Military Brat (or simply Brat) refers to a child with at least one parent who served full-time in the armed forces. It implies that such an upbringing is different in important ways from that experienced by those in the community at large. The term brat, when used in this context, is neither subjective nor derogatory.

In September 2013, Page launched the independent Calico initiative, a R&D project in the field of biotechnology. Google announced that Calico seeks to innovate and make improvements in the field of human health, and appointed Art Levinson, chairman of Apple's board and former CEO of Genentech, to be the new division's CEO. Page's official statement read: ""Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives.

The Progress of Siam has been such of late years that i think the time has arrived when this goverment may look forward to more control over its own affairs and to less interference from without. To obtain such control is, my opinion well worth sacrificeof territory over which the Goverment does not excercise effective control and about which questions of difficulty may arise. ''In pursuance, therefore, of such policy of which the late Treaty with France is an example, I should be willing to propose to the Siamese Government the cession to Great Britain of the states of Kelantan, Trengganu, and Kedah, provided that the British Government would be willing to make the following concessions 1. The abrogation of the Secret Agreement of 1897; 2. The giving up of exterritoriality, at least to the extent which has been yield by France by the Treaty of the 23rd March this year.'

Columbia High School has a series of clubs. The Columbian is a club where students write a newspaper for students and staff of Columbia High School that includes topics from in the school itself, but also includes current events from around the world. The paper was recognized by the American Scholastic Press Association in 2014-15 with first place in its Scholastic Newspaper Awards.

A young Greek girl, Fotini Papaleonidopoulou, lit a symbolic lantern with the Olympic Flame and passed it on to other children before ""extinguishing"" the flame in the cauldron by blowing a puff of air. The ceremony ended with a variety of musical performances by Greek singers, including George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Anna Vissi, Sakis Rouvas, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Alkistis Protopsalti, Antonis Remos, Mixalis Xatzigiannis, Marinella and Dimitra Galani, as thousands of athletes carried out symbolic displays on the stadium floor.