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2012 California wildfires
In 2012, 7,950 wildfires burned a total of 869,599 acres (3,519.14 km2) in the US state of California;: 62  these included the massive Rush Fire, which was the tenth-largest wildfire recorded in California in modern times, and the Ponderosa Fire, which destroyed 133 structures. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) incurred fire suppression costs of US$310 million between July 2012 and June 2013, in addition to wildfire damages of $28.2 million.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (colloquially known as CAL FIRE) is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California. It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests. In addition, the department provides varied emergency services in 36 of the state's 58 counties via contracts with local governments. The department's current director is Joe Tyler, who was appointed March 4, 2022, by Governor of California Gavin Newsom.
Paul Meijer (racing driver)
Paul Ronald Johan Meijer (born 27 March 1985) is a Dutch racing driver. He is a former Benelux Formula Renault champion. He currently competes in the GT Cup Open Europe for Burgers Motorsport by HVM /Iron Dames alongside fellow Dutchman and Iron Dames Academy member Laura van den Hengel.

Iron Dames
The Iron Dames are an Italian-Swiss auto racing and equestrian team founded by French businesswoman Deborah Mayer. They are based in Zug, Switzerland, and primarily participate in sports car racing. They are a subsidiary of the DC Racing Solutions parent company, which runs motorsport teams Prema Racing and Iron Lynx.
The Great Mare
The Great Mare (la Grand Mare, grant jument or grand'jument in French) was a gigantic mare that was ridden by giants in several Renaissance works. Stemming from medieval traditions inspired by Celtic mythology, she first appeared in The Grand and Priceless Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua, written in 1532, in which Merlin created her from bones atop a mountain.

Rabelais was inspired by these Chronicles and built on the descriptions, meaning the mare Gargantua's mount in The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel, which was published five years later. Incidents include the mare drowning her enemies with her urine and levelling all the trees of Beauce, transforming the region into a plain.

Les Sables-d'Olonne
Les Sables-d'Olonne (French pronunciation: [le sabl dɔlɔn] ⓘ; Poitevin: Lés Sablles d'Oloune; lit. 'The Sands of Olonne') is a seaside resort and port on the Atlantic coast of Western France, best known as the starting and finishing point of the round the world Vendée Globe yacht race. A subprefecture of the Vendée department, Pays de la Loire, administratively it is a commune, Vendée's second most populated after La Roche-sur-Yon. On 1 January 2019, the communes of Olonne-sur-Mer, Château-d'Olonne and Les Sables-d'Olonne merged, retaining the latter name.
Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In 1921, factions were banned in the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)  according to democratic centralism. Vladimir Lenin described the ban as temporary and had criticised a proposed amendment for a permanent ban as "excessive" and "impracticable". Contemporary analysts deemed it a temporary ban.

Political faction
A political faction is a group of people with a common political purpose, especially a subgroup of a political party that has interests or opinions different from the rest of the political party. Intragroup conflict between factions can lead to schism of the political party into two political parties. The ley de lemas electoral system allows the voters to indicate on the ballot their preference for political factions within a political party. Political factions can represent voting blocs. Political factions require a weaker party discipline. Research indicates that factions can play an important role in moving their host party along the ideological spectrum.
Triethylene glycol dinitrate
Triethylene glycol dinitrate (TEGDN) is an, ether, nitrated alcohol ester of triethylene glycol. It is used as an energetic plasticizer in explosives and propellants. It is a pale yellow oily liquid. It is somewhat similar to nitroglycerin.

TEGDN is often used together with trimethylolethane trinitrate (TMETN).

Triethylene glycol dinitrate, diethylene glycol dinitrate, and trimethylolethane trinitrate are being considered as replacements for nitroglycerin in propellants.

Alcohol (chemistry)
In chemistry, an alcohol (from Arabic  al-kuḥl 'the kohl') is a type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl (−OH) functional group bound to a saturated carbon atom. Alcohols range from the simple, like methanol and ethanol, to complex, like sugar alcohols and cholesterol. The presence of an OH group strongly modifies the properties of hydrocarbons, conferring hydrophilic (water-attracted) properties.  The OH group provides a site at which many reactions can occur.
Blue World (Mac Miller song)
"Blue World" is a song by American rapper Mac Miller from his sixth studio album, Circles (2020). It was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio on February 4, 2020, as the second single from the album. The song was written by Miller and Guy Lawrence of Disclosure, with George Forrest and Robert Wright receiving writing credits due to a use of "It's a Blue World" by the Four Freshmen as a sample. The song was produced by Lawrence and Jon Brion.

The song was ranked number 71 on The Fader's list of the 100 best songs of 2020. It was also on former U.S. president Barack Obama's playlist of his favorite music of 2020, and would go on to be featured in the soundtrack for MLB The Show 23.

MLB The Show 23
MLB The Show 23 is a baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The eighteenth installment in the MLB: The Show, it is available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Miami Marlins player Jazz Chisholm Jr. is featured as the cover star, while The Captain Edition of the game features retired New York Yankees player Derek Jeter.

For the third consecutive year, the Xbox versions of the game are available for Xbox Game Pass subscribers at no additional cost.

Alex Miniak returns as public address commentator, with Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton returning as play-by-play commentators.
Veronica Kvassetskaia-Tsyglan
Veronica Kvassetskaia-Tsyglan (Kva-set–sky-ya – t-see-g-lan) (born December 28, 1966) is a Canadian classical realist painter specializing in the Old Masters' technique. She is active in the contemporary revival of the classical tradition of fine art portraiture in Canada. She founded the Portrait Society of Canada in 2001 in Toronto, Canada, and is the current chairman.

Arts and Letters Club of Toronto
The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto is a private members' club in Toronto, Ontario, which brings together writers, architects, musicians, painters, graphic artists, actors and others working in or with a love of the arts and letters. It was founded in 1908 as a gentlemen's club, but women have been members since 1985.
New Hampshire Route 85
New Hampshire Route 85 (abbreviated NH Route 85 or NH 85) is a 4.854-mile-long (7.812 km) north–south state highway in Rockingham County in southeastern New Hampshire. It runs from Exeter to Newfields.

The southern terminus of NH 85 is in downtown Exeter at New Hampshire Route 27 and New Hampshire Route 111A.  The northern terminus is in Newfields at New Hampshire Route 108.

It runs along the west side of the Squamscott River for its entire length, opposite to NH 108, which runs east of the river.

Squamscott River
The Squamscott River is a 6-mile-long (10 km) tidal river in southeastern New Hampshire, in the United States, fed by the Exeter River. The first 33 miles (53 km) of freshwater river from Chester to downtown Exeter is known as the Exeter River, and the subsequent 9 miles (14 km) of saltwater from downtown Exeter to the Great Bay tidal estuary is known as the Squamscott River.

The combined Exeter-Squamscott watershed is 81,726 acres (127.697 sq mi) and contains 68,245 people. It includes portions of Chester, Raymond, Fremont, Danville, Kingston, East Kingston, Sandown, Kensington, Brentwood, Exeter, Newfields, and Stratham.
Belmont Park, Colwood
Belmont Park is a Canadian Armed Forces PMQ neighbourhood in the City of Colwood, part of the Western Communities area of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

It is located on property owned by the Department of National Defence and under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Forces Military Police.

The neighbourhood is home to École John Stubbs Memorial School, a French Immersion Elementary-Middle School, a part of School District 62 Sooke (SD62).

PMQ (military housing)
A PMQ (Permanent Married Quarters or Private Married Quarters) is military housing located near Canadian military stations provided to families of Canadian Forces service personnel. Married quarters are now called Residential Housing Units (RHUs). Military housing is managed by the Canadian Forces Housing Agency (CFHA).
Shuichi Thomas Kurai
Shuichi Thomas Kurai (December 14, 1947—June 29, 2018) was a Japanese-born Soto Zen roshi and head abbot of Sozenji Buddhist Temple in Montebello, California. Raised in a Soto temple in Japan, he moved to California with his parents in 1952, where his father (Reverend Shuyu Kurai) served as priest at the Zenshuji Soto Mission in Little Tokyo. In addition to his role as a Zen teacher, Kurai was a highly skilled musician who taught others to play taiko drums. Kurai was a member of the American Zen Teachers Association.

Kurai died on June 29, 2018, at the age of 70 following a diagnosis of adult T-Cell leukemia.

American Zen Teachers Association
The American Zen Teachers Association (AZTA) was founded in the late 1980s as the Second Generation Zen Teachers Group. It is a peer-group organization of ordained and lay Zen Buddhist teachers, all of whom have received either teaching authorization or dharma transmission from the mostly Asian Zen teachers who brought their practices to America in the second half of the twentieth century, or their heirs. The first meetings of the AZTA were attended by a dozen or so people, reflecting what would be a Western Zen phenomenon of roughly equal numbers of men and women.

Today the AZTA has grown to over two hundred members. AZTA members serve Buddhist groups ranging from a dozen or so people who meet and practice in members’ homes or area churches to those serving three or four hundred members and who meet and practice in large temples and monasteries.
2009–10 Canadian network television schedule
The 2009–10 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English and French broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.

Note: TQS rebrands as the V Network

Prime time
Prime time (sometimes spelled primetime), or peak time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term prime-time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, (in the United States), from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time) or 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (Central and Mountain Time). In India and some Middle Eastern countries, prime time consists of programmes that are aired on television between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. local time.
Boot disk
A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards.

While almost all modern computers can boot from a hard drive containing the operating system and other software, they would not normally be called boot disks (because they are not removable media). Fixed drives (such as hard drives) that are bootable may be called boot drives. CD-ROMs are the most common forms of media used, but other media, such as magnetic or paper tape drives, ZIP drives, and more recently USB flash drives can be used. The computer's BIOS must support booting from the device in question.

One can make one's own boot disk (typically done to prepare for when the system won't start properly).

Zip drive
The Zip drive is a discontinued removable cartridge disk storage system sold by Iomega from 1995 to 2003. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.

The format became the most popular of the superfloppy products which filled a niche in the late 1990s portable storage market. However, it was never popular enough to replace the standard 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disk. Zip drives fell out of favor for mass portable storage during the early 2000s as CD-RW and USB flash drives became prevalent. The Zip brand later covered internal and external CD writers known as Zip-650 or Zip-CD, despite the dissimilar technology.
Kamienica Królewska
Kamienica Królewska [kamjɛˈnit͡sa kruˈlɛfska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

Six Polish citizens were murdered by Nazi Germany in the village during World War II.

Kashubia
Kashubia or Cassubia (Kashubian: Kaszëbë or Kaszëbskô; Polish: Kaszuby [kaˈʂubɨ] ⓘ; German: Kaschubei or Kaschubien) is an ethnocultural region in the historic Eastern Pomerania (Pomerelia) region of northern Poland. It is inhabited by the Kashubian people, and many in the region have historically spoken the Kashubian language, with some still speaking it.

The unofficial self-description of "capital city of Kashubia" has long been contested by Kartuzy and Kościerzyna.
Once and Never Again
"Once And Never Again" is the second major label single from UK indie rock band The Long Blondes. It was released in October 2006, shortly before their debut album Someone to Drive You Home.

The song is listed at #390 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s.

The cover is a painting of Gene Pitney & Dusty Springfield.

Gene Pitney
Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American pop and country singer, songwriter, and musician.

Pitney charted 16 top-40 hits in the United States, four in the top ten. In the United Kingdom, he had 22 top-40 hit singles, including 11 in the top ten. Among Pitney's most famous hits are "Town Without Pity", "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", "I'm Gonna Be Strong", "It Hurts to Be in Love", and "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". He also wrote the early-1960s hits "Rubber Ball" recorded by Bobby Vee, "Hello Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson, and "He's a Rebel" by the Crystals. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Arina Nikishova
Arina Nikishova (Russian: Арина Никишова, born March 16, 1997, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian Group rhythmic and aesthetic group gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade Group All-around gold medalist and the 2017 European champion in aesthetic group gymnastics.

Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade
Gymnastics was contested at the 2015 Summer Universiade from July 4 to 13 at the Gwangju Women's University Gymnasium in Gwangju, South Korea. Artistic and rhythmic gymnastics were the two disciplines of gymnastics contested.
Iburi Province
Iburi Province (胆振国, Iburi no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [iꜜ.bɯ.ɾʲi (no kɯ.ɲi)]), also called Ifuri, was a short-lived province located in Hokkaidō.  It corresponds to modern-day Iburi Subprefecture, Yamakoshi District of Oshima, Abuta District in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, the cities of Chitose and Eniwa in Ishikari Subprefecture and Shimukappu Village in Kamikawa Subprefecture.

Shiribeshi Subprefecture
Shiribeshi Subprefecture (後志総合振興局, Shiribeshi-sōgō-shinkō-kyoku) is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.  The subprefecture's capital is Kutchan.  As of July 31, 2004, the estimated population was  256,184 and the area was 4,305.65 km2.
Euthanasia in the United States
Active euthanasia is illegal in all 50 states of the United States. Assisted suicide is legal in twelve jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. and the states of  California, Colorado, Delaware, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, New Jersey, Hawaii, Washington, New York and Montana. The status of assisted suicide is disputed in Montana, though currently authorized per the Montana Supreme Court's ruling in Baxter v. Montana that "nothing in Montana Supreme Court precedent or Montana statutes [indicates] that physician aid in dying is against public policy."

Montana Supreme Court
The Montana Supreme Court is the highest court of the state court system in the U.S. state of Montana.  It is established and its powers defined by Article VII of the 1972 Montana Constitution.  It is primarily an appellate court which reviews civil and criminal decisions of Montana's trial courts of general jurisdiction and certain specialized legislative courts, only having original jurisdiction in a limited number of actions.  The court's chief justice and six associate justices are elected by non-partisan, popular elections.  The Montana Supreme Court meets in the Joseph P. Mazurek Building in Helena, Montana, the state's capital, an international style building completed in 1982 and named in the honor of former Montana attorney general, Joseph P. Mazurek.
Country Christmas (Johnny Cash album)
Country Christmas is the fourth Christmas album and 78th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Laserlight Digital in 1991 (see 1991 in music), in-between Cash's contracts with Mercury Records and American Recordings.

Four tracks do not feature Cash but instead feature vocals by his wife, June Carter Cash and the Carter Family. This was the last Johnny Cash release within his lifetime to feature Carter Family, who had been a staple of his live show and studio recordings since the early 1960s. The sisters would not participate in his upcoming work for American Recordings; nor would June Carter Cash, though a 2000 private release, Return to the Promised Land, would feature her alongside her husband.

Due to this album not having any connection to the Columbia, Mercury or American labels, it is one of the more uncommon Johnny Cash releases and as of 2015 has yet to appear in any box sets or compilations.

White Christmas (song)
"White Christmas" is a song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. Written by Irving Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards.

Introduced by Bing Crosby, it topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks and returned to the number one position again in December 1943 and 1944. His version would return to the top 40 a dozen times in subsequent years, the most recent being 2025. Crosby's version is the world's best-selling single (in terms of sales of physical media), with estimated sales in excess of 50 million physical copies worldwide. When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million. It also remains one of the best-selling singles in the United States with estimated physical copies sold between 10 and 12 million as of 1963.

Since its release, "White Christmas" has been covered by many artists.
Michel Pigeon
Michel Pigeon (born 1945) is a Canadian politician. Pigeon was elected to represent the riding of Charlesbourg in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Pigeon received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Laval University. He also made studies at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England.  He later worked as an engineer until 1972 where he worked as a professor in the Department of Engineering at Laval, specialized in concrete structures. From 2002 to 2007, he was also rector for the university.

Pigeon defeated the ADQ's Catherine Morissette in Charlesbourg in the 2008 elections.

Université Laval
Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec, founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Canada and the first North American institution to offer higher education in French. The university, which was founded in Old Québec, moved to a new campus in the 1950s in the suburban borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge. It is ranked among the top 10 Canadian universities in research funding and holds four Canada Excellence Research Chairs.
Winslow station (Arizona)
Winslow station is an Amtrak train station at 303 East Second Street in Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, United States.  It is served daily by Amtrak's Southwest Chief between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. The Santa Fe Depot and La Posada Hotel Harvey House compound are the centerpiece of the La Posada Historic District (established 1992).

Southwest Chief
The Southwest Chief (formerly the Southwest Limited and Super Chief) is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 2,265-mile (3,645 km) route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and Southwest via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff mostly on the BNSF's Southern Transcon, but branches off between Albuquerque and Kansas City via the Topeka, La Junta, Raton, and Glorieta Subdivision. Amtrak bills the route as one of its most scenic, with views of the Painted Desert and the Red Cliffs of Sedona, as well as the plains of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado.

During fiscal year 2024, the Southwest Chief carried 261,485 passengers, a 3% increase from FY2023. However, this is a 22.7% decrease from its pre-COVID-19 pandemic ridership of 338,180 passengers in FY2019. The route grossed US$43,184,176 in revenue during FY 2016, a 3.8% decrease from FY 2017.
L'Île-Cadieux
L'Île-Cadieux (French pronunciation: [lil kadjø]) is a village and municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. It is located on and contiguous with Cadieux Island, which projects into Lake of Two Mountains just north off Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 105.

Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality
Vaudreuil-Soulanges (French pronunciation: [vodʁœj sulɑ̃ʒ]) is a regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is located on a triangular peninsula in the western Montérégie region of Quebec, formed by the confluence of the Ottawa River to the north, and the St. Lawrence River to the south. Ontario is located west of here.