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"Plasmacytoma Plasmacytoma is a plasma cell dyscrasia in which a plasma cell tumour grows within soft tissue or within the axial skeleton. The International Myeloma Working Group lists three types: solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB); extramedullary plasmacytoma (EP), and multiple plasmacytomas that are either primary or recurrent. The most common of these is SPB, accounting for 3–5% of all plasma cell malignancies. SPBs occur as lytic lesions within the axial skeleton and extramedullary plasmacytomas most often occur in the upper respiratory tract (85%), but can occur in any soft tissue. Approximately half of all cases produce paraproteinemia. SPBs and extramedullary plasmacytomas are mostly treated with radiotherapy, but surgery is used in some cases of extramedullary plasmacytoma. The skeletal forms frequently progress to multiple myeloma over the course of 2–4 years. Due to their cellular similarity, plasmacytomas have to be differentiated from multiple myeloma. For SPB and extramedullary plasmacytoma the distinction is the presence of only one lesion (either in bone or soft tissue), normal bone marrow (<5% plasma cells), normal skeletal survey, absent or low paraprotein and no end organ damage. For SPB the most common presenting symptom is that of pain in the affected bone. Back pain and other consequences of the bone lesion may occur such as spinal cord compression or pathological fracture. Around 85% of extramedullary plasmacytoma presents within the upper respiratory tract mucosa, causing possible symptoms such as epistaxis, rhinorrhoea and nasal obstruction. In some tissues it may be found as a palpable mass. The diagnosis of plasmacytoma uses a diverse range of interdisciplinary techniques including serum protein electrophoresis, bone marrow biopsy, urine analysis for Bence Jones protein and complete blood count, plain film radiography, MRI and PET-CT. Serum protein electrophoresis separates the proteins in the liquid part of the blood (serum), allowing the analysis of antibodies. Normal blood serum contains a range of antibodies and are said to be polyclonal, whereas serum from a person with plasmacytoma may show a monoclonal spike. This is due to an outgrowth of a single type of plasma cell that forms the plasmacytoma and produces a single type of antibody. The plasma cells are said to be monoclonal and the excessively produced antibody is known as monoclonal protein or paraprotein. Paraproteins are present in 60% of SPB and less than 25% of extramedullary plasmacytoma. Bone marrow biopsies are performed to ensure the disease is localised; and in SPB or extramedullary plasmacytoma there will not be an increase of monoclonal plasma cells. Tissue biopsies of SPB and extramedullary plasmacytoma are used to assess the phenotype of the plasma cells. Histological analyses can be performed on these biopsies to see what cluster of differentiation (CD) markers are present and to assess monoclonality of the cells. CD markers can aid in the distinction of extramedullary plasmacytoma from lymphomas. Skeletal surveys are used to ensure there are no other primary tumors within the axial skeleton. MRI can be used to assess tumor status and may be advantageous in detecting primary tumors that are not detected by plain film radiography. PET-CT may also be beneficial in detecting extramedullary tumours in individuals diagnosed with SPB. CT imaging may be better than plain film radiography for assessing bone damage. An important distinction to be made is that a true plasmacytoma is present and not a systemic plasma cell disorder, such as multiple myeloma. The difference between plasmacytoma and multiple myeloma is that plasmacytoma lacks increased blood calcium, decreased kidney function, too few red blood cells in the bloodstream, and multiple bone lesions (collectively termed CRAB). Plasmacytoma is a tumor of plasma cells. The cells are identical to those seen in multiple myeloma, but they form discrete masses of cells in the skeleton (solitary plasmacytoma of bone; SPB) or in soft tissues (extramedullary plasmacytoma; EP). They do not present with systemic disease, which would classify them as another systemic plasma cell disorder. The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) has published criteria for the diagnosis of plasmacytomas. They recognise three distinct entities: SPB, extramedullary plasmacytoma and multiple solitary plasmacytomas (+/- recurrent). The proposed criteria for SPB is the presence of a single bone lesion, normal bone marrow (less than 5% plasma cells), small or no paraprotein, no related organ involvement/damage and a normal skeletal survey (other than the single bone lesion). The criteria for extramedullary plasmacytoma are the same but the tumor is located in soft tissue. No bone lesions should be present. Criteria for multiple solitary plasmacytomas (+/- recurrent) are the same except either multiple solitary bone or soft tissue lesions must be present. They may occur as multiple primary tumors or as a recurrence from a previous plasmacytoma. Rarely, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with multiple myeloma and plasmacytomas, particularly in individuals who have an immunodeficiency due to e.g. HIV/AIDS, organ transplantation, or a chronic inflammatory condition such as rheumatoid arthritis. EBV-positive multiple myeloma and plasmacytoma are classified together by the World Health Organization (2016) as Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferative diseases and termed Epstein-Barr virus-associated plasma cell myeloma. EBV-positivity is more common in plasmacytoma than multiple myeloma. The tissues involved in EBV+ plasmacytoma typically show foci of EBV+ cells with the appearance of rapidly proliferating immature or poorly differentiated plasma cells. These cells express products of EBV genes such as EBER1 and EBER2. EBV-positive plasmacytoma(s) is more likely to progress to multiple myeloma than EBV-negative plasmacytoma(s) suggesting that the virus may play a role in the progression of plasmacytoma to multiple myeloma. Radiotherapy is the main choice of treatment for both SPB and extramedullary plasmacytoma, and local control rates of >80% can be achieved. This form of treatment can be used with curative intent because plasmacytoma is a radiosensitive tumor. Surgery is an option for extramedullary plasmacytoma, but for cosmetic reasons it is generally used when the lesion is not present within the head and neck region. Most cases of SPB progress to multiple myeloma within 2–4 years of diagnosis, but the overall median survival for SPB is 7–12 years. 30–50% of extramedullary plasmacytoma cases progress to multiple myeloma with a median time of 1.5–2.5 years. 15–45% of SPB and 50–65% of extramedullary plasmacytoma are disease free after 10 years. Plasmacytomas are a rare form of cancer. SPB is the most common form of the disease and accounts for 3-5% of all plasma cell malignancies. The median age at diagnosis for all plasmacytomas is 55. Both SPB and extramedullary plasmacytoma are more prevalent in males; with a 2:1 male to female ratio for SPB and a 3:1 ratio for extramedullary plasmacytoma. There can be some ambiguity when using the word. \"Plasmacytoma\" is sometimes equated with \"plasma cell dyscrasia\" or \"solitary myeloma\". It is often used as part of the phrase \"solitary plasmacytoma\". or as part of the phrase \"extramedullary plasmacytoma\". In this context, \"extramedullary\" means outside of the bone marrow. Plasmacytoma Plasmacytoma is a plasma cell dyscrasia in which a plasma cell tumour grows within soft tissue or within the axial skeleton. The International Myeloma Working Group lists three types: solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB); extramedullary plasmacytoma (EP), and multiple plasmacytomas that are either primary or recurrent. The most common of these is SPB, accounting for 3–5% of all plasma cell malignancies. SPBs occur as lytic"
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"(33342) 1998 WT24 The asteroid was discovered on November 25, 1998, by LINEAR about four months after a close encounter with the planet Mercury (about 0.047 AU). It measures approximately 400 meters in diameter. It is also one of the best studied PHAs and was the 10th Aten asteroid to be numbered. orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.42–1.02 AU once every 7 months (222 days; semi-major axis of 0.72 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.42 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic. At the time of its discovery, astronomers were trying to find the first Apohele asteroid (one that is always closer to the Sun than Earth). All asteroids known at the time that got closer to the Sun than Earth also crossed Earth's orbit. Earlier that year, David J. Tholen claimed to have spotted the first Apohele asteroid, which was dubbed . However, the object was lost without being confirmed. Thus, 1993 DA remained the asteroid with the lowest known aphelion at 1.023 AU. When was discovered, it was found to have a slightly smaller aphelion (1.019 AU) than 1993 DA, and was thus the closest thing to an Apohele asteroid known at the time. It lost its smallest aphelion title almost immediately when was discovered only a few weeks later (aphelion = 1.014 AU). Asteroids with even smaller aphelions were discovered until February 2003, when finally, an asteroid with an aphelion smaller than 1.000 AU was discovered. This was 163693 Atira, the first confirmed Apohele asteroid. was the second asteroid discovered to be close enough to Venus as to be within the major planet's zone of influence. It is located at about the inner edge of the zone, while (99907) 1989 VA, the first asteroid discovered there, is at about the outer edge. It is possible for planets to capture asteroids located in their sphere of influences into co-orbital relationships such as Trojan and horseshoe asteroids. Because of its frequent close encounters with Mercury and Earth, however, it may prove difficult for Venus to keep in a co-orbital relationship for any length of time. Of the six objects in Venus's zone of influence, only one () is currently a co-orbital. is a potentially hazardous asteroid. That means its orbit takes it very close to Earth and if it were to collide with our planet, it would cause devastation on at least a regional scale. On December 16, 2001, it became the first PHA to be observed passing within 5 Lunar Distances (the average distance between Earth and the Moon) from Earth. Other asteroids have come closer, and numerous have even come closer than the Moon, but these have all been small asteroids, incapable of causing much damage to the planet, or much concern. The 2001 encounter was the closest known approach to Earth any PHA had made since passed by on August 27, 1969. However, was not discovered until September 1999 many years after its closest approach, so no one knew about in 1969. In September 2004, the well known PHA 4179 Toutatis came about 4 Lunar Distances from Earth. Due to its diameter being over ten times larger (5.7 km) and its closer approach, Toutatis at its closest (mag 8.9) was about half an apparent magnitude brighter than was at its closest (mag 9.5). However, Toutatis arrived during a full moon, and thus 's 2001 encounter is still the most easily observed flyby of an asteroid in history. It also made the first Near-Earth asteroid observed to be brighter than magnitude 10. is a Mercury-crosser asteroid, a Venus-crosser asteroid, and an Earth-crosser asteroid. Because of its relatively low inclination (7.34°), it is able to come close to each of these planets. Its orbit takes it within 0.021 AU of Mercury's orbit, 0.0368 AU of Venus's orbit, and 0.00989 AU of Earth's orbit. It makes frequent encounters with these inner planets. The last time it came close to Mercury, Venus and Earth was 2010, 1977, and November 12, 2004 respectively. The most recent close approach to Earth was on 11 December 2015 at about 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles, 11 lunar distances). The next visit of the asteroid to Earth's neighborhood will be on 11 November 2018, when it will make a relatively distant pass at about 20 million kilometers (12.5 million miles, 52 lunar distances). These encounters perturb its orbit parameters slightly, and each pass reduces its inclination further. During its close encounters in 2001 and 2015, astronomers were able to make radar images of its surface and determine physical properties that remain unknown for most asteroids. According to the ExploreNEOs Warm Spitzer Exploration Science program, is a bright E-type asteroid with an exceptionally high albedo of . measures between 350 and 415 meters in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.34 and 0.75. The \"Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link\" an albedo of 0.34 and takes a diameter of 410 meters based on an absolute magnitude of 18.69. The asteroid is modestly elongated, approximately 420 × 330 meters. Several rotational lightcurves of have been obtained from radiometric and photometric observations. Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 3.697 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.19 and 0.65 magnitude (). has an orbit that not only crosses Earth's orbit, but is roughly parallel to it at its furthest. This means that during favourable years it is easy to reach from Earth. Several times this decade, it will be an easier target than Earth's own Moon. It is high on the list of possible Near-Earth Asteroid targets for future flybys, landings, mining, or orbit manipulations. This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 2002. As of 2018, it has not been named. (33342) 1998 WT24 The asteroid was discovered on November 25, 1998, by LINEAR about four months after a close encounter with the planet Mercury (about 0.047 AU). It measures approximately 400 meters in diameter. It is also one of the best studied"
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"CARNet CARNET (Croatian Academic and Research Network, ) is the national research and education network of Croatia. It is funded from the government budget and it operates from offices in Zagreb and five other cities. CARNet was established in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. In March 1995 the Government of the Republic of Croatia passed the Decree on founding of the CARNet institution with the purpose of facilitating progress of individuals, as well as of the society as a whole, through the use of new information technologies. CARNet's activities can be divided in three basic areas: Internet service provision, encouragement of information society development and education for the new era. A body responsible for coordinating the establishment of the Croatian educational computer network has been established on 3 October 1991. That was the beginning of the work of the Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet, the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Croatia. In the several years that followed CARNet was the only Internet service provider in Croatia, providing the service free of charge, not only to the academic community, but to all citizens of the Republic of Croatia as well. In November 1992 the first international communication connection was established, which connected CARNet Internet exchange point in Zagreb to Austria. By that act Croatia became a part of the world computer network – the Internet. During 1992, the first equipment was procured and the backbone of the CARNet network was built. Institutions in Croatia were connected at the speed of 19 - 200 kbit/s, while the whole network was connected to the Internet through Austria at the speed of 64 kbit/s. The first institutions to be connected to the Internet were the University Computing Centre - Srce, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split, the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka, the Faculty of Economics in Osijek and the Ministry of Science and Technology. During the first months of 1993, CARNet was assigned the administration over the top-level .hr domain by the international organisation called the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA). In October 1994, CARNet started offering the first Internet courses to its users and, in time, user education became one of CARNet’s most important activities. In 1996, the backbone of CARNet network was upgraded by introducing the ATM technology which enables real-time transfer of image and sound at the basic speed of 155 Mbit/s. In January 1997, the first distance lecture in Croatia was organized through the CARNet ATM core between the Rectorate of the Osijek University and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. GÉANT, the pan-European academic and research network, was put into service on 1 December 2001, and CARNet, among others, connected to it. In cooperation with the University Computing Centre - Srce, in 2003 CARNet released the Giga CARNet project in order to use gigabit technologies to develop a high quality infrastructure for CARNet member institutions, faculties and research institutes. In the framework of the Giga CARNet project, in February 2004 CARNet was enabled, through the connection to the GÉANT network, to have a twice-faster connection to similar academic and research networks in Europe and all over the world (at the speed of 1.2 Gbit/s instead of the former 622 Mbit/s). As a necessary requirement for further cooperation between CARNet and the world's academic and research communities, in June 2007 the speed of CARNet's connection towards the GÉANT network was increased to 10 Gbit/s. Chronology CARNet operates through services and projects integrated in eight departments: The CEO coordinates the activities at the level of the entire institution and outside it, acts on behalf of the institution and represents CARNet in public. CARNet Executive Committee consists of the CEO, the vice CEO and deputy CEOs (heads of the said departments). The Committee coordinates short- and long-term planning, makes decisions on business organisation and is responsible for the relations with the government bodies, users, partners and the public. CARNet is run by the Managing Council which represents the interests of CARNet founders, the Government of the Republic of Croatia. Managing Council members are appointed by the Minister of Science, Education and Sports. The Users Board is CARNet's advisory body consisting of all CARNet coordinators at CARNet member institutions as the representatives of the academic community, heads of county-level computer science councils as the representatives of school system users, and the CARNet CEO. The total amount of budget funds allocated to CARNet was over 88.5 million HRK (ca. 12 million EUR). Basic activities of the Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet are network development, building and maintenance. CARNet network is a private network of the Croatian academic, scientific and research community and the primary and secondary school system institutions. Network infrastructure is owned by the CARNet institution, but cables are rented from a number of telecommunication providers. CARNet network is an example of a WAN network which enables CARNet members throughout Croatia to be connected into a compact information and communication system. CARNet network is a data network whose principal purpose is to transfer data through the TCP/IP protocol. The currently supported version of the TCP/IP protocol in the CARNet network as its integral part is version 4 (IPv4). The key characteristic of every private network is its connection to the global network - the Internet. The CARNet network established this connection through the GÉANT pan-European research network, with the current connection speed of 10 Gbit/s. The connection to other Internet service providers in Croatia has been implemented through the Croatian Internet Exchange Point – CIX. In Croatia, the CARNet network connects the major Croatian towns and cities on the mainland and a number of settlements on the islands. The larger university centres (Dubrovnik, Osijek, Pula, Rijeka, Split, Zadar, Zagreb) have high speed connections (ranging from 155 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s), while smaller centres are connected at the speeds ranging from 2 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s. Zagreb has a particularly advanced infrastructure, connecting larger faculties and scientific institutions at the speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s. Thanks to the project \"e-Split,\", which CARNet has accomplished in cooperation with the City of Split, Split is the first city in which CARNet has its own optical network. Through that optical network 158 CARNet member institutions, in the city area, are connected to CARNet network. More than 900 institutions from the primary and secondary school systems are also connected to the CARNet network via ADSL connections, and schools on Croatian islands have been connected to CARNet network in the framework of the e-Islands project. As part of its vision of inclusion of the Republic of Croatia in modern information society, CARNet participates in a series of international activities. Parallel with the increase of physical link speed on GEANT network, there is an increased development of CARNet's parallel (human) link towards European and international academic Internet community. CARNet activities in the sphere of international cooperation are forming a stable communication channel towards foreign countries, providing CARNet with an opportunity to present Croatia and its academic research community. International cooperation includes following the activities of other academic networks in Europe and participating in the work of international organisations that gather national, educational, academic and research",
"As part of its vision of inclusion of the Republic of Croatia in modern information society, CARNet participates in a series of international activities. Parallel with the increase of physical link speed on GEANT network, there is an increased development of CARNet's parallel (human) link towards European and international academic Internet community. CARNet activities in the sphere of international cooperation are forming a stable communication channel towards foreign countries, providing CARNet with an opportunity to present Croatia and its academic research community. International cooperation includes following the activities of other academic networks in Europe and participating in the work of international organisations that gather national, educational, academic and research networks. CARNet also promotes the inclusion of the Croatian academic community into international projects in the field of information technologies research and application and coordinates the participation of CARNet employees in international projects. CARNet is active member of several international organisations: CARNet users are member institutions and individual users. CARNet member institutions are institutions belonging to the science and higher education system, as well as those belonging to the primary and secondary school systems. By obtaining the member status, institutions are connected to the CARNet network and entitled to use the CARNet services. CARNet has 241 member institutions from the academic community connected to the CARNet network at 418 locations. There are 1385 members from the primary and secondary school systems, connected at 1283 locations. Individual users are higher education students and professors, scientists and persons employed in the academic and higher education community, primary and secondary school students, teachers and employees at primary and secondary schools and student homes. At their respective central institution individual users obtain electronic identities in the AAI@EduHr system. Electronic identity is a virtual identity on the CARNet network which serves for user authentication and authorisation for different CARNet services and is necessary for the use of CARNet services. CARNet CARNET (Croatian Academic and Research Network, ) is the national research and education network of Croatia. It is funded from the government budget and it operates from offices in Zagreb and five other cities. CARNet was established in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. In March 1995 the Government of the Republic of Croatia passed the"
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"Raptor (Gardaland) Raptor is a steel roller coaster at the Gardaland amusement park in Lake Garda, Italy. The ride is a prototype Wing Coaster design by Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. Raptor opened to the public on April 1, 2011. The ride begins from an underground station and features two water splash elements. The layout features several roll overs. The trains hang over the track like X2 at Six Flags Magic Mountain but do not spin. After departing from the underground station, the train makes a left turn into the lift hill. After reaching the top of the lift, the train drops back to the ground before making a sharp left over-banked turn. The train then enters a corkscrew followed by a slight upward left turn. Next, the train goes back down slightly, also going through a set of trim brakes. The train then makes another sharp left turn leading into a zero-gravity-roll. After a sharp left turn, and right turn, the train enters a inline twist, going through the supports of the track, a fake tree and a steel rectangle. The train then makes a left turn into the final brake run where the train then enters the station and the next riders board. The ride lasts about 1 minute and 30 seconds. Raptor (Gardaland) Raptor is a steel roller coaster at the Gardaland amusement park in Lake Garda, Italy. The ride is a prototype Wing Coaster design by Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard. Raptor opened to the public on April 1, 2011. The ride begins from an underground station and features two water splash elements. The layout features several roll overs. The trains hang over the track like X2 at Six Flags Magic Mountain but do not spin. After departing from the underground station,"
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"Henry H. Mauz Jr. Henry H. Mauz Jr. (born May 4, 1936) is a retired United States Navy admiral and the former Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet from 1992 to 1994. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1959, Admiral Mauz went on to serve in Vietnam, operating river patrol boats along the Mekong Delta. He went on to command a minesweeper, USS Prime (MSO-466), , the guided missile destroyer USS Semmes (DDG-18), the guided missile cruiser USS England (CG-22) (1980–1982), Mauz served as commander of the United States Seventh Fleet from 1988 to 1990, and in August 1990 assumed command of all U.S. Naval forces in the Persian Gulf. Mauz retired from active duty in 1994 as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. A 1965 graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, he was President of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation, and currently serves on its board. Admiral Mauz's education includes the Naval Academy, Naval War College, a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, and an MBA from Auburn University. He is a Companion of the Naval Order of the United States, and was inducted into the Naval Postgraduate School Hall of Fame on November 19, 2003. Although retired as a full admiral, Mauz's retirement was delayed by Congress due to allegations he mishandled sexual harassment complaints. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) was chiefly responsible for the delay. In a letter to her, Mauz stated: You have commented on the need to hold our senior officers accountable. I suggest that a U.S. senator has the same code and that in the case of your actions during my confirmation you should also be held accountable. You showed little interest in the truth. Mauz was later confirmed by a vote of 92-6 in favor of allowing him to retire at 4-star rank. Mauz is on the Board of Advisors for Genex Technologies, the Board of Directors of CNF Inc., the Board of Directors of Texas Industries, and the Advisory Council of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Civil Military Relations at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a member at Cypress Point Club. , Gold and Silver Star, Henry H. Mauz Jr. Henry H. Mauz Jr. (born May 4, 1936) is a retired United States Navy admiral and the former Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet from 1992"
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"Judas Iscariot (band) Judas Iscariot was an American black metal band. It began in 1992 as the solo-project of Andrew Harris, who performed under the pseudonym Akhenaten (after the Egyptian Pharaoh of the same name). With the release of \"Heaven in Flames\" (1999), Duane Timlin (aka Cryptic Winter) joined the band as a session drummer. During 1999 and 2000, Akhenaten twice performed live with a line-up featuring members from Nargaroth, Krieg, Absu and Maniac Butcher. After relocating to Germany, Akhenaten announced the demise of Judas Iscariot on August 25, 2002. As the band's name implied, Akhenaten considered the story of the band Judas Iscariot as documentation of one individual's struggle against the moral boundaries set by Christianity. Furthermore, he expressed contempt towards capitalism, which he dismissed as inextricably linked to materialism. Akhenaten stated that his music was intended to give others strength to live in a world compromised by materialism and irrational religious ideology. Some of the lyrics on early Judas Iscariot albums are borrowed from the works of English poet and Christian mystic William Blake, as well as from English poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, fundamental for understanding the connection between Dark Romanticism, the esoteric and their connection to heavy metal lyrics. Akhenaten repeatedly denied holding any extreme right-wing or racist views. In an interview he stated \"Judas Iscariot is no Nazi band. I myself am no Nazi either [...] If other bands think they have to include politics into their music, it's their business, but this has nothing to do with my band.\" Those claims seem to be contradicted by a recording of a concert in San Antonio, where Akhenaten says (11:39) \"Aryans ride over falling Israel ... Israel in flames\", directly referring to the first song of the demo \"United Aryan Evil\" by NSBM act Fullmoon. Moreover, the band uses \"Death March To Treblinka\" by NSBM act S. S. 1488 as an introduction, which contains part of a speech by Adolf Hitler and is taken from the NSBM compilation \"The Night and the Fog\". Akhenaten contributed a song to this compilation through his other band Weltmacht. Judas Iscariot (band) Judas Iscariot was an American black metal band. It began in 1992 as the solo-project of Andrew Harris, who performed under the pseudonym Akhenaten (after the Egyptian Pharaoh of the same name). With the release of \"Heaven in Flames\" (1999), Duane Timlin (aka Cryptic Winter) joined the band as"
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"Bernard Lemaire Bernard Lemaire, (born May 6, 1936) is a Canadian businessman. He was the Chairman of the Board of Cascades Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of packaging products, tissue products and fine papers products. Born in Drummondville, Quebec, he studied civil engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke and McGill University. In 1960, he joined the family recycling business, Drummond Pulp and Fiber. In 1963, along with his father and brother, Laurent, he founded Papier Cascades Inc. (which later became Cascades Inc.). He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the company until 1992. Under Lemaire's presidency Cascades grew from a small paper mill in Kingsey Falls, Quebec, into a multi-national company with 90 plants and 11,000 employees in Canada, the United States and France. In 1987, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, the centrepiece of Canada's honours system which recognizes a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large. In 2002, he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur of France. Upon his retirement from Cascades, Lemaire began a cattle ranch that quickly grew to 1,000 head of highland cattle. He continues to market his natural, hormone-free cattle at the local grocery stores, IGA, Avril Health Supermarkets, butchers and restaurants. Bernard Lemaire Bernard Lemaire, (born May 6, 1936) is a Canadian businessman. He was the Chairman of the Board of Cascades Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of packaging products, tissue products and fine papers products. Born in Drummondville, Quebec, he studied civil engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke and McGill University. In 1960, he joined the family recycling business, Drummond Pulp and Fiber. In 1963, along with his father and brother, Laurent, he founded Papier Cascades Inc. (which later became Cascades Inc.)."
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"John Alexander Jackson (Tasmanian politician) John Alexander Jackson B.A., (1844 – 18 February 1889) was a politician in colonial Tasmania, Attorney-General of Tasmania 1872 to 1873. Jackson was the youngest son of John Alexander Jackson, an architect in Tasmania, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and entered as a student at the Middle Temple in November 1864, being called to the bar in June 1868. He subsequently returned to Tasmania, and was admitted to the bar of that colony, practising at Hobart. Jackson was member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Electoral district of Queenborough from 8 September 1871 until resigning in July 1876. Jackson was Attorney-General in the Frederick Innes ministry from November 1872 to August 1873, and died on 18 February 1889, aged forty-five years. John Alexander Jackson (Tasmanian politician) John Alexander Jackson B.A., (1844 – 18 February 1889) was a politician in colonial Tasmania, Attorney-General of Tasmania 1872 to 1873. Jackson was the youngest son of John Alexander Jackson, an architect in Tasmania, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and entered as a student at the Middle Temple in November 1864, being called to the bar in June 1868. He subsequently returned to Tasmania, and"
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"Basemath Basemath, Bashemath, or Basmath (, Arabic: بسمة; \"Sweet-smile\") is a figure in the Book of Genesis. She was the daughter of Ishmael (or as Genesis 26:34-35 shows, Elon the Hittite), the niece of Isaac, and the third wife of Esau. () Before Esau married his third wife, he had named one of his Canaanite wives after Basemath, probably because he knew of her since they were cousins. The wife whom Esau named as Basemath, was Adah the Hittite, his first wife. So after he married his third wife, Esau changed Basemath the Ishmaelite's name to Mahalath. Esau sought this union with a non Canaanite, in an effort to reconcile his relationship with his parents, namely with his father Isaac whose blessing he sought (). However, there is no record of his parents' approval for the union of Esau and Basemath (Mahalath). She bore a son, Reuel, to Esau. () Basemath Basemath, Bashemath, or Basmath (, Arabic: بسمة; \"Sweet-smile\") is a figure in the Book of Genesis. She was the daughter of Ishmael (or as Genesis 26:34-35 shows, Elon the Hittite), the niece of Isaac, and the third wife of Esau. () Before Esau married his third wife, he had"
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"Crime drop The crime drop or crime decline is a pattern observed in many countries whereby rates of many types of crime declined by 50% or more beginning in the early 1990s. In the United States, for example, violent crime rates have fallen by over 50% in many major U.S. cities since these rates peaked in the early 1990s; in New York City, these rates had dropped by 75% from the early 1990s to 2010. In the United States, a second decline in the crime rate was also observed, with homicide rates declining first from 1994 to 2002, and then again from 2007 to 2011. On average, international crime declines from 1995 to 2004 were as follows: 77.1 percent in theft from cars, 60.3 percent in theft from person, 26.0 percent in burglary, 20.6 percent in assault and 16.8 percent in car theft. The crime drop since the early 1990s has occurred in many countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. However, no overall crime decline occurred in Western Europe during this period. Many hypotheses have been proposed as to why crime has fallen, especially in the United States. Blumstein & Wallman (2006) conclude that a complex interaction between \"prisons, drugs, guns, policing, economics,\" and \"demography, including abortion\" is the best explanation for the crime drop in the United States. The lead-crime hypothesis proposed a link between elevated blood lead levels in children and later increases in crime. Children exposed to forms of lead at young ages are hypothesized to be more likely to develop learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and problems with impulse control. These problems are suggested to lead to the commission of more crimes as these children reach adulthood, especially violent crimes. Alfred Blumstein argues that part of the drop in the United States' violent crime rate is due to declining demand for crack cocaine. A 2014 report by the Home Office stated that changes in demand for illegal drugs (specifically, heroin) were a major contributor to the crime drop in the United Kingdom. The mainstream view among criminologists is that unemployment and poverty are strongly related to crime, because a decrease in opportunities for legal employment, in theory, should increase the frequency of illegal employment. Multiple studies of the United States, for example, have found that the improvement of the American economy coincided with a drop in crime throughout the 1990s. A 2015 Brennan Center for Justice report, however, estimated that no more than 5 percent of the 1990s crime drop in the United States was attributable to changes in unemployment. The view that higher unemployment rates cause higher crime rates has also been challenged by the fact that the United States crime rate reached a 40-year low in 2010, despite America's lagging economy. Studies of the United States have shown that increases in the concentration of immigrants are associated with decreases in violent crime rates, especially homicide and robbery. This relationship suggests that increasing immigration to the United States may be responsible for part of the recent drop in violent crime rates in the United States. A 2015 Brennan Center for Justice report found that increased incarceration was responsible for about 5% of the crime drop in the United States during the 1990s, and for essentially none of the crime drop there since 2000. Commentators and academics who question the role of incarceration in the crime drop have noted that Canada's crime rates followed similar trends as those in the United States during the 1990s; in contrast, Canada's incarceration rate did not change significantly during this time, while that of the United States increased significantly. In 2009, Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld found that incarceration was negatively related to burglary rates \"...only after unusual policy interventions, such as Italy's 2006 clemency measure that dramatically reduced the size of its prison population.\" Some have proposed that changes in policing practices (e.g. the adoption of broken windows policing) were responsible for the crime drop in the United States, especially in New York City. However, Canada did not change its policing practices significantly prior to their crime drop, which casts doubt on the extent to which policing was responsible for this phenomenon. Some of the most popular claims about policing reducing violent crime are not supported by the evidence. Levitt (2004) estimates that increases in the number of police accounted for between 5 and 6% of the crime drop in the United States during the 1990s. A 2007 study found that misdemeanor arrests were negatively associated with changes in total homicide rates in New York City. A 2014 article in \"Crime and Justice\" reported that the \"security hypothesis\" was the best explanation for the drop out of the 17 hypotheses tested. This hypothesis proposes that improved and more widespread security devices, like electronic immobilizers and central locking, were responsible for a large part of the crime drop by preventing numerous crimes. Consistent with this hypothesis, attempted crime has also been declining, suggesting that would-be criminals are becoming discouraged by improved security. Crime drop The crime drop or crime decline is a pattern observed in many countries whereby rates of many types of crime declined by 50% or more beginning in the early 1990s. In the United States, for example, violent crime rates have fallen by over 50% in many major U.S. cities since these rates peaked in the early 1990s; in New York"
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"Hanfu Hanfu () is a term associated with the Hanfu movement used to refer to the historical traditional dress sensibilities of the Han Chinese. Although the \"Book of Han\" contains reference to \" (read \"Han Yifu\" in modern Standard Mandarin), the word 'Hanfu' () does not appear in A Dictionary of Current Chinese, Cihai or other important dictionaries of Standard Mandarin Chinese. Ancient Chinese clothing was influential to other traditional clothing such as the Japanese kimono, yukata and the Vietnamese Áo giao lĩnh. Traditional Han clothing comprises all traditional clothing classifications of the Han Chinese with a recorded history of more than three millennia until the end of the Ming Dynasty. From the beginning of its history, Han clothing (especially in elite circles) was inseparable from silk, supposedly discovered by the Yellow Emperor's consort, Leizu. The Shang dynasty (c. 1600 BC – 1000 BC), developed the rudiments of \"Hanfu\"; it consisted of a \"yi\", a narrow-cuffed, knee-length tunic tied with a sash, and a narrow, ankle-length skirt, called \"chang\", worn with a \"bixi\", a length of fabric that reached the knees. Vivid primary colors and green were used, due to the degree of technology at the time. The dynasty to follow the Shang, the Western Zhou dynasty, established a strict hierarchical society that used clothing as a status meridian, and inevitably, the height of one’s rank influenced the ornateness of a costume. Such markers included the length of a skirt, the wideness of a sleeve and the degree of ornamentation. In addition to these class-oriented developments, Han Chinese clothing became looser, with the introduction of wide sleeves and jade decorations hung from the sash which served to keep the \"yi\" closed. The \"yi\" was essentially wrapped over, in a style known as \"jiaoling youren\", or wrapping the right side over before the left, because of the initially greater challenge to the right-handed wearer (people of Zhongyuan discouraged left-handedness like many other historical cultures, considering it unnatural, barbarian, uncivilized, and unfortunate). The style of historical Han clothing can be summarized as containing garment elements that are arranged in distinctive and sometimes specific ways. This is different from the traditional garment of other ethnic groups in China, most notably the Manchu-influenced clothes, the \"qipao\", which is popularly assumed to be the de facto traditional Han Chinese garb. A comparison of the two styles can be seen as the following provides: !Component!!Han!!Manchu Hanfu"
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"Lake Richmond Lake Richmond is a freshwater lake in Rockingham, Western Australia. It is approximately , with an area of , and is deep in the centre. It is believed to be named after the London borough. The lake is less than from the coast, having separated from the ocean at Cockburn Sound within the last 4,000 years. The shallow waters within about of the edges of the lake are home to thrombolites, estimated to be about six million years old. The internal structure of the thrombolites is believed to be unique in the world. Before 1960, the lake's salinity was 20003500 mg/L. In the 1960s it was used as part of an urban drainage scheme; the Water Board constructed inlet and outlet drains. Subsequently the salinity level dropped to 300400 mg/L. A boardwalk extends approximately into the lake. Water birds that inhabit the area include the Australian pelican, black swan, Australian shelduck, musk duck, white-faced heron and common greenshank. The lake is home to the Swan River goby (\"Psuedogobius olorum\"), eastern mosquitofish, sea mullet, goldfish and yabbies. The lake was used as a source of fresh water by the local indigenous Noongar people, as well as the settlers of the Swan River Colony. The 10th Light Horse Regiment had a camp near the lake during the war years. In 2017, the lake was given a permanent entry on the State Register of Heritage Places. It also listed on the WA Register of Aboriginal Sites, as RAS #15974. Lake Richmond Lake Richmond is a freshwater lake in Rockingham, Western Australia. It is approximately , with an area of , and is deep in the centre. It is believed to be named after the London borough. The lake is less than from the coast, having separated from the ocean at Cockburn"
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"Wynn Speece Wynn Hubler Speece (1917–2007) was the \"Neighbor Lady\" on WNAX (AM) radio for 64 years from 1941 to 2005. Speece began working at WNAX in 1939 shortly after graduating from Drake University with a degree in theater. As the \"Neighbor Lady,” Speece shared recipes, household tips and personal anecdotes during her weekday program. At the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s, she received over 250,000 letters a year. WNAX published \"Ten Years with Your Neighbor Lady\", a collection of recipes, tips and letters from listeners, in 1954. Speece received a Marconi Radio Award in 1992. Wynn Speece Wynn Hubler Speece (1917–2007) was the \"Neighbor Lady\" on WNAX (AM) radio for 64 years from 1941 to 2005. Speece began working at WNAX in 1939 shortly after graduating from Drake University with a degree in theater. As the \"Neighbor Lady,” Speece shared recipes, household tips and personal anecdotes during her weekday program. At the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s, she received over 250,000 letters a year. WNAX published \"Ten Years with Your Neighbor Lady\", a collection of recipes, tips and letters from listeners, in 1954. Speece received a Marconi Radio Award in 1992."
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"Muriel Téodori Muriel Téodori (born September 8, 1958) is a French psychoanalyst, writer, film maker and film producer. Muriel Téodori graduated with degrees in philosophy and clinical psychopathology and went on to teach philosophy. Developing an interest in film, Téodori collaborated on several screenplays for feature films, including \"Tom and Lola\", \"The Shadow and The Silences of the Palace\", and directed several short films. The first feature film she directed was \"Sans plomb\" in 2000, which premiered at the Cabourg Film Festival. Although well received by critics, it was not a commercial success. In 1992 Téodori taught film-making at La Fémis. She also worked as a journalist for Elle using the pseudonym Jeanne Chuzelles. In 2007 Téodori wrote the libretto for an opera released by Deutsche Grammophon titled \"Welcome to the Voice\" with Steve Nieve, Sting, Robert Wyatt, Elvis Costello and Barbara Bonney as the main performers. The opera received a mixed reception in France, but was well received in the United States. Time Magazine noted the modernity of the opera and how well it was received. In 1997 Téodori published a book with philosopher Jacques Dechamps. Short films include: Feature-length films: Producer credit: In recent years, Téodori has lived in France with her husband keyboardist and songwriter Steve Nieve. Muriel Téodori Muriel Téodori (born September 8, 1958) is a French psychoanalyst, writer, film maker and film producer. Muriel Téodori graduated with degrees in philosophy and clinical psychopathology and went on to teach philosophy. Developing an interest in film, Téodori collaborated on several screenplays for feature films, including \"Tom and Lola\", \"The Shadow and The Silences of the Palace\", and directed several short films. The first feature film she directed was \"Sans plomb\" in 2000, which premiered at the Cabourg Film Festival. Although well received by critics, it was not"
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"University of Bradford The University of Bradford is a public, plate glass university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The university received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 19th century. There are two campuses: the main campus located on Richmond Road and the School of Management, at Emm Lane. The student population includes undergraduate and postgraduate students. Mature students make up around a third of the undergraduate community. 22% of students are foreign, and come from over 110 different countries. There were 14,406 applications to the university through UCAS in 2010, of which 3,421 were accepted. It was the first British university to establish a Department of Peace Studies in 1973, which is currently the world's largest university centre for the study of peace and conflict. The university's origins date back to \"the Mechanics Institute\", founded in 1832, formed in response to the need in the city for workers with skills relevant to the workplace. In 1882, the institute became the \"Bradford Technical College\". In 1957, the \"Bradford Institute of Technology\", was formed as a \"College of Advanced Technology\" to take on the running of higher education courses. Construction of the Richmond Building, the largest building on campus, began in 1963. The Horton Building and Chesham building were subsequently added, on the opposite side of Richmond Road. The Charter of Incorporation was granted in 1966, to create the University of Bradford; the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson became the university's first chancellor. Expansion of the main campus continued in the 1970s and onwards, with the addition of the Library and Computer Centre, Communal Building, Pemberton Building and Ashfield Building. An extension to the Library and Computer Centre was completed in the mid-1990s. In 1996, the university joined with the former Bradford and Airedale College of Health, which then became the School of Health Studies within the university. The Department of Physics was closed in the 1980s. The Department of Mathematics was closed to new undergraduates in 1997, with the remaining postgraduate activities and lecture support being integrated into the Department of Computing as the Mathematics Unit. The Department of Mathematics has since been reopened within the School of Computing, Informatics and Media. In 1987, the university became one of the twelve founding members of the Northern Consortium. In September 2009, it was announced that the University was to merge with Leeds College of Music. The college had originally announced a merger with Leeds Metropolitan University in April 2009, however, discussions broke down due to issues with the provision of further education courses at the college. It was later announced that this merger would not go ahead due to financial constraints. LCM's degrees are now validated by the University of Hull. In 2005, a project to become an 'Ecoversity' was initiated, along with a £84 million redevelopment of the campus. The university aimed to reduce its environmental footprint by reducing waste and using sustainable materials. As part of this, Bradford became a Fairtrade University in December 2006. As of 2008, several of the redevelopment projects have been completed. The Richmond Building has been partially re-clad with extra insulation and a new atrium; designed by local Saltaire-based architects Rance Booth & Smith; opened in December 2006, the roof of which uses ETFE – the same material used in the Eden Project. The university's cancer therapeutics research centre was moved from a separate site on All Saint's Road onto the main campus, into a new building which also provides conference facilities; the buildings on the old site were demolished in February 2008. Redevelopment of the sports facilities was completed in summer 2009, and a new student village called \"The Green\" was constructed which opened in September 2011. The Green has the highest ever BREEAM rating for any building. Of the existing halls owned by the university, those on the Laisteridge Lane site were sold to \"Corporate Residential Management\" in 2005, and Shearbridge Green Halls were demolished in December 2006. Longside Lane halls and Kirkstone Halls were demolished during the first half of 2009. The university has a \"leading-edge 100-seat PC cluster\" for teaching, learning and computer-based assessment, and there is an art gallery, theatre and music centre. The £84m investment in the campus included a major refurbishment of the laboratories in the school of life sciences, creation of a new MBA suite and library at the school of management, refurbishment of the student union building, Student Central. The university has won its campus the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development’ in The Times Higher Education Awards two years running. The J B Priestley library is open 24 hours, 360 days a year, it has 530,000 volumes, more than 1,100 printed periodical titles and approximately 60,000 electronic journals. In addition to the university library, there is a Blackwell bookshop located on campus. The current chancellor is the business woman and University of Bradford graduate Kate Swann. The first Vice-Chancellor was Dr E.G. Edwards, who as Principal of the Bradford Institute of Technology took over the new institution. The current Vice-Chancellor (from 1 October 2013) is Brian Cantor CBE, who was previously the VC at the University of York. \"The Green\", which opened September 2011, is a new £40 million purpose built student accommodation village. Designed for eco-friendly living, \"The Green\" has the highest ever BREEAM rating for any building (95.05%), awarded for sustainable building development and operation. It is also the first BREEAM 'Outstanding' student accommodation in the country. There are five academic faculties. These have previously been called \"schools\" but changed their name to avoid confusion with the sub-units also sometimes called schools in 2014. Four faculties are based at the city campus, and share many facilities, whilst the Faculty of Management and Law (which incorporates the School of Management and Law School) is a short bus ride away. On 1 October 2013, the School of Engineering, Design and Technology and the School of Computing, Informatics and Media were merged to form the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics. Three schools make up this new overarching Faculty: the School of Engineering (Mechanical, Medical, Civil & Chemical Engineering programmes), the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Computing & Maths programmes) and the School of Media, Design & Technology (Media & Design programmes) The following describes the former schools of EDT & SCIM: The second-largest school in the university consists of the departments of Computing, Bradford Media School (BMS), Creative Technology (CT) and Mathematics. SCIM offers over 40 undergraduate degrees and postgraduate study in various areas including computing, ICT, robotics, mathematics, media and television. The School has a very lively research culture with over 100 students registered for MPhil/PhD. The Department of Computing was one of the first in the UK to run an MSc course in Computing back in 1967. Undergraduate courses began in 1970. The EIMC department was founded in 1991 and developed its courses in conjunction with the School of Art, Design & Textiles at Bradford and Ilkley Community College (now known as Bradford College) and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum). It was one of the first departments to offer BSc courses in media technology, going on to introduce some of the first animation and computer games degrees, and more recently expanding to offer a new range of similar BA courses. Today, SCIM no longer works in association with",
"School has a very lively research culture with over 100 students registered for MPhil/PhD. The Department of Computing was one of the first in the UK to run an MSc course in Computing back in 1967. Undergraduate courses began in 1970. The EIMC department was founded in 1991 and developed its courses in conjunction with the School of Art, Design & Textiles at Bradford and Ilkley Community College (now known as Bradford College) and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum). It was one of the first departments to offer BSc courses in media technology, going on to introduce some of the first animation and computer games degrees, and more recently expanding to offer a new range of similar BA courses. Today, SCIM no longer works in association with the college, but has strengthened its relationship with the nearby National Media Museum. In association with the Department of Computing, it obtained a research grade 4 at RAE 2001. A non-linear video editing / training suite is named in honour of the Shipley born film director Tony Richardson, and was opened by his daughter, the film actress Natasha Richardson in 1996. In 2007 the School launched a partnership with East Coast Media at the Grimsby Institute and the National Media Museum to bid for Skillset Media Academy status, which was granted in 2008. Accreditation mainly covers courses in the Bradford Media School. A core part of the school is the Innovations Unit, which offers the expertise of specialists within SCIM to commercial and social enterprises. This collaboration is part of a government initiative called Knowledge Transfer, which also includes partnerships with national and international companies. The IIU is also home to \"Simula\", which using knowledge transfer and resources for commercial projects including the school's motion capture suite for video games including Driver Parallel Lines, World Snooker Championships and GTR. The university inherited several engineering courses from the Bradford Institute of Technology and some of these courses, such as Civil Engineering are still taught today. All of the engineering courses are accredited by their relevant institute. The school also has a large number of both undergraduate and postgraduate design and technology courses. Its research areas include automotive engineering, polymers, telecommunications and advanced materials engineering. From the establishment of the university in 1966, the individual branches of engineering were taught in separate departments. When reorganisation of the three faculties of the university took place, a single School of Engineering, Design and Technology was created and incorporated the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and the Department of Industrial Studies. The Department of Chemical Engineering was closed shortly before the creation of the new school. However, in 2010, an undergraduate programme in Chemical Engineering was re-launched in 2010 with support from the Institute of Chemical Engineers – the first graduates from the 3 year BEng version of this course graduated in June 2013. In 2012 a postgraduate course was also launched. Faculty of Health Studies was formerly the School of Nursing and Bradford and Airedale University of Health, this became part of the university in 1996; previously it was an associate college with the university validating its degrees. The School has moved to the main city campus, into the Horton A building which underwent major refurbishment in 2011. The Horton building was extended and another floor added to accommodate the School of Nursing. The School of Nursing was previously located on a separate site on Trinity Road, about 10 minutes walk from the main campus and near to St. Luke's Hospital. It specialises in degrees in nursing, physiotherapy, midwifery, occupational therapy and radiography. A specialist drug therapy course is run by the department and there are also part-time courses in dementia care. The department's student demographics are largely female, with a higher proportion of mature students. The physiotherapy course is ranked 9th and 3rd in the 2014 and 2017 UK complete university guide. The Faculty of Life Sciences has the highest number of students of all of the schools, with more than 2,000 students admitted to a variety of undergraduate courses in the areas of Biomedical Sciences, Chemical and Forensic Science, Clinical Sciences, Optometry, Pharmacy and Archaeological, Geographical and Environmental Sciences. The Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Science (BSOVS) has its own Eye Clinic, situated on the nearby Science Park, providing Primary Care for the local community in conjunction with a student training facility. BSOVS also provides a variety of other clinical services (e.g. an Electro-diagnostic Unit opened October 2010) that people may be referred to by practitioners. The Division of Chemical and Forensic Science runs a number of forensic science courses in conjunction with the Division of Biomedical Sciences and further undergraduate and postgraduate courses are being developed in the area of Biotechnology. The Division of Biomedical Sciences is also a contributor the Clinical Sciences degree, which commenced in 2002. Although the Division of Clinical Sciences provides a degree in its own right, as importantly there is provision for students to transfer to Leeds Medical School's MBChB programme. The Centre for Skin Sciences is one of the largest academic centres in Britain for fundamental and translational skin and hair follicle research. The Institute of Cancer Therapeutics has an excellent reputation for research and there is very close collaboration with staff from other divisions within the School. The Division of Archaeological, Geographical and Environmental Sciences is located in refurbished, late 19th century mill buildings, housing extensive specialist facilities. Formerly a separate school, it was merged with Life Sciences in 2006. The Faculty of Management and Law consisting of Bradford School of Management and the Law School is located away from the main campus on a parkland campus, Emm Lane. It teaches courses in business, finance, accountancy, management and marketing. As of 2005 the department commenced teaching an accredited LLB law degree. It has a number of master's degrees, MBA programmes and doctoral programmes running alongside undergraduate programmes. Its research is both international and interdisciplinary and has five main research groups covering all the main areas of management, and co-operative links and exchange agreements with 20 universities in America, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Holland, Spain and Sweden. School of Management has full Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) accreditation for DBA and PhD programmes, portfolio Association of MBAs accreditation for MBA programmes and EQUIS accreditation. The Faculty of Social and International Studies covers the areas of development, economics, humanities (including English and history), politics, international relations, peace studies, psychology, criminology and social work. The school offers a range of taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has a number of active research areas, especially in conflict resolution. The school is actively engaged in the Programme for a Peaceful City initiative. It contains six division (some of which were previously called Departments or Schools) Divisions of Economics, Peace Studies, International Development (BCID), Sociology and Criminology, Psychology and finally Social Care and Social Work. The \"Centre for Psychology Studies\" offers a psychology course for undergraduates, accredited by the British Psychological Society. In 2008, Lord Winston officially opened new state of the art psychology laboratories, for teaching and research. One of the university's",
"peace studies, psychology, criminology and social work. The school offers a range of taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has a number of active research areas, especially in conflict resolution. The school is actively engaged in the Programme for a Peaceful City initiative. It contains six division (some of which were previously called Departments or Schools) Divisions of Economics, Peace Studies, International Development (BCID), Sociology and Criminology, Psychology and finally Social Care and Social Work. The \"Centre for Psychology Studies\" offers a psychology course for undergraduates, accredited by the British Psychological Society. In 2008, Lord Winston officially opened new state of the art psychology laboratories, for teaching and research. One of the university's most popular courses, The National Student Survey ranked Psychology at Bradford as being within the Top 5 in the UK with 94% Student Satisfaction. The motto which appears on most current University of Bradford publications is \"Making Knowledge Work\", which relates to the institution's focus on courses that lead to employment. The university announced in June 2007 it was to use this phrase as a trademark. However, the motto inscribed beneath the official coat of arms is \"Give Invention Light\", which is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38. It has also used the slogans \"Be Inspired\" and \"Confronting Inequality, Celebrating Diversity\" in recent promotional material. \"The Times\" Good University Guide ranked Bradford 7th in UK for graduate employment in 2005 and 2nd in 2006. The university has a strong reputation for research and knowledge transfer. It is ranked in the Top 50 English Universities based on research funding (HEFCE 2009–10). Staff-student ratios are amongst the best in the UK (The University of Bradford is in the 2nd quartile for staff-student ratios in The Independent, The Times and The Guardian League Tables). The 2008 RAE reported that 80 per cent of academics at the university who submitted research to the panel are doing international or world-leading research. Membership at the University of Bradford’s Students’ Union, (UBU), is automatic upon confirmation of enrolment. UBU has advice services, a radio station, and runs many societies and sports clubs. The union is run by an annually elected Council, which includes an executive committee of six full-time sabbatical officers and nine non-sabbatical officers. The sabbaticals are slightly unusual within the sector, in having a \"flat structure\", lacking a Union President: the post was abolished by then President Shumon Rahman in 2001. The Union is located in the \"Student Central\" building on campus, alongside the University bars, a cafe and shop, and the library. Students get to make use of the \"Unique\" centre which is located on campus. Facilities include a fitness suite, an indoor 25-metre swimming pool and a climbing wall. The largest student involvement in their Union comes in the forms of the sports clubs (through the Athletics Union, commonly known as the AU), and the societies (through the Societies Federation). There is a wide variety of both, including many course related societies such as the Bradford Ophthalmic Optics Student Association. Students are also free to start their own societies. The Student Union also has \"Ramair\", one of the UK's longest running student radio stations, as well as a student newspaper and the long-established \"Bradford Student Cinema\" that now regularly screens recent releases to students and staff for free. RamAir was also able to host the Student Radio Conference in 2012 with student Ian Thursfield winning a national award for Radio in 2011. The University were champions of University Challenge in 1979 on 28 January 1979. When Bradford defeated Lancaster University in the third leg by 215 points to 160. It was less successful in 2004, achieving only 35 points: The joint 3rd lowest score ever recorded on the show. University of Bradford The University of Bradford is a public, plate glass university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The university received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 19th century. There are two campuses: the main campus located on Richmond Road and the School of Management, at Emm Lane. The student population includes undergraduate and postgraduate students."
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"Marímbula The marímbula () is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean. In Cuba it is common in the changüí genre, as well as old styles of son. In Mexico, where it is known as marimbol is played in son jarocho; in the Dominican Republic, where it is known as marimba, it is played in merengue típico, and in Jamaica it is known as rumba box and played in mento. Unlike typical African lamellophones, such as the mbira, used to produce complex polyphony and polyrhythms, the marimbula usually plays the role of a bass guitar, i.e. providing the rhythmic and harmonic support for a band, although it can produce a simple melody as well. Designs of marimbulas vary greatly, in terms of the material of resonator, the number and arrangement of keys, the overall arrangement and size of the instrument and the way it is played. It consists of a wood box with a sound hole cut in the center of it. Across this hole, a number of metal strips are attached at one end to the resonating box. These metal strips are tuned to different pitches, and are plucked to produce a bassline for the music. The marímbula is usually classified as part of the lamellophone family of musical instruments. With its roots in African instruments, the marimbula originated in the province of Oriente, Cuba, in the 19th century. Eventually it spread throughout the Caribbean, the Americas, and Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. By the 1930s it had made its way to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, other Caribbean islands, Mexico, and as far away as New York City. The Cubans call it \"marímbula\", and most of the other Caribbean countries have adopted this name or some variant of it: \"marimba\", \"malimba\", \"manimba\", \"marimbol\". The instrument has a number of other names, such as marímbola (Puerto Rico), bass box, \"calimba\" (\"calymba\"), rhumba box, Church & Clap, Jazz Jim or Lazy Bass (Jamaica), and box lamellophone. African slaves of the Caribbean made musical instruments from whatever stray material they could lay their hands on. Early marimbulas were made from discarded wooden packing crates, with tongues (keys) made of springy wood, bamboo, old hack-saw blades, all kinds of discarded springs, etc. The musician sits on top of the box reaching down to pluck the tongues whilst slapping the sides of the box like a drum. The instrument's evolution and playing style is similar to the cajon box drum. This instrument was very important in the development of Afro-Cuban music as it was one of the basic instruments played by changüí musicians. Both changüí and son genres developed as a result of the combination of African and Spanish musical styles and instrumentation. Thus, changüí musicians still play a pair of tack-head bongos, marímbula, a pair of maracas, güiro, and tres to accompany the voice of the vocalist and chorus. Most of the above-mentioned instruments are handmade folk instruments, made from locally available materials, as opposed to commercially produced instruments. The oldest surviving recordings of the marímbula in Cuba were made by Terceto Yoyo and Sexteto Habanero in 1925. This was one of the many instruments imported from the Americas to Africa, which continue to be played to this day, in various forms and styles, particularly in the countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria. The marímbula became quite popular in Jamaica in conjunction with guitars, drums, maracas, and vocals in the churches, where it was known as church and clap, in nightclubs where it was known as jazz jim, and among the various hotel performers, who played mento music. It can still be found in use by mento musicians such as The Jolly Boys. Currently, the instrument is regaining popularity among hip hop artists and \"mbira\" players, like Chartwell Dutiro and The Jolly Boys. Marímbula The marímbula () is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean. In Cuba it is common in the changüí genre, as well as old styles of son. In Mexico, where it is known as marimbol is played in son jarocho; in the Dominican Republic, where it is known as marimba, it is played in merengue típico, and in Jamaica it"
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"Damilola Adegbite Damilola Adegbite (born Oluwadamilola Adegbite; 18 May 1985) is a Nigerian actress, model, and television personality. She played Thelema Duke in the soap opera \"Tinsel\", and Kemi Williams in the movie \"Flower Girl\". She won Best Actress in a TV Series at the 2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. She was born in Surulere, Lagos State. She attended Queen's College in Yaba, Lagos and studied business administration at Bowen University in Iwo, Osun State. \"Tinsel\" was her acting debut. She has also appeared in TV commercials and hosted programs on TV. In August 2014, Adegbite got engaged to Chris Attoh, a fellow actor she met on set of the soap opera \"Tinsel\". In September 2014, the couple welcomed their son Brian. Adegbite and Attoh married privately in Accra, Ghana on 14 February 2015. In September 2017, news broke that Adegbite's marriage to husband Chris Attoh had crashed. Adegbite had sparked split rumours after she deleted Chris Attoh's surname from her social-media accounts She also unfollowed him on Instagram, deleted all photos of him from her social media account. Hours later, in an interview, Chris Attoh confirmed his marriage to Damilola Adegbite was over Damilola Adegbite Damilola Adegbite (born Oluwadamilola Adegbite;"
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"NASCAR 08 NASCAR 08 is the eleventh installment of the EA Sports NASCAR series. It was developed by EA Tiburon and released for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This is the earliest that EA has released a NASCAR game. It also marks the first time the original Xbox has been excluded from the NASCAR lineup since \"NASCAR 2001\". Tony Stewart is on the cover marking his third appearance on the cover of an EA Sports NASCAR game. The cover in the PAL region features Juan Pablo Montoya (as Montoya returns to EA Sports cover athlete since F1 Career Challenge). NASCAR's new Car of Tomorrow as well as the current car are present in the game, although the Car of Tomorrow is generic (no separate manufacturers). ESPN's NASCAR coverage is also integrated into the game. Crew chief dialogue for the PS3 and 360 versions of the game was recorded by Chad Knaus. The Whelen Modified Tour is not included in the PS3 and 360 versions of the game, but is present in the PS2 version. Critical reception of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the game has been mixed to negative. Play magazine gave the game 38%. GameSpot gave the Xbox 360 version a 6.0 rating and a 6.0 for the PlayStation 3 version. The closing comments of the IGN Xbox 360 review: Critical reception of the PlayStation 2 version was better when compared to the previous years \"NASCAR 07\", but still fared mixed to negative. The closing comments of the Strategy Informer review: NASCAR 08 NASCAR 08 is the eleventh installment of the EA Sports NASCAR series. It was developed by EA Tiburon and released for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This is the earliest that EA has released a NASCAR game. It also"
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"Rouge (film journal) Rouge is a triannually-published online film journal edited by Adrian Martin, Helen Bandis and Grant McDonald. Based in Australia, it publishes essays by critics from all over the world, many of them as translations. It is often cited as one of the premier online-only film journals and has been described as \"[maintaining] one of the highest standards of writing of any online film journal\" and as \"championing some of the most exciting and innovative critical writing being done anywhere in the world.\" Over the years, it has published articles and other contributions by Gilbert Adair, Thom Andersen, Nicole Brenez, Pedro Costa, Serge Daney, Raymond Durgnat, Victor Erice, Chris Fujiwara, Jean-Pierre Gorin, José Luis Guerin, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Jonas Mekas, Luc Moullet, Mark Rappaport, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter Tscherkassky and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The journal also publishes books under the Rouge Press imprint. Its most recent release is a collection of essays on Raul Ruiz. Rouge (film journal) Rouge is a triannually-published online film journal edited by Adrian Martin, Helen Bandis and Grant McDonald. Based in Australia, it publishes essays by critics from all over the world, many of them as translations. It is often cited as"
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"Alamodactylus Alamodactylus is an extinct genus of non-pteranodontoid pteranodontian known from the Late Cretaceous of Texas, southern United States. It contains a single species, Alamodactylus byrdi. \"Alamodactylus\" is known solely from its holotype, SMU 76476, a partial left wing first described by Myers (2010). This specimen is crushed and consists of a left humerus, the distal end of the fourth wing metacarpal and the proximal end of the first wing phalanx of fourth digit. Other elements of the holotype first reported by Andres and Myers (2013) include a left proximal syncarpal, manual phalanx, and some fragments including four tapering processes that may be represent skull bones, an articular surface that appears to be the mandible articulation of the right quadrate as well as thin bones that do not taper and may be ossified tendons. \"Alamodactylus\" was first named by Brian Andres and Timothy S. Myers in 2013 and the type species is \"Alamodactylus byrdi\". The generic name is derived from \"Alamo\" - symbol of Texas independence and \"dactylos\", meaning \"finger\" in Ancient Greek which is a traditional suffix for pterosaur genera in reference to their elongate wing digits. The specific name, \"byrdi\", honors Gary Byrd for discovering the holotype. The holotype was collected from the Atco Formation of Austin Group, north of Dallas in Collin County, dating to the lower Coniacian stage of the middle Late Cretaceous period, about 89.8-88 million years ago. The holotype of \"Alamodactylus\" was originally referred to Pteranodontidae by Myers (2010) and tentatively identified as cf. \"Pteranodon\". Myers (2010) noted that the humerus was superficially similar to that of \"Pteranodon\" while other similarities were noted with \"Nyctosaurus\", but the holotype being crushed rendered comparison difficult. Andres and Myers (2013) diagnosed \"Alamodactylus\" on the basis of unique combination of constricted humerus mid-shaft and D-shaped distal humerus cross-section. This medium-sized pterosaur also has autapomorphic small pneumatic foramen on ventral surface of humerus proximal end, and dorsal nutrient foramen positioned on midline of humerus shaft level with the middle of deltopectoral crest. Additionally, its warped humerus deltopectoral crest thickens proximally. As suggested in the original description by Myers (2010), the phylogenetic analysis performed by Andres and Myers (2013) recovered \"A. byrdi\" as closely related to \"Pteranodon\" and the Nyctosauridae. This analysis is the largest and most inclusive pterosaur phylogenetic analysis to date. \"A. byrdi\" and nyctosaurids were recovered as successive sister groups to the Pteranodontoidea, of which \"Pteranodon\" is defined to be the most basal taxon. Although the clade name Pteranodontia usually applies to the clade exclusively formed by pteranodontids and nyctosaurid, it was originally converted by Unwin (2003) to include \"Pteranodon\" and \"Nyctosaurus\" so under their phylogeny it contains also the Ornithocheirae and other taxa. Therefore, \"A. byrdi\" was classified as a non-pteranodontoid pteranodontian, and its sister taxon relationship with Pteranodontoidea warranted the erection of a new genus and species for this material. Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic placement of \"A. byrdi\" within Pteranodontia from Andres and Myers (2013). Alamodactylus Alamodactylus is an extinct genus of"
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"Christopher Peto Sir Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto, 3rd Baronet, DSO (19 February 1897 – 19 May 1980) was a Brigadier in the British Army during World War II and a post-war British Conservative Party politician. He was born in 1897 at Chertsey, Surrey, the son of Sir Basil Peto and Mary Matilda Annie \"née\" Baird Peto served in both World War I and World War II, attaining the rank of Brigadier. He took command of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in October 1938, being one of the few officers in the regiment to have seen action in World War I. He was tasked with carrying on the mechanised training of the regiment in the buildup to the war, to mobilise it when war came and to take it to France in May 1940. The regimental history of the Lancers has this description of him in its foreword: \"\"His was the responsibility of showing all ranks how to behave under fire, and so much depends upon the leadership the first time men go into battle. His calm and fearless example was an inspiration to all, and laid the foundation of the enthusiasm and steadiness which the regiment so consistently displayed throughout the war. He commanded with conspicuous ability in the fantastic operations south of the Somme until a severe wound obliged him to be evacuated. He earned the D.S.O. for his services in France in 1940, though this was not known until Major-General Victor Fortune, Commander of the 51st Highland Division, was able to make his recommendations on his return from captivity in Germany. These he backed up by a personal visit to the War Office. Those who did not take part can have little idea of a commanding officer's difficulties during those two years. Many were caused by failure in higher places to foresee more accurately the type of equipment which would be required, to provide it in time, and to settle with less vacillation the organisation of the troops who would use it. Luckily for the regiment, Chris Peto had, and has, an inexhaustible fund of humour and an irrepressible spirit. These, he would be the first to admit, have sometimes got him into trouble, but they were invaluable assets through those years of exasperating trial. He did not come back after his recovery, but was promoted to the command of armoured brigade. The Regiment owes him a debt.\"\" When the regiment deployed to France it was not well equipped and this was partly the reason for Peto becoming wounded: \"\"Major MacDonell seeing the head and face of a German popping out of the ground periodically about three hundred yards from the Regimental Headquarters, suggested an investigation. Lieutenant-Colonel Peto agreed and led the reconnaissance accompanied by Major MacDonell's tank and two scout cars. They opened fire on twelve slit trenches full of enemy infantry. After ten minutes the Germans crawled out and surrendered. The \"bag\" was one officer and forty-three other ranks. We had found it impossible to depress the guns on our tanks sufficiently to bear, and Lt-Col Peto, firing from his turret with his pistol, was badly wounded in the right hand. He carried on until the Germans surrendered, and was then evacuated.\"\" As well as being awarded the DSO in 1940, Peto also received: At the 1945 general election, Peto was elected as the Member of Parliament for Barnstaple. For the 1950 general election, the Barnstaple constituency was abolished, and Peto was returned instead for the newly recreated Devon North constituency, where he served until the 1955 general election. In 1966, he was appointed the High Sheriff of Wiltshire for the year. In 1971, he inherited the baronetcy created for his father, upon the death of his elder brother. He died at Basingstoke, Hampshire, aged 83 in 1980. The title was inherited by Sir Christopher's son, Michael (1938-2008), who became the 4th Baronet. Michael had three sons and the elder of these, Henry, is the 5th and current Baronet of this creation. The other Peto baronetcy, created for Sir Christopher's grandfather, is also still extant in the senior branch of the family. Christopher Peto Sir Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto, 3rd Baronet, DSO (19 February 1897 –"
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"Utility monster The utility monster is a thought experiment in the study of ethics created by philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974 as a criticism of utilitarianism. A hypothetical being, which Nozick calls the \"utility monster,\" receives much more utility from each unit of a resource they consume than anyone else does. For instance, eating a cookie might bring only one unit of pleasure to an ordinary person but could bring 100 units of pleasure to a utility monster. If the utility monster can get so much pleasure from each unit of resources, it follows from utilitarianism that the distribution of resources should acknowledge this. If the utility monster existed, it would justify the mistreatment and perhaps annihilation of everyone else, according to the mandates of utilitarianism, because, for the utility monster, the pleasure they receive outweighs the suffering they may cause. Nozick writes:Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get enormously greater sums of utility from any sacrifice of others than these others lose ... the theory seems to require that we all be sacrificed in the monster's maw, in order to increase total utility. This thought experiment attempts to show that utilitarianism is not actually egalitarian, even though it appears to be at first glance. The experiment contends that there is no way of aggregating utility which can circumvent the conclusion that all units should be given to a utility monster, because every different system has a monster and defeating one utility monster creates another. For example, in Rawls' maximin or difference principle, maximin sets a group's aggregate utility as that of the being with least utility. Thus, giving units to the utility monster fails to change the group's utility unless the utility monster has the least utility. Even if the utility monster has the least utility, maximin would only prefer allocating units to the monster until it catches up with the member that has next-to-least utility. This would defeat the \"happy\" utility monster of average utility. But if the person who has the least utility gains only a tiny amount of utility from each unit of resources, they may never catch up with the next person, so they can similarly consume all of the resources in the world. It can be shown that all consequentialist systems based on maximizing a global function are subject to utility monsters. Robert Nozick, a twentieth century American philosopher, coined the term \"utility monster\" in response to Jeremy Bentham's philosophy of utilitarianism. Nozick proposed that accepting the theory of utilitarianism causes the necessary acceptance of the condition that some people would use this to justify exploitation of others. An individual (or specific group) would claim their entitlement to more \"happy units\" than they claim others deserve, and the others would consequently be left to receive fewer \"happy units\". Nozick deems these exploiters \"utility monsters\" (and for ease of understanding, they might also be thought of as happiness hogs). Nozick poses utility monsters justify their greediness with the notion that, compared to others, they experience greater inequality or sadness in the world, and deserve more happy units to bridge this gap. People not part of the utility monster group (or not the utility monster individual themselves) are left with less happy units to be split among the members. Utility monsters state that the others are happier in the world to begin with, so they would not need those extra happy units to which they lay claim anyway. The utility monster has been invoked in debates about free speech. Advocates for laws against hate speech, flag-burning, and blasphemy have been accused of becoming utility monsters in order to increase society's willingness to support their policies. The utility monster has been invoked in debates about population. Derek Parfit's mere addition paradox suggests that additional humans would add to total happiness, even if expanding population decreases average happiness. Opposite reasoning yields the \"repugnant conclusion\" that the world would be better off with one extremely happy person. Parfit suggests that Nozick's utility monster is misleading because it appeals to our intuitions about a being which experiences more than a million times the utility of a very well-off ordinary person, which is, he thinks, inconceivable. The implication is a more common-sense continuous scale of happiness change, from great to nil, based on scarcity of units, the happiness increasing from an additional unit of resource only inversely proportional to the existing pool of units. The reason this can come to be, and the reason the utility monster is a condition of utilitarianism in effect, is because the philosophy necessarily begs the question of how to measure happiness. A person can be in much grief, but there is no physical way to measure the lack of happiness they experience, and whether this is greater or less than a person who is enduring a different pain, like physical torture. Rephrased, this brings to light the question of which person is more deserving and which person is less deserving of happiness units based on life experiences. Individuals must take other's word regarding how much happiness they each possess, and the happiness they should therefore be able to lay claim. It is a common idea among people that hurt individuals deserve compensation for their pain. Yet Nozick's utility monster would take advantage of this reward process, by proclaiming their pain is the greatest and most deserving of reward. Jason Kuznicki argues the reverse is true. According to Kuznicki, this proposed justification negatively affects society, because people's demand for equal payment for life's pain creates these utility monsters. One such group he suggests comes in the form of people who seek political correctness. He states that these folks butcher other people's right to free speech, under the pretense that it causes their group (or their individual) pain. He states that it is unjustifiable that pain one causes another is greater than someone else's. He thus provides the example of censorship, where if one person finds a certain censorship offensive, while others do not, who's to say that the offended person's hurt is worthy of a law of censorship of that material to be created? Specifically, \"\"If 'feelings of upset' are to be taken into account in shaping our laws, why do my feelings, and the feelings of other libertarians, always count for nothing?\"\" Utility monster The utility monster is a thought experiment in the study of ethics created by philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974 as a criticism of utilitarianism. A hypothetical being, which Nozick calls the \"utility monster,\" receives much more utility from each unit of a resource they consume than"
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"Jesse Fink Jesse Fink (born 1973) is a British-Australian author, best known for two biographies on the hard-rock band AC/DC (\"The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC\" and \"Bon: The Last Highway\") and the memoir \"Laid Bare\". His first book was a work on Australian soccer called \"15 Days in June\". Born in London, United Kingdom, Fink was educated at schools in Sydney, Australia. He attended the University of Technology, majoring in journalism. Fink began his writing career in sports journalism, working as an editor of sports and non-fiction titles for the Australian arm of book publisher HarperCollins and later as a deputy editor of \"Inside Sport\". In 2003, he was nominated for a Walkley Award for a feature about the sports memorabilia industry. It was included in the Black Inc. anthology \"The Best Australian Sportswriting 2004\", as was \"Safari Politics\", a feature on trophy hunting. Another \"Inside Sport\" feature, \"Silent Witness\", about mental illness among high-performance athletes, won an Australian Sports Commission Media Award. Fink left \"Inside Sport\" to work as a soccer writer for Fox Sports Australia in 2006 and wrote his first book, \"15 Days in June: How Australia Became a Football Nation\", the same year. It was published in 2007 by Hardie Grant Books and re-released by Xoum Publishing in a special e-book edition before the 2014 FIFA World Cup under the new title \"World Party\". Socceroos star Tim Cahill wrote the foreword. In 2007, under the moniker ‘Half-Time Orange’, he began writing soccer columns for SBS Television’s \"The World Game\" website as well as columns for ESPN Star Sports (later Fox Sports Asia) in Singapore, \"Tribal Football\" and \"The Roar\". In 2011 Fink departed SBS after a dispute with network anchor Les Murray over what he alleged was interference from Murray in his critical reporting of Australia’s 2022 World Cup bid and general commentary on Football Federation Australia. Fink appeared on ABC Television’s \"7.30\" to give his side of the story and in a number of online editorials accused then-FIFA Ethics Committee member Murray of conflict of interest in his SBS position . In 2012 Fink published his second book, \"Laid Bare: One Man’s Story of Sex, Love and Other Disorders\" (Hachette Australia), a memoir of divorce and dating. It was republished in 2017 by Xoum Publishing (which changed its name to Brio Books in 2018). His writing on relationships regularly appeared in News Limited’s \"Sunday Style\" magazine. In 2013 Fink wrote his third book, \"The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC\" (Random House Australia, St Martin’s Press) a ‘critical appreciation’ of Angus Young, George Young and Malcolm Young. It was named one of Public Radio International's \"The World\" Books of the Year in 2014. \"The New Yorker\" called it \"an essential read for fans of the band\". Fink spent four years writing his fourth book, \"Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black\" (Penguin Books Australia, ECW Press), a biography of deceased AC/DC singer Bon Scott. \"Bon\" was the cover story in the December 2017 issue of \"Classic Rock\". In the book, Fink concludes that Scott died of a heroin overdose and not the official cause: acute alcohol poisoning. He also addresses and provides new information regarding the widespread speculation that Scott actually contributed uncredited lyrics to the AC/DC album \"Back In Black\". In 2018 an updated edition of the book was released in Australia and the United Kingdom. Jesse Fink Jesse Fink (born 1973) is a British-Australian author, best known for two biographies on the hard-rock band AC/DC (\"The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC\" and"
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"Palnati Surya Pratap Palnati Surya Pratap (Director) (born 13 January 1978) is an Indian Film director, and Screenwriter who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. Born in Bhadrachalam, Khammam District of Telangana, Palnati Surya Pratap worked as an Assistant director in Suresh Productions, Editor Mohan and Sukumar. He began working as a writer and assisted Sukumar. He is specialized in screenplay and wrote screenplays for several films. Palnati Surya Pratap made his directorial debut with Current in 2009, which was presented by Annapurna Studios. Later he worked as a Story Writer for the movie (2014). Palnati Surya Pratap made his second movie Kumari 21F whose success catapulted him to stardom. Under the banner Sukumar Writings, he made his second film with Kumari 21F (2015), whose story and screenplay were penned by Sukumar. Palnati Surya Pratap took his creative steps from his childhood itself, he has participated in many cultural activities & events from his schooling. He is a poet from his early life and got many state level awards in the English poetry. During his graduation days, he wrote Plays and Play-lets, which got 3 state level awards for Best Writer and Best Director. After his graduation he collaborated with All India Radio for more than one year. His passion for his movies has made him quit his studies. He discontinued his Post Graduation M.C.A and entered into movies and joined as an Assistant Director for many movies under Suresh Productions. Surya Pratap a protégé of Sukumar started working as Screenwriter for a couple of movies. In this process, he has narrated a Script to Annapurna Studios who were impressed with his script. Within no time the movie Current got released in 2009. Music is by Devi Sri Prasad and Atu Nuvve Itu Nuvvu song is a favorite track for many till date. Later, he worked as Story writer for (2014) which has been a dream project for Sukumar He started working for his new script under the Sukumar Writings banner as a script writer Kumari 21F which has been started as small budget movie but with names of technicians like Sukumar who penned the story, screenplay and also produced the movie, R. Rathnavelu with his magical spell has captured beautiful visuals for the movie and Devi Sri Prasad Scored thumping music for the movie, all these elements has brought massive craze to the project. Kumari 21F has catapulted Palnati Surya Pratap into a different league. Kumari 21F has been released worldwide on 20 November 2015. It has got a positive response from all the corners and created a sensation all over. He is currently working on a script which is going to be produced under Sukumar Writings banner. Surya Pratap is elated to work with Sukumar. The movie is about to go to floors very soon. Palnati Surya Pratap Palnati Surya Pratap (Director) (born 13 January 1978) is an Indian Film director, and Screenwriter who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. Born in Bhadrachalam, Khammam District of Telangana, Palnati Surya Pratap"
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"Jeff Foxworthy discography Jeff Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian. His discography consists of six albums, including five for Warner Bros. Records. Foxworthy has also released several singles which have consisted of his comedy sketches set to music, often with a chorus sung by another country music act or studio musician. Most of these are from his 1996 compilation \"Crank It Up: The Music Album\", although several of his comedy albums have included one musical track as well. Several of these songs have charted on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) and Hot 100 charts. Jeff Foxworthy discography Jeff Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian. His discography consists of six albums, including five for Warner Bros. Records. Foxworthy has also released several singles which have consisted of his comedy sketches set to music, often with a chorus sung by another country music act or studio musician. Most of these are from his 1996 compilation \"Crank It Up: The Music Album\", although several of his comedy albums have included one musical track as well. Several of these songs have charted on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) and Hot 100 charts."
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"312th Airlift Squadron The 312th Airlift Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 349th Operations Group, stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California. It is an associate unit of the active duty 22d Airlift Squadron, 60th Air Mobility Wing. Activated in late 1943 as a Douglas C-47 Skytrain troop carrier squadron, trained under I Troop Carrier Command in the United States. Was not deployed until the spring of 1945 to England, being assigned to the IX Troop Carrier Command. Was not used in combat operations, however, did transport supplies and equipment to the front-line ground forces primarily into Germany and evacuated casualties to rear areas. Returned to the United States in September 1945 and was a transport squadron for Continental Air Forces until its inactivation in September 1946. It trained in the reserve for troop carrier missions from, 1949–1951, Resumed its reserve operations as a fighter-bomber squadron from 1952–1957, and resumed its current role as an airlift squadron in 1957. The 312th was called to active duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and from 1968-1969. The squadron airlifted United States troops between the continental United States and Southeast Asia and flew other strategic airlift missions as needed across the Pacific Ocean, including channel flights, contingency and humanitarian relief operations, and joint training exercises. Flew missions in support of anti-terrorism operations after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on the U. S. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat \"V\" Device: 1 Aug 2002 – 31 Jul 2002. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 23 Dec 1964 – 22 Jan 1965; 26 Jan 1968 – 1 Jun 1969; 1 Jul 1974 – 30 Jun 1975; 1 Jul 1975 – 30 Jun 1977; 1 Jul 1992 – 30 Jun 1994; 1 Jul 1994-15 Aug 1995; 1 Jul 1996 – 30 Jun 1998; 1 Aug 2000 – 31 Jul 2002; 16 Aug 2003 – 17 Aug 2004; 18 Aug 2004 – 17 Aug 2005; 18 Aug 2005 – 17 Aug 2006; 18 Aug 2006 – 17 Aug 2007; 18 Aug 2007 – 17 Aug 2008; 18 Aug 2008 – 17 Aug 2009. Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm: 1 Apr 1966 – 28 Jan 1973. 312th Airlift Squadron The 312th Airlift Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 349th Operations Group, stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California. It is"
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"Hit Squad The Hit Squad was a 1990s hip hop collective of East coast hip hop artists formed by Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith better known as EPMD. The collective separated when EPMD broke up for the first time in 1993, later reforming as Def Squad. The collective later reintroduced itself in 2006 as \"Hit squad\" with a sub division of new up and coming artists titled \"Team Takeover\" featuring artists such as Nymrod, Comatose, Nam Nitty, and the recent youngest member Michael Nixx. After the success of their debut album \"Strictly Business\", EPMD sought to mentor new artists. The first artist to make a guest appearance on an EPMD album was K-Solo. Solo was featured on their second album \"Unfinished Business\" on the song \"Knick Knack Patty Wack\". The first mention of \"Hit Squad\" appeared on EPMD's third album \"Business as Usual\" on the track \"Hit Squad Heist\". The lyrics mention Redman, K-Solo and Tom J of Knucklehedz. Redman is also featured on two tracks of that album. In 1993, EPMD released the single \"Headbanger\" from their fourth album \"Business Never Personal\". The single featured K-Solo and Redman and the music video features appearances by most of the Hit Squad. The single reached #11 on \"Billboard\"'s Hot Rap Tracks chart. The single's success made \"Head Banger\" the Squad's \"signature song\". The album also features Das EFX on the track \"Cummin' At Cha\". In late-1992, tensions grew within the Hit Squad. According to an article in \"The Source\", Squad members alleged financial impropriety by Smith who owned their management company. Smith's home was invaded by armed intruders believed to have been hired by Squad members. While Smith declined to publicly give details on who was behind the invasion, Sermon was arrested and briefly detained for questioning, but no charges were filed. EPMD officially broke up in January 1993. Redman and Hurricane G continued to collaborate with Sermon while Das EFX and DJ Scratch remained under Smith's management. K-Solo pursued separate endeavors. The debut album by Knucklehedz became lost in the shuffle in the midst of the breakup and was shelved. Sermon later formed the Def Squad with Redman, Jamal aka Mally G and another protege Keith Murray. Smith continued to mention the name \"Hit Squad\" on his subsequent solo albums and on EPMD's reunion albums, but it remained unclear who the members the new Squad were. Smith appeared alongside rap unknowns Blast, Poogi and L The Pro on the classic 1997 Tony Touch mixtape \"Power Cypha 2\", credited as \"PMD & The Hit Squad\". In 2004, Smith released an album titled \"Hit Squad: Zero Tolerance\" using previously unreleased verses by the original members combined with his latest new artists. As of the 2006 EPMD reunion, most of the former Hit Squad members also reunited along with Def Squad rapper Keith Murray. A new album for the Hit Squad/Def Squad is planned. Another reunion was staged in 2012. Hit Squad The Hit Squad was a 1990s hip hop collective of East"
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"Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni (Milan, 4 September 1930 – Montepulciano, 25 November 2010) was an Italian painter, sculptor and poet. Born in Milan, Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni was attracted to music and figurative painting from an early age. In 1961 she met Aldo Carpi, who was at the time director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, and became his student; during these years she dedicated her artistic research to figurative and expressionist art. Given her promise, she was selected to attend the school of Aldo Salvadori in both Milan and Bergamo. In the 1950s she participated in many collective exhibitions in Italy and, in the following decade, she presented her works in solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In the first years of the 1970s she moved to Florence where she trained in xylographic (woodcut) technique at the studio of Pietro Parigi. During her travels to Germany, Belgium and Holland she deepened her knowledge of the Expressionists. Settling in Tuscany, she became fascinated with the painters of the Scuola Senese and with the Romanesque art present in the medieval churches and abbeys scattered throughout the Tuscan countryside. Influenced by the powerful visual art of the Expressionists, in addition to her interest for pre-historic and African art, she began to explore the condensation of the meaning in symbolic images. Her artistic experimentation combined, in the following years, with a more spiritual approach. She met padre Giovanni Vannucci, who became for her a guide in her development towards a religious and ecumenical point of view. In 1973 she established her residence in Montepulciano, where she lived for the rest of her life surrounded by the beauty of the Tuscan hills. She dedicated one of her last exhibitions to the memory of her beloved late husband, her children and grandchildren, her friends and all the people who had accompanied her in the long mysterious and powerful path of life. Fascinated by a primordial, simple and concise artistic medium, she often privileged earth tones, dense colours, materic painting and wooden supports. The use of terra tonalities and \"mystical\" colours such as gold reveals a deep connection with the historic tradition of religious icons and with Biblical topics. In an interview she affirmed: \"my sculptures are a mix of dreams and utopias, they are the ultimate conclusion of my search for a sense in life\". In her Autobiografia cromatica (2010), written shortly before her death, she described her artistic palette as being based on three primary colours: Black, White and Gold. These colours correspond to the three different periods of the artist’s life: Black for the ardent enthusiasm of youth and its natural disappointments, White for personal and artistic maturity, and Gold when the artists has reached the apex of a cosmic spirituality. She worked throughout her life with different techniques: fresco, mixed media, painting on wood, sculpture, charcoal drawing, sacred icons, xylography (woodcut), oil on canvas and on cardboard, tempera, and golds. The figure of the Woman has always been central to her art. The scream of women, outcast, excluded, humiliated over the centuries is transformed in her works of art into a symbol of a deeper peace, greater hope and more vital energy. Among her most important exhibitions (more than 80 in total) were those held in Lucerne and Ottoberg in Switzerland, in Salbach in Austria in 2001, at the United Nations Office in Geneva in 2003, near Busto Arsizio in 2006, in Montepulciano several times, in Rovereto and Trento in 2009 and 2010. Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni personally supervised the organization of the interior space of the (Prato) between 1994 and 1996. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) of New York acquired her painting \"Giustizia-misericordia\" (Justice and Mercy). Margherita described the dichotomy between Justice and Mercy with the following words: The male figure is the symbol of the patriarchal power: he evaluates, assesses and condemns according to the law. The female figure goes beyond the legal categories, she carries a bundle of ears of grain, symbol of bread and nourishment, and she acts according to her merciful heart. After a life dedicated to art as a way to get closer to God and humankind, she died in her home near the town of Montepulciano on 25 November 2010. She is buried in the cemetery of the Sanctuary of Montesenario, near Florence, near the tombs of the seven holy founders of the Order of the Servants of Mary. Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni (Milan, 4 September 1930 – Montepulciano, 25 November 2010) was an Italian painter, sculptor and poet. Born in Milan, Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni was attracted to music and figurative painting from an early age. In 1961 she met Aldo Carpi, who was at the time director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, and became his student;"
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"Unilever Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory The Unilever Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory is the multinational consumer goods company Unilever's main research and development facility in the United Kingdom. It is located in Bebington, Merseyside. Unilever's predecessor companies conducted research in Bebington from 1890 and the first dedicated research building was built in 1911 by Lever Brothers. Unilever was formed in 1929, and until 1951 Port Sunlight was its main research laboratory worldwide. It created a research division in 1961. In the early 1960s the site researched colloid chemistry, surface active phenomena, rheology of dispersions, surface chemistry, fluorescence of dyestuffs, adsorbed films on liquids, germicides, timber technology (for West Africa), and paper chromatography. Organic chemists, physical chemists and physicists worked there. In the 1960s the site was run by Unilever Research. In 1964, newly-employed scientists would be earning £1,450. New buildings in the mid-1960s meant more staff. In early 1965 the site installed a IBM System/360 (128k storage) computer at Port Sunlight, connected with time-sharing to IBM 1050 consoles at other sites; it claimed to be the first time such a computer system had been installed in the UK for industrial research. In February 1964, planning permission was applied for a site at Spital, on Port Sunlight golf course. By 1964 the site had an IBM 1620 computer. In 1965 the site formed an Operational Research Section at Port Sunlight, and their computers used PL/I and Fortran IV. In 1967 statisticians used control charts, timeseries analysis, multivariate analysis and stochastic processes. From early 1969 the consoles at the site were IBM 2780 with the MFT2 and HASPII operating systems. By 1969, new laboratories were built. In 1976, Dr Gordon Tiddy of Unilever studied lyotropic liquid crystals with the University of Leeds Chemistry department. In 1978, the site carried out inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy with Leicester Polytechnic on an SRC CASE studentship. In 1979 their statistical computer packages were NAG, and GLIM 1-3. In the 1970s scientists at Port Sunlight discovered tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED), which allows clothes to be washed at lower temperatures. In 1981 the site conducted work with the University of Oxford, involving free radicals, spin trapping and redox-active enzymes with Dr (now Professor) Hugh Allen Oliver Hill. In 1987 it conducted fluorescence-coupled surface plasmon resonance research with Durham University Department of Physics. In 2017, Anglo-Dutch Unilever will open a £24m Advanced Manufacturing Centre, built by BAM Construction (owned by the Dutch Royal BAM Group), at the site, with a Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool, helped by the Regional Growth Fund. By 1970 its research division had 4,600 scientists with a budget of £32 million (current value £ million), rising to £219 million in 1983 (current value £ million), then £330 million in 1987 (current value £ million). By the end of the 1980s there were around 400 scientists at Port Sunlight. Over 750 scientists are currently based at the laboratory. The current Laboratory Director is Dr Mike Parkington. It conducts research for products including Dove, Sunsilk and Domestos. Unilever operates similar research facilities in Vlaardingen, Colworth, Shanghai, Bangalore and Trumbull. Unilever Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory The Unilever Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory is the multinational consumer goods company Unilever's main research and development facility in the United Kingdom. It is located in Bebington, Merseyside. Unilever's predecessor companies conducted research in Bebington from 1890 and the first dedicated research building was built in 1911 by Lever Brothers. Unilever was formed in 1929, and until 1951 Port Sunlight was its main research laboratory worldwide. It created a research division in 1961. In the"
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"Jackalope Wives Jackalope Wives is a 2014 fantasy short story by Ursula Vernon, combining the legends of the swan maiden and the jackalope. It was first published in \"Apex Magazine\". When a young man accidentally mutilates a jackalope wife, his Grandma Harken takes charge of her. \"Jackalope Wives\" won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and the 2015 WSFA Small Press Award, and was nominated for the 2015 World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction. As well, an analysis at Io9 indicated that, if not for the Sad Puppies ballot-manipulation campaign, \"Jackalope Wives\" would have been a finalist for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Tor.com called it \"soulful\" and \"extraordinary\", praising Grandma Harken as a \"captivating protagonist\". At \"Locus\", Lois Tilton commended Vernon's \"(f)ine prose imagery and dialogue, strong characters, (and) neat invented folklore\". \"Strange Horizons\" noted that, by basing the story on \"a piece of inauthentic kitsch\", Vernon avoided issues of cultural appropriation. Jackalope Wives Jackalope Wives is a 2014 fantasy short story by Ursula Vernon, combining the legends of the swan maiden and the jackalope. It was first published in \"Apex Magazine\". When a young man accidentally mutilates a jackalope wife, his Grandma Harken takes charge"
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"Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower. The documentary is a study of popular culture in the United Kingdom during the mid- to late 1990s. The focus of the piece is British popular music, which came under strong media attention during the mid- to late 1990s and was dubbed Britpop. The political landscape of the time also features. Much is made of Tony Blair and New Labour's efforts to align themselves with the distinctly British cultural resurgence that was underway. The documentary features a number of prominent UK musical and artistic figures, but relies heavily on contributions from Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, Damon Albarn of Blur, and Jarvis Cocker of Pulp. Other contributors include 3D from Massive Attack, Louise Wener from Sleeper, the fashion designer Ozwald Boateng, and the contemporary artist Damien Hirst. The compilation album \"Live Forever – The Best of Britpop\" was issued on the Virgin TV label in conjunction with the documentary's theatrical release. It features songs from the film and other notable artists of the Britpop era. Live Forever: The Rise and"
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"Sōkan \"This is an article on Buddhist rankings. For the artist, see Yamazaki Sōkan.\" Sōkan (僧官) is the Japanese system of rankings for Buddhist clergy. There are three ranks, collectively known as Sōgō (僧綱), comprising ten categories or levels, followed by a series of titles known collectively as \"sōi\" (僧位). Each of the three ranks is known by an abridged form; monks or priests are often referred to by their rank, rather than their specific title. The first rank, \"sōjo\", consists of three levels: The second rank, \"sōzu\", has four levels: The third rank, \"risshi\", contains three levels: Those monks could then earn the following titles, known as \"sōi\": Sōkan \"This is an article on Buddhist rankings. For the artist, see Yamazaki Sōkan.\" Sōkan (僧官) is the Japanese system of rankings for Buddhist clergy. There are three ranks, collectively known as Sōgō (僧綱), comprising ten categories or levels, followed by a series of titles known collectively as \"sōi\" (僧位). Each of the three ranks is known by an abridged form; monks or priests are often referred to by their rank, rather than their specific title. The first rank, \"sōjo\", consists of three levels: The second rank, \"sōzu\", has four levels:"
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"Khadayata The Khadayata caste is a Vania caste which is one of the higher castes in Gujarat. The 'Khadayata ' caste in the Baniya/ Vania community among Hindus originated in the state of Gujarat in India. It has existence across the world. The people of this community are known for business activities. The history of Khadayata community traces back approximately 700 years. The original families seem to have come from a village named \"Khadat\" in North Gujarat. However a formal organization of the community members began in the earlier part of this century. At that time a vast majority of the families lived in villages in and around Gujarat. The education level of most of the members was very low with the main occupation of trading of commodities. only a few educated community members were living in cities such as Bombay and Ahmedabad. A few Khadayata community members living in Bombay started an organization \"Khadayata Samaj\" in the year 1912. These well-wishers recognized that higher education was the only way to advance the fate of younger members of the community. Hence the very first activity of the Samaj was to establish facilities and scholarship funds for the higher education of the children of Khadayatas. It is difficult for us to realize the situation that existed at that time. Many of the villages or fairly large communities did not have facilities for even primary education. The students from villages, where most of the Khadayata families were settled, had to live with their relatives in the cities to obtain primary education. Education for the girls was almost nonexistent. The first convention of Khadayatas, the Khadayata Parishad, was convened at Nadiad in 1914 and was attended by delegates from many parts of Gujarat. The convention passed resolutions to establish scholarship funds to provide financial assistance to the needy students. Khadayata Education society (Kelavani Mandal) was established in the year 1916 to serve the financial needs of the sons and daughters of the community members. The funds were distributed as scholarships and interest-free loans for studies in schools, colleges and foreign education. This organization has been at the center of the growth of education of many Khadayata community members for the last 80 years. During the last 90 years thousands of students have benefited from the funds made available by the Mandal. Since the first Parishad more than a dozen Parishads have been arranged. Each of them has addressed the timely issues and made progressive resolutions to meet the financial, educational and social needs of the community. This proves the dynamic nature of the community and willingness to ride the tides of time to stay afloat. The community members were keenly aware of the problems facing students from villages where educational facilities were practically nonexistent. It was essential to live away from home, usually at a relative's house, for the youngsters to attend even a primary school. A movement was started to establish lodging and boarding facilities for the students in major cities. Presently more than 10 facilities are available for the students. Obviously the needs of the students have changed and many of these facilities are now used by students pursuing college and post graduate studies. During the early part of this century the community leaders observed the status of women and young girls and they did not like what they saw. The educational level was extremely low, the girls were getting married at a very young, as low as 14 years, and in many unfortunate cases they were widowed at the age of 15 or so. In order to promote higher education and training for these needy women, an organization Woman's Advancement or Development society (Mahila Vikas Mandal) was established. This organization provided facilities for the training in small-scale business and funds for the necessary equipment. AS the educational level of the community members improved, many of them moved to the bigger cities such as Bombay, Ahmedabad, Baroda etc. for employment. Their main problem was to find a place to live. The community philanthropists donated funds and facilities to start guest houses in the big cities. Such facilities provided a place to live for a short period for the newly employed youngsters. Additional facilities for the community members who needed temporary place to live during medical treatment or hospitalization etc. were also established in the major cities. During the later years the community leaders recognized a need for providing financial assistance to the needy families when times were tough for them. An organization, Janata Charitable Trust, was established to provide help to Khadayata families. The community extended its activities to the service of God (Ishtadevata) by building a new temple and a guest house at Mahudi (popularly known as Kotyarkdham) during the sixties. Subsequently, facilities have been added at Gokul and Nathdwara for the pilgrims from the community. Other areas of organized activities include youth meetings, trade assistance and training, group weddings, co-operative stores and financing organizations, business assistance and limited access schools for specific areas of education. A broad overview of the activities of the organizations serving the Khadayatas gives a distinct impression of progressive views and leadership qualities of the workers. They have observed the social, political and economic changes taking place in the society and have adjusted their efforts to provide necessary services to the community members. At the beginning of 21st century Khadayata families are spread over the entire world. They cover all continents of the world, all states of India. No matter where they live, they have never forgotten the roots and have maintained close relationships with their fellow Khadayatas. Sonal Shah - a Visha Khadayata - who was a part of US President Barack Obama's transition team's advisory board. Kodardas Kalidas Shah - A Modasa Ekda Visha Khadayata who served as governor of Tamil Nadu. Dr. Amritlal Chunilal Shah (economist)-a member of Shree Janod Ekda Visha Khadayata -Who was selected as chief managing director of Bank of Baroda in the year 1990 and also first person of shree janod ekda visha khadayata who has achieved doctorate degree 1. Vaishnav 2. Nathdwara 3. Shrinathji 4.Kotiyark,Mahudi Khadayata The Khadayata caste is a Vania caste which is one of the higher castes in Gujarat. The 'Khadayata ' caste in the Baniya/ Vania community among Hindus originated in the state of Gujarat in India. It has existence across the world. The people of this community are known for business activities. The history of Khadayata community traces back approximately 700 years. The original families seem to have come from a village named \"Khadat\" in North Gujarat. However a formal organization of"
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"Earl Haig Memorial The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster. It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928. Eight years in the making, it aroused considerable controversy, the Field Marshal's riding position, his uniform, the anatomy and stance of the horse all drawing harsh criticism. The inscription on the statue base reads 'Field Marshal Earl Haig Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France 1915–1918'. Hardiman had won the commission in competition with his fellow sculptors Gilbert Ledward and William Macmillan. His winning model showed Haig riding a classical charger befitting a hero, derived from Hardiman's studies of renaissance equestrian sculpture. The Press and Lady Haig weighed in, asking why Earl Haig could not be portrayed with realism riding his own horse, Poperinghe. Eventually Hardiman was asked to produce a second model, but in trying to accommodate his critics the sculptor produced a compromise that pleased no-one. The design went back to Cabinet and they were persuaded to allow him a free hand in the execution of the full-sized statue, George Lansbury writing: \"I feel confident that if your genius is unfettered you will give us a memorial worthy of the Field Marshal, the nation and yourself\". The memorial was unveiled by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester on 10 November 1937, with King George VI laying a wreath at the base on Armistice Day. Earl Haig Memorial The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster. It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928. Eight years in the making, it aroused considerable controversy, the Field"
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"The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions:Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The prize includes a no-strings-attached award of US$175,000 per recipient. Since the prize was established in 1989, a total of $15.9 million has been awarded to 157 people from more than 79 countries, as of 2013. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is also called the Green Nobel. \n * Maria Gunnoe, Bob White, West Virginia, United States \n * Marc Ona, Libreville, Gabon \n * Rizwana Hasan, Dhaka, Bangladesh \n * Olga Speranskaya, Moscow, Russia \n * Yuyun Ismawati, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia \n * Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini, Pikin Slee Village and Paramaribo, Suriname \n\n\n * Aurora Castillo (United States) \n * Yul Choi (South Korea) \n * Noah Idechong (Palau) \n * Emma Must (England) \n * Ricardo Navarro (El Salvador) \n * Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria) \n\n\n The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from by a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals. 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Lopez, United States \n * Uroš Macerl, Slovenia \n * Prafulla Samantara, India \n * Rodrigo Tot, Guatemala \n\n\n * Jeton Anjain (Marshall Islands) \n * Medha Patkar (India) \n * Wadja Egnankou (Ivory Coast) \n * Christine Jean (France) \n * Colleen McCrory (Canada) \n * Carlos Alberto Ricardo (Brazil) \n\n\n * Julia Bonds (United States) \n * Pedro Arrojo-Agudo (Spain) \n * Eileen Kampakuta Brown & Eileen Wani Wingfield (Australia) \n * Von Hernandez (Philippines) \n * Maria Elena Foronda Farro (Peru) \n * Odigha Odigha (Nigeria) \n\n\n The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1990 by civic leaders and philanthropists Richard N. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda H. 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Williams (United States) \n * Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva (Brazil) \n\n\n * Margaret Jacobsohn & Garth Owen-Smith (Namibia) \n * Juan Mayr (Colombia) \n * Dai Qing (China) \n * John Sinclair (Australia) \n * JoAnn Tall (United States) \n * Sviatoslav Zabelin (Russia) \n\n\n * Pisit Charnsnoh (Thailand) \n * Sarah James & Jonathon Solomon (United States) \n * Fatima Jibrell (Somalia) \n * Alexis Massol González (Puerto Rico) \n * Norma Kassi (Canada) \n * Jean La Rose (Guyana) \n * Jadwiga Łopata (Poland) \n\n\n * Thuli Brilliance Makama, Swaziland \n * Tuy Sereivathana, Cambodia \n * Małgorzata Górska, Poland \n * Humberto Ríos Labrada, Cuba \n * Lynn Henning, United States \n * Randall Arauz, Costa Rica \n\n\n In 2013, David Gordon became executive director of the foundation. 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"Corton Formation The Corton Formation is a series of deposits of Middle Pleistocene age found primarily along the coasts of Suffolk and Norfolk in eastern England. The formation comprises two stratigraphic facies, an upper thicker fine to medium sand which becomes a pebbly sand towards the base (around Lowestoft, the pebbly sands may be more extensive), and a lower till comprising very silty sandy clay or clayey sand. The formation is named after Corton, Suffolk, the type locality for the Anglian Stage of the Pleistocene in Britain. The formation is overlain by the Lowestoft Formation. The till of the Corton Formation, known locally as the Happisburgh Till and the Corton Till, was formerly believed to have been deposited by a Scandinavian ice sheet of Anglian age. However recent investigations indicate deposition by an ice sheet which flowed southwards into north-east East Anglia from central and southern Scotland, eroding and transporting materials derived from outcrops in these areas and from eastern England and the western margins of the southern North Sea Basin. This indicates that the long-held assumption that the tills of the Corton Formation were deposited by a Scandinavian ice sheet is erroneous and that they were instead deposited by Scottish ice. More recently still it has been suggested that the Happisburgh Till may be in fact be pre-Anglian. This is from indirect evidence, namely the discovery of clasts of re-worked till in the deposits of the Bytham River that are overlain by Anglian material (, discussed online in ). The sands of the Corton Formation have been interpreted as being deposited in an ice-dammed lake, possibly the one which overflowed to breach the chalk ridge of the Weald-Artois Anticline and open the English Channel. Corton Formation The Corton Formation is a series of deposits of Middle Pleistocene age found"
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"Percy Hamilton Stewart Percy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City. He served as Mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey from 1912 to 1913. He was chairman of the Union County Democratic committee in 1914 and of the Washington Rock Park Commission of New Jersey from 1915-1921. Stewart served as a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education from 1919–1921 and of the New Jersey State Highway Commission from 1923-1929. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920 and 1928. Stewart was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest R. Ackerman and served from December 1, 1931, to March 3, 1933. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1932, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate. He resumed the practice of law until his retirement in 1941. He died in Plainfield on June 30, 1951 and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Percy Hamilton Stewart Percy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in"
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"Virgil Ross Virgil Walter Ross (August 8, 1907 – May 15, 1996) was an American artist, cartoonist, and animator best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts. Virgil Ross (as he was usually known) spent his early years in New York state and in Michigan, but his family moved to Long Beach, California, when he was in his late teens. This state was to be his primary home for the rest of his life. His introduction to cartooning was in high-school, where he took a class in that art form. Early work was done for Charles B. Mintz (later Screen Gems), Ub Iwerks studio, and then on to Walter Lantz, where he began animation work. In 1935, he moved on to work for Leon Schlesinger at Warner Bros. where he spent about 30 years, first under Tex Avery's supervision, until 1942, then for Bob Clampett, and finally with Friz Freleng. His résumé also includes time spent with such firms as Filmation (where he worked on the early 1970s \"\"), Hanna Barbera, and Marvel Comics. In 1979 he animated Woody Woodpecker for a special scene at the 51st Academy Awards. He was notably self-effacing. In an interview with John Province in 1989, he is quoted as saying \"I always had an eye for movement, and I think this kept me in the business a lot longer than a lot of guys, despite the fact that I really wasn't very good at drawing. When I started out in animation, you didn't have to be a good artist. I just had a little natural talent, and it's mostly just timing anyway.\" Of the very many characters Ross animated, he is most closely associated with Bugs Bunny, but also did a great deal of work involving Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, and many others, including the Rudy Larriva-directed Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote shorts. When handling long-eared characters such as Bugs or Wile E., Ross occasionally tilted or waved an ear in otherwise-static scenes. As the animator for \"A Wild Hare\" (1940), generally regarded as the first appearance of Bugs Bunny, Ross had a first person view of the creation of the character. In the interview of Ross, published in Animato magazine #19, Virgil recalls (on page 17) how the character of Bugs Bunny came to be. He says in the interview, \"We received orders from the story department that they needed a drawing of a bunny. We all did drawings and tacked them on the wall, and the storymen voted on them. We had one writer named Bugs Hardaway, and for some reason, this one drawing became known as Bugs' Bunny. Leon Schlesinger liked the sound of the name and told them to keep it, and that's how Bugs Bunny got his name. Years later, before he died, Hardaway tried to get some credit for making the character, which he probably deserved. But Warner Bros owned the rights to everything we created.\" Virgil Ross received the highest awards available in his profession: the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Golden Award (1984) and the Winsor McCay Award (1988). Three of the cartoons he had animated won Oscars: \"Tweety Pie\" (1947), \"Birds Anonymous\" (1957), and \"Knighty Knight Bugs\" (1958). Virgil Ross Virgil Walter Ross (August 8, 1907 – May 15, 1996) was an American artist, cartoonist, and animator best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts. Virgil Ross (as he was usually known) spent his early years in New York state and in Michigan, but his family moved to Long Beach, California, when he was in his late teens."
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"Karun Nair Karun Kaladharan Nair (born 6 December 1991) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off break bowler. Having previously played for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League, he was signed up by the Kings XI Punjab in 2018. He made his Test cricket debut in 2016 against England. He became the third player in international cricket to convert his maiden century into a triple century, by scoring an unbeaten 303 against England in his third Test. Nair made his first-class debut in the 2013–14 season in which Karnataka won the Ranji Trophy. He scored three consecutive centuries in their final league game and the first-two knockout matches. Karnataka won the title again in 2014–15, with Nair scoring 709 runs in their ten matches, including a knock of 328 in the final against Tamil Nadu to help Karnataka register an innings victory. He became only the second player from Karnataka to score a triple century and the first batsman to score a triple century in a Ranji final since 1946–47. It was the highest total by a batsman in the final of the Ranji Tropy. In October 2018, he was named in India A's squad for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy. The following month, he was named as one of eight players to watch ahead of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy. Nair made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club on 11 June 2016. On 26 November 2016, he made his Test debut against England at Mohali. He scored his maiden Test century in the final match of the series at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, going on to finish 303 not out. He took three innings to hit the triple century, thus becoming the quickest batsman to a maiden triple-hundred in Test cricket history. With this feat, Nair became only the second Indian batsman to hit a triple-hundred in Tests after Virender Sehwag and the third player – after Bob Simpson and Sir Garfield Sobers – to convert their maiden Test centuries into triple centuries. India won the match by an innings and 75 runs, and Nair was named as the player of the match. Nair was born on 6 December 1991 in Jodhpur to Kaladharan and Prema Nair who hail from Chengannur in Alappuzha district, Kerala. His father Kaladharan, who is a mechanical engineer, was posted in Jodhpur at the time of his son's birth and later moved to Bangalore where he also worked on the sprinkler system at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Nair's mother Prema is a teacher in a school in Koramangala, Bangalore. Nair started playing cricket at the age of 10. He studied at Chinmayi School till fourth grade after which he switched to the Frank Anthony Public School. Karun Nair Karun Kaladharan Nair (born 6 December 1991) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket. He is"
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"Novi Grad, Republika Srpska Novi Grad (; formerly Bosanski Novi) is a town and municipality located in the northern portion of the Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town is situated on the Una river on the border with Croatia (opposite the town of Dvor). As of 2013, it has a population of 27,115 inhabitants. The town was once known as \"Bosanski Novi\" (). Municipality of Novi Grad is situated in the northwestern part of the Republic of Srpska. Its exact location is 45°53″ longitude and 45°14″ northern latitude. It has an area of . The municipality lies between the Sana and Una rivers, between the mountains of Grmec and Kozara. The climate is temperate continental. The town was first mentioned in 1280 under the Roman name of \"Castrum Novum\", which, literally translated from Latin, means \"new town\". In 1895, during Austro-Hungarian rule, the town was officially named \"Bosanski Novi\". At the end of the last decade of the 19th century, Novi Grad had 3,300 people with 550 households. There were wooden bridges across the Una and Sana rivers, which the citizens had to guard against the wild spring and fall floods. For that reason, a symbol of the town was built in 1906-Una quay. In 1872, Novi Grad was the first municipality to have a train station on the new Bosnian railway, which afforded it significant cultural and economic advantages over any other Krajina municipalities. The first hospital was established around the same time. From 1929 to 1941, Bosanski Novi was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1992 through 1995, the town was ethnically cleansed of its majority Bosniak and Croat inhabitants, thereby rendering it almost 100% Serb. In order to distance the town from its Bosnian history and its cultural roots and in tune with the war politics, the local Serb government renamed the town to \"Novi Grad\", the artificial name many associate with ethnic cleansing and murders that took place during that time. Consequently, majority of people from Bosanski Novi were misplaced and live all over Europe, the American continent, Australia and elsewhere around the globe. After the Bosnian war, Kostajnica was split from the municipality. Aside from the town of Novi Grad, the municipality includes the following settlements: According to the 2013 census results, the municipality has 27,115 inhabitants. In the 1991 Yugoslav census, the municipality of Novi Grad had 41,541 residents, including: The economy is based on a few industries and a number of private firms. Novi Grad has potential in tourism, wood processing, food production and management of water resources. The following table gives a preview of total number of registred employed people per their core activity (as of 2016): There are several active sports organizations in the town, such as football, handball and basketball clubs. The local football club is FK Sloboda Novi Grad. Novi Grad, Republika Srpska Novi Grad (; formerly Bosanski Novi) is a town and municipality located in the northern portion of"
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"Kessler's sculpin Kessler's sculpin (\"Leocottus kesslerii\") is a species of Baikal sculpin, a freshwater fish native to Russia and Mongolia where it occurs in Lake Baikal and surrounding lakes as well as the Selenga, Angara and Bain Gol rivers. It is the only member of its genus. In Lake Baikal it occurs on sandy, rocky-sandy or sandy-muddy bottoms, ranging from relatively shallow water to depths of . In rivers they mainly occur in slow-flowing channels and floodplains. This species grows to a total length of , but typically is . Adults are crepuscular, and feed on gammarids, chironomids, and young fish. Spawning takes place in May to June at depths. Eggs are deposited under stones, and the male stays guarding the eggs. The pelagic larvae feed on plankton. The Kessler's sculpin is sometimes caught by commercial fishers, and it is eaten by the Baikal seal, comprising about 0.3% of its diet in the winter and spring, and significantly more in the autumn. Kessler's sculpin Kessler's sculpin (\"Leocottus kesslerii\") is a species of Baikal sculpin, a freshwater fish native to Russia and Mongolia where it occurs in Lake Baikal and surrounding lakes as well as the Selenga, Angara and Bain Gol"
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"The Book of Saladin The Book of Saladin is an historical novel by Pakistani born British writer Tariq Ali, first published in 1998. The second in Ali’s Islam Quintet, this purports to be the memoir of Saladin, or Salah al-Din and his taking of Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187. Written as part memoir by Saladin and part biography by Jewish scribe Ibn Yakub, who is given permission to interview the great man’s wife and close associates, this is the story of Salah al-Din, a Kurdish warrior who became the hero of the Muslim world due to his heroics against the Crusaders and was made Sultan of Egypt and Syria as a reward. Parallels are drawn between the Egypt and Syria of the middle ages and the Middle East arena of the present day, with all of the disagreements and strife so familiar today. The Book of Saladin The Book of Saladin is an historical novel by Pakistani born British writer Tariq Ali, first published in 1998. The second in Ali’s Islam Quintet, this purports to be the memoir of Saladin, or Salah al-Din and his taking of Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187. Written as part memoir by Saladin"
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"Poacher (fish) The poachers are a family (Agonidae) of small, bottom-dwelling, cold-water marine fish. They are also known as alligatorfishes, starsnouts, hooknoses, and rockheads. Poachers are notable for having elongated bodies covered by scales modified into bony plates, and for using their large pectoral fins to move in short bursts. The family includes about 47 species in some 20 genera, some of which are quite widespread. The pelvic fins are nearly vestigial, typically consisting of one small spine and a few rays. The swim bladder is not present. At in length, the dragon poacher \"Percis japonica\" is the largest member of the family, while \"Bothragonus occidentalis\" is long as an adult; most are in the 20–30 cm range. Poachers generally feed on small crustaceans and marine worms found on the bottom. Some species camouflage themselves with hydras, sponges, or seaweed. They live at to deep, with only a few species preferring shallower, coastal waters. All but one species are restricted to the Northern Hemisphere. Poacher (fish) The poachers are a family (Agonidae) of small, bottom-dwelling, cold-water marine fish. They are also known as alligatorfishes, starsnouts, hooknoses, and rockheads. Poachers are notable for having elongated bodies covered by scales modified into"
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"Frank R. Parker Frank Ruff Parker III (May 11, 1940 – July 10, 1997) was an American civil rights lawyer and voting rights activist. Beginning in 1981, while working for The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, he directed the Voting Rights Project, where he helped secure from the United States Congress a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. During his 12 years as Director of the Voting Rights Project, he launched a program to enforce the guarantees of the Voting Rights Act on a nationwide level through litigation and public education, and was a leader in the five-year struggle to enact the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. In 1990, he authored an award-winning book on the impact of the Voting Rights Act in Mississippi, \"Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965\". Frank Parker began his legal career as a staff attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1966 to 1968. He moved to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1968 as a staff attorney with the Jackson office of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and later became chief counsel in 1976. He litigated dozens of voting rights and employment discrimination cases that would forever change the course of Mississippi's history. Parker served as chief counsel or co-counsel in several landmark cases, including, but not limited to, Brooks v. Winter, which resulted in the creation of a majority Black court-ordered congressional district and the election in 1986 of Mike Espy, the first Black member of Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction; and Connor v. Finch, which resulted in four Black legislators being elected to the Mississippi Legislature in Hinds County in 1975 and a total of 17 Black legislators elected statewide from single member districts in 1979. In 1978 Parker succeeded Mel Leventhal as counsel for plaintiffs in Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed et al., challenging Mississippi's denial of \"Mississippi: Conflict and Change,\" a textbook in Mississippi history intended for use in a required ninth-grade course. Under his leadership, the case was won, a victory that the American Library Association includes among a dozen decisions that underlie Americans' right to read. Parker became an associate professor of political science at Tougaloo College from 1975 to 1976 and he returned to Washington, D.C., in 1981, as voting rights director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Parker was head of the voting rights project until 1993. Mr. Parker was a leader in the effort to gain passage of the Voter Registration Act of 1993, the \"motor-voter\" law. Parker taught at the District of Columbia School of Law from 1993 to 1995, he taught at American University in 1996 and then accepted an appointment as a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, teaching constitutional law. At the time of his death on July 10, 1997, Parker had accepted an appointment as a visiting law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Parker's book, Black Votes Count, received numerous awards in 1991, including the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, the Ralph J. Bunch Award from the American Political Science Association, the V. O. Key Award from the Southern Political Science Association, the McLemore Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society, and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States Outstanding Book Award. Parker was rewarded with an Honorary Black Man of the Year Award in 1970, the Martin Luther King-John F. Kennedy Award from the Mississippi Council on Human Relations in 1974 and the Jackson Branch NAACP Freedom Award in 1975. Frank Parker was born May 11, 1940, in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, to Marjorie LeClair Parker and Frank R. Parker, Jr. He attended public schools in Steubenville, Ohio, and received his B.A. from Oberlin College in Ohio. After studies at Oxford University in England, Parker received an Erwin N. Griswold Scholarship to Harvard Law School, where he obtained his L.L.B. degree in 1966. Married three times, to Virginia Foster Durr, Carolyn Parker, and Ann Burlock Lawver, Parker had four children: Barbara Parker Thornton, Stephanie Parker Weaver, Kevin Parker, and Ian Parker. Frank Parker died July 10, 1997, from complications due to a ruptured aortic aneurysm. At the time of his death he was a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, teaching constitutional law. Frank R. Parker Frank Ruff Parker III (May 11, 1940 – July 10, 1997) was an American civil rights lawyer and voting rights activist. Beginning in 1981, while working for The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, he directed the Voting Rights Project, where he helped secure from the United States Congress a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. During his 12 years as"
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"Eva Twedberg Eva Twedberg (earlier Eva Pettersson; later Eva Stuart) is a former Swedish badminton player who won women's singles at numerous international championships. Noted for her stamina and swift court coverage, her peak years were the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among other titles, she won the prestigious All-England singles title in 1968 and 1971; the Danish Open in 1968, 1970, and 1972; the U.S. Open in 1972 and 1973; and the European Championships in 1970. Mrs. Stuart is the most successful player in the history of the Swedish National Badminton Championships with a combined total of 44 titles in national restricted and national open competition earned between 1960 and 1976. During the latter part of her badminton career she married the Northumberland county and England badminton internationalist Elliot Stuart and represented Northumberland. Eva Twedberg Eva Twedberg (earlier Eva Pettersson; later Eva Stuart) is a former Swedish badminton player who won women's singles at numerous international championships. Noted for her stamina and swift court coverage, her peak years were the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among other titles, she won the prestigious All-England singles title in 1968 and 1971; the Danish Open in 1968, 1970, and 1972;"
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"Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ltd (also known for a time as Hardwick and Co Ltd) was a brewing company based in Bristol, UK. It was one of the first 1000 companies registered in England and Wales. Thomas Baynton had operated a business on North Street in Ashton Gate under the name Ashton Gate Brewery. The company was established in 1865 in order to acquire the business after Baynton's death. It was one of the first 1000 companies registered with Companies House. The company changed its name to Hardwick and Co in 1868, reverting to Ashton Gate Brewery Co in 1883, and was listed in Kelly's Directory. In its last year of independent operation (to 1931), an ordinary dividend of was paid. The company was acquired by Bristol Brewery Georges & Co in either 1931 or 1932. One former managing director was , whose son William Rhys Harvey became a director of Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. The brewery operated at Ashton Gate in Bristol. Additions to the brewery were made in 1905 by brewers' engineers George Adlam, being described architecturally by Foyle in his book \"Bristol\" (2004) as \"brick and Ham stone with blind lunettes beneath shaped gables.\" The brewery produced porter and strong beer. Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ltd (also known for a time as Hardwick and Co Ltd) was a brewing company based in Bristol, UK. It was one of the first 1000 companies registered in England and Wales. Thomas Baynton had operated a business on North Street in Ashton Gate under the name Ashton Gate Brewery. The company was established in 1865 in order to acquire the business after Baynton's death. It was one of the first 1000 companies registered with Companies House. The company changed its name to"
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"Mukesh Khanna Mukesh Khanna (born 23 July) is an Indian television and film character actor, best known for his portrayal in Doordarshan television serial \"Shaktimaan\" and as Bhishma Pitamah in B. R. Chopra's \"Mahabharat\". He is also the chairman of Children's Film Society of India. He was born in Mumbai. Mukesh entered the film industry after graduating from Film and Television Institute of India. He attended the school with fellow Indian actors Naseeruddin Shah and Shakti Kapoor. He rose to fame and is still best known for playing Bhishma in B. R. Chopra's \"Mahabharat\". Khanna starred as the protagonist in the popular superhero series \"Shaktimaan\", which was popular throughout India, as well as in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Khanna worked in the television series \"Aryamaan – Brahmaand Ka Yodha\" as the character of the same name on Toon Disney in India. Khanna has worked in many television productions and films depicting him as police inspector such as in the film \"Hera Pheri\". He has also worked in the television series \"Waqt Bataye Ga\". He has played roles in films such as \"Tahalka\" and \"International Khiladi\". He played the father of Bobby Deol's character in the film \"Barsaat\". Khanna was offered the role of Shantanu in Ekta Kapoor's \"Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki\"; he refused. He told the press that Ekta's \"Mahabharat\" is sure to be a flop because BR Chopra's \"Mahabharat\" had actors in it; her \"Mahabharat\" has \"models\" in it. Throughout he appeared in several TV operas and many commercially successful movies including Saudagar (1991), Yalgaar (1992), Tahalka (1992), Shaktiman (1993), Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994), Barsaat (1995), Raja (1995), Veer (1995), Himmat (1996), Maidan-E-Jung (1995), Judge Mujrim (1997), Hera Pheri (2000) and Plan (2004). In 2007, Khanna participated in a child development project funded by the government, Shaktimaan, which targeted at preventing malnutrition, lowering the mother-child mortality rate, anemia in girls and health awareness. Khanna operates two acting schools in Jaipur and Agra and has spoken about opening more. He also teamed with his former acting school, Film and Television Institute of India, for a three-month acting course. Mukesh Khanna Mukesh Khanna (born 23 July) is an Indian television and film character actor, best known for his portrayal in Doordarshan television serial \"Shaktimaan\" and as Bhishma Pitamah in B. R. Chopra's \"Mahabharat\". He is also the chairman of Children's Film Society of India. He was born in Mumbai. Mukesh"
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"Durbin Ward Jesse Durbin Ward (February 11, 1819 – May 22, 1886) was an Ohio lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and American Civil War officer. Ward was born in Augusta, Kentucky. His mother, Rebecca Patterson, named him in honor of the Rev. John Price Durbin (1800–1876), a noted Methodist preacher, who was a school mate of hers. Around 1823, the family moved to Fayette County, Indiana, in the southeastern part of that state. Josiah Morrow, the historian of Warren County, wrote of Ward: He attended for two years Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, one county east of Fayette and across the state line, then taught school in Warren County and settled there. He studied law under Judge George J. Smith (1799–1878) and Thomas Corwin, a Lebanon attorney who later was Governor of Ohio. After he was admitted to practice, he was Corwin's law partner. In 1845, Ward, a Whig, was elected Warren County's seventh Prosecuting Attorney, an office once held by Governor Corwin. He served from 1846 to 1850. From 1853 to 1854, he represented Warren County in the Fiftieth General Assembly, the first held under the new state constitution adopted in 1851. He served only one two-year term in the legislature. During that time, he sponsored legislation for the state to abandon the unprofitable Warren County Canal that connected Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal at Middletown. Upon his retirement from the legislature, he opened a law office in Cincinnati, Ohio, but continued to live at Lebanon. Ward switched to the Democratic Party about this time and was its nominee for Congress in 1856 and Attorney General in 1858. (He lost the latter to Republican Christopher Wolcott.) In 1860, he supported Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas for President. When President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight in the Civil War, Ward was the first in his congressional district to enlist. He entered the army as a private, declining a commission. He rose to be a major in the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and saw action at Mill Springs, Corinth, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, and Chickamauga. At Chickamauga, his left arm was wounded and permanently crippled. Ward was appointed colonel of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry on March 1, 1864. He resigned his commission on November 8, 1864. On January 13, 1866 President Andrew Johnson nominated Ward for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general, to rank from October 18, 1865, for his \"gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Chickamauga,\" and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866. After the war ended, President Andrew Johnson named him United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. In 1870, he was elected a senator in the General Assembly. At Lebanon, Ward founded\" The Lebanon Patriot\", a Democratic paper first published on January 16, 1868. Warren County being ardently Republican, the paper was to take the place of the previous Democratic paper in the county, the \"Democratic Citizen\", which was destroyed by a mob at the outbreak of the Civil War. Ward sold the paper to Edward Warwick in the 1870s. In 1883, Ward was president of the Ohio State Bar Association. Jesse Durbin Ward died at Lebanon, Ohio on May 22, 1886. He was buried at Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio. Durbin Ward Jesse Durbin Ward (February 11, 1819 – May 22, 1886) was an Ohio lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and American Civil War officer. Ward was born in Augusta, Kentucky. His mother, Rebecca Patterson, named him in honor of the Rev. John Price Durbin (1800–1876), a noted Methodist preacher, who was a school"
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"Heungbuga Heungbuga is one of the five surviving stories of the Korean \"pansori\" storytelling tradition. It is also called \"Baktaryeong\" (hangul: 박타령). The other stories are \"Simcheongga\", \"Chunhyangga\", \"Jeokbyeokga\" and \"Sugungga\". It is about the story of Heungbu, a poor but good man with many children. \"Heungbuga\" depicts common people's lives with a folksy atmosphere. Many listeners prefer \"Heungbuga\" because of its focus on humor. This humor in \"pansori\" is called \"jaedam sori\", which means \"funny sound\" in Korean. The most famous part of \"Heungbuga\" is \"Cranky Nolbu,\" depicting the nasty Nolbu in a light-hearted fashion with a fast \"Jajinmori\" rhythm. It is widely considered that the latter part of Heungbuga is inferior to the beginning. One explanation for this is that the latter part was not sufficiently revised by its singers over the years. This could be used as evidence for the importance of \"deoneum\" in \"pansori\". \"Heungbuga\" is also called \"Bak taryung\" (\"Gourd Song\"). Poor but good-hearted younger brother Heungbu cares for a swallow's broken leg, and the swallow repays Heungbu's kindness. The swallow brings a gourd seed to Heungbu, who plants the seed. The gourd yields fruit containing treasure. Upon hearing this, Heungbu's older brother, the nasty and greedy Nolbu, becomes jealous, and he breaks a swallow's leg intentionally. After that Nolbu, too, gets a gourd seed; however this time the fruit contains goblins. Heungbuga Heungbuga is one of the five surviving stories of the Korean \"pansori\" storytelling tradition. It is also called \"Baktaryeong\" (hangul: 박타령). The other stories are \"Simcheongga\", \"Chunhyangga\", \"Jeokbyeokga\" and \"Sugungga\". It is about the story of Heungbu, a poor but good man with many children. \"Heungbuga\" depicts common people's lives with a folksy atmosphere. Many listeners prefer \"Heungbuga\" because of its focus on humor. This humor in \"pansori\" is called \"jaedam sori\","
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"Hardin Craig Hardin Craig (29 June 1875 – 13 October 1968) was an American Renaissance scholar and professor of English. In his 65-year academic career, he served on the faculties of eight different colleges and universities, published more than 20 books as either author or editor, and was one of the few Americans to be elected to the Royal Society of Literature in Britain. Craig was born on a farm near Owensboro, Kentucky, to Robert and Mary Jane Craig, \"nee\" McHenry. He earned his A.B. from Centre College 1897, and served as principal at Stanford Academy in Kentucky for one year. He began graduate study in 1898 at Princeton University under Thomas Marc Parrott, and took his M.A. in 1899 and his Ph.D. in 1901. During two summers he studied with John Matthews Manly at the University of Chicago, and studied at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1901 to 1903. He returned to Princeton as an English instructor from 1903-1905, where he became one of Woodrow Wilson's first group of Edgerstoune School preceptors from 1905 to 1910. From 1910 to 1919 he was a professor of English at the University of Minnesota. While there he took military leave for two years to serve in the Army as a second lieutenant in World War I. In 1919 Craig joined the English Department faculty at the University of Iowa, and the following year he was made head of the department. While there in 1922 he founded the Philological Quarterly. In 1928 he left Iowa to go to Stanford University. He retired as Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford in 1942 at the age of 67, and then went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as visiting professor until 1949, at which time he accepted an appointment as visiting professor of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, serving until his third retirement in 1960. He became Scholar-in-Residence at Stephens College and then at Centre College until 1967, thus completing 65 years of teaching. Craig was a member of the executive committee of the Modern Language Association of America. He was considered to be an authority on Shakespeare and Milton. He was the recipient of two festschrifts, the first, \" Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hardin Craig\", at the occasion of his retirement from Stanford University, and another, \" Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama in Honor of Hardin Craig\" in 1960 to commemorate his third retirement, from the University of Missouri. He died in Houston in 1968 at the age of 93. Hardin Craig Hardin Craig (29 June 1875 – 13 October 1968) was an American Renaissance scholar and professor of English. In his 65-year academic career, he served on the faculties of eight different colleges and universities, published more than 20 books as either author or editor, and was one of the few Americans to be elected to the Royal Society of Literature in Britain. Craig was born on a farm near Owensboro, Kentucky, to Robert and Mary"
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"Acoustic camera An acoustic camera is an imaging device used to locate sound sources and to characterize them. It consists of a group of microphones—also called microphone array—that are simultaneously acquired to form a representation of the location of the sound sources. The term acoustic camera has first appeared at the end of the 19th century: A physiologist, J.R. Ewald, was investigating the function of the inner ear and introduced an analogy with the Chladni plates (a domain nowadays called Cymatics), a device enabling to visually see the modes of vibration of a plate. He called this device an acoustic camera. The term has then been widely used during the 20th century to designate various types of acoustic devices, such as underwater localization systems or active systems used in medicine. It designates nowadays any transducer array used to localize sound sources (the medium is usually the air), especially when coupled with an optical camera. An acoustic camera generally consists of a microphone array and optionally an optical camera. The microphones – analog or digital – are acquired simultaneously or with known relative time delays to be able to use the phase difference between the signals. As the sound propagates in the medium (air, water...) at a finite known speed, a sound source is perceived by the microphones at different time instants and at different sound intensities that depend on both the sound source location and the microphone location. One popular method to obtain an acoustic image from the measurement of the microphone is to use beamforming: By delaying each microphone signal relatively and adding them, the signal coming from a specific direction formula_1 is amplified while signals coming from other directions are canceled. The power of this resulting signal is then calculated and reported on a power map at a pixel corresponding to the direction formula_1. The process is iterated at each direction where the power needs to be computed. While this method has many advantages – robustness, easy to understand, highly parallelizable because each direction can be computed independently, versatile (there exist many types of beamformers to include various types of hypothesis), relatively fast – it also has some drawbacks: the produced acoustic map has artifacts (also called side lobes or ghost sources) and it does not model correctly correlated sound sources. Various methods have been introduced to reduce the artifacts such as DAMAS or to take in account correlated sources such as CLEAN-SC, both at the price of a higher computational cost. When the sound sources are near the acoustic camera, the relative intensity perceived by the different microphones as well as the waves not being any more seen as planar but spherical by the acoustic camera add new information compared to the case of sources being far from the camera. It enables to use more effective methods such as acoustic holography. Results of far-field beamforming can be reprojected onto planar or non-planar surfaces. Some acoustic cameras use two-dimensional acoustic mapping, which uses a unidirectional microphone array (e.g. a rectangle of microphones, all facing the same direction). Two-dimensional acoustic mapping works best when the surface to be examined is planar and the acoustic camera can be set up facing the surface perpendicularly. However, the surfaces of real-world objects are not often flat, and it is not always possible to optimally position the acoustic camera. Additionally, the two-dimensional method of acoustic mapping introduces error into the calculations of the sound intensity at a point. Two-dimensional mapping approximates three-dimensional surfaces into a plane, allowing the distance between each microphone and the focus point to be calculated relatively easily. However, this approximation ignores the distance differences caused by surfaces having different depths at different points. In most applications of the acoustic camera, this error is small enough to be ignored; however, in confined spaces, the error becomes significant. Three-dimensional acoustic cameras fix the errors of two-dimensional cameras by taking into account surface depths, and therefore correctly measuring the distances between the microphone and each spatial point. These cameras produce a more accurate picture, but require a 3-D model of the object or space being analyzed. Additionally, if the acoustic camera picks up sound from a point in space that is not part of the model, the sound may be mapped to a random space in the model, or the sound may not show up at all. 3-D acoustic cameras can also be used to analyze confined spaces, such as room interiors; however, in order to do this, a microphone array that is omnidirectional (e.g. a sphere of microphones, each facing a different direction) is required. This is in addition to the first requirement of having a 3-D model. There are many applications of the acoustic camera, with most focusing on noise reduction. The camera is frequently applied to improve the noise emission of vehicles (such as cars, airplanes) and trains, structures—such as wind turbines. Acoustic cameras are not only used to measure the exterior emission of products but also to improve the comfort inside cabins of cars, train or airplanes. Spherical acoustic camera are preferred in this type of application because the three-dimensional placement of the microphone allows to localize sound sources in all directions. Troubleshooting of faults that occur in machines and mechanical parts can be accomplished with an acoustic camera. To find where the problem lies, the sound mapping of a properly functional machine can be compared to one of a dysfunctional machine. A similar setup of the acoustic camera can be used to study the noise inside passenger carts during train operation. Alternatively, the camera can be set up outside, in an area near the train tracks, to observe the train as it goes by. This can give another perspective of the noise that might be heard inside the train. Additionally, an outside setup can be used to examine the squealing of train wheels caused by a curve in the tracks. The signal processing required by the acoustic camera is very intensive and needs powerful hardware and plenty of memory storage. Because of this, signal processing is frequently done after the recording of data, which can hinder or prevent the use of the camera in analyzing sounds that only occur occasionally or at varying locations. Cameras that do perform signal processing in real time tend to be large and expensive. Hardware and signal processing improvements can help to overcome these difficulties. Signal processing optimizations often focus on reduction of computational complexity, storage requirements, and memory bandwidth (rate of data consumption). Acoustic camera An acoustic camera is an imaging device used to locate sound sources and to characterize them."
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"Sandy Hodge (footballer) Sandy Hodge (born 4 October 1980) is a Scottish football player. Hodge's career began as a Youth player at Scottish Premier League side Motherwell, but he did not make up a senior appearance during the one season in which he was at the club. He moved to Scottish Football League Second Division side Queen of the South in time for the beginning of the 1999-2000 season, and made his league debut in a defeat against Partick Thistle in August 1999. The final day of Hodge's 1999-2000 season saw his team fall to a 6–1 away defeat by future club Alloa Athletic, meaning that Queen of the South finished the season in ninth place, while Alloa were promoted to Division One. Halfway through the following season, Hodge moved to Stranraer, for whom he made his debut in November 2000. He played eight further league fixtures during the 2000–01 season and one cup fixture, a defeat by Scottish Premier League champions Celtic. Stranraer finished in fourth place in the table in the 2000–01 season. The following season they made it through to the third round of the FA Cup, while their Challenge Cup campaign saw them fall at the first hurdle. Hodge scored two of his three goals in this stint for Stranraer during the 2001–02 season. Queen of the South signed Hodge for a second time on an emergency basis for a single game at the beginning of the 2003–04 season, a Scottish League Challenge Cup match against Stranraer which finished in a 2–1 defeat thanks to two goals from Michael Moore. He then signed for Hamilton Academical. Hamilton's season, despite the team faiing badly in 2002–03, went much smoother upon the arrival of some fresh players, as Hamilton were promoted from Division Two at the end of the 2003–04 season, undefeated in their last eight games of the season. 2004–05 was a return to poor form amongst stronger opponents, and Hamilton were to be knocked out of the League Cup in the second round, and it was only thanks to a late charge at the end of the season that they avoided relegation at the expense of Partick Thistle. Hodge left Hamilton halfway through the 2005–06 season, playing his final game in a 5–4 away defeat against Stranraer, on Boxing Day 2005. Hodge dropped a division, making his debut for Second Division Partick Thistle as a substitute for David Craig in a 6–1 defeat against Gretna in January 2006. Partick finished the 2005–06 season 4th in the Second Division, qualifying for the First Division play-offs, which they won and were promoted to Division 1 in place of Stranraer. From here on Hodge barely played for Partick, making just nine first-team starts, and leaving the team just prior to the end of the 2006–07 season, having completed a two-month loan to old club Stranraer in their struggle against relegation. Hodge decided to seek the possibility of playing first-team football elsewhere, and signed for Alloa Athletic at the beginning of the 2007–08 season. Hodge made his debut for Alloa against Cowdenbeath as a substitute in a 3–2 victory in September 2007. Sandy Hodge (footballer) Sandy Hodge (born 4 October 1980) is a Scottish football player. Hodge's career began as a Youth player at Scottish Premier League side Motherwell, but he did not make up a senior appearance during the one season in which he was at the club. He moved to Scottish Football League Second Division side Queen of the South in time for the beginning of the 1999-2000 season, and made his league debut in a defeat against"
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"Operation Silbertanne Operation Silbertanne (silver fir) was the codename of a series of murders that were committed between September 1943 and September 1944 during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The assassinations were carried out by a death squad composed of Dutch members of the SS and Dutch veterans of the Eastern Front. After Adolf Hitler had approved Anton Mussert as \"Leider van het Nederlandse Volk\" (Leader of the Dutch People) in December 1942, he was allowed to form a national government institute, a Dutch shadow cabinet called \"\"Gemachtigden van den Leider\"\", which advised Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart from 1 February 1943. The institute consisted of a number of deputies in charge of defined functions or departments within the administration. On 4 February Retired General and Rijkscommissaris Hendrik Seyffardt, already head of the Dutch SS volunteer group , was announced through the press as “Deputy for Special Services”. As a result, the Communist resistance group CS-6 under Dr. Gerrit Kastein (named after its address, 6 Corelli Street, in Amsterdam), concluded that the new institute would eventually lead to a National-Socialist government, which would then introduce general conscription to enable the call-up of Dutch nationals to the Eastern Front. However, in reality the Nazis only saw Mussert and the NSB as a useful Dutch tool to enable general co-operation, and furthermore, Seyss-Inquart had assured Mussert after his December 1942 meeting with Hitler that general conscription was not on the agenda. However, CS-6 assessed that Seyffardt was the most important person within the new institute who was eligible for an attack, after the heavily-protected Mussert. After approval from the Dutch government in exile in London, on the evening of Friday 5 February 1943, after answering a knock at his front door in Scheveningen, Den Haag Seyffardt was shot twice by student Jan Verleun who had accompanied Dr. Kastein on the mission. A day later Seyffardt succumbed to his injuries in hospital. A private military ceremony was arranged at the Binnenhof, attended by family and friends and with Mussert in attendance, after which Seyffardt was cremated. On 7 February, CS-6 shot fellow institute member “Gemachtigde voor de Volksvoorlichting” (Attorney for the national relations) H.Reydon and his wife. His wife died on the spot, while Reydon died on 24 August of his injuries. The gun used in this attack had been given to Dr. Kastein by Sicherheitsdienst (SD) agent Anton van der Waals, who after tracking him back through information, arrested him on 19 February. Two days later Dr. Kastein committed suicide so as not to give away Dutch Resistance information under torture. Seyffardt and Reydon's deaths led to massive Nazi Germany reprisals in the occupied Netherlands, under Operation Silbertanne, supported by various German officers. Silbertanne was intended as reprisal for the attacks made on predominantly Dutch collaborators and German occupational forces by the Dutch resistance. SS General for the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter gave order to retaliate by assassinating civilians presumed to be in some way connected to the resistance or to be orange-minded, meaning Dutch patriots, or anti-German. The task of perpetrating the killings was first assigned to especially formed death squads, though killings were later carried out exclusively by \"Sonderkommando\" \"Feldmeijer,\" a special unit consisting of 15 SS-members. Rauter immediately ordered the murder of 50 Dutch hostages and a series of raids on Dutch universities. By accident the Dutch resistance had attacked Rauter's car on 6 March 1945, which in turn led to the killings at De Woeste Hoeve, where 117 men were rounded up and executed at the site of the ambush and another 147 Gestapo prisoners executed elsewhere. The first killings took place in autumn 1943 in Meppel and Staphorst, and within a year more than 54 Dutchmen had been murdered or severely wounded. On 1–2 October 1944, in the village of Putten, over 600 men were deported to camps to be killed in retaliation for resistance activity in the Putten raid. Some of the most notorious Dutch war criminals participated in Operation Silbertanne: Heinrich Boere, , , Klaas Carel Faber, his brother , and . One of the most prominent victims of Operation Silbertanne was Dutch writer , who was killed in October 1943. Mussert was fundamentally opposed to Operation Silbertanne, and when in autumn 1944 SS Brigadeführer Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, head of SiPo and SD, was informed of these retaliatory killings he had them terminated in September 1944. After World War II, some of the members of the death squad and those responsible for giving the orders were put on trial. Henk Feldmeijer, however, had been killed in the war. Maarten Kuiper and Pieter Johan Faber were executed in 1948. Hanns Albin Rauter was sentenced to death and executed in 1949. Others, however, managed to flee the country and went into hiding outside the Netherlands. Sander Borgers died in 1985 at the age of 67 in Haren, Germany. Klaas Carel Faber lived until his death on May 24, 2012 in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt. In July 2009 it was reported that the German government wanted to prosecute Faber after all. Daniel Bernhard died in 1962. Lambertus van Gog fled to Spain but was extradited to the Netherlands in 1978. Heinrich Boere, who has been living for decades in Germany, was found fit to stand trial for the murders committed between 1943 and 1944, by the Provincial Court of Appeal in Cologne on 7 July 2009, and subsequently was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in March 2010. Boere died in a prison hospital on December 1, 2013. Operation Silbertanne Operation Silbertanne (silver fir) was the codename of a series of murders that were committed between September 1943 and September 1944 during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The assassinations were carried out by a death squad composed of Dutch members of the SS and Dutch veterans of the Eastern Front. After Adolf Hitler had approved Anton Mussert as \"Leider van het Nederlandse Volk\" (Leader of the Dutch People) in December 1942, he was allowed to"
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"Emission-aware programming Emission-aware programming is a design philosophy aiming to reduce the amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted by electronic devices through proper design of the software executed by the device, rather than changing the hardware. Emission considerations require the evaluation of many details such as the clock frequencies and switching rates which are related to the oscillator. Rise/fall times and signal harmonics are related to the output driver. The data transfer rates can be dependent on hardware or can be controlled by software and often have to meet a certain protocol. Impedances, trace loading and the various circuit components are hardware related and must be considered from the beginning of the design. Three basic actions for emission reduction can be defined: In the following all components that can be influenced by the software design will be described. Microcontrollers require a clock source for the switching of the internal transistors. Almost all controllers require an external crystal or ceramic resonator. Since the ceramic resonator is potentially sensitive to spikes which can shorten clock periods typically a Pierce oscillator configuration is used. Harmonic frequencies of the clock cause unwanted emissions. The circuit internal to the MC in simplified form is a NAND gate followed by an inverter. The external oscillator is not the only source of emissions. The system clock circuits consists of an internal RF divider followed by large amplifiers. These amplifiers drive long lines inside the components and might cause interferences. The use of internal oscillators instead of external ones should be preferred. (An additional hardware measure is the use of spread spectrum oscillators.) The field strength is proportional to the current as a consequence the power supply, providing the current for the entire system, is a strong source of emissions. Physically, a reduction of the power consumption of the system and the minimising of circuit loops (by the usage of decoupling capacities) emitting the noise, improves the EME performance. A software based solution is to temporary disable peripheral devices when not needed and thereby reduce unnecessary power consumption. If an MC uses external memory space or peripheral devices continuous transitions on several data/address bus lines are implied. The emission depends on the frequency of the transitions, their quantity, rise/fall time and duration. The quantity of transitions, of port traffic can be influenced by the use of interrupts instead of continuous polling of ports. The use of interrupts is software based as well. For the IRQ or reset pins (input pins) the termination is more important than for general I/O ports. If noise causes these two pins to mis-trigger it will have a negative effect on the circuit behavior. A high current consumption is often observed, particularly in CMOS devices, when the input pins are unconnected due to leakage current internal to the IC. Terminating high impedance input pins can therefore lead to a reduction in supply current and hence reduces emission. With most MC the internal pull-up resistors can be used to set unused pins to a defined voltage level. One way of reducing the emissions of an MC System is to extend the rise and fall time (Slew Rate Control). Some controllers like the Motorola HCS08 offer the feature of software controlled slew rate output buffers enabling the user to extend the rise time from 3 ns to 30 ns for each pin separately. Some microcontrollers offer current limiting, a way of limiting the maximum current driven by the output port (e.g. Motorola MCS12). The most effective way of reducing emissions is to temporary shut down unused modules in the MC, thereby saving power. Most controller support several \"sleep modes\". In order to reduce electromagnetic emissions on software basis the following measures should be considered: Most software implemented improvements on emission can only be detected using an Average-Detector! Emission-aware programming Emission-aware programming is a design philosophy aiming to reduce the amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted by electronic devices through proper design of the software executed by the device, rather than changing the hardware. Emission considerations require the evaluation of many details such as the clock frequencies and switching rates which are related to the oscillator. Rise/fall times and signal harmonics are related to the output driver. The data"
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"SAM-SAH riboswitch The SAM-SAH riboswitch is a conserved RNA structure in certain bacteria that binds \"S\"-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and \"S\"-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) and is therefore presumed to be a riboswitch. SAM-SAH riboswitches do not share any apparent structural resemblance to known riboswitches that bind SAM or SAH. The binding affinities for both compounds are similar, but binding for SAH is at least somewhat stronger. SAM-SAH riboswitches are exclusively found in Rhodobacterales, an order of alphaproteobacteria. They are always found in the apparent 5' untranslated regions of \"metK\" genes, which encode the enzyme (Methionine adenosyltransferase) that synthesizes SAM. Given this gene association, it was proposed that SAM-SAH riboswitches more likely function as SAM-sensing RNAs. SAM-SAH riboswitches are relatively small among known riboswitches, which might relate to their inability to discriminate against SAH. However, the ability to reject SAH as a ligand might not be important under physiological conditions, because the cellular concentration of SAM is higher. A region of the conserved structure of SAM-SAH riboswitches includes a predicted Shine-Dalgarno sequence (ribosome-binding site) of the downstream \"metK\" genes. These nucleotides are required for optimal binding to the ligand and might form a pseudoknot with the terminal loop within the main stem-loop structure. Occlusion of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence might be the mechanism by which SAM-SAH riboswitches regulate expression of the downstream genes. SAM-SAH riboswitch The SAM-SAH riboswitch is a conserved RNA structure in certain bacteria that binds \"S\"-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and \"S\"-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) and is therefore presumed to be a riboswitch. SAM-SAH riboswitches do not share any apparent structural resemblance to known riboswitches that bind SAM or SAH. The binding affinities for both compounds are similar, but binding for SAH is at least somewhat stronger. SAM-SAH riboswitches are exclusively found in Rhodobacterales, an order of alphaproteobacteria. They are always found in the apparent 5' untranslated regions"
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"Piedmont Hospital Piedmont Atlanta Hospital is a 643 bed, non-profit hospital located at 1968 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia. Piedmont was established in 1905 as the Piedmont Sanitarium, the successor to Amster's private sanitorium, in the former mansion of Charles Thomas Swift of S.S.S. Tonic. The mansion was located at the northwest corner of Capitol and Crumley streets in the then-affluent Washington-Rawson neighborhood. The name was changed to Piedmont Hospital and eventually the hospital took up an entire square block. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots; now the site is part of the large Georgia State Stadium parking lot. Piedmont Hospital Piedmont Atlanta Hospital is a 643 bed, non-profit hospital located at 1968 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia. Piedmont was established in 1905 as the Piedmont Sanitarium, the successor to Amster's private sanitorium, in the former mansion of Charles Thomas Swift of S.S.S. Tonic. The mansion was located at the northwest corner of Capitol and Crumley streets in the then-affluent Washington-Rawson neighborhood. The name was changed to Piedmont Hospital and eventually the hospital took up an entire square block. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s"
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"Spathius galinae Spathius galinae is a parasitoid of emerald ash borer. The known range of \"S. galinae\" extends from the Russian Far East to South Korea. It is currently approved for release in some areas of North America as part of a biological control program against emerald ash borer. Beginning in early spring, adults lay eggs on host larvae by drilling into the tree with their ovipositor to reach the larva underneath the bark. The eggs hatch and consume the host larva. \"S. galinae\" larvae and pupae develop within the host gallery and emerge in approximately 35 days. Two to three generations occur per year. Prior to winter, pre-pupae halt development to enter diapause and overwinter within the tree. Spathius galinae Spathius galinae is a parasitoid of emerald ash borer. The known range of \"S. galinae\" extends from the Russian Far East to South Korea. It is currently approved for release in some areas of North America as part of a biological control program against emerald ash borer. Beginning in early spring, adults lay eggs on host larvae by drilling into the tree with their ovipositor to reach the larva underneath the bark. The eggs hatch and consume the host"
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"Jaclyn Hawkins Jaclyn Hawkins (born February 28, 1985) is a Canadian former ice hockey player for the Connecticut Huskies women's ice hockey program and the Boston Blades of the CWHL. Hawkins is the founder and owner of WomensHockeyLife Ltd. Prior to her NCAA career, Hawkins played at South Carleton High School with future St. Lawrence Skating Saints women's ice hockey skater Chelsea Grills. In the first eight games of the 2000 season, both Grills and Hawkins averaged four points a game as the South Carleton Storm started the season with an 8–0 record. Hawkins transferred from South Carleton High School so that she could compete for the Taft School and the CT Polar Bears in Connecticut at the age of 15. Hawkins captained both Taft and the Polar Bears during her Senior year, claiming Gold at the 2004 US National Championship. At the end of her freshman season (2004–05), Hawkins finished second nationally among freshmen in goals scored with 25 and third in points with 40. Her goals and points numbers led the Huskies, while breaking the program's single-season marks for both categories, respectively. In addition, she was a four-time Hockey East Rookie of the Week award winner. Her 18 goals in conference play led all Hockey East skaters. She was a contributing factor in the Huskies reaching the Hockey East championship game as she scored more than a quarter of the Huskies' goals. On October 21, 2006, she set a Hockey East record (and tied an NCAA record) with three power play goals in one game. This was accomplished versus the Maine Black Bears and was part of a five-point game; it was her second hat trick in five games. In her sophomore and junior campaigns, she was the Huskies' leading scorer (sophomore numbers: 12 goals, 15 assists and 27 points; junior numbers: 18 goals, 18 assists and 36 points). After her senior season, Hawkins set a program record with 27 assists and finished as the Huskies' all-time leading scorer (69 goals, 75 assists, 144 points). In addition, she became the first Husky to win the Hockey East Sportsmanship Award. Hawkins was captain of the Huskies in her junior and senior seasons. In 2009-10, she relocated to Zurich, Switzerland and competed for the ZSC Lions. Her 55 points (29 goals, 26 assists) led the Lions, as she helped the squad advance to their first appearance in the Swiss Championship game. In addition, she was selected as one of the Swiss League's Most Valuable Players. Hawkins was selected by the Boston Blades in the 2010 CWHL Draft. During the 2004-05 season, Hawkins made the Canadian Under-22 Development and Selection Camp as well. During the summer seasons of 2006 and 2007, Hawkins worked as an instructor at the TEC-TAC International Hockey School in Carleton Place, Ontario. After graduating from the University of Connecticut in 2008, she joined the coaching staff as an assistant for the 2008–09 season. She helped coach youth hockey in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2010 and upon her return to North America, she was the Director of Player & Organizational Development with the CT Northern Lights. She returned behind the bench in 2013 for her alma mater, UConn, where she remains today. Women's Hockey Life (often abbreviated as WHL) is an Ottawa-based website owned by Hawkins, a former competitor for the Connecticut Huskies women's ice hockey program. The website focuses on women's ice hockey, with an emphasis on blogs, videos and news. Women's Hockey Life was founded in 2010 by Hawkins in Ottawa, Ontario, and was also incorporated in the same year of 2010. The company has remained under her ownership since. The idea for WHL came during Hawkins' season playing for the ZSC Lions in Switzerland. Along with teammate Amanda Shaw, the two encountered an entrepreneur named Graeme Roustan. A discussion with Roustan was the motivation to start the site. WHL features a section known as \"Hockey Opportunities\", allowing for players an opportunity to find teams to play for. A section called \"Locker Talk\" allows for equipment reviews, plus the posting of videos. The \"Coaches Corner\" section covers all facets of coaching, including strategy, nutrition, plus strength and conditioning. WHL holds a commitment to an open publishing model, allowing players, coaches, referees and fans (both male and female) the opportunity to create content for the site in terms of blogs. Subject matter ranges from collegiate play, international hockey, plus the burgeoning professional game. WHL announced a partnership in May 2017 with the Grindstone Hockey Foundation, founded by former Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey competitor Danielle Grundy. Jaclyn Hawkins Jaclyn Hawkins (born February 28, 1985) is a Canadian former ice hockey player for the Connecticut Huskies women's ice hockey program and the Boston Blades of the CWHL. Hawkins is the founder and owner of WomensHockeyLife Ltd. Prior to"
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"Spider Girl Spider Girl (Sussa Paka) is a fictional character appearing in books published by DC Comics. The character was first mentioned as a concept in the letters page of \"Adventure Comics\" when a fan suggested a character with the power of super-strong prehensile hair. Spider Girl formally first appeared as a failed Legion of Super-Heroes applicant. She went on to join Tarik the Mute's underground academy for supervillains and later the Legion of Super-Villains. During the Five-Year Gap run in \"Legion of Super-Heroes\" volume 4 (1989), Paka was written as a half-reformed thief with a crush on Legionnaire Ultra Boy. She joined the adult Legion as Spider Girl, but when the team was outlawed by the United Planets, they went underground, changing their appearances and codenames, even wearing masks. In this storyline, occurring just prior to the Zero Hour reboot of the titles, Sussa changed her codename to Wave and dyed her hair blue. Spider Girl's first appearance after the \"Zero Hour\" event occurred in \"Legion of Super-Heroes\" v.4 #64 as a member of the Workforce. She had a relationship with Ultra Boy while he was also a member of the team. As a result of this she was extremely resentful of Apparition. What appears to be a revamped version of the pre-Crisis Spider Girl appears in the \"Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes\" story beginning in \"Action Comics\" #858. In this version, she is a member of the \"Justice League of Earth\", a group of Earth-born Legion rejects which has seized control of Earth and banished the Legion and other extraterrestrials by spreading lies that Superman was a human that hated all aliens. In both incarnations, Spider Girl possesses prehensile hair. She can use her hair to ensnare or bind her opponents. As Wave, her hair was bluish; as Spider Girl, her hair was reddish. Spider Girl appears in her Wave identity (with the blue-dyed hair) in the \"Legion of Super-Heroes\" animated television series. She appears as a member of the Light Speed Vanguard (Legion of Super-Villains). She displays the ability to wrap and lift things with her hair like her comic book counterpart. Spider Girl Spider Girl (Sussa Paka) is a fictional character appearing in books published by DC Comics. The character was first mentioned as a concept in the letters page of \"Adventure Comics\" when a fan suggested a character with the power of super-strong prehensile"
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"Lazare Kopelmanas Lazare Kopelmanas (born in Kaunas, Lithuania; died December 9, 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an international jurist and diplomat. After obtaining his candidate's degree in economic and social sciences at the University of Geneva in 1929, he went to the University of Paris to study law. Shortly after his graduation in 1935, he began to teach at its \"\" and became professor in 1939. Later that same year he volunteered into the French army. During the German invasion of France in 1940, he was taken prisoner and interned in Stalag VII-A. After liberation he came back to the University of Paris, where his doctoral dissertation earned him \"Prix de thèse\" for the year 1945. From 1949 to 1961 he was Legal Adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and from 1961 to 1977 - adviser to the United Nations Office at Geneva in matters concerning legal aspects of trade, industry and technology transfer. In different post-war years Kopelmanas lectured at the \"Centre d'Études de Politique Éntrangère\" (1948, 1950), Hague Academy of International Law (1950, 1976), Yale University (invited professor in 1957-1958), University of Geneva (1971–1973), University of Paris (1945–1948, 1960–1962, 1977). Lazare Kopelmanas Lazare Kopelmanas"
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"Sakae Esuno Sakae Esuno is a Japanese manga artist from Shizuoka. He is best known for his manga series \"Future Diary\" and \"Big Order\". Esuno started drawing at age 15, at the time he was an admirer of the works of Rumiko Takahashi in particular her horror manga \"Mermaid Saga\". After working as a manga assistant for many years he managed to become a professional manga artist when his story won a prize in a contest held by Kadokawa Shoten in 2001. In the 2017 May issue of Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine, he launched a new manga titled \"Tantei Akechi wa Kyōran su (The Detective Akechi is Berserk)\" a tribute to the works of Edogawa Ranpo. Sakae Esuno Sakae Esuno is a Japanese manga artist from Shizuoka. He is best known for his manga series \"Future Diary\" and \"Big Order\". Esuno started drawing at age 15, at the time he was an admirer of the works of Rumiko Takahashi in particular her horror manga \"Mermaid Saga\". After working as a manga assistant for many years he managed to become a professional manga artist when his story won a prize in a contest held by Kadokawa Shoten in 2001. In the"
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"Allt Penycoed Stream Section Allt Penycoed Stream Section is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or \"SSSI\") in Carmarthen & Dinefwr, Wales. It is protected by law and has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since April 1985 in an attempt to protect rare or unique features or species within it. The site has an area of 1.62 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales. This site is designated due to its geological qualities. In Wales, geological sites range from quarries to rocky outcrops and massive sea-cliffs. 30% of SSSIs in Wales are notified for geological and geomorphological features. This stream section provides valuable information of dense turbidite/shale sequence, demonstrating the base of the member and good sections in the underlying Pibwr mudstones, which shows trilobite faunas representative of major ecological changes related to water depth and oxygenation around 500 million years ago. Trilobites are the fossilized remains of a new extinct group of sea-living arthropods, which have been recorded from this site and helped geologists understand conditions of the sea bed during the accumulation of sediment. The rich fossil assemblage has also enabled geologists to compare this section with rocks of a similar age all through South wales and the rest of the British Isles. Allt Penycoed Stream Section Allt Penycoed Stream Section is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or \"SSSI\") in Carmarthen & Dinefwr, Wales. It is protected by law and has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since April 1985 in an attempt to protect rare or unique features or species within it. The site has an area of 1.62 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales. This site is designated due to its geological qualities. In Wales, geological sites range from quarries to rocky outcrops and massive"
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"Pedro Fajardo, 1st Marquis of los Vélez Pedro Fajardo y Chacón, 1st Marquis of los Vélez, Grandee of Spain, (in full, ), (unknown – 1542) was a Spanish military and nobleman. His seat was at the Castillo de Vélez-Blanco. He was a son of \"don\" Juan Chacón and wife \"dona\" Luisa Fajardo y Manrique de Lara, 2nd Countess and Lady of Cartagena. He was the 3rd Count and Lord of the City of Cartagena and the 7th Lord of Alhama, Mula, Lebrillo, Molina Seca, La Puebla, etc. He was \"Adelantado-Mayor\" and Captain-General of the Kingdom of Murcia, Commander of Caravaca and \"Thirteen\" (\"Trece\") of the Order of Santiago, of the Council of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand V of Castile and Isabel I of Castile. He was created 1st Marquess of los Vélez with a Coat of Arms of Fajardo on 12 September 1507 by Joanna of Castile and 1st Count of Gagliano. He was also made Grandee of Spain First Class recognized by Charles I of Spain in 1520. He was humiliated when in 1520, the vocal citizens of Mula made him swear to respect the privileges that Ferdinand III of Castile gave to the village. In this way the dispute against the Marquess over the municipal government council began. The Marquess pre-empted the situation with the construction of his fortress to make his rule over the people of Mula assured. He married firstly to \"dona\" Madalena Manrique de Lara y d'Acuña, daughter of the 2nd Counts of Paredes de Nava, and maternal granddaughter of the 1st Counts of Buendía, without issue. He married secondly to Dona Mencía de la Cueva, daughter of Don Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque and wife Dona Francisca Alvarez de Toledo and had an only son Luis Ybáñez Fajardo de la Cueva. He married thirdly in 1520 \"dona\" Catalina de Silva, daughter of the 3rd Counts of Cifuentes (\"don\" Juan de Silva and Dona Catalina de Toledo, sister of the 2nd Count of Oropesa), of which matrimony was born Don Juan Fajardo, who married \"dona\" Catalina de Ávalos or Dávalos, parents of Don Gonzalo Fajardo y Dávalos, Mayor of the Palace-Major (\"Majordomo-Mayor\") of Philip IV of Spain, \"Alcalde-Mayor\" of Murcia and Cartagena, Knight of Calatrava, Artillery General and 1st by mercy of January 8, 1649; this one married \"dona\" Isabel Manrique de Mendoza, 7th Countess of Castrojeriz and ?th Countess of Villazopeque, Grandee of Spain (widow of the 9th Count of Ribadavia), and had an heiress daughter Dona Juana Fajardo Manrique de Mendoza, without issue from both her marriages with the 9th Marquess of Astorga and the 4th Marquess (formerly Lords) of Cerralbo with a Coat of Arms of Pacheco (later Grandees of Spain on 28 August 1780) and 1st Count of Villalobos (for the first borns of the House), \"don\" Juan Antonio Pacheco y Osorio, Captain-General of Catalonia. Pedro Fajardo, 1st Marquis of los Vélez Pedro Fajardo y Chacón, 1st Marquis of los Vélez, Grandee of Spain, (in full, ),"
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"Rudi Georgi Dr.Rudi Georgi (born 25 December 1927 in Bockau) was a politician and public official in the German Democratic Republic. Between 1973 and 1989 he served as a junior member of the country's Council of Ministers, being one of the (at times more than fifteen) government ministers responsible for an industrial sector deemed important enough to justify having its own minister: he was the \"Minister for the Production of Tooling and Processing Machinery\". Georgi was born into a working-class family on Christmas Day 1927 in a small industrial town in the heart of Saxony's rich mining region, some 20 km (12 miles) north-west of the German frontier with Bohemia. He attended schools in nearby Aue before undertaking a clerical apprenticeship at the cutlery factory there. Before his eighteenth birthday the war ended and Saxony now found itself in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany. During the next few years the entire zone would be politically reorganised under Soviet military administration, becoming a stand-alone Soviet sponsored state, the German Democratic Republic, which would formally be founded in 1949. Well before that, in 1946, the basis was prepared for a return to one-party government, with the forced merger across the zone of the old Communist Party (KPD) and the moderate left Social Democratic Party (SPD) to give birth to what would be East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), for most purposes a Soviet style Communist party by another name. Directly following the war Georgi signaled his interest in politics when he joined the SPD, but following the party merger in April 1946 he was one of the many SPD members who quickly accepted the invitation to sign their memberships across to the SED. The merger of the KPD and SPD had been presented as a merger of equals, but within a few years there were very few former SPD members left in positions of influence within the merged SED. However, in 1946 Georgi had also joined the Free German Youth (FDJ / \"Freie Deutsche Jugend\") which traditionally had been the youth wing of the Communist Party in Germany. Silver was mined locally and between 1950 and 1962 Georgi worked in the local Cutlery and Silverware factory, operated by the VEB Cutlery and Silverware Aue operation. Between 1951 and 1955 he was employed as a Production Manager, and from 1955 till 1962 he was the Works Director. Between 1957 and 1961 he successfully studied for an Economics degree through a correspondence course with the Karl Marx University (as it was then called) in Leipzig. Georgi then moved on, and in 1963 he became General Director with \" Eisen-, Bleche- und Metallwaren\" (VVB EBM), an iron and steel products producer in Chemnitz. In April 1966 he received his doctorate, again from Karl Marx University in Leipzig. His doctoral dissertation, reflecting his job, was entitled \"Problems of the further development of product-group work at VVB EBM to ensure needs-focused production in the entire industry branch\". Dr.Georgi's transfer into government came in 1963 when he was appointed Minister for the Construction of Industrial Machinery and Vehicles. The country's constitution by now asserted the leading role of The Party, so that in some ways it was the primary task of government ministers simply to carry out party policy, though at the higher levels the same individuals were generally in positions of power and influence in both institutions, making the distinction relatively unimportant. By 1963 there were approximately fifteen government ministers covering departments with areas of responsibility not dissimilar from their western equivalents. Additionally, however, by the time of the New Economic System of Planning and Direction (\"Neues Ökonomisches System der Planung und Leitung\") established (formally) in 1961, there were a further (approximately) fifteen ministers with responsibility for individual industry sectors. From the perspective of western observers, the industry sector-specific ministers came into focus when they appeared on East German stands at international trade fairs. In 1976, following a reconfiguration of industry ministry areas of responsibility, Georgi became the \"Minister for the Production of Tooling and Processing Machinery\". The construction of heavy plant and equipment was a traditional strength of the German economy which by now the Comecon planners were keep to promote, and Georgi was evidently good at his job, since unusually among his industry minister colleagues in 1976, he was still in post in 1989. Within the party his progress was slower. It was usual for candidates for membership of the Party Central Committee to remain on he list for several years, but Rudi Georgi was a candidate for Central Committee membership for nine years, between 1967 and 1976, which represented an unusually long wait. Between 1976 and 1989 he was one of the approximately 125 members of the . With his colleagues he resigned his party and government offices in November/December 1989/1990. Rudi Georgi Dr.Rudi Georgi (born 25 December 1927 in Bockau) was a politician and public official in the German Democratic Republic. Between 1973 and 1989 he served as a junior member of the country's Council of Ministers, being one of the (at times more than fifteen) government ministers responsible for an industrial sector deemed important enough to justify having its own minister: he was the \"Minister for the Production of Tooling and Processing Machinery\". 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"NBA Premium TV NBA Premium TV is a Philippine pay television sports channel. The channel is a joint broadcasting between Solar Entertainment Corporation and NBA TV. It is a live simulcast broadcast of NBA TV, the league's dedicated channel in the United States. NBA Premium is the sister channel of Basketball TV, but the channel airs more games and NBA-content than its sister channel or ABS-CBN (Free TV partner). Since it is also a re-direct broadcast of NBA TV, there will be no local commercial insertions and only airs commercials coming from the US feed and local announcements. The channel is only dedicated to NBA programs unlike on BTV which airs generally about Basketball, and airs content like Euroleague and FIBA tournaments. The channel also keeps commentary from US during the NBA Finals, and also a direct re-broadcast from ABC/ESPN, while BTV and ABS-CBN uses the World Feed and Local commentary, respectively. The channel also continues to air NBA-related programming during off-season like WNBA games on Pre-season games. On April 10, 2017, Sky Cable, Destiny Cable & Sky Direct dropped NBA Premium TV along with Basketball TV, Jack TV, Solar Sports & CT (now defunct) allegedly due to Sky Cable's unpaid carriage fees. However, on October 16, 2018, the channel was returned on Sky Cable & Sky Direct after 18 months of carriage disputes. On October 28, 2018, the channel was dropped again on Sky Cable & Sky Direct. Here is the roster of programs aired in NBA Premium TV NBA Premium TV NBA Premium TV is a Philippine pay television sports channel. The channel is a joint broadcasting between Solar Entertainment Corporation and NBA TV. It is a live simulcast broadcast of NBA TV, the league's dedicated channel in the United States. NBA Premium is the sister channel of"
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"Mark Murphy (author) Mark A. Murphy is a best-selling author and noted expert on organizational leadership and employee engagement. Murphy has authored or contributed to four books, including \"Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give it Their All and They'll Give You Even More\" (a business best-seller in 2010, McGraw-Hill), \"Generation Y and the New Rules of Management\" (2008, Insight Publishing), \"The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention\" (2005, Leadership IQ Press), and his most recent title, \"HARD Goals: The Secret to Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be\" (2010, McGraw-Hill). Both \"HARD Goals\" and \"Hundred Percenters\" have received critical acclaim from major media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Business Insider, Fortune Magazine and others. Murphy is the founder and CEO of research and consulting firm Leadership IQ, which specializes in leadership training and employee surveys for the private healthcare industry and large and mid-size corporations. As the driving force behind Leadership IQ's research arm, Murphy and his findings are often referenced in business news reports, including CNN Money on \"The Fatal mistakes when starting a new job\", The Globe and Mail on \"Setting career goals: the gender factor\" and BusinessWeek on \"Why the boss really had to say goodbye\" Murphy is a three-time nominee for Modern Healthcare's \"Most Powerful People in Healthcare Award.\" Murphy was also awarded the Healthcare Financial Management Association's \"Helen Yerger Award for Best Research\" for discovering the link between patient mortality rates and hospital finances. Mark Murphy (author) Mark A. Murphy is a best-selling author and noted expert on organizational leadership and employee engagement. Murphy has authored or contributed to four books, including \"Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give it Their All and They'll Give You Even More\" (a business best-seller in 2010, McGraw-Hill), \"Generation Y and the New Rules"
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"Michael Bakare Michael Adewale A. Oluwabunmi Bakare (born 1 December 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Connah's Quay Nomads. After starting his career with Leyton, and spells with Welling United, and Thurrock, Bakare joined Bishop's Stortford in 2010. It was here where he first made a real impact, converting from a full back and midfielder to a forward player. Following an impressive 9 goals in 14 games early in the 2011/12 season, Bakare joined Conference South club Chelmsford City, in a free transfer on 19 October 2011. He continued to impress at his new club, scoring 5 goals in 10 games, which earnt Bakare a move to Football League side, Macclesfield Town on 17 January 2012. Bakare signed on a free transfer, and made his first appearance as a substitute against Swindon Town on 21 January 2012. He was however limited to substitute appearances at Macclesfield, not starting a single game, and was released by the club, following their relegation at the end of the 2011/2012 season, making only 9 appearances. His last game was against Southend United on 5 May 2012. Conference National club Southport took Bakare on trial in July 2012. After a single appearance in a friendly against Skelmersdale United it was announced manager Liam Watson had signed the player to a contract for the 2012–13 season at the club's AGM on 27 July 2012. In October 2012 he joined Droylsden on loan and scored on his club debut on 27 October as the club beat Colwyn Bay. From then on he has been somewhat of a journeyman, going on to play for Chelmsford City, Dover Athletic, Tonbridge Angels, Braintree Town, Bury Town, VCD Athletic and Witham Town before rejoinging his former club Welling United for the 2015/16 season. On 22 June 2016, he joined Wrexham, along with his Welling teammate Nortei Nortey, on a 1-year deal. He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 2016–17 season, in a 0–0 draw with Dover Athletic. On 24 November 2016, he joined Billericay Town on loan from Wrexham until January 2017. He made his debut in a league match against Metropolitan Police where he won his side a penalty before converting it himself, in a game that finished 1–1. Following the end of his loan spell, Bakare returned to Wrexham where his contract was cancelled by mutual consent on 23 January 2017. He signed for Warrington Town on 23 March 2017. In August 2017, Bakare joined Welsh Premier League side Connah's Quay Nomads, alongside his brother Mathias, after a successful trial period. Michael Bakare Michael Adewale A. Oluwabunmi Bakare (born 1 December 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Connah's Quay Nomads. After starting his career with Leyton, and spells with Welling United, and Thurrock, Bakare joined Bishop's Stortford in 2010. It was here where he first made a real impact, converting from a full back and midfielder to a forward player. Following"
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"Manorhamilton Manorhamilton () is the second largest town in County Leitrim, Ireland. It is located on the N16 between Sligo and Enniskillen . Before the Plantations of Ireland the settlement was known as \"Clooneen\" (). This lay on the west bank of the Owenbeg. Uí Ruairc (Anglicised as O'Rourke) was the local Gaelic chieftain based in nearby Dromahair whose land was seized by the English and then granted to Sir Frederick Hamilton for his services in the European wars of the 17th century. As a result of his actions Hamilton to this day is considered to have been a tyrant by the local people. He began building a new town on the east bank of the river, in the townland of \"Clonmullen\", which he renamed \"Manorhamilton\". After the town emerged, the name \"Baile Hamaltuin\" was adopted by Irish speakers and its anglicised form \"Ballyhamilton\" was used by English speakers for a time. The ruins of Manorhamilton Castle is a renovated castle ruin and tourist attraction. The Castle was erected in 1634 by Sir Frederick Hamilton who was granted land in North Leitrim by the English government. The land had been confiscated from the O'Rourkes, the ruling clan of Breifne. Hamilton was a very unpopular overlord and faced frequent native rebellion before the Castle was burned by the Earls of Clanrickard (Burkes) in 1652. Manorhamilton has several major businesses: Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centuries, a number of annual fairs were held at Manorhamilton on- May 8, July 1, October 7, and November 18, with four annual fairs held at nearby Lurganboy on- May 15 (or 17th), June 21, August 21, September 23, and October 21. Like most rural Irish towns, Manorhamilton is seeing considerable social and physical change. Farming is still a dominant sector yet traditional industries and livelihoods are being replaced by new forms of economic activity. The Wild Rose and Thorn Festival brings large crowds to Manorhamilton each August. Manorhamilton has several pubs with music, craic and nightlife. The area is renowned for traditional Irish music and regular sessions take place in 'Biddy's, 'Heraghty's' and 'The Castle'. The ruins of Manorhamilton Castle is a renovated castle and tourist attraction. Manorhamilton Castle Heritage Centre hosts a permanent exhibition and offers guided tours of the Castle ruins and grounds. The Bee Park Resource Centre is a facility on the site of the former Community Centre. The centre has a large main hall which stages concerts and community events. The Bee Park Centre is also home to a large number of service providers in the areas of youth, sport, disability and childcare education. The North Leitrim Women's Group and The North Leitrim Men's Group are also located here. A public square has been developed adjacent to Manorhamilton Castle on the former fair green. The square, which incorporates an outdoor performance platform, features an abstract sculpture, sourced from the local Leitrim Sculpture Centre. This plot is one of three graveyards opened shortly before and during the Great Famine of 1845 - 1849. The North Leitrim area features many pre-historic sites of interest. Very accessible is the nearby O'Donnell's Rock plateau where many well-preserved stone forts and passage tombs are located. Cairns and other tombs are also visible on Benbo Mountain and at the summits of virtually all the surrounding mountains. On lower ground the remains of ringforts, cashels, tombs and many other structures are dotted throughout the landscape. Lisdarush Ring Fort is a well-preserved Iron Age site which can be seen just off the Rossinver road approximately from Manorhamilton. Our Lady's Hospital is located on the edge of the town. This HSE hospital provides a range of services and is focused on long-stay and day-care geriatric and rheumatology services. Manorhamilton is on the N16 national primary route. This road continues across the border and becomes the A4. The R280 road links the town to Bundoran, Co. Donegal and to Carrick-on-Shannon in Co. Leitrim. The R282 road links the town to Rossinver and continues across the border as the B53 to Garrison, County Fermanagh. The town is served by a number of Bus Éireann routes including the Sligo to Enniskillen route 66, Expressway service. The nearest railway station to Manorhamilton is Sligo railway station which is served by trains to Dublin Connolly and is operated by Iarnród Éireann. Bus Éireann services from Manorhamilton stop at Sligo bus station which is beside Sligo railway station. Manorhamilton railway station opened on 1 December 1880 and formed part of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway (SLNCR). All maintenance on the line's engines and rolling stock was carried out at the station works and the railway became a major employer locally. The administrative headquarters of the SLNCR was located in the nearby village of Lurganboy. The railway served as a major business and tourism artery to the area and developed a large trade in livestock exports. The development of the modern roads system in Ireland led to the decline of railway usage and the consolidation of railways nationwide. The SLNCR, and with it Manorhamilton Station, finally closed on 1 October 1957. There are many sports and outdoors activities available in Manorhamilton. The principal sporting and cultural organisation in the area is Glencar–Manorhamilton GAA (Gleann an Chairthe–Cluainín). The Glencar Manor senior team were the Leitrim Senior Football Champions in 1977, 1999, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. The club's grounds are in Boggaun and it has a strong underage structure competing successfully at all grades of Gaelic football and hurling in the county. Manorhamilton Rangers AFC participates in the Sligo Leitrim Junior soccer leagues. Manor Rangers pitch is located in the Bee Park sports grounds in the centre of the town. Manorhamilton Tennis Club has all-weather courts in the Bee Park sports grounds. Teams from the club also participate in the Connacht Tennis League. Sean McDermott Boxing Club has a strong tradition in the town with boxers from the club having reached National Finals on several occasions. The Holey Soles Hillwalking Club organise an annual North Leitrim Glens Hillwalking Festival, which attracts large numbers of walkers from all over the country. Other activities popular in Manorhamilton include fishing, athletics, basketball, Irish dancing, table tennis and badminton. Manorhamilton Manorhamilton () is the second largest town in County Leitrim, Ireland. It is located on the N16 between Sligo and Enniskillen . Before the Plantations of Ireland the settlement was known as \"Clooneen\" (). This lay on the west bank of the Owenbeg. 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"Najafabad Najafabad (, also Romanized as Najafābād) is a city and capital of Najafabad County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 206,114, in 54,529 families. It is located west of Isfahan and is increasingly becoming a part of Isfahan Metropolitan area. Najafabad is the birthplace of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Mostafa Moeen, Moein (singer), and Sardar Ahmad Kazemi. The city serves as a trade center for agricultural products in the region, and is noted for its pomegranates and almonds. One of the attractions of Najafabad is the \"Arg-e Sheykh Bahaie\" that has recently been repaired. Najafabad is home to the Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch. Najafabad Najafabad (, also Romanized as Najafābād) is a city and capital of Najafabad County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 206,114, in 54,529 families. It is located west of Isfahan and is increasingly becoming a part of Isfahan Metropolitan area. Najafabad is the birthplace of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Mostafa Moeen, Moein (singer), and Sardar Ahmad Kazemi. The city serves as a trade center for agricultural products in the region, and is noted for its pomegranates and almonds. One of the attractions of Najafabad is the"
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"Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple The Queen's Theatre is a theatre in Barnstaple. It assumed its current form in 1993, but the history of theatre in Barnstaple can be traced back to at least 1435, when minstrels, players, jugglers and buffoons were an established feature of Barnstaple's annual fair. Documents indicate that in 1605 a touring troupe, the King's Players visited, and it is believed that William Shakespeare was one of their members. John Gay, a renowned contributor in the theatre world, best known for the 'Beggar's Opera' was born in Barnstaple. Barnstaple's first theatre was built in Honey Pot Lane (now Theatre Lane) in 1760. By 1832, it had become 'ruinous' and was forced to close. A new theatre, 'The Grecian Hall', opened in 1834. Renamed 'The Theatre Royal' around 1860, it regularly staged popular musicals and musical comedies. By 1880 this too had closed, although performances continued at a large room above the Corn Market (the site of the present theatre) which had served as a music hall since 1854. The 'Theatre Royal' re-opened in 1893 and the music hall, now the 'Albert Hall', in 1897. The two venues operated successfully until just prior to World War I, when the 'Theatre Royal' was demolished. The Albert Hall continued providing musical entertainment until 1941, when it was destroyed by fire, probably from a discarded cigarette. In 1952 the hall was rebuilt (only the outer walls had survived the fire) as \"The Queen's Hall\". Although with a plain and functional interior, it served the Barnstaple community, for a variety of purposes of live entertainment, antique markets, dog shows and similar functions for over forty years. In 1993 the local council decided to fully refurbish the building, reopening as The Queens Theatre. The first production in the new facilities - the pantomime Snow White - opened on Christmas Eve that year. In the summer of 2013 the theatre closed for major backstage refurbishment including a 23 line electric flying system (moving from 17 lines of three line hemp) and an electric orchestra pit. There were also minor improvements for access. The theatre reopened on 14 September. This theatre, along with \"The Landmark, Ilfracombe\" is managed by \"The North Devon Theatres' Trust\", a registered charity promoting the arts (including dance, drama, literature, music and singing) in North Devon. On Monday 23 January 2017, it was announced that North Devon Theatres Trust which owns this theatre and The Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe, had gone into administration. The theatre was bought out of administration and is now run by Parkwood Theatres. The shows started again on May 31st 2017. Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple The Queen's Theatre is a theatre in Barnstaple. It assumed its current form in 1993, but the history of theatre in Barnstaple can be traced back to at least 1435, when minstrels, players, jugglers and buffoons were an established feature of Barnstaple's annual fair. Documents indicate that in 1605 a touring troupe, the King's Players visited, and it is believed that William Shakespeare was"
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"SN Systems SN Systems is a provider of Windows based development tools for games consoles, including the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, PlayStation Vita, and PSP. The company had provided tools for the Atari ST, Amiga, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS. The company was founded in 1990 by Martin Day and Andy Beveridge. Both directors have backgrounds of developing game console software development tools, such as SNASM and Psy-Q, at Cross Products and later Psygnosis. SN Systems' long association with the PlayStation line of consoles began in 1993, when PlayStation manufacturer Sony acquired Psygnosis, who were publishing SN Systems' tools at the time. While Sony had provided MIPS R4000-based Sony NEWS workstations for PlayStation development, Psygnosis disliked the thought of developing on these expensive workstations and asked SN Systems to create a PC-based development system. At the 1994 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Psygnosis arranged an audience for SN Systems with Sony's Japanese executives, and Sony were impressed enough with their development tools that they decided to abandon their plans for a workstation-based development system in favor of using SN Systems' development system exclusively. In 1999, SN Systems won a \"Game Developer Magazine\" \"Front Line Award\" in the Programming Environment category for its Nintendo 64 development product called SN64. The company won again in 2005, this time for the ProDG for PSP suite. SN Systems was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. in 2005, to provide tools for the PlayStation 3, and future consoles. Based in Bristol, England, they have satellite offices in Campbell, California and Dublin, Ireland. Central to the SN Systems product line is the ProDG suite, comprising a compiler and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio, together with a debugger and additional build tools. SN Systems now may include its own SNC compiler with ProDG, rather than a derivative of the compiler provided by the console manufacturer (frequently a variant of GNU Compiler Collection). SN Systems SN Systems is a provider of Windows based development tools for games consoles, including the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, PlayStation Vita, and PSP. The company had provided tools for the Atari ST, Amiga, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS. The company was founded in 1990 by Martin Day and Andy Beveridge. Both directors have backgrounds of developing"
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"HMS Group The HMS Group is a diversified machine-building and engineering holding company, a manufacturer of pumps, compressors, and oil & gas equipment which production and engineering assets are located in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Germany. The function of chief executive body is carried out through the HMS Group Management Company LLC. The company's headquarters are located in Moscow, Russia. Engineering, manufacturing, and complex procurement of the following products: HMS Group is a joint-stock company established and operated in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation through 17 subsidiaries and 1 subordinate enterprise located in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Germany. HMS Group is a member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), the Russian Engineering Union, the Russian Pump Manufacturers Association, the Union of Oil and Gas Equipment Producers, the New Gas Industry Technology Association of Equipment Manufacturers. Hydromashservice, the bedrock of HMS Group, was founded in 1993. The main business was focused on supply pumps and systems to CIS countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan) and Russia. By 1995 Hydromashservice had expanded and entered CIS markets and soon become one of the leaders specializing in the supplying pumps and systems for oil & gas, power, water and utilities. Since 2003 Hydromashservice has been growing by organic growth coupled with active merging and acquiring pump and oilfield skid mounted equipment manufacturers, R&D and engineering companies as well as servicing and EPC companies: In 2005 Hydraulic Machines and Systems, Investment Industrial Group, was established and the Hydraulic Machines and Systems Management Company was founded for asset management. In 2008 Investment Industrial Group Hydraulic machines and Systems was rebranded as HMS Group. In 2010 Hydraulic Machines and Systems Management Company was renamed as HMS Group Management Company. In February 2011 HMS Group completed an initial public offering of global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London Stock Exchange, resulted in an aggregate gross proceeds of US$360 mn and a post-IPO equity value for the Company of US$967 mn. HMS Group The HMS Group is a diversified machine-building and engineering holding company, a manufacturer of pumps, compressors, and oil & gas equipment which production and engineering assets are located in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Germany. The function of chief executive body is carried out through the HMS Group Management Company LLC. The company's headquarters are located in Moscow, Russia. Engineering, manufacturing, and complex procurement of the following products: HMS Group is"
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"Guillermo Benítez Ángel Guillermo Benítez (born 8 December 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Guaraní, on loan from Argentinos Juniors. Benítez made his Argentinos Juniors debut in 2013 in a Copa Argentina tie against Sportivo Belgrano, playing the full match in penalty shoot-out defeat. In June 2014, Benítez joined Primera B Metropolitana side Estudiantes on loan for two seasons. His first professional league appearance came on 8 August in a 1–0 win over Deportivo Merlo. He went onto play eleven times for Estudiantes during the 2014 campaign, prior to featuring in forty fixtures in 2015. In May 2015, Benítez scored his first career goal versus Deportivo Armenio. He made his Argentine Primera División debut for Argentinos on 6 February 2016 in a draw with Tigre. After getting relegated in that season, he subsequently played thirty-six times for the club in the 2016–17 Primera B Nacional season as Argentinos won the title and gained promotion. His 100th career appearance arrived on 28 January 2018 in a 2–0 win versus San Martín. Benítez departed Argentine football for the opening time in June 2018, signing on loan for Guaraní of the Paraguayan Primera División. Guillermo Benítez Ángel"
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"F8 (classification) F8, also SP8, is a standing wheelchair sport classification open to people with spinal cord injuries, with inclusion based on a functional classification on a points system for lower limb functionality. Sportspeople in this class need to have less than 70 points. The class has largely been used in Australia and the United States. F8 has largely been eliminated because of a perceived lack of need internationally for a standing wheelchair class. Sports this class participates in include athletics, swimming and wheelchair basketball. In athletics, participation is mostly in field events. F8 is standing wheelchair sport class. The level of spinal cord injury for this class involves people who have incomplete lesions at a slightly higher level. This means they can sometimes bear weight on their legs. In 2002, USA Track & Field defined this class as, \"These are standing athletes with dynamic standing balance. Able to recover in standing when balance is challenged. Not more than 70 points in legs.\" In 2003, Disabled Sports USA defined this class as, \"In a sitting class but not more than 70 points in the lower limbs. Are unable to recover balance in challenged standing position.\" In Australia, this class means combined lower plus upper limb functional problems. \"Minimal disability.\" It can also mean in Australia that the athlete is \"ambulant with moderately reduced function in one or both lower limbs.\" In Australia, the corresponding class for based on disability type classes are A2, A3, A9,and LAF5. During the 1960s and 1970s, classification involved being examined in a supine position on an examination table, where multiple medical classifiers would often stand around the player, poke and prod their muscles with their hands and with pins. The system had no built in privacy safeguards and players being classified were not insured privacy during medical classification nor with their medical records. In the early Paralympic Games, this class would have been ineligible to participate in many cases because they did not meet minimum disability requirements set by the ISMGF. This class was historically merged in the 2000s with. The class was largely used in the United States for domestic competitions during the 2000s for standing wheelchair athletes. Initially, following changes made to the classification system internationally in this period, they were classified as F59 for international purposes. Their class was then changed following international classification. Their new classification was then used domestically. Domestically, they were moved to the F9 class because of a perceived lack internationally to have a standing wheelchair class. Under the IPC Athletics classification system, this class competes in F42, F43, F44, and F58. Field events open to this class have included shot put, discus and javelin. In pentathlon, the events for this class have included Shot, Javelin, 200m, Discus, 1500m. For F8 javelin throwers, they can throw the javelin from a standing position and they use a javelin that weights . Performance wise, a 1999 study of discus throwers found that for F5 to F8 discus throwers, the upper arm tends to be near horizontal at the moment of release of the discus. F5 and F8 discus throwers have less average angular forearm speed than F2 and F4 throwers. F2 and F4 speed is caused by use of the elbow flexion to compensate for the shoulder flexion advantage of F5 to F8 throwers. A study of javelin throwers in 2003 found that F8 throwers have angular speeds of the shoulder girdle similar to that of F3, F4, F5, F6, F7 and F9 throwers. Two other sports people in this class participate in are wheelchair basketball and swimming. In the earliest medical classifications for wheelchair basketball, they would have been ineligible to play. Under the current classification system, they would likely be classified as a 4.5 point player. SP8 swimmers can be found in IPC classes of S8, S9 and S10. They have a normalized drag in the range of 0.6 to 0.7. Classification is often sport specific, and has two parts: a medical classification process and a functional classification process. Medical classification for wheelchair sport can consist of medical records being sent to medical classifiers at the international sports federation. The sportsperson's physician may be asked to provide extensive medical information including medical diagnosis and any loss of function related to their condition. This includes if the condition is progressive or stable, if it is an acquired or congenital condition. It may include a request for information on any future anticipated medical care. It may also include a request for any medications the person is taking. Documentation that may be required my include x-rays, ASIA scale results, or Modified Ashworth Scale scores. One of the standard means of assessing functional classification is the bench test, which is used in swimming, lawn bowls and wheelchair fencing. Using the Adapted Research Council (MRC) measurements, muscle strength is tested using the bench press for a variety of spinal cord related injuries with a muscle being assessed on a scale of 0 to 5. A 0 is for no muscle contraction. A 1 is for a flicker or trace of contraction in a muscle. A 2 is for active movement in a muscle with gravity eliminated. A 3 is for movement against gravity. A 4 is for active movement against gravity with some resistance. A 5 is for normal muscle movement. F8 (classification) F8, also SP8, is a standing wheelchair sport classification open"
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"Jonathan Rosenblum (activist) Jonathan Rosenblum (born 1961) is a community and labor activist, writer and a union and community organizer based in Seattle, WA. Rosenblum's organizing career in Washington State began with in 1993 as a founding organizer Washington State Jobs With Justice, a labor, faith, student and community coalition. From 1996 to 1997 he worked as an organizer on the Union Cities Campaign for the King County Labor Council and AFL-CIO. Following this campaign, Rosenblum staffed the initial effort to organize contract technology employees which turned in to WashTech (CWA 37083 WashTech). From 1997 to 2001, Rosenblum was Director of the Seattle Union Now program at the AFL-CIO, including work on graduate student employee unionization at University of Washington. As a result of his role at SUN, Rosenblum was closely involved in labor’s preparations for the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. Rosenblum played an active role in helping to create a coalition between SUN and Direct Action Network, environmentalists, international activists and students. From 2011 to 2014, Rosenblum was the campaign director for Service Employees International Union during the $15 minimum wage initiative in SeaTac. He authored \"Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement,\" published by Beacon Press in March 2017. Jonathan Rosenblum (activist) Jonathan Rosenblum (born 1961) is a community and labor activist, writer and a union and community organizer based in Seattle, WA. Rosenblum's organizing career in Washington State began with in 1993 as a founding organizer Washington State Jobs With Justice, a labor, faith, student and community coalition. From 1996 to 1997 he worked as an organizer on the Union Cities Campaign for the King County Labor Council and AFL-CIO. Following this campaign, Rosenblum staffed the initial effort to organize contract technology employees which turned in to WashTech (CWA 37083 WashTech)."
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"Race and ethnicity in the NBA The composition of race and ethnicity in the National Basketball Association (NBA) has changed throughout the league's history. The first non-white player to enter the league was Wataru Misaka in 1947. According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2015 was composed of 74.4 percent black players, 23.3 percent white players, 1.8 percent Latino players, and 0.2 percent Asian players. The league has the highest percentage of black players of any major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The NBA was founded in June 1946, with its first season played in 1946–47. Wataru Misaka debuted in 1947–48 as the first non-white player and the first player of Asian descent to play in the league. African Americans first appeared in the NBA in 1950. Chuck Cooper was the first black player drafted in the NBA. On April 26, 1950, Harold Hunter signed with the Washington Capitols, becoming the first African American to sign a contract with any NBA team in history. However, Hunter was cut from the team during training camp and did not play professionally. On May 24, Nathaniel \"Sweetwater\" Clifton was the second African-American player to sign an NBA contract. Earl Lloyd was the first to play in the NBA. Hank DeZonie also played that year. In 1953, Don Barksdale became the first African American to play in an NBA All-Star Game. With the emergence of African-American players by the 1960s, the NBA game was stylistically being played faster and above the rim. Many of the league's great players were black. At that time, African Americans believed they were limited by an unofficial league quota of four black players per team. Puerto Rican Butch Lee in 1978 was the first Latino in the league. Wang Zhizhi became the first Chinese player in 2001. In 2011, Richard Lapchick with The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) of the University of Central Florida reported in their annual \"Racial and Gender Report Card\" that 17 percent of the league's players were white, the lowest since the report began in 1990. Hall of Fame player and Indiana Pacers president of basketball operations Larry Bird, who is white, stated in 2004 that the league needed more white players since the league's fans are mostly white. \"And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them [the fans, not the guys] a little excited. But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever. I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American,\" said Bird. More recently, a number of commentators have remarked on the league's dwindling number of white American players. While a TIDES study found that the NBA was 18.3% white in the 2015–16 season, this number also included non-Americans, most notably Europeans. During the entire 1996–97 season, only three NBA teams did not field an American-born white; on the opening day of the 2016–17 season, eight teams did not have a white American on their roster, and an additional 10 teams had only one. At the latter point in time, fewer than 10% of NBA players were American-born whites (43 out of a possible 450). Bill Russell in 1966 became the first non-white and African-American head coach in the NBA. In the late 1980s, teams began hiring black coaches in large numbers. At the start of the 2015–16 season, there were seven black head coaches in the league, down 50 percent from three years earlier, and the fewest in 16 years. At the conclusion of the 2016-17 season there were eight African American head coaches. Robert Johnson of the Charlotte Bobcats (now known as the Charlotte Hornets) was the first black majority team owner in the NBA in 2004–05. He was succeeded as Bobcats owner in 2010–11 by another African American, Michael Jordan. In 2013–14, Jordan and Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé, who is Indian, marked the first time in the history of major pro sports leagues in the U.S. that there were two non-white majority owners in a league. Race and ethnicity in the NBA The composition of race and ethnicity in the National Basketball Association (NBA) has changed"
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"FC Avenir Beggen Football Club Avenir Beggen is a football club, based in Beggen, a quarter of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The club were founded in 1915 as FC Daring Beggen but changed their name to FC Avenir Beggen a year later. In 1940, they were renamed SV 1915 Beggen, but in 1944, it was changed again to FC Avenir Beggen. Avenir Beggen had played in the National Division in consecutive seasons since 1965–66, but were relegated in the 2005–06 season. Finishing second in their first season in the second-tier Division of Honour, Avenir returned to the National Division at the first time of asking. In 2008/09 the club finished 14th and were relegated back to the Luxembourg Division of Honour. Avenir have qualified for UEFA European competition sixteen times. They have won three ties in European competition (although two were only on technicalities): Throughout its history the team has won three rounds in Europe, including Champions League, UEFA Cup and Cup Winners' Cup. In 1969, Avenir Beggen won their first league title in Luxembourg, with a historic victory followed by 10,000 spectators, of 3-1 against Jeunesse d'Esch. Moreover, thanks to this victory, the club qualified for the Champions League for the first time where they played against AC Milan (0-5 to Milan and 0-3 in Luxembourg city). Another success for Avenir Beggen came on the 60th anniversary of the club, 1 September 1975, when Avenir Beggen played their first UEFA Cup tie (now Europa League) against FC Porto (0-7 in Porto and 0-3 in Luxembourg city). In addition to those three ties, Avenir has won one game in a tie that they eventually lost (2–1 at home against Inter Bratislava in the 1990–91 UEFA Cup, before losing 5–0 in Bratislava). Overall, Avenir's record in European competition reads: 2008–09 season FC Avenir Beggen Football Club Avenir Beggen is a football club, based in Beggen, a quarter of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The club were founded in 1915 as FC Daring Beggen but changed their name to FC Avenir Beggen a year later. In 1940, they were renamed SV 1915 Beggen, but in 1944, it was changed again to FC Avenir Beggen. Avenir Beggen had played in the National Division in consecutive seasons since 1965–66, but were relegated in the 2005–06 season. Finishing second in their first season in the second-tier Division of Honour, Avenir returned to the National"
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"Cici Chen Cici Chen (Chinese: 陳娜良子), born in 1985, won Miss Shanghai in 2003 and Miss Chinese Vancouver in 2008, and Miss Chinese International Pageant 2009 second runner-up. While continuing her studies in psychology, she was also a television presenter, and presented Fairchild TV. Her Chinese name is meant to be a family with the father's name, a character meaning mother, and the child's name. She won Miss Shanghai in 2003. She won Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant 2008 in December 2008. In January 2009, she represented Vancouver in the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2009 held in Foshan, China. She was placed as second runner-up in this pageant to winner Christine Kuo of Toronto. Cici Chen Cici Chen (Chinese: 陳娜良子), born in 1985, won Miss Shanghai in 2003 and Miss Chinese Vancouver in 2008, and Miss Chinese International Pageant 2009 second runner-up. While continuing her studies in psychology, she was also a television presenter, and presented Fairchild TV. Her Chinese name is meant to be a family with the father's name, a character meaning mother, and the child's name. She won Miss Shanghai in 2003. She won Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant 2008 in December 2008. In January 2009, she represented Vancouver"
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"The Music The Music were an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the release of their debut album, \"The Music\", in 2002. The band released two further studio albums, \"Welcome to the North\" (2004) and \"Strength in Numbers\" (2008), before parting ways in 2011. The Music all met at Brigshaw High School, except Phil Jordan who went to Garforth, and began playing in 1999 as Insense. In 2001 the song \"Take the Long Road and Walk It\" circulated as a demo before being released by Fierce Panda as a 1000-copies-only single, a rarity from its day of release. Around this time NME and Steve Lamacq were describing them as the best unsigned band in Britain. The band were quickly signed by Hut, who released their first EP \"You Might as Well Try to Fuck Me\". In 2002, following another EP (\"The People\") they released their eponymous début album which reached No. 4 in the UK album charts. Their début single was re-issued as part of a two-disc set to promote the album, and reached No. 14 in the singles chart. Two further singles from the album, \"Getaway\" and \"The Truth is No Words\" reached No. 26 and No. 18 respectively. June 2003 saw them filling in for an absent Zwan on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival. In autumn 2004, they released their second album \"Welcome to the North\" and the accompanying single \"Freedom Fighters\", before touring with Incubus. August 2005 saw the band play at the dual-venue V Festival. In late 2006 they played a few UK gigs and subsequently posted on their site the video new song entitled, \"Fire\", which would eventually be released on \"Strength in Numbers\" two years later. The site also featured a video for unreleased track \"Kill 100\" by X-Press 2 featuring Robert Harvey. The band signed a new deal with Polydor in 2007 and spent the rest of the year recording their third album with producers Flood and Paul Hartnoll. During this time Harvey also revealed the reason for the band's extended absence. On The Music's official website, he told of his initial abuse of drugs in his mid-teens: \"the addiction began to sit into its groove. At first it was a joy then later became a habit and a way of escaping\". He later quit drugs, but around the time of the band's second album, had replaced the addiction with alcohol: \"Drinking became the place to hide. I'd have a bottle of wine before 7 pm, then go out and make a fool of myself. The next day was always panic and more questions it took a close friend to say to me 'Robert, you are depressed'\". He sought help at the end of 2005, and undertook a program that included medication. In June 2008, the band released their comeback single \"Strength in Numbers\", and the album \"Strength In Numbers\" the following week. In January 2010, the band began demoing material for their fourth studio album. The album was due for release sometime 2011. However, Harvey left the band in September 2010, and following a series of final farewell shows, The Music split up in August 2011. Harvey has since gone on to work with The Streets, collaborating on the album \"Computers and Blues\". Mike Skinner of The Streets and Harvey also released a Christmas song in December 2010, called \"Scrooge And Marley – I Don't Want It To Be Me\". On 31 March 2011, The Music announced a series of farewell gigs on their website. The band played three shows in Japan 25–27 July. They then played Brixton Academy London, England on 4 August, before bringing the curtain down on their career with two home town gigs at the O2 Academy in Leeds on 5 and 6 August. On 21 April 2011 the band released the newest and final song of their career on their official website. \"Ghost Hands\" was recorded for their now scrapped fourth studio album sessions. Talking about the single lead singer Robert Harvey said: \"\"We love the track and it just seemed a shame to leave it gathering dust forever. It's good to go out with something positive and new and we think it deserves to see the light of day. Hopefully the fans will agree – again we want to thank everyone who's been with us on this journey and look forward to celebrating an amazing ten years this summer.\"\" Following the end of their final tour, the band, in conjunction with Concert Live, released a live CD/DVD package entitled \"\" which captures the gigs from 4 and 6 August respectively. Shortly after The Music disbanded, Harvey embarked on a new musical project dubbed The D.O.T. with former The Streets frontman Mike Skinner. The duo released an album, And That, on 22 October 2012. The Music The Music were an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the release of their debut album, \"The Music\", in 2002. The band released two further studio albums, \"Welcome to the North\" (2004) and \"Strength in Numbers\" (2008), before parting ways in 2011. The Music all met at Brigshaw"
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"Liu Song (table tennis) Liu Song () is a male table tennis player from Argentina. From 1998 to 2011 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Latin American Table Tennis Championships. Born in Guangxi, China he started practising table tennis at the age of nine. He studied in a special school for athletes and reached eighth place in China's national ranking. Between 1990 and 1994 he was a part of China's national team, and he won the national junior single's championship in 1991. In 1986 he started studying Marketing in the University of Tokyo, although he dropped it after a year after deciding to go to Argentina. That's why it is said that Liu has three nationalities (Chinese, Argentinian and Japanese). In 1990 his family moved to Argentina, living in Floresta, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires city, where they opened a laundry. Five years later, Song followed his family. He adopted Argentinian nationality, the country that he always represented at international level, and he started training in the Centro Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo. His first big accomplishment was in 1995 in Brazil's Open; in 1996 he reached the semi-finals of the US Open, in the United States. He won all the Argentinian championships between 1995 and 2001, but in 1997 he started to alternate his place of residence between Argentina and Europe to play professionally. In the season of 1997/98 he was team's champion in Germany's second division; after that he played in Croatia, where he was team's champion in the first division in 1999 and 2001, and he won the European Championship team's in 2000 and 2001 playing for Zagreb. Then he went to Bordeaux, France, where he lives since 2001, playing for local team SAG Cestas in France's first division. Liu won the bronze medal in the 2011 Latin American Cup held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after being defeated by Brazil's Gustavo Tsuboi 4-3. Almost at the end of his career, being 39 years old, he won the singles' gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, by beating Mexico's Marcos Madrid in the final. Liu Song (table tennis) Liu Song () is a male table tennis player from Argentina. From 1998 to 2011 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Latin American Table Tennis Championships. Born in Guangxi, China he started practising"
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"Jeremy Boone Jeremy Allen Boone (born September 15, 1986) is a collegiate American football punter for Penn State. He most recently was the starting punter for the Penn State Nittany Lions. Boone was a three-sport athlete at Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, playing football, baseball, and basketball. In addition to punting, he also played wide receiver and safety for the football team. In his senior season, he was named all-state as a punter, and was named to the all-conference teams in all three sports. Arriving at Penn State as a walk-on, Boone redshirted his freshman season in 2005, and spent the 2006 season backing-up Ray Guy Award-finalist and future NFL punter, Jeremy Kapinos. Boone became the starter in 2007, punting 59 times for an average of 43 yards-per-punt for the season—the third-best season for a punter in Penn State history. He led the conference in punting that season and named first-team All-Big Ten. He was also earned Academic All-Big Ten and Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars honors. He began the 2008 season on the Athlon Sports and College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten lists. He would again average 43 yards-per-punt and lead the conference in punting, earning honorable mention All-Big Ten honors and was named an \"ESPN The Magazine\" CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-Big Ten. Boone had 15 punts inside the 20 yard line in 2008, but only had 39 total kicks that season, which was too few to qualify for him national ranking. He was an inaugural recipient of a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award for the 2008-09 academic year. Boone continued with strong performances in 2009. After 5 games, he led the Big Ten with a 48.8-yard average on 15 punts, with seven landing inside the 20 yard line. He led all conference punters by more than three yards per punt. These statistics would rank him #2 in the nation, but he did not meet the NCAA's 3.6 punts per game minimum to be considered. He was named Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week following his performance in week 5 versus Illinois Boone is one the Nittany Lions' most philanthropic members. He has participated in the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon and in events for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the Pennsylvania Special Olympics, and Habitat for Humanity International, among others. Boone is a member of Penn State's Student-Athlete Advisory Board and was selected to attend the 2009 NCAA National Student-Athlete Development Conference in Orlando, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education from Penn State in May 2009. Jeremy Boone Jeremy Allen Boone (born September 15, 1986) is a collegiate American football punter for Penn State. He most recently was the starting punter for the Penn State Nittany Lions. Boone was a three-sport athlete at Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, playing football, baseball, and basketball. In addition to punting, he also played wide receiver and safety for the football team. In his senior season, he was named all-state"
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"Chuck Swenson Chuck Swenson (born August 31, 1953) was the head coach for the William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team from 1987 to 1994. He had previously served as an assistant coach to Mike Krzyzewski from 1980 to 1987 at Duke. He later served as an assistant to Tommy Amaker at Michigan. At William & Mary, Swenson an overall record of 62–134 with a mark of 27–71 in Colonial Athletic Association play. Swenson graduated in 1972 from Crystal Lake Central High School in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He is the son of basketball coach John Swenson. As a senior in college, Swenson was the men's basketball team manager for the Indiana Hoosiers during their undefeated 1976 national championship season. Swenson is also notable as a contributing author to numerous basketball publishings and books. His efforts as a motivational speaker have been recognized by many organizations and universities. Chuck Swenson Chuck Swenson (born August 31, 1953) was the head coach for the William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team from 1987 to 1994. He had previously served as an assistant coach to Mike Krzyzewski from 1980 to 1987 at Duke. He later served as an assistant to Tommy Amaker at Michigan."
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"Lost (season 6) The sixth and final season of the American serial drama television series \"Lost\" commenced airing in the United States and Canada on February 2, 2010. The sixth-season premiere was the first to climb in the ratings year-over-year since the second season, drawing 12.1 million viewers. The season aired Tuesdays at 9:00 pm from February 2 to May 18. The series finale aired on Sunday, May 23, 2010. The finale ran two-and-a-half hours starting at 9:00 pm; pushing the local news back a half-hour, followed by the previously announced post-finale special, \"Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost\", at 12:05 am. The season continues the stories of the survivors of the fictional September 22, 2004 crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The survivors must deal with two outcomes of the detonation of a nuclear bomb on the island in the 1970s. While the on-island story continues, \"flash sideways\" show a second timeline, in which Flight 815 never crashes. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 24, 2010 alongside a complete series boxset. Included in the special features was \"The New Man in Charge,\" a previously unaired shortened episode that serves as an epilogue following the events of the finale. On May 7, 2007, ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson announced that \"Lost\" would end during the 2009–2010 season with a \"highly anticipated and shocking finale.\" \"We felt that this was the only way to give \"Lost\" a proper creative conclusion,\" McPherson said. Beginning with the 2007–2008 television season, the final 48 episodes would have been aired as three seasons with 16 episodes each, with \"Lost\" concluding in its sixth season. Due to 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the fourth season featured 14 episodes, and season 5 had 17 episodes. Season six was planned to have 17 episodes, too. However, on June 29, 2009 it was announced that the final season would feature an additional hour, making the number of episodes 18. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that they \"always envisioned \"Lost\" as a show with a beginning, middle, and end,\" and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would \"have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we've intended.\" Lindelof and Cuse stated that securing the 2010 series-end date \"was immensely liberating\" and helped the series rediscover its focus. Lindelof noted, \"We're no longer stalling.\" The producers planned to wrap up mysteries, such as the reason the Dharma periodic resupply drops continue after the purge, Walt's unusual abilities, and the \"bird\" from \"Exodus\" and \"Live Together, Die Alone\". Although these mysteries, among others, were left unresolved in the season, all three were answered or touched upon in the series epilogue, \"The New Man in Charge.\" Matthew Fox said in an interview that in the final season, the characters of Jack Shephard and John Locke \"will come head to head.\" It was also claimed that a third of the way through the final season, the two timelines would be \"solidified into one\" and \"will be very linear – no more flashbacks, nothing;\" however this did not become the case. He also claimed to be the only cast member to know the ending of the series, though Lindelof has clarified that Fox only knew things that were relevant to his character. During the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, numerous sixth-season reports were made. Carlton Cuse stated both the time travel and flash-forward seasons were over, and they were moving into something different for the sixth season. Josh Holloway stated his character Sawyer would revert to his old self after the loss of Juliet. Cuse and Lindelof stated that the Dharma Initiative would no longer play a large role in the show, but the \"Dharma-Michigan connection\" would play a significant role in season six. However, this did not happen. Lindelof stated that the producers had a direct hand in the production of the season six promotional poster that was first displayed at Comic-Con, and that everything in it was intentional; he also made a reference to the Abbey Road cover in connection to the poster. Season six was the first and only season of Lost ever to not feature any kind of preview or official promotional material such as sneak peeks and promo pictures for future episodes since the Lost producers considered any single frame from the first episodes to be too revealing. According to Lindelof, \"even a single scene from the show would basically tip what it is we're doing this year, and what it is we're doing this year is different than what we've done in other years.\" Lindelof has also emphasized that the flashes-sideways are important, stating \"People are saying [they] don't need these stories and all we can say is they're absolutely 100 percent necessary to tell the story of Lost, and hopefully by the end of the season it will be more obvious as to why.\" He also noted that the term \"flash-sideways\" was deliberately used instead of \"alternate reality\" because viewers might otherwise \"infer that one of them isn't real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real.\" When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said \"Water.\" ABC charged advertisers $900,000 USD for a 30-second commercial during the series finale, in contrast to the standard 2010 season price of $214,000. The cast features 15 major roles with star billing: 11 return from the fifth season, one returns from the fourth season after a year's absence, and three are new regular cast members. Unlike the latter half of the previous season, in which the cast was divided into two groups following two separate storylines, Season Six features an alternate universe scenario which the producers call \"flash-sideways,\" and almost all the main characters participate in both storylines. Returning from the fifth season are the survivors' leader Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox); former fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly); millionaire Hugo \"Hurley\" Reyes (Jorge Garcia); former torturer Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews); con artist James \"Sawyer\" Ford (Josh Holloway); medium Miles Straume (Ken Leung); former mob-enforcer Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) and his privileged wife Sun Kwon (Yunjin Kim); leader of the island's native population, known as the \"Others,\" Ben Linus (Michael Emerson); deceased crash survivor John Locke, who lives on in the sideways timeline but has been impersonated in the original timeline by the mysterious Man In Black (Terry O'Quinn); and former islander Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), who starts the season off the island. Emilie de Ravin reprises her role as Claire Littleton, a new mother who was absent for one season after disappearing on the Island. The new main cast roles are pilot Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell), an ageless advisor to the Others, and mysterious Flight 316 leader Ilana Verdansky (Zuleikha Robinson). Carbonell was named a main cast member by the executive producers at Comic-Con 2009, after guest starring in the previous three seasons, and Fahey and Robinson were confirmed after appearing in recurring roles in the fourth and fifth seasons. Several former cast members also returned to the show for the final season. Elizabeth Mitchell returns as fertility specialist Dr. Juliet Burke, Dominic Monaghan returns as deceased rock star Charlie Pace, and Jeremy Davies returns as deceased physicist Daniel Faraday. Ian Somerhalder reprises his role as deceased Flight 815 crash survivor Boone Carlyle, as does Rebecca Mader as anthropologist Charlotte Lewis. Harold Perrineau and Cynthia Watros, who portray Michael Dawson and Libby Smith, respectively, return in the second half of the season. 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"and fifth seasons. Several former cast members also returned to the show for the final season. Elizabeth Mitchell returns as fertility specialist Dr. Juliet Burke, Dominic Monaghan returns as deceased rock star Charlie Pace, and Jeremy Davies returns as deceased physicist Daniel Faraday. Ian Somerhalder reprises his role as deceased Flight 815 crash survivor Boone Carlyle, as does Rebecca Mader as anthropologist Charlotte Lewis. Harold Perrineau and Cynthia Watros, who portray Michael Dawson and Libby Smith, respectively, return in the second half of the season. About the return of Libby, Cuse stated, \"Finally, all of your questions [about Libby] will be answered\", however, Lindelof jokingly responded, \"No, they will not\". Michelle Rodriguez, another second season star, returns as police officer Ana Lucia Cortez, following a brief cameo in the fifth season. Maggie Grace, who portrays Shannon Rutherford, Boone's stepsister, was asked to return at the beginning of the season, but Grace was unable due to her schedule; though she eventually did make an appearance in one episode. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who played the deceased Mr. Eko, was in negotiations to return, but these negotiations failed because of difficulties with fees. Furthermore, the producers wished to bring back the character of Walt Lloyd, however Malcolm David Kelley, who portrays Walt, had aged significantly and the producers were unable to overcome this obstacle. Kelley eventually appeared in the epilogue of the series, \"The New Man in Charge.\" Numerous recurring characters who reprised their roles for the final season include: Jack and Claire's father, Dr. Christian Shephard (John Terry), wealthy industrialist and former Other Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), Desmond's wife Penny Widmore (Sonya Walger), former Other Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan), Locke's ex-girlfriend, Helen Norwood (Katey Sagal), Hurley's former boss, Randy Nations (Billy Ray Gallion), mysterious Flight 316 passenger Bram (Brad William Henke), Sayid's wife, Nadia (Andrea Gabriel), deceased Frenchwoman Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan), science teacher Leslie Arzt (Daniel Roebuck), deceased one-eyed Other Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff), the Others' doctor Ethan Rom (William Mapother), Ben Linus' father Roger (Jon Gries), mercenaries Martin Keamy (Kevin Durand) and Omar (Anthony Azizi), and Vincent, a dog who survived the crash of Flight 815 and lives on the island. Furthermore, Greg Grunberg briefly reprises his role as Flight 815 pilot Seth Norris in a voice over in the season premiere. Mark Pellegrino reprises his role as Jacob, the mysterious figure in charge of the island, while Titus Welliver also reprises his role as the mysterious unnamed character, known only as \"The Man in Black\", who appeared to be antagonistic to him in the season 5 finale. L. Scott Caldwell and Sam Anderson reprised their roles as Rose and Bernard respectively, as does Kimberley Joseph who plays 815 stewardess-turned-Other Cindy. Also, Academy Award-winner Fisher Stevens returns as communications officer George Minkowski from the first few episodes of the fourth season in the eleventh episode. Kevin Tighe returns as Anthony Cooper, Locke's father. Also, minor characters such as Lynn Karnoff (Suzanne Krull) and Dr. Douglas Brooks (Bruce Davison) return. Several new recurring characters were introduced in the sixth season. \"Deadwood\" actor John Hawkes was cast to portray a character named Lennon and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada obtained the role of ; both men are Others stationed at the temple. Also, William Atherton was cast in a guest role as the principal of the school where Ben works. Sheila Kelley was cast in a recurring role that was initially described as \"Kendall\" and later confirmed to be \"Zoe\". Kelley appeared in five episodes, starting with \"Recon\". The season premiere was watched by 12 million American viewers and the series finale was watched by 13.5 million American viewers. The entire season averaged 10 million viewers. The sixth and final season was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof for the series finale, \"The End\", Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Jack Bender for \"The End\", Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Matthew Fox, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Mitchell, Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Camera Series for \"Ab Aeterno\", Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) for Michael Giacchino for \"The End\", Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for \"The End\", and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) for \"The End\". It won only one Emmy, for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series for \"The End\". The season premiered on February 2, 2010, with a double-length episode (two hours including commercials) preceded by a one-hour clip show, titled \"Lost: Final Chapter\". The show continued from February 9 in its new timeslot of Tuesdays at 9:00 pm, with a total of 18 episodes airing in 16 broadcasts, ending with a two-and-a-half-hour series finale, which aired Sunday, May 23, 2010, preceded by a one-hour clip show, titled \"Lost: The Final Journey\". Additionally, the first hour of the premiere episode was screened to an estimated 15,000 fans on Waikiki Beach on January 30. In the following table, the number in the \"No. in series\" column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the \"No. in season\" column refers to the episode's number within this particular season. \"U.S. viewers (million)\" refers to the number of Americans in millions who watched the episode as it was aired. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Lost (season 6) The sixth and final season of the American serial drama television series \"Lost\" commenced airing in the United States and Canada on February 2, 2010. The sixth-season premiere was the first to climb in the ratings year-over-year since the second season, drawing 12.1 million viewers. The season aired Tuesdays at 9:00 pm from February 2 to May 18. The series finale aired on Sunday, May 23, 2010. The finale ran two-and-a-half hours starting at 9:00 pm; pushing the local news back a half-hour, followed by the previously announced post-finale special, \"Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost\", at"
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"San Rafael Elementary School Established in 1918, San Rafael Elementary School is located in the San Rafael Hills of Pasadena, California and is one of the oldest public schools in Pasadena. Today, it is the only public school in West Pasadena. Like most Pasadena Unified School District schools, San Rafael has in the past experienced low attendance of the neighborhood, with a significant number of parents opting for private education. A number of times the school was slated for closure due to the low turnout and low test scores. However, in 2009, PUSD established a Dual Language Immersion Program in Spanish and English at the school, and the result has been increased enrollment from across the district and a return to the school by neighborhood families. With the advent of the Dual Language Immersion Program and increased support from parents and the local community, the school is currently experiencing a renaissance. There was a 20 percent increase in enrollment from 2010 to 2011. As of 2017, the facility educates approx. 650 students and 21 - 33 students per class. San Rafael Elementary School Established in 1918, San Rafael Elementary School is located in the San Rafael Hills of Pasadena, California"
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"Kinlough Castle Kinlough Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. Kinlough Castle is located southwest of Shrule, on the west bank of the Black River. The tower is thought to have been constructed in the 13th century AD, although the additional two storeys with corner fireplaces that were subsequently added to it, date from a 1574 remodelling by Sir John MacOliver Burke. There are loops in the battered base, and the entrance has a drawbar slot. The castle was mortgaged to the Blakes in 1629, and leased by them to John Darcy in 1668. The present tower house was built in the 16th century. In a map of 1584 it is described as a \"MacWilliam House\". \"The MacWilliam Eighter\", who was then Sir John FitzOliver Burke, lived there in 1574. In 1618 Sir Richard FitzOliver Burke was the tenant and his son, Walter, mortgaged it to Sir Valentine Blake of Menlough, in 1628. Sir Thomas Blake leased it to John Darcy in 1668 and Pierce Joyce purchased the lands in 1852. Kinlough Castle is four storeys high, with gables at the east and west walls, but no crenellations. There are traces of a bartizan in the west wall. There are also three chimney stacks. Today it is a nesting site for the common swift (\"Apus apus\"). Kinlough Castle Kinlough Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. Kinlough Castle is located southwest of Shrule, on the west bank of the Black River. The tower is thought to have been constructed in the 13th century AD, although the additional two storeys with corner fireplaces that were subsequently added to it, date from a 1574 remodelling by Sir John MacOliver Burke. There are loops in the battered base, and the entrance"
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"Lynne, Wisconsin Lynne is a town in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 210 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Clifford and Tripoli are located partially in the town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 72.0 square miles (186.5 km²), of which, 70.5 square miles (182.6 km²) of it is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²) of it (2.08%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 210 people, 92 households, and 64 families residing in the town. The population density was 3.0 people per square mile (1.2/km²). There were 298 housing units at an average density of 4.2 per square mile (1.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.57% White, 0.95% Native American, and 0.48% from two or more races. There were 92 households out of which 19.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.1% were married couples living together, 2.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.4% were non-families. 25.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.72. In the town, the population was spread out with 16.7% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 27.1% from 45 to 64, and 25.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 114.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 113.4 males. The median income for a household in the town was $27,344, and the median income for a family was $35,000. Males had a median income of $28,333 versus $20,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,430. About 8.9% of families and 17.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39.4% of those under the age of eighteen and 3.5% of those sixty five or over. The McCord Village, an archeological site, is located within the town. The Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport (KRHI) serves Lynne, the county and surrounding communities with both scheduled commercial jet service and general aviation services. Lynne, Wisconsin Lynne is a town in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 210 at the 2000 census."
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"Joussard Joussard is a hamlet in northern Alberta within Big Lakes County, located north of Highway 2, approximately east of Grande Prairie. As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Joussard recorded a population of 223 living in 100 of its 175 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 181. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. As a designated place in the 2011 Census, Joussard had a population of 181 living in 81 of its 154 total dwellings, a -22.6% change from its 2006 population of 234. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2011. Joussard Joussard is a hamlet in northern Alberta within Big Lakes County, located north of Highway 2, approximately east of Grande Prairie. As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Joussard recorded a population of 223 living in 100 of its 175 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 181. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. As a designated place in the 2011"
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"Yan Xiang (Han dynasty) Yan Xiang (嚴象; 163–200), courtesy name Wenze, was an official who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. A similarly named Yan Xiang (閻象) also served under the warlord Yuan Shu as a registrar. Although it is not clear whether they were the same person, the historian Rafe de Crespigny mentioned that it could be assumed that Yan Xiang left Yuan Shu and defected to the Han central government, which was then under the leadership of the warlord Cao Cao. Yan Xiang was from Jingzhao (京兆; around present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi). At a young age, he was already known for being intelligent, knowledgeable and courageous. Through Xun Yu's recommendation, he joined the civil service and served as a Palace Assistant Imperial Clerk (御史中丞). In 197, he was concurrently appointed as an Army Inspector (督軍) and participated in a punitive campaign against the warlord Yuan Shu, who had declared himself emperor – an act regarded as treason against Emperor Xian, the nominal ruler of the Han Empire. After Yuan Shu's death in 199, Yan Xiang served as the Inspector (刺史) of Yang Province. Acting on the instruction of Cao Cao, the warlord who controlled the Han central government, Yan Xiang nominated Sun Quan as a \"maocai\" (茂才). In 200 CE, Li Shu (李術), the Administrator (太守) of Lujiang Commandery (廬江郡), killed Yan Xiang. Yan Xiang was 38 years old (by East Asian age reckoning) when he died. Zhao Qi (趙岐), a writer who, like Yan Xiang, was also from Jingzhao, wrote a book called \"Sanfu Juelu\" (三輔決錄). Zhao Qi was worried that people might not be receptive to his book so he did not publicly release it and instead showed it to only Yan Xiang. A similarly named Yan Xiang also served under Yuan Shu as a Registrar (主簿). When Yuan Shu wanted to declare himself emperor in the late 190s, Yan Xiang advised him against it. Yan Xiang quoted a past example of the noble Ji Chang, who controlled two-thirds of the Shang dynasty's territory but still refrained from seizing the throne from King Zhou. Yuan Shu did not heed his advice. Yan Xiang (Han dynasty) Yan Xiang (嚴象; 163–200), courtesy name Wenze, was an official who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. A similarly named Yan Xiang (閻象) also served under the warlord Yuan Shu as a registrar. Although it is"
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"Jesse Cornplanter Jesse J. Cornplanter (September 16, 1889 – 1957) (Seneca) was an artist and author. The last male descendant of Cornplanter, an important 18th-century leader, his Seneca name was Hayonhwonhish. He illustrated several books about Seneca and Iroquois life. Jesse Cornplanter wrote and illustrated \"Legends of the Longhouse\" (1938), which records many Iroquois traditional stories. Jesse Cornplanter was born in 1889 to Seneca parents Nancy Jack and Edward Cornplanter on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. He had two sisters, Carrie and Anna. He was the last male direct descendant of Cornplanter, a renowned Seneca war chief during and after the American Revolutionary War. During World War I, Cornplanter enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 and served in Europe until honorably discharged in 1919. He was wounded during the war and received the Purple Heart. While he was serving in the war, his father died. This was followed by the deaths of most of his remaining family in the 1918 flu pandemic, including his mother Nancy, sister Carrie, and nieces and nephews. Only his sister Anna and two orphaned children of Carrie survived. Cornplanter helped support and rear the surviving children upon his return from Europe. After the war, Cornplanter held many respected positions within his tribe. These included the ceremonial chief of the Long House and the chief of New Town, a traditional village. He sang for the Great Feather Dancer and was head singer for many ceremonies. He never married or fathered any known children. Because Jesse Cornplanter left no heirs, his death in 1957 marked the official expiration of a treaty granting Cornplanter's heirs a perpetual Pennsylvania land grant, called the Cornplanter Tract, of about 1500 acres along the Allegheny River. Much of this land was submerged by the Allegheny Reservoir after completion of the Kinzua Dam in 1965. The US Army Corps of Engineers acquired the land and built the dam for flood control, hydropower and recreation. This was in addition to 10,000 acres along the Allegheny River the COE took by right of eminent domain from the Seneca Nation. Arthur C. Parker (Seneca), Director of the Rochester Museum, commissioned Cornplanter as a youth to sketch scenes of contemporary Seneca life. This launched an eight-year collaboration between the two men. Forty-six of Cornplanter's drawings are in collection SC12845 at the New York State Library. Though Cornplanter was only in his teens when the work began, he was already gaining recognition for his skillful portrayals of his tribe. He never received formal art training, but became successful as an artist. Frederick Starr commissioned Cornplanter to illustrate \"Iroquois Indian Games and Dances\" (c. 1903), a book depicting rituals, dances and games of Iroquois life. The young artist was credited as illustrator on the book's cover as \"Jesse Cornplanter, Seneca Indian Boy\". In addition, he illustrated \"The Code of Handsome Lake\", a manuscript written by his father, Edward Cornplanter (Seneca name \"Sosondowah\"), and Arthur C. Parker. Cornplanter also wrote and illustrated his own book, \"Legends of the Longhouse\", published in 1938. His paintings are considered to be in the Iroquois Realist Style. This tradition dates to the 1820s work by brothers, David and Dennis Cusick (Tuscarora). Although best known for his illustrations, Cornplanter was also a traditional wood carver. He greatly influenced successive generations of Haudenosaunee artists. Jesse Cornplanter Jesse J. Cornplanter (September 16, 1889 – 1957) (Seneca) was an artist and author. The last male descendant of Cornplanter, an important 18th-century leader, his Seneca name was Hayonhwonhish. He illustrated several books about Seneca and Iroquois life. Jesse Cornplanter wrote and illustrated \"Legends of the Longhouse\" (1938),"
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"November Christmas November Christmas is a 2010 American made-for-television Christmas drama film based on a short story written by Greg Coppa. The movie premiered on CBS on November 28, 2010. It was presented through Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was shot in Nova Scotia. A small Rhode Island community comes together to create special holiday (Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas) moments several weeks early for Vanessa Marks, an 8-year-old girl with a life-threatening illness. At the beginning of the film, the father (John Corbett) gives Vanessa a snow globe of a little girl holding a snow globe, and inside that globe is another little girl holding a snow globe. The mother (Sarah Paulson) tells Vanessa that she has to shake the globe to make it snow. Vanessa is fascinated with the snow, having never seen it before, and wishes that she could see it for Christmas. The father, hearing this, becomes concerned that Vanessa may not live to see December. After the father quietly asks a neighboring farmer (Sam Elliott) about buying pumpkins - and later Christmas trees - the farmer figures out that the father is trying to speed up the holidays so that Vanessa will have a Christmas before she dies. The farmer, searching for pumpkins to surprise the family, heals an old friendship that he'd lost when his own son had died, and is rewarded with an invitation to be his old friend's best man at the friend's upcoming wedding. Together, the two men sneak a truckload of pumpkins onto the family's front porch, much to the surprise of the daughter who decides she wants to have a Halloween party. The mother tries to explain that it's too early, but the father agrees to the party and Vanessa (and her younger brother) begin to plan their Halloween costumes. As a show of appreciation, the father goes to the farmer's home and invites him and his wife to the party. The farmer goes to town and mentions it to Tammy, a young waitress (Elizabeth McLaughlin) at the local restaurant whom Vanessa had befriended. Later, the farmer gives the father a box of Halloween decorations to help decorate the family's house, and on the night of the party the waitress arrives with the town's children to help celebrate. Vanessa – who was prohibited from going to school and meeting other children because of her illness – is overjoyed at having so many playmates. The farmer, his wife, and his friend and his new wife follow carrying trays of food. Tammy tries her skills as a storyteller and tells a ghost story that makes the children scream and laugh. Together, the farmer, his old friend, and the waitress help the family celebrate Halloween - and each holiday thereafter - a month early, and in doing so unite an entire community and teach everyone that what really matters in life is love. As Vanessa and her family return home one night from a particularly sorrowful hospital visit, they find that the neighbors have decorated their homes and streets with brilliant lights and holiday decorations a full month early. The farmer, his friend, and the neighboring community line the family's driveway to greet Vanessa as she arrives home; her own house covered in beautiful lights. Everyone is invited inside the home to celebrate with food given by the town's local restaurant, and later, Vanessa runs outside with her snow globe just as an early snow begins to fall, duplicating the little girl inside the globe. Later, Tammy writes a children's book about Vanessa's life, with pictures that Vanessa had made herself during her illness. In the final scenes, a young woman (reading Tammy's book to children at the local library) explains that she is Vanessa; she survived her illness after that early Christmas. Afterwards, she goes to the farmer's Christmas tree lot where she reunites with her family and the farmer; to select the town's annual tree. Greg Coppa wrote a short story sequel to \"November Christmas\" titled \"A Partridge in a Persimmon Tree\". November Christmas November Christmas is a 2010 American made-for-television Christmas drama film based on a short story written by Greg Coppa. The movie premiered on CBS on November"
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"Subbotnik Subbotnik and voskresnik (from for \"Saturday\" and , for \"Sunday\") were days of volunteer unpaid work on weekends following the October Revolution. Initially they were indeed voluntary, but gradually de facto obligatory upon announcement, as people quipped, \"in a voluntary-compulsive way\" (). The tradition is continued in modern Russia and some other former Soviet Republics. Subbotniks are mostly organized for cleaning the streets of garbage, fixing public amenities, collecting recyclable material, and other community services. The first mass subbotnik was held on April 12, 1919, at the Moscow-Sortirovochnaya railway depot of the Moscow-Kazan Railway upon the initiative of local bolsheviks. It was stated in the \"Resolution of the General Council of Communists of the Subraion of the Moscow-Kazan Railway and Their Adherents\" that \"the communists and their supporters again must spur themselves on and extract from their time off still another hour of work, i.e. they must increase their working day by an hour, add it up and on Saturday devote six hours at a stretch to physical labour, thereby producing immediately a real value. Considering that communists should not spare their health and lives for the victory of the revolution, the work is conducted without pay.\" This subbotnik prompted Lenin to write the article \"\", where he called subbotniks \"the actual beginnings of the communism\". The first all-Russian subbotnik was held on May 1, 1920, and Vladimir Lenin participated in removing building rubble in the Moscow Kremlin, an episode portrayed in a famous painting by Vladimir Krikhatsky, \"Lenin at the First Subbotnik\", of Lenin carrying a log. Subsequently, \"communist subbotniks\" and \"voskresniks\" became obligatory political events in the Soviet Union, with annual \"Lenin's Subbotnik\" being held in the vicinity of Lenin's birthday. Subbotnik was also promoted in the 1950s in the Eastern Bloc countries and in particular in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), as the USSR sought to build up the GDR as the westernmost outpost of socialism in Europe. In Czechoslovakia, a similar kind of work was known as Action Z (), from Czech word , \"improvement\", referring to the typical activities from garbage removal to housing construction. Folk wit claimed that \"Z\" stood for , i.e., \"without pay\". Subbotnik Subbotnik and voskresnik (from for \"Saturday\" and , for \"Sunday\") were days of volunteer unpaid work on weekends following the October Revolution. Initially they were indeed voluntary, but gradually de facto obligatory upon announcement, as people quipped,"
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"Erik Andersson (ice hockey, born 1971) Erik Folke Andersson (born 19 August 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 12 games in the National Hockey League with the Calgary Flames. First drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the 6th round of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, Andersson chose not to sign with LA. In the 1997 draft, Andersson was selected again, this time in the 3rd round by Calgary. Andersson played two seasons professionally in North America, mainly in the minor leagues, before returning to Sweden to play in the Elitserien. Prior to his pro career, Andersson played at the University of Denver. Erik Andersson (ice hockey, born 1971) Erik Folke Andersson (born 19 August 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 12 games in the National Hockey League with the Calgary Flames. First drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the 6th round of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, Andersson chose not to sign with LA. In the 1997 draft, Andersson was selected again, this time in the 3rd round by Calgary. Andersson played two seasons professionally in North America, mainly in the minor leagues, before"
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"Marie Pasteur Marie Pasteur, née Laurent (15 January 1826 in Clermont-Ferrand, France – 28 September 1910 in Paris), was the scientific assistant and co-worker of her spouse, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur. Marie Pasteur was one of the daughters of the Rector of the Strasbourg Academy. She married in Strasbourg 29 May 1849, aged 23, to Louis Pasteur, aged 26. Marie worked as a secretary and science writer to her spouse and served as his amanuensis. She was his active assistant in his scientific experiments. She worked with him on expanding his first researches, around 1848, on the remarks previously made by Mitscherlich on the different optical properties concerning polarized light of tartaric acid when it came from natural wines, wine lees and when it was synthesized in a laboratory. The students and colleagues of Louis Pasteur acknowledged the importance she had for him in his work as his assistant. She grew the silkworms he needed for his experiment with their diseases, and she took care of the children he tried his famous experimental treatment on. She moved with him to his quarters at the Pasteur institute, and continued to live there after his death. It seems that for years afterward, famous crystallographer, physicist and mathematician Jean Baptiste Biot, Madame Marie Pasteur and Louis' father, Jean Joseph cooperated in providing Louis with moral support. For instance, in a letter by Biot to Louis father: \"your son is ours also and we share with Marie all our love for him, too\". There was also philosopher Charles Chappuis in this support network around Louis. Their eldest daughter, Jeanne, died from typhoid fever, aged 9, at Arbois. Then, in 1865, 2-year-old Camille also died of typhus, followed by 12-and-a-half-year-old Cécile on 23 May 1866. Only Jean Baptiste and Marie Louise lived to be adults. Jean Baptiste would be a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War between France and Prussia. Marie Pasteur was buried in the crypt of the Institute Pasteur. Marie Pasteur Marie Pasteur, née Laurent (15 January 1826 in Clermont-Ferrand, France – 28 September 1910 in Paris), was the scientific assistant and co-worker of her spouse, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur. Marie Pasteur was one of the daughters of the Rector of the Strasbourg Academy. She married in Strasbourg 29 May 1849, aged 23, to Louis Pasteur, aged 26. Marie worked as a secretary and science writer"
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"High Pay Centre The High Pay Centre is a UK think tank carrying out research and analysis on issues relating to top incomes, corporate governance, and business performance. The Centre is generally critical of existing top pay practices, and advocates policies designed to reduce economic inequality. HPC research and commentary on high pay and inequality are regularly cited in the UK media. Since 2014, the Centre has promoted 'fatcat day', usually occurring in the first week of January, marking the date on which the earnings for the average FTSE 100 Chief Executive surpasses the amount that the average UK worker can expect to earn all year. The Centre was established by Compass in 2009 as the High Pay Commission, and changed its name to the High Pay Centre following publication of the final report of the Commission. Funders for project work during 2018 include Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (£50,000) and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (£25,000). High Pay Centre The High Pay Centre is a UK think tank carrying out research and analysis on issues relating to top incomes, corporate governance, and business performance. The Centre is generally critical of existing top pay practices, and advocates policies designed to"
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"Ciompi Revolt The Revolt of the Ciompi was a rebellion among unrepresented labourers which occurred in Florence, Italy from 1378 to 1382. Those who revolted consisted of artisans, labourers, and craftsmen who did not belong to any guilds and were therefore unable to participate in the Florentine government. These labourers had grown increasingly resentful over the established patrician oligarchy. In addition, they were expected to pay heavy taxes which they could not afford, forcing some to abandon their homes. The resulting insurrection over such tensions led to the creation of a government composed of wool workers and other disenfranchised workers which lasted for three and a half years. The Ciompi revolt developed in three stages: reform in May and June, the violent 'revolution' of the revolt and fighting in mid-July, and the fall of the Ciompi government - 'the reaction', at the end of August 1378. These workers' underrepresentation led to their exploitation, low wages, and political impotence. In June 1378 the city's fourteen minor guilds demanded greater representation in civic office from elites – the Signoria. These guildsmen still wanted to keep the Sotto posti, who were low wage textile workers with no guild representation, from forming their own guilds and being able to gain increased political power. To prevent this, the Signoria quadrupled the fee for admittance to the system. This action sparked indignation and turned the Sotto posti into opponents of the Signoria aligning them with the lower class Ciompi. On the 22 June the Ciompi took up arms for the first time but it was not until 21 July that they violently took over the city's government and forced the Signoria to create three new guilds and grant them political office. Historians commonly highlight a few individuals as central to the events. Representing the middle and upper class was Salvestro de' Medici. Representing the lower class was the mysterious group known as \"The Eight (Saints)\". Finally caught in the middle of these two groups is Michele di Lando. He was \"separated from his social superior due to inferior birth, but he was also separated by his peers by his superior vision\". Although the Ciompi Rebellion was brief, it left an impact on future generations. The three and a half year revolt not only affected Florentine society throughout the 15th century, but was a flashpoint in Florentine history, which continued to intrigue historians. However, the interpretation of the events was different across the centuries. In the years preceding the 1378 revolt, certain aspects of Florentine society set the stage for the uprising. Tensions within the oligarchy were already present decades before the revolt occurred. The \"Arti Minori\", or minor guilds, were constantly in contention with the \"Arti Maggiori\", or the seven major guilds. Between the years of 1339 to 1349, wealthy houses went bankrupt and markets were reduced. The economy never peaked nor declined sharply again, aside from minor political and military disputes familiar to Florence. Economic grievances had drawn artisans and wage-labourers into Florentine politics from the mid-fourteenth century. These workers, however, were forbidden from associating by city government. The oligarchy was unstable, as many either died from the plague or fled to safer territories. From these turbulent times emerged the \"gente nuova\", or new men, a class of mainly immigrants with no aristocratic background who grew their wealth from trade. Together, the gente nuova and Arti Minori bonded over their dislike of the oligarchy. Each side sought to gain control over the other, as the oligarchy used the Guelph Party to justify their patriciate status, while the gente nuova appealed to the middle and lower classes for support. In 1375 the gente nuova seriously challenged the privileges of the oligarchy, sparking concerns from the latter of their possible collapse. In addition, war broke out against the papacy in the same year, increasing the costly burdens on the city. In late 1377 to early 1378, the oligarchy and the gente nuova formed a truce, only to be broken by the oligarchy in June, the month of the revolt. As mentioned, tensions between the upper and lower classes were a major factor in bringing about the revolt. It is quite unclear who exactly qualified as belonging to the Florentine upper class, unlike in Venice where the class hierarchy was solidly entrenched. For the most part of the 14th century, a patriciate could be identified by the presence of a family name. On the other side of the spectrum was the popolo minuto, or the laboring classes of Florence, which also had no set boundaries. For example, an artisan could be considered an elite if he was wealthy and successful enough. The majority of the popolo minuto, however, consisted of poor laborers flocking from village to city for work. Forced loans, high taxes and an even higher rate of indebtedness kept the Ciompi impoverished. In 1355, the miserabiles, defined as having no property, possession worth less than 100 lire and no trade or profession, accounted for 22% of households in Florence. The most important aspect of this class is that they had no representation in the Florentine government, which would be one of the main changes implemented by the Ciompi later on. These artisans and laborers were not part of guilds until the Ciompi and the Arti Minori took over the government beginning in 1378. In becoming the Ciompi, the word must have originated from the French, as the popolo minuto would hear them in the taverns say, \"Compar, allois a boier\" or \"Comrade, let's get a drink,\" and the Florentine labourers would pronounce this as \"ciompo,\" and then finally, \"ciompi.\" Thus, the term does not solely refer to wool makers. Records of condemned Ciompi rebels show that tavern owners were also found to be part of the revolt. In Florence of 1371, unequal taxation was the norm; in particular, the highlanders paid three times more in taxes than plain dwellers. This increase in taxation was not due to Florence's wars with Pisa from 1362-1364, or to the revolt of San Miniato from 1369-1370, but from the need to pay for increased military forces to push back against the Ubaldini and their allies. The Ubaldini were a feudal family who had strong influences over the peasants living in the Alpi Fiorentine, and Florence wished to break these ties for control in the north. Adding to the need for more military forces was the increased crime and attacks directed at merchants and at pilgrims passing through Florence that developed after the Black Death. To pay these militias, however, Florence was getting deeper in debt, and the oligarchy burdened those living in the countryside with increasing taxation. As taxes kept on increasing, the highlanders chose to flee, worsening a labor shortage, already present after the Black Death. Furthermore, there were increasing differences in wealth between the popolo minuto and the patriciates. In fact, before the Ciompi, there were already rebellions organized by laborers, such as the October 9, 1343 revolt by wool workers led by the Sienese Aldobrando di Ciecharino, who lived in Florence. The Revolt of the Ciompi was a popular revolt in Florence in 1378 spearheaded by wool carders known as Ciompi () and other non-guilded workers who rose up to demand a voice in the commune's ordering in addition to enacting debt and tax reforms. The revolt was an outburst of proletariat unrest in the city of Florence that began in June 1378 and consisted of three phases ending in August of the same year. It was the result of a power struggle between Florence's ruling elites, the established artisan guilds of Florence, and Sotto posti (or un-guilded) which included the Ciompi; mainly a group of low-wage textile workers employed in Florence's thriving wool industry. At its height, this trade sold fabrics throughout Italy as well as overseas and employed up to a third of",
"lived in Florence. The Revolt of the Ciompi was a popular revolt in Florence in 1378 spearheaded by wool carders known as Ciompi () and other non-guilded workers who rose up to demand a voice in the commune's ordering in addition to enacting debt and tax reforms. The revolt was an outburst of proletariat unrest in the city of Florence that began in June 1378 and consisted of three phases ending in August of the same year. It was the result of a power struggle between Florence's ruling elites, the established artisan guilds of Florence, and Sotto posti (or un-guilded) which included the Ciompi; mainly a group of low-wage textile workers employed in Florence's thriving wool industry. At its height, this trade sold fabrics throughout Italy as well as overseas and employed up to a third of Florence's population. Many of the issues leading to the revolt of the Ciompi involved the politics and relations between guild and non-guild members, as well as the ruling elites of the city (the Signoria). Guild members and the guild system were important aspects of Florence's politics by 1378, where they acted as political intermediaries between the individuals in their guild and the state. Guilds enforced industrial, fiscal, and monetary policy which benefited their trades and the lives of their workers in addition to representing them politically, regulating their industries, and controlling who could become a member. As mentioned previously the guild system involved a hierarchy between the seven major and fourteen minor guild associations; the former represented those who had become a class of prosperous cloth merchants and bankers/financiers, and the latter consisting of various artisans, craftsmen and skilled labourers including, but not limited to, shoemakers, tailors and wine merchants. The 21 guilds, however, did not include the whole of Florence's working population and many people were excluded from the system, thus limiting their protection from exploitation and ability to be involved in city politics. Few of those in the textile industry, including the Ciompi wool workers, were eligible for guild membership, with around only 200 of the approximately 14,000 people in wool manufacture qualifying, and the remainder named the Sotto posti who were designated ineligible for entry to the guild system or for creating a guild for their own benefit. The exclusion of the Ciompi from this system reinforced unequal power relations within the city, reducing the rights and protections available for these unfortunate workers unlike those assigned to members in other guilds. It was a highly unequal society allowing Florence's wool trade to thrive and set the stage for the revolt. The Ciompi resented the controlling power that was centred in the Arte della Lana—the textile-manufacturing establishment which guided the economic engine of Florence's prosperity—and was supported by the other major Guilds of Florence (the \"Arti maggiori\") as well as the limitations they faced in influencing politics, and the lower wages and exploitation they experienced as a result of their exclusion from the guild system. The consequent revolt of 1378 marked the high point of labour agitation in Florence. The Ciompi revolt occurred in three phases. These included a stage of reform in the months of May and June, the 'revolution', or violent outburst of the revolt occurring in mid-July, and the fall of the temporary Ciompi government - 'the reaction', which occurred at the end of August. In June 1378, the series of events began with the fourteen minor guilds of Florence demanding greater representation in civic office. Initially the Ciompi were not violently involved and the early stages of the revolt were as much a power struggle between the guilds as it was between Florence's Signoria and the exploited lower class. The guildsmen who demanded this greater representation in government still sought to keep the Sotto posti from forming guilds and thereby being able to gain a political position. However, the Sotto posti soon submitted their own demands and hoped to have them met. The Signoria had no intention of granting the un-guilded Sotto posti these liberties however and instead, feeling threatened, they made it more difficult to obtain office and quadrupled the fee for admittance. This action sparked indignation and turned the upper class Sotto posti, who were previously hopeful for better rights and social/professional advances, into opponents of the Signoria aligning their aims and ails with the lower class Ciompi. Salvestro de Medici was one of the individuals assigned the blame by many in the lower classes, and later also faced accusation from his peers for letting the situation with the Ciompi get out of hand. On 22 June 1378, the first outbreak of violence occurred when the un-guilded wool-workers took up arms and attacked government buildings, monasteries and a number of Palazzi whilst also releasing inmates from city prisons. Nevertheless, it was yet to become a full blown revolt. The Signoria attempted to appease the lower classes through talks and petitions, although ultimately suggested little change and still left the Ciompi guildless and without power or representation in government. The procrastination of the Signoria and half measures adopted therefore is perhaps what contributed to the second phase of the revolt. On July 21, the lower classes forcibly took over the government, placing the wool carder Michele di Lando in the executive office of gonfaloniere of justice, and showing their banner, the blacksmith's flag, at the Bargello, the palace of the podestà. On this day, thousands of armed wool workers (the Ciompi) and those from the Sotto posti, besieged the Signoria and pointedly hanged the public executioner by his feet in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The Ciompi then compelled the governing body, the Signoria, to establish three additional guilds in order to grant them access to political office. In demanding the creation of an Arte del Pololo Minuto, the Ciompi requests were not especially radical: they were simply demanding the same rights as the other minor guilds currently had. Most of the Ciompi (and Sotto Posti involved) acted for reform rather than radical or revolutionary innovation. The total membership of the three new guilds was roughly 13,000 men whereas the twenty-one previously existing guilds had a membership of about 4000 to 5000 between them. After the incorporation of these new guilds, almost every man in Florence was able to participate in city government. Considering how the Ciompi had seized power, their demands both politically and socially, were modest. Their main concerns included the formation of a guild for wool workers and they also wished to tackle unemployment by increasing wool production. The Ciompi in fact did not demand ownership of cloth production or the cloth factories and their ideals were still based around the traditional guild idea, wishing to protect their economic interests and the situation of their workers. However the new Ciompi government, once they had pushed out the Signoria, experienced teething problems. Even though they made demands such as the right to elect three of their own priors, the reduction of judicial corporal punishment, and reform the tax system in fact the new government was rather weak and lacked strong bargaining skills. An analysis of those within the newly appointed Balia suggests that only half were actually Ciompi, the rest being of middle class and other professions. The clash of interests and resulting struggle and sense of betrayal experienced by the Ciompi when their leader Michele di Lando turned against them ignoring their demands, led to the third stage of the revolt. At the end of August 1378, factionalism among the Ciompi and the radical persecution of enemies of the revolution, led Michele di Lando to arrest two Ciompi leaders who had demanded constitutional reform. The next day, Michele di",
"as the right to elect three of their own priors, the reduction of judicial corporal punishment, and reform the tax system in fact the new government was rather weak and lacked strong bargaining skills. An analysis of those within the newly appointed Balia suggests that only half were actually Ciompi, the rest being of middle class and other professions. The clash of interests and resulting struggle and sense of betrayal experienced by the Ciompi when their leader Michele di Lando turned against them ignoring their demands, led to the third stage of the revolt. At the end of August 1378, factionalism among the Ciompi and the radical persecution of enemies of the revolution, led Michele di Lando to arrest two Ciompi leaders who had demanded constitutional reform. The next day, Michele di Lando rode out of the palace with the Standard Bearer of Justice and cleared the piazza of a militia from the three new guilds who were shouting \"Long live the popolo minuto\" and demanding the resignation of Michele di Lando's government. The workers' militia returned and a battle for the Piazza della Signoria broke out between the \"Ciompi\" and the forces of the major and minor guilds led by the guild of butchers. The Ciompi and Sotto posti were slaughtered that day by the other guilds alongside the reformist forces under previous Ciompi leader Michele di Lando, who also acted to crush the Eight Saints who were attempting to challenge his power in government. This day has been named one of the bloodiest in Florentine history. On September 1, citizens assembled in the piazza and approved the dissolution of the Ciompi guild. Nevertheless, the government continued to enact Ciompi-led reforms, such as the establishment of the \"estimo\"—a direct tax on household wealth on October 29, 1378. Overall, the Ciompi revolt consisted of complex social, economic and political factors, as well as the involvement of more than one group of workers such as the Ciompi. The hierarchical guild system played an important part in the conflict, as did guild members who were key in turning on the government and ending its short reign over the city. Although often portrayed as radical today, the demands and wishes of the wool workers and others involved were fairly modest and reform did not take the shape of a societal overhaul. The idea that the Ciompi could live harmoniously with all the other groups and guilds in society after they assumed government, however, was idealistic. Furthermore, the disillusionment experienced when the conflict continued especially after the collapse of the regime and the guilds dissolution certainly contributed to the decline of labour unrest in Florence's cloth industry in the years following and lack of political power that these sections of society continued to have. As \"a man of a noble house, great and rich\", Salvestro de' Medici was a lesser known cousin to the famous House of Medici a banking family. He was blamed for causing the rebellion by the Ciompi by his peers (such as Alamanno Acciaioli, who was part of the Signory that brought the papal war to an end). Salvestro made an error in his struggle against the Guelf party, thus spoiling his family image as well as others of similar rank, \"subjecting them to the rashness of the excited multitude\". Very little is actually known about \"The Eight (Saints)\" and who the members were. Trexler calls the radical Ciompi rebel group \"Gli Otto Santi del Popolo di Dio\" (or the \"Eight Saints\", also known as the Eight of Santa Maria Novella) and suggests that they may be commonly confused with the more influential and better known \"otto della guerra\" (or the \"Eight of War\") who represented Florence and opposed Gregory XI and the Catholic Church in 1375 (in the War of the Eight Saints). The \"Eight of War\" were very much in power at the time of the Ciompi Revolt, however they played a very small role during the actual Ciompi Revolt. The \"Eight Saints\" of the \"Popolo Minuto\" created itself as a shadow government to Michele di Lando's government they forcefully obtained the right to veto communal legislation. Di Lando's government defeated these radical challengers on August 31, 1378. There is very little recorded history about who Michele di Lando was before the Ciompi Revolt, because men of the lower working class did not leave behind major documents. What is known is that he was a woolcomber, his mother was a washerwoman, and his wife ran a pork butcher's shop. Within his industry, di Lando was the foreman of all the menial workers and made enough money to show up in tax records as paying small sums. He was also a \"caporale\" during the war of Papal States, he shared command over twenty-eight men with another \"caporale\" (It is not known if he saw active service at that time, but the fact that he was trained in command and with arms, he was likely less docile than simple workers in his industry). His ascension to the position of \"Signore\" and \"Gonfaloniere\" was literally a story about a man who went from rags to riches. He walked into the Palace barefooted and took control at the people's request. This scene inspired awe even in the eyes of some of the Signory (despite their compromised position). Alamanno Acciaioli was quoted saying, \"... He [di Lando] was given the Signory and they [the people] wished him to be Standard-Bearer of Justice and lord (signore)... this Michele di Lando, wool comber, was lord of Florence for twenty-eight hours and more. This is the result of quarrelsomeness and innovation! O dear Lord, what great miracles you show us!...\" Upon Michele di Lando's ascension to power, the \"Eight of War\" (who thought themselves as effective rulers of Florence) wanted to appoint replacements for the Signory. Di Lando dismissed them, wanting to show that he could govern without their assistance, and chose the electoral candidates himself. Once he secured his power, di Lando's government allied with the \"Popolo di Firenze\", infuriating radical members of the \"Popolo Minuto\" (who elected their \"Eight Saints\" to oppose di Lando). After the final clash with the radicals, the Signory retook office at the end of Michele di Lando's term. This regime did not last long, it was overthrown again in 1382 and di Lando was sent into exile as a collaborator with the Signory. The city of Florence was governed by the Ciompi until 1382 when fear of foreign incursion and a prolonged dispute between the wool merchants and the dyers justified an intervention by the elite families on behalf of a disintegrating government. Delegitimizing the new established guilds and removing them from constitutional functions became a main objective of the post-1382 regime that repealed the guild government's reforms. City government engaged in a concerted campaign to depict the unguilded workers as criminal and heretical. The Ciompi Rebellion was not particularly long, lasted only for three and a half years (1378-1382). Yet, it not only reflected the long existed social issue of late 14th century Florence, but also constituted a long lasting impact on many generations to come. It greatly influenced Florentine society in the 15th century, and became a memorable moment of Florentine history, which historians of later centuries all showed great interest in, but interpreted the same event in a variety of different ways. Late 14th century Florence was not a harmonious city, but one that had long been filled with tensions. The two major tensions were social and political, accumulating since Florence's commercial revolution 150 years prior to the rebellion. Social tension existed between the poor Ciompi and wealthy merchants who dominated the lucrative wool industry, and the Florentine government, which continued to increase taxation. The Political tension was between the Ciompi, gente nouva, and the oligarchy, with the former two challenging the latter for more participation in government. The Ciompi Rebellion was the eruption of these long existing",
"moment of Florentine history, which historians of later centuries all showed great interest in, but interpreted the same event in a variety of different ways. Late 14th century Florence was not a harmonious city, but one that had long been filled with tensions. The two major tensions were social and political, accumulating since Florence's commercial revolution 150 years prior to the rebellion. Social tension existed between the poor Ciompi and wealthy merchants who dominated the lucrative wool industry, and the Florentine government, which continued to increase taxation. The Political tension was between the Ciompi, gente nouva, and the oligarchy, with the former two challenging the latter for more participation in government. The Ciompi Rebellion was the eruption of these long existing tensions, which could no longer be contained. After the Ciompi Uprising, the restored Florentine government did attempt to alleviate the plight of Ciompi artisans, such as a reform to lessen the burden of taxation. Yet, the rebellion left a permanent scar in the Florentine elites' mind (both the new and the old nobility) and created their everlasting fear and hatred toward the Ciompi. This scar built a tension between the new nobility and the lower labouring class greater than that prior to the uprising, as the elites constantly feared the rabble's secret plots. The elites thus began to favour a more authoritative government, which may be more centralized and stronger in crushing a revolt. This eventually gave rise to the Medici family, the most powerful banking family of Florence, whose power outweighed Salvestro de' Medici's bad reputation, and became the de facto ruler of Florence in the 15th century, drastically changing the character of the Florentine communal government. In the 15th century, it would not be surprising for Florentine scholars, who were part of the elite, to view the uprising negatively. Leonardo Bruni regarded the uprising as a mob out of control, whose members viciously looted and murdered the innocent. He viewed this event as a historical cautionary tale, which presented the horrendous consequence when rabbles managed to seize control from the ruling class. In the 16th century, Niccolò Machiavelli shared a somewhat different view with Bruni. Although he echoed Bruni's perspective, also referring to them as the mob, the rabbles, preoccupied by fear and hatred, he was more favorable than Bruni in viewing the event as a whole. According to Machiavelli, the revolt was a social phenomenon between one group of people, who were determined to obtain freedom, while the other determined to abolish it. In the 19th century, however, historians began to show sympathy to the Ciompi. Romantic historians had a tendency to interpret history as an epic tale between the evil and good, and this applied to the Ciompi Rebellion. Romantic historians regarded Michele di Lando, the leader of the rebellion, as a hero to the people who fought against their ruthless oppressors. In the late nineteenth century, a sculpture of the popular leader Michele di Lando was placed in a niche on the façade of the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo. Marxist historians also sympathized with the Ciompi artisans, viewing them as the early proletariat, who tried to overthrow the oppressive bourgeoisies. Recent histories treat the conflict as a lens reflecting the issues of Florentine society in the late 14th century, and also as a catalyst for Florence's period politics. Moreover, to them, the rebellion is a lens that reflects history as an ever changing entity, as historians living in different times have different \"presents,\" and one's present dictates how one views the past. Ciompi Revolt The Revolt of the Ciompi was a rebellion among unrepresented labourers which occurred in Florence, Italy from 1378 to 1382. Those who revolted consisted of artisans, labourers, and craftsmen who did not belong to any guilds and were therefore unable to participate in the Florentine government. These labourers had grown increasingly resentful over the established patrician oligarchy. In addition, they were expected to pay heavy taxes which they could not afford, forcing some to abandon their homes. The resulting insurrection over such tensions led to the creation of a government composed of wool workers"
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"Asukh Asukh, pronounced Ashukh is a 1999 Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film was awarded in the Best Feature Film in Bengali category at the 46th National Film Awards. Rohini is found discussing with a person who is slowly revealed as her ex-boyfriend and asks if he remembered her. Although he says yes, she doesn’t believe him and instead asks for the medicine box and takes 3 to 5 sleeping pills. Even after Aniruddha forbids her, she takes them all, saying that it should not affect him. The reason for this bitterness is revealed. Aniruddha had left her for another girl named Mrittika. Rohini was a famous film star and her love for her man was unblemished. She had brought Mrittika into the industry, and suffered Caesar’s wounds when Aniruddha started an affair with her. When Mrittika and Aniruddha started coming close, Rohini had confronted Aniruddha several times to tell the truth but he always tried to hide the fact and that had hurt her more. While she was facing such turbulent times in her life and wanted to be all alone, she comes to know that her mother is hospitalized with high fever. Unaware of the deteriorating relationship among Aniruddha and Rohini, her father often asks help from him despite Rohini showing irritation. Neither she is able to vent out her emotions as she knows her father is also going through tough times, nor is she able to digest the fact that Aniruddha is called off and on. She tries to avoid him, as we see couple of times, she lies to avoid him and even does not pick up any call assuming it to be Aniruddha. On the other hand, on seeing a difference in Rohini’s behavior her father is upset; he even finds her taking frequent sleeping pills and is worried about her. Ghosh neatly brings in the father-daughter relationship –he shows how the father worries about his daughter even after she has grown up. There is a scene in the movie which shows that, when there is a power cut, her father doesn’t allow her daughter to move, going himself to fetch the torch to light up the place, similarly like a father showing light of right path to their children. He didn’t think that he himself can be hurt, but only thought to protect his child from the darkness just like a shield. There are some more scenes where Ghosh brilliantly brought out the pure love of a Father for his daughter. In contrast, he also shows that even though her father is unwilling to take her money, he still has to depend on her, and this constantly bothers him, which is seen when he expresses his views to his wife that they are depending on her money completely. The film also shows how a husband loves his wife; he is not only worried about her but also sad at the same time that she is far from him and suffering from pain. Despite being old himself, he never missed to go to the hospital one single day, buying all the medicines and other necessary itinerary. Due to her daughter’s fame, when he was allowed to stay longer during visiting hours, the happiness in his face explained his love for his wife. Even Rohini quotes several times that even after she got betrayal and disappointment from her relation, she keeps consoling herself when she sees her parents; their relationship makes her feel that love has not vanished from the society, it’s still present. But destiny plays it role and we are unable to predict the future. The same Rohini who thought of her parent’s relation as pure, started doubting her father after her mother is attacked by fever again after the discharge from the hospital. They thought of taking second opinion and the doctor suggested for HIV test as he think this may be due to lack of immunity. The hatred was installed in her mind after getting betrayed by Aniruddha and she was unable to think rationally. She started thinking for the worst, repeatedly asking her father if the needles used were sterilized and on getting same answer from him every time (that he himself bought the disposable injections every time), her mind was shrouded in doubt that her father was the only source for her mother’s illness. Ghosh, may be for the first time, brought in to the Bengali cinemas the awareness for AIDS and at the same time dealt with fear and anxiety in a sensitive manner. The rude behavior of the daughter brings a distance between them but still father’s love for her daughter did not diminish. The blood test result revealed that her mother is not suffering from AIDS. At the end, Rohini realizes her mistake; she realizes that everything is in one’s mind, and people themselves can control that. She vents out all her sorrow to her father, when he comes to know that Aniruddha has left her. Her father consoles her but asks is she the person who said in an interview that there is no more love and trust left in the society. She says nothing but begs pardon from her father. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention) at Bombay International Film Festival. Asukh Asukh, pronounced Ashukh is a 1999 Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film was"
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"Hampstead Norreys Hampstead Norreys (alternatively spelt \"Hampstead Norris\" as it is pronounced) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is centred on the small tributary the River Pang, north of Newbury. Hampstead Norreys was awarded Berkshire's best-kept village in 1979. As well as the nucleus of Hampstead Norreys, the parish includes the hamlets or localities of Bothampstead, Eling and Wyld Court. Hampstead Norreys has a large recreational field, Dean Meadow, that is used for fetes and parties and by the village football and cricket teams. The school also uses the field for activities. In March 2011, a community shop was opened in the village, run by local volunteers. Shares in the shop were sold to village residents. It was the first community shop to be opened in a West Berkshire village since the 1990s. Wyld Court is home to The Living Rainforest, an indoor glass house tropical rainforest with plants, animals and butterflies. It is an ecological centre, an educational centre and a visitor attraction. The village was recorded in the Domesday Book as \"Hanstede\". The village is noted for its Norman parish church and the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in the nearby woods. The village was close to the wartime airfield of RAF Hampstead Norris, an RAF Bomber Command Operational Training Unit (OTU) station. The airfield was host to a small number of squadrons of Wellington bombers. The site was bombed on 16 September 1940 by the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. In 1945, the station was used by squadrons of Mosquito fighter bombers and became an ammunition storage depot as part of the Bramley Central Ammunition Depot near Basingstoke after its closure in 1946. Little of the wartime station now remains. There are four remaining pillboxes around where the airfield was and a few air raid shelters in the woods. Part of the bomb storage site remains also. The site still maintains a modern link with aviation with a farm strip used by a Tiger Moth biplane. It is now known as Haw Farm, part of the Yattendon Estate. An impression of the old runway layout of RAF Hampstead Norris can still be seen from the air. On the edge of the airfield perimeter track is a light beacon and an important VOR beacon known as Compton (CPT), named after the nearby village, which is used as a primary navigational aid for airway routes between European airports such as (Heathrow) and North America. Hampstead Norreys has a small rural primary school which has served the community for over 150 years. From 18 February 2013, Buses 6 and 6A from Newbury serve the village. Newbury railway station has regular and fast services to east and west. Hampstead Norris railway station was a minor halt on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway for about half a century until 1962. The Dean Field is the local park in Hampstead Norreys. It contains a football and cricket pitch and a children's play area. On the north side of the field is Hampstead Norreys Village Hall. It is considerably larger than the village halls in surrounding villages. On the south side is Eling estate, a large wooded area (consisting of Park Wood, Westbrook Copse, Down Wood and Elingpark Copse) backed by a path which is what remains of the old Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway running between Hermitage and Compton, the two nearest villages. Hampstead Norreys Hampstead Norreys (alternatively spelt \"Hampstead Norris\" as it is pronounced) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is centred on the small tributary the River Pang, north of"
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"Sevgein Sevgein is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Sevgein, Castrisch, Ilanz, Ladir, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion. Sevgein is first mentioned about 840 as \"Soviene\". Before the merger, Sevgein had a total area of . Of this area, 39.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The former municipality is located in the Ilanz sub-district of the Surselva district. It is located on a terrace in the southern Vorderrhein valley. It consists of the village of Sevgein and the settlement of Isla near Ilanz. Until 1943 Sevgein was known by its German name as \"Seewis im Oberland\". Sevgein had a population (as of 2011) of 198. , 1.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8.5%. Most of the population () speaks Romansh (54.6%), with German being second most common (44.9%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.5%). , the gender distribution of the population was 52.8% male and 47.2% female. The age distribution, , in Sevgein is; 23 children or 11.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 37 teenagers or 17.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 33 people or 15.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 19 people or 9.2% are between 30 and 39, 23 people or 11.1% are between 40 and 49, and 30 people or 14.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 16 people or 7.7% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 18 people or 8.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 5 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 3 people or 1.4% who are between 90 and 99. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 36.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (29.3%), the SP (20.8%) and the FDP (13%). In Sevgein about 72.1% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a \"Fachhochschule\"). Sevgein has an unemployment rate of 0.31%. , there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 3 businesses in this sector. 10 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 3 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table: Sevgein Sevgein is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Sevgein,"
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"Frédéric St-Denis Frédéric Saint-Denis (born January 23, 1986) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played under contract with EHC München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). In his first professional season, in 2008–09, St. Denis played primarily with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL and for the 2009–10 season with for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL. On July 1, 2010, he signed a one-year contract as a free agent with NHL affiliate of the Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens. On July 15, 2011, St Denis re-signed to a one-year, two way contract with the Montreal Canadiens. During the following 2011–12 season, he was recalled to the Canadiens and later scored his first NHL goal against Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks, on December 8, 2011. On July 7, 2013, St Denis left the Canadiens organization as a free agent and signed a one-year two-way contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets. He served as an alternate captain for AHL affiliate, the Springfield Falcons. After two seasons within the Blue Jackets organization, St-Denis left as a free agent to sign his first contract abroad on a one-year deal with German club, EHC München of the DEL on August 11, 2015. Frédéric St-Denis Frédéric Saint-Denis (born January 23, 1986) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played under contract with EHC München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). In his first professional season, in 2008–09, St. Denis played primarily with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL and for the 2009–10 season with for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL. On July 1, 2010, he signed a one-year contract as a free agent with NHL affiliate of the Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens. On July 15,"
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"Naiad Press Naiad Press was one of the first publishing companies dedicated to lesbian literature. At its closing it was the oldest and largest lesbian/feminist publisher in the world. Naiad Press was founded by partners Barbara Grier and Donna McBride in January 1973, along with Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford. It was devoted exclusively to lesbian literature. The company began both in Kansas City, Missouri, home of Grier and McBride and Rehoboth Beach, DE, home of Marchant and Crawford. The business began with $2000, provided by the author of the Press's first work, \"The Latecomer\" by Sarah Aldridge, the pen name of lawyer Anyda Marchant, and her partner Muriel Crawford. In 1973, there were few bookstores which would carry such overtly lesbian materials, so Naiad Press relied heavily on mail order in order to market and sell books. Naiad benefitted from its use of the 3800-member mailing list of \"The Ladder\", a prominent and recently defunct lesbian newsletter published by the Daughters of Bilitis. \"Naiad's commitment to the publication of lesbian material included the use of its profits from one book to produce the next\". In addition to original writings, Naiad published out-of-print lesbian fiction, such as novels of Ann Bannon, Jane Rule and Gale Wilhelm and acquired rights and brought back into print poetry by Gertrude Stein and translations of poetry by Renee Vivien. Early book covers were designed by Tee Corinne. Naiad was credited with playing \"a crucial role in bringing lesbian mysteries into prominence in the 1980s\" by publishing award-winning series featuring detectives Kate Delafield, Carol Ashton, Caitlin Reece, Virginia Kelley and others. Authors Sarah Schulman and Patrick Califia were first published by Naiad Press. Its genre fiction authors included prolific and award-winning writers such as Katherine V. Forrest, Claire McNab and Karin Kallmaker. Naiad achieved national prominence in 1985 with its publication of \"Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence\", for which it reportedly paid Rosemary (Keefe) Curb and Nancy Manahan $500,000. The book was banned in Boston. The press also published other nonfiction work, such as \"The Lesbian Periodical Index\", \"The Lesbian in Literature,\" and \"Staying Power: Long-Term Lesbian Couples\". In 2002, Grier and McBride received the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. On their retirement in 2003, Grier and McBride sold their current stock to Bella Books. Many Naiad Press authors transferred their contracts to Bella Books. In 1992, Grier established the Naiad Press Collection at the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, completing delivery of their massive collection of memorabilia, lesbian and gay literature, including many classic lesbian pulp fiction titles in 1998. Correspondence in the collection includes exchanges with contracted authors as well as other literary luminaries and influences such as Dorothy Allison, Rita Mae Brown, Nancy Berreano of publishing houses Crossing and Firebrand, Andrea Dworkin, Audre Lorde, Sherry Thomas of Old Wives Tales feminist bookstore and Spinsters Ink, and background material on the establishment of the Women in Print Conferences which began in 1976 and are widely credited with creating the Feminist Bookstore Network. Clothing, banners, posters, T-shirts and scrapbooks comprise the memorabilia in the collection. Extensive audio recordings made of interviews and news programs over the press's history are also in the collection.The San Francisco Public Library History Center holds the considerable collection of archival photographs of lesbian and gay literary figures. Naiad Press Naiad Press was one of the first publishing companies dedicated to lesbian literature. At its closing it was the oldest and largest lesbian/feminist publisher in the world. Naiad Press was founded by partners Barbara Grier and Donna McBride in January 1973,"
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