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Yours truly
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Yours truly is a form of valediction, especially at the end of a written communication.
Yours truly may also refer to:
Yours truly, a humorous alternative to the pronoun 'I' or 'me' – referring to oneself
Yours Truly (band), an Australian pop-punk band formed in 2016
Yours Truly (2018 film), an Indian romantic drama film
Yours Truly (2019 film), a documentary about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei
Yours Truly (Snow Crash), a character in the novel Snow Crash
"Yours Truly" (song), by Blindspott
See also
Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore, a theatre group in India
Albums
Yours Truly (Air Supply album), 2001
Yours Truly (Ariana Grande album), 2013
Yours Truly (Rick Braun album), 2005
Yours Truly (Sick of It All album), 2000
Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album), 2011
Yours Truly, a 1991 album by Earl Thomas Conley
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CEN
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Cen or CEN may refer to:
People and language
Cen language
Cen (rune) (ᚳ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
Cen (surname) (岑), a Chinese second name
Acronym
Certified Emergency Nurse
Childhood emotional neglect
Cambridge Evening News, former name for the Cambridge News
Center for Electron Nanoscopy, an institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Central European News, a news distributor
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
SCK•CEN, Belgian nuclear research institute (Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire)
Abbreviation or code
Centaurus, the constellation
Centaur (minor planet)
Centralia, Illinois (Amtrak station)
Central Region, Scotland, Chapman code
Central station (MTR), Hong Kong
Ciudad Obregón International Airport (IATA code: CEN) in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico
See also
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Pattillo Higgins
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Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was an American businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune for many. He partnered to form the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company, and later established the Higgins Standard Oil Company.
Early life
Pattillo Higgins was born to Roberto James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas. His family moved to Beaumont when he was six years old. He attended school until he reached the fourth grade, after which he apprenticed as a gunsmith under his father’s direction. In his youth, he was a violent troublemaker, pulling pranks and harassing African Americans.
When he was seventeen, he pulled a prank on a black Baptist church that got the attention of a sheriff's deputy. The deputy fired a warning shot over Higgins' head, after which Higgins fired back and delivered what would later turn out to be a fatal hit. The wounded deputy managed to fire again, striking Higgins in his lower left arm. Higgins' arm would later become severely infected, requiring amputation from the elbow down. Higgins was put on trial for the murder of the deputy, but he would be found not guilty by a jury that perceived his act as self-defense. After his acquittal, he worked as a logger along the Texas-Louisiana border, apparently unhindered by his lack of an arm.
It was in 1885 that he attended a Baptist revival meeting where he made the decision to become a Christian. Realizing that the lumber camps were not the ideal place to maintain a good morality, he decided to return to Beaumont, Texas to establish himself as a businessman.
Venture into business
Higgins ventured into real estate at first, and with the money that he saved as a logger, he started the Higgins Manufacturing Company to manufacture bricks. The business sparked his interest in oil and gas, as he used it for his kilns to burn the bricks evenly. He decided to travel to Pennsylvania to learn about these fuels and study the geographical features that give signs to the presence of underground oil. Studying geology on his own, he dedicated himself to finding these clues by reading all the United States Geological Survey reports and books that he could find. The details he learned reminded him of what some Beaumont locals back home referred to as "Sour Hill Mound", a place where he frequently brought his Sunday school students for outings. This mound was described as "sour" due to the unpleasant sulfur smell that came out of the springs around it. Convinced that this salt dome mound had oil below it, Higgins first partnered with George O'Brien, George Carroll, Emma John, and J.F. Lanier to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company in 1892. It was during this time that other formally trained geologists dismissed the idea of finding oil along the gulf coast region of the United States. Higgins' personal integrity was even challenged by the local newspaper. However, his informal training in geology influenced his belief that the Spindletop field contained oil below due to the presence of mineral water and gas seepage, and he managed to convince the partners to proceed with the venture. Work began the following year, but all three of the shallow drilling attempts failed to locate oil due to the shifting sands and unstable clay under the hill. Higgins resigned from the company, sold his stock, and purchased 33 acres compromising the summit of Sour Spring Mound.
Partnership with Anthony Lucas
Unwilling to give up hope of striking oil, Higgins placed numerous ads in industrial magazines and trade journals in an effort to spark others' interests in the prospect of hitting a successful well at the site. Only one man responded to the ads, a Croatian-American named Anthony Francis Lucas. Lucas signed agreements with the Gladys City Company and also with Higgins in 1899, and in June of the following year, he began to drill. The first well Lucas made with his light equipment collapsed after reaching . This failure exhausted the partners' finances, so Lucas turned to John H. Galey and James M. Guffey in Pittsburgh for backing. The terms set forth by Guffey (who held and controlled the funds) limited Lucas’ percentage cut to a small amount, and eliminated Higgins and cut him completely from the deal.
The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop
In late October 1900, with the help of the experienced crew of Al and Curt Hamill from Corsicana, drilling began again. This time, the drilling would be done using a newer, heavier, and more efficient rotary type bit. Over the next several months, work was difficult maintaining the drilling through the underground sands. On January 10, 1901, the six tons of four-inch (102 mm) drilling pipe began to shoot up out of the hole, sending the roughnecks fleeing for safety. The geyser shot oil over high and flowed an estimated .
The well was at a depth of , and as it turns out, was at the precise location as initially predicted by Higgins. The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south. The well, which was dubbed "Lucas 1", had an initial flow rate greater than all of the oil wells in the United States combined in that day. The Spindletop oilfield churned out over the first year of operation, and over the following year. This effectively brought an end to John D. Rockefeller’s world monopoly.
Lawsuit against Lucas and the Gladys City Company
Higgins sued Lucas and Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company for royalties, using the basis that the second lease was invalid because the first lease had not yet expired when the second was enacted. After the parties settled out of court, Higgins formed the Higgins Oil and Fuel Company located at the center of Spindletop. This company was vulnerable to takeover bids due to Higgins' over-zealous land prospecting, which enabled the lumber baron and businessman John Henry Kirby to overtake his ownership in 1902 by purchasing his shares of the company for $3 million. Higgins maintained his leasing rights to his land, and would establish the Higgins Standard Oil Company. He later established other wells with various investors, with an eccentric habit of pulling his interests out, leaving the majority of the profits for others.
Later life and death
Higgins' lifestyle was varied in interests and occupations. Along with working as a wildcatter, his diverse activities involved drafting, work as an inventor, an artist, as well as an engineer to name a few. His religious beliefs kept him away from public entertainment and resorts, as well as maintaining a strong belief against the selling of alcohol. In addition to residing in Beaumont, he owned estates in Houston and San Antonio. He remained a bachelor until the age of 45. In 1905, he adopted a young woman named Annie Jahn, who at the time was fifteen. Three years later Higgins married her, and later had three children with her, despite the scandal. Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955.
On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history series You Are There in the episode entitled "Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)". Mike Ragan was cast as Marion Fletcher; Parley Baer as Captain Lucas, Jean Byron as Caroline Lucas, DeForest Kelley as Al Hammill, Tyler McVey as Mayor Wheat, and William Fawcett as a farmer.
Higgins World's Oil Company
From the Prescott Evening Courier – Dec 23, 1905:
Articles of Incorporation for the "Higgins World's Oil Company"
References
Further reading
East Texas Historical Association, "A self-taught Texas wildcatter: Pattillo Higgins and the Hockley Oil Field", by Ronald H. Limbaugh, East Texas Historical Journal, Vol 34 No. 1, 1996, Nacogdoches, Tx 75962
External links
Spindletop History and Biographies
1863 births
1955 deaths
American geologists
American businesspeople in the oil industry
Wildcatters
Businesspeople from Texas
Texas Oil Boom people
People from Port Arthur, Texas
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Mostly Martha can refer to:
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha), a 2001 German film
"Mostly Martha", a popular version of Friedrich von Flotow's aria M’apparì tutt’amor, recorded by The Crew-Cuts
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is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. She is the alternate identity of , a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, and a member of the Sailor Guardians, supernatural female fighters who protect the Solar System from evil.
Sailor Mercury is the first Sailor Guardian to be discovered by Sailor Moon. She serves as the "brains" of the group, as she is highly intelligent and can also use a supercomputer to collect useful information in battles. She possesses powers associated with water and ice.
Aside from the main body of the Sailor Moon series, Ami features in her own short story in the manga, Ami's First Love. Originally published in volume fourteen of the manga, this was the only of three "Exam Battle" stories to be made into a special for the anime which makes her one of the most recognizable and popular characters in the series. A number of image songs mentioning Ami's character have been released as well, including the contents of three different 3-inch CD singles.
Profile
Ami's most emphasized character trait is that she is extremely intelligent—in the anime and manga she is rumored by other characters to have an IQ of three hundred, while in the stage musicals this is stated as a fact. She is adept at English in both the musicals and the anime, and in the live action it was clearly, although briefly, demonstrated by the actress portraying her (actress Chisaki Hama was speaking to an English speaking character as her character was visiting the United States as a medical intern). Her peers view her with a mixture of awe and distaste, misinterpreting her inherent shyness as snobbery, and so she tends to have a difficult time making new friends. Ami is depicted as kind, sweet, gentle, and loyal, as well as slightly insecure. She also dislikes the fights of Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars. Anne Allison describes her as "a smart girl who needs to relax", calling her "conscientious" and "studious", "everything Usagi is not". Early on in the story, she relies heavily on the approval of her mother, teachers, and friends, but as the series progresses she becomes stronger and more confident in herself. She is generally the most sensible of the main characters, and is often the only one embarrassed when the group has a dull-witted moment. As the story begins, she attends Azabu Jūban Junior High along with Usagi Tsukino and, later, Makoto Kino.
Throughout the series, much of Ami's free time is spent studying. She loves to read, and dreams aloud of one day being a doctor like her mother and becomes one in both Parallel Sailor Moon and the live action series. In the musicals, Ami's dream of being a doctor and leaving Japan to study abroad is a recurring theme. The first part of the song shows Ami's conflict between studying abroad and growing up or being with everyone else and staying a young girl. She faces a similar dilemma in the anime, but very directly; given the opportunity to study in Germany, she gets as far as the airport before deciding to stay in Japan and fight evil alongside her friends.
Ami has a great appreciation for art as well as science, and, contrary to the usual depiction of a bookworm, enjoys pop culture and romance novels (though she is usually embarrassed to admit it). In both the anime and the manga, Ami's diligence in her studies becomes a running gag; she often comically scolds Usagi and the others for not doing their homework, and she can become obsessive about being the best student. Her character has been interpreted as a political commentary on the education system of Japan. She sometimes displays attraction to boys her age, and other times aversion to the idea. Love letters are listed as the one thing she has most trouble with, and when she later receives one, it gives her a rash. In the anime, a classmate named Ryo Urawa learns her identity and expresses attraction to her, but this is never resolved, as he disappears after just two appearances in the first series.
Besides reading, Ami is shown playing chess and swimming in order to relax. As the team scholar, computers are listed her strong point; she even belongs to the club at school. She loves all her classes, especially mathematics. Her favorite foods are given as sandwiches and anmitsu, with her least favorite being yellowtail. Other loves include cats, the colors aquamarine and blue, the flower Water Lily, and the gemstone sapphire.
Ami is one of the few girls in the series whose family situation is explicitly mentioned in the anime. Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother, a busy doctor who is not home very often, named Saeko in the live-action series. They look very similar, and Ami admires her mother and longs to live up to her example. Besides her workaholic tendencies, Dr. Mizuno is portrayed as a good person who openly resents not having more time to spend with her daughter. Ami's father is never named, but is stated in the manga and anime to be a painter. The manga says that he never visits them, having decided one day not to come home from the forest where he was relaxing and painting, but he sends her postcards on her birthday. Thinking about this, Ami sometimes resents her parents' selfishness in separating, partly because divorce in Japan is taboo. However, in the anime Ami seems to appreciate her father and seems to share some of his artistic traits, at one point even composing matching lyrics for a tune that had none. In the manga, Ami's mother is revealed to be fairly rich, as they live in a condominium. Ami is shown testing the strength of a sword that the Sailor Soldiers received on the Moon by using it to chip a diamond ring. (Classically, a diamond is the hardest mineral.) When the girls panic, she calms them by saying that her mother has many more.
In the live-action series, Ami is especially shy and usually wears glasses while in public, even though she does not need them. At her middle school, she has no friends before meeting Usagi and always eats lunch alone on the roof so she can study. Usagi seems to be the only one to realize that Ami is merely shy, not truly standoffish, and in befriending her gradually helps Ami to learn that she is more than just a bookworm. By Act 34, when Ami's mother attempts to transfer her to another school because she thinks Ami's friends are bad influences, Ami rebels, avoiding the admission interview and spending the night at the Sailor Guardians' hideout with Rei Hino. Later she tells her mother that what she's doing in her life right now is more important than studying, and her mother understands.
Ami is a kind and gentle girl who dislikes quarrels and abhors harming innocent people. These traits are even cited in the title of an anime episode, "Believe in Love! Ami, a Kind-Hearted Soldier", where she persuaded Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune not to kill Hotaru. Like her comrades, her loyalty to Sailor Moon is unwavering, and she would sacrifice her life for her princess if necessary.
Aspects and forms
As a character with different incarnations, special abilities, powers, transformations, and ageless extended longevity; an extremely long lifetime virtually spanned between the Silver Millennium era and the 30th century, Ami gains multiple aspects and aliases as the series progresses.
Sailor Mercury
Ami's Sailor Soldier identity is Sailor Mercury. She wears a uniform colored in shades of blue. In the manga and live-action series, her outfit is initially sleeveless and she has three blue studs in each of her ears. Her Sailor Moon Crystal design is largely faithful to her manga design, with the exception of having one blue stud on her right ear, and three on the left. In contrast, the original anime initially depicted her with sleeves and a single blue stud in each ear. Sailor Mercury is given specific titles throughout the various series, including Soldier of Water and Wisdom, Soldier of Intelligence, Soldier of Justice and Wisdom, and Soldier of Love and Exams. Her personality is no different from when she is a civilian, although certain special abilities are unavailable to her in that form.
In Japanese, the name for the planet Mercury is , the first kanji meaning "water" and the second indicating a celestial object. Although the Roman planet-name is used, Sailor Mercury's abilities are water-based due to this aspect of Japanese mythology. Initially most of her powers are strategic rather than offensive, and she possesses various pieces of computerized equipment to help her study the enemy.
As she grows much stronger and more powerful, Sailor Mercury gains additional powers, and at key points her uniform changes to reflect this. The first change takes place in Act 35 of the manga, when she obtains the Mercury Crystal and her outfit becomes similar to that of Super Sailor Moon. She is not given a new title. A similar event is divided between episodes 143 and 151 of the anime, and she is given the name Super Sailor Mercury. A third form appears in Act 42 of the manga, unnamed but analogous to Eternal Sailor Moon (sans wings). In the official visual book for Sailor Moon Eternal, this form was named "Eternal Sailor Mercury".
Dark Mercury
In the live action series, Ami is briefly taken over by the power of the Dark Kingdom and becomes . This form first appears in Act 21, as a servant of Kunzite. Her sailor suit has black tulle and lace on the back bow and sleeves, and tribal designs appear on her tiara and boots. She also gains a chain with a black charm on it around her waist. Her transformation phrase is Dark Power! Make-up! and is said in a much darker tone. She wields a sword fashioned from an icicle, which she creates herself the first time her transformation is displayed. In promotional photos prior to her premiere, she was shown with a different sword, which seemed to have strings on it like a harp or violin; the latter seems more likely, as she is also seen holding a bow. This bow was redecorated and given to Zoisite for use as a sword.
Dark Mercury is created when Kunzite manages to kidnap Ami in a moment of vulnerability while the other Sailor Guardians are busy. He exposes her directly to the power of Queen Metaria, causing drastic personality changes as well as the alterations to her uniform. She is self-confident to the point of egotism, and continues to attend school in civilian form, mainly to antagonize Usagi by brainwashing all of her former friends. Dressing predominantly in black, evil-Ami tends to move about slowly and dramatically, and when confronting the Sailor Guardians gives a sense of sadistic glee.
Dark Mercury has no intention of being a follower to anyone, and is always trying to pursue her own agenda, which is to kill her friends and become as strong as possible. She shows blatant disrespect to Kunzite and the other Kings of Heaven, even to Queen Beryl, perhaps because, unlike even the Four Kings of Heaven, she had been directly exposed to Metaria's power during her conversion, as opposed to having Queen Beryl or another intermediary filtering it.
Despite these alterations, certain aspects of the real Ami still remain. She still wants to do well in school, and wants friends, hence the brainwashing of her classmates. She seems to retain a sense of sympathy, which is evident when she repairs Nephrite's cape for him, stating that she does not like to see him alone.
Periodically, Sailor Moon attempts to heal her friend with the power of the Silver Crystal. Mercury is always snatched away before this can be completed, but it has some effect, ultimately resulting in her recovery. In Act 28, the catalyst for her finally returning to normal is when, having defeated Sailor Moon in battle, the sight of her injured friend causes her to realize she cares about Usagi, and to remember who she really is. After being healed, she has no memories of what happened while she was Dark Mercury. This haunts her, as she becomes terrified of what she may have done to her friends while not in control.
Princess Mercury
According to the manga, during the age of Silver Millennium, Sailor Mercury was also the Princess of her home planet. She was among those given the duty of protecting Princess Serenity of Silver Millennium. As Princess Mercury, she dwelt in Mariner Castle and wore a light blue gown—she appears in this form in the original manga and in supplementary art. Naoko Takeuchi once drew her in the arms of Zoisite, but no further romantic link between them was established in the manga or the first anime adaptation. However, in Sailor Moon Crystal, it is clearly stated that Sailor Mercury and Zoisite were in love during the Silver Millennium.<ref>Sailor Moon Crystal act #12 "Enemy –Queen Metalia"</ref> This is also established in the first stage musical, and in the later Eien Densetsu, where Ami and a disguised Zoisite share a duet, .
Special powers and items
In the manga, Ami can dowse without any aids. Otherwise, she is not shown using any special powers in her civilian form, and may not be able to. She must first transform into a Sailor Guardian by raising a special device (pen, bracelet, wand, or crystal) into the air and shouting a special phrase, originally "Mercury Power, Make-up!" As she becomes more powerful and obtains new transformation devices, this phrase changes to evoke Mercury Star, Planet, or Crystal Power. In both anime, Sailor Mercury's transformation sequence evolves slightly over time, whether to update the background images or to accommodate changes to her uniform or a new transformation device, but all of them involve a stream of water which she whirls around her body as she spins, forming her outfit with a ripple-like effect.
Sailor Mercury has the power to create and manipulate water. For the entire first story arc, she uses her water-manipulating capabilities only to create solid and dense clouds of mist and fog, chilling and blinding the enemy while her allies prepare more direct attacks. In the manga she usually does this without speaking, while in the anime it is given the name Shabon Spray. In the updated renewal manga, this power is renamed Mercury Aqua Mist to match the live-action series and the second anime series, in which she has an offensive beam attack by that name, capable of destroying weaker enemies. She uses a total of five attacks in this series, most of which are variations on the first.
Sailor Mercury's first major offensive attack is Shine Aqua Illusion, introduced in the second story arc, which can be used as a projectile, to freeze the enemy in solid ice, or to create a defensive barrier out of solid ice. Aside from variations on her other powers (mostly improving their strength with the addition of "Freezing" or "Snow"), her next named attack is Mercury Aqua Mirage, used during the third arc of the manga and again in the special side-story "Ami's First Love" (manga and anime) and she also uses this attack in second anime series. Her final and greatest strength and power comes in the fourth story arc, when she takes on her second Sailor Soldier form (Super Sailor Mercury in the anime). At this stage she acquires a special weapon, the Mercury Rod, and with it Mercury Aqua Rhapsody, which is her primary attack for the duration of the story. In the anime, Mercury gains the rod deep within her subconscious. The manga took a different approach with the Mercury Rod making it more of an item rather than a rod formed due to the attack. Furthermore, Sailor Mercury gained the rod through her power guardian. In the manga the Mercury Rod, as well as the other Sailor Soldiers' weapons have their own "wills" and can even speak and give input.
In addition to her own powers, Sailor Mercury has more non-magical items than any other Sailor Soldier. Early on in the series she makes frequent use of an extremely powerful "Micro-miniature Super Computer" that enables her to make special calculations, scan her surroundings, track the movements of allies as well as foes, and determine her enemies' weak points. The computer works in sync with her Mercury Goggles, which analyzes the area around her and displays information in front of her eyes and on the Computer. The visor may be a hologram of some sort; it materializes across her face when she touches her earring. The manga sometimes shows her wearing a small microphone connected to her earring, which she uses to communicate with Luna at the Sailor Guardians' hideout during the manga's first arc. All of these devices gradually fall out of use as the series progresses. She is one of two Sailor Guardians to use it for a named attack (Mercury Aqua Storm), and later can transform it into a sword. She also creates swords out of water, both as Sailor Mercury and as Dark Mercury.
In the manga, the Mercury Crystal and Mercury Rod are among her most significant magical possessions. The former is her Sailor Crystal and the source of all of her power, which becomes especially important in the fifth story arc.
Development
Ami was not included in the original proposal for a hypothetical Codename: Sailor V anime, which instead featured Minako's very similar-looking best friend from that series, Hikaru Sorano. She was present, however, by the time the concept was expanded to center on Sailor Moon.
Creator Naoko Takeuchi designed Ami as the "team brain", giving her genius-level intelligence to create the impression that she was not quite human—in fact, the character was originally intended to be a cyborg with an accelerator. One possible storyline involved her losing an arm or being injured in some other way and dying from it, but Takeuchi's editor objected, so Ami became a fully human character.
Sailor Mercury's original costume design, like the others', was fully unique. It featured full-length sleeves, pink ribbons, shoulder guards, green accents, buttons on the stomach, and high-tech goggles. Later, Takeuchi was surprised by these sketches and stated that she did not remember drawing them. She also describes Ami as looking like Noriko Sakai, a J-pop idol of the early 1990s, and in Ami's original debut, Usagi thinks to herself that Ami resembles Miss Rain, a character from another Takeuchi series. This reference was removed in the 2003 renewal manga.
The kanji in Ami's last name translate as and ; and her first name translates as and . It is structured as a pun, as the syllable "no" indicates a possessive, so that her name can also be understood as "Beauty of Water." It is frequently mistranslated as "Friend of Water" because of the French word ami, which is included in some Japanese dictionaries.
Actresses
In the original anime production of Sailor Moon, Ami was voiced by veteran voice actress Aya Hisakawa. After the show's conclusion, Hisakawa wrote in an artbook that she was "raised by" the character of Ami, and was "really, greatly happy" to have met her.
In the Sailor Moon Crystal anime, Ami is voiced by Hisako Kanemoto.
In the DIC/Cloverway English adaptation, Ami's name is changed to "Amy". Her voice was provided first by Karen Bernstein, for the original and R series and the movies, and later by Liza Balkan for the S and SuperS series. In the Viz Media English dub Ami's voice is supplied by Kate Higgins.
Ami has been portrayed by 11 actresses in the stage musicals: Ayako Morino, Yukiko Miyagawa, Hisano Akamine, Mariya Izawa, Chieko Kawabe, Manami Wakayama, Miyabi Matsura, Momoyo Koyama, Yume Takeuchi, Riria Itou, Miria Watanabe, Cocona, Umino Kawamura and Momoko Kaechi.
In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, she is played by Rika Izumi. Child actress Kanki Matsumoto portrays Ami in flashback sequences and childhood photographs.
Reception and influence
The official Sailor Moon character popularity polls listed Ami Mizuno and Sailor Mercury as separate entities. In 1992, readers ranked them at seventh and fourth respectively, out of thirty eight choices. One year later, now with fifty choices, Ami was the eighth most popular while Mercury was ninth. In 1994, with fifty one choices, Ami was the fifteenth most popular character, and Mercury was sixteenth. In early 1996, with fifty one choices, Ami was again the fifteenth most popular character, and Mercury was the nineteenth. Ami was the most popular female character in Animage's May 1993 poll, and an episode featuring her, "Love for Ami?! A Boy Who Can Predict the Future", was the eleventh favorite episode. The following year she came second behind Belldandy, and in 1995 she came fifth. In 1995, an episode featuring Ami, "The Labyrinth of Water! Ami the Targeted", was the ninth favorite episode. In 1996, after the debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, she came sixteenth, and in 1997 she came twentieth.
A five-book series was published, one book on each of the Sailor Soldiers and Sailor Moon. Ami's was released in 1996. This book was later translated into English by Mixx. The episode where Sailor Mercury gained her powers was novelised by Mixx.
She was popular with the male audience of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon'' due to her computer use and skills.
See also
Mercury in fiction
Mercury (mythology)
Elsa (Frozen)
Enki
References
Comics characters introduced in 1992
Fiction set on Mercury (planet)
Fictional characters with ice or cold abilities
Fictional characters with water abilities
Fictional high school students
Fictional middle school students
Mercury
Teenage characters in anime and manga
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Rous River, a perennial river of the Tweed River catchment, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Rous River rises below Mount Hobwee on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, near Numinbah on the New South Wales-Queensland border, and flows generally east by south, and then east, joined by four minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Tweed River at Tumbulgum, northeast of Murwillumbah. The river descends over its course.
In its upper reaches, Rous River is fed by a minor tributary, Hopkins Creek, on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, south of Mount Merino; and downriver of Numinbah near the small villages of Chillingham, Jacksons Creek enters the river. In its lower reaches, Rous River is fed by two minor tributaries, Nobbys Creek and Crystal Creek that emerge from the Numinbah Nature Reserve, south of Springbrook.
Adjustments to the natural flow of the river
In January 2006, partially treated sewerage entered the river from emergency tanks and ponds after storage at the Murwillumbah treatment plant, which had been off-line due to damage, was filled beyond capacity. Biological testing indicated the river water was hazardous which led to a temporary swimming ban.
In 2007, the federal government proposed damming the Rous River, Oxley River and Byrrill Creek. Local opposition to the plan was formed via the Save the Caldera Rivers Campaign, in an effort to stop the proposed dams from being built.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers
Tweed Shire
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Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean to Depression-era Chicago and rural Illinois.
The film stars Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken and Jessica Harper. Choreographed by Danny Daniels, the film includes musical numbers consisting of actors lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs of the 1920s–30s, such as "Let's Misbehave", "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and the title song.
While positively received by critics, it was a box office bomb, grossing just a fraction of its budget. Potter received a nomination for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to On Golden Pond.
Plot
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business and marriage are failing, and Joan (Jessica Harper) refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
Arthur's dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. He is refused a bank loan, although he fantasizes that he gets it. In his travels, Arthur meets schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and falls in love with her instantly. They embark on a short affair, but Arthur leaves her and returns to Joan, who is desperate to keep him and agrees to give him the money he wanted. Arthur denies having an affair, though Joan is sure he is lying.
Eileen gets pregnant by Arthur and is fired. With nowhere to go, she takes up with stylish pimp Tom (Christopher Walken). Eileen is attracted to Tom's "badness", and he arranges for her to have an abortion.
When Arthur meets Eileen again, she is now a prostitute calling herself "Lulu". They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. Impulsively, Arthur convinces her to run away with him. Having failed to sell his business, Arthur and Eileen break into the store one night and trash it, smashing its phonograph records (except for "Pennies from Heaven"). To supplement their income, Eileen keeps prostituting in spite of Arthur's objections.
A blind girl whom Arthur knew superficially is raped and murdered by an accordion-playing hobo to whom Arthur had given a ride earlier in the film. The police's suspicions are confirmed by Joan, who reveals to them Arthur's sexual predilections to get back at him for cheating on her. The police find Arthur trying to leave town with Eileen, and arrest him for murder; he is soon convicted and sentenced to death. At the gallows, he recites the lyrics from the song "Pennies from Heaven". In one final fantasy, Arthur and Eileen are reunited, with Arthur saying, "We couldn't have gone through all that without a happy ending. Songs ain't like that, are they?"
Cast
Steve Martin as Arthur Parker
Bernadette Peters as Eileen ("Lulu")
Jessica Harper as Joan Parker
Vernel Bagneris as Accordion man
John McMartin as Mr. Warner
John Karlen as Detective
Jay Garner as Banker
Robert Fitch as Al
Tommy Rall as Ed
Eliska Krupka as blind girl
Christopher Walken as Tom
Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett
Nancy Parsons as The Old Whore
Duke Stroud as Counterman
Will Hare as Father Everson
Production
Pennies from Heaven was Martin's first dramatic role in a film. He had watched the original miniseries and considered it "the greatest thing [he'd] ever seen." He trained for six months learning to tap dance, while Christopher Walken, who had trained as a dancer as a young man, was able to use his dancing skills in the film.
According to a 1990 article in The Times, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Potter rewrite the script 13 times and required him to buy back his copyright from the BBC, for which he paid the BBC "something over $100,000". In addition, MGM prohibited broadcast of the BBC's original production for 10 years. Around 1989, at the prompting of Alan Yentob, the controller of BBC2, producer Kenith Trodd was able to buy back the rights from MGM for "a very inconsiderable sum." In February 1990, the BBC rebroadcast the original Pennies from Heaven serial for the first time since 1978.
In the same Times article, Trodd stated that Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell, the stars of the original series, "were terribly upset that they weren't considered for the film. I think they still blame Dennis and me in some way, but there was no way to argue the point with MGM."
The style of the movie balances the drab despair of the Depression era and the characters' sad lives with brightly colored dream-fantasy lavish musical sequences. The characters break into song and dance to express their emotions. For example, Eileen turns into a silver-gowned torch singer in her school-room, with her students lip-synching and dancing ("Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You"). Tom seduces Eileen with a tap dance/striptease routine on top of a bar ("Let's Misbehave"). Arthur and Eileen go to a film (Follow the Fleet) and wind up dancing in formal wear, first with, then in, a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical number from the film, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". All the songs are lip-synched, except Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance.
Four paintings are recreated as tableaux vivants in the film: Hudson Bay Fur Company and 20 Cent Movie by Reginald Marsh, and New York Movie and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City rather than the Chicago setting of the movie.
Reception and legacy
Box office
The film was a commercial failure, grossing slightly more than $9 million at the box office against a budget of $22 million.
When asked in Rolling Stone about the film's box office failure, Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what's to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum."
David Begelman head of MGM called it "the most daring film we made. It took all these different textures and molded them... I didn't make that picture because I enjoy walking a tightrope. I made that picture because with every honest conviction you can bring to bear, I believed that film could become a film of such incredible celebrity it would enjoy very wide success. I was wrong. I was completely wrong."
It was Martin's second starring role in a film, following 1979's comedy hit The Jerk, and fans were confused to see Martin in a serious role. "You just can't do a movie like Pennies from Heaven after you have done The Jerk," Martin said in a BBC interview.
"Everything I had done until that time had been wildly successful," he recalled in 1987, "so that the commercial failure of the film caught me by surprise. I still think artistically it's a very good film. I've rarely seen a role that showed that kind of vulnerability in a man. It's a special film to me, and if I had to find fault, it would be that I think some of the music could have included more popular songs of the period."
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 82% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 7/19. The website's critics consensus reads: "A complicated little musical, Pennies from Heaven is a dazzling, tragic spectacle."
The film was given a rapturous review by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, writing "Pennies from Heaven is the most emotional movie musical I've ever seen. It's a stylized mythology of the Depression which uses the popular songs of the period as expressions of people's deepest longings—for sex, for romance, for money, for a high good time...there was never a second when I wasn't fascinated by what was happening on the screen." Kael further noted that "The dance numbers are funny, amazing, and beautiful all at once; several of them are just about perfection." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a rejuvenating, landmark achievement in the evolution of Hollywood musicals, and certainly the finest American movie of 1981. A brilliantly enhanced distillation of a 1978 British television play, 'Pennies' blends the astringent with the poignant and the fanciful. It appears as a belated Hollywood counterpart to Brecht and Weill's 'Three Penny Opera.'"
Other contemporary reviews were less positive. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and called it "all flash and style and no heart." Vincent Canby of The New York Times reported that he watched the film "with what might best be described as baffled interest." He wrote that "All of the musical numbers are good, and a couple are great...The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way." Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote "'Pennies From Heaven' is one of the most hopelessly esoteric big-budget Hollywood pictures ever made, a lugubrious, neo-Brechtian musical exercise of notable pretension and virtually no artistic payoff...In short, it's 'Penny Gate.'" Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader wrote that "ironic, alienating musicals have been tried before, but never with such lofty contempt for the form. [The film] drips with a sense of anger and betrayal that seems wildly out of scale to its cause - the discovery (less than original) that musicals don't reproduce social reality." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that "Martin ruins what could have been one of the year's freshest and most innovative films. With Martin hamming it up, 'Pennies From Heaven' is full of socko moments, but the entire film doesn't hold together." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "it is like no other period musical. It is so far out, so unexpected, that it might well be described as experimental...As such, it's likely to elicit deeply divided reactions: Audiences will either love it or hate it."
Peters won the Golden Globe as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role as Eileen Everson, a schoolteacher turned prostitute. A review of the DVD reissue asserted, "Peters brought a cocky attitude and a sexy exuberance to the musical numbers."
Fred Astaire, who was powerless to prevent the reuse of the footage from his film Follow the Fleet, detested Pennies from Heaven: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realize that the '30s were a very innocent age, and that [the film] should have been set in the '80s – it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful."
The film was nominated by the American Film Institute for its 2006 list of Greatest Movie Musicals.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium – Dennis Potter (nominated)
Best Costume Design – Bob Mackie (nominated)
Best Sound - Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr. (nominated)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture Actress, Comedy/Musical – Bernadette Peters (won)
Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical (nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor, Comedy/Musical – Steve Martin (nominated)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
References
External links
Turner Classic Movies article
1981 films
1980s English-language films
1980s musical drama films
1981 romantic drama films
American musical drama films
American romantic drama films
American romantic musical films
Adultery in films
Films about banking
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films based on television series
Films directed by Herbert Ross
Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films produced by Rick McCallum
Films set in Chicago
Films set in Illinois
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in 1934
Great Depression films
Jukebox musical films
Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films
1980s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Japan%20Figure%20Skating%20Championships
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2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships
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The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 73rd edition of the event. They were held from December 24 through 26, 2004 at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was used to decide Japan's entries to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships. The entries to the 2005 World Junior Championships were decided at the Japanese Junior Championships.
Competition notes
The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in junior, third in senior), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in junior, fifth in senior), Yasuharu Nanri (third in junior, eighth in senior), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in junior, fourth in senior) in men, and Mao Asada (first in junior, second in senior), Mai Asada (second in junior, eighth in senior), Aki Sawada (third in junior, fourth in senior), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in junior, fifth in senior) in ladies.
Silver medalist Mao Asada was not old enough to be sent to the World or the Four Continents Championships.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 20 and 21, 2004 at the Osaka Pool arena in Osaka.
Men
Ladies
Ice dancing
International team selections
World Championships
Following the national championships, Honda, Arakawa, and Ando were assigned to the World team. All other places were filled following the 2005 Four Continents Championships, with the highest placing Japanese skater earning the available Worlds spot.
Four Continents Championships
External links
2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships results
2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results
Japan Figure Skating Championships
2004 in figure skating
2005 in figure skating
2004 in Japanese sport
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Gao Hongmiao
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Gao Hongmiao (born 17 March 1974) is a Chinese race walker.
International competitions
References
1974 births
Living people
Chinese female racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for China
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for China
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
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Rowleys River
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Rowleys River, a perennial river of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Rowleys River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, southeast of Yarrowitch, and flows generally south southeast, joined by two tributaries including the Cells River, before reaching its confluence with the Nowendoc River, southeast of Nowendoc. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers in New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands
Mid North Coast
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
Walcha Shire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirakabaha
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Shirakabaha
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The was an influential Japanese literary coterie, which published the literary magazine Shirakaba, from 1910 to 1923.
History
In 1910, a loose association of alumni of the prestigious Gakushuin Peer’s School in Tokyo began a literary society. Members included writers, artists, literary critics and others who rejected Confucianism and the strictures of traditional Japanese literary and artistic styles. In particular, the group emphasized idealism, humanism and individualism, over the naturalism that had been the dominant trend in Japanese literature of the Taishō period. The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan. Unlike many other literary circles, The Shirakaba-ha did not limit their interest to literature, but also delved into other art forms. However, the group remained deeply interested in Japanese culture, particularly in folk art, which had previously been disparaged by traditional art critics.
Early members included Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885-1976), Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), Satomi Ton (1888-1983), Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) and Nagayo Yoshirō (1888-1961). Their literature was typically of the ‘I novel’ genre, and was concerned with the life of individuals, often incorporating optimistic philosophy into their work. Some of these individuals came with wealthy families, and attempted to emulate Tolstoy in creating utopian agrarian communes in remote parts of Japan. The self-published monthly literary journal Shirakaba ("White Birch") was in circulation from April 1910 until 1923. The magazine reached its peak in popularity in 1918. However, publication was discontinued after the Great Kantō earthquake.
References
Suzuki, Tomi. Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity. Stanford University Press. (1997)
Yamanouchi, Hisaaki. The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge University Press. (1980)
External links
Shirakaba Literary Society home page
The Circle, Red Circle Authors
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Rufus River
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Rufus River, a watercourse of the Murray catchment and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in south western New South Wales, Australia.
The river leaves Lake Victoria, flowing generally west and then south-west, before reaching its confluence with the Murray River, at Lock 7, near Rufus.
Rufus River was visited by European explorer, Charles Sturt, in 1830, and named after his red-haired (or rufus) travelling companion, George Macleay.
A number of conflicts between European and Aboriginal people in 1841 led to the Rufus River massacre.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Map of Rufus River – Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin
Rivers in the Riverina
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Effie Waller Smith
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Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's Weekly and various regional newspapers.
Early life and education
Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children.
Frank Waller established himself as both a blacksmith and a real estate speculator soon after his arrival in the Chloe Creek community. This mountain community was unique in comparison to other communities of the time in that it was racially integrated. This condition, coupled with Waller's early training as a blacksmith while still a slave, helped him to become financially successful and to win the respect of his neighbors, both white and black. The Wallers, realizing the hardships caused by their own limited education, decided that their children would receive the best quality education available to them at the time.
Effie completed eighth grade at a local school, as her older siblings Alfred and Rosa had done, then attended Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons in Frankfort, and from 1900 to 1902 trained to be a teacher, after which she is known to have taught school off and on for several years, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. That same year she married a man called Lyss Cockrell but the marriage did not last long, ending in her divorcing him. In 1908 she married again, to Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith, but this union was also short-lived. He was killed in 1911 while serving a warrant.
Career
Some of her verse appeared in local papers, and she published her first collection, Songs of the Months, containing 110 poems, in 1904. In 1909 Effie Smith had published two further collections, Rhymes From the Cumberland and Rosemary and Pansies, and in 1917, her sonnet "Autumn Winds" was published in Harper's Magazine, but she appears to have stopped writing that year, when she was 38.
Effie Smith left Kentucky for Wisconsin in 1918. She died on January 2, 1960 and is buried in the city of Neenah.
Bibliography
Songs of the Month (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904)
Rhymes From the Cumberland (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909)
Rosemary and Pansies (1909)
References
External links
Works by Effie Waller Smith at the Internet Archive
Effie Waller Smith, "Preparation", Academy of American Poets.
"Effie Waller Smith" at PoemHunter.com.
1879 births
1960 deaths
African-American poets
American poets
Writers from Kentucky
Kentucky State University alumni
American women poets
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American writers
African-American women writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20Libyan%20Premier%20League
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2001–02 Libyan Premier League
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The 2001–02 Libyan Premier League was the 34th edition of the competition, since its inception in 1963. The league was made up of 16 teams, with the first round of matches being played on September 7, 2001, and the last round of matches being played on May 16, 2002.
Ittihad won the championship, on goal difference from Nasr, for their first league title since 1991 and their 9th overall.
Four teams were relegated this season, including two-time champions Mahalla, as the league was reduced from 16 teams to 14 teams. Sawa'ed managed to retain their top flight status by defeating Akhdar 7–3, while rivals Sweahly lost 1–5 to Ittihad, ensuring the Benghazi club stayed up on goal difference.
However, due to suspicions that the Sawa'ed – Akhdar game was thrown, the LFF decided to relegate Sawa'ed and keep Sweahly up.
League standings
Top scorers
Al-Saadi Gaddafi (Ittihad) - 19 goals
Abdulrazaaq Jlidi - 18 goals
Ali al Milyaan - 15 goals
References
Libya - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Libyan Premier League seasons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nysa%20Bridge
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Nysa Bridge
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The Nysa Bridge is a late imperial Roman bridge over the Cakircak stream in Nysa (modern Sultanhisar) in the ancient region of Caria, modern-day Turkey. The long substructure was the second largest of its kind in antiquity, after the Pergamon Bridge.
Dating
The Greek geographer Strabo (63 BC–AD 21), who lived in Nysa, mentioned a secret water conduit in the town, but it remains unclear whether he meant the existing tunnel-like bridge. An inscription at the northern wall of the tube, close to a bend after , indicates a construction date in late imperial times. It reads "Work of Praülos until this point".
Construction
The Nysa Bridge served as a substructure for the area in front of the city theatre, which lay close to the Cakircak stream. It was built as a two-level structure: the bottom vault spanned the brook. On top of it a row of arches connected the two hills that formed the urban area. The ground arch spanned the stream on a length of some , giving the bridge the appearance of a tube or a tunnel, although it was constructed entirely above ground. It consists of a single, wide vault whose uphill mouth widens to . The overall height of its semi-circular arch is , featuring a rise of . The vault is made of rubble stone laid in mortar, resting on a substructure of ashlar stone blocks of varying size (0.3–0.9 x 1.0–1.4 m). Originally featuring a continuous vaulting, it is collapsed today between m 75 and 85, and again at the downhill exit. The remaining, isolated structure at the downstream side has often been incorrectly referred to as a bridge of its own. The Nysa Bridge was the second largest bridge substruction of its kind in antiquity, only surpassed by the nearby Pergamon Bridge. By comparison, the width of a normal, free standing Roman bridge did not exceed .
In its further course, the Cakircak also ran through the city stadion, so that naumachia could be given. There are remains of two other ancient bridges both up- and downstream.
Discharge capacity
The capacity limit of the Nysa Bridge in case of floods has been the subject of hydraulic and hydrological research. The gradient of the tunnel was calculated as 3.3% with a maximum discharge capacity of 290 m³/s. Exceeding this limit puts the bridge under internal pressure and damages the structure in the process. Considering that the Cakircak is long, with a median gradient of 19% and a drainage basin of , the following median intervals were calculated, depending on the method employed:
7,500 years (Günerman method)
10,500 years (D.S.I. method)
13,000 years (Mockus method)
68,000 years (Snyder method)
The study came to the conclusion that statistically every 13,500 years, a value which has been referred to as the "arithmetic mean", floods are to be expected which would exceed the capacity of the bridge.
See also
List of Roman bridges
Roman architecture
Roman engineering
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Roman bridges in Turkey
Deck arch bridges
Stone bridges in Turkey
Roman Caria
Tunnels in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Aydın Province
Arch bridges in Turkey
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Ius strictum
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Ius strictum means "strict law", or law interpreted without any modification and in its utmost rigor. It is a very rare term in the materials of classical Roman law. It is really a Byzantine term, occurring in Justinian’s Institutes in reference to the strict actions of the law, primarily describing the rigid limitations of the forms of action available under the law, particularly with older laws. It is often used by later commentators to distinguish it from the moderating influence of the praetors, or judges who expanded the law through actions ex fida bona, or what we would now call equity.
See also
Ius
Ius scriptum
Letter and spirit of the law
Pardon
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandon%20River
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Sandon River
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Sandon River, an open mature wave dominated, barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Sandon River rises of the eastern slopes of the Summervale Range, west of Blue Gum Flat and flows generally northeast before reaching its mouth at the Coral Sea of the South Pacific Ocean below Sandon Bluffs; descending over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
Rivers in Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers
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American Beauty/American Psycho (sometimes abbreviated as AB/AP) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on January 16, 2015 through Island Records as the follow-up to the band's comeback album Save Rock and Roll (2013). The band wrote music while on tour with Paramore mid-2014 and it developed into a new album.
The album's release was preceded by the 4× Platinum top 10 lead single "Centuries", released September 9, 2014 while the album was still being completed. The album's title track was released as the second single in the UK on December 15, 2014, receiving a radio premiere a month before on November 24, 2014. American Beauty/American Psycho debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 album chart, with 218,000 album-equivalent units in its first week alone and becoming the band's third No. 1 album, later being certified gold UK and Canada. On March 1, 2016, the album was certified platinum in the US for 1 million units.
In support of the record, Fall Out Boy played at Soundwave in Australia, made TV appearances, and have embarked two concert tours: the American Beauty/American Psycho Tour, the Boys of Zummer Tour, and the Wintour. On October 30, a remix album entitled Make America Psycho Again was released with a different rapper on each song, which drew in over 13,000 equivalent copies in its debut week.
Background and recording
Fall Out Boy began writing for their sixth studio album in the summer of 2014 while still promoting their previous release Save Rock and Roll (2013) on the Monumentour concert tour with fellow American band Paramore. Recording began soon after, with the track "Centuries" being the first of the songs to be written and recorded. By late November, all the songs were written and the album was 80% complete but still needed finishing. While making their previous album, the band was just beginning to realise that music recording methods have differed since their hiatus, but have fully embraced the changes for recording American Beauty/American Psycho. Producer Jake Sinclair made the band realise that parts recorded as demos on laptops are able to make it to the final product.
Since the release of "Centuries", the band stated that the album could be released as early as "early 2015". Regarding its sound, bassist Pete Wentz described the new material as "David versus Goliath", as Wentz stated: "[Brian Hiatt] tweeted[,] "[The] problem with modern rock is it [isn't modern,]" something [I] and we had been feeling in general. [Rock] should not be relegated to a quaint little corner of Guitar Center for dads to find. [In] reaching out to SebastiAn we wanted to make something that was a throwback instead futuristic." According to Patrick Stump, "All I can say is, some people will love it. Some people will hate it. The four of us like it a lot, so we're happy".
Composition
Music
The album's sound has been described as pop, pop punk, and pop rock. The band felt influences from playing with different artists and expanded on boundaries further than Save Rock and Roll did. Stump's goal was to make a more stylistically cohesive album than Save Rock and Roll, "where you pick any track and it sounds like it's from the same album". He wanted an album that "understood what it was the whole time". Meanwhile, Wentz was focused on making rock music relevant to pop culture (and thus requiring radio play) that could also be played in big venues; maintaining their legacy as a "big currently relevant rock band." Wentz said, "Rock 'n' roll is this progressive idea, [with] room to be dangerous and futuristic. To think it's this idea that has to be set in stone is just, like, making it not only not dangerous but this quaint little thing. It's not what it is to me. To fence yourself into this little area and chain yourself to the doghouse has never been what I thought rock music was." Guitarist Joe Trohman said of the album, "Musically, it has hip hop grooves with guitars on it," with "more in your face guitar than Save Rock and Roll". In an industry increasingly focused on singles, Stump still regards the music album as an important form of art—"I put a ton of thought into this new record, making sure it was an experience where the running order matters and the keys and tempo and everything. It all matters to me because records still matter to me."
"Centuries" contains a sample of the song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega re-recorded by American singer Lolo for the track, which Stump described as "a tip of the hat" to, as the band wanted to "re-inject" it into pop culture. The song "American Beauty/American Psycho" samples Mötley Crüe's song "Too Fast for Love". Annie Zaleski of Alternative Press described it as a "mix of fluid grooves, punky riffs and outré pop sensibilities." The title track is Patrick Stump's favorite track from the album; he stated, "It's the right level of artistically interesting, but also just fun." The track "Uma Thurman" is named after the American actress, and samples The Munsterss theme song. Thurman heard the song and allowed the band to legally use her name. "Irresistible" is an "arena-rocking" horn-driven song about deadly love, with lyricist Pete Wentz drawing inspiration from the fatal attraction between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. The track "Fourth of July" includes a heavy sample of the song "Lost It To Trying" by Son Lux from the 2013 album Lanterns. "Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC)" contains a psychedelic bridge.
Lyrics
As the band's primary lyricist, Wentz felt that he had "more perspective" on his personal life to write more about it. "The idea behind some of the songs is addressing modern love or what's going on with my head and my life [more] than Save Rock and Roll did. I think Save Rock and Roll was a little more broader when it came to that." "Centuries" was written with the aim to inspire. Some topical issues including the 2014 Ferguson unrest are addressed. Wentz stated, "as an artist that has a platform, there's certain things that if you believe, you should say." However, he restated that Fall Out Boy is not a political band.
Title and artwork
The "American Beauty" half of the album's title comes from the album by the Grateful Dead and the 1999 film. The "American Psycho" half references the book by Bret Easton Ellis and the subsequent 2000 film. The album artwork features a teenage boy (Jake Karlen) with stars and stripes painted on half of his face, standing in front of a white house. Karlen auditioned to model for the cover; the photoshoot took place in Los Angeles. Karlen said, " They wanted to see something very dark and angry, very angry. I think I pulled it off. I think I did pretty good."
Promotion
TV performances
On November 24, 2014, the band announced the album's title and release details for January 20, 2015. They next played it on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with Suzanne Vega as a special guest on October 29, 2014. The band performed "Centuries" on The Voices season finale with contestant Matt McAndrew in December 2014. The band also performed "Centuries" at the People's Choice Awards on January 7, 2015, which Billboard called the "most memorable" performance of the night.'People's Choice Awards 2015′ Announces Attendees And Performances CBS. Retrieved December 25, 2014. To begin their album release week television blitz, the band played "Centuries" on the morning The Today Show and again on the late night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 21 January.Fall Out Boy Tweet on Jimmy Fallon twitter.com/falloutboy. Retrieved January 2015. A guest appearance on the morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Michael was televised on January 23. On January 25, 2015 the band performed at the National Hockey League All-Star Game exhibition event. A performance for troops at Luke Air Force Base as a pre-Super Bowl event was set for January 30 to air live on VH1. Fall Out Boy starred in a Pepsi TV ad which aired during the 57th Grammy Awards, performing "Uma Thurman" in record-pressing plant.who saw us on tv? got to play inside of a vinyl falloutboy.com. Retrieved February 13, 2015. Fall Out Boy performed "Centuries" and "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" on CBS's The Talk on March 12 and it aired in Australia on March 29. In early April the band performed "Immortals" on Japanese TV show Sukkiri!! ( スッキリ!!). Fall Out Boy will be the first inductees to the "Hall of Wood" at the 2015 MtvU Woodie Awards and will also perform. They had won the Streaming Woodie award for "Grand Theft Autumn" at the first ceremony in 2004.
Tours
The band played several shows in support of the record, such as at the Soundwave in Australia and a headlining performance in a stadium at RodeoHouston. Moreover, the band planned a world tour, consisting of more than 50 dates across North America and Europe. The American leg will be co-headlining with American rapper Wiz Khalifa under the name The Boys of Zummer'''. The second American leg of the tour was announced October 2015, for Wintour. It began February 25th 2016, in Puerto Rico and ended on March 27 in San Francisco, California. Wintour was co-headlined with PVRIS and AWOLNATION, with a few other special guests during different dates.
The American Beauty / American Psycho touring cycle ended August 28, 2016 at the Reading and Leeds Festival. The show had a special clip of an upcoming short film called 'Bloom'. The show was performed with pyromaniacs and acrobatics.
Singles
"Centuries" was released as the album's lead single on September 8, 2014 and peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in its 20th week. It reached No. 13 on Mainstream Top 40 and No. 4 on Alternative Songs as a crossover success. A gladiator-style music video directed by Syndrome was later released on October 14, 2014 and features a cameo from American rapper Rick Ross.
The title track premiered on BBC Radio 1 on November 24, 2014 and released a month later on December 15, 2014 as the album's second UK single. Its music video also premiered the same day.Fall Out Boy's "American Beauty/American Psycho" Music Video is Creepy, Nonsensical and Cinematic Music Times. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
"Uma Thurman" was released to United States modern rock radio as the album's third single week ending February 10, 2015. On January 12, it was released for digital download as the third promotional song and overall the fifth preceding American Beauty/American Psycho, and reached the top position on iTunes. "Irresistible" was released as the third UK single, and its music video was released on February 19, 2015.
Other songs
"Immortals" was released on October 14, 2014 and is featured in the 2014 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Big Hero 6. Disney asked the band to write and perform the song for the film's sequence in which the Big Hero 6 team is transformed from a group of super smart individuals to a band of high-tech heroes. An alternative version is featured on the album.
As part of a pre-order deal on iTunes, the song "The Kids Aren't Alright" was additionally released as a promotional single on December 15, 2014. The full album track listing and artwork was also revealed with the preorder. Two additional digital songs were announced for January 5 and January 12 respectively. The first, "Irresistible", immediately debuted at No. 1 on iTunes.#1 song falloutboy.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015. It has been described as a "booming, brass-backed anthem."
On January 13, 2015, all the unreleased songs from the album were streamed onto the band's Vevo channel.
Reception
Commercial performanceAmerican Beauty/American Psycho debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with 192,000 first week sales and 218,000 equivalent album units. It became Fall Out Boy's third No. 1 album and second highest sales week behind Infinity on Highs 260,000 debut. 204,000 individual song sales and almost 9 million streams made up AB/APs 26,000 non-album equivalent units.Rockers Fall Out Boy tops Billboard album chart Reuters. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
A week before the album's release, forecasters predicted that it would sell 150,000 copies in its opening week, before being upgraded to 175,000-200,000 days later due to estimates that the album would strongly reach 100,000 digital preorders at the time of release.FALL OUT BOY'S PRICING PLAY hitsdailydouble.com. Retrieved January 28, 2015. After 1.5 days of sales, Billboard predicted that first week album sales could reach 190,000, with over 220,000 in equivalent album units. In its second week, it fell to No. 6 with 55,000 equivalent album units, a 75% decline. It dropped to No. 13 in its third week and has spent twenty-four weeks in the top 20. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on September 18, 2015, and Platinum on February 24, 2016. As of October 2015, the album has sold 572,000 copies in the US.
In Canada, American Beauty/American Psycho also debuted at No. 1 with 14,000 first week sales, becoming the band's second Canadian No. 1 and fourth Canadian top 10.Nielson Tweet on official accounts Nielson official Twitter. Retrieved February 13, 2015. On March 24, 2015, it was certified Gold in Canada for 40,000 shipments. The album debuted at No. 4 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart. In Australia, it debuted at No. 3 behind Mark Ronson, whose Uptown Special debuted at No. 2, while Taylor Swift's 1989 reigned at No. 1. The record became the band's fourth consecutive top 10 in Australia. American Beauty/American Psycho was also in a close sales race to the top position against Mark Ronson on the UK Albums Chart and led by 1500 copies mid-week, but fell short by the end of the tracking week to debut at No. 2 with 31,497 first week sales (1883 units behind No. 1). However, it made No. 1 on the UK Albums Download Chart. On June 8, 2015, it was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for 100,000 copies shipped. The album saw a No. 6 debut in Ireland.
Critical response
American Beauty/American Psycho received mostly positive reviews upon its release. The aggregate review site Metacritic gave the album a 72 out of 100 based on 15 reviews. Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly gave it an A, commending the band for being able to make "big-venue sing-alongs that also reward deep headphone analysis." He appreciated the tracks "Favorite Record" and "Fourth of July," stating that they are "thrillingly layered." Evan Lucy of Alternative Press gave the album 4 stars out of 5, mentioning the heavy sampling in some of the album's songs: "The more interesting aspect of American Beauty/American Psycho is the band's newfound emphasis on samples," calling the band as a whole "newly reinvented." He went on to praise Stump's vocals, Wentz's lyrics, and stated that "Fall Out Boy are currently producing some of the most interesting music of their career." Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian gave an equally positive review, awarding the album 4 stars out of 5. She praised the band's "nervy ambition" on the album and called it "one of their better releases."
Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club also gave the album a positive review. She wrote that "American Beauty/American Psycho's playful musical vibe masks lyrics plagued by flashbulb memories of failed relationships and ill-fated romantic dalliances. Thankfully, there's no self-pity in sight on these songs, only heightened self-awareness." The Los Angeles Times was also highly positive while commenting negatively on the second half of the album. "The result, at least for the first half, is almost comically exciting, one fist-pump adrenaline rush after another...Alas, Stump and his bandmates run out of steam by the end of American Beauty/American Psycho." AllMusic was also fairly positive. "Fall Out Boy have taken great efforts to incorporate whatever was happening on the charts, an inclination that isn't quite as necessary in the great digital disassociation of the 2010s, yet this inclination does give American Beauty/American Psycho a bit of a kinetic kick." "Uma Thurman" has often been identified as the centrepiece of the album.
On the other hand, Collin Brennan of Consequence of Sound gave a more mixed review. He felt that the album lacked direction, stating that "Fall Out Boy loses its way more often than not in its latest stab at rock radio dominance." He furthermore opined that the songwriting was lacking as a result of the album's heavy use of samples. Caryn Ganz of Rolling Stone also gave a mixed review. "Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley's most virtuosic playing is buried under blaring production, reducing what might be Metallica-heavy riffage into background buzz." However, the reviewer had some positive comments as well: "When everything connects – like on the single "Centuries" – FOB are a glorious nexus of Seventies glitter rock, Eighties radio pop, Nineties R&B and Aughts electro stomp." The album was ranked at number 5 in Alternative Presss "10 Essential Records of 2015" list. Cassie Whitt of Alternative Press wrote that the band pushed their fan base with "rock songs structured like hip-hop tracks". The album was ranked at number 26 on AbsolutePunk's top albums of 2015 list.
Track listingNotes signifies an additional producer
signifies a co-producerSample credits "American Beauty/American Psycho" contains samples of "Too Fast for Love", written by Nikki Sixx and performed by Mötley Crüe
"Centuries" contains elements of "Tom's Diner", written and performed by Suzanne Vega
"Uma Thurman" contains samples from "Munsters TV Theme", written by Jack Marshall and Bob Mosher
"Fourth of July" samples "Lost It to Trying", written by Ryan Lott and performed by Son Lux
PersonnelFall Out Boy Andy Hurley – drums, percussion
Pete Wentz – bass guitar
Joe Trohman – guitar, keyboards, lap steel guitar, programming, guitar engineering
Patrick Stump – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, vocal engineering (all tracks); engineering (1, 2, 10)Additional musicians Jake Sinclair – background vocals, keyboards, percussion, programming
Lolo – additional vocals (3)
Michael Bolger – horns (1)Technical'''
Pete Lyman – mastering
Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (1, 3, 5)
Claudius Mittendorfer – mixing (2, 4, 6–9, 11)
Jake Sinclair – mixing (10)
Todd Stopera – engineering (1, 10)
Samuel Kalandjian – engineering (3)
Geoff Swan – mixing assistance (1, 3, 5)
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
Release history
On January 13, 2015, Fall Out Boy streamed the album on their website and YouTube channel after the album was leaked online fifteen days early.
The album was made available on vinyl on May 4, 2015.
References
Citations
Sources
External links
American Beauty/American Psycho at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
2015 albums
Albums produced by J. R. Rotem
Fall Out Boy albums
Island Records albums
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The lists of University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) buildings catalog only the currently-existing Pitt- and UPMC-owned buildings and structures that reside within the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the home of the university's and medical center's main campuses. Although the University and the closely affiliated University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) are tightly intertwined both institutionally and geographically, including the sharing and leasing arrangements of resources and facilities (such as Forbes Tower, Thomas Detre Hall, the Carrillo Street Steam Plant, Hillman Cancer Center, etc.), buildings primarily owned by UPMC are listed separately because the University and UPMC are technically separate legal entities.
University of Pittsburgh
The major concentration of buildings that comprise Pitt's main campus is centered in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, however a few facilities are scattered elsewhere throughout the city, including the adjacent Shadyside neighborhood. Along with regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville, Pitt also has a Computer Center in RIDC Park in Blawnox, the Plum Boro Science Center in Plum, the University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center (U-PARC) in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology in Linesville, Pennsylvania, and the Allen L. Cook Spring Creek Preserve archeological research site in Spring Creek, Wyoming.
Table of Pitt-owned buildings in Pittsburgh
Buildings in the sortable table below are initially listed alphabetically.
Table of former Pitt-owned buildings in Pittsburgh
The following table lists buildings that were owned and utilized by the university but have subsequently been either sold or demolished.
UPMC
The flagship of UPMC's hospital network is centered in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh within, and adjacent to, the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Many university departments, institutes and programs are housed within UPMC facilities and vice versa. The administrative headquarters of UPMC are moving into the top floors of the U.S. Steel Tower in downtown Pittsburgh. In Pennsylvania, UPMC also owns and operates facilities outside Pittsburgh including hospitals in Aspinwall (UPMC St. Margaret), Bedford (UPMC Bedford), Braddock (UPMC Braddock), Cranberry (UPMC Passavant – Cranberry Campus), Greenville (UPMC Horizon: Greenville), McCandless (UPMC Passavant – McCandless campus), (UPMC McKeesport), Seneca (UPMC Northwest), and Farrell (UPMC Horizon: Shenango Valley), as well as operating ISMETT, located in Palermo, Sicily. UPMC also owns and operates a variety of other facilities inside Pennsylvania including cancer centers (also internationally in Ireland and the United Kingdom), retirement and long-term care facilities, and community and medical and surgical facilities.
Table of UPMC-owned buildings in Pittsburgh
The sortable table below has its included buildings initially listed alphabetically.
See also
Oakland - the neighborhood of the main Pitt campus
Schenley Farms Historic District - the historic district in Oakland which the main campus is located. Many other historic buildings in this district are scattered among the Pitt campus and are utilized for various school functions.
Notes
References
External links
Financial Records Services Building List
Allegheny County Assessment Real Estate Search
Emporis Pittsburgh buildings
Images of America: Oakland
Building List
Pittsburgh, University of
University of Pittsburgh buildings
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh
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Sara River, a perennial stream that is part of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the New England and Northern Tablelands districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Sara River rises on the southern slopes of Mount Mitchell on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, east of Ben Lomond, and flows generally to the east, joined by three tributaries, including Oban River, before forming its confluence with the Guy Fawkes River to form the Boyd River within Guy Fawkes River National Park and Chaelundi National Park. Sara River descends over its course.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands
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Irina Dorneanu
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Irina Dorneanu (born 3 March 1990 in Suceava) is a Romanian rower. She finished 4th in the eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She was also part of the Romanian women's eights who won the European championships in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, and won bronze in 2015.
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1990 births
Living people
Romanian female rowers
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers of Romania
European Rowing Championships medalists
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Defence of Canada Regulations
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The Defence of Canada Regulations were a set of emergency measures implemented under the War Measures Act on 3 September 1939, a week before Canada's entry into World War II.
The extreme security measures permitted by the regulations included the waiving of habeas corpus and the right to trial, internment, bans on certain political and cultural groups, restrictions of free speech including the banning of certain publications, and the confiscation of property.
Section 21 of the Regulations allowed the Minister of Justice to detain without charge anyone who might act "in any manner prejudicial to the public safety or the safety of the state."
The Regulations were used to intern opponents of World War II, particularly fascists (like Adrien Arcand) and Communists (including Jacob Penner, Bruce Magnuson and Tom McEwen) as well as opponents of conscription such as Quebec nationalist and Montreal mayor Camillien Houde. It was under the regulations that Japanese Canadians were interned and their property confiscated for the duration of the war. German Canadians were required to register with the state and some German and Italian Canadians were detained. The Regulations were also used to ban the Communist Party of Canada in 1940 as well as several of its allied organizations such as the Young Communist League, the League for Peace and Democracy, the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association, the Finnish Organization of Canada, the Russian Workers and Farmers Clubs, the Polish Peoples Association and the Croatian Cultural Association, the Hungarian Workers Clubs and the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation. Various fascist groups were also banned such as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party and the Canadian Union of Fascists. Non-communist labour leaders like Charles Millard were also interned.
A number of prominent Communist Party members were detained until 1942, the year after the Soviet Union joined the Allies. Fascist leaders such as Adrien Arcand and John Ross Taylor were detained for the duration of the war.
Further reading
References
External links
Human Rights in Canada - Defence of Canada Regulations
They Fought for Labour—Now Interned! (Political pamphlet about interned labour leaders, including an extensive list of names) at Memorial University Library
Canadian federal legislation
Emergency laws
Legal history of Canada
1939 in Canadian law
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Sagrario María del Rosario Ortiz Montoro (born 5 November 1967) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2008 to 2009 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
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1967 births
Living people
Politicians from Puebla
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Puebla
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In Canadian folklore, Cressie is the nickname given to an eel-like lake monster said to reside in Crescent Lake, Robert's Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The name is a portmanteau of Crescent Lake and Nessie, the nickname given to the Loch Ness Monster. The monster has been described as resembling a large dark brown eel around 15 feet in length with a long, sleek body and as "looking long and shiny, and having a fish-like head." Claims of Cressie being sighted began in the 1950s, and continue to the present day.
History
Though there are reported sightings of Cressie as early as the 1950s, some have linked the legends to earlier Indigenous legends of the woodum haoot ("pond devil") or haoot tuwedyee ("swimming demon"), however others caution that this attribution has seemingly been copied from source to source without any verification of its connection to Cressie or the area of Newfoundland and Labrador in which Cressie is found.
There have been no photographs of Cressie, and all information relies on local oral history. According to local folklore, an elderly resident of Robert's Arm known as Grandmother Anthony was startled while berry-picking by a giant serpent in the lake. In one of the earliest dated sightings in the 1950s, two woodsmen were on the shores of the lake when they noticed an upturned boat, and fearing for its occupants, they hurried towards it. However, as they approached, the boat turned out to be something large and slick which slipped below the waters of the lake.
A local resident reported a slim, black shape rise five feet from a patch of churning water before sinking out of sight, in early spring 1990.
On July 9, 1991, Fred Parsons and his wife reported seeing a large snakelike creature swimming in Crescent Lake. He described it as a long, sleek body without a significantly large head, which was laying level with the water. In September of that same year, a resident of Robert's Arm was returning to town when he noticed a disturbance on the surface of the lake. As he watched, the object dropped beneath the surface and then rose again. He described it as "a black, fifteen foot long shape pitching forward in a rolling motion much as a whale does but with no sign of a fin." It sank out of sight and did not reappear.
There were several sightings in 1995, and a summer student crew working on the boardwalk along the lake spotted the monster in 2000.
During the summer of 2003, several town residents say they saw the creature swimming after at least a year with no reports, which had led some residents to speculate whether Cressie had died. In these reports, Cressie was said to resemble a snake-like creature with a fish-like head:A passenger in a passing car shrieked at the driver as she looked out towards the lake and watched as the monster surfaced, its skin shiny and slick under the summer sun. Both watched water pour from the monster's gaping mouth. It was about 20 feet in length and swam silently across the top of the lake before diving down into the cool depths once more.There are other reports that divers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have allegedly described seeing "giant eels as thick as a man's thigh" in the lake while investigating a drowning death. According to reports, scuba divers conducting an underwater search for the body of a downed pilot in the mid-80s found themselves surrounded by a school of vicious gigantic eels, though they were able to escape, leading some to believe that perhaps these eels were Cressie's babies.
In the winter, large holes often appear in the ice that covers Crescent Lake, leading some to speculate that the holes were created not by something falling into the lake, but by something bursting through the ice.
Explanations
According to skeptics there are several natural occurrences that can explain "Cressie" sightings.Giant eels have been touted as one of the most likely candidates. Several Robert's Arm residents offer as evidence of the eel hypothesis previous sightings of giant eels, and high numbers of eels appearing in eel traps in the lake. In an article from 1993 called Have You Seen Cressie?, author R.A. Bragg suggests that eels do not stop growing during their lifetime, and perhaps this is the cause of Cressie's size.
Others, such as skeptical investigator Joe Nickell speculate that perhaps the dark-colored northern river otter is responsible. He claims the river otter"swims both under water and at the surface where its wake can make it appear much longer, and moves in an undulating (rising and falling) manner...In addition, multiple otters swimming in a line can give the effect of a single giant serpentine creature slithering with an up-and-down movement through water".Still others suggest that Cressie is not a living creature at all, but instead a large log. The bottom of Crescent Lake is reported to be covered in wooden logs from when logging took place in the community. For decades, Crescent Lake was used to transport more than half a million cords of pulpwood that was harvested from the surrounding areas and shipped to paper mills. Some speculate that bubbles of gas from the decomposing wood lifts these logs to the surface of the lake.
Tourism and popular culture
In 1991, the town of Robert's Arm erected a statue of Cressie at the entrance to the community, along with a storyboard which describes the alleged sightings. This statue greets tourists to the area, and is depicted with distinctly dragonlike features including green scales, a row of plates along its back, and fearsome teeth. The statue and signs have been part of a deliberate attempt by the community to promote the monster in hopes of boosting tourism and the local economy:In 1992 Roberts Arm was the principal supply and service centre for communities on several nearby islands. However, the town's major source of employment — cutting pulpwood for local contractors — was in crisis, after having been in decline for some years. It was also hoped that the community would benefit from efforts to promote tourism along the "Beothuk Trail". Perhaps this hope is strengthened by the old, local tradition that a 'monster', named Cressie, inhabits Crescent Lake.
A local gas station is named "Cressie's Gas Bar & Supplies." A 2012 newspaper article promoting local hiking spots used the monster as a potential attraction for hikers:The area is blazing with color in the fall when the birches, aspens and maples are changing colour. If you are lucky maybe you will even catch a glimpse of 'cressie', the lake monster that lurks beneath the waters of Crescent Lake.
Cressie has featured in several of Robert's Arm's Come Home Year celebrations. The 1995 Come Home Year commemorative book includes several poems which refer to Cressie, including this passage by Jim Payne:"I suppose you've heard of Cressie the monster in the lake
If you get too handy she'll give her tail a shake
She'll set you boat a-rocking and you won't believe your eyes
And people will make fun of you and say you're telling lies"In May 2008, local media reported that a production company from Montreal would travel to Robert's Arm to produce a show for the History Channel. On 17 September 2008, History Channel’s Monster Quest broadcast an episode entitled “Lake Monsters of the North,” which focused on the legends of the monster eels in the lake.
In October 2019, a group exhibition entitled “Crafted Beasts” opened at the Craft Council of NL Gallery in St. John's, which examined provincial, indigenous, and Western European folklore, and which "started from the desire to see the transformation of traditional beliefs, customs and stories that have been passed through word of mouth, into a physical object." The show included a sculpture inspired by tales of the lake monster:For “Cressie,” Michael Harlick combined forged metal and found bone to build a spooky sculpture one certainly would not want to encounter in the deep, dark waters.
References
Canadian folklore
Canadian legendary creatures
Water monsters
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Sara Petersen
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Sara Petersen may refer to:
Sara Petersen (badminton) (born 1975), New Zealand badminton player
Sara Petersen (hurdler) (born 1987), Danish 400 metres hurdler
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BNU
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BNU may refer to:
BNU (software), a communications driver.
Banco Nacional Ultramarino, a Portuguese and Macanese bank
Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Beijing Normal University, a university in Beijing, China
Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, public library in Strasbourg
Brooklyn Northern United AFC, a New Zealand football team
Buckinghamshire New University, a university in Buckinghamshire, England
Bengaluru North University, a university in Karnataka, India
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Ghukasyan () ) is an Armenian surname, meaning 'son of Ghukas', the Armenian equivalent of Luke. In Russia, Azerbaijan and other countries some holders of this surname changed to Gukasov ().
Known people with the name Ghukasyan:
Arkadi Ghukasyan (born 1957), the second president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Arshak Ter-Gukasov (1819–1881), the Yerevan Forces commander of Russia's army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
Siranush Ghukasyan (born 1998), Armenian chess master
Voroshil Gukasyan (1932–1986), the Soviet linguist
Hovhannes Ghukasyan (1822–1882), Polish-Armenian pharmacist and a petroleum industry pioneer. One of his main achievements is inventing the modern kerosene lamps.
Armenian-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names
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Sámuel Brassai
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Sámuel Brassai (15 June 1797 – 24 June 1897) was a Hungarian linguist and teacher sometimes called "The Last Transylvanian Polymath." In addition to being a linguist and pedagogue he was also a natural scientist, mathematician, musician, philosopher, essay writer, and a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is perhaps best known for teaching methods.
Notes
References
É. Kiss, Katalin. 2008. A Pioneering Theory Of Information Structure. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 55 (1–2), pp. 23–40.
External links
1797 births
1897 deaths
Hungarian centenarians
Men centenarians
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
People from Alba County
Rectors of the Franz Joseph University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathouisia%20pantherina
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Rathouisia pantherina
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Rathouisia pantherina is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land slug, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rathouisiidae.
The specific name pantherina is from Latin word "pantherinus", that means "panther-like", referring to the predatory nature of the slug.
Distribution
This species occurs in China.
Description
Rathouisia pantherina is smaller than Rathouisia leonina.
Ecology
Rathouisia pantherina is a predatory carnivorous slug.
References
Rathouisiidae
Gastropods of Asia
Invertebrates of China
Gastropods described in 1882
Taxa named by Pierre Marie Heude
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewarts%20River
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Stewarts River
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Stewarts River, a mostly perennial stream of the Mid North Coast region, is located in New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Stewarts River rises on the northern slopes of Big Nellie within Coorabakh National Park, west of the village of Hannam Vale, and flows generally east by south and then east, joined by the Camden Haven River, before reaching its mouth at Watson Taylors Lake, south of Camden Haven. The river descends over its course.
Stewarts River is transversed by the Pacific Highway north of the village of Johns River, between Coopernook and Kew.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Mid North Coast
Mid-Coast Council
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Patton
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Brandon Patton
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Brandon Patton is an American game designer and musician.
Games
Game Design
Super PACS: The Game of Politics About the Game of Politics (2016, TableTip Games)
Healing Blade: Defenders of Soma (2016, Nerdcore Medical)
Occam's Razor: The Diagnostician's Dilemma (2013, Nerdcore Medical)
Music
Awards
Winner of the Vox Populi for Best Story Song of 2009 (for "Mixed-Up Modern Family") by the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards,
2009 Finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition in the Rock / Alternative category.
Featured on NPR's song of the day Oct. 8, 2009.
"Top Music Artist" at the 2005 Temecula Film and Music Festival.
The album Should Confusion was a finalist for "Album of the Year" in the 2004 Independent Music Awards.
Finalist in the 2004 Newport Folk Festival New Talent Showcase.
Solo albums
How I Allegedly Bit a Man in Gloucestershire (2011)
Underhill Downs (2009)
Should Confusion (2004)
Nocturnal (1997)
Other albums
Jukebox Stories, The Official Bootleg (2008)
three against four, Hey Sparkle Eyes (2002)
three against four, Some of Us Are Here (1998)
Compilations featuring Patton
Nerdcore Rising: Music From the Motion Picture (2008)
Indie Pop Cares A lot (2005)
Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival 2005 Compilation (2005)
The WSVNRadio Hall of Fame, Vol. 14 (2004)
Oasis Acoustic Vol. 47 (2004) note: due to a printing error, he is listed only as Brandon
Music festival appearances
SXSW Music Festival (2012)
Truck America (2010)
Heart of Texas Quadruple Bypass Music Festival (2008)
Newport Folk Festival New Talent Showcase (2005)
Temecula Film and Music Festival (2005)
NXNE Toronto (2005)
Musical groups
MC Frontalot (2006–present)
Futureboy
Jonathan Coulton
The Famous
MC Lars
Steve Songs
Solea
three against four (1997-2000)
Theater and film
Theater
Jukebox Stories 3: The Secrets of Forking (2013, performer)
Jukebox Stories 2: The Case of the Creamy Foam (2008, performer)
Love Sucks! A Punk Rock Musical (2007, composer)
Jukebox Stories (2006,2007, performer)
The AtrainPlays (2005–2007, composer)
Young Zombies in Love (2004, bassist)
Film
Remedy (2013) background music
The Muslims Are Coming (2012) background music
Nerdcore Rising (2008) as himself
References
External links
American pop musicians
American rock musicians
American multi-instrumentalists
Living people
Wesleyan University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%20Steps%20Out
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Mama Steps Out
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Mama Steps Out is a 1937 American comedy film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Anita Loos. The film stars Guy Kibbee, Alice Brady, Betty Furness, Dennis Morgan, Gene Lockhart and Edward Norris. The film was released on February 5, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Plot
After inheriting a fortune, the Cuppy family of Fort Wayne, Indiana go to France to "broaden" their cultural outlook, although father Leonard (Guy Kibbee), a perfume manufacturer, and daughter Leila (Betty Furness) are not as enthusiastic as mother Ada (Alice Brady). On the way to France, Leila sees Chuck Thompson (Dennis Morgan), a singer on board their ship, whom she used to know, but he refuses to return her enthusiastic attempts to start a romance. Hoping to change his mind, Leila convinces her parents to take a villa in Antibes, where Chuck is appearing with Ferdie Fisher's band. Meanwhile, Ada is bored with staying at the villa and only meeting Americans. When a local priest (Frank Puglia) comes asking for money to save his church, Ada asks him to introduce her to some "cultural" Europeans.
Cast
Guy Kibbee as Leonard 'Len' Cuppy
Alice Brady as Ada Cuppy
Betty Furness as Leila Cuppy
Dennis Morgan as Chuck Thompson
Gene Lockhart as Mr. Sims
Edward Norris as Ferdie Fisher
Gregory Gaye as Dmitri 'Didi' Shekoladnikoff
Ivan Lebedeff as Coco Duval
Heather Thatcher as Nadine Wentworth
Frank Puglia as Robert Dalderder
Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Jeanne
References
External links
1937 films
American comedy films
1937 comedy films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films directed by George B. Seitz
American black-and-white films
Films scored by Edward Ward (composer)
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike-a-Light%20River
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Strike-a-Light River
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The Strike-a-Light River, a perennial stream that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council area of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Jerangle, and flows generally north north-west, north-west, south-west and then south, joined by three minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Bredbo River, east of Bredbo; descending over its course.
Flora and fauna
Strike-a-Light River flows through the Strike-a-Light Nature Reserve.
The Strike-a-Light River is inhabited by a number of amphibian species Bibron's toadlet (Pseudophryne bibronii), common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera), pobblebonk (Limnodynastes dumerilii), spotted grass frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) and Verreaux's tree frog (Litoria verreauxii).
Vegetation communities through which the river passes include Scribbly Gum/Apple Box – Dry Shrub Forest, Ribbon Gum – Valley Forest as well as partially cleared areas of natural vegetation.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers of New South Wales (L–Z)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-dependent%20neutral%20amino%20acid%20transporter%20B%280%29AT1
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Sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1
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Sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC6A19 gene.
Function
SLC6A19 is a system B(0) transporter that mediates epithelial resorption of neutral amino acids across the apical membrane in the kidney and intestine.
Clinical significance
Mutations in the SLC6A19 gene cause Hartnup disease.
References
Further reading
Solute carrier family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopilia%20suavis
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Trichopilia suavis
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Trichopilia suavis is a species of orchid found from Central America to Colombia. The plants will blossom in the seasons of Spring and Winter at intermediate warm temperatures. The flowers will be available in white, purple, green and red colors.
suavis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant
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Oliphant
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Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar variations may refer to:
Geography
Oliphant, Ontario, Canada, a community
Oliphant Islands, South Orkney Islands
Olifants River (Limpopo), South Africa
Olifants River (Southern Cape), South Africa
Olifants River (Western Cape), South Africa
Olifants Water Management Area, South Africa
Olyphant, Pennsylvania, a borough
People
Oliphant (surname), a list of notable people with this name
Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
Arts, entertainment, and media
Oliphant (band), a Finnish band
Oliphant, a type of monster in the Index of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition monsters
Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas", in The Canterbury Tales
Eleanor Oliphant, protagonist of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Titles
Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
Oliphant baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Vehicles
Olifant tank, a South African version of the British Centurion tank
Others
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, a U.S. Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians
Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
D'Oliphant, a Dutch mansion originally built near Nieuwesluis, later moved to Rotterdam
De Olifant, Burdaard, a windmill in the Netherlands
See also
Elefant (disambiguation)
Elephant (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Short
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Million Short
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Million Short is a web search engine from Toronto-based startup Exponential Labs. The search engine, which brands itself as “more of a discovery engine,” allows users to filter the top million websites on the internet out of their search, resulting in a unique set of results and placing an emphasis on content discovery. This approach to search is also designed to combat the impact that aggressive black and grey hat SEO practices have on mainstream search results.
History
Million Short was conceived in 2012 by Exponential Labs. The program gathers results like any other engine, then uses web rankings to exclude the most popular sites before producing its final results. More recently the company has continued to develop its own search technology and web crawling capacities, and uses proprietary data to help inform the Million Short search results.
Upon its April 2012 launch, Million Short earned significant attention, first from online communities such as Reddit and Hacker News, and then from both blogs and mainstream publications.
The months following Million Short's launch saw a number of updates to the engine, including international support, mobile and tablet optimization, browser search extensions, design updates, and voice search.
Marketing and related projects
Following the initial interest in Million Short, Exponential Labs launched a series of projects related to Million Short, both as marketing endeavors and expansions on the search engine's initial premise.
Million Tall
Billed as the “inverse” of Million Short, Million Tall is another search engine created by Exponential Labs that indexes and displays results from only the top million sites on the internet (i.e., those that Million Short excludes). The project launched in July 2012, intended to highlight the frequency with which leading search engines display results from the same small number of websites. Its tagline asks: “Imagine a search engine that only indexed the top 1 million sites on the web. Would you even notice?”
Million Short It On
In September 2012, Exponential Labs released Million Short It On, a site presenting a blind test between Million Short and Google search results. Users were presented with two sets of unbranded results for a given term, and instructed to determine which results were more useful. The project was based— both in name and concept— on Bing It On, a similar marketing campaign launched earlier that year, which, in turn, drew inspiration from the Pepsi Challenge in the 1970s.
Million Short DNS
December 2012 saw the release of Million Short DNS, a series of domain name system servers programmed to exclude specific domains on the internet, redirecting them instead to an error page. Servers are available to exclude either the top million, hundred thousand, ten thousand, thousand, or hundred sites on the internet.
In addition to redirecting the URLs of excluded domains, the servers will not load any content hosted on these domains. In some cases this results in missing images, typefaces, or JavaScript files, lending a radically different browsing experience even to sites that are not excluded.
References
External links
Million Tall
Million Short It On
Million Short DNS
Internet search engines
Search engine software
Internet properties established in 2012
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20utendi
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Ius utendi
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Ius utendi (or usus), a term in civil law and Roman law, is an attribute of ownership (dominium): the right or power to use the property—particularly by residing there—without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the ius abutendi, the right of disposal.
See also
Ius
Ius abutendi
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsula%20Community%20Health
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Peninsula Community Health
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Peninsula Community Health was a community interest company created in October 2011 as not-for-profit service provider by Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust.
It ran 14 community hospitals in Cornwall: Bodmin Hospital, Camborne Redruth Community Hospital, St Ives (Edward Hain Community Hospital), Falmouth, Fowey, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, Newquay, Penzance (Poltair Community Hospital), St Austell, Saltash (St Barnabas Community Hospital), Isles Of Scilly (St Mary's Community Hospital), and Bude (Stratton Community Hospital). In July 2015, it decided to give up the hospital contract as uneconomic.
Andrew George, MP for St Ives, and the local campaign group Health Initiative Cornwall criticised community hospitals being taken out of the NHS and welcomed the idea of merging the company with the NHS providers in Cornwall, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.
In May 2013, it set up a new company, PCH Dental, to deliver community dental services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The ten beds at Poltair Hospital were closed in 2014. The local campaign group West Cornwall HealthWatch says the "service is almost at breaking point, with no sign of an early improvement", but according to the Clinical Commissioning Group "Beds continue to be available at Edward Hain and Helston community hospitals for anyone who needs one." Campaigners claim "They are running at dangerously high 95 per cent occupancy levels, are unable to accept patients from the acute sector who need re-enablement, and are unable to discharge patients due to a lack of nursing home beds and care-at-home services."
A Care Quality Commission inspection in 2015 found good safe care was provided across community inpatient, adult, urgent care, and children and young people’s services, but end of life care services were rated “requires improvement” in relation to safety.
Nearly 2,000 staff and all of the assets were transferred to Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on 31 March 2016. The Poltair hospital was sold.
See also
Healthcare in Cornwall
List of NHS trusts
References
Health in Cornwall
Community interest companies
Companies based in Cornwall
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregaussian%20class
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Pregaussian class
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In probability theory, a pregaussian class or pregaussian set of functions is a set of functions, square integrable with respect to some probability measure, such that there exists a certain Gaussian process, indexed by this set, satisfying the conditions below.
Definition
For a probability space (S, Σ, P), denote by a set of square integrable with respect to P functions , that is
Consider a set . There exists a Gaussian process , indexed by , with mean 0 and covariance
Such a process exists because the given covariance is positive definite. This covariance defines a semi-inner product as well as a pseudometric on given by
Definition A class is called pregaussian if for each the function on is bounded, -uniformly continuous, and prelinear.
Brownian bridge
The process is a generalization of the brownian bridge. Consider with P being the uniform measure. In this case, the process indexed by the indicator functions , for is in fact the standard brownian bridge B(x). This set of the indicator functions is pregaussian, moreover, it is the Donsker class.
References
Stochastic processes
Empirical process
Normal distribution
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopilia%20tortilis
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Trichopilia tortilis
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Trichopilia tortilis is a species of orchid found from Mexico to Central America. It is the type species of the genus Trichopilia.
References
tortilis
Orchids of Mexico
Orchids of Central America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikopol%3A%20Secrets%20of%20the%20Immortals
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Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
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Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals is a point and click adventure game developed by White Birds Productions and based on the graphics novels of Enki Bilal's The Nikopol Trilogy.
Plot
The year is 2023 and Paris is governed by a power-hungry dictator. As Alcide Nikopol you try to find a way of joining the underground rebellion and help stop the dictator's iron fist rule. The history takes a turn towards the weird, as Nikopol finds out that his father - an astronaut sent into orbital exile in cryopreservation - may be alive and well in the city. At the same time, a strange pyramid hovers over Paris, and a rumour of Egyptian gods residing in it spreads like wildfire.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
(This website is no longer available as of April, 2012)
2008 video games
Adventure games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games developed in France
Cyberpunk video games
Windows games
Video games set in Paris
Video games based on comics
Got Game Entertainment games
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20defunct%20NASCAR%20teams
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List of defunct NASCAR teams
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The following is a list of notable NASCAR teams that have officially closed down, with their last team name and driver. The list does not contain teams that have temporarily suspended operations. For those, see List of NASCAR teams. Some teams that are listed here no longer run that particular series, but may still be active in another series.
NASCAR Cup Series
Xfinity Series
AP Performance Racing
A.J. Foyt Racing
Alumni Motorsports
Andy Petree Racing
BACE Motorsports
Bang! Racing
BLV Motorsports
Bost Motorsports
Carroll Racing
Chance 2 Motorsports
Chip Ganassi Racing
Clay Andrews Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
DF2 Motorsports
Doug Taylor Motorsports
Emerald Performance Group
FILMAR Racing
Ginn Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Hensley Motorsports
Hillin Racing
Herzog Motorsports
Hispanic Racing Team
Innovative Motorsports
J&J Racing
JG Motorsports
Jim & Judie Motorsports
Joe Bessey Racing
Keith Coleman Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Labonte Motorsports
Larry Hedrick Motorsports
Lockamy Racing
Marsh Racing
Michael Waltrip Racing
Moy Racing
NorthStar Motorsports
Parker Racing
Precision Performance Motorsports
Roush Fenway Racing
Second Chance Motorsports
Shoemaker Racing
Spencer Motor Ventures
Team Bristol Motorsports
Washington-Erving Motorsports
Whitaker Racing
Xpress Motorsports
Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Addington Racing
Andy Petree Racing
Bang! Racing
BKR Racing
Brad Keselowski Racing
Clean Line Racing
CJ Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Faith Motorsports
Fiddleback Racing
Germain Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Impact Motorsports
Innovative Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
JR Motorsports
MacDonald Motorsports
Mansion Motorsports
McGlynn Racing
Petty Enterprises
Phelon Racing
Red Horse Racing
Richard Childress Racing
Richardson Motorsports
Roadrunner Motorsports
Roehig Racing
Roush Fenway Racing
South Point Racing
Spears Motorsports
Sutton Motorsports
Tagsby Racing
Team EJP Racing
Team Rensi Motorsports
TKO Motorsports
Ultra Motorsports
Ware Racing Enterprises
Woodard Racing
Victory in Jesus Racing
Other series
Brad Jones Racing
Garry Rogers Motorsport
NASCAR teams, defunct
NASCAR teams
Nascar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand%20Lights%20Mosque
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Thousand Lights Mosque
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Thousand Lights is a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the largest mosques in the country and is a revered place of worship and azadari for Shia Muslims in the city.
History
The mosque was built in 1810 by Arcot Nawab Umdat ul-Umara. It was constructed in medieval architecture. The site of the mosque was previously occupied by an assembly hall. There was a tradition of lighting thousand oil lamps to illuminate the assembly hall. The mosque thus gets its name from this tradition.
The chief Shia Qazi of Chennai functions from the mosque, and the post has been continuously held by the same family.
References
External links
chennai.org.uk
indiafascinates.com
Mosques in Chennai
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1810
Shia mosques in India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosalpinx%20ciliaris
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Trichosalpinx ciliaris
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Trichosalpinx ciliaris is a species of orchid found from Mexico, Belize, Central America and down to Brazil (Roraima).
References
ciliaris
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Mexico
Flora of Roraima
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Son
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European Son
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"European Son" is a song written and performed by the American experimental rock band The Velvet Underground. It appears as the final track on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It is also the album's longest track at more than seven and a half minutes.
The song could be seen as a precursor to the band's next album White Light/White Heat and certainly to the song "Sister Ray", a seventeen-minute-long rock improvisation.
Composition
"European Son" is dedicated by the band to Delmore Schwartz, the poet who had been literary mentor of singer Lou Reed at Syracuse University. Wanting to dedicate a song to Schwartz, "European Son" was chosen because it had the fewest lyrics (rock-and-roll lyrics being something Schwartz abhorred). The first pressing of The Velvet Underground & Nico referred to the song as "European Son (to Delmore Schwartz)".
The song was recorded in April 1966, and Schwartz died alone in Manhattan three months later on July 14. According to musicologist Richard Witts, the song "reads like little more than a song of loathing" to Schwartz, who refused to see Reed while living out his last days in seclusion at a rundown midtown New York hotel. Witts highlighted obscure personal details in lyrics such as "You made your wallpapers green" and found the Dylanesque "hey, hey, bye bye bye" lyric to bid "a malicious farewell to its subject".
Recording
The song begins with two stanzas of lyrics sung by Lou Reed over a D major chord and walking bass line, then after the first minute or so a loud crash is heard (caused by John Cale hitting a stack of plates with a metal chair). There follows a six-minute instrumental improvisation, making use of distortion and feedback.
Personnel
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, sound effects
John Cale – bass, sound effects
Sterling Morrison – guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Covers
Half Japanese on their 1984 album Our Solar System.
Thurston Moore on the 1988 compilation album The End of Music as We Know It.
Gary Lucas covered this song on his 2000 album Street of Lost Brothers.
Other information
The song inspired the German experimental rock band Can. Its influence can especially be heard in the song "Father Cannot Yell", the lead track of Can's 1969 album Monster Movie, in which Holger Czukay plays a similar bassline.
A slowed-down version of the song's bassline (originally played by John Cale) appears on "Moby Octopad" by Yo La Tengo.
Simple Minds recorded a song entitled "European Son" on a demo tape, which was released on CD on The Early Years: 1977-1978. The band Japan also recorded a song with the title "European Son". Both these bands titled the song in tribute to the Velvet Underground song, and have covered other songs by the band (both covering "All Tomorrow's Parties", for one), but neither "European Son" is a cover of the Velvet Underground song.
References
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
Experimental rock songs
Songs written by John Cale
1966 songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20community%20college%20football%20programs
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List of community college football programs
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This is a list of schools of United States community colleges that offer a football program. The two largest associations are the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA).
In the NJCAA, of 512 member colleges, 53 sponsored a football program, as of November, 2021. This reflects the elimination of football at seven Arizona community colleges in 2018; one in Minnesota and one in North Dakota in 2019; and one in Kansas in 2021.
In California, of 114 community colleges in the state, 66 sponsored a football program under the auspices of the CCCAA, as of November, 2021. This reflects the suspension of football at two CCCAA member institutions in 2020.
As shown below, the NJCAA is organized into five conferences (or leagues): Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference; Minnesota College Athletic Conference; Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges; Northeast JC Football Conference; Southwest Junior College Football Conference; as well as Independents (no conference/league affiliation.)
The CCCAA divides its membership into two regions: Northern and Southern. Each region is divided into the National Conference and the American Conference. In Northern California, there are three conferences/leagues in the National and two in the American; in Southern California, there are three conferences/leagues in both the National and the American.
NJCAA football programs
New Members
CCCAA Football Programs
Northern California Football Association programs
Southern California Football Association programs
See also
NJCAA National Football Championship
List of Division 1 NJCAA schools
List of Division 2 NJCAA schools
List of Division 3 NJCAA schools
List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs
List of NCAA Division II football programs
List of NCAA Division III football programs
List of NAIA football programs
List of NCAA institutions with club football teams
References
External links
Football at the website of the National Junior College Athletic Association
Football at the website of California Community College Athletic Association
Community College
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Koningsveld
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Jan van Koningsveld
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Jan van Koningsveld (born 1969 in Emden) is a mental calculator. He is the champion of Extracting Square Roots of 2004 and 2008 as well as the champion of Calendar Calculation of 2008 at the Mental Calculation World Cups. In addition, he finished second in the overall rankings of 2004, 2006 and 2008.
During the first Memoriad 2008, the Olympiad for Mental Calculation and Memory held in İstanbul, Turkey, Jan van Koningsveld won the gold medals in the categories Multiplication as well as Calendar Calculation. After the competition he was also able to even the world record in the category Calendar Calculation by calculating 56 days of the week (range 1600–2100) in 1 minute.
Jan van Koningsveld also held the world record for multiplying two five-digit numbers. He solved ten tasks correctly in 3:06 minutes on 25 November 2005. That record was broken by Marc Jornet Sanz during world record attempts at the 2010 Mental Calculation World Cup
References
External links
http://memoriad.com/ MEMORIAD
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory.html Memory and Mental Calculation World Records
http://www.recordholders.org/en/events/worldcup/index.html Mental Calculation World Cup Site
1969 births
Living people
Mental calculators
People from Emden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino%20acid%20transport%20disorder
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Amino acid transport disorder
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Amino acid transport disorders are medical conditions associated with a failure of amino acids to be absorbed from the kidney or intestine.
An example is Hartnup disease.
Reference
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courser%20%28disambiguation%29
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Courser (disambiguation)
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Courser may refer to:
Courser – group of birds which together with the pratincoles make up the family Glareolidae
Courser (horse) – a swift and strong horse, frequently used during the Middle Ages for hunting or as a warhorse
Horse courser – early term for a horse dealer
Or to someone who engages in:
Coursing – the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs
Hare coursing – the hunting of hares with dogs
Lure coursing – a sport for dogs that involves chasing a mechanically operated lure
Or to persons named Courser:
Todd Courser,- Michigan state representative
Transportation:
Chrysler 26 Courser, an American sailboat design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strule%20Arts%20Centre
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Strule Arts Centre
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Strule Arts Centre (; Ulster-Scots: Strule Hoose o Airts) is a multi-purpose arts venue in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The Omagh tourist information office is located on the ground floor. The centre is owned and run by Omagh District Council.
History
In 2003 Omagh's Town Hall was demolished to make way for the new Strule Arts Centre Arts. It cost £10.5 million and opened on 8 June 2007, overlooking the River Strule which flows through the town centre. It is part of a wider regeneration project for the High Street, George Street and Riverside area of Omagh. It was designed by architects Kennedy Fitzgerald and Associates. The centre was officially opened in January 2008 by Edwin Poots, then Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, and Margaret Ritchie, Minister for Social Development.
References
External links
Omagh
Arts centres in Northern Ireland
Buildings and structures in County Tyrone
Tourist attractions in County Tyrone
Art museums and galleries in Northern Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois%20Blanc%20Lighthouse
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Bois Blanc Lighthouse
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Bois Blanc Lighthouse may refer to
Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse, a National Historic Site of Canada, on Bois Blanc Island, Ontario
Bois Blanc Light, on Bois Blanc Island, Michigan, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Be%20Your%20Mirror
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I'll Be Your Mirror
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"I'll Be Your Mirror" is a song by the Velvet Underground and Nico. It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with "All Tomorrow's Parties" in 1966.
Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals. According to biographer Victor Bockris, inspiration for the song came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, "Oh Lou, I'll be your mirror." The song was a favorite of Reed's and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.
Mark Deming of AllMusic described "I'll Be Your Mirror" as an "understated love song."
Recording
"I'll Be Your Mirror" was the most difficult for Nico to record, as the band wanted her to provide slender, delicate vocals for the song, yet she would sing louder, more aggressive vocals take after take. Sterling Morrison described the ordeal in an interview:
The members of the band enjoyed her particular performance on the song so much that after she left the band in late 1967, live vocals for the song were done imitating Nico's accent.
Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in scratch in it so the line "I'll be your mirror" would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle himself, but nothing ever came of this idea.
Personnel
Nico – lead vocals
Lou Reed – lead guitar
John Cale – bass guitar
Sterling Morrison – lead guitar
Maureen Tucker – tambourine
Alternate versions
Scepter Studios, April 1966
A different mix of the song appears on the acetate cut of the Scepter Studios session, with an alternate track of more aggressive lead vocals by Nico. She also sings "to show that you're home" at the end of the second verse rather than "so you won't be afraid". The backing vocals that sing "reflect what you are" also are almost inaudible on this version of the song, and the guitar is louder.
Single version, July 1966
A 45 rpm single version of the song was released in July 1966 with "All Tomorrow's Parties". The single is identical to the album cut except that it does not fade out at the end. Instead, it goes on for about five seconds ending with a guitar chord. This version of the song later became available in 2002 on the "Deluxe Edition" of The Velvet Underground & Nico.
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Nico songs
Psychedelic songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
1966 singles
Verve Records singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay%20a%20Little%20Longer
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Stay a Little Longer
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"Stay a Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus:
The song consists of a number of unrelated verses, one of which (verse three) comes from an old folk song"Shinbone Alley":
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded it in 1945 and it reached number three in 1946. Willie Nelson (number 22 in 1973) and Mel Tillis (number 17 in 1982) also charted Top 40 hits. The song has been recorded numerous times.
In The Andy Griffith Show episode "The Darling Baby", the lyrics went like this:
References
Bibliography
Cohen, Norm. Folk Music: A Regional Exploration. Greenwood Press, 2005.
Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books, 2006.
Western swing songs
1946 songs
Bob Wills songs
Mel Tillis songs
Willie Nelson songs
Songs written by Bob Wills
Songs written by Tommy Duncan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20record%20progression%20track%20cycling%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%201%20km%20time%20trial
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World record progression track cycling – Men's 1 km time trial
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This is an overview of the progression of the world track cycling record of the men's 1 km time trial as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Progression
Professionals (1949–1989)
Amateurs (1949–1989)
Open (from 1986)
References
Track cycling world record progressions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal%20Ostoa%20Ortega
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Aníbal Ostoa Ortega
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Aníbal Ostoa Ortega (born 10 May 1949) is a Mexican politician currently affiliated with National Regeneration Movement and serving as a senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the state of Campeche. In 2009 he served as a federal deputy in the final six months of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Campeche, taking the place of Deputy Layda Elena Sansores San Román.
References
1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Campeche
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Citizens' Movement (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Morena (political party) politicians
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Members of the Congress of Campeche
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) for Campeche
Senators of the LXIV and LXV Legislatures of Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doto%20bella
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Doto bella
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Doto bella is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
This species was described from the Izu Peninsula, Japan. It is widely distributed on the Pacific Ocean coasts of Japan and the Japan Sea coasts. A species from Indonesia has previously been identified as Doto bella but is now thought to be an undescribed species.Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Apr 7). Comment on Doto from Indonesia by Tony Wu. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
Description
This nudibranch is transparent white with a diffuse, sub-epidermal layer of black pigment which is faint in some specimens and very dense in others. The ceratal tubercles are slightly stalked with globular tips which have a large black spot which is partly obscured by white glands in the terminal tubercle. The digestive gland is usually yellow. The outer half of the rhinophores is black.
EcologyDoto bella'' has been photographed on a colony of a hydroid, probably in the family Aglaopheniidae on which it presumably feeds.
References
Dotidae
Gastropods described in 1938
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Banner%20discography
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David Banner discography
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The following is a select discography of albums and singles released by or featuring American rapper, producer, and actor, David Banner.
Albums
Studio albums
Mixtapes
Singles
As lead artist
Guest appearances
See also
David Banner production discography
Crooked Lettaz discography
References
External links
David Banner at AllMusic
David Banner at Discogs
Banner, David
Discographies of American artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolically%20healthy%20obesity
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Metabolically healthy obesity
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Metabolically healthy obesity or metabolically-healthy obesity (MHO) is a disputed medical condition characterized by obesity which does not produce metabolic complications.
Characteristics
No universally accepted criteria exist to define putative MHO, but definitions generally require the patient to be obese and to lack metabolic abnormalities such as dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, or metabolic syndrome.
MHO individuals display less visceral adipose tissue, smaller adipocytes, and a reduced inflammatory profile relative to metabolically unhealthy obese individuals. As a result, it has been argued that cardiometabolic risk might not improve significantly as a result of weight loss interventions.
Epidemiology
Prevalence estimates of MHO have varied from 6 to 75 percent, and it has been argued that between 10 and 25 percent of obese individuals are metabolically healthy. One study found that 47.9% of obese people had MHO, while another found that 11% did. It seems to be more prevalent in women than men, and its prevalence decreases with age.
Outcomes
Some research suggests that metabolically healthy obese individuals are at an increased risk of several adverse outcomes when compared to individuals of a normal weight, including type 2 diabetes, depressive symptoms, and cardiovascular events. Other research also suggests that although MHO individuals display a favorable metabolic profile, this does not necessarily translate into a decrease in mortality. Research to date has produced conflicting results with respect to cardiovascular disease and mortality. MHO individuals are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease compared to metabolically healthy non-obese individuals, but they are also at a lower risk thereof than individuals who are both unhealthy and obese. A 2016 meta-analysis found that MHO individuals were not at an increased risk of all-cause mortality (but were at an increased risk of cardiovascular events). The relatively low risk of cardiovascular disease among people with MHO relative to metabolically unhealthy obese people has been attributed to differences in white adipose tissue function between the two groups.
See also
Health at Every Size
References
Obesity
Pseudoscience
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathouisia%20tigrina
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Rathouisia tigrina
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Rathouisia tigrina is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land slug, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rathouisiidae.
The specific name tigrina is from Latin word "tigrinus", that means "tiger-like", referring to the predatory nature of the slug.
Distribution
This species occurs in China.
Description
Rathouisia tigrina is smaller than Rathouisia leonina.
Ecology
Rathouisia tigrina is a predatory carnivorous slug.
References
Rathouisiidae
Gastropods of Asia
Invertebrates of China
Gastropods described in 1882
Taxa named by Pierre Marie Heude
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar%20420%20and%20Daimler%20Sovereign%20%281966%E2%80%931969%29
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The Jaguar 420 (pronounced "four-twenty") and its Daimler Sovereign equivalent were introduced at the October 1966 London Motor Show and produced for two years as the ultimate expression of a series of "compact sporting saloons" offered by Jaguar throughout that decade, all of which shared the same wheelbase. Developed from the Jaguar S-Type, the 420 cost around £200 more than that model and effectively ended buyer interest in it, although the S-Type continued to be sold alongside the 420/Sovereign until both were supplanted by the Jaguar XJ6 late in 1968.
Pedigree
The 420/Sovereign traces its origins back to the Jaguar Mark 2, which was introduced in 1959 and sold through most of the 1960s. The Mark 2 had a live rear axle and was powered by the XK six-cylinder engine first used in the Jaguar XK120 of 1948. The Mark 2 was available in 2.4, 3.4 and 3.8-litre engine capacities.
In 1961 Jaguar launched two new models with the triple SU carburettor version of the 3.8-litre XK engine and independent rear suspension: the Mark X (pronounced "mark ten") saloon and the E-Type sports car. Both cars used versions of the Jaguar independent rear suspension system, the Mark X having a track and the E-Type a track. In 1965 the Mark X and E-Type were updated with a new 4.2-litre version of the XK engine, still using triple carburettors.
In 1963 Jaguar introduced the Jaguar S-Type as a development of the Mark 2. It used a new intermediate-width, version of the independent rear suspension in place of the live rear axle of the Mark 2. Other differences from the Mark 2 were extended rear bodywork to provide for a larger boot, a changed roofline for more rear seat passenger headroom, a slightly plusher interior and detail differences around the nose. The S-Type was available with either 3.4 or 3.8-litre XK engines (only 3.8-litre in US) but in twin-carburettor form because the triple-carburettor setup would not readily fit into what was essentially still the Mark 2 engine bay.
James Taylor suggests four reasons why Jaguar boss Sir William Lyons might have decided to add yet another model to an already extensive Jaguar range:
sales of the Mark X were disappointing; the car was widely seen as being too big and cumbersome and a smaller car with similar standards of technical sophistication and luxury he thought could be more successful
demands for more luxurious features would add weight to any future models, forcing the drive towards a 4.2-litre-engined compact saloon
a combination of the 4.2-litre engine with the compact saloon body was expected to have market appeal
aesthetic objections to the controversially styled S-Type were known to be harming its sales.
Consequently, Lyons initiated development of a new saloon based on the S-Type, retaining its 54-inch independent rear suspension but adding a twin-carburettor version of the 4.2-litre powerplant and frontal styling more akin to that of the Mark X. The new car was released in August 1966 in the form of two badge-engineered models, the Jaguar 420 and the Daimler Sovereign equivalent.
Design
Styling
The starting point for design of the 420/Sovereign was the Jaguar S-Type, which had been in production since 1963 but whose styling had never met with universal acceptance.
In styling terms, the 420/Sovereign was essentially an S-Type with that car's curvaceous nose made much more linear, the better to match its rear styling (which was not altered). Contouring around its four lamps was relatively subtle, with small peaks over each, and its flat frontage sloped forward slightly. The square grille with central divider matched that of the 420G, (which was the new name given to the Mark X at the time of the 420/Sovereign's release). The low-set fog lamps of the Mark 2 and S-Type were replaced by a pair of inner headlamps at the same level as the main headlamps. The inner lamps were lit on main beam only. Dummy horn grilles were added below each inner headlamp to break up what would otherwise have been a large expanse of flat metal on either side of the radiator grille. The tops of the front wheel arches were flattened to match the squarer lines of the nose. The slimline bumpers dispensed with the centre dip which had characterised the bumpers of the Mark 2 and S-Type. All this was done to improve the car's aesthetic balance compared with the S-Type and to create a family resemblance to the Mark X/420G, changes which Sir William could not afford (in either time or money) when the S-Type was designed. No attempt was made to give the 420/Sovereign the same front-hinged bonnet as the Mark X/420G and it retained a rear-hinged bonnet of similar dimensions to those of the S-Type and Mark 2.
Interior
Changes to the S-Type's interior to create the 420/Sovereign were driven mainly by safety considerations, with the wood cappings on the doors and dashboard replaced with padded Rexine and a wooden garnish rail on the tops of the door linings. The clock was relocated from the tachometer to the centre of the dashboard top rail, where it was powered by its own battery. The S-Type's pull out map tray below the central instrument panel was not carried over although the 420 retained the same central console and under-dash parcel tray. The seats of the 420 were of slightly different proportions from the S-Type, although they appeared very similar.
Engine
The 4.2-litre XK engine of the 420/Sovereign was fitted with the straight port cylinder head and 3/8-inch lift cams. Compression ratios of 7:1, 8:1 and 9:1 could be specified according to local fuel quality, the difference being obtained by varying the crown design of the pistons. The engine was fed by just two carburettors and developed a claimed gross at 5,500 rpm, which was less than the triple-carburettor version in the 420G and E-Type. The maximum torque of the engine at was virtually the same as that of the triple-carburettor version yet was achieved at 3,750 rpm rather than 4,000 rpm.
The factory-quoted horsepower rating of was measured using the SAE (gross) system current in the USA at the time the 420/Sovereign was sold there. The SAE (gross) system excluded many accessory drives and often used non-standard induction and exhaust systems and so was replaced by the more accurate SAE (net) system in 1972, long after the 420/Sovereign had gone out of production. Reference states that the DIN horsepower rating of the 1977 USA specification 4.2-litre Series II XJ6 was equivalent to 180 bhp. The DIN system yields horsepower ratings which, for most technical purposes, are the same as those that would be obtained using the SAE (net) system. However, the 1977 test would have included power-sapping emissions equipment not present on the 420/Sovereign. Therefore, the SAE (net) power rating of the 420/Sovereign must have lain somewhere between 180 bhp and 245 bhp.
Mechanical
A novel mechanical feature that the 420/Sovereign shared with the 420G was Marles Varamatic power steering, which was offered as an option on the 420 but was standard on the Sovereign. Built by Adwest Engineering Co Ltd of Reading, England, it was a "cam and roller" system in which the non-constant pitch of the cam resulted in a variable steering ratio, with the lowest gearing being at the straight ahead, rising rapidly to either lock. The rise in gearing (equivalent to a drop in ratio from 21.6:1 to 13:1) occurred almost entirely within the first half turn of the steering wheel from the straight-ahead position. The effect was to give very light and relaxed steering at the straight ahead, with quick reaction when cornering. There was no adjustment in the behaviour of the steering in reaction to road speed. A very few of the last S-Types were similarly equipped.
Other mechanical refinements the 420/Sovereign had over the S-Type included:
replacement of the Borg Warner Type 35 automatic transmission with the stronger Model 8
a more efficient cross-flow radiator in place of the S-Type's smaller vertical flow type
a dual-line hydraulic braking system replacing the S-Type's single line system
twin 2-inch HD8 SU carburettors (cf. the S-Type's twin 1.75-inch HD6 SUs)
brake discs featuring a peripheral cast-iron anti-squeal ring
a Holset "Torquatrol" viscous coupled engine cooling fan
negative earthing, the S-Type was positive earth
a pre-engaged starter instead of a Bendix pinion
an alternator rather than the S-Type's dynamo
Performance
Contemporary road tests indicate that the performance of the 420 and Sovereign was very highly thought of.
A Motor (UK) road test in May 1967 reported:
A North American perspective was provided by Road & Track, whose December 1967 report concluded:
A road test by Wheels (Australia) in August 1967 enthused:
In terms of performance measured under test conditions, 0–60 mph in under 10 seconds and a top speed of more than were typical. Such performance figures were superior to those of many of the 4.2-litre XJ6 models that followed. Among the few exceptions the testers took was to its 15–16 mpg average fuel consumption, which even for the late 1960s was rather high. Combined with the modest size of its two 7 Imperial gallon (31.75 litre) fuel tanks, such fuel consumption gave the model a touring range of only around 250 miles (403 km).
Daimler
Whereas the Daimler 2½-litre V8 released in 1962 differed from the Jaguar Mark 2 in having a genuine Daimler engine, only the Sovereign's badging and aspects of interior trim differentiated it from the 420.
The market perception of the two marques Daimler and Jaguar, which the material differences between them sought to foster, was that the Daimler represented luxury motoring for the discerning and more mature gentleman whereas the Jaguar was a sporting saloon aimed at a somewhat younger clientele. In the Daimler model range, the Sovereign filled a gap between the 2½-litre V8 and the larger and more conservatively styled 4½-litre Majestic Major. Prices in the UK of the basic 420 and Sovereign, as quoted in the Motor magazine of October 1966 were:
Manual o/d – Jaguar £1615, Daimler £1724Automatic – Jaguar £1678, Daimler £1787
In return for the ≈6.5 % difference in price, the Daimler purchaser obtained only a few substantive advantages but would have considered the cachet of the Daimler badge to be well worth the extra money; indeed the Daimler name attracted buyers who disliked the Jaguar's racier image. By the same token, rather than being unable to afford the difference for a Daimler, those who chose the Jaguar are unlikely to have regarded the Daimler as something they would wish to own anyway.
In total, the Daimler differed from the Jaguar in having:
a plastic insert on the rear number plate housing bearing the Daimler name. On the 420 the cast number plate housing bore the Jaguar name and on the Sovereign this remained beneath the plastic "Daimler" insert
wheel trim centres, horn button, oil filler cap and seat belt clasps carrying the stylised D rather than the title Jaguar, a Jaguar’s head ('growler') or no badging at all
ribbed camshaft covers bearing the inscription ‘Daimler’ rather than ‘Jaguar’, (although earlier versions shared the same polished alloy covers)
all of the 420 extras as standard, including a heated rear window, overdrive on manual transmission cars and power assisted steering
a flying D mascot at the forward edge of the bonnet in place of the leaping cat Jaguar mascot ('leaper') above the radiator grille
a fluted radiator grille with stylised D badge in place of the smooth crowned and Jaguar-badged grille
arguably more carefully selected and matched walnut veneer trim
higher grade Vaumol ventilated leather seat centre sections
better quality covers for the sun visors
Differentiation
Difficulty in differentiating the 420/Sovereign from other Jaguar/Daimler models has meant that they are less well known than other Browns Lane products of the era. Even some Jaguar enthusiasts are unsure exactly where and when the 420/Sovereign fitted into the Jaguar range.
At the same time as the 420 was released, Jaguar added a chrome side strip and side repeater indicator to the Mark X and a centre bar to its grille. Along with alterations to the interior, these changes were used to justify renaming it the 420G ("G" for Grand). The Motor magazine of October 1966 referred to the 420G as "still one of the best looking large cars in the world today" and commented on the similarity of its new radiator grille to that of the 420. Given the similarity between both the names and frontal styling of the 420 and 420G, the casual observer might be forgiven for mistaking one for the other.
In 1968 the Daimler DS420 limousine began to be produced, carrying a similarly styled grille to the Sovereign and using the 4.2-litre Jaguar engine in twin carburettor form, and also undergoing final assembly at Jaguar's Browns Lane factory in Coventry, England. Although this car was based on a modified 420G floorpan rather than that of the 420, the existence of a third Jaguar-manufactured model with "420" in its name provides further scope for confusion.
Similar confusion arises with regard to the Daimler Sovereign. From late 1969 its Series I Jaguar XJ6-based successor continued with the Daimler Sovereign name until 1983, when the "Sovereign" model name was instead applied to the high-specification version of the Jaguar (which by then was into its Series III XJ6 iteration).
Demise
In 1967, its first full year of production, the 420/Sovereign easily outsold the other Jaguar saloon models still in production (the 240 and 340 Jaguar Mark 2s, Daimler 250 V8, Jaguar S-Type and 420G) and effectively ended buyer interest in the S-Type. Nevertheless, relatively few were made in total due to the fact that the Coventry factory stopped making the Jaguar 420 in 1968, just over two years after production began and with just 10,236 produced. The Daimler Sovereign continued into 1969 and 5,824 were sold.
In 1968, 420/Sovereign sales were again well in excess of those of the S-Type and 420G but it was outsold by the resurgent Jaguar Mark 2/Daimler 250. By this time, many potential 420/Sovereign buyers were hanging back to wait for the new Jaguar XJ6. Introduced late in 1968, the XJ6 was slightly larger than the 420 and swept it from the Jaguar range along with the Mark 2 and S-Type, although the Daimler 250 remained in production into 1969 and the 420G lasted until 1970.
The decision by Sir William Lyons to base the Jaguar XJ6 on the engine, suspension and approximate dimensions of the 420/Sovereign showed his faith in the 420/Sovereign formula as the best way to rationalise the company's saloon car range. In that way, the 420/Sovereign became a victim of its own success.
The Jaguar 420 ceased production at Browns Lane in September 1968 and the Daimler Sovereign in July 1969, although CKD ("completely knocked down") Jaguar 420 kits were supplied as late as November 1968 for assembly by Jaguar Cars South Africa Ltd.
Scale models
As yet, no diecast model of either the 420 or Sovereign has been produced.
Airfix produced a 1/32 scale plastic kit of the 420 during the car's production run in 1968, which was reissued in 2021.
MPC models released the Airfix 1/32 scale plastic kit of the 420 during the 1960s / early 1970's, kit No. 1006-100
Neo Scale Models currently produce a 1:43 resin moulded model of the 420 and also a Sovereign version.
Specifications
External links
Further reading
Ball, Kenneth. Jaguar S Type, 420 1963–68 Autobook, Autopress
Harvey, Chris. Great Marques – Jaguar, Octopus Books
References
420
Sovereign
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Full-size vehicles
Luxury vehicles
Sports sedans
Cars introduced in 1966
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20She%20Goes%20Again
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There She Goes Again
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"There She Goes Again" is a song by The Velvet Underground. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The syncopated guitar riff is taken from the 1962 Marvin Gaye song "Hitch Hike". Guitarist Sterling Morrison has stated:
Metronomically, we were a pretty accurate band. If we were speeding up or slowing down, it was by design. If you listen to the solo break on "There She Goes Again," it slows down—slower and slower and slower. And then when it comes back into the "bye-bye-byes" it's double the original tempo, a tremendous leap to twice the speed.
Other artists have recorded the song, including R.E.M., who recorded it as a B-side on their 1983 single "Radio Free Europe" (and appeared on their B-side compilation Dead Letter Office in 1987). It was also included as a bonus track on the 1993 re-release of R.E.M.'s 1983 album Murmur.
Personnel
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – bass, backing vocals
Sterling Morrison – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Maureen Tucker – percussion
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
R.E.M. songs
Jangle pop songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Ford%20Bell%20Library
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James Ford Bell Library
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The James Ford Bell Library is a special collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries located on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus. It is named for its first donor and patron James Ford Bell, founder of the General Mills Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The collection consists of some 40,000 rare books, maps, manuscripts, broadsides, pamphlets and other materials documenting the history and impact of international trade and cultural exchange in the pre-modern era, before ca. 1800. Its materials range in date from 400 CE to 1825 CE, with the bulk of the collection concentrated between the years 1450 and 1790, the early modern period. The library is known for its globe gores copy of the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, and it acquired a copy of the 1602 Impossible Black Tulip Chinese world map in 2009. The scope of the collection is global and more than 15 languages are represented.
The library was founded at the University of Minnesota in 1953 and was located first in Walter Library. It moved to the newly constructed Wilson Library in 1968. In March 2018, the Bell moved again to its current location in the university's Elmer L. Andersen Library building.
The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library was established in 1963 as friends group that contributes to the support of the library and sponsors events and publications. The library has a variety of publications and since 1964 has sponsored an annual public lecture series: the James Ford Bell Lecture.
Curators
Dr. John "Jack" Parker, 1953-1991
Dr. Carol Urness, 1991-2001
Dr. Brian Fryckenberg, 2003
Dr. Marguerite Ragnow, 2005–present
References
The James Ford Bell Library: An annotated catalog of original source materials relating to the history of European expansion, 1400-1800 Minneapolis, Minn.: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994.
James Ford Bell and his books: the nucleus of a library. Minneapolis, Minn. : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1993.
A book for Jack: words to, by and about John Parker, curator of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, edited by Carol Urness. Minneapolis/St. Paul: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1991.
The world for a marketplace : episodes in the history of European expansion : commemorating the 25th anniversary of the James Ford Bell Library, by John Parker. Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1978.
The Manifest : a newsletter to the Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota.
The merchant explorer: a commentary on selected recent acquisitions. 1961-
External links
James Ford Bell Library
1953 establishments in Minnesota
Libraries established in 1953
Libraries in Minnesota
Research libraries in the United States
Special collections libraries in the United States
University and college academic libraries in the United States
University of Minnesota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blister%20%28disambiguation%29
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Blister (disambiguation)
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A blister is a small pocket of fluid in the upper layer of the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction
Blister may also refer to:
Anti-torpedo bulge, also known as an anti-torpedo blister
Blister (TV series)
Blister (band), a Norwegian band
Blister (Portuguese band)
Blister pack, a type of packaging
Blistering, an online heavy metal and hard rock magazine
"Blister", a song by Jimmy Eat World from the album Clarity
"Blisters", a song by Neurosis from the album The Word as Law
"Blisters", a song by War from the album Deliver the Word
An asymmetrical spinnaker
Another name for a mustard plaster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingate%20Hayes
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Wingate Hayes
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Wingate Hayes (1823–1877) was Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and U.S. District Attorney for the district of Rhode Island during the American Civil War.
In 1823 Wingate Hayes was born in Farmington, New Hampshire to John and Sarah Hayes. Hayes graduated from Brown University in 1844 and then studied in the office of Richard Ward Greene in Rhode Island. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. Hayes served on the Providence City Council and in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, where he was elected Speaker, serving from 1859 to 1860. Hayes also served as assistant adjutant general and division inspector, with rank of colonel. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Hayes to be the U.S. District Attorney for Rhode Island serving from 1861 to 1871. President Andrew Johnson tried unsuccessfully to replace Hayes, and Hayes eventually resigned to private practice. He mentored and later partnered with future Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Matteson. Hayes was also involved in various railroads and other enterprises. He died in 1877.
References and external links
Abraham Payne Reminiscences of the Rhode Island Bar (Tibbitts & Preston: Providence, 1885), 227-232 (accessed on Google Book Search)
Rhode Island Speakers of the House of Representatives
People from Farmington, New Hampshire
Providence City Council members
Members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Speakers of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Brown University alumni
Businesspeople from Rhode Island
United States Attorneys for the District of Rhode Island
1823 births
1877 deaths
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Black%20%28businessman%29
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Stanley Black (businessman)
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Stanley Black (born 1932) is an American real estate investor and philanthropist from Beverly Hills, California. He is the founder and chairman of the Black Equities Group. Through his company, he is the owner of 18 million square feet of commercial real estate in 35 states.
Early life
Stanley Black was born to a Jewish family in 1932. His father, Jack Black, led the Textile Division at the United Jewish Fund. His mother, Victoria Black, was a philanthropist. The Jack and Victoria Black Parkway at the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, a non-profit organization which helps struggling families, was named in their honor. His father died when he was twenty-one years old.
Career
He started his career at the Buckeye Realty & Management Corporation, a real estate development company founded by George Konheim. In 1955, he co-founded KB Management, a construction company, with Arthur Kaplan, a friend of his father's. It later became a real estate development company with over $375 million in holdings. The firm closed down in 1985, when Arthur Kaplan died. In 1985, Black and his son Jack founded the Black Equities Group, a real estate investment company. Through the company, he owns more than 18 million square feet of commercial real estate in thirty-five American states. Some of his tenants are Wendy's, Burger King and Office Depot.
He has published five editions of Thoughts to Live By, a booklet with eighty sayings of business advice.
Philanthropy
Black is a donor to Jewish organizations. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles ORT College, a non-profit two-year Jewish college part of World ORT, where the American ORT Stanley and Joyce Black Family Building is named for he and his wife. He has made charitable contributions to the City of Hope, the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Big Brothers, the American Friends of Tel Aviv University, the American Friends of the Hebrew University, The Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aging, and Yeshiva Gedolah/Michael Diller High School. He also co-chaired a fundraiser for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He has donated to the Boy Scouts of America, the Los Angeles Music Center, and the Union Rescue Mission. Moreover, he is a large supporter of the Jewish Vocational Services, a non-profit organization which helps Jews who are unemployed in Southern California find work again. Additionally, he helped establish the Goldsmith Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. In June 2016, he unveiled a new Torah he commissioned in Israel for the Temple of the Arts, a synagogue based at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Black has supported healthcare organizations. In 2000, he donated US$1 million to the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services for the establishment of the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Special Care Facility. In January 2012, he donated US$5 more million, which led to the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Campus. In 2004, he made a large donation to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), which renamed its garden the Joyce and Stanley Black and Family Healing and Meditation Garden. In 2013, he donated another US$15 million to the CHLA. As a result, the former Gateway Building facing Sunset Boulevard was renamed the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Building. In September 2014, and again on September 27, 2015 he held fundraisers for Wells Bring Hope, a non-profit organization which drills wells in Niger to bring water to rural communities. He has been a long-term supporter of the Chai Center in Los Angeles, and will serve as the 'Dinner Chair' for the Chai Center's annual Banquet in 2018.
Personal life
He was married to Joyce Black, the daughter of Jacob and Frieda Gottlieb. A philanthropist, she served on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Opera. They had three children: Jack Black; Jill Black Zalben; and Janis Black Warner. He resides in Beverly Hills, California.
References
Living people
People from Beverly Hills, California
American real estate businesspeople
American business executives
Philanthropists from California
Jewish American philanthropists
1932 births
21st-century American Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert%20Mittring
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Gert Mittring
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Gert Mittring (born May 26, 1966 in Stuttgart) is a German mental calculator. He was inspired by the late Wim Klein. He has competed in the MSO mental calculation event every year since 2004, failing to win the gold medal outright on only four occasions. He has held numerous world records for mental calculation, such as calculating the 89247th root of a 1000000 digit number. He has doctorates in statistics and mathematics education, and is a member of the Intelligence Research Committee of Intertel. Mittring is said to have been poor in math during his school years. He has written several books on mental calculation.
References
Bredenkamp, J., Klein, K.-M., von Hayn, S. & Vaterrodt, B. (1988). Gedächtnispsychologische Untersuchungen eines Rechenkünstlers. Sprache und Kognition, 7, S. 69–83.
Bredenkamp, J. (1990). Kognitionspsychologische Untersuchungen eines Rechenkünstlers. In: H. Feger (Hg.): Wissenschaft und Verantwortung. Hogrefe, Göttingen
Bredenkamp, J. & Klein, K.-M. (1996). Strategien und Arbeitsgedächtnis eines Rechenkünstlers.
External links
Gert Mittring's official site
TV Total 2014
Deutschlands Superhirn 2016
World record root extraction 2015
World record prime number extraction 2013
MSO interview 2015
Mental calculators
People from Stuttgart
1966 births
Living people
Mensans
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20Dallas%20Cowboys%20season
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1980 Dallas Cowboys season
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The 1980 Dallas Cowboys season was their 21st in the league. The team improved their previous output of 11–5, winning twelve games. They qualified for the playoffs as an NFC Wild Card, but lost in the Conference Championship game.
The season featured a very unusual end to the regular season. Going into the final week of the season, Dallas (11–4) played Philadelphia (12–3) at Texas Stadium. Under the NFL's tiebreaking rules, if Dallas could beat the Eagles by 25 points, they would earn the NFC East title and the number two seed in the NFC playoffs while Philadelphia would be a wildcard team. However, if the Cowboys lost (or won by less than 25) then the roles would reverse.
Dallas led the game 35–10 in the fourth quarter, but the Eagles rallied to lose by only 35–27. This forced Dallas to play an extra week in the playoffs and a road game in Atlanta in the Divisional Round. Dallas ultimately lost at Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game.
Offseason
NFL Draft
Undrafted free agents
Schedule
Division opponents are in bold text
Game summaries
Week 1 at Redskins
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Playoffs
Wildcard Round
Divisional Round
Conference Championship
Standings
Roster
References
Dallas Cowboys seasons
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Dutil
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Robert Dutil
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Robert Dutil is a Canadian businessman and politician, who was a Quebec Liberal Party member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994 and from 2008 to 2015.
Background
He was born in Saint-Georges, Quebec on April 16, 1950. He is the grandson of politician Édouard Lacroix and the brother of businessman Marcel Dutil.
Education
Dutil obtained a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1973 and a master's degree in business administration in 1982 both from Laval University.
Local politics
Dutil served in the Saint-Georges City Council as a city councillor from 1975 to 1979 and as mayor from 1979 to 1985. He was a prefect for the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality from 1982 to 1985.
Member of the provincial legislature
He ran as a Liberal candidate in the provincial district of Beauce-Sud in the 1985 election and won. He was appointed to Premier Robert Bourassa's cabinet in 1985 and was in charge of different portfolios, including communications and supply and services. He was re-elected in the 1989 election, but did not run for re-election in the 1994 election.
In 2008, Dutil founded the Union du centre political party; however, later that year he was elected as the Liberal candidate in the 2008 election in his old district of Beauce-Sud, and the Union du centre party later dissolved without ever running candidates for office.
Dutil became revenue minister on December 18, 2008, replacing Jean-Marc Fournier who did not seek a re-election. Following a 2010 cabinet shuffle, Dutil was named minister of public safety, replacing Jacques Dupuis.
He announced his resignation from the legislature in September 2015.
Business interests
Since 2002, Dutil has been vice-president of Structal-ponts, a division of Canam Manac Group. He was also in the 1970s and 1980s co-owner of several businesses mostly in the Saint-Georges area. He was also president or vice-president for several other small businesses from 1996 to 2008.
Footnotes
External links
1950 births
Living people
Mayors of places in Quebec
Members of the Executive Council of Quebec
People from Saint-Georges, Quebec
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
Université Laval alumni
21st-century Canadian politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927%20in%20Sweden
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1927 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1927 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Gustaf V
Prime Minister – Carl Gustaf Ekman
Events
The Volvo car manufacturing company was founded in Gothenburg, as a subsidiary to the Swedish ball bearing factory AB.
Forex Bank established
The Norra Kvill National Park established.
Arts and culture
The comic strip Kronblom was created by Elov Persson
Births
30 January – Olof Palme, politician (died 1986)
30 April – Lars Hall, modern pentathlete, Olympic champion 1952 and 1956 (died 1991).
7 May – Åke Hansson, footballer
25 June – Kjell Tånnander, Swedish decathlete
22 November – Gullan Bornemark, musician
Deaths
7 July – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, mathematician (born 1846)
19 August – Johan Edman, tug-of-war competitor (born 1875).
2 October – Svante Arrhenius, scientist (born 1859)
24 December – Karl Oskar Medin, paediatrician (born 1847)
References
Years of the 20th century in Sweden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20East%20Coast%20153
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Florida East Coast 153
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Florida East Coast 153 is a historic Florida East Coast Railway 4-6-2 ALCO steam locomotive located in Miami, Florida, USA.
History
The locomotive served on the Florida East Coast Railway from 1922 to 1938, and pulled a train carrying President Calvin Coolidge to Miami in 1928. In 1935, when she was in use on the run between Miami and Key West, #153 was one of the last engines to reach Miami before the hurricane that year destroyed the bridges to the Florida Keys.
After 1938, #153 was used as an industrial switcher by the United States Sugar Corporation of Clewiston, Florida. In 1956, she was donated to the University of Miami.
From March 1957 until November 1966, she operated a train called Gold Coast Special in Miami every Sunday. In 1966, she received a major overhaul, after which she was inspected and subsequently certified by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
For pulling the "rescue train" out of Marathon before the Labor Day Hurricane, #153 was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1985. Due to age and damage by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, she's been out of service since. It is located at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, 12400 Southwest 152nd Street, Miami, FL.
See also
U.S. Sugar 148
References
Miami-Dade County listings at National Register of Historic Places
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Dade County listings
Florida East Coast Railway Locomotive #153
How to Boot a Steam Locomotive, Phil Jern 1990.
External links
National Register of Historic Places in Miami
Individual locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives on the National Register of Historic Places
ALCO locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
Locomotive 153
Rail infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1922
Preserved steam locomotives of Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanagan%20High%20School
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Flanagan High School
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Flanagan High School may mean:
Charles W. Flanagan High School, a school in Pembroke Pines, Broward County, Florida
Flanagan-Cornell High School, the high school of Flanagan-Cornell Unit 74 in Flanagan, Livingston County, Illinois, and named Flanagan High School before 2008
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Partida%20Guzm%C3%A1n
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Martha Partida Guzmán
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Martha Rocío Partida Guzmán (born 12 January 1978) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2008 to 2009 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nayarit.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Nayarit
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Nayarit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enerplus
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Enerplus
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Enerplus Corporation is one of Canada’s largest independent oil and gas producers. The company holds oil and natural gas property interest in the United States and in western Canada, in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The company is based out of Calgary, Alberta and trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. It was Canada's first income trust.
History
Enerplus was established in 1986 by Marcel Tremblay, a pension fund manager and John Brussa, a lawyer. It was originally called Enerplus Resources Fund, and it was Canada's first income trust. Its original purpose was to provide income from mature, aging oil and gas assets to retail investors, taking advantage of the tax advantages of the income trust structure. It started trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1986 with a $10 million IPO.
In 1996, Mark Resources renamed itself Enermark, became an income trust, and joined the Enerplus group of companies. This was at the behest of Enerplus's then-CEO, Marcel Tremblay, in response to a hostile take-over attempt. In 2000, Enerplus merged with the Westrock Funds. In 2001, Enermark was merged into Enerplus. In 2004, it bought some of ChevronTexaco's western Canadian assets for $467 million. In 2005, Enerplus acquired American energy company Lyco Energy for $500 million, as part of an expansion strategy into the United States. Lyco held assets in South Dakota and Montana. This was the largest American acquisition by a Canadian oil and gas income trust to that time.
In 2008, Enerplus acquired Focus Energy Trust for $1.4 billion in stock. Focus unit-holders ended up owning 20% of the merged entity. Focus primarily specialized in natural gas production. In 2010, Enerplus sold their Kirby oilsands leases for $400 million, as a move of the company away from the oilsands. Around the same time, the company bought several properties in the Bakken formation in North Dakota for US$456 million.
Enerplus Corporation converted from an income trust to a corporate entity on January 1, 2011, after receiving approval by 98.5% of unitholders. This was done because of changes in the taxation rules for income trusts.
In 2016, Enerplus sold its Alberta natural gas properties for $193 million.
Operations
As of 2015, Enerplus produced 110,800 barrels per day, 55% from natural gas, and 45% from crude oil and other liquids. 75% of production in the United States, and 25% is in Canada. It has three main areas of operation:
The Williston basin: The company produces crude oil from properties in the Fort Berthold area of North Dakota. As of 2017, production was 30,000 barrels per day.
The Marcellus region in Pennsylvania, where the company has shale gas assets, with a 2017 production of around per day
Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, with 2016 crude oil production of 10,000 barrels per day
See also
Petroleum industry in Canada
Canadian petroleum companies
References
External links
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Energy companies of Canada
Companies based in Calgary
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1986
Oil companies of Canada
1986 establishments in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering%20a%20New%20Ride
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Entering a New Ride
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Entering a New Ride is the ninth and final album by Big Audio Dynamite. Radioactive Records declined to release the album, so the band posted the tracks on its website. It was recorded in 1997.
It is one of the earliest Internet-distributed albums.
Track listing
Disc one
"Man That Is Dynamite" – 6:23
"BAD and the Night Time Ride" – 4:55
"Sunday Best" – 4:20
"Must Be the Music" – 6:08
"Taking You to Another Dimension" – 6:49
"Sound of the BAD" – 6:20
"Cozy Ten Minutes" – 8:11
"Get High" – 5:01
"Bang Ice Geezer" – 4:33
"On the Ones and Twos" – 4:59
"Nice and Easy" – 6:53
Disc two
"Go with the Flow" – 11:12
"Sound of the Joe" – 6:21
"Man That Is Dynamite" (mix) – 5:21
"Sunday Best" (Christmas 99 mix) – 6:01
"Sunday Best" (extended mix) – 7:27
"Sunday Best" (remix) – 7:12
"BAD And The Night Time Ride " (Remix) – 7:54
Personnel
Big Audio Dynamite
Mick Jones - vocals, guitar, producer
Ranking Roger - vocals
Nick Hawkins - guitar
André Shapps - keyboards, drum programming, producer
Daryl Fulstow - bass
Bob Wond - drums
Michael Custance/Lord Zonka - vocals, DJ, songwriter, producer
DJ Joe Attard - vocals, MC , songwriter, producer
References
External links
YouTube stream
1999 albums
Big Audio Dynamite albums
Albums free for download by copyright owner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School
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St. Patrick's Grammar School
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St. Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, Armagh, Northern Ireland
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Vance
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Elijah Vance
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Elijah Vance (1801–1871) was a Democratic politician from Butler County, Ohio. He was Speaker of the Ohio Senate in 1835 and 1836.
Elijah Vance was born at Bel Air, Maryland on February 1, 1801. He came to Ohio in 1816, and lived at Cincinnati. He moved to Lebanon, Ohio in 1821. He studied law under Francis Dunlavy, and was admitted to the bar in 1826. He moved to Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio and practiced law.
Vance was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives from Butler County for the 31st and 32nd General Assemblies, (1832 to 1834). He was elected to the Ohio Senate for the 33rd to 36th General Assemblies, (1834 to 1838). For the 34th and 35th General Assemblies, (1835 to 1837), he was President of the Ohio Senate.
Vance was Prosecuting Attorney of Butler County from 1839 to 1843, and was elected Common Pleas Judge in 1843. In 1850, he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention. He was prosecuting attorney again from 1865 to 1870. He was also a member of the local board of education, and a trustee of Miami University.
Vance died January 11, 1871. He is buried at Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio).
Notes
References
Ohio Constitutional Convention (1850)
Presidents of the Ohio State Senate
Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Miami University trustees
Politicians from Hamilton, Ohio
19th-century American politicians
1801 births
1871 deaths
County district attorneys in Ohio
Burials at Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu%20Guohui
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Yu Guohui
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Yu Guohui (; born April 30, 1977 in Qingdao) is a retired male Chinese race walker.
Achievements
References
1977 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Chinese male racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes from Qingdao
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Cogan
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Sara Cogan
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Sara Cogan is a British television and theatre actress, based in London.
She graduated from The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in 2003, after a three-year acting course.
She went on to appear in 2003's sixth run of The Newsrevue, the longest-running theatrical comedy show in the United Kingdom, appearing alongside James Shakeshaft, Paul Millard and Sarah Mae.
She has had television roles in Doctors, playing Gemma Bullock, The Walk, playing Beverley and Footballers' Wives, playing a hotel receptionist.
Her most recent role was as a midwife named Cheryl in EastEnders, alongside Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell) and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell), in a storyline about Down syndrome.
References
External links
British television actresses
British stage actresses
British soap opera actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%20Andr%C3%A9%20Beach
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Santo André Beach
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Santo André Beach (Praia de Santo André in Portuguese, lit. "Saint Andrew Beach") is an extensive and wide maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in Santo André, between the A Ver-o-Mar and Aguçadoura. It borders Cape Santo André to the south.
This beach is very beautiful. It has flowers and pretty skies and an ocean.
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEAN
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CLEAN
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CLEAN may refer to:
Component Validator for Environmentally Friendly Aero Engine
CLEAN (algorithm), a computational algorithm used in astronomy to perform a deconvolution on dirty images
Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network, a system used by law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies in Pennsylvania which interfaces NCIC, Penndot and other sources beneficial to law enforcement personnel. Operated by the Pennsylvania State Police.
Cryogenic Low-Energy Astrophysics with Noble gases, a liquid argon dark matter detector under construction at SNOLAB.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfuel
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Pfuel
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The German ancient noble family of Pfuel (also Pfuhl or Phull) arrived in Brandenburg in the year 926 and later widened their influence to Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Württemberg, Westphalia, Eastern Europe and Sweden.
Its members today bear the name "Grafen Bruges-von Pfuel".
Family line
Ancestors' list for direct paternal main line:
Henricus de Puele, c. 1215
Heino de Puele (1282–1307)
Heino von Pule (1306–1349)
Strassen von Pfuel (died 1375)
Otto von Pfuel (1375–1420)
Bertram von Pfuel (born. c. 1405–1410, died 1482), 1440 to 1477 documented
Friedrich von Pfuel (1460–1527)
Bertram von Pfuel (born 1510/1515, died 1574), 1531 to 1574 documented
Friedrich von Pfuel (1545–1594), 1577 to 1587 documented
Bertram von Pfuel (1577–1639), 1597 to 1638 documented
Friedrich Heino von Pfuel (1620–1661)
Christian Friedrich von Pfuel (1653–1702 near Kaiserswerth), Killed in action
Hempo Ludwig von Pfuel (1690–1770 in Gielsdorf)
Ludwig von Pfuel (1718 in Gielsdorf – 1789 in Berlin)
Friedrich von Pfuel (1781 in Jahnsfelde – 1846 in Karlsbad)
Alexander von Pfuel (1825 in Berlin – 1898 in Jahnsfelde)
Heino von Pfuel (1871 in Jahnsfelde – 1916 in Berlin), DOW)
Curt Christoph Graf Bruges-von Pfuel (1907 in Berlin – 2000 in Bonn)
Christian Friedrich Graf Bruges-von Pfuel (born 1942 in Jahnsfelde)
Frederic Alexander Graf Bruges-von Pfuel (born 1978 in Munich)
Estates
Brandenburg
1367 Falkenberg
1375 Werftpfuhl, Altranft
pre-1413 Frankenfelde, Bliesdorf, Reichenow, Möglin, Wollenberg, Schönfeld, Reichenberg, Biesow
1445 Wriezen
1449 Jahnsfelde
1450 Gielsdorf, Grünthal, Leuenberg, Schulzendorf
1472 Trebnitz
1480 Quilitz (Neuhardenberg)
pre-1500 Tempelfelde, Torgelow, Tiefensee, Steinbeck, Quappendorf, Ruhlsdorf, Garzau, Garzin
1529 Friedersdorf
1536 Wilkendorf
pre-1663 Buckow, Hohenfinow, Prötzel, Hasenholz, Dahmsdorf, Obersdorf, Kienitz, Münchehofe
Berlin
Strausberg
1472 Biesdorf
1609 Marzahn
1655 Dahlem
Saxony-Anhalt
1641 Helfta
1654 Polleben
1664 Eisleben, Wimmelburg
1668 Seeben, Muldenstein
1680 Nedlitz
Baden-Württemberg
1787 Obermönsheim
Pomerania
1827 Schwerin
1838 Elmershagen
Bavaria
1991 Tüßling
1991 Gut Mamhofen (Starnberg)
Members
Notable members of the family include:
Adam von Pfuel (1604–1659), Swedish General, later Privy Councillor and General-War commissar in Danish service; son of Adam I. (1562–1626)
Adam Dietrich von Pfuhl, electoral Colonel, Domherr to the Prince-elector of Brandenburg (until 1671), member of the Fruitbearing Society.
Adam Friedrich von Pfuhl (1643–c. 1707), electoral Colonel, owner of the Salt evaporation pond in Kötzschau.
Adam Heinrich Christoph, electoral Colonel, as well as service at the court of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha; hereditary lord of Polleben and Stedern.
Alexander Friedrich von Pfuel (1825–1898), royal Prussian Ritterschaftsrat, Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John, Lord of Jahnsfelde; married to Anna (1835–1918), daughter of Carl Graf von Brühl, the Superintendent general of the Prussian royal theatres; son of Lieutenant General Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Pfuel, as well as father of dragoon officer Heino Friedrich (1871–1916), Lord of Jahnsfelde, DOW in World War I (1916).
Anna-Elisabeth von Pfuel (1909–2005), aunt of Prince Claus of the Netherlands, great-aunt of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands; wife of Julius Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1906–1977), who was the brother of Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1902–1996); sister of Curt-Christoph von Pfuel.
Anna Katharine von Pfuel († 1657), daughter of Adam I. (1562–1626); mother of Georg Friedrich von Creytzen; great-grandmother of Countess Katharina Dorothea Finck of Finckenstein (1700–1728), progenitrix of several European imperial and royal families; great-great-grandmother of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, father of King Christian IX of Denmark.
Anna Maria von Phul (1786–1823), American artist
Arndt Friedrich von Pfuel (1603–1673), Prussian lieutenant colonel; Lord of Schulzendorf, Schmöckwitz and Jahnsfelde.
August Karl von Pfuhl (1794–1874), royal Prussian major general; father of Lieutenant General Emil von Pfuhl
August von Phull (* 1769), royal Wurttembergian Chamberlain, Premier Captain of the Palace Guard (Ober-Schloßhauptmann); son of General of the Artillery (Generalfeldzeugmeister) Friedrich August Heinrich Leberecht von Pfuhl (1735–1818)
August Christoph Adolf von Pfuhl (* 1768), royal treasurer, later senior forestry official (Oberforstmeister) near Trier; son of General Ernst Ludwig von Pfuhl (1716–1798)
Barbara von Pfuel († 1637), mother of Field Marshal Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming who was married to Dorothea Elisabeth von Pfuel († 1740), daughter of General Georg Adam von Pfuel (1618–1672); grandmother of Adam Friedrich von Flemming, Chamberlain to Augustus II the Strong, and General Johann Georg von Flemming, Saxon electoral Chamberlain.
Carl Ludwig von Pfuel (1725−1804), royal Prussian major general.
Carl Ludwig Wilhelm August von Phull (1723–1793), general of the infantry, Kingdom of Württemberg; father of Lieutenant General Karl Ludwig von Phull (1757–1826)
Catharina Elisabeth von Pfuel (1598–1636), Lady-in-waiting of Maria Eleonora of Sweden; wife of Johan Banér (1596–1641), Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War. (see Friedrich Schiller: Wallenstein's Death); sister of Adam von Pfuel (1604–1659)
Christian Friedrich von Pfuel (1653–1702), royal Prussian colonel, Lord of Gielsdorf, Wilkendorf and Jahnsfelde. Killed in action near Kaiserswerth during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Christian-Friedrich von Pfuel, (born 1942), lawyer, protagonist in Sky du Monts 2003 novel Prinz und Paparazzi; grandson of Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, General der Panzertruppe, Commander-in-chief of Panzer Group West, as well as Inspector General of the Armoured Forces during World War II.
Christian Ludwig von Pfuel (1696–1756), royal Prussian major general of the Infantry.
Curt Christoph von Pfuel (died 1781), High Treasurer (Oberkämmerer) to the Elector of Saxony, highest Privy Councillor and General-War commissar.
Curt-Christoph von Pfuel (1907–2000), Dr.jur., Prussian assessor, member of the Council of Europe, last Fideikommiss, Lord of Jahnsfelde. Married to Blanche Freiin Geyr von Schweppenburg; daughter of Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg. Character in Marie Vassiltchikov's Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945.
Curt Wolf von Pfuel (1849–1936), royal Prussian general of the cavalry, first aide-de-camp to Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Military attaché to Spain, Inspector-General of Military education and training, Chairman of the Central Committee of the German National Red Cross during World War I.
Emil Karl von Pfuel (1821–1894), royal Prussian lieutenant general.
Ernst von Pfuel (1609/10–1659), Doctor of Law, Imperial Count Palatine of Berlin, Advocate at the Kammergericht.
Ernst von Pfuel (1779–1866), royal Prussian general of the infantry, governor of the Canton of Neuchâtel, Governor of Berlin, Cologne and the Prussian sector of Paris, member of the Prussian National Assembly, Prussian Minister of War as well as Prime Minister of Prussia.
Ernst von Pfuhl (1768–1828), Minister of State of the Kingdom of Württemberg.
Ernst Ludwig von Pfuhl (1716−1798), royal Prussian General of the Infantry, Governor of Spandau Citadel, Inspector-General of the Brandenburg Infantry.
Frank (Francis) von Phul (1835–1922), captain of the Confederate States Army serving as a staff officer to the generals Lewis Henry Little, Daniel M. Frost, John Bullock Clark and John S. Marmaduke, as well as Aide-de-camp of general Braxton Bragg.
Franz Wilhelm von Pfuel (1733−1808), royal Prussian major general and Commander of Danzig, later General in russian service.
Friedrich von Pfuel (1462–1527), knight and electoral state-captain, as well as Privy Councillor to the Dukes of Mecklenburg.
Friedrich August Heinrich Leberecht von Pfuhl (died 1818), royal Wurttembergian General of the Artillery (Generalfeldzeugmeister), Governor of Stuttgart.
Friedrich Heino von Pfuel (1620–1661), Rittmeister, service at the royal Court of Christina, Queen of Sweden.
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Pfuel (1781–1846), royal Prussian lieutenant general, Commanding officer of Saarlouis, as well as Commanding officer of Spandau.
Friedrich von Phull (Karl August Friedrich Freiherr von Phull; 1767–1840), general of the infantry, Commander-in-chief of the Kingdom of Württemberg during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Georg Adam von Pfuel (1618–1672), royal Prussian General of the Cavalry, Governor of Spandau Citadel, Lord of Groß- und Klein-Buckow (Märkische Schweiz).
Georg Dietrich von Pfuhl (1723–1782), Royal Prussian Colonel, Commanding officer of the 13. Infantry Regiment, Knight of the Order of the Pour le Mérite (1762); married to Leopoldine Anne of Anhalt-Dessau (1738–1808), daughter of Prince William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau, heir to the principality of Anhalt-Dessau and eldest son of Leopold I.
George Ehrenreich von Pfuhl (born 1646), Landdrost of the Principality of Lippe, Lord of Helfta and Polleben.
George von Phul Jones (1872–1968), American politician (Republican Party), Representative from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Gustav von Pfuel (1829–1897), Prussian Junker and politician, member of the Prussian House of Lords, father-in-law of Reichskanzler Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg. Senior civil servant of the Kingdom of Hanover; from 1868–1872 district president (Kreishauptmann) and Chief Constable of the district of Celle; Prefect of the department Seine-Maritime in Rouen, as well as Civil Commissioner (Zivilkommissar) of the departments Aisne and Ardennes during the Franco-Prussian War.
Gustav Adolf von Pfuhl, member of the Fruitbearing Society.
Gustav Adolph von Pfuel (1632–1683), Valet de chambre of William III of England; judge of Nödlitz
Hans Emil Reinhold von Pfuel (* 1819), royal Prussian Chamberlain.
Heino de Pule (1282–1307), hereditary Knight and Vogt in service to the Margraves of Brandenburg.
Heino von Pfuel, in the year 1440 electoral Chancellor in service to Frederick of Altmark, Margrave of the Brandenburg, as well as to Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg; Captain of Oderberg.
Heino von Pfuel (1550–1602), electoral Colonel appointed by John George, Prince-elector of Brandenburg.
Hempo Ludwig von Pfuel (1690–1770), royal Prussian Privy Councillor and Major, President of the Kriegs- u. Domänenkammer Halberstadt, Lord of Jahnsfelde.
Henne de Pul, in the year 1337 Knight in the retinue of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
Henne wan den Pule, in the year 1343 Dengesmann Advocatus.
Henning von Pfuhl, Privy Councillor of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg(1505–1571) and "known as a well-deserved hero".
Henry von Phul (1784–1874), American pioneer businessmen in St. Louis' early history; son of Johann Wilhelm von Phull (Phul) (1739–1793), Brother of Anna Maria von Phul (1786–1823), father of Frank (Francis) von Phul (1835–1922); von Phul married in 1816 Rosalie Saugrain (1797–1787), daughter of Antoine Saugrain (1763–1820)
Heyno Dietloff von Pfuel (1652–1734), Dike-reeve of the Oderbruch.
Hildbrandt von Pfuel, in the year 1260 mayor of Wismar.
Johanna Christina von Pfuel (1675–1735), great-great-grandmother of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden; great-grandmother of Louise Caroline of Hochberg, second wife of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (see: Kaspar Hauser)
Johann Ernst von Pfuel (1640–1705), Lutheran Doctor Theologiae, Prof. eloquentiae et poeseos in Greifswald, Rector of the "Fürstliche Pädagogium" Stettin, court chaplain to the Duke of Mecklenburg, member of the ecclesiastical council of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
Johann Gottlieb von Pfuel (1653–1681) Lieutenant colonel; Sohn des Adam von Pfuel (1604–1659)
Juliane Sophie von Pfuel (1688–1749), great-grandmother of Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck; married to Jobst Ernst von Schönfeld (1680–1725)
Johann Wilhelm von Phull (1739-1793), Captain in general George Washington's staff, emigrated to America in 1764; father of the American artist Anna Maria von Phul (1786-1823) and Henry von Phul (1784-1974); son of Johann Phillip von Pfuel (1713-1748) and Wilhelmina Louisa von Hoff (1705-1780).
Karl Ludwig von Phull (1757–1826), Prussian general who served as chief of the General Staff of King Frederick William III of Prussia in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt. In Russian service, Phull successfully advocated for a scorched earth policy during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.
Kurt Bertram von Pfuel (1590–1658), statesman and politician. Valet de chambre to George William, Prince-elector of Brandenburg, General-War commissar and highest Privy Councillor to Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg – Duke of Prussia.
Ludwig von Pfuel (1718−1789), royal Prussian major general und Hofmarschall to Frederick William I of Prussia.
Ludwig Dietrich von Pfuhl (1669–1745), field marshal and commander of Kehl Fortress during the War of the Polish Succession; grandson of Adam von Pfuel (1604–1659).
Martha von Pfuel (1865–1914), wife of Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921), German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917.
Maximilian von Pfuel (1854–1930), royal Prussian lieutenant general.
Melchior von Pfuel (died 1548), "the Alchemist and Necromancer", Doctor of Law, electoral Captain at Zossen, Chancellor and Privy Councillor to the Prince-elector of Brandenburg.
Nickel von Pfuel (died 1492), Dr. iuris utriusque, Schloßhauptmann and Privy Councillor to the Prince-elector of Brandenburg, Knight and military commander, Vogt of Wriezen, judge at the Kammergericht, owner of Berlin castle.
Otto-Friedrich von Pfuel (1731–1811), royal Prussian Haupt-Ritterschaftsdirektor.
Richard Balduin Ernst von Pfuel (1827–1900), royal Prussian legation councilor, German Consul-General and Ambassador; 1872–1876 German Consul-General in Bucharest, 1876–1888 Imperial Ambassador at the Swedish royal court; Lord of Gielsdorf.
Stephanie von Pfuel, née Michel von Tüßling (born 1961), mayor of Tüßling (CSU); daughter of Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who served in the Nazi government of German dictator Adolf Hitler, in the staff of Heinrich Himmler and the SS Main Office; ex-wife of Christian-Friedrich von Pfuel, (born 1942).
Valtin von Pfuel (1587–1661), General-War commissar to the Prince-elector of Brandenburg, as well as High-Commissioner of the Barnim.
Werner von Pfuel (died 1482), Hofmarschall to the princely court, later Vogt of Küstrin and Privy Councillor (Geheimrat) to the Prince-elector of Brandenburg, judge at the Royal Courts, Knight of the Dominican Order.
Wolf Kurt von Pfuel (1809–1866), royal Prussian major general.
Literature
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band X, pp. 336f., Band 119, C. A. Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1999,
Bernhard von Gersdorff: Preußische Köpfe – Ernst von Pfuel. Stappverlag, 1981,
Stephanie von Pfuel: Wenn schon, denn schon. LangenMüller, 2007,
Marco Schulz: Jahnsfelde Schlösser und Gärten der Mark. Freundeskreis Schlösser und Gärten der Mark, Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger (Publisher).
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Sir Robert Pattinson, JP, DL (19 February 1872 – 4 December 1954) was a British Liberal politician and businessman. Pattinson joined his family's railway contracting firm after finishing school and was quickly appointed to senior positions. In 1900, he became chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and four years later joined Kesteven County Council, eventually becoming an alderman and serving as its chairman for 20 years between 1934 and his death in 1954. He chaired the Sleaford Liberal Association (1900–18) and was nominated as the party's representative for Sleaford shortly before World War I broke out. He contested Grantham unsuccessfully in 1918, but was returned for the seat in 1922, serving until he was defeated in the following year's general election. Several other unsuccessful attempts at a parliamentary career followed. He chaired several bodies responsible for maintaining Lincolnshire's waterways, served as a magistrate for Kesteven and Lindsey and sat as Lincolnshire's High Sheriff in 1941. Knighted in 1934, Pattinson died aged 82 in 1954 after several years of illness.
Background
Born on 19 February 1872, Robert Pattinson was the son of a contractor and businessman, William Pattinson, JP (1833–1906), and his wife Anne (1833–1916). His father ran (and had founded with brother Samuel) the successful building company Messrs. Pattinson and Son alongside serving as chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and vice-president of the Sleaford Liberal Association. Robert's brother Samuel (d. 1924) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Horncastle (1922–24), head of Messrs Pattinson and Co. Ltd, and a prominent member of Kesteven County Council. One of his sisters, Emmeline Taylor (d. 1937), became the first female Kesteven county councillor and alderman, while his other sister's husband Richard Winfrey was also a Liberal MP, for South West Norfolk (1906–23) and Gainsborough (1923–24). Their eldest brother, John (d. 1939), was involved in the family business, supervising contracts in Liverpool and the south of England, before moving back to Lincolnshire; he represented Heckington and Sleaford on the County Council, became a justice of the peace and served as vice-chairman of the Sleaford Bench.
Pattinson married Catherine Lucy Pratt (d. 1917), daughter of Henry Pratt of Lincoln in 1895. There were two sons and one daughter of the marriage: Henry Pattinson (died 1941), a captain in the Indian Army; William Pratt Pattinson, a solicitor and coroner for the Lincoln South District, who married Elaine Eva Higson Smith, daughter of Louis W. Smith, MP, of Lincoln; and Catherine Mary, who married, firstly, G. W. R. Russell, elder son of J. J. Russell, of Ballygasson House, High Sheriff of County Louth, and secondly, Wing Commander Colin Spencer Richardson, of Salisbury, son of Colonel Alan Richardson.
Business career
After schooling at Carre's Grammar School and Abingdon School, Pattinson joined his father and uncle's railway contracting firm. Two years later, he oversaw a project to widen the Great Northern Railway between Finsbury Park and King's Cross. The partnership became Messrs W. Pattinson and Sons, Ltd., and Pattinson became a managing director, with responsibility for many of its large projects, and he also became a director in Messrs Pattinson and Co., Ltd, a company of merchants and shippers.
Political career
Local government
Pattinson became chairman of the Ruskington Urban District Council in 1900. He was elected to Kesteven County Council in 1904, became an alderman in 1911 and served as its vice-chairman from 1923 until he was elected chairman in 1934, the year he was knighted. Pattinson served on the Lincolnshire County Committee for 50 years, and as chairman of the Witham and Steeping Rivers Catchment Board when it was formed in 1931; after World War II, he was appointed chairman of Lincolnshire River Board, and was appointed to be one of the original members of the River Board Areas Consultative Committee and a member Central Transport Board for Great Britain, 1948–54. Pattinson also served as the first chairman of the Lincolnshire Archives Committee, as a justice of the peace (for Kesteven from 1900 and Lindsey from 1930), and deputy lieutenant for Lincolnshire. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1941.
Parliament
In 1898, Pattinson became chairman of the Sleaford Division Liberal Association, serving until 1918. He was first chosen as Liberal candidate for Sleaford division in 1914. At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party. He was elected for Grantham at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP, Edmund Royds by a majority of 425 votes. However, at the 1923 general election he was defeated by the new Conservative candidate Victor Warrender.
Pattinson stood unsuccessfully for Lincoln at the general election in 1929. In 1937 he was suggested as a possible National government candidate at the Holland with Boston by-election. As a well-known local man he was thought to be an acceptable candidate to both local Liberal and Conservative Associations. In fact he was reported to be the preferred candidate of the local Conservatives. The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir James Blindell. He had captured the seat for the Liberals in a by-election in 1929 and had later joined the Liberal Nationals. In the end Herbert Butcher of Peterborough, Chairman of the East Midlands Liberal National Area Council was chosen as the National Government candidate. Pattinson himself later formally joined the Liberal Nationals.
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Death
Pattinson died at his home, The Fosse House, in Lincoln on 2 December 1954 at the age of 82 years.
See also
Sir Robert Pattinson Academy
References
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1872 births
1954 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1922–1923
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) politicians
People from Ruskington
Councillors in Lincolnshire
Politics of Grantham
People educated at Carre's Grammar School
High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire
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1st Streamy Awards
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The 1st Annual Streamy Awards was the first ever awards ceremony dedicated entirely to web series and the first installment of the Streamy Awards. The awards were held on March 28, 2009, at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The event had over 1,300 audience members in attendance and was simultaneously broadcast live online. The Official Red Carpet Pre-Show was hosted by Shira Lazar and the award show was co-hosted by Tubefilter, NewTeeVee and Tilzy.TV. The web series The Guild and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog were the biggest winners of the night, winning four and six awards, respectively, out of the 25 award categories. The show was met by positive reception by celebrities in attendance and the media.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on March 13, 2009 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series were announced on March 17. The Streamy Craft Award winners were announced in a ceremony held on March 26, 2009. The remaining award categories were announced during the main ceremony at the Wadsworth Theatre on March 28. Winners of the categories were selected by the International Academy of Web Television except for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series which was put to a public vote.
Winners are listed first, in bold.
Web series with multiple nominations and awards
Reception
The New York Times Magazine columnist Virginia Heffernan called the show "a goofy and a powerful experience." Heffernan, alongside Alexia Tsotsis writing for LA Weekly, were impressed by the celebrity presence at the show, with Tsotsis calling it "an Emmys for Web TV." Maria Russo, writing for TheWrap, and Patrick Orndorff, writing for Wired, praised the quality of the nominees. Russo opined of the show that although "[in] the big scheme of things it all feels very fledgling", the existence of the awards felt "like a cool glimpse into the future". Heffernan, Tsotsis, and Jill Weinberger of Gigaom, singled out the speeches of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog writer Joss Whedon and The Guild star Felicia Day as particularly memorable with Whedon praising the online content creators in attendance and Day saying of her awards "this is for everyone who ever said no to me." YouTuber and singer Tay Zonday was enthusiastic about the awards saying that they show "that people don't have to play the system to have their art acknowledged," and actor David Faustino said of the show "we're at a baby stage of something that's going to be amazingly giant and I'm excited to be on ground floor." Brian Lowry writing for Variety called the Streamys the "Worst Award Name Ever".
See also
List of Streamy Award winners
References
External links
Streamy Awards website
Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards
2009 in American television
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Diego de Villalba y Toledo, marqués de Campo, señor de la Villa de Santacruz de Pinares was a Spanish general of artillery and colonial governor in America. From 1667 to 1671 he was governor of New Kingdom of Granada – Nuevo Reino de Granada – (greater Colombia), then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
Villalba y Toledo was a knight of the Order of Santiago and majordomo of Juan José of Austria, son of Spanish King Philip IV. From 1647 to 1653 Villalba was governor of Cuba.
In 1667 he became governor of Nuevo Reino de Granada (New Granada). During his administration the Grand Bridge over the Bogotá River was completed, and also a bridge over the Río Gualí at Honda. These were constructed by Indigenous labor. He traveled to Cartagena de Indias to inspect its defenses after the English pirate Henry Morgan attacked the Castle of San Felipe in 1668. At the same time, there were reports that the French also planned a landing in New Granada.
Because of a shortage of coinage in New Granada, Villalba ordered the silver bars be melted down to make coins of one quarter and one half real.
There was a variety of complaints to the Crown against Villalba's administration, and Bishop Melchor Liñán y Cisneros was appointed visitador (inspector) to investigate them. The bishop ordered that Villalba be arrested and confined in Villa de Leiva. There were 70 charges against him, and he was convicted of robbing the dead. On 2 June 1671, Liñán y Cisneros replaced him on a temporary basis as governor and captain general of New Granada. Liñán y Cisneros later became viceroy of Peru.
Villalba y Toledo died in Seville.
References
Text loosely translated from the Spanish Wikipedia article.
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Trichosalpinx egleri is a species of orchid native to southern tropical America (Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and the Caribbean).
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egleri
Orchids of Bolivia
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Guyana
Orchids of French Guiana
Orchids of Peru
Orchids of Suriname
Orchids of Venezuela
Flora of the Caribbean
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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Keiyo District
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Keiyo District (also known as Elgeyo district or Elgeiyo) is a defunct administrative district in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. The district was formed in 1994, when Elgeyo/Marakwet-District was split into two - the other half was Marakwet District. Keiyo District had a population of 143.865 . Its capital was located in the Iten/Tambach town. In 2010, the districts were re-joined as Elgeyo-Marakwet County.
Local people are mostly of the Keiyo Tribe. Many famous Kenyan runners come from the district, including Saif Saaeed Shaheen (born Stephen Cherono), Vivian Cheruiyot and Lornah Kiplagat. The area is used by local and foreign athletes for high-altitude training.
Mining of fluorite by the Kenya Fluorspar Company is the largest industry in the former district.
Local authorities
Keiyo District has two local authorities:
Iten/Tambach town (population: 31,813; urban population: 3,968)
Keiyo county council (population: 112,052; urban population: 1,868)
Administrative divisions
Constituencies
The district had two constituencies:
Keiyo North Constituency
Keiyo South Constituency
See also
Kaptarakwa, a village in the Chapkorio division of Keiyo District
Kimwarer, a town in the Soy Division of Keiyo district
References
External links
Kalenjin Online - Keiyo District
Keiyo Heritage - Keiyo District
Former districts of Kenya
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Baṛī ye ( "greater ye") is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indic language alphabets based on the Nastaʿliq script) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic and Nastaʿliq scripts. It functions as the word-final yā-'e-majhūl ([]) and yā-'e-sākin ([]). It is distinguished from the "choṭī ye ( "lesser ye")", which is the regular Perso-Arabic yāʾ () used elsewhere.
Character encoding
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Persian letters
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Li Zewen (; born 5 December 1973 in Qujing, Yunnan) is a retired Chinese race walker.
Achievements
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1973 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games
Chinese male racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
People from Qujing
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes from Yunnan
Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
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The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher. It is awarded annually to a full-length representative work of fiction or drama of the highest literary merit by a professional writer. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of 1 million yen.
Winners
Award sponsor Chuokoron-Shinsha maintains an official list of current and past winning works.
1965 Kojima Nobuo for Embracing Family (Hōyō kazoku, 抱擁家族)
1966 Endō Shūsaku for Silence (Chinmoku, 沈黙)
1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for The Silent Cry (Manen gannen no futtoboru, 万延元年のフットボール)
1967 Abe Kobo for Friends (Tomodachi, 友達)
1968 (no prize awarded)
1969 Enchi Fumiko for Shu wo ubau mono; Kizu aru tsubasa; Niji to shura (朱を奪うもの/傷ある翼/虹と修羅)
1970 Yutaka Haniya for Black Horse In The Midst Of Darkness (Yami no naka no kuroi uma, 闇のなかの黒い馬)
1970 Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for The Dark Room (Anshitsu, 暗室)
1971 Noma Hiroshi for Seinen no wa (青年の環)
1972 Maruya Saiichi for A Singular Rebellion (Tatta hitori no hanran, たった一人の反乱)
1973 Kaga Otohiko for Kaerazaru natsu (帰らざる夏)
1974 Usui Yoshimi for Azumino (安曇野)
1975 Minakami Tsutomu for Ikkyū (一休)
1976 Fujieda Shizuo for Denshin ugaku (田紳有楽)
1977 Shimao Toshio for Hi no utsuroi (日の移ろい)
1978 Nakamura Shin'ichirō for Summer (Natsu, 夏)
1979 Tanaka Komimasa for Poroporo (ポロポロ)
1980 Kono Taeko for Ichinen no banka (一年の牧歌)
1981 Fukazawa Shichiro for Michinoku no ningyotachi (みちのくの人形たち)
1981 Goto Akio for Yoshinodayu (吉野大夫)
1982 Oba Minako for Katachi mo naku (寂兮寥兮)
1983 Furui Yoshikichi for Morning Glory (Asagao, 槿)
1984 Kuroi Senji for Life in the Cul-de-Sac (Gunsei, 群棲)
1984 Takai Yuichi for This Country's Sky (Kono kuni no sora, この国の空)
1985 Haruki Murakami for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando, 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド)
1986 Hino Keizo for Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni (砂丘が動くように)
1987 Tsutsui Yasutaka for Yumenokizaka bunkiten (夢の木坂分岐点)
1988 (no prize awarded)
1989 (no prize awarded)
1990 Hayashi Kyoko for Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae (やすらかに今はねむり給え)
1991 Inoue Hisashi for Shanghai Moon (Shanhai Mūn, シャンハイムーン)
1992 Setouchi Jakucho for Hana ni toe (花に問え)
1993 Ikezawa Natsuki for The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili (Mashiasu giri no shikkyaku, マシアス・ギリの失脚)
1994 Tsujii Takashi for Rainbow Cove (Niji no misaki, 虹の岬)
1995 Tsuji Kunio for Saigyō kaden (西行花伝)
1996 (no prize awarded)
1997 Hosaka Kazushi for Kisetsu no kioku (季節の記憶)
1997 Miki Taku for Roji (路地)
1998 Tsushima Yūko for Mountain of Fire: Account of a Wild Monkey (Hi no yama - yamazaruki, 火の山―山猿記)
1999 Takagi Nobuko for Translucent Tree (Tokō no ki, (透光の樹)
2000 Tsujihara Noboru for Yudotei Maruki (遊動亭円木)
2000 Murakami Ryū for A Symbiotic Parasite (Kyoseichu, 共生虫)
2001 Hiromi Kawakami for The Briefcase aka Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban, センセイの鞄)
2002: (no prize awarded)
2003: Tawada Yoko for Suspect On The Night Train (Yōgisha no yakōressha, 容疑者の夜行列車)
2004: Horie Toshiyuki for Yukinuma and Its Environs (Yukinuma to sono shūhen, 雪沼とその周辺)
2005: Machida Kō for Confession (Kokuhaku, 告白)
2005: Amy Yamada for Wonderful Flavor (Fūmizekka, 風味絶佳)
2006: Yōko Ogawa for Meena's March (Mīna no Kōshin, ミーナの行進)
2007: Seirai Yuichi for Bakushin (爆心)
2008: Natsuo Kirino for Tokyo-jima (東京島)
2009: (no prize awarded)
2010: Kazushige Abe for Pistils (Pisutoruzu, ピストルズ)
2011: Mayumi Inaba for To the Peninsula (半島へ)
2012: Genichiro Takahashi for Goodbye, Christopher Robin (さよならクリストファー・ロビン)
2013: Mieko Kawakami for Dreams of Love (Ai no Yume to ka, 愛の夢とか)
2014: Hikaru Okuizumi for The Autobiography of Tokyo (Tōkyō jijoden, 東京自叙伝)
2015: Kaori Ekuni for Geckos, Frogs, and Butterflies (Yamori Kaeru Shijimichō, ヤモリ、カエル、シジミチョウ)
2016: Akiko Itoyama for Hakujyō (薄情)
2016: Yū Nagashima for San no Tonari wa Gogōshitsu (三の隣は五号室)
2017: Hisaki Matsuura for honour and trance (Meiyo to Kōkotsu, 名誉と恍惚)
2018: Tomoyuki Hoshino for
2019: Kiyoko Murata for
2020: Kenichiro Isozaki for Nihon Momai Zenshi (日本蒙昧前史)
2021: Kanehara Hitomi for Unsocial Distance (Ansōsharudisutansu, アンソーシャルディスタンス)
2022: Banana Yoshimoto for Miton to fubin'' (ミトンとふびん)
See also
List of Japanese literary awards
References
1965 establishments in Japan
Awards established in 1965
Japanese literary awards
Japanese-language literary awards
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23577715
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McCann
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James McCann
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James or Jim McCann may refer to:
James McCann (baseball) (born 1990), American baseball player
James McCann (bishop) (1897–1983), Anglican Bishop of Meath 1945–59, Archbishop of Armagh 1959–69
James McCann (businessman), American entrepreneur who founded 1-800-Flowers
James McCann (drugs trafficker) (born 1939), Irish drugs trafficker, known as Jim
James McCann (Drogheda MP) (died 1873), Member of Parliament for Drogheda 1852–65
James McCann (St Stephen's Green MP) (1840–1904), Member of Parliament for Dublin St Stephen's Green 1900–04
James McCann (Wisconsin politician) (1924–2009), American politician
James Joseph McCann (1886–1961), Canadian politician
Jim McCann (musician) (1944–2015), Irish folk musician and entertainer
Jim McCann (writer) (born 1974), American comic book writer
Jim McCann (scientist) (born 1983), American robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University
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20470703
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20Croatia
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Religion in Croatia
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The most widely professed religion in Croatia is Christianity and a large majority of the Croatian population declare themselves to be members of the Catholic Church. Croatia has no official religion and freedom of religion is a right defined by the Constitution of Croatia, which also defines all religious communities as equal in front of the law and separate from the state.
History
In the 16th century, Protestantism reached Croatia, but was mostly eradicated due to the Counter-Reformation implemented by the Habsburgs.
There is also significant history of the Jews in Croatia through the Holocaust. The history of the Jews in Croatia dates back to at least the 3rd century, although little is known of the community until the 10th and 15th centuries. By the outbreak of World War II, the community numbered approximately 20,000 members, most of whom were murdered during the Holocaust that took place on the territory of the Nazi puppet state called Independent State of Croatia. After World War II, half of the survivors chose to settle in Israel, while an estimated 2,500 members continued to live in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there were 509 Jews living in Croatia, but that number is believed to exclude those born of mixed marriages or those married to non-Jews. More than 80 percent of the Zagreb Jewish community were thought to fall in those two categories.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census 86.28% of Croatians are Catholics, while Orthodox Christians make up 4.44% of the population, Muslims 1.47%, and Protestants 0.34% of the population. 3.81% of Croatians are not religious and atheists, 0.76% are agnostics and sceptics, and 2.17% are undeclared. In the Eurostat Eurobarometer Poll of 2005, 67% of the population of Croatia responded that "they believe there is a God". In a 2009 Gallup poll, 70% answered yes to the question "Is religion an important part of your daily life?". However, only 24% of the population attends religious services regularly.
Interaction between religious and secular Life
Public schools allow religious teaching in cooperation with religious communities having agreements with the state, but attendance is not mandated. Religion classes () are organized widely in public elementary and secondary schools, most commonly coordinated with the Catholic Church.
The public holidays in Croatia also include the religious festivals () of Epiphany, Easter Monday, Corpus Christi Day, Assumption Day, All Saints' Day, Christmas, and St. Stephen's or Boxing Day. The primary holidays are based on the Catholic liturgical year, but other believers are legally allowed to celebrate other major religious holidays.
Marriages conducted by the religious communities having agreements with the state are officially recognized, eliminating the need to register the marriages in the civil registry office.
The Catholic Church in Croatia receives state financial support and other benefits established in concordats between the Government and the Vatican. The concordats and other government agreements with non-Catholic religious communities allow state financing for some salaries and pensions for religious officials through government-managed pension and health funds.
The concordats and agreements also regulate public school catechisms and military chaplains.
In line with the concordats signed with the Roman Catholic Church and in an effort to further define their rights and privileges within a legal framework, the government has additional agreements with the following 14 religious and Faith communities:
Serbian Orthodox Church/Patriarchy (Canonical) (SPC)
Islamic Community of Croatia
Evangelical Church in the Republic of Croatia
Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
Protestant Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
Pentecostal Church
Union of Pentecostal Churches of Christ
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Union of Baptist Churches
Church of God
Church of Christ
Reformed Movement of Seventh-day Adventists
Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Canonical)
Macedonian Orthodox Church (Non-canonical)
Old Catholic Church of Croatia
Legal status
The 2002 Law on the Legal Position of Religious Communities broadly defines religious and Faith communities' legal positions and covers such matters as government funding, tax benefits, and religious education in schools. Matters such as pensions for clergy; religious service in the military, penitentiaries, and police; and recognition of religious and Faith marriages are left to each religious and Faith community to negotiate separately with the Government.
Registration of religious groups is not obligatory; however, registered groups are granted "legal person" status and enjoy tax and other benefits. The law stipulates that to be eligible for registration, a religious group must have at least 500 believers and be registered as an association for 5 years. All religious and Faith groups in the country prior to passage of the law in 2002 were registered without having to meet these conditions; religious and Faith groups new to the country after passage of the law must fulfill the requirements for the minimum number of believers and time as an association. Religious and Faith groups based abroad must submit written permission for registration from their country of origin. Minister of Public Administration runs a Registry of religious organizations in Republic of Croatia, currently recognizing 62 religious communities ().
See also
Catholic Church in Croatia
Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia
Protestantism in Croatia
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Croatia
Islam in Croatia
History of the Jews in Croatia
Buddhism in Croatia
Hinduism in Croatia
Irreligion in Croatia
References
External links
Registry of Religious Communities, Ministry of Public Administration, Government of the Republic of Croatia
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20470712
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eela%20Craig
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Eela Craig
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Eela Craig was an Austrian rock band of the 1970s and 1980s, that combined progressive rock with jazz and classical music influences as well as Christian lyrics. The band's name is without known meaning.
History
The band was founded in Linz in 1970, and recorded its first album, entitled Eela Craig, in 1971 with a circulation of 1,500. Critics compared this album with established bands such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Colosseum. The band had a few onstage performances with the Zürich Chamber Orchestra in 1972, which led to more performances in well-known opera houses of Italy, Germany and Austria, uncommon venues for a rock band at the time.
The band signed a contract with Virgin Records in 1975, to release a number of singles and albums, including the Christian concept album Missa Universalis, and a signature ethereal cover version of Chris de Burgh's "A Spaceman Came Travelling", both released in 1978.
Missa Universalis was a musical translation of a (Catholic) high mass, which embraced lyrics in Latin, German, English and French. The compositions resembled the works of Anton Bruckner, mixed with elements of rock and electronic music. The premiere was performed at the Brucknerfest of the city of Linz and received positive acceptance.
The band was largely inactive between 1982 and 1986, but the two founding members produced solo music under the Bognermayr/Zuschrader name with Bognermayr's own New Age label, Erdenklang. 1987 saw the release of three singles, which were targeted to match the contemporary pop music style. Eela Craig released their last album, Hit or Miss, in 1987.
On 17 November 1995, the band reunited for a one-time live performance in Linz. At the same time, Hubert Bognermayr published a compilation of the band's music entitled Symphonic Rock.
Discography
Singles
"Stories" / "Cheese" (1974)
"A Spaceman Came Travelling" / "Heaven Sales" (1978)
"Mo-bike Jive" / "Carry On" (1981)
"Linz" / "Fühl mich so..." (1987)
"Il Tempo..." / "Lovers in Love" (1987)
"Weihnachtszeit" / (Instrumental) (1987)
"Lord’s Prayer" / "Vaterunser" (1988)
Albums
Eela Craig (1971)
One Niter (1976)
Hats of Glass (1977)
Missa Universalis (1978)
Virgin Oiland (1980)
Hit or Miss (1988)
Compilations
Symphonic Rock (1995)
References
External links
Eela Craig at the Prog Archives
Eela Craig bei germanrock.de
Harald Zuschrader / Eela Craig remix
Austrian progressive rock groups
Vertigo Records artists
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23577724
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghu%20metro%20station
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Donghu metro station
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The Taipei Metro Donghu station is located in the Neihu District in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a station on Wenhu line.
Station overview
This three-level, elevated station features two side platforms, three exits, and a platform elevator located on the north side of the concourse level. It is located on Kangning Road, Sec. 3.
The station is 83 meters long and 21.5 meters wide, while the platform is 93.5 meters long. Because of the station needed to go over the Wufen Road footbridge, the station height is 20 meters (the equivalent of a six-story building). It has thus been called the "Zenith Station" and is the highest station on the Taipei Metro.
Design
The station design theme is "Music". Surface designs in the station square represent a dancing musical staff. Silk fabric is printed on enamel slab art walls at the concourse level to represent romantic urban music.
Located next to the entrance, public art for the station is titled "The Rippling Lake". Porcelain and celadon are used to create ripples on the art piece.
History
December 2007: Station structure reaches completion.
22 February 2009: Donghu station construction is completed.
4 July 2009: Begins service with the opening of Brown Line.
The station is a planned transfer for the Minsheng–Xizhi line.
Station layout
Around the station
Ankang Park
Nanhu Senior High School
Minghu Junior High School
Nanhu Elementary School
Minghu Elementary School
Donghu Elementary School
Taipei Public Library, Donghu Branch
Donghu Police Station
Donghu Fire Department
Halar Cinemas
References
Wenhu line stations
Railway stations opened in 2009
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23577734
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Monk
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Frank Monk
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Frank Vivian Monk (1886 – 15 November 1962) was an English amateur footballer who had a brief career with several professional clubs around 1910.
Early career
Monk was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was educated at Queens Road School, Wimbledon and St Marks College, Chelsea where he trained to be a teacher. He was an outstanding all-round amateur sportsman who gained honours at swimming, cricket and athletics (turning out for St Martins Harriers) and was the 1909 Salisbury marathon champion.
Football career
He joined Southampton of the Southern League on amateur terms in the summer of 1910. His teaching commitments prevented him from playing regularly for the "Saints" and he made his debut after seven games of the 1910–11 season, when he took the place of Sam Jepp at centre-half against Crystal Palace on 22 October 1910. When he played, "he used his athleticism to good effect" and was a sure tackler. He managed 19 league appearances, with either Jepp or Billy Beaumont taking his place when he was unavailable. On 11 February 1911, he played as an emergency centre-forward at Swindon Town.
His form attracted the attention of the England amateur selectors and, after a successful trial in January 1911, he won four amateur international caps.
In September 1911, Monk made two appearances for Glossop in the Football League Second Division, followed by brief spells with Fulham and one match back at The Dell (a 2–1 defeat against West Ham United on 6 January 1912).
Later career
In the summer of 1912, his teaching career took him away from Southampton, which brought his brief excursion into professional football to an end.
References
1886 births
1962 deaths
Sportspeople from Salisbury
English footballers
England amateur international footballers
Association football defenders
Salisbury City F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Glossop North End A.F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Southern Football League players
English Football League players
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23577742
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadsworth%20Theatre
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Wadsworth Theatre
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The historic Wadsworth Theatre is a live theatre in the Sawtelle community of West Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California.
It is located on the historic Sawtelle Veterans Home campus, the present day West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs complex. It is off Wilshire Boulevard and San Vicente Boulevard, on the east side of Brentwood.
History
The theater was built in 1939 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It underwent an extensive restoration in 2002.
The Wadsworth Theater is used to present various Broadway shows, musical concerts, film premieres, and live theatrical productions. It has also hosted the annual Streamy Awards, since they were first held there in 2009.
See also
References
Theatres in Los Angeles
Sawtelle, Los Angeles
West Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard
Event venues established in 1939
1939 establishments in California
1930s architecture in the United States
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California
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20470731
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27est%20d%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20%C3%A7a
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C'est déjà ça
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C'est déjà ça is a 1993 album recorded by French singer Alain Souchon. It was his eleventh album overall and was released on October 10, 1993. It achieved smash success in France where it remained for 100 weeks in the top 50, including one week at the top, and 108 weeks on the chart. It was also successful in Belgium (Wallonia). It provided two successful singles in France : "Foule sentimentale" (#1) and "L'Amour à la machine" (#21). The album was entirely written by the singer himself, while the music was composed by Laurent Voulzy, Jean-Claude Petit and Souchon's son, Pierre Souchon.
Critical reception
The album was certified a Diamond disc with over 1 million copies sold. It also earned several awards, notably earning Souchon the Best male singer of the year award at the 1994 NRJ Music Awards. In 1996, he also won the Vincent Scotto prize awarded by the SACEM for the song "Sous les jupes des filles". This song, not released as a single, was nevertheless much aired on the radio.
Track listing
Source : Allmusic.
Releases
Personnel
Produced by Michel Coeuriot
Michel-Yves Kochmann : guitares (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11)
Basile Leroux : guitares (7, 10)
Laurent Voulzy : guitares (8), glide et solo basse (8), chœurs (8)
Laurent Faucheux : batterie (1, 2, 6, 11)
Guy Delacroix : basse (1, 2, 4, 6), basse acoustique (7, 10)
Denis Benarrosch : percussions (1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11)
Michel Cœuriot : synthétiseurs (1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11), orgue hammond (2), piano (5, 7), clavinette (6), basse (8), chœurs (8)
Celmar Engel : programmations des synthétiseurs (3, 4, 11)
Recorded by Renaud Letang
Assistant : Bertrand Taussac
At Studio Ferber and at Studio ICP (Brussel)
Mixed by Renaud Letang and Michel Cœuriot
Assistant : Rodolphe Saguinetti
At Studio Guillaume Tell (Paris)
Mastering : Greg Calbi à Sterling Sound à New York
Certifications and sales
Charts
1 Re-issue
References
1993 albums
Alain Souchon albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Love%20Album%20%28Westlife%20album%29
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The Love Album (Westlife album)
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The Love Album is the seventh studio album, eighth album under Sony BMG and second, last cover album by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released in the Philippines on 13 November 2006 and in the UK on 20 November 2006 and the songs on the album center in a "love theme". It was also the band's third album to be released as a four-piece. The first and only single released was a cover of the Bette Midler song "The Rose", which debuted at No. 1 in Ireland and the UK. It was the band's 14th No. 1 single. The song was first performed at Miss World 2006.
The album debuted at its peak position at No. 1 on the UK Charts, selling 219,662 copies in the UK that week. It also spent one week at number two and two weeks at number three. One of those number-three weeks have the highest sales for that said peak for a week in the whole year of 2006. It re-entered at number 17 at the Official UK Budget Albums Chart in November 2009. The album also appeared in the list of best album sales of Hong Kong in 2007.
Their cover version of "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You", which is included in the deluxe version of the album, has been viewed 100 million times on YouTube.
Track listing
Credits
Source:
Accordion: Eddie Hesson (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Arranged By [Additional Choir Arrangements]: Lawrence Johnson (tracks: 1, 8)
Arranged By [Strings]: Dave Arch (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11) Ulf & Henrik Janson (tracks: 1, 3, 8)
Arranged By [Vocals]: Andy Caine,Steve Mac (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Backing Vocals [Additional]: Andy Caine (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11) Emil Heiling (tracks: 3) Mae McKenna (tracks: 11)
Bass: Steve Pearce (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11) Thomas Lindberg (tracks: 1, 8)
Choir: Aaron Sokell, Alani Gibbon, Anna Omakina, Ayo Oyerinde, Camilla Beeput, Donna Gardier-Elliot, Ezra Russell, Joy Malcolm, Lanoi Montet, Lawrence Johnson, Lena Palmer, Lorrain Smith, Michael Molton, Sheena White, Stephanie Meade, Subrina Edwards (tracks: 1, 8) The Tuff Session Singers (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Drums: Chris Laws,Ian Thomas (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)Christer Janson (tracks: 8)
Engineer: Bernard Löhr (tracks: 3) Chris Laws,Ren Swan (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11) Neil Tucker,Quiz & Larossi* (tracks: 1, 8)
Engineer [Assistant]: Daniel Pursey (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Engineer [Mix]: Chris Laws (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Engineer [Strings]: Ian Agate (tracks: 1, 8)
Guitar [Guitars]: Esbjörn Öhrwall (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 8) Fridrik 'Frizzy' Karlsson,Paul Gendler (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Keyboards: Andreas 'Quiz' Romdhane, Josef Larossi (tracks: 1, 4, 8) Per Magnusson (tracks: 3) Steve Mac (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Mastered By: Vlado Meller
Mastered By [Assistant]: Mark Santangelo
Mixed By: Bernard Löhr (track 3) Quiz & Larossi (tracks: 1, 8)
Other [Management]:Louis Walsh
Piano: Dave Arch (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11) Peter Ljung (tracks: 1, 4, 8)
Arranged By: David Kreuger, Per Magnusson (track 3) Quiz & Larossi (tracks: 1, 8) Steve Mac (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11)
Programmed By: Andreas 'Quiz' Romdhane,Josef Larossi (tracks: 1, 4, 8) David Kreuger (track 3)
Recorded By [Assistant Strings Recording]:Chris Barrett (tracks: 4 to 6, 9 to 11)
Recorded By [Strings]:Geoff Foster (tracks: 5, 6, 11) Paul Walton (tracks: 2, 7) Rupert Coulson (tracks: 4, 9, 10)
Release history
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
Supporting tour
References
External links
Official Westlife Website
2006 albums
Westlife albums
Albums produced by Steve Mac
Albums produced by David Kreuger
Albums produced by Per Magnusson
Sony BMG albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatha%20Shamsa%20%28Chattha%29
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Thatha Shamsa (Chattha)
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Thatha Shamsa Chattha () is a small village in the Hafizabad District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at an altitude of 210 metres (692 feet). It is the oldest village, believed to date to the Mughal era.
It consists of approximately 200 homes and 1500 people. Thatha Shamsa is situated on the bank of a canal that originates in the Headqadirabad Colony. Most of the land suffers from seams, making it unsuitable for cultivation, which caused many villagers to move to cities for work or to convert their lands into fish farms, which are now numerous in and around the village.
Thatha Shamsa is bounded by rivers and canals. The major canal that originates from the Chenab River at Qadirabad barrage is just west of the village, and the village is often threatened by floods during the monsoon season. The weather is usually ruthless and intolerable in the summer and winter but is amazing in the autumn and spring. The village is normally dry throughout the year.
References
Villages in Hafizabad District
Hafizabad District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Orange%20station
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Port Orange station
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Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot is a historic Florida East Coast Railway passenger depot in Port Orange, Florida, United States. It is located at 415C Herbert Street, off U.S. 1. The depot was originally constructed in 1894 as two buildings.
The depot was constructed by the narrow-gauge St. Johns and Halifax Railway, a division of the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway.
On December 31, 1885, Henry Flagler purchased the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway. In September 1895, he changed the name to the Florida East Coast Railway.
The initial buildings included a passenger depot, FEC building #245, which was built immediately south of Dunlawton Avenue with the platform facing north. A second building, a freight depot, FEC building #246, was constructed south of the passenger depot. In 1924, the two buildings were joined as a passenger station. Regular passenger service ended in 1932. In February 1938, the building was remodeled to its current appearance. The windows, pedestrian doors and waiting platform were removed.
The building continued to be used as a freight depot until 1964. The depot continued to be a flag stop until the strike on January 23, 1963 and is listed in the last pre-strike time table dated December 12, 1962. In 1966 the depot was purchased and moved 500 feet north. The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 1998. In 2015 the City of Port Orange purchased the depot from long time Port Orange resident and business owner Bryan Berntsen to restore the building.
References
External links
Port Orange F.E.C. Railway Freight Station at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Former Florida East Coast Railway stations
National Register of Historic Places in Volusia County, Florida
Railway freight houses on the National Register of Historic Places
Buildings and structures in Port Orange, Florida
1894 establishments in Florida
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1894
Railway stations closed in 1932
Former railway stations in Florida
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