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"Karabakh movement The Karabakh movement (, also the Artsakh Movement Արցախյան շարժում) was a mass nationalist movement in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from 1988 to 1992 that advocated for the transfer of the mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of neighboring Azerbaijan to the jurisdiction of Armenia. Initially, the movement was entirely devoid of any anti-Soviet sentiment and did not call for independence of Armenia. The Karabakh Committee, a group of intellectuals, led the movement from 1988 to 1989. It transformed into the Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh) by 1989 and won majority in the 1990 parliamentary election. In 1991, both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence. The intense fighting known as the Nagorno-Karabakh War turned into a full-scale war by 1992. Karabakh movement The Karabakh movement (, also the Artsakh Movement Արցախյան շարժում) was a mass nationalist movement in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from 1988 to 1992 that advocated for the transfer of the mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of neighboring Azerbaijan to the jurisdiction of Armenia. Initially, the movement was entirely devoid of any anti-Soviet sentiment and did not call for independence of Armenia. The Karabakh Committee, a group of intellectuals, led the movement from 1988 to 1989. It transformed into the Pan-Armenian"
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"Bracelets (film) Bracelets is a 1931 British crime film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Bert Coote, Joyce Kennedy and Harold Huth. A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary. The film was made as a second feature by the large British company Gaumont British Picture Corporation. It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by the French-born art director Andrew Mazzei. The director Sewell Collins wrote the screenplay, adapting his own stage play. Bracelets (film) Bracelets is a 1931 British crime film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Bert Coote, Joyce Kennedy and Harold Huth. A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary. The film was made as a"
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"2012–13 UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball team The 2012–13 UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Asheville during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 17th year head coach Ed Biedenbach, played their home games at Kimmel Arena and were members of the South Division of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 16–16, 10–6 in Big South play to finish in third place in the South Division. They lost in the first round of the Big South Tournament to Longwood. Head coach Ed Biedenbach resigned at the end of the season to take an assistants job at UNC Wilmington. !colspan=9| Exhibition !colspan=9| Regular Season !colspan=9| 2013 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament 2012–13 UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball team The 2012–13 UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Asheville during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 17th year head coach Ed Biedenbach, played their home games at Kimmel Arena and were members of the South Division of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 16–16, 10–6 in Big South play to finish in third"
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"Our American Cousin Our American Cousin is a three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play is a farce whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish, but honest American, Asa Trenchard, to his aristocratic English relatives when he goes to England to claim the family estate. The play first premiered at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City on October 15, 1858, and the title character was first played by Joseph Jefferson. Although the play achieved great renown during its first few years and remained very popular throughout the second half of the 19th century, it is best remembered as the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was attending in Ford's Theatre when he was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Among \"Our American Cousin\"'s cast was British actor Edward Askew Sothern, playing Lord Dundreary, a caricature of a brainless English nobleman. Sothern had already achieved fame on the New York stage in the play \"Camille\" in 1856, and had been reluctant to take on the role because he felt that it was too small and unimportant. He mentioned his qualms to his friend Joseph Jefferson, who had been cast in the lead role, and Jefferson supposedly responded with the famous line: \"There are no small parts, only small actors.\" \"Our American Cousin\" premiered in New York on October 15, 1858. After several weeks of performances, Sothern began portraying the role more broadly, as a lisping, skipping, eccentric, weak-minded fop prone to nonsensical references to sayings of his \"bwother\" Sam. His ad-libs were a sensation, earning good notices for his physical comedy and spawning much imitation and mockery in both the United States and England. Sothern gradually expanded the role, adding gags and business until it became the central figure of the play. The most famous scene involved Dundreary reading a letter from his even sillier brother. The play ran for 150 nights, which was very successful for a New York run at the time. Sothern made his London debut in the role when the play ran for 496 performances at the Haymarket Theatre in 1861, earning rave reviews. \"The Athenaeum\" wrote, \"it is certainly the funniest thing in the world... a vile caricature of a vain nobleman, intensely ignorant, and extremely indolent\". \"Dundrearyisms\", twisted aphorisms in the style of Lord Dundreary (e.g. \"birds of a feather gather no moss\"), enjoyed a brief vogue. And the character's style of beard — long, bushy sideburns — gave the English language the word \"dundrearies\". In his autobiography, writer George Robert Sims recalled how \"we went Dundreary mad in '61. The shop windows were filled with Dundreary scarves, and Brother Sam scarves, and there were Dundreary collars and Dundreary shirts, and Dundrearyisms were on every lip.\" Dundreary became a popular recurring character, and Sothern successfully revived the play many times, making Dundreary by far his most famous role. It was not long before the success of this play inspired an imitation, Charles Gayler's \"Our Female American Cousin\" (which opened in New York City in January 1859). None of the characters from the original play appeared in this comedy. A number of sequel plays to \"Our American Cousin\" were written, all featuring several characters from the original, and focusing on the Lord Dundreary character. The first was Charles Gayler's \"Our American Cousin at Home, or, Lord Dundreary Abroad\" (which premiered in Buffalo, New York, in November 1860, and had its New York City debut the following May). Later sequels included Henry James Byron's \"Dundreary Married and Done For\", and John Oxenford's \"Brother Sam\" (1862; revived in 1865), a play about Dundreary's brother. In the drawing room at Trenchard Manor, the servants remark on their employer's poor financial circumstances. Florence Trenchard, an aristocratic young beauty, loves Lieutenant Harry Vernon of the Royal Navy, but she is unable to marry him until he progresses to a higher rank. She receives a letter from her brother Ned, who is currently in the United States. Ned has met some rustic cousins from a branch of the family that had immigrated to America two centuries earlier. They relay to Ned that great-uncle Mark Trenchard had, after angrily disinheriting his children and leaving England years ago, found these cousins in Brattleboro, Vermont. He had moved in with them and eventually made Asa, one of the sons, heir to his property in England. Asa is now sailing to England to claim the estate. Asa is noisy, coarse, and vulgar, but honestly forthright and colourful. The English Trenchards are alternately amused and appalled by this Vermont cousin. Richard Coyle, agent of the estate, meets with Sir Edward Trenchard (Florence's father) and tells the baronet that the family faces bankruptcy unless they can repay a debt to Coyle. Coyle is concealing the evidence that the loan had been repaid long ago by Sir Edward's late father. Coyle suggests that the loan would be satisfied if he may marry Florence, who detests him. Meanwhile, Asa and the butler, Binny, try to understand each other's unfamiliar ways, as Asa tries to understand what the purpose of a shower might be, dousing himself while fully clothed. Mrs. Mountchessington is staying at Trenchard Manor. She advises Augusta, her daughter, to be attentive to the presumably wealthy Vermont \"savage\". Meanwhile, her other daughter Georgina is courting an imbecilic nobleman named Dundreary by pretending to be ill. Florence's old tutor, the unhappy alcoholic Abel Murcott, warns her that Coyle intends to marry her. Asa overhears this and offers Florence his help. Murcott is Coyle's clerk and has found proof that Florence's late grandfather paid off the loan to Coyle. Florence and Asa visit her cousin, Mary Meredith. Mary is the granddaughter of old Mark Trenchard, who left his estate to Asa. Mary is very poor and has been raised as a humble dairy maid. Asa does not care about her social status and is attracted to her. Florence has not been able to bring herself to tell Mary that her grandfather's fortune had been left to Asa. Florence tells Asa that she loves Harry, who needs a good assignment to a ship. Asa uses his country wile to persuade Dundreary to help Harry get a ship. Meanwhile, Coyle has been up to no good, and the bailiffs arrive at Trenchard Manor. At her dairy, Asa tells Mary about her grandfather in America, but he fibs about the end of the tale: He says that old Mark Trenchard changed his mind about disinheriting his English children and burned his will. Asa promptly burns the will himself. Florence discovers this and points it out to Mary, saying: \"It means that he is a true hero, and he loves you, you little rogue.\" Meanwhile, Mrs. Mountchessington still hopes that Asa will propose to Augusta. When Asa tells them that Mark Trenchard had left Mary his fortune, Augusta and Mrs. Mountchessington are quite rude, but Asa stands up for himself. Asa proposes to Mary and is happily accepted. He then sneaks into Coyle's office with Murcott and retrieves the paper that shows that the debt was paid. Asa confronts Coyle and insists that Coyle must pay off Sir Edward's other debts, with his doubtless ill-gotten gains, and also apologize to Florence for trying to force her into marriage. He also demands Coyle's resignation as the steward of Trenchard Manor, making Murcott steward instead. Murcott is so pleased that he vows to stop drinking. Coyle has no choice but to do all this. Florence marries Harry, Dundreary marries Georgina, and Augusta marries an old beau. Even the servants marry. The play's most famous performance was at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The cast modified a line of the play in honor of Abraham Lincoln: when the heroine asked for a seat protected from the draft, the replyscripted as, \"Well, you're not the only one that wants to escape the draft\"was delivered instead as, \"The draft has already been",
"Sir Edward's other debts, with his doubtless ill-gotten gains, and also apologize to Florence for trying to force her into marriage. He also demands Coyle's resignation as the steward of Trenchard Manor, making Murcott steward instead. Murcott is so pleased that he vows to stop drinking. Coyle has no choice but to do all this. Florence marries Harry, Dundreary marries Georgina, and Augusta marries an old beau. Even the servants marry. The play's most famous performance was at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The cast modified a line of the play in honor of Abraham Lincoln: when the heroine asked for a seat protected from the draft, the replyscripted as, \"Well, you're not the only one that wants to escape the draft\"was delivered instead as, \"The draft has already been stopped by order of the President!\" Halfway through Act III, Scene 2, the character of Asa Trenchard, played that night by Harry Hawk, utters this line, considered one of the play's funniest, to Mrs. Mountchessington: During the ensuing laughter, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, who was not a member of the play's cast, fatally shot Lincoln in the back of his head. Familiar with the play, Booth chose that moment in the hope that the sound of the audience's laughter would mask the sound of his gunshot. Booth later leapt from Lincoln's box to the stage and made his escape through the back of the theater to a horse he had left waiting in the alley. That night, the remainder of the play was suspended. Eric W. Sawyer's 2008 opera \"Our American Cousin\" presents a fictionalized version of the night of Lincoln's assassination from the point of view of the actors in the cast of Taylor's play. Our American Cousin Our American Cousin is a three-act play"
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"Right Between the Promises Right Between the Promises is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston. It was released in 2001 on Elektra Records. AllMusic's Kenneth Bays describes the album as \"simultaneously the flip side of, and a companion piece to, 1999's \"Blue Days Black Nights\". Where that album's songs flowed with an ominous energy barely concealed by the moody, hushed tones of their surface, \"Promises\" forces those same emotions out into the light.\" Resulting in \"[s]mart, darkly ambiguous songs that nevertheless seem built for high-volume, summertime play.\" Concluding \"\"Right Between the Promises\" may not be as richly nuanced as [Johnston's] very best work, but it's still a fine example of his idiosyncratic brand of intelligent, radio-friendly folk-rock.\" Rolling Stone's James Hunter called the album \"[c]omposed songs about being confused.\" Noting that Johnston \"just sings his modestly fluid, sweet-toned tunes in a voice to match.\" All songs written by Freedy Johnston, except where noted. Right Between the Promises Right Between the Promises is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston. It was released in 2001 on Elektra Records. AllMusic's Kenneth Bays describes the album as \"simultaneously the flip side of, and a companion piece to, 1999's \"Blue Days"
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"Jon Wright (footballer) Jonathan \"Jon\" Wright (30 January 1925 – February 2015) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Darlington. He made his debut on 1 March 1947, standing in for Charlie Stubbs at inside right in a 4–1 win against Rochdale, and made three more appearances towards the end of that season. He had a run of 11 matches at the end of the following season, and played his final first-team match in September 1948. He went on to play for North-Eastern League club Horden Colliery Welfare. Wright was born in Newburn, Northumberland. Jon Wright (footballer) Jonathan \"Jon\" Wright (30 January 1925 – February 2015) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Darlington. He made his debut on 1 March 1947, standing in for Charlie Stubbs at inside right in a 4–1 win against Rochdale, and made three more appearances towards the end of that season. He had a run of 11 matches at the end of the following season, and played his final first-team match in September 1948. He went on to play for North-Eastern League club Horden Colliery Welfare. Wright was"
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"Adam Black (Australian politician) Adam Black (1841 - 26 December 1902) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Black was born in Mordington, Berwickshire, Scotland to parents George Black and his wife Marjory née Hogg. George and Marjory Black had six children: John, Agnes, Janet, Adam, George and David. In 1851 the Black family were living at Prenderguest, Ayton in Berwickshire. Black arrived in Gympie, Queensland in 1868 from New Zealand where he gained farming and mining experience. Black was one of the four pioneers of quartz mining in Gympie. They were not only successful in discovering quartz but in getting the gold to the surface in the New Zealand Reef in Gympie. Black and Gilbert Muir, later of the Nooya Plantation in Beenleigh, Queensland, owned significant gold interests in the New Zealand Reef. Muir had previously worked the New Zealand gold fields. In the 1870s Black acquired a property in Logan, Queensland and settled there. He represented Logan in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 16 April 1875 to 4 October 1875. He is said to have not liked parliamentary life so did not seek re-election after the parliament was dissolved. He returned to Gympie to pursue mining operations again but did not meet with the same success as his previous efforts. Black was the president of the South Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Association from 1875 to 1877. On 16 March 1869 in Gympie, Black married Jane Margaret Drummond Barlow. Together they had 7 sons and 2 daughters: George Barlow (1870-1925), Jenny Louise (1872-1911), Allen Adam Robert (1874-1922), Alexander Drummond (1875-1876), Alexander (1877-1880), Margery (1879-1948), Archibald (1881-1933), Charles Ostwald (1883-1951) and Norman (1888-1955). Black died in Gympie on Friday 26 December 1902 from cancer. He was buried in the Gympie Cemetery on the afternoon of 27 December, the Reverend J. S. M'Intyre minister of the Presbyterian Church, conducted the services at the grave side. Architect Charles Smith designed Black's 'Italianate' style home on the Albert in the Logan region in Queensland. Smith had previously worked the New Zealand gold fields. Jane was born Margaret Drummond in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1850. Her mother died in Melbourne's Tent Town soon after arriving in Melbourne, Australia in 1853, and her father six months later. In 1855 at the age of five Jane was adopted by entertainer William Robert Barlow and his wife Jane. She was renamed Jane Margaret Drummond Barlow. Adam Black (Australian politician) Adam Black (1841 - 26 December 1902) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Black was born in Mordington, Berwickshire, Scotland to parents George Black and his wife Marjory née Hogg. George and Marjory Black had six children: John, Agnes, Janet, Adam, George and David. In 1851 the Black family were living at Prenderguest, Ayton in Berwickshire. Black arrived in Gympie, Queensland in 1868 from New Zealand where he gained farming and mining experience. Black was one of the four pioneers of"
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"Piz la Stretta Piz la Stretta (also known as \"Monte Breva\") is a mountain of the Livigno Alps, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Its high summit overlooks the pass of La Stretta (2,476 m) The most convenient starting point is the south route that begins at the Forcola pass (2315 m), which is at the border between Italy and Switzerland. From the Italian side, the pass can be reached by car from the nearby Livigno, and from the Swiss side this is the road from the Bernina pass. From the east side, there is a route that starts at some lower point at Campacciolo di Sopra (1910 m), closer to Livigno. Another route from the Italian side is again from the road to Forcola, from Valle della Forcola. From the Swiss side, the route goes up the Val da Fain in the east direction to the Passo del Fieno where it joins the other described routes. From the Forcola pass, you will need about 3 and a half hours to the summit. This is a simple walk up, no exposed sections, see more in the links below. Piz la Stretta Piz la Stretta (also known as \"Monte"
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"Elon College Historic District Elon College Historic District is a national historic district located on the campus of Elon University at Elon, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 6 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object that form the historic core of the Elon College campus. They are the West Dormitory (1907), and five buildings built between 1923-1927 which form an H-shaped complex: Alamance Building, Whitley Auditorium, Carlton Library, Duke Science Building, and Mooney Building. The object is a monument erected in 1929. All of the buildings are three-story red brick buildings of Colonial Revival / Georgian Revival design. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Elon College Historic District Elon College Historic District is a national historic district located on the campus of Elon University at Elon, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 6 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object that form the historic core of the Elon College campus. They are the West Dormitory (1907), and five buildings built between 1923-1927 which form an H-shaped complex: Alamance Building, Whitley Auditorium, Carlton Library, Duke Science Building, and Mooney Building. The object is a monument erected in 1929. All of the buildings are three-story red brick"
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"Stylus Magazine Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, \"Stylus\" had daily features like \"The Singles Jukebox\", which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and \"Soulseeking\", a column focused on personal responses in listening. In 2006, the site was chosen by the \"Observer Music Monthly\" as one of the Internet's 25 most essential music websites. \"Stylus\" closed as a business on 31 October 2007. The site remained online for several years, but did not publish any new content. On 4 January 2010, with the blessing of former editor Todd Burns, \"Stylus\" senior writer Nick Southall launched \"The Stylus Decade\", a website with a new series of lists and essays reviewing music from the previous ten years: it is now also defunct. \"The Singles Jukebox\" relaunched with many of the same writers as a stand-alone website in March 2009. Stylus Magazine Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, \"Stylus\""
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"Shepherd Center Shepherd Center is a private, not-for profit hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1975, the 152-bed hospital is devoted to the medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain and other neuromuscular problems. An Atlanta family founded Shepherd Center in 1975. Harold and Alana Shepherd had to travel to find the appropriate care for their son James when he was injured in a body surfing accident in Brazil in 1973. Afterward, they brought together Atlanta’s medical and donor communities to found Shepherd Center. Today, James serves as chairman of the board of the Center. Alana Shepherd is the recording secretary on the Board of Directors and continues her work raising funds and welcoming new patients, and Harold Shepherd serves on the Board of Directors. Michael Yochelson, M.D., MBA, is the chief medical officer of Shepherd Center, a position he has held since 2017. Shepherd Center's mission is to help people with a temporary or permanent disability caused by injury or disease, rebuild their lives with hope, independence and dignity, advocating for their full inclusion in all aspects of community life while promoting safety and injury prevention. Each year, Shepherd Center treats hundreds of people who have sustained a spinal cord injury. From the time of acute admission through outpatient follow-up, our Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Program provides a full continuum of care to those who have sustained any level of spinal cord injury – paraplegia, tetraplegia/quadraplegia (including those who are ventilator-dependent) or dual diagnosis (spinal cord and brain injury). Shepherd Center's expertise has led to the development of specialized treatment programs dedicated to adolescent patients (ages 12-17), adults, seniors (ages 50 and older), dual diagnosis, intensive care unit patients and those with neuromuscular disorders. In fact, Shepherd Center receives enough patients to maintain 11 full-time treatment teams devoted to spinal cord injury alone. Additionally, three new teams have been added on the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Unit (CRU) serving patients with SCI, brain injury, stoke, multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological conditions.Shepherd Center is one of 14 rehabilitation hospitals in the nation designated by the federal government as a “Model System” for care of people with SCI. Hospitals that receive this designation have demonstrated exemplary care and serve as a model for other service providers. Shepherd Center strives to offer comprehensive rehabilitation to optimize the road to recovery for people who have had a brain injury, as well as people who have had complications from a stroke or tumor. Shepherd Center provides a variety of programs that are tailored to individual needs and case-by-case requirements for the best possible recovery. The continuum of care includes acute care in the hospital's intensive care unit, a disorders of consciousness pre-rehabilitation education program for patients who are semi-comatose or minimally conscious, inpatient rehabilitation, a day patient rehabilitation program and outpatient services. The Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Institute at Shepherd is a comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation center for people with multiple sclerosis. Treatment options focus on medications, physical rehabilitation (including strength and energy conservation) and experimental therapies. The MS Institute at Shepherd offers comprehensive evaluations, diagnostics, rehabilitation services and treatment options through FDA-approved drugs and new clinical trials. Shepherd is an official treatment facility designated by the National MS Society-Georgia Chapter. The Shepherd Pain Institute offers pain management for individuals experiencing chronic pain problems. The Institute takes a multidisciplinary approach to the practice of medicine and specializes in the evaluation, diagnosis and application of interventional treatment for the management of pain and related disorders. The Institute treats people with acute pain resulting from, among other things, back surgery, fractures, whiplash and cancer. Other paralyzing neurological diseases can affect the body like a spinal cord injury, so the Center’s physicians also treat patients with transverse myelitis, Guillain–Barré syndrome, spinal tumors, spina bifida, post-polio syndrome, scoliosis and spinal cord cysts. Shepherd Center provides a full range of rehabilitation care including intensive care, medical/surgical care, inpatient rehabilitation, a day program, outpatient rehabilitation and outpatient clinics. Physicians also treat related issues such as fertility, gynecology, sexual dysfunction and bladder problems. Shepherd Center's assistive technology specialists help people with limited mobility or neurological deficits achieve a greater degree of independence by using new equipment and technology. Specialists provide evaluations and prescriptions for the simplest, most economical solutions that improve quality of life. Shepherd’s assistive technology specialists help people customize an appropriate package of technological solutions that maximize independence in accomplishing day-to-day tasks. Patients at Shepherd Center are introduced to a variety of leisure and recreational activities as part of their therapy program. This type of therapy, called recreation therapy, helps improve physical, cognitive and social functioning so an individual can return to a lifestyle that is as independent, active and healthy as possible. Recreation therapists at Shepherd create a customized recreation therapy plan, based on a patient’s diagnosis and leisure interests. They then integrate those goals into the patient’s daily therapy schedule. The Beyond Therapy® program at Shepherd Center is a rigorous, activity-based therapy program designed to help people with neurological disorders, including spinal cord injury, improve their lifelong health, minimize secondary complications and get the most out of any new neural links to their muscles. Shepherd Center is one of seven rehabilitation centers that have partnered partner with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the NeuroRecovery Network (NRN), which provides and develops therapies to promote functional recovery and improve the health and quality of life of people with paralysis. Though Shepherd Center is not currently enrolling participants in NRN, staff members continue to contribute to research that translates the latest scientific advances into effective, activity-based rehabilitation treatments. Shepherd Center offers locomotor training, an activity-based therapy that attempts to retrain the spinal cord to \"remember\" the pattern of walking again. This therapy is available to patients who have some movement in their legs. There are two versions of this therapy – manual-assisted locomotor training and robotic-assisted locomotor training. Both therapies involve supporting part of the patient’s body weight with a harness system that suspends the patient over a moving treadmill. The amount of body weight support, treadmill speed, walking time and amount of assistance given to the patient can be adjusted in both versions to best maximize the outcome. Shepherd Center also offers: The Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute at Shepherd Center conducts neurological and neuromuscular research. Clinical studies are conducted in collaboration with leading experts at other hospitals, research centers, medical schools and universities around the world. 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"The amount of body weight support, treadmill speed, walking time and amount of assistance given to the patient can be adjusted in both versions to best maximize the outcome. Shepherd Center also offers: The Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute at Shepherd Center conducts neurological and neuromuscular research. Clinical studies are conducted in collaboration with leading experts at other hospitals, research centers, medical schools and universities around the world. Shepherd Center’s research activities primarily focus on spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis and neuromuscular disorders. The center works to develop, refine and evaluate new treatments, drugs, surgical techniques, diagnostic tools and various therapy interventions. Shepherd Center’s research also works to improve the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of clinical services, as well as document the long-term effectiveness and benefits of rehabilitation to improve patient outcomes. In addition, Shepherd Center supports basic and applied research to develop devices that help people with disabilities improve their ability to function and control their environment. Since 1982, Shepherd Center has been designated as a Model System of Care for spinal cord injury by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The hospital is one of only 14 Model Systems in the country. Since 1990, Shepherd Center’s Model System grant has funded a line of research on quality of life, adjustment to injury, secondary complications and community reintegration issues. Studies have focused on improving patient outcomes, particularly for those patients who have been identified as being at-risk because of health, behavior or family issues. Shepherd Center is accredited by The Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Also, since 2000, Shepherd Center has been ranked by \"'U.S.News & World Report\" as one of the nation’s best rehabilitation hospitals. Rankings for rehabilitation hospitals are based on reputation among board-certified specialists. To make the list, hospitals must be recommended by at least 3 percent of the physicians polled. As a supporter of the disability rights movement, Shepherd Center monitors local and federal legislation and upcoming issues that are expected to affect the disability community. In addition, Shepherd assists self-help groups that are working on legislation and issues. Shepherd Center also can help people communicate with the individuals, lawmakers and groups that affect policy and decision making. Peachtree Road Race - for the Sheperd Center Wheelchair Division of AJC Peachtree Road Race founded in 1982 Shepherd Center Shepherd Center is a private, not-for profit hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1975, the 152-bed hospital is devoted to the medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain and other neuromuscular problems. An Atlanta family founded Shepherd Center in 1975. Harold and Alana Shepherd had to travel to find the appropriate care for their son James when he was injured in a body surfing accident in"
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"Elliot Giles Elliot Giles (born 26 May 1994) is an English middle-distance runner from Birmingham, specialising in the 800 metres. He is best known for winning the bronze at the 2016 European Championships. He has a Jamaican father and an English mother. In August 2014, he had a serious motorcycle accident which prevented him from competing for two years. His breakthrough year was 2016 when he became British champion over the distance, and was selected for the senior GB team for the first time at the European Athletics Championships where he won a surprise bronze medal. His new personal best of 1:45.54, set in the final, qualified him for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In Rio de Janeiro, however, he only managed seventh place in his heat which was not good enough for a place in the semifinals. Outdoor Indoor Elliot Giles Elliot Giles (born 26 May 1994) is an English middle-distance runner from Birmingham, specialising in the 800 metres. He is best known for winning the bronze at the 2016 European Championships. He has a Jamaican father and an English mother. In August 2014, he had a serious motorcycle accident which prevented him from competing for two years. His breakthrough"
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"Clyde Hart (pianist) Clyde Hart (1910 - March 19, 1945) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He was an important figure in the transition from swing to bebop. Hart was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1910. He started his career as a professional jazz pianist in 1929 when he joined Gene Coy's ensemble. He was also part of Jap Allen's band from 1929 to 1931. Hart played piano in Blanche Calloway's big band from 1931 to 1935 and was based in New York City from 1936. In the late 1930s he played with Lionel Hampton and Chu Berry. In the first half of the 1940s he played with John Kirby, Roy Eldridge and Hot Lips Page, among others. In the last few months before his death Hart collaborated with some of the most important figures of the bebop era, such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas, and led recording three sessions. He died of tuberculosis in March 1945, at the age of 35. Clyde Hart (pianist) Clyde Hart (1910 - March 19, 1945) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He was an important figure in the transition from swing to bebop. Hart was born in Baltimore,"
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"Guam at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics Guam competed at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, United Kingdom, from 4–13 August 2017. Following her run in the 100m at the Guam at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, Guamanian record holder Regine Tugade was selected to run in the 200m at the 2017 edition of the meet. She had hoped to redeem herself at the 2017 Worlds, not having improved upon her 12.26 100m national record in two years of competition since. She said of the meet, \"I am really looking forward to competing in London. My last competition was a few months ago in Fiji for the Oceania Championships, I wasn't too happy with my performance but since then I've been back home. This summer is my first time home since March for my spring break. I've been trying to practice swimming because I need to pass my swim class.\" She ran 26.22 seconds into a 0.4 meters per second headwind in the heats, which placed her 46th overall and did not advance her to the semifinals. She was accompanied by Toea Wisil of Papa New Guinea, who was the only other Oceania competitor in the 200m running 23.93 seconds in her heat. Guam at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics Guam competed at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, United Kingdom, from 4–13 August 2017. Following her run in the 100m at the Guam at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, Guamanian record holder Regine Tugade was selected to run in the 200m at the 2017 edition of the meet. She had hoped to redeem herself at the 2017 Worlds, not having improved upon her 12.26 100m national record in two years of competition since. She said of the meet, \"I am really"
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"Ampache Ampache is a free software Web-based Audio file manager / web Media Server. The name is a play on the two words \"Amplifier\" and \"Apache\". It was originally written to take advantage of Apache's Mod_mp3 but has since been adapted to use its own streaming method. Ampache's Mascot is a squirrel called Fraz, originally drawn by Kirsten Petersen, later digitized by Ben Shields, and redesigned by Agnès Champavier in 2008. Ampache was released in 2001. Its original author, Scott Kveton went on to create the OSUOSL at Oregon State University and passed off Developmental lead to Karl Vollmer who has been responsible for it since early 2003. Ampache's goal is to allow access to a person's music from anywhere in the world. It is written specifically for private/small group implementations, but does allow an admin to enable public registration. Ampache's primary objective is to maintain a simple, secure and fast web front end that will run on almost any hardware and any platform that supports PHP. It is also written to accommodate large music collections. Ampache also provides an API for pulling out meta data in the form of XML documents. Ampache data can be accessed via the many methods supported in the API, originally created for use with Amarok2, but which can also be used to create other front-ends to Ampache. Access to the API is controlled by internal Access Control Lists; for performance reasons, all requests currently have a 5000 result limit. The following applications are known to have plug-ins that use Ampache's XML API Since version 3.7.0, Ampache is compatible with Subsonic clients and Plex clients. Ampache's features make it a powerful instructional and assistive technology for students with language-based learning differences. At the Chelsea School, a group of advanced technology students recognized Ampache's potential for providing important accommodations and modifications that serve their learning styles; they built and configured an Ampache server that was put to work to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. By adding audio recordings of instructional-level texts and assignments to an Ampache catalog, the instructor empowers students to individually and independently listen to a streaming text while reading a print version of the material; used in that way, Ampache allows students to avail themselves of curriculum material and instruction-level texts they may not otherwise have access to. Ampache thus serves as a compromise between three common accommodations: text-to-speech software, a human reader, and audiobooks. Ampache's video-streaming features have also been used to enhance teaching and learning at the Chelsea School. Rather than having students watch instructional videos as a group, the assigned material was streamed to their individual workstations. Independent viewing reduces distractions, and allows students to progress at their own pace, pausing to take notes or repeating segments for clarification. Ampache has been featured in numerous online blogs and technical articles. Of note is the O'Reilly book \"Spidering Hacks\", which details security testing of online applications. Ampache was found to be immune to standard spidering hacks, and by focusing on security during its development, has continued to be. The Code Philosophy listed on Ampache's wiki specifies security as one of the most important considerations during application development. Ampache Ampache is a free software Web-based Audio file manager / web Media Server. The name is a play on the two words \"Amplifier\" and \"Apache\". It was originally written to take advantage of Apache's Mod_mp3 but has since been adapted to use its own streaming method. Ampache's Mascot is a squirrel called Fraz, originally drawn by Kirsten Petersen, later digitized by Ben Shields, and redesigned by Agnès Champavier in 2008. Ampache"
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"Zierfandler Zierfandler is a grape variety used to make white wine in the Thermenregion of Austria. It is also known as Spätrot (\"late red\") because it turns red just before harvest time. It is traditionally blended with Rotgipfler but is increasingly being sold as a single varietal wine. Zierfandler wines are typically elegant and quite sweet, but with lots of balancing acidity and a nutty bouquet of pistachios and almonds. They are capable of ageing well. Zierfandler is probably a cross between Roter Veltliner and something like Traminer. A \"weiss\" (white) form is found in Hungary. Zierfandler may be the inadvertent origin of the name Zinfandel, which has its roots in a Croatian grape collected by the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. George Gibbs, a horticulturist on Long Island, received several shipments of vines from the Imperial nursery in the 1820s, one of which he called \"Black Zinfardel of Hungary\". This doesn't correspond to any known grape, but Webster suggests that Zinfandel is a corruption of \"tzinifándli\" (\"czirifandli\"), a Hungarian word derived from the German word Zierfandler. Since Zierfandler is very different from Zinfandel, someone would have had to have mixed up labels along the way. There were 98.24ha in Austria in 2005, less than 0.3% of Austria vineyards, of which 85.03ha were in Thermenregion. It is traditionally blended with Rotgipfler in that region. These wines, known as Spätrot-Rotgipfler, are a particular speciality of Gumpoldskirchen, south of Vienna. It is grown in Hungary under the name Cirfandli and in Slovenia as Zerjavina. The characteristic of the grapes is the way the sides exposed to the sun turns red as they ripen. Zierfandler ripens late, and is prone to noble rot. The leaves are large and 3-5 lobed. The bunches are large, conical and sometimes winged. Cilifai, Cilifan, Cirfandli, Cirifai, Cirifai Piros, Cirifan, Gumpoldskirchener, Gumpoldskirchener Spätrot, Gumpoldskirchener Spätroth, Kesoei Piros, Kirmizi Zierfahndler, Nemes Cirfandli, Piros Cirfandli, Piroscirfandli, Raifler, Reifler Rot, Roter Raifler, Roter Reifler, Roter Zierfandler, Roth Hensch, Rother Raifler, Rother Zierfahndler, Rothhinschen, Rothreifler, Rotreifler, Rubiner, Spätrot, Zerjavina and Zierfandler Rot Zierfandler Zierfandler is a grape variety used to make white wine in the Thermenregion of Austria. It is also known as Spätrot (\"late red\") because it turns red just before harvest time. It is traditionally blended with Rotgipfler but is increasingly being sold as a single varietal wine. Zierfandler wines are typically elegant and quite sweet, but with lots of balancing"
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"David W. Hamlyn David Walter Hamlyn (1 October 1924 – 15 July 2012) was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London (1964–1988), and editor of \"Mind\" (1972–1984). His major interests were in Aristotle (whose \"de Anima\", II and III and parts of I, he translated with a commentary, 1968) and in Ludwig Wittgenstein, both of whom influenced Hamlyn's approach to questions in epistemology and philosophy of psychology. His central thesis, developed in \"Experience and the Growth of Understanding\" (1978), \"Perception, Learning and the Self\" (1983), and \"In and Out of the Black Box\" (1990), was that in order to be a knower a being must be active and seek to regulate its beliefs in accord with a norm of truth: this requires membership of a community, interaction with which involves emotional responses. In short, knowers are social, affective agents. The other main area of Hamlyn's writing was the history of philosophy. David W. Hamlyn David Walter Hamlyn (1 October 1924 – 15 July 2012) was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London (1964–1988), and editor of \"Mind\" (1972–1984). His major interests were in Aristotle (whose \"de Anima\", II and III and parts of I, he translated with a commentary, 1968)"
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"Livius Smitt Livius Smitt (8 October 1840 – 4 March 1890) was a Norwegian jurist and politician, joining the Conservative Party in 1884. Born in Vinje, he moved to Førde where he served as a barrister from 1867 ti 1881, and as major from 1874 to 1881. He was one of the founders of the newspaper \"Nordre Bergenhus Amtstidende\" in 1872 and Florø Træplantningsselskab. There is a street named for him in the town. He sat as a deputy member of the Parliament of Norway from 1877 to 1879 and then as a regular representative from 1880 to 1882. He then moved to Brevik where he also was elected as a parliamentarian. He turned down a seat in Stang's Cabinet. During the late 1880s, Smitt was one of the main proponents of the Brevik Line, but died before Parliament passed the line in 1892. Livius Smitt Livius Smitt (8 October 1840 – 4 March 1890) was a Norwegian jurist and politician, joining the Conservative Party in 1884. Born in Vinje, he moved to Førde where he served as a barrister from 1867 ti 1881, and as major from 1874 to 1881. He was one of the founders of the newspaper"
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"It has been argued that the phrase can be interpreted as a curse or threat. One theory states that the historic Caesar adapted the words of a Greek sentence which to the Romans had long since become proverbial:The complete phrase is said to have been \"You too, my son, will have a taste of power,\" of which Caesar only needed to invoke the opening words to foreshadow Brutus' own violent death, in response to his assassination. There is a poem by Horace, Satires; Book I, Satire 7, written approximately 30 BC, that mentions Brutus and his tyrannicide; in discussing that poem, author John Henderson considers that the expression \"E-t t-u Br-u-t-e\", (as he hyphenates it), can be interpreted as a complaint containing a \"suggestion of mimetic compulsion\". \n In the play Julius Caesar (1599), Caesar says \"Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!\" Shakespeare was making use of a phrase already in use:for example it is said, by Edmond Malone, to have appeared in a work that has been lost:Richard Eedes's Latin play Caesar Interfectus of 1582. It also occurs in The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the Whole Contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke of 1595, which is the earliest printed version of Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 3. \n Caesar utters these words in Act III, scene 2, as he is being stabbed to death, having recognized his friend and protégé Brutus among the assassins. However, there is no evidence that the historic Caesar had ever spoken these words. \n The name \"Brutus\", a second declension masculine noun, appears in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the-us ending of the nominative case is replaced by-e. \n The historical Caesar's last words are not known with certainty. The Roman historian Suetonius, a century and a half after the incident, claims Caesar said nothing as he died, but that others reported that Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase \"καὶ σὺ, τέκνον;\". The phrase means \"You too, child?\" or \"You too, young man?\". Sometimes this is rendered translated into Latin as \"Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi\". \n Et tu, Brute? (pronounced ( ɛt ˈtuː ˈbruːtɛ) ) is a Latin phrase meaning \"even you, Brutus?\", made famous by its occurrence in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, where it is uttered by the Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Brutus at the moment of the former's assassination. The Latin expression first occurs in Elizabethan literary texts. The quotation is widely used in the English-speaking world to signify the unexpected betrayal by a person, such as a friend. \n Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators. \n On March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BCE, the historic Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's friend and protégé. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but when he saw Brutus, he supposedly responded as he died."
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"Greifensee, Zürich Greifensee is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Settlements in Greifensee date back in 4000 B.C.. In 1975, a Neolithic stilt house village located on the northern shore of the Lake Greifen area called \"Böschen\" was discovered by recreational divers. Initially, they found ceramics, lavishly decorated pots and bowls, and simple, large food tanks. In scientific dives, the remains of a village with 24 huts have been revealed. The excellent condition of the timber relicts allows dendrochronological dating to the year 1051 B.C. Weaving spindles made of clay, tools, needles and fishing hooks from bronze, charred wild apples and cereals have been conserved. Ten years after its construction, the settlement was destroyed by a fire and not rebuilt. For the subsequent years, in the canton of Zürich various archaeological relicts have been found, such as heavy bronze bracelets, glass, mainly bronze fibulas and flint blades probably from the Mediterranean and France. Relicts dating to the Roman period have been found in neighbouring municipalities, in Riedikon (Uster), and about nine kilometers away near Pfäffikon ZH located at Lake Pfäffikon (Irgenhausen Castrum). Probably in the late 12th century, a tower house (later Castle of Greifensee) was built at the location of a small village, estimated to be a settlement by the Counts of Rapperswil. On April 29, 1260, «\"R. et H. minstri de Grifense\"» are mentioned. Greifensee was a bailiwick (\"Landvogtei, Amt\"), of Rapperswil, of Toggenburg and of Zürich, during 1300–1798. On January 7, 1300, Greifensee was given by Elisabeth von Rapperswil-Habsburg-Laufenburg, the sister of Rudolf V, Count of Rapperswil, to the nobleman Hermann II of Landenberg. His son, Hermann IV (the younger Marshal), fortified the small town, Greifensee castle and the city walls. He donated, for his salvation and on his wife's favour, the Gallus Chapel around 1330-1340, Greifensee's former Parish church, too. In 1369, the \"Amt\" of Greifensee was sold to Count Friedrich Donat Diethelm of Toggenburg; in early 1402, Friedrich VII sold it to the city of Zürich, and beginning in 1419, Greifensee is the first country bailiwick of the city of Zürich. In May 1444, during the Old Zürich War, the Old Swiss Confederacy laid siege to Greifensee which was held by about 70 defenders, most of them inhabitants of the \"Amt\" Greifensee with a few Habsburg and Zürich soldiers. The town was captured after four weeks, on May 27, and all but two of the surviving 64 defenders were beheaded on the next day, including the leader, Wildhans von \"Breitenlandenberg\". Breitenlandenberg's body was brought to his family, the bodies of the other surrenders were buried at the Uster church. Even in times of war, mass execution was widely considered a cruel and unjust deed. On May 29, the Castle of Greifensee and the city walls were broken. In the year 1520, Zürich decided to reconstruct the ruins as residence of Zürich's \"Landvögte\" among them Heinrich Biberli (1403), Gerold Edlibach (1504) and Salomon Landolt (1776). The canting coat of arms (or, a griffin rampant gules) dates to the 15th century, replacing the older Landenberg arms of party per cross or and sable. It was adopted as municipal coat of arms in 1930. Greifensee has an area of . Of this area, 37.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 44.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (6.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 37.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (6.5%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0% of the area. 37.5% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. It is located on the lake Greifensee, approximately to the east of Zürich in Switzerland. The town has a historic part complete with a castle and a unique church (Gallus Chapel) which was shaped as a triangle so it could fit into the city walls. Greifensee has a population (as of ) of . , 15.2% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -0.2%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.3%), with French being second most common ( 1.7%) and Italian being third ( 1.5%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (21%), the FDP (15%) and the CSP (13%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 65% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.7%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Greifensee about 85.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a \"Fachhochschule\"). There are 2198 households in Greifensee. The historical population is given in the following table: Located on \"Greifensee\" lakeshore, Greifensee–Storen–Wildsberg is part of the 56 Swiss sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site \"Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps\", and the settlement is also listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a \"Class object\". Because the lake has grown in size over time, the original piles are now around to under the water level of . Mettler Toledo has one of its world headquarters in Greifensee and is also the towns biggest employer. Greifensee has an unemployment rate of 1.92%. , there were 21 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 557 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 21 businesses in this sector. 548 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 99 businesses in this sector. 43.8% of the working population were employed full-time, and 56.3% were employed part-time. Nänikon-Greifensee railway station is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S9 and S14. It is a 16-minute (S9) ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof. Greifensee, Zürich Greifensee is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Settlements in Greifensee date back in 4000 B.C.. In 1975, a Neolithic stilt house village located on the northern shore of the Lake Greifen area called \"Böschen\" was discovered by recreational divers. Initially, they found ceramics, lavishly decorated pots and bowls, and simple, large food tanks. 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"Donnay Indoor Championships The Brussels Indoor (also known as the \"Donnay Indoor Championships\") is a defunct professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Forest National in Brussels. It was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit initially and later, for three years, the ATP Championship Series of the ATP Tour. The tournament was established in 1980, becoming the second tournament to be played in Brussels, along with the ATP Brussels Outdoor. The following year the outdoor tournament was played for the last time, leaving the Donnay Indoor Championships as the sole professional tournament in the region. It was held between 1981 and 1988 and then again from 1990 until 1992. Donnay Indoor Championships The Brussels Indoor (also known as the \"Donnay Indoor Championships\") is a defunct professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Forest National in Brussels. It was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit initially and later, for three years, the ATP Championship Series of the ATP Tour. The tournament was established in 1980, becoming the second tournament to be played in Brussels, along with the ATP Brussels Outdoor. The following year the outdoor tournament was played for the last time, leaving the Donnay"
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"Felix Mackiewicz Felix Thaddeus Mackiewicz (November 20, 1917 – December 20, 1993) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1941 through 1947 for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, and Washington Senators. Mackiewicz attended Purdue University, where he played college baseball for the Boilermakers from 1938–40. He signed with the Athletics in 1940 and made his Major League debut in September after breaking into minor league baseball with the Class B Wilmington Blue Rocks. Mackiewicz spent 1941 and 1942 mostly with Wilmington, and played in 20 total games for the Athletics over three seasons. After being released by the Athletics a month into the 1943 season, he spent the rest of 1943 and all of 1944 with the Baltimore Orioles before being called up by the Cleveland Indians for 1945. The 1945 and 1946 seasons where Mackiewicz only full seasons in the Majors. In 1945, as the Indian's regular center fielder, he got into 120 games, made a career-high 98 hits, and slugged his only two Major League home runs. Mackiewicz was waived by the Indians two games into the 1947 season, and was picked up by the Washington Senators, ending his major league career with three games played for them. He spent three more seasons in the minor leagues before retiring. Altogether, he appeared in 223 big-league games and collected 174 hits, including 32 doubles and 12 triples. He concluded his professional career during the 1949 minor league season. Felix Mackiewicz Felix Thaddeus Mackiewicz (November 20, 1917 – December 20, 1993) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1941 through 1947 for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, and Washington Senators. Mackiewicz attended Purdue University, where he played college baseball for the Boilermakers from 1938–40. He signed"
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"Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform, and proponents of various ideologies attempted to appropriate his work quite early. Beginning while Nietzsche was still alive, though incapacitated by mental illness, many Germans discovered his appeals for greater heroic individualism and personality development in \"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\", but responded to those appeals in diverging ways. He had some following among left-wing Germans in the 1890. Nietzsche's anarchistic influence was particularly strong in France and the United States. By World War I, German soldiers even received copies of \"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\" as gifts during World War I. The Dreyfus Affair provides another example of his reception: the French anti-semitic Right labelled the Jewish and leftist intellectuals who defended Alfred Dreyfus as \"Nietzscheans\". Such seemingly paradoxical acceptance by diametrically opposed camps is typical of the history of the reception of Nietzsche's thought. In the context of the rise of French fascism, one researcher notes, \"Although, as much recent work has stressed, Nietzsche had an important impact on \"leftist\" French ideology and theory, this should not obscure the fact that his work was also crucial to the right and to the neither right nor left fusions of developing French fascism. Indeed, as Ernst Nolte proposed, Maurrassian ideology of \"aristocratic revolt against egalitarian-utopian 'transcendence'\" (transcendence being Nolte's term for the ontological absence of theodic center justifying modern \"emancipation culture\"), the interrelation between Nietzschean ideology and proto-fascism offer extensive space for criticism and the Nietzschean ambiance pervading French ideological fermentation of extremism in time birthing formal fascism, is unavoidable. Many political leaders of the 20th century were at least superficially familiar with Nietzsche's ideas. However, it is not always possible to determine whether or not they actually read his work. Regarding Hitler, for example, there is a debate. Some authors claim that he probably never read Nietzsche, or that if he did, his reading was not extensive. Hitler more than likely became familiar with Nietzsche quotes during his time in Vienna when quotes by Nietzsche were frequently published in pan-German newspapers. Nevertheless, others point to a quote in \"Hitler's Table Talk\", where the dictator mentioned Nietzsche when he spoke about what he called \"great men\", as an indication that Hitler may have been familiarized with Nietzsche's work. Other authors like Melendez (2001) point out to the parallels between Hitler's and Nietzsche's titanic anti-egalitarianism, and the idea of the \"übermensch\", a term which was frequently used by Hitler and Mussolini to refer to the so-called \"Aryan race\", or rather, its projected future after fascist engineering. Alfred Rosenberg, an influential Nazi ideologist, also delivered a speech in which he related National Socialism to Nietzsche's ideology. Broadly speaking, despite Nietzsche's hostility towards anti-semitism and nationalism, the Nazis made very selective use of Nietzsche's philosophy, and eventually, this association caused Nietzsche's reputation to suffer following World War II. On the other hand, it is known that Mussolini early on heard lectures about Nietzsche, Vilfred Pareto, and others in ideologically forming fascism. A girlfriend of Mussolini, Margherita Sarfatti, who was Jewish, relates that Nietzsche virtually was the transforming factor in Mussolini's \"conversion\" from hard socialism to spiritualistic, ascetic fascism,: \"In 1908 he presented his conception of the superman's role in modern society in a writing on Nietzsche entitled, \"The Philosophy of Force.\" Nietzsche's influence on Continental philosophy increased dramatically after the Second World War. During the 19th century, Nietzsche was frequently associated with anarchist movements, in spite of the fact that in his writings he definitely holds a negative view of egalitarian anarchists. Nevertheless, Nietzsche's ideas generated strong interest from key figures from the historical anarchist movement which began in the 1890s. According to a recent study, \"Gustav Landauer, Emma Goldman and others reflected on the chances offered and the dangers posed by these ideas in relation to their own politics. Heated debates over meaning, for example on the will to power or on the status of women in Nietzsche’s works, provided even the most vehement critics such as Peter Kropotkin with productive cues for developing their own theories. In recent times, a newer strand called post-anarchism has invoked Nietzsche’s ideas, while also disregarding the historical variants of Nietzschean anarchism. This calls into question the innovative potential of post-anarchism.\" Some hypothesize on certain grounds Nietzsche's violent stance against anarchism may (at least partially) be the result of a popular association during this period between his ideas and those of Max Stirner. Thus far, no plagiarism has been detected at all, but a probable concealed influence in his formative years. Spencer Sunshine writes \"There were many things that drew anarchists to Nietzsche: his hatred of the state; his disgust for the mindless social behavior of \"herds\"; his anti-Christianity; his distrust of the effect of both the market and the state on cultural production; his desire for an \"overman\" — that is, for a new human who was to be neither master nor slave; his praise of the ecstatic and creative self, with the artist as his prototype, who could say, \"Yes\" to the self-creation of a new world on the basis of nothing; and his forwarding of the \"transvaluation of values\" as source of change, as opposed to a Marxist conception of class struggle and the dialectic of a linear history.\" Lacking in Nietzsche is the anarchist utopian-egalitarian belief that every soul is capable of epic greatness: Nietzsche's aristocratic elitism is the death-knell of any Nietzschean conventional anarchism. According to Sunshine: \"The list is not limited to culturally oriented anarchists such as Emma Goldman, who gave dozens of lectures about Nietzsche and baptized him as an honorary anarchist. Pro-Nietzschean anarchists also include prominent Spanish CNT–FAI members in the 1930s such as Salvador Seguí and anarcha-feminist Federica Montseny; anarcho-syndicalist militants like Rudolf Rocker; and even the younger Murray Bookchin, who cited Nietzsche's conception of the 'transvaluation of values' in support of the Spanish anarchist project.\" Also in European individualist anarchist circles his influence is clear in thinker/activists such as Emile Armand and Renzo Novatore among others. Also more recently in post-left anarchy, Nietzsche is present in the thought of Hakim Bey and Wolfi Landstreicher. The Italian and German fascist regimes were eager to lay claim to Nietzsche's ideas, and to position themselves as inspired by them. In 1932, Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, received a bouquet of roses from Adolf Hitler during a German premiere of Benito Mussolini's \"100 Days\", and in 1934 Hitler personally presented her with a wreath for Nietzsche's grave carrying the words \"To A Great Fighter\". Also in 1934, Elisabeth gave to Hitler Nietzsche's favorite walking stick, and Hitler was photographed gazing into the eyes of a white marble bust of Nietzsche. Heinrich Hoffmann's popular biography \"Hitler as Nobody Knows Him\" (which sold nearly a half-million copies by 1938) featured this photo with the caption reading: \"The Führer before the bust of the German philosopher whose ideas have fertilized two great popular movements: the national socialist of Germany and the fascist of Italy.\" Nietzsche was no less popular among French fascists, perhaps with more doctrinal truthfulness, as Robert",
"from Adolf Hitler during a German premiere of Benito Mussolini's \"100 Days\", and in 1934 Hitler personally presented her with a wreath for Nietzsche's grave carrying the words \"To A Great Fighter\". Also in 1934, Elisabeth gave to Hitler Nietzsche's favorite walking stick, and Hitler was photographed gazing into the eyes of a white marble bust of Nietzsche. Heinrich Hoffmann's popular biography \"Hitler as Nobody Knows Him\" (which sold nearly a half-million copies by 1938) featured this photo with the caption reading: \"The Führer before the bust of the German philosopher whose ideas have fertilized two great popular movements: the national socialist of Germany and the fascist of Italy.\" Nietzsche was no less popular among French fascists, perhaps with more doctrinal truthfulness, as Robert S. Wistrich has pointed out The \"fascist\" Nietzsche was above all considered to be a heroic opponent of necrotic Enlightenment \"rationality\" and a kind of spiritual vitalist, who had glorified war and violence in an age of herd-lemming shopkeepers, inspiring the anti-Marxist revolutions of the interwar period. According to the French fascist Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, it was the Nietzschean emphasis on the autotelic power of the Will that inspired the mystic voluntarism and political activism of his comrades. Such politicized readings were vehemently rejected by another French writer, the socialo-communist anarchist Georges Bataille, who in the 1930s sought to establish (in ambiguous success) the \"radical incompatibility\" between Nietzsche (as a thinker who abhorred mass politics) and \"the fascist reactionaries.\" He argued that nothing was more alien to Nietzsche than the pan-Germanism, racism, militarism and anti-Semitism of the Nazis, into whose service the German philosopher had been pressed. Bataille here was sharp-witted but combined half-truths without his customary dialectical finesse. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who was (with great harm to his subsequent reputation) an active member of the Nazi Party, himself noted that everyone in his day was either 'for' or 'against' Nietzsche while claiming that this thinker heard a \"command to reflect on the essence of a planetary domination.\" Alan D. Schrift cites this passage and writes, \"That Heidegger sees Nietzsche heeding a command to reflect and prepare for earthly domination is of less interest to me than his noting that everyone thinks in terms of a position for or against Nietzsche. In particular, the gesture of setting up 'Nietzsche' as a battlefield on which to take one's stand against or to enter into competition with the ideas of one's intellectual predecessors or rivals has happened quite frequently in the twentieth century.\" Marching in ideological warfare against the arrows from Bataille, Thomas Mann, the far more centrist Albert Camus and others, the Nazi movement, despite Nietzsche' virulent hatred of both volkist-populist socialist and nationalism (\"national socialism\"), did, in certain of its emphases, share an affinity with Nietzsche's ideas, including his ferocious attacks against democracy, egalitarianism, the communistic-socialistic social model, popular Christianity, parliamentary government, and a number of other things. In \"The Will to Power\" Nietzsche praised – sometimes metaphorically, other times both metaphorically and literally – the sublimity of war and warriors, and heralded an international ruling race that would become the \"lords of the earth\". Here Nietzsche was referring to pan-Europeanism of a Caesarist type, positively embracing Jews, not a Germanic master race but a neo-imperial elite of culturally refined \"redeemers\" of humanity, otherwise wretched and plebeian and ugly in its mindless existence. The Nazis appropriated, or rather received also inspiration in this case, from Nietzsche's extremely old-fashioned and semi-feudal views on women: Nietzsche despised modern feminism, along with democracy and socialism, as mere egalitarian leveling movements of nihilism. He forthrightly declared, \"Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior, anything else is folly\"; and was indeed unified with the Nazi world-view at least in terms of the social role of women: \"They belong in the kitchen and their chief role in life is to beget children for German warriors.\" Here is one area where Nietzsche indeed did not contradict the Nazis in his politics of \"aristocratic radicalism.\" During the interbellum years, certain Nazis had employed a highly selective reading of Nietzsche's work to advance their ideology, notably Alfred Baeumler, who strikingly omitted the fact of Nietzsche's anti-socialism and anti-nationalism (for Nietzsche, both equally contemptible mass herd movements of modernity) in his reading of \"The Will to Power\". The era of Nazi rule (1933–1945) saw Nietzsche's writings widely studied in German (and, after 1938, Austrian) schools and universities. Despite the fact that Nietzsche had expressed his disgust with plebeian-volkist anti-Semitism and supremacist German nationalism in the most forthright terms possible (e.g. he resolved \"to have nothing to do with anyone involved in the perfidious race-fraud\"), phrases like \"the will to power\" became common in Nazi circles. The wide popularity of Nietzsche among Nazis stemmed in part from the endeavors of his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, the editor of Nietzsche's work after his 1889 breakdown, and an eventual Nazi sympathizer. Mazzino Montinari, while editing Nietzsche's posthumous works in the 1960s, found that Förster-Nietzsche, while editing the posthumous fragments making up \"The Will to Power\", had cut extracts, changed their order, quoted him out of context, etc. Nietzsche's reception among the more intellectually percipient or zealous fascists was not universally warm. For example, one \"rabidly Nazi writer, Curt von Westernhagen, who announced in his book \"Nietzsche, Juden, Antijuden\" (1936) that the time had come to expose the 'defective personality of Nietzsche whose inordinate tributes for, and espousal of, Jews had caused him to depart from the Germanic principles enunciated by Meister Richard Wagner'.\" The real problem with the labelling of Nietzsche as a fascist, or worse, a Nazi, is that it ignores the fact that Nietzsche's aristocratism seeks to revive an older conception of politics, one which he locates in Greek \"agon\" which [...] has striking affinities with the philosophy of action expounded in our own time by Hannah Arendt. Once an affinity like this is appreciated, the absurdity of describing Nietzsche's political thought as 'fascist', or Nazi, becomes readily apparent. Jacob Golomb observed, \"Nietzsche's ideas were widely disseminated among and appropriated by the first Hebrew Zionist writers and leaders.\" According to Steven Aschheim, \"Classical Zionism, that essentially secular and modernizing movement, was acutely aware of the crisis of Jewish tradition and its supporting institutions. Nietzsche was enlisted as an authority for articulating the movement's ruptured relationship with the past and a force in its drive to normalization and its activist ideal of self-creating Hebraic New Man.\" Francis R. Nicosia notes, \"At the height of his fame between 1895 and 1902, some of Nietzsche's ideas seemed to have a particular resonance for some Zionists, including Theodore Herzl.\" Among many other facts that show Herzl had a serious interest in Nietzsche, at least for a time (including the fact that under his editorship the \"Neue Freie Presse\" dedicated seven consecutive issues to Nietzsche obituaries), Golomb points out that Herzl's cousin Raoul Auernheimer claimed, in a memorial tribute, that Herzl was familiar with Nietzsche and had \"absorbed his style\". On the other hand, Gabriel Sheffer suggests that Herzl was too bourgeois and too eager to be accepted into mainstream society to be much of a (even if \"aristocratic\") revolutionary, and hence could not have been strongly",
"Man.\" Francis R. Nicosia notes, \"At the height of his fame between 1895 and 1902, some of Nietzsche's ideas seemed to have a particular resonance for some Zionists, including Theodore Herzl.\" Among many other facts that show Herzl had a serious interest in Nietzsche, at least for a time (including the fact that under his editorship the \"Neue Freie Presse\" dedicated seven consecutive issues to Nietzsche obituaries), Golomb points out that Herzl's cousin Raoul Auernheimer claimed, in a memorial tribute, that Herzl was familiar with Nietzsche and had \"absorbed his style\". On the other hand, Gabriel Sheffer suggests that Herzl was too bourgeois and too eager to be accepted into mainstream society to be much of a (even if \"aristocratic\") revolutionary, and hence could not have been strongly influenced by Nietzsche, but remarks, \"Some East European Jewish intellectuals, such as the writers Yosef Hayyim Brenner and Micha Josef Berdyczewski, followed after Herzl because they thought that Zionism offered the chance for a Nietzschean 'transvaluation of values' within Jewry\". Nietzsche also influenced Theodor Lessing. Martin Buber was fascinated by Nietzsche, whom he praised as a heroic figure, and he strove to introduce \"a Nietzschean perspective into Zionist affairs.\" In 1901, Buber, who had just been appointed the editor of \"Die Welt\", the primary publication of the World Zionist Organization, published a poem in \"Zarathustrastil\" ( a style reminiscent of Nietzsche's \"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\") calling for the return of Jewish literature, art and scholarship. However, praise for Nietzsche was not by any means universal among Zionists. Max Nordau, an early Zionist orator and controversial racial anthropologist, insisted that Nietzsche had been insane since birth, and advocated \"branding his disciples [...] as hysterical and imbecile.\" Carl Jung, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, recognized Nietzsche's profundity early on. \"From the time Jung first became gripped by Nietzsche’s ideas as a student in Basel to his days as a leading figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung read, and increasingly developed, his own thought in a dialogue with the work of Nietzsche. … Untangling the exact influence of Nietzsche on Jung, however, is a complicated business. Jung never openly addressed the exact influence Nietzsche had on his own concepts, and when he did link his own ideas to Nietzsche’s, he almost never made it clear whether the idea in question was inspired by Nietzsche or whether he merely discovered the parallel at a later stage.\" In 1934, Jung held a lengthy and insightful seminar on Nietzsche's \"Zarathustra\". In 1936, Jung explained that Germans of the present day had been \"seized\" or possessed by the psychic force known in Germanic mythology as Wotan, \"the god of storm and frenzy, the unleasher of passions and the lust of battle\"—Wotan being synonymous with Nietzsche's Dionysus, Jung said. A 12th-century stick found among the Bryggen inscriptions, Bergen, Norway bears a runic message by which the population called upon Thor and Wotan for help: Thor is asked to receive the reader, and Wotan to \"own\" them. \"Nietzsche provided Jung both with the terminology (the Dionysian) and the case study (Zarathustra as an example of the Dionysian at work in the psyche) to help him put into words his thoughts about the spirit of his own age: an age confronted with an uprush of the Wotanic/Dionysian spirit in the collective unconscious. This, in a nutshell, is how Jung came to see Nietzsche, and explains why he was so fascinated by Nietzsche as a thinker.\" Nietzsche had also an important influence on psychotherapist and founder of the school of individual psychology Alfred Adler. According to Ernest Jones, biographer and personal acquaintance of Sigmund Freud, Freud frequently referred to Nietzsche as having \"more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live\". Yet Jones also reports that Freud emphatically denied that Nietzsche's writings influenced his own psychological discoveries; in the 1890s, Freud, whose education at the University of Vienna in the 1870s had included a strong relationship with Franz Brentano, his teacher in philosophy, from whom he had acquired an enthusiasm for Aristotle and Ludwig Feuerbach, was acutely aware of the possibility of convergence of his own ideas with those of Nietzsche and doggedly refused to read the philosopher as a result. In his excoriating — but also sympathetic — critique of psychoanalysis, \"The Psychoanalytic Movement\", Ernest Gellner depicts Nietzsche as setting out the conditions for elaborating a realistic psychology, in contrast with the eccentrically implausible Enlightenment psychology of Hume and Smith, and assesses the success of Freud and the psychoanalytic movement as in large part based upon its success in meeting this \"Nietzschean minimum\". Early twentieth-century thinkers who read or were influenced by Nietzsche include: philosophers Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Jünger, Theodor Adorno, Georg Brandes, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers, Henri Bergson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, Julius Evola, Emil Cioran, Miguel de Unamuno, Lev Shestov, Ayn Rand, José Ortega y Gasset Rudolf Steiner and Muhammad Iqbal; sociologists Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber; composers Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin, Gustav Mahler, and Frederick Delius; historians Oswald Spengler, Fernand Braudel and Paul Veyne, theologians Paul Tillich and Thomas J.J. Altizer; the occultists Aleister Crowley; and Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff. Novelists Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, André Malraux, Nikos Kazantzakis, André Gide, Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Vladimir Bartol; psychologists Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, C. G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May and Kazimierz Dąbrowski; poets John Davidson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens and William Butler Yeats; painters Salvador Dalí, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko; playwrights George Bernard Shaw, Antonin Artaud, August Strindberg, and Eugene O'Neill; and authors H. P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, Menno ter Braak, Richard Wright, Robert E. Howard, and Jack London. American writer H. L. Mencken avidly read and translated Nietzsche's works and has gained the sobriquet \"the American Nietzsche\". In his book on Nietzsche, Mencken portrayed the philosopher as a proponent of anti-egalitarian aristocratic revolution, a depiction in sharp contrast with left-wing interpretations of Nietzsche. Nietzsche was declared an anarchist by Emma Goldman, and he influenced other anarchists such as Guy Aldred, Rudolf Rocker, Max Cafard and John Moore. The popular conservative writer, philosopher, poet, journalist and theological apologist of Catholicism G. K. Chesterton expressed contempt for Nietzsche's ideas, deeming his philosophy basically a poison or death-wish of Western culture: Thomas Mann's essays mention Nietzsche with respect and even adoration, although one of his final essays, \"Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Recent History\", looks at his favorite philosopher through the lens of Nazism and World War II and ends up placing Nietzsche at a more critical distance. Many of Nietzsche's ideas, particularly on artists and aesthetics, are incorporated and explored throughout Mann's works. The theme of the aesthetic justification of existence Nietzsche introduced from his earliest writings, in \"The Birth of Tragedy\" declaring sublime art as the only metaphysical consolation of existence; and in the context of fascism and Nazism, the Nietzschean aestheticization of politics void of morality and ordered by caste hierarchy in service of the creative caste, has posed many problems and questions for thinkers in contemporary times. One of the characters in Mann's 1947 novel \"Doktor Faustus\" represents Nietzsche fictionally.",
"looks at his favorite philosopher through the lens of Nazism and World War II and ends up placing Nietzsche at a more critical distance. Many of Nietzsche's ideas, particularly on artists and aesthetics, are incorporated and explored throughout Mann's works. The theme of the aesthetic justification of existence Nietzsche introduced from his earliest writings, in \"The Birth of Tragedy\" declaring sublime art as the only metaphysical consolation of existence; and in the context of fascism and Nazism, the Nietzschean aestheticization of politics void of morality and ordered by caste hierarchy in service of the creative caste, has posed many problems and questions for thinkers in contemporary times. One of the characters in Mann's 1947 novel \"Doktor Faustus\" represents Nietzsche fictionally. In 1938 the German existentialist Karl Jaspers wrote the following about the influence of Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard: Bertrand Russell in his \"History of Western Philosophy\" was scathing in his chapter on Nietzsche, calling his work the \"mere power-phantasies of an invalid\" and referring to Nietzsche as a \"megalomaniac\". Russell is here depicting the \"hard Nietzsche\" very few today would recognize. Russell's psychological daggers against Nietzsche are unbalanced, but worth considering. In one particularly harsh section, he says: Likewise, the fictional valet Reginald Jeeves, created by author P.G. Wodehouse, is a fan of Baruch Spinoza, recommending his works to his employer, Bertie Wooster over those of Friedrich Nietzsche: The appropriation of Nietzsche's work by the Nazis, combined with the rise of analytic philosophy, ensured that British and American academic philosophers would almost completely ignore him until at least 1950. Even George Santayana, an American philosopher whose life and work betray some similarity to Nietzsche's, dismissed Nietzsche in his 1916 \"Egotism in German Philosophy\" as a \"prophet of Romanticism\". Analytic philosophers, if they mentioned Nietzsche at all, characterized him as a literary figure rather than as a philosopher. Nietzsche's present stature in the English-speaking world owes much to the exegetical writings and improved Nietzsche translations by the Jewish-German, American philosopher Walter Kaufmann and the British scholar R.J. Hollingdale. Nietzsche's influence on Continental philosophy increased dramatically after the Second World War, especially among the French intellectual Left and post-structuralists. According to philosopher René Girard, Nietzsche's greatest political legacy lies in his 20th-century French interpreters, among them Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari), and Jacques Derrida. This philosophical movement (originating with the work of Bataille) has been dubbed French Nietzscheanism. Foucault's later writings, for example, revise Nietzsche's genealogical method to develop anti-foundationalist theories of power that divide and fragment rather than unite polities (as evinced in the liberal tradition of political theory). Deleuze, arguably the foremost of Nietzsche's Leftist interpreters, used the much-maligned \"will to power\" thesis in tandem with Marxian notions of commodity surplus and Freudian ideas of desire to articulate concepts such as the rhizome and other \"outsides\" to state power as traditionally conceived. Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Klossowski wrote monographs drawing new attention to Nietzsche's work, and a 1972 conference at Cérisy-la-Salle ranks as the most important event in France for a generation's reception of Nietzsche. In Germany interest in Nietzsche was revived from the 1980s onwards, particularly by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, who has devoted several essays to Nietzsche. Ernst Nolte the German historian, in his literature analyzing fascism and Nazism, presented Nietzsche as a force of the Counter-Enlightenment and foe of all modern \"emancipation politics\", and Nolte's judgment generated impassioned dialogue. In recent years, Nietzsche has also influenced members of the analytical philosophy tradition, such as Bernard Williams in his last finished book, \"Truth And Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy\" (2002). Prior to that Arthur Danto, with his book, \"Nietzsche as Philosopher\" (1965), presented what was the first full-length study of Nietzsche by an analytical philosopher. Then later, Alexander Nehamas, came out with his book, \"Nietzsche: Life as Literature\" (1985). Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform, and proponents of various ideologies attempted to appropriate his work quite"
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"Mark Billman Mark Billman (March 10, 1905 – May 30, 1933) was an American racecar driver. He was killed 79 laps into the 1933 Indianapolis 500, his only Championship Car start. On his seventy-ninth lap of the 1933 Indianapolis 500, Billman in the Kemp-Mannix Special skidded on the southeast turn, hit the outside wall and finally came to rest with the car astride the wall. He was pinned between the left front wheel and the wall and it took 20 minutes to get him out. His left arm was torn off, both legs were broken and he was internally injured. In spite of blood transfusions, he died an hour later. Mark Billman Mark Billman (March 10, 1905 – May 30, 1933) was an American racecar driver. He was killed 79 laps into the 1933 Indianapolis 500, his only Championship Car start. On his seventy-ninth lap of the 1933 Indianapolis 500, Billman in the Kemp-Mannix Special skidded on the southeast turn, hit the outside wall and finally came to rest with the car astride the wall. He was pinned between the left front wheel and the wall and it took 20 minutes to get him out. His left arm was torn"
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"The Rippingtons The Rippingtons are an American contemporary jazz group mainly relating to the genres smooth jazz, jazz fusion, jazz pop, and crossover jazz. Formed in 1985 by guitarist and band leader Russ Freeman, their career has spanned three decades. With a revolving door of musicians, Freeman has been the only consistent member. Many of their songs have been played during The Weather Channel's local on the 8's forecast segments. The band's mascot is a grinning, sunglasses-wearing, jazz cat which appears in the artwork of all the band's releases and on their official website. Past members have included the following artists: bassists Kim Stone, 1990–2008, Steve Bailey and Bill Lanphier; saxophone players Jeff Kashiwa, Paul Taylor, Eric Marienthal, Kenny G, Kirk Whalum, Kendyl Beck, 2002-2008, and Nelson Rangell; pianists/keyboard players Dave Kochanski, David Benoit, Gregg Karukas, Tom McMorran and Mark Portmann; drummers Tony Morales, David Anderson, Omar Hakim, and Dave Hooper; and percussionists Scott Breadman, Ray Yslas and Steve Reid. The band name was conceived by Russ Freeman after hearing friends play \"and they were ripping\", so Freeman thought of Rippingtons for a name. The band's recording career began in 1986 with the recording of \"Moonlighting\". The album was well received by critics and consumers and featured the song \"She Likes to Watch,\" which has gone on to become a staple of the band's live set and one of their signature tunes. In January 1988 the Rippingtons released \"Kilimanjaro\" and began to tour more extensively. Mark Portmann, Steve Bailey (replacing Bill Lanphier), and Jeff Kashiwa joined the band, the band then released \"Tourist in Paradise\". The tour for this album featured the group's first visit to Japan with David Benoit in 1989, where they joined the special summer concert series in Tokyo produced by Japanese saxophonist, Sadao Watanabe. In August 1990, the year bassist Kim Stone joined the group replacing Steve Bailey, the album \"Welcome to the St. James' Club\" was released and became the band's first CD to debut at #1 in the Billboard Charts. In 1991, Russ Freeman relocated to Colorado and opened Cheyenne Mountain Ranch studios. The move influenced the group's next album, \"Curves Ahead\", which featured songs based on the ski atmosphere in Colorado. Standouts include \"Aspen\" and the title track. In August 1992, the group released \"Weekend in Monaco\", which, to date, has been one of their best selling albums. After its release the group toured Europe for the first time in June 1993. The U.S. leg of the tour was documented on the album \"Live in L.A.\", with the video recorded live at The Ventura Theatre, Ventura, California on September 25, 1992 and the album recorded at The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1992. Tom McMorran joined the band in 1994 after Mark Portmann left and in August of that year the band released \"Sahara\". The following tour featured extensive dates in East Asia, where the group played Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka (Japan), and Southeast Asia including Jakarta (Indonesia), Manila (Philippines) as well as Singapore and Guam. In 1995, David Kochanski joined the group and the group made its presence known on the Internet. February 1996 saw the release of \"Brave New World\", which featured covers of \"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now,\" \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps,\" and \"Caravan of Love.\" The album was a stylistic departure for the band and included more Urban Jazz than had appeared on previous releases. Tony Morales, the original drummer, left the band in 1994 to pursue a career in web management. Morales put together the Rippingtons' first web site, which was nominated for an AOL award (Best Jazz Band Site). He later became the webmaster and manager of Silicon Graphics International's web sites for 10 years, and now has his own hosting and development business tonyhosting.com. In August 1997, the group released \"Black Diamond\", their first record on Peak Records in conjunction with Windham Hill Records. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard. In 1999 Dave Hooper and Ramon Yslas joined the Rippingtons and Jeff Kashiwa was replaced by Paul Taylor. In May 1999 the group released \"Topaz\", which featured Native American flute work by Robert Tree Cody. Topaz remains one of the group's most requested CDs. In 2000 Russ Freeman relocated to South Florida and the move was reflected thematically in \"Life in the Tropics\". This was the group's first album to be recorded digitally. In 2001 Scott Breadman, Bill Heller, Dave Karasony, and Eric Marenthial joined the group and the following tour was documented on the live album \"Live Across America\". In 2002 the group released \"Let It Ripp\", featuring the title cut, which became a hit. In 2005 the group released \"Wild Card\", which plays on their ongoing Latin influences. The album features guest vocal spots by Latin music stars Willy Chirino, Chante Moore, and Albita. In 2006, the group celebrated their 20th anniversary by releasing \"20th Anniversary\", a two disc set which includes the main CD as well as a 20th Anniversary Retrospective DVD. On March 10, 2009, the Rippingtons made a return to the contemporary jazz scene with the release of the album \"Modern Art\". A new bassist, Ricardo \"Rico\" Belled, participated in the recording of this album. \"Modern Art\" was nominated for a Grammy in the category \"Best Pop Instrumental Album.\" In October 2009, the Rippingtons returned to Japan to perform four nights (eight gigs) at the Cotton Club in Tokyo. This was their first-time return to Japan in 18 years. In 2011, the Rippingtons took listeners to the French coast with the thematic album, \"Côte D'Azur.\" The album features French, Latin, Gypsy and Euro rhythms. Saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa is featured on the album (he returned for the second album in a row.) The group released \"Built To Last\" on August 28, 2012, featuring Zakk Wylde, a full orchestra, and elements of jazz, rock, pop and country. This album was the first for the Rippingtons under its new partnership with E1 Music. The Rippingtons The Rippingtons are an American"
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"Banat Romanian dialect The Banat dialect (\"subdialectul / graiul bănățean\") is one of the dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian). Its geographic distribution extends over the Romanian Banat and parts of the Serbian Banat. The Banat dialect is a member of the northern grouping of Romanian dialects, along with the Moldavian dialect and the group of Transylvanian varieties. Features of the Banat dialect are found in southern dialects of Romanian: Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian. The Banat dialect has been long classified separately from the Transylvanian varieties, but in early studies such as those by Mozes Gaster these were sometimes grouped together as a single variety. The Banat dialect was considered separately by Heimann Tiktin, Gustav Weigand, Sextil Pușcariu (in his latter studies), Emil Petrovici, Romulus Todoran, Ion Coteanu, Alexandru Philippide, Iorgu Iordan, and others. The dialect is spoken in southwestern Romania, in the following counties: Caraș-Severin, Timiș, the southern part of Arad, and the southern part of Hunedoara. It is also spoken in the Serbian Banat. A transition area towards the Wallachian dialect is found in the northwestern of Oltenia, in the counties of Gorj and Mehedinți. Mixtures with the southern and central Transylvanian varieties are found in northeastern parts of Banat, where such a transition area is in the Hațeg Country and another one extends towards southern Crișana. The Banat dialect differs from the others by the following phonetic particularities: \"nu fugireț\" < lat. ne fugiretis, \"nu mâncareț\" (\"don't run, don't eat\" compare with standard \"nu fugiți\", \"nu mâncați\"). Banat dialect: Standard Romanian: \"Întâmplarea a fost așa: l-am luat de lanț. El mi-a pus capu-n spinare și-a plecat cu mine din perete în perete. I-am pus mâna într-un corn și cealaltă într-alt corn și m-a trântit jos.\" English translation: \"It happened like this: I took (the bull) by the chain. It pushed its head into my back and drove me from a wall to another. I grabbed its horn with one hand and its other horn with another, and it knocked me down.\" The Banat dialect is further divided into several areas, based on finer distinctions in linguistic facts: Banat Romanian dialect The Banat dialect (\"subdialectul / graiul bănățean\") is one of the dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian). Its geographic distribution extends over the Romanian Banat and parts of the Serbian Banat. The Banat dialect is a member of the northern grouping of Romanian dialects, along with the"
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"Tokyo International Anime Fair The Tokyo International Anime Fair also known as was one of the largest anime trade fairs in the world, held annually in Tokyo, Japan. The first event was held in 2002 as \"Tokyo International Anime Fair 21\". The event was held at Tokyo Big Sight, a convention and exhibition center in Tokyo Bay, in late March. Usually, the first one or two days of the fair were weekdays and the entrance was open only to industry members and the press; the last two days were scheduled on the weekend and the fair was open to the public. Besides being an international trade fair, the TAF included related events such as business symposia and other events. Notably, the Tokyo Anime Awards were given for domestic and foreign creations and creators in the event with the name of the event. The event was supported by the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs of Tokyo. Although the event did not have a long history, it and its prizes were recognized in the industry. In 2014, it was merged with the Anime Contents Expo to form AnimeJapan. This table shows the number of visitors and participants: In December 2010 a group of ten large manga publishers known as the announced plans to boycott the 2011 event. The boycott was in protest at revisions to the Tokyo Youth Development Ordinance that increased regulation of manga and anime sales to under-18 year olds. This was seen as a deliberate snub of Shintaro Ishihara, who was closely associated with both TAF and the changes to the law. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan had expressed concern about the impact of the boycott and urged the parties involved to work towards resolving the situation. Due to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, it was announced five days later, that the 2011 event would be canceled. In addition, Tokyo Big Sight, where the event was held annually, suffered unspecified damage during the quake in the Tokyo area. Tokyo International Anime Fair The Tokyo International Anime Fair also known as was one of the largest anime trade fairs in the world, held annually in Tokyo, Japan. The first event was held in 2002 as \"Tokyo International Anime Fair 21\". The event was held at Tokyo Big Sight, a convention and exhibition center in Tokyo Bay, in late"
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"Dawndraco Dawndraco is a controversial genus of pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is likely synonymous with the contemporary pteranodontid \"Pteranodon sternbergi\". \"'Dawndraco\"' was named by Alexander W.A. Kellner in 2010. The type species is \"Dawndraco kanzai\". The generic name combines the Dawn deity of the Iroquois with a Latin \"draco\", \"dragon\". The specific name refers to the Kanza tribe of Kansas. \"'Dawndraco is based on the holotype specimen UALVP 24238\"', a partial skeleton including an almost complete skull and lower jaws. It was recovered in 1974 by Richard C. Fox and Allen Lindoe from rocks of the lower part of the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation in Utica, Kansas. These rocks date to the late Coniacian or early Santonian stage, about 86 million years ago. The specimen was earlier referred to \"Pteranodon sternbergi\". However, when Kellner in 2010 assigned this latter species to the genus \"Geosternbergia\", he concluded that specimen UALVP 24238 was too different from it to be accounted for by individual variation or sexual dimorphism and therefore named a separate genus. A unique trait is that the snout does not strongly taper anteriorly as with \"Pteranodon\", the upper and lower margins running almost parallel instead. Kellner further argued that the provenance of the specimen - from rock units between those of other \"Pteranodon\" holotypes - supported his interpretation of morphological differences as being taxonomic in nature, rather than relating to growth or gender. \"'Dawndraco\"' was assigned by Kellner to the Pteranodontidae. In a detailed description and discussion of UALVP 24238, Martin-Silverstone \"et al.\" (2017) concluded that '\"D. kanzai'\" was not a distinct genus or species from \"Pteranodon.\" They showed that its taxonomic characterisations were suspect or erroneous, and that stratigraphic arguments used to further distinguish '\"D. kanzai\"' from other pteranodontids were questionable when compared to the geologic ranges of other Smoky Hill Chalk species. They concluded that UALVP 24238 is better interpreted as a small (not fully osteologically mature) individual of the larger size-class (male) of \"Pteranodon sternbergi\". Their interpretation echoes sceptism expressed about the 2010 \"Pteranodon\" revision from other palaeontologists, several of whom have continued to use pre-2010 taxonomies when discussing the Smoky Hill Chalk pteranodonts. In 2014, Andres, Clark, and Xu stated that they would continue to follow the pre-2010 taxonomy of pteranodontids, and referred the new species named by Kellner, including \"Dawndraco\", back to their original classifications following Bennett. Dawndraco Dawndraco is a controversial genus of pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is likely synonymous with the contemporary pteranodontid \"Pteranodon sternbergi\". \"'Dawndraco\"' was named by Alexander W.A. Kellner in 2010. The type species is \"Dawndraco kanzai\". The generic name combines the Dawn deity of the Iroquois with a Latin \"draco\", \"dragon\". The specific name refers to the Kanza tribe of Kansas. \"'Dawndraco is based on the holotype specimen UALVP 24238\"', a partial skeleton including an almost complete skull and lower jaws. It was recovered in 1974 by Richard C. Fox and Allen Lindoe"
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"No. 179 Squadron RAF No. 179 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron that was a maritime patrol/anti-submarine warfare unit in World War II. The Squadron was supplied with Leigh light equipped Wellingtons from a flight of No. 172 Squadron RAF on 1 September 1942. It was then stationed at Gibraltar, before operating patrols from airfields in the United Kingdom including RAF Chivenor, RAF Benbecula, RAF Predannack and RAF St Eval in Cornwall. In November 1944 the squadron converted to Warwick aircraft and in February 1946 one element of the squadron (179X) converted to Lancasters, while 179Y retained the Warwicks before it was renumbered No. 210 Squadron RAF. No 179 squadron was finally disbanded on 30 September 1946. No. 179 Squadron RAF No. 179 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron that was a maritime patrol/anti-submarine warfare unit in World War II. The Squadron was supplied with Leigh light equipped Wellingtons from a flight of No. 172 Squadron RAF on 1 September 1942. It was then stationed at Gibraltar, before operating patrols from airfields in the United Kingdom including RAF Chivenor, RAF Benbecula, RAF Predannack and RAF St Eval in Cornwall. In November 1944 the squadron converted to"
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"Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine is a free and public online reference library launched on 20 November 2008. Its purpose is to provide expert support to obstetricians, gynecologists, and reproductive health professionals. The site is contributed to by over 750 specialists and its main feature is 446 specially commissioned chapters on most aspects of women's medicine, constantly reviewed and updated. The site also includes a section on laboratory tests, a video library of surgical procedures, a collection of color atlases of visual medicine, lectures, and sections on safer motherhood and women's reproductive rights. There is also an interactive option, allowing specialists to submit their own commentaries for peer review. The editor-in-chief is Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, who succeeded John J. Sciarra (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University). The website has been certified to be \"fully compliant with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information\" by the Health On the Net Foundation. Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine is a free and public online reference library launched on 20 November 2008. Its purpose is to provide expert support to obstetricians, gynecologists, and reproductive health professionals. The site is contributed to by over"
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"Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment () is a department of the Government of Ireland that is responsible for the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors and regulates, protects and develops the natural resources of Ireland. The head of the department is the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment who is assisted by one Minister of State. The official headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are in 29–31 Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. The departmental team consists of the following: The Department of Fisheries was created in 1921. Over the years its name and functions have changed several times. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment is subdivided into the following divisions: Among the State Agencies and other bodies affiliated to the Department in some way are: Among the state-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland under the aegis of the Minister are: Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment () is a department of the Government of Ireland that is responsible for the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors and regulates, protects and develops the natural resources of Ireland. The head of the department"
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"Water Missions International Water Mission (previously known as Water Missions International) is a nonprofit, Christian engineering organization based in North Charleston, South Carolina, USA that designs, builds and implements safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission claims to have provided access to safe water for more than 3 million people in 52 countries. Water Mission has over 200 staff members working around the world in permanent country programs located in Africa, Asia, North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. In 1998, under the direction of George and Molly Greene, General Engineering Laboratories responded to the devastation in Honduras caused by Hurricane Mitch. They designed, constructed and delivered six drinking water treatment units, each capable of producing safe drinking water at the rate of 10 gallons per minute. Within three weeks of the hurricane, sixteen volunteers from the company were in remote locations of Honduras setting up these water treatment units. This initial effort was called \"Project Living Water\" and the water treatment unit became known as the Living Water Treatment System (LWTS). Most recently, they responded to the 2015 Nepal earthquake, with both Living Water Treatment Systems and Erosion Chlorinators being installed at numerous locations throughout Kathmandu and the surrounding area. Out of this effort, Water Mission was founded. George and Molly went on to sell General Engineering Laboratories and Water Missions International was officially established as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2001. WMI now has country programs with full-time staff located in Belize, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, and Uganda. \"In 2004, the water mission sent more than 100 purification systems to communities in Indonesia and Sri Lanka after the deadly tsunami, restoring drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people.\" They responded to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, with both Living Water Treatment Systems and Erosion Chlorinators being installed at numerous locations throughout Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. Water Missions International Water Mission (previously known as Water Missions International) is a nonprofit, Christian engineering organization based in North Charleston, South Carolina, USA that designs, builds and implements safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission claims to have provided access to safe water for more than 3 million people in 52 countries. Water Mission has over 200 staff members working around the world in permanent"
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"Labor Party (Stronnictwo Pracy) Stronnictwo Pracy () was a Polish Christian democratic political party, active from 1937 in the Second Polish Republic and later part of the Polish government in exile. Its founders and main activists were Wojciech Korfanty and Karol Popiel. The party continued its operations as part of the Polish Underground State during World War II (when it was code-named \"Romb\"). Two politicians of the party served as heads of the Government Delegation for Poland, the civilian representatives of the Polish Underground State within occupied Poland, Cyryl Ratajski (1940–1942) and Jan Jankowski (1943–1945). The party was disbanded in 1946, with the rise of the People's Republic of Poland. Some of its members remained active in the underground until the 1950s, while others joined the Democratic Party (Poland) (\"Stronnictwo Demokratyczne\"), an officially sanctioned \"opposition\" party in communist Poland, also described as a \"satellite\" party of the communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). In 1989, after the fall of communism in Poland, an attempt was made to revive the party under the name Christian Democratic Labour Party. The party should be distinguished from the Labour Party (Partia Pracy) of the same period. Labor Party (Stronnictwo Pracy) Stronnictwo Pracy () was"
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"Uniopolis, Ohio Uniopolis is an unincorporated community and former village in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. In 2013, voters chose to disincorporate Uniopolis into Union Township. The community is served by the Wapakoneta City School District. Uniopolis was founded in 1837. Its village hall, now a museum, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Uniopolis is located at (40.601985, -84.086537). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village had a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 222 people, 83 households, and 64 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 96 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 100.0% White. There were 83 households of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.1% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 22.9% were non-families. 16.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 3.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 2.97. The median age in the village was 41.5 years. 18.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 11.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24% were from 25 to 44; 28.5% were from 45 to 64; and 17.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 52.3% male and 47.7% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 256 people, 88 households, and 77 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,640.3 people per square mile (617.8/km²). There were 93 housing units at an average density of 595.9 per square mile (224.4/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.83% White, 0.39% African American, 0.39% Native American, and 0.39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.17% of the population. There were 88 households out of which 44.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.6% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 12.5% were non-families. 10.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 3.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.91 and the average family size was 3.08. In the village the population was spread out with 30.1% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 18.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 113.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 113.1 males. The median income for a household in the village was $37,083, and the median income for a family was $38,750. Males had a median income of $30,909 versus $24,375 for females. The per capita income for the village was $16,099. None of the population or families were below the poverty line. Uniopolis, Ohio Uniopolis is an unincorporated community and former village in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. In 2013, voters chose to disincorporate Uniopolis into Union Township. The community is served by the Wapakoneta"
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"Webster Bank Arena The Webster Bank Arena (formerly The Arena at Harbor Yard) is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena at 600 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, built alongside The Ballpark at Harbor Yard. The Arena opened on October 10, 2001 and is managed by Harbor Yard Sports and Entertainment. Webster Bank entered into a 10-year $3.5 million agreement with the City of Bridgeport for naming rights of the Arena on January 6, 2011. The Arena houses 33 executive suites, 1,300 club seats, 3 hospitality suites and a Sony Jumbotron serving as a scoreboard. The Arena offers luxury boxes to corporate sponsors. The Arena is home to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League. Starting in 2013, the Arena hosted regular season Connecticut Huskies Men's and Women's Basketball games. The UConn Men's Hockey team, a new member of Hockey East, were also scheduled to play five regular season games in Bridgeport during the 2014–15 season. Webster Bank Arena is home to the Fairfield Stags men's and women's college basketball teams representing Fairfield University. Fairfield is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) where the Stags annually compete against perennial MAAC powers including the Iona Gaels, the 1995 and 2004 NCAA Tournament Cinderella Manhattan Jaspers, the Niagara Purple Eagles, and the 2008 and 2009 NCAA Tournament Cinderella Siena Saints. The Arena was the site of the men's two postseason appearances in the National Invitation Tournament. During the first round of the 2003 National Invitation Tournament, the Stags, led by the nation's blocked shots leader Deng Gai and Nick Delfico played the Boston College Eagles featuring future NBA players Troy Bell and Craig Smith. And during the second round of the 2011 National Invitation Tournament, the Stags, led by head coach Ed Cooley and Derek Needham played the Kent State Golden Flashes. In recent years, Fairfield has brought several perennial national college basketball powers to the Arena including the Georgetown Hoyas, Providence Friars and St. Joseph's Hawks. The Arena at Harbor Yard hosted the inaugural Connecticut 6 Classic, a men's college basketball tripleheader featuring Connecticut's six mid-major teams, on November 13, 2009. The Sacred Heart Pioneers defeated the Yale Bulldogs 92–86 in the tip-off game of the night. The Fairfield Stags defeated the Central Connecticut Blue Devils 67–58 in game two, and the night concluded with the Quinnipiac Bobcats defeating the Hartford Hawks 85–74. The Arena and Fairfield University along with the City of Bridgeport and the Fairfield County Sports Commission have hosted the MAAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships two times. The MAAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships features all 20 of the league's teams competing for an automatic berth in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship. In 2007, the Niagara Purple Eagles defeated the Siena Saints to win the 2007 MAAC Men's Basketball Championships and the Marist Red Foxes defeated the Iona Gaels to win the 2007 MAAC Women's Basketball Championship. And in 2011, the St. Peter's Peacocks defeated the Iona Gaels to win the 2011 MAAC Men's Basketball Championships and the Marist Red Foxes defeated the Loyola Greyhounds to win the 2011 MAAC Women's Basketball Championship. The Arena and Fairfield University along with the City of Bridgeport and the Fairfield County Sports Commission have brought the First and Second Rounds of NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship to the Arena three times since 2004. The 2004 Tournament featured the Auburn Tigers, Connecticut Huskies, Penn Quakers and North Carolina State Wolfpack. The Connecticut Huskies defeated the Auburn Tigers to win the 2004 Bridgeport Regional en route to winning the 2004 Tournament and being crowned National Champions. The 2006 Tournament featured the Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Georgia Bulldogs and Michigan State Spartans. The Duke Blue Devils defeated the Connecticut Huskies to win the 2006 Bridgeport Regional before advancing to the Final Four of the 2006 Tournament. And the 2008 Tournament featured the Connecticut Huskies, Cornell Big Red, Minnesota Gophers and Texas Longhorns. The Connecticut Huskies defeated the Texas Longhorns to win the 2008 Bridgeport Regional before advancing to the Final Four of the 2008 Tournament. The Arena was the site of the Bridgeport Subregional during the 2012 Tournament and the Bridgeport Regional for the 2013 Tournament, 2016 Tournament and 2017 Tournament. The Arena has joined Fairfield University and Yale University in co-hosting the East Regional of the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship three times. The 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament featured the Air Force Falcons, Michigan Wolverines, Vermont Catamounts and Yale Bulldogs. The Vermont Catamounts won a dramatic double overtime game against the Air Force Falcons to win the East Regional and advance to the 2009 Frozen Four. The 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament featured the Air Force Falcons, Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, Union Dutchmen and Yale Bulldogs. The eventual 2011 National Champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs upset the top seeded Yale Bulldogs to win the East Regional and advance to the 2011 Frozen Four. In 2012, the Union Dutchmen defeated UMass Lowell Riverhawks to advance to the Frozen Four. The Arena hosted again in 2014. Most recently, in 2018, the top-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat the second-seeded Providence Friars to win the East Regional; the Michigan Tech Huskies and Clarkson Golden Knights also participated. In conjunction with Webster Bank Arena hosting the MAAC and NCAA basketball and hockey tournaments, the Park City SportsFest has become an annual tradition in Downtown Bridgeport. SportsFest is a free, multi-venue fan festival. During SportsFest, the City of Bridgeport closes off a portion of Main Street from its intersection with State Street to the Arena in order to house the events. The SportsFest is organized by the Fairfield County Sports Commission and presented by People's United Bank. Webster Bank Arena is home to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) and the AHL affiliate of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Sound Tigers joined the AHL in 2001, and the first event at the Arena was a Bridgeport Sound Tigers game on October 10, 2001. The franchise's lease at Webster Bank Arena runs through the 2021 season. During their inaugural season, the Sound Tigers won a division championship and made the Calder Cup Finals where they lost to the Chicago Wolves four games to one. The team has experienced seven winning seasons through the 2009 season. On September 30, 2006, the Arena at Harbor Yard hosted an NHL preseason game between the New Jersey Devils and the New York Islanders. The Islanders defeated the Devils, 3–0. And on October 1, 2011, the Arena at Harbor Yard hosted an NHL preseason game between the 2011 Stanley Cup Champions Boston Bruins and the New York Islanders. The Bruins defeated the Islanders 3–2. On October 3, 2014, the Boston Bruins and the New York Islanders played an NHL preseason game at Webster Bank Arena. On October 1, 2016, the NHL will host another Islanders preseason game, this time against the Washington Capitals. On September 22, 2017 the Islanders will host the Rangers in a preseason game. On October 18, 2003, the Arena at Harbor Yard hosted an NBA preseason game between the New Jersey Nets and the Toronto Raptors. The Nets defeated the Raptors 93-77. On October 15, 2005, the Arena at Harbor Yard also hosted an NBA pre-season game between the New Jersey Nets and the New York Knicks. The Knicks defeated the Nets 93-84 in the contest. The Webster Bank Arena's list of concerts includes: The Arena hosted the 15th anniversary edition of \"WWE Raw\" on December 10, 2007. On",
"On October 3, 2014, the Boston Bruins and the New York Islanders played an NHL preseason game at Webster Bank Arena. On October 1, 2016, the NHL will host another Islanders preseason game, this time against the Washington Capitals. On September 22, 2017 the Islanders will host the Rangers in a preseason game. On October 18, 2003, the Arena at Harbor Yard hosted an NBA preseason game between the New Jersey Nets and the Toronto Raptors. The Nets defeated the Raptors 93-77. On October 15, 2005, the Arena at Harbor Yard also hosted an NBA pre-season game between the New Jersey Nets and the New York Knicks. The Knicks defeated the Nets 93-84 in the contest. The Webster Bank Arena's list of concerts includes: The Arena hosted the 15th anniversary edition of \"WWE Raw\" on December 10, 2007. On October 30, 2010, the President of the United States Barack Obama joined Democratic Party candidates, including former Stamford Mayor and candidate for Governor Dan Malloy, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Jim Himes at a \"Moving America Forward Rally\" at the Arena at Harbor Yard. Webster Bank Arena The Webster Bank Arena (formerly The Arena at Harbor Yard) is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena at 600 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, built alongside The Ballpark at Harbor Yard. The Arena opened on October 10, 2001 and is managed by Harbor Yard Sports and Entertainment. Webster Bank entered into a 10-year $3.5 million agreement with the City of Bridgeport for naming rights of the Arena on January 6, 2011. The Arena houses 33 executive suites, 1,300 club seats, 3 hospitality"
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"During the initial broadcast of the second series, several accusations were made in relation to unfair conduct, in which the show was criticised for allowing a professional group of performers to take part. The group in question, Escala, was noted in the media for having already performed during The X Factor wrap party in late 2007, before being invited to take part in the competition by by Simon Cowell after the party. While the band had already been involved in a legal matter over their initial name of \"Scala\" when they auditioned, after it was found to be already in use by a female voice choir in Belgium, ITV refuted the accusations highlighted by the media, stating that they had gone through \"the same application and audition process as everyone else\", and that the programme was open to any performer \"be it professional or amateur, with any talent\". \n Semi-Finalist | Order | Act | Buzzes and judges' votes | Result \n---|---|---|---|--- \n0! Cowell | 0! Holden | 0! Morgan \nJames Stone | | Singer | | | | Eliminated \nCharlie Wernham | | Stand-up Comedian | | | | Eliminated \nHarlequin Stage School | | Dance Group | | | | Eliminated \nAndrew Muir | | Singer | | | | 2nd (Won Judges' vote) \nThe Boogie Babes | 5 | Dance Group | | | | Eliminated \nVizage | 6 | Quick-change | | | | Eliminated \nJeremy Lynch | 7 | Football Player | | | | 3rd (Lost Judges' vote) \nFaryl Smith | 8 | Classical Singer | | | | 1st (won public vote) \n Semi-Finalist | Order | Act | Buzzes and judges' votes | Result \n---|---|---|---|--- \n0! Cowell | 0! Holden | 0! Morgan \nIrresistible | | Vocal Group | | | | Eliminated \nStrike | | Martial Artists | | | | 2nd (Won Judges' vote) \nMary Halford March | | Dance Group | | | | Eliminated \nThe Deans of Magic | | Magician | | | | Eliminated \nCharlie Green | 5 | Singer | | | | 3rd (Lost Judges' vote) \nUrban Gypsies | 6 | Belly Dancing Group | | | | Eliminated \nHoop La La | 7 | Hula Hoop Performers | | | | Eliminated \nGeorge Sampson | 8 | Breakdancer | | | | 1st (Won Public vote) \n Following open auditions held the previous year, the Judge's Auditions took place early in 2008, within London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Blackpool. Of the participants that took part, only forty made it past this stage and into the five live semi-finals, with eight appearing in each one, and ten of these acts making it into the live final. The following below lists the results of each participant's overall performance in this series:\n * ^ 1 Ages denoted here are for their last performance in the series.",
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"Aubert Y. Coran Aubert Y. Coran is an American scientist noted for his contributions to the development of rubber. In 1983, he won the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, bestowed by the American Chemical Society to individuals \"who have exhibited exceptional technical competency by making significant and repeated contributions to rubber science and technology\". In 1995, the rubber division of the American Chemical Society bestowed on Coran the Charles Goodyear Medal in honor of his international contributions to polymer science and development. Born 24 March 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1955, Coran received a Master of Science Degree from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, L'Universite De Haute Alsace. He returned to the school in 1990, completing a PhD in physical chemistry in 1992. After receiving his MS, Coran went to work for Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri, remaining with the company until his retirement in 1991. During his time with Monsanto, he researched the use of sulfur and accelerators in vulcanizing rubber and helped develop Santoprene, Santogard PVA and Vocol accelerator. After his retirement from Monsanto, he took a position with the Institute of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, managing the EPIC-M.A. Hanna Polymer Blending and Compounding Center. In the mid-1990s, A.N. Gent wrote that Goodyear had \"played the leading role in the remarkable progress made [in rubber vulcanization] since about 1960.\" After departing the University of Akron in September 1991, Coran established a consultancy headquartered in Longboat, Florida. Coran has received three awards from the American Chemical Society. In 1980, its Detroit division bestowed on him the Thomas Midgley award. In 1983, he received the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award. In 1995, the rubber division honored him with the Charles Goodyear Medal. He has also been acknowledged by the Plastics and Rubber Institute, which gave him its Colwyn medal in 1984. Aubert Y. Coran Aubert Y. Coran is an American scientist noted for his contributions to the development of rubber. In 1983, he won the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, bestowed by the American Chemical Society to individuals \"who have exhibited exceptional technical competency by making significant and repeated contributions to rubber science and technology\". In 1995, the rubber division of the American Chemical Society bestowed on Coran the Charles Goodyear Medal in honor of his international contributions to polymer science and development. Born 24 March 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1955, Coran"
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"Brandon Allen (soccer) Brandon Allen (born October 8, 1993) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a forward for Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USL Championship. Allen is the younger brother of soccer player R. J. Allen. Allen attended St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, NJ where he scored 118 goals throughout his four-year varsity career. During his time in high school he was also a member of the New York Red Bulls' academy program where he scored 28 goals during the 2010-2011 season followed by 27 goals in 2011-2012. During his tenure at Georgetown, Allen was a standout player where he earned All-American honors three times and was named as a finalist for the Hermann Trophy in 2015. At the conclusion of his 91-game career with the Hoyas, Allen recorded 50 goals and 17 assists, making him the all-time leading scorer in school history. Allen was also a member of the 2014 Baltimore Bohemians in the Premier Development League. On December 21, 2015, Allen signed a Homegrown Contract with the New York Red Bulls, where he stated in his first interview with the club, \"I've waited a long time for this, all my life, but I enjoyed my college career and a lot of my success came from my teammates and my senior class was a big part of my success so I want to thank them. I'm very excited to get started here at the Red Bulls.\" He joins former academy and New York Red Bulls II players, Derrick Etienne and Tyler Adams as the third homegrown player signing this season, and adds to a league high of seven on the club for 2016. Allen made his professional debut for New York Red Bulls II on March 26, scoring two goals in a 2-2 draw against Toronto FC II. The following week, Allen scored another goal for the club in a 2-0 victory against Louisville City FC. On May 28, Allen made his first team debut, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 3-0 victory against Toronto FC. On July 9, Allen scored his first professional hat trick in a 4-2 victory against FC Montreal. He was later awarded as the USL Player of the Week for his performance. On October 2, 2016, Long scored his sixteenth of the season to help New York Red Bulls II advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2016 USL Playoffs in a 4-0 victory over Orlando City B. 2016 USL Cup Final. For his performance he was named USL Cup Final MVP. On October 18, 2016 Allen was named to the 2016 USL All-League First Team after leading New York with 21 goals in all competitions. On November 3, 2016 it was announced that Allen was voted as the 2016 USL Rookie of the Year. On 6 May 2017, Allen recorded his first two-goal game of the season for New York Red Bulls II , netting on two penalty kicks, in a 3-1 victory over Harrisburg City Islanders. In July 2017, Allen secured a loan move to Minnesota United FC until the conclusion of the 2017 season. Looking for more playing time, Allen would only register one league appearance for the Loons. On January 8, 2018, Allen signed with United Soccer League side Bethlehem Steel. On May 22, 2018, USL side Nashville SC announced they had paid a transfer fee for Brandon Allen. On November 14, 2018, Nashville announced that they had not re-signed Allen for the 2019 season. On December 5, 2018, Allen signed with USL Championship side Tampa Bay Rowdies. Allen represented the United States at multiple levels including the U-18 and U-20 squads. New York Red Bulls II Brandon Allen (soccer) Brandon Allen (born October 8, 1993) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a forward for Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USL Championship. Allen is the younger brother of soccer player R. J. Allen. Allen attended St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, NJ where he scored 118 goals throughout his four-year varsity career. During his time in high school he was also a member of the New York Red Bulls' academy program where he scored 28 goals during the 2010-2011 season"
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"London Record Society The London Record Society is a text publication society founded in 1964 whose objectives are to stimulate public interest in archives and similar historical material relating to London. The current President of the society is the Lord Mayor of London. The Society is a registered charity. The society holds an annual public lecture about London archives and publishes transcripts, translations, abstracts and lists of primary sources relating to the history of London. The society usually publishes one major scholarly work per annum which is provided free to members. Typical recent publications have included: From volume 46 onwards, the society's publications have been published by Boydell and Brewer, from whom the society's back catalogue is also available. Some of the society's older publications are available at British History Online. London Record Society The London Record Society is a text publication society founded in 1964 whose objectives are to stimulate public interest in archives and similar historical material relating to London. The current President of the society is the Lord Mayor of London. The Society is a registered charity. The society holds an annual public lecture about London archives and publishes transcripts, translations, abstracts and lists of primary sources"
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"Sister Fidelma mysteries The Sister Fidelma mysteries are a series of historical mystery novels and short stories by Peter Tremayne (pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis) about a fictional detective who is the eponymous heroine of a series. Fidelma is both a \"dalaigh\" (an advocate in the courts of the Five Kingdoms of Éireann), and Celtic nun (Ellis uses the French term \"réligieuse\"). Fidelma usually solves crimes in company with her partner (and eventually husband) Brother Eadulf, a Saxon monk (Ellis uses the French term \"réligieux\"). Though Eadulf has often been compared to Sherlock Holmes's friend Dr. Watson, he is in fact more of an equal partner to Fidelma, and usually proves essential to solving the mystery at hand (in fact, in the story of \"The Leper's Bell\" he solves one of the main problems himself). A true companion, he has saved Fidelma's life more than once. The Sister Fidelma stories are set in the middle of the 7th century, mainly in Ireland. They are historical whodunits in the literary tradition of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, the Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters, and the Judge Dee by Robert van Gulik (inspired by Gong'an fiction and by the official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty Di Renjie). Peter Tremayne's novels are extremely complex and usually feature the interaction of several subplots involving political intrigue, personal relationships, religious conflict, or characters' desires for personal or monetary gain. Fidelma was born into the royal family of Munster in the late 630s. Her father, King Failbe Fland, died c. 637/9, during Fidelma's infancy. Fidelma was raised as an Eoghanachta princess. She studied civil and criminal law, especially the brehon laws, under the supervision of Brehon Morann of Tara. During her student years, Fidelma had an unhappy love affair with Cian, a warrior of the High King's bodyguard, who eventually abandoned her to marry the daughter of the High King's steward (who, ironically, later divorced him on the grounds that he was sterile). Her pre-occupation with Cian interfered with her concentration and devotion to her studies and nearly caused her to be expelled from the Brehon Morann's classes. Emerging from the affair battered but unbowed, she applied herself wholeheartedly to her studies and eventually qualified as an \"anruth\", the second highest rank in the Irish legal system. In the novels, she pursues a career as a \"dalaigh\" to the Brehon Court of Ireland. In 659. while still studying at Brehon Morann's law school, Fidelma traveled to visit Lúach, an old friend, but found upon her arrival that Lúach had been missing for five days. Fidelma undertook an investigation into her friend's disappearance, but found more questions than answers, especially from those closest to Lúach (see the e-novella \"Lair of the White Fox\"). After her studies were complete, on the advice of her mentor Abbot Laisran of Durrow Fidelma became a nun (referred to throughout the series as a \"religieuse\"), joining St. Brigid's mixed abbey at Cill Dara (Kildare). She later left this community some time after her return from Rome for reasons outlined in the story \"Hemlock at Vespers\" and now refers to herself as \"Fidelma of Cashel\" rather than \"Sister Fidelma\". Strong-minded and independent, Fidelma often chafes at the structure of the religious life; she seems to have become a nun more as a career move (monasteries were the intellectual centres of seventh-century Ireland) than as an expression of Christian devotion. In the novel \"A Prayer for the Damned\", Fidelma considers renouncing her religious vows but decides against it. Fidelma's \"anam chara\" or \"soul friend\" (the Irish equivalent of a confessor and spiritual guide) had been her friend Liadin, as Fidelma had been to her, but Liadin later betrayed and broke her oath to Fidelma (see the short story \"At the Tent of Holofernes\" in \"Hemlock at Vespers\"). Since that time Fidelma had no real \"anam chara\", but in \"The Leper's Bell\" she realized that she had unknowingly come to regard Eadulf as her \"anam chara\" and finally recognized him as such. Even so, she continued to seek advice from clerical mentors, particularly Abbot Laisran and Brother Conchobar of Cashel. In 664, Fidelma accompanied the Irish delegation to the Synod of Whitby, where she met Brother Eadulf (quite literally running into him); later, they were asked to work together to investigate the murder of Abbess Etain of Kildare, a leading member of the Church of Columba faction (see \"Absolution by Murder\"). Following a little initial hostility on Fidelma's part towards Eadulf, the murderer was uncovered, and after the Synod concluded Fidelma and Eadulf journeyed together to Rome, where they were asked to investigate the murder of Archbishop-designate Wighard (see \"Shroud for the Archbishop\"). After the case was successfully resolved, Fidelma returned to Cashel (on the way being forced to stop at the seaport of Genua (Genoa), then traveling to the Abbey of Bobium (Bobbio Abbey) to visit her old teacher Brother Ruadán and becoming involved in the events of \"Behold a Pale Horse\"). In 665, Fidelma's cousin King Cathal Cú-cen-máthair died and Fidelma's older brother Colgu succeeded to the throne of Muman (Munster) (the historical King Colgu ruled from A.D. 665-678), and in the wake of her brother's succession Fidelma became involved in solving the murder of famed religious scholar the Venerable Dacan (see \"Suffer Little Children\"). In 666 when Fidelma was called upon to investigate the finding of a headless body in an abbey well, she also became involved with the mystery of a deserted Gaulish ship on which (she learned) Eadulf had been traveling to Cashel as an emissary of Theodore of Tarsus, the new Archbishiop of Canterbury, and from which he and the entire crew had been taken captive (see \"The Subtle Serpent\"). Returning to Cashel together after rescuing Eadulf, revealing the murderer and uncovering a plot against Munster, Fidelma and Eadulf soon became nearly inseparable (see \"The Spider's Web\", \"Valley of the Shadow\" [at which time Fidelma was made a member of the \"Nasc Naidh\", an elite corps of bodyguards to the kings of Munster, by King Colgu and became entitled to wear the golden \"torc\" of that order] and \"The Monk Who Vanished\"). After nearly a year together, they again separated, with Eadulf (reluctantly) intending to return to Canterbury and Fidelma intending to go on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. James in Iberia. Events didn't go quite as planned. Fidelma had only just arrived in Iberia after a very eventful voyage (see \"Act of Mercy\") when she received a message from her brother Colgu that Eadulf had been charged with murder. Hurrying back to Ireland, she reunited with Eadulf at the Abbey of Fearna, proved his innocence and uncovered the true killer as well as the reasons behind the crime (see \"Our Lady of Darkness\"). Eadulf then convinced Fidelma to accompany him to Canterbury and then, after their business with Archbishop Theodore had been accomplished, to visit his former home of Seaxmund's Ham (see \"Smoke in the Wind\", the short story \"The Lost Eagle\" in \"Whispers of the Dead\" and \"The Haunted Abbot\"). At some point during their travels, they revealed their true feelings for and to one another, began a physical relationship (resulting in Fidelma's pregnancy) and entered into a temporary marriage of a year and a day (with Fidelma as Eadulf's \"ben charrthach\" or \"loved woman\" and Eadulf as Fidelma's \"fer comtha\"; this marriage is first mentioned in \"The Haunted Abbot\" which takes place in late December, 666). After their return to Cashel in 667, their son Alchu (\"Gentle Hound\") was born sometime between June and July of that year. The last three months of 667 turned rocky; Fidelma and Eadulf's relationship was seriously troubled by Fidelma's suffering from (but refusing to admit that she suffered from) what is now called postpartum depression. While Fidelma and Eadulf were away solving a",
"At some point during their travels, they revealed their true feelings for and to one another, began a physical relationship (resulting in Fidelma's pregnancy) and entered into a temporary marriage of a year and a day (with Fidelma as Eadulf's \"ben charrthach\" or \"loved woman\" and Eadulf as Fidelma's \"fer comtha\"; this marriage is first mentioned in \"The Haunted Abbot\" which takes place in late December, 666). After their return to Cashel in 667, their son Alchu (\"Gentle Hound\") was born sometime between June and July of that year. The last three months of 667 turned rocky; Fidelma and Eadulf's relationship was seriously troubled by Fidelma's suffering from (but refusing to admit that she suffered from) what is now called postpartum depression. While Fidelma and Eadulf were away solving a series of serial killings (see \"Badger's Moon\"), Alchu's nurse was found murdered outside the castle of Cashel and little Alchu was missing, believed to have been kidnapped. Despite objections that they were too emotionally involved to investigate properly and what turned out to be a false trail meant to implicate the Uí Fidgente, Eadulf was able to track down and recover Alchu and Fidelma uncovered the real reason why Alchu's nurse had been murdered (see \"The Leper's Bell\"). In February 668, they celebrated a permanent marriage, despite the interruption caused by their investigation into the murder of Abbot Ultan of Cill Ria (Kilrea) (see \"A Prayer for the Damned\"). After the events of \"Dancing with Demons\" in the winter of 669-670, Eadulf was made a member of the \"Nasc Naidh\". Fidelma became increasingly involved in Irish court politics and diplomacy, including thwarting several plots against the kingdom of Munster, solving the murder of the High King Sechnassach (see \"Dancing with Demons\") and, although originally requested to act as advisor to the Irish delegation to the Council of Autun summoned by Bishop Leodegar in 670, uncovering the murderer of the Abbot Dabhoc of Tulach Oc at that council (see \"The Council of the Cursed\"). She and Eadulf were returning to Muman by sea in the company of Fidelma's cousin Bressel when their ship was attacked off the coast of Armorica and Bressel was brutally murdered, along with some of the ship's crew. After uncovering both the person responsible and a plot to assassinate the Breton king (see \"The Dove of Death\"), Fidelma decided to renounce her religious vows and become full-time legal advisor to her brother, a decision she believed Eadulf would support. Her belief proved wrong and led to a bitter quarrel between them, resulting in a physical separation with Fidelma remaining in Cashel and Eadulf going to the abbey of Ruan. During the weeks of the separation and due to Muman's Chief Brehon Baithen's intentions of retiring because of a serious (ultimately fatal) illness, Fidelma became determined to succeed Baithen as Chief Brehon and Colgu agreed to have her name submitted among the other candidates (although he informed her that he must remain neutral and that the final decision must lie with the Council of Brehons). The murder of Brother Donnchad at the abbey of Lios Mor led Colgu and Abbot Segdae to send Fidelma to investigate but on the condition that Eadulf accompany and assist her (see \"The Chalice of Blood\"). Although they were able to work together as before, the breach was evident and after the investigation was successfully concluded, Fidelma followed through with her decision/ambition and left the religious. Unfortunately, although her name was submitted, Brehon Aedo was elected as Muman's Chief Brehon, a decision which Fidelma took very hard (although publicly she supported the decision), and Eadulf (who had finally accepted her decision to leave the religious, although he himself remained a Brother) was extremely relieved when she agreed to undertake the investigation of an unknown found body, which led towards uncovering another plot against Muman and an unexpected traitor within Fidelma's own family (see \"The Seventh Trumpet\"). However, Fidelma eventually concluded that the role and duties of Chief Brehon of Muman were not for her and decided to remain a \"dalaigh\", although she continued to be Colgu's legal advisor. In November 670, Colgu was nearly assassinated by a mysterious religieux but survived, although badly wounded; the assassin also killed Chief Brehon Aedo, who had tried to protect Colgu. The would-be assassin was killed, but the initial investigation into the motive for the attack (originally handled by Deputy Chief Brehon Aillin) seemed to point towards the Uí Fidgente, and so, with the approval of Colgu's \"tanaiste\" (heir apparent) Finguine, Fidelma and Eadulf traveled into enemy territory to continue their investigation and uncovered not only the reason for the attack on Colgu but also a plot against the Uí Fidgente from within their own ruling family (see \"Atonement of Blood\"). In February 671, Colgu had recovered from his wound and Fidelma and Eadulf had been living somewhat peacefully in Cashel when an Anglo-Saxon deputation led by the Venerable Verax, brother of Pope Vitalian, and the arrogant Bishop Arwald of Magonsaete arrived at Cashel to debate the possible establishment by Rome of an Archbishopric in Ireland and which primacy in the Five Kingdoms might be considered as its seat. Matters took a serious turn even before the debate began by the murder of Brother Cerdic, the delegation's emissary, before the delegation's arrival and became even more complicated by the discovery on the banks of the River Siur of three murdered men, one of whom was identified as The Venerable Vitricius of Palestrina, and that the only survivor was Eadulf's younger brother Egric. The debate quickly turned hostile; shortly afterwards, an attempt was made on Fidelma and Eadulf's lives and more murders were committed, including those of Rudgal (the man suspected of leading the attack on The Venerable Vitricius), of Sister Dianaihm (the \"bann-mhoar\" or female steward of Abbess Lioch of Cill Naile (Killenaule), who had been asked to attend the debate) and of Egric. With Muman's honor at stake Fidelma and Eadulf had to somehow unravel the truth and the reasons for so many killings (see \"The Devil's Seal\"). In May 671, preparations for the Great Fair of Bealtain in Cashel took a sinister turn when Eadulf and Aidan while returning to Cashel came across a partially burned wagon containing two bodies, one female (the driver of the wagon) disguised in male clothing and inside the wagon one male who appeared to have been dead for several days. Further examination determined the burning to be a case of arson and the two deaths due to poisoning. The investigation took Fidelma and Eadulf to Osraige and to the Abbey of Cainnech, where they strove to uncover the secrets of both the Golden Stone and the mysterious Fellowship of the Raven (see \"The Second Death\"). In June 671, Fidelma and Eadulf were horrified to learn from Colgu that Abbot Segdae had been murdered while at the fortress of Prince Donennach of the Ui Fidgente. In the absence of Muman's Chief Brehon, Colgu immediately dispatched Fidelma and Eadulf; upon their arrival, they learned to their shock that their companion Gorman, who had been found at the scene of the crime, was being held as the chief suspect and that the Ui Fidgente religious, led by the vicious and vindictive Abbot Nannid of Mungairit, were demanding Gorman's death as punishment according to the Penitentials. With the backing of both Prince Donennach and the Ui Fidgente Chief Brehon Faolchair, Fidelma and Eadulf immediately began an investigation, mindful of the fact that any misstep on Fidelma's part could not only result in Gorman's execution but also spark both a civil upheaval within the Ui Fidgente and a war against Cashel (see \"Penance of the Damned\"). In November 671, just before the eve of the feast of Samhain, Eadulf and Aidan discovered a man murdered in an unlit pyre, dressed in the",
"learned to their shock that their companion Gorman, who had been found at the scene of the crime, was being held as the chief suspect and that the Ui Fidgente religious, led by the vicious and vindictive Abbot Nannid of Mungairit, were demanding Gorman's death as punishment according to the Penitentials. With the backing of both Prince Donennach and the Ui Fidgente Chief Brehon Faolchair, Fidelma and Eadulf immediately began an investigation, mindful of the fact that any misstep on Fidelma's part could not only result in Gorman's execution but also spark both a civil upheaval within the Ui Fidgente and a war against Cashel (see \"Penance of the Damned\"). In November 671, just before the eve of the feast of Samhain, Eadulf and Aidan discovered a man murdered in an unlit pyre, dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic \"three deaths\". When a strange woman known as \"Brancheó\" appeared in a raven-feather cloak foretelling of the ancient gods returning to exact revenge upon the mortal world, she was quickly branded a suspect. In their search for the killer, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf discovered that their investigation was linked to a book stolen from the Papal Secret Archives which could destroy the New Faith in the Five Kingdoms (see \"Night of the Lightbringer\"). As 671 drew to a close, Fidelma traveled to the Abbey of Finnbarr on a personal secret mission to question the abbot, but found that he had been murdered and the suspect, a young girl, had fled. In spite of Fidelma's refusal to reveal her real purposes (which she had sworn an oath not to reveal) to Eadulf and her other companions, they agreed to accompany her on this investigation. However, vicious rumors began to circulate of a plot by Fidelma's family, the Eoghannacht, to murder the High King and kidnap his wife, and Fidelma's refusal to confide even in Eadulf meant that not only that Fidelma's life was in danger but also that she would be truly on her own to face what was to happen (see \"Bloodmoon\"). In 675, Fidelma received a letter telling of the ultimate fates of Bishop Leodegar and some of those connected with the 670 Council of Autun (see the epilogue of \"The Council of the Cursed\"). Because of the death of her parents at an early age, Fidelma grew up quite independent and self-reliant; at times she refuses to delegate gathering of evidence to anyone, even Eadfulf (although she does admit that Eadulf's \"mind was just as sharp and penetrating as her own.\" - \"The Council of the Cursed\"). However, she suffered many betrayals in the past (Cian, Liadin, Abbess Ita of Cill Dara) so that she became extremely cautious with her emotions and it is not easy for her to become close to people; it took quite a long time for her to fully realize her feelings for Eadulf, and her only close female friend/confidente is Della, a former prostitute (it is to Della that she turns to for comfort and counsel when she believes her marriage to Eadulf is in danger of falling apart). She also admits quite freely that one of her worst faults is her temper, and she is constantly amazed that Eadulf shows so much patience with her: \"She knew that she could not really contemplate an existence without Eadulf's support. Who else would tolerate her sharp temper, which she accepted was her biggest fault?\" \"(The Chalice of Blood)\" However, in spite of her self-confessed shortcomings, she has proven herself to be devoted to family and friends and a caring and loving wife and mother (although she does wish that her duties as a \"dalaigh\" didn't cause her to be away from her son so often and for so long). Brother Eadulf has appeared in all but three of the \"Sister Fidelma\" series of mystery novels, set in 7th-century Ireland. An Angle by birth from Seaxmund's Ham (today \"Saxmundham\") in the Kingdom of East Anglia (Eadulf refers to himself as an \"Angle\", while almost everybody else refers to him as \"Saxon\", much to his annoyance), Eadulf was raised as a hereditary \"gerefa\", or reeve, of his people. Eadulf was converted to Christianity by an Irish monk named Fursa sometime before the novels begin and subsequently educated in Ireland, studying first at Daru (Durrow) then medicine at the great medical school of Tuaim Brecain. He then undertook a pilgrimage to Rome to understand the differences between the ideas of the Church of Rome and those of the Church of Ireland, remaining there studying for two years and returning as a follower of Rome. In the novel \"The Devil's Seal\", it is learned that he has a younger brother Egric, who, although both brothers were converted to Christianity, chose to follow the path of the warrior and that due to lack of news about him Eadulf believed Egric to be dead. It is also learned in the same novel that Eadulf's mother died from ergot poisoning when Eadulf was fifteen and that his father died from the Yellow Plague three years later. In the novel \"Absolution by Murder\", which is set during the Synod of Whitby, Brother Eadulf was part of the deputation from Canterbury to the Synod, where he met Sister Fidelma for the first time. After the Synod's conclusion, both joined a party to Rome. After the events of \"Shroud for the Archbishop\" in Rome, Fidelma returned to Ireland while Eadulf remained in Rome as secretary to the new Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus. Later, he was sent to Cashel as Theodore's emissary and was reunited with Fidelma in \"The Subtle Serpent\". After the events of that novel, he returned to Cashel with Fidelma and in subsequent novels they became almost inseparable companions and collaborators. Eadulf and Fidelma's intellectual and personal relationship develops throughout the series, despite another separation in which Eadulf (reluctantly and partly at Fidelma's insistence) intended to return to Canterbury. However, he almost never made it back to Britain, as at the abbey of Fearna he was charged with rape and murder and almost hanged (a predicament that it seemed Fidelma would be unable to rescue him from). Eadulf convinced Fidelma to accompany him to Canterbury, and after concluding his business with Archbishop Theodore, he returned to Ireland with Fidelma. In 667, they entered into a trial marriage of a year and a day, during which their son Alchu was born. In February 668, Eadulf and Fidelma celebrated a permanent marriage (see \"A Prayer for the Damned\"). Unfortunately, as time passed, Eadulf's devotion to the world of the Faith began to clash with Fidelma's growing ambition to pursue a secular life devoted to the law. A serious emotional and physical breach was made between them when Fidelma announced her decision to renounce her religious vows and Eadulf sadly realized that he could not change her mind (see \"The Dove of Death\" and \"The Chalice of Blood\"). \"The Chalice of Blood\" concluded with Fidelma telling Eadulf that she had made her decision about her future and now he must come to a decision about his own, which he did ... accepting her decision and supporting her, but still remaining a Brother. Tremayne uses Brother Eadulf's status as an outsider to the Celtic communities in which many of his and Fidelma's cases take place to provide explanations about legal and cultural matters to his readers. This allows Tremayne to include many details about the history of the Celtic church and society, without overtly appearing to educate. Being a foreigner, Eadulf's status in Ireland is originally that of \"cu glas\" (which translates as \"grey dog\"), meaning an \"exile from over the sea\" and a person without legal standing or honor price \"(for a definition of this term, see \"Status\" in Early Irish Law)\"; however, his rank as \"techtaire\" (emissary or ambassador) between Archbishop Theodore and Fidelma's brother King Colgu gave him a high honor price of eight \"cumals\" (a \"cumal\" being the value of three cows) under Irish law (see \"Our Lady of Darkness\") and since his marriage to Fidelma (recognized and approved by her family) he is now considered a",
"legal and cultural matters to his readers. This allows Tremayne to include many details about the history of the Celtic church and society, without overtly appearing to educate. Being a foreigner, Eadulf's status in Ireland is originally that of \"cu glas\" (which translates as \"grey dog\"), meaning an \"exile from over the sea\" and a person without legal standing or honor price \"(for a definition of this term, see \"Status\" in Early Irish Law)\"; however, his rank as \"techtaire\" (emissary or ambassador) between Archbishop Theodore and Fidelma's brother King Colgu gave him a high honor price of eight \"cumals\" (a \"cumal\" being the value of three cows) under Irish law (see \"Our Lady of Darkness\") and since his marriage to Fidelma (recognized and approved by her family) he is now considered a \"deorad De\" (an \"exile of God\") and has an honor price of half that of Fidelma's but he is not entitled to make legal contracts without her permission (she is also responsible for any debts that he might incur) or have any legal responsibility in the raising of Alchu. Despite these legalities, he is treated as an equal and a friend and accepted as a member of Fidelma's family. After the events of \"Dancing with Demons\" in the winter of 669-670, he was made a member of the \"Nasc Naidh\", an elite corps of bodyguards to the kings of Munster, by King Colgu and entitled to wear the golden \"torc\" of that order. Brother Eadulf is a stolid man who provides a much-needed stability to Fidelma during emotionally difficult cases (he knows that her insecurity stems from both her parents dying when she was very young). In many of the novels, Tremayne uses the same phrases (with some slight variations) to describe Fidelma and Eadulf's intellectual relationship: Eadulf's courage and love of family are undeniable (proven many times, including his rescue of their son Alchu in \"The Leper's Bell\" and of Fidelma herself in \"The Seventh Trumpet\"). His medical knowledge and assistance is often very valuable as well (especially in \"The Devil's Seal\" when he must perform an emergency amputation), and Fidelma has often admitted that Eadulf has an uncanny ability to see the obvious that she has overlooked. On one occasion (after a \"cram course\" in the Law of the \"Fenechus\") he acted as Fidelma's advocate to successfully get her released when she was charged with murder (see \"Valley of the Shadow\"), although his use of a bluff to get a witness to admit to being paid for his testimony and thus discredit it shocked her sensibilities as a \"dalaigh\", and he was able to provide a provision of law (much to Fidelma's surprise) that allowed her to provide an argument that led to the uncovering of a murderer (see \"The Chalice of Blood\"). In \"The Seventh Trumpet\", he demonstrated his own powers of deduction to such a degree that Fidelma remarked, \"Every day, you become more and more a Brehon\"; in \"The Chalice of Blood\", she tells him: \"As far as I am concerned, without you, your advice, your ability to analyse, I would not have succeeded in many of the investigations we have undertaken ... you will forever be my soul-mate, my \"anam chara\", and if you go my soul will die.\" Part of Eadulf's charm is his honest humility, and despite all he has accomplished and the fame and respect he has earned while working with Fidelma he considers himself to be quite an ordinary man (much to the amusement of Brother Conchobar, who in \"A Prayer for the Damned\" pointed out to him that Fidelma would never have chosen an ordinary man to share her life with). He is not a person who always feels comfortable in the hustle and bustle of a major castle town like Cashel, and often wishes that he and Fidelma could retire to a mixed religious community in a more secluded area (although that dream had to be given up when Fidelma renounced the religious life). He is very humorous about his own shortcomings (including poor horsemanship and seasickness) and is normally a very tolerant and even-tempered person, but on a few occasions Eadulf has been provoked to the point where he has indeed lost his temper with another person and with Fidelma herself (much to her astonishment; see \"The Leper's Bell\" and \"The Chalice of Blood\"). Nominally he remains an adherent to the Church of Rome (he still wears a Roman tonsure), but over time, due in part to his debates with Fidelma, in part to his long-term residence and personal experiences in Eireann and in part to his personal interactions with both local and foreign Church dignitaries, his views have become much more moderate to the point where he has realized that he cannot blindly follow the changes in the Faith that come from Rome, such as and including the increased call for religious celibacy and the continual attempt to supplant the Laws of the \"Fenechus\" with the Penitentials. In the course of the series, Sister Fidelma journeys to many different parts of Western Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Northumbria, Hispania, Brittany, Francia and Rome. The differences between the societies she encounters and her native country is an ongoing theme throughout the series. Through Fidelma's adventures, Peter Tremayne introduces his readers to his views and interpretations of events and conflicts of 7th century Ireland. Major themes in the Sister Fidelma series include: \"Inter-Societal Themes\": Differences between Celtic society and other societies of the time \"Intra-Societal Themes\": Issues within Celtic society itself. \"Religious Themes\" Sister Fidelma mysteries The Sister Fidelma mysteries are a series of historical mystery novels and short stories by Peter Tremayne (pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis) about a fictional detective who is the eponymous heroine of a series. Fidelma is both a \"dalaigh\" (an advocate in the courts of the Five Kingdoms of Éireann), and Celtic nun (Ellis uses the French term \"réligieuse\"). Fidelma usually solves crimes in company with her partner (and eventually husband) Brother Eadulf, a Saxon monk (Ellis uses the French term \"réligieux\"). Though Eadulf has often been compared to Sherlock Holmes's"
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"Aira Station The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 447.1 km from the starting point of the line at . The station consists of a side platform serving a single track on a low embankment in a fairly confined area. There is no station building. At the base of the embankment, a shed has been set up which houses a staffed ticket window. To one side of this, there is a sheltered waiting area with some seats. On the other side of the ticket window are automatic ticket vending machines and a SUGOCA card reading and a short flight of steps leading up to the platform. The platform is generally very narrow. At one point where the platform is wider, some seats and a SUGOCA charge machine are provided. Bike sheds are provided at the station forecourt. Management of the passenger facilities at the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket booth which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a \"Midori no Madoguchi\" facility. The station was opened on 13 March 1988 by JR Kyushu as an additional station on the existing track of the Nippō Main Line. In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 969 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 171st among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu. Aira Station The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 447.1 km from the starting point of the line at . The station consists of a side platform serving a single track on a low embankment in a fairly confined area. There is no station building. At the base of the embankment,"
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"Riley Smith Riley Smith (born April 12, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for his roles on television, such as recurring roles in the series \"24\", \"Joan of Arcadia\", \"90210\", \"True Blood\" and \"The Messengers\", and starring roles on the television series \"Drive\" and \"Frequency\". Smith's parents are Russ and Roxanne Smith. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and raised in Marion, Iowa on his parents’ horse ranch. He became an accomplished rider, competing in a horse show for the first time when he was 9 years old. When he was 15, he placed 4th in 3-Year-Old Mares division at the American Quarter Horse Youth World Championship, and at 16 won the American Quarter Horse Youth World Championship. When he was 17, he became president of the 50,000-member youth association, becoming the youngest person to serve as president of American Quarter Horse Youth Association. He graduated from Alburnett Junior-Senior High School in 1997, and his original intention was to earn a college degree to complement his Equine interests, but he was \"discovered\" at the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids by a local talent scout and flew to New York City to compete at the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. There he was signed to a Tommy Hilfiger modeling campaign. He used the money he earned to pay for acting classes. Three months after the Hilfiger campaign, Smith flew to Los Angeles to do a screen test for The WB's 1998 pilot \"Minor Threat\", but the pilot was not picked up. Subsequently, he went on to do eight prime time network pilots, and more than a dozen guest-starring roles, and played recurring character roles in three television series. Smith had recurring roles in the CBS series \"Joan of Arcadia\", the Fox series 24 season 3 as Kyle Singer, the short-lived WB series \"Summerland\" and the Judd Apatow NBC series \"Freaks and Geeks\". He was also a main cast member in the short-lived Fox show \"Drive\". Smith played Dean Talon in the Disney Channel movie \"Motocrossed\". He played a love interest and mentor to Andrea \"Andy\" Carson on the race track. In 2008 Smith joined in collaboration with The Academy of Cinema and Television to create an online educational series for children and teens interested in the entertainment industry, and in 2009 he appeared in an episode of \"Ghost Whisperer\", a paranormal television series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. He appeared in seven episodes of the fifth season of \"90210\" as Riley Wallace, in 2012–2013. In 2014 Smith played the role of Keith in the HBO series \"True Blood\". In 2015, he played Markus Keen in the ABC musical drama series \"Nashville\". In 2016, he stars as Frank Sullivan in the new CW drama series \"Frequency\". Smith has appeared in the film \"Eight Legged Freaks\", \"Not Another Teen Movie\", \"Radio\", \"New York Minute\", \"Bring It On\", and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury nominee \"Weapons\". For the film \"New York Minute\", he and co-star Jared Padalecki were hand-picked for their roles by stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. After his role as Jim, the love interest for Ashley's character of Jane, he admitted that he could not tell the sisters apart. In \"Radio\", Smith had the role of Johnny Clay, team star and ringleader of the group pulling nasty pranks on Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s character of Radio. For their work in the film, key production members were awarded a 2005 CAMIE Award; These included executive producer Todd Garner, director Michael Tollin, screenwriter Mike Rich, and actors Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Riley Smith, Alfre Woodard, Brent Sexton, S. Epatha Merkerson and Sarah Drew. He played Russ, the love interest of Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character in the dancing film \"Make It Happen\". Smith took up the guitar to fill downtime while on film sets, and in 2006, he and Henri O'Connor formed the band \"The Life of Riley\", of which he is guitarist and lead singer. His original idea was to write music that could be used in his films, but when he and his bandmates had written 16 songs, they picked 11 and cut an album. The song most important to Riley is \"Forget about me\". He describes the lyrics as clear and simple and yet very deep and emotional. As of August 2010, the Los Angeles-based group has released 3 CDs: \"The Life of Riley\" (2007), \"Long Way Home EP\" (2009) and \"Live in Hollywood at the Hotel Cafe\" (2010). They have also performed at such music festivals as the New Bohemia Music Festival. Riley Smith Riley Smith (born April 12, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for his roles on television, such as recurring roles in the series \"24\", \"Joan of Arcadia\", \"90210\", \"True Blood\" and \"The Messengers\", and starring roles on the television series"
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"John Duncan Lowe John Duncan Lowe CB (1948–98), lawyer, was a former Crown Agent for Scotland and Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin. John Duncan Lowe was born at Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, on the 18 May 1948 and received his education at the prestigious Hamilton Academy and the University of Glasgow, graduating MA, LLB. Following an apprenticeship with a firm of solicitors and a short period in local government, in 1974 Lowe joined the Procurator Fiscal Service and worked in Procurator Fiscal offices at Kilmarnock, Glasgow and at Edinburgh. Lowe was subsequently appointed Deputy Crown Agent for Scotland (1984–86) and in 1988 took up the post of Regional Procurator Fiscal at Edinburgh, a position he held till 1991. At the early age of 42, in 1991 Lowe was appointed Crown Agent for Scotland and in 1995 was invested CB, (Companion of the Order of the Bath.) In 1997 Lowe was appointed Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, a position he held until his death at Edinburgh the following year. John Duncan Lowe John Duncan Lowe CB (1948–98), lawyer, was a former Crown Agent for Scotland and Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin. John Duncan Lowe was born at Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, on the"
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"Gecko Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm (0.64 to 24 inches). Most geckos cannot blink, but they often lick their eyes to keep them clean and moist. They have a fixed lens within each iris that enlarges in darkness to let in more light. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, which differ from species to species. They use chirping or clicking sounds in their social interactions, and sometimes when alarmed. They are the most species-rich group of lizards, with about 1,500 different species worldwide. The New Latin \"gekko\" and English \"gecko\" stem from the Indonesian-Malay \"gēkoq\", which is imitative of sounds that some species make. All geckos except species in the family Eublepharidae lack eyelids; instead the outer surface of the eyeball has a transparent membrane, the cornea. Species without eyelids generally lick their own corneas when they need to clear them of dust and dirt. Nocturnal species have excellent night vision; their color vision in low light is 350 times more sensitive than human color vision. The nocturnal geckos evolved from diurnal species which had lost the eye rods. The gecko eye therefore modified its cones that increased in size into different types both single and double. Three different photopigments have been retained and are sensitive to UV, blue, and green. They also use a multifocal optical system that allows them to generate a sharp image for at least two different depths. Most gecko species can lose their tails in defense, a process called autotomy. Many species are well known for their specialised toe pads that enable them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease. Geckos are well known to people who live in warm regions of the world, where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These (for example the house gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are often welcomed, as they feed on insects, including moths and mosquitoes. Unlike most lizards, geckos are usually nocturnal. The largest species, the kawekaweau, is only known from a single, stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum in Marseille, France. This gecko was 60 cm (24 in) long and it was likely endemic to New Zealand, where it lived in native forests. It was probably wiped out along with much of the native fauna of these islands in the late 19th century, when new invasive species such as rats and stoats were introduced to the country during European colonization. The smallest gecko, the Jaragua sphaero, is a mere 1.6 cm long and was discovered in 2001 on a small island off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Geckos occur in various patterns and colors, and are among the most colorful lizards in the world. Some species can change colour and may be lighter in colour at night. Some species are parthenogenetic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male. This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. However, in a situation where a single female gecko populates an entire island, the island will suffer from a lack of genetic variation within the geckos that inhabit it. The gecko's mating call sounds like a shortened bird chirping which attracts males, when they are nearby. Like other reptiles, geckos are ectothermic, producing very little metabolic heat. Essentially a gecko's body temperature is dependent on its environment. Also, in order to accomplish their main functions—such as locomotion, feeding, reproduction, etc.—geckos must have a relatively elevated temperature. All geckos shed their skin at fairly regular intervals, with species differing in timing and method. Leopard geckos will shed at about two- to four-week intervals. The presence of moisture aids in the shedding. When shedding begins, the gecko will speed the process by detaching the loose skin from its body and eating it. For young geckos, shedding will occur more frequently, at once every week. But when they fully grow, they shed once every one or two months. About 60% of gecko species have adhesive toe pads that allow them to adhere to most surfaces without the use of liquids or surface tension. Such pads have been gained and lost repeatedly over the course of gecko evolution. Adhesive toepads evolved independently in about 11 different gecko lineages and were lost in at least 9 lineages. The spatula-shaped setae arranged in lamellae on gecko footpads enable attractive van der Waals' forces (the weakest of the weak chemical forces) between the β-keratin lamellae/setae/spatulae structures and the surface. These van der Waals interactions involve no fluids; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would adhere as easily to the surface of the International Space Station as it would to a living-room wall, although adhesion varies with humidity. A recent study has however shown that gecko adhesion is in fact mainly determined by electrostatic interaction (caused by contact electrification), not van der Waals or capillary forces. The setae on the feet of geckos are also self-cleaning and will usually remove any clogging dirt within a few steps. Teflon, which has very low surface energy, is more difficult for geckos to adhere to than many other surfaces. Gecko adhesion is typically improved by higher humidity, even on hydrophobic surfaces, yet is reduced under conditions of complete immersion in water. The role of water in that system is under discussion, yet recent experiments agree that the presence of molecular water layers (water molecules carry a very large dipole moment) on the setae as well as on the surface increase the surface energy of both, therefore the energy gain in getting these surfaces in contact is enlarged, which results in an increased gecko adhesion force. Moreover, the elastic properties of the b-keratin change with water uptake. Gecko toes seem to be \"double jointed\", but this is a misnomer and is properly called digital hyperextension. Gecko toes can hyperextend in the opposite direction from human fingers and toes. This allows them to overcome the van der Waals force by peeling their toes off surfaces from the tips inward. In essence, by this peeling action, the gecko separates spatula by spatula from the surface, so for each spatula separation, only some nN are necessary. (The process is similar to removing Scotch Tape from a surface.) Geckos' toes operate well below their full attractive capabilities most of the time, because the margin for error is great depending upon the surface roughness, and therefore the number of setae in contact with that surface. Use of small van der Waals force requires very large surface areas: every square millimeter of a gecko's footpad contains about 14,000 hair-like setae. Each seta has a diameter of 5 μm. Human hair varies from 18 to 180 μm, so the cross-sectional area of a human hair is equivalent to 12 to 1300 setae. Each seta is in turn tipped with between 100 and 1,000 spatulae. Each spatula is 0.2 μm long (one five-millionth of a meter), or just below the wavelength of visible light. The setae of a typical mature gecko would be capable of supporting a weight of : each spatula can exert an adhesive force of 5 to 25 nN. The exact value of the adhesion force of a spatula varies with the surface energy of the substrate to which it adheres. Recent studies have moreover shown that the component of the surface energy derived from long-range forces, such as van der Waals forces, depends on the material's structure below the outermost atomic layers (up to 100 nm beneath the surface); taking that into account, the adhesive strength can be inferred. Recent studies have also revealed that apart from the setae, phospholipids—fatty substances produced naturally in their bodies—also come into play. These lipids lubricate the setae and allow the gecko to detach its foot before the next step. The origin of gecko",
"gecko would be capable of supporting a weight of : each spatula can exert an adhesive force of 5 to 25 nN. The exact value of the adhesion force of a spatula varies with the surface energy of the substrate to which it adheres. Recent studies have moreover shown that the component of the surface energy derived from long-range forces, such as van der Waals forces, depends on the material's structure below the outermost atomic layers (up to 100 nm beneath the surface); taking that into account, the adhesive strength can be inferred. Recent studies have also revealed that apart from the setae, phospholipids—fatty substances produced naturally in their bodies—also come into play. These lipids lubricate the setae and allow the gecko to detach its foot before the next step. The origin of gecko adhesion likely started as simple modifications to the epidermis on the underside of the toes. This was recently discovered in the genus \"Gonatodes\" from South America. Simple elaborations of the epidermal spinules into setae have enabled \"Gonatodes humeralis\" to climb smooth surfaces and sleep on smooth leaves. Biomimetic technologies designed to mimic gecko adhesion could produce reusable self-cleaning dry adhesives with many applications. Development effort is being put into these technologies, but manufacturing synthetic setae is not a trivial material design task. Gecko skin does not generally bear scales but appears at a macro scale as a papillose surface which is made from hair-like protuberances developed across the entire body. These confer superhydrophobicity, and the unique design of the hair confers a profound antimicrobial action. These protuberances are very small, up to 4 microns in length, and tapering to a point. Gecko skin has been observed to have an anti-bacterial property, killing gram-negative bacteria when it comes in contact with the skin. Geckos are polyphyodonts and able to replace each of their 100 teeth every 3 to 4 months. Next to the full grown tooth there is a small replacement tooth developing from the odontogenic stem cell in the dental lamina. The formation of the teeth is pleurodont; they are fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jaw bones. This formation is common in all species in the order Squamata. The infraorder Gekkota is divided into seven families, containing numerous genera of gecko species. More than 1,650 species of geckos occur worldwide, including these familiar species: Gecko Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6"
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"Fall River Mills, California Fall River Mills (or Fall City) is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California, United States. The population was 573 as of the 2010 census. The community is known for its agriculture. Being home to the production of cattle, Fall River Wild Rice, Garlic, Mint, Hay, Lavender and Alfalfa. Local government in Fall River Mills includes: Fall River Mills Airport, Tonkin Field is a public airport located off Main Street, in downtown Fall River Mills, serving Shasta County. The airport has one runway and is mostly used for general aviation. It is the only airport within of Redding and Alturas. The airport was originally built in the 1940s as a location to train pilots for World War II. Over the years, the airport has been maintained and upgraded largely due to funding provided from the California Aid to Airports Program (CAAP). Today the airport has nine permanent t-hangars, five Portable hangars, approximately 30 tie-downs, and provides aviation fuel sales. The airport is equipped with runway lights which are designed to be turned on at night by the pilots as they approach the airport. Fall River Mills is located at (41.005760, -121.440946). Fall River Mills is nestled between the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade mountain ranges in the far Northeast corner of Shasta County, California. The town is surrounded by mountains in all four cardinal directions with Mt Shasta and Mt Lassen visible from anywhere in the Fall River Valley. Elevation varies only slightly throughout the valley floor, ranging from 3,200 to . The surrounding passes all vary from 3,600 to 4,200+ feet. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (5.79%) is water. Fall River Mills is named after one of the rivers (Fall River) which runs near it. This river, along with the Pitt River, water the Fall River Valley, wherein Fall River Mills is located. Much of this valley and its surroundings are volcanic, with all the features which comes with such terrain. The 2010 United States Census reported that Fall River Mills had a population of 573. The population density was 208.2 people per square mile (80.4/km²). The racial makeup of Fall River Mills was 450 (78.5%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 30 (5.2%) Native American, 3 (0.5%) Asian, 2 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 56 (9.8%) from other races, and 32 (5.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 105 persons (18.3%). The Census reported that 535 people (93.4% of the population) lived in households, 9 (1.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 29 (5.1%) were institutionalized. There were 228 households, out of which 71 (31.1%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 93 (40.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 26 (11.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 13 (5.7%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 15 (6.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 1 (0.4%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 83 households (36.4%) were made up of individuals and 41 (18.0%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35. There were 132 families (57.9% of all households); the average family size was 3.11. The population was spread out with 140 people (24.4%) under the age of 18, 56 people (9.8%) aged 18 to 24, 107 people (18.7%) aged 25 to 44, 147 people (25.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 123 people (21.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.6 males. There were 280 housing units at an average density of 101.7 per square mile (39.3/km²), of which 128 (56.1%) were owner-occupied, and 100 (43.9%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 6.4%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.9%. 285 people (49.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 250 people (43.6%) lived in rental housing units. As of 2007, there were 712 people, 261 households, and 173 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 240 people per square mile (91/km²). There were 304 housing units at an average density of 111/sq mi (43/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 81% White, 10% Native American, 5% from other races, and 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12% of the population. There were 261 households out of which 35% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46% were married couples living together, 16% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33% were non-families. 32% of all households were made up of individuals and 15% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.01. In the CDP the population was spread out with 31% under the age of 18, 7% from 18 to 24, 22% from 25 to 44, 23% from 45 to 64, and 17% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.9 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $29,833, and the median income for a family was $34,306. Males had a median income of $35,197 versus $21,364 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,667. About 22% of families and 28% of the population were below the poverty line, including 53% of those under age 18 and 18% of those age 65 or over. In the state legislature Fall River Mills is in , and . Federally, Fall River Mills is in . Plans for the Incorporation of the Fall River Mills communities into a City or Town were started. Stemming from public outcry due to development plans and a need for the local communities to maintain control over the area. Formation of a Municipal Advisory Council or MAC is ongoing. The MAC will be the political and authoritative voice of the Fall River Mills communities to not only Shasta County but the State of California. Plans are also being drafted for the implementation of several municipal services to include but not be limited to, Parks & Recreation, Police Department, Transportation, Community Facilities, Animal Control, Cemetery, Fire and Emergency Services. These are just a few of the services listed as proposed by the town of Fall River Mills and the Fall River Valley Community Services District. Areas proposed for inclusion in the incorporation are the communities of Fall River Mills, McArthur, Pittville, Glenburn and Dana. The Fall River Valley offers recreation for people of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities being numerous. These include many annual events, festivals and fairs. The Fall River Valley is home to a World Class Golf course. multiple locations for Mountain Climbing and Spelunking. Sport angling including Fly Fishing, with several tournaments and derbies held each year. Hunting in the Fall River Valley offers several big game species and upland game and waterfowl. Boating and Canoeing are popular in the Fall River Valley as it is home to several Lakes including Fall River Lake, Eastman Lake and Big Lake. White Water Rafting is among several popular sporting activities that take advantage of the river systems in the valley. These tributaries include the Fall River, Tule River, Ja-She Creek, Lava Creek, Bear Creek, Shelly Creek and Pit River. Together they span much of the Valley forming one of the largest systems of fresh water springs in the country. These waters culminate in a splendid waterfall south of the Town of Fall River Mills and again at a viewing point off State Highway 299 West of Fall River Mills. The Valley is home to the Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, located north of the Fall River-McArthur Town Center. This state park is unique in that it is accessible only by water. Local arts and culture can be viewed in several artists galleries and gift shops throughout",
"Big Lake. White Water Rafting is among several popular sporting activities that take advantage of the river systems in the valley. These tributaries include the Fall River, Tule River, Ja-She Creek, Lava Creek, Bear Creek, Shelly Creek and Pit River. Together they span much of the Valley forming one of the largest systems of fresh water springs in the country. These waters culminate in a splendid waterfall south of the Town of Fall River Mills and again at a viewing point off State Highway 299 West of Fall River Mills. The Valley is home to the Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, located north of the Fall River-McArthur Town Center. This state park is unique in that it is accessible only by water. Local arts and culture can be viewed in several artists galleries and gift shops throughout the community. Equestrian and Rodeo Events are held throughout the year with the Intermountain Fair Rodeo being the mainstay event. Several parks are situated throughout the community, offering family activities and sporting venues. These include Clark Field, Fall River Lions Community Park and the Joe Bruce Sports Complex. Cycling has been extremely popular in the Valley for over a decade. hundreds of cyclists come from throughout the country each year to participate in the Fall River Century Bike Ride which is held in late spring. The town of Fall River Mills is located in the Fall River Valley, between the two volcanic mountain peaks of Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen. Fall River is a spring-fed stream that winds for , mostly through private agricultural land with access points open to the public. The river has rainbow trout fishing holes. Fall River is piped through Saddle Mountain, to end at the Pit 1 Power House. There is white water rafting and fly fishing on the creeks in the area. The weather can be very cold in the winter, while the spring, summer, and early fall has warm days and cool nights. The town is a traditional Northern California agricultural community. It is known for its wild rice, cattle, hay, lavender, and mint. Please note: Not all the following people actually reside in Fall River Mills. Many only own property in the area. Fall River Mills, California Fall River Mills (or Fall City) is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California, United States. The population was 573 as of the 2010 census. The community is known for its agriculture. Being home to the production of cattle, Fall River Wild Rice, Garlic, Mint, Hay, Lavender and Alfalfa. Local government in Fall River Mills includes: Fall River Mills Airport, Tonkin Field is a public airport located off Main Street, in downtown Fall River Mills, serving Shasta County. The airport has one runway and is mostly used for general"
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"Apollo House (Croydon) Apollo House is a 22-storey high-rise building at 36 Wellesley Road in the London Borough of Croydon, London, England. In common with a neighbouring building Lunar House and others developed by Harry Hyams, the building's name was inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Like Lunar House, Apollo serves as the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office in the United Kingdom. The buildings at one time hosted the headquarters of the Property Services Agency (PSA), along with other 1960s office blocks including the Whitgift Centre. The PSA also had offices in central London, and a regional network of offices throughout the UK. Up until 2008 part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Services section were based on floors 17 and 18. Apollo House (Croydon) Apollo House is a 22-storey high-rise building at 36 Wellesley Road in the London Borough of Croydon, London, England. In common with a neighbouring building Lunar House and others developed by Harry Hyams, the building's name was inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Like Lunar House, Apollo serves as the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office"
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"Aaltra Aaltra is a 2004 Belgian French-language deadpan black comedy film directed and written by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. The film won four awards and was nominated for three others. Benoit Delepine plays a harassed businessman wrecked by his commute, who is working from home, against company rules. He is called in to the office and comes across his deadly enemy, a jobbing farmworker Gustave de Kervern, who is spraying herbicide along the roads – and into the businessman's prized garden, from his tractor – and who won't let him past. The businessman loses his job, things escalate and he seeks out the farmworker and gets into a fight with him. The two wake up in hospital, having been crushed by a badly-functioning farm machine. They are now confined to wheelchairs, and set out in their chairs for Finland to seek out the manufacturer of the faulty farm machine and get compensation. Aaltra Aaltra is a 2004 Belgian French-language deadpan black comedy film directed and written by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. The film won four awards and was nominated for three others. Benoit Delepine plays a harassed businessman wrecked by his commute, who is working from"
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"Metro Ride Metro Ride provides public bus transportation for the Wausau, Wisconsin area. Metro Ride operates 8 routes in the City of Wausau which run at 30 minute intervals, including a route to Rothschild and Schofield which runs at 60 minute intervals. Metro Ride also operates a route in Weston which runs at 30 minute intervals, and provides transfer at Shopko in Rothschild. Two Saturday-only routes operate through Rothschild and Schofield and provide access to the Cedar Creek Mall area. These replace the 60-minute route and connect at the Rothschild Shopko. Transfer to this service is provided at the Marathon County Health Care Center. The service also provides several express routes to supplement the main routes when school is in session. Hours of operation at 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Buses do not operate on Saturdays from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The main transfer facility is located in the downtown area, one block from the Wausau Center Mall. Metro Ride Metro Ride provides public bus transportation for the Wausau, Wisconsin area. Metro Ride operates 8 routes in the City of Wausau which run at 30 minute intervals, including"
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"The Vachon Brothers The Vachon Brothers (sometimes simply billed as The Vachons) was a professional wrestling tag team composed of Pierre \"The Beast\" Vachon and Damien \"The Pitbull\" Vachon. They were one of the leading \"heel\" teams on the independent circuit during the mid-2000s and, at one point, held the tag team titles of seven different promotions in both eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States, most notably, twice winning the NWA New England Tag Team Championship in 2005 and 2006. Although both men have been reported as the real-life youngest sons of legendary Canadian wrestler Paul \"The Butcher\" Vachon, neither are related to the Vachon wrestling family. They were occasionally joined by Gino Martino, and collectively known as the Alliance of Violence, in CWA Montreal, the official eastern Canada affiliate for AWA Superstars, and other promotions; Martino and Pierre Vachon were the promotion's first-ever tag team champions upon winning the belts in 2006. The Vachons also worked for East Coast Championship Wrestling, Great Canadian Wrestling, the Millennium Wrestling Federation, the National Wrestling Alliance, specifically NWA Green Mountain, , and NWA New England, and Paulie Gilmore's New World Wrestling. A native of Burlington, Vermont, Pierre Vachon (born Chad Peters) made his pro debut in 2003. He met Damien Vachon while wrestling in NWA Green Mountain and, in early 2005, the two began teaming together as the Vachon Brothers. This was a homage to the original Vachon brothers, Paul \"Butcher\" Vachon and Maurice \"Mad Dog\" Vachon. They gained early notoriety as second-generation wrestlers of Paul Vachon. While wrestling for NWA Green Mountain, The Vachons also competed for NWA New England in the Greater Boston area where they were managed by Barry Ace. On May 22, 2005, Pierre and Damian Vachon defeated NWA New England Tag Team Champions The Rough Ryders (Nyxx and Devin Raines) in Everett, Massachusetts, a three-way match also involving the Big Islanders (Makua and Ka Hoku). Representing Green Mountain Wrestling at NWA Top Rope's \"Road to the Convention\", held at Nation Guard Armory in Lebanon, the Vachons challenged Really Sensational (\"Real Deal\" Jay Davis and \"Sensational\" Sean Reed) for the GMW Tag Team Championship; as a result of their victory over Davis and Reed, The Vachons became GMW's first-ever tag team champions in addition to holding the NWA New England titles. They lost the NWA New England tag titles to The Elite (Sonny Roselli and Larry Huntley) at the \"NWA 57th Annual Convention\" in Springfield, Tennessee the next day; this was also a three-way match with the Big Islanders. That summer, The Vachons feuded with Gino Martino in NWA New England and various independents. On June 10, Pierre Vachon unsuccessfully challenged Martino in a Fans Bring the Weapons match for the NWA New England Heavyweight Championship; he had previously wrestled Martino for the title in a barbed-wire chain death match four months earlier. Pierre also lost to Martino and Dave Donavan in a three-way \"broken bottle\" death match to crown the first All Star Wrestling Federation Hardcore Champion on July 16, 2005. On August 5, The Vachons wrestled Martino (with The Iron Sheik) in separate singles matches at an event for the Millennium Wrestling Federation; Gino defeated Damian Vachon in a standard wrestling match and Pierre Vachon in an Anything Goes match. The Vachons continued to split their time between the independents in eastern Canada, specifically Ontario and Quebec, and the Northeastern United States. Pierre Vachon was also active on the New York independent circuit during this time. At a September 23 show for World Of Hurt Wrestling, he wrestled WOHW Hardcore Champion Punk in Hudson Falls, New York. The Vachons lost the NWA Green Mountain Tag Team titles to Franz and Hanz Roddy in Hyde Park, Vermont on October 29, however, they continued to win titles in most of the promotions they worked in (often as the inaugural champions). At one point, they held the tag team belts of seven different promotions in Canada and the US including the All Star Wrestling Federation, CWA Montreal, East Coast Championship Wrestling, NWA Green Mountain, NWA New England, New World Wrestling, and Revival Championship Wrestling. The Vachons also wrestled in Millennium Wrestling Federation where they were members of Ox Baker's Army with The Outpatient and The Islanders. On November 5, Pierre Vachon and Ox Baker's Army lost to Todd Hanson, Beau Douglas, The Sandman, and Paulie Gilmore in a \"Lynn Street Fight\" match at MWF's \"Soul Survivor III\" in Lynn, Massachusetts; this match marked the official end to the two-year feud between Ox Baker's Army and Todd Hanson. At an RCW show the following night, The Vachons wrestled Makua of the Big Islanders (with Joe Rules) in a handicap match in Pawcatuck, Connecticut. At the end of 2005, The Vachon Brothers made their debut in Championship Wrestling Association, or CWA Montreal, one of two Canadian affiliates for AWA Superstars. On December 10, 2005, they defeated The Enforcer and \"Asian Nightmare\" Kwan Chang in a Street Fight match in Montreal, Quebec. It was in CWA Montreal that the Vachons resumed their feud with Gino Martino as, on January 16, 2006, Pierre wrestled their longtime rival in a Bloodbath match for the CWA Montreal Brass Knuckles Championship. Within two months, however, the Vachons unexpectedly joined Martino to form the \"Alliance of Violence\". Pierre Vachon and Gino Martino entered a championship tournament together to decide the first CWA Montreal Tag Team Champions. They defeated Karnage and Abdul Hannish in the opening rounds (March 5), The Hellraisers (Pain & Mizery) in the semi-finals (March 19), and Necro Butcher and SeXXXy Eddy in the finals at CWA Montreal's \"kNOw FEAR\" (April 8). Meanwhile, both the Vachons also took part in the title tournament for the CWA Montreal Internet Championship; Damien Vachon defeated Osirus and Pierre Vachon beat \"Iron\" Mike Lyons in the opening rounds but were both eliminated in the semi-finals by Brick Crawford and Karnage (the latter in a Dog Collar match) respectively. The Vachons returned to NWA New England in the summer of 2006. On May 11, they regained the NWA New England Tag Team titles by defeating 5–0 (Trooper Gilmore and Corporal Johnson) in Fall River, Massachusetts. They remained champions for over a month before dropping the belts to The Big Islanders (Makua and Kahoku) in Revere on June 24, 2006. The Vachons spent the next year or so on the Ontario and New England independent circuits. They briefly returned to CWA Montreal, both largely in singles competition, with Damian Vachon feuding with CWA Montreal iTV Champion Karnage. Though he defeated Karnage, via countout and disqualification victories, he was unable to capture the title. They also appeared for in October and Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Redemption\" in Cornwall, Ontario on November 11. A few weeks later, after a five-month title reign, The Vachons dropped the NWW Tag Team Championship to The Slaughterhouse (Outpatient and Crazy Chainsaw Bastard) in a \"Christmas Carnage\" hardcore match in Attleboro, Massachusetts. At the end of the month, they wrestled The HellRaisers (Payne and Myzery) at Great Canadian Wrestling's \"Seasons Beatings\" in Oshawa, Ontario. At the beginning of 2007, The Vachons were back in the US. At a February 17 show for Grapple Masters Wrestling in Bristol, Vermont, The Vachons were supposed to appear for the show's opening promo. When the team was introduced, however, their rivals The Hellraisers come out instead. The Hellraisers began picking on a fan in the crowd, Albert, but then invited him to join them in the ring. They continued talking to Albert until the young man said he was a fan of The Vachons causing The Hellraisers to attack him. The Vachons then ran to the ring to chase off The Hellraisers setting up two singles matches between the four wrestlers later that night. The match",
"of the month, they wrestled The HellRaisers (Payne and Myzery) at Great Canadian Wrestling's \"Seasons Beatings\" in Oshawa, Ontario. At the beginning of 2007, The Vachons were back in the US. At a February 17 show for Grapple Masters Wrestling in Bristol, Vermont, The Vachons were supposed to appear for the show's opening promo. When the team was introduced, however, their rivals The Hellraisers come out instead. The Hellraisers began picking on a fan in the crowd, Albert, but then invited him to join them in the ring. They continued talking to Albert until the young man said he was a fan of The Vachons causing The Hellraisers to attack him. The Vachons then ran to the ring to chase off The Hellraisers setting up two singles matches between the four wrestlers later that night. The match series ended in a tie with Hellraiser Misery defeating Damien Vachon in a Tables match and Pierre Vachon winning a Thumbtacks match against Hellraiser Pain. Both teams were scheduled to meet in a Dog Collar match for the GMW Tag Team Championship on March 10. On March 24, The Vachons were booked to face each other in a four-way Gladiator Scramble match, also involving Hybrid Rain and Professor Adib Monsour, for Elite Wrestling Action \"Reckon This\" in Cornwall, Ontario, its first show after a three-year absence. This was one of two scramble matches held to decide the opponents for the main event with the winner receiving the EWA Heavyweight Championship. The participants for both matches were changed prior to the event, however, which saw Soulrage pin Damien Vachon (also involving Dave Titan and Hellraizor Myzery) and Pierre Vachon pin \"White Lion\" Jim Tanner (also involving Prof. Adib Mansour and Hellraizor Payne). In the main event later that night, officiated by special guest referee Sakrilige, Soulrage ended up pinning Pierre Vachon to win the EWA Heavyweight Championship. A week later, Pierre Vachon lost to King Kong Bundy at a New World Wrestling event in East Sandwich, Massachusetts. In the next few months, The Vachons also visited Great Canadian Wrestling, Powerhouse Wrestling, Tri-State Wrestling, and Ultimate Ring Wars Wrestling. It was at URWW's May 19 show \"In Your Face!\" in Somerset, Massachusetts that the \"Alliance of Violence\" was reformed when Gino Martino turned on his tag team partner Crazy Chainsaw Bastard during a tag team match against the Vachons. They also returned to East Coast Championship Wrestling where, under manager Julius Sweet, the Vachons unsuccessfully attempted to regain the ECCW Tag Team Championship from Nick Neighborhood and Chuck Deep. Both teams met at the Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School in Upton, Massachusetts on June 2, and after losing to Neighborhood and Deep, attacked their opponents after the match. The Vachons spent their last months as a tag team in Slam All-Star Wrestling. Pierre Vachon had previously wrestled in a three-way tag match with Aftershock against Those 80's Guys (Vince and Reed) and TDS Inc. (Slick and Mackie Schrody) at their April 21 show \"Intriguing Circumstances\" in Highgate, Vermont. The Vachon Brothers made their SAW debut at the \"Slam Summer Spectacular\" on July 14, 2007, where they wrestled The Alden Brothers (Shane and Eric Alden) (with The Director) and Those 80's Guys for the SAW Tag Team Championship. This would end up being their last match together as Damien Vachon suddenly left the promotion. Left by himself, Pierre Vachon took on The Alden Brothers in a handicap match at \"Franklin County Face Off\" on August 4. Pierre quickly formed a new tag team, The New School Wrestling Crew, with Jim Tanner and together defeated SAW Tag Team Champions The Alden Brothers by disqualification at the \"September Super Show\" on September 8, 2007. After parting ways in SAW, Pierre Vachon began competing on the local independent circuit in Upstate New York. On April 4, 2008, he participated in an interpromotional show for ADK Wrestling and Top Rope Promotions, wrestling against Joe Sidusky, at Fort Edward High School. That summer, Vachon reformed the New School Wrestling Crew with Jim Tanner and wrestled shows at the Adirondack Sports Complex in Queensbury, New York for both ADK Wrestling and Continental Wrestling Promotions. He also made a brief return to SAW for its last show of the season, defeating \"Shooter\" Anthony Storm in a singles match, on September 27, 2008. He also made occasional returns to the New England area for Top Rope Promotions. On May 9, 2009, Vachon took part in a special benefit show, \"Reality Rumble III\", co-hosted by South Atlantic Wrestling and Entertainers That Care. It was held at Louisa County High School in Mineral, Virginia to raise money for a 6-year-old boy suffering from eosinophilic esophagitis; his medical expenses had exceeded over $2 million. In addition to the many wrestling stars performing at the event, including Ring of Honor's Damien Wayne and WWE's Al Snow, a number of actors, fashion models, musicians, reality tv stars, and other celebrities were also in attendance; Ray and Deana Housteau from The Amazing Race 7, Team Kentucky from The Amazing Race 10, David and Mary Conley from The Amazing Race: All-Stars, Kim Fore from ABC's Dance Machine, Rebekah Cantrell from A Double Shot at Love, Roq M of \"From G’s to Gents\", Steve \"Chicken\" Morris from , Billy Garcia and Cristina Coria from , Jessica Kiper from , Tracy Hughes-Wolf from , Jenna and Matsuflex from VH1's Tool Academy, and Ariel Tweto from ABC's Wipeout. Vachon continued wrestling in the Northeast US wrestling for Slam All-Star Wrestling, where he won the SAW Heavyweight Championship in 2009, and New York's In Your Face Wrestling where he teamed with Jim Tanner and Vigo during 2010. He joined forces with Vigo while engaging in a two-on-one feud with then IYFW Tag Team Champions The International Ego Trip (The Northern Studd and Fronz Roddy). Vachon defeated both Roddy and The Northern Studd in singles matches at IYFW's \"Hanging By A Thread\" (February 6) and Unsportsmanlike Conduct! (March 20) respectively before challenging the two men to a title match at the next show. The New School Wrecking Crew were scheduled to wrestle IYFW Tag Team Champions The Grindhouse (Maxx Burton and CJ Scott) and The International Ego Trip (The Northern Studd and Fronz Roddy) in a three-way match at April 17 \"Amsterdamage\" show in Amsterdam, New York, however, both Vachon and Tanner were unable to wrestle due to injuries; it was during the match that The Northern Studd and Fronz Roddy won the tag titles. Vachon chose Vigo as his partner to wrestle the new tag team champions at the 2010 Coronation Cup tournament on June 12. Vachon and Vigo defeated Fronz Roddy and The Northern Studd via disqualification, however, the team retained the championship. Vachon, egged on by Maxx Burton, blamed Vigo for costing them their chance to win the belts and attacked his tag team partner after the match. Pierre Vachon and Maxx Burton continued feuding with Vigo throughout the year. On December 11, 2010, he and Burton wrestled Vigo and Tito Santana at IYFW's \"Controlled Chaos!\" in Saratoga Springs, New York. They lost the bout when Santana made Burton submit to a figure four leglock. On January 14, 2012, Vachon defeated Drake Evans at an IYFW show in Ballston Spa, New York. Damien Vachon returned to Canada and took a year off before resurfacing on the Ontario independents in late 2009. On November 13, 2009, he appeared at Stellar Wrestling Showcase's \"November Reign\" show in Prescott, Ontario where he and Portia Perez lost to Jaguar and Josianne The Pussycat (with special guest manager Persephene) in a mixed tag team match; after their loss, Vachon attacked Josianne and put the female wrestler in a piledriver. That same month, he wrestled Myzery The Barbarian in a \"VIP dark match\" at C*4's \"Only The Best\" in Ottawa and teamed with Bull McGuire against The Incredible Hunks (Cheeky and Deeno) at Ontario Championship Wrestling's",
"Burton submit to a figure four leglock. On January 14, 2012, Vachon defeated Drake Evans at an IYFW show in Ballston Spa, New York. Damien Vachon returned to Canada and took a year off before resurfacing on the Ontario independents in late 2009. On November 13, 2009, he appeared at Stellar Wrestling Showcase's \"November Reign\" show in Prescott, Ontario where he and Portia Perez lost to Jaguar and Josianne The Pussycat (with special guest manager Persephene) in a mixed tag team match; after their loss, Vachon attacked Josianne and put the female wrestler in a piledriver. That same month, he wrestled Myzery The Barbarian in a \"VIP dark match\" at C*4's \"Only The Best\" in Ottawa and teamed with Bull McGuire against The Incredible Hunks (Cheeky and Deeno) at Ontario Championship Wrestling's \"Wreckage\" in Kingston, Ontario. He later interjected himself during the main event to rescue Myzery the Barbarian from a gang attack by \"The Don\" Sak Daddy and his allies. The two men soon began teaming together as \"The Barberians\". On January 2, 2010, at OCW's \"Hangover\" show, he and Mysery were disqualified in their match against the 5th Avenue Mob. Vachon was similarly disqualified when he refused to release a chokehold on his opponent at Stellar Wrestling Showcase's March 20 show \"Tik Tok\" in Prescott. That same month, he and Mysery entered a championship tournament to crown the first OCW Tag Team Champions. At OCW's \"Tag Team Turmoil\" on March 27, the team defeated The Incredible Hunks (Cheeky and Deeno) in the semi-finals and Lonely At The Top (with Persephone Vice) in the tournament finals to win the belts. On May 29, Vachon wrestled at two shows on the same night; a tag team title defense against the 5ifth Avenue Mob (McGuire and Manson) (with Sak Daddy and Savannah) ended in a no-contest at OCW's \"Aftermath\" in Kingston and at \"Eat This\" for Mecca Pro Wrestling in Cornwall Vachon defeated \"The Fabulous French Canadian\" Eric Mastrocola. On July 30, 2010, a reunion of sorts occurred at \"Summer Bash\" for Morrisburg Pro Wrestling when The Barbarians took part in a Triple Threat match against Pierre Vachon & Firestorm and The Incredible Hunks (Deeno & Cheeky) to earn a shot against Demolition (Demolition Ax and Demolition Smash) in the main event, a match with both Vachons lost. Also at the show were former World Wrestling Federation stars Brutus \"The Barber\" Beefcake, Doink the Clown, and Rick \"The Model\" Martel. The following night, Damien Vachon defeated Eric Mastrocola (with Frank Couture) at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Damage Control\" to become the first-ever MPW Heavyweight Champion. He defended the belt for almost five months, as well as wrestling for Ontario Championship Wrestling and Acclaim Pro Wrestling, until being stripped of the title by General Manager Nic Paterson at MPW's \"Backfire\" on November 20, 2010, when he was unable to compete due to injury. The Vachon Brothers The Vachon Brothers (sometimes simply billed as The Vachons) was a professional wrestling tag team composed of Pierre \"The Beast\" Vachon and Damien \"The Pitbull\" Vachon. They were one of the leading \"heel\" teams on the independent circuit during the mid-2000s and, at one point, held the tag team titles of seven different promotions in both eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States, most notably, twice winning the NWA New England Tag Team Championship"
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"Wahid Satay Abdul Wahid bin Haji Ahmad, also known as Wahid Satay, A. Wahid or S.M. Wahid (1930), is a Singaporean-Malaysian veteran actor, comedian and singer. Wahid was born in Indragiri, Indonesia and migrated to Singapore in 1935. He received his early education at the Geylang Malay School. Prior to his acting career, he took painting, which is his hobby since his school days. Because of the quality of his paintings, Wahid was offered a job as a studio set painter at the Cathay Keris Studios at East Coast Road at the end of 1956. In 1957, director B.N. Rao needed a young comedian to be given a role in the film \"Pontianak\". Rao noted that Wahid always telling jokes to his co-workers and always making everyone on the set laughed, and thus decided to include him in Pontianak as a comedic role. The role given to Wahid is the part of a satay seller (hence the stage name 'Wahid Satay', given by Cathay Keris Studios owner Loke Wan Tho) in a village where the people are afraid of Pontianak. Wahid so effectively acted the part of the satay seller that the scene became one of the most memorable scene of the film Pontianak. The movie Pontianak created its own history when it broke Malay movie theatre records, with a total takings of more than one million dollars, the highest amount then in 1957. Following his huge success in Pontianak, Wahid Satay was promoted from assistant painter to full-time actor with a three-year contract. Wahid was not only competent in the field of acting, but also singing. Besides his skills in front of the camera, Wahid also performs live shows to promote his films. Up to this day, Wahid still get many invitations to perform live on stage. During his Cathay Keris Studio days, Wahid represented his studios at the Asia Pacific Film Festivals in Tokyo, Manila and Hong Kong. As an actor with Cathay Keris Studios, Wahid starred in numerous lead and supporting actor comic parts, which led him to be labelled \"the Jerry Lewis of Singapore and Malaya\". Wahid Satay Abdul Wahid bin Haji Ahmad, also known as Wahid Satay, A. Wahid or S.M. Wahid (1930), is a Singaporean-Malaysian veteran actor, comedian and singer. Wahid was born in Indragiri, Indonesia and migrated to Singapore in 1935. He received his early education at the Geylang Malay School. Prior to"
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"Mike Gin Michael A. Gin was mayor of Redondo Beach, California and was a Republican candidate in the special election to fill the seat in California's 36th congressional district left vacant by the resignation of Jane Harman. Gin was born in the South Bay region of Los Angeles, California to Chinese American parents. Gin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Southern California in 1984. Gin served on the Redondo Beach City Council from 1995 to 2003. In May 2005, he was elected mayor of Redondo Beach after receiving 61% of the vote in a runoff election against councilman and fellow Republican Gerard Bisignano. Gin faced no opposition during his mayoral re-election bid in March 2009. On March 1, 2011, Gin announced that he would be a candidate in the special election to fill the seat in California's 36th congressional district left vacant by the resignation of Jane Harman. He finished fifth in the May 17, 2011, primary election. Gin and his husband, Christopher Kreidel, married in California in 2008. Mike Gin Michael A. Gin was mayor of Redondo Beach, California and was a Republican candidate in the special election to fill the seat"
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"Shand House Museum The Shand House Museum is part of the Nova Scotia Museum. Located in Windsor, Nova Scotia, it was built in 1890-91 for Clifford and Henrie Shand. It is a Queen Anne Revival style late-Victorian Era home, and most of its elaborate machine-made trim features are still intact. It contains most of the original family's belongings, including furniture, dishes, artwork, toys, photos and books which date to the turn of the century. Many pieces of the home's furniture were made at the nearby Windsor Furniture Factory, which was in operation in the late 19th and early 20th century Windsor. Unusually for its time, the home was constructed with an indoor plumbing, central heating, and was wired for electric lighting within a year of its completion. Clifford Shand was a local businessman and early bicycle enthusiast (part of the bicycle craze of the 1890s). His father, Andrew P. Shand, was part-owner in the Windsor Furniture Factory, and craftsmen from the factory made not only much of the furniture, but most of the elaborate trim that still decorates the inside of the house. Throughout the home there are many photos and trophies attesting to Clifford's bicycling exploits, as well as many paintings done by his wife, Henrie. Only four people ever lived in the home: Clifford and Henrie, and their two children, Errol B. Shand and Gwendolyn V. Shand. The house was donated to the Nova Scotia Museum by their daughter Gwendolyn, who lived in the house (though not continuously) until her death in 1982. The home was opened as a Museum in 1985. While the family were noted local figures, the house is primarily maintained not as a memorial to the Shand family, but as a very well preserved example of the architectural, economic, and social history of 1890s Nova Scotia. The museum is currently open from June 1 to October 15 every year. Shand House Museum The Shand House Museum is part of the Nova Scotia Museum. Located in Windsor, Nova Scotia, it was built in 1890-91 for Clifford and Henrie Shand. It is a Queen Anne Revival style late-Victorian Era home, and most of its elaborate machine-made trim features are still intact. It contains most of the original family's belongings, including furniture, dishes, artwork, toys, photos and books which date to the turn of the century. Many pieces of the home's furniture were made at the nearby"
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"G292.0+01.8 G292.0+01.8 is a supernova remnant located in the constellation Centaurus. It first gained notice as a strong radio source, and eventually deep images revealed a hot optical nebula at the location. It lies about 15,000 light years away. The most notable feature of this remnant is its spectrum. It shows no detectable lines of hydrogen and helium and the presence of only oxygen and neon. The assumption is that a massive star burned through its hydrogen, producing oxygen and neon, and exploded before processing any heavier elements. It must have taken place relatively recently, as the oxygen and neon have not yet mixed with the interstellar hydrogen. An upper limit of 1500 years has been suggested, and it must be at least a few hundred years old since there are no records from the European presence in the southern hemisphere noting a supernova at this location. Perhaps there are indigenous inscriptions or pictographs that record the event, but they have not yet been discovered or, if so, their significance not yet realized. Murdin, Paul, and David Allen, \"Catalog of the Universe\", pp. 155–156, © 1979 Reference International Publishers Limited. G292.0+01.8 G292.0+01.8 is a supernova remnant located in the constellation"
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"Bellerophon Painter The Bellerophon Painter was one of the first Attic black-figure vase painters. His period of activity is dated between 630 and 600 BC. He was a contemporary of the Nessos Painter, whose importance and artistic class he did not reach. His known works are two neck amphora, one depicting Bellerophon, the other a chimera. Both were found at Vari and are now in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens (Inv. 16389 and 16391). A striking feature of his and his contemporaries’ works is the habit of filling the painted areas with many figures and ornaments that only be distinguished with difficulty. Bellerophon Painter The Bellerophon Painter was one of the first Attic black-figure vase painters. His period of activity is dated between 630 and 600 BC. He was a contemporary of the Nessos Painter, whose importance and artistic class he did not reach. His known works are two neck amphora, one depicting Bellerophon, the other a chimera. Both were found at Vari and are now in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens (Inv. 16389 and 16391). A striking feature of his and his contemporaries’ works is the habit of filling the painted areas with many figures and ornaments"
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"She's So Unusual: 30th Anniversary Tour The She's So Unusual: 30th Anniversary Tour (also known as the She's So Unusual Tour) is the twelfth concert tour by American recording artist, Cyndi Lauper. Launched to mark the anniversary of her debut solo album, the tour visited North America, Asia and Australia. The tour was announced via Lauper's website on April 8, 2013. Dubbed as a celebration for fans, the shows will pay tribute to the singer's debut album, released October 14, 1983. Along with the tour, it was also reported Lauper's play, \"Kinky Boots\", released 13 Tony nominations. During an interview with VH1's \"Big Morning Buzz Live\", the singer stated she never saw herself doing an \"oldies tour\" reliving the glory days. However, she felt compelled to thank her fans for supporting her career for 30 years. She went to say the show was \"more for them than me\". She also revealed she will perform every track from the album, along with her other hits. On June 3, 2013, Raymond J. Lee released a video for various television presenters and actors lip-syncing her hit \"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun\". The video featured Kelly Ripa, Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Katie Couric, Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford; along with the casts of \"Kinky Boots\", \"The Lion King\", \"Cinderella\", \"The Phantom of the Opera\", \"\" and \"Chicago\". The following setlist is obtained from the concert held at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay. It is not representative of all dates on the tour. She's So Unusual: 30th Anniversary Tour The She's So Unusual: 30th Anniversary Tour (also known as the She's So Unusual Tour) is the twelfth concert tour by American recording artist, Cyndi Lauper. Launched to mark the anniversary of her debut solo album, the tour visited North America, Asia and Australia. The"
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"You're Never Too Young You’re Never Too Young is a 1955 American semi-musical comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis, released on August 25, 1955 by Paramount Pictures, and co-starring Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, and Raymond Burr. The film was directed by Norman Taurog. A valuable diamond is stolen at a Los Angeles hotel and a man guarding it is killed. The thief, Noonan, hides it from police, first in the jacket of a customer, Bob Miles, and then in the pocket of a barber's apprentice, Wilbur Hoolick. Wilbur, boarding a train to go home to Blitzen, Washington, pretends to be an eleven-year-old in order to purchase a ticket for half price. Noonan sits beside him, still trying to retrieve the stolen jewel. Wilbur gets the impression that the thief is a jealous husband. He hides in the compartment of Nancy Collins, a teacher at a private girls' school. Feeling sorry for \"young\" Wilbur traveling alone, she allows him to stay there for the duration of the train ride. During a stop-over, Gretchen Brendan, the jealous daughter of the school's headmistress, boards the train and finds out that Nancy is sharing her compartment with \"a man.\" Gretchen hurries to the school to let Nancy's fiancee, Bob, in on this news, then tries to get Nancy dismissed. In order to protect Nancy's job and reputation, Wilbur must continue the charade of pretending to be a child. He accompanies \"Aunt Nancy\" to the all-girl school. The jewel thief follows them. Along the way, Wilbur falls in love with Nancy, although she still thinks of him as a little boy. Noonan pretends to be Wilbur's father and regains possession of the diamond. But the police have arrived and a speedboat chase ensues. In the end, the thief is captured and Wilbur's identity is revealed. Nancy still loves Bob, but he is off to join the Army and discovers that Wilbur is his barber. \"You're Never Too Young\" was filmed from October 18 to December 27, 1954. This film is a remake of another Paramount film, \"The Major and the Minor\" (1942), directed by Billy Wilder — his first film as director—and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett. Diana Lynn previously appeared with Martin and Lewis in their first film, \"My Friend Irma\" (1949), as well as its sequel, \"My Friend Irma Goes West\" (1950). She is also featured in \"The Major And The Minor\", which \"You're Never Too Young\" is based on. In 1964, Paramount re-released \"You're Never Too Young\" with another Martin and Lewis film, \"The Caddy\" (1953). The film was included on a five-film DVD set, the \"Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Collection: Volume Two\", released on June 5, 2007. You're Never Too Young You’re Never Too Young is a 1955 American semi-musical comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis, released on August 25, 1955 by Paramount Pictures, and co-starring Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, and Raymond Burr. The film was directed by Norman Taurog. A valuable diamond"
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"Aquagirl Aquagirl is the name of several fictional characters featured as superheroines in the comic books and other media produced by DC Comics. Lisa Morel is introduced in \"Adventure Comics\" #266 (November 1959) as one of several violet-eyed Atlantean children born unable to adapt to the watery world. They had been sent to the surface in waterproof lifeboats so they might survive among land-dwellers, and Lisa had been adopted by the scientist Dr. Hugo Morel and his wife. With Aquaman in danger, Lisa's water-breathing and telepathic powers awaken; she makes herself a costume identical to Aquaman's, takes on the name \"Aquagirl\" and fights alongside him. However, her new-found powers are short-lived, and she loses them permanently. This is the first and last appearance of the character. Selena is a young Poseidonis teenager who temporarily teams up with Aquaman under the name \"Aqua-Girl\" in \"World's Finest Comics\" #133 (May 1963) to make her former boyfriend jealous. She succeeds, making Aqualad jealous of her temporary status as Aquaman's sidekick as well. This is the first and last appearance of the character. Tula is introduced in \"Aquaman\" Vol. 1 #33 (May–June 1967). After losing her parents soon after her birth, she had been found and adopted by one of the royal families of Atlantis. Given the title Princess of Poseidonis, Tula is schooled in Atlantean traditions, and never leaves the royal palace until she meets Aqualad (Garth) at age 15 in this issue. Tula sometimes helps Aqualad with missions during his time with the original Teen Titans, using the name Aquagirl. When Aquaman leaves his throne to search for his then-missing wife Mera, Narkran takes over Atlantis as a dictator. His reign falls only when Tula leads a rebellion against him. Tula and Garth resume their romance when he returns to Atlantis, and they later appear in the 1980s revival series \"New Teen Titans\" to aid the Titans in bringing down the H.I.V.E.. During the \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\" limited series (1985–1986), Aquagirl is killed by the villain Chemo when she drowns in water that he has poisoned. Years later, in the \"Tempest\" mini-series, a woman claiming to be Tula enters Garth's life. In truth, it is a doppelgänger created by the villainous Slizzath as part of an elaborate plan to siphon Garth's mystical energies for his own dark purposes. Garth sees through the ruse and is able to defeat Slizzath, and finally gain a sense of closure about Tula's death. It is also at this time that Garth adopted a new identity as \"Tempest.\" Most recently, Tula reappears in \"Teen Titans\" (vol. 3) issues 30 and 31. Aquagirl is brought back to life by Brother Blood—along with Hawk and Dove, Phantasm, and Kole—to fight against the Titans. After being freed by Beast Boy and Raven, Kid Eternity is able to lay the deceased Titans back to rest. Tula has a statue in the \"Hall of Fallen Titans\" at Titans Tower, alongside the original Hawk and Dove, Kole, and others. A year later, Tula is channeled by Kid Eternity when the Titans face Blood again. She angrily beats the villain, claiming to be enraged about being resurrected as his puppet. She later is then returned to the afterlife after her time limit in Eternity's body is reached. In the \"Blackest Night\" miniseries, Tula, Aquaman, and Dolphin appear as a group of reanimated Black Lanterns who attack Tempest and Mera. Tula and Dolphin argue over Tempest, at the same time mocking him for not saving them. Sensing Garth's hope that she could fight what had been done to her to, Tula tore out his heart, killing him and bringing about his reanimation as a Black Lantern. Tula later appears to battle the Titans. However, her body is soon destroyed by a burst of white light emanating from Dawn Granger. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Tula is first seen as a shadowing female Atlantean reporting to the current King of Atlantis, Orm aka Ocean Master, about the attacks made to the boy born with purple eyes, who is believed by some to bring the end of Atlantis. Ocean Master ordered Garth to be returned to his mother unharmed. She later battles Cyborg during Atlantis' invasion of the United States, and later when Aquaman becomes the king of Atlantis, she's seen reporting to him and according to the conversation she had with him, it is revealed that she and Orm share the same father, meaning that Orm is her half-brother. Lorena Marquez is on a date at the San Diego Zoo when an earthquake shakes San Diego and causes it to sink deep into the sea, killing thousands — including Lorena's entire family. She comes into contact with Aquaman, who nurses her back to health as she discovers that she has developed the ability to breathe underwater like an Atlantean. The two manage to locate the other survivors of the quake, as well as Anton Geist, the scientist responsible for the catastrophe. Lorena and Aquaman have no choice but to begin rebuilding the city as \"Sub Diego.\" When Ocean Master switches lives with Aquaman, Lorena assumes the identity of Aquagirl, adopting an aquatic costume. In the 1996 limited series \"Kingdom Come\", Aquagirl is Tula II, the estranged teenage daughter of Garth (formerly Aqualad, now Aquaman). She is named Tula after her father's late girlfriend, and is part of a team consisting of the other original Titans' children who end up taking Batman's side in the story's key conflict. In her appearances, Tula seemingly demonstrates a partial shapeshifting ability, changing parts of her body to resemble those of sea creatures. She is last seen battling Donna Troy during the climatic battle at the superhuman Gulag and is possibly killed by the nuclear explosion that ends the conflict. This Tula's mother is possibly Deep Blue, described in annotations for the series as \"Mizuko Perkins,\" daughter of Tsunami and Neptune Perkins. In standard DC Comics continuity, Deep Blue is Aquaman's half-sister Debbie, the daughter of Tsunami and Atlan, raised by Tsunami and Neptune Perkins. Tula makes a cameo appearance in \"\" as a member of Aquaman's army in the altered timeline. She is killed in the final battle with the Amazons. Tula, as Aquagirl, appears in \"\", with Cree Summer reprising the role. She serves as the coordinator of the Team, providing information on The Light's attempts to steal the pieces of an ancient statue, and keeping the pieces safe. Near the end of the game, Klarion disguised as Tempest tricks her into giving him the pieces of the statue, and kidnaps her, intending to use her magic to revive Tiamat in Bialya. The Team arrives to free Tula and defeat Klarion and Blockbuster, but is too late to stop Tiamat's revival. When Tiamat proves too powerful to kill, a weakened Tula offers to use her remaining magic to defeat and imprison Tiamat again, sacrificing herself just like Marduk did in ancient times. Tula succeeds, but is killed by falling debris. Tempest grieves her death, and Aqualad quits the Team, leading up to the events in the second season of the show. Aquagirl Aquagirl is the name of several fictional characters"
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"Habib Beye Habib Beye (born 19 October 1977) is a French-born Senegalese former footballer. His primary position was as a right-back, though he was also able to play in central defence. Bye joined Paris Saint-Germain in 1997, though he progressed no further than the reserve side, playing in the national fifth division. He transferred at the end of the season to RC Strasbourg in 1998 for an undisclosed amount. Following his summer move to RC Strasbourg in 1998, Beye made his league debut on 8 August 1998 in a home 0–0 draw against Olympique Lyonnais, and played a total of 23 times in his first season at the club. He missed just five league matches in the following season, and netted for the first time on 2 October 1999 in a 2–2 home draw with Bordeaux. He was a member of the RC Strasbourg side that won the 2001 French Cup, eventually defeating third division Amiens SC in a penalty shoot-out, which helped his team achieve UEFA Cup qualification in the following season. He appeared a total of 134 times in the league for Strasbourg, scoring 8 goals, before moving to Olympique Marseille in 2003, a move which surprised many as he was a firm favourite at Strasbourg and had established himself as a key player there. Beye signed for Olympique Marseille in the summer of 2003 for a reported €2.5million, by then manager Alain Perrin. In his opening season with the club, he took part in both UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup football. He was a key player for the Marseille side that reached the 2004 UEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle’s talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His time with Marseille was a successful one where he established himself as one of the most accomplished defenders in France's top tier and was voted the fans’ Player of the Year in 2006. He was captain of the club for two years prior to his move to Newcastle United. Beye signed for Newcastle United for a fee of £2million (€3million) on 31 August 2007, during the closing minutes of the summer transfer window. He signed a three-year contract, with then Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce declaring that he was very pleased with the transfer. Allardyce said in a later interview on the club's website that he felt he acquired Beye for a \"bargain\" price and that him and his international colleague who also signed with him, Abdoulaye Faye would be excellent signings for Newcastle. He made his Newcastle debut on 17 September 2007, as a substitute in Newcastle's 1–0 defeat at Derby County. He then made his full debut at home to West Ham United, a display which impressed many Newcastle fans. He had been a fixture in the first team, and scored his only Premier League goal for Newcastle in the 2–1 win against Birmingham City on 8 December, with a near-post header in second-half injury time. His ability to defend well and provide a good outlet going forward have enamored him to the Newcastle faithful and a number of terrace songs became established, starting with a chant of his name to the tune of Happy Days first heard at Fulham. His status as a cult hero was cemented by the creation of the tongue-in-cheek fan site. On 22 May 2008 Beye was named Newcastle player of the season based on fan votes to a poll organised by the Evening Chronicle, he was then named the official Newcastle player of the season on 23 May 2008, as well as being named the Newcastle United Disabled Supporters Association Player of the Season on 22 August. After missing the start of the 2008–09 season from injury, Beye started against Manchester City on 20 October 2008. He was sent off after only 12 minutes for a challenge on Robinho, the first red card of his Newcastle career. Newcastle appealed the red card and on 23 October the claim of wrongful dismissal was upheld. After Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League at the conclusion of the 2008–09 season, an article on the clubs official website stated Beye's intention to remain at the club to help get them back into the Premier League. However, the continuing problems behind the scenes at Newcastle would lead to Beye stating that he would have to leave the club in order to save his career. Despite Hull City chairman Paul Duffen revealing that the \"Tigers\" had agreed a fee with Newcastle United to sign Beye on 6 August 2009, it was announced the following day that Beye had signed for Aston Villa. Beye was substituted late into his Villa debut on the opening day of the 2009–10 season, a 2–0 defeat by Wigan Athletic. He was sent off near the end of his third game for Villa in an away tie against West Ham United. Beye found it hard to break into the Villa first team with the likes of Carlos Cuéllar and Luke Young ahead of him in the pecking order and often found himself restricted to bench appearances. After an extremely disappointing two and a half-year spell at Villa, on 2 February 2012, it was announced that Beye's contract had been cancelled by mutual consent. After making just 9 league appearances for Aston Villa since summer 2009 and being surplus to requirements, Beye signed on loan for Doncaster Rovers in November 2011 in a hope to revive his career after a turbulent two years spell in Aston Villa . After his first 3 games for the club he received big praise from Rovers fans and Rovers manager Dean Saunders following some impressive displays in the centre of defence. He helped Doncaster to two home clean sheets in a row, whilst winning the sponsors man of the match award in both games (against Watford and Southampton) and has been a regular starter in the team. On 22 January 2012, Beye was sent off during a match against Bristol City in a Championship game which ended in a 2–1 defeat, resulting in a three-match ban. This also turned out to be his last game for Doncaster as he was released by Aston Villa on 2 February. Following his release, Beye signed an 18-month deal to permanently join Rovers on 13 February 2012. After completing his domestic three-game ban, he played his first game after signing permanently against Peterborough United in a 1–1 draw on 25 February 2012. He scored his first goal for the club against fellow relegation candidates Portsmouth on 14 April. At the same time he was sent off for the second time this season for a foul on Portsmouth's Dave Kitson which conceded a penalty for the opposing side. That result ended 4–3 in favour of Portsmouth and Birmingham City's 2–2 draw against Bristol City confirmed Doncaster's relegation to the League One for the upcoming 2012–13 season. But he returned from suspension on 28 April and scored a late consolation goal for Doncaster Rovers, in a 3–2 defeat by Ipswich Town on the final day of the season. Beye retired from football after his contract ended. Beye has been a regular in the Senegal national squad since 2001, and has 35 caps and one goal. He made substitute appearances in Senegal's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, against Denmark, Uruguay and Sweden. He retired from international football in an effort to concentrate on his club career following a shambolic Africa Cup of Nations by Senegal in 2008, though he was then called up for a friendly against Libya on 20 August 2008, meaning that he had either not retired or chosen to come out of it. Beye is a Muslim. Strasbourg Marseille Aston Villa Habib Beye Habib Beye (born 19 October 1977) is a French-born Senegalese former footballer. His primary position was as a right-back, though he was also able to play in central defence. Bye joined Paris Saint-Germain in 1997, though he progressed no further than the"
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"Scenographer A scenographer or production designer, develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design. The term originated in theater. A scenographer works together with the theater director to make the message come through in the best way they think possible, the director having the leading role and responsibility particularly for dramatic aspects - such as casting, acting, and direction - and the scenographer primarily responsible for the visual aspects or \"look\" of the production - which often includes scenery or sets, lighting, and costumes, and may include projections or other aspects. While a common role in theatrical production teams in most countries, the position of scenographer is very uncommon in the United States, where this task is generally parcelled out among several people, principally the scenic or set designer who generally spearheads the visual aspects of the production. The production's design team often includes designers for: scenic design, lighting, sound, projections, costumes, properties, choreography, and sometimes others. Plays are usually produced by a production team that commonly includes a director, scenic or set designer, lighting designer, costume designer, sound designer, dramaturg, stage manager, and production manager. Scenographer A scenographer or production designer, develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design. The term originated in theater. A scenographer works together with the theater director to make the message come through in the best way they think possible, the director having the leading role and responsibility particularly for dramatic aspects - such as casting, acting, and direction - and the scenographer primarily responsible for the visual aspects or \"look\" of the production - which often includes"
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"Vincent (actor) Vincent was an Indian actor from Kerala. He was active during the 1970s and 80s and acted in about 160+ Malayalam films, many of them as leading actor. Born in Edavanakad, he was a romantic and action hero of his time. Vincent was married to Mary, who was working as a teacher in Chennai Public School,Chennai. He died of a heart attack on 31 August 1991 at the age of 39. Vincent's wife died on 15 of October,2016 in a road accident near Thirumangalam .They are survived by their two sons ; Roby Vincent, an assistant film director & Richard Lazaar Vincent who is in Dubai. Vincent started his career in the late 1960s and became one of the most successful Malayalam film actors of the 1970s. He performed with such notable leading men as Sathyan, Prem Nazir, Madhu, Jayan, M. G. Soman, and Kamal Haasan. He had acted opposite many leading heroines of Malayalam film including Sheela, Jayabharathi, Vijayasree, Vidhubala, Rani Chandra, Lakshmi, and Srividya. He was famous for his performances in various films in the 1970s including \"Ulsavam\" (1975) and \"Anubhavam\" (1976) both directed by I. V. Sasi. One of his last notable films was \"Inspector Balram\", released in 1991. Vincent (actor) Vincent was an Indian actor from Kerala. He was active during the 1970s and 80s and acted in about 160+ Malayalam films, many of them as leading actor. Born in Edavanakad, he was a romantic and action hero of his time. Vincent was married to Mary, who was working as a teacher in Chennai Public School,Chennai. He died of a heart attack on 31 August 1991 at the age of 39. Vincent's wife died on 15 of October,2016 in a road accident near Thirumangalam .They are survived by their two sons ; Roby Vincent,"
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"Borth Borth (), is a village and seaside resort 7 miles (11 km) north of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Mid Wales, on the Ceredigion Coast Path. The population was 1,399 in 2011. Borth has a sandy beach and is a holiday seaside resort. There is a youth hostel in the village and caravan and camping sites nearby. An ancient submerged forest is visible at low tide along the beach, where stumps of oak, pine, birch, willow and hazel (preserved by the acid anaerobic conditions in the peat) can be seen. Radiocarbon dating suggests these trees died about 1500 BC. This submerged forest is also associated with the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod. Cors Fochno, a raised peat mire, part of the Dyfi Biosphere, the only UNESCO Biosphere reserve in Wales, is located next to the village together with the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and visitors' centre at Ynyslas. A long-distance footpath, the Dyfi Valley Way, passes through the village. On 4 April 1876, the entire Uppingham School in Rutland, England, consisting of 300 boys, 30 masters and their families, moved to Borth for a period of 14 months, taking over the disused Cambrian Hotel and a large number of boarding houses, to avoid a typhoid epidemic. The town's railway station is served by the Cambrian Line. The station building houses Borth Station Museum, which displays community and railway historical artifacts and temporary exhibitions.. The museum is run by volunteers. Borth is also the location of the Borth Animalarium and Borth and Ynyslas Golf Club. The Borth inshore lifeboat (ILB) station was established in 1966 at the southern end of the beach. The village war memorial above a cliff south of the beach, was struck by lightning on 21 March 1983 and had to be rebuilt. In 2008 and 2009 Borth hosted The Square Festival. In 2011 work commenced on the first phase of the £12 million coastal protection scheme along the Borth to Ynyslas coastline, which was finished in 2015. An electoral ward of the same name exists. This stretches south-easterly to Geneu'r Glyn. The total population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 2,078. Borth is also the name of a ward of the current Ceredigion County Council, which covers the communities of Borth and Llandre. Borth had a representative on Cardiganshire County Council from its formation in 1889. The first councillor elected was the Rev. Enoch Watkin James, Brynderwen, a Liberal candidate and Calvinistic Methodist minister. Following his election in January 1889, according to a local newspaper, \"flags were generally displayed and after nightfall bonfires lighted, fireworks discharged, houses illuminated and hundreds of people paraded the streets up to a late hour. About six o'clock, the rev. gentlemen and friends were drawn in an open carriage through the village and, addressing the assembly, said that the day was rapidly approaching when laws would be made by the people for the people.\" From the 1970s until his death in 2001, Borth was represented on Ceredigion District Council by Tom Raw-Rees, who latterly sat also for Borth on Ceredigion County Council. Before 1996, the Borth ward for elections to Dyfed County Council covered Borth, Ceulanamaesmawr and Tirymynach. According to both the 1991 and 2001 censuses, 43 per cent of the residents of Borth are Welsh-speakers. Borth Borth (), is a village and seaside resort 7 miles (11 km) north of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Mid Wales, on the Ceredigion Coast Path. The population was 1,399 in 2011. Borth has a sandy beach and is a holiday seaside resort. There is a youth hostel in the village and caravan and camping sites nearby."
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"It Ain't for You It Ain't for You, The Badlees debut EP, was recorded in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and mixed by Bret Alexander back at Susquehanna Sound in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. It was Alexander's debut as a producer and it featured four, well-crafted, catchy, and energetic songs, each of which could stand alone well as a bar room anthem. The Badlees derived from the band Bad Lee White, which put out the album \"What Goes Around\" in 1988. Soon after there were several shifts within the band, including the addition of Pete Palladino as lead vocalist, with the former lead vocalist, Jeff Feltenberger stepping back to provide harmonies and rhythm guitar. On October 10, 1990, the band released the EP, which carried the deceptive title of \"It Ain’t for You\". Put in context, the title was actually derived from the more meaningful elder-to-younger monologue of the opening song of the same name; \"…It’s too late for me, but it ain’t for you\". The title song starts with a driving acoustic riff by Jeff Feltenberger and gradually builds with Alexander's layered guitars and the precision rhythm of drummer Ron Simasek and interim bass player Ric Stehman, filling in for Steve Feltenberger, who was now in the Marines. The first song also contains an excellent coda crescendo with vocal interplay between lead-singer Palladino and Feltenberger's background high harmonies. Another entertaining song is the closing number, a country-rock-ish, she-done-me-wrong song entitled \"The Best Damn Things In Live Are Free\". \"Last Great Act of Defiance\", co-written by Alexander and Mike Naydock, is perhaps the album's best song. It has an eighties-era Springsteen quality about it with a strong, storytelling lyric and precise, rockin' guitar riffs. Terry Selders, at the time working at Bassment Records in New York City, acted as the de facto manager of the band from afar and put out \"It Ain't For You\" on his newly formed independent label, Rite-Off Records. The cover of the album, taken by Ron Simasek, was a shot of an abandoned lot across the street from Terry's apartment building on Christopher Columbus Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey. It Ain't for You It Ain't for You, The Badlees debut EP, was recorded in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and mixed by Bret Alexander back at Susquehanna Sound in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. It was Alexander's debut as a producer and it featured four, well-crafted, catchy,"
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"Thubursicum Khamissa, ancient Thubursicum Numidarum or Thubursicum, is an Ancient Roman and Byzantine archeological site, in Souk Ahras Province of northeastern Algeria. Khamissa is located southeast of Guelma, the coastal city known as \"Calama\" by ancient Roman settlers, and northwest of Souk Ahras, known as \"Thagaste\" by ancient Berbers and Romans. It was around west of ancient Carthage. Originally the site was a primary settlement of an indigenous Berber tribe of Numidia. This city is probably the town of which Tacitus speaks in connection with the revolt of Tacfarinas in the time of Tiberius (15 CE to 24 CE). Khamissa, then known as \"Thubursicum\", was a Roman town in the Maghreb founded by the Emperor Trajan around 100 CE, when he elevated it to a \"municipium\" (\"Municipium Ulpium Traianum Augustum Thubursicu\"). Its inhabitants enrolled in the Papiria tribe. It became a \"colonia\" (Roman colony) by 270 CE. Khamissa became the seat of a bishopric, with a rectangular basilica having walls covered with marble constructed in the 2nd century. It was visited by Augustine of Hippo (St. Augustine) twice. He served as priest, coadjutor Bishop, and Bishop in regionally local Hippo Regius from 391 to 430. The town became part of the Vandalic Kingdom of Carthage from 435 to 534. It was reconquered in the Vandalic War by the East Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in 534, who built a Byzantine style chapel and small forts. It remained in the Byzantine Praetorian prefecture of Africa and Exarchate of Africa until the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in 698. Khamissa has a well preserved Roman amphitheatre (built 2nd or 3rd century), considered one of the most beautiful and best-preserved in North Africa. Other Roman and Byzantine structures and ruins remain also. Archaeological excavations, conducted from 1900 to 1922, cleared only one part of the town site. Most of the objects collected then, notably the Ancient Roman statues, are in Guelma at the Guelma Museum, Algeria. Thubursicum Khamissa, ancient Thubursicum Numidarum or Thubursicum, is an Ancient Roman and Byzantine archeological site, in Souk Ahras Province of northeastern Algeria. Khamissa is located southeast of Guelma, the coastal city known as \"Calama\" by ancient Roman settlers, and northwest of Souk Ahras, known as \"Thagaste\" by ancient Berbers and Romans. It was around west of ancient Carthage. Originally the site was a primary settlement of an indigenous Berber tribe of Numidia. This city is probably the town"
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"Faye Carol Faye Carol is a jazz and blues singer from Mississippi. Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi. After moving with her family to Pittsburg, California, she participated in youth choir at the Solomon Temple Missionary Baptist Church. She took piano lessons from Martha Young, the niece of Lester Young. She sang in blues bars after graduating from high school and won a talent contest in Oakland. She worked with locals blues musicians such as Eddie Foster, Johnny Heartsman, and Johnny Talbot. During the 1970s she became more of a cabaret singer. Her early musical influences included Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson, Little Richard, and Nancy Wilson. She began her singing career with gospel music, singing in church and touring nationally with The Angelaires. She won a talent show as a young adult, leading to several years of performing, touring, and recording with Oakland blues and funk band Johnny Talbot & De Thangs. With Talbot she recorded the single \"Good Man\" in 1967 and performed at The Fillmore as the opening for act for James Brown, Otis Redding, and Matha Reeves. Her husband Jim Gamble and pianist Martha Young exposed her to the music of Billie Holiday, Horace Silver, Dinah Washington, and the Great American Songbook. Carol has worked with Charles Brown, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Billy Higgins, Bobby Hutcherson, Albert King, Pharoah Sanders, Marcus Shelby, Steve Turre, and Ben Vereen. She has performed at the Berkeley Jazz Festival, Monterey Blues Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival (with her daughter, pianist Kito Gamble), San Francisco Blues Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, and the San Jose Jazz Festival. From 2001 through 2013, Carol was founder and director of the Music in the Community program at the Black Repertory Group in Berkeley, California. She received the East Bay Express Best of the East Bay, Best Singer or MC (2008), KPFA BAJABA (Bay Area Jazz and Blues Artist) Bay Area Living Legend Award (2003), Top Star Awards as Entertainer of the Year (1994) and Best Vocalist (1968); Cabaret Gold Awards (1978, 1983, 1984); Pittsburg Entertainment and Arts Hall of Fame (2015); Oakland Blues Walk of Fame (2015); Jazz Journalists' Association Jazz Hero Award (2014), and the City of Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award (2016). Faye Carol Faye Carol is a jazz and blues singer from Mississippi. Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi. After moving with her family to Pittsburg, California, she participated in"
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"Matnog, Sorsogon ', officially the ', is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Local elders say that the name Matnog comes from the word \"\"matonog\"\" (very audible) - that describes to the loud sound of the waves. The native people of Matnog are the Agta, Tabangon, and Cimaron Tribe. The site of one of the busiest seaports in the Philippines, it is the jump off point to the southern Philippines and vice versa. Matnog is politically subdivided into 40 barangays. A consortium of Filipino and Japanese investors are leading the establishment of an Ecological Model City or Eco City in this town. The \"Eco City\" is a 50-hectare development zone which will feature eco-friendly industrial and manufacturing plants. It will include an international airport to be built inside the zone. Transportation includes buses going to and from Metro Manila and Bulan and ferries going to and from Allen, Northern Samar. Matnog, Sorsogon ', officially the ', is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Local elders say that the name Matnog comes from the word \"\"matonog\"\" (very audible) -"
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"X-ray magnetic circular dichroism X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is a difference spectrum of two X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) taken in a magnetic field, one taken with left circularly polarized light, and one with right circularly polarized light. By closely analyzing the difference in the XMCD spectrum, information can be obtained on the magnetic properties of the atom, such as its spin and orbital magnetic moment. In the case of transition metals such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, the absorption spectra for XMCD are usually measured at the L-edge. This corresponds to the process in the iron case: with iron, a 2p electron is excited to a 3d state by an X-ray of about 700 eV. Because the 3d electron states are the origin of the magnetic properties of the elements, the spectra contain information on the magnetic properties. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is a difference spectrum of two X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) taken in a magnetic field, one taken with left circularly polarized light, and one with right circularly polarized light. By closely analyzing the difference in the XMCD spectrum, information can be obtained on the magnetic properties of the atom, such as its"
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"Orphan Wisdom Orphan Wisdom is a philosophical system invented and promoted by Stephen Jenkinson that believes what modern people \"suffer from most is culture failure, amnesia of ancestry and deep family story, phantom or sham rites of passage, no instruction on how to live with each other or with the world around us or with our dead or with our history.\" Before his 2010 founding of the Orphan Wisdom School, Jenkinson directed palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital of Toronto. Orphan Wisdom's teachings push against \"'death phobia' and 'grief illiteracy'\" to promote acceptance of death well before death in order to \"participate emotionally in their deaths as they participate in other big life events\". The documentary film about Jenkinson and Orphan Wisdom, \"Griefwalker\", was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and filmed over twelve years by Tim Wilson. The 2015 book \"Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul\" is Jenkinson's history, explication and exploration of his approach to coming to terms with death. Its dense and sometimes poetic prose is both a critique of dominant Western cultural practices and denials - in part gleaned from his years the \"death trade,\" as Jenkinson calls it - as well as what the author has learned elsewhere, particularly from indigenous peoples. His ideas also have an affinity with Buddhist teachings, which have their origin in the Buddha's confronting the reality of suffering and death. Orphan Wisdom Orphan Wisdom is a philosophical system invented and promoted by Stephen Jenkinson that believes what modern people \"suffer from most is culture failure, amnesia of ancestry and deep family story, phantom or sham rites of passage, no instruction on how to live with each other or with the world around us or with our dead or with our history.\" Before his 2010 founding of"
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"Rosemary Askin Rosemary Anne Askin (born in 1949; also known as Rosemary Askin Cully) is a New Zealand geologist specialising in Antarctic palynology. She was a trailblazer for women in Antarctic science, becoming the first New Zealand woman to undertake her own research programme in Antarctica in 1970. Born in 1949, Askin earned both her BSc honours degree in geology and zoology and her PhD in geology from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Askin was a trailblazer for women in Antarctica. She was the first New Zealand woman to undertake her own scientific programme in Antarctica, as well as the first woman to work in a deep field setting in Antarctica, when in 1970 she conducted research in Victoria Land at the age of 21. The expedition resulted in the discovery of Antarctica’s richest-known site of fossilised fish remains. The younger rocks in this area became the basis for Askin's PhD research. Askin received high praise for her geological work as well as her fortitude during the 1970–71 season, with Scott Base leader Brian Porter remarking that Askin had \"gained the respect and admiration of all the men of the 1970–71 New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme and set a high standard for future women who may be involved in research in Antarctica, traditionally a man's world only\". Askin returned to the Antarctic numerous times between 1970 and 2001, completing expeditions to diverse parts of Antarctica including the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, Victoria Land, and the Transantarctic Mountains. Mount Askin in the Darwin Mountains is named after her. Askin has researched and taught in several US universities, including The Ohio State University, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of California, Riverside. Askin's research interests include terrestrial palynology and the vegetational/palaeoenvironmental history of the Permian-Triassic and Cenozoic periods in Antarctica. Among other things, her research has examined fossil pollen and spores, fossilised over 350 million to a few million years ago, to see how vegetation has changed over time. In 1982, Askin also was a member of the research team that discovered the first mammal fossils in Antarctica, and she was involved in research that demonstrated that Antarctica experienced an abrupt warming cycle 15 million years ago. More recently, Askin spearheaded the establishment of the US Polar Rock Repository at the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, the first repository of its kind. Askin is a Tai Chi & Qigong and karate teacher, and holds a 3rd Degree Black Belt (Sandan) in karate and a Tai Chi Advanced level (2013) from the Shorin-ryu Karatedo and Kobudo Association of America. Rosemary Askin Rosemary Anne Askin (born in 1949; also known as Rosemary Askin Cully) is a New Zealand geologist specialising in Antarctic palynology. She was a trailblazer for women in Antarctic science, becoming the first New Zealand woman to undertake her own research programme in Antarctica in 1970. Born in 1949, Askin earned both her BSc honours degree in geology and zoology and her PhD in geology from Victoria"
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"Demala Hatpattu Demala Hatpattu or Demala Pattu or Demala Pattuva was a medieval and pre colonial division of Sri Lanka. It was a regional political division formed by royal land grants. There were number of such Pattus across the country. Demela Hatpattu was named as such because at its time of creation, it was exclusively governed by Tamil hereditary chiefs. The land was granted to Chiefs of Tamil or Kerala origin for services rendered or as a result of conquest by Mukkuvas. (See Mukkuvar and Vannimai) The Pattu consisted of the following subdivisions Of which Muneswaram Pattuva alone had over 63 inhabited villages. It was believed that Chiefs of Munneswarm Pattuva began the Munneswaram temple as a village guardian temple to Munisvaran around 1000 CE. Within the Mueswaram Pattuva, Maradankulama provided the political leadership for the area. Demala Hatpattu formed a large division within the current Puttalam District. During the British Colonial period Demala Hatpattu transferred between numbers of provinces. In 1873, when the North Central Province was created, Demala Hatpattu was detached from the North Western Province but in 1875, Demala Hatpattu was reattached to the North Western Province. Demala Hatpattu Demala Hatpattu or Demala Pattu or Demala Pattuva"
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"Chudów Chudów (German \"Chudow\" also \"Chutow\") is a village in the district of Gliwice County, within the municipality of Gmina Gierałtowice, Silesian Voivodeship, in the historical region of Silesia. It lies approximately east of Gierałtowice, south-east of Gliwice, and west of the regional capital Katowice. The village has a population of 1,493 (2012). The village was first mentioned in 1295 as \"Chudow\" attested in the Latin manuscript \"Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis\". Chudów was a privately owned medieval manor purchased in 1532 by the Roman-German Silesian nobility House of Saszowski family, who already owned the neighbouring manor of Gierałtowice. Chudów is famous for its 16th-century Renaissance castle residence, built by the nobleman and scion John Saszowski von Geraltowitz (alias \"Geraltowsky\" in German, \"Gierałtowski\" in Polish). The village remained part of the House of Saszowski estates and a residence of its branch scions alias Geraltowsky von Geraltowitz (in Polish: Gierałtowski z Gieraltowic) until it was sold in the first half of the 17th century. Historical sources say, it was one of the most magnificent castle residences in Upper Silesia, host to many banquets and sport hunting activities of the aristocracy, in later times even included its own castle brewery and inn. The original entrance to the castle was via a drawbridge over the moat, which lead directly to the second floor of the castle tower. In 1706 new owners of the castle was the family Foglarów. After 1768, the castle changed owners quite often, losing in importance. In 1837, the castle owner , made several reconstructions to the original design of the castle. The castle suffered severe fire damage in 1875, and its last owner left it as a picturesque ruin. Abandoned to ruin since the late 19th century, only parts of the walls, four-sided tower and outline of the moat survived to the present day. In 1995, the newly founded Chudów Castle Foundation, has since began gradual castle restoration and reconstruction work. Since 1966 the castle ruin is under registration No. A/568 categorized as of significant cultural value and tracked as objects of cultural heritage in Poland by the National Heritage Board of Poland. In an already restored tower, there is a small museum that shows one of the most interesting exhibitions of medieval Gothic art ceramic stove tiles found in Poland, discovered on the castle grounds during restoration works and archaeological excavations. Since 2000, the Chudów Castle Foundation organizes in August an annual medieval fair along with historical reenactments of medieval tournaments and warfare on Chudów castle grounds. <br> Chudów Chudów (German \"Chudow\" also \"Chutow\") is a village in the district of Gliwice County, within the municipality of Gmina Gierałtowice, Silesian Voivodeship, in the historical region of Silesia. It lies approximately east of Gierałtowice, south-east of Gliwice, and west of the regional capital Katowice. The village has a population of 1,493 (2012). The village was first mentioned in 1295 as \"Chudow\" attested in the Latin manuscript \"Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis\". Chudów was a privately owned medieval manor purchased in 1532"
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"Elisabeth Rehn Märta Elisabeth Rehn (née Carlberg) (born 6 April 1935) is a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first female minister of defence in Finland and in Europe. In the 1994 presidential election, she was narrowly defeated by Martti Ahtisaari. Rehn was born on 6 April 1935 in Helsinki, Finland. She spent her childhood in Mäntsälä, where her father worked as a community medical doctor. Rehn went to a local school in Mäntsälä before entering a boarding school in Kauniainen. Rehn received the degree of master of science in economics in 1957 and has honorary degrees in political science from both Hanken School of Economics and Åbo Akademi University. In the beginning of the 1960s Rehn was known to be the first person in Finland to import and market the plastic Tupperware containers. Rehn was the parliamentary leader of the Swedish People's Party from 1987 to 1990. She was appointed defence minister in 1990 and held the post until 1995. In addition, she served as the minister of equality from 1991 to 1995. Next she was a member of the European Parliament from 1995 to 1997. In the 1994 and 2000 presidential elections, she ran for the office. She had a high profile as the first female Minister of Defence of Finland and Europe. In 1995, during Rehn's term as minister of defence, a law on voluntary female enlistment was enacted. Rehn is known for her international assignments as UN Undersecretary General (1995 - 1999) and as the special rapporteur for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998-1999). Elisabeth Rehn was a Member of the Global Leadership Foundation until November 2017. GLF is an organization which works to support democratic leadership, prevent and resolve conflict through mediation and promote good governance in the form of democratic institutions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law. It does so by making available, discreetly and in confidence, the experience of former leaders to today’s national leaders. It is a not-for-profit organization composed of former heads of government, senior governmental and international organization officials who work closely with Heads of Government on governance-related issues of concern to them. Rehn was married to Ove Rehn from 1955 until his death in 2004, and they have four children: Veronica, Joakim, Charlotta and Johan. Rehn is a two-time cancer survivor. She recovered from colon cancer in the 1990s and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000. Elisabeth Rehn Märta Elisabeth Rehn (née Carlberg) (born 6 April 1935) is a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first female minister of defence in Finland and in Europe. In the 1994 presidential election, she was narrowly defeated by Martti Ahtisaari. Rehn was born on 6 April 1935 in Helsinki, Finland. She spent her childhood in Mäntsälä, where her father worked as a community medical doctor. Rehn went to a local school in Mäntsälä before entering a boarding school in Kauniainen. Rehn received the degree of master of science in economics in"
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"Cecilia R. Aragon Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist, professor, and champion aerobatic pilot who is best known as the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of the treap data structure, a type of binary search tree that orders nodes by adding a priority as well as a key to each node. She is also known for her work in data-intensive science and visual analytics of very large data sets, for which she received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Aragon received her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982, her M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and, her Ph.D. in computer science from the same institution in 2004. She is a professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research interests in the field of human-centered data science include eScience, scientific and information visualization, visual analytics, image processing, collaborative creativity, analysis of spontaneous text communication, dynamic affect detection, and games for good. Prior to her appointment at UW, she was a computer scientist and data scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for six years and NASA Ames Research Center for nine years, and before that, an airshow and test pilot, entrepreneur, and member of the United States Aerobatic Team. On July 9, 2009, Aragon received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. She was recognized for \"seminal research in workflow management and visual analytics for data-intensive scientific research, including the development of the Fourier contour analysis algorithm and Sunfall.\" Aragon first won a slot on the United States Aerobatic Team in 1991. She holds the record for shortest time from first solo in an airplane to membership on the US Team (less than six years), and was also the first Latina to win a slot on the Team. A team member from 1991–1994, she was a bronze medalist at the 1993 U.S. National Aerobatic Championships and the 1994 World Aerobatic Championships. She has also won over 70 trophies in regional aerobatic competitions at the Unlimited level and was California State Unlimited Aerobatic Champion in 1990. Aragon has also flown airshows (as distinct from aerobatic competitions) professionally since 1990. Aragon has been a flight instructor since 1987. In 1989, she founded one of the first aerobatic and tailwheel flight schools in Northern California. Aragon helped develop an \"unusual attitude recovery training\", whereby flight students are taught how to recover from emergency situations in flight. Until July 2009, she was an instructor at Tracy Airport, conducting aerobatic training, competition coaching, and teaching people to overcome their fear of flying. Cecilia R. Aragon Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist, professor, and champion aerobatic pilot who is best known as the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of the treap"
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"Žemaitukas The Žemaitukas (plural: Žemaitukai, literally: \"little Samogitian\") is a historic horse breed from Lithuania. It may be classified as a pony, due to its relatively short stature (between 131–141 centimeters at the withers). Known from the 6–7th centuries, it was used as a war horse by the Lithuanians during the Northern Crusades and is hailed in Lithuania as part of the state's historic heritage. Its origin is uncertain, but it is related to indigenous forest horse breeds and the Konik, a Polish breed, which were both probably descended from the Tarpan. The breed contributed to the foundation of the Trakehner. Once popular, the breed was brought to the brink of extinction by changing agricultural demands and World War II. As of 2010, the total population is estimated at 400 individuals. Known in written sources since the 6–7th centuries, the Žemaitukas became famous as an excellent war horse during the Northern Crusades. During the centuries, the breed was influenced by Tatar, Russian, light Polish, and other horses. Once widespread, the breed went almost extinct three times. In the 19th century, new agricultural machinery required taller and stronger horses. Therefore the horses were crossed with the Trakehners, Arabians, and draft horses threatening survival of pure breed Žemaitukas. The breed was saved by the Ogiński family, who established Žemaitukas breeding societies in Raseiniai, Plungė, and Rietavas between 1881 and 1890. The Ogińskis popularized the breed and exhibited it at the Paris International Agricultural Show in 1900 where the horses won two gold and one silver medals. At the end of World War II, the Germans took all Žemaitukas horses from the Gruzdžiai stud farm. A single stud was found in 1958 in Užventis. The stud was transferred to the Vilnius State Stud Farm, where a new generation of Žemaitukas horses was bred. A new challenge was presented by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and rapid de-collectivization in 1990. Horses, that belonged to the kolkhozes (collective farms), were distributed to private owners who often showed little interest in the survival of the breed. In 1994, only 30 adult individuals remained. However, the Vilnius State Stud Farm preserved its horses and remains the major breading center. As of 2010, it had 98 Žemaitukas horses. Arabian blood was added during the 19th century, giving the horse an Arab-type head, including the characteristic dish-shaped Arabian profile. The infusion of Arabian blood created two subtypes of the Žemaitukas: those with Arabian ancestry were considered suitable for riding, while the other, more closely related to the indigenous horses, was better adapted to farm work. After World War II, the distinction was muted. With limited crossbreeding with North Swedish Horse, a deliberate effort was made to increase the size and bulk of the animals so that they could be used for both riding and draft work. The ponies are said to be hardy, possessing excellent stamina, disease resistant, and displaying a willing temperament. It is now a multi-purpose breed; it is ridden, used in farm work, and crossed with lighter and larger breeds to produce sport horses. The horses are usually a dun color and often display the primeval dorsal stripe, but they may also be brown, bay, black, or palomino. The Žemaitukas generally stands high, placing it among the taller pony breeds. As with other domestic animals around the world, studies have been carried out on this horse's genetic heritage, since it may possess unique characteristics. Maternal DNA sequencing indicated that one of its haplotypes is similar to an old haplotype present in horse breeds of the North East European area. In 2004 study, scientists discovered allele T, common among the Žemaitukas and observed only a few times among all other tested horse breeds. The FAO Mission Conference for Central and Eastern European countries recognized the Žemaitukas as an internationally watched breed, and included it into the FAO World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity. Žemaitukas The Žemaitukas (plural: Žemaitukai, literally: \"little Samogitian\") is a historic horse breed from Lithuania. It may be classified as a pony, due to its relatively short stature (between 131–141 centimeters at the withers). Known from the 6–7th centuries, it was used as a war horse by the Lithuanians during the Northern"
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"Dark Venture Dark Venture was an American radio anthology thriller series. This program was created by the director Leonard Reeg and the producer J. Donald Wilson. John Lake narrated the show. It originated at ABC's new KECA facilities. The show ran for 52 episodes between February 1946 and February 1947. The first episode began with an eerie introduction with Lake saying: “Over the minds of mortal men come many shadows… shadows of greed and hate, jealousy and fear. Darkness is absence of light… so in the sudden shadows which fog the minds of men and are to be found in the strange impulses which urge them on to their venture…in the dark.” The introduction had subtle changes in different episodes to reflect the journeying into the unknown. ABC took Dark Venture nationwide on February 19, 1946. The stories gave the listener the murderer’s point of view. The episodes were an adventure of a distorted reality where people were scheming ways to kill someone and try to get away with it. The killers had no sense of right or wrong and nothing would get in their way. Victims were usually killed by strangling, knifing, or shooting. Killers devised cruel mind games such as tricking a wife into believing she was going insane, or manipulating a business associate into thinking he was being stalked by a lover who did not exist. Both of these elaborate plots were thought up to provide a scapegoat for the murderer. However, small details that they forgot to cover ultimately unraveled their evil plan at the end of each episode. Dark Venture Dark Venture was an American radio anthology thriller series. This program was created by the director Leonard Reeg and the producer J. Donald Wilson. John Lake narrated the show. It originated at ABC's new KECA"
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"Elizabeth Jones (engraver) Elizabeth Jones (born May 31, 1935) was the eleventh Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, holding this position from 1981 until her resignation in 1991. After her resignation, the post of Chief Engraver was left vacant for 15 years until John Mercanti was appointed to the post. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Jones was a 1953 graduate of the Montclair Kimberley Academy (formerly the Kimberley School until 1974) and received their 1985 Distinguished Alumni Award. She graduated from Vassar College in 1957. Jones was just 46 when President Ronald Reagan appointed her as Chief Engraver, making her the first woman to hold this post. Although relatively young by chief engraver standards, by this time she had already built an impressive reputation as one of the leading medallists in the world. Her talent and distinctive style, which she describes as \"mildly abstract,\" had earned her a lengthy series of commissions from such prestigious clients as The Franklin Mint, Medallic Art Company and the Judaic Heritage Society. When Frank Gasparro retired in 1981 after 16 years as chief engraver, friends in the art world and in Washington, D.C., urged her to apply. She did, and soon had a new job. Jones was the designer of the 1983 Los Angeles Olympic one dollar coin, obverse. Her design incorporated the traditional discus thrower of conjoined outlines in three layers as if in stroboscopic motion. In an article, “Her mark is on the coinage”, by Judy Klemesrud, The New York Times, June 26, 1983: ”She said she became interested in the rather obscure field of medallion making after meeting Renato Signorini, an Italian sculptor now deceased, who designed the official medal for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. \"He's the one who's responsible for my becoming a medalist,\" she said. \"I had never even thought of medals until I was 25 years old.\" Elizabeth Jones (engraver) Elizabeth Jones (born May 31, 1935) was the eleventh Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, holding this position from 1981 until her resignation in 1991. After her resignation, the post of Chief Engraver was left vacant for 15 years until John Mercanti was appointed to the post. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Jones was a 1953 graduate of the Montclair Kimberley Academy (formerly the Kimberley School until 1974) and received their 1985 Distinguished Alumni Award. She graduated from Vassar College in 1957. Jones was"
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"Novi Vinodolski Novi Vinodolski (, often also called Novi or \"Novi del Vinodol\" o \"Novi in Valdivino\" in Italian) is a town on the Adriatic Sea coast in Croatia, located south of Crikvenica, Selce and Bribir and north of Senj. The population of Novi is 3,988, with a total of 5,131 people in the city administered area. The city area became a Frankopan property in the 13th century, marking the period to which the most valuable heritage is dated, including the Law codex of Vinodol. City hinterland is dominated by the Vinodol Valley, used for agriculture and winemaking. Economy of the city is dominated by tourist industry, as Novi Vinodolski is well known tourist centre situated in an area largely unaffected by other types of industry and it offers a wide variety of tourist amenities. The Vinodol Valley is also the site of a hydroelectric power plant utilizing water collected in Gorski Kotar reservoirs. Transport links of the city are substantially dependent on the nearby city of Rijeka. The area of Novi Vinodolski is inhabited since prehistory, as witnessed by an archaeological site at Osap hill and Roman artifacts and remains such as the Lopsica fortress, found in the city itself and its vicinity. Settlement variously called Novi Grad or Novigrad (lit. \"New City\") was built in the 13th century by the House of Frankopan who acquired the area as their possession at the time. Contemporary development of the region is witnessed by Vinodol Statute of 1288 and significant Glagolitic works of the era. Until the 17th century the city was ruled by the Principality of Krk or as a Frankopan estate. In the 16th century, Novi Vinodolski became a part of Habsburg Empire and it shares political fate of the Kingdom of Croatia and its successor states since then. The city of Novi Vinodolski is the hometown of writers Ivan and Matija Mažuranić. Ivan Mažuranić was also the first Croatian ban born as a commoner. The soul of Novi Vinodolski consists of historical remains and cultural heritage, namely remains of a Paulist monastery, Frankopan fortress and castle, a cathedral, Trinity church and Saint Marinus church located on a small eponymous island, house of the Mažuranić brothers, a library built in 1845, Homeland museum and gallery, old city core, as well as preserved authentic and indigenous folk lore of the city. The city of Novi Vinodolski is situated in the northern Croatian Littoral, at Vinodol Riviera of the Adriatic Sea, south of Crikvenica, Selce and Bribir and north of Senj. The population of Novi is 4,005, with a total of 5,113 people in the city administered are. Appearance of Novi Vinodolski is characterized by coastal Mediterranean architecture of white façade houses with red rooftops in the old city's core extending from the coastline up to a church and a tower located on a hill dominating city skyline as if protecting the stone structures uphill. Due to this specific panorama, Novi Vinodolski has been recognized as a tourist city in the past and present. Because of evergreen and deciduous forests and mild Mediterranean climate, as well as clean seawater and air, the city is considered to be a leader in tourist industry of the region, second only to Opatija. City hinterland comprises Vinodol Valley (Vallis vinearia) spanning between Bakarac and Novi Vinodolski. The city boundaries encompass the following settlements: Bater, Bile, Breze, Crno, Donji Zagon, Drinak, Gornji Zagon, Jakov Polje, Javorje, Klenovica, Krmpotske Vodice, Ledenice, Luka Krmpotska, Novi Vinodolski, Podmelnik, Povile, Ruševo Krmpotsko, Sibinj Krmpotski, Smokvica Krmpotska and Zabukovac. Economy of Novi Vinodolski is dominated by tourist industry and activities supporting that particular branch of economy. Hotels, other vacation accommodation, auto camps, bungalows, apartments and rooms in privately owned houses can accommodate over 10,000 tourists at once. The city and its surroundings provide recreational, sports, and spa facilities. City port contains berths, a filling station, and other facilities required for yachting. The city surroundings—Vinodol Valley, is used for agricultural production, especially vinegrowing and winemaking. Wines produced in the area largely resemble those produced on nearby Krk island, with Žlahtina being the predominant variety produced. In addition, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are produced. Wine production was significantly promoted since the 1990s, when refugees from Vukovar started the Pavlomir winery there during the Croatian War of Independence. A wine produced in the region, was provided as an official wine during visit of the Pope Benedict XVI to Croatia. The city is linked by Adriatic Highway—a segment of the D8 state road linking it to the Croatian motorway network east of Rijeka. Rijeka acts as a transportation hub of the region offering railway links to Zagreb, Ljubljana and further on to the rest of Europe, the Rijeka Airport and the Port of Rijeka. Hrvatska elektroprivreda operates the Vinodol Hydroelectric Power Plant which utilizes several reservoirs in Gorski Kotar, such as Lake Bajer for production of electrical power. This arrangement of the reservoirs and the power plant yields water head in excess of and 90 MW rated power of the plant. Average annual production of the power plant is 139 GWh. 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"De La Salle College Ashfield De La Salle College is a Catholic systemic, secondary, day school for boys', located in Ashfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1916 by the De La Salle Brothers and Vincentian Fathers, the college caters to year 7 to 12 students from the inner-west Parishes of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The College is under the patronage of the Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher. De La Salle College is one of 18 Lasallian Schools in Australia, and in the 1970s became the first Catholic High School in Australia to have a lay headmaster. The school is affiliated with the Catholic Secondary Schools Association NSW/ACT, and the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC). In education, they are accredited to run the Newman Selective Gifted Education Program (the Gifted and Talented program) which runs in a number of Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Sydney Catholic Schools. They also prominently use Inquiry-Based Learning, focusing mainly on the Solution Fluency framework. The offer a number of co-curricular activities and experiences, including immersions to Lasallian schools overseas. The school follows the NSW Syllabus and Australian Curriculum. The foundation stone for the school was laid on 10 December 1916. Upon completion a year later, the school consisted of just three classrooms, and was located behind a boarding house that was to become a monastery for the six De La Salle brothers who were given the task of educating Catholic boys of the Ashfield parish. Despite the effects of the Great Depression, enrolments continued to increase, with 300 on the role in 1931. Through the efforts of Father Macken, a provincial of the Vincentian Fathers, the College established a separate primary school in 1934. Further, a \"tech\" was established in 1937 for boys who would not be going on to university or office jobs. The two-stream system of \"pros\" and \"techs\" continued until 1955. Lay staff were employed in 1956 as the number of brothers had declined. The 1960s saw further change with the Wyndham scheme introduced in 1962 necessitating the addition of new subjects to the curriculum, and thus requiring more specialist rooms. With support from the parish and the Old Boys' Union, the principal of the time, Br Peter, began to expand the College. The main building of the College opened in 1966 during the celebration of its Golden Jubilee. In 1972, Peter Donnan became the first lay principal of the school, thus making the school the first Catholic high school in Australia administered by a lay principal. The College's primary section closed in 1988. Below are a list of Principals that have directed the school since its opening in 1917. The current Principal is: \"Paul Forrester\". De La Salle College is a member of the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC), and competes in a range of sports including athletics, cricket, cross country, basketball, golf, rugby league, soccer, squash, swimming, tennis, touch football and volleyball. Through MCC, the college competes against schools such as Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham, LaSalle Catholic College, Bankstown, Marcellin College Randwick, Marist College Kogarah, Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood, Holy Cross College Ryde and Marist College North Shore. Sport has traditionally been an important part of college life, notwithstanding the school's own limited sporting facilities. The college also does excel in debating and public speaking, through the Catholic Schools Debating Association and other public speaking competitions. In music, the school offers in-school instrumental & vocal tuition and also participates in the Australian A Capella Awards (AUSACA). The school also has a choir and band. In creative arts, the college offers chances to enter national and international art competitions. At the school there is also a science club, photography club, Tournament of the Minds competition and computer club. The college also offers opportunities to take part in different competitions in music, drama and visual arts. De La Salle College Ashfield De La Salle College is a Catholic systemic, secondary, day school for boys', located in Ashfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1916 by the De La Salle Brothers and Vincentian Fathers, the college caters to year 7 to 12 students from the inner-west Parishes of"
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"Chaos cloud The chaos cloud is a hoax that originated in a \"Weekly World News\" article in September 2005. It was published online at Yahoo! Entertainment News. According to the article, the chaos cloud is a massive object in outer space that \"dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars\", and is due to reach Earth in 2014. The hoax article generated a large amount of discussion online, as people attempted to discern whether or not it was genuine. Articles on the subject appeared at a diverse range of sites, such as Bad Astronomy, Whirlpool, Free Republic and Overclockers Australia. It has been debunked on Snopes and other urban legends sites. Chaos cloud The chaos cloud is a hoax that originated in a \"Weekly World News\" article in September 2005. It was published online at Yahoo! Entertainment News. According to the article, the chaos cloud is a massive object in outer space that \"dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars\", and is due to reach Earth in 2014. The hoax article generated a large amount of discussion online, as people attempted to discern whether or not it was genuine. Articles on"
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"California Department of Pesticide Regulation The California Department of Pesticide Regulation, also known as DPR or CDPR, is one of six boards and departments of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). The stated mission of DPR is to protect human health and the environment by regulating pesticide sales and use, and by fostering reduced-risk pest management. DPR's work includes: DPR is regarded as the premier U.S. agency for pesticide regulation, the acknowledged peer of United States Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada, and as an international authority in the field. California passed its first pesticide-related law in 1901, just three years after New York passed the nation's first pesticide law in 1898. The focus of California's first law was on preventing consumer fraud for sale of the most widely used insecticide, Paris green. Following the United States Congress passage of the first federal pesticide legislation, the Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act in 1910, California passed corresponding legislation, the State Insecticide and Fungicide Act of 1911. Similar to the federal act, at this time, the legislation was primarily concerned with mislabeling and adulteration of pesticides. In the 1920s, the public began to raise concerns about pesticide residues in food as agricultural pesticide use, reports of illnesses, and seizures of fruit with high arsenic levels conducted by health officials increased. These changes prompted the state's pesticide regulatory program, which was at that time part of the California Department of Agriculture (also known as CDA and renamed as the California Department of Food and Agriculture in 1972), to begin analyzing fresh produce for pesticide residues and set allowable residue levels, or tolerances. New pesticides prompted additional controls in the decades to follow. In 1925, there were about 1,700 pesticide products in California, which doubled to about 3,500 products in 1935, and grew to 7,000 pesticide products in 1945. In 1969 and 1970, California passed landmark legislation that required pesticides to be thoroughly evaluated prior to being registered for use. Additionally, more authority was given to the department, allowing them to strengthen the study criteria for which pesticide manufacturers were required to submit and to make restrictions on how pesticides are used. Another major component of the legislation required the department to begin “an orderly program of continuous evaluation of pesticides already registered and eliminate from use those posing a danger to the agricultural or nonagricultural environment.\" In 1972, CDFA was given the primary responsibility for ensuring “the safe use of pesticides and for safe working conditions for farmworkers, pest control applicators, and other persons handling, storing or applying pesticides, or working in and about pesticide-treated areas.” The department carried out the mandate by adopting regulations outlining rules on pesticide handling, pesticide storage, protective clothing, worker entry into treated fields, and field posting. At this time, the county agricultural commissioners (CACs) were given joint responsibility, along with CDFA, to enforce these regulations, and both the CDFA and the Department of Health were given “joint and mutual responsibility” for developing pesticide worker safety regulations. When Cal/EPA was formed in 1991, the aforementioned roles were transferred to DPR and Cal/EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), respectively. DPR continues to complete risk assessments and risk reduction measures on chemicals that pose the highest risks to human health and the environment. Protection of workers remains paramount, and these activities are consistently improved and expanded. Recent accomplishments are described below. From 2012 to 2014, DPR continued to advance the protection of California’s residents and environment, including: DPR is organized into two divisions: Pesticide Programs and Administrative Services. The Pesticide Programs includes the following branches: The Administrative Services Division includes: DPR's scientific responsibilities are fulfilled by a highly educated and trained professional staff of about 390 individuals. The staff include toxicologists, environmental specialists, statisticians, epidemiologists, community outreach workers, and industrial hygienists. Additionally, under DPR oversight, the CACs and approximately 250 of their biologists serve as the local enforcement agents for pesticide laws and regulations in California's 58 counties. In fiscal year 2015-2016 DPR was budgeted for approximately $90.9 million, almost 98% of the funding coming from regulatory fees, primarily levied on pesticide sales at the point of first sale into the state, and penalties and the remaining 2% coming from federal funds from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture. California Department of Pesticide Regulation The California Department of Pesticide Regulation, also known as DPR or CDPR, is one of six boards and departments of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). The stated mission of DPR is to protect human health and the environment by regulating pesticide sales and use, and by fostering reduced-risk pest management. DPR's work includes: DPR is regarded as the premier U.S. agency for pesticide regulation, the acknowledged peer of United States Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada,"
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"David Rutledge (engineer) Dr. David B. Rutledge (born 1952) is the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor (em.) of Engineering and former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His earlier work on microwave circuits has been important for various advances in wireless communications and has been useful for applications such as radar, remote sensing, and satellite broadcasting. He also covers research in estimating fossil-fuel supplies, and the implications for alternative energy sources and climate change. Rutledge earned his bachelor's degree at Williams College, his Master of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge, and his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Caltech faculty as an assistant professor in 1980, and rose through the faculty ranks to become the holder of the Tomiyasu chair in 2001. He served as executive officer for Electrical Engineering from 1999 to 2002 and chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science from 2005 to 2008. Rutledge was editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He is also a member of Caltech's Lee Center for Advanced Networking, which aims to create a global communication system that is as reliable and robust as a basic utility. Since 2018 he is an professor emeritus. Professor Rutledge is the author of \"The Electronics of Radio\", a book published by Cambridge University Press, as well as author or co-author of numerous other publications. This book provides an introduction to analog electronics by analyzing the design and construction of a radio transceiver. Essential theoretical background is provided at each step, along with carefully designed laboratory and homework exercises. The goal of this approach is to ensure a good grasp of basic electronics as well as an excellent foundation in wireless communications systems. The book begins with a thorough description of basic electronic components and simple circuits. Next, the key elements of radio electronics, including filters, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, and antennas are described. In the laboratory exercises, the reader is led through the design, construction, and testing of a popular radio transceiver (the NorCal 40A), thereby illustrating and reinforcing the theoretical material. This book, the first to deal with elementary electronics in the context of radio, is often used as a textbook for introductory analog electronics courses, or for more advanced undergraduate classes on radio frequency electronics. It may also be of interest to electronics hobbyists and radio enthusiasts. David Rutledge (engineer) Dr. David B. Rutledge (born 1952) is the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor (em.) of Engineering and former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His earlier work on microwave circuits has been important for various advances in wireless communications and has been useful for applications such as radar, remote sensing, and satellite broadcasting. He also covers research in estimating fossil-fuel supplies, and the implications for alternative energy sources and climate change. Rutledge earned his bachelor's degree at Williams College, his Master of Arts"
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"Le Bleu Le Bleu is the third and best-known solo album by acoustic guitarist Justin King. \"Le Bleu\" is the name of the street on which King lived during his childhood, and thus the inspiration for the album title. Released in 2001, it was only available on King's website, since he was not signed to a label at the time. The album consists of 19 tracks, one of which contains vocals by King \"(Ashes)\", and another a violin solo \"(Ashokan Farewell)\" playing by King's close friend Linh Renken. The album is composed of tracks which are all imbued with King's renowned percussive acoustic style consisting of elements of Flamenco, Jazz, Celtic, Classical and African music. Some of the tracks such as \"Seville\" and \"Taps\" involve the playing of cultural percussive instruments such as the Tabla and Djembe drums played by childhood friend James West, also the former drummer for King's current band. The album was recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios; King's own studio, Blackberry Hill Studio, was not yet constructed. King uses a variety of guitars on the album which include seven string, classical, steel string, and flamenco. Le Bleu Le Bleu is the third and best-known solo"
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"Douglas Warrick Douglas Warrick is an assistant professor in biophysics at the zoology department of Oregon State University, specializing in the study of functional/ecological morphology, aerodynamics, and the evolution of vertebrate flight, working with many bird species, including hummingbirds and seabirds. Warrick worked for a biological consulting firm from 1987 to 1992, including work on the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. Today he continues to participate in studies of seabird mortality from oil spills. From 1999 to 2001 he was an assistant professor in biology at Minot State University in North Dakota. Since 2004 he has been at Oregon State University where his primary focus has been on hummingbirds and swifts. In 2005, Warrick led a research study into the hummingbird's ability to hover in flight. Working with trained rufous hummingbirds (\"Selasphorus rufus\") that hovered over a feeding syringe filled with sugar solution, Warrick and his research team employed digital particle imaging velocimetry to capture the bird's wing movements on film, which enabled the discovery that the hummingbird's hovering is achieved primarily because of its wing's downstroke (which accounts for 75% of its lift) rather than its upstroke (which makes up the additional 25% of the lift). This was counter to the conventional wisdom which was that the lift was provided 50:50 by the up and down strokes as with hawk moths. Warrick's research was published in \"Nature\", a leading scientific journal, and his research conclusions were widely reported in the international media such as \"Scientific American\", the BBC, the Associated Press news wire, and the United States National Science Foundation. Warrick \"et al.\"'s \"Nature\" (2005) article inspired Jennifer MacMillan and Bradley Eros to create their own \"experiment\" - investigating the \"cross-pollination of scientific visualization and poetic document\". Their art work added \"star studies, satellite recordings, subaquatic and botanical investigations, liquid crystals, visual music performance generated from the scientific instrument, high speed motion studies, a discussion of subatomic physics, and readings of the 10 most beautiful experiments of science.\" Douglas Warrick Douglas Warrick is an assistant professor in biophysics at the zoology department of Oregon State University, specializing in the study of functional/ecological morphology, aerodynamics, and the evolution of vertebrate flight, working with many bird species, including hummingbirds and seabirds. Warrick worked for a biological consulting firm from 1987 to 1992, including work on the \"Exxon Valdez\" oil spill. Today he continues to participate in studies of seabird mortality from oil"
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"George Alexander Hamilton George Alexander Hamilton (29 August 1802 – 17 September 1871) was a minor British Conservative Party politician and later a prominent civil servant. Hamilton was seated as a member of parliament (MP) for Dublin City on 13 April 1835, after a successful election petition. He represented this constituency until he was defeated in the general election of 1837. Hamilton was subsequently elected one of the MPs for Dublin University at a by-election on 10 February 1843 and continued to represent the seat until he resigned in January 1859. He occupied the political post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury in the first (from 2 March 1852 until 17 December 1852) and second ministries of the Earl of Derby (2 March 1858 to January 1859). Hamilton was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Treasury in 1859 and Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in 1867. These were the most senior civil service posts in the Treasury at that time, and Hamilton continued to serve until 1870. He was made a member of the Privy Council on 7 August 1869. Hamilton was born at Tyrellas, Downpatrick, County Down, on 29 August 1802. He was elder son of the Rev. George Hamilton of Hampton Hall, Balbriggan, County Dublin, who died in March 1833 (first cousin of George Hamilton, Canadian lumber baron), by Anna, daughter of Thomas Pepper of Ballygarth Castle, co. Meath. His grandfather, George Hamilton (d. 1793), who was a baron of the exchequer from 1777 to 1793, was a nephew of Hugh Hamilton, bishop of Ossory. He was sent to Rugby School in 1814, and matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford, 15 December 1818, took his B.A. degree in 1821, and was created D.C.L. 9 June 1853. Soon after leaving the university he settled on his paternal estate and began to take a part in the public political meetings in Dublin. At the general election in 1826 he became a candidate for the representation of that city, but after a severe and expensive contest lasting fourteen days was defeated by a small majority. In 1830 and 1832 he again unsuccessfully contested the seat for Dublin. At the close of another election for Dublin in January 1835 the numbers were: O'Connell 2,678, Ruthven 2,630, Hamilton 2,461, West 2,455. A petition was, however, presented; the commissioners sat from 3 May 1835 to 6 January 1836, and from 29 Feb to 26 May, when Hamilton and West were declared duly elected. In the following year, 1837, he again contested Dublin unsuccessfully, and although in presenting a petition he was supported by ‘the Protestants of England,’ and a sum of money known as the Spottiswoode subscription was raised to assist him in paying his expenses, O'Connell on this occasion retained his seat. Throughout his career he took the side of the Orangemen, and was a prominent figure in the Protestant demonstrations. On the formation of the ‘Lay Association for the Protection of Church Property’ in August 1834, he became the honorary secretary of the association, and for a long period worked energetically in the cause. In parliament he was chiefly known as having presented the petition of the celebrated Protestant meeting of 14 January 1837, which gave rise to much discussion and subsequently to the Earl of Roden's committee of inquiry. On 10 February 1843, on the occurrence of a chance vacancy, he was returned by the university of Dublin, which constituency he represented without intermission until February 1859. To him was mainly due the formation of the Conservative Society for Ireland, which formed the rallying point for the conservative party after the passing of the Reform Bill. On 2 June 1845 he spoke on the subject of the 'godless college bill.' Another speech of 21 August 1848 was printed with the title of 'Education in Ireland. Report of Speech in the House of Commons on Mr. Hamilton's motion on above subject,' 1848. On 21 June 1849 his proposal for an alteration in education in Ireland so as to make it acceptable to the Protestant clergy was lost by 162 to 102 votes. He held the financial secretaryship of the treasury under Lord Derby's administration from March to December 1852, and again on the return of the conservatives to power from March 1858 to January 1859. At this latter date he was appointed permanent secretary of the treasury. He was sworn a member of the privy council 7 August 1869, and in the following year was named one of the commissioners of the church temporalities in Ireland. He was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Dublin, and an LL.D. of Dublin University. In his role as local landowner and MP he was, like his father, very active in the commercial development of Balbriggan, expanding the harbour facilities and encouraging the development of the local hosiery manufactory. He was chairman of the company that built the Great Northern Railway from Dublin to Belfast. A keen antiquarian he conducted rescue archaeology on a major passage grave discovered at Gormanston in the course of the building of the railway and wrote reports on this and other archaeological discoveries in the proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society. During the Irish famine he chaired the Relief Committee in the Balrothery Union of parishes which provided soup, bread and meal to the starving throughout the North Fingal area. He died in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Ireland, 17 September 1871 and was buried in St George's church, Balbriggan. Despite his lifelong advocacy of unionism the last few miles of the journey to his burial was lined by thousands of grieving Catholics and he received a laudatory obituary in the Nationalist Freeman's Journal. His wife, whom he married 1 May 1835, was Amelia Fancourt, daughter of Joshua Uhthoff of Bath, Somerset, England. George Alexander Hamilton George Alexander Hamilton (29 August 1802 – 17 September 1871) was a minor British Conservative Party politician and later a prominent civil servant. Hamilton was seated as a member of parliament (MP) for Dublin City on"
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"Rxvt rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System (and, in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows). RXVT was originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years. It is intended to be a slimmed-down alternate for xterm, omitting some of its little-used features, like Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. The latter refers to the Xt resource mechanism, e.g., for binding keys. rxvt is an extended version of the older xvt terminal emulator by John Bovey of the University of Kent. The name originally stood for \"Rob's xvt\" (with XVT stands for 'X Virtual Terminal'), but was later re-dubbed \"our xvt\" (pronounced like the letters r-x-v-t). Aside from features such as those controlled by resource files, rxvt's terminal emulation differs from xterm in two important ways: Newer versions of rxvt have primitive support for pseudo-transparency. The rxvt distribution also includes an analog clock program called rclock. Very old distributions included a copy of vttest, but dropped that in 1996 with version 2.18. Rxvt rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System"
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"Chronological synchronism Chronological synchronism is an event that links two chronologies. For example, it is used in Egyptology to ground Egyptian chronology. The main types of chronological synchronism are synchronisms with other historical chronologies and synchronisms with precisely datable astronomical events. Synchronisms with other chronologies often rely on some form of recorded communication between regions. For example, in Egyptology, the earliest such synchronisms appear in the 15th century BC, during the Amarna Period by the considerable quantity of diplomatic correspondence between Amenhotep III and Akhenaten and various Near Eastern monarchs; that links Egyptian chronology with other Near Eastern chronologies. Astronomical synchronisms rely on precise identification of astronomical events recorded in the historical record. The best known of these is the Sothic cycle whose careful study led Richard Anthony Parker to argue that the dates of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt could be fixed with absolute precision. More recent research has eroded that confidence and questioned many of the assumptions used with the Sothic Cycle. As a result, experts have moved away from relying on it. Chronological synchronism Chronological synchronism is an event that links two chronologies. For example, it is used in Egyptology to ground Egyptian chronology. The main types"
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"Joseph DeLee Joseph Bolivar DeLee (October 28, 1869 – April 2, 1942) was an American physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics. DeLee founded the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, where he introduced the first portable infant incubator. Early in his career, he was associated with the medical school at Northwestern University. After 1929, he was employed by the medical school at the University of Chicago. An early proponent of hygienic standards during childbirth, DeLee even advocated for the construction of separate hospital buildings for labor and delivery. He was an influential figure in the discussion of whether childbirth required medical interventions to ensure a healthy mother and baby; in 1920, he proposed a standardized, invasive approach to childbirth known as the \"prophylactic forceps operation\". DeLee believed that mechanical intervention (such as forceps delivery) could prevent the poor outcomes that sometimes resulted from childbirth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His advocacy of such active techniques is sometimes blamed for the rise in mechanical interventions during childbirth. DeLee pioneered medical filmmaking as a teaching tool in medicine and he invented a device used for several decades to suction the airways of newly born infants. After becoming an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago in 1935, DeLee was featured on a \"Time\" magazine cover the next year. He died in 1942, but his systematic approach to childbirth continued to influence medical practice through the baby boom. An endowed chair in DeLee's name was established at the University of Chicago a few years after he died. DeLee was the fifth son and ninth of ten children of Morris and Dora Tobias DeLee, Jewish immigrants from Poland. His paternal grandfather was a French army surgeon who settled in Poland following Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia. DeLee was born in Cold Spring, New York, but the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut, New York City, and finally, in 1885, Chicago, Illinois, where DeLee graduated from South Division High School in 1888. Despite his father's wishes that DeLee become a rabbi, DeLee attended Chicago Medical College. Of particular influence on DeLee was obstetrics professor W. W. Jaggard. He graduated in 1891. Author Charlotte Borst noted that most women delivered at home in the 1870s through 1890s; medical students at Northwestern only witnessed deliveries at that time if they could bribe women into having their babies at the hospital's amphitheatre. DeLee felt fortunate to have observed two such births while he was a student. After completing an internship and a trip abroad for postgraduate studies, DeLee was ready to set up a medical practice by the age of 25. Noting that obstetric care in Chicago was often inadequate, he opened a clinic on Chicago's Maxwell Street after consulting with the noted social worker Jane Addams. Early on, DeLee provided prenatal care to the neighborhood's women, but the babies were delivered by midwives in the area. Over time, hundreds of women began having their babies delivered by DeLee. DeLee opened Chicago Lying-in Hospital in 1899. The hospital provided a larger space than the Maxwell Street Clinic and it focused on providing obstetrical care and training of doctors and nurses. Sanfilippo and Uppal write that, after he paid the first month's rent at the new Ashland Boulevard facility and purchased the necessary equipment, DeLee was left with sixty-one cents to his name. In late 1899, the \"Chicago Tribune\" described one of the hospital's innovations, the first portable incubator. The device, which was sometimes known as a \"hand ambulance\", allowed premature infants to be transported to a hospital following a home birth. Though he was an obstetrician rather than a pediatrician, DeLee became the greatest advocate of the infant incubator in the U.S. At that time, obstetricians dealt with the problems of the premature baby after birth, where pediatricians were likely to only see the survivors of prematurity many days later. The pediatricians – influenced by their experiences taking care of other types of malnourished children – thought it was essential for the babies to be exposed to sunlight. For most pediatricians, it seemed counterintuitive to enclose the babies in a box. By 1901, DeLee had built an entire incubator transport service staffed with specially trained nurses, but costs were high and maternity hospitals still did not attract many private patients. The funds ran out on the incubator station in 1908. In the early twentieth century, DeLee observed that obstetric complications and deaths were so common that he \"often wondered whether nature did not intend women should be used up in the process of reproduction, in a manner analogous to that of the salmon, which dies after spawning. Perhaps laceration, prolapse and all the evils are, in fact, natural to labor and in fact normal... If you adopt this view, I have no ground to stand on, but, if you believe that a woman after delivery should be as healthy, as well as anatomically perfect as she was before, and that the child should be undamaged, then you will have to agree with me that labor is pathogenic, because experience has proved such ideal results exceedingly rare.\" In 1915, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, DeLee spoke out against the use of midwives for childbirth. DeLee said that midwives stunted the progress of the obsetrical profession and said that he refused to take part in the education of a provider that lowered the standards of the profession. If obstetrics were seen as dignified work that could draw more than the menial fees charged by midwives, DeLee said, many young physicians would be willing to deliver the patients that were then under the care of midwives. At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920, DeLee sparked controversy when he presented a paper advocating for the use of a systematic approach to childbirth for physicians, including the use of forceps and episiotomy even in women who had no labor complications. DeLee's \"prophylactic forceps operation\" consisted of several steps: scopolamine injections in the first stage of labor, ether anesthesia in the next stage, then episiotomy and forceps delivery. Ergot was used in the subsequent manual extraction of the placenta. DeLee reasoned that the episiotomy prevented perineal tears which could cause complications like uterine prolapse and vesicovaginal fistula. He said that the early use of forceps would avoid pressure from the pelvic bones against a baby's head, thus preventing complications like epilepsy and cerebral palsy; DeLee said that fatal complications occurred in 4–5% of labors managed with the traditional conservative approach. Though DeLee said that such interventions should only be carried out by a well-equipped physician specialist, John Whitridge Williams and other prominent obstetricians criticized DeLee sharply. They felt that DeLee was being too aggressive by removing a baby before complications occurred; DeLee's colleagues preferred to be conservative and to manage complications as they arose. Well into the 20th century, many physicians had looked at obstetrics as an unnecessary medical specialty. As a result, medical schools did not cover childbirth in much detail, and medical students might graduate without having even witnessed the delivery of a baby. Distressed by this lack of attention, DeLee made teaching and mentoring important parts of his career. With a maternal mortality rate about one-quarter of the national average, DeLee's Chicago Lying-In Hospital became well-respected and influential, and medical students would travel across the country to gain some experience there. A young woman named Beatrice Tucker came to Lying-In to complete her residency in 1929. Three years later, DeLee named Tucker director of the Chicago",
"and to manage complications as they arose. Well into the 20th century, many physicians had looked at obstetrics as an unnecessary medical specialty. As a result, medical schools did not cover childbirth in much detail, and medical students might graduate without having even witnessed the delivery of a baby. Distressed by this lack of attention, DeLee made teaching and mentoring important parts of his career. With a maternal mortality rate about one-quarter of the national average, DeLee's Chicago Lying-In Hospital became well-respected and influential, and medical students would travel across the country to gain some experience there. A young woman named Beatrice Tucker came to Lying-In to complete her residency in 1929. Three years later, DeLee named Tucker director of the Chicago Maternity Center, where she worked for more than forty years and delivered an estimated 100,000 babies. David Hillis, one of DeLee's colleagues at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, published a 1917 journal article about his invention of the fetoscope, also known as the head stethoscope. By 1922, DeLee published a report of a similar device. Though DeLee published his findings several years after Hillis, he claimed that he had been openly discussing his idea for the device over many years. The device became known as the DeLee-Hillis stethoscope. DeLee was also the inventor of a catheter used to suction an infant's airway; the DeLee suction trap is still used after the delivery of a baby. He was one of the earliest physicians to advocate for the lower segment cesarean section. Despite the initial resistance DeLee faced from his colleagues over his standardized, invasive approach to delivery, forceps began to appear in routine obstetric practice in the 1930s. Social forces increased DeLee's influence and accelerated the use of mechanical interventions in childbirth. As childbirth was still beset with problems such as childbed fever, physicians were asserting their superiority over non-physician birth attendants, and mechanical interventions in obstetrics set their profession apart from midwivery. In an age of increasing reliance on technology, urban women were increasingly likely to choose a hospital birth attended by a physician rather than a traditional home birth with a midwife. In 1933, DeLee noted that while hospital births were increasingly popular, maternal complications and deaths were increasing. He identified infection as a major problem in hospital maternity wards. DeLee called for hospitals to construct maternity wards in separate buildings with their own staff members and laundry. Such proposals were met with great criticism by influential physicians such as J. Whitridge Williams, who said that DeLee's precautions represented \"a degree of caution that approaches 'infectio-phobia'.\" He was the first physician to call for the use of face masks in midwifery practice. When DeLee's critics cited the costs of his proposals such as separate buildings and maternity staffs, DeLee replied, \"Nothing compares in value with human life.\" Despite his concerns about infections, he believed that the hospital was the best place for a birth to be supervised. In a letter to journalist Paul de Kruif, DeLee even wrote that he was \"perfectly willing to repeat that general hospitals are cesspools of infections, but only in a medical journal.\" He did not want such stories appearing in the popular press, as these reports might frighten women. DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. He authored a paper in the mid-1930s, \"Sound Motion Pictures in Obstetrics\", which described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff members. DeLee was employed with Northwestern University until 1929, when he aligned with the University of Chicago. DeLee authored several editions of \"Principles and Practice of Obstetrics\", which was described as \"unequalled in text and illustration.\" DeLee created \"Our Baby's First Seven Years\", a book that parents could use to record the milestones of infancy and childhood. The book also provided child care advice. More than eight million copies of the book had been sold by 1987. William S. Kroger, who DeLee successfully revived as a newborn in 1906, graduated from medical school in 1930 and served a residency under DeLee in obstetrics, gynecology and neuroendocrinology. Since his childhood, Kroger had been urged by his mother to follow in the footsteps of the doctor who had saved his life. Kroger became a well-known authority on the use of hypnosis in obstetrics and other medical specialties. In 1934, the University of Chicago recognized DeLee with its Rosenberger Medal, which is awarded for excellence in research, invention, authorship or other distinctions that benefit humanity. DeLee became an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago in 1935. In May 1936, DeLee appeared on the cover of \"Time\" magazine. He died at his Chicago home in April 1942. DeLee never married and he was said to have lived constantly at the hospital. Author Harold Speert wrote, \"Despite his wide professional acclaim, DeLee remained a lonely unhappy man, plagued by excessive sensitivity and by the compulsive tendencies of the perfectionist he was.\" In 1948, a mothers aid group from the Chicago Maternity Center raised $30,000 to endow a professorship in obstetrics in DeLee's name at the University of Chicago. The board of directors for the Chicago Lying-in Hospital awards the Joseph Bolivar DeLee Humanitarian Award annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the care of women and children. DeLee's nephew, Sol DeLee, was a Las Vegas obstetrician who wrote several editions of the book \"Safeguarding Motherhood\" from the 1940s to 1980s. During the baby boom, DeLee's prophylactic forceps approach found new life. Busy physicians were often eager to adopt this systematic approach to anesthetized delivery because its efficiency allowed them to care for more patients. By 1968, nearly 40% of the babies born in U.S. hospitals were delivered with forceps. The use of episiotomies also continued to increase throughout DeLee's career and after his death. By the 1970s, 90% of delivering women received an episiotomy. A 1983 study did not support good outcomes with this practice, and by the year 2000, only 20 percent of U.S. deliveries involved an episiotomy. DeLee has been remembered in published literature as one of two \"titans of modern obstetrics\". He has been credited with making important advancements in obstetrical care, and he has been criticized for encouraging the liberal use of medications and surgical procedures during childbirth – interventions that carried their own risks – even in cases where childbirth could have proceeded uneventfully. Joseph DeLee Joseph Bolivar DeLee (October 28, 1869 – April 2, 1942) was an American physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics. DeLee founded the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, where he introduced the first portable infant incubator. Early in his career, he was associated with the medical school at Northwestern University. After 1929, he was employed by the medical school at the University of Chicago. An early proponent of hygienic standards during childbirth, DeLee even advocated for the construction of separate hospital buildings for labor and delivery. He was"
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"James McCrae (footballer) James Clark Fulton McCrae (also spelt \"McRae\", \"McRea\", \"McCray\" and \"McCabe\"; 2 September 1894 – 3 September 1974) was a Scottish football player and manager. His brother was Scottish international player David McCrae. Born in Bridge of Weir, McCrae signed professional forms with Clyde in 1912, but his playing career was interrupted by the First World War. During the War, McCrae joined the Grenadier Guards, playing for their football team, as well as guesting for Clyde, Rangers, and West Ham United. McCrae joined West Ham United permanently in June 1919, playing in their first ever League game. McCrae also played for Bury, Wigan Borough, New Brighton, Manchester United and Watford, and he made a total of 187 appearances in the Football League. McCrae later played in Scotland for Third Lanark and his first club, Clyde, before retiring in 1928. McCrae coached Egypt at the 1934 FIFA World Cup, and also managed İstanbulspor in Turkey and Fram of Iceland. James McCrae (footballer) James Clark Fulton McCrae (also spelt \"McRae\", \"McRea\", \"McCray\" and \"McCabe\"; 2 September 1894 – 3 September 1974) was a Scottish football player and manager. His brother was Scottish international player David McCrae. Born in Bridge"
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"Aligarh Municipal Corporation The Aligarh Nagar Nigam (ANN) also known as Aligarh Municipal Corporation (AMC) is the civic body that governs Aligarh city. Established under the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act-1959, it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city. The municipal corporation covers an area of 40 km. The first mayor of Aligarh elections were held in 1995. As of 2018, Mohammad Furqan from Bahujan Samaj Party is current mayor of Aligarh Municipal Corporation. Aligarh Municipal Board (Nagar Palika) was established on 1 August 1885. On November 1994 after enactment of Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act 1959, it was further upgraded as Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam). AMC work for providing necessary community services like health care, educational institution, housing, transport etc. by collecting property tax and fixed grant from the Finance Commission and Government of Uttar Pradesh. Its sources of income are taxes on water, houses, markets, entertainment and vehicles paid by residents of the town and grants from the state government. As of 2017, the Aligarh Municipal Corporation's legislature, also known as the Corporation Council, consists of 70 directly elected corporators. Aligarh Municipal Corporation The Aligarh Nagar Nigam (ANN) also known as Aligarh Municipal Corporation"
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"Wireless engineering Wireless Engineering is the branch of engineering which addresses the design, application, and research of wireless communication systems and technologies. Wireless engineering is an engineering subject dealing with engineering problems using wireless technology such as radio communications and radar, but it is more general than the conventional radio engineering. It may include using other techniques such as acoustic, infrared, and optical technologies. Wireless technologies have skyrocketed since their late 19th Century advancements. With the invention of the FM Radio in 1935, wireless communications have become a concentrated focus of both private and government sectors. Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering was the first in the United States to offer a formalized undergraduate degree in such a field. The program was initiated by Samuel Ginn, an Auburn Alumni, in 2001. Macquarie University in Sydney, was the first University to offer Wireless Engineering in Australia. The university works closely with nearby industries in research and teaching development in wireless engineering. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka in Malacca, was the first University to offer Wireless Communication Engineering in Malaysia. Wireless engineering contains a wide spectrum of application, most notably cellular networks. The recent popularity of cellular networks has created a vast career demand with a large repository. The popularity has also sparked many wireless innovations, such as increased network capacity, 3G, cryptology and network security technologies. Wireless engineering Wireless Engineering is the branch of engineering which addresses the design, application, and research of wireless communication systems and technologies. Wireless engineering is an engineering subject dealing with engineering problems using wireless technology such as radio communications and radar, but it is more general than the conventional radio engineering. It may include using other techniques such as acoustic, infrared, and optical technologies. Wireless technologies have skyrocketed since their late 19th Century advancements. With"
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"1992–93 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season During the 1992–93 English football season, Oldham Athletic competed in the inaugural season of the FA Premier League, their second season since promotion back to the top flight of English football, and secured a third successive season at this level thanks to a three-match winning run at the end of the season which saved them from relegation on goal difference. Oldham started the season well and stood in midtable after eleven games, but struggled thereafter and were bottom of the Premier League with ten games left to play. Two successive wins briefly lifted Oldham out of the relegation zone, but failed to win any of their next four matches and looked dead and buried with three games left to play. For the club to survive relegation, three wins from their final three matches were required, and the Latics had to bank on Crystal Palace gaining no more than one point from their final two matches. Oldham's first game of the final trio was away at second placed Aston Villa, who had to win to have any hope of winning that year's title. In a battling display, Nick Henry scored the winner midway through the first half, a shock result but one that gave hope to an unlikely escape and clinched the first title for 27 years for Oldham's local rivals Manchester United. Three days later, Liverpool were beaten 3–2 at Boundary Park, whilst Crystal Palace gained a draw at Manchester City. For Oldham to survive, they would have to beat fellow strugglers Southampton at home and hope that Crystal Palace were defeated at Arsenal. Having led 4-1 at one point, Oldham survived a late Southampton comeback to win 4–3. Palace lost 3–0 at Arsenal, meaning that the Eagles were relegated on goal difference (-13 versus Oldham's -11), though even if Palace lost only 1-0, they still would've been relegated on goals scored (Oldham had 63 goals scored for them whereas Palace had 48 scored for them). \"Oldham Athletic's score comes first\" 1992–93 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season During the 1992–93 English football season, Oldham Athletic competed in the inaugural season of the FA Premier League, their second season since promotion back to the top flight of English football, and secured a third successive season at this level thanks to a three-match winning run at the end of the season which saved them from relegation on goal"
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"Westinghouse Playhouse Westinghouse Playhouse is an American sitcom that aired from January to July 1961 on NBC. Starring Nanette Fabray, the series was also known as The Nanette Fabray Show, Westinghouse Playhouse Starring Nanette Fabray and Wendell Corey, and ran under the title Yes, Yes Nanette in syndication. The series stars Nanette Fabray, who plays Nan, a successful Broadway star who marries Dan McGovern (Wendell Corey), a widower. She would later learn that her new husband has not informed his two children that he was getting married. Nan is then confronted with his two rude children, Buddy (Bobby Diamond) and Nancy (Jacklyn O'Donnell). The following episodes would deal with her troubles and tribulations of dealing with the kids and the housekeeper. The series was canceled after one season. Westinghouse Playhouse Westinghouse Playhouse is an American sitcom that aired from January to July 1961 on NBC. Starring Nanette Fabray, the series was also known as The Nanette Fabray Show, Westinghouse Playhouse Starring Nanette Fabray and Wendell Corey, and ran under the title Yes, Yes Nanette in syndication. The series stars Nanette Fabray, who plays Nan, a successful Broadway star who marries Dan McGovern (Wendell Corey), a widower. She would later learn"
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"Bayfront Park Bayfront Park is a public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay. The Chairman to the trust is Joe Carollo. The park began construction in 1924 under the design plans of Warren Henry Manning and officially opened in March 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami, Florida. Bayfront Park is bordered on the north by Bayside Marketplace and the American Airlines Arena, on the south by Chopin Plaza, on the west by Biscayne Boulevard and on the east by Biscayne Bay. Bayfront Park is host to many large events such as the New Year's ball drop, Christmas celebrations, concerts, the Bayfront Park Amphitheater, the Tina Hills Pavilion, as well as boat tours around Biscayne Bay. Seven blocks north is Bayfront Park's partner park, the Bicentennial Park. This park’s name has been changed to Museum Park and it is home to The Perez Art Museum and the Frost Science Museum. On February 15, 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was shot three times in the chest and mortally wounded while shaking hands with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in front of Bayfront Park by assassin Giuseppe Zangara. Along with Cermak, who died of his wounds 19 days later, four other people were hit by the gunman, one of whom also died. A serious debate has ensued as to whether Zangara had been actually trying to assassinate Roosevelt instead of Cermak, however no firm evidence has been found out to prove this theory. Bayfront Park holds the city's annual \"America's Birthday Bash\" on Independence Day, which attracted over 60,000 visitors in 2011. The park also hosts the city's official New Year's Eve party that annually hosts over 70,000 visitors. Visitors are encouraged to take public transport for events at Bayfront Park as parking can be scarce and expensive. The nearest Metrorail station is Government Center. From there a connection to the Metromover is available with three stops near the park, Bayfront Park, First Street, and College/Bayside. It also holds the Ultra Music Festival which goes on for 3 days and has seen attendance of 55,000 people each day and 165,000 people over the three days. In 2018 Bayfront Park will host the qualifiers and finals for American Ninja Warrior. A series of motorsports events have taken place on a temporary street circuit at Bayfront Park dating back to 1983. Bayfront Park Bayfront Park is a public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay. The Chairman to the trust is Joe Carollo. The park began construction in 1924 under the design plans of Warren Henry Manning and officially opened in March 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami, Florida."
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"Jessica Green Jessica Green is an American engineer, ecologist, and entrepreneur whose research focuses on Microbial Ecology and Genomics. She is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University of Oregon, where she is founding director of the Biology and Built Environment Center, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Green co-founded Phylagen Inc. in 2015 with Harrison Dillon, the founder of Solazyme. Green’s two talks at the TED Conferences on the Microbiome of the Built Environment have received over 1.5 million views. Green received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Magna Cum Laude from University of California, Los Angeles. Green was awarded a TED Fellowship in 2010 and a TED Senior Fellowship in 2011. In 2013 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on a science fiction graphic novel about the Human Microbiome. In 2013 Green was awarded a Blaise Pascal International Research Chair Jessica Green Jessica Green is an American engineer, ecologist, and entrepreneur whose research focuses on Microbial Ecology and Genomics. She is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University"
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"Stoney Trail Stoney Trail is a freeway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Signed as Highway 201, it is a ring road that is approximately 70% complete, serving as an important bypass around the city and an alternate route to the congested Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and Highway 2 (Deerfoot Trail). Stoney Trail begins in the city's northwest at Highway 1 near Canada Olympic Park, running north across the Bow River and Crowchild Trail. It winds through neighbourhoods of northwest Calgary to Deerfoot Trail and the Queen Elizabeth II Highway. Turning south, the freeway again intersects Highway 1, crosses Glenmore Trail, and curves west at the neighbourhood of Mahogany. Beyond a second major interchange with Deerfoot Trail, it descends across the Bow River and ends at Macleod Trail in the city's southeast. The \"Stoney\" name is derived from Alberta's Nakoda First Nation; the freeway is one of several major thoroughfares in Calgary that bear Aboriginal names. Plans for the route were developed at a similar time as those for Anthony Henday Drive, a completed ring road that encircles Edmonton. Construction first began on the northwest leg as an expressway in the 1990s, incrementally extending east before two public–private partnership (P3) projects completed the northeast and southeast sections of the ring in 2009 and 2013, respectively. After right of way was acquired from the Tsuu T'ina Nation in 2013, work began in 2016 to complete an additional section of the ring effectively extending Sarcee Trail south across the Elbow River to Highway 22X. This section will be named Tsuut’ina Trail and is slated to fully open by October 1, 2021. At its busiest point near Beddington Trail in north Calgary, the six-lane freeway carries nearly 80,000 vehicles per day. Construction of the final short segment of Stoney Trail west of the city will begin in 2019, completing the ring. It will extend the freeway south to Glenmore Trail from its current northern terminus at Highway 1. Stoney Trail currently consists of the northern and southeastern sections of the ring road, and, at its completion, will effectively be a freeway that encircles the entire city. The northern and southern sections create a northern and eastern bypass link between Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and Deerfoot Trail (Highway 2). Planning for the Calgary and Edmonton ring roads began in the 1970s when Alberta developed some restricted development areas in a corridor of land then mostly outside the developed civic areas for future infrastructure, including high-speed ring-road systems. This land is also known as the Transportation and Utility Corridor (TUC), as land set aside for future road and utility purposes. Land acquisition started in 1974, and by the time the ring road projects were initiated, Alberta had acquired 97% of the lands. The Calgary TUC failed to include a corridor in southwest Calgary between Glenmore Trail and Highway 22X. The City of Calgary is bounded along 37 Street SW by the Tsuu T'ina Nation. The developed areas of Calgary had already reached 37 Street SW around the Glenmore Reservoir inhibiting the ability of the government to impose an RDA. The missing link in the TUC map created uncertainty in the future positioning of the southwest leg of the freeway. In 2013, a land acquisition agreement was signed by Alberta with the Tsuu T'ina Nation, and construction began in 2016. The northwest quadrant of the ring road was the first to be constructed. In the mid-1990s, the province of Alberta built the first segment around the Bow River Bridge connecting Highway 1 with Crowchild Trail. This was subsequently extended to Country Hill Boulevard. In 2003, the province announced plans for a east Deerfoot Trail. The original design was limited in scope and incorporated two interchanges, one flyover and two signallized intersections with completion scheduled in 2007 at a cost of $250 million. In January 2005, the province announced an increase in scope of the project with the addition of three additional interchanges at Crowchild Trail, Country Hills Boulevard and Scenic Acres Link. In addition to increasing costs, the project was delayed and the full extension to Deerfoot Trail was not opened until November 2, 2009, although some sections were opened earlier. The portion of the ring road between Harvest Hills Boulevard and Deerfoot Trail opened to traffic on November 2, 2009. 30,000 to 40,000 vehicles were expected to use this segment daily. Actual peak traffic volumes exceeded 40,000 vpd between Crowchild Trail and Country Hills Boulevard in 2010. Grading has been completed for a future interchange at 11 Street NE. This road would service undeveloped industrial land bounded to the east by Deerfoot Trail, north by Stoney Trail, west by the CPR right-of-way and south by Country Hills Boulevard. No schedule has been set for the construction of this interchange. The interchange will also provide a road connection north of Stoney Trail. The northwest ring road opened on November 2, 2009, with traffic signals at Harvest Hills Boulevard but grading was completed for a future possible interchange. On November 25, 2009, the province announced construction of the Harvest Hills Boulevard Interchange to be opening in fall 2010. The cost of the interchange project was $14 million. The interchange opened to traffic in 2010. Grading has been completed for a future interchange at 14 Street NW. At present, there is a right-in-right-out access south of Stoney Trail into the Panorama Hills neighbourhood. No schedule had been set for the construction of this interchange. The interchange will also provide a road connection north of Stoney Trail. In summer 2014, grading began for westbound exit to 14th (northbound only) and southbound 14th entrance ramp to westbound Stoney. A signalized intersection was initially constructed at Beddington Trail and Symons Valley Road, but it was upgraded to an interchange when the project was finished in 2009. This interchange opened in July 2009, when the segment from Sarcee Trail to Harvest Hills Boulevard was opened a few months ahead of the full extension to Deerfoot Trail. Originally, Alberta Transportation intended only to construct a flyover at Shaganappi Trail, with no connections to the northwest ring road when the project was initiated but was upgraded to an interchange when the project was finished in 2009. This interchange opened in July 2009 when the segment from Sarcee Trail to Harvest Hills Boulevard was opened a few months ahead of the full extension to Deerfoot Trail. At Sarcee Trail a signalized intersection was initially constructed, but upgraded to an interchange when the project was completed. The segment from Country Hills Boulevard to Sarcee Trail was opened on November 25, 2008, a year ahead of the full extension to Deerfoot Trail. An interchange at Country Hills Boulevard was added to the northwest ring road project in January 2005 to replace the original signallized intersection built when this segment of the ring road was built in the 1990s. The original project scope had this remaining as a signallized intersection. The interchange opened to traffic in September 2008. A new interchange was announced on 28, 2005, for Crowchild Trail as part of an upgrade to the $250 million project. Plans to extend the CTrain resulted in changes to the design of the interchange. The Crowchild Interchange was constructed along a pre-existing portion of Stoney Trail, and the design was modified to be free-flowing and to include an LRT bridge to allow for the CTrain to be extended west to Tuscany station. The Crowchild interchange fully opened to traffic on September 28, 2011. In January 2005, an interchange at Tuscany Boulveard/Scenic Acres Link was added. The full interchange opened to traffic in the fall of 2009. Following the completion of the Crowchild Trail interchange, the only remaining traffic signals were at the intersection with Nose Hill Drive. Aecom was",
"2008. A new interchange was announced on 28, 2005, for Crowchild Trail as part of an upgrade to the $250 million project. Plans to extend the CTrain resulted in changes to the design of the interchange. The Crowchild Interchange was constructed along a pre-existing portion of Stoney Trail, and the design was modified to be free-flowing and to include an LRT bridge to allow for the CTrain to be extended west to Tuscany station. The Crowchild interchange fully opened to traffic on September 28, 2011. In January 2005, an interchange at Tuscany Boulveard/Scenic Acres Link was added. The full interchange opened to traffic in the fall of 2009. Following the completion of the Crowchild Trail interchange, the only remaining traffic signals were at the intersection with Nose Hill Drive. Aecom was retained in the spring of 2010 to plan, design and administer construction of this interchange to be open in the fall of 2012. Design and public information delays caused Alberta Transportation to revise its expectations and it was announced that construction of the interchange would commence in early 2011 and be completed in the fall of 2013. However, the tender process was slow to be initiated and it was not until November 17, 2011 that Alberta Transportation announced the Nose Hill Drive interchange would be built by Acciona Infrastructure Canada at a cost of $67 million and be opened to traffic in the fall of 2014. Construction of the northeast portion of the freeway began in 2007 and opened to traffic on November 2, 2009, connecting the Deerfoot Trail interchange to 17 Avenue SE (formerly Highway 1A). In December 2005, Calgary had announced it was in talks with the province to expedite construction, and on February 22, 2007 Alberta's Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation awarded a contract to the Stoney Trail Group public-private partnership consortium (P3) for construction of the project's first stage, and maintenance of the northwest and northeast sections of the ring road for 30 years following completion. Major interchanges along the northeast route include Métis Trail (which serves as an alternate link to the CrossIron Mills shopping area north of the city, Country Hills Boulevard, McKnight Boulevard, and 16 Avenue NE (Highway 1). A partial cloverleaf interchange was built at Métis Trail, a north–south expressway. The City of Calgary opened the extension of Métis Trail between 80 and 96 Avenues NE on October 29, 2011. Grading was completed for a future interchange at 60 Street NE that will be completed when required, and may also be future right of way for a CTrain extension. On October 12, 2011, 96 Avenue was opened from Stoney Trail west to 60 Street NE, accessible only from the south. The diamond interchange at McKnight Boulevard will be upgraded into a partial cloverleaf interchange when required. The project included a large cloverstack interchange at 16 Avenue NE. On March 2, 2009, the Alberta Government announced the proceeding with construction of the remaining portion of the East Freeway from 17 Avenue SE to Highway 22X, as well as improvements to the existing Highway 22X roadway between that location and just east of the Macleod Trail (Highway 2A) interchange. This portion, like the northeastern portion, was built as a P3. Three firms bid on the contract: Chinook Partnership, SEConnect and SE Calgary Connector Group. The winning bid of $769 million was submitted by Chinook Roads Partnership. Chinook Roads Partnership will also be responsible for maintenance of this portion of the Ring Road, as well as maintenance of Deerfoot Trail between Highway 22X and Highway 2A for 30 years after construction completion. Construction on the southeast leg began in the spring of 2010, and was opened on November 22, 2013, almost two months behind schedule. The southeast extension of Stoney Trail also resulted in upgrades to Highway 22X between Stoney and Macleod Trails. When the extension opened in 2013, the City officially renamed this portion of 22X as part of Stoney Trail, and the province designated it as part of Highway 201. Highway 22X continues west of Macleod Trail as Spruce Meadows Trail, while 22X continues east of Stoney Trail toward Gleichen. An interchange was constructed at Sun Valley Boulevard / Chaparral Boulevard, upgraded from the existing intersection. The original project schedule from June 2010 had interchange construction starting in 2010 with construction of the bridge structure in 2011 towards a phased opening in 2012-2013.<ref name=\"Chinook Roads Partnership/Government of Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation 2010\"></ref><ref name=\"Chinook Roads Partnership/Government of Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation 2011\"></ref> The McKenzie Lake Boulevard / Cranston Boulevard intersection was upgraded to a modified diamond interchange; work on this interchange began 2010 and by fall 2011 the bridge structure had been erected. The interchange design is a modified diamond and integrates into the nearby cloverstack interchange at Deerfoot Trail. Some residents of the Cranston neighbourhood were unhappy with the design of the interchange, as access was removed from westbound Stoney Trail to the interchange or the Cranston Avenue / Seton Boulevard interchange on Deerfoot Trail. Access was also removed Commuters also cannot go on to the ramp to Deerfoot Trail southbound and can go only northbound when on the ramp to the highway. The commuters are forced to use the 52 Street interchange to the east. As for the commuters heading to northbound Deerfoot, they have to head to the McKenzie Towne / McKenzie Lake Boulevard interchange or the Seton Boulevard / Cranston Avenue interchange, which both lead to Deerfoot Trail northbound. A large A partial cloverleaf interchange was constructed at 52 Street SE. The original project schedule from June 2010 had this interchange fully opening in the fall of 2013 with traffic on the new structure in the summer of 2012 with construction starting in 2011. The revised project schedule of June 2011 still indicated a fall 2013 opening, the only significant difference is the temporary constructions detour road has been shifted to the east side of the bridge structure from the west side. As of December 2011, construction of the interchange had started with grading of the interchange ramps and piling installation. 52 Street interchange was completed with the rest of the project on November 22, 2013. At 88 Street SE, Stoney Trail intersects with 22X with a hybrid interchange. An existing intersection at 88 Street SE was removed. Grading was also completed for a future interchange at 130 Avenue. A similar partial cloverleaf interchange was constructed at a slightly realigned 114 Avenue SE. The interchange fully opened on November 22, 2013. Partial cloverleaf interchanges were constructed at Glenmore and Peigan Trails. Peigan Trail was also be extended from 52 Street to Stoney Trail as a result. The existing 17 Avenue SE intersection, which had been the terminus of the freeway since 2009, was upgraded to a partial cloverleaf interchange. In the fall of 2011, the province held a community consultation meeting on upgrading the Macleod Trail / 22X interchange, which was not included in the southeast ring road project. Pending funding, this will open in the fall of 2014 which includes twinning the bridge over Macleod Trail and twinning an additional bridge structure over the CPR right-of-way. The existing interchange is also only an undivided single lane in each direction along 22X on the bridge structure over Macleod Trail. This is the only single-lane segment of 22X between Deerfoot Trail and the junction with Highway 22 at west of Calgary. This will upgrade the interchange to a full cloverleaf and remove the lights on 22X west of Macleod Trail. This will become an interim full systems interchange with no signallized intersections on the access ramps. The ultimate interchange design includes a stacked interchange",
"Trail / 22X interchange, which was not included in the southeast ring road project. Pending funding, this will open in the fall of 2014 which includes twinning the bridge over Macleod Trail and twinning an additional bridge structure over the CPR right-of-way. The existing interchange is also only an undivided single lane in each direction along 22X on the bridge structure over Macleod Trail. This is the only single-lane segment of 22X between Deerfoot Trail and the junction with Highway 22 at west of Calgary. This will upgrade the interchange to a full cloverleaf and remove the lights on 22X west of Macleod Trail. This will become an interim full systems interchange with no signallized intersections on the access ramps. The ultimate interchange design includes a stacked interchange with flyovers from westbound 22X to southbound Macleod Trail and northbound Macleod to westbound 22X. The ultimate interchange design was predicated on the traffic volumes associated with the Southwest Calgary Ring Road and was to have been built as part of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road project. With the Tsuu T'ina vote of June 30, 2009 rejecting the ring road agreement putting uncertainty back in the Southwest Ring Road project, the construction of the ultimate interchange configuration has been deferred. This interchange is further complicated by the fact it contains a right in right out access into the adjacent Shawnessy Town Center regional commercial area. At present, traffic can exit onto the interchange access ramps allowing egress to eastbound and westbound Highway 22X. Reduced access from the Shawnessy Town Center will be maintained but only onto the southbound Macleod to westbound 22X ramp. The final leg of the freeway is currently under construction following a land transfer agreement with the Tsuu T'ina First Nation. Plans call for the road to be initially built as a 4-6 lane expressway to be completed by October 1, 2021. with the ability to easily upgrade the corridor to the 'ultimate' stage (to be completed by 2035) as a 16 lane freeway with express and collector lanes. Planned upgrades for the Highway 22X or Spruce Meadows Trail SW portion of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road include upgrading Highway 22X west of Macleod Trail to freeway status. These three interchange upgrades along with the Highway 22X / Macleod Trail Interchange upgrades were part of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road project which was to be completed with the successful agreement with the Tsuu T'ina Nation on the contentious Anderson Road to Glenmore Trail segment. With the acceptance of the agreement on October 24, 2013, the 22X interchange upgrades will be constructed with the rest of the Southwest Ring Road Project. Highway 22X/Southwest Calgary Ring Road will retain connectivity with 6 Street SW which will be upgraded to partial cloverleaf interchanges. The close proximity of 6 Street SW to Macleod Trail will necessitate some shared access ramps. Highway 22X/Southwest Calgary Ring Road will also retain connectivity with James McKevitt Road upgrading to a partial cloverleaf interchange. The existing intersection of 24 Street with 22X will be removed when the Southwest Calgary Ring Road is constructed as this road is just east of the future junction of 22X and the future north-south alignment of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. A new full systems interchange built at 22X and the new alignment for the northwest-southeast segment of the Southwest Ring Road (Sarcee Trail Extension) to Anderson Road. The existing intersection and 37 Street would be removed when the Southwest Calgary Ring Road is constructed as this road is just west of the future junction of 22X and the future north-south alignment of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road (Sarcee Trail Extension).At present 162 Avenue does not connect with either the future Southwest Ring Road ROW or 37 Street SW. When the Southwest Ring Road is built, 162 Avenue will be extended west to connect up with the Ring Road. The future interchange will be a partial cloverleaf. Planning for construction of the final segment of Stoney Trail, which will link from the current southern terminus at Highway 1 to Highway 8 is currently in progress. Construction will likely not begin until the early 2020s after all construction on the southwest segment is completed in 2022. This portion of the freeway will require additional bridge structures to be constructed on the 16 Avenue interchange, in addition to new overpasses and flyovers built at Old Banff Coach Road, Bow Trail (12 Avenue SW), 17 Avenue SW, and Glenmore Trail (Highway 8). The proposed alignment for this portion of the expressway will run south from its current terminus through the Paskapoo slopes on the west side of Canada Olympic Park, then adjacent to the communities of Cougar Ridge, West Springs, Aspen Woods, and Springbank Hill to the east of 101 Street SW, and ending with an interchange at Highway 8. Going clockwise: Stoney Trail Stoney Trail is a freeway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Signed as Highway 201, it is a ring road that is approximately 70% complete, serving as an important bypass around the city and an alternate route to the congested Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and Highway 2 (Deerfoot Trail). Stoney Trail begins in the city's northwest at Highway 1 near Canada Olympic Park, running north across the Bow River and Crowchild Trail. It winds through neighbourhoods of northwest Calgary to Deerfoot Trail and the Queen Elizabeth II Highway. Turning south, the"
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"Callan Castle (Atlanta) Callan Castle at 145 (old numbering system: 61) Elizabeth Street NE (corner of Euclid St.) in the Inman Park neighborhood of Atlanta, was originally the mansion of Asa Griggs Candler, the business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola. It was built in 1902-1903 by George Murphy in Beaux-Arts style; the land and building cost almost $13,000. The name alludes to the family's ancestral home in Ireland (as does Callanwolde, the mansion of Candler's eldest son) In 1916 Candler moved to his new mansion at 1500 Ponce de Leon Avenue in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, and is currently a Melkite Catholic church. Callan Castle was restored in 2011. The home has a 2012 estimated market value of $1.2 million. The home is about large, one of the largest homes in Inman Park. It has a two-story pedimented portico, alluding to Greek Revival mansions, but according to the \"AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta\", \"the rambling mass of the building, the asymmetrical position the entrance doorway, and the mixture of materials are definitely Victorian in character. The delicate decor of garlands on the entablature and the Palladian motif above it are characteristic of the Colonial Revival style.\" Callan Castle (Atlanta) Callan Castle at 145 (old numbering system: 61) Elizabeth Street NE (corner of Euclid St.) in the Inman Park neighborhood of Atlanta, was originally the mansion of Asa Griggs Candler, the business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola. It was built in 1902-1903 by George Murphy in Beaux-Arts style; the land and building cost almost $13,000. The name alludes to the family's ancestral home in Ireland (as does Callanwolde, the mansion of Candler's eldest son) In 1916 Candler moved to his new mansion at 1500 Ponce de Leon Avenue in the Druid Hills neighborhood"
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"Maximiliano Lugo Maximiliano Francisco Lugo (born 4 December 1989) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Argentine Primera División side Belgrano, on loan from Paraguayan División Intermedia side Rubio Ñu. Lugo started off his senior career with a three-year spell with local side Lanús, making the first of twenty-eight appearances on 1 March 2009 during a win away to Gimnasia y Esgrima. He was loaned out on two occasions, to Atlanta for 2011–12 and to Unión Santa Fe for 2012–13. He featured a total of sixteen times for those aforementioned clubs. On 23 January 2013, Lugo joined Unión Mar del Plata of Torneo Argentino A. Six appearances followed. Six months after signing, Lugo was on the move again as he agreed to join Paraguayan Primera División side Rubio Ñu. He scored on his sixth appearance versus Guaraní. In his first three seasons with Rubio Ñu, Lugo scored fourteen goals in seventy-six encounters. For the 2016 and 2017 campaigns, he was loaned back to the Argentine Primera División. In January 2016, San Martín temporarily signed Lugo. He returned to Rubio Ñu after the 2016–17 Argentine Primera División season, making twenty-three appearances as the club finished 22nd. To conclude 2017, Lugo had a short spell with Temperley. On 18 January 2018, Belgrano became Lugo's eighth career club. He appeared in nine fixtures for Belgrano. Maximiliano Lugo Maximiliano Francisco Lugo (born 4 December 1989) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Argentine Primera División side Belgrano, on loan from Paraguayan División Intermedia side Rubio Ñu. Lugo started off his senior career with a three-year spell with local side Lanús, making the first of twenty-eight appearances on 1 March 2009 during a win away to Gimnasia y Esgrima. He was loaned out on two occasions, to"
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"SEC Network Football SEC Network Football is a live game presentation of SEC football on the SEC Network. These telecasts have many different presenting sponsors, but some include Dr. Pepper, Allstate, and Regions Bank. There are typically 3 telecasts every Saturday during the college football regular season, though beginning in 2015, the SEC Network Alternate channel gets one game, usually during the 4:00 PM time slot. The Noon game is preceded by \"SEC Nation\" and succeeded by \"SEC Now\" which will also serve as a pregame and postgame show for the 4:00 game. The 7:30 game will be succeeded by \"SEC Scoreboard\". The SEC had won seven straight college football national championships when the SEC Network was announced in May 2013. On March 12, 2014, the SEC Network named Brent Musburger as the lead play-by-play announcer and Jesse Palmer as the lead analyst. It was later announced that Maria Taylor would join them as the sideline reporter. In July 2014, the SEC Network named the rest of their football announcers. Tom Hart would be a play-by-play announcer, paired up with Matt Stinchcomb as the analyst, and Heather Mitts as the sideline reporter. Also, Dave Neal would do play-by-play announcing with Andre Ware as the analyst, both moving from SEC TV. They would be joined by Laura Rutledge as the sideline reporter. The first football game broadcast on the SEC Network was on Thursday, August 28, 2014, when Texas A&M defeated South Carolina 52-28. CBS gets the exclusive first pick of the day's SEC games before ESPN and SEC Network can choose. SEC Network Football SEC Network Football is a live game presentation of SEC football on the SEC Network. These telecasts have many different presenting sponsors, but some include Dr. Pepper, Allstate, and Regions Bank. There are typically 3 telecasts"
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"Empress Wang (Chen dynasty) Empress Wang (王皇后, personal name unknown) was an empress of Chinese Chen Dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Fei (Chen Bozong). Her father Wang Gu (王固) was a mid-level official during the Liang and early Chen Dynasties, and was a nephew of Liang's founder Emperor Wu of Liang. She married Chen Bozong in 560, when he was crown prince under his father Emperor Wen, and carried the title of Crown Princess. Her age at that time was not known, while he was either six or eight. In 566, she gave birth to the only son of his known to history, Chen Zhize (陳至澤). Later in 566, Emperor Wen died, and Chen Bozong took the throne (as Emperor Fei). He created Crown Prince Wang empress and, in 567, he created her son Chen Zhize crown prince. Almost immediately, however, fights broke out between the officials that Emperor Wen put in charge of important matters. The victor, Emperor Fei's uncle Chen Xu the Prince of Ancheng, deposed Emperor Fei in winter 568 and took the throne himself in spring 569 (as Emperor Xuan). Emperor Fei was demoted to the title of Prince of Linhai, and the empress became the Princess of Linhai. In 570, the Prince of Linhai died, and Chen Zhize inherited the title of the Prince of Linhai. Presumably, she then became the Princess Dowager of Linhai. She died during Emperor Xuan's son Chen Shubao's \"Zhide\" (至德) era (583-586), but the exact year of her death is not known. Empress Wang (Chen dynasty) Empress Wang (王皇后, personal name unknown) was an empress of Chinese Chen Dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Fei (Chen Bozong). Her father Wang Gu (王固) was a mid-level official during the Liang and early Chen Dynasties, and was a nephew of Liang's founder Emperor"
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