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David Lang (Civil War)
Early life & Civil War
David Lang (Civil War) Early life Lang was born in Camden County, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Military Institute in Marietta, graduating in the Class of 1857 and ranked 4th of 16. He moved to Suwannee County, Florida, and became a surveyor. Civil War With the secession of Florida and the outbreak of the Civil War, Lang enlisted in the Confederate Army on April 2, 1861, as a private in Company H of the 1st Florida Infantry. Barely over a month later, he was promoted to sergeant. He was discharged in April 1862 after his term of enlistment expired. In
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David Lang (Civil War)
Civil War
May, Lang enrolled in the 8th Florida Infantry and was commissioned as captain of Company C. He was wounded at the Battle of Antietam in September and again at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December. Stationed in the town of Fredericksburg, Lang's men stubbornly contested Federal attempts to lay pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River. An artillery shell fragment struck the chimney of the building that Lang occupied, and a large chunk of masonry struck him in the head, gravely injuring him. Recovering from his wounds, Lang was promoted to colonel of the 8th Florida on April 30, 1863, and fought
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David Lang (Civil War)
Civil War
at the Battle of Chancellorsville, where his brigade commander, Brig. Gen. Edward A. Perry, was stricken with typhoid fever. Lang led Perry's Brigade during the Gettysburg Campaign. On July 2, 1863, he attacked the center of the Union defensive line on Cemetery Ridge, advancing past the Codori farm before being repulsed by troops from the II Corps. On the following day, the brigade supported Pickett's Charge, but failed to advance very far under heavy fire from Lt. Col. Freeman McGilvery's line of artillery. It was attacked in one flank by the 2nd Vermont Brigade of Brig. Gen. George J. Stannard,
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David Lang (Civil War)
Civil War
losing about 60% of its 700 plus soldiers. With General Perry's return, Lang returned to command of the 8th Florida, leading it in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns, as well as in the 1864 Overland Campaign. Lang led the brigade again briefly at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Perry had to leave the Army of Northern Virginia because of his wounds, Brig. Gen. Joseph Finegan and then Brig. Gen. Theodore W. Brevard, Jr. led the Floridians. However, by the end of the war, Brevard having been captured, Lang was again leading the Florida Brigade, surrendering it at Appomattox Court House
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David Lang (Civil War)
Civil War & Postbellum career
on April 9, 1865. Postbellum career After the cessation of hostilities, Lang returned to Florida and became a civil engineer. He married Mary "Mollie" Quarles Campbell on February 28, 1866, and fathered four children. He was elected as a state representative from Tallahassee, Florida, from 1885 until 1893. He served an eight-year tenure as Florida's Adjutant General during the administrations of Governors Perry and Fleming (1885–1894). He was influential in the reorganization and training of Florida's state militia troops, which contributed to the creation of Florida's modern National Guard. Serving as major general, he led efforts in increase funding
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David Lang (Civil War)
Postbellum career & Honors
and pay rates for the troops. Lang returned to the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1895 to help stake out the location for the Florida state monument. He resumed his political career, serving in the legislature until 1901, then served as a private secretary to Florida Governors Henry L. Mitchell and William D. Bloxham. Lang was also Cashier of the Florida State Hospital. Lang was among the last brigade commanders of the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia to die. He was buried in the Old City Cemetery in Tallahassee. Honors The David Lang Camp #1314 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
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Honors
in Tallahassee was named in his honor.
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David Mizejewski
Early life & Career
David Mizejewski Early life David Mizejewski graduated from Emory University in 1997 with a degree in Human and Natural Ecology. Career Mizejewski is a graduate and board member of Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL), an exclusive, two-year leadership training, networking, and mentoring program. He was one of twenty young conservationists to be nominated and selected for the inaugural class of this competitive program in 2005. He joined the board in 2008. Mizejewski has also sat on advisory groups for the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, Biodiversity Council, Alliance for Workplace Excellence, OurEarth.org, and Mother Earth News magazine." Mizejewski is the host
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David Mizejewski
Career
of the Nat Geo WILD series Pet Talk, in which he helps people connect people to wildlife by helping them understand their pets and their wild ancestors. He also hosted and produced Animal Planet's Backyard Habitat, is a regular guest on NBC's Today Show, Conan, and ABC’s Good Morning America. In addition to his television appearances, Mizejewski has worked as a wildlife consultant on motion picture productions such as Where the Wild Things Are and Legend of the Guardians. Mizejewski is the author of Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife, which won the 2005 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin
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David Mizejewski
Career & Personal life
Franklin Award for Gardening/Architecture. He is a contributor to Gardening How-To magazine and a contributing editor at Birds and Blooms magazine. Mizejewski has written several articles for The Huffington Post. Mizejewski also contributed an essay to the 2006 book Paws and Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog Mizejewski is the co-host of The Elfquest Show podcast. Personal life Mizejewski lives in Washington, D.C., with his husband Justin. Their wedding was held in a rustic barn in Poolesville, Maryland on 7 November 2015.
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David N. Cole
Early career
David N. Cole Early career In 1976, David Cole began working as a Staff Engineer at the Capitol Tower, where he worked with a variety of talent, including Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Maze, Steve Miller Band, as well as Richard Marx, and Tina Turner. He then was elevated to Staff Producer after his friend and mentor, Carter, left for another label. During that time, Cole engineered and co-produced the debut album for Richard Marx. Cole then moved on to MCA Records for 2 years, having a hit with the group “Boys Club”, produced the debut album for Tim Feehan,
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David N. Cole
Early career
and a solo record for Eagle, Timothy B. Schmidt, before moving on to freelance work. He has since continued to work with many artists including N’SYNC, Etheridge, and Seger, with whom he worked with for 11 years to finish his Solo Album, Face the Promise. He also spent 6 years as a Full-Time Instructor at The Art Institute of California – San Diego, teaching audio production.
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David Nicoll Lowe
Life
David Nicoll Lowe David Nicoll Lowe FRSE OBE (1909–1999) was a Scottish botanist and administrator. He served as Secretary to the Carnegie Trust in Dunfermline 1954 to 1970. He greatly improved the relationship between the Trust and its applicants. Life He was born in Arbroath on 9 September 1909. He attended Arbroath High School then won a Kitchener Scholarship to St Andrews University. At university he founded the Mountaineering Club and served as its first President. He graduated both MA and BSc. Following graduation he intended to join the Civil Service. In 1935 he was appointed Secretary of the British Association
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David Nicoll Lowe
Life
for the Advancement of Science. In the Second World War he sat on the War Cabinet Secretariat, linked to the Ministry of Production. He returned the British Association after the war, and stayed until 1954. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1957. His proposers were James Ritchie, Sir George Taylor, Sir Maurice Yonge, and Douglas Allan. During his Secretaryship of the Carnegie Trust the trust went into other social fields: re-equipping village halls; helping to set up the Leonard Cheshire Homes; helping the YMCA; and promoting art schools. Specific one-off projects included the David Marshall
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David Nicoll Lowe
Life & Family
Lodge at Aberfoyle and creation of the Conservation Corps. He retired in 1968 and moved to Crieff with his wife. He became an active member of the Countryside Commission and the National Trust for Scotland. He died on 10 August 1999. Family He was married to Muriel Enid Bryer (d.1991). They had a son and three daughters.
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David Obuya
International career
David Obuya International career His one-day career was to follow three years later. He first represented the senior team on a tour of the West Indies in 2001, where once again he was an opener, alongside Ravindu Shah. He played in the 2003 World Cup, where in the semi-final he set a record for the best eighth-wicket partnership in a match against India, beating the previous mark set by himself and team-mate Tony Suji. Most recently, Obuya has played one-day cricket for Kenya against Bangladesh. His brothers, Kennedy Otieno and Collins Obuya, both play cricket in Kenya. David Obuya was the first
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David Obuya
International career
player in history of T20I as well as in ICC World Twenty20 history to be dismissed for being hit wicket and he was dismissed for a duck in that innings. In October 2018, he was named as the head coach of the Kenya national cricket team, ahead of the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Oman.
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David S. Wollan
David S. Wollan David S. Wollan (March 14, 1937 – August 25, 2008) was an American physicist and arms control specialist. Wollan was born in Massachusetts, attended Amherst College as an undergraduate physics major, and earned his Master's and Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. After earning his Ph.D. in 1966, Wollan was an assistant professor of physics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute where he did research on electron and nuclear magnetic resonance of rare earth ionic crystals. In 1974, he went to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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(ACDA) as a physical science officer, and served on U.S. delegations to SALT II and START negotiations. He spent a great deal of time in Geneva on negotiations in those years, and met his second wife, Barbara, there. In 1980 he was selected to attend the National War College, and was a distinguished graduate there in 1981. In 1989, he was made chief of the Theater and Strategic Defense Division of ACDA, the office responsible for the ABM Treaty and related issues. He held similar positions and responsibilities after ACDA was merged into the State Department in 1999.
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David S. Wollan
He evolved the role of his office to include development of shared early warning protocols with many foreign countries and the exploration of international "rules of the road" for space operations. He retired from government service in 2008. He died on August 25, 2008 from lung cancer. Wollan was a significant contributor to the major arms control treaties of the Cold War. In particular, he was responsible for developing technical definitions for key terms in the treaties, such as what constitutes a "cruise missile" for purposes of treaty limitations. In 1998, he was made a
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David S. Wollan
Fellow of the American Physical Society "for leadership in the arms control of both offensive and defensive strategic arms, combining deep technical analysis with legal and diplomatic expertise regarding the SALT II, START I, and ABM treaties."
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David Stewart (American football)
High school career
David Stewart (American football) High school career Stewart attended Lawrence County High School in Moulton, Alabama, where he was a two-way tackle and three-year letterman. He earned Class 4A all-state honors on the offensive line from the Birmingham News. Stewart also recorded 120 tackles, including 28 quarterback sacks during his junior and senior years while on defense. He was rated with the top offensive linemen in the western half of the southeast region (Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas) by Bobby Burton in his Rivals.com preseason recruiting magazine and said to have "as much potential as anyone in the state" by that publication.
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David Stewart (American football)
College career
College career Stewart enrolled at Mississippi State University, where he played for the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team from 2001 to 2004. After redshirting his initial year, Stewart appeared in six games during the 2001 season, starting vs. Louisiana State, Arkansas and Troy State. The following year, he took over the right tackle slot and went on to start the next 35 contests. He graded 82 percent for blocking consistency as a sophomore and produced 76 knockdown blocks the following season. As a senior, Stewart graded a career-high 84.8 percent and also totaled 69 knockdowns, which earned him All-Southeastern Conference
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David Stewart (American football)
College career & Professional career
honors. In his last 35 games, Stewart recorded 218 knockdowns and had 25 touchdown-resulting blocks. Professional career After being inactive all 16 games in his rookie season in 2005, Stewart became the starting right tackle in 2006, replacing Michael Roos who was moved to left tackle, and was part of an offensive line that spearheaded the fifth ranked rushing attack in the NFL. As of February 2009, Stewart has made 45 consecutive starts at right tackle for the Titans, including all 16 games over the past two seasons. He was a member of an offensive line that allowed an NFL-low 12
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David Stewart (American football)
Professional career
quarterback sacks in 2008 and was named to the 2008 All-Pro Second Team. He was released on March 12, 2014.
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David Stirling Anderson
Life
David Stirling Anderson Sir David Stirling Anderson FRSE (25 September 1895 – 18 January 1981) was a 20th century Scottish engineer and educationalist. Life He was born in Glasgow on 25 September 1895, the son of Alexander Anderson and his wife, Sarah Stirling. In the First World War he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. He graduated from the Royal College of Science and Technology (now Strathclyde University) in 1921. From 1924 he was Head of Derby Technical College and in 1930 became Principal of Birmingham College of Advanced Technology. In 1946 he returned to Glasgow to
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David Stirling Anderson
Life & Family
head his alma mater, the Royal Technical College. In 1951 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Cameron Smail, Hugh Bryan Nisbet, Maurice Say and William Marshall Smart. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 for services to education. He died in Helensburgh on 18 January 1981. Family He married twice: firstly in 1932 to Grace Boyd; and following her death in 1974 he married Lorna Ticehurst.
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David Thomson (bishop)
Early life
David Thomson (bishop) Early life Thomson was born in Sunderland, County Durham, where his father, Ronald, was assistant curate; the family moved to the Sheffield area two years later (Ronald was curate of Attercliffe until 1957, and then Vicar of Shiregreen; he has since become an honorary canon of Sheffield). David was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, followed by Keble College, Oxford, where he was awarded his Oxford Master of Arts (MA Oxon) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees in 1978. He trained for the ministry at Westcott House (1978–1981) and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied theology
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David Thomson (bishop)
Early life & Ordained ministry & Episcopal ministry
(Selwyn awarded his Bachelor of Arts {BA} in 1980 and his Cambridge MA in 1984). Ordained ministry Thomson was made a deacon at Petertide 1981 (28 June) and ordained a priest the Petertide following (27 June 1982) – both times by David Lunn, Bishop of Sheffield, at Sheffield Cathedral. He served as assistant curate in the Maltby, South Yorkshire team ministry (1981–1984), and then Team Vicar of St Mary's Church, Banbury (1984–1994), Team Rector of Cockermouth (1994–2002) and finally, before being ordained to the episcopate, the Archdeacon of Carlisle and a canon residentiary of Carlisle Cathedral (2002–2008). Episcopal ministry Thomson
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David Thomson (bishop)
Episcopal ministry & Academic career
was consecrated as a bishop by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Southwark Cathedral on 3 July 2008 and installed as Bishop of Huntingdon in Ely Cathedral on 17 October that year. During a lengthy vacancy in neighbouring Suffolk's diocesan see (while that diocese had no suffragan) from 20 October 2013 to 7 May 2015, he was also the Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. He retired on 30 September 2018. Academic career A medieval historian, Thomson is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical Society as well as an FRSA. His academic
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David Thomson (bishop)
Academic career & Personal life
works include A Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical Texts (1979) and An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts (1984). His most recent work was on the Bewcastle Cross. He has also published a series of devotional books, A Journey with John, Lent with Luke, Christmas by Candelight and Ways to Pray. Personal life Thomson has been married since 1974, with four children; his interests include detective fiction, crosswords, gardening, photography and fine art.
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David Tuveson
Education and Training & Career
David Tuveson Education and Training David Tuveson received a B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. He received an M.D.-Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1994, where his Ph.D. adviser was Douglas Fearon. He completed a residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital from 1994-1997. From 1997-2000, he pursued a Fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. During this time, he also performed postdoctoral research in mouse models of lung cancer in the laboratory of Tyler Jacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career Following completion of his fellowship training, Tuveson
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David Tuveson
Career & Research
started his own laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Assistant Professor of Medicine from 2002-2006. In 2006, he moved to the Cambridge Research Institute, where he was a Senior Group Leader and a Professor of Pancreatic Cancer Medicine. In 2012, he took a position as a group leader and The Deputy Director of the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Oncogene. Research During his postdoctoral training in the Jacks Laboratory, Tuveson learned how to engineer mouse models to study human cancer. During this time, he also studied gastrointestinal
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David Tuveson
Research
stromal tumors (GISTs), and worked with Dr. George Demetri to develop imatinib as a treatment for GIST. When he started his own laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, Tuveson developed some of the first genetically engineered mouse models to aid in the study of pancreatic cancer. Using these mice, Tuveson has made several important discoveries in the biology of pancreatic cancer, including the work that contributed to the idea that the stromal cells of pancreatic tumors act as a barrier for therapies. He later partnered with Hans Clevers to develop pancreatic cancer organoids – tumor cells taken from a human
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David Tuveson
Research & Honors and awards
patient and cultured in the laboratory as three-dimensional spheres. He is working with the National Cancer Institute to develop organoids for use in personalized medicine approaches to treating cancer. Honors and awards David Tuveson was given an AACR-PanCAN Career Development Award in Pancreatic Cancer research in 2003. He was also the recipient of an M.L. Smith Award in 2003 and a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Award in 2004. He has also received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the Lustgarten Foundation.
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David Watkins (designer)
Life
David Watkins (designer) David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Life Watkins was born in Wolverhampton in 1940 and he is a graduate of the University of Reading (1963 Fine Arts) where he met his life long partner Wendy Ramshaw. Ramshaw is a Royal Designer for Industry and he has produced work for the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C960/74) with
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David Watkins (designer)
Life
Watkins in 2006 for its Crafts Lives collection held by the British Library. In 2009 Graham Hughes wrote a joint biography of Watkins and his wife and fellow designer Wendy Ramshaw. In 2010 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, titled Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972-2010).
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David William Lister Read
Biography
David William Lister Read David William Lister Read (23 April 1922 - 2 July 2015) was an author of autobiographical works which reveal a profound knowledge of Maasai history. He lived the life of a "white Maasai" and could speak their language before his own native English. Born in Nairobi, Read spent his formative years in what is now Tanzania, a country to which he would always return. Read spent his twilight years lives in Momella near Arusha in northern Tanzania, where he continued to work on his writing until his death. Biography Read was born to British parents in
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David William Lister Read
Biography
Kenya, on 23 April 1922 according to the author's website, 1921 according to the biographical note in Waters of the Sanjan. Left on her own with young David, his mother eventually sought a living in Maasailand when Read was seven, there she ran a small hotel and traded with the Maasai. Here too, Read spent the next seven years of childhood, a period during which his playmates were the Maasai children. Maasai became his first language, followed by Swahili before English, and he ran wild with his friends learning a lot about the Maasai way of life and associating closely
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David William Lister Read
Biography
with nature and the wildlife. Totally accepted as a Maasai by the tribe, he took part in meat festivals and other tribal gatherings and ceremonies. At the age of 14, Read was sent to school in Arusha. His schooling was completed by Correspondence Course when he was employed as an apprentice Metallurgist by the Tanganyika Department of Geological Survey. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Kenya Regiment and later trained with the Royal Air Force and served with the King's African Rifles in Abyssinia, Madagascar and Burma. After the War, he commanded the Uganda contingent in the
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David William Lister Read
Biography
Victory Parade in London and joined the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, where he spent the next six years. During this time, he covered areas that included parts of Maasailand when he was able to renew his former close association with that tribe. Having eventually acquired a farm of his own on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, also in Maasailand, he went on to become a leading farming figure and prominent landowner in Tanganyika and was Chairman of the Tanganyika Farmers Association from 1973 to 1975. However, after Independence was granted to Tanganyika in 1961, his properties began to be gradually eroded, during which
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Biography
period he was employed part-time by the Anglo American Corporation in Zambia as an Agricultural Consultant. By 1975 the Tanzania Government had acquired the last of his properties and he left Tanzania for Zambia, and then South Africa, where he again tried his hand at farming, an interlude in his life that proved far from happy or satisfactory. Finally in 1979 he returned to Kenya to join Lima Limited as their Agricultural Consultant. Read is married and has one daughter. He is unquestionably a leading authority on the people of Eastern Africa, speaking several African dialects, but it was with the
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Biography & Relevance
Maasai that he spent his formative years, and with whom he has been most closely associated ever since. Relevance Read's works, covering a period of seven decades, not only describe a unique life starting from the adoption of the young boy by the magnificent Maasai tribe whose influence never ceased through his adolescence and manhood; it is also an ethnographic document of a native African group, who rely on oral tradition and whose knowledge and history is, by the accuracy and the empathy which characterise Read's novels, preserved from amnesia.
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David Wilshire
Outside of Parliament
David Wilshire Outside of Parliament He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge where he received an MA in Geography in 1965. He was a councillor on Wansdyke District Council from 1976 to 1987 and served as leader from 1981 to 1987. He was elected as councillor on Avon County Council from 1977 to 1981. He also worked for Conservative MEPs from 1979 to 1985. As well as building up his own group of small businesses and working as a personnel officer and a schoolteacher, he was a partner with Western Political Research Services (1979–2000); the co-director of
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David Wilshire
Outside of Parliament & Section 28 and sexual orientation issues
Political Management Programme, Brunel University (1985–90) and became a partner of Moorlands Research Service in 2000. David Wilshire is separated with one son. In 1982 his daughter died, aged 12, after choking at school. His main home is in Somerset, where he lives with his partner Ann Palmer. Section 28 and sexual orientation issues Shortly after being elected as an MP in 1987, Wilshire saw a copy of the book Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin, about two gay men and their daughter, a copy of which was stocked in an Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) teachers' resource centre. Wilshire said
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Section 28 and sexual orientation issues
of it: "the book portrays a child living with two men ... [and] clearly shows that as an acceptable family relationship". As a result, with the support of Dame Jill Knight, Wilshire introduced Section 28 as an amendment to the Local Government Bill at the committee stage. The amendment made it illegal for local authorities to "promote homosexuality or ... promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality". Section 28 became a major political issue. In April 1988, a national demonstration of more than 30,000 was held in London. 'Stop the Clause' groups sprang up in most
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Section 28 and sexual orientation issues
cities, which organised local protests to complement national action. One evening, the BBC's Six O'Clock News headlines were disrupted by shouts of "Stop Clause 28!" and when the clause was debated in the Lords, protesting lesbians abseiled from the public gallery down to the floor of the House. The actor Ian McKellen described Wilshire and Knight as the "ugly sisters" of a political pantomime. In 2003, in a rare public speech about his role on Section 28, Mr Wilshire stated: "Little did I realise what I was unleashing ... I got a fair amount of hate mail and a fair
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amount of publicity, most of it unflattering." He added that the bill had always been about misuse of taxpayers' money, and not bigotry. The ban was eventually reversed by Parliament in 2003. Mr Wilshire was one of 76 MPs to vote against the repeal. In 2000 Wilshire voted to prohibit teachers from introducing steps to prevent bullying on the grounds of homosexuality in a later Local Government Bill. Mr Wilshire voted against homosexual couples being allowed to adopt children in 2002, against the Civil Partnership Bill of 2004, which granted a legal relationship for same-sex couples and against Equality Act (Sexual
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Section 28 and sexual orientation issues & Political views
Orientation) in 2007, which outlawed discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities, services, education and public functions on the grounds of sexual orientation. In each case Wilshire's vote was in the minority. Political views Wilshire voted against bans on hunting and smoking, and voted both for and against the Iraq War. He opposed the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and was one of the first Conservative MPs to declare that he would never support UK entry into a single European currency. In 1995 David Wilshire protested to the then prime minister, John Major, about the government's proposals to allow people from
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Political views
Hong Kong to live in the UK. He received criticism by stating: "It's not acceptable to the British people to let in one more … this country is full up." David Wilshire voted against the introduction of the National Minimum Wage in 1999 by opposing the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. In 2009 he became one of 11 MPs to back the Employment Opportunities Bill, which aimed to abolish the minimum wage, but was defeated in Parliament. He opposed the idea that MPs should not have second jobs and stated that "state employed parliamentarians" would be something that "Stalin would applaud". He combined
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David Wilshire
Political views
being an MP with being the partner of Moorlands Research Service for eight years and from 1987 to 1990 combined being an MP with two other jobs. He was one of 21 Conservative MPs to vote in favour of keeping the additional costs allowance for MPs' second homes, despite David Cameron's calls for it to be reformed. He went against the official Conservative Party line and supported the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport, which, although it lies just outside the Spelthorne constituency, nevertheless provides employment for a considerable number of people locally. Wilshire described those that opposed the
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Political views & Expenses scandal
expansion as the "anti-brigade", which included the Conservative Party leader David Cameron, whom he accused of peddling a "lie" that transit passengers at Heathrow spent almost nothing. Expenses scandal In 2009, Wilshire was among the majority of MPs exposed in the expenses scandal, and faced considerable hostility from his constituents. He was originally questioned by his local newspaper, the Staines Informer, about why he had claimed the maximum allowance for a second home in London when his constituency home was in a commuter belt. During the interview he stated: "In 22 years of living in London, I have always furnished the
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Expenses scandal
flat out of my own pocket." However, four days later The Daily Telegraph revealed that Wilshire had an unusual arrangement whereby he claimed thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money for monthly payments towards the cost of interior decoration for his London flat, even though he didn't have to provide any receipts for the work. Wilshire was questioned about this by his local newspaper again, in which he said he was "embarrassed, sad and sorry", but he revealed that he had not spent the money allocated to him for decoration on this yet, but would do in the future, and therefore
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he refused to pay the money back or resign. It later emerged that Wilshire had spent over £1,000 of taxpayers' money on furniture in 2004, which contradicted his previous claims. When challenged on this, he refused to give an interview but sent an email to the local press in which he stated that: "I obtained the cheapest self-assembly replacement available from MFI". However, even this email caused him more problems, as in it he stated that he had bought the flat in 1983 — four years before he had become an MP and four years before when he previously revealed he
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had bought it. He later wrote a letter to the paper stating that he did buy the flat in 1987 and that the paper's journalists had been forgetful about facts he had told them, and had confused "furnishing a property with repairing it". The newspaper replied that it stood by what it had reported. When local demands grew for Wilshire to meet his constituents over the claims, Mr Wilshire expressed that he would only meet them one-to-one, and would not hold a public meeting. As a result, the 'Conservative Anti-Corruption Group' was formed, which aimed to oust Wilshire at the 2010
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General Election. One of its members included a former Conservative councillor and canvassing partner of Mr Wilshire. Shortly afterwards, at a Spelthorne Conservative Association Meeting, six members of the Conservative Party announced they were prepared to stand against him at the 2010 General Election. Following further investigation by The Daily Telegraph, on 14 October 2009, Wilshire asked the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to investigate his office expenses. Wilshire admitted using parliamentary expenses to pay £105,000 over three years to Moorlands Research Services, a company he set up and owned with his partner Anne Palmer to run his office, but insisted it was
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approved by the authorities. Parliamentary expenses rules forbid MPs from entering into arrangements which "may give rise to an accusation" of profiting from public funds. Wilshire told the BBC that he had referred himself to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner as the only way to answer the questions about his expenses, and that the company had never made a profit and had been wound up. Moorlands Research Services was never registered with Companies House, and never filed public accounts. The following day, Wilshire announced that he would stand down as an MP, saying that he was reluctant to do this, but
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Expenses scandal & Other controversies
accepted it was the 'sensible' thing to do. On 2 November 2009, when the Parliamentary Standards Commission ended its probe into him without producing any results, Wilshire apologised for equating his treatment over expenses to the Holocaust. He also faced a public and media backlash at the same time for stating that his salary of £64,000 per year was "close to the minimum wage." Other controversies In 2000 Wilshire threatened to sue for defamation against a Labour Party member who wrote in the Heathrow Villager that the MP was scaremongering and misleading the public about the only hospital remaining in his
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Other controversies
seat. Wilshire received criticism as the author of the piece emerged to be a cancer-suffering pensioner who was being treated at the hospital. The Guardian, which had previously been compared to the Third Reich by Wilshire, described him as "Britain's stupidest MP" as a result. Perhaps less controversially, Wilshire was among opponents to the unprecedented proposal that Princess Diana speak in the House of Commons about landmines in 1997, following an invitation from the newly elected Labour government. She ultimately decided not to speak, following this opposition. In 2008 he was the subject of a parliamentary enquiry after it was claimed that
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Other controversies & First Council of Europe Official Visit to Separatist Georgian State's Moscow Outpost
he raised thousands of pounds for his local party by hosting constituents on visits to the House of Commons. The enquiry cleared him of any wrongdoing. He joined Mrs Thatcher in calling for the former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet, to be released, when he was under house arrest in London in 1998. First Council of Europe Official Visit to Separatist Georgian State's Moscow Outpost On 20 April 2010, as Co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) he held a meeting with member of the government of separatist South Ossetia (Georgia) in the self-proclaimed
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First Council of Europe Official Visit to Separatist Georgian State's Moscow Outpost & Other information
Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in Moscow. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that: [We] express strong protest over this deplorable fact. Georgia fully respects the liberty of a parliamentarian, however Mr. Wilshire, the member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was acting in his capacity of the Assembly's Co-rapporteur, hence representing the whole organization. This is the first instance of an official representative of an international organization holding a meeting in the premises of the "Embassy" of the proxy regime. Other information In 2003 he pushed successfully to have Council of Europe officials
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Other information
look into the UK to assess whether it is necessary to officially monitor the UK's voting procedures. He said the then government had failed to put its "house in order" to prevent fraudulent voting and accused the government of "systematically ignoring" pleas from the Electoral Commission. "If the British government won't put its own house in order, you mustn't be surprised if there are some of us who will try to find someone else who will make them put their house in order," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme. He also opposed the introduction of identity cards
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Other information
and called for the removal of innocent children from the United Kingdom National DNA Database. He was parliamentary private secretary to Alan Clark in 1991, the PPS to Peter Lloyd from 1992 to 1994, and was a Conservative whip in the House of Commons from 2001 to 2005. He was a member of the Northern Ireland Select Committee (1994–97), a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (1997–2000) and became a member of the Transport Select Committee and of the chairman's Panel in 2005. He was also elected on to the executive of the Conservatives' 1922 Committee in 2005.
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Davida Teller
Personal life and education
Davida Teller Personal life and education Davida Young Teller was born in Yonkers, New York on July 25, 1938, to David and Jean (Sturges) Young. Davida and her four siblings (Richard, Jean Poole, Daniel, and Samuel) spent their childhood years in Connecticut. Davida attended Swarthmore College on a fellowship. After graduation, she attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her PhD degree in the field of psychology, with Professor Tom Cornsweet as her dissertation advisor. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Horace Barlow at the University of California, Berkeley. Davida Young married David C. Teller (d.
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Davida Teller
Personal life and education & Academic appointment
2019), who received a PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965, and who subsequently became a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington. The couple had two children: Stephen and Sara. Following a divorce, Davida married her second husband, Anthony W. Young (d. 2016), an oceanography technician and later, a customs clerk. Davida Teller died on October 11, 2011, in Seattle, Washington. Academic appointment In 1965, Davida Teller joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington as a Research Assistant Professor. In 1967, she received a joint appointment
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Davida Teller
Academic appointment & Visual detection and discrimination
in the Department of Physiology/Biophysics. She remained a faculty member in both departments until 2004, when she retired and was granted Emerita status. Teller's talent as an educator was recognized formally when the graduate students in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington established the Davida Teller Distinguished Faculty Award. This award is presented annually to a faculty member chosen by the graduate students. Professor Teller was the award's first recipient. Visual detection and discrimination Teller's initial research studies were focused on the spatial and temporal properties of a phenomenon first described by Professor Gerald Westheimer and sometimes
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Davida Teller
Visual detection and discrimination & Visual development
referred to as the “Westheimer effect” or the “Westheimer function.” In this phenomenon, which Teller termed “spatial sensitization,” the detectability of a test light is first decreased and then increased by adding light to successively larger surrounding or annular regions. Westheimer proposed that the increase in detectability with surround illumination might represent the manifestation of lateral inhibition within the retina, and this possibility motivated Teller's interest in the phenomenon. Visual development In the early 1970s, following the birth of her children, Davida Teller began her studies of infant visual development that were to be the main topic of her research
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Visual development
for the remainder of her career. In order to assess the visual capabilities of infants, she combined the visual preference technique of Robert L. Fantz with signal detection theory. The result was the forced-choice preferential looking (FPL) procedure. In this approach, an observer who is masked as to the location of a visual target has to judge the location of the target based on the direction of an infant’s gaze. Some characteristic of the target, such as its size, color, or speed of movement, is varied across trials. A psychometric function is then derived in which the observer's percent correct
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Visual development
value is plotted as a function of target attribute. The level of target attribute that corresponds to a criterion percent correct value is used as the measure of the sensory threshold. The FPL technique, which has also been applied to infant monkeys, has produced a wealth of information about normal and abnormal visual development. However, an unresolved issue is the extent to which the FPL technique (or any psychophysical technique, for that matter) measures the best possible visual capacity of an infant, animal, or patient. Interest in a clinical application of the FPL procedure led Teller and her colleagues to develop
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Davida Teller
Visual development
the Teller Acuity Cards, which are now used in eye clinics around the world to measure the visual acuity of infants and young children as well as of non-verbal older individuals. On one side of each card is a pattern of black and white stripes (square wave grating). The remainder of the card consists of a uniform gray matched to the average light level of the stripes. Each card contains a different stripe width. The tester observes the infant through a peephole in the center of the card and attempts to determine the side that contains the stripes, based on
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Davida Teller
Visual development & Linking propositions
the infant's looking behavior. The smallest stripe width that elicits a reliable judgment of stripe location by the observer provides a measure of the visual acuity of the infant or young child. Linking propositions A major theme underlying Davida Teller's research was the nature of the relationship between visual phenomena and their neural underpinnings. This interest stemmed in part from G. S. Brindley's discussion of what he termed "psychophysical linking hypotheses." Her interest was also stimulated by the ideas of her postdoctoral mentor, Professor Barlow, about the "neuron doctrine," which explored the "relationship between the firing of single neurons in
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Davida Teller
Linking propositions
sensory pathways and subjectively experienced sensations." Teller formalized her thinking on this topic in publications that described “linking propositions,” i.e. assumptions about the relationship between perceptual and physiological states. In her article "Linking Propositions," Teller (1984) severely criticized the casual use of such assumptions, discussing logical problems including lack of face validity. She concludes that: "..visual scientists often introduce unacknowledged, non-rigorous steps into their arguments...It would seem useful...to encourage visual scientists to make linking propositions explicit, so that linking propositions can be subjected to the requirements of consistency and the risks of falsification appropriate to the evaluation of all scientific propositions."
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Davida Teller
Linking propositions & Advocacy for women in science
Surprisingly, perhaps, many, if not all, of the propositions flagged by Teller continue to form the basis of data interpretation in psychophysics today. An interest in linking propositions can be seen in Teller's early work on spatial sensitization, which was thought to represent the action of lateral inhibition, and it remained a theme of her research on infant vision, in which she sought to define the constraints imposed on infant visual performance by the developing central nervous system. Advocacy for women in science Beginning with her graduate student years in Berkeley, California, Davida Teller was a strong supporter of, and
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Davida Teller
Advocacy for women in science
model for, the role of women in science and academia. Teller's long-standing advocacy for women in science was recognized formally following her death by the establishment of the Davida Teller Award of the Vision Sciences Society. This award is presented annually to a woman who has made exceptional contributions to the field of vision science and who has a strong history of mentoring.
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Day of Chaos
Plot
Day of Chaos Plot Following the death of Byron Ambrose, the Mayor of Mega-City One, an election for a new mayor is scheduled. Hennessey, a psychic cadet judge with precognitive powers, predicts that a major catastrophe will occur on election day, and also predicts that a certain unidentified person will be murdered. At the same time an assassin called Nadia arrives in Mega-City One, intending to bring the predicted disaster about. Meeting with a group of terrorists, Nadia orders the very murder which Hennessey predicted, which once discovered adds credence to Hennessey's other predictions. Nadia's group kidnaps scientist Elmore Yurges, a
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biological warfare expert who had been working on making a weaponised form of toxoplasma gondii. The natural form of the disease is not usually fatal, but Yurges's creation kills 98 to 99 per cent of those infected, within four days of exposure, during which they descend into murderous psychosis and become uncontrollably violent. Yurges's knowledge is essential to manufacture the weapon, and he and his family are abducted and taken out of the city. However Nadia herself remains behind, intending to kill Dredd in revenge for him bringing about the destruction of her home city in the Apocalypse War thirty
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years earlier – it emerges that Nadia is a Soviet agent from East-Meg One. In her attempt on Dredd's life, Dredd is severely wounded, but survives, while Nadia is gunned down by other judges. Nadia had been working for Colonel Yevgeny Borisenko, an East-Meg One intelligence officer who had been blinded by the flash of the nuclear explosion which destroyed his city, and who has been planning the destruction of Dredd's city ever since. Yurges and his family are brought to him, and by threatening to torture the family, Borisenko coerces Yurges to make him a biological weapon, which Borisenko intends
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Plot
to unleash on Mega-City One. To trick Mega-City One into thinking they have killed Yurges and that there is no longer a threat, Borisenko feeds them disinformation, making it appear that Yurges is being held in a compound somewhere else. Mega-City One's Strategic Defence Committee decides to bomb the fake compound to oblivion, outvoting Dredd, who argues that the only way to be certain that the threat has been eliminated is to send ground troops. By bombing the compound, the only evidence that Yurges was never there is destroyed. Meanwhile a notorious serial killer, PJ Maybe, who escaped from custody in
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the story immediately before Day of Chaos, is on the loose, having assumed a fake identity. On light duties due to his injuries, Dredd assigns judges Logan, Beeny and Roake to find Maybe. However during a televised debate between the election candidates, Maybe kidnaps the mayor (Ambrose's successor), murders three other election candidates, and escapes. He kills the mayor by hanging him from Byron Ambrose Bridge. Hennessey predicts more murders, including her own but not in time to prevent it. All of her predictions prove to be correct, including the death of one of Yurges's sons while attempting to escape, and
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Day of Chaos
Plot
so the Judges learn that Yurges is alive. Clues in Hennessey's visions uncover his true location, and this time Dredd gets his way: the compound is raided by soldiers, accompanied by Dredd, who discovers evidence that the bio-weapon has been completed. He warns the city, which seals its borders, but Borisenko has already sent agents infected with the deadly disease – named the "Chaos Bug" – to spread the infection. Signals intelligence leads the judges to Borisenko's location, and he is captured, but Yurges is killed. Borisenko gloats that it is too late to stop the Chaos Bug from killing everyone
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in the city, before he is killed by a sleeper agent. With no time to prepare a vaccine, the Judges' only hope is to intercept all the infected agents, but they fail to, and during their investigation Judge Roake is killed by an enemy agent. As the disease is incurable and causes outbursts of extreme violence in those infected, a senior judge, Judge Vass, proposes that the hundreds of affected people already quarantined should be humanely killed and buried outside the city. However Chief Judge Francisco is horrified and vetoes the idea. The Judges' troubles are compounded when terrorists in league
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with Borisenko's organisation destroy the Statue of Judgement, which contains the headquarters of the Public Surveillance Unit, an essential arm of judicial control. Without the deterrent effect of being constantly monitored, the city's criminal element embark on a frenzy of looting and mayhem, until the now seriously handicapped Justice Department loses control of the streets. As the Chaos Bug takes hold of the population, the Judges warn the citizens to report themselves if they show any signs of illness, pretending that they can be cured. This tactic is largely successful and almost contains the outbreak, until another sleeper agent, Judge Haldane,
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leaks Vass's plan to the press. This not only discourages infected people from coming forward, but also provokes a violent reaction from the furious citizenry, and the rioting quickly degenerates into outright civil war. Law and order break down to the point where the Judges are completely overwhelmed, and sustain heavy casualties. The Academy of Law (where all cadet judges live) is destroyed in a co-ordinated terrorist attack, killing most of the cadets and threatening the long-term future of the Justice Department itself. Taking responsibility for these events, Vass resigns. As the Chaos Bug spreads unimpeded, Haldane causes further havoc
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by freeing the undead Dark Judges from their captivity. True to form, the genocidal Dark Judges begin slaughtering everyone they can find (Haldane included), until in a bizarre twist of fate they are captured by PJ Maybe. With the whole city engulfed in violence, and most of the population now infected, the chief judge realises that the city can no longer be saved, and in desperation he adopts a version of Vass's plan: those infected are to be killed, and the infected areas of the city abandoned, while certain other buildings are to be established as "safe blocks" where the uninfected
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citizens might survive. After just a few days, the epidemic begins to subside as the Chaos Bug weakens, Yurges having designed it to become less potent with each onward transmission. But by this time 350 million citizens have died, either in the fighting or as a direct result of infection, out of an initial population of 400 million, and much of the city lies in ruins. With over 87 per cent of the population having died on his watch, Chief Judge Francisco resigns, and hands over power to his predecessor, Judge Hershey. Dredd warns her "The Mega-City One we knew is
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gone, Hershey. We have to accept that and move on."
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Dayton Township, Butler County, Iowa
Geography
Dayton Township, Butler County, Iowa Geography Dayton Township covers an area of 36.59 square miles (94.8 km²) and contains no incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Coldwater.
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De Guitenstreken van Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans
Plot
De Guitenstreken van Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans Plot The film follows Jopie and Dickie as they play pranks on their environment and are punished for it.
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De Pijp metro station
History
De Pijp metro station History The station, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, is situated beneath the Ferdinand Bolstraat in the De Pijp neighbourhood. Because of the narrow constraints of the site location, between the foundations of adjoining buildings, the station has two levels, with a platform on each level. Each platform is 125 metres long and 5.3 metres wide (3 meters at its narrowest points). There are ten escalators (five per platform) as well as lifts to the mezzanine level. The lower level platform with southbound services to Zuid is 26.5 meters below street level, while the upper level platform
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De Pijp metro station
History
with northbound services to Noord is 16.5 meters below street level. This makes De Pijp station the deepest station on the Noord/Zuidlijn and the deepest metro station in the Netherlands. In May 2013, a municipal advisory committee selected artwork by Argentinian artist Amalia Pica for this station. It is a multicolored painting that will run the entire span of the wall of the mezzanine level. The station has two entrances, one at Albert Cuypstraat and Ferdinand Bolstraat and one at Ceintuurbaan and Ferdinand Bolstraat. The existing corner buildings at each station entrance location had been demolished. The first designs for the new
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De Pijp metro station
History
residential buildings were presented in April 2014.
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De Sterrenberg, Nijeveen
History
De Sterrenberg, Nijeveen History The windmill in Nijeveen was demolished in 1928. In the 1970s, it was decided that Nijeveen should have a windmill again, and a search was made for a suitable replacement. De Sterrenberg was originally built at Weener, Lower Saxony, Germany in 1786. The mill was dismantled in 1976 and rebuilt brick by brick in Nijeveen. The mill is named for its former owners in Germany, the Sterrenberg family. On 13 January 1977, the smock was placed on the new brick base. The millwright responsible for the rebuild was the firm Schakel of Exmorra, Friesland. The base
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De Sterrenberg, Nijeveen
History & Description
was built by the firm Elphenhof of De Wijk. The official opening ceremony on 11 August 1977 was performed by Prince Claus. The mill was damaged in a storm in March 1995 with various shutters being blown out of the sails. The mill was repaired by the end of that year. Major repairs to the sails were undertaken in 2002-03. Description De Sterrenberg is what the Dutch describe as an achtkante stellingmolen, or "octagonal tower mill". It is a smock mill with a stage on a three-storey brick base. The stage is 6.15 metres (20 ft 2 in) above ground level. The
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De Sterrenberg, Nijeveen
Description
smock and cap are thatched. The cap is winded by a fantail, the only windmill in Drenthe so equipped. The four Patent sails have a span of 23.00 metres (75 ft 6 in). They are carried in a wooden windshaft with a cast iron poll end. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel, which has 61 cogs. The brake wheel drives the wallower (30 cogs) at the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft, the great spur wheel, which has 86 cogs, drives the two lantern pinion stone nuts, which have 28 staves each. These drive the
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De Sterrenberg, Nijeveen
Description & Public access
millstones. One pair are Cullen stones of 1.30 metres (4 ft 3 in) diameter. The other pair have a French Burr runner stone on a Cullen bedstone, both 1.50 metres (4 ft 11 in) diameter. Public access De Sterrenberg is open every Saturday from 09:00 to 12:30.
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Dead Tooth
Plot & Reception
Dead Tooth Plot When complaints to the police about him bringing Hope to work with him are made, Jimmy realizes he needs a daycare service for her. The Chances go to Sabrina for help and she directs them to her cousin, Shelley (Kate Micucci), whom Jimmy had hooked up with two years previously. In exchange for free daycare service, Shelley dates Jimmy again, but he has to call it off when he realises his feelings for Sabrina. Reception In its original American broadcast, "Dead Tooth" was viewed by an estimated 7.09 million viewers with a 3.1 rating/8% share among adults
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Dead Tooth
Reception
between the ages of 18 and 49. There was mixed reviews from critics, though multiple praised the performance of Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw. Many also praised the performance of Kate Micucci and Martha Plimpton. "The Voice of TV" ultimately gave the episode a B+.
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Deadwood Reservoir
Summer
Deadwood Reservoir Summer The temperature can get hot in late July and early August. Rain and wind may frequent the area unpredictably. The climate is much like that of other high mountain lakes in Idaho.
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Dean Fearing
Career
Dean Fearing William Dean Fearing (born 1955) is an American chef known as "The Father of Southwestern Cuisine." Career Dean Fearing was executive chef for 20 years at Dallas' The Mansion on Turtle Creek, leaving in 2007 to start his own restaurant, Fearing's, in partnership with Ritz-Carlton. He is the host of a national television show, Entertaining at Home with Dean Fearing, airing on Food Network, and author of three cookbooks, Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook, Dean Fearing's Southwest Cuisine: Blending Asia and the Americas and The Texas Food Bible: From Legendary Dishes to New Classics. In 2008, the Zagat
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Dean Fearing
Career & Television
guide gave Fearing's the top spot on its list of the best in hotel dining, simultaneously announcing the Dallas Ritz-Carlton as the U.S.' best large hotel. Television Fearing made several appearances in the acclaimed PBS series "Great Chefs" which aired in the early to mid 1980s. He made his debut in Episode #2 of "Great Chefs of the West" preparing an appetizer of Warm Lobster Tacos with Yellow Salsa and Jicama Salad. Fearing was featured again in Episode #11 offering up an entree of California Free Range Chicken with Tobacco Onions. His final appearance in the "West" series (Episode #23)