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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassigny

Lassigny

Lassigny () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also Communes of the Oise department References Communes of Oise

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20New%20York

Flag of New York

Flag of New York may refer to: The flag of the State of New York, U.S., which consists of the coat of arms of New York on a solid blue background The flag of New York City, a city in the State of New York

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASHA%20Holding

PASHA Holding

"PASHA Holding" Limited Liability Company (PASHA Holding or PASHA Holding LLC) through its subsidiaries, invests in banking and finance, insurance, information technology, retail, construction, hospitality and agriculture, the property development and tourism sectors. The Holding has two types of Investment assets portfolios: Controlling stakes in PASHA Holding and its subsidiaries and minority private equity investments. Banking Current volume of paid-in capital of the Bank amounts to 333 million AZN. The total number of its shareholders comprises 2 legal entities and 1 physical person. The bank's shareholders are PASHA Holding Ltd. (60%), Ador Ltd. (30%) and Mr. Arif Pashayev (10%). Travel and tourism PASHA Travel PASHA Travel was founded in 2003. Absheron Hotel Group Absheron Hotel Group was established in 2013. It manages the following properties: Pik Palace, Shahdag, Autograph Collection Park Chalet, Shahdag, Autograph Collection Boulevard Hotel, Baku, Autograph Collection Sheraton Baku Intourist, Baku, Autograph Collection Bilgah Beach Hotel, Baku The Merchant Baku, Baku Courtyard Hotel, Baku Dinamo Hotel, Baku, member of SLH (Small Luxury Hotels of the World) Allium Villas Resort, Bodrum / Turkey, member of L.V.X. (Preferred Hotels & Resorts) Insurance PASHA Insurance was founded in 2006. PASHA Life Insurance OJSC is a member of the Compulsory Insurance Bureau. Investment and Brokerage PASHA Investments PASHA Capital Investment Company Construction PASHA Construction PASHA Development References Holding companies of Azerbaijan Holding companies established in 2006

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geumsan%20Insam%20Cello

Geumsan Insam Cello

Geumsan Insam Cello () is a UCI Continental cycling team from South Korea, founded in 2010. Team roster Major wins 2010 Stage 5 Tour de Langkawi, Anuar Manan Stage 2 & 3 Tour of Thailand, Anuar Manan Stage 2 Tour de Korea, Yoo Ki-Hong Time Trial Championships, Shinichi Fukushima Stage 2 Tour of East Java, Anuar Manan Overall Tour de Okinawa, Shinichi Fukushima Stage 2, Shinichi Fukushima 2011 Stage 7 Tour de Korea, Yoo Ki-Hong Time Trial Championships, Choe Hyeong-Min 2016 Time Trial Championships, Choe Hyeong-Min 2018 Stage 1 Tour de Korea, Choe Hyeong-min National champions 2010 Japan Time Trial, Shinichi Fukushima 2011 Korean Time Trial, Choe Hyeong-Min 2016 Korean Time Trial, Choe Hyeong-Min References External links Team Guemsan Ginseng Asia's 2010 Team List in Cycling Archives UCI Continental Teams (Asia) Cycling teams based in South Korea Cycling teams established in 2010

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocatharylla%20megera

Pseudocatharylla megera

Pseudocatharylla megera is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Graziano Bassi in 1999. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. References Crambinae Moths described in 1999

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrop%20darter

Teardrop darter

The teardrop darter (Etheostoma barbouri) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to the eastern United States. It is only found in Kentucky and Tennessee, where it occurs in the middle to upper reaches of the Green River drainage. It inhabits small rivers and creeks and rocky pools where it feeds on the larvae of blackflies and midges, immature stages of caddisflies and mayflies, and cladocerans and copepods. This species can reach a length of , though most only reach about . This species creates nests in which the females depsit their eggs and these are guarded by the male and have been found to contain between 40 and 80 eggs. The teardrop darter was first formally described by Robert A. Kuehne and James W. Small Jr. in 1971 with the type locality given as Brush Creek, a tributary of the Green River, 2.7 miles north of Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky. The specific name honours Professor Roger W. Barbour (1919-1993) in recognition of his contribution to the knowledge of Kentucky's vertebrate fauna. References Etheostoma Fish described in 1971

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alutiiq%20Museum

Alutiiq Museum

The Alutiiq Museum or Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository is a non-profit museum and cultural center dedicated to preserving and sharing the cultural traditions of the Koniag Alutiiq branch of Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq of the Alaska Native people. Museum and cultural center The museum is located on the first floor of the Alutiiq Center of Kodiak, Alaska. Alutiiq Museum is one of four museums in Kodiak. The museum is the seventh museum in Alaska and the second tribal museum in the United States to be accredited. The museum provides tours of its exhibits, laboratory and collections storage facilities to educational groups. The museum will accept materials relevant to the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary cultural history of the Native peoples who settled the Koniag Alutiiq Nation. Such materials include, but are not limited to, archaeological, ethnological, photographic, film, audio, archival, and natural history specimens. This cultural center features a gallery, storage for more than 190,000 local artifacts, including faunal materials, ethnobotanical samples, sediment samples, field notes, photographs, and maps and a research laboratory. The Alutiiq Museum is a small repository, but we care for a very large collection with nearly 250,000 items. As a newly founded institution, the Alutiiq Museum sought to develop its policies and practices in professional ways. The Alutiiq Museum also uses its collections for community-building among the Alutiiq. The Alutiiq Museum is supported and governed by the Alutiiq Heritage Foundation and is dedicated to preserving and sharing Alutiiq heritage. The Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq Nation encompasses the islands and mainland shores of the central Gulf of Alaska, including Prince William Sound, the outer Kenai Peninsula, Kachemak Bay of the Chugach Sugpiaq, and the Kodiak Archipelago and the Alaska Peninsula of the Koniag Alutiiq. History The Alutiiq Museum is an outgrowth of the Kodiak Area Native Association's (KANA) culture and heritage division. Founded in 1987, the division was designed to foster island-wide archaeological research, develop educational programs on Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq culture, and promote workshops on Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq language and arts. In 1990, the division became the Alutiiq Culture Center and moved to its own building. Large archaeological assemblages from local excavations were returned to Kodiak for curation at the center and public exhibits assembled from these materials. In 1993, KANA received a grant from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council to develop a state-of-the-art archaeological repository and regional research facility. The museum opened in April 1995 and opened to the public in May 1995. All archaeological, ethnographic, archival, photographic, and natural history collections from the Alutiiq Culture Center were transferred to the Alutiiq Museum at this time. The KANA is an ANCSA native association. It was formed in 1966 as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation providing health and social services for the Alaska Natives of the Koniag region. The KANA service area includes the City of Kodiak (Sun'aq) and six Alutiiq villages: Akhiok (Kasukuak), Karluk (Kal'uq), Old Harbor (Nuniaq), Ouzinkie (Uusenkaaq), Port Lions (Masiqsirraq), and Larsen Bay (Uyaqsaq). KANA is governed by a ten-member Board of Directors. See also Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center List of museums in Alaska Sven Haakanson Jr. (former executive director of the Alutiiq Museum) Awa'uq Massacre Koniag, Incorporated References External links Alutiiq Language Archives at the Alutiiq Museum 1995 establishments in Alaska Alutiiq History museums in Alaska Kodiak, Alaska Language museums Museums in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Native American museums in Alaska Museums established in 1995

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent%20charging

Convergent charging

Convergent charging and billing (also known as convergent charging, converged charging and convergent billing), is a solution in the telecommunications industry that enables common management of all users and all services for operators. It includes convergence of payment methods like prepaid and postpaid, as well as access methods and services like fixed telephony, mobile telephony, broadband and TV. Characteristics Characteristics attributed to a convergent charging & billing system include support for multiple service types such as voice, data, multimedia and content, support for bundling of services and the ability to create a single bill and statement for all communications services including fixed, mobile, broadband and TV. A converged charging system is described as having the ability to control services and manage balances in real-time. This includes, for example, authenticating the subscriber and checking the account balance before service delivery to the end user. A converged charging system can also notify users when the account balance threshold set by the operator is reached, or terminate service connectivity when real-time charging indicates that credit has been depleted. This real-time capability can be used to deliver promotions and notifications to service users to stimulate usage. Rationale The need for convergent charging & billing has been partly explained by consolidation within the communications industry, the launch of new multimedia services and the increasing emergence of multi-play service offerings on mobile networks. A number of motivations have been suggested to explain why mobile telecoms providers use convergent charging & billing. One is the ability to offer mobile service packages that include both pre- and post-paid services. Another is a sustained drop in Operating Expenditure thanks to reduced billing system complexity, since operators run a single billing platform rather than multiple ones. The telecoms and software consulting firm Ovum has said that convergent charging can greatly reduce revenue leakage. Swedish telecoms supplier Ericsson has stated that convergent charging & billing can increase marketing flexibility for operators and create revenue growth. Telecommunications software provider Redknee has said that convergent billing allows operators to launch targeted promotions quickly and deliver an improved subscriber experience. Openet reinforces this by saying "Convergent Charging makes it easier for communication service providers to optimize profitability by providing flexibility to deploy any service to any type of subscriber using any payment method with any set of business rules.". Finnish telecoms supplier Nokia Siemens Networks is of the belief that the solution also provides the flexibility and cost transparency that prepaid and postpaid subscribers need to take up new services. Convergent charging & billing has been credited with reduction of OPEX. Challenges Challenges to the introduction of convergent charging & billing include migration from existing billing systems for an incumbent telecoms operator. IT research and advisory company Gartner has also highlighted potential migration risks, reservations about return on investment and the need for a business case for making a change. FTS and Aradial has a patent in the Convergent charging area called the DO TREE (Decision Operation Tree). References Telecommunication services Mobile telecommunications Telecommunications infrastructure

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby%20Roderick

Libby Roderick

Libby Roderick (born 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and teacher. The global impact of her song "How Could Anyone" has been featured on CNN, on CBS, and in the Associated Press. Her music has been featured at the U.N. Conference on Women, with Coretta Scott King and Walter Cronkite in Washington D.C., and played on Mars by NASA. She has toured extensively throughout North America, playing at folk venues, conferences, and universities. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, where she still lives part of the time. Her father, John "Jack" Roderick, a Yale football star, was mayor of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, and her late mother, Martha, was a renowned Alaska educator. Libby graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in American Studies, and has worked as a TV and print news reporter, radio consultant, nuclear weapons educator and writer on Alaska Native issues. Libby is also the cousin of John Roderick, Seattle-based singer/songwriter of The Long Winters and professional voice actor for Omnibus, Roderick on the Line , and Road Work . Discography Studio albums If You See a Dream (Turtle Island Records, 1990) Thinking Like a Mountain (Turtle Island Records, 1991) If the World Were My Lover (Turtle Island Records, 1993) Lay it All Down (Turtle Island Records, 1997) A Meditation for Healing (Turtle Island Records, 1998) How Could Anyone (Turtle Island Records, 2005) " Winter Wheat" (Turtle Island Records, 2017) Compilations How Could Anyone (2005) Compilations featuring Libby Roderick songs One Land, One Heart (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment, 1999). Includes "Low to the Ground" from Thinking Like a Mountain (1991). Other participants: Greg Wagner, Magpie, Susan Grace, Dakota Sid Clifford, Karen Goldberg, David Elias, Alice DiMicele, John McCutcheon, Lydia Adams Davis, Peter Berryman & Lou Berryman, Joanne Rand, Dana Lyons, Walkin' Jim Stoltz, Paul Winter Songbook 1994. When I Hear Music. Anchorage, AK: Turtle Island Records. Lyrics, music, and guitar chords for songs from If You See A Dream (1990) and Thinking Like A Mountain (1991). Writings 1985. Alaska Women's History Resource Booklet. Anchorage, AK: Western Media Concepts. Produced by the Alaska Women's History Project. 1999. "This Holy Earth." In Prayers for a Thousand Years. Ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, pp. 192–193. 2001. "Another Country." In Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony. Ed by Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, pp. 64–65. 2008. Associate Editor, Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, ed by Kay Landis. (http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/handbook.cfm) University of Alaska Anchorage. 2010. Editor, Alaska Native Cultures and Issues. University of Alaska Press. 2010. "Winter Wheat" In Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, ed. Kathleen Dean Moore. Trinity University Press. 2013. Co-author, Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, with Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff. (https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=402). University of Alaska. 2016. Editor, Toxic Friday: Resources for Addressing Faculty Bullying in Higher Education. (http://www.difficultdialoguesuaa.org) University of Alaska. References Further reading How Could Any One Song Ever Touch So Many? – Los Angeles Times Sun Journal – Google News Archive Search The sound of awareness The Idaho Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search Worcester Telegram & Gazette Archives The Idaho Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search "New face on Mars folk scene." Anchorage Daily News. External links Official website Libby Roderick on Myspace 1958 births Musicians from Alaska Writers from Anchorage, Alaska Yale University alumni Living people Musicians from Anchorage, Alaska American women singer-songwriters 21st-century American women Singer-songwriters from Alaska

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Parts%20and%20Pieces%20IV%3A%20A%20Catch%20at%20the%20Tables

Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables

Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables is the ninth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Phillips. It was released in April 1984 by Passport Records as the fourth instalment to his generic album series, Private Parts & Pieces. A release in the United Kingdom followed in 1990 by Virgin Records. Background and recording In October 1983, Phillips released his eighth studio album Invisible Men. At this point in his career, he was pressured into delivering more radio friendly material by his US-based label Passport Records. For his next release, Phillips decided to assemble the fourth instalment in his Private Parts & Pieces album series which showcase more "generic" tracks, including rough cuts, demos, and outtakes. This process began in the spring of 1983 after Invisible Men had been recorded. An early idea that Phillips had at this stage was to construct a suite consisting of short pieces from various library music projects he had been involved with, but this was dropped in favour of other tracks. The material on A Catch at the Tables was recorded between October 1979 and June 1982 at two locations: Send Barns, the studio Phillips had set up at his parents’ house in Woking, Surrey, and home studio named Englewood Studios in Clapham, London following his move there in the early 1980s. Phillips received assistance from his friend Dennis Quinn in naming many of the tracks on the album, having played the demo versions to him. Previous albums by Phillips included the artwork of English author and illustrator Peter Cross, but he was unavailable to produce for A Catch at the Tables due to other projects. Instead, Phillips sought permission to use a painting by Ed Tanner which had a quality to it that he liked. Music Side one "Arboretum Suite" is a suite of four-movement suite that Phillips wrote for the wedding of two friends in 1980, based on Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey. The liner notes detail a humorous description of the piece: "The music attempts to describe the social occasion as troops of bizarre-clad hikers set out in high spirits, armed with footballs and frisbees, upset the neighbours and fall in the lake before trudging their bedraggled way back to a warm fire and glorious tea". The last section, "Lights on the Hill", was a fully arranged song at first, of which producer Richard Scott had used a version of it for his own projects. The original instrumental version was recorded, and the positive reaction from various people encouraged Phillips to include it on his next Private Parts & Pieces album. It was recorded at Send Barns in July 1980. "Dawn over the Lake" was recorded in March 1981. It is more experimental and improvisational that was recorded in a more spontaneous manner, with Phillips playing his 12-string guitar with unusual tuning with a Roland drum machine. He had set the machine to produce a straightforward rock drum pattern, but slowed it down to the point where it "doesn't sound like that at all". Phillips developed the track with no set intention on including it on the album. "I was just mucking around, so the track itself is edited down and the edits are not perfect but I think it's strongly atmospheric." Upon the album's release he was worried that the piece ran too long. Side two "Bouncer" was recorded in June 1982 when Phillips had relocated from Surrey to London, and was recording Invisible Men. It was originally intended for that album, as with "Sistine", but they were left off because Phillips felt they "didn't fit in". It was put together in the studio on his own one morning before he had breakfast. Conversely, "Eduardo" was completed during Phillips's last days while living near Woking, and features his 8-string Rudloff guitar. "Heart of Darkness" and "The Sea and the Armadillo" were also put down during this period. Extra material The 1990, 2012, and 2015 reissues of A Catch at the Tables include previously unreleased material. "Erotic Strings" dates from 1985, and was originally written as incidental music for the play Tropical Moon over Dorking which starred actress Pauline Collins. "A Catch at the Tables" was recorded at his London studio named Vic's Place and completed in 1990 after Phillips had decided not to have a title track on the album, but wrote it for the 1990 reissue. It was named after the front cover painting by Ed Tanner. Phillips revealed that its actual title is "A Catch for the Tables" but he had misheard Tanner, but also thought the "at" added some mystery to the title as well as a double entendre with casinos at Monte Carlo which is also depicted in Tanner's painting. Release A Catch at the Tables was released in April 1984 by Passport Records in the United States and Canada. As Phillips's contract with RCA Records had expired following the release of Private Parts and Pieces III: Antiques in 1982, the album did not see a domestic release until 1990 by Virgin Records. In 2012, Voiceprint Records released a 2-CD bundle of Antiques and A Catch at the Tables with bonus tracks. In 2015, Esoteric Recordings released a 5-CD box set containing the first four volumes in the Private Parts & Pieces series with additional bonus tracks. Track listing All songs composed, performed, and produced by Anthony Phillips except "Sistine", produced by Phillips, Richard Scott, and Trevor Vallis. Personnel Credits taken from the 1990 CD liner notes. Music Anthony Phillips – 12-string guitar, 8-string Rudloff classical guitar, 6-string Ovation bass guitar, 6-string John Bailey guitar, Polymoog synthesiser, ARP 2600 synthesiser, drum machine, Mellotron Pedro Luigi Crass - charango Mark Emmey – bugle on "Sistine" Judd Lander – bagpipes and harmonica on "Sistine" Production Anthony Phillips – production, 1990 CD remastering Simon Heyworth – 1990 CD remastering Trevor Vallis – production on "Sistine" Richard Scott – production on "Sistine" Ian "That Sounds Bloody Awful" Cooper – cutting at Townhouse Studios, London Ed Tanner – painting Elsworth – original painting and cover design References 1984 albums Anthony Phillips albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdalan

Abdalan

Abdalan (, also Romanized as Abdālān; also known as ‘Abdehlān) is a village in Khorram Rud Rural District, in the Central District of Tuyserkan County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 431, in 111 families. References Populated places in Tuyserkan County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metzeral

Metzeral

Metzeral () is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. See also Communes of the Haut-Rhin département References Communes of Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine%20Pearson

Lorraine Pearson

Lorraine Pearson (born Lorraine Samantha Jean Pearson; 10 August 1967 in Wembley, London, England) is a British singer and was a member of the pop group, Five Star. She is the sister of Denise, Doris, Delroy and Stedman Pearson, and the daughter of Buster Pearson. She performs in the genres of pop music and contemporary R & B and has written a romance novel Her, Me and Reality (published in 1989). Lorraine Pearson is married. References 1967 births Living people 20th-century Black British women singers British contemporary R&B singers Five Star members English people of Jamaican descent

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Alwyn%20Lloyd

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd (11 August 1881 – 19 June 1960), known as T. Alwyn Lloyd, was a leading Welsh architect and town planner. He was one of the founders of the Town Planning Institute in 1914 and its President in 1933. He was also a founding member of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales in 1928 and served as its chairman from 1947 to 1959. Meic Stephens described Lloyd's work as follows: Life and career Thomas Alwyn Lloyd was born in Liverpool, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones Lloyd, from Denbighshire. He was educated at Liverpool College and studied and Liverpool School of Architecture in the University of Liverpool. Between 1907 and 1912 he was an assistant to Sir Raymond Unwin in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1913 he was appointed consulting architect to the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust. He also undertook work for the National Coal Board and Forestry Commission in Wales. In 1948 he entered into partnership with Alex Gordon forming T. Alwyn Lloyd and Gordon.. He married Ethel Roberts in 1914. In about 1920 he designed his own home at 11 Heol Wen in Rhiwbina Garden Village, in northern Cardiff. It has been a Grade II listed building since 2001. He died on holiday in Torquay on 19 June 1960. Buildings and urban planning 1913 Machynlleth Garden Village, Powys. Thirteen terraced houses. 1913–1914 Wrexham Garden Village, 205 houses. Llanidloes garden suburb, Powys 1915– Barry Garden Suburb, Vale of Glamorgan 1920–1923 Rhiwbina Garden Village, Cardiff 1922 Village Hall, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys Hafod Lwyd, 11 Heol Wen, Rhiwbina Garden Village. A house for Lloyd's own occupation. St. Francis-on-the-Hill Chapel, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. (Now the St. Francis Millennium Centre) 1930 University of Wales Registry extension, Cathays Park, Cardiff 1936 Trebeferad Land Settlement Scheme, Boverton, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan. Housing intended to be a new village for miners resettled from the South Wales Coalfield. 1936 Fferm Goch, Penllyn, Vale of Glamorgan. 34 Semi-detached houses for unemployed miners. 1951 Llwynygog Forest Village, Staylittle, Hafren Forest, Powys. Housing for Forestry Commission workers. 1949–50 Turner House Art Gallery, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. Remodelling 1960 St Margaret's Church, Wrexham Garden Village 1960 Ystrad Mynach College of Further Education Dates unknown: Fishguard, Pembrokeshire – new village design Menai Bridge, Anglesey – new village design Llangefni, Anglesey – new village design Students' Union Building, Cardiff (Not the current Students' Union building, which was built in 1973) Public appointments South Wales Institute of Architects, president (1929–31) National Housing and Town Planning Council, president (1933–35) Minister of Health's Advisory Committee on Town and Country Planning (1933–40) Lord Reith's Consultative Panel on Reconstruction (1941–42) Central Advisory Committee on Education (Wales) (1945–48) Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, chairman (1947–1959) Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments (Wales), commissioner (1949–60) Cambrian Archaeological Association, chairman of general committee (1951–54), president (1958–59) Postmaster General's Welsh Stamp Committee (1957–58) Discharge of Prisoners Aid Society, chairman of Cardiff branch Magistrate Awards Honorary LL.D., University of Wales (1950) Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1953) OBE (1958) Commemorations T Alwyn Lloyd memorial gold medal for architecture Awarded at the Welsh National Eisteddfod for a building that cost less than £750,000, and has been completed in the past three years. Endowed by Lloyd in 1954. T Alwyn Lloyd memorial travelling scholarships Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture to the top four students in the final year of the Part 1. T Alwyn Lloyd memorial prize Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture for the best overall performance in the 2 examination. Select Writings Lloyd, T. Alwyn Brighter Welsh villages and how we can achieve them CPRW, (1931) Lloyd, T. Alwyn Town and Country Planning. Routledge (1935) Lloyd, T. Alwyn. with Herbert Jackson, South Wales Outline Plan HMSO (1947) Lloyd, T. Alwyn Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust and Its Affiliated Societies The Town Planning Review Vol. 23, No. 1 (Apr. 1952), pp. 40–51. Lloyd, T. Alwyn Safeguarding the Beauty of Wales:Being a short address Broadcast from Cardiff BBC station on St David's Day, 1933. Reprinted by the CPRW Welshpool, 2008. References Further reading Brace M The History of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, CPRW Welshpool, 2004. External links Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, Dictionary of Scottish Architects 20th-century Welsh architects 1881 births 1960 deaths Presidents of the Royal Town Planning Institute Welsh urban planners Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association People educated at Liverpool College

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuf%20%28song%29

Reuf (song)

"Reuf" is a song by French hip hop artist Nekfeu featuring English musician Ed Sheeran. The eighth track from Nekfeu's debut studio album Feu, it is produced by Nekfeu himself and DJ Elite. Although it hasn't been officially released as a single, the song entered the French Singles Chart at number 72 on 20 June 2015, where it has since peaked. A music video was announced as under development in December 2015, but had to be cancelled in March 2016 for "technical reasons." Interviewed on 10 April 2017 on France Inter, Ed Sheeran expressed his pleasure about this collaboration, and said that he "loves Nekfeu, he's a very smart guy. He's so nice too. Although he's a rapper, he doesn't have an arrogant attitude." On 6 June 2020, an audio engineer who worked on Nekfeu's 3rd single, Les étoiles vagabondes, leaked that Nekfeu and Ed Sheeran had collaborated once more on an unreleased version of "Elle pleut". A new version of the song, produced by Hugz Hefneer, was featured in French comedy Five, dropping Ed Sheeran's part in the chorus. This new version came out with a new video made up of excerpts from the film and behind the scenes footage. Track listing Digital download "Reuf (featuring Ed Sheeran)" – 5:27 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 2015 songs Nekfeu songs Ed Sheeran songs French hip hop songs Songs written by Nekfeu Songs written by Ed Sheeran

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulau%20Sajahat

Pulau Sajahat

Pulau Sajahat (Malay for Sajahat Island), was a small island about 1.2 hectares located off the north-eastern coast of Singapore, near Pulau Tekong. The island, together with its smaller companion Pulau Sejahat Kechil, has been subsumed by Pulau Tekong with the land reclamation works on Pulau Tekong's southern and northwestern coasts. History Little is known about Pulau Makin Jahat. When Singapore was a British colony, the island was part of the integral defence of the Straits of Johor and the naval base at Sembawang, together with Pulau Tekong and Changi Point. The gun battery positions on Pulau Sejahat could have been intended to protect the stretch of waters between Changi and Pulau Tekong, so as to extend the coverage provided by the neighbouring coastal defence batteries. The military encampment on Pulau Sejahat was built around 1937-38, when the threat of war with Japan was becoming very real. It was a full-scale encampment with barracks, bunkers, gun emplacements and high lookout posts. The British assembled pillboxes and gun batteries all along the southern coast of Singapore, from Buona Vista in the west to Pulau Sajahat in the east, with a total of 51 guns. These guns turned out to be ill-placed, however. The Japanese invaded Singapore overland from the north, via Malaya, and many of these guns were not even used before they were destroyed by the British to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The guns on Pulau Sajahat met the same fate. When the Japanese searched the island, they found no guns. Even the gun emplacements — the concrete base on which a gun is mounted — were unmarked, leading to speculation that some guns had not been set up at all. Given the problems of navigating the narrow straits from Kota Tinggi in Johor to other islands, Pulau Sajahat was most well known for its tua peh kong stone altar. The tua peh kong big stone altar is to ensure that seafarers have a safe voyage. In the past, on the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, Hakkas and Teochews from Pulau Tekong would "invite" tua peh kong to view their Chinese opera. In 1972, Pulau Sajahat was returned to the Singapore government. Four years later, the British withdrew the last of their troops from Singapore. There has been no development on Pulau Sajahat. Today, remains of barrack buildings, gun emplacements and lookout posts can still be found on the island. The only new addition is the shrine to tua peh kong. See also History of Singapore Battle of Singapore References National Heritage Board (2002), Singapore's 100 Historic Places, Archipelago Press, Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern University Press, National Heritage Board's plaque at Changi Beach Park. External links Satellite image of Pulau Sejahat and Pulau Sejahat Kechil - Google Maps Pulau Sejahat Image gallery Sejahat North-Eastern Islands

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D%20film

4D film

4D film or 4-D film is a marketing term for an entertainment presentation system combining a 3D film with physical effects that occur in the theatre in synchronization with the film. Effects simulated in a 4D film may include rain, mist, bubbles, fog or smoke, wind, temperature changes, strobe lights, scent, vibration and motion. Seats in 4D venues may vibrate or move a few centimeters during the presentations. Other common chair effects include air jets, water sprays, and arm and back ticklers. Auditorium effects may include smoke, rain, lightning, bubbles, and smell. Because physical effects can be expensive to install, 4D films are most often presented in custom-built theatres at special venues such as theme parks, amusement parks and zoos. However, some movie theatres have the ability to present 4D versions of wide-release 3D films. The films Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) and Avatar (2009) are among the films that have received a 4D treatment in certain theatres. There are also mobile 4D theaters, which are mounted inside vehicles such as enclosed trailers, buses and trucks. 4D films are distinct from four-dimensional space. Notable historical formats for providing different aspects of a "fourth dimension" to films include Sensurround and Smell-O-Vision. As of June 2015, about 530 screens worldwide had installed some 4D technology. History The precursors of the modern 4D film presentation include Smell-O-Vision, which was used only once, in 1960, and Sensurround, which debuted in 1974 with the film Earthquake. Only a few films were presented in Sensurround, and it was supplanted by Dolby Stereo in 1977, which featured extended low frequencies, and made subwoofers a common addition to cinema. Other notable efforts at pushing the boundaries of the film viewing experience include Fantasound, the first use of stereo sound, Cinemiracle and Cinerama, both widescreen formats utilizing multiple projectors. The 3D film is always included in the 4D experience. 3D has been used in some form in film since 1915, but did not become widely seen until the 1950s. However, it was a niche format, and was not particularly successful. Beginning is the late 1980s, 3D experienced a resurgence, partially on the strength of IMAX presentations. It has continued to expand, albeit very slowly, to the present. The Sensorium is regarded the world's first commercial 4D film and was first screened in 1984 at Six Flags Power Plant in Baltimore. It was produced in partnership with Landmark Entertainment. As of 2017, by far the most common 4D titles are attraction films located in theme parks. However, there seems to be a trend toward the installation of 4D equipment in more traditional cinemas, with developers such as 4DX, D-Box Technologies, and Mediamation competing for venues. List of 4D presentation systems for film theatres The following is a list of 4D presentation systems developed for traditional film theatres. Selected filmography See also Notes References Motion picture film formats 3D films 1984 introductions

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British embossed postage stamps

The adhesive embossed postage stamps of the United Kingdom, issued during the reign of Queen Victoria between 1847 and 1854 exhibit four features which are unique to this issue: The method of production of the dies used for the printing The use of silk threaded paper (on two of the values) The method of printing (one stamp at a time) The use of tinted gum (on the six pence value) Issue dates Three values of the octagonal stamps were introduced to cover higher foreign and registered postal charges on the following dates: 1 Shilling (green) - 11 September 1847, 10d (brown) - 6 November 1848, 6d (mauve/lilac/purple) - 1 March 1854 The 1 shilling was the first British postage stamp to bear a value above 2d. Embossing The dies used for this type of printing have the embossed, (raised), portions of the stamp design cut away, (recessed), into the metal. The colourless detail as appears on the hair and diadem are achieved by variations in the depth of the engraving. The dies The master die was engraved by William Wyon using as his basis the City medal of 1837 which he had also engraved. (This was the same model used for the head engraved on the Penny Black). The original master die did not show the pendant curl at the back of the hair and was not used in this form on the postage stamps, although it was used at the Royal Mint for coinage. From this master, a series of sub-dies were made and the curl added to the back of the hair. As such the curl differs on each value. Also added to the dies, after the outer design had been completed, was a die number. This takes the form of a number with the letters W W either before or after and appears at the base of the neck of Queen Victoria. Paper For the ten pence and one shilling values, Dickinson silk thread paper was used. The threads are blue and are embedded into the paper at the time of manufacture. The paper used for the six pence value was watermarked with the letters V R which were arranged so that it appeared complete on each impression. Tinted gum Tinted gum was introduced on the six pence value following a printing which was made in error on the gummed side of the paper. Prior to the introduction of the tinted gum, it was colourless. Printing The presses used for the embosses dies, allowed for only one stamp to be printed at a time. This method of production meant that the spacing on the sheets varied from wide spacing, (which is uncommon), to very narrow which is why examples with four margins are rare. In some cases the impressions were impressed overlapping each other by quite a large amount. The stamps were embossed, (printed), at Somerset House. Early collectors would often cut the stamps to shape retaining only the embossed central design and cut square examples are much more valuable. Replacement In 1856 after the European postage rate was reduced the stamps were replaced by surface printed issues. References Postage stamps of the United Kingdom Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria

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Klondike (TV series)

Klondike is an American drama series about life in an Alaskan town in the 1890s during the Klondike Gold Rush. It stars Ralph Taeger and James Coburn and aired on NBC during the 1960–1961 television season. Synopsis Mike Halliday is a rugged outdoorsman who has come to Skagway in the Territory of Alaska in search of gold and adventure during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896–1899. Halliday often comes into conflict with Jeff Durain, a fast-talking adventurer prone to making money by illegal means. Durain owns and operates a hotel in Skagway which offers the miners and prospectors who have come to town for the gold rush the opportunity to gamble, but the games usually are rigged for Durain's benefit. Kathy O'Hara is the honest owner of another hotel in Skagway, and Halliday often works with her to block Durain from succeeding in his illegal schemes. Mike and Kathy have an affectionate relationship, but in his romantic life, Halliday plays the field, and is involved with a number of women, including Durain's girlfriend, the beautiful but greedy Goldie, who often is an accomplice in Durain's crimes. Cast Ralph Taeger...Mike Halliday James Coburn...Jefferson "Jeff" Durain Mari Blanchard...Kathy O'Hara Joi Lansing...Goldie Production Ziv-United Artists Television produced Klondike on a low budget. William Conrad served as producer for the series. Vic Mizzy and Mann Curtis composed the show's theme music. The series was based on the book The Klondike Fever by Pierre Berton. After Klondike was cancelled in mid-season, Ralph Taeger and James Coburn immediately moved together to a new series, Acapulco, in which they were cast as a pair of twentieth-century beachcombers in Acapulco, Mexico. Acapulco aired in Klondike′s time slot, beginning two weeks after the broadcast of Klondike′s last new episode. Broadcast history Eighteen episodes of Klondike were produced. They aired on NBC on Mondays at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time from October 10, 1960, to February 13, 1961. Episodes SOURCE References External links Klondike opening credits on YouTube Klondike episode "The Hostages" on YouTube 1960s American drama television series 1960 American television series debuts 1961 American television series endings Black-and-white American television shows NBC original programming Television shows set in Alaska English-language television shows

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S19

S19 may refer to: S19 (file format), an ASCII encoding format for binary data developed by Motorola British NVC community S19, a swamps and tall-herb fen community in the British National Vegetation Classification system County Route S19 (California) Expressway S19 (Poland) HMS Opossum (S19), a 1964 British Royal Navy Oberon-class submarine Letov Š-19, a Czechoslovakian Letov aircraft Ribosomal protein S19, a human gene USS S-19 (SS-124), a 1919 S-class submarine of the United States Navy Rans S-19 Venterra, light sport aircraft S19 Xinnong–Jinshanwei Expressway, an expressway in Shanghai, China S19 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), an S-Bahn line in Germany S19 (ZVV), a line of the S-Bahn Zürich in Switzerland

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvelous%20Marterie

Marvelous Marterie

Marvelous Marterie is a studio album released by Ralph Marterie and his Marlboro Men in 1959 on Wing LP record MGW 12154 (mono) and SRW 12511 (stereo). Background This album was in Mercury’s budget Wing line. It was recorded between December 1956 and April 1959. Most of the individual recordings were never otherwise released by Mercury, although “When My Sugar Walks Down the Street” was also released on Mercury 45rpm #71488, and “Trombone Blues” was also released under the title “Private Eyeball” on the full-priced LP Music For A Private Eye (Mercury MG 20437, SR 60109) Track listing Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin – DeSylva – Macdonald) Can't We Be Friends? (Swift - James) Deep Purple (Peter DeRose) Lonely Winter (arr. George Stone) Trombone Blues (S. Allen – R. Marterie) When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (Irving Mills – Jimmy McHugh – Gene Austin) Rain (Eugene Ford) Stars Fell on Alabama (Frank Perkins – Mitchell Parish) Sentimental Journey (Les Brown – Ben Homer – Bud Green) I’ll Be Around (Alec Wilder) Love Song from “Houseboat” (J. Livingston – Ray Evans) References 1959 albums Wing Records albums Big band albums

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The Michaels Companies

The Michaels Companies is an American retail holding company, headquartered in Irving. It was formed as a parent company of Michaels in 2014, , The Michaels Companies operates its flagship brand, Michaels (in the United States and Canada) and Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise.. There are over 1,252 arts and crafts stores located in the United States and Canada. History The company debuted in June 2014 on the NASDAQ under the symbol MIK and raised about $472 million in its initial public offering, using the funds to pay down debt. The IPO valued the company at $3.45 billion. In April 2015, Rubin was named chairman, in addition to his title of CEO. In August, Michaels announced a partnership with online DIY craft design and video company Darby Smart aimed at "making crafting simpler and more accessible." In February 2016, the company completed the acquisition of Lamrite West, Inc., which included an international wholesale business under the Darice brand name ("Darice") and 36 arts and crafts retail stores located primarily in the Midwest under the Pat Catan's brand name. In August, The Michaels Companies acquired Hancock Fabrics' intellectual property and customer database as part of its bankruptcy and liquidation. In June 2017, The Michaels Companies became a Fortune 500 company. In Fall, Michaels launched a relationship with Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps in fall 2017, resulting in a digital video series called The Make Off, in which Busy competes in a crafting competition against other celebrities. In 2018, The Make Off series was nominated for a Webby Award. That year the company also embarked on media partnerships with Good Morning America and Nickelodeon around the concept of promoting screen-free activities for children and teens. In October, Charles Sonsteby retired from his position as Vice Chairman of the company. In March 2018, the company announced its partnership with TV design personalities Drew and Jonathan Scott of HGTV's Property Brothers for a custom frame collection. In January 2019, the company announced the closure of the Pat Catan Stores, a dozen or more of which were to be reopened under the Michaels Stores name. In November The Michaels Companies, Inc. announced that they would reopen up to 40 A.C. Moore stores after its bankruptcy and liquidation. In October, Mark Cosby was named CEO of the Michaels Companies after being named interim CEO in February 2019. In November, The Michaels Companies, Inc. announced that they would reopen up to 40 A.C. Moore stores as Michaels stores after A.C. Moore's bankruptcy and liquidation. In January 2020, former Walmart merchandising executive Ashley Buchanan joined The Michaels Companies as the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. In July, the company downsized its headquarters but remained in Irving, Texas. On March 3, 2021, The Michaels Companies management agreed to be acquired by venture capital firm Apollo Global Management for $22 per share, or $3.3 billion, and the company was to be taken private. In April, Apollo announced in a press release that the acquisition was completed. Artistree The Michaels Companies owns Artistree, a vertically integrated custom framing business that manufactures precut mats and framing merchandise for Michaels Stores and online ordering. Custom framing orders are processed and shipped to a Michaels store where the frame is assembled and picked up by the customer. References External links The Michaels Companies Arts and crafts retailers Companies based in Irving, Texas Private equity portfolio companies Retail companies of the United States 2014 initial public offerings Retail companies established in 2014

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Ballard

Florence Ballard

Florence Glenda Chapman (née Ballard; June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976) was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including ten number-one hits. After being removed from the Supremes in 1967, Ballard tried an unsuccessful solo career with ABC Records before she was dropped from the label at the end of the decade. Ballard struggled with alcoholism, depression, and poverty for three years. She was making an attempt at a musical comeback when she died of a heart attack in February 1976 at the age of 32. Ballard's death was considered by one critic as "one of rock's greatest tragedies". Ballard was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes in 1988. Early life Florence Glenda Ballard was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 30, 1943 to Lurlee (née Wilson) and Jesse Ballard, as the eighth of thirteen children or ninth of fifteen children. Her siblings were Bertie, Cornell, Jesse, Jr., Gilbert, Geraldine, Barbara, Maxine, Billy, Calvin, Pat, Linda and Roy. Her mother was a resident of Rosetta, Mississippi. Her father was born Jesse Lambert in Bessemer, Alabama; after his grandmother was shot and killed, he was adopted by the Ballard family. Jesse Ballard left his adoptive parents at 13, and soon engaged in an affair with Ballard's mother, who was only 14, in Rosetta. The Ballards moved to Detroit in 1929 as part of the Great Migration. Jesse soon worked at General Motors. Jesse, an amateur musician, helped inspire Florence's interest in singing; he taught her various songs and accompanied her on guitar. Financial difficulties forced the Ballard family to move to different Detroit neighborhoods; by the time Florence turned 15 they had settled at Detroit's Brewster-Douglass housing projects, and the next year Jesse Lambert Ballard died of cancer. Named "Blondie" and "Flo" by family and friends, Ballard attended Northeastern High School and was coached vocally by Abraham Silver. Ballard met future singing partner Mary Wilson during a middle-school talent show and they became friends while attending Northeastern High. From an early age, Ballard aspired to be a singer and agreed to audition for a spot on a sister group of the local Detroit attraction, the Primes, who were managed by Milton Jenkins. After she was accepted, Ballard recruited Mary Wilson to join Jenkins' group. Paul Williams of The Primes (who would later evolve into The Temptations), in turn, enlisted another neighbor, Diana Ross, then going by "Diane". Betty McGlown completed the original lineup and Jenkins named them as "The Primettes". The group performed at talent showcases and at school parties before auditioning for Motown Records in 1960. Berry Gordy, head of Motown, advised the group to graduate from high school before auditioning again. Ballard eventually dropped out of high school though her groupmates graduated. In 1960, Ballard was allegedly raped at knifepoint by local high-school basketball player Reggie Harding after leaving a sock hop at Detroit's Graystone Ballroom (she had attended with her brother, but they accidentally lost track of each other). The rape occurred in an empty parking lot off Woodward Avenue. Ballard responded by secluding herself in her house refusing to come outside, which worried her groupmates. Weeks later, Ballard told Wilson and Ross what had happened. Ross and Wilson were sympathetic. Both Wilson and Jesse Green, an early boyfriend of Florence's, had described her as a "generally happy if somewhat mischievous and sassy teenager." Wilson believes that the incident heavily contributed to the more self-destructive aspects of Ballard's adult personality, like cynicism, pessimism, and fear or distrust of others, but the rape was never mentioned again. Career The Supremes Later in 1960, the Primettes signed a contract with Lu Pine Records, issuing two songs that failed to perform well. During that year, they kept pursuing a Motown contract and agreed to do anything that was required, including adding handclaps and vocal backgrounds. By the end of the year, Berry Gordy agreed to have the group record songs in the studio. In January 1961, Gordy agreed to sign them on the condition they change their name. Janie Bradford approached Ballard with a list of names to choose from before Ballard chose "Supremes". When the other members heard of the new name, they were not pleased. Diana Ross feared they would be mistaken for a male vocal group. Eventually Gordy agreed to sign them under that name on January 15, 1961. The group struggled in their early years with the label, releasing eight singles that failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100, giving them the nickname "no-hit Supremes". One track, "Buttered Popcorn", led by Ballard, was a regional hit in the Midwest, but still failed to chart. During a 1962 Motortown Revue tour, Ballard briefly replaced the Marvelettes' Wanda Young while she was on maternity leave. Before the release of their 1962 debut album, Meet the Supremes, Barbara Martin, who had replaced Betty McGlown a year before they signed to Motown, left the group. Ballard, Ross and Wilson remained a trio. After the hit success of 1963's "When the Love Light Starts Shining Through His Eyes", Diana Ross became the group's lead singer. In the spring of 1964, the group released "Where Did Our Love Go", which became their first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, paving the way for ten number-one hits recorded by Ross, Ballard and Wilson between 1964 and 1967. After many rehearsals with Cholly Atkins and Maurice King, the Supremes' live shows improved dramatically as well. During this time, Ballard sang lead on several songs on Supremes' albums, including a cover of Sam Cooke's "(Ain't That) Good News". During live shows, Ballard often performed the Barbra Streisand standard, "People". According to Mary Wilson, Ballard's vocals were so loud she was made to stand 17 feet away from her microphone during recording sessions. Marvin Gaye, for whom Ballard sang backing vocals on occasion, described her as "a hell of a singer, probably the strongest of the three girls." All in all, Ballard contributed vocals to ten number-one pop hits and 16 top forty hit singles between 1963 and 1967. Exit from the Supremes and solo career Ballard expressed dissatisfaction with the group's direction throughout its successful period. She would also claim that their schedule had forced the group members to drift apart. Ballard blamed Motown Records for destroying the group dynamic by making Diana Ross the star. Struggling to cope with the label's demands and her own bout with depression, Ballard turned to alcohol for comfort, leading to arguments with her group members. Ballard's alcoholism led to her missing performances and recording sessions. Gordy sometimes replaced Ballard on stage with the Andantes' Marlene Barrow. In April 1967, Cindy Birdsong, member of Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles, became a stand-in for Ballard. A month later, Ballard returned to the group from what she thought was a temporary leave of absence. In June, Gordy changed the group's name to "The Supremes with Diana Ross", which was how they were billed on the marquee of Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel. On July 1, the day after her 24th birthday, Ballard showed up inebriated during the group's third performance at the Flamingo and stuck her stomach out from her suit. Angered, Gordy ordered her to return to Detroit, and Birdsong officially replaced her, abruptly ending her tenure with the Supremes. It had been decided as early as May that Birdsong would be Ballard's official replacement once Birdsong's contract with the Bluebelles was bought out. In August 1967, the Detroit Free Press reported that Ballard had taken a temporary leave of absence from the group due to "exhaustion". Ballard eventually married her boyfriend, Thomas Chapman, on February 29, 1968. A week earlier, on February 22, Ballard and Motown negotiated to have Ballard released from the label. Her attorney in the matter received a one-time payment of $139,804.94 in royalties and earnings from Motown. As part of the settlement, Ballard was advised to not promote her solo work as a former member of the Supremes. In March 1968, Ballard signed with ABC Records and released two unsuccessful singles. After an album for the label was shelved, her settlement money was depleted from the Chapmans' management agency, Talent Management, Inc. The agency had been led by Leonard Baun, Ballard's attorney who had helped to settle Ballard's matters with Motown. Following news that Baun was facing multiple embezzlement charges, Ballard fired him. She continued to perform as a solo artist. In January 1969, Ballard performed at one of newly elected President Richard Nixon's inaugural balls. Ballard was dropped by ABC in 1970. Decline In July 1971, Ballard sued Motown for additional royalty payments she believed she was due to receive; she was defeated in court by Motown. Shortly afterwards, Ballard and her husband separated following several domestic disputes and Ballard's home was foreclosed. Facing poverty and depression, Ballard became an alcoholic and shied away from the spotlight. In 1972, she moved into her sister Maxine's house. In 1974 Mary Wilson invited Ballard to rejoin the Supremes, which now included Cindy Birdsong and Scherrie Payne (Ross had left for her successful solo career in 1970). Though Ballard played tambourine, she didn't sing and told Wilson she had no ambition to sing any more. Later that year Ballard's plight started to be reported in newspapers as word got around that the singer had applied for welfare. Around that time, Ballard entered Henry Ford Hospital for rehab treatment. Following six weeks of treatment, Ballard slowly started to recover. Comeback In early 1975, Ballard received an insurance settlement from her former attorney's insurance company. The settlement money helped her buy a house on Shaftsbury Avenue. Inspired by the financial success, Ballard decided to return to singing and also reconciled with Chapman. Ballard's first concert performance in more than five years took place at the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium in Detroit on June 25, 1975. Ballard performed as part of the Joan Little Defense League and was backed by female rock group the Deadly Nightshade. Afterwards, she started receiving offers for interviews; Jet magazine was one of the first to report on Ballard and her recovery. Death On February 21, 1976, Ballard entered Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, complaining of numbness in her extremities. She died at 10:05 ET the next morning from cardiac arrest caused by a coronary thrombosis (a blood clot in one of her coronary arteries), at the age of 32. Ballard is buried in Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery in Warren, Michigan. Legacy Florence Ballard's story has been referenced in a number of works by other artists. The 1980 song "Romeo's Tune", from Steve Forbert's album Jackrabbit Slim is "dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard". In his short story "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band", Stephen King, through the late disc jockey Alan Freed, includes Ballard as one of the deceased artists who performs in a town called "Rock and Roll Heaven". Dreamgirls, a 1981 Broadway musical, chronicles a fictional group called "The Dreams," and a number of plot components parallel events in the Supremes' career. The central character of Effie White, like Florence Ballard, is criticized for being overweight, and is fired from the group. The film version of Dreamgirls released in 2006 features more overt references to Ballard's life and the Supremes' story, including gowns and album covers that are direct copies of Supremes originals. Jennifer Hudson won a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for her portrayal of Effie White in the Dreamgirls film. In her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Hudson dedicated her win to Florence Ballard. The music video for the Diana Ross song "Missing You" pays tribute to Marvin Gaye, Ballard, and Paul Williams, all former Motown artists who had died. In 1988, Ballard was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes alongside Diana Ross and Mary Wilson. In February 2020, a new play about Ballard by Vincent Victoria entitled "Dreamgirl Deferred" premiered in Houston on the Anniversary of her death. Personal life Ballard began dating Thomas Chapman, a Motown Records chauffeur, in 1967; they married in a private celebration in Hawaii on February 29, 1968, and had three daughters: twins Michelle Denise, Nichole Rene and Lisa Sabrina (b. 1971). Ballard reportedly had several domestic disputes with her husband and filed for divorce in 1973, but they reconciled in late 1975, prior to her death. Besides her three daughters, Ballard's family included her cousin, rhythm and blues singer and songwriter Hank Ballard, and his grandnephew, NFL player Christian Ballard; she was also an aunt of the Detroit electronic musician Omar-S. Discography Album 2002: The Supreme Florence Ballard (compilation of 1968 ABC recordings and a selection of earlier Motown recordings Ballard led with The Supremes) Singles 1968: "It Doesn't Matter How I Say It (It's What I Say That Matters)" b/w "Goin' Out of My Head" (ABC Records #45-11074A/B) 1968: "Love Ain't Love" b/w "Forever Faithful" (ABC Records #45-11144A/B) References Notes Bibliography Further reading Wilson, Randall (1999) Forever Faithful! A Study of Florence Ballard and the Supremes, 2nd edition. San Francisco: Renaissance Sound Publications. External links 1943 births 1976 deaths ABC Records artists African-American women singers American women pop singers American sopranos American soul singers Musicians from Detroit The Supremes members Singers with a three-octave vocal range 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers Deaths from coronary thrombosis

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Bodmin Town F.C.

Bodmin Town Football Club is a football club based in Bodmin, Cornwall, England. They are currently members of the and play at Priory Park. History The club was established by W.M. Pethybridge and C.H. Bray in 1889. After amalgamating with a team from the local barracks in 1900, they started playing in white shirts, gaining the nickname "the Lilywhites". They won the Bodmin & District (Senior) League in 1922–23, and in 1925 the colour of the club's home shirts was changed to amber. They won the league again in 1926–27 and were runners-up in 1947–48. In 1953 Bodmin joined the South Western League, where they played for nine seasons, before leaving at the end of the 1961–62 season to play in the East Cornwall Premier League. They rejoined the South Western League in 1969, and were runners-up in 1976–77. They won the league for the first time in 1990–91, and were champions again in 1993–94. They won the Cornwall Senior Cup for the first time in 1998–99, beating Millbrook 2–1 in the final. After finishing as runners-up twice in a row, they won the league for a third time in 2005–06. In 2007 the club were founder members of the South West Peninsula League, and were placed in the Premier Division; they went on to win the league and the League Cup in both of its first two seasons. They finished as runners-up in 2009–10 and 2010–11, winning the Senior Cup in both seasons, beating Camelford 3–1 in the 2010 final and St Austell 3–2 in 2011. The 2011–12 season saw them win the league, the League Cup and the Senior Cup, beating Saltash United 3–2 in the final. They repeated the feat in 2012–13, with Helston Athletic beaten 4–3 after extra time in the Senior Cup final. A fifth league title was won in 2015–16, with the club also winning the League Cup for a fifth time and the Senior Cup for a sixth time with a 7–0 win over Godolphin Athletic in the final. Following league reorganisation at the end of the 2018–19 season, Bodmin were placed in the Premier Division West. Ground The club initially played at Cooksland, a ground located on Liskeard Road. They subsequently moved to Coldharbour Lane and then Barn Park, before returning to Cooksland. They later moved to Westheath, which they shared with St Lawrence's Hospital football club and the cricket club. In 1948 they moved to their current ground, Priory Park, which is owned by the local council. A stand was relocated from Westheath to the new ground, but was replaced by a new 400-capacity main stand in 1958, which cost £2,500 to build; the money was donated by TH Dennison, with the stand being named the Dennison Memorial Stand. Floodlights were installed in 1971 and a new clubhouse built in 1985. One end of the ground consists of grass banking, with the other two sides of the pitch left open. The ground currently has a capacity of 5,000. Honours South West Peninsula League Premier Division champions 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16 League Cup winners 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16 South Western League Champions 1990–91, 1993–94, 2005–06 League Cup winners 1993–94 Bodmin & District (Senior) League Champions 1922–23, 1926–27 Cornwall Senior Cup Winners 1998–99, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16 Cornwall Charity Cup Winners 1986–87, 2013–14 Records Best FA Cup performance: Third qualifying round 2011–12 Best FA Trophy performance: Second qualifying round 1970–71 Best FA Vase performance: Fifth Round 2012–13 See also Bodmin Town F.C. players Bodmin Town F.C. managers References External links Football clubs in Cornwall Football clubs in England Association football clubs established in 1889 1889 establishments in England Bodmin South Western Football League East Cornwall League South West Peninsula League Military football clubs in England

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Poland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Poland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, also known as Poland Historical Chapel and Poland Cemetery, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery on IN 42 near Co. Rd. 56S in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana. It was built in 1869, and is a gable-front, vernacular frame building with Gothic Revival style design elements. It has a high pitched roof and triangular upper sashes. A vestibule and tower were added in 1893. The adjacent cemetery was founded in 1886, and includes nearly 400 headstones. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. References Presbyterian churches in Indiana Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Gothic Revival church buildings in Indiana Protestant Reformed cemeteries Churches completed in 1869 Buildings and structures in Clay County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, Indiana 1869 establishments in Indiana

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Singer%20Sri%20Lankan%20Airlines%20Rugby%207s

2002 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s

The 2002 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s was the fourth year of the Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s tournament. Portugal defeated Kenya 24 - 21 in the final of the Cup. First round Pool A 31 - 12 15 - 15 42 - 14 38 - 07 33 - 00 33 - 14 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Teams !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/− !width="40"|Pts |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||2||1||0||90||29||+61||8 |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||2||1||0||86||36||+50||7 |-style="background:#ffe6bd" |align=left| |3||1||0||2||59||87||-28||5 |-style="background:#fcc6bd" |align=left| |3||0||0||3||19||102||−83||3 |} Pool B 24 - 21 28 - 00 Arabian Gulf Arabian Gulf 24 - 14 29 - 00 Arabian Gulf 33 - 14 33 - 07 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Teams !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/− !width="40"|Pts |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||3||0||0||90||7||+83||9 |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| Arabian Gulf |3||2||0||1||57||56||+1||7 |-style="background:#ffe6bd" |align=left| |3||1||0||2||45||78||-33||5 |-style="background:#fcc6bd" |align=left| |3||0||0||3||7||35||−51||3 |} Pool C 33 - 00 12 - 07 12 - 05 38 - 14 19 - 14 40 - 00 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Teams !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/− !width="40"|Pts |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||3||0||0||111||14||+97||9 |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||2||0||1||45||59||-14||7 |-style="background:#ffe6bd" |align=left| |3||1||0||2||19||57||-38||5 |-style="background:#fcc6bd" |align=left| |3||0||0||3||19||64||−45||3 |} Pool D 19 - 00 17 - 14 21 - 14 36 - 19 33 - 10 54 - 00 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Teams !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/− !width="40"|Pts |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||3||0||0||86||43||+43||9 |-style="background:#ccffcc" |align=left| |3||2||0||1||50||47||+3||7 |-style="background:#ffe6bd" |align=left| |3||1||0||2||82||38||+44||5 |-style="background:#fcc6bd" |align=left| |3||0||0||3||19||109||−90||3 |} Second round Bowl Plate Cup References 2002 2002 rugby sevens competitions 2002 in Asian rugby union rugby sevens

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niucheng%20Township

Niucheng Township

Niucheng Township () is a township-level division of Lingshou County, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. See also List of township-level divisions of Hebei References Township-level divisions of Hebei

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93SGI%20code%20dispute%20of%202003

SCO–SGI code dispute of 2003

During its SCO Forum conference of 2003, The SCO Group (SCO) showed several examples of allegedly illegal copying of copyrighted code into Linux. The open source community quickly debunked most of the examples shown. In particular, one example showed that code from Unix was indeed used in some of SGI's Linux contributions. The Linux maintainers stated that the code in question had in fact already been removed from Linux before the example had been revealed — not because it was infringing, but because the code in question had needlessly duplicated some functions which were already present in Linux. SGI and other analysts also responded to this matter and confirmed that the code in question had never infringed at all. Background During SCO Forum, held on August 17 – 19, 2003 at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, SCO publicly showed several alleged examples of illegal copying of copyright code in Linux. Until that time, these examples had only been available to people who signed an NDA, which had prohibited them from revealing the information shown to them. SCO claimed the infringements are divided into four separate categories: literal copying, obfuscation, derivative works, and non-literal transfers. The example used by SCO to demonstrate literal copying is also known as the atemalloc example. While the name of the original contributor was not revealed by SCO, quick analysis of the code in question pointed to SGI. At this time it was also revealed that the code had already been removed from the Linux kernel, because it duplicated already existing functions. Within hours, the open source community started several different analyses of the infringing code. While the results of these analyses differ slightly, they all confirm that the code in question was derived from Unix code. These analyses also pointed out that while the code could possibly have originated in Unix, this does not necessarily prove infringement of copyrights. The community was determined that this was a particularly bad example, because the code in question had never been used in the mainstream distributions of Linux, and had been present only in the IA-64 version. The relative sparseness of worldwide IA-64 installations, combined with the limited time in which the code was present in Linux, makes the chance of actually encountering a system running this code very slim. The origin of the code While it is possible that the code contributed to Linux originated from UNIX System V, its original implementation happened in the early 1970s. Comparison of the original Unix source code and the UNIX System V source did not reveal any substantial differences between the two. In fact Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of the original versions of Unix, acknowledged that either he or Ken Thompson wrote the original code from which the UNIX System V code is derived: So: either Ken or I wrote it originally. I know that the comments that first appeared by the 6th edition were definitely written by me, since I spent some time annotating the almost comment-free earlier editions. This is very important, because the original versions of Unix did not have any copyright claim in the source code. At that time the law required these copyright claims which effectively means the early Unix code is not protected by copyright law. Additionally, both Santa Cruz Operation and The SCO Group released the source code to early versions of Unix under a 4-clause BSD-like license, allowing the use of the source code in other open source products. SGI responds October 1, 2003, SGI responded to SCO’s allegations in an open letter to the Linux community. In this letter, Rich Altmaier, vice president of software, claims that these small code fragments were indeed inadvertently included in the Linux kernel: All together, these three small code fragments comprised no more than 200 lines out of the more than one million lines of our overall contributions to Linux. Notably, it appears that most or all of the System V code fragments we found had previously been placed in the public domain, meaning it is very doubtful that the SCO Group has any proprietary claim to these code fragments in any case. See also SCO-Linux controversies USL v. BSDi References External links SCO's evidence of copying between Linux and UnixWare SCO's Evidence: This Smoking Gun Fizzles Out Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show SCO–Linux disputes Silicon Graphics

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Azobenzenearsonate

P-Azobenzenearsonate

p-Azobenzenearsonate is an arsenical. It causes antibody formation and delayed hypersensitivity when bound to aromatic amino acids, polypeptides or proteins. It is used as an immunologic research tool. References Azo compounds Arsonic acids

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Saint-Germain

Stade Saint-Germain

Stade Saint-Germain was a French football club active between 1904 and 1970, at which time it merged with Paris FC in 1970 to form Paris Saint-Germain. It was based in the town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The club's best performance in the Coupe de France was in 1968–69, when it reached the quarter-finals of the competition before losing to Marseille. Notable former players Camille Choquier Bernard Guignedoux Roger Quenolle Pierre Phelipon References Paris Saint-Germain F.C. Defunct football clubs in France Association football clubs established in 1904 1904 establishments in France Association football clubs disestablished in 1970 1970 disestablishments in France

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josias%20Rogers

Josias Rogers

Captain Josias Roberts (1755-24 April 1795), was a British naval officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the campaigns in Grenada and Martinique. Life Born at Lymington, Hampshire, Rogers' father seems to have had a large interest in the local salterns. In October 1771 he entered the Royal Navy on board the fifth-rate with Captain (afterwards Sir) Andrew Hamond, whom he followed to HMS Roebuck in 1775. In March 1776 he was sent away in charge of a prize taken in Delaware Bay, and, being driven on shore in a gale, fell into the hands of the American enemy. He was carried, with much rough treatment, into the interior, and detained for upwards of a year, when he succeeded in making his escape, and, after many dangers and adventures, in getting on board his ship, which happened to be at the time lying in the Delaware River. For the next fifteen or eighteen months he was very actively employed in Roebucks boats or tenders, capturing or burning small vessels lurking in the creeks along the North American coast, or landing on foraging expeditions. On 19 October 1778 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and after serving in several different ships, and distinguishing himself at the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina in May 1780, on 2 December 1780, he was promoted to the command of HMS General Monk, a prize fitted out as a sloop of war with eighteen guns. After commanding her for sixteen months, in which time he took or assisted in taking more than sixty of the enemy's ships, on 7 April 1782 General Monk, while chasing six small privateers round Cape May, got on shore, and was captured after a stout defence, in which the lieutenant and master were killed and Rogers himself severely wounded. He was shortly afterwards exchanged, and arrived in England in September, still suffering from his wound. From 1783 to 1787 he commanded in the North Sea, on anti-smuggling operations, and from her, on 1 December 1787, he was advanced to post rank. In 1790 Rogers was flag captain to Sir John Jervis (afterwards Earl of St. Vincent) in the second-rate . In 1793 he was appointed to the fifth-rate frigate , and in her, after a few months in the North Sea and off Dunkirk, he joined the fleet which went out with Jervis to the West Indies. He served with distinction at the reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe in March and April 1794, and was afterwards sent in command of a squadron of frigates to take Cayenne in French Guiana. One of the frigates, however, was lost, two others parted company, and the remainder of his force was unequal to the attempt. In May 1794, along with Robert Faulknor in and two other ships, Rogers took the Saints from the French. He then rejoined the admiral at a time when yellow fever was raging in the fleet, and Quebec, having suffered severely, was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia. By the beginning of the following year she was back in the West Indies and was under orders for home, when, at Grenada, where he was conducting the defence of the town against an insurrection of the slaves, he died of yellow fever on 24 April 1795. He was married and left children; his second daughter Augusta Louise (1791–1852) married Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons on 18 July 1814 at Southwick, Hampshire. After his death Rogers' widow erected a plaque in his memory at the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington. References Bibliography External links Portrait of Josias Rogers 1755 births 1795 deaths Royal Navy officers English sailors

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness%20%28novel%29

Blindness (novel)

Blindness (, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. A sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008. Plot summary Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. The ophthalmologist's spouse, "the doctor's wife," is inexplicably immune to the blindness. After a lengthy and traumatic quarantine in an asylum, the group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the good fortune that the doctor's wife has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures. The first part of the novel follows the experiences of the central characters in the filthy, overcrowded asylum where they and other blind people have been quarantined. Hygiene, living conditions, and morale degrade horrifically in a very short period, mirroring the society outside. Anxiety over the availability of food, caused by delivery irregularities, acts to undermine solidarity; and lack of organization prevents the internees from fairly distributing food or chores. Soldiers assigned to guard the asylum and look after the well-being of the internees become increasingly antipathetic as one soldier after another becomes infected. The military refuses to allow basic medicine to be delivered, which ensures that a simple infection becomes deadly. Fearing an imminent escape, soldiers shoot down a crowd of internees waiting for a food delivery. Conditions degenerate further as an armed clique gains control over food deliveries, subjugating their fellow internees and exposing them to violent assault, rape, and deprivation. Faced with starvation, internees battle each other and burn down the asylum, only to discover that the army has abandoned the asylum, after which the protagonists join the throngs of nearly helpless blind people outside who wander the devastated city and fight one another to survive. The story then follows the doctor's wife, her husband, and their impromptu “family” as they attempt to survive outside, cared for largely by the doctor’s wife, who can still see (though she must hide this fact at first). At this point, the breakdown of society is near total. Law and order, social services, government, schools, etc., no longer function. Families have been separated and cannot find one another. People squat in abandoned buildings and scrounge for food. Violence, disease, and despair threaten to overwhelm human coping. The doctor and his wife and their new “family” eventually make a permanent home in the doctor's house and are establishing a new order to their lives when the blindness lifts from the city en masse just as suddenly and inexplicably as it struck. Characters The doctor's wife The doctor's wife is the only character in the novel who does not lose her sight. This phenomenon remains unexplained through the novel. Unwilling to leave her husband to be interned, she lies to the government doctors and claims to be blind. As such, she is interned with the rest of the afflicted. Once inside, she attempts to help the compound organize, but she is increasingly unable to hold back the animality of the compound. When one ward begins withholding food and demanding that the women of other wards submit to being raped in return for food, she kills the leader of their ward. Once they escape the compound, she helps her group survive in the city. The doctor's wife is the de facto leader of their small group, although in the end, she often serves their disabled needs and acts as a nurse to them. The doctor The doctor is an ophthalmologist stricken blind after treating a patient with what will come to be called "the white sickness". The doctor is among the first to be quarantined along with his wife. Due to his medical expertise he has a certain authority among those quarantined. However, much of the doctor's authority stems from his wife not having gone blind; she is able to see what is going on around the ward and relays what she sees to her husband. When the group from his ward finally escapes they end up travelling to and staying in the doctor and his wife's apartment. Several of the other main characters had been visiting the doctor's office when the epidemic begins to spread. The girl with the dark glasses The girl with the dark glasses is a former part-time prostitute who is struck blind while she is with a customer. She seemingly contracted the “white-blindness” while visiting the doctor due to conjunctivitis (hence the dark glasses). She is unceremoniously removed from the hotel and taken to be quarantined in the asylum. Once inside, she joins the small group of people who were contaminated at the doctor's office. When the car thief gropes her on the way to the lavatory, she kicks him with a heeled shoe – giving him a wound from which he will eventually die. While inside, she also takes care of the boy with the squint, whose mother is nowhere to be found. At the end of the story, she and the old man with the black eye patch become lovers. The old man with the black eye patch The old man with the black eye patch is the last person to join the first ward. He brings with him a portable transistor radio that allows the internees to listen to the news. He is also the main architect of the failed attack on the ward of hoodlums hoarding the food rations. Once the group escapes the quarantine, the old man becomes the lover of the girl with the dark glasses. The dog of tears The dog of tears is a dog that joins the small group of blind people when they leave the quarantine. While he is mostly loyal to the doctor's wife, he helps the whole group by protecting them all from packs of dogs who are becoming increasingly feral. He is called the dog of tears because he bonded to the group when he licked the tears off the face of the doctor's wife. The boy with the squint The boy with the squint was a patient of the doctor's, which is most likely how he became infected. He is brought to the quarantine without his mother and soon falls in with the group in the first ward. The girl with the dark glasses assumes a motherly role for him, as she takes care of him and ensures his safety. The car thief After the first blind man was struck blind in traffic, a car thief brought him home and, subsequently stole his car. Soon after he went blind, the car thief and the first blind man re-encounter one another in the quarantine, where they soon come to blows. They have no time to resolve their conflict, though, since the car thief is the first internee killed by the guards. He is gunned down while trying to ask the guards for medication for his infected leg. The first blind man The first man to go blind is struck blind in the middle of traffic, waiting at a stoplight. He is immediately taken home and then to the doctor's office, where he infects all of the other patients and the doctor. He is one of the principal members of the first ward - the ward with all of the original internees. When the epidemic is finally over, he is the first person to regain his sight. The first blind man's wife The wife of the first blind man goes blind soon after helping her husband to the quarantine. They are reunited by chance in the quarantine. Once inside, she also joins the first ward with the doctor and the doctor's wife. When the ward of hoodlums begins to demand that the women sleep with them in order to be fed, the first blind man's wife volunteers to go, in solidarity with the others. The man with the gun The man with the gun is the leader of the ward of hoodlums that seizes control of the food supply in the quarantine. He and his ward take the rations by force and threaten to shoot anyone who doesn't comply with their orders. This ward extorts valuables from the other internees in exchange for food and, when the "goods" (such as bracelets and watches run out) they begin to rape the women. He is later stabbed to death by the doctor's wife. The blind accountant This man is not one of those afflicted by the "white sickness"—rather he has been blind since birth. He is the only one in the ward who can read and write braille and who knows how to use a walking stick. Additionally, he is the second in command to the man with the gun in the ward of hoodlums. When the doctor's wife kills the man with the gun, the blind accountant takes the gun and tries to seize control but he is unable to rally support. He dies when one of the rape victims sets fire to the ward. Style Like most works by Saramago, Blindness contains many long, breathless passages in which commas take the place of periods, quotation marks, semicolons, and colons. The lack of quotation marks around dialogue means that the speakers' identities (or the fact that dialogue is occurring) may not be immediately apparent to the reader. The lack of proper character names in Blindness is typical of many of Saramago's novels (e.g. All the Names). The characters are instead referred to by descriptive appellations such as "the doctor's wife", "the car thief", or "the first blind man". Given the characters' blindness, some of their names seem ironic ("the boy with the squint" or "the girl with the dark glasses"). The city afflicted by the blindness is never named, nor the country specified. Few definite identifiers of culture are given, which contributes an element of timelessness and universality to the novel. However, there are some signs that hint that the country is Saramago's homeland of Portugal: the main character is shown eating chouriço, a spicy sausage, and some dialogue in the original Portuguese employs the familiar "tu" second-person singular verb form (a distinction absent in most of Brazil). The church, with all its saintly images, is likely of the Catholic variety. Sequel Saramago wrote a sequel to Blindness in 2004, titled Seeing (Ensaio sobre a lucidez, literal English translation Essay on lucidity), which has also been translated into English. The sequel novel takes place in the same country featured in Blindness and features several of the same nameless characters. Adaptations An English-language film adaptation of Blindness was directed by Fernando Meirelles. Filming began in July 2007 and stars Mark Ruffalo as the doctor and Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife. The film opened the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 the Drama Desk Award Winning Godlight Theatre Company staged the New York City theatrical premiere of Blindness at 59E59 Theaters. This stage version was adapted and directed by Joe Tantalo. The First Blind Man was played by Mike Roche. An outdoor performance adaptation by the Polish group Teatr KTO, was first presented in June 2010. It has since been performed at a number of venues, including the Old College Quad of the University of Edinburgh during the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Shortly before his death, Saramago gave German composer Anno Schreier the rights to compose an opera based on the novel. The libretto is written in German by Kerstin Maria Pöhler. Like the German translation of the novel, the opera's title is "Die Stadt der Blinden". It saw its first performance on November 12, 2011 at the Zurich Opera House. In August 2020, the Donmar Warehouse produced a socially-distanced sound installation based on the novel. BLINDNESS was adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann. Juliet Stevenson voiced the Doctor's Wife. See also The Day of the Triffids, the 1951 John Wyndham novel (and its many adaptations) about societal collapse following widespread blindness Many, Many Monkeys "The Country of the Blind" by H.G. Wells References 1995 novels 20th-century Portuguese novels Novels by José Saramago Portuguese novels adapted into films Novels about blindness Social science fiction Metafictional novels

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Camilo

Michel Camilo

Michel Camilo (born April 4, 1954) is a Grammy-award winning pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work. Camilo lists some of his main influences as Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Art Tatum. Background and career Camilo was born into a musical family and as a young child showed aptitude for the accordion that his parents gave him. Although he enjoyed the accordion, it was his grandparents' piano that sparked his interest the most, so at aged 9 he asked his parents to buy him one. Their response was to first send him to the Elementary Music School, part of the National Conservatory, and then a year later to grant his wish. The formal system of the music school taught Camilo to play in the classical style, and by age 16 he was playing with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic. Camilo comments on his first encounter with the sounds of jazz, in an interview with the All About Jazz website: "The first time I heard jazz was when I was 14 and a half. I heard the great Art Tatum on the radio playing his solo piano rendition of 'Tea for Two.' That immediately caught my ear. I just wanted to soak it in, to learn to play that style. Then I found out it was jazz." Camilo studied for 13 years at the National Conservatory, and whilst developing his strong classical abilities was also heavily influenced by the bebop tradition, and by the contemporary jazz of Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Amilton Godoy (Zimbo Trio's pianist). His influences at this time also included Horace Silver, Erroll Garner, and the ragtime music of Scott Joplin. When the Harvard University Jazz Band visited the Dominican Republic and heard Camilo at a jam session, the bandleader encouraged him, 'You should be in the States', and so the idea was planted. In 1979, Camilo moved to New York to study at Mannes College and at The Juilliard School, and broke onto the international stage in 1983 when Tito Puente's pianist was unable to make a concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival. On a recommendation, without hearing him, Puente asked Camilo to play. Cuban reedman Paquito D'Rivera was in the audience and offered him a place in his band. For four years, Camilo toured internationally with D'Rivera and recorded two albums with him. Camilo's emergence as a star in his own right began around 1985, the year he debuted with his trio at Carnegie Hall. In that same year he toured Europe with Paquito D’Rivera's quintet, and recorded his first album, Why Not?, for Japan's King label. His album Suntan/In Trio had a trio with Anthony Jackson on the bass and Dave Weckl on the drums. In 1988, Camilo debuted on a major record label, Sony, with the release of Michel Camilo, which became a bestseller and held the top jazz album spot for ten consecutive weeks. Special guests joined in with Camilo, such as percussionist Sammy Figueroa and tap dancer Raul. Other bestselling albums followed and so did the accolades, including a Grammy and an Emmy. Camilo's collaborative 2000 album with flamenco guitarist Tomatito Spain won Best Latin Jazz Album in the first Latin Grammy Awards. As well as being an outstanding performer, Camilo is a talented composer and has written scores for several Spanish language films including Los Peores Años de Nuestra Vida and the award-winning Amo Tu Cama Rica. Camilo tours extensively, and lectures in Europe, the US, and in the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. He holds several honorary degrees, a Visiting Professorship and a Doctorate at Berklee College of Music, and has been honored in his home country by being named a Knight of the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus, and being awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of Duarte, Sanchez & Mella. Association with other musicians Camilo's regular trio lineup for many years had his long-term friends Anthony Jackson on contrabass guitar and Cliff Almond on drums. Charles Flores has occupied the trio's bass seat since their Grammy-winning album Live at the Blue Note. Lately Camilo has drummer Dafnis Prieto as part of his trio. This new trio released the album Spirit of the Moment in April 2007. Other musicians he has played with include Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Dizzy Gillespie, Katia Labèque, Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira, Chuck Mangione, Stanley Turrentine, Claudio Roditi, Nancy Alvarez, Mongo Santamaría, George Benson, Eddie Palmieri, Jon Faddis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lew Soloff, Tania Maria, Jaco Pastorius, Patato, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Loeb, Giovanni Hidalgo, Guarionex Aquino, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Valentin, Flora Purim, Delfeayo Marsalis, Chucho Valdés, Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock, Tomatito, John Patitucci, David Sanchez, Hiromi Uehara, Cachao, Marcus Roberts, Steve Gadd, Danilo Perez, Gary Burton, Billy Taylor, Dave Weckl, Hilton Ruiz, Roy Hargrove, Romero Lubambo, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Leny Andrade, Bireli Lagrene, Marian McPartland, Leonard Slatkin, Arturo Sandoval, Aisha Syed Castro, Béla Fleck, Lou Marini, Cliff Almond, Mark Walker. Camilo is one of the ambassadors to Music Traveler GmbH, together with Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, John Malkovich, Sean Lennon, Adrien Brody. Discography As leader/co-leader As sideman References External links Michel Camilo: Official Website 1954 births Living people People from Santo Domingo Latin jazz pianists Post-bop pianists Berklee College of Music faculty Dominican Republic composers 20th-century composers 21st-century composers Dominican Republic pianists Classical pianists Dominican Republic songwriters Male songwriters Mannes School of Music alumni Juilliard School alumni Grammy Award winners Latin Grammy Award winners 21st-century classical pianists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Marie%20Island%20%28Richelieu%20River%29

Sainte-Marie Island (Richelieu River)

L'île Sainte-Marie (English: Sainte-Marie Island) is a river island of the Richelieu River. It is located in the territory of the municipality of Carignan, in the La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region from Montérégie, in the south of province of Quebec, to Canada. Île Sainte-Marie is located downstream from Sainte-Thérèse Island, from which it is separated by a narrow channel. Geography Very elongated in shape, Île Sainte-Marie measures in length by of maximum width. It is connected to the left bank of the Richelieu River by a road which passes over the pier forming the right bank of the Chambly Canal. Île Sainte-Marie faces east from the confluence of La Grande Décharge (stream coming from the east); at this location, the distance between the island and the east bank of the Richelieu River is . Île Sainte-Marie also faces the Chambly Canal National Historic Site of Canada, which is located on the west side of the canal. History Quebec historians generally locate the old fort Sainte Thérèse, which has disappeared today, opposite Île Sainte-Marie. Toponymy The name of island comes from that of a former owner, Jean Sainte-Marie. The toponym "Île Sainte-Marie" was formalized on December 5, 1968 at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec. Occupation Formerly an agricultural territory, Île Sainte-Marie is now occupied by around thirty residences. The "Rue de l'Île-Sainte-Marie" is the main road on the island. Notes and references River islands of Quebec River islands La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprosma%20cuneata

Coprosma cuneata

Coprosma cuneata, is a shrub in the Rubiaceae family, native to New Zealand. Coprosma cuneata is a shrub with clusters of small dark green narrow leaves. The leaves are curved and 9-16mm by 2mm. They are widest at the tip, and have a tuft of small hairs between the base of the pairs of leaves. The fruit is red and persists on the shrub. Conservation status In both 2004 and 2009 it was deemed to be "Unthreatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, and this classification was reaffirmed in 2018. References External links Coprosma cuneata occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium Flora of New Zealand cuneata Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker Plants described in 1844

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalan%20Terminal%20Feri

Jalan Terminal Feri

Jalan Terminal Feri (Johor state route J225) is a major road in Johor, Malaysia. List of junctions References Roads in Johor

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Harleston

Edward Harleston

Edward Harleston (December 25, 1794 – February 11, 1871) was an American planter and politician. Harleston, the son of Edward and Annabella (Moultrie) Harleston, was born in Charleston, S. C. on December 25, 1794. He died on February 11, 1871 when he was 76. Harleston graduated from Yale College in 1815. Throughout most of his life, he was a planter of rice and cotton. He served in the South Carolina State Legislature several years. He married Ann Isabella Huger, who survived him, on January 26, 1826. External links 1794 births 1826 deaths Yale College alumni Members of the South Carolina General Assembly American planters Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina 19th-century American politicians

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Wendhausen Windmill

The Wendhausen Windmill (German: Windmühle Wendhausen) is a tower mill located in Wendhausen, a town within the municipality of Lehre, Lower Saxony, Germany. Built in 1837, it is the only five-sailed windmill in Germany still in operation. History Watermill Prior to 1837, a watermill was located on the Schunter River that flows through Wendhausen. Records show that a watermill was in use as early as 1491 in Wendhausen. The mill had three pairs of millstones. Windmill In 1837 brothers Carl and Eduard Vieweg, publishers from nearby Braunschweig, replaced the Schunter watermill with a nearby windmill. They wanted to build a paper mill to produce paper for their own publishing house and to have it powered using the wind. The brothers were given permission to build the windmill as long as, within one year, they provided as much mill grinding capacity for the Wendhausen area as they had with the three millstones from the watermill. A Dutch-style windmill with five sails was chosen to provide additional power and could accommodate more grinding and milling than traditional and older post mills. Such windmills are rare and it is the only one of its kind in Germany and. It was built with parts from England so it conformed to the English measuring system. Its three pairs of millstones were driven by a cast iron drive train that was new and unknown in Germany at that time. The windmill ceased operations during World War I. In 1927 the mill was fitted with an electric motor and the sails were removed. In 1936 Wendhausen was declared a "National Socialist model village" and the sails were replaced only for the purpose of decoration. A small fire in the basement in 1951 caused no major damage and two years later the mill ceased operations. The coat of arms of Wendhausen (pictured) includes the windmill as its main symbol. Renovations Many renovations and reconstructions have taken place since the first major activities took place in the late 1950s. One of the first was funded by the Volkswagen company in Wolfsburg and later in 1972 by the community of Wendhausen with the help of the county of Braunschweig. Additional damage to the windmill came in 1975 during a storm when the windmill failed to turn into the wind and the sails were damaged. In 1980, the land and mill were purchased by the Municipality of Lehre and an association was founded by local citizens and politicians to preserve and promote the windmill. For the 150th anniversary in 1987, extensive restoration work on the milling operation, elevators, motor, belt protective cover were completed to demonstrate the millstone operation. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, continual renovations took place and many parts replaced and updated. Additional funds came from the greater European Community, the state of Lower Saxony, LB Public Foundation, and the United Brunswick monastery and study funds. In 2012, the windmill again underwent renovations costing €418,000, much of which came from the German federal government and the State Conservation Office. Work was on the sails and the current plans are to have the windmill functioning again at the end of 2015. The first wedding at the windmill was held in 2001. Guided tours are also available when the windmill is open. See also List of windmills in Lower Saxony International Wind- and Watermill Museum – Located in nearby Gifhorn References Windmills completed in 1837 Lehre Windmills Lower Saxony Tourist attractions in Lower Saxony Multi-sailed windmills

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Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1997–2002

This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1997 to 2002, as elected at the 1997 state election: The member for Mackillop, Mitch Williams, was elected as an independent, but rejoined the Liberal Party on 6 December 1999. The member for Hammond, Peter Lewis, was expelled from the Liberal Party on 6 July 2000. He continued to sit in the Assembly as an independent. The member for Fisher, Bob Such, resigned from the Liberal Party on 12 October 2000. He continued to sit in the Assembly as an independent. The member for Price, Murray De Laine, resigned from the Labor Party on 15 August 2001 after losing preselection to recontest his seat. He served out the remainder of his term as an independent. The member for Ross Smith, Ralph Clarke, resigned from the Labor Party on 27 November 2001 after losing preselection to recontest his seat. He served out the remainder of his term as an independent. Members of South Australian parliaments by term 21st-century Australian politicians 20th-century Australian politicians

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Internazionali Femminili di Brescia

The Internazionali Femminili di Brescia is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. The event is classified as a $60,000 ITF Women's Circuit tournament and has been held in Brescia, Italy, since 2008. Past finals Singles Doubles External links ITF search Official Website ITF Women's Circuit Clay court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in Italy Recurring sporting events established in 2008

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The People with the Dogs

The People with the Dogs (1952) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. Story outline Edward Massine has returned home to New York from the Second World War to a doting family. The last of his line he is in a comfortable position that he finds very difficult to break away from. He waits too long to marry his long-term girlfriend who chooses another, but subsequently meets and marries Lydia, an actress, finally exchanging his suffocating family life for a bright new future. Critical reception A reviewer in Kirkus Review found good and not-so-good points with the book: "An acrid, often amusing, occasionally tiresome probing of a rather squashy segment of New York City's population and also an examination of the problem of nonconformity in contemporary society - a novel sounding some telling notes which unfortunately evaporate into the thin upper air of attenuated symbolism." In 2011 Edmund White listed the novel as one of his "top 10 New York Books" in The Guardian: "A study of indolent, comfortable New Yorkers in the period just after the war. These are people who are constantly visiting one another, sitting on their stoops, playing with their pets, enjoying life to the fullest. I can think of no other novel that is so agreeable and so devoid of incident." See also 1952 in Australian literature References Novels by Christina Stead 1952 Australian novels

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinyeti%20River

Kinyeti River

The Kinyeti River flows northward from the Imatong Mountains in the Imatong State of South Sudan, eventually dispersing into the Badigeru swamp. Location The Imatongs reach out from their highest central block around Mount Kinyeti into a northwestern, western and southwestern chain. The western chain, with peaks rising up to high, is usually known as the Acholi Mountains. The Kinyeti valley lies between the northwest and west ranges. The Kinyeti river, and others that drain the northern slopes of the mountains, feed the Badigeru swamps. These swamps, running in a SSW-NNE direction for , are discontinuous. They may be as wide as in the rainy season, but average in width. The swamps in turn may drain westward into the Bahr el Jebel section of the White Nile or eastward into the Veveno River. Colonial era The British colonial administration began a forestry project in the Kinyeti basin in the 1940s, clearing the natural forest and planting fast-growing softwoods, Cyprus and Pine. In 1950 the mountains above were made a forest reserve with no further settlement permitted, but the ban was not enforced during the civil wars. Forestry brought laborers into the mountains, and they started hillside farming in a wide area around the forest plantations. In 1949 fingerling trout supplied by the Kenya Game Department were put out in the upper Kinyeti River. By 1952 they had become established, and the forestry department was planning to stock other streams using trout from the Kinyeti. Later developments Shortly before independence, the government announced that the Army's Equatoria Corps was to be transferred to the North, sparking a mutiny on 18 August 1955. 336 northerners died and 75 southerners, of whom 55 drowned in the Kinyeti after they fled in panic from Torit. Forestry was neglected during the First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972). After 1972 an effort was made to rehabilitate the plantations, with a new road built from Torit, a hydro-electric scheme developed to power sawmills and other changes. As of 1984 only the steepest slopes had natural forest and there were plans to clear-cut most of the Kinyeti basin. A 1981 feasibility study assessed hydroelectric power potential in the Kinyeti River and the local power demand, but there was no follow-up. The most promising site seemed to be at Katire. References Geography of Eastern Equatoria Rivers of South Sudan

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Challenge for a Civilized Society

Challenge for a Civilized Society is the sixth studio album by the American post-hardcore band Unwound, released on January 13, 1998 by Kill Rock Stars. It was produced by Steve Fisk and recorded from August 1, 1997, to August 15, 1997, at John and Stu's in Seattle, Washington. The album received positive reviews from critics. Recording and release Challenge for a Civilized Society was written in "a little more than a month" after Unwound took a break of a year and a half without writing any songs. The album was produced by the band's long-time collaborator, Steve Fisk, and recorded from August 1, 1997, to August 15, 1997, at John and Stu's in Seattle, Washington. According to singer and guitarist Justin Trosper, "With Challenge, we tried to expand our studio sound more than anything. The song structures are tighter and the album contains some of our best songs, but as a whole I think it's not our best album. It was less inspired than the others. Steve Fisk's production is really awesome. He does things that most other people would never think of. I think most producers are wankers with no ideas except commercial potential. Challenge just makes me want to make an album that goes even further out, to really question the whole process even more. What is a record? What is production? What's the audience? What's an artist, and so on?" The album was released on January 13, 1998 by the independent record label Kill Rock Stars, which also released the band's previous four albums. The album cover features a photo of Boston's stained-glass Mapparium. The album spent a total of 16 weeks on the CMJ Radio 200 Chart for 1998, peaking at No. 4. The band toured extensively in support of the album. Critical reception Challenge for a Civilized Society received positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic reviewer Jason Ankeny stated that the album "is a study in extremes, as the group's noise assault reaches new pinnacles of raw abrasion." Similarly, NME observed that the album "uses the clenched rigour of emo-hardcore as a springboard rather than, as is so often the case, a constricting ideology. So tense little hate-songs like 'Laugh Track' and 'Mile Me Deaf' expand into tricksy, emotional guitar flurries plainly inspired by Sonic Youth, but, crucially, never lose their basic vicious power." Richard Martin, writing for CMJ New Music Monthly, highlighted the album's sinister mood, concluding "the tone on most of these ten tracks remains foreboding, but this consistent, inventive band rewards those willing to accept its Challenge." Track listing Personnel Justin Trosper – Guitar, vocals, saxophone, Univox beatbox, synths Sara Lund – Drums and percussion Vern Rumsey – Bass, vocals on "Side Effects of Being Tired/Untitled 3", Fender Rhodes, EPS Steve Fisk – Producer, also played Ensoniq EPS, Harmonium, Hammond M-3 Dave Carter – Trumpet Kip Beelman – Engineer, August 1–14 Kevin Suggs – Engineer, August 15 Virginia Benson – Photography Mastered at SEA by Roger Seibel References External links 1998 albums Albums produced by Steve Fisk Kill Rock Stars albums Unwound albums

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Kika Silva Pla Planetarium

The Santa Fe College Kika Silva Pla Planetarium is a 34-foot in diameter, domed theater in Gainesville, Florida. The planetarium seats 60 people and uses two projection systems. An In-Space-System (ISS) 1C-3K digital projection system by RSA Cosmos and an optical-mechanical Chronos Space Simulator manufactured by Goto. History The planetarium was dedicated in September 2006 and officially opened to the public in September 2007 and is located on the Northwest Campus of Santa Fe College. The SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium was made possible by a donation of John Pla and his wife Amy Howard, on behalf of the Pla family, in recognition of his mother, Kika Silva Pla's, commitment to education and passion for social justice and civic engagement. The planetarium was funded with additional support from a special federal appropriation arranged by Congressman Cliff Stearns. Laurent Pellerin was the planetarium's first coordinator. James C. Albury became the planetarium coordinator in October 2009, and was a co-host on the internationally syndicated PBS show "Star Gazer". See also Buehler Planetarium and Observatory List of planetariums Amateur astronomy References Buildings and structures in Gainesville, Florida Planetaria in the United States Tourist attractions in Gainesville, Florida Education in Gainesville, Florida 2006 establishments in Florida

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Willem van Hoogstraten

Willem van Hoogstraten (March 18, 1884 – September 11, 1965) was a Dutch violinist and conductor. Van Hoogstraten was born in Utrecht, and studied the violin from age eight including studies with Alexander Schmuller, and enrolled at the conservatory in Cologne at age sixteen where he studied with Bram Eldering. He also studied violin with Otakar Ševcik in Prague. He began his career as the conductor at a health resort, and then conducted the orchestra at Kleefeld 1914-1918. He was married for sixteen years, from 1911–1927, to the pianist Elly Ney. They met in 1907 at the conservatory in Cologne where Ney was a teacher. They traveled throughout Europe performing chamber music, recruiting cellist Fritz Reitz to form a trio. They made their home at Tutzing on the Starnberger See. The two recorded the final three Beethoven piano concertos together for Colosseum Records. A daughter was born to them, the actress Eleonore van Hoogstraten. The couple divorced in 1927. Van Hoogstraten conducted a Brahms festival in Vienna, and the Mozart festival in Salzburg, as well as guest conducting throughout Europe. He conducted the New York Philharmonic at the Lewisohn Stadium summer concert series from 1922 to 1939 where he was also served as associate conductor from 1923 to 1925. At the Lewisohn, in 1927 he conducted NYPhil playing Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F with George Gershwin as soloist. Van Hoogstraten was appointed by the Philharmonic Society to serve as director of the orchestra between Josef Stransky and Willem Mengelberg, serving half of the orchestra's season until Mengelberg was available. After the untimely death of Theodore Spiering in 1925, Van Hoogstraten was appointed music director of the Oregon Symphony, where he served for thirteen seasons. From 1939 to 1945, he was permanent conductor of the Mozarteum Salzburg. Van Hoogstraten died in 1965 in Tutzing, and is buried there with his ex-wife, Elly Ney, at Neuer Friedhof. References Living Musicians (1940) Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (2001) 1884 births 1964 deaths Dutch conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Musicians from Oregon Oregon Symphony Musicians from Utrecht (city) 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century Dutch male musicians

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Sean Burrell

Sean Burrell (born February 23, 2002) is an American athlete who has competed in the 200m, 400m and 400m hurdles. Career A native of Zachary, Louisiana, Burrell competes at the collegiate level for the LSU Tigers. He ran 47.85 for the 400m hurdles to win the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon which made him the junior world record holder in that event, beating the record which had been set by Danny Harris in 1984. It was also, at the time of the race, the fourth fastest time recorded by anyone in the world that year. Personal life His father Keltrin Burrell Sr. and mother Jacqueline Burrell were high school runners. His brother Jon Burrell competed in the throwing of the javelin at Zachary High School and Louisiana Tech University. References External links LSU Tigers bio 2002 births Living people American male sprinters American male hurdlers LSU Tigers track and field athletes People from Zachary, Louisiana African-American track and field athletes Track and field athletes from Louisiana 21st-century African-American sportspeople

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norinco%20CQ

Norinco CQ

The Type CQ is an unlicensed Chinese variant of the M16 rifle manufactured by Norinco. According to the Norinco website, the rifle is officially known as CQ 5.56. It can be distinguished from other AR-15 and M-16 pattern rifles by its long, revolver-like pistol grip, somewhat rounded handguards, and the unique shape of its stock. History The CQ was first introduced in the early 1980s. This weapon is chambered for 5.56×45mm cartridges and it was intended for export sales. Two variants of the CQ rifle are made: the CQ 5.56, also known as the CQ-311 or CQ M-311, the select-fire variant for Military/LE sales; and the CQ M311-1, the semiautomatic version for the civilian market. Later, a carbine variant has been introduced, called the CQ 5.56mm Type A. The Semi-auto sporter have been successful in the civilian market. The CQ was never adopted by the Chinese military or even unofficially distributed within Chinese troops. Other military uses of the Type CQ assault rifle have been reported within guerrilla and insurgent movements in the Southeast Asian area. Differences Though it has the same look as the M16 rifle, there are some modifications to various parts. The most immediately recognizable distinguishing features that tell the Type CQ apart from an M16 rifle are its distinctive handguard and stock, curved pistol grip, and hooded front sight. The Type CQ rifle, in both its Military/LE and Civilian variants, has a 1:12 rifling pitch which allows it to properly stabilize the M193 "Ball" variant of the 5.56mm ammunition or the Type CJ Chinese clone, as well as any .223 Remington commercial cartridge variant that can be stabilized by the 1:12 pitch rifling barrel (normally Varmint or other simple sporter cartridges, up to a maximum bullet weight of 55 Grains). The M193 "Ball" 5.56mm cartridge was never a NATO standard until the adoption of this weapon system by other nations. Type CQ is chambered in "5.56×45mm NATO", but it will not properly stabilize the NATO standard 5.56mm ammunition (the SS109, M855 in US service), which requires a 1:9 or 1:7 pitch rifling barrel due to a bullet weight of 62 Grains. Variants Type CQ assault rifle Also known as the CQ 5.56, the CQ-311 or the CQ M-311, this is the select-fire assault rifle version intended for military and police use. It is a gas-operated, rotating-bolt full-automatic firearm that feeds from factory-made 20- or 30-round magazines (STANAG magazine clones), firing the M193 "Ball" 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge (manufactured in China by Norinco as the Type CJ cartridge). The Type CQ rifle has a three-position fire selector: Safe, Single Shot, and Full-Automatic fire. The weapon sports a 508mm (19.9 inches) barrel with a 1:12 rifling twist. The main differences within this weapon and the original American-made M16 are in the shape of some metal and plastic parts (namely the stock, the grip, the handguard, and the flash suppressor), and in the type of metal the rifle is made of. While the American AR-15/M16 rifles are built in T70-74 aluminum, the Chinese Type CQ is built in T60-60 aluminum, used to allow the process of metal injection molding to be used instead of forging. According to the manufacturer's website, the Type CQ assault rifle can be equipped with an under-carried grenade launcher. Norinco manufactures several models of grenade launchers in different calibers, generally clones of the American M203 (known as the LG2-I and LG2-II) or to the Russian GP-25/GP-30 (known as the LG-1, seen mated to the QBZ-95 assault rifle), and a wide array of anti-riot underbarrel launchers. However, seen the lack on the Type CQ assault rifle of a quick-attachment/detachment design hand guard as instead present on the American M16A2 assault rifle and M4 carbine, the installation of an underbarrel grenade launcher on the Type CQ assault rifle requires partial replacement of the handguard. Type CQ semi-automatic rifle Also known as the CQ 311-1 or the CQ M311-1, this rifle is the civilian version of the above-mentioned Military model. Nothing changes from the select-fire version, except that the CQ M311-1 rifle is not capable of fully automatic fire, and that the most recently manufactured models shift from the distinctive Type CQ curved pistol grip and hooded front sight to more standard parts, similar to the ones found on other AR-15 rifles. It is manufactured with a semi-automatic only trigger group, and the selector switch only has two positions, for Safety and Fire. The 1:12 barrel rifling allows the rifle to properly shoot and stabilize light .223 Remington commercial cartridges (55 grains & under) and the military surplus 5.56×45mm M193 "Ball" ammunition widely available on the market. The CQ M311-1 was first available in the North American market in 1987, when only 500 units were sold before the import was halted; reasons for this halt are stated to be several by many sources: the restrictions applied in the United States since 1989 (an import ban signed by George H. W. Bush on 41 types of military-style firearms in the aftermath of the Stockton massacre), a copyright infringement lawsuit from Colt against Norinco or an agreement between the two companies; however none of these assumptions can be supported by official confirms. The CQ M311-1 semiautomatic rifle was available in Canada until it was reclassified as a Prohibited Firearm on May 1, 2020, while any further import into the United States still remains impossible due to restrictions that apply since 1986 and after other pieces of legislation passed in the 1990s and in the early 2000s. The gun is also available in Europe (particularly Italy), where it is sold with a 10-round detachable clear plastic magazine manufactured in the United States by DPMS Panther Arms (this because the Norinco CQ M311-1 rifles and the DPMS Panther Arms products are imported in Italy by the company NUOVA JAGER srl). CQ 5.56mm Type A assault carbine This variant introduced in the year 2006 in several Defense expos worldwide, including the MILIPOL, is a copy of the American M4A1 assault carbine. It features a telescoping stock, a removable carrying handle mounted on a Picatinny rail, and a 368.3mm (14.5 inch) barrel. The CQ Type A carbine variant is able to stabilize both M193 "Ball" and SS109/M855 variants of the 5.56mm cartridge, as would be expected from a rifle with a 1:9 barrel rifling twist. It will quickly accept the installation of grenade launchers due to the quick attachment/detachment handguard design and to the step-cut barrel. The CQ 5.56mm Type A assault carbine is the only Type CQ variant known to be in official use with a regular Armed force, having been purchased in significant quantities by the DECEI (Destacamento Conjunto de Empleo Inmediato "Joint Quick Deployment Detachment") of the Paraguayan Army. A semi-automatic version of this carbine was available on the civilian market for sports shooters in Canada until their prohibition, Italy, Ukraine, and South Africa. CS/LM11 The CS/LM11 was unveiled in 2010 at foreign weapons expo conventions, made by Huaqing Machinery Company. It can fire both SS109 and M193-based 5.56 NATO ammo. It's an offshoot of the CQ, with improvements made to barrel from 6,000 to 12,000 rounds fired. DIO Model S-5.56 assault rifle In the year 2003, the Defense Industries Organization of Iran began marketing the S-5.56 (Sayyad) rifle, an unlicensed clone of the Type CQ. It is also known as SRAG-15. It had been first unveiled in the West in 2001. It was originally designed for export sales. But has been shown in use by Revolutionary Guards special forces units. The rifle itself is offered in two variants. The S-5.56 A1 with a 19.9-inch barrel and 1:12 pitch rifling (1 turn in 305mm), optimised for the use of the M193 Ball cartridge. The S-5.56 A3 with a 20-inch barrel and a 1:7 pitch rifling (1 turn in 177, 8mm), optimized for the use of the SS109 cartridge. There is also a variant with quad-rail handguards and telescopic CAA CBS-style buttstock and sometimes with extended quad-rail and cut carry handle. TERAB rifle The Terab rifle manufactured by the MIC (Military Industry Corporation) of Sudan is a clone of the Iranian DIO Sayyad-5,56, itself a clone of the Norinco CQ. The manufacturer's website lists it as a 7.62×51mm NATO which would make it more of a copy of the AR-10. The Sudan has a background in military usage of the AR-10, having employed it as its standard service rifle from 1957 to 1989. Recent updates show that MIC lists the Terab with a caliber of 5.56 NATO. ARMADA rifle and TRAILBLAZER carbine The "Armada" rifle is a clone of the Norinco CQ manufactured by S.A.M. – Shooter's Arms Manufacturing, a.k.a. Shooter's Arms Guns & Ammo Corporation, headquartered in Metro Cebu, Republic of the Philippines. S.A.M. launched the Armada rifle in 2009, making it available to local government units and/or active law enforcement and military agencies in the Philippines and abroad. The Armada is a select-fire rifle composed of two receivers (upper and lower) manufactured in forged aluminum, uses a 22-inch barrel with a 1:9 right-hand twist (able to stabilize both M193 "Ball" and SS109/M855 variants of the 5.56mm cartridge), Norinco CQ-style plastic parts (grip, stock, handguard), flip-up rear sight adjustable for windage, front post sight adjustable for elevation, and feeds by STANAG magazines. The total weight of the weapon unloaded is claimed to reach 3.3 kilograms, with an overall length of 38.5 inches. A carbine version of the Armada rifle, similar to the Norinco CQ 5'56mm Type A, has also been launched under the name of "Trailblazer". CQ-D Export-specific automatic rifle of the CQ family, featuring upgraded Picatinny rails & foregrip and offered by the China Jing An Import & Export Corp. Users : Type CQ 311 used by Royal Cambodian Army, along with M16 rifle. CQ 5.56mm Type A used by 911 Para-Commando Special Forces. : Said to be used by the Snow Leopard Commando Unit. : Seen in the hands of Ghanaian peacekeepers in Mali, and used by the Ghana Navy : Used by Revolutionary Guards special forces. CQ 5.56mm and CQ Type A (limited quantity) variants. Iran locally produces its own variant, S-5.56. : Used by National Liberation Army. : Used by the RELA Corps Department as a training weapon alongside the M16A1. Some rumours state that many M16A1 have had the standard forwards grips (old or damaged parts) changed to CQ grips for cost saving purposes. : CQ and CQ-A : Norinco CQ-5.56mm Type A adopted by the Paraguayan Army Special Forces. : 6000 units (2 batches of 3,000 units each on June and October 2017 respectively) CQ-A5 donated by the Chinese government to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. : Used by Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, South Sudan Liberation Movement and Lou Nuer and Murle militias : CQ M311-1 Used by the South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army : Seen in the hands of Syrian opposition forces in the Syrian Civil War. : Sold to the Thai Navy and Air and Coastal Defense Command. Non-state groups and terrorist entities : Captured from Shiite Militia and Syrian Army. References 5.56 mm assault rifles Assault rifles of the People's Republic of China ArmaLite AR-10 derivatives Norinco

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Old Furnace State Park

Old Furnace State Park is a public recreation area adjacent to Ross Pond State Park in the town of Killingly, Connecticut. The state parks covers , sits at an elevation of , and is open year-round for hiking, hunting, and fishing. It is located east of Interstate 395, south of U.S. Route 6 and north of Connecticut Route 695. The park is the site of a former iron furnace. It was established as a town park in 1909 before being transferred to the state in 1918. History Old Furnace State Park is named for an iron furnace that operated on the site from prior to the American Revolutionary War until the mid-19th century when the locally found natural resources to make the iron were depleted. During the Revolution the furnace produced iron that was converted into horseshoes that were sold to the Continental Army. The furnace was one of many industrial locations found at the fall line throughout the New England states. Industries grew in this area to harness the potential energy to power all sorts of machinery including gristmills, sawmills and textile factories. Land use in Killingly changed over the years and by the 1830s a gristmill was situated in what is now the park. The furnace remained in operation as did a forge. The furnace was very similar to others constructed in New England during the time period. The natural resources were found locally. Iron ore was mined from swamps and bogs. Charcoal was produced from the many trees in the local forests. Limestone and gabbro were used as flux. Hot air powered by large waterwheels was blasted into the fires of the furnace. The iron ore was converted into molten iron that was used to produce horseshoes and later metal parts for the many cotton mills that were built in the Killingly area. William Pike was the last owner of the land on which the industries were located. He sold his property to the town of Killingly in 1909. The town established a park at "Old Furnace" and later sold the land to the state of Connecticut in 1918. The park was originally just . It grew considerably with the addition of the "Ross Camp" area in 1964 and now is . Ecology The old-growth forests of Eastern Connecticut were stripped away to provide wood for charcoal and lumber for homes, factories, and business. Iron ore was extracted from the ground. Land was cleared for farming. Since the end of the industrial era, the trees have come back. Little evidence of the industrial past remains. Man-made ponds provide habitats for a variety of wildlife. The foundations and stone walls are now surrounded by a second growth forest of deciduous and coniferous trees including eastern hemlock, pitch pine, eastern white pine, oak, beech, maple, birch, and hickory. There are several streams and wetlands in the park. These in addition to the ponds are ideal for the growth of waterlillies, skunk cabbage and cattails. Some invasive species are cause for concern for biologists. Purple loosestrife and Phragmites are choking out native plants. Recreation Old Furnace State Park is open for year-round recreation including hiking, hunting, fishing and boating. The long Connecticut Forest and Park Association "Blue-Blazed" Old Furnace Trail hiking trail begins at the parking lot near U.S. Route 6 on the northern edge of the park. The trail crosses Furnace Brook and passes by several man-made ponds then ascends Half Hill to a cliff from which parts of neighboring Rhode Island may be viewed. References External links Old Furnace State Park Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection State parks of Connecticut Killingly, Connecticut Protected areas established in 1918 Parks in Windham County, Connecticut 1918 establishments in Connecticut

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Mandal, Uttarakhand

Mandal is a village in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, India. About Mandal According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Mandal village is 040908. Mandal village is located in Chamoli Tehsil of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, India. It is situated 23 km away from sub-district headquarter Chamoli and 13 km away from district headquarter Gopeshwar. Mandal village is also a gram panchayat. Demography The total geographical area of village is 119.42 hectares. Mandal has a total population of 452 peoples. There are about 108 houses in village. As per 2019 stats, Mandal villages comes under Badrinath assembly & Garhwal parliamentary constituency. Gopeshwar is nearest town to Mandal which is approximately 13 km away. See also Gopeshwar Chamoli Tunganath References External links https://www.euttaranchal.com/tourism/how-to-reach-mandal-village.php https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/destination-of-the-week/uttarakhand-travelogue-rudraprayag-mandal-chopta/lite/&ved=2ahUKEwi_hZq7kL3sAhUSA3IKHfGpCGkQFjAGegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw0dyylDyVldyWeGEyW1rfUd&ampcf=1&cshid=1602990905583 Tourism in Uttarakhand Villages in Chamoli district

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The Time of the Oath (song)

"The Time of the Oath" is a song and a single made by the German power metal band Helloween taken from the album also named The Time of the Oath. Single track listing Personnel Andi Deris - vocals Roland Grapow - lead and rhythm guitars Michael Weikath - lead and rhythm guitars Markus Grosskopf - bass guitar Uli Kusch - drums Choir of the Orchestra "Johann Sebastian Bach", Hamburg, (conducted by Axel Bergstedt) References 1996 singles Helloween songs Songs written by Andi Deris

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New Comics Group

New Comics Group (NCG) was a comic book publisher founded by Steve Donnelly and Valarie Jones which operated from 1987–1990. Donnelly acted as Publisher, while Jones held the title of Editor in Chief. New Comics Group was based in San Mateo, California. During the proliferation of small press in the 1980s, NCG was unique in working with established comics creators. Titles included Young Master, Get Lost, Asylum, Demon Blade, Tommy and the Monsters, and Dead Time Stories. NCG was also active in licensing well before most publishers, at one time holding licenses to several well-known properties, including Interview with the Vampire. NCG closed its doors before its licensed properties could be published. History Before forming NCG, Donnelly was a comic shop owner and a dealer in original art. By the mid-1980s, he partnered with Jones, an artist and writer, and expanded their retail shops in the San Francisco Bay Area. The pair also worked together in Donnelly's comic art business. After leaving NCG, Jones went on to work for Eclipse Comics, First Comics, Majestic Entertainment, Verotik, and with many others. She produced the charity book Born to Be Wild for PETA in 1990, published by Eclipse Comics. Donnelly eventually closed his comics shops, but still owns and operates a highly successful original comic art dealership. Publications Young Master featured new stories about an ancient Japanese samurai's adventures, as well as back-up stories of the same character reprinted from Warren Publishing, all monochrome. The writers included Roger McKenzie, Larry Hama, and Bob Toomey, and the artist was Val Mayerik, as well as some work by Alex Niño. Mayerik painted each cover of the 9-issue series, which ran from 1987 to 1989. One notable bit of trivia is that NCG's Young Master was the first comic printed without a title on the cover, the better to showcase Mayerik's paintings. The series spawned a spin-off of the Alex Niño story "Demon Blade" under an imprint of World of Young Master. Writer Chuck Dixon and artist Val Mayerik also produced two issues of The Master in 1989. Jones served as the editor and designer on the series. Asylum was a horror anthology of all-new material that ran for two issues in 1989, edited by Jones. Issue #1 featured a cover by Berni Wrightson, colored by Paul Mounts. That issue included "The Call", by James R. Smith with pencils by Christopher Schenck and inks by Ken Hooper; "Spurs", by Stephen Bissette with pencils and inks by Alex Niño; "The Ninth Skeleton" by Clark Ashton Smith adapted by Jon B Bright and Tom Yeates with art by Bright; and a back-cover pin-up by Valarie Jones, colored by Paul Mounts. Issue two featured a cover by Jon J. Muth, and included "Death Disenchanted" by Fred Schiller with art by Kyle Baker; "Tommy" by James R. Smith with art by Mike Hoffman; "Dreams of my Brother" by James R. Smith with art by John Estes; and a back-cover pin-up by Ken Meyer Jr. All lettering was by Laura Kagawa. Dead Time Stories was another horror anthology of all-new material, published in 1987, with a Steve Bissette/Tom Yeates cover. It included "The Prospector's Lucky Strike", "No Place Like Home", "The Unkindest Cut", and "A Toast to Mr. Dalyrimple" by Suzanne Lord and Steve Bissette; "Astral Ecology: Soul Eater", "Head Count", and "Morlock" by Steve Bissette; "Werewolf" by Mike Mignola; "The Monster" by Jim Starlin; "The Mummy" by Al Milgrom; "Dinosaur Terror" by Art Adams, "Strange Invaders" by Paul Gulacy; "Cthulhu" by Walt Simonson; "Revenge of the Fly" by Norm Breyfogle; and "The Villagers' Victory" by Bob and Jane Stine and the artists of the Joe Kubert School. Dead Time Stories was edited by Jones. Get Lost was a humor anthology of three issues in 1987-88, with covers by Paul Gulacy, Gray Morrow, and Brian Bolland. The series reprinted a three-issue 1954 series of the same name published by MikeRoss Publications, a competitor to Mad Magazine. Tommy and the Monsters was an original story created by Arthur Adams and featuring his art, published in 1987. The cover was by Adams with coloring by Paul Mounts. The series was edited by Jones. Demon Blade was a supernatural samurai story, written by Chuck Dixon and illustrated by Alex Niño, with covers by Niño, and was edited by Jones. References Comic book publishing companies of the United States Defunct comics and manga publishing companies

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Malawian pound

The pound was the currency of Malawi until 1971. From 1932, Malawi (then Nyasaland) used the Southern Rhodesian pound. In 1955, a new currency was introduced, the Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound. This was replaced by the Malawian pound in 1964, following Malawi's independence. The pound was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. The pound was replaced by the decimal kwacha in 1971, at a rate of 2 kwacha = 1 pound. Coins In 1964, coins were issued in copper-nickel and in the denominations of 6 pence, 1 shilling, 1 florin (2 shillings) and ½ crown (2½ shillings). All bore the portrait of Hastings Banda. In 1967, 1 penny coins were introduced. The 1 penny had a smooth edge whereas all the other coins had 4×4 interrupted milling. Banknotes On 6 July 1964, Nyasaland became independent from Britain and renamed itself Malaŵi. For two years, the British monarch, Elizabeth II, remained head of state as Queen of Malawi. Upon becoming a republic in 1966, Malaŵi became a single-party state under the presidency of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who remained president until 1994, when he was ousted from power. His portrait appears on the front of all notes issued during his three decades in office, with scenes on the back emphasizing agriculture’s great importance to Malaŵi’s economy. Notes during his presidency also carry watermarks (and later registration devices) of a rooster, the symbol of Banda’s Malaŵi Congress Party. The first series of notes dated 1964 and issued by the Reserve Bank of Malawi consists of the denominations 5 and 10 shillings, as well as 1 and 5 pounds. References External links Currencies of Africa Currencies of the Commonwealth of Nations Currencies of Malawi History of Malawi Modern obsolete currencies 1964 establishments in Malawi 1971 disestablishments

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İstanbul Efsaneleri: Lale Savaşçıları

İstanbul Efsaneleri: Lale Savaşçıları (Legends of Istanbul: Tulip Warriors) is the first Turkish fantasy role playing game. Designed in a funny and comical style, the game is set in an alternate Istanbul. The language of the game is Turkish. It was first published for Amiga and PC platforms in years 1994 and 1997, respectively, and a revival gold edition was published later in 2005 to make it work under newer operating systems using DOS emulators. Players could select one of five species to create their characters. These species included "students", "employees", "dumps", "luuts" and "prostitutes". In-game objects include weapons like throwing-slippers, rulers and armor like flannel shirts, white undershirts (wife-beaters) and metal-music T-shirts. Spells were replaced with curses and magicians with legendary characters like "the Silicon Father". The game was also important for its production of staged cut-scenes with real actors and decoration, displayed in a custom full-motion-video technique (early for its time) and its original music score. External links Official website (English) Fantasy video games Role-playing video games Amiga games DOS games 1994 video games Turkey-exclusive video games Video games developed in Turkey

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Rio Grande water resource region

The Rio Grande water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers. The Rio Grande region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 13, has an approximate size of , and consists of 9 subregions, which are listed with the 4-digit HUCs 1301 through 1309. This region includes the drainage within the United States of: (a) the Rio Grande Basin, and (b) the San Luis Valley, North Plains, Plains of San Agustin, Mimbres River, Estancia, Jornada Del Muerto, Tularosa Valley, Salt Basin, and other closed basins. Includes parts of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. List of water resource subregions See also List of rivers in the United States Water resource region References Lists of drainage basins Drainage basins Watersheds of the United States Regions of the United States Resource Water resource regions

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The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue

The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue is a 1994 book about Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's life and work, written by film scholars Vida T. Johnson and Graham Petrie. The authors discuss Tarkovsky's time in the Soviet film industry; closely summarize and interpret each individual film made by him; and discuss formal and thematic patterns across his works. While some film scholars took issue with the authors’ evaluation of Tarkovsky's film writings or with certain claims they make about Tarkovsky himself, the book was widely acclaimed for its detail and was described by multiple writers as the best English-language study of the filmmaker up to that point. Summary The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky consists of three parts, followed by an appendix, notes, filmography, bibliography, and index. Johnson and Petrie are critical of previous views on Tarkovsky, and the book is a corrective work. Reviewer Donato Totaro places it in the movement of "new auteurism" for the scholars' approach of biographical, cultural, and historical contextualization, comparing it to Chris Faulkner’s The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir. The first part is devoted to biographical material and information on the state of the Soviet film industry during Tarkovsky's career. In the first chapter (called "A Martyred Artist?"), Johnson and Petrie argue that the idea of Tarkovsky as a "martyred artist" is a myth constructed largely by the filmmaker himself; they note that various other Soviet directors were treated much worse (such as Sergei Parajanov, Andrei Konchalovsky, and Kira Muratova). They also point out that although he had enemies who felt that he was drawing too heavily on European cinema, he also had various defenders within Goskino. The following chapter, "Shaping an Aesthetics of Cinema", is about Tarkovsky's film writings. The second part is devoted to discussion of his films, from The Steamroller and the Violin onward. With the exception of the chapter on both the aforementioned work (in which Ivan's Childhood is also discussed), each chapter centers on one individual work. It includes information on the scripting, production history, release, and critical reception of the film, followed by the authors' analysis of the film. They aim to avoid overly speculative interpretations of his works, and criticize other writers as forming these. Among the assumptions debunked is the view of Western critics that political differences caused Tarkovsky's bureaucratic problems. Johnson and Petrie claim that his unconventional storytelling and cinematic style caused them. For example, Andrei Rublev was negatively received in Russia because it was unlike a Socialist Realist historical-epic, not because it was feared as a subversive statement on the plight of the artist in the Soviet Union. In the third part, Johnson and Petrie discuss formal, iconographic, and thematic patterns (such as his specific use of time) across Tarkovsky's films, as well as his relationship to other art forms like painting and literature. In chapter 13, they express agreement with Bàlint Andràs Kovàcs and Akos Szilàgyi (the authors of the 1987 work Les mondes d’Andreï Tarkovski) that Tarkovsky's films are structured around an opposition "between the outer world and personal consciousness, with a few individuals providing the only remaining link between the brutalised [...] present and the spiritual values of a largely forgotten communal past". According to one reviewer, the scholars view Tarkovsky as an artist who, over the course of his career, increasingly suppresses or sublimates his feelings "into an austere and rigid spirituality"; they also consider his importance as a filmmaker to lie largely in his successful creation of "dream films". The appendix features detailed synopses of all films besides Mirror (which is already discussed in part two for longer than any other work). Reception Positive Donato Totaro of Concordia University described The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky as "by far the most exhaustively researched and critically rigorous" of the four English-language books on the director up to that point. While saying that Johnson and Petrie excessively attack others' interpretations, and have an interpretation of The Sacrifice that is too based on the original script, the reviewer said that the book's writers avoid jargon, avoid dogmatic Christian interpretation, and discuss Mirror in a way that is "exhaustive [...] their descriptive and cultural-historical analysis operating at its finest". Totaro claimed that the overall book contains "a wealth of new research and critical insight [...] Johnson and Petrie have written what is, and will likely remain for some time, the definitive book on Tarkovsky." In Cinéaste, Louis Menashe praised the book as "a welcome addition, easily the best in English, to the literature" on Tarkovsky, and a “lucid, level-headed guide”. He found their reflections on his work much more helpful than those of the filmmaker himself, and said the writers overly excuse his inaccessibility but offer appropriately measured praise of his cinematic style. Menashe also praised the book for avoiding jargon and declared, "For Tarkovsky lovers as well as haters, this is an essential book. It might make even the haters reconsider." Christopher Sharrett, Professor of Film Studies at Seton Hall University, wrote, "Of the many books on Tarkovsky (some merely picture books or treatises bent on proving an obvious or eccentric theory), this seems to me the most useful". Peter Kenez at UC Santa Cruz said that Johnson and Petrie understand the director's intentions, as well as the cultural and political context in which he worked. He also stated that "they help the reader to make sense of obscure references [and] manage to deal with their difficult subject matter without ever resorting to jargon [...] Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films—a very difficult task in any case—must read it." Richard Taylor at Swansea University referred to the book as "a model of contextual and textual analysis" that reveals the thematic structure and coherence of his work. The reviewer also argued that in the discussions of individual films in part two, myths created and sustained by a number of earlier Western writers "are politely but effectively demolished." Taylor called the book "a major contribution, not merely to the study of Soviet cinema, but to cinema scholarship more generally. It deserves not only to be widely read, but in its approach and format to be widely emulated." Russell Campbell reported that Johnson and Petrie bring "industrious and rigorous scholarship" to the task of establishing the facts of Tarkovsky's career and recording his works' details; however, he argued that "the book's reluctance to move beyond basic description tends to leave a void, and the attacks on other critics [...] at times verge on the pedantic." He claimed that Mark Le Fanu and Ian Christie had already demonstrated Tarkovsky wasn't a true martyr, and said the agreement of Johnson and Petrie with Kovàcs and Szilàgy is the "closest the authors come to a general interpretive framework". Ultimately, he said The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky is not "the new work of critical insight and analysis that this most poetic of directors so richly merits", but still an "indispensable prolegomena" due to its factual data. Mixed or unfavorable Dina Iordanova wrote that Tarkovsky’s view of himself as a martyr was more justified than Johnson and Petrie imply, saying that his difficulties at home were more serious than the ones he had when working for Western producers. Iordanova also argued that there is sometimes an excess of detail creating an unclear point, and some failures to recognize certain symbols as having multiple interpretations. While reporting that in many ways "attention to detail is a major characteristic of the study", the reviewer said that Tarkovsky's political views and the Christian elements in his work weren't discussed enough, and criticized the scholars for evaluating Tarkovsky's "ideological credo" from Western standpoint. Natasha Synessios at the University of London wrote that The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky contains a "more detailed and richer analysis of his films" than previous studies. She also claimed that "many prevalent mistakes are set right". However, she argued that some of their biographical readings of film scenes are unconvincing because the book's general scope precludes the thorough sort of biographical criticism needed to prove that the relevant life details explain the art. She argued that Johnson and Petrie overly read Tarkovsky's later work as spiritual rather than place it "within a social, cultural, personal and [...] political context". Synessios also regarded a term used to characterize the filmmaker's work as both an ill-defined term and a mischaracterization. David Pratt criticized the book. He said some points of "significant nuance" are made successfully, and that the interviews with people connected to Tarkovsky illuminate his aesthetic intentions well. However, Pratt deemed Tarkovsky more influenced by others than Johnson and Petrie imply, and criticized the authors' Western lens of death of the author throughout their evaluation of Tarkovsky's film writings (stating they should be viewed in the context of Marxist-Soviet aesthetic criticism instead). He also said they overly assume that a detail from his life has the same role in a film as in his life, criticizing the guess about Tarkovsky's sexuality that results. References 1994 non-fiction books Andrei Tarkovsky Books about film

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Una Himachal railway station

Una Himachal railway station, code name "UHL", is an important and main station in Una district which is located near Regional Government Hospital on Una–Hamirpur Highway in Una City which is the first broad gauge of Himachal Pradesh. The ISBT Una is 2 km from station. Auto rickshaws and cabs are available here all the time. Una Himachal railway station is directly connected to the country's capital Delhi, and to Chandigarh. Second-class waiting room, deluxe toilets, and water coolers, are available in the station. The station has two platforms and three rail tracks. Station is well rain sheltered. Rail tracks are electrified. Trains 22458/22457 Amb Andaura–Hazur Sahib Nanded Weekly Mail 12058/12057 Una Himachal–New Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express 14554/14553 Himachal Express 19717/19718 Daulatpur Chowk–Jaipur Intercity Express Functional and proposed rail line Himachal's first broad-gauge railway line, which was accepted in 1981–1982 general budget, from town Nagal dam in Punjab state via Una District of Himachal Pradesh to Talwara (Punjab),which has now been completed for 59 km long at Daulatpur Chowk in District Una. the rest of 5 km formation in Himachal, it will re-enter Punjab. Further, it is also planned to connect Talwara with Mukerian city after joining Mukerian city, it will be the second railway line to Jammu. References Railway stations in Una district Ambala railway division Transport in Una, Himachal Pradesh

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Paul Robeson filmography

Movies and documentaries in which Paul Robeson has either starred, narrated or been featured and those that were film projects he was involved. Films Documentaries Projects Filmography Male actor filmographies American filmographies

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Leek (disambiguation)

A leek is a vegetable belonging to the onion family. Leek may also refer to: Places Leek, Netherlands Leek, Staffordshire, England Leek (UK Parliament constituency) Leek College, a further education college now named Buxton & Leek College Mount Leek, Palmer Land, Antarctica Leek Wootton, Warwickshire, England Other uses Leek (surname) See also Leak (disambiguation) Leeke (disambiguation) Leake (disambiguation)

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Norbert Glanzberg

Norbert Glanzberg (12 October 1910 in Rohatyn, Austria-Hungary - 25 February 2001 in Paris) was a Galician-born French composer. Mostly a composer of film music and songs, he was also notable for some famous songs of Édith Piaf. In his twenties he lived in Germany, where he began his career scoring films for directors including Billy Wilder and Max Ophüls. When the Nazi regime came to power there in 1933, he, as a Jew, fled to Paris, where he performed in nightclubs under bandleaders such as Django Reinhardt, which is where he first met Piaf. At different times from 1939 to 1945 he toured with Piaf, when he wrote many of her songs and accompanied her on piano when she sang. For many of those years they were lovers, and Piaf saved his life on more than one occasion by hiding him from both the French Vichy police, who were helping the Nazis round up Jews for deportation, and later from the Nazi occupiers themselves. After the war he continued writing film scores for French films along with composing classical music, which included works and songs from Berlin and romantic classics. At the end of his career he wrote a concerto for two pianos in 1985 which was inspired by the novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Early years Norbert Glanzberg was born from Jewish parents in Rohatyn in Galicia in the dual Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Monarchy. His original name was Nathan, that was changed for Norbert when arrived in Germany. In 1911, his family moved to Würzburg in Bavaria, where Norbert received his first harmonica from his mother, which gave rise to the question: "Why does music laugh, why does music cry?" He entered the Conservatory of Würzburg in 1922, already a passionate, and he was appointed as assistant conductor of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1929, where he would meet Béla Bartók and Alban Berg. Career Hired by the UFA (Universum Film AG) as a composer in 1930, 21-year-old Glanzberg wrote a film scores for Billy Wilder's German comedy, The Wrong Husband, and for Max Ophüls' comedy, Cod Live Oil is Preferred. He also wrote scores for opera music and was musical director for concerts in 1930, including ones by dancer Ellen Von Frankenberg. When the Nazi regime came into power in Germany in 1933, Joseph Goebbels referred to Glanzberg in the NSDAP newspaper, Der Angriff, as a degenerate Jewish artist. Glanzberg then went into exile in Paris. In 1935 he met another exile in Paris, guitarist and bandleader Django Reinhardt, and became his pianist when his band played in Paris clubs. They played the evening that Edith Piaf first performed in front of an audience, after the club's manager heard her singing in the street and persuaded her to perform on stage. Piaf's powerful voice made an impression on Glanzberg, writes biographer Carolyn Burke. He performed and composed songs in music-halls in Paris in the years before the war. In 1938, he met French singer Lily Gauty, and wrote Le bonheur est entré dans mon cœur (Happiness has entered my heart) for her. He also accompanied singers performing in fashion collections shows. War years In 1939, Glanzberg was enlisted into the Polish army, stationed in England. After he was discharged, he returned to France's Free Zone in the south of the country, which had not yet been occupied by Germany. There, he met the impresario Felix Marouani who hired him to tour with Piaf as her pianist. They began their tour in Lyon, France, within the Free Zone, in 1939. Along with being her pianist, he began writing some of her songs. However, during 1939, Glanzberg's songwriting income was suddenly blocked by SACEM, France's professional songwriters and composers association, which disbursed funds to its members. The organization self-censored music composed by Jews to comply with Germany's Nuremberg Laws, aimed at undermining the income of Jews. As a result, writes Burke, "Edith became his lifeline." He and Piaf continued touring throughout France. But he always feared that his physical features might betray him to the French police or informers who had begun rounding up Jews and other undesirable refugees. They toured at various times between 1939 and 1942, and became lovers. His classical background and high standards led to Piaf's singing being greatly improved. They began to depend on each other, as he wrote some of her most successful songs and she gave him emotional support: "When Edith leaned on the piano," he recalled, "the better to create that intimacy that bound her to the music, to her music, I was seized by a mysterious, enchanting power." Among the songs he wrote for her during her singing career were "Padam ... padam" "Mon Manege A Moi", "Il fait bon t'aimer" ("It's good loving you"). and "Au bal de la chance". By 1942, the Vichy government in unoccupied France also began excluding Jews from most professions, which led to Glanzberg's name now being kept off of concert programs. He changed his name to Pierre Minet and relied on a fake French passport to travel around the country. Piaf became more concerned for his safety, once writing him when they were apart, "I'm worried about you. I drink only water and tea, go to bed at midnight...Everyone says I look well. It must be love!" She gave him the nickname "Nono chéri" ("darling Nono"), and wrote that he was her "seul amour," her only love. They were both unaware, as was most of France's population, that the Nazis planned to arrest some thirty thousand Parisian Jews, which they did two days after Bastille Day. Piaf became increasingly aware that normal life in Paris was getting much worse. "I hope this abomination will come to an end soon," she wrote him. According to Burke, when Piaf and Glanzberg were apart, it was "only the thought of the songs that he was writing for her that gave her any pleasure." Then in 1943, when the Free Zone was also invaded, he was arrested as a Jew and placed in jail for three months. Actress Marie Bell and Corsican singer Tino Rossi, with Piaf's financial help, organized his successful escape just before he was to be deported to a concentration camp. He moved to Marseille, but there the Germans were conducting daily searches for Jews. Piaf then arranged for him to hide at a nearby farm that was owned by her secretary, Andrée Bigard. Bigard and his family had helped a number of Piaf's other Jewish friends, including film director Marcel Blistène, take shelter and thereby survive the war. When the farm itself became too dangerous, Piaf asked another friend, Countess Lily Pastré, to hide him at Montredon, her chateau outside of Marseille. Piaf paid her to keep him fed and protected. Countess Pastré was a music lover who had good relations with the authorities, as she often invited them to concerts at the chateau. After the war, it was learned that the countess had sheltered some forty other Jewish composers and musicians from the French police, including Clara Haskil. The Germans eventually invaded that part of southern France, which led Glanzberg to flee to Nice, under the protection of Tino Rossi's Corsican relatives. Piaf continued to cover the cost of his support, and often sent her secretary, Bigard, to check on his welfare. Until 1944, he was also hidden at various times by Georges Auric and finally by the poet René Laporte at Antibes, where he met some active in the French Resistance, such as Paul Éluard, Jacques Prévert, Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet and entertainment publisher René Julliard. Glanzberg survived the war, although between 1942 and 1944, over 75,000 Jews in France were deported to death camps in Germany. Post-war years After the Liberation in 1945, Norbert was free again. He helped in the release of Maurice Chevalier, who was kept in custody by a resistance movement. From 1946 to 1948 he toured with Charles Trenet in South America, followed by an international tour with Tino Rossi. In 1948, Édith Piaf sung Padam Padam, a song he wrote with Henri Contet, and in 1952 Yves Montand performs Moi j’m’en fous et Les grands boulevards. From 1953, Glanzberg composed many film scores, especially for Michel Strogoff with Curd Jürgens and, in 1954, for La Goualeuse. Édith Piaf made a huge success of his song Mon manège à moi. In 1955, he composed the music for the film La sorcière, with Marina Vlady, and in 1956 the score for La mariée est trop belle (The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful), featuring Brigitte Bardot. In 1983, Glanzberg went back to classical music and composed a series of lieder from a collection of poems written during the war by concentration camp inmates, La mort est un maître de l’Allemagne (der Tod ist ein ... Meister aus Deutschland), the chorus of what is perhaps the greatest poem by Paul Celan, Todesfuge (Death Fugue). He put into music, in two cycles each of ten works, songs from Berlin and romantic leader classics. In 1985, he wrote a concerto for two pianos, La suite yiddish, inspired from the novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer. This work would be arranged for a symphonic orchestra by his friend, the composer and conductor Frédéric Chaslin. Filmography 1931: The Wrong Husband 1931: On préfère l’huile de foie de morue (Dann schon lieber Lebertran) 1948: Neuf garçons, un cœur 1949: Brilliant Waltz 1951: Les deux Monsieur de madame 1952: Le costaud des Batignolles 1952: It Happened in Paris 1953: Quitte ou double 1953: My Brother from Senegal 1954: La Goualeuse 1954: La rage au corps 1954: Ma petite folie (My Little Madness) 1954: Les corsaires du bois de Boulogne 1955: Chantage 1955: La lumière d’en face 1956: La sorcière (The Blonde Witch) 1956: The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful 1956: Michel Strogoff 1957: Quand vient l’amour 1958: Mon oncle 1958: La moucharde 1959: Les bateliers de la Volga (I Battellieri del Volga) 1960: La Française et l’amour (Love and the Frenchwoman) (segment "Adultery") 1968: Le bal des voyous Compositions Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland: anthology of poems from victims of Nazism (title taken from a line of the poem by Paul Celan: Todesfuge) Holocaust Lieder: 9 Lieder for baritone and piano (1983) on poems inspired by the concentration camps. Given in concert in Würzburg with Hanna Schygulla in 1998 Transport (Gerry Spies) Ausflug machen (Rainer Kirsch) Die letzte (Gerson Stern) Ein Koffer spricht (Ilse Weber) Der Gute Ort zu Wien (Franz Werfel) Ballade von der Judenhure (Berthold Brecht) Holocaust Songs: 11 songs for mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra (1984) Concerto for two pianos (1985) Selected recordings Glanzberg: In Memoriam – Lieder & Chamber Music : Invitation à la valse In Memoriam Suite Yiddish original piano versions - Markus Bellheim (piano), Heinrich Martin (piano), Jakob Johannes Koch (baritone) Castigo Classics Glanzberg Holocaust Lieder & Suite Yiddish - Spngs and Suite Yiddish for two clarinets, in orchestrated versions by Frédéric Chaslin and Daniel Klajner. Roman Trekel (baritone) Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, Daniel Klajner MDG "Padam padam", song Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano) on Douce France recital Bibliography Astrid Freyeisen: Songs for Piaf: Norbert Glanzberg (Chanson pour Edith Piaf: Norbert Glanzberg, toute une vie, 1910-2001''), Geneva, MJR, 2006, () References External links Movie Database 1910 births 2001 deaths People from Rohatyn French film score composers French male film score composers Jewish composers 20th-century French musicians 20th-century French male musicians Polish emigrants to France

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Bavarian language

Bavarian ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken in parts of Bavaria and most of Austria. Before 1945, Bavarian was also prevalent in parts of the southern Czech Republic and western Hungary. Bavarian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants. Its mutual intelligibility with Standard German is very limited, but most of its speakers can code-switch to Standard German. History The Bavarians as a group formed in the early medieval period, as the population of the Duchy of Bavaria, forming the south-eastern part of the kingdom of Germany. The Old High German documents from the area of Bavaria are identified as ("Old Bavarian"), even though at this early date there were few distinctive features that would divide it from Alemannic German. The dialectal separation of Upper German into East Upper German (Bavarian) and West Upper German (Alemannic) became more tangible in the Middle High German period, from about the 12th century. Geographical distribution and dialects In Europe: In Germany, the language is spoken in Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria, and the Upper Palatinate districts in Bavaria. It is also spoken in southern Vogtland, in Saxony; In Austria, except Vorarlberg and Reutte; In Italy in South Tyrol and a handful of linguistic enclaves of Cimbrian and Carnic people in Northern Italy; In Switzerland, it is spoken in the village of Samnaun, in Grisons; In Sopron (Hungary) and surroundings. Outside of Europe: In Treze Tílias, Brazil In Pozuzo, Peru In the United States and Canada Three main dialects of Bavarian are: Northern Bavarian, mainly spoken in Upper Palatinate, but also in adjacent areas (small parts of Upper Franconia (Wunsiedel (district) and Bayreuth (district)), Saxony (southern Vogtland), Middle Franconia, Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria). Central Bavarian along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in Upper Bavaria (including Munich, which has a standard German speaking majority), Lower Bavaria, southern Upper Palatinate, the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg, the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna (see Viennese German) and the Northern Burgenland. Southern Bavarian in Samnaun, Tyrol, South Tyrol, Carinthia, Styria, and the southern parts of Salzburg and Burgenland. Differences are clearly noticeable within those three subgroups, which in Austria often coincide with the borders of the particular states. For example, each of the accents of Carinthia, Styria, and Tyrol can be easily recognised. Also, there is a marked difference between eastern and western central Bavarian, roughly coinciding with the border between Austria and Bavaria. In addition, the Viennese dialect has some characteristics distinguishing it from all other dialects. In Vienna, minor, but recognizable, variations are characteristic for distinct districts of the city. Before the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, the linguistic border of Bavarian with Czech was on the farther side of the Bohemian Forest and its Bohemian foreland was Bavarian-speaking. Use Bavarian differs sufficiently from Standard German to make it difficult for native speakers to adopt standard pronunciation. Educated Bavarians and Austrians can almost always read, write and understand Standard German, but they may have very little opportunity to speak it, especially in rural areas. In those regions, Standard German is restricted to use as the language of writing and the media. It is therefore often referred to as ("written German") rather than the usual term ("High German" or "Standard German"). School Bavaria and Austria officially use Standard German as the primary medium of education. With the spread of universal education, the exposure of speakers of Bavarian to Standard German has been increasing, and many younger people, especially in the region's cities and larger towns, speak Standard German with only a slight accent. This accent usually only exists in families where Bavarian is spoken regularly. Families that do not use Bavarian at home usually use Standard German instead. In Austria, some parts of grammar and spelling are taught in Standard German lessons. As reading and writing in Bavarian is generally not taught at schools, almost all literate speakers of the language prefer to use Standard German for writing. Regional authors and literature may play a role in education as well, but by and large, Standard German is the lingua franca. Literature Although there exist grammars, vocabularies, and a translation of the Bible in Bavarian, there is no common orthographic standard. Poetry is written in various Bavarian dialects, and many pop songs use the language as well, especially ones belonging to the Austropop wave of the 1970s and 1980s. Although Bavarian as a spoken language is in daily use in its region, Standard German, often with strong regional influence, is preferred in the mass media. Ludwig Thoma was a noted German author who wrote works such as in Bavarian. Web There is a Bavarian Wikipedia. Also, the official FC Bayern Munich website was available in Bavarian. Phonology Consonants Notes: Aspiration may occur among voiceless plosives in word-initial position. The phoneme is frequently realised as or word-internally and is realised as word-initially. Intervocalic can be voiced to . A trill sound may also be realised as a tap sound []. Intervocalic or sound can be realised as [] or [, ]. Some dialects, such as the Bavarian dialect in South Tyrol, realise as an affricate word-initially and before , which is an extension of the High German consonant shift to velar consonants. Vowels Vowel phonemes in parentheses occur only in certain Bavarian dialects or only appear as allophones or in diphthongs. Nasalization may also be distinguished in some dialects. Bavarian has an extensive vowel inventory, like most Germanic languages. Vowels can be grouped as back rounded, front unrounded and front rounded. They are also traditionally distinguished by length or tenseness. Grammar Bavarian usually has case inflection only for the article. With very few exceptions, nouns are not inflected for case. The simple past tense is very rare in Bavarian and has been retained for only a few verbs, including 'to be' and 'to want'. In general, the perfect is used to express past time. Bavarian features verbal inflection for several moods such as indicative, subjunctive and imperative. See the table below for inflection of the Bavarian verb måcha, 'make; do': Pronouns Personal pronouns * These are typically used in the very northern dialects of Bavarian. Possessive pronouns The possessive pronouns Deina and Seina inflect in the same manner. Oftentimes, nige is added to the nominative to form the adjective form of the possessive pronoun, like mei(nige), dei(nige), and the like. Indefinite pronouns Just like the possessive pronouns listed above, the indefinite pronouns koana, "none", and oana, "one" are inflected the same way. There is also the indefinite pronoun ebba(d), "someone" with its impersonal form ebb(a)s, "something". It is inflected in the following way: Interrogative pronouns The interrogative pronouns wea, "who", and wås, "what" are inflected the same way the indefinite pronoun ebba is inflected. Society Bavarians produce a variety of nicknames for those who bear traditional Bavarian or German names like Josef, Theresa or Georg (becoming Sepp'l or more commonly Sepp, Resi and Schorsch, respectively). Bavarians often refer to names with the family name coming first (like da Stoiber Ede instead of Edmund Stoiber). The use of the article is considered mandatory when using this linguistic variation. In addition, nicknames different from the family name exist for almost all families, especially in small villages. They consist largely of their profession, names or professions of deceased inhabitants of their homes or the site where their homes are located. This nickname is called Hausname (en: name of the house) and is seldom used to name the person, but more to state where they come from or live or to whom they are related. Examples of this are: Mohler (e.g. Maler – painter) Bachbauer (farmer who lives near a brook/creek) Moosrees (Theresa (Rees/Resi) who lives near a moss) Schreiner (joiner/carpenter) Samples of Bavarian dialects The dialects can be seen to share a number of features with Yiddish. See also Austrian German Viennese German German language References Further reading Dictionary Schmeller, Johann Andreas; edited by Frommann, Georg Karl (1872 & 1877). Bayerisches Wörterbuch. 2nd ed. in 2 vol., Rudolf Oldenbourg, München Philology Egon Kühebacher (1965–1971). Tirolischer Sprachatlas. 3 Vol.: Vokalismus, Konsonantismus, Sprachatlas. (= Deutscher Sprachatlas. Regionale Sprachatlanten. Hg. von Ludwig Erich Schmitt, Karl Kurt Klein, Reiner Hildebrandt, Kurt Rein. Bde. 3/1–3). Marburg: N. G. Elwert Verlag. External links Bavarian Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Boarische Umschrift, Boarische Dialekte im Vagleich German dialects Languages of Germany Languages of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Baiuvarii Altbayern

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St. Thomas Mount railway station

St. Thomas Mount railway station, or Mount railway station, is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of St. Thomas Mount and Pazhavanthangal, which are suburbs of Chennai. It is located at a distance of from Chennai Beach terminus, with an elevation of above sea level. The station is also an integrated railway station for all the three modes of rail transport in the city, namely, Chennai suburban railway, MRTS, and Metro Rail. The MRTS part is under construction. Integrated Terminus St. Thomas Mount Metro station is a Metro-cum-MRTS railway station on the Green Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is an elevated station abutting the surface-level St. Thomas Mount suburban station of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. The metro level of the station started functioning on 14 October 2016 while the MRTS level is under construction. The new terminal is envisaged as an integrated railway station for all the three modes of rail transport in the city, namely, Chennai Beach—Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway, terminal point of Chennai Beach—St. Thomas Mount MRTS, and Chennai Central–St. Thomas Mount Metro Rail. Layout It is planned to design, the proposed elevated St Thomas Mount Metro Rail station, as a 'signature station' that would integrate all the 3 suburban rail modes of the city, at multiple levels. The integrated station will have three levels, namely, ground level for suburban station, level 1 for MRTS, and level 2 for Metro Rail. The length of the platform at the Metro station will be 140 m and the entire station complex will have a total built-up area of 48,000 sq m. Level-0 – New suburban rail platform The existing suburban station at ground level can be accessed from new terminal using an foot overbridge. According to officials of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), they will soon start work on the construction of this foot-over-bridge and complete it before commissioning of the station. As per the new design, the elevated station will have a Metro Rail station on the top floor, followed by an MRTS station a level below and then a vast concourse area for commuters to switch over to these two modes or to step down to the ground level, which will house – new ground level platform – for suburban trains, within the new Station block. Level-1 – Concourse for mixing of Passengers The concourse will have ticket booths and escalators and lifts will take commuters to the platforms above. Level-2 – MRTS rail The MRTS will be at a height of 12 m. Level-3 – Metro rail The station is among the elevated stations coming up along corridor II of the Chennai Metro, Chennai Central–St. Thomas Mount stretch. The station will be the largest of the elevated stations of the Chennai Metro and will come up at a height of 23 m. History The station lies in the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, the first suburban section of the city. With the completion of track-lying work in March 1931, which began in 1928, the suburban services were started on 11 May 1931 between Beach and Tambaram, and was electrified on 15 November 1931, with the first MG EMU services running on 1.5 kV DC. The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967. As of 2012, an integrated terminal for Chennai Metro and MRTS is under construction at the station complex at a cost of 780 million. The construction is expected to be completed by September 2013. The 780-million contract for the construction of the station was initially awarded to Consolidated Construction Consortium Limited (CCCL). However, owing to delay the contract was terminated and is being given to a new contractor. With the first service of Chennai Metro between Koyambedu and Alandur opened for public use – on 29 June 2015 – the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has now shifted the focus on laying the track up to St. Thomas Mount. Future With the integration of five modes of public transport – suburban railway, Southern Railway, Metro Rail, MRTS and public buses the station is expected to become the city's largest transit hub after Chennai Central. Access Roads A two-lane circular road has also been planned around the station so that buses can pick up commuters. Anticipating increased patronage upon the completion of Metro Rail, the Medavakkam-Madipakkam road that runs in front of the station is being widened. It is expected that MRTS and metro rail services will together bring in more than 100,000 commuters at the station. Parking Parking facility include 10,000 sq m space at the ground level and provisions for 3,000 two-wheelers at level 1. Upon completion, the station will be the third largest in the city after Chennai Central and Chennai Egmore. Express Train halt In June 2013, Southern Railway started the ground work to extend platforms at the station to halt express trains. A spare platform of the station, which is being used to park old rakes, is being extended at an estimated cost of 60 million. The platform, which can currently take only 22-coach trains, will be expanded to handle 24-rake trains and a link track will be laid. See also Railway stations in Chennai List of Chennai metro stations Chennai Suburban Railway Chennai Metro References External links St. Thomas Mount railway station on IndiaRailInfo.com Official Website for Chennai Metro Rail Limited Railway stations in Chennai Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway Chennai Metro stations

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dami%C3%A1n%20Mart%C3%ADnez%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201990%29

Damián Martínez (footballer, born 1990)

Damián Martínez (footballer, born 1990) may refer to: Damián Martínez (footballer, born January 1990), Argentine defender for Unión Santa Fe Damián Martínez (footballer, born June 1990), Argentine forward for CRIBA

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyaneh-ye%20Olya

Miyaneh-ye Olya

Miyaneh-ye Olya (, also Romanized as Mīyāneh-ye ‘Olyā) is a village in Bakesh-e Do Rural District, in the Central District of Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 172, in 39 families. References Populated places in Mamasani County

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1995 World Women's Handball Championship

The 1995 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Austria and Hungary 5–17 December 1995. It was the only to have 20 teams and the first to have multiple hosts. South Korea won its first title in Vienna. Squads Group stage Group A Group B Group C Group D Cross matches The 4th and 5th place from A met 5th and 4th from B and the same for group C and D. The winner of each match got a place in the round of 16. Knockout stage Round of 16 Placement 5-12 Losers from round of 16 played for placements from 9 to 12. Losers from quarterfinals played for places 5 to 8. There was no play for lower rankings. 9-12 5-8 Final standings All Star Team Goalkeeper: Cecilie Leganger Left Wing: Anette Hoffmann Left Back: Lim O-kyeong Center Back: Mariana Tîrcă Pivot: Natalia Deriougina Right Back: Sorina Lefter Right Wing: Katalin Szilágyi References Source: International Handball Federation Full Data on the Hungarian Wiki: World Handball Championship tournaments World Women's Handball Championship, 1995 World Women's Handball Championship, 1995 W W Women's handball in Austria Women's handball in Hungary World Women's Handball Championship World Women's Handball Championship

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INL

INL may refer to: Organisations: Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, US Idaho National Laboratory Independent Newspapers, a New Zealand company Indian National League, a Muslim-based political party Institut des nanotechnologies de Lyon, a research institute in France Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie ("Institute for Dutch Lexicology"), former name of the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, part of the Dutch Language Union International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory Other: Falls International Airport (IATA Code: INL), Minnesota, USA Inner nuclear layer, in the retina Integral nonlinearity, in electrical engineering, a measure of digital-to-analog converter or analog-to-digital converter accuracy Inter-National League, an ice hockey league

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Pudlowski

Gilles Pudlowski

Gilles Pudlowski (born 15 November 1950 in Metz, Moselle) is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic of Polish descent. He writes the blog les Pieds dans le Plat, writes for Saveurs, Cuisine et Vins de France and Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. He is also the author of the Pudlo guides. Biography Gilles Pudlowski was born in Metz, Moselle to a family of polish immigrants. His grandfather, Józef Pudłowski, was a laborer at Solvay and voted for Polish United Workers' Party. His parents were both born in Poland, his father in Łódź and his mother in Zamość. At the age of nine, in 1959, Gilles began to actively practice Judaism. The day after May 68 Gilles joined New Socialist Party. After graduating from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and a history degree, he made his debut at Le Quotidien de Paris founded by before joining Les Nouvelles littéraires. Jean-François Kahn, who took up the latter magazine, entrusted him with responsibility for the literary pages and asked him to take charge also of the gastronomic chronicle. Christian Millau, who spotted him in 1979, offered him to collaborate with the Gault Millau, promising him a career of rigorous criticism in these terms: "In this job, people know how to eat or write, rarely both, sometimes none of the two. If you can do both, you're sure to succeed". He latter wrote for Paris Match, Cuisine et Vins de France, (where he created the category of "plates", awarding one to three plates to good restaurants, the pot with good quality / price ratio and the broken plate, which will make much of his reputation as "the Zorro of the critique" at the disappointing tables). He has worked with Panorama du Médecin, Parcours, Le Figaro, Cuisine TV, France Inter, Bon Voyage, Air France Madame. His reputation is notably linked to the weekly Le Point, of which he was the official columnist from 1986 to 2014. He was a senior reporter and was responsible for the pages of tourism and gastronomy, while actively collaborating on the literary section. From 1990 to 2016, Gilles Pudlowski gave a weekly column to Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace and, from 1992 to 2015, to Le Républicain lorrain, for, if he is Lorrain by birth, he is an Alsatian at heart. For the magazines Saveurs et Cuisine et Vins de France, he made major reports on the regions of France and portraits of the chefs in Europe and in the world. He also contributed to the magazine Service Littéraire of . Since 2016, he has been a member of the j ury du prix du premier roman. After a few piecemeal trials (including several editions of 52 week-ends autour de Paris or le Guide de l’Alsace heureuse, he created, in 1989, his own "global" guide. It is first of all the Pudlowski Guide of the Gourmet Cities (Albin Michel) which obtained the Gutenberg of the practical book in 1990. The Pudlo Paris is published every year from 1990, like the Pudlo France, since 2000, by Michel Lafon. Gilles Pudlowski has also published "Pudlos" in pocket format devoted to Parisian bistros, Brittany, Alsace, Lorraine, Corsica and Luxembourg. Since 2007, the "Pudlo Paris" and the "Pudlo France" have been published in New York by the Little Book Room, editorial emanation of The New York Review of Books, which also published (in 2008) small Pudlos "Brittany-Normandy", "Alsace" and "Provence Côte d'Azur". The US press sees it as the "best kept secret of French gourmets" and in particular, like the New York Times, that "his plates are more reliable than Michelin stars". As a confirmed writer, Gilles Pudlowski published autobiographical essays on the theme of attachment to France, such as Devoir de Français, L’Amour du pays (Flammarion), crowned by the Prix Jacques Chardonne and the Prix Maurice Genevoix, but also Les Chemins de la Douce France (Plon) as well as a novel, Le Voyage de Clémence (Flammarion, 1987) and Le Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Alsace (Plon). He is also responsible for the preface of the Larousse gastronomique (2007), literary anthologies (L'Année Poétique, Le Goût de Strasbourg),art books (Les Grandes gueules, Elles sont chefs, Les Trésors gourmands de la France, France Bistrots, Les Plus belles tables de France), As well as a handbook of good manners: Comment être critique gastronomique et garder la ligne, which he will update a few years later with À quoi sert vraiment un critique gastronomique, which became the reference work on this domain. Pudlowski won the prize La Mazille for lifetime achievement at the gourmet festival Périgueux in 1992 and the price Amunátegui - Curnonsky, awarded by the (Professional Association of chroniclers and informants Gastronomy and wine]), in December 2008. Pudlowski was awarded the second Prix des Écrivains gastronomes on 7 March 2015 for Le Tour de France Gourmand at . His blog Les Pieds dans le plat, obtained La Gastronomie Numérique award at "Gastronomades 2015". Distinctions 1986: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1996: Chevalier du Order of Agricultural Merit 2009: Chevalier of the National Order of Merit Bibliography Éditions Michel Lafon Le Pudlo France, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Le Pudlo Paris, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Le Pudlo Paris des Bistrots et Brasseries, 2007, 2009, 2010 Le Pudlo Week-Ends, 2000 Le Pudlo Corse, 2004, 2005 Le Pudlo Bretagne, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 Le Pudlo Alsace, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Le Pudlo Lorraine, 2007, 2009 Le Pudlo Luxembourg, 2007 Flammarion Le Devoir de Français, narrative, 1984. L'Amour du Pays, narrative, 1986 (prix Maurice Genevoix, prix Jacques Chardonne). Le Voyage de Clémence, novel, 1987. Elles sont chefs (photos by Maurice Rougemont), 2005. Les plus belles tables de France (photos by Maurice Rougemont), 2011. Le Devoir de Français (2012) Armand Colin À quoi sert vraiment un critique gastronomique?, 2011 France Bistrots (photos by Maurice Rougemont) 2012. Les Grandes Tables de Paris (photos by Maurice Rougemont) 2013 Éditions du Chêne Le Crocodile de Philippe Bohrer (photos by Maurice Rougemont) 2012. Le Tour de France Gourmand (photos by Maurice Rougemont) 2014, Prix des Ecrivains gastronomes 2015 La Maison Kammerzell (photos by Maurice Rougemont) 2014 Glénat Editions Les Grandes Gueules et leurs recettes (photos de Maurice Rougemont) 2009. Mercure de France Le Goût de Strasbourg, 2006 Éditions Athéo Le Pudlo Alsace-Lorraine, 2004 Mazarine/Fayard Le Pudlo de Paris Gourmand, 1998. Ramsay/Michel Lafon Le Pudlo de Paris Gourmand, 1995, 1996, 1997. Éditions Jean-Paul Schortgen Le Pudlo Luxembourg, 2002, 2005. Éditions de la Renaissance du Livre Les Trésors Gourmands de la France (photos by Maurice Rougemont), 1997. Éditions du Rocher Comment être critique gastronomique et garder la ligne, 2004 Le Devoir de Français, récit 2003 Robert Laffont Saveurs des Terroirs de France, avec les sœurs Scotto, 1991. Plon Le Dictionnaire Amoureux de l'Alsace, 2010 Les Chemins de la Douce France, récit, 1996. Albin Michel 52 week-ends autour de Paris, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1993. 52 week-ends en France, en collaboration, 1986. La Jeune Cuisine d'Alsace, 1986. Le Guide Pudlowski de l'Alsace Gourmande, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995. Le Guide Pudlowski des Villes Gourmandes, 1989 (Gutenberg du livre pratique 1990). Le Guide Pudlowski de Paris gourmand, 1990, 1991. 52 week-ends dans les Relais et Châteaux, 1991, 1994. Argentoratum Le Pudlo Alsace de l’an 2000, 1999 Bueb et Reumaux Le Guide de l'Alsace heureuse, 1985. Éditions Saint-Germain-des-Prés Litanie du Blues, 1974 Jean Poperen et l'UGCS, du PSU au Parti socialiste, itinéraire d'un courant politique, 1975 François Bourin Je vous écris de Strasbourg, 1988. Poche-DNA/Éditions de la Nuée bleue Guide de Strasbourg gourmand, 1993 Winstubs d'Alsace, 1994, 1996. Paris für Feinschmecker, 1994 (in German). Lorraine gourmande, 1996. JC Lattès Le Guide Pudlowski de Paris Gourmand, 1992 (prix la Mazille), 1993, 1994. L'Année poétique 77, anthology, 1978. Hologrammes Paris, fête gourmande, 1990 Éditions Ouest-France Bretagne Nouvelle Vague (photos by Jean-Daniel Sudres), 2012 Alsace Nouvelle Vague (photos by Maurice Rougemont), 2013 Alsace Tradition (photos by Maurice Rougemont), 2013 A Little Book Room (New York) Pudlo Paris 2007-2008, Pudlo France 2008-2009, Pudlo Normandy & Brittany 2008-2009, Pudlo Alsace 2008-2009, Pudlo Provence, the Côte-d’Azur & Monaco 2008-2009, Éditions Alexandrines L’Alsace des écrivains, 2016. Éditions Gründ/Plon Le Dictionnaire Amoureux illustré de l'Alsace, 2016 Éditions Steinkis/Incipit Dans la tête de Pierre H, 2016 References External links Les pieds dans le plat, blog de Gilles Pudlowski. Gilles Pudlowski on the site of Michel Lafon. 20th-century French journalists 21st-century French journalists 20th-century French writers 21st-century French writers French literary critics Restaurant guides French food writers Sciences Po alumni Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Knights of the Order of Agricultural Merit Knights of the National Order of Merit (France) 1950 births People from Metz Living people French people of Polish-Jewish descent

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Sporting Chance

Sporting Chance is a science fiction novel, written by Elizabeth Moon. Published in 1994, it is the second novel in the Familias Regnant fictional universe, and the second in the Heris Serrano trilogy. It follows on the heels of Hunting Party and is followed by Winning Colors. Plot summary In the aftermath of Hunting Party, the Prince was found engaged in the highly illegal and immoral sport of man-hunting. In an attempt to cover this up, Lady Cecelia and Captain Heris Serrano are enlisted by the Crown into quietly returning the prince to the capital. During the otherwise uneventful voyage, Ron notices something surprising: the Prince is far stupider than he should be as the cosseted and genengineered Registered Embryo he is, and considerably stupider than Ron remembered him being as a child. Clearly something is wrong, and poison is suggested. On Rockhouse Major, Cecelia confronts the King. He blithely dismisses her warning. Later, he mentions her discovery to one of his ministers, who repeats it to his sister, Lorenza, who hates Cecelia for following her dreams and has always wanted to get revenge; she uses the possibility of Cecelia making the poisoning of the prince as an excuse to finally carry it out. As a skilled poisoner, she is fully capable of the deed. On the space station, Heris is having the yacht overhauled and redecorated, whilst her new ex-Fleet personnel are quietly engaged procuring military-grade equipment and installing it. Brigdis Sirkin, meanwhile, has induced her lover (Amalie Yrilan) into taking up a temporary environmental tech job while Serrano decides whether to hire her or not. Towards the end of the allotted month, the smugglers balked in Hunting Party attack the two when Sirkin refuses to become their agent on the Sweet Delight, and are revealed to be Benignity agents. Before the badly injured Sirkin is rescued by Oblo and Methlin Meharry, Yrilan is killed by a sonic weapon. No sooner had this mess been cleaned up and the ship turned over to Spacenhance's redecorator than horrible news arrives from the planet: Lady Cecelia has suffered a "massive stroke". Heris is skeptical of this diagnosis, as is Brun. They maneuver to link up and begin planning how to rescue Cecelia. Cecelia in the meantime has been occasionally drifting to consciousness, and for increasing periods of time. What she hears is sufficient to prove that she is being deliberately prevented from recovering, her visual sense deliberately impaired and even worse, that she had been poisoned. Unfortunately for Cecelia, while she is not dead, she has been deemed sufficiently incapacitated that her will is being executed. In her will she had recently made a change to give the Sweet Delight to Heris, both because she was a good friend and because Heris had saved Cecelia from Admiral Lepescu on Sirialis in Hunting Party. Berenice, Cecelia's sister, had always envied her her yacht, and given the suspicious nature of Cecelia's stroke and the amendment to the will, decides to sue Heris for the yacht. With the yacht tied up in probate, Heris's options are limited. They are further limited when the King summons Heris to an audience, and quite firmly insists that she and her crew steal the Sweet Delight, and while avoiding arrest by the Fleet, discovery of their identity and also any attacks by the Benignity and their agents, take the stupid prince to the Guerini Republic to seek an antidote to the poison. Heris has little choice but to agree, and steals the yacht and busts out of the Rockhouse system at high speed. Brun and Ron take advantage of the lowered scrutiny and security (since Heris has quite visibly left, and Lorenza's agents were expecting any threat to their imprisonment of Cecelia to come from her direction) to arrange for a bunch of rowdies in hot air balloons to "visit" the long-term care facility during a festival; Cecelia is then evacuated in Brun's balloon (Ronnie having previously prepared Cecelia and had the surveillance devices put on a loop). Immediately they take her off-planet and eventually to her stable on the planet Rotterdam, where the locals like or love her. From there they begin hiring medical experts to come treat her. Heris' pickup of the prince goes badly when she proves unable to distinguish between the real prince and his clone double. The confusion is exacberated when Captain Arash Livadhi shows with a third prince whom he believes to be the real prince, but who is likewise indistinguishable. Otherwise, the trip goes smoothly, except for Sirkin, who keeps making careless mistakes and whose performance is otherwise deteriorating. As Lady Cecelia recovers and prepares to file for competency and thereby regain her estate, Brun works her way back to Rockhouse Major via low-level jobs aboard various commercial vessels; even with this ruse, she barely avoids Lorenza's hired assassins. She warns Ron and the others that Lorenza was the culprit and to be avoided. While Cecelia is regaining control, Heris leaves two of the three princes to the tender mercies of the Guerini medical establishment and travels back to Rotterdam to see Cecelia. After a joyful reunion, Cecelia returns to her yacht, and thence to the Guerini Republic. During this second trip to the Republic, Sirkin makes one mistake too many, and is relieved of her duties by Heris, who now suspects her of being a Benignity agent. However, merely taking her off-duty soon appears to be insufficient when a course modification puts them almost on top of a Benignity space-fleet base. When bridge computers begin malfunctioning, Heris orders the relatively new crew-member Skoterin to break out the small arms in the Security lockers against whatever Sirkin might be planning. Cecelia is convinced that Skoterin and not Sirkin is the traitor, and breaks Sirkin out of her quarters. When they (Cecelia's aide, a prince, and Sirkin) try to intercept Skoterin before she opens the lockers, they fail and are ambushed. Skoterin explains that her plan as a Benignity agent was to get revenge on Heris for killing two family members and to skillfully have it all blamed on Sirkin. When he tries to stop her from shooting Sirkin, the prince is killed. Cecelia and Sirkin are only saved when Petris attacks Skoterin from behind. The internal revolt quenched, all attention is turned to the attacking Benignity ships, now being harried by Livadhi's cruiser. Defeating two, they quickly beat a retreat to the Guerini. There Sirkin and Cecelia are treated with stunning success; Cecelia is rejuvenated to herself as she was at 40 years of age, restored in all senses and capacities. Now cured, Cecelia's next task is to punish Lorenza. She travels to the Familias Grand Council, at which event Lorenza is sure to be. The prince's death (for Cecelia is sure that the one of the three who sacrificed himself so heroically was the real prince) finally convinces the King that his policies have led to nothing but to disaster; his only course is to resign. Lorenza notices Cecelia's presence, hale and hearty and rejuvenated, and panics, fleeing wildly. She turns to the same therapist/Benignity agent who had arranged for Yrilan's death, seeking safe transportation away from the Familias; for her mistakes, the therapist gasses Lorenza to death. External links Review of Heris Serrano trilogy by Jo Walton References Novels by Elizabeth Moon 1994 American novels American science fiction novels Baen Books

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Paul Smith (footballer, born 1962)

Paul Smith (born 2 November 1962) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Smith made his senior breakthrough with Raith Rovers in 1983. A combative midfielder, he enjoyed something of a journeyman career, encompassing spells with Motherwell, Dunfermline Athletic (twice), Falkirk, Heart of Midlothian, Ayr United and Berwick Rangers, where he was manager for seven years. Career After briefly being attached to both Dundee and Dundee United, Smith first joined Raith Rovers as a player in season 1982–83, and the following year he was joined by Keith Wright with whom he struck up a potent striking partnership, Smith scoring 34 goals and Wright 25 in 1984–85; the following season Smith notched up 27 goals to Wright's 28. 'Smudger' as he was affectionately known as a player, was sold to Motherwell in the summer of 1986 and also had spells with Dunfermline (making over 200 appearances over two spells), Falkirk, Hearts and Ayr United before moving to Berwick Rangers in 1997. Two months after his arrival at Shielfield Park, Smith was appointed manager, a post he held until 2004 where he got the club promoted to the Scottish Second Division. He later performed the role of assistant manager to Des McKeown at Stenhousemuir, until the pair's dismissal in November 2006. He later worked for Raith Rovers as assistant manager to Grant Murray; he had been assistant to John McGlynn when the club were promoted to the First Division, reached a Scottish Cup semi-final and just missed out on promotion to the SPL. He was also caretaker manager at Raith following the departure of McGlynn to Hearts, following which he was appointed to continue the assistant manager role by Murray. See also List of footballers in Scotland by number of league appearances (500+) References External links 1962 births Ayr United F.C. players Berwick Rangers F.C. managers Berwick Rangers F.C. players Dundee F.C. players Dundee United F.C. players Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players Falkirk F.C. players Heart of Midlothian F.C. players Living people Motherwell F.C. players Footballers from Edinburgh Raith Rovers F.C. players Raith Rovers F.C. managers Raith Rovers F.C. non-playing staff Scottish Football League players Scottish footballers Scottish Football League managers Association football midfielders Scottish football managers

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Driver rehabilitation

Driver rehabilitation is a type of rehabilitation that helps individuals facing challenges caused by a physical or cognitive impairment or age to achieve safe, independent driving or transportation options through education or information dissemination. Professionals who work in the field use adaptive equipment and modified vehicles to help people attain independent community mobility. History Many driver rehabilitation programs began in the early 1970s through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA only offers driver rehabilitation services and funding to its veterans who seek transportation options. , the VA offers driver rehabilitation services in 43 cities. The field has since expanded beyond the VA to serve clients of all legal driving ages. The Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED) was founded in 1977 to support and advance the driver rehabilitation professionals working in the field of driver education, driver training and transportation equipment modifications for persons with disabilities and persons experiencing the aging process. Thirty people, from ten states, attended ADED's first official meeting. The initial meeting determined the type of organizational structure, the official name, initial officers, standing committees, and membership fees. Today, ADED is the primary professional organization in the specialized area of driver rehabilitation. ADED has continued to expand. Emphasis is placed on the yearly conference with its pre-conference workshops, conference training programs and one of the largest exhibits of products for both the driver with a disability as well as for the professional working in this field. Membership also continues to increase with representation from nearly every state as well as internationally The National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association was founded in 1989 to broaden the opportunities for people with disabilities to drive or be transported in vehicles modified with adaptive equipment. In 2003, the American Occupational Therapy Association developed the Older Driver Initiative to develop services for older drivers. Practice The goal of driver rehabilitation is to aid individuals with disabilities or age-related impairments maintain independent driving and transportation. This maybe done through the use of specialized mobility equipment and training. The process begins with a clinical assessment of an individual's visual, visual-perceptual, cognitive, and physical skills that are necessary for driving. If the individual meets the criteria, an on-road assessment is conducted, in which the evaluator uses a vehicle equipped with adaptive driving equipment, as well as auxiliary brake and mirror on the passenger's side of the vehicle. Accommodations can be made via the use of mechanical or electronic steering, and acceleration and braking equipment, which are based on the results of the clinical assessment. If it is determined that the person has the potential to drive, training is offered to develop proficiency in using the mobility equipment. For novice drivers, driver's education is included in the services. Following training, a vehicle equipment prescription is provided, with a referral to a mobility equipment dealer for equipment installation. When the installation is completed, the vehicle is checked for proper fit, with additional training provided as needed. In other instances, such as after an illness or injury, an assessment of the person's capacity for driving is required. No adaptive driving equipment may be needed; the focus is on identifying any changes in the person's sensory, motor, visual, perceptual, or cognitive ability. The clinical assessment is conducted first, followed by the on-road assessment, using a vehicle equipped with the passenger brake, mirror, and in some instances, an auxiliary steering wheel. If an individual does not possess the ability to drive, they are often referred to other therapy programs, such as wheelchair seating programs, occupational therapy, vision therapy, physical therapy, or cognitive therapy. For individuals who plan to be passengers only, driver rehabilitation evaluations are recommended to determine the person's ability to get in and out of the vehicle, the vehicle's appropriateness for safe transportation, and the safe transportation of mobility aids, e.g. scooters, manual or power wheelchairs, including proper securement of the mobility device. Recommendations for vehicle modifications may include the use of a wheelchair accessible van, wheelchair lift, or wheelchair ramp. Personnel A driver rehabilitation specialist is a specialist who "plans, develops, coordinates and implements driving services for individuals with disabilities". Driver rehabilitation specialists work with physicians, allied health personnel, Department of Motor Vehicles personnel, and mobility equipment dealers. Driver rehabilitation programs are offered in a variety of settings, such as rehabilitation hospitals, hospital outpatient therapy departments, veteran's hospitals, or as private driving schools. Professionals who work in this field are often members of ADED; where professional fields consist of: Drivers education/training Equipment manufacturers Equipment dealers Physiotherapy/Physical therapy Kinesiotherapist Occupational therapy Speech-language pathology Rehabilitation engineering Rehabilitation specialists Rehabilitation technology Vocational rehabilitation Education and training Occupational therapists and driver educators comprise the two largest groups of professionals, with other professionals from the fields of rehabilitation counseling, physical therapy, rehabilitation engineering, and psychology. Occupational therapists may utilize the term "driving rehabilitation" to reflect the profession's focus on the "occupation" of driving. Many driver rehabilitation specialists obtain specialty certification from ADED. CDRS® Certified Driver Rehabilitation Specialist) is a credential offered by ADED: Representing advanced experience and expertise in diverse areas within the field. A CDRS® is an experienced practitioner in the field of driver rehabilitation who, through successful completion of a formal certification examination, has proven their capacity to provide services within the full spectrum of driver rehabilitation services. The CDRS® is considered by ADED to be the gold-standard in terms of driver rehabilitation service provision. A CDRS® is obligated to follow ADED’s Best Practice Guidelines to keep driver evaluations standardized, formalized and objective, and attests they will adhere to the ADED’s Code of Ethics. The CDRS® credential requires 30-hours of continuing education per 3-year cycle and is renewed via application and subject to audit. References External links Driver's education

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Površje, Krško

Površje (; ) is a settlement west of Raka in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. There is a small chapel-shrine in the settlement dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was built in 1923. References External links Površje on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Krško

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Morgan Pehme

Morgan Pehme (born May 5, 1978 in New York City) is an American filmmaker and journalist. Background Pehme's father was journalist Kalev Pehme. On his paternal side, his grandfather, Karl Pehme, was a sculptor from Estonia. His grandmother, Guerel Oulanoff, was a pianist of Kalmyk descent. As a child, Pehme achieved renown for his success as a chess player. Pehme attended The Dalton School. He was a character in the book Searching for Bobby Fischer and was subsequently depicted in the film. Pehme won the 1993 National Junior High School Chess Championship. He represented the United States in the Boys Under 12 section of the 1990 World Youth Chess Festival for Peace in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His participation in the event led to him become one of the subjects of director Lynn Hamrick's 1996 documentary, Chess Kids, as well as Hamrick's 2011 sequel to the film. Career Film Pehme began his career as a filmmaker as an executive producer of the narrative film Exist (2004), directed by Esther Bell. The next year, Pehme produced Nightmare, which he co-wrote with the film's director, Dylan Bank. Pehme and Bank were awarded the jury prize for Best Screenplay from the 2006 Austin Fantastic Fest. The film was released in the United States by IFC Films. Pehme made his directorial debut with Nothing Sacred (2012), a fantasy horror film starring William Sadler, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Nahon, Eric Godon, Debbie Rochon, Naama Kates and Alan Barnes Netherton. In 2017, Pehme co-directed, produced and wrote the Netflix Original documentary Get Me Roger Stone, which explores the life and career of conservative strategist Roger Stone, who played an integral role in Donald Trump's election as President of the United States. The film, which took Pehme and his co-directors Daniel DiMauro and Dylan Bank five years to make, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2020, Pehme again explored Trump's inner circle with Slumlord Millionaire, about White House senior advisor Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. Pehme directed and produced the documentary with Daniel DiMauro as an episode of Dirty Money, a Netflix Original documentary series executive produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. That same year, Pehme directed, wrote and produced The Swamp for HBO Documentary Films. The film explores the dysfunction plaguing the United States Congress, tracking three Republican members of Congress, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Ken Buck of Colorado, throughout 2019. Journalism and Politics Early in Pehme's journalism career, he served as a columnist and managing editor for The Queens Courier, a community newspaper. Later, Pehme wrote The Brooklyn Optimist, a blog about Brooklyn. In September 2008, Pehme, a critic of Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez, was elected to represent a portion of Greenpoint, Brooklyn as a County Committee Member in the Kings County Democratic Party. In 2011, Pehme was named one of City Halls Rising Stars Under 40 for his work as executive director of New York Civic, a group founded by former New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern. In 2012, Pehme was hired as editor-in-chief of the newspaper City & State, which covers New York politics. During Pehme's tenure, City & State won a number of New York State Press Association awards, including Best Coverage of Elections/Politics, 2013, for which he was personally recognized, along with Nick Powell, Jon Lentz and Aaron Short. In 2015, Morgan Pehme was hired as executive director of EffectiveNY, a nonpartisan government watchdog group founded by businessman Bill Samuels. He also produced and co-hosted with Samuels the radio show "Effective Radio with Bill Samuels", which aired on AM970 in New York. New York Nonprofit Media named Pehme to its 2017 class of 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of the New York nonprofit world for his work at EffectiveNY. Pehme is a former adjunct professor of mass communications, journalism, TV and film at St. John's University. He has contributed articles to numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, HuffPost, The Hill, and The Daily Beast. Pehme is an on-camera political analyst for PIX11. He serves on the board of advisors of the Museum of Political Corruption. References External links American male screenwriters American film producers American film directors 1978 births American chess players Living people People from Brooklyn

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James Benjamin Sclater Jr.

James Benjamin Sclater, Jr. (1847-1882) was a founder of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Biography Sclater was born in Orange County, Virginia, on July 19, 1847, the son of James Benjamin Sclater, Sr. and Harriet (Wharton) Sclater. Soon after his birth, his father moved to Richmond, where, for many years, he was in the general mercantile brokerage business. Sclater briefly attended the Cabell School in the Virginia Piedmont and in March 1864 he entered the Virginia Military Institute when that institution had been moved from Lexington to Richmond, and where the cadets were in active war service in the defense of Richmond. In April 1865, Sclater was paroled from the Cadet Battalion by order of Union Army officers, after Lee's army had evacuated Richmond. Sclater entered the University of Virginia, where he remained for two years. Although he was later known to his friends as "Doc," he did not receive a degree in medicine at the University and never practiced that profession. He did, however, devote much of his time to his medical studies and is recorded as having done distinguished work. He lived in Room 47, which he shared with another Pi Kappa Alpha founder, Robertson Howard. For a time he engaged in the drug business in Charlotte, North Carolina. He then settled in Richmond, and the directory of that city lists him as a clerk, presumably in his father's business, from 1870 until his death in 1882. During these years he was in declining health and his untimely death occurred at the age of 35. Sclater became the first of the founders of Pi Kappa Alpha to die. Although unmarried, he left behind a sweetheart who remained loyal to his memory through the years that followed. Sclater was survived by no close relatives other than his father who would die seven years after his son. Sclater lies in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, on a beautiful knoll overlooking the James River. His grave was for a long time marked only by an ornamental urn placed there by his sweetheart. References http://www.pka.org 1847 births 1882 deaths University of Virginia alumni Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) Pi Kappa Alpha founders People from Orange County, Virginia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anklebiters

Anklebiters

"Anklebiters" is a song by American rock band Paramore, and is the tenth track from their self-titled fourth studio album. The song was written by the band's lead singer Hayley Williams, rhythm guitarist Taylor York and Justin Meldal-Johnsen. Background Hayley Williams told MTV News that this song came from a period of deep introspection and its subject matter helped frame the entire Paramore album. "The title came first, which never happens, but I just thought, I liked the term 'Anklebiters,' when you're talking about kids or babies," she said. According to the band, the song addresses people who can't think for themselves. Williams told Spin: "To me there was this thread throughout the album of wanting to be able to grow up and move forward. And when you do that in your life, there's always people that are going to try to hold you back. Or they're going to try to tell you, 'You don't need to do this, because this is the right way to go.' Or you don't need to grow up, because this or that. And it's about those people, and it's about not listening to that but listening to your heart, and what do you want out of life? Who do you want to be? Versus all this outside influence that I think we get so caught up in, especially in the age of the Internet and all the different opinions that we hear so loudly every day.". Williams explained to Kerrang! Magazine that the song is about "embracing who you are, your differences and quirks. "Some people wanna pull you down and say you're wrong," she continued. "But you keep fighting and say, 'No, this is who I am.'". Critical reception "Anklebiters" has received acclaim from music critics. Popdust gave the song a 4.5/5, commenting that the song was an "upbeat, scream-along return to Paramore's emo-punk roots", and calling the song's atmosphere "perfect for psyching yourself up before leaving the house for a nerve-wracking night on the town". MTV Buzzworthy says "A fuzzy, scrappy track that starts in The Strokes' garage and kicks away the haters: "Why do you care what people think?" Williams rips. Good question. Turn this one up loud enough and for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, you won't." Billboard Magazine elaborated on the title's meaning, saying that "the hip-hop community refers to naysayers as "Haters," but Paramore calls them "Anklebiters"—folks who prey on other people's actions. "Someday you're going to be the only one that you've got," Williams sings to those that should rely on their own thoughts and not what anklebiters are saying". Music video Though not an official single, the group still felt a special connection with "Anklebiters", and decided to have a video filmed for it. The video, directed by Jordan Brune, has been described as "an animated joyride that not only embodies the song's high-energy, guitar-pop-driven vibe, but it also features everything from little "Pac-Man"-looking circular dust-mite things to eagles wearing pillbox hats... And dancing disembodied hands." The band members do not appear in the video. Video game A video game based on the music video was available to play on Paramore's official website. Although it was free-to-play, it did require a registration to the site. The game shared the animation style of the music video, but played similarly to Pac-Man. The finished product has been described as a "hipster's Pac-Man nightmare meets a collection of bad Dr. Seuss knock-off sketches." References 2013 songs Paramore songs Songs written by Hayley Williams Songs written by Taylor York

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Florent Muslija

Florent Muslija (born 6 July 1998) is a Kosovan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for German club SC Paderborn and the Kosovo national team. Club career Karlsruher SC On 21 May 2017, Muslija made his debut as professional footballer in a 2–1 away defeat against Eintracht Braunschweig after coming on as a substitute at 70th minute in place of Kai Luibrand. Three days after the debut, he signed a two-year professional contract with Karlsruher SC. On 9 November 2017, Muslija extended his contract prematurely until 2021. Hannover 96 On 31 August 2018, Muslija in last day of the 2018 summer transfer window signed a four-year contract with Bundesliga club Hannover 96. Hannover 96 reportedly paid a €2 million transfer fee. His debut with Hannover 96 came on 30 September in Matchday 6 of 2018–19 Bundesliga against Eintracht Frankfurt after coming on as a substitute at 69th minute in place of Julian Korb. SC Paderborn On 2 January 2022, Muslija signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with 2. Bundesliga club SC Paderborn and received squad number 30. Thirteen days later, he made his debut in a 2–1 away win against 1. FC Nürnberg after being named in the starting line-up. Seven days after debut, Muslija scored his first goals for SC Paderborn in his second appearance for the club in a 3–4 home defeat over Werder Bremen in 2. Bundesliga. International career Germany Under-20 On 25 August 2017, Muslija received a call-up from Germany U20 for the unofficial friendly match against Greuther Fürth and 2017–18 Under 20 Elite League match against Czech Republic U20. On 7 September 2018, he made his debut with Germany U20 in a 2018–19 Under 20 Elite League match against Czech Republic U20 after coming on as a substitute at 62nd minute in place of Linton Maina. Kosovo On 21 June 2019, The Football Federation of Kosovo confirmed through a communiqué that Muslija had decided to play for the Kosovo national team. On 30 August 2019, Muslija received a call-up from Kosovo for the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches against Czech Republic and England. On 7 September 2019, he made his debut with Kosovo in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match against Czech Republic after coming on as a substitute at 56th minute in place of Edon Zhegrova. Career statistics Club International References External links 1998 births Living people People from Achern Kosovo Albanians Kosovan footballers Kosovo international footballers German footballers German people of Kosovan descent German people of Albanian descent Germany youth international footballers Association football midfielders 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Karlsruher SC players Bundesliga players Hannover 96 players SC Paderborn 07 players

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James Costigan

James Costigan (March 31, 1926 – December 19, 2007) was an American television actor and Emmy Award-winning television screenwriter. His writing credits include the television movies Eleanor and Franklin and Love Among the Ruins. Early life Costigan was born on March 31, 1926 in East Los Angeles, where his parents owned and operated a hardware store. He first achieved some level of success in the 1950s, when he came to write for television anthology series, such as Studio One and Kraft Television Theatre. Career Costigan won his first Emmy for original teleplay in 1959 for Little Moon of Alban, a segment which appeared as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. He earned a second Emmy nomination in 1959 for his script adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. He did not win, but Ingrid Bergman won an Emmy for her performance in The Turn of the Screw. He increasingly began writing for the stage as the format of television began to change. His Broadway credits included Baby Want a Kiss, a 1964 comedy which starred Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. He returned to screenwriting for television in the early 1970s. His 1970s work included A War of Children, written in 1972, which was about two families, one Roman Catholic and one Protestant, in Northern Ireland, whose long time friendship is threatened by sectarian violence. He won a second Emmy Award for Love Among the Ruins, a 1975 television movie set in Edwardian England, which starred Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier. His third Emmy win was for Eleanor and Franklin (1976), a two-part, four-hour television drama focusing on the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Death James Costigan died on December 19, 2007, aged 81, at his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington of heart failure. References External links New York Times: James Costigan, Writer of Prestige TV, Is Dead, nytimes.com, January 5, 2008. Los Angeles Times:James Costigan, 81; won Emmys for writing TV movies, latimes.com; accessed October 26, 2016. 1926 births 2007 deaths American television writers American male television writers American male television actors Male actors from Los Angeles Emmy Award winners Writers from Los Angeles Screenwriters from California 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American male writers

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Trait (computer programming)

In computer programming, a trait is a concept used in object-oriented programming, which represents a set of methods that can be used to extend the functionality of a class. Characteristics Traits both provide a set of methods that implement behaviour to a class, and require that the class implement a set of methods that parameterize the provided behaviour. For inter-object communication, traits are somewhere between an object-oriented protocol (interface) and a mixin. An interface may define one or more behaviors via method signatures, while a trait defines behaviors via full method definitions: i.e., it includes the body of the methods. In contrast, mixins include full method definitions and may also carry state through member variable, while traits usually don't. Hence an object defined as a trait is created as the composition of methods, which can be used by other classes without requiring multiple inheritance. In case of a naming collision, when more than one trait to be used by a class has a method with the same name, the programmer must explicitly disambiguate which one of those methods will be used in the class; thus manually solving the diamond problem of multiple inheritance. This is different from other composition methods in object-oriented programming, where conflicting names are automatically resolved by scoping rules. Whereas mixins can be composed only using the inheritance operation, traits offer a much wider selection of operations, including: symmetric sum: an operation that merges two disjoint traits to create a new trait override (or asymmetric sum): an operation that forms a new trait by adding methods to an existing trait, possibly overriding some of its methods alias: an operation that creates a new trait by adding a new name for an existing method exclusion: an operation that forms a new trait by removing a method from an existing trait. (Combining this with the alias operation yields a shallow rename operation). Traits are composed in the following ways: Trait composition is commutative; the ordering of adding traits does not matter. For example, given trait S = A + B, then trait T = B + A is the same as S. Conflicting methods are excluded from the composition. Nested traits are equivalent to flattened traits; the composition hierarchy does not affect the traits behaviour. For example, given trait S = A + X, where X = B + C, then trait T = A + B + C is the same as S. Supported languages Traits come originally from the programming language Self and are supported by the following programming languages: AmbientTalk: Combines the properties of Self traits (object-based multiple inheritance) and Smalltalk's Squeak traits (requiring explicit composition of traits by the programmer). It builds on the research on stateful and freezable traits to enable state within traits, which was not allowed in the first definitions. C#: Since version 8.0, C# has support for default interface methods, which have some properties of traits. C++: Used in Standard Template Library and the C++ standard library to support generic container classes and in the Boost TypeTraits library. Curl: Abstract classes as mixins permit method implementations and thus constitute traits by another name. D: Since version 2.003, the __traits language extension and std.traits module helper templates provide compile-time traits. Together with other language features (notably templates and mixins), they allow flexible automatic generation of methods based on interfaces and types. D also allows explicit aliasing of member methods and variables, including forwarding to multiple member classes. Fortress Groovy: Since version 2.3 Haskell: In Haskell, Traits are known as Type classes. Haxe: Since version 2.4.0. Called Static Extension in the manual, it uses using keyword Java: Since version 8, Java has support for default methods, which have some properties of traits. JavaScript: Traits can be implemented via functions and delegations or through libraries that provide traits. Julia: Several packages implement traits, e.g., Kotlin: Traits have been called interfaces since M12. Lasso OCaml: Traits can be implemented using a variety of language features: module and module type inclusion, functors and functor types, class and class type inheritance, et cetera. Perl: Called roles, they are implemented in Perl libraries such as Moose, Role::Tiny and Role::Basic. Roles are part of the sister language Raku. PHP: Since version 5.4, PHP allows users to specify templates that provide the ability to "inherit" from more than one (trait-)class, as a pseudo multiple inheritance. Python: Via a third-party library, or via higher-order mixin classes Racket: Supports traits as a library and uses macros, structures, and first-class classes to implement them. Ruby: Module mixins can be used to implement traits. Rust Scala trait is builtin supported with the key word trait. Smalltalk: Traits are implemented in two dialects of Smalltalk, Squeak and Pharo. Swift: Traits can be implemented with protocol extensions. Examples C# On C# 8.0, it is possible to define an implementation as a member of an interface.using System; namespace CSharp8NewFeatures; interface ILogger { // Traditional interface methods void Log(string message); void LogError(Exception exception); // Default interface method void LogWarning(string message) { Console.WriteLine(message); } } class Logger : ILogger { public void Log(string message) { Console.WriteLine(message); } public void LogError(Exception exception) { Console.WriteLine(exception.ToString()); } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { ILogger logger = new Logger(); logger.LogWarning("Some warning message"); } } PHP This example uses a trait to enhance other classes: // The template trait TSingleton { private static $_instance = null; private function __construct() {} // Must have private default constructor and be aware not to open it in the class public static function getInstance() { if (null === self::$_instance) { self::$_instance = new self(); } return self::$_instance; } } class FrontController { use TSingleton; } // Can also be used in already extended classes class WebSite extends SomeClass { use TSingleton; } This allows simulating aspects of multiple inheritance: trait TBounding { public $x, $y, $width, $height; } trait TMoveable { public function moveTo($x, $y) { // … } } trait TResizeable { public function resize($newWidth, $newHeight) { // … } } class Rectangle { use TBounding, TMoveable, TResizeable; public function fillColor($color) { // … } } Rust A trait in Rust declares a set of methods that a type must implement. Rust compilers require traits to be explicated, which ensures the safety of generics in Rust. // type T must have the "Ord" trait // so that ">" and "<" operations can be done fn max<T: Ord>(a: &[T]) -> Option<&T> { let mut result = a.first()?; for n in a { if *n > *result { result = &n; } } Some(result) } To simplify tedious and repeated implementation of traits like Debug and Ord, the derive macro can be used to request compilers to generate certain implementations automatically. Derivable traits include: Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord and Hash. See also Extension method Interface (object-oriented programming) Parametric polymorphism UFCS References External links C++ Programming language topics Type theory

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiko%20Toyoyama

Masahiko Toyoyama

(born Osaka, 16 July 1976) is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as prop. Career After graduating from high school in 1995, Toyoyama joined Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences' rugby club, with which he played in the All-Japan University Rugby Championship. In 1999, he graduated from university and joined Toyota Motors club. He first played for Japan against Fiji, in Tokyo, on 20 May 2000. He was also present in the 2003 Rugby World Cup squad coached by Shogo Mukai, playing three pool stage matches in the tournament. His final cap for Japan was against United States, in Gosford, on 27 October 2003, earning 24 caps, 15 points and 3 tries scored in aggregate. In 2008, Toyoyama left Toyota Verblitz, retiring as player. In 2013, he was appointed as coach by his former club, Toyota Verblitz and served for two seasons. Toyoyama also played for Japan A in 2001, against a New Zealand Universities XV. Notes External links Masahiko Toyoyama international stats 1976 births Living people Japanese rugby union players Japanese rugby union coaches Rugby union props Japan international rugby union players Toyota Verblitz players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Birthday%21

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! is an album by German electronic duo Modeselektor, and was released on September 10, 2007. Track listing "Happy Birthday" "Godspeed" "2000007" (feat TTC) "Let Your Love Grow" (feat. Apparat and Paul St. Hilaire) "Em Ocean" "Sucker Pin" "Edgar" "Hyper Hyper" (feat Otto Von Schirach) (Scooter cover) "BMI" "The Dark Side of the Frog" "The Dark Side of the Sun" (feat Puppetmastaz) "Déboutonner" (feat Siriusmo) "The Black Block" "The First Rebirth" "The White Flash" (feat Thom Yorke) "Late Check-Out" "The Wedding Toccata Theme" "(I Can't Sleep) Without Music" (feat Maxïmo Park) "Get Wasted in Silence" (iTunes Bonus Track) References Modeselektor albums 2007 albums BPitch Control albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lazenbury

Paul Lazenbury

Paul Stuart Lazenbury (born 10 August 1978) is an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. He played List A cricket for Gloucestershire Cricket Board and Kent Cricket Board, and for Herefordshire. Lazenbury played six one-day matches in his career, and also played second eleven cricket for several counties for six years from 1995. But he did not appear in first-class cricket. External links Paul Lazenbury at Cricket Archive 1978 births English cricketers Herefordshire cricketers Kent Cricket Board cricketers Gloucestershire Cricket Board cricketers Living people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant%20chief%20constable

Assistant chief constable

Assistant chief constable (ACC) is the third highest rank in all British territorial police forces (except the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police, in which the equivalent rank is commander), as well as the British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police and Civil Nuclear Constabulary. Each force has between one and six assistant chief constables. They are the lowest officers at chief officer level, below the chief constable and deputy chief constable, and rank immediately above chief superintendents. Assistant chief constables usually hold portfolios (e.g. for crime, operations or territorial policing). In larger forces, ACCs may be given responsibilities for policing major territories within the force area. Senior police civilian staff (such as directors of finance and resources) hold equivalent status and are generally known as assistant chief officers. Insignia The rank badge worn by an assistant chief constable or a commander consists of crossed tipstaves within a wreath, roughly analogous to the former insignia of a brigadier-general in the British Army or Royal Marines, which was a crossed sword and baton, sans wreath. See also Police ranks of the United Kingdom References Police ranks Police ranks in the United Kingdom

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20Ulsan%20Hyundai%20FC%20season

2012 Ulsan Hyundai FC season

The 2012 season was Ulsan Hyundai FC's thirtieth season in the K-League in South Korea. Ulsan Hyundai is competing K-League, Korean FA Cup, AFC Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup. Current squad Out on loan Transfer In Out Coaching staff Match results K-League All times are Korea Standard Time (KST) – UTC+9 League table Results summary Results by round Korean FA Cup AFC Champions League Group stage (Group F) Knockout stage FIFA Club World Cup Knockout stage Squad statistics Appearances Statistics accurate as of match played 27 June 2012 Goals and assists Discipline Honours Club AFC Champions League Champions, Fair Play Award Individual AFC Champions League MVP: Lee Keun-Ho AFC Footballer of the Year: Lee Keun-Ho AFC Coach of the Year: Kim Ho-Gon References Ulsan Hyundai FC Ulsan Hyundai FC seasons

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jad%20Paul

Jad Paul

Jad Paul (June 16, 1916 – December 29, 2008) was an American musician, most noted for being one of the original members of Spike Jones' band "The City Slickers". He was also noted for his banjo playing. Career Paul began playing the banjo at an early age. He used this skill of playing the banjo came in handy when he began playing for Spike Jones' band "The City Slickers" beginning in 1954. In the early 1950s, he performed with Freddy Morgan on recordings credited to The Banjo Maniacs, The Happy Harts and The Sunnysiders (including the popular "Hey, Mr. Banjo"). Paul stayed with the City Slickers group through 1958. After leaving Jones, he performed for local Los Angeles television station KTLA, on the weekly program Polka Parade, which included fellow prior "Slickers" members Bernie Jones and Joe "Country" Washburn. Jad also made three LP records for Liberty Records, when stereo was a new development, featuring his multi-tracking of the banjo. Jad Paul could also play guitar and recorded at least one 10" 78 rpm record for the Northern California based Trilon label during the late 1940s. The orchestration (billed as The Jad Paul Trio) was a Piano-Bass-Guitar outfit like the King Cole Trio. The sides were "Honeysuckle Rose" and "I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All." One unusual trait of Honeysuckle Rose was Paul playing the guitar and scatting in unison in a manner similar to George Benson at least a couple decades later.Bassist Slam Stewart had already done something similar with scatting with bowed bass fiddle about a decade earlier. Honors Paul was inducted into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame in 2008. References 1916 births 2008 deaths

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946%20Texas%20gubernatorial%20election

1946 Texas gubernatorial election

The 1946 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946. Incumbent Democratic Governor Coke R. Stevenson did not seek re-election. Democratic Governor nominee Beauford H. Jester defeated Republican nominee Eugene Nolte, Jr. with 91.23% of the vote. Nominations Democratic primary The Democratic primary election was held on July 27, 1946, with the runoff held on August 24, 1946. Candidates Floyd Brinkley William V. Brown, mayor of Texarkana A. J. Burks, mayor of Odessa Charles B. Hutchison Beauford H. Jester, Railroad Commissioner Caso March, former Baylor University law professor, World War II veteran Walter Scott McNutt, president of Jefferson College and independent candidate for Governor of Arkansas in 1938 and 1940 Homer P. Rainey, former President of the University of Texas Jerry Sadler, former Railroad Commissioner Grover Sellers, incumbent Texas Attorney General C. R. Shaw John Lee Smith, incumbent Lieutenant Governor Reese Turner, former State Representative Withdrew W. J. Minton, newspaper editor and unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor in 1944 Declined James V. Allred, former Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, incumbent U.S. Senator Coke R. Stevenson, incumbent Governor Results Republican nomination The Republican state convention was held on August 13, 1946 at Mineral Wells. Candidates Alvin H. Lane, attorney Eugene "Mike" Nolte, Jr., alcohol distributor Results General election Candidates Beauford H. Jester, Democratic Eugene Nolte, Jr., Republican Results References Bibliography 1946 Texas Gubernatorial November 1946 events

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutty%20%282001%20film%29

Kutty (2001 film)

Kutty is a 2001 Tamil language film directed by Janaki Vishwanathan. The film's music is composed by Ilayaraja. Upon release, the film met with widespread critical acclaim. Plot The film revolves around a young girl who is forced into child labour working for an urban family after a tragedy in her own family. Paavaadai is a potter living in a village in the outskirts of Madurai. Even though his profession is in a miserable condition, he has high hopes for his daughter Kannammaa and raises her with much affection. Unfortunately, he dies in an accident and this forces Kannammaa to be sent to work for an urban family. The girl is quite happy about this, thinking about the prospects of good food and clothes. The family's working couple also treat her with kindness. However, the arrival of the mother-in-law changes everything. Kutty doesn't get enough food to eat and is mistreated by the old woman and her grandson. Day-by-day things get worsen. Once, Kutty's relatives come to see how she is doing. The grandmother behaves kindly to Kutty and makes them believe that she is completely happy there. Kutty too fails to communicate with them about her misery. Kutty watches the teenage girl who works in the opposite apartment being molested. And in a few days, she learns that the girl committed suicide. Even though supported by the couple (which infuriates the old woman), Kutty becomes desperate and decides to send a letter to her mother asking her to take her away back to the village. She tries to seek the help of a store owner, who is very kind to her. However, matters do not improve when Kutty reveals that she doesn't know the name of her village but she just knows the directions. One night, she decides to run away but she runs right into a man, who has a shop set up right next to Vivek's. He promises to help her and boards her onto a train. The man is then seen speaking to another man and bargaining for more money. The man says to Kutty that the other man will take good care of her and will reach her to her mother. But, the train is actually leaving not for her village, but to Mumbai, indicating that perhaps Kutty will be sold to a brothel. The film ends with showing Kutty's anticipated face on the prospect of going back to her mother. Cast P. Shwetha as Kanamma (Kutty) Ramesh Arvind as Ranganathan Kausalya as Rohini Nassar as Pavadai Eashwari Rao as Chenthamarai M. N. Rajam as Ranganathan's mother Vivek as Owner of provision store R. S. Shivaji as Panwala S. N. Lakshmi as Viruthamba, Pavadai's mother Master Suraj as Vicky Ilavarasu as Pazhaniappan Kalairani as Valli Awards The film has won the following awards since its release: 2002 Cairo International Children's Film Festival (Egypt) Won - Special International Jury Prize - Kutty - J.K. Vishwanathan 2002 National Film Awards (India) Won - Silver Lotus Award - Best Child Artist - P. Shwetha Won - Silver Lotus Award - Special Jury Award - Director - J.K. Vishwanathan 2002 Gollapudi Srinivas Award Won - Best Debutant Director - J.K. Vishwanathan References External links 2001 films 2001 drama films Indian films Tamil-language films Films based on Indian novels Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja 2000s Tamil-language films Indian drama films

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H14O2

C8H14O2

{{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H14O2}} The molecular formula C8H14O2 may refer to: Butyl methacrylate Cypionic acid Octalactones δ-Octalactone γ-Octalactone Polyvinyl butyral (repeating unit)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above%20Suspicion%20%28TV%20series%29

Above Suspicion (TV series)

Above Suspicion is a British crime drama based on the series of Anna Travis novels written by Lynda La Plante. The series stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds as the protagonists Anna Travis and James Langton. Four series were broadcast over a total of four years. The first episode was broadcast on 4 January 2009, and the final episode on 28 January 2012. The first three series all aired on consecutive nights; whereas the fourth series a more traditional weekly format. Plot Above Suspicion follows the work of D.C. Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly), a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer. Reilly said of the part; "Well, she's not a political character like Jane Tennison, she's not fighting her ground and it's almost like she just doesn't care. She has an insouciance… she wears those skirts and those heels, and while I don't think she uses her femininity or anything like that, she just doesn't hide it. There's a dilemma for the audience, because normally your prejudices would invite you to dismiss a woman like her who seems a bit awkward and wears tight skirts. But she brings something fresh in among those hackneyed male detectives." Cast Kelly Reilly as D.C./D.S./D.I. Anna Travis Ciarán Hinds as D.C.I./D.C.S. James Langton Shaun Dingwall as D.I./D.C.I. Mike Lewis Daniel Catagirone as D.S. Paul Baroilli (Series 1) Celyn Jones as D.S. Paul Barolli (Series 2-4) Michelle Holmes as D.C. Barbara Maddox Amanda Lawrence as D.C. Joan Faulkland Nadia Cameron-Blakey as Commander Jane Leigh (Series 1-2) Martin Herdman as D.C.I. Elliot Hudson (Series 1) Stuart Organ as D.C.I. Bill Morgan (Series 2) Ray Fearon as D.C.I./Commander Sam Power (Series 3-4) Episode list Series 1 (2009) Guest cast in this series include Jason Durr as Alan Daniels; Emma Pollard as Melissa Stephens; and Malcolm Storry as John McDowell. The Daily Telegraph described the series as "Lynda La Plante's younger, sassier successor to Prime Suspect." Series 2 (2010) Guest cast in this series include Ty Glaser as Louise Pennel; Edward MacLiam as Richard Reynolds; Sylvia Syms as Mrs. Hedges; and Simon Williams as Charles Wickenham. This series was partly based on a true story, known as the Black Dahlia murder. The series was reviewed favourably by The Daily Telegraph, with a request for "more please." Series 3 (2011) Guest cast in this series include Robbie Gee as Silas Roach and Andrew Woodall as David Rushton. The first episode opened with 5.495 million viewers on ITV, a 19.5% share, with another 326,000 on ITV HD. It was narrowly beaten by BBC One's new series of Silent Witness which, with 5.877 million viewers, had a 20.9% share of the 9-10pm audience. Series 4 (2012) Part of Silent Scream was filmed in Lexham Mews, W8. Joanna Vanderham guest stars as Amanda Delaney. References External links Above Suspicion at stv.tv Above Suspicion Season 1 – Ciarán Hinds' website Red Dahlia Season 2 – Ciarán Hinds' website Deadly Intent Season 3 – Ciarán Hinds' website 2000s British drama television series 2010s British drama television series 2000s British crime television series 2010s British crime television series 2009 British television series debuts 2012 British television series endings British crime television series English-language television shows ITV television dramas Television shows based on British novels Television series produced at Pinewood Studios Television shows set in London

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Dutton%2C%20Lancashire

Listed buildings in Dutton, Lancashire

Dutton is a civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, located to the northeast of Ribchester. The parish is rural, with the River Ribble running to the south. It contains 15 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. These mainly consist of houses with related structures, or farm buildings, but there are also a church, a bridge and two cross bases. Key Buildings References Citations Sources Lists of listed buildings in Lancashire Buildings and structures in Ribble Valley

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20evolution

Software evolution

Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. Software evolution is important because organizations invest large amounts of money in their software and are completely dependent on this software. Software evolution helps software adapt to changing businesses requirements, fix defects, and integrate with other changing systems in a software system environment. General introduction Fred Brooks, in his key book The Mythical Man-Month, states that over 90% of the costs of a typical system arise in the maintenance phase, and that any successful piece of software will inevitably be maintained. In fact, Agile methods stem from maintenance-like activities in and around web based technologies, where the bulk of the capability comes from frameworks and standards. Software maintenance addresses bug fixes and minor enhancements, while software evolution focuses on adaptation and migration. Software technologies will continue to develop. These changes will require new laws and theories to be created and justified. Some models as well would require additional aspects in developing future programs. Innovations and improvements do increase unexpected form of software development. The maintenance issues also would probably change as to adapt to the evolution of the future software. Software processes are themselves evolving, after going through learning and refinements, it is always improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Basic concepts The need for software evolution comes from the fact that no one is able to predict how user requirements will evolve a priori . In other words, the existing systems are never complete and continue to evolve. As they evolve, the complexity of the systems will grow unless there is a better solution available to solve these issues. The main objectives of software evolution are ensuring functional relevance, reliability and flexibility of the system. Software evolution can be fully manual (based on changes by software engineers), partially automated (e.g. using refactoring tools) or fully automated (with autonomous configuration or evolution). Software evolution has been greatly impacted by the Internet: the rapid growth of World Wide Web and Internet Resources make it easier for users and engineers to find related information. open source development where anybody could download the source codes and hence modify it has enabled fast and parallel evolution (through forks). Types of software maintenance E.B. Swanson initially identified the three categories of maintenance: corrective, adaptive, and perfective. Four categories of software were then catalogued by Lientz and Swanson (1980). These have since been updated and normalized internationally in the ISO/IEC 14764:2006: Corrective maintenance: Reactive modification of a software product performed after delivery to correct discovered problems; Adaptive maintenance: Modification of a software product performed after delivery to keep a software product usable in a changed or changing environment; Perfective maintenance: Modification of a software product after delivery to improve performance or maintainability; Preventive maintenance: Modification of a software product after delivery to detect and correct latent faults in the software product before they become effective faults. All of the preceding take place when there is a known requirement for change. Although these categories were supplemented by many authors like Warren et al. (1999) and Chapin (2001), the ISO/IEC 14764:2006 international standard has kept the basic four categories. More recently the description of software maintenance and evolution has been done using ontologies (Kitchenham et al. (1999), Deridder (2002), Vizcaíno (2003), Dias (2003), and Ruiz (2004)), which enrich the description of the many evolution activities. Stage model Current trends and practices are projected forward using a new model of software evolution called the staged model. Staged model was introduced to replace conventional analysis which is less suitable for modern software development is rapid changing due to its difficulties of hard to contribute in software evolution. There are five distinct stages contribute in simple staged model (Initial development, Evolution, Servicing, Phase-out, and Close-down). According to K.H.Bennett and V.T Rajlich, the key contribution is to separate the 'maintenance' phase into an evolution stage followed by a servicing and phase out stages. The first version of software system which is lacking some features will be developed during initial development or also known as alpha stage. However, the architecture has already been possessed during this stage will bring for any future changes or amendments. Most references in this stage will base on scenarios or case study. Knowledge has defined as another important outcome of initial development. Such knowledge including the knowledge of application domain, user requirements, business rules, policies, solutions, algorithm, etc. Knowledge also seems as the important factor for the subsequent phase of evolution. Once the previous stage completed successfully (and must be completed successfully before entering next stage), the next stage would be evolution. Users tend to change their requirements as well as they prefer to see some improvements or changes. Due to this factor, the software industry is facing the challenges of rapid changes environment. Hence the goal of evolution is to adapt the application to the ever-changing user requirements and operating environment. During the previous stage, the first version application created might contain a lot of faults, and those faults will be fixed during evolution stage based on more specified and accurate requirements due to the case study or scenarios. The software will continuously evolve until it is no longer evolvable and then enter stage of servicing (also known as software maturity). During this stage, only minor changes will be done. Next stage which is phase-out, there is no more servicing available for that particular software. However, the software still in production. Lastly, close-down. The software use is disconnected or discontinued and the users are directed towards a replacement. Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution Prof. Meir M. Lehman, who worked at Imperial College London from 1972 to 2002, and his colleagues have identified a set of behaviours in the evolution of proprietary software. These behaviours (or observations) are known as Lehman's Laws. He refers to E-type systems as ones that are written to perform some real-world activity. The behavior of such systems is strongly linked to the environment in which it runs, and such a system needs to adapt to varying requirements and circumstances in that environment. The eight laws are: (1974) "Continuing Change" — an E-type system must be continually adapted or it becomes progressively less satisfactory (1974) "Increasing Complexity" — as an E-type system evolves, its complexity increases unless work is done to maintain or reduce it (1980) "Self Regulation" — E-type system evolution processes are self-regulating with the distribution of product and process measures close to normal (1978) "Conservation of Organisational Stability (invariant work rate)" - the average effective global activity rate in an evolving E-type system is invariant over the product's lifetime (1978) "Conservation of Familiarity" — as an E-type system evolves, all associated with it, developers, sales personnel and users, for example, must maintain mastery of its content and behaviour to achieve satisfactory evolution. Excessive growth diminishes that mastery. Hence the average incremental growth remains invariant as the system evolves. (1991) "Continuing Growth" — the functional content of an E-type system must be continually increased to maintain user satisfaction over its lifetime (1996) "Declining Quality" — the quality of an E-type system will appear to be declining unless it is rigorously maintained and adapted to operational environment changes (1996) "Feedback System" (first stated 1974, formalised as law 1996) — E-type evolution processes constitute multi-level, multi-loop, multi-agent feedback systems and must be treated as such to achieve significant improvement over any reasonable base It is worth mentioning that the applicability of all of these laws for all types of software systems has been studied by several researchers. For example, see a presentation by Nanjangud C Narendra where he describes a case study of an enterprise Agile project in the light of Lehman’s laws of software evolution. Some empirical observations coming from the study of open source software development appear to challenge some of the laws . The laws predict that the need for functional change in a software system is inevitable, and not a consequence of incomplete or incorrect analysis of requirements or bad programming. They state that there are limits to what a software development team can achieve in terms of safely implementing changes and new functionality. Maturity Models specific to software evolution have been developed to improve processes, and help to ensure continuous rejuvenation of the software as it evolves iteratively. The "global process" that is made by the many stakeholders (e.g. developers, users, their managers) has many feedback loops. The evolution speed is a function of the feedback loop structure and other characteristics of the global system. Process simulation techniques, such as system dynamics can be useful in understanding and managing such global process. Software evolution is not likely to be Darwinian, Lamarckian or Baldwinian, but an important phenomenon on its own. Given the increasing dependence on software at all levels of society and economy, the successful evolution of software is becoming increasingly critical. This is an important topic of research that hasn't received much attention. The evolution of software, because of its rapid path in comparison to other man-made entities, was seen by Lehman as the "fruit fly" of the study of the evolution of artificial systems. See also Software entropy Meir M. Lehman Darwinian evolution Lamarckian evolution Baldwinian evolution Journal of Software: Evolution and Process Available tools LibVCS4j A Java library that allows existing tools to analyse the evolution of software systems by providing a common API for different version control systems and issue trackers. References Further reading Andrea Capiluppi, Jesus M.Gonzalez Barahona, Israel Herraiz, Gregorio Robles, Adapting the "Staged Model for Software Evolution" to FLOSS Mark C. Paulk, A History of the Capability Maturity Model Software Evolution Evolution

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza%20Hadda

Hamza Hadda

Hamza Hadda (born 18 April 1991) is a retired Tunisian football midfielder plays for Al-Nairyah. References 1991 births Living people Tunisian footballers Tunisian expatriate footballers Espérance Sportive de Tunis players Stade Gabèsien players CS Sfaxien players US Monastir (football) players Stade Tunisien players Al-Nairyah Club players Association football midfielders Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players Saudi Second Division players Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Sportspeople from Tunis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20Copa%20Am%C3%A9rica%20squads

1989 Copa América squads

These are the squads for the countries that played in the 1989 Copa América held in Brazil. Group A Brazil Head Coach: Sebastião Lazaroni Charles and Ze Carlos added to the squad for the final phase. Tita and Ze Teodoro injured replaced for Bismarck Faria and Josimar for final Phase Colombia Head Coach: Francisco Maturana Paraguay Head Coach: Eduardo Luján Manera. Ramón Escobar added to the squad for the final phase. Peru Head Coach: Pepe Venezuela Head Coach: Group B Argentina Head Coach: Carlos Bilardo Ricardo Giusti and Abel Balbo added to the squad for the final phase Bolivia Head Coach: Jorge Habegger Chile Head Coach: Orlando Aravena Ecuador Head Coach: Dušan Drašković Uruguay Head Coach: Oscar Tabárez Oscar Ferro and Edison Suarez added to the squad for the final phase External links 1989 Copa América squads at RSSSF Copa América squads 1989 Copa América

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20at%20the%201932%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20Greco-Roman%20middleweight

Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight

The men's Greco-Roman middleweight competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles took place from 4 August to 7 August at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. Nations were limited to one competitor. This weight class was limited to wrestlers weighing up to 79kg. This Greco-Roman wrestling competition followed the same format that was introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics, using an elimination system based on the accumulation of points. Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). The loser received 3 points. The winner received 1 point if the win was by decision and 0 points if the win was by fall. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 5 points was eliminated. Schedule Results Round 1 Both bouts were won by decision. The winners each had 1 point, the losers each had 3. Poilvé, however, retired due to injury. Bouts Points Round 2 Cadier had a bye due to Poilvé's retirement. The two first-round winners faced off, with Kokkinen winning by a decision to move to 2 points while Földeák had 4 points after the loss. Bouts Points Final round Kokkinen beat Cadier to finish 3–0 and with 2 points. Földeák had a bye, and finished with the silver medal at points after having beating Cadier earlier by decision and lost to Kokkinen. Cadier finished 0–2 but with the bronze medal. Bouts Points References Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%202021%20Rohingya%20refugee-camp%20fire

March 2021 Rohingya refugee-camp fire

On 22 March 2021, a fire that had started during the late afternoon in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, destroyed a large portion of the camp, killed over a dozen people, and left nearly a thousand injured or missing. Thought to have begun when gas cylinders used for cooking exploded, 100 firemen fought the blaze, which burned for around eight hours until midnight. The fire displaced roughly 50,000 Rohingya refugees of the genocide in Myanmar and destroyed many buildings, including schools and food storage centres. First responders to the crisis were refugees from the camp itself. By the next day, aid agencies had joined the rescue effort, pledging food, cash, and equipment. Some observers reported that rescue efforts were hindered by barbed-wire fencing around the camp, suggesting that it may have slowed down escapees and possibly contributed to the casualties. Background In 2017, the vast majority of Rohingya people were displaced and became refugees as a result of the genocide. At the peak of the crisis in 2017, over a million Rohingya were forced to flee to other countries. Most fled to Bangladesh while others escaped to India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other parts of South and Southeast Asia. According to the United Nations, , over 742,000 Rohingya people who had fled or been driven out of Rakhine State sought refuge in Bangladesh. The Balukhali camp is believed to be part of the largest refugee camp in the world, and held approximately one-tenth of Bangladesh's one million Rohingya refugees. The UNHCR regional representative stated that women and children made up the majority of its population. It had experienced a previous large fire in 2017, caused by exploding gas cylinders. Smaller fires had broken out in the two days previously, destroying a number of huts, while January 2021 had seen another fire which had burned down four schools. The Bangladeshi government has been moving refugees to Bhasan Char island in the Bay of Bengal, a policy widely condemned since the island could easily be submerged by a tropical cyclone. Fire During the late afternoon of 22 March 2021 a fire broke out in the Balukhali camp, southwest of Cox's Bazar. Residents later described how it had started in the south and spread with great speed through four blocks, and that panic broke out as people tried to escape. The World Food Programme said a number of its food distribution warehouses had been destroyed, as had health clinics, mosques, community centres, and a safe space for women run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The head of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement delegation in Bangladesh stated over 17,000 shelters—possibly 40,000 and most of them, constructed from bamboo and tarpaulin, makeshift—were destroyed, displacing "tens of thousands of people". Local reports stated the fire was burning eight hours after it broke out, and continued "well into the night", reported Time magazine. A Rohingya refugee was reported by NPR as telling them how "everything has gone. Thousands are without homes"; conversely, suggested the Catholic Relief Services, it was lucky that the fire had broken out in the afternoon rather than at night, as "people were moving around and children were outside playing, so they could quickly evacuate". The Times of India stated that "at least four teams of firefighters were struggling to control the blaze" and that videos posted to social media showed thick black smoke covering the camp. Victims First reports indicated that at least 15 people had died, with around another 400 missing, according to the UNHCR, who described it as "massive, it is devastating". The majority of the camp's refugees were women and children, and a government spokesperson confirmed that a number of the dead were children and that many of the missing were buried in the rubble. The UNHCR also suggested that 560 people had been injured and 45,000 displaced. Investigation The cause of the fire was unknown, although under investigation by Bangladesh Police. A number of human rights observers criticised the placement of barbed wire around the camp, arguing that it had prevented people—"including especially vulnerable women and girls", said the IRC—from fleeing the fire, and perhaps contributed to the death toll. Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) argued that "this tragic event could have been less disastrous had barbed wire fencing not been erected encircling the camps. NRC staff have heard horrific accounts from refugees about their scramble to cut through the wire fences to save their families, escape the fire and reach safety". Police, however, rejected the claims regarding barbed wire, and a government spokesman, reported Channel News Asia, stated that "the fencing was not a major issue", blaming the speed with which the fire spread rather than the barbed-wire fencing for casualties.Also questioned was why fires appeared to start with relative frequency, with a local fire brigade official stating three fires had occurred in four days; Amnesty International stated that, in their view, the "frequency of fire in the camps is too coincidental, especially when outcomes of previous investigations into the incidents are not known and they keep repeating", while a spokesman for the refugees noted that "It is not clear why these fire incidents are happening repeatedly in the camps". CBS reported that Bangladesh suspects arson, noting that "officials there say it's too much of a coincidence to have so many fires in such a short time period". Although the fire had died down within 48 hours, its cause was still unknown. Response The World Food Programme (WFP) believed up to 87,500 people would ultimately be affected by the fire, with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement putting the figure at 123,000. Aid agencies said the situation would remain critical due to the proximity of the cyclone season. Foreign aid First responders to the fire were Rohingya refugees themselves. The Voice of America reported that multiple aid agencies dispatched "emergency assistance". The spokesperson of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that he had "never before seen anything as massive and devastating", and that ground-based teams were carrying out a search and rescue operation in the rubble. UNICEF operatives were also working in the camp, both administering immediate first aid and assisting with rehousing where possible. Relief and rescue operations were coordinated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), who provided one million dollars for the relief effort. while the WFP dispatched a shipment of high-energy biscuits to the camp, and had arranged for 60,000 hot meals to be provided by the following day. On 25 March 2021, the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) released $14 Million to rebuild shelter and provide affected people with food, water and sanitation services, and other emergency support. Notes References 2021 disasters in Asia 2021 fires in Asia 2021 in Bangladesh 2021 in international relations Cox's Bazar District Fires in Bangladesh March 2021 events in Bangladesh March 2021 refugee-camp fire

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Flatterer (horse)

Flatterer (1979–2014) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a specialist steeplechaser who was the first to win the title of American Champion Steeplechase Horse on a record four occasions. In a racing career which lasted from 1982 through 1988 when he turned 8, he ran fifty-one times and won twenty-four races including many of America's most important steeplechases including the Colonial Cup (four times). Flatterer also became one of the few American-trained horses to compete successfully in the United Kingdom, placing second in the Champion Hurdle in 1987 and also in France, placing second in the French Champion Hurdle1986. Flatterer was the first American steeplechaser to live to the age of 35. Background Flatterer, who was foaled June 5, 1979, was a dark bay horse who was bred in Pennsylvania by William L. Pape and Jonathan E. Sheppard. Flatterer was originally intended for a career in flat racing, but was unable to show much potential in this area having eighteen starts only four wins, placing second twice, and third twice. After showing that he was unsuitable for flat racing, Flatterer was given his chance at Steeplechasing. He was trained by Jonathan E. Sheppard and ridden in most of his races by Jerry Fishback, who led him to 9 victories. He was sired by Mo Bay out of the mare Horizontal by Nade, a horse with the pedigree including Nasrullah who shows up in four other champion steeplechasing horses. Racing career Flatterer did not begin his racing career until he was a three-year-old in 1982, when he won four flat races from eighteen starts, this is where trainer Jonathan E. Sheppard decided "He simply wasn't quite fast enough to have any sort of breather in flat races, he had to go all out to keep up. We'd eventually lose him in claiming races. I thought jumping races might suit him just fine.". As a four-year-old, Flatterer was switched over to the world of steeplechasing and won six of his ten starts where he earned $93,064. In 1983, he was placed to compete for the Eclipse Award in the Colonial Cup, where he placed first, and continued winning for three more years after that in 1984, 1985, and 1986. In between these four years, Flatterer took his chance in other races. These races included the Temple Gwathmey in 1983 and 1985, Grand National 1983, New York Turf Writers Cup 1984, and placed first in all of these events. Later he was sent over seas to France where he placed second at the French Champion Hurdle in 1986 and later the next year also came in second during the English Champion Hurdle. After these two races trainer Sheppard claimed “That was another remarkable effort. The two best races he ran might have been two of the few races he actually lost. They were superb efforts. On your own ground, doing your own thing against horses you run against at home, running in top-class races is difficult. To do it away from home, on unfamiliar ground and over unfamiliar fences is something special.” In 1987 at the age of eight, Flatterer competed in his final races. He had started in five, won two of them, came second in one, and also placed third in one. During this final stretch, he earned a total of $79,602. Over his entire steeplechasing career, Flatterer earned a grand total of $538,708 United States Dollars. Retirement Flatterer was retired from racing after his final races in 1987, he was 8. He returned to his owner William Pape's farm (My Way Farm) in Unionville, PA where he remained active doing dressage work and spending much of his time with a younger mare named My Tombola. Owner William Pape shares that “The two of them get along extremely well, and these older guys, with the younger women…well, it moves them up and keeps them sound.” In 2014, Flatterer died at the age of 35 becoming one of the longest living thoroughbreds, and author Barbara Livingston from the Daily Racing Form claims that "Thoroughbreds rarely reach the benchmark of 30, let alone 33". In 1994 Flatterer was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Pedigree References 1979 racehorse births 2014 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Pennsylvania Racehorses trained in the United States Thoroughbred family 5-g Eclipse Award winners United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees

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Modraže

Modraže () is a settlement in the Municipality of Poljčane in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the hills above the left bank of the Dravinja River, east of the town of Poljčane. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava Statistical Region. References External links Modraže at Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Poljčane

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John Muse (businessman)

John Muse is an American businessman, polo player and philanthropist. Early life John Muse was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1973, where he played intercollegiate lacrosse, and received an M.B.A. from UCLA in 1974. Career From 1980 to 1984, he served as Senior Vice President and a Director of Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in Dallas. From 1984 to 1989, he directed the headed the investment banking activities of Prudential Securities for the Southwestern United States market. In 1989, he co-founded HM Capital Partners, a hedge fund, with Tom Hicks. He moved to London in 1998 to expand the hedge fund in the European market. He is a member of the 21st Century Group and Senior Advisor of Gerken Capital Associates, two investment firms. He is Chairman of the Lucchese Boot Company, best known for selling a cowboy boots. He is also Chairman of the Board of Kainos Capital and Arena Brands. He sits on the Board of Directors of Dean Foods, Swift and Co, two food corporations, and Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford, a reinsurance corporation. He has served on the boards of Life Partners, the Regal Entertainment Group, International Home Foods, Burton's Biscuit Company, Viatel Holding Ltd., Sunrise Television Corporation, Premier Foods, EurotaxGlass International AG, Lion Capital LLP, and the Morningstar Group. Philanthropy He serves on the board of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Polo He learned to play polo at the Ascot Park Polo Club in Ascot, Berkshire, England in 2001. He sponsors the Lucchese Polo Team. Other players include Adolfo Cambiaso, Andres Weisz, Jason Crowder, Santiago Torres and Sebastian Merlos. Personal life He is married to Lyn Muse, a UCLA alumnus and interior designer. They have five children. They live in a US$50 million mansion in Highland Park, Texas (a suburb of Dallas, Texas). The house was designed by British architect Quinlan Terry, and completed in 2001. It is built in the Neo-Palladian style. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Fort Worth, Texas People from Highland Park, Texas United States Air Force Academy alumni UCLA Anderson School of Management alumni American businesspeople American polo players Military personnel from Texas

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Jetset Records

Jetset Records was a New York-based indie rock record label. Founded by Shelley Maple in 1996, the label's first release was a reissue of German punk rock band The Golden Lemons' fourth album, Punkrock. The label has released music by a variety of independent bands, including Firewater, Sun Kil Moon and Mogwai. Roster 16 Horsepower Arab Strap Black Box Recorder Dean and Britta Congo Norvell David Candy Death by Chocolate Elysian Fields Firewater The Go-Betweens Golden Lemons The Gunga Din The Jesus Lizard Kid Silver Luna Macha Mogwai Prolapse Sahara Hotnights Erik Sanko Seaworthy Sister Sonny Spoozys The Stratford 4 Sun Kil Moon Teenage Fanclub Ten Benson The Flaming Sideburns Tram References American independent record labels Defunct record labels of the United States

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Higashi-Shizuoka Station

is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai). Lines Higashi-Shizuoka Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is located 177.7 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Tokyo Station. Station layout The station has a single island platform serving two tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge with a moving walkway. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles, and a staffed ticket office. Platforms Adjacent stations Station history Higashi-Shizuoka Station opened on October 30, 1998 as part of an urban renewal redevelopment of a portion of the former Higashi-Shizuoka Freight Terminal. A large-scale convention center next to the train station opened in 1999. These developments were intended to encourage further investment towards the east of Shizuoka city centre. Development of the area since the opening of the station has included a number of apartment blocks, a large shopping centre, and an onsen. Passenger statistics In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 8,361 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Surrounding area Naganuma Station (Shizuoka) Shizuoka University Kusanagi Athletic Stadium See also List of Railway Stations in Japan References Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) . External links Official home page Railway stations in Japan opened in 1998 Tōkaidō Main Line Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Shizuoka (city)

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Zona Rosa (San Salvador)

The Zona Rosa is an area in San Salvador, El Salvador. San Benito suburb It was created in 1946 with a design inspired by the European and North American Garden city movement. In the early 1980s a process of commercialization of the area began, replacing the houses located on Boulevard del Hipódromo with restaurants and bars, and since then the area has been known by the name of Zona Rosa. Remodeling In 2010 remodeling and modernization work of Zona Rosa began which consisted of construction of a central flower bed that connected the traffic circles Italia and Brasilia, as well as planting palm trees, adding LED lighting, construction of access ramps for disabled people and the remodeling of the public squares. Surveillance cameras and police points were added as well. This remodeling earned a recognition by the International Down Town Association as the first "Special Improvement District in Central America". Hotels The Zona Rosa has several hotels, both national and international chains, which include Villa Serena, Villa Florencia, Hotel Las Magnolias, Sheraton Presidente and Hilton Princess. Bars, Restaurants y Cafes The area also has several restaurants of fast and casual dining, clubs, bars and cafes. International brands include Papa John's Pizza, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Denny's, Tony Roma's, and others include La Pampa, Gourmet Burguer Company, Inka Grill, Maki Sushi, Shaw's, Crepe Lovers, Paradise, Green House, Antique Club, Republik, Zanzibar, Code, 503 Restaurant and Champagne Lounge, Marquee, Alive and many others. Museums In the area are two of the country's most important museums, which are the National Museum of Anthropology Dr. David J. Guzmán and the Art Museum of El Salvador. Monument to the Revolution The Monument to the Revolution is the area too. The construction began during the administration of Colonel Oscar Osorio to commemorate the uprising that ousted General Salvador Castaneda Castro from the power in 1948. It was completed in the administration of Colonel José María Lemus. Embassies The zone is also the home of several embassies: Embassy of Brazil Embassy of Spain Embassy of Mexico Embassy of Italy Embassy of Uruguay Embassy of Dominican Republic Residential Area The area also has many residences, some of which have been modified to become in restaurants or nightclubs, however, there are two towers complex with luxury apartments overlooking the entire area. One residential tower is Alisios 115, a Groupo Bolívar Property. It is 96 meters high and consists of 26 floors of luxurious apartments. It is the third highest tower in El Salvador and the fourth in Central America excluding Panama. There are other towers as well, such as Torres 105 Campestre, Torre 525 Avenida La Capilla, Torre 515 Avenida La Capilla and Torre 370 Avenida La Capilla. International Center of Fairs and Conventions (CIFCO) The area also has an amphitheater with capacity for 15 thousand people, the Central American Hall, 12 multipurpose halls, a mall area and parking for up to 800 vehicles. See also Lifestyle Center La Gran Via External links Remodelacion de la Zona Rosa (news site in spanish) Corporación Zona Rosa (Site in spanish) www.marte.org.sv www.proyectosdevida.com www.cifco.gob.sv San Salvador

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Arenaria ciliata

Arenaria ciliata, the fringed sandwort, is a perennial herb of the family Caryophyllaceae. A. ciliata is a calcicole occurring in open grassland and on bare rock in mountainous areas. Distribution It is European with an outlying population in Greenland. This species is not known from Britain. It was discovered in Ireland in 1806 growing on Ben Bulben Co. Sligo. This remains the only known Irish population. References Preston, C.D. Pearman, D. & Dines, T., (2002). New Atlas of The British and Irish Flora. Oxford. ciliata Flora of Greenland Flora of Europe Flora of Ireland Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

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Cosmopolitan Girl

Cosmopolitan Girl is a single by Puerto Rican boy band, Menudo released in 1993 on McGillis Records. It features Abel Talamántez, Alexis Grullón, Andy Blázquez, Ashley Ruiz and Ricky López. Track listing Radio Mix [4:02] Club Mix [5:05] Rave Mix [7:58] A Cappella Mix [4:18] Extended Pop Mix [5:35] Reggae Mix [3:10] References 1993 albums Menudo (band) albums