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The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.90 males. The median income for a household in the county was $32,533, and the median income for a family was $38,255. Males had a median income of $31,847 versus $21,650 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,772. About 11.70% of families and 15.10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.60% of those under age 18 and 11.80% of those age 65 or over. James C. Spencer, a former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Henderson County, 1939-1941, 1947-1949, later served as Henderson county judge from 1949 into the 1950s. He was a survivor of the Bataan Death March in the Philippine Islands. Henderson County is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth DMA. Local media outlets are: KDFW-TV, KXAS-TV, WFAA-TV, KTVT-TV, KERA-TV, KTXA-TV, KDFI-TV, KDAF-TV, and KFWD-TV. Other nearby stations that provide coverage for Henderson County come from the Tyler/Longview/Jacksonville market and they include: KLTV, KTRE-TV, KYTX-TV, KFXK-TV, KCEB-TV, and KETK-TV. Newspaper coverage of the area can be found in the "Athens Daily Review", based in Athens; "The Monitor" is published in Mabank, which is primarily in Kaufman County, but also covers news in parts of Henderson County as well. Paul Knight of the "Houston Press" said in a 2009 article that some people blamed the development of the artificial Cedar Creek Lake, which opened in 1965, and development of the area surrounding the lake for the initial influx of crime and recreational drugs into the county and the East Texas region. Carroll Dyson, a retired pilot and Henderson County resident interviewed by the "Houston Press", said in 2009 that the lake attracted "white flight" from metropolitan areas. Dyson added, "When all your rich people from Dallas and Houston move out here, the thieves are just drawn to them. Thieves are just wired that way. You used to not have to lock your door in Henderson County."
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List of mayors of Laurel, Maryland This is a list of mayors of Laurel, Maryland, a city in the central part of the U.S. state of Maryland. Before the city's (nonpartisan) office of Mayor was established, a similar role was that of President of the Board of Commissioners. Officials elected to multiple consecutive terms have the number of terms noted after their names. The term length changed from one year to two years in 1904, and from two years to four years in 1974.
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Sandin, Zamora Sandín is a Spanish village of the municipality of Manzanal de Arriba, located in the north of the province of Zamora, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It has 35 inhabitants (as of 2012) and an altitude of 716 meters. It is a small village linking it to the municipality of Manzanal de Arriba, located in the natural zone of the Sierra de la Culebra. Town whose low zone underwent the flood caused by the dam of Cernadilla and that took to its inhabitants to the construction of new houses, in the same way that a new parochial temple. Very near next to it is where it meets Portugal. The village is 65 km to Zamora and 260 km to Madrid.
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Langadi Langadi is a Rural Municipal in (Nepal)Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 3,421 people living in 525 individual households. There were 1,739 males and 1,682 females at the time of census.Suresh Prasad Kurmi is Chairman and Parasnath Kurmi is sub-Chairman of Dhobini Rural Manucipality.
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For more on the psychological dimensions of social constructivism, see the work of A. Sullivan Palincsar. Psychological tools are one of the key concepts in Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective. Studies on increasing the use of student discussion in the classroom both support and are grounded in theories of social constructivism. There is a full range of advantages that results from the implementation of discussion in the classroom. Participating in group discussion allows students to generalize and transfer their knowledge of classroom learning and builds a strong foundation for communicating ideas orally. Many studies argue that discussion plays a vital role in increasing student ability to test their ideas, synthesize the ideas of others, and build deeper understanding of what they are learning. Large and small group discussion also affords students opportunities to exercise self-regulation, self-determination, and a desire to persevere with tasks. Additionally, discussion increases student motivation, collaborative skills, and the ability to problem solve. Increasing students’ opportunity to talk with one another and discuss their ideas increases their ability to support their thinking, develop reasoning skills, and to argue their opinions persuasively and respectfully. Furthermore, the feeling of community and collaboration in classrooms increases through offering more chances for students to talk together. Studies have found that students are not regularly accustomed to participating in academic discourse. Martin Nystrand argues that teachers rarely choose classroom discussion as an instructional format. The results of Nystrand’s (1996) three-year study focusing on 2400 students in 60 different classrooms indicate that the typical classroom teacher spends under three minutes an hour allowing students to talk about ideas with one another and the teacher. Even within those three minutes of discussion, most talk is not true discussion because it depends upon teacher-directed questions with predetermined answers. Multiple observations indicate that students in low socioeconomic schools and lower track classrooms are allowed even fewer opportunities for discussion. Teachers who teach as if they value what their students think create learners. Discussion and interactive discourse promote learning because they afford students the opportunity to use language as a demonstration of their independent thoughts. Discussion elicits sustained responses from students that encourage meaning-making through negotiating with the ideas of others. This type of learning “promotes retention and in-depth processing associated with the cognitive manipulation of information”. One recent branch of work exploring social constructivist perspectives on learning focuses on the role of social technologies and social media in facilitating the generation of socially constructed knowledge and understanding in online environments. In a constructivist approach, the focus is on the sociocultural conventions of academic discourse such as citing evidence, hedging and boosting claims, interpreting the literature to back one's own claims, and addressing counter claims.
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Somos sequence In mathematics, a Somos sequence is a sequence of numbers defined by a certain recurrence relation, described below. They were discovered by mathematician Michael Somos. From the form of their defining recurrence (which involves division), one would expect the terms of the sequence to be fractions, but nevertheless many Somos sequences have the property that all of their members are integers. For an integer number "k" larger than 1, the Somos-"k" sequence formula_1 is defined by the equation when "k" is odd, or by the analogous equation when "k" is even, together with the initial values For "k" = 2 or 3, these recursions are very simple (there is no addition on the right-hand side) and they define the all-ones sequence (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...). In the first nontrivial case, "k" = 4, the defining equation is while for "k" = 5 the equation is These equations can be rearranged into the form of a recurrence relation, in which the value "a""n" on the left hand side of the recurrence is defined by a formula on the right hand side, by dividing the formula by "a""n" − "k". For "k" = 4, this yields the recurrence while for "k" = 5 it gives the recurrence While in the usual definition of the Somos sequences, the values of "a""i" for "i" . For "k" ≥ 8 the analogously defined sequences eventually contain fractional values. For "k" Ministries and Agencies of the Jamaican Government The Ministries of Jamaica are created at the discretion of the Prime Minister of Jamaica it carry out the functions of Government. As of 2016 the current Prime Minister is The Most Honorable Andrew Michael Holness, ON, MP. The agencies of Jamaica are created by both Parliamentary law and assigned to ministers to oversee. The governance structure consists of ministries with portfolios that have agencies that carry out its functions. Weser-Ems Halle Weser-Ems-Halle is a multi-purpose hall and arena complex with eight halls including the large Große EWE Arena, the small Kleine EWE Arena, the Kongresshalle and the Halle 3, or Messehalle. It is located in Oldenburg, Germany.
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The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) The Daily Mirror is a daily English-language newspaper published in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by Wijeya Newspapers. Its Sunday counterpart is the "Sunday Times". Its sister newspaper on financial issues is the "Daily FT".
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Rockabilly 514 Rockabilly 514 is a 2008 Canadian feature documentary directed by Patricia Chica (Canada) and Mike Wafer (England). The film documents the lives of a group of people belonging to the rockabilly sub-culture in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). Some of the original 1950s rockabilly stars also appear in the documentary: Wanda Jackson (the first lady of rockabilly); The Comets (Bill Haley's original band) and Joe Clay. The film has been presented at numerous film and music festivals including Pop Montreal (Montreal, Canada), Viva Las Vegas (Las Vegas, United States), Gimme Shelter Music and Film Festival (Athens, Greece) and Don't Knock The Rock Film and Music Festival (Los Angeles, United States). On October 18, 2009 the film won two awards at the Director's Chair Film Festival in New York; the Best Documentary Award and the Best Original Soundtrack award. It was also a finalist in the Best Sound and Best Editing categories. The film was commercially released at Cinéma du Parc in Montreal, Quebec on October 6, 2008. Cast members of the film include Bloodshot Bill, The Cockroaches, Nathalie Lavergne, Mademoiselle Oui Oui Encore, Mister Blue Eyes, Guillaume Ozoux and Sonya Topolnisky. It was narrated by ethnomusicologist Craig Morrison (Go Cat Go! Rockabilly Music and Its Makers). In The Gazette of September 27, 2008, film critic John Griffin wrote: "Québécois' take on rockabilly makes for an interesting toe-tapping documentary".
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In 2010, the u-12 players won both the hurling and football league and championship, after a highly successful year. In 2009, the u-12a footballers won the football Championship, while the u-12a hurlers won the league. In 2012, the u-14s recorded a division 2 Feile title after defeating St.Johns of Antrim in Croke Park The club began development in 2009 for a new GAA centre, which was completed in 2011. The pitch in Rathleague, near Bloomfield Cross, contains many pitches, juvenile and senior, including an all-weather senior pitch.
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Piece of Wonder Piece of Wonder is a hybrid tactical RPG and visual novel originally published in Japan in February 2002 by Studio Crossfire and released on January 21, 2007 in the United States by Hirameki International. The storyline incorporates science fiction elements. The game follows the experiences of high school student Kazuya Fuwa. He, his childhood friend Amane, an android named Raki, and a young girl named Shoko have powers awakened within them that allow them to use special abilities. They use these abilities to fight other superpowered creatures called "Evolutions". Most of the gameplay in Piece of Wonder follows the style of most visual novels; the majority of time spent playing the game is spent on reading through the dialogue or story that appears on screen. Every so often, the game will pause and the player is given a chance to choose from several different options regarding how the player wishes to advance the game. The plot will then branch into paths focusing on a single heroine depending on the choices that were made by the player; a conclusive character ending will be presented at the end of any given path. Once the story progresses to a certain point, several combat levels appear. Played in classic RPG-style, the player takes control of the main characters and must accomplish a certain objective (usually to destroy all enemies on screen). There are 3 different endings; one for each heroine. Once all three endings are completed, the true ending of the game can be unlocked and the truth behind the existence of the Evolutions is revealed. voiced by Ayako Kawasumi voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro voiced by Masayo Kurata
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Kopparstenarna Kopparstenarna is a shoal off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea, north of the island of Gotska Sandön, in the northern end of the Gotland Basin.
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Wilsdorf wanted his watch brand's name to be easily pronounceable in any language. He also thought that the name "Rolex" was onomatopoeic, sounding like a watch being wound. It is easily pronounceable in many languages and, as all its upper-case letters have the same size and can be written symmetrically. It was also short enough to fit on the face of a watch. In 1914, Kew Observatory awarded a Rolex watch a "Class A precision certificate", a distinction normally granted exclusively to marine chronometers. In November 1915, the company changed its name to "Rolex Watch Co. Ltd." After World War I, Hans Wilsdorf left England in 1919 due to heavy post-war taxes levied on luxury imports, as well as to the high cost driven by exporting duties on the silver and gold used for the watch cases. As a result, Wilsdorf moved the company to Geneva, Switzerland, where the company's name was officially changed to "Montres Rolex S.A." in 1920"," and eventually to "Rolex S.A" in later years"." With administrative worries tended to, Wilsdorf turned the company's attention to a technical concern : the infiltration of dust and moisture under the dial and crown, which in turn damaged the movement. To address this problem, in 1926 Rolex developed and produced the first waterproof and dustproof wristwatch, giving it the name "Oyster". The watch features a hermetically sealed case which provided optimal protection for the movement. Consumers at the time remained sceptical of a fully waterproof watch. As a demonstration, Rolex submerged Oyster models in aquariums, which it displayed in the windows of its main points of sale. In 1927, British swimmer Mercedes Gleitze swam across the English Channel with an Oyster on her wrist, becoming the first Rolex ambassador. To celebrate the feat, Rolex published a full-page advertisement on the front page of the Daily Mail proclaiming the watch's success during the ten hour plus swim. In 1931, Rolex patented a self-winding mechanism called a Perpetual rotor, a semi-circular plate that relies on gravity to move freely. Its system was the first wristwatch to use a 360° winding rotor and would become the basis of all future automatic watches throughout the industry. In turn, the Oyster watch became known as the Oyster Perpetual. Upon the death of his wife in 1944, Wilsdorf established the "Hans Wilsdorf Foundation", a private trust, in which he left all of his Rolex shares, ensuring that some of the company's income would go to charity.
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SEGGER also provides software/middleware in the fields of connectivity, crypto & security, and the Internet of Things (IoT). J-Trace PRO is an advanced debug probe that can capture complete instruction traces over long periods of time thereby enabling the recording of infrequent, hard-to-reproduce bugs. It supports all popular debuggers and IDEs and can be used cross platform with Windows, Linux, and macOS. Segger is most noted for its JTAG / SWD emulators for ARM-based microcontrollers that have ARM7 / ARM9 / ARM11, Cortex M0 / M0+ / M1 / M3 / M4 / M7 / M23 / M33, Cortex R4 / R5 / R8, Cortex A5 / A7 / A8 / A9 / A12 / A15 / A17 cores, Renesas RX, and Microchip PIC32. This device is called the J-Link. It is also repackaged and sold as an OEM item by Analog Devices as the mIDASLink, Atmel as the SAM-ICE, Digi International as the Digi JTAG Link, and IAR Systems as the J-Link and the J-Link KS. This is the only JTAG emulator that can add Segger's patented flash breakpoint software to a debugger to enable the setting of multiple breakpoints in flash while running on an ARM device which is typically hindered by the limited availability of hardware breakpoints. For enhanced emulation features Segger offers a trace emulator, J-Trace that works with the ARM ETM interface and enables engineers to trace back their code execution. SEGGER produces software tools for developers and engineers of embedded systems and Internet-of-Things environments, to develop, create, verify, test, and debug embedded applications, and target systems or devices. Embedded Studio is a C/C++ IDE for embedded systems. It is specifically designed to provide users with everything needed for professional embedded C programming and development. Embedded Studio includes compilers Clang and GCC, plus the in-house SEGGER Compiler, and has support for 3rd party debug probes via GDB protocol. It can be used cross platform with Windows, Linux, and macOS. SystemView is a real-time recording and visualization tool for embedded systems that reveals the true runtime behavior of an application, going deeper than the system insights provided by debuggers. It is particularly effective when developing and working with complex embedded systems comprising multiple threads and interrupts.
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Whey (unit) Whey is a unit of weight for butter and cheese. Whey (Essex) is exactly equal to . 1 Whey (Essex) ≡ 59/56 Barrel 1 Whey (Essex) ≡ 236 pounds 1 Whey (Essex) ≡ 107.04779932 kg
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Thomas R. Plough Thomas R. Plough is an American sociologist most notable for having served as president of North Dakota State University and Assumption College. Plough is a graduate of Michigan State University. He began his career at Alma College, where he rose to serve as dean of students. He moved to the Eisenhower College and later the Rochester Institute of Technology where he was eventually appointed provost. He also briefly served as acting RIT president in 1991 and again in 1992. Plough resigned in the wake of the same scandal that led to the early retirement of M. Richard Rose. Plough assumed the presidency of North Dakota State University in 1995 and moved to Assumption College in 1998. He announced his retirement in August 2006.
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Casa Nova Casa Nova is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.
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When Lothair II died in 869, his only son Hugh by his mistress Waldrada was declared illegitimate, so his only legal heir was his brother, Louis II. If Louis II had inherited Lotharingia, Middle Francia would have been reunited. However, as Louis II was at that time campaigning against the Emirate of Bari, Lotharingia was partitioned between his uncles Charles the Bald and Louis the German by the Treaty of Meerssen in 870. Louis the German took Upper Burgundy, territory north of the Jura mountains ("Bourgogne Transjurane"), while the rest went to Charles the Bald. In 875 the last of Lothair I's children Louis II died without sons and named as his successor in Italy his cousin Carloman of Bavaria, eldest son of Louis the German. However, Pope John VIII, dealing with the constant threat of raiders from the Emirate of Sicily, sided with Charles the Bald. After much confusion and conflict, Charles the Bald took Louis' realm in Italy. Carloman was crowned King of Bavaria in 876 and invaded Italy in 877 to claim the Kingdom of Italy, but on his death in 880 also without any legitimate heirs, his kingdom went to his younger brother, King Charles the Fat. Charles was crowned Emperor by Pope John VIII in 881 and thus he reunited the entire Carolingian Empire in 884, although it lasted only until Charles' overthrow in 887.
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According to the BFI's "Monthly Film Bulletin", "There is something phantasmally absurd about this well-meaning, ambitious film... It could well be that Pinter's brilliance is altogether the wrong kind of brilliance to let loose on the scripting of this already nerve-raw, nightmarish subject. Jo ... makes an eminently worthwhile, but virtually intractable, subject for a film: worthwhile because neurotics rarely get a square, sympathetic, penetrating deal in the cinema; intractable because, like many neurotics, she is a fixated and evidently crashing bore, and one of the most difficult things to do is to present a bore fairly without at the same time boring your audience too. Part of their tragedy is that bores, willy-nilly, seem often ridiculous. So the last thing a seriously-intentioned writer can afford to do is heap further grotesqueries upon them. But this is what has happened in Pinter's often genuinely amusing script. For every justified extravagance - in the characteristically ghastly party scene, for instance, or Maggie Smith's gushing fatuities as Philpott - there are a dozen which are not. The poor, crazy lady in the hair-dresser's is a schematic and surely rather portentous case in point; so is the Zoo, and Harrods, Jo's gloomy hats, and that windmill love nest, and the tiresome ambiguity of that psychiatrist off to Tenerife (is he perceptive, or unsympathetic, a good doctor or just a fashionable one?). Doubtless, some kind of pseudo-Antonioni, pseudo-Fellini comment is being made on our society, but if this is indeed so, then the glee and the ambivalence are significantly more telling, and certainly more apparent, than any clarity of focus." According to "Time" magazine, "The Pumpkin Eater of the nursery rhyme put his wife in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well. Giving a wry contemporary twist to Mother Goose, Penelope Mortimer's vivid first-person novel suggests that the poor creature then swiftly developed shell shock. In this slow, strong, incisive film version of the book, the ironing out of a well-kept wife's unkempt psyche is portrayed with harrowing perception by Anne Bancroft." "New York Herald Tribune" reviewer Judith Crist commented that Bancroft's character "seems a cow-like creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis."
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On TNT, "Witchblade" was reprised June 5, 2001, introducing the Warner Bros. TV series of the same name, which began airing a week later. In April 2001, Warner Home Video released "Witchblade" in Australia in PAL-format VHS. The 91-minute film was rated M (medium level violence, supernatural theme) by the Classification Board of Australia. In July 2008, "Witchblade" was released as part of "WitchbladeThe Complete Series", a seven-disc set that comprised the feature-length pilot and all 23 episodes of the TV series. Although the widescreen Region 1 DVD set from Warner Home Video features an all-new soundtrack selected by the executive producer, the songs in the series pilot were not replaced.
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Reality in Buddhism Reality in Buddhism is called "dharma" (Sanskrit) or "dhamma" (Pali). This word, which is foundational to the conceptual frameworks of the Indian religions, refers in Buddhism to the system of natural laws which constitute the natural order of things. "Dharma" is therefore reality as-it-is ("yatha-bhuta"). The teaching of Gautama Buddha constituting as it does a method by which people can come out of their condition of suffering ("dukkha") involves developing an awareness of reality ("see" mindfulness). Buddhism thus seeks to address any disparity between a person's view of reality and the actual state of things. This is called developing Right or Correct View (Pali: "samma ditthi"). Seeing reality as-it-is thus an essential prerequisite to mental health and well-being according to Buddha's teaching. Buddhism addresses deeply philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality. One of the fundamental teachings is that all the constituent forms ("sankharas") that make up the universe are transient (Pali: "anicca"), arising and passing away, and therefore without concrete identity or ownership ("atta"). This lack of enduring ownership or identity ("anatta") of phenomena has important consequences for the possibility of liberation from the conditions which give rise to suffering. This is explained in the doctrine of interdependent origination. One of the most discussed themes in Buddhism is that of the emptiness ("sunyata") of form (Pali: "rūpa"), an important corollary of the transient and conditioned nature of phenomena. Reality is seen, ultimately, in Buddhism as a form of 'projection', resulting from the fruition ("vipaka") of karmic seeds ("sankharas"). The precise nature of this 'illusion' that is the phenomenal universe is debated among different schools. For example; Buddhist sutras devote considerable space to the concept of reality, with each of two major doctrines—the Doctrine of Dependent Origination ("pratitya-samutpada") and the Doctrine of Cause and Effect ("karma" and "vipaka")—attempting to incorporate both the natural and the spiritual into its overall world view. Buddhist teachings continue to explore the nature of the world and our place in it. The Buddha promoted experience over theorizing. According to Karel Werner, Experience is ... the path most elaborated in early Buddhism.
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Liu Hongcai Liu Hongcai (born June 1955) is a Chinese diplomat, currently the deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China; he is the former Chinese Ambassador to North Korea. Liu was born in 1955 in Liaoning. He studied Japanese at Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute from 1972 to 1975. In his final year, Liu joined the Communist Party of China and was assigned to the International Department of the Central Committee upon graduation. Between the years of 1989 to 1992, he served as First Secretary at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. In 2003, he was appointed Vice Minister of the International Department. In 2010, he succeeded Liu Xiaoming as the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea. Quinton Johnson S. Quinton "Quinn" Johnson IV (born March 27, 1969) is an American politician. He is a Democratic member of the Delaware House of Representatives, representing District 8. He was elected in 2008 to replace Bethany Hall-Long, who had resigned to run for a seat in the Delaware Senate. Johnson earned his BS in business management from Salisbury University. Barker Building The S. B. Barker Building, also known as the Dunn Brothers Building, is a historic commercial building in Condon, Oregon, United States. Built in 1903 adjacent to a spring at the center of downtown Condon, this Italianate general store typifies the mercantile businesses serving ranches and farms throughout eastern Oregon in the early part of the 20th century. Its early proprietors, Simon Bradbury Barker (owner 1903–1918) and James Dunn Burns (owner 1926–1968), were leading economic and political figures in Gilliam County, and Barker became a prominent businessman statewide. Despite its initially central location, the building came to be on the south edge of downtown as the business district migrated north to meet the railroad. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Rainmakers (album) The Rainmakers is the debut album by The Rainmakers, produced by Terry Manning and released in 1986. It is their highest-charting album on the "Billboard" 200, reaching #85, and contains the single "Let My People Go-Go", which reached #18 on the UK Singles Chart. A remastered version of the album was released in 2010 with 4 additional bonus tracks. JudoScotland JudoScotland is the national governing body for judo in Scotland. It was founded in 1988 to represent Scottish judoka, coaches, referees and officials, clubs and the Scottish National Judo Team.
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Rondebosch Boys' High School Rondebosch Boys' High School is a public English medium high school for boys situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, It is one of the top and most academic schools and also the oldest schools in South Africa, The high school was established in 1897. In the late 1800s, the residents of Rondebosch got together to consider the need for a boys' school in the near future. The idea of an English-medium school was chosen and the Dutch Reformed Church representative of the district, Reverend Benard PJ Marchand, took the lead of this initiative. Marchand obtained the help of several prominent dignitaries and businessmen, including William Philip Schreiner, an old boy of SACS and future Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and Sir Lewis Mitchell, the manager of the Standard bank, to guarantee the initial funding that would be required. In 1897, Dr Thomas Muir, Superintendent-General of Education, approved a grant of £50 to cover the salary, and housing, allowance for the principal of this new boys' public school, the man chosen for the promising job was 38-year-old Robert MacLennan Ramage, a graduate of Edinburgh University. Ramage was an experienced teacher, gaining his experience by teaching at the flourishing new schools of the Colony, having been a teacher at the Stellenbosch (Paul Roos) Gymnasium. On 2 February 1897 the school opened as the Rondebosch High School for Junior Boys in Glena Hall, a Dutch Reformed Church building in Erin Road. The school started modestly, with the number of pupils enrolled just 8, the maximum it could accommodate at the time. By the end of April, the number of boys on the roll had increased to 28, with the school teaching boys from standards 2 to 7. The first inspection report to Dr. Muir was a positive one, saying: 'This school has made a promising commencement and deserves the unhesitating support of the neighbourhood. The accommodation and equipment are both satisfactory. The teachers are able and zealous.' By August of the same year, the school in the little church hall was attracting a lot of interest, and its name had been changed to the Boys' High School, Rondebosch. With the large number of applications the school was receiving from the local residents, the school committee was forced to become more selective in acceptances.
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Joe Stegner Joe Stegner (born December 17, 1949 in Clarkston, Washington) moved to Lewiston, Idaho and was a Republican member of the Idaho Senate from 1998 to 2011, representing the 7th District. He is now a lobbyist for the University of Idaho. He is married to Deborah Stegner and is a father to four children. Stegner attended University of Idaho and received his bachelor's degree. He was owner of Stegner Grain and Seed Company from 1972 to 1995. He is a property manager. In the Idaho State Senate, Stegner served as Assistant Majority Leader. Stegner has been a member of:
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Paul Seitz (footballer) Paul Seitz (15 July 1897 – 22 February 1979) was a French footballer. He spent his entire career as a footballer at Olympique de Marseille (from 1919 to 1926) and took the club to two Coupes de Frances (in 1924 as a defender and in 1926 as a goalkeeper). In 1921, he refused to play for the France national football team. He was also coach of the phocéen club in 1942.
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Vladimir Turaev Vladimir Georgievich Turaev (Владимир Георгиевич Тураев, born in 1954) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in topology. Turaev received in 1979 from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics his Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD) under Oleg Viro. Turaev was a professor at the University of Strasbourg and then became a professor at Indiana University. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Turaev's research deals with low-dimensional topology, quantum topology, and knot theory and their interconnections with quantum field theory. In 1991 Reshetikhin and Turaev published a mathematical construction of new topological invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds and framed links in these manifolds, corresponding to a mathematical implementation of ideas in quantum field theory published by Witten; the invariants are now called Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (or Reshetikhin-Turaev) invariants. In 1992 Turaev and Viro introduced a new family of invariants for 3-manifolds by using state sums computed on triangulations of manifolds; these invariants are now called Turaev-Viro invariants. In 1990 Turaev was an Invited Speaker with talk "State sum models in low dimensional topology" at the ICM in Kyōto. In 2016 he shared, with Alexis Virelizier, the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize for their monograph "Monoidal categories and topological field theory".
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Brigitte Becue Brigitte Becue (born 18 September 1972 in Ostend) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Belgium, who competed for her native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. In 1989, she won the silver medal in the women's 200 metres breaststroke at the European Aquatics Championships in Bonn, West Germany. Becue reached her highest peak at the 1995 European Aquatics Championships in Vienna, where she won three medals (two gold, one silver). She twice was named Belgian Sportswoman of the Year (1994 and 1995). Becue finished 10th overall in the 2007 Dakar Rally as co-driver of Stéphane Henrard.
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Fairmont Nile City Fairmont Nile City is a luxury hotel located in Cairo, Egypt and is a part of the global Fairmont Hotels and Resorts brand. The hotel has 531 rooms, 8 restaurants, and 25 floors and is located alongside the Nile River. Fairmont Nile City opened on October 6, 2010 with Nile City Investment being one of the property's main shareholders. The building is 105 meters high and was designed by architectural firm, Hirsch Bedner Associates. Since the hotel opening, it has been under continuous retouching across the property. The hotel features mainly Art Deco and contemporary design features within its overall interior decoration style. It is situated between the two towers of the Nile City Complex. It is also located about 23 km away from tourist attractions including the Giza pyramid complex, the Great Sphinx of Giza, and the Mosque of Muhammad Ali. Fairmont Nile City has 7 food & beverage outlets on the property. These include Fairmont Nile City has won a variety of hospitality –related awards including The hotel has paired with a variety of other organizations including American Express, British Airways, HSBC Seasonal Offers, Travel Industry Association of Canada, and VISA Card – Signature & Platinum. It has also hosted a variety of art projects and events including Earth Hour, a rooftop event with live acoustic music and presentations from environmental expert speakers. It also joined The Canadian Embassy and the Children's Cancer Hospital in Egypt to host the Terry Fox Run in 2010. In 2015, Fairmont stated it would invest in two new hotels in Egypt, in addition to its existing hotel located in Cairo. The hotel is home to the Willow Stream Spa, the signature Fairmont spa and one of the largest spas in Egypt. It includes a health club and various spa treatments. The hotel also has a rooftop pool and lounge, Sky Pool, at the top of the property. The Fairmont Nile City has been location for various movie and TV shoots including Gabel El Halal, Baba, Relam, and more. Some of the hotel's famous guests include Lucy Liu, Samuel L. Jackson, and Salma Hayek.
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He was also a member of the Academy of Science and Arts, and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He published speeches and essays on currency, banking, and the tariff, of which his "Remarks on Currency and Banking" (enlarged ed., 1858) is the most celebrated, as well as his memoirs on the power loom and Lowell. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842, and elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1854. Appleton married Maria Theresa Gold (1786–1833) on April 13, 1806. Two months later, he hired the artist Gilbert Stuart to paint portraits of the newlyweds. The couple had five children: The Appletons attended Federal Street Church. Maria Theresa Appleton died of tuberculosis in 1833. Nathan Appleton remarried on January 8, 1839, to Harriot Coffin Sumner (1802–1867), the daughter of Jesse Sumner, a Boston merchant, and Harriot Coffin of Portland, Maine. They had three children: He gave his daughter Fanny, who married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843, a house in which her husband had rented rooms as a wedding gift (it is now known as the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site). He paid $10,000 for the home. Frances wrote to her brother Thomas on August 30, 1843: "We have decided to let Father purchase this grand old mansion", which was also a former headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Nathan Appleton also purchased the land across the street, as Longfellow's mother wrote, "so that their view of the River Charles may not be intercepted". Fanny Appleton died on July 10, 1861, after accidentally catching fire; her father was too sick to attend her funeral. Appleton died the next day in Boston on July 14, 1861.
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After injuring his shoulder competing in the NBL Pre-season Blitz dunk contest, McNeail managed just 13 minutes of game time over the first two regular season games for the 36ers. On October 16, McNeail scored 10 points off the bench in 20 minutes as the 36ers lost 84–75 to Melbourne United. Three days later, he was released by the 36ers after it became apparent that his injured shoulder was not responding to treatment. In three games for the 36ers, he scored a total of 12 points. In September 2016, McNeail signed with Macedonian club Kožuv for the 2016–17 season.
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Cyclist fatality rate in U.S. by year List of cyclist or cycling deaths (any kind) in U.S. by year "Cycling" generally includes the riding of unicycles, tricycles, quadracycles, and "similar" human-powered transport (HPVs). Note however that many HPV users "are not considered cyclists", for example, using NHTSB statistics (US), skateboarder deaths are classified as pedestrians, yet it is unclear how trikkes are classified. The following table summarizes the number of people killed and/or injured in fatal "cyclist" collisions (as defined/reported by NHTSB) in the USA. Statistics (generally) may vary based on the definition of what constitutes an injury or death, in particular time after incident and complications for deaths, and severity for injuries, therefore comparing statistics across years or nations requires a bit of deeper investigation. Many injuries go unreported. E-scooter deaths are being classified as pedestrians.
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Périphérique (Caen) ViThe Boulevard périphérique de Caen is a ring road circling the French city of Caen. It is the route nationale 814. Traveling speed on the road is limited to 90 km/h (55 mph) between the Exit 13 and 8, with a brief portion near the Exit 1 as well as the Viaduc de Calix limited to 70 km/h (45 mph) and 110 km/h (70 mph) elsewhere. It is a 4-lane hard-shouldered road that was finished on 30 September 1997. The total length of the périphérique de Caen is . Notable features include the Viaduc de Calix which spans the River Orne and Canal de Caen à la Mer.
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Alavus Alavus () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbouring municipalities are Alajärvi, Kuortane, Seinäjoki, Virrat and Ähtäri. Agriculture and forestry employ a significant share of the population. Most of the industry in Alavus is related to construction: materials, design and contractors. Alavus has 60 lakes with of shoreline. The town is unilingually Finnish.
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He demanded Lahoud's resignation, saying the president was "incapable of protecting leadership figures in Lebanon." The DLM operates under a decentralized framework in which internal movements are encouraged and represented in a national body. The party's constituency elects a National Assembly, the principal decision-making body, through proportional representation, where every internal movement forms a list. Composed of 51 to 101 members, determined proportionately by the size of the constituency, it maintains political priorities, alliances, and rhetoric, and elects an Executive Committee of 9 to 15 members for daily organizational activities. Other organizational bodies include the Legal Committee and Financial Committee, and internal elections occur every three years. In October 2004, a 77-member constituent assembly elected a 15-member Executive Committee in the movement's first session of internal elections. Those elected included Elias Atallah as General Secretary (and leader), Nadim Abdel Samad as president, and Hikmat Eid, Anju Rihan, Ziad Majed and Ziad Saab as members. In April 2007, another internal election occurred. Two lists competed, one supported by Atallah and representing the leadership's rhetoric and the other an all-youth movement named Keep Left. While Atallah was reelected, Keep Left attained 30% of votes in Lebanon and 58% of votes abroad in an online poll, enabling the entire list to be elected. Ziad Majed, previously vice president of the DLM, and Elias Khoury, a prominent and founding member, chose not to participate for personal and political reasons. Headquartered in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, branches are permitted in any region of Lebanon or abroad. Provincial and district associations are largely autonomous. Youth members comprise a substantial portion of the movement; Elias Atallah stated that half of the party's members was 26 or younger. The General Assembly, which was set for 2010, took place in December 2011, and saw the emergence of a new leadership. Walid Fakhreddin was elected as the new Secretary General and the Executive Bureau was formed mainly from a new generation of leaders. However, this General Assembly was boycotted by many members who refused to have an election only assembly and were insisting on having a General Assembly that discusses the direction the movement should take. Some of the members who boycotted formed a current within the movement, called the Democratic Current in the Democratic Left Movement. The bylaws of the Democratic Left Movement allow for internal currents and factions to operate freely. The DLM backs a Western European-style social democracy to promote equality without hampering personal liberty or economic productivity.
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Dino Rađa Dino Rađa (Anglicized: Dino Radja, ; born April 24, 1967) is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He was a member of the Jugoplastika team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which he helped to win two FIBA European Champions Cup championships (1989 and 1990). He spent three and a half seasons with the Boston Celtics, being one of the European pioneers in the NBA. Rađa was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991, and one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, as a member of the 2018 class. Rađa began his basketball life in his native town, as a junior at KK Dalvin. He moved to KK Split, which at the time went under the name of its longtime naming-rights sponsor Jugoplastika. At KK Split, Rađa starred alongside Toni Kukoč, while both were teenagers. The duo led the team to dominance of the FIBA European Champions Cup, with repeat championship seasons in (1989 and 1990). In late June 1989, the 22-year-old center got drafted by the Boston Celtics in the second round as the 40th pick. Right away, he publicly expressed willingness to go to Boston immediately "if the financial offer is good", and thus join fellow Yugoslavs Vlade Divac, Dražen Petrović, and Žarko Paspalj, who were also on their way to the NBA that summer. However, led by the club's general manager Josip Bilić, Jugoplastika was adamant Rađa would not be released since they had him under contract until 1992. The entire case quickly turned into a months-long saga that played out in the Yugoslav media. The club's head coach, Božidar Maljković, even publicly called on the Yugoslav Basketball Association (KSJ) to adopt safeguard policies, preventing players younger than age 26 from transferring to NBA teams. After weeks of wrangling over his status, Rađa tried to force Jugoplastika's hand by physically going over to the U.S. in early August 1989 and unilaterally signing a one-year contract with the Celtics, reportedly worth in the neighborhood of $500,000. He furthermore began practicing with the team at their Brandeis University training facilities.
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If adequate recovery has not occurred after the 6 month period (during which observation, prism management, occlusion, or botulinum toxin may be considered), surgical treatment is often recommended. If the residual esotropia is small, or if the patient is unfit or unwilling to have surgery, prisms can be incorporated into their glasses to provide more permanent symptom relief. When the deviation is too large for prismatic correction to be effective, permanent occlusion may be the only option for those unfit or unwilling to have surgery. The procedure chosen will depend upon the degree to which any function remains in the affected lateral rectus. Where there is complete paralysis, the preferred option is to perform vertical muscle transposition procedures such as Jensen's, Hummelheim's or whole muscle transposition, with the aim of using the functioning inferior and superior recti to gain some degree of abduction. An alternative approach is to operate on both the lateral and medial rectii of the affected eye, with the aim of stabilising it at the midline, thus giving single vision straight ahead but potentially diplopia on both far left and right gaze. This procedure is often most appropriate for those with total paralysis who, because of other health problems, are at increased risk of the anterior segment ischaemia associated with complex multi-muscle transposition procedures. Where some function remains in the affected eye, the preferred procedure depends upon the degree of development of muscle sequelae. In a sixth nerve palsy one would expect that, over the 6 month observation period, most patients would show the following pattern of changes to their ocular muscle actions: firstly, an overaction of the medial rectus of the affected eye, then an overaction of the medial rectus of the contraletral eye and, finally, an underaction of the lateral rectus of the unaffected eye - something known as an inhibitional palsy. These changes serve to reduce the variation in the misalignment of the two eyes in different gaze positions (incomitance). Where this process has fully developed, the preferred option is a simple recession, or weakening, of the medial rectus of the affected eye, combined with a resection, or strengthening, of the lateral rectus of the same eye. However, where the inhibitional palsy of the contralateral lateral rectus has not developed, there will still be gross incomitance, with the disparity between the eye positions being markedly greater in the field of action of the affected muscle. In such cases recession of the medial rectus of the affected eye is accompanied by recession and/or posterior fixation (Fadenoperation) of the contraleral medial rectus.
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Alistair Grant Sir Matthew Alistair Grant (6 March 1937 – 22 January 2001) was a British businessman. He was born in Haddington, East Lothian, the eldest of six children. His father was an RAF PE instructor and was initially educated at Knox Academy. The family moved to Bradford and he finished his education at Woodhouse Grove School in Yorkshire. He received a commission in the Royal Signal Corps whilst serving his National Service, with a view to thereafter go to Edinburgh University. However, he instead began as a management trainee for Unilever. His first position was at Batchelors pea and soup factory in Sheffield. In 1963 he moved to J Lyons & Co, then spent some time in advertising. He then began working in the retail trade in the Argyll Group under James Gerald Gulliver and was evolved in the revival of the now extinct retail chain "Fine Fare". He rose to be Chief Executive of the Argyll Group from 1986 to 1998, including taking over the "Safeway" chain in 1987. He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. In 1986 the company made an unsuccessful but expensive bid to take over the Distillers' Company, but were beaten by their rival Guinness PLC. This brought an effective end to the career of Jimmy Gulliver but Grant went on to great success expanding Safeway to the point where it became the third largest retail chain in Scotland. He retired from Safeway and the Argyll Group in 1997 and then became chairman of Scottish & Newcastle 1997–2000. He served as Governor of the Bank of Scotland from 1998 to 1999 when he was forced to resign due to ill-health. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Michael J Baker, Sir John Arbuthnott, John Spence and Neil Hood. Grant lived in the library wing of Tyninghame House. He died of cancer on 22 January 2001 aged 63. In 1963 he married Judith Dent. They had two sons, William and Matthew and one daughter, Victoria.
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The Jazz Singer (1952 film) The Jazz Singer is a 1952 remake of the famous 1927 talking picture "The Jazz Singer". It starred Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz, and was nominated for an Oscar for best musical score. The film follows about the same storyline as the version starring Al Jolson. It was also distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. As Jerry Golding (a young Korean War veteran) scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who had hoped that Jerry would instead follow in the footsteps of six consecutive generations of cantors in their family. Sorrowfully, Cantor David Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence. Eduard Franz, who played the role of the aged and ailing cantor battling his son, would go on to reprise his role in the television version of the story starring Jerry Lewis that would be broadcast just seven years later in 1959.
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Dicosmoecus Dicosmoecus is a genus of october caddis in the family Limnephilidae. There are about six described species in "Dicosmoecus". These six species belong to the genus "Dicosmoecus":
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Othippia Othippia is a genus of true weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are more than 20 described species in "Othippia". These 26 species belong to the genus "Othippia":
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Oleg Salenko and Andrei Ivanov, who also signed the letter, eventually withdrew their signatures. Tsveiba and Chernyshov were later called to the Russia national football team. Although almost one third of the team were from Ukraine, only two Ukrainian players ever played for the Ukraine national football team, while another four chose to play for the Russian national team.
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He feuded with Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen during 1996 after Guerrero's partner Arn Anderson turned on him during a tag team match against Ric Flair and Randy Savage. In late 1996, he feuded with Diamond Dallas Page after defeating him in a match at "Clash of the Champions XXXIII". He started feuding with DDP to steal his nickname of "Lord of the Ring", but lost. Guerrero participated in a tournament for the vacant WCW United States Heavyweight Championship and defeated DDP in the final round at Starrcade to win the United States title in December 1996. In 1997, Guerrero defended the United States Heavyweight Championship against Scott Norton at "Clash of the Champions XXXIV", Syxx in a ladder match at Souled Out, and Chris Jericho at SuperBrawl VII. His reign came to an end at Uncensored when Dean Malenko defeated him for the title. After losing the United States Heavyweight Championship, Guerrero feuded with Jericho focusing on Jericho's Cruiserweight Championship. He challenged Jericho for the title at "Clash of the Champions XXXV" but lost. Guerrero demanded a rematch for the title. In the opening match of Fall Brawl, Guerrero defeated Jericho to win the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. He dropped the Cruiserweight title to Rey Mysterio Jr. at Halloween Havoc in a title vs. mask match where Mysterio's mask was also on the line. On the November 10 episode of "Monday Nitro", he regained the Cruiserweight title from Mysterio, and made a successful title defense against Mysterio at World War 3. After retaining the title against Dean Malenko in the opening bout of Starrcade in December 1997, Guerrero dropped the title to Último Dragón the following day on the December 29 episode of "Nitro". On the March 9, 1998 episode of "Nitro", Guerrero's nephew Chavo Guerrero lost to Booker T in a match. After the match, Guerrero suplexed Chavo to teach him a lesson. On the March 12 episode of "Thunder", he defeated his nephew Chavo in a match and forced him to become his "slave". At Uncensored, Chavo was forced to support Guerrero when he faced Booker T for Booker's WCW World Television Championship. Guerrero lost the match after receiving a missile dropkick. Guerrero and Chavo feuded with Último Dragón. Chavo lost to Dragón at Spring Stampede.
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Hamgyeong Line The Hamgyeong Line was a railway line of the Chosen Government Railway ("Sentetsu") in Japanese-occupied Korea, running from Wonsan to Sangsambong. Construction began in 1914, and was completed in 1928. The line is now entirely within North Korea; the Korean State Railway has divided it between the Kangwŏn Line (Wonsan−Kowon section), the P'yŏngra Line (Kowon−Cheongjin section), the Kangdŏk Line (Namgangdŏk−Suseong), and the Hambuk Line (Chongjin−Sangsambong section). Sentetsu began construction of a line north from Wonsan on the Gyeongwon Line on 1 October 1914. The first section, a line from Wonsan to Muncheon, was completed on 1 August 1915, followed by a extension from Muncheon to Yeongheung via Gowon on 21 July 1916. At the same time, Sentetsu started construction of a line north from the important east coast port of Cheongjin, completing the first section from Cheongjin to Changpyeong, on 5 November 1916. On 31 July 1917, the management of Sentetsu was transferred from the Railway Bureau of the Government-General of Korea to the South Manchuria Railway ("Mantetsu"), which established the Mantetsu Gyeongseong Railway Administration (Japanese: 満鉄京城管理局, "Mantetsu Keijō Kanrikyoku"; Korean: 만철 경성 관리국, "Mancheol Gyeongseong Gwalliguk") to oversee the operation of all railways in Korea. Construction of the Cheongjin Line was accelerated under Mantetsu management, and by the end of 1917 it had been completed all the way to Hoeryeong, with the from Changpyeong to Pungsan opened on 16 September, and the remaining to Hoeryong opened on 25 November of that year. To handle increasing freight traffic on the line, a large marshalling yard, called Cheongjin Jochajang, was built near Cheongjin. To access this, a new line between Nanam and Suseong (on the Cheongjin−Changpyeong line) was built, being opened on 10 December 1919; Gangdeok Station, located from Nanam, was opened on 1 August 1922.
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Hone Kouka Hone Kouka is a New Zealand playwright. He has written 13 plays which have been staged in New Zealand and worldwide including Canada, South Africa, New Caledonia and Britain. Kouka's plays have won multiple awards at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, the 'Oscars' of New Zealand theatre. Kouka has also worked as a theatre director and producer. In September 2009, Kouka was honoured with the Insignia of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to contemporary Māori theatre. Kouka has ancestral ties to the Māori tribes of Ngati Porou, Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Raukawa. Born in Balclutha in New Zealand's South Island, Kouka graduated in English from the University of Otago in 1988. Later, he graduated from Toi Whakaari:NZ Drama School in 1990. Kouka's play Nga Tangata Toa (The Warrior People) is heralded as a masterpiece in New Zealand theatre. Directed by veteran theatre director Colin McColl (NZ Laureate), "Nga Tangata Toa" was first staged at Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington during the 1990s and won numerous awards at the prestigious Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. In the lead role of "Rongomai" was award winning actress Nancy Brunning. "Nga Tangata Toa" was inspired by Henrik Ibsen's play "The Vikings of Helgeland". "Nga Tangata Toa" was later re-staged at Downstage Theatre in 2006 under the direction of James Beaumont. In 1996, Kouka was commissioned by the New Zealand International Arts Festival to write "Waiora", which later toured nationally and internationally in 1997. "Waiora" became the first play in a trilogy which include "Home Fires" (1998) and "The Prophet". Other plays include "Waiora", "Hide 'n' Seek", co-written with Hori Ahipene and "Five Angels". In 2001 Kouka co-founded Tawata Productions with Miria George. Tawata Productions stages new New Zealand plays nationally and internationally. Kouka and George are Co-Directors of Tawata Productions.
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Bézout's theorem implies thus that the number of singular points is at most ("d"−1)2, but this bound is not sharp because the system of equations is overdetermined. If reducible polynomials are allowed, the sharp bound is "d"("d"−1)/2, this value is reached when the polynomial factors in linear factors, that is if the curve is the union of "d" lines. For irreducible curves and polynomials, the number of singular points is at most ("d"−1)("d"−2)/2, because of the formula expressing the genus in term of the singularities (see below). The maximum is reached by the curves of genus zero whose all singularities have multiplicity two and distinct tangents (see below). The equation of the tangents at a singular point is given by the nonzero homogeneous part of the lowest degree in the Taylor series of the polynomial at the singular point. When one changes the coordinates to put the singular point at the origin, the equation of the tangents at the singular point is thus the nonzero homogeneous part of the lowest degree of the polynomial, and the multiplicity of the singular point is the degree of this homogeneous part. The study of the analytic structure of an algebraic curve in the neighborhood of a singular point provides accurate information of the topology of singularities. In fact, near a singular point, a real algebraic curve is the union of a finite number of branches that intersect only at the singular point and look either as a cusp or as a smooth curve. Near a regular point, one of the coordinates of the curve may be expressed as an analytic function of the other coordinate. This is a corollary of the analytic implicit function theorem, and implies that the curve is smooth near the point. Near a singular point, the situation is more complicated and involves Puiseux series, which provide analytic parametric equations of the branches. For describing a singularity, it is worth to translate the curve for having the singularity at the origin. This consists of a change of variable of the form formula_29 where formula_30 are the coordinates of the singular point. In the following, the singular point under consideration is always supposed to be at the origin. The equation of an algebraic curve is formula_31 where is a polynomial in and . This polynomial may be considered as a polynomial in , with coefficients in the algebraically closed field of the Puiseux series in .
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Finally, on August 12, 2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship and returned the old title to NWA. There have been a total of 64 reigns shared between 39 wrestlers. Ray Mendoza has held the Championship the highest number of times with six title reigns; Gory Guerrero's two reigns combined come to 1,963 days, the highest total of any champion. Roddy Piper is the champion with the shortest reign, 2 days; while the longest title reign belongs to Frank Stojack with 1,573 days.
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1918 Camp Greenleaf football team The 1918 Camp Greenleaf football team represented Camp Greenleaf of Fort Oglethorpe during the 1918 college football season. Jock Sutherland was on the team. The team challenged Georgia Tech to a game, but Tech declined. Andrew W. Smith was the coach until he was selected in November 1918 to serve overseas.
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Sounds to Sample Sounds to Sample is a UK-based website that sells copyright free audio samples and loops for use in music production. It was launched in 2007 by Sharooz Raoofi and David Felton, initially as a digital download portal for the Sample Magic libraries, but quickly expanded to include developers such as Sony, Zero G and Best Service. In addition to its retail function, the site contains a number of articles on sound production and technical interviews with electronic music artists such as Chris Lake, Dave Audé, Dean Coleman and Wolfgang Gartner. Products can be purchased in WAV, Apple Loops Utility or REX2 format, either as an exact copy of their physical format or as a cut down 'sample pack' offering only selected portions of content. Titles can be auditioned using a dedicated pop-up sound player and purchased using PayPal or conventional credit cards via the Worldpay system. Once a user account has been established, there is a facility to download free samples from the site's bestselling titles. As of January 2009 the site had attracted 30,000 registered users and served over 10,000 transactions.
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Alan Lloyd Alan Richard Lloyd (22 February 1927 – 12 April 2018) was an English writer. He is most famous for his Kine Saga fantasy books for teenagers. He also wrote adult fiction and non-fiction, most notably on the history of the British monarchy. His adult work is published under the name "Alan Lloyd" whilst children's work is published under "A.R. Lloyd" Lloyd was born in London, and studied drawing and painting at the Kingston School of Art before being called up to the army in 1945. He started his writing career at the "Jersey Evening Post" and worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a full-time writer in 1962. His first book, published by Longmans in 1964 was "The Drums of Kumasi" a non fiction account of the Ashanti Wars. This was followed in 1966 by "The Year of the Conqueror" (published as "The Making of the King 1066" in the USA), a study of the events and people leading up to the Norman invasion of England in 1066. Further non-fiction work followed on the history of Spain, George III, King John and the Zulu War. His first fiction work, "The Eighteenth Concubine" was published in 1972, and Kine, the first of his Kine Saga novels was published in 1982. Lloyd was married with one son. He is currently published by HarperCollins. He died on 12 April 2018 at the age of 91.
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He ended his second season with the third-most fouls per game and 7th-most fouls per minute in the NBA. Although not one of the league's premier players, in 2006 Hayes signed a shoe endorsement deal with Chinese athletic apparel company Li Ning. The deal was valued at $5 million. On July 31, 2007, Hayes signed an incentive-laden contract with the Houston Rockets valued at $8 million over four years. In 2009, Hayes was named co-captain along with Shane Battier for the 2009–10 Houston Rockets. From 2003 to 2009, Hayes had the second highest defensive adjusted plus-minus of all NBA players. Through December 25, 2009, Hayes had the fifth highest overall adjusted plus-minus for the 2009–10 NBA season. During the 2009–10 season, Hayes had to log his minutes as the starting center, replacing the injured Yao Ming, who missed the entire season, after suffering a hairline fracture in his left foot. On March 23, 2011, Hayes had his first career triple-double, dropping 13 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in a 131–112 home victory over the Golden State Warriors. On December 9, 2011, Hayes signed a four-year, $21.3 million contract with the Sacramento Kings. However, the Kings voided the contract on December 19 after his physical exam showed a heart abnormality in an echo test, and the team conducted additional testing. Hayes then went to the Cleveland Clinic for extensive tests on his heart, and issued a statement on December 22 that cardiologists at the hospital had cleared him to play. On December 22, 2011, Hayes and the Sacramento Kings agreed to a four-year, $22.4 million deal. On December 9, 2013, the Kings traded Hayes, along with Greivis Vásquez, Patrick Patterson, and John Salmons to the Toronto Raptors for Rudy Gay, Quincy Acy, and Aaron Gray. On August 31, 2015, Hayes signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. However, he was later waived by the Clippers on October 24 after appearing in four preseason games. On November 1, 2015, Hayes signed with the Houston Rockets, returning to the franchise for a second stint. A week later, he was waived by the Rockets after appearing in two games. Hayes is listed as a forward in the NBA, but played center during the Rockets' playoff run in 2009 after injuries to starter Yao Ming and his backup Dikembe Mutombo. Although his skills and style are most suited for interior play, he always had to overcome a significant height disadvantage because he stands at only 6' 6".
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In 1920, she turned briefly to the stage, appearing on Broadway in "The Blue Flame". Bara's fame drew large crowds to the theater, but her acting was savaged by critics. Her career suffered without Fox studio's support, and she did not make another film until "The Unchastened Woman" (1925) for Chadwick Pictures. Bara retired after making only one more film, the short comedy "Madame Mystery" (1926), made for Hal Roach and directed by Stan Laurel, in which she parodied her vamp image. At the height of her fame, Bara earned $4,000 per week (the equivalent of over $56,000 per week in 2017 adjusted dollars). Bara's better-known roles were as the "vamp", although she attempted to avoid typecasting by playing wholesome heroines in films such as "Under Two Flags" and "Her Double Life". She appeared as Juliet in a version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". Although Bara took her craft seriously, she was too successful as an exotic "wanton woman" to develop a more versatile career. The origin of Bara's stage name is disputed; "The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats" says it came from director Frank Powell, who learned Theda had a relative named Barranger, and that Theda was a childhood nickname. In promoting the 1917 film "Cleopatra", Fox Studio publicists noted that the name was an anagram of "Arab death", and her press agents, to enhance her exotic appeal to moviegoers, falsely promoted the young Ohio native as "the daughter of an Arab sheik and a French woman, born in the Sahara." In 1917, the Goodman family legally changed its surname to Bara. Bara was known for wearing very revealing costumes in her films. Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Production Code (a.k.a. the Hays Code) started in 1930, and then was more strongly enforced in 1934. It was popular at that time to promote an actress as mysterious, with an exotic background. The studios promoted Bara with a massive publicity campaign, billing her as the Egyptian-born daughter of a French actress and an Italian sculptor. They claimed she had spent her early years in the Sahara desert under the shadow of the Sphinx, then moved to France to become a stage actress. (In fact, Bara never had been to Egypt, and her time in France amounted to just a few months.)
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The foundational European event took place in Birmingham at the Walsall Sports Centre at the University of Wolverhampton and was broadcast post-event on UFC Fight Pass and international television. Men Women The IMMAF World Championships of Amateur MMA returns to Las Vegas as part of the 5th Annual UFC International Fight Week™, the world's largest celebration of combat sports, taking place from Tuesday, July 5 – Sunday, July 10. The 2016 IMMAF World Championships will be hosted at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the week, with the championships featured on July 10 at the UFC Fan Expo®. Hosted by the global governing body for amateur MMA, the IMMAF's third iteration of its five-day tournament, will air its post-event highlights on UFC FIGHT PASS®, along with other international television platforms. The 2016 IMMAF Africa Open Championships commence on Tuesday 30 August and run until the 4 September 2016 at the Brakpan Indoor Sports Centre in Johannesburg. Hosted by the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) in association with Mixed Martial Arts South Africa (MMASA) the tournament is Amateur MMA competitors from IMMAF member countries from all across the world. The Africa Open Championships permits 2 representatives per country for each weight class and 4 for the host country, spanning Strawweight to Lightweight for women and Flyweight to Super Heavyweight for men. The 2016 IMMAF Africa Open Championships will feature on UFC FIGHT PASS and international broadcast channels, post-event. 2016 IMMAF European Open Championships of Amateur MMA, which take place in Prague from 22 to 26 November. Hosted by the Czech Mixed Martial Arts Association (MMAA), the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation's nation vs. nation tournament plays out in 2 rings across 5 days and features more than 170 Athletes from 30 countries worldwide. The 2016 IMMAF European Open Championships of Amateur MMA will feature on UFC FIGHT PASS and international broadcast channels, post-event. The 2017 IMMAF World Championships of Amateur MMA took place in Manama, Bahrain at Khalifa Sports City Arena from 12 to 19 November. Men Women Totals do not include medals from the 2016 or 2017 World Championships.
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Ali Moore Ali Moore (born 1965) is an Australian TV journalist and radio broadcaster. Moore began her career in 1987 as a cadet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where she was active in a number of programmes. In 1996 she moved to the Nine Network, where she was a reporter and eventually presenter of "Business Sunday". Shortly after Moore left "Business Sunday" merged into the "Sunday" program. She was also a fill-in host for "Today on Saturday" and filled in for Tracy Grimshaw from 1999 until 2003 on "Today". The morning after the 11 September attacks in New York, Ali co-hosted the program from 6am until 11am bringing in the latest information from the developing story alongside Steve Liebmann. With "Business Sunday"'s imminent demise in 2006, she opted to leave the network and returned to the ABC. She has previously hosted "Lateline Business", and is also a relief presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne and "The 7.30 Report" on ABC TV. Moore presented Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne while Jon Faine was on long service leave for 5½ months in 2008. In July 2010, Moore began hosting "Afternoon Live" on ABC News 24. In December 2010, it was announced that Moore would move to "Lateline" in 2011, filling the vacancy left by Leigh Sales and as a result she left ABC News 24. Ali later became a freelance producer and presenter for BBC World News, based in Singapore working on "Newsday" and "Asia Business Report". In 2017, she returned to Australia where she remains a fill in on "News Breakfast" when Virginia Trioli is away and on ABC Radio Melbourne.
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Lin Ma Hang Lin Ma Hang () is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of Hong Kong and is situated north of the New Territories, next to the Shenzhen river, east of Heung Yuen Wai and west of Hung Fa Leng. Until January 4, 2016, the village was situated in the Frontier Closed Area and was therefore inaccessible to non-permit holders. Since 4 January 2016 the village was excluded from the Frontier Closed Area. Nonetheless, a portion of Lin Ma Hang Road, the access road to the village still falls within the closed area. Therefore, permits are still required for anyone who visiting the village by road. People originated in the village are the Yip (葉) (or Ip, Yap, Yapp), Lau (劉), Sin (冼) and Koon (官) (or Kwun). It is named after a fruit called Lin Ma (蓮麻) that can be found in the mid-level streams. A lead mine was in operation in Lin Ma Hang starting in 1915. Pb–Zn ore was mined there. The mine operated intermittently between 1915 and 1958, producing 16,000 tonnes of lead metal and 360,000 ounces of silver. The Government rescinded the mining lease in 1962 and the mine was abandoned the same year. The abandoned lead mine now holds one of the most important bat colonies in Hong Kong, and was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1994. The Lin Ma Hang Stream was designated as a SSSI in 2008. It supports 17 species of primary freshwater fish, representing 50% of all such species native to Hong Kong. The village is situated in the basin of the Robin's Nest () which is famous for its abundance in "Hanging Bell Flowers" (吊鐘花).
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Bright as You Bright As You is the most recent album in singer/songwriter Jason Harrod's list of CDs released.
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The book was reviewed in White Wolf #23. "GURPS Cyberpunk" received the Origins Award nomination for Best Roleplaying Supplement of 1990.
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William Hogarth Main William "Bill" Hogarth Main is a cave diving pioneer who is best known as a developer in the 1980s, and the namesake of, the "Hogarthian gear configuration" that is a component of the "Doing It Right" (DIR) holistic approach to scuba diving. According to Jarrod Jablonski, the Hogarthian style "has many minor variations, yet its focus asserts a policy of minimalism." The configuration was refined in the 1990s, partially through the Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP), established in 1985 and considered among the most aggressive cave diving initiatives in the world. Main began diving in 1966 or early 1967 after completing the NAUI Open Water Course, made his first cave dive on a single tank in 1969, and switched to double tanks on a single regulator in 1972. Main describes this period: "There was no formal cave training back then. We just worked things out as we went along, and made the things we needed that didn’t exist." Following a challenging dive, Main decided with fellow diver Bill Gavin that all WKPP deep dives would be on mixed gas. Main, along other members of the WKPP such as Lamar English, George Irvine, and Jablonski all cultivated the idea that there was an ideal equipment configuration that should be standardized among the WKPP divers. As Main put considerable efforts towards streamlining configurations, his middle name was taken to represent the approach. Main asserts that term "Hogarthian" was initially used as a joke by fellow diving pioneer John Zumrick. While Main continues to work with equipment to create more efficient configurations, the "Hogarthian approach" became widely known, largely through the WKPP breaking every distance record for cave diving without any fatalities or serious injuries. The configuration is sometimes abbreviated "Hog" or "hog," often by divers who are unaware that it refers to a person, with at least one claim in the DIR diving community that William Hogarth Main is a fictional person. While "Hogarthian" and "DIR" were sometimes used interchangeably in early descriptions of the approach, by 2010, "Hogarthian" referred to gear configuration, as opposed to the holistic system of DIR of which Hogarthian rigs were a part.
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Lobocleta Lobocleta is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Warren in 1906. The genus includes the following species:
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Joško Vlašić Joško Vlašić () (born 22 July 1956) is a Croatian athletics coach and a former decathlete who represented Yugoslavia. Vlašić's greatest competitive success was winning the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games, but he is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić, a world champion high jumper. Joško Vlašić was born in 1956 in Split. He started with athletics in ASK Split, a local club. His coach Ante Tešija decided Vlašić would do well in decathlon, describing him as "tall and skinny". According to Tešija, Vlašić was initially very skeptical regarding his aptitude for the sport, but he was tenacious, loved to train, and the results came quickly. In the following years, Vlašić became the leading Yugoslav decathlete, winning five consecutive national championships, from 1979 to 1983. He won two decathlon medals in consecutive Mediterranean Games: bronze in 1979, and gold in 1983. His first child, Blanka Vlašić (born 1983), was named after Casablanca, the host city of the 1983 Games. Vlašić also competed in the 1983 World Championships, placing 16th. Vlašić's decathlon personal best of 7659 points, set in Izmir in June 1983, is still the Croatian record; , no other Croatian athlete has come within 600 points of his mark. In 1982 Vlašić graduated from the Faculty of Physical Culture in Zagreb, department in Split. He worked as a coach in his home club, ASK Split, and then as a physical education teacher in several elementary and high schools in Split. From 1994 to 2001, Vlašić worked as a fitness coach in KK Split basketball club. Since 2006, Vlašić is employed by the Croatian Athletics Federation as a professional athletics coach. Vlašić is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić. In her youth, she tried many athletic events, as well as sports such as tennis, basketball and volleyball, but settled on high jump after consultation with her father. As a high jumper, she became a double world outdoor champion, double world indoor champion, European champion, Olympic silver medalist, and double world junior champion. She describes her father as her "greatest asset". Joško Vlašić is married to Venera, a physical education teacher and a former cross-country skiing national champion.
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Setting the Woods on Fire Setting The Woods On Fire is the seventh studio album by The Walkabouts released in 1994. All the songs are credited to the group as a whole. All songs by the Walkabouts (c)1994, Fire & Skill Publishing (BMI), administrated worldwide by Bug Music Inc. Jason Ankeny writing in a positive review for Allmusic said: "A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' "Exile on Main St.""
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It is planned to open in 2020. The current Metro cars used are Elettrotreno FCE M.88 built by Firema S.p.A. delivered between 2001 and 2011. It replaced earlier Stanga cars from the Umbra Central Railroad. The cars consists of a married set of two cars. 7 of the 8 cars delivered were given names:
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It could be that as early as Gallo-Roman times, a small settlement had arisen within what are now Herren-Sulzbach’s limits. It is very questionable, though, whether this had anything to do with "Salisso" (see Municipality’s name below). Sulzbach, as a place with a name ending in "—bach", was likely founded, like most places with names ending thus, in the 8th century. The village belonged until the early 12th century to the Nahegau, when it passed to the Waldgraves, who may be considered the Nahegau counts’ successors. The church that stands today holds clues in the oldest parts of its building that it must originally have been built about one thousand years ago. Sulzbach was surely the hub of a parish at that early date, too. Modern researchers cannot clearly tell whether the Sulzbach church’s forerunner was a church in the Kirrweiler area that now no longer exists. Whatever the truth is, in 1290, the Herren-Sulzbach church passed into the ownership of the Order of Saint John, which had its seat at first at the Schönbornerhof near Homberg, and then at the Commenturhof in Buborn. The actual convent was eventually moved to Sulzbach. The origin of the Knights of Saint John was a hospital for pilgrims and the sick in Jerusalem. Raymond du Puy de Provence (1083-1160), the order’s first Grand Master (1120-1160) enacted sometime about 1155 the order’s first constitution. The order first quickly spread in Mediterranean Europe. Beginning in 1137, the Knights also took on the task of armed border protection, thereby becoming an ecclesiastical knightly order. In 1309, the order founded on the island of Rhodes a sovereign knightly state. After the Reformation there was, besides the original Catholic branch a new Protestant branch, the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Chivalric Order of Saint John of the Hospital at Jerusalem, which persists to this day. Since 1859, the Catholic branch has borne the name Order of Malta. The Order of Saint John acquired in the early 14th century an estate in Herren-Sulzbach, whose buildings were renovated and expanded in the course of time. People first spoke of the "altes Gebäu" (“old building”), and then later of the "Haus Sulzbach".
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Adevărul Adevărul (; meaning "The Truth", formerly spelled Adevĕrul) is a Romanian daily newspaper, based in Bucharest. Founded in Iași, in 1871, and reestablished in 1888, in Bucharest, it was the main left-wing press venue to be published during the Romanian Kingdom's existence, adopting an independent pro-democratic position, advocating land reform, and demanding universal suffrage. Under its successive editors Alexandru Beldiman and Constantin Mille, it became noted for its virulent criticism of King Carol I. This stance developed into a republican and socialist agenda, which made "Adevărul" clash with the Kingdom's authorities on several occasions. As innovative publications which set up several local and international records during the early 20th century, "Adevărul" and its sister daily "Dimineața" competed for the top position with the right-wing "Universul" before and throughout the interwar period. In 1920, "Adevărul" also began publishing its prestigious cultural supplement, "Adevărul Literar și Artistic". By the 1930s, their anti-fascism and the Jewish ethnicity of their new owners made "Adevărul" and "Dimineața" the targets of negative campaigns in the far right press, and the antisemitic Octavian Goga cabinet banned both upon obtaining power in 1937. "Adevărul" was revived by Barbu Brănișteanu after World War II, but was targeted by Communist Romania's censorship apparatus and again closed down in 1951. A newspaper of the same name was set up in 1989, just days after the Romanian Revolution, replacing "Scînteia", organ of the defunct Romanian Communist Party. Initially a supporter of the dominant National Salvation Front, it adopted a controversial position, being much criticized for producing populist and radical nationalist messages and for supporting the violent Mineriad of 1990. Under editors Dumitru Tinu and Cristian Tudor Popescu, when it reasserted its independence as a socially conservative venue and was fully privatized, "Adevărul" became one of the most popular and trusted press venues. Nevertheless, it remained involved in scandals over alleged or confirmed political and commercial dealings, culminating in a 2005 conflict which saw the departure of Popescu, Bogdan Chireac and other panelists and the creation of rival newspaper "Gândul".
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Atrophaneura aidoneus Atrophaneura aidoneus, the lesser batwing, is an Asian species of butterfly that belongs to the batwings group of "Atrophaneura", comprising tailless black swallowtail butterflies. Resembles "Atrophaneura varuna" race "astorion", but differs as follows: Cell of forewing proportionately not quite so long; abdominal fold to the hindwing in male not so broad, its lower margin not square, rounded; the specialized scales within the fold white, with an edging of pink. Female larger. Upperside: ground colour olivaceous brown, never black; abdomen with a broad white, not crimson, lateral stripe. Northern India, Bhutan, Burma, northern Vietnam, northern Laos, southern China (including Hainan (Guangdong province)). In India, it is found in Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland. The butterfly is not common but not regarded as threatened. No subspecies. The lesser batwing flies from April to November and frequents forests up to the altitude of . The lesser batwing is a shade-loving forest butterfly. It has a slow and graceful flight. Both sexes frequent flowers, often "Lantana".
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The site's critical consensus reads, "Charming and smartly composed, Welcome to Sweden offers fun summer fare from the talented Poehler siblings despite its familiar tropes." On Metacritic the season has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In May 2014, a Swedish TV columnist gave the first season finale of "Welcome to Sweden" a negative review. In response, Greg Poehler subjected the columnist to online harassment, posting demeaning and offensive comments under an assumed name in the comments section. Due to the severity of the abuse, containing what was described as "personal attacks," the on-line news site traced the IP address to what was likely Poehler's own computer. Faced with the evidence, Poehler confessed and apologized. In Indonesia, the series started on July 21, 2015 at 10:30 pm and can be seen on Star World with Indonesian subtitles. In Australia, the series premiered on The Comedy Channel on July 5, 2015. In the United States, the series aired on NBC and on yes Oh in Israel.
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In October 2010 an advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for BPA testing was published in the Federal Register July 2011. After more than 3 years at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which has to review draft proposals within 3 months, OIRA had not done so. In September 2013 EPA withdrew its 2010 draft BPA rule. saying the rule was "no longer necessary", because EPA was taking a different track at looking at chemicals, a so-called "Work Plan" of more than 80 chemicals for risk assessment and risk reduction. Another proposed rule that EPA withdrew would have limited industry's claims of confidential business information (CBI) for the health and safety studies needed, when new chemicals are submitted under TSCA for review. The EPA said it continued "to try to reduce unwarranted claims of confidentiality and has taken a number of significant steps that have had dramatic results... tightening policies for CBI claims and declassifying unwarranted confidentiality claims, challenging companies to review existing CBI claims to ensure that they are still valid and providing easier and enhanced access to a wider array of information." The chemical industry group American Chemistry Council commended EPA for "choosing a course of action that will ultimately strengthen the performance of the nation's primary chemical management law." Richard Denison, senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, commented "both rules were subject to intense opposition and lobbying from the chemical industry" and "Faced presumably with the reality that [the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs] was never going to let EPA even propose the rules for public comment, EPA decided to withdraw them." On 29 January 2014 EPA released a final alternatives assessment for BPA in thermal paper as part of its Design for the Environment program. In March 2009 the six largest U.S. producers of baby bottles decided to stop using bisphenol A in their products. The same month Sunoco, a producer of gasoline and chemicals, refused to sell BPA to companies for use in food and water containers for children younger than 3, saying it could not be certain of the compound's safety. In May 2009, Lyndsey Layton from the Washington Post accused manufacturers of food and beverage containers and some of their biggest customers of the public relations and lobbying strategy to block government BPA bans. She noted that, "Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about the chemical, the Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe largely because of two studies, both funded by a chemical industry trade group".
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Ohio State Route 794 State Route 794 (SR 794) was a short east–west state highway in west-central Ohio, a U.S. state. This route, which existed entirely within Clark County, and south of Springfield, served as an access road for the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and the Springfield Air National Guard Base. The western terminus of SR 794 was at U.S. Route 68, and its eastern terminus was at SR 72. SR 794 was known as Bree Road from US 68 until it met Sparrow Road, which it followed east until its terminus at SR 72. Following a realignment of the road around the National Guard Base in 2013, the entire route was abandoned from the state highway system and is now a county-maintained road. SR 794 began at an intersection with US 68 in Clark County's Green Township south of Springfield, and headed eastward. With the exception of a couple of houses just east of US 68, the south side of SR 794 straddled the northern portion of Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport for its entire length. Meanwhile, on the north side of SR 794, a few homes lined the highway just east of US 68, then farmland took over as the primary feature. SR 794 curved to the northeast, and came upon its intersection with Peacock Road. The highway passed by the main buildings and affiliated parking lots associated with the airport and base. Curving back to the east, SR 794 met Sparrow Road. East of there, the route passed by the northeastern end of the primary runway serving the airport, and ultimately arrived at its endpoint at SR 72. Continuing east of SR 72 after SR 794 terminated is Sparrow Road. The SR 794 designation came into being in 1950, generally along the route that it followed throughout its history. The only difference is that the route's eastern terminus was at a location slightly south of its long-time eastern terminus along SR 72. In 1958, maps first showed the eastern terminus of SR 794 as being relocated to its present location at the intersection of SR 72 and Sparrow Road. Between that time and 2013, no major changes would occur to the routing. In 2013, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) undertook a project to slightly relocate the road carrying SR 794 around the Springfield Air National Guard Base. Due to restrictions put in place after the 9/11 attacks, public roads were required to be located certain minimum distances from military base buildings.
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Yuki Yanagita , nicknamed "Giita (ギータ)", is a professional Japanese baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He is a six-time All-Star and was the Pacific League MVP in 2015. Yanagita has won five Japan Series championships with the Hawks. After graduating from high school, Yanagita attended the Hiroshima University of Economics. He hit .428 with 8 home runs, 60 RBIs in 82 games during his university career, winning the league batting title in four seasons. Yanagita was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2010 NPB draft, selected by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. 2011 Yanagita appeared in 6 NPB games this year, going 0-for-5 with 3 strikeouts. He appeared in 77 games for the Hawks' farm team, with a batting average of .291, an on-base percentage of .375, and a slugging percentage of .518, leading the Western League with 13 home runs. 2012 On June 23, 2012, Yanagita recorded his first career hit, a single against Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' Mitsuo Yoshikawa in a 7-6 win. Two months later, on August 5, he hit his first NPB home run against Seibu Lions' Hironori Matsunaga. He appeared in 68 NPB games this season, batting .246/.300/.385 with 5 home runs. 2013 Yanagita made the opening day roster this year, batting 7th and playing center field, going 1-for-4 in a 7-1 victory against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. On June 25, he suffered an injury while attempting to make a diving catch. Three days later, the Hawks announced that his right shoulder had a minor rotator cuff injury, ruling him out for three weeks. Yanagita returned to the team on July 15, unable to play defense until late September. In 104 games, Yanagita hit .295/.377/.483 with 11 home runs, 41 RBIs, and 10 stolen bases. 2014 In May, Yanagita batted .395 with 2 home runs and 8 RBIs and was named the Pacific League Player of the Month for the first time in his career. He was named for his first career NPB All-Star Series via manager selection, hitting a home run against Chunichi Dragons' Daisuke Yamai in game 2. Yanagita finished the season with a .317 batting average (3rd in the Pacific League), a .413 OBP (2nd), 33 stolen bases (2nd).
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Futurecop! and Parallels released their second collaborative single "We Belong" on January 23, 2019. The song was featured on Spotify Canada's New Music Friday playlist. UK music blog Analogue Trash described Dodson’s performance as "polished to perfection, highlighting her similarities to peak Madonna at her feisty feminist best or Robyn’s sweet but assertive pop perfection. But there’s no voice quite like Dodson’s." "We Belong" was followed by a third single featuring Parallels, titled "This Moment Forever" released by German imprint, Kiez Beats. Futurecop!'s full album "Voltrana", featuring four songs co-written by Dodson, was released by New RetroWave on March 22, 2019.
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This is the first German club in his coaching career. Rösler is renowned for his teams playing a high, pressing style of football, and is also a fan of squad rotation among players, with 4–3–3 or 3–5–2 his favoured formations.> Rösler compared his style and brand of football similar to the philosophies of German compatriot Jürgen Klopp, with Rösler describing the style of football as 'heavy metal' attacking football, with powerful quick football with quick transitions from attack to defence. Born and brought up in East Germany as the communist regime was collapsing, during his time at Lokomotive Leipzig, Rösler was interviewed by the Stasi secret police organisation, who attempted to force him to inform on colleagues seeking to defect to the West in exchange for the Stasi allowing him to continue his fledgling football career unimpeded – only the furious intervention of his manager saved him from their attentions. Having been a fan of English football from his childhood, Rösler said that he found his "home" in England during his time with Manchester City, and described the formation of his bond with the City fans as the "biggest achievement in my career". Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2003, he credited his recovery to the support of the fans of the club, and said that hearing them sing his name at a game while he lay in hospital made his bond with the club "unbreakable". Rösler has stated on several occasions that his ambition for his managerial career is to eventually become manager of the Manchester club. Rösler has a Norwegian wife, with whom he has had two sons. His younger son is named Colin after Colin Bell, and is a professional footballer for NAC Breda, while his eldest son is named Tony after Tony Book – both Bell and Book are former Manchester City players, both considered club legends. In 2013, Rösler's autobiography "Knocking Down Walls" was released.
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NAD+ synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing) In enzymology, a NAD+ synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing) () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction The substrates of this enzyme are ATP, deamido-NAD+, L-glutamine, and H2O, whereas its 4 products are AMP, diphosphate, NAD+, and glutamate This enzyme participates in glutamate metabolism and nicotinate and nicotinamide metabolism. This enzyme belongs to the family of ligases, specifically those forming carbon-nitrogen bonds carbon-nitrogen ligases with glutamine as amido-N-donor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is deamido-NAD+:L-glutamine amido-ligase (AMP-forming). Other names in common use include NAD+ synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing), nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide synthetase (glutamine), desamidonicotinamide adenine dinucleotide amidotransferase, and DPN synthetase.
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Salt Run (Warren County, Ohio) Salt Run is a stream located entirely within Warren County, Ohio. Salt Run was named for the salt lick along its course.
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Teleconference A teleconference or teleseminar is the live exchange and mass articulation of information among several persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system. Terms such as audio conferencing, telephone conferencing and phone conferencing are also sometimes used to refer to teleconferencing. The telecommunications system may support the teleconference by providing one or more of the following: audio, video, and/or data services by one or more means, such as telephone, computer, telegraph, teletypewriter, radio, and television. Internet teleconferencing includes internet telephone conferencing, videotelephony, web conferencing, and augmented reality conferencing. Internet telephony involves conducting a teleconference over the Internet or a Wide Area Network. One key technology in this area is Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP). A working example of an augmented reality conferencing was demonstrated at the Salone di Mobile in Milano by AR+RFID Lab.
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This song is often considered as one of the highlights of her career. Mirković's eighth studio album (and third solo project), "Dobra devojka" (1991), had two major hit singles: "Umreću zbog tebe" and "Dodaj gas". It was followed by "Dolaze nam bolji dani" (1992) with multiple hit songs: "Umirem majko", "Pitaju me u mom kraju", "Da, da, da", "O, da li znaš", "Dobro jutro, dobar dan", "Sedmi dan". That same year, she held eleven consequent concerts in Belgrade, with an audience of 50,000 people. Unlike many other Balkans singers, Mirković's career was not severely disrupted by the Yugoslav Wars. 1993 saw the release of Mirković's tenth studio album, "Do poslednjeg daha", which featured the hit song of the same name, along with "Baš tebe volim ja". More hit songs were featured on her eleventh album, "Nije tebi do mene" (1994): "Crni leptir", "Čarolija", "Varala bih, varala" and "Opojni su zumbuli". She held a concert in Podgorica, Montenegro with 25,000 attendees. She made a stab at acting in 1994 in the comedy film "Slatko Od Snova", which premiered on 4 December 1994. She sang in English for the film's soundtrack. In 1996, Mirković held a big concert in Skopje, Macedonia at the FC Vardar Stadium in front of 30,000 fans. During her 1995 tour, she was seen by over 200,000 people and two years earlier had been declared the third most popular personality of the former Yugoslavia. Mirković released four more albums in the 1990s: "Plači Zemljo" (1995) with hit singles "I u dobru i u zlu", "Vrati mi se ti", "Uzeo si moja jutra" and "Divlja devojka", "Nema promene" (1996), with singles "Dušu si mi opio", "To nije tvoja stvar" and "Oči pune tuge", "Kojom gorom" (1997) with songs like "Poslednje veče", "O na, na, na" and the title track.
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Temple station (Texas) Temple is a train station in Temple, Texas, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station was originally built as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot. East of the station on another railroad line through Temple, a former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad depot can be found. The first depot in Temple was in a boxcar. Later a two-story depot was built. In 1898 a Harvey House was built next to the depot. The current station was opened on January 29, 1911. In 1995, the city of Temple bought 8.5 acres of land around the station and the Santa Fe Railroad donated the building. In 1999, restoration work began on the depot and it was reopened on June 8, 2000. The depot is currently home to the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum and an Amtrak ticket office. The museum is open Monday through Saturday. The Amtrak office is open Monday through Saturday until the northbound Texas Eagle departs. Next to the depot is the former Moody, Texas depot which is now home to the Central Texas Area Model Railroaders. Inside the depot is a model train layout which is open to the public on the first and fourth Saturday of each month. North of Temple, the "Texas Eagle" is hosted by BNSF Railway; south of Temple, it uses the tracks of Union Pacific Railroad. Temple station also provides Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service to Killeen and Fort Hood, Texas.
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Health in Turkmenistan In 2016, life expectancy for males in Turkmenistan was 65 and for females 72 years. The most common causes of death in Turkmenistan are cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory disease. Major health factors are poor diet, polluted drinking water, and the industrial and agricultural pollutants that are especially concentrated in the northeastern areas near the Amu Darya River and the Aral Sea. The reported occurrence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been less than 0.1 percent. However, sharp increases in drug trafficking through Turkmenistan are likely to increase that figure substantially. President Saparmurat Niyazov constructed the Walk of Health, a 37 kilometre concrete stairway running along the Kopet Dag mountains, which was intended to improve the health of citizens. All ministers, members of parliament and civil servants were ordered to walk the length of it once a year. The sale of tobacco products in the country was banned by president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedow in January 2016. A fine of 6,900 manats is imposed on any shop selling cigarettes. Atadurd Odmanov, the head of the State Service for Protecting the Security of a Healthy Society, was earlier stripped of the rank of Colonel because of his failure to persuade smokers to quit.
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Camels have thrown their loads; sick men, almost naked, are astride donkeys, mules and camels; the bearers have thrown down their "dhoolies" (palanquins) and left the wounded to their fate. The guns and carriages are crowded with the helpless wounded suffering the tortures of the damned; horses are limping along with ugly wounds and men are pressing eagerly to the rear in the hope of finding water. Hordes of irregular horsemen are to be seen amongst our baggage animals, relentlessly cutting our men down and looting. A few alone remain with Brigadier Burrows to try to turn the rout into an orderly retreat. – Captain Slade. Of the approximately 2,500 British and Indian troops at Maiwand, a little over 960 succumbed in either the battle or the ensuing retreat. Only 161 of the wounded reached the citadel of Kandahar. The remnants of the straggling column reached Kandahar on the 28th raising the garrison numbers to 4360 — the Afghan population of 12,000 were compelled to leave. With the abandonment of the cantonments, the whole garrison withdrew behind the walls of the fortified city and organised preparations for its defence. These defences included improving and facilitating communications along the city's walls, plugging breaches, constructing gun platforms and the laying of wire obstacles outside the walls to entangle their foe. The Afghans determined to harass and hinder the defenders’ preparations throughout. On 8 August, Ayub Khan, the victor at Maiwand, opened fire on the citadel from Picquet hill north west of the city; a few days later other guns volleyed forth from the villages of Deh Khoja and Deh Khati on the east and south. An attempt to neutralise the village of Deh Khoja, led by Brigadier General Brooke on the 16th, proved unsuccessful. During the extrication, both Brigadier General Brooke and Captain Cruickshank fell, adding to the casualty total of over 100. The Maiwand disaster had altered military plans for the evacuation of the Kabul garrison from Afghanistan. ...the present question is the relief of Kandahar and the defeat of Ayub. I have a fine force ready for the work, and Bobs would go in command of it. – General Donald Stewart, Kabul. The 'Bobs' in question, General Roberts, would personally lead a division from Kabul to rectify the recent calamity and relieve the besieged city of Kandahar. It was also arranged that General Phayre would march from Quetta in northern India with the same intention, and that General Stewart would proceed to evacuate the rest of the garrison back to India as originally planned.
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Villarrica (volcano) Villarrica ( ) (, ) is one of Chile's most active volcanoes, rising above the lake and town of the same name, south of Santiago. It is also known as Rucapillán, a Mapuche word meaning "devil's house". It is the westernmost of three large stratovolcanoes that trend NW-SW obliquely perpendicular to the Andean chain along the Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone, along with Quetrupillán and the Chilean portion of Lanín, are protected within Villarrica National Park. Guided ascents are popular during summer months. Villarrica, with its lava of basaltic-andesitic composition, is one of a small number worldwide known to have an active (but in this case intermittent) lava lake within its crater. The volcano usually generates strombolian eruptions with ejection of incandescent pyroclasts and lava flows. Rainfall plus melted snow and glacier ice can cause massive lahars (mud and debris flows), such as during the eruptions of 1964 and 1971. Villarrica is one of 9 volcanoes currently monitored by the Deep Earth Carbon Degassing Project. The project is collecting data on the carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission rates from subaerial volcanoes. Villarica stands just east of the Chilean Central Valley as the westernmost of an alignment of three large stratovolcanoes. The alignment is attributed to the existence of an old fracture in the crust, the North West-South East trending Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone, the other volcanoes in the chain, Quetrupillán and Lanín, are far less active. The alignment is unusual as it crosses the N-S running Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault, along which several active volcanoes are aligned. Villarrica covers an area of 400 km2 and has an estimated volume of 250 km3. It contains volcanic caves and about 26 scoria cones. The constant degassing at the lava lake turns the otherwise quite effusive lava more viscous, heightening its explosive potential. Two large ignimbrite layers are visible; the Licán Ignimbrite and the more recent Pucón Ignimbrite. Villarrica emerged during the Middle Pleistocene and grew forming a large stratocone of similar dimensions to the current edifice. 100,000 years ago during the Valdivia Interglacial the ancestral Villarrica collapsed following an eruption and formed a large elliptical caldera of 6.5 and 4.2 km in diameter.
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Electrocution Electrocution is death or severe injury by electric shock, electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. The term "electrocution" was coined in 1889 in the US just before the first use of the electric chair and originally referred only to electrical execution and not to accidental or suicidal electrical deaths. However, since no English word was available for non-judicial deaths due to electric shock, the word "electrocution" eventually took over as a description of all circumstances of electrical death from the new commercial electricity. In the Netherlands in 1746 Pieter van Musschenbroek's lab assistant, Andreas Cuneus, received an extreme shock while working with a leyden jar, the first recorded injury from man-made electricity. By the mid-19th century high-voltage electrical systems came into use to power arc lighting for theatrical stage lighting and lighthouses leading to the first recorded accidental death in 1879 when a stage carpenter in Lyon, France touched a 250-volt wire. The spread of arc light-based street lighting systems (which at the time ran at a voltage above 3,000 volts) after 1880 led to many people dying from coming in contact with these high-voltage lines, a strange new phenomenon which seemed to kill instantaneously without leaving a mark on the victim. This would lead to execution by electricity in the electric chair in the early 1890s as an official method of capital punishment in the U.S. state of New York, thought to be a more humane alternative to hanging. After an 1881 death in Buffalo, New York caused by a high-voltage arc lighting system, a local dentist named Alfred P. Southwick sought to develop this phenomenon into a way to execute condemned criminals with him basing his device on what he knew well, a dental chair. The next nine years saw a promotion by Southwick, the New York state Gerry commission (which included Southwick) recommending execution by electricity, a June 4, 1888 law making it the state form of execution on January 2, 1889, and a further state committee of doctors and lawyers to finalize the details of the method used. The adoption of the electric chair became mixed up in the "war of currents" between Thomas Edison's direct current system and industrialist George Westinghouse's alternating current system in 1889 when noted anti-AC activist Harold P. Brown became a consultant to the committee. Brown pushed, with the assistance and sometimes collusion of Edison Electric and Westinghouse's chief AC rival, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, for the successful adoption of alternating current to power the chair, an attempt to portray AC as a public menace and the "executioners current".
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Several scholars focused on the economic motivations of the partitioning powers. Jerzy Czajewski wrote that the Russian peasants were escaping from Russia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in significant enough numbers to become a major concern for the Russian Government sufficient to play a role in its decision to partition the Commonwealth. Increasingly in the 18th century until the partitions solved this problem, Russian armies raided territories of the Commonwealth, officially to recover the escapees, but in fact kidnapping many locals. Hajo Holborn noted that Prussia aimed to take control of the lucrative Baltic grain trade through Danzig (Gdańsk). Some scholars use the term 'sector' in reference to Commonwealth territories consisting of Polish (not Polish-Lithuanian) cultural heritage as well as historical monuments dating as far back as the first days of Poland's statehood. The Ottoman Empire was one of only two countries in the world that refused to accept the partitions, (the other being the Persian Empire) and reserved a place in its diplomatic corps for an Ambassador of Lehistan (Poland). In 1795, Iran (known to the Europeans as Persia at the time) was one of two countries (the other being the Ottoman Empire) to not recognize the Partition of Poland by the Austrian Empire, Prussia and the Russian Empire. "", the Italian National Anthem, contains a reference to the partition. The ongoing partitions of Poland were a major topic of discourse in The Federalist Papers, where the structure of the government of Poland, and of foreign influence over it, is used in several papers (Federalist No. 14, Federalist No. 19, Federalist No. 22, Federalist No. 39 for examples) as a cautionary tale for the writers of the U.S. Constitution.
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He made several contributions to both James Blunt's Moon Landing album that reached no.2 in the UK album chart and The Vamps’ Wake Up album that was a top 10 hit. Mac scored another number one hit in 2016 with “Rockabye” by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie. The song reached the top of the UK singles chart, staying there for nine consecutive weeks. The single also won in the EDM Winning Songs category alongside his other co-produced track for Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson, “Symphony”. In 2017, Mac picked up the Songwriter of the Year and Producer of the Year at the Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards and the ASCAP Founders Award for “his pioneering contribution to music, global success and a 27 year body of work”. The same year, Mac co-wrote the no.1 single “Shape of You” for Ed Sheeran. The song broke chart history, spending 14 weeks at the top of the UK charts, and remaining in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the US for 33 weeks. It also claimed the unique achievement of being the most-streamed song of all time on Spotify. He also received another Grammy nomination for Pink's US No. 1 single "What About Us", which he wrote and produced. 2018 saw the producer work with some of music's most prolific names such as Scottish group Chvrches, Years & Years, Celine Dion, Little Mix, Craig David and Westlife. Mac won the 2018 Brit Award for British Producer of the Year. As well as the Brit Award, he also won both Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year at the Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards 2018 in LA. In another award recognising Mac's work, the multi-platinum hit “Shape of You” he co-wrote and produced for Ed Sheeran picked up both a Grammy Award and the Ivor Novello Award for PRS for Music Most Performed Work in 2017. Brit Awards 2018: British Producer of the Year 35th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards 2018 Songwriter of the Year: Song of the Year – Shape of You, Ed Sheeran | Strip That Down, Liam Payne ft. Quavo | Rockabye, Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul | What About Us, P!nk Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards 2017 Producer of the Year Songwriter of the Year ASCAP Song of the Year Awards 2013 Glad You Came, The Wanted: (Co-writer & Co-producer) ASCAP Song of the Year Awards 2012 You Make Me Feel...
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He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in a ceremony on May 19, 2007. Tucker was selected 29th overall in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft by the Phoenix Suns. After appearing in two games for Phoenix, Tucker was assigned to the Suns' NBA Development League affiliate Albuquerque Thunderbirds on November 27, 2007. His performances include a 25-point, 12-rebound effort in a 92–84 loss to Idaho on December 1, 40 points (on 15-of-25 shooting, including 4-of-4 three-pointers) in a 109–102 win over Bakersfield on December 14, and 32 points in a 100–97 victory over Anaheim on December 15. Tucker was recalled by the Suns on December 18. On January 11, 2008, he was reassigned to Albuquerque, and recalled ten days later. His performances include a team-high 33 points and 10 rebounds in a 123–117 win over Austin on January 12, 39 points in a 92–91 win over Rio Grande Valley on January 13, a game-high 26 points (on 11-of-19 field goals) in a 98–81 loss to Colorado on January 15, and a game-high 29 points in a 104–84 loss to Dakota on January 19. He was assigned a third time on March 13, 2008. In 21 total games (19 starts), he averaged 27.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists. Tucker's performances in his third assignment include scoring a Thunderbirds season-high 42 points in a 116–100 victory over Los Angeles on March 16, a 38-point effort in a 119–104 win over Tulsa on March 20, 33 points (including 14 in the final quarter) in a 114–108 win over Tulsa on March 21, 38 points in a 119–115 loss to Rio Grande Valley on March 30, and 34 points in a 118–112 victory over Tulsa on April 5. Tucker was recalled to the Suns on April 7. He received Honorable Mention for D-League Performer of the Week for March 17, 2008. Tucker was assigned to the Suns' new D-League affiliate Iowa Energy on December 26, 2008. He was recalled on January 2, 2009, after playing two games with the Energy. His Iowa season-high was a 13-point effort in a 107–101 win over Utah on December 28. On December 29, 2009, Tucker was traded along with a second round pick and cash considerations to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Jason Hart.
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From 2008 to 2014 "thousands of Shia" have been killed by Sunni extremists according to Human Rights Watch. Blowback, or unintended consequences of funding the mujahideen, was said to have come to the United States in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the September 11 attacks. In the 1993 bombing, all of the participants in the bombing "either had served in Afghanistan or were linked to a Brooklyn-based fund-raising organ for the Afghan jihad" that was later "revealed to be al-Qaeda's de facto U.S. headquarters". Principals in the 2001 attack—Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – had both fought in Afghanistan, and bin Laden was a lieutenant of Abdullah Azzam. His group al-Qaeda, returned to Afghanistan to take refuge with the Taliban after being expelled from Sudan. Before the 9/11 attack, al-Qaeda had bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, and nearly sank the USS "Cole" in Yemen in 2000. However, no direct U.S. aid to bin Laden or any of his affiliates has ever been established. Commemorating the intervention of December 25, 1979, in December 2009, veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan were honoured by the Duma or Parliament of the Russian Federation. On December 25, the lower house of the parliament defended the Soviet war in Afghanistan on the 30th anniversary of its start, and praised the veterans of the conflict. Differing assessments of the war "mustn't erode the Russian people's respect for the soldiers who honestly fulfilled their duty in implementing tasks to combat international terrorism and religious extremists". Duma member Semyon Bagdasarov (Just Russia) advocated that Russia had to reject Western calls for stronger assistance to the US-led ISAF-coalition in Afghanistan and also had to establish contacts with the "anti-Western forces"; the Taliban, in case they regain power. In November 2018, Russian lawmakers from United Russia and Communist parties jointly approved a draft resolution seeking to justify the Soviet–Afghan War as well as declare null and void the 1989 resolution passed by the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union which condemned the intervention. Communist lawmaker Nikolay Kharitonov hailed the decision as a victory for "historical truth".
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Candidates are also asked to write several essays (topics are related to the envisaged programmes). The recruitment process has two steps. The first one consists of sending an application with the following information: Once the application has been accepted, an examination is made by the selection committee. If the candidate meets the criteria of the school, he/she will be invited for an interview on campus in London. If this latter step is a success, the candidate receives an offer from LBS. The school's flagship programme is its full-time 15–21-month Master of Business Administration degree. MBA students take a prescribed set of core courses then choose from roughly 70 different electives. Class size has been around 400 students in every annual cohort. These are broken into 5 streams of around 80 students who take all core courses together. The admission process is highly competitive and selective. Beyond academics, the school puts an emphasis on personal and professional development including leadership, global awareness, and business skill building. These developments are facilitated via specialized workshops led by external consultants, students, and faculty. In addition to a range of elective courses at the London Business School, the school has partnerships with around 32 exchange schools around the world. Each academic year around 100 students spend a term at another leading business school. The MBA program at LBS is widely considered to be part of the top 10 in the world. In Financial Times' 2015 Global MBA Rankings, LBS ranked 2nd in the world just behind Harvard Business School. In CNN Expansion's 2014 Global MBA Rankings, LBS ranked 5th in the world. In Business Insider's 2014 Global MBA Rankings, LBS ranked 9th in the world. In 2016, the school's MBA program was ranked No. 21 worldwide for social and environmental impact by "Corporate Knights" magazine. Within Europe, LBS consistently ranks as one of the top 2 programs. In the 2014/2015 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, the London Business School MBA Program ranked 1st among all one-year and two-year European MBA programs. Among non-U.S. two-year MBA programmes, LBS was ranked 1st by "Bloomberg BusinessWeek" in 2012, 3rd by "The Economist" in 2012, 1st by "Financial Times" in 2014 and 2012, and 1st by "Forbes" in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The MBA Programme has one of the world's largest international exchange programmes. Each year approximately 35 per cent of second-year MBAs spend a term abroad at one of over 30 partner schools, including NYU Stern School of Business, IESE Business School, Booth School of Business of The University of Chicago, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA Anderson School of Management, the MIT Sloan School of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Columbia Business School, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Indian School of Business among others.
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Hitler referred to the May Crisis in his 30 January 1939 Reichstag speech by stating that he had committed to a military invasion if Czechoslovakia did not surrender the Sudetenland by 2 October. Referencing "a serious blow to the prestige of the Reich" and an "intolerable provocation", Hitler claimed that the Sudetenland had been secured by German determination and willingness to result to force, rather than diplomacy.
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They have a daughter Lina and two grandchildren Harry and Lily. He was the brother of Hannah, Khaldoun and Nawal El-Solh. Raghid died at the age of 74 on February 1, 2017, in Oxford, U.K. He was buried in Beirut, following a memorial at St Antony's College, Oxford. The Raghid Kazem El-Solh Travel Grant was established after he died to help PhD students registered at the University of Oxford in their research across member states of the League of Arab States, focusing on democracy and governance, justice and human rights, regionalism and parliamentary processes, and other relevant subjects in the politics and international relations of the Arab world.
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Another old friend, Max (Riccardo Scamarcio), joins Adam's team after being released from prison. Helene rebuffs further job offers until her boss, Conti fires her and sends her to Adam's kitchen. Helene is irate about being fired, but Adam convinces her to work for him by tripling her salary. Opening night is a disaster, and Adam furiously closes early, blaming Helene. He publicly humiliates her, escalating from verbal to physical aggression, and she quits. Adam goes on a talk show that he previously turned down to drum up publicity for the restaurant. At his second opening, a restaurant critic gives a positive review, enraging Reece. Tony convinces Helene to return with a doubled salary and some insight about Adam's behavior. Adam improves his attitude, but refuses her request for time off for her daughter Lily's birthday. Later, he notices his kitchen acting in a strange manner. Helene reveals that her daughter is at the restaurant under Tony's supervision, since she did not want to spend her birthday at home. Adam is upset, but relents and bakes Lily a birthday cake, which impresses Helene. With the restaurant's reputation established, Adam sets his sights on a Michelin star, still avoiding his drug dealer, even after Tony offers to pay off his debt. Adam takes Helene to the reopening of Reece's restaurant. Adam and Reece are civil, but the night derails when Adam spots his ex-girlfriend Anne Marie (Alicia Vikander), the daughter of his mentor, Jean Luc. Adam finds Anne Marie surprisingly forgiving after he abandoned her in Paris and missed her father's funeral. The encounter leaves Adam shaken and introspective about his failure in Paris. Early the next morning, Helene finds him at the fish market where they kiss in the alley behind The Langham on the way back to the restaurant. They are interrupted by the drug dealer's thugs, who take Adam away. He returns that night during dinner service beaten and bruised. Kaitlin (Sarah Greene), the front of house host advises Tony that two Michelin reviewers have arrived, and he cooks for them rather than going to the hospital. They send their meals back as it's too spicy, and Michel reveals he sabotaged the sauce with cayenne pepper as revenge for Adam's past cruelty before walking out. On the verge of a breakdown, Adam leaves the restaurant. He wanders the city, eventually arriving at Reece's restaurant drunk.
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Going Rouge Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare is a collection of essays about Sarah Palin with a spoof title and book cover design intended to lampoon Palin's memoir "". It was released on November 17, 2009. Both books feature Palin on the front in red, but "Going Rouge" has her against a backdrop of black thunder clouds and lightning, instead of the blue sky and white clouds on her memoir. The anthology, according to its publisher "OR Books", provides a political counterpoint and addresses Palin's background, her rise to prominence, and "the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to dominate the nation's political scene." The book is unrelated in content to "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book", a 48-page paperback by cartoonist Julie Sigwart and radio host Micheal Stinson, or to "Going Rouge: A Candid Look inside the Mind of Political Conservative Sarah Palin," a novelty book of 102 blank pages. The book, released by OR Books, a start-up founded by veteran publishers John G. H. Oakes and Colin Robinson, was published on November 17, 2009, the same day that Palin's own hardback "" was released. According to their site, Oakes is the former publisher of the independent publishing house Four Walls Eight Windows, and Robinson a former publisher of The New Press. Other contributing writers include Max Blumenthal, Joe Conason, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Jim Hightower, Linda Hirshman, Dahlia Lithwick, Amanda Marcotte, Shannyn Moore, Jeanne Devon, John Nichols, Hanna Rosin, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tomasky, Rebecca Traister, Naomi Klein, Jessica Valenti, Patricia Williams, JoAnn Wypijewski, and Gary Younge. "Salon" magazine also announced that several of their original articles will be included: "The Sarah Palin Pity Party," by Rebecca Traister; "The Losers Who Gave Us Sarah Palin," by Joe Conason; and two pieces by Juan Cole, "What's the Difference Between Sarah Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick" and "Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." Some of the other more than 50 short essays, includes "Wrong Woman, Wrong Message," by Gloria Steinem, "Our Polar Bears, Ourselves," by Mark Hertsgaard, and "Sarah Palin's Death Panels" by Robert Reich. Max Blumenthal, author of "Republican Gomorrah", includes an account of his meeting with Palin's "witch-hunting pastor" from Kenya, Thomas Muthee, "who urges his parishioners to crush 'the python spirit' of the unbeliever enemies by stomping on their necks."
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Tha Chill Vernon Johnson (born December 24, 1970), professionally known by his stage name Tha Chill, is an American rapper and record producer. He embarked on his music career in the early 1990s, as a co-founder of the Compton-based West Coast hip hop/gangsta rap group Compton's Most Wanted, along with frontman Aaron "MC Eiht" Tyler. During his childhood, Johnson dropped out of high school and hooked up with neighbourhood friend MC Eiht, to form the group. During the recording of the debut CMW's album, "It's a Compton Thang", Tha Chill was arrested for "joy riding" but was released a few weeks later on time served and finished recording his remaining verses on the songs of the album. He had missed his appearance on the group's two following full-lengths, 1991 "Straight Checkn 'Em" and 1992 "Music to Driveby", because he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. However, he was subsequently a featured performer on the reunion album, "Represent", which the group released after an eight-year hiatus. After serving over 2 years in prison, Johnson, together with Gene "Boom Bam" Heisser, became members of MC Eiht's new group Niggaz on tha Run. Tha Chill heavily contributed within Killafornia Organization. Since 1998, he has been producing tracks for the likes of 213, Above The Law, Kokane, MC Ren, RBX, and MC Eiht's solo efforts. Johnson started his own record label called Bigfutt Entertainment and planned to release his debut solo album, "Tha Wind Chill Factor", which was supported by 2003 single "Smoke Dis F-N-J". It was set to be released in 2000s, but was delayed until the actual release date of October 13, 2009. In early 2010, Johnson joint a venture deal with Chad Kiser’s Hoopla Media Group for his Bump Johnson Inc. record label. He managed to release two mixtapes and an extended play before he was dropped off the label in 2012 after the rapper was sent to prison over a domestic violence issue. Since February 2011, Tha Chill is a part of hip hop supergroup 1st Generation with fellow rappers MC Eiht, Jayo Felony, Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound, King T of Likwit Crew, Gangsta of The Comrads, and producers Sir Jinx and DJ Battlecat.
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Michael O'Reilly (prelate) Michael O'Reilly (died 1758) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Derry from 1739 to 1749 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1749 to 1758. He was Rector of Drogheda, and was recommended as the Bishop of Derry by James Francis Edward Stuart on 10 April 1739. His papal brief was dated 24 April 1739 and his episcopal ordination took place on 23 September 1739. The following year, he was one of the assisting bishops at the consecration of Francis Stuart, Bishop of Down and Connor. O'Reilly was translated to the Metropolitan see of Armagh as archbishop and primate on 23 January 1749. He died in office in 1758, and was buried near Drogheda.
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While Frady collects the documents, the deputy arrives at the residence, letting himself in. Frady grabs the documents and attempts to escape in Wicker's squad car, with the deputy in pursuit. Frady smashes the squad car through the front of a grocery store, and escapes through the back, jumping into the back of a passing commercial vehicle. Frady tries to convince his skeptical newspaper editor Bill Rintels he is onto a big story, connecting the dots of witnesses of assassinations who have died, but Rintels refuses to support his efforts. Undaunted, Frady seeks out a local psychology professor, Dr. Schwartzkopf, who assesses the Parallax Corporation's personality test taken from Wicker's desk, and deems it to be likely a profiling exam to identify psychopaths. Austin Tucker, the paranoid aide to the assassinated Carroll, agrees to meet Frady on his boat, while anxiously revealing there have been two attempts on his life since Carroll's assassination. Shortly after Tucker shows photos to Frady of a suspicious waiter who may have been involved in Carroll's shooting, a bomb explodes onboard, killing Tucker and his assistant. Frady survives by diving overboard but is believed to be dead. Later that night, Frady slips into the newspaper's offices, startling a sleeping Rintels, revealing he's alive despite reports that he died in the boat accident. Moreover, he informs Rintels of his belief he's uncovered an organization that recruits assassins, and wants the public to believe he is dead so he can apply to the Parallax Corporation under an assumed identity. Days later, Jack Younger, a Parallax official, pays him a visit to let him know he is, based on his preliminary application, the kind of man Parallax is interested in. Younger is encouraged by Frady's aggressive act of throwing a pot that has burned his hand against the wall. Frady is accepted for training in the Parallax Corporation's division of Human Engineering in Los Angeles, where he is instructed to watch a slide show conflating positive images with negative actions. While leaving the Parallax's offices, Frady recognizes one of the Parallax operatives from a photo Tucker showed him, as the second waiter from Carroll's assassination. He watches the assassin retrieve a case from a car, drive to an airport, and check it as stowed baggage on a passenger jet. Frady boards the plane and notices a senator aboard, but cannot find the assassin, who is actually watching the jet's takeoff from the airport's roof.
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After Guinea-Bissau gained independence, most of the Portuguese nationals left the country. The country has a tiny Chinese population. These include traders and merchants of mixed Portuguese and Chinese ancestry from the former Asian Portuguese colony of Macau. Main cities in Guinea-Bissau include: Despite being a small country Guinea-Bissau has several ethnic groups which are very distinct from each other, with their own cultures and languages. This is due to Guinea-Bissau being a refugee and migration territory within Africa. Colonisation and miscegenation brought Portuguese and the Portuguese creole known as Kriol or "crioulo". Although the only official language of Guinea-Bissau since independence, Standard Portuguese is spoken mostly as a second language, with few native speakers and its use is often confined to the intellectual and political elites. It is the language of government and national communication as a legacy of colonial rule. Schooling from the primary to tertiary levels is conducted in Portuguese, although only 67% of children have access to any formal education. Data suggests that the number of Portuguese speakers ranges from 11 to 15%. In the latest census (2009) 27.1% of the population claimed to speak non-creole Portuguese (46.3% of city dwellers and 10.6% of the rural population, respectively). Portuguese creole is spoken by 44% of the population and is effectively the lingua franca among distinct groups for most of the population. Creole's usage is still expanding, and it is understood by the vast majority of the population. However, decreolisation processes are occurring, due to undergoing interference from Standard Portuguese and the creole forms a continuum of varieties with the standard language, the most distant are basilects and the closer ones, acrolects. A post-creole continuum exists in Guinea-Bissau and crioulo 'leve' ('soft' creole) variety being closer to the Portuguese-language norm. The remaining rural population speaks a variety of native African languages unique to each ethnicity: Fula (16%), Balanta (14%), Mandinka (7%), Manjak (5%), Papel (3%), Felupe (1%), Beafada (0.7%), Bijagó (0.3%), and Nalu (0.1%), which form the ethnic African languages spoken by the population. Most Portuguese and Mestiços speakers also have one of the African languages and Kriol as additional languages.
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Motivating operation Motivating operation (MO) is a behavioristic concept introduced by Jack Michael in 1982. It is used to explain variations in the effects in the consequences of behavior. Most importantly, a MO affects how strongly the person is reinforced or punished by the consequences of their behavior. For example, food deprivation is a motivating operation; if a person is hungry, food is strongly reinforcing, but if a person is satiated, food is less reinforcing. In 2003 Laraway suggested subdividing MOs into those that increase the reinforcing or punishing effects of a stimulus, which are termed establishing operations, and MOs that decrease the reinforcing or punishing effects of a stimulus, which are termed abolishing operations. The concept of motivating operation deals with the observation that behavior depends not only on the stimuli present in the current situation and the organism's past experience with those stimuli, but also on the organism's recent past history of deprivation, satiation, pain, or other such influences. Such a past history can have two effects: it can change the value of a consequence by making it more or less reinforcing, and/or it can change the probability of behaviors that have produced that consequence. For example, food deprivation changes the value of food, making it more reinforcing, and it also evokes learned behaviors that have obtained food. Likewise, food satiation reduces both the reinforcing effect of food and the probability of food-getting behaviors. Note that a motivating operation differs from a discriminative stimulus (Sd). A discriminative stimulus signals the availability of reinforcement, while a motivating operation changes the effectiveness of a reinforcer. Nine main unconditioned (i.e. not learned) motivating operations, have been identified in humans. Deprivation of food, water, sleep, activity, or oxygen; becoming too warm or too cold; and increase of a painful stimulus all function as establishing operations for related behaviors, and increase the effect of positive or negative reinforcement related to them. Conversely, being satiated with food, water, sleep, activity, oxygen and sex; getting cooler after being too warm or warmer after too cold; and decrease of a painful stimulus all function as abolishing operations for related behavior and reinforcement. There are also conditioned motivating operations that result from the learning history of the organism. Three kinds of conditioned operations have been identified: a surrogate, reflexive, and transitive. A surrogate MO has the same effect as the MO it was paired with when it was learned; a reflexive MO acts as a reinforcement when it is removed; a transitive MO make something else effective as reinforcement.
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Sad, Ivančna Gorica Sad () is a small settlement in the hills south of Šentvid pri Stični in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola and is included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
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Ivan Vazov National Theatre The Ivan Vazov National Theatre (, ") is Bulgaria's national theatre, as well as the oldest and most authoritative theatre in the country and one of the important landmarks of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is located in the centre of the city, with the facade facing the City Garden. Founded in 1904 by the artists from the " company, it was initially called simply the National Theatre, but before being named after the prominent writer Ivan Vazov it also bore the name of Krastyu Sarafov between 1952 and 1962. Incidentally Vazov's play, "The Outcasts" was the first to be performed at the theatre when it opened. The theatre's Neoclassical building, designed by famous Viennese theatre architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner, was finished in 1906 and opened on 3 January 1907. The building was extensively damaged by a fire in 1923 during an anniversary celebration, but was reconstructed in 1929 by German architect Martin Dülfer. A theatrical school was established as part of the National Theatre in 1925. The bombing of Sofia in World War II caused considerable damage to the building, but it was reconstructed in 1945. Another reconstruction followed in 1971–1975, and a €100,000 restoration project was implemented in 2006. The Ivan Vazov National Theatre has a well-equipped main stage with 750 seats, a smaller 120-seat stage and an additional 70-seat one on the fourth floor. The building's facade is depicted on the obverse of the Bulgarian 50 levs banknote, issued in 1999 and 2006. The theatre has been host to productions from notable theatre directors such as Alexander Morfov who has been the Chief director since 1993.
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Schwalbach (Sulzbach) Schwalbach is a river of Hesse, Germany. It is formed in Schwalbach am Taunus at the confluence of the rivers Sauerbornsbach and Waldbach. It is a left tributary of the Sulzbach, into which it flows near Sulzbach.
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Formal support for many packages is available from IBM and partners. The OS supports many languages including (but not limited to) RPG, assembly language, C, C++, Pascal, Java, EGL, Perl, Smalltalk, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, PHP, PL/I, Python, REXX, Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js(JavaScript), Lua, R, Ublu, and more. IBM Rational Developer for i is the integrated development environment (IDE) published by IBM for working with many technologies such as RPG. Industry-standard tools can be used for programming as well, and are especially popular when using open source languages. Several other tools are available from independent software vendors, many of which are listed in the IBM Global Solutions Directory. IBM i release 6.1 was announced April 2, 2008 with IBM POWER Systems. This release numbering contrasts with previous version identifier format VxRxMx (Version, Release, Modification, e.g. V5R4M0) of prior versions in its lineage. This release number demonstrated the ability for applications built on previous technologies to continue their functional usage on the new Power Systems technology. Every release of IBM i has a finite support period. The latest version of IBM i is 7.4, announced on April 23, 2019 and released on June 21, 2019 (Version Support Schedule). With 7.1, IBM started delivering more updates to the operating system via Technology Refreshes. These Technology Refreshes enable further value to the operating system without the need of incurring point releases and allowing customers longer periods between upgrades. For 7.1, Technology Refresh 11 was released in October 2015. IBM i 7.2 Technology Refresh 9 was released in September 2018. IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 6 was released May 10, 2019. Version 7.2 was released in May 2014. Version 7.3 was released in April 2016. As IBM i supports running legacy applications built for CPF on System/38, OS/400 on AS/400, or i5/OS on iSeries respectively), the lineage of the platform is often associated with those technologies as well. In 1978, the fundamental architectural principles of what would become IBM i operating system were introduced with CPF operating system for the IBM System/38, developed by IBM team in Rochester, Minnesota, led by IBM chief scientist Frank Soltis, (pages xxvi-xxvii of *Soltis, Frank G. (2001).
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Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt () (14 April 1765 – 30 March 1796) was Duchess consort of Zweibrücken by marriage to Maximilian, Duke of Zweibrücken, and the mother of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Augusta Wilhelmine was born at Darmstadt, the fourth daughter and ninth child of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (second son of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt) and Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg. On 30 September 1785, in Darmstadt, Augusta Wilhelmine married Maximilian, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (later King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria). Maximilian was an officer in the French army stationed at Strasbourg, but the couple also often visited Paris. There Augusta Wilhelmine met Queen Marie Antoinette with whom she maintained an ongoing correspondence. In 1789, Maximilian's regiment rose in revolt and he and Augusta Wilhelmine fled to her parents' home in Darmstadt. For the next five years, they lived mostly in the neighboring town of Mannheim. In December 1794, the French army attacked Mannheim. Augusta Wilhelmine fled the city when her home was shelled by French artillery. In April 1795 Maximilian succeeded his brother as reigning Duke of Zweibrücken; however, his duchy was entirely occupied by the French. In March 1796 Augusta Wilhelmine, who had always had delicate lungs, finally succumbed and died at . She was buried in the Schlosskirche in Darmstadt. She had five children:
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Euphorion (playwright) Euphorion (, "Euphoríōn") was the son of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, and himself an author of tragedies. In the Dionysia of 431 BCE, Euphorion won 1st prize, defeating both Sophocles (who took 2nd prize) and Euripides, who took 3rd prize with a tetralogy that includes the extant play "Medea". He is purported by some to have been the author of "Prometheus Bound"—previously assumed to be the work of his father, to whom it was attributed at the Library of Alexandria,—for several reasons, chiefly that the playwright's portrayal of Zeus is far less reverent than in other works attributed to Aeschylus, and that appear in the plays of the comic Aristophanes. This has led to date it as late as 415 BCE, long after Aeschylus's death. If Euphorion wrote "Prometheus Bound", there are as a result five ancient Greek tragedians with one or more fully surviving plays: Aeschylus, Euphorion, Sophocles, Euripides, and the unknown author of the tragedy Rhesus.
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In the early modern period, it was fixed in the Treaty of Turin of 1696. After the War of the Spanish Succession, the House of Savoy made large territorial gains, becoming the 18th-century nucleus for the later Italian unification. Savoy was occupied by revolutionary France from 1792 to 1815. Savoy, along with Piedmont and Nice, was conjoined into the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, In 1860, under the terms of the Treaty of Turin, Savoie and Nice was annexed by France, while Lombardy passed to Italy. The last Duke of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel II, became King of Italy. The border between the two countries does not match the linguistic border. Corsica, while traditionally Italian-speaking, is part of France, whereas the Valle d'Aosta, while traditionally French-speaking, is part of Italy. There remains a territorial dispute over the ownership of the Mont Blanc summit, the highest mountain in Western Europe. Emperor Napoleon I ruled most of Italy ( except Sicily and Sardinia), 1796–1814. Introduced a number of major reforms that permanently altered the political and legal systems of the multiple small countries on the Italian peninsula, and helped inspire Italian nationalism and a demand for unification. The feudal laws were repealed, and the administration became a matter of expertise rather than corruption and patronage. Government was no longer the preserve of the aristocracy, but was open up to the middle classes and professionals. Most church lands were sold off, systems of wealth. Conservatism returned with the Congress of Vienna 1814, but it failed to eliminate The new spirit introduced by Napoleon. Many secret societies were formed to transform and unify Italy; anticlericalism was an important new element, challenging the people rule over central Italy, and the Catholic Church is major role throughout the peninsula. The ideas of liberty led to "Risorgimento" which carried implications of unification, modernization and moral reform. France played a central role as Emperor Napoleon III sponsored the unification of Italy in 1850s, and then blocking it by protecting the papal states in the 1860s. Napoleon had long been an admirer of Italy and wanted to see it unified, although that might create a rival power. He plotted with Cavour of the Italian kingdom of Piedmont to expel Austria and set up an Italian confederation of four new states headed by the pope. Events in 1859 ran out of Napoleon's control in the Second Italian War of Independence.
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Finally, disputed the Hockenheim race of the FIA GT Championship and Petit Le Mans ALMS in a Saleen S7. In 2005, the Portuguese continued driving a Rollcentre Dallara in the LMP1 class. He abandoned at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and achieved two third places and a fifth in the five races of the Le Mans Series. Meanwhile, he completed three rounds of the Grand-Am series with a Maserati, placing fifth in Mont-Tremblant race with Jeff Segal. Barbosa completed four rounds of the Le Mans Series 2006 with Rollcentre, now driving a Radical SR9 LMP2, obtaining a third class in the 1000 km Nürburgring as best result. Meanwhile, he finished fifth in his class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, although dozens of laps down. In the 1000 km of Spa he drove a Perrier's Porsch 911, being sixth in the GT2 class. Also, raced the FIA GT Championship Hungaroring race in a Saleen S7. He also ran two rounds of the Grand-Am series, now in the Daytona Prototype class. Barbosa continued with Rollcentre in the 2007 season. At the wheel of a Pescarolo 01 LMP1 class, resulted third place overall in the 1000 km of Silverstone and fourth at the 1000 km of Valencia with Stuart Hall, which was placed eighth in the drivers' championship and fourth in the team. In turn, was fourth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, counting as third driver a Martin Short. That same year, he came in fourth the 24 Hours of Daytona Grand-Am series and arrived late in the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, in both cases with the Brumos Riley-Porsche. The Portuguese returned to contest the 2008 Rolex Sports Car Series season, competing with Brumos Racing. Accompanied by JC France, he was fourth in five opportunities with a Riley-Porsche. Thus, he placed fifth in the drivers' championship in Daytona Prototype class, behind Scott Pruett / Memo Rojas and Jon Fogarty / Alex Gurney. In Europe, he continued as Rollcentre driver with whom he raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and four races of the Le Mans Series with a Pescarolo 01. In 2009, Barbosa continued in the Rolex Sports Car Series with JC France for Brumos Racing. They won in Homestead, were third in the 24 Hours of Daytona and fifth at Mid-Ohio, and being 16th in the drivers' championship.
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