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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaite%20Jansen

Gaite Jansen

Gaite Sara Kim Jansen (born 25 December 1991) is a Dutch actress born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Life and career Jansen received her professional training at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts. At age 12, she was awarded the Best Actress Award at the 48 Hour Film Project in Amsterdam for her role in Luwte. Her performance as a troubled deaf teenager in the acclaimed arthouse film 170 Hz (2011) earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Seattle Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Festival. The film Supernova, in which she plays the lead role, was selected for the Generations competition at Berlinale film festival 2014. In 2014, Jansen made her stage debut at the prestigious Amsterdam Theatre Group, as Ophelia in Hamlet vs. Hamlet, directed by Guy Cassiers and played in Medea later that year. In 2015, Jansen appeared as the lead role in the film Greenland. She played a suicidal girl in In Therapie, the Dutch version of BeTipul in 2010. She was nominated "best actress" at the Gouden Kalf awards in 2012 for her role in 170 Hz, where she played a deaf girl and conversed mostly in Dutch Sign Language. Jansen also plays the role of Duchess Tatiana Petrovna in the third season of the BBC gangster drama Peaky Blinders. In 2017 she appeared as Hana Raznikova in Line of Duty. She plays Phoenix in the Cinemax TV series Jett. Filmography Film Television References External links 1991 births Living people Dutch child actresses Actors from Rotterdam

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

Kushiyaki

is a formal term that encompasses both poultry and non-poultry items, skewered and grilled. At times, restaurants group them as and yakimono (焼き物). Yakitori and kushiyaki Both yakitori and kushiyaki are used interchangeably in Japanese society to refer to skewered meat collectively; however, when referring to a specific item, yakitori will not be used unless the primary meat is chicken. While using pork, grilled pork on skewers are cooked with the same sauce as yakitori, and that is why in some areas as Muroran, grilled pork on skewers are called "yakitori", instead of . While kabayaki is also skewered and grilled over charcoal, it is rarely categorized as kushiyaki since they are not served on skewers. Fish grilled whole on skewers with salt and served after pulling off the skewer including sea bream (tai) and sweetfish (ayu) is not called kushiyaki but shioyaki ("grilled with salt") at high-end restaurants. At food stalls or yatai, ayu is sold on skewers. Variety In order to facilitate even cooking, the ingredient is cut into small, roughly uniform shapes. Skewers or kushi are made with bamboo or Japanese cypress, and shape as well as length varies to use for the type of food: flat skewers are used for minced meat, for example. Meat beef (gyūniku), pork meat (butaniku) and cartilage (nankotsu), horse meat (baniku). Seafood sweetfish (ayu), minced and seasoned Atlantic horse mackerel (aji) and sardine (iwashi), prawn and shrimp (ebi), Japanese scallop (hotate), squid and cuttlefish (ika). Vegetable onion (tamanegi), eggplant (nasu), cherry tomato, potato, pumpkin (kabocha), scallion (negi), ginkgo nuts (ginnan), green bell pepper (pīman), garlic (ninniku), Japanese pepper (shishitō). Products and prepared Tōfu, nattō, steamed rice. Seasoning Kushiyaki seasonings are primarily divided among two types: salty or salty-sweet. The salty type usually uses plain salt as its main seasoning. For the salty-sweet variety, tare, a special sauce consisting of mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sugar is used. Other common spices include powdered cayenne pepper, shichimi, Japanese pepper, black pepper, karashi and wasabi, according to one's tastes. Examples Products and prepared food are applied for receipt. , bell pepper stuffed with minced pork , cherry tomato wrapped with bacon strips , fried thin tofu (aburaage) pouch filled with nattō , beef tongue, sliced thinly. , Pork belly , thicker variety of deep-fried tōfu , enoki mushrooms wrapped in slices of pork , asparagus wrapped in bacon Gallery See also Japanese cuisine List of chicken dishes Robatayaki Similar skewered food References Further reading External links Japan Guide Everyday Japanese Cuisine Japanese beef dishes Japanese pork dishes Grilled skewers Street food Japanese cuisine terms

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petros%20Mavimbela

Petros Mavimbela

Petros Mavimbela (born 1963) is a politician from Eswatini who is serving as Speaker of the House of Assembly from October 2018 and Eswatini Branch President of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. References Speakers of the House of Assembly of Eswatini Members of the Parliament of Eswatini Living people 1963 births

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage%20and%20Ruin

Rage and Ruin

Rage and Ruin is the fourteenth solo studio album by Jimmy Barnes, released through Liberation Music on 27 August 2010. It would be his last album of original material until 2019's My Criminal Record. Review Jon O'Brien from AllMusic said: "After tackling old-school R&B, country-roots, and Memphis soul on his previous three releases, Australian rock veteran Jimmy Barnes returns to more familiar territory on his 14th studio release, Rage and Ruin. Produced by longtime collaborator Don Gehman, the back-to-basics affair sees the gravelly-voiced rocker battle his demons on 12 tracks inspired by a book of notes he wrote while struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. It isn't exactly pretty, but for fans of vintage Australian pub rock, Rage and Ruin ticks all the boxes." Track listing CD/Digital download "God or Money" (Jimmy Barnes and Mike Daly) – 3:52 "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (Barnes/Daly) – 4:11 "Letter from a Dead Heart" (Barnes/Daly) – 4:25 "Stupid Heart" (Barnes/Daly) – 3:54 "Adam Was Just a Man" (Barnes/Mark Simos) – 4:18 "I've Seen It All (Rage and Ruin)" (Barnes/Simos) – 5:25 "Can't Do It Again" (Barnes/Simos) – 4:28 "Time Can Change" (Barnes/Daly) – 3:58 "This Ain't the Day That I Die" (Barnes/Daly) – 3:22 "Love Can Break the Hardest Heart" (Barnes/Simos) – 4:12 "Turn It Around" (Barnes/Daly) – 3:19 "Largs Pier Hotel" (Barnes/Simos) – 4:48 Deluxe edition bonus tracks "Navigator" "Taking Time" "One More Night" "Let It Go" Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications Singles "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" "God or Money" References Jimmy Barnes albums 2010 albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled%20duck

Marbled duck

The marbled duck, or marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris) is a medium-sized species of duck from southern Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia. The scientific name, Marmaronetta angustirostris, comes from the Greek marmaros, marbled and netta, a duck, and Latin angustus, narrow or small and -rostris billed. Distribution, habitat and breeding This duck formerly bred in large numbers in the Mediterranean region, but is now restricted to a few sites in southern Spain, southern Italy, northwest Africa and the broader Levant. Further east it survives in the Mesopotamian marshland in southern Iraq and in Iran (Shadegan Marshes - the world's most important site), as well as isolated pockets in Armenia, Azerbaijan, South European Russia, western India and western China. In general the species has nomadic tendencies. In some areas birds disperse from the breeding grounds, and have been encountered in the winter period in the Sahel zone, south of the Sahara. Its preferred breeding habitat is temporary and shallow fresh, brackish or alkaline waters with densely vegetated shores in regions that otherwise are fairly dry. It may also breed in coastal lagoons, along slow rivers or man-made waters like reservoirs. The on average 12 eggs are placed in a nest covered by dense vegetation at the waters edge. It is usually on the ground, but occasionally higher among reeds or on huts made from reeds. They are common in captive collections but are a nervous and flighty bird. These are gregarious birds, at times even when nesting. Outside the breeding season flocks are often small, although large wintering flocks have been reported in some areas. The largest winter concentration known is in Khuzestan, Iran. In 2011, a group of Iraqi ornithologists counted a single flock of the rare marbled teal on the lakes of the Iraqi marshes, numbering at least 40,000 birds. Description and diet The marbled duck is approximately long. Adults are a pale sandy-brown colour, diffusely blotched off-white, with a dark eye-patch and shaggy head. The female averages smaller than the male, but otherwise the sexes are alike. Juveniles are similar but with more off-white blotches. In flight, the wings look pale without a marked pattern, and no speculum on the secondaries. These birds feed mainly in shallow water by dabbling or up-ending. Adults feed mostly on seeds (for example, from Scirpus and Ruppia), but also take significant quantities of invertebrates (especially aquatic insect larvae and pupae, tiny crustaceans, and—highly unusual for a duck—ants) and green plants (for example, Potamogeton). Their gizzard allows them to break down seeds and the lamellae in their beak allow them to filter feed on zooplanktonic organisms. Young marbled ducks feed mostly on invertebrates. Although they may take tiny seeds, they lack the large gizzard necessary to break down the larger seeds commonly consumed by adults. Conservation This bird is considered near threatened by the IUCN due to a reduction in population caused by habitat destruction and hunting. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. References External links marbled duck marbled duck Birds of Europe Birds of North Africa Birds of Azerbaijan Birds of Western Asia Birds of the Middle East Birds of Central Asia Birds of Pakistan Birds of West Africa marbled duck

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienehe%20Charterhouse

Marienehe Charterhouse

Marienehe Charterhouse, also sometimes referred to as Rostock Charterhouse (, Kartause Himmelszinnen or Kartause Rostock), was a Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in Marienehe, now a suburb of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The estate of Marienehe was bought in 1393 by the Rostock merchant and statesman Winold Baggel or Baggele, who in , when he was Bürgermeister of Rostock, together with his father-in-law, Matthias von Borken, founded the charterhouse here. The monastery was noted for the extent to which it favoured university education for its monks and the mystical writings the community produced, particularly under the priors Heinrich Eler, Vicco Dessin and Heinrich von Ribnitz. The community, under the leadership of Marquardt or Markwart (von) Behr, the last prior, vehemently resisted the imposition of Lutheranism during the Reformation and the monastery had to be dissolved forcibly by 300 armed men on , after which it was demolished and used as a quarry. The stone was mostly put to use in the construction of Schloss Güstrow. There are no visible remains. The site was later used for the construction of the Heinkel works, and after the war for the Rostock Fischkombinat ("fishery centre"). A block of flats now stands here. Notes Sources and external links Lorenz, Sönke, Potkowski, Edward, Schlegel, Gerhard et al., 2002: Bücher, Bibliotheken und Schriftkultur der Kartäuser: Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski. Franz Steiner Verlag available at googlebooks.co.uk Schlegel, Gerhard: Die vergessene Kartause Marienehe bei Rostock (1396–1552). Analecta Cartusiana 116/4, 1989, pp. 119–151 Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen / Årg. XXII. 1935 /151 Projekt Runeberg Buildings and structures in Rostock Carthusian monasteries in Germany Monasteries in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Religious organizations established in the 1390s Christian monasteries established in the 14th century Religious organizations disestablished in 1552

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola%20Polvese

Isola Polvese

Isola Polvese or Polvese Island is an island situated in the southeastern part of Lake Trasimeno and is the largest of the three islands of the lake. The area is of particular historical and naturalistic interest. Today, the island belongs to the Province of Perugia and is known as a Scientific-Didactic Park, which is a part of Trasimeno Regional Park. The island is a part of Castiglione del Lago. History The island was visited by the Etruscans and by Romans. In the Middle Ages, the inhabitants submitted to Perugia. During that period, some churches and a castle were erected to protect and defend the little village. Monks of the Benedictine and Dominican orders were present on the island. In 1841, the island became private property and was used as a hunting area. In 1973, the Province of Perugia acquired Polvese Island. Monuments Among the most important monuments of the island are the church of Saint Giuliano and Saint Secondo, the Olivetans’ Monastery, and the Medieval Castle. The garden of Aquatic Plants was realized in 1959 by the architect Pietro Porcinai. Landscape In the northern part, a huge oak woodland covers the island with many plant varieties, typical of the Mediterranean area, such as holm and ash trees. In the lower wood guelder rose, laurel, ilex, and privet can be found. The southern area is covered by a huge olive grove with centuries-old olive trees. The humid area is characterized by an extended reed thicket that grows along from the east to the south. Ornamental plants and trees are present all along the meadows while rosemary hedges and pomegranate characterize the paths and the inner part of the island. The natural environs lodge a rich fauna of invertebrates, especially insects. Among the vertebrates, there are the fox, the marten, the hare, the nutria, and a wide variety of birds, especially the ones, that live in humid climates such as coots, ducks, and herons. Activities The island offers today an example of management according to sustainable criteria. The activities offered by the Environmental Experience Center on the island concern didactic and environmental tourism. Structures & services Great hall and Laboratory Punto Verde – Information Environmental Education Operators Service, Restoration, and Bar Hotel “La Villa” (55 beds) Youth Hostel “Fattoria Il Poggio” (90 beds) Umbria Mobilità – Public Boat Service External links The official website of the Polvese Island Centre of Environmental Experience "Isola Polvese - Where We Are". Fattoria il Poggio Landforms of Umbria Province of Perugia Islands of the Trasimeno Lake Lake islands of Italy Castiglione del Lago

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20tuition%20in%20the%20United%20States

College tuition in the United States

College tuition in the United States is the cost of higher education collected by educational institutions in the United States, and paid by individuals. It does not include the tuition covered through general taxes or from other government funds, or that is paid from university endowment funds or gifts. Tuition for college has increased as the value, quality, and quantity of education have increased. Many feel that increases in cost have not been accompanied by increases in quality, and that administrative costs are excessive. The value of a college education has become a topic of national debate in the U.S. History Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the powers of the federal government are limited to those mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. As education is not mentioned, educational policy and schools are state matters in the United States. The federal government operates military academies, but there is no national university nor national academic standards. The development of national standards has been driven from outside, especially the accounting industry, as more and more money became involved. An important predecessor was the Morrill Act of 1862, which provided for land-grant colleges using surplus federal lands recently acquired. The size and cost of U.S. public higher education increased dramatically after World War II with the introduction of the GI bill and greater federal funding for higher education.Policy makers believed that university-based research had played a critical role in determining the outcome of World War II and would be essential for success in the Cold War. With the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union, many feared that the United States was falling behind on science and technology because it relied on private wealth to fund higher education, in contrast to the Soviet system, which was publicly funded and perceived by some to be more meritocratic and more closely tied to the needs of the economy and the military. In the United States, many families were unable to borrow sufficient funds to finance a high-quality education for their children, and to thereby increase their children's earning capacity and standard of living, until after the introduction of federal student loans. As public subsidies fell and costs and quality of education increased, loans played an increasingly important role in higher education finance. During the late 1960s, as the nation's economic growth slowed, the question of who should pay for higher education came under fresh political scrutiny. Decades-old no-tuition policies at some campuses fell by the wayside as politicians promoted new austerity policies. In California, Governor Ronald Reagan promoted cuts to higher education as a way to win favor with business interests and conservative voters. He justified tuition as necessary given voters' aversion to any increase in taxes. In New York, federal and state politicians forced austerity on New York city to satisfy bond holders. New York reformers claimed that The City University of New York's longstanding no-tuition policy was no longer financially feasible. In the context of a stagnant economy and a growing conservative movement embracing government austerity, no-tuition policies fell out of favor in many areas of the country during this period. Overview of tuition rates in the U.S. The United States has one of the most expensive higher education systems in the world, and also one of the most successful in terms of the boost to earnings from higher education. Public colleges have no control over one major revenue source — the state. In 2016–17, the average cost of annual tuition in the United States ranged from $9,700 for public four-year institutions to $33,500 for private four-year institutions. Private colleges increased their tuition by an average of 1.7 percent in 2016–17, the smallest rise in four decades, according to the U.S. Consumer Price Index. The average college tuition has decreased in the 2020-2021 school year in both private and public schools. Due to the high price of college tuitions about 43 percent of students have to reject their first choice of schools. Causes of tuition increases Cost shifting and privatization Between 2007–08 and 2017–18, published in-state tuition and fees at public four-year institutions increased at an average rate of 3.2% per year beyond inflation, compared with 4.0% between 1987–88 and 1997–98 and 4.4% between 1997–98 and 2007-08. One cause of increased tuition is the reduction of state and federal appropriations to state colleges, causing the institutions to shift the cost over to students in the form of higher tuition. State support for public colleges and universities has fallen by about 26 percent per full-time student since the early 1990s. In 2011, for the first time, American public universities took in more revenue from tuition than state funding. Critics say the shift from state support to tuition represents an effective privatization of public higher education. About 80 percent of American college students attend public institutions. Critics also note that investments in higher education are severely tax disadvantaged compared to other investments. Heavy taxes and inadequate subsidies to higher education contribute to underinvestment in education and a shortage of educated labor, as demonstrated by the very high pre-tax returns to investments in higher education. Bubble theory The view that higher education is a bubble is controversial. Most economists do not think the returns to college education are falling. To the contrary, they appear to be both increasing, and to be much higher than the returns to other investments such as the stock market, bonds, real estate, or private equity. One rebuttal to the claims that a bubble analogy is misleading is the observation that the 'bursting' of the bubble are the negative effects on students who incur student debt. For example, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities reports that "Students are deeper in debt today than ever before...The trend of heavy debt burdens threatens to limit access to higher education, particularly for low-income and first-generation students, who tend to carry the heaviest debt burden. Federal student aid policy has steadily put resources into student loan programs rather than need-based grants, a trend that straps future generations with high debt burdens. Even students who receive federal grant aid are finding it more difficult to pay for college." Student loans Another proposed cause of increased tuition is U.S. Congress' occasional raising of the 'loan limits' of student loans, in which the increased availability of students to take out deeper loans sends a message to colleges and universities that students can 'afford more,' and then, in response, institutions of higher education raise tuition to match, leaving the student back where he began, but deeper in debt. College fees begin to accumulate when people start college, such as orientation and freshman fees, and additional charges upon your departure, such as senior and commencement fees. In 1987, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett argued that "... increases in financial aid in recent years have enabled colleges and universities blithely to raise their tuitions, confident that Federal loan subsidies would help cushion the increase." This statement came to be known as the "Bennett Hypothesis." The nonpartisan New York Fed studied the effect of increased loan supply on tuition following large policy changes in federal aid program maximums available to undergraduate students that occurred between 2008 and 2010" found "that institutions that were most exposed to these [loan limit] maximums ahead of the policy changes experienced disproportionate tuition increases around these changes, with effects of changes in institution-specific program maximums of Pell Grant, subsidized." However, many empirical studies that have tested the effects of student loans on college tuition find no evidence of an increase in tuition, especially net of scholarships and after taking into account increases in the quality of education funded by increases in tuition. Moreover, the widespread availability of private student loans makes it unlikely that public student loan availability limits demand for education. An additional rebuttal to the student loan theory is the fact that even in years when loan limits have not risen, tuition has still continued to climb, and tuition has increased more at public institutions than at private institutions. Public college tuition has jumped 33 percent nationwide since 2000. One recent working paper posted online by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2015 (revised in 2016) concluded that undergraduate institutions more exposed to increases in student loan program maximums tend to respond with modest raises in tuition prices. The working paper has not yet been subject to peer review. Lack of bankruptcy protection A third, novel theory claims that the recent change in federal law removing all standard consumer protections (truth in lending, bankruptcy proceedings, statutes of limits, the right to refinance, adherence to usury laws, and Fair Debt & Collection practices, etc.) strips students of the ability to declare bankruptcy, and, in response, the lenders and colleges know that students, defenseless to declare bankruptcy, are on the hook for any amount that they borrow, including late fees and interest, which can be capitalized and increase the principal loan amount, thus removing the incentive to provide students with a reasonable loan. However, changes in the availability of bankruptcy discharge for private student loans caused no changes in the pricing or availability of private student loans, suggesting that this theory is implausible. Additional factors Other factors that have been implicated in increased tuition include the following: The practice of 'tuition discounting,' in which a college awards financial aid from its own funds. This assistance to low-income students means that 'paying' students have to 'make up' for the difference: increased tuition. According to Inside Higher Ed, a 2011 report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers explains more about the practice of tuition discounting. The article notes that "while the total amount spent on institutional aid for freshmen rose, the average amount that institutions spent per student actually dropped slightly" and gives, as one possible reason for the drop, that between 2008 and 2011 "colleges and universities had to lower the amount they gave to each student to help cover a larger number of students." According to Mark Kantrowitz, a recognised expert in the area, "The most significant contributor to tuition increases at public and private colleges is the cost of instruction. It accounts for a quarter of the tuition increase at public colleges and a third of the increase at private colleges." Kantrowitz' study also found, "Complying with the increasing number of regulations — in particular, with the reporting requirements — adds to college costs," thus contributing to a rise in tuition to pay for these additional costs. Since deregulation, the average cost of tuition and fees at the state's public universities has increased by 90 percent, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Of the 181 members of the state's 83rd Legislature, more than 50 have voted at least once to advance efforts to end tuition deregulation, and fewer than 20 have consistently voted to uphold it. Many have never voted on the issue, and more than 40 members are freshmen. The rise, however, is not entirely negative. Tuition increases help universities make up for that in their budgets. Recommendations Commentators have recommended certain policies to varying degrees of controversy: State and federal governments should increase appropriations, grants, and contracts to colleges and universities. Federal, state, and local governments should reduce the regulatory burden on colleges and universities. Minimize the risk of investment in higher education through loan forgiveness or insurance programs. The federal government should enact partial or total loan forgiveness for student loans. Colleges and universities should look for ways to reduce costs without reducing quality. Federal lawmakers should return standard consumer protections (truth in lending, bankruptcy proceedings, statutes of limitations, etc.) to student loans which were removed by the passage of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, which amended the FFELP (Federal Family Education Loan Program). Growth of college tuition "Disproportional inflation" refers to inflation in a particular economic sector that is substantially greater than inflation in general costs of living. The following graph shows the inflation rates of general costs of living (for urban consumers; the CPI-U), medical costs (medical costs component of the consumer price index (CPI)), and college and tuition and fees for private four-year colleges (from College Board data) from 1978 to 2008. All rates are computed relative to 1978. Cost of living increased roughly 3.25-fold during this time; medical costs inflated roughly 6-fold; but college tuition and fees inflation approached 10-fold. Another way to say this is that whereas medical costs inflated at twice the rate of cost-of-living, college tuition and fees inflated at four times the rate of cost-of-living inflation. Thus, even after controlling for the effects of general inflation, 2008 college tuition and fees posed three times the burden as in 1978. Economic and social concerns Economic factors Most economists believe that the benefits of higher education exceed the costs by a wide margin and that higher education more than pays for itself. Social factors Besides economic effects of rapidly-increasing debt burdens placed on students, there are social ramifications to higher student debt. Several studies demonstrate that students from lower income families are more likely to drop out of college to avoid debt. Middle class families are at risk because the increasing cost of college tuition may limit their acquisition of the education that allows them to succeed in their communities. Recent reports also indicate an increase in suicides directly attributable to the stress related to distressed and defaulted student loans. The adverse mental health impacts on the student population because of economic-induced stress are becoming a social concern. Student loan debt A closely related issue is the increase in students borrowing to finance college education and the resulting in student loan debt. In the 1980s, federal student loans became the centerpiece of student aid received. From 2006–2012, federal student loans more than doubled and outstanding student loan debt grew to $807 billion. One of the consequences of increased student borrowing is an increase in the number of defaults. Meanwhile, two-year default rates increased from 5.2 percent in 2006 to 9.1 percent in 2012 and more than doubled the historic low of 4.5 percent set in 2003. Since data collection began in 1987, the highest two-year default rate recorded was 22.4 percent in 1990. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education released detailed federal student loan default rates including, for the first time, three-year default rates. For-profit institutions had the highest average three-year default rates at 22.7 percent, and public institutions rates were 11 percent and private non-profit institutions at 7.5 percent. More than 3.6 million borrowers from over 5,900 schools entered repayment during 2008–2009, and approximately 489,000 of them defaulted. For-profit colleges account for 10 percent of enrolled students but 44 percent of student loan defaults. In 2011, the Project on Student Debt reported that approximately two thirds of students who graduated with bachelor's degrees from four-year nonprofit universities had taken out student loans, with an average debt of $25,250, an overall rise of five percent from 2009. In 2010, student loan debt surpassed credit card debt. In his 2012 State of the Union Address, U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the rising cost of higher education in the United States. Through an executive order in 2011, Obama laid out a student loan plan, "Pay as you Earn," which allows former students to pay education debts as a percentage of their incomes. Furthermore, the Obama administration has developed an optional standardized letter to be sent to admitted students indicating the cost of attendance at an institution, including all net costs as well as financial aid received. Since 2012, the total amount of student debt has increased. Due to the coronavirus the Relief and Economic Security Act was passed in March 2020, which ensured that the interest rate for federal student loans was set to 0% and most of the student loan payments were on hold until September 30, 2021. See also College admissions in the United States Credentialism and educational inflation EdFund Free education Higher education bubble in the United States Higher Education Price Index Post-secondary education Private university Student debt Student loans in the United States Tuition payments Tuition freeze References and notes External links "College, Inc.", PBS FRONTLINE documentary, May 4, 2010 by Robert E. Martin Universities and colleges in the United States Education finance in the United States Higher education in the United States Education economics

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Mahoney

Matthew Mahoney

Matthew Mahoney may refer to: Matthew Mahoney (footballer) (born 1968), former Australian rules footballer Matt Mahoney (soccer) (born 1995), American soccer player Matt Mahoney, a developer of PAQ

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram%20Bithorn%20Stadium

Hiram Bithorn Stadium

Hiram Bithorn Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Hiram Bithorn) is a baseball park in San Juan, Puerto Rico, built in 1962 and designed by Puerto Rican architect Pedro Miranda. It is operated by the municipal government of the city of San Juan. Its name honors the first Puerto Rican to play in the major leagues, Hiram Bithorn, who first played with the Chicago Cubs in 1942. Built in 1962, under the mayoral administration of Felisa Rincón de Gautier, replacing Estadio Sixto Escobar, the stadium is home to the Santurce Crabbers, of the Puerto Rico Baseball League. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Dimensions The stadium has approximately 18,000 seats. The stadium is 325 feet (99 m) down the left-field line, 325 feet (99 m) down the right-field line and 404 feet (123 m) to center field. The fences are 8 feet (2.5 m) high. When the Expos played home games at Hiram Bithorn, the field dimensions were set to match Olympic Stadium in Montreal. History The first outdoor National Basketball Association game was played between the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks on September 24, 1972, during that year's preseason. The Suns defeated the Bucks, 116–103. In the mid-1990s Hiram Bithorn Stadium was planned to be the home of the yet-to-be-named Puerto Rico team, a charter franchise of the United League (UL) which was a planned third league of Major League Baseball (MLB). The stadium hosted Major League Baseball's Opening Day Game in 2001, in which the Toronto Blue Jays faced the Texas Rangers in an American League match-up. However, 4,000 who bought tickets were turned away when the police determined the safe capacity of the park had been vastly exceeded. It was the object of a major overhaul under the mayoral administration of Jorge Santini, before becoming the part-time home of the Montreal Expos of the National League in 2003 and 2004 before their move to Washington, D.C. as the Washington Nationals. The Expos played 20 "home" games across the two seasons as a result of poor attendance at their home Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Before Major League Baseball's announcement of the Montreal Expos' move to Washington, Puerto Rico and San Juan made an effort to lure the Expos franchise to the island territory permanently. Hiram Bithorn Stadium hosted parts of the first two rounds of the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Pool C, which included the teams of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama, and the Netherlands, was played there. It also hosted Pool 2 of the second round of the Classic which featured Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, the top two finishers from Pool C and Pool D. Pool D games of the 2009 World Baseball Classic were played there between March 7 and March 11, 2009. The Hiram Bithorn Stadium hosted the 2013 World Baseball Classic with Puerto Rico, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and newcomers Spain in Pool C. In 2008, it served as the stadium for Atléticos de San Juan and Academia Quintana, two soccer teams in the Puerto Rico Soccer League, Puerto Rico's first-ever professional soccer league. In 2010, Major League Baseball returned to the stadium, as the Florida Marlins faced the New York Mets in a three-game series during the regular season. The Marlins were to play the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 30 and 31, 2016 in honor of Roberto Clemente Day. However, on May 6, 2016, it was announced that the Puerto Rico games would be postponed due to the Zika virus outbreak, and moved to Marlins Park. The Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins played a two-game series at Hiram Bithorn Stadium on April 17 and 18, 2018. It is the first time since 2010 that a Major League Baseball regular-season game was played in Puerto Rico. Furthermore, the league announced in August 2019 that they would be returning for a three-game series in April 2020 between the Miami Marlins and New York Mets. This series was later cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been, as of June 2020, 71 professional boxing events that have been held at the stadium, including many world championship fights. Also, former world heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson fought there late in his career. Other uses Along with sporting events, the stadium has hosted concerts by many famous artists. Metallica were scheduled to perform during their Nowhere Else to Roam Tour on April 28, 1993, but it was rained out and never rescheduled. Shakira has performed twice, during her Tour Anfibio, on April 9, 2000, and during the Tour of the Mongoose, on March 22, 2003. Some of the concerts that have been held at the venue: The Byrds – April 30, 1967 Santana – October 31, 1971 The Jackson Five – July 17, 1973 Blue Angel/Peter Frampton – August 22, 1981 Blue Öyster Cult – October 28, 1983 Bon Jovi/Scorpions: Love At First Sting Tour – July 13, 1984 Black Jack/Ozzy Osbourne: Bark At The Moon Tour – August 4, 1984 The Motels/Men At Work – August 2, 1985 Sting – November 9, 1985 Cinderella/Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet Tour – February 21, 1987 The Beach Boys – April 4, 1987 Poison/Ratt: Dancing Undercover Tour – June 12, 1987 Toto/Rod Stewart: Out of Order Tour – July 1, 1988 Stryper: In God We Trust Tour – January 14, 1989 Gloria Estefan: Into The Light Tour - March 14 & 15, 1992 Whitney Houston: The Bodyguard World Tour – April 24, 1994 Phil Collins: Both Sides Tour – April 29, 1995 Laura Pausini: World Wide Tour – May 10, 1997 Billy Joel – February 11, 1999 Maná: Unplugged – May 6, 2000 Backstreet Boys – May 19 & 20, 2001 - Black & Blue Tour Mega Electronic Fest: March 19, 2011, March 17, 2012, and March 16, 2013 Rihanna: Diamonds World Tour – October 29, 2013 Bad Bunny: P FKN R – December 10–11, 2021 Daddy Yankee: La Última Vuelta World Tour – January 6–8, 2023 (last concerts of Daddy Yankee's career) Professional Wrestling: WWC Anniversary Show 1984: September 14, 1984. Attendance 34,383. WWF – October 19, 1985 See also National Register of Historic Places listings in metropolitan San Juan, Puerto Rico References External links Ballparks.com: Hiram Bithorn Stadium MLB.com: List of MLB games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium Clem's Baseball Hiram Bithorn Stadium Hiram Bithorn Stadium Aerial View Sports venues in San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Baseball venues in Puerto Rico Multi-purpose stadiums in the United States Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico National Register of Historic Places in San Juan, Puerto Rico Defunct Major League Baseball venues Football venues in Puerto Rico Montreal Expos stadiums Pan American Games opening ceremony stadiums World Baseball Classic venues Sports venues completed in 1962 1963 establishments in Puerto Rico Sports venues on the National Register of Historic Places Modern architecture in Puerto Rico Buildings and structures in San Juan, Puerto Rico

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Sersen

Michal Sersen

Michel Sersen (born December 28, 1985) is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays HC Slovan Bratislava of the Slovak Extraliga. Sersen was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins 130th overall in the 5th round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career Sersen began his professional career with Bratislava at age 17 in 2002. During the 2002–03 season he had five goals and four assists in 33 games with the junior team before being promoted to the top-level Extraliga team. At the end of the season he entered the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Import Draft and was selected first overall by the Rimouski Océanic, where he was teammates with the Sidney Crosby, the Penguins' first selection in 2005. In his first season, he scored 25 points in 45 games and 6 points in 9 playoff games. He played the 2005–06 season for the Quebec Remparts, scoring 79 points in 63 games, and 21 points in 23 playoff games. That season he was on the Memorial Cup All-Star team, second-team QMJHL for the regular season and the 2005–06 QMJHL Plus-Minus champion. After failing to earn a spot on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins roster in 2006, Sersen returned to Slovakia to again play for Bratislava. Pittsburgh traded the rights to Sersen to the Tampa Bay Lightning in October 2008. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs International Awards and honors References External links 1985 births Living people HC Sparta Praha players Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players HC '05 Banská Bystrica players HC Lev Praha players HC Slovan Bratislava players Memorial Cup winners People from Gelnica Pittsburgh Penguins draft picks Rimouski Océanic players Quebec Remparts players Slovak expatriates in Russia Slovak ice hockey defencemen

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren%20Newman

Darren Newman

Darren Lewis Newman (born 14 August 1968) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion. Club career Newman started his career as an apprentice at Brighton & Hove Albion and after appearing as an unused substitute a number of times, he made his first team debut on 12 April 1986 in a 2–0 defeat to Shrewsbury Town. References 1968 births Living people Footballers from Brighton English footballers Association football defenders Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Southwick F.C. players Peacehaven & Telscombe F.C. players Newhaven F.C. players Ringmer F.C. players Burgess Hill Town F.C. players English Football League players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Patrick%27s%2C%20Greencastle%20GAC

St Patrick's, Greencastle GAC

St Patrick's, Greencastle () are a Gaelic football Club from Greencastle, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1932, under the name Greencastle Erin's Hope. Greencastle are Tyrone GAA Division 3 and Junior football champions of 2006. They are also Ulster Junior Club Football Championship winners of 2006. They were also the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship winners in 2007. Greencastle's manager is Seán Teague, former Tyrone senior football team captain. Greencastle is one of only two clubs in Tyrone to win an All-Ireland Championship. Honours Senior Men Tyrone Junior Football Championship (6) 1936, 1949, 1972, 1992, 1998, 2006 Ulster Junior Club Football Championship 2006 All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship (1) 2007 Tyrone Intermediate Football League (3) 2002, 2009, 2021 Tyrone Junior Football League (1) 1934, 2006 Reserve Tyrone Division 2 Reserve Football League (3) 2003, 2004, 2019 Tyrone Division 2 Reserve Football Championship (3) 2004, 2018, 2019 Tyrone Division 3 Reserve Football League (1) 2006 U-21 Tyrone Under-21 Grade 2 Football Championship (2) 2008, 2009, 2013 Minor Tyrone Minor Grade 2 Football Championship (1) 1990 Tyrone Minor Grade 2 Football League (1) 1990 Tyrone Minor Grade 3 Football Championship (3) 1991, 1994, 2016 Tyrone Minor Grade 3 Football League (2) 1999, 2016 U-16 Tyrone Under-16 Grade 3 Football Championship (1) 2008 U-14 Tyrone Under-14 Grade 2 Football Championship (2) 2005, 2010 Tyrone Under-14 Grade 2 Football League (1) 2005 Tyrone Under-14 Grade 3 Football League (1) 1994 References External links Official Website Gaelic games clubs in County Tyrone Gaelic football clubs in County Tyrone

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Will%20Know

You Will Know

"You Will Know" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, taken from his 1987 Characters album. It is the opening track on the album, and is the second single from the album as well. This is Stevie Wonder's 20th and final number-one R&B hit single. Wonder performed the song along with R&B quartet Jodeci and Mary J. Blige on an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show in late 1992. Commercial performance In March 1988, the song reached number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on the R&B chart, "You Will Know" also peaked at number 16 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Chart positions References Stevie Wonder songs 1987 songs 1987 singles Songs written by Stevie Wonder Motown singles Song recordings produced by Stevie Wonder

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Grumman%20A-6%20Intruder%20operators

List of Grumman A-6 Intruder operators

The following were operators of the Grumman A-6 Intruder: Operators United States Navy VA-34 — Blue Blasters. Established 1970. Redesignated VFA-34 in 1996, flying F/A-18C Hornets. Based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. VA-35 — Black Panthers. Callsign: "Raygun." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1965. Based at NAS Oceana. Was featured in the film The Final Countdown along with the rest of Carrier Air Wing 8 on board the . Disestablished 1995. An A-6 Intruder, Bureau number : 152603, from the squadron, is currently on display at the Richmond Municipal Airport in Richmond Indiana. VA-36 — Roadrunners. Callsign: "Heartless." Established 1987. Based at NAS Oceana. Disestablished 1994. VA-42 — Green Pawns, Thunderbolts (from 1992). Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1963. Atlantic Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), i.e., A-6E training squadron. Also operated TC-4C Academe aircraft. Based at NAS Oceana. Disestablished 1994. VA-52 — Knight Riders. Callsign: "Viceroy. Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1967. Based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington. Disestablished 1995. VA-55 — Warhorses. Established 1983. Based at NAS Oceana. Disestablished 1991. VA-65 — World Famous Fighting Tigers. Callsigns: "Cupcake" and "Fighting Tiger." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1965. Based at NAS Oceana. Disestablished 1993. VA-75 — World Famous Sunday Punchers. Callsign: "Flying Ace." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1963. First operational Intruder squadron. Based at NAS Oceana. Last operational Intruder squadron. Disestablished 1997. VA-85 — Black Falcons. Callsign: "Buckeye." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1964. Based at NAS Oceana. Disestablished 1994. VA-95 — Green Lizards. Previously an A-1 Skyraider squadron that transitioned to A-4 Skyhawks and was later disestablished in 1970. Reestablished as an A-6 squadron in 1972. Based at NAS Whidbey Island. Last Vietnam-era A-6 squadron to be established. Significant engagements included Operation Frequent Wind (Saigon evacuation), the Mayaguez Incident, and Operation Praying Mantis (actions against Iranian naval units, including the sinking of the Iranian frigate Sahand, the largest ship to be sunk by this aircraft type) . Disestablished 1995. VA-115 — Arabs, Eagles (from 1979). Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider. Disestablished in 1967. Reestablished as an A-6 squadron in 1970. Redesignated VFA-115 in 1996, flying F/A-18E Super Hornets, introducing this model into combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Initially based at NAS Whidbey Island, then forward-deployed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan from 1973 until redesignation. Reassigned to new home base of Naval Air Station Lemoore, California in October 1996. Reassigned to previous home base of NAF Atsugi in December 2009. VAH-123 — Pros. Established 1957. Based at NAS Whidbey Island. The Pros were the Pacific Fleet's FRS for the A-3 Skywarrior and provided FRS services for the Pacific Fleet A-6 community for about one year until the establishment of VA-128 in 1967. Disestablished 1971. VA-128 — Golden Intruders. Callsign: (early)"Goldplate" (later) "Phoenix." Established from a detachment of VAH-123 in 1967. Pacific FRS. Based at NAS Whidbey Island. VA-128's insigia and traditions were later adopted by VAQ-128, established 1997 (since disestablished) flying the EA-6B Prowler. VA-128 disestablished 1995. VA-145 — Swordsmen. Callsigns: "Electron," later "Rustler." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1968. Home based at NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Disestablished 1993. VA-155 — Silver Foxes. Callsign(s): Stateside callsign: "Vixen" / Deployment callsign: "Jackal". Reason for difference was flight safety/deconfliction by local NAS Whidbey Island Approach Control and NAS Whidbey Island Air Traffic Control Tower in order to avoid confusion with VAQ-138 "Jacket" callsign, this despite the similarities between "Vixen" and "Phoenix" (VA-128 Callsign). Established 1987. Based at NAS Whidbey Island. Disestablished 1993. VA-165 — Boomers. Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1967. Based at NAS Whidbey Island. Unit that filmed the inflight, flight deck, and hangar deck scenes for film Flight of the Intruder. Disestablished 1996. VA-176 — Thunderbolts. Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1969. Based at NAS Oceana. Only A-6 Squadron in history to win 3 consecutive Battle "E" awards. Disestablished 1992. VA-185 — Nighthawks. Established 1986. Initially based at NAS Whidbey Island, then within a year forward-deployed to NAF Atsugi, Japan until disestablishment. A-6 squadron with the shortest history. Disestablished 1991. VA-196 — Main Battery. Callsign: "Milestone." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1966. Based at NAS Whidbey Island. Squadron featured in the film Flight of the Intruder. Last Pacific Fleet squadron to operate the Intruder. Disestablished 1997. VA-205 — Green Falcons. Established 1970, transitioned from the A-7E Corsair II in 1990. Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Reserve squadron, based at Naval Air Station Atlanta, Georgia. Flew A-6Es and KA-6Ds. Disestablished 1995. VA-304 — Firebirds. Established 1970, transitioned from the A-7E Corsair II in 1988. Pacific Fleet Naval Air Reserve squadron, based at Naval Air Station Alameda, California. Flew A-6Es and KA-6Ds. Shares the same name (Firebirds) with VAQ-33. Disestablished 1994. VAQ-33 — Firebirds. Redesignated from VAW-33 in 1968. Initially based at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia and NAS Oceana, until 1980, then to Naval Air Station Key West, Florida until disestablishment. Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 33 provided the U.S. Navy with training by simulating the electronic signatures of Soviet aircraft. Flew EA-6A Intruder version only, in addition to other aircraft types. Shares the same name (Firebirds) with VA-304. LT Kara Hultgreen flew EA-6As in this squadron prior to becoming the Navy's first fully qualified female F-14 Tomcat combat pilot. Disestablished 1993. VX-5 — Vampires. Established 1951. Based at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California. Merged with VX-4 Evaluators in 1993 to become VX-9 Vampires. Retired last A-6E in 1996. Naval Strike Warfare Center — Strike U. Established 1984. Based at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. Merged with Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School (TOPDOME) in 1996 to create Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC). Retired last A-6E in 1995. United States Marine Corps VMA(AW)-121 — Green Knights. Since redesignated as VMFA(AW)-121 flying the F/A-18D and now as VMFA-121 flying the F-35B. VMA(AW)-224 — Bengals. (Formerly called Vultures during Vietnam) Since redesignated as VMFA(AW)-224 flying the F/A-18D Hornet. VMA(AW)-225 — Vagabonds, later Vikings. Decommissioned after Vietnam and later recommissioned and redesignated as VMFA(AW)-225 flying the F/A-18D Hornet. VMA(AW)-242 — Batmen (in Vietnam era, later known as the "Bats"). Since redesignated as VMFA(AW)-242 flying the F/A-18D Hornet. VMA(AW)-332 — Moonlighters. (AKA Polkadots) Last Marine Corps unit to fly the A-6E Intruder. Since redesignated as VMFA(AW)-332. Flew the F/A-18D Hornet until placed in cadre status in 2007. VMA(AW)-533 — Hawks. Since redesignated as VMFA(AW)-533 flying the F/A-18D Hornet. VMAT(AW)-202 — Double Eagles Marine Corps A-6E Intruder Fleet Replacement Squadron (deactivated). In the 1990s, all Marine A-6E squadrons, except VMAT(AW)-202, were re-equipped with F/A-18D 'Night Attack' Hornet (including their recon-capable sub-version wired for ATARS) and re-designated to VMFA(AW). Due to the shortage of F/A-18D airframes in 2007 VMFA(AW)-332 was reduced to a "cadre status". References A-6 Specifications and deployments from www.globalsecurity.org www.intruderassociation.org list of squadrons Naval aviation squadron lineages from the US Navy Historical Center Naval Aviation News External links VA-95 Green Lizards Lists of military units and formations by aircraft Lists of aircraft operators by aircraft type

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo%20Lunati

Matteo Lunati

Matteo Lunati (born 2 July 1987) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Calcio Portogruaro Summaga. Club career After spending his youth years with Spal and Milan, Lunati made his first-team debut for the Rossoneri in a Coppa Italia game against Brescia on 8 November 2006. Milan, however, loaned him out for the 2008–09 season to San Marino and Como. In August 2010, Lunati signed for Serie D side Real Rimini. References External links 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Ferrara Italian footballers A.C. Milan players A.S.D. Victor San Marino players S.P.A.L. players Como 1907 players A.S.D. Portogruaro players Association football midfielders Footballers from Emilia-Romagna

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

Kemeshk

Kemeshk (, also Romanized as Kameshk, Kamshak, and Kemishk; also known as Qamīsk) is a village in Faramarzan Rural District, Jenah District, Bastak County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,977, in 591 families. References Populated places in Bastak County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum%20Sport

Forum Sport

Forum Sport is a Dutch football club from Voorburg. Its main squad plays since 2013 in the Eerste Klasse. Homeground is Sportpark 't Loo and its colors are blue. History Forum Sport was founded on 1 July 1998 from a merger between DEVJO and SV Voorburg. DEVJO was founded on 15 July 1933, was originally a Christian football club and played on Saturdays. SV Voorburg played on Sundays. Forum Sport stopped Sunday football in 2005. Associated people Chief coaches Notable players DEVJO Kees Jansma Peter Jungschläger Herman Kuiphof SV Voorburg Eljero Elia Matthew Steenvoorden Forum Sport Eljero Elia Matthew Steenvoorden John Verhoek References Football clubs in South Holland Football clubs in the Netherlands 1998 establishments in the Netherlands Association football clubs established in 1998 Sport in Leidschendam-Voorburg

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arie%20Parks%20Taylor

Arie Parks Taylor

Arie Parks Taylor (March 27, 1927- September 27, 2003) was the first African American woman to become a Women in the Air Force classroom instructor and officer and the first African-American woman elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives. Early life and education Taylor was born Arie Mae Parks in Bedford, Ohio and was one of eleven children. Her mother died in childbirth after which she helped to care for her siblings. Taylor graduated from Bedford High School and attended Miami University in Ohio for two years before graduating from Case Western Reserve University in 1951. While in college, she worked for Jean Capers, the first African American woman on the Cleveland City Council. Career Women in the Air Force Taylor joined the Women in the Air Force (WAF) after college graduation. She served as a staff administrator and ultimately became the WAF's first African American officer and classroom instructor. She met and married William Taylor while serving in the WAF. Taylor was honorably discharged after four years of service after which she accepted an offer to work full-time for Jean Capers. Politics In 1958, Taylor divorced William and moved to Denver where she worked as a hospital administrator. She enrolled in accounting classes at University of Colorado and accepted a job with an accounting firm after graduation. Taylor joined the Northeast Denver Democrats shortly after arriving in Denver. She was named Chief Clerk for the Denver Election Commission in 1965 and was a Colorado delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1972, Taylor won a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives making her Colorado's first female African American representative. References Case Western Reserve University alumni People from Ohio People from Colorado 1927 births 2003 deaths

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmiade%20laevicollis

Isthmiade laevicollis

Isthmiade laevicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Tippmann in 1953. References Isthmiade Beetles described in 1953

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lale%2C%20Bulgaria

Lale, Bulgaria

Lale is a village in Momchilgrad Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria. Honours Lale Buttress in Graham Land, Antarctica is named after the village. References Villages in Kardzhali Province

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20crime%20family

Cleveland crime family

The Cleveland crime family or Cleveland Mafia is the collective name given to a succession of Italian-American organized crime gangs based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. A part of the Italian-American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) phenomenon, it operates in the Greater Cleveland area. Founded about 1920, leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations. Stability emerged in 1930 after Frank Milano became boss. The organization underwent significant decline in the last years of boss John T. Scalish. During the late 1970s, violent gang war erupted in the streets of Cleveland after Irish mobster Danny Greene attempted to take over the city. The war drew significant law enforcement attention reducing membership and influence of the Cleveland family. The crime family nearly ceased to exist in the 1990s, after many high-ranking members were imprisoned. The organization is believed by law enforcement to be extremely small in the 21st century, although attempting to rebuild. History Early organized crime in Cleveland Semi-organized Sicilian American- and Italian American-run "Black Hand" extortion rackets first emerged in Cleveland about 1900. The Cleveland Division of Police soon established an "Italian squad" (also known as the "Black Hand squad") to deal with the problem. After a series of Black Hand-related murders in the city in 1906, this police unit largely suppressed this first expression of organized crime in Cleveland. Loosely organized gangs emerged in the 1910s. An Italian American gang known as the Mayfield Road Mob formed in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood about 1913. At roughly the same time, another Italian American gang, the Collinwood Crew, formed in the Collinwood neighborhood. This gang centered its activities around the intersection of St. Clair Avenue, E. 152d Street, and Ivanhoe Road. Out of a drug store in Cleveland's Big Italy neighborhood, notary public Angelo Serra ran the "Serra Gang". It was primarily an automobile theft ring which relied on Serra to forge titles to the cars and create fake vehicle registration plates. At one point in the mid-1910s, it did $500,000 ($ in dollars) a year in vehicle thefts. The gang also engaged in other crimes such as extortion, illegal gambling, the numbers racket, and robbery. In the late 1910s, the "Benigno Gang" formed under Dominic Benigno in Little Italy. The gang specialized in payroll robberies, and in 1919 and 1920 monopolized payroll robberies by intimidating or murdering anyone who tried to pull off a heist without Benigno's permission. A less organized and more fluid criminal organization was the "reservoir gang", a group of criminals engaged in armed robbery, automobile theft, burglary, and other property crimes which met at Cleveland's Baldwin Water Treatment Plant reservoir in order to plan crimes, exchange stolen goods, and disperse profits from crime. Prohibition began in Ohio on May 27, 1919, and nationally throughout the United States on January 16, 1920. Many small, organized gangs emerged between 1919 and 1921 to circumvent the liquor law by importing liquor from Canada, diverting alcohol from legitimate purposes (such as medicine and industry), and distilling and distributing home-brewed beer and liquor. Small bootlegging operations were run by formerly legitimate businessmen like Michelino Le Paglia, August L. Rini, and Louis Rosen. A number of small bootleg gangs, run by Jewish residents, began operating in the "Little Hollywood" area of the Hough neighborhood, an area bounded by Lexington and Hough Avenues between E. 73rd and E. 79th Streets. The brothels, gambling halls, and speakeasies of Little Hollywood became the favorite place to relax for small gang leaders throughout Cleveland, many of whom established their offices in the tiny red-light district. Larger organizations included an Italian American gang centered on Woodland Avenue and E. 55th Street, and an Italian American gang centered on Woodland and E. 105th Street. The Mayfield Road Mob also grew larger as it focused more on bootlegging. The Lonardo and Porrello brothers The four Lonardo brothers (Joseph, Frank, John, and Dominic) and seven Porrello brothers, including Joseph Porello, immigrated to the United States from Licata, Sicily. The Lonardo and Porrello brothers first established themselves as legitimate businessmen. The two groups dabbled in various criminal activities including robbery and extortion, before prohibition, but were not yet considered a major organization. At the start of Prohibition, Joseph "Big Joe" Lonardo was the boss of the Cleveland crime family. He was the second oldest of the four Lonardo brothers. He and his brothers began by supplying Cleveland's bootleggers with the corn sugar they needed to produce liquor. His top lieutenant was Joseph Porrello, who supervised various bootlegging and other criminal operations throughout the early to mid-1920s. Split factions (1926–1927) In 1926, the Porrello brothers (Rosario, Vincenzo, Angelo, Joseph, John, Ottavio, and Raymond) broke away from the Lonardo family and formed their own faction. They established their headquarters on upper Woodland Avenue, around E. 110th St. In 1927, hostilities between the Lonardo and Porrello families escalated as the families competed in the corn sugar business. During Prohibition, corn sugar was the prime ingredient in bootleg liquor. In the summer of 1927, Joseph "Big Joe" Lonardo, boss of the Lonardo faction at the time, left for Sicily, Italy amongst rising tension between the two families. He left his brother John and adviser, Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro as acting heads of the Cleveland family. When Lonardo returned, a sitdown was scheduled between the Lonardos and the Porrellos. On October 13, 1927, Joseph Lonardo and his eldest brother John were to meet with Angelo Porrello in a Porrello-owned barber shop. Inside the barbershop, when Joseph and John Lonardo relaxed into playing a game of cards, they were ambushed and killed by two Porrello gunmen. This allowed Joseph Porrello to take over as boss of the Cleveland crime family and become the most influential corn sugar baron in the Cleveland area. The Porrellos (1927–1930) Through late 1927 and much of 1928, the remaining Lonardo faction loyalists, which included an up-and-coming Mafia group known as the Mayfield Road Mob (led by Frank Milano) and various Jewish allies within the Cleveland Syndicate, continued to rival the Porrello family for the leadership within the Cleveland underworld. They vied for control of the most lucrative rackets outside of the corn sugar business, which included gambling, the most profitable hustle for American Mafia crime families after bootlegging. To establish dominance, the Porrellos needed backing from the top Mafia bosses in New York, as well as other leading Mafia families across the United States. On December 5, 1928, a high-level American Mafia meeting was held at the Statler Hotel in Cleveland. Joseph Porrello, with the help of one of his top lieutenants Sam Tilocco, hosted the event in hopes that the top Mafia bosses from across the United States would declare him the official Mafia boss of Cleveland. The attendees of the Cleveland meeting became participants to one of the first known La Cosa Nostra summits in American history. Some of the powerful bosses who attended included Joe Profaci and Vincent Mangano of New York. However, the meeting turned into a fiasco as some of the well-known attendees were recognized by local law enforcement and arrested along with their associates. Meanwhile, Mafiosi continued to arrive from across the country for the Mafia summit. The Porrello brothers arranged for their associates to be bailed out of jail. In spite of the chaos, Joseph Porrello was declared the boss and recognized nationwide as head of the Cleveland crime family. On June 11, 1929, Porrello family Lieutenant Sam Todaro was murdered. At the end of Prohibition, most of the Porrello brothers and their supporters had been killed or had sided with the Mayfield Road Mob. On July 5, 1930, Joseph Porrello was invited to a sitdown with Frank Milano at the Milano-owned Venetian Restaurant. Gunfire erupted and boss Joseph Porrello and his underling were killed. Vincenzo "Jim" Porrello succeeded his brother as Cleveland Mafia boss. Three weeks after his brother's murder, Vincenzo was shot in the back of the head and murdered in a grocery store on East 110th Street and Woodland Avenue in an area considered a Porrello stronghold. Raymond Porrello declared revenge, and on August 15, 1930, an explosion leveled Raymond's home. He was not home at the time. Mayfield Road Mob (1930–1944) In the early 1930s, Frank Milano and the "Mayfield Road Mob" of Cleveland's Little Italy had replaced the Porrellos as the Cleveland area's premier Mafia group. The Mafia faction was even mentioned by its old name in the movie The Godfather Part II as the Lakeview Road Gang, as Lakeview Cemetery borders Mayfield Road Hill which marks the beginning of Little Italy in Cleveland. This area is also referred to as "Murray Hill" by locals. This Mafia family was formed in the late 1920s and was headed by Frank Milano. In 1931, Milano joined the National Crime Syndicate, a network of powerful criminals from around the country, such as Charlie Luciano and Meyer Lansky. Milano was now the official boss of Cleveland crime family. By 1932, Milano had become one of the top American Mafia bosses in the country and a charter Commission member. On February 25, 1932, Milano made sure the Porrello family and their gang were finished for good by having Raymond and Rosario Porrello, along with their bodyguard, Dominic Gueli, murdered in a smoke shop on East 110th Street and Woodland Ave. in their old territory while they were playing cards. After this, the remaining Porrello brothers backed out of the Cleveland underworld and fled the area. In 1935 Milano fled to Mexico after being indicted for tax evasion. Alfred Polizzi, another leading member of the Mayfield Road mob, seized power and reigned as boss until 1944 when he was convicted of tax evasion. Collinwood Crew The Collinwood Mob, also known as the Young Turks, was based in Cleveland's South Collinwood Neighborhood, was at times integrated with the Mayfield Road Mob and has a Mafia history as old as that of the Mayfield Road Gang. The most notorious of the Collinwood Crew was the late Alfred "Allie Con" Calabrese. Allie Con was feared and respected in both neighborhoods and known as a stand-up guy, a "true gangster". His crew consisted of Joe "Joey Loose" Lacobacci, the late Butchie Cisternino and others from an area that stretched from the 152nd Street bridge, up Five Points and Ivanhoe Road, down Mandalay across London Road to Wayside and over to Saranac bordering the Collinwood Train Yards. Scalish era (1944–1976) John Scalish held the longest reign of any Cleveland mob boss. He took control of the family in 1944, and remained the boss for thirty-two years, until his death in 1976. During his time as the crime family's leader, the group developed ties with important crime figures like Shondor Birns, Moe Dalitz, Meyer Lansky, and Tony Accardo. The Family also became allies of the extremely powerful Chicago Outfit and Genovese crime family. Additionally, The Cleveland mob also expanded its influence to areas throughout the Midwest, as well as California, Florida, and Las Vegas. In the 1950s, the family reached its peak in size, with about 60 "made" members, and several times as many associates. By the 1970s the family's membership began to decrease because Scalish didn't induct many new members. Scalish died during open heart surgery in 1976 and failed to name a successor beforehand. War with Danny Greene and decline (1976–1990s) After the Death of John Scalish, it was decided by the family's members that James "Jack White" Licavoli would take over as boss. Licavoli worked for the infamous Purple Gang in Detroit during Prohibition before moving to Cleveland, where he gradually rose up the ranks of the city's underworld. During his reign, an Irish gangster named Danny Greene began competing with the Mafia for control of rackets. This resulted in a violent mob war between the Mafia and the Danny Greene gang, during which there were almost 40 car bombings in Cleveland. This time period earned Cleveland the unofficial title of "Bomb City U.S.A.". Danny was backed by mob associate and teamster John Nardi, who was killed on May 17, 1977, by a car bomb in the parking lot of the Teamster Hall in Cleveland. After several failed attempts to kill Greene, it became evident that Licavoli's outfit needed outside help. In 1977, Danny Greene was murdered after a scheduled visit to his dentist. After learning of the dentist appointment scheduled by Greene, Licavoli and Lonardo contracted Ray Ferritto to assassinate him. While Greene was in the dentist's office, a bomb was placed underneath a car adjacent to his. Upon return to his vehicle the bomb was exploded remotely. Greene lay under the ruins of his vehicle for at least an hour before his corpse was removed. After Greene's assassination, Ferritto heard that the Cleveland Crime Family wanted him dead and in response became an FBI informant. The information that he provided led to the arrests of many high ranking mafia members, including Jack Licavoli himself. Eventually, Licavoli was sent to prison for the murder of Danny Greene in 1982. Angelo Lonardo, the son of Prohibition mob boss Joseph Lonardo, took control of the Cleveland crime family. He led the family until 1984 when he was convicted of running a drug ring and was sentenced to life in prison. He then became an informant, making him the highest-ranking Mafia turncoat up to that time. He informed on powerful Mafiosi from numerous families while in prison, and caused serious damage to the Mafia's infrastructure. After Lonardo became an informant, the Cleveland crime family's boss was John "Peanuts" Tronolone. Peanuts was a long-time Miami Beach resident who prior to becoming the boss, was a South Florida point man for the New York-based Genovese crime family and other mobsters. He was also closely associated with Meyer Lansky. In 1989 he became the only Mafia boss to have the distinction of being arrested in a hand-to-hand undercover transaction by local law enforcement. He accepted jewelry from Dave Green, an undercover Broward County deputy in exchange for bookmaking and loan-sharking debts. He died before he could start his nine-year state prison sentence. In 1978, Cleveland police warned then-mayor Dennis Kucinich that local Mafia members had put out a hit on him because of some of his mayoral initiatives were hindering money-making opportunities. Police told Kucinich that a hitman was planning on shooting the mayor while he marched in The Columbus Day Parade in October 1978. Kucinich missed the parade as he was hospitalized with a ruptured ulcer. However, he took note of the threat and began keeping a gun in his home for protection. The Cleveland Mafia was dismantled by the FBI and other law enforcement officials so aggressively in the 1980s that by 1990 the family only had a few made members left in the street. According to the FBI the Cleveland Mafia started to slowly rebuild the organization by making new members in the late 1990s and all of the 2000s. Historical leadership Boss (official and acting) 1920–1927 – Joseph "Big Joe" Lonardo – murdered in 1927. 1927–1929 – Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro – murdered in 1929. 1929–1930 – Joseph "Big Joe" Porrello – murdered in 1930. 1930–1935 – Frank Milano – fled to Mexico in 1935, moved to California in the late 1950s; died of natural causes in 1970. 1935–1945 – Alfred "Big Al" Polizzi – arrested in 1944, retired to Florida in 1945, died of natural causes in 1975. Acting 1944–1945 – John T. "John Scalise" Scalish - died of complications during heart surgery in 1976. 1945–1976 – John T. "John Scalise" Scalish 1976–1985 – James "Jack White" Licavoli – imprisoned in 1981, died of natural causes in 1985. Acting 1981–1983 – Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo – turned informant in October 1983, died of natural causes in 2006. Acting 1983–1985 – John "Peanuts" Tronolone 1985–1991 – John "Peanuts" Tronolone – died of natural causes in 1991 1991–1993 – Anthony "Tony Lib" Liberatore – imprisoned in 1993, died of natural causes in 1998. 1993–2004 – Joseph "Joe Loose" Iacobacci – retired 2004–present – Russell "R.J." Papalardo Underboss 1930–1976 – Anthony Milano – retired in 1976, deceased in 1978. 1976 – Calogero "Leo Lips" Moceri – disappeared and murdered in 1976. 1976–1983 – Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo – turned informant in October 1983, deceased in 2006. 1983–1985 – John "Peanuts" Tronolone – became boss in 1985. 1985–1991 – Anthony "Tony Lib" Liberatore – became boss. 1991–1995 – Alfred "Allie" Calabrese – imprisoned in 1995. 1995–2004 – Russel "RJ" Papalardo – became boss Consigliere 1930–1972 – John DeMarco 1972–1973 – Frank "Frankie B" Brancato 1973–1977 – Anthony "Tony Dope" Delsanter 1977–1983 – John "Peanuts" Tronolone – became underboss in 1983. 1983–1994 – Louis "Bones" Battista aka "The Bulldog" (deceased) 1999–2010 – Raymond "Lefty" LaMarca (deceased 2010) Current made members Administration Boss – Russell "R.J." Papalardo Soldiers John DiMariangeli Craig DiFilippo Ronald Lucarelli, Jr. Russell Massetta Carmine Minardi Anthony Vollatta Associates James Martino Former members Ronald "Ronnie the Crab" Carabbia – former leader of the Youngstown faction for the family. He died in December 2021. Pasquale Cisternino – died in 1990. Joseph Iacobacci – powerful member of the family, serving as boss from 1993 to 2005. Iacobacci was able to partially rebuild the family, with the help of the Chicago Outfit. He died in April 2020. Milton "Maishe" Rockman – Rockman was a Jewish-American organized crime figure affiliated with the Cleveland crime family. Rockman was the brother-in-law of Cleveland crime family bosses John T. Scalish and Angelo Lonardo, and was a top Cleveland crime family associate involved in labor racketeering and the Las Vegas casino interests of the Cleveland Mafia. References Notes Citations Bibliography Organizations established in 1920 1920 establishments in Ohio Organizations based in Cleveland Italian-American crime families Gangs in Ohio Crime in Cleveland Italian-American culture in Cleveland

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Adelheid (film)

Adelheid is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by František Vláčil, based on a 1967 novel of the same name by Czech writer Vladimír Körner. The story is about the complicated relationship between Czech man Viktor and German woman Adelheid, and about relationships between Czechs and Germans in postwar Czechoslovakia in general. Plot Discharged Czechoslovak lieutenant Viktor Chotovický (Petr Čepek) returns to his homeland after spending much of the war in Aberdeen, Scotland employed at a RAF desk job. He has been appointed the trustee of an empty manor formerly occupied by the German family of a notorious Nazi war-criminal imprisoned by the Czechoslovak authorities. Viktor meets the Nazi's beautiful daughter Adelheid Heidenmann (Emma Černá), who is forced to work as a cleaning lady at her own mansion. Her brother is an SS officer who allegedly disappeared in the Eastern Front. Viktor makes Adelheid his captive maid, and soon falls in love with her. His heart is torn between feelings of desire and his national identity and sympathies. Adelheid also slowly becomes sympathetic towards Viktor, but at the same time silently hopes for the return of her brother Hansgeorg. When he does Viktor narrowly escapes death. Viktor refuses to testify against Adelheid because he is alone and has nobody else. However, Adelheid commits suicide in her cell, Viktor walks off into the snow-covered countryside and is last seen wandering towards a mine field. Cast Petr Čepek as Viktor Chotovický Emma Černá as Adelheid Heidenmannová Jan Vostrčil as Officer Hejna Jana Krupičková as Czech Girl Pavel Landovský as Militiaman Jindra Lubomír Tlalka as Militiaman Karel Miloš Willig as Staff captain Karel Hábl as Lieutenant Zdeněk Mátl as Hansgeorg Heidenmann Alžběta Frejková as Old German woman Josef Němeček as Slovak Karel Bělohradský as Militiaman Vlasta Petříková as Woman Production As in other novels by Körner, the story is set in Sudetenland in Northern Moravia. The movie was shot in Lužec castle located close the town of Vroutek (German: Rudig) in western Bohemia and in the villages close to Liberec in Northern Bohemia. The soundtrack, adapted by Zdeněk Liška is based on existing music by Bach and Strauss, which complements the atmosphere of the film. The film was produced by Film Studio Barrandov Czechoslovakia in 1969. Reception The film has received very positive reviews after its release in 1969. Many critics called it Vláčil's second best film (after Marketa Lazarová). The film wasn't taken pleasantly by authorities and it received limited release and propagation which resulted in a small attendance in cinemas. Accolades References External links 1970 films 1970s war drama films 1970s Czech-language films Czechoslovak drama films Films directed by František Vláčil Films set in country houses Czech war drama films Golden Kingfisher winners 1970 drama films Czech psychological drama films

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To’oto’oali’I Roger Stanley

To’oto’oali’I Roger Stanley (1976–2018) was a Samoan fa'afafine activist, who was President of the Samoan Fa'afafine Association from its foundation in 2006 to her death. Biography So’oalo To’oto’oali’I Roger Stanley was born in 1976. Her parents were Niutea and Stanley of Siusega. She completed tertiary education in Fiji. She worked for the Samoan government from the late 1990s onwards, as a policy analyst and administrative officer. At the time of her death she worked for the Samoa Tourism Authority. Stanley was a co-founder and President of the Samoan Fa'afafine Association since its establishment in 2006 until her 2018 death. It was Stanley who persuaded the President of Samoa to become the patron of the SFA. As an activist, as well as fa'afafine, Stanley campaigned for the rights of LGBTQ people in Samoa. She was a board member of the Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network (PSGDN). She saw her fa'afafine identity as a cultural, rather than a sexual identity, although she saw the utility in using western LGBT terminologies in order to access opportunities and to advocate for her community. She died at the Tupua Tamases Meaole (TTM) Hospital in Moto’otua in January 2018. Awards Samoa Observer - Person of the Year (2017). Legacy Stanley's life featured in New Zealand's first play to feature a cast of all queer people of colour. Other activists who were impersonated in The Eternal Queers included Gary Wu and Stormé DeLarverie. References Fa'afafine 1976 births 2018 deaths LGBT rights activists Samoan activists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20Day

DJ Day

Damien Beebe, known professionally as DJ Day is a DJ, producer and musician from Palm Springs, California. He formed the Innernational Crew with DJ Rip One in 1995, and had subsequent appearances with Innernational on Return of the DJ III & Laid in Full. He has worked with Stones Throw recording artist Aloe Blacc and Clutchy Hopkins, as well as remixes for Quantic, Alice Russell, People Under The Stairs and more. He has shared the stage with artists from Amy Winehouse to Eminem in a career spanning the last decade and a half, as well as frequently touring the continents of Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Australia as both a solo artist and representative of Red Bull Music Academy and a regular guest of the world-famous Do Over. He has released various singles as a solo artist, most notably "Four Hills" which was nominated for "Track of the Year" by Gilles Peterson's Worldwide show on BBC Radio 1 and used by DC Shoes for their PJ Ladd ad campaign. He currently hosts a weekly Thursday night party at The Ace Hotel Palm Springs. Full length Releases The Day Before Licensed to MPM for release in 2007. Land Of 1000 Chances Land Of 1000 Chances was Released on February 12, 2013 as a limited edition LP, CD and Digitally on Piecelock 70, an artist collective based in Los Angeles of which Day is a founding member and co-creative director with Thes One. It debuted on iTunes in the top 20 Chart both US and worldwide in the Electronic/Downtempo genre. Prior to its release, It had been in added to several shows: Jon Oliver's Main Ingredient Show, Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio broadcasts, and was on KCRW’s top-50 playlist for 5 weeks. Gilles Peterson invited Day in to do an interview and exclusive mix, which was posted online on Feb. 5th, 2013. Though it had not been officially released yet, KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole listed Land Of 1000 Chances the #8 album of the year in 2012. Both the track and the album were promoted by magazines & blogs, including: Impose Magazine, URB, RIK, Music Is My Sanctuary, Okayplayer, Ego Trip Land, HypeTrak, This Is Book's Music, Giant Step, Textura (album of the month), BBC Music Review, and PopMatters. On Feb. 11, 2013, Vevo and Piecelock 70 released the "Land Of 1000 Chances" video on Youtube. Discography Return of the DJ 3 (Bomb Hip Hop 1999) Laid In Full (Ill Boogie) Emanon “Anon & On” (production, scratches and vocals on "A Day in Exile") (Ill Boogie) Blame One “A Complex Burden” (Polish Pub Music 2004) Credit is Due (7T5 2004) People Music (7T5) 50 (7T5) 52 (7T5) Innernational Comp 1-3 (INL) On the Air (7T5) Summer of Serato (Subcontact Japan 2006) Brazilectro 8 (Audiopharm 2006) Boozoo Bajou - Juke Joint 2 (K7 2006) The Day Before (MPM 2007) Land of 1000 Chances (PL70, 2013) The Day Before (Deluxe Version) (PL70, 2013) Náufrago (with Thes One, PL70, 2017) Life After You (2022) Records “What Planet What Station” 12”(Milkcrate) “Make You” 7”(Curio) “Lucien” 7” (Subcontact) "Gone Bad" 12" (MPM) "DITS" 7" (Subcontact) "Lovebug" Absence Of Color 5 & 6 12" (Sound in Color) "Primera" 7" (Subcontact) "Got to Get it Right" 12" EP (MPM) Daily Bread 12" (feat. Aloe Blacc & Dr. Oop) (Subcontact) Instant Saadiq 12" EP (feat. Miles Bonny) (MPM) "Kossa" 7" (Anthem Records) Remixes Aloe Blacc - "Ordinary People Remix Suite" (DJ Day & Aloe Blacc remix) Kutiman - "Music is Ruling My World" (MPM) Mo' Horizons - "A Y N'ama" (Agogo) Janko Nilovic -" Leslie's Back (Chorus For Leslie)" (Vadim) People Under The Stairs - "Step Bacc" (Piecelock70) People Under The Stairs - "Trippin at the Disco" (OM Records) Incognito - "I Come Alive" (Heads Up International) Tittsworth - "Here He Comes (ft. Nina Sky & Pitbull)" (T&A/Plant Music) Exile - "Love" (Plug Research) Alice Russell - All Alone (DJ Day Meets Clutchy Hopkins remix) (Little Poppet) Quantic "Mas Pan" (Tru Thoughts) People Under The Stairs - "Down In LA" (Piecelock70) Videos Land Of 1000 Chances, shot by Director/Cinematographer Erick Lee, released Feb. 11, 2013. Awards and press "Mama Shelter" was featured as KCRW's "Top Tune Of The Day" on Feb. 6, 2013. 1999 Moves & Grooves DJ Battle Champion XLR8R Village Voice (Nominated for Pazz and Jop award 2004 for "What Planet What Station") XXL URB Magazine The Fader Your From Where? Magazine Vinyl Exchange Palm Springs Life Stealth Magazine The Desert Post Weekly Hidden (Japan) Coachella Valley Independent References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20151009132826/http://pl70.net/ http://www.myspace.com/djday http://www.likeathrottle.blogspot.com https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001749/http://www.olski.net/index.php?area=artists&view=detail&id=219 http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/08/02/day-tripper https://web.archive.org/web/20060210232646/http://www.5thplatoon.com/articles/urbmag.htm American DJs Record producers from California American hip hop musicians Living people American jazz musicians Year of birth missing (living people)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy%20%28Emeli%20Sand%C3%A9%20song%29

Daddy (Emeli Sandé song)

"Daddy" is a song by British singer Emeli Sandé, featuring British record producer Naughty Boy. It was released on 27 November 2011 as the second single from her debut studio album, Our Version of Events, which was released on 13 February 2012. In early January 2012, it was made iTunes' song of the week. Music video A music video to accompany the release of "Daddy" was first released onto YouTube on 21 October 2011 at a total length of three minutes and twenty seconds. The video features Sandé singing, whilst burglars, in which one of them is the person Sandé is singing about, raid a supermarket, and one of them takes the money from the cash machine. In the end, Sandé is in the supermarket, whilst a burglar approaches her. He then takes off his mask. In the end, the burglar finds a folded piece of paper in his fridge. Critical reception Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the song a very positive review, stating: "My friends keep telling you what he did last night, how many girls he kissed, how many he liked," she insists over haunting church bell chimes as she gives her bezzie a reality check on love; before a mish-mash of thrashing acoustics pound out with more drama than the EastEnders cliffhanger outro. By the time the catchy-as-cholera chorus kicks in, it's obvious that 2012 is Sande's for the taking. At least Cowell's got one thing right this year, eh? Track listing Digital remix single "Daddy" – 3:08 "Daddy" (Fred V & Grafix remix) – 4:29 "Daddy" (Disclosure remix) – 4:08 "Daddy" (Third Party remix) – 6:21 "Daddy" (Cyantific remix) – 5:40 "Daddy" (Ifan Dafydd remix) – 4:59 Chart performance Release history References 2011 singles Emeli Sandé songs Virgin Records singles Song recordings produced by Naughty Boy Song recordings produced by Mojam Songs written by Emeli Sandé Naughty Boy songs Songs written by Naughty Boy Songs written by Mustafa Omer 2011 songs

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Baumann

Patrick Baumann

Patrick Baumann may refer to: Patrick Baumann (footballer) Patrick Baumann (basketball) See also Patrik Baumann, Swiss footballer

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Staffing

Staffing is the process of finding the right worker with appropriate qualifications or experience and recruiting them to fill a job position or role. Through this process, organizations acquire, deploy, and retain a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization’s effectiveness. In management, staffing is an operation of recruiting the employees by evaluating their skills and knowledge before offering them specific job roles accordingly. A staffing model is a data set that measures work activities, how many labor hours are needed, and how employee time is spent. Importance Staffing helps to find and hire people who are qualified for the job position and will benefit the company. It also improves the quality and quantity of work done by the company because they have staffed the optimum people. Job satisfaction rates are likely to increase because everyone is well-suited for their position and is happy to be doing their specialty of work. Higher rates of productive performance from the company are also common, as they have staffed the right people to do their jobs. It provides employees the opportunity for further growth and development. Quantity and quality Staffing an organization focuses on both the quality and the quantity of the staff. The quantity is the number of staff. The organization forecasts workforce quantity requirements and then compares it to the available workforce. If the headcount matches the requirement, then the organization is fully staffed. If the requirement exceeds the number of available employees, then the organization is understaffed. If the available staff exceeds the requirements, then the organization is overstaffed and may need to stop hiring and layoff employees. When a company is understaffed, the staffing process may restart. The quality is having the right person for the job. The right person should have a job and an organization match. The job match involves the employee's knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics and how they work with the job's tasks. The organization match is when the person has the same organizational values as the organization. Core staffing actives The five core staffing actives are recruitment, selection, employment, training, and retaining. Recruitment Herbert Heneman has described an effective recruiting process as the cornerstone of an effective staffing system. The first step, prior to, the recruiting process is defined as goals and job descriptions. Organizations assess jobs and job families through the systematic study of job analysis, a process that describes and records job behaviors and activities. Job analysis is generally considered the backbone of effective human resource management, and it is particularly important in staffing functions of recruitment and selection as well as assessing the level of job performance. Job analysis involves the collection of information about jobs in the organization (not the persons holding the jobs). As such, the analysis focuses on duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics required to perform the job. As part of the recruiting process, the organization will have to decide to recruit internally or externally. Internal recruiting is when an organization intends to fill a vacancy from within its existing workforce. External recruitment is when an organization looks to fill vacancies from applicants outside of the company. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods of recruitment, and they may be used at the same time. Internal recruitment Internal recruitment is generally cheaper and faster and promotes loyalty. The disadvantages are that recruiting from within limits the chances of innovation and will leave a gap in the workforce. Even if an organization has recruited for a position internally, it will still have a gap in the workforce and will need to find a replacement for the vacant position. If the organization chooses internal recruitment, there are some options on how to communicate the job announcement: open, closed, or hybrid recruitment. In an open recruitment system, all employees are made aware of the job vacancies and they can apply to the job. In a closed recruitment system, only the employees that the organization is interested in know about the job vacancy. In a hybrid recruitment system, the organization uses a mix of open and closed recruitment systems. External recruitment The benefits of external recruitment are that it increases your chances of recruiting experienced and qualified candidates. However, outside recruits will have a limited understanding of the company and company culture, and internal disputes could arise if existing employees feel that they were more suited for the position. If the organization chooses external recruitment, they will have to decide how to promote the vacancy so it can be filled. Promotional examples include posting the advertisement on their website, using employment agencies, attending job fairs, using social networks, and checking employee referrals. Selection Selection is an important part of the staffing process, and if done wrong, the organization could lose candidates. The purpose of the selection process is to determine whether a candidate is suitable for employment in the organization or not. This process starts with the review of the job applications, résumés, and cover letters of the job candidates. The organization then gives an initial interview to eliminate the unqualified candidates. The next steps are to reduce the candidates to get the finalist for the job. This includes testing, structured interview and contingent assessment. The testing can include personality, ability, and intelligence tests. A structured interview has specific questions to ask and is given by somebody within the organization familiar with the position. The contingent assessment is the last step, and it includes drug tests and medical exams. Employment Employment is the process of hiring the individual who was selected in the selection process. The organization should first propose a job offer, which typically includes starting date, duration of the contract, compensation, starting rate, benefits, and hours of the position. The organization then prepares for the new employee’s arrival. Ideally, the company should make sure that the employee has all of the tools required to do their job effectively, such as security badges, keys, and any other technology. Training After the selection of an employee, the employee receives training. With the various technological changes in modern history, the need for training employees is increased to keep the employees in touch with the various new developments. Staffing can be influenced by how staffers are trained and the type of training they receive. Training is generally classified into two types, on the job and off the job. Some examples of training programs include: Technical training – training that teaches employees about a particular technology or a machine. Quality training – trains employees to identify faulty products. Skills training – training that is given to employees to perform their particular jobs. Soft skills – personality development Team training – training establishes a level of trust and synchronicity between team members for increased efficiency. Retaining Employees can leave jobs for a variety of different reasons. Employers should listen to the needs of their employees and make them feel valued. Employers need to create a positive work culture and motivating practices into their organization to keep employees. Retention methods have a positive impact on the organization’s turnover rate. Benefits can include training, positive culture, growth opportunities within the organization, trust and confidence in leaders, and lower stress from overworking. Staffing agencies Staffing agencies are becoming more common because of their ease of use and low cost. Companies save a lot of money through using a staffing agency because they do not have to spend extra money on employee recruitment or fund any of the screenings new hires must undergo. Using a staffing agency eliminates the need for companies to do extensive advertisements about the positions they are hiring for. The agencies save time by avoiding having to spend a large amount of time searching for applicants and recruiting new people. Staffing agencies provide a large network of job candidates, so it is easy to find people to fill the jobs. They have many tools and the knowledge to find the perfect applicants for the jobs each company needs to fill. If a company has an unexpected need to fill a position, a staffing agency can usually quickly find someone. See also Human resources References Human resource management

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

Bhadaure

Bhadaure may refer to: Bhadaure, Janakpur, Nepal Bhadaure, Sagarmatha, Nepal

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Sy

Frédéric Sy

Frédéric Sy was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, from 1887 to 1918. While working in Algiers he published extensively on the subjects of minor asteroids and comets, and was a colleague of astronomer François Gonnessiat. Sy was responsible for the discovery and naming of two asteroids, 858 El Djezaïr and 859 Bouzaréah. The names were drawn from locations near the discovering Algiers Observatory. He was awarded the Valz Prize (Prix Valz) in 1919 by the French Academy of Sciences. The asteroid 1714 Sy was named after him in 1951. References 20th-century French astronomers Discoverers of asteroids 19th-century French astronomers Year of birth missing Year of death missing

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1946 TCU Horned Frogs football team

The 1946 TCU Horned Frogs football team was an American football team that represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1946 college football season. In their 13th year under head coach Dutch Meyer, the Horned Frogs compiled a 2–7–1 record (2–4 against SWC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 148 to 90. Tackle Weldon Edwards was selected by both the Associated Press and United Press as a first-team player on the 1946 All-Southwest Conference football team. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Schedule After the season The 1947 NFL Draft was held on December 16, 1946. The following Horned Frogs were selected. References TCU TCU Horned Frogs football seasons TCU Horned Frogs football

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4ite

Päite

Päite is a village in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. It is located just west of the town of Sillamäe. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 22, of which the Estonians were 11 (50.0%). References Villages in Ida-Viru County

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Oina, Estonia

Oina is a village in Muhu Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. References Villages in Saare County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20Fuchsberger

Joachim Fuchsberger

Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (pronounced ; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard). In the English-speaking world, he was sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger. Life and career Fuchsberger was born in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart, and was a member of the obligatory Hitler Youth. During World War II, at the age of 16, he was trained as a Fallschirmjäger, combat instructor and sent to the Eastern Front where he was wounded. He was captured in a hospital in Stralsund by the Red Army and came into Soviet captivity and later in American and British captivity. Because of this turbulent time of his youth in Second World War, he never obtained a school diploma. In 1946, he worked as a coal miner for the British in Recklinghausen. His nickname Blacky hails from that time. After his release, he worked as an engineer for typesetting and printing machines in the family business and later in a publishing house in Düsseldorf. In 1949, he was advertising manager of the German Building Exhibition in Nuremberg. From 1950 to 1952, he was spokesman at the radio station in Munich and newsreel spokesman. In 1951, he married the pop singer Gitta Lind, from whom he divorced after two years. In 1954 he married the radio technician and actress Gundula Korte (born 24 March 1930), with whom he has a son. In the same year he had his breakthrough playing "Gunner Asch" in the three-part war film 08/15 film series, based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst. After several war films, he starred in the 1959 film Der Frosch mit der Maske (The Frog with the Mask) playing amateur detective Richard Gordon. More than 3.2 million visitors saw the movie in the cinema. The surprising success laid the foundation for many other film adaptations of novels by Edgar Wallace. After this success, he played the detective in another 12 Edgar Wallace films: 1960 – Chief Inspector Long in The Terrible People; 1961 – Inspector Larry Holt in The Dead Eyes of London; 1961 – Insurance Agent Jack Tarling in The Devil's Daffodil; 1961 – Inspector Mike Dorn in The Strange Countess; 1962 – Inspector Wade in The Inn on the River; 1963 – Clifford Lynne in (The Curse of the Yellow Snake); 1963 – Estate manager Dick Alford in The Black Abbot; 1964 – Investigator Johnny Gray in Room 13; 1964 – Inspector Higgins in Der Hexer (The Warlock); 1967 – Inspector Higgins in The Monk with the Whip; 1968 – Inspector Higgins in Im Banne des Unheimlichen (Under the Spell of the Sinister); 1972 – Inspector Barth in What Have You Done to Solange?. Fuchsberger was the stadium announcer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. During the closing ceremony, it was suspected that a hijacked passenger aircraft was on its way to the stadium. Fuchsberger, fearing a panic, decided against evacuation. This decision was vindicated when the original suspicion turned out to have been false. In the late 1960s, Fuchsberger co-founded a real estate company that went bankrupt in a short time. At 42, he had lost his entire fortune, had to sell his villa and sat on a mountain of debt. With the help of his wife, Gundula, good friends and tireless work, he managed to discharge the debt and to start a new existence. In 1978, he was bitten by a chimpanzee during a TV show and fell seriously ill with hepatitis B. He spent 4 months at the quarantine station and suffered through a depression but recovered. He withdrew from film and television work in the late 1970s and concentrated on his stage career. In the late 1990s he started reappearing in some television movies, which after a break he continued from the late 2000s until his death. In 1984, he was the first German ambassador for UNICEF. On 13 November 2006, he was awarded the Bavarian State Medal for Social Services for those activities. Since 2009, Fuchsberger is member of the Board of Trustees of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and co-patron of the volunteer program for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011. His son, (1957–2010), was a composer and drowned in Kulmbach on 14 October 2010. Late in life, Fuchsberger lived in Grünwald near Munich and in Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania. He held Australian citizenship together with his original German one. He died of organ failure at his German home in Grünwald on 11 September 2014. Awards 1942 – War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords 1961 – Bravo Otto 1961 – 1969 – Bambi Award 1970 – International Film Ribbon (Italy) 1970 – Bravo Otto 1971 – Bravo Otto 1972 – Bravo Otto 1979 – Bavarian Order of Merit 1982 – Goldene Kamera 1982 – Bambi Award 1983 – Federal Cross of Merit 1985 – Der liebe Augustin (Austria) 1986 – Goldene Europa 1983 – 1994 – Grand Federal Cross of Merit 1999 – Honorary Ambassador of Tourism (Tasmania) 2005 – Bavarian TV Awards 2006 – 2007 – 2007 – in the category Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 – Platin Kurier Romy 2009 – 2010 – Goldene Kamera for Lifetime Achievement 2011 – Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Lifetime Achievement 2011 – German Sustainability Award 2012 – Bambi Award for his life's work Selected filmography 1953: Open Your Window (Director: Anton Kutter) 1954: Wenn ich einmal der Herrgott wär (Director: Anton Kutter) .... Fred 1954: 08/15 (Director: Paul May) .... Gefreiter Asch 1955: The Song of Kaprun (Director: Anton Kutter) .... Der 'schöne Eugen' 1955: (Director: Paul May) .... Wachtmeister Asch 1955: The Last Man (Director: Harald Braun) .... Alwin Radspieler 1955: (Director: Paul May) .... Leutnant Herbert Asch 1956: Symphonie in Gold (Director: Franz Antel) .... Walter Gerlos 1956: (Director: Franz Antel) .... Johann Leim, Tischler 1956: Wenn Poldi ins Manöver zieht (Director: Hans Quest) .... Thomas 1957: (Director: Carl Boese) .... Journalist Harry Greif 1957: Kleiner Mann – ganz groß (Director: Hans Grimm) .... Thomas Olderhoff 1957: Song of Naples (Director: Carlo Campogalliani) .... Franco Ferri 1957: Illusionen (TV Movie, Director: ) .... Tom 1957: The Twins from Zillertal (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Franz von Auerstein 1957: Hafenmelodie (Director: Joachim Fuchsberger) 1958: Eva küßt nur Direktoren (Director: Rudolf Jugert) .... Karl Müller 1958: The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Lt. Reiter 1958: Liebe kann wie Gift sein (Director: Veit Harlan) .... Stefan Bruck 1958: U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Oberleutnant Thomas Birkeneck 1958: (Director: Eugen York) .... Norbert Wilms 1958: Mein Schatz ist aus Tirol (Director: Hans Quest) .... Peter Weigand 1959: The Scarlet Baroness (Director: Rudolf Jugert) .... Tailor 1959: Der Frosch mit der Maske (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Richard Gordon 1959: Mein Schatz komm mit ans blaue Meer (Director: Rudolf Schündler) .... Direktor Paul Marzez 1960: Final Destination: Red Lantern (Director: Rudolf Jugert) .... Martin Stelling 1960: Die zornigen jungen Männer (Director: Wolf Rilla) .... Dr. Jürgen Faber 1960: The Terrible People (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Chefinspektor Long 1961: Zu viele Köche (TV miniseries about the detective Nero Wolfe, Director: Kurt Wilhelm) .... Archie Goodwin 1961: The Dead Eyes of London (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspektor Larry Holt 1961: The Devil's Daffodil (Director: Ákos Ráthonyi) .... Jack Tarling 1961: The Strange Countess (Director: Josef von Báky) .... Inspektor Michael 'Mike' Dorn 1961: Auf Wiedersehen (Director: Harald Philipp) .... Ferdinand Steinbichler 1962: (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Harry Raffold 1962: The Inn on the River (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Insp. Wade 1962: Mystery Submarine (Director: C. M. Pennington-Richards) .... Cmdr. Scheffler 1963: (Director: Paul May) .... Strafverteidiger 1963: The Curse of the Yellow Snake (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb) .... Clifford Lynn 1963: The White Spider (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Ralph Hubbard 1963: The Black Abbot (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb) .... Dick Alford 1964: Room 13 (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Johnny Gray 1964: Der Hexer (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspector Bryan Edgar Higgins 1965: Hotel der toten Gäste (Director: ) .... Barney Blair 1965: The Last Tomahawk (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Captain Bill Hayward 1965: The Face of Fu Manchu (Director: Don Sharp) .... Carl Jannsen 1965: I Knew Her Well (Director: Antonio Pietrangeli) .... The Writer 1966: (Director: José Luis Madrid) .... Clyde Smith 1966: (Director: ) .... Robert B. Fuller 1966: Long Legs, Long Fingers (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Robert Hammond 1966: How to Seduce a Playboy (Director: Michael Pfleghar) .... Sokker 1967: Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb) .... Army MP Haggan (uncredited) 1967: The Monk with the Whip (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspektor Higgins 1967: (Director: ) .... Frankie Bargher 1967: (TV miniseries, Director: Wolfgang Becker) .... Edward Morrison 1968: Im Banne des Unheimlichen (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspektor Higgins 1968: Commandos (Director: Armando Crispino) .... Oberleutnant Heitzel Agen - Professor 1969: Seven Days Grace (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Hendriks 1969: The Unnaturals (Director: Antonio Margheriti) .... Ben Taylor 1969: (TV film, Director: Wolfgang Becker) .... Chris Norman 1970: 11 Uhr 20 (TV miniseries, Director: Wolfgang Becker) .... Thomas Wassem 1971: Heißer Sand (TV film, Director: ) .... Jeff Barlow 1971: Olympia-Olympia (TV film, Director: Kurt Wilhelm) .... Schutzgeist 1972: What Have You Done to Solange? (Director: Massimo Dallamano) .... Inspector Barth 1972: (Director: Rudolf Zehetgruber) .... Plato 1973: The Girl from Hong Kong (Director: Jürgen Roland) .... Frank Boyd 1973: The Flying Classroom (Director: Werner Jacobs) .... Dr. Johannes Böhk, gen. Justus 1977: (Director: Michael Verhoeven) .... Mitglied der Rock & Roll Jury 1982: Der Fan (Director: Eckhart Schmidt) .... Mann im Fernsehen / Man on TV 1996: (TV miniseries) – Director: .... Earl Alessio Capilupi 1998: (TV film, Director: ) .... Baldassarre 1998: (TV miniseries, Director: Fabrizio Costa) .... Marke 2007: (Director: and ) .... Lord Dickham 2008: (TV film, Director: Christoph Schrewe) .... Pope Innocent 2010: (TV film, Director: Wolfgang Murnberger) .... Degenhard Schagowetz 2013: (TV film, Director: Wolfgang Murnberger) .... Degenhard Schagowetz (final film role) TV shows 1960–1961: Nur nicht nervös werden (ARD) 1973–1975: Der heiße Draht (SWF) 1975–1976: Spiel mit mir (SWF) 1977–1986: (SWF) 1980–1991: Heut' abend (ARD) 1990–1994: Ja oder Nein (ARD) Documentation 1988–2003: Terra Australis (20 films by Fuchsberger about people and landscapes of his adopted country) 2011: Germaine Damar – Der tanzende Stern (TV) – Regie: Michael Wenk (Fuchsberger as interviewee commemorating his former film partner Germaine Damar) Audiobooks 2011: Altwerden ist nichts für Feiglinge.'' [Growing old is not for cowards] Publisher: Gütersloher Verlagshaus (Biography, read by Joachim Fuchsberger), . References External links Joachim Fuchsberger in the German Dubbing Card Index 1927 births 2014 deaths Male actors from Stuttgart People from the Free People's State of Württemberg German male film actors German male stage actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors German game show hosts German television presenters German television personalities German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Bambi (prize) Recipients of the Romy (TV award) German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of Australia ARD (broadcaster) people Hitler Youth members Fallschirmjäger of World War II Deaths from organ failure

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Piano Sonata No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)

Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1908. It is the first of three "Dresden pieces", along with the Symphony No. 2 and part of an opera, which were composed in the quiet city of Dresden, Germany. It was originally inspired by Goethe's tragic play Faust; although Rachmaninoff abandoned the idea soon after beginning composition, traces of this influence can still be found. After numerous revisions and substantial cuts made at the advice of his colleagues, he completed it on April 11, 1908. Konstantin Igumnov gave the premiere in Moscow on October 17, 1908. It received a lukewarm response there, and remains one of the least performed of Rachmaninoff's works. It has three movements, and takes about 35 minutes to perform. The sonata is structured like a typical Classical sonata, with fast movements surrounding a slower, more tender second movement. The movements feature sprawling themes and ambitious climaxes within their own structure, all the while building towards a prodigious culmination. Although this first sonata is a substantial and comprehensive work, its successor, Piano Sonata No. 2 (Op. 36), written five years later, became the better regarded of the two. Nonetheless, it, too, was given serious cuts and opinions are mixed about those. Background In November 1906, Rachmaninoff, with his wife and daughter, moved to Dresden primarily to compose a second symphony to diffuse the critical failure of his first symphony, but also to escape the distractions of Moscow. There they lived a quiet life, as he wrote in a letter, "We live here like hermits: we see nobody, we know nobody, and we go nowhere. I work a great deal," but even without distraction he had considerable difficulty in composing his first piano sonata, especially concerning its form. The original idea for it was to be a program sonata based on the main characters of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Gretchen, and Mephistopheles, and indeed it nearly parallels Franz Liszt's own Faust Symphony which is made of three movements which reflect those characters. However, the idea was abandoned shortly after composition began, although the theme is still clear in the final version. Rachmaninoff enlisted the help of Nikita Morozov, one of his classmates from Anton Arensky's class back in the Moscow Conservatory, to discuss how the sonata rondo form applied to his sprawling work. At this time he was invited, along with Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Feodor Chaliapin, to a concert in Paris the following spring held by Sergei Diaghilev to soothe France–Russia relations, although Diaghilev hated his music. Begrudgingly, Rachmaninoff decided to attend only for the money, since he would have preferred to spend time on this and his Symphony No. 2 (his opera project, Monna Vanna, had been dropped). Writing to Morozov before he left in May 1907, he expressed his doubt in the musicality of the sonata and deprecated its length, even though at this time he had completed only the second movement. On returning to his Ivanovka estate from the Paris concert, he stopped in Moscow to perform an early version of the sonata to contemporaries Nikolai Medtner, Georgy Catoire, Konstantin Igumnov, and Lev Conus. With their input, he shortened the original 45-minute-long piece to around 35 minutes. He completed the work on April 11, 1908. Igumnov gave the premiere of the sonata on October 17, 1908, in Moscow, and he gave the first performance of the work in Berlin and Leipzig as well, although Rachmaninoff missed all three of these performances. Composition The piece is structured as a typical sonata in the Classical period: the first movement is a long Allegro moderato (moderately quick), the second a Lento (very slow), and the third an Allegro molto (very fast). Allegro moderato (in D minor, ends in D major) The substantial first movement Allegro moderato presents most of the thematic material and motifs revisited in the later movements. Juxtaposed in the intro is a motif revisited throughout the movement: a quiet, questioning fifth answered by a defiant authentic cadence, followed by a solemn chord progression. This densely thematic expression is taken to represent the turmoil of Faust's mind. The movement closes quietly in D major. Lento (in F major) In key, the movement pretends to start in D major before settling in the home key of F major. Although the shortest in length and performance time, the second movement Lento provides technical difficulty in following long melodic lines, navigating multiple overlapping voices, and coherently performing the detailed climax, which includes a small cadenza. Allegro molto (in D minor) Ending the sonata is the furious third movement Allegro molto. Lacking significant thematic content, the movement serves rather to exploit the piano's character, not without expense of sonority. The very first measures of the first movement are revisited, and then dissolves into the enormous climax, a tour de force replete with full-bodied chords typical of Rachmaninoff, which decisively ends the piece in D minor. Reception Rachmaninoff played early versions of the piece to Oskar von Riesemann (who later became his biographer), who did not like it. Konstantin Igumnov expressed interest upon first hearing it in Moscow, and following his suggestion Rachmaninoff cut about 110 bars. The sonata had a mediocre evaluation after Igumnov's premiere in Moscow. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov had died several months previously, and the burden of heading Russian classical music had fallen on this all-Rachmaninoff programme of October 17, 1908. Although the concert, which also included Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Op. 22, 1903), was "filled to overflowing", one critic called the sonata dry and repetitive, however redeeming the interesting details and innovative structures were. Lee-Ann Nelson, via her 2006 dissertation, noted that Rachmaninoff's revisions are always cuts, with the material simply excised and discarded. The hypothesis is that the frequency of negative responses to many of his pieces, not just the response to the first symphony, led to a deep insecurity, particularly with regard to length. The musicologists Efstratiou and Martyn argued against, for instance, the cuts made to the second sonata on a formal basis. Unlike other pieces, such as the second piano sonata and the fourth piano concerto, no uncut version of this piece is currently known to be extant. Today the sonata remains less well-known than Rachmaninoff's second sonata, and is not as frequently performed or recorded. Champions of the work tend to be pianists renowned for their large repertoire. It has been recorded by Eteri Andjaparidze, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Boris Berezovsky, İdil Biret, Sergio Fiorentino, Leslie Howard, Ruth Laredo, Valentina Lisitsa, Nikolai Lugansky, Olli Mustonen, John Ogdon, Michael Ponti, Santiago Rodriguez, Alexander Romanovsky, Howard Shelley, Daniil Trifonov, Xiayin Wang, Rustem Hayroudinoff, Alexis Weissenberg and Steven Osborne. Lugansky performs the piece regularly. References Sources External links Piano.ru – Sheet music download Chubrik.ru – Audio download 1908 compositions Piano music by Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff Compositions in D minor

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Edwin Merritt

Edwin Merritt may refer to: Edwin Atkins Merritt (1828–1916), Civil War general and collector of the port of New York Edwin Albert Merritt (1860–1914), his son, Congressman from New York

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Lawrence Aidoo

Lawrence Aidoo (born 14 January 1982) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Aidoo was born in Accra, Ghana. Following stints with Borussia Mönchengladbach, Nürnberg, Energie Cottbus, FSV Frankfurt and Kickers Emden in the top three divisions in Germany, Aidoo ended up playing in the lower leagues. Aidoo made his debut for the Ghana national team in a friendly against Tunisia on 27 March 2003, and appeared in two African Nations Cup qualifying matches later that year. References External links Living people 1982 births Association football midfielders Ghanaian footballers Ghana international footballers King Faisal Babes FC players Borussia Mönchengladbach players Borussia Mönchengladbach II players 1. FC Nürnberg players FC Energie Cottbus players FSV Frankfurt players Kickers Emden players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Expatriate footballers in Germany

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Tai Po District Council

The Tai Po District Council () is the district council for the Tai Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Tai Po District Council currently consists of 21 members, of which the district is divided into 19 constituencies, electing a total of 19 with 2 ex officio members who are the Tai Po and Sai Kung North rural committee chairmen. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019. History The Tai Po District Council was established on 1 April 1981 under the name of the Tai Po District Board as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with the ex-officio Regional Council members and chairmen of two Rural Committees, Tai Po and Sai Kung North, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member. The Tai Po District Board became Tai Po Provisional District Board after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was established in 1997 with the appointment system being reintroduced by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. The current Tai Po District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after the first District Council election in 1999. The appointed seats were abolished in 2015 after the modified constitutional reform proposal was passed by the Legislative Council in 2010. The Tai Po District Board was a stronghold of the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF) and its successor Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA) in the 1990s and early 2000s. The pro-business Liberal Party also established its presence in the district in the 1990s surrounding its chairman Allen Lee who was elected through the district in the 1995. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and the pro-democracy Democratic Party became the two dominant forces in the district after the handover. For the DAB, its vice-chairman Cheung Hok-ming who is also the chairman of the Tai Po Rural Committee has been the chairman of the council from 1994 to 2003 and again from 2008. For the Democratic Party, it was the base of the reformist "Young Turks" faction in the party represented by Legislative Councillor Andrew Cheng, until they broke away from the Democrats over the disagreement on the constitutional reform proposal in 2010 and formed the Neo Democrats. In the 2019 election, the pro-democrats formed a coalition called Tai Po Democratic Alliance (TPDA) running in 17 constituencies against the pro-Beijing candidates. The pro-democrats achieved a historic landslide victory by sweeping all the elected seats in the council amid the massive pro-democracy protests. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out except for the two ex-officio members who were also the Rural Committee chairmen. Political control Since 1982 political control of the council has been held by the following parties: Political makeup Elections are held every four years. District result maps Members represented Starting from 1 January 2020: Leadership Chairs Since 1985, the chairman is elected by all the members of the board: Vice Chairs Notes References Districts of Hong Kong Tai Po District

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2011–12 FA Cup qualifying rounds

The 2011–12 FA Cup qualifying rounds opened the 131st season of competition in England for 'The Football Association Challenge Cup' (FA Cup), the world's oldest association football single knockout competition. A new record 763 clubs were accepted for the competition, up four from the previous season's 759. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down (Levels 5 through 10) in the English football pyramid meant that the competition started with six rounds of preliminary (2) and qualifying (4) knockouts for these non-League teams. The 32 winning teams from the Fourth qualifying round progressed to the First Round Proper, where League teams tiered at Levels 3 and 4 entered the competition. Calendar and prizes The calendar for the 2011–12 FA Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by the FA. Extra preliminary round Extra preliminary round ties were played on the weekend of 20 August 2011. 408 clubs from Level 9 and Level 10 of English football, entered at this stage of the competition. Preliminary round Preliminary round fixtures were played on the weekend of 3 September 2011. A total of 334 clubs took part in this stage of the competition, including the 204 winners from the Extra preliminary round and 130 entering at this stage from the six leagues at Level 8 of English football, while Ilkeston and Farsley from Northern Premier League were ineligible to participate as they only spent their second seasons. The round featured 48 clubs from Level 10 still in the competition, being the lowest ranked teams in this round. First qualifying round The First qualifying round fixtures were played on the weekend of 17 September 2011, with replays being played the following mid-week. A total of 232 clubs took part in this stage of the competition, including the 167 winners from the Preliminary round and 65 entering at this stage from the top division of the three leagues at Level 7 of English football, while Chester from Northern Premier League were ineligible to participate as they only spent their second season. The round featured sixteen clubs from Level 10 still in the competition, being the lowest ranked clubs in this round. Second qualifying round The Second qualifying round fixtures were played on the weekend of 1 October 2011. A total of 160 clubs took part in this stage of the competition, including the 116 winners from the First qualifying round and 44 Level 6 clubs, from Conference North and Conference South, entering at this stage. Six clubs from Level 10 of English football, was the lowest-ranked team to qualify for this round of the competition. Third qualifying round The Third qualifying round took place on the weekend of 15 October 2011. A total of 80 clubs took part, all having progressed from the Second qualifying round. Four clubs from Level 10 of English football were the lowest-ranked teams to qualify for this round of the competition. Fourth qualifying round The Fourth qualifying round took place on the weekend of 29 October 2011. A total of 64 clubs took part, 40 having progressed from the Third qualifying round and 24 clubs from Conference Premier, forming Level 5 of English football, entering at this stage. The lowest-ranked side to qualify for this round was Level 10 club Hebburn Town. Competition proper Winners from the Fourth qualifying round advance to First Round Proper, where clubs from Level 3 and Level 4 of English football, operating in The Football League, first enter the competition. See 2011–12 FA Cup for a report of First Round Proper onwards. References External links The FA Cup Archive Qualifying FA Cup qualifying rounds

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Arctotis stoechadifolia

Arctotis stoechadifolia, the African daisy or white arctotis, is a rare species of South African plants in the family Asteraceae. It is a rare plant found only in sand dunes along the west coast of Cape Province. The species is sometimes regarded as the same species as the much more common and widely cultivated A. venusta, but authors separate the two as distinct species. References External links Jepson Manual Treatment African Plants Profile stoechadifolia Endemic flora of South Africa Flora of the Cape Provinces Fynbos Garden plants of Southern Africa Taxa named by Peter Jonas Bergius

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Telegram (EP)

Telegram is the debut EP by Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke. It was released independently on 14 July 2004. Miller-Heidke signed to Sony in 2006 and the song "Space They Cannot Touch" was re-recorded for inclusion on her debut studio album Little Eve (2007). Track listing Release history References 2004 EPs EPs by Australian artists Kate Miller-Heidke albums Self-released EPs

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Missing Sounds of New York

Missing Sounds of New York is an album made by The New York Public Library, released on May 1, 2020, through advertising agency Mother New York. The album was recorded during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine period in New York City. It includes original and archived audio to replicate the sounds of New York City prior to lockdown. The album was launched on Spotify and SoundCloud and reception was overwhelmingly positive. To date the album has garnered more than 350,000 streams online. Background and recording During the outbreak of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020, New York City instated a "pause on nonessential services and gatherings" order, which asked its citizens to stay indoors as much as possible and practice social distancing. This caused the city to effectively shut down outside of essential services, and completely transformed the way the formerly-bustling city sounded. Using a mix of found and newly recorded audio, the eight track album was recorded over 21 days in April 2020 to capture and revive the sounds of New York City that its residents were missing most. It debuted on May 1, 2020, on Spotify and SoundCloud. Critical reception The album was released to widespread acclaim from both local and national news and the general public. The New York Post said the album "takes our city back from the coronavirus". CoolHunting called it "strangely emotional", saying “these sounds will have any city-dweller feeling simultaneously at home and nostalgic”. The New York Times article "It's Showtime! Press Play to Hear the N.Y.C. That Used to Be" detailed the creation of the album, they profess it "charts the sonic pulse of the city, encompassing a ballgame, a taxi ride and a visit to the library itself". The New Yorker labeled the project a "Soundtrack to a Lost New York". American Libraries magazine called the album "a love letter to NYC, connecting city dwellers to the familiar sounds of urban life that they love and miss". Campaign US said the album "compiled bustling soundbites which make us yearn for the Big Apple". and had "irreplaceable earhole snippets of the underground rush hour, crowded parks and noisy neighbors". Many felt the record was reminiscent of a time before the city-wide quarantine. Time Out said, "Whether or not these sounds are part of what makes you love New York, the playlist is a cozy reminder of your life before the shutdown." In popular media New York-based social media star Nicolas Heller (@NewYorkNico) did a remote takeover of The New York Public Library's Instagram account on May 6, 2020, to promote the album and the library as a New York institution under COVID-19. Trevor Noah featured the album on a segment of The Daily Show airing May 13, 2020. Governor Andrew Cuomo featured the album as the evening's "Deep Breath Moment" in his daily COVID-19 update email on May 4, 2020. Spotify featured "To See an Underground Show" featuring Kid the Wiz on numerous playlists. Track listing References New York Public Library 2020 albums

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Trophon albolabratus

Trophon albolabratus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The shell can grow to be 40mm in length. Distribution It can be found off of New Zealand, the Kerguelen Islands, and the South Georgia Islands. References Muricidae Gastropods described in 1875

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Kelly Sears

Kelly Sears (born 1978) is an American animator and filmmaker. In 2015 she lives in Los Angeles, California and is Assistant Professor of Film at University of Colorado Boulder. Her work consists of video, digital animation, stop-motion animation, digital imaging, and sound design. Early life and education Sears was born in Massachusetts She studied at Hampshire College from 1996-2000 where she attained a B.A. in Film and Video. Sears then studied from 2001-2005 at the University of California, San Diego, graduating with an M.F.A. in Film, Video, and Animation. In 2003, during her studies, Sears was part of a group exhibition named Domesticity at the Herbert Marcuse Gallery and two screenings: Video Scoring, Machine Project and Becomings, Museum of Contemporary Art. Career After graduation, Sears worked at several universities teaching about techniques in animation, video art, and film. She was an Artist-in-Residence with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (September 2009 – June 2011), and was associated with the museum as a Fellow at the Core Program. Sears was associated with Glassell School of Art as a Core Fellow. and held a and Galveston Artist Residency (September 2011 – August 2012). She received two grants, the Russell Grant and Waggerman Grant. She worked as Director of Media Studies Production at Pitzer College. She was Media Arts Instructor and an advisory board member at Aurora Picture Show. As a visiting professor, Sears taught Introduction to Video Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and has also taught Experimental Animation, Found Footage Cinema, and Hybrid Media and Collaborative Art Practices classes at the University of Houston. In 2015 she works as a new wave animator and an Assistant Professor of Film at The University of Colorado Boulder. Her work is based on politics and culture in America. Works Sears gathers resources for images in her artwork and animations from discarded periodicals, books, encyclopedias, archival films, old magazines and advertisements and collages them together to create science fiction tales, horror movie narratives, and animated documentaries. These films are assembled using both of analogue and digital animation techniques. One of Sears earlier pieces made in 2003 is entitled Charles and Christopher. The Body Besieged created in 2009, created from work out books, reveals creepy, unrealistic body maneuvers. Another film from the same year titled Voice on the Line comments on how technology shapes communication, fears and desires. Various venues have shown her work such as the Sundance Film Festival, The Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work has also appeared at the San Francisco International Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Festival of (In)Appropriation in San Francisco, California, Burning Bungalows: Experimental Film and Animation from L.A. he also has had various solo screenings at the following locations: Bennington College, Bennington VT, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, River Gallery, Chelsea, MI, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. References External links Kelly Sears at LinkedIn Kelly Sears Home page Living people 1978 births American animators American animated film directors American filmmakers American women animators American women film directors Hampshire College alumni University of California, San Diego alumni 21st-century American women

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Shahrak-e Shahid Beheshti, Hirmand

Shahrak-e Shahid Beheshti (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Shahīd Beheshtī) is a village in Dust Mohammad Rural District, in the Central District of Hirmand County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 785, in 154 families. References Populated places in Hirmand County

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Brian McNaughton (footballer)

Brian McNaughton (born 22 January 1963) is a Scottish retired footballer, who played as a forward for Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Football League Premier Division. He was most recently the manager of Broxburn Athletic in the Scottish Junior Football Association, East Region. References External links 1963 births Living people Footballers from Edinburgh Association football forwards Scottish footballers East Fife F.C. players Forfar Athletic F.C. players Heart of Midlothian F.C. players Livingston F.C. players Arbroath F.C. players Broxburn Athletic F.C. players Whitburn Junior F.C. players Penicuik Athletic F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players Scottish football managers Broxburn Athletic F.C. managers

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Robert Blackwood (Irish MP)

Robert Blackwood (April 1752 – 31 January 1785), was an Anglo-Irish politician. Blackwood was the eldest son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, and Dorcas Stevenson, later Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye. He was returned to the Irish Parliament for Killyleagh in 1776, a seat he held until his death nine years later. He died in Belfast in January 1785, after a fall from his horse. He never married and his younger brother James eventually succeeded their father in the baronetcy and their mother in the barony. References 1752 births 1785 deaths Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Heirs apparent who never acceded Robert Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies

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Japanese Railways

Japanese Railways may refer to: Japanese Government Railways Japanese National Railways See also Japan Railways Group Japanese railway signals Nippon Railway Rail transport in Japan

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So Fresh: The Hits of Autumn 2004

So Fresh: The Hits of Autumn 2004 is a compilation of songs that were popular in Australia in autumn 2004. Track listing Shannon Noll – "What About Me" (3:20) Outkast – "Hey Ya!" (3:57) Delta Goodrem – "Predictable" (3:38) The Black Eyed Peas – "Shut Up" (3:47) Guy Sebastian – "Angels Brought Me Here" (3:58) Kylie Minogue – "Red Blooded Woman" (4:19) Limp Bizkit – "Behind Blue Eyes" (4:31) Kelly Clarkson – "The Trouble with Love Is" (3:40) Nickelback – "Figured You Out" (3:49) Martin Solveig – "Rocking Music" (3:38) Fatman Scoop featuring The Crooklyn Clan – "Be Faithful" (2:42) Beyoncé – "Me, Myself and I" (3:58) Christina Aguilera – "The Voice Within" (4:25) Powderfinger – "Sunsets" (3:51) Pink – "God Is a DJ" (3:46) Hilary Duff – "Come Clean" (3:35) D.Kay & Epsilon featuring Stamina MC – "Barcelona" (3:31) Justin Timberlake – "I'm Lovin' It" (3:43) Junior Senior – "Rhythm Bandits" (2:51) Mercury4 – "5 Years from Now" (3:46) Charts See also So Fresh References External links Official site So Fresh albums 2004 compilation albums 2004 in Australian music

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The Holy Cows

The Holy Cows, FRC team 1538, is a FIRST Robotics Competition team that was founded in 2005, and is a school-based team from High Tech High in San Diego California. Recognition Chairmans Award The Holy Cows received the highest award of the FIRST program, the Chairmans award on April 27, 2013 at the St. Louis World Championships. Upon winning the award, the team was inducted to the FIRST Hall of Fame, and garnered both regional and national recognition from the FIRST community. Additionally, the awards grants an automatic invitation for the team to every future world championship. San Diego Regional Since 2009, The Holy Cows have won the Chairman's Award at the San Diego Regional for five consecutive years (as of December 2013). Additionally, the team has won numerous other awards through its career, both at the San Diego Regional and other competitions. Outreach Battle at The Border Starting in 2011, High Tech High's The Holy Cows and Francis Parker School's W.A.R. Lords (We Are Robot Lords) began hosting an off-season FIRST Robotics Competition. Known as The Battle at the Border, the event is intended to allow rookie teams to engage in a simulated competition, prior to the start of the next year's official season. Additionally, teams are encouraged to use the event to familiarize new students with the program. Fall Workshops The Holy Cows host the Fall Workshops at High Tech High annually. The event is intended for other FRC teams, and offers a wide variety of lectures focusing on various aspects of the FRC program. 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade In 2013, The Holy Cows and four other FRC teams lead the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, including: Team 16; The Bomb Squad, Team 180; S.P.A.M., Team 25; Raider Robotix, and Team 1477; Texas Torque. The teams represented the FIRST program, and brought awareness to a national audience. References FIRST Robotics Competition teams

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Pelham Institute

The Pelham Institute is a former working men's club and multipurpose social venue in the Kemptown area of Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1877 by prolific local architect Thomas Lainson on behalf of the Vicar of Brighton, the multicoloured brick and tile High Victorian Gothic building catered for the social, educational and spiritual needs of the large working-class population in the east of Brighton. After its closure it hosted a judo club, but is now in residential use as flats (under the name Montague Court) owned by a housing association. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance. History Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town estate, "arguably the most famous district in Brighton", was developed as a carefully planned estate of about 100 grand houses for the rich people who were increasingly attracted to the fashionable resort. Kemp Town was isolated from the rest of the town, about away, and an old trackway running west–east along the inland side of the East Cliff developed into an important route—Eastern Road. In the mid-19th century, the area around Eastern Road developed rapidly as a poor, mixed-use area, with institutional buildings, streets of small terraced houses, light industry and a few larger houses. A Nonconformist chapel had also been built in 1829, and the Anglican All Souls Church (closed in 1967 and demolished the following year) served the area from 1834. The area became known as Kemptown . John Hannah became Vicar of Brighton in 1870, following the death of Reverend Henry Michell Wagner which ended his 46-year incumbency. Hannah was concerned about the social and physical welfare of Kemptown's large working-class population, whose poverty restricted their opportunities for education and recreation. He also felt that the many pubs in the area encouraged people to spend their money on alcohol. He was made archdeacon of Lewes in 1876 and in the same year founded a "slum mission"—similar to a church-sponsored working men's club—on the site of the closed chapel of 1829, near the junction of Upper Bedford Street and Eastern Road. He commissioned local architect Thomas Lainson, already responsible for the Middle Street Synagogue, Bristol Road Methodist Church and several housing developments, to design a building with space for all the required facilities. He carried out the work in 1877, and from 1879 the building bore the name Pelham Institute. The institute attempted to cater for all needs with its extensive amenities. A large hall for religious services, concerts, lectures and other educational activities took up most of the first floor. A reading-room, eating area, kitchen, bar (which did not serve alcohol), a games room and a smoking room. The second (top) floor had single bedrooms on short-term lets: men were charged 1/– (£ in ) per night or 3/6d (£ in ) for a week. In January 1945, under the name Pelham Mission, the building was issued with a worship licence for "Christians not otherwise designated" under the terms of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855. Local slum clearance began in 1926 when the houses around the Pelham Institute were cleared and replaced with lower-density development. Demolition continued through the 1930s and resumed in the 1950s after World War II. By 1959, the working-class population in the Eastern Road area was much lower, and the Pelham Institute closed. Its entry on the worship register was accordingly cancelled in May 1960. Ownership transferred to Brighton Borough Council. In the early 1970s, two local judo clubs—one based elsewhere in Brighton and another from Balcombe, West Sussex—merged under the latter's name (the Mid-Sussex Judo Club) and moved into Lainson's building, which they rented from the council. The club had to move to another building nearby in July 1994. Soon afterwards, the former institute was taken over by the Sanctuary Housing Association, who converted it internally into a block of flats called Montague Court. The Pelham Institute was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 23 June 1994. This defines it as a "nationally important" building of "special interest". In February 2001, it was one of 1,124 Grade II-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove. The building is not within any of Brighton and Hove's conservation areas, but the council has considered extending the boundary of the East Cliff Conservation Area to include it. Architecture Thomas Lainson designed and built the Pelham Institute in the High Victorian Gothic style, which was used frequently for slum missions such as this. It is a three-storey building of purple brick laid in the English bond pattern and dressed with terracotta and red bricks. There are also small areas of tile-hanging, and the roof is tiled and has dormer windows. Three faces are visible: one south to St George's Terrace with irregularly placed windows, the main (western) façade on Upper Bedford Street (with a regular four-window range), and a three-window range facing north on to Montague Street. Most windows are flat-headed. The main entrance is to Upper Bedford Street. A doorway, with a 19th-century two-part wooden door with iron hinges, is recessed into an aedicula with a corbelled pointed arch and a gable above. At second-floor level, a chimney-breast projects slightly and steps up to the gable of the roof, which is topped with a short chimneypot. A window is set into the base of this projection. On the floor below, the four windows are arranged as two narrow pairs below a semicircular tympanum of red brick. The northwestern corner forms a gable-topped bay, again with a stepped chimney-stack. A thin string course runs around the building above the windows, forming a continuous hood mould. The Montague Street (northern) elevation has single or paired windows under segmental arches; a large stone plaque sits in a recess above the centre windows. At ground-floor level there is another pale stone plaque, a broad segment-arched window, an original wooden entrance door and another wooden door leading to a storage bay. The south façade, on St George's Terrace, has a segment-arched window in a red-brick surround at the southwest corner and a much wider and taller flat-arched window alongside. The string course diverts to go round a taller flat-arched window in the southwest corner at first-floor level. Diagonally above this are three narrow windows below a pointed arch with a red-brick tympanum. A projecting chimney-breast starts immediately to the left and rises beyond the eaves, terminating in a squat chimney-pot. Three small windows and a tall, narrow one light the second floor. The façade is very irregular and lacks symmetry. See also Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: P–R References Notes Bibliography 1877 establishments in England Houses in Brighton and Hove Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove

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CMC Zinger

The CMC Zinger (, originally the Mitsubishi Zinger before 2015) is a compact MPV designed by Mitsubishi Motors in conjunction with the China Motor Corporation from Taiwan, based on the chassis of the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, and sold in Taiwan from 24 December 2005. Overview The name derives from a "person or something full of energy and vitality". From 2007 until 2016, it has also been marketed in the Philippines as the Mitsubishi Fuzion, as the company claims it "merges together the best characteristics of [three] vehicles, the sporty character and ruggedness of an SUV, the spaciousness and versatility of a van, and riding comfort of a passenger car". The first month's sales were 2,285, substantially exceeding the 1,200/month initial target. The companies planned to expand into mainland China in the second half of 2007 when a joint-production venture between CMC and South East (Fujian) Motor Co., Ltd. came onstream. The automatic model engine was replaced by a 4G69 MIVEC-equipped version at the end of 2008, in order to meet new emissions standards. The 5-speed manual model still uses the 4G64 engine. Rebadge and discontinuation outside of Taiwan In October 2015, the 4G69 engine was detuned from with peak torque engine speed lowered from 4500 to 2300 rpm, incorporated with a new 5-speed automatic transmission, which replaced both the earlier 4-speed automatic as well as the manual transmission. In Taiwan, from 2015 the Zinger received a mild facelift, and was transferred into a product branded as CMC following the recent change of CMC repositioning itself as a domestic Taiwanese car brand. The facelift includes CMC logo replacements and the signature CMC front grille and bumper design. The Mitsubishi Fuzion was removed from the Mitsubishi Philippines website in 2016. The Xpander, which is built at Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Indonesia served as the replacement to the Fuzion and the Adventure due to the engine not meeting Euro 4 standards and some safety issues. The Xpander was not exported to China and Taiwan markets due to Mitsubishi's decision was to decline release of Mitsubishi Xpander and distribute to China Motor Corporation. As of September 2020, a 2-door pickup variant of the CMC Zinger was available in the Taiwanese market. The compact pickup features a 1,703 mm long bed with a 710 kg payload capacity. The Zinger pickup is based on the 2019 facelift Zinger model with everything before the B-pillars shared with the station wagon body style. The 4G69 2.4-liter 16-valve inline-four unit was also shared, producing at 5,250 rpm and of torque at 2,300 rpm. This is mated to a 5-speed automatic gearbox sourced from Hyundai and rear-wheel drive. References Crossover sport utility vehicles Zinger Cars of Taiwan Mid-size sport utility vehicles Rear-wheel-drive vehicles Cars introduced in 2005 2010s cars

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The Architects of Hyperspace

The Architects of Hyperspace is a novel by Thomas R. McDonough published by Avon Books in 1987. Plot summary The Architects of Hyperspace is a novel in which Ariadne Zepos, noted oceanographer, explores a labyrinthe alien complex in an attempt to puzzle out its origin and purpose. Reception J. Michael Caparula reviewed The Architects of Hyperspace in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 84. Caparula commented that "While I find the concept of benign trans-galactic intelligences somewhat overused, McDonough's scientific imagination lends credibility to the story, making for a satisfying read." Reviews Review by Dan Chow (1987) in Locus, #321 October 1987 Review by Don D'Ammassa (1988) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #101 February 1988 Review by Tom Easton (1988) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1988 References 1987 American novels Avon (publisher) books

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Young Wizards

Young Wizards is a series of novels by Diane Duane. The Young Wizards series presently consists of eleven books, focusing on the adventures of two young wizards named Nita and Kit. Each novel pits Nita and Kit against the "Lone Power", an entity ultimately bent on the destruction of the entire universe. The series began in 1983 with the book So You Want to Be a Wizard, which told the story of their first experiences with wizardry. In 1997, Duane began a spin-off, the Feline Wizards series, which takes place in the same universe, but with different protagonists. This series incorporates elements of fantasy, science fiction, and religion. The series deals with issues such as death, sacrifice, and redemption. Books Young Wizards A short story within the same universe, "Uptown Local", was originally published as part of Jane Yolen's Dragons and Dreams anthology; it has also been included in the 20th anniversary edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard and as part of an ebook, Uptown Local and Other Interventions. Interim Errantry is a collection of three stories set between A Wizard of Mars and Games Wizards Play: The Hallowe'en novella "Not on My Patch," the Christmas novelette "How Lovely Are Thy Branches," and the novel Lifeboats. A short story "Not on My Patch" was released in October 2011. The story was scheduled to be published together with other short stories in late 2012 in a one-story-per-month anthology entitled The Wizards’ Year. On February 2, 2016, Duane released the tenth novel in the series, Games Wizards Play, involving a tournament called "The Invitational", where hundreds of wizards compete all-out for a year long apprenticeship under Earth's Planetary Wizard. Three other books within the Young Wizards universe are On Ordeal: Roshaun ke Nelaid, On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih, and On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr. Each book focuses on a wizard and their first trial against the Lone Power. The first book's subject is a humanoid prince who first appeared in Wizard's Holiday; the second's is a saurian Species Archivist (a wizard who specializes in relocating endangered species to places where they can thrive) who first appeared in A Wizard of Mars; and the third is about Ronan, a young human wizard whom Nita meets during the events of A Wizard Abroad. All three are part of the Interim Errantry: On Ordeal series, and have since been published digitally as a single volume titled Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal. A special extra Young Wizards novella was released by Duane on December 2nd, 2020 entitled Owl Be Home for Christmas, telling the story of a magical owl that wants to reclaim its home tree that was chopped down to become the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York amid the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic happening that year. The official title of book 12 has yet to be released, but in a 2012 interview with GeekDads, Diane Duane used the working title, Wizardry in Shadow. Feline wizards Three other books are not strictly in the Young Wizards series, but take place in the same setting: The Book of Night with Moon (1997) (US , UK ) To Visit the Queen (1998) (), published in the UK as On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service () The Big Meow (2011) pre-edited version published online; (2017) ebook version All three were released as eBooks available from Diane Duane's web store in December 2017. Adult wizards Short stories about adult wizards in the same setting. "Theobroma", published in the anthology Wizards, Inc., edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman Short Circuit (projected) Concepts The Powers That Be The series shows the influence of many religious and mythological tropes from around the world, and the traits of traditional angels and various gods or heroes of ancient mythology are united in semi-divine, demiurgic beings referred to as the Powers that Be. The Powers exist outside of mortal time, capable of manifesting themselves anywhere in the universe, at any point in time. They were created by a being known only as "the One" (the source of all energy, wizardry, and creative forces in all of the universes) and are portrayed as Its active assistants in the business of creating and maintaining the universe. During the process of Creation, one of the Powers that Be—originally described as the greatest and most glorious of Powers, second only to the One—went apart from the others and invented the "gift" of death (often referred to in the series under the blanket term of entropy,) turning it loose in the universe and thus corrupting or subverting much work done by the other Powers. This rebellious (or at least extremely self-willed) being became known as the Lone Power, and as a result of Its destructive behavior was cast out of the creative order by the One. It has since manifested in many avatars or alternate forms throughout the universe. Its incarnations roam the multiverse, seeking new species to trick into accepting Its "gift". When a species becomes sentient, a process called "The Choice" begins, during which the Lone Power appears and offers the species the opportunity to support a lifestyle or course of action which may seem tempting but ultimately serves entropy (not coincidentally, the Lone Power is often compared to, or even equated to, The Devil). However, the species also has the opportunity to reject the offered "gift" and choose to fight against entropic behavior—but that does not mean that the species has necessarily chosen to fight against pain, death, and evil. The Lone Power is conniving and devious, so to make the right Choice is difficult. Rejecting the Choice outright can sometimes lead to suffering for the entire species. Humanity's Choice appears to have ties to the Biblical story of creation involving Adam and Eve eating the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, with the Lone Power being "behind" the purported actions of the serpent. When involved in a Choice, the Lone Power tends to work subtly, controlling minds or events to result in its "gift" being accepted. It sometimes appears physically when becoming involved in the Choice process, though almost always in some kind of disguise. One of the central themes of the series, however, is the idea that the Lone Power truly wants to return to the light, and in some senses already has due to events in the third book, "High Wizardry". However, because the Powers primarily exist outside of time the reconciliation of the single "projection" of the Lone Power does nothing to change other projections of the Lone Power created throughout the eons, leading to further conflict. Wizardry To combat the Lone Power, the One created wizards. Wizards manifest their power through The Speech, which allows them to describe the desired effects of the wizardry exactly. "It is the language of the Universe." Non-wizards can learn the Speech, but cannot effect change using it. The Powers that Be choose individuals who have the potential to become wizards. The selection is often motivated by the need for a particular individual to solve a particular problem. Once a person has been offered the opportunity to become a wizard, if he or she decides to accept it, that person will be offered the "Wizard's Oath"—a pledge to fight entropy wherever it may be found. If the potential wizard takes the Oath, the event is immediately followed by an Ordeal—a period during which the wizard may combat the Lone Power directly, or perform some other difficult task. The Ordeal is typically when a Wizard is at the peak of his or her power. The younger they are when they take the Oath the more power they will possess and the greater their Ordeal will be. They will slowly lose power as they get older, though they will gain experience and finesse in return. Not all Ordeals are successful, however, and the result of being unprepared or careless during Ordeal is often death. Even if the Ordeal is successful, it may involve the new Wizard giving their life to stop the Lone Power, saving a species or planet. (Ordeals are said to account for a certain percentage of what the real world perceives as "missing children".) Every wizard has access to the Wizard's Manual, a book written in the Speech that gives the reader as much information about the business of wizardry and spells as he or she requires or is capable of handling. The Manual can take many forms and is often tailored to the race and personality of the wizard in question. Water-dwelling wizards, such as dolphins and whales, use the Sea itself as their Manual, drawing answers for their questions out of the songs of the ocean, aka the "Heart of the Sea". Cat wizards have a similar method of accessing the Manual called "The Whispering". Human wizards tend to use books as the Manual, although some hear voices like the cats and whales, and Irish wizards memorize the information. Recent advances in technology have allowed some wizards to use digital versions of the Manual, such as laptops and, more recently, iPod variations (called WizPods). Main characters Nita Juanita Louise "Nita" Callahan begins the series in junior high school as a typical "book-nerd" who is often bullied by stronger girls. As the series goes on, she deals with such issues as parents, romance, death, sex, and social bullying. She lives at home with her parents and her genius kid sister Dairine. She is often called "Neets." She loves horse books and listens to Journey (according to High Wizardry). Her wizardly specialty initially seems to be the art of dealing with plants and the living world (sometimes referred to as organic wizardry), but later on shifts more toward wizardly theory and manipulation of kernels—cores of energy found at the center of every person, planet and universe that act as replicable centers for major wizardries. Recent events have suggested that Nita may be switching specialties again, this time into precognition and oracular dreaming, also developing a connection with water. The third book, High Wizardry, briefly deals with the possibility that Nita and Kit have feelings for each other. In the 9th installment, A Wizard of Mars, Nita admits that she may be jealous of Aurilelde, a female alien that Kit seems to be attracted to. Later, in the heat of the moment, while fighting with the alien princess, she calls Kit her "boyfriend," though she and Kit are not officially "together" until the end of the novel. In the process, she learns that Kit was not attracted to Aurilelde, but her, in a complicated series of events. Nita has a brief relationship with the Irish wizard Ronan in A Wizard Abroad, although when he reappears in Wizards at War, there isn't any sort of tension. Kit Christopher Kellen "Kit" Rodriguez also starts the series in junior high school, dealing with the issue of becoming a responsible adult. Despite being one year younger than Nita, Kit is usually the more mature member of the pair. Kit is in Nita's grade in school, having skipped a grade. His birthday is August 25. In the first book, he often gets teased because of his Spanish accent and his height, but after their Ordeal, matters improve. Kit also lives at his home in Nita's neighborhood with his parents, his older sister Carmela, and his dog Ponch. The oldest child in his family, Helena, lives at college. Kit is skilled with mechanical objects and sometimes, through Ponch, he is skilled in 'scent'. Kit found his Manual in a used bookstore in NYC. In A Wizard of Mars, Kit admits to himself that he is attracted to Nita, and that he may have never pursued his feelings because he was afraid of going beyond their friendship. This occurs after he finds himself strangely attracted to the Martian princess Aurilelde, who reminds Kit slightly of Nita when he meets her. His affection for the alien is extinguished when he finds out about Aurilelde's ill intentions but finds out that Aurilelde is actually a counterpart of Nita. Dairine Dairine E. "Dair" Callahan is a brainy child, wise beyond her years. She is known for being obsessed with all things Star Wars and wants to be a Jedi. Although she is three years younger than Nita, she cannot stand it if Nita knows anything that she does not. She figures out that Nita has odd powers, finds out about wizardry, and in High Wizardry becomes a wizard herself, enormously powerful and prematurely skilled, though, as with all wizards, her sheer power diminishes with time. Her Ordeal is a pivotal moment in the history of the universe, as she not only temporarily becomes the Manual, but helps to redeem the Lone Power. Dairine's skill comes through computers, and she is mentally connected to a race of silicon beings and their sentient planet. She calls her computer (which is also her Manual) Spot. There is speculation that she has romantic feelings for Roshaun. According to the New Millennial Edition of High Wizardry, her birthday is October 20, 1997. The Lone Power The Lone Power is the chief antagonist of the series, and appears in various avatars and/or as Itself in each book. It is named as "the Witherer, the Kindler of Wildfires, the one who decreed darkness, the Starsnuffer," (So You Want to Be a Wizard -p238). It is a renegade Power who invented entropy in all its manifestations, including death. Wizards exist in order to fight Its influence, with varying degrees of success. Addressed formally as "Fairest and Fallen", the Lone Power used to be one of the "good" Powers That Be, but Its actions were regarded as "evil" and It fell from grace. Throughout the series, the Lone Power, as a result of Its actions, deeds, and history, is often equated to Satan, an evil entity in most monotheistic religions. For example, in the second book of the series, Nita is asked if she attained her wizardry through a deal with the Devil, to which she responds "Kit and I are the last people that One wants anything to do with." Other wizards Humans Tom & Carl Tom B. Swale and Carl J. Romeo are Senior Wizards who appear in each book. Originally introduced as local Advisories, they are promoted to Senior between the events of the first and second novels. They live together in the same suburb as Nita, Kit and Dairine, and generally appear in order to advise or to correct them. Tom is a writer of spells and fiction, while Carl sells commercial airtime in television. His wizardly specialization appears to be in time and its manipulation. Tom and Carl are wise, tolerant, and funny; Nita frequently refers to them as examples of adult wizardry. Ronan Ronan Nolan, Jr is a wizard whom Nita meets during the events of A Wizard Abroad. His body is the host of the One's Champion and he also possesses the Spear Luin (Spear of Light), making him extremely magically powerful until the One's Champion has to leave him in Wizards at War. He is one of the main characters in Wizards at War and is Nita's love interest in A Wizard Abroad, eventually kissing her. On his Ordeal he 'took the sea in', briefly controlling an entire portion of the ocean, essentially becoming it. In Wizards at War, he becomes a love interest of Kit's sister, Carmela, a theme that continues in A Wizard of Mars. Eventually the tension between him and Nita decreases after Nita says that Carmela is "all his" in Wizards at War. Darryl Darryl McAllister is introduced in A Wizard Alone and appears briefly in Wizards at War. In A Wizard Alone, Kit is sent to help Darryl in his Ordeal. He soon learns that Darryl is autistic and that his Ordeal is being deliberately sabotaged by the Lone Power. Utilizing Ponch's ability to "walk" through universes, Kit enters Darryl's mind to assist him in the Ordeal, but overexposure causes Kit to exhibit antisocial tendencies and mood swings picked up from Darryl himself. Nita, however, discovers that Darryl is an Abdal—a figure of tremendous power and a conduit for goodness from the One—and that he is actually tricking the Lone One, making him think that he's in control so that Darryl can trap him in a self-created universe and never again let him out. Nita and Kit put a stop to the cycle by reaching out to Darryl together, who swears to the Lone One that he will remain in the universe if the Lone One returns to it someday, and then circumvents the Ordeal by taking advantage of his Abdal ability to be in two places at once. In the original version, Darryl uses this ability to split his autistic "self" and leaves it behind in the universe he created, so that the Lone Power is forever trapped there with the autistic Darryl. In the new "Young Millennium" Revised Editions, this was changed so that a mirrored version of Darryl watches over the Lone Power. Darryl continues to be autistic for the remainder of the series (in the revised editions) although he regains his coping abilities. Though the Lone Power itself is not trapped, the manifestation targeting Darryl is forever locked away from the rest of the universes. Non-Humans S'reee S'reee is the whale wizard who acts as the Senior for Earth's oceans. She has a special relationship with Nita, who saves her life in Deep Wizardry. In DW she asks Nita and Kit for help performing the Song of the Twelve, a complex wizardly ritual. She is thrust into responsibility very young after the death of her mentor, but in later books she seems to be more confident with her duties. S'reee helps Kit implement a 'cleanup' wizardry to clean the waters surrounding Manhattan at the beginning of The Wizard's Dilemma. She appears briefly in Wizards at War. In A Wizard of Mars, during a talk with Nita, it was said that S'reee was dating another whale who is a food critic. Roshaun Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Teriaunst am det Nuiiliat (sometimes "am det Wellakhit") is a haughty humanoid alien prince from the planet Wellakh. He is first featured in Wizard's Holiday and remains a prominent character until his disappearance in Wizards at War. He is one of the exchange students from the wizardly exchange program and his skills focus on stars. He has/had a "sort of friendship" with Dairine; though it is unclear what these feelings were, they seem to be of a romantic nature. Sker'ret Sker'ret is one of the exchange students in Wizard's Holiday. His species, the Rirhait, resemble giant metal centipedes and have physiologies that allow them to eat almost anything. Sker'ret is skilled with machinery and teleportation wizardry. He is one of the children of the Stationmaster of the Crossings on Rirhath B, and takes over the position for a time during the wizards' war. Filif Filifermanhathrhumneits'elhhessaifnth or "Filif" is one of the exchange students in Wizard's Holiday. The program caused him enormous culture shock, because Filif is not just an alien wizard: he is an alien wizard shaped like a Christmas tree, so learning about vegetarianism as an exception to general human diets was like being in a world full of cannibals. Culture clashes aside, Filif is a very personable sort of individual: curious, friendly, and very easy-going. He takes almost everything in stride and is eager to learn about human culture. His favorite discoveries so far are baseball hats and bright colors, even if his fashion sense is, to put it politely, nonexistent. He calls them "decorations" and prefers bright orange swim trunks and Victoria's Secret lingerie. He is very magically powerful and excels at writing new spells, as well as designing illusions. Pralaya Pralaya is a wizard from a different universe that Nita meets while experimenting with kernels in The Wizard's Dilemma. He bears much resemblance to an otter, though with six legs and antennae. Nita meets him while retrieving the kernel of a "practice universe" from a canal. Later in the story, he is possessed by the Lone Power and presents Nita with the deal to give up her powers in order to save her mother's life. When Nita tells Pralaya that the Lone Power had been using his body, It kills him. Quelt Quelt is the Alaalid that Nita and Kit visit during the excursus in Wizard's Holiday. She is the only wizard of her species (besides Druvah). Pont Pont is an alien that Nita meets in The Wizard's Dilemma when in the practice universes. He is a plural—one person in multiple bodies—which is apparently normal in his universe. He looks to Nita like five giant blue ball bearings. Mamvish Mamvish is a "species archivist" of extraordinary wizardly power who shows up in A Wizard of Mars. She is of saurian appearance and considerably more massive than any elephant. Her power levels are so huge that the Lone Power declined to show up for Mamvish's ordeal. Personally she is "kind of a goof" and is almost addicted to Earth-grown tomatoes. Other characters Humans Harry Callahan Harold Edward Callahan, Nita and Dairine's father. After his wife's death, he grows closer to his daughters and also to the world of wizardry, serving as a comforter and encourager to wizards who are going through a hard time, notably to Filif and Tom in Wizard's Holiday. Harry is a florist and landscape gardener; Nita believes she gets her talents with living things (especially plants) from him. Nita and Dairine inherited their magic powers from his side of the family. Betty Callahan Nita and Dairine's late mother, and the focus of The Wizard's Dilemma. A former professional ballerina, Betty passed on both her red hair and her natural grace to Dairine. She passes away sometime between The Wizard's Dilemma and A Wizard Alone. Carmela Rodriguez Kit's sister, a couple of years older than he. She bought a laser dissociator off the Mizarthu shopping network, which she uses to help Nita and Sker'ret defend The Crossings. She is in the process of learning The Speech, despite the fact that she's not a wizard. Once Carmela learns The Speech, she spends most of her time watching TV from across the galaxy, and talking to her new alien friends. She seems to have a talent for languages, as she was learning Japanese before taking up the study of The Speech, and presumably knows Spanish as well. She helps Dairine deal with the exchange wizards in Wizard's Holiday. In Wizards at War Carmela also manages to free the entire group when they are captured at a crucial moment. During A Wizard of Mars she assists in the translation of an ancient text found in a cavern on Mars. Helena Rodriguez Kit's oldest sister. She is away attending college and lives there. She originally believed that Kit had made a deal with the devil. As of A Wizard of Mars, she believes he is a mutant. Mr. Millman Robert Millman is the school therapist; he first appears in A Wizard Alone to help Nita and, later, Dairine, with their mother's death. Although he is not himself a wizard, he knows of wizards and so recognizes Nita for what she is. Later, in Wizards at War, he helps by arranging for them to get time off from school. Non-humans Ponch Poncho (Kit's black Labrador/Border Collie mix) is an average dog. More worried about food (and squirrels) than anything else, Ponch accompanies Kit and Nita on some of their adventures. As the series progresses it is obvious that something is different about Ponch; at the beginning of the series, he is featured as a minor character, mostly a source of canine comic relief, but further on his character is developed into more of a supporting role and partner to Kit. He starts to find and even create alternate universes (his favorite being a squirrel universe) and eventually is revealed to be a canine Power, namely the canine version of the One, according to the Transcendent Pig. After this, Kit mourns his loss, only to have a stray dog come up to him and reveal that Ponch is inside all dogs now. Peach Machu Picchu is an irascible scarlet macaw owned by Tom and Carl. Extremely grumpy and given to showing off, she can also tell the future: her advice saves Nita and Kit in all of the first three books. In High Wizardry she accompanies Nita and Kit to find Dairine, and they discover that Peach is actually an avatar of the Winged Defender, or The One's Champion, one of the Powers that Be. Nita recognises Peach in Ronan in A Wizard Abroad. Fred Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni, nicknamed Fred by Kit from the syllable phreid in his name, is a white hole who features in So You Want to Be a Wizard. He appears when Nita and Kit do a finding spell to try to retrieve Nita's space pen, and bears a message for Tom and Carl. Fred is the catalyst for Nita and Kit's Ordeal, starting them on a quest to find the Book of Night with Moon; he is comic in his appreciation of the delights of Earth and he becomes good friends with Nita and Kit. At the end of SYWTBAW, he sacrifices himself by converting his mass to light, relighting the moon and allowing Nita and Kit to save Manhattan from an incursion by the Lone Power. Ed ed'Rashtekeresket t'k Gh'shestaesteh, the Master Shark and the Pale Slayer, appears in Deep Wizardry to play the appropriate role in the Song of the Twelve. He is the master of his species, a great white shark; throughout the book he is both aloof and threatening. Although he frightens Nita, they strike up an unusual friendship. He is dryly funny, although at first Nita doesn't find him so. His role in the song is to devour Nita, as the Silent One; however, at the end of the book, Ed sacrifices himself rather than let Nita die, borrowing her wizardry to take the Silent One's role in the song. But, perhaps because of this borrowed wizardry, he is seen in Timeheart in the novel's coda. Spot Spot is Dairine's sentient Apple computer, originally an Apple IIc variant, but later appearing to be a Macintosh PowerBook, who serves as Dairine's wizard's manual. Spot first shows up in High Wizardry and is present or "nearby" in the remainder of the series whenever Dairine is. He is shy around others, but (according to Dairine) is quite talkative in one-on-one conversations with her. He also has the ability to upgrade himself, changing his platform and appearance as the series progresses to keep up with contemporary technology. After getting an upgrade from his siblings (Dairine's 'children'), he seems to develop a sense of the future. Transcendent Pig Inspired by Chinese mythology, this is a being of mysterious origins, first mentioned in So You Want to Be a Wizard and first seen in The Wizard's Dilemma. He has been called Chao, but it is unclear if that is a personal name or merely an epithet. The Pig is designated as being between mortals and the Powers That Be, more than a mortal but less than a Power, and is Omnipresent though not necessarily Omniscient. However, according to The One's Champion, not even the Powers That Be know where the Pig came from. The purpose the Pig serves is unknown, but it is believed that it knows the meaning of life for an unexplained reason, but it does not just let anyone know. This makes it wizardly custom to immediately ask the Pig the meaning of life upon seeing it. He appears in Wizards at War as well. Temporal setting Time in the Young Wizard series does not progress in a straightforward manner, and in fact there is some disagreement among fans as to the chronology of events in the series. For example, in So You Want to Be a Wizard, Carmela is fifteen, Nita is thirteen, Kit twelve, and Dairine eleven. By Wizard's Holiday, they should have all aged two years, since two summer vacations (Deep Wizardry and A Wizard Abroad) have passed. However, Nita progresses only one grade from High Wizardry to The Wizard's Dilemma, which means that either Deep Wizardry and A Wizard Abroad take place in the same summer, or Nita and the other characters got held back in school. Also, in A Wizard Alone Nita mentions that she has "a couple of years' more of experience" at wizardry than Dairine, which would imply that Nita had already been a wizard for two years before Dairine took her Oath. In Wizard's Holiday, Dairine says she and Spot have been "working together" for a couple years. Wizards at War puts Nita's age at fourteen. In High Wizardry, Dairine is eleven. In the latest book, A Wizard of Mars, Dairine's dad says about her, "She's only eleven!" The books, however, are always set in the year of publication. Few dates are ever given, but Deep Wizardry explicitly says that the events occur in 1985 while High Wizardry, set two months later, gives the eleven-year-old Dairine a 1978 birthdate. The discrepancy in time is particularly noticeable when it comes to computers; in High Wizardry Nita's family obtains a brand new "Apple IIIc+," apparently modelled on the Apple IIc+ of 1988, while less than a year or two later in Wizard's Holiday Dairine's computer Spot is apparently imitating an Apple Titanium PowerBook. Even more obviously, in the 2005 podcast version of the 1986 short story "Uptown Local," Duane changes a line so that one minor character is using an iPod, and in Wizards at War a fellow wizard shows off his specialized manual known as a WizPod. In the same book, Nita thinks about the Manhattan skyline when someone refers to recent troubles, signifying that it takes place after 9/11. Also in "Wizards at War", the Lone Power refers to "a tower or two crumbling" in his gloating speech. The sliding scale is similar to those used in the James Bond films, DC Comics and Marvel comics. New Timeline In August 2012, Diane Duane released "The New Millennium Edition" of So You Want To Be a Wizard. This sets the events of that book firmly in 2008. The New Millennium Editions are intended to repair the "very broken, inconsistent and frankly dysfunctional timeline" which was making it hard for the series to find new readers. The new timeline sees all the first nine books happen over a span of about 3 years, as Dairine is said to be 11 in book 1, and she is now said to be 13 in book 9. The first nine books are now available as New Millennium Editions. The tenth, Games Wizards Play, was originally published in the new timeline and therefore will not be re-released as a New Millennium Edition. Notes References External links YoungWizards.com - interactive website Author's Weblog Diane Duane's Bibliography Uptown Local and Other Interventions Fantasy novel series

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Attack on Orleans

The Attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during World War I on 21 July 1918 when a German submarine fired on a small convoy of barges led by a tugboat off Orleans, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the Cape Cod peninsula. Several shells fired during the engagement likely missed their intended maritime or aircraft targets and fell to earth in the area around Orleans, giving the impression of a deliberate attack on the town. Action On the morning of 21 July 1918, German submarine , commanded by Kapitänleutnant Richard Feldt, was possibly attempting to cut the trans-Atlantic submarine communications cable from Orleans to Brest, France. While in the area for the buried cable, Feldt became aware of the passing tugboat Perth Amboy towing three barges and the three-masted schooner Lansford. It was claimed that U-156 fired two torpedoes, however these were likely shells that missed their target or were warning shots across the Perth Amboy's bow. It is unlikely the U-156 would have wasted valuable torpedoes on a group of small unarmed ships. U-156 then appeared off Orleans and fired its two deck guns at the tug and its tow. Perth Amboy was heavily damaged, and the schooner and three barges were sunk. Two Curtiss HS-2L flying boats from the recently completed Naval Air Station Chatham dropped bombs near U-156; but the bombs failed to explode due to technical problems or because the airmen on watch that Sunday were inexperienced at arming the bombs. U-156 elevated its guns to fire at the aircraft, but missed. Some shells landed harmlessly in a deserted marsh and on Nauset Beach, giving the town of Orleans the distinction of being the only spot in the United States that received enemy fire during World War I, but there is no evidence that these were deliberately aimed at the shore. There were no targets of value in the area other than the vessels. There were no fatalities. Nearby Station No. 40 of the United States Coast Guard launched a surfboat under heavy enemy shellfire and rowed out to rescue the 32 sailors trapped aboard the tug and barges. After firing 147 shells in the hour-long engagement, U-156 submerged about 11:30a.m. A sign above the beach commemorates the engagement: "Three miles offshore, in the direction of the arrow, was the scene of attack of a German submarine on a tug and barges July 21, 1918. Several shells struck the beach. This is the only section of the United States' coast shelled by the enemy during World War I." Aftermath U-156 escaped away and headed north, where it attacked other Allied ships. A few shells and craters were found on shore in Orleans and in the nearby marsh. Newspapers dubbed the engagement the "Battle of Orleans" and offered a reward for the discovery of submarine supply bases in the Bay of Fundy. The attack on Orleans was the only Central Powers attack on the contiguous United States during World War I. It was also the first time that the United States was shelled by artillery of an external power since the Siege of Fort Texas in 1846. Notes References - Total pages: 129 External links The U-Boat That Threatened America Conflicts in 1918 1918 in Massachusetts Atlantic operations of World War I Battles and conflicts without fatalities History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts Naval battles of World War I involving Germany Naval battles of World War I involving the United States Orleans, Massachusetts United States home front during World War I July 1918 events

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Fiona Williams

Jonquil Fiona Williams, (born 22 July 1947) is a British retired academic of social policy whose research covers gender, race, ethnicity, and the welfare state. From 1996 to 2012, she was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She was previously a lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London, Plymouth Polytechnic, and the Open University, before becoming Professor of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford. Early life and education Williams was born on 22 July 1947 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, to Celia and Leonard Williams. She was educated at Ilkley Grammar School, a state grammar school in Ilkley, Yorkshire. She studied sociology and social administration at Bedford College, London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1968. In later life, she studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree with the Open University, which she completed in 1993. Academic career From 1968 to 1970, Williams was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Having returned to the United Kingdom, she was a part-time lecturer at Kilburn Polytechnic from 1970 to 1972 and a lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London from 1972 to 1975. After a break from academia, she joined Plymouth Polytechnic where she was a part-time lecturer between 1981 and 1985, and a research officer from 1985 to 1987. She was a research officer at Leeds Polytechnic during the 1987/1988 academic year. In 1988, Williams joined the Open University; she was a lecturer from 1988 to 1992 and a senior lecturer from 1992 to 1995. For the 1995/1996 academic year, she was Professor of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford. In 1996, she joined the University of Leeds having been appointed Professor of Social Policy and remained there until she retired. She was Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Group on "Care, Values and the Future of Welfare" between 1999 and 2005. In 2012, she retired from full-time academia and was appointed a Professor Emeritus. Williams has led an active retirement. Since 2012, she has been a research associate of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, She continued to be co-editor of the academic journal Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society until 2014. Since 2014, she has been an honorary professor of the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. Personal life Williams has two children: a daughter and a son. Honours In 2003, Williams was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). In the 2004 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to social policy". In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Selected works References 1947 births Living people Academics of social policy Academics of the University of Leeds Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences People educated at Ilkley Grammar School Alumni of Bedford College, London Alumni of the Open University University of Ibadan faculty Academics of the University of North London Academics of the University of Plymouth Academics of Leeds Beckett University Academics of the Open University Academics of the University of Bradford People from Rugby, Warwickshire

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Nastassia Marachkouskaya

Nastassia Marachkouskaya (; Łacinka: Nastassia Maračkoŭskaja; born ) is a Belarusian female artistic gymnast and a member of the national team. She was born in Minsk. She competed at the 2008 Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, and the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. References External links 1990 births Living people Belarusian female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Belarus Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Minsk

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Editura Universul

Editura Universul is a book publishing company located in Chișinău, Moldova. It was established in 1933, when the area was part of Greater Romania. Universul is the oldest such firm in the country, and among the largest. Notes Mass media in Chișinău Publishing companies established in 1933 Mass media companies of Moldova 1933 establishments in Romania

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Sharon Firisua

Sharon Kikini Firisua (born 15 December 1993) is a Solomon Islands track and field athlete. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she competed in the 5000 m event. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's marathon. Career In 2013 she was named the Solomon Islands Sportswoman of the Year. She started training seriously in 2010 and at her second Pacific Games in 2015 she took two gold medals at 5000 and 10,000m and another in the half marathon in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. References External links 1993 births Living people Solomon Islands female steeplechase runners Solomon Islands female long-distance runners Olympic athletes of the Solomon Islands Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for the Solomon Islands Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games People from Malaita Province

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Sean O'Neal

Sean O’Neal (born November 29, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Sam Anders in the television show Clarissa Explains It All. After Clarissa, he appeared in other TV series including Development Hell and the 2016 film Penumbra. Filmography Awards O'Neal was nominated for two Young Artist Awards (at the time known as the Youth in Film Awards) for his work on Clarissa Explains It All: Best Young Actor Starring in an Off-Prime Time or Cable Series in 1991 and Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Cable Series in 1992. References External links 1975 births Living people Male actors from Tampa, Florida American male television actors 20th-century American male actors

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Kishor Phadke

Kishor Moreshwar Phadke (20 February 1936 - 31 January 2022), also known as K. M. Phadke, was an Indian psychologist, practitioner and trainer in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held M.A. degree in psychology from Pune University. He is first Indian psychologist who enjoys the unique distinction of being a fellow and supervisor of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City. He is best known as a pioneer of REBT in India. Due to his distinguished contributions to REBT, Indian psychologists consigned a unique title to his therapy – Ellis-Phadke therapy. He has authored nine Marathi books, several popular articles and papers and co-authored five English books. Family and education Kishor was born on 20 February 1936 in a Maharashtrian family. The origin of his family can be traced to Haripant Phadke, who was a lieutenant general in the Darbar of Peshwas. His father was a general practitioner (MBBS) in Pune whereas his mother was a housewife. The couple had four children, two of whom have died. His uncle also served as communist leader during the freedom movement. Kishor has completed honours Degree course in philosophy and Masters course in psychology from Pune University in 1959. Early life In 1959, Kishor began his career in Ruparel College, Mumbai. He first worked as a demonstrator, then lecturer and finally officiating professor and head of the department. After serving for 5 years in Ruparel College, he joined ATIRA as a junior scientific officer in Human Relations division. Gradually, he got promoted as a senior scientific officer which gave him an opportunity to conduct various industry research projects. Correspondence with Albert Ellis Phadke wrote his first letter to Ellis on 29 April 1968 and the correspondence lasted for 36 years. Phadke's correspondence with Ellis is considered to be one of the finest sources for REBT learners. It is of 1351 pages (bounded in four volumes). It consists of Phadke's queries/enquiries about REBT and responses given by Ellis. Phadke had been questioning, challenging and attacking almost every aspect of theory and practice of REBT. Dr. Eliis, perhaps the world's best authority on the subject, also kept sending him various books as well as articles. In 1987, Windy Dryden, a professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London expressed his wish to see this correspondence. He was very much impressed after reading these volumes and also wrote to Phadke saying that he (Phadke) really had an insatiable desire for knowledge and his attention to detail was worthy of an academic. After Ellis' death, these volumes are preserved and cited in Archives of Columbia University. REBT: The life goal Phadke had left ATIRA in 1969 and joined Mumbai University as a demonstrator in the Department of Psychology. He left the university in 4 years and joined as faculty at Sir Sorabji Pochkanawala Bankers Training College, Mumbai in 1973. He was aiming to spread REBT throughout India. With this vision, he resigned his teaching post at Banking college in 1981 and established his own training centre. It was named 'Phadke Centre' with the objective of imparting education for life through REBT. Phadke Centre Phadke Centre, the first learning center of REBT in India, offered a variety of individual and group programmes founded on the principles and techniques of REBT. He created his own training modules of primary and advanced workshops for professionals as well as two day workshops for non-professionals. Thousands of trainees, more than 200 organizations organized his training programmes for their employees, about 10000 executives from all levels of management. In the contemporary transactional analysis' era, training in REBT was just inconceivable to industry. Being a pioneer, Phadke encountered considerable opposition from the start but using REBT's philosophy, he could develop an elegant model of training programmes for industries. He has delivered professional talks in various business, industrial, educational, research and training organizations. Challenges and struggles After getting first introduction to REBT at Gujarat University, Phadke started reading books on wide range of subjects such as psychology, philosophy, literature, language, political science, economics, sociology. These books assisted him to study, investigate and deeply engage with issues and concerns related to human behavior. During this time, he started correspondence with Dr. Ellis regarding his questions and queries. Ellis also started to send him his books and articles along with the answers. Phadke faced many problems in receiving the posts. Despite of that, today he has a collection of Ellis' 76 books and more than 600 articles and research papers. Needless to mention, he has deeply studied and analyzed this material. His source of learning REBT was from Ellis'books, some of which contained verbatim records of Ellis'cases. He studied numerous cases of Ellis, drew his own conclusions and compared them to those of Ellis. Fellow and supervisor In 1977, Institute for Advanced Study in Rational Psychotherapy, (currently known as Albert Ellis Institute , New York) honored him the status of 'Fellow' and later, in 1989, he was awarded the honour of 'Supervisor'. According to the regulations of the institute of that time, the status of fellow was given to only those aspirants who had a post-doctorate in psychology and had completed two years intensive training programme of the institute. Although Phadke had neither a doctorate nor had he visited the institute, the concerned committee got convinced with significance of his work in India and made Phadke an exception to the criteria. The status of supervisor enabled him to conduct training programmes for professionals. Contributions to REBT Absence of efficient communication system between Phadke and his mentor, Dr. Ellis, forced him to rely on his own resources and made him to innovate his own techniques of practicing REBT. This elegant method of learning resulted in new research findings in the theory and practice of REBT. Ellis praised his dedication and mastery over this subject with saying 'I still feel you are the only person in Asia that I consider to be extremely well qualified to practice and preach REBT. He has made original contributions to the theory and practice of REBT, which were greatly acknowledged by Ellis. Some of the contributions to the theory of REBT are as follows: Denotation of 'D' letter In the classical form, the letter 'D' in the A-B-C-D-E theory stands for the therapeutic technique of Disputing the client's irrational beliefs. Phadke expanded the letter 'D' and created modified three-fold denotation- a) Detection b) Disputation c) Discrimination. Ellis has incorporated this denotation in ABC structure of REBT. Enlargement of 'B' letter Phadke demonstrated to Ellis that it is incorrect to classify desires, preferences, demands and commands as Beliefs- rational or irrational. In order to incorporate the human motives in the A-B-C theory, he coined the more comprehensive term for B- Bedrock of Biosocial Forces. In the later years, he reinterpreted letter 'B' more accurately as bipartite belief system. It includes the detection of binary message which the client signals to himself as well as the bipartite belief system, implied in that message. Redefinition of 'C' Phadke gave a special thought to 'C' which was earlier described merely as Consequences. He precisely named it as 'Choice-blocking consequences'. In later years, he further elaborated it by making a distinction between choice freeing consequences leading to healthy emotions and choice blocking consequences leading to unhealthy emotions. Extension of 'E' One of the REBT proponent, Garcia suggested the letter 'E' could stand for a) Empathy b) Emotion and c) Experience. Phadke added yet another meaning to the letter E, namely Enthusiasm. Modification of the Approval Principles After closely observing the behavior of hundreds of people, Phadke arrived at the conclusion that the principle of Approval in REBT has to be supplemented by the Principle of Disapproval which he stated as follows: 'No one should dislike or disapprove of me for whatever I do.' Ellis graciously accepted his suggestion and it was incorporated in his subsequent presentation of masturbatory ideologies. Phadke went further and suggested a two-fold classification of masturbatory ideologies instead of three. 1. What I should get, feel and do. 2. What I should not have to get, feel and do. This classification made the work of detecting the irrational beliefs easy Review of Rationality Phadke pointed out that five criteria of rational behavior proposed in REBT were not sufficiently comprehensive. They seemed to omit a vital aspect of man's behavior towards others. In order to cover that aspect, he suggested an additional criterion- Rational behavior does no needless, definite and deliberate harm to others Emotive-Rational Therapy Phadke proposed that the distinction between Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) and Emotive Rational Therapy (ERT) can generate at least verifiable hypotheses. He further elaborated that the clients' irrational beliefs about himself may be disputed by using ERT whereas the clients' irrational beliefs about others and the world may be disputed effectively by using RET. RET is more effective in disputing the client's inferences whereas ERT is more effective in disputing the client's evaluations New format of teaching REBT Phadke devised 8A format of presenting the basic principles of REBT. A1 to A4 are used for detection of psychopathology and A5 to A8 are used for the treatment. Brief outline of this format is as follows: A1- Assumption A2-Appraisal A3-Agony A4-Astray A5-Articulate A6-Attack A7-Attune A8-Adjust Theory of surplus values This term was devised by Phadke to his intervention strategies to suit the client's background. Usage of this term makes easy for the practitioner to make the clients understand the surplus value they are attaching to some events in their life Others Phadke invented many innovative practices of REBT which are as follows: Effective way of teaching the meaning of awful, horrible or terrible The Devil's Advocate- An exercise in Rational Thinking The involvement Debate Refinement of Rational-Emotive-Imagery Empathic Role Play Role Reversal A Second-Order Cognitive Therapeutic Technique Emotive technique of controlling one's emotions and behaviour Some of these techniques were used effectively for the advancement of the practice of REBT. This was clearly displayed when psychologists from California acknowledged that the technique of role reversal devised by Phadke was an effective assessment technique to increase awareness of faulty perceptions of reality. Later life At the age of 71, Phadke decided to retire from all of his professional activities, including the closing of Phadke Centre. Dr. Ellis, in his autobiography – All Out!, has written about the unusual influence of Phadke on him. Ellis says: 'One of the most unusual influences on me and my work has been that of the psychologist Kishor M. Phadke, of Mumbai, India. I would never have figured out some of the finer points of REBT without his detailed questioning, and I want to thank him for that....He has certainly been one of my finest friends and supporters since 1968.' Final years In 2015, Phadke relocated to Shivaji Park, Mahim, upon his retirement. For a few years, he had been suffering from Parkinson's disease. He took his last breath on the 31st of January, 2022. His body was donated to the Somaiya hospital in Mumbai, as per his wishes. Published works Books authored Joshi, A., & Phadke, K.M. (2018). Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Integrated. (1st ed.) New Delhi, India: Sage Publications. Phadke, K.M. & Joshi, A. (2018). Albert Ellis Vichardarshan (1st ed.). Mumbai, India: Shabd Publications. Phadke, K.M. (2014). Udyojakanche Antarang (3rd reprint). Pune, India: Majestic Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. (2009). Alasavar Mat (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Tridal Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. (2005). Karmacharyansathi Samupadeshan (1st ed.). Mumbai, India: Majestic Prakashan. Khear, R., & Phadke, K.M. (2001). The Inner World of Entrepreneurs. Mumbai, India: Pauline Publications. Phadke, K.M. (2000). Mnachkshunche Samarthya. (2nd reprint). Mumbai, India: Tridal Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. (1999). Adhunik Sanjivani. (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Tridal Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. & Chulani, V. (1999).The Power of Your Mind's Eye. Mumbai, India: Pauline Publications. Phadke, K.M. & Chulani, V. (1999). Conquering Laziness.New Delhi, India: Excel Books. Phadke, K.M. & Chulani, V. (1998). Liberation form Addiction. Mumbai, India: Himalaya Publishing House. Phadke, K.M. & Khear, R. (1998). Counselling in Industry: A Rational Approach. Mumbai, India: Himalaya Publishing House. Phadke, K.M. (1997). Vikretyanche Antarang (1st ed.). Mumbai, India: Tridal Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. (1995). Kathin Samaya Yeta. (1st ed.). Mumbai, India: Tridal Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. (1995). Vyasanmukti. (1st ed.). Mumbai, India : Tridal Prakashan. Phadke, K.M. (1996). Chakram Manashanshi Kase Vagave? (2nd Reprint). Mumbai, India: Tridal Prakashan. Articles authored Phadke, K.M. (2008). Kame ka Rengaltat? Part III. Vyapari Mitra, (May Issue), pp. 583–585. Phadke, K.M. (2008). Kame ka Rengaltat? Part II. Vyapari Mitra, (March Issue), pp. 357–359. Phadke, K.M. (2008). Kame ka Rengaltat?. Part I. Vyapari Mitra, (Jan Issue), pp. 103–104. Phadke, K.M. (2007). Sukhacha Mulmatra. Weekly Sadhana, (Oct Issue), pp. 18–21. Phadke, K.M. (2003). Asahishuteche Durlakshit Parinam. Ajcha Sudharak, (May Issue), pp. 64–69. Phadke, K.M. (2003). Vaicharik Nirbharata ani Manasik Arogya. Palakniti, (April Issue), pp. 5–9. Phadke, K.M. (2003). Shala: Ek Abhinav Prayog, Part II. Ajcha Sudharak, (March Issue), pp. 463–469. Phadke, K.M. (2003). Shala: Ek Abhinav Prayog. Part I Ajcha Sudharak, (February Issue), pp. 430–436. Phadke, K.M. (1982). Some Innovations in RET Theory and Practice. Rational Living. 17(2), pp.  25–29. Phadke, K.M. (1976). Entrepreneurship Development: A Rational Approach. Handbook of Entrepreneurship. Maharashtra Small Scale Industry's Development Corporation,. Phadke, K.M. (1972). Mardhekaranchya Saundaryamimansechi Manasshastriya Bhumika. Satyakatha, (Oct Issue), 18–26. Phadke, K.M. (1970). Rational Behaviour Training for the New Banker. Indian Institute of Bankers Journal., Phadke, K.M. (1968). An Exploratory Study of the Personality Profile of Some Indian Scientific Researchers. Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. 5(2), pp. 65–72. References External links Albert Ellis Institute All Out! An Autobiography Indian psychologists 1936 births Scientists from Mumbai Living people 20th-century Indian social scientists Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni

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Devario monticola

The Devario monticola, is a fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae). It is endemic to Sri Lanka. However, the validity of the species description was noted problematic by several other local ichthyologists. Description Body with 4–5 dark irregular vertical bars on anterior half. Danionin notch present. Lateral line complete. Dorsum light yellowish brown with a metallic sheen. Body silvery sheen laterally and ventrally. Vertical bars metallic blue with bright yellowish interspaces. Fins hyaline. Ecology It is found from torrential waters of Agra Oya, a tributary of Mahaweli river. References Devario Cyprinid fish of Asia Freshwater fish of Sri Lanka Fish described in 2017

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Dmitrijs Jurkevičs

Dmitrijs Jurkevičs (born 7 January 1987 in Daugavpils) is a Latvian track and field athlete who specialises in middle-distance running. He holds the Latvian record in 1500 metres. He competed over 1500 metres at the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships and came sixth in the final. He was a semi-finalist in the 800 metres and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He set an 800 m best of 1:46.44 minutes in Sollentuna in 2008 and improved his 1500 m best to 3:39.69 minutes the following year. In his senior world debut, he was eliminated in the 800 m heats at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. He began to focus on running the 1500 m from 2010 onwards, and he represented Latvia in that event at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. He achieved a Latvian record over 1500 m in Prague in June 2011 and bettered that mark by over a second and a half to 3:37.35 minutes at the Sollentuna Grand Prix a few weeks later. He represented Latvia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500 m. Achievements Personal bests References External links 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Daugavpils Latvian male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Latvia Competitors at the 2007 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade

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Wilson Therapeutics

Wilson Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company, based in Stockholm, Sweden, that develops novel therapies for rare diseases. The company is listed in the Mid-Cap segment on Nasdaq Stockholm with the stock ticker WTX. Wilson Therapeutics' lead product, Decuprate, is the proprietary bis-choline salt of tetrathiomolybdate. Decuprate is initially being developed as a novel treatment for Wilson's disease, a rare genetic disease that affects approximately 1 in 30,000, causing copper overload in the liver, brain and other tissues and resulting in organ damage and dysfunction. Decuprate has been granted orphan drug designation for the treatment of Wilson's disease in both Europe and the United States. Wilson Therapeutics presented during the 10th Kempen & Co Life Sciences Conference 2017 and showed the world the result with the drug Decuprate. The company also presented during the international investmentconference Bioequity Europe in Paris, France, on May 23, 2017, and showed some promising result. Clinical trials As of 2016, tetrathiomolybdate had been tested in over 500 patients for up to seven years, primarily in oncology and Wilson's disease, as well as some other clinical pathologies. History Wilson Therapeutics was founded in 2012 by HealthCap, one of the leading European life science venture capital funds. In 2014, Wilson Therapeutics closed a $40 million Series B financing co-led by new investors, Abingworth LLP, MVM Life Science Partners LLP and NeoMed Management AS. HealthCap also participated in the round. On April 29, 2016, Wilson Therapeutics announced its initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm and had its first day of trading on May 12, 2016. References Pharmaceutical companies of Sweden Orphan drug companies 2018 mergers and acquisitions Pharmaceutical companies established in 2012 Swedish companies established in 2012 Companies based in Stockholm

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Megan Kelso

Megan Kelso (born 1968 in Seattle, Washington) is an American comic book artist and writer. Early life and education Kelso received her B.A. from Evergreen State University, where she studied history and political science. Career Kelso started working in the 1990s, with the minicomic, Girlhero, which won her a Xeric Foundation grant in 1993. She has since published several other projects including Queen of the Black Black and The Squirrel Mother. In 2004, she was the editor of the female cartoonist anthology, Scheherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters (published by Soft Skull Press). This anthology showcases the work of 23 major female graphic novelists of the time, including veteran and emergent graphic novelists. From April 1 to September 9, 2007, Kelso published a weekly comic strip in The New York Times Magazine titled Watergate Sue. Her Artichoke Tales graphic novel for Fantagraphics Books was published in 2010. She is currently working on her third collection of short stories. Among many other publications, Kelso had a story (which she co-created with Ron Rege) in SPX 2004, the annual anthology published by Small Press Expo (SPX). Kelso has also created work for several magazines, including the now-defunct Tower Records' Pulse Magazine. She received two Ignatz Awards in 2002, for Outstanding Artist (for Artichoke Tales #1 and her story in Non #5) and Outstanding Minicomic (for Artichoke Tales #1). Kelso has develop and led a workshop, "Comics for Writers," at various events, including the 2014 Seattle Graphic Novel Panel, hosted by the Graphic Artists Guild and sponsored by Fantagraphics. Selected Bibliography The Squirrel Mother: Stories (2006), Fantagraphics Books Artichoke Tales (2010), Fantagraphics Books Queen of the Black Black (2011), Fantagraphics Books Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories (2022) Fantagraphics Books Personal life She is married and lives with her husband and daughter in Seattle, Washington. External links NYTimes Magazine strip Ellen Forney, Megan Kelso and Raina Telgemeier on Process at The Comics Journal 1968 births Living people Alternative cartoonists American women cartoonists American female comics artists American comics writers Female comics writers Artists from Seattle Ignatz Award winners for Outstanding Artist 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists American cartoonists Evergreen State College alumni References

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Donna Bullock (actress)

Donna Bullock (born December 11, 1955 in Dallas, Texas) is an American stage, televison, and movie actress. Her first credits on television were for the first season of Dallas in 1978. Her most notable film roles include Air Force One and The Girl Next Door. Television credits include Monk, As The World Turns, All My Children, Tales from the Darkside, Murder, She Wrote, Smallville, and The Division, among others. Her roles on stage include in plays such as A Class Act, Ragtime, and City of Angels. References External links 1955 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Dallas American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Living people

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Lucy Porter

Lucy Donna Porter (born 27 January 1973) is an English actress, writer and comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She is also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote... Unquote and The Personality Test. Personal life Porter was born in Croydon, south London, and attended Wallington High School for Girls. She is married to Justin Edwards. The couple have two children. She is small, revealing during an appearance on QI that she is , while her husband is . Career After obtaining a degree in English literature from The University of Manchester, Porter worked as a journalist on the Big Issue in The North. She began to perform stand-up comedy whilst working as a researcher for Granada Television, on programmes such as The Mrs Merton Show. Her first performance was at a club in Chester, a location she chose because it was far enough from home that if it went badly, no one would know her. As an actress, she made brief appearances in Life's a Pitch and Absolute Power. She presented a TV commercial for mobile phone company One2One during the year 2000. Her first high-profile acting role was alongside Christian Slater in the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004. She reprised her role of a nurse for the 2005 London production. In 2005, she made regular appearances on Broken News as Claudia Van Sant. She has been one of the writers for all nine series of Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections, appearing as a special guest performer in many editions. Porter starred in The Powder Room alongside Julia Morris and Gina Yashere, which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 2. She wrote the scripts for two series of BBC Three's Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife. She has appeared on several panel shows, including the first episode of Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive (July 2006). She appeared on satirical news quiz show Have I Got News For You (32nd series, show 7), Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Mock the Week.{Season 7 Episode 3} In May 2007, Porter became host of a The Guardian podcast, Many Questions and more recently The Heckle. In June 2007, Porter came second in a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link. Porter appeared in 2007 on ITV2's Comedy Cuts, a programme showcasing the best of the British stand-up comedy circuit. In 2008, she began work as a team captain on the BBC Radio 4 panel game Act Your Age. Lucy Porter has recorded her stand-up show The Good Life for a DVD release by independent label Go Faster Stripe, and appeared in the 2008 and 2009 series of Mock The Week. She was the warm-up act for Mitchell & Webb's television series screenings at the BBC TV Centre. In 2009, Porter took her show The Bare Necessities on a tour, playing 30 dates between February and June. In November 2009, Lucy appeared at LIVEstock 2009: Friends of the Earth's comedy and music event at the Hammersmith Apollo in support of the green campaign group's Food Chain Campaign for planet-friendly farming. The same month, Lucy appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, achieving a record-breaking score of 35 with Steve Martin as her specialist subject. Porter's marriage at the end of 2009 to her long-term partner, fellow comedian Justin Edwards, led to a substantial re-write of her successful 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Fool's Gold for her 2010 UK tour. In the original script, Lucy claimed she was unlikely to ever marry because of an "allergy to gold", meaning she would never be able to put on a wedding ring; on tour, she made a self-deprecating reference to the original material, given that she was then married. Porter presented FirstPlay, a weekly digital "magazine" for European customers on the PlayStation 3. She hosts the successor show, Access, which is still available weekly on the PlayStation Network. In 2011, Porter competed alongside Ed Byrne in Pointless Celebrities, eventually losing in the penultimate round. Porter created Screaming with Laughter, an afternoon mother-and-baby comedy club. The club tours the country to play for parents with infants under a year old. In 2014, she wrote her debut stage play, The Fair Intellectual Club, which premièred at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Assembly Rooms, directed by Marilyn Imrie. Porter developed this into a comedy series of the same name for BBC Radio 4, featuring much of the same cast and also directed by Imrie. She has since expressed a desire to write more plays for the Festival in the future. Porter has appeared on three episodes of QI, in series L, M and N. In February 2017, Porter was a guest on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. Porter, along with professional quizzer Jenny Ryan, launched in 2018 Fingers On Buzzers, a podcast about quiz and game shows. Along with Ryan, Porter returned to Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in early 2019, and they discussed Fingers On Buzzers and other topics. In March 2021, Porter chaired the Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute. She was the sixth guest host in the first series since the death of Nicholas Parsons, who had presented almost every episode of the program since its creation in 1967. On 06 June 2021 she appeared in the fourth episode of the. BBC Radio 4 program The Confessional The series is written and presented by Stephen Mangan. On 04 March 2022 she appeared in an episode of EastEnders. Live shows 1999 The Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) 2002 The Stonewall Gala 2003 Live at the Underbelly (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) 2004 Lady Luck (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 2005 Happiness Stand Up For Freedom 2006 The Good Life (UK tour also released on DVD) Stand Up For Freedom 2007 Lucy Porter's Love In (UK tour) 2008 Lucy And Des Show Off The Bare Necessities (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) 2009 The Bare Necessities (UK tour) (6–31 August) Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Fool's Gold (12 November) LIVEstock 2009, Friends of the Earth's comedy and music event 2010 Fool's Gold (UK tour) 2012 People Person (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) 2013 People Person (UK tour) Northern Soul (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) 2018 Pass It On (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) References External links Lucy Porter's Website Lucy Porter's page on Chortle with tour dates, reviews and news Interview with LeftLion Magazine Lucy Porter's Love In, interview from suchsmallportions.com 1973 births People from Croydon English stand-up comedians Living people Alumni of the University of Manchester English television actresses English women comedians English stage actresses People educated at Wallington High School for Girls 21st-century English comedians 21st-century English actresses Comedians from London Actresses from London

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Coronel Church

Coronel Church, or Madeira-Mamoré No. 12, is a historic 4-4-0 steam locomotive of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad, said to be the first locomotive in the Amazon. It is currently on static display in Porto Velho, Brazil. Named after Madeira-Mamoré engineer George Earl Church, the locomotive helped inaugurate the first part of the line on July 4, 1878. However, in August 1879, it derailed on a poorly-designed curve. With construction on the railroad halted due to tropical disease, Coronel Church was abandoned to the rainforest. It would be was rediscovered 34 years later by surveyors acting on behalf of Percival Farquhar, who had secured a government concession to reopen the line. Some accounts say the locomotive was overgrown with vegetation, while others say it was used as a water tank, hen house, and bakery oven by local villagers. Regardless, it was salvaged by railroad engineers and returned to service in 1912. The story of Coronel Church was the inspiration for Duke the Lost Engine, the 26th book of the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series. Duke, based on the Ffestiniog Railway's Prince, is also abandoned after his railway is closed, only to be rediscovered decades later. References Railway locomotives introduced in 1877 Steam locomotives of Brazil Guarulhos Metre gauge steam locomotives 4-4-0 locomotives

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Festningen Geotope Protected Area

Festningen Geotope Protected Area () is located at the outermost edge of Grønfjorden's mouth to Isfjorden on Nordenskiöld Land, Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. The profile is a cliff which runs along the coast from Kapp Starostin to Festningsodden. It covers an areas of , of which is on land and in the sea. Barentsburg is the closest settlement, located away, across Grønfjorden. Festningen was protect on 26 September 2003, as part of a major expansion of the protected areas in Svalbard. The protected areas is administrated by the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management and the Governor of Svalbard. Festningen ("The Fortress") is a traditional name given by Norwegian hunters to the area because it looked like a natural fortress. The geotope profile consists of geological succession deposits from several hundred millions of years. It has nearly vertical layers with continual exposure from the Permian period to the Cenozoic era. The stratigraphical features were recorded during the 1910s and 1920s, and are used within geological sciences as a strategic reference profile. Fossilized footprints of an Iguanodon dinosaur, in diameter, dating from 100 million years ago, have been found at Festningen. They were long and tall. Located on a cliff, they were highly exposed to erosion; after they were found and copied, the slab fell into the sea. References Protected areas of Svalbard Protected areas established in 2003 2003 establishments in Norway Spitsbergen

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East Point, British Indian Ocean Territory

East Point is an abandoned settlement on the east of the atoll of Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory. It was the largest civilian settlement in the archipelago, and served as the administrative capital until the depopulation of the territory. The settlement contained a church, cemetery, school, sanatorium in addition to senior management housing. The settlement also contained a post office, which became the plantation warden's office. History The settlement was one of four founded during the French rule. Originally named Pointe le Est, it originally served as a coconut plantation. Diego Garcia was ceded to the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars as part of the Treaty of Paris (1814). During World War II In 1942, the British opened RAF Station Diego Garcia and established an advanced flying boat unit at the East Point Plantation, staffed and equipped by No 205 and No 240 Squadrons, then stationed on Ceylon. Both Catalina and Sunderland aircraft were flown during the course of World War II in search of Japanese and German submarines and surface raiders. At Cannon Point, six naval guns were installed by a Royal Marines detachment. In February 1942, the mission was to protect the small Royal Navy base and Royal Air Force station located on the island from Japanese attack. They were later occupied by Mauritian and Indian Coastal Artillery troops. Following the conclusion of hostilities, the station was closed on 30 April 1946. After abandonment Originally, the British Representative resided in East Point, however later moved to the US Base. Today, the settlement lies in the eastern restricted zone of the island. References Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory

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List of Indian state flags

As of 2022, there are no officially recognised flags for the individual states or union territories of India. No legal prohibitions to prevent states adopting distinctive flags exist in either the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950, or the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. In a 1994 case before the Supreme Court of India, S. R. Bommai v. Union of India, the Supreme Court declared that there is no prohibition in the Constitution of India for a state to have its own flag. However, a state flag should not dishonour the national flag. The Flag code of India also permits other flags to be flown with the Flag of India, but not on the same flag pole or in a superior position to the national flag. Former official state flags The state of Jammu and Kashmir had an officially recognised state flag between 1952 and 2019 under the special status granted to the state by Article 370 of the Constitution of India. Proposed state flags The Government of Tamil Nadu proposed a design for the Flag of Tamil Nadu in 1970. The Government of Karnataka proposed a design for the Flag of Karnataka in 2018 based on the traditional yellow-red Kannada bicolour. The new tricolour flag with the central white band and emblem, was designed to distance itself from regional political parties and emulate the structure of the Indian Tricolour. In August 2019, the Government of Karnataka announced it was no longer officially pursuing the proposal for an official state flag. Banners of the states and union territories When a distinctive banner is required to represent a state or union territory, the emblem of the state or union territory is usually displayed on a white field. States Union territories See also National Flag of India Flag code of India List of Indian flags List of Indian state symbols List of Indian state emblems List of Indian state mottos List of Indian state songs List of Indian state foundation days List of Indian state animals List of Indian state birds List of Indian state flowers List of Indian state trees References Indian states Flags,state Flags India

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Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion in Indochina

The Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion, () existed briefly in Indochina while regrouping the ensemble of the Battalion Forming Corps () issued from the 1st Foreign Infantry Regiment 1er REI. The Demi-Brigade would become on September 1, 1930, the 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment (). Creation and different nominations August 2, 1930: formation of the Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion; On September 1, 1930 : change in designation from Demi-Brigade to 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment (5e REI). History, garrisons, campaigns and battles On September 1, 1930, the BFC of the 1st Foreign Infantry Regiment 1er REI and the 1st battalion of the 1er REI newly arrived in the Far East allowed the constitution of four battalions of the 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment 5e REI: The 4e BFC became the I/5e REI : 1st battalion of the 5e REI The 7e BFC became the II/5e REI: 2nd battalion of the 5e REI The 9e BFC became the III/5e REI : 3rd battalion of the 5e REI The 1st battalion of the 1er REI became the IIII/ 5e REI : 4th battalion of the 5e REI Nevertheless, the BFC (Battalion Forming Corps) () remained until April 1, 1931. Traditions Regimental Commanders Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion in Indochina ( August 2 to 31 1930). 1930 : Lieutenant-colonel Debas Jean. 9e BFC of the 1er REI 1926: Chef de bataillon Prieur. 1927: Chef de bataillon Maire. 1929: Chef de bataillon Lorillard 7e BFC of the 1er REI 1927 - 1929: Chef de bataillon Boutry 1929 - 1930: Chef de bataillon Kratzert 4e BFC of the 1er REI 1930: Chef de bataillon Lambert. See also Major (France) French Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) Armored Train of the Foreign Legion Disciplinary Company of the Foreign Regiments in the Far East References Bibliographies: Historique du régiment du Tonkin - D'après : l'historique du 5e REI 1883 - 1959, les articles de Georges d'Ossau, publiés dans KB de 1956 à 1957 et de 1963 à nos jours, les JMO du 5e RMP de 1963 à 2000 (ouvrage collectif - Imp Seripole - 1991) 5e Etranger - Historique du régiment du Tonkin T 1 - Ed Lavauzelle - Collectif (Cne (er) Mahuault, aspirant Lafaye (thèse de doctorat en histoire), lieutenant-colonel Peron, missionnés par le commandement de la Légion étrangère. Légionnaires et bâtisseurs, L'Harmattan, 2006 Jean-Paul Mahuault Plaquette pour cérémonie de dissolution du 5e RE en 2000 - Collectif KB - Droits réservés SAMLE Rédacteur Répertoire des chefs de corps - Centre de documentation de la Légion étrangère. Defunct French Foreign Legion units Military units and formations established in 1930 Military units and formations disestablished in 1930

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List of 118 episodes

Mediacorp Channel 8's television series 118 is a socio-drama series produced by Mediacorp Studios from 2014 to 2017. The story is set against the backdrop of a coffeeshop in Tiong Bahru, offering a light-hearted social commentary on current topics with relatable characters and incidents. The first season aired on Mediacorp Channel 8 in Singapore from 20 October 2014 and ran until 16 October 2015 with 255 episodes. A second season with 218 episodes is slated to begin airing from 29 November 2016. Series overview Episodic Guide 118 (2014-2015) Episodes 1-127 Episodes 128-255 "Kopi Talk" The webisodes are available on xinmsn Catchup TV and Toggle. Two webisodes are released every Saturday from 25 October 2014, and later three from 15 January 2015, until end October 2015. 118 II (2016-2017) Episodes 1-218 References Lists of Singaporean television series episodes

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Side Pawn Capture, Rapid Attack Bishop*33

Side Pawn Capture Rapid Attack Bishop*33 (横歩取り急戦３三角 yokofudori kyūsen san-san kaku) is a variation stemming from the Side Pawn Capture opening, in which White drops their bishop to 33 after they first trade pawns on the eighth file and then trade the bishops after Black takes White's side pawn. Development After Black takes the side pawn (see Side Pawn Capture for details), the Rapid Attack Bishop*33 variation starts with White making the bishop trade (8...Bx88+ 9.Sx88) like other rapid attack-style variations (such as the Double Side Pawn and Side Pawn B*45 variations). 9...B*33. Then, the B*33 variation proper begins with a bishop drop on the 33 square. White is now threatening to capture Black's silver on 88, which is what would happen if Black moves 10.R-36 as in the usual Side Pawn Capture variations. Iijima considers four possible responses for Black. 10.B*77 and 10.N-77 block White's bishop while 10.P*87 and 10.S-87 counterattack White's rook. Iijima finds 10.N-77 to be the superior response resulting in a position that ultimately greatly favors Black. The 10. P*87 response is the only one found in professional games: in 1872, in 1913, in 1957, in 1981. ☗10.B*77 10.B*77. Black can respond by dropping a bishop to 77 simultaneously blocking White's dual attack on Black's silver on 88 and attacking White's rook on 86. 10...Bx77. However, White can simply trade bishops again checking Black's king. From this position, the other options of either retreating the rook back to White's camp (10...R-82) or taking Black's side pawn (10...Rx76) aiming for deployment to the second file (...R-26) are less effective (although safer). 11.Nx77. Black is forced to capture the bishop with their knight. Recapturing with their silver (11.Sx77) would allow White to capture their knight, promote their rook as well as checking their king (11...Rx89+), and the even worse option of recapturing with their gold (11.Gx77) would allow White to capture their silver on 88 with White's rook which would promote to a dragon (11...Rx88+) as well having the gold on 77 where it cannot effectively defend the king. Note that this position after 11.Nx77 is similar to the Black's 10.Nx77 response (shown in the following section) except that White's bishop is now in hand where it can be utilized more effectively. 11...B*89. White then drops their bishop threatening to capture Black's gold on 78 which is defending the 88-silver and promoting to a horse. ☗12.K-68 12.K-68. Black's king moves to 68 in order to protect their gold. This is the move that White is hoping for. From here, White can continue to attack forcefully. A safer alternative is for Black to attack White's rook with 12.S-78. (See §☗12.S-87 below.) 12...Bx78+ 13.Kx78. White trades their bishop for the gold forcing White's king to move to 78. 13...G*68. White drops their newly obtained gold in hand to 68 in a sacrifice attack. ☗14.Kx68 14.Kx68. King is forced to take the gold. 14...Rx88+. White's rook captures the silver and promotes checking the king. ☗15.K-59 15.K-59. King runs out of the line of White's promoted rook to 59. K-59 is a poor choice since White will continue an even stronger attack. After 15...S*68 16.K-48 Sx77+ 17.G*58 +Sx67 18.B*55 N*66 19.P*68 +Sx58 20.Gx58 +Rx99 21.S*49 Nx58+ 22.Sx58 +R-89, Black is in a better position. If Black attacks White's rook with 23.B*67, White can remain on the Black's back rank with 23...+R-79. If 23.Bx11+ or P*22, White can attack Black's knight with 23...P*28. If Black attack's White's gold with 23.N*24, then White can still defend with 23...G*33. ☗15.G*78 15.G*78. Black drops a gold to 78 blocking the promoted rook's attack. This is a better choice than 15.K-59. 15...+Rx99. White will capture the lance also attacking Black's gold on 49. ☗12.S-87 ☗10.N-77 This is viewed as the Black's best response to White's attack by professional player 飯島栄治. ☗10.P*87 ☗10.S-87 Comparison with Bishop-33 variation position This Rapid Attack B*33 variation is not to be confused with the more common B-33 slow game variation that does not trade the bishops first. Once White drops the bishop to 33, White's position is identical to the White's position in the B-33 variation. However, Black's formation differs in that Black has a bishop in hand and their left silver is on the 88 square instead of 79 as in the B-33 variation. See also Side Pawn Capture Static Rook Notes Bibliography 飯島, 栄治. 2014. 横歩取り超急戦のすべて. マイナビ References Shogi openings Side Pawn Capture openings

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Raising Mamay

Raising Mamay (International title: Raising Mama) is a 2022 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Ai-Ai delas Alas in the title role. It premiered on April 25, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Little Princess. The series concluded on July 29, 2022 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Return to Paradise in its timeslot. Cast and characters Lead cast Ai-Ai delas Alas as Leticia "Letty / Mamay" Reyes-Sandejas Supporting cast Shayne Sava as Abigail "Abby" R. Sandejas Abdul Rahman as Paolo Ampil Valerie Concepcion as Sylvia Gonzales-Renancia Gary Estrada as Randy Renancia Antonio Aquitania as Bong "Daday" Sandejas Ina Feleo as Malou Reyes Joyce Ching as Arma Villasis Tart Carlos as Wenda Liles Bryce Eusebio as Christopher Renancia Raquel Pareño as Berna Gonzales Orlando Sol as Monching Cruz Hannah Arguelles as Dwein Liles Ella Cristofani as Kelly Gomez Lei Angela Ollet as Pam Galvez Production Principal photography commenced on February 25, 2022. Episodes <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> References External links 2022 Philippine television series debuts 2022 Philippine television series endings Filipino-language television shows GMA Network drama series Television shows set in the Philippines

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Qarwa Q'asa

Qarwa Q'asa (Quechua qarwa pale, yellowish, golden, q'asa mountain pass, "yellowish pass", Hispanicized spelling Carhuajasa) is a mountain in the Chunta mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Huancavelica Region, Castrovirreyna Province, on the border of the districts of Chupamarca and Aurahuá. Qarwa Q'asa lies west of Ichhu Rutuna, northwest of Wallu Q'asa and Phiruru Urqu and northeast of Wichinka Lake. References Mountains of Huancavelica Region Mountains of Peru

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David Casals-Roma

David Casals-Roma (13 October 1972 - Lleida, Spain) is a Spanish writer/director based in Spain. He moved to Amsterdam in 1997 and began learning the intricacies of the film business whilst working as an IT technician. His first experience as a filmmaker came two years later, when he moved to Brussels where he shot his first two short films. In 2001, he moved to London where he studied a BA in Film and Media at Birkbeck, University of London. He also enrolled in different screenwriting and directing courses in Spain, United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States. David has directed short films, documentaries and has written several feature film scripts. He has won over 100 awards worldwide and works as a screenwriting and directing teacher at different film schools in Spain, France and the United States. Besides filmmaking, he has written novels, short stories, theatre plays and poetry, and has published a novel titled 21 days of rage. He speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, English, French and Italian. In 2019 he started ECCIT, a film school in Lleida (Spain) with the main goal of training future filmmakers. References External links ECCIT Spanish film directors 1972 births Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Living people

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Erich Böhlke

Erich Böhlke (9 September 1895 – 19 April 1979) was a German conductor and composer. Life Böhlke was born as the son of an art dealer in Szczecin. Already as a child and teenager he made his mark musically. So from 1909, he directed the Stettin male choral society Melodia. Böhlke first prepared himself for the profession of a teacher by attending the in Maszewo and then the teachers' seminar in Pölitz. During the First World War he served on the Eastern Front. He passed the 2nd teacher's exam, but then he devoted himself entirely to music. From 1919 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1924 he became bandmaster at the . Further stations were from 1926 musical director at the Theater Koblenz and from 1929 chief conductor at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 1934, he became general music director and artistic director of the Stadttheater Magdeburg. There he was replaced as artistic director by a party member in 1939, but remained general music director until the war-related closure in 1944. After the Second World War he was General Music Director of the Staatstheater Oldenburg from 1947 to 1950. From 1950 he worked as a freelance musician. During this time he was, among other things, guest conductor at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku, where he was awarded the title of honorary professor in 1963. Böhlke was also active as a composer and composed over 100 songs, among other things. He died in Delmenhorst at the age of 83 and was buried in the family grave at the in Bremen. (in German) Literature Gerd Lüpke: Erich Böhlke. Porträt eines pommerschen Musikers. In Pommern. Issue 3/1970, . Neu abgedruckt in Die Pommersche Zeitung. Nr. 25/2013, . Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (Veröffentlichungen der . Series V, vol. 40). Böhlau, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2004, , . Festschrift für Erich Böhlke zum 75. Geburtstag 9. September 1970. Werkverzeichnis Erich Böhlke. Das heute geltende Pachtrecht. Gedarken um Schostakasitsch und seine Zehrte. References External links Biography in Magdeburger Biographischen Lexikon 1895 births 1979 deaths Musicians from Szczecin German conductors (music) 20th-century classical composers 20th-century German composers Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20Line%2C%20Michigan

Center Line, Michigan

Center Line is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan, surrounded entirely by the city of Warren. The population was 8,257 at the 2010 census. History Historically, the land that Center Line came to occupy was swamp and wilderness until the early nineteenth century. As land became scarce, French, German, Belgian, and Irish immigrants began clearing the forests and draining the swamps. Center Line was known as Kunrod's Corner during the mid-nineteenth century. The theory is that the French named it Center Line because it was the middle of three Potowatomi trails from Fort Detroit to northern trading posts. The 'center line' was the trail used from Detroit to Utica. The community received its initial start when Catholics decided to build a church so that they would not have to walk to St. Mary's in Detroit for Sunday Mass. This church (St. Clement's) was established in 1854 and attracted more Catholic settlers into the area. In 1863, the first general store was constructed by Joeseph Buechel. On July 19, 1878, Hieronymous Engelmann was the first postmaster, and he was succeeded in 1885 by Sophia Buechel. The "Centre Line" post office closed on July 31, 1906, and the name was restored to Center Line thereafter. In this era, street car tracks connected Detroit to Center Line along Van Dyke Road, and Ten Mile Road was the final stop of the street car. The village was incorporated in 1925 in the center of Warren Township, which is now the City of Warren, and was incorporated as a city in 1936. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 8,257 people, 3,632 households, and 1,988 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,920 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 82.5% White, 12.0% African American, 0.4% Native American, 2.5% Asian, 0.1% from other races, and 2.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.7% of the population. There were 3,632 households, of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.0% were married couples living together, 17.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 45.3% were non-families. 40.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 3.01. The median age in the city was 41.2 years. 21.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.1% were from 25 to 44; 27.5% were from 45 to 64; and 17.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 46.1% male and 53.9% female. 85.9% of residents 25 or older hold a high school degree. 10.8% of residents 25 or older hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Median household income was $30,752. 21.3% of the population lives below the federal poverty line. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 8,531 people, 3,821 households, and 2,074 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,916 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 93.82% White, 3.09% African American, 0.25% Native American, 1.01% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.51% of the population. There were 3,821 households, out of which 24.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.8% were married couples living together, 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.7% were non-families. 40.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.99. In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.8% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 22.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.5 males. The median income for a household in the city was $31,677, and the median income for a family was $47,241. Males had a median income of $39,947 versus $26,487 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,066. About 10.6% of families and 13.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.9% of those under age 18 and 14.4% of those age 65 or over. Arts and culture Annual events The Center Line Independence Festival is a celebration of the community's ongoing independence from the community that surrounds it (i.e., Warren, MI), and the nation's independence. The event began in 2016, the community's 80th Birthday celebration, and continues as an annual celebration of an incorporated city with live bands, carnival, arts and crafts, children's events and activities, local food vendors and restaurants, beer tent, and its always popular fireworks display. Historical markers Two recognized Michigan historical markers are at: St. Clement Catholic Church St. Clement Catholic Cemetery Politics The mayor of Center Line is Robert Binson. Center Line is within Michigan's 9th Congressional District and Andy Levin is the congressional representative. Center Line is within Michigan's 9th State Senate District and Steven M. Bieda serves as the Michigan State Senator. Center Line is within Michigan's 28th State House District and is represented by Lori Stone. Center Line voters lean towards the Democratic Party. In 2014 midterm elections, 63.7% of voters chose Gary Peters (D) over 27.8% for Terri Lynn Land (R). Statewide results were 55% for Peters and 41% for Land. In a closer race, 56.4% chose Mark Schauer (D) over 39.1% for Rick Snyder (R). Statewide results were 47% for Schauer and 51% for Snyder. Education Most Center Line residents are zoned to schools in Center Line Public Schools, including Center Line High School. A small portion of the city is in Van Dyke Public Schools, served by Lincoln High School. St. Clement Catholic School was in Center Line. It was established in 1857. It had 110 students in the 2009-2010 year, and then 12 teachers and 89 students in its final year, 2010-2011. The parish decided to close the school as a parish takes a greater share of the costs if the number of students is under 100. The archdiocese operated St. Clement High School in Center Line. It closed in 2005. Macomb Christian Schools (MCS) occupied the old St. Clement High School building from 2017 until 2019, when MCS shutdown. Infrastructure Main highways runs east and west, on the north end of the city. leads northerly into the Van Dyke Freeway and runs north and south, from 9 1/2 Mile Rd. (Stephens) to 11 Mile Rd. (I-696). East-west travel is mainly on the mile roads, that is 10 Mile Road which runs through the center of the community, and 11 Mile Road on the north border (Warren). See Mile Road System (Detroit). References External links City of Center Line official website Center Line, MI Historical Information Cities in Macomb County, Michigan 1936 establishments in Michigan Enclaves in the United States

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Patuari

Patuari is a village in the borough of Sakhigopal on the River Bhargavi in Puri district of the Indian state of Odisha. It is located about 17 km north from district headquarters Puri and 42 km from state capital Bhubaneswar. Pincodes near Patuari: 752012 (Chandanpur), 752014 (Sakhigopal), 752046 (Satasankha) Main are occupied by the tenant no.1, is the, Regional Coconut Research Farm, (Established in the, year- 1955 consisting of about 120 acres ), Government of Odisha, and the 2nd, tenant is, Chandra Madhab Misra, Ex.M L A, Satyabadi, Founder President of ORRISA M / Small scale Industries of Odisha, a Social Activist and a Famous Agro. Industrialist of Odisha ' s own Agricultural Farm : Demographics Oriya is the local language here; Hindi and English are widely spoken and understood. Transport By air Bhubaneswar Airport is about 40 km from Patuari; the airport has frequent flight connection with Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai. By road National Highway 203 from Bhubaneshwar to Puri connects the village. It is about 40 minutes drive from Bhubaneshwar and 20 minutes drive from Puri. By rail SakhiGopal Railway Station, Birpurusothampr Railway Station are the very nearby railway stations to Patuari. However, Puri railway station is major railway station 17  from Patuari. External links Villages in Puri district

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British Rail Class 807

The British Rail Class 807 AT300 is a type of electric multiple unit being built by Hitachi for train operator Avanti West Coast. Based on the Hitachi A-train design, a total of ten 7-car units will be produced. History In December 2019, Avanti West Coast placed an order for 10 seven-car electric units which will replace its Class 221 fleet, along with 13 Class 805 bi-mode units as part of £350 million contract with Hitachi. All are scheduled to be in service by 2023. The trains are financed by Rock Rail West Coast, a joint venture between Rock Rail and Standard Life Aberdeen. The trains will be maintained by a joint team of Alstom and Hitachi staff, alongside Class 805s, at Oxley depot near Wolverhampton. Customer service features promised include free Wi-Fi, at-seat wireless inductive charging for electronic devices, plug sockets and USB slots; a catering offer and a real-time passenger information system that can advise of connecting rail services. Construction Construction of the class 807 in the UK commenced on 7 July 2020. The aluminium shells arrived after being shipped from Hitachi's Kasado plant in Japan. Final production commenced at Hitachi's Newton Aycliffe facility. Out of the 135 bodyshells, 56 are being manufactured in the UK. Fleet details References High-speed trains of the United Kingdom Hitachi multiple units 25 kV AC multiple units Train-related introductions in 2023

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Booth

Christopher Booth

Sir Christopher Charles Booth (22 June 1924 – 13 July 2012) was an English clinician and medical historian, characterised as "one of the great characters of British medicine". Booth was born in 1924 in Farnham, Surrey. His father Lionel Booth is credited as the inventor of the telephoto lens. He was brought up in Wensleydale, Yorkshire and attended Sedbergh school. He served as a frogman in the Royal Navy from 1942. A Navy doctor encouraged him to study medicine, so he enrolled at the Bute Medical School of the University of St. Andrews on demobilisation and graduated in 1951, serving as a houseman in Dundee before moving to the postgraduate medical school at Hammersmith hospital in London. His MD was awarded in 1958 for work showing that Vitamin B12 is absorbed at the far end of the small intestine, work for which he also received the Rutherford gold medal. His medical speciality was gastroenterology and he was a founder of Coeliac UK. He was also director of the Medical Research Council Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park and research director at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He was president of the British Medical Association from 1986 to 1987 and president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1988 to 1990. Booth defended, Chris Pallis, a neurologist working under him at Hammersmith Hospital, when he was attacked for his left-wing views. He was also an outspoken, on one occasion noting that taking the doctors' pay demand to the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, would be not a red rag to a bull, as a colleague suggested, but "a red rag to an old cow". He published four books and 50 papers on the history of medicine, and played a leading role in the founding of the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. A ward at the Hammersmith Hospital is named after him and looks after gastroenterology patients. He married three times; firstly Lavinia Loughridge, with whom he had a son and daughter, secondly Professor Soad Tabaqchali, with whom he had another daughter and lastly Joyce Singleton, who survived him. Awards and honours Honorary Fellow, American College of Physicians, 1973 Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, 1977 Honorary LLD, University of Dundee, 1982 International member, American Philosophical Society, 1981 Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, 1991 Knighted for services to medicine in 1982 References Biographical data, Debrett's External links Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery 2012 deaths 1924 births People from Surrey Alumni of the University of St Andrews English medical historians 20th-century English medical doctors Presidents of the British Medical Association Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine Members of the American Philosophical Society

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Mette Gravholt

Mette Gravholt (born 12 December 1984) is a retired Danish handball player who played for Fredericia HK and Danish national team. Gravholt is openly lesbian. She met Betina Lambæk, with whom she has a son Matteo who was born via ivf in 2017. The couple got married in July 2018. Soon after her wedding, Gravholt announced her retirement as a professional handball player, and started a new job at a primary school in Kolding, where she works as a 1st grade teacher. International honours World Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2013 EHF Cup: Winner: 2013 Finalist: 2011 Individual awards Danish League Top Scorer: 2011, 2012 Danish League Best Pivot: 2013, 2014, 2016 References 1984 births Living people Danish female handball players Lesbian sportswomen LGBT sportspeople from Denmark LGBT handball players Viborg HK players Expatriate handball players People from Vejle Municipality Sportspeople from the Region of Southern Denmark

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Mary Jo Randle

Mary Jo Randle (born 26 April 1954) is an English actress from Rochdale, Lancashire) working in theatre and television. After a childhood in Littleborough, Randle left home to study for a degree in drama at the University of Birmingham but switched course to Social Administration. Upon graduation she applied and was accepted for a place at RADA, where she was the recipient of the Bancroft Gold Medal. In 1981 she won Most Promising Actress at the Ronson awards. Mary Jo Randle is best known for her roles as Jo Morgan in The Bill (1993–1995) and Bernie Quinlan in The Lakes. She has also featured in Holby City, Emmerdale, Victoria Wood as Seen on TV, The Royal, Casualty, Doctors, Heartbeat, Inspector Morse, Dalziel and Pascoe, Bad Behaviour, Wire in the Blood and a public information film on smoke alarms. Selected filmography Film Television References External links English television actresses English soap opera actresses 1954 births Living people Actors from Rochdale Actors from Lancashire

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Striding Folly

Striding Folly is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1972, it contains the final three Lord Peter stories. The first two, "Striding Folly" and "The Haunted Policeman", were previously published in Detection Medley (1939), an anthology of detective stories. The third one, "Talboys", was unpublished. All three stories were also anthologized by James Sandoe in the collection Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories. The book also included a long preface by Janet Hitchman, including an extensive analysis of the character of Wimsey and his relation to Sayers' life, and including a previously unpublished letter of Sayers to Victor Gollancz. Contents Introduction: Lord Peter Wimsey and His Creator, by Janet Hitchman Striding FollyLord Peter comes to the rescue of Mr. Merrilow, who is falsely accused of murdering his opponent in a chess match. A dream and some footsteps are the key to the mystery. The Haunted PolicemanOn the night Wimsey's first son is born, a policeman finds a body in house 13 on a street with only even numbers, and house and body disappear afterwards. Peter goes undercover to prevent the bobby being dismissed for drunkenness. TalboysThe Wimseys and their three sons have the discourteous and meddlesome Miss Quirk wished upon them as a houseguest. Things become even more complicated when 6 year old Bredon Wimsey is accused of stealing a neighbor's prize peaches and Miss Quirk is adamant she has proof of his guilt. Sources Sayers, Dorothy L, and Janet Hitchman. Striding Folly, Including Three Final Lord Peter Wimsey Stories. Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library (), 1991. Print. Sayers, Dorothy L. Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories. New York: Harper & Row (), 1972. External links 1972 short story collections Short story collections by Dorothy L. Sayers New English Library books

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnocarena%20magna

Gymnocarena magna

Gymnocarena magna is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Gymnocarena of the family Tephritidae. Distribution Mexico. References Tephritinae Insects described in 1992 Diptera of North America

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Chronicles%20of%20Amber%20characters

List of The Chronicles of Amber characters

The Chronicles of Amber is a fantasy series written by Roger Zelazny chiefly in ten books published from 1970 to 1991. It features a great variety of characters from a myriad parallel universes (including "our" Earth universe). All universes spiral out on a continuum, which are more closely related to one end, Amber (and its history and functions), or slides on a scale closer and closer to Amber's opposite, the Courts of Chaos, at the other. Amberites Characters from Amber are referred to as Amberites. The Amber royal family Much information about the royal family is compiled only in the authorized companion book Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber. Some personal colors and offspring are identified only there. The founder of the family is Dworkin Barimen, who first appears as a mad sorcerer. He is the creator of the Primal Pattern and father of Oberon. The surname Barimen is an anagram of "in Amber" and may or may not have been intended as the name of a House of Chaos; it is similar to the name "Shambarimen", the maker of a major artifact in Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers series, and is likely a voluntary tip of the hat to him. Computer programmer Felix Croes uses "Dworkin" as a pseudonym, referring to Dworkin Barimen, and named his MUD software platform Dworkin's Game Driver. Dworkin was born into House Barimen, a noble family in the Courts of Chaos. His usual appearance was that of a dwarf, although like many Lords of Chaos, he was able to change his shape. Early in Amber's history, Dworkin served in the court of his son, King Oberon, as an advisor and teacher of magical skills, including the power of creating Trumps. He was frequently absent from Amber, in places unknown. His students included many or most of Oberon's children, including Bleys, Brand, and Fiona, who received advanced instruction. After obtaining the Left Eye of the Serpent of Chaos (which would later be known as the Jewel of Judgment) through methods unknown, he fled into Shadow and met the Unicorn of Order. With her help and using the Eye, he inscribed the Primal Pattern, giving form to Amber. Prior to the beginning of The Chronicles of Amber, Dworkin went mad, apparently because of damage to the Primal Pattern, which was linked to and reflected in his own mind. Dworkin’s children and grandchildren are: Oberon, liege lord of Amber and only known child of Dworkin. His children are: by Cymnea: Benedict (orange, yellow, brown), The master tactician of the family as well as the unmatched master of all martial weapons, and a man who seldom smiles. He chose to remove himself from the struggle for the crown, leaving Eric and Corwin as the eldest surviving heirs. Moreover, Oberon declared his marriage with Cymnea null and void, rendering all his children by her retroactively illegitimate. Benedict has had an affair with Lintra the Hellmaid of Chaos, during a brief interlude in hostilities between them, and is unaware that she bore a child as a result of this. Benedict and Lintra subsequently came to blows again, and Benedict slew Lintra but lost his arm. He still fights better with one arm than anybody else with two. Dara, great-granddaughter of Benedict after his affair with Lintra. Because of the differing speed of time-flow in different Shadows and between Amber and Chaos, she is first met as a fairly young woman: But within only a couple of weeks of Amber time, she has grown considerably older and embittered in Chaos, to herself be a mother of at least three fully adult children. Osric (silver & red) and Finndo (green & gold), long-dead brothers of whom we learn little. It is suggested that they conspired to take the throne from their father, after which they were sent to the front lines of a war from which they did not return. by Faiella: Eric (black & red), Corwin's elder full-brother (illegitimate because Oberon & Faiella were not married at the time of his birth). An arrogant yet competent would-be king of Amber; he commands the loyalty of Julian, Caine, and Gérard. Corwin and Eric's rivalry for the throne drives much of the plot of the first two books. After Benedict, Eric was reputedly the greatest swordsman in the Universe of Amber and Shadow. A few centuries before the events of the first novels, he and Corwin decided to settle their rivalry in a duel to the death. In the event, Eric, fearing Oberon's wrath, left Corwin, gravely injured, on Earth in the 17th century. Corwin recovered physically but his memory was gone. Eric maintained that Corwin had left Amber of his own volition, but Oberon would often hint that he suspected Eric of killing Corwin. When Oberon disappeared, he was lured into Shadow in order to find a tool to fix the Pattern after Brand damaged it. Eric soon allied with Caine and Julian to hold the throne. Corwin of Amber (silver & black), the narrator of the first five books. He is the first legitimate living child of Oberon who desires the throne. His years on Earth seem to have softened him somewhat from his earlier arrogant beliefs, particularly with respect to the rest of the family, and to the residents of Shadow, who are regarded by some in the family as creations of their own minds, to be used and abused as they see fit. He also improved his political skills and his swordsmanship to the point where he fights Eric to a draw in Nine Princes in Amber. Merlin of Amber (purple and grey), son of Corwin and Dara following a brief mid-afternoon fling. The narrator of the second set of five books. He was raised in the Courts of Chaos, and Corwin is unaware of his son's existence until he is informed by Dara late in the series. Adopting Earth, home to Flora and to his father, as his own home, he becomes a software developer in San Francisco. He finds himself subject to attempts on his life, which turn out to be instigated by his friend Luke, who is really Brand's son Rinaldo. He also has two younger half-brothers, Despil and Jurt, on his mother's side (from her second husband, Lord Gramble Sawall of Chaos), and an older step-halfbrother, Mandor, from Gramble's own prior marriage. Deirdre (silver & black), Corwin's sister. Corwin's feelings for Deirdre are decidedly un-brotherly, and she appears to return his affection. She is a minor character in the Corwin cycle, but the Visual Guide to Amber says that she was the best-loved of the royals, due to her beauty and compassion. She dresses in black plate armor and used an axe in battle. Her mother was Faiella, who died while bearing Deirdre. by Clarissa, known as "the redheads": Fiona (green, lavender, purple), a deft mind and stunning beauty. Sorceress of the family. With Bleys, she was one of the original co-conspirators with Brand to unseat Oberon and take the throne. Corwin initially does not like her, but they become closer during the events of the series. Later she befriends her nephew Merlin and helps him solve his own mysteries. Bleys (red & orange), a dashing and charming extrovert who partners with Corwin in the effort to retake Amber from Eric. He is also a sorcerer, though of lesser skill than his two full siblings, and favors the sword. Brand (green), a manic depressive, megalomaniac sorcerer. He makes Faustian bargains with the forces of Chaos in order to gain power, apparently becoming a "living Trump" who can move anywhere in Shadow by willing it. By the time of the final conflict at the Courts of Chaos, he is no longer quite human, even by Amberite standards, and is quite insane. Rinaldo, also known as Luke, son of Brand and Jasra. He and Merlin both studied at Berkeley and then worked with a computer company Grand Design. Luke does not tell much about himself, but shows he is strong, intelligent and has a salesman's ability to convince people and make them do things he wants. Luke plots revenge against the Royal Family, especially Merlin and Caine, for his father's death. After Caine's death, he is persuaded to give up the vendetta. He appears to prefer his own chosen alias of Luke to his given name of Rinaldo, even to people who know his birth name. by Lady Moins of Rebma: Llewella (green, lavender, gray), was born of an affair Oberon had with Moins. She is older than Brand and younger than Bleys. Technically illegitimate, she was legally adopted to spite Clarissa after their final divorce. Llewella removed herself from the presence of her family, and lives in Rebma, an underwater city that is a reflection of Amber. Hers is something of a sad existence. She stands with her half-siblings in the final confrontation at the Courts of Chaos. by Harla: None known by Rilga: Caine (black & green), a calculating, realistic manipulator with naval talents and lifestyle. He and Gérard command both the Amber Navy and the merchant fleets which ply a thousand different Shadow oceans in their trade. Caine seemed to give Corwin the sea passage to Amber on his first assault, but then ambushed him with help from Eric, who was controlling the weather. After Eric's death and Corwin's assumption of power, Caine faked his own death in order to "go underground" in finding the author of the threat to Amber among the Royal Family. He arranged for Corwin to discover his "body", actually that of one of his shadows, and later stabbed Corwin after it appeared to him that Corwin, by bringing back Brand, was attempting to revive the plot against Oberon. Caine reappeared in the final battle at the Courts of Chaos, his silver arrows killing Brand. In the second set of novels, he himself is killed by Luke/Rinaldo as revenge for Brand's death. This results in Julian and Gérard declaring a vendetta against Luke. Julian (white & black), a cold, sinister hunter with a calm manner and biting tongue. He is usually found guarding the Forest of Arden in Amber, with his hell-hounds – beasts out of Shadow who are quite capable of ripping bodies, and metal, with their teeth. He has incestuous feelings for Fiona. Eventually he admits to Corwin that he recommended that Corwin be blinded in captivity, to render him useless to Brand's cabal (and thus in a way saving his life). With Eric and Caine, Julian formed the counter-cabal to hold the throne. Gérard (blue & gray), a trusted brother, the strongest man in the multiverse and called "the best of all of us" by Brand. His loyalty is not, however, backed up with intelligence. He resents being manipulated by his siblings, preferring the face-to-face confrontation and the contest of strength, not of guile. When the family contacts Brand in his shadow prison, Gérard is the first to grab an axe, teleport into Brand's cell, and free him. Later he loyally guards Brand after he is mysteriously stabbed after returning to Amber. by Dybele Florimel (green & gray), known as Flora, is regarded as shallow or a dumb blonde by her siblings, yet she often is on the winning side. Her beauty is legendary in many Shadows and also in Amber itself. She was placed on Earth to keep an eye on Corwin while he was in the hospital. She likes nothing better than to live a pampered existence in her luxurious house in Westchester, New York and entertain her many lovers. Her solution to not using her powers on Earth is to always have a hand grenade on her person. by Kinta, introduced in the Merlin Cycle: Coral, a princess from a nearby shadow called Begma, a result of Oberon's secret short liaison with the wife of a Begman diplomat. Although Coral is Merlin's willing lover, she is actually married to Rinaldo as part of a treaty between royal families. Coral is half-sister to Nayda. by Paulette Random (orange, red, brown), a sneaky rascal, often irritating and called a 'punk' by his older siblings. Random helps Corwin regain his memory, and supports Corwin in his quest for the throne of Amber. After the final battle at the Courts of Chaos, the Unicorn chooses Random himself to succeed Oberon. Random's passions before this were gliding and drumming. It was after a "hot set" in his favorite Shadow that Brand contacted him through a card in a hand of poker he was playing, setting into motion the events that led him to contact Corwin at Flora's house in Westchester, New York. Martin, son of Random by Moire's daughter Morganthe. After walking the Pattern in Rebma, he wandered in Shadow until he encountered Benedict, who became a mentor. Brand later created a Trump for Martin, using it to summon him to the Primal Pattern, where he stabbed Martin, using the blood he shed to damage the Primal Pattern and allow the forces of Chaos to threaten Amber. Mirelle (red & yellow) by Lora, introduced in the Merlin Cycle – or possibly by Harla (see above): Delwin (brown & black) and Sand (pale tan & dark brown), twin brother and sister. They only lived a short time in Amber, preferring to live in the Shadow worlds and keep themselves removed from the affairs of their siblings. In the novel Blood of Amber, Merlin names Harla as the mother of Delwin and Sand and further states that Oberon was married to Harla while still married to Rilga, making this a bigamous marriage and calling the legitimacy of Delwin and Sand into question. It is known that neither has any interest in dynastic struggles. by Deela, an enemy of Amber, introduced in the Merlin Cycle: Dalt (black & green), Oberon's illegitimate son, a mercenary who possesses a keen hatred of Amber – his symbol is a lion rending a unicorn. He was conceived while Deela was Oberon's prisoner. Or so he claims, probably having been told by his mother that Deela was raped. That may well be true, or it may be that she seduced Oberon as a way of working her way out of imprisonment and lied about it afterwards, when hostilities between Amber and Chaos resumed. He is known to hang around the kingdom of Kashfa although he is outlawed there, and was Luke's childhood friend. Dalt is very strong, and recovered from being impaled on a sword by Benedict. The names of Florimel's and Random's mothers are not given in the novels; the names here are taken from the Visual Guide to Amber and the Complete Amber Sourcebook. The Visual Guide adds a younger daughter of Paulette, Mirelle, but she does not appear in any of the novels. Caine's parentage varies from book to book: Corwin places him above Bleys in the succession and Random also alludes to this but Merlin says he is a full brother of Julian and Gérard. Both statements could be true if Caine is, in fact, older than any of Clarissa's children, and the result of an illegitimate affair with Rilga but legally adopted into the line before Clarissa's children, just as Llewella was born illegitimate but legally adopted. Although Oberon did not actually marry Rilga till after finally divorcing Clarissa after the birth of Brand. The Visual Guide to Amber and the Complete Amber Sourcebook, though both are authorised works, contradict each other. Corwin also ignores his sisters in the succession. It is also mentioned that, although Llewella definitely (and possibly Caine, as mentioned above) was legally adopted into the family after being born illegitimate, this did not happen to Eric, because Oberon needed to remain on good terms with Cymnea's family, and Eric was perpetually bitter about this. In Nine Princes in Amber Corwin mentions his fondness for Random as related to being full brothers instead of half-brothers. However, he is still suffering from brain damage at the time. Given that only two books later, it is Corwin himself who mentions that his mother Faiella died giving birth to Deirdre, and Random was only born much later after many more children to other women, this can be put down to either an official authorial change and retcon (in book 3), or to Corwin's still-damaged memory (in book 1). In the Merlin Cycle, a Pattern-created ghost of Oberon claims that there were a total of 47 children, though only 20 are mentioned in the books. Corwin reliably states (while walking the pattern) there were once 15 brothers and 8 sisters, going on to say 6 brothers are dead as are 2 sisters (or possibly 4). Having no knowledge of Dalt at the time, this makes a total of 24 known children of Oberon, of which only 21 are ever named. One daughter and 3 sons are never named in any of the books or accompanying materials. Other Amberites Lord Rein, a minstrel who was once knighted by Corwin Roger, a guard in Castle Amber, and amateur author. Likely this is Zelazny writing himself into his novel. Corwin describes Roger as lean, cadaverous, pipe-smoking, and grinning, a description that would fit the author. Roger says that he is writing a "philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity", and that he composes the "horror" portions while on duty in the dungeon. Droppa MaPantz, the court jester in the Merlin Cycle. From time to time King Random takes him to Las Vegas to gather new material. Merlin and Corwin's friend Bill from Earth recognizes some of his jokes as being taken from George Carlin's act. Bloody Bill, Bloody Andy, Bloody Eddie, restaurateurs in Amber. They successively run the same establishment with a reputation for good food and random violence. The restaurant is traditionally known by the name of the previous, deceased, owner, be it Bill, Andy etc. Proper table manners at "Bloody Bill's" (later "Bloody Andy's") include making sure your sword is partly unsheathed and visible to all. The Fish Fry is to-die-for (literally). Vinta Bayle, Caine's mistress and daughter to Baron Bayle, Amber's vintner. For a time she is possessed by the ty'iga spirit which Dara has set to watch over Merlin. The ty'iga likes to seduce Merlin when in human form. Jopin, keeper of the lighthouse at Cabra and a former sea captain who enjoys the simplicity and solitude of his job. The Courts of Chaos Perhaps fittingly, in all but the last novel there isn't a specific name for characters from the Courts of Chaos. Both Chaosites and Chaosians are popular choices by fans, through the first series, they are referred to only as "the Courts", or as "the forces of Chaos". In the final book, those of the Courts of Chaos are referred to as Chaosites by Merlin. Borel, a duke and master of arms of house Hendrake. Dara's fencing instructor. Dara, great-granddaughter of Benedict, Corwin's lover, mother of Merlin of Amber, and wife of the Chaos nobleman Gramble Sawall Gilva, a warrior-maiden of house Hendrake. Gramble Sawall, Dara's husband, an ally of King Swayvil. Jurt and Despil, Merlin's half brothers – sons of Dara (Merlin's mother) and Gramble Sawall. Jurt hates Merlin, while Despil tries to avoid conflicts. Merlin of Amber, son of Dara and Corwin, great-great-grandson of Benedict, and narrator of the second cycle of books. Mandor, Merlin's stepbrother, a son of Gramble Sawall from a previous marriage. He is a machiavellian manipulator, but Merlin likes him. His name may be derived from the Latin mandare, and is an anagram of "Random". Suhuy (called Uncle Suhuy by Merlin), keeper of the Logrus and friendly adversary of Dworkin. Swayvil, King of Chaos during the Merlin Cycle. Shadow dwellers Ganelon, an exile from Avalon, killed and impersonated by Oberon. Based on the character of the same name from The Song of Roland. Ghostwheel, a sentient computer created by Merlin of Amber, capable of generating Trump connections at a rate of thousands per second, apparently regarded by the Pattern and Logrus as a minor upstart in the ranks of cosmic powers. Hugi, a fatalist talking raven. Based on Hugin, one of the two ravens who perched on Odin's shoulders in Norse mythology. Jasra, a powerful sorceress, mother of Luke, tutor of Julia, former handmaid to Dara and deposed ruler of the Keep of Four Worlds. She has venomous lips and a thirst for power. Julia Barnes, Merlin's ex-girlfriend, whom he finds murdered in her San Francisco apartment by a doglike monster from another world. This is later revealed to be a deception; Julia is alive under the alias of Mask and has become a sorceress, taking over the Keep of Four Worlds from Jasra. Merlin had taken her with him on a shadow walk, which led to their breakup and to her pursuing an interest in occult magic. Lancelot, one of Ganelon's knights who was rescued by Corwin. Based on Sir Lancelot from Arthurian legend. Lorraine, a camp follower with second sight in a shadow of the same name. Victor Melman, occultist from Earth, associate and possible teacher of Julia Barnes, student of Jasra. Killed by Merlin using primal chaos. Moire, queen of Rebma, maternal grandmother of Random's son Martin through her daughter Morganthe, who committed suicide after being abandoned by Random. Rhanda, a vampire-like being called a shroudling. She and Merlin were childhood playmates. Bill Roth, a lawyer from Earth, who aids Corwin and ends up being something of a confidant for Merlin, as well as legal counsel to the court of Amber. In Sign of the Unicorn, Bill, frustrated by Corwin's evasiveness, complains: "I've a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out". Sharu Garrul, Jasra's former tutor and a previous ruler of the Keep of the Four Worlds. The Sphinx, a monster that devours those who cannot answer its riddles. Based on the riddling Sphinx of Thebes in the Greek myth of Oedipus. The Ty'iga, a bodyless demon who inhabits the bodies of others. She is female, or at least feminine, though she is able to possess male bodies as well. When she leaves one's body the possessed person feels like waking up from a sleep and has no memory of the intervening time. She appears as Dan Martinez, George Hansen, Meg Devlin, Vinta Bayle and she was also Gail Lampron, a former girlfriend of Luke. She is finally bound in the body of Nayda, Coral's sister, since Nayda actually died from an illness just as she was possessed. She was originally set to watch and protect Merlin by his mother Dara, unless she caught sight of the Jewel. Vialle, a blind noblewoman from Rebma whom Random is forced to marry. This was intended as a punishment for Random's affair with Moire's late daughter. Random would be bound to stay in Rebma for a year, and Vialle would gain status as a noble of Amber. To everyone's surprise, the marriage worked out well. She is artistic, creating sculptures by touch, specializing in busts of the Amberites. Vialle gives Luke/Rinaldo her protection in the form of her ring, ensuring that the vendetta against him by Caine's supporters will not be allowed to proceed. Ygg, a talking tree planted by Oberon to mark the border between Order and Chaos. It is based on Yggdrasil, the tree that holds up the sky in northern Germanic and Icelandic myths. The Powers The two main beings who control and create the Amber multiverse are The Pattern and The Logrus, who are immensely competitive and often cause collateral damage and casualties in the course of their struggles against each other: The Pattern, sentient embodiment of Order. It is capable of manifesting as a unicorn, which according to Dworkin is the mother of Oberon, and of creating pattern-ghosts of any who have walked its path. In the Merlin cycle, the Pattern's spirit is implied to be older than the Primal Pattern, since it refers to events in its competition with the Logrus that predate Dworkin's creation of that Pattern. It appears to wish to impose unending, unmoving, static pure order over the universe. The Logrus, embodiment of Chaos, also sentient and capable of manifesting as a giant serpent, and of creating semi-solid projections similar to pattern-ghosts. It claims that the Jewel of Judgement was its eye, stolen by the Unicorn; it appears to desire to return all existence to the primal chaos from which it came. Corwin's Pattern, created by Corwin in The Courts of Chaos, it is also sentient and attempts to remain neutral in the conflict between the higher powers. It is also able to produce pattern-ghosts, and allies itself with Merlin, who along with Corwin is the only other being to walk its path. The Ghostwheel, a computer-based, pattern-manipulating artificial intelligence created by Merlin in a secret location in the shadows, near Chaos. Like the trump cards, it is able to transport objects between shadow worlds, and to view goings-on in remote locations. It is not a cosmic power like the patterns, but is able to act in defiance of them. The Ghostwheel is loyal to Merlin, and refers to him as "dad". The Unicorn, a mysterious figure who only appears rarely, in the shape of a unicorn, at crucial points in some of the Amber stories. It always arrives to act as a protector of the family of Dworkin, but never speaks, and its image was adopted as an emblem of the realm of Amber. Dworkin reports that it provided him with the Jewel of Judgement, formerly one of the eyes of the snake apparition of the Logrus, so the Unicorn must have been an inhabitant or denizen of the Courts of Chaos before Dworkin created the Primal Pattern. It also is reputed to have mated with Dworkin to produce his child, Oberon, and so is apparently the family's grandmother. References External links Amber Dictionary Page The Chronicles of Amber characters

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Ogawa Kazumasa

, also known as Ogawa Kazuma or Ogawa Isshin, was a Japanese photographer, printer and publisher who was a pioneer in photomechanical printing and photography in the Meiji era. Life Ogawa was born in Saitama to the Matsudaira samurai clan. He started studying English and photography at the age of 15 under Yoshiwara Hideo, then in 1880 he moved to Tokyo in order to further hone his English language skills. One year later, Ogawa was hired as an interpreter in the Yokohama Police Department, while learning photography from Shimooka Renjō in Yokohama. In 1882, he moved to Boston where he took courses in portrait photography and the dry plate process. He also studied collotype printing in Albert Type Company. Upon his return to Japan in 1884, Ogawa opened a photographic studio in Iidabashi (Kōjimachi), the first in Tokyo. Four years later, he established the Tsukiji Kampan Seizō Kaisha ( Tsukiji dry plate manufacturing company), which manufactured dry plates for use by photographers. In 1889, he set up Japan's first collotype business, the Ogawa Shashin Seihan jo (), also referred to as the K. Ogawa printing factory. In the same year, Ogawa worked as an editor for Shashin Shinpō (, lit. Photography journal), the only photographic journal available at the time, as well as for Kokka magazine (, lit. National flower). He printed both magazines using the collotype printing process. Ogawa was a founding member of the Japan Photographic Society, which gathered photography amateurs from all around Japan. In 1891, he was charged with taking 100 pictures of Tokyo's most attractive geisha, to commemorate the opening of the Ryōunkaku. In 1894 he met the writer Alicia Little who was visiting Japan from her home in China. She was already a published author and she had a diary that she had written. Ogawa supplied photographs and it was published as My Diary in a Chinese Farm. The book described their stay on a farm near the Yangtse River as they avoided the summer heat at their home in Chingqing. Notes External links A biographical timeline of Ogawa Kazumasa A selection of pictures taken by Ogawa Flower collotypes by Ogawa Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques, "Ogawa Kazuma" (Asia through the Lens). Accessed 20 January 2007. QUT Digital Collections 1860 births 1929 deaths Japanese photographers Imperial household artists

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Sakya Trizin

Sakya Trizin ( "Sakya Throne-Holder") is the traditional title of the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Sakya school was founded in 1073CE, when Khön Könchog Gyalpo (; 1034–1102), a member of Tibet's noble Khön family, established a monastery in the region of Sakya, Tibet, which became the headquarters of the Sakya order. Since that time, its leadership has descended within the Khön family. The 41st Sakya Trizin, whose reign spanned more than fifty years, was the longest reigning Sakya Trizin. The current Sakya Trizin is Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, officially known as Kyabgon Gongma Trizin Rinpoche, the 43rd Sakya Trizin Gyana Vajra Rinpoche. Origin of Khön Lharig, the divine generation According to legend Ciring descended from the Rupadhatu (Realm of Clear Light) to earth. Ciring Yuse Yuring Masang Cije Togsa Pawo Tag Tagpo Ochen Yapang Kye Khön family, the royal generation Because previous generations subjugated the rakshasas (demons), the family became the Family of Conquerors (, shortened to Khön) and therefore a royal family. Khön Bar Kye Khön Jekundag, minister of Trisong Detsen, student of Padmasambhava Khön Lu'i Wangpo Srungwa Khön Dorje Rinchen Khön Sherab Yontan Khön Yontan Jungne Khön Tsugtor Sherab Khön Gekyab Khön Getong Khön Balpo Khön Shakya Lodro Sherab Tsultrim Sakya Trizin Lineage Sakya lineage, generations as Buddhist teachers. Khon Konchog Gyalpo founded the monastery in Sakya in 1073, and therefore the lineage was renamed Sakya. The first to be enthroned under the new system]] New succession system On 11 December 2014, a new throne holder succession system was announced during the 23rd Great Sakya Mönlam prayer festival on a resolution passed by the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang, where members of both Phodrang will serve the role of Sakya Trizin in one three-year term, according to their seniority and qualification. Ratna Vajra Rinpoche was enthroned on 9 March 2017 as the 42nd Sakya Trizin, the first to be enthroned under the new system. Due to the COVID Pandemic, the 43rd Sakya Trizin Gyana Vajra Rinpoche was enthroned on 16 March 2022, five years after the enthronement of the 42nd Sakya Trizin. He is the current throne holder of the Sakya school Footnotes References Penny-Dimri, Sandra. (1995). "The Lineage of His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga." The Tibet Journal. Vol. XX, No. 4 Winter 1995, pp. 64–92. . Trizin, Sakya. Parting from the Four Attachments. Shang Shung Publications, 1999. External links Sakya Dolma Phodrang's official website Hungarian website of Sakya Trizin including some information about Jetsun Kushok Chimey Luding see last section http://www.glorioussakya.org/history/hhst/ Lamas Sakya Tulkus Rinpoches

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1945 NFL Draft

The 1945 National Football League Draft was held on April 8, 1945, at the Commodore Hotel in New York City, New York. With the first overall pick of the draft, the Chicago Cardinals selected halfback Charley Trippi. Player selections Round one Round two Round three Round four Round five Round six Round seven Round eight Round nine Round ten Round eleven Round twelve Round thirteen Round fourteen Round fifteen Round sixteen Round seventeen Round eighteen Round nineteen Round twenty Round twenty-one Round twenty-two Round twenty-three Round twenty-four Round twenty-five Round twenty-six Round twenty-seven Round twenty-eight Round twenty-nine Round thirty Round thirty-one Round thirty-two Hall of Famers Charley Trippi, halfback from Georgia taken 1st round 1st overall by the Chicago Cardinals. Inducted: Professional Football Hall of Fame class of 1968. Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, wide receiver from Michigan taken 1st round 5th overall by the Cleveland Rams. Inducted: Professional Football Hall of Fame class of 1968. Pete Pihos, defensive end from Indiana University (Bloomington) taken 5th round 41st overall by the Philadelphia Eagles. Inducted: Professional Football Hall of Fame class of 1970. Tom Fears, end from the University of California, Los Angeles taken 11th round 103rd overall by the Cleveland Rams. Inducted: Professional Football Hall of Fame class of 1970. Arnie Weinmeister, defensive tackle from Washington taken 17th round 166th overall by the Brooklyn Tigers. Inducted: Professional Football Hall of Fame class of 1984. Notable undrafted players References External links NFL.com – 1945 Draft databaseFootball.com – 1945 Draft Pro Football Hall of Fame National Football League Draft Draft

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Adolfo Canepa

Adolfo John Canepa, CMG, OBE, GMH (born 17 December 1940) is a Gibraltarian politician. He has dedicated most of his life to politics and the development of Gibraltar, having served both as Leader of the Opposition and as Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 8 December 1987 to 25 March 1988. During this period he was also the leader of the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights (AACR). He is a former Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament. Teaching career Adolfo Canepa was born in London during a period of World War II when most of Gibraltar's civilian population had been evacuated. Prior to his involvement in local politics, Canepa was already well known as part of a team of teachers at the Gibraltar Grammar School who helped the Christian Brothers to mould an entire generation of Gibraltarians. He later left teaching, at considerable sacrifice for his wife Julie and young family at the time, to pursue a career in politics. Political career Canepa was a leading member of the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights. He was a candidate for election for the first time in the 1972 elections, winning a seat (the AACR won the majority by obtaining eight out of fifteen seats, with Joshua Hassan as Chief Minister) and thus becoming Minister for Labour and Social Security. During his time in this ministry, he led a wide-ranging review of the social security system. He later served in government as Minister for Economic Development and Trade, a ministry he held until he succeeded Hassan as Chief Minister. During Hassan's last term in government Canepa also served as Deputy Chief Minister. He was perhaps Hassan's closest political colleague and became his right-hand man at meetings in London with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Dockyard Agreement and also accompanied him as his Deputy to meetings leading up to the Brussels Agreement in the early eighties. Mayor of Gibraltar Canepa succeeded Alfred Vasquez as Mayor of Gibraltar between 1976 and 1978. He was later succeeded by Horace Zammit. Chief Minister of Gibraltar Hassan resigned without completing his term as Chief Minister in 1987 after an agreement on the shared use of Gibraltar Airport was signed by Spain and the United Kingdom, citing personal reasons. Being Deputy at the time, Canepa succeeded him as Chief Minister and leader of the AACR. However, Canepa lost the 1988 elections to Joe Bossano of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP), with Canepa obtaining 4,422 votes, while Bossano polled 8,128 votes. Canepa then become Leader of the Opposition until he announced his resignation just prior to the 1992 election. Canepa also announced his resignation as leader of the AACR and his retirement from politics altogether. The AACR disbanded shortly after. Later work Since his official retirement from politics, Canepa has assisted successive Governments of Gibraltar as a consultant, advising them by means of his experience and expertise on legislative and constitutional matters. He served in Peter Caruana’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, supporting the Chief Minister in the lobbying campaign and subsequent referendum which led to the derailing of the joint sovereignty proposals in 2002, and later in the Constitutional Reform Group which led to Gibraltar’s current constitution. For the last fifteen years he has worked in the Legislative Unit, the prime function of which is to scrutinise all European Union documents and determine how they might affect Gibraltar. In October 2012, Canepa was appointed the Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament and was the speaker up until 2019 General election. Honours On 10 December 2007 Adolfo Canepa was presented with the Gibraltar Award on behalf of the founding fathers of the AACR. The award was presented by the Self Determination for Gibraltar Group in recognition of the AACR's contribution to the political development and democratisation of Gibraltar. In 2009, Adolfo Canepa was one of the four recipients of the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour and was therefore recorded in the Gibraltar Roll of Honour. See also List of Gibraltarians Politics of Gibraltar References External links The Struggle for Democracy by TJ Finlayson, Published in The Gibraltar Chronicle 1940 births Living people Chief Ministers of Gibraltar Mayors of Gibraltar Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights politicians People of Ligurian descent Officers of the Order of the British Empire Speakers of the Gibraltar Parliament Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George

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Physeter Rocks

Physeter Rocks () is a small group of rocks lying to the west of Ohlin Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The rocks were photographed by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1956–57, and mapped from these photos. They are named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 after the sperm whale, occasionally known as Physeter catodon. References Rock formations of the Palmer Archipelago

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20We%20Go...%20%28Chantay%20Savage%20album%29

Here We Go... (Chantay Savage album)

Here We Go... is the debut studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Chantay Savage, released on June 22, 1993 on RCA Records. Here We Go... peaked at number 89 on Billboards Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Track listing Charts References External links Savage Take Over 'Here We Go...' — By Billboard 1994 albums RCA Records albums Chantay Savage albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Africa%20Cup%20of%20Nations%20qualification%20Group%20A

2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group A

Group A of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament is one of the twelve groups that will decide the two teams that shall qualify for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The group consists of four teams: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. The teams shall play against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format, between 9 June 2022 and September 2023. Standings Matches Goalscorers Group A References

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Ubuntu Kylin

Ubuntu Kylin () is the official Chinese version of the Ubuntu computer operating system. It is intended for desktop and laptop computers, and has been described as a "loose continuation of the Chinese Kylin OS". In 2013, Canonical Ltd. reached an agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to co-create and release an Ubuntu-based operating system with features targeted at the Chinese market. The first official release, Ubuntu Kylin 13.04, was released on 25 April 2013, on the same day as Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail). Features include Chinese input methods, Chinese calendars, a weather indicator, and online music search from the Dash. History Version 20.04 introduced version 3.0 of its own, newly developed UKUI (Ubuntu Kylin User Interface). Formerly, UKUI was a customization of the MATE desktop. Version 14.10 introduced the Ubuntu Kylin Software Center (UKSC), and a utility which helps end-users for daily computing tasks called Youker Assistant. The team cooperates with Sogou to develop Sogou Input Method for Linux. Since it is closed source, it is not included in the official Ubuntu Kylin image, but users can download it from UKSC or Sogou's website. WPS Office, also closed-source, is the default office suite in the pro and enhanced editions. LibreOffice however is used mainly as default in the official vanilla Ubuntu Kylin image from the main Ubuntu server website without WPS Office installed. Release history See also Canaima (operating system) GendBuntu BOSS Linux Inspur LiMux Nova (operating system) VIT, C.A. Kingsoft WPS Office References External links Ubuntu Kylin, wiki of the Ubuntu Kylin Team at wiki.ubuntu.com. Chinese-language Linux distributions Ubuntu derivatives Linux distributions

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Med%20%28season%205%29

Chicago Med (season 5)

The fifth season of Chicago Med, an American medical drama television series with executive producer Dick Wolf, and producers Michael Brandt, Peter Jankowski, Andrew Schneider and René Balcer (uncredited), was ordered on February 26, 2019. This season marks the death of cardiothoracic surgeon Ava Bekker portrayed by Norma Kuhling, and the departure of surgeon Connor Rodes portrayed by Colin Donnell as well as the arrival of Trauma Surgeon Crockett Marcel portrayed by Dominic Rains The season premiered on September 25, 2019. On March 13, 2020, the production of the fifth season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cast Main characters Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead, Supervising Attending Emergency Physician Yaya DaCosta as Emergency Department Nurse April Sexton Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Natalie Manning, Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics Attending Colin Donnell as Dr. Conor Rhodes, Attending Trauma Surgeon (Until episode 1) Brian Tee as LCDR Dr. Ethan Choi, Attending Emergency Physician Marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood, RN, ED Charge Nurse Norma Kuhling as Dr. Ava Bekker, Cardiothoracic Surgery Attending (Until episode 1) S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin, Chief of Services Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles, Chief of Psychiatry Dominic Rains as Dr. Crockett Marcel (episode 2 onwards; guest, episode 1) Recurring characters Brennan Brown as Dr. Sam Abrams, Attending Neurosurgeon Ato Essandoh as Dr. Isidore Latham, Cardiothoracic Surgeon Molly Bernard as Elsa Curry, Student Doctor Nate Santana as Dr. James Lanik, Chief of Trauma Roland Buck III as Dr. Noah Sexton, resident Jeremy Shouldis as Dr. Marty Peterson, Anesthesiologist Casey Tutton as Emergency Department Nurse Monique Lawson Lorena Diaz as Emergency Department Nurse Doris Marie Tredway as Emergency Department Nurse Trinidad “Trini” Campos Mia Park as Operating Room Nurse Beth Cole Marc Grapey as Peter Kalmick Adam Petchel as Tim Burke Paula Newsome as Caroline Charles Ian Harding as Phillip Davis Charles Malik Whitfield as Ben Campbell Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher, Obstetrics and Gynecology Crossover guest stars LaRoyce Hawkins as Officer Kevin Atwater Jesse Spencer as Captain Matthew Casey Randy Flagler as Firefighter Harold Capp Anthony Ferraris as Firefighter Tony Ferraris Tracy Spiridakos as Detective Hailey Upton Jason Beghe as Sergeant Hank Voight Taylor Kinney as Lieutenant Kelly Severide Kara Killmer as Paramedic in Charge Sylvie Brett David Eigenberg as Lieutenant Christopher Hermann Annie Ilonzeh as Paramedic Emily Foster Eamonn Walker as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden Jesse Lee Soffer as Detective Jay Halstead Patrick John Flueger as Officer Adam Ruzek Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess Lisseth Chavez as Officer Vanessa Rojas Amy Morton as Desk Sergeant Trudy Platt Episodes Production On April 19, 2019, NBC announced that Colin Donnell (Dr. Connor Rhodes) and Norma Kuhling (Dr. Ava Bekker) would be departing the series due to creative reasons, but they would both appear in the season 5 premiere to wrap up their characters' storyline. The episode sees Connor depart Med after Ava kills herself in front of him. Series showrunners Andy Schneider and Diane Frolov said the scene in which Dr. Bekker takes her own life was the "ultimate revenge against the man that had rejected her." Her death pushes Connor to leave Med, as he will always be reminded of everything that happened. Schneider and Frolov confirmed that the ending means Donnell could return to the show in the future. The season premiere also begins several ongoing storylines for the show's regulars. Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) will be dealing with a traumatic brain injury she sustained in the season 4 finale. A time gap occurs between the first and second episodes, in which Dr. Manning recovers and returns to work. Schneider and Frolov said the injury would prompt questions about Dr. Manning's ability to do her job well. They also confirmed that De. Manning's memory will return and the audience will find out what she was planning on telling Dr. Halstead before the crash. Following a pregnancy scare for Dr. Choi (Brian Tee) and Nurse April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) in the first episode, the idea of having a child is "definitely part of their storyline." Meanwhile, Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett) is diagnosed with breast cancer and her treatment is a long-running storyline, which showcases new technology available to cancer patients. Frolov commented, "We hope women will see Maggie and relate to her, especially when she goes through the biopsy. Maybe they'll see her go through it and realize it's not as terrible as you'd imagine in your head — it's painless. That's what we were hopeful for, that seeing someone go through it will help reduce fear." Dominic Rains joined the cast in the recurring role of Dr. Crockett Marcel, "a hard-partying doctor from Louisiana". He made his first appearance in the season premiere. Crossover In early September 2019, Chicago Fire showrunner Derek Haas confirmed a crossover event between Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago P.D.. Haas and producer Dick Wolf came up with the story, and Haas would write all three episodes, marking the first time he has written for Med since the spin-off episode "I Am the Apocalypse". Haas explained that the shows would be "intertwined" and there will be scenes that would make viewers think they are watching "a Med scene, but it's in the Fire hour." The plot revolves around "a mysterious illness", with Haas comparing it to The Poseidon Adventure or Independence Day, saying "where you've got a bunch of stories – cutting to one, cutting to another – and there's a mystery, both medical and criminal, going on that we’re trying to solve before it gets out of hand." The crossover begins in Fire'''s fourth episode, before leading into Med and P.D.'' on the same day. Ratings References External links 2019 American television seasons 2020 American television seasons Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic Chicago Med seasons

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20Hettich

Urban Hettich

Urban Hettich (born 2 March 1953 in Schonach im Schwarzwald) is a West German Nordic combined competitor and cross-country skier who was active during the 1970s. His best-known finish was a silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in the Individual event. Hettich also finished seventh in the men's 4 x 10 km relay at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. External links German male Nordic combined skiers German male cross-country skiers Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Cross-country skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic Nordic combined skiers of West Germany 1953 births Living people Olympic medalists in Nordic combined Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics People from Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis Sportspeople from Freiburg (region) Olympic cross-country skiers of West Germany

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Polypedates megacephalus

Polypedates megacephalus, the Hong Kong whipping frog or spot-legged tree frog, is a species in the shrub frog family (Rhacophoridae). In its native range, it is also called "brown tree frog", but this name is otherwise applied to a species of the true tree frog family (Hylidae). Distribution and ecology This species is native in central, southern and southwestern China (including Hong Kong and Hainan) and Indo-China peninsula. It is closely related to Polypedates leucomystax and always included in P. leucomystex species complex, along with P. mutus and P. braueri. Previously, P. megacephalus was thought to distribute above the Red River of Vietnam and in Northeast India, while P. leucomystex was generally found south of the Red River and in western Yunnan. However, recent genetic studies revealed that the natural barriers between these species are the Isthmus of Kra and the Tenasserim Range, where P. megacephalus can be found above the isthmus and east of the range. This frog is listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution in Asia and its tolerance of a broad range of habitats. It also because of its presumed large population. Images References Amphibians of China Fauna of Hong Kong Frogs of India Amphibians of Taiwan Amphibians described in 1861

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Pete Spratt

Aaron Dewain "Pete" Spratt (born January 9, 1971) is a former American professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Welterweight division. A professional competitor since 1999, Spratt has formerly competed for the UFC, the MFC, Legacy FC, Strikeforce, HDNet Fights, and Shark Fights. Background Spratt was born in Denison, Texas and grew up in Sherman, Texas. In high school, Spratt ran track and was a track and field New All-American going into his senior year, and still holds the Sherman High School record for the 400m and Triple Jump. He was also a first Team All-District and All-Area wide receiver on the football team, and a Second Team All-District guard on the basketball team. Spratt earned a full-scholarship to play football at Northwestern State University of Louisiana as their #1 recruit for the 1990 recruiting class. In college, Spratt finished his career at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. As a four-year starter, he ended his career at Southeastern as their All-Time career leading receiver. He also finished his senior season as the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Offensive Player of the year, as well as a NAIA first team All-American and finished second in the nation in receiving. He also excelled at track in college, and still holds records in the Triple Jump and Long Jump. Mixed martial arts career Spratt made his mixed martial arts debut in early 1999 when he defeated Jeremiah O'Neal by submission (rear-naked choke) in the first round. He then won 9 of his next 14 fights including a win over MMA veteran Rich Clementi to bring his Mixed Martial Arts record to 10–5 before receiving his first call up to the UFC. He made his debut for the promotion at UFC 37.5 against Zach Light. Spratt defeated Light by first round armbar submission. Spratt was then defeated by former UFC Welterweight Champion Carlos Newton at UFC 40 before picking up arguably the best win of his mixed martial arts career at UFC 42 defeating Robbie Lawler by submission (due to hip injury) in the second round. After defeating Lawler, Spratt was offered a shot at the UFC Welterweight Championship along with an $8000 + $8000 contract [$8000 to fight, $8000 for an eventual win]. Spratt wanted $25000 + $8000 (his opponent was getting $50000 + $50000), but UFC declined. Spratt turned down the offer, gave the statement that he felt he was not ready to fight reigning champion Matt Hughes, and was subsequently released from the promotion. The Ultimate Fighter He was one of the cast members of The Ultimate Fighter 4, which unlike every other season of the show featured past veterans from the UFC. Although he lost both of his exhibition fights, he was featured on the season finale, defeating Jeremy Jackson by submission (due to neck injury). Spratt then returned to the Octagon at UFC 69 where he was defeated by Marcus Davis. His last fight in the UFC was against Tamdan McCrory at UFC Fight Night 10 where he lost via triangle choke. Maximum Fighting Championship Since being cut from the UFC, Spratt has fought on regional shows, where his submission defense has been exposed on many occasions, while also picking up some impressive wins mainly due to his strong stand-up skills and heavy hands. Most notably, Spratt has fought in the Canadian regional promotion Maximum Fighting Championship where he made his debut at MFC 15: Rags to Riches losing to Ryan Ford via rear-naked choke. He then returned to the promotion over a year later at MFC 22: Payoff where he defeated Nathan Gunn via knockout in the second round. Spratt next fought Keith Wisniewski on 2 January 2010 losing via submission (rear-naked choke) in the first round but he bounced back in his third fight with the MFC promotion by defeating UFC veteran Luigi Fioravanti via TKO in the third round. In this fight Spratt showed improved takedown defense and ground game. Spratt was then submitted in his next two fights losing first by guillotine choke to Eric Davila at Shark Fights 13: Jardine vs Prangley before being defeated by Ryan Ford for the second time in their rematch at MFC 25: Vindication via rear-naked choke. Spratt faced Demi Deeds on 8 April 2011 at MFC 29: Conquer. After a close first round, Spratt turned up the pressure in the second landing some strong leg kicks and punches until he got on top of Deeds late in the round before quickly transitioning to an impressive armbar finish to gain his first win in almost a year. Spratt faced Marcus Davis at MFC 30, replacing an injured Richie Whitson, This was a rematch of their first encounter, which Davis won by submission at UFC 69. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Independent Promotions On July 22, 2011, at LFC 7 Spratt racked up his fastest knockout to date, defeating Antonio Flores with a clean overhand left only 18 seconds into the opening round. March 30, 2012 he fought Daniel Acácio and KO'd him at exactly the 5 minute mark at the end of the third round, due to this technicality the fight was scored a technical decision. Spratt faced Dan Hornbuckle on February 1, 2013 at Legacy FC 17. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Spratt faced UFC vet Tim Means on September 13, 2013 at Legacy FC 23, He lost the fight via knockout due to elbows and punches in the first round. After his loss to Means, he announced his retirement from MMA fighting. Spratt later changed his mind about retiring and after reviewing the footage claimed that while the elbow knocked him down, it was the follow up punches that knocked him out and because they were shots to the back of his head they were illegal shots, and the fight should have been ruled a No-Contest due to illegal strikes. Spratt also stated he would officially appeal the decision with the Athletic Commission; it is unknown whether or not Spratt did submit an appeal, but if he did it was rejected as his fight with Means is still recorded as a loss by popular MMA record keeping sites. Tim Means's manager Tom Vaughn and Legacy FC promoter Mick Maynard didn't respond to MMA Junkie's request for comment regarding Spratt's claim. Return to MMA Returning from a one-year retirement, Spratt was expected to face Shane Campbell at MFC 41 on October 3, 2014. However, the bout was cancelled for unknown reasons. Personal life Spratt and his wife had a daughter on March 25, 2008. He has two daughters from a previous relationship. Championships and accomplishments ISKA U.S. Middleweight Champion Ring of Fire ROF Middleweight Championship (One time) Reality Combat Fighting RCF Middleweight Championship (One time) Renegades Extreme Fighting REF Middleweight Championship (Two times) REF Middleweight Tournament Runner Up Kickboxing record (Incomplete) |- style="background:#fbb;" | 2006-03-03 || Loss ||align=left| Kevin Engel || World Combat League || Las Vegas, Nevada, USA || Decision (30–25) || 1 || 3:00 |- | colspan=9 | Legend: Mixed martial arts record |- | Loss | align=center| 25–24 | Washington Luiz | KO (punches) | Fury FC 20 | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 1:40 | San Antonio, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 25–23 | Tim Means | KO (elbows and punches) | Legacy FC 23 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:24 | San Antonio, Texas, United States | Retired after the fight. |- | Loss | align=center| 25–22 | Dan Hornbuckle | Decision (unanimous) | Legacy FC 17 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | San Antonio, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 25–21 | Daniel Acácio | Technical Decision (unanimous) | AFC: Amazon Forest Combat 2 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Manaus, Brazil | Acacio was knocked out with a spinning backfist, it was after the five-minute mark and it went to a decision. |- | Win | align=center| 24–21 | Martin Grandmont | TKO (punches) | Instinct MMA 2 | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 4:00 | Quebec City, Canada | |- | Loss | align=center| 23–21 | Jorge Patino | Decision (split) | Legacy FC 8 | | align=center| 5 | align=center| 5:00 | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 23–20 | Antonio Flores | TKO (punch) | Legacy FC 7 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 0:18 | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 22–20 | Marcus Davis | Decision (unanimous) | MFC 30: Up Close & Personal | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |- | Win | align=center| 22–19 | Demi Deeds | Submission (armbar) | MFC 29: Conquer | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 4:19 | Windsor, Ontario, Canada | |- | Loss | align=center| 21–19 | Ryan Ford | Submission (rear-naked choke) | MFC 27 | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 3:07 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |- | Loss | align=center| 21–18 | Eric Davila | Submission (guillotine choke) | Shark Fights 13: Jardine vs Prangley | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 3:49 | Amarillo, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 21–17 | Luigi Fioravanti | TKO (punches) | MFC 25 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 4:02 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |- | Loss | align=center| 20–17 | Keith Wisniewski | Submission (rear-naked choke) | Hoosier FC 2: It's On | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 4:07 | Hammond, Indiana, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 20–16 | Nathan Gunn | KO (punch) | MFC 22 | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 4:19 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |- | Win | align=center| 19–16 | Alan Woods | Submission (armbar) | SCMMA 1: Battle of the Texas Titans | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 3:56 | Frisco, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 18–16 | Donnie Liles | Submission (rear-naked choke) | Strikeforce: Payback | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 1:59 | Denver, Colorado, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 18–15 | John Alessio | Submission (rear-naked choke) | Banner Promotions: Night of Combat | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 2:07 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 18–14 | Jason Von Flue | KO (punch) | UWC 3: Invasion | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:34 | Fairfax, Virginia, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 17–14 | Ryan Ford | Submission (rear-naked choke) | MFC 15: Rags to Riches | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 4:01 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |- | Win | align=center| 17–13 | Tristan Yunker | TKO (cut) | HDNet Fights: Reckless Abandon | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 1:38 | Dallas, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 16–13 | TJ Waldburger | KO (punches) | HDNet Fights | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 1:29 | Dallas, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 15–13 | TJ Waldburger | Submission (triangle choke) | King of Kombat | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 1:30 | Austin, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 15–12 | Tamdan McCrory | Submission (triangle choke) | UFC Fight Night: Stout vs Fisher | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 2:04 | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 15–11 | Marcus Davis | Submission (achilles lock) | UFC 69 | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 2:57 | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 15–10 | Jeremy Jackson | TKO (neck injury) | The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 1:11 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 14–10 | Matt Brown | Decision (unanimous) | International Freestyle Fighting 1 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Fort Worth, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 13–10 | Josh Koscheck | Submission (rear-naked choke) | UFC Ultimate Fight Night | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 1:53 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 13–9 | Wataru Takahashi | KO (punch) | Shoot Boxing: Ground Zero Fukuoka | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:56 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan | |- | Loss | align=center| 12–9 | John Cronk | Submission (rear-naked choke) | Venom: First Strike | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 4:43 | Huntington Beach, California, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 12–8 | Chris Lytle | Submission (rear-naked choke) | RSF: Shooto Challenge 2 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 0:46 | Illinois, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 12–7 | Georges St-Pierre | Submission (rear-naked choke) | TKO 14: Road Warriors | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 3:40 | Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada | |- | Win | align=center| 12–6 | Robbie Lawler | TKO (knee injury) | UFC 42 | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 2:28 | Miami, Florida, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 11–6 | Carlos Newton | Submission (kimura) | UFC 40 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 1:45 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 11–5 | Zach Light | Submission (armbar) | UFC 37.5 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:25 | Bossier City, Louisiana, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 10–5 | Steve Berger | TKO (cut) | UA 1: The Genesis | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:14 | Hammond, Indiana, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 10–4 | Brian Sleeman | TKO (submission to punches) | GC 7: Casualties of War | | align=center| 1 | align=center| N/A | Colusa, California, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 9–4 | Ronald Jhun | KO (knee) | Warriors Quest 2: Battle of Champions | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 4:36 | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 9–3 | Jay Jack | TKO (punches) | Ring of Fire 3 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 0:55 | Denver, Colorado, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 8–3 | Hector Garza | Submission | Renegades Extreme Fighting | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:33 | Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 8–2 | Cruz Chacon | Decision (majority) | ROF 2: Trial By Fire | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 3:00 | Denver, Colorado, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 8–1 | Rich Clementi | TKO (doctor stoppage) | Reality Combat Fighting 9 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| N/A | Houma, Louisiana, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 7–1 | Jason House | KO (punches) | Bushido 1 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| N/A | Tempe, Arizona, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 6–1 | Bone Sayavonga | TKO (submission to strikes) | Renegades Extreme Fighting | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 1:36 | Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 5–1 | Cedric Marks | Submission | Renegades Extreme Fighting | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 9:55 | Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 4–1 | Yves Edwards | Submission (triangle choke) | Renegades Extreme Fighting | | align=center| 1 | align=center| N/A | Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 4–0 | Doug Carpenter | Decision | Renegades Extreme Fighting | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 10:00 | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 3–0 | Rolando Aguilar | KO | Renegades Extreme Fighting | | align=center| 1 | align=center| N/A | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 2–0 | Keith Sutton | KO | Extreme Shootout: The Underground | | align=center| N/A | align=center| N/A | Killeen, Texas, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 1–0 | Jeremiah O'Neal | Submission (rear-naked choke) | Power Ring Warriors | | align=center| 1 | align=center| N/A | Texas, United States | References External links Pete Spratt's official website UFC Profile 1971 births Living people American practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu American male mixed martial artists African-American mixed martial artists Welterweight mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing American Kenpo Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu Mixed martial artists from Texas American male kickboxers Southeastern Oklahoma State Savage Storm football players Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American sportspeople

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Operations Plus WMD

Operations Plus WMD is a training level in dealing with hazardous materials. WMD The term refers to public sector emergency response operational units or task forces with training to Level Two Operations plus Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Technically, WMD incidents fall out of OSHA's scope if there is a National Response yet their role is defined, with the exception that it includes means and methods to protect responders in the potential or actual case of a weapons of mass destruction (WMD)incident, if they have the training on what they are doing and do not place themselves in danger. This could be nuclear, biological or chemical even as far as an event of chemical warfare without adequate planning it could place the Operations Plus personnel in the danger zone it would be very undesirable if they could be seriously injured or fatal. Applicability So the Operation OSHA minimum Level 2 Operations standard could be applicable more so if not a National Incident, yet case specific. Furthermore, in the bigger picture other federal agencies are involved and OSHA follows those procedures so typically responders would have training at this Operations Plus WMD from a viable training facility that has instructors trained through a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Grant and other education and experience or shall have needed critical training that would keep them from being in danger. In the bigger picture these responders obtain any resource necessary to respond save lives or mitigate a WMD incident safely. Whatever the cause is examples of such resources can be found on government websites or private sector. In the private sector instructors who specialize in Operation's Plus WMD can assist in public or secret contracts. Scientists help develop Operations Plus WMD training and remediation programs for WMD that will play a critical role in training public sector environmental workers or Emergency Response Teams (ERT). Training This training is broken in segments for triage, chemical, crime scene, risk management, explosives, biological, and radiological and used widely by hospitals in major populated areas for training emergency response teams managers or instructors that go beyond the Operations levels in NIMMS National Incident Management Systems. In part because of facilities, situational and those who seek more knowledge. The future of WMD holds many uncertainties. Operations Plus WMD would be needed for current homeland security. It might be needed in current war's aftermath with other training such as Unexploded Ordnance Specialist (UXO) like remediation of depleted uranium or aftermath of future wars. Operations Plus WMD responders work with specialist in incident command, safety, response managers, and other officials who make decisions in an incident. Based on NFPA 472 Much of the current information is based on a National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) standard 472: 1) NFPA 472 The formal name for NFPA 472 is the “Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents, 2008 Edition.” It represents the consensus standard for hazmat competency requirements and serves as the reference for minimum firefighter hazmat training. 2) Some changes with NFPA 472. Under the 2008 Edition of NFPA 472, key Operations Level Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction (HM/WMD) tasks have been more clearly defined and labeled as "Mission-Specific Competencies": The use of PPE; Air Monitoring and Sampling; Victim Rescue/Recovery; Product Control; Evidence Preservation/Sampling; Performing Mass Decontamination; Performing Technical Decontamination, and Response to Illicit Laboratory Incidents. 3) What are "Mission Specific Competencies"? This term refers to competencies where the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) can match the expected tasks and duties of its personnel with the competencies required to perform those tasks. These competencies should be performed under the guidance of a Hazardous Materials Technician (HMT), allied professional, or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). A more detailed description of specific tasks can be found in NFPA 472, Chapter 6. However, the other basis of such information are also in FEMA publications Guidelines for Haz Mat / WMD Response, Planning and Prevention Training, To the point the original efforts came about from efforts of The Resources Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), and passage of Superfund then amended in 11986 Superfund Amendments and reauthorization Act (SARA) Title I, Section 126(a)(b)(c), was enacted to require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop standards for safety and health. Thus emerged HAZWOPER as the US Government was faced with clean-up sites from a variety of sources its own (including nuclear waste) and private sector. Therefore Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) 29 CFR 1910.120 (1989) The guidelines from NFPA 472 as designed exceed the OSHA standard developed it to define the competencies for personnel responding to hazardous materials emergencies. Within Guidelines for Haz Mat / WMD Response, Planning and Prevention Training it breaks down a two track approach to public sector training: 1) Required by OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120(q) describes minimum training requirements. 2) recommended training, objectives' that reflects the training organization described in NFPA 472 and 473 standards and other training recommendations that incorporated or developed by the national author team. Chicago Safety institute takes a comprehensive approach offering a program that includes Operations Plus WMD, radiation screening, air monitoring with a three tier approach that manager or workers can utilize to mitigate the situation and help be better enabled to protect their co-workers. 1) OSHA compliance 29 CFR 1910.120 2) Emergency Response utilizing available NFPA 472 and 473 or training customized with any necessary additions at an Operational Level for workers and managers to gain the needed skill sets. 3) That include a comprehensive Operations Plus for WMD, emergency response, and environmental clean-up training; for workers, manager, specialists or Site Safety Supervisors for contractors engaged in such aftermath of these emergencies with the potential for an emergency to reoccur and/or existing environmental clean-ups. Although time is not the entire criteria of training that is mostly performance based, it easily could take over 120 hours to bring a manager up to speed provided they had experience and education. The average worker engaged in a WMD clean-up would still have to have 40 hours of training. Regularly engaged clean-up workers usually would include the practice using Level A or Level B protection Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) NFPA 1991 PPE and the employer work place assessment of hazards usually by an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist and their site specific training for safety based on those tasks and outcomes. However a WMD incident could require NFPA 1994 or CBRN approved gear. For example a site with radioactive material and Beryllium would have to have a detailed task analysis to prevent exposure, UXO could have a chemical warhead, or a Clandestine Laboratory or a warhead may have released after an explosion it could have potential for an emergency to reoccur such that a blister or nerve agent may be present. Operation Plus WMD plays an important role in controlling the incident and forms the basis of what some Incident commanders might need to know and comprehensive guide for managers of former military clean-up site or others where WMD is found in an unwanted place. References Occupational Safety and Health Administration