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Suvarna Sahakari Bank | Allegations and arrests | upon discovery of the money, further interrogation of the accused was necessary and alleged that the accused had disbursed loans to people close to them by flouting RBI rules.
In return, Agashe's defense counsel claimed that Agashe and his family had sold off various properties for the repayment of the loan. The defense counsel also stated that the Agashe family had extended full cooperation with the police and submitted that the family would repay another Rs. 80 crore after the issue of Suvarna's merger was settled. The defense also raised the issue of foul play, when the first information reporting of |
Tail 'Gator | Story & Gameplay | Tail 'Gator Story The story of the game is that a dragon warlord known as 'Basso Gila' teleported his castle and army to the peaceful animal kingdom of 'Moberry' in order to destroy it and establish his ultimate rule. The council of elders of Moberry put Charly the highland alligator on the task to send the invaders packing to unsure their well deserved freedom. Gameplay There are five areas in Tail 'Gator, each of them divided into four sections: Air, Land, Cave and Underwater, except for the fourth and fifth areas which are only Castle.
The player must complete all sections |
Taupo District | History | was not until the 1950s that the region started to develop, with forestry and the construction of the Wairakei geothermal power station. |
Tampa International Airport | People movers | Mobility Incorporated UM III people mover was installed in 1991 when the new long-term-parking garage was built and opened on December 16. It was the first of its kind in the world to include six driverless, electrically propelled cars that are completely computer controlled. The system was also the first to have active switches and it is monitored from the airport's communications center. There are four long-term stations. The Monorail circles the long-term-parking garage and connects to the short term garage via an elevated bridge to stop at four additional stations. The Monorail is free to use and runs twenty-four |
Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law | Cosmetics Tax & Tobacco Tax & Financial Taxes | or trauma, or disfiguring disease, tumor, virus or infection are tax-exempted. Tobacco Tax The excise tax on cigarettes aims to reduce the amount of smokers and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases one can catch from the act, as well as generate additional revenue for health oriented programs and services.
From its original excise tax of P30.00 in 2017, the tax on tobacco increased to P32.50 on January 01 2018, P35.00 on July 01 2018, will increase to P37.50 on January 01 2020, and P40.00 on January 01 2020. Afterwards, it will increase annually by 4% from January 01 2024. Financial Taxes |
Sunera Thobani | Academic career & Early activist work | the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Professor and Chair. Thobani has also previously lectured at Evergreen State College, a liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Since 2000, she has been teaching at the University of British Columbia. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Early activist work Thobani was an avid activist throughout her undergraduate and graduate career. Since the 1980s, she has been associated with the anti-racist movement, anti-apartheid movement, third world solidarity movements, and various women's movements. As an undergraduate student living in the United Kingdom, she worked with different |
The Ben and Dave Show | Critical response | The Ben and Dave Show Critical response The Washington Blade praised the series, calling The Ben and Dave Show a "fun new release." Entertainment Weekly concurred, citing the show's "catty chat" and the solid pairing of Harvey and Rubin as reasons to watch. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the series "sort of like the old Howard Stern show on E!, but 2/3 less raunchy and 1/3 more gay." |
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Background & Rejection of commercial licensing | long now, it looks like dark to me Rejection of commercial licensing The former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses. |
The Irish Rovers | Television | their own CBC-produced television series, The Irish Rovers Show. While entertaining a family audience, the show promoted Ireland and Irish music to North Americans. Guest stars included their friends The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Bobby Darin, Glen Campbell, Vera Lynn and Anne Murray. Visits from Shari Lewis and her puppets, including Lamb Chop, were audience favourites. There were regularly taped visits to Northern and Southern Ireland, Scotland, England, New Zealand, P.E.I., Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Banff and even Alert – at the tip of Ellesmere Island – the farthest, northerly inhabited base in the world.
"The Irish |
The Augments | Plot | leads a mutiny which confines Soong to his quarters. With the help of Persis, Soong leaves the ship in an escape pod. Enterprise, once again in pursuit, detects the pod and brings Soong on board. Heading towards the Klingon colony in high warp in an attempt to stop Malik's plan, the Klingons detect their ship. Enterprise is forced to disable a Klingon cruiser when it tries to board. Malik kills Persis for her betrayal, and continues with his plan to attack the Klingons. Scans of the Qu'vat colony reveal three main population centers; the torpedo is armed with |
Tania Evans | Career | Beat, Evans released a solo single entitled "Prisoner of Love" which she composed herself with Peter Ries. The single includes a remix by Hendrick Schimann and Mike Romeo. It was released by Columbia/Sony Music and reached the top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Club Dance chart and No. 75 in Germany. She also appeared on Kosmonova's single "Singing In My Mind" in 1998, which reached No. 78 in Germany.
In 2003, Evans released a house-style single entitled "Strength to Carry On" on Dos Or Die Recordings. |
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Bistromathic drive & Hyperspace | that only restaurants operate under by turning itself into a controlled, artificial restaurant. This allows a ship equipped with a bistromathic drive to accomplish feats quite outside the normal capabilities of spacecraft, such as travelling two thirds across the galactic disk in a matter of seconds. The drive is notably more controllable than the Infinite Improbability Drive. It is also said to "make the Heart of Gold seem like an electric pram." Hyperspace The Vogon ships use hyperspace travel to go faster than light. They also destroy Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Ford Prefect describes |
Surrey Search and Rescue | History | Surrey Search and Rescue History The organisation was founded in 2010 by Tim Rowsell. During the first six months of 2011, the unit started to take shape and quickly acquired provisional status to join the Association of Lowland Search And Rescue (ALSAR). and Lowland Search Dogs (LSDogs) Once they had six operational SAR dogs, they became full members of LSDogs. During this time the unit was involved in eight searches including the search for missing Sian O'Callaghan from Swindon.
In September 2011, a further search dog qualified at the National Assessments, and the unit had now assisted in over 50 searches |
The Battle of the Somme (film) | International & Other films | soldier in France, describing the issue of a leaflet to each filmgoer that stated that the film was not entertainment but an official film. Having viewed the film, the writer was sure that it would enlighten the audience in a way never before achieved. Other films During the second week of August, the King, Prime Minister and Lloyd George toured the Western Front and were filmed by Malins. The War Office released the film in October as The King Visits His Armies in the Great Advance. Malins made a third film The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of |
The Hoppings | null | annually until 1946; a non-Showmen's Guild Fair was held that year but proved to be unpopular. The Guild showmen returned in 1947 and the Hoppings was a success with a record attendance.
The Hoppings inspired the song Katie Was There by Eric Boswell which was part of his 1983 musical Katie Mulholland, based on Catherine Cookson's novel, staged by Newcastle Playhouse.
In 2013 after a dispute between the Showmen's Guild and Newcastle City Council over pitch and rent terms, alternate fairs were held at Nuns Moor Newcastle upon Tyne and Herrington Country Park, Sunderland. Newcastle council held an alternate event with “broader |
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. | Bilski | that patents should not be issuing for new business methods."
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of patent ineligibility in Bilski v. Kappos. It did not endorse the use of the machine-or-transformation test as the sole test, but said it was only a "useful clue" to making the determination. The Court's majority also declined to hold business methods categorically patent ineligible. Four Justices, however—Justice Stevens, concurring, joined by Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor—would have held all business methods patent ineligible, on the basis of the historical background of the patent clause of the Constitution. In a separate concurring opinion by Justice |
The Addams Family (1964 TV series) | Plot | a
disembodied hand that appears from within a small wooden box. Other relatives who made recurring appearances included Cousin Itt (Felix Silla), Morticia's older sister Ophelia (also portrayed by Jones), and Morticia's mother Grandma Frump (Margaret Hamilton). Many guest stars that were mainly famous during the era came in the show playing a cameo part as the script permitted (example, a truant officer, insurance man etc.)
Much of the humor derives from the Addamses' culture clash with the rest of the world. They invariably treat normal visitors with great warmth and courtesy, unaware that some of their guests often have bad intentions. |
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. | Federal Circuit opinion | for recording and reporting purposes and even accepted and relied upon by regulatory authorities and in subsequent trades.
At the time and during the following decade, this ruling was considered by many to be significant because previously "methods of doing business" had been widely thought not to be eligible for patent grants. For example, in Hotel Security Checking Co. v. Lorraine Co., the Second Circuit held that a bookkeeping system to prevent waiters from stealing customer payments for meals could not be patented. In Joseph E. Seagram & Sons v. Marzell, the D.C. Circuit held that a patent on "blind testing" |
Suvarna Sahakari Bank | Background | vote in the election for the post of the President of the BCCI.
By 2006, the bank business started having financial troubles, with some sources alleging that the bank's failure was backlash for the controversial BCCI presidential elections. In September that same year, the cooperative bank was put under moratorium by the Reserve Bank of India. The board of directors for the bank was superseded soon after.
In 2007, following the order of moratorium, the State Department of Cooperation appointed Mukund Ghaisas as administrator at the bank. Many of the bank's depositors held demonstrations at Agashe's Aundh residence and threatened criminal actions |
Steve Young | College football | University (BYU). Initially, he struggled at throwing the ball, and BYU's coaching staff considered switching him to defensive back because of his athleticism. However, he worked hard to improve his passing skills and eventually succeeded record-setting Jim McMahon as BYU's starting QB. Young's senior season (1983) was spectacular. He passed for 3,902 yards and 33 touchdowns in the regular season, and his 71.3% completion percentage set an NCAA single-season record. He also added 544 yards rushing. With Young at quarterback, BYU set an NCAA record by averaging 584.2 yards of total offense per game, with 370.5 of those yards coming |
The Irish Rovers | "US America" | that they invited All-Ireland Champion Wilcil McDowell to join the band. After the success of "The Unicorn," Joe returned to the band. The album included the Irish tunes "The Orange and the Green" and "The Black Velvet Band." Wilcil's accordion has continued to be a signature sound of the band.
Starting in the late 60s, the Irish Rovers performed on various North American television programs including several appearances on the TV western The Virginian, as well as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mike Douglas Show, The Dating Game, The Pig And Whistle, and The Beachcombers.
In 1968, they were named "Folk |
Steve Young | Early years & College football | Thanksgiving Day in November 1979, Greenwich lost to Darien High School, known for its "Tidal Wave Defense", 17-0. During his senior year, he was co-captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams. In basketball, he averaged 15 points a game. In baseball, he hit .384 and played center field when he wasn't pitching. He was 5-1 and threw a 3-0 no-hitter against New Canaan High School. College football Young was heavily recruited by the University of North Carolina. Coach Dick Crum was enamored by Young's running ability, and wanted him to run his option offense. Young instead chose Brigham Young |
Surf Party | Cast & Surf bands | made two films previously with Dexter.
Legendary surfer Mickey Dora doesn’t have a speaking role, but is a featured extra in a sequence in the Casey’s Surfer restaurant – playing the bowling-shirted surfer who follows Skeet’s signal to lead the crowd in a clap-out. Surf bands The Astronauts was a Boulder, Colorado-based surf band who had a Billboard Top 100 hit in 1963 with their song "Baja." They also appeared in Dexter’s later beach party movie, Wild on the Beach, as well as two other beach party films, Wild Wild Winter and Out of Sight – more than any other |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Background | essay entitled "Notes on an Unfinished Novel", Fowles reflects on his writing process. He said he had an image during the autumn of 1966 of: "A woman [who] stands at the end of a deserted quay and stares out to sea." He determined that she belonged to a "Victorian Age" and had "mysterious" and "vaguely romantic" qualities. He made a note at the time about the function of the novel:
"You are not trying to write something one of the Victorian novelists forgot to write; but perhaps something one of them failed to write. And: Remember the etymology of the word. |
Teufelsmoor | History | village or Reihendorf) can be seen in many parts of the area around the villages of Grasberg and Worpswede.
By harvesting the layers of peat and draining the land the climatic conditions of the entire area were changed considerably. By the end of the 19th century the keeping of dairy cattle had spread to the area. In Bremen the use of peat for heating was banned because on many winters days the air pollution it caused had become unbearable. Coal, with its greater energy density, superseded peat. Right into the 1980s and 1990s, however, there was continued destruction of the moor. |
The Invader (1997 film) | Plot summary | The Invader (1997 film) Plot summary A day has come when not one, but two UFOs make their way into Earth's atmosphere. The larger ship is clearly chasing the smaller one, and the alien has the look of a soldier about him. The smaller ship is able to cause the larger one to crash, then lands itself. The pilot (Renn) sets out for town looking for an Earth woman named Annie Nilssen. Annie is a local school teacher who has recently broken up with her boyfriend, Sheriff Jack Logan. While she's on a girl's night |
Suvarna Sahakari Bank | Allegations and arrests & Aftermath | 2009. Aftermath Upon Agashe's death, the depositors of the bank approached Indian Overseas Bank for help after the bank's accumulated losses were estimated at over Rs. 350 crore. The bank was finally dissolved and merged with Indian Overseas Bank in 2009.
The bank's case, and failure amidst a political scandal is widely cited today in the Indian banking sector. |
The Five-Storied Pagoda | Plot summary | Demon King. The storm warns against giving praise to man-made objects and proceeds to wreck everything in sight. Everyone in Edo is terrified of the storm, especially Tame’emon and Endo. They express concern over the pagoda's ability to withhold the storm and bribe Shichizo to bring Jubei to the pagoda to check on it. Jubei refuses to go to the pagoda unless the Abbot summons him there, so Shichizo lies and tells Jubei the Abbot did summon him in order to get Jubei to go. Jubei takes this as a direct insult to his carpenter katagi and rushes over to |
Stockton St John's F.C. | null | Stockton St John's F.C. Stockton St John's F.C. was an association football club based in the town of Stockton-on-Tees, England. The team joined the second division of the Northern League in 1898 following the resignation of Leadgate Exiles, and won the title in their first season. Despite finishing as runners-up to Darlington in the First Division in 1899–1900, Stockton St John's subsequently struggled in the league and finished bottom of the table in 1902. Three matches into the 1903–04 campaign, the club resigned from the Northern League and were replaced by Shildon Athletic. Stockton St John's participated in the FA |
The Coming of Age (book) | Synopsis & Summary | and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead castigate and avoid? Most importantly, how is our treatment of this generation a reflection of our society's values and priorities? Summary "De Beauvoir has separated the book into two parts. The first half is a look from the outside in. How society and its citizens view old age, ranging from how families treat their elders to the views of old age by the philosophers and literary giants throughout the years. She breaks down the influences by particular philosophers and shows how |
Teraju | null | market capitalisation from listing emerging Bumiputera companies on the Bursa Malaysia, Malaysia’s stock exchange. |
The Irish Rovers | "US America" | group was then booked at other folk clubs across California.
In 1966, the Rovers signed a recording contract with Decca Records with Charles Dant and recorded their first album, The First of the Irish Rovers, at The Ice House in Pasadena. The album was successful enough to warrant another album, which included their first hit, which was from a song originally written and recorded in 1962 by Shel Silverstein, The Unicorn. Glen Campbell played guitar on the original recording. After recording the album, Joe left the band for a more "reliable" income for a family man. It was at this time |
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Bistromathic drive | number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of mathematics, including statistics and accountancy, and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at |
Surf Party | Music & Critical response | a thick, reverb-laden instrumental called ‘Firewater,’ and their theme song ‘Surf Party’ happens to be one of the best surf instrumentals ever recorded." Critical response Upon release, Eugene Archer of The New York Times wrote: "Flaming youth may be passé, but you'd never know it from Surf Party … It's only the attitudes that seem archaic, as they bounce into passionless love affairs, take reckless surfboard risks in pointless tests of courage and display an alarming lack of inhibitions and not a trace of social responsibility."
The Christian Science Monitor called it "a jointless, pointless, puppy-loving tale of follow-the-leader... with unusually |
Star Music | History | Film Productions. In 2014, it changed its name to Star Music. In the same year, they launched their very own music downloading website. This is also the time where Star Music started to release their songs on iTunes, Spotify, and other music downloading and streaming websites and applications. They also revamped their YouTube channel as a response to the current trend in the consumption of music and video contents on the internet.
In September 2015, Star Music acquired the copyrights to around 116 original compositions of Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon which includes songs popularized by 1970s group |
Stoneman | Bombay killings | not have relatives or associates who could identify them. Compounded to this was the fact that the victims were people of very simple means and the individual crimes were not high-profile. It was after the sixth murder that the Bombay Police began to see a pattern in the crimes.
A stroke of luck seemed to come the police's way when a homeless waiter survived a brutal attack and managed to escape being bludgeoned to death. However, in the dimly lit area of Sion where he was sleeping, he had not been able to get a good look at his assailant, and |
The Five-Storied Pagoda | Setting | the Abbot resides, the announcement of who will build the pagoda is given, and where the pagoda will be built. Most of the temple was renovated by Genta; who was expected to build the pagoda there as well. However, this task was left to Jūbei who poured his heart and soul into it. His pagoda was then tested against a storm of epic proportions which assaulted the temple grounds. During the storm, Genta stormed around scrutinizing everything, waiting for something to fail, while Jūbei waited at the top of the pagoda; hoping that it would survive.
Genta's House
The place where Genta |
TOX3 | Disease linkage | TOX3 Disease linkage Mutations in the TOX3 gene are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. |
Supernatural Thrillers | The Living Mummy | Buckler, returned two issues later as the starring character in a generally 15-page solo series that ran from #7 to the final issue, #15 (June 1974 - October 1975). The cover logo during this time was "Supernatural Thrillers featuring The Living Mummy". With issue #8, the creative team became writer Tony Isabella and artist Val Mayerik, who was occasionally credited as co-plotter. John Warner wrote or co-wrote the final two issues, with Tom Sutton drawing the finale. Len Wein scripted #10 from an Isabella-Mayerik plot.
The series went to 16 pages with issue #11, and became a full-length, 18-page feature the |
The Fountainhead (film) | Plot | while permitting Keating to take all the credit. With prodding from the envious Toohey, the firm backing the project alters the Roark design presented by Keating. Roark decides, with Francon's help, to rig explosives to destroy the buildings. Roark is arrested at the site. Toohey pressures Keating into privately confessing that Roark actually designed the project.
Roark goes on trial. He is painted as a public enemy by every newspaper apart from The Banner, where Wynand now publicly campaigns on Roark's behalf. Toohey, however, has permeated The Banner with men loyal to him. He has them quit and uses his clout |
Star of Danger | Plot summary | Altons. Under pressure from Valdir Alton, Wade Montray tells Larry that his mother was a daughter of Aldaran, and one of the Comyn. |
Star Wars: The Card Game | Seasonal Tournament Kits & Store Championships & Regional Championships | place for newer players to experience organized tournaments and experienced players to try a new deck or alternative format, such as 2v2. Store Championships Store Championships kick off Organized Play each year in style. With Store Championships, you will find players of varying skill, more prizes than your weekly game night or league, and loads of fun. Store Championships are also a great chance to play in a more competitive event at your local store and vie for bragging rights and the title of Store Champion. Regional Championships Regional Championships are your chance to join a community that spans beyond |
Syrian Train and Equip Program | Planning and training & Deployment | Defense. The rebels were then outfitted with American equipment, and sent back over the border to Syria. Washington hoped to train an army of 15,000 rebels to fight ISIS.
Turkey allowed about 1,000 U.S. troops involved in the training program to enter Turkey. The United Kingdom announced in March 2015 that it would send 75 military trainers to Turkey as part of the U.S.-led effort. Deployment The first group of 154 men completed a training program in Jordan and Turkey, organised in the new Division 30 of the FSA, established specifically to fight ISIS, commanded by Colonel Nedim Hasan, a Turkmen |
The Invincible Armour | Plot | against Minister Cheng's orders to kill him. Hu Lung escapes during a confrontation between Chow and Shen Yu. Hu Lung confesses to his teacher that he was ordered to kill the Minister, and Hu Lung's teacher confronts Minister Cheng.
Chow learns Iron Finger to defeat the Invincible Armor technique from a boy and his sister but his training is cut short when Shen Yu arrives to arrest him again. He gives Chow three days to clear his name. Minister Chang's plot is eventually exposed and he is confronted by Chow, Shen Yu, and others. |
Stephen King-Hall | Life | He lived at Hartfield House, Headley until his death on 2 June 1966. |
Tampa International Airport | The 1971 Terminal | is known as the "Spirit of Flight". The jetliner was modeled after those once used for supersonic transport—at the time the logo was created in the 1970s, it was during an era when it was thought that supersonic aircraft would replace conventional jets as a mode of air travel.
On July 15, 1972, the 227-foot-tall (69 m) Air Traffic Control Tower opened, the tallest in the United States at the time. The Host/Marriott Airport Hotel and its revolving rooftop restaurant opened in December 1973, with triple-paned windows and sound-proof guest rooms.
Northwest Airlines and National Airlines brought the jumbo jet to the airport |
Surface Hill Uniting Church | Description | internally. The lofty space of the interior has a vaulted ceiling lined in timber VJ boarding braced with timber ribs and punctuated with ceiling roses with timber fretwork. Light fittings and ceiling fans are suspended from the ceiling on stiff rods. Lancet windows infilled with diamond-patterned leadlight with glass in pale tones are located along the side walls and the southern elevation has an arrangement of four similar windows highset in the wall, flanked by two stained glass rose windows. Most of the windows are now framed in aluminium.
The church is entered via two doors which lead into a small, |
Tasmannia purpurascens | Description & Taxonomy and naming | long. Fleshy, purplish-black, oval-shaped berries around 10–15 mm (0.4–0.6 in) long are seen around Easter time. Taxonomy and naming The broad-leaved pepperbush was first formally described in 1937 by Joyce Vickery who gave it the name Drimys purpurascens and published the description in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. In 1969, Albert Smith transferred the species to Tasmannia based on its chromosome number of 13, compared to 43 in most others in Drimys. The specific epithet (purpurascens) is derived from the Latin word purpureus meaning "purple" with the suffix -escens meaning "becoming" referring to the reddish-purple base of the |
The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires | Gameplay | The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires Gameplay The player controls the eponymous Mr. Weems, the bespectacled protagonist who must wander through the six level, vampire-infested maze. The player fights vampires using his garlic gun. There is also a garlic pill which makes Mr. Weems immune from attack for a while. He also has to collect keys to open locked doors which block access to higher levels. The objective of the game is to reach the lair of the Great She Vampire and defeat her using a stake, mallet, mega-garlic piece, mirror and crucifix. |
The Butter Battle Book | Censorship and analysis | the proper side on which to butter bread.
On the other hand, Roger S. Clark, a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, argued in an article in the New York Law School Law Review that "The Butter Battle Book ... captures the arms race and the development of weapons of war. ... The book struck such a chord with me when it came out in 1984 (which was also Seuss’s eightieth birthday). Something Orwellian about the timing! While its message is timeless, I suspect Seuss was well aware of the context he was writing in. It was a time when |
Tax incentive | Individual incentives & Historical preservation tax incentive | to counter balance investment disincentives stemming from the normal tax system. Others use the incentives to equalize disadvantages to investing such as complicated laws and insufficient infrastructure. Historical preservation tax incentive Not all tax incentives are structured for individuals or corporations, as some tax incentives are meant to help the welfare of the society. For example, the historical preservation tax incentive. The US federal government pushes, in many situations, to preserve historical buildings. One way the government does so is through tax incentives for the rehabilitation of historic buildings. The tax incentives to preserve the historic buildings can |
Stangenwald Building | null | physician and pioneer photographer who arrived in Honolulu in 1853. In 1869, he bought the 5,303-square-foot (492.7 m²) property and built his medical offices there, in partnership with Dr. Gerrit P. Judd next door. Not long before he died in 1899, he leased the land to a group who planned a fine structure to match the quality of the Judd Building (1898) next door, designed by Oliver G. Traphagen, who had just arrived from Duluth, Minnesota. |
T. T. Krishnamachari | Early life & Political life | T. T. Krishnamachari Early life Krishnamachar was born in 1899 into a Brahmin family in the city of Madras (now Chennai). His father was a judge in the High Court. T.T.Krishnamachari studied his school in Dharma murthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty's Hindu Higher Secondary School, & later graduated from Madras Christian College. He founded TTK group, an Indian business conglomerate famous for its Prestige brand, in the year 1928. Political life Krishnamachari was initially elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly as an independent member, and later joined the Congress. In 1946, he was made a member of the Constituent |
The Fountainhead (film) | Writing | in which individuals and new ideas of architecture are not accepted, and all buildings must be constructed "like Greek temples, Gothic cathedrals, and mongrels of every ancient style they could borrow", as Roark's patron Henry Cameron puts it in his deathbed speech. Rand's screenplay, among other things, criticized the Hollywood film industry and its self-imposed mandate to "give the public what it wants". Roark, in his architecture, refuses to give in to this demand "by the public". He refuses to work in any way that compromises his integrity and in which he would succumb to "popular taste". In a similar |
Temple of Monte Grisa | null | the temple. In 2010 restoration works took place, because the concrete had suffered from alkali-silica reaction. |
Tarpeia (crater) | null | Tarpeia (crater) Tarpeia is a crater on the asteroid 4 Vesta located at 69.5°S and 29°E, within the ridged and grooved terrain of Vesta's southern hemisphere. It has a diameter of 41 km. It is irregularly shaped and has a sharp, fresh rim. It contains many small craters less than a kilometer across and its steep slopes shows brilliant layers of minerals.
It was named after Tarpeia, a maiden from Roman mythology, on 27 December 2011. |
The Battle of the Somme (film) | Britain | than two thousand cinemas in Britain, earning over £30,000.
British authorities showed the film to the public as a morale-booster and in general it met with a favourable reception. The Times reported on 22 August that
Crowded audiences ... were interested and thrilled to have the realities of war brought so vividly before them, and if women had sometimes to shut their eyes to escape for a moment from the tragedy of the toll of battle which the film presents, opinion seems to be general that it was wise that the people at home should have this glimpse of what our soldiers |
TU (Time Unit) | null | operating a phase-locked loop or digital divider to divide such a clock signal by 1000).
One time unit is equal to one millionth of a kibisecond (1 TU = 10⁻⁶ Kis). |
The Blackhouse Foundation | Board Members | the 21st Century Foundation.
Pauline Fischer is the VP of digital content acquisition for Netflix. She has contributed to Paramount Pictures projects as well. She is a graduate of Harvard University and UCLA.
Gordon Bobb is a partner at Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano. He has been associates at Kaye Scholer LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He graduated from Georgetown University and received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law.
Datari Turner is an actor, writer, and producer. He has produced over 50 hours of programming for We TV (U.S. TV channel), TV One (U.S. TV network), |
Steve Weissman | Personal | Steve Weissman Personal Weissman is a D.C. native, a graduate of Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. |
Suyab | History | is favourable for red millet and for grapes; the woods are not thick, the climate is windy and cold; the people wear garments of twilled wool. Traveling from Suye westward, there are a great number of isolated towns; in each there is a chieftain; these are not dependent on one another, but all are in submission to the Tujue.
During the reign of Tong Yabgu Qaghan, Suyab was the principal capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate. The khagan also had a summer capital in Navekat near the springs north of Tashkent in the Talas Valley, the capitals are being noted as |
Texan sloop-of-war Austin | After Campeche & USS Austin | and subsequently all but three officers of the Texas Navy resigned. With no officers or seamen, Austin remained in port in Galveston. USS Austin After Texas was formally annexed into the United States in 1845, Austin was commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 11 May 1846 under the name USS Austin, the first ship of that name. She was in poor condition when towed to the Pensacola Navy Yard, where she was used as a receiving ship until, two years later in 1848, USS Austin was run aground and broken up. According to the commandant of the Pensacola Navy Yard, |
The Irish Rovers | Rover Records and touring | stage before Ian took over his father's spot.
The present line-up of George Millar, Wilcil McDowell, Ian Millar, Sean O'Driscoll, Fred Graham, Morris Crum, Geoffrey Kelly and Gerry O'Connor continues to tour Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
In 1993 the band formed their own record company, Rover Records, which allowed them artistic freedom that as a younger band they could not afford. George Millar continues to write songs for the band, with Rover Records producing their last sixteen albums including Celtic Collection, Come Fill Up Your Glasses, Down by the Lagan Side, Still Rovin' After All These Years, and |
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Happy Vertical People Transporter & Matter transference beams | before potential passengers realise they wanted a lift, thus saving them from having to wait around and make friends as they would have to do normally.
The one lift with a voice appears in Fit the Seventh of the radio series, voiced by David Tate. The lifts make cameo appearances of sorts in the radio series The Quintessential Phase and in the computer game Starship Titanic. Matter transference beams Matter-transference beams feature as the main means of teleportation encountered throughout the series—first used by a Dentrassi to transport Ford and Arthur onto a Vogon ship seconds before the Earth is destroyed. |
The Class (2008 film) | Reception | the present and future of France through the interactions of a teacher and his students in an inner-city high school." Metacritic lists Entre les murs with a rating of 92, making it one of the best reviewed films of the year according to the website.
The film was warmly reviewed by the critic Philip French who noted: "There is a remarkable French tradition of school films, extending from Jean Vigo's Zéro de Conduite, to Nicolas Philibert's Être et avoir. Laurent Cantet, whose parents were both teachers, carries it on and he elicits marvellous performances... As the teacher at a tough, racially |
The House Always Wins | Plot & Production details | inside the hotel, they freeze when they see Cordelia standing in the middle of the lobby; she does not recognize them. Production details This episode was filmed on location in Las Vegas. "We shot from six at night to six in the morning for five nights," recalls writer/producer David Fury. "It was like a movie shoot, we were real stars." The Tropicana Casino at which Lorne headlines is an actual casino on the Strip, although creative license was taken with its location and history. For example, as the group flees the guards, they exit the casino onto Fremont |
Stradivarius (horse) | 2017: three-year-old season | included US Army Ranger, Wicklow Brave (Irish St Leger), Sheikhzayedroad (Northern Dancer Turf Stakes), Pallasator (Doncaster Cup), Qewy (Geelong Cup), Higher Power (Northumberland Plate), High Jinx (Prix du Cadran) and Sweet Selection (Cesarewitch). After racing in mid-division as Big Orange led, Stradivarius began to make progress three furlongs out. He overtook the favourite approaching the final furlong and "stayed on strongly" to win by one and three quarter length with a gap of three and half lengths back to Desert Skyline in third. John Gosden commented "He's not the biggest of horses and it was a bit rough on |
The Class of '57 | Content | such as a classmate who ends up in a mental institution and another who, after having his wife leave him for a richer man, ends up taking his life. Reflecting real life, the lyrics also remember classmates they've lost track of ("where Mavis finally wound up is anybody's bet").
The chorus has the underlying theme of reflecting on high hopes and dreams when they leave high school, but all of a sudden life becomes more complicated when they become adults and that, as the years passed and sometimes life didn't pan out the way they hoped, that the world would change |
Tania Evans | Career | Tania Evans Career Evans' first release was the single "Can't Let Go" in 1992 on C.T Records. Shortly after, she replaced Lana Earl in Culture Beat and found immediate success with their single "Mr Vain", with Evans on vocals. "Mr Vain" became Culture Beat's most successful single, reaching No. 1 in 13 countries. Evans would also release the singles "Got to Get It", "Anything", "World in Your Hands", "Inside Out", "Crying in the Rain" (which she co-wrote), "Walk the Same Line" and "Take Me Away" with Culture Beat before she was replaced herself by Kim Sanders in 1997.
After leaving Culture |
Stephen Stewart | Rowing brothers & Club and state rowing | Stephen Stewart Rowing brothers Stephen's older twin brothers James Stewart and Geoff Stewart were three-time Olympians (1996, 2000, 2004) and each won two Olympic bronze medals. The trio of brothers became the first to represent Australia in rowing at the same Olympics when they all rowed together at Athens 2004 to a bronze medal in the men's eight. The brothers were all educated at Newington College (1984–1991), and took up rowing coached by Olympian and fellow Old Newingtonian Michael Morgan and deputy headmaster Robert Buntine. Club and state rowing Stephan Stewart's senior club rowing was from the UTS Haberfield Rowing |
Steve Young | Early years | Steve Young Early years Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Young attended Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he played quarterback on its Cardinals football team. He earned 1978 All-FCIAC West Division First Team honors in his junior year, his first year as a starter. In his senior year he rushed for 13 touchdowns and earned All-FCIAC West Division First Team honors, and was named to the CIAC All-State team. In the rush-first option offense run by Greenwich he completed only 41 percent of his throws for 1,220 yards, but ran the ball 267 times for 1,928 yards. On |
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Infinite Improbability Drive | of parties."
The Heart of Gold was the prototype ship for infinitely improbable travel. It is the Infinite Improbability Drive in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that saves Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from very probable death by asphyxiation in deep space after being thrown out of the Vogon ship; the improbable odds against being rescued being 2²⁷⁶⁷⁰⁹ to one; the superscripted number incidentally being the telephone number of the Islington flat where Arthur went to a fancy dress party and first met—and totally blew it with—Trillian (in the film, the superscripted number is "2079460347" instead). Incidentally, Adams explained in |
The Girl on the Boat | Historical Reference | Nova Scotia and sank with the loss of about 535 lives. As this disaster occurred 48 years before the publishing of the story, and 8 years before Wodehouse was born, it is unlikely that he knew about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Atlantic |
TG Viktoria Augsburg | History | TG Viktoria Augsburg History The club's roots are traced to an ancestor club ATV Augsburg which was established on 22 April 1897 and was renamed Turngemeinschaft Augsburg in 1919. In 1910 gymnasts from TV 1847 Augsburg and MTV Augsburg founded another club Fußballverein Viktoria Augsburg. FV won the Southern German cup in 1921. ATV was forced to fold in 1933 under the Nazi prohibition of faith-based and workers' clubs which were deemed politically unacceptable. Due to wartime conditions, FV closed down in 1939 and did not re-open until 1946, when it was merged with a refounded TG Augsburg to become |
Surface Hill Uniting Church | History | Indeed, mining was still taking place all over Surface Hill at this time, a whim is visible in a photo of the opening ceremony of the brick church in 1890 and at several points in time the church had to pay for shafts to be filled in for safety reasons.
In 1870, a full-time minister was appointed and two rooms and a verandah were added to the parsonage. By 1879, the parsonage was in a dilapidated condition and fund-raising began for the construction of a new one, which was completed in 1880. In 1889, Mathew Mellor, a prominent member of the |
The Fountainhead (film) | Release and reception & Box οffice & Legacy | and inept movie that has come out of Hollywood in years." Cue described it as "shoddy, bombastic nonsense". Bosley Crowther, in his review for The New York Times, called the film "wordy, involved and pretentious" and characterized Vidor's work as a "vast succession of turgid scenes". Box οffice According to Warner Bros records the film earned $2,179,000 domestically and $807,000 foreign. Legacy In more recent years, The Fountainhead has been reappraised and has an overall approval rating of 83% at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from a wide range of critics. Emanuel Levy described the |
Sterilization League of New Jersey | null | Sterilization League of New Jersey The Sterilization League of New Jersey (SLNJ) organization was founded in 1937 by Marion Stephenson Olden (1888–1989), a eugenics-minded social worker and wife of Princeton professor Paul R. Coleman-Norton (Dowbiggin, 2008, p. 36), with the purpose "to aid in the preparation, promotion, enactment and enforcement of legislative measures designed to provide for the improvement of the human stock by the selective sterilization of the mentally defective and of those afflicted with inherited or inheritable physical disease.”
Encouraged by the eugenic sterilization legislation enacted by the state of Georgia in 1937, the SLNJ lobbied intensely, although |
The Judas Tree | Plot & Theme & Film versions | having a suffering conscience, and in hindsight merely took steps in the wrong direction. Theme Betrayal is the dominant theme of The Judas Tree. Here despite and because of the protagonist, a pattern of betrayal is repeated. David betrayed Mary, Doris, his religion, and himself. These betrayals demanded - in Cronin's narrative - the ultimate price, which is death. Film versions The 1975 Hindi film, Mausam, directed by Gulzar and starring Sharmila Tagore and Sanjeev Kumar, is loosely based on Cronin's novel. |
Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law | Growth and Economy | claimed tax revenues grew by 18.2%, "exceeding the 9.7 percent nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth."
Departments that saw immediate benefits from Package 1 include the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs, both with a 14.2% and 24.7% increase in revenue. This translates to a total of Php423.1 billion and Php129.8 for both departments respectively. Other government departments were able to expand their investment and growths during the first quarter as well due to the increase in income.
Insofar as expenditures go for the first quarter of 2018, the total amounted to Php782.0 billion, growing by 27.1%, which also outstripped |
Terai | Ethnic groups | eastern Terai in Nepal. Bhojpuris reside in the central and eastern Terai, and Awadhis live in the central and western Terai. Bantawa people reside foremost in two districts of the eastern Terai in Nepal.
Following the malaria eradication program using DDT in the 1960s, a large and heterogeneous non-Tharu population settled in the Nepal Terai.Pahari people from the mid-hills including Bahun, Chhetri and Newar moved to the plains in search of arable land. In the rural parts of the Nepal Terai, distribution and value of land determine economic hierarchy to a large extent. High caste migrants from the hills and traditional |
The Fountainhead (film) | Plot | to keep others out. He now leads a campaign against The Banner's new policy that all but kills the newspaper. Faced with losing, Wynand saves The Banner by bringing back Toohey's gang, joining the rest in publicly condemning Roark.
Calling no witnesses, Roark addresses the court on his own behalf. He makes a long and eloquent speech defending his right to offer his own work on his own terms. He is found innocent of the charges against him. A guilt-stricken Wynand summons the architect. He coldly presents him with a contract to design The Wynand Building, to be the greatest structure |
Sworn Enemy | Biography | CBGB.
Sworn Enemy's signed a release deal with Elektra Records in 2003. The result was As Real As It Gets. The band changed their style as the CD featured a large thrash metal influence, as well as abrasive, near-black metal. The new style and worldwide distribution led to tours with bands such as Anthrax as well as a stint on Ozzfest that year.
The Beginning Of The End was released on Abacus Records, a division of Century Media focusing on underground metal and hardcore inspired bands. The new record displayed more thrash influence, and was immediately followed with a national tour with |
The Feign'd Curtizans | Summary | identities are revealed. Fillamour professes his love for Marcella, who agrees to marry him after Octavio renounces his claim. Galliard and Cornelia also become engaged. Julio, who had made an oath of marriage to “Silvianetta,” discovers he has actually sworn himself to his already bride-to-be, Laura Lucretia. |
Tawiah M'carthy | Biography | Tawiah M'carthy Biography Born in Accra, Ghana, M'Carthy moved to Canada at the age of 14, living first in Merritt, British Columbia and later in Scarborough, Ontario. He studied theatre at York University, writing his first play The Kente Cloth and staging it at Toronto's SummerWorks festival during this time. Obaaberima had its roots in a poem that he submitted to the Young Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times theatre. The play premiered at Buddies in September 2012, under the direction of Evalyn Parry.
He garnered two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Obaaberima in 2013, for both Outstanding New |
Striding Folly | null | his relation to Sayers' life, and including a previously unpublished letter of Sayers to Victor Gollancz. |
Tarnobrzeg County | Neighbouring counties | Tarnobrzeg County Neighbouring counties Apart from the city of Tarnobrzeg, Tarnobrzeg County is also bordered by Sandomierz County to the north, Stalowa Wola County to the east, Kolbuszowa County and Mielec County to the south, and Staszów County to the west. |
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Background | as "a flaming fascist". However, they were omitted from the final recording because MacDonald felt they were too heavy-handed and obvious. When they performed the song on The Joan Rivers Show in 1989, the third verse they sang was similar to the former omitted verse.
Similarly, the group's EP Looks Like Dark to Me contains a slower version of the song with an additional verse, making clear the dark nature of the song's intent:
Blowin' up the lab,
Blowin' the professor,
Torn between two evils,
I always pick the lesser.
That same EP's title track also refers back to this song:
The future's been bright for so |
The Five-Storied Pagoda | Adaptations | do the web sites for the movies give any sort of summary or introduction. See the links below for more information on the movies.
The drama has far more information on it than the movies. Released in 2009, it was directed by Atsushi Funahashi and is widely popular among critics. It was chosen as BEST 10 in the 2010 issue of FILM COMMENT. Here is a synopsis from the website:
Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka (part of old downtown Tokyo) with a Japanese period drama based on Five-Story Pagoda, a classic literary work by |
The Odessa File | Plot | reduced to begging for his life. Instead of killing him, however, Miller handcuffs Roschmann to the fireplace and says he plans to have him arrested and prosecuted.
Miller is caught off guard when Roschmann's bodyguard returns to the house, disarms him and knocks him unconscious. The bodyguard drives to the village in Miller's car to telephone for help, but is killed when he drives over a snow-covered pole, an impact hard enough to trigger the bomb. Roschmann manages to escape, eventually flying to Argentina. The hitman who has been sent to kill Miller is instead killed by an Israeli agent, 'Josef'.
While |
Stradivarius (horse) | 2017: three-year-old season & 2018: four-year-old season | finished third behind Order of St George and Torcedor, beaten a length by the winner.
In the 2017 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Stradivarius was given a rating of 118, making him the 90th best racehorse in the world. 2018: four-year-old season On his first appearance as a four-year-old Stradivarius started 4/6 favourite for the Yorkshire Cup over one and three quarter miles at York Racecourse. Ridden by Dettori he took the lead in the last quarter mile and accelerated away from his rivals to win "readily" by three lengths from Desert Skyline. After the race Dettori said "He's a star - |
The Five-Storied Pagoda | Main characters | gospel in its ultimate religious merit.” (Pagoda, Skull and Samurai: Three Stories by Kōda Rohan, 16)
Genta of Kawagoe
The strict master carpenter possessing both skill and status. Both in his mien and his looks, he is a man of masculine charm who inspires anyone's admiration (41). He rebuilt the Kanno temple and did such an impressive job that he was considered for the building pagoda. He admires Jūbei's dedication and skill, and after hearing the story from the Abott he suggests they work on the pagoda together as chief and assistant, and upon Jūbei's refusal Genta offers to take the role |
Stradivarius (horse) | Background & 2016: two-year-old season | Pawneese. 2016: two-year-old season Stradivarius made his racecourse debut in a maiden race over eight and a half furlongs at Nottingham Racecourse on 5 October in which he started at odds of 3/1 and finished fifth of the nine runners behind Contrapposto. Two weeks later, in a similar event over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse he ran fourth behind his stablemate Cracksman. On 7 November the colt stated favourite for a one-mile maiden on the synthetic tapeta track at Newcastle Racecourse. Ridden as on his debut by Robert Havlin he led for most of the way and rallied after being |
Tampa International Airport | Terminals | automated people mover (APM) system which employs 16 Bombardier Innovia APM 100 Shuttle Cars. TPA was the first airport in the world to deploy a fully automated, driver-free people mover system and is host to Bombardier Transportation's longest-running APM system. The terminal was originally designed to limit the walking distance between the automobile and airliner to 700 feet (210 m); today, it has increased to about 1,000 feet (300 m), due mostly in part to the larger, more modern airside buildings which have replaced the original, smaller structures.
In contrast to a similar landside/airside terminal design used at Orlando International Airport, passengers must |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Adaptation | and a Golden Globe for best actress. The film's music and sound both won BAFTAs, despite not winning the Oscar. Pinter was nominated for a Golden Globe for best script and the work as a whole in the category Best Motion Picture – Drama.
During 2006, a stage version by Mark Healy toured the UK.
Also in 2006, BBC Radio 4 produced an adaptation of two one-hour episodes, starring John Hurt as the narrator. |
Teshima | History | Teshima Teshima (豊島) is an island located in the Inland Sea of Japan, between Naoshima and Shōdoshima islands, and is part of Kagawa Prefecture. It has an area of 14.5 square kilometres (5.6 square miles) and a population of about 1,000 people.
Teshima is one of the locations of the Setouchi Triennale, also known as the Setouchi International Art Festival. History Teshima has been inhabited for 14,000 years.
The island was the subject of a scandal in which 600,000 tons of toxic waste were illegally dumped on the island. In 2000, after a 25-year legal battle, the waste was transported to Naoshima |
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Supernova bomb | itself around the idyllic planet Krikkit, isolating it from the rest of the universe, and gradually re-engineered its society until they could recreate the bomb and fulfill Hactar's program. The Krikkiters were defeated in the Krikkit Wars, racial memories of which would lead to the invention of the game cricket on Earth. Billions of years later, they built Hactar's flawed bomb and tried to deploy it, leading to their discovery of the computer's influence on their evolution. Trillian noted that it was impossible for the Krikkiters to be smart enough to build this weapon on their own, yet stupid enough |
The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance | Plot & Style | The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance Plot In Ireland in 1902, Count Marnak invites a troupe of actors to perform at his island castle. He is stunned by how much Evelyn, the lead actress, resembles his dead wife. They begin an affair, but suddenly one by one, the inhabitants of the castle are turning up decapitated. The count fears that an old family curse is responsible for the grisly slayings. Style Sometimes described as a giallo, The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance contains mysterious murders, but killing take place offscreen and lacks the gialli stylish depictions of death and lacks the psychedelic |
The Bible Code: Saving the World | null | the Third World War didn't begin in 2006 as Drosnin had suggested in The Bible Code II. These events did not occur, casting serious doubt on the whole paradigm. |
The Judas Tree | Plot | only failed his first love, but also her daughter, resulting in her death. It is not so much ironic as it is illustrative of the span of time in which he has made similar choices with consequences. The following morning his butler sees his body hanging from the tree.
Previously in the book, a Judas tree was referred to as "The Tree of Lost Souls." Some might assume David has realized at the end that he is a lost soul after having inflicted such misery on others due to his lack of morality. Others might infer the character is moral, clearly |
Sue Petersen | Early life and education & Career | Sue Petersen Early life and education Petersen was born on September 6, 1944 and spent her childhood in Torrington, Connecticut. She ventured into sports as a high school cheerleader in Long Beach, California before becoming a legal secretary in Jacksonville, North Carolina upon her 1966 marriage. For her post-secondary education, Petersen studied physical education at Saddleback College and California State University Long Beach during the late 1970s. Career Petersen began running alongside her husband at a 1976 marathon in Los Alamitos, California. While continuing to run in California, Petersen's first World Marathon Majors appearance was a 11th place finish at |