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Suzie Zeldin - Keys and Vocals
Tour Support
Jay Scalchunes - Drum
Ari Sadowitz - Studio/live bass
Past Member
Charles J. Seich - Drums (2008-2011)
The Narrative (2010)
EPs and Digital Release
Just Say Yes (EP) (2008)
Nothing Without You Tour EP (2010)
Kickstarter Tour EP (2011)
B-Sides and Seasides (2012)
Castlereagh (born in Dublin; 1769–1822) was a British politician.
He became a Viscount when his father was made Earl of Londonderry.
He became British Foreign Secretary but killed himself.
Castlereagh at Westminster Abbey website
Bambi Meets Godzilla is a two-minute short cartoon created by Marv Newland in 1969.
It features the characters Bambi and Godzilla.
It is ranked as #38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons, written in 1994.
Two sequels were later made that were not created by Newland: Son of Bambi Meets Godzilla and Bambi's Revenge.
In the opening credits, Bambi is seen grazing while Call to the Dairy Cows from Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell (1829) plays in the background.
After the credits, Bambi looks up to see Godzilla's foot coming down on him, crushing him (set to "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles).
After this, the closing credits play over an image of Godzilla's foot.
Social drinking is the name for the consumption of alcoholic drinks in a social setting; people who are social drinkers do this with friends.
Many cultures frown upon isolating people because they drink alcohol, and because they may have a problem with alcohol dependence.
People meet to celebrate an occasion, which also permits them to drink alcohol without being frowned upon.
Western Development Region (Nepali:पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र - Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra) is one of Nepal's five development regions.
It is in the west-central part of the country with headquarters at Pokhara.
It is the second largest Development Region of Nepal with an area of  and the third in population with 4,926,765 people living there; its population density is of 167.6 persons/km2.
Some of the highest mountains of the world are found in this region, in the Himalayas of the Dhawalagiri and Gandaki zones.
Among them are Dhaulagiri (8,167 m), Manaslu (8,156 m) and Annapurna (8,091 m).
Paścimāñcala
Star Fox 2 is a cancelled video game that was going to be released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
It was going to be the second game in the Star Fox series and the sequel to Star Fox.
It was going to be released in the summer of 1995.
The game was cancelled because the Nintendo 64 was going to be released the following year.
The gameplay of Star Fox is very different from the first Star Fox game.
Instead of going on a path with the same missions each time, the player moves freely on a map screen of the Lylat system.
When the player's ships hit an enemy, the screen switches to an action screen with gameplay like the first Star Fox game.
Once the player completes what they have to do, they are taken back to the map screen to go to another area.
The player's goal is to destroy all of the enemies on the map while defending Corneria (seen in the lower left corner of the map).
The player has to stop Corneria's damage level from reaching 100% from enemy attacks.
He was drafted with the 8th overall pick in the 1987 NHL draft by the Chicago Blackhawks.
In 1989, he played for the Indianapolis Ice and they won the Turner Cup.
He played in the NHL for 11 years with the Chicago Blackhawks, San Jose Sharks and Phoenix Coyotes.
He has also played in the DEL for the Essen Mosquitoes, Iserlohn Roosters, ERC Ingolstadt and Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers.
Michael David "Worm" Veisor, Sr. (
born August 25, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender.
He was drafted with the 45th overall pick in the 1972 NHL draft by the Chicago Black Hawks.
He played 62 games during his 6 six years with the Black Hawks and then played for the Hartford Whalers.
He played 3 seasons with the Whalers and went on to play for the Winnipeg Jets.
His time with the Jets was shorts and he only played 8 games with them.
He then returned to the Whalers and played 4 games for them before retiring in 1984.
Veisor is Jewish.
He said that he wanted to be the first Jewish goalie in NHL history but he was preceded by Ross Brooks.
Star Fox Command is a video game for the Nintendo DS game console.
It is the fifth game in the Star Fox series.
It was developed by Q-Games and published by Nintendo EAD Group No.
It was released in Europe on July 19, 2006, in Japan on August 3, 2006, in North America on August 28, 2006,  and in Australia on September 21, 2006.
It is the first Star Fox game to be released on a handheld video game console.
It is also the first Star Fox game to have online play with the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
The game features two types of gameplay: a map mode, and a battle mode.
In the map mode, the player takes control of several ships.
The player can control up to four ships at a time.
The player's goal is to stop enemy ships from reaching the Great Fox.
When the player meets an enemy or missile, the gameplay switches to the battle mode.
Battle mode has gameplay that is similar to past Star Fox games.
The player can move freely around the level, like some bosses and levels in Star Fox 64.
The player has to destroy a base ship, defeat all of the enemies, or collect a number of cores.
Once the player completes what they have to do, the game goes back to the map screen.
As the player plays further in the game, they will be able to take different routes when they complete some levels.
Each route has different planets that the player can visit depending on what route they choose.
Multiplayer can be played with up to six players in DS Download Play, and with up to three players in Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection play.
The goal is to destroy the ships of the other players and collect stars that they leave behind.
Players can collect stars from opponents that were not killed by the player.
Nintendo Wi-Fi play ranks a player from Z to A, with Z being the lowest and A being the highest.
Every time a player wins a match, they get an amount of percent.
When the player reaches 100%, they move to the next letter.
Before playing hockey professionally, Underhill played in college for Cornell University for 4 years.
He was drafted with the 170th overall pick in the 1999 NHL draft by the Calgary Flames.
Even though he was drafted by the Flames, he did not play a game for them.
The only game the Underhill played in the NHL was during the 2003–04 NHL season for the Chicago Blackhawks.
He spent most of his playing career in the AHL and ECHL.
He won the ECAC’s Ken Dryden Award in 2002.
He played 18 games in the AHL for the Providence Bruins, Manchester Monarchs, Norfolk Admirals and St. John's Maple Leafs.
In the ECHL, he played 4 seasons with the Pee Dee Pride, Florence Pride, Mississippi Sea Wolves and Alaska Aces.
He retired in 2006 after his season with the Aces.
Joseph Régis Jocelyn Thibault (born January 12, 1975) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender.
He was drafted with the 10th overall pick in the 1993 NHL draft by the Quebec Nordiques.
He played two seasons with the Nordiques and then one season with the Colorado Avalanche when the Nordiques moved to Colorado.
In 1995, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens with Martin Ručínský, and Andrei Kovalenko in exchange for Patrick Roy and Mike Keane.
The trade was known as known in French as 'Le Trade' which was in reference to 1988's 'The Trade' of Wayne Gretzky.
He played 4 seasons with the Canadiens and was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks on November 16, 1998.
He played with the Blackhawks for 5 seasons and then was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a fourth-round selection in 2006 draft on August 10, 2005.
He injured his hip and lost twelve of thirteen starts.
He was replaced as the starter by Marc-André Fleury in late November and was then put on waivers.
The Buffalo Sabres signed Thibault as an unrestricted free agent on July 5, 2007 and he played as the backup to Ryan Miller for one season.
He was not re-signed afted the season and retired from professional hockey in 2008.
He is married and has three daughters Noemie, Zoe and Annabel who all play hockey.
Thibault and his family live in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
He helped bring an expansion team in the QMJHL to Sherbrooke.
The Sherbrooke Phoenix started playing during the 2012–13 season.
Before he played in the NHL, he played 2 seasons in the WHL with the Seattle Thunderbirds.
He played a total of 99 games in the NHL with the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks.
He retired from professional hockey in 2005.
In August 2009, he was hired as the goaltending consultant for the Florida Panthers.
He came out of retirement for one game during the 2012-2013 NHL season as a back up goalie for the Florida Panthers.
Stevenson played eight games in the NHL; 4 games with the New York Rangers and 4 games with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Stevenson played most of his hockey career in the Pacific Coast Hockey League with the Tacoma Rockets.
He died on November 9, 1975 in Massachusetts.
Before he played in the NHL, he played 2 years at the University of Vermont where he is ranked as the third all-time in save percentage (.908) and fifth all-time in goals against average (2.99).
He only appeared in three minutes of one NHL game with the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1993–94 NHL season.
During that time, he did not face a shot and in doing this he was rendered as the NHL's comparable version to Major League Baseball's legendary Moonlight Graham.
He played most of his 10-year career in various minor leagues, which includes the International Hockey League, American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League, and Central Hockey League as well as others.
Prayer in Christianity is seen by most Christians as a way of communicating with God.
Prayer is seen as being therapeutic by many Christian leaders.
The Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught his disciples, was important as an example in the early churches.
The prayers in the Old Testament and New Testament have also influenced Christian thought.
Prayers  at christianity.about.com
Mid-Western Development Region (Nepali:मध्य पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र - Madhya Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra) is one of Nepal's five development regions.
It is in the west-central part of the country with headquarters at Birendranagar, Surkhet.
It is the largest Development Region of Nepal with an area of  but the fourth in population with 3,546,682 people living there; its population density is the lowest of all the regions, with 83.7 persons/km2.
The most important river in the Mid-Western Development Region is the Karnali or Kauriala, known as Ghaghara in India.
It is an important left tributary of the Ganges river.
With a length, in Nepal, of  is the largest river of the country.
Madhya Paścimāñcala
Young was born in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, on December 16, 1930.
Young dropped out of St. Petersburg High School to support his ill mother and was wounded in a hunting accident.
He was a member of the Republican Party, and was at the time of his death the longest-serving Republican member of Congress.
He served as chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations from 1999 to 2005 and sat on the Committee until his death.
Young served as a member of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission from 1965 to 1967.
He was also a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1984.
In 1985, Young divorced his first wife, with whom he had three children, and married his current wife, Beverly.
They have had two children together, Billy, and Patrick, and the couple raised Beverly's son, Robbie, from her first marriage.
On October 17, 2013, Young's family told the Tampa Bay Times that Young was continuing medical treatment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center but his "condition turned for the worse overnight and he is gravely ill.
Earlier that day, several news sources erroneously reported that Young had died.
On October 18, 2013, Young died at Walter Reed in Bethesda, Maryland from multiple myeloma.
He had been hospitalized for almost two weeks with back problems that resulted from injuries he sustained in a small plane crash in 1970.
He was 82 and is survived by his wife and five children.
Congressman C.W. Bill Young  official U.S. House site
Bill Young for Congress
C.W. Bill Young Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program DoD Bone Marrow Donor website
Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington.
He served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Foley was born in Spokane, Washington.
In 1946, he graduated from the Jesuit-run Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane.
He went on to attend Gonzaga University in Spokane and the University of Washington in Seattle, the latter awarding him a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951.
In 1957, he earned a law degree from the same university.
He was the 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1989 to 1995.
He represented Washington's 5th congressional district for 30 years as a Democratic member from 1965 to 1995.
Foley was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign for Congress.
He served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2001 under Bill Clinton.
He is sometimes viewed as a political casualty of the term limits controversy of the early 1990s.
President Bill Clinton attributed his defeat to his support for the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.
In 1997, Foley was appointed as the 25th U.S. Ambassador to Japan by President Bill Clinton.
He served as ambassador until 2001.
Foley died at his home in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2013, following months of hospice care from complications from a stroke, aged 84.
Speaker John Boehner, and Nancy Pelosi, who also served as Speaker, issued statements honoring Foley.
Bruce Travis McGill (born July 11, 1950) is an American actor who has an extensive list of credits in film and television.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Jack Dalton on the television series MacGyver and as Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day in  National Lampoon's Animal House.
McGill was born on July 11, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas.
McGill has been married to Gloria Lee.
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (born Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou,  ; on July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist.
She is best known for her news website The Huffington Post.
She was a one-time liberal democrat.
She later became a  popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which she adopted liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s.
She is the former spouse of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington.
Huffington was born Ariánna Stasinopoúlou in Athens, Greece on July 15, 1950.
She studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge.
Huffington was married to Michael Huffington from 1986 until they divorced in 1997.
She became an American citizen in 1990.
Column archive at The Huffington Post
Column archive at AlterNet
Campaign contributions made by Arianna Huffington
The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is a World Heritage site.
It is often called Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.
The site covers  of ocean waters that includes ten islands and atolls.
The size is larger than the country of Greece.
The area was made a national monument by U.S. President George W. Bush on June 15, 2006.
It became a World Heritage site on July 30, 2010.
Papahānaumokuākea supports 7,000 species.
One quarter of the species are endemic.
UNESCO: World Heritage Site profile: Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
USFWS: Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge
USFWS: Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
National Monuments of the United States
Russian Imperial family.
It is in the town of Pushkin, Saint Petersburg.
The Palace's town was called Tsarskoye Selo which means Tsar's village in English.
In 1918 the Bolsheviks changed the name to Detskoye Selo.
In 1937 the town was renamed to Pushkin to honor Alexander Pushkin.
Catherine I of Russia began the building of the palace in 1717.
She hired the German architect Johann-Friedrich Braunstein to create the summer palace.
In 1733, Empress Anna added to the palace.
Then in 1752 Empress Elizabeth had the palace torn down.
It was rebuilt in a Rococo style.
More than 100 kilograms of gold were used.
Many statues on the roof were covered in gold.
Catherine the Great thought the palace was old-fashioned.
She employed Scottish architect Charles Cameron.
He made one wing into the Neo-Palladian style.
He also changed the personal apartments of the Empress.
After Catherine's death the imperial family began using Pavlovsk Palace and Alexander Palace.
The palace was destroyed during World War II.
Restoration began soon after the German forces left.
Now the palace is mostly restored and is open for tours.
Edward Matthew "Ed" Lauter II (October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013), known as Ed Lauter, was an American actor and stand-up comedian.
He was known for his roles in Family Plot, Cujo, Death Wish III, Born on the Fourth of July, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The Number 23, and in Trouble with the Curve.
Lauter was born on October 30, 1938 in Long Beach, New York.
He studied at Long Island University.
Lauter was married four times.
His last marriage was to Marchell Doreen Williams from 2005 until his death in 2013.
Lauter died on October 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, California from mesothelioma, aged 74.
Riegel was born on 10 March 1923 in Bonn, Germany.
He was the oldest son of the company's founder Hans Riegel Sr.,
who invented the gummy bear in 1922.
He studied at the University of Bonn.
Riegel owned the Jakobsburg Hotel and Golf resort near Boppard in the Rhine Valley in Germany.
Riegel died on 15 October 2013 from heart failure after a surgical procedure was made to remove a brain tumor in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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It may be  an ocean or may be a large saline lake which, like the Caspian Sea, lacks a natural outlet.
The open ocean has about  solids per litre, a salinity of 35ppt.
The Mediterranean Sea is a little higher at 37ppt and the Dead Sea has as much as  dissolved solids per litre (300ppt).
Although sodium chloride is the main salt present, making up about 85% of the solids in solution, there are also  per litre of the chlorides of other metals such as potassium and magnesium and  of sulphates, carbonates, bromides and other salts.
A kilogram (2.2 lb) of salt can therefore be found in 28 litres or one cubic foot of typical ocean water.
Despite differences in the levels of salinity in different seas, the relative composition of the dissolved salts is very stable throughout the world's oceans.
The temperature of the sea depends on the amount of sunlight falling on the surface.
In the tropics, with the sun nearly overhead, the temperature of the surface layers can rise to over  while near the poles the temperature in balance with the sea ice is about .
Cold water is denser than warm water and tends to sink.
There is a continuous circulation of water in the oceans.
Warm surface currents cool as they move away from the tropics, the water becomes denser and sinks.
The cold water moves back towards the equator as a deep sea current, driven by changes in the temperature and  density of the water, eventually welling up again towards the surface.
Deep sea water has a temperature between  and  in all parts of the globe.
The amount of oxygen found in seawater depends mostly on the plants growing in it.
These are mainly algae, including phytoplankton, but also include some vascular plants such as seagrasses.
In daylight the photosynthetic activity of these plants produces oxygen which dissolves in the seawater where it is used by marine animals.
At night, photosynthesis stops, and the amount of dissolved oxygen declines.
In the deep sea where not enough light penetrates for plants to grow, there is very little dissolved oxygen.
Seawater is a little alkaline and during historic times has had a pH of about 8.2.
The pH is expected to reach 7.7 by the year 2100, an increase of 320% in acidity in a century.
One important element for the formation of skeletal material in marine animals is calcium but it is easily precipitated out in the form of calcium carbonate as the sea becomes more acid.
This is likely to have profound effects on certain planktonic marine organisms because their ability to form shells will be reduced.
These include single-celled algae called coccolithophorids and foraminifera.
These are important parts of the food chain.
Reducing their numbers will have significant results.
In tropical areas, corals will be affected by a lack of calcium, with knock-on effects for other reef residents.
Wind blowing over the surface of a body of water forms waves.
The friction between air and water caused by a gentle breeze on a pond causes ripples to form.
A strong blow over the ocean causes larger waves as the moving air pushes against the raised ridges of water.
The waves reach their greatest height when the rate at which they travel nearly matches the speed of the wind.
The waves form at right angles to the direction from which the wind blows.
In open water, if the wind continues to blow, as happens in the Roaring Forties in the southern hemisphere, long, organized masses of water called swell roll across the ocean.
Ocean and sea
The Würstelstand ("sausage stand") is the Austrian type of the take-away.
These stands are very common in Vienna.
Usually, they sell different kinds of sausages.
It is not unusual for the people in Vienna to grab a pair of sausages after a performance at a theatre or opera house.
In addition, a Würstelstand traditionally also sells Leberkäse.
As a side dish, different chile peppers, gherkins and other pickled vegetables are available.
Jan Havickszoon Steen (born c. 1626 in Leiden, buried 3 February 1679, also in Leiden) was a Dutch painter.
He is mostly known for his genre paintings today.
He lived during the Dutch Golden Age period.
Respiratory failure is a medical condition which affects respiration.
It means the alveoli in the lung are not getting enough oxygen.
Because of this, gas exchange in the blood is reduced.
Respiratory failure will lead to a person's death.
For this reason, it is a medical emergency.
Emergency treatment of respiratory failure is very similar to that of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
In obstructive respiratory failure, there is a mechanical problem that blocks or tightens the passage of the air.
Examples of conditions that can produce this include Asthma and Cystic fibrosis.
In restrictive respiratory failure, the volume of the person's rib cage is reduced.
An example for this is Scoliosis.
In traumatic respiratory failure, the air that is breathed takes the wrong route.
Examples are Pneumothorax and Hemothorax.
Chronic respiratory failure develops at slow speed over time.
Acute respiratory failure develops rapidly
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a World War I battle fought in 1917 near Arras in northern France.
From the fall of 1914 until 1917 the German army held this eight kilometre-long ridge.
From there they could see the Allied trenches for miles in all directions.
Several times the Allies tried to take it from the Germans without success.
On 9 April, 1917 they attacked again.
Four divisions of the Canadian Corps attacked nineteen divisions of the German 6th Army defending the ridge.
The Battle was won by the Canadians on Easter Monday, 1917.
It was the first time that Canadians had attacked as a national unit.
However it cost the Canadians 10,602 casualties.
Far-Western Development Region (Nepali:सुदुर पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र - Sudur Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra) is one of Nepal's five development regions.
It is at the western end of the country with headquarters at Dipayal Silgadhi.
It is the smallest Development Region of Nepal with an area of  and also with the lowest population with 2,552,517 people living there; its population density is the second lowest of all the regions, with 130.6 persons/km2.
The highest mountain in the region is the Api Peak, with  high; it is in the Darchula district.
Other high mountain is Saipal,  high, in the Bajhang district.
The most important rivers in the Far-Western Development Region are the Seti and the Mahakali (Sharda in India) rivers; both rivers are tributaries of the Karnali river.
The main city in the region is Mahendranagar, the eighth largest city of the country, at about  from the border of India.
Sudur Pashchimanchal
An oarfish is a kind of very long, flat fish. "
Oarfish" is another word for fish in the Regalecidae family.
There are four species of oarfish in the world.
The giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne) is the longest bony fish alive in the world today.
It can grow up to  long.
Oarfish live in the pelagic zone.
This means that they live in water that is not near the shore and not near the bottom of the ocean.
They live in all temperate and tropical oceans.
Oarfish are also very rare.
They are usually only seen when a dead one washes onto the shore.
When oarfish are sick or dying, they swim up near the surface of the water.
This behavior means that oarfish are probably the "sea serpents" in legends.
There are two ideas about why these fish are called "oarfish."
One idea is that their bodies look like oars because they are very long and flat.
The other idea is that some people used to think that oarfish swam by moving their fins like the oars of a row boat.
We now know that this "rowing" idea wrong.
The family name Regalecidae comes from a word in , which means "royal".
Robert John Burck (born December 23, 1970), better known as the Naked Cowboy, is an American street performer who performs in Times Square in New York City.
He wears only cowboy boots, a hat, and underwear, playing a guitar over his underwear to look like he is nude.
Burck began performing in 1997 in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
He became popular when a friend suggested that he dress only in his underwear to earn more money.
He is currently best-known for performing in Times Square.
Tour guides on passing buses point him out, and he gets a lot of attention from tourists who stop and take pictures with him.
Because of his popularity, Burck has appeared on television shows, in music videos, and other mass media.
He tried out for American Idol in its first season, but did not move on to the next round.
He also tried out for Australian Idol and Star Search, with the same result.
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Fable is a role-playing game made by Big Blue Box and Lionhead Studios for the Xbox, Windows and Mac OS X. The game was released on September 14, 2004 in North America and an extended version of the game called Fable: The Lost Chapters, was released for Xbox and Microsoft Windows in September 2005.
Fable was originally called Project Ego in early development and took around four years to create, with a team of around 70 developers working on it.
The theme music for Fable was composed by Danny Elfman.
The game won over fifty awards and was the Xbox's fastest-selling game at that time.
In the game, the player controls the main character, The Hero of Oakvale.
The player can interact with people and can battle foes.
To further the game's plot, the player must complete missions known as quests and can also complete side quests.
The player can choose to either be good or evil.
Completing good deeds will award the character good points and will produce a positive alignment and committing evil acts will add evil points and produce a negative alignment.
The character's appearance will also change if the player makes the character's alignment strong enough.
If the character has a strong enough positive alignment, a halo will appear above the character's head and if the character has a strong enough negative alignment, a red haze will rise from around his legs, he will draw flies, and will have glowing red eyes and horns.
Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber.
It is his most well known work.
It was made for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op.
Barber finished the Adagio for Strings in 1936.
It was the same year that he wrote the quartet.
It was conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
It was performed for the first time in 1938, in a radio broadcast from a New York City studio.
It was attended by an invited audience, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
Toscanini also took the piece on tour to Europe and South America.
Its reviews was generally positive, with Alexander J. Morin writing that Adagio for Strings is "full of pathos and cathartic passion" and that it "rarely leaves a dry eye."
The music is the setting for Barber's 1967 choral arrangement of Agnus Dei.
Adagio for Strings can be heard in many TV shows and movies.
In 2004, listeners of the BBC's Today programme voted Adagio for Strings the “saddest classical” work ever.
Sample from the BBC
NPR 100: Barber's Adagio
The Impact Of Barber's Adagio by All Things Considered
Special on the selection of the 1938 broadcast debut of Adagio for Strings to the 2005 National Recording Registry
Paleography is the study of ancient handwriting.
Using paleography, it is possible to understand communication between people.
A zombie walk is a trek made by people costumed as zombies.
These people may also act as starving zombies.
They pretend to be looking for human brains to eat.
Some people create characters for themselves such as zombie brides, clowns, or mad scientists.
These walks are community events.
They are sometimes held near Halloween.
There are day walks and night walks.
People of all ages join the walk.
Sometimes professional make up artists help walkers prepare their faces.
Variants on the walk format include zombie pub crawls and zombie runs.
A walk might be held to raise money for a community concern such as local hunger.
Sometimes walkers bring packaged and canned foods for the local food bank.
Zombie Walks are held around the world.
They may attract thousands of zombie walkers.
In October 2013, the annual New Jersey Zombie Walk had the largest crowd of zombies ever at 9,592.
This crowd walked along the Asbury Park boardwalk.
This Zombie Walk is in the Guiness World Record.
An integron is a type of transposon, a mobile genetic element.
It is a two-part genetic system found in bacteria, and maybe more widely.
It is the way antibiotic resistance is passed on so rapidly.
It is found in plasmids and chromosomes.
Although the first function discovered was antibiotic resistance, other bacterial functions (traits) can be transferred by integrons.
Transposons are the gene "capture and expression elements" which put  the small mobile elements known as gene cassettes in place and make them work.
Usually,
recombination site.
The cassettes carry the DNA coding (= 'a gene') for antibiotic resistance (for example).
Typically, the DNA would code for an enzyme which cleaves (cuts) the antibiotic molecule up.
The first part of an integron is a gene which codes for an enzyme which captures cassettes.
The second is a site on the genome where the cassettes are inserted, and a promoter which drives expression of cassette-associated genes. "
Integron" describes such structures both when no cassettes are present and when there are integrated cassettes.
Cassettes can be inserted at the site, they can be cut out, and they can undergo horizontal gene transfer.
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Philip Short (born on 17 April 1945) is an English journalist.
He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge.
After his graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in Malawi, then in Uganda.
He then joined the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) as a foreign correspondent.
He is an author of many books, such as biographies of Mao Zedong, Mao: A Life, and of Pol Pot, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare.
Pointless is a British quiz show on BBC One.
Who gets the answer that was the said the least gains the point.
The team with the highest number of points loses.
It is presented by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman.
It now has 10 series and many episodes.
In each game there are four teams of two.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1147 – 14 May 1219), sometimes called William, the Marshal or "the Marshal", was an "English" Knight who served five Kings.
He was Regent of England for a time during the childhood of Edward III.
In his day he may have been one of the most important persons in the monarchy next to the Royal family itself.
He was noted for his superior combat skills, his continuing loyalty to his Kings and his great ability in diplomacy.
Marshal began his life as a “landless” knight to become the Earl of Pembroke and one of the wealthiest men in the country.
Shortly after his death in 1219, his oldest son, William Marshal II, commissioned a biography of the life of his father.
Though biographers often embellish their subjects, many of the events of William's life stated there are clearly recorded elsewhere in historical records.
William Marshal’s  father,  was John Marshal, called John the Marshal.
He was the Lord of Newbury Castle located in County Berkshire in England.
When William was a young boy, there was a fierce civil war in England between King Stephen, grandson of William I, also called William the Conqueror and Henry I's daughter, Empress Matilda.
When William I died, both Stephen and Matilda believed they were the true successor to the Crown.
This period  in history was known as the time of The Anarchy because there was much lawlessness and violence in the Kingdom.
Many barons and Earls would "change sides" when it benefited them to do so and John Marshal was no exception.
At first he pledged his fealty or loyalty to King Stephen but later changed it to Empress Matilda.
This act helped to turn the tide in the civil war.
Early life as a knight
At an early age, William was sent to William de Tancarville to learn the skills of knighthood.
He was knighted in 1166.
He then crossed the channel to Normandy and went to serve under his uncle, Patrick, the Earl of Salisbury.
He fought in Ponthieu in 1168 when greatly outnumbered, his uncle was killed and William was taken prisoner.
Marshal's great skill and bravery was noticed and he was ransomed by Queen Eleanor of England.
As a young adult, Marshal went to many tournaments.
These were contests and mock (imitation) wars where Knights competed for great prizes.
Tournaments were an opportunity for a knight to acquire valuable possessions such as money, a horse, armor and weapons.
They were dangerous and it was not unusual for a knight to be killed during a tournament.
William and Henry, the young king
William had become a very skilled knight and after his ramsom he became part of Henry II’s household, teaching men to fight.
He became tutor, guardian, protector and friend to the son of Henry II, known historically as Henry the Young King.
When young Henry was coronated, Marshal was assigned to serve him as captain of the guard and chief of the knights.
It was Marshal who would knight the young King Henry.
Marshal also accompanied young Henry on many tournaments.
In 1173 young Henry argued with his father.
He wanted to assume the throne of England even though his father was still alive.
He left England and took his brother Richard with him to his mother's lands in Aquitaine.
In 1174, Henry II and his son made peace.
William continued on to win fame in tournaments.
The young king became ill and died of a sudden disease at Martel on 11 June 1183.
On crusade and fighting under Henry II
On his deathbed young Henry ordered Marshal to go on Crusade on his behalf.
With Henry II's permission, William went on Crusade for two years and his superior fighting skill was recognized by the Knights Templar.
When he returned, Henry II at once took him into high favor, and made him a member of his household.
Marshal then fought for Henry II against the French King Louis VII of France and in skirmishs against Henry's other sons now in rebellion.
Richard (called Lionhearted) was Henry II’s second son and he also wanted to be King of England and did not want to wait until his father died.
After a skirmish, Marshal came upon Richard and instead of killing him, killed his horse.
Shortly thereafter, Henry II became ill and retreated to Chinon where he died in 1189.
William with Richard I
Richard did not forget Marshal’s act of bravery and loyalty and when he became King, he took Marshal to fight against the King of France.
After a time, Richard decided to go on Crusade and left Marshal in England as the Justiciar of England who acted for the king in his absence and presided over the king's courts during his absence.
Richard I reaffirmed his father's promise to William and gave him the heiress of the Earldom of Pembroke, Striguil and the lands that came with her as was promised to him by Henry II shortly before Henry's death.
Marshal at once became one of the richest men in the Kingdom.
He acquired property in four countries.
Marshal fought valiantly for Richard against the King of France and was there when the peace treaty was made.
In 1199 King Richard was wounded and died of his wounds.
At that point there was another dispute about who would next be King of England, Arthur or John.
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, was another son of Henry II and would have been the next in line to be King but he died on either the 19 or 21 August 1186, at the age of 27.
The more common version is that he was trampled to death in a jousting tournament.
Geoffrey had a son Arthur I, who became the next Duke of Brittany.
Arthur felt that he was also heir to the throne of England.
Marshal believed that as a brother to King Richard, and in accordance with Norman custom, John, Geoffrey’s brother, should become the next King.
It was resolved in John’s favor and he became the next King of England.
William and King John
King John was a man who was disliked by many of his barons and Earls.
He knew this and distrusted them.
When Marshal went over to protect his lands in Ireland the King made him give one of his sons as hostage to make sure that Marshal was not disloyal to him.
King John sometimes took lands away from Marshal and at other times gave them back.
There was strife all during the reign of King John but Marshal remained loyal to the King throughout.
King John died on 18 October, 1216.
At that time his son, Henry III was too young to rule the kingdom.
Marshal was appointed as Regent to Henry III to make decisions on Henry’s behalf until he came of age.
William and Henry III
Marshal was quite old by then but managed the affairs of Henry III as Regent and even fought in combat at the Battle of Lincoln.
He was approximately 70 years of age.
On 14 May 1219 Marshal died at Caversham.
Death of William Marshal
When he knew he was dying he took on the robe of a Knights Templar and after his death he was buried in the Temple Church in London.
William Marshal’s effigy can still be seen at the Temple Church, London, with his son next to him.
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Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music.
Barber is well-known because of his 1936 work Adagio for Strings.
Barber won two Pulitzer Prizes for his works.
Barber was born on March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
He studied at the Curtis Institute for Music.
Barber was gay.
He lived with Gian Carlo Menotti for 30 years.
Barber died on January 23, 1981 in New York City, New York from cancer.
He is buried in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Rara Lake () is the biggest natural lake of Nepal.
It is in Rara Village Development Committee, Mugu District, Karnali Zone in the Mid-Western region.
The lake has a slightly oval shape and is entirely in the Rara National Park, about  north-west of the capital, Kathmandu.
Lake Rara is at an altitude of  above sea level covering an area of .
The lake has a length of  and a width of  with a maximum depth of .
It flows into the Karnali river via the Nijar river (Nijar Khola).
The climate of the Rara National Park, where the Lake Rara is, is a temperate climate with temperatures between  in summer and  in winter.
In the Lake Rara there are three endemic fish species (Schizothorax macrophthalmus, S. nepalensis and S. raraensis), and one endemic frog (Paa rarica).
Rara lake, West-Nepal
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Lakes of Nepal
Captain Phillips is a 2013 action thriller movie based on the true events of the Maersk Alabama hijacking in 2009.
It stars Tom Hanks, Faysal Ahmed and Barkhad Abdi.
The movie is based on the book by Captain Richard Phillips A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea (2010).
It was released to positive reviews on October 11, 2013.
Barkhad Abdi received an Oscar nomination.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American historical biographical drama movie based on the book 12 Years a Slave.
It is directed by Steve McQueen.
It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, and Brad Pitt.
It was composed by Hans Zimmer.
It was released on November 1, 2013 in the United States.
The film was first shown at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2013.
It will be released in the UK in January 2014.
On October 20 2013 McQueen won Hollywood Breakout Director Award at the Hollywood Film Awards for the film.
On November 14 he won Bronze Horse for Best Film - Special Mention at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post, and The New York Times called 12 Years a Slave the best movie of 2013.
World War Z is a 2013 action-thriller movie.
It was based on the book of the same name.
It stars Brad Pitt and Matthew Fox.
It was about a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie-like pandemic.
It was released to positive reviews on June 21, 2013.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a 2013 British biographical movie based on the life of Nelson Mandela.
It is based on Mandela's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom (1994).
It stars Idris Elba and Naomie Harris.
It was released on November 29, 2013 to mixed reviews.
Nearly a week later, Mandela died on December 5.
U2 made a song for the soundtrack called "Ordinary Love".
The song won the prize for Best Original Song – Motion Picture at the Golden Globes.
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Subject (school), a course of academic instruction
Library and information science
Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)
Subject term or index term, descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records
Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity
Subject–object problem, the issue of how actors or observers relate to things that are observed or acted upon
In general, any topic currently under consideration; see subject (school)
Subject (grammar), who or what a sentence or a clause is about
Subject case or nominative case, one of the grammatical cases for a noun
Subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
The melodic material presented first in a fugue
Either of the two main groups of themes (first subject, second subject) in sonata form
subjects in medieval feudalism, see commoners
subjects in modern constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, see British subject
Statistics and psychology
A subject is someone or something that undergoes testing in a scientific experiment.
An effigy is a representation of a specific person, especially in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium.
Effigies are common elements in art of the dead.
They are usually made of stone or metal and placed on a tomb.
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a left-wing political party in the United States.
The Green Party nominated Dr. Jill Stein as its candidate for President of the United States in 2012, and again in 2016.
The party focuses on issues such as social justice and environmentalism.
It is the fourth largest party, following the Libertarian Party.
Green Party official website
Particle board, also known as particleboard and chipboard, is a wood product made from chips of wood or sawdust.
It is mixed with resin or glue (both adhesives), then, under pressure and heat, pressed into uniform sheets.
Particle board is used in building construction and furniture making.
It is cheaper to make than plywood but not as strong.
Type 1 particle board expands when exposed to moisture.
For that reason it is not usually recommended to be used outdoors.
Type 2 particle board uses waterproof glues and can be used outdoors.
Engineered wood
Waferboard
Composite Panel Association: Particleboard
European Panel Federation: Particleboard
Guttermouth is an American punk rock band.
They formed in 1988 in Huntington Beach, California.
They are signed to Hopeless Records.
They have released nine full-length albums and two live albums.
They are infamous for their outrageous lyrics and deliberately explicit behavior.
This behavior has resulted in high-profile problems for the band, such as being banned from performing in Canada for eighteen months and leaving Warped Tour in 2004 due to conflicting political views and attitudes towards other musicians.
Dwarf (mythology), a type of creature from Germanic mythology and folklore
A person or animal with dwarfism
(including many names of plants or animals)
Morien is a character from Arthurian legend.
He is the main character of Morien (or Moriaen), a 13th-century Arthurian romance in Middle Dutch.
He is the son of one of the Knights of the Round Table, whose name was Aglovale.
Oriented strand board, commonly called OSB, is a type of particle board which is made of carefully positioned strands of wood.
Aspen and other similar woods are cut into long strands parallel to the grain of the wood.
It is manufactured into sheets made up of wood strands, wax, and resin adhesives.
Sheets are formed under pressure and heat.
The finished sheet size varies by country.
OSB is very strong making it ideal for building construction.
Its most common uses in construction are for covering walls, floors and roofs before the finish products are applied.
OSB-2 is specially designed OSB for load-bearing purposes.
It is for use in dry areas.
OSB-3 is designed the same, but is for use in wet areas.
APA - The Engineered Wood Association: OSB
Kronospan Worldwide: OSB
Plater led soldiers in several engagements during the November Uprising in the Polish-Russian Wars of 1830-1831.
She became ill toward the end of the Uprising and died.
Though she did not fight in any large battles, her story inspired many works of art and literature.
She is a national heroine in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, all formerly parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In law, affinity is the kinship relationship that exists between two or more people as a result of somebody's marriage.
It is different from consanguinity (blood relationship).
Affinity is the relationship which each party to a marriage has to the relatives of the other partner to the marriage.
But affinity does not cover the marital relationship of the parties to the marriage themselves.
Affinity laws
More commonly, they are known as , as affinity is usually signified by adding  to a degree of kinship.
In law, affinity may be used to prohibit incestuous sexual relations.
It may also be relevant in preventing some couples from marrying.
Which relationships are prohibited varys from country to country, and from time to time.
In some countries, especially in the past, the prohibited relationships were based on religious laws.
In earlier laws, affinity was used in the same degrees as consanguinity in prohibiting marriages.
Though laws vary considerably, affinity does not always cease with the death of one of the marriage partners through whom affinity is traced.
It does not always end with the divorce of the marriage partners.