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Patrick Watkins
Patrick or Pat Watkins may refer to:
Patrick Watkins (sailor), Irish sailor, first resident of the Galapagos Islands
Pat Watkins (baseball) (born 1972), American baseball player
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Raffaele Colamonici
Raffaele Colamonici was an Italian film producer and production manager.
Selected filmography
Naples in Green and Blue (1935)
The Last Dance (1941)
The Queen of Navarre (1942)
Totò Le Mokò (1949)
Son of d'Artagnan (1950)
Free Escape (1951)
Abracadabra (1952)
References
Bibliography
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (or unknowable) more than gore or other elements of shock. It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Definitions
Some scholars use "Lovecraftian horror" and "cosmic horror" interchangeably. Cosmic horror has been characterized as:
The "fear and awe we feel when confronted by phenomena beyond our comprehension, whose scope extends beyond the narrow field of human affairs and boasts of cosmic significance".
A "contemplation of mankind's place in the vast, comfortless universe revealed by modern science" in which the horror springs from "the discovery of appalling truth".
A naturalistic fusion of horror and science fiction in which presumptions about the nature of reality are "eroded".
Origin
Lovecraft refined this style of storytelling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. His work was inspired by and similar to previous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany.
The hallmark of Lovecraft's work is cosmicism: the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person. Lovecraft's work is also steeped in the insular feel of rural New England, and much of the genre continues to maintain this sense that "that which man was not meant to know" might be closer to the surface of ordinary life outside of the crowded cities of modern civilization. However, Lovecraftian horror is not restricted to the countryside; "The Horror at Red Hook", for instance, is set in a crowded ethnic ghetto.
Themes of Lovecraftian horror
Several themes found in Lovecraft's writings are considered to be components of a "Lovecraftian" work:
Anti-anthropocentrism, misanthropy in general. Lovecraft's works tend not to focus on characterization of humans, in line with his view of humanity's insignificant place in the universe, and the general Modernist trend of literature at the time of his writings.
Preoccupation with viscerate texture. The horror features of Lovecraft's stories tend to involve protean semi-gelatinous substances, such as slime, as opposed to standard horror elements such as blood, bones, or corpses.
Antiquarian writing style. Even when dealing with up-to-date technology, Lovecraft tended to use anachronisms as well as old-fashioned words when dealing with such things. For example, he used the term "man of science" rather than the modern word, "scientist" and often spelled "show" as "shew" and "lantern" as "lanthorne." Lovecraft was an Anglophile, and frequently used British spelling, as in the title of "The Colour Out of Space".
Detachment. Lovecraftian heroes (both in original writings and in more modern adaptations) tend to be socially isolated, reclusive individuals, usually with an academic or scholarly intent to compensate for social shortcomings.
Helplessness and hopelessness. Although Lovecraftian heroes may occasionally deal a "setback" to malignant forces, their victories are temporary, and they usually pay a price for it. Otherwise, subjects often find themselves completely unable to simply run away, instead driven by some other force to their desperate end.
Unanswered questions. Characters in Lovecraft's stories rarely if ever fully understand what is happening to them, and often go insane if they try to do so.
Sanity's fragility and vulnerability. Characters in many of Lovecraft's stories are unable to cope mentally with the extraordinary and almost incomprehensible truths they witness, hear or discover. The strain of trying to cope, as Lovecraft often illustrates, is impossible to bear and insanity takes hold.
Collaborators and followers
Much of Lovecraft's influence is secondary, as he was a friend, inspiration, and correspondent to many authors who would gain fame through their creations. Many of these writers also worked with Lovecraft on jointly-written stories. His more famous friends and collaborators include Robert Bloch, author of Psycho; Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian; and August Derleth, who codified and added to the Cthulhu Mythos.
Subsequent horror writers also heavily drew on Lovecraft's work. While many made direct references to elements of Lovecraft's mythos, either to draw on its associations or to acknowledge his influence, many others drew on the feel and tone of his work without specifically referring to mythos elements. Some have said that Lovecraft, along with Edgar Allan Poe, is the most influential author on modern horror. Author Stephen King has said: "Now that time has given us some perspective on his work, I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."
By the late 20th century, Lovecraft had become something of a pop-culture icon, resulting in countless reinterpretations of and references to his work. Many of these fall outside the sphere of Lovecraftian horror, but represent Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture.
Literature and art
Lovecraft's work, mostly published in pulp magazines, never had the same sort of influence on literature as his high-modernist literary contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. However, his impact is still broadly and deeply felt in some of the most celebrated authors of contemporary fiction. The fantasias of Jorge Luis Borges display a marked resemblance to some of Lovecraft's more dream influenced work. Borges also dedicated his story, "There Are More Things" to Lovecraft, though he also considered Lovecraft "an involuntary parodist of Poe." The controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq has also cited Lovecraft as an influence and has written a lengthy essay on Lovecraft entitled H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life in which he refers to the Cthulhu cycle as "the great texts".
Lovecraft's penchant for dreamscapes and for the biologically macabre has also profoundly influenced visual artists such as Jean "Moebius" Giraud and H. R. Giger. Giger's book of paintings which led directly to many of the designs for the film Alien was named Necronomicon, the name of a fictional book in several of Lovecraft's mythos stories. Dan O'Bannon, the original writer of the Alien screenplay, has also mentioned Lovecraft as a major influence on the film. With Ronald Shusett, he would later write Dead & Buried and Hemoglobin, both of which were admitted pastiches of Lovecraft.
Comics
Lovecraft has cast a long shadow across the comic world. This has included not only adaptations of his stories, such as H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness, Graphic Classics: H. P. Lovecraft and MAX's Haunt of Horror, but also the incorporation of the Mythos into new stories.
Alan Moore has touched on Lovecraftian themes, in particular in his The Courtyard and Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (and Antony Johnston's spin-off Yuggoth Creatures), but also in his Black Dossier where the story "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss?" mixed Lovecraftian horror with Bertie Wooster. Neonomicon and Providence posit a world where the Mythos, while existing as fiction written by Lovecraft, is also very real.
Gordon Rennie not only used various Lovecraft creations, like the Tcho-Tcho, in his Necronauts, but he also included Lovecraft himself as a character, teaming up with an influence of his, Charles Fort, a combination that would occur again in Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained. Necronauts was not the first appearance of Lovecraftian horror in 2000 AD as Grant Morrison's Zenith involved the eponymous hero trying to stop the Lloigor, known as the Many-Angled Ones. Entities also called Many-Angled Ones appear in the Marvel Universe in the storyline "Realm of Kings" where they rule an alternate reality. This story line was in their Guardians of the Galaxy comic where an alternate universe invades the main Marvel Universe. The invading universe, dubbed the "Cancerverse" in the comics, is a universe where Lovecraft's Elder Gods triumph over death and conquer the universe. The inspiration for the universe is clearly Lovecraftian as even the words are taken directly from Lovecraft's writings. The most obvious example of this is the word fhtagn. Unlike a tale of Lovecraftian horror, however, the forces of good triumph; this is achieved only by releasing a galactic mass murderer loose on both universes, providing some lasting horror. The Marvel Universe also contains a range of Cthulhu Mythos comics, including the Elder Gods.
As well as appearing with Fort in two comics stories, Lovecraft has appeared as a character in a number of Lovecraftian comics. He appears in Mac Carter's and Tony Salmons's limited series The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft from Image and in the Arcana children's graphic novel Howard and the Frozen Kingdom from Bruce Brown. A webcomic, Lovecraft is Missing, debuted in 2008 and takes place in 1926, before the publication of "The Call of Cthulhu", | {
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Sibač
Sibač () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 544 people (2002 census).
See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
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Chester Holmes Aldrich
Chester Holmes Aldrich (Providence, Rhode Island, 4 June 1871 – Rome, 26 December 1940) was an American architect and director of the American Academy in Rome from 1935 until his death in 1940.
Early life
Holmes was a member of an old New England family. He was the third son of a merchant, Elisha Smith Aldrich, and Anna Elizabeth Aldrich. He was a distant relative of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. He graduated from Columbia University's School of Mines in 1893 with a Ph. B.
He attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Career
He interrupted his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts to work with New York architects Carrère and Hastings, producing the firm's competition drawings for the New York Public Library. After he received his diploma from the Ecole in 1900, he returned to Carrère and Hastings. He had earlier befriended William Adams Delano, and left Carrère and Hastings in 1903 to open a practice with him. Together they are responsible for designing some of the most famous Beaux-Arts buildings in New York; including notably the Rockefeller family mansion of Kykuit, at the estate in Westchester County, and the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the Grand Central Art Galleries.
Aldrich was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate member in 1928, and made a full member in 1939. A significant collection of correspondence by Aldrich is held by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York City.
Philanthropy and Rome
Aldrich was for twenty years the President of the Kips Bay Boys Club and was involved with a Staten Island home for boys that provided post hospitalization rehabilitation. Italy awarded him the Order of the Crown of Italy for his involvement with the American Red Cross Commission to Italy from 1917 to 1919. In 1935, he left Delano and Aldrich to head the American Academy in Rome.
Aldrich died in Rome on December 26, 1940, where he was buried at the Campo Cestio.
References
External links
Chester H. Aldrich correspondence, 1897-1963.Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Brick & Cornice: Delano & Aldrich Buildings
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The Romantic Swordsman (1995 TV series)
The Romantic Swordsman is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Gu Long's novel Duoqing Jianke Wuqing Jian of the Xiaoli Feidao Series. It was released overseas in September 1994 and broadcast on TVB in Hong Kong in September 1995.
Cast
Note: Some of the characters' names are in Cantonese romanisation.
Eddie Kwan as Lei Cham-fan
Gigi Fu as Lam Sin-yee
Emily Kwan as Lam See-yan
Chin Kar-lok as Ah-fei
Wong Lung-wai as Plum Flower Bandit
Chan Chit-man as Lung Siu-wan
Tang Siu-chun as Lung Tin-chi
Leung Yam-kei as Sheung-koon Kam-hung
Wong Siu-yin as Suen Siu-hong
See also
The Sentimental Swordsman
The Romantic Swordsman (1978 TV series)
Flying Daggers
External links
The Romantic Swordsman on Baidu Baike
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Jumoke Verissimo
Jumoke Verissimo (born 26 December 1979 in Lagos) is a Nigerian poet and writer. Her first book, I Am Memory, has won some literary awards in Nigeria. Some of her poems are in translation in Italian, Norwegian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Macedonian.
Life
Jumoke was born in Lagos. She has a master's degree in African studies (performance) from the University of Ibadan and a bachelor's degree in English literature from the Lagos State University. She has worked as an editor, sub-editor, copywriter and a freelance journalist for major newspapers such as Guardian and NEXT. Jumoke currently lives in Canada with her daughter, where she is studying for a PhD.
Writing
The People's Daily describes her collection as "a bold stance of pain and other emotions, filtering through the pores of gross indifference and achieving a communal cry of retrospective protest." The Punch also describes her as, "one of those who will change the face of literature in Nigeria", after her first book, which was well-received across the country. Her works have appeared in Migrations (Afro-Italian), Wole Soyinka ed., Voldposten 2010 (Norway), Livre d'or de Struga (Poetes du monde, sous le patronage de l'UNESCO) and many other prints and online magazines. Some of her poems are in translation in Italian, Norwegian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Macedonian.
Awards and nominations
2009: Carlos Idzia Ahmad Prize, First Prize for a first book of Poetry
2009: Anthony Agbo Prize for Poetry, Second Prize for a first book of Poetry
2009: Honourable Mention Association of Nigeria (Poetry), 2009
2012: Recipient, Chinua Achebe Centre Fellowship, 2012
2012: Mother Drum Golden Award for Excellence, for poetry
Bibliography
I Am Memory (Poetry) DADA Books, Lagos, 2008 ISBN No: 978-978-088-065-1
The Birth of Illusion (Poetry) FULLPOINT, Nigeria, 2015 ISBN No: 978-978-946-697-9
A Small Silence (Novel) Cassava Republic, London, 2019 ISBN No: 9781911115793
References
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http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/ArtsandCulture/Books/5691416-147/jumoke_verissimo_on_the_joy_of.csp
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Skywhale
Skywhale could refer to:
Skywhale (band) - UK 1970s Progressive Rock group
Skywhales - a 1983 animated short film
The Skywhale - a hot air balloon designed by the artist Patricia Piccinini
Theoretical living creatures developed as part of the Aurelia and Blue Moon project
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Andrew Baggarly
Andrew Baggarly (born c. 1975) is an American journalist and author who has covered Major League Baseball teams since 1998 and the San Francisco Giants since 2004. As of December 2017, he is the Giants beat writer for The Athletic.
Baggarly is the author of A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants (2011) and Giant Splash: Bondsian Blasts, World Series Parades, and Other Thrilling Moments by the Bay (2015).
Career
In 1998, Baggarly began covering Major League Baseball for the San Bernardino County Sun. Baggarly later worked for the Riverside Press-Enterprise, where he served as a beat reporter covering the Anaheim Angels from 2000–01 and the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2002–03.
Baggarly spent a combined eight years with the Oakland Tribune, from 2004–06, and the San Jose Mercury News, from 2006–12, covering Giants baseball as a beat writer. He also followed the Giants in his blog, "Extra Baggs," created for Bay Area News Group. In 2012, Baggarly joined Comcast SportsNet Bay Area as their "Giants Insider", covering the team on several different multiplatform outlets. In late September 2014, Baggarly was reportedly boycotted by Giants players after he wrote about a clubhouse argument. Baggarly left CSN and returned to the Bay Area News Group in 2015. In December 2017, Baggarly joined The Athletic as their Giants beat writer.
Baggarly served as an official scorer for the 2007 MLB All-Star Game. As a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), he is a Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voter.
Personal
Baggarly was born in Naperville, Illinois and grew up a Chicago Cubs fan in suburban Los Angeles. He graduated from Damien High School in La Verne, California, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1997. He lives in Millbrae, California.
As a child, Baggarly appeared on the Bill Rafferty-hosted version of Card Sharks in the 1980s. In 2012, he appeared on the game show Jeopardy!, becoming a three-time champion.
References
External links
Andrew Baggarly
Andrew Baggarly's CSN Blog Archive
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Polytaenia nuttallii
Polytaenia nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Nuttall's prairie parsley, or simply prairie parsley. It is native to the central and midwestern United States.
This plant is a biennial or perennial herb growing up to 1 meter tall. The inflorescence is made up of many small yellow flowers borne in umbels. The leaves are up to 18 centimeters long and are divided into toothed lobes. They clasp the stem at their bases. They are mostly alternately arranged, but the upper ones can be oppositely arranged. The plant is yellowish in color during spring and summer.
This plant can be found in prairies, glades, and open woods. In some areas it is very common on roadsides.
This species is used in habitat restoration projects in prairies and it may be planted as an ornamental.
References
External links
USDA Plants Profile
NatureServe
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Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.
He was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band".
He has won two Grammy Awards in his career, one in 1990 for Best Country Song for the song "After All This Time" and one in 2014 Best Americana Album for his album Old Yellow Moon.
Early life
Crowell was born on August 7, 1950, in Houston, Texas, to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby
He came from a musical family, with one grandfather being a church choir leader and the other a bluegrass banjo player. His grandmother played guitar and his father sang semi-professionally at bars and honky tonks. At age 11, he started playing drums in his father's band. In his teen years, he played in various garage rock bands in Houston, performing hits of the day mixed with a few country numbers.
Career
1972–1986: Early career
In August 1972 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in search of a musical career and got a job as a songwriter after being discovered by Jerry Reed. He later met and befriended fellow songwriter Guy Clark, who became a major influence on his songwriting and vice versa. While there, he said, "I got a real cold splash in the face of what real songwriting is about. I started filling my mind with as many symbols and images as I could. I started reading. I got real hungry to have something to contribute". Emmylou Harris had recorded one of Crowell's songs, "Bluebird Wine", on her Pieces of the Sky album and made a request to meet him. After he sat in with Emmylou at her gig at the Armadillo World Headquarters in early January 1975, she asked him to play rhythm guitar in her backing band, The Hot Band. He accepted and left the following day to join Emmylou in Los Angeles.
In 1977 as a side project, he formed a musical group, The Cherry Bombs, together with Vince Gill, Tony Brown and others. One year later, he signed a solo deal with Warner Bros. Records and in late 1978, released his debut album, Ain't Living Long Like This.
His debut album, as well as his following two albums, But What Will the Neighbors Think and Rodney Crowell, were not commercially successful despite garnering a huge cult following. Crowell himself criticized his debut album for not translating onto vinyl the same clarity and energy he felt in the studio. His single "Ashes by Now" from "But What Will the Neighbors Think" reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980.
Though he had already several country hits by artists covering his songs (including "Ain't Living Long Like This" by Waylon Jennings, "Leaving Louisiana..." by the Oak Ridge Boys, and several covers by Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Reed and others), Crowell got his first big taste of pop songwriting success with "Shame on the Moon". "Shame on the Moon" was recorded on the 1982 album "The Distance" by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. Glenn Frey joined Seger on background harmony on the song. Appealing to a broad cross-section of listeners, the song spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, topped the adult contemporary chart, and placed in the Top 15 of the country chart in early 1983. The song's dark, poetic and hypnotic style helped boost Crowell's cult status.
The album Rodney Crowell was released in 1981 (see 1981 in country music) by Warner Bros. Records and was his last album on that label before switching to Columbia. The first album Crowell produced by himself, it reached No. 47 on the Top Country Albums chart and No. 105 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The songs "Stars on the Water" and "Victim or a Fool" were released as singles. "Stars on the Water" reached No. 30 on the Hot Country Songs chart, Crowell's highest charting song up to that point. It peaked at No. 21 on the Canadian country charts. "Victim or a Fool" reached No. 34 in the U.S.
In 1981, Crowell put his career on hold to produce several of his wife Rosanne Cash's albums.
In 1983, Crystal Gayle had a number one country single with his song "'Til I Gain Control Again" from her first Elektra album, True Love. The song was first recorded in 1975 by Emmylou Harris and appeared on Elite Hotel that year.
In 1984, Crowell returned to working on his own music career and recorded what was to be a new album for Warner Bros., Street Language. That album, a pop-sounding effort co–produced by David Malloy, was rejected by Warner Bros, and was rejected by the label and never released. Warner Bros. requested a more Nashville-friendly record, but Crowell negotiated a release from his contract and moved to Columbia Records.
1986–1995: Columbia Records and Mainstream Success
After producing Rosanne Cash's Rhythm & Romance, Crowell signed to Columbia Records in 1986. His first album for that label was reworked Street Language, co-produced with Booker T. Jones and featuring a blend of soul and country music. The album did not chart.
Although best known as a songwriter and alternative country artist, Crowell enjoyed mainstream popularity during the late 1980s and early 1990s. His critically acclaimed album 1988's Diamonds & Dirt produced five consecutive No. 1 singles during a 17-month span in 1988 and 1989: "It's Such a Small World" (a duet with Cash), "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried," "She's Crazy For Leavin'," "After All This Time" and "Above and Beyond" (a cover of Buck Owens' 1962 hit). Crowell's "After All This Time" won the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. His follow-up album, 1989's Keys to the Highway, produced two top 5 hits in 1990, which were "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" and "If Looks Could Kill."
After 1992's Life Is Messy, he left Columbia Records and signed to MCA Records where he released two more albums — Let the Picture Paint Itself and Jewel of the South.
2001–2010: Songwriting Success, Critical Acclaim
Crowell continued to enjoy success as a songwriter in the 1990s and 2000s. Crowell's songs that reached to Top Ten in the country charts in the decade included "Song for the Life" by Alan Jackson, "Making Memories of Us" by Keith Urban, "Ashes By Now" by Lee Ann Womack, and "Please Remember Me" by Tim McGraw.
In 2001, after a brief hiatus from recording, Crowell released The Houston Kid on Sugar Hill Records, his first studio album since 1995's Jewel of the South. Many songs on the album were semi-autobiographical, and the album included a duet Crowell had recorded and released as a single in 1998 with his ex father-in-law Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line (Revisited)". Crowell followed up this effort with Fate's Right Hand in 2003 and The Outsider in 2005, both of which appeared on Columbia Nashville, a division of Sony Music. Leading critics and Crowell consider these three albums his finest work as a solo artist.
Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 with fellow inductees Hal Blair, Paul Overstreet and John Prine.
2004 saw the release of The Notorious Cherry Bombs, a reunion of Crowell's 1970s road band, including Vince Gill and Tony Brown. The future Keith Urban hit "Making Memories of Us" was included on this disc. In 2005, Crowell served as producer for established Irish singer/songwriter Kieran Goss on the album "Blue Sky Sunrise".
In 2007, Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame.
Crowell released his next album, Sex & Gasoline, on Yep Roc Records in 2008, ending his relationship with Sony Music. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album. Crowell figures prominently in musician-neuroscientist Daniel Levitin's book The World in Six Songs for which he was interviewed, and three Crowell songs, "Shame On The Moon," "I Know Love Is All I Need" and "I Walk the Line (Revisited)" are featured in the book.
In 2009, Crowell wrote Wynonna Judd's title track to her album Sing: Chapter 1, which also was released in 2009. The song was given several electronic dance music remixes, and sent to dance radio as Judd's second release from the album. In August 2009, the single reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
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2002 Open 13 – Singles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Thomas Enqvist.
Enqvist won in the final 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–1 against Nicolas Escudé.
Seeds
Juan Carlos Ferrero (Quarterfinals)
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Semifinals)
Sébastien Grosjean (Quarterfinals)
Thomas Johansson (First Round)
Tim Henman (withdrew)
Roger Federer (withdrew)
Younes El Aynaoui (First Round, retired because of bronchitis)
Hicham Arazi (Second Round)
Draw
Finals
Top Half
Bottom Half
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Anthrapurpurin
Anthrapurpurin, or 1,2,7-trihydroxyanthraquinone, is a purple dye used in histology for the detection of calcium.
See also
Alizarin
Purpurin
Trihydroxyanthraquinone
Hydroxyanthraquinone
Anthraquinone
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Isaac Don Levine
Isaac Don Levine (January 19, 1892 – February 15, 1981) was a 20th-century Russian-born American journalist and anticommunist writer, who is known as a specialist on the Soviet Union.
He worked with Soviet ex-spy Walter Krivitsky in a 1939 expose of Stalin's purges and other terrorism in the Soviet Union. Later he worked with Whittaker Chambers, a defector from the American Communist Party, to reveal agents in the United States government.
Background
Levine was born in 1892 in Mazyr (then "Mozyr"), Belarus, into a Zionist Jewish family. He immigrated to the United States in 1911, where he learned English. He finished high school in Missouri.
Career
Levine found work with The Kansas City Star and later The New York Tribune, for which he covered the revolution of 1917. He would return to Russia in the early 1920s to cover the Civil War for The Chicago Daily News.
He was in Boston to cover the Sacco and Vanzetti trials in the early 1920s, during which he formed the Citizens National Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti. "His experience there was one of the factors that eventually turned him against the [Communist] Party and toward a career exposing the KGB's espionage activities in America and Europe."
Levine worked as a columnist through the late 1920s and 1930s for the Hearst papers.
In the spring of 1939, Levine collaborated with Walter Krivitsky, a defector from the Soviet intelligence agency KGB, for a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post. Together they exposed the horrors of Stalin's regime, including the mass purges and murders of tens of thousands, and the deportation of suspected opponents to internal exile and Siberian camps. In November of the same year, the series was collected and published as a book, In Stalin's Secret Service, attributed to Krivitsky alone. (Levine's role in the writing was not revealed at the time.)
In the meantime, Levine arranged a meeting in September 1939 between American Communist Party defector Whittaker Chambers and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's security chief, Adolf Berle. There Chambers revealed, with Levine present, a massive spying operation reaching even into the White House. He identified, among others, Alger Hiss in the State Department and, according to Levine, Harry Dexter White, the author of the Morganthau Plan, in the Treasury Department.
From 1946 to 1950, Levine edited the anticommunist magazine Plain Talk.
On December 9, 1948, Levine provided testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the Alger Hiss case, regarding Communist espionage in the US government.
He declined to join The Freeman magazine. He did work for a time with Radio Free Europe in West Germany instead. There, he co-founded the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, based in Munich.
Personal life and death
Levine married and had a son with his first wife, Robert Don Levine (November 15, 1924 – July 21, 2013). He later married again, to a woman named Ruth. His son became a public affairs specialist.
Levine died on February 15, 1981, at age 89, in his home in Venice, Florida.
Representation in other media
Levine appeared as himself, in a cameo as one of the witnesses to the John Reed era, in the movie Reds (1981).
Levine is featured briefly in Walter Isaacson’s documentary Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007). He and Albert Einstein were friends, but they eventually fell out over their political differences.
Works
Russian Revolution (1917)
Botchkareva, Maria. Yashka: My Life as Peasant, Exile, and Soldier. As set down by Isaac Don Levine (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1919)
The Kaiser's Letters to the Tsar (1920) Editor
Man Lenin (1924)
Stalin (1931)
Stalin's Great Secret (1956) Coward-McCann, NY NY USA
The Mind of an Assassin (1960) Signet book, New York
I Rediscover Russia (1964)
Intervention (1969)
Eyewitness to History (1973)
Levine also wrote the screenplay for the biographical movie Jack London (1943).
References
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Emory University - Isaac Don Levine Papers
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Rhaebo caeruleostictus
Rhaebo caeruleostictus is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to Ecuador and occurs along the lower western slope of the Cordillera Occidental at elevations of asl. The specific name caeruleostictus, from Latin caeruleus (=blue) and Greek stiktos (spotted), refers to the bluish colour pattern of this species. Accordingly, common name blue-spotted toad has been coined for it.
Description
Males measure and females in snout–vent length. The Dorsum and sides have blueish-blackish vermiculations on orangish background (this coloration is assumed to be aposematic). The tympanum is not visible. The parotoid glands are large.
Habitat and conservation
Its natural habitats are tropical moist forests and cloud forests. It is a terrestrial species that breeds in riparian habitats.
It is a rare species that is threatened by habitat loss caused by agricultural expansion, logging, and wood plantations. It has not been seen since 1997, and it might be extinct.
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Producers Releasing Corporation
Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the less prestigious of the Hollywood film studios. It was considered a prime example of what was called "Poverty Row", a term originally applied to a stretch of Gower Street in Hollywood known for being the headquarters of a plethora of low-budget production companies, mainly because the rents were cheap. Many of these companies would make only a few low-budget "B" pictures, then disappear; others, like PRC and Monogram, lasted for a longer period of time and some even had their own studio facilities (though most only rented studio space on larger studios' lots). PRC lasted from 1939 to 1947, churning out low-budget B-movies for the lower half of a double bill or the upper half of a neighborhood cinema showing second-run films. The company was substantial enough to not only produce but to distribute its own product and some imports from the UK, and operated its own studio facility, first at 1440 N. Gower St. (on the lot that eventually became Columbia Pictures) from 1936 to 1943, then the complex used by the defunct Grand National Pictures from 1943 to 1946, located at 7324 Santa Monica Blvd. This address is now an apartment complex.
PRC produced 179 feature films and almost never spent more than $100,000 on any of them; most of its films actually cost considerably less. Only Minstrel Man had enhanced production values because it showed such excellent progress during filming that its $80,000 budget was tripled.
History
The company evolved from the earlier Producers Distributing Corporation begun in 1939 by exhibitor Ben Judell (né Benjamin Nathaniel Judell; 1890–1974), who had hired producer Sigmund Neufeld and his brother, director Sam Newfield, to make the studio's films. After the collapse of PDC the brothers established PRC. Most of the movies made were within the genres of other studios of the 1940s, but at a much lower budget, and each generally took a week or less to shoot. They included westerns or action melodramas, plus a number of horror movies. In 1943 Robert R. Young, a railroad magnate who also owned the American Pathé film processing laboratory, acquired the studio.
Few then-current stars worked for PRC: Bela Lugosi, Buster Crabbe, Bob Steele, Frances Langford, and Ralph Byrd. Budget constraints forced the studio to make do with featured players (Neil Hamilton, Eddie Dean, Lyle Talbot, Gladys George, Mary Carlisle, Noel Madison, Iris Adrian, Frank Albertson, Wallace Ford, Ralph Morgan, Henry Armetta, Chick Chandler); stars who were idle (Harry Langdon, Lee Tracy, Benny Fields, Mary Brian, Freddie Bartholomew, Patsy Kelly, El Brendel, Slim Summerville); or celebrities from other fields (burlesque queen Ann Corio, animal hunter Frank Buck, radio announcer Harry Von Zell, Miss America (of 1941) Rosemary LaPlanche).
Typical PRC efforts include The Devil Bat with Bela Lugosi and a sequel, Devil Bat's Daughter; Misbehaving Husbands with silent-comedy star Harry Langdon; and Jungle Man and Nabonga, jungle thrillers with Buster Crabbe and Julie London in the latter. Much like other studios of the time, PRC released a wide variety of westerns, including 17 films in the Lone Rider series, a Billy the Kid film series and The Frontier Marshals, similar to Republic Pictures' and Monogram Pictures' cowboy trio series. During World War II, PRC made several war films such as Corregidor, They Raid By Night, A Yank in Libya, a pair of films set in China — Bombs over Burma and Lady from Chungking, both starring Anna May Wong — and a flag-waving patriotic musical, The Yanks Are Coming.
A notable film for the studio was Baby Face Morgan, a tongue-in-cheek gangster epic with Mary Carlisle, Robert Armstrong and Richard Cromwell, directed by German emigre Arthur Dreifuss. According to B Movies by Don Miller, "Most of the remainder of the 1942 PRC product dealt with gangsters, crime or whodunit puzzles, reliable standbys of the indie companies catering to action and grind theater houses. Baby Face Morgan played it for laughs, with Cromwell as a rube posing as a tough racketeer. Armstrong, [co-star] Chick Chandler and Carlisle lent strong support, and while it never scaled any heights it was a passable spoof of the genre."
Beginning in 1944, PRC grew in standing, with the company securing big-city exposure and critical praise for many of its features. Austrian director Edgar G. Ulmer directed three films noir classics there: Bluebeard (1944), Strange Illusion (1945) and Detour (1945). All three — especially Detour — have acquired reputations as artistic achievements. The PRC production Hitler's Madman, directed by Douglas Sirk, was picked up by MGM for distribution. The Benny Fields musical Minstrel Man earned the studio its first Academy Award nominations (Ferde Grofé and Leo Erdody, for best musical score). The studio's westerns received a boost when singer Eddie Dean starred in the first cowboy series filmed in Cinecolor. The children's fantasy The Enchanted Forest, also in Cinecolor, was a surprise hit for the studio, and led to several major studios filming their own movies in the process.
PRC was purchased by Pathe Industries, though the only noticeable change was of the name of the company's production arm to PRC Pictures Inc. The company otherwise continued to flourish within its own element until after World War II. Two new detective series were launched: Hugh Beaumont as Michael Shayne (six entries) and William Wright or Alan Curtis as Philo Vance (three entries), as well as a comedy series, Gas House Kids, an attempt to create its own version of The Bowery Boys (three entries).
The distribution arm of the company was disbanded with the formation of Eagle-Lion Films Inc. in 1946; the production arm (and with it the entire company) followed suit shortly thereafter in 1947. PRC's final production was James Flood's The Big Fix (1947).
Legacy
Madison Pictures Inc. released PRC's product for both television showing and cinema re-releases until 1955. Madison was formed in late December 1945 and, headed by Armand Schenck, a former supervisor of PRC's branch operations and previously an executive with Commonwealth Film Corporation and later Pathé Laboratories, a subsidiary of Pathé Industries. Madison was bought by United Artists.
As early as 1950 the CBS Television network was screening PRC films on television. Many PRC films are now in the public domain and appear on budget DVDs.
See also
List of Producers Releasing Corporation films
References
Dixon, Wheeler W. Producers Releasing Corporation: A Comprehensive Filmography and History. McFarland, 1987.
Miller, Don. B Movies. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. .
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Yaeyama
Yaeyama may refer to:
Yaeyama Islands, an archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Yaeyama District, Okinawa, an administrative division covering most of the Yaeyama Islands
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My Heavenly Hockey Club
is a manga series collaborated by Ai Morinaga. It is published by Kodansha in Japan and Del Rey Manga by America. The series is complete in Japan with a total of 14 volumes. The first eight volumes were released in North America.
Story
Hana Suzuki loves only two things in life: eating and sleeping. So when handsome classmate Izumi Oda asks Hana to join the school hockey club in return for being run over by his 'uninsured' car, persuading her with the thought that she has to pay for the damages to the car. True, the Grand Hockey Club is full of boys-and all the boys are super cute-but given a choice, Hana prefers a sizzling steak to a hot date. Then Izumi mentions field trips to fancy resorts. Now Hana can't wait for the first away game, with its promise of delicious food and luxurious linens. Of course, there's also the getting up early, working hard, and playing well with others. How will Hana survive?
Characters
Hana Suzuki
Hana Suzuki is your average 16-year-old high school girl, besides the fact that her hobbies are sleeping and eating. She acts rather tomboyish but can act girlishly when she needs to. Hana is very sensitive about her breasts and can hit anyone who makes fun of it, mostly Izumi. She has a fetish for fat people and people with large stomachs because it gives her the urge to sleep on them. The club found out after they thought she had a crush on the tennis club's captain but was actually looking at his large-sized brother. Usually, when they go on trips, she and Izumi unintentionally fall asleep together in the car/train and in the place where they are staying at. She joins the Grand Hockey Club after she gets hit by Izumi's car while sleep-walking to school and manages to catch herself, but damaging the car instead. Izumi tries to persuade her to join the hockey club after she punched him for telling her the car is uninsured and that she'll have to pay for it if she refuses to join. After hearing that the hockey club travels to hotel resorts for away games, she joins the all-boys sports club, where they believe nobody will find out she's a girl because of how she acts. They make her goalie of the team because she can do unnatural things in her sleep, like blocking everything from going into the net. She can easily be lured by food to go to morning practice at the school. Ironically enough she is actually considered to be fairly attractive with most boys simply being put off by her personality. As shown in chapter 23, when she briefly becomes possessed by Kokkuri from the game and she adopts a more Yamato Nadeshiko-like personality, she becomes significantly more popular both with her club members and the boys at her school.
Izumi Oda
Izumi Oda is a super rich 2nd year high school student and captain of the Grand Hockey Club. In English, gurando can mean both ground or grand. In this case, it possibly means both, since the team play ground hockey and Izumi thinks of his club as grand. His favorite phrase is "I am the law" and expects everyone to do what he says. After Izumi's car got hit by Hana and he saw that she was okay, he decided to put her on his hockey team. He blackmails her into thinking that the car wasn't insured, when it actually was. She got mad at him for tricking her and quit the club. He said for that the first time in his life, somebody told him they hated him. He was sulking until his friend Takashi finally got Hana to join the club again. Hana is the object of Izumi's affection and for that, Izumi is extremely protective of Hana, although he doesn't realize his feelings. Hence, he gets annoyed when a bear falls in love with Hana and when he thinks Hana likes the tennis club's captain. He has groped Hana on the breast unintentionally a few times, but he said it was because he could hardly tell the difference from her back or her front. It is found out that Izumi is afraid of ghosts, going as far as to sleeping in the same bed as Hana because he is too scared, while Hana held a few dangerous weapons next to her just in case.
Takashi Itoigawa
Takashi is Izumi's friend and jiya. He is in the 2nd year of high school and is the vice captain of the club. Takashi always goes after Izumi and bears a grudge against Hana for being so close to him. Even if he does hate her, he will do anything to get Izumi happy, so he tells Hana to get back into the club, although he says it with a rather mean face. He was against her joining the club from the very beginning because he didn't want a girl joining a boys' club.
Natsuki Serizawa
Natsuki is in his 2nd year of high school and was appointed as Hana's snack person. He is also rich because his family owns a jewellery company. He has a face cuter than a girl's so he is often mistaken for one, but is actually the most manly member of the hockey club. Natsuki is usually the first person Hana goes to for help. Later in the story he genuinely falls in love with a yuki ona (snow woman) and she disappears because Izumi pushed her to her limit. Because of that, Natsuki gets revenge and told Izumi about Izumi's feelings towards Hana. He starts hanging out with her to get Izumi jealous, only to pick up feelings for Hana in the process. He would get jealous when Hana was thinking about Izumi and get angry when someone would interrupt him when he is with Hana. He also told Hana that he was playing around at first but likes her now, and then kisses her and confesses to her in front of izumi. He mostly takes after his mother and gets angry with his father for dumping all the work on his mother while he sets off to be a treasure hunter.
Kinta Ayuhara
Kinta Ayuhara is in his first year in high school and he is the older brother of his twin Ginta. His first love is Rin-chan from St. Johannes Girls' Academy (his younger brother likes her younger twin). Although they both fell in love with twins, they believe that they have opposite tastes in girls. They also believe that they look completely different. Although because Hana gave them the wrong information on what kind of guy Rin-chan likes, his first love did not work out.
Ginta Ayuhara
Ginta Ayuhara is in his first year in high school and he is Kinta's younger twin. His first love is Ran-chan, the younger twin of his brother's first love. He believes (like his brother) that they look nothing alike and have opposite taste in girls. But because Hana gave him the wrong information, his love did not work out.
Reception
"Morinaga flexes her artistic skill in volume one placing scenes in various settings. Both pacing and storytelling are fluid. It's remarkable how everything comes together in this volume - even the absurd." — Kai-Ming Cha, IGN.
"If you're expecting a gimmick with this one, you'll be both disappointed and satisfied—disappointed, perhaps, that this isn't really about sports, but satisfied at the sheer looniness of the comedy here." — Kevin Gifford, Newtype USA.
"A reverse harem story done in traditional shojo style, the first volume of this tale of a girl who gets drawn into an otherwise all-guy hockey club won't dazzle you with its quality but may be enough to amuse." — Theron Martin, Anime News Network.
"A lot of the credit goes to Del Rey's expert translation, which showcases Ai Morinaga's wacky humor. You'll actually learn something about Japanese food, thanks to Hana's insatiable hunger, so you can say with a straight face that My Heavenly Hockey Club is totally educational." — Jennifer Webb, Teenreads.com.
"This volume has plenty of funny jokes, but I felt it wasn’t quite as funny as the first. I’m also disappointed with the continued lack of hockey. I understand the joke factor of always having something interrupt the hockey matches, but I’m growing a little bored with it." — Matthew Alexander, Mania.
"A fun comedy with plenty of romantic antics that will have the ladies rolling in the aisles (and maybe even the guys too?). Consistent in both art and story, My Heavenly Hockey Club is a bit of light entertainment that isn’t to be missed." — Scott Campbell, activeAnime.
"Even when the events are predictable — as in the chapter with the twins in love, where Hana messes up her reconnaissance mission — they’re still very funny. This is a neat, happy read if you’re looking for school comedy." — Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading.
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Cantù-Cermenate railway station
Cantù-Cermenate railway station is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Chiasso railway, it serves the towns of Cantù and Cermenate.
Services
Cantù-Cermenate is served by the line S11 of Milan suburban railway service, operated by the lombard railway company Trenord.
See also
Milan suburban railway service
References
External links
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Overstrand Local Municipality
Overstrand Municipality is a local municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is located along the Atlantic coast between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas, within the Overberg District Municipality. The principal towns in the municipality are Hermanus, Gansbaai and Kleinmond. it had a population of 80,432.
Geography
The municipality covers an area of stretching along the coast of the Overberg, from the eastern edge of False Bay almost to Cape Agulhas. At its western end it is separated from the City of Cape Town by the Kogelberg mountains; to the north it is separated from the Theewaterskloof Municipality by the Kogelberg and the Kleinrivier Mountains; and to the east it abuts on the Cape Agulhas Municipality along a boundary that runs generally north-south just to the west of Elim. The western part of the municipality consists mostly of a narrow coastal plain with mountains immediately behind, while the eastern part beyond the Klein River expands away from the coast to include a wider agricultural region.
According to the 2011 census the municipality has a population of 80,432 people in 28,010 households. Of this population, 36.2% describe themselves as "Black African", 31.2% as "White", and 31.0% as "Coloured". The first language of 53.5% of the population is Afrikaans, while 29.2% speak Xhosa, 12.3% speak English and 1.4% speak Sotho.
Most of the towns in the municipality are on the coast, and due to the proximity to Cape Town many are holiday resorts. The largest town is Hermanus, which is situated on the northern edge of Walker Bay next to the Klein River mouth. As of 2011 Hermanus, which is the site of the municipal headquarters, has a population of 32,769. West of Hermanus, between it and the Bot River, are Onrusrivier (pop. 5,151) and Hawston (pop. 8,214) on the coast, and Fisherhaven (pop. 723) on the Bot River lagoon. On the other side of the Bot River mouth is the town of Kleinmond (pop. 6,634) and beyond it along the coast are Betty's Bay (pop. 1,380), Pringle Bay (pop. 801) and Rooi-Els (pop. 125).
East of Hermanus the municipality includes a wider agricultural area away from the coast. The village of Stanford (pop. 4,797) is about inland on the Klein River. To the south, on the opposite side of Walker Bay from Hermanus, is the second-largest town in the municipality, Gansbaai (pop. 11,598). Just south of Gansbaai, on the southern edge of the Danger Point peninsula, are Van Dyksbaai (pop. 500) and Franskraalstrand (pop. 1,165). A little further along the coast is Pearly Beach (pop. 1,042). Inland from Pearly Beach, separated from the coast by a range of hills, is the agricultural hamlet of Baardskeerdersbos (pop. 103), while Wolvengat (pop. 50) is another agricultural hamlet in the far south-east of the municipality.
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirteen wards, while the remaining twelve are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
History
The Overstrand Local Municipality was created at the local elections of December 2000, replacing the municipalities of Greater Hermanus, Hangklip-Kleinmond, Stanford and Gansbaai. It was considered a stronghold of the now defunct New National Party (NNP), which had held (sometimes concealed) majorities of two thirds in the predecessor municipalities after the November 1995 municipal elections, which were the first since South Africa had its first multi-racial elections.
After the 2000 election, Willie Smuts, previously mayor of Hangklip-Kleinmond Municipality, was elected mayor, representing the Democratic Alliance (DA), before he defected along with seven other DA councillors to the New National Party (NNP) after the October 2002 floor-crossing window. The NNP then formed a coalition with the African National Congress (ANC) when the council was reconstituted. After the September 2004 floor crossing Smuts then crossed the floor to the ANC along with most NNP councillors which gave the ANC an outright majority in the town for the first time.
In the March 2006 local elections, the DA won an outright majority of 10 seats in the 19-seat council. Willie Smuts was replaced as Mayor by Theo Beyleveldt. The DA consolidated its hold in the council following the September 2007 floor crossing window which saw the party gain an eleventh seat from the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP). The ANC lost a seat to the newly formed National People's Party, as did the Independent Democrats, whose only representative in the Overstrand Council crossed over.
In the May 2011 local elections, the DA again won Overstrand outright, taking fifteen of the twenty-five seats on the council, with the ANC taking nine and the National Independent Civic Organisation one.
In the August 2016 local elections, the DA increased its majority to sixteen of twenty-five seats, with the ANC taking eight and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) taking one.
Election results
The most recent election of the municipal council was held on 3 August 2016; the Democratic Alliance won a majority of 16 seats on the council. Overstrand sends four representatives to the council of the Overberg District Municipality: three from the Democratic Alliance and one from the African National Congress.
Mayors
Dudley Coetzee (28 February 2018 until present) (DA)
Rudolph Smith (2016–2018; died on 5 January 2018)
Nicolette Botha-Guthrie (2010–2016) (DA)
Theo Beyleveldt (March 2006–2010) (DA)
Willie Smuts (September 2004 – March 2006) (ANC)
Willie Smuts (October 2002 – September 2004) (NNP)
Willie Smuts (December 2000 – October 2002) (DA)
References
External links
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Babinci
Babinci () is a village in the Municipality of Ljutomer in northeastern Slovenia. The area traditionally belonged to the Styria region and is now included in the Mura Statistical Region.
Name
Babinci was attested in written sources 1280–1295 as villa Wakendorf. Like similar place names (e.g., Babna Brda, Babiči, Babna Gora, etc.), the name is derived from the Slovene common noun baba. In addition to the basic meaning 'old woman', baba often means 'rocky outcrop, cliff; mountain top, peak' and generally refers to a local terrain feature.
Cultural heritage
There is a small chapel in the centre of the village. It was built in the late 19th century.
References
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The Kid Inside
The Kid Inside is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp. It was released January 27, 1983 by MainMan Records. It was recorded in 1977 for MCA records and was intended to be the follow-up to his debut album Chestnut Street Incident, but MCA declined to release the album and dropped Mellencamp from the label. The recordings remained unreleased until 1983 when Tony DeFries, Mellencamp's former manager, released the album on his own MainMan label. DeFries was attempting to capitalize on the recent success of Mellencamp's breakout album American Fool, which was one of the best-selling albums of 1982 and spawned two top 5 singles.
DeFries' decision to release The Kid Inside in early 1983 confused many fans and even some journalists who thought it was the follow-up to American Fool, when it was really already six years old. The true follow-up to American Fool was Uh-Huh, and it was released in October 1983.
This was Mellencamp's last album to be released under the name John Cougar. His next release, Uh-Huh, would be released under the name John Cougar Mellencamp.
Track listing
All songs written by John Mellencamp, except where noted.
"Kid Inside" – 5:32
"Take What You Want" – 3:14
"Cheap Shot" – 3:53
"Sidewalk and Streetlights" – 4:08
"R. Gang" – 2:30
"American Son" – 4:52
"Gearhead" – 2:38
"Young Genocides" – 2:26
"Too Young to Live" – 7:45
"Survive" – 4:09
"The Whore" – 1:21 (Bonus Track)
"The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) – 2:27 (Bonus Track)
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Pachakutic
Pachakutic, from the Quechua language, is originally a concept associated with pre-Columbian Andean cultures, meaning "a change in the sun", or a movement of the Earth which will bring a new era. In its original context, it was associated with the type of creation myth found in much of the pre-Columbian Americas in which the present World had undergone several previous cycles of creation and renewal, and the present age was likewise part of such a great cycle; pachakutic referred to the completion of these cycles and the coming of a new era.
The concept has been adopted in recent times by certain political movements in South America, particularly those seeking to advance indigenous peoples' rights. In this context it signifies the beginning of a new cycle and the desire for substantive change in the political environment- or Pachakamac, "turning the world upside-down".
The Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik - Nuevo País (Pachakutic Plurinational Unity Movement-New Country), an Ecuadorian political party backed by the indigenous communities, has adopted the word and its associated symbolism as its standard.
See also
Unu Pachakuti
References
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Ramsay Anderson
David Ramsay Anderson (2 May 1888 – 27 May 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Footnotes
References
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
External links
Essendon Football Club profile
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Kakegurui (2017 TV series)
Kakegurui is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title written by Homura Kawamoto and illustrated by Tōru Naomura. The anime television series is animated by MAPPA. It aired from July 1 to September 23, 2017 on Tokyo MX, MBS and other channels. A second season titled Kakegurui ×× aired from January 8 to March 26, 2019. The cast reprised their roles, and the staff returned for the second season. Netflix began streaming the series in 2018.
History
Development
Kakegurui is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title written by Homura Kawamoto and illustrated by Tōru Naomura. The anime television series is animated by MAPPA.
The music videos for the opening and closing themes were released in 2017.
First season release
The first season of Kakegurui aired from July 1 to September 23, 2017 on Tokyo MX, MBS and other channels. Yuichiro Hayashi directed the series, Yasuko Kobayashi handled the scripts, and Manabu Akita handled the character designs. TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND composed the music for the series. The opening theme is "Deal with the Devil", performed by Tia. D-Selections performed the ending theme "LAYon-theLINE". The first season is licensed and streamed by Netflix, first in 2018, and ran for 12 episodes. Anime Limited acquired the series for release on home video in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Concerning reception of the first season, Collider gave the anime series release on Netflix a negative review, although did note it was catered to fans of gambling and sexualized characters. About the anime first season, GoombaStomp wrote "Kakegurui is a sometimes silly, often intoxicating anime that had all the makings of something truly special...regardless of its shortcomings, Kakegurui is worth being watched if just for its gripping gambling bouts alone."
Second season release
In August 2018, it was announced that Kakegurui season 2 would debut in Japan in January 2019.A second season titled Kakegurui ×× aired from January 8 to March 26, 2019. The cast reprised their roles, and the staff returned for the second season. Kiyoshi Matsuda joined Yuichiro Hayashi as director for the second season. For season 2 of the anime, Yasuko Kobayashi and Manabu Akita served respectively as writer and character designer, with MAPPA handling animation for the second season as well. Mitsuki Saiga was added to the season 2 cast, voicing the new character Miloslava Honebami. The second season's opening theme song is performed by JUNNA, while the ending theme is "AlegriA" performed by D-selections. The second season ran for 12 episodes.
According to Thrillist, both the first season and Kakegurui XX were aired on Netflix in 2018.
Cast
Saori Hayami as Yumeko Jabami
Minami Tanaka as Meari Saotome
Tatsuya Tokutake as Ryōta Suzui
Yūki Wakai as Itsuki Sumeragi
Karin Nanami as Yuriko Nishinotōin
Mariya Ise as Midari Ikishima
Yū Serizawa as Yumemi Yumemite
Tomokazu Sugita as Kaede Manyūda
Mayu Udono as Runa Yomozuki
Ayaka Fukuhara as Sayaka Igarashi
Miyuki Sawashiro as Kirari Momobami
Season 2 only
Mitsuki Saiga as Miloslava Honebami
Episode list
Kakegurui
Kakegurui ××
Notes
References
External links
Show at Netlix
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Cyril Asker
Cyril Asker (born December 24, 1985) is a French mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Background
Born and raised in Avignon, France, Asker began training in MMA at the age of 18. Before becoming a full-time fighter, he was a police officer.
Mixed martial arts career
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Asker made his promotional debut against Jared Cannonier at UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. dos Santos on April 10, 2016. He was defeated via knockout in the first round.
Asker next fought Dmitry Smoliakov at UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Penn on January 15, 2017. He won via TKO in the first round.
Asker next faced Walt Harris at UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia on June 17, 2017. He lost the fight in the first round via TKO due to a combination of elbows and punches.
Asker was expected to face James Mulheron on November 25, 2017 at UFC Fight Night 122. However, Mulheron was pulled from the card on November 10 after he failed an out-of-competition drug test. Asker remained on the card and faced promotional newcomer Hu Yaozong. He won the fight via submission in the second round.
Akser faced Tai Tuivasa on February 11, 2018 at UFC 221. He lost the fight via technical knock out in the first round.
Championships and accomplishments
Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC)
Heavyweight Championship (One time)
Mixed martial arts record
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|Tai Tuivasa
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|UFC 221
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|Perth, Australia
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|Win
|align=center|9–3
|Yaozong Hu
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum
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|Shanghai, China
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|Loss
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|Walt Harris
|TKO (punches and elbows)
|UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia
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|Kallang, Singapore
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|Win
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|Dmitry Smolyakov
|TKO (punches and elbows)
|UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Penn
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|Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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|Jared Cannonier
|KO (punches and elbows)
|UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. dos Santos
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|Zagreb, Croatia
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|Win
|align=center|7–1
|Andrew van Zyl
|Submission (guillotine choke)
|Extreme Fighting Championship 44
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|Johannesburg, South Africa
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|Win
|align=center|6–1
|Ruan Potts
|TKO (retirement)
|Extreme Fighting Championship 40
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|Johannesburg, South Africa
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|Win
|align=center|5–1
|Ricky Misholas
|Decision (unanimous)
|Extreme Fighting Championship 37
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|Johannesburg, South Africa
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|Win
|align=center|4–1
|Juhaa Saarinen
|TKO (punches)
|Cage 27
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|Turku, Finland
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|Win
|align=center|3–1
|Eugen Buchmueller
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|Roundhouse MMA: The Beginning
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|Berlin, Germany
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|Loss
|align=center|2–1
|Karl Moore
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|CC 17: Rooney vs. Philpott
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|Newry, Northern Ireland
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|Win
|align=center|2–0
|Peter Tornow
|Decision (unanimous)
|MMA Berlin: Tournament 33
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|align=center| 5:00
|Berlin, Germany
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|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Adam Brearley
|TKO (punches)
|Cage Warriors Fight Night 4
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|Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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References
External links
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Enrique Serrano (soccer)
Enrique Serrano is a retired American soccer player who coaches boys' high school soccer. He played professionally in the USISL and was the 1989-1990 SISL goal scoring leader.
During the 1989–90 Southwest Independent Soccer League season, Serrano led the league in scoring while playing for the Albuquerque Gunners top scorer In 1991, he joined the New Mexico Chiles where he played four outdoor seasons. He also spent the 1991-92 indoor season with the Amarillo Challengers.
In 1995, Serrano became the head coach of the La Cueva High School girls' team. He took the team to the 1995 and 1997 New Mexico State High School championship. In 2012, he became the head coach of the West Mesa High School girls' team.
References
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PABR Dam
Penna Ahobilam Balancing Reservoir (PABR) is an irrigation project located across Penna River in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh state in India. Anantapur city gets its drinking water from the PABR. The reservoir with live storage capacity of 305 million cubic metres is mainly fed by Tungabhadra high level canal originating from the Tungabhadra Dam to the extent of 10 Tmcft water. A 20 MW hydro electric power station is also constructed at the dam site.
After the death of eminent irrigation engineer K. Sriramakrishnaiah in the year 2002, the Penna Ahobilam balancing reservoir is renamed in memory of him as "Dr. K. Sriramakrishnaiah Penna Ahobilam balancing reservoir" by the Andhra Pradesh government.
See also
Mid Penna dam
List of dams and reservoirs in Andhra Pradesh
References
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Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance is a British dance company based in London and founded in 1989 by the company's artistic director and choreographer, Shobana Jeyasingh. The company has toured internationally including India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, USA, Sweden, Italy, Austria and throughout the United Kingdom (UK). It has received three Digital Dance Awards, two Time Out Dance Awards and the London Music and Dance Award.
The company also provides school and community education through apprenticeships, workshops, technique classes, and residency programmes.
In 2019, the company celebrates its 30th anniversary and to mark this landmark has made especially commissioned work, as well as launched a number of flagship programmes.
External links
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance website
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Gedocarnil
Gedocarnil (INN) is an anxiolytic of the β-carboline class related to abecarnil. It is registered as an anxiolytic under the WHO's ATC classification system; however, there are no trade names associated with it and it does not appear to have ever been marketed.
See also
Nonbenzodiazepine
References
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Category:Beta-Carbolines
Category:Chloroarenes
Category:Carboxylate esters
Category:Ethers
Category:Phenol ethers
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Chinchpada
Chinchpada is a panchayat village located in Nashik division of the Kandesh region of Maharashtra state in India. The village used to be called Bodhgaon. Administratively, Chinchpada is under Navapur Taluka, Nandurbar District, Maharashtra. There is only the single village of Chinchpada in the Chinchpada gram panchayat.
It is located on National Highway 6, running from Hazira (near Surat) in Gujarat to Kolkota, West Bengal. It is about 100 km from Dhule and about 120 km from Surat.
Infrastructure
Chinchpada is a pleasant place lined by hills on one side.
Chinchpada is famous for the Chinchpada Christian Hospital, which is governed by the Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA), New Delhi. The Hospital was established in 1942 as a small clinic, and later it was upgraded to a 15-bed hospital that continues to provide healthcare services to the predominantly tribal population in the surrounding villages. It was incorporated into EHA in 1974. The hospital, known for its low cost quality health care, currently has 50 beds and attracts a lot of patients referred there for surgeries, medicine, cancer treatment, palliative care, and maternity services. The hospital has a 4-bed fully equipped ICU and 24/7 quality nursing care under trained and experienced doctors.
Chinchpada is also well known for its railway station, which was constructed by the British government during the colonial era. The rail lines connect Surat to Bhusawal, two of India's big railway junctions.
Culture
The majority of the village's population is engaged in the educational services sector.
'Unity in Diversity' can seen in this town, as Marathi, Marwari, Gujarati, Adivasi, and Sikh communities live here with love and peace.
Educational Facility
Four high-schools and one Junior College provide educational facilities to the community.
Namely:
Pachim Khandesah Bhill Seva Mandal Sanchalit Vanvasi Vidyalaya' (High-school, Marathi Medium)
S.C.Chavan Junior College. (College of Science and Arts)
Emmanuel Public School. (High-school, English Medium, Maharashtra State Board)
D.G.Agarwal Memorial School. (High-school, English Medium, CBSE Board)
Tribal Education Society. (High-school, Marathi Medium)
Sushant Sarvajanik Vachnalay Chinchpada
Demographics
In the 2001 census, the village of Chinchpada had 6,575 inhabitants, with 3,342 males (50.8%) and 3,233 females (49.2%), for a gender ratio of 967 females per thousand males.
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Ken Johnston (journalist)
Ken Johnston (Born 1952 in Northern Ireland) is a journalist/broadcaster with wide media and military experience having worked throughout The Troubles in Northern Ireland and also handling media issues for UK military operations around the world. His career started with Project, an industrial periodical produced by the former Morton Newspaper Group before moving to Armagh as a reporter with the local weekly paper, the Armagh Guardian. This was at the beginning of The Troubles and after two years he moved to take the reins as Editor of the Carrickfergus Advertiser and East Antrim Gazette before joining Thomson Newspapers on the East Antrim Times and later the Belfast Telegraph.
In 1980 he moved into broadcasting with Independent Radio in Northern Ireland before joining the Ministry of Defence and setting up the first Mobile News Team which was to oversee the transitional period of military involvement in Operation Banner. Moving to Whitehall to join the Royal Navy team he became Senior Information Officer before being appointed to HQ Army in Salisbury. It was in 2000 he was appointed Deputy Head of Media Operations at the UK's Permanent Joint Headquarters which provided operational direction for all UK military operations overseas.
As well as vast journalistic experience of Northern Ireland he has also been engaged on operations, exercises and training around the world. He reported widely during 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland as a reporter with The Belfast Telegraph and later as broadcaster with Downtown Radio and contributor to broadcast stations around the world.
On retirement, he became a Committee member of Reserve Forces and Cadets Association and also runs Regional News Features – providing guidance to young people and industry on communications techniques
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Dell PowerEdge
The Dell PowerEdge (PE) line is Dell's server computer product line.
Most PowerEdge servers use the x86 architecture. The early exceptions to this, the PowerEdge 3250, PowerEdge 7150, and PowerEdge 7250, used Intel's Itanium processor, but Dell abandoned Itanium in 2005 after failing to find adoption in the marketplace. The partnership between Intel and Dell remained close, with Intel remaining the exclusive source of processors in Dell's servers until 2006. In May 2006 Dell announced that it also intended to develop servers using AMD Opteron processors.
The first Opteron-based PowerEdge systems, the PowerEdge 6950 and the PowerEdge SC1435, appeared in October 2006.
PowerEdge machines come configured as tower, rack-mounted, or blade servers. Dell uses a consistent chip-set across servers in the same generation regardless of packaging, allowing for a common set of drivers and system-images.
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and value-added resellers also offer solutions based on PowerEdge servers. Loaded with custom software and with minor cosmetic changes, Dell's servers form the underlying hardware in certain appliances from IronPort,
Google,
Exinda Networks, and Enterasys.
In 2007 the PowerEdge line accounted for approximately 15% of Dell's overall revenue from computer-hardware sales. In subsequent years Dell made the transition from a pure hardware vendor to a solutions-provider and services company, as evidenced, for example, by the acquisition of Perot Systems and KACE Networks and the setup of a special global services department within Dell.
PowerEdge RAID Controller
Dell uses the name PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) for proprietary versions of its RAID computer storage controllers. The related software in the PERC Fault Management Suite offered facilities such as the Background Patrol read, which aims to fix bad sectors on online RAID disks running under some of the PERC controllers around 2006.
These cards were equipped with hardware from LSI Corporation or Intel, 256 MBytes of memory (upgradeable on the 5/i to 512 MB), support up to 8x SATA 3.0 Gbit/s drives without the use of expanders. They had an optional Battery Backup Unit (BBU) to allow more flexible use of the memory during writes, enhancing performance in RAID5 and 6, and operate over the PCI Express interface.
Chassis systems
Although PowerEdge is mainly used to refer to servers there are a few systems where the term PowerEdge refers to systems of which servers are (just) a part. Examples of these usages are:
PowerEdge M1000e - the Dell blade-server system where the complete system uses the term PowerEdge, and M1000e refers to the chassis and the complete combination of components in them. The individual non-server components have also their own name in their 'own' family such as PowerConnect M-switches or EqualLogic blade-SAN.
PowerEdge VRTX - the converged system consisting of (up to) 4 PowerEdge M-blade servers, the built-in storage solution and the I/O networking module.
Model naming convention
Since the introduction of the generation 10 servers in 2007 Dell adopted a standardized method for naming their servers; the name of each server is represented by a letter followed by 3 digits. The letter indicates the type of server: R (for Rack-mountable) indicates a 19" rack-mountable server, M (for Modular) indicates a blade server, while T (for Tower) indicates a stand-alone server.
This letter is then followed by 3 digits:
The first digit refers to the number of CPU sockets in the system: 1 to 3 for one socket, 4 to 7 for two sockets, and 9 for four sockets. 8 can be either two or four sockets depending on generation and CPU maker
The second digit refers to the generation: 0 for Generation 10, 1 for Generation 11, and so on.
The third digit indicates the maker of the CPU: 0 for Intel or 5 for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
For example: The Dell PowerEdge M610 was a two-socket server of the 11th generation using an Intel CPU while the R605 was a two-socket AMD-based rack-server of the 10th generation.
Prior to the Generation 10 servers, the naming convention was as follows:
First digit – Height of the server in rack units
Second digit – Generation of server (up to 9th generation)
Third digit – Server type (5 for rack server, 0 for tower server, although tower servers could be outfitted with a rack chassis)
Fourth digit – Indicated whether blade or independent box (5 for blade, 0 for normal independent box)
Example 1: PowerEdge 2650 (
2 = 2U server,
6 = 6th generation,
5 = rack server,
0 = normal )
Example 2: PowerEdge 6950 (
6 = 4U server,
9 = 9th generation,
5 = rack server,
0 = normal )
Example 3: PowerEdge 2800 (
2 = [based on] 2U server 2850,
8 = 8th generation,
0 = tower server,
0 = normal )
Example 4: PowerEdge 1855 (
1 = 1U server,
8 = 8th generation,
5 = rack server,
5 = blade )
Most servers had a tower equivalent. For example, the PowerEdge 2800 was the tower equivalent of the 2850. The naming applies to the tower version too, but the tower version will usually be between 5U and 6U.
See also
List of Dell PowerEdge Servers
References
External links
Dell Server Documentation
Using a PowerEdge tower on its side in a rack
Review Dell PowerEdge R810
Review Dell PowerEdge R815
PowerEdge
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Panguipulli Batholith
The Panguipulli Batholith is a granitic batholith of Jurassic age located in the Andes around Panguipulli Lake in southern Chile.
See also
References
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Thabo
Thabo (Τhα'βω) is a male and female African given name. It is short for "Lethabo" meaning "Happiness" or "Joy". It is a common name for South African men and women. It is most used in seSotho, Setswana and Sepedi [or Northern Sotho] and by some of the Nguni [Zulu, Xhosa, Swati and Ndebele] people.
Notable people with the name include:
Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa
Thabo Mofutsanyana, ANC activist
Thabo Makgoba, Anglican archbishop
Thabo Sefolosha, Swiss basketball player
Thabo Mabuza, rugby player
Thabo Mamojele, rugby player
Thabo Masheshemane, cricketer
Thabo Masualle, footballer
Thabo Masunga III, Masunga chief
Thabo Matlaba, footballer
Thabo Mboyi, footballer
Thabo Mngomeni, footballer
Thabo Moloi, footballer
Thabo Mooki, footballer
Thabo Motsieloa, Swedish television news presenter
Thabo Nodada, footballer
Thabo Nthethe, footballer
Thabo Qalinge, footballer
Thabo Rakhale, footballer
Thabo Sefolosha (born 1984), Swiss basketball player
Thabo September, footballer
Places
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Hamza Shinwari
Ameer Hamza Shinwari (Pashto: امیرحمزه شينواری), commonly known as Hamza Baba () was a prominent Pashto-language poet. He was born in Landi Kotal, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan in 1907 and died in February 1994.
He belonged to the Shinwari tribe of the ethnic Pashtuns.
His work is considered a fusion between classic and modern poetry. He wrote classical poetry and blended it with modern innovations, as well as introducing new ideas in Pashto Ghazals. He is known as the father of Pashto Ghazals.
Early life
He was born in Khyber Agency, the fifth son of Bazmeer Khan. In 1915 he enrolled in primary school. The teacher asked him to write the Urdu alphabet (Alif, Bhe, Fei………). Instead he drew the figure of a human, displaying his artistic abilities. Because of this, the teacher beat him and he began to hate school. He went to Islamia Collegiate school in the fifth class, and started writing poetry in Urdu. He wrote many tales (Afsana). He chose to write poetry in Urdu at beginning. He contributed to Urdu writings. Once his Peer-O-Murshid (Teacher) Khawaja Syed Abdul Sattaar Shah told him to write in mother tongue Pashto because he could not be very successful in Urdu. Following his teacher's instructions, he began to write in Pashto. He wrote his first Pashto ghazal in 1933.
Za da yaar da makh pa shama zei da danesta swazama,
Shamei tha bha ghura hase be aqala parwa na kawei.
Zaa saa dar hada mashahoor sharab nushei kei yam,
Zam che mekhanei tha isteqbal me mekhane kawei.
Career
He was working on the railway, and had very little money. He was given a low income certificate, leading him to quit. He went to Mumbai to work in the film industry. He failed to get work in film. He was coming through Ajmeer Sharif with his brother on basant maila. Wali Sb Nisar Ahmed with his co-Qawal was singing "Aaj Khawaja Moheen Uddin k ghar aaj easi hai basant", which inspired Hamza and he started crying. It was His turning point to Sufiism. Hamza was inspired by Mirza Khan Insari and Khushal Khan Khattak. In the early 1940s his poetry was related to romanticism.
He wrote about romance with different aspects. He placed Pukhtoon culture in Ghazals. Ameer Karor was the first poet of Pashto in the tenth century CE. Before Hamza no one concentrated on Pashto ghazals. He is called the father of ghazal. As Khushal Khan did poetry related to war, but Hamza touch the side of Pukhtoon culture and love. He linked tasawuf with Ghazal. He liked Khatir's poetry. In 1957-58 he wrote the phrase: "Waye aghyar che da dozakh jaba da,
Za ba jannat tha da pakhto sara zam".
Hamza was also a critic and a playwright, producing 200 plays for Radio Pakistan, features, critical essays and research papers for different literary magazines and newspapers of Pakistan.
Influence
According to Saif Ur Rehman Saleem "I found his status, he was like sweet river some quenched their thirst, some water their fields with his knowledge. In short every one benefit with his knowledge. Syed Tahir Bukhari is Jaana sheen and khaleefa of Hamza in cheeshteya line. He got "bhait" on hand of Hamza. He has the honor of translating his two books on tassauf "Tajalleyat-e-Muhammadeya" and "Tazkera-e-Satareya" from Pashto to Urdu in 1967.
Hamza's work on Pashto ghazals included such phrases as"
sta pa annango ke da hamza da weeno sraa dhe
Ta shwe da pukhto ghazaala zwan za dhe baba kram
Personal life
Hamza lived in Landi Kotal. His home was in Muhalla sakhi shah Mardan. He died in February 1994 and is buried in Khyber Agency.
References
External links
Shinwari poem "ځم" at Chakdara.com
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College Hill Historic District (Scottsboro, Alabama)
The College Hill Historic District is a historic district in Scottsboro, Alabama. The neighborhood was the first subdivision to be platted in Scottsboro. The area takes its name from the Scott Male and Female Academy, which was built in 1878. The site has been occupied by schools since; the present building was constructed in the 1930s and currently houses the administration offices of the Scottsboro Board of Education. The district contains 14 houses, 10 of which were built between 1890 and 1929, three in the 1930s, and one in the 1970s. The earlier houses are primarily Vernacular styles, although the later construction includes Bungalow and English Cottage-style houses popular at the time. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1982 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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The Political Thought of Tarique Rahman
The Political Thought of Tarique Rahman: Empowerment of the Grassroots People is a book published by Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge, a non-profit policy organization based in Cambridge.
The book is a collection of seventeen articles written on the politics and thoughts of Tarique Rahman, the Senior Vice Chairman of Bangladesh's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which had governed the country four times since independence. Authors of the articles, including four editors of the book, are Bangladeshi and English academics, journalists and politicians who have either the experience of working closely with Tarique Rahman or have come to familiarize with his activities through their own works.
The book was officially launched in June 2013 at the University of Cambridge. In August 2013, the American edition was published at Columbia University in New York City, followed by the Australian, Canadian and German editions which were respectively inaugurated at the University of New South Wales, University of Toronto and University of Ulm between September and October 2013.
Contents
The seventeen articles take place as individual chapters in the book.
As I See the Policies of Tarique Rahman by David Nicholson
The Legacy of Tarique Rahman's Family by Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar
As I See Tarique Rahman by Moudud Ahmed
The Philosophy of Tarique Rahman by Mushfiqur Rahman
The Future Leader of Bangladesh by Shaukat Mahmood
The Endeared Leader of the People by M Maniruzzaman Miah
A Leader Subjected to Inhuman Tortures by Anwarullah Chowdhury
Bangladesh in the 21st Century: Tarique Rahman as the Saviour by Khandaker Mustahidur Rahman
Safe Return: Save Bangladesh by Syed Rashidul Hasan
Tarique Rahman: A Statesmanlike Leadership by Abdul Latif Masum
A Cruel Victim of the ‘Goebbelsian Theory’ by Sahabul Huq
Propaganda Never Prevails by Abdul Hye Sikder
How I See Tarique Rahman as a Leader by James Smith
The Bottom-Up Approach of Tarique Rahman: The Formula of Development by Saleh Shibly
The Vanguard of the Nationalist Movement in Bangladesh by Humaiun Kobir
How a Political Moderniser Rebuilds the Face of Bangladesh by Mahdi Amin
The Road to Go by Ashik Islam
Publication
Cambridge, Bangladesh Policy Forum Cambridge [2013]
References
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Agronomy Industry, Isfahan
Agronomy Industry, Isfahan ( – Maʿdan Khāk-e Şanʿatī Poshteh) is a village and company town in Padena-ye Sofla Rural District, Padena District, Semirom County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 27, in 14 families.
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Listed buildings in Golborne Bellow
Golborne Bellow is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Tattenhall and District, in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains three buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". Other than part of the village of Gatesheath, the parish is entirely rural. The listed buildings consist of two farmhouses, and a set of farm buildings.
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Sierra Vista Scenic Byway
The Sierra Vista Scenic Byway is an route through the Sierra National Forest in the U.S. state of California. Many examples of the Sierra’s most distinctive granite domes, meadows and glacial valleys can be seen along the way. The Sierra Vista Scenic Byway begins two miles (3 km) north of the foothill community of North Fork, climbing the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range until its crest, and finally dropping back down into the foothills near Oakhurst.
Route description
The byway begins on Forest Service Road 81 (FS 81) and continues north, loosely paralleling the San Joaquin River. The designation continues west on FS 7; the initial part of it is a dirt road. FS 7 eventually becomes paved again; however, the byway continues southwest onto Sky Ranch Road, which is FS 10 and is initially unpaved. The byway ends at SR 41.
The route is generally open June through October and takes approximately 5 hours to drive.
History
It was designated a National Forest Scenic Byway on July 14, 1989.
Points of interest
Globe Rock
Globe Rock is a large granodiorite, semispherical boulder resting atop a small granodiorite perch. It once served as a gathering place of the Mono Indians as seen by the many acorn grinding mortars in the surrounding granite. Theodore Roosevelt was once photographed here. Globe Rock is a corestone that was formed in place by spheroidal weathering and later exposed by the erosion of the saprolite that once enclosed it.
Fresno Dome
Fresno Dome is a large granite dome that rises from the forest above Soquel Meadow. It is the last designated landmark on the route.
See also
References
External links
The Grizzly Century Bicycle Rally is an annual charity event that climbs over 10,000 vertical feet of the Sierra Vista Scenic Byway
USDA Forest Service Guide to the Sierra Vista Scenic Byway
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Maui Interscholastic League
The Maui Interscholastic League or MIL consists of 13 high schools that sponsor a number of athletic sports, including football, basketball, volleyball and soccer. Moloka'i High School and Lanai High School are voluntary members of the MIL due to the lack of other major high schools on the island of Moloka'i and Lanai.
Member institutions
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Haworthiopsis attenuata
Haworthiopsis attenuata, formerly Haworthia attenuata, commonly known as zebra haworthia, is a small species of succulent plant from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. As an ornamental, it is one of the most commonly cultivated of the Haworthiopsis species.
Description
It is an evergreen succulent plant with short leaves arranged in rosettes 6–12 cm in diameter. The succulent leaves are tapered ("attenuata" means "tapering") and have bands of white tubercles on them. The species subdivides and offsets readily; in the wild it forms large clumps. It is popular as a house plant, due to its resistance to drought and general hardiness.
It is frequently confused with the rarer Haworthiopsis fasciata, to which it looks very similar. However Haworthiopsis attenuata can easily be distinguished by its white tubercles, which occur on both upper and lower sides of its leaves (H. fasciata has tubercles only on the underside, with a smooth upper surface of its leaves). A fundamental distinction is that H. attenuata's leaves are not fibrous. In addition, the leaves of H.attenuata are often (though not always) longer, thinner, and more splayed out.
Care
Like most succulents, Haworthiopsis attenuata prefer soil with adequate drainage, such as cactus mix or fast-draining potting soil mixed with sand. They like bright light, but too much direct sunlight can cause leaves to turn white or yellow. The plants should be watered evenly and generously during the summer, allowing the soil to dry out between watering. In the winter, they can be watered as infrequently as once every two weeks.
Their flowers appear in November and December.
Varieties
It is a variable species, and has several subspecies, including the "type" variety Haworthiopsis attenuata var. attenuata.
Another common variety is Haworthiopsis attenuata var. radula - Hankey Dwarf Aloe (previously considered a separate species) which has longer, more elongated, scabrid leaves with smaller, more numerous tubercles. This variation grows up to 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter and up to 6 inches (15 cm) tall.
The form clariperla has its tubercles connected into large white "bands" across the underside of its leaves, and variety britteniana has especially big and separate white tubercles.
The variety H. attenuata var. glabrata is frequently considered a separate species, H. glabrata.
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Mechell
Saint Mechell was the 6th century founder and first abbot of the clas (a type of early Welsh/Celtic monastery) of Llanfechell, on Anglesey in north-west Wales. St Mechell's day is celebrated on 15 November. It is claimed that he is buried in Llanfechell.
He was said to have been a Breton by birth. From the 14th century, he was identified with Saint Machudd, a Welshman and supposed Bishop of Caerwent who has been similarly confused with Saint Malo. Malo and Mechell both have 15 November as their feast day,
A 17th-century manuscript, (Llanstephan MS. 125) records a Welsh poem, "Cywydd i Fechell Sant". This describes St Mechell as the son of Echwys ab Gwyn Gohoew. It goes on to claim many miracles from his life including raising a giant from the dead and converting him to Christianity, turning thieves to stone, and blinding and then curing the leader. This last act produced a gift of land in gratitude, to be demarked by the route of a released hare. The hare, under divine guidance, marked the full extent of what is now the parish of Llanfechell, Anglesey, on which he then founded the monastery.
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Pan-American Treaty (1923)
The 1923 Pan American Treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between the American States was signed at the Fifth International Conference of American States in Santiago, Chile, on May 3, 1923. It was signed by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. The treaty consisted of ten articles and provided for the establishment of a Pan-American commission of inquiry to investigate all grievances between American states. It obliged all American states to refrain from any mobilization of their armed forces against one another even in the worst case of disagreement in all matters. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on March 3, 1925.
Legacy of the treaty
The treaty was a step in a series of international efforts taken to prevent future wars, which culminated at the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
See also
Kellogg–Briand Pact
References
External links
Text of the treaty
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Eric Weinrib
Eric Weinrib (born 21 April 1972) is a filmmaker and TV producer from Plainview, New York, United States.
Career
Weinrib is currently a producer for the Emmy Award-winning documentary series VICE on HBO. His pieces include "Closing Gitmo," "Flint Water Crisis" and "White Collar Weed," which The Denver Post describes as a marijuana story with "a fresh angle" and PopMatters describes as "an age-old cautionary tale of the privatization of a new market." He produced "The Paradise Papers," a VICE News Tonight hour-long special from behind the scenes an undercover, global investigation into a massive data leak containing millions of confidential documents from the international law firm, Appleby, which provides offshore services to the ultra-rich. "The Paradise Papers" won the New York Press Club award for TV Business Reporting.
Weinrib is the producer and director of Roseanne for President!, a documentary about Roseanne Barr's 2012 run for president of the United States. The movie premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Founders Prize at the 2015 Traverse City Film Festival. A review in The New York Times stated "Politics meets celebrity in Eric Weinrib’s fascinating documentary 'Roseanne for President!'" and The Daily Beast called it "Intimate and brilliantly observed." The movie was acquired by IFC Films and opened theatrically on July 1, 2016. The movie became available for streaming on the Hulu platform on Inauguration Day 2017. Newsweek selected it as "one of seven movies and shows to watch" online the following weekend.
Weinrib is a long-time collaborator of filmmaker Michael Moore as an archival researcher on Fahrenheit 9/11, coordinating producer on SiCKO and associate producer on Capitalism: A Love Story.
Weinrib was a staff writer on season one of Comedy Central’s Strangers with Candy starring Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris.
Weinrib's short film, Jimmy Walks Away, was an Official Selection of the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Jimmy Walks Away was included on “Park City; The Sundance Collection,” a DVD compilation of Sundance shorts.
Weinrib’s music credits include producing Michael Moore’s studio rendition of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin', included on the Occupy Wall Street benefit album, Occupy This Album; and presenting a 50th anniversary appearance of Ken Kesey’s “Further” bus and Zane Kesey’s Merry Band of Pranksters at Brooklyn Bowl.
Weinrib ran as an unaffiliated candidate in the 2016 Presidential election.
References
External links
Meet the 2015 Tribeca Filmmakers: Eric Weinrib Paints a Revealing Portrait of a Comedic Icon in 'Roseanne for President!'
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Szymanowo, Śrem County
Szymanowo () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Śrem, within Śrem County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Śrem and south of the regional capital Poznań.
The village has a population of 180.
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Channel 15 digital TV stations in the United States
The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 15 in the United States:
K08MM-D in Bakersfield, California
K15AA-D in Hugo, Oklahoma
K15AG-D in Ninilchik, Alaska
K15AL-D in Winnemucca, Nevada
K15AS-D in Saco, Montana
K15BP-D in Grants Pass, Oregon
K15CD-D in Mayfield, Utah
K15CR-D in Lake Havasu City, Arizona
K15CU-D in Salinas, California
K15CX-D in Oroville, California
K15DD-D in Wichita, Kansas
K15DS-D in Newport, etc., Oregon
K15ED-D in Waunita Hot Springs, Colorado
K15EE-D in Elko, Nevada
K15FD-D in Holyoke, Colorado
K15FL-D in Park City, Utah
K15FQ-D in Milford, etc., Utah
K15FT-D in Roswell, New Mexico
K15FV-D in Red River, New Mexico
K15GL-D in Trinidad, Valdez, etc., Colorado
K15GO-D in Georgetown, Idaho
K15GT in Hibbing, Minnesota
K15GU-D in Dove Creek, etc., Colorado
K15GZ-D in Wendover, Utah
K15HC-D in Quemado/Pie Town, New Mexico
K15HD-D in Taos, New Mexico
K15HE-D in Hatch, Utah
K15HG-D in Mount Pleasant, Utah
K15HH-D in Green River, Utah
K15HJ-D in Ridgecrest, etc., California
K15HK-D in Sheridan, Wyoming
K15HL-D in Cherokee & Alva, Oklahoma
K15HM-D in Montezuma Crk./Aneth, Utah
K15HN-D in Bluff & area, Utah
K15HQ-D in Sayre, Oklahoma
K15HU-D in Lakeview, Oregon
K15HV-D in Chico, California
K15HY-D in Williams-Ashfork, Arizona
K15IA-D in Orderville, Utah
K15IB-D in Malad, Idaho
K15IC-D in Weed, California
K15IF-D in Basalt, Colorado
K15IG-D in Deming, New Mexico
K15II-D in Newcastle, Wyoming
K15IL-D in John Day, Oregon
K15IM-D in Brookings, etc., Oregon
K15IO-D in McCall & New Meadows, Idaho
K15IX-D in Rainier, Oregon
K15IY-D in Heron, Montana
K15IZ-D in Edgemont, South Dakota
K15JA-D in Harlowton, etc., Montana
K15JG-D in Scottsburg, Oregon
K15JO-D in Chama, New Mexico
K15JV-D in Mexican Hat, Utah
K15JZ-D in Applegate Valley, Oregon
K15KB-D in Squaw Valley, Oregon
K15KE-D in Klamath Falls, etc., Oregon
K15KG-D in Eads, etc., Colorado
K15KJ-D in Gold Hill, Oregon
K15KL-D in Jacksonville, Oregon
K15KM-D in Sundance, Wyoming
K15KN-D in Roseburg, Oregon
K15KO-D in Redding, California
K15KP-D in St. Louis, Missouri
K15KS-D in Garfield, etc., Utah
K15KT-D in Rural Sevier County, Utah
K15KU-D in Teasdale/Torrey, Utah
K15KX-D in Circleville, Utah
K15KY-D in Richfield, etc., Utah
K15LA-D in Panguitch, Utah
K15LB-D in Red Lodge, Montana
K15LC-D in Henrieville, Utah
K15LG-D in Hawthorne, Nevada
K15LM-D in McAlester, Oklahoma
K15LR-D in Meadview, Arizona
K15MD-D in Wray, Colorado
K15MF-D in Raton, etc., New Mexico
K39CH-D in Redwood Falls, Minnesota
K39CT in Cottonwood, etc., Idaho
K40LF-D in Philipsburg, Montana
K41GG-D in Rockaway Beach, Oregon
K45CS-D in Lewistown, Montana
K48IA-D in Poplar, Montana
K51DB-D in Cortez, etc., Colorado
K51LO-D in Mt. Powell, New Mexico
KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas
KBSV in Ceres, California
KCEC in Boulder, Colorado
KCIT in Amarillo, Texas
KEID-LD in Lufkin, Texas
KELV-LD in Las Vegas, Nevada
KFDM in Beaumont, Texas
KFOX-TV in El Paso, Texas
KFQX in Grand Junction, Colorado
KFXL-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska
KFXO-CD in Bend, Oregon
KGFE in Grand Forks, North Dakota
KHOG-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas
KHPL-CD in La Grange, Texas
KHPZ-CD in Round Rock, Texas
KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington
KJTL in Wichita Falls, Texas
KKJB in Boise, Idaho
KLMV-LD in Laredo, Texas
KMLM-DT in Odessa, Texas
KMOS-TV in Sedalia, Missouri
KNPB in Reno, Nevada
KNPB in Truckee/Lake Tahoe, Nevada
KNPN-LD in Saint Joseph, Missouri
KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona
KORY-CD in Eugene, Oregon
KOXO-CD in Portland, Oregon
KPIF in Pocatello, Idaho
KPOB-TV in Poplar Bluff, Missouri
KREZ-TV in Durango, Colorado
KSAW-LD in Twin Falls, Idaho
KSBY in San Luis Obispo, California
KSMN in Worthington, Minnesota
KSPR-LD in Springfield, Missouri
KSRE in Minot, North Dakota
KTBO-TV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
KTEL-CD in Albuquerque, New Mexico
KUKL-TV in Kalispell, Montana
KUPU in Waimanalo, Hawaii
KUTO-LD in Logan, Utah
KVCW in Las Vegas, Nevada
KVVK-CD in Kennewick, etc., Washington
KVVV-LD in Houston, Texas
KWJM-LD in Rochester, Minnesota
KXAP-LD in Tulsa, Oklahoma
KXVA in Abilene, Texas
KYOU-TV in Ottumwa, Iowa
KYTX in Nacogdoches, Texas
KYUK-LD in Bethel, Alaska
W15BU-D in Johnson City, Illinois
W15CM-D in Orient City, Florida
W15CO-D in Towanda, Pennsylvania
W15CW-D in Franklin, North Carolina
W15DJ-D in Sister Bay, Wisconsin
W15EF-D in Sparta, North Carolina
W15EL-D in Mars Hill, North Carolina
W45CI-D in Ashland, Wisconsin
W50EA-D in Memphis, Tennessee
WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida
WBNF-CD in Buffalo, New York
WCYD-LD in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
WCZA-LD in Marion, Indiana
WDCQ-TV in Bad Axe, Michigan
WDKT-LD in Hendersonville, North Carolina
WEWS-TV in Cleveland, Ohio
WFDC-DT in Arlington, Virginia
WFDE-LD in Champaign, Illinois
WFXW in Greenville, Mississippi
WGGD-LD in Gainesville, Georgia
WGME-TV in Portland, Maine
WHLA-TV in La Crosse, Wisconsin
WHPS-CD in Detroit, Michigan
WILM-LD in Wilmington, North Carolina
WKME-CD in Kissimmee, Florida
WLLB-LD in Portland, Maine
WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina
WMTJ in Fajardo, Puerto Rico
WNCB-LD in Fayetteville, North Carolina
WNFT-LD in Gainesville, Florida
WNOL-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana
WNSC-TV in Rock Hill, South Carolina
WNTZ-TV in Natchez, Mississippi
WOHL-CD in Lima, Ohio
WPMI-TV in Mobile, Alabama
WPSU-TV in Clearfield, Pennsylvania
WRBL in Columbus, Georgia
WREP-LD in Martinsville, Indiana
WSEC in Jacksonville, Illinois
WSFD-LD in Perry, Florida
WSSF-LD in Fayette, Alabama
WTIN-TV in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Meet-or-release contract
Meet-or-release contracts are contracts that include "meet or release" competition clauses. It is where a company agrees with a [customer] to sell a product at a certain given price. If, by any chance the customer finds a cheaper purchase the company must place their product at an equal or lesser value. The customer then has the option to be released from the contract only after giving the original company the opportunity to meet (or exceed) the less expensive offer. In some circumstances, exercising this clause's options may not be possible because the [customer] would have to disclose a [competitor's] confidential offer in order to allow another company the opportunity to match the offer.
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Richard Lorenc
Richard Renald Lorenc (born 3 December 1951) is an Australian former football (soccer) referee. He is, as of July 2009, referees coordinator for Football New South Wales.
Lorenc's career highlight was as an assistant referee at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. He also served as a FIFA referee at the 1987 and 1993 World Youth Championships, and officiated in 1994 World Cup qualifiers. He is known to have officiated international matches during the period from 1987 to 1995.
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Shorea rotundifolia
Shorea rotundifolia (also called Light Red Meranti) is a species of plant in the Dipterocarpaceae family. It is a tree endemic to Borneo.
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Julie Miville-Dechêne
Julie Miville-Dechêne (born July 10, 1959) is a Canadian civil servant.
She is a former journalist and broadcaster with Radio-Canada and spent 25 years as a public affairs correspondent for the network in Washington, D.C., Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal before serving as its ombudsman of from April 2007, to July 2011, the first woman to hold this position.
Since August 15, 2011, she has served as the president of the Conseil du statut de la femme.
In 2017, she served as the government of Quebec's representative in Canada's delegation to UNESCO.
On June 20, 2018, she was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Governor General Julie Payette after being nominated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Biography of Julie Miville-Dechêne
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1997 Maryland Terrapins football team
The 1997 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Ron Vanderlinden, the Terrapins compiled a 2–9 record, finished in seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and were outscored by their opponents 355 to 161. The team's statistical leaders included Brian Cummings with 1,760 passing yards, LaMont Jordan with 689 rushing yards, and Moises Cruz with 337 receiving yards.
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Carmilla
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist, and is depicted as a trait of antagonism in line with the contemporary views of homosexuality. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media.
Publication
Carmilla, serialized in the literary magazine The Dark Blue in late 1871 and early 1872, was reprinted in Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly (1872). Comparing the work of two illustrators to the story, David Henry Friston, with that of Michael Fitzgerald, whose work appears in the magazine article, but not in modern printings of the book, reveals inconsistencies in the characters' depictions. Consequently, confusion has arisen relating the pictures to the plot. Isabella Mazzanti illustrated the book's 2014 anniversary edition, published by Editions Soleil and translated by Gaid Girard.
Plot summary
Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult detective in literature.
Laura, the teenage protagonist, narrates, beginning with her childhood in a "picturesque and solitary" castle amid an extensive forest in Styria, where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower retired from service to the Austrian Empire. When she was six, Laura had a vision of a very beautiful visitor in her bedchamber. She later claims to have been punctured in her breast, although no wound was found.
Twelve years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter from his friend, General Spielsdorf. The General was supposed to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to visit the two, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. The General ambiguously concludes that he will discuss the circumstances in detail when they meet later.
Laura, saddened by the loss of a potential friend, longs for a companion. A carriage accident outside Laura's home unexpectedly brings a girl of Laura's age into the family's care. Her name is Carmilla. Both girls instantly recognize the other from the "dream" they both had when they were young.
Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed. She arranges to leave her daughter with Laura and her father until she can return in three months. Before she leaves, she sternly notes that her daughter will not disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself, and that Carmilla is of sound mind. Laura comments that this information seems needless to say, and her father laughs it off.
Carmilla and Laura grow to be very close friends, but occasionally Carmilla's mood abruptly changes. She sometimes makes romantic advances towards Laura. Carmilla refuses to tell anything about herself, despite questioning by Laura. Her secrecy is not the only mysterious thing about Carmilla; she never joins the household in its prayers, she sleeps much of the day, and she seems to sleepwalk outside at night.
Meanwhile, young women and girls in the nearby towns have begun dying from an unknown malady. When the funeral procession of one such victim passes by the two girls, Laura joins in the funeral hymn. Carmilla bursts out in rage and scolds Laura, complaining that the hymn hurts her ears.
When a shipment of restored heirloom paintings arrives, Laura finds a portrait of her ancestor, Mircalla, Countess Karnstein, dated 1698. The portrait resembles Carmilla exactly, down to the mole on her neck. Carmilla suggests that she might be descended from the Karnsteins even though the family died out centuries before.
During Carmilla's stay, Laura has nightmares of a large cat-like beast entering her room. The beast springs onto the bed and Laura feels something like two needles, an inch or two apart, darting deep into her breast. The beast then takes the form of a female figure and disappears through the door without opening it. In another nightmare, Laura hears a voice say, "Your mother warns you to beware of the assassin," and a sudden light reveals Carmilla standing at the foot of her bed, her nightdress drenched in blood. Laura's health declines, and her father has a doctor examine her. He finds a small blue spot, an inch or two below her collar, where the creature in her dream bit her, and speaks privately with her father, only asking that Laura never be unattended.
Her father then sets out with Laura, in a carriage, for the ruined village of Karnstein, three miles distant. They leave a message behind asking Carmilla and one of the governesses to follow once the perpetually late-sleeping Carmilla awakes. En route to Karnstein, Laura and her father encounter General Spielsdorf. He tells them his own ghastly story:
At a costume ball, Spielsdorf and his niece Bertha had met a very beautiful young woman named Millarca and her enigmatic mother. Bertha was immediately taken with Millarca. The mother convinced the General that she was an old friend of his and asked that Millarca be allowed to stay with them for three weeks while she attended to a secret matter of great importance.
Bertha fell mysteriously ill, suffering the same symptoms as Laura. After consulting with a specially ordered priestly doctor, the General realized that Bertha was being visited by a vampire. He hid with a sword and waited until a large black creature of undefined shape crawled onto his niece's bed and spread itself onto her throat. He leapt from his hiding place and attacked the creature, which had then taken the form of Millarca. She fled through the locked door, unharmed. Bertha died before the morning dawned.
Upon arriving at Karnstein, the General asks a woodman where he can find the tomb of Mircalla Karnstein. The woodman says the tomb was relocated long ago by the hero, a Moravian nobleman, who vanquished the vampires that haunted the region.
While the General and Laura are alone in the ruined chapel, Carmilla appears. The General and Carmilla both fly into a rage upon seeing each other, and the General attacks her with an axe. Carmilla disarms the General and disappears. The General explains that Carmilla is also Millarca, both anagrams for the original name of the vampire Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.
The party is joined by Baron Vordenburg, the descendant of the hero who rid the area of vampires long ago. Vordenburg, an authority on vampires, has discovered that his ancestor was romantically involved with the Countess Karnstein before she died and became one of the undead. Using his forefather's notes, he locates Mircalla's hidden tomb. An Imperial Commission exhumes the body of Mircalla/Millarca/Carmilla. Immersed in blood, it seems to be breathing faintly, its heart beating, its eyes open. A stake is driven through its heart, and it gives a corresponding shriek; then the head is struck off. The body and head are burned to ashes, which are thrown into a river.
Afterward, Laura's father takes his daughter on a year-long tour through Italy to regain her health and recover from the trauma, which she never fully does.
Sources
As with Dracula, critics have looked for the sources used in the writing of Carmilla. One source used was from a dissertation on magic, vampires and the apparitions of spirits written by Dom Augustin Calmet entitled Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires ou les revenants de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. (1751). This is evidenced by a report analyzed by Calmet, from a priest who learned information of a town being tormented by a vampiric entity three years earlier. Having traveled to the town to investigate and collecting information of the various inhabitants there, the priest learned that a vampire had tormented many of the inhabitants at night by coming from the nearby cemetery and would haunt many of the residents on their beds. An unknown Hungarian traveler came to the town during this period and helped the town by setting a trap at the cemetery and decapitating the vampire that resided there, curing the town of their torment. This story was retold by Le Fanu and adapted into the thirteenth chapter of Carmilla
According to Matthew Gibson, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves (1863) and his account of Elizabeth Báthory, Coleridge's Christabel (Part 1, 1797 and Part 2, 1800), and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld; or a Winter in Lower Styria (London and Edinburgh, 1836) are other sources for Le Fanu's Carmilla. Hall's account provides much of the Styrian background and, in particular, a model for both Carmilla and Laura in the figure of Jane Anne Cranstoun, Count | {
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Stateline Wind Farm
The Stateline Wind Farm is a wind farm located on Vansycle Ridge, which receives 16 to 18 mph (26 – 29 km/h) average wind speeds from the Columbia Gorge, on the border between Washington and Oregon in the United States. With 186 turbines currently operating in both states and 279 more approved for construction, it is the largest wind project in the Northwestern United States and will be the largest in the world. Costing $300 million to build, it began operation in 2001.
The project employs 660 kW capacity Vestas wind turbines, which collectively will produce a maximum electrical output of 306.9 MW. (The current operating capacity is 122.8 MW.) On average, the project is expected to produce 30 to 35 percent of that capacity year-round. Turbines are controlled individually by electronic systems which direct them into the wind and adjust the pitch of the blades to maximize electrical production at any wind speed from 7 to 56 mph. The turbines automatically shut down at wind speeds excess of 56 mph, a feature which allows them to withstand hurricane-force winds.
The wind turbines are grouped in strings of 5 to 37 turbines, each turbine spaced approximately 250 feet (76 m) from the next, generally slightly downwind of the crest of ridges. Each turbine tower is 166 feet (50 m) tall, with blades 76 feet (23 m) wide.
Environmental impact studies determined that the site was not used extensively by birds or other species vulnerable to injury from turbines, and the turbine towers' construction, along with the use of underground power lines, was designed to minimize perching places for birds. The area around the project is used primarily for private farming, including dryland wheat farming and cattle grazing.
The Stateline Wind Project is several miles northwest of the Vansycle Wind Project in Umatilla County, Oregon. Both are owned and operated by Florida Power & Light.
A wind turbine collapsed over the weekend of November 2, 2013 on the Washington side of the Stateline Wind Project.
Gallery
See also
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
Wind power in the United States
References
External links
Renewable Northwest Project site.
Oregon government site.
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I Love the '70s (American TV series)
I Love the '70s is a decade nostalgia television mini-series and the second installment of the I Love the... series produced by VH1. The series is based on a BBC series of the same name. It examines the pop culture of the 1970s, using footage from the era, along with "Where Are They Now?" interviews with celebrities from the decade. Additionally, the show features comedians poking fun at the kitschiness of what was popular. The first episode of the series, I Love 1970, premiered on August 18, 2003, through the final episode of the series, I Love 1979, premiered on August 22, 2003. A sequel, I Love the '70s: Volume 2, appeared in the United States on VH1 beginning on July 10, 2006.
Recurring segments
Roller Rink Anthems: Leif Garrett presented one of the big hits of the year in question.
Foxy Ladies: Erik Estrada presented the hottest women of the year.
Macho Men: Bo Derek presented the hottest men of the year.
Commercials: A famous television ad was shown from the 1970s.
Wonders: Lynda Carter presented various products and inventions that were introduced in the given year.
Follicle Fads: Isaac Hayes presented what the hottest hairstyle was for the year, sometimes choosing more than one.
Bella Says: Bella the chimp picked a primate of the year (with subtitles).
During the credits of every episode, a popular song from that years was played while footage of Bella the Chimp playing with 1970s toys was shown. These were usually replaced with a show promo by Vh1.
On every episode, Kermit the Frog does a parody of the "brought to you by" segments of Sesame Street by saying "I Love the '70s is brought to you by the letter V, the letter H, and the number 1.".
Topics covered by year
1970
The Jackson 5
Weebles
Sesame Street
The Partridge Family
Hee Haw
The Carol Burnett Show
Love, American Style
Wife swapping
Waterbed
The Newlywed Game
The Mod Squad
The Odd Couple
Elvis meets Nixon
Black Sabbath
Easy Listening Music (specifically The Carpenters and Bread)
Monday Night Football
Love Story
Neil Diamond
The Beatles' breakup
Wild Kingdom
Lite-Brite
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
The Brady Bunch
Roller Rink Anthem of 1970: The Guess Who's "American Woman"
Foxy Ladies of 1970: Goldie Hawn, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Jane Fonda
Macho Men of 1970: Jack Lord, Frank Gifford, and James Brolin
Flashback Commercial of 1970: 9Lives
Wonders of 1970: The first floppy disk, the computer mouse, and the pocket calculator
Follicle Fad of 1970: Butt-length hair
Primate of 1970: Lancelot Link
1971
Shaft
The Electric Company
Tom Jones
Keep America Beautiful
Hogan's Heroes
Fiddler On The Roof
Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"
Ouija
Soul Train
All in the Family
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hot pants
Operation
Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World"
H.R. Pufnstuf
Dirty Harry
Ford Pinto
Bell-bottoms
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Roller Rink Anthem of 1971: Don McLean's "American Pie"
Foxy Ladies of 1971: Tina Turner, Candice Bergen, and Jill St. John
Macho Men of 1971: Sean Connery, Rod Stewart, and James Brown
Flashback Commercial of 1971: Charmin
Wonders of 1971: Hamburger Helper, Egg McMuffin, and Starbucks coffee
Follicle fad of 1971: He-Man or Jesus hair
Primate of 1971: Raffles from The Barefoot Executive
1972
Kung Fu and Bruce Lee
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Stevie Wonder
The Godfather
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Afro
Ben
Lunch boxes and Wonder Bread
Deep Throat
The Poseidon Adventure
Sea Monkeys
Mark Spitz
Gaucho pants
The Bermuda Triangle
Josie and the Pussycats and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
Ziggy Stardust
"I Am Woman" and the Women's Liberation Movement
Blythe
John Lennon and Yoko Ono on The Mike Douglas Show
Deliverance
The Brady Bunch Hawaiian episodes
Roller Rink Anthem of 1972: Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly"
Foxy Ladies of 1972: Barbi Benton, Nadia Comăneci, and Gloria Steinem
Macho Men of 1972: Bob Griese, Steve McQueen, and Bobby Fischer
Flashback Commercial of 1972: Chiffon Margarine (actually aired in 1979)
Wonders of 1972: Hacky-sack, frozen yogurt, White Zinfandel, and Atkins diet
Follicle Fad of 1972: Women having unshaved armpits, legs and pubic regions
Primate of 1972: Caesar from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1973
Sanford and Son
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Kool & the Gang's "Jungle Boogie"
Baby Alive
The Waltons
Live and Let Die (first James Bond outing for Roger Moore)
Leisure suit
Charlotte's Web
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon
Shrinky Dinks
The Dating Game
The Joy of Sex
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird"
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs ("Battle Of the Sexes")
Kojak
Schoolhouse Rock
Rollerderby and Kansas City Bomber
Easy Bake Oven
ZOOM
The Exorcist
Roller Rink Anthem of 1973: Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Foxy Ladies of 1973: Carly Simon, Gladys Knight, and Carole & Paula of The Magic Garden
Macho Men of 1973: Paul Newman
& Robert Redford from The Sting, James Taylor, and Roger Moore
Flashback Commercial of 1973: Fisher-Price Medical Kit
Follicle Fad of 1973: Baldness
Wonders of 1973: Designated hitter, Krazy Glue, Cuisinart, and disposable lighters
Primate of 1973: Aldo from Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1974
Benji
Little House on the Prairie
Hong Kong Phooey
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama"
Good Times
Connect Four
Let's Make a Deal
Elton John
Day of the week panties
Streaking
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
Magic 8 Ball
Patty Hearst
The Towering Inferno
Foxy Brown
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Rumble in the Jungle
Slip 'N Slide
The Steve Miller Band's "The Joker"
Death Wish
Happy Days
Roller Rink Anthem of 1974: Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were"
Foxy Ladies of 1974: Britt Ekland, Bebe Buell, and Angie Dickinson
Macho Men of 1974: Eric Clapton, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Freddie Prinze
Flashback Commercial of 1974: Meow Mix
Wonders of 1974: Lite beer, People magazine, VCR, and liposuction
Follicle Fad of 1974: Mutton chops
Primate of 1974: Magilla Gorilla
1975
Welcome Back, Kotter
Big Wheel
Earth, Wind & Fire
One Day at a Time
Pet Rock
8 Track
Land of the Lost
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
Pelé
Pong
The Shazam!/Isis Hour
Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Baretta
Morris Albert's "Feelings"
The Secret Life of Plants
Saturday Night Live
Erhard Seminars Training
Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore
Barry Manilow
Metrication in the United States
Liberace
Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy"
Mood ring
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Monty Python's Flying Circus and Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Jaws
Roller Rink Anthem of 1975: KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's The Way I Like It"
Foxy Ladies of 1975: Suzi Quatro, Chris Evert, and Charo
Macho Men of 1975: Bruce Springsteen, Carlton Fisk, and Joe Namath
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HMS Boxer (F92)
HMS Boxer was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 and expended as a target in August 2004.
Service
She was one of only two Batch 2s (the other being Beaver) fitted with the lower-height hangar of the Batch 1s, so she could only accommodate Lynx helicopters. On coming out of refit in 1990, with a clean bottom she achieved close to .
During 1996 and 1997 she was leader of the 1st Frigate Squadron.
Commanding officers
References
Publications
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Henry Chettle
Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1606) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era, best known for his pamphleteering.
Early life
The son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer, he was apprenticed in 1577 and became a member of the Stationer's Company in 1584, traveling to Cambridge on their behalf in 1588. His career as a printer and author is shadowy. He may have set up some of the tracts printed in response to Martin Marprelate. In 1591, he entered into partnership with William Hoskins and John Danter, two stationers. They published a good many ballads, and some plays, including a surreptitious and botched first quarto of Romeo and Juliet, to which it is suggested Chettle added lines and stage directions.
The Groat's-Worth of Wit
In 1592 Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, supposedly the work of the recently deceased, and very popular, Robert Greene, was published, having been entered in the register of the Stationer's Company "at the peril of Henry Chettle". This contained a passage criticising various playwrights, which offended at least two contemporary writers, one probably the alleged "atheist" Christopher Marlowe and the other possibly William Shakespeare. Chettle was accused of writing the work under Greene's name. He denied the charge in the preface to his Kind Heart's Dream, published later that year:
About three months since died M. Robert Greene, leaving many papers in sundry booksellers' hands, among other his Groatsworth of Wit, in which a letter written to divers play-makers is offensively by one or two of them taken, and because on the dead they cannot be avenged, they willfully forge in their conceits a living author [...] With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be. The other, whom at that time I did not so much spare as since I wish I had, for that, as I have moderated the heat of living writers and might have used my own discretion (especially in such a case, the author being dead), that I did not I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanor no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes. Besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing that approves his art.
The theory that Greene's Groatsworth is a forgery by Chettle has been both supported and challenged by scholars. In 1935 Harold Jenkins attributed the work to Greene, not Chettle. However, a pioneering 1969 computer-aided stylometric analysis by Warren B. Austin firmly attributed it to Chettle. Austin's views were challenged in 2006 by Richard Westley.
Links to Henslowe
He seems to have been generally in debt, judging from numerous entries in Philip Henslowe's diary of advances for various purposes, on one occasion (17 January 1599) to pay his expenses in the Marshalsea prison, on another (7 March 1603) to get his play out of pawn. He made a greater number of small borrowings from Henslowe than any other person. These and Henslowe’s casual records of them suggest some friendship between them, though in 1602 Chettle seems to have been writing for both Worcester's Company and the Admiral's, despite signing a bond to write exclusively for the latter.
Works
As early as 1598 Francis Meres includes Chettle in his Palladis Tamia as one of the "best for comedy", and Henslowe lists payments to him for thirty-six plays between 1598 and 1603, and he may have been involved in as many as fifty plays, although only a dozen seem to be his alone. Chettle had regular association with Henry Porter, Thomas Dekker, and after 1600 with John Day. Of the thirteen plays usually attributed to Chettle's sole authorship only one was printed. This was The Tragedy of Hoffmann: or a Revenge for a Father (played 1602; printed 1631). It has been suggested that this piece was put forward as a rival to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Chettle's non-dramatic writings include (besides Kind Heart's Dream) Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship (1595), the story of a fictitious apprenticeship in Crete and Thrace, and England's Mourning Garment (1603), in which are included some verses alluding to the chief poets of the time.
Death
He died before 1607, when Dekker in his Knight's Conjurer described him joining the poets in Elysium: "in comes Chettle sweating and blowing by reason of his fatness".
Bibliography
Jenkins, H., The life and work of Henry Chettle (1934)
Carson, N., A companion to Henslowe's diary (1988)
Foakes, R. A., and Rickert, R. T., (eds). Henslowe's Diary (1961)
List of plays
The Valiant Welchman, by Michael Drayton and Henry Chettle, February 1597-8. Printed in 1615.
Earl Goodwin and his Three Sons, Part I, by Michael Drayton, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, and Robert Wilson, March 1598. Not printed.
Earl Goodwin, Part II, by the same authors, and under the same date in Henslowe's papers. Not printed.
Piers of Exton, by the same authors, same date. Not printed.
Black Batman of the North, Part I, by Henry Chettle, April 1598. Not printed.
Black Batman of the North, Part II, by Henry Chettle and Robert Wilson. Same date. Not printed. It is mentioned in Henslowe's diary in April 1598. No extant copies of the play are known.
The Play of a Woman, by Henry Chettle, July 1598. Not printed.
The Conquest of Brute with the first finding of the Bath, by John Day, Henry Chettle, and John Singer. Same date. Not printed.
Hot Anger Soon Cold, by Henry Porter, Henry Chettle, and Ben Jonson, August 1598. Not printed.
Catiline's Conspiracy, by Robert Wilson and Henry Chettle. Same Date. Not printed.
'Tis no Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver, by Henry Chettle, September 1598. Not printed.
Aeneas' Revenge, with the Tragedy of Polyphemus, by Henry Chettle, February 1598-9. Not printed.
Agamemnon, by Henry Chettle and Thomas Dekker, June 1599. Not printed. Malone thought that this was the same play as "Troilus and Cressida" before mentioned.
The Stepmother's Tragedy, by Henry Chettle, August 1599. Not printed.
Patient Grissel, by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton, December 1599. Printed in 1603.
The Arcadian Virgin, by Henry Chettle and William Haughton. Same date. Not printed. Mentioned in Philip Henslowe's diary in December 1599.
Damon and Pithias, by Henry Chettle, January 1599 – 1600. Not printed.
The Seven Wise Masters, by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, and John Day, March 1599 – 1600. Not printed.
The Golden Ass and Cupid and Psyche, by Thomas Dekker, John Day, and Henry Chettle, April 1600. Not printed.
The Wooing of Death, by Henry Chettle. Same date. Not printed.
The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, by Henry Chettle and John Day. Same date. Printed in 1659.
All is not Gold that Glisters, by Samuel Rowley and Henry Chettle, March 1600. Not printed.
Sebastian, King of Portugal, by Henry Chettle and Thomas Dekker, April 1601. Not printed.
Cardinal Wolsey, Part I, by Henry Chettle, August 1601. Not printed.
Cardinal Wolsey, Part II, by Henry Chettle, May 1602. Not printed.
The Orphan's Tragedy, by Henry Chettle, September 1601. Not printed.
Too Good to be True, by Henry Chettle, Richard Hathwaye, and Wentworth Smith, November 1601. Not printed.
Love Parts Friendship, by Henry Chettle and Wentworth Smith, May 1602. Not printed.
Tobyas, by Henry Chettle. Same date. Not printed.
Jeptha, by Henry Chettle. Same date. Not printed.
A Danish Tragedy, by Henry Chettle. Same date. Not printed.
Femelanco, by Henry Chettle and ---- Robinson, September 1602. Not printed.
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Sarot
Sarot is a town on the island of Saint Lucia; it is located towards the heart of the island, between Vanard and Durandeau and close to Morne Ciseaux and La Treille.
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Barrytown
Barrytown is a town in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island. Barrytown sits on State Highway 6 and is north of Runanga. Punakaiki is further north. The town is near the southern end of Pakiroa Beach.
According to the 2013 New Zealand census, Barrytown and its surrounds have a population of 237, an increase of 12 people since the 2006 census.
Barrytown was settled in the 1860s and was a centre for gold dredging.
Barrytown School is a coeducational full primary (years 1–8) school with a roll of students as of
References
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Field pansy
Field pansy is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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36th Rescue Squadron
The 36th Rescue Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington is part of the 58th Operations Group. It was formerly part of the 336th Training Group at Fairchild. It operates Bell UH-1N Twin Huey aircraft conducting search and rescue missions in support of the US Air Force Survival School. The squadron was redesignated as the 36th Rescue Squadron on 14 August 2015.
The squadron was first activated in Japan during the Korean War and earned a Distinguished Unit Citation and a Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for its rescue missions during that war. It continued rescue operations in the Northern Pacific until 1972, except for a brief inactive period from 1960 tp 1961. The squadron has performed its current mission since activating in 1993 as the 36th Rescue Flight.
Mission
The primary mission of the 36th Rescue Squadron is to support the USAF Survival School through helicopter operations, to support the National Search and Rescue Plan by providing assistance to local authorities, and to provide the Department of Defense with qualified crewmembers.
The 36th also conducts search and rescue and aeromedical evacuation missions in a four-state region, from the Cascades in Washington to the Rockies in western Montana. The unit has the only hoist-equipped aircraft and Night Vision Goggle-qualified aircrews in the Inland Northwest. It conducts missions at all times of day. Because of its area of responsibility, these are sometimes flown at high altitude, testing the edges of the squadron's Hueys in areas inaccessible by ground vehicle.
History
Rescue in the Pacific
The squadron was first activated as the 36th Air Rescue Squadron in November 1952, when Air Rescue Service expanded its existing rescue squadrons into groups and replaced their flights with new squadrons. The 36th assumed the mission, personnel and equipment of Flight A of the 3d Air Rescue Squadron, which became the 3d Air Rescue Group. The 36th flew combat search and rescue missions in the Korean War from activation until hostilities ended in July 1953, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation and a Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. It continued to conduct search, rescue, and recovery missions in Japan and the waters around Japan until November 1972, except for the period from September 1961 to June 1962, when it was inactive. The squadron was renamed the 36th Air Recovery Squadron in April 1965, and the 36th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron in January 1966.
Survival training support
In May 1993 the squadron was activated at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington as the 36th Rescue Flight, when it replaced the 48th Rescue Squadron. It has operated helicopters for survival training since then, first operating under Fairchild's host wing's 92d Operations Group, then as part of the 336th Crew Training Group, which operates the survival school. It was expanded into the 36th Rescue Squadron in August 2015 and now reports to the 58th Operations Group, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
In its role as a rescue unit, the squadron typically responds to between 15 and 20 calls for help annually, including searches conducted for lost aircraft and straying hikers. It has also evacuated people threatened by wildfires. The unit and its predecessor have been credited with rescuing 689 people since 1971 as of August 2015.
Lineage
Constituted as the 36th Air Rescue Squadron on 17 October 1952
Activated on 14 November 1952
Discontinued and inactivated on 18 September 1960
[Activated and] organized on 18 June 1961
Redesignated 36th Air Recovery Squadron on 1 July 1965
Redesignated 36th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron on 8 January 1966
Inactivated on 30 November 1972
Redesignated 36th Rescue Flight on 1 April 1993
Activated on 1 May 1993
Redesignated 36th Rescue Squadron on 14 August 2015
Assignments
3d Air Rescue Group, 14 November 1952
2d Air Rescue Group, 18 June 1957 (attached to Fifth Air Force for operational control)
Air Rescue Service, 24 June 1958 – 18 September 1960 (attached to Fifth Air Force for operational control)
Air Rescue Service (later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 18 June 1961 (attached to Fifth Air Force for operational control)
Pacific Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Center (later 41st Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing), 1 April 1967 – 30 November 1972
92d Operations Group, 1 May 1993
336th Crew Training Group (later 336 Training Group), 1 July 1993
58th Operations Group, 1 July 2012
336th Training Group, 15 April 2014
58th Operations Group, 14 August 2015 – present
Stations
Johnson Air Base, Japan, 14 November 1952
Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, 25 June–18 September 1960
Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, 18 June 1961
Yokota Air Base, Japan, 1 December 1969
Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, 11–30 November 1972
Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 1 May 1993 – present
Aircraft
Grumman SA-16 Albatross (1952–1960)
Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw (1952–1960)
Douglas C-47 Skytrain (1952–1956)
Douglas C-54 Skymaster (1955–1960)
Douglas SC-54 Rescuemaster (1961–1966)
Sikorsky SH-19 (later HH-19) (1961–1964)
Kaman HH-43 Huskie (1964–1965)
Lockheed HC-130 Hercules (1966–1972)
UH-1N Iroquois (1993–present)
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
U.S. Air Force Survival School Fact Sheet
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Motorman (ship)
A motorman, also known as a qualified member of the engineering department (QMED), is the seniormost rate in the engine room of a ship. The motorman performs a variety of tasks connected with the maintenance and repair of engine room, fireroom, machine shop, ice-machine room, and steering-engine room equipment. The motorman inspects equipment such as pumps, turbines, distilling plants, and condensers, and prepares record of condition. The motorman lubricates and maintains machinery and equipment such as generators, steering systems, lifeboats, and sewage disposal systems, and also cleans and restores tools and equipment.
United States
In the United States Merchant Marine, in order to be occupied as a QMED a person has to have a Merchant Mariner Credential issued by the United States Coast Guard with a QMED certification. Because of international conventions and agreements, all QMEDs who sail internationally are similarly documented by their respective countries.
Applicants for QMED are required to pass a QMED General Knowledge Examination and at least one of the following rating exams:
Fireman/Watertender
Oiler
Junior Engineer
Electrician/Refrigerating Engineer
Pumpman/Machinist
Once the exam is passed, the results are valid towards an upgrade to QMED from Wiper for one year.
See also
Engine room
Engineering department
Seafarer's professions and ranks
References
External links
United States Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Licensing and Documentation web site
QMED at DOL
QMED Requirements at MSC
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Lev Nussimbaum
Lev Nussimbaum (Kiev, October 17, 1905 – Positano, August 27, 1942), who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, was a writer and journalist, born in Kiev to a Jewish family. He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922, while living in Germany, he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin. He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus, the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, newly discovered oil, and Islam. He wrote under the name of Essad Bey in German.
Historians and literary critics who knew these subjects well discredited Essad Bey as a reliable source. Today, historians disregard books published under this name and rarely quote him, though the topics Essad Bey chose to write about are still critically relevant. The fact that Essad Bey was so prolific calls into question the authorship of these books and whether Essad Bey was primarily operating as a broker and doctoring manuscripts and marketing them under his pseudonym, which had become famous. In 1934, his agent Werner Schendell warned him to slow down and take a year off between books so that he would not appear to be so prolific. That year no books were published in German - only two novellas in Polish.
Life
Lev Nussimbaum was born in October 1905. He claimed that he was born in a train. Documents in the Kiev State Archives and the Kiev Synagogue state that Lev Nussimbaum was born in Kiev. Nussimbaum's birth was originally registered in the Kyiv Synagogue.
His father, Abraam Leybusovich Nussimbaum, was a Jew from Tiflis, in present-day Georgia, born in 1875. He later migrated to Baku and invested in oil. His mother, Berta Basya Davidovna Slutzkin Nussimbaum according to her marriage certificate, was a Jew from Belarus. She committed suicide on February 16, 1911 in Baku when Nussimbaum was five years old. Apparently, she had embraced left-wing politics and was possibly involved in the underground Communist movement. Nussimbaum's father hired Alice Schulte, a woman of German ethnicity, to be his son's governess.
In 1918, Lev and his father temporarily fled Baku because of the massacres that were taking place in the streets between different political forces. According to Essad Bey's first book, Blood and Oil in the Orient, which historians do not consider to be very reliable, the two travelled through Turkestan and Persia. Researchers have found no record of this adventurous journey except in Nussimbaum's own writings. Nussimbaum and his father returned to Baku, but when the Bolsheviks took Baku in the spring of 1920, they fled to Georgia. They stayed there until the Bolsheviks took Tiflis and Batumi.
Lev Nussimbaum, as Essad Bey, wrote his first book Oel und Blut im Orient (Blood and Oil in the Orient) in German in 1929. Although he claims that his account was autobiographical, historians in Azerbaijan and Georgia discount this claim, as there are many major factual errors in the historical description. Essad Bey describes his delight when, at the age of 14, he and his father left Azerbaijan. In the final passage of the book, he writes: "At that moment, Europe began for me. The Old East was dead."
They purportedly boarded a ship bound for Istanbul, where thousands of refugees had fled. Nussimbaum eventually settled in Berlin (1921–1933), where he enrolled simultaneously in high school and in Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. He did not graduate from either school, but told people that he had received a Cand. Phil. degree.
In 1926, he began writing under the pen name of Essad Bey for the literary journal Die literarische Welt (The Literary World). At least 120 articles were published under this name. By the early 1930s, Essad Bey had become a popular author throughout Western Europe, writing mainly about contemporary historical and political issues.
Politically, Bey was a monarchist. In 1931, he joined the German-Russian League Against Bolshevism, the members of which, Daniel Lazare remarks, "for the most part either were Nazis or soon would be". He joined the Social Monarchist Party, which advocated restoration of Germany's Hohenzollern dynasty. He also had connections to the pre-fascistic Young Russian movement, headed by Alexander Kazembek.
In 1932, Essad Bey married Erika Loewendahl, daughter of shoe magnate Walter Loewendahl. The marriage failed, ending in scandal. Erika ran off in 1935 with Nussimbaum's colleague René Fülöp-Miller. Erika's parents, who were wealthy, succeeded in getting the marriage to Nussimbaum annulled in 1937.
In 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Nussimbaum fled to Italy and settled in the seacoast town of Positano. He died there of a rare blood disorder which causes gangrene of the extremities. This was most likely Buerger's disease, which is known to afflict Ashkenazi male Jews, rather than Raynaud's Disease, which is more prevalent in women. It is highly likely that Essad Bey denied his Jewish ancestry to doctors who were treating him, which led to the misdiagnosis of Raynaud's instead of Buerger's. Little was known in the early 1940s about Buerger's disease, especially that the disease could be reversed if the patient stopped smoking. Essad Bey, who was known to be a heavy smoker, died a painful death at the age of 37.
Islam
Nussimbaum had a romantic view of Islam, seeing it as part of the grand cultural heritage of "the East", to which he felt connected through his Jewish heritage, and a bulwark against the evils of Western modernity and Bolshevism. Writing about his childhood in Azerbaijan, he notes the emotional response he had in looking at the old palaces in Baku:
I saw the broad expanse of the sandy Arabian desert, I saw the horsemen, their snow-white burnooses billowing in the wind, I saw the flocks of prophets praying towards Mecca and I wanted to be one with this wall, one with this desert, one with this incomprehensible, intricate script, one with the entire Islamic Orient, which in our Baku had been so ceremoniously carried to the grave, to the victorious drumbeats of European culture.... Throughout my entire childhood, I dreamed of the Arabic edifices every night... I do know that it was the most powerful, most formative feeling of my life.
Confusion surrounds the details of Essad Bey's conversion to Islam. There are at least three accounts that attempt to explain his alleged conversion:
(1) When Essad Bey was 17 years old, he officially obtained a certificate of conversion as "document of proof" in a declaration to Imam Hafiz Shuku (1871-1924) of the former Ottoman Embassy in Berlin on August 13, 1922.
(2) However, later accounts circulated that Essad Bey did not convert to Islam but simply reclaimed his religious identity since he had been born a Muslim.
(3) Essad Bey converted to Islam along with his family when he was eight years old.
In 1924 in Berlin, Nussimbaum helped found an Islamic student group Islamia, where he met other Muslims: Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Afghans and Indians, as well as converts like himself. They "spoke out about the wretched situation of Muslims in the colonial world." However, some Muslims objected to the way Nussimbaum depicted Islam in his writings, accusing him of Orientalism and of not being a "real" Muslim. In 1930, Mohammed Hoffman, a member of Islamia and himself a convert to Islam, accused Nussimbaum of trying "to pass for a born Muslim" and suggesting that his conversion was merely a ploy. As a result of this and similar accusations, Nussimbaum stopped attending Islamia meetings; however, he never renounced Islam or distanced himself from it. In 1934 the New York Herald Tribune ran a profile of Essad Bey which described him as an irreverent Muslim who "carries no prayer rug; he fails to salute Mecca when he prays... eats pigs and drinks wine; yet when he came to be married in Berlin he refused to abjure his creed."
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Molly Worthen
Molly Worthen (born 1981) is a journalist and historian of American religion. Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, she graduated from Yale in 2003 and earned a Ph.D. in American religious history there in 2011. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Her first book, The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost, a biography of American diplomat and Yale professor Charles Hill, was published in 2006 and reviewed by the Boston Globe and Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times. Her most recent book, Apostles of Reason, examines the history of American evangelicalism since 1945.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Time, the Boston Globe, The New Republic, the Dallas Morning News, and the Toledo Blade. She is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Further reading
From the New York Times: Lecture Me. Really.
Extract from The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost in the Yale Alumni Magazine: Man & Myth at Yale
Kakutani's review in the New York Times: From Student and Teacher to Biographer and Subject
From the New York Times Magazine: Onward Christian Scholars
From the New York Times Magazine: Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
From Christianity Today: Reformer
From Church History: Chalcedon problem: Rousas John Rushdoony and the origins of Christian reconstructionism
See also
List of biographers
References
External links
Personal Website
Faculty Page at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Morgedal
Morgedal, of the municipality of Kviteseid in the county of Telemark Norway, is called the cradle of skiing.
Morgedal, Norway is a village whose most famous residents were Sondre Norheim, known to be the father of modern skiing, Torjus Hemmestveit, and Mikkjel Hemmestveit. The Hemmestveit brothers created the world's first skiing school at Christiania, Norway in 1881 before emigrating to the United States in the late 19th century.
The Olympic Flames for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, and the flame used in the national torch relay for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (which was later used as the flame for the 1994 Winter Paralympics), were all lit at the birthplace of Sondre Norheim, Øvrebø in Morgedal.
External links
http://www.morgedal.com/
http://www.sondrenorheim.com/
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Gowd-e Lir
Gowd-e Lir (, also Romanized as Gowd-e Līr) is a village in Mahur Rural District, Mahvarmilani District, Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 17, in 4 families.
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Minneapolis Post Office
The Minneapolis Post Office is the central post office for the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, the facility extends west to east from Hennepin Avenue Bridge to the Third Avenue Bridge and north to south from the West River Parkway on the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway to First Street. Its ZIP code is 55401.
History
Ard Godfrey operated the area's first post office in the village of Saint Anthony on the Mississippi's east bank during the early 1850s. At first unpredictably, deliveries came by messenger from Fort Snelling through Saint Paul, Minnesota. Later, mail arrived by stagecoach every ten to fourteen days. The first post office in Minneapolis was built on the west bank on High Street in 1854 and operated by postmaster Hezekiah Fletcher.
The present day post office was completed in 1933 and occupies nearly the same site. The main building faced Pioneer Square park, which is now occupied by an apartment tower. A companion federal office building at a right angle to the post office on the park's western perimeter was suggested in 1934 but not built.
A seven-level parking ramp and loading dock for bulk mail were added to the west in 1976.
Structure and interior
The post office was built of granite and stone in the PWA Moderne Art Deco style at the cost of $4.5 million or about $64 million in 2006 USD. Léon Eugène Arnal, the chief designer for the architects Magney & Tusler, designed the building. Between 1885 and 1946, Magney & Tusler designed the post office, and designed or co-designed the Foshay Tower downtown, the Calhoun Beach Club on Lake Calhoun, the Lehmann Center on Lake Street, the Young-Quinlan Department Store on the Nicollet Mall and the former home of Teener's Theatrical costume and props store on Hennepin Avenue among other buildings in Minneapolis. The firm was later known as Setter, Leach & Lindstrom, acquired by Leo A. Daly in 2003.
The main building is long. Its interior is unchanged and postal customers still utilize its original bronze teller cages and fixtures, marble terrazzo floor and sandstone walls. Perhaps the longest light fixture in the world, a 350 foot (107 m), 16 ton (16256.8 kg) bronze chandelier runs the length of the lobby, originally designed to regulate temperature.
Peepholes were installed in the corridors so that inspectors could protect the mail and observe employees. The main building contained a three-room suite paneled in walnut for the postmaster, recreation rooms and a hospital unit for employees as well as a rifle range in the basement.
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Mantra Eyewear
Mantra Eyewear is an eyewear company that utilizes a "buy one, give one" business model, similar to Toms Shoes and Warby Parker. In partnership with Education in Sight, a non-profit organization which specializes in eye care for students, Mantra donates a pair of prescription eyeglasses to a child in need in Yunnan, China for every pair of sunglasses sold.
History
The company was founded in 2012 in Beijing, China by Sam Waldo and Andrew Shirman. Waldo and Shirman first developed an interest in China while at university. Waldo started studying Mandarin at Columbia University, while Shirman studied the language at Boston College. Immediately after graduation from university in 2010 they participated in a volunteer teaching program called Teach For China. While working with the organization, they had discovered that there are over 30 million students in rural China who suffered from poor eye sight and lacked the resources to correct their vision. To combat this issue, Education in Sight was started by Shirman and Waldo with the help of some of their Teach for China fellows. To date, Education in Sight has partnered with over 300 schools, administered over 150,000 eye examinations, and has facilitated the donation of over 19,000 prescription glasses. By 2020, EIS aims to reach all the poor regions of Yunnan, donating 800,000 prescription glasses to students in need.
In order to attain this goal, Waldo and Shirman founded Mantra Eyewear in 2016 with the goal of engaging and involving the Chinese middle-class youth in social issues. It was initially conceived as a solution to solve their difficulties of finding funding to help support the eye care for their students in need. In April 2016, Mantra officially launched their first line of sunglasses.
Business model
Mantra adopted the "buy one, give one" business model, made popular by Toms Shoes and Warby Parker. For each pair of sunglasses sold, Mantra uses the proceeds to fund the eye examination and the purchase of a pair of prescription glasses for a child in need. Each pair of glasses come packaged with a serial code that can be input using the Chinese-based super-app, WeChat, to track the donation all the way to the recipient school. In 2016, Mantra launched their website, www.findyourmantra.com.cn, as well as its English language counterpart, www.findyourmantra.com.
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Perceptics
Perceptics LLC is a developer and manufacturer of automated license plate recognition (LPR) equipment based in Farragut, Tennessee, founded in approximately 1978. John Dalton is the CEO. A large hack of their data exposed their operations, as well as the locations of installations.
Their technology is used by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at 43 border crossings, both to Mexico and Canada, as part of a partnership with Unisys Federal Systems. Perceptics is the exclusive license plate recognition provider for CBP. Perceptics operated as a subcontractor to Unisys for the license plate reader contract, worth $229 million over several years. As of 2019, Perceptics has worked on CBP contracts for "nearly 30 years". They also provide "under-vehicle surveillance systems", and have contracts with the Drug Enforcement Administration checkpoints, the Canada Border Services Agency, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia's Special Forces, and the Jordanian army.
Perceptics was previously a subsidiary of Northrup Grumman. They have been filling CBP contracts since 1982 and license plate readers since 1997. In 2002 the equipment cost was approximately $90,000 per lane.
Perceptics also discussed promoting their license plate reading technology for use on a congestion pricing scheme to MTA in New York City in a presentation titled "Smart Imaging Solutions for New York City Congestion Pricing". They demoed the technology to MTA's Bridges and Tunnels division. The Perceptics system provides much more capabilities than license plate reading, such as "Vehicle Occupancy Imaging System", which can identify drivers and passengers, as well as tracking car locations and driver behavior as a profile. Perceptics and Unisys were also involved in a CBP trial project called the "Vehicle Face System", involving facial recognition of car occupants.
Perceptics used Amazon Rekognition as of August 2018.
Canadian operations
Data from the hack revealed the Canada Border Services Agency had at least two dozen installations, as widespread as the Sumas-Huntingdon Border Crossing in British Columbia, to the Fort Fairfield - Andover Border Crossing in New Brunswick, worth $21 million CND in contracts. Traffic weigh stations in Canada, run by International Road Dynamics, also use Perceptics. Halifax Harbour Bridges trialed the technology. The Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority as purchased Perceptics cameras, they are administered by the US CBP. Canada Revenue Agency had contracts with the company until 2014.
Data breach
On May 13 2019, Perceptics discovered they were hacked. They notified the FBI within 24 hours, and they notified Unisys on May 17. The hack was revealed by The Register on May 23. The CBP learned of the data breach on May 31, over three weeks after the discovery of the hack. CBP acknowledged a breach on that date but didn't reveal the contractor involved, but the Microsoft Word document title pointed to Perceptics. CBP also stated CBP said "as of today, none of the image data has been identified on the dark web or internet."
Identifiable information such as faces were stolen. Somewhere under 100,000 images were taken, which were part of a 45-day dataset from one port of entry. The data was transferred off of the CBP's systems to Perceptics's systems, a violation of CBP policy. The Register showed that data was available on Tor, and included images, HR records, databases, DHS manuals, signed NDAs, and business plans. Distributed Denial of Secrets mirrored the data to the open web, making it more easily accessible. Later, The Register identified images taken at border crossings at Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Columbus, New Mexico, and Hidalgo, Texas.
Perceptics demoed the technology for the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and 50 gigabytes of photos over two months in 2017 were identified in the hack and published on Vice News's Motherboard.
CBP suspended the contract, citing "conduct indicating a lack of business honesty or integrity". Suspensions are a rare action. In September 2019, Perceptics and CBP signed an agreement, where CBP stated the collection of data was "completely unacceptable" but not unethical or illegal, and Perceptics agreeing to security reforms and monitoring.
A hacker claimed to have access to Perceptics's sytems for four months and demanded a ransom.
The breach led to scrutiny from Sen. Rick Scott, Sen. Edward J. Markey, Sen. Ron Wyden, Rep. Bennie Thompson, and privacy advocates.
Lobbying
Perceptics engaged lobbyists such as Lucia Alonzo of Ferox Strategies to lobby on their behalf, and the hack of Perceptics showed this influence. Cristina Antelo at Podesta Group also lobbied Democrats on their behalf, joining Ferox Strategies after Podesta Group closed.
In emails to Perceptics, Alonzo confirmed that both top alternatives in a 2018 immigration reform bill included provisions with $125 million for "LPR modernization" and $175 million for a border cargo LPR project in Laredo, Texas, presumably benefitting Perceptics as the exclusive provider of LPR equipment to the CBP. The text of the provisions in both alternatives was nearly identical.
Alonzo also supplied talking points to Tennessee's Republican Chuck Fleischmann to use in a session with the head of CBP. After the exchange, Alonzo emailed Perceptics, confirming Fleischmann "asked about CBP's plan to modernize its LPRs as we asked his office to do".
Later, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, included the same Laredo border cargo LPR project and "LPR modernization" projects and figures in two late-2017 Senate immigration bills. Alonzo suggested that Perceptics CEO John Dalton donate money to Cornyn, and Antelo was previously on Cornyn's staff.
In 2014 and 2015, Podesta Group emails said the Podesta staff would "preemptively meet if necessary to ensure LPRs do not get drawn further into the privacy conversation" and about building a "possible coalition against LPR bans". In 2018, Antelo, at Podesta, described meetings with California Democratic congressman Peter Aguilar, Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez.
In February 2020, connections to conservative Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar were published, tracing his involvement with Perceptics back to at last 2009, through Antelo and Podesta Group. He was described as "our Cuellar firepower" and by Perceptics CEO Dalton as a "friendly congressman". Cuellar was involved in the same "talking points" event as Fleischmann, and Cuellar asked other talking points recommended by Perceptics and lobbyists, with Alonzo emailing a report about Cuellar asking "about pilots going on at Laredo that sound a lot like Perceptics’".
Perceptics and Podesta Group lobbied against competitor Axiompass in 2012, as presentations and reports indicated. A 2014 Podesta Group report identified dozens of PACs connected to politicians to make donations to.
References
See also
Vigilant Technology
External links
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Josie Township, Holt County, Nebraska
Josie Township is one of thirty-seven townships in Holt County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 17 at the 2000 census. A 2006 estimate placed the township's population at 16.
See also
County government in Nebraska
References
External links
City-Data.com
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Downtown Santa Monica station
Downtown Santa Monica is an at-grade light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is located near the intersection of 4th Street and Colorado Avenue in Downtown Santa Monica, California. It is the E Line's western terminal station.
Overview
The station is located in Downtown Santa Monica, off-street in the block bounded by 4th and 5th Streets, Colorado Avenue, and the 10 Freeway. The site is located in the midst of Santa Monica's Civic Center, within a short walk of the Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica Pier, the Third Street Promenade, the Civic Auditorium, and Santa Monica High School. The block was formerly the location of a Sears auto center, which was demolished in 2010 to make way for the station.
A trip from downtown Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles takes 47 minutes.
During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from venues located in Santa Monica and Venice.
Station layout
Bus connections
Metro Local: 4, 20, 33 (all early AM/late night only)
Metro Express: 534
Metro Rapid: 704, 720, 733
Santa Monica Big Blue Bus: 1, 2, 3, Rapid 3, 7, Rapid 7, 8, 9, 10, Rapid 10, 18
References
External links
Metro Expo Line Construction Authority
Project Website, Metro Rail Expo Corridor, Phase 2 from Culver City to Santa Monica
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Hurricane Earl (2016)
Hurricane Earl () was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane to impact Mexico since Hurricane Stan in 2005. The fifth named storm and second hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, Earl formed from a tropical wave south of Jamaica on August 2. The precursor to Earl brought torrential rainfall and flooding to the Lesser Antilles. Upon classification, the storm moved westward through the Caribbean Sea, brushing the north coast of Honduras. Earl strengthened into an 85 mph (140 km/h) hurricane before making landfall on Belize on August 4. It weakened while moving across the Yucatán Peninsula, but reintensified in the Bay of Campeche and followed the coastline. On August 6, Earl dissipated after moving ashore Veracruz.
Prior to Earl becoming a tropical cyclone, 13 people died in storm-related incidents across the Dominican Republic. Striking Belize as a Category 1, the hurricane caused extensive damage; losses to agriculture exceeded US$100 million. Heavy rain in Mexico triggered many landslides, several of which proved fatal in the states of Puebla, Hidalgo, and Veracruz; at least 81 people died in the country. Lesser effects were felt in neighboring countries in Central America.
Meteorological history
On July 25, 2016, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring a tropical wave over the eastern Atlantic along the coast of West Africa. The wave's emergence over water was accompanied by a surge in moisture, leading to the development of scattered convection. Early on July 26, a 1010 mbar (hPa; 29.83 inHg) surface low developed along the wave axis (confirmed by scatterometer data and nearby observations); however, this feature was transient and soon dissipated. Moving quickly westward, the system was expected to encounter more favorable conditions for development within three days. The rapid motion prevented initial development, resulting in poor organization of the associated convection. The thunderstorms increased on July 30 as the wave began moving through the Lesser Antilles, assisted by above-normal water temperatures and light wind shear. Despite more convective organization and the presence of strong winds, the lack of a surface circulation prevented the system from being classified as a tropical cyclone. On July 31, the wave entered the Caribbean Sea while continuing its fast forward motion.
While passing south of the Dominican Republic on August 1, the system became much better organized, producing tropical storm-force winds in its northern periphery. The fast forward motion allowed the system to develop despite an increase in upper-level wind shear, although the shear decreased as water temperatures increased along the wave's path. A Hurricane Hunters mission was scheduled to fly into the system on August 1, but it could not investigate because of mechanical problems. Early on August 2, the system passed south of Jamaica, and a Hurricane Hunters flight was able to observe a closed circulation. As a result, the NHC classified the system as Tropical Storm Earl at 16:00 UTC that day, located 215 mi (350 km) south-southeast of Grand Cayman and situated between Jamaica and northeastern Honduras.
Upon its classification, Earl was still moving quickly westward, steered by the strong flow of a ridge located over the southern United States. Earl gradually intensified after its development and developed a mid-level eye feature. The center reformed more to the south, bringing Earl close to the northern coastline of Honduras and into the Gulf of Honduras. Late on August 3, observations from the Hurricane Hunters indicated that Earl intensified into a hurricane near the Bay Islands. The eyewall, visible from the coast of Belize, was closed at times and the peak winds briefly increased to 85 mph (140 km/h). Around 06:00 UTC on August 4, Earl made landfall about south of Belize City, Belize, at this intensity.
Moving over the Yucatán Peninsula and across the mountainous terrain of northern Guatemala, Earl quickly weakened; its convection diminished, although its circulation remained well-defined. By late on August 4, the convection was limited to a small area southeast of the center, and close proximity to land was expected to limit development. On August 5, most of the circulation of Earl emerged into the southern Bay of Campeche. Later that day, a Hurricane Hunters mission indicated that the storm re-intensified and had sustained winds of 60 mph (95 km/h), reporting flight-level winds of 68 mph (109 km/h). At 02:00 UTC on August 6, Earl made its final landfall just south of Veracruz. The storm rapidly weakened over the mountains of eastern Mexico, and the circulation dissipated by 15:00 UTC. Moisture from the storm interacted with a disturbance on the Pacific coast of Mexico, which the NHC monitored as an area for development and soon became Tropical Storm Javier.
Preparations
Ahead of the precursor wave that became Earl, the NHC advised people in the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola to closely monitor the system. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. In Jamaica, the government activated its National Emergency Center, which advised residents in low-lying areas and near the coast to evacuate. The Cayman Islands Government issued a tropical storm watch for all three islands. Fishermen were also advised to remain at port in both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
After Earl formed, the government of Honduras issued a tropical storm warning for its entire northern coastline, from Cape Gracias a Dios westward to the border with Guatemala. Two international airports along the northern coast were closed, and classes in seven departments were canceled. A red alert was issued for the offshore Bay Islands, advising residents in at-risk areas to evacuate. In northern Guatemala, about 2,000 people evacuated due to the storm, including around 100 people in Melchor de Mencos. Classes were canceled in Petén and Izabal departments, and the Mundo Maya International Airport was closed. The government of El Salvador advised residents to take caution when boating or fishing due to the storm's threat.
The governments of Belize and Mexico also issued a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch from Belize's border with Guatemala northward to Punta Allen, which was upgraded to a hurricane warning from Belize's border with Guatemala to Costa Maya, Mexico, after Earl intensified. The Belize Red Cross Society distributed messages about the hurricane via social media. Across the country, 29 shelters were opened, housing 2,500 people. Non-essential government workers were allowed to return home to secure their property. The Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport closed during the storm's passage, but was reopened on August 4. During the storm, schools, businesses, and ports were closed, while hospitals were on standby. Officials in Mexico opened 750 emergency shelters in Quintana Roo, helping 300 families to evacuate along a river in the southeastern portion of the state. In Tabasco state, the military activated 1,500 troops for relief work, while along the Bay of Campeche, offshore petroleum companies evacuated their workers.
Impact
Caribbean Islands and Central America
The precursor to Earl brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to the Dominican Republic. These meteorological conditions interrupted traffic, flooded areas, and sparked landslides. Along the northern coast near Nagua, the system's strong winds knocked a power line onto a bus. This caused a fire that killed six people and injured 12. A boat with nine excursionists capsized in Samaná Bay inside Los Haitises National Park; a woman and the captain were found alive, while seven of the excursionists died.
Heavy rain caused flooding in parts of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Despite storm warnings, a lobster boat capsized along northern Honduras with 83 people aboard, with two people missing. The storm's fringes damaged three houses in Cortés Department, after heavy rainfall was reported along the coast. One person was injured in San Pedro Sula.
In northern Guatemala, Earl dropped heavy rainfall that reached in Melchor de Mencos in the country's northern Petén Department. In the department's capital Flores, the rainfall totaled , which represents 80% of the typical August rainfall there. The rains increased the water level of the Chixoy River, which reached a depth of . Severe flooding knocked down trees and swelled rivers, which wrecked a bridge in Melchor de Mencos. The rains also knocked down two main power lines in Flores, which was the main power line leading into Petén Department, leaving 63,00 people without power. At least 162 homes and of crops were damaged, with 200 farms suffering total losses. A total of 1,046 people were affected, of whom 500 were rendered homeless across the country.
Belize
The combination of in rainfall and a storm surge flooded coastal areas across central and northern Belize, including the cayes. During the storm, the City Emergency Management Organization, in addition to the Belize Defence Force, responded to over 100 search and rescue requests. Flash flooding occurred in Cayo District, forcing additional residents to evacuate. Water levels remained high along rivers and dams for up to a week after the storm. Hurricane-force winds caused widespread infrastructure damage that affected power lines, transformers, and roofs. Two cell sites were destroyed, restricting cellular data service. The only part of the country that did not lose power during the storm was the northern portion of Belize. The resulting heavy debris blocked thoroughfares | {
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Çardak, Kahta
Çardak is a village in the District of Kahta, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
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German submarine U-641
German submarine U-641 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.
She was laid down on 19 November 1942 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg as yard number 617, launched on 6 August 1942 and commissioned on 24 September 1942 under Oberleutnant zur See Horst Rendtel.
Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-641 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two BBC GG UB 720/8 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . U-641 was fitted with five torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes, one SK C/35 naval gun, 220 rounds, and one twin C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.
Service history
The boat's short service career began on 24 September 1942 for training with 5th U-boat Flotilla, followed by active service on 1 March 1943 as part of the 7th U-boat Flotilla. It ended ten months later when she was sunk in the North Atlantic.
In four patrols she sank no ships.
Wolfpacks
U-641 took part in thirteen wolfpacks, namely
Neuland (4–6 March 1943)
Ostmark (6–11 March 1943)
Stürmer (11–20 March 1943)
Seewolf (21–30 March 1943)
Mosel (19–24 May 1943)
Trutz (1–16 June 1943)
Trutz 2 (16–29 June 1943)
Geier 1 (30 June – 14 July 1943)
Leuthen (15–24 September 1943)
Rossbach (24 September – 9 October 1943)
Borkum (18 December 1943 – 3 January 1944)
Borkum 2 (3–13 January 1944)
Rügen (13–19 January 1944)
Fate
U-641 was sunk on 19 January 1944 in the North Atlantic in position ; depth charged by Royal Navy corvette . There were no survivors.
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Native Americans and World War II
As many as 25,000 Native Americans in World War II fought actively: 21,767 in the Army, 1,910 in the Navy, 874 in the Marines, 121 in the Coast Guard, and several hundred Native American women as nurses. These figures include over one third of able-bodied Native American men aged 18 to 50 and even included as high as 70 percent of the population of some tribes. Unlike African Americans or Asian Americans, Native Americans did not serve in segregated units and served alongside white Americans.
Alison R. Bernstein argues that World War II presented the first large-scale exodus of Native Americans from reservations since the reservation system began and that it presented an opportunity for many Native Americans to leave reservations and enter the "white world." For many soldiers, World War II represented the first interracial contact between natives living on relatively-isolated reservations.
Prewar
According to Burnstein, life on reservations was difficult for Native Americans prior to the war due to low levels of development and lack of economic opportunities. In 1939, the median income for Native American males living on reservations was $500, compared to the national average for males of $2300. Nearly one quarter of Native Americans had no formal education, and even for high school graduates, few forms of conventional employment existed on reservations. In the absence of conventional employment, those Native Americans who stayed on the reservations generally worked the land and farmed.
Although Native Americans were not drafted for World War I because they were not considered citizens of the United States in 1917, approximately 10,000 Native American men volunteered for duty in World War I.
Native American men were included along with whites in the World War II draft. Initial reactions by Native Americans to the draft were mixed. While some were eager to join the military, others resisted. Burnstein argues that their still-questionable status as citizens of the United States at the outbreak of the Second World War made many Native Americans question volunteering for military service since "the Federal government had the power to force Indians to serve in the military but did not have the power to compel Mississippi to grant Indians the vote." Although some resisted the draft, many others who were not drafted still volunteered for the war.
Native service
Against a background of the popular Hollywood image of the Native American warrior spirit in American popular culture, Native American men were generally regarded highly by their fellow soldiers, and their role appealed to the public. They first saw action in the Pacific Theater along with the rest of the US Army and Navy. The first known Native American casualty of war was a young Oklahoma man who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Over the course of the war, Native American men fought across the world on all fronts, and were involved in many of the most critical battles involving American troops, including Iwo Jima—the site of Ira Hayes' triumphant moment in the famous photograph of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima with four of his fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman—the invasion of Normandy, the liberation of the Philippines, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, and the liberation of Belgium. Native Americans were also among the first Americans to enter Germany and played a role in the liberation of Berlin. Casualty reports showed Native Americans fighting as far away as Australia, North Africa, and Bataan. Native American soldiers were sometimes mistaken by white American soldiers for Japanese soldiers and taken prisoner or fired upon.
One of the most significant benefits that Native American men and women obtained from the war effort was the expectation that new skills would lead to better jobs. Due to both the waning sense of isolation on reservations brought on by the war and the influx of money, Native Americans began to have access to consumer goods and services. The average Native American income increased to $2,500 by 1944, two-and-a-half times greater than in 1940. However, the average salary of a Native American was still only a quarter of the average salary of a white American.
More than 30 Native Americans were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the third-highest aviation honor. Not counting the Purple Heart, more than 200 military awards were awarded to Native Americans. The most decorated Native American in the history of the United States Army is Pascal Poolaw, who, after World War II, went on the serve in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, earning a Distinguished Service Cross, four Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars, and three Purple Hearts. Although many Native Americans received recognition for their military service in terms of awards, these awards were later used during the termination period by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as proof that Native Americans were eager to assimilate into American culture.
Navajo code talkers project
In February 1942, a civilian named Philip Johnston came up with the idea of using the Navajo language as military code. Johnston, a missionaries' son, grew up on a reservation and understood the complexity of the Navajo language. By September 1942, the American government had recruited several hundred Native Americans who spoke both Navajo and English to translate English words into the Navajo language to foil enemy understanding. Often working behind enemy lines, the code talkers were commended for their bravery and gained respect from fellow soldiers. Until its declassification in 1968, the code that these Navajo developed remains the only oral military code that was not broken by an enemy.
The code itself was composed of carefully-selected Navajo words that used poetic circumlocution so that even a Navajo-speaker would not be able to understand the communications without training. For example, since there were no words in Navajo for military machines, weapons, or foreign countries, so these words were substituted with words that did exist in the Navajo language. For example, Britain was spoken as "between waters" (toh-ta), a dive bomber was a "chicken hawk" (gini), a grenade was a "potato" (ni-ma-si) and Germany was "iron hat" (besh-be-cha-he).
In 2001, 28 Navajo Code Talkers were awarded Congressional Gold Medals, mostly posthumously. The group has also been commemorated in various media, including books, films, notably Windtalkers (2002) starring Nicolas Cage, Battle Cry starring Van Heflin, even a Navajo Code Talker GI Joe action figure.
Postwar
The war's aftermath, says Allison Bernstein, marked a "new era in Indian affairs" and turned "American Indians" into "Indian Americans."
Upon returning to the US after the war, some Native American servicemen and women suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and unemployment. Following the war, many Native Americans found themselves living in cities, rather than on reservations. In 1940, only five percent of Native Americans lived in cities, but by 1950, the number had ballooned to nearly 20 percent.
Gallery
See also
Apache Scouts - A division of the United States Army Indian Scouts
Arizona during World War II
Alaska Territorial Guard - A military reserve force known as the Eskimo Scouts
Charles Norman Shay - A Penobscot Maine tribal elder who served in World War II both as a master sergeant and a certified medical technician
Machita Incident - A high-profile instance of resistance to the draft among Indians in southern Arizona
Windtalkers - A film depicting Navajo code talkers during the war
Native Americans in the American Civil War
Code talker
References
External links
"Native Americans in World War II" article excerpt
Shoshone in World War II
Native Americans in the United States Army Portal at the United States Army Center of Military History
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Jolarpettai Junction railway station
Jolarpettai Junction is located in the Tirupattur district of Tamil Nadu, India. Jolarpettai Junction railway falls within Chennai Central Bangalore line and Salem Jolarpettai line.
Lines
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Trains
Around 190 trains stop here and pass to Salem Junction, Bangalore City and Katpadi junction.
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Našice
Našice () is a town in eastern Croatia, located on the northern slopes of the Krndija mountain in eastern Slavonia, 51 km southwest of regional hub Osijek. Administratively it belongs to Osijek-Baranja County.
Geography
Našice is located on the D2 state road Varaždin–Virovitica–Našice–Osijek and the railroad Zagreb–Koprivnica–Osijek.
Economy
Chief occupations are farming and angling on 11 km2 of fishing ground. Major industries include metal processing, cement, (at Našice cement), the stone excavation. Also wood processing, textiles and food.
History
The city was first mentioned in 1229 under the name of Nekche. In the 13th century, the Knights Templar came to Našice and built a church.
The town was a feudal property of the Pejačević family until 1945. It was conquered by Ottoman Empire in 1541 and was part of Sanjak of Pojega till Austrian conquest in 1687.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Našice was a district capital in the Virovitica County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
In September 1991 Croatian forces in Našice captured military barracks of Yugoslav People's Army.
Population
According to the census of 2011, there are 7,888 inhabitants in town, with 16,224 in the entire municipality. 88% of the population are Croats.
Settlements
The municipality of Našice includes the following settlements:
Brezik Našički, population 352
Ceremošnjak, population 108
Crna Klada, population 0
Gradac Našički, population 153
Granice, population 109
Jelisavac, population 1,265
Lađanska, population 302
Lila, population 195
Londžica, population 190
Makloševac, population 130
Markovac Našički, population 1,586
Martin, population 1,077
Našice, population 7,888
Polubaše, population 17
Ribnjak, population 51
Rozmajerovac, population 25
Velimirovac, population 1,129
Vukojevci, population 914
Zoljan, population 733
Culture
Hunting grounds can be found in the immediate surroundings, and the fishpond Našička Breznica and Lake Lapovac offer angling opportunities. Slavonian cuisine and freshwater fish are a part of the gastronomic offerings of the town and its surroundings.
As an economic and cultural centre, the area is known for its cultural and historical heritage, (the Gothic church, two manor houses, exhibitions of the art colony "Hinko Juhn"). Našice plays a role in business and excursionist tourism. The park by both of the Pejačević manors (horticultural monument). The private zoo of the Bizik family in nearby in Markovac Našički as well as the surroundings at the foot of the Krndija hill emphasize the importance of natural environment.
The municipality has an official memorial-area Crni Potok, dedicated to Croatian quisling soldiers and civilians killed at the site by members of the Yugoslav Partisans. The site is commemorated annually on the third Saturday in June.
Sports
Sports opportunities comprise tennis court, a football ground with accompanying facilities, and boating on the local waters. Footballers from Našice include Panathinaikos defender Domagoj Vida midfielder Danijel Pranjić and Danijel Stojanović. Football club NK NAŠK plays in Croatian Third Football League. Našice is proudest of its handball team RK Nexe. Currently, RK Nexe competes in the Premijer liga and the Croatian Handball Cup as well in the SEHA League and in the EHF Cup.
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History of the Jews in Kuwait
The history of the Jews in Kuwait is connected to the history of the Jews in Iraq.
History
The noted British businessman Naim Dangoor is an Iraqi Jewish exile in his 90s whose grandfather was the chief rabbi in Baghdad. He came to Britain in the 1930s to study engineering at Queen Mary College in London and returned to Iraq to join the army and then set up his business empire. He spent the 1950s running the Coca-Cola franchise in Iraq with a beloved Muslim business partner. He states that:
In 1776 Sadeq Khan Zand captured Basra, many of the inhabitants left the country and among them were Jews who went to Kuwait. Around 1860, their number increased and their trade flourished. The Jews had a market called "The Jews' market ", which was next to the market Mosque. It was known that the Jews used to make alcohol and sell it to the public. The Jews were known to be very careful with trading. They were mostly wholesalers and worked with India - Baghdad and Aleppo. They even exported to Europe and China. There were about 80 Jewish families in Kuwait living in one district where the Bank of Trade is now. The Jews used to wear long gown (Zboun) and Fez which made them look different from the others. Some used to wear European suits but they covered their head with Fez. They had their own Synagogue with their Sefer Torah. In the Synagogue, they had separate place for the women. Saturday is a sacred day. Jews didn't work that day. They also had their own Cemetery which shows that they lived there for a long time. Before 1914 there were about 200 Jews. Most of them went back to Baghdad and few went to India. There were two wealthy Jews in Kuwait but the rest were middle class, being Jewellers or material traders. Among the wealthy Jews were Saleh Mahlab who owned the first ice factory in 1912, which he later sold to the Arms Trader and Merchant Mohammed-Ali bin Haidar Marafi. Gurgi Sasson and Menashi Eliahou who were traders and financiers. When Sheikh Salem al Mubarak came to power in February 1917 (he was the 9th ruler). He wanted to stop the Jews from dealing with alcoholic spirits. He called them and warned them. There is no evidence that they were kicked out of Kuwait. The truth is that they went back to Iraq when King Faisal the first came to rule Iraq. The King had Jewish acquaintances like Wiseman and Sasson Heskel who became the Minister of Finance in Iraq. During the twenties, all the Jews left Kuwait.
Professor Faisal Abdulla Alkanderi of Kuwait corroborates the above in his essay in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2006, as summarized:
Kuwait in the last decades of the nineteenth century had become a dynamic place for its time. There was a building boom in both houses and ships, and business opportunities abounded. The country was peaceful and stable. The combination of services available and economic prospects drew people from surrounding countries searching for a better life. This article deals with the little-known Jewish community that began to come to Kuwait during that time. It also discusses the possible reasons why they left. These Jews belonged to the 'Babylonian' Jews who had lived in Mesopotamia for millennia. Their language was Arabic, and they had traded between Baghdad and India for centuries. The majority were involved in textiles, and they had their own market where people of all origins came to buy the cloth they imported. They usually educated their children in their synagogue. It was a community in flux, with constant comings and goings, rather than a stable group who arrived together and left together, and it was made up of diverse individuals.
Famous people
Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity were famous Kuwaiti Jewish musicians born in Kuwait.
A comeback
The government of Kuwait had approved on building a new city called Madinat al-Hareer. A super mega-project that will host 1001 m high skyscraper. The super tall tower will include a Muslim Mosque, a Jewish Synagogue and a Christian church under a single roof.
There are no Jewish citizens in Kuwait, though there are a dozen foreign Jews.
Jews in the Arab world
History of the Jews in Iraq
History of the Jews in Bahrain
History of the Jews in Oman
Yemenite Jews
See also
Abrahamic religion
Arab Jews
Arab states of the Persian Gulf
Babylonian captivity
History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula
History of the Jews under Muslim rule
Islam and antisemitism
Jewish exodus from Arab lands
Jews outside Europe under Nazi occupation
Judaism and Islam
List of Jews from the Arab World
Mizrahi Jews
References
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Michal Gogola
Michal Gogola (born 30 May 1980) is a Slovak water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (Honduras)
Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC), in English the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics, is the civil aviation authority of Honduras. The headquarters is in Tegucigalpa.
Accident investigations
The agency investigates aircraft accidents and incidents in Honduras. The agency investigated the crash of Central American Airways Flight 731.
Honduran authorities delegated the investigation of the TACA Flight 390 accident at Toncontín International Airport in 2008 to the Salvadoran Civil Aviation Authority in accordance with the Convention on International Civil Aviation.
References
External links
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Bernard Rajzman
Bernard Rajzman (born April 25, 1957) is a former Brazilian volleyball player. He is Jewish, and was born in Rio de Janeiro. He was enshrined in the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005. Nowadays, Bernard works for the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).
Rajzman began his sports career at the age of 11, playing basketball for Fluminense, but traded the sport for volleyball because he was too short. At the age of 17 he entered the Brazil men's national volleyball team, for which he played in three Olympics, winning a silver medal in Los Angeles 1984. He also won seven South American Championships, one gold medal at the 1983 Pan-American Games, silver in the 1982 FIVB Men's World Championship and bronze in the 1981 Volleyball World Cup. He developed the "Star Trek" serve, adapted from the beach volleyball, in which the ball is hit from below with enough force that it sails dozens of feet over the court.
Rajzman is the president of Brazil's National Commission of Athletes, and a state congressman.
Bernard Rajzman became an IOC member at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013.
He is the father of professional surfer Phil Rajzman.
See also
List of select Jewish volleyball players
References
External links
Official website
Volleyball Hall of Fame – Bernard
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Denali Award
Denali Award may refer to:
Denali Award, the top honor that the Alaska Federation of Natives bestows to non-Natives
Denali Award, the highest award in Varsity Scouting
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Bolton Market Hall
Bolton Market Hall is a listed building in Bolton, Greater Manchester that is now the Market Place Shopping Centre. The market hall and its integral ground-floor shops on Bridge Street, Corporation Street and Knowsley Street are included in the English Heritage listing.
History
Bolton Market Hall was designed by architect G. T. Robinson, and opened on 19 December 1855. Measuring 294 feet in length and covering an area of 7000 square yards it was said to be 'the largest covered market in the kingdom'. It cost £50000.
A long procession led to the opening ceremony. To complement the produce stalls and boost custom, a fish market was built next to it which opened in 1865 at a cost of £30000. The fish market was demolished in September 1932.
The market hall was modified in 1894 and further alterations were carried out at the turn of the 20th century. In 1938 the interior layout changed with roofed stalls in tightly packed islands replacing the long rows of stalls and in 1982 a competition brief to redevelop the site immediately to the north of the market hall into a shopping centre was won by Chapman Taylor Partners. In 1985 Grosvenor Developments took over the Market Place project from Wimpey Property Holdings.
The mall hall was refurbished in the 1980s to become the Market Place Shopping Centre and was opened in 1988 by Queen Elizabeth II.
Architectures
The building has stone façades, a cast iron and glass roof and is a Grade II listed building. Originally a single space with table stalls and blank elevations, it was modified, in the 1890s, 1930s and 1980s. The roof has large expanses of glazing carried on cast iron columns. At its highest point the ceiling is 112 feet high and has semi-circular arches. It has a hanging cast-iron lantern and once had a decorative fountain.
In 2007 Warner Estates commissioned van Heyningen and Haward Architects to restore the building's original features and modernise it to 20th century standards. Alterations to the original fabric were minimized and a scheme developed to allow retail units to be slotted into the listed structure, allowing for flexibility and potential removal in the future if desired.
The scheme was contentious involving significant change to a historic building. After consultation and the council awarded planning permission and listed building consent in 2005. English Heritage and the local council's conservation officer were involved in the proposals. The completed Market Place opened in October 2008.
References
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Mihalis Safras
Mihalis Safras ( / Michális Safrás), is a DJ Award winner (2016), producer and club DJ from Athens. His style has been described as Tech-House and Techno with prog influences. He co-founded the Material Series record label with Mark Broom in 2006. Safras was nominated at IDMA Awards and at DJ Awards in 2016. Notably, Mihalis Safras' single 'La Samba' was used by Apple Inc. for an iPhone marketing campaign.
Online music retailer, Traxsource named him as Best Techhouse Artist of the Year 2015 and on 2016 he was on the same list on number #3. Nominations also at DJAWARDS and IDMA Awards in 2016.
References
Traxsource Best of 2015 Artists.:
Ibiza Voice IV.:
IDJA:
External links
Official Website Official Web Page
Discogs Page Discography
Resident Advisor Official RA Page
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All Star DC Comics
All Star was an imprint of ongoing American comic book titles published by DC Comics that ran from 2005 to 2008. DC has published two titles under the All-Star banner, featuring Batman and Superman.
Overview
The premise of the imprint was to partner DC Comics' top tier characters with the most popular and acclaimed writers and artists. The creators had access to all elements in the characters' histories to present their interpretation for a modern audience that have not read these DC characters' comics previously, or had not seen them lately. The creative teams were not beholden to any previous and present continuities, and told stories that featured "the most iconic versions of these characters".
The project had been compared to the Ultimate line of Marvel Comics, which was a successful attempt to re-introduce Marvel's most popular characters to a new generation of readers by presenting new, updated versions unburdened by decades of plotlines. There were several differences between the two imprints, though. While the Ultimate titles have closely interrelated storylines, of the two All-Star series released, there has been no effort to make them conform to each other or indicate they exist in the same continuity. Another is that All-Star did not seek to introduce brand new versions of the characters so much as to present them in unhindered continuity. Robin's origin was the only one "rebooted" in this imprint.
Some observers, and DC themselves, had pointed to the return of DC's major film franchises as an impetus for All-Star. "No one can doubt that some kind of continuity shedding is necessary with Superman and Batman coming to the big screens," the website Comicon.com wrote. "Moviegoers entertained by these films would find the current comics storylines impenetrable ".
With the end of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All-Star Superman and the rebranding of Frank Miller and Jim Lee's All Star Batman and Robin as Dark Knight: Boy Wonder as well as the introduction of the DC: Earth One line of OGNs, the imprint is effectively defunct.
All Star titles
Only three All-Star titles have been released, although the last title is technically not a part of All Star imprint since it went defunct 2008. The original intent was for the creators to present versions of the DC characters the public could identify with but has since evolved with the creators' sensibilities and story direction. In that regard, DC Comics has decided that each of the series would end when the creators decide they are done rather than continue with a new creative team. The All-Star titles are self-contained, despite sharing a label. Each story within each book has the option of also having its own continuity, without ties to previous stories.
All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder is the first title to come out of the All-Star imprint. It premiered on September 2005. The first story arc featured artist Jim Lee and writer Frank Miller. This series features stories set in the early stages of the career of Batman, beginning with his recruitment of Dick Grayson as his sidekick Robin. Vicki Vale, Black Canary, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and Batgirl also appear. After the series being on hiatus for nearly two years, DC Comics announced on April 2, 2010, that Miller and Lee would return to the series in February 2011. Instead of falling under the "All-Star" print, the series will be re-branded as "Dark Knight: Boy Wonder," and will run for six issues, completing the story Miller originally intended to tell. All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder is in a spin-off continuity set in Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Universe" which consists of Batman: Year One, Spawn/Batman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, and The Dark Knight III: The Master Race. As of January 2019 "Dark Knight: Boy Wonder" has not been solicited.
All-Star Superman premiered on November 2005. The creative team of writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely finished their twelve-issue run in 2008. There were discussions with Morrison on a spin-off limited series or special possibly featuring the Super-Sons and Men of Tomorrow, but these plans were likely canceled.
All-Star Batman was an ongoing series that premiered on August 2016 as part of the DC Rebirth relaunch, and ran for 14 issues until October 2017. The creative team consisted of writer Scott Snyder and multiple artists, mainly John Romita Jr.. Despite the title, the series told stories that were set in the mainstream DC Universe continuity.
Unreleased titles
There were several other titles announced that would have added to the All-Star lineup but never saw publication.
All Star Wonder Woman was confirmed at the San Diego Comic Con 2006, with Adam Hughes announced as writer and artist. Hughes intended to retell the character's origin story, and described his approach to the series as an "iconic interpretation" of the character, but explained at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International that the project was "in the freezer" for the time being, due to the difficulty involved in both writing and illustrating himself.
All Star Batgirl was announced at the Toronto Comic Book Expo in 2006. Geoff Johns and J. G. Jones were planning to work on the first six issues, which would present a connection between Barbara Gordon and Arkham Asylum. According to Johns, the series would feature "a mystery centering around Barbara Gordon’s transformation into Batgirl," as in Batman: The Long Halloween. The title was described as not taking place in the continuity of All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder.
All Star Green Lantern was planned, with the creative team of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang. It would have starred the John Stewart version of the character.
In other media
All-Star Superman, a film in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, is an adaptation of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's 2005–2008 comic book All-Star Superman. It was written by writer Dwayne McDuffie and directed by Sam Liu. It was released on February 22, 2011. It stars James Denton as Superman, Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane, Anthony LaPaglia as Lex Luthor, Edward Asner as Perry White, Obba Babatundé as Judge, Steven Blum as Atlas, Linda Cardellini as Nasthalthia "Nasty" Luthor, Frances Conroy as Martha Kent, Alexis Denisof as Dr. Leo Quintum, Michael Gough as Parasite, Matthew Gray Gubler as Jimmy Olsen, Finola Hughes as Lilo, Kevin Michael Richardson as Steve Lombard, and Arnold Vosloo as Bar-El.
The 2013 film Man of Steel features a monologue spoken by Jor-El (Russell Crowe) taken almost word-for-word from the comic.
The 2017 Arrowverse crossover "Crisis on Earth-X" loosely incorporates several elements from All-Star Superman; the Nazi Supergirl is shown to be suffering from the same condition Superman is in the comic, and her cells are mentioned to be overloaded with solar radiation. When asked about this, she says "like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun," further referencing the events of the comic.
The Flash season one has an episode "All-Star Team Up".
See also
Ultimate Marvel - a Marvel Comics imprint preceding All-Star with a similar purpose.
DC: Earth One - another DC-Imprint that reimagines its most popular heroes.
The New 52 - DC's reboot and revamp of the company's superhero books for easier access for new comic readers.
References
External links
"DC Takes the Ultimate Chance on All-Stars", Comicon.com, December 21, 2004; a report on the announcement of the All-Star imprint.
"All Star Superman #1", by Neil Kenyon, PopMatters, January 6, 2006; review that compares and contrasts All-Star and Ultimate lines.
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Miacora
Miacora is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Species
Miacora adolescens (Dyar, 1914)
Miacora diphyes Forbes, 1942
Miacora leucocraspedontis Zukowsky, 1954
Miacora luzena (Barnes, 1905)
Miacora perplexa (Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893)
Miacora tropicalis Schaus, 1904
Former species
Miacora roseobrunnea Dognin, 1917
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
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List of Finnish utopian communities
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List of Finnish utopian communities
Uusi Jerusalem, Sierra Leone (1792-1792) religious, enlightenment
Amurinmaan yhtiö, Strelok, Russia (1868-1872), socialist (50 inhabitants)
Chillagoa, Queensland, Australia (1900-1900), socialist (80 inhabitants)
Sointula, Malkosaari, British Columbia, Canada (1901-1905), socialist (1000 inhabitants)
Sammon takojat, British Columbia, Canada (1905-1912), socialist, theosophic (50 inhabitants)
Red Deer plan, Alberta, Canada (1899-1899), nationalist
Itabo, Cuba (1904-1908), nationalist, socialist (50 inhabitants)
Ponnistus, Cuba (1906-1909), socialist (50 inhabitants)
Redwood Valley, California, United States (1912-1932), socialist, co-operativist (120 inhabitants)
Georgian Osuusfarmi, Georgia, United States (1921-1966), socialist (150 inhabitants)
Paradiso plan, Riviera, France (1925-1927), vegetarianist
Penedo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1929-1940), vegetarianist, religious (150 inhabitants)
Viljavakka, Dominican Republic (1930-1944), vegetarianist (140 inhabitants)
Colonia Finlandesa, Misiones, Argentina (1906-1940), nationalist (500 inhabitants)
Colonia Villa Alborado, Paraguay (1920-1940), vegetarianist (60 inhabitants)
Jad Hashmona, Israel (1971->), religious (100 inhabitants)
Emmaus Jokioinen, Finland (1977->), environmental movement (20 inhabitants)
See also
List of American Utopian communities
Karelian fever
Footnotes
Further reading
External links
Suomalaisten utopiayhteisöjen historiaa
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Świątniki
Świątniki may refer to the following places in Poland:
Świątniki, Trzebnica County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
Świątniki, Wrocław County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
Świątniki, Radziejów County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland)
Świątniki, Włocławek County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland)
Świątniki, Pabianice County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Świątniki, Piotrków County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Świątniki, Jędrzejów County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Świątniki, Sandomierz County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Świątniki, Konin County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
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Thomas Flynn (VC)
Thomas Flynn VC (August 1842 – 10 August 1892) was born in Athlone and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Victoria Cross
Flynn is acknowledged to be one of the two youngest recipients of the Victoria Cross; both he and Andrew Fitzgibbon were 15 years and three months old.
His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was 15 years old, and a drummer in the 64th Regiment of Foot (later The North Staffordshire Regiment - The Prince of Wales's), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 28 November 1857 at Cawnpore, India, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross:
Drummer Thomas Flynn
Date of Act of Bravery, 28th November, 1857
For conspicuous gallantry, in the charge on the Enemy's guns on the 28th November, 1857, when, being himself wounded, he engaged in a hand to hand encounter two of the Rebel Artillerymen.
Post-army life
After he left the army, he fell on hard times and was sent to Athlone Workhouse. His local Member of Parliament, Donal Sullivan, raised the matter in the House of Commons in April 1892. After reference to Flynn's previous gallantry, Sullivan asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office St John Brodrick:
Brodrick replied that:
Flynn died in the workhouse on 10 August 1892.
A memorial plaque was erected in the Garrison Church, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
References
Listed in order of publication year
The Register of the Victoria Cross (1981, 1988 and 1997)
Ireland's VCs (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)
Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)
External links
Location of grave and VC medal (Co. Westmeath, Ireland)
Athone Heritage
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9-foot Stake
9-foot Stake is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It lies to the south of Key West, and is west of Marker 32 reef. Unlike many reefs in the Sanctuary, it is not within a Sanctuary Preservation Area (SPA).
The reef gets its name from a fallen telephone pole within the reef.
Gallery
References
NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Maps, Florida Keys East
NOAA Map of buoys at 9-foot Stake
NOAA Navigational Chart 11441
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2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA
The 2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA was the declassification and donation to NASA of two identical space telescopes by the United States National Reconnaissance Office. The donation has been described by scientists as a substantial improvement over NASA's current Hubble Space Telescope. Although the telescopes themselves are being given to NASA at no cost, the space agency must still pay for the cost of instruments and electronics for the telescopes, as well as the launch of the telescopes. On February 17, 2016, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was formally designated as a mission by NASA, predicated on using one of the space telescopes.
Background
While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Hubble Space Telescope has collected a large amount of astrophysical data, has outlived all expectations, and has been described as one of the space agency's most successful missions, the instrument will soon succumb to the extreme environment of space. In addition, with the James Webb Space Telescope costing at least US$9 billion, the agency's astrophysics budget is extremely strained. As a result, NASA's other astrophysics missions have been delayed until funding becomes available.
In January 2011 the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) revealed to NASA the existence of two unneeded telescopes, originally built as reconnaissance satellites, and available to the civilian agency. NASA accepted the offer in August 2011 and announced the donation on 4 June 2012. The instruments were constructed between the late 1990s and early 2000s, reportedly for NRO's unsuccessful Future Imagery Architecture program; in addition to the two completed telescopes, a primary mirror and other parts for a third also exist.
While NRO considers them to be obsolete, the telescopes are nevertheless new and unused. All CCDs and electronics have been removed, however, and NASA must add them at its own expense. When the telescopes' specifications were presented to scientists, large portions were censored due to national security. An unnamed space analyst stated that the instruments may be a part of the KH-11 Kennen line of satellites which have been launched since 1976, but which have now been largely superseded by newer telescopes with wider fields of view than the KH-11. The analyst stated, however, that the telescopes have "state-of-the art optics" despite their obsolescence for reconnaissance purposes.
Potential uses
The early consensus for the usage of the telescopes was to follow the NASA Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey of 2010, which lists the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as its highest priority. Observing in the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum, WFIRST will be used to study the role of dark energy in the Universe, as well as to directly image Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets.
The NRO telescope design has several features which make it useful for WFIRST and superior to the Hubble. The NRO instrument's 2.4m primary mirror is the same size and quality as the Hubble's. With double the mirror diameter of the original WFIRST design, it allows for up to twice the image resolution and gathers four times the light. Unlike civilian telescopes, the NRO instrument also has a steerable secondary mirror for additional precision. The telescope has a much wider field of view than Hubble due to its shorter focal length, allowing it to observe about 100 times the area at any given time as Hubble can. This has led to the donated telescopes' characterization as "Stubby Hubbles". Their obstructed design, however, may make imaging extrasolar planets more challenging, and would be unsuitable for imaging the most distant galaxies at its longest infrared wavelengths, which requires cooling beyond the original NRO design temperature range.
Whether using the NRO telescopes would save NASA money is unclear. While each is worth at least $250 million, their larger size compared to the proposed WFIRST design would require a larger rocket and camera. According to one NASA estimate using an NRO telescope would raise the cost of WFIRST by $250 million above its $1.5 billion budget. Another estimate states that NASA would save up to $250 million. The agency's deputy acting director for astrophysics Michael Moore states that using both telescopes may ultimately save NASA $1.5 billion. David Spergel estimates that using an NRO telescope would add about $100 million to WFIRST's cost, but would prefer to spend another $200 million for a coronagraph to improve its direct-imaging capability.
Due to the budgetary constraints arising from the continued construction of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has stated that WFIRST may not be launched until 2024 at the earliest, despite early speculation that by using an NRO telescope the mission might launch by roughly 2020, at about the same time as the European Space Agency's Euclid. In addition, the availability of a telescope is believed to increase the probability that the mission will be launched at all.
While the first telescope is planned for use as the basis for WFIRST, NASA currently does not have plans or funding for the usage of the second. Astronomers have begun to study possible additional uses, and NASA is considering dozens of proposals; the only prohibition is Earth observation, a condition of the NRO donation. Possibilities include observing Earth's aurora and ionosphere, or asteroids and other faint objects within the solar system. NASA has also suggested that the telescope could be sent to Mars, photographing the surface with a resolution about four times finer than the current Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE instrument. From Martian orbit the telescope could also view the outer Solar System and the asteroid belt.
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Patrick S. Parker
Patrick "Pat" Streeter Parker (October 16, 1929 – July 6, 2005) was an American businessman who served as chief executive officer of Parker Hannifin Corporation from 1971 to 1983, a member of the board of directors from 1960 to 1999, and chairman from 1977 to 1999.
Early life
Born in Cleveland, Parker was the son of Arthur L. and Helen Parker. Arthur L. Parker founded the Parker Pneumatic Truck Brake company in 1918, which later evolved into the Parker Appliance Company.
Education
Parker attended University School and later went to Williams College where he received his B.A. degree. He later received his M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School.
Business career
At a company history presentation given in 1995 at the Euclid Avenue headquarters in Cleveland, Pat Parker said his father "dropped dead of a heart attack" in 1945 and left the entire business in the hands of his mother. "Many friends of the family advised her to sell but mom kept the business and later hired managers" to run it. Parker Appliance acquired the Hannifin Corporation in the late 1950s and for reasons of brand recognition renamed the business the Parker Hannifin Corporation. Throughout the period between World War II and his death, Pat Parker helped to build and expand Parker Hannifin to offer a wide array of hydraulic, pneumatic and electromechanical products, which gave Parker the position as a global leader in engineering. Now an $12.54 billion enterprise, the firm had annual sales of $197 million.
Most of Pat Parker's working career was with the company, starting from when he was a little boy. In 1960, Parker joined the board of directors of Parker Hannifin. He was elected president in 1968 and served as Chief Executive Officer from 1971 through 1983. He was named chairman in 1977, a position he retired from in 1999. He had previously retired as an employee in 1994.
He died from cancer at the age of 75 in July 2005.
Honors and awards
He received many honors which include the International Executive of the Year, Certificate of Distinction for Executive Management, and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for "Inside Business Magazine" in 2004.
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PRDM9
PR domain zinc finger protein 9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRDM9 gene. PRDM9 is responsible for positioning recombination hotspots during meiosis by binding a DNA sequence motif encoded in its zinc finger domain. PRDM9 is the only speciation gene found so far in mammals, and is one of the fastest evolving genes in the genome.
Domain Architecture
PRDM9 has multiple domains including KRAB domain, SSXRD, PR/SET domain (H3K4 & H3K36 trimethyltransferase), and an array of C2H2 Zinc Finger domains (DNA binding).
History
In 1974 Jiri Forejt and P. Ivanyi identified a locus which they named Hst1 which controlled hybrid sterility.
In 1982 a haplotype was identified controlling recombination rate wm7, which would later be identified as PRDM9.
In 1991 a protein binding to the minisatelite consensus sequence 5′-CCACCTGCCCACCTCT-3′ was detected and partially purified (named Msbp3 - minisatelite binding protein 3). This would later turn out to be the same PRDM9 protein independently identified later.
In 2005 a gene was identified (named Meisetz) that is required for progression through meiotic prophase and has H3K4 methyltransferase activity.
In 2009 Jiri Forejt and colleagues identified Hst1 as Meisetz/PRDM9 - the first and so far only speciation gene in mammals.
Later in 2009 PRDM9 was identified as one of the fastest evolving genes in the genome.
In 2010 three groups independently identified PRDM9 as controlling the positioning of recombination hotspots in humans and mice.
in 2012 it was shown that almost all hotspots are positioned by PRDM9 and that in its absence hotspots form near promoters.
In 2014 it was reported that the PRDM9 SET domain could also trimethylate H3K36 in vitro, which was confirmed in vivo in 2016.
In 2016 it was shown that the hybrid sterility caused by PRDM9 can be reversed and that the sterility is caused by asymmetric double strand breaks.
Function in Recombination
PRDM9 mediates the process of meiosis by directing the sites of homologous recombination. In humans and mice, recombination does not occur evenly throughout the genome but at particular sites along the chromosomes called recombination hotspots. Hotspots are regions of DNA about 1-2kb in length. There are approximately 30,000 to 50,000 hotspots within the human genome corresponding to one for every 50-100kb DNA on average. In humans, the average number of crossover recombination events per hotspot is one per 1,300 meioses, and the most extreme hotspot has a crossover frequency of one per 110 meioses. These hotspots are binding sites for the PRDM9 Zinc Finger array. Upon binding to DNA, PRDM9 catalyzes trimethylation of Histone 3 at lysine 4 and lysine 36. As a result, local nucleosomes are reorganized and through an unknown mechanism the recombination machinery is recruited to form double strand breaks.
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
UCSC GenomeWiki - PRDM9: Meiosis and Recombination
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Sigvard Ericsson
John Sigvard "Sigge" Ericsson (17 July 1930 – 2 November 2019) was a Swedish speed skater. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in 1956.
Biography
Ericsson started competing internationally in 1951 at the European Allround Championships where he did not qualify for the final distance. The next year, he participated again and he also participated in the 1952 Winter Olympics, but it would be a few more years until he won any international medals.
In 1953, the male Soviet skaters started competing internationally again for the first time since World War II and they took the world by storm. By 1954, most of the world records (for both men and women) were held by Soviet skaters – all those records having been skated on the fast ice of the Medeo rink in Alma-Ata. Among the best Soviet skaters of that time were Oleg Goncharenko and Boris Shilkov, who had taken one gold medal each and one silver medal each at the World Allround Championships of 1953 and 1954, making them the favourites at the 1954 European Allround Championships that followed. But while Shilkov became European Champion that year, Goncharenko finished 4th, having to allow silver medallist Hjalmar Andersen and bronze medallist Ericsson before him. This was Ericsson's first international medal.
The next year, Ericsson became the 1955 European Allround Champion, ahead of Shilkov (who took silver) and Dmitry Sakunenko (who won bronze). This made him the first to keep the Soviet skaters from taking gold at international competitions since they had re-entered the international skating world two years earlier. Two weeks later, Ericsson became World Allround Champion in Moscow, beating Goncharenko (silver) and Shilkov (bronze) on their "home ground".
Ericsson then participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics and he won silver on the 5000 m, behind world record holder Boris Shilkov, but ahead of bronze medallist Oleg Goncharenko. Two days later, Ericsson participated in the 10000 m – one of the very few distances at the time in which the world record was not held by a Soviet skater. Knut Johannesen skated a very fast 16:36.9 – only a little over four seconds slower than the world record held by Hjalmar Andersen – and it seemed that Johannesen's first international medal would be Olympic gold. But Ericsson managed to beat the time set by Johannesen by one second, setting a new Olympic record and becoming Olympic Champion on the 10000 m.
Later in February that year, Ericsson finished only 6th at the 1956 World Allround Championships and he won bronze at the European Allround Championships. The following season, Ericsson did not participate in the 1957 European Allround Championships, choosing to concentrate instead on the World Allround Championships held in Östersund, Jämtland – his home ground. However, he finished in a very disappointing ninth place and would not compete internationally again.
Ericsson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1955.
National championships
Ericsson won 11 national titles:
Swedish Championships 1500 m: 1954, 1955 and 1956.
Swedish Championships 5000 m: 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956.
Swedish Championships 10000 m: 1952, 1954, 1955 and 1956.
Note that Sweden did not have any National Allround Championships from 1935 to 1962 – only National Single Distance Championships.
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the last column (WR) lists the official world records on the dates that Ericsson skated his personal records.
Ericsson has an Adelskalender score of 185.131 points. His highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a fifth place.
References
External links
Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages
National Champions from Svenska Skridskoförbundet (the Swedish Skating Association)
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Harbin Springs Annex, California
Harbin Springs Annex is an unincorporated community in Lake County, California. It is located northwest of Harbin Springs, at an elevation of 1706 feet (520 m).
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Eek! The Cat
Eek! The Cat (retitled Eek! Stravaganza in 1994) is an American-Canadian animated series, created by Savage Steve Holland and Bill Kopp and produced by Fox Kids and Savage Studios with animation by Nelvana. It ran from 1992 to 1997, airing on YTV from 1992 to 1998 in Canada.
Premise
Eek! the Cat is about a purple cat named Eek whose motto is "it never hurts to help". This attitude generally gets him into trouble, from which much of the humor of the show is derived. Other characters include Eek!'s human family, with whom he cannot communicate via spoken language; Sharky the Sharkdog (his worst nightmare), and Eek's girlfriend, Annabelle.
The show featured slapstick humor and pop culture references. Shows vary from standard cartoon fare to movie spoofs (such as Apocalypse Now and A Clockwork Orange) and musical episodes; the first Christmas episode was written almost entirely in rhyme. The show featured many cameos by celebrities, some of whom came back for several episodes.
Episodes
Characters
Eek the Cat (voiced by Bill Kopp) – Eek always puts others' safety, needs, and comfort before his own. Eek can talk with all animals and most humans, but oddly enough cannot converse with his owners: Mom, Wendy Elizabeth, and J.B. He often exclaims "Kumbaya!" His motto is that "It never hurts to help!", although with Eek this is frequently not the case. The major running gag within the show is that Eek's selfless nature usually gets him caught up in painful situations such as getting caught in mail and baggage sorters (both of which appear designed to intentionally damage their contents) and screaming "Oh Gosh It Hurts!" while the show's guitar riff theme played. Despite Eek's misfortunes, episodes would usually end with Eek rewarded in some way for facing the adversity squarely and being selfless towards others.
Sharky the Sharkdog – Annabelle's pet guard dog who defends Annabelle's house with the viciousness (and also the overall appearance) of a shark. Sharky does not speak, but more than makes up for it in growls (though other animal characters such as Eek can comprehend what he is saying, and subtitles are sometimes provided). Sharky typically terrorizes Eek for fun, although occasionally as a reaction to Eek!'s incessant trouble-causing helpfulness. There are moments where the two get along and partner in the plot line, but they happen to be rare. Sharky loves to bite things, mostly mail-carriers. Sharky also has quite a bit of skill as a craftsman, he is constantly rebuilding his doghouse after Eek accidentally destroys it. Like Snoopy's doghouse, the interior of Sharky's doghouse resembles a cavernous mansion with several floors and a garage. Sharky has a curious affiliation with firearms and explosives, which often backfires on himself. In many cases, Sharky and Eek's relationship follows a subtly satisfying pattern of karma.
Elmo the Elk (also known as Elmo: The Brown Nosed Reindeer, Incredible Elmo) – Eek!'s extremely inept but loyal friend. Elmo typically maintains a courageous façade but is actually quite cowardly. He typically works as a stunt man or in some form of action career. He also believes that there are 31 days in the month of June.
Mom – The apparently single mother of the family that owns Eek!. Voiced by Elinor Donahue. Does a lot of house cleaning and is a student of foreign languages, especially "Spangalese." Once on a flight to England she listened to a tape of British-accented English, a language she found especially challenging. A running gag features her absent-minded listening to foreign language cassettes, reciting the nonsensical translations of English phrases while cleaning the house, unknowingly causing mayhem in the process.
Wendy Elizabeth and J.B. (voiced by Elizabeth Daily and Charles Adler) – The children of the family that owns Eek!, normal kids and are whiny and spoiled. They watch a lot of television. Their favorite show is The Squishy Bearz Rainbow of Enchanted Fun Minute, a spoof of the Care Bears. They have similarities in their personalities, but also differences. J.B. is low on overall intelligence, but has a more even temper and better control of his emotions, while Wendy Elizabeth is very intelligent, but also both a figurative and literal crybaby, crying or sobbing over the slightest bad or undesirable thing that may happen to her (such as getting a defective bicycle bell for her birthday, getting a "D" on a test, or initially failing to get any treats on Halloween), sometimes causing natural disasters like earthquakes in doing so. Nonetheless, both children are generally shown to be goodhearted and love Eek! and their mother very much.
Annabelle – A female cat and Eek's girlfriend who acts like a Southern belle. She is also extremely fat, although Eek! does not seem aware of this (he responds, genuinely surprised, "Really?" whenever someone comments on Annabelle's weight), and just sees Annabelle as being very beautiful. He is attributed as saying about Annabelle: "The more of you there is, the more there is to love." Despite her weight, her arms and legs are very skinny. Eek! fell in love with Annabelle the first time he saw her, when he was hit by the arrow of a one-winged cupid. Like Wendy Elizabeth, Annabelle can cry over anything that upsets her in the slightest bit, though perhaps not to the same extent as she.
Timmy – Elmo's brother. He constantly needs money for various absurd medical ailments which Elmo tries to raise with Eek!'s help. These usually consist of very dangerous stunts that only harm Eek! when he gets involved.
Mittens (Voiced by Dan Castellaneta in 1992-1994) – Eek!'s friend who is also a cat. His fur is blue, he always wears red mittens, and he belongs to an old woman with failing sight. He suffers from extreme paranoia and he always ends a sentence with the word "Man" (e.g. LOOK OUT, MAN!!). Mittens appears to have been based on Dennis Hopper's unnamed photojournalist character from Apocalypse Now, even portraying the equivalent character in the episode "Eekpocalypse Now!"
The Squishy Bearz – Four colorful bears with their own children's TV program called The Squishy Bearz Rainbow of Enchanted Fun Minute; they are an obvious parody of the Care Bears. Kozy (yellow), Puffy (blue) and Wuz Wuz (pink) all have happy and friendly attitudes. The fourth bear, Pierre (green), who speaks with a French accent and wears a beret, is bitter and cynical.
Steven – A squirrel who lives in a nearby tree with his wife and four children. Steven and his family are so incredibly boring that even Eek cannot stand being around them for long.
Piggy the Penguin – First appearing in the episode "The Lord of the Fleas" (an obvious parody of Lord of the Flies), Piggy is a small penguin with thick eyeglasses who can often be seen sporting a pig mask. He is often seen in the company of a larger and deeper-voiced penguin as they take part in the bizarre circumstances of the show. Often, in a running gag, Piggy will discover something strange and attempt to inform his larger companion, who then responds by saying "Shut up Piggy!" Piggy has a distinct British accent, another reference to The Lord of the Flies. Piggy returns several times in quick cameos and occasionally takes a larger role.
Hank and Jib – A pair of government scientists who make recurring appearances, often clutching a cup of coffee each and conversing in dull tones, their words are usually punctuated with 'ums' and 'ers'. A running gag in the show involves the two at a ground station in the company of other scientists after finally getting the Hubble Telescope to work, only for it to be struck by a character or object from the show's main story, causing it to either malfunction or to point to somewhere on Earth. This often results in either some celebrity showing up on the monitor or the monitor simply going black, which the pair of scientists obliviously acknowledge as being the fruit of their research, followed by Hank inquiring, "Who wants lunch?"
Zoltar (Voiced by Brad Garrett) – An evil alien bent on destroying Earth by capturing Annabelle and using her as a battery for their planet-destroying laser. His attempts are always being thwarted by Eek and his friends.
Additional voices
Gillian Anderson
Susan Clarke
Steve Townsend
Sin James
Mr. T
"Weird Al" Yankovic
John Walsh
Kathy Ireland
The Terrible Thunderlizards
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Michael Shipster
Michael David Shipster CMG OBE (born 17 March 1951) is a former British diplomat.
He was educated at Ratcliffe College, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA 1972) and the University of East Anglia (MA, Development Studies, 1977). He was an Overseas Development Institute Nuffield Fellow in Botswana between 1972 and 1974, and joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1977, serving in Moscow, New Delhi, Lusaka, Johannesburg and Washington. He was awarded an OBE in 1990 and a CMG in 2003.
Iraq intelligence
In The Way of the World, journalist and author Ron Suskind claims that Shipster was the head of MI6 in the Middle East prior to the Iraq War, and that he had held secret meetings in Jordan with Tahir Jalil Habbush, head of Iraqi Intelligence. Suskind claims that Habbush assured Shipster that Iraq did not possess active nuclear, chemical, biological or other weapons of mass destruction, and that the then head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove flew to Washington to brief the head of the CIA George Tenet about this, and that Tenet immediately briefed George Bush.
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Fuegotrophon malvinarum
Fuegotrophon malvinarum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Distribution
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Shooting at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle standing SH1
The Women's 10 metre air rifle standing SH1 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on 30 August at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the "standing" (interpreted to include seated in wheelchairs) position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 50 shots were used to determine the final ranking.
Qualification round
Q – Qualified for final
Final
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Category:Shooting at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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"pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)"
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