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Sam Elliott Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor. His lanky physique, thick moustache, deep and resonant voice, and Western drawl have led to frequent roles as cowboys and ranchers.[1] His other credits over the years have included playing The Stranger in The Big Lebowski (1998), Gar in Mask (1985), General John Buford in Gettysburg (1993), Virgil Earp in Tombstone (1993), Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley in We Were Soldiers (2002) and Marvel Comics characters Thunderbolt Ross in Hulk (2003) and The Caretaker in Ghost Rider (2007).
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Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: regional-and-ethnic , favorites , short-stories-and-novellas Leaving Home is Garrison Keillor’s first print collection of Lake Wobegon monologues from his A Prairie Home Companion radio show — collected from between 1984 – 1987. I say “first” like there are lots, but sadly there are only two — this one one and Life Among the Lutherans ; and four more appear in the Lake Wobegon section of The Keillor Reader . There are plenty of Lake Wobegon collections on CD, but I wish more were in print form. Keillor does a News from Lake Wobegon monologue each week on his Leaving Home is Garrison Keillor’s first print collection of Lake Wobegon monologues from his A Prairie Home Companion radio show — collected from between 1984 – 1987. I say “first” like there are lots, but sadly there are only two — this one one and Life Among the Lutherans ; and four more appear in the Lake Wobegon section of The Keillor Reader . There are plenty of Lake Wobegon collections on CD, but I wish more were in print form. Keillor does a News from Lake Wobegon monologue each week on his A Prairie Home Companion radio show. Lake Wobegon is a fictional small town in Minnesota populated by mostly Catholics (descedened from German immigrants) and Lutherans (descended from Norwegian and Swedish immigrants). He always begins each monologue with: “Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home, town…” He mentions the weather and then brings us up-to-date on the lives of the Lake Wobegonians in all its boring and extraordinary glory. It’s truly amazing how these ordinary people with their ordinary lives living in this imaginary small town in Minnesota are so captivating and feel so real. The only quibble I have (and it’s minor, I have much ♥ for the Lake Wobegon monologues) is that some of the vignettes end a bit abruptly — it’s not that any there were any loose ends that needed to be tied up, it’s just that I want more. I’m sure the (sometimes) sudden endings are due to the time constraints of the live show and Keillor’s spontaneity on stage. “A Glass of Wendy” is my absolute favorite vignette, but I love them all. My favorite quote: “If you can’t trust your can opener, then what?” [page 35] “Well, that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” youtube video on The Origins of Lake Wobegon all my reveiws can be found at www.isniffbooks.wordpress.com ...more Shelves: classy-fiction , humor As always with Keillor, my thoughts on his fiction are colored by being from a place pretty similar to the Lake Wobegone of his books. I always think of the people he writes about as "my people" and am therefore prepossesed to liking his work. Still, I don't think I'm way off base by saying this book has a lot of humanity in it. If I have it right, all of the 30 or so chapters that make up Leaving Home are taken from Keillor's radio show and transcribed. As usual, they concern the small time goi As always with Keillor, my thoughts on his fiction are colored by being from a place pretty similar to the Lake Wobegone of his books. I always think of the people he writes about as "my people" and am therefore prepossesed to liking his work. Still, I don't think I'm way off base by saying this book has a lot of humanity in it. If I have it right, all of the 30 or so chapters that make up Leaving Home are taken from Keillor's radio show and transcribed. As usual, they concern the small time goings-on in a small Minnesota community. The characters feels true to life--both small-minded and sometimes generous. I was often touched by the writing, and though this book is less dark than some of Keillor's other published work that did not appear on the radio, there is still a surprisingly small amount of nostolgia. In my view, the Upper Plains states couldn't find a better chronicler of their collective experience than Keillor. Like the citizens themselves, Keillor's work is subdued, with gentle humor. Sometimes reac
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James David "Buddy" Ryan (February 17, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). During his 35-season coaching career, Ryan served as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals, and the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears and Houston Oilers of the NFL.
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The Pilot ( Friends) The Pilot ( Friends)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedianavigation search" The Pilot "Friends episode Episode no. Season 1 Episode 1Directed by James Burrows Written by David Crane & Marta Kauffman Featured music"Sky Blue and Black" by Jackson Browne" Time of the Season " by The Zombies" The Star-Spangled Banner " by John Stafford Smith Original air date September 22, 1994Guest appearance (s)John Allen Nelson as Paul "the Wine Guy"Clea Lewis as Franny Episode chronology← Previous — Next → " The One with the Sonogram at the End "Friends (season 1)List of Friends episodes The Pilot, also known as " The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate " [a], was the pilot episode of the American situation comedy series Friends, premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. It was written by series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and directed by James Burrows. The pilot introduces six friends who live and work in New York City; Monica ( Courteney Cox) sleeps with a wine seller after their first date but is horrified to discover he tricked her into bed; her brother Ross ( David Schwimmer) is depressed after his lesbian ex-wife moves her things out of their apartment; Monica's old schoolfriend Rachel ( Jennifer Aniston) moves in with Monica after running out of her wedding; and their friends, Joey, Chandler, and Phoebe ( Matt Le Blanc, Matthew Perry, and Lisa Kudrow ), respectively offer them each support and advice. Crane and Kauffman pitched their original idea to network NBC in December 1993. NBC liked it and commissioned a complete script, which was submitted in March 1994. Before the script was finished, casting for the six main roles began; 75 actors were seen for each part. The pilot was taped on May 4, 1994 at Warner Bros. ' studios in Burbank, California. After making final edits to the episode, executive producer Kevin Bright submitted it on May 11, two days before NBC was due to announce the schedule. Satisfied with the completed pilot, NBC ordered 12 more episodes for the first season. The episode was watched by approximately 22 million viewers, making it the fifteenth-most-watched television show of the week. Critics compared the show unfavorably to Seinfeld and Ellen, noting the similarities all three series had in depicting friends conversing about their lives. The cast, particularly Schwimmer, were complimented, though there was some concern that the character roles were undeveloped. Contents [ hide ]1 Plot2 Production2.1 Conception2.2 Casting2.3 Filming3 Reception4 Footnotes5 References6 Further reading7 External links Plot [ edit]Before a date with Paul the "wine guy", Monica Geller is teased by her friends, Phoebe Buffay, Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani, at The Central Perk coffee shop. Ross Geller, Monica's older brother, arrives at the coffee shop, upset after discovering his ex-wife, a recently out lesbian, has moved out of his apartment to begin a new relationship with her partner. A young woman suddenly arrives wearing a wet wedding dress, whom Monica recognizes as her high school best friend, Rachel Green. Monica introduces her to the others as Rachel reveals she left her fiancé at the altar. After Rachel's father denies her financial assistance, Monica reluctantly takes Rachel in as a new roommate. Meanwhile, Joey and Chandler console Ross while helping him assemble new furniture. Ross begins to wonder if any woman would be "the right one" for him. Monica goes on her first date with Paul, and while he seems decent and respectful, she discovers from a colleague that he has a bad reputation as a womanizer, ending her hopes that she will find a mate. Ross realizes that Rachel could be the beginning of a new hope for him. He successfully brings up the idea to Rachel of asking her out sometime, and later confesses to Monica about the potential relationship. In the final scene, the entire group are in Central Perk having coffee with Rachel, who begins a new career as a coffee shop waitress. Production [ edit]Conception [ edit]Creators and writers David Crane and Marta Kauffman were known in the television industry for writing the cable television series Dream On. A second series by the duo, Family Album, had premiered on CBS in the Fall 1993 season but was cancelled after airing six episodes. [1] In November 1993, they began developing three new television pilots from their offices at Warner Bros. Television that could premiere in the Fall 1994 season. [1] [2] As Dream On had won them clout in Hollywood, they aimed to pitch one of their ideas to NBC; Insomnia Cafe, [b] about six friends who live and work in New York City, was pitched as a seven-page treatment to the network in December 1993. [1] [3]"It's about sex, love, relationships, careers, a time in your life when everything's possible. And it's about friendship because when you're single and in the city, your friends are your family. "— Part of Crane and Kauffman's original pitch for Insomnia Cafe [3]NBC bought the pitch as a put pilot, meaning they risked financial penalties if the pilot was not filmed. To get an idea of how their characters would behave, Kauffman interviewed several of her children's twenty-something babysitters. [1] She and Crane wrote the script in three days. [4] James Burrows, known for directing Cheers, was hired to direct it. He liked the script, though asked for Joey, who was originally written similarly to Chandler, to be "dumbed up a bit". [1] [5] The script was completed in early March 1994, though before then eight-line character breakdowns had been sent to acting agencies in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. [6]Casting [ edit]1,000 actors replied to the callouts for each role, but only 75 were called in to read for the casting director. Those who received a callback read again in front of Crane, Kauffman and their production partner Kevin S. Bright. At the end of March, the potential actors had been reduced to three or four for each part; they read for Les Moonves, president of Warner Bros. Television. [6] David Schwimmer was first to be cast. [7] He was in Chicago doing a stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita when his agent offered him the audition. He was not interested in doing television after a bad experience appearing in Monty, but changed his mind when he learned that it was an ensemble script. [8] Unknown to him, Crane and Kauffman had remembered him from when he auditioned for an earlier pilot of theirs; they had written the part of Ross with Schwimmer in mind to play him. [7] Eric Mc Cormack also auditioned for the role several times. He later became famous for his lead role in the sitcom Will & Grace. [9]Courteney Cox was the best-known cast member Courteney Cox was the most well-known of the six main actors. She was being considered for Rachel, but Cox read the script and thought she was a better fit for Monica. After reading for Monica instead, she won the role. [10] Nancy Mc Keon also read for the part. [11] Jennifer Aniston read for the part of Rachel after initially being considered for Monica. Her contract with the CBS TV series Muddling Through meant that any role with Friends would be in second position to the series. The CBS show was not scheduled to be broadcast until mid-1994, after NBC's announcement of whether Friends would be greenlit; if Muddling Through became a ratings success and CBS enforced Aniston's contract, Friends would have had to recast her. Within three days of first auditioning for Friends Aniston nonetheless got the role, [12] [13] because NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield correctly expected that Muddling Through would immediately fail. [14] Crane and Kauffman wanted Joey to be "a guy's guy" who loves "women, sports, women, New York, women". The actors auditioned using the "grab a spoon" scene, and many arrived in character with "lots of chest showing". [6] [15] As the Joey character was not developed much in the script, Matt Le Blanc just used his experience playing "this Italian, kind of dim character" from Vinny and Bobby. [16] He had at least eight auditions for the part, and in his final one read with Aniston and Cox. [17]Chandler and Phoebe had originally been written as more secondary characters who were just there to provide humor around the other four; Matthew Perry described Chandler in the pilot script as "an observer of other people's lives". They had become part of the core group by the time casting concluded. [18] [19] Crane believed that the part of Chandler, described in the character breakdown as "a droll, dry guy", would be the easiest to cast, though it proved more difficult than he initially hoped. [6] [20] Perry had previously worked with Kauffman and Crane on an episode of Dream On, and requested an audition when he identified with the character. He was turned down due to his involvement as a cast member in LAX 2194, a television pilot about airport baggage handlers in the future. After the producers of Friends saw LAX 2194, it became clear to them that it would not be picked up for a series, and Perry was granted an audition. [18] He read for the role near the end of the casting period and got it in under a week. [21] Before Perry was cast, Craig Bierko was first choice for the role. Bierko was a friend of Perry's, and Perry coached him for his audition to help him get to know what the Chandler character was like. [7] Jon Cryer had also auditioned for the part. He was doing a play in London and read for a British casting director, though his audition tape did not arrive at Warner Bros. in time for him to be considered. [22]Many actresses who read for Phoebe arrived at the audition in character, wearing "bell bottoms and clunky shoes and nose rings". [6] Kathy Griffin and Jane Lynch auditioned for the role. Lisa Kudrow won the role because the producers liked her as Ursula, the waitress in Mad About You. [15] [c] She was second to be cast, though there was about a month between her and Schwimmer being signed on. [7] Many of the actors seen by Moonves were "too theatrical" in performing comedy; [6] Crane described the six successful actors as being the only ones who "nailed" their parts. [20] The six actors met for the first time altogether at the read-through on April 28, 1994. [23] [24] John Allen Nelson and Clea Lewis guest-star as Paul and Franny, Monica's date and co-worker respectively. [25] Cynthia Mann appears as a Central Perk waitress. [d]Filming [ edit]The set of Central Perk, where many scenes in the episode were filmed. A dress rehearsal was held on May 2, two days before taping. Several NBC executives watched the rehearsal and were concerned that Monica did not care enough about Paul to sleep with him on their first date. NBC West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer believed that the audience would perceive her as "a slut". [26] Crane, Kauffman and Warner Bros. executives disagreed, and surveyed the other people watching the rehearsal to support their position. [26] [27] Despite the audience agreeing with them, they had to take NBC's considerations into account in case they lost the commission; they rewrote Monica's lines to show that she cared about Paul. NBC also wanted a scene removed that implied the supposedly-impotent Paul was getting an erection, as it would violate network standards. Crane and Kauffman rewrote the scene and found they preferred the new version, as it made the scene "smart and subtler". They sought to protect other parts of the script, some major and some minor; NBC wanted two of the pilot's three storylines downplayed to subplots, but the writers were adamant that all three should carry equal weight. They also favored not cutting the "Mr. Potato Head" line. Their final script draft was completed on May 3. [27]The episode was taped on May 4 at Warner Bros.' studios in Burbank, California. [27] [28] A total of eight hours of material was filmed (two hours from each of the four cameras), which was edited down to 22 minutes under Bright's supervision. [27] Bright submitted it to NBC on May 10, 72 hours before the fall schedule was announced. NBC ordered Bright to make further edits, which he completed at 1 a.m. on May 11. On May 12, NBC screened the finished pilot to focus groups, who gave positive but mixed reactions. [29] The network announced the fall schedule on May 13 and ordered an additional 12 episodes of Friends for its first season. Crane and Kauffman immediately received telephone calls from writers' agents who wanted to get their clients jobs on the series. [29] [30]Reception [ edit]The episode was first broadcast on NBC on September 22, 1994 in the 8:30–9 p.m. (EST) timeslot. [28] It ranked as the fifteenth-most-watched television show of the week, scoring a 14.7/23 Nielsen rating (each point represented 954,000 households) and nearly 22 million viewers. [3] [31]David Schwimmer received considerable praise Critics likened the episode to Seinfeld and Ellen; Tom Feran in The Plain Dealer wrote that it traded "vaguely and less successfully on the hanging-out style of Seinfeld ", [32] and Ann Hodges of the Houston Chronicle called it "the new Seinfeld wannabe, but it will never be as funny as Seinfeld. Even as Seinfeld is now, which isn't as funny as it used to be". [33] Hodges criticized the "stiflingly dull social circle" as "short to the point of painful in brainpower". [33] Robert Bianco in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that the "constant comic bantering grows a little tired, just as it would if it ever actually happened in real life", and questioned why the six characters had so much free time to talk about dates. [34] In the Los Angeles Daily News, Ray Richmond, who had also seen the following two episodes, called the cast a "likeable, youth ensemble" with "good chemistry". He added that while Friends was "one of the brighter comedies of the new season", the pilot was "very weak". [35] Diane Holloway for the Austin American-Statesman questioned Friends ' billing as a "sophisticated comedy", writing, "What's sophisticated about a guy who dreams his penis is a telephone?" She called the scene where Monica discovers Paul's impotence was a lie the least funny part of the episode, though conceded that the episode as a whole did have some funny moments. [36] Robert P. Laurence wrote in The San Diego Union-Tribune that "A lot happens, but you'll still get the feeling you've seen Friends before", calling it " Seinfeld Plus Two. Or Ellen Plus Five." [37] In the Chicago Sun-Times, Ginny Holbert rated the episode three stars, and wrote "The clever series [...] stars an appealing group of actors who are just a bit funnier and better-looking than your average friend" but that Joey and Rachel's characteristics were under-developed. [38]The Los Angeles Times called it "flat-out the best comedy series of the new season". [39] Variety ' s Tony Scott had optimistic hopes for the series; he enjoyed the premise but was concerned that dialogue from the writers of Dream On should be "snappier". Scott was also concerned that the Monica storyline set a bad example to younger viewers; " Friends touts promiscuity and offers liberal samples of an openness that borders on empty-headedness". He singled out Cox and Schwimmer as the best actors of the ensemble. [28] Robert Bianco was complimentary of Schwimmer, calling him "terrific". He also praised the female leads, but wrote that Perry's role as Chandler was "undefined" and that Le Blanc was "relying too much on the same brain-dead stud routine that was already tired the last two times he tried it". [34] Entertainment Weekly rates the episode B+ and states that "After 22 minutes, these six people are believably set up as lifelong buddies". Ross's line, "Do the words ' Billy, Don't Be a Hero ' mean anything to you?" is singled out as the best line of the episode. [40] The authors of Friends Like Us: The Unofficial Guide to Friends call it a "good, solid start to the series" but "the regular cast (particularly Perry and Schwimmer) might be trying just a little too hard". [41] Schwimmer recalls enjoying the physical humor involving Ross, particularly the scene where Ross greets Rachel and opens an umbrella on her. [42]The episode was syndicated for the first time on September 21, 1998. Several deleted scenes were restored to the episode, bringing its total running time to 37 minutes, for a one-hour timeslot. It gained a rating of 5.8/10, averaged across 40 stations. This made Friends the third-highest-rated off-network syndicated sitcom to air at that time, behind Home Improvement and Seinfeld. [43]Footnotes [ edit]a. ^ In its initial airing the episode was simply titled "The Pilot", but was retroactively retitled "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate" on the DVD release, and is also titled as such on Netflix, Amazon Video, i Tunes, and syndication television listings. Other alternate titles, though lesser used, are "The One Where It All Began" and "The First One". [25]b. ^ The seven-page treatment was titled Insomnia Cafe. [3] The first script was originally titled Friends Like Us, but was changed to Six of One to avoid confusion with These Friends of Mine. [27] By the time the series was commissioned, the title was just Friends. [29]c. ^ " The One with Two Parts, Part 1 " establishes Ursula as Phoebe's twin sister. [44]d. ^ From " The One with the Dozen Lasagnas ", Mann appears in a recurring role as Jasmine, Phoebe's masseuse co-worker. Some sources identify her character in the pilot as Jasmine, though she is not credited as that character. 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The New York Times: p. 149.^ Carmody, John (September 26, 1994). "The TV Column". Washington Post.^ Feran, Tom (September 22, 1994). "New Series Softens Dabney Coleman—A Little". The Plain Dealer (Newhouse Newspapers).^ a b Hodges, Ann (September 22, 1994). "NBC sitcoms make Thursday less funny". Houston Chronicle (Hearst Newspapers).^ a b Bianco, Robert (September 22, 1994). " Six 'Friends' Sittin' Around, Talking ". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG Publishing Co): p. C-1 (archived on Google News Archive).^ Richmond, Ray (September 22, 1994). "Season Premiere of 'Friends' Leaves Room to Grow". Los Angeles Daily News.^ Holloway, Diane (September 22, 1994). "NBC's 6 new 'Friends' are twentysometimes funny". Austin American-Statesman (Cox Newspapers): p. B14.^ Laurence, Robert P. (September 22, 1994). "Two sitcoms: One good, one not". The San Diego Union-Tribune (Union-Tribune Publishing Co): p. 36.^ Holbert, Ginny (September 22, 1994). "X Marks Spot For 'Friends' On Thursday". Chicago Sun-Times: p. 43.^ Rosenberg, Howard (September 22, 1994). "NBC's Strongest Evening of the Week Has Its Weak Spot". The Los Angeles Times: p. F1.^ Staff (September 15, 2001). " Review: Season 1 (1994–1995) ". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on June 18, 2007^ Sangster & Bailey, p. 14.^ Schwimmer, David, Friends: Final Thoughts^ Time Warner (September 22, 1998). " Viewers Make Friends in Off-Network Debut ". Press release. Retrieved on June 28, 2007.^ "The One with Two Parts, Part 1". Kauffman, Marta; David Crane (writers), Michael Lembeck (director). Friends. NBC. February 23, 1995. No. 16, season 1. Video Hacopian, Christina (producer) (2004). Friends: Final Thoughts [DVD]. New Wave Entertainment DVD and Warner Home Entertainment. King, Larry (host) (March 10, 1997). Larry King Live [Television broadcast]. CNN. Books Sangster, Jim; David Bailey (2000). Friends Like Us: The Unofficial Guide to Friends, 2nd ed., London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0753504391. Stallings, Penny (2000). The Ultimate Friends Companion. London: Channel 4 Books. ISBN 0752272314. Wild, David (2004). Friends ...'Til the End. London: Headline. ISBN 0755313216. Further reading [ edit]" A Failing Grade For 'Friends' ". The Smoking Gun (May 12, 2004)—An NBC audience research report, dated May 27, 1994External links [ edit]"The Pilot" on IMDb"The Pilot" at TV.com [ hide]v t e Friends Characters Chandler Bing Phoebe Buffay Monica Geller Ross Geller Rachel Green Joey Tribbiani Episodes Season 1" The Pilot " (1.01) " The One with the Sonogram at the End " (1.02)" The One with George Stephanopoulos " (1.04) " The One with the East German Laundry Detergent " (1.05) " The One Where Nana Dies Twice " (1.08) " The One Where Underdog Gets Away " (1.09)" The One with the Monkey " (1.10) " The One with the Dozen Lasagnas " (1.12)" The One with the Boobies " (1.13) " "The One with Two Parts: Part 1 " (1.16)" The One with Two Parts: Part 2 " (1.17) " The One with All the Poker " (1.18)" The One Where the Monkey Gets Away " (1.19)Season 2" The One with the Lesbian Wedding " (2.11) " The One After the Superbowl " (2.12–2.13)" The One with the Prom Video " (2.14) " The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies " (2.18)Season 3" The One Where No One's Ready " (3.02)Season 4" The One with the Embryos " (4.12) " The One with Ross's Wedding " (4.23–4.24)Season 5" The One After Ross Says Rachel " (5.01) " The One Hundredth " (5.03)" The One with All the Thanksgivings " (5.08) " The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey " (5.15)" The One Where Rachel Smokes " (5.18) " The One Where Ross Can't Flirt " (5.19)" The One with the Ride-Along " (5.20)Season 6" The One After Vegas " (6.01) " The One with the Apothecary Table " (6.11) " The One with the Proposal " (6.24–6.25)Season 7" The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding " (7.23–7.24)Season 8" The One with Rachel's Date " (8.05) " The One with the Rumor " (8.09)Season 9 –Season 10" The Last One " (10.17–10.18)Related articles Music" I'll Be There for You "Joey Mad About You Awards and nominations Friends ... 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Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman . Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways , the series features the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of the commercial Jet Age . Pan Am premiered on ABC on September 25 , 2011 , and ended on February 19 , 2012 . ABC canceled the series on May 11 , 2012 . In May 2012 , Sony Pictures Television had conversations with Amazon about picking up the series for a second season because of its international success . It won the `` Best Series '' at the Rose d'Or TV awards , Europe 's equivalent of the Emmys . Unable to reach a deal with Amazon , the producers officially ended the series on June 20 , 2012 .
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Alessia Caracciolo -LRB- -LSB- aˈlɛssja kaˈrattʃolo -RSB- ; born July 11 , 1996 -RRB- , professionally known as Alessia Cara , is a Canadian singer and songwriter . She is signed to EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings and released her debut single , `` Here '' , from the debut studio album , Know-It-All , released November 13 , 2015 . A sleeper hit , the song reached the top five in the United States and the top 20 in Canada . Prior to her work for Def Jam , she produced acoustic covers on YouTube . In 2016 , her single `` Scars to Your Beautiful '' reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the US pop radio charts . In 2017 , Cara collaborated with producer Zedd to create the single `` Stay '' , which has since reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 , making it her third top ten song .
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The Royal Family Order of Saints George and Constantine (Greek: Βασιλικό Οικογενειακό Τάγμα των Αγίων Γεωργίου και Κωνσταντίνου ) is an order of the Greek royal family. For the duration of its existence, it has been the second highest decoration awarded by the modern Greek state and the Greek crown, after the Order of the Redeemer. It was instituted in January 1936 by King George II in the memory of his grandfather (King George I) and his father (King Constantine I). The order is awarded only to men, while the corresponding Order of Saints Olga and Sophia is reserved for women. The order's design was influenced by the royal family's Danish origin, evoking the appearance of the Order of the Dannebrog. The order is not awarded since 1975 by the Greek state after the abolition of monarchy and today is awarded only by the Greek Royal Family.
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Symptoms. Vaginal cysts usually do not cause symptoms. In some cases, a soft lump can be felt in the vaginal wall or protruding from the vagina. Cysts range in size from the size of a pea to that of an orange. Some women with vaginal cysts may have discomfort during sex or trouble inserting a tampon. A mass or bulge of the vaginal wall may be seen during a pelvic exam. You may need a biopsy to rule out vaginal cancer, especially if the mass appears to be solid.
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On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The officers returned fire, striking him in the head. He died a few hours later the next day.
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Modern geology, like modern chemistry, gradually evolved during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Benoît de Maillet and the Comte de Buffon saw the Earth as much older than the 6,000 years envisioned by biblical scholars. Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations on some of the first geological maps. Aided by chemical experimentation, naturalists such as Scotland's John Walker, Sweden's Torbern Bergman, and Germany's Abraham Werner created comprehensive classification systems for rocks and minerals—a collective achievement that transformed geology into a cutting edge field by the end of the eighteenth century. These early geologists also proposed a generalized interpretations of Earth history that led James Hutton, Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, following in the steps of Steno, to argue that layers of rock could be dated by the fossils they contained: a principle first applied to the geology of the Paris Basin. The use of index fossils became a powerful tool for making geological maps, because it allowed geologists to correlate the rocks in one locality with those of similar age in other, distant localities. Over the first half of the 19th century, geologists such as Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, and Roderick Murchison applied the new technique to rocks throughout Europe and eastern North America, setting the stage for more detailed, government-funded mapping projects in later decades.
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Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics, astronomy, literature, and art. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast of Africa. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan. French Sudan (then known as the Sudanese Republic) joined with Senegal in 1959, achieving independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the independent Republic of Mali. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in 1991 led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state.
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The largest opera houses of Paris are the 19th-century Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille; the former tends toward the more classic ballets and operas, and the latter provides a mixed repertoire of classic and modern. In middle of the 19th century, there were three other active and competing opera houses: the Opéra-Comique (which still exists), Théâtre-Italien, and Théâtre Lyrique (which in modern times changed its profile and name to Théâtre de la Ville). Philharmonie de Paris, the modern symphonic concert hall of Paris, opened in January 2015. Another musical landmark is the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where the first performances of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes took place in 1913.
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Most house moving companies want to physically inspect a house and the desired placement location before estimating the cost for them to move it. The cost for moving any size house can range between $12 and $16 per square foot, so obviously a smaller house with not a long distance to travel will be cheaper to move. The roads traveled during the move can add to the cost of the move.
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There are two ways to become a United States (U.S.) citizen â by birth or through naturalization. What You Need to Know. To become a citizen at birth, you must: Be born in the U.S or in certain territories or outlying possessions of the United States, that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States Have a parent or parents who were citizens at the time of your birth
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Thank You David Bowie Thank You David Bowie Email What can I say, Dave is dead and still messing with us afterwards with his quiet private death and public bow-out with Blackstar… When I was thirteen I shaved my eyebrows off because of Dave, I remember pushing the needle on my record player so many times during the “wanking like a whore” section of Time , to stop my mum hearing the word, that it ended up with a perpetual skip at “falls wanking to the…falls wanking to the…”, I wore weird clothes and make-up, I eventually joined a punk band which I haven’t left…Dave always put Where Were You in his top twenty song lists and even though I wasn’t a Mekon back then, it was an exciting, vague connection to the man himself. In 2014 Jon Langford and I performed in Chicago as part of the Bowie exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Didn’t like the exhibition, heard he hadn’t either. We created an irreverent but loving show in his honor; I always hoped he might have seen some crummy videotaped version of it and laughed (I think he had a good sense of humor about himself). I hadn’t paid much attention to his later work. It didn’t really matter, his back catalog is part of my DNA. On top of all that musical innovation he was a really phenomenal singer, listen to Wild is the Wind and tell me that I’m wrong…Goodbye David Bowie and thank you.
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Richard Owen showed that fossils of extinct species Darwin found in South America were allied to living species on the same continent. In March 1837, ornithologist John Gould announced that Darwin's rhea was a separate species from the previously described rhea (though their territories overlapped), that mockingbirds collected on the Galápagos Islands represented three separate species each unique to a particular island, and that several distinct birds from those islands were all classified as finches. Darwin began speculating, in a series of notebooks, on the possibility that "one species does change into another" to explain these findings, and around July sketched a genealogical branching of a single evolutionary tree, discarding Lamarck's independent lineages progressing to higher forms. Unconventionally, Darwin asked questions of fancy pigeon and animal breeders as well as established scientists. At the zoo he had his first sight of an ape, and was profoundly impressed by how human the orangutan seemed.
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U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending at Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2448 mi . It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the "Route 66" television show in the 1960s.
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Greek-speaking communities of the Hellenized East were instrumental in the spread of early Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and Christianity's early leaders and writers (notably St Paul) were mostly Greek-speaking, though generally not from Greece itself. The New Testament was written in Greek, and some of its sections (Corinthians, Thessalonians, Philippians, Revelation of St. John of Patmos) attest to the importance of churches in Greece in early Christianity. Nevertheless, much of Greece clung tenaciously to paganism, and ancient Greek religious practices were still in vogue in the late 4th century AD, when they were outlawed by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in 391-392. The last recorded Olympic games were held in 393, and many temples were destroyed or damaged in the century that followed. In Athens and rural areas, paganism is attested well into the sixth century AD and even later. The closure of the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens by the emperor Justinian in 529 is considered by many to mark the end of antiquity, although there is evidence that the Academy continued its activities for some time after that. Some remote areas such as the southeastern Peloponnese remained pagan until well into the 10th century AD.
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One More from the Road One More from the Road (Styled as "One More For From The Road") is a live album by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, capturing three shows recorded in July 1976, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd had supported rock promoter Alex Cooley so that the Fox Theatre was saved from demolition. This record was the band's first live album, and the only live album from the band's classic era of 1970 to 1977 prior to the plane crash that killed lead singer and songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines. The album was released in September 1976. It was certified gold on October 26, 1976, platinum on December 30, 1976 and 3x platinum on July 21, 1987 by the RIAA.
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Mitral valve regurgitation means that one of the valves in your heart-the mitral valve-is letting blood leak backward into the heart.Heart valves work like one-way gates, helping blood flow in one direction between heart chambers or in and out of the heart. The mitral valve is on the left side of your heart.It lets blood flow from the upper to the lower heart chamber. See a picture of mitral valve regurgitation.When the mitral valve is damaged-for example, by an infection-it may no longer close tightly. This lets blood leak backward, or regurgitate, into the upper chamber.he mitral valve is on the left side of your heart. It lets blood flow from the upper to the lower heart chamber. See a picture of mitral valve regurgitation. When the mitral valve is damaged-for example, by an infection-it may no longer close tightly.
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There are four main blood groups defined by the ABO system: 1 blood group A has A antigens on the red blood cells with anti-B antibodies in the plasma. 2 blood group B has B antigens with anti-A antibodies in the plasma. 3 blood group O has no antigens, but both anti-A and anti-B antibodies in the plasma.ntroduction. There are four main blood groups (types of blood): A, B, AB and O. Your blood group is determined by the genes you inherit from your parents.
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Prince Rogers Nelson -LRB- June 7 , 1958 -- April 21 , 2016 -RRB- was an American singer-songwriter , actor , multi-instrumentalist , philanthropist , dancer and record producer . He was a musical innovator who was known for his eclectic work , flamboyant stage presence , extravagant dress and makeup , and wide vocal range . His music integrates a wide variety of styles , including funk , rock , R&B , new wave , soul , psychedelia , and pop . He has sold over 100 million records worldwide , making him one of the best-selling artists of all time . He won seven Grammy Awards , an American Music Award , a Golden Globe Award , and an Academy Award for the film Purple Rain . He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 , his first year of eligibility . Rolling Stone ranked Prince at number 27 on its list of 100 Greatest Artists , `` the most influential artists of the rock & roll era '' . Prince was born in Minneapolis , Minnesota , and developed an interest in music as a young child . He signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. at the age of 18 , and released his debut album For You in 1978 . His 1979 album Prince went platinum , and his next three records -- Dirty Mind -LRB- 1980 -RRB- , Controversy -LRB- 1981 -RRB- , and 1999 -LRB- 1982 -RRB- -- continued his success , showcasing Prince 's prominently sexual lyrics and blending of funk , dance , and rock music . In 1984 , he began referring to his backup band as the Revolution and released Purple Rain , the soundtrack album to his eponymous 1984 film debut . It quickly became his most critically and commercially successful release , spending 24 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 and selling over 20 million units worldwide . After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day -LRB- 1985 -RRB- and Parade -LRB- 1986 -RRB- , The Revolution disbanded , and Prince released the double album Sign o ' the Times -LRB- 1987 -RRB- as a solo artist . He released three more solo albums before debuting the New Power Generation band in 1991 . In 1993 , while in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros. , he changed his stage name to , an unpronounceable symbol also known as the `` Love Symbol '' , and began releasing new albums at a faster pace to remove himself from contractual obligations . He released five records between 1994 and 1996 before signing with Arista Records in 1998 . In 2000 , he began referring to himself as `` Prince '' again . He released 16 albums after that , including the platinum-selling Musicology -LRB- 2004 -RRB- . His final album , Hit n Run Phase Two , was first released on the Tidal streaming service on December 12 , 2015 . Prince died from a fentanyl overdose at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Chanhassen , Minnesota , on April 21 , 2016 , at the age of 57 .
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What You Should Know About Age-Related Hearing Loss What You Should Know About Age-Related Hearing Loss Causes Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Outlook Prevention What is age-related hearing loss? As you age, you experience a number of changes in the way your body functions. Hearing loss might be one of these changes. Hearing loss due to aging is a common condition that impacts many older adults. Almost 1 in 2 adults over age 65 experience some degree of hearing loss. Age-related hearing loss is also known as presbycusis. Although age-related hearing loss is not a life-threatening condition, it can have a significant impact on your quality of life if left untreated. Causes Causes of age-related hearing loss Age-related hearing loss occurs gradually over time. Various changes in the inner ear can cause the condition. These include:changes in the structures of the inner earchanges in blood flow to the earimpairment in the nerves responsible for hearingchanges in the way that the brain processes speech and sounddamage to the tiny hairs in the ear that are responsible for transmitting sound to the brain Age-related hearing loss can also be caused by other issues, including:diabetespoor circulationexposure to loud noisesuse of certain medicationsfamily history of hearing losssmoking Symptoms Symptoms of age-related hearing loss Symptoms of age-related hearing loss typically begin with an inability to hear high-pitched sounds. You may notice that you have difficulty hearing the voices of females or children. You may also have difficulty hearing background noises or difficulty hearing others speak clearly. Other symptoms that may occur include:certain sounds seeming overly louddifficulty hearing in areas that are noisydifficulty hearing the difference between “s” and “th” soundsringing in the earsturning up the volume on the television or radio louder than normalasking people to repeat themselvesbeing unable to understand conversations over the telephone Always notify your doctor if you have any of these symptoms. They could be signs of other medical conditions and should be checked out by a doctor. Diagnosis How it’s diagnosed If you have symptoms of age-related hearing loss, see your doctor to diagnose your condition. They’ll complete a full physical exam to rule out other causes of hearing loss. They may also look inside your ears using an otoscope. If your doctor can’t find another cause of your symptoms, they may diagnose you with age-related hearing loss. They may refer you to a hearing specialist called an audiologist. The audiologist can perform a hearing test to help determine how much hearing loss has occurred. Treatment Treatment There is no cure for age-related hearing loss. If you’re diagnosed with this condition, your doctor will work with you to improve your hearing and quality of life. Your doctor may recommend:hearing aids to help you hear betterassistive devices, such as telephone amplifierslessons in sign language or lip reading (for severe hearing loss)In some cases, your doctor may recommend a cochlear implant. This is a small electronic device that’s surgically implanted into your ear. Cochlear implants can make sounds somewhat louder, but they don’t restore normal hearing. This option is only used for people who are severely hard of hearing. Outlook Outlook Age-related hearing loss is a progressive condition. This means it gets worse over time. If you lose your hearing, it will be permanent. Even though hearing loss gets worse over time, using assistive devices such as hearing aids can improve your quality of life. Talk with your doctor about your treatment options. Ask what you can do to minimize the impact of hearing loss on your everyday life. You may also want to consider treatment to prevent the depression, anxiety, and social isolation that often occur with this condition. Prevention Prevention You may not be able prevent age-related hearing loss. However, you can take steps to keep it from getting worse. If you experience age-related hearing loss, try these tips: Avoid repetitive exposure to loud sounds. Wear ear protection in places where there are loud sounds. Control your blood sugar if you have diabetes. Seek prompt help from your doctor if you develop symptoms of age-related hearing loss. As your hearing loss increases, you’re more likely to lose your ability to understand speech. However, you may keep this ability, or minimize the loss, if you seek early treatment.
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Emperor on Christmas Day | Gazette665 Emperor on Christmas Day Posted on December 12, 2014 by Sarah Kay Bierle If you’ve ever taken a Western Civilization class or studied European History, the date “Christmas Day, 800 A.D.” has probably been drilled into you head. Do you remember the significant event? Welcome to Week #2 in our series on historical happenings on Christmas Day. Last week we played a guessing game to discover a famous American whose birthday was December 25. Now, we journey farther back in time and the history books to the Dark Ages. On Christmas Day (December 25) 800 A.D. Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Painting of Charlemagne by Artist Durer (1513) Public Domain Charlemagne, also known as Charles I of the Franks, ruled the area we now know as France; he became the ruler of the Carolingian kingdom in 768 A.D. He promoted “Christianity” and education through his kingdom. He fought many campaigns, expanding the borders of the Frankish Kingdom. As the most powerful ruler in Dark Ages Europe, Charlemagne settled a dispute and kept Pope Leo III in power in Rome. In gratitude the pope crowned the Frankish king “Holy Roman Emperor.” It was a political/religious gesture intending to show that Charlemagne continued the legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire. To be honest, the new empire was not Roman, not holy, and didn’t last very long. However, the crowning of Charlemagne on Christmas Day 800 A.D. is significant in European History because for the first time since the fall of Rome there was an emperor in Europe and it introduced an important question. Could popes make kings? Did popes have to obey kings or kings obey popes? These questions would become significant debates during the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. The title “Holy Roman Emperor” passed to future Carolingian kings and was then fought over by Italian rulers, before disappearing quietly. In 962 A.D. Otto I revived the title and the “Holy Roman Empire” would be a major player in European history until 1806 when conquered by Napoleon I. Thus in 800 A.D. the foundations of modern Europe began to rise from the Dark Ages when a Frankish king was crowned by an Italian pope. Your Historian, Miss Sarah P.S. The Holy Roman Empire is a fascinating political identity in European history. It played major roles in the Renaissance, Reformation, Religious Wars, Political Wars, and the opposition to Napoleon. It grew, changed, and adapted as Europe progressed, but if something significant was happening on continental Europe, the Holy Roman Empire was part of it. Any thoughts? I hope you’re enjoying this series. It should provide interesting holiday conversation. Share this:
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In April 1758, the British concluded the Anglo-Prussian Convention with Frederick in which they committed to pay him an annual subsidy of £670,000. Britain also dispatched 9,000 troops to reinforce Ferdinand's Hanoverian army, the first British troop commitment on the continent and a reversal in the policy of Pitt. Ferdinand had succeeded in driving the French from Hanover and Westphalia and re-captured the port of Emden in March 1758 before crossing the Rhine with his own forces, which caused alarm in France. Despite Ferdinand's victory over the French at the Battle of Krefeld and the brief occupation of Düsseldorf, he was compelled by the successful manoeuvering of larger French forces to withdraw across the Rhine.
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Pound sterling A common slang term for the pound sterling or pound is quid, which is singular and plural, except in the common phrase "Quids in!" The term may have come via Italian immigrants from "scudo", the name for a number of coins used in Italy until the 19th century; or from Latin 'quid' via the common phrase quid pro quo, literally, "what for what," or, figuratively, "An equal exchange or substitution".[23]
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Linda Louise , Lady McCartney -LRB- née Eastman ; formerly See ; September 24 , 1941 -- April 17 , 1998 -RRB- was an American musician , photographer , animal rights activist , entrepreneur and publisher who was married to Paul McCartney of the Beatles . Prior to marrying Paul , she was a professional photographer of celebrities and contemporary musicians , with her work published in music industry magazines . Her photos were also published in the book Linda McCartney 's Sixties : Portrait of an Era , in 1992 . Linda married McCartney in 1969 at St John 's Wood Church in London . Her daughter , Heather Louise , from her first marriage to Melville See , was adopted by her new husband . Together , the McCartneys had three other children . In 1971 , after they married and following the break-up of the Beatles the previous year , Paul and Linda McCartney recorded the album Ram . Shortly afterwards , they formed the band Wings . She continued to be part of her husband 's touring band following Wings ' break-up in 1981 up until The New World Tour in 1993 . She was an animal rights activist and wrote and published several vegetarian cookbooks , and founded the Linda McCartney Foods company with her husband . In 1995 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and died from the disease in 1998 at the age of 56 .
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The cost of living in Texas (TX) is lower than the nationwide average.The average yearly pay in Texas is $51,201.00, which is higher than the U.S. average annual salary by $1,393.00. The consumer price index (CPI) of 223 in Texas is 4.29% lower than the U.S. city average CPI of 233.The sales tax is 6.25%.he cost of living in Texas (TX) is lower than the nationwide average.
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Dungloe is known in Irish as Clochan Clochán. Liath Clochan, clochán liath which means the-grey, stepping stone is referring to a crossing point over a river in. The town the Name An clochan clochán liath was Formerly. Anglicised as Cloghanlea the Name dungloe or dunglow is believed to Come From gCloiche. irish dun dún gcloichereland is where I was born, grew up and still live. I have a lot of knowledge about Ireland and a great interest in anything relating to it. Dungloe is known in Irish as Clochan Clochán. Liath Clochan, clochán liath which means the-grey, stepping stone is referring to a crossing point over a river in. the town
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This Is Us (TV series) Kevin and Kate are the two surviving members of a triplet pregnancy, conceived after Super Bowl XIV at "Froggy's" in Pittsburgh.[5] Their due date is October 12, 1980, but they are born six weeks early on August 31 (Jack's birthday); their biological brother is stillborn.[6] After losing their third baby, Jack and Rebecca decide to adopt Randall, a black child born the same day and brought to the same hospital after his biological father abandons him at a fire station.[4]
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Super Reviewer ½ For the twelfth installment of the James Bond franchise (and Roger Moore's fifth turn in the lead role), the decision was made to, (aside from the cold opening) return the series to a more grounded and series route with focus on intrigue over gimmickry. And the results are mostly pretty successful. What we have here is Bond being sent on a mission to infiltrate the Greek underworld in order to locate and recover a missile command system, a task that also sees him getting caught up in an interlinked revenge plot. Revenge is actually a main theme throughout, and I liked it. Our main Bond girl is on a quest to avenge the deaths of her parents, and the cold opening sees Bond get vengeance on longtime arch nemesis Blofeld for good, though, due to legal reasons, he isn't called that. It's still obvious that's who it is though. I did enjoy this film, but I will be honest and say that it is a tad slow and times, and that it often feels dragged out and longer than the running time suggests. I appreciated that they toned down the camp, but aside from a few decently staged action sequences (the diving and fortress assault scenes especially) this one isn't really all that memorable, and the main villain is also not all that noteworthy or memorable. All in all though, this is one of Moore's better films, and I'd place it in the upper middle of his era when it comes to rankings. Chris Weber Super Reviewer ½ excellent locations, but the villain, story, action, and bond girl were all very forgettable. the villain switch was very clever, but overall a very lackluster addition to the bond series. danny d Super Reviewer From the outrageous and exciting opening to it`s hang on to your seat conclusion, this Bond is truly For Your Eyes Only. A fun, imaginative, tense and exhilarating action-adventure. It`s true escapist fun that does not let up for a minute. Moore rocks more than ever with his irresistible charm and humor. Carole Bouquet is dazzling and gorgeous. Al S
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The word ale comes from Old English ealu (plural ealoþ), in turn from Proto-Germanic *alu (plural *aluþ), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European base *h₂elut-, which holds connotations of "sorcery, magic, possession, intoxication". The word beer comes from Old English bēor, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeusóm, originally "brewer's yeast, beer dregs", although other theories have been provided connecting the word with Old English bēow, "barley", or Latin bibere, "to drink". On the currency of two words for the same thing in the Germanic languages, the 12th-century Old Icelandic poem Alvíssmál says, "Ale it is called among men, but among the gods, beer."
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The Philippines -LRB- -LSB- ˈfɪlᵻpiːnz -RSB- Pilipinas -LSB- ˌpɪlɪˈpinɐs -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of the Philippines -LRB- -LSB- Republika ng Pilipinas , links = no -RSB- -RRB- , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . The Philippines ' location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons , but also endows it with abundant natural resources and some of the world 's greatest biodiversity . The Philippines has an area of 300000 km2 , and a population of approximately 100 million . It is the eighth-most populated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world . , approximately 10 million additional Filipinos lived overseas , comprising one of the world 's largest diasporas . Multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout the islands . In prehistoric times , Negritos were some of the archipelago 's earliest inhabitants . They were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples . Exchanges with Chinese , Malay , Indian , and Islamic nations occurred . Then , various competing maritime states were established under the rule of Datus , Rajahs , Sultans or Lakans . The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Homonhon , Eastern Samar in 1521 marked the beginning of Hispanic colonization . In 1543 , Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain . With the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi from Mexico City , in 1565 , the first Hispanic settlement in the archipelago was established . The Philippines became part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years . This resulted in Roman Catholicism becoming the dominant religion . During this time , Manila became the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade connecting Asia with Acapulco in the Americas using Manila galleons . As the 19th century gave way to the 20th , there followed in quick succession the Philippine Revolution , which spawned the short-lived First Philippine Republic , followed by the bloody Philippine -- American War of conquest by US military force . Aside from the period of Japanese occupation , the United States retained sovereignty over the islands until after World War II , when the Philippines was recognized as an independent nation . Since then , the Philippines has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy , which included the overthrow of a dictatorship by a non-violent revolution . It is a founding member of the United Nations , World Trade Organization , Association of Southeast Asian Nations , the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum , and the East Asia Summit . It also hosts the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank . The Philippines is considered to be an emerging market and a newly industrialized country , which has an economy transitioning from being one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing . It is one of the only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia , the other being East Timor .
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Does bulgur contain gluten? Answers.com ® Wiki Answers ® Categories Food & Cooking Grains Gluten Does bulgur contain gluten? Flag Does bulgur contain gluten? Answered by The Wiki Answers ®Community Answers.com ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Bulgur, also called bulgar, bulghur, or burghul, is a form of whole wheat that has been cleaned, steamed or parboiled, dried, and then ground into grains of several distinct sizes. Bulgur may be made from any variety of wheat, but durum is the most common. As such, bulgur does contain gluten.5 people found this useful Was this answer useful? Yes Somewhat No Fwise3 3 Contributions Does absolute alcohol contain gluten? Here is a letter from Absolut Vodka: . Dear Mike,. Thanks for your email and your interest in ABSOLUT VODKA. We apologize for the late reply.. ABSOLUT Vodka (all products …Jayrusalem 11,834 Contributions What is bulgur? Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried and cracked. LP52 273 Contributions Do instant potatoes contain gluten?\\n. \\n I don't know what brand you have. This answer can be looked up on the web under the brand name of the company that makes them. If you have trouble , let me know what …Do oats contain gluten? Oats do not contain any gluten, however they do contain avenin, which a an oat protein that performs the same function as gluten in the plant. Almost everyone who has a gluten …Soph12 591 Contributions What contains gluten? Wheat, Barley, Rye, some Oats.. for some more information, check the related link. Ruthie Prieta Chiple 1 Contribution Do cheetos contain gluten? No variation of Cheetos have gluten, except for the Giant Puffs. Alrhough, a lot of chips are processed in plants that also process products that contain gluten. So better to …Does muesli contain gluten?yes Nerd66 191 Contributions Does teriyaki sauce contain gluten? Some brands do. Nerd66 191 Contributions Can flours do not contain gluten? They can. Hans Mastdarm 1 Contribution Does Dilaudid contain gluten? No, dilaudid is a narcotic, not a food. -- !! INVALID ANSWER !! -- To the original poster, please continue to research this as many medications contain wheat starch and/or …Joshua Mac Cready 3 Contributions Does chicken contain gluten? No, things such as wheat, barely, and oats do. Lizz1155 6,292 Contributions Does maize contain gluten? Maize (cornmeal) is considered gluten free. Please see related link. Miss Fireworks 269 Contributions Answered In Lipstick and Lipgloss Does revlon lipstick contain gluten?these are the ingredients:. Trioctyldodecyl Citrate, Ozokerite, Polybutene, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Octyldodecyl Neopentanoate, Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate, Capric/Capryli …Soph12 591 Contributions Answered In Sesame Seeds Does sesame seeds contain gluten? They may contain traces depending on what brand but otherwise no. Answered In Allergies Does jiffy mix contain gluten? Yes, it contains wheat flour. Any product having "flour, enriched flour, ect..) on the label is not gluten free. Answered In Gluten Does onions contain gluten?no no plants cotane glutan Answered In Yogurt Does Greek yogurt contain gluten? NO
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1 January 25 â Steve Allen makes his final appearance as host of NBC 's The Tonight Show. 2 He is replaced by Jack Lescoulie and the show is changed from a talk/variety show format to be more like the series Today, with the title Tonight! 3 America After Dark. Collins doesn't last long; NBC is already planning to replace him and restore the original format as The Tonight Show. 2 June 24 â Front Page Challenge, television's longest continuously running panel show, starts broadcasting on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network.
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Milton Winternitz led the Yale Medical School as its dean from 1920 to 1935. Dedicated to the new scientific medicine established in Germany, he was equally fervent about "social medicine" and the study of humans in their culture and environment. He established the "Yale System" of teaching, with few lectures and fewer exams, and strengthened the full-time faculty system; he also created the graduate-level Yale School of Nursing and the Psychiatry Department, and built numerous new buildings. Progress toward his plans for an Institute of Human Relations, envisioned as a refuge where social scientists would collaborate with biological scientists in a holistic study of humankind, unfortunately lasted for only a few years before the opposition of resentful anti-Semitic colleagues drove him to resign.
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Safavid dynasty The Safavid dynasty had its origin in the Safaviyya Sufi order, which was established in the city of Ardabil in the Azerbaijan region. It was of mixed ancestry (Kurdish[32] and Azerbaijani,[33] which included intermarriages with Georgian,[34] Circassian,[35][36] and Pontic Greek[37] dignitaries). From their base in Ardabil, the Safavids established control over parts of Greater Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region,[38] thus becoming the first native dynasty since the Sasanian Empire to establish a unified Iranian state.[39]
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Houston has sports teams for every major professional league except the National Hockey League (NHL). The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion team formed in 1962 (known as the "Colt .45s" until 1965) that made one World Series appearance in 2005. The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise based in the city since 1971. They have won two NBA Championships: in 1994 and 1995 under star players Hakeem Olajuwon, Otis Thorpe, Clyde Drexler, Vernon Maxwell, and Kenny Smith. The Houston Texans are a National Football League (NFL) expansion team formed in 2002. The Houston Dynamo are a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise that has been based in Houston since 2006 after they won two MLS Cup titles in 2006 and 2007. The Houston Dash play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The Scrap Yard Dawgs, a women's pro softball team, is expected to play in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) from 2016.
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How big is a hectare? | Metric Views How big is a hectare? Posted on 2007-11-16 by admin One of the least known metric units – and one which journalists and estate agents seem to struggle with – is the hectare (ha). So perhaps it will help to relate this very useful measure to the sizes of sports fields. Article (including diagrams) by Martin V. Q: How big is a hectare? A: 10 000 square metres. Q: How big is that? A: It is the equivalent of a square, each side having a length of 100 m. Q: What does that look like? Many sports fields have an area that is comparable to a hectare. In some sports the size of the field is fixed; in others, the size of the field can be adjusted within limits to suit the land that is available. This article lists a number of sports whose fields are of the order of a hectare in size. The associated diagrams are all at the same scale (1:20 000 originally, but may look different on screen). Athletics (Typically 1.2 ha inside the track) The International Amateur Athletic Association has laid down the rules for athletic tracks that are used in competitions An athletics track is 400 m long (measured 20 cm from inside perimeter). The IAAF does not define the length of the straight section. If this section is 50 m, then the area inside the track is 1.194 ha (shown in green on the associated diagram). If the straight section is shorter, then the area increases until eventually we have a perfect circle which would have an area of 1.27 ha. Football (International size: 0.62 ha to 0.82 ha) The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) dictate that for international matches, the length of the pitch shall be between 100 m and 110 m and its width shall be between 64 m and 75 m. The smallest international football field is therefore 0.62 ha and the largest international football field in 0.82 ha. Non-international matches may be played on fields between 90 m and 120 m long and 45 m and 90 m wide. Cricket (Typically 1.25 ha; Lords 1.43 ha) The laws of cricket are maintained by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). This only specifies the length of the cricket pitch (20.12 m); it does not specify the distance of the boundary from the pitch. Lords Cricket Ground, the home of the MCC, is played on a rectangular field 136 m long and 109 m wide with well-rounded corners. After allowing for corners having been rounded, it has an area of 1.43 ha. The cricket ground at the author’s home town is roughly circular and is typical of many cricket fields up and down the country. The author has paced the boundary and found it to be about 400 m. If it is assumed to be circular with a perimeter of exactly 400 m, its area would be 1.27 ha. The associated diagram is typical of many club fields and not of Lords. Rugby (International size: 1.008 ha) The laws and regulations of rugby dictate the maximum size of rugby fields; international matches are invariably played on fields that are of maximum size. The maximum width of a rugby field is 70 m and the maximum length between the goal posts is 100 m. In addition there is a ‘in-goal area’ that extends a maximum of 22 m behind the goal line. Thus the maximum size of the field is a rectangle 144 m in length and 70 m in width giving an area of 10080 m² (which is just over 1 ha). Baseball (Between 0.83 ha and 1.12 ha) The field dimensions used in Major League Baseball MLB) are laid down in the Official Rules. The exact shape of the outfield varies from field to field, but using the layout shown in the above diagram, the area of Major League Baseball fields can be shown to vary between 0.83 ha and 1.12 ha. The rules of the MLB do not apply to other leagues and so in areas where land is at a premium, the fields in lower leagues might be smaller than the minimum in the MBL. References:
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Dirt -LRB- styled d!rt for logos -RRB- is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network . It premiered on January 2 , 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller , the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind `` glossy tabloid '' magazine DirtNow , which was previously two separate publications : dirt -LRB- a tabloid -RRB- and Now -LRB- a glossy magazine with a more respectable reputation -RRB- . A 13-episode second and final season was announced on May 8 , 2007 . Only seven episodes were produced prior to the 2007 WGA strike shut down production . The shortened second season began airing on March 2 , 2008 . The show was created by Matthew Carnahan and produced by Coquette Productions and ABC Studios . On June 8 , 2008 , FX canceled the series after two seasons .
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Percobaan pada Burung dalam Pompa Udara Selama masa magang dan awal kariernya Wright berkonsentrasi pada lukisan potret. Pada 1762, ia telah menjadi pelukis potret yang sempurna, dan lukisan potret kelompoknya berjudul James Shuttleworth, Istri dan Anaknya pada tahun 1764 dikenal sebagai mahakarya pertamanya. Benedict Nicolson menyarankan Wright mengikuti gaya lukisan Thomas Frye; khususnya karya dengan gaya mezzotint yang diselesaikan beberapa saat sebelum kematiannya pada tahun 1762. Mungkin itu adalah karya cahaya lilin Frye yang mempengaruhi Wright untuk bereksperimen dengan subyek. Percobaan pertama Wright pada lukisan Seorang Gadis membaca Surat dengan cahaya lilin dengan seorang Pemuda mengintip di atas bahunya (''A Girl reading a Letter by candlelight with a Young Man looking over her shoulder) dari tahun 1762 atau 1763, adalah percobaan gaya itu, dan tidak terlalu sulit.[9] Karya Wright Percobaan pada Burung dalam Pompa Udara menjadi bagian dari seri cahaya lilin malam hari yang dibuat antara tahun 1765 sampai 1768.
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Bridgwater was developed during the Industrial Revolution as the area's leading port. The River Parrett was navigable by large ships as far as Bridgwater. Cargoes were then loaded onto smaller boats at Langport Quay, next to the Bridgwater Bridge, to be carried further up river to Langport; or they could turn off at Burrowbridge and then travel via the River Tone to Taunton. The Parrett is now only navigable as far as Dunball Wharf. Bridgwater, in the 19th and 20th centuries, was a centre for the manufacture of bricks and clay roof tiles, and later cellophane, but those industries have now stopped. With its good links to the motorway system, Bridgwater has developed as a distribution hub for companies such as Argos, Toolstation, Morrisons and Gerber Juice. AgustaWestland manufactures helicopters in Yeovil, and Normalair Garratt, builder of aircraft oxygen systems, is also based in the town. Many towns have encouraged small-scale light industries, such as Crewkerne's Ariel Motor Company, one of the UK's smallest car manufacturers.
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Sweets (Candy) Sweets (Candy) by • Food & Drink No childhood memories are quite so evocative as those of the sweets (in the UK), candy (in the US) or lollies (in Australia) which were such a big part of our life when growing up. "Who knows the secret of the Black Magic box?", "And all because the lady loves Milk Tray", "The Bounty Hunters - they came in search of paradise" . . . Utter these phrases to your friends the next time you're out for a drink or a meal and see how many hours pass before you run out of sweet memories and wind up lamenting that, although some of these delicacies are still around, alas they are much smaller than they used to be . . . What follows is not meant to be an exhaustive list of every piece of confectionery available in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s - it is really a recollection of some personal favourites (many of them sadly now gone-but-not-forgotten) and some which have become legend. CHOCOLATE STUFF BLACK MAGIC "Who knows the secret of the Black Magic box?". I do! Get stuck into too many Walnut Whip's and you will too . . . BOUNTY "The Bounty Hunters - they came in search of paradise . . .". Coconut and chocolate bars that offered 'a taste of paradise' . . . and a crafty butchers at scantily-clad birds. Unfortunately the little individual black card trays have gone from the Bounty packets these days . . . but the fact still remains that anything combining chocolate and coconut just can't lose! CABANA Cadbury concoction of the sick-making variety. Coconut, caramel and whole cherries encased in milk chocolate - uuurrgh, no more for me, thanks. Lasted for about a year in the early 80s. CADBURY CREME EGGS CADBURY'S LUCKY NUMBERS CHOCOLITE From the US. A thick chocolate bar with air whipped into it. "Chocolate never tasted thick and light as Chocolite". FLAKE The infamous 70s 'choc-as-phallic-symbol' splendour of "only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate." FRUIT & NUT "Everyone's a Fwuit and Nut case" FRYS 5 CENTRES Mathematically fascinating (not to mention a mite confusing) in that they had 5 centres (Orange, lemon, lime, raspberry and . . . erm . . . another one) but 7 segments per bar. You could work out which segments would have 2 flavours in and which wouldn't (if you were very sad), and it was always a bit annoying if a flavour you liked got mixed with one you didn't. Fry's Five Centres was discontinued in 1992. FRY'S CHOCOLATE CREAM This is Cadbury's oldest established brand. Hawked by cut price Bond George Lazenby ("Big Fry! Big Fry! Big Fry!!!") with a giant model bar. The Fry's chocolate cream bars in Orange and 'plain' outlasted the classic five-segment Rainbow Bar - a multi fruit flavoured choccy bar (See Above) . British TV ads featured a sophisticated country lady chomping leisurely on her cream bar at an auction before coolly swooping in at the very last moment to buy the . . . erm . . . whatever it was. GALAXY COUNTERS These were button-shaped bits of Galaxy chocolate, and they were delicious, but they stopped selling them on their own for some reason. Now you can only get them in packets of Revels. MATCHMAKERS One word . . . Yummmmmmm! And it always seemed that you still had a full box of the things, even when you would suddenly discover it was "empty" MILK TRAY "And all because the lady loves Milk Tray". The pluckiest man on television was the chap who would leap on to moving trains, swing from a helicopter, even brave the January Sales - ''All because the lady loves Milk Tray''. The actor performing these exploits was Australian model Gary Myers, and initially he did most of the stunts himself, before he became too valuable to risk. He says; "I had to do some pretty hairy things. I was supposed to do the great dive into the Blue Grotto in Malta, but a stunt man had already broken his back doing it. Then there was the time I was supposed to be chased by a wolf, swing across a crevasse and land on a three-foot ledge. The producer decided to bring in a stunt man - he missed the ledge, fell fifty feet and was badly injured". MILK TRAY CHOCOLATE BAR A bizarre choccy bar made up
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U Thant biography -Biography Online About U Thant biography U Thant (1909 – 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third United Nations Secretary-General. He was widely praised for his diplomacy and peace-keeping skills which were frequently needed during his turbulent period as UN Secretary-General from Nov 30 1961 to Dec 31, 1971. “Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. This, as the sages of many lands have taught us, is a golden rule in individual and group, as well as international, relations.” – U Thant, Portfolio for Peace (1968), p. 92 His quiet Buddhist faith was important for cultivating his detachment, compassion and calm demeanour which put others at ease and made him ideally suited the difficult job of conflict resolution. Amongst many critical moments, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, U Thant facilitated a meeting between Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev and John F. Kennedy, which helped to defuse the potential crisis of a nuclear war. Early life U Thant U Thant was born in Pantanaw, Burma on 22 January 1909. His father was an educated and relatively wealthy merchant. He encouraged his children to gain a good education. Thant was an avid reader and became known by his friends as ‘The philosopher’ for his knowledge and wide reading. He also developed a talent for writing and harboured an aspiration to become a journalist. He wrote articles for magazines and became a member of debating societies. Aged 14, his father died – leaving his family to struggle financially. Due to this change in financial fortunes, Thant had to give up his desire for a four year degree and instead took a two year teaching certificate at Rangoon University in 1926. U Nu with U Thant At university he became good friends with Nu, the future prime minister of Burma. After completing his teaching certificate he returned to his hometown of Pantanaw when he become a senior teacher at the high school. Three years later, aged just 25, he became the school’s headmaster after winning first place in the All Burma Teachership Examination. In the 1930s there was a tense political environment as Burmese nationalists sought to gain political independence from the British rule. As a child, he participated in strikes against the university act of 1920. But Thant remained a moderate, supporting a more conciliatory approach to Burmese independence from the British. He admired both Mahatma Gandhi and the British politician Sir Stafford Cripps. In 1942, Burma was invaded and occupied by the Japanese. Thant opposed attempts to make learning Japanese compulsory and became sympathetic to the growing anti-Japanese resistance. In 1948, shortly after India, Burma gained independence. His friend Nu became the first Prime Minister and he asked Thant to become part of the administration. When civil war broke out, Thant undertook the dangerous role of peace-mediator, visiting Karen camps to seek a negotiated peace. However, attempts at reaching a peace agreement failed, and in 1949, the advancing insurgents burnt his hometown and house to the ground. However, in the following year the insurgents were defeated and he was appointed secretary to the Prime Minister (1951-57). He became Prime Minister Nu’s closest confident, advising and writing speeches for him. In 1957, he was appointed Burma’s permanent representative to the United Nations – beginning a long and close association with the international organisation. He became involved in negotiations over Algerian independence and was appointed UN Chairman of Congo Commission. UN Secretary-General In 1961, the current United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash. This left a void in the top UN position, but the superpower blocks of US and the Soviet Union could not agree on a candidate. When Thant was proposed by the non-aligned movement, U Thant was accepted as the most suitable candidate to fill the remaining term of Dag Hammarsjold. He was appointed acting Secretary-General on 3 November 19
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The first step toward Indian self-rule was the appointment of councillors to advise the British viceroy in 1861 and the first Indian was appointed in 1909. Provincial Councils with Indian members were also set up. The councillors' participation was subsequently widened into legislative councils. The British built a large British Indian Army, with the senior officers all British and many of the troops from small minority groups such as Gurkhas from Nepal and Sikhs. The civil service was increasingly filled with natives at the lower levels, with the British holding the more senior positions.
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This map is clickable; click on a neighboring area code to go to the page for that code. Area codes 610 and 484 are telephone area codes which serve the eastern and southeastern regions of Pennsylvania. The area includes areas to the west of Philadelphia, along with the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, and Reading.It includes much of the Delaware Valley, including most of the Philadelphia Main Line.y 1994, area code 610 was the last remaining number in this group. The next new area codes after 610 to be assigned (334 in Alabama and 360 in Washington, both in 1995) were the first to have numbers other than 0 or 1 for their middle digits.
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Atonic. Loss of muscle tone. Generalized Seizures. There are six types of generalized seizures. The most common and dramatic, and therefore the most well known, is the generalized convulsion, also called the grand-mal seizure. In this type of seizure, the patient loses consciousness and usually collapses.he loss of consciousness is followed by generalized body stiffening (called the tonic phase of the seizure) for 30 to 60 seconds, then by violent jerking (the clonic phase) for 30 to 60 seconds, after which the patient goes into a deep sleep (the postictal or after-seizure phase).
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I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" is a pop song that originated as the jingle "Buy the World a Coke"[1] in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola. "Buy the World a Coke" was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love, featuring a multicultural collection of teenagers on top of a hill appearing to sing the song.
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The Differences Between a Deed & a Deed of Trust Who Is the Trustee in a Deed of Trust? A deed of trust with assignment of rents is the document that underlies the loan on a rental property. The lender's security interest in the property gets created by the deed of trust. The ...
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Tagboard Defined. Tagboard is a lightweight cardboard that comes in many sizes, styles and colors. It is thinner than true poster board and is made from virgin wood pulp. It is not acid-free, so it should not be used for projects that involve keepsakes or photos. It has a smooth surface and can be written on easily.
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Nobel Prize Facts Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates Nobel Prize Facts On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace - the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Learn more about the Nobel Laureates here. 579 Nobel Prizes! Between 1901 and 2016, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 579 times. Nobel Prize 136 99 In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "A prize amount may be equally divided between two works, each of which is considered to merit a prize. If a work that is being rewarded has been produced by two or three persons, the prize shall be awarded to them jointly. In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons." 911 Nobel Laureates! 885 Laureates * and 26 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2016. Of them, 78 are Laureates in Economic Sciences. A small number of individuals and organizations have been honoured more than once, which means that 881 individuals and 23 unique organizations have received the Nobel Prize in total. See Multiple Nobel Laureates . | Physics | Chemistry | Physiology or Medicine | Literature | Peace | Economic Sciences | Years without Nobel Prizes Since the start, in 1901, there are some years when the Nobel Prizes have not been awarded. The total number of times are 49. Most of them during World War I (1914-1918) and II (1939-1945). In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "If none of the works under consideration is found to be of the importance indicated in the first paragraph, the prize money shall be reserved until the following year. If, even then, the prize cannot be awarded, the amount shall be added to the Foundation's restricted funds.". Nobel Prize 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942 Chemistry 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941, 1942 Medicine 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1940, 1941, 1942 Literature 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 Peace 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967, 1972 Economic Sciences - Nobel Laureates and Fields The most common fields for Physics Laureates is particle physics, for Chemistry Laureates it is biochemistry, for Medicine Laureates it is genetics and for Laureates in Economic Sciences it is macroeconomics. Most of the Literature Laureates write prose. All Laureates sorted by field and genre for literature: | Physics | Chemistry | Physiology or Medicine | Literature | Peace | Economic Sciences | Nobel Laureates and Affiliation Here you can find out which universities, research institutions or companies Nobel Laureates were affiliated with at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement. Only Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Laureates in Economic Sciences are shown in the list. List of all Nobel Laureates sorted by country of birth Nobel Laureates and Age The average age of all Nobel Laureates in all prize categories between 1901 and 2016 is 59 years. 90 49 Nobel Prizes to Women Between 1901 and 2016 the Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 49 times to women. List of all female Nobel Laureates Two Nobel Laureates Declined the Prize Jean-Paul Sartre , awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours. Le Duc Tho , awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. They were awarded the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. Le Doc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason. Forced to Decline the Nobel Prize! Four Nobel Laureates have been forced by authorities to decline the Nobel Prize. Adolf Hitler forbade three German Nobel Laureate
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Interracial relationships have had a long history in North America and the United States, beginning with the intermixing of European explorers and soldiers, who took native women as companions. After European settlement increased, traders and fur trappers often married or had unions with women of native tribes. In the 17th century, faced with a continuing, critical labor shortage, colonists primarily in the Chesapeake Bay Colony, imported Africans as laborers, sometimes as indentured servants and, increasingly, as slaves. African slaves were also imported into New York and other northern ports by the Dutch and later English. Some African slaves were freed by their masters during these early years.
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Glossary of Nautical Measures - Lengths - Hemyock Castle Glossary of Nautical Measures - Lengths The definition, meaning and origin of nautical length measurements. Page Contents: Useful Reference Books . Lengths - Nautical: Due to the very nature of nautical life and its sometimes harsh conditions, measurements tended to be practical rather than theoretical. Definitions varied in different countries and in different reference books. The "Cable" causes much confusion, partly due to the method of cable construction and by its use as a measure of distance. The heaviest UK RN cable-laid anchor cables were constructed by twisting together 3 hawser-laid ropes (clockwise); each hawser-laid rope was constructed by twisting together 3 ropes (anti-clockwise). This repeated twisting produced very strong water-laid cables which absorbed little water. Each stage of twisting reduced the length of the cable. Manufacture of a 100 fathom cable would require 3 x 120 fathom hawsers. Each hawser would require 3 x 150 fathom ropes. In 1830, the UK Admiralty defined the following: Cable's Length (distance): Tenth of a nautical mile (approx 101 fathoms). Cable-laid cable: 100 to 115 fathoms. Cablet: 120 fathoms. Hawser-laid cable: 130 fathoms. Fathom: 6 feet. Man's arm span, finger tip to finger tip. Also used as a verb: To measure the depth of; to get to the bottom of, to understand. Shackle of cable (UK RN, old): 12½ fathoms. Length of a section of (anchor) chain. (Used until 1949). Shot or shackle of cable: 15 fathoms. Length of a section of (anchor) chain between joining shackles or swivels. Scope of cable: The length of (anchor) cable paid-out. Measured by counting shackles. Approx 5 times depth of water, depending on conditions. Cable (UK RN and Germany): 0.1 nautical mile. Approx 101 fathoms. Metric Cable (France and Spain): 200 metres. Approx. 109 fathoms. Cable (USA):
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The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973–1984 is a box set collection by Bruce Springsteen released on November 17, 2014. The 8 disc box set contains remastered versions of Springsteen's first seven studio albums and for the first time ever on CD, remasters of "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle", "The River", "Nebraska" and "Born in the U.S.A." The box set features each album with recreations of their original packaging and also contain a 60-page book. All seven albums have also made their remastered debut on vinyl, and are available digitally at the iTunes Store.
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"Let It Be" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and (in an alternate mix) as the title track of their album "Let It Be". At the time, it had the highest debut on the "Billboard" Hot 100, beginning its chart run at number 6. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band. Both the "Let It Be" album and the US single "The Long and Winding Road" were released after McCartney's announced departure from and the subsequent break-up of the group.
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eleveneleven is a record label founded in 2010 by Mike Hamlin , Ellen DeGeneres and her production company , A Very Good Production , in association with longtime affiliate Warner Bros. . DeGeneres announced it on her show saying that the label would concentrate on less known artists and that she had been looking for videos of performances on YouTube . DeGeneres explained her choice of name , claiming that she often sees the number 11:11 when looking at her clocks , that she found Greyson Chance on the 11th , and that the singer 's soccer jersey has the number 11 . All of the artists on the label have , thus far , been distributed via Interscope Geffen A&M .
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Kennebunk ( or ) is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 10,798 at the 2010 census (The population does not include Kennebunkport, a separate town). Kennebunk is home to several beaches, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, the 1799 Kennebunk Inn, many historic shipbuilders' homes, the Brick Store Museum and the Nature Conservancy Blueberry Barrens (known locally as the Blueberry Plains), with 1,500 acres (6 km²) of nature trails and blueberry fields.
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Bellinzona, capital of Ticino canton, southern Switzerland, on the Ticino River, at the junction of roads to the St. Gotthard, Lukmanier, and San Bernardino passes, east of Locarno. Possibly of Roman origin, it was first mentioned in ad 590 and played a considerable part in the early history of Lombardy because of its strategic location.
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If in two triangles the corresponding angles are congruent, then the two triangles are similar. â B â
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Mercury poisoning Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to mercury exposure.[3] Symptoms depend upon the type, dose, method, and duration of exposure.[3][4] They may include muscle weakness, poor coordination, numbness in the hands and feet, skin rashes, anxiety, memory problems, trouble speaking, trouble hearing, or trouble seeing.[1] High level exposure to methylmercury is known as Minamata disease.[2] Methylmercury exposure in children may result in acrodynia (pink's disease) in which the skin becomes pink and peels.[2] Long-term complications may include kidney problems and decreased intelligence.[2] The effects of long-term low-dose exposure to methylmercury is unclear.[6]
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South Downs Way Cycling | Southeast.bike Cost To Ride: FOC (Parking costs vary). Overview The South Downs Way stretches for 90 miles between Eastbourne, East Sussex and Winchester, Hampshire, encountering picturesque villages and stunning scenery. The route crosses the South Down National Park and encounters famous south coast landmarks of Birling Gap and The Seven Sisters. The South Downs Way is mainly off-road, and shared by horse riders, walkers and mountain bikers. There are two eastern start points both on the outskirts of Eastbourne. The coastal route from Eastbourne to Alfriston is for walkers only and is 17.5 kilometres. The inland route is the bridleway section and runs from Eastbourne to Alfriston via Jevington. This section is 12 kilometres long. Riding With a trail that's shared by so many interest groups, it's not hard to imagine that the South Downs Way lacks the technical demands found on bike specific routes. The trail is often long and straight - do one hill and you've done them all. The other school of thought is where else can you ride 90 miles nearly all off-road in the South East? And that's exactly what bumps the score up so significantly on this trial. It comes with stunning views too - one side of rolling fields, the other, the English Channel. With a total of nearly 12,000 feet of climbing, 3x Snowdon from sea level, no doubts are left as to why its such a popular route for charity events! The other challenge comes in the form of its exposure to the elements. You are riding a very different trail on a peaceful sunny day and a stormy autumn one. Remember to pack protective clothing! The average completion time of the South Downs Way is 3 days. Getting there Winchester Head for Chesil Street multi-storey car park, Barfield Close, SO23 0HU (Link) . From the garage you want to head up Barfield Close, turn left onto Chesil St, follow Chesil St until you reach the cross road. Here, turn left and follow until road forks. Take right fork (Petersfield Rd) until you reach Fivefields Road. where this road ends, the South Downs Way starts. Phew! Eastbourne Parking on seafront (pay & display). Follow signposts for station, then follow A259 towards East Dean. Official start point is at Eastbourne Downs Golf Club - E Dean Rd, Eastbourne BN20 8ES At peak times (for example Summer weekends or bank holidays) it might be worth parking at Polegate station which is just off the A27 and A22 to the north of the town. Here there is a large car park with frequent trains to Eastbourne.
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Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , also known as GLOW or G.L.O.W. , is a women 's professional wrestling promotion begun in 1986 -LRB- the pilot was filmed in December 1985 -RRB- and continued in various forms after it left television . Colorful characters , strong women and over-the-top comedy sketches were integral to the series ' success . Most of the performers were actresses , models , dancers and/or stunt women hoping to get into show business through wrestling .
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Best Answer: A nonelectrolyte is a substance that doesn't split up into ions when dissolved into solution. LiF is an ionic compound that is soluble in water, completely splitting up into ions. HCl is a strong acid, completely splitting up into ions when dissolved in water. Acetic acid is a weak acid. When dissolved in water, a small percentage of it splits into ions, so it still is an electrolyte. Sucrose does NOT split up into ions when dissolved in water so it is a nonelectrolyte.
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The General Crisis The term was coined by English Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm in his pair of 1954 articles entitled "The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century" published in Past and Present, and cemented by his contemporary, Hugh Trevor-Roper, in a 1959 article entitled "The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century" published in the same journal. Hobsbawm discussed an economic crisis in Europe; Trevor-Roper saw a wider crisis, "a crisis in the relations between society and the State".[2] Trevor-Roper argued that the middle years of the 17th century in Western Europe saw a widespread break-down in politics, economics and society caused by a complex series of demographic, religious, economic and political problems. In this "general crisis", various events such as the English Civil War, the Fronde in France, the climax of the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire and revolts against the Spanish Crown in Portugal, Naples and Catalonia were all manifestations of the same problem. The most important cause of the "general crisis",[3] in Trevor-Roper’s opinion, was the conflict between "Court" and "Country"; that is between the increasingly powerful centralizing, bureaucratic, sovereign princely states represented by the court, and the traditional, regional, land-based aristocracy and gentry representing the country. In addition, the intellectual and religious changes introduced by the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation were important secondary causes of the "general crisis". The "general crisis" thesis generated much controversy between those, such as the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who believed in the "general crisis" thesis but saw the problems of 17th-century Europe as being more social and economic in origin than Trevor-Roper would allow, and those who simply denied there was any "general crisis". Current historians interested in the General Crisis include Geoffrey Parker, who has authored a book on the subject.
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Brewer & Shipley Brewer & Shipley are an American folk rock duo who enjoyed their peak success in the late 1960s through the 1970s, consisting of singer-songwriters Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley. They were known for their intricate guitar work, vocal harmonies, and socially conscious lyrics which reflected the concerns of their generation — especially the Vietnam War, and the struggles for personal and political freedom. Their greatest commercial success was the song "One Toke Over the Line" from their 1970 album Tarkio. They had two other singles on the Billboard charts: "Tarkio Road" (1970) and "Shake Off The Demon" (1971). They continue to perform, both separately and together, usually in the Midwest of the USA.
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The English white terrier (also known as the White English terrier or Old English terrier) is an extinct breed of dog. The English White terrier is the failed show ring name of a pricked-ear version of the white fox-working terriers that have existed in Great Britain since the late 18th Century.
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Glaciers form where the accumulation of snow and ice exceeds ablation. The area in which a glacier forms is called a cirque (corrie or cwm) - a typically armchair-shaped geological feature (such as a depression between mountains enclosed by arêtes) - which collects and compresses through gravity the snow which falls into it. This snow collects and is compacted by the weight of the snow falling above it forming névé. Further crushing of the individual snowflakes and squeezing the air from the snow turns it into 'glacial ice'. This glacial ice will fill the cirque until it 'overflows' through a geological weakness or vacancy, such as the gap between two mountains. When the mass of snow and ice is sufficiently thick, it begins to move due to a combination of surface slope, gravity and pressure. On steeper slopes, this can occur with as little as 15 m (50 ft) of snow-ice.
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Chloroplast Chloroplasts are highly dynamic—they circulate and are moved around within plant cells, and occasionally pinch in two to reproduce. Their behavior is strongly influenced by environmental factors like light color and intensity. Chloroplasts, like mitochondria, contain their own DNA, which is thought to be inherited from their ancestor—a photosynthetic cyanobacterium that was engulfed by an early eukaryotic cell. Chloroplasts cannot be made by the plant cell and must be inherited by each daughter cell during cell division.
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The United States of America -LRB- USA -RRB- , commonly known as the United States -LRB- U.S. -RRB- or America , is a constitutional federal republic composed of 50 states , a federal district , five major self-governing territories , and various possessions . Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico . The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America , bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west . The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean . The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea . Nine time zones are covered . The geography , climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse . At 3.8 million square miles -LRB- 9.8 million km2 -RRB- and with over 324 million people , the United States is the world 's third - or fourth-largest country by total area , third-largest by land area , and the third-most populous . It is one of the world 's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations , and is home to the world 's largest immigrant population . The capital is Washington , D.C. , and the largest city is New York City ; nine other major metropolitan areas -- each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants and the largest having more than 13 million people -- are Los Angeles , Chicago , Dallas , Houston , Philadelphia , Miami , Atlanta , Boston , and San Francisco . Paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago . European colonization began in the 16th century . The United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast . Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies following the Seven Years ' War led to the American Revolution , which began in 1775 . On July 4 , 1776 , during the course of the American Revolutionary War , the colonies unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence . The war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain , representing the first successful war of independence against a European power . The current constitution was adopted in 1788 , after the Articles of Confederation , adopted in 1781 , were felt to have provided inadequate federal powers . The first ten amendments , collectively named the Bill of Rights , were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties . The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century , displacing Native American tribes , acquiring new territories , and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the continent by 1848 . During the second half of the 19th century , the American Civil War led to the end of legal slavery in the country . By the end of that century , the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean , and its economy , driven in large part by the Industrial Revolution , began to soar . The Spanish -- American War and confirmed the country 's status as a global military power . The United States emerged from as a global superpower , the first country to develop nuclear weapons , the only country to use them in warfare , and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council . The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the world 's sole superpower . The U.S. is a founding member of the United Nations , World Bank , International Monetary Fund , Organization of American States -LRB- OAS -RRB- , and other international organizations . The United States is a highly developed country , with the world 's largest economy by nominal GDP and second-largest economy by PPP . Though its population is only 4.3 % of the world total , Americans hold nearly 40 % of the total wealth in the world . The United States ranks among the highest in several measures of socioeconomic performance , including average wage , human development , per capita GDP , and productivity per person . While the U.S. economy is considered post-industrial , characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy , the manufacturing sector remains the second-largest in the world . Accounting for approximately a quarter of global GDP and a third of global military spending , the United States is the world 's foremost economic and military power . The United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally , and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations .
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X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name , distributed by 20th Century Fox . It is the first installment in the X-Men film series , followed by X2 in 2003 and X-Men : The Last Stand in 2006 . The film , directed by Bryan Singer and written by David Hayter , features an ensemble cast that includes Hugh Jackman , Patrick Stewart , Ian McKellen , Halle Berry , Famke Janssen , James Marsden , Bruce Davison , Rebecca Romijn-Stamos , Ray Park , Tyler Mane , and Anna Paquin . It depicts a world in which a small proportion of people are mutants , whose possession of superhuman powers makes them distrusted by normal humans . The film focuses on the mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they are brought into a conflict between two groups that have radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutant-kind : Professor Xavier 's X-Men , and the Brotherhood of Mutants , led by Magneto . Development for X-Men began as far back as 1984 with Orion Pictures . At one point James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were in discussions . The film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994 and various scripts and film treatments were commissioned from Andrew Kevin Walker , John Logan , Joss Whedon , and Michael Chabon . Singer signed to direct in 1996 , with further rewrites by Ed Solomon , Singer , Tom DeSanto , Christopher McQuarrie and Hayter in which Beast and Nightcrawler were deleted over budget concerns from Fox . X-Men marks the Hollywood debut of actor Hugh Jackman , who was a last-second choice for Wolverine , cast three weeks into filming . Filming took place from September 22 , 1999 to March 3 , 2000 , primarily in Toronto . X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success , starting the X-Men film franchise and spawning a reemergence of superhero films .
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Jurist A jurist (from medieval Latin) is someone who researches and studies jurisprudence (theory of law).[1] Such a person can work as an academic, legal writer or law lecturer. In the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and in many other Commonwealth countries, the word jurist sometimes refers to a barrister, whereas in the United States of America and Canada it often refers to a judge.[2]
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WHY PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FOR DEMOCRACY MATTERS WHY PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FOR DEMOCRACY MATTERSFor International Day of Democracy 2015 we are highlighting the importance of public participation for democracy. Public participation is the bedrock on which democracy rests. It enriches democracy – including by helping to ensure better decision-making and strengthening politicians’ accountability to the people. It helps build strong democratic parliaments – which in turn play a vital role in ensuring peace, development and respect for human rights worldwide. Taking part in democracy is something that everyone can and should do, at different levels and in different ways. Public participation is: A vital and guiding principle of democratic governance Based on the belief that everyone who is affected by a decision has a right to be involved in the decision-making process Crucial to increasing democracy’s effectiveness, strengthening citizens’ trust in authorities, and achieving better governance People have both rights and responsibilities to take part in democracy. This includes formal participation such as voting in elections or standing for election, and informal involvement such as informing yourself about public affairs, having political conversations – including through social media – and demonstrating tolerance for views that differ from your own. Public authorities – including parliaments – have a responsibility to provide education, information and encouragement for public participation. For many parliaments, these rights and responsibilities are usually well defined in the constitution and in law. For public participation to be most effective, there needs to be space for civil society to actively operate – a key issue which is being highlighted by the United Nations for Democracy Day 2015. Space for civil society is a hallmark of successful and stable democracies in which governments and civil society helps keep governments accountable. Making a difference Taking action to encourage and strengthen public participation in democracy can: Enrich and renew democracy Help promote sustainable political decisions, action and policy – by recognizing and communicating the needs and interests of all involved Strengthen understanding and action for human rights, and have a positive impact on efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger and to achieve international development goals Empower and protect citizens, and realize the fundamental democratic right of participation Promote people’s wellbeing and development of their skills Ensure and increase active members of political parties – which are vital organizations in a strong democracy Promote peace and foster transitions to democracy Public participation is based on the freedoms of expression, assembly and association, together with the right to take part in public affairs. These are all well-established provisions in international human rights law. Challenges Challenges facing public engagement with democracy vary widely from country to country. Yet globally it has become increasingly clear that casting a vote every few years is no longer enough for an electorate – people want more democratic engagement with the political institutions they elect Recent years have witnessed low levels of public trust in parliaments in many countries, sometimes accompanied by loss of public interest in politics – illustrating why parliaments must engage with and listen to citizens, stay closely attuned to their needs and make every effort to meet them People’s ability to take part in democracy depends on government openness, respect for human rights, and space for civil society. But in a range of countries covering every continent, space for civil society is shrinking or closing as some governments have adopted restrictions limiting non-governmental organizations’ ability to work or receive funding Whether inside or outside of parliament, it is important that participation in democracy includes diverse voices and is free of discrimination. Yet in many countries, there are still barriers to involving the most vulnerable or excluded in society from democratic governance – a denial of people’s rights which can lead to underdevelopment, instability and poor governance Solutions There is no one-size-fits-all solution to ensuring meaningful public participation for democracy. But to identify tailored solutions, political leaders must involve citizens in democratic decision-making and build partnerships with them Accessibility is a key characteristic of a democratic parliament. This means involving the public in the work of parliament – and promising that people’s contributions will influence decisions and political outcomes Everyone in society has an equal right to be listened to, and to be able to take part in decisions that affect them. Parliaments should attend to the diverse voices within their societies. Those in positions of influence have a responsibility to ensure that those on the margins of society are able to contribute, and are comfortable in doing so Women should be able to take part fully in politics and in civil society. They should be able to learn about their democratic rights and responsibilities, improve their political skills, and become fully involved in political life Some countries have procedures to encourage the involvement of marginalized groups – for example, political parties may have mechanisms to ensure the under-represented can stand for election; steps can be taken to ensure diversity within parliamentary committees; and selection of parliamentary staff can be used to ensure inclusivity and diversity Public participation seeks out and facilitates the involvement of those potentially affected by or interested in a decision – including on how they participate, and in providing them with the information to take part in a meaningful way A democratic parliament will seek to foster and ensure a vibrant, strong and freely operating civil society and to work closely with it in finding solutions to problems facing the country, and in improving the quality and relevance of legislation Democracy Day is an ideal time to consider how public participation in democracy can be increased in your country. Visit our Get Involved page for ideas for practical actions, and our Events & Activities page for details of events being held around the world See our Get Involved page for ideas on how to put these solutions into action. Rights and responsibilities Rights Responsibilities You have the right to: It is your duty to: Say what you think (freedom of opinion and expression; legitimate restrictions on hate speech and incitement to violence) Inform yourself (so you can make reasoned choices)Join with other people (freedom of assembly; development of civil society; increasing influence) Vote (in elections at different levels; formal participation)Express your preferences (vote in elections; speak in public meetings and enquiries, at local or national level) Have political conversations (develop your own ideas; exchange ideas with others)Call for change (petition; propose; lobby; debate; protest peacefully) Respect other people’s views (political tolerance)Become a representative (go further in your political engagement; stand for election; set up a group; campaign for a political candidate or party) Stay engaged (don’t think that no-one is listening – and remember that change will only come because people make it happen)All citizens – whoever they are – have these rights and responsibilities equally.
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Greece -LRB- Ελλάδα , -LSB- eˈlaða -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Hellenic Republic -LRB- Greek : Ελληνική Δημοκρατία , -LSB- eliniˈci ðimokraˈti.a -RSB- -RRB- , historically also known as Hellas -LRB- Ἑλλάς , -LSB- heˈlas -RSB- , modern pronunciation Ellás -RRB- , is a country in southeastern Europe , with a population of approximately 11 million as of 2015 . Athens is the nation 's capital and largest city , followed by Thessaloniki . Greece is strategically located at the crossroads of Europe , Asia , and Africa . Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula , it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest , the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north , and Turkey to the northeast . Greece consists of nine geographic regions : Macedonia , Central Greece , the Peloponnese , Thessaly , Epirus , the Aegean Islands -LRB- including the Dodecanese and Cyclades -RRB- , Thrace , Crete , and the Ionian Islands . The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland , the Ionian Sea to the west , the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13676 km in length , featuring a vast number of islands , of which 227 are inhabited . Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous , with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2918 m. Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilization , being the birthplace of democracy , Western philosophy , the Olympic Games , Western literature , historiography , political science , major scientific and mathematical principles , and Western drama . From the eighth century BC , the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states , known as polis , which spanned the entire Mediterranean region and the Black Sea . Philip of Macedon united most of the Greek mainland in the fourth century BC , with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the ancient world , spreading Greek culture and science from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus River . Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC , becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor , the Byzantine Empire , wherein the Greek language and culture were dominant . The Greek Orthodox Church also shaped modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World . Falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century , the modern nation state of Greece emerged in 1830 following a war of independence . Greece 's rich historical legacy is reflected by its 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites , among the most in Europe and the world . Greece is a democratic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy , a high quality of life , and a very high standard of living . A founding member of the United Nations , Greece was the tenth member to join the European Communities -LRB- precursor to the European Union -RRB- and has been part of the Eurozone since 2001 . It is also a member of numerous other international institutions , including the Council of Europe , the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -LRB- NATO -RRB- , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -LRB- OECD -RRB- , the World Trade Organization -LRB- WTO -RRB- , the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe -LRB- OSCE -RRB- , and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie -LRB- OIF -RRB- . Greece 's unique cultural heritage , large tourism industry , prominent shipping sector and geostrategic importance classify it as a middle power . It is the largest economy in the Balkans , where it is an important regional investor .
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Pet to People Worms Pet to People Wormsby Dr. Howard A. Mintzer We are often asked whether people can get worms from their pets. The answer is....yes. And the problem is more common and can be more dangerous than you think!What Kind of Worms Do Pets Carry and What Diseases do they Cause in Humans? The most common worms that can be transmitted from dogs and cats to people all have fancy scientific names like Toxocara cati and Diplydium caninum but you can just remember them as roundworms, hookworms and tapeworms. Tapeworms that we catch live in our intestines, eat our food and pass little white rice-like segments out of our rear end. As unattractive as it is to see one of these worms squiggling out of the hind end of your cat, it is much more disgusting to find it in your child's diaper! Hookworms burrow under the skin and cause itchy rashes and a disease unappetizingly called "creeping eruptions". The most dangerous of these parasites is the roundworm. Roundworms cause "Visceral Larval Migrans" a condition in which immature roundworms (larvae) migrate through the body. Ten thousand cases of VLM are diagnosed in the United States each year. Most of the time the condition causes little if any illness. However, in approximately 750 cases a year the parasite migrates through a person's brain or eyes causing brain damage or blindness. How do Dogs and Cats Get These Worms? Puppies and kittens get roundworms and hookworms from their mother before birth through the placenta or soon after birth through mother's milk. Almost all puppies and kittens have worms by the time they are 2 weeks old. Adult dogs and cats get roundworms, hookworms and tapeworms when they eat other wild animals (mice, rabbits, squirrels, etc.) or when they step in an area contaminated with worm eggs. The worms enter their bodies when they lick their feet off to clean themselves. Tapeworms are more commonly acquired when your dog, cat, puppy or kitten eats a flea (within which the baby tapeworm hides) while he is cleaning his skin. How do People Get These Worms? Children are the main "people" who get worms although adults are also at risk. Children get tapeworms when they kiss their pets and accidentally swallow a flea. Hookworms can burrow through the skin. Children who walk barefoot or sunbathers who lie on ground that is infested with hookworm eggs acquire these parasites directly through their skin. Roundworm infection occurs by eating the actual worm eggs. Children who make mud pies, get their hands dirty in contaminated soil or crawl over and play in a litter box and then put their hands into their mouths become infected. How to Prevent Your Pet From Infecting You Because puppies and kittens are the major source of worm eggs in the home environment they should be dewormed every 2 weeks from the age of 2 weeks until they are 12 weeks old. After the last deworming they should be retested to make sure that they are free of worms. Deworming is not like giving a vaccine, it doesn't prevent your pet from acquiring worms in the future. It only treats the worms your pet has now. Since pets can continually acquire worms throughout their lives they need to be tested for worms and if needed, dewormed on a yearly basis. Even strictly indoor cats can get worms by eating the occasional mouse that comes inside or the little bug that scampers across the floor and is gulped down by your cat. Since tapeworms are transmitted to your pets and yourselves by fleas, strict flea control is essential. How to Prevent the Environment From Infecting You Wear gloves when emptying your cat's litter pan and clean it with a good disinfectant like Clorox or Lysol to kill any eggs that might still be in the box. Use a "pooper scooper" to pick up dog feces from your yard. Dispose of the feces in the garbage or down the toilet. Cover any sand box that children play in so that cats don't use it as a litter pan. Make sure to wash your hands with soap and water after cleaning any areas where pets defecate. Make sure to teach your children the same. In addition, teach children to wash their hands before they eat, especially if they've been playing with their pets. Teach small children not to kiss or put their mouths against their pets. Don't walk barefoot where pets have defecated, even if the area now appears clean.
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Elvis , starring Elvis Presley , is a United States television special that aired on December 3 , 1968 on the NBC television network . The special is commonly referred to as the 68 Comeback Special , because of subsequent developments in Presley 's career . It was directed by Steve Binder and produced by Binder and Bones Howe . Music from the special was released before the broadcast , on the album Elvis -LRB- NBC TV Special -RRB- . Presley 's informal jamming in front of a small audience in the special is regarded as a forerunner of the `` unplugged '' concept , later popularized by MTV .
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Some stars are farther away than others and their light has to travel a long distance to your eye. The flickering appears because even though your looking at the particular star, not all of it's photons hit your retina(most of it scatters while traveling in space and entering the atmosphere) and thus it looks like it's flickering.
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Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945 , when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party -LRB- NSDAP -RRB- . Under Hitler 's rule , Germany was transformed into a fascist state in which the Nazi Party took totalitarian control over nearly all aspects of life . The official name of the state was Deutsches Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Großdeutsches Reich -LRB- `` Greater German Reich '' -RRB- from 1943 to 1945 . The period is also known under the names the Third Reich -LRB- Drittes Reich -RRB- and the National Socialist Period -LRB- Zeit des Nationalsozialismus , abbreviated as NS-Zeit -RRB- . The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945 , ending World War II in Europe . Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933 . The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power . Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934 , and Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the powers and offices of the Chancellery and Presidency . A national referendum held 19 August 1934 confirmed Hitler as sole Führer -LRB- leader -RRB- of Germany . All power was centralised in Hitler 's person , and his word became above all laws . The government was not a coordinated , co-operating body , but a collection of factions struggling for power and Hitler 's favour . In the midst of the Great Depression , the Nazis restored economic stability and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy . Extensive public works were undertaken , including the construction of Autobahnen -LRB- motorways -RRB- . The return to economic stability boosted the regime 's popularity . Racism , especially antisemitism , was a central feature of the regime . The Germanic peoples -LRB- the Nordic race -RRB- were considered by the Nazis to be the purest branch of the Aryan race , and were therefore viewed as the master race . Millions of Jews and other peoples deemed undesirable by the state were murdered in the Holocaust . Opposition to Hitler 's rule was ruthlessly suppressed . Members of the liberal , socialist , and communist opposition were killed , imprisoned , or exiled . Christian churches were also oppressed , with many leaders imprisoned . Education focused on racial biology , population policy , and fitness for military service . Career and educational opportunities for women were curtailed . Recreation and tourism were organised via the Strength Through Joy program , and the 1936 Summer Olympics showcased the Third Reich on the international stage . Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film , mass rallies , and Hitler 's hypnotic oratory to control public opinion . The government controlled artistic expression , promoting specific art forms and banning or discouraging others . Beginning in the late 1930s , Nazi Germany made increasingly aggressive territorial demands , threatening war if they were not met . It seized Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 . Hitler made a non-aggression pact with Joseph Stalin and invaded Poland in September 1939 , launching World War II in Europe . In alliance with Italy and smaller Axis powers , Germany conquered most of Europe by 1940 and threatened Great Britain . Reichskommissariats took control of conquered areas , and a German administration was established in what was left of Poland . Jews and others deemed undesirable were imprisoned , murdered in Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps , or shot . Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 , the tide gradually turned against the Nazis , who suffered major military defeats in 1943 . Large-scale aerial bombing of Germany escalated in 1944 , and the Axis powers were pushed back in Eastern and Southern Europe . Following the Allied invasion of France , Germany was conquered by the Soviet Union from the east and the other Allied powers from the west and capitulated within a year . Hitler 's refusal to admit defeat led to massive destruction of German infrastructure and additional war-related deaths in the closing months of the war . The victorious Allies initiated a policy of denazification and put many of the surviving Nazi leadership on trial for war crimes at the Nuremberg trials .
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The textual critic's ultimate objective is the production of a "critical edition".[citation needed] This contains the text that the author has determined most closely approximates the original, and is accompanied by an apparatus criticus or critical apparatus. The critical apparatus presents the author's work in three parts: first, a list or description of the evidence that the editor used (names of manuscripts, or abbreviations called sigla); second, the editor's analysis of that evidence (sometimes a simple likelihood rating),[citation needed]; and third, a record of rejected variants of the text (often in order of preference).[citation needed]
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Aquaculture continues to be the fastest growing animal food-producing sector and to outpace population growth. Per capita supply from aquaculture increased from 0.7 kg in 1970 to 7.8 kg in 2006, an average annual growth rate of 6.9 percent. It is set to overtake capture fisheries as a source of food fish.
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. Newspaper Address Click here for the Wichita Eagle newspaper from Wichita Newspaper Contact Form or Email here. Wichita Eagle 825 E Douglas Ave Wichita, KS 67202-3512 316-268-6000 - Telephone 316-268-6672 - Fax Steve Coffman is the Executive Editor of the Wichita Eagle in Wichita Kansas. Obituaries ( Here) Facebook Fan Page ( Here ) Twitter Feed ( Here ) Video ( Here ) Translate the site to a selected language - Return to KS Newspaper Page
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt As a child, Gordon-Levitt appeared in the films A River Runs Through It, Angels in the Outfield, and 10 Things I Hate About You, and as Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun. He took a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to pursue acting again. He has since starred in (500) Days of Summer, Inception, Hesher, 50/50, Premium Rush, The Dark Knight Rises, Brick, Looper, The Lookout, Manic, Lincoln, Mysterious Skin, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. He portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk (2015),[1] and whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden (2016).[2] For his leading performances in (500) Days of Summer and 50/50, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
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The first season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on April 17 , 2011 , at 9.00 pm in the U.S. , and concluded on June 19 , 2011 . It consists of ten episodes , each of approximately 55 minutes . The series is based on A Game of Thrones , the first novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin , adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss . HBO had ordered a television pilot in November 2008 ; filming began the following year . However , it was deemed unsatisfactory and later reshot with some roles being recast . In March 2010 , HBO ordered the first season , which began filming in July 2010 , primarily in Belfast , Northern Ireland , with additional filming in Malta . The story takes place in a fictional world , primarily upon a continent called Westeros , with one storyline occurring on another continent to the east known as Essos . Like the novel , the season initially focuses on the family of nobleman Eddard Stark , who is asked to become chief advisor to his king and longtime friend , Robert Baratheon . Ned must find out who killed the previous Hand of the King , Jon Arryn , while trying to protect his family from their rivals the Lannisters . He uncovers the dark secrets about the Lannisters that his predecessor died trying to expose . Meanwhile , in Essos , the exiled Viserys Targaryen , son of the former king , believes he still has the rightful claim to the throne . Game of Thrones features a large ensemble cast , including Bean , Addy , Peter Dinklage , Lena Headey , Nikolaj Coster-Waldau , Michelle Fairley and Iain Glen . Newer actors were cast as the younger generation of characters , such as Kit Harington , Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams . Critics praised the show 's production values and cast , with specific accolades for Dinklage 's portrayal of Tyrion Lannister . The first season won two of the thirteen Emmy Awards for which it was nominated , for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series -LRB- Dinklage -RRB- and Outstanding Main Title Design . It also received a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series . Bean and Emilia Clarke also received individual accolades , as did Ramin Djawadi for music . U.S. viewership rose by approximately 33 % over the course of the season , from 2.2 million to over 3 million by the finale .
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Hawaii -LRB- -LSB- langpronaudio = en-us-Hawaii . ogghəˈwaɪ.i , _ - ji , _ - ʔi -RSB- ; Hawai -LSB- - hawhəˈvɐjʔi -RSB- -RRB- is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America , having received statehood on August 21 , 1959 . Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands . It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia , occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean . Hawaii is the only U.S. state not located in the Americas . The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian archipelago , which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1500 mi . At the southeastern end of the archipelago , the eight main islands are -- in order from northwest to southeast : Niihau , Kauai , Oahu , Molokai , Lānai , Kahoolawe , Maui , and the Island of Hawaii . The last is the largest island in the group ; it is often called the `` Big Island '' or `` Hawaii Island '' to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago . The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania . Hawaii 's diverse natural scenery , warm tropical climate , abundance of public beaches , oceanic surroundings , and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists , surfers , biologists , and volcanologists . Because of its central location in the Pacific and 19th-century labor migration , Hawaii 's culture is strongly influenced by North American and Asian cultures , in addition to its indigenous Hawaiian culture . Hawaii has over a million permanent residents , along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel . Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oahu . Hawaii is the 8th-smallest and the 11th-least populous , but the 13th-most densely populated of the fifty U.S. states . It is the only state with an Asian plurality . The state 's coastline is about 750 mi long , the fourth longest in the U.S. after the coastlines of Alaska , Florida , and California .
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Janis Lyn Joplin -LRB- -LSB- ˈdʒɒplɪn -RSB- January 19 , 1943 -- October 4 , 1970 -RRB- was an American rock singer and songwriter . She was one of the biggest female rock stars of her era . After releasing three albums , she died of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27 . A fourth album , Pearl , was released in January 1971 , a little more than three months after her death . It reached number one on the charts . In 1967 , Joplin rose to fame during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival , where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company . After releasing two albums with the band , she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups , first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band . She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour . Five singles by Joplin went into the Billboard Top 100 , including a cover of the song `` Me and Bobby McGee '' , which reached number 1 in March 1971 . Her most popular songs include her cover versions of `` Piece of My Heart '' , `` Cry Baby '' , `` Down on Me '' , `` Ball 'n' Chain '' , and `` Summertime '' ; and her original song `` Mercedes Benz '' , her final recording . Joplin , highly respected for her charismatic performing ability , was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 . Audiences and critics alike referred to her stage presence as `` electric '' . Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time . She remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States , with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 15.5 million albums sold in the USA .
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Bendy and the Ink Machine Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic survival horror video game developed and published by TheMeatly Games. The game focuses on Henry, a retired animator, who returns to the old studio he worked at upon an invitation from his old colleague, studio owner Joey Drew, and discovering numerous secrets about the abandoned studio, while being hunted down by Bendy, an ink monster that resembles the company's most popular character. The game's first chapter, Moving Pictures, was released for Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows via Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, with a second chapter, The Old Song, together with a remastered version of the first one, following on April 18, 2017. After the game succeeded in its Steam Greenlight campaign on February 28, 2017,[1] both available chapters were released onto Steam on April 27, 2017. The third chapter, Rise and Fall, was released on September 28, 2017, and a total of five chapters are planned.[2] Mike Mood, the programmer, describes the game as an "accidental success."[3]
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Colloquially, the term university may be used to describe a phase in one's life: "When I was at university..." (in the United States and Ireland, college is often used instead: "When I was in college..."). In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Spain and the German-speaking countries university is often contracted to uni. In Ghana, New Zealand and in South Africa it is sometimes called "varsity" (although this has become uncommon in New Zealand in recent years). "Varsity" was also common usage in the UK in the 19th century.[citation needed] "Varsity" is still in common usage in Scotland.
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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville -LRB- 23 May 1790 -- 8 May 1842 -RRB- was a French explorer , naval officer and rear admiral , who explored the south and western Pacific , Australia , New Zealand and Antarctica . As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark , giving his name to several seaweeds , plants and shrubs , and places such as D'Urville Island .
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Bay of Fundy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedianavigation search The Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy (or Fundy Bay) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the state of Maine. It has the highest tidal range in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records (1975) declared that Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world. Portions of the Bay of Fundy, Shepody Bay and Minas Basin, form one of six Canadian sites in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, and are classified as a Hemispheric site. [1] It is administered by the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Wildlife Service, and is managed in conjunction with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Contents [ hide ]1 Etymology2 Tides2.1 Tidal electrical power generation3 Geology3.1 Sub-basins3.2 Rivers3.3 Communities4 History5 Ports and shipping6 Parks and protected areas7 See also8 References9 External links Etymology [ edit]Some sources believe the name "Fundy" is a corruption of the French word Fendu, meaning "split", [2] while others believe it comes from the Portuguese funda, meaning "deep". [3] The bay was also named Baie Française (French Bay) by explorer-cartographer Samuel de Champlain during a 1604 expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts which resulted in a failed settlement attempt on St. Croix Island. Tides [ edit]Alma, New Brunswick at high and low tide Burntcoat Head Park Fundy Tidal Interpretive Centre The Bay of Fundy is known for its high tidal range. The quest for world tidal dominance has led to a rivalry between the Minas Basin in the Bay of Fundy and the Leaf Basin in Ungava Bay, over which body of water lays claim to the highest tides in the world, with supporters in each region claiming the record. The Canadian Hydrographic Service finally declared it a statistical tie, with measurements of a 16.8-metre (55-foot) tidal range in Leaf Basin for Ungava Bay and 17 meters (56 feet) at Burntcoat Head for the Bay of Fundy. [4] The highest water level ever recorded in the Bay of Fundy system occurred at the head of the Minas Basin on the night of October 4–5, 1869 during a tropical cyclone named the “ Saxby Gale ”. The water level of 21.6 meters (71 feet) resulted from the combination of high winds, abnormally low atmospheric pressure, and a spring tide. Leaf Basin has only been measured in recent years, whereas the Fundy system has been measured for many decades. The tide at Leaf Basin is higher on average than tides at Minas Basin; however, the highest recorded tidal ranges ever measured are at Burntcoat Head and result from spring tides measured at the peak of the tidal cycle every 18 years. Traditional Mi'kmaq folklore states that the tides in the Bay of Fundy are caused by a giant whale splashing in the water. Oceanographers attribute it to tidal resonance resulting from a coincidence of timing: the time it takes a large wave to go from the mouth of the bay to the inner shore and back is practically the same as the time from one high tide to the next. During the 12.4-hour tidal period, 115 billion tonnes of water flow in and out of the bay. [5]The tides in the Bay of Fundy are semidiurnal, which means that they have two highs and two lows each day. [6] The height that the water rises and falls to each day during these tides are approximately equal. [7] There are approximately six hours and thirteen minutes between each high and low tide. [8]Tidal electrical power generation [ edit]Alternative forms of energy are being explored in depth in a number of unique areas. Tidal energy harnesses the movement of ocean water to generate electricity through a number of mechanisms. Currently a process of gathering tidal energy called " In-stream turbine technology " is being tested in the Minas Passage, Nova Scotia. This project is being spearheaded by the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy or FORCE. [9]In-stream tidal turbine technology is a relatively simple design. An elevated turbine is submerged under water in a location that enables its movement with tidal cycles. As the blades of the turbine move they create energy that powers an electric generator at the base. From here the power travels to a cable attached to the seafloor and back to an offsite facility where it can be added to the power grid. [10]While this technology has shown to be successful in its early stages of testing, FORCE has not officially begun the process for energy collection. However, the installation of the undersea cable in December 2013 indicates that the project is moving along swiftly. [11]A megawatt-scale turbine was installed at Cape Sharp near Partridge Island in November 2016. Project managers intend to install 16 MW by 2017, and 300 MW by 2020. [12]Geology [ edit]Basal contact of a lava flow section of Fundy basin The Bay of Fundy lies in a rift valley called the Fundy Basin; as the rift began to separate from mainland North America, volcanic activity occurred, forming volcanoes and flood basalts. These flood basalts poured out over the landscape, covering much of southern Nova Scotia. Sections of the flood basalts have been eroded away, but still form a basaltic mountain range known as North Mountain. As a result, much of the basin floor is made of tholeiitic basalts giving its brown color. The rift valley eventually failed ( see aulacogen) as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge continued to separate North America, Europe, and Africa. Sub-basins [ edit]The upper part of the bay splits into Chignecto Bay in the northeast and the Minas Basin in the east. Chignecto Bay is further subdivided into Cumberland Basin and Shepody Bay and the extreme eastern portion of Minas Basin is called Cobequid Bay. Some of these upper reaches exhibit exposed red bay muds, for which the Bay of Fundy is noted (for their appearance and biological productivity). Cape Chignecto, as viewed from the Visitor Centre at Cape Chignecto Provincial Park. Cape Chignecto defines Chignecto Bay whereas Cape Split defines the Minas Channel, leading to the Minas Basin. The Minas Channel connects the Minas Basin with the main body of the bay. The channel is 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) across and approximately 106.7 metres (350 ft) deep. [7] The tides that flow through the channel are very powerful. They are as powerful as 8,000 train engines or 25 million horses. [13] Facing Cape Split at the entrance to the Minas Channel are the basalt cliffs of Cape d'Or. The Minas Basin in early May. The lower part of the bay is also home to four important sub-basins: Passamaquoddy Bay and Back Bay on the New Brunswick shore, Cobscook Bay on the Maine shore, and the Annapolis Basin on the Nova Scotia shore. The bay is home to several islands, the largest of which is Grand Manan at the boundary with the Gulf of Maine. Other important islands on the north side of the bay include Campobello Island, Moose Island, and Deer Island in the Passamaquoddy Bay area. Brier Island and Long Island can be found on the south side of the bay while Isle Haute is in the upper bay off Cape Chignecto. Smaller islands and islets also exist in Passamaquoddy Bay, Back Bay, and Annapolis Basin. The Five Islands, in the Minas Basin, are particularly scenic. Eroded rock formations at the Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy is also home to another interesting geologic feature, the Hopewell Rocks formation. This formation is where the “famous flower-pot rocks” are located on a short, one kilometer long portion of Shepody Bay. [14] These rocks are shaped by the tides, the strength of the rocks, and the presence of the joints in the rocks. The rock in the cliffs the stacks are being cut from are arkosic sandstone and coarse poorly sorted conglomerates. The tides that are eroding away the cliffs are between 10.7 metres (35 ft) and 14.7 metres (48 ft) high on average. [14]Rivers [ edit]The bay receives the waters of several rivers, including: Reversing Falls is where the Saint John River and Bay of Fundy meet New Brunswick Big Salmon River Little Salmon River Magaguadavic River Memramcook River Petitcodiac River Quiddy River Saint John River St. Croix River Shepody River Tantramar River Upper Salmon River Nova Scotia Annapolis River Avon River Cornwallis River Debert River Farrell River Salmon River Shubenacadie River Kennetcook River The Salmon River tidal bore October 22, 2009. The bay's extreme tidal range causes several interesting phenomena in the various rivers which empty into it. Near the mouth of the Saint John River, where it passes through the city of Saint John, is the famous Reversing Falls. Here the changing tide causes alternating strong upriver and downriver flows several times a day as the tidal cycle changes. A narrow granite gorge and rocky bottom heavily restricts waterflow and creates strong rapids that flow upriver at high tide, and downriver at low tide. Rivers in the upper Bay of Fundy have a smaller flow-rate than the Saint John, and a shallower slope. As a result, extensive mud flats are deposited throughout the tidal range of the rivers. Tidal bore Another phenomenon which occurs in these rivers of the upper bay is a " tidal bore ", where a wave front of water "bores" its way up a river against its normal flow. [15] The narrow and shallow river estuaries around the upper Bay of Fundy regularly produce bores when the advancing tide is slowed by shallow waters creating a build-up with a steep surge of advancing water. Tidal bores are found on the Salmon River at Truro, the Petitcodiac River at Moncton as well as on the Shubenacadie River, the St. Croix River, the Maccan River, Kennetcook River and at River Herbert. [16]One of the better examples of a tidal bore can be seen on the Shubenacadie River near the town of Truro and the village of Maitland, where local ecotourism operators offer the chance to experience rafting the bore upriver. Another good example of a tidal bore may be viewed on the Salmon River in the town of Truro. The once-famous tidal bores on the Petitcodiac and Avon rivers have been severely disrupted as a result of causeway construction in the 1960s–1970s which have caused excessive siltation. Communities [ edit]The largest population centre on the bay is the New Brunswick city of Saint John. Saint John is the port city of the Bay of Fundy. The port is Canada’s third largest port by tonnage with a cargo base that includes dry and liquid bulk, break bulk, containers, and cruise. [17] Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada. During the reign of George III, the municipality was created by royal charter in 1785 by a union between the former towns on each side of the harbour, Parrtown and Carleton. [18]Saint John, New Brunswick The New Brunswick towns of St. Andrews, Blacks Harbour, St. Martins and Sackville as well as the Nova Scotia towns of Amherst, Parrsboro, Truro, Windsor, Wolfville, Annapolis Royal, and Digby are also on the bay. History [ edit]Fort Edward (built 1750), Windsor, Nova Scotia. The oldest blockhouse in North America. Major Benjamin Church: Led New England raids against Bay of Fundy Communities The Mi'kmaq fished in the Bay of Fundy and lived in communities around the bay for centuries before the first Europeans arrived and continue to live and work around the Bay. The first European settlement was at Île-Saint-Croix and then Port Royal was founded by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain in 1605. The village was the first permanent European settlement north of St. Augustine, Florida. (Two years later, the English made their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia .) Approximately seventy-five years after Port Royal was founded, Acadians migrated from the capital and established what would become the other major Acadian settlements before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand-Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid (present-day Truro, Nova Scotia) and Pisiguit (present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia ). [19]There were numerous naval battles as well as naval attacks on the settlements surrounding the Bay of Fundy. Port Royal was raided numerous times during the Acadian Civil War. There were also numerous battles and raids during six wars that engulfed the region over a period of 75 years: the four French and Indian Wars, Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War. During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay (See Raid on Chignecto (1696) ). During Queen Anne's War, Church attacked the Acadian communities around the Bay again (See Raid on Grand Pré ). [19]During Father Le Loutre's War, there were naval assaults on the communities of Chignecto (See Battle at Chignecto) and the Acadian Exodus from the Cobequid. Finally, during the last French and Indian War, the British expelled the Acadians in the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755), which was followed three years later with campaigns which targeted the Saint John River and the Petitcodiac River. [20]During the American Revolution, the upper reaches of the Basin saw a significant rebellion and battle at the Siege of Fort Cumberland and American attacks at Saint John, New Brunswick as well as numerous privateering raids against towns like Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. After the War, the boundary between the United States and the newly created province of New Brunswick remained uncertain, resulting in a thriving smuggling trade in the region, especially on the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay. [21] The Bay saw some action during the War of 1812 as well, mostly in the form of privateering and small patrol ships. [22] After the War of 1812, the smuggling resumed and culminated in the so-called "plaster war" of 1820. The Bay of Fundy's ports and basins became major shipbuilding and shipping centres in the 19th century. Led at first by shipbuilders like James Moran of St. Martins, New Brunswick, shipbuilding to all shores of the Bay of Fundy and eventually included shipbuilders such as Joseph Salter in Moncton and William D. Lawrence of Maitland, Nova Scotia who build some of the larges sailing ships ever constructed in Canada. Among other accomplishments, Fundy ports produced the fastest ship in the world, the ship Marco Polo; the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the ship William D. Lawrence; and the first female sea captain in the western world, Molly Kool of Alma, New Brunswick. The fabled mystery ship Mary Celeste was also built on the Bay. Ports and shipping [ edit]The port of Saint John gives access to the pulp and paper industry and the Irving oil refinery. Hantsport, Nova Scotia, on the Avon River is also home to a pulp and paper mill and is the shipment point for raw gypsum exports to the United States. The ports of Bayside, Charlotte County, (near St. Andrews) and Eastport, Maine, are important local ports. A result of shipping traffic has been the potential for increased collisions between ships and the North Atlantic right whale. In 2003, the Canadian Coast Guard adjusted shipping lanes crossing prime whale feeding areas at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy to lessen the risk of collision. Grand Manan V ferry at North Head, Grand Manan Island The bay is also traversed by several passenger and automobile ferry services: Saint John, New Brunswick, to Digby, Nova Scotia. (Operated by Bay Ferries Limited . )Grand Manan Island to Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick and White Head Island, New Brunswick, to Grand Manan Island. (Operated by Coastal Transport Limited . )Deer Island to Letete, New Brunswick. (The Letete to Deer Island Ferry, operated by the New Brunswick Department of Transportation . )Campobello Island, New Brunswick, to Deer Island. Eastport, Maine, to Deer Island. (Operated by East Coast Ferries Limited. )Westport, Nova Scotia, ( Brier Island) to Freeport, Nova Scotia, ( Long Island ). Tiverton, Nova Scotia, (Long Island) to East Ferry, Nova Scotia. (Operated by Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Public Works. )Parks and protected areas [ edit]Point Wolfe at Fundy National Park. A number of parks preserve and interpret the Bay of Fundy's coastal ecosystem. They include Fundy National Park in New Brunswick and Cape Chignecto Provincial Park and Five Islands Provincial Park and Blomidon Provincial Park in Nova Scotia. The Canadian Wildlife Service maintains a number of National Wildlife Areas in the Bay of Fundy including a proposed designation of Isle Haute in the middle of the Bay. See also [ edit]Central Nova Tourist Association – Tourism Association Representing Cumberland and Colchester County. Tidal power References [ edit]^ "Description". Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. Retrieved February 18, 2008.^ "Fundy, Bay of and Gulf of Maine". Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010.^ Slocum, Victor (1993) [1950]. Capt. Joshua Slocum. New York: Sheridan House. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-924486-52-X.^ "Teaching & Learning about Canada". Archived from the original on August 20, 2007. Retrieved September 26, 2007.^ "World's Highest Tides – Town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia". Retrieved April 27, 2016.^ Yeo, R. K, Risk, M. J., 1981, The sedimentology, stratigraphy, and preservation of intertidal deposits in the Minas Basin System, Bay of Fundy: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 51, pp. 245–260.^ a b Klein, G. D., 1963, Bay of Fundy intertidal zone sediments: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 33, pp. 844–854.^ The Official Site of the Bay of Fundy, 2010, Tides in the Bay of Fundy [WWW document]. URL: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-15. Accessed April 4, 2010.^ "Annual Report 2012." Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (2012): 1-25. Web. 8 December 2013.^ "The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy" (PDF). FORCE (Brochure). Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada: The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy. May 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013. Imagine the power of the highest tides in the world. Imagine the technology to harness it.^ "Tidal Energy." National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2010): 1–162. Web. 8 December 2013.^ "Massive new tidal turbine has been deployed on the coast of Nova Scotia and now produces electricity- first in North America". Electrek. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.^ "Geology". bayoffundy.com. 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2010.^ a b Trenhaile, A. S., Pepper, D. A., Trenhaile, R. W., and Dalimonte, M., 1998, Stacks and notches at Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, Canada: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 23, pp. 975–988.^ Dalton, F. K. (1951). "Fundy's prodigious tides and Petitcodiac's tidal bore". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. XLV: 225–231.^ Natural History of Nova Scotia Vol. I, Chap. T6.1: "Ocean Currents", p. 109^ "Port Saint John reports 2016 tonnage". Retrieved July 23, 2017.^ "Saint John". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 12, 2017.^ a b Faragher, John Mack, A Great and Noble Scheme New York; W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. pp. 110–112 ISBN 0-393-05135-8^ John Grenier. The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760. Oklahoma University Press. 2008 ISBN 978-0-8061-3876-3^ Smith, Joshua (2007). Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1780–1820. Gainesville, FL: UPF. pp. passim. ISBN 0-8130-2986-4.^ Smith, Joshua (2011). Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions. pp. passim. ISBN 978-0-86492-644-9. External links [ edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bay of Fundy. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bay of Fundy. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Fundy, Bay of. Travel and Science Information on Bay of Fundy region Bay of Fundy NASA Earth Observatory Official Bay of Fundy Tourist Site Central Nova Tourist Association The Quoddy Loop around Passamaquoddy Bay, in the Bay of Fundy Where the Bay Becomes the Sea, a documentary on the Bay of Fundy ecosystem Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership – scientific and popular information about the Bay The Official Tourism Site for Campobello Island, New Brunswick Tourism New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy [ show]v t e Earth 's oceans and seas Coordinates: 45°00′N 65°45′WAuthority control World Cat Identities VIAF: 315125002 GND: 4134099-1Categories: Bays of New Brunswick Bays of Nova Scotia Bays of Maine Bays of the Atlantic Ocean Borders of New Brunswick Borders of Nova Scotia Canada–United States border
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LeBron James James was selected by his home team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, as the first overall pick of the 2003 NBA draft.[29] In his first regular season game, he scored 25 points against the Sacramento Kings, setting an NBA record for most points scored by a prep-to-pro player in his debut performance.[30] At the conclusion of the season, he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year, finishing with averages of 20.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 5.9 assists per game.[31] He became the first Cavalier to receive the honor and just the third player in NBA history to average at least 20 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists per game as a rookie.[32] The Cavaliers finished the season 35–47, failing to make the playoffs despite an 18-game improvement over the previous year.[33]
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Architecture competitions are risky ⦠but we can build on that Architecture competitions are risky … but we can build on that July 29, 2014 4.31pm EDTAuthor Donald Bates Chair, Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne Disclosure statement Donald Bates is a Co-Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio, the designers of winning entry for the Federation Square competition. Partners University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Victoria State Government provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU. View all partners Republish this article Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons license. Do architectural competitions lead to unrealistic design directions? AAP/ Paul Miller Email Twitter Facebook Linked In Print There’s a perverse irony in the apocryphal tale of the design competition for the Sydney Opera House in 1956. The story goes that, after the selection of the group of finalist designs for the competition, the Finnish-American architect on the jury, Eero Saarinen, re-examined the pile of rejected entries, and reinstated the scheme of the Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Danish architect Jorn Utzon. EPA/Ulf Nilsen This design, as we all know, won and the contentious project, built over 16 difficult years, has become an iconic image of Sydney and Australia. The fact the architect acrimoniously departed Australia before the completion of the project, never to return, only adds to the poignancy of the story. The Sydney Opera House story defines the capricious, conflicted nature of architectural design competitions. Are they opportunities for unique, unexpected design propositions, or unnecessary risks that lead to unrealistic, unproven design directions? Historical winners and losers Design competitions play a fascinating role in the history of architecture, with losing entries often as important in defining the progress of architectural thought and theory as the actual winning and built projects: the projects that might have been built becoming as influential as those that perhaps should never have been built. Chicago Tribune Tower. Penn State University Library The Chicago Tribune Tower competition of 1922 for “the most beautiful and distinctive office building in the world” generated tremendous publicity for the American newspaper and the design options from some of the 260 entries helped to define the new direction of “ modernism ” in architecture and the American skyline for the coming generations (even if the winning design was neo-Gothic). The selection of the then-young partners Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano for the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1971 (from 681 entries), gave these untested architects the opportunity to establish a new direction in architecture with “high-tech” and over the next six years to complete one of the most visited buildings in Paris.“Open design competitions” have also determined many influential works of the last 100 years, often establishing the careers of their architects, including the Parc de la Villette in Paris, Jewish Museum Berlin, Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and Federation Square in Melbourne (designed by LAB Architecture Studio, of which I’m director). The recent design competitions for both the Australian Pavilion in Venice and for Flinders Street Station have re-ignited debate as to role of design competitions within Australia. Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Yokohama, Japan. Marco Capitanio Design competition structure Added to this capricious uncertainty are the many junctures at which it can all go wrong. The potential operating structure of a design competition is varied, with each component, each incarnation, contributing to different outcomes and vastly different agendas.“Open”, “anonymous”, “pre-selected”, “pre-qualified”, “multi-staged”, “ideas-based”, “selection of a design or selection of an architect” – these are but a few of the competition formats that are readily employed, and each implies a position relative to the ambition and purpose of the competition itself. The selection, the status and the influence of the jury add to the determination not just of a winning design, but also to the very likelihood and breadth of submissions and entries. The quality (and often lack of quality) of the design brief and the required deliverables for the submitting architects greatly influences the final designs. And finally, of course, there is the alignment, or lack of alignment, between the selected design and the final built project – for whatever reason. Does Australia need more design competitions? Australian architects (at least younger architects) often stand in envy of European counterparts, as many EU countries legislate the use of the design competition process to commission and award most public buildings, large and small. It is a system that promotes and develops new talent. Numerous commercial projects across Europe are also the results of design competitions, usually by means of slightly more restricted selection and adjudication processes, but by design competitions nonetheless. Federation Square, Melbourne. margaretes In Australia, the norm is for selection to be based on an EOI (expressions of interest) or RFP (request for proposals) – with portfolios of similar work and bureaucratic selection criteria much more determining of selection than a design proposal. Does Australia need more competitions, and specifically more “open” competitions? Does the current system perpetuate a small cadre of major, multi-disciplinary practices winning the vast majority of work? If you have to prove you have “done it before” to win the chance to undertake a project, what possibility is there for new, emergent architects to get on the list of approved applicants? Do the restrictions protect government expenditure or simply direct the work to the same corporate powerhouses? Many argue that the vast resources and efforts of tens, if not hundreds, of architects working on the singular opportunity to gain a commission is a waste of time and money. Nonetheless, the lasting legacy of many competitions of the last 100 years suggests the accounting needs to at least give value to the unexpected, unpredictable opportunity afforded to both the project and the history of architectural thought. Professor Donald Bates is chairing a panel debate on Competing Ideas: the role and relevancy of architectural competitions at the Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre on July 30. Architecture Design Buildings Tweet Share Get newsletter You might also like Stock investors on higher floors take more risks – here’s why City streets: why South Africa should design more people-friendly spaces As humans change the world, predators seize the chance to succeed Three scenarios show we have to think carefully about ethics in designing smart cities
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These different explorations of 'identity' demonstrate how difficult a concept it is to pin down. Since identity is a virtual thing, it is impossible to define it empirically. Discussions of identity use the term with different meanings, from fundamental and abiding sameness, to fluidity, contingency, negotiated and so on. Brubaker and Cooper note a tendency in many scholars to confuse identity as a category of practice and as a category of analysis (Brubaker & Cooper 2000, p. 5). Indeed, many scholars demonstrate a tendency to follow their own preconceptions of identity, following more or less the frameworks listed above, rather than taking into account the mechanisms by which the concept is crystallised as reality. In this environment, some analysts, such as Brubaker and Cooper, have suggested doing away with the concept completely (Brubaker & Cooper 2000, p. 1). Others, by contrast, have sought to introduce alternative concepts in an attempt to capture the dynamic and fluid qualities of human social self-expression. Hall (1992, 1996), for example, suggests treating identity as a process, to take into account the reality of diverse and ever-changing social experience. Some scholars have introduced the idea of identification, whereby identity is perceived as made up of different components that are 'identified' and interpreted by individuals. The construction of an individual sense of self is achieved by personal choices regarding who and what to associate with. Such approaches are liberating in their recognition of the role of the individual in social interaction and the construction of identity.
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Edon, Ohio Edon, Ohio From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedianavigation search Edon, Ohio Village Grain elevators on the south side of Edon Location of Edon, Ohio Location of Edon in Williams County Coordinates: 41°33′24″N 84°46′6″WCoordinates: 41°33′24″N 84°46′6″WCountry United States State Ohio County Williams Government• Mayor Duane Thiel Area [1]• Total 1.12 sq mi (2.90 km 2)• Land 1.12 sq mi (2.90 km 2)• Water 0 sq mi (0 km 2)Elevation [2] 899 ft (274 m)Population ( 2010) [3]• Total 834• Estimate (2012 [4]) 831• Density 744.6/sq mi (287.5/km 2)Time zone Eastern (EST) ( UTC-5)• Summer ( DST) EDT ( UTC-4)ZIP code 43518Area code (s) 419FIPS code 39-24640 [5]GNIS feature ID 1048695 [2]Website http://www.edon-ohio.com/Edon is a village in Williams County, Ohio, United States. The population was 834 at the 2010 census. Contents [ hide ]1 History2 Geography3 Demographics3.1 2010 census3.2 2000 census4 Education5 References6 External links History [ edit]Edon was platted in 1867. [6] A post office has been in operation at Edon since 1867. [7]Geography [ edit]Edon is located at 41°33′24″N 84°46′6″W (41.556657, -84.768257). [8]According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.12 square miles (2.90 km 2 ), all land. [1]Demographics [ edit]Historical population Census Pop. %±1880 513 —1890 601 17.2%1900 740 23.1%1910 678 −8.4%1920 610 −10.0%1930 581 −4.8%1940 635 9.3%1950 645 1.6%1960 757 17.4%1970 803 6.1%1980 947 17.9%1990 880 −7.1%2000 898 2.0%2010 834 −7.1%Est. 2016 820 [9] −1.7%U. S. Decennial Census [10]2010 census [ edit]As of the census [3] of 2010, there were 834 people, 339 households, and 225 families residing in the village. The population density was 744.6 inhabitants per square mile (287.5/km 2 ). There were 369 housing units at an average density of 329.5 per square mile (127.2/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the village was 98.0% White, 0.1% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% Asian, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population. There were 339 households of which 31.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.5% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 33.6% were non-families. 28.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 15% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.02. The median age in the village was 37.8 years. 25.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.1% were from 25 to 44; 22.8% were from 45 to 64; and 17.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 48.1% male and 51.9% female.2000 census [ edit]As of the census [5] of 2000, there were 898 people, 360 households, and 249 families residing in the village. The population density was 863.2 people per square mile (333.4/km²). There were 375 housing units at an average density of 360.5 per square mile (139.2/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.89% White, 0.45% Asian, 0.22% from other races, and 0.45% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.33% of the population. There were 360 households out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.9% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.6% were non-families. 26.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.03. In the village, the population was spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 89.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.5 males. The median income for a household in the village was $43,500, and the median income for a family was $48,214. Males had a median income of $33,125 versus $20,900 for females. The per capita income for the village was $17,099. About 3.8% of families and 5.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 14.3% of those age 65 or over. Education [ edit]Edon High School is a public high school in Edon, and is the only high school in the Edon Northwest Local Schools district. Their nickname is the Bombers. They are members of the Buckeye Border Conference and, for football only, the Toledo Area Athletic Conference. Athletically, the most famous Edon High School alumnus is Dave Herman, who went on to play football collegiately at Michigan State University from 1960–1964, then played professionally with the New York Jets from 1964–1973, twice earning all-pro honors. He was the starting offensive right tackle in the Jets' 16-7 win over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Edon has a public library, a branch of the Williams County Public Library. [11]References [ edit]^ a b "US Gazetteer files 2010". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2012-01-24. Retrieved 2013-01-06.^ a b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.^ a b "American Fact Finder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-01-06.^ "Population Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2013-06-17.^ a b "American Fact Finder". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2008-01-31.^ "County Information (Williams County, Ohio)". Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2015.^ "Williams County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.^ "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2015.^ "Hours & Locations". Williams County Public Library. Retrieved 3 March 2018. External links [ edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edon, Ohio. School District Website [ hide]v t e Municipalities and communities of Williams County, Ohio, United States County seat: Bryan City Bryan Villages Blakeslee Edgerton Edon Holiday City Montpelier Pioneer Stryker West Unity Townships Brady Bridgewater Center Florence Jefferson Madison Mill Creek Northwest Pulaski St. Joseph Springfield Superior CDPs Alvordton Kunkle Lake Seneca Pulaski Unincorporated communities Berlin Billingstown Bridgewater Center Columbia Cooney Hamer Lock Port Melbern Mina Primrose West Jefferson Williams Center Ghost town West Buffalo Categories: Villages in Williams County, Ohio
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Huntington 's disease -LRB- HD -RRB- , also known as Huntington 's chorea , is an inherited disorder that results in death of brain cells . The earliest symptoms are often subtle problems with mood or mental abilities . A general lack of coordination and an unsteady gait often follow . As the disease advances , uncoordinated , jerky body movements become more apparent . Physical abilities gradually worsen until coordinated movement becomes difficult and the person is unable to talk . Mental abilities generally decline into dementia . The specific symptoms vary somewhat between people . Symptoms usually begin between 30 and 50 years of age , but can start at any age . The disease may develop earlier in life in each successive generation . About 8 % of cases start before the age of 20 years and typically present with symptoms more similar to Parkinson 's disease . People with HD often underestimate the degree of their problems . HD is typically inherited from a person 's parents , with 10 % of cases due to a new mutation . The disease is caused by an autosomal dominant mutation in either of an individual 's two copies of a gene called Huntingtin . This means a child of an affected person typically has a 50 % chance of inheriting the disease . The Huntingtin gene provides the genetic information for a protein that is also called `` huntingtin '' . Expansion of CAG -LRB- cytosine-adenine-guanine -RRB- triplet repeats in the gene coding for the Huntingtin protein results in an abnormal protein , which gradually damages cells in the brain , through mechanisms that are not fully understood . Diagnosis is by genetic testing , which can be carried out at any time , regardless of whether or not symptoms are present . This fact raises several ethical debates : the age at which an individual is considered mature enough to choose testing ; whether parents have the right to have their children tested ; and managing confidentiality and disclosure of test results . There is no cure for HD . Full-time care is required in the later stages of the disease . Treatments can relieve some symptoms and in some improve quality of life . The best evidence for treatment of the movement problems is with tetrabenazine . HD affects about 4 to 15 in 100,000 people of European descent . It is rare among Japanese , while the occurrence rate in Africa is unknown . The disease affects men and women equally . Complications such as pneumonia , heart disease , and physical injury from falls reduce life expectancy . Suicide is the cause of death in about 9 % of cases . Death typically occurs fifteen to twenty years from when the disease was first detected . The first likely description of the disease was in 1841 by Charles Oscar Waters . The condition was described in further detail in 1872 by George Huntington , after whom it is named . The genetic basis was discovered in 1993 by an international collaborative effort led by the Hereditary Disease Foundation . Research and support organizations began forming in the late 1960s to increase public awareness , to provide support for individuals and their families , and to promote research . Current research directions include determining the exact mechanism of the disease , improving animal models to aid with research , testing of medications to treat symptoms or slow the progression of the disease , and studying procedures such as stem cell therapy with the goal of repairing damage caused by the disease .
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