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Volume of fluid method

The different methods for treating VOF can be roughly divided into three categories, namely the "donor-acceptor" formulation, "higher order differencing" schemes and "line techniques".

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The donor-acceptor scheme is based on two fundamental criteria, namely the boundedness criterion and the availability criterion. The first one states that the value of formula_1 has to be bounded between zero and one. The latter criterion ensures that the amount of fluid convected over a face during a time step is less than or equal to the amount available in the donor cell, i.e., the cell from which the fluid is flowing to the acceptor cell. In his original work, Hirt treated this with a blended scheme consisting of controlled downwinding and upwind differencing.

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In the higher order differencing schemes, as the name suggests, the convective transport equation is discretized with higher order or blended differencing schemes. Such methods include the Compressive Interface Capturing Scheme for Arbitrary Meshes (CICSAM) and High Resolution Interface Capturing (HRIC) scheme, which are both based on the Normalized Variable Diagram (NVD) by Leonard.

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Line techniques circumvent the problems associated with the discretization of the transport equation by not tracking the interface in a cell explicitly. Instead, the fluid distribution in a cell an interface is obtained by using the volume fraction distribution of neighbouring cells. The Simple Line Interface Calculation (SLIC) by Noh and Woodward from 1976 uses a simple geometry to reconstruct the interface. In each cell the interface is approximated as a line parallel to one of the coordinate axes and assumes different fluid configurations for the horizontal and vertical movements respectively. A widely used technique today is the Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation by Youngs. PLIC is based on the idea that the interface can be represented as a line in or a plane in ; in the latter case we may describe the interface by:

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where formula_22 is a vector normal to the interface. Components of the normal are found e.g. by using the finite difference method or its combination with least squares optimization. The free term formula_23 is then found (analytically or by approximation) by enforcing mass conservation within computational cell. Once the description of the interface is established, the advection equation of formula_1 is solved using geometrical techniques such as finding the flux of formula_1 between grid cells, or advecting the endpoints of interface using discrete values of fluid velocity.

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Soccer Mom (film)

Soccer Mom is an American 2008 direct-to-video film starring Missi Pyle and Emily Osment.

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Soccer Mom (film)

A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, the Mar Vista Galaxy, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls win their big tournament.

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Soccer Mom (film)

The film was shot in, and takes place in, Los Angeles and its surrounding areas between February 12 and March 10, 2008, on a budget of 3.5 million dollars.

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Soccer Mom (film)

The film received average, mostly positive reviews from critics, most of whom praised the performances of star Missi Pyle and Emily Osment and compared the film to similar fare, notably the 1993 classic "Mrs. Doubtfire".

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In the Texan newspaper "The Tribune", Ms. Hollywood D. Light called "Soccer Mom" "a great teen and kid-friendly family funny movie with a positive and uplifting message", giving it "two thumbs up" and labelled the acting "the best part of the movie". Writing for the review website "7M Pictures", Kevin Carr gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of a possible five, stating "this film works for the direct-to-DVD family market", praising both Missi Pyle and Emily Osment while criticizing some of the comedy beats and the amount of "teenage girl angst", concluding that "ultimately this is a nice flick for families with daughters and kids interested in soccer". Similarly on the website "Bum's Corner", Porfle wrote that "while there are a few moments of awkward melodrama along the way [...], most of "Soccer Mom" is light, fluffy comedy that doesn't come close to the dizzying heights of wackyness we used to get from those old Disney comedies like "Freaky Friday" and "Superdad", but is still harmless fun", while praising Pyle's performance and those of Steve Hytner and Dan Cortese, though not being impressed with Osment and giving the film 3 stars out of 5. The same rating was given by Joly Herman for "Common Sense Media", who found the film to be "pretty light fare" and "some of the plot twists [...] a little predictable" but liked Pyle's and Osment's performances as well as the focus on girls' sports and opined that "moms and daughters will enjoy watching it together". On "DVD Verdict", Erich Asperschlager was critical of how Pyle looked in man makeup, but wrote that "once you get past the premise and the makeup, "Soccer Mom" is a middle-of-the-road kids flick with a good message about family—even if it's the same message found in plenty of better movies", going to praise Pyle, Osment, Cortese as well as Cassie Scerbo and concluding that the film "succeeds more than it fails, and ultimately fares better than a lot of its family movie competition". "Home Theater Info", finally, only awarded the film 4 out of 10 stars, but remained mostly positive, concluding that "this is fun on a juvenile level but just perfect for that rainy Saturday afternoon when the kids are stuck in the house".

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The film features the 2009 song "Don't Change for Me" by Matthew Moon in the closing credits, which was later covered by Gin Blossoms on their 2010 album "No Chocolate Cake".

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"Mrs. Doubtfire" – a 1993 comedy in which a parent also dresses up in the other gender to grow closer to his children and which reviewers compared "Soccer Mom" to.

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Ford 5000

The Ford 5000 is a blue and white tractor that was produced from 1964 to 1979 by Ford. It was a mid-range tractor, suitable for European farms. The North American versions was slightly different and was named the Ford Major. A similar model, the Ford 3000 was introduced in the spring of 1965.

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The tractor was released in mainland Europe in 1964, and sold moderately. As time went on, there were more Ford 5000s being sold and could be compared to the New Holland TM series which was in production from 1997-2004.

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The tractor sold exceptionally well in Great Britain. The tractor replaced the long-running Fordson Major which was a worldwide hit. It sold especially well because it slotted into the mid-sized range, which catered for almost every British farmer. It sold so well it was in the top ten best-selling list of tractors sold in Great Britain until 2005.

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The Ford 5000 was used by E. Doe to build the uprated version of the Doe Triple D in 1964. The Doe tractor was 2 Tractors fixed together at a central pivot, with the front axles removed to form an articulated tractor with twice the power and 4-wd. This new version was called the "Doe 130", as it was rated at 130 hp from the 2 F5000 units. Following its launch at the Smithfield Show in December 1964, they sold 73 units in 1965.

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In Ireland, Ford tractors, lorries and cars sold very very well because at the time Ford had a factory in Cork. Selling the Fordson Major and Ford 4000 was of no problem and selling the Ford 5000 was even easier. Like Great Britain, it was launched in the mid-sized range, which, like Great Britain, was the main market for Irish farmers. It sold very well and is the third best-selling tractor in the history of Ireland. According to a 2004 tractor survey, there were more than 200 Ford 5000s being in everyday use in every province.

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After its launch in 1964 the Ford 5000 and the other models in the range stayed in production until 1968 when they were upgraded into the Ford Force series. Some modifications were done to the engine and other components which resulted in more horsepower for the Ford 5000, rated at 75 HP. Also some modifications to the sheet metal were done to give it a more modern appearance. In 1971 a few minor changes were done to the engine and a factory fitted safety cab could be ordered from that moment on. In 1975, Ford retired the Ford 5000 and all of its range with it, after eleven years production. It was one of the Company's best selling tractors.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

Elvis Presley's iconic Pink Cadillac was a 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood. It set style for the era, was sung about in popular culture, and was copied by others around the world.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

The car is now preserved in the Graceland museum, in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

In early 1955, Elvis bought his first Cadillac, a 1954 Fleetwood Series 60, which was the color pink. The car provided transport for Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys, but after the failure of a brake lining, was destroyed in a roadside fire between Hope and Texarkana, Arkansas, on June 5, 1955.

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On July 5, 1955, Elvis purchased a new Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 in blue

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with a black roof. Having mentioned a Pink Cadillac in the song "Baby, Let's Play House", the first song recorded by Elvis to appear on a national chart which made #5 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in July 1955; Elvis had the car repainted by Art, a neighbour on Lamar Street. Art designed a customised pink color for Elvis which he named "Elvis Rose," but the car kept its black roof. Once the car was finished Elvis gave it to his mother Gladys as a gift. Mrs. Gladys Presley never had a driver's license, and Elvis drove the car with the members of his band for most of 1955–1956.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

On September 2, 1955, Scotty Moore drove the car into a vehicle which was passing a pick-up truck in Texarkana, Texas, causing $1000 of damage. Having signed his contract with RCA in November 1955, in March 1956 Elvis had the upholstery replaced, the body retouched and roof painted white. (As can be seen in the book "A Boy from Tupelo", from FTD/2012, in 1955 the Cadillac already has the white roof).

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

On his return from military service in Germany in 1960, Presley lent the car to his US Army buddy Joe Esposito, having bought himself a white with pink roofed 1961 Cadillac Coupe de Ville.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

The original pink Cadillac remains on permanent display at Graceland, formerly under a carport for many years, and now resident in the auto museum. The car was once again brought to the front drive entrance of Graceland in June 2006, during the visit of President George W. Bush and Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi.

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At the time, Ford Motor Co. was the only manufacturer to offer pink as a standard color. After the public attention to Elvis' car many individual car owners in the 1950s began to paint their cars various shades of pink.

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Although the original car was a 1955 four-door sedan, the more replicated version in popular culture is a pink 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, which have been sold as miniature replicas by many companies including Franklin Mint, and featured in songs and videos about the pink Cadillac.

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Pink Cadillacs have also been the automobiles of recognition for their top sales people by Mary Kay Cosmetics.

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Elvis Presley appears in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams—he is depicted as driving a pink spaceship.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

Elvis' Pink Cadillac was the inspiration for Robert Dunn's musical novel "Pink Cadillac" (2002). In the novel Elvis makes a cameo appearance, giving the heroine, Daisy Holliday, one of his pink Cadillacs as a gift after she helps him get it running.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

Elvis' Pink Cadillac was featured in the CBS miniseries "Elvis", where it shows him first buying the car for his mother.

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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac

In December 2006 the historians of Graceland documented and provided 125 detailed color photographs of the entire car so that Bonnie and Stewart Krentzman of River Vale, New Jersey could re-create Elvis' famous pink Cadillac in exacting detail. Pantone color swatches were used to match the pink and white exterior and interior paint. It was stipulated in the agreement with Graceland that this, the only "twin sister" and exact re-creation of the original car, would be offered at no charge to "pink ribbon" breast cancer fund-raising organizations to help raise money for breast cancer research and education. It has been estimated that close to 200,000 photos have been taken with this re-creation at breast cancer fund raising events. On occasion Diamond Joe Esposito, Elvis' road manager has appeared with the Krentzman car. The Krentzman car made its first appearance at Susan G. Komen's mother and daughter Color Me Pink Event in New York City in April 2007. It has since appeared at many Susan G. Komen, Avon and Revlon Walks in addition to being used by many grassroots breast cancer organizations across the United States.

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Have no other way to suggest to whoever is manning this page that this is the best photo for the page. The Pink Caddy saying good bye to the President's Cadillac, 800-002 plate, as it leaves Graceland with both the President and the First lady, as well as PM Koizumi of Japan. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/memphis-united-states-the-presidential-cadillac-carrying-us-president-picture-id71341958

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Veronica Foster

Veronica Foster, (January 2, 1922 – May 4, 2000), popularly known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl", was a Canadian icon representing nearly one million Canadian women who worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and matériel during World War II.

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Foster worked for John Inglis Co. Ltd producing Bren light machine guns on a production line on Strachan Avenue in Toronto, Ontario. She can be seen as the Canadian precursor to the American cultural icon Rosie the Riveter.

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Veronica Foster

She became popular after a series of propaganda posters were produced; most images featured her working for the war effort, but others depicted more casual settings like Foster dancing the jitterbug or attending a dinner party.

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Veronica Foster

After the war, she worked as a singer with Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen, where she met trombonist George Guerrette, whom she subsequently married. She died on the 4th of May, 2000.

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Kong Company

KONG Company (stylized as KONG) is an American company headquartered in the state of Colorado that develops designs and produces lines of dog toys and cat toys. Its primary line of product is a snowman-like chew toy for dogs also named KONG.

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Kong Company

The company founder, Joe Markham, created the KONG product in the 1970s, when he noticed his German shepherd Fritz damaging his teeth by chewing rocks. He found that Fritz enjoyed chewing on a hard rubber Volkswagen Bus suspension device, and spent about six years experimenting with different compounds to produce a chew toy of similar size and shape that he could sell to pet owners. A friend commented that the toy looked like "an earplug for King Kong"—hence its name. Originally, Markham sold most of his products to Israel, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom, but the Kong began a rise in sales in the United States in the mid-1980s, and has remained popular there subsequently. The book "Planet Dog: A Doglopedia" (2005) describes the KONG as "possibly the best-known dog toy in the world".

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Kong Company

The classic KONG toy resembles a snowman-like structure of three balls pushed together. They also come in several variations for dogs of different ages and sizes. Made of rubber, they are hollow in the middle, and can be stuffed with treats or frozen to provide longer distraction for dogs. The classic Kong product is also offered in different rubber types, tailored to dogs of different chewing capabilities and different ages.

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Kong Company

In addition to the typical snowman-like KONGs, KONG also offers a line of dental chews, balls, pull toys (such as the KONG Wubba and the KONG Tugger Knots), Frisbees, a dog binky, floating toys, squeakers, and various interactive toys and accessories. For cats, KONG also has a line of toys including a cat version of their "Wubba", as well as scratching boards, catnip, and other chew toys.

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Lauren Burns

Lauren Chantel Burns, OAM (born 8 June 1974) is an Australian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion. She won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, competing in the women's under 49 kg class. Burns holds the rank of 3rd "dan" black belt in taekwondo. Following her competitive taekwondo career, she has been involved in a range of activities, including motivational speaking and community work.

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Lauren Burns

Burns was born on 8 June 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of singer Ronnie Burns and dancer Maggie Burns (née Stewart). As a child, she did not participate much in sports. Her younger brother, Michael (then aged 7), became interested in martial arts after watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and started learning taekwondo. Shortly thereafter, their father also began training in taekwondo; together, her father and brother encouraged her (then aged 14) to begin training as well.

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Lauren Burns

Burns began her taekwondo training at Joon No's Taekwondo, she began competing in taekwondo in 1990; she was training under Grandmaster Joon No's direction at the time and became a national team member, her training partner was Donna Scherp.

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Lauren Burns

A successful tournament career included 12 Australian women's national taekwondo championships, a bronze medal at the World Cup in 1996, a bronze medal in the under 51 kg class at the 1997 World Taekwondo Championships in Hong Kong, and a gold medal at the US Open taekwondo competition in 1999. Her first appearance at the World Championships was at the 1993 World Taekwondo Championships in New York, and she shared fifth place in the bantamweight division at the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships in the Philippines. She has also won medals at many other competitions outside Australia.

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Lauren Burns

Burns studied naturopathy, but deferred her studies for a year to focus on her Olympic campaign in 2000, training under Australian national taekwondo coach Jin Tae Jeong. She trained 5–7 hours a day in preparation for Olympic competition. Burns was listed at 165 cm (5'5") in height and 49 kg (108 lb.) in weight, but has since indicated that 54 kg (119 lb.) is her natural weight. On 23 August 2000, less than a month before the Sydney Olympics, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal. Burns won a gold medal in taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in a tournament marked by controversial judging at times. She defeated Taiwanese competitor Chi Shu-Ju in the quarter final, who claimed that the loud cheering of the parochial home crowd had influenced the judges, and won the Olympic final against Cuban competitor Urbia Melendez.

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Lauren Burns

Her Olympic gold medal was stolen in 2003, but it was recovered within a few days. That same year, she published her autobiography, "Fighting Spirit: From a charmed childhood to the Olympics and beyond".

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Lauren Burns

Burns is linked with the Victorian Institute of Sport and the South Australian Sports Institute. Apart from her taekwondo career, Burns also works as a motivational speaker and promotes the "Zip Bag", which she designed. She also supports the Red Dust Role Models community project and is an ambassador for charitable organisation World Vision. Burns resides in Melbourne with her husband, Nathan Muller, and their children, Mac Banjo (born in early 2009) and Piper (born in 2010).

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Lauren Burns

On 26 January 2001 (Australia Day), Burns was honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia.

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Lauren Burns

In 2017, Burns was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

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Women in baseball

Women have a long history in American baseball and many women's teams have existed over the years. Baseball was played at women's colleges in New York and New England as early as the mid-nineteenth century; teams were formed at Vassar College, Smith College, Wellesley College, and Mount Holyoke College. An African American women's team, the Philadelphia Dolly Vardens, was formed in 1867.

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A number of women's barnstorming teams have existed, and women have played alongside major league players in exhibition games. On April 2, 1931, 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell (originally known as "Virne Beatrice Mitchell Gilbert") of the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game. Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract as a result.

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In 1946, former player Edith Houghton became the first woman to work as an independent scout in Major League Baseball when she was hired by the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League. In 1989, NBC's Gayle Gardner became the first woman to regularly host Major League Baseball games for a major television network. In 2015, Jessica Mendoza was the first female analyst for a Major League Baseball game in the history of ESPN, and Margaret Donahue was the first non-owner female front office executive in Major League Baseball.

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There is some evidence that women were playing base ball (as it was then called) as far back as the 1860s, but it was not normal for young women to play what was considered a man's sport. In fact, until the early 1890s, when the bicycle craze hit America, women who wanted to get some outdoor exercise were usually discouraged from doing so. But in the late 1890s, there were some organized efforts to have all-female baseball teams, several of which enjoyed success. One of the most successful was the Boston Bloomer Girls baseball club; they took their name from the comfortable pants that some sports-minded young women had begun to wear instead of a long skirt. Young women who went against traditional fashion norms and chose bloomers were often called "bloomer girls". While in some cities, local authorities banned women's baseball teams, including the Bloomer Girls, in other cities, the club was welcomed by curious fans who had never seen female ballplayers. The Bloomer Girls toured the United States in 1897; the press referred to them as the "champion women's club of the world", although this may have been marketing hyperbole, given that the team often seemed inexperienced and did not play very well. One regular standout for the Bloomers was pitcher Maud Nelson, whose talents as a player were praised by reporters; but her teammates did not seem to have as much polish or skill as she did. As they gained more experience, they began to play with more confidence; while still regarded as a novelty, the club often drew large crowds of appreciative fans, many of whom came to see Maud Nelson and her curve ball. The Boston Bloomers were still touring and playing baseball in the early 1900s; by 1907–1908, their team also included several male players, but the majority of the team continued to be female.

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Although female teams like the Bloomers were always considered a novelty, by the early 1920s, there were several female players who were attracting attention at the amateur and semi-pro level and were considered talented enough to play for all-male teams. Perhaps the best known young woman playing baseball in the early 1920s was Rhode Island's Lizzie Murphy. A first baseman, she played for the Providence (RI) Independents, and was praised by newspaper reporters for her fielding skills. Sportswriters said she was every bit as talented as a male player, and noted that she was paid $300 a week, more than many minor league players of the 1920s received. Murphy, who had begun playing baseball when she was only ten, had dreams of becoming a major league player, but she was not able to achieve that goal. She was, however, able to have a long career in the semi-pro leagues, leading a touring team that played all over the eastern United States. According to newspaper accounts, she developed a loyal following, with numerous fans who came out to watch her and her team play. Lizzie Murphy's baseball career lasted from 1918 to 1935, and included one charity exhibition game in which she was part of a team of all-stars who played against the Boston Red Sox. While Murphy was perhaps the best-known woman playing for an all-male team in the 1920s, there was at least one other woman athlete whose abilities included playing baseball. Philadelphia's Betty Schenkel not only played baseball with the boys during high school, but she was said to be adept in other sports, including basketball, soccer, and cycling.

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During World War II, over 500 baseball players, including super-stars like Ted Williams, Stan Musial and Joe DiMaggio, were drafted. This left major league rosters depleted and severely diminished the level of talent in the league. The owner of the Chicago Cubs, Philip K. Wrigley formed a committee to come up with ideas to keep baseball financially afloat during the war. The result of that committee was the organization of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which operated from 1943 to 1954. At the height of its popularity, it had teams in twelve cities. One of the most successful of the teams in the league was the Rockford (IL) Peaches, which won four championships. The Peaches, and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, were commemorated in a 1992 movie, "A League of Their Own", starring Geena Davis.

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Ila Borders pitched professionally from 1997 to 2000. As a female pitcher in men's leagues, Borders achieved numerous baseball milestones at the college and professional levels, including being the first female pitcher to start a men's professional baseball game. In four seasons from 1997 to 2000, she appeared in 52 games and posted a record of 2–4 and 6.75 earned run average while recording 36 strikeouts.

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In 2008, Eri Yoshida, at 16 years old, became Japan's first professional female baseball player to play in a men's league by signing a professional contract with a new Japanese independent league. In April 2010, she signed a contract with the Chico Outlaws, becoming the first woman to play professionally in two countries. In 2009, Justine Siegal became the first female coach of a men's professional baseball team. In 2011, she was the first woman to throw batting practice to an MLB team, the Cleveland Indians at spring training. She also threw BP to the Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, and New York Mets. In 2015, Justine Siegal became the Oakland Athletics guest instructor for their Instructional League Club, thus making her the first female coach in major league baseball history. For one day in May 2016, Jennie Finch was a guest manager for the Atlantic League's Bridgeport Bluefish, thus becoming the first woman to manage a professional baseball team. The team played and won one game that day.

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In 2008, Mamie "Peanut" Johnson was drafted (at age 72) by the Washington Nationals in a special Negro leagues honorary draft that preceded 2008 Major League Baseball draft, marking the first time a woman was drafted in the MLB's yearly new player draft.

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In 1989, NBC's Gayle Gardner became the first woman to regularly host Major League Baseball games for a major television network. In 1990, CBS Sports' Lesley Visser became the first woman to cover the World Series, serving as their lead field reporter. In addition to working the World Series from 1990-1993 for CBS, Visser covered the 1995 World Series for ABC Sports via The Baseball Network.

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On August 3, 1993, Gayle Gardner became the first woman to do television play-by-play for a Major League Baseball game. It was the Colorado Rockies vs. Cincinnati Reds on KWGN-TV in Denver. Also in 1993, CBS' Andrea Joyce became the first woman to co-host the network television coverage of the World Series. Joyce co-hosted that particular World Series with Pat O'Brien.

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In 1995, NBC's Hannah Storm not only became the first woman to serve as solo host a World Series game, but also the first woman to preside over the World Series Trophy presentation. In 2009, New York Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman became the first woman to work a World Series game from the broadcast booth.

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On July 2, 2015 Jenny Cavnar became the first female to provide analysis for a series of NL games in the radio booth filling in on KOA for the Colorado Rockies vs Arizona Diamondbacks. Cavnar would also become the fill-in play-by-play voice for the Colorado Rockies on April 23, 2018 when she stepped in the booth to call the San Diego Padres at Colorado Rockies. On August 24, 2015, Jessica Mendoza was the first female analyst for a Major League Baseball game in the history of ESPN, during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks. John Kruk, Dan Shulman and Jessica Mendoza called the 2015 American League Wild Card Game on October 6, and Mendoza thus became the first female analyst in MLB postseason history. In October 2020 Mendoza became the first female World Series analyst on any national broadcast platform; she was on ESPN’s radio platform.

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There is evidence that at least one woman, Amanda Clement, was umpiring semi-professional games as early as 1905. "Mandy," as she was called, grew up near a ballpark in her hometown of Hudson, South Dakota, where she was introduced to baseball by her brother Henry. Miss Clement began umpiring while a student at Yankton College, and gained fame nationwide for her knowledge of baseball and her accuracy in umpiring the games. She was paid between $10 and $15 per game, which helped pay her tuition. She umpired games in North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota until at least 1909, and later became a physical education instructor for high school and college women's teams. She still would umpire an occasional semi-pro game in South Dakota even during the 1910s. There were several other woman umpires in the early 1920s: one was Mrs. Deana Ernest of Toledo, Ohio, who umpired semi-pro games in the area, and also managed a city league team there. Another was Nina Belle Hurst, a resident of Sawtelle, California, who umpired in the Southern California Baseball Managers Association. During World War II, there were also some women who umpired, including some the press jokingly referred to as "WUMPS" (women umpires). Among them was Lorraine Heinisch, of Kenosha WI, who umpired semi-pro games in 1943, including a championship game in Wichita, Kansas. The first woman to umpire a professional game was Bernice Gera. A former Little League coach and a passionate fan of baseball, she entered umpiring school in 1967 (the first woman ever to attend the Fort Lauderdale Baseball School). After a lengthy court battle with major league baseball, she finally won the right to umpire. Her first pro game was in the minor leagues in June 1972—a game between the Auburn Phillies and Geneva Rangers in the New York-Penn League, but after several disputed calls, she decided to resign and never umpired another professional game.

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The first woman to own a baseball team was Helene Hathaway Britton, who owned the St. Louis Cardinals National League baseball team from 1911 through 1916. Margaret Donahue was the first female front office executive in Major League Baseball who was not an owner. She worked for the Chicago Cubs from 1919 to 1958 and introduced marketing concepts such as the season ticket and reduced prices for children under 12, both still used in the 2000s. Since then, many women have held executive positions in business and financial areas of Major League Baseball. However, there have not been many women who have become player personnel. Though there are many women who have been hired as general managers (GMs) for Minor League affiliates, these positions are not responsible for player personnel moves. This is handled at the Major League level.

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One woman who has a position in player personnel at the Major League level is Kim Ng. She first worked for the Chicago White Sox, where she successfully presented an arbitration case. After working for the American League as director of waivers and records, she was hired as Assistant GM by the New York Yankees. When she left the Yankees in 2001 for the same position with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yankees hired another woman to replace her, Jean Afterman. Afterman still holds the same position as of July 2015. Kim Ng later moved on to work for Major League Baseball as Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations. In 2020 she was hired by the Miami Marlins as the first woman and first Asian American to serve as general manager of an MLB team.

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In 2019 Rachel Balkovec became the first woman hired to be a full-time hitting coach for a Major League Baseball team. In 2020 Alyssa Nakken became the first full-time female coach in Major League Baseball history and the first to coach on the field during a major league game.

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Debra Shattuck (c. 2015), Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers. University of Illinois Press.

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Hermogenes Esperon

Hermogenes Cendaña Esperon Jr. (; born February 9, 1952) is a retired Philippine Army general serving as the National Security Adviser in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte. He was the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 2006 to 2008 and Commanding General of the Philippine Army from 2005 to 2006 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. After his retirement from the military, he served in Arroyo's administration as the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process and later as the head of the Presidential Management Staff.

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Hermogenes Esperon

On May 23, 2016, it was announced that Esperon will be joining the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte as National Security Adviser.

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Hermogenes Esperon

Esperon's professional government experience includes:

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Hermogenes Esperon

Esperon's education and training include:

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Esperon's awards include:

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Hermogenes Esperon

Esperon ran for a position as Congressman in the 6th District of Pangasinan in the past May 2010 elections but lost.

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Hermogenes Esperon

Irked by Partylist Representatives Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza's opposition to his bid to seek a congressional seat in the May polls, outgoing Presidential Management Staff Chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. demanded that the two lawmakers, who are also seeking seats in the Senate, to come clean about their links with the underground Left.

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Esperon said he was "proud of his achievements as a former Armed Forces’ chief of staff, especially in the government's fight against the communist insurgency".""

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Hermogenes Esperon

As the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, J3 at General Headquarters, AFP; Esperon was implicated during the 2004 alleged election fraud. He was mentioned in taped conversations called the "Garci Tapes" to have worked for the relief of a Brigade Commander in Lanao who was not sympathetic to then Presidential Candidate Macapagal-Arroyo. However, his involvement has not been proven.

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Nancy Lee Andrews

Nancy Lee Andrews (born May 14, 1947) is a former international model turned photographer who is based in Nashville. She published a collection of her photography, "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll", in 2008.

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Nancy Lee Andrews

Andrews was born on May 14, 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey. When Andrews turned seventeen, she literally bumped into television legend Arthur Godfrey on a busy Manhattan street. She shared her bad day with the radio icon and a quick friendship blossomed. He arranged for Andrews a meeting with Ford Models. It turned out to be his last day in Manhattan and he wanted to leave the city by doing a good deed.

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Nancy Lee Andrews

Andrews was on the other side of the camera for years, working as a Ford model for some of the greatest photographers of the 1960s and 1970s. They included Richard Avedon, Dick Ballerian, Irving Penn, Hiro, Bert Stern, Gordon Munro, and Milton Greene, who recognized that Andrews had a burning desire to click the shutter.

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Nancy Lee Andrews

Encouraged by former Beatle Ringo Starr, Andrews began shooting fashion assignments for designer boutiques along Rodeo Drive and trendy Melrose Avenue. She branched quickly into the music business, snapping photos of many rock performers as well as shooting publicity and photo packages for two of Starr's albums: "Ringo the 4th" and "Bad Boy".

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Nancy Lee Andrews

Andrews moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1994 and opened her photography studio in Cummins Station the following year. In 1996 she was appointed director of photography for "Twang", a "Vanity Fair" take on country music.

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Nancy Lee Andrews

In addition to CD packages and promotional photography for major labels, her work has appeared in and on the covers of "McCall's", "USA Today", "JAZZIZ", "Penthouse", "Black Enterprise", "Music Row", "People", and several other music publications. She also shoots for many advertising agencies.

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Nancy Lee Andrews

Andrews is married to Edwin Barnes (1990). She was previously engaged to Ringo Starr, whom she sued for palimony. She has two younger sisters and two dogs.

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James Kirchick

James Kirchick (; born 1983) is an American conservative reporter, foreign correspondent, author, and columnist.

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James Kirchick

Kirchick was raised in a Jewish family and attended Yale University, where he wrote for its student newspaper, the "Yale Daily News". In his early career, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

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James Kirchick

For over three years, Kirchick worked at "The New Republic", covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Kirchick's reportage has appeared in "The Weekly Standard", "The American Interest", "The Virginia Quarterly Review", "The Columbia Journalism Review", and "The Spectator". He writes frequently for newspapers including "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", the "Los Angeles Times", and the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".

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James Kirchick

Kirchick has worked as a reporter for "The New York Sun", the "New York Daily News", and "The Hill", and has been a columnist for the "New York Daily News" and the "Washington Examiner". He is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for "Commentary", the "Claremont Review of Books", "Policy Review", and "World Affairs", among others. He has received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award. Kirchick was a fellow for the right-leaning think tank Foreign Policy Initiative. He is a fellow with the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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James Kirchick

In 2008, Kirchick wrote about newsletters that contained homophobic, conspiratorial and racist material, published under the name of Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. The story again became prominent in the 2012 presidential election. Sam Stein of "The Huffington Post" also wrote in an article about the newsletters that there is evidence from old interviews with Ron Paul that he was writing for the newsletter during the period of time that the racist language was being published in his newsletter.

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James Kirchick

It was later claimed by television station WXIX that Ron Paul was not the author of the newsletter segments which contained the material in question. In their second newscast on the scandal in January 2012, based on information provided by Lew Rockwell, who had also worked on the newsletter, WXIX's Reality Check claimed that the offending articles may have been written by one of the freelance writers who were said to have been employed at the time.

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Erik Wemple for "The Washington Post" wrote an article that included Kirchick's response to WXIX's second newscast, where Kirchick implied that the writer of the WXIX article, Ben Swann, was incorrect in his naming of the supposed writer of the "Special Edition on Racial Terrorism".

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Ron Paul did not initially deny authorship of the offending material, though he had begun denying it by 2001. He has accepted responsibility for the content regardless of its author, as it was published under his name.

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James Kirchick

Immediately after U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning's July 30, 2013 court-martial conviction of, among other charges, violations of the Espionage Act, Kirchick wrote in the "Daily News" that Manning was "lucky not to be headed to the electric chair." On August 21, on RT (formerly Russia Today), he participated in a live panel awaiting Manning's sentencing, Kirchick refused to discuss Manning, instead protesting the Russian LGBT propaganda law. When asked if he was ready to have a conversation about Manning with the assembled panel, Kirchick retorted angrily: "RT has been Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden 24/7. I haven't seen anything on your network about the anti-gay laws that have been passed in Russia and the increasing climate of violence and hostility towards gay people." One of the program's hosts objected, saying they had a panel discussing it only the day before and after refusing to follow the course of discussion set by RT, Kirchick's video link was taken off air.

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James Kirchick

Later that day, "Politico" reached out to both Kirchick and RT for comment. Kirchick called for a "boycott" of RT, calling its employees "not journalists, they're propagandists". RT responded in an e-mail, calling Kirchick's protest "unrelated to the subject of the panel. Regretfully, RT had no other recourse but to continue the discussion without him". "The Washington Post" PostPartisan blogger Jonathan Capehart commended Kirchick for his "heroic" action; "The New Republic"'s Julia Ioffe praised Kirchick's "trolling of RT"; and the next day, "The Washington Post" published Kirchick's opinion piece titled "Why I ambushed Russia's news network with rainbow suspenders." In it, Kirchick further denounced RT as broadcasting "sophisticated conspiracy theories and anti-establishment attitudes to push a virulently anti-American and illiberal agenda", while relying on "a pool of talking heads, including 9/11 truthers, anti-Semites, and other assorted extremists, who espouse the sort of views found where the far left and the far right converge". A day later, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell invited Kirchick onto his show where they discussed related concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.

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James Kirchick

Kirchick was among the neoconservative pundits, also including Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, who supported Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton over the Republican Party candidate Donald Trump for the presidency during the 2016 presidential elections. He described Trump as a "brashly authoritarian populist" and Clinton as "not only ... the obvious choice for those who don’t want to see our country degenerate into a banana republic, she’s the clear conservative choice as well."

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James Kirchick

On August 15, 2016, "The Daily Beast" published an article by Kirchick which listed Jill Stein, Rania Khalek, Corey Robin, Glenn Greenwald, Ishaan Tharoor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and others as "Hillary Clinton-Loathing, Donald Trump-Loving Useful Idiots of the Left". Ben Norton, writing for the "Salon" website, enquired to those mentioned in the article and received responses from them, 13 of the 14 indicated they would not be voting for Trump. The exception, Christopher Ketcham claimed to vote for him not because he "loves" or "admires" him, but precisely because he says the GOP nominee "is an ignorant, vicious, narcissistic, racist, capitalist scumbag, and thus an accurate representative of the United States."

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Kawasaki Aerospace Company

During the 1930s and 1940s, Kawasaki Aircraft Industries developed numerous types of aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army, such as the Type 88 reconnaissance aircraft, the Ki-48 "Sokei" bomber, and the Ka 61 "Hien" fighter, up until the end of the Second World War. Shortly after the occupation of Japan started in 1945, Japan's aviation industry was intentionally dismantled and aircraft factories converted for other purposes; the ban on aircraft development was lifted during March 1954, allowing for the nation's aviation industry to be revived. During 1969, "Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo KK" was restructured as a formal subsidiary of KHI.

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Kawasaki Aerospace Company

Throughout the postwar era, the company has produced numerous aircraft under license from various overseas manufacturers for Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces, alongside its own designs. Licensed aircraft have included the P-2J (derived from the Lockheed P-2 Neptune), KH-4 helicopters (derived from the Bell 47), Kawasaki KV-107 helicopters (derived from the Boeing Vertol 107 Model II), and CH-47J / JA heavy-lift helicopters. Indigenously developed aircraft of the postwar era have included the Kawasaki C-1 and Kawasaki C-2 military transports, the Kawasaki KAT-1 and Kawasaki T-4 trainer aircraft, the Kawasaki OH-1 reconnaissance helicopter, and the Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft.

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Kawasaki Aerospace Company

was one of Japan's first aircraft companies. It was founded during 1918 as a subsidiary of the heavy-industrial conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Kobe. Prior to the conclusion of the Second World War, Kawasaki mostly supplied aircraft and aircraft engines to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF).