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"Bute witches The Bute witches were six Scottish women accused of witchcraft and interrogated in the parish of Rothesay on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62. The Privy Council granted a Commission of Justiciary for a local trial to be held and four of the women – believed by historians to be Margaret McLevin, Margaret McWilliam, Janet Morrison and Isobell McNicoll – were executed in 1662; a fifth may have died while incarcerated. One woman, Jonet NcNicoll, escaped from prison before she could be executed but when she returned to the island in 1673 the sentence was implemented. The early modern period saw the Scottish courts trying many cases of witchcraft with witch hunts beginning in about 1550. Prior to the fervent activity in 1662, generally the numerically small, tightly-knit, population of islanders on Bute did not encounter the scale of witch hunting experienced throughout the rest of Scotland. Records indicate the only instances of formal witch persecution on the island took place between the 1630s and 1670s although the documents may be incomplete. In 1630 after a group of women – their names and the exact number are not known – confessed to witchcraft, they were confined in the dungeon of Rothesay Castle without food or water and starved to death. A strong belief in fairy traditions and folklore persisted in Scotland during the seventeenth century despite being subjected to nearly a hundred years of vigorous oppression. The Kirk session in Rothesay heard a complaint against Jeane Campbell in 1660 as it was claimed she went with the fairies who had instructed her how to make spells; she was also accused of applying \"a salve to rub on her breast, which was good for comforting the heart against scunners [afflictions].\" It was discovered she suffered from indigestion so the local minister allayed the fears of his congregation regarding her involvement in witchcraft. The following year she was brought before the session again after she used the cure on others; she was discharged but informed she would be deemed a witch if she repeated the offence. Ten years earlier, in 1650, another woman, Finwell Hyndman from Kingarth, was interviewed as she went missing for a day every three months; when she returned she had such a repugnant smell no one could approach her and it seemed she had been on a long journey. As she offered no adequate reason for her absence, she was \"bruted for a witch or (as the commone people calls it) being with the fayryes\". In common with other European witch trials, major Scottish witch hunts occurred in batches; historians offer differing opinions as to why this should happen but generally agree that military hostilities and political or economic uncertainty played a part coupled with local ministers and landowners determined to seek convictions. The execution of King Charles I took place in 1649 and an extensive witch hunt started that year. Charles II was declared the monarch of Scotland in 1660; most historians connect the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62, the last but most severe wave of prosecutions, with the Restoration. The hunt started in small towns and villages near Edinburgh during April 1661 spreading to Bute with a succession of accusations and trials beginning in early 1662. Some of the charges, including those against Margaret McWilliam, concerned events that had happened over twenty years before. The series of events on the island in 1662 were initiated following disagreements between neighbours, a common scenario for the instigation of witchcraft cases. John McFie accused his neighbour Margaret McWilliam of witchcraft. He alleged she caused him to suffer pains resembling those of giving birth; the ailment started shortly after he had an altercation with her and continued for three months. McFie also claimed she was responsible for the sudden death of one of his children a few hours after the child became ill. McWilliam had been regarded as a witch by the community for more than thirty years; the women who confessed to witchcraft that starved to death in Rothesay Castle in 1630 claimed she was a witch and she had been imprisoned in 1631. The first recorded statement given by any of the accused women was from Janet Morrison at her home on 15 January 1662. Jonet NcNicoll escaped from the tolbooth in Rothesay during 1662 and fled to Kilmarnock where she lived for the next twelve years. She returned to the island in 1673 and was executed for the 1662 conviction alongside another woman, Mary NcThomas, who had been found gulty of incest and charming. These two executions were the last recorded cases of witch persecution on the island. Bute witches The Bute witches were six Scottish women accused of witchcraft and interrogated in the parish of Rothesay on Bute during the"
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"Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is a single-molecule sequencing technology that uses transmission electron microscopy techniques. The method was conceived and developed in the 1960s and 70s, but lost favor when the extent of damage to the sample was recognized. In order for DNA to be clearly visualized under an electron microscope, it must be labeled with heavy atoms. In addition, specialized imaging techniques and aberration corrected optics are beneficial for obtaining the resolution required to image the labeled DNA molecule. In theory, transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing could provide extremely long read lengths, but the issue of electron beam damage may still remain and the technology has not yet been commercially developed. Only a few years after James Watson and Francis Crick deduced the , and nearly two decades before Frederick Sanger published the first method for rapid DNA sequencing, Richard Feynman, an American physicist, envisioned the electron microscope as the tool that would one day allow biologists to “see the order of bases in the DNA chain”. Feynman believed that if the electron microscope could be made powerful enough, then it would become possible to visualize the atomic structure of any and all chemical compounds, including DNA. In 1970, Albert Crewe developed the high-angle annular dark-field imaging (HAADF) imaging technique in a scanning transmission electron microscope. Using this technique, he visualized individual heavy atoms on thin amorphous carbon films. In 2010 Krivanek and colleagues reported several technical improvements to the HAADF method, including a combination of aberration corrected electron optics and low accelerating voltage. The latter is crucial for imaging biological objects, as it allows to reduce damage by the beam and increase the image contrast for light atoms. As a result, single atom substitutions in a boron nitride monolayer could be imaged. Despite the invention of a multitude of chemical and fluorescent sequencing technologies, electron microscopy is still being explored as a means of performing single-molecule DNA sequencing. For example, in 2012 a collaboration between scientists at Harvard University, the University of New Hampshire and ZS Genetics demonstrated the ability to read long sequences of DNA using the technique, however transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing technology is still far from being commercially available. The electron microscope has the capacity to obtain a resolution of up to 100 pm, whereby microscopic biomolecules and structures such as viruses, ribosomes, proteins, lipids, small molecules and even single atoms can be observed. Although DNA is visible when observed with the electron microscope, the resolution of the image obtained is not high enough to allow for deciphering the sequence of the individual bases, \"i.e.\", DNA sequencing. However, upon differential labeling of the DNA bases with heavy atoms or metals, it is possible to both visualize and distinguish between the individual bases. Therefore, electron microscopy in conjunction with differential heavy atom DNA labeling could be used to directly image the DNA in order to determine its sequence. As in a standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the double stranded DNA molecules to be sequenced must be denatured before the second strand can be synthesized with labeled nucleotides. The elements that make up biological molecules (C, H, N, O, P, S) are too light (low atomic number, Z) to be clearly visualized as individual atoms by transmission electron microscopy. To circumvent this problem, the DNA bases can be labeled with heavier atoms (higher Z). Each nucleotide is tagged with a characteristic heavy label, so that they can be distinguished in the transmission electron micrograph. The DNA molecules must be stretched out on a thin, solid substrate so that order of the labeled bases will be clearly visible on the electron micrograph. Molecular combing is a technique that utilizes the force of a receding air-water interface to extend DNA molecules, leaving them irreversibly bound to a silane layer once dry. This is one means by which alignment of the DNA on a solid substrate may be achieved. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) produces high magnification, high resolution images by passing a beam of electrons through a very thin sample. Whereas atomic resolution has been demonstrated with conventional TEM, further improvement in spatial resolution requires correcting the spherical and chromatic aberrations of the microscope lenses. This has only been possible in scanning transmission electron microscopy where the image is obtained by scanning the object with a finely focused electron beam, in a way similar to a cathode ray tube. However, the achieved improvement in resolution comes together with irradiation of the studied object by much higher beam intensities, the concomitant sample damage and the associated imaging artefacts. Different imaging techniques are applied depending on whether the sample contains heavy or light atoms: Dark and bright spots on the electron micrograph, corresponding to the differentially labeled DNA bases, are analyzed by computer software. Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is not yet commercially available, but the long read lengths that this technology may one day provide will make it useful in a variety of contexts. When sequencing a genome, it must be broken down into pieces that are short enough to be sequenced in a single read. These reads must then be put back together like a jigsaw puzzle by aligning the regions that overlap between reads; this process is called \"de novo\" genome assembly. The longer the read length that a sequencing platform provides, the longer the overlapping regions, and the easier it is to assemble the genome. From a computational perspective, microfluidic Sanger sequencing is still the most effective way to sequence and assemble genomes for which no reference genome sequence exists. The relatively long read lengths provide substantial overlap between individual sequencing reads, which allows for greater statistical confidence in the assembly. In addition, long Sanger reads are able to span most regions of repetitive DNA sequence which otherwise confound sequence assembly by causing false alignments. However, \"de novo\" genome assembly by Sanger sequencing is extremely expensive and time consuming. Second generation sequencing technologies, while less expensive, are generally unfit for \"de novo\" genome assembly due to short read lengths. In general, third generation sequencing technologies, including transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing, aim to improve read length while maintaining low sequencing cost. Thus, as third generation sequencing technologies improve, rapid and inexpensive \"de novo\" genome assembly will become a reality. A haplotype is a series of linked alleles that are inherited together on a single chromosome. DNA sequencing can be used to genotype all of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that constitute a haplotype. However, short DNA sequencing reads often cannot be phased; that is, heterozygous variants cannot be confidently assigned to the correct haplotype. In fact, haplotyping with short read DNA sequencing data requires very high coverage (average >50x coverage of each DNA base) to accurately identify SNPs, as well as additional sequence data from the parents so that Mendelian transmission can be used to estimate the haplotypes. Sequencing technologies that generate long reads, including transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing, can capture entire haploblocks in a single read. That is, haplotypes are not broken up among multiple reads, and the genetically linked alleles remain together in the sequencing data. Therefore, long reads make haplotyping easier and more accurate, which is beneficial to the field of",
"reads often cannot be phased; that is, heterozygous variants cannot be confidently assigned to the correct haplotype. In fact, haplotyping with short read DNA sequencing data requires very high coverage (average >50x coverage of each DNA base) to accurately identify SNPs, as well as additional sequence data from the parents so that Mendelian transmission can be used to estimate the haplotypes. Sequencing technologies that generate long reads, including transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing, can capture entire haploblocks in a single read. That is, haplotypes are not broken up among multiple reads, and the genetically linked alleles remain together in the sequencing data. Therefore, long reads make haplotyping easier and more accurate, which is beneficial to the field of population genetics. Genes are normally present in two copies in the diploid human genome; genes that deviate from this standard copy number are referred to as copy number variants (CNVs). Copy number variation can be benign (these are usually common variants, called copy number polymorphisms) or pathogenic. CNVs are detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) or comparative genomic hybridization (CGH). To detect the specific breakpoints at which a deletion occurs, or to detect genomic lesions introduced by a duplication or amplification event, CGH can be performed using a tiling array (array CGH), or the variant region can be sequenced. Long sequencing reads are especially useful for analyzing duplications or amplifications, as it is possible to analyze the orientation of the amplified segments if they are captured in a single sequencing read. Cancer genomics, or oncogenomics, is an emerging field in which high-throughput, second generation DNA sequencing technology is being applied to sequence entire cancer genomes. Analyzing this short read sequencing data encompasses all of the problems associated with \"de novo\" genome assembly using short read data. Furthermore, cancer genomes are often aneuploid. These aberrations, which are essentially large scale copy number variants, can be analyzed by second-generation sequencing technologies using read frequency to estimate the copy number. Longer reads would, however, provide a more accurate picture of copy number, orientation of amplified regions, and SNPs present in cancer genomes. The microbiome refers the total collection of microbes present in a microenvironment and their respective genomes. For example, an estimated 100 trillion microbial cells colonize the human body at any given time. The human microbiome is of particular interest, as these commensal bacteria are important for human health and immunity. Most of the Earth's bacterial genomes have not yet been sequenced; undertaking a microbiome sequencing project would require extensive \"de novo\" genome assembly, a prospect which is daunting with short read DNA sequencing technologies. Longer reads would greatly facilitate the assembly of new microbial genomes. Compared to other second- and third-generation DNA sequencing technologies, transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing has a number of potential key strengths and weaknesses, which will ultimately determine its usefulness and prominence as a future DNA sequencing technology. Many non-Sanger second- and third-generation DNA sequencing technologies have been or are currently being developed with the common aim of increasing throughput and decreasing cost such that personalized genetic medicine can be fully realized. Both the US$10 million Archon X Prize for Genomics supported by the X Prize Foundation (Santa Monica, CA, USA) and the US$70 million in grant awards supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH-NHGRI) are fueling the rapid burst of research activity in the development of new DNA sequencing technologies. Since different approaches, techniques, and strategies are what define each DNA sequencing technology, each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Comparison of important parameters between various second- and third-generation DNA sequencing technologies are presented in Table 1. Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing Transmission"
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"Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Dehri Rohtas Light Railway (DRLR) was a narrow gauge railway line between Dehri-On-Sone and Tiura Pipara Dih in the state of Bihar, India. The Dehri Rohtas Light Railway started off as Dehri Rohtas Tramway Company in 1907 promoted by The Octavius Steel and Company of Calcutta. The original contract was to build a 40 km feeder line from Rohtas to the East Indian Railway's Delhi - Calcutta trunk route at Dehri-on-Sone. Soon thereafter, the tramway company was incorporated as a light railway in order to acquire the assets of the then defunct Dwara - Therria Light Railway in Assam. The DRLR opened to traffic in 1911 and was booming by 1913-14 when it carried over 50,000 passengers and 90,000 tons of freight, the goods traffic mainly consisting of marble and stone. In 1927, a 2.5 km spur was added to Rohtasgarh Fort from Rohtas. Rohtas Industries brought the line up to Tiura Pipradih by adding another 25 km to the DRLR, most of which passed through their property. At its peak, the DRLR used to operate two daily passengers trains in each direction from Dehri-on-Sone and Tiura Pipradih, a run of 67 km. Apart from this the railway carried marble and stone traffic to the mainline at Dehri on sone. The DRLR operated a very mixed bag of locomotives. It started off with 0-6-2 tank locomotives, three of which arrived from the Dwara - Therria Railway after it closed in 1909. In the pre IRS years, it also used 0-6-0, 0-4-0 (Sentinel) and 0-6-4 variants of tank locomotives. After the wartime increase in traffic the railway brought as many as eight new ZB class 2-6-2 tender locomotives, orders for which were equally split between Hudswell Clarke and Krauss Maffei. The railway also purchased several locomotives, second hand, notable among which were the A/1 class 2-8-4 tank locomotives built by Hudswell Clarke that arrived from the Pulgaon - Arvi system of Central Railway in 1959. Other unique locomotives that operated on DRLR were the several ex. Kalka - Simla Railway K class 2-6-2 tank engines by Kerr Stuart and 2-6-4 tank engines by Henschel that arrived from the Shahdara–Saharanpur Light Railway. Due to the decline in the traffic and competition to road in the late 1970s, the DRLR succumbed and closed to traffic on July 16, 1984. Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Dehri Rohtas Light Railway (DRLR) was"
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"El Segundo, California El Segundo is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. \"El Segundo\", from Spanish, means \"The Second\" in English. Located on the Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. The population was 16,654 at the 2010 census, slightly up from 16,033 at the 2000 census. The El Segundo and Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños) Native American tribes thousands of years ago. The area was once a part of \"Rancho Sausal Redondo\" (\"Round Willow Patch Ranch\"). Rancho Sausal Redondo extended from Playa Del Rey in the North to Redondo Beach in the South. Originally a Mexican land grant owned by Antonio Ygnacio Avila, the rancho was later purchased by a Scottish baronet named Sir Robert Burnett. After his return to Scotland, the property was purchased by then current manager of the rancho, Daniel Freeman. Daniel Freeman sold portions of the rancho to several persons. George H. Peck owned the of land the Chevron Refinery now sits on. Peck also developed land in neighboring El Porto where a street still bears his name. The city earned its name (\"the second\" in Spanish) as it was the site of the second Standard Oil refinery on the West Coast (the first was at Richmond in Northern California), when Standard Oil of California purchased the of farm land in 1911. The city was incorporated in 1917. The Standard Oil Company was renamed Chevron in 1984. The El Segundo refinery entered its second century of operation in 2011. The Douglas Aircraft Company plant in El Segundo was one of the major aircraft manufacturing facilities in California during World War II. It was one of the major producers of SBD Dauntless dive bombers, which achieved fame in the Battle of Midway. The facility, now operated by Northrop Grumman, is still an aircraft plant. The north and south boundaries of the town are Los Angeles International Airport and Manhattan Beach, with the Pacific Ocean as the western boundary. Its eastern boundary is roughly Aviation Blvd. El Segundo is located at (33.921313, -118.406233). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , over 99% of which is land. Guinness World Records has listed El Segundo as having the most roads with a hill or grade. The 2010 United States Census reported that El Segundo had a population of 16,654. The population density was 3,047.9 people per square mile (1,176.8/km²). The racial makeup of El Segundo was 12,997 (78.0%) White (69.1% Non-Hispanic White), 337 (2.0%) African American, 68 (0.4%) Native American, 1,458 (8.8%) Asian, 38 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 799 (4.8%) from other races, and 957 (5.7%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 2,609 persons (15.7%). The Census reported that 16,578 people (99.5% of the population) lived in households, 66 (0.4%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 10 (0.1%) were institutionalized. There were 7,085 households, out of which 2,183 (30.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 3,050 (43.0%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 729 (10.3%) had a female householder with no husband present, 326 (4.6%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 369 (5.2%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships. 2,254 households (31.8%) were made up of individuals and 570 (8.0%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34. There were 4,105 families (57.9% of all households); the average family size was 3.02. The population was spread out with 3,719 people (22.3%) under the age of 18, 1,120 people (6.7%) aged 18 to 24, 5,182 people (31.1%) aged 25 to 44, 4,955 people (29.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,678 people (10.1%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.8 males. There were 7,410 housing units at an average density of 1,356.1 per square mile (523.6/km²), of which 3,034 (42.8%) were owner-occupied, and 4,051 (57.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.4%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.1%. 8,177 people (49.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 8,401 people (50.4%) lived in rental housing units. According to the 2010 United States Census, El Segundo had a median household income of $84,341, with 4.8% of the population living below the federal poverty line. As of the 2000 Census, the population density was 2,894.6 inhabitants per square mile (1,117.4/km²). There were 7,261 housing units at an average density of 1,310.9 per square mile (506.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 83.61% White, 1.17% Black or African American, 0.47% Native American, 6.41% Asian, 0.29% Pacific Islander, 3.51% from other races, and 4.55% from two or more races. 11.01% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 7,060 households out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.6% were non-families. 34.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 3.00. In the city, the population was spread out with 22.7% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 38.7% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 9.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $61,341, and the median income for a family was $74,007. Males had a median income of $52,486 versus $41,682 for females. The per capita income for the city was $33,996. About 3.1% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 6.0% of those age 65 or over. El Segundo has many aviation-related and petroleum-related industries and operations. In 2006, it won an Eddy award for being the most business-friendly city in L.A. County. The name was adopted in 1911 when Chevron built its second refinery, El Segundo, which is Spanish for \"The Second\". This refinery is controversial for receiving significant quantities of their crude oil from the Amazon region of South America - more than 5,000 barrels per day. In 1928 William Mines, an immigrant from Canada, leased land for a flying field. In 1930 Los Angeles Municipal Airport, later Los Angeles International Airport, opened north of El Segundo; its presence led to the concentration of aerospace and aviation-related firms in the El Segundo area. Many large aerospace companies have facilities in El Segundo, including Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Wyle Laboratories, The Aerospace Corporation, and Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings. The last two are headquartered there. It is also home to the Los Angeles Air Force Base and the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), which is responsible for space-related acquisition for the military. In addition to the Chevron oil refinery, El Segundo is located next to the Hyperion sewage treatment plant and the El Segundo power plant. The El Segundo power plant is operated by the American energy company NRG. In an effort to combine sustainable and environmentally-friendly techniques with fossil power generation, NRG will create a new combined cycle power island, providing power for 240,000 households. The new power plant, slated to go online in 2013, will use two generators: a Siemens gas turbine and an additional steam turbine. Natural gas will drive the gas turbine, while the hot exhaust gases will generate steam for the steam turbine. The efficiency of the power plant will be increased up to 58%. A huge environmental advantage of",
"for space-related acquisition for the military. In addition to the Chevron oil refinery, El Segundo is located next to the Hyperion sewage treatment plant and the El Segundo power plant. The El Segundo power plant is operated by the American energy company NRG. In an effort to combine sustainable and environmentally-friendly techniques with fossil power generation, NRG will create a new combined cycle power island, providing power for 240,000 households. The new power plant, slated to go online in 2013, will use two generators: a Siemens gas turbine and an additional steam turbine. Natural gas will drive the gas turbine, while the hot exhaust gases will generate steam for the steam turbine. The efficiency of the power plant will be increased up to 58%. A huge environmental advantage of this type of power plant is that in combustion, natural gas generates relatively little carbon dioxide compared to other fossil fuels. The current Boeing factory, the Boeing Satellite Development Center, was originally built by Nash Motors in 1946 and opened in 1948. In 1955, Hughes Aircraft Company purchased the 500,000 sq-ft building; it was converted to build missiles and also served as a test facility. Toy manufacturer Mattel, AT&T Entertainment Hub (formerly DirecTV) direct technology marketing company PCM, Inc., and A-Mark Precious Metals are headquartered there, as well as sporting goods retailer Big 5 Sporting Goods and Stamps.com. Database company Teradata has a R&D facility in El Segundo as well. Prior to its dissolution, Unocal was headquartered in El Segundo. At one time MGM Grand Air had its headquarters in El Segundo. Film production companies are located in El Segundo, including Rhythm and Hues Studios and Lightstorm Entertainment. The Los Angeles Times announced its newsroom would move from downtown Los Angeles to a 4.5 acre campus in El Segundo in the summer of 2018. According to the city's 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Nexon America, the North American branch of Korean online game publisher Nexon Co. Ltd. has its offices in El Segundo. The North American branch of the Japanese video game publisher and developer Square Enix has its headquarters in El Segundo. The North American branch of Konami Digital Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation and its headquarters in El Segundo. Due to its proximity to Los Angeles International Airport, El Segundo became the host of several offices of airlines. In 1979 the United Airlines Reservation Center, a two story, $4.5 million, facility in the International Center, was scheduled to begin construction. Austin Co., a firm in Irvine, California, was to build the facility, which was scheduled for opening in May of that year. Japan Airlines operates its United States headquarters, which was moved from New York City to El Segundo in around 2003. at Suite 620 of 300 Continental Boulevard; Cathay Pacific has an office in El Segundo. The airline moved its North America headquarters to Greater Los Angeles in 1990, and the headquarters were situated in El Segundo until 2005. Air China operates its North American headquarters in the 2131 East Maple Avenue building, south of Los Angeles International Airport, in El Segundo. Its current North American headquarters opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony and other festivities on Friday March 26, 2010. The call center reservations, marketing, and sales employees all moved into the building. The building includes a call center with space for 50 employees; when the building opened, half of the spaces had been filled. Air New Zealand operates its United States headquarters in El Segundo. Other airlines with offices in El Segundo include Turkish Airlines, Thai Airways, Air Tahiti Nui, Aeroméxico, China Airlines Emirates, EVA Air, and Singapore Airlines. Infineon Technologies acquired El Segundo-based company International Rectifier in 2015. El Segundo has its own beach, as well as three public pools, including two outdoor pools open only during the summer months. The El Segundo Parks and Rec staff are the basis for the hit NBC program \"Parks and Recreation\". El Segundo has two full-sized turf fields named Campus El Segundo Athletic Fields which are open to the public. According to the city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, its various funds had $99.0 million in revenues, $91.0 million in expenditures, $206.5 million in total assets, $33.6 million in total liabilities, and $50.4 million in cash and investments. Management of the city and coordination of city services are provided by: The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Curtis Tucker Health Center in Inglewood, serving El Segundo. The United States Postal Service operates the El Segundo Post Office at the Bay Cities Annex Post Office at 2130 East Mariposa Avenue. In the California State Legislature, El Segundo is in , and in . In the United States House of Representatives, El Segundo is in . The El Segundo Unified School District serves the residential district of El Segundo, west of Pacific Coast Highway. The school district was listed as one of the state's 29 academic outperformers by Standards and Poor's in 2005. Eastern El Segundo is part of the tax base for the Wiseburn School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District (CVUHSD). There are no residential areas in the eastern part of the city. This portion of the city includes corporate operations providing significant tax revenue to the districts. Vistamar School is a private school in El Segundo. Originally all of the city was located in the Wiseburn School District, which opened in 1896. When the Inglewood Union High School District, now known as the CVHUSD, opened in 1905, its territory included the Wiseburn district. In 1912 the El Segundo School District opened, taking territory from the Wiseburn School District. The territory of the El Segundo district continued to be in the Inglewood Union District. On November 22, 1925 the El Segundo High School District was formed and El Segundo withdrew from the Inglewood Union district. The \"El Segundo Herald\" is the community newspaper for El Segundo. It was established in 1911, six years before the City was incorporated. It had its 100-year anniversary of service to the community in 2011. State Route 1 passes through the city as Pacific Coast Highway, while Interstate 105 begins its journey at Sepulveda Boulevard (the continuation of State Route 1 north of El Segundo city limits) just outside the northern city limits of El Segundo and heads east to Norwalk. Amtrak's El Segundo Bus Stop (ESG) is located at the Los Angeles County Metro Green Line Douglas Station and is serviced by Thruway Motorcoach. The stop is on Amtrak's 1c bus route that runs four times a day between Amtrak's Torrance Bus Stop (Alpine Village) and the Bakersfield Amtrak Station where passengers transfer to and from trains on Amtrak's San Joaquin route; passengers can also connect with Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner route at the Van Nuys Amtrak Station. Los Angeles International Airport is located immediately to the north of El Segundo. In 2014, an air quality study found harmful ultrafine particles from the takeoffs and landings at Los Angeles International Airport to be of much greater magnitude than previously thought. El Segundo High School has a presence in the movie industry. Many films and television broadcasts were shot at the high school. The major movies and television broadcasts are shown below, in order from recent releases to old releases. El Segundo, California El Segundo is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. \"El Segundo\", from Spanish, means \"The Second\" in English. Located on the Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. The population was 16,654 at the 2010 census, slightly up from 16,033 at the 2000 census. The El",
"quality study found harmful ultrafine particles from the takeoffs and landings at Los Angeles International Airport to be of much greater magnitude than previously thought. El Segundo High School has a presence in the movie industry. Many films and television broadcasts were shot at the high school. The major movies and television broadcasts are shown below, in order from recent releases to old releases. El Segundo, California El Segundo is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. \"El Segundo\", from Spanish, means \"The Second\" in English. Located on the Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. The population was 16,654 at the 2010 census, slightly up from 16,033 at the 2000 census. The El Segundo and"
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"Reepham railway station (Norfolk) Reepham (Norfolk) was a railway station in Reepham, Norfolk. It was opened in 1882 and closed to passengers in 1952 and finally shut to goods services in 1981. The tracks through Reepham remained in place until 1985, latterly serving a concrete factory in Lenwade. The trackbed is currently preserved as part of the Marriott's Way long-distance footpath. A speculative plan to create a heritage railway between Reepham station and Whitwell station has been proposed by the owner of the latter station, which is being developed as a railway centre. This would include relaying the Themelthorpe Curve, built to link the former Great Eastern Railway and Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway routes - formerly the tightest radius curve on the British Rail network. Reepham railway station (Norfolk) Reepham (Norfolk) was a railway station in Reepham, Norfolk. It was opened in 1882 and closed to passengers in 1952 and finally shut to goods services in 1981. The tracks through Reepham remained in place until 1985, latterly serving a concrete factory in Lenwade. The trackbed is currently preserved as part of the Marriott's Way long-distance footpath. A speculative plan to create a heritage railway between Reepham station and"
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"Shops at Don Mills The Shops at Don Mills (corporately known as CF Shops at Don Mills) is a lifestyle centre - type shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East in the former city of North York. There are 72 retail stores with a total floor space of 47,550 square metres (or 511,824 square feet). Storefronts face a network of private internal streets, and the centre layout is centred on a square which includes interpretive historical plaques and commissioned art by Douglas Coupland. The layout is similar to a regular neighbourhood retail strip. Anchors include Salomon Toronto, McEwans Gourmet Market, Anthropologie, Joey's west coast restaurant and other shops and restaurants. Parking along the internal streets is limited but a multi-level parkade is located on site. The centre is located on the site of the demolished Don Mills Centre shopping mall, which was part of the original development of the planned suburb of Don Mills. Increased competition from other shopping malls and the closure of main anchor tenant T. Eaton Co. meant declines in mall revenues and the exodus of many fashion retailers. The mall owner, developer Cadillac Fairview, decided to redevelop the site in 2003 to attract more up-scale retailers and shoppers, without a main anchor tenant. The developer proposed to demolish the indoor shopping mall and replace it with an open-air setting, along with an intensification of the site. The intensification meant the construction of a parking garage to replace the large surface parking lot. The development also included using Centre lands for new residential buildings. After community consultation, the plan was approved by the City of Toronto and the development proceeded. The Shops at Don Mills opened on April 22, 2009. McNally Robinson, a Canadian book-selling chain, was one of the first tenants, but the chain later decided to close the Don Mills location. A number of roads and driveways located in the development are named after prominent community members of the Don Mills area: Shops at Don Mills The Shops at Don Mills (corporately known as CF Shops at Don Mills) is a lifestyle centre - type shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East in the former city of North York. There are 72 retail stores with a total floor space of 47,550 square metres (or 511,824 square feet). Storefronts face"
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"Rosalía Valdés Rosalía Valdés Julián (born 1958) is a Mexican singer and actress. She is the daughter of Mexican comedian Germán Valdés and former singer Rosalía Julián. Her performance in the movie \"El Vuelo de la cigüeña\" (1979) earned her a Heraldo prize. She is now retired from the entertainment industry. During the 1970s and 1980s she recorded several albums and starred in Mexican movies, soap operas and television shows. Among her most notable songs are \"\"Tu regreso\"\", \"\"Si llegara el amor\"\", \"\"Volverás A Sonreir\"\" and \"\"Está escrito, lo veré\"\" which she wrote to relate her affliction by the death of her father and her hope to see him again. Valdés wrote and published her first book, \"La historia inédita de Tin Tán\", a biography about her father, in 2003. Rosalía Valdés Rosalía Valdés Julián (born 1958) is a Mexican singer and actress. She is the daughter of Mexican comedian Germán Valdés and former singer Rosalía Julián. Her performance in the movie \"El Vuelo de la cigüeña\" (1979) earned her a Heraldo prize. She is now retired from the entertainment industry. During the 1970s and 1980s she recorded several albums and starred in Mexican movies, soap operas and television shows."
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"Ilm-e-Khshnoom Ilm-e-Khshnoom ('science of ecstasy', or 'science of bliss') is a school of Zoroastrian philosophy, practiced by a very small minority of the Indian Zoroastrians (Parsis/Iranis), based on a mystic and esoteric, rather than literal, interpretation of religious texts. At the core of the philosophy is the belief that faith facilitates a connection to a consciousness that transcends normal experience or critical analysis, and that the prayers of the Avesta, which are to a degree metrical, are a means to achieve that consciousness. In 1875, an eighteen-year-old Parsi named Behramshah Nowroji Shroff left Surat (Gujarat, India) for Peshawar (now in Pakistan) in search of employment. According to followers of the mystic philosophy, on Shroff's way there, he met a caravan led by members of the \"Saheb-e-Dilan\" (\"Masters of the Heart\"), who persuaded him to accompany them to their home in the mountains. The \"Saheb-e-Dilan\", according to Shroff, were a group of about 2000 individuals led by 72 Mahgav (Magi) priests, called the \"Abed Saheb-e-Dilan\", who lived in isolation in the recesses of Caucasus Mountains (alternatively, in the Alborz range, around Mount Damavand). Having accompanied the caravan, say his followers, Behramshah Shroff lived with the \"Saheb-e-Dilan\" for three years, and so obtained an intimate knowledge of their religious practices and traditions which followed a mystic aspect of the teachings of Zarathustra (Zoroaster). Upon his return to India, Shroff gathered a following from among the Parsi community, who in due course began calling themselves 'Khshnoomists' after 'Khshnoom', or spiritual ecstasy, that they believed were embodied in their prayers and ceremonies. Around 1909, Behramshah Nowroji Shroff met the Parsi priest and Zoroastrian scholar Phiroze Masani, who, influenced by the temperance movement of the United States, had established \"The Parsi Vegetarian & Temperance Society\" in Bombay two years earlier. The philosophy of the \"Ilm-e-Kshnoom\" had a deep influence on Masani, who in turn began publishing Shroff's teachings in \"Frashogard\" ('renewal'), the society's Gujarati quarterly. In 1917, the society, together with its sister organization, the \"Zoroastrian Radih Society\", bought a large tract of land in Bombay with the intention of establishing a Fire Temple and a Zoroastrian residential complex there. The foundations were laid in 1923 by Behramshah Shroff himself, but it was not until 2001 that the Fire-Temple, now known as the \"Behramshah Nowroji Shroff Daremeher\", could be consecrated. The residential complex, now known as \"Behram Baug\", grew up around it. Behramshah Nowroji Shroff died in 1927. Phiroze Masani continued to publish the \"Frashogard\" until his death in 1943. In 1947, Jehangir Chiniwalla, the younger brother of Framroze Chiniwalla, one of the more prolific authors of articles in the \"Frashogard\", began publishing the weekly newspaper \"Parsi Avaz\". The \"Parsi Avaz\", which remained in print for 27 years, was followed by the \"Dini Avaz\" in Bombay in 1976, and the \"Mazdayasni Connection\" in the United States in 1983. The \"Parsi Pukar\", founded in Bombay in 1995, is today the primary publication of followers of the \"Ilm-e-Kshnoom\". Ilm-e-Khshnoom Ilm-e-Khshnoom ('science of ecstasy', or 'science of bliss')"
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"Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) fielded a number of candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here. Pierre Smith has been a candidate of the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Quebec. He identified as a cafeteria employee in 2000. Stewart lived in Cobourg, Ontario at the time of the election, and listed herself as retired. As of 2005, she lives in Peachland, British Columbia. Stewart has been active with the Council of Canadians and the anti–Iraq War movement. In 2002, she spoke out against the privatization of health care in British Columbia. She lives with William Stewart, formerly the leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario). She received 165 votes (0.46%), finishing sixth against Liberal incumbent Tom Wappel. Shandro was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, and a Master of Arts degree in Humanities. A social activist, she has served on a number of anti-poverty boards in Sudbury. In 1999, she wrote a letter opposing a one-tier regional government. During the 2000 campaign, she criticized Sudbury Mayor Jim Gordon's efforts to have the city declared a \"free trade zone\", arguing that similar measures had caused economic ruin in South America. She received 98 votes (0.28%), finishing seventh against Liberal incumbent Diane Marleau. Shandro was a prominent member of Sudbury¹s War Resisters Support Campaign in 2008, which fights for the right of Iraq War deserters from the United States of America to remain in Canada. Dyck is a veteran anti-poverty activist and advocate in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He campaigned for the Communist Party of Canada, the provincial Communist Party of Canada (Manitoba), and the municipal Labour Election Committee. He has played a prominent role in Winnipeg-based anti-poverty organizations such as the Manitoba Committee for Economic Justice (\"Broadcast News\", 9 August 2000), the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (\"Broadcast News\", 10 January 2001), the Low Income Intermediary Project and the National Anti-Poverty Organization. In 1997, he was listed as a provincial committee member of the Communist Party of Canada (\"Winnipeg Free Press\", 27 May). Dyck was a youth activist during the 1970s, and identified wage issues as his primary concern in the 1977 provincial election (\"Canadian Tribune\", 26 September 1977). He later became a worker with Boeing Winnipeg, and organized a unionization drive in 1980. He subsequently lost his job, and a newspaper article published in 2001 identified him as a welfare recipient (\"Winnipeg Free Press\", 11 January 2001). Dyck participated in a protest against basic local rate increases by Manitoba Telecom Services in 2000–01, arguing that the changes would prevent some persons on social assistance from owning their own telephones. Later in 2001, he called for protection for low-income earners against \"sudden fluctuations in essential commodities like natural gas\" (\"WFP\", 19 September 2001). He has also argued that bank user fees are disproportionately punitive against the poor (\"WFP\", 12 January 2005), and has criticized Payday loan services for \"victimiz[ing] people in the most desperate of circumstances\" (\"WFP\", 30 May 2005). In 2005, he argued against proposed restrictions on panhandling. Note: The 1986 municipal results are taken from the \"Winnipeg Free Press\". Allison listed himself as retired at the time of the 2000 election. He had previously campaigned for the Communist Party of Canada (Manitoba) in the 1999 provincial election, and received 133 votes in Wolseley for a fourth-place finish. The winner was Jean Friesen of the New Democratic Party. He received 181 votes (0.48%) in the 2000 election, finishing last in a field of seven candidates. The winner was Anita Neville of the Liberal Party. Hogaboam was born on January 7, 1965 in La Mesa, California, United States. He and his parents, who were born in Manitoba, returned to Winnipeg in 1966. He has a broadcasting and journalism degree from Lethbridge Community College. He and a fellow student created the Lethbridge Kodiaks hockey team in 1992, and attempted to launch an open challenge for the Stanley Cup when National Hockey League play was stopped due to a labour dispute. A trustee for the Stanley Cup rejected their request, indicating that the trophy has had an exclusive arrangement with the NHL since 1947. Hogaboam formed the Leland-Ashdown Rescue Committee in the 1990s, and worked to save historical buildings within Winnipeg. He wrote an article for \"People's Voice\" in 2000, accusing rocker Ted Nugent of hate speech after Nugent reportedly told a Winnipeg audience, \"if you don't know how to speak f...ing English, you don't believe in Canada.\" Hogaboam has campaigned for the federal Communist Party and the provincial Communist Party of Canada of Manitoba. He worked for a courier company during the 1999 election, and was quoted as saying, \"The biggest misconception is that we're some kind of dictatorial party out to control people. We just support working people, a system where everyone participates.\" Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) fielded a number of candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here. 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"1986–87 Colchester United F.C. season The 1986–87 season was Colchester United's 45th season in their history and sixth consecutive season in fourth tier of English football, the Fourth Division. Alongside competing in the Fourth Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup, the League Cup and the Associate Members' Cup. The play-offs were introduced in 1987 for clubs finishing in fourth, fifth and sixth positions. United ended the campaign in fifth place, ten points adrift of automatic promotion. They faced fourth placed Wolverhampton Wanderers in the semi-final, but were eliminated following a 2–0 defeat in the first leg and a 0–0 draw at Molineux Stadium in the second leg. Colchester were eliminated from the FA Cup by eventual play-off winners Aldershot in the second round, and were defeated by Peterborough United and Gillingham respectively in the League Cup and Associate Members' Cup. Mike Walker was appointed as permanent manager after finishing the previous campaign in a caretaker capacity. Early in the season, Perry Groves was sold to Arsenal for £50,000, but despite this Colchester were bookmakers favourites heading into the new term. Seven successive away defeats from December denied the U's this opportunity as they came home in fifth position, ten points shy of promoted Essex rivals Southend United. However, with the introduction of the play-offs in 1987, Colchester had an opportunity to achieve promotion. They faced fourth-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers at a rain-soaked Layer Road in their semi-final first leg tie in front of a near-capacity 4,829. The visitors came away with a 2–0 victory, and a 0–0 draw at Molineux Stadium in the second leg meant Colchester would remain in the Fourth Division for at least another year. Colchester did not fare well in cup competition once again, with an early exit in the League Cup to Peterborough United in the first round. They needed a replay against non-League Bishop's Stortford in the FA Cup to reach the second round, but were defeated 3–2 at Aldershot in the second round. The U's progressed from the preliminary round of the Associate Members' Cup to face Gillingham in the southern section first round, but were beaten 2–0 at Priestfield Stadium. !colspan=\"16\"|\"Players who appeared for Colchester who left during the season\" Number of games goalkeepers kept a clean sheet. Players making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match. Books Websites 1986–87 Colchester United F.C. season The 1986–87 season"
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"German submarine U-547 German submarine \"U-547\" was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's \"Kriegsmarine\" during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number 368 on 30 August 1942, launched on 3 April 1943 and commissioned on 16 June with \"Korvettenkapitän\" Kurt Sturm in command. \"U-547\" began her service career with training as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla from 16 June 1943. She was re-assigned to the 2nd flotilla for operations on 1 January 1944, then the 33rd flotilla on 1 October. She carried out three patrols and sank three ships; two of them totalled . She also sank an auxiliary warship of . She was a member of four wolfpacks. She was damaged by a mine in France in August 1944 and possibly scuttled at Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), December 1944. German Type IXC/40 submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXCs. \"U-547\" had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. The U-boat had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged four-stroke, nine-cylinder diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two Siemens-Schuckert 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to . The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . \"U-547\" was fitted with six torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and two at the stern), 22 torpedoes, one SK C/32 naval gun, 180 rounds, and a SK C/30 as well as a C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of forty-eight. \"U-547\"s first patrol began with her departure from Kiel on 25 December 1943. She passed through the gap separating Iceland and the Faroe Islands before heading out into the Atlantic Ocean. She entered Lorient, on the French Atlantic coast, on 23 February 1944. For her second foray, the boat headed for the west African coast. There, she sank the French ship \"Saint Basile\" off Liberia on 14 June 1944. On 2 July, she sank the Dutch \"Bodegraven\" south of Monrovia. The survivors were questioned, the master was taken prisoner. She returned to France on 11 August 1944, but this time to Bordeaux. \"U-547\" was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October. She was taken out of service and possibly scuttled in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), on 31 December 1944. German submarine U-547 German submarine \"U-547\" was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's \"Kriegsmarine\" during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number 368 on 30 August 1942, launched on 3 April 1943 and commissioned on 16 June with \"Korvettenkapitän\" Kurt Sturm in command. \"U-547\" began her service career with training as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla from 16 June 1943. She was re-assigned to the 2nd flotilla for operations on 1 January 1944, then the 33rd flotilla on 1 October. She carried out three patrols and"
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"Selenops Selenops is a spider genus that is found in many deserts of the world. It is very hard to distinguish the 115 species. \"S. australiensis\" is found on or under dry bark in Australia. The female reaches 9mm, the male 7mm. It looks superficially like a huntsman spider. \"S. radiatus\" has proved to be an effective controlling agent of the potato tuber moth in South Africa. Selenops is the first spider known to be able to steer and glide when falling, in order to land in or on a tree, instead of falling to the ground. Selenops spiders are able to attack prey approaching from all directions. When attacking prey from behind, they show some of the fastest turning movements documented in terrestrial legged animals. Named after the moon goddess Selene, and Greek \"-ops\" \"eye\", because of the moon-like form of the eyes. Selenops Selenops is a spider genus that is found in many deserts of the world. It is very hard to distinguish the 115 species. \"S. australiensis\" is found on or under dry bark in Australia. The female reaches 9mm, the male 7mm. It looks superficially like a huntsman spider. \"S. radiatus\" has proved to be an"
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"Any Ol' Sunday \"Any Ol' Sunday\" is a song written by Alfred McCrary and Linda McCrary of the family group, The McCrarys and released on their 1980 Capitol Records album, \"Just for You\". A cover version by Chaka Khan was released as a single the following year as \"Any Old Sunday\" on the Warner Brothers album, \"What Cha' Gonna Do for Me\". Chaka Khan's version was a hit on Billboard's R&B chart. After three decades since its initial release, the song continues to be popular. Chaka Khan's version has been re-issued in various compilations. This includes the 2005 Warner Brothers Special Projects release, \"Natural High 4\". Original Version: Chaka Khan Version: Any Ol' Sunday \"Any Ol' Sunday\" is a song written by Alfred McCrary and Linda McCrary of the family group, The McCrarys and released on their 1980 Capitol Records album, \"Just for You\". A cover version by Chaka Khan was released as a single the following year as \"Any Old Sunday\" on the Warner Brothers album, \"What Cha' Gonna Do for Me\". Chaka Khan's version was a hit on Billboard's R&B chart. After three decades since its initial release, the song continues to be popular. Chaka Khan's version has"
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"Sergi Durán Sergi Durán Bernad (born 23 June 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Duran was able to qualify for the 1997 Wimbledon Championships but had to battle hard in the qualification stages, winning his match against Gastón Etlis 9-7 in the final set and beating David Nainkin 11-9 in the deciding set. He faced British wildcard Andrew Richardson in the opening round and lost in straight sets. He competed in the singles and doubles (with Gabriel Silberstein) at the Croatia Open that year but wasn't able to get past the first round in either. The Spaniard was defeated by Dominik Hrbatý in both matches, partnering Karol Kučera in the doubles. Sergi Durán Sergi Durán Bernad (born 23 June 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Duran was able to qualify for the 1997 Wimbledon Championships but had to battle hard in the qualification stages, winning his match against Gastón Etlis 9-7 in the final set and beating David Nainkin 11-9 in the deciding set. He faced British wildcard Andrew Richardson in the opening round and lost in straight sets. He competed in the singles and doubles (with Gabriel Silberstein) at the Croatia Open that"
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"Access Card (Australia) The Access Card or Health and social services access card was a proposed Australian Government non-compulsory electronic identity card. John Howard, the then Australian Prime Minister announced the introduction of the scheme on 26 April 2006. Under the scheme, the card would be required for personal identification by an Australian citizen or permanent resident wishing to access benefits or services administered by the Department of Human Services, Department of Veterans Affairs or (from 2010) the universal Medicare. The scheme was to be phased in over two years, beginning in 2008, but the newly elected Labor Rudd Government terminated the project in November 2007. It was proposed that the Access Card would be required for identification purposes in accessing government benefits or services, such as: The Access Card was to have been a smartcard. Smartcard technology differs from ordinary magnetic strip cards in that the card contains a microchip rather than a simple magnetic strip. This means that instead of the card containing a number that relates to a record in a database, the data (usually encrypted) is actually stored on the card. The Card was intended to have a photograph, the usual name of the holder - it did not have to be the legal name - the signature, the expiry date and the ID Number all visible on the front or rear of the Card. The chip was expected to include legal name, address, date of birth, details of children or other dependants, digitised photo, signature, card number, expiry date, gender, concession status and the cardholder's Personal Identification Number (PIN). Additional personal information could also be added at the will of the card holder. Such information may have included next of kin, organ donor status or drug allergies and also, according to Joe Hockey the former responsible government minister, shopping lists and perhaps MP3s. This extra information was to be secured with the user's PIN, so only those who needed it had access to it. An exposure draft of the proposed Bill was published on 13 December 2006 allowing for a four-week period during which public submissions could be made. Some minor changes resulted. The Bill to implement the first stage of the scheme was the \"Human Services (Enhanced Service Delivery) Bill 2007\" which was tabled in the Senate. A Senate Inquiry started on 8 February 2007, run by the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration. The Committee called for submissions and heard testimony, then wrote a report all within six weeks. The Report was delivered on 15 March 2007 and was scathing of the Bill in the form presented, demanding it be withdrawn and key provisions be re-thought. It also strongly recommended that the oversight and privacy provisions not await a later unseen Bill but be included in one package. The Minister, Senator Chris Ellison, withdrew the Bill to implement the Committees recommendations. A notable feature was that the Majority Report was written by Liberal Senators Mason, Fifield and Watson, recognised by some commentators as a striking case of Senatorial independence. One of the criticisms of the Access Card proposal was that the requirement for the card to be produced to access welfare and medical services made the card, in effect, compulsory. It was suggested that this was another attempt establish an Australia Card. On the other hand, Department of Human Services Secretary, Patricia Scott, told a Senate committee on 16 February 2007 that the wrongful detention of Cornelia Rau - who was held by immigration authorities for 10 months, despite being a legal resident - would not have occurred if the Access Card was running. The Card was to be the physical manifestation of the National Identity Register, containing the 17 classes of information outlined in the Act. The supporters of the Bill pointed to prohibitions within the Bill and the invoking of the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 to protect this information. At hearings in March 2007, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police confirmed that all such information would be available to them without warrant. This was not put forward as part of the original case, and if anything was denied as a possible outcome. The Australian Bankers Association also called for limited access to the database to help prove identity of new customers. The Government established a Consumer and Privacy Taskforce under former competition commission head Prof Allan Fels, which issued a discussion paper raising privacy concerns on 15 June 2006. The first report by the Taskforce was released in September 2006 and in November 2006 the Government rejected or partly rejected four of the 26 recommendations made by the taskforce. On 22 January 2007, in a cabinet reshuffle, Joe Hockey, who had been heading the Access Card project, was appointed Workplace Relations Minister. Ian Campbell was appointed Minister for Human Services, taking over the implementation of the Access Card project in an election year. On 3 March, Campbell resigned as Minister, and was replaced by Senator Chris Ellison, formerly the Justice Minister. The project's chief technology officer was Marie Johnson. The Office of Access Card issued a systems integrator request for tender (RFT) closing on 1 March 2007, with the contract expected to be signed between May and June 2007 . The 2007 election was called on 17 October 2007. The card was to have two card software platforms: Registration was to have required an interview, planned to average 12 minutes, during which a biometric photo would have been taken. Applicants would have been required to produce sufficient identification documentation, similar to the 100 point check that is required for access to financial services. This documentation would have been copied or scanned for permanent storage. Registration was to have occurred at special offices in the initial two-year registration period, and then at selected Post Offices at every seven-year renewal. In November 2007 the newly elected Labor Rudd Government announced it was terminating the Access Card project, the Office of the Access Card and all associated entities. The Labor Party had initially supported the Access Card in principle, but with caveats over its implementation. However, in October the half way house policy was abandoned and a complete repudiation was decided upon. The United Kingdom introduced the British national identity card, a non-compulsory identity card in 2006, which was abandoned in 2010. France has had a similar, but less sophisticated, card for many years: the French national identity card. Other European and Asian countries also have national identity cards. For example, Singapore has since 1965 had the National Registration Identity Card. Access Card (Australia) The Access Card or"
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"Sri Lankan New Zealanders Sri Lankan New Zealanders , also known informally as “Sriwis”, are New Zealanders of Sri Lankan heritage living in New Zealand. This includes at least three Sri Lankan ethnic groups in New Zealand: the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamil and Burghers. Sri Lankans in New Zealand span over 140 years emigration. In 2013 there were 9,579 Sri Lankans in New Zealand. The early arrivals who came to New Zealand from what was then British Ceylon were a few prospectors attracted to the gold rushes. By 1874 there were a mere 33 New Zealand residents born in Ceylon. Both New Zealand and Ceylon being part of the Commonwealth, New Zealand dutifully imported both people and commodities from Ceylon. After 1890, Ceylon began to surpass China as New Zealand’s supplier of tea. By 1901 the number of Ceylonese residents in New Zealand born in Ceylon had grown to 106. After 1950, under the Colombo Plan, some students and trainees received education in New Zealand. Up until the late 1960s the number of New Zealand residents born in Ceylon remained static. As the demand for skilled professionals in New Zealand grew, it led to a noticeable increase in the number of immigrants around this time. Racial and economic tensions in Dominion of Ceylon, made worse after the declaration of the republic in 1972, also swelled immigrant numbers. In 1983 the Sri Lankan Civil War began with Sinhalese political dominance being challenged by the militant Tamil Tigers, who sought a separate Tamil state within Sri Lanka. After the 1983 riots in Sri Lanka ushered in an extended civil war, many Sri Lankans, both Tamil and Sinhalese, fled Sri Lanka, and the number of arrivals from Sri Lanka to New Zealand and the Sri Lankan-born population in New Zealand rose dramatically. As during the 1980s New Zealand had relaxed its immigration policies towards Asians, it was seen as a welcoming destination and convinced them to emigrate permanently. Other Sri Lankans only found temporary employment in Africa and Saudi Arabia, intending to return to Sri Lanka. The number of arrivals continued to increase, and at the 2006 census there were over 7,000 Sri Lankans living in New Zealand. Sri Lankan New Zealanders comprised 3% of the Asian population of New Zealand in 2001. Out of the Asians, the Sri Lankans were the most likely to hold a formal qualification and to work in white-collar occupations. Sri Lankans mainly worked in health professions, engineering, business and property services, and the retail and manufacturing sectors, in large numbers. Most lived in Auckland and Wellington, with smaller populations in Waikato, Manawatu-Wanganui, Canterbury and others. Sri Lankan New Zealanders predominantly speak English, with Tamil and Sinhalese sometimes spoken at home. Distinct observations include Sriwi day, celebrated on 5 February between the national days of Sri Lanka and New Zealand. During this celebration both countries are honored through drinking Ceylon Tea with New Zealand milk and ritual ringing of the Tamil Bell . Sri Lankan New Zealanders Sri"
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"Coons patch In mathematics, a Coons patch, is a type of manifold parametrization used in computer graphics to smoothly join other surfaces together, and in computational mechanics applications, particularly in finite element method and boundary element method, to mesh problem domains into elements. Coons patches are named after Steven Anson Coons, and date to 1967. Given four space curves \"c\"(\"s\"), \"c\"(\"s\"), \"d\"(\"t\"), \"d\"(\"t\") which meet at four corners \"c\"(0) = \"d\"(0), \"c\"(1) = \"d\"(0), \"c\"(0) = \"d\"(1), \"c\"(1) = \"d\"(1); linear interpolation can be used to interpolate between \"c\" and \"c\", that is and between \"d\", \"d\" producing two ruled surfaces defined on the unit square. The bilinear interpolation on the four corner points is another surface A bilinearly blended Coons patch is the surface Although the bilinear Coons patch exactly meets its four boundary curves, it does not necessarily have the same tangent plane at those curves as the surfaces to be joined, leading to creases in the joined surface along those curves. To fix this problem, the linear interpolation can be replaced with cubic Hermite splines with the weights chosen to match the partial derivatives at the corners. This forms a bicubically blended Coons patch. Coons patch In"
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"2006 Medibank International The 2006 Medibank International Women's Hardcourts was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 28th edition of the event then known as the 2006 Medibank International Women's Hardcourts, and was a Tier II event on the 2006 WTA Tour. It took place in Sydney, Cumberland, Australia, from 9 January through 13 January 2006. The 2006 Medibank International was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 114th edition of the event known that year as the Medibank International, and was part of the International Series of the 2006 ATP Tour, and of the Tier II Series of the 2006 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia, from 9 through 17 January 2006. James Blake defeated Igor Andreev, 6–2, 3–6, 7–6 Justine Henin-Hardenne defeated Francesca Schiavone, 4–6, 7–5, 7–5 Fabrice Santoro / Nenad Zimonjić defeated František Čermák / Leoš Friedl, 6–1, 6–4 Zi Yan / Jie Zheng defeated Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez, 6–3, 5–7, 6–2 2006 Medibank International The 2006 Medibank International Women's Hardcourts was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 28th"
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"Moses Kpakor Moses Kpakor (born 6 January 1965) is a retired football midfielder who played for Nigeria at the 1990 African Cup of Nations in Algeria. Born in Benué State, Kpakor began playing club football as a defensive midfielder for local side Hawks of Makurdi. He would play in the Nigerian Premier League with Electricity FC, BCC Lions FC and Abiola Babes during an 18-year career. He won the Nigerian FA Cup twice (with Abiola Babes in 1987 and with BCC Lions in 1989) and the African Cup Winners' Cup (with BCC Lions in 1990). Kpakor made several appearances for the Nigeria senior national team, including a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier. He played in every match at the 1990 African Cup of Nations, helping Nigeria to a runners'-up finish. After he retired from playing, Kpakor became a football coach. He managed his former club, BCC Lions. Kpakor's son, Kelvin, is also a professional footballer. Moses Kpakor Moses Kpakor (born 6 January 1965) is a retired football midfielder who played for Nigeria at the 1990 African Cup of Nations in Algeria. Born in Benué State, Kpakor began playing club football as a defensive midfielder for local side Hawks of Makurdi."
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"Ludwig Schlesinger Ludwig Schlesinger (Hungarian: Lajos Schlesinger, Slovak Ľudovít Schlesinger), (1 November 1864 – 15 December 1933) was a German mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Schlesinger attended the high school in Bratislava and later studied physics and mathematics in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1887 he received his PhD (Über lineare homogene Differentialgleichungen vierter Ordnung, zwischen deren Integralen homogene Relationen höheren als ersten Grades bestehen.) His thesis advisors were Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs and Leopold Kronecker. In 1889 he became an associate professor at Berlin; in 1897 an invited professor in Bonn and in the same year, a full professor at the University of Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania). From 1911 he was professor at the University of Giessen, where he taught until 1930. In 1933 he was forced to retire by the Nazis. He died shortly afterwards. Schlesinger was a historian of science. He wrote an article on the function theory of Carl Friedrich Gauss and translated René Descartes' \"La Géométrie\" into German (1894). He was one of the organizers of the celebrations for the hundredth anniversary of János Bolyai and from 1904 to 1909 with R. Fuchs he collected the works of his teacher Lazarus Fuchs, who was also his father-in-law. In 1902 he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1909 he received the Lobachevsky Prize. From 1929 until his death he was co-editor of \"Crelle's Journal\". Like his teacher Fuchs, he worked primarily on linear ordinary differential equations. His two-volume \"Handbuch der Theorie der Linearen Differentialgleichungen\" was published from 1895 to 1898 in Teubner in Leipzig (Vol.2 in two parts). He also published \"Einführung in die Theorie der gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen auf funktionentheoretischer Grundlage\" (Auflage, 1922), \"Vorlesungen über lineare Differentialgleichungen\" (1908) and \"Automorphe Funktionen\" (Gruyter, 1924). In 1909 he wrote a long report for the annual report of the German Mathematical Society on the history of linear differential equations since 1865. He also studied differential geometry, and wrote a book of lectures on Einstein's general relativity theory. Today, his best known work is \"Über eine Klasse von Differentialsystemen beliebiger Ordnung mit festen kritischen Punkten\" (Crelle's Journal, 1912). There he considered the problem of isomonodromy deformations for a certain matrix Fuchsian equation; this is a special case of Hilbert's 21st Problem (existence of differential equations with prescribed monodromy). The paper introduced what are today called Schlesinger transformations and Schlesinger equations. The article was created as a translation (by Google) of the corresponding article in German Wikipedia. Ludwig Schlesinger Ludwig Schlesinger (Hungarian: Lajos Schlesinger, Slovak Ľudovít Schlesinger), (1 November 1864 – 15 December 1933) was a German mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Schlesinger attended the high school in Bratislava and later studied physics and mathematics in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1887 he received his PhD (Über lineare homogene Differentialgleichungen vierter Ordnung, zwischen deren Integralen homogene Relationen höheren als ersten Grades bestehen.) His thesis advisors were Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs and Leopold Kronecker. In 1889"
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"Wharparilla Flora Reserve The Wharparilla Flora Reserve is a small environmental reserve located 2 km west of Echuca, Victoria, Australia. Wharparilla Run was the original sheep station in Northern Victoria that encompassed a vast area of north central Victoria. In 1852, land from Wharparilla Run was gazetted by the Victorian government to establish the township of Echuca, which today is a thriving agriculture and tourism town on the Murray River, directly north of Melbourne. Due to expanded agriculture, much of the Murray River's native habitat was destroyed, and the owner of Wharparilla in the 1960s played a pivotal role in preserving the Wharparilla Flora Reserve as a natural habitat. The Yorta Yorta clan also have expressed their interest in maintaining the Reserve, since it was the location where they first met European settlers in the 1850s. Current plans for a new bypass road around Echuca will cut through the Reserve. Wharparilla Flora Reserve The Wharparilla Flora Reserve is a small environmental reserve located 2 km west of Echuca, Victoria, Australia. Wharparilla Run was the original sheep station in Northern Victoria that encompassed a vast area of north central Victoria. In 1852, land from Wharparilla Run was gazetted by the Victorian"
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"Hongan-ji , also archaically romanized as Hongwanji, is the collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism (which further sub-divides into the Nishi and Higashi branches). 'Hongan-ji' may also refer to any one of several actual temple buildings associated with the sect. The Hongan-ji was established as a temple in 1321, on the site of the Otani Mausoleum, where Shinran, the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (\"True Pure Land\") was buried. The mausoleum was attended by Shinran's grandson (through daughter Kakushinni), Kakue. Kakue's own son, Kakunyo, became the first chief priest of the Hongan-ji and third monshu (spiritual leader), and dedicated it to the worship of Amitābha (\"Amida\"). The Hongan-ji first gained power and importance in the 15th century, when Rennyo became its eighth monshu. However, the Tendai based on Mount Hiei saw this expansion as a threat and attacked the Hongan-ji three times with their army of sōhei. Rennyo fled to Yoshizaki-gobō, where he established a new temple compound. During the Sengoku period, fearing the power of the monks of the Hongan-ji, Oda Nobunaga tried to destroy it. For ten years, he laid siege to the Ishiyama Hongan-ji in Osaka, one of the two primary temple fortresses of the sect. In 1580, the abbot of the Ishiyama Hongan-ji, Kennyo, surrendered, while his son Kyōnyo refused to surrender, for which he was publicly disowned. After the death of Nobunaga in 1582 and the ascent of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kennyo was rewarded for his opposition to Nobunaga by being granted land in Kyoto, at the site of modern-day Nishi Hongan-ji (西本願寺, \"Western Hongan-ji\"; sometimes called the \"Honpa Hongan-ji\" 本派本願寺). He was succeeded by his legitimate son, Junnyo, as abbot in 1592. While his brother Kyōnyo re-established the Osaka Hongan-ji in 1596 with local support, owing to his refusal to surrender to Nobunaga earlier. After the death of Hideyoshi in 1598, Kyōnyo openly supported Tokugawa Ieyasu, who became \"shōgun\" in 1602. In reward for his loyalty, Kyōnyo was rewarded with land for a temple in Kyoto to the east of Nishi Honganji, which then became known in 1603 as Higashi Honganji (東本願寺 \"Eastern Hongan-ji\"). In 1619 the government recognized the two entities as separate congregations. It is popularly believed, however mistakenly, that the institution was split in two in order to maintain control of the order. Formally known as the Jodo-Shinshu Honganji-ha, it is the largest of all the Jodo Shinshu branches. Compared with the Higashi Hongan-ji, it has a history of institutional stability that accounts for high membership figures, and a larger geographical reach, but fewer well-known modern thinkers. The Nishi Hongan-ji has a sizable number of overseas temples in the United States, South America, Hawai'i, Canada, and Europe which are organized into several kyodan (\"districts\"). The largest of these is the Buddhist Churches of America. The Hongwanji International Center, to the east of Nishi Hongan-ji, coordinates dialogue with Jōdo Shinshū organizations around the world and produces translation work. The Nishi Hongan-ji operates the Hongwanji Publishing Company which produces books, music, films, and anime about Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism. They also publish a bimonthly newspaper, the Hongwanji Journal and their website includes, among other things, a TV channel devoted to explaining Buddhism and Hongan-ji's everyday operations. Higashi Hongan-ji is one of the two dominant subsects of Jōdo Shinshū, the other being the Nishi Honganji. During the Meiji Restoration in the 1860s, the government set down new guidelines for the management of religious organizations. An organization called Ōtani-ha was put in control of Higashi Hongan-ji. In 1987, this temple was renamed \"Shinshū Honbyō\" \"Shinshū Mausoleum\", although the earlier name is still used. The buildings have not been changed or moved, and of course the historical cultural and religious significance of the place has not changed. Due to opposition to the creation of the Ōtani-ha, and a number of other controversies and disputes such as the Ohigashi schism, several new Higashi Hongan-ji branches came into existence such as the Higashiyama Hongan-ji, founded in Kyoto in 1996 by Otani Korin, and the Tokyo Higashi Hongan-ji, whose current leader is Otani Koken. Despite, or perhaps even because of, this climate of instability, the Higashi Hongan-ji movement has also produced a significant number of controversial but influential thinkers, such as Soga Ryōjin, Kiyozawa Manshi, Kaneko Daiei and Akegarasu Haya, amongst others. The largest Higashi Hongan-ji grouping, the Ōtani-ha has approximately 5.5 million members, according to statistics. In recent years some members of the Honganji sects have been involved in high-profile protests against the visits of Japanese politicians to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. Along with the other non-Honganji Jōdo Shinshū subsects, the Honganji issued a statement opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Shinshū Honbyō, the mausoleum of Shinran, is now owned by the Ōtani-ha but is still commonly called Higashi Honganji (東本願寺) by Kyoto visitors and locals. The massive Goei-dō (also known as \"Mie-dō\"), or Founder's Hall Gate, is often one of the first things one sees walking north from JR Kyōto Station. Nearly identical to the Nishi Hongan-ji head temple in layout, it too features an Amida-dō, and a larger Mie-dō. The Mie-dō at Higashi Hongan-ji dates from 1895 and vies with a number of other structures for the claim of largest wooden building in the world. A few blocks from the main grounds of the Higashi Hongan-ji is the Shosei-en garden, owned by the temple. Poet-scholar Ishikawa Jozan and landscape architect Kobori Masakazu are said to have contributed to its design in the 17th century. The Nishi Honganji, like the Higashi Honganji, features a huge Goeidō (御影堂), Kaisando and a smaller Amida-dō (阿弥陀堂) or Amitābha hall housing an image of Amitābha. Nishi Hongan-ji's \"Kura\" (倉), or storehouse, houses many National Treasures, most of which are not on view for the public. The \"shoin\" (書院), or study hall, is also quite famous; it is split into two sections, the \"shiro-shoin\"(白書院), or white study hall, and the \"kuro-shoin\"(黒書院), or black study hall. Nishi Hongan-ji also contains a large \"shōgun\" complex from the medieval period, which was largely moved into the temple from elsewhere in Kyoto in the 16th century. This includes Hiunkaku (飛雲閣), a large tea pavilion, four Noh stages, one of which is thought to be the oldest in existence and the other being the largest outdoor Noh stage, and the Kokei no Niwa (虎渓の庭) garden. Some medieval parts of Nishi Hongan-ji are now independent organizations: Ryukoku University and Kōshō-ji. Hongan-ji , also archaically romanized as Hongwanji, is the collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism (which further sub-divides into the Nishi and Higashi branches). 'Hongan-ji' may also refer to any one"
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"Stowers Institute for Medical Research The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is a biomedical research organization that conducts basic research on genes and proteins that control fundamental processes in living cells to analyze diseases and find keys to their causes, treatment, and prevention. The main facility is located in Kansas City, Missouri adjacent to the University of Missouri–Kansas City main campus. The Institute has spent over 1 billion $US on research. The Institute was incorporated with an initial donation of $500 million in 1994 by James E. Stowers and his wife Virginia Stowers, cancer survivors and founders of American Century Investments. Over the next decade, the couple endowed the institute with gifts totaling almost $2 billion. The Institute opened its doors in November 2000 on the former site of Menorah Hospital. In 2008, there were 25 independent research programs plus core facilities in bioinformatics, proteomics, microarray, molecular biology, flow cytometry, and microscopy. In total, the organization employs more than 550 scientists, research associates, technicians and support staff, including more than 140 postdoctoral research associates and graduate students. The Institute is recognized by the IRS as a medical research organization. It is a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, and is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Stowers Institute for Medical Research The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is a biomedical research organization that conducts basic research on genes and proteins that control fundamental processes in living cells to analyze diseases and find keys to their causes, treatment, and prevention. The main facility is located in Kansas City, Missouri adjacent to the University of Missouri–Kansas City main campus. The Institute has spent over 1 billion $US on research. The Institute was incorporated with an initial donation of $500 million in 1994 by James E. Stowers and his wife Virginia Stowers, cancer survivors and founders of American"
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"Montebello Bus Lines Montebello Bus Lines is a municipal bus operator in Montebello, USA, mainly serving East Los Angeles, Commerce, and Montebello. Montebello Bus Lines began on 28 July 1931, with a small lot on the corner of Greenwood Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, where the four buses the agency operated were housed. The conception of Montebello Bus Lines came after several other transport services had served the area. Two years after the City of Montebello was incorporated in 1920, the City launched its first attempt at operating a municipal bus route. But the City then decided to sell its bus operation to the Motor Transport Company in 1928. Three years later, in 1931, the City purchased the route back from the Motor Transport Company, and Montebello Bus Lines was born. In the agency’s early days, passengers paid a nickel to ride the bus and bus operators earned $120 per month. Montebello Bus Lines has grown to be the third largest municipal transport agency in Los Angeles County, operating seven local routes, an express route, a semi-fixed-route feeder service and a Dial-a-Ride service. Montebello Bus Lines serves 15 communities, providing transport to 8 million passengers on an annual basis. As of September 2013, Montebello Bus Lines has 7 Compressed natural gas (CNG) buses, 44 hybrid buses and plans to replace its 15 remaining Diesel fuel buses with CNG in next few years. It also own a CNG fueling station to service the Montebello Bus Lines. The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has recognised Montebello Bus Line’s service. Montebello Bus Lines is the recipient of APTA's Outstanding Transport System Award and APTA's top Silver Safety Award in 1999, as well as the Achievement Award in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2002. Within its service area of approximately 67 square kilometres, Montebello Bus Lines serving the communities of: Montebello Bus Lines consists of 8 routes in the San Gabriel Valley Central and West. Montebello Bus Lines fixed route services can broadly be divided into three types: Major Local Services, Minor Local Services, and Peak Express Service. Routes 10, 20, and 40 are the major service routes. Routes 30, 50, 60, and 70 are the minor service routes. Route 90 is the express route. Former Route. Departs Gage Avenue and Telegraph Road to Downtown LA at 06:20 and 06:50. Departs from Downtown Los Angeles to Gage Avenue and Telegraph Road at 17:20 and 17:50. In the early days of the Montebello Bus Lines, there was a route that had a bus stop in the middle of the 700 block of Bradshawe Street. The buses used to be primarily blue, student riders of the bus affectionately called the Montebello Bus, \"the big blue limousine.\" Montebello Link begins operations in 1997. Montebello Bus Lines contracts five Metrolink feeder routes offers a kerb-to-kerb shuttle to and from the Montebello/Commerce Metrolink station during the peak hours. This reservation based service utilises shuttles meet the Metrolink's arriving schedule in the morning and takes passengers to major employment centres. The feeder routes also carry commuters back to the station in the afternoon. The City of Montebello also operates Montebello Dial-A-Taxi since 2007, a programme which offers transport for elderly residents and qualified handicapped persons of any age and their attendants. 15,000 residents utilise this service. Montebello Bus Lines Montebello Bus Lines is a municipal bus operator in Montebello, USA, mainly serving East Los Angeles, Commerce, and Montebello. Montebello Bus Lines began on 28 July 1931, with a small lot on the corner of Greenwood Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, where the four buses the agency operated were housed. The conception of Montebello"
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"Dornier Do 11 The Dornier Do 11 was a German medium bomber, developed in secret in the early 1930s. It was originally called the Dornier F before being renamed by the \"Reichsluftfahrtministerium\" (RLM) in 1933, and was considered a heavy bomber at the time. It came into service in 1932, a continuation of a line of bomber designs from the Dornier Do P in 1930, and the Dornier Do Y in 1931. The line would continue to develop with the Dornier Do 13 and Dornier Do 23. One of the main features the Do 11 tested was a retractable undercarriage, but, due to problems with the gear, it was often left locked down. The aircraft entered service under the guise of a freight transport, and was used with the German railway in conjunction with Deutsche Luft Hansa, so that it could be shown publicly. What it was actually used for was as a trainer for the still secret \"Luftwaffe\". The aircraft had a number of problems, which resulted in some crashes, and was generally unpopular with pilots. Especially problematic were wing vibrations which resulted in various precautions and modifications. Attempts were made to correct its faults, resulting in the so-called Do 11D, the last model with the Do 11 name. The Do 13 was a \"simplified\" Do 11 and came next, but had so many problems of its own that it did not fully enter service, with several of the first planes off the assembly line crashing. The later Do 23 corrected many faults of the design, but was still a lackluster aircraft, and was withdrawn from service by 1936, and replaced by superior aircraft that had since been developed. The Do 11 is noteworthy as having served in secret and having been the main heavy bomber of the quietly developing \"Luftwaffe\", if only for a short while. It was also the first to have two large engines as opposed to its predecessors the Y and P, which used three and four engines respectively. \"Data from:\"' Dornier Do 11 The Dornier Do 11 was a German medium bomber, developed in secret in the early 1930s. It was originally called the Dornier F before being renamed by the \"Reichsluftfahrtministerium\" (RLM) in 1933, and was considered a heavy bomber at the time. It came into service in 1932, a continuation of a line of bomber designs from the Dornier Do P in"
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"Mount Bryce Mount Bryce is a mountain at the southwestern corner of the Columbia Icefield, in British Columbia, Canada, near the border with Alberta. It can be seen from the Icefields Parkway. The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Viscount James Bryce, who was President of the Alpine Club in London at the time. Mount Bryce is the fifteenth-highest peak in British Columbia. To the north, it is connected by ridges to the Columbia Icefield. The mountain is rarely climbed due to difficult access although recently built logging roads are alleviating some of the access problems. Mount Bryce Mount Bryce is a mountain at the southwestern corner of the Columbia Icefield, in British Columbia, Canada, near the border with Alberta. It can be seen from the Icefields Parkway. The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Viscount James Bryce, who was President of the Alpine Club in London at the time. Mount Bryce is the fifteenth-highest peak in British Columbia. To the north, it is connected by ridges to the Columbia Icefield. The mountain is rarely climbed due to difficult access although recently built logging roads are alleviating some of the access problems."
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"Platform Sutra The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch ( or simply: \"Tánjīng\") is a Chan Buddhist scripture that was composed in China during the 8th to 13th century. The \"platform\" (施法壇) refers to the podium on which a Buddhist teacher speaks. Its key themes are the direct perception of one's true nature, and the unity in essence of \"śīla\" (conduct), \"dhyāna\" (meditation) and \"prajñā\" (wisdom). The text centers on teachings and stories ascribed to the sixth Chan patriarch Huineng. It contains the well-known story of the contest for the succession of Hongren (enlightenment by the non-abiding), and discourses and dialogues attributed to Huineng. The text attributes its recollection to Fa-hai, but was probably written within the so-called Oxhead School, which existed along with the East Mountain School and Shenhui's Southern School. The text attempts to reconcile the so-called Northern School with its alleged gradual enlightenment teachings, and the so-called Southern School with its alleged sudden enlightenment teachings. In effect, the text incorporates the \"rhetorical purity\" which originated with Shenhui's attack on Shenxiu, while effectively \"writing him out of the story\". The \"Platform Sutra\" underwent various redactions. Though its recollection has been attributed to Fa-hai, a student of Huineng, its origins are not clear: The Dunhuang versions are the oldest texts available, with the full title \"Southern School's Sudden Doctrine, Supreme Mahayana Great Perfection of Wisdom: The Platform Sutra as Delivered by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng at the Dafan Temple in Shao Prefecture\" , subtitled, “one roll, recorded by the spreader of the Dharma, the disciple Fahai, who at the same time received the Precepts of Formlessness” (一卷，兼受無相戒弘法弟子法海集記). Two copies dated to between 830 and 860 have been found in the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. Both are thought to be based on an edition from about 780. The finds at Dunhuang have been very important for the historical understanding of Zen: In 1056, the Chinese scholar-monk Qisong (契嵩, Wade-Giles: \"Ch'i-sung\") produced a larger edition, entitled \"Liuzu fabao ji\" (法寶記 ‘Precious Record of the Dharma’). In 1291, Zongbao (宗寶, Wade-Giles: \"Tsung-pao\") produced the edition that became part of the Ming Dynasty Chinese Buddhist canon. This canonical version, apparently based on the Qisong edition, is about a third longer than the Mogao Caves version, and structured differently. The \"Platform Sutra\" is: Chapter One contains the well-known story of the contest for the succession of Hongren. It is an essential part of the Traditional Zen Narrative. According to the text, Huineng won this contest, but had to flee the monastery to avoid the rage of the supporters of Henxui. The story is not a factual account, but an 8th-century construction, probably by the so-called Oxhead School. The contest centers on two verses: According to the traditional interpretation, which is based on Guifeng Zongmi, the fifth-generation successor of Shenhui, the two verses represent respectively the gradual and the sudden approach. According to McRae, this is an incorrect understanding: Huineng's verse does not stand alone, but forms a pair with Shenxiu's verse: McRae notes a similarity in reasoning with the Oxhead School, which used a threefold structure of \"absolute, relative and middle\", or \"thesis-antithesis-synthesis\". According to McRae, the \"Platform Sutra\" itself is the synthesis in this threefold structure, giving a balance between the need of constant practice and the insight into the absolute. Chapter Two contains a lecture on prajna, given after a recitation of the \"Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra\". From this chapter: In Chapter Three Huineng answers questions from a lay audience. Huineng discusses the famous story of Bodhidharma telling Emperor Wu of Liang that his good deeds would bring him no merit. Next, he discusses the Pure Land of the West, asserting the greater importance of one's inner state compared to one's physical location. This leads to a conclusion in which Huineng asserts that lay practice outside of a monastery is preferable to following the forms of monastic renunciation without inner practice. In Chapter Four, meditation and wisdom are said to be of the same essence: Chapter Five details the \"pureness of our fundamental nature\": Chapter Six describes a repentance-ritual. Chapter Seven gives various stories of encounters and dialogues. Chapter Eight also gives various stories of encounters and dialogues. Chapter Nine describes the request of the Imperial Court for Huineng to visit the Emperor, and Huineng's decline of this command. In the chapter on his final instructions, Huineng instructs his accomplished disciples, giving specific instructions how to \"preach the Dharma\", which show the influence of the Buddhist teachings on the five skandhas, the concept of Namarupa, and the Yogacara-teachings: In the 1920s, Japanese scholar Yabuki Keiki (矢吹慶輝 1879-1939) produced an edition based on one of the Mogao Caves texts (the only one known at the time), dividing the text into fifty-seven sections. In 1934, D. T. Suzuki published an edition based on the Mogao Cave text, but incorporating corrections from the Tsungpao (Zongbao) edition. In 1993, the Buddhist scholar Yang Zengwen (杨曾文, b. 1939, Shandong) published an annotated edition of the second Mogao Caves text (which has fewer errors than the first Mogao Caves text). (Pine, 2006, Introduction) The first published translation into English was completed in 1930 by Wong Mou-lam (黃茂林 -1934) from Guangdong. It was based on the canonical Tsungpao edition, and published by the Yu Ching Press of Shanghai. The Suzuki edition was translated into English by Wing-tsit Chan in 1963 and is written in his book, A source book in Chinese Philosophy. In 1967 Philip Yampolsky published a translation based on the Mogao Cave text. This translation is a landmark in the modern Western scholarship on Zen and its history. Charles Luk translated the sutra as \"The Dharma Treasure of the Altar Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch\" which was published in \"Ch'an and Zen Teachings\" (Third Series, 1973). Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua commented on the Sixth Patriarch Sutra. The sutra and commentary were published by the Buddhist Text Translation Society as The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra (1971) 1st edition Hong Kong, (1977) 2nd edition, San Francisco, (2002) 3rd edition Burlingame, Shoemaker & Hoard published a translation and commentary by the American writer Red Pine, based on the second Mogao Caves text, in 2006. Martin Verhoeven and Rev. Heng Sure, disciples of Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, edited an edition based on the Chinese Zongbao Taisho Volume 48, Number 2008, in August 2014. Platform Sutra The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch ( or simply: \"Tánjīng\") is a Chan Buddhist scripture that was composed in China during the 8th to 13th century. The \"platform\" (施法壇) refers to the podium on which a Buddhist teacher speaks. Its key themes are the direct"
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"The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 20) is the twentieth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series \"The Ultimate Fighter\". This season is the first to feature only female fighters and was used to determine the first UFC Women's Strawweight Champion. The series was officially announced by the UFC in December 2013. The coaches were announced in February 2014 after Gilbert Melendez re-signed with the UFC and stated he would coach opposite the current UFC Lightweight Champion, Anthony Pettis. This move drew criticism from MMA critics and fans, as some felt it was establishing a significant delay in Pettis' first title defense. This season aired on Fox Sports 1. Eleven fighters were initially announced as already having been cast for the show in December 2013; however, Cláudia Gadelha, Juliana Lima, and Paige VanZant were eventually removed from the cast due to being unable to stay on weight throughout the program, not speaking English, and being too young, respectively. They got a direct contract with the UFC despite their removal from The Ultimate Fighter. Auditions were held in April 2014 to find the remaining eight contestants. The eight remaining fighters were announced on July 3, 2014. \"* 9th seed Justine Kish had to leave the competition due to an injured knee and was replaced by Torres who had previously lost her first round fight. Torres moved from Team Melendez to Team Pettis as Kish had been on Team Pettis.\" Fans voted to award the following $25,000 bonus awards to fights that took place during the TUF 20 season: UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler II was held on December 6, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned Finale (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It took place on December 12, 2014, at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event featured the finals of the Women's Strawweight tournament between finalists Carla Esparza and Rose Namajunas, which crowned the inaugural UFC Women's Strawweight champion. The rest of the contestants from the show, with the exception of an injured Justine Kish, filled out the remainder of the card. Filling in for Kish was Seohee Ham, the first Korean female fighter in the promotion. Oliveira came in at 147 pounds at the weigh ins and was given one hour to cut an extra pound to make the featherweight limit, but he could not make the weight and weighted in at 146.5 pounds. He forfeited 10 percent of his purse to Stephens. Also, Daly originally came in at 118 pounds and did not elect to cut the remaining weight. She forfeited 20 percent of her purse to Chambers. The following fighters were awarded $50,000 bonuses: The following is the reported payout to the fighters as reported to the Nevada State Athletic Commission. It does not include sponsor money and also does not include the UFC's traditional \"fight night\" bonuses. ^ \"Although not recognized on the official pay sheet, Oliveira was fined $5,400, or 10% of his pay for missing weight for the fight. That money was issued to Stephens, an NSAC official confirmed.\" < \"Both fighters earned show money; bout declared No Contest.\" > \"Although not recognized on the official pay sheet, Daly was fined $3,200, or 20% of her pay for missing weight for the fight. That money was issued to Chambers, an NSAC official confirmed.\" The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned"
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"Juanita Hamel Juanita Hamel Early Fowle (April 27, 1891 – July 12, 1939) was an American artist and writer whose syndicated stories and illustrations appeared in newspapers across the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. Juanita Hamel was born in DeSoto, Missouri, the daughter of Frederick G. Hamel and Lucile McCormack Hamel (later Lucile Hamel Craven). She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, part of Washington University of St. Louis. By 1916, Hamel was employed as an artist at the \"St. Louis Times\". Soon after, she moved to Chicago and joined the staff at the \"Chicago Herald\". She moved to New York City by 1920. Her illustrations, often young pretty women with voluminous hair, were syndicated nationally through the Hearst Newspaper Feature Syndicate. She also illustrated magazines and sheet music. Her style is sometimes considered as influenced by comic artist Nell Brinkley. She was quoted in 1921, summarizing her career path to that date: I landed my first job on the St. Louis Times, and covered all sorts of assignments, from murder trials to interviewing Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Then I went to the Chicago Herald where I wrote fiction in serial and short story form. Another short step and I was in New York drawing for the Newspaper Feature Service. Fiction by Hamel included \"The Girls of the Second Floor Back\" (serialized in 1916) and \"The Straight Girl on the Crooked Path\" (serialized in 1917). Juanita Hamel married twice. She married John Vinton \"Tim\" Early, a fellow newspaper illustrator, in 1921. She was widowed when Early died in 1925. She later married Alison Fowle, an English lord, and lived in Hamilton, Bermuda, with regular visits back to the United States. She died there in 1939, aged 48 years. Illustrations by Hamel are in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congress. Juanita Hamel Juanita Hamel Early Fowle (April 27, 1891 – July 12, 1939) was an American artist and writer whose syndicated stories and illustrations appeared in newspapers across the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. Juanita Hamel was born in DeSoto, Missouri, the daughter of Frederick G. Hamel and Lucile McCormack Hamel (later Lucile Hamel Craven). She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, part of Washington University of St. Louis. By 1916, Hamel was employed as an artist at the \"St. Louis Times\". Soon after, she moved to Chicago and joined"
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"Bang Bang Rock & Roll Bang Bang Rock & Roll is the debut studio album by British rock band Art Brut. It was re-released in 2006 with bonus CD. \"Bang Bang Rock & Roll\" was released to highly positive reviews from music critics; on the review aggregator site Metacritic, the album holds a score of 83, indicating \"universal acclaim\". The music review online magazine \"Pitchfork\" placed \"Bang Bang Rock & Roll\" at number 192 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. The first track from the album, \"Formed a Band\" was featured on the video game \"FIFA Street 2\", as well as an episode of ITV's \"Lewis\", the popular \"Inspector Morse\" spin-off. An earlier version of the song had previously been released on \"The New Cross: An Angular Sampler\", a compilation album released by Angular Records in 2003; and as a single on Rough Trade Records in 2004. \"Moving to L.A.\" was featured on \"Bring Your Own Poison: The Rhythm Factory sessions\". The single 'Good Weekend' has been featured on the Channel 4 programme \"Skins\" as well as the romantic comedy \"Good Luck Chuck\". Although it wasn't released as a single, the album track \"Fight!\" was used in British teen soap \"Hollyoaks\", while the album's title track, \"Bang Bang, Rock & Roll\", was featured on the Xbox 360 video game \"Saints Row\" as well as the 2012 Chevrolet \"Chevy Sonic\" Super Bowl Commercial. It was also covered by the American indie rock band We Are Scientists on their 2006 b-sides album \"Crap Attack\". Bang Bang Rock & Roll Bang Bang Rock & Roll is the debut studio album by British rock band Art Brut. It was re-released in 2006 with bonus CD. \"Bang Bang Rock & Roll\" was released to highly positive reviews from music critics; on"
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"Taeniolabidoidea Taeniolabidoidea is a group of extinct mammals known from North America and Asia. They were the largest members of the extinct order Multituberculata, as well as the largest non-therian mammals. \"Lambdopsalis\" even provides direct fossil evidence of mammalian fur in a fairly good state of preservation for a 60-million-year-old animal. Some of these animals were large for their time; \"Taeniolabis taoensis\" is the largest known multituberculate and though smaller, \"Yubaatar\" is the largest known Mesozoic Asian multituberculate. Average members of the Taeniolaboidea were about beaver-sized and the largest even reached sizes comparable to the largest beavers like \"Castoroides\", up to about 100 kilograms. The group was initially established as a suborder, before being assigned the rank of a superfamily by McKenna and Bell in 1997 (see Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum (2001) p. 391-392). Two families are recognised: the primarily North American Taeniolabididae, composed of \"Taeniolabis\" and \"Kimbetopsalis\", and the exclusively Asian Lambdopsalidae, composed of \"Lambdopsalis\", \"Sphenopsalis\" and \"Prionessus\", with \"Valenopsalis\" being a basal form outside of either clade. Some of the fossils are well-preserved. Though the possible taeniolabidoid \"Bubodens\" is known from the Lancian Late Cretaceous deposits of South Dakota, and \"Yubaatar\" is known from Late Cretaceous deposits in the Henan Province, the clade is otherwise only clearly represented in Paleocene strata. Derived characteristics of the taxon (apomorphies) include: \"snout short and wide with anterior part of zygomatic arches directed transversely, resulting in a square-like shape of the skull (shared with Kogaionidae); frontals small, pointed posteriorly, almost or completely excluded from the orbital rim,\" (Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum 2001, p. 417). Taeniolabidoidea Taeniolabidoidea is a group of extinct mammals known from North America and Asia. They were the largest members of the extinct order Multituberculata, as well as the largest non-therian mammals. \"Lambdopsalis\" even provides direct fossil evidence of mammalian fur"
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"George Ranalli George Joseph Ranalli (born 1946) is an American modernist architect, scholar, curator, and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is based in New York City. A native of The Bronx, New York, of Italian American descent, he was inspired to become an architect at the age of about 13 when he saw the then-unfinished Guggenheim Museum, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Ranalli attended Mount Saint Michael Academy high school in New York City and graduated in 1964. From 1967 to 1968, he attended New York Institute of Technology, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1972. Thereafter, Ranalli attended Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, earning a Master of Architecture in 1974. Upon graduation, he traveled on a research grant throughout Europe before returning to New York. Ranalli founded his firm, \"George Ranalli, Architect\", in New York in 1977. Early on, architecture critic Paul Goldberger described Ranalli in a \"New York Times\" article as one of the \"better younger architects\" working in the Modernist idiom. Goldberger stated that Ranalli's designs were tied \"as closely to the ancient craft of building as to the modern business of churning out huge commercial projects, yet they bespeak a consistent awareness of the realities of our age as well.\" In 1991, Michael Sorkin described Ranalli as \"a creator and preserver of worlds, a precisionist.\" Ranalli is credited with carrying forward the lessons of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa into new settings. Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote that Ranalli's \"purpose is to move modernism into an enriched and more deeply referenced style.\" In 1996, Yale University granted Ranalli a Master of Arts degree, honoris causa. In 2015, Architectural Record described Ranalli's career as a Gesamtkunstwerk. In 2015, Architectural Record described Ranalli's career as a Gesamtkunstwerk. Ranalli's industrial design objects, such as door hardware, furniture, and glassware are recognized as art. The firm George Ranalli Architect is credited with innovating total design concepts for interior architecture and furniture design. Ranalli has been exhibited in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, American Craft Museum, Skyscraper Museum, Architectural League of New York, American Institute of Architects, Sperone Westwater Fisher gallery, Artists Space, and The Drawing Center. Throughout the United States, Ranalli has contributed to exhibitions at Bass Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Yale University, The Art Institute of Chicago, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Otis Art Institute, and the Library of Congress. International exhibitions of Ranalli's work include Centre Pompidou, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Museum of Finnish Architecture, XVII Triennale di Milano, and Design Museum, Helsinki. Ranalli has received professional awards from the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2015, the New York Society of Architects, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Architectural League of New York. Between 1969 and 2015, Ranalli received design awards from the Society of American Registered Architects; American Institute of Architects, and Progressive Architecture. In 2015, he received the Stanford White Award. Ranalli was a professor of architectural design and visual studies at Yale University School of Architecture & Environmental Design for 23 years, from 1976 to 1999. From 1987 to 1999, Ranalli along belonged to the fellowship of Morse College at Yale University. Ranalli has been a visiting professor of architectural design and drawing at colleges and universities, such as Boston Architectural Center, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and Cooper Union. From 1999 to 2017, Ranalli ran the architecture department at the City College of New York. In 2005, he was honored with the Renaissance Award from the Alumni Association of the City College School of Architecture. Ranalli is known for work in the areas of architecture curation. George Ranalli George Joseph Ranalli (born 1946) is an American modernist architect, scholar, curator, and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is based in New York City. A native of The Bronx, New York, of Italian American descent, he was inspired"
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"Katty Kowaleczko Katarzyna Helena Kowałeczko Henríquez (Santiago, 2 October 1964), better known as Katty Kowaleczko or Katty Ko, is a Chilean actress of Polish ancestry. Actress who started her career very young when she participated in various beauty pageants. Through participation in casting, debuted in a telenovela and then in 1987 got a role in the television series\" The Invitation\". She participated fully in the dramatic productions Canal 13 and had a brief stint on TVN, which also became known for encouraging the children's program 'Arboliris\". Return to Canal 13 to star in the TV series\" Marron Glacé\" and from there has not been detached from the Catholic station. She has participated in successful theatrical productions such as\" The Vagina Monologues\" and has also been in some films. In 2004, she portrayed the role of a lover in the TV series\" Temptation\", where she also shaved her head for her character that had cancer. InTelethon 2006, she did a striptease. She then worked on the docu-reality \"Born To Win\". Also participates in the great Chilean series of all time\" The 80.\" In June 2010 she announced that she left canal angel to migrate to Chilevisión and star in a dual role with the second night of the channel TV series to be called \" Infiltradas\". Katty Kowaleczko Katarzyna Helena Kowałeczko Henríquez (Santiago, 2 October 1964), better known as Katty Kowaleczko or Katty Ko, is a Chilean actress of Polish ancestry. Actress who started her career very young when she participated in various beauty pageants. Through participation in casting, debuted in a telenovela and then in 1987 got a role in the television series\" The Invitation\". She participated fully in the dramatic productions Canal 13 and had a brief stint on TVN, which also became known for encouraging the children's program"
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"Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (2 January 1652 – 25 January 1733) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1733. He was a Governor of the Bank of England and was Lord Mayor of London in 1711. Caleb Heathcote is his brother. He belonged to an old Derbyshire family. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the eldest of eight sons of Gilbert Heathcote and his wife, Anne. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and went on to become a merchant in London. His trading ventures were very successful; he was one of the promoters of the new East India Company and he emerged victorious from a contest between himself and the old East India company in 1693; he was also one of the first directors of the Bank of England and served as its Governor from 1709 to 1711 and, a second term, from 1723 to 1725. In 1702 he became an alderman of the city of London and was knighted; he served as Sheriff of London for 1704 and then elected Lord Mayor of London for 1711, being the last lord mayor to ride on horseback in his procession. In November 1705 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1700 Heathcote was sent to Parliament as member for the City of London, but he was soon expelled for his share in the circulation of some exchequer bills; however, he was again elected for the city later in the same year, and he retained his seat until 1710. In 1714 he was member for Helston, in 1722 for New Lymington, and in 1727 for St Germans. He was a consistent Whig, and was made a baronet eight days before his death. Although extremely rich, Heathcote's meanness is referred to by Pope; and it was this trait that accounts largely for his unpopularity with the lower classes. He died in London on 25 January 1733 and was buried at Normanton Hall, a residence which he had purchased in 1729 from Sir Thomas Mackworth, 4th Baronet. A monument by the Flemish sculptor Rysbrack is now in Edith Weston church. He had married Hester, daughter of Christopher Rayner, merchant, of London. A descendant, Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 5th Baronet (1795–1867), was created Baron Aveland in 1856; and his son Gilbert Henry, who in 1888 inherited from his mother the barony of Willoughby de Eresby, became 1st Earl of Ancaster in 1892. Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (2 January 1652 – 25 January 1733) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1733. He was a Governor of the Bank of England and was Lord Mayor of London in 1711. Caleb Heathcote is his brother. He belonged to an old Derbyshire family. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the eldest of eight sons of Gilbert Heathcote and his wife, Anne. He was educated"
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"Heng Chee How Heng Chee How (; born 14 July 1961) is a Singaporean politician from the Singapore People's Action Party (PAP). He was the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office during the 11th Parliament of Singapore. In 1991, Heng was awarded the Singapore Police Force Postgraduate Overseas scholarship. He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University, where he received his Masters in Public Administration in 1992. Heng left the Singapore Police Force in 1995 to join the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). Within the Labour Movement, he held numerous appointments, including being the Chief Executive Officer of the NTUC Club, the Executive Secretary of the Singapore Industrial and Services Employees Union (SISEU), the Executive Secretary of the United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries (UWEEI) and the divisional director overseeing industrial relations, skills development, productivity improvement and employment assistance. Heng was also an elected member of the NTUC Central Committee since 1997, and was appointed Assistant Secretary-General in 1997 and Deputy Secretary-General since 1999. Heng first entered political world in 1997 contesting against Low Thia Khiang from the Workers' Party of Singapore (WP) in Hougang Single Member Constituency (Hougang SMC) (1997-2001). He failed in his first attempt against the incumbent, garnering 42% against Low who was then one of the two non-ruling party Members of Parliaments (MPs). His vote then was 5% lower than the previous PAP candidate (Tang Guan Seng) in the 1991 General Elections. Heng contested in Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency (Jalan Besar GRC) in 2001 as one of 5 team members of the PAP team led by Minister Lee Boon Yang against a Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) team led by Sin Kek Tong. They won winning 74.5% of the votes. In that same year, he was appointed as the Mayor of Central Singapore District. The post of a Mayor is almost equivalent to a Minister of State but less prestigious. For a first-time Member of Parliament, the leap to the post of Mayor was quite a significant one. When he first entered the Central Singapore CDC, there was less 10 full-time staffs performing limited functions. Today, the Central Singapore CDC is a full-bodied statutory board serving 830,000 residents. He was credited to the development of the roles of the CDCs and the effective (but debatable) dispersion of funds to the needy. In 2004, he was promoted to Minister of State for Trade and Industry and National Development while retaining his post as a Mayor. He relinquished his portfolio in Ministry of Trade and Industry to take up the portfolio as the Minister of State for National Development and followed by Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office in 2008. In 2006, Heng represented PAP again as one of 5 team members of almost the same team led by Minister Lee Boon Yang and Minister Yaacob Ibrahim in Jalan Besar GRC against another SDA team composed of Teo Kway Huang Sebastian, Fong Chin Leong, Cheo Chai Chen, Yeo Boon Keng Vincent and Muhamad Ali bin Aman. His team won with 69.3% of the votes during this third campaign. In 2011, Heng contested in Whampoa Single Member Constituency (Whampoa SMC) which was carved out of Jalan Besar GRC and met up against veteran Ken Sun from the National Solidarity Party. He won convincingly alone this time with 66.11% of the votes and made it to parliament for his third term as MP. In 2011, he was appointed as the Deputy Leader of the House and promoted to Senior Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office. Born on 14 July 1961, Heng Chee How received his secondary and pre-university education at Raffles Institution. In 1980, he was awarded the Singapore Police Force Overseas Scholarship to read Economics at Cambridge University. He graduated with Second Class (Upper) Honours in 1983. He spent the next twelve years in the Singapore Police Force, where he held both Command and Staff appointments. He is married to Ms Goh Soon Poh, Deputy Secretary (Corporate), Ministry of Home Affairs. Heng Chee How Heng Chee How (; born 14 July 1961) is a Singaporean politician from the Singapore People's Action Party (PAP). He was the"
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"Jack Allen (footballer, born 1903) John William Alcroft Allen (31 January 1903 – 19 November 1957) was an English professional football forward and outside left, who played in the Football League for Leeds United, Brentford, Sheffield Wednesday, Newcastle United, Bristol Rovers and Gateshead. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he played for his home town club Newcastle United between 1931 and 1934. He played up front as a striker and managed to score 41 goals in 90 appearances for Newcastle. Perhaps the most important of those goals were scored in the 1932 FA Cup Final, in which Newcastle beat Arsenal 2–1 with both goals coming from Allen. Allen is best remembered for his time at Sheffield Wednesday where he scored 33 goals in both 1928–29 and 1929–30 to help the Owls clinch back-to-back Division One titles. Allen also played for Leeds United, Brentford, Bristol Rovers and Gateshead in his successful career. Jack Allen (footballer, born 1903) John William Alcroft Allen (31 January 1903 – 19 November 1957) was an English professional football forward and outside left, who played in the Football League for Leeds United, Brentford, Sheffield Wednesday, Newcastle United, Bristol Rovers and Gateshead. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he played for his home town"
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"Velika Polana It has been officially designated a \"stork village\" (i.e., a settlement with 10 or more storks’ nests). It was also the home of the Slovene writer Miško Kranjec. The house where he was born (which is also the tourist information office) can be visited. The village is surrounded by fenland and fields of sunflowers, pumpkins, and wheat. The best way to explore the area is by cycling or walking the numerous trails. The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. It was built in 1924. Velika Polana It has been officially designated a \"stork village\" (i.e., a settlement with 10 or more storks’ nests). It was also the home of the Slovene writer Miško Kranjec. The house where he was born (which is also the tourist information office) can be visited. The village is surrounded by fenland and fields of sunflowers, pumpkins, and wheat. The best way to explore the area is by cycling or walking the numerous trails. The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska"
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"Florida State Road 520 State Road 520 (SR 520) is a east–west state highway in central Florida, United States, connecting with SR 50 in the Orlando area with SR A1A in Cocoa Beach. It runs from SR 50 in Orange County east of Bithlo, southeast across the Beachline Expressway (SR 528). It intersects with County Road 532 (CR 532) before crossing the St. Johns River into Brevard County. In that county it intersects SR 524 (the original approach to the Bennett Causeway) and SR 9 (Interstate 95, I-95), before entering Cocoa and intersecting SR 501, SR 519 and SR 5 (U.S. Route 1, US 1). In Cocoa, SR 520 is known as King Street. It then heads onto the Merritt Island Causeway, a series of bridges crossing the Indian River, Newfound Harbor and the Banana River. Between the Indian River and Newfound Harbor, it crosses through Merritt Island, intersecting SR 3. East of the Banana River, SR 520 runs through Cocoa Beach, and heads towards its eastern terminus at SR A1A. \"Bloody 520\" is a popular nickname for the stretch of SR 520 between its western terminus and I-95, with numerous fatalities occurring on this stretch. From 2002 to 2007, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) widened the entire stretch to four lanes. SR 206 was legislated in 1931 to run from pre-1945 SR 4 (US 1) in Cocoa east across the Indian River to Merritt Island. There it would split, with one leg running south to Georgiana and the other north to Courtenay. (In 1937, both of these branches from Merritt Island became part of pre-1945 SR 219, later part of SR 3.) A 1935 law extended SR 206 west to Orlando along the planned Cocoa–Orlando Highway, which used Lake Road in the Cocoa area. Plans made by the State Road Department would have taken it into Orlando on Curry Ford Road (also defined as part of pre-1945 SR 411 in 1939). SR 70 was defined in 1933, running from SR 206 at Merritt Island east over the Banana River to pre-1945 SR 140 at Cocoa Beach. A branch would run north along the west side of the Banana River to connect with pre-1945 SR 219 at Orsino. Finally, SR 418 was defined along the existing Taylor Creek Road, running from pre-1945 SR 22 at Christmas south to the Osceola County line, crossing the planned SR 206 about two-thirds of the way. By the 1945 renumbering, only the sections of SR 206 and SR 70 east of Cocoa were completed. SR 520 was defined to use sections of SR 418, SR 206 and SR 70. It would begin at SR 50 (former SR 22) near Christmas and run southeast along the general alignment of SR 418, switching to SR 206 where its planned alignment crossed. (SR 418 south of that crossing later became SR 532.) From there it would take SR 206 to Merritt Island, and SR 70 the rest of the way to end at SR 1 (former SR 140). The section west of Cocoa was built in the 1950s. It used very little of the existing Taylor Creek Road, instead being built further west, joining SR 50 much closer to Bithlo than Christmas. At some point, Alafaya Trail was taken over from SR 50 north past the University of Central Florida to downtown Oviedo. SR 520 was extended west on SR 50 and then north on Alafaya Trail, ending at SR 419 and SR 426 in Oviedo. In the 1980s, SR 520 was truncated back to SR 50, and Alafaya became an extension of SR 434. Until about 1980, a spur from SR 520 to Lake Poinsett was designated State Road 520A by FDOT and its predecessor, the State Road Department. Known locally as Lake Poinsett Road, the former SR 520A is the sole access road to Poinsett Groves and Poinsett Shores. The northern end is an intersection with King Street just west of I-95 near Rockledge. Florida State Road 520 State Road 520 (SR 520) is a east–west state highway in central Florida, United States, connecting with SR 50 in the Orlando area with SR A1A in Cocoa Beach. It runs from SR 50 in Orange"
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"Toowoomba Anglican College and Preparatory School Toowoomba Anglican College and Preparatory School (a.k.a. TACAPS) is an independent co-educational primary and secondary school located in Toowoomba, Queensland.The school is an Anglican school, and a member of the Brisbane Anglican Diocese. The school has a small village atmosphere at its 12-acre campus on the edge of the Dividing Range, and has developed a variety of facilities on its East Toowoomba location. These include three sporting ovals, an outdoor 25m swimming pool, a multipurpose court, and the St Aidans School Chapel. It also has a large multi-purpose venue with bleacher seating called the Millennium Centre, where assemblies and other sporting events are held such as volleyball, basketball and netball. The school was founded in 1911. Original enrolment comprised 17 boys. The school was founded and grew with a boarding focus to service the geographically isolated areas of Southern and Western Queensland. The focus on boarding has remained through the school's history. In 1927 the campus was expanded with the purchase of the adjacent Stoneleigh House, which was used for boarding students. In 1942–43 the School grounds were commandeered by the Army as a result of World War II, and the school was evacuated to Southport on the Gold Coast. In 1972 the enrolment was expanded to become co-educational. In 1986 Stoneleigh House was demolished to make room for sporting facilities. The turret (known as the Bell Tower) was salvaged through the efforts of the Past Students Association, and to this day is sited between the sporting ovals that replaced Stoneleigh. The Toowoomba Grammar Preparatory School / The Church of England Preparatory School The Church of England Boys School The Toowoomba Preparatory School Toowoomba Anglican College and Preparatory School The school has a day house system for internal competition, and a different house system for boarding. There are three-day houses: Gill (Maroon), Connal (Gold) and Fairfax (Navy). Sports offered at the school include Sporting facilities at the school include three junior sized ovals, four tennis and netball courts, an outdoor pool and a gymnasium. TACAPS has an extensive music program. The program includes a music exposure system where all students undertake activities using musical instruments such as violin. The result is extensive participation in small music ensembles through all age groups. TACAPS enters the annual Toowoomba Eisteddfod amongst other regional competitions, and typically enjoys significant success. The Chapel Choir is noted for its consistently high performance standard. The school also encourages participation in musical productions. The annual Preparatory Years musical is a large production with participation of all students from Years 3 to 6 in all aspects from staging, music and management. The College Musical and College Play take place in alternate years. All previous students are able to join the Past Students Association. Notable alumni include: Toowoomba Anglican College and Preparatory School Toowoomba Anglican College and Preparatory School (a.k.a. TACAPS) is an independent co-educational primary and secondary school located in Toowoomba, Queensland.The school is an Anglican school, and a member of the Brisbane"
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"Gerrit Fokkema Gerrit Fokkema's education started at The Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, ACT, where he studied from 1972 to 1974. He then went on to study Photography at, Canberra Technical College, Canberra, ACT from 1974 to 1977 and received a Photography Certificate. He also spent a semester in 2012 at The Australian National University where he lived at the university and worked with the students. Fokkema worked as a photographer for many magazines and newspapers. He also did independent photography. He was a photographer for The Canberra Times, for four years, from 1975 to 1979. He then proceeded to work for The Sydney Morning Herald for four years, from 1980 to 1984. For the next three years Fokkema worked both for The Sydney Morning Herald as well as Good Weekend Magazine. After this, he started his own Photography company and is now the owner of Gerrit Fokkema Photography Pty Ltd and has been working there for the past 28 years, from the year 1987 until present. Gerrit's photography career began with him being a staff photographer for The Canberra Times. When he worked for The Canberra Times, he had the time to work on his own photography. He was most well known for his urban landscapes photographs, which sometimes included people. After his exhibition, Somedaze, at Images Gallery in 1983, Gerrit began to do a series of nighttime images. These images were taken all across Sydney. These photographs were made to show Sydney nightlife in a different light, where the streets looked both mystical, but also rugged and tough. From the mid 1970s, Gerrit Fokkema's started including images of his feet, hands or even his own shadow, in his pictures. This was used to communicate his views on the photographed location. Gerrit Fokkema was also a commercial photographer, having clients that were for architectural and design firms, pro bono work, large corporations and advertising agencies. These are a few exhibitions, that the name and date of the location were unknown, however, the place was documented. Gerrit Fokkema Gerrit Fokkema's education started at The Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, ACT, where he studied from 1972 to 1974. He then went on to study Photography at, Canberra Technical College, Canberra, ACT from 1974 to 1977 and received a Photography Certificate. He also spent a semester in 2012 at The Australian National University where he lived at the university and worked with"
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"Emergency (WizzyPro song) \"Emergency\" is a song recorded by Nigerian record producer WizzyPro for his debut studio album, \"Lord of the Sounds\" (2016). It was released on 2 November 2013 and features vocal appearances from Nigerian musicians Patoranking, Runtown and Skales. While each artist solely wrote their own respective verse, WizzyPro served as the track's executive producer. The song was viewed favourably among several music critics, most of which noted \"Emergency\" as a standout track on \"Lord of the Sound\". The single won the \"Best Collaboration\" category at the 2014 edition of The Headies. An accompanying music video for \"Emergency\" was released on 18 January 2014 and features the four singers performing the song to the public while dancing and singing in a street. Development of the song first began in WizzyPro's personal recording studio. According to \"Pulse\"s Joey Akan, despite recruiting several \"young guns\" for the original composition, WizzyPro did not intend for \"Emergency\" to become a success. The single was ultimately released on 2 November 2013 through Dem Mama Records. Following its surge in popularity, it was announced in March 2016 that \"Emergency\" would be included on WizzyPro's debut studio album, titled \"Lord of the Sounds\" (2016). An afropop song lasting for three minutes and fifty-two seconds, \"Emergency\" was written by Douglas Jack, Patrick Okorie, and Raoul John Njeng-Njeng, while WizzyPro provided the original production. All three artists wrote their own individual verses, as performed over varying chord progressions. During Patoranking's verse, he refers to the track's lead artist and exclaims: \"I see emergency, na na na / WizzyPro beats causing madness\". Badmus Bello Shuaibu, a writer for \"Naija Celebrity\", inferred that the use of the word 'emergency' in Davido's 2014 single \"Aye\" was inspired by the repetitiveness in \"Emergency\". \"Emergency\" was well received by contemporary music critics. Shuaibu from \"Naija Celebrity\" wrote about \"Emergency\" in his \"Hit Song of the Week\" column, where he claimed: \"You can't walk pass a street in Lagos without hearing people singing [the song].\" Ovie O. from the Nigerian music website NotJustOk described the single as a \"banger\", while Filfi Adinkra from \"Ghana Ndwom\" declared it a \"crazy jam\". Along the same lines, Abiola Solanke from \"Pulse\" called it \"top notch\" and acclaimed the production that WizzyPro performed on the track. AllAfrica.com's Aderibigbe Tolulope found his production skills exceptional and \"enough to show he's taking the music business seriously\". In 2014, \"Emergency\" was selected for two distinctions within the Nigerian music industry. At the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards held in New York City, \"Emergency\" was nominated under the \"Best Collaboration\" category, but lost to Runtown's \"Gallardo\". Additionally, it won at The Headies 2014 held on Victoria Island for the same category. An accompanying music video for \"Emergency\" was released on 18 January 2014 through WizzyPro's official YouTube account. The visual was directed by Patrick Ellis and features cameos from all of the track's artists. The video commences with Runtown walking through a street while singing the song's lyrics; the other musicians join him after departing nearby parked cars. From a crowd of people, each of them step forward during their verses, which continues for the video's entirety. Emergency (WizzyPro song) \"Emergency\" is a song recorded by Nigerian record producer WizzyPro for his debut studio album, \"Lord of the Sounds\" (2016). It was released on 2 November 2013 and features vocal appearances from Nigerian musicians Patoranking, Runtown and Skales. While each artist solely wrote their own respective verse, WizzyPro served as the track's executive producer. The song was viewed favourably among several music critics, most of which noted \"Emergency\" as a standout track"
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"David Bee David Bee, also known as Ernest Craps, Ernie Sparks, and Manuel Travo (October 17, 1903, Brussels - 1992) was a Belgian jazz musician, arranger, and composer. Bee was a multi-instrumentalist, adept on clarinet, harp, piano, and alto and tenor saxophone. He played with the group Bistrouille ADO during 1924-1925 before co-founding an ensemble with Peter Packay called Red Beans, a group which toured widely throughout western Europe. After returning to Belgium, he joined Robert De Kers's band, and also played in Paris with musicians such as Benny Carter and Willie Lewis. He recorded with Gus Deloof in 1940-1941 and played with Robert Bosmans and Chas Dolne later in the decade. He continued recording into the late 1950s. As a composer, Bee was known for the tunes \"High Tension\" (recorded by Luis Russell) and \"Obsession\" (recorded by Ted Heath and Reg Owen). David Bee David Bee, also known as Ernest Craps, Ernie Sparks, and Manuel Travo (October 17, 1903, Brussels - 1992) was a Belgian jazz musician, arranger, and composer. Bee was a multi-instrumentalist, adept on clarinet, harp, piano, and alto and tenor saxophone. He played with the group Bistrouille ADO during 1924-1925 before co-founding an ensemble with Peter"
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"2014 Boston Red Sox season The 2014 Boston Red Sox season was the 114th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished last in the five-team American League East with a record of 71 wins and 91 losses, 25 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. It was the second last-place finish for the team in three years, and they were the second defending World Series champions to finish last in their division, the first having been the 1998 Florida Marlins. They also became the first MLB team to finish last in one season, win the World Series the next, and finish last again the following season. The 2014 Red Sox season opened on March 31, with a 2–1 road loss against the Baltimore Orioles. All-Star Game 2014 Boston Red Sox season The 2014 Boston Red Sox season was the 114th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished last in the five-team American League East with a record of 71 wins and 91 losses, 25 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. It was the second last-place finish for the team in three years, and they were the second defending World Series champions to finish"
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"Wanganui Branch The Wanganui Branch is a 5.00 km branch line railway in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It links Wanganui with the Marton - New Plymouth Line (MNPL) at Aramoho and has been open since 21 January 1878, although solely for freight traffic since 7 September 1959. Another branch line diverged from the Wanganui Branch near its terminus, the Castlecliff Branch. The first grant from the Provincial Growth Fund in February 2018 included $6 million for the Whanganui rail line. The line out of Wanganui was constructed as part of the Wanganui and Foxton Railway. Contracts for construction were let in 1874, but various delays slowed work. By 1877, it was proceeding apace, and the five kilometres from the central Wanganui station up the western bank of the Whanganui River to Aramoho were opened for service on 21 January 1878. The line southwest to Palmerston North and Foxton subsequently became the MNPL to Marton, the North Island Main Trunk Railway to Longburn, and the Foxton Branch to Foxton. The five kilometres between Wanganui and Aramoho became a branch of the MNPL from 1879 when work began on completing the line north to New Plymouth and the Taranaki region. In about 1987 the final stretch of the branch alongside the Whanganui River was closed, and it was diverted to make an end-on junction with the Castlecliff Branch. Passenger services were originally provided by slow mixed trains, with a September 1878 timetable allowing for three daily to Palmerston North. The opening of the line to New Plymouth in March 1885 led to the introduction of trains between Wanganui and Hawera, with initially two services daily. On 31 October 1885, the privately owned Castlecliff Branch opened, diverging from the Wanganui Branch near its Taupo Quay terminus. From this date until April 1932, passenger services ran multiple times daily between Taupo Quay and Castlecliff; they became increasingly uneconomic after the local tramway opened a line to Castlecliff and it was this factor that caused their cancellation. In December 1886, the New Plymouth Express began operating on the MNPL, bypassing Wanganui. A twice-daily connecting service known as \"The Ferry\" ran between Aramoho and Wanganui to connect with the Expresses. In Aramoho, it exchanged some carriages with the express so that passengers from Wellington or New Plymouth did not have to change trains to reach Wanganui and vice versa. By the start of the 20th century, the slow mixed services between Wanganui and Hawera had become the subject of complaints that they did not suit the convenience of the locals for whom they were operated. Residents began agitating for a dedicated passenger train to run daily from Wanganui through Hawera to New Plymouth and return. It was not until 1926 that such a service was introduced, the Taranaki Flyer. It took approximately 4.5 hours to complete its journey, a considerable improvement on mixed trains. On 31 October 1955, the Flyer ran for the last time and was replaced by a railcar service operated by 88 seater and Standard RM class railcars. The railcars did not last long, as declining patronage resulted in their cancellation from 7 February 1959. From this point, regular passenger services ceased to operate on the Wanganui Branch. Wanganui passengers instead had to board mainline trains in Aramoho; this arrangement lasted until 30 July 1977, when the final passenger service through Aramoho was cancelled. The only passenger services on the branch since 1959 have been infrequent excursions, such as those operated by Steam Incorporated and the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. The SteamRail Wanganui heritage organisation is based at the Wanganui terminus and it operates charter excursions from this depot as well as providing facilities for visiting excursions to replenish fuel supplies. Freight traffic has always played a prominent role on the line, particularly when Wanganui had an active port. In 1878, the fact that one more train ran daily between Wanganui and Palmerston North than between Foxton and Palmerston North led Foxton business interests to fear that the more regular service would boost Wanganui's trade at the expense of Foxton. Trains currently operate less frequently, but are capable of carrying significantly more tonnage than 19th century services. One freight train arrives at lunchtime every weekday from Palmerston North, departing later in the afternoon. An additional morning service runs if required, including on weekends. Motive power is currently provided by diesel locomotives, such as the DC and DX classes. In the era of steam locomotives, tank locomotives such as the W were based in Wanganui and worked the Branch. They were largely replaced by A class tender locomotives in the mid-1920s, but W class tank locomotives continued to shunt industrial sidings as late as the 1960s. From the mid-1950s, the dominant locomotive classes in the Wanganui area were the K and K, both of which saw use on the Branch. By the end of 1966, the branch was completely dieselised. Locomotives such as the DA class worked Wanganui trains until the introduction of the classes currently in use. Wanganui Branch The Wanganui Branch is a 5.00 km branch line railway in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It links Wanganui with the Marton - New Plymouth Line (MNPL) at Aramoho and has been open since 21 January 1878, although solely for freight traffic since 7 September 1959. Another branch line diverged from the Wanganui Branch near"
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"Eric Schwartz (songwriter) Eric Schwartz (Eric \"Red\" Schwartz) is an American folk singer/songwriter and musical satirist known for his often humorous, sexually explicit lyrics, as in the songs \"Clinton Got A Blowjob\" and \"Who Da Bitch Now\". His video, \"Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis\" has been downloaded over a million times. He cites Dr. Demento as an inspiration. He graduated from Tufts University with a degree in biology and worked as an actor and guitarist, before moving to Greenwich Village to begin his songwriting career. He has played several times at the Kerrville Folk Festival and was a finalist in the songwriting contest in 2001. He was a winner of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist Showcase. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. Eric Schwartz (songwriter) Eric Schwartz (Eric \"Red\" Schwartz) is an American folk singer/songwriter and musical satirist known for his often humorous, sexually explicit lyrics, as in the songs \"Clinton Got A Blowjob\" and \"Who Da Bitch Now\". His video, \"Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis\" has been downloaded over a million times. He cites Dr. Demento as an inspiration. He graduated from Tufts University with a degree in biology and worked as an actor"
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"Tipasa Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was a colonia in the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, nowadays called Tipaza, and located in coastal central Algeria. Since 2002, it has been declared by UNESCO a \"World Heritage Site\". Initially the city was a small ancient Punic trading-post. Conquered by Ancient Rome, it was turned into a military colony by the emperor Claudius for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauretania. Afterwards it became a municipium called \"Colonia Aelia Augusta Tipasensium\", that reached the population of 20,000 inhabitants in the fourth century according to historian Gsell. The Roman city was built on three small hills which overlooked the sea, nearly 20 km. east from Caesarea (capital of Mauretania Caesariensis). Of the houses, most of which stood on the central hill, no traces remain; but there are ruins of three churches — the Great Basilica and the Basilica Alexander on the western hill, and the Basilica of St Salsa on the eastern hill, two cemeteries, the baths, theatre, amphitheatre and nymphaeum. The line of the ramparts can be distinctly traced and at the foot of the eastern hill the remains of the ancient harbour. The basilicas are surrounded by cemeteries, which are full of coffins, all of stone and covered with mosaics. The basilica of St. Salsa, which has been excavated by Stéphane Gsell, consists of a nave and two aisles, and still contains a mosaic. The Great Basilica served for centuries as a quarry, but it is still possible to make out the plan of the building, which was divided into seven aisles. Under the foundations of the church are tombs hewn out of the solid rock. Of these one is circular, with a diameter of 18 m and space for 24 coffins. Commercially Tipasa was of considerable importance, but it was not distinguished in art or learning. Christianity was early introduced, and in the third century Tipasa was an episcopal see, now inscribed in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. Most of the inhabitants continued to be non-Christian until, according to the legend, Salsa, a Christian maiden, threw the head of their serpent idol into the sea, whereupon the enraged populace stoned her to death. The body, miraculously recovered from the sea, was buried, on the hill above the harbour, in a small chapel which gave place subsequently to the stately basilica. Salsa's martyrdom took place in the 4th century. In 484 the Vandal king Huneric (477‑484) sent an Arian bishop to Tipaza; whereupon a large number of the inhabitants fled to Spain, while many of the remainder were cruelly persecuted. Tipasa was partially destroyed by the Vandals in 430, but was rebuilt by the Byzantines one century later. Tipasa revived for a brief time during the Byzantine occupation in the 6th century but was given the Arabic language name, \"Tefassed\", when Arabs arrived there. The term translated means \"badly damaged\". In the third century Christianity was worshipped by all the Romanised Berbers and Roman colonists of Tipasa. From this period comes the oldest Christian epitaph in Roman Africa dated October 17, 237 AD. In Tipasa were built the biggest basilicas of actual Algeria: the Alexander basilica and the basilica of Saint Salsa. At the end of the seventh century the city was destroyed by the Arabs and reduced to ruins. In 1857 was settled again the area, with the creation of the city of Tipaza that now has nearly 30,000 inhabitants. The town and its surroundings is home to the largest Berber-speaking group of western Algeria, the Chenoua people. Tipasa Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was"
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"John Coleman (meteorologist) John Stewart Coleman (October 15, 1934 – January 20, 2018) was an American TV weatherman and co-founder of The Weather Channel. He retired from broadcasting in 2014 after nearly 61 years, having worked the last 20 years at KUSI-TV in San Diego. Coleman started his career in 1953 at WCIA in Champaign, Illinois, doing the early evening weather forecast and a local bandstand show called \"At The Hop\" while he was a student at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA's sister station WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois. Coleman was also a weather anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN-TV in Milwaukee and then WBBM-TV and WLS-TV in Chicago. In 1972, Coleman and his stage crew craftsmen at WLS-TV created the first chroma key weather map ever in use. Coleman became the original weatherman on the brand-new ABC network morning program, \"Good Morning America\". He stayed seven years with this top-rated program anchored by David Hartman and Joan Lunden. In 1981, he persuaded communications entrepreneur Frank Batten to help establish The Weather Channel, serving as TWC's CEO and President during the start-up and its first year of operation. After being forced out of TWC a year later, Coleman became weather anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and then at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, before moving to Southern California to join the independent television station, KUSI-TV in San Diego in 1994, in what Coleman fondly calls \"his retirement job.\" Coleman abruptly left KUSI while on vacation in April 2014, with no on-air farewell. Coleman obtained Professional membership status in the American Meteorological Society and was named AMS Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year in 1983. Coleman said that after ten years of attending AMS National Meetings and studying the papers published in the organization's journal, he said the AMS was driven by political, not scientific, agendas and dropped out of the AMS. Coleman spoke out as a \"rejectionis[t]\" of global warming in 2007 after watching NBC's \"Green is Universal\" week, where the studio lights were cut for portions of \"Sunday Night Football's\" pre-game and half-time shows. He called the concept of climate change the \"greatest scam in history\", and said that \"the polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar bears are increasing in number.\" Critics have pointed out that each of these claims was wrong or misleading, questioned his credibility due to his lack of relevant academic credentials, and said that he had not conducted any scientific research in the area of climate change. These views contributed to Coleman dropping out of the American Meteorological Society. Coleman was born in 1934 in Alpine, Texas, the youngest of five children to a college professor and his mathematics teacher wife, Claude and Hazel Coleman. Coleman was married and divorced previously and had three children. Coleman met his second wife, Linda, at a poker table in Viejas Casino and was married to her for eighteen years. In May 2016, John and Linda Coleman moved to Sun City in the Summerlin Community of Las Vegas. Coleman died on January 20, 2018 at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas. John Coleman (meteorologist) John Stewart Coleman (October 15, 1934 – January 20, 2018) was an American TV weatherman and co-founder of The Weather Channel. He retired from broadcasting in 2014 after nearly 61 years, having worked the last 20 years at KUSI-TV in San Diego. Coleman started his career in 1953 at WCIA in Champaign, Illinois, doing the early evening weather forecast and a local bandstand show called \"At The Hop\" while he was"
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"They Never Come Back They Never Come Back is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Regis Toomey and Dorothy Sebastian. Distracted just before the fight by the news that his mother has died, boxer Jimmy Nolan is defeated in the ring. As he and his sister Mary attend the funeral, Jimmy also deals with an injured arm from the fight. At a nightclub Jerry Filmore owns, Jimmy meets dancer Adele, who is Filmore's romantic interest as well. A ticket taker at the door, Ralph Landon, takes $500 from the till and plants it on Jimmy, framing him. Jimmy goes to jail. Ralph falls in love with Mary and confides to her that he owed $1,000 to Filmore and set up her brother on his behalf. Jimmy gets out of jail, accepts a fight and wins a $1,000 prize, settling Ralph's account with Filmore. It leads to a fistfight between the two men. Jimmy wins that one as well. They Never Come Back They Never Come Back is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Regis Toomey and Dorothy Sebastian. Distracted just before the fight by the news"
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"Charolais horse The Charolais or Charollais is an extinct breed of warmblood horse from the Charolais, the country lying around the town of Charolles, now in the Saône-et-Loire département of Burgundy, in eastern central France. Like other French warmbloods, it was the result of crossing local agricultural horses with the Thoroughbred, and was known by the name of the region without ever having a specific stud-book. Like other French warmbloods including the Angevin, the Charentais, the Cheval Limousin and the Vendéen, it was fused with the Anglo-Normand in 1958 in order to create the national warmblood stud-book, the Selle français. It was originally used as a multi-purpose horse for riding, driving, and agriculture. During the late 19th century, additional Thoroughbred blood was added and a new type emerged that was principally used as a light cavalry mount. It was also used for dressage and show jumping. The original landrace ancestors of the Charolais include the Cheval Bourguignon (Burgundy Horse), which developed from horses bred in the Burgundy region in the Middle Ages. Although small, Burgundy horses were known for their endurance and robustness. They were used for riding and agriculture, and as coach horses. This type, combined with other blood, developed into the Charolais, which belonged to a group of French breeds called \"demi-sang\" or \"half-bloods\" – crosses between native breeds and Thoroughbreds. Some 19th- and early 20th-century sources claim that Arabian blood was also added from horses captured from the Saracens after the Battle of Poitiers. Until the mid-20th century, the Charolais and other \"demi-sang\" breeds, such as the Angevin, Charentais, Cheval Limousin, and Vendéen, were generally known by the name of the region in which they existed, and did not have individual breed stud-books. As these horses were not separated by breed type, but instead by geography, no significant physical characteristics distinguished the Charolais from other \"demi-sang\" types that developed prior to the mid-19th century. Charolais horses were primarily raised in what is now the Saône-et-Loire department. The areas of Cluny, Charolles, Blanzy, Paray-le-Monial, and Digoin were preferred for breeding, due to the clay-limestone soils that favoured the development of the equine skeletal structure. Multi-purpose types like the Charolais and the Morvan were slowly supplanted in farmers' favour by draught horses. The Nivernais breed, in particular, was preferred by farmers and threatened the existence of the Charolais. Thus, the original small multi-purpose strain of Charolais gave way to a type of small draught horse that was next crossed with purebred and crossbred Thoroughbreds until, by 1850, it had become a horse for cavalry purposes. It was thought by some enthusiasts, however, that this outcrossing reduced the quality of the breed, and many missed the old-style Charolais, which had disappeared due to a lack of demand and use. However, others thought that the outcrossings had benefited the Charolais breed: in 1919, one author stated that the breeding of the Charolais type was in excellent condition, and a report from the time stated that the favourite horse of King Albert I of Belgium was a Charolais named Titanic. Like many other French saddle horse types, in 1958, the Charolais was part of a reorganisation of French horse breeding. Many \"demi-sang\" types, including the Charolais, were merged to create a new national breed, the Selle Français. The Charolais breed was small, and most closely physically resembled the Morvan horse, another now-extinct French type. The breed had a short head with small ears and a short, strong neck attached low on the shoulder. The body was short and rounded, with a broad croup and strong legs. They were generally considered to be small and inelegant. They were strong, robust, and hardy, the last of these traits especially so before the breeding changes of the 19th century, and were known for their pulling power. The Charolais was appreciated for its gaits and endurance. It was known for its ability as a cavalry horse, and in 1933 was called a perfect war horse. It was also used for dressage and show jumping, and members of the breed competed in international events in these sports. It was considered to be a better galloper than the Anglo-Norman horse, another French breed. Charolais horse The Charolais or"
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"Shahaduz Zaman Shahaduz Zaman (;born 1960) is a writer in Bengali literature. He is a medical anthropologist and a trained physician. He published over 30 books in different genres such as short stories, novels, travelogues, columns, and essays on contemporary issues. He won the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2016 in the fiction category. Shahaduz Zaman was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and lived in different parts of the country. He attended a boarding school called Mirzapur Cadet College for his high school studies. He then studied medicine at Chittagong Medical College. Later on he studied public health and obtained a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Currently he works at the medical school of the University of Sussex. Besides his literary work, he has numerous academic publications. Among his most important books are \"Crutch-er Colonel\" (\"Colonel on a Crutch\"), \"Poshchimer Meghe Shonar Shingho\" (Golden Lion on the Western Clouds), \"Koyekti Bihbol Golpo\" (Several Awe-inspiring Stories), \"Kotha-Porompora\" (Interviews), \"Ekti Haspatal, Ekjon Nri-biggani O Koekti Bhanga Har\" (A Hospital, an Anthropologist and Some Broken Bones), and \"Bishorgo-te Dukkho\" (M for Melancholy). Shahaduz Zaman is noted for his experimentation with short stories and a distinct style of prose writing. He combines elements of modern-day story telling with sharp observations of our society. In several of his biographical fictions such as \"Ekjon Komolalebu\" and \"Crutch-er Colonel\", he combined imagination with historical facts and analysis, and thus breaking away from the rigid definition of a novel. His book \"Bishorgo-te Dukkho\" (M for Melancholy) has been considered a meta-fiction, one of the very first of this genre in Bengali. The book \"Kotha-Porompora\" (Interviews) which is a set of interviews of prominent writers, artists and thinkers is considered one of the best book of interviews in Bengali. Besides short stories and fiction, he is well regarded for his columns, essays, and film criticism. Several of his stories and books have been made into films and stage dramas. A movie called \"Komola Rocket\" (\"The Orange Ship\") was based on two of his short stories, and furthermore, he wrote the screenplay for the movie. A stage drama based on \"Crutch-er Colonel\" (\"Colonel on a Crutch\") had many shows throughout Bangladesh, and has been popular with both spectators and critics. Several short films have been made from his stories as well. \"Ibrahim Buksh's Circus and Other Stories\" is an anthology of some of his stories in English. His thesis \"Broken Limbs, Broken Lives: Ethnography of a Hospital Ward in Bangladesh\" is one of the first medical anthropology work in the context of Bangladesh. He wrote a critically acclaimed popular book based on this - \"Ekti Haspatal, Ekjon Nri-biggani O Koekti Bhanga Har\" (A Hospital, an Anthropologist and Some Broken Bones), which is used as a reference textbook in anthropology departments at several universities in Bangladesh. Shahaduz Zaman Shahaduz Zaman (;born 1960) is a writer in Bengali literature. He is a medical anthropologist and a trained physician. He published over 30 books in different genres such as short"
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"George Barnsby George J. Barnsby (–11 April 2010) was an English author and Socialist scholar. He was born and grew up in Battersea, Surrey. Following military service in India and Burma he studied at the London School of Economics where he obtained an economics degree enabling him to become a teacher. His interest in socialism dated back to his pre-war experiences and his convictions were strengthened by his military service. In the late 1970s he took time off from teaching to study at University of Birmingham, producing two books, \"The Working Class Movement in the Black Country 1750–1867\" (1977) and \"Social Conditions in the Black Country 1800–1900\" (1980), which earned him an MA and a PhD. He retired early due to heart problems and then wrote extensively on the history of Chartism, education, housing, the ideas of the Welsh social reformer Robert Owen, and the 1926 general strike in the Black Country. He also produced a major work in 1998, \"Socialism in Birmingham and the Black Country 1850–1939\". George Barnsby George J. Barnsby (–11 April 2010) was an English author and Socialist scholar. He was born and grew up in Battersea, Surrey. Following military service in India and Burma he"
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"Ducati Apollo The 1964 Ducati Berliner 1260 Apollo was a prototype V4 engine motorcycle producing and capable of over . It was never put into production, but did influence other production Ducatis that followed. Both Ducati and their United States distributor, Berliner Motor Corporation, were experiencing declining sales of existing small-capacity single-cylinder models, and sought to create a bike to compete with Harley-Davidson. Berliner Motor was keen to have a model that could win lucrative police motorcycle supply contracts, and that could also sell as a civilian touring bike. In 1959, the Berliner Motor Corporation approached Ducati about creating a rival to the Harley-Davidson to sell to police departments around the US. Author Greg Field, based on interviews with Mike Berliner, contends that Berliner went so far as to ship two Harley-Davidsons to Italy as examples (one was for Moto Guzzi), and that Ducati, rather than any Japanese company, was the first Harley-Davidson imitator. The Berliner brothers were enthusiastic. Ducati's government management was not. It was only when Berliner agreed to underwrite a portion of the development costs in 1961, that the project went ahead. They decided to call it the Apollo, in honor of the moon mission series of the time. Ducati was to produce two prototypes and two extra engines as spares. Today only one survives. Fabio Taglioni was to develop a bike that conformed to US police specifications, and was bigger than any current model Harley-Davidson. Taglioni decided on an air-cooled 1257 cc 90° two-valve head V4 using a 180-degree crankshaft with roller bearing big ends. That crankshaft fitted into a horizontally split wet sump crankcase with a center main bearing support. The bore was 84.5 mm, and the stroke 56 mm. Valve actuation was by pushrods and rocker arms. The engine was a stressed member of the heavy duty open cradle frame with a central box section front downtube between the forward cylinders. A small car-sized starter motor and generator were fitted. It had a five-speed transmission, at a time when most motorcycles had four. Ceriani developed the suspension package, but riders today would be alarmed by the inadequate front and rear single leading shoe drum brakes. The stopping distance was huge, and had to be allowed for. It had a wheelbase, and weighed dry. Taglioni dismissed the Berliners' suggestion of shaft drive, and chose chain final drive. The police specification stipulated 16-inch tyres, so there was little choice in that. Initially it was putting out @ 7000 rpm, and could exceed . The Harley of the time made 55 bhp. The first test rider Franco Farne came back from his first ride, and said it “handles like a truck.” Farne normally rode small racers. It soon became evident that even specially made tyres were not up to the power of the engine. A tyre disintegrated at speed on the Autostrada, and the test rider rated his survival “a miracle”. The engine was detuned to give . Tyres continued to disintegrate. The engine was brought down to , and the survival rate of the tyres became acceptable. This was late 1963. In comparison, in 1958 Moto Guzzi had used a 20-inch rear tyre on the Grand Prix 500 cc V8, and they had worn rapidly with In March 1964 a gold-painted prototype was handed over in a formal ceremony. The reduction in power meant that the Apollo could now be outperformed by the British and BMW twins, which restricted the anticipated market to police forces. Berliner was printing advertising, demonstrating the prototype to Police Chiefs, and genuinely preparing to market the Apollo. This is from a promotional flyer distributed by Berliner Motor Corporation, which also included a front three quarter black and white view of the gold bike. The US$1,500 selling price would be US$ in 2008 dollars. The Apollo appeared at the Earls Court, London motorcycle show in November, 1964. UK magazine \"Motor Cycle\" confirmed the massive 1,260 cc four-cylinder engine of the Apollo attracted plenty of attention on the Ducati stand, and further carried a quip allegedly heard between two visitors: \"\"I wonder if I could get that lot into a Norton Featherbed frame?\"\". The Italian government decided that the limited market did not justify the tooling costs of production, and withdrew project funding. This was a severe blow to Berliner's business plans. It could have been a superbike before its time, but tire technology was not ready. There were other bikes developed as a result: the 1970 500 cc GP bikes and 750 cc production 90-degree V-twins. The second prototype, a black and silver sports version with four Dell'Orto SS 1 carburettors, survived, and was on display at Ducati's factory museum in Bologna, courtesy of its owner, Hiroaki Iwashita, from 2002 to 2003, but now resides in his museum in Yufuin on the island of Kyushu. Its sole public appearance in recent decades was at the 2002 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The fate of the first gold painted prototype is unknown. The Berliner brothers' quest for an offering in the police fleet and big touring cruiser market did not end with the Apollo. As the Apollo project was wrapping up, Joe Berliner saw the Moto Guzzi V7 for the first time, a prototype to be entered in a contest, set to begin in 1966, by the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs to select a replacement for their outmoded military and police fleet. Berliner Motor Corporation and Moto Guzzi would find success selling the V7's production variants, the Ambassador and Eldorado, to the LAPD, CHP, and other agencies, as well as civilian touring riders. Ducati Apollo The 1964 Ducati Berliner 1260 Apollo was a prototype V4 engine motorcycle producing and capable of over . It was never put into production, but did influence other production Ducatis that followed. Both Ducati and their United States distributor, Berliner Motor Corporation, were experiencing declining sales of existing small-capacity single-cylinder models, and sought to create a bike to compete with Harley-Davidson. Berliner Motor was keen to have a"
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"Nick Van Eede Nick Van Eede (born Nicholas Eede, 14 June 1958) is an English musician, producer and songwriter. He is best known for singing and writing the 1986 U.S. #1 power ballad, \"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\" for his band Cutting Crew. While working as a hospital orderly in the late 1970s, Van Eede was discovered playing by ex member of The Animals, Chas Chandler, who sent him on a tour of Poland as support for Slade. Van Eede was only 18 when sent on the road. He recalls, \"I went with a kazoo and an acoustic guitar and opened for Slade in amphitheatres in front of 18,000 people. I went down as a storm and had the loudest kazoo in Europe, because Slade took their own PA on the road!\" His career continued with tours supporting headliners like David Essex, Hot Chocolate and Alan Price. During that time, Van Eede released five solo singles on Barn Records between 1978 and 1980, but none of them charted in the UK Singles Chart. The first three were \"Rock 'n' Roll Fool\" b/w \"Ounce of Sense\", \"All or Nothing\" b/w \"Hold On to Your Heart\" and \"I Only Want to Be Number One\" b/w \"Dicing\". Van Eede formed The Drivers with friends Mac Norman and Steve Boorer. In the early 1980s, they signed with a record label in Canada. They had a couple of hits there with \"Tears On Your Anorak\" and \"Talk All Night\", plus an album, \"Short Cuts\". They had a support band called Fast Forward, whose line up included guitarist Kevin MacMichael. Van Eede was impressed with MacMichael's guitar playing that the former asked MacMichael to form a new band with him, however MacMichael could not commit at that time. After a final single release with \"Things\", a Bobby Darin cover, The Drivers split in 1983. Whilst Kevin MacMichael was with Fast Forward, the band was involved in an auto accident which left all of the members except MacMichael unable to continue touring. Ready to begin working with Van Eede, MacMichael moved from Toronto to London, where the two of them gave themselves one year to sign a recording contract. They recruited drummer Martin \"Frosty\" Beedle, previously a member of the cabaret band on the QE2, and bass player Colin Farley, a session musician living in Spain. Van Eede came up with the band's name after reading an article in the British rock magazine, \"Sounds\", which described the band Queen as a \"cutting crew\", which means when the band did not play concerts and instead stayed in the studio recording new songs. In 1985, Cutting Crew staged a showcase at a London recording studio for representatives from numerous record labels, and won a recording contract with Siren Records, part of Virgin Records. The first single to be released by the band was \"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\" b/w \"For the Longest Time\", released in the UK in August 1986. After an appearance on the BBC Television show \"Top of the Pops\", with the song being regularly played on the radio and its music video shown on TV, the single shot up to number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and in May 1987 was number 1 in America for two weeks (Virgin's first number one single in America). In total, the song went to No. 1 in nineteen countries. This would be their biggest hit single. Van Eede came up with the title and concept for \"(I Just) Died In Your Arms\" after making love with his then-girlfriend. \"I actually remember saying that,\" he admitted, and promptly jotted a note on a pad he always kept close at hand. The next single, \"I've Been in Love Before\" b/w \"Life in a Dangerous Time\" failed to break the UK in its first release in November 1986 but was quickly released again to reach #50 in the charts. The album \"Broadcast\" was released shortly, which reached 41 in the UK Albums Chart. After Cutting Crew's demise, Van Eede went on to write and produce for other artists, including producing the original demo of Cher's hit \"Believe\". In 1996, he auditioned for the job as the new lead singer of Genesis. After Phil Collins's departure, he auditioned along with numerous others. After impressing both Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford in earlier auditions, it came down to the last two being Van Eede and the former Stiltskin singer Ray Wilson. Eventually the job was offered to Wilson, who accepted. On the 2001 Marillion album \"Anoraknophobia\", Van Eede is co-credited with writing the song \"Map of the World\" with singer Steve Hogarth. A new album originally entitled \"Grinning Souls\" was released by Cutting Crew in 2005. Van Eede also appeared on the ITV show \"Hit Me Baby One More Time\", on which he performed \"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\" and a cover version of Macy Gray's hit \"I Try\". He then embarked on tour with his new line-up: Gareth Moulton (guitar), Sam Flynn (keyboards), Dominic Finley (bass) and Tom Arnold (drums). They toured the UK (which included the 'Here & Now 2008 Tour'), Germany, Trinidad and the United States. In 2015, a new album was released, \"Add to Favourites\". Joining Van Eede on the album included guitarists Gareth Moulton and Joolz Dunkley, bassist Nick Kay, keyboardist Jono Harrison, drummer Martyn Baker and the Blackjack Horns. Throughout 2015–2017, the band toured South America, the U.S., Australasia and Europe. Van Eede recently received a BMI (Broadcast Music Inc) award for 4 million plays on US radio for \"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\". The track was also used in the hit film \"'The Lego Batman Movie\". Since 2008, Van Eede has been a member of supergroup Man Doki Soulmates, formed by Hungarian musician Leslie Mándoki. Alongside Van Eede, the band's members in the group have included, amongst others: Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, John Helliwell, Chris Thompson, Bobby Kimball, Ian Anderson, Chaka Khan, Tony Carey and the late Jack Bruce and Greg Lake. Van Eede married Nikki McFarlane in June 1996. He has a daughter, Lauren (born 13 May 1986). Nick Van Eede Nick Van Eede (born Nicholas Eede, 14 June 1958) is an English musician, producer and songwriter. He is best known for singing and writing the 1986 U.S. #1 power ballad, \"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\" for his band Cutting Crew. While working as a hospital orderly in the late 1970s, Van Eede was discovered playing by ex member of The Animals, Chas Chandler, who sent him on a tour of Poland as support for Slade. Van Eede was only"
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"Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's slalom K-1 The women's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 13 and August 15, 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (kayak single) event is raced by one-person kayaks through a whitewater course. The final was rescheduled to the 15th due to persistent lightning at the Park. There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 15 boats advanced to the semifinals. The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 10 scores from that run; those 10 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total. Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's slalom K-1 The women's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 13 and August 15, 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (kayak single) event is raced by one-person kayaks through a whitewater course. The final was rescheduled to the 15th due to persistent lightning at the Park. There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was"
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"Seasons of My Heart \"Season of My Heart\" is a song written by George Jones and Darrell Edwards. The song was released as the b-side to the #4 hit \"\"Why Baby Why\"\" in 1955. The song was also recorded by Johnny Cash and, released in 1960, it became a #10 hit. The song was one of Jones' best early ballads, included on many of his early studio and compilation albums with Starday and Mercury Records in the late 1950s. The song was even included on his debut 1957 album \"\"The Grand Ole Opry's New Star\"\", which was Starday's first album release in the label's history. \"Seasons of My Heart\" originally appeared as the B-side to George Jones' first chart hit \"Why Baby Why\" in 1955. The imagery-laden song was an early showcase of Jones' abilities as a balladeer, although he sang in much higher during this period than he would later in his career. Former Starday Records president Don Pierce later explained to Jones biographer Bob Allen, \"Pappy realized George's strength as a balladeer long before I did. He felt that 'Seasons Of My Heart' was a big song. I knew that, in those days, it took much longer to sell a ballad, because it had to make it on the radio first...I also knew that an upbeat song like 'Why, Baby Why' would be easier to sell directly to the jukebox distributors for the beer-drinkin' trade.\" Seasons of My Heart \"Season of My Heart\" is a song written by George Jones and Darrell Edwards. The song was released as the b-side to the #4 hit \"\"Why Baby Why\"\" in 1955. The song was also recorded by Johnny Cash and, released in 1960, it became a #10 hit. The song was one of Jones' best early ballads, included on many"
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"Naas GAA Naas is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of eight Kildare county senior football championships, six senior hurling championships, three senior camogie championships and Kildare club of the year in 1981. Naas played the Curragh on February 15, 1885 to become one of eight clubs which share the distinction of being the first to play in a Gaelic football match. The GAA club was revived on October 16, 1887 by Ronan Cadogan. RIC records from 1890 show that Naas Ronan Cadogan had 50 members with officers listed as Ronan Cadogan, Ronan Cadogan and Ronan Cadogan. Naas Sunbursts and Naas Crom-A-Boo were listed as unaffiliated clubs in 1896 while nearby Thomastown was an affiliated club. Naas moved to Spooner's Field opposite the racecourse grandstand in 1913. Father Brennan park was opened in 1930. Naas GAA grounds are now situated on the Sallins Rd, the amenities include three new floodlight pitches, a cloths bank, one way traffic management system and a brand new clubhouse. Naas have won the kildare senior hurling championship six times. The first of these titles came in 1951 the team was captained by Big Noise Sherdin and Naas successfully defended the title the following year. The club then entered a barren spell and it was not until some 42 years later in 1934 that the Naas men, Captained by Richie Coyle , reclaimed the crown by defeating Coill Dubh. This was the beginning of a golden spell for the club, with further titles following in 1997, 2000 and 2001. Eamonn Callaghan, senior Kildare player and All Star Nominee 2010. Ronan Cadogan, Most improved player 2004 and Kildare u16 All Star nominee 1999 Eoin Doyle, senior Kildare player and Kildare captain for 2016. Naas GAA Naas is a Gaelic Athletic Association"
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"Amadis de Gaule (J.C. Bach) Amadis de Gaule, or Amadis des Gaules (\"Amadis of Gaul\"), is a French opera in three acts by the German composer Johann Christian Bach. The libretto is a revision by Alphonse de Vismes of \"Amadis\" by Philippe Quinault, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1684, which in turn, was based on the knight-errantry romance \"Amadis de Gaula\" (1508). Bach's opera was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris on 14 December 1779. It followed the contemporary French fashion for resetting libretti by Quinault (\"Armide\" by Gluck and \"Roland\" by Piccinni are other examples of this trend). The work was not a success with the Parisian public, mainly because it pleased neither the supporters of Gluck nor those of Piccinni, the two leading rival opera composers in France at the time. It was the last opera J. C. Bach composed. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Henri Larrivée was scheduled to take the role but had to withdraw because of bad health \"Scene: A forest hung with trophies with a fortress in the background\"<br> The sorceress Arcabonne wrestles with her emotions. She has always tried to avoid love but has reluctantly fallen for the nameless knight who saved her life. He brother Arcalaüs tells her to forget about the unknown knight and concentrate on destroying Amadis of Gaul, who was responsible for killing their brother Ardan Canil. Arcalaüs conjures up demons, including the allegorical figures of Hatred and Despair, to ruin Amadis' happiness. Amadis is in love with the English princess Oriane and the demons now use their magic to poison her with jealousy. Amadis does not understand why Oriane accuses him of unfaithfulness. She leaves him and he hears the sound of wailing; it comes from the prisoners Arcabonne has abducted and held captive in a fortress with her brother. Believing Oriane to be among the captives, Amadis attacks the fortress and puts Arcalaüs and his demons to flight when they block his way. But he is then deceived by another group of demons disguised as shepherds and shepherdesses, who disarm him and lead him into the fortress. \"Scene: On one side, the tomb of Ardan Canil; on the other, a ruined palace and prison cells\"<br> In the prison, Arcabonne tells the captives that they are to be sacrificed to appease the ghost of her brother, Ardan Canil, and Amadis will be among them. As the ceremony is prepared, the voice of Ardan Canil's ghost is heard, prophesying that Arcabonne will betray him and soon die herself. As Amadis is led to execution, Arcabonne recognises him as the nameless knight who saved her life. In gratitude, she releases Amadis and his fellow prisoners. \"Scene: A pleasant island\"<br> Arcalaüs wants to torment Oriane by showing her the corpse of Amadis. He is furious when his sister tells him she has released the knight. He tells Arcabonne he can prove her love for Amadis is in vain as Oriane and Amadis are still in love. He deludes Oriane into thinking she is seeing Amadis' dead body. Oriane now repents her jealousy, believing she has caused Amadis' death. Arcalaüs is about to kill the two lovers in earnest when the good fairy Urgande and her followers arrive. Arcalaüs prepares to fight, but Arcabonne - now realising Amadis will never return her love - kills herself, and the ghost's prophecy is fulfilled. Urgande touches Amadis and Oriane with a magic wand and they are freed from enchantments. Urgande now leads Amadis to free the prisoners in the enchanted palace of Appollidon. \"The scene changes to the palace of Appollidon\"<br> Amadis frees the prisoners and the opera ends with general celebration. Amadis de Gaule (J.C. Bach) Amadis de Gaule, or Amadis des Gaules (\"Amadis of Gaul\"), is a French opera in three acts by the German composer Johann Christian Bach. The libretto is a revision by Alphonse de Vismes of \"Amadis\" by Philippe Quinault, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1684, which in turn, was based on the knight-errantry romance \"Amadis de Gaula\" (1508). Bach's opera was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris on 14 December 1779. It followed the contemporary French fashion for resetting libretti by Quinault (\"Armide\" by Gluck"
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"2004 New York Jets season The 2004 New York Jets season was the franchise’s 35th season in the National Football League and the 45th season overall. The season began with the Jets attempting to improve on their 6–10 2003 record. The Jets started the season by winning their first five games, which constituted a franchise record. They ultimately finished 10–6, and clinched the fifth seed in the playoffs, reaching the postseason for the third time in four seasons. They upset the AFC West champion San Diego Chargers in the Wild Card round, winning in overtime 20–17, but would lose in the Divisional round to the Pittsburgh Steelers, also by a score 20–17 in overtime. The Jets signed former Arizona Cardinals cornerback David Barrett and Oakland Raiders linebacker Eric Barton. The Jets were granted the 12th pick in the first round of the NFL Draft by virtue of their 6–10 record in 2003. They used this pick to take linebacker Jonathan Vilma from the University of Miami. They were also granted the maximum four compensatory draft picks as a result of losing premium free agents before the 2003 season. During the 2004 regular season the Jets’ non-divisional, conference opponents were primarily from the AFC North, although they also played the Houston Texans from the AFC South, and the San Diego Chargers from the AFC West. Their non-conference opponents were from the NFC West. The major story heading into this game was the professional debut of Bengal quarterback Carson Palmer. However, the Jets’ offense, led by running back Curtis Martin, spearheaded the Jets’ victory. After an early fumble led to a Bengals touchdown, the Jets took the lead late in the first quarter and never trailed. Martin ran for 196 yards and a touchdown, as well as a touchdown reception, and was an opening day record for Jets running backs. Quarterback Chad Pennington, making his first opening day start in his career, threw for 224 yards and two touchdowns and was an efficient 20-for-27 passing. The Jets got out to a 20-point lead before holding off a second-half comeback by San Diego. Two Curtis Martin touchdowns helped stake New York to a 17–0 lead, which grew to 27–7 after a field goal and a touchdown pass from Chad Pennington to Jerald Sowell. The Chargers finally responded late in the third quarter with a four-yard touchdown run from LaDainian Tomlinson, followed by a 33-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Drew Brees to Reche Caldwell. A one-yard touchdown pass from Pennington to Chris Baker in the fourth quarter put the game out of reach for San Diego. Martin’s 119 yards made him the Jets’ all-time rushing leader, passing Freeman McNeil's mark of 8,074 yards. The Dolphins were looking for their first win while the Jets were looking to stay undefeated. Midway through the first quarter, Santana Moss returned a punt 24 yards to set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Curtis Martin. The Dolphins responded with 2 field goals. Leading 10–6 late in the 2nd quarter, Jets quarterback Chad Pennington was picked off by Arturo Freeman to set up a third Olindo Mare field goal and a 10–9 deficit. On Miami’s opening drive of the second half, quarterback Jay Fielder was intercepted by Donnie Abraham who returned in 66 yards for a touchdown putting the Jets ahead 17–9. That was all the cushion the Jets would need as the defense went on the force 3 more turnovers and hold on to beat the Dolphins keeping them undefeated at 3–0 The Jets looked to go 4–0, while the Bills looked for their first win of the year. The Jets started off strong with a 61-yard drive to the Bills 11, however Doug Brien’s 29-yard field goal attempt on 4th down was wide left. Both teams traded punts before the Jets went on a 79-yard drive which took 4:12 off the clock and ended on a Chris Baker 1-yard touchdown reception from Pennington. Both teams traded punts once again before the Jets advanced to the Bills 19 and Doug Brien nailed a 37-yard field goal seconds before halftime. With 6:56 left in the 3rd Pennington hit Wayne Chrebet on a 27-yard catch which set up a 36-yard field goal by Brien. After a Bills punt Pennington led the Jets down the field before he was intercepted by Jeff Posey. The Bills then advanced 53 yards before Bledsoe hit Mark Campbell on a 16-yard touchdown. After a Jets punt, Bledsoe led the Bills on a 63-yard drive capped off on a 46-yard Lee Evans touchdown giving them the 14–13 lead with 6:58 left in the game. However, the Jets wouldn’t go down and went on a 60-yard drive which ended on a game winning Doug Brien 38-yard field goal with 59 seconds left in the game. The Bills were able to get to their own 48-yard line before Bledsoe threw a game sealing interception to Terrell Buckley with 2 seconds remaining in the game. After the 1–4 Niners jumped to a 14–0 lead, the Jets clawed back as Lamont Jordan and Curtis Martin touchdowns (marred by two failed 2-point attempts) iced a 22–14 Jets lead and a 5–0 record. The Jets’ win streak ended in a 13–7 finalé and the Patriots’ league-record win streak reached 21 as David Patten’s touchdown catch from Tom Brady wrapped up the second quarter. From there neither team could score: the second half saw seven punts, a Dan Klecko fumble, and a failed fourth down attempt by the Jets. The Jets hosted the Dolphins on \"Monday Night Football\" and rebounded from their first loss of the year to pummel Miami 41–14. Chad Pennington had three touchdown throws while Curtis Martin and Lamont Jordan added rushing scores; the Jets also intercepted Jay Fiedler twice. Willis McGahee led the Bills offense with 132 rushing yards and a touchdown as the Bills upended the Jets 22–17. Drew Bledsoe had 184 passing yards and a score (to Lee Evans) while Chad Pennington had one touchdown and one pick; he had to come out and former Cowboy Quincy Carter completed two passes, one of them a 51-yard score to Santana Moss. With Carter starting for injured Pennington, the Jets rushed to a 14–0 early lead on two Curtis Martin touchdowns, but Kyle Boller led the Ravens to a 17–14 lead on two touchdowns to Clarence Moore. The Jets tied it and in overtime Matt Stover won it for the Ravens (20–17 final) from 42 yards out. On a fourth quarter touchdown to Justin McCareins, Quincy Carter got his first win since his last season in Dallas as the Jets edged the Browns 10–7. Jeff Garcia managed a three-yard score to Aaron Shea but managed only 88 passing yards. Former Dallas Cowboys Quincy Carter of the Jets and Emmitt Smith of the Cardinals squared off in a 13–3 Jets win. Carter had a 69-yard touchdown to Santana Moss while Smith was held to just 21 yards amid four Cardinals turnovers (two of them interceptions by Josh McCown). Chad Pennington returned and threw for 155 yards and two touchdowns as the Jets crushed the Texans 29–7, picking off David Carr twice. The Steelers’ win streak under rookie Ben Roethlisberger continued as “Big Ben” threw for just 144 yards (and was intercepted twice), but the Jets performed worse; the Steelers intercepted Chad Pennington three times and the Jets committed twelve penalties (to two for Pittsburgh) as the Steelers won 17–6. Jerome Bettis ran in one touchdown and threw once for ten yards. The Jets exploded to five touchdowns, three by Chad Pennington with a missed PAT and two rushing scores by Curtis Martin to rout the Seahawks 37–14; they gained 482 yards of offense to 275 yards for the Seahawks. New York area media had been critical of the Jets for their inability to beat quality opponents; Kevin Mawae and Pennington were sharp in responses to media criticism (said Mawae following the Jets’ win over Houston, referencing New York’s earlier defeat of the Chargers, “San Diego is 9–3. We’re 9–3. Is San Diego not a good team?”), but they fell flat against the Patriots, themselves smarting from an ugly loss in Miami the week earlier. Tom Brady had two touchdowns and Pennington was picked off twice as the Patriots won 23-7; the loss prevented the Jets from clinching a playoff spot. The",
"exploded to five touchdowns, three by Chad Pennington with a missed PAT and two rushing scores by Curtis Martin to rout the Seahawks 37–14; they gained 482 yards of offense to 275 yards for the Seahawks. New York area media had been critical of the Jets for their inability to beat quality opponents; Kevin Mawae and Pennington were sharp in responses to media criticism (said Mawae following the Jets’ win over Houston, referencing New York’s earlier defeat of the Chargers, “San Diego is 9–3. We’re 9–3. Is San Diego not a good team?”), but they fell flat against the Patriots, themselves smarting from an ugly loss in Miami the week earlier. Tom Brady had two touchdowns and Pennington was picked off twice as the Patriots won 23-7; the loss prevented the Jets from clinching a playoff spot. The Jets clinched a playoff spot despite failing 32–29 in overtime; they erased a 21–10 Rams lead as Chad Pennington and three Jets backs led by Curtis Martin’s 153 yards almost evenly split 361 yards in the air and on the ground. Marc Bulger managed by himself to outgain the entire Jet offense with 450 passing yards and three touchdowns despite two picks. The Jets came into the game having lost 2 straight while San Diego was on a roll. The Jets started out the game well driving down the field on their opening drive only to see kicker Doug Brien miss a 33-yard field goal wide right. In the second quarter, Chargers quarterback Drew Brees found receiver Keenan McCardell for a 26-yard touchdown pass to give San Diego a 7–0. The Jets responded as Jets quarterback Chad Pennington found Anthony Becht for a 13-yard touchdown pass to tie the game. New York kept the momentum into the 3rd quarter as Santana Moss pulled in a perfect 46-yard touchdown pass from Pennington to give the Jets a 14–7 lead. The teams traded field goals. Then San Diego got the ball back with under 5:00 to play. The Chargers drove down to the Jets 3-yard line but faced a 4th and goal at the 3. Brees’ desperation pass was knocked down for an apparent Jets’ victory. However, a roughing the passer penalty on linebacker Eric Barton gave the Chargers a second chance, which they quickly seized as Brees found Antonio Gates for a 1-yard touchdown pass to send the game into overtime. 10 minutes into the extra period the Chargers were in position to win the game off the foot of rookie kicker Nate Kaeding. However, his 40-yard field goal sailed wide right as the Jets took advantage of their second chance driving down to the San Diego 8. Doug Brien connected on a 28-yard field goal to give the Jets the win and in the process advancing them to the next round to face the Steelers. Pennington’s numbers were very impressive as he was 23 of 33 for 279 and 2 TDs. Brees was 31 of 42 for 319 yards, 2 TDs and 1 interception. The Pittsburgh Steelers were looking to make it 15 straight victories as they hosted the New York Jets in the AFC Divisional Round. Pittsburgh started out well as Jeff Reed hit a 45-yard field goal then Jerome Bettis plowed into the endzone from 3 yards out to give Pittsburgh a 10–0 lead. But New York stormed back. Following a field goal by kicker Doug Brien, Santana Moss took a punt return 75 yards for a touchdown to tie the game. Then late in the third quarter Reggie Tongue intercepted Ben Roethlisberger and returned it 86 yards for a touchdown to give the Jets a 17–10 lead. Pittsburgh responded midway through the fourth quarter as Hines Ward scored on a shovel pass to tie the game. Chad Pennington and the Jets offense was shut down for most of the game however drove down the field on the ensuing drive only to see it come to a disappointing halt as Doug Brien’s 47 field goal attempt hit the crossbar and falling just short. But on the very next play, Roethlisberger was picked off by David Barrett. Doug Brien was given a chance to win the game on the last play of regulation but missed the 43-yard kick wide left sending the game into overtime. In overtime, Roethlisberger drove the Steelers 73 yards on 13 plays. Jeff Reed then connected on a 33-yard field goal, handing the Jets a heartbreaking defeat. 2004 New York Jets season The 2004"
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"Changdeokgung Changdeokgung (Hangul, 창덕궁, 昌德宮; literally, \"Prospering Virtue Palace\"), also known as Changdeokgung Palace or Changdeok Palace, is set within a large park in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the \"Five Grand Palaces\" built by the kings of the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897). As it is located east of Gyeongbok Palace, Changdeokgung—along with Changgyeonggung—is also referred to as the \"East Palace\" (동궐, 東闕, \"Donggwol\"). Changdeokgung was the most favored palace of many Joseon princes and retained many elements dating from the Three Kingdoms of Korea period that were not incorporated in the more contemporary Gyeongbokgung. One such element is the fact that the buildings of Changdeokgung blend with the natural topography of the site instead of imposing themselves upon it. It, like the other Five Grand Palaces in Seoul, was heavily damaged during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945). Currently, only about 30% of the pre-Japanese structures of the East Palace Complex (Changdeokgung together with Changgyeonggung) survive. Changdeokgung was the second palace after Gyeongbokgung which had been established in 1395 as a primary palace. In the midst of strife for the throne between princes and vassals, authority of Gyeongbokgung was deteriorated. King Jeongjong enthroned by Prince Jeong-an (Yi Bang-won, later became King Taejong) moved the capital to Gaegyeong, the one of Goryeo Dynasty, again in 1400 on the pretext of superior geographical features of it, in fact, in order to avert the power struggle. King Taejong (Yi Bang-won) soon taking over the throne returned to Hanseong(present-day Seoul) had a new palace named \"Changdeokgung\" instead of Gyeongbokgung because he had killed his half brothers in Gyeongbokgung whose construction was led by Jeong Do-jeon, the king's rival before. Construction of Changdeok Palace began in 1405, and was completed in 1412. King Seonjo expanded the palace grounds by about 500,000 square meters, including \"Huwon\" (see below). The Palace was burnt to the ground during the Japanese invasion in 1592 and reconstructed in 1609 by King Seonjo and King Gwanghaegun. The palace burnt back down in 1623 because of King Injo a political Revolt against Gwanghaegun. The palace was also attacked by the Manchu Qing but throughout its history of reconstruction and repair has remained faithful to its original design. Changdeokgung was the site of the royal court and the seat of government until 1868, when the neighboring Gyeongbokgung was rebuilt. Korea's last Emperor, Sunjong lived here until his death in 1926. Other members of the former Royal family were permitted to live in parts of the palace such as former Crown Prince Yi Un who lived in the Nakseon- jae (hall) Buildings with his wife Princess Bangja and sister Princess Deokhye until their respective deaths; this arrangement was periodically interrupted by differing Presidential orders supporting and objecting to their use of the historic facilities. The son of Yi-Un, Yi-Gu also lived in the Palace for variant intervals prior to moving to semi-permanent residence in Tokyo due to mental health issues having been unable to fully adapt to the new Korea. Today there are 13 buildings remaining on the palace grounds and 28 pavilions in the gardens, occupying 110 acres (45 hectares) in all and the area is designated as Historical Site No. 122. Buildings of note include Donhwamun (built in 1412, rebuilt in 1607, with a copper bell weighing 9 short tons or 8 metric tons), Injeongjeon (main hall), Seongjeongjeon (auxiliary office in the main hall), Huijeongdang (the king's private residence, later used as a conference hall), Daejojeon (living quarters), and Nakseon-jae. The palace was built between Peak Maebong of Mt. Bugaksan in the back and River Geumcheon having flowing in the front influenced by the principle \"baesanimsu\" (배산임수) in Feng Shui theory. Contrary to Gyeongbokgung whose main buildings are arranged in accurate architectural principle, however, buildings in Changdeokgung are disposed more freely without a regular system. Though its structure seems chaotic at a glance, all buildings are in harmony with the environment surrounding them. Changdeokgung consists of governmental area (치조, 治朝, \"chijo\") centering on Injeongjeon and Seonjeongjeon, royal private area (침전, 寢殿, \"chimjeon\", meaning 'a house of king's bedroom'), Nakseonjae area in the east, and Huwon beyond the north hills. Most of major official buildings such as Injeongjeon, main hall of Changdeokgung, Seonjeongjeon, king's office, and many of government offices (궐내각사, 闕內各司, \"gwollaegaksa\") are placed in the front parts of the palace, beyond which there are royal private court for king and queen. King's houses like Seonjeongjeon, Huijeongdang, and Nakseonjae are surrounded in many folds of buildings and courts in case any outsider break through. The architectural style of Changdeokgung overall features simplicity and frugality because of Confucian ideology. Structures of particular interest include: Behind the palace lies the 78-acre (32 ha) Huwon (후원, 後苑, \"Rear garden\") which was originally constructed for the use of the royal family and palace women. The garden incorporates a lotus pond, pavilions, and landscaped lawns, trees, and flowers. There are over 26,000 specimens of a hundred different species of trees in the garden and some of the trees behind the palace are over 300 years old. The garden for the private use of the king had been called 'Geumwon' (금원, 禁苑, \"Forbidden garden\") because even high officials were not allowed to enter without the king's permission. It had also been called 'Naewon' (내원, 內苑, 'Inner garden'). Today Koreans often call it 'Biwon' (비원, 秘院, \"Secret garden\") which derived from the office of same name in the late 19th century. Though the garden had many other names, the one most frequently used through Joseon dynasty period was 'Huwon'. In September 2012, the Buyongjeong pavilion in the garden was re-opened after a year-long restoration project. The pavilion was restored based on the Donggwoldo from 1820, National Treasures of South Korea No. 249. A variety of ceremonies hosted by the king were held in Huwon. In the early period of the Joseon dynasty, military inspections in which the king participated were often held here. King Sejo had troops parade and array before him or commanded them by himself in the garden. In addition, feasts were given, archery tournaments held, and fireworks enjoyed in Huwon. The Ongnyucheon (옥류천, 玉流川, \"Jade Stream\") area is of particular interest. It contains a U-shaped water channel carved in 1636 for floating wine cups, with a small waterfall and an inscribed poem on the boulder above it. The area also contains five small pavilions. Changdeokgung was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997. The UNESCO committee stated the place was an \"outstanding example of Far Eastern palace architecture and garden design\" being exceptional because the buildings are \"integrated into and harmonized with the natural setting\" and adapted \"to the topography and retaining indigenous tree cover.\" Portions of the palace were used to film the hugely popular Korean drama \"Dae Jang Geum\" in the first decade of the 21st century. From April to October 2018, Changdeok Palace will host the 2018 Changdeok Palace moonlight tour. Changdeok Palace moonlight tours are a special time event to experience life in the palace. It takes about two hours and starts at Donhwamun Gate, the main gate of Changdeok Palace, at 8 p.m. Changdeokgung Changdeokgung (Hangul, 창덕궁, 昌德宮; literally, \"Prospering Virtue Palace\"), also known as Changdeokgung"
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"The Octagon House The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Colonel John Tayloe III, for whom the house was built, was born at Mount Airy – which he later inherited – the colonial estate built by his father, John Tayloe II on the north bank of the Rappahannock River across from Tappahannock, Virginia. By this time it was the centerpiece of a roughly 60,000 acre department of interdependent plantation farms-known as the Mount Airy department, located approximately one hundred miles south of Washington, D.C., in Richmond County, Virginia. He was educated in at Eton College and Cambridge University in England, served in the Virginia state legislature, and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1800. John Tayloe III married Ann Ogle, daughter of Benjamin Ogle and granddaughter to Samuel Ogle of Ogle Hall Annapolis, Maryland, in 1792 at her family's country home Belair Mansion. Ann was only a year younger than her husband. Tayloe was reputed to be the richest Virginian planter of his time, and built the house in Washington at the suggestion of George Washington on land purchased from Gustavus W. Scott or Benjamin Stoddert, first Secretary of the Navy. The Octagon was originally constructed to be a winter residence for the Tayloe family, but they lived in the house year-round from 1818–1855. The Octagon property originally included a number of outbuildings, including a smokehouse, laundry, stables, carriage house, slave quarters, and an ice house (the only surviving outbuilding). The Tayloes were involved in shipbuilding, horse breeding and racing, and owned several iron foundries—they were fairly diversified for a plantation family. The Tayloes owned hundreds of slaves, and had between 12 and 18 who worked at the Octagon. John and Anne Tayloe were considering Philadelphia as a place to build a town house, since Baltimore and Philadelphia were the nearest metropolitan centers to Mount Airy. George Washington – whose half-brother Augustine Washington, Jr.'s son, Capt William Augustine Washington married Tayloe's sister, Sarah 'Sally' Tayloe, on May 11, 1799 – found out and persuaded the Tayloe's to build their house in the new capital city in an outlying section. The plan was to establish a node of development to stimulate fill-in growth. Col. Tayloe had been considering building his new home in Philadelphia under the expert hands of architect Benjamin Latrobe, by choosing instead the primitive wilds of the new federal city and the architect Dr. William Thornton, the man who designed the new first architect of the United States Capitol, and the help of James Hoban winner of the White House design contest. Col. Tayloe went with the wishes of George Washington. On April 19, 1797 Tayloe paid $1,000 to Gustavus W. Scott for lot 8 in Square 170, at the corner of New York Avenue and 18th St., N.W. as laid out in a plan of the District of Columbia by Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant and surveyed by Andrew Ellicott. Scott was one of the 1st purchasers of lots in the newly platted capital. The lot was in open country west of the partly built President's House, about 1 mi. from Georgetown, and about .5 mi. NE of Hamburgh, which was absorbed into the new city plan. During this time he established the Washington Jockey Club's on a mile track which extended from the rear of what is now the site of Decatur House at H Street and Jackson Place, crossing Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth Street with Charles Carnan Ridgely, the current site of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. On April 19, 1799 Dr. William Thornton wrote to George Washington, \"Mr. J. Tayloe, of Virginia, has contracted to build a house in the City near the President's Square of $13,000 value.\" Thoronton was a self-trained architect who had won the United States Capitol competition. His first problem was to plan a house that would fit the lot, the south side of which was cut away on the bias by the diagonal of New York Ave. If the house were built to face either of the bordering streets, it would be at an ungainly angle in relation to the other street, and outbuildings and wells had to be fitted in also. He dealt with the problem by relating the house equally to both streets, which put the two walls at a 70 degree angle from each other. The house actually has 6 sides, but was called \"The Octagon\" by the Tayloes. It had closets on every floor, an innovative feature for its time. The house is well built of brick trimmed with Aquia Creek sandstone. The lot is triangular and fenced in by a high brick wall. The kitchen, stable and outhouses are built of brick and accommodated a large number of both servants and horses. The interior is elaborately finished, the doors of the first story being of mahogany. All the work in the circular vestibule coincides with the circumference of the tower, the doors, sash and glass being made on the circle. The parlor mantle is made of a fine cement composition painted white. The remains of gold leaf show in some of the relieved portions. Leading into the back hall and dining-room are two secret doors in which the wash-boards, chair-boards, etc. run across the door, being ingeniously cut some distance from the actual door, no key holes, hinges or openings showing on the blind side. The knobs and shutter-buttons are of brass and evidently of a special pattern. The Tayloes had 15 children, 13 of whom survived to adulthood (2 died in infancy: Anne, born and died in 1800, and Lloyd, born 1815, died 1816). The children were all born between 1793 and 1815. The oldest son, John Tayloe IV, served in the US Navy during the War of 1812 aboard the USS Constitution. His early death in 1824 was possibly connected to wounds received during the war. His parents provided for his wife and child after his death. Edward Thornton Tayloe, George Plater Tayloe and Henry Augustine Tayloe were all born at the Octagon. John Tayloe III was a Federalist, and not terribly supportive of President James Madison and the war with England that began in 1812, but he was active in the Virginia militia and commanded a regiment of DC cavalry. When the British marched into Washington in August 1814, there was a French flag flying outside the Octagon. Ann Ogle Tayloe had offered the house to the French consulate, in the hopes of sparing the house from destruction at the hands of the British, and he was occupying the house when the British arrived in the city. The house probably would have been spared even if it hadn't been effectively a \"diplomatic residence\", since the British were under strict orders not to damage private property. When First Lady Dolley Madison fled the city as the British approached, she sent her pet parrot to the French consulate at the Octagon for safekeeping. President James Madison and his wife, Dolley moved into the Octagon on September 8, 1814 after the burning of the White House by the British. President Madison ratified the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, in the upstairs study at the Octagon on February 17, 1815. The Tayloes received $500 in rent for the Madisons' 6-month residency at the Octagon. While a resident of Washington, Tayloe helped found and organize St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square in 1814, served as a trustee in 1816 during its construction and upon completion served on the vestry and donated to the parish a communion service of silver, which Bishop William Meade, in his work on the old Churches of Virginia, says had been purchased by Col. Tayloe at a sale of the effects of the Lunenburg Parish Church in Richmond County, VA., to prevent its desecration for secular use. John Tayloe III died in 1828 while staying at the Octagon. Ann Ogle Tayloe lived in the Octagon until her death in 1855. Both John and Ann were buried at Mount Airy. After Ann's death, the Tayloe children began renting out the house. It was",
"for the Madisons' 6-month residency at the Octagon. While a resident of Washington, Tayloe helped found and organize St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square in 1814, served as a trustee in 1816 during its construction and upon completion served on the vestry and donated to the parish a communion service of silver, which Bishop William Meade, in his work on the old Churches of Virginia, says had been purchased by Col. Tayloe at a sale of the effects of the Lunenburg Parish Church in Richmond County, VA., to prevent its desecration for secular use. John Tayloe III died in 1828 while staying at the Octagon. Ann Ogle Tayloe lived in the Octagon until her death in 1855. Both John and Ann were buried at Mount Airy. After Ann's death, the Tayloe children began renting out the house. It was rented to a girls' school in the 1860s, and the Federal government in the 1870s, when it served as office space for the Hydrographic Office of the U.S. Navy. By the 1880s, the house was occupied by 10 families, probably one living in each room, tenement-apartment-style. The residents were probably mostly workers in the factories that populated Foggy Bottom. In 1898, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) selected the Octagon to be their new national headquarters. They rented the building for 4 years, and then purchased it outright in 1902. The Octagon would continue to serve as AIA's headquarters until the construction of the current headquarters building in the 1960s. The Octagon opened as a museum in 1970. The museum was restored to its 1817–18 era appearance in the early 1990s—the wall colors and room configurations that you see today are representative of that time period. The museum was administered by the American Architectural Foundation from 1970-2011/2012 (though the museum was closed from 2007 through 2013). Today, the museum is administered by the American Institute of Architects Foundation, and offers self-guided tours, permanent and changing exhibitions, public programming, and guided tours by appointment. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. The three-story brick house, adapted to an irregular-shaped lot, displays a dramatic break with the traditional, late Georgian and early Federal house planning that preceded it. The Octagon achieves a zenith in Federal architecture in the United States, through a plan which combines a circle, two rectangles, and a triangle, and through the elegance and restraint of the interior and exterior decoration. The Coade stone, stoves, other decorative elements, and furniture were imported from England. The construction materials, such as bricks, timber, iron, and Aquia Creek sandstone were all manufactured locally. The reason behind the naming of the six-sided building as the Octagon is unknown. Though the main room is a circle, one possibility is that it resembled octagonal rooms common in England, which were also circles but called octagon salons because they were constructed of eight walls and then plastered heavily in the corners to make a circle. Another explanation is that the eight angles formed by the odd shape of the six walls are an old definition of an octagon. The Octagon House is purported to be one of the most haunted homes in D.C. Apparitions and the presence of otherworldly forces have reportedly been seen and felt in many places at The Octagon, including on the spiral staircase, the second floor landing, the third floor landing, the third floor bedroom, and the garden area in the rear. Among the eyewitnesses have been members of the public, curators, and other employees hired by the museum . There are many variations of ghost stories that feature the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. As one of the oldest buildings in the city, it lends itself nicely as a setting for historical, spooky, and macabre tales. The stories recorded here are merely a presentation of a few of the reported experiences and legends that have evolved over the past 200 years, and should not be taken as historical fact. The oldest of the Octagon's ghost legends is that of the mysterious ringing of the servant's call bells, just one of the legends linked to the African American slaves who once lived there. When the house held bells to summon servants, the spirits of the dead slaves would announce their presence by ringing these bells loudly. The ghostly bell ringing is believed to have first occurred in the mid-1800s. Virginia Tayloe Lewis, a granddaughter of John Tayloe III, grew up in the house and recorded this family memory in an unpublished manuscript: \"The bells rang for a long time after my Grandfather Tayloe's death, and every one said that the house was haunted; the wires were cut and still they rang… Our dining room servant would come upstairs to ask if anyone rang the bell, and no one had.\" An account by Marian Gouverneur, wife of Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, Jr. (the first American consul in Foo Chow, China), tells the story of General George D. Ramsay, Chief of Ordnance for the United States Army and commander of the Washington Arsenal in Washington, D.C., and his experience with the bells: \"I have been told by the daughters of General George D. Ramsay that upon one occasion their father was requested by Colonel John Tayloe… to remain at the Octagon overnight, when we was obliged to be absent, as a protection to his daughters… While the members of the family were at the evening meal, the bells in the house began to ring violently. General Ramsay immediately arose from the table to investigate, but failed to unravel the mystery. The butler, in a state of great alarm, rushed into the dining-room and declared that it was the work of an unseen hand. As they continued to ring, General Ramsay held the rope which controlled the bells, but, it is said, they were not silenced.\" By 1874 the bell legend was well established. Mary Clemmer Ames wrote about it: \"It is an authenticated fact, that every night at the same hour, all the bells would ring at once. One gentleman, dining with Colonel Tayloe, when this mysterious ringing began, being an unbeliever in mysteries, and a very powerful man, jumped up and caught the bell wires in his hand, but only to be lifted bodily from the floor, while he was unsuccessful in stopping the ringing. Some declare that it was discovered, after a time, that rats were the ghosts who rung the bells; others, that the cause was never discovered, and that finally the family, to secure peace, were compelled to take the bells down and hang them in different fashion. Among other remedies, had been previously tried that of exorcism, but the prayers of the priest who had been summoned availed nought.\" The servants' bells are no longer in the house and there are no reports of their continuing to ring today. There are a number of ghostly legends at the Octagon that deal with its early history as a gathering place for the elite of Washington. Dolley Madison is prominent in these legends because she was well known as a hostess during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. She is a very popular ghost in Washington, D.C., and is said to haunt several buildings around town. Dolley and James Madison resided in the Octagon House from September 1814 through March 1815, after the White House was burned by the British. According to the legends, ghostly receptions are held by Dolley Madison, who is supposedly most often seen in the front hall and drawing room, and the smell of lilacs is noticeable whenever her ghost is present. By far the most intricate and popular of the legends connected with the Octagon is that of the deaths of the Tayloes' daughters. Variations of the legend are so well developed and circulated, that visitors to the house are often thoroughly convinced that they are based on fact. In reality, there is no documentation to support any of them. The legend, which made its first appearance in a 1908 article run by the Minneapolis Tribune, has appeared on TV shows, and in numerous",
"in the Octagon House from September 1814 through March 1815, after the White House was burned by the British. According to the legends, ghostly receptions are held by Dolley Madison, who is supposedly most often seen in the front hall and drawing room, and the smell of lilacs is noticeable whenever her ghost is present. By far the most intricate and popular of the legends connected with the Octagon is that of the deaths of the Tayloes' daughters. Variations of the legend are so well developed and circulated, that visitors to the house are often thoroughly convinced that they are based on fact. In reality, there is no documentation to support any of them. The legend, which made its first appearance in a 1908 article run by the Minneapolis Tribune, has appeared on TV shows, and in numerous ghost books, and usually follows a story-line similar to this: Two of Colonel Tayloe's daughters are said to haunt The Octagon. The first allegedly died before the War of 1812. Colonel Tayloe and his daughter quarreled on the second floor landing over the girl's relationship with a British officer stationed in the city. When the daughter turned in anger to go down the stairs, she fell down the stairs (or over the railing; stories differ) and died. Her specter is allegedly seen crumpled at the bottom of the steps or on the stairs near the second floor landing, and sometimes exhibits itself as the light of a candle moving up the staircase. The other death, stories claim, occurred in 1817 or shortly thereafter. Another of Colonel Tayloe's daughters eloped with a young man, incurring her father's wrath. When she returned home to reconcile with her father, they argued on the third-floor landing. This daughter, too, fell to her death down the stairs (or over the railing), and her shade is alleged to haunt the third floor landing and stairs between the second and third floors. There is no historical evidence to support these stories. Nothing about the ghosts of the daughters appears before 1908, and none of the Tayloes' daughters died in the Octagon. Of the Tayloes' seven daughters, only three died before the age of 30. Of those, one died in 1800 at the age of one month (Ann Tayloe) and never lived in the Octagon. Rebecca Plater Tayloe died in 1815 at the age of 18, but at that time the Octagon was being rented by President Madison, and the Tayloe family was staying at their Mount Airy Plantation in Richmond County, VA. Sources state that the Tayloe family was \"grief stricken by the loss through illness of their eighteen year old daughter Rebecca Plater while at Mount Airy\". The next youngest of their surviving daughters to die was Elizabeth Mary Tayloe, who died in 1832 at the age of 26. She died in Washington, D.C., but not at the Octagon House. At the time of her death her father had been dead for four years and she had been married to her husband, Robert Wormeley Carter II, for some time. The four remaining daughters all died over the age of 38. For a complete list of the births and deaths of the Tayloe children, see the John Tayloe III page. The Octagon was firmly established as a haunted house by 1888, when, it is reported, twelve men decided to spend a night in the house in order to expel the ghosts or prove the legends wrong. A first-hand account was printed in a local newspaper, and this was subsequently quoted or paraphrased in articles printed in 1892, 1934, 1941, 1950, and 1969. \"The hours wore quietly on. The party were dispersed from garret to cellar. At the hour of midnight, as I and two others were crossing the threshold of a room on the second floor, three feminine shrieks rose from the center of the room. Aghast we stood. From all quarters the party rushed… Too brave to desert, yet cowards at heart, we watched the gray light of morning dawn, and each man of us thanked God his night among ghosts was past. After those screams our band was closely knit together… collectively we listened through the waning hours of night to the clanking of sabers and tramping of footfalls.\" Museum superintendent Alric H. Clay claimed that in the 1960s spirits would often turn on the lights and open The Octagon's doors late at night. In the late 1940s, a doctor who had made a house call to the Octagon had a strange encounter on the stairway. Caretaker James Cyprus had summoned the physician for his ailing wife. The doctor was preparing to leave when he mustered up enough courage to ask Cyprus if there was a costume party going on that evening. When Cyprus told him that there wasn't, the doctor looked perplexed and told him of encountering a man on the stairs just a few moments before who had been dressed in a military uniform of the early 1800s. A gambler shot to death in the home's third-floor bedroom in the late 19th century has been reportedly seen in the room in which he died. A 1912 newspaper article related the story of a man who had stayed for a month in a room in the Octagon which he claimed was visited nightly by the spirit of a man who was killed over a card game held in the room. There are numerous reports of occurrences in the Octagon that were supposedly caused by the household ghosts. The sound of rustling silk is said to be heard on the main staircase, the hanging lamp in the main hallway allegedly swings by itself, there is a spot at the foot of the main staircase that some people feel they are forced to avoid, and one curator is reported to have found the \"tiptoeing tracks of human feet in the undisturbed dust of the top floor landing\". The Octagon House The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Colonel John Tayloe III, for whom the house was built, was born at Mount Airy – which he later inherited – the colonial estate built by his father, John Tayloe II on the north bank of the Rappahannock River across from Tappahannock,"
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"2013 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament The 2013 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 24 and ended on May 26, 2013 at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood, New Jersey. The league's top four teams finishers competed in the double elimination tournament. Top seeded won its first Tournament championship and claimed the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular season winning percentage. They then played a double-elimination tournament. The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Jordan Mountford was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Mountford was a sophomore outfielder for Bryant. 2013 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament The 2013 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 24 and ended on May 26, 2013 at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood, New Jersey. The league's top four teams finishers competed in the double elimination tournament. Top seeded won its first Tournament championship and claimed the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular season winning percentage. They then played a double-elimination tournament. The following players were named to the All-Tournament"
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"Roaring Fire In Hong Kong, a crime syndicate has cornered and ultimately shot down Toru Hinoharu, the heir to a major business corporation. Meanwhile, in Texas, we learn that there is another man who looks exactly like the late Toru, a cowboy named Joji Hibiki. When Joji learns his father is on his deathbed, his father reveals the truth about him. Given a letter, Joji learns that Mr. Hibiki had kidnapped Joji as a young boy due to his aspirations on trying to be wealthy in Japan. However, over the eighteen years, Hibiki actually thought of Joji as a son. Hibiki writes that Joji has a twin brother and sister and had read in a Japanese newspaper that his twin brother (Toru) was killed in Hong Kong. Joji heads to Japan to learn the truth about who he is. Upon his arrival in Kobe, Joji meets a man who attempts to pickpocket him. While the man successfully steals his wallet, Joji's insistence to take him to the old Hinoharu place allows the thief to take him there. When Joji arrives with his monkey Peter, Peter steals a top from a bikini clad woman, prompting the woman and her friends to confront Joji. When Joji attempts to say it was a mistake, the girls call for the hulking Spartacus, whose futile attempts to catch Joji eventually gives the duo a level of respect. Meanwhile, someone has recognized Joji and mistakes him for the dead Toru. That night, Joji finds the pickpocket and confronts him and his friends. However, the group soon earn Joji's respect and they become friends. Ikeda Hinokaru has learned about Joji and takes him in. Joji meets his sister Chihiro, who has been blind since the age of nine. At first thinking Joji is Toru, Joji reveals his true identity and Chihiro is relieved to hear she has another brother. To celebrate Joji's return, Ikeda gives Joji a chance to see Chihiro demonstrate her martial arts skills. While she is blinded, she uses the power of sound and the wind to find her attackers. That night, the family heads to a show performed by ventriloquist \"Mr. Magic\", who through his puppet, tells Joji that his uncle may not be who he is seen to be. When the group returns him, Joji overhears a conversation with Ikeda and the father of Reika, one of his new friends. Joji learns his uncle is the head of a local syndicate and that he has hired Reika's father to find a rare diamond known as the Queen of Sheba. When Reika's father attempts to quit, he is stomped on by Ikeda's moll and is forced to remain when Ikeda threatens to tell Reika about her father. Ikeda learns Joji has overheard the conversation and sets out to stop him. He puts Joji into a trap where he is forced to fight an American boxer followed by a staff expert. Joji is able to defeat them both and escape. The next day, Joji, Reika, and another friend are chased by a ninja-like brigade hired by Ikeda, in which the friend, willing to distract them so Joji and Reika can escape, ends up thrown in a garbage can after an attempt to fight them off. When Ikeda sends some of his own men against Joji, Joji is able to fend off some of them until he is cornered. He gets some help from Spartacus, who sacrifices himself in order for Joji to escape. Joji and Reika are left, being chased by some shogun-like goons on bicycles until the entire brigade crash in a pile of cardboard boxes. Ikeda, unhappy with what has happened, decides to use Chihiro for bait and despite her efforts to fend off against her traitorous uncle and goons, is beaten bad and forced to take heroin. When Joji is forced to find the Queen of Shiba, he finds the diamond and when he returns with the diamond for Chihiro, he and Reika fall into a trap, but not before Reika sees her father shot down before her. One of Ikeda's molls, dressed up like a member of the Third Reich, has the trap Joji and Reika in filled with gas that was apparently used during World War II, which will cause madness within ten minutes. When the moll slips up into the trap, Joji and Reika and able to escape while the moll falls into madness. Joji fights off more thugs and successfully rescues Chihiro, who by this time, is heavily under the influence from heroin and tells Joji that he must keep the Hinoharu name alive for good. When Ikeda and his goons arrive to kill Joji, Chihiro sacrifices herself to save her brother as she is shot down and falls off a cliff. Joji learns that Ikeda is planning to use the Queen of Sheba to forge an alliance with the Hong Kong syndicate responsible for Toru's death. Joji heads to Hong Kong to follow his uncle and seeks revenge. After fighting off both members of the syndicate and Ikeda's men in the streets, Joji gets assistance from Mr. Magic, who is revealed to be Shinsuke Tachizawa, a narcotics agent working for Interpol. Tachizawa tells Joji to let the authorities handle the matter, but Joji is insistent on getting to Ikeda. At first, Tachizawa threatens to arrest Joji but instead helps him. A brief fight scene with Joji and Tachizawa teaming up leads to the arrest of the Hong Kong syndicate boss. When Ikeda and his group are celebrating their alliance, Joji busts in by throwing one of Ikeda's men through the glass roof, forcing the thug to crash into the dinner table. Joji singlehandedly faces off against all of Ikeda's men. With his lead moll and one henchmen shooting at him, he is able to use the sais of one of Ikeda's men and throws it at their hands. Ikeda narrowly escapes when Joji fights a hulking member of the goons. Joji is able to defeat the big man and finds himself targeted by more of Ikeda's men. An attempt to follow Ikeda by horseback leads to two men in a helicopter following Joji. One sports grenades and the other a machine gun. As Joji attempts to hide, he uses a tomahawk to hit the helicopter's fuel tank. When the gun-trotting thug sees Joji, his attempt to shoot Joji causes him to hit the leaking gas, causing the helicopter to crash, killing both thugs. Joji then diverts Ikeda's getaway car into the river after forcing a samurai henchman to accidentally kill the driver. Ikeda escapes before the car plunges into the river. When the samurai comes out to confront Joji, he is distracted by Joji's splashing of the water. Joji gives the samurai a crushing blow to his throat. Ikeda is the last one remaining and Joji follows him up a small cliff. Ikeda shoots Joji in the shoulder, forcing him to hide behind rocks. Taking off his shirt and throwing it as a distraction, Ikeda is now confronted by Joji and after having one bullet left, tells Joji they have the same Hinoharu blood. Joji responds that his name is Joji Hibiki and is able to kick the gun out of Ikeda and puts him up against the cliff wall. Giving Ikeda the Queen of Sheba, Joji sees Ikeda grabng and looking at the diamond, at which he then proceeds to impale Ikeda's eye with the diamond with a punch. Ikeda falls off the cliff to his death. Tachizawa arrives and arrests Joji. On the ride back, Tachizawa decides to let Joji by using magic to uncuff him. Joji, excited at the chance to leave and return to Texas, is seen in a freeze frame as he jumps out of the helicopter into the ocean. New Line Cinema released the film in May 1982 and credited Hiroyuki Sanada as \"Duke Sanada\", something New Line Cinema had done with their Japanese film releases and giving the lead actors Western names for the markets. Roaring Fire In Hong Kong, a crime syndicate has cornered and ultimately shot down Toru Hinoharu, the heir to a major business corporation. Meanwhile, in Texas, we learn that there is another man who looks exactly like the late Toru, a cowboy named Joji Hibiki. When Joji learns his father is on his deathbed, his father reveals the truth about him. Given a letter,"
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"Utqiagvik, Alaska Utqiagvik, ( Utqiaġvik, , ), officially the City of Utqiaġvik, and previously Barrow () is the largest city and the borough seat of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska and is located north of the Arctic Circle. It is one of the northernmost public communities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States. Nearby Point Barrow is the country's northernmost point. Utqiagvik's population was 4,581 at the 2000 census and 4,212 at the 2010 census. The location has been home to the Iñupiat, an indigenous Inuit ethnic group, for more than 1,500 years. The city's native name, Utqiaġvik, refers to a place for gathering wild roots. It is derived from the Iñupiat word , also used for \"potato\". The name was first recorded in 1853 as \"Ot-ki-a-wing\" by Commander Rochfort Maguire, Royal Navy. John Simpson's native map dated 1855, records the name \"Otkiawik,\" which was misprinted on the subsequent British Admiralty Chart as \"Otkiovik.\" The name Barrow was derived from Point Barrow, and was originally a general designation, because non-native Alaskan residents found it easier to pronounce than the Inupiat name. A post office established in 1901 helped the name \"Barrow\" to become dominant. Point Barrow was named after Sir John Barrow of the British Admiralty by explorer Frederick William Beechey in 1825. In an October 2016 referendum, city voters narrowly approved to change its name from Barrow to its traditional Iñupiaq name, . The governor had 45 days to rule on the name change and it was officially adopted on December 1, 2016. City Council member Qaiyaan Harcharek described the name change as supporting use of the Iñupiaq language and being part of a process of \"decolonization\". Another recorded Iñupiaq name is (), which comes from \"snowy owl\" and translates to \"the place where snowy owls are hunted\". A spelling variant of this name was adopted by the Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation when it was established in 1973. Archaeological sites in the area indicate the Iñupiat lived around Utqiagvik as far back as AD 500. Remains of 16 sod dwelling mounds, from the Birnirk culture of about AD 800, can be seen on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Located on a slight rise above the high-water mark, they are at risk of being lost to erosion. Dr. Bill Streever, who chairs the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel, wrote in his 2009 book \"Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places\": British Royal Navy officers came to the area to explore and map the Arctic coastline of North America. The US acquired Alaska in 1867. The United States Army established a meteorological and magnetic research station at Utqiagvik in 1881. In 1888, a Presbyterian church was built by United States missionaries at Utqiagvik. In 1889 a whaling supply and rescue station was built. It is the oldest wood-frame building in Utqiagvik and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The rescue station was converted for use in 1896 as the retail Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Station. In the late 20th century, the building was used as Brower's Cafe. In 1901, a United States Post Office was opened. In 1935, the famous humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post made an unplanned stop at Walakpa Bay south of Utqiagvik, en route to the city. As they took off again, their plane stalled and plunged into a river, killing them both. Two memorials have been erected at the location, now called the Rogers-Post Site. Another memorial is located in Utqiagvik, where the airport was renamed as the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport in their honor. In 1940, the indigenous Iñupiat organized as the Native Village of Barrow Iñupiat Traditional Government (previously, Native Village of Barrow), which is a federally recognized Alaska Native Iñupiat \"tribal entity\", as listed by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs circa 2003. They wrote a constitution and by-laws, under the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. An IRA corporation was also created. Utqiagvik was incorporated as a 1st Class City under the name Barrow in 1958. Residents of the North Slope were the only Native people to vote on acceptance of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; they rejected it. The Act was passed in December 1971 and, despite their opposition, became law. The Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC) is the for-profit village corporation established under the Act. In 1972, the North Slope Borough was established. With millions of dollars in new revenues from the settlement and later oil revenues, the borough has created sanitation facilities, water and electrical utilities, roads, fire departments, and health and educational services in Utqiagvik and the villages of the North Slope. In 1986, the North Slope Borough created the North Slope Higher Education Center. Renamed Iḷisaġvik College, it is an accredited two-year college providing education based on the Iñupiat culture and the needs of the North Slope Borough. The Tuzzy Consortium Library, in the Iñupiat Heritage Center, serves the communities of the North Slope Borough and functions as the academic library for Iḷisaġvik College. The library was named after Evelyn Tuzroyluk Higbee, an important leader in the community. Utqiagvik, like many communities in Alaska, has enacted a \"damp\" law, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages. It allows for import, possession and consumption of such beverages. In 1988, Utqiagvik became the center of worldwide media attention when three California gray whales became trapped in the ice offshore. After a two-week rescue effort (Operation Breakthrough), a Soviet icebreaker freed two of the whales. Journalist Tom Rose details the rescue, and the media frenzy that accompanied it, in his 1989 book \"Freeing The Whales\". The movie \"Big Miracle\" is based on the rescue and was released on February 3, 2012. In October 2016, a city referendum renamed the city from Barrow to its traditional Iñupiaq name, Utqiaġvik. The name change officially went into effect on December 1, 2016. Utqiagvik is roughly south of the North Pole. Only 2.6% of the Earth's surface lies as far and farther from the equator as Utqiagvik. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of the area being land and being water. Water makes up 14% of the total area. The predominant land type in Utqiagvik is tundra, which is formed over a permafrost layer that is as much as in depth. Utqiagvik is surrounded by the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska. The city of Utqiagvik has three sections, which can be classified as south, central, and north, and are known to residents as Utqiagvik, Browerville, and NARL, respectively. An ancient -sized crater, Avak, is situated near Utqiagvik. Owing to its location north of the Arctic Circle, Utqiagvik's climate is cold and dry, classified as a polar climate (Köppen \"ET\"). Winter weather can be extremely dangerous because of the combination of cold and wind, while summers are cool even at their warmest. Weather observations are available for Utqiagvik dating back to the late 19th century. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Monitoring Lab operates in Utqiagvik. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has a climate observation site in Utqiagvik as part of its Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. Despite the extreme northern location, temperatures at Utqiagvik are moderated by the surrounding topography. The Arctic Ocean is on three sides, and flat tundra stretches some to the south. There are no wind barriers or protected valleys where dense cold air can settle or form temperature inversions in the lower atmosphere, as commonly happens in the interior between the Brooks and the Alaska ranges. Utqiagvik has the lowest average temperatures of cities in Alaska. Although it is rare for Utqiagvik to record the lowest temperatures statewide during cold waves, extremely low wind",
"Monitoring Lab operates in Utqiagvik. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has a climate observation site in Utqiagvik as part of its Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. Despite the extreme northern location, temperatures at Utqiagvik are moderated by the surrounding topography. The Arctic Ocean is on three sides, and flat tundra stretches some to the south. There are no wind barriers or protected valleys where dense cold air can settle or form temperature inversions in the lower atmosphere, as commonly happens in the interior between the Brooks and the Alaska ranges. Utqiagvik has the lowest average temperatures of cities in Alaska. Although it is rare for Utqiagvik to record the lowest temperatures statewide during cold waves, extremely low wind chill and \"white out\" conditions from blowing snow are very common. Temperatures remain below freezing from early October through late May. The high temperature is above freezing on an average of only 120 days per year, and there are 160 days of sub-. Freezing temperatures and snowfall can occur during any month of the year. In terms of precipitation, Utqiagvik has a desert climate, and averages less than \"rainfall equivalent\" per year. One inch of rain possesses approximately equal water content to of snow. According to 1971−2000 normals, this includes of snow, The first snow (defined as snow that will not melt until next spring) generally falls during the first week of October, when temperatures cease to rise above freezing during the day. October is usually the month with the heaviest snowfall, with measurable amounts occurring on nearly half the days and an average total accumulation of . The sun sets on November 18 or 19, and it remains below the horizon for about 65 days. This creates a polar night that lasts until the Sun returns to lightly touch the horizon (due to the refraction and scattering of the atmosphere) by January 22 or January 23. The sun then rises again completely over the horizon by January 27 or 28. During the first half of the polar night, there is a decreasing amount of twilight each day, and on the winter solstice (around December 21 or December 22), civil twilight in Utqiagvik lasts for a mere 3 hours. In addition to its low temperatures and polar night, Utqiagvik is one of the cloudiest places on Earth. Owing to the prevailing easterly winds off the Arctic Ocean, Utqiagvik is completely overcast slightly more than 50% of the year. It is at least 70% overcast some 62% of the time. Cloud types are mainly low stratus and fog; cumuli forms are rare. Peak cloudiness occurs in August and September when the ocean is ice-free. Dense fog occurs an average of 65 days per year, mostly in the summer months. Ice fog is very common during the winter months, especially when the temperature drops below . Serious cold weather usually begins in January, and February is generally the coldest month, averaging . By March 1, the sun is up for 9 hours, and temperatures begin to warm, though winds are usually higher. April brings less extreme temperatures, with an average of , and on April 1 the sun is up for more than 14 hours. In May, the temperatures are much warmer, averaging . Beginning around May 11 or 12, the sun remains above the horizon the entire day, and the phenomenon known as the midnight sun is observed. The sun does not set for about 80 days, until around July 31 or August 1. In June, the average temperature rises above freezing, to , and average daily temperatures remain above freezing until mid- or late September. July is the warmest month of the year, with an average high of and an average low temperature of . Beginning in late July, the Arctic Ocean is relatively ice-free, and remains so until late October. The highest temperature recorded in Utqiagvik was on July 13, 1993, while the lowest is on February 3, 1924; the highest minimum is , while the lowest maximum is . Utqiagvik records an average 24 days per year where the high reaches at least . Even in July and August, the low falls to or below the freezing mark on 24 days. Variation of wind speed during the year is limited, with the fall months being windiest. Extreme winds from have been recorded for all months. Winds average and are typically from the east. The City of Utqiaġvik first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit village of \"Ootiwakh.\" All 225 of its residents were Inuit. In 1890, the community and area was returned as the \"Cape Smythe Settlements\", which was including the refuge & whaling stations, Pengnok, Utkeavie, Kugaru (Inaru) River villages, 4 other camps & Whaling Steamer \"Balaena\". Of those 246 residents, 189 were natives, 46 were White, 1 was Asian and 10 were other races. This did not include nearby Point Barrow, which was a separate community. In 1900, it reported again as \"Cape Smythe Settlements.\" In 1910, it first reported as Barrow, and in every successive census to 2010. It formally incorporated in 1959. The native name of Utqiaġvik was adopted in 2016 and will appear on the 2020 census. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 4,212 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 60.5% Alaskan Native, 16.2% Caucasian, 0.9% African, 8.9% Asian, 2.3% Pacific Islander and 8.1% from two or more races. 3.1% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,683 people, 1,399 households, and 976 families residing in the city. The population density was 249.0 people per square mile (96.1/km). There were 1,620 housing units at an average density of 88.1 per square mile (34.0/km). The racial makeup of the city is 57.19% Alaska Native, 21.83% White, 9.41% Asian, 1.00% Black or African American, 1.35% Pacific Islander, 0.70% from other races, and 8.51% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 3.34% of the population. There were 1,399 households out of which 56.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were married couples living together, 14.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.35 and the average family size was 4.80. In Utqiagvik, the age distribution shows 27.7% under the age of 18, 13.3% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 3.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 109.5 males. The median income for a household in the city was $63,094.09, and the median income for a family was $68,223. Males had a median income of $51,959 versus $46,382 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,902. About 7.7% of families and 8.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.2% of those under the age of 18 and 13.12% of those 65 and older. As of March 3, 2009, the town's website wrote of the population: \"The largest city in the North Slope Borough, Utqiagvik has 4,429 residents, of which approximately 61% are Iñupiat Eskimo.\" Utqiagvik is the economic center of the North Slope Borough, the city's primary employer. Numerous businesses provide support services to oil field operations. State and federal agencies are employers. The midnight sun has attracted tourism, and arts and crafts provide some cash income. Because transporting food to the city is very expensive, many residents continue to rely upon subsistence food sources. Whale, seal, polar bear, walrus, waterfowl, caribou, and fish are harvested from the coast or nearby rivers and lakes. Utqiagvik is the headquarters of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, one of the Alaska Native corporations set up following the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971 to manage revenues and invest in development for their people in the region. Utqiagvik (then called",
"is the economic center of the North Slope Borough, the city's primary employer. Numerous businesses provide support services to oil field operations. State and federal agencies are employers. The midnight sun has attracted tourism, and arts and crafts provide some cash income. Because transporting food to the city is very expensive, many residents continue to rely upon subsistence food sources. Whale, seal, polar bear, walrus, waterfowl, caribou, and fish are harvested from the coast or nearby rivers and lakes. Utqiagvik is the headquarters of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, one of the Alaska Native corporations set up following the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971 to manage revenues and invest in development for their people in the region. Utqiagvik (then called Barrow) is the setting for a series of horror comic books titled \"30 Days of Night\". The stories center on vampires who take advantage of month-long annual polar night in the town to openly kill and feed at will, massacring most of the townspeople. A commercially successful film, named after and based upon the comic, was released on October 19, 2007, followed by a straight-to-video on July 23, 2010. Karl Pilkington is sent to Utqiagvik (then called Barrow) in the second season of \"An Idiot Abroad\". \"On the Ice\", a film released in 2011 about teenagers dealing with a tragic accidental death, was filmed entirely in Utqiagvik with locals acting in most roles. \"Big Miracle\", a 2012 film starring Drew Barrymore, is based on the true story of whales trapped under ice near Point Barrow, and features scenes in and characters from Utqiagvik (then called Barrow). The \"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\" episode \"T.R.A.C.K.S.\" has Phil Coulson threaten Ward with a transfer to Utqiagvik (then called Barrow) to guard Emil Blonsky's cryo-cell. Stephen Fry visited the town and its people during the last segment of his documentary \"Stephen Fry in America\". In 2015, the NFL Network began an 8-part documentary series focusing on the Barrow High School Whalers football team. On August 19, 2006, the Whalers of Barrow High School played the first official football game in the Arctic against Delta Junction High School. Barrow High School recorded its first win two weeks later; the coaches and players celebrated the historic win by jumping into the Arctic Ocean, just from the makeshift dirt field. On August 17, 2007, the Whalers football team played their first game of the season on their new artificial-turf field. The historic game, attended by former Miami Dolphins player Larry Csonka, was the first live Internet broadcast of a sporting event in the United States from north of the Arctic Circle. Since the team's formation, it has gathered a record of 33-24, and most recently, the team reached the semi-final round of the Alaskan State Small School Football Championship. In 2017, The Barrow High School Football team recorded their first ever state championship win over the Homer Mariners 20-14. Ben Heather lead the team to victory with 134 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns with the help of an unstoppable line and defensive prowess led by Sebastian Sias. The support of Sione Tuifua, Travis Adams, Calvin Miller, and Remese Unutoa also helped The Whalers to clinch their first ever 3A small schools state champion. In 2015, the Barrow High School boys' basketball team won the Alaska Class 3A State Championship with a 50-40 victory over two-time defending state champion, Monroe Catholic. The Whalers' team was led by 5-star recruit Kamaka Hepa. As a 6'7\" freshman he was regarded as one of the top basketball recruits in the country. He was ranked as the #21 ranked basketball recruit in the country by ESPN for the class of 2018. Hepa transferred to Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, for his junior year. By October 2017, at 6'8\" tall, he had committed to go to the University of Texas. The Whalers' boys' basketball team finished the 2014-2015 season with a 24-3 record, the highest win percentage in school history. Guard Travis Adams was a standout as well. Coach Jeremy Arnhart's teams won 186 games in 10 seasons. Also in 2015, the Barrow High School girls' team easily won the ACS tournament. Utqiagvik is served by the North Slope Borough School District. The schools serving the city are Ipalook Elementary School, Hopson Middle School, and Barrow High School. Iḷisaġvik College, a two-year tribal college, is located in Utqiagvik. KBRW (AM)/KBRW-FM radio station broadcasts in Utqiagvik on 680 kHz AM and 91.9 MHz FM. KBRW is also broadcast via FM repeaters in all of the North Slope Borough villages, from Kaktovik to Point Hope. \"The Arctic Sounder\" is a newspaper published weekly by Alaska Media, LLC, which covers news of interest to the North Slope Borough, which includes Utqiagvik, and the Northwest Arctic Borough, which includes Kotzebue, in northwestern Alaska. Appeared in Channel 4 from Alaska Rural Communications Service. The stations are K04KS and K11NN. The roads in Utqiagvik are unpaved due to the permafrost, and no roads connect the city to the rest of Alaska. Utqiagvik is served by Alaska Airlines with passenger jet service at the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport from Anchorage and Fairbanks. New service between Fairbanks and Anchorage began from Era Aviation on June 1, 2009. Freight arrives by air cargo year round and by ocean-going marine barges during the annual summer sealift. Utqiagvik is the transportation hub for the North Slope Borough's Arctic coastal villages. Multiple jet aircraft, with service from Deadhorse (Prudhoe Bay), Fairbanks and Anchorage, provide daily mail, cargo, and passenger services, which connect with smaller single- and twin-engine general aviation aircraft that provide regular service to other villages, from Kaktovik in the east to Point Hope in the west. The town is also served by several radio taxi services, most using small four-wheel drive vehicles. Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital, located in the City of Utqiaġvik, is the primary healthcare facility for the North Slope region of Alaska. Individuals in need of medical care in the Utqiagvik are able to access the hospital by road. However, because no roads lead in or out of Utqiagvik, individuals in surrounding communities and towns (such as Point Hope, Prudhoe Bay, and Wainwright) must be airlifted in by plane, helicopter, or air ambulance. The hospital underwent construction and was relocated across the city in 2013. It is now nearly four times larger than it was before. The facility operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is the northernmost hospital/medical facility in the United States. Utqiagvik, Alaska Utqiagvik, ( Utqiaġvik, , ), officially the City of Utqiaġvik, and previously Barrow () is the largest city and the borough seat of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska and is located north of the Arctic Circle. It is one of the northernmost public communities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States. Nearby Point Barrow is the country's northernmost point. Utqiagvik's population was 4,581 at the 2000 census and 4,212 at the 2010 census. The location has been home to the Iñupiat, an indigenous Inuit ethnic group, for more"
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"Kokatahi Kokatahi is a locality on the West Coast of New Zealand. Hokitika is about 15 km to the north-west. The Kokatahi River flows through the area and into the Hokitika River to the north-west. Farming in the area started in the late 1860s to produce oats and vegetables to feed the gold rush miners and their horses. In 1900-1901 a dairy factory opened at Kokatahi. Kokatahi-Kowhitirangi School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a decile rating of 8 and a roll of around 60. On 4 October 1941, Stanley Graham went on a shooting rampage after a neighbor of Graham's, Anker Madsen, complained to Constable Edward Best, stationed in nearby Kaniere, that Graham was accusing him of poisoning his cattle. Best decided not to respond in order to give Graham time to calm himself. Best later returned with additional policeman and tried to disarm Graham, tragically in the process Graham then murdered four policeman by shooting them dead. Graham was later shot dead on 17 October 1941 after a massive police manhunt lead by Commissioner of Police Denis Cummings. Kokatahi Kokatahi is a locality on the West Coast of New Zealand. Hokitika is about 15 km"
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"Child sexual abuse laws in India India has one of the largest population of children in the world - Census data from 2011 shows that India has a population of 472 million children below the age of eighteen, of which 225 million are girls Protection of children by the state is guaranteed to Indian citizens by an expansive reading of Article 21 of the Indian constitution, and also mandated given India's status as signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child sexual abuse laws in India have been enacted as part of the nation's child protection policies. The necessity for a legal remedy is evident given that 24 per cent of all children have suffered sexual abuse, and half of these were at the hands of persons in the position of trust .The Parliament of India passed the 'Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Bill, 2011' regarding child sexual abuse on 22 May 2012 into an Act. The rules formulated by the government in accordance with the law have also been notified on the November 2012 and the law has become ready for implementation. There have been many calls for more stringent laws. Goa Children's Act, 2003, was the only specific piece of child abuse legislation before the 2012 Act. Child sexual abuse was prosecuted under the following sections of Indian Penal Code: However, the IPC could not effectively protect the child due to various loopholes like: The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 was enacted to provide a robust legal framework for the protection of children from offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography, while safeguarding the interest of the child at every stage of the judicial process. The framing of the Act seeks to put children first by making it easy to use by including mechanisms for child-friendly reporting, recording of evidence, investigation and speedy trial of offences through designated Special Courts. The new Act provides for a variety of offences under which an accused can be punished. It recognises forms of penetration other than penile-vaginal penetration and criminalises acts of immodesty against children too. The act is gender-neutral. With respect to pornography, the Act criminalises even watching or collection of pornographic content involving children. The Act makes abettment of child sexual abuse an offence. It also provides for various procedural reforms, making the tiring process of trial in India considerably easier for children. The Act has been criticised as its provisions seem to criminalise consensual sexual intercourse between two people below the age of 18. The 2001 version of the Bill did not punish consensual sexual activity if one or both partners were above 16 years. The Act defines a child as a person under the age of 18 years. However, this definition is a purely biological one, and doesn't take into account people who live with intellectual and psycho-social disability. A recent case in SC has been filed where a women of biological age 38yrs but mental age 6yrs was raped. The victim's advocate argues that \"failure to consider the mental age will be an attack on the very purpose of act.\" SC has reserved the case for judgement and is determined to interpret whether the 2012 act encompasses the mental age or whether only biological age is inclusive in the definition. The POCSO Act was passed to strengthen legal provisions for the protection of children below 18 years of age from sexual abuse and exploitation. Under this Act, if any girl under 18 is seeking abortion the service provider is compelled to register a complaint of sexual assault with the police. However, under the MTP Act, it is not mandatory to report the identity of the person seeking an abortion. Consequently, service providers are hesitant to provide abortion services to girls under 18. Given that in this country some 45%-47% of girls get married under 18 years of age, this presents a huge problem. Child sexual abuse laws in India India has one of the largest population of children in the world - Census data from 2011 shows that India has a population of 472 million children below the age of eighteen, of which 225 million are"
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"John Timperley (civil engineer) John Timperley (1796-1856), was a British Civil engineer, active in dock work in the north and east of England and elsewhere - also the first recipient of the Telford Medal. He was resident engineer on John Rennie's Chetney Hill, Lazarette between 1806–16 and Wellington Bridge, Leeds in 1817-19, and Junction Dock, (constr. 1826-9) one of the Hull town docks, designed by James Walker. He was also resident engineer on the Norwich Navigation, which included construction of a new harbour at the Port of Lowestoft, and for which he gave evidence to the Royal Commission (1826). In 1837 he became the first recipient of the Telford Medal for his account of the history and construction of the town docks of the Port of Kingston upon Hull, published in volume 1 of the \"Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers\". In 1838 he was appointed as resident engineer to the Hull and Selby Railway. and was superintendent engineer on the harbour works for the Isle of Man in 1842. In 1844 he was also awarded a Walker premium from the Institute of Civil Engineers for his \"Account of the building of the Wellington Bridge, Leeds\". John Timperley (civil"
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"Dalodesmidae Dalodesmidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polydesmida, containing at least 250 species found in the Southern Hemisphere. Species of Dalodesmidae are found in Australia (over 100 species), Madagascar, New Caledonia, New Zealand, South Africa, and southern South America (Chile and southern Brazil). Dalodesmidae is one of the major families of the order Polydesmida, with at least 55 genera and 250 species (with some estimates up to 340 species). It is related to the small family Vaalogonopodidae (8 species) with which it forms the suborder Dalodesmidea. The taxonomy is based mainly on the structure of the male gonopods. Below is the list of species as of January 2014. Dalodesmidae Dalodesmidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polydesmida, containing at least 250 species found in the Southern Hemisphere. Species of Dalodesmidae are found in Australia (over 100 species), Madagascar, New Caledonia, New Zealand, South Africa, and southern South America (Chile and southern Brazil). Dalodesmidae is one of the major families of the order Polydesmida, with at least 55 genera and 250 species (with some estimates up to 340 species). It is related to the small family Vaalogonopodidae (8 species) with which it forms the suborder Dalodesmidea."
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"Eternal Lover \"Eternal Lover\" is a 2004 song by CeCe Peniston, released on RLPMix Records in France, and on Vinyl Pusher Records for the Australian and New Zealand territories. The single was written and produced by Fréderic Tharreau (better recognized as Bibi), who became popular after his own track \"Something About The Music\" reached at number fifty-three in the British UK Top 75, under his alias Da Slammin' Phrogz. In 2013, the song was re-remixed by BiBi along with Sami Dee, and re-released through Mjuzieek Digital. Pray for More\"Past Pre5ent & Phuture Album Sampler 3\"MD, EU, #MJUZIEEK 163 3. \"Eternal Lover\" Eternal Lover \"Eternal Lover\" is a 2004 song by CeCe Peniston, released on RLPMix Records in France, and on Vinyl Pusher Records for the Australian and New Zealand territories. The single was written and produced by Fréderic Tharreau (better recognized as Bibi), who became popular after his own track \"Something About The Music\" reached at number fifty-three in the British UK Top 75, under his alias Da Slammin' Phrogz. In 2013, the song was re-remixed by BiBi along with Sami Dee, and re-released through Mjuzieek Digital. Pray for More\"Past Pre5ent & Phuture Album Sampler 3\"MD, EU, #MJUZIEEK 163 3."
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"Digital Living Network Alliance Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) (originally named Digital Home Working Group, DHWG) was founded by a group of PC and consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Intel in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspice of a certification standard. DLNA certified devices include smartphones, tablets, PCs, TV sets and storage servers; in a typical use case, a user sends videos, pictures or music from their smartphone or storage server through their home WLAN to a TV set or tablet for display. The group published its first set of guidelines in June 2004. The guidelines incorporate several existing public standards, including Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management and device discovery and control, and widely used digital media formats and wired and wireless networking standards. DLNA works with cable, satellite, and telecom service providers to provide link protection on each end of the data transfer. The extra layer of digital rights management (DRM) security allows broadcast operators to enable consumers to share their content on multimedia devices without the risk of piracy.<ref name=\"press release 6/24/2003\"></ref> In March 2014, DLNA publicly released the VidiPath Guidelines, originally called \"DLNA CVP-2 Guidelines.\" VidiPath enables consumers to view subscription TV content on a wide variety of devices including televisions, tablets, phones, Blu-ray players, set top boxes (STBs), personal computers (PCs) and game consoles without any additional intermediate devices from the service provider. As of September 2014, over 25,000 different device models had obtained \"DLNA Certified\" status, indicated by a logo on their packaging and confirming their interoperability with other devices. It was estimated that by 2017 over 6 billion DLNA-certified devices, from digital cameras to game consoles and TVs, would be installed in users' homes. Intel established the DLNA along with Sony and Microsoft in June 2003 as the Digital Home Working Group, changing its name 12 months later, when the first set of guidelines for DLNA was published. Home Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines v1.5 was published in March 2006 and expanded in October of the same year; the changes included the addition of two new product categories — printers, and mobile devices — as well as an \"increase of DLNA Device Classes from two to twelve\" and an increase in supported user scenarios related to the new product categories. The DLNA Certified Device Classes are separated as follows: The specification uses DTCP-IP as \"link protection\" for copyright-protected commercial content between one device to another. As of November 2015, there are 13 promoter members and 171 contributor members. The promoter members are: Arris, AwoX, Broadcom, CableLabs, Comcast, Dolby Laboratories, Intel, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sony Electronics, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon. Apple is not a member but uses its own proprietary Digital Audio Access Protocol instead of DLNA's UPnP protocols. The board of directors oversees the activity of the four following committees: There are over 25,000 DLNA-certified products on the market, up from 9,000 in 2011. This includes TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, games consoles, digital media players, photo frames, cameras, NAS devices, PCs, mobile handsets, and more. According to a study from Parks Associates, nearly 3 billion products are on the market in 2014 reaching up to over 7 billion by 2018. Consumers can see if their product is certified by looking for a DLNA logo on the device or by verifying certification through the DLNA Product Search. Manufacturers can seek certification testing from a DLNA Accredited Independent Certification Vendor such as the UNH InterOperability Laboratory, Allion Labs, CESI Technology Co., Digital TV Labs, XXCAL or Testronic. As the past president of DLNA pointed out to the Register in March 2009: DLNA Interoperability Guidelines allow manufacturers to participate in the growing marketplace of networked devices and are separated into the below sections of key technology components. In 2005, DLNA began a Software Certification program in order to make it easier for consumers to share their digital media across a broader range of products. DLNA is certifying software that is sold directly to consumers through retailers, websites and mobile application stores. With DLNA Certified software, consumers can upgrade products from within their home networks that may not be DLNA Certified and bring them into their personal DLNA ecosystems. This helps in bringing content such as videos, photos and music stored on DLNA Certified devices to a larger selection of consumer electronics, mobile and PC products. Some examples: Digital Living Network Alliance Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) (originally named Digital Home Working Group, DHWG) was founded by a group of PC and consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Intel in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspice of"
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"Vitkovići (Goražde) Vitkovići (Goražde) is a suburb in the city of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina, around 5 kilometers south of the city centre. Vitkovići was founded in 1953, a purpose built new town to serve the then-new FAJ Azot chemical works, one of the largest chemical factories in former Yugoslavia, specialising in nitrogen-based chemicals and with its own a water-purifying works. The original citizens were drawn from all over Yugoslavia and the suburb thus had a very mixed ethnic make-up (now totally changed). During the Serb-offensive of March–April 1994 it was reported by Bosniak media that the complex's storage tanks of ammonia and ethanol had been booby trapped and would be exploded if attacks continued. Had the threat been carried out this would have been effectively a suicide bombing on an urban scale, but the threats were not eventually carried out. After the civil war FAJ Azot Vitkovići was divided into five separate industrial complexes for privatisation. Vitkovići's football team, Azot played at a stadium attached to the chemical complex. The stadium is reportedly in a state of serious deterioration having received no reconstruction since the 1992-1995 siege. Vitkovići (Goražde) Vitkovići (Goražde) is a suburb in the city of Goražde,"
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"Roman Catholic Diocese of Bosa The Diocese of Bosa was a Roman Catholic diocese in Sardinia that was founded in 1612 and merged into the diocese of Alghero-Bosa in 1986. It is asserted by some that the see was originally at Calmedia, but was transferred to Bosa after the destruction of the former town; also, that the first bishop was Saint Emilius, sent thither by Saint Peter and martyred in 70 AD but there is no historical evidence. Pope Saint Gregory the Great, in one of his letters, speaks of a Bishop of Bosa, without mentioning the bishop's name. In 1073 Costantino de Castro, Bishop of Bosa, who according to an inscription had built Bosa Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter, was appointed Metropolitan of Torres by Saint Gregory VII. Among the most illustrious bishops of this see are numbered the learned Cardinal Giovanni Casanova (1424); G. Francesco Fara (1591), author of the first (but very inaccurate) history of Sardinia; and Serafino Esquirro, a learned theologian, who had been General of the Servites (1677). \"Erected: 5th Century\"<br> \"Latin name: Bosanensis\"<br> \"Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Sassari \"30 September 1986: United with the Diocese of Alghero to form the Diocese of Alghero-Bosa\" Roman Catholic"
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"ATP World Tour records The ATP World Tour is the top-level men's professional tennis circuit, administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The tour began in 1990, so all of the records listed here start at that time and are based on official ATP data. The names of active players appear in boldface for their career totals, currently active streaks, and in-progress season totals. However, no boldface is used in lists exclusively for active players. Currently called the ATP Finals. After the Grand Slams and the year-end tournament, the ATP Masters series are the nine annual tournaments that hold the most importance. They are currently called the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 because the winner earns 1000 ranking points. This is the class of tournaments in which the winner earns 500 ranking points. This format began in 2009, so these records include the equivalent former classes called the ATP Championship Series (1990–99) and ATP International Series Gold (2000–08). This is the class of tournaments in which the winner earns 250 ranking points. This format began in 2009, so these records include the equivalent former classes called the ATP World Series (1990–99) and ATP International Series (2000–08). See the Open Era article since the leaders and amounts of prize money in that era are the same or nearly the same. ATP World Tour records The ATP World Tour is the top-level men's professional tennis circuit, administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The tour began in 1990, so all of the records listed here start at that time and are based on official ATP data. The names of active players appear in boldface for their career totals, currently active streaks, and in-progress season totals. However, no boldface is used in lists exclusively for active players. Currently called the ATP"
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"1894 Swiss referendums Three referendums were held in Switzerland during 1894. The first was held on 4 March on a federal resolution to amend the constitution regarding trade and commerce, and was rejected by a majority of voters and cantons. The second was held on 3 June on a popular initiative on the right to work, and was rejected by a majority of voters and all cantons. The third was held on 4 November 1894 on a popular initiative on a partial contribution to tariffs from the cantons, and was also rejected by a majority of voters and cantons. The referendums on the right to work and tariffs were popular initiatives, whilst the referendum on trade was a mandatory referendum. Both types required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. 1894 Swiss referendums Three referendums were held in Switzerland during 1894. The first was held on 4 March on a federal resolution to amend the constitution regarding trade and commerce, and was rejected by a majority of voters"
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"Wooden bicycle A wooden bicycle is a bicycle constructed either mostly, or entirely from wood. Wood was the material used in the earliest bicycles, and is also used by modern builders, especially for balance bicycles for children. The wood can be either solid or laminate. The first bicycles recorded, known variously as velocipedes, dandy horses, or hobby horses, were constructed from wood, starting in 1817. Recent technological advances in adhesives and fabrication have made wood a feasible choice in the modern cycle world. Wooden bicycle frames are sometimes aided by steel or composite lugs to connect the wooden tubes or attach components. These frames can be made with plywood, hardwoods, or bamboo. Wooden bicycle A wooden bicycle is a bicycle constructed either mostly, or entirely from wood. Wood was the material used in the earliest bicycles, and is also used by modern builders, especially for balance bicycles for children. The wood can be either solid or laminate. The first bicycles recorded, known variously as velocipedes, dandy horses, or hobby horses, were constructed from wood, starting in 1817. Recent technological advances in adhesives and fabrication have made wood a feasible choice in the modern cycle world. Wooden bicycle frames are sometimes"
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"Halvor Midtbø Halvor Midtbø (1883, Holt, Aust-Agder – January 1985) was a Norwegian priest and temperance activist. He was a member of the central committee of the International Federation of the Blue Cross for 32 years. He chaired the Norwegian branch of the Blue Cross from 1936 to 1960, and became an honorary member. He was born in Holt. He attended the Norwegian Military Academy before enrolling in theology studies, graduating with the cand.theol. degree in 1908. He spent his professional career as a priest; he worked in Philadelphia from 1912 to 1920, was vicar in Glemmen from 1923 to 1936 and Torshov until 1953. He held the HM The King's Medal of Merit. He died in 1985, aged 101. Halvor Midtbø Halvor Midtbø (1883, Holt, Aust-Agder – January 1985) was a Norwegian priest and temperance activist. He was a member of the central committee of the International Federation of the Blue Cross for 32 years. He chaired the Norwegian branch of the Blue Cross from 1936 to 1960, and became an honorary member. He was born in Holt. He attended the Norwegian Military Academy before enrolling in theology studies, graduating with the cand.theol. degree in 1908. He spent his"
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"Gold & Youth Gold & Youth are an indie rock and electronic band based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Signed to Arts & Crafts in 2011, they released their debut album titled \"Beyond Wilderness\" on May 14, 2013. The release of three singles and an EP in 2012 has garnered them significant critical acclaim, particularly in the UK, during the lead up to their debut album. The band was formed by Matthew Lyall, Murray Mckenzie and Jeff Mitchelmore in 2011 after the demise of their previous project The Racoons. Arts & Crafts announced the signing of Gold & Youth in early 2012, along with the debut of their first single \"Time To Kill\". At this time it was also announced that Louise Burns had joined the band as a permanent member, having previously provided guest vocals on several recordings as well as lead vocals on their third single titled \"Jewel\". The band spent 2012 finishing the recording of their debut record \"Beyond Wilderness\" as well as making early international festival appearances at SXSW, The Great Escape, NXNE, CMW, Pemberton, Bumbershoot, and Big Sound (Australia), with their live appearances garnering critical acclaim from \"NME\" and \"The Guardian\". In November 2012 they released their first EP, a 7\" single featuring the singles \"Time to Kill\" and \"City of Quartz\" to positive critical acclaim coinciding with a national tour of Canada with Diamond Rings. In March 2013, the band released their third single \"Jewel\" and announced the release date of May 14, 2013 for their debut album \"Beyond Wilderness\". They selected their name upon suggestion from fellow Canadian musician Buck 65, with whom they share a manager. The name itself is an oronym of \"Golden Youth\", a character from the Mad Max film series. The band are currently managed by Nick Blasko (Tegan and Sara, Buck 65) and Raj Sihota (Metric). Gold & Youth's first full-length record, titled \"Beyond Wilderness\", was released internationally on May 14, 2013 by Arts & Crafts and EMI. The album was produced and recorded by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, New Pornographers, Destroyer) and mixed by Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Interpol, Grizzly Bear) and Damian Taylor (Björk, Robyn, Arcade Fire). According to the official band bio, the album is \"built with dark, expansive synthetic textures, punctuated by programmed drums and interwoven with melancholy vocals, detuned synth melodies and understated guitars\". Gold & Youth Gold &"
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"Frank Oliver (rugby union) Francis James \"Frank\" Oliver (24 December 1948 – 16 March 2014) was a New Zealand rugby union player and coach. He captained the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in four matches. Born in Dunedin and educated at Lawrence District High School, Oliver made his provincial rugby debut for Southland in 1969. He later also played for Otago and Manawatu, playing a total of 213 first-class games. Oliver played in the forwards as a lock and appeared in 43 matches for the All Blacks — 17 of them full test appearances — between 1976 and 1981, captaining the team in four matches. After retiring as a player in 1983, Oliver coached the Manawatu provincial team from 1995 to 1997 and the short-lived Central Vikings merged team from 1998 to 1999. In Super Rugby he coached the (1996–99) and the (2001). Oliver's son Anton followed in his father's footsteps, representing both Otago and New Zealand, and being All Blacks' captain. They are the first — and so far only — father-and-son combination to have captained the national side. Outside of rugby, Oliver worked in forestry, and was running a sawmill business up until his death in 2014. Frank Oliver (rugby union) Francis James \"Frank\" Oliver (24 December 1948 – 16 March 2014) was a New Zealand rugby union player and coach. He captained the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in four matches. Born in Dunedin and educated at Lawrence District High School, Oliver made his provincial rugby debut for Southland in 1969. He later also played for Otago and Manawatu, playing a total of 213 first-class games. Oliver played in the forwards as a lock and appeared in 43 matches for the All Blacks — 17 of them full test appearances — between 1976"
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"2011 TSL season The 2011 AFL Tasmania TSL premiership season was an Australian Rules Football competition staged across Tasmania, Australian over eighteen (18) roster rounds and six (6) finals series matches between 2 April and 24 September 2011. The League is known as the Wrest Point Tasmanian State League under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with Wrest Point Casino in Hobart and Federal Group. On 8 August 2011, AFL Tasmania ruled that official records from the previous TFL Statewide League, TSFL and SWL competitions were now declared null and void in respect to the current TSL and that records would start from 2009 onwards. (1) (Saturday, 2 April 2011) (Saturday, 16 April & Sunday, 17 April 2011) (Friday, 22 April & Saturday, 23 April 2011) (Saturday, 30 April & Sunday, 1 May 2011) (Saturday, 21 May & Sunday, 22 May 2011) (Saturday, 10 September 2011) (Friday, 16 September 2011) 2011 TSL season The 2011 AFL Tasmania TSL premiership season was an Australian Rules Football competition staged across Tasmania, Australian over eighteen (18) roster rounds and six (6) finals series matches between 2 April and 24 September 2011. The League is known as the Wrest Point Tasmanian State League under a"
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"Design choice In engineering, a design choice is a possible solution to a problem. Given a design task and a governing set of criteria (\"design specifications\"), several conceptual designs may be drafted. Each of these preliminary concepts is a potential design choice. Many never advance beyond the preliminary phase; those that are developed to the point at which they could be applied become the pool from which the final selection is made. This process stems from the principle that there is usually no uniquely right way of accomplishing any task. The final selection is often made on a financial basis; i.e., the least expensive design is chosen in a bid process. In civil engineering, design choices usually derive from basic principles of materials science and structural design. A suspension bridge, for example, uses the fact that steel is extremely efficient in tension, while a prestressed concrete bridge takes advantage of concrete's relatively low cost by weight and its ability to sustain high compressive loading (see compression). Design choice In engineering, a design choice is a possible solution to a problem. Given a design task and a governing set of criteria (\"design specifications\"), several conceptual designs may be drafted. Each of"
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"Marocchino Marocchino (Caffè Marocchino) is a coffee drink created in Alessandria, Italy. It is served in a small glass and consists of a shot of espresso (sometimes a small shot, or ristretto), cocoa powder and milk froth. In some regions of northern Italy, thick hot cocoa is added. In Alba, the home of the Italian chocolate giant Ferrero, Nutella is used. The name Marocchino (Italian for Moroccan) is derived from its colour, as \"marocchino\" was a type of light brown leather (see Morocco leather) used in the 1930s to make hair bands. Preparation methods vary. Generally, the glass cup is first dusted with cocoa powder, then topped with milk froth and espresso, with a second dusting of cocoa on top. Marocchino Marocchino (Caffè Marocchino) is a coffee drink created in Alessandria, Italy. It is served in a small glass and consists of a shot of espresso (sometimes a small shot, or ristretto), cocoa powder and milk froth. In some regions of northern Italy, thick hot cocoa is added. In Alba, the home of the Italian chocolate giant Ferrero, Nutella is used. The name Marocchino (Italian for Moroccan) is derived from its colour, as \"marocchino\" was a type of light brown"
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"Let's Go Our Own Way Let's Go Our Own Way () is a 2010 Slovenian adventures youth film directed by Miha Hočevar, starring Jurij Zrnec, Tadej Koren Šmid, and Jure Kreft in the title roles. This film reached the biggest audience in premiere weekend in Slovenian cinema history. The film gathered record 18,686 visitors. Film is talking about scouts who spend their free time in nature. Aleks is camping near Soča river together with his friends. Starešina, the scouting leader is taking everything too serious and that cause a lot of problems. And boys are a lot more interested in girls than camp. The movie was filmed in ideal Triglav National Park in Slovenia. Let's Go Our Own Way Let's Go Our Own Way () is a 2010 Slovenian adventures youth film directed by Miha Hočevar, starring Jurij Zrnec, Tadej Koren Šmid, and Jure Kreft in the title roles. This film reached the biggest audience in premiere weekend in Slovenian cinema history. The film gathered record 18,686 visitors. Film is talking about scouts who spend their free time in nature. Aleks is camping near Soča river together with his friends. Starešina, the scouting leader is taking everything too serious and"
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"Small dorcopsis The lesser forest wallaby or small dorcopsis (\"Dorcopsulus vanheurni\") is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the mountainous interior of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is less common than it used to be and the IUCN has assessed it as being \"near threatened\". The small dorcopsis is endemic to the island of New Guinea, being present in hill and upland habitats in the central mountain chain, at altitudes between . It used to occur in the Schrader Range, the Hunstein Range and the Torricelli Mountains but no longer does, and it may no longer be present in the Adelbert Range. Its natural habitat is both primary and secondary forests, and forest glades, and it is often found near streams. Each animal has a home range of one to one and a half hectares. The small dorcopsis is one of a number of species of animal used by the Etolo people as food. It is usually caught in traps or taken after being brought down by hunting dogs. The Etolo people cultivate gardens and at the time of preparing and growing the crops resort to trapping as they are too busy to go hunting. At the end of the growing season, from December onwards, they go hunting and catch other animals with few small dorcopsis being taken. The small dorcopsis is assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being \"near threatened\", and even approaching the \"vulnerable\" category. This is on the basis that it was once a common species but has become much less common, especially near human settlements, because it is hunted for food by the indigenous people and is preyed on by the New Guinea singing dogs which roam in the interior of the island. Small dorcopsis The lesser forest wallaby or small dorcopsis (\"Dorcopsulus vanheurni\") is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the mountainous interior of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is less common than it used to be and the IUCN has assessed it as being \"near threatened\". The small dorcopsis is endemic to the island of New Guinea, being present in hill and upland habitats in the central mountain chain, at altitudes between . It"
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"Galaga '88 The backgrounds for Stages 15–17 (the fourth block of stages) consist of the green hexagonal space stations first seen in the 1981 Namco game \"Bosconian\". Additionally, mines similar to those used in \"Bosconian\" are used as obliterable \"obstacles\" in these stages. The game \"Ridge Racer Revolution\" features Challenging Stage #2 (Dimension 1) during its loading sequence. Shooting all 40 enemies before they fly away unlocks all of the opponent cars. \"Ridge Racer 64\" also has Challenging Stage #2 (Dimension 1) as a secret bonus but with background music from \"Ridge Racer 64\" itself. The gameplay in \"Galaga '88\" is built on the same premise as that of the original \"Galaga\" game, but is in many ways more complex and more difficult. The game is divided into a series of 2 Stages distributed through eight Worlds. The starship Galaga accelerates between Stages and Worlds and even to higher dimensions (go to the section on Dimensional Travel below to find out more). With the exception of the third and eighth, each World culminates in a Cha Cha Stage. There are six such stages to engage in any full game, and each begins with the on-screen announcement \"That's Galactic Dancin'!\" and has its own YM2151-generated song to which the enemy formations dance. In any given Challenging Stage, both the design of the enemies and their dancing formations shall vary according to the player's current Dimension. As in \"Galaga\", the objective is to destroy all forty enemies before they fly away off the screen. However, refraining \"completely\" from touching \"any\" controls for the duration of a Challenging Stage awards a \"secret bonus\" ranging in value from 10000 to 25000 points, and equal to the \"special bonus\" which would have been awarded for destroying all forty enemy aliens instead. \"Galaga '88\" introduces a variety of new enemies and behaviors. Most of these special enemies are worth varying amounts of bonus points when destroyed. Some enemies can combine into larger enemies which take multiple hits to destroy, while others arrive in eggs, explode in a shower of fireworks, grow with multiple hits, or sport armor which makes them invincible while in formation. Certain enemies drop small formations of tiny creatures that wiggle their way down the screen, and still others can act as escorts to incoming groups of enemies and then quickly dive at the player before leaving the game. Most stages also include various obstacles which appear when the enemy formation has been assembled. These can be destroyed with either one or several shots, and the first one on each stage will leave a \"Warp Capsule\". At the start of the game, the player can select how many Galaga starships to start with (one or two), affecting their number of remaining lives. The game ends after the final boss is defeated (or when the player's last ship is destroyed or captured) - in the latter case, the player can continue the game for an additional credit. The Game Over screen shows the player's hit-miss ratio and a visual representation of their progress. If the player reaches Stage 27, the game also shows a picture of the final boss (damaged if defeated, but silhouetted if not). If the arcade operator has set the \"continue\" option to \"on\", the player also cannot continue if he is defeated on Stages 27–29. As in the original \"Galaga\", \"Boss Galagas\" shall occasionally stop mid-dive, and attempt to capture the player's ship with a tractor beam. If captured, the boss returns with Galaga in tow to the enemy formation and attacks the player. As before, it is possible to free the ship by destroying the \"Boss Galaga\" that captured it while it is diving. Freeing a player ship causes it to join up with the current Galaga, doubling the ship's firepower. However, a new feature in this game allows the \"dual ship\" itself to be captured requiring a third player ship to free it, whereupon all three ships shall combine into a brand-new \"triple ship\", which appears as a large single ship, has synergistically increased firepower and cannot be subsequently captured. However, this does not make it invulnerable to enemies' attacks. In later stages, the final enemy on any screen, if killed, may drop one purple canister (sometimes called a \"quid\"), which when collected immediately upgrades a single or dual ship directly to a triple ship and has no effect on the player's current number of remaining lives. This game introduces a new gameplay element: the ability to accelerate into higher Dimensions. There are five Dimensions in the game, and accelerating to a higher Dimension yields a substantial bonus, and a higher level of difficulty. When the player's ship has warped into a higher Dimension, it remains there for the rest of the game. Also important to note is that Dimension One ends after Stage 10, so that a ship not already advanced into Dimension Two or higher will thereupon be automatically advanced, with no visual fanfare or bonus award. Each Dimension has its own design of enemy aliens, formations employed in Challenging Stages, final boss for Stage 29, and Ending Message which rolls when the player defeats that Dimension's final boss (there are a total of four: one for Dimension Two, Three, Four and Five). To perform an inter-Dimensional acceleration, the player must have obtained two blue cylindrical canisters (often called \"Warp Capsules\") before the next Challenging Stage. The player's ship collects these canisters during play, by either shooting away one of the several on-screen hovering \"obstacles\" or destroying a single large enemy (formed from the fusion of two smaller enemies together) and then catching the canister as it freefalls from the obliterated obstacle. When caught, a canister also gives the player's ship temporary invincibility. Only one canister may drop and be collected at a time, and no more than one canister per screen may be collected by a given method, so to collect both needed canisters in a single Stage, both methods of collection must be used at least once. The canisters stop appearing when the player has collected the two required, but the obstacles shall continue to appear at the start of the remaining stages in that World. At the end of the next Challenging Stage, any collected canisters rise to the center of the screen and detonate. If only one canister has been collected it detonates without incident, no bonus is awarded, and the gameplay shall continue in the same Dimension. However, if the player has successfully collected both required canisters, the detonation causes a \"rift\" in the space-time fabric through which the ship accelerates to the next Dimension. If the player is already in Dimension Five, the normal detonation and acceleration sequence will still occur, but no bonus is awarded. The Dimension a player is in for the last World also determines the background graphics for Stages 27–29. \"Galaga '88\" was ported to the NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16, but was released outside Japan as \"Galaga '90\". It was also ported to the Sega Game Gear as \"Galaga '91\" in Japan and \"Galaga 2\" in Europe. In 2005, the arcade version of \"Galaga '88\" finally arrived on home systems as part of the \"\" compilation for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PC platforms. The arcade version is also on \"Namco Museum Virtual Arcade\" for Xbox 360 and \"Namco Museum\" for Nintendo Switch. The PC Engine version of \"Galaga '88\" was released on the Wii's Virtual Console service in Japan on March 27, 2007 and later as the game's arcade version on June 23, 2009. In North America, \"Galaga '90\" was released via Virtual Console on August 6, 2007, and in Europe on August 10, 2007. The game was also re-released as part of the \"Pac-Man's Arcade Party\" arcade machine in 2010. \"Galaga '88\", along with \"Galaxian\", the original \"Galaga\", and \"Gaplus\", was \"redesigned and modernized\" for an iOS application compilation called the \"Galaga 30th Anniversary Collection\", released in commemoration of the event by Namco",
"for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PC platforms. The arcade version is also on \"Namco Museum Virtual Arcade\" for Xbox 360 and \"Namco Museum\" for Nintendo Switch. The PC Engine version of \"Galaga '88\" was released on the Wii's Virtual Console service in Japan on March 27, 2007 and later as the game's arcade version on June 23, 2009. In North America, \"Galaga '90\" was released via Virtual Console on August 6, 2007, and in Europe on August 10, 2007. The game was also re-released as part of the \"Pac-Man's Arcade Party\" arcade machine in 2010. \"Galaga '88\", along with \"Galaxian\", the original \"Galaga\", and \"Gaplus\", was \"redesigned and modernized\" for an iOS application compilation called the \"Galaga 30th Anniversary Collection\", released in commemoration of the event by Namco Bandai. The collection app comes with \"Galaxian\" as a free game, with the remaining three games available in-app for $3 each or the complete set for $8. The app also features \"Galaga points\", collected as the games are played and used to unlock various consumable power-ups and special arcade cabinet designs, including the original art for each game. \"Galaga '88\" is the second sequel to \"Galaga\", and the fourth title in the \"Galaxian\" series. The complete series is depicted below: Galaga '88 The backgrounds for Stages 15–17 (the fourth block of stages) consist of the green hexagonal space stations first seen in the 1981 Namco game \"Bosconian\". Additionally, mines similar to those used in \"Bosconian\" are used as obliterable \"obstacles\" in these stages. The game \"Ridge Racer Revolution\" features Challenging Stage #2 (Dimension 1) during its loading sequence. Shooting all 40 enemies before they fly away unlocks all of the opponent cars. \"Ridge Racer 64\" also has Challenging Stage #2 (Dimension 1) as a secret bonus but with background"
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"Mária Pozsonec Mária Pozsonec (16 January 1940 – 3 April 2017) was a Slovenian politician of Hungarian ethnicity. Between 1990 and 2008, she served as representative of the Hungarian national community in the National Assembly of Slovenia. She was born to Hungarian parents in the village of Dolga vas () near Lendava, in what was then the Drava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia). She attended the high school in Subotica (Serbia), and studied pedagogy at the University of Maribor, in Slovenia. She worked as an elementary school teacher in her native region of Prekmurje. During the 1980s, she emerged as an activist of the Hungarian minority in Slovenia. In the first free elections in Slovenia in April 1990, she was elected to the National Assembly as the representative of the Hungarian national community. She was re-elected four times, in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. In 2008, she was defeated by László Göncz. She served as vice-mayor of Lendava from November 2006 till November 2011. Pozsonec died on 3 April 2017 at the age of 77. Mária Pozsonec Mária Pozsonec (16 January 1940 – 3 April 2017) was a Slovenian politician of Hungarian ethnicity. Between 1990 and"
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"Ron Holland Ronald John Holland (born 1947 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a yacht designer, who came to prominence in the 1970s with his successful racing designs, and is now best known for his superyachts such as \"Mirabella V\" and \"Ethereal\". He is now based in Vancouver, Canada. Holland started competitive sailing at the age of eight and was apprenticed as a boatbuilder in Auckland, where he built his first design, the 26' sloop \"White Rabbit\" in 1966. While working in Florida, he designed the 24' \"Eygthene\", which won the 1973 Quarter Ton Cup. (The name of the boat was a pun on the New Zealand pronunciation of the word 'eighteen': quarter-ton yachts are rated at 18-feet under the IOR rating rule). The success of \"Eygthene\" led to a commission to design a One-ton class yacht for Irish businessman Hugh Coveney. \"Golden Apple\" enabled Holland to set up as independent designer, and he relocated to County Cork in Ireland. In 1974 he designed, and Killian Bushe built \"Golden Shamrock\", his 30' design for the Half Ton Cup in la Rochelle. This was followed in 1975 By \"Golden Leprechaun\" another variation of the Half-ton Class. The Shamrocks went into production in Cork. One of these boats, \"Silver Shamrock\", built lightly by Killian Bushe at South Coast Boatyard and steered by Harold Cudmore won the 1976 Half-ton Cup in Trieste, Italy. This was followed by \"Silver Shamrock III\" in 1977 which was built in cold moulded spruce for the Half Ton Cup in Sydney Australia. The boat should have won the Half Ton Cup, but lost her mast in the last race. A later design along the same theme was called the Shamrock Silver Jubilee or Nicholson Half Tonner. Probably the best known of these yachts is Grimalkin, which took part in the Fastnet Race of 1979, and became the subject of a book entitled \"Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster\". Although Grimalkin was abandoned at sea, she was later salvaged afloat and still sails. Meanwhile, Holland's \"Nicholson 33\" design, for the English boatbuilder Camper & Nicholson, had begun production and one of these, \"Golden Delicious\", won the 1975 Fastnet Race. This remarkable feat was repeated in the 2005 Fastnet when \"Iromiguy\", another Nicholson 33, took the trophy as overall winner. Other remarkable boat designs include \"Big Apple\", \"Regardless\", \"Golden Apple of the Sun\" and \"Silver Apple of the Moon\". Further commissions followed, including a new Morning Cloud for the former British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Holland's designs featured prominently in the 1977 and 1979 Admiral's Cup series of races in Cowes. His 40-footer \"Imp\" won the 1977 Fastnet Race. This led to commissions for the 80-foot Maxi Class yachts \"Kialoa\" and \"Condor\" and for a series of designs for Finnish yachtbuilder Nautor's series of Swan yachts between 1979 and 1990. The Freedom 39 PH, a pilothouse cat-schooner with freestanding masts was also commissioned by Freedom Yachts and began production in 1982. A Holland 30, \"Screw Loose\", won the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in 1979. \"Condor\", the Maxi Class yacht built in 1981, still sails as a passenger boat in Australia's Whitsunday Islands. In 1982, Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari), commissioned \"Charley\" - a 67-foot sloop, designed by Ron Holland using the same design thesis as \"Kialoa\". \"Charley\" went on to win Line-Honors in the 1983 Trans-Pacific Yacht Race and other Pacific racing events. 'NCB Ireland' was the Irish entry in the Volvo Ocean Race. Although built and launched with great fanfare, she did not perform as well as expected or as well as the more adventurous designs from the southern hemisphere sporting a Mizzen rig. The 103-foot \"Whirlwind\", launched in 1986, was Holland's largest design to date and one of the first of a new breed of superyacht - large yachts which used new technologies to provide strong sailing performance without requiring a large crew. The 247-foot \"Mirabella V\", launched in 2003, was not only Holland's largest design, but also the largest ever single-masted sailing yacht. Ron Holland Ronald John Holland (born 1947 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a yacht designer, who came to prominence in the 1970s with his successful racing designs, and"
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"Maddy Dychtwald Maddy Dychtwald is author, speaker, and an expert in the field of changing demographic trends that shape the marketplace and the workplace. She has written on the economic ascent of women, including how it will transform financial services, healthcare, and consumer marketing. Dychtwald serves as the Senior Vice President at Age Wave, a firm that she co-founded in 1986, which provides consulting services to business and non-profits worldwide on a broad range of issues relating to aging populations. Dychtwald has given presentations across multiple industries, including health, energy, financial, marketing, non-profit, and education. Dychtwald has been featured in various media outlets including: Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and TIME. She is an ongoing contributor to the \"Wall Street Journal’s\" Retirement Expert Panel where she authored the top wealth-management expert post for 2017 based on reader traffic. She also regularly contributes to \"HuffPost, thirdAGE,\" and \"caring.com\". Together with her husband Dr. Ken Dychtwald, Dychtwald received the prestigious Esalen Prize in 2016 for outstanding contributions to advancing the human potential of aging men and women worldwide. She is also a founder of the nonprofit organization Women Against Alzheimer’s and serves as a board member of the BrightFocus Foundation, which funds early stage research to eradicate diseases of the brain and eye. She is a founding member of the XPRIZE Alzheimer’s Braintrust gearing up to globally crowdsource innovation solutions to end Alzheimer’s disease. A graduate of New York University, Dychtwald has been a working mom living in the San Francisco Bay Area for much of her adult life. Women & Financial Wellness: Beyond the Bottom Line, 2018. Committed to seeing women clients through customized financial solutions that consider their individual life journeys, wants and needs, Age Wave produced \"Women & Financial Wellness: Beyond the Bottom Line\", conducted in partnership with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The study surveys more than 2,000 women and 1,000 men on their financial needs, preferences, priorities and challenges. A New Era of Women and Financial Planning, 2011. LPL Financial and Age Wave partnered to launch a research initiative to discover how to best empower financial advisors to grow their business among women and their families. This initiative was designed to go beyond existing studies by developing actionable insights to help financial advisors better meet the needs of women and couples. This multifaceted investigation, drew upon the experience and insights of multidisciplinary experts and a survey of 1,000 women and men nationwide. The Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study, 2006. This study was conducted to better understand women’s relationship with money and investing. The study included a survey of over 3,000 women and men conducted by Harris Interactive. The study revealed 5 distinct types of relationships between women and money. Retirement at the Tipping Point: The Year That Changed Everything, March 2009. The recent economic reckoning has created vast financial losses and uncertainty during the last year, triggering all generations to reassess the funding, timing and purpose of retirement. To learn precisely how these disruptions have altered Americans' retirement hopes, worries, and needs, Age Wave launched this national survey among 2,082 respondents spanning four generations. The results uncovered mounting fears and shifting plans, but also a renewed focus on what's important and an optimistic outlook about the possibilities for retirees' new role in American life. SunAmerica Re-Visioning Retirement\" and \"SunAmerica Retirement Re-set\" \"Studies, 2001, 2011. Age Wave, working in collaboration with SunAmerica, completed a groundbreaking study of the past, present, and future of retirement. This breakthrough research indicated that there are four distinct segments that now define the contemporary U.S. retirement experience: Ageless Explorer, Comfortably Content, Live for Today, Sick and Tired. Ten years later, SunAmerica and Age Wave rejoined forces to launch a new initiative, the \"SunAmerica Retirement Re-Set Study\", to reveal how the mindset, family dynamics, lifestyle expectations, and financial planning for retirement have changed in the past decade. Maddy Dychtwald Maddy Dychtwald is author, speaker, and an expert in the field of changing demographic trends that shape the marketplace and the workplace. She has written on the economic ascent of women, including how it will transform financial services, healthcare, and consumer marketing. Dychtwald serves as the Senior Vice President at"
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"Keith Pitt Keith John Pitt (born 31 August 1969) is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Hinkler as a member of the Liberal National Party. Pitt has served as the Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister since 5 March 2018; having previously held the portfolio between February and July 2016, following a rearrangement in the First Turnbull Ministry. With the reelection of the Turnbull Government in 2016, Pitt served as the Assistant Minister for Trade, Investment and Tourism between July 2016 and December 2017 in the Second Turnbull Ministry. In December 2017, Pitt was one of only four members of the House of Representatives to oppose the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017; that was enacted to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia. Prior to entering parliament, Pitt owned two cane farms. Keith Pitt Keith John Pitt (born 31 August 1969) is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Hinkler as a member of the Liberal National Party. Pitt has served as the Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister since 5 March 2018; having previously held the portfolio between February and July 2016, following a rearrangement"
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"In Death technology Nora Roberts (under her pseudonym J. D. Robb)'s \"In Death\" novels begin in the slightly futuristic setting of 2058, and mostly take place in New York City. While many things remain the same, the author has created several inventions that are considered commonplace in this society. AutoChef: A countertop device that prepares any food or beverage programmed by the user. References are made to Eve Dallas having stale bagels in hers (while she's still single and living alone); Roarke giving a menu to Summerset; various police personnel coveting the special coffee available from Eve's AutoChef once she's married Roarke. (Being extremely rich, he can obtain genuine organic foods such as beef, chocolate, and real coffee, rather than the typical soy-based substitutes.) It seems one must have the ingredients present in order for them to be prepared by the AutoChef, which differs from the replicator introduced in \"\". Glides: Glides seem to be the 2060 equivalent of escalators. They are never presented in much detail, but are frequently referred to as an alternative to elevators. Glide carts: Street vendors, much the same as those in use today. Vendors stake out their own 'territories.' Cart quality and content tend to match the surrounding neighborhood. They often cater to vehicles stuck in traffic as well as pedestrians. A majority of the food is vegetarian (such as soydogs and veggie fries). Enhancements: Cosmetic surgery is also common—everything from breast implants to permanent makeup. Clients going to a day spa get \"skin enhancements\", which probably involves facials and exfoliation. Tattoos and body piercing are prevalent. Mavis is known to change her hair color and style, not only in every book, but in almost every scene. Recyclers: Nearly everything is recyclable at this time—fabrics, food, plastics, metals, etc. Recyclers are available nearly everywhere such as on the street, in offices and in private homes. NYPSD weapon (or stunner, or laser): A weapon like a stun gun, it releases an electric charge into the target's nervous system. The level can be adjusted from \"stun\" to \"terminate\" (the word used most often instead of \"kill\"). As explained in \"Naked in Death\", guns are unknown to everyone except licensed collectors and other \"history buffs\"; one teenage murder victim thought a gun was a toy, right before she was shot with it. Knives (switchblades in particular) are commonplace in crime-ridden neighborhoods, and are called \"stickers\". Anticancer vaccine: A man named Drake (for which the Drake Center was named, as per \"Conspiracy in Death\") found a cure for cancer; anyone diagnosed with the disease can get treated and healed with the vaccine. The only people who would likely succumb to it are those who do not seek health care. If there are any diseases left, they all seem to be treatable via vaccine. Master: A police-issued computerized skeleton key that allows the user to open any locked door, security barrier, etc. without consequences. When Eve is suspended from the NYPSD in \"Conspiracy in Death\", she must rely on Roarke's extensive lock picking skills to continue her investigation. Seal-It: A spray can (with an unpleasant odor) that is apparently standard issue in the field kits of NYPSD personnel investigating crime scenes, particularly murder. The spray is used topically on the investigating officers to prevent fingerprints, footprints, etc. from compromising evidence at the scene. Magic Coat: Whilst not standard issue at present, since his relationship with Eve began Roarke had one of his companies develop a new lightweight form of body armour that can be hidden in the lining of standard clothes. Capable of blocking a stunner and also bladed weapons, Roarke gives one to Eve for everyday wear disguised as a leather coat. She gets him a long black one in return for Christmas, with hidden pockets for carrying weapons. Eve and Roarke then also give one to Peabody, a long pink leather coat and a brown one to Feeney. Each has some personalised details, such as the buttons being a Lieutenant's badge for Eve, an Irish symbol for Roarke and Captain's bars for Feeney. As they are prototypes at present, the name magic coat has stuck CompuGuard: A future equivalent of Total Information Awareness that tracks nearly all computer and internet usage. Roarke often uses his \"unregistered\" (and illegal) system to hack into various government databases. Telelink (or 'link): An advanced videophone, in various sizes and applications. Characters have various 'links mounted on the walls in their houses or offices, on the dashboard in their vehicles, or hand-carried smaller devices. They are not only used for conversation, but characters can transfer data and make log files of their transactions. Eve has often checked the 'links of her victims (that is, asked Feeney to check them) to get more information about their activities before their deaths. Virtual reality goggles: The wearer can program a virtual reality experience, anything from a trip to the beach, to a pornographic interlude, to the re-creation of a crime scene. The invention figures prominently in \"Rapture in Death\", although almost everyone is said to own a set. Droids: man-made mechanic replicas of humans that fulfill various functions. They can provide playback from their memory databanks when necessary, can be programmed to perform numerous functions and may, or may not be, anatomically correct. There are many types of droids in operation, including (but not limited to) action, combat, domestic, police/beat, pet, service droids. Flying vehicles: Anything from cars, to buses, to skateboards, can be used for transportation in the air as well as on the ground, by engaging a \"vertical mode\". Eve often muses about the sky traffic and can bring her vehicle above it if she's in a hurry. Soothers, tranqs, boosters, Sober-Up, etc.: Various drugs are condoned and assigned to police personnel. They can choose not to take them, but the drugs can change their energy levels with almost no side effects. They are taken orally with no noticeable taste or scent, and can be slipped into someone's food or beverage without their knowledge or consent. Sober-Up in particular is a brand name drug (which Mavis often carries in her purse) that cleanses alcohol out of the body within ten minutes, in case someone drinking at a party is called away on an emergency assignment. In Death technology Nora Roberts (under her pseudonym J. D. Robb)'s \"In Death\" novels begin in the slightly futuristic setting of 2058, and mostly take place in New York City. While many things remain the same, the author has created several inventions that are considered commonplace in this society. AutoChef: A countertop device that prepares any food or"
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"Masalia, Dumka Masalia is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Dumka district, Jharkhand state, India. It is located 16 km from Dumka, the district headquarters. Masalia, the eponymous CD Block headquarters, is located at . As per 2011 Census of India Masalia CD Block had a total population of 124,554, all of which were rural. There were 62,828 (50 %) males and 61,726 (50 %) females. Scheduled Castes numbered 6,348 and Scheduled Tribes numbered 72,966. Population below 6 years was 20,146. Masalia is a village with a population of 399 as per 2011 census. As per 2011 census the total number of literates in Masalia CD Block was 64,374 (61.66 % of the population over 6 years) out of which 39,177 (61 %) were males and 25,197 (39 %) were females. As per 2011 census, literacy in Dumka district was 61.02.Literacy in Jharkhand (for population over 7 years) was 66.41% in 2011. Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%. See also – List of Jharkhand districts ranked by literacy rate Masalia, Dumka Masalia is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Dumka district, Jharkhand state, India. It is located 16 km from Dumka,"
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"Kalevalsky District Kalevalsky District (; ) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the republic and borders with Finland in the west, Loukhsky District in the north, Kemsky and Muyezersky Districts in the east, and with the territory of the town of republic significance of Kostomuksha in the south. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Kalevala. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 8,321, with the population of Kalevala accounting for 54.4% of that number. There are many lakes within the district, and wetlands account for 30% of the district's territory. Natural resources include molybdenum, iron ore, quartzite, copper, and peat. Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kalevalsky District is one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia and has administrative jurisdiction over one urban-type settlement (Kalevala) and eight rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kalevalsky Municipal District. The urban-type settlement of Kalevala and one rural locality (the settlement of Kuusiniyemi) are incorporated into an urban settlement, while the remaining seven rural localities are incorporated into three rural settlements within the municipal district. The urban-type settlement of Kalevala serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district. As of the 2002 Census, the district's ethnic composition was as follows: Kalevalsky District Kalevalsky District (; ) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the republic and borders with Finland in the west, Loukhsky District in the north, Kemsky and Muyezersky Districts in the east, and with the territory of the town of republic significance of"
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"Alison S. Brooks Alison S. Brooks is an American paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work focuses on the Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa. She is one of the most prominent figures in the debate over where \"Homo sapiens\" evolved and when. Brooks received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1979. She has been a professor at George Washington University since 1988 and is also a Research Associate in Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996, and in 2016 she was awarded the Medal of Honor (\"Médaille d'Honneur\") of the City of Toulouse for contributions to African archaeology. Brooks has conducted extensive field research in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia, and in the Olorgesailie Basin, Southern Kenya Rift. Her work has also included projects in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Sweden, France, China, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Brooks is also involved in the development and implication of new heritage policies in Africa. Brooks's research centers around human evolution and modern human behavior. Modern human behavior is generally thought of as beginning in Europe with the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, but Brooks and Sally McBrearty challenge this idea. They argue that thinking that modern human behavior evolved anywhere other than in Africa erases a fundamental part of African history from the archaeological record and also from the history of every human alive today. Brooks and McBrearty explain what it means to have modern human behavior, and they review the evidence found in Africa dating back to the Middle Stone Age. They argue that the evolution of humans was not a European revolution that suddenly overtook the world and replaced everything else, but rather a gradual shift from Africa and out. Their article in the Journal of Human Evolution (2000), \"The Revolution That Wasn't: A New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human Behavior,\" has been cited nearly 2000 times (as of December 2016), making it the most frequently cited article in that journal's history. Anatomically modern \"Homo sapiens\" were widespread by 50,000 years ago, though Neanderthals were still dominant in the colder climates of Europe, Asia, and Siberia until 35,000 years ago. This period from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic is a time marked with the emergence of new technologies such as specialized bone tools and blade cores, more prominent art, larger social networks, and more advanced economic strategies. Brooks has recently found evidence of tools being used in Africa long before they were being made in Europe, which lends support to the argument that modern human behavior arose in Africa. At the Upper Semliki Valley of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, she and her team have found evidence of complex technologies that date to the Middle Stone Age. They found barbed and un-barbed bone tools demonstrating that complex bone technology was in use by about 90,000 years ago in Africa, much earlier than in Europe. Another key point in the modern human behavior debate is the early fishing evidence that Brooks and colleagues found on the lakeshore of Ishango in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ishango has bone harpoon technology and evidence of fishing that dates back to 90,000 years ago. Fishing is considered to be part of the Upper Paleolithic/Later Stone Age and part of modern human behavior. The fishing industry in central, northern, and eastern Africa are all based on bone harpoons found at sites. Fishing rapidly spread throughout the continent as a result of the wetter conditions that developed in Africa at this time. Fishing technologies spread as far north as Naqada, Egypt, and as far west as Aouker massif, Mauritania. Brooks's work in the DRC shows that the people of Ishango and eastern Africa were able to develop fishing technologies before the end of the Pleistocene, long before they did in Europe. Alison S. Brooks Alison S. Brooks is an American paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work focuses on the Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa. She is one of the most prominent figures in the debate over where \"Homo sapiens\" evolved and when. Brooks received her Ph.D."
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"PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is currently hosted by the University of Waterloo. The site is owned by a US-based nonprofit corporation, \"PlanetMath.org, Ltd\". PlanetMath was started when the popular free online mathematics encyclopedia MathWorld was temporarily taken offline for 12 months by a court injunction as a result of the CRC Press lawsuit against the Wolfram Research company and its employee (and MathWorld's author) Eric Weisstein. The main PlanetMath focus is on encyclopedic entries. It formerly operated a self-hosted forum, but now encourages discussion via Gitter. , the encyclopedia hosted about 9,289 entries and over 16,258 \"concepts\" (a concept may be for example a specific notion defined within a more general entry). An overview of the current PlanetMath contents is also available. About 300 Wikipedia entries incorporate text from PlanetMath articles; they are listed in . An all-inclusive PlanetMath \"Free Encyclopedia\" book of 2,300 pages is available for the encyclopedia contents up to 2006 as a free download PDF file. PlanetMath implements a specific content creation system called \"authority model\". This is a set of rules determining who can add, modify or remove content. Only registered users can create or edit entries. An author who starts a new article becomes its \"owner\", that is the only person authorized to edit that article. Other users may add corrections and discuss improvements but the resulting modifications of the article, if any, are always made by the owner. However, if there are long lasting unresolved corrections, the ownership can be removed. More precisely, after 2 weeks the system starts to remind the owner by mail; at 6 weeks any user can \"adopt\" the article; at 8 weeks the ownership of the entry is completely removed (and such an entry is called \"orphaned\"). To make the development more smooth, the owner may also choose to grant editing rights to other individuals or groups. The user can explicitly create links to other articles, and the system also automatically turns certain words into links to the defining articles. The topic area of every article is classified by the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The site is supervised by the Content Committee. Its basic mission is to \"maintain the integrity and quality of the mathematical content and organization of PlanetMath.\" As defined in its Charter, the tasks of the Committee include: PlanetMath content is licensed under the copyleft Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. All content is written in LaTeX, a typesetting system popular among mathematicians because of its support of the technical needs of mathematical typesetting and its high-quality output. The software running PlanetMath is written in Perl and runs on Linux and the web server Apache. It is known as \"Noösphere\" and has been released under the free BSD License. As of March 13, 2013 PlanetMath has retired Noösphere and runs now on a software called \"Planetary\", which itself was implemented with Drupal. Encyclopedic content and bibliographic materials related to physics, mathematics and mathematical physics are developed by PlanetPhysics. The site, launched in 2005, uses similar software (Noosphere), but a significantly different moderation model with emphasis on current research in physics and peer review. Additionally, a PlanetComputing project is envisaged that would also include Computational Physics and AI together with logical, categorical, ontological and mathematical foundations of computers and automata. (Seems to be abandoned plan.) PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour,"
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"Pycroft's petrel The Pycroft's petrel (\"Pterodroma pycrofti\") is a species of seabird in the petrel and shearwater family Procellariidae. The Pycroft's petrel is a species of gadfly petrel (genus \"Pterodroma\"), and is thought to be closely related to the Stejneger's petrel. The species was named after Arthur Thomas Pycroft, a New Zealand naturalist that discovered the species. The species was described by the New Zealand scientist Robert Falla. The Pycroft's petrel is small, measuring in length and weighing between . The plumage] of the Pycroft petrel is grey and white; the upperparts are grey (with a darker M pattern on the back) and the underparts and forehead are white. It has a faint grey band across the breast and a dark grey patch around the eye. The breeding habitat of the Pycroft's petrel is temperate forests with soft soils on offshore islands. The species only breeds in New Zealand, nesting on 11 islands off North Island. Breeding colonies are found on Stephenson Island, the Poor Knights Islands, Hen and Chickens Islands, and Mercury Islands. It used to also breed on Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island, but have become extinct there. The breeding season begins in October when birds return to their colony; laying is synchronised and happens between 21 November and 10 December. This species lays a single egg in a burrow. The nesting burrows are long and the nesting chamber is lined with leaves. Both parents incubate the egg, with the male taking the first shift. This first incubation shift lasts 10-14 days. Chicks hatch 45 days after laying. Chicks leave the nest in around 80 days after hatching, and are not fed for the last week they are in the nest. Little is known about its diet, but it is known to eat squid and crustaceans. Outside the breeding season it is thought to feed in the Central Pacific, and has been recorded as far as Japan, the United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Chicks and eggs are sometimes eaten by tuatara. The species is threatened by introduced rats, which prey on nesting eggs and nestlings. The species is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Red List. Efforts to remove rats and other introduced predators from their breeding colonies have resulted in a recovery for this species, and its numbers are now increasing. Pycroft's petrel The Pycroft's petrel (\"Pterodroma pycrofti\") is"
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"Wireless Valley Wireless Valley is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in 1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was used to describe the Roanoke/Blacksburg, Virginia region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies. In 1990 he and his students founded TSR Technologies, a company that made software-defined cellular and paging intercept and drive test equipment that was sold to Allen Telecom in 1993, and in 1995 Wireless Valley Communications, a company that pioneered the creation of computer-aided wireless network prediction and management software that was sold to Motorola in late 2005. This term was later used as nickname to describe several regional clusters of companies in the information technology sector, in analogy to California's Silicon Valley: Wireless Valley Wireless Valley is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in 1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was used to describe the Roanoke/Blacksburg, Virginia region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies. In 1990 he and his students founded TSR Technologies, a company that made software-defined cellular and paging intercept and drive test equipment that was sold to Allen Telecom in 1993, and"
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"SM U-84 SM \"U-84\" was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in World War I. \"U-84\" was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. Initially \"U-81\" to \"U-83\" had one 10.5 cm gun with 140-240 rounds. \"U-84\" - \"U-86\" on the other hand had two 8.8 cm guns. In 1917 \"U-84\" - \"U-86\" were refitted with a single 10.5 cm gun (240 rounds) German Type U 81 submarines were preceded by the shorter Type UE I submarines. \"U-84\" had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two engines for use while surfaced, and two engines for use while submerged. She had two propeller shafts. She was capable of operating at depths of up to . The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, she could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . \"U-84\" was fitted with six torpedo tubes (four at the bow and two at the stern), twelve to sixteen torpedoes, and one SK L/45 deck gun. She had a complement of thirty-five (thirty-one crew members and four officers). SM U-84 SM \"U-84\" was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in World War I. \"U-84\" was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. Initially \"U-81\" to \"U-83\" had one 10.5 cm gun with 140-240 rounds. \"U-84\" - \"U-86\" on the other hand had two 8.8 cm guns. In 1917 \"U-84\" - \"U-86\""
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"George Braden George Braden (November 4, 1949 – May 25, 2015) was a politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Elected as \"Government Leader\", Braden would retroactively become the second Premier of the Northwest Territories, after a motion was passed in 1994 to change the official title. Prior to seeking election as member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Braden worked extensively with Charles \"Bud\" Drury, a former federal cabinet minister, who was assigned to look at further constitutional development in the Northwest Territories. Appointed to the position of Deputy Minister for the Northwest Territories, Braden worked from Ottawa, Ontario with Walter Slipchenko (Inter-governmental Policy Analyst). Braden was first elected to the NWT Legislative Assembly in 1979. At that time the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, appointed by the Government of Canada, was also the head of the Government of the NWT. In 1980, for the first time, the Legislative Assembly elected the Government Leader, selecting Braden, who served until 1984. Braden was the second person to hold the title as Frederick Haultain had been appointed to the position in 1897. Some of the changes implemented by Braden allowed for additional representation in the legislative council, the removal of the appointed commissioner and deputy commissioner from the executive council and for the allowance of control of territorial affairs to elected members. In 2009, Braden accepted the position of Policy Analyst for Dennis Patterson, who was, earlier the same year, appointed to the Canadian Senate for Nunavut. Braden has been the owner and CEO of his own company in Ottawa, Ontario since 1994. Having met in 1989, Braden married Lise Beaudry in August 1998. As of 2009 they lived in Barrhaven, Ontario. He was diagnosed with gastric cancer on 7 March 2015, at the age of 65 years. He passed away at home with Lise on 25 May 2015. George Braden George Braden (November 4, 1949 – May 25, 2015) was a politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Elected as \"Government Leader\", Braden would retroactively become the second Premier of the Northwest Territories, after a motion was passed in 1994 to change the official title. Prior to seeking election as member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Braden worked extensively with Charles \"Bud\" Drury, a former federal cabinet minister, who was assigned to look at further constitutional development in the Northwest Territories. Appointed to the position of Deputy"
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"Matrix field In abstract algebra, a matrix field is a field with matrices as elements. In field theory we come across two type of fields: finite field and infinite field. There are several examples of matrix fields of finite and infinite order. In general, corresponding to each field of numbers there is a matrix field. There is a finite matrix field of order \"p\" for each positive prime \"p\". One can find several finite matrix field of order p for any given positive prime p. In general, corresponding to each finite field there is a matrix field. However any two finite fields of equal order are algebraically equivalent. The elements of a finite field can be represented by matrices. In this way one can construct a finite matrix field. Contrary to the general case for matrix multiplication, multiplication is commutative in a matrix field (if the usual operations are used). Since addition and multiplication of matrices have all needed properties for field operations except for commutativity of multiplication, one way to verify if a set of matrices is a field with the usual operations of matrix sum and multiplication is to check wether However, it may be possible to construct fields of matrices using other operations -- in which case it would be necessary to verify all properties of the operations in the set in order to guarantee that it is a field. 1. The set of all diagonal matrices of order n over the field of rational (real or complex) numbers is a matrix field of infinite order under addition and multiplication of matrices. 2. The set of all diagonal matrices of order two over the field of integers modulo \"p\" (a positive prime) forms a finite matrix field of order \"p\" under addition and multiplication of matrices modulo \"p\". 3. (a negative example) It does not suffice for multiplication to commute in order to obtain a field of matrices. Take the set of all formula_1 matrices of the form with formula_3 -- that is, matrices filled with zeroes except for the formula_4-th row, which is filled with the same real constant formula_5. These matrices are commutative for multiplication: However, there is no neutral element for multiplication, since this needs to be the identity matrix, and it is not included in the set, so this is \"not\" a matrix field. 4. The set of all matrices of order two of the form over the real numbers (or over any other field), with the usual operations of matrix sum and matrix multiplication. The zero matrix (formula_8) and the identity matrix (formula_9) are included. Summing two of these matrices results in another matrix of the same form: The same is true for multiplication: Finally, multiplication is commutative for these matrices: 5. As a particular case of example 4, taking formula_13 and formula_14 ranging over the reals, one obtains the field of matrices of the form which is isomorphic to the field formula_16 of the complex numbers: formula_17 corresponds to the real part of the number, while formula_18 correspods to the imaginary part. So the number formula_19, for example, would be represented as One can easily verify, for example, that formula_21: and also, by computing a matrix exponential, that Euler's identity, formula_23 is also valid: 6. As another particular case of example 4, a field of matrices with formula_26 square-free and formula_14 rationals is isomorphic to the quadratic field formula_28. Matrix field In abstract algebra, a matrix field is a field with matrices as elements. In field theory we come across two type of fields: finite field and infinite field. There are"
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"Lester Levern Merrifield Lester Levern Merrifield (February 1, 1921 – January 15, 2000) was an American orthodontist was a previous President of Charles H. Tweed Foundation and he was known for his contributions in developing the Tweed-Merrifield philosophy with the Edgewise brackets during 1950s. He was born in 1921 in Dill City, Oklahoma . He received his high school education from William L. Sayre High School and went to Oklahoma State University–Stillwater to get his degree in agriculture. He then taught vocational agriculture in the town for few years. In 1942, he decided to pursue his dental education at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas and graduated from there in 1946. He opened his first practice in Chickasha, Oklahoma. After that he pursued his education in Orthodontics from University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry. In 1951 he entered United States Air Force as a Captain and transferred to Amarillo Air Force Base. He eventually completed his tour duty in 1953. After that he moved to Kay County, Oklahoma where he started an Orthodontic Practice with his brother Vernon Merrifield. He worked in his private practice for 50 years. Dr. Merrifield enrolled himself in the \"Advanced edgewise\" technique course at the Tweed Foundation in 1953. Dr. Charles H. Tweed invited Dr. Merrifield to become a Co-instructor at the institution and later the Director of the Institution. When Dr. Tweed died in 1970, Dr. Merrifield assumed the chairmanship of the board. His contribution lead him to give lectures twice a year at the Tweed Foundation for more than 40 years. He was married to Jan Marlene McVicker. Lester Levern Merrifield Lester Levern Merrifield (February 1, 1921 – January 15, 2000) was an American orthodontist was a previous President of Charles H. Tweed Foundation and he was known for his"
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"International Amphitheatre The International Amphitheatre was an indoor arena located in Chicago, Illinois, between 1934 and 1999. It was located on the west side of Halsted Street, at 42nd Street, on the city's south side, adjacent to the Union Stock Yards. The arena was built for $1.5 million, by the Stock Yard company, principally to host the International Livestock Exhibition. The arena replaced Dexter Park, a horse-racing track that had stood on the site for over 50 years prior to its destruction by fire in May 1934. The completion of the Amphitheatre ushered in an era where Chicago reigned as a convention capital. In an era before air conditioning and space for the press and broadcast media were commonplace, the International Amphitheatre was among the first arenas to be equipped with these innovations. The arena, which seated 9,000, was the first home of the Chicago Packers of the NBA during 1961–62, before changing their name to the Chicago Zephyrs and moving to the Chicago Coliseum for their second season. It was also the home of the Chicago Bulls during their inaugural season of 1966–67; they also played only one game in the Chicago Coliseum, a playoff game in their first season, as no other arena was available for a game versus the St. Louis Hawks. Afterwards, the Bulls then moved permanently to Chicago Stadium. The Amphitheatre was also the primary home of the Chicago Cougars of the WHA from 1972–1975. It was originally intended to be only a temporary home for the Cougars, but the permanent solution, the Rosemont Horizon, was not completed until 1980, five years after the team folded and a year after the WHA ceased operation. The International Amphitheatre was the home for Chicago's wrestling scene for years as well as the \"Chicago Auto Show\" for approximately 20 years beginning in the 1940s. The Amphitheatre hosted several national American political conventions: The 1952 Republican National Convention had the distinction of being the first political convention broadcast live by television coast to coast, with special studio facilities provided for all the major networks. The 1968 Democratic National Convention was one of the most tumultuous political conventions in American history, noted by anti-war protests. Prior to that, the Amphitheatre was noted for being the site of one of Elvis Presley's most notable concerts, in 1957, with the singer wearing his now legendary gold lame suit for the first time. On September 5, 1964 and August 12, 1966, The Beatles performed at the Amphitheatre. The 1966 show was the first show of what proved to be their last tour. Indoor wintertime Drag Racing was held at The Amphitheatre twice. On December 30, 1962, and January 5, 1964. It was great fun, but dangerous, because of the slick cement floors. Drag Racers need asphalt to get tire grip, launch, and control. The Amphitheatre cement \"floor\" had very little of these. On March 13–14, 1976, the Midwest Regional of the North American Soccer League's 1976 Indoor tournament was hosted by the Chicago Sting at the Amphitheater. The Rochester Lancers won the Region to advance to the Final Four played in Florida. In October 1978, English rock group UFO recorded \"Strangers in the Night\" at the International Amphitheatre. The Stock Yards closed in 1971, but the Amphitheatre remained open, hosting rock concerts, college basketball and IHSA playoff games, circuses, religious gatherings, and other events. The shift of many conventions and trade shows to the more modern and more conveniently-located lakefront McCormick Place convention center during the 1960s and 1970s began the International Amphitheatre's decline; as other convention and concert venues opened in the suburbs, its bookings dropped more. In December 1981, Joe Frazier had his final boxing match at the Amphitheatre against Floyd Cummings, which resulted in a draw. Sold in 1983 for a mere $250,000, the sprawling Amphitheatre became difficult to maintain, and proved unable to attract enough large events to pay for its own upkeep. It was eventually sold to promoters Cardenas & Fernandez and then the City of Chicago, which had no more success at attracting events than its previous owner. In August 1999, demolition of the International Amphitheatre began. An Aramark Uniform Services plant is located on the site once occupied by the Amphitheatre. International Amphitheatre The International Amphitheatre was an indoor arena located in Chicago, Illinois, between 1934 and 1999. It was located on the west side of Halsted Street, at 42nd Street, on the city's south side, adjacent to the Union Stock Yards. The arena was built for $1.5 million, by the Stock Yard company, principally to host the International Livestock Exhibition. The arena replaced Dexter Park, a horse-racing track that had stood on the site for over 50 years prior to its destruction by fire in May 1934. The completion of the Amphitheatre ushered in an"
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"Yok Mu-ming Yok Mu-ming () is a Taiwanese politician and has been the chairman of the New Party since 2003. Yok and delegates from the New Party made an 8-day visit to China in July 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of China's victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The delegates visited Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou and Nanjing in a tour called \"Journey of the Chinese Nation\". In Guangzhou, Yok and his delegates paid tribute at the Huanghuagang Mausoleum of 72 Martyrs honoring the deceased during the Second Guangzhou Uprising to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish the Republic of China. In May 2010, Yok visited the National Museum of China in Beijing in which he met with the museum director Lu Zhangshen. Lu briefed Yok about the current situation of the museum renovation. He also expressed hope for future collaboration between the museum and Taiwan, as well as strengthening ties with various cultural organizations in Taiwan. In 2012, responding to the dispute of Tiaoyutai Islands between Taiwan, Mainland China and Japan, Yok published a written statement saying that trilateral negotiation between the three sides cannot be realized at the current time, Taiwan should hold a dialogue with Mainland China so that the two sides could jointly discuss issues related to defending the islands. During his visit to China in end of September 2014 to meet with the President of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xi Jinping, Yok was told by Xi on the peaceful unification and one country, two systems in resolving the Taiwan issues and that Beijing would not tolerate Taiwan independence movement. The statement marked the first time Xi Jinping told on one country, two systems to a Taiwanese politician since he became General Secretary of the CPC on 15 November 2012. Yok attended the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Sun Yat-sen event in Beijing in November 2016 led by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Yok Mu-ming Yok Mu-ming () is a Taiwanese politician and has been the chairman of the New Party since 2003. Yok and delegates from the New Party made an 8-day visit to China in July 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of China's victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The delegates visited Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou and Nanjing in a tour called \"Journey of the Chinese Nation\". In Guangzhou, Yok and his delegates paid"
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