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Neon sign
In the signage industry, neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases. They are the most common use for neon lighting, which was first demonstrated in a modern form in December 1910 by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

While they are used worldwide, neon signs were popular in the United States from about the 1920s to 1950s. The installations in Times Square, many originally designed by Douglas Leigh, were famed, and there were nearly 2,000 small shops producing neon signs by 1940. In addition to signage, neon lighting is used frequently by artists and architects, and (in a modified form) in plasma display panels and televisions. The signage industry has declined in the past several decades, and cities are now concerned with preserving and restoring their antique neon signs.

Light emitting diode arrays can be formed and covered with a light diffuser to simulate the appearance of neon lamps.

Plasma display
A plasma display panel is a type of flat-panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions were the first large (over 32 inches/81 cm diagonal) flat-panel displays to be released to the public.

Until about 2007, plasma displays were commonly used in large televisions. By 2013, they had lost nearly all market share due to competition from low-cost liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Manufacturing of plasma displays for the United States retail market ended in 2014, and manufacturing for the Chinese market ended in 2016. Plasma displays are obsolete, having been superseded in most if not all aspects by OLED displays.

Competing display technologies include cathode-ray tube (CRT), organic light-emitting diode (OLED), CRT projectors, AMLCD, digital light processing (DLP), SED-tv, LED display, field emission display (FED), and quantum dot display (QLED).
Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second
Per Second, Per Second, Per Second ... Every Second is the third and (so far) only major-label album by Wheat. It was released on Aware Records via a distribution deal with Columbia Records in November 2003.

Wheat (band)
Wheat is an American indie rock band formed by Scott Levesque (vocals, guitar), Brendan Harney (drums, vocals), Ricky Brennan Jr. (guitar, vocals), and Kenny Madaras (bass) in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1996.
CNES
CNES (French: Centre national d'études spatiales, lit. 'National Centre for Space Studies') is the French national space agency. Headquartered in central Paris, the agency is overseen by the ministries of the Armed Forces, Economy and Finance and Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

It operates from the Toulouse Space Centre and the Guiana Space Centre. The president of CNES is François Jacq. CNES is a member of Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies. It is Europe's largest national organization of its type.

Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies
The Institut au service du spatial, de ses applications et technologies (ISSAT) (in English Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies), is a French association supported by French Ministry of Education, created in 1995 in order to develop the aerospace activities in Toulouse and to help developing the knowledge of aerospace in France and Europe
Great Strickland
Great Strickland is a village and civil parish in the Eden Valley between the Cumbrian mountains in the west and the Pennines in the east.  It is 5 miles (8.0 km) south east of Penrith, and is in the former county of Westmorland. At the 2011 Census Great Strickland was grouped with Little Strickland, itself enlarged to include Thrimby after 2001, to give a total population of 370. The equivalent figure from the 2001 census was 342.

The sandstone village church is dedicated to Saint Barnabas and was constructed in 1872.  It has a bell turret.

To the west of the village lies the River Leith, the West Coast Main Line and the M6 Motorway. To the south lies the small settlement of Little Strickland.

Strickland Coat of Arms

St Barnabas' Church, Great Strickland

Thrimby
Thrimby is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Little Strickland, in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Thrimby was 30. The population measured at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the parish of Great Strickland. It has a Grade 2* farmhouse called Thrimby Hall, as seen in series 4 of the BBC Two fly-on-the-wall farming documentary "This Farming Life".
Sagichō Fire Festival
The Sagichō Fire Festival  (Japanese: 左義長), also called Dondoyaki (Japanese: どんど焼き) or by other names, is a festival celebrated in Japan, usually on January 14 or 15. During this local event, town or village residents burn their gate pine and other New Year's decorations, as well as to pray for good fortune in the new year. Some Sagichō festivals are held at Shinto shrines.

The Sagichō fire festival has been celebrated in Japan since at least the 13th century, as it is mentioned in monk Kenkō's Tsurezuregusa. Because it used to be celebrated on January 14 or 15 in the lunar calendar, its origin may have been related to the Lantern Festival in China.

Some Sagichō fire festivals that have become famous as tourist attractions are: the Dōsojin Fire Festival celebrated in Nozawaonsen, Nagano; the Sagicho Fire Festival held on the seacoast in Oiso, Kanagawa; etc.

This festival is also celebrated at Japanese Shintoist shrines overseas, such as the Hilo Daijingu (ヒロ大神宮) in Hilo, Hawaii.

Nozawaonsen
Nozawaonsen (野沢温泉村, Nozawaonsen-mura) is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2019, the village had an estimated population of 3,653 in 1,395 households and a population density of 63 persons per km². The total area of the village is 57.96 square kilometres (22.38 sq mi).
Priozersk, Kazakhstan
Priozersk is a closed city located on the northern shores of Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan. It serves as the administrative center of Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile testing site.

Priozersk is located in Karaganda Region (central Kazakhstan), approximately 620 kilometers to the south-east of the Karaganda and 747 kilometers from Astana. The Cambala Airport lies in the suburbs.

Population: 13,479 (2009 census results); 11,033 (1999 census results). By nationality, the city is 46% Russian, 39% Kazakh, 6% Ukrainian, and 9% other.  The town is closed to visits by foreign citizens.

Karaganda Region
Karaganda Region is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda. The region borders Akmola and Pavlodar Region to the north; Abai Region to the east; Jetisu, Almaty, and Zhambyl Regions to the south; and Kostanay and Ulytau regions to the west.

In 2022, the western parts of this region was split off and became the Ulytau Region.
Shut 'Em Down (album)
Shut 'Em Down is the third studio album by American hip hop group Onyx, released on June 2, 1998, by JMJ Records and Def Jam. The album was produced by Keith Horne and Self, with help from DJ Scratch of EPMD, Bud'da and Latief. The album features guest appearances from Onyx's affiliate X1, DMX, a then-unknown 50 Cent, Still Livin from Gang Green, All City, Mr. Cheeks, Wu-Tang Clan, N.O.R.E., Big Pun and others.

Shut 'Em Down debuted at number 10 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and number 3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and sold 90,000 copies in its first week. The album features three the Billboard singles The Worst, Shut 'Em Down and React. The album sold fairly well, moving over 500,000 units.

"Shut 'Em Down" was the last album released by Onyx on Def Jam / JMJ Records, and Onyx were also officially removed from Def Jam on "Black Thursday" - January 21, 1999 - because the label PolyGram, who in 1994 purchased 50% of Sony's Def Jam, was sold to Seagram on December 10, 1998.

JMJ Records
JMJ Records was an American record label which was founded in 1985 by Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay from Run-D.M.C. The label was relaunched in 2017 by Jam Master J'Son, the oldest son of Jam Master Jay. The label released such artists as The Afros, Fam-Lee, Onyx, Jayo Felony, Suga and 50 Cent. The label closed in 2002 after the murder of its founder. Throughout the duration of its existence, JMJ Records has released 6 studio albums and about 25 singles.
Berck
Berck (French pronunciation: [bɛʁk]), sometimes referred to as Berck-sur-Mer in French or Berck-su-Mér in Picard (transl. Berck on Sea), is a commune in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais.

Situated on the English Channel immediately north the mouth of the river Authie, Berck boasts over 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) of sandy beaches and grass-topped dunes, and since the middle of the 19th century it has been a destination for convalescents and vacationers.

Pas-de-Calais
The Pas-de-Calais (French: [pɑ d(ə) kalɛ] ⓘ, 'strait of Calais'; Picard: Pas-Calés; Dutch: Nauw van Calais) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 887, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel.
The Silent Flyer
The Silent Flyer is a 1926 10-episode (chapter) American adventure film serial directed by William James Craft.  The film serial was sold to Universal Pictures for $75,000 with the resulting funds used in the founding of Mascot Pictures.

Mascot Pictures
Mascot Pictures Corporation was an American film company of the 1920s and 1930s, best known for producing and distributing film serials and B-westerns.  Mascot was formed in 1927 by film producer Nat Levine.  In 1935, it merged with several other companies to form Republic Pictures.

Mascot's serial The King of the Kongo (1929) was the first serial to include sound, beating Universal Studios by several months.

The company's logo featured a roaring tiger resting on top of a model of the planet Earth.
Sykes' monkey
Sykes' monkey (Cercopithecus mitis albogularis) is a subspecies of the blue monkey. As it used to be considered a species of its own with a dozen subspecies, it has several alternative common names. It is an Old World monkey found within Kenya and Tanzania. It is named after English naturalist Colonel William Henry Sykes (1790-1872), and has a large white patch on the throat and upper chest, and a grizzled (not blackish) cap. The species was described on the basis of a specimen in captivity that had been brought to Bombay aboard a ship.

William Henry Sykes
Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS (25 January 1790 – 16 June 1872) was an English naturalist who served with the British military in India and was specifically known for his work with the Indian Army as a politician, Indologist and ornithologist. One of the pioneers of the Victorian statistical movement, a founder of the Royal Statistical Society, he conducted surveys and examined the efficiency of army operation. Returning from service in India, he became a director of the East India Company and a member of parliament representing Aberdeen.
Joseph Schmidt Confections
Joseph Schmidt Confections was a San Francisco-based chocolatier, which created gourmet confections with imported Belgian chocolate. The line of confections included truffles of various sizes, slicks, and mosaics. Joseph Schmidt confections ceased operations in 2009.

Chocolate truffle
A chocolate truffle is a French chocolate confectionery traditionally made with a chocolate ganache center and coated in cocoa powder, coconut, or chopped nuts. A chocolate truffle is handrolled into a spherical or ball shape. The name derives from the chocolate truffle's similarity in appearance to truffles, a tuber fungus.
Nawaloka Hospital
Nawaloka Hospital, traded as Nawaloka Hospitals PLC, was established in 1985 by Deshamanya H. K. Dharmadasa. Nawaloka Hospital is one of Sri Lanka's largest private hospitals and has created a chain of hospitals across the country. It is also the first hospital in Sri Lanka to introduce Intensive Care Units, Coronary Care Units, Laparoscopic Surgery and Thoracic Surgery.

H. K. Dharmadasa
Deshamanya Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa (17 June 1920 – 10 August 2011), known as Navaloka Mudalali, was a business magnate, philanthropist and chairman of the Navaloka Group of companies. It is one of the leading private sector organizations in Sri Lanka. He was a philanthropist and the Nawaloka Hospital was his brainchild in the health sector.
Nathaniel Massie
Nathaniel Massie (December 28, 1763 – November 13, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country (including the Virginia Military District) who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded fourteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital, Chillicothe. In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election for governor, but he refused the office.

Chillicothe, Ohio
Chillicothe (/ˌtʃɪlɪˈkɒθi/ CHIL-ih-KOTH-ee) is a city in Ross County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 22,059 at the 2020 census. Located along the Scioto River 45 miles (72 km) south of Columbus, Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio. It is the only city in Ross County and the center of the Chillicothe micropolitan area, which is a part of the Columbus, Ohio Combined Statistical Area. Chillicothe is a designated Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Lobo Ismail
Ismail Salah Ismail Loub (in Arabic إسماعيل صلاح إسماعيل لوب), better known by his stage name Lobo Ismail (in Arabic لوبو إسماعيل) or just Lobo (Arabic لوبو) (born in Zarqa, Jordan on 11 August 1974), is a Jordanian singer who lives in Slovakia.

Zarqa
Zarqa (Arabic: الزرقاء) is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue (city)". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.
GE Universal Series
The GE Universal Series is a series of diesel locomotives intended for the export market introduced by General Electric in early 1956. General Electric had previously partnered with Alco, producing locomotives for export using Alco's 244 engine, and provided electrical parts for Alco's domestic production. However, with the advent of the Universal Series, GE ended its partnership with Alco and entered the export locomotive market on its own.

The export-oriented Universal Series should not be confused with the "U-Boats" for the North American market, which began with the U25B. Universal Series locomotives can be identified by the lack of battery boxes usually found under North American locomotives' cabins

GE Transportation
GE Transportation is a division of Wabtec. It was known as GE Rail and owned by General Electric until merged into Wabtec on February 25, 2019. The organization manufactures equipment for the railroad, marine, mining, drilling and energy generation industries. The company was founded in 1907. It is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while its main manufacturing facility is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. Locomotives are assembled at the Erie plant, while engine manufacturing takes place in Grove City, Pennsylvania. In May 2011, the company announced plans to build a second locomotive factory in Fort Worth, Texas, which opened in January 2013.
Now (Ash Grunwald album)
Now is the eighth studio album by Australian blues musician Ash Grunwald. The album  was released in September 2015, peaking at number 52 on the ARIA Charts.

Grunwald called the album "modern psychedelic, sci-fi, swamp rock, blues album, if there is such a thing".

Ash Grunwald
Ash Grunwald (born Ashley Mark Groenewald, 5 September 1976) is an Australian blues musician. He has released nine studio albums and has received five nominations for ARIA Music Awards. Five albums have charted in the ARIA Albums Chart top 50; Fish out of Water (2008), Hot Mama Vibes (2010), Trouble's Door (2012), Gargantua (2013) and Mojo (2019).
Tracy, Iowa
Tracy is an unincorporated community in eastern Marion County, Iowa, United States.  It lies along local roads east of the city of Knoxville, the county seat of Marion County.  Its elevation is 784 feet (239 m).  Although Tracy is unincorporated, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 50256, which opened on 31 January 1876.

Marion County, Iowa
Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,414. The county seat is Knoxville. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War.
Notok
NOTOK is the eighth single by Japanese rock band Hitorie. The digital version was released on November 6, 2024, with the CD releasing on November 27. It is the first release since their fourth studio album, HOWLS, to feature wowaka's vocals, due to his death two months after its release. The cover art was created by Fullkawa Honpo, a close friend of wowaka who also created the cover art for his debut vocaloid album, Unhappy Refrain. The song is included on the band's seventh album, Friend Chord, with Shinoda as the vocalist.

Wowaka
Wowaka (stylized as wowaka, Japanese: ヲワカ; 4 November 1987 – 5 April 2019), also known as Genjitsutouhi-P (現実逃避P), was a Japanese singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is frequently ranked among the most influential Vocaloid producers of the 2000s and of all time.

Wowaka began his career in 2009 with the single "In the Gray Zone". His breakthrough year came in 2011, in which he co-founded the record label Balloom, formed the band Hitorie, and released his debut Vocaloid album Unhappy Refrain. The record peaked at number six on the Oricon Charts and remained on the charts for thirteen weeks. It also received international acclaim and a cult following in the genre.

For the rest of his lifetime, Wowaka continued performing with Hitorie as a lead vocalist and guitarist. On 5 April 2019, he died due to heart failure.
Marie-Louise Jaÿ
Marie-Louise Jaÿ (1 July 1838 – 27 December 1925) was a French businesswoman who started work as a shop girl. 
With her husband Ernest Cognacq she created the La Samaritaine store in Paris, which grew into a chain of large department stores.
Innovations included good lighting, clearly marked fixed prices, and allowing customers to pick out their own clothes and try them on before buying.
The couple were active in philanthropic work, and gave out bonuses for large families during the population crisis that followed World War I (1914–18).

La Samaritaine
La Samaritaine (French pronunciation: [la samaʁitɛn]) is a large department store in the first arrondissement of Paris, France. The nearest metro station is Pont-Neuf. Established in 1870 by Ernest Cognacq, it is now owned by the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH. (through Groupe Bon Marché)
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia is a 2020 American anthology film written and directed by the Daniels, Hannah Fidell, Alexa Lim Haas, Lucas Leyva, Olivia Lloyd, Phil Lord, Jillian Mayer, The Meza Brothers, Terence Nance, Brett Potter, Dylan Redford, Xander Robin, Julian Yuri Rodriguez, and Celia Rowlson-Hall. The film is made up of several different stories chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot (14 m) TopGun Cigarette boat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It was Robert Redford's final film role before his death in 2025.

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia premiered on January 26, 2020 at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the NEXT category. The film received mixed reviews, though critics praised the film's originality.

Lucas Leyva
Lucas Leyva (born October 25, 1986) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed multiple acclaimed short films (often in collaboration with visual artist Jillian Mayer), as well as several music videos for bands such as Arcade Fire, Jacuzzi Boys, and Hundred Waters. Leyva is the founder of the Borscht Film Festival and the Borscht Corporation.
Cinemaya
Cinemaya (a blend of cinema and maya (illusion)) is a film magazine established in 1988 devoted exclusively to coverage of Asian film. It is published in New Delhi, India, and distributed internationally. The present editor-in-chief of Cinemaya is Aruna Vasudev, noted film journalist. Its goals are to promote Asian filmmaking internationally and to help Asian national cinemas gain wider international recognition.

In 1990, in collaboration with UNESCO it founded the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, an association of film professionals based in Singapore which presents annual awards for greatest Asian achievements in filmmaking at selected film festivals around the world.

Cinefan or Cinemaya Festival of Asian Cinema, now known as Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, began in 1999 as an outgrowth of Cinemaya, and was later taken over by the Osian's Connoisseurs of Art of Neville Tuli

Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema
Osian's-Cinefan was one of Asia's leading film festivals devoted to Asian and Arab cinema, and was part of Osian's Film House Division. The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in July 2008. After a two-year break, the 12th staging of the festival took place in July 2012. It has been discontinued since.
2024 Stevenage Borough Council election
The 2024 Stevenage Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. All 39 members of Stevenage Borough Council in Hertfordshire were elected following boundary changes.

The election saw the Conservatives nearly wiped out of the council entirely, with them only holding onto one seat in Woodfield. All of their other seats went to the Labour Party. The Liberal Democrats held on to all their seats, becoming the official opposition in Stevenage. No other party made any notable impact or gains in the results.

Woodfield ward saw the rare outcome where two candidates drew on the number of received votes. Labour candidate Robert Boyle and incumbent Conservative councillor Margaret Notley both received 571 votes and had to draw lots to determine who won, with Robert winning.

Stevenage Borough Council
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Stevenage Borough Council is the local authority for Stevenage, a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England. The council has been under Labour majority control since 1974. It is based at Daneshill House on Danestrete.
Big Gold Dream
Big Gold Dream is a 2015 film documenting the story of Scotland's post-punk scene, focusing on record labels Fast Product and Postcard Records. Directed by filmmaker Grant McPhee, the film's name is taken from the 1981 Fire Engines single of the same name, the final release on the Pop Aural label.

The film won the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award and was followed by another music documentary in 2017 called Teenage Superstars, which was about acts associated with Creation Records and the 53rd & 3rd label.

The Fire Engines
The Fire Engines were a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland. They were initially active between 1979 and 1981. Their first single was the "Get Up And Use Me" / "Everything's Roses", released on the Codex Communications label in 1980, which was given 'Single of the Week' in both NME and Sounds. The band signed to Fast Product and issued further singles and a largely instrumental album, Lubricate Your Living Room (1981) on Fast subsidiary Pop:Aural.

They reformed for concerts between 2004 and 2006, and again in 2017. The Fire Engines were an influence on many bands that followed, including Franz Ferdinand and The Rapture, with Meat Whiplash and The Candyskins both taking their names from Fire Engines songs.