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Who is the current UN Secretary General, in office since 2007? | Biography | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UN/Mark Garten Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. His priorities have been to mobilize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval to pandemics and increasing pressures involving food, energy and water. He has sought to be a bridge-builder, to give voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the Organization itself. "I grew up in war", the Secretary-General has said, "and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this Organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights." Mr. Ban took office on 1 January 2007. On 21 June 2011, he was unanimously re-elected by the General Assembly and will continue to serve until 31 December 2016. Highlights of his tenure include: Promoting sustainable development One of the Secretary-General’s first major initiatives was the 2007 Climate Change Summit , followed by extensive diplomatic efforts that have helped put the issue at the forefront of the global agenda. Subsequent efforts to focus on the world’s main anti-poverty targets, the Millennium Development Goals , have generated more than $60 billion in pledges, with a special emphasis on Africa and the new Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health. At the height of the food, energy and economic crises in 2008, the Secretary-General successfully appealed to the G20 for a $1 trillion financing package for developing countries and took other steps to guide the international response and protect the vulnerable and poor. Empowering women The Secretary-General pressed successfully for the creation of UN Women , a major new agency that consolidates the UN’s work in this area. His advocacy for women’s rights and gender equality has also included the " Unite to End Violence against Women " campaign, the " Stop Rape Now " initiative, the creation of a " Network of Men Leaders " and the establishment of a new Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict . Within the UN itself, the Secretary-General has increased the number of women in senior management positions by more than 40 per cent, reaching the highest level in the Organization’s history. Supporting countries facing crisis or instability The Secretary-General has sought to strengthen UN peace efforts, including through the New Horizons peacekeeping initiative, the Global Field Support Strategy and the Civilian Capacity Review , a package of steps to improve the impact of the 120,000 United Nations "blue helmets" operating in the world’s conflict zones. A mediation support unit, along with new capacity to carry out the Secretary-General’s good offices, have been set up to help prevent, manage and resolve tensions, conflicts and crises. Accountability for violations of human rights has received high-level attention through inquiries related to Gaza, Guinea, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, legal processes in Lebanon and Cambodia, and advocacy for the "responsibility to protect," the new United Nations norm aimed at prevent and halt genocide and other grave crimes. He has also sought to strengthen humanitarian response in the aftermath of mega-disasters in Myanmar (2008), Haiti (2010) and Pakistan (2010), and mobilized UN support for the democratic transitions in North Africa and the Middle East. Generating new momentum on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation The Secretary-General has sought to rejuvenate the disarmament agenda through a five-point plan , efforts to break the deadlock at the Conference on Disarmament and renewed attention to nuclear safety and security in the aftermath of the tragedy at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Strengthening the UN The Secretary-Generalhas introduced new measures aimed at making the United Nations more transparent, effective and efficient. These inclu |
Croughton All Saints Primary School is based on the High Street in the Village. | L'école primaire de Croughton All Saints est basée sur High Street dans le village. |
is irap a creditable tax? | Effective January 1, 1998, Italy repealed ILOR and replaced it with IRAP, which allows no deductions for labor and interest expenses. ... The result of this new treaty is to make IRAP creditable for U.S. tax purposes irrespective of whether it could be creditable under sections 901 and 903 of the code. |
Does anyone know where I can get sneak peeks from the new season of LOST? | http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing\n\nyou can view recent episodes |
what is walnut meal | Natural walnut meal, made from fresh ground walnuts. Add to any baking or cooking recipe for a delicious nutty flavor. This product is certified Star-K Kosher Pareve under the strict supervision of the Star-K agency. |
A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. | Destacó como historiador cultural y es principalmente conocido por su obra sobre el Renacimiento, además de por numerosas biografías sobre escritores y artistas. |
his feelings to her. Nayan has a bedridden father and two elder sisters waiting to get married. He is the most sober and also a tee-to-teller among the four. He always gives his friends useful advice despite of his own household problems. When his father dies, Nayan leaves home to work with an uncle in a distant township. Tapan lives with his two elder brothers and a sister-in-law in their ancestral house. He is always shabbily treated by his sister-in-law for his no contribution to the family and reminded that he is living off his brother's earnings. His middle elder brother Dhiraj demands his parental property which is readily denied by his sister-in-law. this led Dhiraj to plan killing their elder brother and asks Tapan to join him. Here Tapan is caught between. He jointly run a PCO with Akan but it earns just enough for the evening's buzz. He spends his time with his friends often sharing a round of drinks after dusk. Akan is a happy-go-lucky boy. He jointly runs a PCO with Tapan. He stays in a rented house which is often the place of drinking in the mornings, afternoons and evenings. Cast | International Film Festival of India 2008 in Goa held from 22 November to 2 December. Plot Manab (Zubeen Garg), Nayan (Pabitra Margherita), Tapan (Gyanendra Pallab) and Akan (Nabadeep Borgohain) are four unemployed educated youths from lower-middle-class families of Tinsukia. When his father dies, Nayan leaves home to work with an uncle in a distant township. One day the trio - Manab, Tapan and Akan are rounded up by police as terror suspects. Although they are bailed out three days later, that incident left them with a terror stamp that stands in their way of getting a clean job. This led them to indulge illegal activities. They hatch a plan for easy money and accordingly kidnap a businessman. But being amateurs, they end up killing the hostage. This create a huge furore but no one suspects the three youths because of their otherwise clean record and family background. The insurgent groups, however, deny their any involvement in the incident. With the passage of time the incidents is forgotten but the repentant trio, though, cannot escape pangs of conscience. One day, Manab's father chances upon Manab's share of the ransom money and learns about his son's involvement in the kidnap-death. This shocks him to such an extent that he disowns his only son and forbids him to even light his pyre. Once again their conscience is stricken. They know they can never forgive themselves. In the meantime Nayan, a well off, arrives from Guwahati and tell them not to indulge in any illegal activities. Nayan, with all his conviction and sincerity, becomes an Assam Civil Service officer and is serving as the Sub-Divisional Officer in Tinsukia. Manab, unable to withstand the sight of his parents and sister leaves home. He travels till he reaches a monastery and devotes himself to service of the people. Tapan, being more aggressive, unwittingly gets involved with an anti-social racket and dies in a police encounter. Akan marries his girlfriend-Sewali and becomes the father of two kids He starts a business but it goes down and he loses his mental balance. The |
visit the site they had sought for decades. The discovery was reported in National Geographic magazine in August 1976. The magazine cover featured a picture of Trail covered in butterflies. Eventually a dozen such sites were located and were protected by the Mexican government as ecological reserves. The area is now a World Heritage Site known as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. The sites are popular with ecotourists who admire the beauty of the massed butterflies. Trail and Brugger's search for the butterflies is dramatized in the IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies. Trail returned to the roosting site in February 2012 as the guest of the filmmakers. Trail and Brugger later moved to Austin, Texas. They separated in 1991 and eventually divorced, after 18 years of marriage and one son. She attended Austin Community College and later the University of Texas at Austin, earning a degree in social work in 1996. In 1995 she married fellow social worker George Trail. She worked as a case manager for an Austin nonprofit organization until her retirement. She now tends her garden and occasionally appears at events promoting the conservation of monarchs and other pollinating insects. "I'm not a scientist," she says. "I'm a gardener that likes insects." In 2012 the State of Mexico presented her with its “Jose Maria Luis Mora” Gold Medal Award to recognize her “relevant and eminent merits and conduct of notable service to | in the search, and for several years they roamed the country on weekends in his Winnebago, searching for the monarchs. They married in 1974. Following clues that pointed toward Michoacán, they hiked the mountains by day and spent the nights in the Winnebago. Finally on January 2, 1975, they found a summit called Cerro Pelón where the trees and even the ground were covered with millions of resting butterflies. Trail was 25 at the time. On January 9 they called the Urquharts to report their find. In early 1976 the Urquharts themselves came to visit the site they had sought for decades. The discovery was reported in National Geographic magazine in August 1976. The magazine cover featured a picture of Trail covered in butterflies. Eventually a dozen such sites were located and were protected by the Mexican government as ecological reserves. The area is now a World Heritage Site known as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. The sites are popular with ecotourists who admire the beauty of the massed butterflies. Trail and Brugger's search for the butterflies is dramatized in the IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies. Trail returned to the roosting site in February 2012 as the guest of the filmmakers. Trail and Brugger later moved |
European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education | Europaparlamentets utskott för kultur och utbildning |
Non-seafood po' boys will also often have Creole mustard. | Po' boy yang tidak menggunakan makanan laut juga akan sering disertai mustard Kreol. |
He was also considered for the post of Justice Minister after Haim Ramon's conviction for sexual harassment, but withdrew his candidacy on 4 February 2007. | Byl rovněž zvažován na post ministra spravedlnosti poté, co byl Chajim Ramon obviněn ze sexuálního obtěžování, ale svou kandidaturu na tento post nakonec 4. února 2007 stáhl. |
In both cases the snow cap, not the rock head, was measured. | En ambdós casos es va mesurar el cim de neu i no de roca. |
This work was completed in 1995 and integrated into the ML Kit, a version of ML based on region allocation in place of garbage collection. | Ce travail fut complété en 1995 et intégré dans le Kit ML Kit, une version de ML basée sur l’allocation par région à la place du ramasse-miettes. |
32132 Andrewamini | 32132 Andrewamini (كويكب) |
Why does an electromagnetic wave referact while traveling through different mediums? | I think you are asking about the change in direction or "bending" of a light ray when it is incident to a boundary between media at a nonperpendicular angle. What seems to me to be key to understanding this is the idea that you can think of a "wavefront" of a light beam, very much like a water wave, and that wavefront motion is always perpendicular to the wavefront (ref. 1 and following pages). Also you can think of the wavefronts as wheeled axles rolling from pavement onto grass, and turning the axle as first one wheel hits the grass, then the other. Each wheel slows down on reaching the grass (ref. 2). The first to reach it turns the axle and the second straightens it out. The result is that the axle and direction of motion have turned. |
The treaty was declared "null and void" on December 26, 1837. | Així, el tractat va ser declarat "nul i buit" ("null and void") el 26 de desembre de 1837. |
Movements that disapprove of zoning, such as New Urbanism and Smart Growth, generally try to reconcile these competing demands. | Рухи, що не схвалюють зонування – такі як Новий Урбанізм і Розумне Зростання – зазвичай намагаються примирити ці конкуруючі вимоги. |
Los Serranos in the Valencian Community, Spain. The name in Valencian is Xulilla, but the | Xulilla, but the local language is Spanish, not Valencian. References Municipalities in |
Deaths in March 2002 | 2002年3月逝世人物列表 |
Divine Mercy Sunday | Chúa Nhật Lòng Chúa Thương Xót |
when he was a teenager, where an unknown woman stood in front of him and chanted those words. Yamaguchi created the song as a seven-minute long rock opera suite, something the song had been even in the initial writing stages. After deciding the theme of their fourth album would be mixing the unmixable, Yamaguchi remembered the song, and felt that this single song could explain the concept of the whole album. He decided that "Me ga Aku Aiiro" should be the leading promotional song off of the album, in order to display parts of Sakanaction the band did not show off on their dance-pop single "Aruku Around", to their new audience who had come to know them through the song. Even though Yamaguchi felt that his band Dutchman could not create the song in 2001, Sakanaction members were skilled enough to be able to complete the song. In particular, he was impressed with the band's bassist Ami Kusakari, who managed to create the vocal chorus section exactly as he imagined, despite him only giving her a rough demo. The string instrument and orchestral instrument recordings were recorded in two different sessions, with the orchestral instruments needing only a single take. Despite this, the song took up much more time than Yamaguchi had intended, with the band members only finishing the song on February 16, 2010, a month before the album's release. Yamaguchi found singing the lower notes of the song difficult, so in his place drummer Keiichi Eshima sings these low notes. Yamaguchi wrote new lyrics to the song, and felt like the song mixed his past self with his present self. He inserted many lyrical gimmicks into the song's lyrics, such as hiding the album's title Kikuuiki in the lyric . This gimmick was the reason that Yamaguchi decided to capitalize the two central letters of the album title (kikUUiki). Yamaguchi felt that the lyrics he wrote were like a first-person novel, using lyrical techniques that he had not personally experimented with before. He wrote the lyrics abstractly, using words that meant a lot to Yamaguchi personally that would not mean anything to outside listeners. He hoped that this technique would move listeners, however without fully understanding why they felt moved. The song was written considering how popular music consumers chose to listen to music in the early 2010s: by listening to samples on a purchasing page, or to ringtone versions of a song, and from there deciding if they like a song or not. Yamaguchi wanted to create a song that was hard to critically review due to its complexity, and that music consumers could not evaluate listening to a single sample. Yamaguchi wrote a song that was similar in style to songs in a Japanese school chorus competition: songs without a chorus but with multiple different verses. He made the first section begin with a kayōkyoku-inspired pop melody, so that the song could be understood by casual pop music listeners. Yamaguchi felt | of his high-school band Dutchman. At the time he struggled to create a completed version of the song, feeling that the members of Dutchman could not actualize his vision for the song, and that such a song would make him seem conceited. The phrase me ga aku aiiro came to Yamaguchi in a dream when he was a teenager, where an unknown woman stood in front of him and chanted those words. Yamaguchi created the song as a seven-minute long rock opera suite, something the song had been even in the initial writing stages. After deciding the theme of their fourth album would be mixing the unmixable, Yamaguchi remembered the song, and felt that this single song could explain the concept of the whole album. He decided that "Me ga Aku Aiiro" should be the leading promotional song off of the album, in order to display parts of Sakanaction the band did not show off on their dance-pop single "Aruku Around", to their new audience who had come to know them through the song. Even though Yamaguchi felt that his band Dutchman could not create the song in 2001, Sakanaction members were skilled enough to be able to complete the song. In particular, he was impressed with the band's bassist Ami Kusakari, who managed to create the vocal chorus section exactly as he imagined, despite him only giving her a rough demo. The string instrument and orchestral instrument recordings were recorded in two different sessions, with the orchestral instruments needing only a single take. Despite this, the song took up much more time than Yamaguchi had intended, with the band members only finishing the song on February 16, 2010, a month before the album's release. Yamaguchi found singing the lower notes of the song difficult, so in his place drummer Keiichi Eshima sings these low notes. Yamaguchi wrote new lyrics to the song, and felt like the song mixed his past self with his present self. He inserted many lyrical gimmicks into the song's lyrics, such as hiding the album's title Kikuuiki in the lyric . This |
He wrote a study of British dogs to send to Gesner as a contribution (not used) to his Historiae animalium, and also sent him drawings of dogs, which were printed in later editions of Gesner's work. | Кайус написал исследование британских собак, которое отправил Геснеру в качестве дополнения (не используется) к Historiae Animalium (англ.)русск., а также направил ему рисунки собак, которые напечатаны в более поздних изданиях работ Геснера. |
can i have the list of investment banks in india? | A few are listed here:\n\nICICI\nHDFC\nIndustrial Development Bank of India\nIndustrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI)\nKotak Mahindra Capital Company\nSBI Capital Markets\nSBI Capital Markets Ltd.\nUTI Securities Ltd |
1 kg is equal to how many cubic metre? | More information from the unit converter The answer is 1000. We assume you are converting between kilogram [water] and cubic metre. You can view more details on each measurement unit: kilo gram or cubic metre The SI derived unit for volume is the cubic meter. 1 kilo gram is equal to 0.001 cubic meter. |
and designers Moussa Ayoub (c.1873–1955), Syrian-born British painter and portraiture artist. Khairat Al-Saleh (born 1940), painter, ceramicist, glassmaker and printmaker Nabil Nayal: fashion designer who won the Fashion Trust Grant from the British Fashion Council and the Royal Society of Arts Award Academia Kamal Abu-Deeb (born 1942), Chair of Arabic at the University of London Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999), British physicist of Syrian-descent who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. Writers and journalists Danny Abdul Dayem, citizen-journalist who reported from Homs, Syria between 2011–2012. Mai Badr (born 1968), editor-in-chief of Hia Magazine and deputy editor-in-chief of Sayidaty and Al Jamila. Abdallah Marrash (1839–1900), Syrian writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in London and Paris. Mustapha Karkouti: journalist and media consultant Nadim Nassar, writer, director of the Awareness Foundation and the only British-Syrian priest in the Church of England Rana Kabbani, writer, broadcaster and cultural historian Other Asma al-Assad (born 1975), the First Lady of Syria. Kefah Mokbel: breast surgeon and founder of the UK charity Breast Cancer Hope. In November 2010, he was named in the Times magazine's list of Britain's Top Doctors Sami Khiyami, Syrian diplomat, former Syrian ambassador to London. Shaha Riza | students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. Writers and journalists Danny Abdul Dayem, citizen-journalist who reported from Homs, Syria between 2011–2012. Mai Badr (born 1968), editor-in-chief of Hia Magazine and deputy editor-in-chief of Sayidaty and Al Jamila. Abdallah Marrash (1839–1900), Syrian writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in London and Paris. Mustapha Karkouti: journalist and media consultant Nadim Nassar, writer, director of the Awareness Foundation and the only British-Syrian priest in the Church of England Rana Kabbani, writer, broadcaster and cultural historian Other Asma al-Assad (born 1975), the First Lady of Syria. Kefah Mokbel: breast surgeon and founder of the UK charity Breast Cancer Hope. In November 2010, he was named in the Times magazine's list of Britain's Top Doctors Sami Khiyami, Syrian diplomat, former Syrian ambassador to London. Shaha Riza (born c.1953), a Libyan former World Bank employee. Mustafa Suleyman: entrepreneur and co-founder of DeepMind, which Google bought for an estimated £400 million in 2014 See also Islam in the United Kingdom Kurds in the United Kingdom Turks in |
Railroad spurs from the Texas inland converged in Houston, where they met rail lines to the ports of Galveston and Beaumont. | Os esporos ferroviários do interior do Texas convergiam em Houston, onde encontravam linhas ferroviárias para os portos de Galveston e Beaumont. |
That afternoon, Jesse is unusually hostile towards Nova and deserts her. | Esa tarde, Jesse es inusualmente hostil hacia Nova y la abandona. |
(born 1954), Polish sprint canoer Andrzej Klimaszewski (long jumper) (born | Klimaszewski (canoeist) (born 1954), Polish sprint canoer Andrzej Klimaszewski (long jumper) |
London, opened in 2015 at London County Hall as the first of six attractions initially planned over nine years. | London, inaugurata nel 2015 nella London County Hall come la prima delle sei attrazioni inizialmente programmate in nove anni. |
how do u find the missing angles of a triangle if two are done? | you mean if you have two angles? For angles x,y,z of a triangle:\n\nx + y + z = 180\n\nI'll let you go from there... |
2017. Known primarily for his prominence within women's soccer, Borkowski has won 7 major trophies in 3 countries. He is most notable for his success with FC Indiana where he won two WPSL titles and two US Open Cup titles. Borkowski was named the 2005 WPSL National Coach of the Year and received the 2008 Field Turf W-League Coach of the Year award. In 2009 he helped Zvezda-2005 to Russian Superior League title, and in 2010 led Zvezda to round 16 of the UEFA Women's Champions League. In 2018/19 and in 2021 he led Puerto Rico Sol FC to two consecutive Liga Puerto Rico titles, winning 39 consecutive games. Managerial career 2018-: Puerto Rico Sol 2017-2018: Puerto Rico 2012–16: Haiti women's national football team, Haiti 2011–12: FC Indiana, USA 2009–2010: Zvezda-2005 Perm, Russia 2004–2009: FC Indiana, USA 2000–2007: FC Indiana (Men), USA Career statistics Borkowski's Women's World Cup qualifying record. Titles In nine seasons of club management, Borkowski has led three different clubs (in USA, Russia and Puerto Rico) to seven domestic league and cup titles and UEFA Women’s Champions League round of 16 qualification. Russian Women's Supreme League (2009), Women's Premier Soccer League (2010), WPSL 2007, US Open Cup (2005, 2008) Puerto Rico Liga Puerto Rico Champions (2021) Liga Puerto Rico Champions (2018/19) Haiti Caribbean Football Union U-20 Champions (2015) Haiti | Indiana, USA 2000–2007: FC Indiana (Men), USA Career statistics Borkowski's Women's World Cup qualifying record. Titles In nine seasons of club management, Borkowski has led three different clubs (in USA, Russia and Puerto Rico) to seven domestic league and cup titles and UEFA Women’s Champions League round of 16 qualification. Russian Women's Supreme League (2009), Women's Premier Soccer League (2010), WPSL 2007, US Open Cup (2005, 2008) Puerto Rico Liga Puerto Rico Champions (2021) Liga Puerto Rico Champions (2018/19) Haiti Caribbean Football Union U-20 Champions (2015) Haiti Caribbean Football Union U-15 Champions (2014) Russia Zvezda-2005 Perm (2009–2010) UEFA Women's Champions League Round of 16 Zvezda-2005 Perm (2009–2010) Supreme League Champions USA FC Indiana (2008) US Open Cup Champions USA FC Indiana (2007) WPSL Champions USA FC Indiana (2005) WPSL Champions USA FC Indiana (2005) US Open Cup Champions Individual honors 2008 FieldTurf W-League Coach of the Year 2005 Women's Premier Soccer League Coach |
without reaching the semifinals. He won his first major international medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade where he finished second. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor 800 metres – 1:44.94 (Ostrava 2008) 1000 metres – 2:19.38 (Strasbourg 2008) 1500 metres – 3:41.99 (Prague 2017) Indoor 400 metres – 48.76 (Bratislava 2006) 800 metres – 1:47.06 (Birmingham 2008) 1000 metres – 2:19.15 (Stockholm 2008) 1500 metres – 3:42.79 (Ostrava 2017) References External links Jozef Repčík at the Slovenský Olympijský Výbor NBC 2008 Olympics profile Slovak male middle-distance runners | Bradlom) is a former Slovak athlete specializing in the 800 metres. He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games without reaching the semifinals. He won his first major international medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade where he finished second. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor 800 metres – 1:44.94 (Ostrava 2008) 1000 metres – 2:19.38 (Strasbourg 2008) 1500 metres |
Introspectionistic psychology was composed of two schools: impersonalistic, which denied the "self" in its definition of psychology, and personalistic, which defined psychology as the study of conscious, functioning, experiencing selves. | A psicologia introspeccionista era composta de duas escolas: impersonalista, que negava o "eu" em sua definição de psicologia, e personalista, que definia a psicologia como o estudo de eus conscientes, funcionais e experimentadores. |
why are some of the leaves on my roses turning yellow? | When foliage is not getting the sunlight necessary for good growth, the bush simply allows the lower leaves to turn yellow and eventually drop. This is usually an age cycle thing and not harmful to the rose bush. Heat stress – Another reason for rose leaves turning yellow is the rose bush is under some sort of stress. |
hot waters. It was patronised in the Muromachi period by the Ikkō-ikki leader Rennyo and was visited in the Edo period by the poet Matsuo Bashō. During World War II, it was designated as a military hospital area for the Imperial Japanese Navy. See also Yamanaka, Ishikawa Great sugi of Kayano Gallery External links JNTO site Yamanaka Onsen Tourism Association Hot springs of Ishikawa Prefecture | spot for Japanese and foreign travelers. This hot spring has one hotel and 20 ryokan. History Yamanaka Onsen has a very ancient history, and there are several myths about its foundation. One story attributes it to the wandering Buddhist monk Gyōki in the Nara period. Another story states that the Kamakura period samurai Hasebe Nobutsura discovered the springs while following an injured white heron and seeing |
During these two hours, the Russians were able to reassess the situation, realize the terrible state of Bagration's 2nd Army and send reinforcements to the front line. | Durante estas duas horas, os russos foram capazes de reavaliar a situação, perceber o terrível estado do 2 º Exército de Bagration e enviar reforços para a linha de frente. |
How old was Laurel and Hardy producer Hal Roach when he died in 1992? | Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal Roach - 1992 - YouTube Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal Roach - 1992 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 24, 2014 http://twitter.com/stan_and_ollie . Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 -- November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) film comedy series. Category |
crime in any event. Appeal The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed that the conduct of the government agents trumped any inclination to make and deal meth and overturned the conviction. Prosecutors petitioned the Supreme Court for certiorari. Decision For the first time in an entrapment case, not only did the Court uphold a conviction, but split its decision. Majority After reviewing the case and Russell's arguments for adopting a new standard for entrapment, Rehnquist first pointed to practical problems specific to the case: Even if we were to surmount the difficulties attending the notion that due process of law can be embodied in fixed rules, and those attending respondent's particular formulation, the rule he proposes would not appear to be of significant benefit to him. For, on the record presented, it appears that he cannot fit within the terms of the very rule he proposes. The record discloses that although the propanone was difficult to obtain, it was by no means impossible. The defendants admitted making the drug both before and after those batches made with the propanone supplied by Shapiro. Shapiro testified that he saw an empty bottle labeled phenyl-2-propanone on his first visit to the laboratory on December 7, 1969. And when the laboratory was searched pursuant to a search warrant on January 10, 1970, two additional bottles labeled phenyl-2-propanone were seized. Thus, the facts in the record amply demonstrate that the propanone used in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine not only could have been obtained without the intervention of Shapiro but was in fact obtained by these defendants. The next sentence has reverberated around discourse on the entrapment defense ever since: "...we may some day be presented with a situation in which the conduct of law enforcement agents is so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction." But, the justice continued, "the instant case is distinctly not of that breed". Later, he acknowledged the possibility of "overzealous law enforcement". He went on to reject the notion of changing the entrapment standard, saying the Court had already reaffirmed the subjective test in Sherman and saw no reason to change now. He reiterated previous justices' argument against it from those decisions, and rapped the lower court: "We think that the decision of the Court of Appeals in this case quite unnecessarily introduces an unmanageably subjective standard which is contrary to the holdings of this Court in Sorrells and Sherman ... [T]here are circumstances when the use of deceit is the only practicable law enforcement technique available. It is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant that the defense of entrapment comes into play." Dissents Douglas "In my view, the fact that the chemical ingredient supplied by the federal agent might have been obtained from other sources is quite irrelevant", replied Justice William O. Douglas. "Supplying the chemical ingredient used in the manufacture of this batch of 'speed' made the United States an active participant in the unlawful activity". He pointed to an appellate decision that had thrown out a counterfeiting conviction where the undercover Secret Service had supplied the paper and ink. He insisted no conviction in such a case should be allowed. "Federal agents play a debased role when they become the instigators of the crime, or partners in its commission, or the creative brain behind the illegal scheme. That is what the federal agent did here when he furnished the accused with one of the chemical ingredients needed to manufacture the unlawful drug." William Brennan signed this opinion as well. Stewart Potter Stewart sought to make an argument for the objective test, calling it "the only one truly consistent with the underlying rationale of the defense". Like the concurrences in the earlier two opinions, he argued that a judge, not a jury, should decide whether law enforcement crossed the line. He rejected the idea that the defendant's conduct or state of mind had any bearing, since arguing entrapment by its very nature concedes commission of the act: "He may not have originated the precise plan or the precise details, but he was "predisposed" in the sense that he has proved to be quite capable of committing the crime". Like Owen Roberts in Sorrells, he expressed concern that a predisposition test would needlessly deter defendants who might otherwise have a case based on the behavior of the government agents involved from doing so, since it would allow the prosecution | was difficult to obtain, it was by no means impossible. The defendants admitted making the drug both before and after those batches made with the propanone supplied by Shapiro. Shapiro testified that he saw an empty bottle labeled phenyl-2-propanone on his first visit to the laboratory on December 7, 1969. And when the laboratory was searched pursuant to a search warrant on January 10, 1970, two additional bottles labeled phenyl-2-propanone were seized. Thus, the facts in the record amply demonstrate that the propanone used in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine not only could have been obtained without the intervention of Shapiro but was in fact obtained by these defendants. The next sentence has reverberated around discourse on the entrapment defense ever since: "...we may some day be presented with a situation in which the conduct of law enforcement agents is so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction." But, the justice continued, "the instant case is distinctly not of that breed". Later, he acknowledged the possibility of "overzealous law enforcement". He went on to reject the notion of changing the entrapment standard, saying the Court had already reaffirmed the subjective test in Sherman and saw no reason to change now. He reiterated previous justices' argument against it from those decisions, and rapped the lower court: "We think that the decision of the Court of Appeals in this case quite unnecessarily introduces an unmanageably subjective standard which is contrary to the holdings of this Court in Sorrells and Sherman ... [T]here are circumstances when the use of deceit is the only practicable law enforcement technique available. It is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant that the defense of entrapment comes into play." Dissents Douglas "In my view, the fact that the chemical ingredient supplied by the federal agent might have been obtained from other sources is quite irrelevant", replied Justice William O. Douglas. "Supplying the chemical ingredient used in the manufacture of this batch of 'speed' made the United States an active participant in the unlawful activity". He pointed to an appellate decision that had thrown out a counterfeiting conviction where the undercover Secret Service had supplied the paper and ink. He insisted no conviction in such a case should be allowed. "Federal agents play a debased role when they become the instigators of the crime, or partners in its commission, or the creative brain behind the illegal scheme. That is what the federal agent did here when he furnished the accused with one of the chemical ingredients needed to manufacture the unlawful drug." William Brennan signed this opinion as well. Stewart Potter Stewart sought to make an argument for the objective test, calling it "the only one truly consistent with the underlying rationale of the defense". Like the concurrences in the earlier two opinions, he argued that a judge, not a jury, should decide whether law enforcement crossed the line. He rejected the idea that the defendant's conduct or state of mind had any bearing, since arguing entrapment by its very nature concedes commission of the act: "He may not have originated the precise plan or the precise details, but he was "predisposed" in the sense that he has proved to be quite capable of committing the crime". Like Owen Roberts in Sorrells, he expressed concern that a predisposition test would needlessly deter defendants who might otherwise have a case based on the behavior of the government agents involved from doing so, since it would allow the prosecution to bring up prior bad acts that would be prejudicial to the jury and otherwise inadmissible. Stated another way, this subjective test means that the Government is permitted to entrap a person with a criminal record or bad reputation, and then to prosecute him for the manufactured crime, confident that his record or reputation itself will be enough to show that he was predisposed to commit the offense anyway ... In my view, a person's alleged "predisposition" to crime should not expose him to government participation in the criminal transaction that would be otherwise unlawful. He next turned to the |
how to change profile picture on facebook community page? | ['Go to your Page.', "Click in the bottom right of your Page's profile picture and select Edit Profile Picture.", 'Select an option and follow the on-screen instructions.'] |
The burgeoning town grew up the hill towards Chelsea Village, with a group of shops established at Highbury, between the two original villages. | Die boomende neue Stadt wuchs den Hügel Richtung Chelsea Village hinauf, einige Läden wurden in Highbury, zwischen beiden Dörfern errichtet. |
But a lot of people don't ask. | Fakat birçok insan istemiyor. |
The EAF went through a massive construction program to build new air bases in order to increase its survivability. | El EAF pasó por un programa de construcción masiva para construir nuevas bases aéreas con el fin de aumentar su capacidad de supervivencia. |
issued as a single on the independent label Philwood in 1967. On the label of the record his name was spelled incorrectly as Junior Kimbell, and the song "Tramp" was listed as "Tram?" The B-side was "You Can't Leave Me". Among his other early recordings are two duets with his childhood friend Charlie Feathers in 1969. Feathers counted Kimbrough as an early influence; Kimbrough gave Feathers some of his earliest lessons on the guitar. Kimbrough recorded little in the 1970s, contributing an early version of "Meet Me in the City" to a European blues anthology. With his band, the Soul Blues Boys (then consisting of bassist George Scales and drummer Calvin Jackson), he recorded again in the 1980s for High Water, releasing a single in 1982 ("Keep Your Hands off Her" backed with "I Feel Good, Little Girl"). The label recorded a 1988 session with Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys (this time consisting of bassist Little Joe Ayers and drummer "Allabu Juju"), releasing it in 1997 with his 1982 single as Do the Rump! In 1987 Kimbrough made his New York debut at Lincoln Center. He received notice after live footage of him playing "All Night Long" in one of his juke joints appeared in the film documentary Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, directed by Robert Mugge and narrated by Robert Palmer. This performance was recorded in 1990, in the Chewalla Rib Shack, a juke joint he opened in that year east of Holly Springs to divert crowds from his packed house parties. Beginning around 1992, Kimbrough operated Junior's Place, a juke joint in Chulahoma, near Holly Springs, in a building previously used as a church. Kimbrough came to national attention in 1992 with his debut album, All Night Long. Robert Palmer produced the album for Fat Possum, recording it in the Chulahoma joint, with Junior's son Kent "Kinney" Kimbrough (also known as Kenny Malone) on drums and R. L. Burnside's son Garry Burnside on bass guitar. The album featured many of his most celebrated songs, including the title track, the complexly melodic "Meet Me in the City," and "You Better Run", a harrowing ballad of attempted rape. All Night Long earned nearly unanimous praise from critics, receiving four stars in Rolling Stone. His joint in Chulahoma started to attract visitors from around the world, including members of U2, Keith Richards, and Iggy Pop. R. L. Burnside (who recorded for the same label) and the Burnside and Kimbrough families often collaborated on musical projects. A second album for Fat Possum, Sad Days, Lonely Nights, followed in 1994. A video for the album's title track featured Kimbrough, Garry Burnside and Kent Kimbrough playing in Kimbrough's juke joint. The last album he recorded, Most Things Haven't Worked Out, was released by Fat Possum in 1997. Following his death in 1998, Fat Possum released two compilation albums of recordings Kimbrough made in the 1990s, God Knows I Tried (1998) and Meet Me in the City (1999). A greatest hits compilation, You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough, followed in 2002. Personal life Kimbrough died of a heart attack following a stroke in 1998 in Holly Springs, at the age of 67. According to Fat Possum Records, he was survived by 36 children. He is buried outside his family's church, the Kimbrough Chapel Missionary | a 1988 session with Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys (this time consisting of bassist Little Joe Ayers and drummer "Allabu Juju"), releasing it in 1997 with his 1982 single as Do the Rump! In 1987 Kimbrough made his New York debut at Lincoln Center. He received notice after live footage of him playing "All Night Long" in one of his juke joints appeared in the film documentary Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, directed by Robert Mugge and narrated by Robert Palmer. This performance was recorded in 1990, in the Chewalla Rib Shack, a juke joint he opened in that year east of Holly Springs to divert crowds from his packed house parties. Beginning around 1992, Kimbrough operated Junior's Place, a juke joint in Chulahoma, near Holly Springs, in a building previously used as a church. Kimbrough came to national attention in 1992 with his debut album, All Night Long. Robert Palmer produced the album for Fat Possum, recording it in the Chulahoma joint, with Junior's son Kent "Kinney" Kimbrough (also known as Kenny Malone) on drums and R. L. Burnside's son Garry Burnside on bass guitar. The album featured many of his most celebrated songs, including the title track, the complexly melodic "Meet Me in the City," and "You Better Run", a harrowing ballad of attempted rape. All Night Long earned nearly unanimous praise from critics, receiving four stars in Rolling Stone. His joint in Chulahoma started to attract visitors from around the world, including members of U2, Keith Richards, and Iggy Pop. R. L. Burnside (who recorded for the same label) and the Burnside and Kimbrough families often collaborated on musical projects. A second album for Fat Possum, Sad Days, Lonely Nights, followed in 1994. A video for the album's title track featured Kimbrough, Garry Burnside and Kent Kimbrough playing in Kimbrough's juke joint. The last album he recorded, Most Things Haven't Worked Out, was released by Fat Possum in 1997. Following his death in 1998, Fat Possum released two compilation albums of recordings Kimbrough made in the 1990s, God Knows I Tried (1998) and Meet Me in the City (1999). A greatest hits compilation, You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough, followed in 2002. Personal life Kimbrough died of a heart attack following a stroke in 1998 in Holly Springs, at the age of 67. According to Fat Possum Records, he was survived by 36 children. He is buried outside his family's church, the Kimbrough Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, near Holly Springs. The rockabilly musician Charlie Feathers, a friend of Kimbrough's, called him "the beginning and end of all music"; this |
Orotrechus euganeus Pace, 1974 Orotrechus fabianii Gestro, 1900 Orotrechus fiorii Alzona, 1899 Orotrechus forojulensis Busulini, 1959 Orotrechus gigas Vigna Taglianti, 1981 Orotrechus giordanii Agazzi, 1957 Orotrechus globulipennis Schaum, 1860 Orotrechus gracilis Meggioiano, 1961 Orotrechus haraldi Daffnan, 1990 Orotrechus holdhausi Ganglbauer, 1904 Orotrechus jamae C. Etonti & M. Etonti, 1979 Orotrechus lucensis Scheibel, 1935 Orotrechus mandriolae Ganglbauer, 1911 Orotrechus martinellii Martinelli, 1987 Orotrechus messai J. Muller, 1913 Orotrechus montellensis Agazzi, 1956 Orotrechus muellerianus Schatzmayr, 1907 Orotrechus novaki Mlejnek, J. Moravec & Udrzal, 1994 Orotrechus pavionis Maggiolaro, 1961 | Gestro, 1900 Orotrechus fiorii Alzona, 1899 Orotrechus forojulensis Busulini, 1959 Orotrechus gigas Vigna Taglianti, 1981 Orotrechus giordanii Agazzi, 1957 Orotrechus globulipennis Schaum, 1860 Orotrechus gracilis Meggioiano, 1961 Orotrechus haraldi Daffnan, 1990 Orotrechus holdhausi Ganglbauer, 1904 Orotrechus jamae C. Etonti & M. Etonti, 1979 Orotrechus lucensis Scheibel, 1935 Orotrechus mandriolae Ganglbauer, 1911 Orotrechus martinellii Martinelli, 1987 Orotrechus messai J. Muller, 1913 Orotrechus montellensis Agazzi, 1956 Orotrechus muellerianus Schatzmayr, 1907 Orotrechus novaki Mlejnek, J. Moravec |
Garat and Gervais were done at Theatre des Varlétés and in English at Criterion Theatre in London. | Garat și Gervais au fost puse în scenă la Teatrul de Varietăți și în limba engleză, la Teatrul Criterion din Londra. |
From 1851 to 1852, he was apprenticed to the sculptor Anselm Sickinger in Munich. At that time, his father died and he went home to help in the family business. He was only there a short time before beginning studies at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. While there, he drew and painted in his spare time, befriended Johann Baptist Hofner (1832–1913), the animal painter, and decided to become an artist. In 1854, he obtained his family's reluctant permission to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and later took private lessons from Hermann Anschütz. Lenbach was already an accomplished artist when he became the pupil of Karl von Piloty. In 1858, he was able to stage an exhibition at the Glaspalast and won a travel scholarship, which enabled him to accompany Piloty to Rome. A few works remain as the outcome of this first journey: A Peasant seeking Shelter from Bad Weather (1855), The Goatherd (1860, in the Schack Gallery, Munich) and The Arch of Titus (in the Palfy collection, Budapest). He also travelled to Paris and Brussels. It was about then that he started receiving his first portrait commissions. On returning to Munich, he was at once called to Weimar to take the appointment of professor at the newly established Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School, where he became known for taking his students on painting expeditions en plein aire. He remained for only two years, however, when he felt the need for more studies and decided to take another trip to Italy. During this time, he also found an important patron; Baron Adolf Friedrich von Schack. Through his support, Lenbach was able to leave for Italy in 1863 with a guaranteed annual income. He returned to Munich in 1866. The following year, he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle and went to Spain for one year, accompanied by his student, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, to make more copies of the Old Masters for Schack. Upon returning, his career as a portrait painter began in earnest. His breakthrough came in 1869, when he won a gold medal at the Glaspalast, despite being up against many fashionable French painters. After 1870, he began making visits to Vienna to develop a market for his paintings | In 1854, he obtained his family's reluctant permission to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and later took private lessons from Hermann Anschütz. Lenbach was already an accomplished artist when he became the pupil of Karl von Piloty. In 1858, he was able to stage an exhibition at the Glaspalast and won a travel scholarship, which enabled him to accompany Piloty to Rome. A few works remain as the outcome of this first journey: A Peasant seeking Shelter from Bad Weather (1855), The Goatherd (1860, in the Schack Gallery, Munich) and The Arch of Titus (in the Palfy collection, Budapest). He also travelled to Paris and Brussels. It was about then that he started receiving his first portrait commissions. On returning to Munich, he was at once called to Weimar to take the appointment of professor at the newly established Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School, where he became known for taking his students on painting expeditions en plein aire. He remained for only two years, however, when he felt the need for more studies and decided to take another trip to Italy. During this time, he also found an important patron; Baron Adolf Friedrich von Schack. Through his support, Lenbach was able to leave for Italy in 1863 with a guaranteed annual income. He returned to Munich in 1866. The following year, he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle and went to Spain for one year, accompanied by his student, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, to make more copies of the Old Masters for Schack. Upon returning, his career as a portrait painter began in earnest. His breakthrough came in 1869, when he won a gold medal at the Glaspalast, despite being up against many fashionable French painters. After 1870, he began making visits |
That must be a big help. | Deve essere un grande aiuto. |
In April 1863 he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields. | În februarie 1862 a fost ridicat la gradul de prim-locotenent și a servit în echipa generalului William Babcock Hazen ca inginer topograf, realizând hărți ale potențialelor câmpuri de luptă. |
the family Pipunculidae. It was described by Hardy in 1943. It is endemic to North | described by Hardy in 1943. It is endemic to North Carolina. References Pipunculidae Endemic fauna |
The crocodile is a protected species. | Timsah korumalı bir türdür. |
and is operated by the National Institute for International Education (NIIED). Established in 1995, EPIK encourages cross cultural exchange while promoting the development of English language competence for Korean students. History Formally created in 1995 under the name KORETTA, EPIK has placed Guest English Teachers in Korean classrooms for over a decade. The program has undergone many administrative changes and is overseen by the NIIED. Currently, participants live and | methodologies in South Korea. It is affiliated with the Korean Ministry of Education and is operated by the National Institute for International Education (NIIED). Established in 1995, EPIK encourages cross cultural exchange while promoting the development of English language competence for Korean students. History Formally created in 1995 under the name KORETTA, EPIK has placed Guest English Teachers in Korean classrooms for over a decade. The program has undergone many administrative changes and is |
what is the difference between civil rights and human rights? | Simply put, human rights are rights one acquires by being alive. Civil rights are rights that one obtains by being a legal member of a certain political state. |
Although it was not a commercial success as big as the previous singles from the album, "Whenever, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes", "Objection (Tango)" performed well on record charts nevertheless. | Bien qu'il n'ait pas été un succès commercial aussi important que les deux précédents singles issu de l'album, "Whenever, Wherever" et "Underneath Your Clothes", "Objection (Tango)" a néanmoins été bien placé dans les classements de ventes. |
Sell, (born August 5, 1982) is an American mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Welterweight division. A professional competitor since 2002, he has formerly competed for the UFC, and was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback. Career Ultimate Fighting Championship Sell made his debut with the UFC at UFC 51, defeating Top contender Phil Baroni by guillotine choke submission in what was considered a major upset, considering he was a 5–1 underdog. After a controversial Technical knockout stoppage in his first fight against The Ultimate Fighter veteran Nate Quarry at UFC Ultimate Fight Night, Sell was then seen as a middleweight contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback, which premiered on August 17, 2006. He entered the competition alongside Matt Serra, who competed one weight class below Sell in the welterweight division. Sell defeated "Chainsaw" Charles McCarthy to move on the semi-finals of the competition, where he lost to the ultimate winner of the tournament Travis Lutter. Although Sell did not proceed the finals, he was featured on the undercard of the season finale where he lost to Scott Smith in a back and forth war that ended via sudden highlight reel knockout. He then fought and lost to Thales Leites at UFC 69. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. His next fight was a rematch against Nathan Quarry, at UFC Fight Night 11. Sell lost to Quarry once again via KO in the third round. Sell made his second appearance on The Ultimate Fighter as a trainer for Team Serra for season 6, The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra. Sell has dropped down to welterweight for his latest matches; a victory over Josh Burkman at UFC 90, and a knockout loss to Matt Brown at UFC 96. His match against Brown was somewhat controversial, as referee Yves Lavigne pulled Matt Brown off of a stunned Pete Sell early in the bout, but quickly after ordered both men to resume fighting. After the event, Sell was still visibly dazed, and was unable to mount any offense, or competently defend himself. Eventually Brown knocked Sell out with a series of punches 1:32 into the first round. Post-UFC career After a two-year hiatus from MMA, Sell finally made his return and defeated Elijah Harshbarger via armbar in the second round at Ring of Combat XXXVI. Sell then faced Nordine Taleb at Ring of Combat 38 on November 18, 2011. Sell lost the bout via technical knockout in the second round. Sell would then win his next fight via unanimous decision against Mitch Whitesel at Ring of Combat 39 | Welterweight Championship. |- | Loss | align=center| 8–5 | Matt Brown | TKO (punches) | UFC 96 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 1:32 | Columbus, Ohio, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 8–4 | Josh Burkman | Decision (unanimous) | UFC 90 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Rosemont, Illinois, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 7–4 | Nate Quarry | KO (punch) | UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs. Florian | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 0:44 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 7–3 | Thales Leites | Decision (unanimous) | UFC 69 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Houston, Texas, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 7–2 | Scott Smith | KO (punch) | The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale | | align=center| 2 | align=center| 3:25 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 7–1 | Landon Showalter | Decision (unanimous) | Ring of Combat 10 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States | |- | Loss | align=center| 6–1 | Nate Quarry | TKO (punch) | UFC Ultimate Fight Night | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 0:42 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 6–0 | Phil Baroni | Submission (guillotine choke) | UFC 51 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 4:19 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 5–0 | Chris Liguori | Submission (rear-naked choke) | Ring of Combat 6 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 0:41 | Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 4–0 | Chris Liguori | Decision (split) | Ring of Combat 4 | | align=center| 3 | align=center| 5:00 | Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 3–0 | Derek Johnson | Submission (armbar) | Ring of Combat 3 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 2:03 | Morristown, New Jersey, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 2–0 | Ted Govola | Decision (unanimous) | Ring of Combat 2 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 10:00 | Secaucus, New Jersey, United States | |- | Win | align=center| 1–0 | Rob Biegley | Decision | Vengeance at the Vanderbilt 14 | | align=center| 1 | align=center| 10:00 | Plainview, New York, United States | References External links American male mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu Living people American practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu |
The Shōhondō was regarded as an important work of post-war Japanese architecture, noted for its vast unsupported roof span. | Le shōhon-dō était considéré comme un important ouvrage de l'architecture japonaise d'après-guerre, remarquable pour l'envergure de son vaste toit non supporté. |
Nowadays, Schiphol Airport is the major civilian aviation hub in the Netherlands, using 15% of Haarlemmermeer's land area. | Hoy en día, este aeropuerto es uno de los mayores aeropuertos civiles, usando un 15% del área terrestre de Haarlemmermeer. |
The stadium was built on site of the demolished Central Stadium, at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex, near the Volga River. | O estádio será construído no local do Estádio Central demolido, no sopé do complexo memorial Mamayev Kurgan, perto do rio Volga. |
Pedro Rebocho | بيدرو ريبوتشو |
The Special Marriage Act allowed Muslims to marry under it and thereby retain the protections, generally beneficial to Muslim women, that could not be found in the personal law. | La Ley Especial sobre el matrimonio permite a los musulmanes casarse y por lo tanto mantienen las protecciones que no se podían encontrar en el derecho de las personas, en general eran benéficas para las mujeres musulmanas. |
what were the major long term causes of world war 1 quizlet? | ['MAIN. Militarism. ... ', 'Militarism. -increased influence of military thinking on the political decision makers. ... ', 'Triple Alliance. -Germany, Austria/Hungary, Italy (later switched sides) ... ', 'Triple Entente. -Great Britain, France, Russia. ... ', 'Imperialism. ...', 'Nationalism.'] |
In October 1864, near Petersburg, Virginia, Hampton sent his son, T. Preston Hampton, a lieutenant serving as one of his aides, to deliver a message. | I oktober 1864 i nærheden af Petersburg sendte Hampton sin søn Thomas Preston, en løjtnant, der var sin fars adjudant, af sted for at aflevere en besked. |
how many hours deep sleep should you have per night? | Scientists agree that sleep is essential to health, and while stages 1 to 4 and REM sleep are all important, deep sleep is the most essential of all for feeling rested and staying healthy. The average healthy adult gets roughly 1 to 2 hours of deep sleep per 8 hours of nightly sleep. |
was followed by The Suede Jacket, The Bus, and many others. Stratiev's plays have been performed in Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Syria, the Slovak Republic, Turkey, and others. His play It's a Short Life (translated in French as La vie bien qu'elle soit courte) won the First Prize at the Maubeuge International Theatre Festival in 1990. On the Other Side was runner-up in the BBC World Service Radio's Playwriting Competition 1993 and was produced and broadcast by the BBC. While most popular as a playwright, Stratiev also wrote prose works combining social satire and lyricism, translated into more than 30 languages all over the world. His film scripts earned him international acclaim too: Equilibrium won a silver medal at the 13th International Film Festival in Moscow in 1983; Childhood Sun won "The Child in Our Time" award at the MIFED in Milan that same year. The cult comedy A | International Theatre Festival in 1990. On the Other Side was runner-up in the BBC World Service Radio's Playwriting Competition 1993 and was produced and broadcast by the BBC. While most popular as a playwright, Stratiev also wrote prose works combining social satire and lyricism, translated into more than 30 languages all over the world. His film scripts earned him international acclaim too: Equilibrium won a silver medal at the 13th International Film Festival in Moscow in 1983; Childhood Sun won "The Child in Our Time" award at the MIFED in Milan that same year. The cult comedy A Band With No Name was recognized as the best Bulgarian film of all |
how many times a day do you change a newborns clothes? | It's not uncommon to change their clothes up to five times in a single day, and rare for anything to be clean enough to wear again. Parents who recommend washing daily suggest that it is easier to tackle a small load at the end of the day than several larger loads all at once. |
It is named after Mjøsa, the largest lake of Norway. The lake is | It is named after Mjøsa, the largest lake of Norway. The lake |
as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Commodores were led by head coach Watson Brown in | football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Commodores were led by |
Writing for Canarias-Semanal.org website, Juan Andrés Pérez Rodríguez argued that mainstream media has not paid enough attention to the urgent issues of this community: | Scrivendo per il sito internet Canarias-Semanal.org, Juan Andrés Pérez Rodríguez sostiene che i media principali non hanno prestato abbastanza attenzione alle problematiche urgenti di questa comunità: |
Tangerang Wolves F.C. | Tangerang Wolves FC |
of rivers of Chile References EVALUACION DE LOS RECURSOS HIDRICOS SUPERFICIALES EN LA CUENCA | southern portion of Central Chile. See also List of rivers of Chile |
A black and white photo of an airplane being loaded | A plane, some barrels, a truck, a car and some men standing in the sand. |
Punjab Chief Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif on Monday distributed more than 7,500 laptops among talented and brilliant students belonging to different universities and colleges of the province in a ceremony held here at Jinnah Convention Centre. | Shahbaz distributes 7,500 laptops among talented students |
Thupatemi Stadium | สนามกีฬากองทัพอากาศ (ธูปะเตมีย์) |
cruising the Far East in search of whoopee in Singapore Sue. Artie Shaw presents a master class in the elementals of swingband construction (Artie Shaw's Class In Swing). A very young Bing Crosby croons three ballads in Dream House, a comedy-musical directed by slapstick impresario Mack Sennett. This collection showcases several top female vocalists, including Ethel Merman (Her Future), Ruth Etting (Favorite Melodies and Lillian Roth (Meet The Boyfriend). There's also a two-edged homage to that icon of 1930s naughtiness, Betty Boop, with appearances by Betty's prototype, "Boop-a-Doop Girl" Helen Kane (A Lesson In Love), and Betty's actual voice, Mae Questel (Musical Doctor, in which Dr. Rudy Vallee finds musical deficiencies to be the root of all ills). Perhaps the gem of this collection, however, is Office Blues, in which a pre-Astaire and pre-stardom Ginger Rogers cavorts with Broadway chorines in an Art Deco extravaganza. With artists like these on the bill it's clear that the short subject -- not the feature -- was often the highlight of the program! 1940s In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Betty Hutton made a half-dozen musical shorts before her feature debut in The Fleet's In (1942) and then continued to make shorts for the war effort. She was seen in Paramount Headliner: Queens of the Air (1938), Vitaphone's Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra (1939), Broadway Brevities: One for the Book (1939), Paramount Headliner: Three Kings and a Queen (1939), Broadway Brevities: Public Jitterbug Number One (1939), Paramount Victory Short No. T2-1: A Letter from Bataan (1942), Army-Navy Screen Magazine #20: Strictly G.I. (1943), Paramount's Skirmish on the Home Front (1944) and Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945), produced on the Paramount lot by the Treasury Department for the 1945 Victory Loan Drive. Several of Hutton's musical shorts have been shown on Turner Classic Movies in recent years. Modern jazz was added to the mix in such films as the 16-minute Artistry in Rhytym (1944), with Stan Kenton and Anita O'Day, later re-edited into another short, Cool and Groovy (1956), which also featured Chico Hamilton and The Hi-Los. In the mid-1940s, Louis Jordan made short music films, some of which were spliced together into a feature-length musical Western, Look-Out Sister (1947). Television During the 1950s, musical shorts were revived for telecasting on local stations. Feature films in that decade were usually not edited to fit. Instead, if a feature ended 20 minutes before the hour, footage from musical shorts was used to fill the gap. Snader Telescriptions were musical shorts made for television from 1950 to 1954. There were | cruising the Far East in search of whoopee in Singapore Sue. Artie Shaw presents a master class in the elementals of swingband construction (Artie Shaw's Class In Swing). A very young Bing Crosby croons three ballads in Dream House, a comedy-musical directed by slapstick impresario Mack Sennett. This collection showcases several top female vocalists, including Ethel Merman (Her Future), Ruth Etting (Favorite Melodies and Lillian Roth (Meet The Boyfriend). There's also a two-edged homage to that icon of 1930s naughtiness, Betty Boop, with appearances by Betty's prototype, "Boop-a-Doop Girl" Helen Kane (A Lesson In Love), and Betty's actual voice, Mae Questel (Musical Doctor, in which Dr. Rudy Vallee finds musical deficiencies to be the root of all ills). Perhaps the gem of this collection, however, is Office Blues, in which a pre-Astaire and pre-stardom Ginger Rogers cavorts with Broadway chorines in an Art Deco extravaganza. With artists like these on the bill it's clear that the short subject -- not the feature -- was often the highlight of the program! 1940s In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Betty Hutton made a half-dozen musical shorts before her feature debut in The Fleet's In (1942) and then continued to make shorts for the war effort. She was seen in Paramount Headliner: Queens of the Air (1938), Vitaphone's Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra (1939), Broadway Brevities: One for the Book (1939), Paramount Headliner: Three Kings and a Queen (1939), Broadway Brevities: Public Jitterbug Number One (1939), Paramount Victory Short No. T2-1: A Letter from Bataan (1942), Army-Navy Screen Magazine #20: Strictly G.I. (1943), Paramount's Skirmish on the Home Front (1944) and Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945), produced on the Paramount lot by the Treasury Department for the 1945 Victory Loan Drive. Several of Hutton's musical shorts have been shown on Turner Classic Movies in recent years. Modern jazz was added to the mix in such films as the 16-minute Artistry in Rhytym (1944), with Stan Kenton and Anita O'Day, later re-edited into another short, Cool and Groovy (1956), which also featured Chico Hamilton and The Hi-Los. In the mid-1940s, Louis Jordan made short music films, some of which were spliced together into a feature-length musical Western, Look-Out Sister (1947). Television During the 1950s, musical shorts were revived for telecasting on local stations. Feature films in that decade were usually not edited to fit. Instead, if a feature ended 20 minutes before the hour, footage from musical shorts was used to fill the gap. Snader Telescriptions were musical shorts made for television from 1950 to 1954. There were thousands of these three- and four-minute films, covering various genres from jazz and pop to R&B and country. Louis "Duke" Goldstone directed for Louis D. Snader. See also Dance in film List of big bands List of musical films by year Music video Musical films Scopitone Soundies References Sources Bradley, Edwin R. The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931, McFarland, |
Tunbjörk was a member of Agence Vu and worked for The New York Times Magazine, Time, GEO, and others. | Tunbjörk era un membro di Agence Vu e ha lavorato per The New York Times Magazine, Time, GEO e altri. |
I'm still not used to living in Australia. | Я ещё не привык к жизни в Австралии. |
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checks on everything: aesthetics, watch functions, waterproofing, etc. Some watches have a chronometer movement certified for accuracy by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres, the official Swiss testing agency. Ulysse Nardin has also its own quality certification, the Ulysse Nardin Certificate, with standards for quality higher than the COSC. Notable models Freak Ulysse Nardin introduced the Freak wristwatches in 2001. The first timepiece of this collection was the "Laboratory on the wrist" Freak watch. The model contains a revolutionary 7-day carrousel-tourbillon, and has no (true) dial, crown or hands. The movement contains silicon escapement components, and would rotate on itself to indicate time. The watch model was named "Watch of the Year" in innovation category in 2002. This use of silicon parts in a mechanical movement was an industry first. In 2005, the brand launched the "Freak Diamond Heart" watch, featuring a patented escapement made from synthetic diamonds. In 2007, the company presented a new material, Diamonsil, which combines silicium and synthetic diamonds. It eliminates friction and removes the need for lubrication of the escapement. The brand also launched the "Freak Diamonsil" watch, using this nanotechnology for the escapement. The same year, the brand released "Innovision 1" watch, featuring 10 innovations. In 2017, the brand presented ten innovations, gathered within a new Freak watch, named "Innovision 2". One year later, the company launched the "Freak Vision" with three patents out of "Innovision 2" : "Grinder" winding system, constant power escapement and balance wheel in silicium with micro palets. The current Freak model includes two series: Freak Out and Freak Vision (introduced in 2017). Trilogy of Time The first major advancement of the company after quartz crisis was the launch of "Trilogy of Time". This collection incorporated three different astronomical pieces starting in 1985 with the release of the Astrolabium Galileo Galilei, named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. The Astrolabium displays local and solar time, the orbits and eclipses of the sun and the moon and the positions of several major stars. It was named by the Guinness Book of Records in 1989 as the world's most-functional watch (with 21 distinct functions). Dr. Oechslin then followed the Astrolabium up with two other astronomical watches: in 1988 the Planetarium Copernicus (named after the stargazing theaters called planetariums and of astronomer Copernicus) and in 1992 the Tellurium Johannes Kepler (named after the Latin 'Tellus' meaning Earth, a Tellurian and astronomer Johannes Kepler). The Cloisonné dial of the Tellurium takes fifty-four processes, twelve baking operations and more than fifty hours of work by a skilled craftsman to transform a draft sketch on a small metal disc into a unique work of art - each and every Tellurium is unique. Notable patrons and owners Athletes Randy Johnson, American former baseball player Michael Jordan, American basketball player Mohammed Salah, Egyptian | death in 2011, Chai Schnyder, his wife, took over the company till it was acquired by the Kering group in 2014. In 2011, Ulysse Nardin acquired a Swiss enameler workshop, Donzé Cadrans, that has provided the brand the opportunity to use enamel in its watch dials. In 2012, Ulysse Nardin launched its first automatic caliber, entirely conceived and manufactured in-house: UN-118. One year later, Ulysse Nardin released five new in-house calibers (UN-690, UN-310, UN-170, UN-150 and UN-205). In 2014, Ulysse Nardin was acquired by the French luxury group Kering, which took a 100% stake in the watch brand. In 2017, the company appointed Patrick Pruniaux, a previous executive of Apple, as its new CEO. In 2019, Ulysse Nardin has released three new calibers (UN-230, UN-371 and UN-631). The company still occupies its original headquarters in Le Locle, one of the main watch production hubs in northwest Switzerland and has three manufacturing plants in: La Chaux-de-Fonds (R&D and movement production site), Le Locle (Donzé Cadrans site, which belongs to Ulysse Nardin but also produces enamel dials for other companies) and Sion (Sigatec site, which produces micromechanics components in silicium). While marine wrist chronometers are still a specialty for the brand, it produces luxury complicated timepieces with high sophistication for men and women. The company sells its products through a network of distributors and several boutiques around the globe, as well as through retailers in Europe, America, Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia, China and Russia. Ulysse Nardin is part of the exclusive circle of Swiss watchmaking the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. Watch manufacturing The company has an integrated production system. The majority of the work is done in-house, from conception, design, development and crafting through to production. The brand produces its own high-precision components, movements and calibers. Since the acquisition of Donzé Cadrans, Ulysse Nardin creates its own enamel dials. Pieces are heated to a high temperature (1500 °F or 850 °C) repeatedly, several times, as layers of color are added. This requires hours of work. Engineers, drafting technicians, technical and caliber designers develop new technologies, and design movements. They produce prototypes and tools for the workshops. Profile turners or specialist setters supervise the production of pieces required for the balance axis, screws, pins and the other minute parts. Decorators engrave plates and bridges with distinctive patterns. Experienced watchmakers then assemble the finished components, working on the movements of in-house calibers. Another team of watchmakers, specialized in highly complicated timepieces, works on the movement assemblies and casings of complex mechanisms (minute repeater, hourstriker, tourbillon...) and astronomical timepieces. In 2020, the company developed a model made of plastic ocean waste. Quality control experts perform checks on everything: aesthetics, watch functions, waterproofing, etc. Some watches have a chronometer movement certified for accuracy by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres, the official Swiss testing agency. Ulysse Nardin has also its own quality certification, the Ulysse Nardin Certificate, with standards for quality higher than the COSC. Notable models Freak Ulysse Nardin introduced the Freak wristwatches in 2001. The first timepiece of this collection was the "Laboratory on the wrist" Freak watch. The model contains a revolutionary 7-day carrousel-tourbillon, and has no (true) dial, crown or hands. The movement contains silicon escapement components, and would rotate on itself to indicate time. The watch model was named "Watch of the Year" in innovation category in 2002. This use of silicon parts in a mechanical movement was an industry first. In 2005, the brand launched the "Freak Diamond Heart" watch, featuring a patented escapement made from synthetic diamonds. In 2007, the company presented a new material, Diamonsil, which combines silicium and synthetic diamonds. It eliminates friction and removes the need for lubrication of the escapement. The brand also launched the "Freak Diamonsil" watch, using this nanotechnology for the escapement. The same year, the brand released "Innovision 1" watch, featuring 10 innovations. In 2017, the brand presented ten innovations, gathered within a new Freak watch, named "Innovision 2". One year later, the company launched the "Freak Vision" with three patents out of "Innovision 2" : "Grinder" winding system, constant power escapement and balance wheel in silicium with micro palets. The current Freak model includes two series: Freak Out and Freak Vision (introduced in 2017). Trilogy of Time The first major advancement of the company after quartz crisis was the launch of "Trilogy of Time". This collection incorporated three different astronomical pieces starting in 1985 with the release of the Astrolabium Galileo Galilei, named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. The Astrolabium displays local and solar time, the orbits and eclipses of the sun and the moon and the positions of several major stars. It was named by the Guinness Book of Records in 1989 as the world's most-functional watch (with 21 distinct functions). Dr. Oechslin then followed the Astrolabium up with two other astronomical watches: in 1988 the Planetarium Copernicus (named after the stargazing theaters called |
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exclusively for an overseas market with stories often translated for publication in Spain and Portugal. Hazel died in 1960. Keeler remarried in 1963 to his onetime secretary Thelma Rinaldo, which rejuvenated his spirit for writing. Unfortunately, many of the new stories written by Keeler during this time went unpublished, including the relatively infamous The Scarlet Mummy. Keeler died in Chicago four years later, in 1967. He and his wife Hazel are buried in Rosehill Cemetery. After death In 2005, The Collins Library (an imprint of McSweeney's) republished Keeler's 1934 classic, The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, a project much pursued by writer and publisher Paul Collins. Ramble House has published other works by him. Writing techniques and preoccupations Most of Keeler's novels feature what Keeler called a "webwork plot". This can be defined as a plot that includes many strands or threads (each thread representing a character or significant object), which intersect in complex causal interactions. A webwork novel typically ends with a surprise revelation which clarifies these interactions. According to Keeler's 1927 series of articles on plot theory, "The Mechanics (and Kinematics) of Web-Work Plot Construction", a webwork plot is typically built around a sequence in which the main character intersects at least four other strands, one after the other, and each of these encounters causes the next one. Keeler never claimed to have invented the webwork plot, but only to be its theorist and practitioner. Keeler followed a writing procedure of his own; he'd often write a huge manuscript, perhaps twice the length required. He'd then cut it down to size, removing unnecessary subplots and incidents. The removed material (which he called "the Chunk") would sit around until Keeler wrote another manuscript to use it, which might result in yet cutting procedure, and another "Chunk". In his book Thieves' Nights, the hero reads a book which is about two other men telling stories: a framing device within a framing device. In another book, Keeler and his wife turn up as characters in a story. Keeler kept a large file of newspaper clippings featuring unusual stories and incidents. He is reputed to have pasted these into the rough outlines of his novels, adding notes like "Have this happen to... " Keeler is known for the MacGuffin-esque insertion of skulls into nearly all his stories. While many plots revolved around a skull or the use of one in a crime or ritual, others featured skulls as a diversion. As an example, a human skull was used as a paperweight on the desk of a police detective. Several of Keeler's novels make reference to a fictional book entitled The Way Out, which is apparently a tome of ancient Oriental wisdom. The significance of the nonexistent Way Out in Keeler's world is equivalent to the role played by the Necronomicon within H. P. Lovecraft's work. Influence and parallels In the late 1930s, British writer John Russell Fearn gave credit to Keeler for inspiring his experiments with webwork plots in his pulp SF stories. Keeler has influenced later writers, including Neil Gaiman and Futurama producer Ken Keeler (no relation); Ken Keeler says in the DVD commentary for "Time Keeps on Slippin'" that the story "Strange Romance" from the book Y. Cheung, Business Detective was an inspiration for the episode. Writer Jack Woodford wrote the article Tale Incredible: The True Story of Harry Stephen Keeler's Literary Rise about Keeler. Keeler's webwork technique anticipates the so-called hysterical realism of later novelists such as Thomas Pynchon. Gabriele Rico in Writing the Natural Way advises aspiring writers to practice a form of webwork, which she calls "clustering", to encourage associational thinking which can be used to create characters and plot lines. Films that exhibit probably unwitting similarities to Keeler's work include Murder Story (1989), in which Christopher Lee plays a Keeler-like character who keeps a large collection of newspaper clippings as part of his "Willard Hope Technique" for writing novels, which closely resembles Keeler's "webwork novel" technique. R. Kelly's series of music videos Trapped in the Closet shows a number of parallels to Keeler's style. In 2010, Bavo Dhooge published De Sciencefictionschrijver, a novel about one man's obsession with Keeler, under the pseudonym Harold S. Karstens. The independent studio United Film House announced a plan to release "The Flyer Hold-Up" in 2015, a film based on Keeler's story "The Flyer Hold Up; or, The Mystery of Train Thirty-Eight", published in the Chicago Ledger in four parts from December 4–25, 1915. Icelandic novelist Sjón has acknowledged Keeler as an inspiration, as has Spanish writer Raúl Herrero in his novel Rascayú. Bibliography Series Tuddleton Trotter Series The Matilda Hunter Murder (1931) (UK title The Black Satchel) The Case of the Barking Clock (1947) The Trap (1956) Marceau Series The Marceau Case (1936) X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard (1936) The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne (1936) Y. Cheung, Business Detective (1939) The Mysterious Mr. I The Mysterious Mr. I (1937) The Chameleon (1939) Vagabond Nights The Skull of the Waltzing Clown (1935) The Defrauded Yeggman (1937) Ten Hours (1937) When Thief Meets Thief (1938) Hallowe'en Nights Finger! Finger! (1938) Behind That Mask (1938) Adventures of a Skull The Man with the Magic Eardrums (1939) The Man with the Crimson Box (1940) The Man with the Wooden Spectacles (1941) The Case of the Lavender Gripsack (1941) The Big River Trilogy The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb (1939) (UK title: 'Find Actor Hart) Cleopatra's Tears (1940) The Bottle with the Green Wax Seal (1942) Circus Series The Vanishing Gold Truck (1941) The Case of the Jeweled Ragpicker (1948) (UK title The Ace of Spades Murder) Stand By—London Calling! (1953) The Case of the Crazy Corpse The Circus Stealers A Copy of Beowulf Report on Vanessa Hewstone The Six from Nowhere The Case of the | childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it. In many of his novels, Keeler refers to Chicago as "the London of the west". The expression is explained in the opening of Thieves' Nights (1929): Here ... were seemingly the same hawkers ... selling the same goods ... here too was the confusion, the babble of tongues of many lands, the restless, shoving throng containing faces and features of a thousand racial castes, and last but not least, here on Halsted and Maxwell streets, Chicago, were the same dirt, flying bits of torn paper, and confusion that graced the junction of Middlesex and Whitechapel High streets far across the globe. Other locales for Keeler novels include New Orleans and New York. In his later works, Keeler's settings are often more generic settings such as Big River, or a city in which all buildings and streets are either nameless or fictional. Keeler is known to have visited London at least once. Early adulthood Keeler's mother was a widow several times over who operated a boarding house popular with theatrical performers. Beginning around age sixteen, Keeler wrote a steady stream of original short stories and serials that were subsequently published in many small pulp magazines of the day. Circa 1910, when Keeler was about twenty, his mother committed him to an insane asylum for reasons unknown. This initialed Keeler's interest in madness, asylums and the predicament of sane people who had been consigned to such institutions. It also gave him a lifelong violent antipathy towards the psychiatric profession. Keeler attended the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. It was at this time that Keeler met his future wife, Hazel Goodwin, whom he would marry in 1919. After graduation, he took a job as an electrician in a steel mill, working by day and writing by night. A notable early work was the 1915 science fiction story "John Jones' Dollar", originally published in a magazine entitled The Black Cat. A reprint would appear in an early (1927) issue of Amazing Stories, the first American science fiction pulp. In the story, a single invested dollar has by the 33rd century grown to a fortune as a result of compound interest. With E.P. Dutton Eight of Keeler's earliest works first appeared in pulp fiction magazines like Complete Novel and Top Notch. His first four novels were originally released in England by Hutchinson, beginning in 1924 with The Voice of the Seven Sparrows. Beginning in 1927, E. P. Dutton took over publication of Keeler's novels in the US. Between 1927 and 1942, Dutton released 37 novels by Keeler. In the United Kingdom, publication of Keeler's novels, sometimes with altered titles and reworked prose, fell to Ward, Lock & Co., who went on to publish 48 novels by Keeler from 1929 to 1953. The Voice of the Seven Sparrows introduced audiences the world over to Keeler's complicated "webwork plot" story lines with wildly improbable in-story coincidences and sometimes sheerly baffling conclusions. Keeler's complex, labyrinthine stories generally alienated his intended reading audience. Owing to his popularity with Dutton, however, Keeler gained notoriety in the mid-1930s as a purveyor of new and original stories. His popularity peaked when his book Sing Sing Nights was used to "suggest" two different low-budget mystery-adventure films, namely Sing Sing Nights (Monogram Pictures, 1933) and The Mysterious Mr. Wong (Monogram, 1935), the latter of which starred screen legend Bela Lugosi. During this period Keeler was employed as an editor for Ten Story Book, a popular pulp short-story magazine that also included photos of nude and scantily clad young women. Keeler proceeded to fill the spaces between the features with his own peculiar brand of humor and included illustrations drawn by his wife. Here, he also often publicized his own books. Keeler's relations with the Duttons grew erratic and strained. Keeler's 1941 novel The Peacock Fan appears to take a dig at the Duttons through a pair of faintly disguised characters. In his later career, Keeler's fiction and writing style grew more bizarre and his books longer. He often substituted plot with lengthy dialogue and diatribes between characters. His readership flagged. In 1942, after releasing The Book with the Orange Leaves, Keeler was dropped by Dutton. Ward Lock continued to issue his books in the United Kingdom until 1953. Later years The years from 1942 to 1953 were difficult for Keeler. His writing drifted even further beyond the norm and short stories written by his wife (a moderately successful writer herself) were found more and more within his novels. Keeler typically padded the length of his novels with the following device: his protagonist would find a magazine or book, open it at random and discover a story. At this point, Keeler's novel would insert the complete verbatim text of one of his wife's short stories, this being the story his novel's protagonist was reading. At the end of the story, the novel would continue where it left off, several pages nearer to its contractual minimum word count. These stories-within-the-novel typically contained only a few scraps of information that were relevant to the novel in which they appeared. Keeler's novels were picked up by rental library publisher Phoenix Press, known in |
Racing League and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Indy Racing League ISM fielded cars in the IRL from 1997 to 1999. In 1998, Jeff Ward finished 6th in IRL driver points and won the pole at Phoenix in an ISM car and the team fielded three cars in the 1998 Indianapolis 500. However, the team was only able to run part-time in 1999 and shut down in July of that year. The IRL team used G-Force chassis and Oldsmobile engines. ISM IRL drivers Jim Guthrie (1998) Steve Knapp (1998-1999) Jeff Ward (1997-1999) Complete IRL IndyCar Series results (key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap) In conjunction with Sinden Racing Services. NASCAR: Team Tabasco McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand products, sponsored their Winston Cup car. The company announced in 1997 that it would sponsor the No. 35 Pontiac driven by Todd Bodine. The car would be owned by Bob Hancher. The team debuted on the weekend of the announcement at Charlotte Motor Speedway, with Bodine finishing 26th. After a rumor that Tabasco had ended its sponsorship, the team failed to qualify for the first three races of the 1998 season. Surprisingly, McIlhenny Company voiced no concerns, despite the high-pressure stakes of NASCAR racing. After a tenth-place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Team Tabasco qualified for Darlington and Bristol finishing 27th and 29th, but failed to qualified for three of the next four races, ranking 39th place in the one race in which it did appear. A practice accident took Bodine out of the California 500, where Wally Dallenbach Jr. filled in as driver. Bodine | season. Surprisingly, McIlhenny Company voiced no concerns, despite the high-pressure stakes of NASCAR racing. After a tenth-place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Team Tabasco qualified for Darlington and Bristol finishing 27th and 29th, but failed to qualified for three of the next four races, ranking 39th place in the one race in which it did appear. A practice accident took Bodine out of the California 500, where Wally Dallenbach Jr. filled in as driver. Bodine would be back on board for the Coca-Cola 600 in late May, finishing 28th. June 6 saw Bodine's last ride in the Tabasco Pontiac at Richmond International Raceway. In his brief tenure, Team Tabasco only managed to qualify in five of the first thirteen races (including the race during which Dallenbach drove). ISM replaced Bodine with Loy Allen Jr. for the Pepsi 400 on a temporary basis; after the race was delayed due to wildfires, Bodine was fully released by the team before the next race at New Hampshire International Speedway. Gary Bradberry and Jimmy Horton were scheduled to drive for the team at future races. After running only one of the next three races, however, Hancher sold the operation to Tim Beverly and his driver Darrell Waltrip. The Tyler Jet Motorsports team drove Chevrolet Monte Carlos and intended to continue using the model. In their first race, the Brickyard 400, Waltrip started dead-last but climbed through the field to finish 13th. But the team's use of |
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Roisin Isaacs spent £700,000 on house in Buckinghamshire .
Victorian property was dilapidated and renovation bill was £750,000 .
Stencilled quotes adorn the house and animal area is now high-tech office .
Roisin lived in Dundee off benefits and foodbanks for Secret Millionaire .
Gave £40,000 to charity does not believe handouts will solve social problems . | Multi-millionaire Roisin Isaacs has given an inordinate amount of time and energy to two places in recent years. One is the deprived Hilltown quarter of Dundee. The other – her private passion – is Pennlands Kiln. The farmhouse, dating from 1862, was in a dilapidated state when she bought it, but she has devoted the past years to restoring it to its full glory. Northern Ireland-born Roisin, who made her fortune in occupational health after moving to England at 18 to study as a nurse, took part in Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire series in 2009. Roisin Isaacs at her Farnham Common home, Buckinghamshire. Mrs Isaacs spent £750k to bring the Victorian gem back to life . She lived on job-seekers’ allowance in Dundee, using the city’s food bank, while learning about the work of certain charities there. She ended up donating £40,000 to two of them. ‘I was brought up by my grandparents in Bessbrook, near Newry, in very humble circumstances,’ she says, pouring tea in her comfortable drawing room. ‘And being in Dundee brought back memories of those days, when my grandfather, a gorgeous guy, also struggled to get the next meal on the table. It struck me that I should give something back. By the time I returned home to Pennlands Kiln, I was less of a capitalist and more of a philanthropist.’ Roisin, 59, first saw Pennlands Kiln, which stands in glorious isolation outside Farnham Common in leafy Buckinghamshire, in 1998. The dining room and kitchen area at the stunning house . She paid £700,000 for the property and, even though it had a horrible 1970s look and birds were actually nesting in the upstairs rooms, she immediately wanted this to be the house where she would live. So she forked out another £750,000 on a renovation project, hiring top London interior designer Beverley Barnett and reading up on the property’s history to ensure none of the changes damaged the fabric of the house. Now Pennlands Kiln is a more chic version of the Victorian original. The drawing room, which had the appearance of a cheap mock-Tudor saloon bar when she first saw it, is now tastefully decorated in creams and gold, with an impressive open fireplace. Across the hall and down the corridor there is a tiny sitting room on the left which Roisin describes as ‘the smallest cinema in the world’, and opposite is a dark, formal dining room. ‘People used to design rooms for different times of the day,’ she says. ‘And this is a night-time room.’ Straight ahead there is the white-washed farmhouse kitchen with its light oak furnishings and huge range. According to her research, the farm labourers in Victorian times would call by for their food – and be handed it out of the kitchen window. She paid £700,000 for the property and, even though it had a horrible 1970s look and birds were actually nesting in the upstairs rooms, she immediately wanted this to be the house where she would live. Now Pennlands Kiln is a more chic version of the Victorian original . Next to the kitchen the farm animals’ winter quarters have been turned into a high-tech office where Roisin’s partner Andrew Griffiths pores over computer screens, with the family’s pair of Tibetan terriers, Blarney and Willie, at his feet. One recurring feature in the house are the stencilled mottos and quotations which adorn many of the rooms. One of these – ‘Happiness unshared is scarcely happiness’ – seems particularly apt for this Secret Millionaire. What, I wonder, did she learn from making the documentary? ‘I learnt that poverty and hunger are very dangerous,’ she says, leading the way out into the gardens. Roisin Isaacs appeared on the Secret Millionaire in 2009. She lived on job-seekers' allowance in Dundee, using the city's food bank, while learning about the work of certain charities there. She ended up donating £40,000 to two of them . ‘If you can’t eat, you can’t think. If you can’t think, you can’t work and if you can’t work, you can’t help yourself.’ However, Roisin does not believe food banks and financial handouts alone will solve the problems of the country’s poor. ‘It’s a generational thing and we have lost some of our skills base,’ she says. ‘People should be taught in schools how to budget and how to make, say, a broth from inexpensive ingredients. Maybe that’s not the job of the teachers – maybe the charities should do it. But somebody must provide an education at this level.’ Although she was on The Secret Millionaire, there is nothing remotely hair-shirt or holier-than-thou about Roisin. A self-confessed party lover, one of her happiest memories of her time at the house is of the fancy-dress dance she held two years ago, when she packed 75 people, all in Victorian costume, into a giant marquee in the grounds. She also has a penchant for creating ‘refreshment’ areas outside. A self-confessed party lover, one of her happiest memories of her time at the house is of the fancy-dress dance she held two years ago, when she packed 75 people, all in Victorian costume, into a giant marquee in the grounds . There is a special ‘gin and tonic’ table set above an 18ft waterfall, a champagne-quaffing corner for pre-dinner drinks in a thatched safari hut and an afternoon tea table up on some turrets, next to her hot tub. The property is now on the market for £2.35 million, and sitting in ‘gin and tonic’ corner, looking over this impressive five-bedroom home, it is difficult to resist the question: Why move? ‘I sold my main company last year and although I have a property portfolio and a brand development company to keep me interested, I want to semi-retire,’ she says. ‘I love Billingshurst and West Sussex so I’d like to move there.’ Roisin does charity work – for Alabare, which supports vulnerable women, and the Trussell Trust food banks – which she will continue, but there is also something else that will occupy her: ‘I have one unfulfilled ambition: to write children’s stories.’ hamptons.co.uk, 01494 677744 . |
Have house prices been kept high by greedy investors? Now that the market is ready to crash will they suffer? | Probably (answer to your first question) \n\nand \n\nDefinitely (answer to your second question). |
She also portrayed the recurring character of Liz Lawrence in Season 4 of The Good Wife; a role that she reprises as a main cast member in the spinoff series The Good Fight. | También retrató el personaje recurrente de Liz Lawrence en la temporada 4 de The Good Wife; un papel que repitió como miembro principal del reparto en la serie The Good Fight. |
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In 1869 he married the actress Marian Dunn, with whom he had six children. | En 1869, se casó con la actriz Marian Dunn con la que tuvo seis hijos. |
Swift wrote the song after reading Maya Thompson's blog. | Swift şarkıyı Maya Thompson'nın blogunu okuduktan sonra yazdı. |
What do you think about Rutgers Football this year? | Tonight is the most powerful game that they have ever faced. I pick them to win 20 -14. #1 they are home . #2 they have a great defense #3 they are under less pressure than Louisville. |
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She helped organise the Gasworkers' Union and wrote numerous books and articles. | Ajudou a organizar a Gasworkers' Union e escreveu numerosos livros e artigos. |
SHOULD Saddam..................? | We should put him in charge of the U.S. After three days all these liberal scumbags will finally realize "THEY ARE AND HAVE ALWASY BEEN THE PROBLEM". Then we revoke his power and lock him in a steel cage with a retard named "Master Blaster". |
Frank Kingdon-Ward died on 8 April 1958 aged 72. | Frank Kingdon-Ward, falleció el 8 de abril de 1958 a los 72 años de edad. |
Thaddeus Bodog Sivana, born in 1892, began with the best intentions and was one of Europe's best scientific minds, with progressive scientific ideas that could revolutionize industry but were rejected by everyone he approached. | Thaddeus Bodog Sivana, nació en 1892 (teniendo en cuenta los cómics de la edad de oro), originalmente comenzó con las mejores intenciones de ser una respetada persona, y fue una de las mejores y brillantes mentes científicas europeas, con ideas científicas progresivas que podrían haber revolucionado la industria, pero fueron rechazadas por todas las personas a las que se les acercó. |
Gill House", "Herne the Hunter", an untitled track known as "Scott's Porridge", and "Alice". The second version has an instrumental version of "Alice" in place of "Scott's Porridge". All tracks are instrumental apart from "Alice", with vocals by Doug Irvine. The summer demo has three tracks; "Close" (parts of which were later rewritten into "The Web", "He Knows You Know" and "Chelsea Monday"), "Lady Fantasy" (an original based on an earlier Electric Gypsy song), and another version of "Alice". Both were recorded at The Enid's studio in Hertfordshire. Following Irvine's departure and replacement by Fish and Minnitt, the band recorded another demo tape, produced by Les Payne, in July 1981 that included early versions of "He Knows You Know", "Garden Party", and "Charting the Single". The group attracted attention with a three-track session for the Friday Rock Show (early versions of "The Web", "Three Boats Down from The Candy", and "Forgotten Sons"). They were subsequently signed by EMI Records. They released their first single, "Market Square Heroes", in 1982, with the epic song "Grendel" on the B-side of the 12" version. Following the single, the band released their first full-length album in 1983. Script for a Jester's Tear and Fugazi (1983–1984) The music on their debut album, Script for a Jester's Tear, was born out of the intensive performances of the previous years. Although it had some progressive rock stylings, it also had a darker edge. The album was a commercial success, peaking at number seven on the UK album chart and producing the singles "He Knows You Know" (number 35) and "Garden Party" (number 16). Although they were accused of being Genesis soundalikes, the album reached the Platinum certification and has been credited with giving a second life to progressive rock bands from the previous era. Following the UK tour to promote Script for a Jester's Tear, Mick Pointer was dismissed due to Fish's dissatisfaction with what he later described as the drummer's "awful" timing and failure to develop as a musician with the rest of the band. Ian Mosley, who had played for acts including Darryl Way's Wolf and the Gordon Giltrap band, was eventually secured as Pointer's replacement after a series of other drummers, including Andy Ward and Jonathan Mover, were short-lived. Despite the numerous production problems encountered during this period, the second album, Fugazi, built upon the success of the first album with a more streamlined hard rock sound. It improved on the chart placing of its predecessor by reaching the top five and produced the singles "Punch and Judy" (number 29) and "Assassing" (number 22). In November 1984, Marillion then released their first live album, Real to Reel, featuring songs from Fugazi and Script for a Jester's Tear, as well as "Cinderella Search" (B-side to 'Assassing') and the debut single "Market Square Heroes", which had not been available on album until that point. The album entered the UK album charts at No. 8. Misplaced Childhood and international success (1985–1986) Their third and commercially most successful studio album was Misplaced Childhood, which had a more mainstream sound. The lead single from the album, "Kayleigh", received major promotion by EMI and gained heavy rotation on BBC Radio 1 and Independent Local Radio stations as well as television appearances, bringing the band to the attention of a much wider audience. "Kayleigh" reached number two in the UK and "Lavender" reached number five; these remain the only singles by the band to enter the top five. Following the exposure given to "Kayleigh" and its subsequent chart success, the album became their only number one in the UK, knocking Bryan Ferry's Boys and Girls off the top spot and holding off a challenge from Sting, whose first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, entered the chart in the same week. The third single from the album, "Heart of Lothian", became another top-thirty hit for the band, reaching No. 29. The album came sixth in Kerrang! magazine's "Albums of the Year" in 1985. "Kayleigh" also gave Marillion its sole entry on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 74. In the summer of 1986, the band played to their biggest ever audience as special guests to Queen at a festival in Germany attended by a crowd of over 150,000 people. They were also offered the Highlander soundtrack but turned it down because of their world tour, a missed opportunity which Rothery later said he regretted. Clutching at Straws and the departure of Fish (1987–1988) The fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws, shed some of its predecessor's pop stylings and retreated into a darker exploration of excess, alcoholism, and life on the road, representing the strains of constant touring that would result in the departure of Fish to pursue a solo career. It did continue the group's commercial success, however; lead single "Incommunicado" charted at No. 6 in the UK charts gaining the band an appearance on Top of the Pops, and the album entered the UK album chart at No. 2, Marillion's second highest placing. "Sugar Mice" and "Warm Wet Circles" also became hit singles, both reaching No. 22. Fish has also stated in interviews since that he believes this was the best album he made with the band. The album came sixth in Kerrang! magazine's "Albums of the Year" in 1987, equalling the ranking given to Misplaced Childhood. It was also included in Q magazine's "50 Best Recordings of the Year". Fish explained his reasons for leaving in an interview in 2003: "By 1987 we were over-playing live because the manager was on 20 per cent of the gross. He was making a fantastic amount of money while we were working our asses off. Then I found a bit of paper proposing an American tour. At the end of the day the band would have needed a £14,000 loan from EMI as tour support to do it. That was when I knew that, if I stayed with the band, I'd probably end up a raging alcoholic and be found overdosed and dying in a big house in Oxford with Irish wolfhounds at the bottom of my bed." Fish gave the band a choice to continue with either him or the manager, John Arnison. They sided with the manager and Fish left for a solo career. His last live performance with Marillion was at Craigtoun Country Park on 23 July 1988. Owing to lengthy legal battles, informal contact between Fish and the other four band members apparently did not resume until 1999. Fish would later disclose in the liner notes to the 2-CD reissue of Clutching at Straws that he and his former bandmates had met up and discussed the demise of the band and renewed their friendship, and had come to the consensus that an excessive touring schedule and too much pressure from the band's management led to the rift. Although reportedly now on good personal terms, both camps had always made it very clear that the oft-speculated-upon reunion would never happen. However, when Fish headlined the 'Hobble on the Cobbles' free concert in Aylesbury's Market Square on 26 August 2007, the attraction of playing their debut single in its spiritual home proved strong enough to overcome any lingering bad feeling between the former band members, and Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, and Trewavas replaced Fish's backing band for an emotional encore of "Market Square Heroes". In a press interview following the event, Fish denied this would lead to a full reunion, saying that: "Hogarth does a great job with the band. We forged different paths over the 19 years." The Steve Hogarth era Seasons End and Holidays in Eden (1989–1992) After the split, the band found Steve Hogarth, the former keyboardist and vocalist of The Europeans and the duo How We Live. Hogarth first stepped into Pete Trewavas garage 24 January 1989 and got the job three months later on April 25, as the group had already recorded some demos of the next studio album, which eventually would have become Seasons End. Hogarth was a significant contrast to Fish, coming from a new wave musical background instead of progressive rock. He had also never owned a Marillion album before joining the band. After Fish left the group (taking his lyrics with him), Hogarth set to work crafting new lyrics to existing songs with lyricist and author John Helmer. The demo sessions of the songs from Seasons End with Fish vocals and lyrics can be found on the bonus disc of the remastered version of Clutching at Straws, while the lyrics found their way into various Fish solo albums such as his first solo album, Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors, some snippets on his second, Internal Exile and even a line or two found its way to his third album, Suits. The first time Marillion would appear in public with Steve Hogarth as the new singer was, under the banner of Low Fat Youghurts, at the Crooked Billet pub in Stoke Row, on 8 June 1989. Only about 100 fans attended that Crooked Billet show, considerably more at Hogarths official introduction to fans at the recording of the promo video for Hooks in You at London's Brixton Academy on 1 August that year, and even more at the Palais des Sports in Besançon, France on 5 October following the release of Seasons End. Marillion ended 1989 with their traditional Christmas show at London's Hammersmith Odeon, and kicked off 26 January 1990 with the Seasons End world tour, in front of 180,000 people at Hollywood Rock Festival in Rio de Janeiro, then rolling through Canada and North America before returning to Europe. The tour would prove to be the longest that Hogarth has thus far undertaken with Marillion. Although the tour wouldn't end in the UK until July, that Marillion ended the Seasons End tour in the UK at Wembley Arena highlighted how successful the shift from Fish to the new frontman Hogarth had been. Hogarth's second album with the band, Holidays in Eden, was the first he wrote in partnership with the band from the beginning, and includes the song "Dry Land", which Hogarth had written and recorded with his earlier duo, How We Live. As quoted from Steve Hogarth, "Holidays in Eden was to become Marillion's "pop"est album ever, and was greeted with delight by many, and dismay by some of the hardcore fans". EMI also wanted Marillon to deliver three hit singles from the album. Marillion returned to their pseudonym Low Fat Youghurts in December 1990 to preview their forthcoming album at the Moles club in Bath. Holidays in Eden wouldn't be released until June 1991, and was followed by a headlining appearance at the second and final Cumbria Rock Festival at Derwent Park in Workington 13 July 1991. The Cumbria appearance kick-started another lengthy world tour that would see the band course through the UK, before venturing through Europe and returning to the UK for some Christmas shows. In the beginning of 1992 the band built their own recording and rehearsal studio The Racket Club in Buckinghamshire. March and April 1992 saw Marillion back out across Canada and America. They returned to UK for an exclusive, intimate show at London's Borderline for members of ther The Web fan club to celebrate the band's 10th Anniversary on 9 May 1992. This show was the first 'official bootleg' live-CD released in August on their own new started Racket Records label, a limited edition of 2000 copies, before venturing off again through Europe. EMI also released the compilation album A Singles Collection - Six of One, Half A Dozen of the Other to celebrate the band's tenth anniversary with the label. It also included two new recordings, a cover of Rare Birds Sympathy and I Will Walk on Water. Sympathy was also released as a single and it reached No.17 in the UK charts, the first time the band had been inside the top 20 since Incommunicado. Marillon returned to the UK to headline the Wembley Arena on 5 September 1992, for what would be the final time for the band. The 1992 tour wound up in Baltimore, USA on 23 October. Marillion would only play just one gig in 1993, a fan club gig at Tivoli Theatre in Utrecht on 19 June, as a duo with only Hogarth and Trewavas. Marillion were busy readying what might become one of the most important albums of their career. Brave, Afraid of Sunlight and split with EMI Records (1993–1995) Holidays in Eden was followed by Brave, a dark and richly complex concept album that took the band 18 months to write and record. The album also marked the start of the band's longtime relationship with producer Dave Meegan. Brave was released on 7 February 1994. Some of the material had been aired at that sole 1993 show in Utrecht, and was also previewed at low-key gigs in the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany before Marillion kicked off the Brave world tour at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre on 20 February. The Brave tour was another lengthy one, and the band undertook the move to perform the whole of their new album in its entirety (as they had done with Misplaced Childhood just under a decade earlier). However, this meant the inevitable relegating of some Fish-era songs from the set. After a series of summer shows in Japan, the Brave tour wound its way down to Mexico in September. An independent film based on the album, which featured the band, was also released in February 1995. The film was directed by Richard | of the deal, this was to be the third and final album distributed on the Castle label. The Dot Com tour, again with dates only in the UK and mainland Europe, started on 13 October at the MCM Cafe in Paris, and ended with a special Christmas show for the Web fanclubs worldwide in Aachen, Germany on 5 December 1999. For the whole of 2000, the band were writing the next album at the Racket Club and in November 2000 they played 2 Charity gigs at Bass Museum in Burton-on-Trent, before playing some more Christmas shows for their European fan clubs. Marillion needed a new strategy, and following the release of three albums via Castle, they came up with a novel approach for their next album. Anoraknophobia and Marbles (2000–2006) The band decided that they would try a radical experiment by asking their fans if they would help fund the recording of the next album by pre-ordering it before recording even started. The result was 12,674 pre-orders which raised enough money to record and release Anoraknophobia in the beginning of May 2001. As a 'thank-you' gesture to the fans who pre-ordered it, their names were credited in the sleeve notes and the pre-order "Special Edition" came in a deluxe 48-page hard-bound case with an extra enhanced CD. The band was able to strike a deal with EMI to also help distribute the album. This allowed Marillion to retain all the rights to their music while enjoying commercial distribution. The band went on tour which started in May 2001. A second leg of the tour (with a setlist largely decided by a poll of the fans) reached places that had never been played before, such as in the Azores at Ponta Delgada 22 September 2001. A US Tour was still not a possibility. A 4-part BBC documentary 'The Future Just Happened' aired in the UK on BBC2 in the Summer 2001. Featured in Episode 3 was Marillion's revolutionary internet pre-order campaign for Anoraknophobia. In April 2002 marked a new era of Marillion fandom. The band decided to book out a holiday camp and invite their fanbase to enjoy three entire days of Marillion with three concerts, signing sessions, and more. The hallmark of the weekend was the first night which hosts the entire rendition of an album of Marillion's choice. The Marillion weekends began at Pontin's Holiday Park, Brean Sands in the West Country, to which fans would fly in from all over the world. In March 2003 they continued and held the Marillion weekend at Butlin's Minehead. The success of Anoraknophobia allowed the band to start recording their next album, but they decided to leverage their fanbase once again to help raise money towards marketing and promotion of a new album. The band put up the album for pre-order in mid-production. This time fans responded by pre-ordering 18,000 copies.Marbles was released in the end of April 2004 with a 2-CD version that was only available at Marillion's website. The pre-order version (known as the Deluxe Campaign Edition) of Marbles was packaged as a 128-page hard-bound book, packed in a rigid slip case. Those who purchased the Deluxe Campaign Edition by the end of 31 December 2003 were directly helping the Campaign Fund, and as a "Thank You" their name was printed in the album credits (like with the previous album, Anoraknophobia). The band's management organised the biggest promotional schedule since they had left EMI and Steve Hogarth secured interviews with prominent broadcasters on BBC Radio, including Matthew Wright, Bob Harris, Stuart Maconie, Simon Mayo and Mark Lawson. Marbles also became the band's most critically acclaimed album since Afraid of Sunlight, prompting many positive reviews in the press.Tim Jones Record Collector, May 2004, Issue 297.Roger Newell Guitarist, June 2004Guitar, June 2004 The band released "You're Gone" as the lead single from the album. Aware that it was unlikely to gain much mainstream radio airplay, the band released the single in three separate formats and encouraged fans to buy a copy of each to get the single into the UK Top Ten. The single reached No. 7, making it the first Marillion song to reach the UK Top Ten since "Incommunicado" in 1987 and the band's first Top 40 entry since "Beautiful" in 1995. The second single from the album, "Don't Hurt Yourself", reached No. 16. Following this, they released a download-only single, "The Damage (live)", recorded at the band's sell-out gig at the London Astoria. All of this succeeded in putting the band back in the public consciousness, making the campaign a success. In September 2004 Marillion returned for shows in Mexico, USA and ended in Canada Quebec City on 13 October 2004. Marillion continued to tour throughout 2005 playing several summer festivals and embarking on acoustic tours of both Europe and the United States, followed up by the "Not Quite Christmas Tour" of Europe throughout the end of 2005. A new DVD, Colours and Sound, was released in Feb 2006, documenting the creation, promotion, release, and subsequent European tour in support of the album Marbles. Somewhere Else and Happiness is the Road (2007–2008) In February 2007 the Marillion weekend was held abroad for the first time in the Netherlands at Center Parcs, Port Zélande. April 2007 saw Marillion release their fourteenth studio album Somewhere Else, their first album in 10 years to make the UK Top No. 30. The success of the album was further underscored by that of the download-only single "See it Like a Baby", making UK No. 45 (March 2007) and the traditional CD release of "Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys", which made UK No. 15 and No. 6 in the Netherlands during June 2007. The Somewhere Else tour started in Gibraltar 14 April 2007, and they also played in some places they had never been before like Bratislava. In July 2008 the band posted a contest for fans to create a music video for the soon-to-be released single "Whatever is Wrong with You", and post it on YouTube. The winner would win £5,000.Happiness Is the Road, released in October 2008, again featured a pre-order "deluxe edition" with a list of the fans who bought in advance, and a more straightforward regular release. It is another double album, with one disc based on a concept and the second containing the other songs that are not a part of the theme. Before the album's release, on 9 September 2008, Marillion pre-released their album via p2p networks themselves. Upon attempting to play the downloaded files, users were shown a video from the band explaining why they had taken this route. Downloaders were then able to opt to purchase the album at a user-defined price or select to receive DRM-free files for free, in exchange for an email address. The band explained that although they do not support piracy, they realised their music would inevitably be distributed online anyway, and wanted to attempt to engage with p2p users and make the best of the situation. Less is More and Sounds That Can't Be Made (2009–2014) In April 2009 they took their Marillion weekend to Montreal for the first time. The band's sixteenth studio album (released 2 October 2009) was an acoustic album featuring new arrangements of previously released tracks (except one, the new track: "It's Not Your Fault") entitled Less Is More. In October Marillion started an acoustic European tour which ended with a show in Istanbul 4 March 2010. Their seventeenth studio album, titled Sounds That Can't Be Made, was released in September 2012. Two versions of the album were released: A 2-disc 'deluxe' version that included a DVD with 'making-of' features and sound-check recordings and a single CD jewel case version. The 'deluxe' version also included a 128-page book that incorporated lyrics, artwork and, as was the case with Anoraknophobia, Marbles and Happiness is the Road, the names of people who pre-ordered the album. Parts of the album were recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in 2011. Marillion were awarded "Band of the Year" at the annual Progressive Music Awards in 2013. Fuck Everyone And Run (F E A R) and An Hour Before It's Dark (2015–present) In September 2015, Marillion announced that they were working on a new album, provisionally titled M18 and later confirmed as Fuck Everyone And Run (F E A R). As with several of their previous releases, the recording of the album was to be funded by fan pre-orders, this time through direct-to-fan website PledgeMusic. The album was released on 23 September 2016 debuting at number 4 in the official UK charts of 30 September 2016, their highest placing since Clutching at Straws nearly three decades earlier. In November 2016, they announced their first ever show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, in October 2017. The gig sold out in just 4 minutes and was filmed for DVD release. They also won "UK Band of the Year" at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards. In May 2017 Marillion took their Marillion Weekend to Santiago, Chile for the first time. In February 2018 Marillion returned to tour in the US and also played shows in Japan in September. In March 2018, the film of the Royal Albert Hall gig was premiered at cinemas around the UK, before the DVD launch, with the band attending the showing in London. On 6 April the concert was released as All One Tonight – Live at the Royal Albert Hall. In March 2018, Hogarth was involved with fellow musician Howard Jones in helping to unveil a memorial to David Bowie, which is situated close to Aylesbury's Market Square. The memorial was the inspiration of promoter David Stopps, who booked Bowie to appear at the Friars Aylesbury where he debuted his Ziggy Stardust persona. The bulk of the funds for the memorial were raised at a gig held at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury on the evening of the unveiling which Marillion headlined, alongside Jones, John Otway and the Dung Beatles, all of whom have close association to Aylesbury and in particular, the Friars. In early 2019, Marillion entered the studio with the intention to record songs from their catalogue with friends from the orchestra, who played with the band at the Royal Albert Hall shows in 2017. With Friends from the Orchestra was recorded at The Racket Club and Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios and features reimagined versions of songs accompanied by the In Praise of Folly String Quartet with Sam Morris on French horn and Emma Halnan on flute. The album was released 29 November 2019. In November and December 2019, the orchestra followed Marillion on tour in the UK, returning for two nights at the Royal Albert Hall, and they also played shows in the Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany. On 3 August 2021, Marillion announced their new pre-order campaign for a new studio album, entitled An Hour Before It's Dark. It is scheduled for release on 4 March 2022. In 2021, Marillion asked their fans to insure their 10-date Light at the End of the Tunnel Tour in November. Manager Lucy Jordache said: "We're asking our fans to pledge money that will be held in escrow and if it all goes Covid free, it will be returned to them at the end of the tour. But if we do have to cancel, then their money will be used to pay the band's unavoidable expenses." The band had already invested more than £150,000 on preparations, but risked losing it all if just one member tested positive for COVID-19 and was forced to isolate. The tour was a success, and the donations were refunded to the fans who were named "Lightsavers". Line-up, influences and sound changes Marillion's music has changed stylistically throughout their career. The band themselves stated that each new album tends to represent a reaction to the preceding one, and for this reason their output is difficult to 'pigeonhole'. Although the band has featured two very distinct and different vocalists, the core instrumental line-up of Steve Rothery (lead guitar, and the sole 'pre-Fish' original member), Pete Trewavas (bass), Mark Kelly (keyboards) and Ian Mosley (drums) has been unchanged since 1984. Their 1980s sound (with Fish on vocals) was guitar and keyboard-led neo-progressive rock. They have been described at their outset as "a bridge between punk and classic progressive rock". Guitarist Steve Rothery wrote most of the music during the period Fish was in the band. Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers commented, "What I love so much about Marillion is that they could be very strong and powerful and have very quiet passages, but the powerful stuff was really edgy and heavy... I just thought he (Fish) wrote good lyrics, and they wrote good music, and it fit together effortlessly." They were often compared unfavourably by critics during the Fish era with the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis, although the band had many other influences. Fish was influenced by a wide range of artists and his favourite albums were by artists such as Van der Graaf Generator, Joni Mitchell, the Who, Pink Floyd, John Martyn, Yes, Lowell George, Led Zeppelin, Roy Harper, the Faces, the Beatles and Supertramp. Rothery's main influences were Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, David Gilmour, Andrew Latimer of Camel, Steve Hackett, Jeff Beck and Joni Mitchell, with Gordon Giltrap also an early influence on the development of his playing style. Kelly's biggest inspiration was Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and Trewavas' favourite bass player was Paul McCartney. Original drummer Mick Pointer was a huge fan of Neil Peart's drumming in his favourite band, Rush. During the Steve Hogarth era, their sound has been compared, on various albums, to more contemporary acts such as U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Muse, Talk Talk, Elbow, and Massive Attack. In 2016, Hogarth himself was quoted as describing the band: "If Pink Floyd and Radiohead had a love child that was in touch with their feminine side, they would be us." According to an interview with Rothery in 2016, many of their later albums with Hogarth had been written by jamming. In the media The chief music critic of The Guardian, Alexis Petridis, has described Marillion as "perennially unfashionable prog-rockers". On the subject of joining the band in 1989, Steve Hogarth said in a 2001 interview: "At about the same time, Matt Johnson of The The asked me to play piano on his tour. I always say I had to make a choice between the most hip band in the world, and the least." In the same conversation, he said: "We're just tired of the opinions of people who haven't heard anything we've done in ten years. A lot of what's spread about this band is laughable." Much of the band's enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s. Some early critics were quick to dismiss the band as clones of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis due to musical similarities, such as their extended songs, a prominent and Mellotron-influenced keyboard sound, vivid and fantastical lyrics and the equally vivid and fantastical artwork by Mark Wilkinson used for the sleeves of their albums and singles. Lead singer Fish was also often compared with Gabriel due to his early vocal style and theatrical stage performances, which in the early years included wearing face paint. As Jonh Wilde summarised in Melody Maker in 1989: At the end of a strange year for pop music, Marillion appeared in November 1982 with "Market Square Heroes". There were many strange things about 1982, but Marillion were the strangest of them all. For six years, they stood out of time. Marillion were the unhippest group going. As punk was becoming a distant echo, they appeared with a sound and an attitude that gazed back longingly to the age of Seventies pomp. When compared to Yes, Genesis and ELP, they would take it as a compliment. The Eighties have seen some odd phenomena. But none quite as odd as Marillion. Along the way, as if by glorious fluke, they turned out some singles that everybody quietly liked – "Garden Party", "Punch and Judy" and "Incommunicado". By this time, Marillion did not need the support of the hip-conscious. They were massive. Perhaps the oddest thing about Marillion was that they became one of the biggest groups of the decade. They might have been an anomaly but they were monstrously effective. The band's unfashionable reputation and image has often been mentioned in the media, even in otherwise positive reviews. In Q in 1987, David Hepworth wrote: "Marillion may represent the inelegant, unglamorous, public bar end of the current Rock Renaissance but they are no less part of it for that. Clutching at Straws suggests that they may be finally coming in from the cold." In the same magazine in 1995, Dave Henderson wrote: "It's not yet possible to be sacked for showing an affinity for Marillion, but has there ever been a band with a larger stigma attached?" He also argued that if the album Afraid of Sunlight "had been made by a new, no baggage-of-the-past combo, it would be greeted with open arms, hailed as virtual genius." In Record Collector in 2002, Tim Jones argued they were "one of the most unfairly berated bands in Britain" and "one of its best live rock acts." In 2004, Classic Rock's Jon Hotten wrote: "That genre thing has been a bugbear of Marillion's, but it no longer seems relevant. What are Radiohead if not a progressive band?" and said Marillion were "making strong, singular music with the courage of their convictions, and we should treasure them more than we do." In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, an article on Marillion written by Mick Wall described them as "probably the most misunderstood band in the world". In 2007, Stephen Dalton of The Times stated: The band have just released their 14th album, Somewhere Else, which is really rather good. Containing tracks that shimmer like Coldplay, ache like Radiohead and thunder like Muse, it is better than 80 per cent of this month's releases. But you are unlikely to hear Marillion on British radio, read about them in the music press or see them play a major festival. This is largely because Marillion have – how can we put this kindly? – an image problem. Their music is still perceived as bloated, bombastic mullet-haired prog-rock, even by people who have never heard it. In fairness, they did once release an album called Script for a Jester's Tear. But, come on, we all had bad hair days in the 1980s. Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them. Steve Hogarth later said: "How can they say, this is an amazing record... no, we don't want to talk to you? It's hard to take when they say, here's a very average record... we'll put you on the front cover." In 2001, the television critic of The Guardian, Gareth McLean, used his review of the Michael Lewis BBC Two documentary, Next: The Future Just Happened, to concentrate on launching a scathing attack on the band, whose appearance only constituted one segment of the programme. He described them as "once dodgy and now completely rubbish" and he characterised their fans as "slightly simple folks". He also dismissed the band's efforts to continue their career without a label by dealing directly with their fans on the Internet, writing: "One suspects that their decision occurred round about the time that the record industry decided to shun Marillion." Rachel Cooke, a writer for The Observer and New Statesman, has repeatedly referred negatively to the band and insulted their fans in her articles. In an interview in 2000, Hogarth expressed regret about the band retaining their name after he joined: If we had known when I joined Marillion what we know now, we'd have changed the name and been a new band. It was a mistake to keep the name, because what it represented in the mid-Eighties is a millstone we now carry. If we'd changed it, I think we would have been better off. We would have been judged for our music. It's such a grave injustice that the media constantly calls us a 'dinosaur prog band'. They only say that out of ignorance because they haven't listened to anything we've done for the last 15 bloody years. If you hear anything we've done in the last five or six years, |
with PLO units under the command of Yasser Arafat. Syrian Civil War The government committed much of the 14th Special Forces Division to the assault of Homs, in which it fought some of the strongest rebel positions of Homs’ southwest Baba Amr, Inshaat, and Jobar neighborhoods. Opposition reports specifically cited activity from the 556th Special Forces Regiment, but most frequently cited the 14th Special Forces Division generally. Activity was reported in different parts of the city during similar time-frames, suggesting that at least one additional regiment from the 14th Special Forces was involved in the Homs operation. See also 15th Special Forces Division Al-Assad family 4th Armored Division Republican Guard References | airborne operations, and were rivaled on power only by the Defense Companies controlled by Hafez's brother, Rifaat. As such, the 14th Division became a strong counter-weight to the Defense Companies, as both these formations were largely airborne divisions. Traditionally they are recruited from the Alawite sect to ensure loyalty to the government. Intelligence sources state it is likely that such units are involved in crushing popular dissent and neutralizing ringleaders. Syrian occupation of Lebanon Under Haydar, the Special Forces units were deployed to Lebanon as part of the Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War. During the war they engaged with PLO units under the command of Yasser Arafat. Syrian Civil War The government committed much of the 14th |
were do i find the link to access my old yahoo user ID names? | Don't know,but I did notice that u call urself a tall dude who wants love,how old are you and where do u live? |
I Nimic fără Dumnezeu. | Pas sans Dieu. |
1 pound of dry beans is how many cups? | 2 cups of dried beans = 1 pound of dried beans. 1 pound of dried beans = About 6 cups of cooked beans. 1 part dry beans = 3 parts cooked beans. 1 cup dried beans = 3 cups of cooked beans. |
Sackville refused to accept responsibility for refusing to obey orders. | Sackville refuse d'admettre sa responsabilité pour avoir refusé d'obéir aux ordres. |
The training in removal of unorthodox exploding and fire devices (IEDD) still takes place in a "special training course for the fulfilment of special orders for employment". | Die Ausbildung zur "Beseitigung unkonventioneller Spreng- und Brandvorrichtungen (IEDD)" findet nach wie vor in einem "Sonderlehrgang zur Erfüllung spezieller Einsatzaufträge" statt. |
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