is located between Skeppar Olofs Gränd and Staffan Sasses Gränd, just south of the Tessin Palace. The inconspicuous alley remained nameless until the 20th century; it is included on a map from 1700, but completely left out on another dated 1733. The present name was given to the alley in 1939, presumably inspired by the two parallel alleys, both of which are named after men who served King Gustav Vasa (1496–1560) during the ousting of Danish forces. Peder Fredag (–1525) was probably one of the burghers of Stockholm, who first appeared in historical records in 1520 when, confronted with Christian II of Denmark, he vehemently opposed the city's terms of surrender. Before the Danes marched into the city, he escaped to the north of Sweden where he began to amass people to revolt against the Danish king. He started to raid the Stockholm Archipelago with his yacht, and in 1521 he joined the party of Gustav Vasa who eventually gave him a letter of marque. During the seizure of the capital, Peder Fredag was appointed captain in charge of the camp at Lovön, and as such he repelled an attack from the besieged city during Christmas 1521 and another against the King's camp on Södermalm in autumn 1522. Following the king's glorious march into the city, Peder Fredag was richly rewarded with marks of honour and tokens of grace, but he eventually died on the battlefield in 1525 during an assault against the city of Kalmar, besieged by the mercenary troops of Berend von Melen. Peder Fredags Gränd Peder Fredags Gränd is a small blind alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central"
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"Matthew 18 Chapter 18 of the Gospel of Matthew contains the fourth of the five Discourses of Matthew, also called the \"Discourse on the Church\". It includes the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Unforgiving Servant which also refer to the Kingdom of Heaven. The general theme of the discourse is the anticipation of a future community of followers, and the role of his apostles in leading it. Verses 15-17 are of particular significance to Baptists in their support of the principle of autonomy of the local church (see Baptist beliefs). Addressing his apostles in , Jesus states: \"what things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven\", see also Binding and loosing. The discourse emphasizes the importance of humility and self-sacrifice as the high virtues within the anticipated community. It teaches that in the Kingdom of God, it is childlike humility that matters, not social prominence and clout. The chapter can be divided into the following subsections: In , Jesus utters \"an exclamation of pity at thought of the miseries that come upon mankind through ambitious passions\" - woe to the world (, \"Ouai tō kosmō\"). Matthew 18 Chapter 18 of the Gospel of Matthew contains the fourth of the five Discourses of Matthew, also called the \"Discourse on the Church\". It includes the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Unforgiving Servant which also refer to the Kingdom of Heaven. The general theme of the discourse is the anticipation of a future community of followers, and the role of his apostles in leading it. Verses 15-17 are of particular significance to Baptists in their support of the principle of autonomy of the local church (see Baptist beliefs). Addressing his apostles"
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"Ice Cold Cash <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Ice Cold Cash is a Canadian game show that ran from February 10 to June 6, 2012 for 28 episodes on Food Network. Host Joseph Motiki dresses as an ice cream seller and pedals around an ice cream cart. The general public approaches the cart as if to get ice cream or a frozen treat, only to be told he has nothing in stock. Motiki explains that he only has cash as well that there are ten food, drink, and culinary related questions. The first question is for $10 and every question thereafter doubles. When contestants reach $160, they can't leave with anything less. There were two segments in the show. The first one was where people were asked if they know kitchen gadget they are holding is and the correct response get them $20. A second segment is a game of charades where one person acts out the item given to them to by Motiki. The ice cream cart was built by Great Lake Scenic Studios. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Ice Cold Cash <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Ice Cold Cash is a Canadian game show that ran from February 10 to June 6, 2012 for 28 episodes on Food Network. Host"
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"487th Air Expeditionary Wing The 487th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe. As a provisional unit, it may be activated or inactivated at any time. The unit's last known assignment was in 2003 at Cairo West Air Base, Egypt, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The first predecessor of the wing is the 487th Bombardment Group, a United States Army Air Forces unit. It was activated in September 1943. After training in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations , where it engaged in combat with Consolidated B-24 Liberators. In the summer of 1944, it was withdrawn from combat to convert to the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, than continued in combat until the spring of 1945. It led the largest Eighth Air Force mission of the war on 24 December 1944. It flew 185 combat missions, the last being on 21 April 1945. Following V-E Day, the unit returned to Drew Field, Florida, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945. The wing's second predecessor is the 587th Tactical Missile Wing, which operated TM-61 Matador tactical cruise missiles in German during the Cold War from 1958 until 1962, when it was inactivated and its operational squadron was assigned directly to its parent 38th Tactical Missile Wing. The two groups were consolidated in January 1982 as the 487th Tactical Missile Wing. The wing operated BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles until it was inactivated in 1991 with the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The 487th Bombardment Group was activated at Bruning Army Air Field, Nebraska on 20 September 1943, with the 836th, 837th and 838th Bombardment Squadrons assigned as its original squadrons. The 8th Antisubmarine Squadron, which had helped form the group's cadre, joined the group on 14 October after being redesignated as the 839th Bombardment Squadron. The group trained with Consolidated B-24 Liberators until March 1944, when it departed for the European Theater of Operations. The ground echelon left Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico on 10 March 1944 for the port of embarkation at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, sailing on the and arrived in Great Britain on 3 April. The air echelon departed via the southern ferry route on 23 March. The group arrived at RAF Lavenham, its base in England, on 4 April 1944, with the air echelon arriving between 13 and 17 April. The 487th entered combat on 7 May 1944, bombing airfields in Normandy in preparation for Operation Overlord, the invasion o Normandy. Four days later, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Beirne Lay, Jr., was shot down, but evaded capture. During the Normandy landings, the group struck coastal defenses, road junctions, bridges and rolling stock. It supported British troops near Caen by attacking German troops and artillery redoubts and made similar attacks to support troops assaulting Brest. It provided support for Operation Market Garden, the attempt to seize bridgeheads across the Rhine River near Arnhem and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Because of its involvement with tactical operations, the group engaged in only limited strategic operations through August 1944. On 19 July 1944, the 487th was taken off combat operations, along with other units of the 92d Combat Bombardment Wing, to convert from the Liberator to the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, in a move that would transform the 3d Bombardment Division to an all Flying Fortress organization. After completing the transition to the B-17 on 1 August 1944, the unit began to focus on strategic targets until March 1945. It attacked oil refineries in Merseburg, Mannheim and Dulmen; factories in Nuremberg, Hanover and Berlin; and marshalling yards in Köln, Münster, Hamm and Neumunster. On 24 December 1944, the group was the lead group on Eighth Air Force's largest mission of the war. Brigadier General Frederick Castle, commander of the 4th Bombardment Wing commanded the raid and flew the 487th's lead aircraft. The group was attacked by Luftwaffe interceptors before escorting fighters could join the bomber formation. Three group planes were shot down, and an additional four were abandoned after making emergency landings in Belgium. Among the losses was General Castle's lead plane. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for taking control of the plane to permit other crew members to bail out and refusing to jettison the plane's bombload to avoid casualties to civilians or friendly troops below. From 1 January 1945 through the end of the war, the group's bombing accuracy was the highest in the 3d Air Division. The group was diverted from the strategic bombing campaign to support ground troops during the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945. It also flew interdiction missions during the Allied crossings of the Rhine and final thrust across Germany. It flew its last combat mission on 21 April 1945. By the end of the war, the group had flown 185 missionswith the loss of 33 aircraft in combat, claiming 22 enemy aircraft destroyed. The 487th remained in England after V-E Day. The air echelon began to fly their B-17s back to the United States in the last week of July, while the rest of the unit returned to the United States on the in August. It reassembled at Drew Field, Florida in September and was inactivated there on 7 November 1945. From September 1956, the 587th Tactical Missile Group operated Air Force missiles. It was assigned to the 38th Tactical Missile Wing and stationed at Sembach Air Base, West Germany. It controlled Mace and Matador tactical cruise missiles at three dispersed locations 2.6 to 12.5 miles from Sembach. It was inactivated on 25 September 1962. On 11 January 1982, the 487th Bombardment Group, and 587th Tactical Missile Group were consolidated (effectively merged on paper) and the merged unit became the 487th Tactical Missile Wing. This was a purely administrative, on-paper change. Activated in 1983, the 487th Tactical Missile Wing was stationed at Comiso Air Station in Sicily. Equipped with BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. Inactivated as a result of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1991. Converted to provisional status and activated as an Air Expeditionary Wing during 2003 invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Inactivated after 90 days of duty due to Air-Force intensive active combat phase of Iraqi invasion having been completed. The following units were awarded Global War on Terrorism (Expeditionary) campaign participation credit: 487th Air Expeditionary Wing The 487th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe. As a provisional unit, it may be activated or inactivated at any time."
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"All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life is a cross-party group of members of the British Parliament and Peers that supports better end-of-life options, including assisted dying. They believe that, subject to legal safeguards, terminally-ill adult patients should have the option of an assisted death in their final stages of life. In 2012, this APPG launched a draft a bill for assisted dying which was presented to the House of Lords by Lord Falconer in 2013. The proposed bill was debated in 2014 but ran out of time in the run up to the 2015 General Election. A version of the bill tabled by Rob Marris was eventually voted on and defeated in the House of Commons in September 2015. The chair is Conservative Party MP Nick Boles, who faced a potentially life-threatening illness before supporting the campaign. He succeeded Kit Malthouse MP as chair, who said it is \"the great human rights campaign of our political generation\". The secretary is Jim Fitzpatrick MP and the secretariat is provided by the non-profit assisted dying campaign group Dignity in Dying. All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the"
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"ALA-LC romanization ALA-LC (American Library Association - Library of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script. The system is used to represent bibliographic information by North American libraries and the British Library (for acquisitions since 1975) and in publications throughout the English-speaking world. The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules require catalogers to romanize access points from their non-Roman originals. However, as the MARC standards have been expanded to allow records containing Unicode characters, many cataloguers now include bibliographic data in both Roman and original scripts. The emerging Resource Description and Access continues many of AACR's recommendations but refers to the process as \"transliteration\" rather than \"Romanization.\" The ALA-LC Romanization includes over 70 romanization tables. Here are some examples of tables: ALA-LC romanization ALA-LC (American Library Association - Library of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script. The system is used to represent bibliographic information by North American libraries and the British Library (for acquisitions since 1975) and in publications throughout the English-speaking world. The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules require catalogers to romanize access points from their non-Roman"
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"Tasha de Vasconcelos Tasha Sandra Mota e Cunha de Vasconcelos (born August 15, 1966) is a Mozambique-born Anglo-Portuguese, supermodel, actress and humanitarian ambassador. She is also the ambassador for the Institut Pasteur. She has just been appointed as a UN Women Global champion for Planet 50-50 by 2030. De Vasconcelos was born in Beira, Mozambique. Her family was forced to flee from two revolutions: a first, in that country, when she was 8 years old, and then a second at 14 from Rhodesia. They moved to Canada in 1980, where de Vasconcelos studied International Relations at the University of British Columbia. At the age of 19, de Vasconcelos was discovered by a scout from Elite Model Management and began her modeling career. She started in New York City and adopted the name Tasha on the suggestion of her agent. She worked for many different brands, including Dolce & Gabbana and Van Cleef & Arpels, and notably for Dior and Yves Saint Laurent. De Vasconcelos' acting career began with a role in the French film \"Riches, belles etc.\", in 1998. She then joined the cours Florent, then the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, and the Actors Studio in Los Angeles. She appeared in several television series at the beginning of 2000. She acted in the BBC One series \"Sunburn\" and portrayed Lauren in five episodes of \"Perfect World\" in 2000. The following year she appeared in \"Largo Winch\" and in the remake of \"Murder on the Orient Express\" for Columbia Broadcasting System. She appeared in \"Relic Hunter\" and the television series \"Dinotopia\" in 2002, and as Countess Alexandra in the feature film \"Johnny English\", directed by Peter Howitt and released in 2003. The same year, she appeared in \"Fatal Attraction\" and \"Dot the i\"ll. She appeared in the telefilm \"Une suite pour deux\", aired in September 2008 by French channel. TF1 She acted in the play \"Camino Real\" from Tennessee Williams, at the Tristan Bates theatre in London. She always yearned to return to Africa to undertake humanitarian work. Since 1996, she has actively promoted healthcare programs around the world, including on the African continent. She began her work in 1996, following a call from Nelson Mandela she went to South Africa to support the Nelson Mandela Children's foundation and then in 1999 with UNICEF mission to Bolivia and Algeria to support various children's projects with UNAids. In 2005 she returned to Mozambique with UNAIDS on another mission to the country of her birth. In March 2006, the model founded AMOR (\"Aide Mondiale Orphelins Réconfort\"), a foundation to reduce the rate of maternal mortality in Kasese, Malawi, and the transmission of AIDS from mother to child. In 2009, the maternity hospital was opened. AMOR was first supported by American actor Paul Newman and Prince Albert II de Monaco. De Vasconcelos was nominated as the first and only ambassador to Institut Pasteur in April 2009, and the following year on march, the 8th., was appointed by president José Manuel Barroso to be ambassador of the European Union to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. In November 2010, Tasha de Vasconcelos spoke at the Women's Forum Deauville. In March 2011 at the International Women's Day in Paris, as well as on June 23, 2012 at Villepinte, Tasha de Vasconcelos spoke in favor of the Achraf Refugees. She was given a humanitarian honor by UNESCO in 2005. She was given the CONDENAST GLAMOUR BEAUTY /HUMANITARIAN AWARD 2011, appointed ambassador to INSTITUT PASTEUR 2009 the place renowned for the discovery of the Aids Virus. 2010 appointed Humanitarian ambassador to the European Union. and 2013 APPOINTED HONORARY CONSUL TO MALAWI in Monaco where she resides. Maternal and health is clearly an issue that is close to her heart and she is deeply committed to ensuring that women and children thrive and realise their full potential. In January 2016, selected by the United Nations as a \"UN Women Global Champion 50-50 by 2030\", Tasha de Vasconcelos declared: \"\"My mission will be awareness in Women's Health and gender issues and refugee and migrant women. To support and empower women globally\"\". Humanitarian work: 1996: Humanitarian mission with Nelson Mandela, Pretoria, South Africa 1999: UNICEF humanitarian mission, Bolivia 2000: UNICEF humanitarian mission, Algeria 2005: UNESCO Humanitarian honour bestowed by secretary-general 2006: UNAIDS mission to Mozambique 2006: March: founded AMOR (Aide Mondiale Orphelins Reconfort) to reduce maternal mortality and help orphans and children worldwide through health care and education, especially in Africa. 2009: 15 April: opened first AMOR maternity hospital in Kasese, Malawi with HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. 2009: 27 April: appointed first Ambassador for Institut Pasteur (where the AIDS virus was first identified) Paris, France. 2010: 8 March: appointed Humanitarian Ambassador for the European Union to combat poverty and social exclusion, Brussels, Belgium. 2010: November: Speaker, Women’s Forum, Deauville, France. 2011: March: Speaker, International Women’s Day on behalf of refugees in Iraq. 2012: June: further address at Villepinte, France, on behalf of Iraqi refugees. 2013: Appointed Honorary Consul of Malawi to Monaco 2014: November 9: speaker on ‘Audacity’, Cité de la Réussite, La Sorbonne, Paris, France. 2015: Official partnership with AMOR and Monaco Princely Government. 2015: Joint project for girls school with the Vatican. 2016: 7 January: officially appointed as a UN Women Global champion for Planet 50-50 by 2030. Concrete help given through AMOR: 2007: Collegio Infantil: orphanage providing practical help to mothers and orphaned children, Beira, Mozambique. 2009: First maternity hospital in Malawi opened in Kasese in association with Lifeline Malawi 2010: Mobile outreach clinics established in Malawi 2012: Nandumbo eye clinic established, Nanthomba, Malawi 2013: 22 tonnes of medical and paediatric equipment sent to Malawi 2013: Second maternity hospital in Malawi opened in Zomba 2014: First school in Malawi, Nanthomba Primary School, opened in Liwonde in association with Help Malawi 2014: Third maternity hospital in Malawi opened in Machinga 2015: Fourth maternity hospital in Thyolo opened with the support of the Prince's Government of Monaco. 2015: One million trees planted in Malawi with the local community and schools. This action was supported by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. 2010: ‘La Belle Humanitaire’ 52 minute documentary, France Television 2011: Autobiography, ‘Beauty as a Weapon’ published, Michel Lafon, Paris, France 2013: Sky News report from London, UK 2013: Monaco television special report from Africa 2013: Sky News report from Monaco 2013: CCTV China, Special Report 2014: Monaco television special report from Monaco 2014: CNN special report, live from London, UK 2014: ‘Arise Africa’ TV special report, live from London, UK 2014: TVC News Live Africa special report 2014: CCTV China, Special report Newshour 2015: “Monaco Television special report” “Where there is poverty and AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done…” “I know that thanks to who we are and our action we are building a force for change that will be the future of humanity.” Tasha de Vasconcelos Tasha Sandra Mota e Cunha de Vasconcelos (born August 15, 1966) is a Mozambique-born Anglo-Portuguese, supermodel, actress and humanitarian ambassador. 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"OTs-01 Kobalt The OTs-01 Kobalt (, \"Cobalt\") is a Russian double-action 9 mm revolver designed by Igor Stechkin and Boris Avraamov. The revolver was developed by TsKIB SOO from 1991 to 1992 and was meant for sale to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to law enforcement. In 1992 it was adopted by Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation as service weapon under designation RSA (\"Revolver Stechkina-Avraamova\"). Since 1994 it was also manufactured by \"Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant\" and \"Uralsk Machine-Building Plant\" under designation TKB-0216 (\"ТКБ-0216\"). The revolver resembles a Smith & Wesson \"J\"-frame revolver, with its small frame, \"bird's head\" grip and an external hammer. There is a safety on the left-hand side of the grip that locks the cylinder and hammer to prevent it from accidental discharge. Since it fires rimless cartridges, the six-shot revolver is cut for \"moon clips\", sheet-metal holders that grasp the rounds by the base to allow them to be extracted easily. The revolver uses a special Y-shaped \"moon clip\" that loads alternate chambers and locks into the other \"moon clip\". This allows alternating types of ammunition (like hollow point or armor-piercing) to be loaded into the same cylinder and allows the user to reload a special type of ammunition and keep the other type in reserve. It can also be used without the \"moon clips\", but the spent cases would not be extractable unless pushed out from the front of the cylinder with a rod-like object, like a pen or pencil. OTs-01 Kobalt The OTs-01 Kobalt (, \"Cobalt\") is a Russian double-action 9 mm revolver designed by Igor Stechkin and Boris Avraamov. The revolver was developed by TsKIB SOO from 1991 to 1992 and was meant for sale to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to law enforcement. In 1992 it was"
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"Bill Redgrave William Patrick Redgrave (23 January 1881 – 28 November 1931) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington and Hawke's Bay in New Zealand from 1903 to 1909. Bill Redgrave moved to Wellington from Sydney in 1903, taking a position as a groundsman at Basin Reserve. He began representing Wellington in December 1903. He had his best season in 1905-06 when he finished at the top of the New Zealand first-class batting averages with 286 runs at an average of 57.20. In Wellington’s match against Hawke’s Bay he opened the batting on the first day and made 165, which set a Wellington first-class record that stood for several years. He was third out when the score was 245 for 3, after hitting four sixes and 22 fours. Largely thanks to his innings Wellington made 409 for 8 on the first day despite losing time to rain. He did not bowl in Hawke’s Bay’s first innings, but he opened the bowling in their second innings and took 5 for 37, bowling unchanged through the innings of 59 all out. He moved to Hastings in 1906 and played a few matches for Hawke’s Bay. He died in Sydney in 1931, leaving a widow, Annie, and two daughters. Bill Redgrave William Patrick Redgrave (23 January 1881 – 28 November 1931) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington and Hawke's Bay in New Zealand from 1903 to 1909. Bill Redgrave moved to Wellington from Sydney in 1903, taking a position as a groundsman at Basin Reserve. He began representing Wellington in December 1903. He had his best season in 1905-06 when he finished at the top of the New Zealand first-class batting averages with 286 runs at an average of 57.20. In Wellington’s match against Hawke’s Bay he opened"
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"Alvin Langdon Coburn Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs. Coburn was born on June 11, 1882, at 134 East Springfield Street in Boston, Massachusetts, to a middle-class family. His father, who had established the successful firm of Coburn & Whitman Shirts, died when Alvin was seven. After that he was raised solely by his mother, Fannie, who remained the primary influence in his early life, even though she remarried when he was a teenager. In his autobiography, Coburn wrote, \"My mother was a remarkable woman of very strong character who tried to dominate my life…It was a battle royal all the days of our life together.\" In 1890 the family visited his maternal uncles in Los Angeles, and they gave him a 4 x 5 Kodak camera. He immediately fell in love with the camera, and within a few years he had developed a remarkable talent for both visual composition and technical proficiency in the darkroom. When he was sixteen years old, in 1898, he met his cousin F. Holland Day, who was already an internationally known photographer with considerable influence. Day recognized Coburn's talent and both mentored him and encouraged him to take up photography as a career. At the end of 1899 his mother and he moved to London, where they met up with Day. Day had been invited by the Royal Photographic Society to select prints from the best American photographers for an exhibition in London. He brought more than a hundred photographs with him, including nine by Coburn – who at this time was only 17 years old. With the help of his cousin Coburn's career took a giant first step. Coburn's prints at the Royal Photographic Society attracted the attention of another important photographer, Frederick H. Evans. Evans was one of the founders of the Linked Ring, an association of artistic photographers which was considered at that time to be the highest authority for photographic aesthetics. In the summer of 1900 Coburn was invited to exhibit with them, which elevated him to the ranks of some of the most elite photographers of the day. In 1901 Coburn lived in Paris for a few months so he could study with photographer Edward Steichen and Robert Demachy. He and his mother then toured France, Switzerland and Germany for the remainder of the year. When they returned to America in 1902, Coburn began studying with famed photographer Gertrude Käsebier in New York. He opened a photography studio on Fifth Avenue but spent much of his time that year studying with Arthur Wesley Dow at his School of Art in Massachusetts. At the same time, his mother continued to promote her son whenever she could. Stieglitz once told an interviewer, \"Fannie Coburn devoted much energy trying to convince both Day and me that Alvin was a greater photographer than Steichen.\" The following year Coburn was elected as an Associate of The Linked Ring, making him one of the youngest members of that group and one of only a few Americans to be so honored. In May he was given his first one-man show at the Camera Club of New York, and in July Stieglitz published one of his gravures in \"Camera Work\", No. 3. In 1904 Coburn returned to London with a commission from \"The Metropolitan Magazine\" to photograph England's leading artists and writers, including G. K. Chesterton, George Meredith, and H. G. Wells. During this trip he visited renowned pictorialist J. Craig Annan in Edinburgh and made studies of motifs photographed by pioneering photographers Hill and Adamson. Six more of his images were published in \"Camera Work\", No. 6 (April, 1904). In 1905 he photographed American artist Leon Dabo. Coburn remained in London throughout 1905 and much of 1906, taking both portraits and landscapes around England. He photographed Henry James for \"The Century\" magazine and returned to Edinburgh for a series he intended to be visualizations of Robert Louis Stevenson's \"\". The years 1906-7 were some of the most prolific and important for Coburn. He began 1906 by having one-man shows at the Royal Photographic Society (accompanied by a catalog with a preface by George Bernard Shaw) and at the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. In July five more gravures were published in \"Camera Work\" (No. 15). At the same time he began to study photogravure printing at the London County Council School of Photo-Engraving. It was during this time that Coburn made one of his most famous portraits, that of George Bernard Shaw posing nude as Rodin's \"The Thinker\". In the summer he cruised round the Mediterranean and traveled to Paris, Rome and Venice in the fall while working on frontispieces for an American edition of Henry James' novels. While in Paris he saw Steichen's Autochrome color photographs and learned the process from him. By 1907 Coburn was so well established in his career that Shaw called him \"the greatest photographer in the world,\" although he was only 24 years old at the time. He continued his success by having a one-man show at Stieglitz's prestigious \"Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession\" in New York and by organizing an international exhibition of photography at the New English Art Galleries in London. At the request of American art collector Charles Lang Freer, Coburn briefly returned to the U.S. so he could photograph Freer's large collection of oriental art and Whistler prints. Coburn became captivated with the \"exotic\" style of the oriental artists, and it began to have an influence in both his thinking and his photography. In January 1908, twelve more of Coburn's photographs were published in \"Camera Work\" (No. 21). In the same issue there was an anonymous article that leveled some harsh words at him: Coburn has been a favored child throughout his career… No other photographer has been so extensively exploited nor so generally eulogized. He enjoys it all; is amused at the conflicting opinions about him and his work, and, like all strong individuals, is conscious that he knows best what he wants and what he is driving at. Being talked about is his only recreation. The author was probably Stieglitz, who sometimes delighted in both promoting and castigating a photographer, especially if he felt the person was becoming too conceited. The criticism did not seem to have a long-term effect on their relationship, as both continued to be close colleagues for many years. In the spring Coburn had another one-man show, this time at the Goupil Galleries in New York. Soon after he wrote to Stieglitz, \"Printing almost entirely in gray now... think it a reaction from the autochomes…\" In the summer he visited Dublin, where he made portraits of W.B. Yeats and George Moore. He continued his travels that year with trips to Bavaria and Holland. The next year Stieglitz gave Coburn his second one-man exhibition at his gallery, which by then had come to be known simply as \"291\". Another sign of Coburn's prominence at that time was that Stieglitz had only given two shows to one other photographer – Edward Steichen. Back in London, Coburn bought a new home with a large studio area where he set up two printing presses. He proceeded to use the skills he had learned at the County Council School to publish a book of his own photographs called \"London\". Coburn returned to America in 1910, exhibiting 26 prints at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. He began traveling extensively in the U.S. for the next year, going to Arizona to photograph the Grand Canyon and to California to take photos in Yosemite National Park. He came back to New York in 1912 and took a series of new photos which he published in his book \"New York\". It was during this period that he made some of his most famous photographs from elevated viewpoints, including his best known image \"The",
"photographer – Edward Steichen. Back in London, Coburn bought a new home with a large studio area where he set up two printing presses. He proceeded to use the skills he had learned at the County Council School to publish a book of his own photographs called \"London\". Coburn returned to America in 1910, exhibiting 26 prints at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. He began traveling extensively in the U.S. for the next year, going to Arizona to photograph the Grand Canyon and to California to take photos in Yosemite National Park. He came back to New York in 1912 and took a series of new photos which he published in his book \"New York\". It was during this period that he made some of his most famous photographs from elevated viewpoints, including his best known image \"The Octopus\". While in New York he met and married Edith Wightman Clement of Boston on October 11, 1912. In November Coburn and his wife returned to England, and after twenty-three transatlantic crossings he never again returned to the United States. Coburn continued to build his fame by publishing what would become his most famous book, \"Men of Mark\", in 1913. The book featured 33 gravure prints of important European and American authors, artists and statesmen, including Henri Matisse, Henry James, Auguste Rodin, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt and Yeats. In the preface to the book, he says: To make satisfactory photographs of persons it is necessary for me to like them, to admire them, or at least to be interested in them. It is rather curious and difficult to exactly explain, but if I dislike my subject it is sure to come out in the resulting portrait . I had thought of using 'Men of Genius' as the title for this book, but Arnold Bennett objected seriously, saying, very modestly, that he did not consider himself a man of genius, but merely a working author, and absolutely refusing to join the throng unless I changed it, so I told him that if he would give me a better one I would use it. 'Men of Mark' is his alternative. In 1915 Coburn organized the exhibition \"Old Masters of Photography\", shown at the Royal Photographic Society in London and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in the U.S. The show included many historical prints from Coburn's own collection. The following year two pivotal events occurred in his life. He met George Davison, a fellow photographer and a philanthropist who was involved in Theosophy and Freemasonry. This started him on a path of studying mysticism, metaphysical ideals and Druidism. He met Ezra Pound, who introduced him to the short-lived Vorticism movement in Britain. Its new visual aesthetics intrigued Coburn and, provoked by his growing spiritual quest, he began to re-examine his photographic style. He responded by making a bold and distinctive portrait of Pound, showing three overlapping images of differing sizes. Within a brief period he moved from this semi-representative image to a series of abstract images that are among the first completely non-representative photographs ever made. To make these images Coburn invented a kaleidoscope-like instrument with three mirrors clamped together, which when fitted over the lens of the camera would reflect and fracture the image. Pound called this instrument a \"Vortoscope\" and the resulting photographs \"Vortographs\". He made only about 18 different Vortographs, taken over a period of just one month, yet they remain among the most striking images in early 20th century photography. In 1917 he had a show of Vortographs and paintings at the Camera Club in London. He had recently started painting, in what Ezra Pound called Post-Impressionist style, and the combination of 'second-rate' paintings along with his highly unusual photographs received mixed reviews. Stieglitz in particular did not like the change in Coburn's imagery, and he rejected several prints for a show he was putting together. On 18 June 1919, he was initiated into Mawddach Masonic Lodge No.1988 in Barmouth and was a member until he resigned on 28 September 1961. Coburn became increasingly involved with the Freemasons, achieving the title of Royal Arch Mason. He also joined the \"Societas Rosicruciana\" and delved further into metaphysical studies. Eventually he would devote most of his life to these studies, foregoing photography as his primary interest. In 1922 Coburn briefly returned to his roots when he published \"More Men of Mark\", a second book of portraits he had taken more than ten years earlier. This volume included previously unpublished photographs that included Pound, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Joseph Conrad, Israel Zangwill and Edmund Dulac. In 1923 Coburn met a man who would become a major influence on him for the rest of his life. The man was the leader of the Universal Order, a comparative religious group that grew out of the Order of Ancient Wisdom, and which under the name Hermetic Truth Society organized public lectures and produced the quarterly Shrine of Wisdom magazine. The identity of the man – described as being great and good in every way – was known to Coburn, but it has been kept from anyone outside of the Order due to the Society's strict doctrine of anonymity. There was something about him, however, that struck a chord with Coburn, and \"Coburn's solidity as a citizen and the falling-away of all mundane ambition thereafter was due to his direct influence.\" Throughout the 1920s and 30s Coburn became fully committed to the beliefs of the Universal Order, which are described in \"The Shrine of Wisdom\" magazine as being devoted to \"Synthetic Philosophy, Religion and Mysticism\". His deep interest in mysticism, and especially freemasonry, was to occupy the greatest part of the remainder of his life. Coburn did much research into the history of freemasonry, as well as on aspects of the occult and mysticism. He presented numerous lectures based on his findings to Masonic gatherings, travelling extensively throughout England and Wales. He also took a particular interest in the ceremonial rituals and rites performed, and in their origins and symbolism. In 1927 Coburn was made an honorary Ovate of the Welsh Gorsedd, or Council of Druids, and he took the Welsh name \"Maby-y-Trioedd\" (Son of the Triads). In 1928 his mother died. She had been a major influence on him for much of his life, and her death was yet one more sign that his new devotion to religious interests was the right course for him. By 1930 Coburn had lost almost all interest in photography. He decided that his past was of little use to him now, and over the summer he destroyed nearly 15,000 glass and film negatives – nearly his entire life's output. This same year he donated his extensive collection of contemporary and historical photographs to the Royal Photographic Society. A year later he wrote his last letter to Stieglitz, and from then on he made only a few new photographs. Ironically, just when he was making an almost complete break from photography Coburn was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. After living in England for more than twenty years, Coburn finally became a British subject in 1932. In 1945 he moved from his house in Harlech, North Wales to Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales. He lived there the rest of his life. His wife Edith died on October 11, 1957, their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. Coburn died in his home in North Wales on November 23, 1966. Alvin Langdon Coburn Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the"
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"Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre The Subject Centre for Health Sciences and Practice is one of 24 Subject Centres funded within the Higher Education Academy to promote high quality learning and teaching in UK Higher Education (HE) by providing subject-based support for sharing innovations and good practices. It is hosted by King's College, London. The Director is Prof Catherine Geissler. The centre was founded in 2000 The Higher Education Academy itself came into being in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), the Institute for the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE) and the Higher Education Staff Development Agency (HESDA) in order to enable comprehensive, knowledgeable support for practitioners and institutions with an aim to the greater professionalisation of HE teaching. The Subject Centre supports teaching and learning (both in academic classroom and practice settings), in Audiology, Dance and movement therapy, Podiatry, Complementary Medicine, Drama Therapy, Health Informatics, Health promotion, Health Visiting, Medical physics, Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Radiography, Mental Health and Psychotherapy, Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational therapy, Operating Department Practice, Orthoptics, Osteopathy, Palliative care, Paramedic Services, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Public Health, Radiotherapy, Resuscitation and Speech and Language Therapy. It works closely with the Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) Subject Centre. The Centres are part of the HEALTH Network Group. The centre produces various publications and reports. It works through various Special Interest Groups including those focusing on assessment, e-learning and widening participation. Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre The Subject Centre for Health Sciences and Practice is one of 24 Subject Centres funded within the Higher Education Academy to promote high quality learning and teaching in UK Higher Education (HE) by providing subject-based support for sharing innovations and good practices. It is hosted by King's College, London. The Director is Prof Catherine Geissler."
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"Itamaraty Palace The Itamaraty Palace (), also known as the Palace of the Arches (\"Palácio dos Arcos\"), is the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. It is located in the national capital of Brasília. The building was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated on April 21, 1970. It is located to the east of the National Congress building along the Ministries Esplanade, near the Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Plaza). The word \"Itamaraty\" is a word originating from the Nheengatu language. According to Navarro, it means \"river of small stones\", by joining ita (stone), Bantam (small) and ty (river). The name was also used for the former headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1899-1970) in Rio de Janeiro. Itamaraty Palace The Itamaraty Palace (), also known as the Palace of the Arches (\"Palácio dos Arcos\"), is the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. It is located in the national capital of Brasília. The building was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated on April 21, 1970. It is located to the east of the National Congress building along the Ministries Esplanade, near the Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Plaza). The"
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"Efígie da República The Efígie da República (Portuguese for Effigy of the Republic) is used as a national personification, both in Brazil and in Portugal, symbolizing the Republic. The effigy is a representation of a young woman wearing a crown of bay leaves in Roman style and a phrygian cap. It is present in allegoric paintings and sculptures displayed in government buildings throughout Brazil, and engraved on Brazilian real coins and banknotes. It was first used as a pro-Republican icon in the 19th century, inspired by France's Marianne. After the proclamation of the Republic in 1889, it became an important symbol of the newly formed Republic. The Portuguese \"Efígie da República\" is represented as a young woman wearing the phrygian cap, modeled after the Liberty of Eugène Delacroix' \"Liberty Leading the People\". As a national distinction, the Portuguese Republic is represented wearing green and red clothes. The \"Efígie da República\" was adopted as a Portuguese State official symbol after the 5 October 1910 revolution, when the Republic substituted the Monarchy in Portugal. Before that, it was used as a political symbol by the Portuguese republicans. Later, the sculpture of Simões de Almeida, representing the \"Busto da República\" (Bust of the Republic), became the standard for official use. A reproduction of the Bust of the Republic had to be present, in prominence, in all public buildings and was also present, as an effigy, in the escudo coins. It was considered by the new republican regime as a national symbol of Portugal, like the national coat of arms or the national flag. Although the original intention was for the \"Efígie da República\" to become considered as the personification of the own Portuguese Nation, it never gained popularity in that role. Usually it remains seen only as the personification of the republican regimen, and not as a national symbol. While frequently used in the first half of the 20th century, its use today is rare. Efígie da República The Efígie da República (Portuguese for Effigy of the Republic) is used as a national personification, both in Brazil and in Portugal, symbolizing the Republic. The effigy is a representation of a young woman wearing a crown of bay leaves in Roman style and a phrygian cap. It is present in allegoric paintings and sculptures displayed in government buildings throughout Brazil, and engraved on Brazilian real coins and banknotes. It was first used as a"
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"Last Drag \"Last Drag\" is a song recorded by American actress and singer Traci Lords. Her first musical release since her 2004 EP \"Sunshine\", it was released by Sea To Sun Recordings on October 25, 2011. The Andre Jetson remix of the song was featured on the compilation \"Traci Lords Presents: M2F2\" (2012). The song was written Anton Bass, Sylvia Tosun and Tom Lord-Alge. Produced by Anton Bass and Konrad Carelli, \"Last Drag\" is a pop rock song. Its lyrical content is about cravings and temptations that lead one down the wrong path. The song received positive reviews from music critics. In the United States, it failed to enter the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. However, it managed to be successful on the \"Billboard\" Dance Club Songs chart, peaking at number four. The accompanying music video for \"Last Drag\" was directed by Zalman King, being one of his last projects before his death. It takes its place in a nightclub where Lords is surrounded by her \"temptations\" - alcohol, cigarettes, and ex-lovers. The main inspiration for the video was Studio 54. \"Last Drag\" was written by Anton Bass, Sylvia Tosun and Tom Lord-Alge. Musically, it is a pop rock. Its lyrics use smoking as a metaphor for cravings and temptations that lead one down the wrong path. \"It is not meant to be an anti smoking thing at all. It was really a metaphor. The lyrics are \"You are my last drag.\" It is about being addicted to something that you love, you have to do it one more time.\" The accompanying music video for \"Last Drag\" was directed by Zalman King. It is set in a nightclub where Lords is surrounded by her \"temptations\". \"The whole idea of the video is to walk into a den of my temptations and sins. To see them whether it was girls or whatever. It was meant to go together and flirt with that. People have asked me a lot about it because they consider it very bi-curious.\" Credits adapted from \"Last Drag\" CDr maxi-single. Last Drag \"Last Drag\" is a song recorded by American actress and singer Traci Lords. Her first musical release since her 2004 EP \"Sunshine\", it was released by Sea To Sun Recordings on October 25, 2011. The Andre Jetson remix of the song was featured on the compilation \"Traci Lords Presents: M2F2\" (2012). The song was written Anton Bass, Sylvia"
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"Glidden, Texas Glidden is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Colorado County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 661. It lies just north of Interstate 10 and to the west of Columbus. Located along the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the town site was originally established by the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway in 1885. The post office was opened three years later, and the town served as a major railroad maintenance facility stop between Houston and El Paso. The community flourished during the Spanish–American War and the two world wars. Shortly after, the railroad movement from steam engines to those operating with diesel and electric rendered most of the railroad maintenance shops in Glidden obsolete. This caused the population to decrease to 150 residents by the late 1940s. Between January 1911 and April 1912, a series of ax murders occurred in Texas and Louisiana, claiming 49 victims. Glidden was one of the numerous towns in which this type of homicide took place. It is believed that all victims died at the hands of an unidentified killer (or killers) during the reign of terror. In Glidden, a woman with her four children and a male guest were all murdered in their sleep in March 1912. There were several individuals suspected in the crimes in the different locations, but charges were dropped against all of them for lack of evidence. The murder cases remain unsolved. Glidden is located in north-central Colorado County and is bordered to the east by the city of Columbus, the county seat. U.S. Route 90 passes through the community, and Interstate 10 passes along the southern edge, with access from Exit 693. Weimar is to the west. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Glidden CDP has a total area of , of which , or 1.10%, is water. Glidden, Texas Glidden is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Colorado County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 661. It lies just north of Interstate 10 and to the west of Columbus. Located along the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the town site was originally established by the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway in 1885. The post office was opened three years later, and the town served as a major railroad maintenance facility stop between Houston"
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"Air Corridor Air Corridor was an airline based in Nampula, Mozambique. It operated domestic services. Its main base was Nampula Airport. Air Corridor ceased operations on 10 January 2008. The airline was established in 2004 and began operations in August 2004 with a single Boeing 737. It was privately owned. Due to safety concerns, United States Government personnel were initially prohibited from using this carrier, a ban that was lifted on 9 February 2007. Air Corridor operated services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at March 2007): Beira, Tete, Lichinga, Maputo, Nampula, Pemba and Quelimane. The Air Corridor fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at April 2008): Air Corridor Air Corridor was an airline based in Nampula, Mozambique. It operated domestic services. Its main base was Nampula Airport. Air Corridor ceased operations on 10 January 2008. The airline was established in 2004 and began operations in August 2004 with a single Boeing 737. It was privately owned. Due to safety concerns, United States Government personnel were initially prohibited from using this carrier, a ban that was lifted on 9 February 2007. Air Corridor operated services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at March 2007): Beira, Tete, Lichinga, Maputo, Nampula, Pemba"
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"Miroslav Popov (basketball) Miroslav Popov (; born November 26, 1957) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. Popov coached Lions Vršac in 2003–04 season and Bosnian team Leotar Trebinje during 2007–08 season. Popov spent a big part of his coaching career with Hemofarm from Vršac. He was an assistant coach from 1993 to 1999, and a head coach three times: 1999–2003, 2004–2005 and 2010–2013. Also, Popov coached teams in Italy and Romania. He was a coach of Italian team Mercede Basket Alghero for two seasons. In Romania, he was a head coach for CSU Alba Iulia for five seasons. Popov was a head coach for the FR Yugoslavia women's national team at the EuroBasket Women 2001 and 2002 FIBA World Championship for Women. Popov was a head coach for the Romania women's national team. Miroslav Popov (basketball) Miroslav Popov (; born November 26, 1957) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. Popov coached Lions Vršac in 2003–04 season and Bosnian team Leotar Trebinje during 2007–08 season. Popov spent a big part of his coaching career with Hemofarm from Vršac. He was an assistant coach from 1993 to 1999, and a head coach three times: 1999–2003, 2004–2005 and 2010–2013. Also, Popov coached teams"
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"Boston Subdivision The Boston Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The line runs from Worcester west to near Springfield along a former New York Central Railroad line. Its east end is at Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (this portion owned by the MBTA) at Back Bay Station, over which CSX has trackage rights to the east to reach the Dorchester Branch. Its west end is in Wilbraham, east of Springfield, at the east end of the Berkshire Subdivision. Along the way, the line junctions with the Framingham Subdivision and Fitchburg Subdivision at Framingham. The line east of Riverside is owned by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority; from Riverside west to Framingham Station, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) owns the line, while the portion from Framingham to Worcester is owned by the state of Massachusetts. MBTA Commuter Rail Framingham/Worcester Line trains operate over the line east of Worcester. The line originally had four tracks to Riverside station (two curved to the south and are currently used by the MBTA's Green Line \"D\" Branch light rail service). The number of tracks running into downtown Boston was reduced to two in the 1950s, in order to build the Massachusetts Turnpike, which parallels the easternmost ten miles of trackage, although CSX retains the original Boston and Albany Railroad trackage rights. The Boston and Worcester Railroad opened its line from Boston west to Worcester in 1834 and 1835. The Western Railroad opened from Worcester west to Springfield in 1839. The line became part of the Boston and Albany Railroad, New York Central, and Conrail through leases, mergers, and takeovers, and was assigned to CSX in the 1999 breakup of Conrail. The state took over ownership of the line between Worcester and Boston in 2012, and took over dispatching in 2013. Boston Subdivision The Boston Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The line runs from Worcester west to near Springfield along a former New York Central Railroad line. Its east end is at Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (this portion owned by the MBTA) at Back Bay Station, over which CSX has trackage rights to the east to reach the Dorchester Branch. Its west end is in Wilbraham, east of Springfield, at the east end of the Berkshire Subdivision. Along the way, the line junctions with the Framingham Subdivision and Fitchburg Subdivision"
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"In Search for Khnum In Search for Khnum, a novel by writer and Egyptologist Hussein Bassir, is the first book with a Pharaonic setting among contemporary Egyptian literature in the style of ‘90s generation’. It is arguably the first work of his own literary style and also his first experiment in regenerating the Pharaonic inspiration for modern Egyptian belles-lettres following the innovations of Naguib Mahfouz that were published in the first half of the twentieth century. This novel was published at the start of 1998 by the Egyptian organization of the Department of Culture. The reception which it received from readers and critics since its appearance has meant that it became out of print in record time. The events of the novel take place in Ancient Egypt and in particular during the transitional period after the New Kingdom, towards the start of the Third Intermediate Period, during the 21st Dynasty (c. 1070-945 BC). At this time, Egypt was ruled by the High Priests of the god Amun-Ra, who dwelt in the traditional capital Thebes, which was also known as Waset in ancient times, and is known today as Luxor. This period is known as one of theocratic rule, due to the religious nature of the governments’ authority. Among historians, this is considered one of the rare times when ancient Egypt was directly controlled by the high priests. There was also a civil government who very probably had family ties with Pharaoh Ramses XI (c. 1099-1069 BC), the last king of the last dynasty of the New Kingdom (c. 1539-1070 BC), also known as the Imperial age or (by Egyptologists) as the 20th Dynasty (1186-1069 BC). With the end of the so-called New Kingdom, Egypt lost much of the power, prestige and domination that she had enjoyed earlier. Beyond her borders, the holdings of her empire had diminished, and within the country there was anarchy for a variety of causes. The most important was the split in government between the north and the south. The north was managed by Smendes, the governor of Tanis, a town in the eastern Delta, while the south was managed by the High Priest of Amun-Ra, Herihor, resident at Thebes. The events of the Tale of Wenamun are a good example of the decline in Egyptian possessions as defined by territories and states that characterized this period. In his tale Wenamun leaves the temple of Amun-Re at Thebes to acquire wood from the eastern coastal region of the Mediterranean which had previously been under Egyptian control for several centuries, in order to build a sacred bark for this god. During the dangerous journey the hero of this tale, Wenamun, experiences numerous difficulties: he is driven from one of the towns he visits and is once even threatened with death. All of these unfortunate events show how serious the situation of Egypt is at this time. The events of In Search of Khnum take place in this historical context. In a narrative framework, the author describes an imaginary situation that takes place in precisely this period of Ancient Egyptian history. It is thus not a real or even an experienced history, as was the case with the Pharaonic writings of the very great novelist Naguib Mahfouz: Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War, Before the Throne, . In consequence this story takes place in ancient Egypt to reconstruct the reality and to observe it rather than reproducing it. At the same time, this novel is not only concerned with past time, but also reflects a diaphanous shadow on the present with a skillful literary talent. It is a novel that is as engaged with the present as it is associated with the past and with the fundamental aim of declaring itself optimistic for the future. What is truly remarkable about this literary work is its surprising capacity to reconstruct the Egyptian past and dwell on its details without bombarding the reader with subjects and historical events, and without compromising the truth of this distant period. Thus the history of Ancient Egypt is presented in such a literary and artistic manner that it confirms art’s true role and incredible capacity in preserving and reanimating cultural heritage. The author also knows how to renew and refashion this heritage in an engaging style which allows the observer to view it with a fresh eye, and both to enrich his thoughts about life and to deepen his knowledge of literature. It is not an easy matter to create a setting similar to the ambiance of the period’s chronicles, and this is what gives this work its originality and brilliance. The author’s style gives the novel its splendor to the novel, since he is a specialist in Egyptology and has a passion to make this science both his career and the subject of his writing. In Search for Khnum In Search for Khnum, a novel by writer and Egyptologist Hussein Bassir, is the first book with a Pharaonic setting among contemporary Egyptian literature in the style of ‘90s generation’. It is arguably the first work of his own literary style and also his first experiment in regenerating the Pharaonic inspiration for modern Egyptian belles-lettres following the innovations of Naguib Mahfouz that were published in the first half of the twentieth century. This novel was published at the start of 1998 by the Egyptian organization of the Department of Culture. The reception"
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"Kenneth Pasternak Kenneth D. Pasternak (born February 21, 1954, New York City; raised in Fleischmanns, New York) is an American financial executive and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder along with Walter Raquet of Knight Trading Group, at one time the largest market maker in NASDAQ traded securities and also served as its chairman and CEO. Pasternak was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan. His father was born in Austria and fled the Nazis immigrating first to Israel and then the United States in 1951 after a stint in the British Army. His mother was born in Belgium to a Polish Jewish family who was hidden from the Nazis by a Catholic institution for six years; her entire family perished in the Holocaust. His parents met at a resort in the Catskills and settled in nearby Fleischmanns, New York; his father owned a gas station where he also worked as a mechanic and sold used cars. Pasternak received his high school diploma in 1972 from Margaretville Central School and received a B.S. degree in education from The State University of New York at New Paltz in 1977. He moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey where he renovated a home and then moved to Jersey City, New Jersey which at the time was hotbed of stock trading, an industry that he sought to enter. Pasternak began his career in 1979 at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg where he started as a librarian. Pasternak eventually worked his way up to senior vice president, limited partner, and trading room manager. He worked at Speer Leeds until 1994. In 1994, Pasternak co-founded Knight Trading Group along with Walter Raquet, which benefited exponentially from the advent of internet trading. Knight Trading went public in 1998 with a market capitalization of $7 billion. Pasternak served as the company's chief executive officer from its founding in 1995 until he retired on January 21, 2002. Pasternak also served on the company's board of directors from 1998 until January 31, 2002. Under his leadership, Knight became the leading wholesale market maker in the United States securities markets. Pasternak and Raquet also took the company public in 1998 under the ticker symbol NITE, and its market capitalization exceeded $5 billion. In April 2000, Pasternak presented testimony to the US Senate Banking Committee on Competition and Transparency in the Financial Marketplace of the Future. In May 2001, Pasternak presented testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs regarding the implementation and future of decentralized markets. In 2001, Pasternak was ranked 9th on Forbes' financial services executive pay list, and number 51 overall, with a total compensation package of $26,488,000; this included a base salary of $250,000 and a cash bonus of $26,213,000. Because he owned founders' stock he was compensated primarily in cash, and in terms of cash, he was the highest paid CEO in 2001. Other notable financial services executives on this list included Henry Paulson Jr., the CEO of Goldman Sachs who ranked 70th on the list. Pasternak served on the board of directors of NASDAQ in 2001–2002 and the NASD board of governors in 2001–2002, and was an early-stage investor in the International Securities Exchange (ISE) in 1999. In 2001, Kenneth Pasternak retired as CEO of Knight Trading Group. As described in Edgar Perez’s book, \"Knightmare on Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets\", Pasternak claimed he didn’t expect to be CEO of a big company. “I was already looking for an opportunity to retire. I always saw myself as a business builder. I had some health issues. I had diabetes and weighed 325 pounds.” After retiring from Knight Trading Group, seeing a credit bubble, Pasternak founded Chestnut Ridge Capital, LLC, a northern New Jersey-based hedge fund, which also serves as the Pasternak family office. The fund's strategy is classified as Macro Long/Short and has approximately $90 million in assets under management. In 2008, seeing that there was opportunity to purchase distressed real estate at a discount, Pasternak founded the real estate investment firm KABR Real Estate Investment Partners LLC with partners Larry Rappaport and Adam Altman where Pasternak serves as chairman. The KABR Group is dedicated to the purchase of select market cycle bottom real-estate assets in the New York/New Jersey area and southern Florida. KABR is the first marketed product to come out of Chestnut Ridge Capital LLC. Outside of KABR, Pasternak owns approximately $100 million worth of real estate. On June 1, 2009, KABR closed a deal to purchase 85 Challenger Road - a office building in Ridgefield Park, NJ. The Class-A office building sits adjacent to the NJ Turnpike and was formerly occupied by the Daewoo Corporation. KABR purchased the building from AIG for \"...the right price\" according to Pasternak - though the sales price was undisclosed. Pasternak is a general partner in the development of the Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park, NY where Crossroads Ventures is developing a $394,000,000 destination resort. In 1999, Kenneth Pasternak, Knight/Trimark Group Inc., was named Emerging Entrepreneur Of The Year by Ernst & Young. Pasternak faced a series of investigations brought by the NASD and the Securities and Exchange Commission for supervisory violations stemming from allegations brought by an ex-employee. The NASD fined Pasternak $100,000 for each supervisory violation. However, a federal court ruled that Pasternak was not liable for any violation. On March 5, 2010, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) council reversed a ruling that found two former Knight Securities LP senior executives were responsible for supervisory failures in connection with allegedly fraudulent sales to institutional customers. Pasternak is married with three children and has been a resident of Saddle River, New Jersey. Kenneth Pasternak Kenneth D. Pasternak (born February 21, 1954, New York City; raised in Fleischmanns, New York) is an American financial executive and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder along with Walter Raquet of Knight Trading Group, at one time the largest market maker in NASDAQ traded securities and also served as its chairman"
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"HIV/AIDS in New Zealand There is a relatively low prevalence of HIV/AIDS in New Zealand, with an estimated 2,900 people out a population of 4.51 million living with HIV/AIDS as of 2014. The rate of newly diagnosed HIV infections was stable at around 100 annually through the late 1980s and the 1990s but rose sharply from 2000 to 2005. It has since stabilised at roughly 200 new cases annually. Male-to-male sexual contact has been the largest contributor to new HIV cases in New Zealand since record began in 1985. Heterosexual contact is the second largest contributor to new cases, but unlike male-to-male contact, they are mostly acquired outside New Zealand. The first recorded death in New Zealand due to AIDS was in New Plymouth in 1983. In 1985 Eve van Grafhorst was ostracised in Australia since she had contracted HIV/AIDS caused by a transfusion of infected blood. The family moved to New Zealand where she died at the age of 11. By the time of her death, her plight had significantly raised the level of AIDS awareness in New Zealand. World AIDS Day is observed in New Zealand. The Ministry of Health is the government department which deals with health issues, including HIV/AIDS. The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is a registered charitable trust which focuses on prevention of AIDS in the most at-risk group, namely men who have sex with men. The Pharmaceutical Management Agency (Pharmac) manages the national schedule of subsidised medications. As of 2014, twenty-one different antiretroviral medications were subsidised for people with confirmed HIV/AIDS or for post-exposure prophylaxis. In March 2018, New Zealand became one of the first countries in the world to publically fund pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for those at a high risk of contracting HIV. HIV/AIDS in New Zealand There is a relatively low prevalence"
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"Reth (TV series) Reth (International Title: Sands Of Times)was one of the popular Zee TV serial that aired between 19 February 2004 and 13 March 2006, based on the story of a young daughter-in-law Jia who is in conflict with her new family. The Show Was Dubbed In English and Aired on Zee World on DSTv channel: 166 The story centers around a woman's life who fights to win back her honour after being gang raped. Jia was just another middle class bahu - quiet, accommodating, upholding family values above all - till one event changes everything for her. In order to save her unmarried sister-in-law from rape she throws herself before the rapists. While her marital family appreciates her sacrifice - they are unable to completely accept her back 'RETH' traces Jia's difficult but courageous battle against the stigma - to emerge strong and stand tall in the face of a damning society. Reth (TV series) Reth (International Title: Sands Of Times)was one of the popular Zee TV serial that aired between 19 February 2004 and 13 March 2006, based on the story of a young daughter-in-law Jia who is in conflict with her new family. The Show Was"
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"Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (also known as the Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART)) provides public transportation for Hillsborough County, Florida. The agency provides fixed-route local and express bus service, door-to-door paratransit service (HARTplus), flex-route neighborhood connector service (HARTflex), a lightened version of Bus Rapid Transit (MetroRapid), and manages the TECO Line Streetcar System. HART has a partnership with the University of South Florida where students can ride HART local, limited express, and flex routes for free if they show the bus operator their USF ID. USF Faculty & Staff can use the same services for only 50 cents HART currently operates 34 local bus and 5 express bus routes. In addition, the agency operates one trolleybus route, one heritage streetcar route, and the MetroRapid BRT line. HART provides the HART Flex Service consisting of commuter vans that have routes in designated areas. Walk-up service is provided at regular HART stops along the Flex service route, or patrons can reserve a pick-up or drop-off at a location not a HART stop by calling to reserve between 2 and 72 hours in advance. Walk-up service may be limited by the number of reservations. Fare is $1 per way, and an all-day flex pass available for $2. There is no discount available for seniors, Medicare or disabled as there are on other HART routes; however, up to 3 kids under 6 are free with fare-paying rider. Regular HART 1-Day and 31-Day passes are accepted. The service areas are typically 2.5 miles from a preset route, although at least one Flex area does not have a specific route. HART operates the \"In-Towner\" trolleybus service (rubber tires buses that are styled as replica trolleys) that provide convenient access to popular locations in downtown Tampa. The sole operating line is currently Route 96, which operates Monday through Friday between 6 and 9 AM and between 3 and 6 PM and serves Harbor Island and the business district and the Marion Transit Center. In 2015, HART eliminated the 25 cent fare. In 2004, HART revised its express bus route system. The changes included new routes to Brandon and Pasco County, changes to existing routes (such as Route 28X), and the addition of 12 new Gillig BRT buses to the existing HART bus fleet. Almost all of the Commuter Express routes connected to Downtown Tampa. Due to changing ridership patterns, these routes were modified as needed. With the 2016 \"Mission MAX\" restructuring, Routes 21LX, 22X, 27LX, 28X, 47LX, 61LX, and 200X were all eliminated. MetroRapid is HART’s \"light\" Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service, which launched on May 28, 2013. Between May 28 and June 7, HART provided customers a chance to use MetroRapid for free. This allowed customers to get a feel for the new service, while allowing HART staff to work out any last-minute problems before the start of revenue service. MetroRapid officially began revenue service on June 10, 2013, with a formal ribbon cutting held at the Hidden River Corporate Park grounds in Tampa Palms. MetroRapid currently consists of one line, the North-South line, which runs from Downtown Tampa to the University Area Transit Center (UATC) via Nebraska and Fletcher Avenues. Selected trips continue along Fletcher Ave from the UATC to Hidden River Corporate Park near Interstate 75. It replaced Route 2. HART in partnership with Tampa Electric (TECO) operates the TECO Line Streetcar System, which is a classic streetcar rail system between Centro Ybor in Ybor City and the Fort Brooke Parking Garage at Franklin and Whiting Streets, with eleven stops along the way serving Ybor City, the Channel District, and the Amalie Arena/Tampa Convention Center areas. The route runs 11 AM - 10 PM Monday through Thursday, 11 AM - 2 AM Friday and Saturday, and Noon - 8 PM on Sunday. Service is provided every 20 minutes, except between 1 and 2 AM when service is every half-hour. Fare is $2.50 each trip with multiple-trip fare cards and discounted fares available. Regular multiple-day passes as well as the HART/PSTA Passport are also accepted. Due to decreased funding, the hours and frequency for the TECO Streetcar Line were reduced in November, 2011. In 2006, HART introduced late-night bus service on nine local bus routes in order to meet the diverse needs of its patrons. Some of these routes now run as late as 1 am as a result in the increase of service. Since 2007, the number of routes running weekday services beyond 8:00pm has increased to 16 routes. Due to recent budget cuts, some routes have had several trips cut, resulting in an earlier end to service. If further cuts are made due to depleting funding avenues, late-night service may be up for further reduction or elimination in 2013. HART operates service on all major holidays, but the level of service may be reduced: Like many transit agencies, HART has operated its bus system similar to a hub and spoke model. However, with system redesigns taking place in 2005 and 2017, the reliance on traditional hubs has lessened in favor of a grid-based system where transfers are done at key intersections and corridors. The main hub for HART is the Marion Transit Center in Downtown Tampa, serving nearly 30 local and express routes (including PSTA's 100X and 300X), and also serves as stops for Megabus and RedCoach. The center was constructed in 2001, replacing the obsolete Northern Terminal, which sat underneath the I-275 viaduct. The Marion Transit Center includes a customer service center, office space, bus driver lounge, restrooms, bus shelters, and an array of public art displays and flanks the northern end of the Marion Street Transitway, which was constructed in 1989 as a \"fare free\" zone (though the designation was eliminated in 2008). Serving Routes 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 19, 30, 60LX, 275LX, and the MetroRapid North-South Line. Other major bus terminals include: Constructed in the 1980s, the Marion Street Transitway provides a line of bus shelters along the street to allow patrons to easily board and deboard buses within Downtown Tampa. The transitway runs from the Marion Transit Center to Whiting Street and was originally a \"fare-free\" zone until 2008. All of the shelters along the transitway were equipped with departure time signage at one time, allowing patrons to view when the next bus would arrive. Such technology in the past have malfunctioned and were removed as a result. The remaining \"shells\" of this signage will eventually be removed as well, being replaced with new technology. In 2009, the Florida Public Transit Association awarded HART with the \"Outstanding System\" award. The award was granted to HART based on numerous system improvements and growing ridership over the past three years. The FPTA also awarded HART in several other categories including marketing, safety, and Mechanic of the Year. On May 27, 2010, HART announced that they have been awarded the 2010 \"Most Outstanding Mid-sized Public Transportation System Achievement\" Award. The award touts HART's achievements in ridership growth, financial management, environmental sustainability, workforce development, and community relations. The American Public Transportation Association honors one public transportation system in North America in three size categories every year. Systems are judged on their performance over a 3-year period. Like many local agencies throughout Florida, HART was forced in 2007 to cut its budget by $1.7 million. As a result of this, HARTflex service was canceled and numerous routes saw drawbacks in service. Limited Express Route 52 and Trolley Route 98 were eliminated due to low ridership. During the 2009/2010 fiscal year, HART slashed another $3 million from its budget in order to compensate for additional property tax revenue losses. This move was achieved by trimming service in Town-N-Country and North Tampa, as well as cutting underutilized trips on numerous routes . To counteract plummeting property tax",
"Public Transportation Association honors one public transportation system in North America in three size categories every year. Systems are judged on their performance over a 3-year period. Like many local agencies throughout Florida, HART was forced in 2007 to cut its budget by $1.7 million. As a result of this, HARTflex service was canceled and numerous routes saw drawbacks in service. Limited Express Route 52 and Trolley Route 98 were eliminated due to low ridership. During the 2009/2010 fiscal year, HART slashed another $3 million from its budget in order to compensate for additional property tax revenue losses. This move was achieved by trimming service in Town-N-Country and North Tampa, as well as cutting underutilized trips on numerous routes . To counteract plummeting property tax revenues, HART proposed to switch to a sales tax-based system which many other transit agencies in Florida already use. However, this proposal requires voter approval and the chances of such a move passing during the nationwide recession is extremely low. HART and Hillsborough County attempted to pass such a measure during the 2010 election season, but it failed by a 58/42% margin . Despite drawbacks caused by state and county mandated budget cuts and the global recession, HART is striving to improve transit service in the future by managing existing service while only cutting under-performing service and gradually raising fares. HART's 2008 Community Report outlined several key changes, such as the introduction of HARTflex service and the upcoming MetroRapid system. Since 2010, a majority of HART's routes have been realigned to better serve patrons throughout the county. These changes included eliminating inefficient segments and trips, realigning travel times, and adding services that would better serve patrons in the long term. Several under-performing routes (such as Neighborhood Connector routes 87, 88, and 89) were eliminated in favor of neighboring transit routes, HARTflex service, or (in the case of Route 59LX) by improved services (Route 61LX). HART also began testing a limited stop route, Route 6LTD, to replace Route 23X. With many fiscal impacts looming to negatively impact HART's future plans and budgeting - including, but no limited to: reducing the size of the agency's debts, preparing for possible reductions in property tax revenues and federal transit funding support, and the national trend of declining transit ridership - the agency announced in early 2017 that it would launch a Comprehensive Operational Analysis (COA) of the entire system as part of its next Transit Development Plan (TDP) update. This analysis allowed HART to essentially evaluate every route in the system to see which ones can be improved and which ones would have to be eliminated based on ridership levels and demand. Public outreach began during the spring of 2017 and continued through the summer - eventually leading up to the announcement of a system-wide restructuring effort called Mission MAX, which focuses on modernizing the system to operate with less reliance on traditional transfer hubs and more on a grid system, shorten travel times on key core routes, eliminate out-of-direction travel, and provide more direct service to key destinations. Mission MAX will also provide HART with the foundation that it needs to better analyze and execute future expansion endeavors . HART has the following projects planned to begin service within the next five years. HART and the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority have been discussing plans to build a transfer center at Tampa International Airport since 2008. Originally, the facility was to be located at the corner of O'Brien and Spruce streets but was dropped in 2011 in favor of a site closer to the TIA terminal. Plans for any type of transfer center on TIA property collapsed in 2012 following the impact of global economic downturn and the consolidation of the airline industry on TIA's broad terminal expansion plans. In March, 2013, plans were unveiled for a possible Multi-Modal center along Interstate 275 in the WestShore Business District that could cater to multiple bus connections, light rail or commuter rail lines, and a People Mover system connecting the airport. This plan is heavily dependent on whether public transit in both Hillsborough and Pinellas counties are able to further expand. This in-turn, would be dependent on future funding situations . According to HART's 2008 Community Report, efforts are currently underway to construct an intelligent transportation system (ITS). Elements of this project include installing surveillance cameras and audio monitoring equipment, GPS systems, automated annunciator systems, real-time information display signs and other elements to all HART buses and several transfer centers. Such systems will allow patrons in the future to see in real-time, upcoming departures, major intersections, landmarks, and connecting routes. Many of these elements, including GPS, security, and automated annunciator systems were installed during the course of 2008 through 2010. Another improvement to HART's existing bus fleet is the repainting of buses to better match the livery that is already carried by Commuter Express buses. However, instead of the purple and white livery of the express buses, local buses are being repainted in a blue and white scheme (matching the colors of HART's logo). Bus #2015 was the first bus to be painted in the new colors, returning to service in August 2008, upon the receipt of federal stimulus funds in 2009, HART accelerated the repainting process, allowing more buses to sport the new livery. In 2008, the agency acquired 12 25-foot Champion/Freightliner T-300 buses (from Dallas Area Rapid Transit) to be used on the fixed-route system while its existing fleet was repainted. These buses were retired in March and April 2010, with the arrival of the 29 40-foot 2010 model (10XX) Gillig Low Floor buses. Beginning in August 2009, HART retired its fleet of Gillig Phantom buses, which the agency purchased in 1996 and 1997 to replace Flixible Metro buses purchased during the 1980s. These buses were replaced by 30 2009 model (29XX) year Gillig Low Floor buses that were purchased with the help of federal stimulus funds. Although seven of the Phantoms were already taken out of service in 2007, HART kept three (#s 602, 608, and 609) in service beyond that time. By mid September, 2009, all of the Gillig Phantom buses were retired, along with most of the models. The final nine buses that were phased out during the week of September 30, 2009 included #s 703, 708, 711, 713, 717, 720, 723, 725, and 726, with #725 being featured at HART's 30th Anniversary Ceremony on September 30. In 2010, HART retired all but two of its 2000 model (20XX) 30 ft Gillig buses after the arrival of the 10XX Gillig fleet. Bus #2005 and #2015 (which were repainted in HART's new livery) will remain active until 2012, due to extended downtime earlier on in 2008/2009. In 2009, bus #2006 was retired due to an accident that permanently put it out of service. During the summer and fall of 2010, the 25XX and 26XX buses were all repainted in HART's blue and white livery. The MetroRapid system will bring forth another fleet of new buses, including the possibility of articulated buses further down the road. HART is slated to receive just over $15 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 that President Barack Obama signed into law in February 2009. Among the improvements that HART proposed to make: an expansion and upgrade to its operations facility in Ybor City, secure the purchase of 30 forty-foot Gillig Low Floor buses, streetcar extension, and the repainting of HART's existing fleet. () In November, 2011, HART was awarded a $2.3 million federal grant to build a CNG fueling station at its operations facility. This will allow all of HART's existing fleet to gradually be replaced by CNG fueled vehicles.",
"HART's blue and white livery. The MetroRapid system will bring forth another fleet of new buses, including the possibility of articulated buses further down the road. HART is slated to receive just over $15 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 that President Barack Obama signed into law in February 2009. Among the improvements that HART proposed to make: an expansion and upgrade to its operations facility in Ybor City, secure the purchase of 30 forty-foot Gillig Low Floor buses, streetcar extension, and the repainting of HART's existing fleet. () In November, 2011, HART was awarded a $2.3 million federal grant to build a CNG fueling station at its operations facility. This will allow all of HART's existing fleet to gradually be replaced by CNG fueled vehicles. Construction is slated to begin sometime in 2012, with completion in 2013 . HART has also used several sub-types which were retired, such as Blue Bird coaches 551-555 and Orion II's 451-453. The city of Tampa operated the municipal bus system starting in 1971 until the formation of the Hillsborough County Transit system in 1981. The city took over the bus operation from National City Lines. Just prior to the city takeover, National City Lines operated a rag-tag fleet of 1950s vintage coaches, plus 19 GM New Look TDH-4517 (A.C.) 35-foot buses purchased in 1960 (one bus from the original order of 20 burned down in the mid-1960s), and 10 GM Old Look TDH-3501 (A.C.) buses acquired new in 1967. The fleet also included 19 35-foot GM TDH4512 buses from 1958 and 1959 and 20 or more GM TDH-3612 30-foot buses acquired in the early 1950s. Most of the buses were transferred to the city operation. Then Mayor Dick Greco decided to repaint the fleet in various colors, including orange, pink, blue, yellow, and the original National City Lines pale green. The multi-color scheme was carried over to the Flxible new looks which were ordered in 1974 but the \"jellybean\" scheme was abandoned when the order for 17 GM RTS buses delivery in 1980. A wite color scheme with a rainbow stripe under the windows was adopted in 1980 and used until the HART take-over and the adoption of a red and orange stripe on a white bus background. City of Tampa (Tampa Bus Lines) All-time Roster 1971-1981: 4500-4501 1949 GMC TDH3612 ex Tampa Transit Lines 2909,2912, originally Mobile City Lines 2909,2912 4502-4506 1950 GMC TDH3612 ex Tampa Transit Lines 3242,3246,3248,3252,3254. Delivered new Dec. 1950 as part of a 14 bus order. 4507-4510 1951 GMC TDH3612 ex Tampa Transit Lines 3367-3370, originally Terre Haute City Lines 3367-3370 4511-4514 1951 GMC TDH3612 ex Tampa Transit Lines 3371-3373,3375. Delivered new on 3/51 as part of a 5 bus order. 4515-4529 1958 GMC TDH4512 ex Tampa transit Lines 3830-3844. Delivered all 15 new buses between Feb. and Jun. 1958. These were the first new buses delivered to Tampa Transit Lines in 8 years. 4530-4533 1959 GMC TDH4512 ex Tampa Transit Lines 3845-3848. All 4 buses delivered new in Jun. 1959. 4534-4553 1960 GMC TDH4517 ex Tampa Transit Lines 4004-4012,4014-4024. Delivered new in 1960 to replace a fleet of Mack buses and were returned to City Transit Lines as the new Flxibles arrived. 4554-4561 1967 GMC TDH3501 ex Tampa Transit Lines 4138-4147 (except two, numbers unknown. Delivered as part of a 10 bus order in 1967. Previous order for new buses was in 1960 for 20 \"new-look\" buses. 4562-4588 1971 Flxible 111DD-D051 (Buses had plastic seats without cushions) 4536-4548 (2nd) 1973 Flxible 45096-6-1 4501,4503,4508-4510,4514,4534-4535,4549-4554,4558-4561(2nd),4589-4590 1974 Flxible 45096-6-1 4591-4593 1974 GMC T6H4523A 4555-4557 (2nd) 1974? Nicrobus MB-711 4600-4616 1980 GMC T7H603 4501,4503,4508-4510,4514,4534-4554,4558-4593,4600-4616 to HART 1983, renumbered 121-129,131-139,141-149,151-159,161-164,221,223-229,231-232,234-239,241-243,245-249,251-254,256-259,251-265,267-269 in numerical order Also three New-Look second hand buses (numbered 097-099) for use in new Commuter Express routes were added to the fleet pending the arrival of the initial batch of . Flxibles. Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (also known as the Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART)) provides public transportation for Hillsborough County, Florida. The agency provides fixed-route local and express bus"
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"Walter Tarnopolsky Justice Walter Surma Tarnopolsky (1932 – 15 September 1993) was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada. He was born in the farming community of Gronlid, Saskatchewan to parents of Ukrainian descent. He was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, receiving his B.A. in 1953 and his LLB in 1957. After completing his undergraduate education, he attended Columbia University, receiving his M.A. in 1955. He subsequently received his LLM from the London School of Economics. Tarnopolsky taught law at several Canadian universities, specialized in the field of human rights and civil liberties. Between 1959 and 1983, he was a professor of law with, variously, the University of Saskatchewan, University of Windsor, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and the University of Ottawa. He briefly served as the Vice-President (Academic) of York University in 1972 and was the dean of Law at the University of Windsor from 1968 to 1972. From 1977 to 1983 he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and in 1985, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He served on the Court of Appeal until his death in 1993. Walter Tarnopolsky Justice Walter Surma Tarnopolsky (1932 – 15 September 1993) was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada. He was born in the farming community of Gronlid, Saskatchewan to parents of Ukrainian descent. He was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, receiving his B.A. in 1953 and his LLB in 1957. After completing his undergraduate education, he attended Columbia University, receiving his M.A. in 1955. He subsequently received his LLM from the London School of Economics. Tarnopolsky taught law at several Canadian universities,"
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"Wisconsin Highway 167 State Trunk Highway 167 (often called Highway 167, STH 167 or WIS 167) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs in east–west in southeast Wisconsin from Hartford to Mequon passing through southern Washington and Ozaukee Counties. Highway 167 begins at WIS 83 south of Hartford; west of WIS 83, the road is Washington CTH O. From WIS 83, WIS 167 heads east along Holy Hill Road, intersecting CTH K and CC. In Hubertus, the Catholic shrine of Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, is located on WIS 167. WIS 167 then intersects WIS 164. The route then has an interchange with the US 41/45 freeway in Richfield. At this interchange, labeled as Exit 54, eastbound WIS 167 merges onto the southbound freeway. WIS 167 splits off from the U.S. routes at the next interchange, Exit 57. Now in Germantown, Highway 167 turns northeast along Lannon Road after leaving the freeway. The highway continues northeast until it intersects Mequon Road, which it follows east through the remainder of its route. WIS 167 has a brief concurrency with WIS 145 in Germantown. The road then crosses into Ozaukee County and the city of Mequon. In Mequon, WIS 167 junctions with WIS 181, which follows Wauwatosa Road. WIS 167 then begins its concurrency with WIS 57, which will last through the end of the route. At Port Washington Road, WIS 57/167 intersect CTH W. A short distance later lies the end of Highway 167 at its interchange with I-43. WIS 57 continues northward along the Interstate. Wisconsin Highway 167 State Trunk Highway 167 (often called Highway 167, STH 167 or WIS 167) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs in east–west in southeast Wisconsin from Hartford to"
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"Fairtrade Canada Fairtrade Canada, formerly TransFair Canada, is a national non-profit certification and public education organization promoting Fairtrade certified products in Canada to improve the livelihood of developing world farmers and workers. It is the Canadian member of FLO International, which unites 24 fair trade producer and certification initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. With Fairtrade coffee, for instance, packers in developed countries pay a fee to The Fairtrade Foundation for the right to use the brand and logo, and nearly all the fee goes on marketing. Packers and retailers can charge as much as they want for the coffee. The coffee has to come from a certified Fairtrade cooperative, and there is a minimum price when the world market is oversupplied, and 10c per lb extra at other times. The cooperatives can, on average, sell only a third of their output as Fairtrade, because of lack of demand, and sell the rest at world prices. The exporting cooperative can spend the money in several ways. Some goes on meeting the costs of conformity and certification: as they have to meet Fairtrade standards on all they produce, they have to recover the costs from a small part of their turnover, sometimes as little as 8%, and may not make any profit. Some meets other costs. Some is spent on social projects such as building schools, clinics and baseball pitches. Sometimes there is money left over for the farmers. The cooperatives sometimes pay farmers a higher price than farmers do, sometimes less, but there is no evidence on which is more common. In some cases the farmers certainly do not get enough extra to cover their extra costs in conforming to Fairtrade standards. There is little or no research on the extra costs incurred or the extra revenue. The marketing system for Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade coffee is identical in the consuming countries, using mostly the same importing, packing, distributing and retailing firms. Some independent brands operate a virtual company, paying importers, packers and distributors and advertising agencies to handle their brand, for cost reasons. In the producing country Fairtrade is marketed by only by Fairtrade cooperatives, while other coffee is marketed by Fairtrade cooperatives (as uncertified coffee), by other cooperatives and by ordinary traders. To become certified Fairtrade producers, the primary cooperative and its member farmers must operate to certain political standards, imposed from Europe. FLO-CERT, the for-profit side, handles producer certification, inspecting and certifying producer organizations in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In the Fair trade debate there are many complaints of failure to enforce these standards, with producers, cooperatives, importers and packers profiting by evading them. Fairtrade Canada is responsible for certifying that Canadian products bearing the Fairtrade certification marks meet international Fairtrade standards. While the entire certification system monitors supply chains from the producers until the final point of packaging, we are responsible for monitoring and auditing products once they enter Canada, to ensure that what is sold as fair trade certified actually is. Fairtrade Canada licenses Canadian companies to use the fair trade certification marks on their products, and as part of that license companies must abide by strict mark-use standards. Fairtrade Canada monitors these licensed organisations to ensure that the markings are not used in a way that is misleading to the public, and work with companies to ensure their use does not undermine the integrity of the marks. Fairtrade Canada works alongside community groups, companies, and individual citizens to promote fair trade certified products. Through partnerships, campaigns, promotional materials, events, and media engagement, the organisation works to develop peoples' understanding of fair trade and to build momentum so that more producers can sell more of their products on fair terms. The following fair trade products are currently certified by Fairtrade Canada and available throughout the country: coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, fresh fruit, grains (rice and quinoa), spices and herbs, cotton, wine, flowers, nuts and oils (shea butter and olive oil), and sports balls. Fairtrade Canada organizes and coordinates several events every year to promote fair trade in Canada, most notably the Fair Trade Fortnight (or the \"Quinzaine du Commerce Équitable\" in French) which typically run in May, and the Canadian Fairtrade Towns campaign. In 2007, Fairtrade certified sales in Canada amounted to CAD $120 million, a 55% year-to-year increase. Furthermore, in 2005 it was estimated that approximately 27% of the Canadian adult population was aware of fair trade certified coffee, up from 17% in 2003 and 11% in 2001. Consumers have been shown to be content paying higher prices for Fairtrade products, in the belief that this helps the very poor. The main ethical criticism of Fairtrade is that this premium over non-Fairtrade products does not reach the producers and is instead collected by businesses, employees of co-operatives or used for unnecessary expenses. Furthermore, research has cited the implementation of certain Fairtrade standards as a cause for greater inequalities in markets where these rigid rules are inappropriate for the specific market. The Fairtrade Foundation does not monitor how much extra retailers charge for Fairtrade goods, so it is rarely possible to determine how much extra is charged or how much reaches the producers, in spite of the Unfair Trading legislation. In four cases it has been possible to find out. One British café chain was passing on less than one percent of the extra charged to the exporting cooperative; in Finland, Valkila, Haaparanta and Niemi found that consumers paid much more for Fairtrade, and that only 11.5% reached the exporter. Kilian, Jones, Pratt and Villalobos talk of US Fairtrade coffee getting $5 per lb extra at retail, of which the exporter would have received only 2%. Mendoza and Bastiaensen calculated that in the UK only 1.6% to 18% of the extra charged for one product line reached the farmer. All these studies assume that the importers paid the full Fairtrade price, which is not necessarily the case. The Fairtrade Foundation does not monitor how much of the extra money paid to the exporting cooperatives reaches the farmer. The cooperatives incur costs in reaching the Fairtrade political standards, and these are incurred on all production, even if only a small amount is sold at Fairtrade prices. The most successful cooperatives appear to spend a third of the extra price received on this: some less successful cooperatives spend more than they gain. While this appears to be agreed by proponents and critics of Fairtrade, there is a dearth of economic studies setting out the actual revenues and what the money was spent on. FLO figures are that 40% of the money reaching the Third World is spent on ‘business and production’ which would include these costs, as well as costs incurred by any inefficiency and corruption in the cooperative or the marketing system. The rest is stated to be spent on social projects, rather than being passed on to farmers. There is no evidence that Fairtrade farmers get higher prices on average. Anecdotes state that farmers were paid more or less by traders than by Fairtrade cooperatives. Few of these anecdotes address the problems of price reporting in Third World markets, and few appreciate the complexity of the different price packages which may or may not include credit, harvesting, transport, processing, etc. Cooperatives typically average prices over the year, so they pay less than traders at some times, more at others. Bassett (2009) is able to compare prices only where Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade farmers have to sell cotton to the same monopsonistic ginneries",
"in the cooperative or the marketing system. The rest is stated to be spent on social projects, rather than being passed on to farmers. There is no evidence that Fairtrade farmers get higher prices on average. Anecdotes state that farmers were paid more or less by traders than by Fairtrade cooperatives. Few of these anecdotes address the problems of price reporting in Third World markets, and few appreciate the complexity of the different price packages which may or may not include credit, harvesting, transport, processing, etc. Cooperatives typically average prices over the year, so they pay less than traders at some times, more at others. Bassett (2009) is able to compare prices only where Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade farmers have to sell cotton to the same monopsonistic ginneries which pay low prices. Prices would have to be higher to compensate farmers for the increased costs they incur to produce Fairtrade. For instance, Fairtrade encouraged Nicaraguan farmers to switch to organic coffee, which resulted in a higher price per pound, but a lower net income because of higher costs and lower yields. There have been very few attempts at fair trade impact studies. It would be methodologically and logically incorrect to use these attempts to conclude that Fairtrade in general does or does not have a positive impact. Griffiths (2011) argues that few of these attempts meet the normal standards for an impact study, such as comparing the before and after situation, and having meaningful control groups. Serious methodological problems arise in sampling, in comparing prices, and from the fact that the social projects of Fairtrade do not usually aim to produce economic benefits. One reason for low prices is that Fairtrade farmers have to sell through a monopsonist cooperative, which may be inefficient or corrupt – certainly some private traders are more efficient than some cooperatives. They cannot choose the buyer who offers the best price, or switch when their cooperative is going bankrupt if they wish to retain fairtrade status. There are also complaints that Fairtrade deviates from the free market ideal of some economists. Brink calls fair trade a \"misguided attempt to make up for market failures\" encouraging market inefficiencies and overproduction. The Fair Trade marketing system provides more opportunities for corruption than the normal marketing system; and less possibility of, or incentive for, controlling corruption. Corruption has been noted in false labelling of coffee as Fairtrade by retailers and by packers in the developing countries, paying exporters less than the Fairtrade price for Fairtrade coffee (kickbacks) failure to provide the credit and other services specified theft or preferential treatment for ruling elites of cooperatives not paying laborers the specified minimum wage Critics argue that Fairtrade harms all non-Fairtrade farmers. Fairtrade claims that its farmers are paid higher prices and are given special advice on increasing yields and quality. Economists state that, if this is indeed so, Fairtrade farmers will increase production. As the demand for coffee is highly inelastic, a small increase in supply means a large fall in market price, so perhaps a million Fairtrade farmers get a higher price and 24 million others get a substantially lower price. Critics quote the example of farmers in Vietnam being paid over the world price in the 1980s, planting lots of coffee, then flooding the world market in the 1990s. The Fairtrade minimum price means that when the world market price collapses, it is the non-Fairtrade farmers, particularly the poorest, who have to cut down their coffee trees. This argument is supported by mainstream economists, not just free marketers. This argument falls away if, as critics and FLO state, farmers do not get a higher price. Fairtrade supporters boast of ‘The Honeypot Effect’ – that cooperatives which become Fairtrade members then attract additional aid from other NGO charities, government and international donors as a result of their membership. Typically there are now six to twelve other donors. Critics point out that this inevitably means that resources are being removed from other, poorer, farmers. It also makes it impossible to argue that any positive or negative changes in the living standards of farmers are due to Fairtrade rather than to one of the other donors. Under EU law (Directive 2005/29/EC on Unfair Commercial Practices) the criminal offence of Unfair Trading is committed if (a) ‘it contains false information and is therefore untruthful or in any way, including overall presentation, deceives or is likely to deceive the average consumer, even if the information is factually correct’, (b) ‘it omits material information that the average consumer needs . . . and thereby causes or is likely to cause the average consumer to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise’ or (c) ‘fails to identify the commercial intent of the commercial practice . . . [which] causes or is likely to cause the average consumer to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise.’ Griffiths (2011) points to false claims that Fairtrade producers get higher prices, the almost universal failure to disclose the extra price charged for Fairtrade products, to disclose how much of this actually reaches the Third World, to disclose what this is spent on in the Third World, to disclose how much, if any, reaches farmers, and to disclose the harm that Fairtrade does to non-Fairtrade farmers. He also points to the failure to disclose when ‘the primary commercial intent’ is to make money for retailers and distributors in rich countries. The Fairtrade criteria are essentially political, and critics state that it is unethical to bribe Third World producers to adopt a set of political views that they may not agree with, and the donors providing the money may not agree with. In addition many of the failures of Fairtrade derive from these political views, such as the unorthodox marketing system imposed. Boersma (2002, 2009) the founder of Fairtrade, and like minded people are aiming at a new, non-capitalist way of running the market and the economy. This may not tie in with the objectives of producers, consumers, importers or retailers. Booth says that the selling techniques used by some sellers and some supporters of Fairtrade are bullying, misleading, and unethical. There are problems with the use of boycott campaigns and other pressure to force sellers to stock a product they think ethically suspect. However, the opposite has been argued, that a more participatory and multi-stakeholder approach to auditing might improve the quality of the process. Some people argue that these practices are justifiable: that strategic use of labeling may help embarrass (or encourage) major suppliers into changing their practices. They may make transparent corporate vulnerabilities that activists can exploit. Or they may encourage ordinary people to get involved with broader projects of social change. A lot of people volunteer to work to support Fairtrade. They may do unpaid work for firms, or market Fairtrade in schools, universities, local governments, or parliament. Crane and Davies’ study shows that distributors in developed countries make ‘considerable use of unpaid volunteer workers for routine tasks, many of whom seemed to be under the (false) impression that they were helping out a charity.’ There are complaints that the standards are inappropriate and may harm producers, sometimes making them work several months more for little return. There have been claims that adherence to fair trade standards by producers has been poor and that enforcement of standards by Fairtrade is very weak. Notably by Christian Jacquiau and by Paola Ghillani, who spent four years as president of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations There are many complaints of poor enforcement problems: labourers on Fairtrade farms in Peru",
"universities, local governments, or parliament. Crane and Davies’ study shows that distributors in developed countries make ‘considerable use of unpaid volunteer workers for routine tasks, many of whom seemed to be under the (false) impression that they were helping out a charity.’ There are complaints that the standards are inappropriate and may harm producers, sometimes making them work several months more for little return. There have been claims that adherence to fair trade standards by producers has been poor and that enforcement of standards by Fairtrade is very weak. Notably by Christian Jacquiau and by Paola Ghillani, who spent four years as president of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations There are many complaints of poor enforcement problems: labourers on Fairtrade farms in Peru are paid less than the minimum wage; some non-Fairtrade coffee is sold as Fairtrade; \"the standards are not very strict in the case of seasonally hired labour in coffee production\", \"some fair trade standards are not strictly enforced\", and supermarkets avoid their responsibility. In 2006, a \"Financial Times\" journalist found that ten out of ten mills visited had sold uncertified coffee to co-operatives as certified. It reported that \"The FT was also handed evidence of at least one coffee association that received Fairtrade certification despite illegally growing some 20 per cent of its coffee in protected national forest land. Segments of the trade justice movement have also criticized fair trade in the past years for allegedly focusing too much on individual small producer groups while stopping short of advocating immediate trade policy changes that would have a larger impact on disadvantaged producers' lives. French author and RFI correspondent Jean-Pierre Boris championed this view in his 2005 book \"Commerce inéquitable\". There have been largely political criticisms of Fairtrade from the left and the right. Some believe the fair trade system is not radical enough. French author Christian Jacquiau, in his book \"Les coulisses du commerce équitable\", calls for stricter fair trade standards and criticizes the fair trade movement for working within the current system (i.e., partnerships with mass retailers, multinational corporations, etc.) rather than establishing a new fairer, fully autonomous trading system. Jacquiau is also a staunch supporter of significantly higher fair trade prices in order to maximize the impact, as most producers only sell a portion of their crop under fair trade terms. It has been argued that the approach of the FairTrade system is too rooted in a Northern consumerist view of justice which Southern producers do not participate in setting. \"A key issue is therefore to make explicit who possesses the power to define the terms of Fairtrade, that is who possesses the power to determine the need of an ethic in the first instance, and subsequently command a particular ethical vision as the truth.\" Fairtrade Canada Fairtrade Canada, formerly TransFair Canada, is a national non-profit certification and public education organization promoting Fairtrade certified products in Canada to improve the livelihood of developing world farmers and workers. It is the Canadian member of FLO International, which unites 24 fair trade producer and certification initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. With Fairtrade coffee, for instance, packers"
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"George Green (mathematician) George Green (14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a British mathematical physicist who wrote \"An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism\" (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists such as James Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and others. His work on potential theory ran parallel to that of Carl Friedrich Gauss. Green's life story is remarkable in that he was almost entirely self-taught. He received only about one year of formal schooling as a child, between the ages of 8 and 9. Green was born and lived for most of his life in the English town of Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, now part of the city of Nottingham. His father, also named George, was a baker who had built and owned a brick windmill used to grind grain. In his youth, Green was described as having a frail constitution and a dislike for doing work in his father's bakery. He had no choice in the matter, however, and as was common for the time he likely began working daily to earn his living at the age of five. Roughly 25–50% of children in Nottingham received any schooling in this period. The majority of schools were Sunday schools, run by the Church, and children would typically attend for one or two years only. Recognizing the young Green's above average intellect, and being in a strong financial situation due to his successful bakery, his father enrolled him in March 1801 at Robert Goodacre's Academy in Upper Parliament Street. Robert Goodacre was a well-known science populariser and educator of the time. He published \"Essay on the Education of Youth\", in which he wrote that he did not \"study the interest of the boy but the embryo Man\". To a non-specialist, he would have seemed deeply knowledgeable in science and mathematics, but a close inspection of his essay and curriculum revealed that the extent of his mathematical teachings was limited to algebra, trigonometry and logarithms. Thus, Green's later mathematical contributions, which exhibited knowledge of very modern developments in mathematics, could not have resulted from his tenure at the Robert Goodacre Academy. He stayed for only four terms (one school year), and it was speculated by his contemporaries that he probably exhausted all they had to teach him. In 1773 George's father moved to Nottingham, which at the time had a reputation for being a pleasant town with open spaces and wide roads. By 1831, however, the population had increased nearly five times, in part due to the budding industrial revolution, and the city became known as one of the worst slums in England. There were frequent riots by starving workers, often associated with special hostility towards bakers and millers on the suspicion that they were hiding grain to drive up food prices. For these reasons, in 1807, George Green senior bought a plot of land in Sneinton. On this plot of land he built a \"brick wind corn mill\", now referred to as Green's Windmill. It was technologically impressive for its time, but required nearly twenty-four-hour maintenance, which was to become George Green's burden for the next twenty years. Just as with baking, Green found the responsibilities of operating the mill annoying and tedious. Grain from the fields was arriving continuously at the mill's doorstep, and the sails of the windmill had to be constantly adjusted to the windspeed, both to prevent damage in high winds, and to maximise rotational speed in low winds. The millstones that would continuously grind against each other, could wear down or cause a fire if they ran out of grain to grind. Every month the stones, which weighed over a ton, would have to be replaced or repaired. In 1823 Green formed a relationship with Jane Smith, the daughter of William Smith, hired by Green Senior as mill manager. Although Green and Jane Smith never married, Jane eventually became known as Jane Green and the couple had seven children together; all but the first had Green as a baptismal name. The youngest child was born 13 months before Green's death. Green provided for his common-law wife and children in his will. When Green was thirty, he became a member of the Nottingham Subscription Library. This library exists today, and was likely one of the only sources of Green's advanced mathematical knowledge. Unlike more conventional libraries, the subscription library was exclusive to a hundred or so subscribers, and the first on the list of subscribers was the Duke of Newcastle. This library catered to requests for specialised books and journals that satisfied the particular interests of their subscribers. In 1828, Green published \"An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism\", which is the essay he is most famous for today. It was published privately at the author's expense, because he thought it would be presumptuous for a person like himself, with no formal education in mathematics, to submit the paper to an established journal. When Green published his \"Essay\", it was sold on a subscription basis to 51 people, most of whom were friends and probably could not understand it. The wealthy landowner and mathematician Sir Edward Bromhead bought a copy and encouraged Green to do further work in mathematics. Not believing the offer was sincere, Green did not contact Bromhead for two years. By the time Green's father died in 1829, the senior Green had become one of the gentry due to his considerable accumulated wealth and land owned, roughly half of which he left to his son and the other half to his daughter. The young Green, now thirty-six years old, consequently was able to use this wealth to abandon his miller duties and pursue mathematical studies. Members of the Nottingham Subscription Library who knew Green repeatedly insisted that he obtain a proper University education. In particular, one of the library's most prestigious subscribers was Sir Edward Bromhead, with whom Green shared many correspondences; he insisted that Green go to Cambridge. In 1832, aged nearly forty, Green was admitted as an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was particularly insecure about his lack of knowledge of Greek and Latin, which were prerequisites, but it turned out not to be as hard for him to learn these as he had envisaged, as the degree of expected mastery was not as high as he had expected. In the mathematics examinations, he won the first-year mathematical prize. He graduated with a BA in 1838 as a 4th Wrangler (the 4th highest scoring student in his graduating class, coming after James Joseph Sylvester who scored 2nd). Following his graduation, Green was elected a fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Even without his stellar academic standing, the Society had already read and made note of his Essay and three other publications, so Green was welcomed. The next two years provided an unparalleled opportunity for Green to read, write, and discuss his scientific ideas. In this short time he published an additional six publications with applications to hydrodynamics, sound, and optics. In his final years at Cambridge, Green became rather ill, and in 1840 he returned to Sneinton, only to die a year later. There are rumours that at Cambridge, Green had \"succumbed to alcohol\", and some of his earlier supporters, such as Sir Edward Bromhead, tried to distance themselves from him. Green's work was not well known in the mathematical community during his lifetime. Besides Green himself, the first mathematician to quote his 1828 work was the Briton Robert Murphy (1806–1843) in his 1833 work. In 1845, four years",
"publications, so Green was welcomed. The next two years provided an unparalleled opportunity for Green to read, write, and discuss his scientific ideas. In this short time he published an additional six publications with applications to hydrodynamics, sound, and optics. In his final years at Cambridge, Green became rather ill, and in 1840 he returned to Sneinton, only to die a year later. There are rumours that at Cambridge, Green had \"succumbed to alcohol\", and some of his earlier supporters, such as Sir Edward Bromhead, tried to distance themselves from him. Green's work was not well known in the mathematical community during his lifetime. Besides Green himself, the first mathematician to quote his 1828 work was the Briton Robert Murphy (1806–1843) in his 1833 work. In 1845, four years after Green's death, Green's work was rediscovered by the young William Thomson (then aged 21), later known as Lord Kelvin, who popularised it for future mathematicians. According to the book \"George Green\" by D.M. Cannell, William Thomson noticed Murphy's citation of Green's 1828 essay but found it difficult to locate Green's 1828 work; he finally got some copies of Green's 1828 work from William Hopkins in 1845. In 1871 N. M. Ferrers assembled \"The Mathematical Papers of the late George Green\" for publication. Green's work on the motion of waves in a canal (resulting in what is known as Green's law) anticipates the WKB approximation of quantum mechanics, while his research on light-waves and the properties of the ether produced what is now known as the Cauchy-Green tensor. Green's theorem and functions were important tools in classical mechanics, and were revised by Schwinger's 1948 work on electrodynamics that led to his 1965 Nobel prize (shared with Feynman and Tomonaga). Green's functions later also proved useful in analysing superconductivity. On a visit to Nottingham in 1930, Albert Einstein commented that Green had been 20 years ahead of his time. The theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger who used Green's functions in his ground-breaking works, published a tribute entitled \"The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I\" in 1993. The George Green Library at the University of Nottingham is named after him, and houses the majority of the university's science and engineering Collection. \"The George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research\", a research group in the University of Nottingham engineering department, is also named after him. In 1986, Green's Windmill was restored to working order. It now serves both as a working example of a 19th-century windmill and as a museum and science centre dedicated to Green. Westminster Abbey has a memorial stone for Green in the nave adjoining the graves of Sir Isaac Newton and Lord Kelvin. His work and influence on nineteenth century applied physics had been largely forgotten until the publication of his biography by Mary Cannell in 1993. It is unclear to historians exactly where Green obtained information on current developments in mathematics, as Nottingham had little in the way of intellectual resources. What is even more mysterious is that Green had used \"the Mathematical Analysis,\" a form of calculus derived from Leibniz that was virtually unheard of, or even actively discouraged, in England at the time (due to Leibniz being a contemporary of Newton who had his own methods that were championed in England). This form of calculus, and the developments of mathematicians such as Laplace, Lacroix and Poisson were not taught even at Cambridge, let alone Nottingham, and yet Green had not only heard of these developments, but also improved upon them. It is speculated that only one person educated in mathematics, John Toplis, headmaster of Nottingham High School 1806–1819, graduate from Cambridge and an enthusiast of French mathematics, is known to have lived in Nottingham at the time. George Green (mathematician) George Green (14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a British mathematical physicist who wrote \"An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism\" (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism"
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"Caribou Fire The Caribou Fire (also known as the Linklater Fire) was a wildfire in the Kootenai National Forest, 21 miles northwest of Eureka, Montana in the United States. The fire, which was first reported on August 11, 2017, was started by a lightning strike and burned a total of , including acres in Canada. The fire threatened the community of West Kootenai, Montana, resulting in a mandatory evacuation of the community. It destroyed 10 homes. The Caribou Fire was one three fires burning in the forest, alongside the Gibralter Fire and Weasel Fire. The Caribou Fire was reported on August 11, 2017, at 10:51 AM, 21 miles northwest of Eureka in the Yaak Area of Kootenai National Forest. It was started by a lightning strike in the upper reaches of Caribou Creek and Robinson Mountain. It was fueled by subalpine fir timber and dead and downed spruce. Crews estimated the fire had burned by August 24, leading fire crews to begin mopping and patrolling for flare ups. The fire resulted in the forest instituting a Stage II Fire Restriction prohibiting fire, campfire and stove fire use of any kind except for those from liquid petroleum or propane. The fire's expansion towards the Canadian border launched coordination between Canadian officials and an aircraft was used to drop fire retardant. As the fire expanded , crews worked to keep the fire south of the Canadian border using air and ground resources to create fire lines. By August 28, the fire had expanded .25 miles into Canada, with 90% remaining in the U.S. Canadian fire managers launched contingency lines. The Caribou Fire continued to grow northeast, with fire lines passing into the Young J Fire area that burned in 2000. Canadian authorities named the fire burning in Canada the Linklater Fire. Basin Yaak Rd. to Dodge Summit and Caribou Creek Campground were closed. By September 1, the Caribou Fire had grown to . The next day, the fire moved east towards Forest Road 303, threatening 400 structures and prompting mandatory orders for West Kootenai, Montana. Overnight, the fire doubled in size to , expanding four miles northeast, destroying a number of structures. On September 5, property owners who suffered damage or destruction of structures were escorted by the Lincoln County Sheriffs' Department to assess their properties. Protection measures were put in place in the Basin Creek area and pre-evacuation orders were put in place for the West Kootenai area south of Tooley Lake and Basin Creek. Upon further inspection, 10 homes and 30 outbuildings were destroyed in the West Kootenai. Crews used heavy equipment to improve fire lines around West Kootenai and firefighters patrolled homes at night from spot fires. By September 7, the Caribou Fire was and was 27% contained, with in the U.S. and burned. Evacuation orders were lifted on September 10. Canadian scooper planes brought water to help slow fire growth, dropping 140,800 gallons of water in one day. One firefighter was injured on September 15, sustaining injuries from a snag on their left shoulder and neck. They were released the same day after evaluation at a hospital. Restoration and rehabilitation began in late fall, including the felling of hazard trees along roads and the fire perimeter. Over 200 miles of roads were rebuilt or repaired. The fire was declared 100% contained on November 2, 2017. It burned a total of . Caribou Fire The Caribou Fire (also known as the Linklater Fire) was a wildfire in the Kootenai National Forest, 21 miles northwest of Eureka, Montana in the United States. The fire, which was first reported on August"
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"Just for the Hell of It Just for the Hell of It is a 1968 exploitation film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. The opening scene is set at a wild teenage party in a small apartment. The kids suddenly turn against everything around them and trash the apartment to complete annihilation. The kids are called \"Destruction Incorporated\", a bunch of self-imposed derelicts who terrorize a sleepy Florida town. They are led by the near-psychotic Dexter (Ray Sager), his pal Denny (Steve White), Denny's girlfriend Bitsy (Nancy Lee Noble), and their friend Lummox (Ralph Mullin). Their reason for forming this so-called \"destruction crew\" is as Dexter states: \"just for the hell of it.\" Dexter, Denny, Bitsy, and Lummox stop at a local neighborhood bar for a few drinks when the bartender becomes irritated with their shenanigans and orders them to be quiet to which they respond by beating up the owner. Afterwards, Dexter and a few of the Destruction crew pile into Dexter's 1967 white Mustang car and drive around town terrorizing and harassing the locals. One teenybopper steals a lady's newspaper and sets fire to it. A man is splashed painted when a few other youths throw paint at him. Also, a police officer is contemptuously taunted. At a corner coffee shop, the overly zealous teens engage in a bloody fist fight with another teenager, named Doug (Rodney Bedelle), who used to know Dexter and was part of his gang before walking away years ago. As result of the rumble, the group begins to trash the place. The proprietor threatens to call the police, but is cut short when one of the teenyboppers punches him in the face. Dexter and Denny, aided by other Destruction crew, cruelly drag the owner to the stove and they unmercifully burn his hands on the hot stove. Soon, newspapers decry the terrible savagery besieging the town, and the police proceed to track down and arrest Dexter and some of his crew. But under interrogation, the sociopath Dexter calmly denies anything to do with the violence sweeping the community. With no witnesses willing to come forward on fear of retribution from the Destruction crew, and with circumstantial evidence to hold him on, the police release Dexter, only giving him a warning to keep out of trouble. Soon, the delinquents run afoul of law and order again; a blind man is ruthlessly tormented; a newly bandaged man is beaten with his own crutches; a throng of the cretins snatch a woman's baby and stash it in a garbage can, before they demolish the baby stroller, all in front of the mortified mother. Employees of a business office are harassed to a point of terrorism, and a local cafeteria is raided. An off-duty police officer is beaten, while a female homemaker is attacked while innocently laundering clothes. Desiring to slight no segment of society, a group of the Destruction crew invade a little league baseball game. A brawling free-for-all is interrupted by Doug, who witnesses the antics and intervenes, beating up a few of the crew, before he gets overwhelmed. A confused and senile old woman sees the rumble and calls the police, but the gang flees, and Doug unbelievably gets arrested for fighting with the boys. While Doug is temporally in jail, four of the gang drive down a road near the beach and discover a teenage couple making out on a beach blanket. The four teenyboppers attack and beat up the boy, while the young woman is gang raped and afterwards, both her and her boyfriend are bludgeoned to death by the sadistic youths who withdraw from the scene of the crime. Later, during a party the Destruction crew throws at their hideout, Dexter catches four high school girls who stumble into the party, and the group proceeds to strip and humiliate the teen girls before throwing them out of the party. The next day, Doug is bailed out of jail by his girlfriend, Jeanne (Agi Gyenes) whom they both try to stop the gang on their own since the police are unwilling to do anything. Dexter and his group meet with Doug where they tell him to stay out of their way, but Doug refuses to be bullied. With Doug unwilling to back down, Dexter decides to get back at his former friend. One evening, Bitsy phones Doug and lures him away from his house to meet with him on the ruse that she wants to help turn the gang she it in whom treat her like their mascot, Doug goes... leaving Jeanne alone in the house. Dexter, Denny and the Destruction crew arrive at Doug's house shortly thereafter where they stage a home invasion in which they taunt, strip and severely beat and mutilate Jeanne before leaving her for dead. When Doug realizes that Bitsy has no intention of testifying against Dexter and the Destruction crew, Doug flees back to his house only to find Jeanne hideously bruised, bleeding, and maimed... with the image of a rat carved into her stomach. Driven by revenge, Doug sets out back to the Destruction crew's hideout to confront them. Most of the group flees in Dexter's Mustang while Denny and Bitsy escape on a motorcycle. Doug gives chase with them racing through the streets of the town. Soon, the police intervene in the chase, which ends when Denny and Bitsy accidentally slide off the road at a curve and hit a telephone pole which the motorcycle explodes. Denny and Bitsy are thrown off the motorbike, and are both killed by the impact. The final shot shows that Dexter has somehow escaped from the police and meeting with Lummox who gives him an update on Denny and Bitsy's deaths as well as several members of the crew in jail. Indifferent, Dexter responds with: \"who cares, man?\" The film closes with the caption: \"THE END... of this movie, but not the violence\". Allmovie wrote: \"\"Just for the Hell of It\" has more to offer fans of Lewis' well-known gore films than his other genre deviations, though it's unlikely that many other viewers would be amused.\" Just for the Hell of It Just for the Hell of It is a 1968 exploitation film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. The opening scene is set at a wild teenage party in a small apartment. The kids suddenly turn against everything around them and trash the apartment to complete annihilation. The kids are called \"Destruction Incorporated\", a bunch of self-imposed derelicts who terrorize a sleepy Florida town. 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"The Rift (Allan novel) The Rift is a 2017 science fiction and literary fiction novel by English writer Nina Allan. It was first published in July 2017 in the United Kingdom as a trade paperback by Titan Books. It is the second novel of a two-book deal Allan signed with Titan in 2015; the first, and her debut novel, is \"The Race\". The novel is about two sisters, Selena and Julie, who become separated when Julie disappears. Twenty years later she returns, claiming to have been on another planet, and Selena is conflicted over whether to believe Julie's story or not. \"The Rift\" was generally well received by critics. It won two awards, the 2017 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and the 2017 Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Selena and her older sister Julie, live with their parents in Manchester, England. One day, when Julie is 17, she disappears without a trace. Several suspects are arrested, including an artisan, Steven Jimson, but all are released for lack of evidence. Hatchmere lake and its surrounds, believed to have been visited by Julie, are searched, but yield nothing. Years of conflict over Julie's disappearance leads to the sisters' parents divorcing: their mother stops thinking about her, while their father, convinced Julie is alive, obsesses over her, and suffers a mental breakdown and dies. Twenty years later, Selena, who now works for Vanja at a jewellery store, and has come to terms with her sister's disappearance, is surprised by a phone call from a woman claiming to be Julie and requesting a meeting. She agrees to see her, and, although initially sceptical, is convinced it is Julie when her sister reveals something from their childhood that no one else knew about. Julie tells Selena she has been back in Manchester for 18 months, but has told no one who she is. Selena is angry with her sister for having put their family through so much anguish, but Julie tells Selena what happened to her. She reveals that she travelled from Hatchmere lake, via a rift, to a lake near the city of Fiby on the planet Tristane. Selena cannot believe how Julie could fabricate such lies to explain her absence. But as her sister expands on her story, Selena starts to wonder if such a thing could have happened. Julie explains that she was abducted by Jimson and taken to Hatchmere lake; she remembers escaping from him, then finding herself in a strange place and taken in by a woman named Cally and her brother, Noah. Julie learns from Cally where she is and that she has disappeared from this place before. Cally tells Julie that she was born on Tristane. Julie adjusts to her new life and finds out as much as she can about this new world. Years later, after a sexual encounter with Noah, Julie finds herself back in Manchester. Selena does not know whether to believe Julie's story, and wonders if it is a fugue state brought on by her abduction. Selena takes Julie to see their mother, but she does not believe Julie is her missing daughter. Selena tells Vanja about Julie, and the two visit Hatchmere lake and attempt to retrace Julie's steps 20 years ago. Vanja finds what could be Julie's rucksack half buried in the bushes. They call the police, but make no mention of Julie's reappearance. The police later unearth a body and announce that DNA tests reveal a 98% certainty that the remains are Julie's. The sisters move into a house they bought and Selena introduces Julie to her mother as a friend, who still does not recognise Julie as her daughter. \"The Rift\" sprang out of a short story Allan had been asked to write for \"Dead Letters: An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned...\", edited by Conrad Williams. Nina said, \"I started writing and couldn't stop ... it wasn't long before I had 30,000 words and no end in sight. It was at this point I realised that what I was writing wasn't a short story at all, but my next novel.\" Despite having deviated from her original goal of writing a short story, Allan took time off from \"The Rift\" and wrote \"Astray\" for \"Dead Letters\", a story she linked to the novel in order not to lose a \"mental connection with the main project\". Hatchmere lake features prominently in \"The Rift\", but Allan only had a chance to visit the site after she had begun work on the novel. Allan said she prefers to experience a location before writing about it, but on this occasion her schedule prevented that from happening. The visit to the lake did, however, occur later when she travelled to a nearby county to receive an award. Allan scoured the woodland surrounding the lake, and found the atmosphere it invoked not too different from what she imagined it would be prior to her visit. She found that its \"overgrown and less frequented pathways just begging to be included in a some weird novel or other\". Allan cited Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel \"Picnic at Hanging Rock\" as a major influence on \"The Rift\". As with alien abductions, where a gulf opens between abduction claimants and friends and family who do not, or cannot, believe their stories, Allan said in \"Picnic\" a similar divide opens between Irma and her classmates after her return. They are angry because they are convinced she knows what happened but will not tell them. In an interview published in August 2017, Allan stated that much of her writing is about the \"preservation of memories\", and this \"compulsion\" she has \"to pin down the sensation of memory\" continues in \"The Rift\". She said she mixes genres, science fiction and literary fiction, journalism and thriller, memoir and crime, to create an \"[e]nriched genre\" that \"break[s] the template whilst still relishing what the template has to offer\". Allan was critical of the current state of science fiction, stating that the genre publishers, who \"demand ... more of the same rather than encouraging innovation\", are part of the problem. She said she believes that \"genre publishing will atrophy completely\", and that \"the more radical voices will be forced to find a home within mainstream literary publishing\". In a review in \"Locus\" magazine, Gary K. Wolfe wrote that \"The Rift\" is about \"memory and identity\" and tests our perceptions of reality. He called Allan's writing \"subversive\" in that she \"play[s] with ... the familiar protocols of genre and ... the nature of the reading experience itself\". Wolfe said Allan states her influences clearly in the novel by titling the section on Julie's story, \"A Voyage to Arcturus\", alluding to David Lindsay's 1920 novel of the same name; she also includes an essay by Julie, written before she disappears, on Peter Weir's 1975 film \"Picnic at Hanging Rock\". Wolfe concluded that Allan's trail of clues \"seems judicious and, at its best, brilliant\", and \"test whether our allegiance is to the SF adventure ... or to the ... earthbound mystery behind Julie's disappearance\". Editor and critic Maureen Kincaid Speller also questioned the nature of reality in \"The Rift\". Writing in \"Interzone\" Speller explained that \"we're dealing with the stories people tell themselves in order to make sense of things they don't understand\". She said \"the novel's greatest attraction\" is that no explanation for what is happening is satisfactory; there is a \"multiplicity of truths\". Every time something appears certain, \"Allan ... shifts the novel's perspective just sufficiently to cast doubt on that certainty\", raising doubts about everything the reader reads. Speller stated that Allan has produced a book \"with considerable skill and self-assurance\", and called it \"one of the best novels of 2017\". In a review in \"Strange Horizons\", author Marcel Inhoff described \"The Rift\" as a \"slipstream\" novel, one that \"move[s] in between genres\" and eludes classification. He called it literary fiction with an embedded science fiction tale, although here Allan's science fiction challenges the reader to \"view genre as a way to express",
"She said \"the novel's greatest attraction\" is that no explanation for what is happening is satisfactory; there is a \"multiplicity of truths\". Every time something appears certain, \"Allan ... shifts the novel's perspective just sufficiently to cast doubt on that certainty\", raising doubts about everything the reader reads. Speller stated that Allan has produced a book \"with considerable skill and self-assurance\", and called it \"one of the best novels of 2017\". In a review in \"Strange Horizons\", author Marcel Inhoff described \"The Rift\" as a \"slipstream\" novel, one that \"move[s] in between genres\" and eludes classification. He called it literary fiction with an embedded science fiction tale, although here Allan's science fiction challenges the reader to \"view genre as a way to express and interrogate reality\". Inhoff asks, \"Can a story be told with the tropes and all the bells and whistles of science fiction, and still be true?\" Inhoff said Allan's switch between literary fiction and science fiction is \"stunning\", and called \"The Rift\" \"one of the best books published this year in any genre\". In \"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction\", science fiction critic John Clute called Julie's recollections of Tristane a planetary romance, and noted the similarities with Lindsay's novel, \"A Voyage to Arcturus\". Clute added that Julie's story \"is as insinuatingly plausible\" as Kirk Allen's in Robert Lindner's 1955 book, \"The Fifty-Minute Hour\". The Rift (Allan novel) The Rift is a 2017 science fiction and literary fiction novel by English writer Nina Allan. It was first published in July 2017 in the United Kingdom as a trade paperback by Titan Books. It"
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"Lake Văcărești Lake Văcărești is a lake in the south of Bucharest, Sector 4. The lake has a surface of , a length of 2.3 km, a width of 2 km meters and a depth of 1–2 meters. It is now part of the \"Văcărești Nature Park\", a protected zone of nature . Over 100 species of wild birds and animals live in this area. The area is nicknamed \"Bucharest Delta\". The lake was formed from an old bifurcation of the Dâmbovița River and was known in the time of Nicolae Ceaușescu as \"Balta Văcărești\". On June 5, 2014, the Lake Văcărești zone was declared protected zone and named \"Natural Park Văcărești\" by the Government of Romania. Lake Văcărești Lake Văcărești is a lake in the south of Bucharest, Sector 4. The lake has a surface of , a length of 2.3 km, a width of 2 km meters and a depth of 1–2 meters. It is now part of the \"Văcărești Nature Park\", a protected zone of nature . Over 100 species of wild birds and animals live in this area. The area is nicknamed \"Bucharest Delta\". The lake was formed from an old bifurcation of the Dâmbovița River"
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"2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season was the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began with the Opening Cup game on 7 September 2011, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which occurred during the first period of the Cup game and killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, further play was delayed until 12 September 2011. The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the KHL season. The Opening Cup was renamed the Lokomotiv Cup in honor of those lost in the tragedy. The regular season ended on 26 February 2012 and the following playoffs ended on 25 April. The Gagarin Cup was won by Dynamo Moscow, defeating Avangard Omsk in a seven-game final series. Dynamo Moscow is the first champion from the Western Conference of the KHL. Expansion to Slovakia With the admission of Lev Poprad from Poprad, Slovakia the league expanded beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union. This brought the number of teams to 24. However, following a plane crash that claimed the lives of the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl squad, Lokomotiv withdrew from the season, leaving only 23 teams as in the previous season. The regular season was supposed to start on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup and end on 26 February 2012 with short breaks in November, December and February for international matches and for the all-star game. However, after the Yaroslavl plane tragedy the schedule had to be modified: the start of the season was postponed to 12 September and the number of games for each team was reduced to 54 as in the previous season, when also only 23 teams participated. On 7 September 2011, the day of the season opening, a tragic airplane accident occurred in Yaroslavl in which the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team was killed. After the news broke in Ufa, where the Opening Cup game between Salavat Yulaev Ufa and Atlant Moscow Oblast was already underway, the match was abandoned. Later, the KHL announced that the start of the season would be postponed to 12 September, and that pre-game ceremonies would be held to honour the Lokomotiv team, while arena entertainment would be cancelled. On 10 September, at Lokomotiv's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that they would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season. The All-star weekend took place on 20–21 January 2012 in Riga, Latvia. Team Fedorov defeated Team Ozoliņš with 15–11. Points are awarded as follows: The conference standings determined the seedings for the play-offs. The first two places in each conference are reserved for the division winners. \"Note:\" Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs. y – Won division; z – Won conference (and division); <br> \"BOB\" - Bobrov Division, \"TAR\" - Tarasov Division y – Won division; c – Won Continental Cup (best record in KHL);<br> \"CHE\" - Chernyshev Division, \"KHA\" - Kharlamov Division \"GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes\" </small> \"GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average\" The playoffs started on 29 February 2012 with the top eight teams from both conferences and ended on 25 April with the seventh game of the Gagarin Cup final. \"GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes\" </small> \"GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average\" Best KHL players of each month. On 23 May 2012, the KHL held their annual award ceremony. A total of 20 different awards were handed out to teams, players, officials and media. The most important trophies are listed in the table below. The league also awarded six \"Golden Helmets\" for the members of the all-star team: 2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season was the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began with the"
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"Vincent Wing Vincent Wing (1619–1668) was an English astrologer and astronomer, professionally a land surveyor. Vincent Wing was born at North Luffenham, Rutland on 9 April 1619. The eldest of four sons of Vincent Wing (1587–1660) (who was taking astronomical observations during the 1620s), his family had been established in the village since at least his grandfather's time, but is thought to have had Welsh antecedents. Wing did not receive a university education, but by assiduous study acquired his working knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Mathematics. With these skills he followed his calling as a surveyor, and invented or developed the use of the forty-link two-pole chain for measuring tracts of land in rods or poles, a method which he explained and advocated in his published works. While so engaged, two of his younger brothers, Solomon (1621) and Samuel (1626), married during the earlier 1640s and began their families, but the first of Vincent's children by his wife Alice to be christened at North Luffenham was Elizabeth, in November 1652. During this time Wing collaborated with William Leybourn (1626–1716), and dated the preface to their jointly-authored work \"Urania Practica\", (published in 1649) from North Luffenham in 1648. Containing over 300 pages, this was the first substantial compendium of astronomy written in the English language. It was the commencement of important authorial careers in surveying and astronomy for both men, and they defended themselves against their critic Jeremy Shakerley soon afterwards. In the following year Wing published independently \"A Dreadful Prognostication\", containing astrological predictions. However several of Wing's later publications were made through the press of Robert Leybourn, who went into partnership with William Leybourn in 1651. The first of these, Wing's \"Harmonicon Cœleste\", appeared in 1651 at a time when Wing was in correspondence with William Lilly: a surviving copy of the book from the library of Sir Isaac Newton was carefully annotated by its owner. In this work Wing had made a transition towards more modern astronomical conceptions. At the Leybourn press William Leybourn produced his own first enduring and substantial work, \"The Compleat Surveyor\", in 1653: the association with Wing persisted until Wing's death. Wing's next major work, his \"Astronomia Instaurata\", appeared in 1656. This led to a controversy with Thomas Streete, who published his \"Astronomia Carolina\" in 1661, and followed it with \"An Appendix to Astronomia Carolina\" in 1664 in which he criticised Wing for his mistakes. In 1665 Wing responded in his \"Examen Astronomiae Carolina\", exposing the alleged errors of Thomas Street, who retaliated with \"Examen examinatum\" of 1667, 'a castigation of the envy and ignorance of Vincent Wing.' Wing issued ephemerides for twenty years (1652–1671), which John Flamsteed considered to be the most accurate of their time. As a very young man Flamsteed maintained a correspondence with Wing (who died in 1668). Flamsteed, who interested himself in the opinions of both Wing and Streete, wrote: \"with [Mr. Wing] I had a faire Correspondence, and though we differed \"de parallaxi et Æquationibus systematis Solaris\" and severall other things, yet our dissent made us not the lesse freinds;\" adding, that though he [i.e. Flamsteed] differed with Mr. Streete in his opinions \"de Fixatione Apheliorum et Nodorum, et de Æquationibus Lunae oscillatorijs\", yet he hoped that Streete should prove to be a friendly correspondent also. A convinced astrologer, Wing edited in 1660 the \"Defence of the Divine Art of Natural Astrologie\" which had been sent to him by his late friend George Atwell (c.1576–1658), Surveyor, and 'Professor of the Mathematicks' at the University of Cambridge, to which he wrote an informative preface. Wing remarks, \"The stars incline the will (saith \"Scotus\") yet in no wise necessitate it, notwithstanding it often hapneth that Astrologers fore-tel truths concerning the manners of men, by reason of their proneness to follow their sensitive appetite.\" Atwell was the author of a work on Surveying explaining the accurate use of the measuring chain, which by 1665 had run into a third, enlarged (London) edition. In 1664 Wing produced his own treatise on practical land surveying, his \"Geodætes Practicus : or, The Art of Surveying\". A second edition, containing also a reprint of the \"Examen Astronomiae Carolinae\", was produced in 1666, almost the entire run of which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. The Third Edition was the much enlarged version issued as \"Geodætes Practicus Redivivus\" by his nephew John Wing in 1699–1700. The culmination of Wing's labours took shape in his \"Astronomia Britannica\", published posthumously in 1669. Written entirely in Latin, well-illustrated with diagrams and enriched throughout by classical literary allusions, this was a complete system of astronomy on Copernican principles. It followed Seth Ward in formulating Kepler's second law. It was prefaced by a line-engraved portrait of the author seated at a table with globe and instruments, and a view of a village (possibly meant for North Luffenham) beyond. and opened with a letter of dedication to Sir Robert Markham (1644–1690), M.P. for Grantham, who wrote a two-page postscript \"de Refractione\" to the text. The seven-page preface, \"Praefatium ad Candidum Lectorem\", which opens with a flourish invoking the authority of Hermes Trismegistus, is dated from North Luffenham early in 1665. The five 'books' of the main text (pp. 1–246) each have their own title-pages, the first three dated 1668 and the last two 1669. The latter half of the work (pp. 1–366) is occupied by the Tables with a further dated title-page of 1668 for the \"Synopsis Compendiaria\" of Astronomic Observations (part 2 p. 265). Wing also wrote for the Stationers' Company an almanac styled \"Olympia Domata\", the annual sale of which averaged 50,000 copies. The \"Olympia Domata\" for 1670 was edited by his elder son, Vincent Wing, and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, John Wing of Pickworth, Rutland (see below). The publication was continued by his descendants at irregular intervals until 1805. Vincent Wing resided with his wife Alice at North Luffenham, where daughters Mary (1654), Alice (1658), Elizabeth (1664) and Catherine (1666) and sons Vincent (1656) and James (1661), were christened. He occasionally went to London for learned company. His friend and biographer John Gadbury commended his wit. He drew the scheme of his own nativity published in Gadbury's \"Brief Relation\", and is said to have made a correct forecast of his death. He contracted consumption, of which he died on 20 September 1668, aged 49, having made his will only a fortnight previously. Gadbury observed that dedication to work had exhausted him, and rebutted any suggestion that Wing might have taken his own life. He was buried at North Luffenham. After Vincent Wing's death, and during the 18th century, the vicinity of North Luffenham maintained distinction by its association with the Barker family of Lyndon Hall and South Luffenham in Rutland. Vincent Wing the elder (father of the astronomer) had, before 1635, been a tenant of lands in North Luffenham which had formerly belonged to Fineshade Priory, Northamptonshire, and had become property of the rector of North Luffenham, Robert Johnson (1540–1625). In 1630 Johnson's grandson Isaac, principal shareholder in the Massachusetts Bay Company, sailed with John Winthrop in the founding voyage to Massachusetts. In that company was also one John Wing and his wife Deborah Batchelder, from whom an American family of Wing hopes to trace its descent: the possible association of that John with Vincent Wing's family is mooted in a published genealogy. In 1635 Johnson's lands were sold to Samuel Barker of South Luffenham, who died in 1658, but the continuing relations with the Wing family are shown by deeds of recovery relating to some 180",
"had, before 1635, been a tenant of lands in North Luffenham which had formerly belonged to Fineshade Priory, Northamptonshire, and had become property of the rector of North Luffenham, Robert Johnson (1540–1625). In 1630 Johnson's grandson Isaac, principal shareholder in the Massachusetts Bay Company, sailed with John Winthrop in the founding voyage to Massachusetts. In that company was also one John Wing and his wife Deborah Batchelder, from whom an American family of Wing hopes to trace its descent: the possible association of that John with Vincent Wing's family is mooted in a published genealogy. In 1635 Johnson's lands were sold to Samuel Barker of South Luffenham, who died in 1658, but the continuing relations with the Wing family are shown by deeds of recovery relating to some 180 acres at North Luffenham and Ketton, between Vincent Winge junior, gent. (presumably the astronomer himself), and Jonathan and John Barker, gents. (two of the sons and heirs of Samuel Barker, upon whom the former Johnson lands had devolved), in 1660. These heirs of Samuel Barker's lived at North Luffenham Manor House (built 1640). The Wings therefore had dealings with the Barker family more than with Noel or Digby, the other two principal manorial families of North Luffenham. Lyndon Hall became the home of Samuel Barker (1686–1759) and his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Isaac Newton's pupil and successor as Lucasian Professor, William Whiston (1667–1752), who latterly resided with them, and Samuel's son Thomas Barker (1722–1809), called 'The Father of Meteorology', who married the sister of Gilbert White of Selborne. The example and brilliance of Vincent Wing found its reflex in the descendants of his youngest brother Moses Wing (baptised 4.x.1629, buried 5.xii.1697) and his wife Priscilla, at least eleven of whose children were baptised at North Luffenham between 1655 and 1675. Two of their children apparently founded dynasties whose works in Surveying, Fenland Engineering, Mathematics, Instrument-Making, Architecture and Astronomy continued through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. </br> Vincent Wing Vincent Wing (1619–1668) was an English astrologer and astronomer, professionally a land surveyor. Vincent Wing was born at North Luffenham, Rutland on 9 April 1619. The eldest of four sons of Vincent Wing (1587–1660) (who was taking"
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"Piarco International Airport Piarco International Airport , and frequently shortened to Piarco International, Piarco Airport, or simply Piarco, is an international airport serving the island of Trinidad and is one of two international airports in Trinidad and Tobago. The airport is located east of Downtown Port of Spain, located in the adjacent town of Piarco. It is the seventh busiest airport in the Caribbean in terms of passengers served and third busiest in the English-speaking Caribbean, after Sangster International Airport and Lynden Pindling International Airport. The airport is also the primary hub and operating base for the country's national airline, as well as the Caribbean's largest airline, Caribbean Airlines. Piarco International Airport has direct scheduled service to destinations in the United States, Canada, Central America, South America and Europe. It is also a significant transit hub for the Southern Caribbean and serves as the primary connection point for many passengers travelling from Guyana. Piarco Airport opened on 8 January 1931, to serve Venezuela's \"Compagnie Generale Aeropostale\". Before this, the Queen's Park Savannah, the Mucarapo Field, and the Cocorite Docks (for flying boats) were used as airstrips to serve the island. In World War II the original airfield was used to house the Royal Navy Observer School HMS \"Goshawk\". From 1942 it was also used by both the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force and United States Navy air squadrons. The airport was used both as a transport airfield and also for antisubmarine patrol flights over the south Caribbean. It was returned to civil control after the war. In World War II the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force stationed the following units at the airport performing antisubmarine patrols: A major expansion of the airport, which included the construction of a new terminal building, and high-speed taxiways, was completed in 2001. The old airport building is currently used for cargo handling. Piarco International Airport is also the primary hub and operating base of Caribbean Airlines and was also the primary hub and operating base of the now defunct BWIA West Indies Airways and Air Caribbean. Briko Air Services And Aerial World Services operate a flight school at the airport. In 2006 the Airports Authority of Trinidad And Tobago commissioned a study for land use planning and urban development planning. All-Inclusive Project Development Services Limited was commissioned to conduct the study. The study was completed in October 2007 and approved by the Board. In 2011, work on the infrastructure of the North Aviation Business Park began. It is completed in 2013. At Piarco International Airport there are two high-speed taxiways and three connector taxiways (ICAO Code F for new large aircraft). This technologically state of the art airport has 82 ticket counter positions that operate under SITA's fibre-optic C.U.T.E. system which exceeds the recommended standards of ICAO and IATA. It also has a Flight Information Display System, which serves all airport users and a Baggage Information Display System. The terminal is a fully air-conditioned, smoke-free building, equipped to handle peak-hour passenger traffic of 1,500 processing passengers through a fully computerised immigration system. The Customs Hall has four baggage/cargo carousels. An administrative/operations building for the Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard is being constructed at the Piarco Air Base. Also, a military airfield will be constructed near the air base. The control tower at the old terminal building is currently used for air traffic control. The tower at the new terminal building is used for ramp control and runway movement control. A new nine-story control tower was opened in 2011. The new North Terminal consists of of building with 14 second-level aircraft gates for international flights and 2 ground-level domestic gates. The overall layout of the building consists of three main elements: a landside core structure, a single-level duty-free shopping mall, and a 2-level 'Y' shaped concourse. cathedral ceilings and glass walls provide passengers and other visitors to the North Terminal with a sense of open space and magnificent views of the Piarco savannah and the nearby Northern Range mountains. The public atrium has the largest glass dome in the Caribbean. The airport is also large enough to accommodate most international widebody airliners including the Boeing 747, Airbus A330-300, Boeing 777, Boeing 767 and the Airbus A340. Piarco International is capable of medium-sized aircraft including the Boeing 737, Boeing 757, Airbus A320, Embraer 190 as well as small aircraft such as the DeHavilland Dash 8, ATR 72 and other such turboprop aircraft. The airport layout consists of one main terminal building which includes three concourses. These concourses are not strictly identified as their name depicts but are divided into the following areas; Gates 1–7, Gates 8–14, and gates 8-14 specifically serve Caribbean Airlines and the Tobago concourse which serves flights to Tobago. The Air Guard of Trinidad and Tobago is based at Piarco International Airport. During the existence of BWIA West Indies, its head office was on the airport property. The disused south terminal has been renovated into a VIP terminal for the Summit of The Americas. The North terminal has also received additional remote parking stands. In November 2009, upgrades on the south terminal were completed and the area now serves as a private/executive jet facility for high-end travellers. The Airport underwent expansion and renovation works in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit in November 2009. These improvements included: Piarco International Airport has two terminals. The south terminal was once the passenger terminal for the airport but has been renovated to serve as an executive terminal. It serves cargo flights, general aviation and helicopter flights. It has fourteen parking positions as well as light aircraft parking. In addition it has the Airports Administration Centre, the head office of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago. The North terminal is the main passenger terminal. It handles all the commercial passenger airline traffic. The north terminal has twenty-nine parking positions. In addition to passenger airlines, the airport also handles cargo traffic, general aviation, military and helicopter flights to the many oil rigs present offshore. Piarco International Airport Piarco International Airport , and frequently shortened to Piarco International, Piarco Airport, or simply Piarco, is an international airport serving the island of Trinidad and is one of two international airports in Trinidad and Tobago. The airport is located east of Downtown Port of Spain, located in the adjacent town of Piarco. It is the seventh busiest airport in the Caribbean in terms of passengers served and third busiest in the English-speaking Caribbean, after Sangster International Airport and Lynden Pindling International Airport. The airport is also the primary hub and operating base"
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"Male portraits by Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Man is the conventional title of several male portraits finished by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina in the course of his career. These include: The picture, housed in the Town Museum of Pavia Lombardy, northern Italy, is signed according to the Flemish habit, by directly engraving the painter's name on the parapet in the lower foreground (instead of using a false glued panel), like the Madrid portrait. Despite the sign, the strict nearness to the Flemish portrait art and the poor state of preservation have pushed some scholars to doubt about the attribution to Antonello. The work has been dated to the 1460s basing on the fashion of the subject's dress and headgear. This portrait, finished c. 1475, is housed in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, in Madrid, Spain. Among Antonello's portraits, it is among the most expressively animated ones. The subject, a young man, is drawn from a quite near point of view, with the usual skill in details rendering. The picture has been approximately dated to the early 1470s, basing on the typical \"zuccotto\" headgear, a fashion more characteristic of 1460s Italy. Often called the \"Trivulzio portrait\", this portrait is housed in the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art. It was signed by Antonello and dated 1476. It was part of the collection of the Florentine noble family Rinuccini, which was later acquired by the Trivulzio. In 1935 the collection was scattered, although most of the material went to Milan. The Turin museum obtained this portrait and the Turin-Milan Hours. \"Portrait of a Man\" is a c.1476 oil painting, now in the United Kingdom's National Gallery of London collection. Its image was printed on the Italian 5,000 lire note that was issued from 1979 to 1983. The work portrays an unknown man, whose garments belonged to the 'middle-upper class' of the time. He wears a leather blouse, under which a white shirt is visible, and a red cloth beret. The man is depicted from three-quarters, differently from the tradition of the time. The dark background and the essential composition was derived from the Flemish Early Netherlandish painting style, which also included the Flemish painter Petrus Christus, whom Messina knew personally in Italy. X-ray analysis proved that originally the eyes looked in a different direction. Perhaps there was a parapet with the signature, which was cut off later. It has been suggested that this late work could be a self-portrait. Male portraits by Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Man is the conventional title of several male portraits finished by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina in the course of his career. These include: The picture, housed in the Town Museum of Pavia Lombardy, northern Italy, is signed according to the Flemish habit, by directly engraving the painter's name on the parapet in the lower foreground (instead of using a false glued panel), like the Madrid portrait. Despite the sign, the strict nearness to the Flemish portrait art and"
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"Fort de Vancia The Fort de Vancia is a former military installation built between 1872 and 1878 in the municipalities of Sathonay-Village and Rillieux-la-Pape, north of Lyon. It is part of the second belt Lyon and more generally the system Sere de Rivieres. This belt of forts included the forts of Bron, Vancia itself, Feyzin and Mont Verdun. This pentagonal fort covers about 18 hectares. Located on the plateau and peak Vancia on Dombes to 332 meters, it is disposed between the height of Mont Verdun and Fort Meyzieu . It has been built primarily for the purpose of resisting German and Italian attack from Bourg-en-Bresse, but also in order to confine a potential revolt of the city of Lyon. The fort consists of seven batteries of 50 guns and covered by three batteries: Sermenaz, Neyron and Sathonay. Its organization is very similar plans of the forts of Bron and Feyzin, it is not constructed of concrete but in stone , surrounded by a dry ditch along a kilometer in a building concrete will be added to the barracks of the rider in 1895 . The fort was built on the ground and covered by a result of soil from outside. The fort had a capacity of 800 soldiers divided into two two-story barracks and is 16,000 m², with fifty pieces, two coal-fired ovens, shops and arsenals, two stables, four kitchens, a bakery, four wells, a water tank, a laundry, an infirmary, a forge, and fifty guns. It cost at the time of building 3 million gold francs. The barracks are composed, on the ground floor of a barn or a shop, with the garrison of the rooms upstairs. Each room has an area of 120 square meters, and housed 25 men arranged in two bunk beds and an officer in a single bed. Meals were served in your room, the bread was suspended in each to protect from rats. Grooves within each window can barricade in case of danger. The path along the barracks is called the street walls and was crossed by a rail allowing, through horse-drawn wagons, to supply the guns quickly. Two magazines of 70t and 68T provide ammunition to eleven shooting platforms which are placed at the top of the structure on the ridge of high fire and bunkers indirect fire mortar type. Because of the ever-present risk of explosion of the powder by spark, access and layout of magazines included some points: Access to the fort was controlled by a caponier placed on a ravelin built into the rock in front of the pit itself crossed by a crane on rollers. A thick wooden door studded prevents access of the caponier entrance. An iron gate will be added in 1906 before the bridge. The fort served during the First World War to the French troops, a huge time sink collective is still visible today. Before 1939 and after World War II, it served as a logistics center consolidation for reservists and the volunteers, as well as deposit. In 1942, when the fort was still in the free zone. It was used for testing rocket EA-41 by Colonel Jean-Jacques Barre. The fort served as a prison for Germans towards the end of World War II, including opponents of the regime of Franco as well as Habib Bourguiba, former president of Tunisia . It will remain property of the army until 1999. Unoccupied for a long time, the fort is now occupied by dense vegetation. The fort of Vancia currently depend on a single-purpose municipal association, owned by the municipalities of Sathonay-Village and Rillieux-la-Pape . The fort served as occasional training fields for the police, emergency services. The shooting center has always remained property of the Department of Defense. The fort is regularly open for Heritage Days. The fort was occupied illegally from 4 February 2011 at 18 May 2011 by a group called The fallow Vancia, strong collective self (CFA), the police carried out the evictions and deposited concrete blocks outside the gates and access. Fort de Vancia The Fort de Vancia is a former military installation built between 1872 and 1878 in the municipalities of Sathonay-Village and Rillieux-la-Pape, north of Lyon. It is part"
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"Iasos (musician) Iasos (born 1947 in Greece), an American resident since 1951, he is a new age musician living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. He is one of the earliest creators of the \"new age\" genre. His company, Inter-Dimensional Music, is based in Sausalito, California. The psychology department at Plymouth State College rated his \"Angelic Music\" album as being closest to the music heard by people who have had Near-death experiences. The Buddhist philosopher Alan Watts has said \"Iasos is doing the classical music of the New Age.\" Guitarist Lee Underwood has said \"\"Angelic Music\"...perhaps exemplif(ies) the best this genre has to offer.\" He began studying piano at age 8, with formal music education through high school. In 1967, he began to \"hear\" music, which he referred to as \"paradise music.\" He moved to California in 1968, to work on creating this music. In 1975, he released his first album, \"Inter-Dimensional Music Through Iasos,\" the same year his friend and colleague Steven Halpern released his first album, thus being an early pioneer in the \"new age music\" genre. In 1982, Iasos produced one of the first New Age videos, \"Crystal Vista. \"In 1989, the psychology department of Plymouth State College in New Hampshire conducted research with people who had had near-death experiences. The conclusion of the research was that Iasos' music received the highest rating for being most like the music people heard while in their near death state. Iasos has performed and lectured internationally, and his music is distributed worldwide. His music has been used by NASA and the Laserium laser light show. FULL DISCOGRAPHY available at: http://iasos.com/bioresum/#Discography Iasos (musician) Iasos (born 1947 in Greece), an American resident since 1951, he is a new age musician living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. He"
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"Latho Latho is a traditional solitaire game played by the Dorzé people of Ethiopia. The equipment needed to play the game is similar to that used for mancala games, i.e., a bord with 2 rows of 6 \"pits\", and 30 counters (\"seeds\"). The game was first described by British academic Richard Pankhurst in 1971. At game setup, the 30 seeds are placed in the 2x6 pits according to the following scheme: Although the game is technically a solitaire, it requires a second person besides the player, who has the function of a \"dealer\". The dealer and player must first agree about the pit of the board from which to start. The player then closes his eyes (or is blindfolded) and must declare out loud the number of seeds in each of the pits of the board, counterclockwise from the starting pit. The traditional declarations used in Ethiopia are: As long as the declaration is correct (i.e., the pit has that exact number of seeds), the dealer will remove one seed from the pit. The game will thus continue until the board is empty (in which case the player has succeeded) or the player fails to declare the correct number of seeds. There are several other solitaires based on mancala boards, for example: Latho Latho is a traditional solitaire game played by the Dorzé people of Ethiopia. The equipment needed to play the game is similar to that used for mancala games, i.e., a bord with 2 rows of 6 \"pits\", and 30 counters (\"seeds\"). The game was first described by British academic Richard Pankhurst in 1971. At game setup, the 30 seeds are placed in the 2x6 pits according to the following scheme: Although the game is technically a solitaire, it requires a second person besides the player, who has"
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"Intersex rights in New Zealand Intersex rights in New Zealand are protections and rights afforded to intersex people. Protection from discrimination is implied by the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights Act, but remains untested. The New Zealand Human Rights Commission states that there has seemingly been a \"lack of political will to address issues involved in current practices of genital normalisation on intersex children\". In March 2017, New Zealand and Australian community organizations issued a joint call for legal reform, including the criminalization of deferrable intersex medical interventions on children, an end to legal classification of sex, and improved access to peer support. Early common law, like canon law, held that hermaphrodites were to be treated as male or female depending on the prevailing sex. In the early part of the 21st-century, the Human Rights Commission studied the circumstances of intersex people within the context of studies on the human rights situation of transgender people. Later work has examined the situation of intersex people separately, including the human rights implications of intersex medical interventions, shame and secrecy. Notable civil society institutions and individuals include the Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, Mani Mitchell and refugee Eliana Rubashkyn. Mitchell narrated the documentary \"Intersexion\" in 2012. In March 2017, representatives of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand participated in an Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand consensus \"Darlington Statement\" by intersex community organizations and others. The statement calls for legal reform, including the criminalization of deferrable intersex medical interventions on children, an end to legal classification of sex, and improved access to peer support. In 2010 and 2016, the Human Rights Commission heard testimony from intersex people and from medical professionals, including information on medical interventions within New Zealand and in Australia, under the provisions of a High Cost Treatment Pool. The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions states that New Zealand laws and policies that prohibit female genital mutilation explicitly permit \"normalizing\" medical interventions on intersex infants and girls. Material presented by the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group to the Australian Senate in 2013 showed New Zealand to be a regional outlier in surgeries in cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, with genital surgical interventions favoured on infant girls aged less than 6 months. In a 2016 review of the country's performance under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the government provided conflicting information on medical interventions, including information that contradicts reports made to the Human Rights Commission. In October 2016, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued observations on practices in New Zealand, including recommendations to ensure \"that no one is subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood, guaranteeing the rights of children to bodily integrity, autonomy and self-determination\". A 2016 Intersex Roundtable by the Human Rights Commission on genital \"normalizing\" surgeries found that there was a lack of political will to address surgeries, concerns with service delivery to parents and families, the development of legislative safeguards, and a need to test the right to bodily autonomy against the Bill of Rights Act. In July 2018, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued concluding observations on harmful practices, recommending that New Zealand adopt \"clear legislative provisions explicitly prohibiting the performance of unnecessary surgical or other medical treatment on intersex children before they reach the legal age of consent\". The Committee also called for the provision of redress, and counselling and support to families. In March 2017, an Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand community statement called for acknowledgement, an apology, and reparations for intersex people who have been subjected to \"involuntary or coercive medical interventions\". The New Zealand Human Rights Commission noted in its 2004 report on the status of human rights in New Zealand that intersex people in New Zealand face discrimination in several aspects of their lives, however the law is unclear on the legal status of discrimination based on sex characteristics or intersex status. Currently, the Commission believes that the Human Rights Act 1993 may protect intersex persons under the laws preventing discrimination on the basis of sex, and the Bill of Rights Act 1990 may adequately recognize rights to bodily autonomy and refusal of medical treatment, but this has not been tested. New Zealand passports are available with 'M', 'F' and 'X' sex descriptors for applicants of indeterminate sex. Passports with an 'X' descriptor were originally introduced for people transitioning gender. Birth certificates are available at birth showing \"indeterminate\" sex if it is not possible to assign a sex. In March 2017, an Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand community statement called for an end to legal classification of sex, stating that legal third classifications, like binary classifications, were based on structural violence and failed to respect diversity and a \"right to self-determination\". Any adult couple is able to marry in New Zealand. A private member's bill by Labour MP Louisa Wall which proposed defining marriage to be inclusive regardless of gender became law on 19 April 2013. The first same-sex marriages were conducted in August 2013. Intersex rights in New Zealand Intersex rights in New Zealand are protections and rights afforded to intersex people. Protection from discrimination is implied by the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights Act, but remains untested. The New Zealand Human Rights Commission states that there has seemingly been a \"lack of political will to address issues involved in current practices"
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"John Brown (servant) John Brown (8 December 1826 – 27 March 1883) was a Scottish personal attendant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years. He was appreciated by many (including the Queen) for his competence and companionship, and resented by others for his influence and informal manner. The exact nature of his relationship with Victoria was the subject of great speculation by contemporaries and continues to be controversial today. Brown was born on 8 December 1826 at Crathienaird, Crathie and Braemar Aberdeenshire, to Margaret Leys and John Brown, and went to work as an outdoor servant (in Scots \"ghillie\" or \"gillie\") at Balmoral Castle, which Queen Victoria and Prince Albert leased in February 1848, and purchased outright in November 1851. Brown had several younger brothers and a sister, three of whom also entered the royal service. His brother Archibald Anderson \"Archie\" Brown, 15 years John's junior, eventually became personal valet to Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Prince Albert's untimely death in 1861 was a shock from which Queen Victoria never fully recovered. John Brown became a good friend and supported the Queen. Victoria gave him gifts and created two medals for him, the Faithful Servant Medal and the Devoted Service Medal. She also commissioned a portrait of him. Victoria's children and ministers resented the high regard she had for Brown, and inevitably, stories circulated that there was something improper in their relationship. The Queen's daughters joked that Brown was \"Mama's lover\", while Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, wrote in his diary that Brown and Victoria slept in adjoining rooms \"contrary to etiquette and even decency\". Victoria herself dismissed the chatter as \"ill-natured gossip in the higher classes\". The diaries of Lewis Harcourt contain a report that one of the Queen's chaplains, Rev. Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to John Brown. Debate continues over this report. It should be emphasised that Harcourt did not receive the confession directly (he was nine when Macleod died) but that it passed (if it did) from Macleod's sister to the wife of Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, and thence to Harcourt's father Sir William Harcourt, then Home Secretary. Harcourt served as Home Secretary in the final three years of Brown's life. While it is true that some widowed monarchs have contracted private marriages with their servants, there is little evidence that Victoria married Brown. Perhaps the most compelling evidence of the depth of Victoria and Brown's relationship comes from the pen of the Queen herself. A recently discovered letter written by Victoria shortly after Brown's death, to Viscount Cranbrook, reveals the true extent of the loss: The phrase \"life for the second time\" relates to the death of her husband Prince Albert. The historian who discovered the letter believed that it suggested that Victoria, in her mind, equated Brown's death with Albert's, and that she therefore viewed him as more than a servant. Whether Brown and Victoria were actual lovers, however, is not known. John Brown died, aged 56, at Windsor Castle on 27 March 1883, and is buried in Crathie Kirkyard, in the next plot to his parents and a number of his siblings. The inscription on his gravestone further shows the attachment between him and the Queen: Those who believe that the Queen saw Brown as little more than a servant point to the fact that after his death she became similarly attached to an Indian servant, Abdul Karim, one of two who had come to work for her in late June 1887. She called him \"the Munshi\", and he came to be resented even more than John Brown: unlike Brown, whose loyalty was without question, there was evidence that Karim exploited his position for personal gain and prestige. Tony Rennell's book \"Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria\" reveals that Victoria had entrusted detailed instructions about her burial to her doctor, Sir James Reid (Brown died in 1883: the Queen's wish was for him to attend to her). These included a list of the keepsakes and mementoes, photographs and trinkets to be placed in the coffin with her: along with Albert's dressing gown and a plaster cast of his hand, the Queen was buried with a lock of Brown's hair, his photograph, Brown's mother's wedding ring, given to her by Brown, along with several of his letters. The photograph, wrapped in white tissue paper, was placed in her left hand, with flowers arranged to hide it from view. She wore the ring on the third finger of her right hand. The statues and private memorials that Victoria had created for Brown were destroyed at the order of her son, Edward VII, with whom Brown had often clashed and who resented Brown for his influence. Queen Victoria commissioned a life-sized statue of Brown by Edgar Boehm shortly after his death. The inscription read: \"Friend more than Servant. Loyal. Truthful. Brave. Self less than Duty, even to the Grave.\" When Victoria's son succeeded to the throne he had the statue moved to a less conspicuous site. Design and manufacture of both medals were commissioned by Queen Victoria. The 1997 film \"Mrs Brown\" is the fictionalised story of John Brown. Billy Connolly stars as Brown and Dame Judi Dench as Victoria. John Brown (servant) John Brown (8 December 1826 – 27 March 1883) was a Scottish personal"
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"Patrick Stump Patrick Martin Stumph (born April 27, 1984), known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Fall Out Boy, originally from Wilmette, Illinois. His solo work has been described as \"funky and R&B infused\", while \"Billboard\" noted him as \"one of the best voices in pop punk\". Fall Out Boy has achieved four top ten singles on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and four number one albums on the \"Billboard\" 200, firstly with \"Infinity on High\" in 2007, and again in 2013 with \"Save Rock and Roll\", 2015 with \"American Beauty/American Psycho\", and 2018 with \"Mania\". Stump has collaborated with other artists (including Damnation A.D. and Timbaland) and has produced albums for artists including Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes. After Fall Out Boy's hiatus in late 2009, Stump released his debut solo album, \"Soul Punk\", on October 18, 2011. It was preceded by the six-song EP titled \"Truant Wave\" on February 22, 2011. He toured in the US and Europe in support. He returned to Fall Out Boy in 2013 with the album \"Save Rock and Roll\", and the EP \"PAX AM Days.\" In January 2015, the sixth album \"American Beauty/American Psycho\" was released, while in January 2018 their seventh album \"Mania\" was released, both debuting at No.1 on the Billboard 200. Stump was born in Evanston, Illinois to David, a folk singer, and Patricia (née Vaughn) Stumph, an accountant. He is the youngest of three children. He grew up in Glenview, Illinois and attended Glenbrook South High School. His parents divorced when he was eight years old. He grew up with a passion for music, later stating, \"I was always playing music... it was always kind of present.\" He originally played the drums in various local Chicago power violence and hardcore punk bands, including Public Display Of Infection, Xgrinding processX, Patterson, and, for two shows, Arma Angelus. His musical idols growing up included Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and Nat King Cole. Fall Out Boy's founding guitarist Joe Trohman met Stump over a mutual musical interest, and introduced Stump to bassist Pete Wentz. After originally auditioning as the drummer, Stump became the lead singer and later guitarist for the band. Trohman and Stump switch between lead and rhythm guitar in recording sessions and at live shows, although Stump views himself as more of a rhythm guitarist because of his drumming background. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary composer for the band, with bassist Pete Wentz taking lyrical duties. The band's first mini-LP, \"Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend\", was released in March 2003 on Uprising Records. They then released their first full-length album, \"Take This to Your Grave\" on Fueled by Ramen on May 6, 2003. In the same year, Stump decided to professionally drop the \"h\" in his surname to reduce mispronunciations. In 2003, Stump and his fellow band members went on to sign with Island Records, and released the acoustic-based EP \"My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue\" CD and DVD in 2004 to hold fans over while the group recorded their major label debut. The EP debuted at No. 153 on the \"Billboard\" 200, Fall Out Boy's first entry on that chart (their next entry week would be at No. 9 with \"From Under the Cork Tree\"). It also peaked at No. 5 on the \"Billboard\" Heatseeker Albums and No. 10 on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums. This was followed by their third studio album, \"From Under the Cork Tree\" released on May 3, 2005, which was the band's mainstream breakthrough. It has since been certified double platinum by the RIAA, with a sales total of more than 2.5 million. It debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the \"Billboard\" 200, becoming the band's first top-10 album. The chart-topping lead single \"Sugar, We're Goin Down\" reached No. 8 on the Hot 100 and received heavy airplay rotation at Pop and Alternative radio. The album's second single, \"Dance, Dance\", also enjoyed mainstream success, peaking at No. 9 on the Hot 100 and becoming Fall Out Boy's second top-10 hit. It won various awards and was certified platinum. The band heavily toured in 2005 and 2006 in support of \"From Under the Cork Tree\", including headlining Warped Tour, the Nintendo Fusion Tour, and the Black Clouds And Underdogs tour, as well as playing a secret show under the name of Saved Latin at a small venue. Fall Out Boy was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy Award in 2005. Fall Out Boy's third studio effort, \"Infinity on High\", was released to major chart success in 2007. It debuted at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart with 260,000 sales, becoming the group's first No. 1 album and second top 10 release. It also debuted atop other various \"Billboard\" charts and charted in the top five worldwide. \"Infinity\" was spurred on by the lead single, \"This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race\", which hit No. 2. \"Thnks fr th Mmrs\", the second single from the album, peaked at No. 11. Fall Out Boy toured all year worldwide in support of it, with arena gigs in the US. \"Folie à Deux\" was released in December 10, 2008. Its sales were less than stellar in comparison to \"Infinity on High\", but gave the band its third consecutive top 10 album, debuting and peaking at No. 8 on the \"Billboard\" 200 with 150,000 opening week sales. The lead single, \"I Don't Care\", landed at No. 21 on the Hot 100 and went Platinum. The band was the opening act for Blink-182's reunion tour in 2009. They released their first greatest hits album, \"Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits\", later that year, featuring all of their previous single releases, two new songs, including the single \"Alpha Dog\", and two rarities. In late 2009 the band took an indefinite break to \"decompress\", with the band members embarking on various side projects, with Stump going solo, Trohman and Hurley forming heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things, and Wentz starting the electropop/experimental group Black Cards. On February 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy unexpectedly announced their return. April 12 of the same year, the band released a new album entitled, \"Save Rock and Roll,\" a new song, \"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)\", and dates for a new tour. The band played their first show in over three years on the night of February 4 in Chicago. \"Save Rock and Roll\" peaked at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" 200, selling 154,000 copies in its first week, becoming the band's 4th consecutive top 10 album. With Fall Out Boy, Stump toured heavily throughout 2013 and 2014 on the album, selling out arenas worldwide, with bands such as Paramore on the Monumentour. In October 2013, they released a new EP, \"PAX AM Days\" which they recorded in a two day session with producer Ryan Adams. Sixth studio album \"American Beauty/American Psycho\" was released to become the band's third \"Billboard\" 200 No. 1 album, debuting with 192,000 first week sales and 218,000 equivalent album units. The album was preceded by the triple Platinum top 10 single \"Centuries\". \"Uma Thurman\" was released to mainstream radio on April 14, 2014 and peaked at 22 on the 'Billboard' Top 100, and were certified as Platinum in August 2015. In April 2017, Fall Out Boy released \"Young and Menace\", the lead single for the seventh studio album. The band's seventh album \"Mania\" was officially released January 19, 2018 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it the band's third consecutive and fourth chart-topping debut overall. On August 23, 2018, the band released an EP called \"Lake Effect Kid.\" The EP includes a new version of a demo, with the same name, from the bands 2008 mixtape, \"CitizensFOB Mixtape: Welcome to the New Administration\". In September 2018, Fall Out Boy headlined Wrigley Field in the band's hometown of Chicago, marking a milestone in their career as their first headline show at a stadium. On December 7, 2018 Fall Out Boy received their second",
"100, and were certified as Platinum in August 2015. In April 2017, Fall Out Boy released \"Young and Menace\", the lead single for the seventh studio album. The band's seventh album \"Mania\" was officially released January 19, 2018 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it the band's third consecutive and fourth chart-topping debut overall. On August 23, 2018, the band released an EP called \"Lake Effect Kid.\" The EP includes a new version of a demo, with the same name, from the bands 2008 mixtape, \"CitizensFOB Mixtape: Welcome to the New Administration\". In September 2018, Fall Out Boy headlined Wrigley Field in the band's hometown of Chicago, marking a milestone in their career as their first headline show at a stadium. On December 7, 2018 Fall Out Boy received their second Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album for \"MANIA\". In January 2010, Stump announced he was working on a self-written, performed and produced solo album. Later during that year he leaked the title of \"Soul Punk\", which was eventually released on October 18, 2011. Stump explained that he named the album \"Soul Punk\" because he wanted to contribute to the musical vernacular of both. \"I'm just as pissed off as I was while screaming in punk bands, but I feel like I'm directing it into something positive and centered around love.\" He created a video on his website that shows him playing numerous instruments, starting with drum kit then adding more such as synthesizer, cowbell, electric guitar and bass, amongst others. He performed new songs at his debut solo performance at SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas, including \"As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid\" and \"Love, Selfish Love\", which may have originally been from an earlier version of his solo album, but have since been included as a part of his solo debut EP, \"Truant Wave\". On November 29, 2010, Stump put up on his website two different versions of his debut song, \"Spotlight\", one called \"Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)\", and the other \"Spotlight (New Regrets)\", with download links for both. Stump expressed that after months he still could not decide which version he liked better and asked his fans to vote on a poll for the version of the single they liked better and wanted to have on the album. The polls closed leaning toward \"Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)\", however Stump has since decided to include \"Spotlight (New Regrets)\" on \"Soul Punk\" and put \"Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)\" on his debut EP, \"Truant Wave\", claiming that the votes were too close and that he felt as if \"Oh Nostalgia basically needed its own record\", building \"Truant Wave\" around it. He released the first EP of his solo career, \"Truant Wave\", digitally on February 22, 2011 through his own record label, Nervous Breakdance Media. The EP consisted of songs Stump \"felt strongly about but didn't have place for within the narrative of \"Soul Punk\"\" and featured Alph-A-Bit, Om'mas Keith of Sa-Ra, David-Andrew \"D.A.\" Wallach of Chester French, and Driis.<ref name=\"NEW DIGITAL EP 'TRUANT WAVE' AVAILABLE ON ITUNES 2/22\"></ref> On April 6, 2011, Stump contributed an original song, entitled \"Saturday Night Again\" to the album \"\". A month later, on May 6, 2011, he updated his website and also posted to his Facebook and Twitter, announcing \"I feel like I'm gonna explode 5.9.11\" with a link which led to a video called \"Tsar bomba\", which was a video of a bomb explosion. The \"I feel like I'm gonna explode\" phrase came from his song \"Explode\", which Stump premiered at his live show and ended up on \"Soul Punk\". \"Explode\" was released on May 9, 2011. NyMag.com commented that the song is \"heavily indebted to Michael Jackson and, in good news for FOB loyalists, not totally unlike Stump's old band\". The song's video caption read \"Soul Punk: coming late Summer\". On June 27, 2011, Stump wrote on his Facebook and Twitter page, \"Tuesday\". The next day (the Tuesday he was referring to), Stump released a remix of a \"Soul Punk\" track, \"This City\", featuring rapper Lupe Fiasco. On July 26, the remix was released as the album's first single to iTunes. Stump played twelve small shows around the United States in support of \"Soul Punk\" and \"Truant Wave\". He visited Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The tour began on April 3, 2011 in Chicago and ended on April 15 in California. It was his first tour as a solo artist. Shows were also scheduled in London (2 dates); Paris and Cologne. His five-piece backing band consists of bassist Matt Rubano (formerly of Taking Back Sunday), guitarist Michael Day, keyboardist/saxophonist Casey Benjamin (who has performed with Mos Def and Q-Tip), and drummer Skoota Warner. With the addition of Janice Cruz Brooks singing background vocals for the New York City shows at Joe's Pub. He performed in a sleek black tuxedo, white moon boots and fingerless leather gloves, and on some songs he played the electric guitar. His setlist varied from show to show, and premiered new songs \"Explode\", \"Allie\", \"Cryptozoology\" and \"Everybody Wants Somebody\" which turned out to be \"Soul Punk\" tracks. Covers performed included \"Cupid's Chokehold\" by Gym Class Heroes, \"All of the Lights\" by Kanye West, \"Kiss My Sass\" by Cobra Starship, \"Me and Mrs. Jones\" by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and \"Nothing Compares 2 U\" by Prince. He played songs from \"Truant Wave\" as well as \"Spotlight (New Regrets)\" which he previously released as a 7\" vinyl. In May 2011, Stump was the opening act for Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe on their \"Hooligans In Wondaland Tour\" for four shows. He began his second US tour (first full-length headline tour) August 3, 2011. Prior to that he performed at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan on July 30. As part of his US tour he played Lollapalooza in Chicago. He announced a month-long US fall tour in support of Panic! at the Disco, beginning on October 9. After the tour, he headlined the Metro in Chicago. He has been a guest at many radio shows. His TV guest appearances include \"Good Morning New Orleans\", \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\", and \"Hoppus on Music\". In a blog post in February 2012 after disappearing from the internet, Stump mentioned that he would halt performing. He stated that the relentless criticism he has received from \"Soul Punk\" and Fall Out Boy's latest release, \"Folie à Deux\", felt like \"some big cosmic sign that says I should disappear\" and that although he was prepared for criticism, he was not prepared to accept that people who ostensibly supported something he was involved in would turn into \"haters\" and attack his ambition and slimmed down image. He went on to write \"It's tempting to say I won't ever play/tour/record again, but I think that's probably just pent up poor-me emotional pessimism talking.\" On May 20, he returned to blog and offer an explanation of his lack of updates and his music career. Confirming by saying: \"I won't ever quit music, I just may not release some of my own for a little bit\" and that he may tour to support Soul Punk in the future. He says that in the last 6 months of going silent he has taken acting classes and co-written and collaborated with other musicians. These collaborations include: Escape The Fate, Kat Graham, Amountboyz, The King Blues, All Time Low, Before You Exit, and Yellowcard. As of February 2013, \"Soul Punk\" has sold 23,000 copies in the US. On November 30, 2014, when asked if another solo album would be made, Stump responded, \"There's hope but it will be a minute.\" On July 18, 2016, Stump won Best Vocalist at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards for his efforts in Fall Out Boy. As a producer, along with a handful of Fall Out Boy tracks, Stump has worked with The Hush Sound on \"Like Vines\", Gym Class Heroes on \"As Cruel As School Children\" and Cobra Starship on \"¡Viva La Cobra!\". He also produced the song \"Little Weapon\" on Lupe Fiasco's \"The Cool\". He was featured in a song by hip-hop group The Roots originally intended for their 2008 album \"Rising Down\". In 2008, he executive- and",
"Amountboyz, The King Blues, All Time Low, Before You Exit, and Yellowcard. As of February 2013, \"Soul Punk\" has sold 23,000 copies in the US. On November 30, 2014, when asked if another solo album would be made, Stump responded, \"There's hope but it will be a minute.\" On July 18, 2016, Stump won Best Vocalist at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards for his efforts in Fall Out Boy. As a producer, along with a handful of Fall Out Boy tracks, Stump has worked with The Hush Sound on \"Like Vines\", Gym Class Heroes on \"As Cruel As School Children\" and Cobra Starship on \"¡Viva La Cobra!\". He also produced the song \"Little Weapon\" on Lupe Fiasco's \"The Cool\". He was featured in a song by hip-hop group The Roots originally intended for their 2008 album \"Rising Down\". In 2008, he executive- and co-produced The Cab's \"Whisper War\" and Gym Class Heroes' \"The Quilt\", as well as several tracks on Tyga's \"No Introduction\". In addition to producing albums, Stump has also remixed various tracks for soundtracks or special releases. Among various others, he made a \"Queen Of Apology\" remix for The Sounds on the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack, a remix of the Fall Out Boy single \"Dance, Dance\" available on the \"Sugar, We're Goin' Down\" EP, a \"Sugar, We're Goin Down\" remix on Fall Out Boy's \"From Under the Cork Tree\" special edition release, and \"Pace Yourself\" for The Higher on their album, \"On Fire\". He also remixed Good Charlotte's \"Little Things\" for their remix compilation, \"Greatest Remixes\". On February 1, 2009, Gretsch released the G5135CVT-PS Patrick Vaughn Stump Signature Series \"STUMP-O-MATIC\" Electromatic® CVT, based on their model body with personal stylings by Patrick Stump such as a \"kill switch\" and stripes. Also, Stump signed and gave away two of his signature guitars that he used to record Fall Out Boy's fifth album, \"Folie à Deux\". He has another Stump-O-Matic with white and silver stripes, which he used for most of the guitar recording on \"Soul Punk\" and at his solo concerts. Stump appeared as a guest with Daryl Hall from Hall and Oates on \"Live From Daryl's House\", playing guitar on several of Hall and Oates' own songs, as well as on a couple of Fall Out Boy selections, such as \"Sugar, We're Goin Down\" and \"I Don't Care\" and, additionally, performing as a drummer/vocalist on a version of \"What a Catch Donnie.\" During the production of \"Soul Punk\", Stump contributed a cover of Buddy Holly's \"Everyday\" to the 2011 tribute album, \"\" to a positive reception. Victoria Asher provided backing vocals. Stump and the album's contributing artists performed at the tribute event at the Music Box Theater. On September 23, 2012, Stump contributed lead guitar and vocals for a performance of \"Black Hole Sun\" with Robert Glasper Experiment at the London iTunes Festival. He later contributed vocals to the track \"I Stand Alone\", on the album \"Black Radio 2\", which premiered September 23, 2013. He created his own version of the theme song for The CW's TV series, \"One Tree Hill\", featured on the third episode of season 8, \"The Space in Between\". He provided a song for Season 5 Episode 3 \"Big Trouble in Little Clerks 2\" of Adult Swim's \"Robot Chicken\" in which he parodied James Cameron's \"Avatar\". In late 2014, he appeared on reality TV shows \"The Voice\" as an advisor and on \"The Sing-Off\". On November 5, 2015 it was announced that Stump had written and produced a song called \"Trophy Boy\" for the soundtrack of upcoming animated film \"Charming\" to be sung by High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale, Avril Lavigne and G.E.M. Stump composed an original ride score for the on-ride audio system for the enhanced Incredible Hulk Coaster, a roller coaster at Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, which re-opened on August 4, 2016. In early 2016, he was revealed to be contributing to Blink-182's fifth studio album, California. Stump was later given songwriting credits on two songs off the album, \"Sober\" and \"San Diego\". He also co-wrote \"10 Victoria's Secret Angels\" for MAX's studio album \"Hell's Kitchen Angel\", who MAX described as 'one of his favorite collaborations'. Stump has song writing credits on Black Veil Brides frontman, Andy Black's, debut solo album \"The Shadow Side\", contributing to the album's leading single, \"We Don't Have to Dance\". In addition to writing for other artists, Stump has been involved in the composition of original scores for a number of films. He has scored the music for a new short film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, \"Wonderland\", a comedic take on the classic tale, as well as worked on the music for Gnome Alone (2018) and the upcoming comedy-drama Changeland. In September, 2018, Stump announced he’d be the composer for the first feature film, entitled \"Spell\", produced by Crush Pictures, a subsidiary of Crush Management of which Fall Out Boy and Stump are members. Stump stated that the film’s score was his real solo album; “I did the solo thing, and I loved making that record [2011's \"Soul Punk\"]. But now as a composer, I’m like, “Oh, \"this\" is my solo record. This my real solo record, writing music for films, TV, and stuff.” A further composition effort of Stump includes his work on the original score for the 6-part documentary series \"Let Science Speak\", which aims to aim is to combat the “escalating efforts to suppress environmental science and silence scientists\". On working on the documentary, Stump stated that he was first approached to compose only for the documentary's trailer, but was then asked to compose music for the whole series. Stump explained how composing is something he has always wanted to do, despite not being classically trained. Stump possesses a high-lyric tenor vocal range and a falsetto that spans three octaves and eight semitones. His range extends from E2 to C6. In his early career as Fall Out Boy's vocalist, all the way up until \"Folie à Deux\", he had a bad habit of overusing his chest voice when he belted higher notes, causing the lyrics to sometimes be rendered near incomprehensible. As time has gone on, his pronunciation and diction while singing have improved drastically. In January 2008, Stump was a guest star on the television crime-drama \"Law & Order\". He appeared in the second episode of Season 18 as Marty Dressler, a lowly employee of an electrical company, who is suspected in the kidnapping of the wife and daughter of an executive. The episode, \"Darkness\", aired on January 2, 2008, on NBC as part of the two-hour series season premiere. There was a rumor that he was not paid for this episode, but he has debunked that and said that he was paid well for his appearance. Stump made a short film in 2009, \"Moustachette\" which has been shown at film festivals. It stars Stump himself, Pete Wentz, and Yellowcard's Ryan Key. It was released online in September 2011. Stump guest-starred as a lab technician on an episode of \"House\" in the episode \"We Need the Eggs\" (season 8, episode 17), which aired on April 16, 2012. He also made a cameo appearance in the 2008 film \"Sex Drive\" along with his Fall Out Boy bandmates. Alongside his live-action appearances, Stump has partook in a few voice acting roles, particularly in a handful of \"Robot Chicken\" sketches and, most recently, providing the voice for the character Ruberiot in the Disney XD cartoon \"Star vs. the Forces of Evil\", where he also provided his vocal talents for the song \"The Ballad of Star Butterfly\". In 2017, he guest starred in Teen Titans Go! He has also appeared in \"The Young Blood Chronicles\", Fall Out Boy's eleven-part music video story to support the band's 2013 album \"Save Rock and Roll\" with bandmates. Stump married his longtime girlfriend, Elisa Yao, in 2012. They live in Chicago together. In March 2014, Stump sang \"Let's Get It On\" by Marvin Gaye as the first dance at his step-brother's wedding. Stump announced in September 2014 that he and his wife were expecting their first child, and on 13 October their son Declan was born. While being honored",
"Chicken\" sketches and, most recently, providing the voice for the character Ruberiot in the Disney XD cartoon \"Star vs. the Forces of Evil\", where he also provided his vocal talents for the song \"The Ballad of Star Butterfly\". In 2017, he guest starred in Teen Titans Go! He has also appeared in \"The Young Blood Chronicles\", Fall Out Boy's eleven-part music video story to support the band's 2013 album \"Save Rock and Roll\" with bandmates. Stump married his longtime girlfriend, Elisa Yao, in 2012. They live in Chicago together. In March 2014, Stump sang \"Let's Get It On\" by Marvin Gaye as the first dance at his step-brother's wedding. Stump announced in September 2014 that he and his wife were expecting their first child, and on 13 October their son Declan was born. While being honored as the distinguished alumnus at 2016 graduation ceremony for Glenbrook South High School, from which he graduated in 2002, it was revealed Stump's wife was pregnant with their second child. In an interview with Music Choice in 2018, Stump spoke of his children having access to his record collection and asking him to play \"Head Hunters\", an album by Herbie Hancock. Stump lost 65 pounds when Fall Out Boy went on hiatus, due in part to growing health issues, including asthma and pre-diabetes, with which he was diagnosed. He suffered from high cholesterol and high blood pressure as well. In 2012, Stump was elected a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences's Chicago Chapter Governors. Some of Stump's major influences are Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, who are reflected specifically in Soul Punk. Stump's influences also include bands such as The Beatles and Green Day, and artists such as Elvis Costello, John Cage, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Jerry Goldsmith. Arma Angelus Fall Out Boy Studio albums Extended plays With other artists Patrick Stump Patrick Martin Stumph (born April 27, 1984), known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Fall Out Boy, originally from Wilmette, Illinois. His solo work has been described as \"funky and R&B infused\", while \"Billboard\" noted him as \"one of the best voices in pop punk\". Fall Out Boy has achieved four top ten"
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"David Klinger David Ames Klinger (born June 8, 1958) is an American criminologist and former police officer. He is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, as well as a senior research fellow at the Police Foundation. Before receiving his graduate degrees, Klinger worked as a police officer in both the Los Angeles (1980-1983) and Redmond, Washington (1983-1984) police departments. On July 25, 1981, four months after joining the LAPD, he shot and killed a suspect. The suspect, Edward Randolph, was in the process of attacking Klinger's partner, Dennis Azevedo, by leaping on top of him with a knife and trying to stab him in the throat. Klinger received his B.A. from Seattle Pacific University in 1980, his M.S. from American University in 1985, and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington in 1992. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled \"Human ecology and law: an observational study of police behavior\". He joined the faculty of the University of Houston as an assistant professor in 1992, and was promoted to associate professor there in 1998. In 1999, he joined the faculty of the University of Missouri–St. Louis as an associate professor. He is known for researching police shootings in the United States. David Klinger David Ames Klinger (born June 8, 1958) is an American criminologist and former police officer. He is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, as well as a senior research fellow at the Police Foundation. Before receiving his graduate degrees, Klinger worked as a police officer in both the Los Angeles (1980-1983) and Redmond, Washington (1983-1984) police departments. On July 25, 1981, four months after joining the LAPD, he shot and killed a suspect. The suspect, Edward Randolph, was in the process of attacking Klinger's partner,"
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"Wes Cowan C. Wesley Cowan (born September 4, 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American anthropologist, auctioneer, and appraiser of antiques. He is an owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cowan is a licensed auctioneer in Ohio and received a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught at the Anthropology Department of Ohio State University. In 1984, Cowan moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to be the Curator of Archaeology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science. He has published in the fields of American archaeology and paleoethnobotany. In 1995, he left academia and founded his antiques business, Cowan's Auctions, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cowan has been a regular in the PBS series \"Antiques Roadshow\" and \"History Detectives\". Wes Cowan C. Wesley Cowan (born September 4, 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American anthropologist, auctioneer, and appraiser of antiques. He is an owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cowan is a licensed auctioneer in Ohio and received a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of"
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"MadCap Software MadCap Software is an American computer software firm headquartered in San Diego, California that creates help authoring tools and solutions for technical writers and documentations teams. Several principal managers, software engineers, and support personnel were recruited from rival firms, such as Adobe Systems and Macromedia, to found MadCap Software. MadCap's authoring tools are all based on xHTML. Some of MadCap Software's founders were associated with eHelp and its core product, RoboHelp, a help authoring tool. After it was bought by Macromedia in 2003, the eHelp developers were laid off. MadCap co-founder Bjorn Backlund had headed the RoboHelp development team. He saw an opportunity to compete with RoboHelp by rewriting the program using XML and expanding the software. MadCap's founding CEO, Anthony Olivier, had been eHelp's CEO. MadCap Software MadCap Software is an American computer software firm headquartered in San Diego, California that creates help authoring tools and solutions for technical writers and documentations teams. Several principal managers, software engineers, and support personnel were recruited from rival firms, such as Adobe Systems and Macromedia, to found MadCap Software. MadCap's authoring tools are all based on xHTML. Some of MadCap Software's founders were associated with eHelp and its core product,"
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"Richard Barth Richard Barth (5 June 1850 in Grosswanzleben, Saxony – 25 December 1923 in Marburg) was a left-handed German violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher and composer in the circle of Johannes Brahms. His \"Ciacona in B minor,\" Op. 21, composed in 1908, is a finely crafted tribute to J.S. Bach's Chaconne in post-Paganini technical and tonal terms. Barth was born in Saxony and from 1863 to 1867 studied with the renowned violinist Joseph Joachim. Barth used his left hand for bowing and his right hand for fingering and so played the violin \"in reverse.\" Nonetheless, he was successful as a violinist and served as concertmaster of orchestras in Munster, Krefeld and Marburg and headed a string quartet. He was also a successful music teacher. He was music director of the university in Marburg before he moved to Hamburg where he became conductor of the Philharmonie and the Singakademie and directed the Conservatory beginning in 1908. Richard Barth Richard Barth (5 June 1850 in Grosswanzleben, Saxony – 25 December 1923 in Marburg) was a left-handed German violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher and composer in the circle of Johannes Brahms. His \"Ciacona in B minor,\" Op. 21, composed in 1908, is"
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"Darrouzett, Texas Darrouzett ( ) is a town in Lipscomb County, Texas, United States. The population was 303 at the 2000 census. The town is named for John Louis Darrouzet, a Texas state legislator who served as an attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad. A resident recently said, \"Darrouzett is an island in a sea of grass.\" Plummer creek and Kiowa creek cut through town and meet just east of town, near the Darrouzett Golf Course, a par-three, nine-hole course, maintained by volunteers from throughout the county. Darrouzett is located at According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 303 people, 137 households, and 84 families residing in the town. The population density was 809.7 people per square mile (316.2/km²). There were 182 housing units at an average density of 486.3 per square mile (189.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 91.75% White, 0.66% African American, 0.66% Native American, 2.64% from other races, and 4.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.24% of the population. There were 137 households out of which 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.7% were married couples living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.0% were non-families. 36.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.89. In the town, the population was spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 22.4% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 22.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the town was $32,625, and the median income for a family was $35,000. Males had a median income of $33,000 versus $19,063 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,237. About 9.4% of families and 11.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.0% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over. The Town of Darrouzett is served by the Darrouzett Independent School District and home to the Darrouzett High School Longhorns. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Darrouzett has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated \"BSk\" on climate maps. Darrouzett, Texas Darrouzett ( ) is a town in Lipscomb County, Texas, United States. The population was 303 at the 2000 census. The town is named for John Louis Darrouzet, a Texas state legislator who served as an attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad. A resident recently said, \"Darrouzett is an island in a sea of grass.\" Plummer creek and Kiowa creek"
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"Rhogogaster chlorosoma Rhogogaster chlorosoma is a species of sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae. \"Rhogogaster chlorosoma\" can reach a length of . It is one of the various green sawflies with a variable black pattern, but in this sawfly the black markings on the top of the abdomen are absent or quite reduced. Like other sawflies, this species lack the slender \"wasp-waist\" between the thorax and abdomen. Similar species are \"Rhogogaster viridis\", that shows evident black marks on the upper surface of the abdomen and \"Rhogogaster punctulata\", bearing black dots along the sides of the abdominal segments. Adults can mostly be encountered from May through July. They mainly feed on pollen and nectar of \"Heracleum sphondylium\" as well as small insects. The nocturnal larvae are polyphagous, feeding on the leaves of a variety of woody and herbaceous plants, mainly Sorbus, \"Quercus robur\", Salix, \"Corylus avellana\", Stellaria, \"Filipendula ulmaria\", \"Alnus glutinosa\", Rubus and Populus. It is widespread in most of Europe. This species prefers hedgerows and vegetated mountain areas. Rhogogaster chlorosoma Rhogogaster chlorosoma is a species of sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae. \"Rhogogaster chlorosoma\" can reach a length of . It is one of the various green sawflies with a variable black"
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"The Golden Cage (TV series) De Gouden Kooi (The Golden Cage) was the original concept and working title for Big Brother. In 2006, it was revived and turned into another format of reality television. The idea for \"De Gouden Kooi\" was born on 4 September 1997 during a brainstorm session at the \"John de Mol Produkties\" production house, an independent branch of Endemol. Participants were John de Mol himself, Patrick Scholtze, Bart Römer and his brother Paul Römer. After John de Mol left Endemol he reintroduced the original format for his TV-station Talpa. The first Dutch episode on 23 September 2006 had slightly fewer than 1 million viewers (10-15% market share, it was programmed right after the Dutch Eredivisie football show, which always attracts many viewers); the two subsequent episodes received around 500,000 viewers (5-10% market share). Thereafter, the audience dropped to about 350,000 . The setting was a €2 million capital villa in Eemnes. After a few months the uglier sides of the participants came to light. A lot of \"millionaires\" were constantly plotting how to get rid of the others. Natasia, who had left behind her two young kids, refused to return home when her boyfriend who cared for them asked her to. She wanted to reach her goals first: a drivers license and breast enhancement surgery. One participant regularly ordered the use of (masked) prostitutes. Some participants started (loveless) sexual relationships, which led to jealousy and much verbal abuse. Another contestant, Nena, had to be disqualified on 2 February 2007 after she kicked another participant's leg. 2 days later, Nathanael kicked Huub and they both got into a fight. After much discussion between the directors, Huub got back into the house because he didn't physically attack Nathanael. On 30 November 2007, \"millionaire\" Dennis was about to be voted off by all of the other contestants in the house and would not be replaced by another contestant, during the vote, Dennis grabbed a chair and demolished a camera in the house, causing him to be disqualified, but also so he would be replaced with another \"millionaire\". The housemates will live in a villa, just as in the original series. However, if contestant's lose weekly challenges the housemates with the lowest points will face elimination which will be decided by the contestants. Each week someone is eliminated and the housemates pick someone to leave the prize money will rise. The concept has been heavily criticized. Because there are no nominations or votings off like in Big Brother, psychologists assume that harassment and bullying will be the only ways of getting rid of one's rivals and obtaining the reward. This would provide a very wrong role model for the youth of the Netherlands. Murray Stone therefore promised to introduce a \"bully referee\". The producers rather expect that housemates will leave if they experience homesickness or family-complications will occur (death, birth, or sickness). The Golden Cage (TV series) De Gouden Kooi (The Golden Cage) was the original concept and working title"
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