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Cedars are trees up to  (occasionally ) tall with spicy-scented wood, thick ridged or square-cracked bark, and broad, level branches.
The shoots are of two kinds, long shoots, which form the framework of the branches, and short shoots, which carry most of the leaves.
The leaves are evergreen and needle-like, 8–60 mm long, arranged in an open spiral on long shoots, and in dense spiral clusters of 15–45 together on short shoots; they vary from bright grass-green to dark green to strongly glaucous pale blue-green, depending on the thickness of the white wax layer which protects the leaves from drying out.
The female seed cones are barrel-shaped, 6–12 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, green at first, then maturing grey-brown, and, as in Abies, disintegrate when mature to release the winged seeds.
The seeds are 10–15 mm long, with a 20–30 mm wing; as in Abies, the seeds have 2–3 blisters, containing an unpleasant-tasting resin, thought to be a defence against squirrels eating them.
Cones take one year to mature, with pollination in autumn and the seeds maturing the same time a year later.
The male pollen cones are slender, egg-shaped, 3–8 cm long, produced in late summer and shedding pollen in autumn.
Naming of species
There are several types of cedars and experts cannot agree how they are related.
Some scientists put them all in one group while others separate them into different groups.
Deodar or Deodar Cedar, Cedrus deodara (also known as.
C. libani subspecies.
deodara).
Native to Western Himalaya.
Lebanon Cedar or Cedar of Lebanon, Cedrus libani.
Native to the mountains of the Mediterranean region, from Turkey and Lebanon west to Morocco.
Lebanon Cedar, Cedrus libani subspecies.
libani.
Native to the mountains of Lebanon, western Syria and south-central Turkey.
Turkish Cedar Cedrus libani subspecies stenocoma.
Native to the mountains of southwest Turkey.
Cyprus Cedar, Cedrus brevifolia (also known as Cedrus libani subsp.
brevifolia or Cedrus libani variety brevifolia).
Native to the mountains of Cyprus.
Atlas Cedar, Cedrus atlantica (also known as Cedrus libani subspecies atlantica).
Atlas mountains in Morocco & Algeria.
Anna Maria Quaini, Grand Officer OMRI (née Mazzini; born 25 March 1940), known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer.
She was a staple of Italian television variety shows.
She was also a popular person in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s.
She was known for her three-octave vocal range, her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.
1960: Tintarella di Luna
1960: Il cielo in una stanza
1961: Due note
1962: Moliendo café
1962: Renato
1963: Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare
1964: 20 successi di Mina
1964: Mina
1964: Mina n.º 7
1965: Studio Uno
1965: Mina interpretata da Mina
1965: Mina & Gaber: un’ora con loro
1966: Canta Nápoli
1966: Studio Uno 66
1966: Mina 2
1967: Sabato sera - Studio Uno '67
1967: 4 anni di successi
1967: Dedicato a mio padre
1968: Alla Bussola dal vivo (live)  - Orchestra Augusto Martelli
1968: Le più belle canzoni italiane interpretate da Mina
1968: Canzoníssima '68
1969: I discorsi
1969: Mina For you (English version)
1969: Incontro con Mina
1969: Bugiardo più che mai... più incosciente che mai...
1970: Mina Canta o Brasil
1970: Quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore
1971: Del mio meglio
1971: Mina
1972: Cinquemilaquarantatre
1972: Dalla Bussola (live) - Orchestra Gianni Ferrio
1972: Altro
1973: Piccola storia della canzone italiana
1973: Del mio meglio n.2
1973: Frutta e verdura
1973: Amanti di valore (Songs written by Franco Califano and Carlo Pes)
1974: Mina ®
1974: Baby Gate
1975: Del mio meglio n.3
1975: La mina
1975: MinacantaLucio (tribute to Lucio Battisti)
1976: Singolare
1976: Plurale
1977: Del mio meglio n.º 4
1977: Mina quasi Jannacci (tribute  to Enzo Janacci)
1977: Mina con bignè
1978: Di tanto in tanto
1978: Mina live '78  (live) - Orchestra Pino Presti
1979: Del mio meglio n.º 5
1979: Attila vol.1-2
1980: Kyrie vol.1-2
1981: Del mio meglio n.º 6
1981: Salomé vol.
1982: Italiana vol.
1983: Del mio meglio n.º 7
1983: Mina 25 vol.
1984: Catene vol.
1985: Del mio meglio n.º 8
1985: Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula
1986: Si, buana
1987: Del mio meglio n.º 9
1987: Rane supreme
1988: Oggi ti amo di più
1988: Ridi pagliaccio vol.
1989: Uiallalla vol.
1990: Ti conosco mascherina
1991: Caterpillar vol.
1992: Sorelle Lumière
1993: Mina canta i Beatles
1993: Lochness vol.
1994: Canarino mannaro vol.1-2
1995: Canzoni d'autore
1995: Pappa di latte - vol.1-2
1996: Cremona
1996: Napoli
1997: Minantologia
1997: Leggera
1998: Gold 1&2
1998: Sanremo
1998: Mina Celentano (Duets with Adriano Celentano)
1998: Studio collection
1998: Nostalgias
1999: Gold 2
1999: Olio
1999: N°Zero (tribute to Renato Zero)
2000: Love collection
2000: Per wind
2000: Dalla Terra
2001: Colección Latina
2001: Sconcerto tribute to Doménico Modugno
2001: Oggi sono io
2002: Veleno
2003: In duo
2003: Don't Call Me Baby
2003: Napoli secondo estratto
2003: Napoli primo, secondo e terzo estratto
2004: Platinum collection (triplo, 1968-1975, 1976-1989, 1990-2003)
2005: Bula bula
2005: L'allieva (tribute to Frank Sinatra)
2006: Platinum collection 2
2006: Ti amo
2006: Bau
2006: Ascoltami, guardami  (Box 10 CDs)
2007: Todavía
2009: Sulla tua bocca lo dirò
2009: Riassunti d'amore (Box 5 CDs)
2009: Facile
2010: Caramella
2010: " Caramella + una piccola strenna "
2011: Piccolino
Maynard Ferguson (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader.
He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957.
He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high register, and for his bands, which served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent.
He died in Ventura, California.
Discography  (selected)
Jazz Masters 52: Maynard Ferguson (Verve Records, 1951-1957)
The New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra (Fresh Sound, 1964)
Chameleon (Columbia Records, 1974(P))
Conquistador (Columbia Records, 1977)
Carnival (Columbia Records, 1978)
Live from San Francisco (Rhino, 1983)
These Cats Can Swing (Concord Records, 1994) with Tom Garling
One More Trip to Birdland (Concord, 1996)
Brass Attitude (Concord, 1998)
Ibirapuera Park is a major urban park in São Paulo, Brazil.
It has a large area for leisure, jogging and walking, as well as a convention center.
Ibirapuera Park, official website
Marion Strecker (b. São Paulo, October 17, 1960) is a Brazilian journalist, photographer and businessperson.
She is known as one of the pioneers of the Internet industry in South America.
Since 2011 she has been living in San Francisco, California, and working as an Editor-at-Large for UOL.
UOL is the major content portal in Brazil.
Since 2010, she has also been a columnist for Folha de S.Paulo, the largest newspaper in Brazil.
She writes in the Market section about technology, innovation and behavior.
Strecker is one of the founders of UOL.
She was the Content VP of the company from 1996 until 2011.
UOL soon became a very large website.
It reached about 70% of the online audience in Brazil with news, entertainment and services.
Before joining the team that founded UOL, Marion Strecker worked at Folha de S.Paulo from 1984 to 1996.
She was a writer, an art critic, editor of the cultural section, planning coordinator, reporter, director of the archives and director of the Folha News Agency.
Strecker was one of the authors of the “Folha Newsroom Manual”.
After coordinating the Digitization of the Newspaper Archives Project in the early 90s, Strecker led a team that created many high tech products.
These included like audiotext services (1993), the newspaper’s full text yearly CD-ROMs (1994-96) and a system similar to a BBS.
This system gave all the Folha de S.Paulo journalists and foreign correspondents access to the archives online, using telephone lines and microcomputers.
Because of this work, Strecker was given the Folha Award on Journalism, Special Category, in 1995.
She also led the team which created the first website for Folha’s Media Group in Brazil.
It was first used on 9 July 1995.
Later that year, Strecker created the first content team for the launch of UOL in April 1996.
UOL soon became the leader in the Brazilian internet market.
Since the 80s, she has written for several magazines and also spoken at many seminars and conferences in Brazil, United States and Europe.
In the 90s she had a short career as a Professor of New Technologies for Communication at Casper Libero College of Journalism in São Paulo.
Early in her career as a journalist, Strecker was a writer and a co-editor with Lisette Lagnado of “Arte em São Paulo”.
This is a magazine founded by the Brazilian painter Luiz Paulo Baravelli, about the visual arts.
Strecker holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication from PUC (Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo).
Before working in journalism and online media, Strecker was a music teacher and a performer.
Strecker is married to the Brazilian journalist Mario Cesar Carvalho.
They have two children, Theo and Helena.
Folha de S.Paulo/columnists
ONA – Online News Association
Abraji - Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo
Marion's speech on the first Brazilian Online Presidential debate (Election 2010)
Presentation for University of Texas at Austin
Marion's page on Linked in
Brazilian critics
Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960) was an American jazz bassist, cellist and  composer.
He was known for his pioneering work in bebop.
Bass Hits (Topaz, 1943–46)
Discoveries (1952)
The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet (Debut, 1953) with Charles Mingus, Julius Watkins, Walter Bishop jr.,
Percy Bridge
First Bass (1953)
Oscar Pettiford Sextet (Vogue, 1954) with Kai Winding, Al Cohn, Tal Farlow, Henri Renaud, Max Roach
Basically Duke (1954)
Another One (1955)
O.P. Big Band: Deep Passion (GRP, 1956–57) with Tommy Flanagan, David Amram, Julius Watkins, David Kurtzer, Jerome Richardson, Osie Johnson, Gigi Gryce, Lucky Thompson, Art Farmer, Danny Bank, Jimmy Cleveland, Ernie Royal,  Janet Putnam u.a.
Winner's Circle (Prestige, 1957) with John Coltrane
The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi, Vol.
1 (1956) & Vol.
2 (1957) with Tommy Flanagan, David Amram, Ed London, Art Farmer, Gigi Gryce, Betty Glamamm, Jimmy Cleveland, Osie Johnson, Danny Bank, Jerome Richardson, Lucky Thompson, Ernie Royal.
Vienna Blues – The Complete Session (Black Lion, 1959) with Hans Koller, Attila Zoller, Jimmy Pratt
Montmartre Blues (Black Lion, 1959–60)
The Complete Essen Jazz Festival Concert, (Black Lion, 1960) with Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke
My Little Cello (America Records, 1960)
Richard "Rick" Jones is an Canadian director, writer, content developer, voice actor, and comedian.
He was the voice of Fu-Fu in Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat.
Since 1982, he's worked with Fox, Disney, Universal, Hanna-Barbera, Alphanim, Cinar and Nelvana.
Jones has been nominated for a Gemini Award twice in 1985 and 2000.
He also was known for being the voice of Slax in X-DuckX, and Razmo in Ratz.
No Motherland Without You is a North Korean song.
It is the signature song of Kim Jong-il.
The song tells of the talent and virtues of Jong-il, and the attachment of the Korean people for him.
The song's chorus is "We cannot exist without you, Comrade Kim Jong-il!
The motherland cannot exist without you!"
It is also thought to be the anthem of Songun politics because Jong-il started the Songun (military-first) policy of North Korean politics in 1995.
It is often broadcast on the radio and from loudspeakers on the streets of Pyongyang.
The civil lyrics use the phrase 김정일동지 (Comrade Kim Jong-il) to refer to the son of Kim Il-sung.
The military version of the song refers to the North Korean leader as 김정일장군 (transl.
Gim Jeong-il jang-gun; eng.
General Kim Jong-il) because he was the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army since 1991.
The lyrics used by the Korean Workers' Party are as follows:
Note: The military version of the song refers to Kim Jong-il as General Kim Jong-il, not Comrade Kim Jong-il because he was the KPA Supreme Commander-in-Chief since 1991 and the Chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission since 1993, while the civilian/official version refers otherwise because he was the Workers Party of Korea General Secretary since 1997 and held other civilian positions.
Song of General Kim Jong-il
North Korean music
Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble
Youtube - Performed by KPA state merited chorus
Youtube - Performed by Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble (Subtitles)
(also known as
Kung Fu Panda: The Series
sometimes shortened to Legends of Awesomeness)
is an American computer-animated television series based on the Kung Fu Panda movies.
The series was originally set to air on Nickelodeon in 2010, but it was pushed back to 2011 instead.
A total of 52 episodes have been produced or ordered.
Two special previews were aired on September 19 and October 21, and it premiered on November 7, 2011.
Mick Wingert as Po
Fred Tatasciore as Shifu
Kari Wahlgern as Tigress / Fang (1st time)
Amir Talai as Crane
Lucy Liu as Viper
James Sie as Monkey / Chao
Max Koch as Mantis
James Hong as Mr. Ping
Lynn Milgrim as Scorpion
Kevin Michael Richardson as Temutai
Wallace Shawn as Taotie
Simon Helberg as Bian Zao
John DiMaggio as Fung
Amy Hill as Su / Mrs. Gow
Lauren Tom as Song / Bai Li
Toby Huss as Mr. Yeung
Jim Ward as Kwan
Diedrich Bader as Hundun
Stephen Root as Junjie
Wendie Malick as Fenghuang
Randall Duk Kim as Oogway
Pamela Hayden as Fang (2nd time)
2011 television series debuts
There are 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom and overseas territories.
The UNESCO list has eighteen properties in England (the Frontiers of the Roman Empire is shared with Germany), five in Scotland, three in Wales, one in Northern Ireland, and one in each of the overseas territories of Bermuda, the Pitcairn Islands, and Saint Helena.
The constitution of UNESCO was ratified in 1946 by 26 countries, including the United Kingdom.
The UK contributes £130,000 annually to the World Heritage Fund which finances the preservation of sites in developing countries.
Some locations have many sites that have a common geographical location or cultural history.
The World Heritage list has developed over time.
The United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO advises the British government on policies dealing with UNESCO.
The British government is responsible for maintaining its World Heritage Sites.
Original list
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast
Durham Castle and Cathedral
Studley Royal Park and the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
There are 10 criteria for a site to be able to be added to the list.
World Heritage Site selection criteria i–iv are culturally based.
selection criteria vii–x are natural criteria.
Twenty-three properties are listed as "cultural".
Four are listed as "natural".
One is listed as "mixed", which means that the site is notable for both natural and cultural criteria.
This is similar to the proportions of all World Heritage Sites.
Of the 890 sites on the World Heritage List, 77.4% are cultural, 19.8% are natural, and 2.8% are mixed.
St Kilda is the only mixed World Heritage Site in the UK.
At first, it was added to the list because of its natural habitats.
In 2005, the crofting community that once was part of the archipelago was added to the site.
The natural sites are the Dorset and East Devon Coast, Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, Gough and Inaccessible Islands and Henderson Island.
The rest are cultural.
25 cultural sites
4 natural sites
The Tentative List is an inventory of important heritage and natural sites that a country is considering for inscription on the World Heritage List, thereby becoming World Heritage Sites.
The Tentative List can be updated at any time, but inclusion on the list is a prerequisite to being considered for inscription within a five- to ten-year period.
The UK's Tentative List was last updated on 25 July 2014, and consisted of 11 sites.
The properties on the Tentative List are as follows:
The Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland
The Forth Bridge, Scotland
The New Forest, England
Shakespeare's Stratford, England
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast, England
UK World Heritage Sites DCMS portal
List of World Heritage Sites in Britain
Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer.
Her works deal with mother-daughter relationships.
Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club.
It has been translated into 35 languages.
In 1993, a movie was made based on the book.
Tan has written several other novels.
These include The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish from Drowning.
She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.
Her novel Saving Fish from Drowning explores the problems dealt with by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition in the jungles of Burma.
Tan has also written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994).
Sagwa  was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS.
She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write.
She is a child of Chinese immigrants: John and Daisy Tan.
'Reading in Reverse', review of The Opposite of Fate in the Oxonian Review
Barriga de Aluguel is a Brazilian historical telenovela.
It was first shown in 1990.
The series starred Cláudia Abreu, Cássia Kiss and Victor Fasano.
Brazilian television series
The Internet community had major discussion over it in 2011 and 2012, but the bill was not passed.
Some experts said the proposed changes to the internet would have worldwide effects.
Some people and businesses supported the new law.
Others were alarmed.
Supporters worried that current copyright laws are not effective in shutting down piracy websites.
The opponents worried that it is a kind of censorship.
It is hard to tell which side is correct because the language in the law is still being written.
The English Wikipedia masked most of its pages with a banner on January 18, 2012.
They used JavaScript to do this, which means that people could avoid the banner by just disabling JavaScript in their browser.
The Wikipedia blackout is intended to spotlight the value of open access to information on the Internet.
Other websites joined protests against SOPA.
For example, Google put up a black censor board in front of its logo.
Many critics questioned the value and likely effects of the protests.
Some people questioned the timing of the protests.
Text of Stop Online Piracy Act (archive); H.R. 3261
US House Judiciary Committee website
SOPA Strike website
Fallout: New Vegas is a role-playing video game.
It was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks.
While New Vegas is not a direct sequel, it uses the same engine and style as Fallout 3.
Some of the employees at Obsidian also used to work at Interplay and Black Isle Studios who made Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.
It is set in a post-apocalyptic Nevada.
The game was released on October 19, 2010, in North America, October 22, 2010 in Europe, and November 4, 2010, in Asia and October 21, 2010 Australia.
It is available on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
Buffalo gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima), also known as the buffalo gourd, calabazilla, chilicote, coyote gourd, fetid gourd, fetid wild pumpkin, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, stinking gourd, wild gourd, and wild pumpkin is a small plant in the Cucurbitaceae family, related to squash.
Loyalists were people in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the American Revolutionary War.
They were also called Tories.
They fought with the British against the Continental Army and Continental Congress that they felt was oppressing them.
In many areas, Loyalists were treated very roughly by revolutionaries (who often called themselves "Patriots").
Tory lands and other properties were taken away, and sometimes they were put into jail or even killed.
Some formed militias, fighting along with the British Army against the rebels.
Loyalists came from all walks of life.
The majority were small farmers, artisans and shopkeepers.
Not surprisingly, most British officials remained loyal to the Crown.
Wealthy merchants tended to remain loyal, as did Anglican ministers, especially in Puritan New England.
Loyalists also included some blacks (to whom the British promised freedom), Indians, indentured servants and some German immigrants, who supported the Crown mainly because George III was of German origin.
The number of Loyalists in each colony varied.
Recent estimates suggest that half the population of New York was Loyalist; it had an aristocratic culture and was occupied throughout the Revolution by the British.
In the Carolinas, back-country farmers were Loyalist, whereas the Tidewater planters tended to support the Revolution.
During the Revolution, most Loyalists suffered little from their views.
However, a minority, about 19,000 Loyalists, armed and supplied by the British, fought in the conflict.
The Paris Peace Treaty required Congress to restore property confiscated from Loyalists.
The heirs of William Penn in Pennsylvania, for example, and those of George Calvert in Maryland received generous settlements.
In the Carolinas, where enmity between rebels and Loyalists was especially strong, few of the latter regained their property.
In New York and the Carolinas, the confiscations from Loyalists resulted in something of a social revolution as large estates were parceled out to yeoman farmers.
About 100,000 Loyalists left the country, including William Franklin, the son of Benjamin, and John Singleton Copley, the greatest American painter of the period.
Most settled in Canada.
Brantford, Ontario for example was started by Iroquois refugees.
Some eventually returned, although several state governments excluded the Loyalists from holding public office.
Most of the Black Loyalists left, as they faced re-enslavement if they remained in the USA.
In the decades after the Revolution, Americans preferred to forget about the Loyalists.
Apart from Copley, the Loyalists became nonpersons in American history.
United Empire Loyalists -Citizendium
LaMarcus Aldridge (born July 19, 1985) is an American basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA.
He plays both the forward and center positions.
He played college basketball at the University of Texas at Austin.
He is known or his smooth turn-around jump shot, which is hard to block since he is so tall and long.
He has been chosen as an all-star for the past three years.
In 2014, he helped the Portland Trail Blazers win a playoff series for the first time in many years.
The Collatz conjecture is a conjecture (an idea which many people think is likely) in mathematics.
It is named after Lothar Collatz.
He first proposed it in 1937.
It is about what happens when something is done repeatedly (over and over) starting at some integer n:
If n is even (divisible by two), n is halved (divide by two = take its half).
If n is odd (not divisible by two), n is changed to .
The conjecture states that if n is positive, n will always reach one.
The problem is computationally verified for all numbers below .
28 (9 is odd, so we triple it and add one)
14 (28 is even;  14 is half of 28)
7 (14 is even, 7 is its half)
16 (16 is a power of two, so it will lead to 1, halving each time)
1 (after 1 comes 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, etc.)
Many mathematicians argue over if it is really true.
Numbers in the quadrillions have been tested but it has still remained true.
However, this is still very less compared to another conjecture that had been proved false in 1978.
There are two outcomes where it is false: a number keeps growing towards infinity, or an extremely large number forms its own loop.
(oeis:A033479)
The Folketing () is the national parliament of Denmark.
The name means "People's thing" (a thing in this case is a governing assembly).
It is the highest legislative body in the Kingdom of Denmark and decides most of the laws for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
The Folketing meets in Christiansborg Palace, in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
179 members sit in the Folketing (175 from Denmark, 2 from Greenland and 2 from the Faroe Islands) and are democratically elected.
The Folketing is where many political parties in Denmark meet to discuss important issues affecting Danish people, and to pass laws they agree on.
The Folketing is also where the Government of Denmark is formed, when several parties who are in agreement decide to join together and form a coalition government (the parties forming a government must have over half of the total members of the Folketing; a majority).
The voting system used in Denmark is proportional, meaning the distribution of seats reflects the distribution of votes.
This means that many parties and different political views are represented, including some extreme views.
The leader of the Folketing is the Speaker who sits at the front.
The members sit in front of the speaker in the shape of a semicircle.
From 1849 to 1953, the Folketing was one of the two houses in a parliament.
It was known as the "Rigsdag".
The other house was known as the "Landsting".
The members of the Folketing included farmers, traders and merchants.
The Landsting was made up of the rich members of society.
It included the nobility.
These members were chosen by the King to become members.
In 1953 the Landsting was gotten rid of.
This left the Folketing as the only house of parliament.
The Rigsdag became the Folketing.
Latest election
The centre-right coalition that was in power before the election, led by the Liberal Party, lost to a centre-left coalition led by the Social Democrats.
The Social Liberal Party and the Socialist People's Party became part of the three-party government, which holds 89 seats in the Folketing.
Folketinget – The Danish Parliament ft.dk.
PDF publication, published in September 2010.
Official website in English.
ft.dk - Official website in Danish
Neutrophils are the most common type of white blood cell, often called neutrophil granulocytes.
They destroy bacteria (and other parasites like fungi) during an infection.
They get to the site of an injury within minutes.
They have tiny granules full of enzymes and peptides which chop up the bacteria after they have taken them in.
The process of taking in bacteria is called phagocytosis.
The bacteria end up in a vacuole inside the neutrophil.
The enzymes then get to work on destroying the bacteria.
Neutrophils are an important part of the body's immune system.
They are a kind of granulocyte, and have a short life-span of a couple of days.
Adrenoleukodystrophy is a disease that is linked on the X chromosome.
It is a result of fatty acid digestive enzymes not breaking up the fats.
These fats build up in the brain.
They damage the myelin that surrounds nerves.
This can cause seizures and hyperactivity.
It can also cause problems with speaking, listening and understanding verbal instructions.
About 1 in 17,000 people are born with a genetic disease called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).
This severe brain disorder mainly affects boys and men.
There’s no cure yet for it, but a diagnosis early in life may keep it from getting worse.
ALD Symptoms
Symptoms of ALD often begin between the ages of 4 and 10 but can also present much later in life.
ALD symptoms include:
loss of vision
learning disabilities
dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
deafness
lack of coordination and balance
intermittent vomiting
lack of appetite
darkening of the skin
Marussia Motors ( [ma´rusja]) is a Russian sports car manufacturer which started making cars in 2007.
They were the first sports cars to be made in Russia.
It has designed, developed and built the B1 and the B2 sport cars.
The Marussia B1 was launched on the 16 December, 2008 in the new Manege hall in Moscow.
The company's first showroom opened in Moscow on 10 September, 2010.
Marussia is led by former racing driver Nikolay Fomenko.
In 2010, it bought the Virgin Racing Formula One team.
This will be renamed the Marussia F1 Team for the 2012 Formula One racing season.
2007 establishments in Russia
A European windstorm is an extratropical cyclone that affects Europe.
They are normally caused by areas of low atmospheric pressure that move across the North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe.
They are most common in the winter months.
Low pressure areas are common over the North Atlantic.
They sometimes start as nor'easters off the New England coast.
They usually move past the north coasts of the British Isles to the Norwegian Sea.
When they move south, they can affect almost any country in Europe.
These most often affect Britain, Ireland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
They can affect any country in central, northern and western Europe.
These storms cause economic damage of €1.9 billion each year.
They cause insurance costs of €1.4 billion yearly (1990–1998).
Only US hurricanes cause more insurance costs of all natural disasters.
Disasters in Europe
The Euston Arch was an archway built at the front of Euston railway station in London.
It was built in 1837 by the London and Birmingham Railway.
The people in charge of the new and modern railway wanted passengers to have a good feeling about the station.
They built the large arch as a gate in front of the station to attract attention.
Four columns supported the arch.
The outside two columns were plain and square.
The inside two were circular and decorated in the Doric style.
This Doric style gave the arch its common name of "The Doric Arch".
Originally, the words "London and Birmingham Railway" marked the top of the gate.
In 1870, the letters EUSTON in gold were carved into the beam across the tops of the four columns.
This railway company had joined other companies to form the London and North Western Railway.
This new company did not want passengers to use the old name.
It changed the name of the arch from the company name to the station name.
In 1960s, Britain was modernising the railways.
Diesel locomotives were replacing of steam locomotives.
Overhead electric wires were added to the important line from Euston Station in London to the North West of England.
The old Euston station was also to replaced.
The railway added more platforms and more space at the front of the station for cars.
By 1961 the Arch had been removed.
The Northern station of the railway was at Curzon Street in Birmingham.
That station was decorated with large pillars too and it still stands today.
The columns at Curzon Street are Ionic instead of Doric.
This means that the columns are plain, not fluted.
SSI or social security income is a type of government check that is given to those in the United States with some type of disability.
Those who are above age 65 are automatically qualified to receive SSI benefits.
However, children who have a disability can also qualify for SSI benefits.
In all cases with children, they can receive SSI until the age of 18 (when they finish school).
Some children continue to receive SSI if their disability worsens, or if they continue to develop more disabilities.
When a child reaches the age of 18, they are evaluated by a professional physiatrist.
The physiatrist asks several questions ranging from their moods to how they are doing in their life.
The evaluation also consists of several mental work problems that are based on decision-making.
At the end of the evaluation, the physiatrist will determine if the child is still disabled or has more disabilities.
There has been mixed to negative commentaries by the general public who believe that SSI is a mere waste and should not exist.
While others argue that if SSI is taken away, the elderly and children with disabilities would struggle with medical expenses and other lifetime economic issues.
SSI is founded by the government.
The money given to those with SSI are taken from taxes from those who work in the United States.
SSI benefits include: insurance, automatic qualification for low income housing, free transportation to and from appointments and a monthly check that arrives on the first of every month.
Official United States website for SSI
The Protect Intellectual Property Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act), also called PIPA, was a proposed American law to stop copyright infringement on the Internet.
The law would give copyright holders new ways to deal with websites infringing copyright.
Some people and businesses support the law while others are alarmed by the law.
Supporters worry that the current copyright law is not effective in shutting down piracy websites.
Opponents worry that the law is a kind of censorship.
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Text of Protect Intellectual Property Act ; S. 968
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, often simply called The Metrodome, was a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
The field was renamed Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in October 2009.
Opened in 1982, it replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington (which, beginning a three year deal on October 5, 2009, now holds naming rights for the Metrodome's field), and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus.
The Metrodome was home to the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings, and in its last years was also sometimes used by the Big Ten's Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team.
The stadium was also the home of the Minnesota Twins from 1982 to 2009 and the Golden Gophers football team from 1982 to 2008.
The Twins now play at the nearby Target Field, while Golden Gophers football returned to campus at TCF Bank Stadium.
The Vikings played their last game at the stadium on  December 29, 2013.
Demolition of the stadium began on January 18, 2014.
A new stadium for the Vikings, U.S. Bank Stadium, was built on the site, and opened in 2016.
During construction of the new stadium, the Vikings played at TCF Bank Stadium, located on the University of Minnesota campus.
Metrodome Dreamscapes - digital ephemera archive
Ballpark Digest review of Metrodome
Blog with pictures of 2011 roof
Marcus Edward Trescothick  (born 25 December 1975) is an English cricketer.
He was born in Keynsham, Somerset.
He is a batsman.
He played 76 test matches and 123 one day internationals for the England cricket team.
He has stopped playing cricket for the England cricket team now.
He still plays cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club.
The Chicago Whales were a professional baseball team that played in Chicago, Illinois, during 1914 and 1915.
They were members of the Federal League, a short-lived attempt at a third major league.
The Whales were owned by a group led by Chicago restaurant owner Charles Weeghman.
They played their home games at Weeghman Park, which is now Wrigley Field.
20th century in Chicago
1910s in the United States
The Federal League was a third major league baseball league.
It was in competition with the National League and American League.
The league played for two seasons, 1914 and 1915, and then went out of business.
Metropolitan Stadium was a sports stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
It opened in 1956 as the home of the local minor league baseball team, the Minneapolis Millers.
It was made larger in 1961 so that it could be used for major league teams.
In 1961, the Minnesota Twins moved from Washington, DC and the Minnesota Vikings began play at the stadium.
It was replaced by the Metrodome in 1982, and was torn down in the mid-1980s.
The site of the stadium is now used by the Mall of America.
When people talk about the ballpark nowadays, they often call it the "Old Met".
The first floor of the Mall has a brass marker in the shape of a home plate, on the spot where the Old Met's home base once was.
Baseball stadiums
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest single airport in the United States.
However, all of the New York City metropolitan area's airports combine to create the largest airport system in the United States.
They are also second in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and first in the world in terms of total flight operations.
50 busiest US airports by total passenger boardings
30 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic (2010)
10 busiest US airports by international passenger traffic (2010)
10 busiest airports in the US by total cargo throughput (2010)
Airports, busiest
Busiest airports in the United States
Edward William Binney was born in Morton, Nottinghamshire in 1812.
He was apprenticed to a solicitor in Chesterfield.
In 1836, he went to Manchester.
He soon retired from legal practice to study geology.
In 1838, he helped found the Manchester Geological Society.
He was elected president in 1857 and again in 1865.
He also was the secretary and later the president of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.
He studied the Carboniferous and Permian rocks in northern England and the Drift deposits of Lancashire.
He and Joseph Dalton Hooker found the first coal balls.
They also studied the geology of the country around Manchester.
He became an expert on the Coal Measures, and his Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants found in the Carboniferous Strata (1868–1875) was one of the studies of the Palaeontographical Society.
Secord, A. "Binney, Edward William (1812–1881)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 10 August 2007
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Paleobotany is part of paleontology.
Paleophytology is a synonym.
Paleobotanists study plant fossils from the past.
Paleobotany is also about trying to understand past environments and the history of agriculture.
Fossil pollen and spores are important for studying the history of plants.
Micropaleontology and palynology both include studying fossil plant pollen and spores.
Coal, a black rock, and a solid fossil fuel formed from fossil plants
Coal balls, plant remains form strange balls in coal deposits, but are not made of coal
Rhynie chert, a fossil deposit with extraordinary plant fossils
Subfields of paleontology
Moree is a large town in northern New South Wales, Australia.
It is on the Mehi River and on the junction of the Newell Highway and Gwydir Highway.
The next closest town to Moree is Narrabri which is 100 kilometers south of Moree.
Moree is a major agricultural centre.
It is an important part of the Australian cotton growing industry.
Like many towns and cities in Australia, Moree shares its name with a much smaller community in Northern Ireland, Moree, County Tyrone.
At the 2001 census, 9,247 people lived in Moree.
Later in 2006, only 8,083 people lived there.
Ernest "Ernie" Banks (January 31, 1931 – January 23, 2015) was a former Major League Baseball player.
He was a shortstop and a first baseman.
He spent his entire 19-year career with the Chicago Cubs of the National League (1953–1971).
He hit 512 home runs in his career.
Very few players have hit more than 500 home runs in their careers.
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.
He was known as "Mr. Cub".
Banks was born in  Dallas, Texas and went to Booker T. Washington High School in that city.
He was a very good athlete.
He won "letters" in football, basketball and track.
He graduated in 1950.
Banks signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1950.
He broke into the Major Leagues in 1953 with the Chicago Cubs.
He was their first black player.
He played for the Cubs his entire career.
He started at shortstop, then moved to first base in 1962.
In 1955, he set the record for grand slam home runs in a single season with five.
That record stood for over thirty years.
Banks won the National League Most Valuable Player Award twice, in 1958 and 1959.
He became the first shortstop in the history of the National League to win the MVP award in back to back seasons.
On May 12, 1970, at Chicago's Wrigley Field, Banks hit his 500th career home run.
Banks finished his career with 512 home runs, and his 277 homers as a shortstop were the most ever at the time of his retirement. (
Cal Ripken, Jr. now holds the record for most homers as a shortstop with 345.)
Banks holds Cubs records for games played (2,528), at-bats (9,421), extra-base hits (1,009), and total bases (4,706).
During Banks' career, the Cubs as a team often played poorly.
They started to play better late in his career, but they never got into the playoffs.
Banks holds the Major League record for most games played without a playoff appearance (2,528).
In 1977 Banks was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The beginning of Banks' speech that August 8 can be heard on a CD called Baseball's Greatest Hits Vol.
Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn presents Banks, who then says, "Thank you very much, Commissioner, for the fine introduction.
We've got the setting - sunshine, fresh air; we've got the team behind us so . . . '
Let's play two!"
Banks had worn number 14 on his Cubs uniform.
In 1982 he became the first Cubs players whose number was retired by the team.
On March 31, 2008, a statue of Banks was put outside Wrigley Field.
The base of the statue repeats his famous saying, "Lets play two!"
Banks died of a heart attack at a Chicago hospital on January 23, 2015, eight days before his 84th birthday.
His death was announced by his lawyer in that same day.
He was buried in Graceland Cemetery, just a few blocks north of Wrigley Field.
Ernie Banks – BaseballLibrary.com
Ernie Banks' oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project
Ernie Banks Biography  - The HistoryMakers
West Side Park is the name of a former baseball park in Chicago, Illinois.
It was the home field of the Chicago Cubs baseball team from 1893 through 1915.
It was the Cubs' home ballpark when they won their only World Series championships, in 1907 and 1908, until their win in 2016.
The team moved to Wrigley Field in 1916.
The park got its name from being located on the west side of Chicago.
Where the ballpark once stood there is now a building in the University of Illinois Medical School.
, also known as Washū, was an old province of Japan in the area of Nara Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
The history of the province started in 716 and ended in 738.
Yoshino Province was abolished sometime after 738.
It was reformed as part of Yamato Province.
The Buddhist temple of Hisosan-ji was established in the province.
Yoshino was known for locally produced varnishes called lacquer.
Cups and bowls and other lacquer ware (Yoshino nuri) were typically black and red.
Yoshino lacquer (Yoshino urushi) was evaluated as superior.
Daimyo-issued banknote from Yamato-Washu Province, 1744-1748
738 disestablishments
716 establishments
Heathrow Airport Holdings (formely BAA Ltd.) is a Spanish company who operates six British airports (including Heathrow Airport) and Naples Airport in Italy, making the company one of the largest transport companies in the world.
BAA comes from British Airports Authority and is owned by a group led by Grupo Ferrovial, a Spanish firm specialising in infrastructure.
The company's head office is in The Compass Centre on the grounds of London Heathrow Airport in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
Heathrow Airport Holdings makes money from charging landing fees to airlines and from areas such as retail and property.
BAA does not operate all UK airports - most are in the ownership of local authorities or other corporations.
Aberdeen Airport  is an international airport in Aberdeen, Scotland.
It is about 5 nautical miles (5.8 miles or 9.3 km) northwest of Aberdeen city centre.
2.76 million passengers used Aberdeen Airport in 2010, a reduction of 7.4% from 2009.
It is the 15th busiest airport in the UK.
The airport was the second busiest airport in Scotland, and sixth busiest in the United Kingdom by number of flights in 2010.
The airport is owned and operated by BAA, which is a Spanish company.
It operates six British airports, including Heathrow Airport.
Aberdeen Airport is a base for BMI Regional (part of BMI) and Eastern Airways.
The Airport is also the main heliport for the Scottish offshore oil industry.
The airport has one main passenger terminal, serving scheduled and charter holiday flights.
There are three terminals for North Sea helicopter operations, used by Bristow Helicopters, CHC-Scotia, and Bond Offshore Helicopters.
There is also a small terminal next to the main passenger terminal, Broomfield House, used for oil company charter flights to Scatsta in Shetland, operated by Eastern Airways.
With the newer aircraft, helicopters can reach the northern most platforms on both the East and west of Shetland areas.
However, helicopters often use Wick, Kirkwall, Scatsa and Sumburgh for refuelling stops.
A heliport is a small airport only for use by helicopters.
Heliports normally contain one or more helipads and may have limited facilities such as fuel, lighting, a windsock, or even hangars.
In larger towns and cities, customs facilities may be available at a heliport.
In a large metropolis, a heliport can serve passengers needing to quickly move within the city or to outlying regions.
Generally heliports can be situated closer to a town or city centre than an airport for fixed-wing aircraft.
The advantage in flying by helicopter to a destination or even to the city's main airport is that travel can be much faster than driving.
As an example, the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City provides scheduled service to John F. Kennedy International Airport and is used to move wealthy persons and important goods quickly to destinations as far away as Maryland.
Some skyscrapers feature rooftop helipads or heliports to serve the transport needs of executives or clients.
The U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles is an example.
Police departments use heliports as a base for police helicopters, and larger department may have a dedicated one such as the LAPD Hooper Heliport.
Helipads are common features at hospitals where they serve to facilitate MEDEVACs or air ambulance transfers of patients to trauma units or to accept patients from remote areas without local hospitals or facilities capable of providing the level of emergency care required.
Heliports have no orientation and are not numbered in a standard fashion like runways.
In some US cities it is standard to paint the maximum allowable weight of a helicopter in thousands of pounds.
Thus, a 12 in a circle designates that the maximum landing weight is 12,000 lbs.
Heliport lighting normally consists of a circle or square of inset lights around the surface called the TLOF (touchdown and lift-off area) and another around the overall landing area called the FATO (final approach and takeoff area).
The later encompasses the TLOF as well and the lights may be elevated or inset.
Both sets of lights are now recommended to be green by the International Civil Aviation Organization and Federal Aviation Administration.
Yellow (amber) was the former standard and is still preferred in many locations.
There is a great deal of variance in color depending on the owner and jurisdiction.
These lights were traditionally incandescent but are now increasingly light-emitting diodes with brightness control.
The TLOF and FATO lights may be supplemented with surface flood lights.
A lighted wind cone is necessary.
At ground-based locations, a row of lead-in lights in the preferred direction of approach is sometimes used.
Visual slope guidance systems (such as HAPI, PAPI, etc.)
are recommended in both ICAO and FAA documents but are rarely deployed due to the high cost relative to the rest of the lighting system.
While airports commonly use 6.6A direct current power, heliport lighting is normally AC powered.
Radio control of the lighting by the pilot via an automated ground-based controller is also common.
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In grammar, a person is the way of referring to someone taking part in an event, such as the person talking, the person being talked to, the person being talked about.
Grammatical persons are accomplished by pronouns, words used to take the place of a noun, in order to make speech easier.
The first person is the speaker referring to himself or herself.
The second person is the person whom someone is speaking to or writing to.
Effect on nouns
Very few nouns are second-person nouns because people do not usually talk directly to things like tables.
In fact, in English, just about the only kind of nouns that are second-person is a small group of pronouns that can be seen in the table below.
Sometimes, a person's name is used in the second person, but that's usually just with a baby.