Dziabiak was born in Freedom, Pennsylvania, in 1987.

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# Josh Dziabiak and Lynsie Camuso: Showclix

Pittsburgh startup ShowClix is housed in a beautiful office above a coffee house in the hip restaurant and shopping district called Shadyside.

The ShowClix conference room sports seal blue walls and white leather conference room chairs with a super funky bent metal light above the table.

A bottle of Clique vodka, one of their clients, is available on the side.

There are balloons and other toys to play with throughout the office.

Clearly, this company is focused on creativity!

ShowClix at a Glance Entrepreneur: Josh Dziabiak, CEO

Strategic partnership with Groupon announced February, 2011

2011 addition to client list include the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MOMA), Lucas Oil Speedway and Val-Du-Lakes Pavilion

In 2010 Josh named to Inc.com's 30 under 30 list of "America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs"

Named one of "Pittsburgh's Coolest Tech Companies" by Pittsburgh Magazine

Also named one of Pittsburgh's :Great Places to Work" by Pittsburgh Magazine

Josh named 2011 "Pennsylvania-state Businessperson of the Year" by Future Business Leaders of America (FLBA)

Josh Dziabiak is quite the young entrepreneur.

He grew up in Freedom, PA, on 20 acres of farmland.

Freedom, as Josh describes it, "is in the middle of nowhere."

On one side of his parents' house were a dozen horses.

On the other side was the family septic tank cleaning business.

His whole family worked for the family business: "my mother, my aunt, my father, brother, everybody."

To Josh, it was normal that owning a business was something possible and realistic.

"Entrepreneurship was a natural for me," he states.

Josh's mom bought a family computer when he was 12, around 2000.

This was a big deal for the family and the cash outlay meant no vacation for two years.

The computer was a "klunky thing and sat in the foyer where nobody touched it," Josh declares.

But that all changed when Josh was in junior high.

"A friend of mine asked me if I had a website.

Once they got internet access, Josh turned on the computer and started building a website.

He quickly became obsessed with the concept of being able to reach anyone in the world.

Josh became pretty good at building websites, and, like many other young entrepreneurs, got his start building them for other people, older people.

His business snowballed as Josh started flipping out websites for businesses and individuals in his community.

Pretty soon, Josh noticed that for every website that he was designing he was sending the hosting business somewhere else.

He realized that "I could really scale if I could host.

And that could provide recurring revenue, not that I knew what that was."

So he figured out how to host websites and that side of the business grew very quickly.

Over the next year, Josh opened up an office and started to exploit the opportunity until he had 14 full-time people.

"And that was before I even had a driver's license," Josh exclaims!

"My employees had to drive me to lunch!"

By now, Josh was in 9th grade, and in order to focus on his business, he started home schooling.

Except that he did it himself, and he did it on the computer with CD ROMs.

However, the pace took its toll: "By the time I was 17, a year and a half after starting my business, I was stressed out, with no social life; the business consumed me."

His break came during tax season that year: "I was with my CPA, and he was starting a business brokerage firm and asked if I would be interested in selling my business.

But I looked at that number he thought he could get, and thought wow.

He sold the business in two months for $1 million!

It was very cool to have that in my pocket."

With his proceeds from the sale, Josh moved out of his parents' house, bought a car, and goofed off.

Josh was more interested in learning by experiencing.

Josh eventually got to the point where he was bored: "I was doing a lot of shopping; basically, I was retired at age 18."

He started investing time and money into his ideas: "I wanted to do a web-based record label.

I tried to do all the promotion and leverage the internet as the only source of revenue."

But, it was too early for Josh and he made some mistakes.

He lost money and learned some tough lessons.

One of them was about people: "I went through a lot of grief because of some wrong partners; I learned how important it is to surround yourself with great people."

But as a young entrepreneur, Josh wanted to wake up to a challenge each day.

So he kept searching for the next big idea.

During this time Josh became aware of the need for a ticketing solution: "So many bands were going to small capacity bars and VFW facilities and there was only Ticketmaster.

I saw an opportunity there, particularly for small- to medium-sized events."

He started by building a 650-seat ticketing solution.

As he describes the origins of ShowClix, "I was sitting on my couch with my roommate and we were talking about things to do in Pittsburgh, and we realized that there was no destination site for event goers.

What if I created a website that was a destination site to find events?

Then I realized that ticketing could be the revenue model for the business."

At the same time, Josh wanted to experience what it was like to work for someone else.

He got a couple of job offers including one with Spreadshirt, a German company offering an online platform for private individuals and commercial organizations to design, buy and sell creative and personalized apparel.

It was there that Josh met Lynsie Camuso, his partner in ShowClix.

"We clixed from moment one," Josh chuckles.

A strong friendship was formed from their first coffee together.

Spreadshirt let the two work together and come up with their own creative initiatives.

"We were basically running the US operations for the whole company," Lynsie chimes in, having joined us in the conference room.

She adds, "We could brainstorm and execute really quickly, and we realized that we knew how to do this, we had the same views, the same work ethic, etc."

Lynsie Camuso, who is ten years older than Josh, has a background in music and entertainment.

She went to Penn State to study journalism.

The summer after her sophomore year, she applied for an internship with the Rosie O'Donnell show in NYC.

Taking the risk on this fabulous opportunity, Lynsie withdrew from school.

She was the youngest staff member ever at the show: "We were on the same floor as Saturday Night Live; I would run into Will Farrell.

And I always loved entertainment, music and news.

Working there was a dream job and it was my first job.

When the show came to an end, Lynsie had a choice to make: "What do I do? Pursue a career in TV or finish my degree?"

Lynsie returned to Pittsburgh, her home town and finished her degree in journalism at Duquesne University.

She went through a number of jobs upon graduating, including with the Pittsburgh Pirates and a stint in Los Angeles.

But, she came back to Pittsburgh and landed a job at Spreadshirt, where she met Josh and her life changed: "I just loved the internet and then I met Josh who was the same."

Josh and Lynsie entered a regional business plan contest and that process forced them to "think through every detail of the business," Lynsie relates.

That was important because they ended up with the same goals, very much on the same page.

ShowClix officially launched with a beta version in March, 2007.

They got some press and they landed two customers.

Lynsie laughs as she describes the early days, "We are all about e-tickets, about not printing them out.

But I had to go home and stuff envelopes with tickets because we had to mail out the actual tickets!

Even though we started with electronic tickets we had to do all this other stuff because that's what the customers wanted!"

The next version of ShowClix launched in July, 2008.

Josh remembers, "We put no titles in our email signatures because we didn't want our clients to know that the company was really just us."

Because ticket sales were their main source of revenues they needed to be very professional.

They decided, "Let's operate the company for how we want it to be a year from now," Josh describes.

ShowClix made their first full-time hire in March, 2009, and now are at 30 including Josh and Lynsie.

In 2008 they did $500,000 in revenues/ticket sales; in 2009 ticket sales were $4.9 million; in 2010 ShowClix reaped over $30M in ticket sales.

ShowClix's business model is a cut of the overall ticket sales.

The company received seed funding from Innovation Works, a state-funded economic development organization, and other investors.

ShowClix recently closed a B round of financing of $1.65 million, led by Swallow Point Ventures and included Pittsburgh Equity Partners, Woodland Partners, Innovation Works, and Smithfield Trust.

Today, ShowClix is a full-service, primary ticketing company that provides venues, promoters and event organizers with innovative solutions to manage every aspect of their ticketing operations, including online and telephone ticket sales, box office management, admissions control, and event promotion.

The company currently works with over 1,800 live music venues, performing arts groups, museums, festivals, nightclubs, artist management companies, nonprofit organizations and colleges and universities around the world.

They continue to make inroads into Ticketmaster's space, and while they face competition, they have focused on the niche of making ticketing affordable for smaller organizations.

The two are clearly great partners and good friends.

While they are not a couple in life, they are a great couple in business!

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New Zealand were the fourth and final team to qualify for the semi-finals after Pakistan were unable to increase their net run rate sufficiently enough in their match against Bangladesh at Lord's.

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New Zealand have confirmed their place in the semi-finals of the 2019 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup.

The qualification of the Black Caps was dependent on whether Pakistan – trailing New Zealand by two points in the standings – could pull off a win of monstrous proportions against Bangladesh in their final group match at Lord's on Friday, with Net Run Rate to then separate the sides.

Pakistan batted first, setting Bangladesh a target of 316.

To then book a place in the semi-finals, Pakistan had to bowl Bangladesh out for seven or less to have their Net Run Rate climb over New Zealand's.

Bangladesh passed seven from the 11th ball of their innings, a single from Tamim Iqbal off Mohammad Amir confirming a fourth consecutive semi-final for New Zealand at the Men's Cricket World Cup.

With their position in the standings fixed at fourth, New Zealand will play in the first semi-final, at Old Trafford on 9 July.

They will face either one of Australia or India, with the fixture to be confirmed at the conclusion of the group stage on Saturday.

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All three knockout games were allotted a reserve day. If a reserve day came into play, the match would not be restarted but resumed from the previous day's play (if any). In the event of no play on the scheduled day or the reserve day, in the semi-finals, the team that finished higher in the group stage progressed to the final, and if no play were possible in the final, the trophy would be shared. If any match ended in a tie, a Super Over would be used to determine the winner; each team would select three batsmen and a bowler, with the full team available to field. There would be no penalty for the loss of a wicket, but the loss of two wickets would end the Super Over. If the scores in the Super Over were also tied, the winner would be determined by the two teams' overall boundary count, including both the match itself and the Super Over.
 On 25 June 2019, Australia became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals after beating England at Lord's. India became the second team to qualify for the semi-finals after they defeated Bangladesh at Edgbaston on 2 July 2019. The following day saw tournament hosts England become the third team to qualify for the semi-finals, after they beat New Zealand at the Riverside Ground.


Trading as Lürssen Yachts, it is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Paul Allen's "Octopus", David Geffen's "Rising Sun", and "Azzam", the largest private yacht in the world at 180 m in length.

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# German Shipyard Launches World's Largest Private Yacht At 591 Feet

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A German shipyard today launched Azzam, the world's largest private yacht, eclipsing the previous record holder, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's 533-foot Eclipse.

Photos of the ocean-liner-sized cruiser were posted this morning on the Superyachts.com website, which has tracked the progress of the yacht during its construction at Germany's Lürssen yard.

I'm not much of a fan of motor boats and bigger doesn't make them better, in my book.

However the stats for this yacht built reportedly for a Saudi buyer are impressive:

Guests: Classified, although with at least seven levels and 500 feet for staterooms, one imagines a lot.

Construction costs vary widely at the superyacht end of the boat-building business, but a rough minimum for Azzam-class yachts is $1 million per meter.

Ambramovich's Eclipse was estimated to cost at least $300 million, or more like $1.9 million per meter.

Assuming a similar or higher level of luxury for Azzam, this was likely a $400 million project at least.

As I noted in this 2011 article, captains cost $1,000 a foot - a half-million a year for this baby, then -- and maintenance and operating costs likely will run at least $5 million a year.

The yacht was constructed under the supervision of one Mubarak Saad al Ahbabi, Superyachts said, and has a relatively shallow, 14-foot draft.

That will allow her to anchor in some of the quieter harbors of the Mediterranean, assuming her 591-foot mass will fit.

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After a 3–2 home win over Bermuda and two losses to El Salvador, Jamaica finished in third place and was eliminated.

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The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is the governing body of football in Jamaica and is in charge of the Jamaican national teams, male and female, the Jamaican National Premier League and all football leagues in Jamaica that feed into the National Programme.

According to records available football was introduced in Jamaica towards the end of the 19th century and 1893 is listed as the year Jamaica formed its first football club.

Jamaica's first international appearance was against their Caribbean neighbours Haiti in 1925.

They were invited to the French-speaking Caribbean island by Andre Chevalon, president of the then United Sporting Society and it was for a three-match series between the two countries.

Jamaica won all three games by 1-0, 2-1 and 3-0.

The following year Jamaica hosted their Haitian counterparts at Sabina Park and won by 6-0.

The Haitians remained frequent opponents and it was not until 1932 that their run of defeats was broken with a 4-1 home win in Port-au-Prince.

Between 1925 and when Jamaica gained its independence in 1962, Jamaica had regular games with Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Cuba and clubs like Racing and Violette from Haiti, Corinthians of Britain, the Tigers from Argentina, and even a series of matches with a Caribbean All Stars team in 1952.

The Caribbean All Stars team included such notables as Michael (The Ruin) Kruin from Suriname and also representing Jamaica were Lindy Delapenha and Gillie Heron.

The four games were shared equally with Jamaica winning the second 2-1 and the fourth 1-0 and the All Stars winning the first 5-1 and the third 1-O.

Those friendly international games were the start of Jamaica's football quest with most of the home matches being played at Sabina Park.

Many clubs were established during this time including Kensington, Melbourne], Kingston, Lucas and St. George's Old Boys, thus providing the talent Jamaica needed at the time.

In 1965 under the leadership of Brazilian coach Jorge Penna, Jamaica made its first attempt at World Cup qualifying.

This was for the 1966 World Cup finals in England.

The preliminary group included Cuba, the Netherlands Antilles, and Jamaica.

Jamaica's first game was against Cuba which they won 2-0 at Jamaica's National Stadium.

In the qualifying match against the Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica also had a 2-0 victory with both goals coming.

In the away games Jamaica was held to a goalless draw with the Netherlands Antilles and suffered a 2-1 defeat to Cuba.

Jamaica then advanced to the final group of 3 which included Costa Rica and Mexico.

The winner of this group would represent the CONCACAF region.

Jamaica lost at home to Mexico 3-2 and in the return leg in Mexico City the high altitude proved to much for the Jamaicans and they were defeated 8-0.

Jamaica lost 7-0 to Costa Rica in their first encounter and had a 1-1 tie when they played at home.

In 1968 coach George Hamilton took leadership as Jamaica made an attempt to qualify for the 1970 World Cup Finals in Mexico.

Jamaica had only a couple remaining players from the previous World Cup team and had to rebuild because most of the players had retired or migrated to North America and England.

Jamaica lost all of their qualifying games in that year.

Jamaica's participation in the 1974 World Cup elimination saw the suspension of 17 players on the team because of poor behavior on a tour to Bermuda.

Jamaica withdrew from the elimination in order to restructure their team.

The 1978 World Cup in Argentina saw Jamaica playing Cuba and losing 3-1 at the National Stadium and then 2-0 in Havana, Cuba.

In 1982 Jamaica did not make an attempt for the World Cup Final set in Spain due to insufficient funds and a poorly prepared team.

Jamaica did not participate in the 1986 World Cup because suspension for affiliation fees that was due to FIFA.

In preparation for the 1990 World Cup with coach Jeffery Maxwell Jamaica won both preliminary games against Puerto Rico 1-0 in Jamaica and 2-0 at Puerto Rico.

The U.S. were the next opponents and was held to a goalless draw.

The return leg in the U.S. saw Jamaica losing 5-1 bringing an end to their qualifying attempt.

The United States hosted the World Cup 1994.

In qualifying Jamaica beat Puerto Rico 2-1 and was then faced Bermuda, Canada, and El Salvador from which two teams would advance to the final round.

Jamaica tied 1-1 with Canada and Bermuda and then lost 2-0 to El Salvador, 1-0 to Canada, 2-1 to El Salvador.

Jamaica then beat Bermuda 3-2 but did not qualify.

Under Brazilian Professor Renê Simões and National coach Carl Brown, the Jamaican team became a powerhouse in the Caribbean region and received "Best Mover" award by FIFA in 1996.

Jamaica made history by becoming the first English speaking country from the Caribbean to ever qualify for the world cup finals in 1998.

History.:Caribbean triumph and World Cup appearance (1990–2000).

In 1990, Carl Brown was signed as head coach and led Jamaica into qualifying for the 1990 Caribbean Cup, finishing tied for third place after the final round was abandoned due to Tropical Storm Arthur. In 1991, Jamaica defeated Trinidad and Tobago 2–0 to win the 1991 Caribbean Cup and qualify for the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup. In the Gold Cup, Jamaica finished last with zero points in a group consisting of Honduras, Mexico, and Canada.
 Jamaica lost to Trinidad and Tobago in the final of the 1992 Caribbean Cup. In 1992, Jamaica competed in the preliminary rounds of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup. After defeating Puerto Rico 3–1 on aggregate in the second preliminary round, Jamaica eliminated Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica was grouped with Bermuda, Canada, and El Salvador, two of which would advance to the final round. Jamaica opened the second round with two 1–1 draws against Canada and Bermuda, but the team lost its return match in Canada after a single goal from Dale Mitchell.


The museum was completed on budget, and opened three days ahead of schedule on July 1, 1976.

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Chief Justice Warren Burger, far left, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, second from left, join President Gerald Ford, center, National Air and Space Museum Director Michael Collins, next to Ford, and Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley in applause after a signal from Viking 1, orbiting Mars, triggers the ribbon cutting at the opening of the museum's building on the National Mall, July 1, 1976.

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC opened on July 1, 1976.

The official ribbon-cutting began with a signal sent from the Viking 1 spacecraft approaching Mars.

Relayed to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the signal arrived at the Museum via ground lines.

It activated a mechanical "arm," causing the ribbon to split in two.

At the ribbon cutting, President Gerald Ford called the Museum "a perfect birthday present from the American people to themselves."

The opening was one of the highlights of America's Bicentennial Celebration.

Walking through the doors on opening day, visitors found ten acres of exhibition space comprising 26 distinct galleries.

They entered the building through the Milestones of Flight gallery, where they found the icons of the age of flight, from the Wright Flyer, the world's first airplane, to Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Bell X-1 that carried Captain Chuck Yeager through the speed of sound for the first time, to the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft that astronaut John Glenn rode into orbit, and the Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia, that brought Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin home from the Moon.

The success of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum exceeded expectations.

Record crowds beat a path to the Museum from the first day the doors opened and have kept coming unabated year after year.

The five millionth visitor crossed the threshold only six months after opening day.

But there was little time to rest on post-1976 laurels.

In the early years, the Museum kept a fast pace, offering new exhibit galleries (nearly one per year), new movies, and public programs.

In 1982, the groundbreaking Black Wings exhibit opened, exploring the long struggle of African Americans to take to the sky.

In 1996 we opened a new interactive gallery called How Things Fly.

It offers imaginative interactive devices that help people of all ages grasp the basic principles of flight, and entertaining talks and demonstrations on scientific principles.

The gallery remains one of the most popular stops for children who visit the Museum.

Tenth Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing at the National Air and Space Museum with Michael Collins, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1979.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM 2) is in the background.

In addition to its exceptional collection of artifacts and engaging displays, the Museum offers public programs geared toward visitors of all ages; teachers and students; life-long learners; enthusiasts and experts.

Many of the most noteworthy names in aviation and space history have lectured at the Museum, from astronaut Neil Armstrong to aviation pioneer Chuck Yeager, and the Museum continues to host prominent scientists, engineers, pioneers in aviation, and leaders in space exploration year after year.

For a list of upcoming lectures, see the calendar of events.

Post-NASA activities.:Director of the National Air and Space Museum.

Everything was fast-tracked. Contracts were awarded as soon as each component of the design was complete. This allowed the first contract to be awarded within five months of the start of design. The design was completed in just nine months, and all contracts were awarded within a year of the start of design.
 Ground was broken on the new museum on November 20, 1972. The building was built horizontally rather than vertically, as is the norm, so that work on the interiors could proceed concurrently. Overseeing construction was but a part of Collins' task: he also had to hire museum staff, oversee the creation of exhibits, and launch the Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, a new division devoted to research and analysis of lunar and planetary spacecraft data. Collins described the project as "a monumental effort" in which "individual creativity combined with dedicated teamwork and plain hard work".


The film won the award, making it one of six International Emmys for the UK, and one of three for the BBC, in 2009.

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# Sir David Frost wins International Emmy in ceremony dominated by Brits

Veteran presenter is among six British winners in awards night hosted by Graham Norton

First published on Tue 24 Nov 2009 08.13 EST

Veteran presenter Sir David Frost won a special International Emmy last night, one of six British winners at a star-studded ceremony in New York that was dominated by the UK television industry.

It was a successful night for the BBC, with two of the top awards, for best male and female performance.

Ben Whishaw won for his performance as Ben Coulter in BBC1's Criminal Justice, the acclaimed drama series about a young man wrongly convicted or murder.

Dustbin Baby, made by Kindle Entertainment, won a third award for the BBC in the children and young people category.

Dustbin Baby told the story of an adopted teenager who searches for her real parents.

Julie Walters was also a winner, for her performance as Dr Anne Turner in A Short Stay in Switzerland, also shown on BBC1.

Frost, the veteran presenter and interviewer, was presented with a special awards by American journalist Barbara Walters.

British broadcasters and producers also won two further awards at the ceremony, regarded as the "Oscars" of the TV industry, as the UK came out on top in six of the 11 categories, including the special prize for Frost.

Channel 4's The Mona Lisa Curse, made by Oxford Film & Television, won best arts documentary.

The programme featured Australian art critic Robert Hughes analysing the rise of contemporary art and his reflections on a long career talking and writing about it.

The broadcaster won a second awards for best documentary for historian Niall Ferguson's series The Ascent of Money, based on his book of the same name, which set out to chart the financial history of the world, demonstrating the effect economics and finance had on some of the most momentous historic events.

The Ascent on Money was produced jointly by Chimerica Media and Education Broadcasting.

Other International Emmys 2009 winners came from Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands.

Last night's ceremony in New York was hosted by BBC presenter Graham Norton.

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In 2009, "Dustbin Baby" was one of four works of children's television shortlisted for the International Emmy Award in the children and young people category at the 37th International Emmy Awards. The other nominations were "Lharn Poo Koo E-Joo" (produced by Workpoint Entertainment), "The Little Emperor's Christmas" (produced by Rede Globo), and "Mille" (produced by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation). The film was one of nine nominations for the UK, which had more than any other nation.


Among the wounded were two US citizens, six Japanese, and one Dutch national.

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LTTE Tamil terrorists exploded a massive truck bomb and opened

fire on civilians with machine guns in Colombo's business district, killing at least 14

people in another one of those sickening terrorist attacks the LTTE terrorists carry out

from time to time on the civilian population.

Hospital officials said at least 96 people, including 32

foreigners, were wounded in the explosion, which sent shards of glass and other debris

At one point about 20 people were trapped in a government

newspaper building where three suspected Tamil Tiger gunmen fled after the blast.

were later freed by troops and the three terrorists were killed.

The casualty figures could have been much higher

if offices and financial markets had not been closed for a national holiday, but lets make

no mistake about this - these terrorists exploded the bomb on a holiday because of the

relaxes security on a public holiday, not out of sympathy for civilians.

The worst violence to hit Colombo in recent years

was in January 1996, when a terrorist bomb brought down a huge section of the Central Bank

Police and hospitals said 14 people had died in Wednesday's

bomb attack and subsequent fighting -- nine civilians including one Buddhist priest and

Police said six employees of the Galadari Hotel were killed when the

truck bomb exploded in the hotel car park.

figures could have been much higher if offices and financial markets had not been closed

for a national holiday, but lets make no mistake about this - these terrorists exploded

the bomb on a holiday because of the relaxes security on a public holiday, not out of

Reuters correspondents said two bodies, believed to

be those of terrorists, were lying near the hotel after pitched gunbattles with security

A security guard at the Galadari Hotel, A. Mohammed, told Reuters: "I came

out to see and there was this lorry in the car park surrounded by about four or five armed

people with bullet belts strapped around their bodies

Within five minutes there was an explosion."

The battles shifted to Lake House, a government

publishing house about 300 yards from the Hilton Hotel, and elsewhere.

said three guerrillas had retreated to the building, which houses the state-run newspaper

There was intermittent firing from there for some

hours, then silence, followed by an official statement the three guerrillas had been

Despite denials from its lying spokesman Anton Rajah in London,

few around the world doubted the LTTE was to blame for the attack.

The bomb exploded around 7 a.m. (0100 GMT), making a crater 20 ft

had jumped out of the truck in the hotel car park before the blast and fired at security

forces with automatic weapons and shoulder-launched rockets.

after the blast as troops tried to flush out pockets of terrorists hiding in nearby

buildings and beneath road level where a railway runs under a bridge.

Doctor Terence De Silva, director of the National Hospital of

Colombo, said 96 injured people were brought to the hospital, 32 of whom were foreigners.

The foreigners were five British, five Japanese, four Singaporeans, five French, two

Jordanians, two Australians and one each from Cuba, Lebanon, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan,

India, the United States, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said on Wednesday that

a big bomb blast that ripped through central Colombo will not derail her efforts to end

"I condemn this inhuman bomb explosion carried out

by a terrorist organization in Colombo this morning

Kumaratunga, whose office was also damaged in the blast, said calm

had returned to Colombo and security forces had the situation under control.

have reached the final stage of finding a long term solution to the country's ethnic

and end the war," she said, adding that those who carried out the attack were

"The inhuman terrorists have carried out such cowardly attacks before

I like to declare with confidence that such acts will not undermine our

This attack demonstrates that no civilized

nation which allows free movement of people can protect its citizens against a determined

group of terrorists hell bent on causing death and damage at any cost.

are funded and armed by foreign money which is only made possible by western countries not

taking action to close down LTTE offices and ban fund raising for these terrorists.

Civilians in Sri Lanka are paying with their lives for the blind eye western governments

United States has taken the lead by labeling the LTTE as

a terrorist organization, now its up to rest of the western nations wake up and ban these

The attack took place on January 31, 1996, in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo. A truck (42-6452) containing about 440 pounds of high explosives crashed through the main gate of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, a seaside high-rise which managed most of the financial business of the country. As gunmen traded fire with security guards, the suicide bomber in the lorry detonated the massive bomb, which tore through the bank and damaged eight other buildings nearby. The lorry was followed by a three-wheeler, carrying two LTTE cadres armed with  automatic rifles and an RPG launcher.
 The blast killed at least 91 people and injured 1,400 others.
 At least 100 people lost their eyesight.


On 1 February 2018, Austin was selected to represent Melbourne Victory in the E-League's inaugural season, alongside Mouad Zwed, becoming one of a handful of professional football players to compete in e-sports as well.

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A 10-man Melbourne Victory went down to Northcote City 1-0 in the NPL2 West on Saturday.

Callum Freeman scored the game's only goal just before half-time at John Cain Memorial Park.

Aaron Anderson was sent off for Victory early in the second half, while Matthew S

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Melbourne Victory resumes its NPL2 West campaign with a trip to Northcote City on Saturday.

Victory has four games remaining this season, beginning with the Round 25 clash at John Cain Memorial Park.

It returns to action for the first time since August 4, when it

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On 17 June 2016, Melbourne Victory confirmed the signing of Austin as a straight swap for winger Connor Pain.
 He made an outstanding start to his Victory career, earning Man of the Match honours in the club's pre-season friendly win over Juventus at the MCG.
 Austin suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in training in November 2017, ruling him out for several months.


In 2014, the Central Bank of Malta issued a silver €10 and gold €50 coin in Camilleri's honour - and as part of the EUROPA star collector coin series which  highlights European culture and events on an annual basis.

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# Malta: 2014 Charles Camilleri Gold and Silver Commemorative Coins

The Central Bank of Malta have issued two coins which honor one of the country's most well-known and admired composers.

Charles Camilleri (1931 – 2009) has long been acknowledged as Malta's national composer.

Born in Hamrun, a town in the Inner Harbour Region of Malta, as a teenager he had already composed a number of works based on folk music and legends.

He moved from his early influences of Maltese folk music to a musical form "in which nothing is fixed" and his compositions evolve from themselves "with a sense of fluency and inevitability".

He composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, voice and solo instruments.

Camilleri is recognized as one of the major composers of his generation.

His works include the now famous Malta Suite, Maltese Dances, A Maltese Overture – Din l-Art Helwa, operas in Maltese, a ballet based on the Knights of Malta and the oratorio Pawlu ta' Malta.

His piano piece Cantilena, is currently part of the Grade 5 Trinity Guildhall piano syllabus.

He lived overseas for many years, wrote and composed in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States where he composed many of his works.

Camilleri died on the 3rd January 2009 at the age of 77.

His funeral took place two days later at Naxxar, his long-time town of residence with the flags in Malta flying at half-mast in tribute.

The coins, both struck at the Royal Dutch Mint on behalf of the Central Bank, are designed by Maltese artist Noel Galea Bason.

The common obverse includes a front-facing portrait positioned slightly towards the left half along with the text "MRO CHARLES CAMILLERI KOMPOZITUR" along the upper edge.

The face value of €10 or €50 is seen just to the left of the portrait as well as the EUROPA star logo.

The reverse of both coins includes the Maltese national crest encircled with the 12 EU stars and the year of issue "2014".

The two coins are issued in conjunction with the annual EUROPA star series – this year's theme is "European Composers."

The coins may be purchased from the counter of the Malta Coins Distribution Centre at the main building of the Central Bank of Malta in Valletta.

For more information on these and other coins on offer from the Central Bank of Malta's Coin Distribution Centre, please visit their website at: http://www.centralbankmalta.org/site/currency2_mro_camilleri.html

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Camilleri's work has been performed throughout the world and his research of folk music and improvisation, the influences of the sounds of Africa and Asia, together with the academic study of European music, helped him create a "universal" style.
 Camilleri is recognized in Malta as one of the major composers of his generation. His works include "Malta Suite", "Maltese Dances", "A Maltese Overture - Din l-Art Helwa", operas in Maltese, a ballet based on the Knights of Malta and the oratorio "Pawlu ta' Malta".   His piano piece "Cantilena", is currently part of the Grade 5 Trinity Guildhall piano syllabus. The "Missa Mundi" for solo organ was described by its first publisher as "the organ's "Rite of Spring"".
 He died on 3 January 2009 at the age of 77. His funeral took place two days later at Naxxar, his long-time town of residence. Flags across Malta were flown at half-mast in tribute to him.


In Madras, she met and married the distinguished economist and diplomat Sir Benegal Rama Rau a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin and a south Indian from a distinguished family.

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Dhanvanthi Rama Rau was a campaigner for women's reproductive rights and could be called the Margaret Sanger of India.

Born in Hubli of Kashmiri stock on 10 May 1893 and brought up in Allahabad, she obtained an MA from Madras University and began her career as a lecturer at Queen Mary's College.

She became a founder member of the Women's Indian Association in 1917, and campaigned for the Sharda Bill in 1927–28.

From 1929 to 1938 she lived in London with her husband, Benegal Rama Rau, as representative for the All India Women's Conference.

For her services, she was decorated with the Kaiser-i-hind medal in 1938.

When Benegal Rama Rau was posted to South Africa as High Commissioner in 1939, she went with him and organised the Indian women of Durban.

She worked in famine relief in Bengal and Bombay in 1943, and in 1946 she was elected president of the AIWC.

After Independence, in 1949, she embarked on the work for which she is best known.

The controversy and debate over Margaret Sanger's ideas on birth control had interested her keenly, and Margaret herself had visited India several times at the AIWC's instance back in 1922–27.

Now Dhanvanthi set up the All India Family Planning Association and campaigned to have family planning made one of the goals of the first Five Year Plan.

In this she had to fight ignorance and superstition strengthened by the Mahatma's aversion to artificial contraception.

She also served as the President of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

She worked tirelessly for women's reproductive rights and to keep concern for the health of mothers and children uppermost in the government's approach to population control.

In 1959 she was awarded the Padma Bhushan for her contributions to society.

Her daughter Santha is well known as a writer, and her granddaughter Aisha Wayle became the first woman to own a London investment company.

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Dhanvanthi was born into a Kashmir Brahmin family as Dhanvanthi Handoo, born and brought up in Hubli (now in Karnataka) and was therefore conversant with Kannada. After schooling in Hubli, she moved to Madras to join the Presidency College, from where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in arts.


In 2003, the station began syndication of the program ""Exploring Music" with Bill McGlaughlin", an educational daily program on various themes in classical music.

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William (Bill) McGlaughlin's introduction to music came late; he was fourteen before he took his first piano lessons.

"Happily, I understood immediately what a wonderful thing I'd stumbled into.

I can remember thinking as I walked away from my second piano lesson — "Well, that's it.

Of course, I had no idea what that decision meant exactly."

Over the years, McGlaughlin was to discover that "being a musician" could embrace a great many paths.

He has served as an educator, as a performer— a trombonist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony, and as a conductor — seven years as Associate Conductor with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, followed by periods as music director of orchestras in Eugene, Tucson and San Francisco, and most recently, a twelve year engagement as Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony.

He has also been active as a guest conductor, leading the Baltimore Symphony, Denver Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Opera Theatre St. Louis, American Music Theater Festival and San Antonio Festival.

McGlaughlin has also been active in broadcasting, serving as host of the popular public radio program St. Paul Sunday since its inception in 1980.

In 1996 the program received the highest honor in broadcasting, the George Foster Peabody Award.

McGlaughlin has worked with PBS, the BBC and is co-host of the chamber music program Center Stage From Wolf Trap.

In November 2002, the NEA announced a special grant to the WFMT Radio Network to fund the development of a new daily program: Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin, which began syndication on October 6, 2003.

Exploring Music can be heard in over two hundred markets across the country as well as internationally, including broadcasts in Australia, New Zealand, and China, among others.

The WFMT Fine Arts Circle, a member/listener support and funding group, was formed in 1991.
 In 1995, the station moved to its current location in the WTTW complex in Chicago's Northwest Side. The new facility included an all-digital path from studios to transmitter. The WFMT Jazz Satellite Network debuted two years later.
 In 2001, the station's transmitter was moved to the Sears Tower.
 WFMT celebrated its 50th anniversary on December 13, 2001, which Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley declared "WFMT Day".


GECF joined as an eighth partner in 2014, enabling JODI also to cover nearly 90 percent of the global market for natural gas.

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## Historical Background: JODI and Oil Data

Back in the late 1990s, Energy Ministers identified the lack of transparent and reliable oil statistics as a key contributor to oil price volatility.

Producers and consumers alike stepped up efforts to improve the availability and reliability of oil data, and Ministers at the 7th International Energy Forum in Riyadh urged a global response to the challenge of greater transparency.

Six international organisations - APEC, Eurostat, IEA, OLADE, OPEC and the UNSD 1 - took up the challenge, combined their efforts, involved their Member Countries and in April 2001 launched the Joint Oil Data Exercise.

The primary goal was not to build a database, but to raise awareness among oil market players about the need for more transparency in oil market data.

The first priority of the six organisations was to assess the oil data situation in their respective member countries.

The assessment included the collection of monthly oil statistics from each organisation's member countries through a harmonised questionnaire on 42 key oil data points.

Progress was immediate: within six months, 55 countries were participating in the exercise.

Six months later, there were over 70 participating countries, representing 90% of global oil supply and demand.

At the 8th International Energy Forum in Osaka in 2002, Ministers reaffirmed their political support, and with that mandate the six organisations obtained agreement from their Member Countries to make the Exercise a permanent reporting mechanism.

As the process gained momentum, the quality, timeliness and completeness of submissions improved.

As the scale of the Initiative and global interest in it continued to grow, it was clear that the information had to be made available in a compatible form: The JODI-Oil World Database was created.

Participants in the 5th JODI Conference in October 2004 then strongly recommended that this joint global database should be made freely accessible to all - organisations, countries, industry, analysts and journalists.

The IEF Secretariat, which took over the co-ordination of JODI in January 2005, and its partner organisations are fully aware of the limitations of the database, but already for many countries – especially for the top 30 producers and consumers – timeliness, coverage and reliability are at reasonable levels.

The challenge for the organisations now is to increase the coverage to other countries, to reduce the delay in data submissions and to further enhance the data quality.

In 2008, at the 11th International Energy Forum (IEF) Ministerial and at the Jeddah and London Energy Meetings, Ministers called for greater energy data transparency, including the extension of the JODI platform to cover natural gas.

The following year, the JODI Partners launched the JODI-Gas exercise, collecting production, demand, trade and storage data.

In the years that followed, support for JODI-Gas was regularly voiced at meetings of the G8, G20, and other Ministerial bodies - including the 13th IEF in Kuwait, where Ministers reaffirmed their support for the launch of JODI-Gas.

Just two months later, the JODI Partners organised the Second Gas Data Transparency Conference in Doha, where they agreed to seek support in converting JODI-Gas from an exercise into a permanent initiative.

In October 2012, it was official: JODI-Gas became a permanent initiative.

By the following month, 52 countries were participating in JODI-Gas, representing around two thirds of global supply and demand.

In January 2013, a beta version of JODI-Gas was made available to all countries submitting gas data, to gather feedback and promote participation.

Just three months later, the number of participating countries had risen to 69, representing around 80% of global supply and demand of gas.

In June 2013, the JODI Partners organised the 3rd Gas Data Transparency Conference in Indonesia, which convened representatives from national administrations and industry to discuss and define a checklist of final steps prior to the public launch of the initiative.

One of the agreed upon pre-conditions to the public launch was the completion of the JODI-Gas Manual, which was published in February 2014.

Another pre-condition to launch was the organisation of training workshops on JODI-Gas for statisticians from participating countries.

The IEF and JODI Partners organised not one but two such workshops, in Kuala Lumpur and Baku.

A third pre-condition to launch was the inclusion of data from more producing and consuming countries.

In April 2014 the Gas Exporting Countries Forum came on board as a JODI Partner, bringing the number of countries and economies participating in JODI-Gas to 77 countries - representing nearly 90% of the global natural gas supply and demand.

In May 2014, six years after Ministers made the call, the JODI-Gas World Database was opened to the public.

JODI-Gas is the result of years of hard work by hundreds of people around the globe who, by cooperating every single month, have endeavoured to enhance global natural gas data transparency for the benefit of all market actors.

JODI-Gas is a commendable achievement, but it remains a work in progress.

It relies on an unwavering and sustained commitment to transparency: from Leaders and Ministers, as well as from national statisticians, and of course the JODI Partners themselves.

1 The full names of the JODI-Oil partner organisations are: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), International Energy Agency (IEA), Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).

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# Joint APEC-JODI Training Workshop on Oil and Gas Statistics

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In April 2001, OPEC collaborated with five other international organizations (APEC, Eurostat, IEA, OLADE [es], UNSD) to improve the availability and reliability of oil data. They launched the Joint Oil Data Exercise, which in 2005 was joined by IEF and renamed the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI), covering more than 90 percent of the global oil market.


Brazil's Deputy Sports Minister, Luis Fernandes, responded by stating that there was "no panic".

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# Transcript of conference call - Brazil Deputy Minister of Sport Luis Fernandes

Brazil compensates almost double the amount of direct emissions because of the World Cup

Certified stadiums, incentive to sustainable consumption and production, plus the recycling of solid waste are some of the actions sponsored by the government

Interview: Zinho, the World Cup winner who saw his mum's prophecy come true

Brazil midfielder in their 1994 World Cup winning squad started his relationship with the national team in a strange way, when at three he went missing from his family while celebrating the 1970 title.

At the time, the player's mother Moyseslita prayed and promised that if she found him, he would play for Brazil

Trophy tour reaches the United States and Vice-President Joe Biden announces that he will come to the World Cup

The trophy is expected to arrive in Brazil on 22 April

FIFA and federal government delegation visit the Beira-Rio

Stadium's inspection is part of a series of visits that have taken the officials to Manaus and Brasilia

The Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, which already holds the record attendance for a FIFA World Cup Finals match (199,854), is the largest of the stadiums and will stage the final. The CBF originally intended to host the opening match at São Paulo's Estádio do Morumbi but it was dropped in 2010 and replaced by the Arena Corinthians after failing to provide financial guarantees for the required improvements.
 The first wholly new stadium, the Castelão, in Fortaleza, became operational in January 2013. Six of the venues were used during the 2013 Confederations Cup. However, six further stadiums missed FIFA's original 31 December 2013 deadline for completed works. The completion of the new Arena Corinthians was hindered by a fatal crane collapse in November 2013 that destroyed part of the stadium and killed two construction workers. Slow progress at the Arena da Baixada site in Curitiba led to FIFA threatening to drop the stadium as a host venue in January 2014 unless significant progress was made during the following month; after being satisfied of progress, FIFA confirmed that Curitiba would remain a host city.
 During the first three months of 2014, the first games were staged at the venues in Manaus (Arena da Amazônia), Natal and Porto Alegre. However, following an inspection of all the venues in May 2014, FIFA Secretary Valcke expressed concerns about the readiness of the Natal, Porto Alegre and São Paulo venues, with additional test events still being required.


The 2016 Maryland flood severely impacted the historic district on July 30, 2016, as did another flood on May 27, 2018.

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# Flash flood kills 2, devastates Maryland city's historic downtown

Published 4:35 a.m. ET July 31, 2016 | Updated 3:48 p.m. ET Aug. 1, 2016CLOSE

See the path of destruction left by a major flood in historic downtown Ellicott City, Maryland.

Rushing waters took the lives of two people after tearing away streets and ripping apart buildings.

Flooding destroyed parts of Ellicott City, Md. overnight.(Photo: WUSA)

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — There was an overwhelming feeling of helplessness on Sunday as residents of this old mill town near Baltimore surveyed the damage from once-in-a-lifetime flooding that left at least two people dead and the city's historic downtown in shambles.

Gov. Larry Hogan, who canceled an Eastern Shore appearance to be with devastated business owners, was escorted through the wreckage that remained after sheets of rain tore through the city on Saturday night.

Many locals told The Baltimore Sun that the flooding was the worst since Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972.

Rain that caused deadly Md. flood a '1-in-1,000' year event

"It's hard to give them any kind of consolation to make them feel better today," Hogan said.

"But we are just going to promise them that we are going to provide all the resources that we can to help them."

Saturday night's rapidly moving water overturned cars and washed away lower portions of the art galleries, antique shops and restaurants that line the city's historic Main Street.

Nearly every business had damage of some sort, and a state of emergency was declared.

MAJOR #FLOODING Ellicott City #Maryland active water rescues people trapped in cars trees down

— EastCoastAlert (@Eastcoastphotog) July 31, 2016

Howard and Baltimore county officials on Sunday afternoon confirmed that a 35-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man were killed, the Baltimore Sun reported.

The woman had been in Ellicott City with her family when the storm hit; they tried to drive out of town, the Sun reported, but their car got stuck and they left it to get to safety, said Elise Armacost, a Baltimore County police spokeswoman.

Emergency swift water rescue teams managed to save all of the family members but the woman, Armacost said.

Her body was found about 2:20 a.m. near a bridge over the Patapsco River.

The man who was killed also had been downtown in a car with his girlfriend when the waters rose and began to sweep their car away, Armacost said.

The woman was able to get out of the vehicle, but the man wasn't.

Andy Barth, a spokesman for Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman, said about 2 p.m. Sunday that several other people who had been reported missing earlier in the day had been accounted for, but search operations continued and the death toll could rise.

"It is possible that some people may be found in cars or buildings.

Shannon Tolley, 45, a music teacher from Manheim Pa., told The Washington Post that she was driving through town with a friend on Saturday afternoon when they decided to stop.

As the rain began, they popped into the basement bar at Ellicott Mills Brewing Company.

Soon, she said, a flash flood warning alerted on Tolley's phone, and "all of a sudden it started leaking in the basement bar."

#ellicottcity flash flood.. A view from inside pic.twitter.com/x1VtuwVb0e

— Framethestory (@Framethestory) July 31, 2016

The restaurant staff moved diners up to the first floor, then — as the flooding worsened — the second and the third.

"The water was just rushing down the street like a big river," Tolley told the Washington Post.

By about 9 p.m., the water had receded enough for Tolley to venture outside.

She waded through ankle-deep water to her car, which had been parked high enough on a hill to prevent it from being swept away.

"I've never seen anything like this in my life," Tolley said.

All roads in and out of Ellicott City's historic district were blocked off Sunday, with access restricted to first responders.

Ed Crowl, owner of Wagon Wheel Antique Shop, told the Baltimore Sun that he has been through Agnes and other flooding in the town, including in 2011, and was "sort of calm now, because it's happened before."

Old Ellicott city is terrible from the storm pic.twitter.com/YYkQgDFTfS

But he didn't have flood insurance on his merchandise, he said, which looked like it was a total loss .

"All the furniture, big tall pieces, just turned upside down," he told the Baltimore Sun.

"Big marble-top pieces were turned over, so it was powerful."

"What we're going to do, who the hell knows," said J.W. "Pete" Huey, a retiree and local resident who volunteers at the B&O Railroad Museum at the base of Main Street.

"Mother Nature bats last," he told the Baltimore Sun.

But in the midst of the damage, there were signs of hope.

Stories of strangers helping strangers have emerged, including one video taken in the height of the flooding that showed a Main Street shop owner and several other people forming a human chain to save a woman trapped in her car.

Many in Ellicott City are counting their blessings and are vowing to rebuild.

"This is my whole life, but i know that our friends and our family and our community are going to come together," said coffee shop owner Gretchen Shuey.

Contributing: The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post

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Ellicott City Historic District is a national historic district in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland.  The Ellicott City Station is a National Historic Landmark located within the district.  The district encompasses a predominantly 19th century mill town whose origins date to 1772, including more than 200 18th- and 19th-century buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.