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6th episode of the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother
"Baby Talk" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 118th episode overall. It aired on October 25, 2010.
Plot
Marshall and Lily visit Stuart and Claudia, who are having trouble naming their newborn baby. When Claudia and Stuart leave the room, Marshall and Lily both come up with names for the baby, although the names are different. They both decide that to solve this problem, they would both come up with names and present them to the other later on. Marshall comes up with boy names that Lily rejects because of her past experiences with trouble-making kindergarten boys and Lily comes up with girl names that Marshall rejects because of his experience with a hot girl and a stripper. A future fantasy has an older Barney hitting on and subsequently marrying their daughter. Marshall, worried that it might be a girl, consults his father on how to ensure that it will be a boy while Lily has been searching for ways to make sure it will be a girl. When they found out, they realize that they have no control over the gender and decide to give him/her the gender-neutral name Jamie. Lily rejects the name later because of a troublemaker named Jamie.
Becky, Robin's new, overly cheery co-anchor at Come On, Get Up New York! reveals that she is dating Ted. Robin takes issue with Ted dating a girl who uses baby talk, while Ted, Barney, and Marshall defend girls using baby talk as a way for men to feel more manly and protective. Robin states that women would never fly with a man using baby talk, and Barney tries and fails the baby talk play. Robin discovers Ted finds dependent girls attractive and was put off by Robin's independence and assertiveness. Robin asks Barney if he felt needed during their relationship; Barney reassures her, saying he thought her independence was awesome. Robin then pointed out a crazy woman in his apartment—she had approached Barney as he was indulging himself in ice cream, and seduced him after he responded to her in a childish manner. Barney asks Robin to help him get rid of the woman, and the independent Robin grabs Barney's decorative sword and heads into the bedroom.
At the end of the episode, Ted and Becky are in a park, and as Becky licks an ice cream cone, Ted notices her shoe is untied and bends down to tie it. He then notices a nearby father tying his daughter's shoe and breaks up with Becky.
Critical response
DeAnn Welker of Television Without Pity gave the episode a score of A−. The A.V. Club's Donna Bowman gave the episode a B+ rating. Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a rating of 7.5 out of 10. Chris O'Hara of TVFanatic.com gave the episode a rating of 5 out of 5.
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Village in Karnataka, India
Kalloli is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Gokak taluk of Belagavi district in Karnataka.here is a famous hanuman temple attracting devotees from karnatak,maharastra states
Demographics
As of 2011[update] India census, Kalloli had a population of 16000 with 8300 males and 7700 females.
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United States historic place
The Ritz Theater (also known as the Milane Theatre or the Helen Stairs Theatre) is a historic theatre in Sanford, Florida, United States. It is located at 201 South Magnolia Avenue. On January 29, 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. After getting donations from Wayne Densch it has now been named the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center.
Gallery
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ritz Theatre (Sanford).
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Genus of thrips
Porcothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.
Species
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Arsena of Marabda (Georgian: არსენა მარაბდელი; Arsena Marabdeli) is a novel by Georgian novelist Mikheil Javakhishvili. Its first part was published in the magazine Mnatobi (in 1926). During his life, it was published as a book, in 1933. It took author 7 years to write this novel. This novel, which depicts social problems in the early 19th century of Georgia, is reputed to be one of the best novels of the author.
Plot
Novel has been published during the writer's lifetime with three parts. It was translated into several languages, including German and Russian. The novel reflects people's struggle for national and social independence. The hero of the book is Arsena Odzelashvili – a Georgian Robin hood. Soviet union's attitude toward him hardened after publishing this novel. The novel shows Georgian people's struggle for national and social freedom for the first half of the 20th century.
Characters
The hero of the book is Arsena Odzelashvili - Georgian Robin hood. Arsena Odzelashvili commonly known as Arsena of Marabda (c. 1797 – 1842) was a Georgian outlaw said to have robbed the rich to help the poor. He gained popularity as a fighter against serfdom and Russian colonial rule in Georgia.
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Political party in Norway
The Christian Conservative Party (Norwegian: Kristent Konservativt Parti, KKP) was a political party in Norway which was originally formed in 1965 as the Democratic Party of Norway. The party was later also known as the Christian Democrats and the Peace Party, before it became the KKP. The party was for many of its last years led by Paul Granberg, however with his death the remaining power in the movement withered. The party never achieved any large following.
History
The party was founded in 1965 as the Democratic Party of Norway (Norges Demokratiske Parti) by Sverre Skien in Karmøy. The party was at first a minor conservative party with its largest following by maritime workers.
The party did not receive much attention, until 1979, when the party was couped by Leif Karlung who used it to put up extreme-right persons as candidates for the election. When this was revealed, the party excluded all persons in question, and changed its name to the Christian Democrats (Kristendemokratene). In 1983 the party again changed its name to the Peace Party (Fredspartiet) which was used until 1989 when it was changed again, this time to the Christian Conservative Party. On 26 September 1998, the party finally merged with the New Future Coalition Party to form the Christian Unity Party.
Political profile
The party was pro-life and opposed to membership of the European Economic Community. The party criticised the Christian Democratic Party for having let itself become "liberalised", and for compromising too much with other parties. It also opposed immigration and foreign aid.
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A fuel gas-powered scooter is a scooter powered by fuel gas. Fuel gases include such fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas (CNG), biogas and hydrogen (HICE). Hydrogen (hydrogen internal combustion) use in two-wheelers has only recently being started to be looked into, mainly by developing countries, to decrease local pollution at an affordable cost.
Geographical use of fuel-gas scooters and related vehicles
LPG scooters are in use in China and many parts of Southern Asia.
Incentives for using fuel gas in scooters
Fuel costs
Each different fuel comes at a different price. These prices depend on the country, and even differ between gas stations. Scooter owners may decide to use whatever fuel that is cheapest and which is also locally available.
Petrol bans in cities
Shanghai has banned petrol scooters/mopeds and only allows LPG scooters to be used in the city due to air pollution. About 190,000 gasoline mopeds were eliminated between 2001 and 2004, replaced by 140,000 LPG mopeds as of 2004, at which time the city had over 100 LPG refueling stations. In 1996 the city's 500,000 gasoline mopeds were blamed for one fifth of the air pollution in Shanghai, so in 1997 the city stopped issuing new license plates for them. In 2000, the city stopped renewing plates for existing gasoline mopeds, so all of them expired by 2008.
Low emission zones in cities
Low emission zones are present in many cities. Fuel gases such as hydrogen, CNG, LPG, ... may allow for reaching the appropriate limit to enter the city in which such LEZ's are present (depending on which European emission standard or US emission standard is being used in the LEZ).
Conversion kits for petrol scooters
Petrol-powered scooters can be fitted with a conversion kit. Conversion kits for CNG for example exist for some popular motorcycle models.
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Snooker tournament
The 2003 Citywest Irish Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 and 30 March 2003 at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the title by defeating defending champion John Higgins 10–9 in the final.
Main draw
Final
Qualifying
Round 1
Best of 9 frames
Round 2–5
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
Televised stage centuries
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Turkish association football player
İsmail Çipe (born 5 January 1995) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Turkish club Boluspor in the TFF First League.
Professional career
Çipe made his professional debut with Galatasaray in a 3–0 Süper Lig win over Kayserispor on 10 November 2018.
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Municipality in Slovakia
Križovany nad Dudváhom (Hungarian: Vágkeresztúr) is a village and municipality of Trnava District in the Trnava region of Slovakia.
Rotunda
The old rotunda is one of the most interesting things to see in the village. It was built in the 11th century and has an interesting combination of Gothic and Romanesque elements. The patrotinium was the Saint Cross. In 1246 had been built a chapel to the rotunda and in 1780 had been constructed a new baroque church, which had been, however, demolished in 1937 so that a church with higher believers capacity will be built. But State Institute for the protection of historical sightseeings insisted on the protection of the rotunda and this had been succeeded. In 1938 the new church had been built, the old rotunda was preserved and the murals were restored between 1967 and 1970. Rotunda as well as the church are the possessions of the local Roman Catholic church. Inside the building are performed regular worship services.
Notable persons
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Kusadak railway station is the rail station in Kusadak, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia. Located in the settlement Kusadak in the municipality of Smederevska Palanka. Railroad continued to Glibovac in one, and Kovačevac in the another direction. Kusadak railway station consists of four railway tracks.
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Board and care may refer to:
Topics referred to by the same term
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Breed of cattle
The Aubrac is a French breed of domestic beef cattle. It originates on the Plateau de l'Aubrac in the Massif Central in central southern France, from which it also takes its name. It has a wheat-coloured coat and dark hooves, switch, muzzle and eyes.
History
The Aubrac originated in the early nineteenth century on the Plateau de l'Aubrac in the Massif Central, which spans the modern départements of the Aveyron, the Cantal and the Lozère, in the regions of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Occitanie.
Some limited cross-breeding took place in the twentieth century: with the Mézine, now extinct, 1935–1945; with the Maraîchine, 1945–1955; and with the Parthenaise, 1955–1975.
The conservation status of the Aubrac is not at risk. In 2014 the population was reported at about 170 000 head.
Characteristics
The Aubrac is robust, frugal, fertile and long-lived, and is well adapted to the mountain environment of the Massif Central. Temperamentally, it is noted for its equable and gentle disposition. It is reported to be resistant to trypanosomiasis, the "sleeping-sickness" transmitted by tsetse flies.
The Aubrac has a uniformly wheaten coat, with black skin and black hooves, black muzzle, tongue, switch, and natural openings. Bulls may carry darker markings to the coat. The horns are lyre-shaped and tipped with black. Bulls stand about 140 cm at the withers and weigh about 950 kg; cows stand some 128 cm and weigh about 650 kg.
Use
The Aubrac is raised for principally for meat. Bullocks weigh about 310 kg when weaned. Some milk from Aubrac cows is used in the production of Laguiole cheese; it is hoped that this proportion may reach 10%.
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Jinan railway station (Chinese: 济南站) is a railway station in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is on both the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and Qingdao-Jinan Passenger Railway. It accommodates intercity High Speed services towards destinations as Qingdao, Qingdao North, Yantai, Weihai, Rongcheng and Longkou.
Old Jinan stations
The predecessor of the current station was constructed in 1912. Serving the Jinpu Railway (Reorganised as part of Beijing-Shanghai Railway in 2007), it was designed by German architect Hermann Fischer. It was controversially demolished and rebuilt in 1992. Between 1915 and 1937, Jinan was home to another railway station of the same name, which served as the western terminus for the Jiaoji Railway, the station building of which is still extant and has since turned into a museum.
Future Development
It is planned to build a new station building to the north of the railway. Construction is expected to begin in January 2023.
Metro station
The station is served by Jinan Railway Station North station on Line 2 of the Jinan Metro.
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Township in Nebraska, United States
Leshara Township is one of twenty-four townships in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 565 at the 2020 census. A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 580.
The Village of Leshara lies within the Township.
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2005 American film
Sweet Land is a 2005 American independent period drama film written and directed by Ali Selim. It is an adaptation of the 1989 short story "A Gravestone Made of Wheat" by Will Weaver. The film stars Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty, John Heard, Alex Kingston and Alan Cumming. It premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 21, 2005 and went into limited release on December 1, 2006. The film won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Plot
In the aftermath of World War I, Inge Altenberg, an orphan from Snåsa, Norway, arrives in America to a very cold reception. The parents of immigrant farmer Olaf Torvik remain in Norway, where they met her. Dialogue reveals that the four of them have worked out an agreement that allowed her to emigrate to America for the purpose of marrying Olaf. The Minnesota farming village of Audubon, in which her intended husband lives, is horrified to learn that she is a German immigrant with no papers. To make matters worse, she has accidentally obtained membership papers for the American Socialist Party. Scandalized, both the town's Lutheran minister and the county clerk refuse to marry them.
When events lead them to openly cohabit with each other, they find themselves ostracized by the entire town. They are then forced to harvest their crop completely by hand and alone. This particular harvest season brings not only work, but love as well.
Cast
Production
Early development
Director Ali Selim first read Will Weaver's short story "A Gravestone Made of Wheat" in 1989 in the Sunday magazine of the Star Tribune, a Minneapolis newspaper. After purchasing the film rights, he spent much of the 1990s working on a script in his spare time as he worked as a director of television commercials.
Two early supporters of the project were actors Alan Cumming, who played Frandsen, and Gil Bellows, who signed on as a co-producer. Selim met Cumming while screening a short film in Los Angeles; he knew Bellows from directing him in a steak-sauce commercial. Bellows helped Selim get the script into workshops in Los Angeles, where the reaction was positive; however, no Hollywood studios were interested in making the film.
In 2004, Selim raised about $1 million to produce the film himself, mostly from private investors in Minnesota, and pre-production began in July, with shooting planned for that fall.
Casting
Dan Futterman, whom Selim also had directed in commercials, was originally cast as Olaf but had to drop out when his film Capote went into production. Futterman suggested Tim Guinee as his replacement.
The role of Frandsen, a character that does not appear in the short story, was written for Alan Cumming. Alex Kingston was a friend of Cumming's from their early days in London.
Elizabeth Reaser signed on after another actress dropped out because of a scheduling conflict. Reaser initially balked at having to master her multilingual dialogue on such short notice, and she tried to back out of the audition. Her agent talked her out of it, and she got the part.
Selim said on the film's DVD commentary that Ned Beatty, who has a summer home in his wife's hometown in northern Minnesota, said he took a role in the film to impress his in-laws—although he later confessed that he also liked the script.
Filming
Sweet Land was filmed in 24 days in October 2004 in and around Montevideo, a city in Chippewa County, Minnesota. Reaser does not speak German and had to learn her lines phonetically despite only four sessions with a dialogue coach.
The film uses some computer-generated graphics: The northern lights in the scene where Inge walks through the fields to Olaf's house to take a bath (the scene was actually filmed in the daytime), and, later in the film, the geese flying over Olaf's house.
Distribution
Theatrical
Selim entered Sweet Land in several film festivals, and despite a positive reception and some awards, no Hollywood distributor would take it on. Eventually, Jeff Lipsky, formerly of October Films, agreed to distribute it, and Sweet Land opened in limited release on December 1, 2006. Initially released only in Minneapolis-St. Paul and New York, the film was rolled out gradually to other markets over the next several months.
Home media
Sweet Land secured a national DVD distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, who released the film on DVD on July 10, 2007.
Reception
Sweet Land received mostly positive reviews, which focused on the simplicity of its story, the beauty of its cinematography, and its strong sense of place. Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times named the film one of the ten best of 2006. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote Sweet Land "is a type of American independent we don't see often enough, a beautifully photographed film (in 35-millimeter no less) that celebrates its regional identity. In addition, it's sure-footed enough to tread on the borders of sentimentality without falling into that ever-seductive trap."
On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Sweet Land has an 85% rating based on 73 reviews. The site’s critics consensus reads, "Finding the right balance between subtle and sentimental, Sweet Land moves beyond other similarly-themed dramas with evocative cinematography that plays an equal role to the talented cast."
Box office
Although Sweet Land did not get a wide national release, by the end of December 2006 it approached $1 million in receipts. The film remained in theaters for 37 weeks, often in limited engagements at independent theaters, primarily in the Midwest. The film's final gross was $1.8 million.
Accolades
Musical adaptation
The film was adapted into a stage musical by producer Perrin Post and playwright Laurie Flanigan Hegge, with music and lyrics by Hegge and Dina Maccabee. The musical premiered at the History Theatre in St. Paul in 2017.
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Dutch cyclist
David van der Poel (born 15 June 1992) is a Belgian-born Dutch road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.
He represented his nation in the men's elite event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder.
He is the son of the Dutch cyclist Adri van der Poel, brother of Mathieu van der Poel and grandson of the French cyclist Raymond Poulidor.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
2014–2015
1st Pétange
1st Bussnang
2nd National Championships
National Trophy Series
2nd Milton Keynes
2nd Contern
EKZ CrossTour
3rd Eschenbach
3rd Lutterbach
2015–2016
EKZ CrossTour
1st Hittnau
Toi Toi Cup
1st Tabor
3rd National Championships
2016–2017
Toi Toi Cup
1st Slany
1st Jingle Cross
2017–2018
Toi Toi Cup
1st Kolin
3rd Slany
1st Mol
1st Rucphen
1st Radcross
1st Lutterbach
Brico Cross
2nd Maldegem
EKZ CrossTour
2nd Eschenbach
2nd Meilen
2nd Woerden
Superprestige
3rd Hoogstraten
3rd National Championships
3rd Oostmalle
3rd Hasselt
2018–2019
1st Overall EKZ CrossTour
1st Baden
1st Hittnau
2nd Aigle
1st Radcross
1st Lutterbach
Brico Cross
3rd Essen
3rd Gullegem
3rd Neerpelt
3rd Poprad
2019–2020
1st Vittel
EKZ CrossTour
2nd Meilen
2nd Hittnau
2nd Troyes
3rd Mol
2020–2021
1st Troyes
2021–2022
Copa de España
1st Karrantza
2nd Pontevedra
2nd Llodio
2nd Ardooie
2nd Xaxancx
2nd Elorrio
2022–2023
Exact Cross
3rd Zonnebeke
Road
2017
8th Velothon Wales
2018
1st Stage 1 Tour Alsace
6th Schaal Sels
2019
1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace
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American historian
Jeremy King is an American historian, Professor of History at Mount Holyoke. He was research fellow at Harvard University, Berlin Prize Fellow, from the American Academy in Berlin, and 2004–2005 Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Life
He graduated from Yale University with a B.A, and from Columbia University with an MA, M.Phil., Ph.D.
He lived in Prague, Budapest, and Vienna. In the summer of 1989, he held an internship at the Hungarian Section of Radio Free Europe, in Munich.
Works
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Pakistani cricketer
Waqar Anwar (born 26 August 1989) is a Pakistani cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Karachi Blues in the 2013–14 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on 23 October 2013.
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American poet, novelist and scholar
Neal Bowers (born Larry Neal Bowers, August 3, 1948 in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, and scholar. He received the B.A. (1970) and M.A. (1971) from Austin Peay State University and the Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of Florida (1976). He taught for thirty-one years at Iowa State University, earning the highest academic rank awarded by the university, Distinguished Professor. His regular courses included creative writing and modern and contemporary poetry. He retired from teaching in 2008.
In addition to his poetry, Bowers is best known for his defense of poetry in Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist (W.W. Norton, 1997). As the victim of a bizarre and relentless literary thief, Bowers made a stand for intellectual property and the deeply personal nature of the creative process at a time when fewer and fewer scholars and writers believed in either. After publishing several articles expressing his dismay, most notably University Poetry, Inc. (Poetry, July 2002), Bowers stopped writing poetry for more than a decade. Prior to that hiatus, he published hundreds of poems in such journals as Poetry, The New Yorker, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Shenandoah, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and his work was represented in over three dozen anthologies.
Books
Awards
Personal life
Neal Bowers and his wife, Nancy, have lived in the same house in Ames, Iowa, for thirty years. In younger days, they traveled extensively but are now content to pursue their various writing projects with the assistance of six special-needs cats.
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Public school in Mukilteo, Washington, United States
Kamiak High School is a public high school in Mukilteo, Washington, United States. It was the second high school in the Mukilteo School District when it opened on September 8, 1993. The first and only high school within Mukilteo city limits, it was built to accommodate overflow population from the overcrowded Mariner High School in the neighboring city of Everett.
Kamiak's campus features over 40 classrooms, a physical education complex with two separate gymnasiums and a weight room, a half-Olympic sized swimming pool complex, a Performing Arts Center (known as "The PAC"), a number of portables, six tennis courts, a softball field, baseball field, soccer field, football field, track facilities, and the school's East Campus, which houses science and math rooms as well as a third gymnasium (Multi-Purpose room) used as a secondary cafeteria.
History
When Mariner High School opened on January 10, 1971, it was the only high school serving the Mukilteo School District. While the district waited for 84 years before opening Mariner, it dealt with substantial growth in enrollment between the openings of Mariner and Kamiak; from 1982 to 1992, the district student count had grown by 84 percent, with the district building one school per year from 1984 onward. With the growth far outstripping available capacity at Mariner, it was apparent that an additional high school was needed to handle future secondary students.
Construction of Kamiak was initially funded via a $66.7 million levy approved by voters in 1989; an additional $89.5 million was approved in 1992. The cost of construction was projected at $32 million, with another $13 million dedicated to the construction of the adjacent Harbour Pointe Middle School. The opening of both schools was threatened by contract negotiations between the district and its teachers, but a potential strike was averted when both sides agreed to a three-year contract; both schools opened as planned on September 8, 1993. Kamiak opened without a senior class for the 1993–94 school year.
Firecrackers
On November 23, 2015, Kamiak was involved in a school shooting scare when it was put under lockdown after a teacher called 9-1-1 around 9:38 AM, reporting that she heard gunshots near her third-floor classroom. Neighboring schools Columbia Elementary and Harbour Pointe Middle were also placed under lockdown as a precaution. Mukilteo police responded to the scene with assistance from multiple law enforcement agencies, which included the Washington State Patrol and the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office as well as the police departments of Edmonds, Everett, Lynnwood, and Mill Creek; an Everett officer was involved in a rear-end collision with another driver on SR 526 at its eastern terminus while responding to the incident. Officers at the scene found residue from two firecrackers in a stairwell between the second and third floors, conducting a full sweep of the campus after the discovery. The lockdown was lifted around 1:10 PM, lasting more than three hours in duration.
Joshua O'Connor
Just more than two years later, Kamiak was involved in another shooting scare when former student Joshua Alexander O'Connor was arrested on February 13, 2018, in connection with a plot to shoot up ACES Alternative High, his then-current school. O'Connor's initial target in the plot was Kamiak, where he was suspended twice while attending there; he later switched his target to ACES after conducting a coin flip to decide between the two schools. O'Connor was ultimately thwarted when his grandmother discovered the plot while going through his journal and called 9-1-1 to report it; he pled guilty to all charges brought against him on December 7 and was subsequently sentenced to 22½ years in prison on February 28, 2019.
Notable alumni
Notable faculty
Academics
The school offers 22 Advanced Placement courses: Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics C: Mechanics, Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, European History, Human Geography, US Government and Politics, World History, US History, Spanish Language and Culture, French Language and Culture, German Language and Culture, Japanese Language and Culture, Music Theory, Studio Art: 2D Design Portfolio, and Studio Art: Drawing Portfolio, as well as a number of honors courses.
Athletics
The school is part of District One of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). With over 2,000 students enrolled, Kamiak is classified as a Wesco 4A member under WIAA guidelines. Their main rival in athletics is Mariner High School, the other high school in the Mukilteo School District. Sports offered include:
Clubs and activities
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School in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
The Séminaire de Sherbrooke, also known as Séminaire Saint-Charles-Borromée, is a private educational institution located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Today, the Séminaire offers five years of secondary school and several college programs and continuing education.
History
Séminaire Saint-Charles-Borromée (known as St. Charles Seminary in English) was founded by Monseigneur Antoine Racine in 1875, the year after he became the first Bishop of Sherbrooke. A degree granting institution, perhaps its most famous alumnus was Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent, who graduated in 1902.
In 1954, the original seminary became Université de Sherbrooke. Université de Sherbrooke was the first Roman Catholic and French-language university in the Eastern Townships. Following the establishment of the university, the Séminaire de Sherbrooke was reborn in 1959. In 1968, classical courses (French: cours classique) were abandoned and the institution became the responsibility of the Ministry of Education of Quebec.
In 2005, the charter was amended, the positions of President (originally named by the Diocese of Sherbrooke) and the Director General (secular function) were merged into President and CEO. For the first time since the beginning of its existence, the Séminaire was directed by a layman, André Métras, who had been on the staff of the school in various roles for over 20 years.
Notable alumni
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1965 song by the Beach Boys
"In the Back of My Mind" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1965 album The Beach Boys Today!. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it is a heavily orchestrated ballad composed in 6/8 time. Dennis Wilson largely sings lead solo though briefly during the middle eight, his brothers Brian and Carl sing two lines in unison.
Fans and critics regard the song as one of the band's "masterpieces". It is one of the group's songs that most heavily draw from the Tin Pan Alley style of songwriting, while the chord patterns were virtually unprecedented in Brian's music at the time. The song ends with a breakdown of its instruments playing out of sync from each other.
Overview
"In the Back of My Mind" is about someone who describes themselves as "blessed with everything", yet has unfounded suspicions that his happy relationship will someday disintegrate. Wilson wrote in his 2016 memoir that the melody was inspired by the Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You". It is one of the group's songs that most heavily draw from the Tin Pan Alley style of songwriting, and in musicologist Phillip Lambert's assessment, the chord patterns "are virtually unprecedented in Brian's work."
It is a heavily orchestrated ballad, composed in 6/8 time, with Dennis Wilson singing lead. The arrangement lacks a groove and a traditional drum set. Instead, the rhythm is provided by acoustic guitars, vibraphone, and a Wurlitzer electric piano. There are also no vocal harmonies. In the bridge, pizzicato strings underscore a passage in which the narrator expresses, "I try to run far away from thoughts I shouldn't try to keep away, but they just keep coming back to me". His brothers Brian and Carl sing in unison during this section. In his book Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop, Bob Stanley remarked that the narrator's "emotions, whatever really was in the back of his mind, seemed to come out without any filter for what was deemed cool, or appropriate, or even musically acceptable".
The song ends with a breakdown of its instruments playing out of sync from each other. Biographer Peter Ames Carlin commented, "It's like the orchestra is falling apart. It's about the guy's wife, and that's the most intimate relationship you can have. It radiates the complexities in Brian's inner life and how that comes through in his music and how he expresses that in music." Music historian Charles Granata described the track as "disturbing" and "the antithesis of any prescribed commercial formula—a curious experiment marking an extreme deviation from the band." Howard similarly regarded its "stony lead vocal" and "warped string arrangement" as Wilson's "most ambitious arrangement to date."
Recording
"In the Back of My Mind" was recorded over two dates at Western Studios, both produced, arranged and conducted by Brian Wilson. 40 takes of the instrumental track were recorded on January 13, 1965, with the 39th being deemed the master. The vocals were overdubbed at a session on January 19, 1965. In a 1995 interview, Brian voiced dissatisfaction with Dennis' vocal, saying that it was not doubletracked well.
Legacy and recognition
Fans and critics regard "In the Back of My Mind" as one of the band's "masterpieces". Peter Doggett said of Dennis' performance, "he showed for the first time an awareness that his voice could be a blunt emotional instrument. ... his erratic croon cut straight to the heart, with an urgency that his more precise brothers could never have matched." In his review for AllMusic, Matthew Greenwald offered praise of the song and its lyrics, saying that the choice of lead singer was good and that Dennis' performance is "wonderfully fragile." Biographer David Leaf wrote, "Dennis’ soulful lead vocals helps bring out the jazzy feel of a song that is really unique in the Brian Wilson catalogue. The lush yet subtle orchestration (listen to the oboe) and percussion on this track hinted at what was to come on Pet Sounds."
1975 version
In 1975, Brian recorded a demo version of the song with himself on lead vocals and additional lyrics. It was released as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of his 2015 solo album No Pier Pressure.
Personnel
Per band archivist Craig Slowinski.
The Beach Boys
Session musicians and production staff
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American film director
Brett Simon (born November 28, 1973 in Palo Alto, California) is an American commercial, music video and film director.
Career
Simon graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing, and later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Art Practice. He is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at UC Berkeley. In 2001, he wrote, directed, edited and produced the short film Counterfeit Film, which showed at the Telluride Film Festival, South by Southwest and RESFest and has been archived at the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, as well as winning numerous awards. In 2005, he wrote, directed, edited and produced the short film The Sailor's Girl, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. After making a number of short films, he became an accomplished music video director, working on the videos for Marion Raven's "Break You" and "Here I Am", The Killers' "Somebody Told Me", Polar Bear's "Belly", The Joggers' "Hot Autism", Unwritten Law's "Save Me", Good Charlotte's "The Chronicles of Life and Death", New Found Glory's "It's Not Your Fault", Lostprophets' "A Town Called Hypocrisy", Sugarcult's "Do It Alone", Queens of the Stone Age's "Sick, Sick, Sick, Hoobastank's The Reason, and Rise Against's "Audience of One".
In 2008, Simon directed his first feature film, the Catholic school noir Assassination of a High School President, from Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski's script. Assassination of a High School President has premiered at the South by Southwest and Sundance Film Festivals.
Between 1998 and 2003, Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at UC Berkeley. He has also had journalism stints at the Kitchen Sink, Speak and Fabula magazines.
Simon worked with Rob Nilsson[who?] and David Herrera on the feature film Security at the Pacific Film Archive.
Personal life
Simon graduated from Gunn High School in 1992. His mother is Joan Simon and his father is Jack Simon, a Los Altos, California, psychiatrist and street photographer. He currently lives in Venice, Los Angeles.
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Village in Turkey
Village in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey
Fidanlar is a village in the Sur District of Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.
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Digital identity used by systems and APIs
A service account or application account is a digital identity used by an application software or service to interact with other applications or the operating system. They are often used for machine to machine communication (M2M), for example for application programming interfaces (API). The service account may be a privileged identity within the context of the application.
Updating passwords
Local service accounts can interact with various components of the operating system, which makes coordination of password changes difficult. In practice this causes passwords for service accounts to rarely be changed, which poses a considerable security risk for an organization.
Some types of service accounts do not have a password.
Wide access
Service accounts are often used by applications for access to databases, running batch jobs or scripts, or for accessing other applications. Such privileged identities often have extensive access to an organization's underlying data stores laying in applications or databases.
Passwords for such accounts are often built and saved in plain textfiles, which is a vulnerability which may be replicated across several servers to provide fault tolerance for applications. This vulnerability poses a significant risk for an organization since the application often hosts the type of data which is interesting to advanced persistent threats.
Service accounts are non-personal digital identities and can be shared.
Misuse
Google Cloud lists several possibilities for misuse of service accounts:
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Australian judge
Kevin Harcourt Bell AM, KC (born 13 November 1954) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the Australian state of Victoria.
Early life and education
Bell was born on 13 November 1954.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with honours from Monash University.
Career
Bell served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria between February 2005 and March 2012.
In May 2021, Bell was appointed as a Commissioner on the Yoorrook Justice Commission. The Yoorrook Justice Commission is a Royal Commission established by the Victorian Government to examine past and ongoing injustices to the First People of Victoria resulting from colonisation to provide a culturally safe place in which First People and others can tell the truth about traumatic events that have happened and their effects, to identify systemic injustice in Victoria and propose reforms to end that injustice and to propose matters that might be included in Victoria’s ongoing treaty-making processes.
Owing to this appointment, Bell stood down as Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law in 2022 and was succeeded by Melissa Castan. Bell was then appointed as an academic member of the Castan Centre and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University.[citation needed]
Other activities
Bell served as the President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) between February 2008 and 2010.
Bell was also previously elected as a Councillor of the City of Essendon, where he was active in establishing the Essendon Community Legal Centre.[citation needed]
Honours
In 2017 Justice Bell was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law and to the judiciary, to native title and human rights, and to the community.
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Freenet is a personal mobile radio network in Germany. It was originally introduced in 1996 as a product name of Motorola and uses part of the frequency spectrum of the former Telekom C-Netz carphone network.
History
The original frequency allocation for Freenet encompassed three channels, each with a 12.5 kHz spacing. In January 2007, three additional channels were added, bringing the total up to six.
The ordinance only permits handheld transceivers which must not permit an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1 W.
Originally, the Freenet frequencies were allocated until the end of 2005. The Federal Network Agency has extended this allocation until 31 January 2025.
Specification and Radios
With the maximum permitted ERP of 1W, a range of 3 km can be assumed. Due to the lower frequencies in the VHF band, signal attenuation from objects, such as houses and trees, is not as high as in the UHF band used by SRD and PMR446 radios.
Only specially certified and licensed transceivers may be used; the manufacturer must provide a declaration of conformity as well as a concise manual in German and a CE mark. The user is not permitted to modify the device. The Federal Network Agency has laid out strict parameters for modulation, bandwidth and channel spacing in its ordinance.
To be observed is, that relatively high prices for Freenet devices have kept away domestic users from the service. All radios, which can transmit optional on other frequencies or / and switchable power are prohibited by the Federal Network Agency. So the number of legal available devices is mutch smaller than in UHF PMR. Only a small number of companies produce radio for the Freenet-service, due to the small market. The devices are mainly 2-Meter business- or amateur-radio handhelds, modified for the requirements of Freenet. Kenwood, Motorola, Retevis and a German re-seller, selling modified Wouxun radios under the brand "Team Tecom" are the only companies for Freenet devices. Common practice in day-to-day operations is the use of amateur radio equipment and this turns out, not to be a problem for any other users if used responsibly.
Channel table
Freenet channels are within the 2 meter band business radio allocations.
FM-analog mode
Digital Modes
Freenet abroad
Freenet is a national radio allocation that is used in Germany only. Foreign regulatory bodies usually do not permit use of Freenet devices since the frequencies are often already allocated for different radio services. Instead, PMR446 has been harmonised on a European level. Due to possible interference with Swiss military networks, it is not permitted to use the Freenet frequencies in the Black Forest and on the Swabian Alb at elevations of 600 metres or above.
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Rugby player
Marijke Nel (born 17 December 1967) is a South African-born Canadian tennis player and former women's international rugby union fly-half from Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She played rugby until 2006 when she moved to Canada to coach tennis. She is the granddaughter of the former South Africa national rugby union team captain, Philip J. Nel.
Rugby
After time at Kansas State University in the United States, Nel started playing rugby for Wasps Ladies in England as a fly-half. She then moved back to South Africa to play for Blue Bulls when competitive women's rugby started in South Africa. She made her international debut for the South Africa women's national rugby union team in 2005 during a tour to England. When South Africa travelled to Canada to take part in the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup, Nel liked Canada so much she decided to settle there.
Tennis
Nel started her time in Canada as a tennis coach in Bayers Lake, Nova Scotia before becoming the technical director for Tennis Nova Scotia. She continued to play tennis and in 2016 won the doubles at the Senior National Championships. This would have meant that she was eligible to represent Canada at the 2017 ITF Young Seniors World Championships; however she was not a Canadian citizen. Following a request to her local Member of Parliament to fast track her citizenship application, her Canadian citizenship was granted in time to allow Nel to compete at the tournament in South Africa. During the tournament, she lost both her women's and mixed doubles matches as well as her singles tournament match in the first round however she did reach the final of the consolation bracket.
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Hungarian footballer (1919–1982)
János Kovács (13 March 1919 – 1982) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Kovács played for several Hungarian clubs located in Romania, such as Nagyváradi AC, where he won the 1943–44 Nemzeti Bajnokság I and later with the same club but under a different name, IC Oradea, he won the 1948–49 Divizia A.
International career
On 6 June 1943, János Kovács played his only match for Hungary, being used by coach Kálmán Vághy in a friendly which ended with a 4–2 victory against Bulgaria.
Honours
Nagyváradi AC
IC Oradea
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Village in Punjab, India
Village in Punjab, India
Tallewal is a village in the Barnala district of Punjab, India. Tallewal is about 22 km from its district Barnala. It is situated alongside National Highway 703 (India) and Sirhind Canal (Known as 'Tallewal Wali Nehar') is passed from the side of this village. It is one of the largest villages in Barnala block. It is a developing village and has a post office, a branch of Punjab National Bank.
Most of the residents are farmers by occupation. The people of the village are very competitive and progressive. Many of its residents have migrated to Canada, U.K., Australia. People from various religions and communities live in the village, therefore, The Village has three main Gurdwara's, Shivdwala, and a Masjid. Gurudwara Sahib (Nehar wale) is well-known in Barnala District. The head of the Gurudwara is Sant Baba Karnail Singh Ji. They build the tallest Nishan-e-Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib. Sangrand, Puranmashi Purnima, Masaya and Gurupurabs are main events here.
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Russian footballer
Pavel Aleksandrovich Sudarikov (Russian: Павел Александрович Судариков; born 24 October 1972 in Lyubertsy) is a former Russian football player.
His older brother Aleksei Sudarikov also was a footballer.
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Airport in Argentina
Centro Universitario de Aviación (Spanish: Matanza/Aeroclub Universitario, ICAO: SADZ) is an airport serving La Matanza Partido, a southern district in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation. The airport is located within a bend of the Matanza River in the partido.
The airport was begun by the Centro Universitario de Aviación in 1929 as a center for pilot training.
Approaches to Runway 27 and Runway 35 are over residential areas, and both runways have displaced thresholds, not included in runway length.
The Ezeiza VOR-DME (Ident: EZE) is located 6.1 nautical miles (11 km) south-southeast of the airport.
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Japanese mixed martial artist
Tomoaki Hayama (Japanese: 葉山智昭) is a Japanese mixed martial artist.
Mixed martial arts record
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The Interdepartmental Committee on Drug Addiction, commonly called the Brain Committee after its chairman Sir Russell Brain, was created by the Home Office in 1958 to consider issues related to drugs and drug addiction in the United Kingdom. The committee explored whether or not certain drugs should be considered addictive or habit-forming; examined whether there was a medical need to provide special, including institutional, treatment outside the resources already available, for persons addicted to drugs; and made recommendations, including proposals for administrative measures, to the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland.
The committee produced two reports.
The First Brain Report
The first report is also known as The Report of the Second Inter-departmental Committee on Drug Addiction, and it was published in 1961. It stated that the incidence of addiction to dangerous drugs in Great Britain was small. This was the same conclusion drawn by the previous committee, The Rolleston Committee, in 1926.
The Second Brain Report
The second report was published in 1964. This report showed that there had been a significant rise in the incidence of addiction to heroin and cocaine, and that the main source of supply was a small number of over-prescribing doctors. The Rolleston defined addiction as an individualised pathology, whilst the second Brain report explicitly described the condition as a socially infectious one. It recommended the establishment of special treatment centres, especially in the London area, where addicts could be isolated from the community and treated. These became known as Drug Dependency Units or DDUs.
Evolution
A recommendation of the second committee was to set up a Standing Advisory Committee to keep under review the whole problem of drug dependence. This drew on evidence provided by doctors, and eventually they produced a report, the Wootton Report.
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Marjorie Mbiliniyi (born 1943) is a scholar, feminist and gender activist. She was born in New York, studied educational sciences, married a Tanzanean. She settled in Dar-es-Salaam and became a citizen of Tanzanea. She worked at the Department of Education at Dar-es-Salaam university. Mbiliniyi has dedicate herself to collaborate with and organize women to fight against patriarchy and neo-liberalism in Tanzania and beyond. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam where she retired in 2003. After her retirement from academia, she served as the Principal Policy Analyst at the Tanzania Gender Networking Program; later known as TGNP Mtandao from 2004–2014.
Works
Marjorie Mbilinyi has published 21 books and reports authored or co-authored and/or edited, including:
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North Central Province cricket team was a Sri Lankan first class cricket team that represents North Central Province. The team was established in 2004 and only featured in two Inter-Provincial First Class Tournaments, the 2003-04 and 2004-05, both of which they came second to Kandurata. The team was captained by Mahela Jayawardene.
History
2003–04 Ten Sports Inter-Provincial Tournament
2004–05 Inter-Provincial Tournament
Players
Squad
Notable players
Honours
Domestic
First Class
List A
Twenty20
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Political faction in Ethiopia
Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF) is a political faction in Ethiopia. KPF emerged from a group of soldiers in the army of the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam who refused to serve in the Eritrean War.
Originally known simply as "Kefagn", KPF was created to combat the incursions of the Tigray People's Liberation Front into Gondar Province. With the fall of the Mengistu regime this group declined in strength but was not eliminated. John Young recounts that in May 1993 he encountered government soldiers on the western shores of Lake Tana who had been wounded in clashes with dissidents in the area. He was told that these rebels were led by General Haile Meles, a former Derg official.
Later in 1993, General Haile was wounded, and evacuated to Sudan, where government officials protected him and refused Ethiopian demands for his extradition. He continued to be a source of controversy in Sudanese–Ethiopian relations until he was granted asylum in New Zealand in late 1999. By the time he left Sudan, the KPF was in disarray, although the transfer of most of the area west of Lake Tana to the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, served to reactivate the group. Since then the Kefagn, which had since renamed itself as the Kefagn Patriotic Front, has received some assistance from the Sudan Armed Forces.
In 1996 the majority of the KPF, based amongst guerrillas in Sudan and Ethiopia, joined the Ethiopian Unity Front. The minority, based in the United States, stayed out of EUF.[citation needed]
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Species of beetle
Notomulciber decemmaculatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1942. It is known from India.
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The Trump Unity Bridge, also known as the Presidential Trump Unity Bridge and Trump Mobile, is a decorated float being driven by a Michigan resident throughout the United States, supporting the 45th President, Donald Trump. The float appeared at Trump's inauguration, the 2017 Women's March, and the Mother of All Rallies.
Description
The bridge is 50 feet (15 m) long, over 13 feet (4.0 m) tall, and weighs approximately 9,000 pounds (4,100 kg). To make it road mobile, the bridge was attached to a legally registered motorcycle trailer. It features American flags, signage including six-foot-tall letters spelling "Trump", a carved wooden eagle, and a replica of the Statue of Liberty.
The signs on the bridge include sayings such as "All Lives Matter", "American Culture", "Drain the swamp", "Hire American", and "Secure America's borders".
History
Rob Cortis, a resident of Livonia, Michigan, has owned the bridge since 1985. The bridge was stolen from Cortis' Farmington Hills property in December 2014 and recovered in Belleville.
Cortis began driving the pro-Trump trailer in October 2016. He drove 20,000 miles by January 2017, and more than 40,000 miles by August 2017. The float was vandalized in Alexandria, Virginia, en route to the Mother of All Rallies in Washington, D.C.
In March 2019, Cortis interrupted an interfaith vigil in downtown Cleveland, Ohio commemorating the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings by driving the float past twice while playing loud music.
On November 6, 2020, the float was impounded by Detroit Police for having an invalid license plate, and Cortis was taken into custody because of an outstanding warrant for a charge of disturbing the peace. Police warned him on Wednesday not to return to Detroit, but he did so anyway and was arrested.
On September 22, 2021, the float was involved in a three-vehicle crash in Flint, Michigan. Cortis was driving an ambulance hauling the Unity Bridge back to his home from an event opposing high school mask mandates when he hit another vehicle and spun into a telephone pole. There were no major injuries and there was no damage to the float.
Trump tour timeline
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American actress
Mary Loretta Philbin (July 16, 1902 – May 7, 1993) was an American film actress of the silent film era, who is best known for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite Lon Chaney, and as Dea in The Man Who Laughs alongside Conrad Veidt. Both roles cast her as the beauty in Beauty and the Beast-type stories.
Early life
Philbin was born on July 16, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, into a middle-class Irish American family and raised Catholic. She was an only child, and was named after her mother, Mary. Her father, John Philbin, was born in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland, and had emigrated to America in 1900.
Career
Philbin began her acting career after winning a beauty contest sponsored by Universal Pictures in Chicago. After she moved to California, Erich von Stroheim signed her to a contract with Universal, deeming her a "Universal Super Jewel."
She made her screen debut in 1921, and the following year was honored at the first WAMPAS Baby Stars awards, a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which annually honored young women whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.[citation needed]
During the 1920s, Philbin starred in a number of high-profile films, most notably in D. W. Griffith's 1928 film Drums of Love. In 1927, she appeared in Edward Sloman's Surrender with Ivan Mosjoukine, though her most celebrated role was in the Universal horror film The Phantom of the Opera in 1925. Philbin's ethereal screen presence was noted in a 1924 edition of Motion Picture Classic, in which she was referred to as "one of the astonishing anomalies of motion pictures...Pat O'Malley once said of her: "If I were superstitious I would think that the spirit of some great tragedienne of a forgotten past slipped into Mary's soul."
Philbin played a few parts during the early talkie era and most notably dubbed her own voice when The Phantom of the Opera was given sound and re-released. She retired from the screen in 1930 and devoted her life to caring for her aging parents.[citation needed]
Later life and death
Philbin spent the remainder of her life after leaving the film industry as a recluse, living in the same home in Huntington Beach, California. She never married and rarely made public appearances. One rare public appearance by Philbin occurred in her later years at the Los Angeles opening of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera.
She died of pneumonia at age 90 in 1993 and was buried at the Calvary Cemetery in east Los Angeles, California.
Personal life
From 1923 to 1927, Philbin was in a relationship with Paul Kohner. They had been introduced to each other by Erich von Stroheim. They secretly became engaged in 1926, but never married due to the disapproval of Philbin's parents (Kohner was Jewish, and the Philbin family were staunch Catholics, and they were worried that he would try to convert her to Judaism). In 1929, it was rumored that they were going to marry in June of that year, but it never happened. During their relationship, Philbin had an affair with western star Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
Kohner went on to marry Lupita Tovar in 1932, while Philbin never married. When Kohner died, he still had love letters Philbin had written to him in his possession. She had also kept his.
Filmography
Notes and references
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Chemical compound
9-Fluorenylidene is an aryl carbene derived from the bridging methylene group of fluorene. Fluorenylidene has the unusual property that the triplet ground state is only 1.1 kcal/mol (4.6 kJ/mol) lower in energy than the singlet state. For this reason, fluorenylidene has been studied extensively in organic chemistry.
Fluorenylidene is a reactive intermediate. Reactions involving fluorenylidene proceed through either the triplet or singlet state carbene, and the products formed depend on the relative concentration of spin states in solution, as influenced by experimental conditions. The rate of intersystem crossing is determined by the temperature and concentration of specific spin-trapping agents.
Structure
The ground state is believed to be a bent triplet, with two orthogonal sp hybrid orbitals singly occupied by unpaired spins. One electron occupies an orbital of sigma symmetry in the plane of the rings, while the other occupies an orbital of pi symmetry, which interacts with the pi systems of the adjacent aromatic rings (delocalization into the rings is minimal, since zero-field parameter D is high). The zero field splitting parameters predict a bond angle greater than 135°, and since the ideal bond geometry for cyclopentane carbons is about 109°, considerable ring strain causes the methylene sigma bonds to be bent. In the singlet state, the spin-paired electrons occupy the sp2 hybrid orbital, orthogonal to an empty p-orbital. Conversion of singlet to triplet fluorenylidene is achieved through intersystem crossing (ISC).
Generation of fluorenylidene
Fluorenylidene can be produced by photolysis of 9-diazofluorene (DAF).
Ultra-fast (300 fs) time resolved laser-flash photolysis of DAF implicates a four-step process in the formation of fluorenylidene by irradiation of 9-diazofluorene.
Reaction of fluorenylidene in solution
Fluorenylidene reacts with olefins as predicted by the Skell-Woodworth rules. The stereochemistry of cycloaddition products depends on the relative rates of cyclopropanation (or other reactions) and intersystem crossing. Stabilization of specific spin states, and, by extension, increased stereospecificity can be achieved by using solvents of different polarities .
Triplet fluorenylidene reactivity
Triplet fluorenylidene reacts with olefins in a stepwise fashion to produce a racemic mixture, provided that the rate of spin inversion (intersystem crossing) is not significantly faster than rates of intermediate bond rotation.
Singlet fluorenylidene reactivity
Singlet fluorenylidene reacts with olefins in a concerted fashion, maintaining the stereochemistry of the reactant olefin. Triplet quenchers such as butadiene solvents can be used to increase stereospecific yields. Halogenated solvents also stabilize the singlet state. For example, dibromomethane and hexafluorobenzene deactivate the higher-energy singlet state, decelerating the rate of intersystem crossing in accordance with earlier studies of diphenylcarbene. The mechanism of singlet state deactivation is theorized to occur through halogen-lone pair complexation of empty 1Fl P-orbitals.
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The Mariannhillers, officially named the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill (Latin: Congregatio Missionariorum de Mariannhill; abbreviated CMM) are a religious institute of the Catholic Church founded by Dom Franz Pfanner. They were originally a monastery of Trappist monks founded in 1882 by Pfanner, but were later branched off as a separate congregation by decree of the Holy See. The name of the congregation comes from Mariannhill, a suburb near Pinetown in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, where the congregation was first established.
History
In 1882, Pfanner, then prior of Mariastern Abbey, founded a Trappist monastery in Mariannhill at the invitation of Bishop Charles-Constant Jolivet, OMI, Apostolic Vicar of Natal (later Durban). It grew rapidly and by 1885 was raised to the status of an abbey. Pfanner was elected its first abbot. It engaged in missionary work, establishing a number of mission stations where priests and brothers taught the native Zulu people to read and trained them in trades and skills such as farming. The missionaries also emphasised learning Zulu and Xhosa, and they developed standard Zulu grammars. In 1892, Pfanner retired and was succeeded by two abbots: Dom Amandus Schoelzig who died in 1900 and then Abbot Gerard Wolpert who died in 1904.
In 1904, the abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, Edmond Obrecht, was appointed by the Holy See as administrator of Mariannhill. He studied the compatibility between monastic life and missionary work, submitting his report after three years of study. Following his report, the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda directed Bishop William Miller, OMI, the apostolic vicar of Transvaal, to facilitate the independence of the Mariannhill monks. A general chapter of Mariannhill monks in 1908 under Bishop Miller recommended that the monks be formed into a missionary society loosely associated with the Trappists. By 1 January 1910, nearly 20,000 persons, mostly adults, had been baptized in the 55 churches and chapels scattered throughout the 26 missions and stations.
In 1909, the Holy See decreed that the monks of Mariannhill would be completely separate from the Trappists. Their new constitutions were approved by Pope Pius X in March 1914, though further development stalled due to the outbreak of World War I. After the conclusion of the war, they held their first general chapter in 1920, when they named themselves the Religious Missionaries of Mariannhill and elected Adalbero Fleischer as their first superior general. As their religious habit, they adopted a black cassock, paired with a red cincture for priests, black cincture for other clerics, and black belt for brothers.
After their separation from the Trappists, the Mariannhillers continued to work in South Africa, but also established presences in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the United States, England, Canada and Spain. Their generalate is based in Rome.
During the Holocaust, Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig, a priest of the congregation, was arrested for preaching against the Third Reich and its persecution of the Jews. He died on 2 March 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was known as the "Angel of Dachau". He was declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, recognised by Pope Francis as a martyr in January 2020, and beatified on 24 September 2016. His feast day is 2 March.
In 1946, Józef Wojaczek from Prudnik received a decree from the general superior of the congregation naming him provincial superior of the Mariannhillers in Poland. Six years later, Wojaczek was arrested by the Department of Security and imprisoned. He was paroled in 1955 and settled in West Germany.
On 10 March 2019, George Kageche Mukua, a priest of the congregation, died as one of the passengers on board Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
Pope Francis named a member of the order, Mandla Siegfried Jwara, archbishop of Durban on 9 June 2021.
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Eight per thousand (Italian: otto per mille) is an Italian law under which Italian taxpayers devolve a compulsory 8 ‰ = 0.8% (eight per mil, i.e. per thousand) from their annual income tax return to an organised religion recognised by Italy or, alternatively, to a state-run social assistance scheme.
On the IRE form, people optionally declare a recipient. If they do not, the law stipulates that this undeclared amount be distributed among the normal recipients of such taxes in proportion to what they have already received from explicit declarations. In the period from 1990 to 2007, 42.7% expressed a choice, on average.
A similar scheme has been introduced in 2006 to fund entities that carry out socially relevant activities (for example, non-profit, scientific research) with five per thousand (5 ‰).
History
The relations between Italy and the religious confessions in its territory can be traced back to the Statuto Albertino of 1848, which applied first to the Kingdom of Sardinia and then to the Kingdom of Italy. Its first article declared the "Roman Catholic Apostolic religion" the only state religion and granted legal toleration to all other religious confessions then present.
Under the Lateran treaties of 1929, which were incorporated in the 1948 Constitution of the Italian Republic, the State paid a small monthly salary, called the congrua, to Catholic clergymen as compensation for the nationalization of Church properties at the time of the unification of Italy. This ended on 31 December 1986, with the entry into force, as a result of a 1984 agreement between the government and the Holy See of the "eight per thousand" system.
Current status
As of 2015 there are 12 possible beneficiaries of the tax:
In addition an agreement has been signed with the Jehovah's Witnesses, but it has not yet received parliamentary ratification.
In 2015, an agreement was signed with the Soka Gakkai Italian Buddhist Institute, which was approved by law on June 28, 2016.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in spite of having made an agreement on 4 April 2007, ratified by Law 127 of 30 July 2012, is refusing to participate in the division of the funds.
At present it is not possible to designate an Islamic organization, despite Italy's population of over 1.4 million Muslims. Issues cited include a lack of a single central authority for the religion, concerns over Islamist extremist organizations being the recipients of funds, and Muslim beliefs on polygamy, education and women's rights that potentially contradict the Constitution.
Utilisation
Although the 1985 law on the matter declared that the state's portion of the proceeds was to be devoted to extraordinary expenses, such as world hunger, natural disasters and refugees, since 2004 a large proportion is employed for general purposes. In 2004, €80 million out of a total of about €100 million were thus employed, leading to criticism of the fact that part of it was used to finance the Italian military mission in Iraq. Because of its financial situation in 2011, the government decided to utilize the entire sum of about €145 million for purposes other than those indicated in the 1985 law: for instance, €57,277,063 were spent on improving the prison infrastructure.
The purposes for which the religious groups may use their portions are laid down in the agreements entered into with the government. In the case of the Catholic Church, the purposes are specified in article 48 of the 1985 law: "worship needs of the people, support of the clergy, charitable activities in favour of Italian society and the Third World". Each year the Italian Episcopal Conference publishes the proportions it assigns under various headings. Thus at its meeting in May 2012 it approved the following distribution (in thousands of euros):
The financial support for the clergy brings their salary up to a certain level, such as €852.93 a month for a priest at the beginning of his service, and €1,308.57 a month for a bishop at the maximum of his biennial increments (2007 figures).
Choices expressed by taxpayers
For the first fifteen years of the system there was a gradual increase of the percentage of those who chose their contributions to go to the Catholic Church and a corresponding diminution of those who chose the State as beneficiary. Of those who exercised a choice, 76.17% opted for the Catholic Church in 1990, increasing to 89.81% in 2004 and falling to 86.05% in 2006 and 85.01% in 2007. Since in 2007, for instance, only 43.50% of those who declared their incomes expressed a choice, those who did indicate the Catholic Church as beneficiary were less than 37% of the taxpayers, a figure much lower than the proportion of Italians who declare themselves Catholics, which corresponded rather to the proportion opting for the Church among those who did indicate a choice. Declarations in favour of the State, which were 22.31% in 1990, dropped to their lowest ever level of 7.60% in 2005, recovering later and reaching 11.95% in 2007.
The eight-per-thousand tax has significantly helped the Piedmontese Waldensians, a Protestant community whose origins predate the Reformation, the Waldensians have only about 25,000 enlisted members but about 412,000 Italians support them and their charitable works.
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2006 film by Sylvester Stallone
Rocky Balboa is a 2006 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. The film is the sequel to Rocky V (1990) and the sixth installment in the Rocky film series. Burt Young and Antonio Tarver also star. It was Tarver's first and only film, and Stallone's first film as director since Rocky IV (1985). In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), now an aging small restaurant owner, is challenged to an exhibition fight by hothead boxer Mason Dixon (Tarver).
Development for a sixth Rocky film began after Stallone expressed regret of the outcome of Rocky V, which was viewed as a disappointing conclusion to the end of the franchise. Rocky Balboa includes references to characters and objects from previous installments, and Stallone was inspired by recent personal struggles and triumphs when writing the film. Principal photography began in December 2005 and lasted until January 2006, with filming locations including Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. In contrast to previous entries in the franchise, the fight choreography in Rocky Balboa was less scripted, featuring real punches thrown by Stallone and Tarver.
Rocky Balboa was theatrically released by MGM Distribution Co. in North America and 20th Century Fox internationally on December 20, 2006, thirty years after the release of the first film. Rocky Balboa received generally positive reviews, with praise for its screenplay, Stallone's performance, and heartfelt exploration of Balboa's character, with many critics labelling the film one of the best entries in the franchise. It grossed over $156 million worldwide, subverting expectations to rebound from the box office performance of its predecessor. A spin-off, Creed, was released in 2015 and kickstarted its own series, while a seventh mainline Rocky film is in development.
Plot
Rocky Balboa, now 60 years old, is retired from boxing and lives a quiet life as a widower, having lost his wife Adrian to cancer four years prior. He now runs a small, but successful, Italian restaurant named after her, where he regales patrons with tales from his past. He also battles personal demons involving his grief over Adrian's death and his eroding relationship with his son Robert, now a moderately successful young corporate lawyer. Paulie, Rocky's best friend and brother-in-law, continues to support him whenever he can, but is guilt-ridden over his past poor treatment toward his late sister and accuses Rocky of living in the past.
Late one night, Rocky meets a woman named Marie, who was once a troublesome young girl Rocky had escorted home 30 years ago. Marie now is a single parent of a teenage son named Stephenson and nicknamed "Steps", born out of wedlock. Rocky's romantic relationship with Marie quickly blossoms over the following weeks and he meets and bonds with Steps, providing him with a much-needed buffer for his anguish.
Meanwhile, on the professional boxing circuit, Mason "The Line" Dixon reigns as the undefeated yet unpopular heavyweight world champion, often ridiculed for having never fought a true contender. This leads to tension with the public and his promoters and encourages him to return to his roots: the small gym he first trained in and his old trainer who sagely tells him that, inevitably, he will earn back his respect through a true opponent that will test him. ESPN later broadcasts a computer simulation of a fight between a younger Rocky and Mason—likened to a modern-day version of The Super Fight—that ends in a disputed KO victory for Balboa, further riling the champ. In contrast, the simulation inspires Rocky to take up boxing again, an intention that goes public when he successfully renews his boxing license. Dixon's promoters pitch the idea of holding a charity exhibition bout at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to bolster Dixon's foundering popularity. In the midst of this chaos, Paulie is laid off from his job.
With some hesitation, both men agree to the match, creating a media buzz that stabs at Rocky's age and Dixon's credibility. Robert later makes an effort to discourage Rocky from fighting, blaming his own personal failings on his father's celebrity shadow, but Rocky rebukes him with some profound advice: to succeed in life, "it ain't about how hard you hit – it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward;" blaming others is the coward's way. The next day, father and son meet over Adrian's grave and reconcile; Robert has quit his job to be at Rocky's side.
Rocky sets straight to training with Apollo Creed's old trainer, Duke, who quickly surmises that Rocky can only compete by building his strength and punching power as much as possible. On the day of the match, Dixon easily dominates the first round, only to injure his left hand on Rocky's hip in the second. Rocky then makes a dramatic comeback, knocking Mason down, and surprising the audience with his prowess and chin despite his age. The two combatants beat each other severely throughout the full 10 rounds, ending with both men still standing, although Rocky gets the last punch. Rocky thanks an appreciative Dixon for the match and tells him that he is a great champion, while the audience applauds the two fighters. The result is announced as Rocky exits the ring with his family and friends: a win for Dixon by a close split decision, but Rocky does not mind the outcome, and the crowd gives him a final standing ovation. Rocky returns home and visits Adrian's grave again, thanking her for helping him in spirit; "Yo Adrian, we did it. We did it."
As the credits roll, an inset features people running up the Rocky Steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in response to a call from the director to do so for the film.
Cast
Production
Development
A plot element from the fifth film is not addressed in Rocky Balboa's plot. In the previous film, Rocky was diagnosed with brain damage and advised never to fight again. Stallone clarified this apparent inconsistency in an interview, remarking:
When Rocky was diagnosed with brain damage, it must be noted that many athletes have a form of brain damage including football players, soccer players, and other individuals in contact sports such as rugby, etc. Rocky never went for a second opinion and yielded to his wife's wishes to stop. So with the advent of new research techniques into brain damage, Rocky was found to be normal among fighters, and he was suffering the results of a severe concussion. By today's standards Rocky Balboa would be given a clean bill of health for fighters.
Pre-production
Rocky Balboa gives nods to previous installments via the casting. The most obvious is the return of Stallone, Young, and Burton—the only actors to portray the same characters in all six installments. Tarver's appearance in the film marks the sixth time an active professional boxer has appeared in the series. Previously, Joe Frazier (Rocky), Pedro Lovell (Rocky), Roberto Durán (Rocky II), Tommy Morrison (Rocky V) and Michael Williams (Rocky V) have appeared in the series. Stallone initially wanted Roy Jones, Jr. to portray Dixon, but after Jones did not return Stallone's phone calls, he tapped Antonio Tarver to fill the role. Tarver accidentally knocked out Stallone during the filming of one of the segments of the fight.
The character Marie appeared in the original Rocky; she was portrayed by Jodi Letizia. For the final film, Marie is portrayed by Geraldine Hughes. (Although Letizia did reprise the role for Rocky V, the sole scene in which she appeared was deleted. In it, Marie was homeless on the streets of Philadelphia.) Another recognizable character who appeared in the previous five films, sportscaster Stu Nahan, provided the commentary for the computer-generated fight between Dixon and Balboa. Nahan was part of the ringside commentary team during all the bouts in the first three films and the Apollo Creed-Ivan Drago fight in Rocky IV. He was diagnosed with lymphoma during the Rocky Balboa filming, though, and died on December 26, 2007. Finally, Pedro Lovell, who portrayed Spider Rico in the original film, returns to the role in Rocky Balboa as a guest and later employee at Rocky's restaurant.
A number of sports personalities portray themselves. Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant, and Max Kellerman comprise the ringside broadcast team (all three are commentators for HBO Boxing). Sportswriters such as Bert Sugar, Bernard Fernandez and Steve Springer also appear. As for actual boxers, Mike Tyson (who had retired by the film's release) makes a cameo appearance, taunting Dixon as the fighter enters the ring. Lou DiBella, a real-life boxing promoter, portrays himself as Dixon's promoter. Several of ESPN's personalities also portray themselves. SportsCenter anchor Brian Kenny is the host of the fictional Then and Now series, while Cold Pizza and 1st and 10 hosts Jay Crawford, Dana Jacobson, Skip Bayless and Woody Paige also appear. Ring announcer Michael Buffer appeared as himself, as did referee Joe Cortez.
Regarding his decision not to have Talia Shire reprise her role as Adrian, Stallone told USA Today that, "in the original script, she was alive. But it just didn't have the same dramatic punch. I thought, 'What if she's gone?' That would cut Rocky's heart out and drop him down to ground zero." Shire herself said that, in her view, "The film has great regard for the process of mourning. Sly utilizes mourning to empower Rocky, and Adrian is made very mythical."
Filming
Principal photography began in December 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2006, it moved to Los Angeles, California and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Scenes in Philadelphia were set in staples such as the Rocky Steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and South Philadelphia, while Center City was featured more prominently due to Rocky Jr.'s job as an attorney. The scene where Rocky and his son were talking while walking down a quiet block was filmed between 20th–21st Streets on Walnut, just after dawn on a Sunday morning. The production budget on the 38-day shoot was projected to be $23.5 million.
Cinematography and fight choreography
While the dramatic portions of the movie are shot in an obviously cinematic style, the bout between Balboa and Dixon is shot in a number of different ways. The lead-in to the bout, as well as the first two rounds, are shot in a style similar to a major pay-per-view broadcast. Clips from fights in previous Rocky movies are used during the introductory teaser to introduce Balboa, while stock footage from actual Tarver fights, as well as footage from Dixon's previous fight (shown at the beginning of the film) are used as clips for Dixon's part of the teaser. The fight itself was shot in High Definition to further enhance the TV-style look of the fight.
After the first two rounds, the bout is shot in a more "cinematic" style, reminiscent of the way the fights in the other Rocky films were shot. However, unlike the other films in the series, the fight is less choreographed and more improvised than previous installments and is closer to an actual boxing match than a choreographed fight. This is a departure from the previous films, where every punch, feint, and step was carefully scripted and practiced.
According to the behind-the-scenes documentary portions of the film's DVD, there were slight continuity problems during the filming of the fight. This was said to have been due to the fact that real punches were thrown by both Stallone and Tarver, resulting in some swelling and nosebleeds earlier than scripted. The DVD release features an alternate ending in which Rocky wins the fight.
Music
Composed by Bill Conti, the Rocky Balboa film score is both an updated composition of Rocky music and a tribute to the music that has been featured in previous Rocky films. Conti, who has acted as composer on every Rocky film except Rocky IV, chose to compose the score almost entirely from musical themes used in the previous movies. Only one original theme was written specifically for Rocky Balboa and that is the theme written to represent the character of Marie.
The roughly 40-minute score was recorded in the summer of 2006 at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California. Conti chose to pre-record the string, brass and piano tracks and then have those tracks mixed with the work of a 44 piece orchestra which he conducted. He also performed all of the piano work himself which is something he has done with each movie for which he has composed the score. Stallone also was involved in every part of the process and attended several of the recording sessions.
In addition to the score, the film features original tracks performed by Natasha Bedingfield, Three 6 Mafia, and Frank Stallone as well as classic tracks such as Frank Sinatra's "High Hopes" and The Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby". Of the original tracks the most significant is the Diane Warren song "Still Here", performed by Bedingfield, which was reported to be the film's theme in early articles. Though it is still listed in the credits the song was dropped from the film.
Soundtrack
Whether the film Rocky Balboa has a soundtrack is subject to some debate. On December 26, 2006, Capitol Records released a CD titled Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky which had a logo and cover art that was identical to the film's theatrical poster.
The CD itself contains short dialogue clips and musical tracks, some of which are remixes, from all the Rocky films. Notable though is that only three of its nineteen total tracks are from the Rocky Balboa film: two dialogue tracks and the Three 6 Mafia song "It's a Fight" (the UK version contains the additional track "Still Here" by Natasha Bedingfield). This has led some to categorize the CD as a compilation while others suggest that it is a soundtrack and that the use of past material simply reflects the film's extensive use of flashbacks.
Relevant to this debate is the absence of any compositions by Rocky IV composer Vince DiCola, except for the song "Hearts on Fire", co-written by DiCola, Ed Fruge and Joe Esposito. DiCola is the only person, other than Bill Conti, to act as composer on a Rocky film and his work was used extensively on the 1991 compilation CD The Rocky Story: Songs from the Rocky Movies. The missing DiCola tracks are the only tracks on the 1991 CD that are not present on the new CD which indicates an effort to use only Rocky Balboa composer Conti's tracks.
Release
Distribution
Rocky Balboa represents a partnership between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Revolution Studios, and Columbia Pictures (Columbia's corporate parent Sony Pictures Entertainment held a 20% stake in MGM). Since the Rocky series was originally produced and distributed by United Artists (now MGM's subsidiary studio), the partners jointly decided that the film could and should take advantage of MGM's newly reinvigorated domestic distribution apparatus. 20th Century Fox handles its theatrical and DVD distributions outside of the United States and Canada, while Sony Pictures Home Entertainment handled its American and Canadian video distributions. In the Philippines and Switzerland, Fox released the film through joint ventures with Warner Bros. Pictures. In Japan, the film was promoted by Fox as Rocky The Final. It opened across Japan on April 20, 2007.
Marketing
In late March 2006, the first movie teaser was released on the Internet. The full-length trailer accompanied the theatrical release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest on July 7 in select theaters.
Theatrical
The film was scheduled for release during the Presidents' Day holiday in 2007, but was moved up to right before Christmas 2006.
Home media
Rocky Balboa is available in three formats: Blu-ray Disc, DVD and UMD. It was released in Region 1 on March 20 and Region 2 on May 21, 2007. The film has made $35,622,998 in DVD sales. Features on the Blu-ray Disc and DVD include deleted scenes along with an alternate ending (where Rocky wins the split decision), bloopers, a commentary and several featurettes. In addition, the Blu-ray version features all of the DVD's content in 1080p high definition video.
Reception
Box office
The film was an unexpected box office success and exceeded studio expectations grossing over three times the opening night estimates of (at best) $2,000,000 and doing so despite a harsh spell of winter weather. The film not only finished third in its opening weekend, grossing $12,540,000, but eventually became Stallone's most successful starring role since 1993's Cliffhanger and the sixth highest grossing boxing film of all time, topped only by the first Rocky through Rocky IV and Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, and was nominated for an MTV award for best on screen duo. Total U.S. box office gross receipts were $70,269,899 while the international gross stands at $85,959,151 making for a total worldwide gross of $156,229,050.
Critical response
As of August 2020, the film had a score of 77% on Rotten Tomatoes based on a sample of 183 reviews, with an average score of 6.5/10. The site's consensus read, "Implausible but entertaining and poignant, Rocky Balboa finds the champ in fighting form for the first time in years." On Metacritic as of August 2020, it had a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B+" on a scale of "A+" to "F".
On the television show Ebert & Roeper, both Richard Roeper and guest reviewer Aisha Tyler gave the film a "thumbs up" rating. Among other positive reviews were from Variety, David Edelstien of New York Magazine, Ethan Alter of Premiere Magazine, Victoria Alexander of Filmsinreview.com, Jeanne Aufmuth of Palo Alto Weekly, Brett Buckalew of Filmstew.com, The Hollywood Reporter, and Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times criticized the film's premise as implausible and derivative, and the plot development as cursory, while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said the film "captures the look and feel of the first Rocky but becomes too much of a sentimental homage" and overall "there is little point in joining Stallone on this ultimately dull nostalgia trip".
Stallone was quoted as having told reporters that he would rather "do something that he enjoyed badly, than feel bad about not doing something he enjoyed."[citation needed]
The film was greeted warmly by the majority of the boxing community, with many experts believing the Rocky character is still a key symbol of the sport and that the boxing scenes were the most realistic of any film. On the DVD, Stallone attributes this to the fact that he used realistic sound-effects (the previous installments had become notorious for their unrealistic and loud sounds of punches landing) and the fact that both Stallone and Tarver threw real punches at each other.
Other media
Possible sequel
In May 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival, Sylvester Stallone said that he had another story about Rocky Balboa. By July, Stallone confirmed that a sequel/follow-up to the current film series is in development. The project will be a joint-production venture between Winkler Films Production and MGM. Stallone will serve as writer in addition to starring in the film.
Conceptualized as an epilogue story, the film is said to be about Rocky befriending a young fighter who is a foreigner, stuck illegally in the United States. Stallone states: "Rocky meets a young, angry person who got stuck in this country when he comes to see his sister. He takes him into his life, and unbelievable adventures begin, and they wind up south of the border. It's very, very timely". By May 2020, Stallone said that he is still working on the film, though it has not yet been officially green-lit by the studio. However in a November 2021 Instagram post, Stallone expressed doubt about the film being greenlit, due to his increasingly sour relationship with Irwin Winkler. In November 2022, Stallone confirmed that the studio wants another Rocky film, but that negotiations to attain part of the rights to the character from the producers stalled development. He further stated that he is writing the script and that if the studio likes his work, the film will be made.
Spin-off
In 2015, Rocky Balboa was followed by a spin-off/follow-up titled Creed, taking place nine years after the events in Rocky Balboa.
Video game
On December 13, 2006, it was officially announced by Ubisoft and MGM that a new Rocky video game, titled Rocky Balboa, was to be made exclusively for the PlayStation Portable handheld console. It was released on March 20, 2007, to coincide with the Blu-ray and DVD release.
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English mathematician
William Forster (fl. 1630–1673) was an English mathematician living in London, a pupil of the celebrated mathematician and astronomer clergyman William Oughtred (1574-1660). He is best known for his book, a translation and edition of Oughtred's treatise entitled The Circles of Proportion. Oughtred invented horizontal and circular forms of the slide rule, and Forster persuaded his master to let him translate his writings about their form and use, and to publish them. The publication resulted in a controversy, because another student of Oughtred's, Richard Delamain the elder, during the two years (1630-32) in which Forster was preparing the book, brought out two treatises on the same subject claiming the inventions as his own, and addressing himself to royal patronage. Forster's work was dedicated to that eminent intellectual, Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), and the account of Oughtred's claim is found in Forster's Preface, or Letter of Dedication. Following the invention or discovery of logarithms by John Napier, in his Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio of 1614, the translation of that work by Edward Wright (1561-1615), and Henry Briggs's Arithmetica Logarithmica of 1624, the development of the slide rule had an important impact on the teaching of mathematics.
The Circles of Proportion
Forster, of whose life little is known, stated in 1632 that he owed his initiation and whole progress in the mathematical sciences to his worthy friend and teacher, Mr. William Oughtred. Oughtred himself described how he had trained Forster in precepts before letting him become familiar with instruments:
"As I did to Delamain and to some others, so I did to William Forster: I freely gave him my helpe and instruction in these faculties: only this was the difference, I had the very first moulding (as I may say) of this latter: But Delamain was already corrupted with doting upon Instruments, and quite lost from ever being made an Artist: I suffered not William Forster for some time so much as speake of any Instrument, except only the Globe it selfe; and to explicate, and worke the questions of the Sphaere, by the way of the Analemma: which also himselfe did describe for the present occasion. And this my restraint from such pleasing avocations, and holding him to the strictnesse of precept, brought forth this fruit, that in short time, even by his owne skill, he could not onely use any Instrument he should see, but also was able to delineate the like, and devise others: yet for all this my severe hand I saw him obliquely to glaunce his eye upon such Instrumentary practices: whereat I being jealous, lest I should lose my labour, and he his end, which was Art: I brake out into that admonition which in his Epistle Dedicatory to Sir Kenelme Digby he (I thinke in my very formall words) setteth downe."
Forster's account
While staying at Oughtred's residence at Albury, Surrey during the long vacation of 1630, Forster asked him about an instrument he had heard of, a Ruler to find numbers, sines and tangents. This instrument was said to be six feet long (like the instrument called "Mr Gunter's Ruler"), and was used with a pair of beam compasses. Oughtred told him that that was a poor invention, and difficult to use. "But", said he, "seeing you are taken with such mechanicall wayes of Instruments, I will shew you what devises I haue had by mee these many yeares."
He first showed to Forster a rule (a "horizontal instrument") consisting of two straight rulers used together without the need for compasses, and secondly a circular slide rule consisting of a circle or ring so marked, with another moveable circle upon it. (These could be used for delineating sundials upon any kind of plane and for demonstrating astronomical principles.) Forster was strongly impressed, and told Oughtred he was surprised that he should have kept these valuable inventions hidden for "so many yeares", both from the world, and from himself, to whom his teacher had otherwise been so liberal in explaining the aspects and mysteries of his Art.
Oughtred's admonition to Forster
Oughtred replied:
"That the true way of Art is not by Instruments, but by Demonstration: and that it is a preposterous course of vulgar Teachers, to begin with Instruments, and not with the Sciences, and so in-stead of Artists, to make their Schollers only doers of tricks, and as it were Iuglers: to the despite of Art, losse of precious time, and betraying of willing and industrious wits, unto ignorance, and idlenesse. That the use of Instruments is indeed excellent, if a man be an Artist: but contemptible, being set and opposed to Art. And lastly, that he meant to commend to me, the skill of Instruments, but first he would have me well instructed in the Sciences."
According to Forster's Letter of Dedication (addressed to Sir Kenelm Digby), Oughtred claimed to have projected the "Horizontall Instrument" about thirty years previously (i.e. around 1600), and showed Forster his many notes and instructions for the use of both instruments, mainly written in Latin. Forster persuaded him to make them public, and was given the author's permission to translate and publish Oughtred's treatise as The Circles of Proportion and the Horizontall Instrument. Both invented, and the uses of both written in Latine by Mr. W. O. Translated into English and set forth for the publique benefit by William Forster (1632, another edition in 1639).
Richard Delamaine's claim
This project (Forster also noted), while he was carefully working on it (1630-1632), "another to whom the Author in a loving confidence discovered this intent, using more hast then good speed, went about to preocupate [i.e., anticipate]; of which untimely birth, and preventing (if not circumventing) forwardnesse, I say no more: but advise the studious Reader, onely so farre to trust, as he shal be sure doth agree to truth and Art." This led to a dispute over the claimed invention, between Forster, Oughtred, and Richard Delamaine the elder, another of Oughtred's students.
The anticipatative works were Delamain's Grammelogia, or, The mathematical ring extracted from the logarythmes, and projected circular (printed 1631, dedicated to King Charles I), and his The Making, Description, and Use of a small portable Instrument called a Horizontall Quadrant (printed 1632, dedicated to the Lord Brudenell, Baron of Stonton). According to Oughtred, Delamain was bringing him the printed sheets of his works as they were being prepared, and disregarded Oughtred's criticisms of them.
It was in an address To the courteous and benevolent Reader, prefixed to the two volumes bound together, that Delamain took the bait of criticism, writing:
"Too great and too loose an aspertion hath bin cast upon me about these things, which I never thought in the least title when I first writ upon this Invention, or my name so to come to the worlds rumor as it hath since the last publication of this Logarythmall projection Circular; howsoever, here is my comfort, the guiltlesnesse and innocency of my cause, which may teach me, and others carefulnesse hereafter, how and what we publish to the world, seeing there are such carpers, and maligners even of the most usefull and best things, yea, such busie bodies who marre that which others make, who scorne to have a second, knowing all things and admiring nothing but themselves, such who have stings like Bees, and Arrowes alwayes ready to shoot against these whom they dislike, such who while they will needs have many callings neglect their owne; sharpe wittie cryticks, Diogenes like, snarling at others, and not looking home unto themselves, but by all meanes endevouring to take away the mantle of peace, and rent the seamelesse coate of love and amitie. If things be not done well by others then they triumph and send forth their invectives, if well, they professe it nothing, and cannot passe without their censure. To speake ill of a man upon knowledge shewes want of Charity; but to raise a scandall upon a bare supposition, and to act it in Print, argueth little humanity, lesse Christianity..."
Oughtred responded at length in his Just Apologie (c. 1634), setting forth his own biography to show his precedence in the matter, and noting "Onely I will soberly tell you that William Forster, whom you call a Parrat speaking he cannot tell what, is a farre more grounded Artist in all parts of the Mathematicks then is R. D: and better knoweth what belongeth to demonstration then R. D. doth: as may soone bee tryed."
Biographical notices
Following the dedicatory epistle toThe Circles of Proportion was printed a short notice: "Thos that desire farther instructions in the use of thes Instruments or other parts of the Mathematiques may repaire to W Forster at the Red bull ouer against St Clements Church yard with out Temple bar"; from which it is inferred that he lived and taught mathematics there. The parish of St Clement's lies partly in the City and partly in Westminster: being outside Temple Bar, the sign of the Red Bull was in Westminster.
In 1667 Forster published Forster's Arithmetick, intended for merchants and accountants. It was republished in 1673, with an engraved portrait of the author, This work shows Forster using the Rule of Multiplication based upon the symbol "X", said to have been introduced by Oughtred. A new edition by Henry Coley appeared in 1686; this suggests that Forster died between the publication of the second and third editions.
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Chilean footballer (born 1981)
Mario Esteban Berríos Jara (born 20 August 1981) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
Born in Santiago, Berríos started out at Palestino and played for the club for several seasons, before moving to Europe. He was signed by Serbia and Montenegro Cup runners-up OFK Beograd in May 2006. Despite featuring in pre-season friendlies, and even scoring goals, Berríos failed to make his official debut for the Serbian club in any competition, including the newly established Serbian SuperLiga and Serbian Cup, as well as the UEFA Cup. He returned to Chile to play for Coquimbo Unido ahead of the 2007 season.
In November 2007, Berríos moved to Asia and signed with Malaysia Super League club Perak. He would also play for Chilean clubs Santiago Morning and Unión La Calera, before retiring in 2017.
International career
At international level, Berríos represented Chile at the 2001 South American U-20 Championship, making six appearances in the tournament. The team finished in fourth place and qualified for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, where Berríos appeared in one game and scored a goal to give his team a 1–0 victory over China. However, Chile exited the tournament in the group stage.
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Village development committee in Kosi Zone, Nepal
Samdu is a village development committee in the Himalayas of Terhathum District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2683 people living in 431 individual households.
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Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Within it is a set of images depicting playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits.
Card suits
The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667:
Playing cards deck
Unicode has code points for the 52 cards of the standard French deck plus the Knight (Ace, 2-10, Jack, Knight, Queen, and King for each suit), two for black and white (or red) jokers and a back of a card, in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Also, a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards are added.
Tarot
Four Knights of the Tarot deck are in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Unicode 7.0 added a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards[block?] with the reference description being not the Italian-suited Tarot de Marseille or its derivatives (which are often used in cartomancy) but the French Tarot Nouveau used to play Jeu de tarot.
Playing Cards block chart
Emoji
The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF 🃏 PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER.
The emoji presentation sequences refine and colorize the text presentation of the playing card suits. ♠︎♥︎♦︎♣︎ becomes ♠️♥️♦️♣️. This was done by appending the U+FE0F code point to the textual code points shown far above. For example, the black heart suit ♥ becomes the red heart emoji by ♥️. Conversely, the black heart suit can be coerced by appending U+FE0E with ♥︎. These hold for each suit.
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River in Germany
Mülmecke is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Möhne in Belecke.
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2021 wildfire in Montana
The West Lolo Complex is a large wildfire complex currently burning near Plains, Montana. The fires started on July 8 by lightning. Started by lightning strikes, the fires have collectively burned 39,053 acres (15,804 ha) and is 15% percent contained as of August 5, 2021.
Events
July
The West Lolo Complex was first reported on July 8, 2021 at around 11:10 am MST.
August
Containment
As of August 20, 2021 the fire is 15% contained.
Current closures
Closures
Impact
Evacuations
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Heinrich von Tiedemann (1840-1922) was a Prussian politician, co-founder of the German Eastern Marches Society (German: Deutscher Ostmarkenverein).
Tiedemann was born in Dembogorsch (Dębogórze, Poland), he died in Berlin.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambaia,_Oio"}
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Village in Oio Region, Guinea-Bissau
Bambaia is a village in the Oio Region of northern Guinea-Bissau. It is located west of Casa Nova and northeast of Mansaba.[citation needed]
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Davydd Greenwood (born 1942) is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University.
Known action researcher, Greenwood has conducted studies in the Spanish Basque Country, where he analysed Mondragón Corporation, empowerment and cooperatives phenomena. He currently focuses on the future of university idea, in the era of corporate culture.
Greenwood was elected Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Publications
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United States historic place
The Basil Doerhoefer House is a Colonial Revival house located at 4432 West Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky whose facade features four monumental columns. It was built in 1902, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Basil Doerhofer built a house next door for his son, Peter C. Doerhoefer, in 1918. That also was NRHP-listed, in 1983, as the Peter C. Doerhoefer House.
Prior to moving to the Basil Doerhoefer House on Broadway the Doerhoefers lived in the Doerhoefer-Hampton House at 2422 West Chestnut Street in Louisville.
In 1981 the house was owned by "Christ Temple Apostolic Church, Inc." and signage at the house in 2022 suggests it still is. It is presumably associated with the Christ Temple Christian Life Center, whose main building (perhaps the original Loretto High School) is around the corner at 723 S. 45th St.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobota,_Lower_Silesian_Voivodeship"}
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Village in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Sobota [sɔˈbɔta] (German: Zobten) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lwówek Śląski, within Lwówek Śląski County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Lwówek Śląski and 97 km (60 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław, within its metropolitan area.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Kapanen"}
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Finnish ice hockey player
Ice hockey player
Sami Hannu Antero Kapanen (born 14 June 1973) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey coach and former player. He played 12 NHL seasons for the Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers. He is the majority owner of KalPa in the Finnish league. Kapanen's son, Kasperi Kapanen, is a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Playing career
Kapanen was drafted 87th overall in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Hartford Whalers. His first NHL season was in 1995–96, when he played 35 games with Hartford. The Whalers relocated to become the Carolina Hurricanes following the 1996–97 season and Kapanen averaged 24 goals and 35 assists in his next five seasons with Carolina. His best season was in 2001–02 when he scored 27 goals and 42 assists for 69 points. He was selected twice for the NHL All Star Game (2000, 2002), winning the Individual event for "the Fastest skater" on both occasions.
On 7 February 2003, Kapanen was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers along with Ryan Bast for Pavel Brendl and Bruno St. Jacques. In his first two seasons with Philadelphia, Kapanen played 31 playoff games, scoring 17 points.
Kapanen has played three times for Finland at the Winter Olympics. In 18 Olympic games he scored 2 goals and 3 assists for 5 points. In the NHL, Kapanen has played 831 regular season games, scoring 189 goals and 269 assists for 458 points. He has also played in 87 playoff games, scoring 13 goals and 22 assists for 35 points. Kapanen also won a gold medal at the 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships.
Since 2003, Kapanen has also been the majority owner of the Finnish hockey team KalPa Kuopio, the same club that gave him his start as a professional. One of the minority owners is Kimmo Timonen who in 2007 became Kapanen's teammate on the Flyers. Following the 2007–08 season, Kapanen announced that he was retiring from the NHL and he would be returning to Finland to play for KalPa. He retired as a player after the 2009–10 season.
On 7 April 2011, Kapanen announced that he would be doing a comeback as a player in KalPa, playing on a two-year contract. He, however, stepped down as the club's chief executive officer (CEO) and instead handed that role over to his brother Kimmo Kapanen.
Coaching career
Kapanen started his coaching career in the Finnish Liiga with KalPa (2017-2019). On April 2, 2019, Kapanen was named head coach of HC Lugano in the National League for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 season, but was dismissed on December 18 2019.
Awards
Records
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
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Wing Ning Wai (Chinese: 永寧圍) is a walled village in Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, Hong Kong. It is one of the Five Wai (walled villages) and Six Tsuen (villages) in Lung Yeuk Tau.
Administration
Wing Ning Wai, as part of Lung Yeuk Tau, is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. Wing Ning Wai is one of the villages represented within the Fanling District Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Wing Ning Wai is part of the Queen's Hill constituency, which is currently represented by Law Ting-tak.
History
Wing Ning Wai is said to have a history dating back 400 to 500 years. It historically comprised three rows of houses enclosed within a rectangular protective wall, with an entrance gate in the north-east front wall and four watchtowers at its four corners. While the entrance gate, built in 1744, is still extant, the watchtowers and most of the enclosing walls have been demolished. Some of the watchtowers had new buildings constructed on them.
Wing Ning Tsuen
Wing Ning Tsuen (永寧村), also known as Tai Tang (大廳), is a branch of Wing Ning Wai, and is located to its southeast. The village, which is about 300 years old, is one of the Six Tsuen (villages) in Lung Yeuk Tau.
Conservation
Wing Ning Wai and Wing Ning Tsuen are located along the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail. The entrance gate of Wing Ning Wai has been listed as a Grade III historic building.
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Angolan politician
Adalberto Costa Júnior (born 8 May 1962) is an Angolan politician, current president of UNITA and a member of the National Assembly of Angola.
He trained in electrotechnical engineering at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto and in public ethics at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He has campaigned against public corruption. He was the godson of Jonas Savimbi.
In November 2019, Júnior was elected as president of the UNITA, ending Isaias Samakuva's 16-year term.
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Pakistani politician
Muhammad Riaz Shaheen Bangash is a Pakistani politician who is member-elect of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Political career
Shaheen contested 2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election on 20 July 2019 from constituency PK-108 (Kurram-I) on the ticket of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He won the election by the majority of 602 votes over the independent runner up Malik Jameel Khan. He garnered 12,240 votes while Khan received 11,638 votes.
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2022 EP by Enhypen
Manifesto: Day 1 is the third extended play (EP) by South Korean boy band Enhypen. It was released on July 4, 2022, through Belift Lab. The album consists of six tracks, including the lead single "Future Perfect (Pass the Mic)".
Background and release
On June 14, Belift Lab announced that Enhypen would be releasing their third extended play (EP), Manifesto: Day 1 on July 4, with a trailer titled "Walk the Line" released the same day.
Commercial performance
With 1.24 million copies sold in the first week of release, Manifesto: Day 1 became Enhypen's second million-selling album and made them the fastest K-pop group to earn two albums in the million-seller category. In the United States, Manifesto: Day 1 reached number one on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.
Track listing
Accolades
Charts
Certifications and sales
Release history
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Airport in Bhadrak district, Odisha
Dhamra Airport is a proposed to be built by the Dhamra Port Company Limited, 20 km from Dhamra Port in the Bhadrak district of Odisha, India.
In 2018, the Dhamara Port Company Limited (DPCL), run by the Adani Group, forwarded a proposal to the Odisha government to set up an airport to boost commercial activities near the Dhamra port. The Odisha government accorded in-principle approval in September 2018 and sought a detail project report. In November 2018, the State Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DPCL for the development of a commercial airport over 500 acres at the cost of Rs. 500 crore. In January 2020, the Government approved of DPCL's proposal to acquire 274 acres of land for the airstrip. The State Government would take a call on acquiring the remaining land for the project at a later date.
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Government agency of Estonia
The Tax and Customs Board (Estonian: Maksu- ja Tolliamet), also known by its acronym MTA, is the taxation authority in the Republic of Estonia. It is an agency of the Ministry of Finance.
The agency deals with collection of revenue for the state budget, the implementation of tax laws, customs rules and related legislation, enforcement, licensing gambling companies and lottery organisations, supervision and inspection of gambling and lotteries, and provision of service to citizens and e-residents to aid in fulfilment of tax liability and customs procedures.
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Puerto Rican broadcaster
Jorge E. Seijo Figueroa (born 1942) is a radio and television personality.
Early years
Seijo was born and lived most of his life in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. At the age of 16 he started his radio career in Manatí, Puerto Rico at a local station, WMNT-AM (1500 kHz). He studied Economics at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and post graduate studies at George Washington University. He later worked as a customer service liaison for Eastern Airlines. He trained with the United States Army Special Forces in Fort Benning, Georgia and went on a tour of duty in the Vietnam War soon after.
Radio career
Following the war, Seijo rejoined the army as a commissioned officer, stationed in Virginia, before returning to Puerto Rico. He assisted his wife in managing a family business while returning to radio, first as a news commentator in various local radio stations, then as a commentator and producer at WAPA, also known as "WAPA Radio". Philosophical differences with the radio station's owners made him switch to other radio stations (WQII [11-QRadio]; Super Cadena) before settling at WSKN-AM (1320 kHz).
For eleven years, Seijo hosted a program called Puerto Rico Matutino (Morning Puerto Rico) and Hora Siete in WSJU (Canal 30) in Puerto Rico, until Mega TV bought the station and canceled it. For fourteen years he hosted a radio Program in WSKN AM, Radio Isla 1320 called "Hay que tener verguenza".
Later years
On September 2, 2007 Jorge Seijo's wife, Pharmacist Ivette Claudio, died due to a heart attack while getting out of a swimming pool in a party hosted by them at their home in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.
In 2008, Jorge Seijo remarried Claribel Santiago Lugo one year and a half after his wife's death. Seijo has a daughter, María del Pilar (Maripi) and a son Jorge Efraín; 7 grand children: Gabriel Antonio and Grecia Cristina Villafañe-Seijo; Sofía Alejandra and Andrea Natalia Seijo-Román; José Orlando Claudio-Seijo; Estefanía Teresa and Ivette Lucile.
Jorge Seijo has a recorded message play on an almost every day basis at Puerto Rico's popular television show, SuperXclusivo-La Comay, where he has also joined famous gossip doll La Comay and Cuban actor Hector Travieso for live appearances occasionally
Jorge Seijo is a member of Phi Delta Gamma, a Puerto Rican fraternity founded in Mayagüez (1942).
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American college football season
The 1930 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1930 college football season. In its second season under head coach Pat Miller, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record.
Schedule
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Erisma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Vochysiaceae.
Its native range is Panama to Southern Tropical America.
Species:
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2007 Indian film
Bharathan Effect is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language science fiction film written by Madhu Muttam, directed by Anil Das and starring Biju Menon in the title role. The film is about a genius inventor who makes a small gadget which can fly without fuel using the concept of antigravity.
Plot
Bharathan is a post-graduate and unemployed. Somehow he manages to get the job of a Malayalam teacher at a tuition centre. His wife Geetha works in a consumer store. The couple stays in a rented house owned by Kariyachan. Bharathan is a genius inventor and has a rather inquisitive mind especially as far as scientific matters are concerned. He is always around inventions with little care on what happens around him. He never sticks to any particular job, which lands his family in deep financial troubles.
His wife Geetha is upset about all this, but there is little she can do to keep her husband from becoming the laughing stock of many who don't understand him. Some people like Kariachan cleverly usurp the patent rights of some of Bharathan's crude inventions. The few people who come with helping hands are Thankachan, one of his students in the tuition centre, and Peter, who goes around finding him new jobs. In the meantime, Bharathan invents a gadget that could be used to clean and sweep the courtyard and also to pluck coconuts and fruits from palms and trees.
One day, on the way to take classes, Bharathan notices a paper rocket-flown by some children-staying midair for an unusually long period of time. This and a few other experiences lead him to a very spectacular discovery relating to gravity. But people around him brand him a lunatic and that leads to many problems in his life. But Bharathan does discover the reason behind the phenomenon is antigravity and claims that he can make flying objects that can be used by man to reach any destination without any fuel, and he suddenly gets famous. But due to over concentration, Bharathan loses his memory about the project. The government brings a psychiatrist to cure him. He finds that with some seemingly fatal interventions, Bharathan could be cured and he could make antigravity workable.
Cast
Reception
A critic from Indiaglitz.com said that the film "has not eyed anything exceptional other than the central plot, and would have worked better if it was promoted as a children's film!" Paresh C Palicha of Rediff.com concluded his review saying, "In all, Anil Das's Bharathan Effect would have worked wonders if it was made 20 years ago, and promoted as a children's film!" The film received a few positive reviews as well. G. Jayakumar of The Hindu appreciated the film "for the treatment of an unusual theme." He also praised the technical aspects and the cast performances.
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River in Ukraine
The Rosava (Ukrainian: Росава; Polish: Rosawa) is a river in Ukraine located in the Dnieper Upland, a left-bank tributary of the Ros. It is 90 km long and drains a basin area of 1,720 km². The river flows through Kyiv Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast.
Cities and towns on the Rosava
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The 2003 Rice Owls baseball team represented Rice University in the 2003 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Owls played their home games at Reckling Park. The team was coached by Wayne Graham in his 12th season at Rice.
The Owls won 30 consecutive games to open the season 33-1 and won the Western Athletic Conference championship. Rice went on to win the College World Series, defeating the Stanford Cardinal in the championship series. It was the first national title that Rice had ever won in a team sport in the school's 91-year history.
Roster
Schedule
Awards and honors
Dane Bubela
Enrique Cruz
Austin Davis
Philip Humber
Paul Janish
Jeff Jorgensen
Chris Kolkhorst
Jeff Niemann
Justin Ruchti
Vincent Sinisi
Wade Townsend
Owls in the 2003 MLB Draft
The following members of the Rice Owls baseball program were drafted in the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft.
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Elections to the consultative Regional Council (Landesrat) were held in the territory of the Saar Basin on 13 February 1932. The Centre Party remained the largest faction, winning 14 of the 30 seats. Peter Scheuer was re-elected as President of the Landesrat.
Results
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German-American soccer player
Werner Fricker (January 24, 1936, in Karlsdorf, Yugoslavia; (Banatski Karlovac); – May 30, 2001, in Horsham, Pennsylvania) was a German-American soccer halfback who later became president of the United States Soccer Federation. He is a member of both the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the USASA Hall of Fame.
Player
Fricker was born to a German-speaking family in Southern Banat, Yugoslavia but his family were forced to abandon the home during the national upheaval at the end of World War II. His family arrived in the United States in 1952 and settled in the Philadelphia area where Werner started to play soccer for the German Hungarians in 1954. He had been selected for the United Soccer League all-star team several seasons and was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic team. He spent most of his career with the United German-Hungarians of Philadelphia. He was the captain of the German Hungarians, as well as the president of the GH, and of the United Soccer league. While playing for the GH Werner's team won the championship of the USLofPA 6 times in a row (GH Majors 1961–1966), as well as in 1968, and 1969. Werner was captain and league delegate of the team. In 1964 the GH made it to the final of the Amateur Cup and lost to Chicago Schwaben, in Chicago. In 1965, Fricker and his teammates won the National Amateur Cup.
Werner was known as a "splitter" who was always tough in the man-to-man fight for the ball, but at the same time was always fair in his interferences. He was known to work tirelessly. His long passes were characterized as precise, and he never hesitated to take a shot at the opposing goal at any given opportunity. Werner took his soccer seriously and was a great believer in training sessions and team discipline.[citation needed]
Philadelphia United German-Hungarians
Werner began playing for the GH in 1954, and played continuously until 1969. He started playing in the reserves but was transferred to the Major Team a few seasons later. Werner was named captain of the Major Team in 1958 and held this position until 1968. While playing for the GH Werner's team won the Championship of the USLofPA 6 times in a row (GH Majors 1961–1966), as well as in 1968, and 1969. In 1964 the GH made it to the final of the Amateur Cup and lost to Chicago Schwaben, in Chicago. In 1965, Fricker and his teammates won the National Amateur Cup.More information about the 1965 Final can be found here GH 1965 Championship. The German Hungarians were Eastern Champions three times during Werner's career with them (1964, 1965, 1966), U.S. National Amateur Finalists twice (1964, 1966), as well as Eastern Pennsylvania Champions for eight seasons. Werner coached for the GH, coaching the U-14 Team, the Reserve Team, as well as the Major Team. Werner was the secretary of the GH from 1962 to 1966. He was the president of the club from 1968 to 1976. Werner held almost every position within the GH organization. He was part of the Dance group, He served as the entertainment chairman, on the Constitution committee, the building committee, he was the Kirchweih chairman, and the chairman of the board. "There has been no one in almost fifty years club history who has had more impact, who has contributed more in all aspects, and has dedicated his efforts both financially and through leadership for our well being as a club than Werner Fricker" – Werner Fricker, Jr., Past President German Hungarians
United States men's national soccer team
In 1963 Werner was selected as an alternate for the U.S. Olympic Team that would play in the Pan American Games. Werner continued to be in the U.S. player pool until 1967. In 1963 Werner was the first Philadelphian to represent Olympic soccer since 1956, and was believed to be 4th ever, behind Jack Dunn, Walter Bahr, and Ray Wilson.
United Soccer League of Pennsylvania
In 1959 United Soccer League of Pennsylvania was formed with the German Hungarians as a founding member. German Hungarian, Frank Follmer became the first president of the new league. Over their years of involvement in the USLofPA many members of the German Hungarians have been involved in the running of the league. As a player, he had been selected for the United Soccer League All start team numerous times. He played for the allstar team from 1958 to 1968, and served as captain from 1963 to 1968. Werner also coached the Leagues U-16 Select Team.
Executive
Fricker was president of the United States Soccer Federation from 1984 to 1990, executive vice president from 1975 to 1984, and vice president from 1974 to 1975. It was during Fricker's tenure as president of U.S. Soccer that the United States was awarded the right to host the 1994 World Cup, an event that significantly advanced the popularity of soccer in the United States. Fricker was defeated for re-election by Alan Rothenberg in 1990.
During his time serving in the U.S. administrative structure, Fricker also sat on the CONCACAF executive committee.
Werner Fricker was a founder of the USLofPA. He served as president of the USLofPA from 1970 to 1972, and secretary from 1967 to 1970.
Soccer experience
All Star Team 1958–1968
Captain 1963–1968
Captain 1958–1969
U.S. National Amateur Cup Champions – 1965
U.S. National Amateur Cup Finalists – 1964 & 1966
Eastern Champions – 1964 & 1966
U-16 Select Team
U-14 Team
Reserve Team
Major Team
Executive Vice President 1975–1984
Vice President 1974–1975
President 1984–1990
1986 World Cup Organizing Committee
International Games Committee
Technical Committee
Restructuring Committee
Marketing Committee
Geographical Delineating Committee
President 1972–1974
President 1970–1972
Secretary 1967–1970
President 1968–1976
Secretary 1962–1966
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American politician (1788–1840)
John Selby Spence (February 29, 1788 – October 24, 1840) was an American politician.
Born near Snow Hill, Maryland, Spence attended the common schools and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1809 and practiced in Worcester County, Maryland. Spence served as a member of both the Maryland House of Delegates and as a member of the Maryland State Senate. In 1822, Spence was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, and served from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825. He was again elected as an Anti-Jacksonian in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress, and served from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1833.
In 1836, Spence was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian (later Whig) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert H. Goldsborough. He was reelected in 1837, and served from December 31, 1836, until his death near Berlin, Maryland, in 1840. He is interred in the Episcopal Churchyard.
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"The Turbulence Expert" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the 2018 horror anthology Flight or Fright.
Plot summary
While eating dinner in Boston, Craig Dixon - a "turbulence expert" - receives a phone call from his "facilitator", who instructs him to join a flight from Boston to Sarasota later that evening. Dixon reluctantly agrees; he considers running but is convinced his employer will catch him and potentially execute him. On the flight, Dixon is seated between Mary Worth, an elderly widowed librarian, and Frank Freeman, a gruff businessman. Dixon experiences severe apprehension about the flight. He reflects on his lifestyle, which includes a high salary and living in high-class hotels.
As the plane passes over South Carolina, it encounters a severe patch of clear-air turbulence. Dixon closes his eyes and experiences a vivid vision of the plane crashing, after which the plane rights itself. Worth tells Dixon that she was sure the plane was going to crash, saying "I saw it".
In Sarasota, Dixon is met by a stretch limousine that will take him to a hotel. After seeing Worth standing on the curb, he offers her a lift to Siesta Key. During the journey, Dixon explains to her that he works for an unnamed organization that is capable of predicting clear-air turbulence, which is a far more serious phenomenon than the public believes. "Talented" individuals such as Dixon are required on flights that will encounter clear-air turbulence, with their terror triggering telepathic abilities that prevent the plane from crashing. Remembering that Worth was also terrified and also believed the plane would crash, Dixon invites her to join the organization, privately noting that once she joins she will never be able to leave and that recruiting her will enable him to retire two years earlier.
The story ends with Worth being contacted by Dixon's facilitator, after which she is seen acting as a turbulence expert on a flight from Boston to Dallas.
Publication
"The Turbulence Expert" was first published in 2018 as part of the 2018 horror anthology Flight or Fright, which was conceived of by King and edited by him along with Bev Vincent. An audiobook was released consecutively by Simon & Schuster Audio, with King narrating his own story.
Reception
Stephen Spignesi noted that "The Turbulence Expert" represents one of King's occasional forays into science fiction, commenting "he doesn't 'let us down' (pun intended) with his latest effort." Ross Jeffery of STORGY Magazine described "The Turbulence Expert" as "a good story [...] not a great story" and "a simple story that really didn't move me at all". Greg Chapman of the New York Journal of Books stated "like many of King’s short stories, it leaves you guessing—and wanting more".
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Military unit
The 20th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Red Army, formed three times. The first formation of the division lasted from 1919 to 1921 and fought during the Russian Civil War before its downsizing into a brigade. The brigade became the 3rd Caucasian Rifle Division, the 3rd Caucasian Mountain Rifle Division, and the 20th Mountain Rifle Division during the interwar years. In 1944 the 20th became the 20th Rifle Division again. It was disbanded after the end of the war. The division briefly reformed between 1955 and 1957 from the 188th Rifle Division and was converted into a motor rifle division.
First Formation
The division was first formed as the Penza Infantry Division, which was formed by Order No. 9 of the 1st Army of the Eastern Front on 6 July 1918. Until 15 September 1918 it was known as the 1st Penza Infantry Division. By order of the Field Staff of the RVSR 1477 N / A on 16 March 1919, it was named the 20th Rifle Division. By an order of the Separate Caucasus Army on 13 October 1921, the division was disbanded and its headquarters used to form that of the 6th Separate Caucasian Rifle Brigade. The brigade was soon renumbered as the 3rd Separate Caucasian Rifle Brigade on 29 November of that year, and on 26 June 1922 became the 3rd Caucasian Rifle Division of the Separate Caucasus Army.
The division was renamed the 3rd Caucasian Mountain Rifle Division on 1 October 1931 and it was redesignated as the 20th Caucasian Mountain Rifle Division on 21 May 1936 to standardize its name.
It was awarded an Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner of the Central Executive Committee (1924), Order of the Red Banner. Was part of the 1st Army of the Eastern Front (July 1918 - October. 1919), 10th Army (Oct. 1919-Feb. 1920, March - April. 1920), under the operational control of the 1st Cavalry Army (Feb. - March 1920), 11th Army (May 1921 - Separate Caucasus Army, from August 1923 - Red Banner Caucasus Army) (April 1920 - May 1935), in the Transcaucasian Military District (May 1935).
Second Formation
Formed during World War II on 21 April 1944 from the 20th Mountain Rifle Division. Fought at Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Crimea, and near Berlin. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
The division inherited the 20th Mountain Rifle Division's Order of the Red Banner, was awarded another Order of the Red Banner during the war, and received the honorific "Baranovichi". It was also awarded the Order of Suvorov 2nd class. Thus its final title was the 20th Baranovichi twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division. After the end of the war the division transferred to Lida with the 28th Army. It was disbanded before 1 July 1946.
Third Formation
After the war, the 20th Rifle Division was reformed in 1955 from the 188th Rifle Division. It was disbanded on 17 April 1957 by being redesignated the 93rd Motor Rifle Division. (Feskov et al./Armies of the Bear) The division was based at Zaporizhia, Zaporizhia Oblast, under 25th Army Corps. The 93rd Motor Rifle Division was disbanded in 1959.
It should not be confused with the 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division.
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Colonel Vasanth Venugopal, AC (25 March 1967 – 31 July 2007) was an Indian Army officer. He was the commanding officer of the 9th battalion, Maratha Light Infantry. On 31 July 2007, he was killed in action while preventing heavily armed infiltrators from crossing the India-Pakistan border at Uri, Jammu and Kashmir. As a result he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest military decoration for peacetime gallantry.
Early life
Born to Praphulla and N.K. Venugopal in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Vasanth Venugopal was the youngest of two brothers. His father's work required the family to travel throughout the state of Karnataka and Vasanth went to schools in Udupi, Shimoga and Bangalore. He graduated from MES College, Bangalore in 1988. While in college, he was a member of the National Cadet Corps, through which he participated in the Indo-Canada World Youth Exchange Programme of 1986-87.
Military career
Venugopal started training at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in 1988. On 10 June 1989, he was commissioned into the 9th battalion of the Maratha Light Infantry as a second lieutenant. He was promoted lieutenant on 10 June 1991 and to captain on 10 June 1994. On 14 January 2000, Venugopal was promoted major, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 16 December 2004. In a military career spanning eighteen years, he served in Pathankot, Sikkim, Gandhinagar, Ranchi, Bangalore and various sectors of Jammu and Kashmir.
"I go where my men go", he told his mother when she asked him if a colonel should participate in all operations conducted by his men. On 28 October 2006 he took over as the commanding officer of the 9th battalion, Maratha Light Infantry. The battalion was at that time posted in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.
On July 31 2007, he and his troops surrounded militants in a forest and blocked all their escape routes in the Uri sector in Kashmir. Despite being wounded, the colonel and his men engaged the terrorists in a fierce encounter. The daring officer led from the front and helped gun down the terrorists. He and radio operator L/Nk Bachhav Shashikant Ganpat were shot and died in hospital. "He ensured that all eight infiltrators were wiped out even as he laid down his life for the nation. He was a true soldier who was dedicated to the country and his force", Gen. Joginder Jaswant Singh, Chief of Army Staff at the time, said after Venugopal's death.
Honours and legacy
Col. Venugopal was cremated with full military honours on 1 August 2007 in Bangalore.
He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for gallantry awarded for the "most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valour or self-sacrifice" other than in the face of the enemy. Colonel Vasanth is the first person from the state of Karnataka, India to have received this honour.
Venugopal's biography Forever Forty, written by his wife Subhashini Vasanth and Veena Prasad was released by Gen. Joginder Jaswant Singh and Santosh Hegde on 10 July 2011 at Crossword Bookstore, Bangalore.
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Bilateral relations
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Spain relations were formally established on 14 December 1992.
Historical ties date back to the introduction of the Spanish language to Bosnia by Spanish-speaking Jews fleeing Spain after the enactment of the Alhambra Decree in 1492. During the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, Spain sent troops to support the United Nations peacekeeping effort in Bosnia.
History
Spanish language
Spanish language was first introduced to Bosnia and Herzegovina when it was settled by the Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jews, who had fled the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon following the enactment of the Alhambra Decree by Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1492. According to the 1921 census, Judaeo-Spanish language was the mother tongue to about 10,000 out of c. 70,000 inhabitants of Sarajevo.
The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia (a puppet state that included all of Bosnia and Herzegovina) in the 1940s and the Bosnian War in the 1990s severely depleted Bosnia and Herzegovina's Jewish population; very few of the remaining Jews speak Judaeo-Spanish as their first language. The only university in Bosnia and Herzegovina offering courses of Spanish language is the University of Sarajevo.
Formal relations
Formal diplomatic relations between both countries were established on 14 December 1992.
Spain allied with Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War (1992–1995). Following the passage of Resolution 770 by the United Nations Security Council in 1993, which guaranteed delivery of humanitarian aid by UN troops even under force, Spain, along with France, Italy, and Belgium, sent troops to aid the effort. Spain also joined France, Great Britain, and the United States in signing a May 22, 1993, "joint strategy" agreement to guard "safe areas" against Serbian invasion.
From 1992 on, Spain sent over 46,000 troops to Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of UN, NATO and UE missions. As of 2022, Spain military deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina takes place under the purview of the EUFOR-Althea operation.
Resident diplomatic missions
While Spain maintains two diplomatic missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the latter maintains only one mission in Spain. The Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in Madrid.
The Embassy of Spain in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was opened in 1999. The economic and trade relations are rather limited, due to the lack of Spanish entrepreneurs and the still on-going process of standardization in the latter country, as well as due to the issues posed by the bureaucracy and corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina. One of the goals set by the embassy is the promotion of Spanish culture by conducting concerts, exhibitions and academic events. Spain also maintains a consulate in Mostar.
Additionally, the city of Barcelona signed an agreement of friendship and cooperation with Sarajevo in 1994, and opened the Local Democracy Embassy, staffed by Barcelona's representative, in Sarajevo in 1996.
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Standard English School is a school located in Dasarahalli, Bangalore Urban district, Karnataka, India. The school was established in 1979 and was one of the earliest schools in this area. It was primarily built to provide affordable education to the students in this area.
This school has education levels starting from Nursery, Primary & Secondary level of school system, which is common across all of India. This school follows the state board syllabus of Karnataka state.
Standard Public School, catering ICSE syllabus was started in the year 2012. Permanent affiliation is granted for both ICSE and ISC.
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Taraval and 32nd Avenue is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro L Taraval line, located in the Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The station opened with the first section of the L Taraval line on April 12, 1919; irregular shuttle service had run on a United Railroads line since around 1910. Nearby 33rd Avenue was the outer terminus of the line until the extension to 48th Avenue on January 14, 1923.
Service
Since August 2020, service along the route is temporarily being provided by buses to allow for the construction of improvements to the L Taraval line. The project is expected to wrap up in 2024.
The stop is served by the L Bus and L Owl bus routes, which provide service along the L Taraval line during the early morning and late night hours respectively when trains do not operate.
History
In June 1908, United Railroads (URR) subsidiary Parkside Transit Company laid a single-track line that ran on 20th Avenue from a existing line on H Street (now Lincoln Way) to Wawona Street, then on Wawona one block to 19th Avenue. A connecting shuttle line running from 20th Avenue on Taraval Street, 33rd Avenue, Vicente Street, and 35th Avenue to Sloat Boulevard (meeting the 12 Ocean line) was opened by 1910. This trackage, which saw infrequent passenger service, formed a barrier to continued expansion of the city-owned Municipal Railway into the Parkside district. On November 25, 1918, the city and the private URR signed the "Parkside Agreements", which allowed Muni streetcars to use URR trackage on Taraval Street and on Ocean Avenue in exchange for a cash payment and shared maintenance costs. Muni's L Taraval line opened to 33rd Avenue (on rebuilt URR trackage west of 20th Avenue) on April 12, 1919. 33rd Avenue, where the URR line turned to the south, was the outer terminus of the L Taraval until the extension to 48th Avenue on January 14, 1923. The URR discontinued their Parkside Shuttle in late 1927.
Planned changes
Like many stations on the line, Taraval and 32nd Avenue has no platforms; trains stop at marked poles before the cross street, and passengers cross travel lanes to board. In March 2014, Muni released details of the proposed implementation of their Transit Effectiveness Project (later rebranded MuniForward), which included a variety of stop changes for the L Taraval line. The stops at 32nd Avenue would be moved to the far side of the cross street as boarding islands, with a traffic signal with transit signal priority replacing the existing stop signs to prevent trains from stopping twice.
On September 20, 2016, the SFMTA Board approved the L Taraval Rapid Project. Construction will occur from 2018 to 2020. Boarding islands are planned to be built at 32nd Avenue; contrary to the original plan, the stops will remain on the near side of the cross street. Early implementation of some project elements, including painted clear zones where the outbound boarding island will be located, was done in early 2017.
In response to merchants complaining about the loss of parking spaces to allow for boarding islands, the Board agreed to an experimental pilot program on the inbound side at five stops: 26th, 30th, 32nd, 35th, and 40th Avenues. Painted stripes and signage were added to indicate that vehicles should stop behind trains to allow passengers to board and alight safely. If 90% of vehicles were observed to stop behind trains, Muni would not construct inbound boarding islands at the five locations. The six-month testing period ran from April 3, 2017 to October 2017. In November 2017, the SFMTA released the results of the study: only 74% of drivers stopped safely behind trains, and boarding islands will be built (except at 35th Avenue, which was closed for operational reasons in 2018). Painted clear zones will be added at the remaining four inbound stops in 2018.
When Muni Metro service resumed on August 22, 2020, after a five-month closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, L Taraval service remained suspended west of Sunset Boulevard for construction. Trains reversed direction using the crossover west of 35th Avenue, and a temporary platform was constructed at 32nd Avenue to serve as an accessible inbound transfer point between buses and trains. Rail service was re-replaced with buses on August 25 due to issues with malfunctioning overhead wire splices and the need to quarantine control center staff after a COVID-19 case.
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Blue Party may refer to:
Topics referred to by the same term
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Yi Mu (穆怡) is a professor in Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, SAR, Macau, China. He obtained his PhD from the Australian National University in 1994. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Wollongong prior to his job as a professor at Fujian Normal University during 2018 and 2020. He has published more than 500 papers in journals and conference proceedings in cryptography, information security, quantum cryptography, and quantum optics. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Cryptography
His seminal work about one-atom lasers (single atom laser) was experimentally realized by H. Jeff Kimble. His work on quantum key distribution is regarded as MSZ96 protocol, which is based on quantized quadrature phase amplitudes of light.
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The Battle of Chaul was a naval battle between the Portuguese and an Egyptian Mamluk fleet in 1508 in the harbour of Chaul in India. The battle ended in a Mamluk victory. It followed the Siege of Cannanore in which a Portuguese garrison successfully resisted an attack by Southern Indian rulers. This was the first Portuguese defeat at sea in the Indian Ocean.
Background
Previously, the Portuguese had been mainly active in Calicut, but the northern region of Gujarat was even more important for trade, and an essential intermediary in east–west trade: the Gujaratis were bringing spices from the Moluccas as well as silk from China, and then selling them to the Egyptians and Arabs.
The Portuguese' monopolizing interventions were however seriously disrupting Indian Ocean trade, threatening Arab as well as Venetian interests, as it became possible for the Portuguese to undersell the Venetians in the spice trade in Europe. Venice broke diplomatic relations with Portugal and started to look at ways to counter its intervention in the Indian Ocean, sending an ambassador to the Egyptian court. Venice negotiated for Egyptian tariffs to be lowered to facilitate competition with the Portuguese, and suggested that "rapid and secret remedies" be taken against the Portuguese. The sovereign of Calicut, the Zamorin, had also sent an ambassador asking for help against the Portuguese.
Since the Mamluks only had little in terms of naval power, timber had to be provided from the Black Sea in order to build the ships, about half of which was intercepted by the Hospitallers of St. John in Rhodes, so that only a fraction of the planned fleet could be assembled at Suez. The timber was then brought overland on camel back, and assembled at Suez under the supervision of Venetian shipwrights.
Preparations
The Mamluk fleet finally left in February 1507 under Amir Husain Al-Kurdi in order to counter the expansion of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean and arrived in the Indian port of Diu in 1508 after delays subduing the city of Jeddha. It consisted of six round ships and six great galleys called galleasses. 1500 combatants were on board, as well as the ambassador of the Zamorin ruler of Calicut, Mayimama Mārakkār.
The fleet was to join with Malik Ayyaz, a former Russian slave, who was in the service of the Sultan Mahmud Begada of Gujarat Sultanate, who was naval chief and master of Diu. The fleet was also planning to join with the Zamorin of Calicut, and then to raid and destroy all the Portuguese possessions on the Indian coast, but the Zamorin, who was expecting the Mamluk fleet in 1507 had already left.
Battle
The Portuguese, under Lourenço de Almeida, son of the Viceroy Francisco de Almeida, were inferior in number with only a light force, and located in the nearby harbour of Chaul. The rest had sailed north to protect shipping and fight the so-called piracy. The Mamluks sailed into Chaul and fought for two days inconclusively with the Portuguese, unable to board their ships. Finally, Malik Ayaz sailed in with his own galleys. The Portuguese had to retreat and Almeida's ship was sunk at the entrance of Chaul harbour with Almeida aboard. Amir Hussain returned to the port of Diu, but from that point abandoned any further initiative on the Indian coast, his ships becoming derelict and his crews dispersing.
Aftermath
The Portuguese later returned and attacked the fleet in the harbour of Diu, leading to a decisive victory in the Battle of Diu (1509).
These events would be followed by a new Ottoman intervention in 1538, with the Siege of Diu.
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Eastern Sunz is a hip hop duo from Portland, Oregon, known for "intellectual hip hop" that often focuses on political, social, and environmental issues. They have released a number of albums, and in 2012 won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and International Songwriting Contest for lyrics on their EP Filthy Hippie Music. Their fifth album Corroded Utopia features Promoe (Looptroop Rockers) and Smoke (Old Dominion).
Members
Current
Discography
Albums
Awards and nominations
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The style of the Dutch sovereign has changed many times since the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands due to formations and dissolutions of personal unions, as well as due to marriages of female sovereigns and cognatic successions.
History
The Kingdom of the Netherlands was proclaimed on 16 March 1815, as a state in personal union with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg under William I, a member of the House of Orange-Nassau who had already inherited a vast number of titles and lands from his ancestors. On 19 April 1839, the Duchy of Limburg joined the union. William I, William II and William III all ruled as kings, grand dukes and dukes.
In 1866, however, the Duchy of Limburg ceased to exist as a separate polity and instead became integrated into the Kingdom of the Netherlands as a province. William III kept the ducal title and passed it on to his successor, Wilhelmina, but she did not succeed him to the throne of Luxembourg, as the country's succession laws provided for strict observance of Salic law. Thus, the reference to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg disappeared from the style of the Dutch monarch.
The male line of the House of Orange-Nassau ended with the death of William III on 23 November 1890. His only surviving child and successor, Wilhelmina, married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 7 February 1901 and, as customary, assumed the feminine form of her husband's title. The title of Duchess of Mecklenburg was thus added to her full style. The government did not want the House of Orange-Nassau to become extinct on Wilhelmina's death, and so in 1908 she issued a royal decree conferring the title of Prince or Princess of Orange-Nassau to her descendants. Her only child, Juliana, was therefore born not only Duchess of Mecklenburg but also Princess of Orange-Nassau, like previous members of the Dutch royal family.
When Juliana married Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1936, Wilhelmina decreed that her daughter and heir presumptive would assume the title of Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, as customary, but that it would come after her birth title of Duchess of Mecklenburg. On 4 September 1948, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of Juliana, which brought the title of Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld into the full style of the Dutch monarch. At the same time, the title of Duchess of Limburg was dropped, Wilhelmina being the last person to hold it.
Like Wilhelmina, Juliana had no sons. She abdicated in favour of Beatrix, the eldest of her four daughters, on 30 April 1980. Beatrix is not a male-line descendant of Duke Henry and thus not a Duchess of Mecklenburg. She was the first Dutch monarch in 79 years not to bear the title. Through her father, she is a Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
On 30 April 2013, she abdicated in favour of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, who thus became the first male on the throne in 123 years. He is not a male-line descendant of Prince Bernhard and thus not a Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld. He bears the honorific Jonkheer van Amsberg as the son of Claus van Amsberg.
Full styles
Shortened styles
"We, William III, by the Grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, etc., etc., etc."
"We, Beatrix, by the Grace of God, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc., etc., etc."
Shortened versions of the styles, used in preambles:
Titles that have appeared in shortened styles, preceded by "His Majesty" or "Her Majesty" and the monarch's name:
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Casarsa (Italian: Stazione di Casarsa) is a railway station serving the town of Casarsa della Delizia, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy. The station opened in 1855 and is located on the Venice–Udine railway and Casarsa–Portogruaro railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
History
The station was located on the Gemona del Friuli-Casarsa railway until its closure in 1987.
Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):
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The Maker of Moons is an 1896 short story collection by Robert W. Chambers which followed the publication of Chambers' most famous work, The King in Yellow (1895).
It contained eight new stories, including the title story, one of his weird tales, and several romantic Art Nouveau stories, concluding with two less distinguished weird tales. The latter were subsequently incorporated into the episodic novel In Search of the Unknown.
The first three stories are linked by the theme of a dream wife named Ysonde, and they form a triptych. The weird nature of the first has interesting echoes in the other two, which feature picturesque animal figures, such as a Red Ibis and a disagreeable porcupine.
The story "In The Name of the Most High" is a war story set in the American Civil War. The next two stories are humorous romantic tales with a fishing theme and setting. Chambers' love of natural scenery illuminates most of the stories. The quality throughout is rather fine.
Published by Putnam's, New York and London, in 1896.
The first edition featured a frontispiece with a black and white illustration by Lancelot Speed.
Contents
Reprints
In 1974, Fantasy House published the story "The Maker of Moons" along with "The Demoiselle d'Ys" (from The King in Yellow) in volume 4 of their "Fantasy Reader" series, under the title The Maker of Moons.
In 1954, Shroud, Publishers, reprinted "The Maker of Moons" with a modified ending that omitted the last two paragraphs which linked his story to the later ones in the set, as explained by K J Krueger in the "Postscript".
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Place in Gadabay, Azerbaijan
Yaqublu (also, Yagublu) is a village in the Gadabay Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Şəkərbəy.
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Llanarmon may refer to one of several villages in Wales:
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Historic mill in York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
United States historic place
Diamond Silk Mill, also known as York Silk Manufacturing Company, is a historic silk mill located at Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built about 1900. The mill is a 3 1/2-story, brick building with heavy timber frame trussing on a stone foundation, and measures 50 feet by 300 feet. It has a hipped roof, and features an octagonal 100-foot high smokestack and decorative corbelled brick cornice in the Romanesque Revival style.
In 1910, the mill's business had increased such that it was noted by an industry periodical as becoming a full-time operation and hiring additional workers. Silk manufacturing would become one of York's most important industries, feeding Lancaster's manufacture of umbrellas. A decline began with the Great Depression and continued with the introduction of synthetic fibers in the late 1930s, for which most York mills did not have equipment.
The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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Archaeological site in Vietnam
Xuân La is an archaeological site in Tây Hồ District of Hanoi, near ancient Hà Đông in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. Excavations there yielded a number of coffins containing relics of the Bronze Age Đông Sơn culture.
Xuan La is located only a short distance of 10 km from Châu Can, both formerly in Hà Tây Province. The seven coffins excavated at the site were uncovered in 1982 and show a basic level of similarity to those at Chau Can, but with some difficulties, according to a report by Vietnamese archaeologists Pham Quoc Quan and Trinh Can.
Discovery
The discovery of Chinese coins of Wang Mang in the area, led archaeologists to conclude that the burial site must have been during or after the Xin Dynasty which was in existence from 9 CE to 23 CE.
The burial style of the coffins found at Xuan La are similar to that of Chau Can, with the body typically being placed in a wooden coffin with the burial goods being placed beside the body, beside the deceased's ankles and beyond the skull. A wide variety of wooden objects was also found among the buried coffins, which wooden sculptures of human figures being found.
Burial 1 was unearthed with a wooden tray in the ankle region, in addition to the presence of two bronze socketed axe head, three axe hafts, a wooden stick and a shaft of bamboo. Four pottery objects and 36 Chinese coins were found next to the left hand.
In burial, the skull was placed on a bronze vessel and a wooden sculpture of a human had been placed beside the left shoulder of the deceased. A large wooden tray of circular shape was placed over the knees of the dead, alongside which stood a bronze thap vase-like object. The vessel was 22 cm tall and was decorated with three rows of spiral and geometric patterns. A socketed pediform axe made of bronze was placed beside the left hand of the dead.
Burial 3 included three small ring-footed pottery vessels inside the coffin. Three more such vessels were placed outside the coffin in front of the position of the head. The head of the deceased was placed on a group of socketed iron spades, which were almost identical to those found in Yingshanling. There were more such spades lying beside the left elbow for a total of nine such objects inside the coffin. A socketed bronze spearhead and another arrowhead were found next to the left hand and a wooden disk was placed between the kneecaps of the dead. A circular lacquered box was placed next to the right ankle.
In burial 4, nine iron spades and a variety of other artefacts such as a wooden axe haft, eight coins, three pottery vessels, a wooden disc, three wooden containers and axehead. A bronze bowl was also found next to the skull.
Although the site contained iron hoes and axes from the Iron Age that was preceded by the Bronze Age, and the site was dated to be late among the Dong Son Bronze Age sites, the amount of bronze, which is expected to increase as the Bronze Age developed, was much smaller than that found at Việt Khê. The site also lacks the variety of weaponry and ceremonial accoutrements found at other Dong Son sites. No drums, halberds, daggers or ploughshares were uncovered at the site, which lead scholars to believe that Xuan La was a provincial centre of the Đông Sơn civilisation, rather than an epicentre of culture and wealth.
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1979 single by Chas & Dave
"The Sideboard Song" is a song by Chas & Dave from their album Don't Give a Monkey's, which was released as a single on 26 August 1979 and entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 66. The song stayed in the charts for three weeks and peaked at number No. 55 on 15 September 1979.
Background
The song was written in the summer of 1978 in a cottage Chas & Dave rented in Ashington, West Sussex, where they also wrote a few other songs, including "Rabbit". According to Hodges, Peacock had first written the line "Skinny little belly now it's sticking out the front". After trying to find lines to rhyme with "front" but rejected those attempts as unusable, Hodges added "I don't care, I don't care, got my beer in the sideboard here", after which they quickly wrote the whole song and recorded a demo that night.
Covers
A German duo Gutsche + Goy made a German version titled "Is' egal".
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Sporting event delegation
Botswana competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Results by event
Athletics
Men
Track and road events
Boxing
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African Handball Championship may refer to:
Topics referred to by the same term
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Lexington, Kentucky, held an election for mayor on May 22, 2018 and November 6, 2018. It saw the election of Linda Gorton.
Results
First round
Runoff results
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The Rike-Kumler Company (commonly known as Rike's) was an American department store in Dayton, Ohio. In 1959, Rike's became part of the Federated Department Stores conglomerate. In 1982, Federated merged Rike's with its Cincinnati unit, Shillito's, in order to form Shillito–Rike's. In 1986, Federated merged Shillito–Rike's into the Columbus-based Lazarus chain, which, in 2005 was consolidated with most other Federated chains under the Macy's brand.
Rike's former main store in downtown Dayton was imploded in 1999 and is now the site of the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.
Rike's was well known for its annual tradition of animated Christmas window displays. The animated figurines were preserved and have been displayed yearly during the Christmas season at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center since its inception.
History
Rike-Kumler Co
The company was established as the Rike-Kumler company in downtown Dayton, Ohio in 1853. They would remain independent until 1959 when they joined the Federated Department Stores company, at which time the company owned the then 650,000 sq ft downtown store, a 280,000 sq ft service building, two warehouses, and the Miami Hotel. That same year, Arthur Beerman reportedly offered to sell his chain of Beerman stores to the company, but the offer was turned down by both the Rike-Kumler Co and its new parent, Federated. A branch store, the company's first, was announced as in the works in December 1960, and construction was underway by September 1961 for the new, self-service store in a newly built shopping center in Kettering, Ohio. The store would have a soft opening on October 30, 1961, followed by a grand opening on November 2, 1961, with a number of local mayors and county officials in attendance. The company would open its first mall store on August 22, 1963, at the Salem Mall in Trotwood, Ohio. The company's downtown store was subject of picketing and sit-ins by the Congress of Racial Equality beginning in summer 1963, over alleged hiring discrimination at the store. The protest ended in October 1963, when CORE and the Rike-Kumler company reached an agreement, promising to hire more black workers, give them equal consideration in hiring, and making a pledge to bring on a number of black employees hired for the holiday season on as permanent employees.
Elder-Beerman Antitrust Lawsuit
Beginning in 1961, the Rike-Kumler Co and parent company Federated Department Stores Inc, were subject to an antitrust lawsuit by competitor Beerman Stores, later Elder-Beerman, accusing the company of trying to smother competition in order to create a monopoly in the Dayton area. It alleged that the Rike-Kumler Co would tell suppliers not to sell to Elder-Beerman, or they would no longer buy from them, and due to their larger buying power, suppliers would choose Rike-Kumler. The second suit, claiming damages of $15 million, was filed in 1966. Elder-Beerman would be awarded damages of $1,275,097, later tripled to $3,750,291 in July 1969 by the U.S. District Court in Dayton. However, a three-judge federal appeals court would reverse the decision in April 1972, sending it back to the district court in Dayton. Rike's would leave the suit in November 1972, after reaching an undisclosed agreement out-of-court.
Expansion and Merger
The company would continue to open mall-based stores in the early 1970s, including at the Upper Valley Mall and at the Dayton Mall. Another location at Castleton Square was planned, but later replaced with Lazarus, which was also owned by Federated Department Stores. The company would be merged for the first time in 1982, joining with Cincinnati, Ohio based Shillito's to form Shillito-Rike's. The merger was announced at a press conference in Middletown, Ohio, reportedly because it was equidistant to both Cincinnati and Dayton. At this time, Federated vice chairman Donald J. Stone said that the company would not be merged with the Lazarus department store operations, despite rumors. In spite of this, Shillito-Rike's would be merged with Lazarus only four years later, in early 1986, leading to the end of the Rike's name.
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English actress (b. 1943)
Maureen O'Brien (born 29 June 1943) is an English actress and author best known for playing the role of Vicki in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, although she has appeared in many other television programmes.
Early life
O'Brien was born in Liverpool. She attended Notre Dame School in that city, as well as the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Career
She played the part of Vicki in 38 episodes of Doctor Who from 2 January to 6 November 1965, starring alongside the original Doctor, William Hartnell. Over 40 years later, she reprised the role in several Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio plays.
After leaving Doctor Who O'Brien found it difficult to find acting work on television, and worked as a supply teacher. Her next role was in the theatre, where she appeared in an Oxford Playhouse production of Volpone with Leo McKern and Leonard Rossiter.
She had a recurring role as Morgan in The Legend of King Arthur (1979) and as unit general manager Elizabeth Straker in the second season of Casualty (1987). She made guest appearances in The Duchess of Duke Street ("Trouble and Strife") (1976), Taggart ("Forbidden Fruit") (1994), Cracker ("The Big Crunch") (1994), A Touch of Frost ("Private Lives") (1999) and Heartbeat. In 1997 she appeared as Kirsten Holiday in "Jack in the Box", episode two of Jonathan Creek.
O'Brien was a member of the Everyman Theatre company.
In the 1970s, she directed a production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the University of Ottawa in Canada. In 1974, she played Celia in "Panic", an episode of the BBC Radio series The World of Daphne du Maurier. The 1980s saw her teaching acting workshops in the USA. She also made a rare film appearance in the comedy She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas in 1985, opposite Julie Walters. She received the Time Out Critic's Choice award for her production of Mike English's Getting In in 1986.
O'Brien has also written seven detective novels: Close-Up on Death (1989), Deadly Reflection (1993), Mask of Betrayal (1998), Dead Innocent (1999), Revenge (2001), Unauthorised Departure (2003) and Every Step You Take (2004); all feature the character of Detective Inspector John Bright.
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The following is a list of state highways in Maryland shorter than one mile (1.6 km) in length with route numbers between 2 and 699. Most of these highways act as service roads, old alignments of more prominent highways, or connectors between one or more highways. Many of these highways are unsigned and have multiple segments with the same number. Several of these highways have their own articles; those highways are summarized here and a link is provided to the main article. This list does not include highways where at least one highway of that number is at least one mile in length. All highways at least one mile in length have their own article. The highways shorter than one mile with the same number are covered in the main article for the highway.
MD 79
Maryland Route 79 is the designation for the state-maintained portion of Petersville Road, which runs 0.85 miles (1.37 km) from MD 17 and MD 464 in Rosemont north to a bridge over the Little Catoctin Creek on the northern border of Rosemont. MD 79 begins at a four-way intersection on the boundary between the town of Brunswick to the south and the village of Rosemont to the north. Petersville Road continues south as MD 17 into Brunswick; MD 17 also heads west along Burkittsville Road. The eastern leg of the intersection is MD 464 (Souder Road). MD 79 heads northeast as a two-lane undivided road through a residential area where the highway meets the eastern end of Rosemont Drive, which is unsigned MD 871G. The state highway comes to its northern terminus at a bridge over Little Catoctin Creek on the northern border of Rosemont. Past the northern terminus, Petersville Road continues north as a county road toward MD 180 (Jefferson Pike) in Petersville.
Petersville Road was constructed as a 14-foot (4.3 m) wide macadam-surfaced highway from Jefferson Pike (designated US 340 and later MD 180) south to Brunswick in 1916. When state highways were first numbered in Maryland in 1927, the portion of Petersville Road south of what is now Rosemont Drive became MD 33; MD 33 became MD 17 in 1940. Petersville Road from Rosemont north to Petersville was later marked as MD 79. MD 79's modern bridge over Little Catoctin Creek was built in 1941 after the previous bridge was carried away by a flood that year. MD 79 was extended south to its current southern terminus in 1968 when MD 17 was relocated to its present course through Rosemont and MD 464 was extended west along Souder Road to its present terminus to form the fourth leg of that intersection. On October 31, 2016, the northern terminus of MD 79 was cut back from MD 180 to its current location when the section of Petersville Road between the Little Catoctin Creek bridge on the northern border of Rosemont and MD 180 was transferred to county maintenance.
MD 169
Maryland Route 169 is the designation for Maple Road, a 0.97-mile (1.56 km) state highway in Linthicum in northwestern Anne Arundel County. The highway begins at Hammonds Ferry Road and heads east as a two-lane undivided road through a residential area. MD 169 has a grade crossing of MTA Maryland's Baltimore Light RailLink just prior to its intersection with MD 170 (Camp Meade Road). The highway reaches its eastern terminus at MD 648 (Baltimore–Annapolis Boulevard).
MD 172
Maryland Route 172 is the unsigned designation for Arundel Cove Avenue, a 0.17 mi (0.27 km) route that runs from railroad tracks in Orchard Beach in Anne Arundel County north to MD 173 (Hawkins Point Road) in the city of Baltimore. This state highway once served as the entrance to the United States Coast Guard Yard. The yard is now accessed from MD 173 just to the west of MD 172. MD 172 was constructed by 1930.
MD 181
Maryland Route 181 is the unsigned designation for the Sixth Street drawbridge over the Spa Creek in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County. The route was designated in 2009 and is 0.16 mi (0.26 km) long.
MD 219
Maryland Route 219 is the unsigned designation for Ninth Street, a two-lane undivided road which runs 0.22 miles (0.35 km) from the intersection of US 219 and MD 135 north to High Street within Oakland in Garrett County. MD 219 is state-maintained from US 219 to Green Street and maintained by the town of Oakland from there to High Street. The state highway follows the southernmost part of the alignment of the future Oakland Bypass.
MD 221
Maryland Route 221A is the unsigned designation for a 0.58 mi (0.93 km) section of Ritchie–Marlboro Road around that highway's dumbbell interchange with I-95/I-495 (Capital Beltway) at Exit 13 in Largo, Prince George's County.
MD 250
Maryland Route 250A is the unsigned designation for Old Virginia Road, which runs 0.19 mi (0.31 km) from US 13 Business east to the intersection of US 13 and US 113 within Pocomoke City in Worcester County. The state highway is the southernmost part of the second alignment of US 113 in Pocomoke City. MD 250A was assigned shortly after US 113 was rolled back to terminate at the Pocomoke City Bypass, US 13, in the 1960s.
MD 268
Maryland Route 268, which is known as North Street, runs 0.95 miles (1.53 km) from Main Street north to MD 279 within the town of Elkton in eastern Cecil County. The highway begins at Main Street, which is one-way eastbound, in downtown Elkton; the parallel street that allows westbound traffic and provides access to Union Hospital and MD 213 (Bridge Street) is High Street one block to the north. MD 268 heads north as a two-lane undivided road and passes a block to the east of the Elkton Armory. The highway veers slightly to the west to cross over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor railroad line. The old alignment, Old North Road, consists of pair of stubs on the south and north sides of the tracks with unsigned designations MD 727 and MD 727A, respectively. MD 268 continues north between Big Elk Creek to the east and Elkton Middle School to the west before reaching its northern terminus at MD 279, which heads west as Newark Avenue and east as Elkton Road toward Newark, Delaware.
MD 268 is the old alignment of MD 279 within Elkton. North Street was paved as a 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) concrete road by 1921. The original North Street overpass of the Pennsylvania Railroad (now Amtrak) was constructed between 1930 and 1934. The bypassed street stubs to the closed grade crossing were designated MD 727 and MD 727A in 1949. MD 268 was assigned to North Avenue after MD 279 was extended west to US 40 to bypass the center of Elkton in 1968. The highway's current bridge across the Amtrak Northeast Corridor was constructed between 1986 and 1988.
MD 284
Maryland Route 284 is the designation for Hemphill Street, which runs 0.25 miles (0.40 km) between two intersections with MD 285 in Chesapeake City in southern Cecil County. MD 284 heads north from MD 285 (Biddle Street) one block north of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal in the town of Chesapeake City. Immediately after leaving the town limits, the two-lane undivided highway curves to the west and reaches its northern terminus at MD 285 (Lock Street). MD 285 heads north to a junction with MD 213 (Augustine Herman Highway).
Hemphill Street was part of the original Cecilton–Elkton highway passing through Chesapeake City that was designated for improvement by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1909. The highway through Chesapeake City was paved as a 14-foot-wide (4.3 m) concrete road in 1915. At that time, the main highway entered Chesapeake City from the north along Hemphill Street, crossed the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal on a one-lane bridge, turned west and crossed Back Creek on a wooden bridge, turned south onto Bohemia Street in South Chesapeake City, turned west onto Third Street, and turned south onto George Street to leave the town.
In the 1920s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers widened, straightened, and deepened the canal. As part of their work, the agency constructed a vertical lift bridge across the canal. Between 1924 and 1926, the Maryland State Roads Commission constructed approaches to the new bridge on both sides of the expanded canal, eliminating two narrow and dangerous bridges and four right-angle turns in Chesapeake City. The new route along George Street and Lock Street, which became part of US 213 in 1927 and is now MD 285 and MD 537, entirely bypassed what is now MD 284. MD 284 was resurfaced with bituminous concrete in 1976, and its junction with MD 285 was changed from a tangent to the present orthogonal intersection in 1982.
References
MD 308
Maryland Route 308 is the designation for a portion of South Main Street in Federalsburg, Caroline County running from MD 313/MD 318 north to the end of state maintenance, where South Main Street continues north as a municipal street. The route is 0.12 miles (0.19 km) long. Although not signposted, it does appear in official documents and some commercial maps.
MD 324
Maryland Route 324 is the unsigned designation for Maple Avenue, which runs for 0.40 mi (0.64 km) from MD 16/MD 331 south to the southern town limit of Preston in Caroline County, where the highway continues as county-maintained Choptank Road.
MD 327
Maryland Route 327, which is known as Ikea Way, runs 0.51 miles (0.82 km) from MD 7 east to a dead end within the town of Perryville in southwestern Cecil County. MD 327 begins at an intersection with MD 7 (Broad Street) on the eastern edge of the town of Perryville. The state highway heads southeast as a two-lane undivided road and crosses over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor railroad line. MD 327 comes to an intersection with Marion Tapp Parkway, which leads to the entrance of the adjacent Perryville Wastewater Treatment Plant and to Perryville Community Park located at the Perry Point promontory east of the Perry Point VA Medical Center property. From here, the route passes south of an IKEA distribution center before it reaches a dead end.
In a March 8, 1967, agreement, the Maryland State Roads Commission agreed to transfer maintenance of part of MD 7 and all of MD 271 to the town of Perryville upon the completion of a new highway and bridge from MD 7 across the Pennsylvania Railroad (now Amtrak) to serve the peninsula south of the railroad between Mill Creek and Furnace Bay. The new highway, designated MD 327, was constructed in 1968, the same year Firestone Plastics opened a chemical plant on the present site of the IKEA distribution center. The state highway had no name as of 1999; it was designated Firestone Road in 2001 and Ikea Way in 2004 shortly after the opening of the IKEA distribution center. In 2018, MD 327 was extended east from Marion Tapp Parkway to a dead end after it was determined that stretch of Ikea Way was maintained by the state.
References
MD 334
Maryland Route 334 is a state highway in Talbot County that runs along two-lane undivided Port Street from MD 322 on the western edge of the town of Easton, eastward to Washington Street. MD 334 starts in the west at the intersection with MD 322 (Easton Parkway), where Port Street continues west as a county road toward a dead end along the Tred Avon River. It passes through a somewhat rural side of the town, changing quickly to a residential corridor. East of the Clay Street intersection, the road becomes municipally maintained. The route comes to its eastern terminus at Washington Street.
MD 368
Maryland Route 368 is the designation for St. Martins Neck Road, a 0.28 mi (0.45 km) spur that runs from the beginning of state maintenance north to MD 367 in Bishopville. St. Martins Neck Road continues southeast as a county highway to Isle of Wight, where it has an at-grade intersection with MD 90 (Ocean City Expressway). MD 368 originally also included present day MD 568 and MD 367 between the two roads; MD 368 was shortened to its present length in 1950.
MD 375
Maryland Route 375 is the unsigned designation for Commerce Street, a 0.06 mi (0.097 km) street that runs one-way west (officially north) from MD 818 (Main Street) to MD 374 (Broad Street) within downtown Berlin.
MD 377
Maryland Route 377 is the designation for Williams Street, which runs 0.78 mi (1.26 km) from MD 376 in the Berlin Commercial District north to MD 346 (Old Ocean City Boulevard) just west of US 113 within Berlin.
MD 384
Maryland Route 384 runs 0.53 mi (0.85 km) from MD 390 east to US 29 and MD 97 in Silver Spring, providing access to the Silver Spring station of the Washington Metro.
MD 393
Maryland Route 393 (Old Solomons Island Road) is an old alignment of Maryland Route 2 through Annapolis and Parole in Anne Arundel County. Its alignment runs from MD 2 north of MD 665 northerly to MD 450. It is 0.63 miles (1.01 km) long.
MD 430
Maryland Route 430 is the unsigned designation for Greenbelt Road, which runs 0.49 mi (0.79 km) from US 1 east to MD 193 within College Park. MD 430 serves to complete movements missing from the US 1-MD 193 interchange to the north of MD 430's western terminus.
MD 432
Maryland Route 432 is the unsigned designation for Glen Oaks Lane, which runs 0.25 mi (0.40 km) from the intersection of Guilford Road and Oakland Mills Road east to a cul-de-sac adjacent to I-95's interchange with MD 32 (Exit 38) in Columbia.
MD 449
Maryland Route 449 is the unsigned designation for the 0.07-mile-long (0.11 km) section of Shallcross Wharf Road from MD 213 east to MD 444 near Locust Grove in northern Kent County. The course of MD 449 and Shallcross Wharf Road northeast to Old Locust Grove Road were part of the original Chestertown–Galena highway proposed for improvement as a state road in 1909. This stretch was constructed as a 14-foot-wide (4.3 m) macadam road in 1912. After US 213's bypass of Locust Grove was built in 1950 and 1951, the old path of US 213 through Locust Grove—Shallcross Wharf Road between the western end of the bypass and the center of Locust Grove, and Old Locust Grove Road between the center of Locust Grove and the eastern end of the bypass—became part of MD 444, with what is now MD 449 being a spur of the main route. After MD 444's present course west of Locust Grove was constructed in 1968, Old Locust Grove Road became MD 447, and the 0.32-mile-long (0.51 km) portion of Shallcross Wharf Road between US 213 and the new MD 447 became MD 449. MD 449 was resurfaced with bituminous concrete in 1984. Three years later, MD 449 was transferred from state to county maintenance through a December 1, 1987, road transfer agreement. However, the portion of MD 449 between MD 213 and MD 444 was returned to state control to be destroyed, but the highway remained in use. Thus, in 1997, MD 449 was returned to the inventory of the state highway system.
References
MD 460
Maryland Route 460, which is known as Hall Highway, runs 0.78 miles (1.26 km) from McCready Memorial Hospital east to MD 413 within Crisfield in southwestern Somerset County. The highway begins just north of the McCready Memorial Hospital property on a peninsula between Daugherty Creek and the Little Annemessex River. The roadway continues north as county-maintained Byrd Road. MD 460 heads south, entering the city limits of Crisfield and passing through the hospital grounds, where the highway is flanked by perpendicular parking spaces. The state highway turns east and crosses the Little Annemessex River, then passes through a residential neighborhood where the highway intersects Wynfall Avenue, which provides full access to MD 413. MD 460 reaches its eastern terminus at southbound MD 413 (Maryland Avenue). There is no direct access to northbound MD 413 (Richardson Avenue). McCready Memorial Hospital was founded in 1923 as a memorial to Edward W. McCready, a cork industry scion and Crisfield native who was killed in a train–automobile collision on the Crisfield–Westover road in 1919. MD 460 was constructed around 1933 to provide a more direct connection between the hospital and the populated areas of Crisfield.
MD 485
Maryland Route 485 is the unsigned designation for Saathoff Road, an old alignment of MD 404 that runs 0.65 mi (1.05 km) between two intersections with MD 404 east of Hillsboro.
MD 490
Maryland Route 490 is the signed designation for a 0.31-mile (0.50 km) section of Union Avenue from Commerce Street north to MD 7, which turns north from Revolution Street onto Union Avenue at MD 490's northern terminus.
MD 518
Maryland Route 518 is the unsigned designation for First Street in the town of Queen Anne, Talbot County from Maryland Route 404 Alternate to the Queen Anne's County line. The route is 0.06 miles (0.097 km) long.
MD 524
Maryland Route 524 is the designation for a former alignment of MD 2 looping to the west of MD 2/MD 4 in Huntingtown, Calvert County; it carries the name of Old Town Road and travels for 0.76 miles (1.22 km). It intersects the eastern terminus of MD 521.
MD 526
Maryland Route 526A is the unsigned designation for an unnamed road running 0.13 miles (0.21 km) from MD 140 northeast to Woodfield Court northwest of Reisterstown, Baltimore County. The route was designated in 2014.
MD 535
Maryland Route 535A (Auth Road) connects county-maintained Auth Road with the ramp to Maryland Route 5 in Camp Springs, Prince George's County. It is approximately 0.16 miles (0.26 km) long and is aligned in an east–west direction.
MD 537
Maryland Route 537 is a collection of unsigned state highways in the U.S. state of Maryland. These two existing highways and two former sections of state highway are segments of old alignment of U.S. Route 213 (US 213), which is now MD 213, in Chesapeake City in southern Cecil County. Some of the roads that became segments of MD 537 were constructed in the mid-1910s as part of the original state road between Elkton and Cecilton. Other portions of MD 537 were part of the approach roads to a bridge across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal that was built in the mid-1920s and destroyed in 1942. After the modern Chesapeake City Bridge and its approach roads were completed in 1949, US 213 was moved to the new bridge and approach roads and MD 537 was assigned to the bypassed sections of US 213. Much of MD 537 outside of Chesapeake City was transferred to county maintenance in the late 1950s. In 2015, the remaining section of MD 537 north of the canal was turned over to municipal maintenance.
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MD 553
Maryland Route 553 is the unsigned designation for sections of Old South River Road, near Maryland Route 2 in Anne Arundel County, together totaling 0.75 miles (1.21 km) in length:
MD 568
Maryland Route 568 is the designation for Hatchery Road, a 0.41 mi (0.66 km) spur that runs from MD 367 in Bishopville north to the Delaware state line, where the highway continues as Bishopville Road toward an intersection with Delaware Route 54 (DE 54) east of Selbyville. MD 568 was originally a segment of MD 368; the roads received their present designations in 1950.
MD 584
Maryland Route 584 is the unsigned designation for a short loop to the west of MD 5 along Old State House Road and Trinity Church Road in Saint Mary's City in Saint Mary's County. The route is 0.38 miles (0.61 km) long.
MD 591
Maryland Route 591 is the designation for a pair of state highways parallel to U.S. Route 1 on either side of Octoraro Creek near Conowingo in northwestern Cecil County.
The first bridge at Richardsmere was constructed to serve Richard Porter's mill on the northwest side of Octoraro Creek in the late 18th century. A wooden covered bridge was constructed at the site around 1858 and washed away in a flood in 1884. A metal Pratt through truss bridge was constructed to replace Porter's Bridge in 1885. This truss bridge served the original state road, later designated US 1 in 1927. The state road west toward Conowingo was paved in 1911, and the state road east toward Rising Sun was completed by 1919. MD 591 was assigned to the route using Porters Bridge after US 1 was relocated and a new bridge upstream from Porters Bridge was completed in 1934. Porters Bridge was closed in January 1978 after a storm caused irreparable damage to the eastern approach to the bridge. The severely deteriorated bridge was scheduled to be dismantled in 2001.
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MD 617
Maryland Route 617 is the unsigned designation for an unnamed road connecting Maryland Route 16A (Beauchamp Branch Road) north to Maryland Route 16 (Harmony Road) in Caroline County. The route is 0.35 miles (0.56 km) long.
MD 631
Maryland Route 631 is the unsigned designation for Old Brandywine Road, a 0.35-mile (0.56 km) spur south from the intersection of MD 373 and Brandywine Road south to a dead end adjacent to the US 301–MD 5 interchange in Brandywine.
MD 636
Maryland Route 636 is the designation for Warrior Drive, which runs 0.28 miles (0.45 km) from MD 53 east to US 220 within Cresaptown, crossing Warrior Run twice. The westbound direction of MD 636 is used by traffic from US 220 to access MD 53. MD 636 was under construction by 1936 and completed by 1938.
MD 637
Maryland Route 637 is the designation for Naylor Road, which connects Maryland Route 5 with the Washington, D.C. Line in Prince George's County. The only signage for the route exists along MD 5. It is approximately 0.61 miles (0.98 km) long and is aligned in an east-west direction.
MD 640
Maryland Route 640 is the designation for a part of Revells Neck Road in Somerset County running from U.S. Route 13 west to the Eastern Correctional Institution. The route is 0.58 miles (0.93 km) long. Around 1946, a much larger section of Revells Neck Road was designated MD 697.
MD 642
Maryland Route 642 is the unsigned designation for Greenland Beach Road, a 0.08 mi (0.13 km) spur that runs east from MD 173 (Fort Smallwood Road) in Orchard Beach. The state highway is the old alignment of MD 173 just west of Stony Creek. MD 642 was assigned around 1947 when the present bridge over Stony Creek was completed.
MD 644
Maryland Route 644 is the unsigned designation for two short spurs off US 1 in Arbutus, Baltimore County.
MD 645
Maryland Route 645 is the unsigned designation for two segments of Old Dorsey Road in Harmans, Anne Arundel County.
MD 652
Maryland Route 652 is the designation for Old Telegraph Road, which runs 0.69 mi (1.11 km) from a dead end north to MD 176 in Harmans, Anne Arundel County.
MD 656
Maryland Route 656 is the designation for Friels Road, which runs 0.70 mi (1.13 km) from MD 18 next to the Queenstown Premium Outlets east to MD 456 within Queenstown.
MD 658
Maryland Route 658 is a state highway that runs 0.84 miles (1.35 km) from MD 53 north to US 40 Alternate within La Vale. The highway west of I-68 is part of US 220 Truck, which provides access from eastbound I-68 to southbound US 220 in Cresaptown for trucks due to a truck prohibition on the eastbound exit ramp for I-68's interchange with US 220. MD 658 begins at an intersection with MD 53 (Winchester Road) and heads northeast as Vocke Road, a four-lane divided highway. The state highway passes the Country Club Mall and the District 6 offices of the Maryland State Highway Administration before intersecting a segment of Braddock Road, which is unsigned MD 949. MD 658 intersects entrance and exit ramps from Exit 40 of eastbound I-68 and US 40 (National Freeway). The highway passes under the freeway and meets an exit ramp from westbound I-68 and the western terminus of MD 49 (Braddock Road) at the next intersection, where the highway's name changes to Campground Road. MD 658 turns north, crossing Braddock Run, and reduces to a four-lane undivided highway before reaching its northern terminus at US 40 Alternate (National Pike). MD 658 was assigned to Campground Road as a connector between US 40 and MD 49 in 1939. The state highway was extended south along Vocke Road to MD 53 around 1948. MD 658 was expanded to a divided highway from MD 53 to MD 49 around 1972 in conjunction with the construction of I-68 through La Vale.
MD 660
Maryland Route 660 is the unsigned designation for Dodge Street, which runs 0.05 mi (0.080 km) from MD 355 north to MD 28 in Rockville, Montgomery County.
MD 668
Maryland Route 668 is the unsigned designation for Boswells Drive, a road that runs 0.14 mi (0.23 km) from Harvey Yingling Road north to a dead end parallel to the southbound side of MD 30 just south of the Pennsylvania state line north of Manchester in northeastern Carroll County.
MD 672
Maryland Route 672 is the unsigned designation for a portion of Greenbury Point Road northeast of Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, running 0.19 mi (0.31 km) from MD 648 east to the end of state maintenance.
MD 673
Maryland Route 673 is the designation for Sam Barnes Road, a short road that connects Maryland Route 413 to U.S. Route 13 in Somerset County. The route is 0.53 miles (0.85 km) long. The route is a former piece of MD 413; it was created when MD 413 and US 13 were realigned. MD 673 provides the only access from northbound US 13 to southbound MD 413. The route also grants access to the Somerset County Recreation and Parks facility as well as the county sheriff's office.
MD 674
Maryland Route 674 is the designation for the 0.25-mile-long (0.40 km) portion of Sharp Street from the town limit of Rock Hall at Grays Inn Creek east to MD 20 in western Kent County. MD 674 was constructed along the portion of Sharp Street from Chesapeake Avenue at Sharps Wharf to MD 445 (Main Street) in 1940. The portion of Sharp Street east of MD 445 has been constructed as a concrete road as part of MD 20 in 1920. MD 20 through Rock Hill, including Sharp Street, was widened and resurfaced with bituminous concrete in 1947 and 1948. MD 674 was extended east from MD 445 to its present eastern terminus at MD 20 after MD 20 was relocated onto Rock Hall Avenue east of MD 445 in 1959 and 1960. The portion of the highway west of MD 445 was reconstructed in a streetscape project in 1981 and 1982, and the current length of the highway outside the town was reconstructed similarly in 1989. The town of Rock Hall agreed to assume maintenance for MD 674 west of Grays Inn Creek through a June 14, 1995, road transfer agreement. The transfer was conditional on the state completing a streetscape project on the highway east of MD 445. MD 674 was reduced to its current length after the streetscape project was completed in 1996. MD 674 had an auxiliary route, MD 674A, that served as a 0.08-mile-long (0.13 km) one-way ramp from eastbound MD 674 to MD 20 at the former highway's eastern terminus. MD 674A was assigned to the ramp by 1975, and the route was removed and the roadway abandoned in 1996.
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MD 694
Maryland Route 694 is the unsigned designation for Agricultural Farm Road, a 0.10-mile (0.16 km) service road that extends from MD 212 (officially MD 212A) south to U.S. government property in Beltsville. It could be mistaken as a driveway sometimes.
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The Regent Cinema is a former cinema and bingo hall in Deal, Kent, England. It was originally built in 1928 as a simple pavilion for musical concerts but this proved unprofitable and in 1933 it was converted into a cinema, with an Art Deco-style entrance. The cinema closed in 1963 and was briefly used as a wrestling venue before being converted into a bingo hall. The bingo hall closed in 2009 and the site has lain derelict since then.
The Regent was sold to developers by Dover District Council in 2011. It was sold at below market value on the understanding that it would be restored as a cinema for the use by local people. Initial plans, presented by the new owners in 2014, were unpopular owing to a residential element. The site lay dormant for a period and a campaign group, Reopen the Regent, formed to encourage its restoration. The group successfully campaigned to have the site designated an asset of community value. The owners submitted new plans for the site in 2019, including a two-screen cinema. Works did not proceed, with the owners blaming the COVID-19 pandemic and planning permission has since expired.
History
The structure is located on Beach Street, Deal, Kent, on the English Channel seafront. It was originally constructed in 1928 as an iron and glass pavilion for musical performances, particularly by military bands (the town was home to a Royal Marine depot). Although the structure was basic, providing little more than shelter from poor weather, there was criticism over its cost. At its opening the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, stated "It is the duty of everyone to make this enterprise go." The opening coincided with a decline in interest in musical concerts as well as variety performances and dances, owing to the rise of cinemas.
The pavilion was loss making and the owner, the borough council, were approached by businessmen Harry Carey and Henry Boyer who proposed to rent the structure and convert it to a cinema. The conversion, Art Deco in style, was designed by Margate architect Percy Levett. The works had a low budget but included the addition of a domed frontage, moving of the original stage, construction of a cafe and erection of a first floor extension to house the projection box and offices. The cinema boasted 911 seats and was the largest in the town until the opening of an Odeon in 1936.
The cinema opened in July 1933 and its first showing was that year's King of the Ritz, a musical. The cinema was regarded as draughty, suffering from its exposed seafront location. During the Second World War the roof of the building was used to house a searchlight, used for anti-aircraft defence. In the mid-1940s operation of the cinema was taken over by ASER. Later in its life the cinema switched from showing general releases, to specialising in X-rated films.
The cinema closed in 1963 and it was briefly used to stage wrestling matches. It afterward became a bingo hall, operated by Bloom Circuit. The hall closed in 2009, blaming the effects of the 2006 indoor smoking ban.
Proposed redevelopment
First plans
Ownership lay with Dover District Council until 2011 when it was sold to James Wallace and Mark Digweed. The sale price was £385,000; a below market value on the understanding that it would be restored and reopened as a cinema. The town had no other cinema.
Wallace and Digweed presented plans for redevelopment in 2014. These included a residential element that proved unpopular with local residents and were never presented for planning permission.
Hiatus
For a period no further plans were presented, though the owners met with the council for pre-planning talks in early 2016, and a local campaign group, Reopen the Regent, was formed to promote the building's restoration. In May 2016 actor Neil Stuke, a member of the group, apologised for implied threats made in an email to Wallace and Digweed. Stuke said "I allowed my frustrations to get the better of me as saving The Regent is something I believe very passionately about". The owners reported the email to the police who investigated and found no offence had been committed. Actor Mark Rylance was another supporter of the campaign group. The group have successfully had the Regent designated an asset of community value.
In 2018 the council issued a notice under section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, ordering the owners to make essential repairs by August, but these were not carried out. On 25 October 2018 Reopen the Regent held a protest at the site with DIY-related props to raise awareness of the need for repairs.
Second plans
In January 2019 Wallace and Digweed submitted a second set of plans for planning approval, without any residential element. These were prepared by David Wright, architect of the Brighton Dome refurbishment. Wright's plans showed much of the original structure to be retained, though the south wall, whose steelwork was corroded, was to be replaced with glass. Two 104-seat cinema screens would have been built as well as a 120-seat restaurant which could be used as a third screen on a temporary basis. The dome above the entrance was to be recovered in a bottle green material, restoring its original colour. A mezzanine floor with skylight above was to be created, with 30 seats, available for private hire. A small extension to the south side would form a new entrance with a landscaped square adjacent to the Timeball Tower. The existing ground floor windows would be expanded to make the most of the sea views. The new development was estimated to create 15–20 new jobs, with the construction work to take place over twelve months.
The council granted approval to the plans on 18 July 2019, with a three year period to commence works. However works did not proceed, with the owners blaming the COVID-19 pandemic. With works delayed, Reopen the Regent held another rally on 30 October 2021 to encourage the owners to "raise the Regent from the dead". This was Halloween themed and attended by around 200 people who howled at the moon during the 30-minute event. A further rally was held on 2 May 2022, also attended by around 200 people, declaring a mayday over the failure to proceed with the redevelopment.
On 7 June 2022, just before 5pm, the Regent suffered from a fire. It was quickly brought under control by Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Kent Police investigated the fire as a potential arson attack. The structure is in a damaged state; the roof has been leaking since at least 2020, pigeons have nested within and it has been broken into for use by drug addicts. In July 2022, Reopen the Regent asked for Dover council to instruct repairs to the owners or carry out a compulsory purchase of the property. The council says the building owners are working on alternative plans for the site, but that these still include use as a cinema.
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Village in Kermanshah, Iran
Abbasabad-e Seh Choqa (Persian: عباس ابادسه چقا, also Romanized as ‘Abbāsābād-e Seh Choqā) is a village in Chaqa Narges Rural District, Mahidasht District, Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 155, in 39 families.
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