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"Laser Weapon System The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System or XN-1 LaWS is a directed-energy weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on for field testing in 2014. In December 2014, the United States Navy reported that the LaWS system worked perfectly against low-end asymmetric threats, and that the commander of the \"Ponce\" is authorized to use the system as a defensive weapon. The LaWS is a ship-defense system that has so far publicly engaged an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) and a simulated small-boat attacker. LaWS uses an infrared beam from a solid-state laser array which can be tuned to high output to destroy the target or low output to warn or cripple the sensors of a target. Among the advantages of this device versus projectile weapons is the low cost per shot, as each firing of the weapon requires only the minimal cost of generating the energetic pulse; by contrast ordnance for projectile weapons must be designed, manufactured, handled, transported and maintained, and takes up storage space. The LaWS is designed to be used against low-end asymmetric threats. Scalable power levels allow it to be used on low-power to dazzle a person's eye to non-lethally make them turn away from a threatening posture, and increase to 30 thousand watts (30 kW) to fry sensors, burn out motors, and detonate explosive materials. Against a vital point on small UAVs, one can be shot down in as little as two seconds. When facing small boats, the laser would target a craft's motor to disable it and make it \"dead in the water,\" then repeating this against others in rapid succession, requiring only a few seconds of firing per boat. Targeting the platform is more effective than individual crewmembers, although the LaWS is accurate enough to target explosive rockets if on board, whose detonations could kill the operators. Against a larger aircraft like a helicopter, LaWS can burn through some vital components to cause it to fall and crash. In 2010, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions was awarded an $11 million contract to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in the development of LaWS for the U.S. Navy's Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems (DE&EWS) program. The May 2012 NSWC test used a close-in weapon system control system to enable the beam director to track an unmanned aerial vehicle target. The LaWS was to be installed on USS \"Ponce\" in summer 2014 for a 12-month trial deployment. The Navy spent about $40 million over the past six years on research, development, and testing of the laser weapon. It will be directed to targets by the Phalanx CIWS radar. If tests go well, the Navy could deploy a laser weapon operationally between 2017 and 2021 with an effective range of . The exact level of power the LaWS will use is unknown but estimated between 15–50 kW for engaging small aircraft and high-speed boats. Directed-energy weapons are being pursued for economic reasons, as they can be fired for as little as one dollar per shot, while conventional gun rounds and missiles can cost thousands of dollars each. The Navy has a history of testing energy weapons, including megawatt chemical lasers in the 1980s. Their chemicals were found to be too hazardous for shipboard use, so they turned to less powerful fiber solid-state lasers. Other types can include slab solid state and free electron lasers. The LaWS benefitted from commercial laser developments, with the system basically being six welding lasers \"strapped together\" that, although they don't become a single beam, all converge on the target at the same time. It generates 33 kW in testing, with follow-on deployable weapons generating 60–100 kW mounted on a Littoral Combat Ship or to destroy fast-attack boats, drones, manned aircraft, and anti-ship cruise missiles out to a few miles. In the short term, the LaWS will act as a short-range, self-defense system against drones and boats, while more powerful lasers in the future should have enough power to destroy anti-ship missiles; Navy slab lasers have been tested at 105 kW with increases to 300 kW planned. Laser weapons like the LaWS are meant to complement other missile and gun-based defense systems rather than replace them. While lasers are significantly cheaper and have virtually unlimited magazines, their beams can be disrupted by atmospheric and weather conditions (especially when operating at the ocean's surface) and are restricted to line-of-sight firing to continuously keep the beam on target. More conventional systems will remain in place for larger and longer-range targets that require the use of kinetic defense. The LaWS was deployed on the \"Ponce\" in late August 2014 to the Persian Gulf with the U.S. 5th Fleet. The deployment is to test the feasibility of a laser weapon in a maritime environment against heat, humidity, dust, and salt water and to see how much power is used. The system has scalable power levels to be able to fire a non-lethal beam to dazzle a suspect vessel, and fire stronger beams to physically destroy a target; range is classified. Although neighboring Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz out of the Gulf using small boat swarms that the LaWS is able to counter, it was not designed or deployed specifically to be used against any one particular country. In September 2014, the LaWS was declared an operational asset, so the ship commander has permission to use it for self-defense. Humans are not a target of the weapon under stipulations of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, but targets do include UAVs, helicopters, and fast patrol craft. Rules of engagement have been developed for its use, but details have not been released. The Navy has released video of the LaWS on deployment disabling a ScanEagle UAV, detonating a rocket propelled grenade, and burning out the engine of a rigid hull inflatable boat. Officials said it is working beyond expectations. Compared to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a missile, one laser shot costs only 59 cents. Composed of commercial laser components and proprietary Navy software, it is powered and cooled by a \"skid\" through a diesel generator, separate from the ship's electrical systems, giving greater efficiency relative to power provided of 35 percent. Mounted on the \"Ponce\"'s superstructure above the bridge, its powerful optics are also useful as a surveillance tool that can detect objects at unspecified but \"tactically significant ranges\"; sailors have equated its surveillance abilities to having the Hubble telescope at sea. Sailors are using it for targeting and training daily, whether to disable or destroy test targets or for potential target identification. The system is operated through a flat screen monitor and a gaming system-like controller integrated into the ship's combat system, so anyone with experience playing common video games can operate the weapon. It has functioned well against adverse weather, able to work in high humidity and after a dust storm. However, the system is not expected to work during harsh sandstorms and has not been tested in such conditions because \"it didn't make much sense to\", but threats would also not be expected to be operational under the same conditions. Deployments on other ships are being examined and although the LaWS was planned to remain deployed for one year, it performed so well that fleet leadership decided to keep it on the \"Ponce\" as long as it was at sea. Following a review of several ship classes to determine which had available space, power, and cooling, it was decided that after the \"Ponce's\" planned decommissioning in 2018, the LaWS will be moved to the new amphibious transport dock ship for indefinite testing, it will utilise the space and power connections reserved for VLS to house the LaWS power and control modules while the laser itself will be bolted to the deck. Because the installation will be only a trial, LaWS will not be integrated into the ship's warfare system. In",
"to be operational under the same conditions. Deployments on other ships are being examined and although the LaWS was planned to remain deployed for one year, it performed so well that fleet leadership decided to keep it on the \"Ponce\" as long as it was at sea. Following a review of several ship classes to determine which had available space, power, and cooling, it was decided that after the \"Ponce's\" planned decommissioning in 2018, the LaWS will be moved to the new amphibious transport dock ship for indefinite testing, it will utilise the space and power connections reserved for VLS to house the LaWS power and control modules while the laser itself will be bolted to the deck. Because the installation will be only a trial, LaWS will not be integrated into the ship's warfare system. In January 2018, the Navy announced a $150 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the production of two more LaWS units to be delivered in 2020; one will be fitted to while the other will be used for land-based testing. Further contract options could bring its value to $942.8 million. Laser Weapon System The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System or XN-1 LaWS is a directed-energy weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on for field testing"
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"Frank Ross (Scottish footballer) Francis Ross (born 18 February 1998) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Aberdeen. He is from Ellon and joined the Dons when he was eight-years old. On 16 May 2015, Ross made his professional debut for Aberdeen in a league match against Dundee.<ref name=\"debut/contract\"></ref> On 3 July 2016, he signed a new two-year contract. On 3 December 2017, Ross scored his first senior goal for the Dons from a free-kick against Rangers. On 8 December, in the next match, he was given his first start for the club, in a 1–0 win against Dundee. Ross was loaned to Championship club Greenock Morton in January 2018. Frank Ross (Scottish footballer) Francis Ross (born 18 February 1998) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Aberdeen. He is from Ellon and joined the Dons when he was eight-years old. On 16 May 2015, Ross made his professional debut for Aberdeen in a league match against Dundee.<ref name=\"debut/contract\"></ref> On 3 July 2016, he signed a new two-year contract. On 3 December 2017, Ross scored his first senior goal for the Dons from a free-kick against Rangers. On 8 December, in the next match, he was given his"
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"2018–19 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds The 2018–19 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds open the 87th season of the competition in Egypt, the oldest association football single knockout competition in Africa. The calendar for the 2018–19 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by the Egyptian Football Association. First Preliminary Round fixtures were played from 12 to 18 August 2018. A total of 205 teams from the Egyptian Third Division and the Egyptian Fourth Division entered at this stage of the competition. A large number of clubs did not enter the competition due to financial status and other different reasons, including Al Fanar, a club that was playing in the Egyptian Second Division in the previous season. The results were as follows: The following teams received a bye for this round: Second Preliminary Round fixtures were played on 4 and 5 September 2018. The results were as follows: The following teams received a bye for this round: Third Preliminary Round fixtures were played on 24, 25 and 26 September 2018. A total of 39 teams from the Egyptian Second Division entered at this stage of the competition. Damietta, El Tahrir and Al Walideya, all playing in the 2018–19 Egyptian Second Division, did not enter the competition. The results were as follows: Fourth Preliminary Round fixtures were played on 29 and 30 September 2018. The results were as follows: Fifth Preliminary Round fixtures were played on 3 October 2018. The results were as follows: Winners from the Fifth Preliminary Round advance to the Round of 32, where teams from the Egyptian Premier League enter the competition. 2018–19 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds The 2018–19 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds open the 87th season of the competition in Egypt, the oldest association football single knockout competition in Africa. The calendar for the 2018–19 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds,"
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"Vladimir Dezhurov Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov (; born July 30, 1962) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space Stations. During his career, Dezhurov also conducted nine spacewalks before his retirement on July 12, 2004. Dezhurov was born on July 30, 1962 in the settlement of Yavas, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, Russia. He is married to Elena Valentinovna Dezhurova (née Suprina). They have two daughters, Anna, born in 1983, and Svetlana, born in 1987. His father, Nikolai Serafimovich Dezhurov and mother, Anna Vasilevna Dezhurova reside in Yavas settlement, Zubovo-Polyansk district, Mordovia, Russia. Dezhurov attended and graduated from the S.I. Gritsevits Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School in 1983 with a pilot engineer’s diploma. After graduating, Dezhurov served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Russian Air Force. Dezhurov was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal and the Pilot/Cosmonaut title by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. He has been also awarded three Air Force medals during his career. In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December 1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space training. Since September 1989, he has continued training as a member of a group of test cosmonauts. Since 1991, he has been a correspondence student at the Yuri A. Gagarin Air Force Academy. In March 1994, Dezhurov began flight training as commander of the prime crew of the Mir-18 mission. The crew was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 14, 1995 aboard the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft. Following a two-day solo flight, the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Mir on March 16. Dezhurov served as the Mir E-18 commander. There were several technical problems during this mission. The crew also performed life science experiments. Following a 115-day flight, the mission concluded with landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 7, 1995. Dezhurov lived and worked aboard the International Space Station where he served as a member of the Expedition 3 crew. carrying Dezhurov and six other crewmembers on STS-105 mission blasted off to space from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on August 10, 2001. The shuttle docked with the ISS on 12 August at 18:41 UTC. Dezhurov spent approximately 4 months aboard the station as a flight engineer. During the long duration mission the Expedition 3 crew enjoyed a unique view of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. At the end of the stay Expedition 3 crewmembers, Dezhurov, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin returned to Earth on board Space Shuttle . \"Endeavour\" STS-108 mission delivered the Expedition 4 crew to the ISS and landed at KSC on December 17, 2001. During his cosmonaut career, Dezhurov has performed nine spacewalks. During Mir EO-18 long duration mission Dezhurov together with cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov conducted five spacewalks. As of June 2010, his nine spacewalks totalling 37 hours and 2 minutes has placed him in the 25th position in the list of astronauts who have the most extra-vehicular activity (EVA) time. On 12 May 1995, Dezhurov conducted his first career spacewalk. The spacewalk started 04:20:44 UTC and ended at 10:35:16 UTC. He and Strekalov prepared for the arrival of the Spektr module and prepared to move Kristall's solar panel. They also practiced work at the Kristall module. The spacewalk lasted 6 hours and 14 minutes. Dezhurov performed his second career spacewalk on May 17. They moved the solar array to the Kvant-1 module. The spacewalk lasted six hours and 52 minutes. On May 22, Dezhurov and Strekalov installed the solar array on Kvant-1 and stowed Kristall's other solar array. The excursion out of the Mir Space Station marked Dezhurov's third career spacewalk. The spacewalk started at 00:10:20 UTC and was completed at 05:25:11 UTC. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 14 minutes. On 28 May and June 1, 1995, Dezhurov and Strekolov conducted two spacewalks to prepare Mir to move Kristall and Spektr modules. Dezhurov's fourth and fifth career spacewalks lasted 21 and 23 minutes respectively. Dezhurov conducted another four spacewalks during the Expedition 3 mission to the ISS. On October 8, 2001, Dezhurov and Tyurin ventured outside the ISS to mark the 100th spacewalk to be carried out by Russian cosmonauts. The main objective of the spacewalk was to outfit the \"Pirs\" Docking Compartment and make connections between that newly arrived compartment and the \"Zvezda\" module. The spacewalkers installed a cable that allows space walk radio communications between the two station sections. They also installed handrails on the new compartment and an exterior ladder that will be used to help spacewalkers leave \"Pirs\" hatch. Dezhurov and Tyurin also installed a Strela cargo crane onto the station. The spacewalk lasted 4 hours and 58 minutes ending at 19:21 UTC. On October 15, 2001, Dezhurov performed his seventh career spacewalk. The two spacewalkers returned to space outside the ISS from the \"Pirs\" airlock. Dezhurov and Tyurin installed Russian commercial experiments on the exterior of \"Pirs\". Among the experiments is a set of investigations of how various materials react to the space environment over a long time. Called MPAC-SEEDS, the investigation is housed in three briefcase-sized containers. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 52 minutes. On November 12, 2001, Dezhurov conducted his eighth career spacewalk. Dezhurov and NASA astronaut Culbertson connected cables on the exterior of the \"Pirs\" Docking Compartment for the Kurs automated docking system. They completed checks of the Strela cargo crane, using one space walker at the end of the crane's boom to simulate a cargo. They also inspected and photographed a small panel of one solar array on the Zvezda Service Module that has one portion of a panel not fully unfolded. The spacewalk was conducted in Russian Orlan spacesuits. It lasted 5 hours and 4 minutes. On December 3, 2001, Dezhurov conducted his ninth career spacewalk. Dressed in Orlan spacesuits, Tyurin and Dezhurov floated out of the \"Pirs\" airlock at 13:20 UTC. Dezhurov and Tyurin used a cutting tool to remove an errant rubber seal that had prevented a Progress resupply ship from firmly docking with the ISS. The two spacewalkers also took pictures of the debris, which was a rubberized seal from the previous cargo ship, and of the docking interface. The spacewalk lasted 2 hours and 46 minutes. Vladimir Dezhurov Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov (; born July 30, 1962) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space Stations. During his career, Dezhurov also conducted nine spacewalks"
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"2012 in video gaming The year 2012 saw the release of numerous sequels to critically acclaimed video games, such as \"Alan Wake\", \"Assassin's Creed\", \"Borderlands\", \"Call of Duty\", \"Counter-Strike\", \"Darksiders\", \"Dead or Alive\", \"Diablo\", \"Fable\", \"Far Cry\", \"Forza Motorsport\", \"Halo\", \"Hitman\", \"Mario Party\", \"Marvel vs. Capcom\", \"Mass Effect\", \"Max Payne\", \"Medal of Honor\", \"Modern Combat\", \"Need for Speed\", \"Ninja Gaiden\", \"PlanetSide\", \"Pokémon\", \"Prototype\", \"Resident Evil\", \"Silent Hill\", \"Sniper Elite\", \"Spec Ops\", \"Super Mario\", \"Tekken\", \"The Darkness\", \"Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon\", \"\", \"Trials\" and \"X-COM\". In addition, it saw the release of many new intellectual properties, such as \"Asura's Wrath\", \"Dishonored\", \"Journey\", \"Lollipop Chainsaw\" and \"Sleeping Dogs\". Many awards went to games such as \"Borderlands 2\", \"Far Cry 3\", \"Journey\", \"Mass Effect 3\", \"The Walking Dead\" and \"\". It began with the worldwide release of Sony's newest handheld game console, the PlayStation Vita, that was launched in Japan in December 2011. The end of the year marked the worldwide release of the second most recent home console by Nintendo, the Wii U. The list of game consoles released in 2012 in North America. The list of games released in 2012 in North America. 2012 in video gaming The year 2012 saw"
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"Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania The Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania is a parliament (Seimas) in Lithuania. Elections took place on 9 October 2016, with the run-off on 23 October. The Seimas commenced its work on 14 November 2016 and is serving a four-year term. In the elections in 2016, 70 members of the parliament were elected on proportional party lists and 71 in single member constituencies. Elections took place on 9 October 2012. Run-off elections were held on 23 October in the single-seat constituencies where no candidate secured a seat in the first round. 144 members have served in the Twelfth Seimas. Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania The Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania is a parliament (Seimas) in Lithuania. Elections took place on 9 October 2016, with the run-off on 23 October. The Seimas commenced its work on 14 November 2016 and is serving a four-year term. In the elections in 2016, 70 members of the parliament were elected on proportional party lists and 71 in single member constituencies. Elections took place on 9 October 2012. Run-off elections were held on 23 October in the single-seat constituencies where no candidate secured a seat in the first round. 144 members have served in the"
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"2013 Nauruan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 8 June 2013. After Parliament was dissolved on 1 March, the elections were set for 6 April. However, a Supreme Court ruling annulled the dissolution and cancelled the elections. Parliament was dissolved again on 23 May, approximately one month before the normal end of its mandate, and elections were set for 22 June 2013, however President Sprent Dabwido declared a state of emergency and brought the election forward to 8 June. Parliament first sat on June 11 and Fisheries Minister Baron Waqa, the leader of the government forces, was elected president. In February 2013 a constitutional crisis developed after two cabinet members resigned and a third was sacked by President Sprent Dabwido, leaving just two members in the cabinet, whilst the 18-member Parliament split into three factions. On 1 March Parliamentary Speaker Ludwig Scotty dissolved Parliament due to unruly behaviour by MPs, and elections were set for 6 April. Former President Marcus Stephen, who was one of the cabinet members to leave in February threatened to bring a legal challenge against the dissolution, claiming it had been carried out in an unconstitutional manner as MPs had not been given the chance to challenge the dissolution. When Stephens and seven other MPs did take the matter to the Supreme Court, it ruled that the adjournment had been carried out unconstitutionally. However, a government spokesman claimed that the Court had no power to force Scotty to reconvene Parliament. In mid-March the Supreme Court ruled that as the dissolution was null and void, the writ issued for elections in April was also null and void. Speaker Scotty resigned on 18 April and was replaced by Godfrey Thoma on 25 April. Thoma announced on 16 May that Parliament would be dissolved a week from that date. Speaker Thoma dissolved Parliament on 23 May and set elections for 22 June. On 27 May 2013 President Dabwido declared a state of emergency and re-set the election for 8 June 2013. MPs are elected in eight multi-members constituencies using the Dowdall system, a modified version of the Borda count. Voters rank candidates by preference, with the first preference given a score of 1, the second preference a score of ½, the third preference a score of ⅓ and so on. Voters must rank all candidates on the ballot for it to be valid. The candidates with the highest scores win the seats in a constituency. Until this election there had been 18 seats in Parliament with seven two-seat constituencies and one four-seat constituency, but following the June 2010 elections Parliament passed a bill to increase the number of seats to 19 to avoid 9–9 ties in the legislature. The extra member will be elected in the Meneng Constituency, which previously had two seats. A record total of 68 candidates registered for the elections. 2013 Nauruan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 8 June 2013. After Parliament was dissolved on 1 March, the elections"
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"Chasman–Green lattice The Chasman–Green lattice, also known as a double bend achromat lattice (DBA lattice), is a special periodic arrangement of magnets designed by Renate Chasman and George Kenneth Green of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the mid-1970s for synchrotrons. This lattice provides optimized bending and focusing of electrons in storage rings designed for synchrotron light sources. An electron storage ring constructed with a Chasman–Green lattice has the important property that the circulating electron beams have very low emittance, which results in the emission of synchrotron light of exceptional brightness. For this reason it is the lattice of choice for most of the premier synchrotron light source facilities worldwide. Each period of the Chasman–Green lattice contains a focusing quadrupole magnet symmetrically located between a pair of identical dipole magnets, which transports incident electrons through a bending arc to an exit path that is independent of the electron energy. Chasman–Green lattice The Chasman–Green lattice, also known as a double bend achromat lattice (DBA lattice), is a special periodic arrangement of magnets designed by Renate Chasman and George Kenneth Green of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the mid-1970s for synchrotrons. This lattice provides optimized bending and focusing of electrons in storage rings designed for"
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"Pedro Santana (baseball) Pedro C. Santana (born September 21, 1976 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player in 2001 for the Detroit Tigers. He is 5'11\" and weighs 160 lbs. On July 16, 2001, Santana appeared in the only game of his MLB career. He entered the game in the eighth inning as a defensive replacement at second base in place of Damion Easley and batting second in the lineup. The Tigers, who were losing to the Cincinnati Reds 9-1, batted the number four, five, six, and seven hitters in the top of the ninth inning to close out the game. Santana finished the game without a plate appearance, although he did record a putout of Reds second basemen Juan Castro to close out the eighth inning. This puts Santana in select company with other non-pitchers who appeared in a major league game but did not receive a plate appearance, such as Moonlight Graham. Santana was originally called up on July 13 when the Tigers put starting third baseman Dean Palmer on the disabled list; and was sent back down to the minors when the team activated starting shortstop Deivi Cruz on July 18. Santana's brief appearance was notable, as the game took place in July, as opposed to later in the season when rosters expand during September call-ups. Santana was not called up that September, despite remaining on the 40-man roster. Pedro Santana (baseball) Pedro C. Santana (born September 21, 1976 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player in 2001 for the Detroit Tigers. He is 5'11\" and weighs 160 lbs. On July 16, 2001, Santana appeared in the only game of his MLB career. He entered the game in the eighth inning as a"
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"Turkish detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding five Turkish captives in Guantanamo. A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all \"high value detainees\" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of July 2012 the camp population stands at 168. Several released Turkish captives have filed a lawsuit against the USA for their detention -- Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld. Turkish detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding five Turkish captives in Guantanamo. A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all \"high value detainees\" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of July 2012 the camp population stands at 168. Several released Turkish captives have filed a lawsuit"
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"Wilf Auty Frederic Wilfrid Hoyle Auty (28 February 1881 – 15 February 1951), also known by the nicknames of \"Wilf\", and \"The Emperor\", was an English rugby union, and amateur rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s and 1900s, and rugby union coach of the 1900s, and 1910s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Rosslyn Park F.C., and representative level rugby league (RL) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Batley as a , or , i.e. number 2 or 5, or, 3 or 4, and he coached club level rugby union (RU), and was a member of the committee for Headingley RFC. Wilf Auty's birth was registered in Dewsbury district, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, he was a pupil at Mill Hill School, London, aged 17 he joined his father's textile company; Joseph Auty & Co, Clerk Green, Batley, he was first elected to Batley Town Council in 1910, he served as a Councillor until 1922 when, within the space of 5 weeks, the deaths occurred of both his younger brother Joseph Speight Auty (13 January 1884 – 27 March 1922 (aged 38)), and his father, also Joseph (23 July 1847 – 2 May 1922 (aged 74)), which prompted Wilf Auty's retirement from Batley Town Council. Following his father's death, aged 41 he became the chairman of the textile company founded by his father, he served on the committee, and he was the chairman, of the Batley and Birstall Chamber of Commerce, he returned to Batley Town Council in 1941, and he was the Mayor of Batley twice; in 1943 and 1944, his father having been Mayor in 1892-83, and his older sister, Margaret Grace Auty, being Mayoress during the 1919-20 mayoralty of her husband, Herbert North. Wilf Auty was the president of the Batley Liberal Association, he was the Vice-President of the Batley Temperance Society, he was the Secretary of the National Commercial Temperance League, he was the President of the Batley Amateur Thespian Society, he was a Director of Batley rugby league club in the 1940s up to the time of his death in 1951, and also a past Vice - President,and member of the then Committee prior to the club becoming a limited company in 1922, but never held office as President or Chairman of the club, as incorrectly stated in the 'A Ton Full Of Memories' book published in 1986. He died aged 69 at his home; \"Dryfield House\", 207 Healey Lane, Batley, his death was registered in Spen Valley district, West Riding of Yorkshire, and his funeral service was held Hanover Street Congregational Church, Batley at 11:00am on Monday 19 February 1951. The Auty name will always be forever synonymous with Batley's Mount Pleasant ground as a company was formed to raise the sum to buy it, helped greatly by his father Alderman Joseph Auty, who agreed to donate money on the basis that no intoxicating liquor ever be sold at the ground. Wilf Auty was as keen in cricket as in any other form of sport, and he gained many honours, being the possessor of five Heavy Woollen Cup winners medals. He captained both Batley and Birstall cup winning teams, and his interest in both clubs led to him being termed a liaison between Batley and Birstall. He was president of the Heavy Woollen Cricket Cup Competition and practically left his bed to be present at Savile Town at the last final before his death to present the cup to Morley who had defeated Batley. He was also the district representative in the Yorkshire County Committee. Wilf Auty made his rugby union (RU) début for the Rosslyn Park F.C. First XV, while still a schoolboy, aged 15 in , he made his rugby league (RL) début for Batley aged 17 on the 17th September 1898 scoring a try in the 16-3 win over Liversedge (A). He would eventually replace in the centre Dai Fitzgerald, who was suspended by the Northern Union (now known as the Rugby Football League (RFL)) from the end of 1898 until May 1900, as Fitzgerald's employment as a coal agent was not considered legitimate, and consequently he was in breach of the Northern Union's professionalism code, upon Fitzgerald's return from suspension, Wilf Auty moved to play as a . At 18 Wilf Auty won a Yorkshire Senior Competition Medal with Batley. Wilf Auty won 2 caps for Yorkshire (RL) while at Batley; he played , i.e. number 5 in the 3-13 defeat v Cheshire in the County Championship match during the 1901-02 season at Edgeley Park, Stockport on 30 November 1901 in front of a crowd of 4,500. He also played , i.e. number 5, and scored a try in the 9-0 victory over Durham and Northumberland (predominantly players from South Shields) in a non-County Championship match during the 1901–02 season at The Boulevard, Hull on Saturday 25 January 1902, in front of a crowd of 4,000. Wilf Auty played , i.e. number 5, and scored a try in Batley's 6-0 victory over Warrington in the 1901 Challenge Cup Final during the 1900–01 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 27 April 1901, in front of a crowd of 29,563. Wilf Auty coached, and was a member of the committee, for Headingley RFC for ten years, and it was here that he gained the nickname of \"The Emperor\". Wilf Auty was the son of Joseph Auty , and Lucy Anne (née Farrow, 29 January 1852 – 7 July 1923 (aged 71)), and he was the father of the rugby union fly-half of the 1930s for England (England Heritage № 722), Yorkshire and Headingley RFC; Joseph Richard \"Dick\" Auty (born 19 August 1910 in Batley – died 7 June 1995 (aged 84) in Leeds). Wilf Auty Frederic Wilfrid Hoyle Auty (28 February 1881 – 15 February 1951), also known by the nicknames of \"Wilf\", and \"The Emperor\", was an English rugby union, and amateur rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s and 1900s, and rugby"
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"Roy Harris (boxer) Roy Harris (born 29 June 1933) is a retired American heavyweight boxer, whose nickname derived from his place of birth, Cut and Shoot, Texas. Roy is a co-trainer of undefeated title contender Alfonso López III. Roy and his brother Henry took up the boxing together after receiving their first set of gloves in a trade for wild ducks. Roy was a four-time Texas Golden Gloves champ, won his state Olympic Trials in 1952, and was the winner of the Joe Louis Sportsmanship Award at the 1954 National Golden Gloves. Roy was a heavyweight contender during the 1950s. He won his first 23 fights, including consecutive wins against Willi Besmanoff, Bob Baker and Willie Pastrano, and was named \"Ring\" Magazine's progress of the year for 1957. Before the bout, Roy was on the cover of \"Sports Illustrated\". In August 1958, he was given a title shot by world champion Floyd Patterson. Patterson had trouble obtaining title defenses, as boxing at the time was controlled by an organization that Patterson and his manager, Cus D'Amato, refused to cooperate with. The promotion was colorful, due to the backstory of Roy's kinsmen, one of the celebrated East Texas clans still existing as their forebears had for generations. Much was made of the \"backwoods\" quality of Roy's life, and every venue was utilized in using this as ballyhoo; this extended as far as having Roy record a 45 RPM record for airplay only (DECCA Records, No. 9-30717). Roy was predictably photographed in cowboy hat and boots, and in one wire photo, he holds a revolver at the ready (AP Wirephoto rw41500sh). The aforementioned \"Sports Illustrated\" cover portrayed him barechested and barefoot, standing upon a cabin porch with 19th Century rifle at rest beside him; he further sports a canine companion. The fight took place at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, CA. Roy knocked down the champion in the second round, but was himself knocked down four times; his corner stopped the fight before the 13th round. Mushy Callahan was the referee. Back in Texas, Roy's extended family had gathered at the drive-in theater in nearby Conroe, which had been equipped for the occasion with its own closed circuit movie hook-up. The evening was a colorful one of guitar playing and dancing, but of course ended sadly, although most did not give up hope until near the end. It has been conjectured that Roy's heroic stand—versus a champion acknowledged later by Muhammad Ali as \"the most skilled as a boxer\" whom Ali had faced—is all the more miraculous, due to the location of his training facilities. Roy trained for the Patterson fight in the mountains, hundreds of feet higher in altitude than the city of Los Angeles, and yet, he completed 12 full rounds and scored a (debated) knockdown. Roy offered no excuses, however; a former winner of the Joe Louis award for sportsmanship, he replied when questioned, \"I did my best.\" Harris then won six consecutive fights, before losing to a (28-1) Sonny Liston. He then dropped a decision to Henry Cooper and was stopped twice by Bob Cleroux. He retired with a final record of 30 wins and five losses. He is believed to be the only boxer to become a lawyer after fighting for the world heavyweight title. Roy Harris was a county clerk in Montgomery County for 28 years. He began practicing law in 1972 and drew up the papers for Cut And Shoot to become incorporated. Roy's office is based in his home and he has been married 47 years and has six children. Roy Harris (boxer) Roy Harris"
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"Joseph Turner (loyalist) Joseph Turner (1701–1783) was a seaman, merchant, iron manufacturer, and politician in colonial and post-colonial Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Turner was born in 1701 in Hampshire, England. He came to America in January 1714. Early Philadelphia records identify him as a sea captain in 1724 and a businessman in 1726. For many decades prior to the American Revolution, he was in business with Chief Justice William Allen; their firm, Allen & Turner, was one of the most important in the colonies. Turner entered into trade agreements and iron mining and manufacture ventures, including the Union Iron Works in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, at present-day High Bridge, New Jersey. With Allen and others, Turner participated in the importation and trade of slaves, which was then legal. Turner was also involved in politics. He was elected as a Philadelphia city councilman in 1729, an alderman in 1741, and a member of Pennsylvania's Provincial Council in 1747. In 1745, Abram Taylor was elected mayor of Philadelphia, then a non-paying office, but declined to serve, for which he was fined thirty pounds; Council then elected Turner to the office but he likewise refused it, for which he was similarly fined. Turner was a member of Benjamin Franklin's Junto and of the Dancing Assembly of 1748. He was also a founder in 1749 of the Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia, and then of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) and served as a trustee of these institutions until his death in 1783. During the American Revolution, Turner remained a staunch loyalist. Joseph Turner (loyalist) Joseph Turner (1701–1783) was a seaman, merchant, iron manufacturer, and politician in colonial and post-colonial Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Turner was born in 1701 in Hampshire, England. He came to America in January 1714. Early Philadelphia records identify"
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"Banky W. Olubankole Wellington (born 27 March 1981), popularly known by his stage name Banky W, and credited in film as Banky Wellington, is a Nigerian singer, rapper,actor & politician. Banky W was born in the United States to Nigerian parents. His family moved back to Nigeria when he was five years old. He started singing at a young age in his church choir. He schooled in Lagos for his primary and secondary education and returned to further his tertiary education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York on a scholarship. He started his record label E.M.E in 2002 while studying. In 2009, he left the US for Nigeria and established his record label in Lagos where he signed artists like Niyola, Shaydee, Skales and Wizkid to the label at the time. His breakthrough debut studio album, \"Back in the Building\" was released in 2005. He wrote the first theme song of Etisalat Nigeria titled \"0809ja for life\". A day after Valentine of 2013, he launched his new album \"R&BW\" with a concert tagged the \"Grand Love Concert\" at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe, Victoria Island, Lagos, which featured several other artistes including Iyanya and Waje. The first two singles from the album are \"Lowkey\" and \"Yes/No\". On November 11, 2018, Banky W declared his intention to run for the Lagos' Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in Nigeria's House of Representatives, representing on the platform of Modern Democratic Party, formed in 2017. He got married to Adesua Etomi traditionally on 19 November 2017 and subsequently did his white wedding in South Africa on 25 November 2017. He had a successful skin cancer surgery on his shoulder in 2017. In 2017, Banky W took part in the initialing of a monumental heirloom, the \"Philosophers Legacy\". Banky W. Olubankole Wellington (born 27 March 1981),"
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"Johanna Goldsmith Johanna Cardona-Goldsmith (born September 25, 1979) is an American actress from Austin, Texas most widely known for her involvement in the Tennessee Senate election of 2006 when she appeared in the controversial \"Call Me\" political advertisement created by the Republican National Committee for Republican candidate and current Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee against his opponent Democrat Harold Ford. Goldsmith portrayed a young woman who claimed she \"met Harold at the \"Playboy\" Party\" and reminded him at the end of the advertisement with a wink, \"Harold, call me.\" As the commercial gained notoriety, it, and most particularly, Goldsmith became the top subjects on \"Larry King Live\", \"The View\", \"The O'Reilly Factor\", \"Inside Edition\", \"Real Time with Bill Maher\", etc. The print world even featured Goldsmith in \"Time\" magazine and the front page of \"The New York Times\". In a post on the \"Houston Chronicle\" blog \"Texas Politics\" by \"Chronicle\" reporter Lisa Sandberg, Goldsmith admitted she was ignorant of who Harold Ford was at the time she shot the ad. Goldsmith said she did not view the ad as racist and that she herself was apolitical. She also expressed concerns that she would be typecast as a blonde bimbo due to all the attention over the commercial. During an interview with ABC-affiliate KVUE, Goldsmith added that thanks to her performance in the advertisement, she has received \"two marriage proposals and several new job offers.\" Johanna Goldsmith Johanna Cardona-Goldsmith (born September 25, 1979) is an American actress from Austin, Texas most widely known for her involvement in the Tennessee Senate election of 2006 when she appeared in the controversial \"Call Me\" political advertisement created by the Republican National Committee for Republican candidate and current Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee against his opponent Democrat Harold Ford. Goldsmith portrayed a young woman who"
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"James Gammon James Richard Gammon (April 20, 1940 – July 16, 2010) was an American actor, known for playing grizzled \"good ol' boy\" types in numerous films and television series. Gammon is best known as Lou Brown, the manager in the movies \"Major League\" and \"Major League II\", which portrayed a fictitious version of the Cleveland Indians. Gammon was born in Newman, Illinois, the son of Doris Latimer (née Toppe), a farm girl, and Donald Gammon, a musician. After his parents divorced and he bounced around from home to home, he made his way to Orlando, Florida. He worked at Orlando's ABC TV affiliate WLOF-TV Channel 9 as a cameraman and director. In his 20s, he packed up and moved to Hollywood to try to find work. His early television credits include appearing twice as Deputy Virgil Bramley in the NBC western series \"The Road West\" in the 1966–1967 season, which co-starred Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. In the 1970s, he helped found the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. While performing there, a rep from The Public Theater saw him and had him cast as Weston in Sam Shepard's \"Curse of the Starving Class\" in 1978. The two became friends afterward. He made his sole Broadway appearance as \"Dodge\" in a revival of Sam Shepard's \"Buried Child\". He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance. He also appeared on stage in Shepard's San Francisco debut of \"The Late Henry Moss\" along with Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Cheech Marin and Woody Harrelson in 2000. Gammon may be best-remembered for his characters Lou Brown, manager of the Cleveland Indians in the \"Major League\" films, and Nick Bridges, the father of Don Johnson's title character in the television series \"Nash Bridges\". He appeared in the films \"Cool Hand Luke\" (1967), \"Urban Cowboy\" (1980), \"Silverado\" (1985), \"Noon Wine\" (1985), \"The Milagro Beanfield War\" (1988), \"Major League\" (1989), \"The Adventures of Huck Finn\" (1993), \"Major League II\" (1994), \"Wyatt Earp\" (1994), \"Wild Bill\" (1995), \"Truman\" (1995), \"Cold Mountain\" (2003), and more recently \"Appaloosa\" (2008). He also had an uncredited role in \"Natural Born Killers\" (1994). Gammon portrayed a Korean War veteran on the hit ABC series \"Grey's Anatomy\". He played Charles Goodnight in \"Streets of Laredo\". In 2006, he played the stern grandfather, Sam, brother of notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy, in the film \"\". Gammon also plays a supporting role in \"Appaloosa\" (2008). Gammon provided the voices of the animated characters Marv Loach and Floyd Turbeaux in the 1999 Warner Bros. feature film \"The Iron Giant\". Gammon died of adrenal gland and liver cancer in Costa Mesa, California. His friend, Sam Shepard, said this of Gammon: \"This was a guy who could act circles around most other actors, and he never pretended to be other than a working kind of actor.\" He would go on to say about the star-studded cast of \"The Late Henry Moss\", \"I mean, a bunch of notoriously famous guys, and every single one of them would come up to me, alone, and say, 'Who's that Jim Gammon guy? Where did he come from?'\" Shepard also would talk about why he cast Gammon, saying: \"You're probably aware of the notorious father figures in my plays, alcoholic Midwesterners who leave their families and get lost in the Southwestern desert. Jimmy had that familiarity about him with the way I grew up, the guys with the voice and the face and the whiskey. He definitely rang a bell with me.\" His first marriage ended in divorce. He has a brother, Philip, and a sister, Sandra (Glaudell). He was married to Nancy Jane Kapusta from 1972 until his death. He has two daughters, Allison Mann and Amy Gammon. James Gammon James Richard Gammon (April 20, 1940 – July 16, 2010) was an American actor, known for playing grizzled \"good ol' boy\" types in numerous films and television series. Gammon is best known as Lou Brown, the manager in the movies \"Major League\" and \"Major League II\", which portrayed a fictitious version of the Cleveland Indians. Gammon was born in Newman, Illinois, the son of Doris Latimer (née Toppe), a farm girl, and Donald Gammon, a musician. After his parents divorced"
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"Savaş Buldan Savaş Buldan (1961 - 3 June 1994) was a Turkish citizen of Kurdish descent. He was kidnapped, tortured and killed in June 1994. Savaş Buldan was born in Yüksekova to Şükrü Buldan (father). His brother, Nejdet Buldan, is one of the former mayors of Yüksekova for now defunct Democracy Party. Since 1979, he carried out activities in Yüksekova in line with the PKK. The Public Prosecution Office launched a trial against him in connection with the incidents that took place in Yüksekova, Hakkari, in March 1979. In 1980, Savaş Buldan sheltered some members of the PKK in his house after the clashes that took place between the PKK organization and the Kurdistan National Liberators (KUK) in Kızıltepe and Diyarbakır. In the same year, he and some other sympathizers carried out propaganda activities in the neighboring villages on the issue of \"tribes\". In 1986 he married his cousin Pervin Buldan. He was among the persons, who provided lawyers for the persons, who were detained in connection with the Nevroz incidents in March 1992. In June 1992, when he was living in Istanbul, he got involved in supporting the PKK and the Turkish authorities threatened him and labeled him as drug dealers to create stigma about him as they did with many Kurdish activists Pervin Buldan. Savaş Buldan was detained on 28 July 1992 in connection with certain arms seized in Haznedar neighborhood of İstanbul, and he was arrested by the SSC he was referred to. Along with Adnan Yıldırım and Hacı Karay, he was abducted by the Turkish security forces from Çınar Hotel in Yeşilyurt, İstanbul, on 3 June 1994. The abducted persons were found dead on 4 June 1994 on the road of Yukarıkaraş village of Yığılca district of Bolu. Following Savaş Buldan's murder, his brother, Nejdet Buldan, fled Turkey and settled in Germany. Savaş Buldan Savaş Buldan (1961 - 3 June 1994) was a Turkish citizen of Kurdish descent. He was kidnapped, tortured and killed in June 1994. Savaş Buldan was born in Yüksekova to Şükrü Buldan (father). His brother, Nejdet Buldan, is one of the former mayors of Yüksekova for now defunct Democracy Party. Since 1979, he carried out activities in Yüksekova in line with the PKK. The Public Prosecution Office launched a trial against him in connection with the incidents that took place in Yüksekova, Hakkari, in March 1979. In 1980, Savaş Buldan sheltered some"
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"Unitary authority A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government. Typically unitary authorities cover towns or cities which are large enough to function independently of county or other regional administration. Sometimes they consist of national sub-divisions which are distinguished from others in the same country by having no lower level of administration. In Canada, each province creates its own system of local government, so terminology varies substantially. In certain provinces (e.g. Alberta, Nova Scotia) there is \"only\" one level of local government in that province, so no special term is used to describe the situation. British Columbia has only one such municipality, Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, which was established in 2009. In Ontario the term single-tier municipalities is used, for a similar concept. Their character varies, and while most function as cities with no upper level of government, some function as counties or regional municipalities with no lower municipal subdivisions below them. They exist as individual census divisions, as well as separated municipalities. In Germany, kreisfreie Stadt (literally \"circle-free city\") is the equivalent term for a city with the competences of both the Gemeinde (municipality) and the Kreis (district, literally \"circle\") administrative level. The directly elected chief executive officer of a \"kreisfreie Stadt\" is called \"Oberbürgermeister\" (literally \"Superior Burgomaster\", in English \"Chief Mayor\" or \"Lord Mayor\"). The British counties have no directly corresponding counterpart in Germany. This German system corresponds to statutory cities in Austria and in the Czech Republic. Until 1 January 2007, the municipalities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Bornholm were not a part of a Danish county. In New Zealand, a unitary authority is a territorial authority (district or city) that also performs the functions of a regional council (first-level division). There are five unitary authorities; they are (with the year they were constituted): Gisborne District Council (1989), Nelson City Council (1992), Tasman District Council (1992), Marlborough District Council (1992), and Auckland Council (2010). The Chatham Islands, located east of the South Island, have a council with its own special legislation, constituted (1995) with powers similar to those of a regional authority. In Poland, a \"miasto na prawach powiatu\", or shortly \"powiat grodzki\" (\"city with powiat rights\", or \"urban county\" in short) is a, typically big, city which is also responsible for district (poviat) administrative level, being part of no other \"powiat\" (e.g. Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań). In total, 65 cities in Poland have this status. In the United Kingdom, \"unitary authorities\" are English local authorities set up in accordance with the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 made under powers conferred by the Local Government Act 1992 to form a single tier of local government in specified areas and which are responsible for almost all local government functions within such areas. While outwardly appearing to be similar, single-tier authorities formed using older legislation are not \"Unitary Authorities\" thus excluding e.g. the Isle of Wight Council or any other single-tier authority formed under the Local Government Act 1972 or older legislation. This is distinct from the two-tier system of local government which still exists in most of England, where local government functions are divided between county councils (the upper tier) and district or borough councils. Until 1996 two-tier systems existed in Scotland and Wales, but these have now been replaced by systems based on a single-tier of local government with some functions shared between groups of adjacent authorities. A single-tier system has existed in Northern Ireland since 1973. For many years the description of the number of tiers in UK local government arrangements has routinely ignored any current or previous bodies at the lowest level of authorities elected by the voters within their area such as parish (in England and Wales) or community councils; such bodies do not exist or have not existed in all areas. Northern Ireland is divided into 11 districts for local government purposes. In Northern Ireland local councils have no responsibility for education, road building or housing (though they do nominate members to the advisory Northern Ireland Housing Council). Their functions include waste and recycling services, leisure and community services, building control and local economic and cultural development. Since their reorganisation in 2015 councils in Northern Ireland have also taken on responsibility for planning functions. The collection of rates is handled by the Land and Property Services agency. Local authorities in Scotland are unitary in nature but not in name. The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 created a single tier of local government throughout Scotland. On 1 April 1996, 32 local government areas, each with a council, replaced the previous two-tier structure, which had regional, islands and district councils. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (formerly the Western Isles Council) uses the alternative Gaelic designation \"Comhairle\". The phrase \"unitary authority\" is not used in Scottish legislation (whether from the Scottish Parliament or the UK Parliament), although the term is encountered (used either descriptively or erroneously) in publications and in (usually erroneous) use by United Kingdom government departments. Local authorities in Wales are unitary in nature but are described by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 as \"principal councils\", and their areas as principal areas. Various other legislation (e.g. s.91(1) Environment Act 1995) includes the counties and county boroughs of Wales within their individual interpretations of the phrase \"unitary authority\" as an interpretive not a definitive description. In s.2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of \"County Council\" or \"\"Cyngor Sir\"\", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of \"County Borough Council\" or \"\"Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol\"\"; in all cases the shorter alternative forms \"Council\" or \"\"Cyngor\"\" can be used. Similar to the civil parishes in England, the lowest tier of local government in Wales are the communities. All of the principal councils are fully divided into communities, but not all such communities have established community councils. There are several types of single-tier governments in the United States. In the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and much of Massachusetts, county government has been abolished, and the municipalities (known as New England towns) are the only governing tier below the state government, though the former counties still exist in the ceremonial sense. In some areas, the reverse is true; for example, Howard County, Maryland and Arlington County, Virginia are examples of counties that, despite being densely developed, have no municipalities and are thus the only tier of general-purpose local government. In Virginia, all municipalities with \"city\" status are, by definition, independent from any county. Three other cities across the United States are also independent of any county government: Baltimore, Maryland, St. Louis, Missouri, and Carson City, Nevada. There are also several consolidated cities where the county government and municipal government are unified. San Francisco and Philadelphia are two examples, wherein the city and county are coterminous and have one singular governing body. Unitary authority A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a",
"for example, Howard County, Maryland and Arlington County, Virginia are examples of counties that, despite being densely developed, have no municipalities and are thus the only tier of general-purpose local government. In Virginia, all municipalities with \"city\" status are, by definition, independent from any county. Three other cities across the United States are also independent of any county government: Baltimore, Maryland, St. Louis, Missouri, and Carson City, Nevada. There are also several consolidated cities where the county government and municipal government are unified. San Francisco and Philadelphia are two examples, wherein the city and county are coterminous and have one singular governing body. Unitary authority A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible"
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"Ponte metálica de Fão The Ponte metálica de Fão is a bridge in Portugal at Fão. It is located in Braga District, crossing the Cávado River, on the EN 13 (National Road 13 - Porto-Valença). It connects Fão to Esposende. The bridge was designed by Abel Maria da Mota, built by Empresa Industrial Portuguesa of Lisbon, between 1889 and 1892. The field works were supervised by M. Reynaud. The inauguration took place in August 7, 1892, and was named Luis Filipe Bridge in honor of the then Prince Royal of Portugal. Fão bridge was classified has a Public Interest Building in January 3, 1986. The bridge underwent major restoration and reinforcement works in 2005–2006. The bridge has a cast iron Brown truss type structure, with twelve panels and lies supported by 7 rectangular pillars of masonry and granite stonework buried 15 m deep. The total length of 267 m Ponte metálica de Fão The Ponte metálica de Fão is a bridge in Portugal at Fão. It is located in Braga District, crossing the Cávado River, on the EN 13 (National Road 13 - Porto-Valença). It connects Fão to Esposende. The bridge was designed by Abel Maria da Mota, built by"
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"Tsukuba Space Center Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) is the operations facility and headquarters for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) located in Tsukuba Science City in Ibaraki Prefecture. The facility opened in 1972 and serves as the primary location for Japan's space operations and research programs. Japanese astronauts involved in the International Space Station are trained in part here in addition to the training they receive at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. The TKSC offers tours of the facility as well as an exhibit hall which features models of the H-II Transfer Vehicle and a full-sized mock-up of the \"Kibō\" module on the International Space Station. Tsukuba Space Center Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) is the operations facility and headquarters for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) located in Tsukuba Science City in Ibaraki Prefecture. The facility opened in 1972 and serves as the primary location for Japan's space operations and research programs. Japanese astronauts involved in the International Space Station are trained in part here in addition to the training they receive at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. The TKSC offers tours of the facility as well as an exhibit hall which"
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"Ranjay Ray Choudhury Ranjay Ray Choudhury () commonly known as Ranjay RC is a film director,photographer and artist by profession. He debuted his directorial venture with 2013 Bengali film \"The Play\". Ranjay started his career as an artist and has presented solo painting exhibitions on \"Mahanayak Uttam Kumar\" (2004) and \"Michael Jackson\" (2009) at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. At 2010 he shifted to direction with a short film \"32 Canal Street\". His first venture of a full-length feature film is the Bengali film \"The Play\" in 2013. He also wrote the story and screenplay of this film. The film features Rajesh Sharma, Indrasish Roy, Mumtaz Sorcar, Rajdeep Gupta and Sampurna Chakraborty in the lead roles. The music and the background score of \"The Play\" has been composed by Joy Sarkar. The film revolves around a theatre group where the entire theatre group is devastated by a series of murders. The filming began in December 2012 and was wrapped up by January 2013. The film was released on 6 December 2013. Ranjay Ray Choudhury Ranjay Ray Choudhury () commonly known as Ranjay RC is a film director,photographer and artist by profession. He debuted his directorial venture with 2013 Bengali film"
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"Raorchestes kakachi Raorchestes kakachi (Kakachi shrub frog) is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats of India. The specific name \"kakachi\" refers to the type locality from where the species was described. It is a small sized frog with males ranging from 24.7–25.8 mm (based on three specimens) and females from 24.3–34.1 mm (based on three specimens). It is distinguished from all other congeners from the following suite of characters. Oval snout under dorsal view; indistinct tympanum; head wider than long and moderate webbing in hind feet. Dorsal coloration varies from brown to ivory; brownish mottling on flanks, ventral coloration ivory with brown blotches reducing towards vent and inner and outer surface of thigh, inner surface of shank and inner surface of tarsus with a distinct dark brown horizontal band which extends up to first three toes on upper surface. Males lack nuptial pads. They possess a median subgular vocal sac with a pair of openings at the base of the lower jaw. The iris is dark brown. Females are larger than the male and possess a large ovary with creamy white eggs. Females have on their head a tetragonal cap like patch varying in color from pale pink to grey, iris colour reddish to golden brown (see the image: a = male;b = female). This species was described from bushes near Kakachi in the Agastyamalai region in the southern Western Ghats. It has not been reported from elsewhere. Individuals of this species are known to live in forest canopies. Vocalization usually begins early in the evening. Raorchestes kakachi Raorchestes kakachi (Kakachi shrub frog) is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats of India. The specific name \"kakachi\" refers to the type"
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"Hook length formula In combinatorial mathematics, the hook-length formula is a formula for the number of standard Young tableaux whose shape is a given Young diagram. It has applications in diverse areas such as representation theory, probability, and algorithm analysis; for example, the problem of longest increasing subsequences. Let formula_1 be a partition of formula_2. It is customary to interpret formula_3 graphically as a Young diagram, namely a left-justified array of square cells with formula_4 rows and formula_5 cells in the formula_6th row for each formula_7. A standard Young tableau of shape formula_3 is a Young diagram of shape formula_3 in which each of the formula_2 cells contains a distinct integer between 1 and formula_2 (i.e., no repetition), such that each row and each column form increasing sequences. For each cell of the Young diagram in coordinates formula_12 (that is, the cell in the formula_6th row and formula_14th column), the hook formula_15 is the set of cells formula_16 such that formula_17 and formula_18 or formula_19 and formula_20. The hook-length formula_21 is the number of cells in the hook formula_15. Then the hook-length formula expresses the number of standard Young tableaux of shape formula_3, sometimes denoted by formula_24, as where the product is over all cells formula_12 of formula_3. The figure on the right shows hook-lengths for all cells in the Young diagram of the partition 9 = 4 + 3 + 1 + 1. Then the number of standard Young tableaux formula_24 for this Young diagram can be computed as There are other formulas for formula_24, but the hook-length formula is particularly simple and elegant. The hook-length formula was discovered in 1954 by J. S. Frame, G. de B. Robinson, and R. M. Thrall by improving a less convenient formula expressing formula_24 in terms of a determinant. This earlier formula was deduced independently by G. Frobenius and A. Young in 1900 and 1902 respectively using algebraic methods. P. A. MacMahon found an alternate proof for the Young–Frobenius formula in 1916 using difference methods. Despite the simplicity of the hook-length formula, the Frame–Robinson–Thrall proof is uninsightful and does not provide an intuitive argument as to why hooks appear in the formula. The search for a short, intuitive explanation befitting such a simple result gave rise to many alternate proofs for the hook-length formula. A. P. Hillman and R. M. Grassl gave the first proof that illuminates the role of hooks in 1976 by proving a special case of the Stanley hook-content formula, which is known to imply the hook-length formula. C. Greene, A. Nijenhuis, and H. S. Wilf found a probabilistic proof using the hook walk in which the hook lengths appear naturally in 1979. J. B. Remmel adapted the original Frame–Robinson–Thrall proof into the first bijective proof for the hook-length formula in 1982. A direct bijective proof was first discovered by D. S. Franzblau and D. Zeilberger in 1982. D. Zeilberger also converted the Greene–Nijenhuis–Wilf hook walk proof into a bijective proof in 1984. A simpler direct bijective proof was announced by Igor Pak and Alexander V. Stoyanovskii in 1992, and its complete proof was presented by the pair and Jean-Christophe Novelli in 1997. Meanwhile, the hook-length formula has been generalized in several ways. R. M. Thrall found the analogue to the hook-length formula for shifted Young Tableaux in 1952. B. E. Sagan gave a shifted hook walk proof for the hook-length formula for shifted Young tableaux in 1980. B. E. Sagan and Y. N. Yeh proved the hook-length formula for binary trees using the hook walk in 1989. The hook-length formula can be understood intuitively using the following heuristic, but incorrect, argument suggested by D. E. Knuth. Given that each element of a tableau is the smallest in its hook and filling the tableau shape at random, the probability that cell formula_12 will contain the minimum element of the corresponding hook is the reciprocal of the hook length. Multiplying these probabilities over all formula_6 and formula_14 gives the formula. This argument is fallacious since the events are not independent. Knuth's argument is however correct for the enumeration of labellings on trees satisfying monotonicity properties analogous to those of a Young tableau. In this case, the 'hook' events in question are in fact independent events. This is a probabilistic proof found by C. Greene, A. Nijenhuis, and H. S. Wilf in 1979. Here is a sketch of the proof. Define we would like to show that formula_36. The first observation about formula_24 is where formula_39 denotes that formula_40 are Young tableau obtained from formula_41 by deleting one corner cell from formula_3. The sum is taken over all such formula_40. Here we are taking the convention that formula_44, where formula_45 denotes the empty diagram. The explanation for the above equation is that the maximal entry of the Young tableau of shape formula_3 occurs at one of its corner cells. By deleting that cell we will obtain a Young tableau of shape formula_40. Since the number of Young tableau of shape formula_40 is formula_49, taking the sum over all such formula_40 we get the equation. Notice that we also have formula_51. Therefore, it is enough to show that and the result formula_53 then follows by induction. The above sum can also be viewed as a sum of probabilities by rewriting the equation to be shown as We therefore need to show that the numbers formula_55 define a probability measure on the set of Young diagrams formula_40 (where formula_39). This is done in a constructive way by defining a random walk, called the hook walk, on the cells of the Young diagram formula_3, which eventually selects one of the corner cells of formula_3 (which are in bijection with diagrams formula_40 for which formula_39). The hook walk is defined by the following rules. (1) Pick a cell uniformly at random from formula_62 cells. Start the random walk from there. (2) Successor of current cell formula_12 is chosen uniformly at random from the hook formula_64. (3) Continue until you reach at one of the corner cells, call it formula_65. Proposition: For any corner cell formula_16 of formula_3 we have where formula_69. Once we have the above proposition, taking the sum over all possible corner cells formula_70 we have formula_71, as claimed. The hook-length formula is of great importance in the representation theory of the symmetric group formula_72, where the number formula_24 is known to be equal to the dimension of the complex irreducible representation formula_74 associated to formula_3, and is frequently denoted by formula_76, formula_77 or formula_78. The complex irreducible representations formula_79 of the symmetric group are indexed by partitions formula_41 of formula_81 (for an explicit construction see Specht module) . Their characters are related to the theory of symmetric functions via the Hall inner product in the following formula where formula_83 is the Schur function associated to formula_41 and formula_85 is the power-sum symmetric function of the partition formula_86 associated to the cycle decomposition of formula_87. For example, if formula_88 then formula_89. Since the identity permutation formula_90 has the form formula_91 in cycle notation, formula_92. Then the formula says Considering the expansion of Schur functions in terms of monomial symmetric functions using the Kostka numbers the inner product with formula_95 is formula_96, because formula_97. Note that formula_98 is equal to formula_99. Hence An immediate consequence of this is The above equality is also a simple consequence of the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence. The computation also shows that: Which is the expansion of formula_103 in terms of Schur functions using the coefficients given by the inner product, because formula_104. The above equality can be proven also checking the coefficients of each monomial at both sides and using the",
"if formula_88 then formula_89. Since the identity permutation formula_90 has the form formula_91 in cycle notation, formula_92. Then the formula says Considering the expansion of Schur functions in terms of monomial symmetric functions using the Kostka numbers the inner product with formula_95 is formula_96, because formula_97. Note that formula_98 is equal to formula_99. Hence An immediate consequence of this is The above equality is also a simple consequence of the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence. The computation also shows that: Which is the expansion of formula_103 in terms of Schur functions using the coefficients given by the inner product, because formula_104. The above equality can be proven also checking the coefficients of each monomial at both sides and using the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence or, more conceptually, looking at the decomposition of formula_105 by irreducible formula_106 modules, and taking characters. See Schur–Weyl duality. By the above considerations So that where formula_109 is the Vandermonde determinant. For a given partition formula_110 define formula_111 for formula_112. For the following we need at least as many variables as rows in the partition, so from now on we work with formula_113 variables formula_114. Each term formula_115 is equal to See Schur function. Since the vector formula_117 is different for each partition, this means that the coefficient of formula_118 in formula_119, denoted formula_120, is equal to formula_121. This is known as the Frobenius Character Formula, which gives one of the earliest proofs. All that remains is tracking that coefficient with a mixture of cleverness and brute force: Multiplying and we conclude that the coefficient that we are looking for is which can be written as The latter sum is equal to the following determinant which column reduces to the Vandermonde determinant, and we obtain the formula Note that formula_128 is the hook length of the first box in each row of the Young Diagram. Transforming this expression into the form formula_129 claimed by the hook-length formula is a fairly simple exercise in combinatorics: For any given formula_130, one has to argue that formula_131, where the latter product ranges over all cells formula_132 in the formula_6-row of the Young diagram of formula_3. The hook length formula also has important applications to the analysis of longest increasing subsequences in random permutations. If formula_135 denotes a uniformly random permutation of order formula_2, formula_137 denotes the maximal length of an increasing subsequence of formula_135, and formula_139 denotes the expected (average) value of formula_137, Anatoly Vershik and Sergei Kerov and independently Benjamin F. Logan and Lawrence A. Shepp showed that when formula_2 is large, formula_139 is approximately equal to formula_143. This answers a question originally posed by Stanislaw Ulam. The proof is based on translating the question via the Robinson–Schensted correspondence to a problem about the limiting shape of a random Young tableau chosen according to Plancherel measure. Since the definition of Plancherel measure involves the quantity formula_24, the hook length formula can then be used to perform an asymptotic analysis of the limit shape and thereby also answer the original question. The ideas of Vershik–Kerov and Logan–Shepp were later refined by Jinho Baik, Percy Deift and Kurt Johansson, who were able to achieve a much more precise analysis of the limiting behavior of the maximal increasing subsequence length, proving an important result now known as the Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem. Their analysis again makes crucial use of the fact that formula_24 has a number of good formulas, although instead of the hook length formula it made use of one of the determinantal expressions. The formula for the number of Young tableau of a given shape was originally derived from the Frobenius determinant formula in connection to representation theory. If the shape of a Young diagram is given by the row lengths formula_146, then the number of tableau with that shape is given by Hook lengths can also be used to give a product representation to the generating function for the number of reverse plane partitions of a given shape. If is a partition of some integer , a reverse plane partition of with shape is obtained by filling in the boxes in the Young diagram with non-negative integers such that the entries add to and are non-decreasing along each row and down each column. The hook lengths formula_148 can be defined as with Young tableau. If denotes the number of reverse plane partitions of with shape , then the generating function can be written as Stanley discovered another formula for the same generating function. In general, if formula_150 is any poset with formula_81 elements, the generating function for reverse formula_150-partitions is where formula_154 is a polynomial such that formula_155 is the number of natural labelings of formula_150. In the case of a partition formula_41, we are considering the poset in its cells given by the relation So a natural labeling is simply a standard Young tableau, i.e. formula_159 Combining the two formulas for the generating functions we have Both sides converge inside the disk of radius one and the following expression makes sense for formula_161 It would be violent to plug in 1, but the right hand side is a continuous function inside the unit disk and a polynomial is continuous everywhere so at least we can say Finally, applying L'Hopital's rule formula_81 times yields the hook length formula Specializing the schur functions to the variables formula_166 there is the formula The number formula_168 is defined as where formula_170 is the conjugate partition There is a generalization of this formula for skew shapes, where the sum is taken over \"excited diagrams\" of shape formula_3 and boxes distributed according to formula_40. The Catalan numbers are ubiquitous in enumerative combinatorics. Not surprisingly, they are also part of this story: Lets briefly mention why. When doing a Dyck path we may go up (U) or down (D). So for any Dyck path of length formula_81 consider the tableaux of shape formula_176 such that the first row is given by the numbers formula_177 such that the formula_177-th step was up and in the second row given by the positions in which it goes down. For example, UUDDUD correspond to the tableaux with rows 125 and 346. The hook formula gives another way of getting a closed formula for the Catalan numbers Hook length formula In combinatorial mathematics, the hook-length formula is a formula for the number"
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"Barrie Cook Barrie Cook is an abstract artist living and working on The Lizard in Cornwall. As well as exhibiting in Truro regularly, his works are held in national collections including Tate, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Arts Council & the Government Art Collection. He taught at Coventry College of Art, Cardiff College of Art, Birmingham Polytechnic and the University of Wales. Born in Birmingham, in 1929, Cook served in the Army during World War II. He married Mary, in Birmingham in 1951 whilst a student at Birmingham College of Art (1949–1954). Cook began teaching immediately after leaving College. His final teaching post was at the University of Wales in Cardiff, he moved to Cornwall in 1992. Cook's influences include Rothko, Heron, Frost and Riley. He pioneered the use of air brushing as a painterly medium and considers his paintings 'opportunity for meditation'. Many paintings begin from photographs that capture play of light or movement. For example, work created whilst living in Cardiff was meant to represent the passing of car headlights through the well-lit area he lived in. Many paintings are abstract patterns that could be considered 'Op Art' because of the hypnotising and disorienting effect they have on your eyesight. Cook often produces a series of works, one such was 'Continuum' 1967–1971 four paintings of which hung at the Serpentine Gallery forming an exhibition in 1988. Cook continues to work in his studio, a converted Chapel in Ruan Minor, Cornwall, every day. He will often re-visit older pieces experimenting with variations. Artworks in notable collections: Government Art Collection Hot Rod, 1977 and No. 2 Untitled 1976 Tate Gallery Painting, 1970 Birmingham Gallery of Art Dean, 1977, MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) Wales is on until November 2015 Cook is listed on the Cornwall Artist Index, review of his last exhibition in London Cook and his wife Mary live in Mullion and have two children, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. They are active members of the community taking part in local horticultural shows and supporting local establishments. Both their children are now retired; his daughter was a teacher specialising in play in primary school education and his son worked as a publisher. Barrie Cook Barrie Cook is an abstract artist living and working on The Lizard in Cornwall. As well as exhibiting in Truro regularly, his works are held in national collections including Tate, Birmingham Museum and"
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"Beveridge Group The Beveridge Group is a centre-left group within the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. It was set up in 2001 by MPs Alistair Carmichael, Paul Holmes, John Barrett and John Pugh to promote debate within the party regarding public service provision. The group was set up largely in response to a perceived rightwards drift in Liberal Democrat thinking, typified by the economic liberalism of Lib Dem economic spokesman Vince Cable and former Home Affairs spokesman Mark Oaten. In its first article, the group questioned the claim in the Liberal Democrat policy paper \"Setting Business Free\" that the party should \"\"start with a bias in favour of market solutions\"\": \"\"Should the party of Beveridge and Keynes approach issues with a prejudice in favour of the free market system? Should we enter every policy debate with an underlying belief that private is always better than public? I certainly do not think so. That was the approach which led the Conservatives to undertake the disastrous privatisation of British Rail in the mid 1990s.\"\" (Alistair Carmichael, 2003) The role of the Beveridge Group has been brought into focus with the rise of Nick Clegg, another leading market liberal and Orange Book contributor, to the leadership of the party in 2007, and more so after his decision to lead the Liberal Democrats into a Coalition government with the Conservatives following the hung parliament result in the May 2010 general election. It has been noted that along with Clegg (deputy Prime Minister up to the 2015 elections) MPs who contributed to the Orange Book or are otherwise associated with the market liberal faction occupied many positions in the Coalition Cabinet during the Liberal Democrats time in office, including Vince Cable (Business Secretary), David Laws (briefly Chief Secretary to the Treasury) and Danny Alexander (Chief Secretary to the Treasury), with others such as Ed Davey and Steve Webb holding ministerial posts, while it has been speculated that the more socially liberal Beveridge Group members were under-represented in the Cabinet, perhaps signalling a 'takeover' of the Liberal Democrats by the so-called \"Orange Bookers\" . However, Group members Norman Baker and Alistair Carmichael each held ministerial ranks in the government, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport and Chief Deputy Whip for the Liberal Democrats in the government respectively, with Mark Hunter assigned as an Assistant Whip. Furthermore, in 2010 Group members Simon Hughes and Tim Farron were elected Deputy Party Leader and Party President, respectively. Tim Farron has since won the Liberal Democrat leadership election, beating his rival, Norman Lamb. On 18 December 2013, Simon Hughes was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice. As of May 2017, there was a membership of 30 current, or former, MPs: Sitting MPs (2) Former MPs (28) Beveridge Group The Beveridge Group is a centre-left group within the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. It was set up in 2001 by MPs Alistair Carmichael, Paul Holmes, John Barrett and John Pugh to promote debate within the party regarding"
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"Early Algebra Early Algebra is an approach to early mathematics teaching and learning. It is about teaching traditional topics in more profound ways. It is also an area of research in mathematics education. Traditionally, algebra instruction has been postponed until adolescence. However, data of early algebra researchers shows ways to teach algebraic thinking much earlier. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) integrates algebra into its Principles and Standards starting from Kindergarten. One of the major goals of early algebra is generalizing number and set ideas. It moves from particular numbers to patterns in numbers. This includes generalizing arithmetic operations as functions, as well as engaging children in noticing and beginning to formalize properties of numbers and operations such as the commutative property, identities, and inverses. Students historically have had a very difficult time adjusting to algebra for a number of reasons. Researchers have found that by working with students on such ideas as developing rules for the use of letters to stand in for numbers and the true meaning of the equals symbol (it is a balance point, and does not mean \"put the answer next\"), children are much better prepared for formal algebra instruction. Teacher professional development in this area consists of presenting common student misconceptions and then developing lessons to move students out of faulty ways of thinking and into correct generalizations. The use of true, false, and open number sentences can go a long way toward getting students thinking about the properties of number and operations and the meaning of the equals sign. Research areas in early algebra include use of representations, such as symbols, graphs and tables; cognitive development of students; viewing arithmetic as a part of algebraic conceptual fields Tufts/TERC Early Algebra Project Early Algebra Early Algebra is an approach to early mathematics"
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"MV Gullfoss MV \"Gullfoss\" was a ferry operating between Iceland, Denmark, and Scotland from 1950 to 1972. She replaced another \"Gullfoss\". They were named after the much-visited Gullfoss waterfall. In 1939 Eimskip planned to replace the 1915 \"Gullfoss\", but World War II intervened. Some days after launching, \"Gullfoss\" suffered a dust explosion, which killed four shipyard workers and injured two. On 14 May 1950 \"Gullfoss\" made her maiden voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark, carrying 164 passengers, arriving in Reykjavík, Iceland, on Saturday, 20 May, to a ministerial welcome. During the 1950s and 1960s \"Gullfoss\" ran fortnightly in summer on the Copenhagen-Edinburgh/Leith-Reykjavik route and three times weekly via Hamburg, West Germany, in winter. In winter she also ran cruises. In 1950 and 1951, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique chartered her for service from Bordeaux, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco. In 1953 she was in the Mediterranean and in 1967 cruised from Iceland to the Azores, Madeira, Casablanca, and Lisbon. Several cruises went to Amsterdam and London and around Iceland. In 1963, \"Gullfoss\" was damaged by fire whilst being maintained at her builder's yard and in 1966 she collided with MV \"Malmöhus\" near Copenhagen. By the early 1970s \"Gullfoss\" operated only during the summer, and she was withdrawn from service in 1972 due to airline competition. She evacuated Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) in January 1973 when Eldfell volcano erupted. In November 1973 she was converted to carry 1,100 pilgrims and renamed Mecca. In January 1974 she arrived in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia, and operated the route between Jeddah (the port for Mecca, away), Hodeidah, Yemen, and Port Sudan, Egypt, for Orri Navigation until she caught fire in the Red Sea on 19 December 1976, drifted onto a reef, and sank the next day. Eimskip Timetable covers MV Gullfoss MV \"Gullfoss\" was a ferry operating"
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"Kanteerava Studios Kanteerava Studios is a public film studio in Bangalore, Karnataka, predominantly used for the production of Kannada language movies from Kannada film industry. Rajkumar, a popular actor in Kannada cinema, was buried in the premises of the studios. In 1966 the Kanteerava Studio was launched as a joint stock company on of land. The studio was started with the Government of Karnataka holding 93 per cent of the share capital and the remaining 7 per cent by private shareholders. Over the several decades, the studio suffered losses, as new generation of film-makers and new techniques took over the industry. In 2005, the State Government initiated a proposal to revive the studio by leashing in private firms for the maintenance. This was followed by two recommendations by the \"Public Sector Reforms Commission\" — that is, either to close down unhealthy government undertakings or to go for private partnerships to revive them. The government then informed that, it was open to offer seventy four per cent maintenance-related investments to private partners, however, without compensating the government's authority over the decision-making. On 13 April 2006, Kanteerava Studios, which is considered as a major landmark in the history of Kannada cinema, became the burial ground of Rajkumar, who is generally considered as Kannada cinema's greatest son. Dr. Rajkumar died at his home in Sadashiva Nagar, Bangalore, on 12 April 2006 (13.45 IST) following a cardiac arrest. Due to his larger than life image, the city virtually came to a halt as the news spread about the death. His death precipitated a citywide reaction comparable to the time he was kidnapped by Veerappan. Following the news of his death, Bangalore city saw violence by people claiming to be his fans. The Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy later claimed that the violence was instigated by vested political interests. An unofficial \"bandh\" (closure of all shops and other establishments) was announced. The state government declared a statewide holiday on 13 April as a mark of respect to the departed soul, who was also a recipient of Karnataka Ratna (\"pearl of Karnataka\") award. Private firms and businesses all over the city and many parts of the state remained closed due to the holiday. The body was kept initially at Rajkumar's home in Sadashiva Nagar. Due to the immense crowd pressure, the body was moved initially to Palace Grounds and then later to the Sree Kanteerava Stadium. He was laid to rest in Kanteerava Studios, on 13 April 2006. In the premises of Kanteerava Studio, the Karnataka Government is setting up a memorial for Kannada thespian Rajkumar, with the estimated cost of Rs 10 crore. The blueprint of the memorial will be constituted by a panel comprising the Rajkumar family members, representatives of the Kannada film industry and the state government. A permanent exhibition on the history of the Kannada film industry and Rajkumar's movies will be an integral part of the memorial. In the respect of Rajkumar's prolonged association with the studio, the actor's trophies and souvenirs will be put up for exhibition at the memorial. The studio, located in Nandini Layout, in the northern part of the Bangalore city, has become a pilgrim and tourist spot after the demise of Rajkumar, with thousands of fans making efforts to pay their homage to the departed soul. Kanteerava Studios Kanteerava Studios is a public film studio in Bangalore, Karnataka, predominantly used for the production of Kannada language movies from Kannada film industry. Rajkumar, a popular actor in Kannada cinema, was buried in the premises of the studios. In 1966 the Kanteerava Studio was launched as a joint stock"
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"Indonesians in the Philippines Indonesians in the Philippines consist of expatriates and immigrants from Indonesia residing in the Philippines, and their descendants. Among them were many formerly stateless people, legally called Persons of Indonesian descent (PID), whom the United Nations and the governments of the two countries helped to acquire citizenship. According to the 2000 Philippines census, there were 43,871 Indonesians in the Philippines, making them the 5th-largest group of foreigners in the Philippines. Most reside in Mindanao region, especially in Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, North Cotabato, South Cotabato, General Santos and Davao City, although there is also a sizable Indonesian population in Metro Manila. As the two countries are neighbors, there have been many historical migrations between the islands that today make up their national territories, and migrants from what is today Indonesia helped form many historical dynasties in the Philippines. Migrations between the territories that today make up Indonesia and the Philippines were extremely common during the ancient-era. The people of Indonesia are descendants of a common migration from the Philippines and Taiwan. Certain tribes, mostly from Sumatra and Borneo back-migrated to the Philippines, particularly to the central and southern parts. According to Visayan legend, Sri Lumay, a Malay-Tamil prince from Sumatra was among one of the earliest major settlers to Visayas. He found the Rajahnate of Cebu, and his descendants played a key role in the Spanish conquest of the Philippines. The Sulu Archipelago was under the jurisprudence and sphere of influence of the Javanese Majapahit Empire. The Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the Philippines' oldest document found, also records interactions between the Classical Tagalog kingdoms in Luzon to that of those in modern-day Indonesia. The people of the two countries also spoke the Malay language as a lingua franca. During the age of Islamic sultanates and states, preachers from Sumatra helped spread Islam. Rajah Baguinda, a Minangkabau prince from Sumatra, spread Islam to the people of the Sulu Archipelago. He became a founding father for the Sultanate of Sulu. Islam in Mindanao was also introduced by the Ternateans. During the Spanish colonial era, most if any migrants or descendants of migrants from modern-day Indonesia were assimilated either into the Hispanized Catholic population or the Moro Muslim population. For a while, the Spanish had tried to colonize eastern Indonesia, particularly the Maluku Islands, sharing it with the Portuguese. In 1606, the Spanish conquered the Ternate Sultanate, deporting the Sultan and his family to Manila. The Spanish colonists shared it with the Dutch, and abandoned it in 1663. From 1925 to 1926, famous Indonesian national hero and ex-PKI member Tan Malaka lived in Manila. There he became a correspondent of the nationalist newspaper \"El Debate\", edited by Francisco Varona. Publication of Malaka's works, such as a second edition of \"Naar de Republiek Indonesia\" (December 1925) and \"Semangat Moeda\" (\"Young Spirit\"; 1926) might have been supported by Varona. There Malaka also met Mariano de los Santos, José Abad Santos, and Crisanto Evangelista. Some Indonesians, mostly from Sangirs background, came to Mindanao as early as the 1970s, settling down and married local women. However, the largest influx, consisting of fishermen and petty traders, began settling illegally in the early 1980s. They continue to maintain consciousness of their separate ethnic identity, as well as material links with Indonesia. Illegal entry and settlement is easy due to the Philippines' long coastline and insufficient personnel in the Border Crossing Office. More recently, many of the fishermen in fact have landing permits which allow them to move freely around the area where their boats are docked. As early as 1990, the Philippine government had been attempting to get Indonesians to register with the authorities, holding out the possibility that they might be granted citizenship as an incentive. However, a survey the next year, which counted 7,200 Indonesians living illegally in the area, found that few wanted to be naturalized in the Philippines, though they hoped to obtain permanent residency in order to regularize their living situation, while 30-35% hoped to be repatriated to Indonesia. That survey found the largest community of Indonesians in Sarangani province, with others in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Davao City, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, and North Cotabato. At that time, they planned to deport 1,738 of them. In 2002, the Philippine government, alarmed by the number of Indonesian nationals implicated in recent Jemaah Islamiyah bombings in the Philippines, drew up a plan to deport a further 12,000 Indonesians from Mindanao; however, the implementation of the plan stalled due to disagreements between the Philippine and Indonesian governments over who would pay for it. Indonesians in the Philippines are often stereotyped as terrorists as a result. The militants responsible for the 2005 beheadings of Christians were also trained in the southern Philippines. In 2003 and again in 2005, the Philippine government initiated another survey and registration drive; that one registered 2,448 Philippine-born Indonesians, including 247 in General Santos, 371 in Glan-Sarangani, 265 in Davao del Sur, 108 in Davao City, 339 in Kiamba, Tupi and Malapatan, another 253 in Sarangani Island, 341 in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat and Kidapawan, and an additional 154 in Sarangani and Davao del Sur. The Indonesian government is also attempting to convince them to register with the local Indonesian consulate and with the Philippine government, and offered to pay their registration fees for identity documents. In 2015, UNHCR recorded at least 8,756 registered Indonesians in Mindanao are at risk of statelessness. A year later, 664 stateless people of Indonesian descent in Mindanao were granted Philippine or Indonesian citizenship. It was part of a joint program between the Philippine government and Indonesian consulate in the Philippines to end statelessness for people of Indonesian descent living in the country. They were given a choice of either Indonesian or Filipino citizenship. Of the 664, 536 people were confirmed to have become Filipino citizens, and 128 chose to become Indonesian citizens. As of February 2016, there are 8,745 registered PIDs in Southern Philippines, consist of 3,155 in Sarangani, 2,777 in Davao Del Sur, 859 in General Santos, 688 in South Cotabato, 679 in Davao Oriental, 279 in Davao City, 176 in Sultan Kudarat, and 133 in North Cotabato. According to the study conducted by the UNHCR in 2012, more than 6,000 persons of Indonesian descent in southern Philippines are having problematic access to education, due to their unclear citizenship status and poverty they experienced. Meanwhile, the Philippines is becoming an increasingly popular destination for Indonesian international students, both those in short term courses, and those studying for university degrees. English as a foreign language courses are one well-known draw for students from all over Asia, but other subject areas are gaining in popularity as well. In particular, flight training courses are much cheaper in the Philippines than in Indonesia. The Asian Institute of Management also attracts many Indonesian students. There is also an Indonesian school (with dormitory for boarding students) and Indonesian Cultural Center called \"House of Indonesia\" in Davao City. There are also many Indonesians in Metro Manila, mostly Chinese-Indonesian, who are either university students or medical residents (mostly Dermatology and Pediatrics). Indonesians in the Philippines residing in Mindanao are split between Muslims and Protestants, while the majority of them settle freely with local Filipinos and adopts local cultures and",
"courses are one well-known draw for students from all over Asia, but other subject areas are gaining in popularity as well. In particular, flight training courses are much cheaper in the Philippines than in Indonesia. The Asian Institute of Management also attracts many Indonesian students. There is also an Indonesian school (with dormitory for boarding students) and Indonesian Cultural Center called \"House of Indonesia\" in Davao City. There are also many Indonesians in Metro Manila, mostly Chinese-Indonesian, who are either university students or medical residents (mostly Dermatology and Pediatrics). Indonesians in the Philippines residing in Mindanao are split between Muslims and Protestants, while the majority of them settle freely with local Filipinos and adopts local cultures and customs while maintaining their distinct Indonesian identity at the same time. Indonesians of Sangirese descent are split between Muslims and Protestants, while Minahasan or Chinese descent are mostly Protestants. Indonesians in the Philippines Indonesians in the Philippines consist of expatriates and immigrants from Indonesia residing in the Philippines, and their descendants. Among them were many formerly stateless people, legally called Persons of Indonesian descent (PID), whom the United Nations and the governments of the two countries helped to acquire citizenship. According to the 2000 Philippines"
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"Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston song) \"Beautiful Girls\" is the debut single by reggae-influenced musician Sean Kingston from his eponymous debut; it was first released in 2007. The song samples Ben E. King's classic \"Stand by Me\". The song is about a boy who is suicidal (or rather \"in denial\" in the edited version) over the failure of his relationship with a \"beautiful girl\". It is Kingston's signature song. The music video featured actor Tom Hardy who became friends with Kingston whilst living in Los Angeles in his early years of acting. Rapper Lil Mama and actors Kenny Vibert and Lil' JJ are featured in the music video directed by Marcus Raboy. Certain radio stations (mostly AC or hot AC stations, including Radio Disney), play the censored version of the song, which replaces \"you had me suicidal, suicidal\" with \"you got me in denial, in denial.\" On MTV the word \"suicidal\" is completely removed with no replacement. On BET, Fuse and MuchMusic, as well as several top 40, urban and rhythmic top 40 and AC stations, \"suicidal\" was left intact. Due to the lyrics containing references to suicide, the track has been removed from many radio playlists including FM104 in Dublin, where complaints were phoned in on a late night chat show, \"The Adrian Kennedy Phoneshow\", and \"Wild 102\" in Roseau, Minnesota. It was allegedly pulled from 2FM although a spokesperson said the song is currently not on its playlist but could not confirm if it had been in the past. FM104 replaced \"suicidal\" with \"in denial\", a change Sean Kingston made for the radio station. US promo CD UK CD single The song benefited from extensive airplay before its digital release, reaching as high as number 17 on the Hot 100. On July 24, \"Beautiful Girls\" was accidentally leaked onto the US iTunes Store, two days before the planned release date. The week after the song's digital release it hit number one on \"Billboard\"s Hot Digital Songs, debuting with 260,000 downloads in its first week (the second highest digital sales for a new song of 2007, only behind Rihanna's \"Umbrella\"). Kingston became the first artist born within the 1990s to top the Hot 100, beating rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em to it by six weeks. It has also gone on to occupy the top spot on the US Hot 100 Airplay and the Canadian Hot 100. It remained on top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks before being knocked off by the Sugababes' first single from their fifth studio album \"Change\", \"About You Now\". The song ended 2007 as the year's 15th biggest-selling single in the UK. On the official ARIA charts in Australia, it debuted at number one but fell to number two the following week when Delta Goodrem's comeback single took the top spot. \"Beautiful Girls\" returned the next week and remained for a month before being replaced by Timbaland's \"The Way I Are\". !scope=\"col\" colspan=\"3\"| Digital download !scope=\"col\" colspan=\"3\"| Ringtone A few months after \"Beautiful Girls\" was released in 2007, a new online video service called Votigo began a cover contest in which fans could submit covers of the song for a chance to get a call from Sean Kingston. After an online vote user Mallory Robbins won with an a cappella version of the song. Top honors also went to a rock cover of the song performed by the Ailan Christopher Project. Shortly afterward, singer JoJo released a cover response version of the track which was released on Myspace, however will not be featured on her upcoming album. Chris Moyles also released a parody cover, however it was about the song describing how bad it was in his opinion. The lead singer of Sublime, Rome, sang the acoustic version of \"Beautiful Girls\" on RAWsession on October 20, 2008. The Plain White T's, whose song was knocked out of the charts by this one, did a cover version for Yahoo Music. Lead vocalist Tom Higgenson says that the group \"started covering it as a joke almost. We started learning it because we were number one for a few weeks and then we got knocked out of the number one spot by Sean Kingston, by this song. It's kind of like an ode to Sean.\" To close out the song guitarist Mike Retondo breaks into the chorus of \"Stand by Me\", which is also done in the cover version by Boyce Avenue, a nod to the fact that that song's bassline is used in \"Beautiful Girls\". Maverick Sabre did the same at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. Teddy Geiger covered the song on his 2007 tour, due to popularity a recorded version of the song will be featured as a bonus track on the iTunes version of his upcoming CD \"The March\". Lil' Brianna remixed the song and featured Kingston's vocals on her second mixtape, \"Princess of Miami\". Jesse McCartney covered \"Beautiful Girls\" during his Right Where You Want Me tour. David Archuleta briefly sang the chorus of the song at the end of his May 6, 2008 performance on the US TV show \"American Idol\". He was singing Ben E. King's original \"Stand by Me\" song. Deer Tick recorded a cover of \"Beautiful Girls\", which can be found on Myspace.com. Casey Crescenzo of The Dear Hunter recorded a cover of this song and has occasionally performed it live. Boyband JLS performed a mashup of \"Beautiful Girls\" and \"Stand by Me\" as their bottom two performance on the fifth series of the UK TV show \"The X Factor\". A year later on \"series six\" of the show, Lloyd Daniels sang the chorus and last verse of the song in his November 30, 2008 performance, also singing King's original \"Stand by Me\". Bayside covers the song on \"Punk Goes Pop Volume Two\". BAMF! recorded a version entitled \"Bootyfull Girl\". Russell Crowe, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes, and Alan Doyle performed a cover version during the press tour for \"Robin Hood\" and at several benefit shows afterwards. \"Beautiful Girls\" (also known as \"Beautiful Girls Reply\") is a song by American singer JoJo. It was released digitally on July 20, 2007 as a cover response to \"Beautiful Girls\" by Sean Kingston. The song samples Ben E. King's classic \"Stand by Me\" and uses digital pitch correction technology on the vocals. Whereas Kingston's version is about a boy who is suicidal over the failure of his relationship with a \"beautiful girl\", JoJo speaks from a girl's perspective. The song debuted at number 39 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40 chart one month after its release. This song is also featured in the 2008 monster film \"Cloverfield\", and on The CW's \"Gossip Girl\". The \"suicidal\" version of the song, which ends differently from the single mix is also featured in the video game \"SingStar Hottest Hits\". Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston song) \"Beautiful Girls\" is the debut single by reggae-influenced musician Sean Kingston from his eponymous debut; it was first released in 2007. The song samples Ben E. King's classic \"Stand by Me\". The song is about a boy who is suicidal (or rather \"in denial\" in the edited version) over the failure of his relationship with a \"beautiful girl\". It is Kingston's"
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"Idaho Transportation Department The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is the state of Idaho governmental organization responsible for state transportation infrastructure. This includes ongoing operations and maintenance as well as planning for future needs of the state and its citizens. The agency is responsible for overseeing the disbursement of federal, state, and grant funding for the transportation programs of the state. Idaho's state transportation system consists of more than (lane miles) of roads, more than 1,800 bridges, approximately of rail lines, 126 public-use airports, and the Port of Lewiston. The agency is also responsible for 29 rest areas and 12 ports of entry. In 1913 the Idaho State Legislature created the State Highway Commission. The group consisted of the Secretary of State, the State Engineer and three other members to be appointed by the governor. The Commission was empowered to: In 1919, the Commission was abolished and its functions were transferred to a Bureau of Highways in the Department of Public Works. A property tax was enacted by the Legislature to fund roads for the state and bonds were issued to build a highway system. In 1950, the Idaho Department of Highways was reorganized and placed under the direction of a governing Board. In 1974, the Idaho Department of Highways became the Idaho Transportation Department. The Department of Motor Vehicles originally reported to the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, but was transferred to ITD in 1982. ITD is organized into six divisions and six district offices. The agency serves under an appointed seven member Idaho Transportation Board. The board establishes state transportation policy and guides the planning, development and management of the Idaho transportation network. The board is appointed by the governor. One board member represents each of the six regional districts. A seventh member is appointed as chairman of the board. The department has the following six divisions: Idaho Transportation Department The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is the state of Idaho governmental organization responsible for state transportation infrastructure. This includes ongoing operations and maintenance as well as planning for future needs of the state and its citizens. The agency is responsible for overseeing the disbursement of federal, state, and grant funding for the transportation programs of the state. Idaho's state transportation system consists of more than (lane miles) of roads, more than 1,800 bridges, approximately of rail lines, 126 public-use airports, and the Port of Lewiston. The agency is also"
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"Jonathan Savoie Jonathan Savoie is a Tokyo-based commercial and editorial photographer who specializes in a travel photography, minimalist architecture and urban landscapes. He is known for his use of vibrant colors combined with detailed and often complex subject matter to create photographs that demand acute attention to detail. His work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Frame, Interior Design, Casa Brutus, GQ Italy, and Casa Vogue. Raised in Canada, Savoie moved to Europe to study art and design before relocating permanently to Tokyo in 2003 to pursue a career in photography. Soon after moving to Tokyo Savoie fully immersed himself in the city’s skateboarding scene and eventually befriended the Editor-in-Chief of Transworld Skateboarding Japan, who invited him to shoot a feature for the magazine. For the next few years Savoie became a steady contributor to Transworld Skateboarding, Warp, Surfing Life, and the arts and culture magazine Tokion. Savoie signed with AVGVST, one of Tokyo’s leading creative management agencies, in 2004 and started to focus on fashion and commercial photography. The same year, Sony and Konami hired Savoie to photograph the key artwork for the worldwide release of their video game Metal Gear Solid 3. In 2005 Savoie began working on a project entitled \"Tokyo Privé\" that was later published as a book in 2007. It is an album of snapshot photographs taken by Savoie with a point-and-shoot camera that are meant to \"…capture those odd moments of beauty that are always around us but usually fleeting.\" \"Tokyo Privé\" acts as Savoie’s visual diary of Tokyo, and he states that it is \"not a true reflection of how the city really is but simply as I remember it.\" In 2006 Savoie continued to further his commercial work receiving commissions from MUFG bank, Japan Airlines, Universal Records and Uslu Airlines. The same year he left AVGVST and then signed with the international agency, GA and with their encouragement he started to focus on modern architecture and urban landscapes. Savoie has been married to model Jillian Kate since 2014 and the two are expecting a child later this year. They reside in Tokyo, Japan. \"Blister in the Sun\", Gallery NeuBacher. Toronto 2003 \"Absence of Luxury\", SPIN Gallery. Toronto 2004 \"Conception\", Suite 16 Gallery. Tokyo 2006 \"Paysages affectifs\", Galerie Youn. Montreal 2013 \"Tokyo Privé\" 2007 Jonathan Savoie Jonathan Savoie is a Tokyo-based commercial and editorial photographer who specializes in a travel photography, minimalist architecture"
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"Derek Hannon Derek Hannon (born 3 August 1960) is the current Irish ambassador to the Holy See since he presented his Letters of Credence to Pope Francis on 9 November 2018. Hannon was born in 1960 and is unmarried. He holds a degree in science of education, as well as a MA in history from University College Dublin. He joined the Irish Civil Service and from 1986 to 1987 was third secretary at the Department for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 1987 to 1988 was third secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was posted abroad and served as part of the Irish delegation to the Holy See as third secretary from 1988 to 1992. He returned to Dublin in 1992 and worked in the Economic section at the Foreign Ministry until 1994 when he was promoted to first secretary for a year in Dublin before being posted to Budapest, Hungary where he served from 1995 to 1999. He returned to Dublin as first secretary at the Office for Anglo-Irish Affairs at the Foreign Ministry where he worked until 2004. He served as first embassy secretary in London until 2008 and worked as first secretary at the Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade until 2011. He was posted to the United States where he was first secretary until 2015 and then back to Dublin as first secretary at the Department for the European Union of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade until 2018. He was received by Pope Francis on 9 November 2018 to present his Letters of Credence on behalf of the Irish Government to begin his mission to the Holy See replacing Emma Madigan. He speaks English and Italian. Derek Hannon Derek Hannon (born 3 August 1960) is the current Irish ambassador to the Holy See since he presented his Letters of Credence to Pope Francis on 9 November 2018. Hannon was born in 1960 and is unmarried. He holds a degree in science of education, as well as a MA in history from University College Dublin. He joined the Irish Civil Service and from 1986 to 1987 was third secretary at the Department for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 1987 to 1988 was third secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs of the Ministry"
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"Mehergaon Mehergaon is a small village in India, located in the north-west region of the state of Maharashtra. It is abounded by various places like Amalgaon on the East, Pingalwade on the West, Gandhali on the North and Ninbhora on the South. Mehergaon has recently received the \"Ideal Village\" award, which is an award given by the Maharashtra government. Mehergaon hosts a population of less than 1000. The primary language is Ahirani. Mehergaon has a diverse climate. The temperature varies from 10 to 48 degrees Celsius. It is exceptionally hot and dry during summer with temperature reaching as high as 45 degrees Celsius. Mehergaon Mehergaon is a small village in India, located in the north-west region of the state of Maharashtra. It is abounded by various places like Amalgaon on the East, Pingalwade on the West, Gandhali on the North and Ninbhora on the South. Mehergaon has recently received the \"Ideal Village\" award, which is an award given by the Maharashtra government. Mehergaon hosts a population of less than 1000. The primary language is Ahirani. Mehergaon has a diverse climate. The temperature varies from 10 to 48 degrees Celsius. It is exceptionally hot and dry during summer with temperature reaching"
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"128th Ohio General Assembly The One Hundred Twenty-eighth Ohio General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Ohio from January 5, 2009 until December 31, 2010. Ted Strickland was Ohio Governor for its entirety. It was composed of the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives. The apportionment of districts was based on the 2000 United States Census. It marked the first time in fourteen years that the Ohio Democratic Party controlled the House of Representatives, while the Ohio Republican Party maintained control of the Ohio Senate. Appt.- Member was appointed to current House Seat There were three resignations and one death. There were seven resignations. 128th Ohio General Assembly The One Hundred Twenty-eighth Ohio General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Ohio from January 5, 2009 until December 31, 2010. Ted Strickland was Ohio Governor for its entirety. It was composed of the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives. The apportionment of districts was based on the 2000 United States Census. It marked the first time in fourteen years that the Ohio Democratic Party controlled the House of Representatives, while the Ohio Republican Party maintained control of the Ohio Senate. Appt.-"
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"Risin' Risin' is Natalia's fifth single that has been written by Janice Robinson and Portia Neeley Rolle. It was released in Belgium as the first single of her second album Back For More on August 9, 2004. On October 3, 2005 it was released in the Netherlands. The clip shows the concert of Natalia during Marktrock 2004, a large festival in Belgium, and some backstage scenes. Risin' became a huge hit immediately. It won the \"Tien Om Te Zien summer trophy\", a music show, after being released 2 weeks. Natalia's previous single \"I Want You Back\" (which was released in May 2004) ended up second in the contest. We see Natalia performing on the mainstage of Marktrock in Leuven and in the backstage preparing and give signatures to fans. Risin' Risin' is Natalia's fifth single that has been written by Janice Robinson and Portia Neeley Rolle. It was released in Belgium as the first single of her second album Back For More on August 9, 2004. On October 3, 2005 it was released in the Netherlands. The clip shows the concert of Natalia during Marktrock 2004, a large festival in Belgium, and some backstage scenes. Risin' became a huge hit"
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"Jughead (comic book) Jughead (also known as Archie's Pal Jughead) is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Archie Comics character of the same name. The character first appeared in \"Pep Comics\" #22 (cover dated December 1941). Jughead proved to be popular enough to warrant his own self-titled ongoing comic book series which began publication in January 1949. Jughead first appeared in \"Pep Comics\" #22 in 1941 (also Archie's first appearance) and later grew into his own title \"Archie's Pal Jughead Comics\" in 1949, which also guest-starred Archie and his friends. Common story themes included Jughead's insatiable appetite for hamburgers, avoiding Big Ethel who has a crush on him and outsmarting his nemesis Reggie Mantle. The official title was shortened to \"Jughead\" with issue #122 in July 1965. In #325, Cheryl Blossom made her second appearance after debuting in \"Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica\" that same month. The original Jughead series ended with #352 (June 1987). \"Jughead\" returned with a relaunched #1 in August 1987. In issue 46 (June 1993), the Jughead title was renamed \"Archie's Pal Jughead Comics\" similar to the previous volume. Also, in this issue Jughead finds out that his mother is expecting a baby. In issue 50, the baby girl, nicknamed \"Jellybean\" is born. The second volume ended in 2012 with issue #214. A third series, titled \"Jughead\", was released in October 2015 as part of Archie Comics' New Riverdale. It is written by Chip Zdarsky with artwork by Erica Henderson. Derek Charm took over as regular artist starting with issue #7. Jughead (comic book) Jughead (also known as Archie's Pal Jughead) is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Archie Comics character of the same name. The character first appeared in \"Pep Comics\" #22 (cover dated December 1941). Jughead proved to be popular enough to"
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"Adampur Adampur (, ) is a town, a municipal council and a sub-tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Adampur Doaba is located at . It has an average elevation of 233 metres (764 feet). It is located at a distance of 24 km from its district headquarters Jalandhar and approximately 26 km from Hoshiarpur. The nearest hill station is Dharamshala which is the headquarters of the Dalai Lama. Another hill-station around Adampur is McLeodganj. The Main Bazaar is the main market and one of the best areas to live in and around the town. It is situated in the center of Punjab and its two main cities, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur. The clock tower of Adampur and Punjab Khadi Mandal are some of the oldest buildings of this town. Gulmohur academy is one of best english teaching institute in towm. The Adampur Air Force Station at Adampur Doaba is the second largest Air Force base of India and now its is proposed site for domestic airport. One of the oldest serving families of Adampur is the Virdi family of the Ramgarhia clan. There is a Khadi Bhandar inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. As of the 2011 India census, The Adampur Municipal Council has population of 20,922 of which 11,152 are males while 9,770 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Adampur has an average literacy rate of 87.98%, higher than the national average of 75.84%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age. The scheduled caste population is 47.30% Adampur is a legislative assembly constituency having constituency number 38. Pawan Kumar Tinu of Shiromani Akali Dal is the current MLA from this seat. In the last assembly elections held in early 2017, he became MLA by defeating its nearest opponent Mohinder Singh Kaypee of Congress with a margin of 7699 votes. The town comes under the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency, which is currently represented by Santokh Singh Chaudhary of INC. Adampur Adampur (, ) is a town, a municipal council and a sub-tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Adampur Doaba is located at . It has an average elevation of 233 metres (764 feet). It is located at a distance of 24 km from its district headquarters Jalandhar and approximately 26 km from Hoshiarpur. The nearest hill station is Dharamshala which is the headquarters of the Dalai Lama. Another hill-station"
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"Salt Creek Recreation Area Salt Creek Recreation Area is a 196-acre park located about 15 miles west of Port Angeles, Washington on U.S. Route 101 near the city of Joyce, Washington. The park was previously Camp Hayden, a World War II military camp built 1942-1945. It was purchased by the Federal General Services Administration after the war. There are still several structures left from the fort, including two large casemates which sheltered 16\" guns and several other structures. The 16-inch battery was Battery 131, with two ex-Navy 16-inch Mark 2 guns capable of firing a one ton projectile around 28 miles connected by a large magazine bunker. The camp also had Battery 249, which had two 6-inch guns with a bunker housing magazines and fire control equipment. The park now has a number of camping spots, most overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca and mountains all year long. The park provides access to Tongue Point and Striped Peak along with sandy beaches, upland forests, rocky bluffs, and several trails. The recreation area complete with a baseball field, basketball court, picnic shelter, playground, and horseshoe pits is also available for use. The park hosts the Salt Creek Invitational cross country meet in mid-September every year, featuring high school teams from around western Washington. Beautiful views are also a big part of Salt Creek such as those from the top of Striped Peak, of Crescent Bay, of the Strait, and of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Salt Creek Recreation Area Salt Creek Recreation Area is a 196-acre park located about 15 miles west of Port Angeles, Washington on U.S. Route 101 near the city of Joyce, Washington. The park was previously Camp Hayden, a World War II military camp built 1942-1945. It was purchased by the Federal General Services Administration after the"
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"Henry Williams (cricketer) Henry Smith Williams (b. 11 June 1967 in Stellenbosch), is a retired South African cricketer. He played seven One Day Internationals for South Africa but no Tests. Williams was a right arm seam bowler and after retiring he became the bowling coach at Boland. He and Herschelle Gibbs were banned from international cricket for six months in 2000 for match fixing. In the hearing he admitted to accepting money from Hansie Cronje to underperform in a One Day International in India. He had been bribed to concede more than 50 runs off his 10 overs but he ended up getting a legitimate injury and thus only bowled 11 balls. Although his suspension was only for 6 months, he was well into his 30's and despite playing first class cricket until 2003/04 he never returned to international cricket . Henry Williams (cricketer) Henry Smith Williams (b. 11 June 1967 in Stellenbosch), is a retired South African cricketer. He played seven One Day Internationals for South Africa but no Tests. Williams was a right arm seam bowler and after retiring he became the bowling coach at Boland. He and Herschelle Gibbs were banned from international cricket for six months"
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"John Gaffney John H. Gaffney (June 29, 1855 – August 8, 1913), nicknamed the \"King of Umpires\" and \"Honest John\" (BS) was an American umpire and manager in Major League Baseball. He was baseball's first great umpire, and played a pioneering role in the use of multiple umpires in baseball games. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Gaffney's family moved to Worcester when he was 11. He began playing baseball as a third baseman, but his promising career was ended when he injured his arm throwing a snowball in 1880, reportedly just before being promoted to the National League. He became a printer, and started umpiring college games involving nearby Ivy League teams in 1883. He joined the National League's umpiring staff in August 1884, with his first game being an 11-inning, 1-0 game between the two teams battling for first place, Providence and Boston. He quickly gained wide respect as a top officiator, and as the league's best judge of balls and strikes. In the middle of his third season, his knowledge of the game was so highly regarded that he was offered the managing position of the Washington Nationals, and he took over the team on August 21, 1886. The team, mired in last place, finished the last third of the season without improving its position; but Gaffney continued in the post for the entire 1887 campaign, with a slight improvement to 7th place. He finished his managing career with 61 wins against 101 losses. He was much-liked by the players, and while he was traveling during the 1887 world championship series, his players – including catcher Connie Mack and future umpiring great Hank O'Day – boarded his train during a Washington stopover and surprised him with the gift of a diamond ring in appreciation of his efforts. Into the 1880s, baseball had always been played with the use of a single umpire, but by late in the decade it was becoming apparent that this was an unsatisfactory arrangement for the most important games. The 1886 World's Championship Series had witnessed a two-game experiment in which each team selected an umpire – both positioned behind the catcher – with a third official, called a referee, positioned behind the pitcher and able to move about the bases. However, the referee was only permitted to make calls when the two umpires either disagreed or requested his decision; this system was deemed a failure by all observers. The following year, Gaffney was selected by the NL as one of the two umpires to work the 1887 series, along with Kick Kelly, who was regarded as the best umpire in the American Association from 1883-86 before managing that league's Louisville team in 1887. The two worked out a system whereby one umpire would work behind home plate, calling balls and strikes, while the other positioned himself in the field to make calls on the bases. This format was a decided success, and although it was not until almost 1910 that two umpires per game became standard, it formed the basis for the multiple umpire systems which followed. Gaffney later umpired in the 1888 and 1889 championship series, and again for three games in the 1892 NL championship series, for a total of 37 postseason games – a 19th-century record. After the 1887 series, Gaffney and Kelly both returned to umpiring, although they switched leagues in the process – Kelly moved to the NL for the 1888 season, while Gaffney switched to the American Association for 1888-89, where he received a salary of $2,500 plus road expenses, making him easily the best-paid umpire. In the American Association, Gaffney pioneered the practice of moving from behind the catcher to behind the pitcher when a batter reached first base, a crucial move in the days of solitary umpires. He made other innovations, including calling balls fair or foul depending on where they cleared the fence rather than where they landed, and creating a shirt in which extra baseballs could be stored. After each season, he reported omissions and inadequacies in the rules to the league, and many of his suggested revisions were enacted. Mack, who was a rookie catcher for Gaffney's 1887 team and later caught for 5 years in which Gaffney umpired, described him as the perfect umpire; umpiring legend Bill Klem noted that he was the first to be widely called \"King of Umpires\". Gaffney moved to the Players' League for its sole season in 1890 before returning to the NL in September 1891. The stress of 19th century umpiring, when players and fans demonstrated tremendous abusiveness and hostility toward the lone umpires, began to take its toll, however, and Gaffney was released by the NL after the 1893 season due to his increasing drinking. After beginning 1894 in the Eastern League, he returned to the NL in mid-season, but his alcohol abuse continued and he was again let go. He umpired in the Eastern League again from 1895-97 before coming back to the NL in 1899–1900, joining Tom Lynch in becoming one of only two men to umpire in 12 major league seasons in the 19th century. He umpired college games near Worcester after 1900, and later moved to New York City, where he worked as a night watchman. Gaffney died in poverty at age 58 in New York City. After his death, Mack arranged a benefit game in Worcester between his Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox to pay for a monument over Gaffney's grave. List of Major League Baseball umpires John Gaffney John H. Gaffney (June 29, 1855 – August 8, 1913), nicknamed the \"King of Umpires\" and \"Honest John\" (BS) was an American umpire and manager in Major League Baseball. He was baseball's first great umpire, and played a pioneering role in the use of multiple umpires in baseball games. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Gaffney's family moved to Worcester when he was 11. He began playing baseball as a third baseman, but his promising career was ended when he injured"
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"Thomas Danby (artist) Thomas Danby (c. 1818 – 25 March 1886) was an English landscape painter. Danby was born, it is thought, in Bristol in south-west England, the younger son of Francis Danby (1793-1861). He had an elder brother, James Francis Danby (1816–75) who also became a landscape painter. Thomas went with his father to Europe in 1829, living for a time in Paris where he was able to earn a living by copying pictures at the Louvre in Paris. He thus became an earnest admireer and \"student\" of Claude Lorrain, whose aerial effects he sought to imitate. Returning to England about the same time as his father, he first exhibited at the British Institution in 1841, and afterwards frequently at the Royal Academy from 1843. He was a friend of Paul Falconer Poole, with whom he shared a house in Hampstead in 1843, and imbibed not a little of his romantic feeling for nature. From 1855 to his death, Danby resided in or near Hampstead in north London.. The subjects of his landscapes were usually taken from Welsh scenery, especially the old county of Merioneth; his pictures for the most part were not ideal compositions (unlike his father's work) but \"actual\" scenes pervaded with a true romantic spirit. \"He was always trying\" says the writer of his obituary in The Times newspaper, \"to render his inner heart's feeling of a beautiful view rather than the local facts received on the retina.\" He came, it is said, within one vote of election as an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) but, failing eventually to attain Academy honours, he devoted himself in his latter years chiefly to watercolour painting. He became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1860, an associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1867, and a full member of the latter in 1870; until his death his contributions were prominent amongst the works at the society's exhibitions. Danby died of a chest complaint, terminating in dropsy on 25 March 1886. He had been twice married, and had 2 daughters and a son from the second marriage. His remaining works, some 200 watercolours and an equal number of oil paintings, were sold at Christie's in London on the 17–18 June 1886. Thomas Danby (artist) Thomas Danby (c. 1818 – 25 March 1886) was an English landscape painter. Danby was born, it is thought, in Bristol"
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"Oran Etkin Oran Etkin is a jazz and world music musician. A native of Israel, after his family moved to Boston he took piano lessons when he was five years old. At fourteen he studied clarinet with Yusef Lateef and George Garzone. He attended Brandeis University and concentrated on economics and classical clarinet. He received a master's degree in jazz from the Manhattan School of Music. He plays alto clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone. After leaving the Manhattan School of Music, he was hired as a teacher in New York City. Inspired by that experience, Etkin invented a teaching method called Timbalooloo to teach music to children as young as three years old. In 1998, Etkin took an African dance class in Boston that was taught by Joh Camara, a percussionist from Mali. He joined his teacher's band, which included Camara's uncle, Balla Tounkara, a kora player. Visits to Mali increased his interest in the music. His debut album, \"Kelenia\" (Motema, 2009), combined jazz with the Malian music and was recorded with three musicians from Mali: Abdoulaye Diabaté, Makane Kouyate, and Balla Kouyate (on balafon) The album includes an African version of \"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)\". Other musicians on the album include Camara (on talking drum), violinist Sara Caswell, and guitarist Lionel Loueke. Etkin recorded a song for the children's album \"Healthy Food for Thought\". The album received a Grammy Award nomination and a nomination at the Independent Music Awards. Oran Etkin Oran Etkin is a jazz and world music musician. A native of Israel, after his family moved to Boston he took piano lessons when he was five years old. At fourteen he studied clarinet with Yusef Lateef and George Garzone. He attended Brandeis University and concentrated on economics and classical"
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"Luke Jacobz Luke Jacobz (born Luke Jacob Ashwood; 14 February 1981, Sydney) is an Australian actor and television presenter. He appeared in a high school production of \"The Man of Steel\" in 1995. He came to public attention when he starred as Zac Croft for two years on the Australian teen drama television series \"Heartbreak High\". He later moved on to hosting television programs such as the now cancelled television series \"The Big Arvo\" and \"Popstars Live\". Jacobz made a return to acting in \"McLeod's Daughters\" as Patrick Brewer, appearing on the show between 2005 and 2008. He also appeared in a six-month recurring role as Angelo Rosetta in \"Home and Away\", where after becoming a viewer favourite, he was then upgraded to series regular. In 2008, Jacobz was crowned \"Dancing with the Stars\" champion along with dancer and mentor Luda Kroitor. On 23 August 2010, Jacobz was announced as the new host of \"The X Factor\", replacing Matthew Newton, who stepped down from the role. Jacobz also began talks to appear in a new Australian drama series \"Wild Boys\". Jacobz returned as host for \"The X Factor\" in the fourth series, and finished hosting the seventh series on 24 November 2015. Jacobz came back on TV by hosting Instant Hotel in 2017 In 2010, Jacobz was nominated for the Silver Logie Award for the most popular actor for his role on \"Home and Away\". \"Jacobz\" is a screen name, derived from adding a 'z' to the actor's middle name of Jacob. Jacobz dated his \"Dancing with the Stars\" partner Luda Kroitor in 2009; the relationship ended some time later. He has one brother (Ben Ashwood), mother (Sue Ashwood) and deceased father (John Ashwood). Jacobz was charged with drink driving on 31 May 2015 in Sydney, returning a 0.116 reading, well above the 0.05 limit. In court, he pleaded guilty and lost his licence for 12 months and was fined AU$700. Luke Jacobz Luke Jacobz (born Luke Jacob Ashwood; 14 February 1981, Sydney) is an Australian actor and television presenter. He appeared in a high school production of \"The Man of Steel\" in 1995. He came to public attention when he starred as Zac Croft for two years on the Australian teen drama television series \"Heartbreak High\". He later moved on to hosting television programs such as the now cancelled television series \"The Big Arvo\" and \"Popstars Live\". Jacobz made"
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"Neshoba (film) Neshoba: The Price of Freedom is a 2010 documentary film about events and attitudes in Neshoba County, Mississippi, 40 years after the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. \"Neshoba\" explores the history and changing racial attitudes of Neshoba County, Mississippi four decades after the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner during Freedom Summer. The film captures the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who granted the filmmakers \"extraordinary access\". Though critical of certain production elements, \"Variety\" praised \"Neshoba\" as \"a disturbing peek at how little some people have changed, as well as an inspiring portrait of others' determination to see crime punished at last\". Neshoba (film) Neshoba: The Price of Freedom is a 2010 documentary film about events and attitudes in Neshoba County, Mississippi, 40 years after the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. \"Neshoba\" explores the history and changing racial attitudes of Neshoba County, Mississippi four decades after the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner during Freedom Summer. The film captures the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who granted the filmmakers \"extraordinary access\". Though critical of certain production elements, \"Variety\" praised \"Neshoba\" as \"a disturbing peek at how little some"
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"Alei Nao Alei Nao (born 9 December 1993) is a Papua New Guinean cricketer. He made his List A debut in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 28 May 2016 against Kenya. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 31 March 2017 against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut on 12 April 2017, also against the United Arab Emirates. In August 2018, he was named in Papua New Guinea's squad for Group A of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier tournament. Alei Nao Alei Nao (born 9 December 1993) is a Papua New Guinean cricketer. He made his List A debut in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 28 May 2016 against Kenya. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 31 March 2017 against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut on 12 April 2017, also against the United Arab Emirates. In August 2018, he was named in Papua New Guinea's squad for Group A of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier tournament."
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"Zu Xin Zu Xin () was a Shang dynasty King of China. In the \"Records of the Grand Historian\" he was listed by Sima Qian as the fourteenth Shang king, succeeding his Father Zu Yi (). He was enthroned in the year of Wuzi () with Bi () as his capital. He ruled for about 16 years (although the \"Bamboo Annals\" claim 14 years) before his death. He was given the posthumous name Zu Xin and was succeeded by his younger brother Wo Jia (). Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the thirteenth Shang king. Zu Xin Zu Xin () was a Shang dynasty King of China. In the \"Records of the Grand Historian\" he was listed by Sima Qian as the fourteenth Shang king, succeeding his Father Zu Yi (). He was enthroned in the year of Wuzi () with Bi () as his capital. He ruled for about 16 years (although the \"Bamboo Annals\" claim 14 years) before his death. He was given the posthumous name Zu Xin and was succeeded by his younger brother Wo Jia (). Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was"
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"BTR-4 The BTR-4 \"Bucephalus\" (BTR; / Bronetransporter, literally Armoured Transporter) is a 8x8 wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in Ukraine by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (SOE KMDB) as a private venture. The prototype, which was designed as a private venture, was unveiled at the Aviasvit 2006 exhibition held in Ukraine in June 2006. The layout of the BTR-4 represent a change compared to the older BTR-60/70/80 designed in the Soviet Union. The vehicle has a conventional layout similar to western designs like the German TPz Fuchs with the driver's and commander's compartment at the front part of the hull, the engine and transmission compartment in the middle, and the troop compartment at the rear. The troops enter and leave the vehicle either through the rear doors or the roof hatches, and the driver and the commander are provided with doors located on the sides of the hull. The BTR-4 is a more flexible design than the older BTR-60/70/80s as the changed layout makes it easier to adapt the vehicle to specialized roles. The vehicle can be armed according to customer requirements. The prototype is armed with the locally designed New Armament Module which is armed with one 30mm automatic cannon, 7.62mm coaxial machine-gun, up to four 9P135M Konkurs or Baryer anti-tank missiles (two on each side of the turret), and one 30mm automatic grenade launcher (fitted in place of the AT missiles on one left-hand side of the turret). It can also be fitted with different turret weapons modules: the GROM module, SHKVAL module, and the BAU 23x2 module. The BTR-4 has a maximum speed of 110 km/h and can cross water obstacles at a speed of 10 km/h. The vehicle is powered by a 3TD diesel engine with 500 hp. It was reported to being hit by several rpg rounds and multiple small-arms fire with no consequences. Slat armor can be fitted for maximum protection against RPG attacks. A serial production started in late 2008, first series of ten BTR entered service in the army of Ukraine in 2009. Ukrainian state defence manufacturer UkrOboronProm has taken the opportunity at the Arms and Security exhibition being held from 10 to 13 October to unveil a prototype wheeled armoured fighting vehicle that is presently known as the BTR-4MV1. The new BTR-4MV1 is the latest generation of 8×8 APCThe BTR-4MV1 is designed in accordance with NATO standards. The vehicle is based on the BTR-4 but with many new improvements. It differs from the previous versions mostly in a modified configuration of the vehicle’s hull, which makes it possible to install additional types of protection (including the ceramic plates and explosive reactive armour) to reach the fourth and fifth protection levels in accordance with the NATO standards. Apart from that, the hull rear is fitted with a ramp that not only enables troopers to enter and leave the vehicle much quicker, but also enables the armoured personnel carrier to transport various large-size cargoes, including additional ammunition, spare parts, etc. During early trials and evaluation by the Indonesian Marine Corps, the BTR-4 showed several problems which included teething issues and excessive trim when traversing water at high speeds. On April 2017, it was reported that the Indonesian Marine Corps had prepared a formal letter to withdraw from any further acquisitions of the BTR-4. The letter was to be submitted to the Indonesian Ministry of Defense, requesting the redistribution of spending allocations in order to procure other types of vehicles. Iraq has ordered 450 BTR-4s. 40 vehicles of the third batch delivered arrived with rust and damaged hulls and were not accepted by Iraq. The BTR-4 was delivered for Nigerian Army in 2014. Some BTR-4s that being used by Ukrainian armed forces in the ATO operations come from the rejected batch for the Iraqi army. The Iraqi army used BTR-4s in an operation to recapture Jurf Al Sakhar from ISIL forces on October 24, 2014, successfully repelling two road-side ambushes. On 4 June 2014, company officials revealed that the BTR-4E was being used in military operations in the Sloviansk area. Its armor had withstood hits from large-caliber machine guns, counter-HEAT side screens protected the crew from anti-tank grenade launchers, and armored glass sustained direct hits from sniper rifles. Their original desert camo as seen on Iraqi BTR-4s can be viewed in pictures and videos from ATO operations. Two Ukrainian BTR-4 were captured by the pro-Russian separatists in repairable state. Standard module: GROM module: SHKVAL module: BAU 23x2 module: BTR-4KSh command and staff vehicle: MOP-4K fire support vehicle: BTR-4 The BTR-4 \"Bucephalus\" (BTR; / Bronetransporter, literally Armoured Transporter) is a 8x8 wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in Ukraine by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (SOE KMDB) as a private venture. The prototype, which was designed as a private venture,"
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"Nightjohn Nightjohn is a young adult novel by Gary Paulsen, first published in 1993. It is about slavery in the American South shortly before the time of the American Civil War. It was later made into a movie of the same name. The novel is set on the Waller plantation in the Southern United States in the 1850s. The narrator and protagonist of the story is a young female African-American slave named Sarny. Sarny first sees Nightjohn when he is brought to the plantation with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, John still returned to slavery to teach others how to read. Twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to learn. So, at night and whenever he has the chance, John begins teaching Sarny the letters of the alphabet. After teaching her 7 letters (A to G), Waller catches Sarny writing in the dirt and punishes John for teaching her by cutting off the toes from each of his feet. But then after three days of recuperating, John runs. and makes it to freedom. He later returns to fetch Sarny and take her to \"pit school\" in the night, where she sees and learns what a catalog is, learns the rest of the letters, and has acquired great knowledge- something no one can take away from her. Since John comes at night, he is called Nightjohn. This book was followed by a sequel called \"Sarny, a Life Remembered\" in 1998 The novel was adapted as a TV film which aired on the Disney Channel starring Carl Lumbly as John, Beau Bridges as the slaveholder, and introducing Allison Jones as Sarny. It was directed by Charles Burnett. Nightjohn Nightjohn is a young adult novel by"
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"Stieber Twins The Stieber Twins are a duo from Heidelberg, Germany, consisting of the brothers Martin (Marshall Mar, a.k.a. Martin Jekyll) and Christian (Luxus Chris a.k.a. Christian Hyde). They are known as graffiti artists, breakdancers, rappers, hip hop producers and DJs. The twins have been active since about 1983, and the two have been producing hip hop music since 1992. Their first instrumental was on the album \"Alte Schule\" (\"Old school\"), the first songs which featured the twins rapping were \"HipHop und Rap\" (\"HipHop and Rap\") and \"Allein zu zweit\" (\"Alone Together\") and were released in 1995 on the album \"The Sound of MZEE\". They are considered to be pioneers of the German hip hop scene and their productions were well ahead of their time, they have had a formative influence on the Hip Hop and Rap genres. Although they have only released one rap album, they are well respected in Germany because of their lyrics, which are critical of the hip hop business and politics, all of which are performed in the distinctive accent of the Heidelberg, Germany area. They have worked with many German artists and have also collaborated with artists outside of Germany such as GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, Prodigal Sunn of Sunz of Man and the Arsonists. In 2006, the twins performed at the Hip Hop Kemp Festival in the Czech Republic. Today, they are active as DJs and play all over Germany and especially in their hometown of Heidelberg. Stieber Twins The Stieber Twins are a duo from Heidelberg, Germany, consisting of the brothers Martin (Marshall Mar, a.k.a. Martin Jekyll) and Christian (Luxus Chris a.k.a. Christian Hyde). They are known as graffiti artists, breakdancers, rappers, hip hop producers and DJs. The twins have been active since about 1983, and the two have been producing"
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"Igwisi Hills The Igwisi Hills are a volcanic field in Tanzania. Three tuff cones are found there, one of which is associated with a lava flow. They are one of the few locations of possibly kimberlitic lava flows on Earth. The volcanoes are located in the middle of the Tanzania craton, away from other Tanzanian volcanoes. There have been prior episodes of kimberlitic volcanism in the craton, however. The age of the Igwisi Hills is poorly known but may be early Holocene-late Pleistocene in age. Some rainfall-induced chemical modification is found, and the hills have a unique vegetation profile. The Igwisi hills are formed by three tuff cones formed in the middle of the Tanzania craton. They are above the landscape with a karst morphology and craters covered with grass, on a low ridge that may be the product of early eruptive stages. The northeastern hill has two craters, one with a breach from which a long lava flow originates, probably formed when a lava lake in the crater escaped through a breach. The central volcano has a lava coulee and a tephra cone in its crater. Craters have diameters of . The total volume of these cones is less than . Weak pyroclastic activity probably accompanied the eruptive activity. Presumably, low intensity explosive activity built the cones, starting from the northeast cone and ending with the southwest cone. Afterwards, lava flows were generated. The Igwisi Hills are the only places in the world where possible kimberlite lava flows have been found, in form of calcite-olivine lavas. Kimberlite tuffs are also found, a rare species which is very susceptible to erosion. True kimberlites are usually very old eruptive rocks, consequently any subsurface volcanic structure has long since been eroded away. These kimberlites were erupted in a fairly nonexplosive fashion. Not all researchers agree that these lavas are kimberlites, however, with the low alkali content being cited as a difference although the Benfontein \"kimberlites\" share this property with the Igwisi hills ones. If the Igwisi Hills aren't true kimberlites, the next youngest would be the 32.3 ± 2.2 Ma Kundelungu plateau pipes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These kimberlites are also the youngest kimberlites in the world by over thirty million years, cosmogenic helium-3 dates of olivine indicates they were erupted in the late Pleistocene-Holocene, some indicated ages being 11,200 ± 7,800 ± and 12,400 ± 4,800. A poorly constrained U-Pb date is 0 ± 29 million years. The cones display a young morphology. The basement terrain belongs to the 2,500 ± 100 million year old Dodoman sequence. The hills are remote from all other Tanzania volcanoes. Prior kimberlite activity in the Tanzania craton is recorded 1,150, 189 and 53 million years ago. The tuffs are highly calcitic, vesicular and contain numerous microxenoliths. The petrologically similar lavas show evidence of a differentiation by flow and gravity and have trachytic textures. Lavas have a carbonatitic composition. Olivines with diopside cores are found at the Igwisi Hills. Garnet and orthopyroxene is associated with the diopside. Olivines are surrounded by chromite. Olivines characterize the texture of the Igwisi rocks, where they form spherical inclusions. The olivines are primarily forsteritic in composition. Inclusions in the kimberlite include skeletal apatite, stellate aragonite and calcite. High concentrations of are found in the rock, which may have resulted in the depolymerization of the melt, increasing its fluidity and resulting in effusive activity. Peridotite xenoliths originate from of depth. Spinels in the groundmass suggest that crustal contamination was extensive. The geochemistry suggests an origin at high pressures (depths of ) and equilibrium temperatures of . Rainfall has subsequently modified the pyroclastics and formed secondary calcite, while the less permeable lava flows were less modified. The hills have a unique vegetation, with aquatic plants found in the middle of the craters and distinct vegetation on inner crater slopes from the extra-crateric territory. The hills have a rare occurrence of \"Asclepias pseudoamabilis\". Igwisi Hills The Igwisi Hills are a volcanic field in Tanzania. Three tuff cones are found there, one of which is associated with a lava flow. They are one of the few locations of possibly kimberlitic lava flows on Earth. The volcanoes are located in the middle of"
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"Jewel Pod The is a touch-screen like device used by the Jewelpets first appearing in the Jewelpet Twinkle Anime series. As it became a main staple to the franchise, the Jewel Pod was made into an interactive toy by Sega Toys in 2010. The Jewel Pod, as it says is loosely inspired from Apple's iPhone, which uses a touch screen concept. The first version of the Jewel Pod is first released by both Sanrio and Sega Toys in 2010, and is only used for communication purposes by touching the screen in a certain movement to type out the letters. The first version comes only in two colors: a Red one with uses Ruby's Voice and a White one that came out in 2011, that uses Labra's voice. A second version is also released in the same year to coincide the release of Jewelpet Sunshine, called Jewel Pod Crystal. The Crystal variant contains more playability than the first version such as minigames, fortune telling and improved messaging capabilities. An improved version called Jewel Pod Crystal Plus is released in 2012. The third and current Jewel Pod is also released in 2012, called Jewel Pod Diamond. As the diamond retains the Crystal Plus's features, it also adds newer capabilities such as a camera and an SD Card Slot. The fourth incarnations, called Jewel Music Pod is released in April 2013 and the Jewel Pod Diamond Premium, which is released in July 2013. The First Generation of the Jewel Pod released in 2010, coinciding the release of Jewelpet Twinkle. The main function of the first Jewel Pod is mainly messaging, and only uses a touch panel instead of the Liquid Crystal Display. On writing messages, the user must touch the screen in a certain movement or magical order to type out the letters. An infrared sensor is also equipped on the toy, allowing it for sending and receiving voice messages. The first version comes only in two colors: a Red one with uses Ruby's Voice and a White one that came out in 2011, that uses Labra's voice. The Second Generation of the Jewel Pod released in 2011, coinciding the release of Jewelpet Sunshine. The function of the Crystal is the same as the first version, but the touch panel is replaced with a monochrome LCD display. Newer features present in crystal includes Fortune Telling and Mini Games. The second version comes in both red and white colors when it first came out. An enhanced version called the Jewel Pod Crystal Plus is released, with both pink and purple colors. The Third Generation of the Jewel Pod released in 2012, coinciding the release of Jewelpet Kira Deco. A colored LCD display is implemented into the design as well as a camera and an SD Card Slot. The Diamond has a more enhanced messaging capabilities unlike the previous two incarnations, now implementing both the English alphabet and symbols. The diamond also has a built in memory, capable on storing messages that's received as well as pictures captured using the Jewel Pod's camera. The applications in the Diamond is much more customizable as custom apps can be played using an SD Card. The Diamond only comes in three colors: Pink, Purple and Blue. A music device released in April 2013, coinciding the release of Jewelpet Happiness. Unlike its previous counterparts, the Music Pod is small in size, shaped like a crystal heart and has a small colored LCD screen with three buttons for operation. The toy operates as a Portable media player, allowing it to play MP3 files with the use of a SD card and has 8 official features, such as minigames and fortune telling. It also has connectivity with the Jewel Pod Diamond to view pictures through the photo viewer. The Fourth Generation of the Jewel Pod revealed at the 2013 Tokyo Toy Show. The new incarnation includes a new design with a newly built Operating System and touch screen that can be used by hand or with an included stylus. The new version is also compatible with the upcoming JSPod. The Fifth generation of the Jewel Pod released in May 2014, coinciding the release of Lady Jewelpet. Aside from the updated aestetics and design, the new version features a much faster core operating system and implementation of the Motion Detection Sensor for minigames. The Jewel Pad is a tablet-like device to be released officially on August 7, 2014. Basically a larger version of the Jewel Pod, the toy spots a 7-inch LCD screen with an included stylus and connectivity with the Jewel Pod Premium Heart. It is also has a rechargeable battery pack, which can be used for 5 consecutive hours in full charge. Aside from the basic app features, more applications can be installed through a QR code and connectivity to a USB port with an included USB connector. Jewel Pods had become a staple communication and magical device used by the Jewelpets in the Anime series. It transports a Jewelpet into the Human World through a magical portal when it used. It can even send a human and the Jewelpet into Jewel Land using the same transportation, but only through a computer. It can also freeze time, making the Jewelpet and its human partner have a good time in Jewel Land until they return to Earth. Several features of the Jewel Pot can be activated by touching it like a touch screen phone, which came handy on browsing spells, using a radar to find its human partner or another Jewelpet and stores magical items like the Rare Rare Drops and the Ble Ble Drops. In Jewelpet Sunshine, the Jewel Pod and Jewel Pod Crystal retains its usefulness as a magical item for the students of Sunshine Academy, even for Jewelpets. The Jewel Pod is used as a normal smartphone as well as casting magic, In Kira Deco, the Jewel Pod Diamond is used by all Jewelpets in Jewel Land and each of them were decorated with jewels and other decorations, depending on the user. It also allows the user to use magic as well. The Kira Deco 5 also obtained their own version of the Jewel Pod Diamond, which now allows them to contact the Jewelpets and identify the Deco Stones. In Episode 27, Ruby's obtains Jewelina's Jewel Pod Diamond and uses it to store the Deco Stones. The Jewel Pod and Jewel Pod Crystal sold in a combined total of 300,000 Units in Japan alone. In the press release by Sega Toys on October 1, 2012, the Jewel Pod Diamond sold about 160,000 units in less than two months since its release and topped the charts as the most sold girl's toy in Japan. The company will have the target sales of 400,000 in the end of the year and will have a combined total of 700,000 units sold on all three Jewel Pods. 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"Yadong Luo Yadong Luo is the Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and Professor of Management at the University of Miami. He is a fellow of Academy of International Business. He has written over a dozen books and nearly two hundred articles, dealing with topics from global strategy and cooperative alliances to cross-cultural management and emerging market businesses. His contributions also include springboard theory, composition-based view, global co-opetition, among others. His writing on the development of business and management in emerging markets also offers a wealth of understanding of this context. He was born in China, and obtained his MBA from the University of International Business & Economics in June 1988, followed by a Ph.D. from Temple University, Philadelphia in 1996. He is an advisory board member and distinguished honorary professor of several business schools and universities in China and Asia. He has served as senior editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and other journals. He was also previously the International Dean of Sun Yat-sen Business School in China. He was ranked the world's most productive scholar in international business (1995-2011) by \"Management International Review\" in 2014, most prolific author in leading international business journals by \"International Business Review\" in 2010, most productive researcher in international strategic management research (2000-2013) by \"Management International Review\" in 2016, and most prolific author on Asian management by \"Journal of Management Studies\" in 2008 and on Chinese management (2000-2006) by \"Asia Pacific Journal of Management\" in 2007. In 2016, he was ranked #2 worldwide in management and #6 worldwide among all business school faculty concerning journal and research contributions. He received the Faculty Senate Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009 at the University of Miami, the university's highest recognition awarded to its faculty. International Business, 2003, 2008, 2014 (with Shenkar) Guanxi and Business, 2000, 2007 Global Dimensions of Corporate Governance, 2006 Co-opetition in International Business, 2004 Managing Human Resources in Cross-Border Alliances, 2003 (with Schuler and Jackson) Multinational Enterprises in Emerging Markets, 2002 China's Service Sector: A New Battlefield for International Corporations, 2001 Strategy, Structure, and Performance of MNCs in China, 2001 International Joint Ventures: Theory and Practice, 2001 (with Yan) How to Enter China: Choices and Lessons, 2000 MNCs in China: Benefiting from Structural Transformation, 2000 Entry and Cooperative Strategies in International Business Expansion, 1999 Yadong Luo Yadong Luo is the Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and Professor of Management at the University"
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"Latsch Building The Latsch Building is a historic commercial property in Winona, Minnesota, United States. Once known as the Kupietz Block, it was constructed in stages from 1860 to the 1880s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 (under the misspelled name Kirch/Latch Building) for having local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for its transitional Gothic Revival/Italianate architecture and its former occupation by the largest of several produce wholesalers that based themselves in Winona to take advantage of the city's river and rail connections. The Latsch Building's history is not entirely known. Its official National Register documentation gives a construction date of circa 1868, but more recent sources give a start date of 1860 and note that it was altered and expanded over the next few decades. During an extensive renovation in 2015, the owner posited that the visible structure had been constructed around an older building in 1890. Whatever the timeframe, the brick building's façade was designed in the Italianate style that was then coming into vogue, but retained overtones of the older Gothic Revival design, particularly in regard to the windows. Cast-iron Corinthian columns were added to the front façade in the 1880s. Historical documents confirm that the building was occupied by J.B. Kirch & Company, a farm implement dealer, from the early 1870s to the late 1880s. By the mid 1890s it was being converted to a store and warehouse for major local grocery retailer and wholesaler Latsch & Son. The elder Latsch was a Swiss immigrant who farmed near Dodge, Wisconsin, until he was crippled in an accident. He and his family moved to Winona, where he began a grocery business. Several grocery wholesalers based themselves in Winona in the late 19th century due to its status as a river and rail transportation hub, and Latsch & Son became the biggest of them. Between 1866 and the 1930s the company was the leading business and primary tenant of Winona's East Second Street commercial district. The son, John A. Latsch, had been born in 1861 and took over the thriving company in 1909 upon his father's death. The younger Latsch was a prominent figure in Winona, a hardworking but eccentric loner who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to local charities and of land for public parks. In 1933 the Latsch Building was occupied by the Grams Feed and Seed Store. Other small businesses were located in the building at various times as well, including a saloon, a clothing store, a cigar manufacturer, a doctor's office, and a real estate office. It was home to a food co-op from 1972 to 2000. In 2014 new developers purchased the building and embarked on a nearly $3 million restoration. According to news reports, project partners Peter Shortridge and Mike Gostomski were motivated to restore the building \"as close to its original condition as possible\". They renamed the property the Latsch & Son Building since it was the only remaining structure in Winona that once housed the Latsches' grocery empire. A quarter of the floorspace is leased to a credit union, with space for other commercial tenants on the ground floor and for offices on the second floor. The developers and civic officials billed the project as a major first step in revitalizing the former industrial zone that isolates Winona from its downtown riverfront. Latsch Building The Latsch Building is a historic commercial property in Winona, Minnesota, United States. Once known as the Kupietz Block, it was constructed in stages from 1860 to the 1880s. It was listed on"
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"Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library The Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library, named after local philanthropists Mark and Emily Turner, is a public library in the City of Presque Isle, Maine, United States. The library provides resources to the city's residents including periodicals, books, audio books, computers with internet access, and wireless internet throughout the library. The library also provides passport services, maintains a library in second life, genealogical research, and provides reference services to the United States and the international community. In the late 19th century, \"a group of citizens from Presque Isle who called themselves the Half & Half Club, created and supported their own library collection that was kept at local businesses due to the city not having a library building; with each store owner being named the local librarian\". However, in the early 1900s, as the city's population began to increase, there was a demand for a permanent library structure. The town of Presque Isle applied for a gift/donation from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation; otherwise known as the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The request was granted giving the city $10,000 for the purchase of land and construction. After the initial land purchase of \"$1,000 from Dudley Heirs, local citizens raised around $950 for the purchase of a smaller, adjoining plot of land\". The library was opened in May 1908 under the name: Presque Isle Free Library. By the 1960s, overcrowding in the library had become such a problem that it was acknowledged by patrons and officials of Presque Isle that the library needed to be expanded. The initial funds given to the library for its expansion was from the government \"under Title III Legislation in the amount of $60,000\". A generous local philanthropist and his wife, Mark and Emily Turner, then matched the government funds donating $60,000 towards the expansion of the library. By April 1967 the library was renamed the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library in honor of the couple that helped finance the construction. As a token of appreciation, Mark Turner received library card number 001, the first library card given by the new library. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held and attended by Mark Turner, \"Burt Tompkins, chairmen of the city council, and Bill Flora, chairman of the library board, and state governor Ken Curtis, was given a tour of the new facility\". The library offers genealogy services, enabling users to search for ancestors who were from Aroostook County, the State of Maine, the United States, and Canada. In-library materials include introductory materials that explains how to start and conduct a genealogical search. Other materials such as CD-ROMs, print, and microfilm are available for genealogy searches containing information such as local, state, and federal census records and existing genealogical records. In addition to the library's resources, the library is affiliated with groups and societies including the \"Maine Genealogical Society, the Aroostook County Genealogical Society, Maine Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Maine Historical Society, among others\", and can provide contact information to patrons seeking the assistance of any of its affiliated groups. The library is also joined with the Maine Memory Network, \"a digital museum created through a partnership between the Maine Historical Society and the Maine State Library to increase public access and engagement with holdings of historical societies across the state\". The Turner Memorial Library is authorized to perform Notary services in the State of Maine, such as: The library, as approved by the U.S. State Department on December 28, 2007, is a passport application acceptance facility, which includes the creation of passport cards to all U.S. citizens. Ways of contacting the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library for reference services include accounts in social networking web sites like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook where reference questions can be asked. Information pertaining to library hours, materials, news, and events can be found on these pages. Additional, \"in cooperation with the Alliance Library System, Altarama, and Peoplewhere\", the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library is part of a reference service called My Info Quest where a question can be texted from any mobile device and answered by a librarian from the contacted library. Other libraries from around the world participate in this form and to obtain a list of the libraries or find additional information, see My Info Quest Website. Through SLURL, the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library is available for second life services that include career and employment resources, reference library services, and links to information within second life as well as the Internet. In cooperation with Tedi Latte of the State of Maine Department of Labor's Bureau of Employment Resources, the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial library helped create the USA Jobs Resource Center of Cybrary Square. Approximately \"75 percent of job seekers use the Internet\", and the USA Job resource center provides a place to find employment resources in Second Life. The site's creators also hope that the \"library will provide employers with the resources to better attract future workers and other libraries and agencies with a model for an in-world and online source of information\" that allows people who are using online resources to fill out unemployment claims, create resumes, and complete job applications. Links to web resources are present such as ONET, \"which provides information about job descriptions that includes knowledge, skills, and abilities required; as well as the average wage information and the possibility of job growth or decline\", as well as links to the Workforce Investment Act, Trade Adjustment Assistance, the North American Industrial Coding System, and USA Jobs. In Cybrary city, at the location of the Second Life representation of the library, help with reference questions is available. The Turner Memorial Library is a member of the Maine Library Association, which provides the library with an opportunity to \"promote and enhance the value of Maine libraries and librarianship,to foster cooperation between those who work in and for Maine libraries, and to provide leadership to ensure that information is accessible to all citizens from their libraries\". The current library director and reference librarian are members of the Maine Library Association. The library is a member of The Association for Rural & Small Libraries or the ARSL. The ARSL is a nationwide organization that works in order to further \"positive growth and development of libraries\" in rural areas. Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library The Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library, named after local philanthropists Mark and Emily Turner, is a public library in the City of Presque Isle, Maine, United States. The library provides resources to the city's residents including periodicals, books,"
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"Schwalmstadt Schwalmstadt is the largest town in the Schwalm-Eder district, in northern Hesse, Germany. It was established only in 1970 with the amalgamation of the towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain together with some outlying villages to form the town of Schwalmstadt. Schwalmstadt lies in the Schwalm region in the western Knüll, a low mountain range. Through the town flows the river Schwalm. The nearest large towns are Kassel (about 50 km to the north), Bad Hersfeld (about 35 km to the east), Marburg (about 40 km to the southwest) and Fulda (about 70 km to the southeast). Besides the core of Treysa, Ziegenhain and Ascherode, the town consists of the centres of Allendorf an der Landsburg, Dittershausen, Florshain, Frankenhain, Michelsberg, Niedergrenzebach, Rommershausen, Rörshain, Trutzhain, Loshausen and Wiera. In the 8th century, \"Treise\" was owned by the Abbots of Hersfeld. The Counts of \"Cigenhagen\" were named in a document for the first time in 1144. In 1186, Treysa was taken over by the Counts and fortified. Treysa's landmark, the Martinskirche (Church of St. Martin), nowadays known as the Totenkirche (Church of the Dead), was built in 1230. Treysa was granted town rights sometime between 1229 and 1270, and the same rights were bestowed upon Ziegenhain in 1274. After the last Count's death in 1450, the county passed to Hesse. The Landgraves of Hesse had the castle in Ziegenhain remodelled into a stately home in 1470, and then between 1537 and 1548, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse had it built into a fortification with a moat. In August 1945, the proceedings to establish the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) took place in Treysa in an event known as the Church Conference of Treysa. The meeting brought about the merger of the Lutheran, Reformed and United state churches. Two further church gatherings in May 1946 and June 1947 tried to start discussion about divergent perceptions of the Eucharist, and also dealt with Denazification. As part of Hesse's municipal reforms, the two towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain, along with their outlying villages, were united in 1970 into the Town of Schwalmstadt, and ever since then they have existed only as constituent communities of a larger municipality. In 1995, with the motto \"Hessisch Willkommen\", Schwalmstadt hosted the 35th \"Hessentag\" state festival. In the Marburg State Archive, Rommerhausen is first mentioned under the name \"Rumershusen\" in 1243. In 1360 it was called \"Romirshusin\" and in 1365 \"Rumershusen\", but it has gone by its current name since 1419. On 3 April 1916 at 15:30, a cosmic lump of iron fell to earth in a woodlot near Rommershausen. This was later named, after the place where it was found, the Meteorite of Rommershausen, and it has gone down in German astronomic history as Germany's greatest verifiable observed meteorite impact. Rommershausen has been part of Schwalmstadt since the municipal reforms in the 1970s. During the Second World War, Ziegenhain was home to a prisoner of war camp, Stalag IX-A (one of the French prisoners there, François Mitterrand, later became President of France), and after the war, also to a displaced persons camp at the same facility. The camp is now the constituent community of Trutzhain. Some of the barracks still stand and have been converted into houses. Schwalmstadt Town Council has 37 members. As of the municipal elections held in 2011, the council seats are apportioned thus: Mayor Wilhelm Kröll (SPD) was re-elected on 7 May 2006 with a share of the vote of 61.4%. On 3 June 2012, Dr. Gerald Näser (CDU) was elected new mayor with 53% of the vote. His opponent was Dr. Fabio Longo of the SPD. The turnout was 54.1%. Näser took office on 1 October 2012. He died in 2016 and was temporarily replaced by Detlef Schwierzeck (SPD). In 2016, Stefan Pinhard was elected as the new mayor and took office on 1 December 2016. Schwalmstadt's civic coat of arms might be heraldically described thus: Or a goat-headed spreadeagle sable armed, langued and attired gules, surmounted by a roundel argent in which a mullet of six of the third. The heraldic elements are historical symbols from both former towns and the old County of Ziegenhain. Schwalmstadt's coat of arms bears a keen likeness to both Neukirchen's and Schwarzenborn's. Schwalmstadt's local THW association was founded in 1961. The local association has, among other things, a technical team (\"Technischer Zug\") with a positioning section (\"Fachgruppe Ortung\"). Through Schwalmstadt run Federal Highways (\"Bundesstraßen\") B 254 (from Fulda by way of Schwalmstadt to Kassel) and B 454 (from Bad Hersfeld by way of Schwalmstadt to Marburg). In the neighbouring community of Neuental ends (or begins) the Autobahn A 49. The Main-Weser railway from Frankfurt to Kassel runs through Schwalmstadt and serves two stations: Treysa and Schwalmstadt-Wiera. There are hourly Regionalbahn trains from Kassel and the Mittelhessen-Express from Frankfurt ending at Treysa. In Addition to that, Regionalexpress trains and InterCity trains between Kassel and Frankfurt stop hourly in turn. At the station of Schwalmstadt-Wiera there is an hourly connection to Frankfurt via the Mittelhessen-Express. There was once a strategic railway running through the town between Berlin and Metz (the latter now in France), known as the \"Kanonenbahn\", or \"Cannons Railway\". Schwalmstadt Schwalmstadt is the largest town in the Schwalm-Eder district, in northern Hesse, Germany. It was established only in 1970 with the amalgamation of the towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain together with some outlying villages to form the"
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"Brachioteuthis riisei Brachioteuthis riisei, also known as the common arm squid, is a species of squid in the family Brachioteuthidae. This is a small species. It is almost colourless except for small chromatophores scarcely distributed. It has a long, thin, cylindrical mantle which grows to from 10 to 17 cm in length. The fin is approximately 35-50% of the length of the mantle. It has weak muscles, yet is nektonic. The neck of the larvae is long. Their arms have two rows of suckers, with the having multiple rows of smaller suckers in the tentacular club at the proximal hub. This species is widely distributed and is native to many parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Except within the boreal Pacific Ocean, this is likely a cosmopolitan species. Young animals live in the epi-mesopelagic zone, with adults occurring in the bathypelagic zone. \"Brachioteuthis riisei\" is an oceanic species which can be found over a wide range of depths from the surface to 3,000 m depth. Juvenile animals occur throughout the year which suggests that this species has an extended spawning season, although the juveniles reach peak abundance between May and August and in February in the North Atlantic while the peaks in the Mediterrabean and off Northwest Africa are from April to July, in September, and from December to February. \"Brachioteuthis riisei\" is preyed upon by a range of marine mammals including Cuvier's beaked whale (\"Ziphius cavirostris\") and striped dolphin (\"Stenella coeruleoalba\"), as well as by fish, for example the blue shark (\"Prionace glauca\") and, in the Azores, the swordfish (\"Xiphias gladius\"), as well as by the giant red shrimp (\"Aristaeomorpha foliacea\") in the Sicilian Channel. Brachioteuthis riisei Brachioteuthis riisei, also known as the common arm squid, is a species of squid in"
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"Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co. Spur Industries v. Del E. Webb Development Co., 108 Ariz. 178, 494 P.2d 700 (1972) is a Supreme Court of Arizona case that demonstrates the principles of nuisance law. It is also used in at least one law school remedies case book to demonstrate special injunction principles. The case involves the owner of a livestock feedlot, Spur Industries, and Del E. Webb Development Co., the developer of the now well known retirement community, Sun City, Arizona. Both enterprises beginning small, they eventually grew large and close enough to one another that the stench of manure and the infestation of flies from the feedlot were affecting both current residents of Sun City, and inhibiting future sales. Webb brought suit for an injunction against the further operation of the feedlot. The lower court granted the injunction, ordering Spur to shut down operations. The court held that the injunction was proper. Distinguishing between private and public nuisances, the former being remedied often only by damages, at least where the costs of injunction are great on the defendant, the court determined that the feedlot was a public nuisance. This decision was made in large part because an Arizona statute called any \"place in populous areas which constitutes a breeding place for flies . . . \" and other animals that can carry disease is a public nuisance. Determining south Sun City to be a \"populous area\" the court said that injunction was thus proper. Given the equities the court crafted a special injunction, however. Citing the \"coming to a nuisance\" doctrine, which prohibits equitable relief for a homeowner who purchases a home within the reach of the nuisance, the court said that Webb must indemnify Spur for his losses as a result of a move or shutdown of his enterprise. The court reasoned that, whereas the \"coming to a nuisance\" doctrine usually bars relief, there was a public interest at play here, and Webb's choice to come to the nuisance could not preclude the public from being protected from the nuisance. Thus, the case was remanded for determination of what the damages should be. Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co. Spur Industries v. Del E. Webb Development Co., 108 Ariz. 178, 494 P.2d 700 (1972) is a Supreme Court of Arizona case that demonstrates the principles of nuisance law. It is also"
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"Michael E. Harkin Michael Eugene Harkin is one of the leading anthropologists in the United States specializing in the ethnohistory of indigenous people of the western U.S. and Canada. He is currently professor and former chair of anthropology at the University of Wyoming, having previously taught at Emory University and Montana State University. In 2011 he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and in 2007 he was a visiting professor at Shanghai University. From 1985 to 1987 he conducted fieldwork in the Heiltsuk community of Bella Bella, British Columbia. More recently he has worked with the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly referred to as \"Nootka\") people of Vancouver Island, and several groups of the northern Great Plains. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Raymond D. Fogelson, Nancy Munn, and Marshall Sahlins. His early monograph on the Heiltsuks employed a dialogic perspective to understand issues of power and representation of both self and other. This was influenced by Lévi-Straussian structuralism and the historical structuralism of Sahlins. In more recent works, he has pursued a range of interests, primarily in the analysis of indigenous culture in a historical context. His work on revitalization movements revisits one of the classic ethnohistorical theories. He has also contributed to the literature on ethnoecology, arguing that traditional Northwest Coast ecological models expressed via ritual and myth non-linear system dynamics. He was co-editor of the journal \"Ethnohistory\" in 2007-2013, and is now editor-in-chief of the journal \"Reviews in Anthropology\". He is theme editor for cultural anthropology of UNESCO's \"Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems\", and he writes a column titled The World is Curved for the journal \"Anthropology News\". He was president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology in 2006-2008, and in 2013 was elected president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (for 2014-2015). He has edited several important books on Native Americans and the environment, revitalization movements, and Northwest Coast ethnology. He has published extensively on anthropological history and theory, especially the Boasian tradition, and the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. He was a visiting fellow in Lévi-Strauss' laboratory in 1997. He was the 2016 William Evans chair at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Michael E. Harkin Michael Eugene Harkin is one of the leading anthropologists in the United States specializing in the ethnohistory of indigenous people of the western U.S."
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"A Mission to Kill A Mission to Kill is a low budget 1988 action film featuring Vietnam War sequences that was written and directed by Sean MacGregor with a story by William Smith. The film also has been released under the titles \"Nightmares of Nam\" and \"The Kill Machine\". MacGregor and Smith had also collaborated on \"Gentle Savage\". A former officer assigned to the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit returns home where he is put in, then escapes from a mental hospital. Steve Oliver ... Major Steven Henry 'Hank' Miller <br> Chris Casamassa ... Young Hank Miller <br> Marcy Bond ... Samantha <br> Doug Shalin ... Dr. Blair <br> William Smith ... Boris Catuli A Mission to Kill A Mission to Kill is a low budget 1988 action film featuring Vietnam War sequences that was written and directed by Sean MacGregor with a story by William Smith. The film also has been released under the titles \"Nightmares of Nam\" and \"The Kill Machine\". MacGregor and Smith had also collaborated on \"Gentle Savage\". A former officer assigned to the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit returns home where he is put in, then escapes from a mental hospital. Steve Oliver ... Major Steven Henry 'Hank' Miller"
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"Frank Hird Robert Francis Hird (1873 – 2 November 1937) was a journalist, author and lover of politician, sculptor and writer Lord Ronald Gower (1845–1916). Robert Francis Hird was born in 1873 in Hull, England, the son of James Hird. At first he was the secretary of Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring, but he later became a journalist and author. Frank Hird met Lord Ronald Gower in June 1893. In April 1895, they were together in Venice visiting with Horatio Brown. In February 1898, Hird was the Rome correspondent for the \"Morning Post\", a position he had obtained through Gower's friend, Dunn, editor of the journal. He was known by the Anglo-Americans in Rome as \"the post-boy\", due to his young age. Hird was engaged to a woman, but he accepted Gower's offer to live with him and broke the engagement. About them, Oscar Wilde remarked, on one occasion, \"Frank may be seen, but not Hird.\" The nickname of Hird was \"The Bébé\" (he also signed his letters like this). They lived together and to regularize their relationship, Gower took the unusual step of legally adopting Hird. Later in life Gower bought Hammerfield, a large Victorian house at Penshurst, Kent. After being financially ruined by Francis ShackletonGower lost £40,000 (£ in Sterling) and Hird £6,000 (£ in Sterling) they moved to the smaller Mayo House on Mount Ephraim, Rusthall, Kent. Hird accused Shackleton's brother, explorer Ernest Shackleton, of involvement be in the fraud. Ernest Shackleton sued him, and Hird promises to Sir Arthur Vicars, who was investigating the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, \"revelations... unless E.S. funks an exposure\". But in the end Hird recanted his words. On 15 November 1914, Hird organized a concert at the Pump Room on The Pantiles, in Tunbridge Wells, for the Belgian Colony who lived there. Nearly 600 people, mostly Belgians, attended and the \"Kent & Sussex Courier\" described it as \"a gathering unique in the history of the town\". The entire programme was in French, and one of the attendee told Hird that it was \"just like being at home\". In November 1914, Hird volunteered at West Hall VAD Hospital, and in October 1915, he was appointed Secretary to the newly opened Kingswood Park VAD Hospital. From 1917-1918, during World War I, Hird was a Church Army Commissioner. He was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.). Gower died in 1916 and in 1920, Hird proposed to Delia Whitaker, one of Gower's friends, but she rejected him. By 1921, Hird was engaged to \"a nice young lady, suitable in every way and with money\", Gladys Sinclair. Or so he thought. She was actually 42, 6 years younger than Hird at the time, and not so wealthy. The marriage, which took place on 5 July 1921, was suggested by her uncle, Colonel Hugh Sinclair. Gladys Sinclair (d. 6 May 1943) was the daughter of Walter Sinclair and Kathleen Dickinson. Hird died on 2 November 1937 in Westminster, London, and was buried with Gower at St Paul's Parish Church, Rusthall, Kent, as Hird had asked. Later, Gladys Sinclair's ashes were buried with them. Frank Hird Robert Francis Hird (1873 – 2 November 1937) was a journalist, author and lover of politician, sculptor and writer Lord Ronald Gower (1845–1916). Robert Francis Hird was born in 1873 in Hull, England, the son of James Hird. At first he was the secretary of Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring, but he later became a journalist and author. Frank Hird met Lord Ronald Gower in June 1893. In April 1895, they were together in Venice visiting"
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"Giana Roberge Giana Roberge (born December 16, 1970, in New Hampshire) is an American female road cycle racer from who, after retiring from professional cycling in 1999 due to a heart condition, began another successful career as a team director, leading the Saturn Women's road team to become one of the most successful teams in the world. In 2003, she returned to cycle racing and has now competed in every major women's one-day and stage race in the world. On August 5, 2005, Roberge was inducted into the International Cycling Hall of Fame in Utica, New York. Roberge was honoured for both her racing career and her contribution to the sport as the Director of the Saturn Women's Cycling Team and the president and owner of Team Speed Queen. Roberge entered the world of cycling in 1992 when she worked for Paradox Bicycle Center in Saratoga Springs, New York. After two years as manager and purchaser, she bought the shop. As well as owning the shop, she began road and mountain biking, quickly rising to the top of the women’s road peloton. In 1996, she turned professional with the Timex Women’s Cycling Team, and had some successes. She went on to become a member of the US National Team and raced with Timex until 1999 when a heart condition dcaused her premature retirement. Tom Schuler (Team Sports) hired Roberge in August 1999 as the manager of the Timex Team, and in 2000 she was both manager and \"director sportif\" of the team. In 2001, she merged the Timex Team with the Saturn Team and became the assistant general manager of the Saturn Team as well as the women’s \"director sportif\". She led them to become the #1 Union Cycliste Internationale ranked women's team and ensured back-to-back World Cup series titles, as well as assisting in the qualifying of over 20 Saturn and Timex Team men and women athletes for the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. In 2003, Roberge was given a clean bill of health and returned to racing when she had time between directing the Saturn Women to the #1 ranking in the US and managing both the men’s and women’s teams. She won the Master’s US National Time Trial Championships and was silver medalist at the Master’s World Championships. She was later quoted in interview saying, \"I'm really bummed that I got silver at Masters World's last year - I really wanted to get gold.\" In 2004, a lifelong ambition to compete in the RAAM was put on hold because of three broken ribs and mononucleosis. Instead, she focused on winning the World Championship title, which she did in August riding an Independent Fabrication XS. Along with racing in 2004, she focused time on her new company, Team Speed Queen and managing the Quark Team. She also led European coaching tours, which included five weeks in Spain and four weeks at the Tour de France. Giana Roberge Giana Roberge (born December 16, 1970, in New Hampshire) is an American"
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"North Whale Seaplane Base North Whale Seaplane Base is a state owned, public use seaplane base located in North Whale Pass, a community in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a \"general aviation\" facility. North Whale Seaplane Base has one seaplane landing area designated NW/SE with a water surface measuring 10,000 by 1,000 feet (3,048 x 305 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 350 aircraft operations, an average of 29 per month: 86% air taxi and 14% general aviation. North Whale Seaplane Base North Whale Seaplane Base is a state owned, public use seaplane base located in North Whale Pass, a community in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a \"general aviation\" facility. North Whale Seaplane Base has one seaplane landing area designated NW/SE with a water surface measuring 10,000 by 1,000 feet (3,048 x 305 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had"
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"Marcel Reif Marcel Reif (born 27 November 1949 in Wałbrzych) is a Swiss television sport journalist. Marcel Reif was born in Wałbrzych, Silesia (formerly Waldenburg), four years after the area was transferred to Poland from Germany following World War II. In 1956 his family moved to Tel Aviv; his father was a Polish Jew, while his mother was a German Catholic. Reif only learned to speak German at the age of eight, after his family moved again to Kaiserslautern. Reif has been working for many years in German television as a journalist for sport programs on German broadcasters RTL and ZDF. After leaving RTL in 1999, he joined Sky Deutschland, which at that time was Premiere. Reif has been the head of the commentator staff for many years. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland and has three children. He married twice. In 2013 he acquired Swiss citizenship and dispensed of his German one. Marcel Reif Marcel Reif (born 27 November 1949 in Wałbrzych) is a Swiss television sport journalist. Marcel Reif was born in Wałbrzych, Silesia (formerly Waldenburg), four years after the area was transferred to Poland from Germany following World War II. In 1956 his family moved to Tel Aviv;"
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"Edgar Wilkinson Edgar Wilkinson (birth registered October→December 1863 — 27 August 1896) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s. He played at representative level for England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Bradford FC, as a forward, e.g. front row, lock, or back row. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Bradford FC was a rugby union club, and since 1907 it has been the association football (soccer) club Bradford Park Avenue. Edgar Wilkinson was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and he died aged 32 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Edgar Wilkinson won caps for England while at Bradford FC in 1886 against Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, in 1887 Wales, and Scotland. In the early years of rugby football the \"goal\" was to score goals, and a try had zero value, but it provided the opportunity to \"try\" at goal, and \"convert\" the try to a goal with an unopposed kick at the goal posts. The point values of both the try and goal have varied over time, and in the early years footballers could \"score\" a try, without scoring any points. When Bradford FC converted from the rugby union code to the rugby league code on Tuesday 27 August 1895, Edgar Wilkinson would have been approximately 32. Consequently, he could have been both a rugby union and rugby league footballer for Bradford FC. On 16 July 1887 Edgar married Florence Nelson b 1869, at Holy Trinity Church, Poulton-le-Sands, Lancashire. Following Edgar's premature death in 1896, some 14 years later in 1910, his widow Florence and her children moved to the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire, which is where Florence's grandparents had lived for some 24 years. Edgar Wilkinson Edgar Wilkinson (birth registered October→December 1863 — 27 August 1896) was an English rugby"
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"Injection port An injection port is a medical device used for the administration of insulin or other physician approved medicine into the subcutaneous tissue (the tissue layer just below the skin). The device is similar to infusion sets used by insulin pumps, except it is configured to receive a syringe instead of a tubing system. An injection port is usually a disposable device applied by the patient and worn for period of 3–5 days. When giving shots via an injection port, the needle stays above the surface of the skin. Medication is delivered via a short soft cannula. An injection port can be used in conjunction with multiple daily injections of insulin by people with diabetes. It can also be used for the subcutaneous administration of any other physician prescribed medication Injection ports are usually applied by the patient. The device comes with a needle surrounded by a soft cannula. The needle and cannula are manually inserted into the patient's tissue. Immediately after insertion the needle is removed and the cannula remains below the surface of the skin. Ports are usually worn on the abdomen, but can also be worn on other areas such as the buttocks, thigh or arm. Typical injection ports are worn for 3 days and then replaced with another port. Insulin is injected via a syringe into the injection port. Medication immediately flows through the device's cannula into the subcutaneous tissue layer. No medication is stored in the device (other than the small amount of dead-space in the medication channel within the device). The Insuflon, manufactured and distributed by Unomedical, is inserted at a 20-45° angle and rests flush against the skin similar to an IV. The I-Port, manufactured and distributed by Patton Medical Devices, is a domed shaped device with a cannula inserted at a 90° angle. The i-port Advance combines an i-port with an insertion device. Injection port An injection port is a medical device used for the administration of insulin or other physician approved medicine into the subcutaneous tissue (the tissue layer just below the skin). The device is similar to infusion sets used by insulin pumps, except it is configured to receive a syringe instead of a tubing system. An injection port is usually a disposable device applied by the patient and worn for period of 3–5 days. When giving shots via an injection port, the needle stays above the surface of"
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"Marc McNulty Marc McNulty (born 14 September 1992) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Reading. McNulty attended Portobello High School and played for the youth teams of Hutchison Vale, Celtic and Hibernian. After being released by Hibernian at age 16 it affected McNulty, with him believing he \"wasn't going to make it in football\" and \"it was over\". He signed for Livingston aged 16, before making a goalscoring debut at senior level on 31 October 2009 after coming on as a late substitute in a 3–0 away win over Montrose. His prolific goal scoring record at under-19 level earned him a new three-year contract on 17 February 2010. In all he made nine appearances in his debut season in the first team. The following season in the Second Division he made only four appearances in an injury troubled campaign. Season 2011–12 saw him emerge as Livingston's top goal scorer back in the First Division, netting 16 goals in all competitions. His form saw him attract the attention of clubs south of the border such as Sheffield United and Derby County. He extended his stay with Livingston on 25 July 2013 by signing a new two-year contract. On 19 May 2014, McNulty joined Sheffield United on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee which would become effective on 1 July 2014. The transfer fee is believed to be between £95,000 and £125,000. McNulty scored his first competitive goal for the Sheffield in a 2–1 League Cup first round win over Mansfield Town on 13 August 2014. In November 2014, McNulty was ruled out as injured after sustaining a facial injury after an altercation in a night club in Edinburgh, with United manager Nigel Clough claiming that McNulty was the \"innocent party\". On 16 December 2014, McNulty scored the only goal in a 1–0 home victory over Southampton to send United to the semi-finals of the League Cup. On 6 November 2015, McNulty joined Portsmouth on a short-term loan deal. On 7 November 2015 he made his debut in the first round FA Cup game against Macclesfield Town, with Portsmouth winning the game 2–1. On 24 November 2015, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–0 win against York City. On 4 January 2016, McNulty's loan at Portsmouth was extended until the end of the season after scoring six goals in 11 appearances. On 31 August 2016, McNulty Joined Bradford City on a season long loan deal. He was recalled by Sheffield United on 2 January 2017. On 18 May 2017, McNulty agreed to join League 2 side Coventry City on a two-year deal. He scored his first goal for the club in his second appearance in a 2–0 win against Grimsby Town. On 12 May 2018, in the home play off semi-final game against Notts County, McNulty scored his 100th career goal - a controversial penalty - to make the scoreline 1-1 going into the away leg at Meadow Lane, where he scored again in Coventry's 4-1 win, sending them to the League 2 final on 28 May. In the final, McNulty was named man-of-the-match in a 3-1 win over Exeter City which saw Coventry promoted to back to League One. On 6 July 2018, Reading announced the signing of McNulty to a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee from Coventry City. Coventry City Marc McNulty Marc McNulty (born 14 September 1992) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Reading. McNulty attended Portobello High School and played for the youth teams of Hutchison Vale, Celtic and Hibernian. After being"
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"And the Crowd Goes Wild And the Crowd Goes Wild is the fifth studio album, and sixth album overall, by American country music artist Mark Wills. Released in 2003 as his last album for Mercury Nashville Records, the album produced two top 40 hit singles on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: the title track and \"That's a Woman\", which peaked at #29 and #40, respectively. The album itself peaked at #5 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums charts, and #68 on The Billboard 200. The title track was previously recorded by Jeffrey Steele on his 2002 album \"Somethin' in the Water\", and later covered by PBR Allstars on their album \"Buck and Roll: Vol. 1\". \"Prisoner of the Highway\" is a cover version of a song previously recorded by Ronnie Milsap, and features guest vocals from him. \"What Hurts the Most\" was later recorded by pop singer Jo O'Meara and country trio Rascal Flatts, who released their versions in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Wills's version, though never released as a single itself, peaked at #51 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Digital Songs charts in 2006. Additionally, \"A Singer in a Band\" was later recorded by Joe Nichols on his 2004 album \"Revelation\". Strings on \"That's a Woman\" and \"What Hurts the Most\" performed by the Nashville String Machine and conducted by Carl Gorodetzky. And the Crowd Goes Wild And the Crowd Goes Wild is the fifth studio album, and sixth album overall, by American country music artist Mark Wills. Released in 2003 as his last album for Mercury Nashville Records, the album produced two top 40 hit singles on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: the title track and \"That's a Woman\", which peaked at #29 and #40,"
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"Ken Wilburn Kenneth \"Ken\" Wilburn (born June 8, 1944) is an American former professional basketball player. After setting the career scoring record at Central State University and leading his team to an NAIA championship, he played in the NBA, the ABA, the EPBL, and the EBA. The EPBL and EBA both later became the Continental Basketball Association. Wilburn was a three-time EPBL/EBA champion with the Allentown Jets, and he won the EPBL Most Valuable Player award in 1968 while with the Trenton Colonials as well as the EBA Most Valuable Player award while with the Allentown Jets in 1974. Wilburn joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in November 1967 to provide reinforcement after the team had lost several players to injuries. He returned to the team for the 1968–69 season, but was waived in November 1968. Wilburn was a former teacher at an Atlantic City school and was indicted Dec 21 1996 on charges that he sexually assaulted six students between September 1990 and June 1995. Wilburn, was accused of fondling the girls at the Chelsea Heights Elementary School, on school field trips and in his home in Somers Point NJ, according to prosecutors. Mr. Wilburn, an Atlantic City public school teacher since 1970. Kenneth Wilburn Died October 6, 2016. Ken Wilburn Kenneth \"Ken\" Wilburn (born June 8, 1944) is an American former professional basketball player. After setting the career scoring record at Central State University and leading his team to an NAIA championship, he played in the NBA, the ABA, the EPBL, and the EBA. The EPBL and EBA both later became the Continental Basketball Association. Wilburn was a three-time EPBL/EBA champion with the Allentown Jets, and he won the EPBL Most Valuable Player award in 1968 while with the Trenton Colonials as well as the EBA Most Valuable Player"
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"Æthelweard (historian) Æthelweard (also Ethelward; d. c. 998), descended from the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex, the elder brother of Alfred the Great, was an ealdorman and the author of a Latin version of the \"Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\" known as the \"Chronicon Æthelweardi\". Æthelweard first witnessed charters as a thegn after the accession of Eadwig in 955, probably because he was the brother of the king's wife, Ælfgifu, although the relationship is unproven. The marriage was annulled on the grounds of consanguinity, and Æthelweard's position was threatened when Eadwig died in 959 and was succeeded by his half-brother Edgar, who was hostile to the faction associated with Eadwig. Æthelweard survived, although he was not appointed to the position of ealdorman until after Edgar's death. In the view of Shashi Jayakumar, \"One receives the impression that Æthelweard played his cards right in Edgar's reign, perhaps by treading warily and displaying the same maddening discretion that one finds in his \"Chronicon\". Æthelweard signed as \"dux\" or \"ealdorman\" in 973, and was accorded primacy among the ealdormen after 993. He continued to witness until 998, about which time his death may have taken place. Æthelweard's ealdormanry was the Western Provinces, probably the south-west peninsula. His brother Ælfweard, a royal \"discthegn\", or household official, continued to sign as \"minister\" until 986. In 991 Æthelweard was associated with archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a peace with the victorious Danes from Maldon, and in 994 he was sent with Bishop Ælfheah of Winchester to make peace with Olaf Tryggvason at Andover. Æthelweard was the friend and patron of Ælfric of Eynsham, who in the preface to his Old English \"Lives\" of saints, addressed Æthelweard and his son Æthelmær. In the introduction to his Latin Chronicle Æthelweard claims to descend from King Æthelred, while in Book IV he calls Æthelred his \"atavus\", then uses the same term to describe the relationship between the chronicle's recipient, Mathilde, Abbess of Essen, and her great-great-grandfather, King Alfred. According to Patrick Wormald, Æthelweard may have meant that Æthelred was his great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather, or merely ancestor, but Sean Miller specifies great-great-grandfather. In 957 King Eadwig, the great-grandson of King Æthelred I's brother, Alfred the Great, was obliged to divorce Æthelweard's likely sister Ælfgifu on the grounds of consanguinity. It has been postulated that Æthelweard and his siblings Ælfweard, Ælfgifu and Ælfwaru were the children of Eadric, ealdorman of Hampshire. This identification rests on Ælfgifu's possession of the estate of Risborough, which had belonged to Eadric's mother, Æthelgyth, the wife of ealdorman Æthelfrith of Mercia. One possible construction is that his putative grandfather Æthelfrith was the grandson of King Æthelred I through his son Æthelhelm. This royal connection would go some way to explaining the enormous prestige enjoyed by Æthelfrith's sons. Assuming that the identification of Æthelweard as the brother of Ælfgifu is correct, his mother was the Æthelgifu whose company Eadwig enjoyed along with her daughter whilst escaping his coronation. Ælfgifu left a bequest to an Æthelflaed, who was either Æthelweard's wife or his sister-in-law. Æthelweard was father of Æthelmær the Stout, who was ealdorman of the Western provinces towards the end of Æthelred II's reign. Æthelmær was the father of Æthelnoth, who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1020, and was later regarded as a saint, and of the Æthelweard executed by King Cnut in 1017. Æthelmær has been speculatively identified with the Agelmær named by John of Worcester as brother of Eadric Streona and father of Wulfnoth Cild, who was father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and grandfather of King Harold II, though the Worcester chronicler makes this Agelmær son of Agelric rather than Æthelweard and the pedigree as a whole has problematic chronology. After 975 and probably before 983, Æthelweard wrote the \"Chronicon\", a Latin translation of a lost version of the \"Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\", including material not found in surviving Old English versions. Æthelweard wrote his work at the request of his relative Mathilde, abbess of the Essen Abbey and granddaughter of emperor Otto I and Eadgyth of Wessex. The text only survives in a single copy now in the British Library, which was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire in 1731, but it had been printed by Henry Savile in 1596. Mathilde probably rewarded him with a copy of Vegetius' work \"De Re Militari\" which was written in Essen and has long been in England. The \"Chronicon\" was composed in the \"hermeneutic\" style almost universally adopted by English scholars writing in Latin in the tenth century. Michael Lapidge defines it as \"a style whose most striking feature is the ostentatious parade of unusual, often very arcane and apparently learned vocabulary.\" The twelfth century historian William of Malmesbury, writing at a time when the style had come to be seen as barbarous, described him as \"... a noble and illustrious character, who attempted to arrange these chronicles in Latin, and whose intention I could applaud, if his language did not disgust me it would be better to be silent\". Æthelweard (historian) Æthelweard (also Ethelward; d. c. 998), descended from the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex, the elder brother of Alfred the Great, was an ealdorman and the author of a Latin version of the \"Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\" known as the \"Chronicon Æthelweardi\". Æthelweard first witnessed charters as a thegn after the accession of Eadwig in 955, probably because he was the brother of the king's wife, Ælfgifu,"
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"Samak Sundaravej Samak Sundaravej (, , ; 13 June 1935 – 24 November 2009) was a Thai politician who briefly served as the Prime Minister of Thailand and Minister of Defense in 2008, as well as the leader of the People's Power Party in 2008. Samak was born in Bangkok, Thailand to Phraya Bamrungratchaboriphan (Samian Sundaravej) and his wife Khunying Amphan Bamrungratchaboriphan (née Amphan Chittakon). He was of Chinese ancestry (ancestral surname Lee (李)) and had five siblings. According to Samak himself, his Chinese ancestors came to Thailand in the late 18th century. Samak studied at Saint Gabriel's College and Assumption Commercial College, then graduated from Thammasat University. He also received diplomas from Chulalongkorn University and Bryant & Stratton College. Besides being a politician, Samak was a well-known television chef. For seven years before the military coup of September 2006, he had hosted a cooking show called \"Tasting, Ranting\" on the Thailand ITV television network and on Royal Thai Army Radio and Television. He said when he became Prime Minister that he would resume his career as a TV chef and did so, though warned not to. It is illegal for a government minister to hold any other paying job, and on 9 September 2008, the full bench of the Constitutional Court ruled it was unconstitutional for him to work for a private company (Thailand ITV) and therefore disqualified him from office. Samak was married to Khunying Surat Sundaravej, a financial adviser to the Charoen Pokphand Group. They had two children. In 1968 Samak joined the opposition Democrat Party. Having strong ties to the military, Samak became head of the party's right-wing faction. In the 1976 general election, he defeated M. R. Kukrit Pramoj and became Deputy Interior Minister in the cabinet of M. R. Seni Pramoj. He quickly became prominent for arresting several allegedly leftist activists. In late August 1976, Seni sent Samak to Singapore to try to persuade Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn not to return to Thailand. However, writer Paul M. Handley claims Samak was a close confidant of Queen Sirikit and was told to guarantee royal support for the exiled Field Marshal. This is apparently supported by Samak's claim during a cabinet meeting that the King had not opposed Thanom's return. On 5 October, Samak was removed from his ministerial position, and in reaction organised an anti-government demonstration calling for the dismissal of three liberal Democrat ministers he branded as \"communists\". He also was prominent in the events leading to the 6 October 1976 Massacre at Thammasat University, in which leftist students protesting against the return of a former military dictator were killed by rightwing mobs. Samak had played a crucial role in instigating the violence that ensued against the protestors, whom he considered to be disloyal communists. In interviews he gave to CNN and al-Jazeera in 2008, Samak denied any involvement in the attacks that left at least 46 dead, and he insisted only one person was killed intentionally. However, accounts from witnesses, documents and published reports clearly identify Samak as a program host on the \"Armoured Brigade\" radio station, a military-owned ultra-right station that constantly broadcast anti-communist and pro-rightwing propaganda. Samak stirred up hatred against the student demonstrators and intentionally disobeyed the Prime Minister's orders that he \"stop creating divisiveness.\" Defending the return of ousted Field Marshal Thanom on the radio, Samak told listeners that the students demonstrating against him were committing suicide. Following the coup on 6 October 1976, Samak became Minister of the Interior in the administration of Tanin Kraivixien, an anti-Communist royalist with a reputation for honesty. Samak immediately launched a campaign that caused the arrest of hundreds of alleged leftists, including many writers and other intellectuals. In 1979 Samak founded the right-wing Thai Citizens' Party. In the 1979 General Elections it defeated the incumbent Democrat Party by winning 29 of the 39 seats in Bangkok. In the 1983 General Elections it extended its base to 36 seats, and did not suffer greatly from the Democrat surge in 1986. In 1992, as Deputy Prime Minister in the military-appointed Suchinda administration, Samak justified the military's brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators by declaring the government had the right to do so as long as the United States could send its troops to kill people in other countries, referring to the Gulf War which defeated Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1991. He remained unrepentant and continued to stand by his justification, stating the military was merely trying to restore law and order after the pro-democracy demonstrators, whom he branded as \"troublemakers\", had resorted to \"mob rule\". From 2001 to 2006, Thai Rak Thai was the ruling party under Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, its founder. In 2006 the military staged a bloodless coup to remove Thaksin, who was then acting as interim prime minister between elections, from power. His Thai Rak Thai party was dissolved on 30 May 2007 by the military appointed Constitutional Tribunal for violation of election laws. Members of the dissolved party immediately organised a new party called the People's Power Party. In 2007 the People's Power Party came to power in the first election since the military coup the previous year. Samak, then the party's leader, became Prime minister of Thailand. He was promptly accused of being a proxy for the exiled Thaksin, resulting in massive street protests by the People's Alliance for Democracy. He was convicted of libel on an old charge and was sentenced to two years in jail, though the sentence was suspended pending appeal. On 25 September 2008, the Appeals Court upheld the two-year jail sentence. Samak jumped bail and left for the United States to receive cancer treatment. The Democrat Party, led by Sathit Wongnongtoei, on 18 June 2008 submitted to Deputy House Speaker Somsak Kiartsuranan a censure motion of no-confidence against Samak Sundaravej and 7 cabinet ministers in the parliament, to oust his coalition government. The marathon debate was held on 28 June. Amid 4 months in power and public street protests by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), Samak and all 7 cabinet members survived the no-confidence motion. The 3 days of censure debate were finally terminated by the voting session on 27 June. As predicted by opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva, of 442 MPs present, Samak got 280 votes of confidence and 162 votes of no-confidence. Samak Sundaravej's 5-month-old government was in great trouble on 10 July 2008 after Pattama the third top official in the ruling People Power Party (PPP) resigned from this post, effective Monday. The deputy leader of the party Yongyut Tiyapairat, was banned from politics for 5 years, after the Supreme Court affirmed vote buying charges against him. Then, Chiya Sasomsub was removed from office by another supreme court, for illegally concealing his wife's assets. The Constitutional Court ruled on 8 July that Noppadon and the entire cabinet violated the charter by failing to ask parliamentary approval for a Cambodia deal. Noppadon signed the agreement on June, to support Cambodia's bid to seek World Heritage status for the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple. The Opposition filed a petition with deputy Senate Speaker Nikom Wairatpanit to impeach Noppadon Pattama over Preah Vihear Temple issue. Sathit Wongnongtoei submitted 141 signatures of MPs. Noppadon was accused of violating Article 190 and 270 of the Constitution. The Opposition filed the motion before Noppadon stepped down. Even though the campaigns demanding Samak resign from the premiership were abundant, he remarked, \"I will never resign in response to these threats. I will not dissolve the House. I will meet the king today to report what's going on.\" Later Samak met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej at",
"to ask parliamentary approval for a Cambodia deal. Noppadon signed the agreement on June, to support Cambodia's bid to seek World Heritage status for the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple. The Opposition filed a petition with deputy Senate Speaker Nikom Wairatpanit to impeach Noppadon Pattama over Preah Vihear Temple issue. Sathit Wongnongtoei submitted 141 signatures of MPs. Noppadon was accused of violating Article 190 and 270 of the Constitution. The Opposition filed the motion before Noppadon stepped down. Even though the campaigns demanding Samak resign from the premiership were abundant, he remarked, \"I will never resign in response to these threats. I will not dissolve the House. I will meet the king today to report what's going on.\" Later Samak met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Hua Hin palace. A few days after, 30,000 protesters led by the People's Alliance for Democracy occupied Samak's Government House compound in central Bangkok so as to force him and his advisers to work out of a military command post. Riot police entered the occupied compound and delivered a court order for the eviction of protesters. Chamlong Srimuang ordered 45 PAD guards to break into the main government building on Saturday. 3 regional airports remain closed and 35 trains between Bangkok and the provinces were cancelled. Protesters raided the Phuket International Airport tarmac on the resort island of Phuket Province resulting in 118 flights cancelled or diverted, affecting 15,000 passengers. He returned ashen-faced from the meeting but soon recovered his brazen approach. Protesters also blocked the entrance of the airports in Krabi and Hat Yai (which was later re-opened). Police issued arrest warrants for Sondhi Limthongkul and 8 other protest leaders on charges of insurrection, conspiracy, unlawful assembly and refusing orders to disperse. Meanwhile, Gen Anupong Paochinda stated: \"The army will not stage a coup. The political crisis should be resolved by political means.\" Samak and the Thai Party ruling coalition called urgent parliamentary debate and session for 31 August. On 2 September 2008, following the clashes between the pro and anti-government protesters which led to at least one pro government protesters death, Sundaravej declared a controversial state of emergency. The state of emergency was lifted on 14 September 2008. On 9 September of the year, the Constitutional Court of Thailand delivered a decision disqualifying Sundaravej from the premiership in accordance with the complaints lodged by the Senators and the Election Commission of Thailand. However, Samak's People's Power Party vowed to vote him back to the premiership, and he did not decline this nomination for prime minister as Kuthep Suthin Klangsang, PPP's deputy spokesman, said in a press release on 12 September: \"Samak has accepted his nomination for prime minister. Samak said he is confident that parliament will find him fit for office, and that he is happy to accept the post. A majority of party members voted Thursday to reappoint Samak. Samak is the leader of our party so he is the best choice.\" Despite objections from its coalition partners, the PPP, in an urgent meeting, unanimously decided to renominate Samak Sundaravej. Five coalition parties, namely Chart Thai, Neutral Democratic, Pracharaj, Puea Pandin and Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana, unanimously agreed to support the People Power party (PPP) to set up the new government and vote for the person who should be nominated as the new prime minister. Chart Thai deputy leader Somsak Prissananantakul and Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana leader Chettha Thanajaro said the next prime minister who will be nominated on Friday. Caretaker prime minister Somchai Wongsawat said PPP secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee will notify the 5 parties who the PPP nominates to take office again. Some lawmakers, then said that they would propose an alternate candidate. Meanwhile, Thailand's army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda said he backed the creation of a unity government that would include all the country's parties, and he also asked for the lifting of a state of emergency that Samak imposed on 2 September. Embattled Samak abandoned his bid to regain his Thailand Prime Minister post, and Teerapon Noprampa said Samak would also give up the ruling People's Power Party (PPP) leadership. Somchai Wongsawat – the fugitive ex-P.M. Thaksin Shinawatra's brother-in-law, was ratified by the National Assembly of Thailand as Prime Minister of Thailand on 17 September, winning 298 votes against 163 votes for Abhisit Vejjajiva. The Senate President lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court of Thailand (ConCourt) on 2 June 2008, and the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) submitted a similar complaint 29 July 2008. The complaints requested the ConCourt to decide whether the premiership of Samak Sundaravej is terminated upon Section 91, Section 182 Paragraph One (7) and Section 267 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (2007). On 9 September 2008, 15.30 hours, the ConCourt with Justice Chat Chonlaworn sitting as the President rendered its decision as follows: 1. The essence of the first complaint (Senators' Complaint) could be summarised as follows: as Samak was a holder of the political position as a Prime Minister, he was under the subject of Section 267 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (2007) prohibiting the Prime Minister and Ministers from having any position in a partnership, a company or an organisation carrying out business with a view to sharing profits or incomes or being an employee of any person. However, Samak, who acknowledged the purpose of Section 267, continued to work for the Face Media Co., Ltd. as emcee of two cookery shows, \"Chim Pai Bon Pai\" (Tasting and Grumbling) and \"Yok Khayong Hok Mong Chao\" (All Set at 6 am), and ceased from such works just when the ECT received a complaint concerning the case. Therefore, the Senators exercised their right under Section 91 requesting the President of the Senate to submit their complaint to the ConCourt to make a decision as said. 2. The essence of the second complaint (ECT's Complaint) could be summarised as follows: On 17 April 2008, Senator Ruangkrai Leekijwattana lodged with the ECT a complaint that Samak, pending his premiership, worked for Face Media Co., Ltd. which was a private company having commercial purpose. This was in breach of Section 267 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (2007) and led to the termination of his premiership as of the date the said prohibited act was performed. The ECT has appointed an inquisitorial panel to look into the case and discovered that it was a \"prima facie\" case, so it unanimously resolved to forward the case to the ConCourt to make a decision as said. 3. Samak, after having received a \"quo warranto\", represented to the accusation through submitting the letters dated 30 June 14 and 25 August 2008 to the ConCourt, stated that: 4. The Constitutional Court considered that: 5. Therefore, the ConCourt, by the unanimous resolution, held that Samak has performed the acts in breach of Section 267 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (2007) which individually led to the termination of his premiership in accordance with Section 182 Paragraph One (7) of which, and called forth the vacating from office of the entire Council of Ministers under Section 180 Paragraph One (1). However, as the premiership has individually been terminated, all Ministers other than Samak could remain in office as a caretaker government and continuing their functions until the new Council of Ministers is sworn in. Karn Tienkaew, deputy leader of Samak's People's Power Party, said it planned to propose a parliamentary vote Wednesday on returning Samak to power: \"Samak still has legitimacy. The party still hopes to vote him back unless he says no. Otherwise we have many other capable candidates.\" On 10 September 2008, however, the PPP shied away from their",
"individually led to the termination of his premiership in accordance with Section 182 Paragraph One (7) of which, and called forth the vacating from office of the entire Council of Ministers under Section 180 Paragraph One (1). However, as the premiership has individually been terminated, all Ministers other than Samak could remain in office as a caretaker government and continuing their functions until the new Council of Ministers is sworn in. Karn Tienkaew, deputy leader of Samak's People's Power Party, said it planned to propose a parliamentary vote Wednesday on returning Samak to power: \"Samak still has legitimacy. The party still hopes to vote him back unless he says no. Otherwise we have many other capable candidates.\" On 10 September 2008, however, the PPP shied away from their earlier statement they would renominate Samak and was apparently looking for an alternative candidate instead; with the new PM then scheduled to have bern nominated on 12 September 2008. People Power Party's deputy spokesman Kuthep Suthin Klangsang, on 12 September 2008, announced that: \"Samak has accepted his nomination for prime minister. Samak said he is confident that parliament will find him fit for office, and that he is happy to accept the post. A majority of party members voted Thursday to reappoint Samak. Samak is the leader of our party so he is the best choice.\" Despite objections from its coalition partners, the PPP, in an urgent meeting, unanimously decided to renominate Samak Sundaravej. 5 coalition parties, namely Chart Thai, Matchima Thipataya, Pracharaj, Puea Pandin and Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana, unanimously agreed to support the People Power party (PPP) to set up the new government and vote for the person who should be nominated as the new prime minister. Chart Thai deputy leader Somsak Prissananantakul and Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana leader Chettha Thanajaro said the next prime minister who will be nominated on Friday. Caretaker prime minister Somchai Wongsawat said PPP secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee will notify the 5 parties who the PPP nominates to take office again. Some lawmakers, however, said they will propose an alternate candidate. Meanwhile, Thailand's army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda said he backed the creation of a unity government that would include all the country's parties, and he also asked for the lifting of a state of emergency that Samak imposed on 2 September. The legal reasoning of the decision was also discussed in a Harvard Law School dissertation a full copy of which is available to the public. On 12 September 2008, however, the Isan faction of People Power Party (PPP) and the coalition parties boycotted the vote on a new Prime Minister, resulting in a lack of quorum and subsequent postponement of the vote. The boycott was a sign of the depth of ill-feeling towards Samak from both his own party's members and coalition parties. Finally Samak gave up his re-election bid, allowing his party to choose new a nominee. The majority of his party and the coalition partners eventually voted for Somchai Wongsawat, Deputy Prime Minister, to be the new premier. On 29 July 2007, some former members of the Thai Rak Thai Party MPs agreed to contest the 2007 election as candidates of the People's Power Party. This was after the Thai Rak Thai Party was dissolved by the Thai Supreme Court on 30 May 2007 and followed the ban on participating in politics for many former TRT party politicians, such as Newin Chidchob, Buriram and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Many other former TRT members have also formed their own parties, such as the Ruam Jai Thai and Puea Pandin parties. Samak Sundaravej and former TRT Cabinet Minister Surapong Suebwonglee were elected People's Power Party leader and secretary general respectively on 24 August 2007. It was, also, widely known that Thaksin chose him to be the new head of his former party's members. On 23 December 2007 General Election the PPP won 228 seats, sufficient to win the election ahead of the Democrat Party but short of the 241 seats needed for a majority of the 480-seat house. He was able to form a six-party coalition, however, gaining a parliamentary majority of about two-thirds. In a parliamentary vote on 28 January 2008, Samak was elected Prime Minister, receiving 310 votes against 163 for Abhisit Vejjejava of the Democrat Party. He was endorsed as Prime Minister by the king on the next day. On 6 February, his Cabinet, including himself as Minister of Defense, was endorsed by the king and sworn in. Samak angrily insisted he was the country's real leader on 29 February 2008 despite the triumphant return from exile of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra, the man considered the driving force behind the new government. Samak Sundaravej ended his campaign to regain his position on 12 September 2008. Mr Samak's decision was revealed on 11 September by Theerapol Nopparampa, his close aide, after he spent about 50 minutes meeting Mr Samak at his home and he told AP that Samak told him to tell \"every reporter that he is going to step down from being the party leader and he will not accept the prime ministership.\" The ruling People's Power Party said earlier it was abandoning its bid to install Samak back in power. The announcements raise hopes of ending a political crisis buffeting the country. Leaders of the People Power Party had said since Tuesday that they would seek to restore Samak, but they need to convince five other parties in the coalition to go along with that choice. Some lawmakers have indicated they will propose an alternate candidate. At age 73 Samak admitted he had liver cancer and underwent laser surgery to remove a tumour and was treated at Bumrungrad International Hospital on 2 October 2008. He was discharged on 25 October. On the morning of 24 November 2009, it was reported that at 8:48 am Samak had died at Bumrungrad International Hospital of liver cancer at the age of 74. Thaksin Shinawatra, former Thai Prime Minister, said \"My family and I express profound sorrow for the passing away of HE (His Excellency) Samak but I will not be able to attend his funeral.\" Samak's funeral was held at Wat Benchamabophit and his cremation was held at Wat Debsirin. Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn presided over the ceremonies, representing the King and Queen. His ashes were scattered in Sattahip Bay in a final ceremony. Samak has received the following royal decorations in the Honours System of Thailand: This Cabinet was active from 29 January 2008 to 9 September 2008 Samak Sundaravej Samak Sundaravej (, , ; 13 June 1935 – 24 November 2009) was a Thai politician"
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"Itineraries of the Roman emperors, 337–361 This article chronicles the attested movements of the fourth-century Roman emperors Constantine II (referred to here as Constantinus), Constantius II (referred to here as Constantius), Constans, Gallus, and Julian the Apostate from 337 to 361 AD. It does not cover the imperial usurpers of the period, including Magnentius, Vetranio, Claudius Silvanus, and Poemenius. The chronology is principally derived from Timothy Barnes' \"Athanasius and Constantius\". Substantial additions and further sources are based on recent research that seeks to go beyond Barnes' own chronology and slightly modifying his at a few places. This article begins its coverage at the death of Constantine on 22 May 337. After an interregnum of three months, during or after which the army and its agents lynched other potential successors, the three sons of Constantine declared themselves Augusti on 9 September 337. Discarding their father's succession arrangements, the brothers divided the empire into three parts. Constantinus ruled the provinces of Gaul, Britain, Spain, and Germany from Trier. Constantius ruled the provinces of Asia Minor (the dioceses of Pontus and Asia), Thrace, the Levant and Egypt (the Diocese of the East) from Antioch. Constans ruled Italy, Africa, and the dioceses of Pannonia, Dacia, and Macedonia from Naissus. In 340, Constantinus attempted to seize his brother Constans' territory, and was killed in battle during the ensuing civil war. Constans acquired his territory, and ruled from Trier, Milan, and Sirmium. In January 350, Constans was overthrown and killed in a palace revolution instigated by Magnentius. Magnentius was defeated and killed in the summer of 353 at the Battle of Mons Seleucus, making Constantius the sole emperor. From 351 to 359, Constantius ruled from Sirmium and Milan. Constantius appointed Gallus Caesar (subordinate emperor) on 15 March 351, and delegated the rule of the eastern provinces to him. Gallus ruled from Antioch. He subsequently proved violent and cruel, and was recalled and executed in autumn 354. Constantius appointed Julian, the last surviving male relative of Constantine other than himself, Caesar on 6 November 355. Julian ruled the western provinces from Vienne, Sens, and Paris. To address Persian influence and aggression on the eastern frontier, Constantius ruled from Antioch from 360 until his death. Julian's troops proclaimed him Augustus in February 360. Constantius did not recognize Julian's claim to the title, but was detained from campaigning against him by Persian raids. Constantius died on 3 November 361 after declaring Julian his successor. Julian was sole emperor from Constantius' death until his own death in 363. This article ends its coverage at Julian's death on June 26, 363. For a further timeline until 426, consult Matthews, John. Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court A.D. 364-425. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. A † indicates that a date or an event is uncertain. A superscript S indicates that the manuscript is corrupt, and has been emended to follow Otto Seeck's corrections in his edition of the \"Codex Theodosianus\". Manuscript details are given in brackets (as \"mss. date\" or \"mss. year\", etc.) for all emended texts. Unsourced events are purely conjectural. Note that some are based on triangulation of different sources and can be, as such, somewhat inexact. These cases have been noted. Itineraries of the Roman emperors, 337–361 This article chronicles the attested movements of the fourth-century Roman emperors Constantine II (referred to here as Constantinus), Constantius II (referred to here as Constantius), Constans, Gallus, and Julian the Apostate from 337 to 361 AD. It does not cover the imperial usurpers of the period, including Magnentius, Vetranio, Claudius Silvanus, and Poemenius. The chronology is principally derived from"
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"Treaty on European Union The Treaty on European Union (2007) is one of the primary Treaties of the European Union, alongside the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The TEU forms the basis of EU law, by setting out general principles of the EU's purpose, the governance of its central institutions (such as the Commission, Parliament, and Council), as well as the rules on external, foreign and security policy. While the current version of the TEU entered into force in 2009, following the Treaty of Lisbon (2007), the older form of the same document was implemented by the Treaty of Maastricht (1992). After the preamble the consolidated treaty text is divided into six parts. The first deals with common provisions. Article 1 establishes the European Union on the basis of the European Community and lays out the legal value of the treaties. Article 2 states that the EU is \"founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities\". The member states share a \"society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail\". Article 3 then states the aims of the EU in six points. The first is simply to promote peace, European values and its citizens' well-being. The second relates to free movement with external border controls in place. Point 3 deals with the internal market. Point 4 establishes the euro. Point 5 states the EU shall promote its values, contribute to eradicating poverty, observe human rights and respect the charter of the United Nations. The final sixth point states that the EU shall pursue these objectives by \"appropriate means\" according with its competences given in the treaties. Article 4 relates to member states' sovereignty and obligations. Article 5 sets out the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality with respect to the limits of its powers. Article 6 binds the EU to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 7 deals with the suspension of a member state and article 8 deals with establishing close relations with neighbouring states. Article 9 establishes the equality of national citizens and citizenship of the European Union. Article 10 declares that the EU is founded in representative democracy and that decisions must be taken as closely as possible to citizens. It makes reference to European political parties and how citizens are represented: directly in the Parliament and by their governments in the Council and European Council – accountable to national parliaments. Article 11 establishes government transparency, declares that broad consultations must be made and introduces provision for a petition where at least 1 million citizens may petition the Commission to legislate on a matter. Article 12 gives national parliaments limited involvement in the legislative process. Article 13 establishes the institutions in the following order and under the following names: the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the Court of Auditors. It obliges co-operation between these and limits their competencies to the powers within the treaties. Article 14 deals with the workings of Parliament and its election, article 15 with the European Council and its president, article 16 with the Council and its configurations and article 17 with the Commission and its appointment. Article 18 establishes the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and article 19 establishes the Court of Justice. Title 4 has only one article which allows a limited number of member states to co-operate within the EU if others are blocking integration in that field. Chapter 1 of this title includes articles 21 and 22. Article 21 deals with the principles that outline EU foreign policy; including compliance with the UN charter, promoting global trade, humanitarian support and global governance. Article 22 gives the European Council, acting unanimously, control over defining the EU's foreign policy. Chapter 2 is further divided into sections. The first, common provisions, details the guidelines and functioning of the EU's foreign policy, including establishment of the European External Action Service and member state's responsibilities. Section 2, articles 42 to 46, deal with military co-operation (including mutual defence). On 17 November 2015, France called other member states for military assistance, on the basis of the Article 42. This was the first time the article had ever been applied and all of the member states were reported to respond in agreement (ibid). However at least one member state (Finland) made a conclusion that due to conflicting national law, military assistance was excluded. Article 47 establishes a legal personality for the EU. Article 48 deals with the method of treaty amendment; specifically the ordinary and simplified revision procedures. Article 49 deals with applications to join the EU and article 50 with withdrawal. In the aftermath of the Brexit vote in Britain on June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom formally invoked Article 50 in March 2017, giving notice that it would leave the EU within two years. Article 51 deals with the protocols attached to the treaties and article 52 with the geographic application of the treaty. Article 53 states the treaty is in force for an unlimited period, article 54 deals with ratification and 55 with the different language versions of the treaties. Treaty on European Union The Treaty on European Union (2007) is one of the primary Treaties of the European Union, alongside the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The TEU forms the basis of EU law, by setting out general principles of the EU's purpose, the governance of its central institutions (such as the Commission, Parliament, and Council), as well as the rules on external, foreign and security policy. While the current version of the TEU entered into force in 2009, following the Treaty of Lisbon (2007), the older form of the same document"
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"Rise of the Lonestar Ranger The Last Duane is a 2014 Western film directed by Chris Ekstein, starring Jason Patric, Danny Trejo, Rose McGowan, Keith David, and Martin Copping. It is produced by Stacy Ekstein. Buck Duane inherited his legendary father's skill with a gun as well as his knack for finding trouble. Attacked by a jealous rival over a girl, Buck defends himself and is forced to live as an outlaw, constantly on the run from the black and white justice of the Texas Rangers. But when he seeks redemption by rescuing an enslaved Indian girl from a vicious criminal and his gang of outlaws, he's pushed into further violence, and the understanding that he may be no better than the worst of them. As penance for his crimes and the deaths he's caused, Buck agrees to give himself over to service in the Texas Rangers, working in constant peril as a sanctioned vigilante. He lives as an outlaw in order to root them out, dealing justice and vengeance for his dead friends and all the weak and helpless folk of Texas. Rise of the Lonestar Ranger The Last Duane is a 2014 Western film directed by Chris Ekstein,"
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"Worst Case Discharge Worst Case Discharge (WCD) is a calculation used by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement to determine the maximum flow rate for an offshore oil well in the event of an oil spill. WCD first came to prominence in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to determine potential liability if another oil spill were to occur. The now defunct Minerals Management Service planned to implement Worst Case Discharge studies before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill though the first actual was performed in August 2010 to model the Deepwater Horizon spill. In January 2011, several major oil and gas companies were allowed to resume deepwater drilling while Worst Case Discharge studies were being completed. In March 2011, the Worst Case Discharge study on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was released to the public in the Flow Rate Technical Group final report. Analytical equations are the simplest method for calculating WCD. However analytical equations cannot account for the rapid change in pressure and saturation near the well bore and have been replaced by simulation modeling. Reservoir simulation is the method used by the BOEMRE to calculate WCD as simulation can accurately model the rapid changes near well bore that occur in an uncontrolled blow out event. The BOEMRE currently uses the Merlin finite difference simulator and nodal analysis package to perform all WCD studies since using the software to determine the official flow rate for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Engineers typically use radial modeling to calculate WCD as a radial model can employ sufficiently small grid cell sizes around the well bore that increase in volume as cells extend into the aquifer. Full field modeling is generally only needed if a geologic barrier like a fault or pinch out is close enough to the well being studied there is pressure interference. Engineers also need to calculate the highest rate in each combination of geologic layers as the well is drilled. The WCD rate can be higher in certain cases if specific layers blowout rather than the entire reservoir as different combinations of aquifers, gas layers, and oil layers can limit or enhance flow. Worst Case Discharge Worst Case Discharge (WCD) is a calculation used by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement to determine the maximum flow rate for an offshore oil well in the event of an oil spill. WCD"
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"KNHL KNHL, virtual and VHF digital channel 5, is a SonLife Broadcasting Network-affiliated television station licensed to Hastings, Nebraska, United States. As KHAS-TV, it formerly served as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney market. Owned by Legacy Broadcasting, the station maintains transmitter facilities located on U.S. Route 281 north of Hastings. In 2014, Gray Television, owners of KOLN/KGIN and KSNB-TV, acquired Hoak Media; as it already owned the three aforementioned stations in the same market, it planned to sell KHAS to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting and operate KHAS under a shared services agreement. As a result of growing FCC scrutiny towards \"virtual duopolies\", Gray instead let KHAS fall silent on June 13, 2014 and its programming and news operation were relocated to KSNB-TV, pending a sale of KHAS-TV to a minority owned broadcaster. In September 2018, Gray agreed to purchase KNHL, with the intention of operating it as a satellite of KSNB-TV. KNHL was founded in 1956 as KHAS-TV by a group of local investors headed by Fred A. Seaton, publisher of the \"Hastings Tribune\" newspaper and Secretary of the Interior during the Eisenhower Administration. It took its calls from KHAS radio, which Seaton had founded in 1940. In 1967, it was one of the first stations in the area to acquire color broadcasting equipment. The Seaton family owned KHAS-TV until 1997, when it was sold to Dick Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr., owners of North Platte TV stations KNOP-TV and K11TW, operating the three stations under the name Greater Nebraska Television. In 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold the stations to Hoak Media. The station's studio was located north of Hastings on U.S. 281. The transmitter tower was located next to the studio. KHAS-TV was formerly rebroadcast on translator station K14IY in Holdrege; this translator went dark in 2009. KHAS-TV was later also carried on K02HJ in Ord and K35AL analog channel 35 in Lexington, Nebraska. All three translators broadcast an analog signal. K35AL formerly carried programming from sister station KNOP-TV but Lexington is in the Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney market while North Platte is a separate market. Both local and national programming on KHAS was carried in high definition. Starting around 2004, KHAS began branding itself as a full-market NBC station, challenging the long-standing status of Omaha's WOWT as the default NBC affiliate in the capital. It identified as \"Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island/Lincoln\" on-air and on its Website. It was also available on the Lincoln DirecTV and Dish Network feeds as the local NBC station, boosting its potential audience to over 700,000 people across Nebraska and Kansas. In June 2012, KHAS and other Hoak-owned stations were pulled from Dish Network after they failed to renew a carriage agreement. The refusal to renew reportedly surrounds Dish Network's \"Hopper\" digital video recorder and its controversial commercial-skipping feature \"AutoHop\"which has also led to complaints from the major U.S. television networks. On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. As Gray already owned KOLN/KGIN, KHAS was to be sold to Excalibur Broadcasting and operated by Gray under a local marketing agreement. However, in the wake of heightened FCC scrutiny of local marketing agreements, on June 11, 2014, KHAS-TV announced it would leave the air at midnight on June 13 and NBC programming would be moved to KSNB-TV and the digital subcarrier of KOLN/KGIN. KHAS would then be sold off to minority interests, which under this arrangement would allow the station to return to the air on the conditions that the new owner operate the station independently (under minority, female and/or non-profit ownership) and not make any partnerships or sharing arrangements with other broadcasters. On August 27, 2014, Gray announced that it would sell KHAS-TV along with KAQY, KNDX and KXND to Legacy Broadcasting, a new broadcasting company controlled by Sherry Nelson and daughter Sara Jane Ingram. On December 1, 2014, the call letters became KNHL. The sale was completed on December 15. Legacy returned KNHL to the air June 6, 2015 as an affiliate of the SonLife Broadcasting Network. On May 21, 2018, Gray agreed to acquire KNHL from Legacy Broadcasting for $475,000; in filing for FCC approval of the purchase in September 2018, Gray proposed to operate the station as a satellite of KSNB-TV. In connection with the sale, Gray began leasing KNHL's third digital subchannel on September 1, 2018 to simulcast KCWH-LD, Gray's Lincoln-based CW affiliate (through The CW Plus); the affiliation formally launched on October 1. In September 2005, KHAS-TV began operating NBC Weather Plus (known as \"News 5 Weather Plus\") on digital subchannel 5.2 and until 2008, it was the only Hoak Media-owned NBC affiliate to carry the network when it was dropped due to NBCUniversal's purchase of The Weather Channel. In September 2010, KHAS-TV digital subchannel 5.2 switched from a standard definition simulcast to This TV. It identified locally as \"This Nebraska\". On November 1, 2013, KHAS replaced This TV with Cozi TV. KNHL (as KHAS-TV) shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on December 1, 2008. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 21 to VHF channel 5. Due to Nebraska's cold winter weather, the station elected to make the transition early rather than on the national February 17, 2009 analog shutoff date. The digital signal on channel 5 is one of only 48 US full-power stations to broadcast digitally using a low-VHF/Band I channel. KHAS-TV produced 16 hours of local news per week, with 3 hours each weekday and 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. Newscasts aired weekday mornings at 6:00 and 11:30 a.m., weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. and a weekend newscast at 10:00 p.m. Upon the station going dark on June 13, 2014, the entire news operation moved to KSNB-TV. KNHL KNHL, virtual and VHF digital channel 5, is a SonLife Broadcasting Network-affiliated television station licensed to Hastings, Nebraska, United States. As KHAS-TV, it formerly served as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney market."
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"Nkulu Mitumba Kilombo Norbert Nkulu Mitumba Kilombo (born 15 December 1946) is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the first cabinet of Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga, formed on 5 February 2007, he was named Minister of State to the President of the Republic. He retained this position in the Gizenga's second cabinet, announced on 25 November 2007. Likasi was born on 15 December 1946. He is an ethnic Luba-Katanga from the Malemba-Nkulu Territory of Haut-Lomami Province. In 1971 he obtained a degree in law from Lovanium University (now Kinshasa University). He practiced at the Kinshasa Bar while also consulting to several cabinets and directing various government agencies. After leaving cabinet office, in July 2009 he was proposed as head of the diplomatic head of the DRC mission in Kigali, Rwanda. Nkulu Mitumba Kilombo Norbert Nkulu Mitumba Kilombo (born 15 December 1946) is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the first cabinet of Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga, formed on 5 February 2007, he was named Minister of State to the President of the Republic. He retained this position in the Gizenga's second cabinet, announced on 25 November 2007. Likasi was born on 15"
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"Koala Park Sanctuary The Koala Park Sanctuary is a privately owned and run wildlife park located at West Pennant Hills in Sydney Australia. The park was known for its collection of koalas and other animals but has come into disrepute since 2010 for neglect and abuse of its animals. The Koala Park Sanctuary was built in the 1920s and opened in October 1930 by the owner Noel Burnet. He established the sanctuary because he was concerned at the large number of koalas being killed for the fur trade, and hunting of the animal would ultimately lead to its extinction. He spent the remainder of his life dedicated to researching and preserving the animals habitat. The park is a walk through wildlife park, most of the animals are contained behind wire and cage style exhibits. The following is a small list of animals currently held in the parks collection. The park has a Live Sheep Shearing exhibition run at various times of the day called \"The Stockman's Camp\" it gives patrons the experience of a stock camp on an outback station. It also shows sheep shearing and recounts Australian bush stories. The park also abides by the state \"Minimum Koala Handling Time\", thus permitting visitors to safely handle the animals. The Koala Park Sanctuary opened a Koala Research Hospital in 1930. The hospital cares for sick and injured native animals and releases them back into the wild. It is open to the public and aids in education about native animals and the problems faced by the koalas living close to human areas. In December 2010 Department of Primary Industries inspectors reported finding ageing and dirty animal exhibits, drainage problems and out-of-date records. The inspectors issued a series of notices to Koala Park Sanctuary to fix the issues. A newspaper editor attended the park and claimed a number of issues had not been resolved and believed that animals were suffering, however an RSPCA inspector who visited the park said he did not believe any of the animals were suffering or had been neglected or were malnourished. In 2015, the Daily Mail also reported on inhabitants not being cared for properly, citing dirty enclosures, and sick animals. The group have plead guilty to at least some of the charges and awaited a second hearing. In the following court hearing on February 2, 2016, the RSPCA fined the sanctuary $75,000 and banned them from acquiring new koalas for six months due to one koala being dehydrated with an emaciated body, and all five showing signs of chlamydia. Koala Park Sanctuary The Koala Park Sanctuary is a privately owned and run wildlife park located at West Pennant Hills in Sydney Australia. The park was known for its collection of koalas and other animals but has come into disrepute since 2010 for neglect and abuse of its animals. The Koala Park Sanctuary was built in the 1920s and opened in October 1930 by the owner Noel Burnet. He established the sanctuary because he was concerned at"
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"2012 FIA GT3 European Championship The 2012 FIA GT3 European Championship was the seventh season of the FIA GT3 European Championship. The season commenced on 8 April at Nogaro and ended on 23 September at the Nürburgring. The season featured six double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 60 minutes. Most of the events were support races to the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship; two of the six meetings were run in conjunction with the FIA GT1 World Championship, with combined grids being utilised. On 2 April 2012, the SRO announced the final calendar for 2012. The entry list was published by the FIA on 3 April 2012. For the combined races with the FIA GT1 World Championship, GT3 cars ran with 100 in front of their usual car numbers. Championship points will be awarded to the first ten positions in each race. Entries must complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. Teams must have two cars at a race weekend in order to be eligible for scoring points in the Teams' Championship. If a team with just one car finishes in a points position, the cars of the teams that finished below get the extra points. As well as this, Esta Motorsports did not accrue points for their one-off appearance at the Moscow event, nor did Team Novadriver for their expanded two-car entry at the Nürburgring. 2012 FIA GT3 European Championship The 2012 FIA GT3 European Championship was the seventh season of the FIA GT3 European Championship. The season commenced on 8 April at Nogaro and ended on 23 September at the Nürburgring. The season featured"
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"Billy Kennedy (basketball) William Joseph Kennedy Jr. (born February 2, 1964) is the head men's basketball coach at Texas A&M University. He took over the position vacated by Mark Turgeon in May 2011. He previously held the same position at Murray State University for five seasons. Kennedy previously held the same position at Centenary and Southeastern Louisiana. He has served 13 seasons as a collegiate head coach and 13 as an assistant. Kennedy is a 1986 graduate of Southeastern Louisiana and 1984 graduate of Delgado Community College in New Orleans. He played basketball and attended Holy Cross High School in New Orleans. After serving 12 years as an assistant coach, including the previous four at California, Kennedy's first collegiate head coaching job came at Centenary. There, he took over a program that had won only 30 games in the previous three seasons. His first team won 10 games but his second improved to a 14-14 overall record and a 9-7 Trans America Athletic Conference mark, its best finish in five years. Southeastern Louisiana hired Kennedy in 1999 and he steadily improved his alma mater, winning 10 games in his first season and doubling that total four seasons later, winning the Southland Conference regular-season championship. His sixth team went 24-9, the most wins in school history, and won both the conference regular-season and tournament titles. The Lions advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history, where it lost to Oklahoma State 63-50. The Louisiana Sports Writers Association, the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (District 8) selected Kennedy coach of the year in 2004 end 2005. Kennedy resigned from his position at Southeastern Louisiana to become the associate head coach at Miami. After serving one season as an assistant at Miami, Kennedy was named Murray State's 14th men's basketball coach in 2006, taking over after Mick Cronin departed for Cincinnati. Taking over a team with only one returning starter, he led the Racers to a 16-14 season and second-place finish in the Ohio Valley Conference. His next two squads won 18 and 19 games, again placing second in the conference regular-season standings, and advanced as far as the OVC tournament semifinals. His fourth team at Murray State won more games than any in school history, reaching the second round of the NCAA tournament. The 13th-seeded Racers beat fourth-seed Vanderbilt University 66-65 in the first round in the West Regional at San Jose, California, before falling 54-52 to fifth-seeded Butler University in the second round, equaling the deepest run in the NCAA tournament in school history. During the season, the Racers won a school record 17 games in a row before losing 70-65 at Morehead State University on February 25, 2010. The Racers finished the season with a 31-5 record, including a 17-1 conference mark, and avenged their lone league loss with a 62-51 win over Morehead State in the OVC tournament championship game. Kennedy was named 2010 OVC and National Association of Basketball Coaches (District 19) coach of the year. In 2010-11, Kennedy's Racers repeated as OVC regular-season champions but fell in the conference tournament semifinals. As OVC regular-season champions, Murray State earned a berth in the National Invitation Tournament where it lost 89-76 at Missouri State to finish with a 23-9 season record. Kennedy was again selected OVC coach of the year. Texas A&M hired Kennedy in May 2011. Kennedy previously coached at A&M from 1990-91. Kennedy stated at the press conference that A&M is his destination job and he plans to retire there. He was given the honors of SEC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year in 2016. On October 27, 2011, it was announced that Kennedy had been diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's Disease and would be leaving the team to undergo treatment. Kennedy said he planned to return following treatment and temporarily put Associate Coach Glynn Cyprien in charge of the team. On November 13, 2011, in A&M's second game of the regular season, Kennedy returned to the bench for the Aggies' game against Southern. Kennedy led A&M to its first conference title in 30 years when he shared the SEC crown with Kentucky in 2015-16. The Aggies also made the SEC Tournament final before losing to Kentucky in overtime. For his efforts, Kennedy was given a new 5-year contract. Coach Kennedy's squad that year also orchestrated arguably the greatest come-from-behind victory ever in both college and professional basketball history by overcoming a 12 point deficit in the final 44 seconds of the Second Round of the 2016 NCAA tournament. A&M would tie up the game before finally defeating Northern Iowa in double overtime in order to advance to the Sweet 16 against the University of Oklahoma. Kennedy led A&M to a number five ranking early in the 2017-2018 season and the team finished with 20 regular season wins. The team advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament to play defending National champion North Carolina, which they beat by a convincing 21 points to advance to the Sweet 16 and a game against Michigan. Billy Kennedy (basketball) William Joseph Kennedy Jr. (born February 2, 1964) is the head men's basketball coach at Texas A&M University. He took over the position vacated by Mark Turgeon in May 2011. 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"Uncanny Tales (Canadian pulp magazine) Uncanny Tales was a Canadian science fiction pulp magazine edited by Melvin R. Colby that ran from November 1940 to September 1943. It was created in response to the wartime reduction of imports on British and American science-fiction pulp magazines. Initially it contained stories only from Canadian authors, with much of its contents supplied by Thomas P. Kelley, but within a few issues Colby began to obtain reprint rights to American stories from Donald A. Wollheim and Sam Moskowitz. Paper shortages eventually forced the magazine to shut down, and it is now extremely rare. By the end of the 1930s the science fiction magazine field was booming, with multiple new magazines launched in a short period. Most of the publishers also printed versions of their magazines for the Canadian market, but with the outbreak of World War II, paper shortages and import restrictions reduced the availability of these magazines in Canada. \"Uncanny Tales\" was begun in response to these conditions; the editor was Melvin R. Colby, and the first issue was dated November 1940. The first issue was digest-sized, and was printed in green ink. Colby initially focused on weird fiction, with Thomas P. Kelley, a Canadian writer whose work had appeared in \"Weird Tales\", a prolific contributor. For the first four issues the format remained unchanged, and almost all the stories were by Kelley or other Canadian writers. Colby subsequently began to obtain reprint rights to U.S. stories from both Donald A. Wollheim and Sam Moskowitz, though Wollheim's and Moskowitz's accounts of the events differ. In Wollheim's account, he happened to meet Colby early in 1941 in New York; Wollheim had been editing \"Cosmic Stories\" and \"Stirring Science Stories\" but both magazines had ceased publication at the time of the meeting. Colby, who worked for a Toronto newspaper, told Wollheim that he was editing \"Uncanny Tales\" to make extra money, and asked if Wollheim knew where he might be able to obtain stories at a low word rate. Since \"Stirring\" and \"Cosmic\" had never been distributed in Canada, Wollheim was able to offer him Canadian rights to the stories in those magazines, and Colby agreed to pay a quarter of a cent per word. According to Moskowitz, Wollheim heard rumors of the new magazine, perhaps via Nils Frome, a Canadian fan whom he knew. Wollheim obtained more details from Chester Cuthbert, a Canadian author he was in correspondence with, and contacted Colby to arrange reprints of stories from \"Stirring\" and \"Cosmic\". Moskowitz had also heard of \"Uncanny Tales\" and wrote to him separately, arranging reprints at a tenth of a cent per word. He sent Colby several stories, which were duly printed, but subsequent correspondence with Colby failed to elicit payment, and eventually Colby stopped responding to his letters. The manuscripts were never returned. A few months later, Moskowitz spoke to John B. Michel—an author associated with Wollheim's group of writers—and found out that a long-standing feud between Wollheim and Moskowitz was at least partly responsible for his problems. Wollheim and many of the group of writers he represented held very left-wing political positions; Moskowitz was strongly opposed, and Michel told Moskowitz that Colby was politically left-wing and had been put off by indications from Moskowitz that he was anti-communist. However, the main reason that Colby stopped responding, according to Michel, was that once Wollheim found out that Moskowitz was also supplying stories, he offered Colby further material for free on condition that Colby stopped accepting Moskowitz's submissions. The sixth issue saw a story by Wollheim appear, and in the seventh issue there were three by Wollheim and one by Robert W. Lowndes. In total, 37 stories from \"Uncanny Tales\" have been identified as reprints from either \"Stirring\" or \"Cosmic\". There were also a handful of new stories from the same group of authors, including three by Wollheim and two by Lowndes, one of which, \"Lure of the Lily\", had been rejected by Wollheim for the American magazines for being too \"risqué\". The stories supplied by Sam Moskowitz included Moskowitz's own \"The Way Back\" (reprinted from \"Comet\"), which appeared in the February 1942 issue; Stanton Coblentz's novel \"After 12,000 Years\", and James Taurasi's story \"Magician of Space\", which was not a reprint. Canadian writers continued to appear in the magazine, including C.V. Tench, who had sold a story to the very first issue of \"Astounding Stories\" in January 1930. The stories of Canadian origin were generally unmemorable, and in some cases the stories may have been plagiarized or rewritten versions of other works. Paper shortages caused by the war forced the magazine to a bimonthly schedule in 1942, and only four more issues appeared. The last issue was dated September–October 1943. Over the lifetime of the magazine its focus shifted from weird fiction to include both science fiction and fantasy. The magazine is now hard to find and complete runs are very rare. \"Uncanny Tales\" was published by Adam Publishing Co. of Toronto for the first 17 issues, and by Norman Book Co. of Toronto for the last four issues. The publisher may have been owned by Valentine, of the Toronto publishers Valentine, Koniac and Chamberlain. The editor, who was not credited in the magazine, was Melvin R. Colby. The first four issues were digest-sized and 64 pages long; the format then switched to a large pulp size with 96 pages for all the remaining issues except the last, which had 128 pages. The price was 15 cents throughout except for the last issue, which was 25 cents. There was no volume numbering. A complete index by Dennis Lien of the contents of all issues can be found in issue 9 of \"Megavore\", a science fiction and fantasy bibliography magazine. In the early 1950s an anthology titled \"Brief Fantastic Tales\" appeared from Studio Publications in Toronto; it consisted mostly of reprints from \"Uncanny Tales\", and despite the difference in the name of the publisher it is likely it came from the same editor and publishers as \"Uncanny Tales\". Uncanny Tales (Canadian pulp magazine) Uncanny Tales was a Canadian science fiction pulp magazine edited by Melvin R. Colby that ran from November 1940 to September 1943. It was created in response to the wartime reduction of imports on British and American science-fiction pulp magazines. Initially it contained stories only from Canadian authors, with much of its contents supplied by Thomas P. Kelley, but within a few issues Colby began to obtain reprint rights to American stories from Donald A. Wollheim and Sam Moskowitz. Paper shortages eventually forced the magazine to shut down, and it is"
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"Dorm (film) Dek hor (, also Dorm or \"My School\") is a 2006 Thai horror-drama film. In Thailand, young Ton Chatree (Trairat) is sent to a boarding school by his father to get good grades and does not tell his mother about his father having an affair. Once in the school, Ton feels like an outcast and misses his family and friends. His new schoolmates tell ghost stories about a boy who died in the school swimming pool and a young pregnant woman who committed suicide. The stories frighten him, thereby exacerbating Ton's difficulties adjusting to the school. However, Ton becomes close friends with another lonely boy, Vichien (Chienthaworn), who Ton later discovers is the boy who drowned, and his death repeats every night. Ton finds a way to help his friend rest in peace. At the same time, Ms. Pranee (Sukapatana), the school administrator, is deeply troubled by Vichien's death because she believes incorrectly that Vichien committed suicide and that it was partly her fault. At the end of the movie, Ton tells Pranee the truth, that Vichien's death was an accident and that Pranee should not blame herself. The film was screened at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival. It opened in wide release in Thailand on February 23, 2006, and was the No. 1 film that weekend, earning nearly US$544,000. The film has had theatrical releases in Singapore and Malaysia and at other film festivals, including the Pusan International Film Festival. It received praise from critics for the performances of the child actors and Chintara Sukapatana, as well as for its color-drained photography and the production design of the old boarding school. The film was co-written and directed by Songyos Sugmakanan, one of the six directors of the 2003 hit Thai film \"Fan Chan\", which also starred Charlie Trairat. The film was critically acclaimed in Thailand, where it won more honors than any other film, including best picture from the Bangkok Critics Assembly. Dorm (film) Dek hor (, also Dorm or \"My School\") is a 2006 Thai horror-drama film. In Thailand, young Ton Chatree (Trairat) is sent to a boarding school by his father to get good grades and does not tell his mother about his father having an affair. Once in the school, Ton feels like an outcast and misses his family and friends. His new schoolmates tell ghost stories about a boy who died in"
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"Eublemma ostrina Eublemma ostrina, the purple marbled, is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is mainly found in central and southern Europe, and further east, but is also a scarce migrant in the United Kingdom, where it is mainly found along the south coast. \"Eublemma ostrinum\" occurs throughout the Mediterranean including North Africa and is only occasionally found in Central Europe. Heading east the distribution area is from southern Russia, Asia minor, and Afghanistan. Occasional finds in northern Europe, such as in 1992 in the UK are usually migrant butterflies, although in 1999. larvae and pupae were found in South Devon and the Isle of Portland. \"Eublemma ostrinum\" is found in warm, dry areas. The wingspan is . Forewing cream white, slightly tinged with pale brown in basal half and in terminal area; median shade diffuse, slightly outcurved, followed immediately by a black dot representing the reniform stigma; just beyond it on the costa an oblique purplish bar to vein 6 represents the outer line; submarginal line whitish, sharply indented on each fold and outcurved between, the interval between the two lines filled with purple except at costa beyond median line; the interspaces between the veins often streaked with deeper purple; a purple spot at apex with a blackish speck in it below; a purplish streak from base below cell; terminal line brown inwardly edged with white; fringe white, brownish in middle; hindwing brownish grey, darker along termen; terminal line dark; fringe white; in examples from Algeria and Morocco, besides the purplish tint between the two lines, the whole forewing, except partially along costa, is suffused with olive grey-brown, = ab. \"suffusa\" ab. nov. [Warren]; —in \"aestivalis\" Guen., probably the early summer brood, the purplish tint is restricted to the shade immediately before the submarginal line; the hindwings are paler, in the male almost white, and the examples are smaller in expanse; — in \"carthami\" H. Sch., supposed to be the late summer brood, the creamy ground is faintly tinged with pale brown along the median line and on each side of the submarginal, which is sometimes accompanied externally by a few isolated black scales; apical patch grey brown; hindwing creamy, tinged with brown before termen; the fringe white. Larva greyish yellow, with pale yellow dorsal line, prominent at the segmental incisions, and similar subdorsal and spiracular lines; head brown. The larvae feed on the flowers and seeds of \"Carlina vulgaris\". Other recorded food plants include \"Carlina\" species in general, as well as \"Echinops\", \"Carduus\" and \"Cirsium\" species. Eublemma ostrina Eublemma ostrina, the purple marbled, is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is mainly found in central and southern Europe, and further east, but is also a scarce migrant in the United Kingdom, where it is mainly found along the south coast. \"Eublemma ostrinum\" occurs throughout the Mediterranean including North Africa and is only occasionally found in Central Europe. Heading east the distribution area is from southern Russia, Asia minor, and Afghanistan. Occasional finds"
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"Baudette Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota Baudette Township is a township in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 357 at the 2000 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which of it is land and of it (10.61%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 357 people, 144 households, and 105 families residing in the township. The population density was 37.5 people per square mile (14.5/km²). There were 200 housing units at an average density of 21.0/sq mi (8.1/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 97.20% White, 1.40% Native American, 0.28% Asian, and 1.12% from two or more races. There were 144 households out of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.6% were married couples living together, 4.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.4% were non-families. 21.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.90. In the township the population was spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 28.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 114.0 males. The median income for a household in the township was $31,953, and the median income for a family was $46,750. Males had a median income of $32,059 versus $33,875 for females. The per capita income for the township was $21,915. None of the families and 2.6% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 9.7% of those over 64. Baudette Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota Baudette Township is a township in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 357 at the 2000 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which of it is land and of it (10.61%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 357 people, 144 households, and 105 families residing in the township."
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"County Peak County Peak, also known as Mt Quajabin, is located in the western zone of the West Australian Wheatbelt, about 120 km south-east of Perth. County Peak was given its name when the first surveyors drew up the original counties for the Swan River Colony in 1829. County Peak was at that time the geographical intersection of Howick County, Minto County, Grantham County and York County, Western Australia. Today these counties have been divided up into Local government areas of Western Australia known as shires. Seven shires can be seen from the summit, namely the Shire of Beverley, Shire of Brookton, Shire of Pingelly, Shire of Corrigin, Shire of Quairading, Shire of Kellerberrin and the Shire of York. First settled in 1898 by the pioneering McLean brothers John, Thomas, Kenneth and Donald Jr. The McLean brothers selected their land including County Peak, using as their guide tree lines indicating rich, fertile soil. Mt Quajabin is this mountain's aboriginal name which predates European settlement. The name Quajabin is derived from the Western Australian aborigine native word Quabin meaning; good camp. Although not high in stature, it commands an impressive view over some of the upper catchment of the Avon River and also of the Yenyenning Lakes. County Peak County Peak, also known as Mt Quajabin, is located in the western zone of the West Australian Wheatbelt, about 120 km south-east of Perth. County Peak was given its name when the first surveyors drew up the original counties for the Swan River Colony in 1829. County Peak was at that time the geographical intersection of Howick County, Minto County, Grantham County and York County, Western Australia. Today these counties have been divided up into Local government areas of Western Australia known as shires. Seven shires can be seen from the summit,"
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"Tina Kim (art dealer) Tina Kim is an art dealer and gallery owner based in New York. She is the founder of the Tina Kim Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan widely recognized along with its affiliate Kukje Gallery in Seoul, South Korea as a leading gallery for modern and contemporary art. Tina Kim and her mother Hyun-Sook Lee, CEO of Kukje Gallery, have jointly been in the art business for more than 40 years. After graduating from Pepperdine University, Kim moved to New York City to attend New York University, where she earned a master's degree in arts administration and later worked at Sotheby's, Paula Cooper Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 Kim established the Tina Kim Gallery with the goal of broadening the audience for Korean artists in the West. Since then, Kim has hosted exhibitions by artists such as Yeondoo Jung, Eemyun Kang, Marc Andre Robinson, Joanna M. Wezyk, and Kibong Rhee. Kim has also collaborated with Kukje Gallery to exhibit master and emerging designers such as Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand and Joris Laarman, among others. Tina Kim (art dealer) Tina Kim is an art dealer and gallery owner based in New York. She is"
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"Corsaren Corsaren () was a Danish language weekly satirical and political magazine published by Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, who also wrote most of its content. The magazine was based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was published between 1840 and 1846. The first issue of \"Corsaren\" was published on 8 October 1840 in Copenhagen. The first six months there were no fewer than six editors due to censorship issues. It was not until the 161st issue three years later that Goldschmidt's name was printed on the back as its publisher. In 1842 Goldschmidt was sentenced to 24 days in prison, a fine of 200 rigsdaler and future censorship. \"Corsaren\" played an important role in the life of Søren Kierkegaard to the point that Kierkegaard could divide his life into a before and after \"Corsaren\". This was a fight that Kierkegaard, to a certain degree, started himself when he under the pseudonym Frater Taciturnus in a five-page article called \"The Work of a Traveling Aesthete\" (\"En omreisende Æsthetikers Virksomhed\") in \"The Fatherland\" (\"Fædrelandet\") on 27 December 1845 wrote: \"Hopefully I will soon appear in \"The Corsair\". It is really hard for a poor writer to be thus singled out in Danish literature that he (assuming we pseudonyms are one) is the only one that is not scolded there.\" And again on the 10 January 1846: \"... can I ask to be scolded ...\". Goldschmidt was forced to sell \"Corsaren\" in 1846 for 1,500 rigsdaler. List of magazines in Denmark Corsaren Corsaren () was a Danish language weekly satirical and political magazine published by Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, who also wrote most of its content. The magazine was based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was published between 1840 and 1846. The first issue of \"Corsaren\" was published on 8 October 1840 in Copenhagen. The first six months"
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"Anote Tong Anote Tong (; born 11 June 1952 in Tabuaeran, Line Islands) is an I-Kiribati politician with Chinese heritage who served as President of Kiribati from 2003 to 2016. He won the election in July 2003 with a slim plurality of votes cast (47.4%) against his older brother, Dr. Harry Tong (43.5%) and the private lawyer Banuera Berina (9.1%). The elections were contested by the opposition, due to allegations of electoral fraud but the High Court of Tarawa had confirmed that there was no fraud. He was re-elected on 17 October 2007 for a second term (64%). In 2012, Tong was reelected for a third term, although with a significantly smaller percentage than in the previous two elections. President Tong is primarily known abroad for his efforts to raise \"global awareness on the threat posed by climate change\", and was dubbed the \"Mahatma Gandhi of the Pacific\" by Grammy Award Winner Ricky Kej. Born in Tabuaeran, Line Islands, he is the third of six children of Tong Ting Hai, a Chinese migrant who settled in the Gilberts after World War II and Nei Keke Randolph, from the islands of Abaiang and Maiana in Kiribati, he went to St Bede's College for his secondary school education, graduated from Canterbury University with a degree in Science, and then gained a Masters in Economics degree from the London School of Economics. He is married to an I-Kiribati woman, First Lady Nei Meme, and has seven children. Tong is originally from the island of Maiana, located in central Kiribati. During the campaign, he promised to review the lease of a spy and satellite tracking base used by the People's Republic of China and \"to take appropriate actions at the right time.\" On 7 November, he established relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan, which led the People's Republic of China to sever relations and vacate its satellite base nearly a month later. Tong was overwhelmingly re-elected to his seat in parliament in the August 2007 parliamentary election. On 17 October 2007, he was re-elected as president by a large majority. The opposition boycotted the election due to the exclusion of two opposition candidates, including Tong's brother Harry. Tong was re-elected to a third, and final, four-year term as President in the January 2012 election. Tong won a little over 40% of the popular vote. He defeated two challengers, including his nearest rival, Tetaua Taitai, by more than 2,000 votes. Tong reappointed Teima Onorio to a third term as Vice President of Kiribati on 19 January 2012, as part of his cabinet appointments for his third term. He retired from politics after the Kiribati parliamentary election, 2015–16. A women's rights group, the Kiribati National Council of Women, has been formed recently for the primary purpose of advocating for a proposed new government entity, one that would be the Ministry of Women and Children. A bill that among other actions would create this bureau passed through the House of Assembly of Kiribati on 23 August 2012 and reached the second round of voting, but was ultimately voted against due to a blurry outline on budgetary proportioning. After the National Council of Women voiced its discontent, President Tong stated that \"the defeat was unfortunate, but it does not mean that we will not continue to support the women's issues. As a government, we will do it via other means, and perhaps it will come back to Parliament in the future.\" This variably leaves the door open for women's rights to become an even greater issue than it already is in Kiribati. Tong also stood front and center in the push to create the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Due partly to this effort, Tong received in 2012 a Peter Benchley Ocean Award for \"creating one of the World's largest and most biologically rich marine protected areas.\" He has been criticized, however, due to his hesitation in closing the preserve to fishing. Tong has been at the forefront of raising global awareness about catastrophic risks caused by climate change. With his atoll nation of Kiribati rising an average height of two meters above sea level, rising sea levels due to climate change pose an existential threat to Kiribati and other small island states in the Pacific. Tong directed Kiribati’s purchase of approximately 20 square kilometers of land in Fiji in 2014 as an contingency refuge for his people. This follows advice from the IPCC following its fifth assessment that many Pacific Island states such as Kiribati could be submerged by rising sea levels within a few decades. Tong has said the purchase of land in Fiji was partly an investment in property, partly for food security purposes since it is prime farming land, but also a last resort it could be a home for the I-Kiribati people fleeing from the effects of climate change. Anote Tong, dubbed as a ‘climate warrior’, pioneered the notion of ‘migration with dignity’ to avoid the people of Kiribati from becoming ‘climate refugees’. Tong is responsible for a number of other initiatives to combat climate change and protect the environment, such as calling for a global moratorium on using coal in 2015, as well as overseeing the creation of a 480,250 square kilometer marine park, the largest protected marine area in the world. The marine park was later adopted as a UNESCO World Heritage List site (Phoenix Islands Protected Area, or PIPA). As part of his global advocacy on climate change, Tong has met with various world leaders to discuss the plight of small island states, including Pope Francis, US President Obama and spoke recently before world leaders at the COP21 Paris meeting. Tong also currently serves on the Board of Conservation International. President Tong has been awarded leadership and environmental prizes for his work both in environmental protection and his advocacy on climate change and its effects. For example, Tong was awarded the 2015 Sunhak Peace Prize, and in 2012 both the Leadership Award from the Hillary Institute of International Leadership and the Peter Benchley Ocean Award. Tong has also been awarded a number of other awards such as the Order of Brilliant Jade with Grand Cordon by the President of Taiwan (2009), and the David B. Stone Award by the New England Aquarium Foundation (2008). Anote Tong Anote Tong (; born 11 June 1952 in Tabuaeran, Line Islands) is an I-Kiribati politician with Chinese heritage who served as President of Kiribati from 2003 to 2016. He won the election in July 2003 with a slim plurality of votes cast (47.4%) against his older brother, Dr. Harry Tong (43.5%) and the"
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"Architecture of Hong Kong The architecture of Hong Kong features great emphasis on Contemporary architecture, especially Modernism, Postmodernism, Functionalism, etc. Due to the lack of available land, few historical buildings remain in the urban areas of Hong Kong. However, Hong Kong has become a centre for modern architecture as older buildings are cleared away to make space for newer, larger buildings. It has more buildings above 35m (or 100m) and more skyscrapers above 150m than any other city. Hong Kong's skyline is often considered to be the best in the world, with the mountains and Victoria Harbour complementing the skyscrapers. Back in the day of the Nanyue kingdom, Hong Kong was already inhabited. Baiyue peoples in the area demonstrated some level of sophistication in architecture. An example is the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb. Prior to the British settlement of Hong Kong in 1841, architecture in Hong Kong was predominantly Cantonese. With the majority of the population being fishers at the mercy of typhoons and pirates, numerous Tin Hau Temples were dedicated to their patron Goddess Mazu. Likewise farmers built fortified villages to defend themselves from bandits. After the British established the entrepôt of Victoria City (now Central and Western District on Hong Kong Island), the local population increased substantially, and as a result \"Tong Lau\" (tenement common in Southern China, especially Lingnan) began to appear. These were three-to-four-storey buildings, tightly packed in city blocks, and combining Southern Chinese and European architectural elements. The ground floor were typically shops, with apartments and small balconies upstairs. These buildings had stairs but no elevators, and sometimes had no toilet facility. These \"Tong Lau\" remained the mainstay of Hong Kong architecture until at least World War II; a number of these building survive to this day, albeit often in a derelict state. Meanwhile, the British introduced Victorian and Edwardian architecture styles from the mid-19th century onwards. Notable surviving examples include the Legislative Council Building, the Central Police Station and Murray House. One building that has since been demolished was the Hong Kong Club Building; it was built atop a smaller structure designed in Italian Renaissance Revival style in 1897. The building was the subject of a bitter heritage conservation struggle in the late 1970s, which ultimately failed to save the building. The first building in Hong Kong to be classified as the first high rise was constructed between June 1904 and December 1905. It consisted of 5 major buildings, each stacking 5 to 6 stories high. The structures were raised by the Hong Kong Land company under Catchick Paul Chater and James Johnstone Keswick. Most high rise buildings to be built afterwards were for business purposes; the first true skyscraper in Hong Kong was built for HongkongBank in 1935, which was also the first building in Hong Kong to have air conditioning; however this has since been replaced with the HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong of 1985. Likewise the few examples of 1930s Streamline Moderne and Bauhaus architecture in Hong Kong, such as the Central Market and the Wan Chai Market, are facing imminent demolitions despite protests from heritage conservation groups. In the residential sector, multi-story buildings did not appear until the \"Buildings Ordinance 1955\" lifted the height limit of residential buildings. This change was necessitated by the massive influx of refugees into Hong Kong after the Communist revolution in China in 1949, and the subsequent Shek Kip Mei slum fire in 1953. Public housing estates, originally seven-storeys high with notoriously cramped conditions, public bathrooms and no kitchens, were hastily built to accommodate the homeless; meanwhile private apartments, still tightly packed into city blocks like the \"Tong Lau\" of old, had grown to over 20 stories high by the mid-1960s. The private housing estate began in 1965 with Mei Foo Sun Chuen. The first major private construction came from Swire properties in 1972 with the development of middle-class estate of Taikoo Shing. With little space wasted on statues or landmarks that consumed unnecessary real estate, Taikoo Shing's design was the new standard. In the late 1990s, the primary demand for high-end buildings was in and around Central. The buildings of Central comprise the skyline along the coast of the Victoria Harbour, a famous tourist attraction in Hong Kong. But until Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998, strict height restrictions were in force in Kowloon so that aeroplanes could come in to land. These restrictions have now been lifted and many new skyscrapers in Kowloon have been constructed, including the International Commerce Centre at the West Kowloon reclamation, which has been the tallest building in Hong Kong since its completion in 2010. Many commercial and residential towers built in the past two decades are among the tallest in the world, including Highcliff, The Arch, and The Harbourside. Still, more towers are under construction, like One Island East. At present, Hong Kong has the world's biggest skyline with a total of 7,681 skyscrapers, placing it ahead of even New York City, despite the fact that New York is larger in area. Most of these were built in past two decades. Hong Kong's best-known building is probably I. M. Pei's Bank of China Tower. The building attracted heated controversy from the moment its design was released to the public, which continued for years after the building's completion in 1990. The building was said to cast negative feng shui energy into the heart of Hong Kong due to the building's sharp angles. One rumour even went so far as to say that the negative energy was concentrated on the Government House as a Chinese plot to foil any decisions taken there. The two white aerials on top on the building were deemed inauspicious as two sticks of incense are burned for the dead. One of the largest construction projects in Hong Kong has been the new Hong Kong International Airport on Chek Lap Kok near Lantau, which was the most extensive single civil engineering project ever undertaken. Designed by Sir Norman Foster, the huge land reclamation project is linked to the centre of Hong Kong by the Lantau Link, which features three new major bridges: the world's sixth largest suspension bridge, Tsing Ma, which was built in 1997, connecting the islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan; the world's longest cable-stayed bridge carrying both road and railway traffic, Kap Shui Mun, which links Ma Wan and Lantau; and the world's first major 4-span cable-stayed bridge, Ting Kau, which connects Tsing Yi and the mainland New Territories. In recent years, the new architectures in Hong Kong tend to be focused on providing more public green spaces that combine environmentally friendly concepts together with cultural exchanges, aiming to improve the quality of life of people. Besides green space, there are also the developments of unused old spaces by turning them into cultural hubs that nurture creativities and innovations. Architects have also explored more energy-efficient design. Located at the headland of Kowloon, the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade is a quiet haven in the busy city. Stroll along the boardwalk and find yourself surrounded on all sides by Hong Kong's iconic waterfront scenes. The promenade includes an area for cultural exchanges, where live music is played during the weekends. A nice cycling and jogging path provide citizens an amazing harbour view while doing exercises. A design hub which utilises old, unused spaces to create platforms for a variety of start-ups to showcase their best innovations and products for the public to get access to. After two years of renovations, the former police married quarters in Aberdeen Street, Central, has been reborn as PMQ. Although studio spaces are small (about 450 sq ft), the hub is a great venue to foster a community.",
"headland of Kowloon, the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade is a quiet haven in the busy city. Stroll along the boardwalk and find yourself surrounded on all sides by Hong Kong's iconic waterfront scenes. The promenade includes an area for cultural exchanges, where live music is played during the weekends. A nice cycling and jogging path provide citizens an amazing harbour view while doing exercises. A design hub which utilises old, unused spaces to create platforms for a variety of start-ups to showcase their best innovations and products for the public to get access to. After two years of renovations, the former police married quarters in Aberdeen Street, Central, has been reborn as PMQ. Although studio spaces are small (about 450 sq ft), the hub is a great venue to foster a community. Spacious open-air corridors in front of each unit will be used for exhibitions and pop-up events; there will be a co-working space and units for overseas designers-in-residence. The PMQ's entrepreneurial focus is the best chance for young Hong Kong designers to become successful, since the hierarchical nature of most local companies stifles innovation. It is a project which set to promote high end technologies and innovation ideas exchange. The development is a key infrastructure projects that integrates with Hong Kong's advancement as a regional hub for high-tech innovation. The Hong Kong Science Park is located at Tolo Harbour and comprises three phases. Phase I site is divided into three zones: Core, Corporate and Campus. The Core Zone is centrally located and consists of communal and recreational facilities, meeting and conference rooms, exhibition halls, shops, dining areas as well as office spaces for small size companies. The Corporate Zone is located along the waterfront and is reserved for large size corporate companies who wish to operate in a building solely owned by them. The Campus Zone is situated by the Tolo Highway and is designed to accommodate medium size companies in multi-tenants buildings. Architecture of Hong Kong The architecture of Hong Kong features great emphasis on Contemporary architecture, especially Modernism, Postmodernism, Functionalism, etc. Due to the lack of available land,"
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"V. Shanmuganathan V Shanmuganathan (born 21 November 1949) was the Governor of the Indian state of Meghalaya, in office from 2015 to 26 January 2017. A veteran from Tamil Nadu, he also held an additional charge as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh since September 2016 till his resignation on 26 January 2017. He resigned from his position in both Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh over controversies of sexually harassing and molesting women who come for job interviews or seek career guidance from him. A post-graduate and an MPhil in Political Science, V Shanmuganathan received the Madras University's prestigious Gold Medal from its well-known Vice Chancellor T P Meenakshi Sundarnar in 1970. Born on 21 November 1949, he hails from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. Shanmuganathan succeeded Keshari Nath Tripathi as Governor of Meghalaya on 12 May 2015. On 30 September 2015 he was additionally sworn in as the 17th Governor of Manipur after the death in office of Syed Ahmed. V. Shanmuganathan V Shanmuganathan (born 21 November 1949) was the Governor of the Indian state of Meghalaya, in office from 2015 to 26 January 2017. A veteran from Tamil Nadu, he also held an additional charge as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh since September"
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"Soumagne Soumagne is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Province of Liege. On September 1, 2008, Soumagne had a total population of 15,894. The total area is 27.14 km which gives a population density of 585 inhabitants per km. The actual Soumagne is made of several municipalities that were merged in 1977 during the reorganization of the Belgian territory: From the end of the 19th century until the 1960s, due to a lot of coal mines and a large production factory (called \"Cooperative\"), Soumagne was a flourishing municipality. After the end of coal mining, the mines were cleaned and residences as well as shopping areas were built on. Some buildings are kept and transformed into tourism activities (such as \"le domaine du Bas-Bois\"). Since 1980, due to the higher number of people leaving big cities (Liège and Verviers) to more rural municipalities, and due to the highway E40 (European route E40) passing on its territory, Soumagne recovers from the loss of coal mining and the end of the \"Cooperative\". In that period, houses are built due to a new, and young, population settling down in Soumagne. A lot of new shops and commercial centers are opened and small companies are emerging. There are a few touristic points in Soumange (among others): Soumagne Soumagne is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Province of Liege. On September 1, 2008, Soumagne had a total population of 15,894. The total area is 27.14 km which gives a population density of 585 inhabitants per km. The actual Soumagne is made of several municipalities that were merged in 1977 during the reorganization of the Belgian territory: From the end of the 19th century until the 1960s, due to a lot of coal mines and"
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"Misha Calvin Misha Nisić, better known as Misha Calvin, is a Serbian rock guitarist and songwriter. A native of Yugoslavia, Calvin arrived in London sometime in the mid 80s. He worked with ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin and Elegy vocalist Ian Parry, producing the album \"Evolution\", released by Vienna Records in 1993. Two years later \"Evolution II\" was released, with Ian Parry handling vocal duties along with Dave Twose (AKA David Readman.) This time the songs were much more guitar oriented, with minimal keyboard interventions. In 1998, Calvin switched to Panoramic Music, and released a third album entitled \"Riffman\", with Marty Smith on vocals. Calvin's music, however, failed to catch on. Calvin's three albums were all reissued with bonus tracks on Majestic Rock records in 2004. Since 1998 little has been heard of him, although a compilation album entitles \"Decades\" is now available for purchase on the website http://www.mishacalvin.com/. A number of videos has also been uploaded on YouTube since the website went online to promote this compilation. Video for \"Strangers\" Video for \"Falling Into You\" Video for \"Reaper\" Recently Misha has release a new album called Mozart Meister Werken 256, an all instrumental album of 17 tracks in homage to Mozart himself. Not to be confused with Misha Collins, Jensen Ackles Lover, an American actor. Misha Calvin Misha Nisić, better known as Misha Calvin, is a Serbian rock guitarist and songwriter. A native of Yugoslavia, Calvin arrived in London sometime in the mid 80s. He worked with ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin and Elegy vocalist Ian Parry, producing the album \"Evolution\", released by Vienna Records in 1993. Two years later \"Evolution II\" was released, with Ian Parry handling vocal duties along with Dave Twose (AKA David Readman.) This time the songs were much more guitar oriented, with minimal keyboard"
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"Mermaid Arts Centre The Mermaid Arts Centre is a contemporary arts centre in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. The centre was launched in August 2002 and has programmed visual arts, theatre productions, opera, dance performances, cinema, comedy and music. Mermaid serves a population of 115,000 people and provides various local artistic groups with a performance space. In a year, Mermaid hosts on average 320 events. Since opening almost a quarter of a million visits have been made to Mermaid Arts Centre. Mermaid is a fully accessible, purpose built centre comprising three main performance and exhibition areas. The auditorium has 242 seats. A second multi-purpose room on the first floor is available for wardrobe, workshops, meetings, rehearsals, recording etc. The gallery provides a year-round programme of visual arts. Mermaid is home to Betelnut Café which provides a bar service for pre-show and interval drinks. Mermaid is publicly funded by The Arts Council, Wicklow County Council and Bray Town Council. Its current Director is Niamh O'Donnell (appointed in 2013). Mermaid Arts Centre The Mermaid Arts Centre is a contemporary arts centre in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. The centre was launched in August 2002 and has programmed visual arts, theatre productions, opera, dance performances,"
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"Zippo Pine Bar Zippo Pine Bar (1969-1998) is the leading Western Pleasure sire of Quarter Horses. Zippo Pine Bar was a 1969 sorrel son of Zippo Pat Bars out of Dollie Pine, a daughter of Poco Pine. Poco Pine was a son of Poco Bueno. Dollie Pine's dam was a descendant of Joe Moore, a half brother to Joe Reed P-3 and himself a descendant of Traveler. Norman Reynolds bought Zippo Pine Bar as a weanling at Lloyd Geweke's dispersal sale in 1969, hoping for a halter horse. During his show career, he earned from the American Quarter Horse Association an AQHA Championship, as well as a Performance Register of Merit and a Superior Western Pleasure Horse Award. He was the 1972 AQHA High Point Junior Western Pleasure Stallion and the 1972 AQHA High Point Junior Western Riding Horse. He was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association (or NSBA) Hall of Fame in 1992. He sired 1648 Quarter horse foals, 68 Appaloosas, and 72 Paints which collectively have earned over 50,000 show points. Five of his offspring have been inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame — Mr Zippo Pine, Zippo By Moonlight, Zips Chocolate Chip, Zippos Mr Goodbar, and Zippos Amblin Easy. Others of his influential offspring include Melody Zipper, Flashy Zipper, Zippo Cash Bar, Zippo Jack Bar, Zippos Honeybee and Don't Skip Zip. In 1991 his offspring won World Championships in Western Pleasure in the AQHA, the American Paint Horse Association (or APHA) and the Appaloosa Horse Club (or ApHC). He was euthanized on January 12, 1998 at age 29 following a major stroke. He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2000. Zippo Pine Bar Zippo Pine Bar (1969-1998) is the leading Western Pleasure sire of Quarter Horses. Zippo Pine Bar was a 1969"
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"Dunning, Chicago Dunning is one of 77 officially designated community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois. Dunning also is a neighborhood located on the Northwest Side of the city. The neighborhood is home to Wilbur Wright College, Mount Olive Cemetery, and the Eli's Cheesecake factory. It is also the location of the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, formerly known as Cook County Insane Asylum and commonly referred to, in its day, as simply \"Dunning.\" In 1851 this remote prairie location seemed ideal for Cook County's plans to erect a poor farm and asylum for the insane. The county purchased from Peter Ludby 160 acres hemmed in by Irving Park Road and Narragansett, Montrose, and Oak Park Avenues. Both facilities were housed in a three-story building situated atop a ridge. Residents of the poor farm lived with their families growing vegetables, washing their clothes, and attending school on the premises. After 1863 the institution also admitted tuberculosis patients. The county built a separate building for the insane asylum in 1870. The construction of two more buildings in the 1880s added enough space to accommodate the more than 1,000 patients. Following the Civil War, Andrew Dunning purchased 120 acres just south of the county property to start a nursery and lay the groundwork for a village. He set aside 40 acres for the settlement, but proximity to the insane hospital kept settlers away. Initially transportation links were poor. Although trains brought employees and commuters from the city, visitors had to walk two and a half miles from the depot to the county farm. After a single three-mile track was extended to the facilities in 1882, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul \"crazy train\" brought patients, supplies, and medicines. The county built a station, naming it for Dunning. In the 1880s and 1890s Dunning's rolling landscape remained sparsely settled. The Scandinavian Lutheran Cemetery Association bought 65 acres south of Dunning's property in 1886 which became Mount Olive Cemetery. Jewish families purchased 40 acres between the Scandinavian cemetery and Addison for burials. Around the turn of the century Henry Kolze inherited a tavern and wooded acreage at Narragansett and Irving Park which he turned into a picnic grove, known as \"Kolze's Grove\", or \"Kolze's Electric Park\". The idyllic scenery enticed visitors, as did the tavern. With the advent of the Irving Park Boulevard street railway, clubs, churches, and companies held picnics in the grove. Based on records from the Chicago Department of Revenue, we know that in 1910 other similar venues such as \"Kosciuzko Grove\" were also in the Dunning area. The infirmary, poorhouse, and asylum eventually became overcrowded. Minimal heat in winter, no hot water, and poor ventilation contributed to the deaths of many patients and inmates. In 1886 an official investigation found misconduct, gambling, patient abuse, and \"influence\" in the hiring of medical personnel. After 1910 the poor farm was moved to Oak Forest, and two years later the state bought the mental hospital and property for one dollar. Although it was called the Chicago State Hospital, many continued to refer to the institution simply as Dunning. Outside the state facility, the population had grown to only 1,305 by 1909. In 1916 the first housing boom occurred when Schorsch Brothers Real Estate bought a tract west of Austin and south of Irving Park. They called the area West Portage Park to remove the stigma of association with Dunning. Following World War I the population rose to 4,019, with residents primarily of Swedish, German, and Polish descent. In 1934 Wright Junior College was built in the eastern portion. At its peak in 1970 population reached 43,856 but fell to 36,957 by 1990. The State Hospital property stood in shambles and in the 1970s nearly half the buildings were razed. In that year, the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center was established, incorporating the old hospitals. Dunning currently borders the villages of Harwood Heights, Norridge, River Grove, as well as Elmwood Park. Many of the neighborhood's residents are city workers, including police officers and firefighters. The area is close to the Harlem Irving Plaza shopping center. Dunning moved toward a revival of institutional, commercial, and residential growth in the 1980s and 1990s. The neighborhoods of Schorsch Village, Belmont Heights, Belmont Terrace, and Irving Woods became more desirable. On Narragansett, north of Irving Park, Ridgemoor Estates boasted luxury homes near a golf club. New modern facilities were present at Chicago-Read Mental Health Center. Wright Junior College expanded with futuristic-style buildings and a learning resource center at Narragansett and Montrose. By 2000 the population had grown again, to 42,164. One in 3 people in Dunning is of Polish descent — the highest rate of any ethnic group in any Chicago neighborhood, according to the 2010 U.S. Census Danny Seraphine, a founding member and former drummer for the band Chicago, is from Dunning. Dunning, Chicago Dunning is one of 77 officially designated community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois. Dunning also is a neighborhood located on the Northwest Side of the city. The neighborhood is home to Wilbur Wright College, Mount Olive Cemetery, and the Eli's Cheesecake factory. It is also the location of the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, formerly known as Cook County Insane Asylum and commonly referred to, in its day, as simply \"Dunning.\" In 1851 this remote prairie location seemed ideal for Cook County's plans to erect a poor farm and asylum for the insane."
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"Hans Fróði Hansen Hans Fróði á Toftanesi (born Hans Fróði Hansen on 24 August 1975 in Leirvík, Faroe Islands) is a retired football player who played 26 games for Faroe Islands. In 2018 he was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for having instigated woman to commit 41 sexual assaults against her four-year-old son. Hans Fróði played in Norway, Iceland and for several Faroese clubs, largely in central defence. He played for Fram Reykjavík in 2004, appearing in twelve games in the 2004 Úrvalsdeild. In November 2004 he joined 1. deild karla club Breiðablik where he appeared in fifteen matches, scoring one goal. Hans Fróði was capped 26 times for the Faroe Islands. On 5 June 1999, he scored his only goal for his country. In a qualification match for Euro 2000 in Toftir, he scored a last minute equaliser against Scotland (1-1). He later described this as the finest moment of his footballing career. He made his international debut in a 0-1 away defeat to Bosnia in Sarajevo on 19 August 1998 and played his last game for the Faroes in a 1-3 home defeat against Lithuania on 10 September 2003 in Toftir. In 2006, he was manager for LÍF Leirvík. After some of Hans Fróði's ambitious international business projects failed, he decided to resume his career in Faroese football. In 2013, he took over as manager of the top division side TB Tvøroyri. He was TB Tvøroyri's manager until 23 July 2013. Hans Fróði started a second career as fashion and beauty advisor under the name Hans F. Hansen of Scandinavia. His main product line was called Below Your Belt and was a series of product intended for pubic hair removal. On 28 May 2018, Hans Fróði was sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment, when found guilty in having instigated a 43-year-old woman to commit 41 sexual assaults against her four-year-old son. Hans Fróði Hansen Hans Fróði á Toftanesi (born Hans Fróði Hansen on 24 August 1975 in Leirvík, Faroe Islands) is a retired football player who played 26 games for Faroe Islands. In 2018 he was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for having instigated woman to commit 41 sexual assaults against her four-year-old son. Hans Fróði played in Norway, Iceland and for several Faroese clubs, largely in central defence. He played for Fram Reykjavík in 2004, appearing in"
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"Milutin Minja Milutin Minja () was a Yugoslav basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Minja played for the Radnički and Crvena zvezda, both from Belgrade, and for the Zrenjanin-based team Proleter of the Yugoslav Basketball League. During time with Proleter he won the National Championships. As a player for the Yugoslavia national basketball team Minja participated at three European Championships (1955 in Budapest, 1957 in Sofia and 1959 in Istanbul). Also, he won a gold medal at 1959 Mediterranean Games in Lebanon. Minja coached both Vojvodina men's and women's team from Novi Sad during 1970s. Milutin Minja Milutin Minja () was a Yugoslav basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Minja played for the Radnički and Crvena zvezda, both from Belgrade, and for the Zrenjanin-based team Proleter of the Yugoslav Basketball League. During time with Proleter he won the National Championships. As a player for the Yugoslavia national basketball team Minja participated at three European Championships (1955 in Budapest, 1957 in Sofia and 1959 in Istanbul). Also, he won a gold medal at 1959 Mediterranean Games in Lebanon. Minja coached both Vojvodina men's and women's team from Novi Sad"
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"Pat Zachry Patrick Paul Zachry (born April 24, 1952) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball from to , and is likely best remembered as one of the players the Cincinnati Reds sent to the New York Mets in the infamous \"Midnight Massacre\". Zachry was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the nineteenth round of the 1970 Major League Baseball draft. In six seasons in their farm system, he compiled a 54-42 record, even 3.00 earned run average and 619 strikeouts. While a member of the Tampa Tarpons in , Zachry received notice of his military draft eligibility for the nation's on-going engagement in Vietnam, however, he failed the U.S. Army's physical examination. The reigning World Series champion Reds dealt starting pitcher Clay Kirby to the Montreal Expos for third baseman Bob Bailey at the Winter Meetings in order to make room in their rotation for Zachry. Though he made his debut on April 11, out of the bullpen, he was moved into the starting rotation shortly afterwards. On May 28, he shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers to improved to 4-0 with a 1.17 ERA. For the season, Zachry compiled a 14-7 record, 2.74 ERA and a team leading 143 strikeouts in 204 innings pitched. In the post-season, Zachry won game two of the 1976 National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies in Veterans Stadium, and game three of the 1976 World Series with the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, both by a final score of 6-2. The \"Big Red Machine\" became the only team to ever sweep the entire post-season en route to winning their second consecutive world championship. After the season, Zachry had a hernia operation, and was in the process of recovering when he and San Diego Padres closer Butch Metzger were named co-winners of the National League Rookie of the Year Award. It was the first time in major league history co-winners of the award were named. Zachry was also the first ever Rookie of the Year Award winning pitcher to start and win a World Series game during his rookie season. The hernia, coupled with a sore elbow, delayed Zachry's Spring training, and denied him the opening day start. He did not hit the mound until the fifth game of the season, and was immediately pounded by the Houston Astros for three runs in his first inning of work. In the month of May, Zachry was 0-4 with a 9.85 ERA. Following an 8-0 loss to Tom Seaver and the New York Mets at Shea Stadium on June 7, Zachry's record fell to 3-7 with a 5.19 ERA. Seaver, meanwhile, was in a contract dispute with Mets chairman M. Donald Grant, and had requested a trade. On June 15, 1977, Zachry, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson and Dan Norman were traded to the Mets in exchange for Seaver. The Mets also dealt Dave Kingman to the San Diego Padres for Bobby Valentine and Paul Siebert, and Mike Phillips to the St. Louis Cardinals for Joel Youngblood that same night. Zachry's poor season continued in New York, as he lost his first two decisions to fall to 3-9 combined. A four hit gem against the Montreal Expos on July 10 signaled a return to form for Zachry. Over the rest of the season, Zachry went 7-4 with a 3.53 ERA, and was the only Mets starting pitcher to post a winning record (7-6) besides Seaver (7-3). Zachry was masterful to start his first full season as a Met. After defeating his former club on April 30, he finished the first month of the season with a 3-0 record and 1.85 ERA. A complete game victory over Tommy Lasorda's Los Angeles Dodgers on June 7 improved his record to 7-1, and convinced Lasorda to add Zachry as the sole Mets representative on the National League All-Star team (he did not appear in the game). On July 24, the Cincinnati Reds came to Shea Stadium with Pete Rose entering the game with a 36-game hitting streak. Zachry held Rose hitless in his first three at-bats, but Rose ultimately tied Tommy Holmes' N.L. record 37 game streak with a single to left in the seventh inning. Four batters later, Zachry was pulled in favor of Kevin Kobel. Frustrated, Zachry went to kick a batting helmet sitting on the dugout steps, missed, and kicked the step. He suffered contusions in his left foot, and left on crutches. He was lost for the remainder of the season. Despite the fact that his season was also marred by injuries, Zachry was 5-0 with a 2.89 ERA before suffering his first loss and a season-ending injury on June 8 against the Houston Astros. He would not return to the mound until May of the following season, but managed to stay healthy over the remainder of the season. He logged 164.2 innings pitched, his most as a Met, and pitched well in spite of his 6-10 record. His 3.01 ERA was tops among Mets starters, however, he suffered from a lack of run support. The Mets were shut out in each of Zachry's last three decisions, and five times in his 26 starts. On July 25 and July 30, Zachry shut out his opponent in consecutive starts. His streak would have hit three were it not for three unearned runs in the eighth inning of his next start. Zachry shut out the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in the season opener. He won each of his first three starts, but then fell into a five-game losing streak in which his ERA was 6.93, and opposing batters hit .330. His record stood at 5-7 with a 4.16 ERA when the players' strike interrupted the season. On the first day of the strike, Zachry's wife, Sharron, gave birth to their son, Joshua. When play resumed, Zachry once again suffered from a lack of run support. The Mets scored one run or less in four of Zachry's eleven starts in the second half. As a result, he went 2-7 to give him a league leading fourteen losses for the season (tied with Steve Mura of the San Diego Padres). In his first start of the season, Zachry seemed destined to top his opening day performance from a year ago. Once again facing the Cubs at Wrigley, he took a no-hitter into the eighth inning. He walked lead-off batter Keith Moreland, but then retired the next two batters, and seemed to be on the verge of getting out of the inning unscathed. A walk to Tye Waller brought pinch hitter Bob Molinaro to the plate with runners on first and second. He laced a single to right to break up the no-hitter and the shut out. The Cubs went on to score four runs that inning, only one of them earned. New Mets manager George Bamberger used Zachry as both a starter and reliever in 1982. He went 2-3 with a 2.11 ERA as a reliever, and earned his first career save on August 15 against the Cubs. During the off season, the Mets traded Zachry to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jorge Orta. In his two seasons with the Dodgers, Zachry pitched exclusively in relief, with the exception of one emergency start made in the second game of a doubleheader against the Mets at Shea on August 30, (he held his former team scoreless for six innings before giving way to the bullpen). He ended his first season in Los Angeles with a 6-1 record and 2.49 ERA, and returned to the post season for the first time since his rookie season. He appeared in games three and four of the 1983 National League Championship Series, both won by the Philadelphia Phillies by final scores of 7-2. In four total innings pitched, he allowed one earned run and four hits, while striking out two. Following a campaign in which he went 5-6 with two saves and a 3.81 ERA, Zachry was dealt to the Phillies for slugging first baseman Al Oliver. With Kent Tekulve and Don Carman already in their bullpen, Zachry's role with the Phillies was very limited. After just ten appearances (mostly in losses), Zachry was released by the Phillies in June with no decisions and a 4.26 ERA. Unable to land a job with another team, he retired and went into coaching. He later played in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in , and was profiled in a book by Peter Golenbock about the league. , or Retrosheet, or SABR Biography Project, or The Ultimate Mets Database Pat Zachry Patrick Paul Zachry (born April 24, 1952) is a former professional baseball",
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"René Harris René Reynaldo Harris (11 November 1947 – 5 July 2008) was President of the Republic of Nauru four times between 1999 and 2004. He was a Member of Parliament from 1977 to 2008. He was educated at Geelong College in Victoria, Australia. Prior to his election to parliament, Harris worked for the Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC) and was the Manager of the Nauru Pacific Line. He was first elected as an MP for Aiwo in 1977. His first term was quite short though; after seven days he had to resign on court conviction. His second term started in June 1977 in the following by-election and lasted for 31 years. Harris was elected Deputy Speaker of the Parliament in 1978 and Speaker in 1986. In 1992 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NPC. In 1998, Harris was convicted of assault and jail-breaking by forcibly freeing three of his relatives from the Nauru Police lock-up with the help of two accomplices. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television program \"Foreign Correspondent\" also claimed that as Chairman of the NPC, Harris spent more than A$231,000 on luxury items, holidays and a property in Melbourne. Harris maintained a luxury penthouse suite on the 51st floor of Nauru House in Melbourne. Harris first became President on 27 April 1999 and remained in that post until 20 April 2000 when he was replaced by Bernard Dowiyogo, who retained that office until Harris resumed the presidency on 29 March 2001 following a vote of no-confidence in Dowiyogo. The situation assumed farcial proportions in January 2003, when both men held the office twice. Dowiyogo eventually retained the presidency, although his death in March 2003 prompted another round of uncertainty. Harris was finally reelected President on 15 August 2003. Harris was quoted as saying he was re-elected by the nation's parliament because the MPs \"didn't see the light\" with his predecessor, Ludwig Scotty. Harris broke the Nauruan government's deadlock when he was able to pass legislation through parliament in 2003. His government was responsible for the housing of Australian asylum seekers on the island and also Nauru's admission to the United Nations and full membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. Mr. Harris was criticized by the Nauruan opposition party (Naoero Amo) and the international community for corruption and violations of human rights. Harris received monthly kidney dialysis treatment for his diabetes in Melbourne. His health was a major concern for at least the last 5 years of his life because diabetes ended the life of one of his political opponents, Bernard Dowiyogo, at the age of 57 in early 2003. In December 2003, Harris collapsed in Nauru's parliament building and was revived by Dr. Kieren Keke. On 22 June 2004, due to a political defection, he was ousted as President, and Ludwig Scotty succeeded him. In parliamentary elections later in 2004, Scotty's supporters won a majority of the seats and Harris made no further attempts to be reelected president. In the parliamentary election held on 25 August 2007, Harris was the only opposition member of parliament to be re-elected; Scotty's supporters won an even larger victory and it was believed that Harris might have no political supporters in Parliament. After Nauru's main police station was burned on 7 March 2008 by protesters in Harris' Aiwo constituency who were upset by phosphate dust, the government accused Harris of instigating the protesters. Harris's periods as President of Nauru were sometimes owing to his alliance with the influential Kinza Clodumar, himself a former President, but also exercising considerable negotiating weight in the Parliament of Nauru. In the parliamentary election held on 26 April 2008, Harris stood again but lost his seat; supporters of President Marcus Stephen won a majority. After 31 years in Parliament, this was the first time he lost his seat. Harris suffered a heart attack on 4 July 2008 and died as a result on the morning of 5 July. A state funeral was held for him later on the same day. He was aged 60 at the time of his death, and although relatively young, his political generation had been to some extent been superseded by a government ministerial team about 20 years younger than he. René Harris René Reynaldo Harris (11 November 1947 – 5 July 2008) was President of the Republic of Nauru four times between 1999 and 2004. He was a Member of Parliament from 1977 to 2008. He was educated at Geelong College in Victoria, Australia. Prior to his election to parliament, Harris worked for the Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC) and was the Manager of the Nauru Pacific Line. He was first elected as an MP for Aiwo in 1977. His first term was quite short though; after seven days he had to resign on court conviction. His second"
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"Silver Cliff, Colorado Silver Cliff is a statutory town that is the most populous town in Custer County, Colorado, United States. The population was 587 at the 2010 census, up from 512 in 2000. Silver Cliff was formed in the late 1870s to house the miners of its namesake, the Silver Cliff mine, and other silver mines in the neighborhood, such as the Bull-Domingo. The town, incorporated in 1879, had 5,040 residents by the 1880 census, making it the third most populous town in Colorado, after Denver and Leadville. Silver Cliff was the county seat from 1886 (when the town won the seat from Rosita) to 1928 (when the seat moved to nearby Westcliffe). The Silver Cliff mine, also known as the Geyser mine, is on the hill immediately north of the town. Although a large operation that employed many residents of Silver Cliff, the mine was the unfortunate object of eastern stock manipulators. Shares in the Silver Cliff mine were promoted in 1879 by James R. Keene, a famous New York stock operator. The company went bankrupt within a few years, and was sold to the Julianna Mining Company, which was run by an even more unscrupulous stock promoter, Dr. Richard C. Flower of Boston. The Julianna company went bankrupt in 1888. The shareholders rescued the company and renamed it the Geyser Mining Company. Although Flower withdrew from the management, the Geyser Mining Company continued to be run by some of Flower's cronies, so it should not be a surprise that the mine never made a profit. At one time the Geyser mine was the deepest mine in Colorado. Silver Cliff is located near the geographic center of Custer County at (38.136432, -105.439492). The town of Westcliffe is immediately adjacent to its west. The town is west of Pueblo, via Colorado State Highway 96. According to the United States Census Bureau, Silver Cliff has a total area of , all of it land. Silver Cliff and neighboring Westcliffe, Colorado are recognized as IDA International Dark Sky Communities by The International Dark-Sky Association. Gentle persuasion has resulted in residents and business in the towns and surrounding ranch land reducing the amount of light pollution. As of the census of 2000, there were 512 people, 217 households, and 141 families residing in the town. The population density was 32.8 people per square mile (12.7/km²). There were 284 housing units at an average density of 18.2 per square mile (7.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 95.51% White, 0.20% African American, 2.73% Native American, 0.59% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.95% of the population. There were 217 households out of which 33.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.8% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.0% were non-families. 31.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.94. In the town, the population was spread out with 29.7% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males. The median income for a household in the town was $25,000, and the median income for a family was $32,917. Males had a median income of $26,389 versus $17,109 for females. The per capita income for the town was $13,899. About 16.7% of families and 20.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.3% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Just outside the town of Silver Cliff is Silver Cliff Cemetery, established in the early 1880s. It has been known for the mysterious lights that float around the cemetery at night. Silver Cliff, Colorado Silver Cliff is a statutory town that is the most populous town in"
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